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‘DEATHS COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED’
Have serious concerns
how cheetah project is
managed, we in dark,
foreign experts tell SC
Shops, mosque
Wecanhelpbutignored,havetobegfor torched, its naib
info:SouthAfrican,Namibianexperts imam killed
JAY MAZOOMDAAR
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1
SOUTH AFRICAN and Namibian
experts, all members of the na-
tional cheetah project steering
committee, under which 20
cheetahshavebeentranslocated
to India beginning last
September, have written to the
Supreme Court expressing their
anguish over being kept in the
dark and have raised “serious
concerns” over the project’s
management.
They have underlined that
some of the cheetah deaths
“could have been prevented by
bettermonitoringof theanimals
and more appropriate” and
timely “veterinary care” — had
the experts been brought into
thepictureratherthanbeing“ig-
KILLINGS ON TRAIN
4th victim a Hyderabad
resident, MLA says
‘identified by religion’
SAGAR RAJPUT &
RAHUL V PISHARODY
MUMBAI, HYDERABAD, AUG 1
THE FOURTH person who was
allegedly killed by Railway
ProtectionForce(RPF)Constable
Chetan Singh (33) on board the
Jaipur-Mumbai Central
Superfast Express early Monday
has been identified as Syed
Saifullah (43), a resident of
Hyderabad.
On Monday, the other three
victims had been identified as
Singh’s senior, Assistant Sub-
Inspector Tikaram Meena (57)
from Sawai Madhopur in
Rajasthan; Asgar Abbas Ali (48)
from Madhubani in Bihar; and
Abdul Kadar Mohamed Hussain
Bhanpurwala (64) from
Nalasopara in Palghar,
Maharashtra.
20 killed as crane collapses during Patna HC clears Bihar
work on Maharashtra expressway caste survey, says state
VALLABH OZARKAR
SHAHAPUR (THANE), AUGUST 1
AT LEAST 20 people, including
two engineers, were killed late
Monday night when a crane col-
lapsed on a bridge slab during
construction work for the third
phase of the Samruddhi
Expressway in Thane's
Shahapur, around 80 km from
Mumbai. Most of those dead
were migrant workers from
Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West
Bengal, officials said.
Three people were hospi-
talisedwithseriousinjuries,they
said.
The incident took place
Sharp skew in national big cat map: 20% of
tiger area has less than 1% of tiger population
PAGE 1
ANCHOR
JAY MAZOOMDAAR
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1
ONE-FIFTH of India’s tiger area
spanning 16 tiger reserves har-
bours only 25 — or less than one
per cent —of India’s 3,682tigers,
show figures in the latest All-
India Tiger Estimate (AITE) re-
port released Tuesday by the
Environment Ministry.
None of these 16 “bottom re-
serves,” — the lowest 16 by
number of tigers per 100 sq km
— has more than five tigers.
nored” and used as mere “win-
dow-dressing.”
The first set of eight cheetahs
fromNamibiawerereleasedinto
the Kuno National Park in
Madhya Pradesh by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi on
September 17 last year and an-
other 12 cheetahs landed from
South Africa this February. Since
the first two cheetahs were re-
leased in the wild on March 11,
five adults and three cubs have
died in Kuno.
On a petition filed by the
National Tiger Conservation
Authority (NTCA), the Supreme
Court in January 2020 had lifted
the ban it imposed on the chee-
tah project in 2013. The court
continuestomonitortheproject.
On July 15, days after the
death of male South African
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According to his family,
Saifullah had gone to the Ajmer
Sharif Dargah, and was on his
way home via Mumbai. A resi-
dent of Hyderabad’s Bazar Ghat
area in Nampally, he reportedly
had a cellphone repair shop and
was his family’s only earning
member. He is survived by his
wife and three daughters, aged
6 years, 2 years, and 6 months.
Saifullah was reportedly ac-
companied by Zaffar Khan (76),
the owner of the premises
where his cellphone repair shop
is located.
Speaking to The Indian
Express, Khan’s relative, who did
not want to be named, re-
counted him as saying that they
(KhanandSaifullah)weresitting
on their berth when Singh
barged into their B2 coach and
asked Saifullah's name. “As soon
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At the site of the crane collapse in Thane, Tuesday. Deepak Joshi
around 11.30 pm near Sarlambe
village in Shahapur tehsil. A spe-
cial-purpose high-tech mobile
TIGER NO, AND PRESENCE ACROSS INDIA
TIGER AREA
Reserves Sq Km % 2022
Top 16* 19,939 19
Middle 21 35,589 34
Bottom 14** 18,238 17
Bottom 2*** 2,031 3 5
Outside 27,621 27
TOTAL 1,03,408
*Highest tiger density: Corbett, Mudumalai, Nagarhole, Bandipur, Kaziranga, Pilibhit, Bandhavgarh, BRT, Sathyamangalam, Dudhwa,
Valmiki, Pench-MP, Pench-Maharashtra,Tadoba, Kanha, Rajaji; **Lowest tiger density: Sahyadri, Satkosia, Kawal, Dampa,
kamlang, Namdapha, Palamu, Indravati, Udanti-Sitanadi, Mukundra, Buxa, Nameri, Achanakmar, Kalakad-Mundanthurai;
***TRs declared in 2022: Ramgarh Vishadhari, Ranipur
Seven have one tiger each, and
five reported none.
In all, there are 53 tiger re-
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HARYANA DEATH TOLL 5; HEAVY POLICE PRESENCE IN NUH
Violence spreads to parts of
Gurgaon, CM says conspiracy
AISWARYA RAJ,
ARNABJIT SUR &
SUKHBIR SIWACH
GURGAON, CHANDIGARH,
AUGUST 1
VIOLENCE THAT erupted
Monday in Nuh in Haryana’s
Mewat region during a proces-
sion led by the Bajrang Dal and
Vishwa Hindu Parishad spread
to neighbouring Gurgaon where
some shops and a mosque were
torched Tuesday, and the
mosque naib imam killed, tak-
ing the death toll to five.
Chief Minister Manohar Lal
Khattar, who held a meeting at
hisresidenceinChandigarh,said
police have taken 70 people into
custody and lodged 44 FIRs.
Over 1,500 Central paramili-
tary personnel and 30 compa-
niesof HaryanaPolicehavebeen
deployed in Nuh where no new
incident was reported Tuesday.
But incidents of arson were
reported from different parts of
Gurgaon throughout the day.
A mosque was set on fire in a
Gurgaon locality and the naib
imamstabbedtodeathbyamob
past midnight Monday, police
said. One person was also
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No-trust motion in LS on Aug 8,
Govt gets support of BJD’s 12 MPs
LIZ MATHEW
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1
A DATE has been set for the no-
confidence motion in the Lok
Sabha, with the debate to begin
on August 8 and Prime Minister
Narendra Modi's reply expected
on August 10.
The attention now has
moved to the crux of the argu-
ments the two sides will put up
to build their case, given the
Opposition pushback on the
gantry crane, which is used in
bridge construction and weighs
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NUMBER
% 2018
1,659 45 1,424
673 18 502
19 <1 40
<1 NA
1,325 36 1,001
3,682 2,967
servescoveringacombined area
of 75,797 sq km.
While the latest quadrennial
JOURNALISM OF COURAGE
SINCE 1932
A street in Haryana’s Nuh on Tuesday, a day after communal clashes in the district. Abhinav Saha
THE EDITORIAL PAGE
DRAWTHELINE
Murders on a train and on
Haryana streets are unrelated.
But both point to cycle of hate,
impunity, and official silence
PAGE12
INSIDE
A VIDEO THAT RAISED
TEMPERS: WHAT
HAPPENED AHEAD
OF THE PROCESSION
UNION MoS: WHO
GAVE WEAPONS TO
RELIGIOUS YATRIS?
PAGE 6, 9
The stakes
THE BJP is readying data
to highlight the long
history of trouble in
the Northeast, for most
part of which Congress
was in power. For Oppo-
sition, it is a chance to
“expose the fallacy” of
the BJP’s double-engine
government claim.
action ‘perfectly valid’
SANTOSH SINGH
PATNA, AUGUST 1
PATNA HIGH Court on Tuesday
allowed the Bihar government
to go ahead with its caste survey,
takingintoaccountitsassurance
on data protection in the
Assembly.
OnMay4,thecourthadstayed
the caste survey through an in-
terim order, saying that the state
government was not competent
to conduct the caste survey.
On Tuesday, a division bench
of Chief Justice K Vinod
Chandran and Justice Partha
% for roughly one-fifth of India’s
48
17
>1
NA
33.5
Source: AITE 2022
AITE records a net gain of 715
tigersoverthepreviousestimate
in 2018, the national count
Yatra management not
at its best, strict action
will be taken: Dy CM
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1
ASSURING “STRICT action”
against those behind the com-
munal flare-up in Haryana on
Monday, Deputy Chief Minister
Dushyant Chautala said that al-
though this was the fourth year
of theyatra,theofficial“manage-
ment was not at its best” this
time,withakeypoliceofficerbe-
ing absent.
Speaking at The Indian
Manipur issue and the PM re-
fusal to bow to its demands to
speak on it in Parliament.
BJP sources said the party is
readying data that will highlight
the long history of trouble in the
Northeast, for most part of which
theCongresscontrolledtheregion.
TheOppositionseesitasprobably
thelastchanceforitto“exposethe
fallacy”oftheModigovernment's
double-engine governmentargu-
ment,aheadofkeystateelections
and2024LokSabhapolls.
CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
Sarthy said in their order: “We
find the action of the State to be
perfectlyvalid,initiatedwithdue
competence,withthelegitimate
aim of providing development
with justice.”
Thecourtsaidthatasthesur-
veydoesnotinvolveanycoercion
todivulgedetails—asannounced
in the Assembly — it does not vi-
olate “the rights of privacy of the
individual,especiallysinceitisin
furtheranceofa‘compellingpub-
lic interest’ which in effect is the
‘legitimate State interest’”.
The court order came on six
petitions challenging the caste
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showstheshrinkingrangeof the
big cat since 45% of India’s tigers
are concentrated in another set
of 16 reserves that also account
tiger area. (See chart)
This skew is persistent — but
getting sharper.
In the previous AITE in 2018,
14 of the 16 bottom reserves
(two were not in existence then)
together reported 40 tigers. That
number is now down to 19.
“This is why the overall
growth (in tiger numbers)
should not make us complacent.
Thesituationisnotgoodinstates
suchasJharkhand(onlyonetiger
recorded), Orissa, Chhattisgarh
CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
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Haryana Deputy CM
Dushyant Chautala
Express’s Idea Exchange pro-
gramme on Tuesday (a detailed
transcript will be published
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BUSINESS AS USUAL
BY UNNY
SC summons DGP:
‘No law and order
left in Manipur’
Govt'sstatusreport:6,523FIRsfiled,11
onviolenceagainstwomen,children
ANANTHAKRISHNAN G
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1
SAYING THAT there was a “com-
plete breakdown” of law and or-
der and constitutional machin-
ery in Manipur and the state
police had “lost control over the
situation”,theSupremeCourton
Tuesday summoned the state
Director General of Police (DGP)
at the next hearing on August 7.
In a status report submitted
to the court, the state govern-
ment said a total of 6,523 FIRs
were registered, including 11 re-
lated to violence against women
and children; 252 people were
arrested in connection with
these FIRs; there were 5,101
cases of arson; and 12,071 pre-
ventive arrests.
Solicitor General Tushar
Court order details how
onlookers joined mob
that assaulted women
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
IMPHAL, AUGUST 1
TWO FRIENDS having a drink
before they joined the frenzied
mob; a man who got a call from
his wife while he was allegedly
participating in the sexual as-
sault of three women; and a
videoshotbyan18-year-old and
shared with his cousin — these
details find mention in a court
order in connection with the
case of three Manipuri women
beingstrippedandparadeddur-
ing the violence on May 4.
Thecourtof specialjudge(SC
& ST POA) in Thoubal was hear-
ing a plea by the police seeking
judicial custody of the accused,
identified as Huirem Herodash
Meitei(32),ArunKhundongbam
(29), Yumlembam Jiban Singh
(18), and Ningombam Tomba
Singh. The order is dated July 31.
The order details the events of
State police
incapable of
investigating,
says CJI
Mehta told the Bench led by
Chief Justice of India D Y
Chandrachud that two of the 11
FIRs on violence against women
and children had been trans-
ferred to the CBI.
Asked what the state in-
tended to do about the other
FIRs, Mehta said they could be
transferredtotheCBI.TheBench,
which included Justices J B
Pardiwala and Manoj Misra,
askedif theCBIcouldinvestigate
over 6,000 FIRs.
Mehta said all the 11 FIRs
CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
the day, and also the role of differ-
ent accused in the incident as al-
leged by the prosecution. It states
thataround3pmonMay4,some
“unknown miscreants suspected
tobemembersofMeiteiyouthor-
ganisations Meitei Leepun,
Kangleipak Kanba Lup, Arambai
Tenggol,WorldMeiteiCounciland
Schedule Tribe Demand
Committee, numbering about
900-1,000” forcefully entered a
Kukivillageandvandalisedhomes.
They were armed with “sophisti-
cated weapons like AK rifles, SLR,
INSASand.303rifles,”itsays.
Fearing they would be killed,
the three women victims, ac-
companied by the brother and
father of one of them, fled to-
wardstheforest.Theorderstates
that they were rescued by the
Nongpok Sekmai police team
but on their way to the police
station, they were “blocked by
the mob” and “snatched from
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● 20 killed as crane collapses
around 700 metric tonne, collapsed along with the
FROM PAGE ONE
girderfroma heightof around35metres, saidofficials.
A senior official said 28 people, including 17 workers,
were at the spot when the girder fell along with the
Violence spreads to parts of Gurgaon; death toll 5
span and the crane. CM Eknath Shinde said an inquiry injured in the incident.
has been ordered. An FIR was registered against the On Tuesday afternoon, shops in
sub-contractors of Navayuga Engineering and VSL Pvt Gurgaon’sBadshahpurareawereset
Ltd — the agencieshired toconstruct Package 16 of the on fire.
701-km expressway between Mumbai and Nagpur. Of the five dead, two were home
guards, Neeraj and Gursevak; Saad
Mohammad, naib imam of the
Guegaon mosque; a man identified
asAbhishekfromPanipatwhojoined
EXPRESS EDUCATION
Monday’srally;andShakti,ownerof
a store in Nuh, whose body, police
said, was found Tuesday morning.
GurgaonPolicesaidtheyhavear-
restedfivepeopleinthemosquecase.
Promisingstrictactionagainstthe
culprits, Khattar said, “No rioter will
be spared. As per information until
now,asmanyasfivepersonshavelost
their lives. Compensation will be
giventofamiliesof thedead…Some
peopleattackedasocialyatra,which
iscarriedouteveryyear,withthein-
tentiontodisturbit.Policemenwere
also targeted. Certainly, it appears
part of a big conspiracy.”
“Incidents of arson took place at
several places and vehicles were set
on fire. Action will also be taken
againstpeoplewhowerefromareas
otherthanNuhandwerepartof this
conspiracy,” he said.
The Gurgaon Police, meanwhile,
announcedRs57lakhcompensation
● Court order details how onlookers joined mob that assaulted women
police custody”.
The special public prosecutor
submitted that one of the accused,
Huirem, was drinking liquor at the
local bazaar with a friend when he
saw a mob head inside Nongpok
Sekmai police station. The two
joined the mob, which tried to
Mrs. Sosin Revella snatchweaponsfromthestationbut
20+ Years of teaching experience failed. “Angered” by this, the mob
proceededtowardsnearbyKukivil-
lages, the order states.
Before reaching the Kuki village,
theaccùsedsawsomepersonsinthe
mob bring two of the women vic-
tims “from some other place”. “The
accused joined the mob in tearing
theclothesoff thetwowomen,”the
order states, adding that he then
● No-trust motion
Withnumbersalreadystackedheavilyinits
favour,theBJPgotafurtherboostTuesdaywhen
the BJD announced that it would support the
government on the motion. Earlier, the YSRCP,
whichliketheBJDisnotalignedwitheitherthe
NDA or the INDIA bloc, had announced that it
would vote against the motion.
While the majority mark to win or defeat
themotionis272,theNDAgovernmenthas331
MPs on its side, including 303 of its own. Add
to that the YSRCP’s 22 and the BJD's 12 MPs.
Hence it all comes down to who scores
morepoliticalpointsinthedebatewhich,com-
inginthewakeof aturbulentHousesession,is
expectedtobestormy.OnTuesdaytoo,theIN-
DIA bloc parties walked out of a Business
AdvisoryCommitteemeetingdemandingthat
theno-confidencedebatebetakenuponprior-
ity. The parties which have said they will vote
againstthegovernmentonthemotioninclude
theINDIAblocandtheBharatRashtraSamithi.
They demanded on Tuesday that the govern-
ment not push through its legislative agenda
while the no-confidence motion is pending.
“We wanted the no-confidence motion taken
up tomorrow itself,” Congress whip in the Lok
Sabha Manickam Tagore said.
● Sharp skew: 20% of tiger area has less than 1% tigers
and many areas in the Northeast. We
need to invest in protection and prey
base,andpossiblylookattheoptionof
reintroducing tigers in some of these
reserves,” Qamar Qureshi, lead scien-
tistof theAITEtoldThe Indian Express.
Expertssaytheabysmaltigerden-
sityinthe16reservescanbeattributed
to lax management, poor protection,
habitat degradation and loss of prey
base. Yet, this hardly registers in the
Ministry’s audit.
In its latest report released last
week,theManagementEffectiveness
Evaluation(MEE)—a“comprehensive,
system-wide,peer-based”assessment
on 33 parameters — scored nine of
these 16 bottom reserves as ‘Very
Good’(above75%)or‘Good’(60-74%).
While two were notified after the
Contact for Advt. Booking: M/s Friends Publicity Service MEE exercise, the remaining five re-
serves were scored ‘Fair’ (50-59%).
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each tothe families of thetwohome
guards killed in the violence.
Preventive measures have been
taken in the bordering district of
Bharatpur in Rajasthan, including
suspension of mobile internet serv-
ices.
In an order, Bharatpur Divisional
Commissioner Sanwar Mal Verma
said mobile internet services were
prohibited for 24 hours, beginning 6
am Tuesday, in the tehsils of Pahadi,
Kaman, Nagar and Sikri.
An FIR registered in Nuh against
unknownpersonsstatedthatpeople
in the mob that attacked the yatris
shouted slogans and they also at-
tacked the police team present at
Nuh’s Adbar Chowk.
Police said in the FIR that the in-
cident was a “well-planned conspir-
acy” “My duty was at Adbar Chowk
along with other police officers… A
crowdofabout600-700violentanti-
social persons, who were coming
from Tauru village, were chanting…
slogans. They came towards the po-
liceforcedeployedatthechowkand
started pelting stones. The 600-700
persons unruly and violent crowd
continuouslypeltedstonesatthepo-
lice,” stated the FIR, registered on a
complaint from an Inspector of the
gropedthewoman.Theorderstates
that the women were then taken to
a field and encircled by many per-
sons,buttheaccused“couldnotfind
his way in”.
“The accused in the meantime
got a call from his wife asking about
hiswhereabouts.Hethusheadedto-
wards his home. On the way back,
he saw two dead bodies lying in a
drain… killed by the mob. After the
phone call, he saw the two un-
clothed women running towards
the two dead bodies. Immediately,
he started throwing and pelting
stones towards them. Being at-
tacked, the two women picked up
theirtornclothesand…fled,”theor-
der states.
● HC clears Bihar caste survey
surveyonthegroundsofdatapro-
tection, competency of the state
governmenttocarryouttheexer-
cise and the expenditure of over
Rs 500 crore on it.
Aftertheverdict,DinuKumar,
advocate for one of the petition-
ers, said: “We are not convinced
withthecourtorderandwillsoon
move the Supreme Court against
it.Thesamehighcourthadsaidin
itsinterimorderthatthestategov-
ernment was not competent to
conduct the caste survey....”
Thegovernmenthadinitiated
the two-phase survey in January
andhadcompletedalmosthalfof
the final phase before the court
stayed the process in May.
In its order, the court said that
castehasbeenfoundtobe“anim-
portant indicator to understand
backwardness since historically
the deprivations visited on com-
munitieswerebasedontheircaste
names”.Ondatasecurityandpri-
vacy,itsaid:“...Statemayhavejus-
bottom strata (in tiger count) shows
no sign of reversal. One of the big
achievementsofProjectTigerwasthat
we held on to India’s tiger range until
thistrendof losingareassetin.Losing
tigers from an area may have irre-
versibleconsequencesandreintroduc-
tioncannotalwayscompensateforthe
geneticloss,”saidconservationbiolo-
gist Raghu Chundawat who has
workedextensivelyonsnowleopards
and tigers.
Qureshiagreedthatlosingtigersin
these reserves amounts to losing ge-
neticresources.“Arunachal,forexam-
ple, is where different (tiger) sub-
species may overlap. Then the
(pseudo-melanistic)tigersofSimlipal
are unique and the recent reports of
poachers operating there is a matter
of serious concern,” he said. The
Kamlang and Namdapha reserves in
Arunachal have registered just one
Gurgaon Police Crime Branch.
“They also used illegal weapons
and fired at the police. We made re-
peated requests to the crowd with a
mic… not to take the law into their
handsandmaintainlawandorderso
there is no loss of life or property.
However,theviolentmobcontinued
peltingstonesandopenedfireatthe
police,” the FIR stated.
Police said several police teams
from Nuh and Gurgaon, who were
deployed at the spot, were attacked.
“Duringtheattack,oneofthebul-
lets which was fired by the violent
mob hit Inspector Anil Kumar in the
abdomen, injuring him on the spot.
ASI Jagbir from the Crime Branch in
Sector40,Gurugramwasalsoinjured
during the stone pelting… This inci-
denthasbeenexecutedunderawell-
plannedconspiracy…withtheinten-
tionofkillingthepoliceforce,”theFIR
stated.
Acaseofrioting,attemptedmur-
der and assault has been registered.
TheFIRlodgedinGurgaon,where
amosquewassetonfireandthenaib
imamkilled,saidthatamobgathered
outside the mosque with weapons
and shoutedslogansat around 12.15
am.
“Due to the communal violence,
Based on Huirem’s questioning,
police picked up another accused,
Arun.Accordingtotheorder,before
the incident, Arun “had lunch with
three of his locality brothers at his
residence”, and when they stepped
outafterwards,he“sawahugemob”
going inside the police station. The
order states that he “just watched
the scenario from a distance”, but
“after some minutes, the mob re-
turnedfromthepolicestation(and)
at this point, he also joined the mob
andproceededtowardsnearbyKuki
villages”.
The order further states that an-
otheraccused,Jiban,onMay4called
his friends and local villagers for a
meeting to discuss the violence
tifiable reasons for the collection
andstorageofdata.Inasocialwel-
fare State, the Government em-
barks upon programmes which
provide benefits to impoverished
andmarginalisedsectionsofsoci-
ety.ThereisavitalStateinterestin
ensuring that scarce public re-
sources are not dissipated by the
diversion of resources to persons
whodonotqualifyasrecipients.”
The court said that it was
foundthat“thereisabsolutelyno
coercion applied... nor is there a
singlecomplaintmaderegarding
coercion to disclose the details”.
The verdict comes as a boost
to the Nitish Kumar-led govern-
ment,whichhasbeenpitchingfor
a nationwide caste census. JD (U)
spokespersonNeerajKumarsaid:
“Those who were critical of caste
surveyaresilenced...NitishKumar
has set a precedent by taking the
decision of Bihar-specific caste
surveyaftertheCentrerefusedto
do a nationwide survey.”
tiger in 2022 as compared to 15 in
2018. Between 2014 and 2018, tigers
relinquished nearly 18,000 sq km, or
20%, of its national range which was
offsetbythenewareastheycolonised
in that period.
WhilethelatestAITEreporthasnot
specified the extent, it has reported a
significant loss of tiger range in
Wayanad, northern Karnataka,
Jharkhand, Goa, Chhattisgarh, Orissa,
Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and
Nagaland since 2018.
Noting that the dynamic parts of
the tiger range, where loss or gain of
occupancy are reported periodically,
supportlow-densitypopulations,the
latest AITE report said: “Such habitats
with low-density tigers, though con-
tributing minimally to overall tiger
numbers, are crucial links for gene
flowandmaintainingconnectivitybe-
tween source populations.”
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ERVstaffwaspresentatthespot…At
12.15 am, a group of 90-100 men
gathered outside the mosque with
lathis and weapons. Some of them
had covered their faces. They had
lathis, sticks and weapons in their
hands” the FIR stated.
Police said the mob first pelted
stones and then fired at the police
team who were present outside the
mosque.
“I found out that the men, who
gathered in huge numbers, went to-
wards the mosque and torched it.
While we went towards one side of
the mosque to douse the fire, a few
persons entered the mosque and
opened fire. They also used the
weapons,” the FIR, registered on the
complaint of a police ASI, stated.
The FIR names eight men who
were “spotted” in the crowd. Police
haven’t mentioned whether these
men were part of the mob or were
eyewitnesses.Acaseof rioting,mur-
der,attemptedmurderandattacking
police has been registered at the
Sector 57 police station.
VishwaHinduParishadjointgen-
eral secretary Surendra Jain, mean-
while, announced nationwide
demonstrations on Wednesday.
–WITHJIGNASASINHA
which took place on May 3. The or-
der states that Jiban was part of a
crowdthatvandalisedKukivillages.
Atonepoint,hesaw“crowdsgather-
ing around four persons (two Kuki
menandtwoKukiwomen),”theor-
der states. “He cheered with others
andthemobstartedtoparadethem
naked along the road. He took out
his mobile smartphone and started
to capture the video of the naked
parading of tribal women from his
mobilephone.Duringthisnakedpa-
rade, many among the mob groped
the women... After some days, Jiban
shared the aforementioned video,
which he recorded from his phone,
with his cousin (who has also been
arrested),” the order states.
● Fourth victim
asSaifullahgavehisname,theRPF
constable forced him to accom-
pany him at gunpoint,” the rela-
tivesaid.Hesaidthat when Khan
objected, Singh pointed the gun
athim.Saifullahwasthenreport-
edlytakentothepantrycar,where
he was shot.
Khan told his relative that he
wasscheduledtogetoffatBorivali
station, but waited till Mumbai
Central station for Saifullah to re-
turn. One of the police personnel
thentoldhimtogotohisrelative's
house and wait there.
Saifullah was only identified
on Tuesday afternoon.
In a tweet on Tuesday after-
noon, AIMIM chief Asaduddin
Owaisi identified the victim as
Saifullah. “He was a resident of
Bazaarghat, Nampally. He is sur-
vived by 3 daughters... AIMIM
Nampally MLA... is with the fam-
ilyforthepastfewhours&coordi-
nating with officials to bring the
deceased's body to Hyderabad,”
he tweeted.
InHyderabad,NampallyMLA
JaffarHussainMehrajalsoalleged
thatSaifullahwasaskedhisname
before being killed. “There were
otherpassengers.Hisseth(Khan)
was travelling with him. Nothing
happened to anyone. Saifullah,
who had a beard, was identified
byhisreligionandkilled.Wehave
his seth's testimony that names
wereaskedbeforethekilling,”he
alleged, speaking to reporters in
Hyderabad before proceeding to
Mumbai with Saifullah's two
brothers and uncle.
Md Wajid Pasha, Saifullah’s
uncle, said the family had lost its
only breadwinner. “This is a ter-
rorist act. He was shot after being
askedhisname.Wewanttoknow
whysuchawronghappened,”he
said,demandingacompensation
of Rs 5 crore for the family.
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SWEETYADIMULAM,
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Forest (Conservation)
Amendment Bill, Opp
in Manipur & stapled
visas
3 Things discusses the concerns regarding
the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill ,
the Opposition’s Manipur visit, and India’s
Wushu contingent not going to China
● Strict action will be taken: Dy CM
soon), Chautala said: “There was
an incident yesterday and I feel
that the management was not at
itsbest.TheSP(Superintendentof
Police,Nuh)wasonleaveduetoa
family situation and the charge
wasgiventotheSPofaneighbour-
ing district who could not assess
thesituationinabettermanner.”
He assured that all accused
would be brought to book. “The
issueof Mewatwasnottriggered
by (the statement made by) a
leader.Agaurakshadalmovedin
and two people were killed in
Bhiwani (earlier this year). The
court is taking that case forward.
Thisissuewastriggeredafterthat.
Wehavemadecommitteesindis-
tricts to sit together and talk to
everybody…Nooneexpectedthe
whole scenario to be like this,
wheresuddenlypeoplecollected
tostarttheShobhaYatraandthen
mobs from various directions
walked in. Police were there, it
was controlled but the incidents
happenedinthecityareaandnot
in the area where the yatra was
about to start… From city (Nuh),
theconflictshiftedtootherareas,”
he said.
Askedwhetheravideoclipby
self-proclaimed cow vigilante
Monu Manesar, who was named
inthemurderoftwoMuslimmen
in Bhiwani in February this year,
ledtothesituationworsening,the
Deputy CM said, “Frankly, people
who say they are cow vigilantes
orgaurakshaksorwhateverthey
call themselves, a majority of
them don’t have cows in their
houses. This is a serious concern
and we need to focus on who be-
comes the leader of such move-
ments. Yes, the person you have
named has been earmarked by
police,hehasaddedfueltothefire
yesterday, and we will take the
● SC summons Manipur DGP
relatedtoviolenceagainstwomen
and children could be transferred
to the CBI. The court could then
take a call later, he said.
“But what about the remain-
ing (FIRs), assuming they don’t go
totheCBI?Thestatepoliceisinca-
pable of investigating. It’s so obvi-
oustheyhavelostcontroloverthe
situation. There is no law and or-
der left. Absolutely no law and or-
der left,” the CJI said.
Mehtaobjectedandsaid:“Your
Lordships may not say that. There
arerepercussions.Statementscan
be used, misused”.
“Weareinthemidstofawarof
adifferentdimension.Soanything
that’s said in the court will have
repercussions,” Attorney General
R Venkataramani said.
Pulling up the police for their
“tardy” probe, the court ques-
tionedthedelayinregisteringFIRs.
“Lookatthewaytheinvestigation
is so lethargic. It appears that ex-
ceptforoneortwoFIRs,therewas
no arrest at all... statements
recorded after such a lapse of
time,” the CJI said.
“Not justifying, but given the
situation on the ground, that (de-
lay) may have happened. Maybe
they were deployed more on the
law and order front,” Mehta said.
“That means for two months,
thesituationwasnotconducivefor
recordingFIRs...Itseemstogiveus
the impression that from the be-
ginning of May until towards the
endofJuly,therewasnolaw...there
wasabreakdownofconstitutional
machineryinthestate.Tothepoint
that you cannot even...register an
FIR, the police cannot make an ar-
rest,”theCJIsaid.“Youmayberight
that the police could not make an
arrest because the situation was
outofcontrol.Anofficerofthepo-
lice could not enter the locality to
make an arrest,” he said.
“Assumingthatisso,doesthisnot
pointtothefactthatthereisacom-
pletebreakdownof lawandorder
andofthemachineryofthestate.”
Mehta said the situation was
returning to normal and the mo-
menttheCentregottoknowabout
anincident,ittransferredthecase
to the CBI and requested the SC to
monitortheprobe.“Therecan’tbe
anything more fair or transparent
than this,” he said.
ButtheCJIsaid:“If thelawand
strictest action against him as
well.”
Asked whether granting per-
mission for the yatra in the back-
drop of building tensions in the
areawasamistake,Chautalasaid,
“Theyatrahasbeenhappeningfor
four years, but yes, because the
(police) in-charge was on leave,
theofficerondutydidnotforesee
such a situation… An enquiry is
beingconducted,thechargeofthe
areahasbeengiventoSPBhiwani,
Section 144 has been imposed in
Gurgaon,NuhandPalwalandwe
have started arresting people.”
He said the rise in communal
flare-ups in the state was worri-
some. “It is for the first time that
Haryanahasseen something like
this. We are a state with a good
Muslim population, right from
Yamunanagar to Nuh… Meo
Muslims areanoldpeopleestab-
lishedthereforseveralyears.They
have served with Hindu kings in
the past… It is a serious concern.
Wehaveneverseenacommunal
thought process and it has been
built up over the years.”
Asked whether the internet
shutdowninsuchsituationsgave
rise to more rumour mongering,
especially in the context of con-
tinuing violence in Manipur,
Chautala said: “Rumours can go
through audio call, video, other
sources also. What happened in
Manipur is an issue that had
arisenatvarioustimessinceinde-
pendence. Mewat has seen such
an issue for the first time. This
ShobhaYatrawasnotdoneforthe
first time. This is the fourth year
that it has been taken out. Some
elementswhichwantedtocreate
thisscenarioweresuccessful.We
haveearmarkedthosepeople,ar-
restshavebeenmade.Strictaction
will be taken.”
ordermachinerycan’tprotectacit-
izen, where are you left.”
The court also questioned the
SG about the allegations by the
womenwhowereparadednaked
that the police had handed them
overtothemob.“The...statements
of the two women indicate that
theywerehandedovertothemob
bythepolice.Haveanyofthosepo-
licemen been interrogated? Have
any arrests been made of the po-
lice?…DidtheDGPcaretofindout
in all these months…What is he
doing?…What has he done,” it
asked. The SG said he didn’t have
enoughtimesinceMonday,when
the court last heard the matter, to
find out the facts.
The CJI said the more serious
cases would have to be bifurcated
and investigation fast-tracked.
“That’s the way we will have to
send a message of some confi-
dence because one thing which is
obviously clear from the record
now is that for a period of those
twomonths,rightfromMay4un-
til July 27, the police was not in
charge.Theymayhavebeenmak-
ingsomeperfunctoryarrestsetc…
buttheywerenotincharge.Either
theywereincapableof doingit,or
they were unwilling to do it.”
“Whatever happened on the
ground has happened... we have
gone past that now. So some
mechanism has to be set in place
by us as a result of which we will
have those 6,500 FIRs first sorted
out. They have to be bifurcated.
Also we can’t dump 6,500 FIRs on
theCBIbecausewewillthencause
breakdownofCBI'sinfrastructural
capabilities.Theyarenotmeantfor
thiskindofvolume,”thecourtsaid.
Justice Pardiwala sought to
knowwhethertheFIRsnamedthe
accused, and whether those
named had been arrested.
The court also sought to know
from the CBI “the limits of its own
infrastructure?Canitreallyinves-
tigate 3,000 to 5,000 FIRs?”
It reiterated that it may con-
sider setting up a committee to
lookintoaspectslikerelief andre-
habilitationandtoensurethatthe
pre-investigation process is fair.
“...wewerethinkingaloudthatwe
may think of constituting a com-
mitteeconsistingofformerjudges
of the High Court who will make
an overall assessment,” it said.
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OVER 85,000 ALLOTTED SEATS IN ROUND 1 OF ALLOCATIONS
DU admissions: At 45,000, women
candidates bag more seats than men
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1
AROUND 85,853 candidates
have been allotted seats in Delhi
University’s (DU) first round of
allocations, the results of which
were shared with the applicants
on Tuesday afternoon under the
CommonSeatAllocationsystem
(CSAS) UG 2023.
Female candidates secured
more seats in the first round
compared to male candidates,
with 45,287 women making
the cut as compared to 40,565
men, and a single transgender
candidate.
Among national boards, stu-
dents from Central Board of
Secondary Education (CBSE) se-
cured the highest number of
seats —71,578 — followed by
ICSE with 3,028 candidates.
Amongstate boards, Bihar stood
at the top to secure the maxi-
mum number of seats this year
with 2,344 candidates from
BiharSchoolExamination Board
(BSEB) securing seats in the first
round followed by 2,048 and
1,527 from UP and Rajasthan
Boards, respectively.
Candidates logged into their
personal admission dashboards
where they were notified which
course-college combination
they have been allotted, based
on the combination preferences
Road revamp, fresh More women faces, balance between
paint: How civic bodies old & new as BJP rejigs its state unit
are sprucing up for G20
Beautification work at Shaheedi Park. Amit Mehra
SAMANHUSAIN
NEWDELHI,AUGUST1
AS THE date for G20 Summit
draws closer, civic bodies in the
capital — New Delhi Municipal
Council (NDMC) and Municipal
Corporationof Delhi(MCD)—are
pullingoutallstopstoensurethe
city is up to standard before the
two-day event kicks off on
September 9.
AccordingtoanNDMCofficial,
“Areas around the hotel venues
are being put into special focus,
and major revamping is taking
place in those areas.”
Keepinginmindtheirproxim-
itytoTheTajPalace,AshokaHotel,
and The Leela Palace; Brigadier
HoshiyarSinghMarg,SatyaMarg,
Shanti Path, Niti Marg, and
Kautilya Marg are being beauti-
fied. Similarly, Army Battle
Honours Mess Marg, Abai Marg,
Malcha Marg, and Sardar Patel
Marg are being revamped be-
cause they are situated near ITC
Maurya. Roads near the Oberoi
KEY DATES
Among state boards, Bihar aced the list, followed by
UP and Rajasthan, respectively. Archive
71,000
seats available for 78 undergraduate
programmes and 198 BA programme
combinations in 68 colleges
■ Declaration of first
CSAS allocation list
August1
■ Candidates to accept
allocated seats
5pmTuesday,
August1, till 4.59 pm
Saturday
August5
CANDIDATES FROM CBSE SCORE MOST SEATS
Hotel,suchasZakirHussainMarg,
LodhiRoad,andAurobindoRoad,
arealsobeingworkedupon.Hotel
Shangri-La, Hotel Lalit, Hotel
Meridian, and Imperial Hotel are
among the other properties re-
served for G20 participants.
NDMC is currently taking on
the task of removing grass and
weeds, renewing road markings,
installing blinkers, removing en-
croachments, pruning trees, and
removing illegal hoardings. Stray
cattle and dogs are also being re-
movedfromkeyroads.Protesters
fromJantarMantarwillbeevicted
withtheassistanceofDelhiPolice
before the summit, officials said.
All electrical poles in the area
the delegates will be passing
through are also being
freshly painted. The MCD is
working on beautification work
at Mahipalpur roundabout,
Shaheedi Park and PVR Anupam
market.
AnMCDofficialsaidthecivic
authoritywasalsopaintingwalls
andmakinggraffitibutthework
hashaltedduetotherecentrains.
■ Colleges to verify
and approve
5pmTuesday,
August1, till 4.59 pm
Saturday
August5
■ Last date of online fee
Sunday
August6 Till 4.59 pm
JATINANAND
NEWDELHI,AUGUST1
THE BJP on Tuesday overhauled
itsstateunitwithanostensiblefo-
cusonincreasingtherepresenta-
tion of women as well as main-
taining a balance between
experienced and new faces in its
organisational ranks.
With16of65postswiththem,
MP Viswam writes to
SAU, slams ‘undertaking’
for new batch of students
VIDHEESHA KUNTAMALLA
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1
RAJYA SABHA MP and CPI leader
Binoy Viswam wrote to the act-
ing president of South Asian
University (SAU) Tuesday ex-
pressing his “disgust” and “an-
guish” at the mandatory general
undertaking that was recently
introduced for newly admitted
students.
On July 29, The Indian Express
first reported on SAU asking stu-
dents who have been admitted
in the new academic session to
sign an “undertaking” declaring
thattheywillneitherjoinanyag-
itationorstrikenorparticipatein
any activity that has a “tendency
todisturbpeace”onthecampus.
Ithadalsoaskedthemtodeclare
that they are not suffering from
any“psychiatricorpsychological
disorder”.
The university told The Indian
Expressthatitsresponsetothelet-
WHATHAPPENSNEXT?
■ Candidates will have to
accept seat within
stipulated time
■ College will check
eligibility and verify
documents
■ College shall “approve”
or “reject”
■ If approved, candidate
should pay admission fee
and confirm the admission
on the allocated seat
■ If a candidate wishes to
to try for their higher
submitted preferences
than the current allocated
one, they may choose the
‘Upgrade’ option
■ If a higher preference is
allocated, candidate will
have to accept new seat
WHENDOESACANDIDATE
GETREJECTED?
■ If candidate does not
accept a seat or there is
inactivity or no action, it
will be treated as declining
the provisional offer of an
allocated seat
■ Candidate will no longer
be able to participate in
subsequent rounds of
CSAS-2023
womenkaryakartasnowaccount
for around 1/4th of BJP’s Delhi
team. These include three of its
seven vice-presidents — Lata
Gupta, Yogita Singh and Sunita
Kangra, one of its three general
secretaries(KamaljeetSehrawat),
and three of its eight state secre-
taries, including late BJP stalwart
Sushma Swaraj’s daughter
BansuriSwaraj.“Forthefirsttime
in a decade a female karyakarta
terhasbeenuploadedonitsweb-
site, which said, “Nothing in the
GeneralDeclaration/Undertaking
signed by newly admitted stu-
dentsmaybeconstruedaspreju-
dicing in any manner the SAARC
Intergovernmental Agreement,
Rules,RegulationsandByeLaws.”
The Indian Express reached
out to the Ministry of External
Affairsandreceivednoresponse.
Viswam said, “Protests and
democratic dialogue have been
instrumental in shaping the en-
tire South Asian region.
Curtailing the rights of students
from participating in demo-
cratic dialogue... is an obstacle in
realising the vision behind
South Asian University, which
aimed to impart liberal and hu-
mane education.”
Viswam further said,
“The declaration about psycho-
logicaldisordersorseriousillness
is highly discriminatory, inhu-
mane and unscientific at the
same time.”
listed by them and their score
in the Common University
Entrance Test (CUET) 2023.
Once their allocations were
sharedwiththemTuesday,Delhi
University also opened the
three-daywindowwithinwhich
candidates must “accept” their
allocatedseats.Thiswindowwill
remain open till 4.59 PM on
Friday.
In the first round, allocations
have been made against about
71,000 undergraduate seats for
78 undergraduate programmes
and 198 BA programme combi-
nations in 68 colleges. The uni-
versity, like last year, will admit
more students than the number
of seats available to account for
withdrawals later in the aca-
demic session.
While last year, the number
of students admitted were 20%
more than the available seats,
this year the university has re-
viseditspolicy.Incolleges,which
saw less than 5% withdrawals
last year, it will admit an addi-
tional 10% students and an addi-
tional 20% students will be ad-
mitted in the colleges, which
saw more than 5% withdrawals.
Once candidates accept their
allocations, colleges will either
approve or reject the admission
basedontheireligibilityandwill
have till 4.59 pm on Saturday to
complete processing, according
to the prospectus.
hasbecomethegeneralsecretary
and so has a leader from a
ScheduledCastesuchasYogendra
Chandolia,” a leader said.
WhileHarshMalhotrahasre-
tained his post of general secre-
tary, other secretaries include
Harish Khurana and Impreet
Singh Bakshi. Praveen Shankar
Kapoor has been made head of
the media unit apart from
spokesperson.
Copy of fake passport was
gangster Bishnoi’s undoing
JIGNASA SINHA
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1
ITWASafakepassportunderthe
name ‘Tilak Raj Toteja’, a copy of
which the Delhi Police found in
Sangam Vihar last year, that cut
short gangster Sachin Bishnoi’s
escape plan to the United States.
Sachin, whowasinAzerbaijanat
thetime,wastakenintocustody.
Whatfollowedwasa13-month-
long operation by the Delhi
Police Special Cell, Interpol and
Central Bureau of Investigation
that ended in Sachin’s extradi-
tion to India on Tuesday.
Sachin alias Thapan is
one of the alleged main conspir-
ators in Punjabi singer Sidhu
Moosewala's murder last May.
He has more than nine criminal
cases against him and claims to
be gangster Lawrence Bishnoi's
nephew. Police said it was he
who had conducted a recee,
spoketoshooters,providedthem
with Boleros and SUVs for
Moosewala’s murder.
AmonthbeforeMoosewala’s
murder,Sachinallegedlyfledthe
country using the fake passport.
On how they got on Sachin’s
trail, police sources said a team
had caught a man in South Delhi
for aiding gangsters last June.
POCSO CASE AGAINST BRIJ BHUSHAN
Minor wrestler not opposed to
police closure report, court told
NIRBHAY THAKUR
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1
ADELHIcourtwilltakeadecision
on the closure report filed in the
POCSO case against BJP MP and
outgoing WFI chief Brij Bhushan
SharanSinghonSeptember6,ac-
cordingtoPublic Prosecutor Atul
Kumar Srivastava.
The father of the minor com-
plainant in the sexual harass-
ment case against Singh told the
court during in-chamber pro-
ceedings that they were both
satisfied with the police probe
which found “no evidence”
THE CITY 5
Bishnoi is one of the ‘main
conspirators’ in Moose-
wala’s murder. Tashi Tobgyal
They then seized a copy of a
passportthat hadSachin’sphoto
andimmediatelyalertedauthor-
ities in Dubai and Azerbaijan
where he had fled.
Police sources said he was in
constant touch with gangster
GoldyBrar,whoisinCanada,and
was planning to go to the US us-
ing the ‘donkey route’ from
Azerbaijan.AcallfromBrar,how-
ever, made him stop. Police said
Brar had found police were onto
Sachin and asked him to stay in
Baku. In June-July last year, local
policeinAzerbaijandetainedhim.
Special CP (Special Cell) HGS
Dhaliwal said, “Last year, after
the Home Minister's review
meeting, the Special Cell has
been working to catch gangsters
against the minister, Srivastava
said. As the father and the minor
are satisfied with the police re-
port, cancellation of the POCSO
FIR may be accepted, he added.
On July 4, during in-camera
proceedings,AdditionalSessions
Judge Chhavi Kapoor had issued
a notice seeking response from
the victim and her father on the
final report filed by the Delhi
Police by August 1. On June 15,
police had filed a 550-page re-
port requesting cancellation of
thePOCSOcaseagainst Singhaf-
ter the minor wrestler and her
father withdrew their allega-
tions against Singh in a fresh
andterroristshidinginIndiaand
abroad. Under directions of the
Police Commissioner, we’ve
been working for over a year to
extradite Sachin. We had earlier
helped other agencies by arrest-
ingassailantsinvolvedinthesaid
case.Aredcornernoticewasalso
issued against Sachin. With the
help of multiple agencies — CBI-
Interpol, MEA, MHA and
Azerbaijan Police — we were fi-
nally able to extradite him.”
A team led by DCP Prashant
Gautam, ACP Rahul Vikram,
Inspector Nishant Dahiya and SI
ManjeethadleftforAzerbaijanon
Friday and got Bishnoi’s custody
on Monday night. “He was plan-
ning to go to America and join
Anmol Bishnoi — Lawrence’s
cousin and an accused in the
singer’s murder — who fled the
country last year,” said an officer.
Dhaliwal said Sachin had
claimed responsibility for the
murder as he had called a TV
channel and told them he killed
Moosewala for shielding gang-
sters who killed their close aide,
Vicky Middukhera.
This is the second extradi-
tion by the Delhi Police. In April,
the capital’s most wanted gang-
ster, Deepak Boxer, was arrested
in Mexico’s Cancun City and
brought to Delhi.
statement before a magistrate.
In April, the minor’s father
had lodged a complaint against
Singh for alleged sexual harass-
ment, stalking and criminal in-
timidation.
On June 5, however, the girl
hadretractedherallegationsbe-
fore a magistrate.
On June 15, police had also
filedachargesheetagainstSingh
andhisassociateVinodTomaron
sexual harassment, stalking and
abetment charges based on
statements of six women
wrestlers. The matter on the
scrutiny of documents of the
chargesheetislistedonAugust3.

6 THE CITY
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2023
For second day, Gurgaon remains on edge
Burnt cars outside the Nuh police station. Abhinav Saha
All schools in Sohna sub-division to remain shut today
AISWARYA RAJ &
ARNABJIT SUR
GURGAON, AUGUST 1
SHOPSWEREvandalisedandset
on fire as several areas in
Gurgaon saw violence following
the communal clashes that
erupted in Nuh a day earlier.
Followingthis,thedistrictad-
ministration said all schools un-
der the Sohna sub-division will
remain shut on Wednesday as
well. Corporate offices also sent
their employees home earlier
than usual and many opted for
workfromhome.Further,several
schools in Delhi said they won’t
send their buses to Gurgaon.
In a series of orders andadvi-
sories,thedistrictadministration
urged caution. Gurgaon Deputy
Commissioner Nishant Kumar
Yadav in an order said: “... it has
come to attention that there is
communaltensioninneighbour-
ingdistrictof Nuh,whichhasled
to blockage of roads by anti-so-
cial elements in bordering parts
of district Gurgaon, particularly
Sohna... To avoid any untoward
incidentandensuresafetyof stu-
dents, it is deemed necessary to
closeallgovernmentandprivate
educationalinstitutionsinSohna
sub-division... on August 2.”
He also appealed to the gen-
eral public to refrain from post-
ing any content on social media
that may hurt religious senti-
ments or threaten religious har-
mony. “... If anyone spreads ru-
mours or makes inappropriate
comments targeting someone's
Naib Imam killed in Gurgaon mosque had
assured family of ‘enough police security’
ARNABJIT SUR &
AISWARYA RAJ
GURGAON, AUGUST 1
AS NEWS of communal flare-up
in Nuh spread Monday evening,
kin of Mohammad Saad, the
naib Imam of Anjuman Jama
Masjid in Gurgaon, grew wor-
ried for him. The 22-year-old,
though, reassured them he
would be safe as there was
“enough police deployment”
outside the mosque.
Around12.10amonTuesday,
he was found dead after a mob
of nearly 100 people allegedly
broke into the under-construc-
AFTERMATH OF NUH CLASH: SHOPS TORCHED, VANDALISED IN CITY
A shop vandalised in
Badshahpur. PTI
religion or caste, police will take
strictactionagainstsuchindivid-
uals. The district administration
is closely monitoring social me-
dia...,” an advisory stated.
In another order, the DC said
all fuel stations operating in
Gurgaon district are strictly pro-
hibited from selling loose
petrol/diesel to any person (ex-
cept for emergency purposes)
with immediate effect.
Through the day, several in-
cidents of violence were re-
ported across the city. In
Badshahpur,severalmeatshops,
a scrap shop and a shop selling
mattresses were vandalised by a
mob around 2 pm — even as
there was heavy police deploy-
ment 3 km from the area.
A local resident, requesting
anonymity, said, “Owners of
thesetwoshopshadalreadyfled
to their villages in UP as they an-
ticipated a tense situation.”
Around200metresaway,75-
year-old Kalu Miya’s mattress
Mohammad
Saad was
the naib
Imam of
Anjuman
Jama Masjid
tion mosque at Sector 57 and set
it on fire. They allegedly stabbed
Saad in the neck, chest and ab-
domen and injured a caretaker,
Mohammad Khurshid.
Gurgaon Police Commis-
sioner Kala Ramachandran said
fivepeoplehavebeenarrestedin
thecase.Shesaidagroupof men
attackedthemosqueat12.10am.
shop was destroyed. He said, “I
openedmyshopat9am...Around
1pm,mylandlordcameandtold
me to close it as the atmosphere
was turning tense... I quickly
packed all my itemsandshut my
shop...Thirtyminuteslater,amob
came and burnt my shop.”
At Basai Road, 10-15 people
were seen allegedly vandalising
meat shops only to quickly flee
when police forces arrived.
In Sohna, a mosque and a ve-
hicleparkedonitspremiseswere
vandalised by a mob. Naveen
Sindhu, ACP (Sohna), said a case
has been registered against un-
known persons under IPC sec-
tions 147, 149, 153-A, 425. He
addedthattherewerepeoplein-
side, but no one got hurt. Police
were informed and they rushed
to the spot, and the accused fled.
Assuring that things were in
hand,ACP(Crime)VarunDahiya
said,“Therehavebeensomeinci-
dents of violence in Gurgaon as
it had transpired in Nuh, but
Gurgaon Police have been de-
ployed in many areas. Any infor-
mationregardingviolencecanbe
shared with police on the
helpline,112. There are no traffic
restrictions and movement is
normal. All educational institu-
tions, except in Sohna sub-divi-
sion, will be operating. There is
noneedtobescaredatthistime.”
ADC Hitesh Kumar Meena
said the administration, police,
andfiredepartmentsareontheir
toes to control any untoward ac-
tivities: “We are working proac-
tively.ThesituationinBadshahpur
and Basai Road has improved.”
Shadaab Anwar (30), Saad’s
brother, told The Indian Express,
“He reassured me that the situa-
tion was normal as at least two
police vehicles had been de-
ployed outside the mosque...”
Hailing from Bihar's
Sitamarhi, Saad had been the
mosque’s naib (temporary)
Imam for the last six months.
“He used to live inside the
mosque,” said Anwar, adding
that Saad was supposed to re-
turntotheirvillagethesameday.
“He told me he would read
namaz early in the morning and
leave via a train,” Anwar said.
An eyewitness to the inci-
dent, requesting anonymity, al-
ANANDVIHAR
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A meeting, assurance of no weapons, video that
raised tempers: What happened ahead of yatra
AISWARYA RAJ
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1
BEHIND THE Haryana police’s
decision to grant permission for
Monday’s Brijmandal Jala-
bhishek Yatra in Haryana’s Nuh,
despite simmering tensions af-
ter two men were killed in
Bhiwani in February, was the as-
surancethatweaponswouldnot
feature in the procession.
However, once a series of
messages and videos on social
media and messaging apps
started doing the rounds, tem-
pers began to flare.
Among the videos was one
byself-proclaimedcowvigilante
Mohit Yadav, better known as
MonuManesar,sayinghewould
participate in the yatra. “I will be
in the yatra in person and my
wholeteamwillalsobepresent,”
said Monu, who is an accused in
the murders of Junaid and Nasir
in Bhiwani, in a video posted as
his WhatsApp status on July 29.
A meeting between Nuh po-
Station attacked, how Didn’t know situation was serious:
Nuh cops fended off mob Kin of home guards killed in clash
PAVNEET SINGH CHADHA
PANAJI, AUGUST 1
ONE OF the several FIRs regis-
teredinHaryana’sNuh,following
communal clashes Monday, re-
countshowa“mobofthousands”
gheraoed a police station, with
“rioters” pelting stones, opening
fireandtorchingseveralvehicles.
Police staff then fired tear gas
shellsandretaliatoryfireintheair
to save their lives, states the FIR.
TheFIR,registeredatCityNuh
policestationonthecomplaintof
PSISurajofcybercrimepolicesta-
tion, said around 3.30 pm on July
31, he, along with eight officers,
was present at the station when
“an aggressive... mob... suddenly
surrounded the station from all
sidesandstartedpeltingstones”.
The FIR said the mob was
“shouting to burn them alive”.
“Meanwhile, ASI Digvijay
from Sadar Tauru police station
alongwithacolleaguearrivedin
a government vehicle (Bolero)
leged, “Around 12 am, a mob of
100 people, carrying iron rods
and sticks in their hands, came
and started vandalising...”
“They climbed through the
roof and some broke the gates...
there was police deployment
aroundbut they stillmanaged to
vandalise the mosque...
Khurshid and Saad were sleep-
ing in one room while two other
workers and I were taking rest
nearby and managed to escape,”
said another mosque worker.
Shubham Singh Tomar, who
works at a petrol pump in front
of the mosque, said he saw at
least 40 men gathering near the
premises.
MANDIR MARG
Satisfactory
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500 0 PM 10 500
51-100 Satisfactory 101-200 Moderate
WHERE VIOLENCE BROKE OUT
The rally was supposed to go from Nuh to Punhana.
At Tiranga Chowk, 3 km away from Nalhar Mahadev
Mandir temple, stone pelting started.
DELHI
Sohna Chowk
Badshahpur
Mosque in Sector 57, Gurgaon
Nalhar Mahadev
mandir in Nuh
Tiranga Chowk
HARYANA
Jhirka Punhana
Ferozepur
mandir
lice and district officials, Vishwa
Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal and
and came running... to save their
lives,asstonepeltingfrom...riot-
ers continued. Rioters drove a
yellow bus and rammed it into
wall and main gate... Some riot-
ers climbed walls and roof... and
using illegal arms, they opened
fireatpolicestaff,”theFIRstated.
It said the policemen hid be-
hind walls to evade gunfire. “On
my order, to disperse mob, con-
stable Pradeep Kumar fired tear-
gas shells... When rioters contin-
ued pelting stones... fellow police
officers and I... in self defenceand
for protection... took arms from
police station armoury and fired
in retaliation in air,” the FIR read.
The FIR said rioters poured
petrol on several private cars of
policemen and set them on fire.
“Riotersthenbargedintothepo-
lice station room and looted two
coolers,aninverter,battery,alap-
top, and ASI Suresh's wallet... A
lotof policeforcearrivedandthe
rioters abandoned the bus and
ranawaybeforethreateningus,”
the FIR added.
‘Had to leave my dying brother to save myself’
DHEERAJ MISHRA
NUH, AUGUST 1
ON MONDAY, 22-year-old
Abhishek Chauhan came from
Panipat’s Noorwala village to
Nuh on Monday to take part in a
processionledbytheBajrangDal
and Vishwa Hindu Parishad.
Hours later, he, along with four
others, were killed in the vio-
lence that erupted in the district
and neigbouring Gurgaon.
Hiscousin,Mahesh(25),who
accompanied him, said he saw
Abhishek get shot. “Just as we
came out of the Shiv Mandir in
Nalhar, we saw a mob, armed
with swords, guns and stones,
running towards the temple.
They started beating people, fir-
DTU
Satisfactory
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AQI
0 PM 10 500
201-300 Poor 301-400 Very Poor
■ Areas that
sawviolence
Faridabad
Palwal
Jewar
UTTAR
PRADESH
JamiatUlema-i-Hindrepresenta-
tives,andarearesidentshadtaken
AISWARYA RAJ &
ARNABJIT SUR
GURGAON, AUGUST 1
ONMONDAY,Neeraj(37),ahome
guard, informed his family that
hewasgoingtoNuhfollowingthe
communal tension in the region.
Intheevening,thefamilywasin-
formedhewasinvolvedinanac-
cident.Itdidn’ttakelongforthem
to realise he had died in the line
of dutyalongwithanotherhome
guard, Gursevak Singh (33).
“We could not picture the
‘accident’ would be this grave.
At 5 pm, we got to know he had
died,” said Salim, Neeraj’s
brother-in-law, who lives in
Delhi, adding that they never
anticipated this fate for Neeraj
whose job as a home guard “in-
volved fewer risks”.
Neeraj’s family is based out
of Garhi Bazidpur on the out-
skirts of Gurgaon.
Waiting for the body to be
Abhishek
Chauhan,
a mechanic,
was part
of the
procession
ingandsettingcarsonfire.Abul-
let hit my brother and he fell. I
cried for help, but there was no
one around there," he said.
Healsoclaimed,“Iwastrying
togetAbhisheksomewheresafe,
but a man with a sword slashed
his neck and fled... I had to leave
him there and take shelter in a
tent. After an hour, policemen
came and took him to a hospital
but he was declared dead.”
He has named a total of 13
JAHANGIRPURI
Moderate
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At 7 pm
401-500 Severe
Monu Manesar, in a
video, had said he would
participate in the yatra
place on July 27. Said Deputy
Commissioner Prashant Panwar,
“When we gave permission, we
had asked them to strictly avoid
any weapons during the yatra.”
“The yatra has been held for
three years now... we flagged
that use of weapons was what
we stood against,” said Jamiat
Ulema-i-HindmemberMaulana
Yahiya Kareemi.
When Monu’s video was
posted, the mood in the area
changed. “Monu is accused of
killing Junaid and Nasir. He says
he is coming to Mewat as if it
Gursevak Singh and Neeraj
taken for post-mortem,
Sukhdev,Neeraj’scousin, iswor-
ried about the family: “He has
two children — a seven-year-old
boy and a five-year-old girl. His
wife does not work. He lived in a
joint family with two brothers,
their families and his father. His
income, however meagre it was,
helped the family sustain.”
According to Salim, coming
from a family of defence person-
nel, joining the home guard was
not out of character for Neeraj.
“His father was in the armed
forces, his grandfather also
persons in his complaint. A case
has been registered under IPC
sections 302, 148, 149, 307 and
324 and Section 25 of the Arms
Act at Sadar Nuh police station.
Abhishek’s uncle, Rajendra
Chauhan, came to Nuh Tuesday
morningtotakehisbodyfromthe
mortuaryofShaheedHasanKhan
Mewati Government Medical
College.HesaidAbhishekwashis
family’ssolebreadwinner:“Idon’t
know what to tell my sister... He
had studied till Class XII but had
tostartworkingasacarmechanic
because of the family’s poor eco-
nomic condition...”
Meanwhile, Dinesh Kumar
(24) from Bhiwani is battling
gunshot injuries at a hospital.
Recounting the incident, he told
The Indian Express, “I was among
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meansnothing,”saidMuftiSalim
Sakras, another Jamiat member,
adding that it angered residents.
Bajrang Dal members, how-
ever, defended Monu. "Monu
just posted a video, why does it
anger people? The yatra is not
about VHP or Bajrang Dal, it’s
about the Hindu community,"
said Amit Hindu, a Gurgaon
Bajrang Dal member.
Monu, however, did not
show up. He told The Indian
Express that leaders from VHP
and Bajrang Dal had asked him
to skip the yatra.
With 17 FIRs registered and
over 100 detained, Nuh Police
are conducting an expansive
probe. “Locals also had guns,
sticks and swords. We are re-
viewing gun licences in the re-
gion and action will be taken ac-
cordingly,” said Narender
Bijarnia, SP Bhiwani.
An officer in the administra-
tion had said no one had raised
a red flag regarding the video
and the messages from both
communities that followed.
worked in defence. He loved his
job,andhadbeenworkingfor15
years. His wife Vakeela is incon-
solable; the kids don’t even
know what is happening...”
Gursevak’s family said they
wereawareviolencewasspread-
ing in the region but had no
inkling he would become a
casualty to it. Inji Singh, his
nephew, told The Indian Express,
“Gursevak’s father Saisi Singh
spoke to him on Monday at 3
pm...Heneverintimatedusabout
the seriousness of the situation.”
Gursevak is survived by his
wife, six-year-old daughter and
four-year-old son, apart from his
parents at his village in Fatehpur
in UP. He started working as a
home guard in Fatehabad from
July 24 before which he was
posted in Dohana for a year.
“He was the sole breadwin-
ner and used to send back half of
whatever he used to earn... we
have not informed his children
so far...,” said the nephew.
80 people who came to Nuh by
bus... but we had to stop at the
chowk near the temple after we
got news of the attack. We tried
to talk to the other side... four
men assured us nothing would
happen. But in a few minutes,
people started throwing stones
and I got shot,” said Kumar, who
works at a petrol pump.
On Tuesday, the streets saw
heavy deployment of security
forces while shops remained
shut. Narender Deshwal, who
sells ice cream on a cart, said the
blockade will affect business.
“But if there is one thing that has
been severely affected, more
than business, it is the relation-
ship between both communi-
ties. Who will pay for this dam-
age?” said the 50-year-old.
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Monsoon Session

DelhiservicesBilltabledinLSamidOppprotests
DELHI CONFIDENTIAL House has powers
to enact any law
for Delhi: Shah
HARIKISHAN SHARMA
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1
THE CENTRE on Tuesday intro-
duced the Government of
NationalCapitalTerritoryof Delhi
(Amendment) Bill, 2023, in Lok
Sabha.
The Bill seeks to replace the
NationalCapitalTerritoryof Delhi
TABLES TURNED ON CHAIR (Amendment) Ordinance, 2023,
onthecontrolof servicesinDelhi.
RAJYA SABHA Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar found himself While the Opposition tore
tackling an unusual situation in the House on Tuesday. The into the government, alleging
Chair is usually used to telling Opposition members to sit that the Bill aims to take away
down when they rise to speak out of turn, or to protest. Every Delhi Assembly’s powers, Union
once in a while, Dhankhar makes similar directions to the Home Minister Amit Shah, who
Treasury benches as well. On Tuesday, Dhankhar found him- was present in the House, said,
self issuing such directions to a minister. While replying dur- “All objections raised are politi-
ing Question Hour, MoS (Health) S P Singh Baghel, who ap- cal, which do not have any
parently got a little carried away with his reply, surpassed his Constitutional basis.”
time.DespiterepeatedcallsbytheChairtowinduphisspeech The Centre had promulgated
and sit down, Baghel continued. Eventually, Dhankhar had no the Ordinance on May 19, 2023
choice but to ask the next speaker to ask his question. — eight days after the
Constitution Bench of Supreme
Court pronounced its judgment
PING-PONG ON SONG in the Government of NCT of
Delhi v. Union of India case,
AFTER A long day’s work, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv granting more powers to the
Kumar joined Election Commission of India officials and the Delhi government over services
staff for a game of table tennis at the recreation room at ECI in the national capital.
headquarters at Nirvachan Sadan on Monday evening. The Bill was introduced by
Kumar, who is fond of sports, including swimming and MoS (Home) Nityanand Rai in
trekking, is a good TT player as well, it is learnt. The ECI's of- Lok Sabha amid vociferous
ficial Instagram handle shared a photo of the game, to which protestsbyOppositionmembers,
the Rajasthan Chief Electoral Officer's account replied that it led by Congress leader Adhir
was inspiring to see. Ranjan Chowdhury, who raised
objectionstoitsintroductionun-
der Rule 72 of the Rules of
TIME OUT Procedure and Conduct of
Business in Lok Sabha.
The Commission for Subcategorisation of OBCs, headed by Chowdhury said, “The Bill
Justice G Rohini (Retd), has been wound up. On Monday, the vindicates the outrageous in-
last working day of the commission, the government stated fringement of this government
that the panel has submitted its report to President Droupadi upon the territory of states. It is
Murmu. The commission had received 13 extensions. It is, the design of digging a grave-
however, learnt that the secretariat of the commission, which yard for cooperative federal-
works from five rooms at Vigyan Bhawan Annexe, has been
asked to stay on for two months. Expenses of the commission
are drawn from the National Commission for OBCs.
Press and Registration
of Periodicals Bill
Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. PTI
ism." He said services are a State
subject under the Seventh
Schedule of the Constitution
and, therefore, the Delhi
Assembly should have had a
right to make a law regarding
services without any obstacles.
Terming the objections “po-
litical”, Shah said, “I want to clar-
ify the issues raised by the
Opposition regarding rules of
Procedure and Conduct of
Business in Lok Sabha. Our
Constitution has given absolute
powertothisHousetoenactany
law for Delhi state.”
Hesaidtheobjections“donot
have any basis as per rules of
Parliamentary procedure.
Therefore, leave should be
granted to introduce the Bill be-
fore the House.”
Chowdhury, however, said
the Bill is “a clear violation of the
Constitution”,as,hepointedout,
Article 239 provides powers to
theDelhiAssemblytomakelaws
on subjects mentioned in the
State List and Concurrent List.
“This Bill aims at undermining
the independence and rights of
Delhigovernment,whichwases-
tablished by the Supreme Court
judgment,” he said.
In a long tweet, Rajya Sabha
MPandsenior CongressleaderP
Chidambaram raised several
questions: "I can understandBJP
MPs supporting the Delhi
Services Authority Bill, but I fail
to understand what merit in the
Bill was found by BJDand YSRCP.
Havethetwopartiesfoundmerit
in the 3-member Authority
where the Chief Minister will be
just one against two officers ap-
pointed by the central govern-
ment? Have they found merit in
theprovisionwherethetwooffi-
cers can constitute the quorum
and hold a meeting and take de-
cisionswithouttheparticipation
of the Chief Minister? Have they
found merit in the provision
where the two officers can over-
rule the Chief Minister.... Have
theyfoundmeritintheprovision
that empowers the central gov-
ernment to define the "powers
and duties" of the officers work-
ing in the Delhi government to
the exclusion of the ministers of
the Delhi government..."
Statingthathe“vehemently”
opposestheBill,RSPmemberNK
Premachandransaid:“Iamques-
tioning the legislative compe-
tence of the government in hav-
ing the legislation of Bill.... It is
against the principles of federal-
ism envisaged by the
Constitution.”
Intervening, Parliamentary
AffairsMinisterPralhadJoshisaid
theHouseis“fullycompetent”to
pass this Bill.
Asaduddin Owaisi of AIMIM
said the Bill violates Article 123
of the Constitution and the the-
oryof separationof powers.This
House,hesaid,doesnothaveleg-
islative competence.
Trinamool Congress's
SougataRayalsosaiditisoutside
the legislative competence of
ParliamentandcalledtheBill“to-
tally autocratic”.
Pinaki Misra of BJD said that
on a point of law, the Opposition
cannot oppose the introduction
of the Bill, as the House has leg-
islativecompetence.Referringto
para 95 of the Supreme Court
judgment, Misra said, “The gov-
ernment has brought out a law
now at perusal to the Supreme
Courtempoweringit.Sohowcan
youchallengetheExecutive’sleg-
islative competence?”
Suspense over: Delhi
governance Bill set for
smooth passage in RS
BJD, YSRCP declare support; NDA needs
121 against INDIA’s less than 110 MPs
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1
AFTERTHEYSRCP,theBijuJanata
DalonTuesdayannouncedthatit
will support the Narendra Modi
government on the contentious
NationalCapitalTerritoryof Delhi
(Amendment) Bill, which re-
places the ordinance on services
inDelhi,dashingtheOpposition’s
hope to force a close vote in the
Rajya Sabha.
TheBJDandYSRCPhave nine
members each in the Rajya
Sabha. With their support, the
ruling side can now easily cross
the halfway mark.
The combined Opposition
along with the Bharat Rashtra
Samithi(BRS),whichhasdeclared
that it will oppose the Bill, may at
best reach a tally of less than 110.
The present strength of the
House is 238, making the half-
way mark 119. There are seven
vacancies.
The BJP alone has 92 mem-
bers (including five nominated
MPs) in the Upper House. Along
with its NDA allies, the number
will go up to 103. While the
AIADMK has four MPs, the RPI
(Athawale), Asom Gana
Parishad, Pattali Makkal Katchi,
Tamil Maanila Congress
(Moopanar), National People's
Party, Mizo National Front,
United People’s Party (Liberal)
have one member each.
IT Minister to present
Digital Personal Data
Protection Bill tomorrow
SOUMYARENDRA BARIK
BJD’s Naveen Patnaik, (right)
YSRCP’s Jagan Mohan Reddy
Add the 18 members of the
BJD and the YSRCP, and the rul-
ing side will have 121 members.
Parties like the BSP, TDP,
JD(S) and Sikkim Democratic
Front, which have one member
each, could also side with the
government.
The 26-member Opposition
INDIA alliance has 98 members.
While the Congress has 31 MPs,
the Trinamool Congress has 13
and the DMK and the Aam
Aadmi Party have 10 each. The
Rashtriya Janata Dal has 6 mem-
bers, the CPI(M) and Janata Dal
(United) 5 each, the Nationalist
Congress Party 4, the Shiv Sena
(UBT) 3, the Jharkhand Mukti
Morcha and CPI 2 each, and the
Indian Union Muslim League,
Kerala Congress (M), Rashtriya
Lok Dal and MDMK 1 each.
The BRS, which is not part of
the INDIA, but is opposed to the
Bill has 7 members.
The Opposition can count on
the support of Independent MP
Kapil Sibal as well.
some of the final contours of the
Bill.Forinstance,asperthepanel’s

introduced in RS NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1

UNION MINISTER of Electronics

Bill seeks to replace PRB Act, 1867, bring
transparency and ease of doing business
DIVYA A
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1
AMID UPROAR from the
Opposition benches, Union
Information and Broadcasting
Minister Anurag Thakur intro-
ducedthePressandRegistration
of Periodicals (PRP) Bill, 2023 in
the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
The Bill seeks to replace the
existing Press and Registration
of Books (PRB) Act, 1867, which
governs the registration of print
and publishing industry in the
country.
The Union Cabinet had re-
cently approved the PRP Bill that
seeks to simplify the registration
process for periodicals and do
awaywiththeprovisionforpros-
ecution and imprisonment of
publishers.
“The aim of the new Bill is to
bring transparency and ease of
doingbusiness.Itwillprovidefor
new Bill.
The Bill also seeks to do away
withtwoprovisionsthatrequired
publishers and printers to file a
declarationbeforetheDM.Itwa-
tersdownthepenalprovisionsof
the PRB Act, which made im-
properdeclarationofinformation
a punishable offence with a
prison term of up to six months.
In the 2023 Bill, punishment
of jail up to six months is envis-
aged only in cases where a peri-
odicalispublishedwithoutacer-
tificate of registration and the
publisher fails to cease the print-
ingof suchpublicationevenafter
six months of a direction issued
to that effect by PRG.
The new Bill also provides for
an appellate authority. The
Appellate Board (Press and
RegistrationAppellateBoard)will
comprise chairperson, Press
Council of India (PCI), and two
membersofPCItohearanappeal
against refusal of grant of regis-
and Information Technology,
AshwiniVaishnawwillintroduce
Digital Personal Data Protection
(DPDP) Bill in Lok Sabha on
Thursday, according to an official
notification by Parliament.
The Parliamentary panel on
IT has recommended that the
DPDP Bill’s enactment be expe-
dited, “without any undue de-
lay”, as it relied on submissions
made by officials of the IT
Ministry, without the Bill being
formally referred to it.
“Ashwini Vaishnaw to move
forleavetointroduceaBilltopro-
vide for the processing of digital
personal data in a manner that
recognises both the right of indi-
viduals to protect their personal
dataandtheneedtoprocesssuch
data for lawful purposes and for
matters connected therewith or
incidental thereto. Also to intro-
CROSS-CONNECTION ducetheBill,”saidthelistof busi-
ness uploaded by the Lok Sabha.
Submissions made by the IT
(Clockwise from right) AAP MP Harbhajan Singh, NCP (Ajit Pawar group) MP Praful Patel, Congress members Deepender Ministry’sofficialstotheStanding
Singh Hooda and K C Venugopal on Parliament premises, Tuesday. PTI Committee on Communications
and IT also offer an insight into
report, any appeals against deci-
sionsmadebytheDataProtection
Board — the adjudicatory body
proposedtoimplementnormsof
theBill—couldbehandledbythe
TelecomDisputesSettlementand
Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT). TD-
SAT was not mentioned in the
2022versionof thedraftBill.
Similarly, officials informed
thecommitteethatanentiresec-
tion on "deemed consent" has
beenremovedfromthefinalver-
sion, and has added provisions of
processing personal data for “le-
gitimate uses”. Under the previ-
ous version of the Bill, private en-
titiescouldhaveassumedconsent
for various use cases, however, in
thefinalversion,thatcouldbelim-
ited to a few use cases.
Thecommittee,relyingonin-
formation submitted by IT
Ministry officials, said the final
version of the Bill will also allow
the processing of personal data
for certain legitimate use cases,
including national security, the
government being able to offer
subsidies , licences etc., public
health emergencies, and em-
ployer-employee requirements,
among other things.

Dialling up heat, Opp to take Manipur issue to President

a simple process that will help
small and medium publishers,”
said an official.
In the 1867 Act, only the dis-
trict magistrate (DM) could can-
celthedeclarationofaperiodical,
whilethePressRegistrarGeneral
(PRG) did not have suo motu
powers to cancel or suspend the
CertificateofRegistrationgranted
byit.ButPRPBill,2023empowers
the PRG to suspend/cancel regis-
tration.
A person who has been con-
victedbyanycourtforanoffence
involving terrorist act or unlaw-
ful activity, or having done any-
thing against the security of the
state shall not be permitted to
bring out a periodical, as per the
Union Minister Anurag Thakur in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. ANI
tration,impositionofanypenalty
orsuspension/cancellationofreg-
istration by PRG.
Books,whichwerepartof the
PRBAct,1867,havebeentakenout
ofthepurviewofPRPBill2023,as
books as a subject are adminis-
teredbytheMinistryofEducation,
officialssaid.Also,printingpresses
won’t have to file any declaration
before the DM anymore; only an
online intimation has to be filed
before PRG and DM.
Thestatutehasbeensubstan-
tially decriminalised as against
the PRB Act 1867, which had se-
vere penalties leading to convic-
tion and imprisonment up to six
months for various violations of
the Act, the officials said.
MANOJ C G
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1
AMID THE bitter standoff in
ParliamentovertheManipursit-
uation, the Opposition INDIA al-
lianceissettoratchetupitsoffen-
sive against the BJP-led
government by planning to take
the issue to the Rashtrapati
Bhavan now.
Accompaniedby21MPswho
visited Manipur over the last
weekend,seniorOppositionlead-
erswillmeetPresidentDroupadi
Murmu on Wednesday to seek
her intervention on the issue.
Both Houses of Parliament
have remained paralysed during
the ongoing monsoon session so
far. The Opposition has been dis-
rupting the Rajya Sabha, seeking
asuomotustatementfromPrime
Minister Narendra Modi on the
Manipur situation followed by a
comprehensivediscussiononthe
issue under Rule 267. In the Lok
Sabha,theOppositionhasmoved
a no-confidence motion in a bid
to force the PM to come to the
Houseandreplytothediscussion.
Thestrongobservationsmade
by the Supreme Court over the
Manipur crisis – the apex court
today said there is a complete
breakdown of law and order and
constitutional machinery in the
state and that the investigation
carriedoutbythestatepolicewas
"tardy" and "too lethargic" – has
reinforcedtheOpposition'sstand.
The Congress president and
Leaderof the Opposition (LoP) in
the Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun
Kharge, charged that the Modi
government was bulldozing the
OppositioninParliament.Kharge
saidtheRajyaSabhahadtakenup
discussionsinvokingRule267on
variousissuesseventimes,while
discussions were taken up sus-
pendingQuestionHour10times.
“Thereareseveralprecedents.
But now they are threatening us.
We are told that you will be pun-
ished if you disturb the House. It
isthegovernmentwhichisdoing
it. One of our MPs, Rajani Patil,
was suspended for one session
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge with the leaders of Opposition’s INDIA bloc during a
press conference at Vijay Chowk on Tuesday. Anil Sharma
during the last session. But her
suspensionhasnotbeenrevoked.
What kind of democracy is this?
This is a dictatorship. This is
Hitlershahi,” Kharge alleged, ad-
dressing a joint press conference
with the INDIA's leaders.
Interestingly, BRS leader K
Keshava Rao too walked out of
the House along with the
Oppositionleadersandwaspres-
ent at the press conference.
“When I get up to speak,
members of the ruling party
shout. And my microphone is
switched off. They give me per-
mission to speak but my mic is
switched off in 10 seconds. How
does it happen? Yeh mera
Opposition party leader ko wo ek
alag nazar se dekhte hain. This is
aninsulttome,”Khargesaid.“IN-
DIA alliance will not be scared.
We will not run away. We will
fight them and defeat them in
2024,” he said.
Kharge said the Opposition
wasnotbeingallowedtospeakin
theRajyaSabha.“Wehadbeende-
mandingadiscussiononManipur
under Rule 267. We want the
Prime Minister to come to the
Houseandplacehisviews.Buthe
is not willing to come. He is doing
electioncampaigning,travellingto
Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh,
Chhattisgarh. Today, he was in
Pune, what was such a big event
thathehadtogo(toPune)instead
of attending Parliament…and
everywhere he is attacking the
Opposition,”hesaid.
Keeping his guns trained on
PM Modi, Kharge said, “Come to
the House, place your views, we
willanswerallyourquestions.But
he (PM) is going outside and
telling... taking advantage of all
these things to make election
propaganda.Heismakingelection
speechesbutisnotreadytomake
onesmallstatementintheHouse
ontheManipurissue,wheremore
than 200 people have died, 5,000
people are injured, and nearly
60,000peoplehavebeenforcedto
vacatetheirhouses.”
 8 GOVT & POLITICS
Buddhadeb doing fine: hospital
Kolkata: Former Chief Minister
Buddhadeb Bhattacharya's health condi-
tion has seen an improvement as he is re-
sponding to treatment, said doctors at the
Next week, PM likely
to lay foundation for
Kolkata-based hospital where he was ad-
mitted with lower respiratory tract infec-
tion and type-2 respiratory failure on July
29. ENS
revamp of 500 stations
AVISHEK G DASTIDAR
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1
PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi is likely
to lay the foundation stones of 500 rail-
way station redevelopment projects in
one go next week as part of the Azadi ka
Amrit Mahotsav.
The entire Railways machinery is
working to pull off this mammoth logis-
tical exercise — what is slated to be the
biggest ever foundation stone-laying ex-
ercise in one go.
Sourcessaidnearly2.5lakhschoolstu-
dents from across the country will take
part in various competitions in their in-
stitutions, and the winners will get prizes
on the ceremony day.
The500arepartof 1,275stationsiden-
tified as part of the government's Amrit
Bharat Station Scheme. With other pro-
cedures on contracts in place, sources
said, work on these 500 stations will be
initiated once the Prime Minister lays the
foundation stones.
Spreadacrossnearlyallthestates,these
stationsareofallvariety—bigandsmall,lit-
tle-known ones as well as some landmark
railway heads. Chandigarh, Delhi Cantt,
Kalka, Faridabad, Jammu Tawi Rewari,
Rohtak,Raipur,Bilaspur,Khajuraho,Jodhpur,
Kota,BharatpurandBhujareamongthesta-
tionspickedfromNorthIndia.
Then there are stations in the
Northeast, such as Assam’s Bongaigaon,
Kokrajhar, Lumding, Meghalaya’s
Mendipathar, among others. Bihar’s
Muzaffarpur,BapudhamMotihari,aswell
as Shornur and Kasargod in Kerala are
someof theotherstationsthatwillbepart
of the redevelopment programme.
Afterremainingstuckatvariousstages
of policy-making, the project has finally
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OFFICE OF THE
EXECUTIVE ENGINEER,
RURAL WATER SUPPLY
& SANITATION
DIVISION GAJAPATI,
PARALAKHEMUNDI
email- eerwssgip@gmail.com
Corrigendum to E-tender call
notice No-07/2023-24
(Letter no-1467 dtd-19-07-2023)
It is for information for all concerned that the
above Tender Call Notice containing 2 Nos.
of works has been cancelled due to technical
issues and unavoidable circumstances.
Sd/-
Executive Engineer,
RWS&S Division Gajapati
(OIPR-25025/11/0005/2324)
OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE ENGINEER
U.P.J
U.P.JAL
AL NIG
NIGAM
AM (URBAN)
Ganga Jal Project Unit, U.P. Nigam
(Urban), Pratap Vihar, Ghaziabad
Email: pmgangajalgzb@yahoo.com
Letter No.: 777/Nivida/85
Date: 31.07.2023
Short
Shor t Term e-Tender
e-Tender Notice
U. P. Jal Nigam (Urban), tenders
are invited on basis of single bid
system for "Inst
"Installation of 1200mm
Dia Sluice Valve
Valve at CDP Noida under
100 Cusec Water Supply Scheme,
Siddharth Vihar, Ghaziabad." from
the independent contr actor s/
contracting firms having requisite
wor k experience and financial
capability. Tender document shall be
available at Office of the Executive
Engineer, Ganga Jal Project Unit, U.P.
Jal Nigam (Urban), Ghaziabad dated
07. 0 8 . 2 0 2 3 f r o m 18 : 0 0 H r s .
Interested contractors may purchase
and submit, duly filled, tender latest
by 1 8 . 0 8 . 2 0 2 3 upto 15 : 0 0 H r s .
Technical/pre-Qualification part of
which shall be opened on
18.08.2023 at 15:30 15:30 Hrs onwards in
Office of the Executive Engineer,
Ganga Jal Project Unit, U.P. Jal Nigam
(Urban), Ghaziabad.
OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE ENGINEER
U.P.J
U.P.JAL
AL NIG
NIGAM
AM (URBAN)
Ganga Jal Project Unit, U.P. Nigam
(Urban), Pratap Vihar, Ghaziabad
Email: pmgangajalgzb@yahoo.com
Phone & Fax No. 0120-2746494
Letter No.: 772/Nivida/83
Date: 31.07.2023
TENDER NOTICE
U. P. Jal Nigam (Urban), tenders
are invited on basis of single bid
system for "Supply & Installation
Installation of
Pre-Pr
Pre-Progrogrammed
ammed Spectr
Spectrophotometer
ophotometer
(Including Ready Made Reagents)
Merck Make with Buy Back of Old
Spectrophotometer
Spectr ophotometer MacMachine
hine (Merck
Make) At 120 Mld Water Water Treatment
Treatment
Plant Laborator y, Pratap Vihar,
Ghaziabad." from the independent
contractors contracting firms having
requisite work experience and
financial capability. Tender document
shall be available at Office of the
Executive Engineer, Ganga Jal Project
U n i t . U. P. J a l N i g a m ( U r b a n ) ,
Ghaziabad dated 07.08.2023 from
14:00 Hrs. Interested contractors
may purchase and submit, duly filled,
tender latest by 18.08.2023 upto
15:00 Hr Hrs.
s. Technical/Financial Bid
part of which shall be opened on
18.08.2023 at 15:30 15:30 Hrs onwards in
Office of the Executive Engineer
Ganga Jal Project Unit, U.P. Jal Nigam
(Urban), Ghaziabad.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi. File
picked up pace over the last one year.
Launched in December 2022, the
Amrit Bharat station scheme aims to pre-
pareamasterplanforrailwaystationsand
implement it in a phased manner to en-
hance facilities.
The facilities intended to be imple-
mented at the stations include foot-over-
bridges, escalators and elevators, two-
wheeler and car parking areas,
landscaping/horticulture,integratedpas-
senger information system, signages, im-
provementof platformandplatformshel-
ters, benches and washbasins, better
illumination and power supply arrange-
ments, and CCTV, among others.
Theschemeenvisagesdevelopmentof
stationsonacontinuousbasiswithalong-
term approach. The stations are slated to
have upgraded amenities such as im-
proved access, circulating areas, waiting
halls, toilets, lift/escalators as necessary,
free Wi-Fi, kiosks for local products
throughschemessuchas‘OneStationOne
Product’. Better passenger information
systems, executive lounges, designated
spaces for business meetings, landscap-
ing,etc,aresomeof theotherfeaturesbe-
ing planned as part of the project.
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2023
Govt sets fresh target of
63 lakh loans for street
vendors by year-end
DAMINI NATH
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1
THE UNION Housing and Urban
AffairsMinistryhassetanewtar-
get for its loan scheme for street
vendors — 63 lakh new loans in
lessthansixmonthstillDecember
thisyear—afterhavingdisbursed
50 lakh loans to 39 lakh benefici-
aries in the three years since the
scheme’s launch in 2020.
The Pradhan Mantri Street
VendorsAtmanirbharNidhi(PM
SVANidhi) was launched during
the Covid-19 pandemic and the
resultant lockdown to provide
street vendors with small work-
ing capital loans of Rs 10,000
each.Duringitslaunch,thetarget
was set at 50 lakh beneficiaries.
On July 14, in a letter to chief
secretariesof allstatesandUnion
Territories, Housing and Urban
Affairs Secretary Manoj Joshi set
the new targets: 60,99,000 first-
termloans(uptoRs10,000each)
to beneficiaries in big states,
34,990suchloansinsmallstates
andUTs,and1,66,200loansinhill
states of Himachal Pradesh and
Uttarakhand and the Northeast.
Joshi also set the target of
22.63 lakh beneficiaries for sec-
ond-term loans, which are up to
Rs 20,000 each and will be given
tothosewhohavepaidoffthefirst
loans,and2.93lakhforthird-term
loans — up to Rs 50,000 given to
those who have paid the second.
While the Cabinet extended
WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM
SETTING FRESH MARKS
49,76,900 LOANS
39,12,518
Target of all loans DISBURSED
until March 2023
SO FAR
63,00,190
11,47,328
New target of 1st term
loans until Dec 2023
22,63,390
93,523
New target of 2nd term
loans until Dec 2023
2,93,070
New target of 3rd term 1st 2nd 3rd
loans until Dec 2023 term term term
Source: PM SVANidhi website, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
thescheme’slendingperioduntil the disbursement target for the
December 2024 in April last year, 1st, 2nd and 3rd tranche loans.”
these targets are “till December Hesaidtheministryhadtaken
2023” — months before the intoaccountthepopulationofur-
scheduled 2024 Lok Sabha polls. banareas,theloanapplicationsre-
As of Tuesday, the PM ceived, and the pending applica-
SVANidhi website showed that tions to firm up the new targets.
51.45 lakh loans, amounting to Heaskedthechief secretaries
Rs 6,623.36 crore, had been dis- toassignthenewtargetstourban
bursed to 39.07 lakh beneficiar- localbodiesintheirstatesandde-
ies. This included first-, second- vise a monitoring mechanism to
and third-term loans. achieve targets by December 31.
In his letter, Joshi wrote: “The NationalAssociationof Street
schemenotonlyprovidesmicro- Vendors of India (NASVI) na-
credit to street vendors but is fa- tional coordinator Arbind Singh
cilitating their inclusion into the said the number of street ven-
formal economy…. Considering dorsinthecountryisnotknown,
theextensionoflendingperiodof even though municipality-level
the scheme and to benefit more surveysof streetvendorsdotake
streetvendorsacrossthecountry, place. He estimates the figure to
theministryhasdecidedtorevise be around 2 crore.
HOW RICH ARE OUR LEGISLATORS
The total worth of 4,001 MLAs is more than the combined
annual budgets of Nagaland, Mizoram, and Sikkim
`16,234cr `15,798cr
total assets total assets
of BJP of Congress
MLAs `54,545 Cr MLAs
Total assets of 4,001 MLAs
Thelawofaverages
`23.14Cr
`21.97Cr
`11.97Cr* `10.20Cr
BJP Cong AAP YSRCP
*average asset per MLA in major parties
Average asset per MLA
`13.63cr `22,513cr
MLAs of 84
political parties
ThemoneybagsVidhanSabhas:TotalassetsofMLAs
`14,359cr `6,679cr `4,914cr
Karnataka Maharashtra Andhra Pradesh
Thebottomthreestates
`90cr `190cr `225cr
Tripura Mizoram Manipur
26% The total assets
of 223 MLAs in
Karnataka makes for a
■ It is more than the
combined assets of MLAs of 21
states and Union Territories**
quarter of the combined ■ It is more than individual
total assets of sitting MLAs annual budgets (2023-24) of
in all states. Mizoram and Sikkim
**21 states and UTs include Rajasthan, Punjab, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar,
Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Goa, Meghalaya,
Odisha, Assam, Nagaland, Uttarakhand, Kerala, Puducherry, Jharkhand,
Sikkim, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura. The total assets of their MLAs is Rs
13,976 crore.
Of 4,033 legislators, affidavit of 4,001 analysed by Association for
Democratic Reforms (ADR) and the National Election Watch (NEW)
ISRO: Chandrayaan-3
leaves Earth’s orbit,
heads towards moon
Chandrayaan-2in2019hadfailed
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE to make a successful landing.
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1 The spacecraft will spend the
next 18 days or so going around
AFTER REMAINING in the Earth the Moon and reducing the ve-
orbit for two weeks, India’s locity and orbit in preparation
Chandrayaan-3spacecraftmoved for the landing. The final orbit of
into the translunar orbit in the the integrated spacecraft would
earlyhoursofTuesday,beginning be 100*100 km around the
its journey towards the Moon. Moon. The lander rover will
“Next stop: the moon,” the then separate from the propul-
Indian Space Research sion module and descend to
Organisation (ISRO) tweeted. the surface.
The spacecraft will cover the Instead of shooting directly
distance to the Moon in about for the Moon, the Indian mis-
fourdays.OnAugust5,itwillen- sions have taken the help of
ter lunar orbit and start going Earth’sgravitytoincreasetheve-
around the Moon. It will slowly locity by going around it and in-
get into lower and lower orbit creasing the orbit slowly.
around Moon before obtaininga The landing site selected for
circular orbit of 100 km. the mission is just slightly off the
The final descent of the lan- one chosen for Chandrayaan-2.
der and rover module will take The spacecraft will land at
place around August 23 from 69.36oS and 32.34oE, near the
this circular orbit. Moon’s southern pole. This re-
Launched on July 14, gion was selected as several
Chandrayaan-3 is set to become craters remain permanently in
India’s first spacecraft to make a shade, and can be the store-
soft landing on the Moon. India’s house of water ice and
previous attempt with precious minerals.
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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2023
Trust surplus visible today in govt
policies, hard work of citizens: PM
AJAY JADHAV
PUNE, AUGUST 1
PRIME MINISTER Narendra
Modi on Tuesday said over the
last nine years India has become
a“trustsurplus”countryandthis
was visible not only in govern-
ment policy but also in the hard
work undertaken by its citizens.
Addressing a gathering after
receiving the Lokmanya Tilak
National Award, Modi said, “In
the last nine years, the people of
Indiahavelaidthefoundationfor
and implemented many big
changes. It is the people who
havemadeIndiathefifthbiggest
economy in the world.”
He said today the country is
confidentaboutitself,anditscit-
izens. “During the difficult times
of Covid-19 pandemic the coun-
try believed in its scientists, and
they gave us the ‘Made in India’
vaccine,” he said, adding that
Pune too played an important
role in it. “We talk of
'AtmanirbharBharat'becausewe
believeIndiacandothis,”hesaid.
Elaborating the “trust sur-
plus”, the Prime Minister said,
“We provide the common man
Mudra loans without requiring
guarantee because we trust his
honesty. Earlier, for small works,
the common man faced difficul-
PM Narendra Modi receives the Lokmanya Tilak National Award in Pune on Tuesday. Also on
stage are Governor Ramesh Bais, CM Eknath Shinde, Deputy CMs Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit
Pawar, NCP chief Sharad Pawar amd Congress’s Sushilkumar Shinde. Pavan Khengre
ties. Nowadays, many things get
done on mobile phone with just
a click. The government believes
even self-attested documents.
This has created a conducive at-
mosphere in the country. And
peoplearetakingconfidentsteps
towards development.”
He cited initiatives like
Swachh Bharat, surrendering
LPG subsidy and 'Beti Bachao
Beti Padhao' campaign to high-
light the growing confidence
among people.
All eyes were set on Prime
Minister Narendra Modi and
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)
chiefSharadPawarsharingdaisat
the function but both leaders
avoidedmakinganydirectpoliti-
calstatementonthecurrentsitu-
ationinthecountryandthestate.
On receiving the Lokmanya
Tilak award, Modi said, "I am
honoredtogetanawardinname
of Tilak and from the organisa-
tionandplacerelatedtothefree-
dom fighter."
Talking about Lokmanya Bal
Gangadhar Tilak, the PM said,
“Tilakknewwhetheritisthefree-
dommovementorthemissionof
nation building, the responsibil-
ity of the future always rests on
the shoulders of the youth.”
The Prime Minister declared
that he is donating the Rs 1 lakh
cash award to the Namami
Ganga project.
Addressingtheevent,Sharad
Pawar said Pune has a lot of sig-
nificance because it was the
birthplace of Maratha warrior
Shivaji and freedom fighter
Lokmanya Tilak also came from
the city. "Tilak had launched an
attack on the British through his
newspaper. He believed that
journalism should not be under
any pressure. He himself fol-
lowed it," Pawar said.
Ajit Pawar shares
stage, but doesn’t
greet Pawar Sr
Pune: At a time when all eyes
were set on Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and NCP chief
Sharad Pawar sharing a dias at a
function in the city on Tuesday,
it was the first time that the NCP
chief and his nephew Ajit Pawar
sharedthestageatapublicevent
afterthesplitinNCP.Theveteran
leader's nephew however pre-
ferred not to formally greet
SharadPawarattheeventaswas
evident in the manner in which
he avoided his uncle.
Sharad Pawar was the chief
guest for the function in which
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
wasconferredtheLokmanyaTilak
nationalawardbyLokmanyaTilak
Smarak Trust at SP College
ground. The NCP chief was the
firsttoarriveatthevenueandwas
seated alone for 10 minutes.
The Governor, Shinde and
Fadnavis, who arived after him,
greeted Sharad Pawar as they
werepassingbyandshookhands
withtheNCPchief,butAjitPawar
avoidedadirectmeetingwiththe
veteran leader and went straight
tohischair.Aftertheeventtoo,Ajit
Pawar did the same. ENS
GOVT & POLITICS 9
Asset Recovery Branch : 1st Floor, Steel House,
Near Police Check Post, Boring Road, Patna-800001
APPENDIX-IV [Rule 8 (1)]
POSSESSION NOTICE
Whereas, the undersigned being the Authorised officer of Union Bank of India, under the Securitisation
and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement Security Interest Act, 2002 and in exercise
of powers conferred under Section 13 (12) read with Rule 3 of the Security Interest (Enforcement)
Rules, 2002 issued a demand notice calling upon the following borrowers, guarantors and mortgagors,
to repay the amount mentioned in the notice within 60 days from the date of receipt of the said notice
The borrowers/guarantors/mortgagors having failed to repay the amount, notice is hereby given to
the borrowers/guarantors/mortgagors and also the public in general that the undersigned has taken
possession of the property described herein below in exercise of powers conferred on him/her under
Section 13(4) of the said Act read with rule 8 of the said rules on the date mentioned hereunder.
The borrowers/guarantors/mortgagors in particular and the public in general is hereby cautioned not
to deal with the property and any dealings with the property will be subject to the charge of the Union
Bank of India for an amount mentioned as stated below and interest & charges thereon.
The borrower’s/guarantor's/mortgagor's attention is invited to provisions of sub-section (8) of section
13 of the Act, in respect of time available, to redeem the secured assets.
Name of the Description of the Secured Assets a) Amount of
Borrower/Guarantor/Mortgagor Demand Notice &
Date of Notice
b) Date of Possession
1. M/s Rani Pandal & Crockery House All the piece and parcel of land admeasuring a) Rs.32,92,443.18
Proprietor- Arjun Kumar Harinachak, an area of 7.5 Decimal belonging to Mr. as on 31.10.2022
Basisth Colony More, Near Kirasan Tel Arjun Kumar, situated at Mauza-Beur, Thana and interest &
Depo. Anisabad, Patna-800002. 2. Mr. No.33, Khata No.73, S. Plot No.1527, Patna charges thereon &
Arjun Kumar S/o Mr. Kishori Prasad and bounded as follows: North: Other Land dt. 08.11.2022
Harinachak, Basisth Colony More, Owner, South: 10 Feet wide Road, East: Sri b) 28.07.2023
Near Kirasan Tel Depo. Anisabad, Ganesh Mahto, West: Part Plot No-1527, Sri
Patna-800002. Vijendra Rai.
Authorised Officer
Place: Patna
Union Bank of India

Opp criticises
Kerala Speaker
Who gave weapons Public Auction Notice
Debts Recovery Tribunal
A, B & F Wings, Karpuri Thakur Sadan, Ashiana Digha Road, Patna – 800 025

for his ‘myth vs
science’ remark
SHAJU PHILIP
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM,
AUGUST 1
HEAT IS building up against
Kerala Assembly Speaker and
CPI(M) state committee mem-
ber A N Shamseer over his refer-
ence to Lord Ganesh as myth. A
week into BJP protesting against
Shamseer, Hindu community
organisationNairServiceSociety
(NSS) on Tuesday joined the is-
sue urging all its units and fol-
lowerstoobserveAugust2asthe
day for protection of faith.
While inaugurating a com-
prehensive education project in
Ernakulam on July 21, Shamseer
saidscienceshouldbepromoted
in education to solve all present-
day problems. “In medical sci-
ence, plastic surgery is a new in-
vention.Butwhatisbeingtaught
is that plastic surgery existed
from Hindutva days. It was
Ganapati with a man's body and
elephant’s face. Instead of sci-
ence, such myths are being pro-
moted,’’ said Shamseer.
Deploring the statements of
theAssemblyspeaker,BJPandits
feeder outfits had conducted
protestsacrossKeralaandmoved
complaints with police against
the CPI(M) leader.
In a letter sent to all its units
on Tuesday, NSS general secre-
tary G Sukumaran Nair said the
statement that Ganesh is only a
myth is really painful.
Putting the party's weight
behind Shamseer, CPI(M)
Kannur district secretary M V
Jayarajan said the Speaker has
not insulted any religion or faith.
“It was Prime Minister Narendra
Modi who had delivered a
speechto scientists...that plastic
surgery existed in the
past.Shamseer had stated that
the argument of the Prime
Minister was baseless. We are
againstpromotingsuperstition,’’
said Jayarajan.
to religious yatris at
Nuh, asks Union MoS
SUKHBIR SIWACH
CHANDIGARH, AUGUST 1
WHILE STATING that there was
provocation from both sides re-
sulting in the violence in Nuh,
Haryana, on Monday, Gurgaon
MP and Union Minister of State
(Independent charge) Rao
InderjitSinghsaiditwasnotright
forparticipantsinareligiousyatra
to be carrying swords and sticks.
“Kisne hathiyar diye unko is
processionmeinlejaanekeliye?
Koi talwar leke jata hai proces-
sionmein?Lathi-dandelekejata
hai (Who gave weaponsto them
for the procession? Who goes to
a procession carrying swords, or
sticks)? This is wrong. A provo-
cation took place from this side
too. I am not saying there was no
provocationfromtheotherside,”
Singh told The Indian Express.
Healsoattributedasmallfight
between children, “who started
pelting stones at each other”, as
“the spark” that lit the fire.
Singh said he approached
Chief Minister Manohar Lal
Khattar and the Union Home
Ministry to send Central forces
toNuhafterrealisingthatthepo-
lice force was "insufficient".
The Union minister added
that social media posts are lead-
ingto“negativethinking”among
people. “I have asked the police
to probe who uploaded such
videos.Someonesaidtherewere
videossaying,'Wearecomingfor
thisreligiousfunction,yourdaa-
mad (son-in-law) is coming. If
you can stop, stop it'. If such irre-
sponsiblevideosareuploaded,it
causes a negative impact.”
According to Singh, the area,
which is Muslim-dominated,
had not seen such an incident in
“thepast75yearsafterPartition”.
“Why did it happen now? I be-
lievesocialmediaisresponsible.”
The Union minister also re-
Union MoS
Rao Inderjit
Singh. PTI
gretted killings in the past in the
area, such as of Nasir and Junaid
in 2022 (belonging to Rajasthan,
they were killed by alleged cow
vigilantes and their bodies
dumped in Bhiwani), leaving “a
persecution complex” in the
mindsof aparticularcommunity.
A former Congress leader,
Singh has been a Minister of
State in the Narendra Modi gov-
ernment for the past nine years.
His supporters are demanding
that he be the BJP's chief minis-
ter candidate for 2024, arguing
thatthepartynevergavehimhis
due despite his contributions to
its success. In October 2021,
Singhwasalsodroppedfromthe
BJP’s National Executive.
From BJP Hisar MP and ex-
Union minister Chaudhary
Birender Singh talked of recent
“intrigues” in the area asthe rea-
son for the disturbance in Nuh
and neighbouring districts.
“We are the most peace-lov-
ingpeopleinthispartofthecoun-
try, irrespective of caste and reli-
gion,” Birender told The Indian
Express. “The brotherhood in this
areaisalsoverystrong.Butsome
intrigues have taken place in the
recentpastwhichmaybetherea-
son for the current disturbance,”
he added, without elaborating.
Birender, whose son Brijendra
Singh is a BJP MP from Hisar, had
in2020satonadharnainsupport
of the farmers protesting against
the three contentious farm laws.
UnionMoSKrishanPalGurjar
said: “Some people tried to dis-
turb the brotherhood, peace and
communal harmony in Haryana
for past eight-and-a-half years.”
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Central Bank of India, (Lead Bank), Boring Road Branch, 2nd Floor, Laxmi Complex, Boring Road,
Patna & other Two Banks
Vs
M/s Ramnandi Hotel & Resorts Limited (RH & RL) & Others
(In R.P. Case No. 114/2020 arising out of Certificate No. O.A. Case No. 394/2017)
E-AUCTION SALE NOTICE
As per order dated 01/07/2023, under mentioned property will be sold by public online e-Auction on the
date and time mentioned herein for recovery of Rs.131,79,92,435/- + Interest and cost from M/s Ramnandi
Hotel & Resorts Limited (RH & RL) & Others, the sum is recoverable together with interest, cost, charges,
as per the certificate. The auction sale will be by way of online e-Auction.
Description of Property:
Reserve Date and time
Description of Property EMD
Price of Auction
Equitable mortgage created by Certificate Debtor No.1 M/s Rs. Rs. 08/09/2023
Ramnandi Hotel & Resorts Ltd., through Managing Director 45,00,00,000/- 4,50,00,000/- between 12:30
by deposit of Title Deeds which are as follows – (Rupees Forty (Rupees P.M. to 4.00
All that part and parcel of the property consisting of (Primary Five Crores Four Crores P.M. with auto
Security) – Building Structure constructed over the land Only) and Fifty
extension
(Proposed Hotel Aranya Budha) of Borrower Company : M/s Lacs Only)
Ramnandi Hotel & Resorts Ltd. Address: Baiju Bigha, P.S.: on or before clause in case
Bodh Gaya, District: Gaya. 06/09/2023 of bid in last
(i) The property vide Sale Deed No.10157 dated 07.08.2008 upto 4.00 P.M. 5 minutes
situated at Tola: Baiju Bigha, Bodh Gaya, Khata No.856 before closing,
(New)/236, 284(Old), Plot No.113 & 125(New)/79 & 84(Old), if required.
P.S. No.359, P.S.: Bodh Gaya, Nagar Panchayat: Bodh The amount
Gaya, District: Gaya, Tauzi No. Samilat, Type: Commercial by which the
Area 2.250 Acres equivalent to Two acres and 25 decimals. biddings are to
Boundary – North: Nij Seller; South-R.S. Plot No.125 & 124;
be increased
East: R.S. Plot No.115; and West: R.S. Plot No.118 & 119(P).
shall be Rs.
(ii) The property vide Sale Deed No.11034 dated
29.08.2008 situated at Tola: Baiju Bigha, Bodh Gaya, Khata 50,000/-
No.778(New)/246(Old), Plot No.118(new)/82(Old), P.S.
No.359, P.S.:Bodh Gaya, Nagar Panchayat: Bodh Gaya,
District: Gaya, Tauzi No.Samilat, Type: Commercial Area
0.400 Acres equivalent to 40 Decimals. Boundary – North:
20’ Ft wide proposed rasta: South: Plot No.119, East-Plot
No.118(P) Shanti Devi; and West: Gaya-Dobhi Road.
(iii) The property vide Sale Deed No.4786 dated
09.05.2009 situated at Tola: Baiju Bigha, Bodh Gaya, Khata
No.778(New)/246(Old), Plot No.118(new)/82(Old), P.S.
No.359, P.S.:Bodh Gaya, Nagar Panchayat: Bodh Gaya,
District: Gaya, Tauzi No.Samilat, Type: Commercial Area
0.047 Acres equivalent to 2040 sq. ft.. Boundary – North:
Ramanand Singh; South: Sanjay Sahay Plot No.119; East:
Niz Purchaser; and West: Niz Purchaser.
(iv) The property vide Sale Deed No.15011 dated
05.12.2008 situated at Tola: Baiju Bigha, Bodh Gaya, Khata
No.778(New)/246(Old), Plot No.118(new)/82(Old), P.S.
No.359, P.S.:Bodh Gaya, Nagar Panchayat: Bodh Gaya,
District: Gaya, Tauzi No.Samilat, Type: Commercial Area
0.063 Acres equivalent to 6¼ decimals. Boundary – North:
20’ ft wide rasta: South: Plot No.119, Est-Plot No. Niz Seller;
and West: Wife of Yugal Kishore Prasad.
(v) The property vide Sale Deed No.14970 dated
04.12.2008 situated at Tola: Baiju Bigha, Bodh Gaya, Khata
No.778(New)/246(Old), Plot No.118(new)/82(Old), P.S.
No.359, P.S.:Bodh Gaya, Nagar Panchayat: Bodh Gaya,
District: Gaya, Tauzi No.Samilat, Type: Commercial Area
0.078 Acres equivalent to 7.8 Decimals. Boundary – North:
20’ ft wide rasta: South: Sanjay Sahay; East: Shanti Devi;
and West: Purchaser.
(vi) Equitable mortgage created by Certificate Debtor No.
2, Sri Akhouri Gopal by deposit of Sale Deed – Sale Deed
No.11647 dated 28.07.2010.
All that part and parcel of the property consisting of collateral
security–
1. Individual : Shri Akhouri Gopal, Managing Director/Guarantor
situated at Mauza: Baiju Bigha, P.S.: Bodh Gaya, District:
Gaya. Building and structure constructed over the land;
Tola: Baiju Bigha, Bodh Gaya, Khata No.778(new)/246(old),
Plot No.118(new)/82(Old), P.S. No.359, P.S.: Bodh Gaya,
Nagar Panchayat at Bodh Gaya, District-Gaya, Tauzi No.
Samilat, Type: Commercial and Area: 60.8356 decimals.
Boundary– North: Nij; South: 20’ ft. Road nij Mokery &
Ramnandi Hotel & Resorts Ltd.; East: Ramnandi Hotel &
Resorts Ltd., and West: Gaya–Dobhi Road.
The bidding shall take place through “On line Electronic Bidding” through the website https://drt.auctiontiger.
net (Certificate based) from 12.30 P.M. to 2.30 P.M. through E-auction as per details below:-
Name and address of e-auction agency:- M/s e-Procurement Technologies Limited – Auction Tiger, Address:

NC, PDP accuse ADANI ELECTRICITY MUMBAI INFRA LIMITED

Registered Office: Adani Corporate House, Shantigram,
B–704, Wall Street–II, Opp.-Orient Club, Near Gujarat College, Ellis Bridge, Ahmedabad-380006, Gujarat, (India)
Website: https://drt.auctiontiger.net
Bidder Support: Helpdesk No. of service provider - 079-68136880/68136837, E mail Address - support@auctiontiger.
each other of Near Vaishno Devi Circle, S. G. Highway,
Ahmedabad Gujarat-382421, India.
net, chintan.bhatt@auctiontiger.net and Mobile No.-+91 9265562821/18 & 9374519754
Facilitating Agency: (i) Office of Recovery Officer, A, B & F Wings, 2nd Floor, Karpuri Thakur Sadan, Ashiana Digha

being soft to BJP Website: www.adanielectricity.com Road, Patna – 25 and (ii) Name of contact person of Boring Road Branch: Sri Manish Kumar, Chief Manager, Mobile
CIN: U40106GJ2020PLC111877 No. 9264291506.
ACCOUNT DETAIL FOR ONLINE MONEY TRANSFER
ACCOUNT NO. & NAME NAME IFSC CODE
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE NOTICE INVITING TENDER Date: 02.08.2023 3315153029 Central Bank of India, R/O Central Bank of India, Budh Marg CBIN0281488
PATNA SARFAESI E-AUCTION Branch, Patna
SRINAGAR, AUGUST 1 TERMS & CONDITIONS OF SALE:-
1. The property shall be sold “as is where is basis”.
Estimated Cost of Prebid Due Date Date &
NATIONAL CONFERENCE (NC) NIT No. Division Brief Works Description Cost EMD Meeting & Time of Time of Bid
2. The intending bidders should register the participation with the service provider well in advance and get user ID and
password for participating in E-auction. It can be procured only when the requisite Earnest Money Deposit be paid by
and People’s Democratic Party (Rs. Lacs) (Rs. Lacs) Date Submission Opening prescribed mode.
(PDP traded charges after PDP 3. To take part in Auction, each bidder shall deposit Earnest Money (EMD) @ of 10% of the Reserve Price
youth leader Waheed Para ac- Safety Management 10.08.2023 17.08.2023 18.08.2023 which shall be paid by electronic transfer to the concerned Bank’s EMD Account or through DD/pay order
AMIL/2023-24/01 Transmission 365.8 3.7
Services of HVDC Project 11.30 hrs 16.00 hrs 16.00 hrs drawn in favour of Recovery Officer, DRT., Patna alongwith copy of PAN card, Address proof and Identity proof
cused the NC of restricting their with E-mail ID, Mobile No. of bidder. The Envelop containing EMD along with details of documents should be
demands only to elections. Both Hiring Third party superscribed R.P. No.114/2020 and in case of the company copy of resolution by the Board members of
parties together form the inspection agencies for the company or any other decument confirming representation/attorney of the company should reach on or
field quality Inspection at before 4.00 P.M. of 06/09/2023 in the office of Recovery Officer, DRT., Patna or should credit the amount in
People’s Alliance for Gupkar 09.08.2023 17.08.2023 18.08.2023 respective Bank’s/Financial Instution’s account. EMD received thereafter shall not be considered.
AMIL/2023-24/02 Transmission various places of Mumbai, 267.27 2.67
Declaration (PAGD) along with 14.30 hrs 16.00 hrs 16.00 hrs 4. The successful bidder shall have to pay 25% of the sale proceeds (including EMD) on the next working day of sale
Maharashtra, India for
the CPIM and are also part of through the mode as stated above.
+320 KV, VSC Based, AEMIL
5. The purchaser shall deposit the balance 75% of the sale proceeds before the undersinged on or before 15th day
thenationaloppositioncoalition, HVDC Project from the date of sale of the Property, exclusive of such day, or if the 15th day be Sunday or other holiday, then on the
INDIA. first office day after the 15th day alongwith the poundage fee @ 2% upto Rs.1,000/- and @ 1% on the excess of such
NCspokespersonImranNabi All Materials & Services will be as per Adani Electricity Mumbai Infra Limited specifications / BOQ. gross amount over Rs.1,000/- by prescribed mode as stated above.
6. In case of default of payment within the prescribed period, the property shall be resold, after the issue of fresh
Dar took to twitter to counter Prebid Meeting will be done in person/ electronically / telephonically & same will be communicated separately. proclamation of sale. The deposit, after defraying the expenses of the sale, may, if the undersigned thinks fit, be
Para’s allegations stating, “It For details in respect of Services/ Materials, Qualifying Requirement , Terms & Conditions, Services / Submission of Tender
forfeited to the Government and the defaulting purchaser shall forfeit all claims to the property or to any part of the
sum for which it may subsequently be sold.
seems Waheed Para's intention Documents, etc, Please visit our web site :- www.adanielectricity.com -->Open Tenders. The Tender document will be available on 7. The Recovery Officer has the absolute right to accept or reject any bid or bids or to postpone or cancel the e-auction
wastosowconfusionamongthe above link by 02nd Aug 2023. without assigning any reasons.
opposition ranks. If you feel suf- 8. EMD of unsuccessful bidder shall be returned the same day of auction by DRT/Bank by credit to the account of
Tenderer must submit their bids online / electronic submission. Vendor should keep in touch with website www.adanielectricity.com bidder mention in bid form.
focated within the alliance, sim- for any corrigendum / Amendment; no separate information regarding Corrigendum will be published in newspaper. 9. Prospective bidder may avail online training from service provider.
ply walk away instead of resort- 10. Prospective bidders are advised to go through the website for details terms & conditions of sale before submitting
ing to fake narratives to justify their bids or contact Branch Manager of the concerned Branch.
Date: 02.08.2023 Techno Commercial Department
your actions.” Dated : 26/07/2023 Recovery Officer
 10 EXPRESS NETWORK
Defamation case: MANIPUR VIOLENCE
No court relief
for Rajasthan CM
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
JAIPUR, NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1
REFUSING TO stay proceedings
in a defamation complaint filed
by Union minister Gajendra
Singh Shekhawat against
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok
Gehlot, a Delhi court on Tuesday
allowedthe CMtoappearbefore
a metropolitan magistrate
through video conference on
August 7.
On July 6, Additional Chief
Metropolitan Magistrate
(ACMM) Harjeet Singh Jaspal of
Rouse Avenue Court had found
‘sufficient grounds' to summon
Gehlot on August 7 under sec-
tion 500 (defamation) of the
Indian PenalCodeonthebasisof
a complaint filed by Shekhawat.
Gehlot had then filed a revi-
sion petition.
“The court declined to give
any relief to Ashok Gehlot ji and
saidthatheisatlibertytoappear
through videoconferencing but
he will have to face trial,” said
Shekhawat's lawyer Aditya
Vikram Singh.
FROM PAGE ONE
‘Have serious concerns how cheetah project is managed’
cheetahs Tejas and Suraj caused
by radio collar injuries, South
Africanveterinarywildlifespecial-
istDrAdrianTordiffesignedalet-
ter on behalf of his colleagues:
cheetahspecialistVincentvander
Merwe;andwildlifeveterinarians
Dr Andy Fraser and Dr Mike Toft.
Around the same time, an-
other letter was addressed to the
Supreme Court by Dr Laurie
Marker, executive director of
Namibia’s Cheetah Conservation
Fund,flaggingissuessimilartothe
ones in Tordiffe’s letter. When
asked what had she asked for in
the letter, Marker told The Indian
Express: “Better communication
with experts, need to trust ex-
perts, better observation (moni-
toring)andregularlysharereports
with experts.”
The SA experts' letter, re-
viewed by The Indian Express,
flaggedhowtheproject’scurrent
managementhas“littleornosci-
entific training;” how the foreign
experts' “opinions” are being “ig-
nored;” why they “had to beg for
CROSSWORD 5119
ACROSS
1 Polish backwater in French
Foreign Office? (6)
4 He didn’t strike Shakespeare as a
sword carrier (8)
9 Fearful sort of cavern (6)
10 Doctor again involved on a point
of sanitation (8)
12 Funny people require
understanding (4)
13 Cryptic clue about northern
relative (5)
14 Kitty and Tom are pleased to do
it (4)
17 He’s in charge of the school play
(6,6)
20 Aware of a rising sea but far from
queasy (7,5)
23 Secures - the same numbers of
points? (4)
24 He has no settled occupation (5)
25 It makes cloth appear indistinct
(4)
28 Circular line that goes through
the centre (8)
29 Not in a medley race (6)
30 A doubter disposed to be
stubborn (8)
31 Bans untidy beards (6)
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HZAER
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Answer: I will preach with my brush - Henry Tanner
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Mostunclaimedbodiesof
infiltrators,S-G tellsSC
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1
SOLICITOR GENERAL Tushar
MehtaTuesdaytoldtheSupreme
Court that most of the bodies ly-
ing unclaimed in the morgues in
Manipur are of infiltrators.
“I didn’t want to say this but
mostoftheunclaimeddeadbod-
iesarethoseinfiltratorswhocame
with a particular design and got
killed,”theS-Gtoldathree-judge
benchpresidedbyChiefJusticeof
India D Y Chandrachud that took
up petitions related to the
Manipur violence.
“I don’t wish to mention any-
thingandvisitatethings,”theS-G
told the bench also comprising
Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj
Misra. The S-G said this as the CJI,
while responding to Senior
AdvocateRanjitKumar’ssubmis-
sionsthat illegalimmigrantinflux
fromMayanmarwasamajorfac-
torcontributingtotheunrest,said
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information”andhowthey“have
become mere window dressing”
for the project.
Governmentsourcessaidthat
van der Merwe and Fraser have
since disassociated themselves
from the letter.
But, when contacted by The
Indian Express, van der Merwe
said he was “not involved” and
Tordiffe declined to comment.
“Very little information has
been forthcoming from Kuno re-
garding the cheetahs and their
care.Althoughwearelistedonthe
Cheetah Project Steering
Committee as international ex-
perts, we have never been con-
sultedbythemorinvitedtoanyof
their meetings," Tordiffe’s letter
said.
Toillustratehowthishadcon-
sequences, the experts detailed
howtheKunofieldteamwrongly
assumed that the male cheetah,
spottedataround11amonJuly11
with wounds on the back of his
neck, was injured by a female
cheetahwhichwasan“extremely
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6 I go into bat at the end of the line
(4)
7 You can count on it being at the
top of a column (6)
8 Gloomy doctor having a bad year
(6)
11 The problem of depression? (12)
15 Too high a price to be on the
level (5)
16 Five Irish poems (5)
18 A lemon is an ingredient in
making pasta (8)
19 The basics in meteorology
(8)
21 Just the place for shooting stars
(6)
22 A trying delay (6)
26 Shakespearean king or earl
maybe (4)
27 Secure top of foresail in rough
sea (4)
22 Spirited trumpet piece (3)
PLEACH
EMORBH
“but at the end of it, the people
whoarerapedandmurderedare
our people right? Therefore we
havetoensurethatjusticeisdone.
That’s all”.
ThecourtalsoaskedtheS-Gto
take instructions on what efforts
were being made to identify the
bodies. “Is there a nodal officer
who is ensuring that the dead
bodies of people within Maniour
are identified? Are their bodies
been handed over to their rela-
tives? Have their identities been
established?Whatexerciseisbe-
ing done to establish identity?”
Senior Advocate Colin
Gosnalves said that 118 bodies
were lying unidentified in a
morgue in Imphal. The CJI said
“You can't keep 118 bodies indef-
initely in a morgue”.
It asked the S-G to inform it
when the court meets on August
7 how many bodies have been
identifiedandhowmanyremain.
The court also asked the govern-
menttoaddressitontheaspectof
unlikely” scenario.
“The staff at Kuno left the in-
jured male, deciding rather to lo-
catethefemaletocheckifshewas
alsoinjured.Duringthattimethe
condition of the male deterio-
rated,andhediedataround2pm
without having received any
treatment,” the letter said.
The experts claimed they
heard from Kuno only the next
morning when a summary and
some photos of the post mortem
were shared.
“No comment was made
about the inflammation of the
skinovertheneckortheverylarge
number of maggots that were
clearly visible in the photo,” they
wrote, adding that they could di-
agnose the radio collar issue only
when they received a video clip
after the death of yet another
cheetah on July 14.
Hadtheybeenshownpictures
or had a description of the
“wounds,” they would have
alerted authorities to act to min-
imisetherisktotheotheranimals.
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compensation for the victims on
August 7.
“When we assemble on
Monday, please tell us also, be-
causethatisalsogoingtobeoneof
the most important parts of the
remitofthecommitteewearego-
ing to constitute, to ensure that
compensation is made over to
thosewholosttheirhomes, what
is the package, how is it going to
bedisbursed,whowillbetheau-
thorities of government which
will be involved in the identifica-
tion, quantification of claim, dis-
bursement, etc ” said the CJI.
Gonsalves said though the
home minister announced 10
lakh per person killed about a
monthago,thatisyettobeimple-
mented.SeniorAdvocateJaideep
Guptasaidhehopesitisnotbeing
suggested for Myanmarese infil-
trators. The CJI said that “like in
every scheme for the payment of
compensation, you have to iden-
tify the beneficiaries and they
havetomeetcertainparameters”.
“Instead, we were largely ex-
cluded from the process and had
to beg for information to under-
standwhathadtakenplace,”they
wrote.
Highlightingthattheproject’s
failure would discourage similar
attemptsformanyyearstocome,
the experts have asked the SC to
enable sharing of “clinical find-
ings…real-time so that a collec-
tivedecisioncanbemadeonhow
totreateachanimal.”Andtheybe
actively included in the activities
of the Steering Committee.
Kuno suffered the first chee-
tah casualty on March 27 when a
Namibian import, Sasha, died of
kidney ailment.
SouthAfricanmaleUdaydied
on April 24 of unknown causes.
On May 9, a female cheetah
from South Africa, Daksha, died
following a “violent interaction”
with two male cheetahs during
attempted mating. Three cubs
born to Namibian female Jwala
died of dehydration and weak-
ness later in the month.
BRAVING THE RAIN
Outsourcing employees of Odisha government stage a protest demanding regularisation of
their jobs, in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday. PTI
Tordiffe’s letter also claimed
that the experts were sidelined
ever since Dr Y V Jhala, widely
considered the architect of the
project, was “forced to retire” last
year.InOctober,TheIndianExpress
had first reported how Jhala,
noted biologist and dean of the
Wildlife Institute of India, who
was at the forefront of the chee-
tahprojectformorethan13years,
andescortedthefirstbatchofan-
imalsfromNamibia,didnotfinda
place in the government’s new
Cheetah Task Force.
The Environment Ministry, it
islearnt,hasdecidedtosoonplace
thetwolettersbeforethecheetah
steering committee for “detailed
deliberations.”
Set up in May, the cheetah
steering committee is headed by
Dr Rajesh Gopal, former head of
ProjectTiger;andincludes,among
others,DrPRSinha,formerdirec-
tor of Wildlife Institute of India;
WII scientist Qamar Qureshi and
Ahmedabad-basedsocialworker
Mittal Patel.
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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2023
33 held for raising
‘anti-India’ slogans
in UP’s Jaunpur
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
LUCKNOW, AUGUST 1
A TOTAL of 33 people were ar-
rested in Uttar Pradesh’ Jaunpur
district over raising “anti-India”
slogans at a procession during
the last day of Moharram
Saturday, police said.
Police said that “slogans
against India, and in favour of
Pakistan” were allegedly raised
during the procession Saturday
evening—avideoof whichwent
viral on social media.
Taking cognisance of the
video, a case was registered and
33 people had been arrested
since then, said police, adding
that they were sent to judicial
custody.
Jaunpur ASP (Rural)
Shailendra Kumar Singh said,
“On July 31, a video went viral
that was of a village. In the video
some anti-social elements were
seen raising objectionable slo-
gans. A total of 33 anti-social el-
ements were booked.”
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Rohingya woman illegal
immigrant, Centre tells
HC; court seeks her reply
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1
THE DELHI High Court Tuesday
asked a Rohingya refugee who
sought release from a detention
centreinthecitytorespondtothe
Centre’sreplytoherplea.Thegov-
ernment had said that she is “an
illegal migrant who has to be de-
ported back”.
The HC was hearing a plea to
advance hearing of the matter
from September 19.
Thepetitioner,SenoraBegum,
23, is a member of the Rohingya
community from Myanmar and
is lodged at Dayabasti Ren Basera
DetentionCentreinShastriNagar,
maintained by the Ministry of
Home Affairs, since June 2022.
Asingle-judgebenchofJustice
Subramonium Prasad asked the
petitioner’scounseltorespondto
the Centre’s stand, following
which“thecourtcanconsiderthe
DAY TODAY
ARIES (Mar 21 - Apr 20)
There is now much
to be gained from a
trip down memory
lane, although it
doesn't have to be events of
long ago which now
preoccupy you. What is
important is what you find
when you get there. An
encounter with an old friend is
due. It could be today, but it
might be tomorrow.
TAURUS (Apr 21 - May 21)
Your social stars are
strong, so you may
face the fact that
there’s little to be
gained from going it alone.
You’ll benefit far more from
linking up with like-minded
people and forming a team.
There’s also a chance that a
younger relation will come up
with a surprise.
GEMINI (May 22 - June 21)
Most planetary
activity now takes
place in the upper
reaches of your
solar chart, signifying that
public pressures should be
more important than
personal. In other words,
social expectations now exert
a crucial impact on your
thoughts and emotions.
CANCER (June 22 - July 23)
Dream on,
especially if
romance is on the
cards. There could
be no better time for
adventures with loved ones, so
please do whatever you can to
keep routine chores to a
minimum. There’s nothing to
be gained from piling up
the pressure.
LEO (July 24 - Aug 23)
Mercury, Venus and
Mars have reduced
their combined
pressure. That
means that while obvious
difficulties may have been
removed, there are still certain
hurdles to overcome, not the
least of which is your capacity
to doubt yourself. A little extra
confidence is needed.
VIRGO (Aug 24 - Sep 23)
It’s time to explore
your feelings,
whether of guilt or
resentment, hope or
desire. Only by letting your
emotions roam and your
imagination wander will you
get a true picture of what it is
that you truly require from
partners and loved ones - and
what you can give in return.
UK mission
attack: NIA raids
31 locations in
Punjab, Haryana
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1
INAcrackdownonthoseinvolved
in the attack on the Indian High
Commission in London, the
National Investigation Agency
(NIA) on Tuesday raided 31 loca-
tions in Punjab and Haryana to
unravel the full contours of the
conspiracy and bring to book the
culprits.
TheHighCommissionofIndia
inLondonwasattackedonMarch
19byagroupofaround50people
during a pro-Khalistan protest.
They committed criminal tres-
pass,injuredofficials,disrespected
theIndianflaganddamagedpub-
lic property.
“Searcheswerecarriedoutin
various districts including Moga,
Barnala, Kapurthala, Jalandhar,
Hoshiarpur,TarnTaran,Ludhiana,
Gurdaspur, SBS Nagar, Amritsar,
Mukhtsar, Sangrur, Patiala and
Mohali in Punjab, and Sirsa in
Haryana,” a spokesperson of the
NIA said.
applicationforearlyhearing”.The
courtlistedthematteronthedate
already fixed: September 19.
The court noted that the
Centre in its reply has stated that
Indiaisnotasignatorytothe1951
RefugeeConventionandtherefore
does not recognise the refugee
status granted by the UN High
CommissionerforRefugees(UN-
HCR). “The stand by the Union of
India is therefore that the peti-
tioner is an illegal migrant who
hastobedeportedback.Thepeti-
tioner is directed to file a reply to
the said counter,” the HC said.
Stating that it is not disposing
of the application, the bench said
iftheHCisunabletohearthemat-
ter on September 19, the peti-
tionercan“presstheapplication”.
OnMay23,advocateWarisha
Farasat, appearing for Senora, re-
lied upon a letter by the UNHCR
dated April 25, 2022, which said
theUNagencyhasrecognisedher
as an asylum-seeker.
BY PETER VIDAL
LIBRA (Sep 24 - Oct 23)
Please do not
imagine that
conditions at work
have been finally
agreed. The curious point is
that even though everyone is
now acting on what has been
decided, certain ideas will
soon once again be thrown
into the melting pot. In fact, it
could all be up for grabs.
SCORPIO (Oct 24 - Nov 23)
Don’t rule out the
possibility of
enforced changes in
your life, but first
realise that you have brought
current conditions on yourself,
and then that while Venus is so
intriguingly aligned, the
outlook is excellent for a
happy outcome.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov 24 - Dec 22)
You won’t get very
far unless you
realise that family
members need to
be persuaded that you are
right, and that domestic
irritations should be dealt
with now! You might not be
the cause of some current
problems, but you can
certainly be part of the
solution.
CAPRICORN (Dec 23 - Jan 20)
Circumstances
beyond your control
are about to
unmake a decision
that you thought had been
finalised. Look upon all
uncertainty as a welcome
opportunity for you to change
your mind and attitudes.
What’s more, what seems like
a good idea this week might
not look so rosy next.
AQUARIUS (Jan 21- Feb 19)
It’s fair to say that
an astrological
period of great
importance is still
with you, but you must accept
that major change is unlikely
in the near future. Instead you
should work with what has
already happened, and
consolidate all improvements
in relationships so far.
PISCES (Feb 20 - Mar 20)
Common sense tells
you that you should
work as fast as
possible to present
other people with a fait
accompli. They will then be
able to jiggle about with the
details, but without affecting
the final outcome. Oh, and if
you are dealing with practical
matters, call in the experts.

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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2023
BENGALURUTERRORPLOT
Grenades seized
from suspects
not made in
India, say police
KIRAN PARASHAR
BENGALURU, AUGUST 1
THE GRENADES seized from the
five suspects arrested in July in a
terrorism case were not manu-
facturedinIndiabutweresmug-
gled from outside, an investiga-
tion by the Bengaluru Central
Crime Branch (CCB) police has
indicated, officials said.
On July 20, the CCB police
had announced the arrests of
fiveyouthsfromBengaluru,Syed
Suhel Khan (24), Mohammed
Umar (29), Jahid Tabrez (25),
Syed Mudaseer Pasha (28) and
Mohammed Fizal Rabbani (30),
andsaidthattheywereplanning
some terror attack. Four live
grenades, seven country-made
pistols, 45 bullets,walkie-talkies
and other documents were al-
legedly seized from them.
“All (the grenades) were in-
tact and ready to use. They are
not manufactured in India.
Though the manufacturer’s
name or country is not men-
tioned, the investigation indi-
cates that they were smuggled
from abroad,” a senior CCB po-
lice officer said.
NCB unearths
darknet-based
LSD cartel; 3 held
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1
THE NARCOTICS Control Bureau
(NCB)onTuesdayclaimedtohave
bustedthebiggestdarknet-based
LSDcarteloperatinginIndiawith
the seizure of more than 13,000
blots and Rs 26 lakh in cash and
the arrest of three persons.
“The cartel named Zambada
has a high volume of business
and supply chain of this hallu-
cinogenic category of drug and
is also operating in the UK, the
US, South Africa, Canada, Russia,
Spain, Portugal, Greece and
Turkiye.Thecartelwasbeingop-
erated by young educated men
in the age bracket of 21-25
years,”saidNCBDeputyDirector
General (operations and en-
forcement) Gyaneshwar Singh.
It is the second LSD traffick-
ing cartel busted by the agency
in the last three months.
2 months on, 29 victims of Odisha ED searches premises of Hero group’s Pawan Munjal
train tragedy yet to be identified
SUJIT BISOYI
BHUBANESWAR, AUGUST 1
TWO MONTHS after the train
crashinOdisha’sBalasoredistrict,
asmanyas29bodiespreservedin
the containers within the AIIMS,
Bhubaneswarpremises,areyetto
be identified by the authorities.
Though the authorities are
waiting for the final round of
DNA cross matching reports, AI-
IMS, Bhubaneswar superinten-
dent Dillip Kumar Parida said
16 murders, one modus operandi: His last victim led cops to Goa’s ‘dupatta killer’
PAVNEET SINGH CHADHA
PANAJI, AUGUST 1
ON JANUARY 15, 2009, when a
headconstableatapoliceoutpost
in North Goa jotted down an in-
quest report of a decomposed
body found in a cashew planta-
tion,theGoaPolicehadnoinkling
thatthecasewouldendwiththe
arrest of Mahanand Naik, a man
accused of serial murders – 16
women at last count.
Of the 16 murders and one
rapecaselodgedagainstNaik,he
was convicted in three cases of
murder and the rape case. After
hefiledanappealchallenginghis
convictions, he was acquitted in
oneofthethreemurdercasesand
the rape case. Though police say
heconfessedtothemurders,they
couldnotsecurehisconvictionin
several cases, especially where
thebodiesof thevictimswereei-
therhighlydecomposedornever
found. Naik is currently serving
twolifetermsinGoa'sColvalejail.
In a decision that recently
prompted widespread outrage in
Goa,55-year-oldNaikwasinmid-
Junegranteda21-dayfurlough—
hisfirstreleasefromjailin14years.
Investigators said Naik, mar-
Investigators: Accused cop
not co-operating with probe
SAGAR RAJPUT
MUMBAI, AUGUST 1
THE 33-YEAR-OLD Railway
Police Force constable Chetan
Singh, who was arrested by the
Borivali GRP for allegedly killing
four persons including his sen-
ior in a long distance train, has
not been cooperating with the
probe and is giving misleading
answers, investigators told the
court on Tuesday.
Singh was produced before
the Borivali magistrate court
and remanded in police custody
for seven days. Defense lawyer
Surendra Landge said, "While
appearing for Singh, I took per-
mission from the court and
spoke to him to ask about the
incident, when he told me that
he was innocent and was not
aware of what had happened."
Seeking his 14-day police
custody, GRP officials in their re-
mand report claimed that Singh
has not spoken a word about his
motive and they are yet to ascer-
tain the exact reason behind the
murders. GRP officials said they
want to conduct a specific test
to ascertain whether he is men-
tally unstable.
“The crime took place in a
running train between Vapi and
Reminded me of Kasab, recalls attendant
SAGARRAJPUT
MUMBAI,AUGUST1
“IT REMINDED me of Ajmal
Kasab, when I saw him (Chetan
Singh) with a rifle inside Jaipur-
Mumbai Superfast Express early
on Monday,” recalls Krishna
KumarShukla,41-year-oldatten-
dantofcoachB5,wherethefiring
incident allegedly started.
Shukla, who was in a neigh-
bouring coach and is a witness in
the case, said, “Abdul Kadar
Mohamed Hussain
Bhanpurawala boarded the train
atBhawaniMandirailwaystation
in Rajasthan. As he is a frequent
passenger,wewerefamiliarwith
eachother.Whenataround 7pm
onSunday,herequestedmetoget
they hope to get only two to
three positive reports.
“The last round of DNA se-
quencing and sampling report is
expectedinthenexttwotothree
days. But only two to three bod-
iesareexpectedtobeidentified,”
Parida told The Indian Express.
On unidentified bodies,
Parida said, the decisions will be
taken by the health and railway
ministries, and they will do the
needfulin coordinationwiththe
state government.
Afterreceivingthefinalround
ried and with a daughter, was
carefulabouthidinghisrealiden-
tity and had different names for
himself every time he identified
a new victim. “To Yogita, he was
Yogesh.ToGulabi,hewasGovind.
He drove a luggage rickshaw till
2004 and was unemployed after
that. However, he told each
womanhemetthathewaseither
abusinessman,hotelowner,elec-
tricalshopowner,afanvendoror
amason.Hewouldcarefullyalign
his backstory with some aspect
fromthelifeofthewomanhetar-
geted,” said an officer.
According to investigators, it
was the murder of Yogita Naik,
his Victim No. 16, a 30-year-old
STDboothworkerinSouthGoa’s
Ponda, that finally did Naik in.
In the first week of January
2009, Yogita confided in her
mother that a man named
Yogesh, who worked at a hard-
ware shop, had proposed to her.
Disapproving the potential
match,hermotherissaidtohave
pointedoutthatYogeshhadtwo
missing teeth in his lower jaw.
Yogita replied that he lost them
in an accident and would get
themfixedbeforetheirmarriage.
Over the next few days,
Yogesh allegedly convinced
JAIPUR-MUMBAI TRAIN SHOOTING INCIDENT
RPF constable Chetan Singh being taken to the court at
Borivali in Mumbai on Tuesday. PTI
Borivali railway station and we
have to identify the exact se-
quence of events,” read the re-
mand report.
Officials have further
claimed that they wish to col-
lect more evidence to build a
strong case. As the incident of
firing began near Vaitarna rail-
Family members of Asgar
Ali, a victim, at JJ Hospital
mortuary in Mumbai on
Tuesday. Amit Chakravarty
tea for him and other passengers
around him, I got off at a station
and brought them tea.” The 41-
of DNA cross matching reports,
the authorities may conduct
mass cremation of the unidenti-
fied bodies, officials said.
A total 295 persons were
killed in the accident involving
Chennai-bound Coromandel
Express, Yesvantpur Express re-
turningtoHowrahandastation-
ary goods train.
After reports of multiple
claimants over a single body,
blood samples of103 persons
were collected to identify and
handover a total 81 bodies.
Yogita to accompany him to his
sister’s house in Sanquelim on
January 10 to finalise their mar-
riage.Policeandcourtrecordssay
he also instructed her to wear a
suitandjewelleryforthe“special
occasion”.Adaybeforethemeet-
ing, Yogita bought an orange-
green suit and a silver bag.
Police say that at 9.20 am on
January 10, she received a phone
call from Yogesh. Ten minutes
later,shewalkedoutof herhome
inNagzarCurtiinPonda,wearing
a gold chain, gold earrings and
pairing them with jewellery her
parents had purchased for her
eight months ago — a gold ring,
silver anklets and fake gold ban-
gles. She then headed to a bus
stop near a sweet shop, where
Yogesh was waiting for her. The
couple changed buses to cover a
distance of 30 km, going from
Marcel to Sanquelim and finally
to Morlem in Sattari, where they
sat on a cemented platform out-
side a general store and sipped
twosoftdrinks.Itwasnoonbythe
timetheywalkedabout200me-
trestowardsacashewplantation.
Yogitawentmissingthatvery
afternoon. Her family tried con-
tacting her, but her phone was
notreachable.Thefamilydidnot
way station, the defense lawyer
claimed that he will be raising
the issue of registering the case
at Borivali GRP instead of
Palghar or Vasai GRP before the
court at the time of trial.
Officials said that since
Singh's family lives in Uttar
Pradesh, it is necessary for their
year-old claims that being the
coachattendantofB5,hewassup-
posed to sleep between coach B5
and B4, but since he was unwell
and wanted to sleep early, he ex-
changed his seat. He took medi-
cineandwenttosleeponthe(at-
tendant)seatbetweenB5andB6.
“Suddenly at around 5 am, I
woke up upon hearing a loud
sound.Iinitiallythoughtthenoise
must bea short circuit, so I gotup
andwenttocheckB5.IsawSingh
standing with a rifle in hand and
hisseniorTikaramMeenahadcol-
lapsed in a pool of blood next to
him,” Shukla said.
Theattendantranbehindhim
to observe Singh’s movement.
“Sometimelater,Singhwentinthe
direction of B4, after which a pas-
senger sleeping near the door
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1
THEENFORCEMENT Directorate
(ED) on Tuesday conducted
searches at the residential and
business premises of Hero
MotoCorpexecutivechairperson
Pawan Kant Munjal and others
aspartof amoneylaunderingin-
vestigation.
The searches were carried
out at the properties of the 69-
year-oldMunjal,thepromoterof
India’s largest two-wheeler au-
tomobiles manufacturer, in
Delhi and Gurgaon apart from
Mahanand Naik, 55 , is accused of killing 16 women
file a missing complaint in the
hopethatshewouldreturnsoon.
Her brother Pramod Naik says
they felt putting her name in a
police complaint could jeopar-
dise her matrimonial prospects.
After exhausting all attempts to
team to visit his native place for
investigation. “If there was a dis-
pute between Singh and Meena
before the incident, we want to
identify the reason for it,” said
GRP in its remand report.
As it also claimed that the ac-
cused has given no information
regarding his motive behind
killing Meena and three other
passengers identified as Asgar
Abbas Sheikh (48), Abdul Kadar
Mohamed Hussain Bhanpu-
rawala (64) and Syed Saifullah
(40). “The accused is not co-op-
erating during the investigation
and is giving misleading an-
swers. So we have to interrogate
him thoroughly to understand
the intention behind commit-
tingthecrime,”GRPofficialssaid
in their remand report.
The investigators have fur-
thersaidthattheyneedtoinves-
tigate whether Singh has acted
on someone else's directions.
GRPofficialsclaimthattheyhave
so far recorded the statement of
around 15 odd individuals, in-
cluding railway employees, pas-
senger and ticket checkers.
“We will check call data
records of the accused and other
RPFpersonnel.Whileweshallalso
check CCTV footage of the coach
to know the sequence of events,”
saidaseniorpoliceofficer.
came running to me (B6), saying
thatanRPFpersonnelhadshotan-
other,” said Shukla. "The passen-
geralsosaidthatthetwoRPFmen
werearguingwitheachotherfora
longtime,followingwhichoneof
themshottheother,"headded.
To prevent any risk of Singh
comingtotheircoach,Shuklaand
some passengersclosedthedoor
between B6 and B5. “As I was the
attendant of B5, I stood near the
door and kept a watch on my
coach. After a while, I saw Singh
returningtoMeena’sbody,andhe
stood there for around five min-
utes,” he said.
The attendant said that
Shukla then went towards B4,
during which he killed three
other passengers, including
Bhanpurwala.
that of some entities linked to
him, sources said.
The searches were carried
outinconnectionwithacasethe
ED lodged under provisions of
the Prevention of Money
Laundering Act. “Officials from
the Enforcement Directorate
(ED) today visited two of our of-
fices in Delhi and Gurugram and
the residence of our Executive
Chairman Dr Pawan Munjal. We
continue to extend all coopera-
tiontotheagency,”thecompany
said in a statement.
The ED case stems from a
complaint filed against Munjal
by the Directorate of Revenue
locateher,Pramodfinallylodged
a missing report at Ponda police
station on January 14.
ThreemonthsafterYogitawas
reported missing, as police
combed through her call detail
records, an officer spotted some-
Assistant
Sub-
Inspector
Tikaram
Meena
News of ASI’s
murder kept
from wife,
mother over
health concerns
HAMZA KHAN
JAIPUR, AUGUST 1
MORE THAN a day since
AssistantSub-InspectorTikaram
Meenaof theRailwayProtection
Force was shot dead aboard the
Jaipur-MumbaiCentralSuperfast
Express early on Monday by an
RPF constable, the ASI’s wife and
mother in Rajasthan’s Sawai
Madhopur were yet to be in-
formed of his death.
Meena is survived by his
motherGoliDevi,wifeBarfiDevi,
daughter Pooja Meena and son
Dilkush Meena alias Rajendra.
While Pooja lives in Mumbai
withherhusbandPremrajMeena,
astationmasterwiththeRailways,
Dilkush was in Goa at the time of
the incident. He reached Sawai
Madhopur late on Monday on a
flight,andisawaitingthearrivalof
hisfather’sbodyintheirnativevil-
lageof Shyampura.
BuntySharma,35,aneighbour,
told The Indian Express that while
Meena’s children know about his
death,“hiswifeBarfiisaheartpa-
tient and has blood pressure is-
sues. We still have not told her
aboutTikaram’sdeathbecausewe
don’t know how she will take it.”
His mother Goli Devi and uncle
GirrajMeena,too,areyettobein-
formed about Meena’s demise as
theyallsharethesamehome.
Meena’sbodywasexpectedto
reach the village late on Tuesday
via train. “Since yesterday, locals
have been preventing outsiders
from reaching the village so that
Tikaram’s wife doesn’t find out
about his death,” Sharma said.
AccordingtotheFIR,accused
constable Chetan Singh had
sought to be relieved from duty
afewhoursbeforehisshiftended
but got agitated after seniors in-
sisted he completed his duty.
Following this, he shot Meena
and three other passengers.
Intelligence,aninvestigativearm
of the Central Board of Indirect
Taxes and Customs.
In March 2022, the Income
Tax Department had conducted
searches on multiple premises
of Hero MotoCorp. Tax officials
had said the search operations
were part of a tax evasion inves-
tigation against the company.
“During the course of the
search operation, various in-
criminatingdocumentsanddig-
ital evidence were found and
seized indicating that the ex-
pensesostensiblyshowntohave
been claimed towards business
purposesarenotfullysupported
thing unusual. The day she went
missing, Yogita had received two
calls — at 9.20 am and at 9.47 am.
But it was the call made from her
phoneat7pm,hoursaftershewas
last seen, that made them suspi-
cious.Thatnumberledpolicetoa
woman’shouseinsouthGoa.
Thewomaninformedthepo-
licethatshehadpassedonherSIM
to her sister and that her sister's
friend,MahanandNaik,hadbeen
usingthatnumber.OnApril21,the
police summoned the sister, who
alleged that Naik had been sexu-
allyassaultingandthreateningher
for the past four years. A case of
rapewaslodgedagainstNaikand
hewassubsequentlyarrested.
Naik’s confessions over the
next few weeks of the remand
ledtheGoaPoliceonagrotesque
trail of 16 murders that he al-
legedly carried out between
1994and2009.Amajority of the
cases fell under the jurisdiction
of one police station. It was then
that police joined to the dots –
the body found in the cashew
plantation was Yogita’s.
“He denied any involvement
in her murder at first. He had
used a fake identity, claiming
that he was Yogesh, to contact
her...Helaterconfessedtokilling
Police lathicharge ‘kanwariyas’ after a dispute over the
procession route, in Bareilly on Sunday. PTI File
LATHICHARGE ON KANWARIYAS
Two FIRs lodged,
Bareilly SSP shifted,
two cops suspended
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
LUCKNOW, AUGUST 1
BAREILLY POLICE have regis-
tered two FIRs in connection
withSunday'sincidentinvolving
kanwariyas that led to lath-
icharge in the Navada area of the
city. Police had to resort to lath-
ichargeafterkanwariyasinsisted
on taking out their yatra from an
“undesignated” route, officials
said. Following the incident, two
policemen were suspended and
Senior Superintendent of Police
(SSP) Prabhakar Chaudhary was
transferred.
“Two FIRs were registered
late Monday night. One was
lodgedagainstunidentifiedpeo-
ple from a community who
blockedtheroadto preventkan-
war yatra from going through
their neighbourhood. The sec-
ond was lodged in connection
withavideothatshowedpeople
using firearms and firing in the
air,” Additional SP (Bareilly)
Rahul Bhati told The Indian
Express on Tuesday.
The first FIR has been lodged
on charges of obstructing a pub-
lic servant in discharging public
functions,wrongfulrestraint,and
assault or criminal intimidation.
Police said that no one has
been arrested so far. “Around 5
to 7 people were detained.
However, after police did not
find their role in the incident,
they were released soon after,”
Bhati added.
Bareilly had witnessed ten-
sion in the Baradari area on July
23 after a group of kanwariyas
claimed that stones were pelted
byevidence,”SurabhiAhluwalia,
official spokesperson for the
Central Board of Direct Taxes,
had said then.
“Expenditure aggregating to
morethanRs800crorehasbeen
booked in the guise of purchase
of services from a specific event
management entity. This entity
has siphoned off the money by
way of layering. Such claims to-
wards non-business purposes
are inadmissible expenditure
under the provisions of the
Income-tax Act, 1961,”
Ahluwalia had said.
“In the search, it was also
found that 10 acres of farm land
Yogita and many others,” said a
senior police officer who was a
part of the investigation.
The arrest of the rickshaw
driver from Tarvale in Shiroda
village sent a wave of outrage
and horror across the state. A
week later, a mob set his house
in Shiroda on fire. Citing a threat
tohislife,Naik’swifeanddaugh-
ter sought police protection and
later left the state.
Police officials who investi-
gated the 16 murder cases de-
scribed Naik as a “soft-spoken”
anda“cold-bloodedkiller”whoal-
legedly murdered for gold by tar-
geting vulnerable women from
marginalised backgrounds.
AccordingtoNaik'scasefile,ofthe
16 women he was accused of
killing,sevenworkedasdomestic
help,threewereunemployed,two
workedatatailoringshoporafac-
toryandtherestsoldgarmentsor
milk. Naik's modus operandi of
strangulatinghisvictimswiththeir
dupattashadearnedhimthenick-
name'dupattakiller'.
“He would specifically target
women havingdifficulty in find-
ing a match or nearing the so-
called acceptable marriageable
age. While driving his rickshaw,
he would stalk women near
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at them. Police said that both
sides had pelted stones at each
other.
Meanwhile, UP minister and
Bareilly Sadar MLA Arun Kumar
Saxenametseniorofficialsof the
district administration on
Monday and sought a report.
“I am here to collect first-
hand information about what
happened here. I spoke to peo-
plewhowerepresentatthespot.
I will get a report on whose fault
it was and a probe will be con-
ducted and action will be taken
accordingly,” Minister of State
(Independent Charge), Forest
and Environment Arun Kumar
Saxena said.
Terming the incident “unfor-
tunate”, BJP MLA from Bareilly
Cantonment, Sanjeev Agarwal,
said the administration should
make preparations so that such
an incident is not repeated. “It is
very unfortunate that while our
chief ministerisshoweringflow-
ers on kanwariyas, they are be-
ing lathicharged here. It was a
failure of intelligence. The ad-
ministration should make
preparations so that such an in-
cident is not repeated. We are
here to increase the morale of
people, and in the coming years,
the kanwar yatra will be taken
out here in Bareilly in a grand
manner,” Agarwal said.
Following the incident on
Sunday, Prabhakar Chaudhary,
whowasthenSSPof Bareilly,had
said that a row erupted after the
kanwariyaswantedtotakeoutthe
yatraintheNavadaareaunderthe
Baradari police station limits
which was not part of the desig-
nated route for Kanwar yatra.
at Delhi was purchased through
a few paper companies. In such
transactions, an unaccounted
cash component of over Rs 60
crore was purportedly involved.
The ultimate/real beneficiary of
the land deal is a prominent per-
son of the automobile manufac-
turer group. The intermediary
who facilitated the said deal has
admitted in his statement that a
major part of the sale considera-
tion was paid in cash,” she said.
The company later issued a
statement, terming the exercise
a “routine inquiry, which is not
uncommon before the end of
the financial year”.
temples and markets. Barring a
few cases, he would propose
marriagewithindaysof meeting
these women,” said retired po-
lice officer CL Patil, who was
InspectoratPondaPoliceStation,
when Naik was arrested.
“Toensuretherewasnoissue
with the marriage, he would tell
the women that he belonged to
the same caste as them. He sold
lies to lure women and offered
them financial security,” added
Patil.
On Naik's Murder No. 16 that
finally did him in, police say that
onJanuary10,2009,heallegedly
had sex with Yogita under a tree
in the Morlem plantation after
which he used Yogita's orange
dupatta to strangle her. Police
records state that Naik then pro-
ceeded to remove Yogita's orna-
ments and picked up her silver
bag, cell phone and clothes.
Leaving her body at the planta-
tion, he set off for Bicholim bus
stand, 15 km away, where he
dumped Yogita's clothes. At 1.20
pm, Naik walked into a
Bicholim-based jewellery store,
where he allegedly spun a tale
about a sick daughter and sold
the ornaments for Rs 34,000.
Naik then boarded a bus home.
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WORDLY WISE
The heart has its reasons which
reason knows not.
— BLAISE PASCAL

FOUNDED BY
Fading green
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§
RAMNATH GOENKA
BECAUSE THE TRUTH INVOLVES US ALL
Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill is rich in
rhetoric, but dilutes regulations to protect green cover

DRAW THE LINE Sharachchandra Lele

Murders on a train and on Haryana streets are unrelated. But GREENWASHING REFERS TO actions that tusisephemeralandadministrativemachin- clearance”. The Chairperson of the National
claimtoprovidepositiveenvironmentalben- eryworksbestwithrecords.Moreover,itcre- Commission for Scheduled Tribes opposed
both point to the cycle of hate, impunity — and official silence

O
efitsbutdon’tachievemuch. WiththeForest
N THE TRAGIC face of it, the violence that flared in Nuh, Haryana, on July 31, (Conservation) Amendment Bill 2023, the
and the murder on board the Jaipur-Mumbai Central Superfast Express the governmentis goingonestepfurtherandin-
dulgingin“green-gutting”—usingpro-envi-
same day, are unrelated. In Nuh, communal clashes broke out during a re-
ronmentlanguagewhileactuallyundermin-
ligious procession, the Brij Mandal Jalabhishek Yatra, organised by the VHP ing regulations. The Bill introduces a
annually. It has left at least five dead, amid incidents of stone-throwing, burning of vehi- preamble that sounds wonderfully pro-con-
cles and torching of a place of worship by mobs on a rampage, with tensions spreading servation. But then it goes on to nullify the
to surrounding districts, right upto the doorstep of the national capital. In the backdrop Supreme Court’s 1996 Godavarman order,
of the flare-up in Nuh, is the abduction and murder of two men in February by cow vig- and provides exemptions that further
weaken the already emaciated regulations
ilantes in Bhiwani — the main murder accused, who belongs to the Bajrang Dal and is
around forest diversion.
still at large, reportedly played a role in stoking tensions ahead of the Yatra. On board the The Forest Conservation Act, 1980 (FCA)
Mumbai-bound train, a young RPF constable opened fire and killed a senior colleague originatedinthebeliefthatstategovernments
and three other passengers. A purported video of Chetan Singh, 33, captures his talk of werebeingtooliberalindolingoutforestland
“Pakistan” and “... agar Hindustan mein rehna hai (if you want to live in Hindustan)”. The fornon-forestactivities,particularlyforculti-
violencebetweencommunitiesanduncheckedcowvigilantisminHaryana,andthemur- vation. The 42nd constitutional amendment
ders on the train between Vapi and Vaitarna railway stations, about two hours from brought forests into the concurrent list, and
that enabled the passing of a central Act that
Mumbai, point to the same sordid cycle of hate and impunity.
requiredstatestogetthecentralgovernment's
The onus is on politicians and the state. Not all of the Supreme Court's laments or an- approvalbeforedivertingforestsfornon-for-
guished strictures against hate speech can make a difference if there are political incen- est activities.
tives for sharpening prejudice and polarisation on the ground. While all parties must Did the passage of the FCA lead to reduc-
share the responsibility for treading carefully on faultlines ahead of what promises, or tions in forest diversion? Yes and no — in the
threatens, to be a bitterly contested election in 2024, the burden is especially on the BJP. initialyears,diversiondefinitelysloweddown.
Butpost-1991,thepressuretoallowdiversion
AsthepartythatrulesattheCentreandinHaryana,itmustsendoutthemessage,unequiv-
for so-called “development projects” (high-
ocally, that there will be no tolerance, much less reward, for the open purveying of hate. ways, dams, mining) increased, and only di-
Over his nearly two terms in power so far, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has built a for- versionforagriculture(somehownotseenas
midable cache of political capital that the Opposition evidently feels unable to take on “developmental”) was prevented.
singly — it has united to forge a front, INDIA, to fight the BJP. PM Modi must throw his po- Nevertheless,theregulatoryprocessdidslow
litical weight behind the much-needed signal, to his own party and government, and to downdiversions.Thecompensatoryafforesta-
tion requirement was largely window dress-
the people, that in the "New India" he envisages, those seeking to stoke fears and deepen
ing—plantationsoftenfailedtocomeup,but
insecurities, and upend the rule of law, will have a price to pay. itservedtoexpandtheestatesoftheforestde-
That’s why the Monday warning must not go unheeded. Union Railway Minister partments.
Ashwini Vaishnaw, who very effectively links the railway story to the New India story, In 1996, in T N Godavarman, the Supreme
needs to speak up. He needs to make it clear that, of course, while one constable does not Court asked whether the FCA was being con-
a force make, in the Railway Protection Force even one rotten apple is one too many. sistentlyappliedtoallforests.Therearepock-
etsacrossthecountrywherelandcoveredby
Vaishnaw is a skilled communicator, he could begin by reaching out to the next of kin of
naturalforesthasnotbeenofficiallyrecorded
all the four killed in cold blood by a member of a force that reports to him.
as“forest”under anylaw,soits diversionwas
notbeingregulatedundertheFCA.Byonees-
timate, this could be as much as 25 per cent
It is unlikely that even the
Rajya Sabha can stop the
green-gutting juggernaut.
But it is hoped that the wider
public will see through the
verbiage of the preamble,
ignore the false drumbeat of
development, national
ated a misplaced fear among private forest
ownersandevenplantationownersthatthey
would lose control over their lands, even for
sustainabletimberharvest.Nevertheless,the
1996 order did ensure that all government
landscoveredbyforestwereregulatedagainst
casual diversion.
The passage of the Forest Rights Act in
2006 brought in an additional regulator: The
localcommunitythatheldrightsoverthefor-
est.IntheNiyamgiricasein2013,theSupreme
Courtreaffirmedthelocalcommunity’sright
tohaveasay,andtheVedantabauxitemining
project was cancelled as village after village
refused consent for diversion.
But the developmental lobby, within the
government and outside, has always chafed
against all such regulation, and since 2014,
theprocessof guttingtheFCA(andotheren-
vironmentalregulations)beganinfullswing.
Adiscourseof “delaysinclearances”wascre-
ated to build pressure. The lack of any clear
thresholds or criteria in the FCA regarding
when diversion may be permitted was con-
veniently exploited. The Forest Advisory
Committeewasopenlyexhortedtokeepde-
velopmental and national security concerns
paramount. The Niyamgiri judgment
notwithstanding, consent from local rights-
holderswasalmostalwaysbypassed.Inmost
cases, district collectors reportedly certified
that no community rights existed, when in
fact the process of community rights recog-
nition under the FRA was not even initiated.
Further,“linearprojects”suchasrailwaylines
andhighwayswereexemptedfromobtaining
community consent by the Environment
Ministry. The Andhra Pradesh High Court
struck down this exemption, but this judg-
ment has been simply ignored.
Over the past year, two formal steps have
been taken to complete the green-gutting
process.InJune2022,newruleswerenotified
undertheFCA.Theserulesfurtherrelaxedthe
this trampling of Adivasi rights. But he re-
signed last month, allegedly under pressure.
With this backdrop, the changes pro-
posed in the FCA Amendment Bill 2023 that
has already been passed by the Lok Sabha
become easier to understand. Inserting the
preamble is the greenwash, while the main
amendments actually undermine regula-
tions. One amendment reduces the scope
again to land “recorded as forest”, rendering
the Godavarman order meaningless. This
means that the Niyamgiri forests can be
taken up for mining now, as most of them
are not notified forests — a problem bedev-
illing themajorityof forestsin Odishaaswell
as the northeastern states.
Another amendment provides complete
exemption for linear projects meant for
“strategicprojectof nationalimportanceand
concerning national security” within 100km
of the national border, a carte blanche to not
just the military but the government as such,
becauseanythingcanbedescribedas“strate-
gic” and of “national importance”. A third ex-
emptssecuritycampsinMaoist-affecteddis-
tricts--whendeforestationcausedbysecurity
camps is emerging as a major issue in the
Bastar region.
A fourth, more hilarious, amendment
treats the creation of zoos and safaris as still
being a “forestry purpose” and leaves space
for more such hilariousness. The greenwash
of compensatory plantations remains, but as
theGreatNicobarcaseshows,theFCARulesof
2022allowthelossof Nicobaresetropicalfor-
est to be compensated by plantations in
Haryana, and these can now be converted to
safaris or zoos as well!
ItisunlikelythateventheRajyaSabhacan
stop the green-gutting juggernaut. But it is
hopedthatthewiderpublicwillseethrough
theverbiageof thepreamble,ignorethefalse
drumbeatof development,nationalsecurity
and strategic importance, and mobilise for

BACK FROM THE BRINK of the country's forest cover. The Court
brought this land under the ambit of the FCA
byorderingthattheactualvegetationshould
determine FCA applicability. This eventually
Tiger conservation is a success. Time to begin difficult led to the creation of a new legal category
conversations, including on the animal’s viable population called “deemed forest” land. This is no doubt
security and strategic
importance, and mobilise for
the long battle ahead to
regain our right to govern
our environments and
guidelines for compensatory afforestation,
making it into a “business” or rather a game
whereanylandcanbeshownascompensat-
ing for any project anywhere. Furthermore,
the rules relegated local community consent
to a footnote, to be carried out independent
the long battle ahead to regain our right to
govern our environments and forests in a
meaningful way.
The writer is a Distinguished Fellow at ATREE,
Bengaluru, an Adjunct Professor at IISER Pune,

F
a clumsy approach, because the physical sta- forests in a meaningful way. of, rather than as a prerequisite to, the “forest and an Honorary Professor at SNU Delhi
IFTY YEARS AGO, when India launched Project Tiger, the country's national an-
imal had dwindled to less than 2,000 from about 40,000 at the turn of the 20th
century. The project reported successes for close to three decades. But conser-
vationists were jolted in 2006, when tiger numbers fell to an all-time low of

THE 2047 CLASSROOM

1,411. Course corrections in wildlife management led to the majestic animal staging a re-
markable comeback in several parts of the country. The latest Tiger Census report, re-
leased on Sunday, shows that the big cat's population has increased to 3,682 from 2,967
in 2018. But these stellar figures should not draw the wildlife policymakers' attention
away from the Census's fine print, which indicates areas of concern.
The data shows a dip in tiger numbers in Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Where children learn with their hands, heart and head
parts of Northeast India and the Western Ghats. Eighteen reserves, most of them in these
areas, have less than 10 big cats left. Odisha, the southern Western Ghats and Northeast
India have genetically distinct varieties of the tiger. The fall in the animal's population in
Usha Menon
these regions is, therefore, worrying. At the same time, the fragmentation of habitats in
IIMAGINEVISITING,in2047,anewphenom- class. Children are standing in groups around of our children were also part of that team.”
several parts of the country is leading to inbreeding among tiger varieties. The animal is enon in education that has already spread to thetablesinthealcoveandIamtoldthateach Meanwhile, the computer begins playing
known to travel hundreds of kilometres in search of habitat and mates. But as a 2021 almost all the blocks in India — schools func- group is involved in making a working steam a video of a steam engine-powered factory
study by researchers from the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru and tioning in the spirit of Gandhi’s idea of unit- engine.Theteacherexplainsthatmakingthe andthesoundandimagescombinedtogivea
LOOKING AT

Stanford University, revealed, “genomic variation of Indian tigers continues to be affected ing the hand, the heart and the head. The
by connectivity issues”. With the country now home to 75 per cent of the world's tiger school I enter is located in a crowded area of
thecity anddoesnot havealargecompound,
population, it's time that wildlife management is built on genetic studies, like this collab-
but I see that a small vegetable garden is also
oration between NCBS and Stanford scientists. given space along with the playground. The
Madhya Pradesh is home to the highest number of tigers in the country — 785. This school is for 8-12 year olds.
speaks well of the management practices of the state's forest department. Close to 350 Theteacherstellmethatschoolsliketheirs
tigersinMP,however,liveoutsideprotectedareas.MPforestdepartment'sdatashowsthat became possible because of a decade-long
more than 20 tigers have lost their lives in human-animal conflicts in the past six years. movementbyeducationistsacrossthecoun-
Such incidents have increased in other parts of the country as well. The understaffed and try who created such schools by living and
working in them. They created common
ill-equippedforestdepartmentsinmostpartsof the countrydeservetobecomplimented
schoolsforallthechildren.Itwasastrugglein
for bringing the tiger backfrom the brink. But conservation successseems to have created the beginning, but slowly the government
another set of problems — with forests shrinking, tigers are venturing into human habi- policieschanged.Panchayatsstartedsupport-
tats. It's time now to begin conversations on more difficult questions including the car- ing the movement, and teachers were facili-
rying capacity of the country's tiger reserves and a viable population of the animal. tatedtofunctionasmembersofaprofessional
Conservation, after all, should not just be about numbers. communitywiththefreedomtomodifytheir
lessons according to the class context, all the
while working towards the larger goals.
Theclassesintheschoolaremulti-ageand
100
The teachers tell me that
schools like theirs became
possible because of a decade-
long movement by
educationists across the
steam engine is a prelude to understanding
the concept of energy. She speaks about the
key historical role that the steam engine
playedinthedevelopmentofthermodynam-
ics, and explains that the concept of energy is
crucialforappreciatingtheeffortsbeingmade
torestorethehealthof ourplanetandevento
understand how our own body functions.
She also explains how the advent of
ChatGPTmadepeopleacrosstheworldslowly
understandthedifferencebetweeninforma-
tion, computing and conceptual knowledge.
This also led to the understanding that con-
ceptual knowledge develops in children only
bytheageofabout12,ashadbeenalreadyput
forwardbybothJeanPiagetandLevVygotsky,
and that children need to have the opportu-
nity to solve concrete problems before that.
Perhaps assuming that I might be think-
ing that the school was taking a technologi-
real feeling of being in one of those early fac-
tories. The teacher adds, “we expose children
to the historical aspects of the impact of the
steam engine and also teach how the first in-
dustrial revolution changed the world both
positively and negatively. They will also be
looking at how child labour was introduced
andhowcolonialismwasalsopoweredbythe
steam engine.”
Assheswitchesoffthecomputer,sheadds,
“butfirstwewillbetakingthestudentstothe
industrial museum in our town where we
have two different types of steam engines.”
She seems to be happy about their industrial
museum. By now every district has a few in-
dustrial/artisanalmuseumsthathaveworking
machinesandtoolsfromacrossthecenturies.
As our conversation ends, the children
emerge from their workshop and come for-
ward to greet me. “Our steam engines are

UNCLES VS CONSTITUTION Ifirst enter a hallwhichis the “classroom”for

10-12yearolds.Thehallhasabigalcovewhich
looks like a mini-workshop. A table on one
sideof thehallhassomemusicalinstruments
Gujarat leaders, across party lines, want parental consent for andanothersidehasalargecomputerscreen.
love marriages. But there’s such a thing as individual rights There are low tables and high tables and no
country who created such
schools by actually living
and working in them. They
created common schools for
all the children. It was a
cally backward step, she smiles as she turns
onthecomputerandsays“electricityismore
difficult to understand and we wanted to do
working! Shall we show you?” The glow on
their faces makes me turn to the teacher and
say,“Indiahaschanged.”Shesmilesandadds
the steam engine before starting in a big way “Yes, and the world!”
withelectricity.Someschoolsdoitdifferently
also.Ourchildrenalsogetinvolvedwithwork The writer is Scientist-CSIR (retd) and the

O
bench-desk combinations, although some involving electricity. Some six months ago founder of Jodo Gyan. This article is part of an
H, THE CONSTITUTION. It seems to be standing in the way of the best laid struggle in the beginning,
chairs and mats are stacked in a corner. older children from the nearby school block ongoing series, which began on August 15,
plansofoverbearinguncles,acrosspartylines,inGujarat.AtaPatidarcommu- The class has 24 children and two teach- but slowly the government made a robot to solve a problem the munici- 2022, by women who have made a mark,
nityevent,ChiefMinisterBhupendraPatelmootedastudytolookintowhether ers,oneof whomhasaccompaniedmetothe policies changed. palityhadwiththeterracegardensandsome across sectors
“something can be done to ensure that parental consent is there in it (love
marriages)”. The noble objective of making consenting adults seek permission from their
parents to live how they choose will be explored unless “the Constitution becomes a hin-
drance”. Congress MLA Imran Khedawala immediately expressed his support for the idea.
His logic behind demanding an amendment to the Gujarat Registration of Marriages Act, AUGUST 2, 1983, FORTY YEARS AGO
2009 is simple:“Parents raise their children, so theirconsent shouldbemade mandatory.”
What do adults owe their parents? A debt of gratitude, in some cases. Perhaps an al- SL’S AID APPEAL cial meeting in the Teja Singh Samundri Hall nal affairs of other countries. Mrs Gandhi
lowance,if youwanttogetpecuniary.Buttheonce-children,nowgrownup,canalsopres- in Amritsar. The party president, Harchand spoke of “disturbing and tragic develop-
RIOT-BATTERED SRI LANKA appealed for Singh Longowal, was presiding over the ments” in India’s neighbourhood without
ent a billforthe traumas.Forthe scars,pressures andanxietiesthatthey are forcedtocarry
pledges of military assistance from the US, meeting. According to informed party specifically mentioning the trouble in Sri
becauseof thedemandsof family,societyandthen,jobsandchildrenof theirown.Atwhat Britain, Pakistan and Bangladesh in case of a sources, the Akali leaders’ are likely to dis- Lanka.
point, in a society where “I” is just a letter in “family” or “religion”, does the burden end? foreignattack.Withcalmreturningtoburned- cussandfinalisethe“actionplan”of theparty
A “love marriage” in India is, among many other things, a manifestation of agency. It is
an expression of individual desire, of a couple saying that the family they will build is their
outstreetsafteraweekofethnicviolencethat
leftatleast239peopledead,thegovernment
scheduled to be announced on August 15.
PROTEST IN TN
own. In a society where policing the boundaries of social groups has deep historical roots, cracked down on Marxist parties and pub-
lished reports said it feared an attack from
INDIA AND SRI LANKA A40-YEAR-OLDAIADMKworkerburnthim-
self to death in front of the Anna statue at
it is easy to imagine why conservatives across parties fear a world where the only consent
neighbouring India. PRIME MINISTER INDIRA Gandhi told the Rajapalayam in Ramanathapuram district.
requiredisfromtheindividualsinvolved.Fortunately,theConstitutionof Indiaismorepro-
South Asian region’s seven foreign ministers The police said Subramaniam raised slogans
gressivethanitspoliticians.Andforalltheparents,overbearingunclesandassortedguardians
ofcommunityprideworriedthattheirgrownupchildrenmightactuallygrowup,toughluck. AKALI MEET that India is in favour of friendly relations
amongitsneighboursandhasnointentionof
about the sufferings of Tamils in Sri Lanka
andappliedamatchafterdousinghisclothes
At least for now, love is not illegal. THEAKALIDALhighcommandbeganitscru- either dominating or interferingin the inter- with kerosene.

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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2023
THE IDEAS PAGE
South Asia is open for business
The region’s new economic openness, Delhi’s neighbourhood policies, and Western support
could transform the Subcontinent’s economic landscape
RAJA MANDALA
by C Raja Mohan
CAN THE CURRENT optimism about India’s
economic prospects — its impending emer-
gence as the third-largest economy with
growing financial resources and a major
technological hub — rub off on the rest of the
Subcontinent? The recent visits to Delhi by
Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal
and Sri Lankan President Ranil
Wickremesinghe highlight the shifting cur-
rents in South Asian regionalism. Japanese
ForeignMinisterYoshimasaHayashi'srecent
travels to Delhi, Colombo, and Male and a
surprising visit to Sri Lanka by French
President Emmanuel Macron last week un-
derline the new external impetus to the
Subcontinent’s economic integration.
But the pessimistic discourse on South
Asian regionalism is trapped in two old
propositions. One, South Asia is the least in-
tegrated regionandinsufficiently connected
to the world. The second is the belief that the
road to regional integration in the
Subcontinent must necessarily run through
the SAARC — the South Asian Association for
Regional Cooperation. The first proposition
has been true for a long time, and the second
has become irrelevant to the region’s future.
Let us briefly review the two and how new
forces are producing significant change on
the ground.
The post-colonial and partitioned
Subcontinent deliberately chose economic
autarky and devalued regional integration.
Endless conflict reinforced the lack of polit-
icalappetiteforcross-bordercommercialen-
gagement. Worse still, the trans-regional
connectivity inherited from the British Raj
steadily witheredasthenewly-independent
economies focused on import substitution.
Theliberalisationandglobalisationof the
South Asian economies, which began in the
1990s, saw the injection of the language of
regionalism in the Subcontinent and a new
interest in trade and connectivity. Economic
reform, however, was uneven across the re-
gion and tentative even in the capitals, with
some support for change. And it was hard to
mobilise support for cross-border connec-
tivity projects amidst multiple political dis-
putesamongtheSouthAsiansovereignsthat
exacerbatedtheregion’ssecuritychallenges.
The 21st century has seen considerable
improvement within the Subcontinent and
in the connections between South Asia and
the world. The share of intra-regional trade
in the Subcontinent’s trade with the world
has grown from about 2 per cent in 1990 to
about 6 per cent today, but is nowhere near
the potential or the achievements of other
parts of Asia. But the direction is clearly pos-
itive.
The fact that SAARC is moribund — the
last summit was held in 2014 — has not
meantanyprogressinregionaleconomicin-
tegration.Inanidealworld,theSAARCwould
be the vehicle for reconnecting the region.
But Pakistan is not interested in such an out-
come; its priority for the last three decades
has been to wrest concessions from India on
Kashmir. It is in no mood to open its econ-
omy for mutually beneficial cooperation
with India. That has not come in the way of
the rest of the region moving forward —
throughbilateral,sub-regional,andtrans-re-
gional mechanisms outside of SAARC. A suc-
cessfulSAARC is not a precondition for thriv-
ing economic regionalism.
Manisha Parekh
IN 1987, THE corridors of the SD Hall of M S
University in Baroda echoed with a strong
voice, singing away ‘Oh! Darling’ by The
Beatles. That was my first impression of Kavi
(Kavita Singh) — a tall girl walking with a
swing, totally bindaas, confident and warm.
There she was, with her '80s curly-hair look,
effortlesslycoolinhersariandsneakers,long
before it became a fashion trend. M S
University, at the time, was a hotbed of ex-
periments and exchanges and Kavita dipped
herfeet intodifferent forms of art. Even asan
art historian, Kavita did not just look at art
from a particular period; she was open and
looked into ancient, tribal as well contem-
porary art. She was not only interested in
sculptureandpaintingbutalsoinmusic,the-
atre, cinema, literature and life in general. Be
it a theatre or a recital somewhere, Kavita
would travel any length just to catch a per-
formance or experience that she felt would
enrich her life. That was the DNA of her per-
sonality.
Kavita was the founding member and
then the dean of the School of Arts and
Aesthetics of Jawaharlal Nehru University
(JNU). Shewasdedicatedtothestudentsand
That brings us to three new factors that
are accelerating regional economic integra-
tion. One is the renewed pressure to under-
take economic reform. The recent economic
crises in Sri Lanka and Pakistan are com-
pellingtheelitesinColomboandRawalpindi
to embark on serious and painful economic
change. Whether they succeed or not, the
two will not remain the same.
Nepal and Sri Lanka are today more open
to trade, investment and connectivity with
India. The visits of Dahal and
Wickremesinghe in the last few weeks have
seen strong commitments from both lead-
ers for deeper economic integration with
India. The entrenched political resistance to
commercialengagementwithIndiaappears
tobegivingwaytothepursuitof enlightened
economic self-interest in both Kathmandu
and Colombo.
Pakistan is turning to the Gulf to end its
dependence on loans and bailouts. Last
week, Pakistan announced a list of 28 major
projects, worth billions of dollars, that will
beopenforinvestmentfromtheUnitedArab
Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. A fire sale
of major national assets to foreigners would
nothavepassedpoliticalmusterinDelhi.But
Pakistan is desperate, and its Chief of Army
Staff, General Asim Munir, appears ready to
take the political risk of confronting a poten-
tial popular backlash against sweeping eco-
nomic change.
Second, the region is looming larger in
India’s economic calculus. As India’s relative
economic weight in the world has grown, its
commercial ties with neighbours have in-
creased.Delhi’stradevolumeswithitsneigh-
bours are now impressive. Bangladesh, for
example,isthefourth-largestdestinationfor
Indian exports — valued at about $16 billion
in 2022. India’s exports to Nepal at about $6
billion are comparable with those to Japan;
Delhi’s exports to Kathmandu are more im-
pressive at $8.5 billion.
The logic of economic geography is be-
ginning to unfold in India’s relations with
most of its neighbours, except Pakistan.
India'stradepotentialwithPakistanhasbeen
estimatedtobeashighas$37billion.Itisun-
likely, though, to be realised any time soon.
Delhi could, however, promote exports to
Pakistan through third countries, say in the
Gulf, instead of waiting to negotiate bilateral
trade liberalisation with Islamabad.
Majorinitiativesforcross-borderconnec-
tivitynowcomplementIndia’sgrowingtrade
volumes with its neighbours. Trans-border
projectsto promoterail, road, energy, power,
financial, and digital connectivity have all
gained new impetus in India’s engagement
with its neighbours. The regional connectiv-
A teacher first
Kavita Singh’s work as an art historian had expanse and depth
the cause of teachers. She always did the
right thing by her principles and never com-
promised on anything that was not part of
her politics. Her primary interest was stu-
dents; she was focussed on creating a rich
intellectual environment at SAA, JNU.
Teaching and research were her lifeline.
She taught with extraordinary passion.
Kavita was proficient in distilling the intri-
cate details of her research and explaining it
inpoeticlanguage.However,underneaththe
straightforward language of her research
would be many complex layers of tireless
study.
The last talk of Kavita I attended was
“Book of Gold: The Golden Ramcharitmanas
of Kashi” on July 15, organised by Karwaan
at the India Habitat Centre. It was delightful
to listen to her insights and readings about
the paintings. She would go into the details
of these paintings and narrate the stories
around them making the experience of
viewingthesepaintingson the Ramayanaso
special.
I had the good fortune of living in the
same neighbourhood as Kavita for the last
nine to 10 years. It deepened our friendship.
The fact that SAARC is
moribund — the last
summit was held in 2014 —
has not meant any progress
in regional economic
integration. In an ideal
world, the SAARC would be
the vehicle for reconnecting
the region. But Pakistan is
not interested in such an
outcome; its priority for the
last three decades has been
to wrest concessions from
India on Kashmir. It is in no
mood to open its economy
for mutually beneficial
cooperation with India. That
has not come in the way of
the rest of the region moving
forward — through bilateral,
sub-regional, and trans-
regional mechanisms
outside of SAARC. A
successful SAARC is not a
precondition for thriving
economic regionalism.
We would regularly go for morning walks.
She was my go-to person regarding every-
thing. We shared recipes as she was a great
cook. We also shared music. We ended up
watchingsimilarTVshowsandoftenwentto
see exhibitions and films together.
Covid-19 was a testing time as we were
confined toourhomes.Ourfriendshipdeep-
ened during this period as we were depend-
entoneachother.Wefoundourpleasurepic-
nicinourlocalpark.SunderNurserywasone
of Kavita’s favourite places in the city, espe-
cially during the flowering season.
I would often accompany Kavita on her
heritage walks with her students to
Humayun’s Tomb, Nizamuddin Basti and
QutubMinarcomplex.Igottoexperienceher
wealth of knowledge while listening to her
conversations with her students about the
monuments on these walks. Kavita's stu-
dents, among them PhD scholars, were for-
tunate to have her as their teacher and guide
until her last.
In the past year and a half, she was quite
unwellanddidn'thavemuchenergy.Butshe
wouldsetasidetwo-threehoursdailyforher
work. She was writing a catalogue piece for
WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
“All dispensations must treat climate vulnerability as a national emergency;
investment should pour into drainage systems, dams, waterways, warning
mechanisms, and pre-disaster management. We can avoid the worst if policymakers
hit the ground running.”
C R Sasikumar
ity that began with Bangladesh a few years
ago is rapidly expanding to cover other
neighbours.
Third, renewed great power rivalry be-
tweentheUSandChinaontheonehandand
the deepening conflict between Delhi and
Beijing on the other have altered the
Subcontinent’s geo-economic template. In
derisking their commercial ties with China,
the US and its allies now actively promote
economic and technological engagement
with India.
They are also promoting economic inte-
gration between India and its smaller neigh-
bours. The US, for example, helped Nepal’s
energyandroadconnectivitywithIndiawith
the $500 million Millennium Challenge
Grant. Kathmandu approved it last year de-
spite considerable opposition from China.
Japan is now promoting sub-regional con-
nectivitybetweenIndiaandBangladesh that
canpotentiallytransformtheeconomicmap
of the eastern subcontinent and the Bay of
Bengal.
Hayashi’s visit to Colombo and Male is
part of Tokyo’s strategy to raise its strategic
profile in the Indian Ocean and offer viable
alternatives to China’s Belt and Road
Initiative, which has been widely embraced
in South Asia. Tokyo and Paris also joined
hands with Delhi to help Colombo navigate
its economic crisis. Macron’s visit to Sri
Lanka, the first by a French President, is an
attempt to integrate Colombo into Paris’s
Indo-Pacific outreach.
Meanwhile,India,whichwascomplacent
about China’s growing economic presence
in the region a few years ago, has offered a
measure of competition in the Subcontinent
with its own bouquet of regional infrastruc-
ture projects. Delhi is now working with its
like-minded partners to offer credible eco-
nomicalternatives to itsneighbours thatun-
til now had seen Beijing as the only game in
town. India has a long way to go before it can
radically restructure South Asia's economic
architecture, but it now has economic heft
and political purpose to pursue that ambi-
tion.
Together the three trends — the region’s
new economic openness, Delhi’s vigorous
neighbourhood policies, and Western sup-
port for an India-centred regionalism in
South Asia — could transform the
Subcontinent's geo-economic landscape.
India's rising economic tide could help lift all
boats in South Asia.
The writer is a Senior Fellow at the Asia
Society Policy Institute, Delhi and a
contributing editor on international affairs
for The Indian Express
anexhibition onRamcharitmanas paintings,
which were to be showcasedatthe Museum
of Art and Photography in Bengaluru in
September.
Kavitacelebratedlife,shewasthesymbol
of joiedevivre.Shewasalreadysomeonewho
stood apart when I first met her in 1987. In
May this year, we went to Kerala to attend a
wedding. Kavita wanted to see a Theyyam
performance at a nearby temple. Sadly, we
decided not to go due to the big crowd. Even
at that stage, when her health was deterio-
rating, she was ready to look for a new expe-
rience, which she thought would be special.
Her absence is going to be acute. But I
have a feeling that I would have her voice in
my headfor any situationto say, “Okay, what
wouldKavihavedone?”Somepeopleinyour
life become a reference and remain so for a
very long time, perhaps lifelong. A generous
and kind person with a remarkable mind,
Kavitahadalottogiveandmore.Ihavelearnt
a lot from her and will continue to do so
through the memories of our time spent
together.
The writer is an artist
A broken land
In Manipur, acknowledgement of shared
suffering and shared belonging alone can create
the space for dialogue
Harsh Mander
WE RETURN after four harrowing days in
the beleaguered, broken land of Manipur.
Nothinghadpreparedmeforwhatwebore
witness to. Manipur is today fully trans-
formed into a war zone, bursting with so-
phisticated rifles, mortars, bombs, and
massive daily mobilisation of ordinary
civilians.
Entirevillagesof both warringcommu-
nities have been razed to ashes. The state
is led by a government that has done noth-
ingto restore peace and ensure justice.The
stateisabsentinitsforemostconstitutional
duty to protect civilians; it is absent from
relief camps.Instead,thestategovernment
isoftenperceivedtobetakingsidesinwhat
is quickly escalating into a civil war.
I travelled with a team of the Karwan e
Mohabbat,ourcitizeninitiativewhichfrom
2017 has strived to reach out to victims of
hate violence, to offer solace and solidarity
to the survivors. In Manipur, we spent
many hours listening to survivors in seven
relief camps on both sides of what is now
perceived popularly to be a “border” be-
tween the Imphal Valley, home mostly to
the Meitei, and the mountains, inhabited
mainlybytheKukiandNagatribalpeoples.
We met scores of community leaders from
both communities.
Thegrief,therageandaboveallthehate
on both sides are boundless.
Thegrief inbothMeiteiandKukicamps
almost mirrored each other. In the Imphal
Valley, where Kukis were in the minority,
crowds set their homes on fire. The same
happened to Meitei people who had lived
for generations in the mountain villages of
the Kuki tribal people. The unbearable grief
andrageofbothwerethatneighboursofthe
“other” community, with whom they had
lived for generations with peace and good-
will, turned overnight into murderous and
pitiless enemies. They each recalled their
fearful escapes, often trudging kilometres
with children, sick and old people on their
backsinthecoverofthenight.Theyspokeof
pregnantwomenwhogavebirthastheyes-
caped, of hungry, frightened babies whose
criestheyhadtostifle.Theyspokeof people
killed, of people who could not survive the
arduous journeys. They mourned with us
daughtersabductedandsexuallyassaulted,
and sons who never returned.
But it was their narratives of fury, of
congealed hate on both sides that worried
me the most. I was struck first by how as
people grieved inconsolably about the loss
of their homes and loved ones, they com-
pletely erased from their memoriesthe ac-
knowledgement that people of what was
now the “other” had often suffered almost
identical tragedies; that their own people
had on the one hand been felled by the vi-
olence, and at the same time they had also
perpetrated thesesame atrocities. They re-
fused to carry not just the burden of grief
for what was done to them but also of cul-
pability and guilt for what they had done
to each other.
But even more gravely, I found that the
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
PEACE AND SAU
THIS REFERS TO the editorial, ‘Campus
unfreedom’ (IE, August 1). South Asian
University (SAU) draws students from
eight neighbouring countries. To sus-
tain a conducive learning environment
with this diverse culture and its turbu-
lent history is an arduous task. For ex-
ample, students from India and
Pakistan celebrate their independence
day together, but the delicate relations
between them and the present exem-
plary co-operation requires a vigilant
approach to ensure continuation. The
provision of a declaratory undertaking
prohibiting protests becomes a desir-
able preventive step.However, the dec-
laration aboutthe mental health of stu-
dents is an insensitive constraint and
should be done away with.
Y G Chouksey, Pune
THIS REFERS TO the editorial, ‘Campus
Unfreedom’ (IE, August 1). It aptly
summed up the diktat issued by SAU
directing its young students to not par-
take in protests that might unsettle
peace at the university. That in itself is
tantamount to asking the students to
stay shut even if a situation warrants
action.Theveryideaof barringstudents
from speaking their mind would hin-
der their desire to unravel mysteries
that need to be explored and ques-
tioned.Itwould goagainstthe veryrea-
sontheyarethere:Toexpandtheirhori-
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same narratives of the evil of the “other”
community were articulated whether we
spoke to community leaders, students,
women or residents of relief camps. The
narratives of the Meitei people were that
the Kuki people were foreigners, who had
illegally immigrated from Myanmar and
would one day outnumber the indigenous
Meitei peopleto whomManipurbelonged
rightfully. They had benefitted from reser-
vationsfortribalpeopletocapturejobsand
seats in educational institutions, while the
Meitei are prohibited even from buying
landinthemountains.Theyaccusethemof
endangering Meitei youth by cultivating
poppy illegally. They claim that the Kuki
peopleareillegallyclearingreservedforests
fortheirfarmsandsettlements,andthreat-
ening the ecology of the region.They claim
that Kuki militants roam freely, and their
violence and gun and drug trafficking
thrive under the protection of the Assam
Rifles.
The Kuki people have an entirely differ-
entnarrative.Theyallegethattheirfarmers
maycultivatepoppiesforbaresurvival,but
that profits from the drug trade are mostly
harvested by politicians and big business
in the Imphal Valley and beyond. They
claim to be legal citizens of Manipur and
allege that Meitei people want Scheduled
Tribe status to grab their lands and reduce
them to a minority in their mountain
abodes. They (Meitei) also want to corner
theseatsinthelegislaturesandeducational
institutionsthatarereservedfortribalpeo-
ple. They also allege that a militia of Meitei
youth is actively supported by the chief
ministerof Manipurandthatitisthesemil-
itants who ravaged their lands and people.
They allege that long years of work by the
RSS to convert Meitei nationalism into
Hindu nationalism has turned the Metei
people implacably hostile to the Kuki peo-
ple, also for their Christian faith. And they
believe that the Manipur state police and
paramilitary forces protect the Meitei mil-
itants and those who raped and murdered.
Thetwonarrativesaboutthesamelived
reality are so utterly irreconcilable, that as
long as people on both sides of the conflict
are not willing to take a few steps down
from what they passionately uphold as the
truth of the evil “other”, there is no space
for dialogue to even begin.
In the midst of all of this, the state gov-
ernmenthasdone nothingto establish and
support the relief camps for an estimated
20,000 Kuki internal refugees. It is largely
the localchurch, supported bylocal contri-
butions, that is running more than a hun-
dred Kuki relief camps. Children in these
have been reduced to eating watery rice
with salt. Signs of malnutrition are already
unmistakable. No camps have temporary
schools.Therefusalof thestate(andcentral
governments) to establish camps with ba-
sic services of safety, sanitation, nutrition,
education and health care is another dis-
graceful abdication by the state of its fun-
damental constitutional duties.
I searched desperately for signs of hope
in Manipur for peace and healing. I could
find this only in stories we heard in the
camps of people of the “other” community
who helped save lives. These, and the ac-
knowledgement of their shared suffering
and indeed their shared belonging, alone
can create the space even for the start of
any dialogue.
Mander is a human rights worker
and writer
zons. History is replete with examples
of almost similar diktats thatwere cho-
sen to be imposed on university sanc-
tums by the powers-that-be but re-
sulted in mayhem and eroded the faith
of thousands of young minds in the
government of the day.
Manish Shukla, Kota
LISTEN TO FARMERS
THIS REFERS TO the article, ‘Standing
withthefarmer’(IE,August1).Theagri-
culturalsectoristhebackboneof India’s
economy. Yet, unfortunately, it is the
mostneglectedsector.Subsequentgov-
ernments have done little to improve
the plight of farmers. There is large in-
vestment needed on the part of the
farmer — for ploughing, sowing, irriga-
tion, harvesting and supply of produce
to the market. Their hard work is re-
warded with compensation as low as
Rs 4 while middlemen extort exorbi-
tant amounts from consumers. The en-
tire process from seeding to sale of
crops should be in the favour of farm-
ers. MSP must be made legal as per the
Swaminathan Commission’s recom-
mendations. It should be the funda-
mental right of the farmer to live a dig-
nified life while taking good care of the
family in all respects, especially regard-
ing the health and education of chil-
dren. Their indebtedness must be done
away with.
Subhash Vaid, New Delhi
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WHO report on tobacco control: key findings, how India fares
ANONNA DUTT
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1
BENGALURU FINDS special mention in a
WorldHealthOrganisation(WHO)reporton
tobacco control measures released Monday.
Hundredsof enforcementdrives,putting
up ’No Smoking’ signs, and creating aware-
ness about the effects of smoking and sec-
ond-hand smokeresultedina27%reduction
insmoking inpublicplacesinthecity,the re-
port said.
Across the world, there are 300 million
fewer smokers today,with the prevalence of
smokingdecliningfrom22.8%in2007to17%
in 2021.
Fifteen years ago, WHO had developed
the MPOWER measures — monitor tobacco
use and prevention policies; protect people
from tobacco smoke; offer help to quit to-
bacco; warn about dangers of tobacco; en-
force bans on tobacco advertising; and raise
taxes on tobacco products. The report
EXPLAINED CLIMATE
WHATISCARBONCAPTUREAND
STORAGE,CANITCUTEMISSIONS?
THE UK government Monday reaffirmed
itssupportforprojectstocaptureandstore
carbon dioxide emissions as part of its ef-
forts to reach net zero goals, and said two
more projects would begin negotiations
totakethemforward.InMarch,Britainhad
said it would invest $ 25.7 billion over the
next 20 years in the technology.
What is CCS?
There are two main types of carbon
capture and storage. One is point-source
carbon capture and storage (CCS) which
capturesCO2producedatthesource,such
as a smokestack, while direct air capture
(DAC)removescarbondioxide(CO2)that
hasalreadybeenreleasedintotheatmos-
phere. Both the new British projects are
designed to capture emissions from
heavy-emittingsectors,suchasoilandgas
refining and steel manufacturing, and
store them underground off the coast of
Britain in depleted oil and gas fields.
How does it work?
First,theCO2hastobeseparatedfrom
othergasesproduced inindustrialproce-
sses or during power generation. Once
captured, it has to be compressed and
transported to sites for storage, often via
pipelines. After that, it has to be injected
intorockformationsunderground—typ-
ically one km or more under the ground
— for storage for decades.
Is the technology proven?
CCS has been in operation since the
1970s, with more than 200 million
tonnes of CO2 captured and stored deep
underground globally, the Global CCS
Institute says. Many projects, however,
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In LS, a Bill on IIMs, and the concerns it raises over their autonomy
APURVA VISHWANATH
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1
THE GOVERNMENT has brought a Bill in
Parliament giving itself significant say in
the appointment and removal of Directors
of the Indian Institutes of Management
(IIMs), and in initiating inquiries.
The Indian Institutes of Management
(Amendment)Bill, 2023, introduced in Lok
Sabha on July 28, seeks to make changes in
thelawthatgovernstheadministrationand
running of IIMs. The proposed changes
have triggered concern over their potential
to erode the autonomy of the IIMs.
What is the purpose of the Bill?
The Bill seeks to amend the Indian Insti-
tutes of Management Act, 2017 which de-
clared20existingIIMsas“institutionsof na-
tional importance with a view to empower
theseinstitutionstoattainstandardsofglobal
excellenceinmanagement,managementre-
search and allied areas of knowledge”.
Underthe2017Act,theDirectorofanIIM
isappointedbyaBoardofGovernors,andthe
governmenthasalimitedsayintheprocess.
The proposed amendments seek to change
this,andtogivethegovernmentanexpanded
role in the appointment of the IIM Director.
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2023
assesses the implementation of these
measures.
What does the report say?
In the 15 years since the MPOWER meas-
ures were first introduced, 5.6 billion people
in the world – or 71% of the entire popula-
tion – remain protected by at least one of the
measures. This has increased from just 5% of
the population in 2008.
The number of countries implementing
atleastoneMPOWERmeasurehasincreased
from 44 countries in 2008 to 151 in 2022, ac-
cording to the report. At least four countries
—Brazil,Turkiye,Netherlands,andMauritius
— have implemented all the measures.
“WHO urges all countries to put in place
all of the MPOWER measures at best-prac-
tice level to fight the tobacco epidemic,
which kills 8.7 million people globally, and
push back against the tobacco and nicotine
industries, who lobby against these public
health measures,” said Dr Ruediger Krech,
WHO, Director for Health Promotion.
Pipes run through Shell’s Quest CCS
facility in Alberta, Canada. Reuters
have failed to deliver the carbon savings
promised.
What role can it play?
A UN panel of scientists’ report last
year said CCS can help the world reach
global climate targets set under the 2015
Paris Agreement on climate change, but
that the focus needed to remain on pre-
venting emissions from being emitted in
the first place.
Some environmental groups, how-
ever, question how effectively CCS can
curbemissionsasthetechnologyenables
fossilfuelcompaniestooperateforlonger
and can allow more oil and gas to be re-
covered from old fields.
How many facilities are there?
According to the Global CCS Institute,
61facilitieswereaddedtotheglobalproj-
ect pipeline last year, bringing the total to
morethan190.Of those,30wereinoper-
ation,11wereunderconstructionandthe
remainder in various stages of develop-
ment. REUTERS
How is this change proposed to be
effected?
Section 5 of the amendment Bill says
that “After section 10 of the principal Act,
the following section shall be inserted,
namely:— “10A. (1) The President of India
shall be the Visitor of every Institute”” cov-
ered under the IIM Act.
The Bill prescribes three primary roles
for the Visitor: to make appointments, to
audit the working of institutions, and to
conduct an inquiry.
What is the current process of
appointment of the Director?
Section 16(2) of the 2017 Act says “the
Director shall be appointed by the Board,
on such terms and conditions of service as
may be prescribed.” Section 16(1) says the
“Director shall be the Chief Executive
Officer of the Institute and shall provide
leadership to the Institute and be respon-
sible for implementation of the decisions
of the Board”.
Section 16(3) says “the Director shall be
appointed out of the panel of names rec-
ommended by a search-cum-selection
committee to be constituted by the Board”.
The Board chairperson will head the
search-cum-selection committee, which
willalsohave“threememberschosenfrom
With a focus on second-hand smoking,
the report says that almost 40% countries
now have completely smoke-free indoor
public spaces.
The report has some bad news as well.
There are at least 44 countries in the
world that still do not implement any
MPOWER measure. There are
53 countries that do not com-
pletelybansmokinginhealth- EXPLAINED
care facilities. And only half of
thecountrieshavesmoke-free
HEALTH
workplaces and restaurants.
The director general of WHO, Dr Tedros
AdhanomGhebreyesus,alsoflaggedthedan-
gersof e-cigarettes.Inthereport,hesaid,“But
progress so far is being undermined by the
tobacco industry’s aggressive promotion of
E-cigarettes as a safer alternative to ciga-
rettes. Young people, including those who
neverpreviouslysmoked,areaparticulartar-
get. In fact, E-cigarettes are harmful to both
the people using them and those around
them, especially when used indoors.”
Sub-categorisation of OBCs
After 13 extensions, the Justice G Rohini commission has submitted its report intended to address
distortions in the quota regime that are seen as allowing certain castes to corner the bulk of benefits.
SHYAMLAL YADAV
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1
THE LONG-awaited report of a commission
set up to examine the sub-categorisation of
Other Backward Classes (OBCs) was submit-
ted to President Droupadi Murmu on
Monday, the last working day of the
commission.
The four-member commission headed
by Justice G Rohini, a retired Chief Justice of
Delhi High Court, was appointed on October
2, 2017, and received 13 extensions to its
tenure.
The contents of the commission’s report
are expected to be politically sensitive, with
a direct bearing on electoral calculations of
parties ahead of Lok Sabha elections. The
contents have not been made public yet.
In a related development, Patna High
CourtonTuesdaydismissedalegalchallenge
to the decision of the Bihar government to
conduct a caste survey, paving the way for
the exercise in the state.
What is ‘sub-categorisation’ of OBCs?
OBCs are entitled to 27% reservation in
central government jobs and admission to
educational institutions, based on the
Mandal Commission report.
But while there are more than 2,600 en-
tries in the Central List of OBCs, over the
years,aperceptionhasgrownthatonlyafew
affluent communities among them have
benefited from the quota.
The argument for ’sub-categorisation’ of
OBCs — identifying quotas within the 27%
quota — is based on the recognition of per-
ceived distortions in the affirmative action
policy,andtoensure“equitabledistribution”
of the benefits of reservation.
Even as the Justice Rohini Commission
was examining this question, a five-judge
Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court in
August 2020 intervened in the sub-categori-
sation debate, ruling that an earlier (2005)
decision of the court that disallowed sub-
quotas within the SC-ST quota must be re-
examined by a larger Bench.
EXPLAINED EDUCATION
The IIMs are governed by the IIM Act
of 2017. Express Archive
amongsteminentadministrators,industri-
alists, educationists, scientists, technocrats
and management specialists”.
How does the Bill seek to change this?
The Bill requires the Board to obtain
prior approval of the President before ap-
pointing a Director.
Thus, in Section 16(2) of the 2017 Act,
which deals with the appointment of the
Director, it is proposedto replacethe words
“appointed by the Board, on such terms”
with the words “appointed by the Board
with prior approval of the Visitor, in such
Why is it important to curb second-hand
smoke?
Thereportfocusesoncontrollingsecond-
hand smoking (being in the presence of
someone who is smoking) by creating
smoke-freepublicareasandalsode-normal-
ising the act of smoking in the society.
Of the estimated 8.7 mil-
lion tobacco-related deaths
each year, 1.3 million are of
non-smokers exposed to sec-
ond-hand smoke, the report
says quoting the Global
Burden of Disease 2019.
Second-hand smoke has been linked to
almost 400,000 deaths due to heart disease,
over 250,000 deaths due to chronic obstruc-
tive pulmonary disease, over 150,000
deaths due to stroke and lower respiratory
disease each, and over 100,000 deaths due
to diabetes.
The report also adds that severe asthma,
respiratory tract infections, and sudden in-
fant death syndrome are more common
EXPLAINED POLITICS
In August 2021, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar led a delegation to New Delhi to press the
demand for a caste census with PM Modi. RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, who was
then in the opposition, was part of the delegation. Prem Nath Pandey/Express Archive
What were the terms of reference of the
Rohini Commission?
The commission’s brief was originally to:
“Examine the extent of inequitable dis-
tribution of benefits of reservation among
the castes or communities included in the
broad category of OBCs with reference to
such classes included in the Central List”;
“Work out the mechanism, criteria,
norms and parameters in a scientific ap-
proach for sub-categorisation within such
OBCs”; and
“Take up the exercise of identifying the
respective castes or communities or sub-
castesorsynonymsintheCentralListof OBCs
and classifying them into their respective
sub-categories”.
Thecommissionwassetupwithatenure
of 12 weeks ending January 3, 2018, but was
given repeated extensions.
OnJuly30,2019,thecommissionwroteto
thegovernmentthatithad“notedseveralam-
biguitiesinthelist...[and]isoftheopinionthat
thesehaveto beclarified/rectifiedbeforethe
manner and subject to such terms”.
Since the actions of the President are on
the aid and advice of the Union Council of
Ministers,thischangeessentiallymeansthe
Ministry of Education can veto the Board.
Theproposedamendmentsseektogive
thegovernmentasayintheinitialselection
process as well.
Thus,thefour-membersearch-cum-se-
lection committee described in Section
16(3) is proposed to have, apart from the
chairperson of the Board, “one Member to
be nominated by the Visitor”, and only two
other “eminent” members.
Under the proposed amendments, the
Board will be required to obtain prior ap-
proval of the Visitor to remove the Director
as well.
Section 16(7) of the existing Act de-
scribes the circumstances in which “the
Board may remove from office... [a]
Director”.TheBillhasproposedthereplace-
ment of these words with the words “The
Board, with prior approval of the Visitor,
may remove from office the Director...”.
Also, the Bill has proposed that “after
sub-section (9) [of Section 16], the follow-
ingsub-sectionshallbeinserted,namely:—
“(10) The services of the Director may be
terminatedbytheVisitor,insuchmanneras
may be prescribed.”.
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among children exposed to second-hand
smoke.Around51,000deathsinchildrenand
adolescents under the age of 20 years is
linked to exposure to second-hand smoke.
What about India?
When it comes to India, the report states
that the country has the highest level of
achievement when it comes to putting
health warning labels on tobacco products
and providing tobacco dependence
treatment.
With 85% of cigarette packs carrying
health warnings both on the front and back,
India figures among the top 10 countries in
terms of the size of health warnings. The cig-
arettepacketsinthecountryalsocarryatoll-
free number for a quit-line.
India has also banned the sale of e-ciga-
rettes, andbannedsmokingin healthcarefa-
cilities and educational institutions. The re-
portrankstheimplementationof thesebans
an 8 out of 10 in healthcare facilities, 6 in
schools, and 5 in universities.
sub-categorised central list is prepared”.
Thus, on January 22, 2020, a fourth item
wasaddedtoitstermsof reference:“Tostudy
the variousentries in theCentral List of OBCs
and recommend correction of any repeti-
tions, ambiguities, inconsistencies and er-
rors of spelling or transcription.”
One of the prominent members of the
commission, Jitendra Bajaj, was appointed
chairperson of the Indian Council of Social
Science Research (ICSSR) in May last year.
How did the work of the Commission
proceed?
The commission noted the absence of
data on the population of variouscommuni-
ties to compare with their representation in
jobs and admissions. It wrote to the govern-
ment on December 12, 2018, asking for a
budgetaryprovisionforanall-Indiasurveyto
estimate the population of the variousOBCs.
However, on March 7, 2019, just three
days before the schedule for the Lok Sabha
elections was announced, Justice Rohini
What about the appointment of the
chairperson of the Board?
The Bill seeks to take away the power of
appointment of the Chairperson from the
Board,andtoinsteadmaketheChairperson
a nominee of the President (and therefore,
the Centre).
Section 10(2)(a) of the existing (2017)
Act says the Board of each Institute shall
have “a Chairperson from amongst emi-
nent persons distinguished in the field of
industrial education or science or technol-
ogy or management or public administra-
tion or such other field, to be appointed by
the Board”.
TheamendmentBillsaysthatinSection
10(2)(a), the words “to be appointed by the
Board” shall be replaced by the words “to
be nominated by the Visitor”.
What powers of audit and inquiry does
the Bill envisage for the Visitor?
It is proposed that “the Visitor may ap-
point one or more persons to review the
work and progress of any Institute and to
hold inquiries into the affairs thereof and
to report thereon in such manner as the
Visitor may direct.”
Basedon these reports, “theVisitormay
take such action and issue such directions
as he considers necessary in respect of any
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What do experts say?
One of the biggest steps in the works is
implementing warnings on OTT platform
content when actors are seen using tobacco
products.
“This would make India the first country
intheworldtodoso.Anditisneeded.During
the pandemic, there was a huge increase in
the number of people subscribing to OTT
platforms. This content is also readily avail-
able to children, which means the warnings
have to reach them too,” said Binoy Mathew,
expert in tobacco regulation from the
Voluntary Health Association of India.
He said India already has a comprehen-
sive law on tobacco control, but some
amendments are needed in the 20-year-old
legislation. “There is a need to ban the loose
sale of cigarettes. Many people, especially
college students, buy one or two cigarettes
instead of the whole pack that might cost
Rs350-400.Thismeanstheyarenotexposed
to the health warning and quit-line at all,” he
pointed out.
wrote to the government, saying “We have
now decided not to undertake such a survey
at this stage.”
In its July 2019 communication, the com-
mission informed the government that it
was readywithadraft report.However,after
the fourth term of reference was added, the
commission began to study the list of com-
munities in the Central List of OBCs.
Sources had said earlier that there was a
suggestion that the commission should use
datafromthe2011SocioEconomicandCaste
Census (SECC) of the Rural Development
Ministry,butthese datawere notconsidered
reliable.
On August 31, 2018, then Home Minister
Rajnath Singh had announced that Census
2021 would also collect data for OBCs. But
the census was delayed by the pandemic,
and the government has not said when it
might be conducted.
Meanwhile, OBC groups and almost all
political parties barring the BJP central lead-
ership have stepped up the demand for a
caste census. In Bihar, even the BJP has
backed the move — the Bihar legislature has
twice unanimously passed resolutions call-
ing for a caste census.
What studies did the commission carry
out?
In 2018, the commission analysed data
on 1.3 lakh central government jobs under
the OBC quota over the preceding five years,
and OBC admissions to central higher edu-
cation institutions, including universities,
IITs, NITs, IIMs and AIIMS, over the preced-
ing three years.
The analysis showed that 97% of all jobs
and education seats had gone to 25% of OBC
castes,and24.95%of thesejobsandseatshad
gonetojust10OBCcommunities.Asmanyas
983 OBC communities — 37% of the total —
were found to have zero representation in
jobs and educational institutions, and 994
OBC sub-castes had a representation of only
2.68% in recruitments and admissions.
However, this analysissufferedfromlim-
itations due to the absence of updated pop-
ulation data.
of the matters dealt with in the report and
the Institute shall be bound to comply with
such directions”.
What is the upshot of all this with
regard to the autonomy of IIMs?
TheBillrepresentsthegovernment’sre-
thinkontheautonomyof IIMs.Overthelast
four years, the government and the IIMs
havebeenatloggerheadsonseveralkeyap-
pointments.
For example, the Director of IIM
Rohtak, Dheeraj Sharma, was given a sec-
ond term by the institute’s Board of
Governors despite objections from the
government.
The government had cleared the ap-
pointment for the first term in February
2017, but had objected to a second term af-
ter it emerged that the first term was ille-
gal, given that Sharma didn’t have the re-
quiredacademiccredentials.Theinstitute’s
Board went ahead anyway.
Earlier in 2019, former Gujarat IPS offi-
cer Rajnish Rai was appointed assistant
professor at IIM-A. The Ministry of HRD (as
the Education Ministry was then known)
had written to IIM-A, asking why Rai had
been appointed when he was under sus-
pension, but the institute had defended the
appointment.

15 ECONOMY
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2023
Manufacturing THIRD HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE GST ROLLOUT
activity eases
for 2nd month
in July: PMI
PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA
NEWDELHI,AUGUST1
MANUFACTURINGSECTORactiv-
ities in India moderated for the
second straight month in July as
rates of expansion in output and
new orders eased slightly, a
monthly survey said on Tuesday.
The seasonally adjusted S&P
Global India Manufacturing
PurchasingManagers’Index(PMI)
eased to 57.7 in July from 57.8 in
June. Despite the fall, the Indian
manufacturingsectormaintained
stronggrowthmomentumatthe
startofthethirdquarteramidon-
going buoyant demand, the sur-
veysaid.TheJulyPMIdatapointed
to an improvement in overall op-
erating conditions for the 25th
straightmonth.InPMIparlance,a
print above 50 means expansion
while a score below 50 indicates
contraction.
“The Indian manufacturing
sectorshowedlittlesignof losing
growthmomentuminJulyaspro-
duction lines continued to motor
on the back of strong new order
growth,” said Andrew Harker,
EconomicsDirectoratS&PGlobal
Market Intelligence. Expansion
rate in output and new orders
wereonlymarginallysofter,with
firms expanding their employ-
ment and purchasing activity.
Why has India’s gold demand 88% of `2,000 banknotes in circulation returned to banks: RBI
declined in April-June quarter?
HITESH VYAS
MUMBAI, AUGUST 1
INDIA’S GOLD demand dropped
by 7 per cent to 158.1 tonnes in
the April-June quarter of 2023
from 170.7 tonnes in the same
quarter of the previous year. The
decline was seen both in de-
mand for jewellery and invest-
ments during the period. The
quarter also witnessed a slow-
down in buying from central
banks, including the Reserve
Bank of India (RBI).
How much has gold demand
fallen in India in the April-
June?
In the second quarter (April-
June) of 2023, the demand for
gold in India stood at 158.1
tonnes, a fall of 7 per cent when
compared with the overall de-
mand at 170.7 tonnes in the
sameperiodof thepreviousyear,
according to a report by the
World Gold Council (WGC). The
golddemandvalueinQ2of 2023
was Rs 82,530 crore, an increase
BRIEFLY
GSTCouncilto
meettoday
NewDelhi:TheGSTCouncil
in its meeting on
Wednesday is likely to fi-
nalise the modalities for
determination of supply
valueinonlinegamingand
casinos for levying 28 per
cent tax. PTI
Record6.77cr
ITRsforAY24
NewDelhi:Theincometax
department on Monday
said arecord6.77crorein-
cometaxreturnsfortheas-
sessment year 2023-24
were filed till July 31. PTI
Petroldemand
risesinJuly
New Delhi: India’s petrol
consumption rose in July,
butdieseldemandfellow-
ing to monsoon rains and
floodsinsomepartsof the
country, data showed on
Tuesday. PTI
GST:Offshore
gamingapps
New Delhi: The finance
ministry on Tuesday said
there are sufficient en-
forcement provisions in
GST laws to take action
against offshore gaming
platforms,whichdefaultin
paying taxes. PTI
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GST collection rises 11%
to `1.65 lakh crore in July
ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1
GROSS GOODS and Services Tax
(GST) collections grew 10.8 per
cent to Rs 1.65 lakh crore in July,
marking the third highest level
since the rollout of the indirect
tax regime in July 2017 and
crossing the Rs 1.6 lakh crore
mark for the fifth time since the
rollout.
GST revenue collected last
month was Rs 1,65,105 crore of
which Central GST -- the tax
levied on intra-state supplies of
goods and services by the
Centre -- was Rs 29,773 crore,
State GST -- the tax levied on in-
tra-state supplies of goods and
services by the states -- was Rs
37,623 crore, Integrated GST --
the tax levied on all inter-state
supplies of goods and services -
- was Rs 85,930 crore (includ-
ing Rs 41,239 crore collected on
import of goods) and cess was
Rs 11,779 crore (including Rs
840 crore collected on import of
goods).
Revenues for the month
were 10.8 per cent higher than
the GST revenues in the same
of 4 per cent in comparison with
Rs 79,270 crore in the April-June
period of 2022. Total jewellery
demand in the country dropped
by 8 per cent to 128.6 tonnes
from 140.3 tonnes. The value of
jewellery demand wasRs67,120
crore, up 3 per cent from Rs
65,140 crore in Q2 2022.
The investment demand for
gold, which is driven by safe-
haven appeal and the ability to
E
convert into jewellery at a later
stage, dipped to 29.5
tonnes in the period
EXPLAINED
compared with 30.4
tonnes in the year-ago
period. In value terms,
gold investment de-
mand was Rs 15,410
crore, up by 9 per cent from Q2
2022 (Rs 14,140 crore).
What led to this slowdown in
demand?
AccordingtoWGC’sRegional
CEO (India) Somasundaram PR,
thedemandforgoldjewelleryin
Indiadroppedduetotheprevail-
ing record high rupee gold
prices, which significantly im-
Byju’s, Aakash Akasa Air adds 20th
promoters tiff aircraft to its fleet
may take a
legal turn
SWARAJ
BAGGONKAR
SAMEERRANJANBAKSHI
BENGALURU,AUGUST1
THE DISPUTE between Byju
Raveendranandthepromotersof
Aakash Educational Services
(AESL) over the latter’s refusal to
swap their equity holding in the
thefirmwithThink&Learn(TLPL)
– the parent firm of Byju’s – may
be headed for litigation.
Sources told Fe that TLPL, has
sentalegalnoticetotheChaudhry
family, the promoters of Aakash
overtheirreluctancetocomplete
the share swap. Sources close to
Byju’s maintain that the share
swapwasunconditionallyagreed
upon,soanyrenegingamountsto
contractual violation. FE
Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai record
single-digit sales growth in July
PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA
NEWDELHI,AUGUST1
MARUTI SUZUKI India and
Hyundaireportedsingle-digit
sales growth in July with the
sportsutilitysegmentcontin-
uing to drive overall demand
in the market.
Mahindra & Mahindra
witnessed a 29 per cent in-
crease in passenger vehicle
dispatcheswhileTataMotors
sawamarginalincreaseinthe
wholesales last month.
TRENDS IN GST COLLECTION (RS IN CRORE)
■ GSTcollectioninFY23 ■ GSTcollectioninFY24
187035
167540
165105
161497
157090
148995
140885
144616
143612
Aug NA
April
May
June
July
Source: Ministry of Finance
month last year, the finance
ministry said in a statement.
During the month, revenues
from domestic transactions (in-
cluding import of services)
were 15 per cent higher than
revenues from these sources
during the same month last
year. It is for the fifth time, gross
GST collection has crossed Rs
1.60 lakh crore mark, the min-
istry added. In June, the GST col-
lection was Rs 1,61,497 crore.
“The progressive reduction
in the e-invoicing turnover lim-
its accompanied by the large in-
crease in the number of state-
wise GST audits has led to all
businesses becoming more GST
pacted affordability and con-
sumer sentiments.
In Q2 2023, the average gold
priceincreasedbycloseto12per
cent at around Rs 52,191 per 10
grams (excluding duties and
taxes) from Rs 46,430 per 10
grams in the same period of
2022. In January-March 2023,
the average gold price was Rs
49,977 per 10 grams.
How much gold has the RBI
bought in April-
June?
In April-June 2023,
the RBI bought 10
tonnes of gold com-
● pared to 15 tonnes in
Q2 of 2022. At the end
of June 2023, the RBI’s gold re-
serves stood at 797.4 tonnes.
The report said following a
record-breaking start in Q1
2023, central bank gold demand
slowed significantly in Q2. The
slower demand was primarily
driven by netsales in Turkey due
to its political and economic cir-
cumstances. FULLREPORTON
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MUMBAI, AUGUST 1
ONAUGUST7,2022,Akasa
Air’s maiden flight from
Mumbai to Ahmedabad
was launched by its late
founder and billionaire in-
vestor Rakesh
Jhunjhunwala at his last
public event.
Jhunjhunwala report-
edlyinvestedRs247.5crore
for a 46 per cent stake in
the airline.
In less than a year with
the induction of the 20th
aircraft into its fleet on
Tuesday, the airline is one
stepclosertoitsambitious
plan of starting interna-
tional operations – some-
MarutiSuzukionTuesday
saiditstotaldomesticpassen-
ger vehicle sales stood at
1,52,126 units last month as
comparedto1,42,850unitsin
theyear-agomonth,agrowth
of 6 per cent.
Utilityvehicles,consisting
ofBrezza,Ertiga,Fronx,Grand
Vitara,JimnyandXL6,clocked
sales of 62,049 units last
month, a two-fold jump as
against 23,272 units dis-
patched in the year-ago pe-
riod. The company led the
SUV space last month with
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compliant leading to increas-
ingly stable GST collections
month after month,” MS Mani,
Partner, Deloitte India, said.
Revenues from domestic
transactions (including import
of services) are 15 per cent
higher on-year in July of the
current financial year.
In July, the government set-
tled Rs 39,785 crore to Central
GST and Rs 33,188 crore to State
GST from Integrated GST.
As a result, the total revenue
for the month post settlement
was Rs 69,558 crore for the
Centre and Rs 70,811 crore for
State GST.
“There is a clear divergence
ENSECONOMICBUREAU
MUMBAI,AUGUST1
ALMOST TWO-and-a-half
months after it announced with-
drawal of Rs 2,000 banknotes
fromcirculation,theReserveBank
of India (RBI) on Tuesday said Rs
Nirma, two others in race to buy
Glenmark Life; may cost ` 7,000 cr
GEORGEMATHEW
MUMBAI,AUGUST1
THREE BIDDERS – Patelasaone-manoperation
ChrysCapital, Nirma and
Sekhmat Pharmaventures –
have made offers to acquire
GlenmarkLifeSciences,ama-
jor player in the active phar-
maceuticals ingredient (API)
manufacturer in the country.
The acquisition is ex-
pected to cost around Rs
6,500-7,000croreforthesuc-
cessful bidder, banking
sourcessaid.Thebiddingisfor
the 82.5 per cent stake from
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals,
Akasa’s 20th aircraft in
Bengaluru. Akasa Air
thingitplanstocommence
by the end of this year.
In a statement, Vinay
Dube, Founder, and Chief
Executive Officer of Akasa
Airsaid,“Today’slandmark
addition to our fleet her-
alds the international
chapter of growth in
Akasa’sstoryandmakesus
extremelyoptimisticabout
our future.” FE
sales volume of 46,620 units.
The segment accounted for
49.1 per cent of the overall
passenger vehicle sales.
However, Maruti Suzuki
saw sales of mini segment
cars, comprising Alto and S-
Presso, dip to 9,590 units last
monthasagainst20,333units
in July 2022.
Sales of compact cars, in-
cludingBaleno,Celerio,Dzire,
Ignis, and Swift, fell 21 per
cent to 67,102 units as com-
pared to 84,818 units in the
year-ago period.
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GOLD USD RATE OIL SILVER
`60,430 `82.26 $85.66 `77,100
Note: Gold, silver rates at Delhi spot market, gold per 10g, silver per 1 kg; Crude oil (Indian basket) as of July 31
International market data till 1900 IST
Touching a record high,
Urals volumes boost India’s
Russian oil imports in July
lappeduptheopportunity,snap-
SUKALP SHARMA ping up the discounted barrels
between revenues on collec- NEW DELHI, AUGUST 1 in huge quantities, resulting in
tions on account of domestic
transactions (including imports AFTER FALLING sequentially in
Russia emerging as India’s
largest source of crude. From a
of services) and that on account June, India’s Russian oil imports share of less than 2 per cent in
of imported goods, with the lat- inJulyrecoveredtoalmosttouch India’s oil imports prior to the
ter averaging at just 0.8 per cent the all-time high level of 1.93 war in Ukraine, Russian crude
YoY during April-July 2023, re- million barrels per day (bpd) now accounts for over 40 per
flecting the compression in seen in May, thanks to a jump in cent of Delhi’s oil import pie.
merchandise imports,” Icra import volumes of Moscow’s “With Russia cutting crude
chief economist Aditi Nayar flagship Urals crude, datashared production and ramping up its
File
said. by energy cargo tracker Vortexa refinery runs to meet domestic
NA
“This divergence is set to showed. demand, thecountry’s crude ex-
continue owing to the expecta- Going ahead, however, im- large suppliers--Iraq, Saudi ports have expectedly reduced.
tion of a contraction in mer- ports of Russian oil by Indian re- Arabia, the United Arab Exports in July are down by al-
chandise imports in FY2024.” finers could see some modera- Emirates, and the United states. most650,000bpdfromthepeak
“As per our analysis, GST col- tionduetovariousfactors,which Urals, which is a medium- seen in April/May,” said Serena
lections need to exceed Rs 1.65 include export cuts by Russia sour crude, has been the main- Huang, head of Asia-Pacific
trillion/month in the remaining and higher demand from stay of India’s Russian oil pur- analysis at Vortexa. Huang ex-
eight months of this fiscal to Russianrefineries,erosionindis- chases. However, its price pects Russia’s crude exports to
meet the FY2024 target for counts offered by Moscow on its recently breached the price cap decline more in August if its do-
CGST revenues of Rs 8.1 trillion, oil, and Urals breaching the G7 imposedbyG7countriesandthe mestic refiners further ramp up
which seems realistic,” Nayar price cap of $60 per barrel. discounts being offered by production.
added. In July, Russian oil imported Russian oil exporters have It is worth noting that
The latest GST data takes the by Indian refiners rose 5.3 per eroded substantially, which Russian oil usually takes about a
average monthly collection in cent over June to 1.92 million could have a bearing on India- month to be delivered to India,
2023-24 to Rs 1.68 lakh crore. bpd. Of this, Urals alone ac- Russia oil trade, which has been which means that the impact of
Monthly GST collections have countedfor83.3percent.Import booming since Moscow’s afallorincreaseinRussianoilex-
risen over the years. of Urals crude rose 17.9 per cent February 2022 invasion of ports reflects about a month
From averaging under Rs 1 sequentially in July to 1.60 mil- Ukraine. later in India’s oil imports.
lakh crore per month in 2017- lion bpd. Russian oil accounted Russia began offering deep Therefore, lower exports in July
18 - its first year - collections for 41.9 per centof India’soverall discounts on its oil exports as would only reflect in India’s oil
rose rapidly after the pandemic- oilimportsof 4.58 million bpdin major Western economies importsinAugustandevenearly
hit 20202-21 to average Rs 1.51 July,anddwarfedthecumulative started weaning themselves off September. FULLREPORTON
lakh crore in 2022-23. volumes of at least the next four Moscow’s crude. Indian refiners www.indianexpress.com
3.14 lakh crore, or 88 per cent, of notes has been set as September 0.42 lakh crore. Thus, 88 per cent changedintootherdenomination
these notes, have returned to the
banking system.
Thetotalvalueof theRs2,000
30, 2023.
The RBI said as per the data
providedbybanks,thetotalvalue
of the Rs 2,000 banknotes in cir-
culationasonMay19,2023,have
since been returned,” the central
banknotes, it said.
The RBI has urged the public
to utilise the next two months to
banknotes in circulation as on ofthesenotesreceivedwasRs3.14 bank said in a release. depositorexchangeRs2,000ban-
May 19, 2023, when the RBI an- lakh crore up to July 31, 2023. Of the total banknotes re- knotes to avoid any last-minute
nounced to withdraw the notes, “Consequently, Rs 2,000 ban- ceived, about 87 per cent is in the rush before the September 30
was Rs 3.56 lakh crore. The dead- knotesincirculationasattheclose form of deposits and the remain- deadline. FULLREPORTON
line to deposit or exchange these of business on July 31 stood at Rs ing 13 per cent has been ex- www.indianexpress.com
HINDUSTAN PETROLEUM CORPORATION LIMITED
(A Maharatna Company)
Regd. Office: Petroleum House, 17, Jamshedji Tata Road,
Churchgate, Mumbai – 400 020
CIN: L23201MH1952GOI008858 Tel.: 022-22863900 Extn. 3201/3204
controlled by the Saldanha panies in multiple countries. Email ID: hpclinvestors@mail.hpcl.co.in Website: www.hindustanpetroleum.com
family. While sources said The company was listed in NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
Nirma – promoted by August 2021 after a Rs 1,500
TRANSFER OF EQUITY SHARES TO INVESTOR EDUCATION & PROTECTION FUND
Gujarat-based Karsanbhai crore plus IPO. Notice is given pursuant to the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 read with the Investor Education
Nirma, which was origi- and Protection Fund Authority (Accounting, Audit, Transfer and Refund) Rules, 2016 (“the
in 1969 -- is almost the fron- nally in the detergent seg- Rules”) as notified and amended by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, New Delhi.
trunnerforthestake,thefinal ment, bought the Emami The Rules, inter alia, provide for transfer of all shares in respect of which dividend has remained
unclaimed by the shareholders for seven consecutive years or more, to the Investor Education and
chapteronthestakesaleisnot Group’s cement business,
Protection Fund (IEPF) set up by the Central Government. Accordingly, individual communications
yet written. with 8.3 million tonnes per were sent to the latest available address of those shareholders whose shares are liable to be transferred
Five bidders were in the annum capacity, for $ 770 in to IEPF Authority under the said Rules as they have not claimed the dividend for the year 2015-16
race earlier which reported a 2020 and subsequently re- (Final) and all other dividends declared by the Company for 7 consecutive years thereafter.
turnoverofRs2,161croreand named it as Nuvoco Vistas. The company has uploaded the details of all unclaimed dividends including the dividend / shares of
anetprofitof Rs466.96crore Nirma bought the cement 2015-16 (Final) due for transfer to IEPF Authority on its website - https://www.hindustanpetroleum.com/
pages/Unclaimed-Dividend
for the year ended March unitof Lafargefor$1.4billion
View above, shareholders are requested to verify and claim the unpaid dividend for the year 2015-16
2023. in 2016. Nirma made a total
(Final) (which is due for IEPF transfer in October 2023) immediately, but not later than September 07,
Glenmark Life has 137 incomeof Rs8,685croreona 2023 before the same is transferred to the IEPF Authority along with shares and also the unclaimed
APIsinitsportfolioanditsup- standalone basis. dividends of other years. It may please be noted that if no claim/application is received by the
plies these ingredients to FULLREPORT ON Company or the Registrar and Transfer Agents (RTA) by September 07, 2023, the Company
morethan700pharmacom- www.indianexpress.com shall with a view to complying with the requirements set out in the Rules, dematerialise and
transfer the underlying shares to the IEPF Authority by following the due process as
enumerated in the said Rules which is briefly as under:
Tender No : 134,135/SE/PHC/ TSR/2023-24
i) In case of shares held in physical form - by issuance of duplicate share certificate and
transfer the same to IEPF Authority. Upon such transfer, the original share certificate(s) lying
with the shareholder will stand automatically cancelled and deemed non-negotiable.
1. JJM - Construction of 33 MLD WTP at Mudavannur (Thrithala) 2. RWPM from
Thrithala pumping station to mudavannur WTP, Interconnection work, Construction ii) In case of shares held in demat mode - by issuance of instruction to member’s DP to
transfer the shares directly to IEPF Authority.
of pumphouse, operators room and toilet, Supplying and laying leading pipe from
well to collection chamber. EMD : Rs. 5,00,000 /-, Tender fee : Kindly note that all future benefits, dividends arising on such shares would also be transferred to IEPF
Rs. 17700/-, Last Date for submitting Tender : 14-08-2023 03:00:pm Phone :
Authority. It may also be noted that as per the present rules, the shares transferred to IEPF Authority,
0487 - 2423230, Website : www.kwa.kerala.gov.in, www.etenders.kerala.gov.in
Superintending Engineer
including all benefits accruing on such shares, if any, can be claimed back from the IEPF Authority after
PH Circle following the procedure prescribed under the said Rules.
KWA-JB-GL-6-913-2023-24 Thrissur Shareholders are therefore requested to note the aforesaid provisions and submit the claim for unpaid
dividends to Company’s RTA, M/s. Link Intime India Pvt. Ltd. Unit: Hindustan Petroleum
Corporation Ltd., C-101, 247 Park, L.B.S Marg, Vikhroli (W), Mumbai – 400 083. Tel No. 022-49186270,
E-mail: rnt.helpdesk@linkintime.co.in
Meanwhile, SEBI has made updation of KYC details (Email/Address/PAN/Mobile/Bank/Signature/
Nomination etc.) mandatory. We appeal to the shareholders to update the same, if not already done,
through the Depository Participants (Demat) / RTA (Physical). Updation of Email address will facilitate
receipt of all future communications relating to Annual Reports, Dividend etc.
For Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
Place : Mumbai
Date : August 01, 2023
sd/-
V. Murali
Company Secretary
NOTICE INVITING E-
TENDER E-tender No.
ETC/MU/T-24/2023-24 is
invited for construction of 01 No.
Tower & Stringing of IInd Circuit of D/C
Towers of 132 KV Nanauta-Shamli Shyamla
line and 132 KV Shamli Shyamla-Jhinjhana
Line in order to connect 132 KV S/S Jhinjhana
to 220 KV S/S Nanauta under ETD Shamli. E-
tender is being uploaded
www.etender.up.nic.in. Estimated cost of
on
work: Rs. 114.77 Lacs only(Excluding GST).
EMD cost Rs. 115000.00 Cost of tender
documents including GST : Rs. 1770/-
Scheduled date & time of submission of bid :
Up to 04.09.2023 by 17:00 Hrs., Scheduled
date and time of opening of Part-I : 05.09.2023
at 12:00 Hrs. Opening of Part-II of the tender
shall be intimated through E-Portal. For
Detailed information, please
website www.etender.up.nic.in for any
visit
corrections/amendments/ modifications/
extensions till the date of submission of tender
and thereafter. (Manoj Kumar Agrahari)
Superintending Engineer Electricity
Transmission Circle Muzaffarnagar “Save
Electricity in the interest of the Nation”
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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2023
TOPOFTHE
WORLD
Angus Cloud
UNITED STATES
‘Euphoria’star
AngusCloud
diesat25
New York: Angus Cloud,
cast member of the HBO
teen drama series
‘Euphoria’, died on
Monday at age 25 just
days after the death of his
father, his family said in a
statement. Cloud played
Fezco, an intense drug
dealer with a moral code,
in the series starring
Zendayaintheleadroleof
Rue Bennett. No specific
cause of death was re-
ported but the family
statementsaidhehadsuf-
fered from mental health
issuesandwashithardby
thedeathof hisfather,de-
scribed as his “best
friend,” who was buried
last week. REUTERS
UNITED KINGDOM
ChetnaMaroo’s
novelonBooker
Prizelonglist
London: London-based
Indian-origin author
Chetna Maroo's debut
novel ‘Western Lane' is
among 13 books to make
the cut for the 2023
Booker Prize longlist re-
vealed on Tuesday.
Kenya-born Maroo's
novel, set within the con-
textof theBritishGujarati
milieu, has been praised
by the Booker judges for
its use of the sport of
squash as a metaphor for
complex human emo-
tions. It revolves around
the story of an 11-year-
old girl named Gopi and
her bonds with her fam-
ily.The2023 BookerPrize
winner will be an-
nounced on November
26 at an award ceremony
in London. PTI
NIGER
France,Italy,
Spainevacuate
citizens
Paris: France, Italy and
Spain prepared to evacu-
ate hundreds of their cit-
izens from Niger on
Tuesday, a day after
neighbours Mali and
Burkina Faso said any
outside intervention to
restore the ousted gov-
ernment would be seen
as a declaration of war. A
military junta overthrew
Niger’s elected President
Mohamed Bazoum last
Wednesday in the sev-
enth military takeover in
less than 3 years in West
and Central Africa. AP
UNITED STATES
Xsuesnonprofit
thatflags
hatespeech
New York: Social media
platform X, formerly
known as Twitter,
Monday sued a nonprofit
that fights hate speech
and disinformation, ac-
cusing it of asserting false
claims and encouraging
advertisers to pause in-
vestmentontheplatform.
USmediareportedearlier
that X, owned by Elon
Musk, had sent a letter to
theCenterforCountering
Digital Hate (CCDH) and
threatened to sue the
non-profit. In response,
lawyers for the CCDH ac-
cused X of “intimidating
those who have the
courage to advocate
against incitement, hate
speech and harmful con-
tent online.” REUTERS
‘MORE WAR’ IS COMING TO MOSCOW: UKRAINIAN OFFICIAL
Drone hits tower housing Russian
ministries for 2nd time in 3 days
REUTERS
MOSCOW, AUGUST 1
A HIGH-RISE building in
Moscow's business district that
houses three Russian govern-
ment ministries was struck by a
droneforthesecondtimeinthree
days on Tuesday, in what Russia
called an attempted Ukrainian
“terrorist attack”. A Ukrainian
presidentialadvisersaidMoscow
shouldexpectmoredroneattacks
and “more war”.
The building that was hit is
known as the ‘IQ quarter’, which
houses the ministry of economic
development,thedigitalministry
and the ministry of industry and
trade. Moscow has come under
repeateddroneattackssinceearly
May. “Indeed, a threat exists, it is
obvious, but measures are being
taken," Kremlin spokesman
Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
“Moscow is rapidly getting
used to a full-fledged war,"
Ukrainian presidential adviser
Mykhailo Podolyak wrote on X.
He said Russia should expect
“moreunidentifieddrones,more
collapse, more civil conflicts,
more war”. Russia's defence
ministry said itthwartedattacks
by Ukrainian drones on its navy
and civilian ships in the Black
Sea,andalocalgovernorsaidau-
thorities had also downed a
drone over the Crimean city of
Sevastopol. Kyiv denied that it
had attacked civilian ships.
Man fired ‘for talking
to dying relative in
Hindi’, sues US firm
PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA
WASHINGTON, AUGUST 1
A78-YEAR-OLDIndian-American
engineerwasfiredfromhislong-
time job with a missile defence
contractor in the US state of
Alabama for speaking in Hindi
with his dying relative in India
over a video call, a media report
quoted a lawsuit filed by him.
Anil Varshney, a Senior
SystemsEngineerwithHuntsville
missile defence contractor
Parsons Corporation, recently
filedafederallawsuitallegingsys-
temicdiscriminatoryactionsthat
left him jobless in October last
year.
A white co-worker heard
Varshney speaking in Hindi on a
telephone call with his dying
brother-in-law in India, AL.COM
reported on Monday.
Varshney on September 26,
2022 “received a video call from
his elderly brother-in-law KC
Junta grants pardon to
Suu Kyi in 5 of 19 offences
Naypyidaw: Myanmar’s ruling
military pardoned on Tuesday
jailed former leader Aung San
Suu Kyi on five of the 19 offences
for which she was convicted but
she will remain under house ar-
rest, state media said.
The pardons mean six years
will be shaved off Suu Kyi's 33-
year jail term, junta spokesper-
son Zaw Min Tun said, adding
that it was part of an amnesty
ANTHROPOLOGISTS FIND THAT WOMEN IN MODERN FORAGING SOCIETIES HAVE PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN CATCHING GAME
Move over, men: Hunting 14,000 years ago was gender-neutral
KATRINA MILLER
AUGUST 1
IT’S OFTEN viewed as a given:
Men hunted, women gathered.
After all, the anthropological rea-
soningwent,menwerenaturally
more aggressive, whereas the
slowerpaceofgatheringwasideal
for women, who were mainly fo-
cused on caretaking.
“It’s not something I ques-
tioned,”saidSophiaChilczuk,are-
cent graduate of Seattle Pacific
University,whereshestudiedap-
pliedhumanbiology.Attimes,the
notion has proved stronger than
the evidence at hand. In 1963, ar-
Investigators examine an area near a damaged building in Moscow City business district
after a reported drone attack in the Russian capital on Tuesday. AP
E
E X P L A I NE D
Disquiet
among
● companies
THERE ARE signs that the
incidents are causing dis-
quiet among Russian busi-
nesses.Afterthefirstdrone
hitMoskva-CitionSunday,
techcompanyYandexsent
amemotostaffinstructing
them not to be in office at
night and to “take care”.
Gupta, [who] was on his
deathbed in India and called to
say goodbye to Varshney".
“Knowing the dire situation and
that he may never have the op-
portunity to speak to (Gupta)
again, Varshney stepped into an
empty cubicle and accepted the
call,” the suit said.
“Beforedoingso,hemadesure
therewerenoclassifiedmaterials
or anything else pertaining to
MDA’s (Missile Defence Agency)
or Parsons’ work anywhere near
him,”saidthelawsuit,whichalso
namesSecretaryofDefenceLloyd
J.Austinaslegalrepresentativefor
the MDA. The two spoke for ap-
proximatelytwominutesinHindi
whenanotherworkerinterrupted
Varshney and asked whether he
wasonavideocall,whichhecon-
firmed. “Despite there being no
policy prohibiting the call, and
withoutanyinvestigation,thede-
fendantsclaimedVarshneycom-
mittedaserioussecurityviolation
and fired him,” it said.
Aung San
Suu Kyi
under which over 7,000 prison-
ers were freed. Myanmar has
been in the throes of bloody tur-
moil since early 2021, when the
military overthrew Suu Kyi's
elected government. REUTERS
chaeologists in Colorado un-
earthed the nearly 10,000-year-
oldremainsofawomanwhohad
been buried with a projectile
point. They concluded that the
tool had been used not for killing
game but as a scraping knife.
Butthemale-centricnarrative
hasbeenslowlychanging.Onthe
firstdayofacollegeanthropology
course, Chilczuk and her class-
mateslistenedtoapodcastabout
the landmark discovery of a fe-
malehunterduringanexcavation
inPeruin2018.Amongfragments
of cranium, teeth and leg bones,
archaeologistsfoundahuntingkit
with more tools — projectile
points, flakes, scrapers, choppers
Ukraine to use Croatian
ports for grain exports
REUTERS
KYIV,AUGUST1
UKRAINE AND Croatia have
agreed on the possibility of us-
ingCroatianportsontheDanube
and the Adriatic Sea for the ex-
port of Ukrainian grain, Foreign
Minister Dmytro Kuleba said af-
ter talks with his Croatian coun-
Paul Reubens,
actor who
played Pee-wee
Herman, dies
REUTERS
AUGUST 1
PAUL REUBENS, the actor who
played Pee-wee Herman, a
nerdycharacterwhoworeagray
suit and red bowtie while de-
lightingchildrenandadultsalike
with his distinctive “heh heh
heh” laugh, has died, a post on
his Instagram account said on
Monday.
Reubens, 70, died after a
years-long battle with cancer.
“A gifted and prolific talent,
he will forever live in the com-
edy pantheon and in our hearts
as a treasured friend and man of
remarkable character and gen-
erosity of spirit,” the post said.
In a message to his fans that
he wrote before he died,
Reubens said that he apologised
for not going public with his six-
year battle with cancer.
Hiscareerderailedin1991af-
ter Reubens was arrested on
charges of indecent exposure at
an adult movie theater. He
pleaded no contest and served
75 hours of community service.
In 2004, Reubens pleaded
guilty to a misdemeanor charge
of possessing obscene material
in Los Angeles. He was sen-
tenced to three years of proba-
tion.
Paul Reubens
Excavations at the Wilamaya Patjxa archaeological site in
Peru, where the nearly 10,000-year-old remains of a female
hunter was found in 2018. Randall Haas/NYT
terpart on Monday. Russia quit
the U.N.-brokered Black Sea
grain deal this month, depriving
Ukraine of a vital conduit to
safely export its agricultural
products.
“We will work to establish
themostefficientroutestothese
ports and make the most of this
opportunity,” Dmytro Kuleba
said.
AT LEAST 20 KILLED IN BEIJING FLOODS
A firefighter evacuates a baby following heavy rainfall in Fangshan district of Beijing, China. Days of unusually heavy rain
around Beijing flooded houses, torn apart roads and left at least 23 people dead and 27 missing. Reuters
4 Nigerians survived 14 days on ship rudder
REUTERS
SAO PAULO, AUGUST 1
ON THEIR tenth day at sea, the
four Nigerian stowaways cross-
ing the Atlantic in a tiny space
above the rudder of a cargo ship
ran out of food and drink.
They survived another four
days, according to their account,
by drinking the sea water crash-
ing just meters below them, be-
fore being rescued by Brazilian
federal police in the southeast-
ern port of Vitoria.
Their remarkable, death-de-
fying journey across some 5,600
kilometers (3,500 miles) of
ocean underlines the risks some
migrantsarepreparedtotakefor
NOT A MYSTERY ANYMORE
IT’S A PART OF INDIAN ROCKET
A mysterious cylindrical object found on a remote Australian beach this month is a
piece of debris from an Indian rocket, Australia’s space agency said. The object is in
storage, it said, noting that it was working with the ISRO to decide what to do next
War not an option,
ready to hold talks
with India: Pak PM
SAJJAD HUSSAIN
ISLAMABAD, AUGUST 1
PAKISTAN PRIME Minister
Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday of-
fered to hold talks with India to
addressallseriousandoutstand-
ing issues as he said that “war is
notanoption”forbothcountries
as they fight poverty and unem-
ployment.
Sharif made the remarks
while addressing the inaugural
session of the Pakistan Minerals
Summit here. The meeting, or-
ganised under the slogan of
‘Dust to Development’, aimed at
bringing foreign investment to
the cash-strapped country.
“Wearepreparedtotalkwith
everyone, even with our neigh-
bour, provided that the neigh-
bour is serious to talk serious
mattersonthetablebecausewar
is no more an option,” the prime
minister said,in anapparentref-
erence to India.
Prime Minister Sharif’s com-
ments came amid continued
strain in ties between India and
Pakistan on a number of issues
includingIslamabad'scontinued
support to cross-border terror-
ism and the Kashmir issue.
India has also asserted that
JammuandKashmir“was,isand
will” always be part of the coun-
try. Sharif's remarks came as his
coalition government is getting
ready to face an election at the
completionof thefive-yearterm
of Parliament on August 12.
Nigerian migrants are rescued by Brazilian police as they sit
on the rudder of a ship after crossing the Atlantic. Reuters
a shot at a better life.
“It was a terrible experience
for me,” said 38-year-old
and burnishing stones — than
theyhadeverseen.Thisdiscovery
led the team to review the find-
ingsfromotherburialsintheearly
Americas;in2020theyconcluded
that big game hunting between
14,000 and 8,000 years ago was
gender-neutral.AbigailAnderson,
a physiology student who was
alsointheclass,wasstruckbythe
author’s references to the schol-
arly reluctance to associate
women with hunting materials. .
ChilczukandAndersonjoined
Cara Wall-Scheffler, a biological
anthropologist who taught their
course,andtwootherresearchers
—alsowomen—tofigurethisout.
Now,theteamhaspublishedalit-
Shehbaz Sharif
HesaidPakistan'snuclearca-
pability was for defensive pur-
poses and not for aggression.
‘Because if there is any nuclear
flashpoint, who will live to tell
what happened? So (war) is not
an option,” he said. Sharif em-
phasised that Pakistan was well
aware of the dark side of a nu-
clear conflict but India should
also realise it.
He also said that relations
would not become normal until
the “abnormalities” were re-
moved by addressing the unre-
solved issues.
“It is equally important that
ourneighbourhastounderstand
that we cannot become normal
neighboursunlessabnormalities
areremovedandunlessourseri-
ous issues are understood and
addressed through peaceful and
meaningful discussions,” the
Prime Minister said.
External Affairs Minister S
Jaishankar has said that it is not
possible for India to have nor-
mal relations with the neigh-
bouring country until the pol-
icy of cross-border terrorism is
abrogated. PTI
Thankgod Opemipo Matthew
Yeye, one of the four Nigerians,
in an interview at a Sao Paulo
erature review in PLoS One con-
cluding that in most modern for-
aging societies, women have
played a dominant role in bring-
ing home the game. Tales of fe-
male hunters existed, Dr. Wall-
Scheffler noted, “but compiling
andshowingthatit’snotananec-
dote, it’s a pattern, was what we
weretryingtodowiththispaper.”
To investigate, the team
combed through the Database of
Places, Languages, Culture and
Environment, a catalog of ethno-
graphies about human societies
in the 19th and 20th centuries,
and found 63 foraging societies
with firsthand reports on when,
how,andwhathuntingoccurred.
WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM
China will
always stand
firmly with
Pakistan: Xi
K J M VARMA
BEIJING, AUGUST 1
PRESIDENTXIJinpinghassought
to project an upbeat picture of
the impact of the CPEC projects
in Pakistan, saying the China-
funded venture is a “vivid testa-
ment” to their “ironclad friend-
ship” and vowed to stand firmly
with its all-weather ally.
China will continue to work
with Pakistan
to take their
strategic ties to
new heights, Xi
said as the two
countries cele-
brated the 10th
anniversary of
the launch of
the ambitious Xi Jinping
CPEC infra-
structure proj-
ects in Islamabad, a day after a
major suicide bombing took
place in the restive Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa province.
In his congratulatory mes-
sage to the 'Decade of China-
Pakistan Economic Corridor'
(CPEC) celebrations event held
in Islamabad on Monday, Xi said
the USD 60 billion CPEC infra-
structure programme is an "im-
portant pioneering project" of
theBeltandRoadInitiative(BRI).
The CPEC, which connects
Gwadar Port in Balochistan with
China's Xinjiang province, is op-
posed by India as it is being laid
through Pakistan-occupied
Kashmir. PTI
churchshelter.“Onboarditisnot
easy. I was shaking, so scared.
But I’m here.”
Their relief at being rescued
soon gave way to surprise.
The four men said they had
hoped to reach Europe and were
shocked to learn they had in fact
landed on the other side of the
Atlantic, in Brazil. Two of the
menhavesincebeenreturnedto
Nigeriaupontheirrequest,while
Yeye and Roman Ebimene
Friday, a 35-year-old from
Bayelsa state, have applied for
asylum in Brazil. “I pray the gov-
ernment of Brazil will have pity
on me,” said Friday, who had al-
ready attempted to flee Nigeria
by ship once before but was ar-
rested by authorities there.
Then the team sought out pat-
terns: whether women were
hunting at all.
Wall-Scheffler and her stu-
dents found evidence of women
hunting in 50 of the 63 societies
they studied; moreover, 87 per-
centofthatbehaviorwasdeliber-
ate.Incultureswherehuntingwas
the most important means of
finding food, women took an ac-
tive role 100 percent of the time.
They said women were more
flexible in their approaches to
hunting as they aged. “They have
differentstrategies,butthey’restill
alwaysgoingout,”Wall-Scheffler
said.Often,theoldestwomenpar-
ticipated the most. NYT
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I,Umesh Singh Gusain S/O Army I,MAMTA SACHDEVA,W/O. I, Sandeep S/o Raj Kumar R/o
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I, AKHILESH KUMAR
SAXENA,S/O.VIRENDRA KUMAR
SAXENA, R/O.474,5,GURU-
RAMDAS NAGAR,DELHI-
110092,MY NAME AKHILESH
KUMAR & FATHER-NAME
BEERENDRA KUMAR & MOTHER
NAME MAMTA RANI IN MY
SCHOOL-CERTIFICATE
INCORRECT,BUT CORRECT
NAME AKHILESH KUMAR
SAXENA,S/O-VIRENDRA KUMAR
SAXENA & MOTHER NAME
MAMTA SAXENA ON MY
AADHAR-CARD,BOTH ARE
NAME THE SAME PERSON,IN
FUTURE MY NAME SHALL BE
KNOWN AS AKHILESH KUMAR
SAXENA,FOR ALL PURPOSE.
0040680751-11
I Uday Shankar S/o Kavilas Sah
R/o Village Bajitpur, Post
Bajitpur, Bahuara, East
Champaran, Bihar-845420,
have changed my name to Raj
Kumar Sah 0070856177-1
I Pawan Kumar Sharma S/o-
Bhagwan Dass Sharma R/o-
Flat No.246, Pocket-6, Sector-
23,Rohini Delhi-85 have
changed my-name to Pawan
Sharma for all-purposes.
0040680675-1
I Nitin Kapoor S/o Sh. Manjeet
Kumar Kapoor R/o H.No.30,
Road No.56, Punjabi Bagh West,
Delhi-110026 have changed my
name to Nitinn Kapoor for all
purposes. 0040680674-9
I Mukhtyar Singh Dagar S/o
Bhim Singh R/o 250, Sector-10,
Gurgaon-122001(Haryana)
have changed my name to
Mukhtyar Singh for all
purposes 0070856168-1
I Monica Sharma W/o yagya
Dutt sangar R/o PD 118D
pitampura delhi-110034, Have
changed my name to Monika
Sangar 0040680772-2
No.4050251Y Sepoy (Retd)Late
Shri Anand Singh Gusain R/O
H.No. A-30,FF2,Brij
Vihar,Chander
Nagar,Ghaziabad,UP-
201011,inform that My father’s
name has been wrongly
written in the army PPO as
Anand Singh Gusai instead of
Anand Singh Gusain.
0040680765-2
I,Sweta Kumari,D/o Dilip
Kumar,R/o RZD-35, Vijay
Enclave,Dabri,Delhi-110045,
have changed my name to
Sweta. 0040680740-7
I,Simrin Choudhrie,D/o Amarjit
Bakshi,R/o-9 Green Avenue,
Vasant Kunj,Delhi-110070, have
changed my name to Simrin
Bakshi,for all purposes.
0040680740-3
I,Shilpa Gupta W/o Gaurav Garg
& D/o Vinod Kumar Gupta R/o-
CP-168, Pitampura Delhi-
110034,have change my name
to Shilpa Garg for all,purposes.
0040680759-7
I,Sabhyta Goswami D/o Sanjeev
Kumar Goswam R/o-TP-
3,Maurya,Enclave near
TV,Tower Pitampura Delhi-
1100,changed my name to
Sabhyata Goswami
0040680752-2
I,SUNKARA
ANNAPURNA,MOTHER
OF,SUNKARA
RAVI,R/O.H.NO.24-1/1-16
SUNKARA,STREET
VIZIANAGARAM ANDHRA-
PRADESH-535002,HAVE
CHANGED MY NAME,FROM
SUNKARA ANNAPURNA TO
SUNKARI ANNAPURNA VIDE-
AFFIDAVIT,DATED-
01/08/2023,BEFORE NCT-DELHI.
0040680752-8
I,SUMIT S/O KRISHAN KUMAR
R/O Q1/35, FLATNO.101,UPPER
GROUND-FLOOR PHASE-1 BUDH
VIHAR,DELHI-110086.HAVE
CHANGED MY NAME TO SUMIT
JINDAL. 0040680740-1
GAGAN CHANDNA R/O 3419
WARD NO-10 SAYYAD
SARAI,REWARI,REWARI,HARYA
NA,123401, changed my name
to MAMTA CHANDNA.
0040680751-10
I,Kumar Dhrubajyoti Narayan
S/o Kumar Harendra
Narayan,R/O 6-Vandana
Apartments,Plot.No.42,I.P.Exte
nsion,Delhi -110092,Have
Changed My Name to
Dhrubajyoti Narayan,
permanently 0040680740-10
I,JAMUNA DEVI W/O MAHENDRA
SINGH R/O.H.NO-
52,BANNUWAL-COLONY PHASE
3,DELAPEER
BAREILLY(UP)243122,HAVE
CHANGED MY NAME FROM
JAMUNA DEVI TO JAMUNA
SINGH,VIDE-AFFIDAVIT
01/08/2023, BEFORE-NCT-
DELHI. 0040680752-7
I,Harpreet Kaur Arneja,W/o
Inder Mohan Singh
Arneja,H.No.2111,Sector-
46,Gurgaon-122003(Haryana),
have changed my name to
Harpreet Kaur. 0040680759-2
I,Gurpreet Kaur Setia D/o Surjit
Singh Setia,R/o RZ-115,T-
Extn,Vishwas-Nagar, Uttam-
Nagar,Delhi-110059, have
changed my name to Gurpreet
Kaur. 0040680740-4
I,GULHAN KUMAR,S/O
GHANSHYAM DAS R/O-80
SCHEME.NO.2 , ALWAR,
RAJASTHAN 301001.Changed
my name to GULASHAN
KUMAR. 0040680751-9
I,Dhana Ram Sunkria S/o-
Sh.Mangna Ram,R/o-
1007,Block-D,J.J.Colony,Phase-
2, Nangloi,West
Delhi-110041,declare that my
correct-name is Dhana Ram
Sunkria as per my all-
documents but in my SC-
Certificate mentioned my
name is Dhanna Ram
Sunkariya.Dhana Ram Sunkria
and Dhanna Ram Sunkariya
both are same and one Person.
340, Gali Akhare Wali, Kabir
MY CLIENTS RAVINDER SINGH S/O LATE All are hereby informed through this
Basti, Malka Ganj, North Delhi- KANCHHI SINGH AND HIS WIFE MITHLESH Public Notice that my client Sh.
110007, have changed my name W/O SH. RAVINDER SINGH BOTH R/O H.NO. Vimal Malhotra R/o G-100, 4th
95, KHASRA NO. 61/22, BLOCK-P, KRISHAN Floor, House No.8, Deep Vihar,
to Sandeep Kumar for all future VIHAR, DELHI-110086 SEVERE ALL Sector-24, Rohini, Delhi- 110042,
purposes. 0040680735-1
RELATIONS AND DEBAR THEIR SON
DUSHYANT KUMAR @ KARAN AND HIS WIFE
has debarred his son Mohit
Malhotra and his wife Rhythm
I, SIMMI,D/O.PANKAJ NAYAN VINITA FROM ENTIRE MOVEABLE/
Malhotra from his all movable and
IMMOVABLE PROPERTIES DUE TO THEIR
TIWARI, ADD-118C,SAINIK immovable property as they
BAD CONDUCT AND HOSTILE BEHAVIOUR.
immensely ill-treat my client. My
ENCLAVE PART-3 JHARODA MY CLIENTS SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE
client shall not be held responsible
FOR THEIR ACTS, DEBTS AND DEEDS IN
KALAN,SOUTH-WEST-DELHI for any of their acts, deed and
FUTURE.
things in whatsoever in any manner.
110072,changed my name to Sd/-
Sd/- C.S. MANN Advocate
SIMMI TIWARI,For all,future S.K. RAGHAV
ADVOCATE CHAMBER NO. 608, WESTERN
purposes. 0040680752-1 CH NO. 615, 6TH FLOOOR, LAWYERS WING, TIS HAZARI COURTS,
DELHI
CHAMBER BLOCK, ROHINI COURTS, DELHI
I, Ripon Dutta Choudhury s/o
Late Chandan Dutta
Choudhury (father), r/o A103, PUBLIC NOTICE (Regd. Office.: PSEB Head Office, The Mall, Patiala-147001)
Parsvnath Prestige, Sector 93- ÀffUÊþd³fIY Àfc¨f³ff To be known to all that, I Renu CIN: U40109PB2010SGC033813; Website: www.pspcl.in
A, Noida, 201301 declare that ¸fZS Z ¸fbUd¢I »f ßfe Àf°¹f³ffSf¹f¯f UdVfâ ´fbÂf þe°f Bala W/o Sh. Gopal Kumar
Sf¸f UdVfâ d³fUfÀfe-Àfe-79, S§fbUeS B³I »fZU, & D/O Lt. Sh.Mohan Lal R/o H. Mobile No. 96461-07205 E-mail: Se-hq-ggsstp-ropar@pspcl.in
my mother’s name is Mira
³fþR ¦fP ³fBÊ dQ»»fe I û ßfe ÀfÔ°fû¿f Ib ¸ffS ´fbÂf No-1081 K Block Mangolpuri E-Tender Enq. No. 7448/P-3/EMP-12398 Dated: 31.07.2023
Dutta Choudhury as per all ßfe ¸ff³fdÀfÔW ³fZ ¦ffgU dSNf»ff, dQ»»fe ¸fZa »ff»f
official records and my Delhi on Dated 17/12/2009 My Dy Chief Engineer/Headquarter (Procurement Cell-3) GGSSTP,
OûSf ·fcd¸f IZ Àff±f J0³fÔ0-58/13d¸f³f, 58//
declaration vide affidavit father’s Document i.e Ration Roopnagar invites E-Tender ID No. 2023_POWER_106511_1 for
14d¸f³f SI ¶ff 1000 U¦fÊ ¦fþ, ßfe W¶fOc U»Q
Card of D-49 Peeragarhi Relief
dated 26.07.2023. 0040680690-1 Sf¸fþe»ff»f ÀfZ JSeQVfbQf ´»ffM ¶fZ¨f³fZ I f ÀfüQf
Camp, Voter id of Mohan Lal,
procurement of pulverized Fuel straight pipe for stg. II & III installed
dI ¹ff W`Ü A¦fS BÀf ´»ffM ´fS dI Àfe I e QfUZQfSe at GGSSTP, Ropar. For detailed NIT & Tender Specification please
I,MOHINDER SINGH,S/O ¹ff dUUfQ Wû °fû UW ¸fû0- 8700371249 ´fS DDA Payment Challan all
LATE.DURGA PRASAD R/O original documents has been lost refer to https://eproc.punjab.gov.in from 31.07.2023/ 05.00 AM
¸fZS Z ¸fbUd¢I »f ÀfZ °f°I f»f Àfa´fIÊ I SmÔ Ü
H.NO-52,BANNUWAL COLONY WXÀ°ff./- An online FIR to this effect onwards.
PHASE-3,DELAPEER-BAREILLY Àf¶fZÊV½fSX Óff EOXUûIZYMX has been 31/07/2023 vide LR NOTE: Corrigendum and addendum, if any will be published
No. 713905/2023.
(UP)243122,HAVE CHANGED MY ¨f`0³fÔ0 606, U`ÀMX³fÊ dUÔ¦f, online at https://eproc.punjab.gov.in
°feÀf WXþfSXe IYûMXÊ, dQ»»fe-54 RTP-91/23 26418/Pb
NAME,FROM MOHINDER SINGH
TO MAHENDRA SINGH,VIDE-
AFFIDAVIT DATED- COURT NOTICE
01/08/2023,BEFORE NCT-DELHI.
0040680752-6
I, Radha Venkataramani W/o Sh.
Regd. Office.: PSEB Head Office The Mall, Patiala-147001
S. Rajaraman R/o Flat No. 123,
Supertech Residency, Sector-5, CIN: U40109PB2010SGC033813; Website: www.pspcl.in
Vaishali, Ghaziabad, Uttar (Contact No. 96461-17604, 96461-17659)
Pradesh-201010 have changed
my name to R. Radha for all
Tender Enquiry No. 1560/Th.Op/O&M/PC-2457 Dated: 31.07.2023
purposes. 0040680685-1 Chief Engineer/ O&M (P&P Cell-II), GHTP, Lehra Mohabbat, invites
I, Mintoo Ramkrishna Sharma, E-tender for the Procurement of Sulphuric Acid. Quantity as per
W/o Divakar Kumar Sharma, NIT. For detailed NIT & Tender Specification please refer to
R/o-Plot.No-28, Flat-No.103, https://eproc.punjab.gov.in from 31.07.2023 17.00 hrs. onwards.
New T-Block,Matiala-Road,
NOTE:- Corrigendum and addendum, if any will be published
Uttam-Nagar,New-Delhi-
110059,have changed my name online at https://eproc.punjab.gov.in
GHTP-52/23 26394/Pb
to Mintoo sharma.Mintoo
Ramkrishna Sharma,and
Mintoo sharma one,and the
same person. 0040680672-1 PUBLIC NOTICE
MY CLIENT SMT. PARAMJEET KAUR
I, Kavita Singh W/o Sh. Chandra AND NARENDER SINGH R/O H.NO.
Bhan Singh R/o C-82, Second D-14, VISHNU GARDEN NEAR
SHEETLA MATA MANDIR-TILAK
Floor, Anoop Nagar, Uttam NAGAR-DELHI-110018 HAS SEVERED
Nagar, New Delhi-110059 ALL RELATIONS DEBAR AND
DISOWN THEIR SON KULDEEP
declares that the Kabita Singh
SINGH @PRINCE FROM THEIR
and Kavita Singh both names MOVABLE AND IMMOVABLE
PROPERTIES DUE TO HIS

I,SUMER CHAND S/O

I Minni Rana W/o Mukhtyar
Singh R/o 250, Sector-10,
Gurgaon-122001(Haryana)
have changed my name to
Minni for all purposes
0070856170-1
I Jyoti Kumari Verma W/o Sh.
Rajeev Chouhan R/o L-57, Ph-
01, Durga Chowk, New Palam
Vihar, Sec-110, Bajghera,
Gurugram, Haryana 122017
have changed my name after
marriage Jyoti Kumari Verma
to Jyoti Verma for all future
purposes. 0040680711-1
I Dharam Singh Yadav S/o Lekh
Ram R/o
House.No.162.Joniawas,
Gurgaon Haryana-122504 Has
Been Changed My Name To
Dharam Singh For All Future
Purposes. 0070856184-1
I Chhotu Kumar S/o
Dhaneshwar Ray R/o
Parmanandpur, Ladaura,
Muzaffarpur, Bihar-843113,
have changed my name to
Manish Kumar 0070856178-1
I Celestina Nuthalapaty D/o N R
Rayalu W/o Robin Thomas R/o
A-3/1, Yarrows Apartment, Plot
No.C-58/5, Fortis Hospital,
Sector-62, Noida, Gautam
Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh-
201301 have changed my name
to Celestina Thomas for all
purposes. 0040680674-8
I Km Sandhya Nagar W/o
Lokesh Bhati R/o Near Shiv
Mandir Village-Aimnabad
Kulesara Gautam Budh Nagar,
Uttar Pradesh-201304. Has
Been Changed My Name To
Sandhya For All Future
Purposes. 0070856182-1
I,Gautam S/o Sukhdev,R/o B-
61,Sanjay Nagar,Mangol Pur
JAINARAIN,R/O FLAT NO-
17A,POCKET A-2 GROUND-
FLOOR KESHAV PURAM
LAWRENCE ROAD,DELHI-
35,HAVE CHANGED MY NAME
TO SUMER CHAND GUPTA.
0040680751-5
I,SUBHASH CHANDER
ARORA,S/O MADAN LAL
ARORA,R/O-871 G/F, BUNGLOW,
SECTOR-28,FARIDABAD-
121001,HAVE CHANGED MY
NAME TO SUBHASH ARORA.
0040680751-4
I,SONPAL NAGAR,S/O BEER
SINGH,R/o VILLAGE-AND POST-
GOHARA
ALAMGEERPUR,GOHARA,HAPU
R,UTTAR PRADESH-
245101,changed my name to
SONU NAGAR. 0040680759-1
I,SATISH GOEL S/O DARSHAN
LAL GOYAL R/O 120,PASCHIM
ENCLAVE, DELHI-110087.HAVE
CHANGED MY NAME TO SATISH
KUMAR GOYAL. 0040680740-2
I,S Lal Engzau Ngaihte S/o S
Rothang Ngaihte,R/o-House
No.813/14,Baba Kharak Singh
Marg,New Delhi-110001,have
changed the name of my minor
son from Thangkhanlian
Ngaihte, Aged 16-Years to S
Thangkhanlian Ngaihte for all
future purposes. 0040680765-1
I,Yogeshwari W/o Om
Prakash,R/o Plot.no.51,1st-
floor,Amberhai village-Extn.
Dwarka,sector-19,south west-
Delhi-110075,have changed my
name to Sonia Singh,for
all,future purposes.
0040680740-6
I,Rimjhim Gupta,w/o Mayank
Gupta,R/o M-144,Gulshan
Botnia-Noida Expressway,Sec-
0040680759-6
I,Devender sethi s/o Sohan lal
sethi R-759 1st-floor,New
rajinder nagar,have changed
my name to DEVINDER SETHI IN
FUTURE 0040680772-1
I,D K SUMAN S/O BHUMI PRASAD
YADAV,R/O
MUSHARNIYA,WARD.NO.02,
GAMHARIA,SAHARSA,BIHAR-
852221,have changed my name
to DEVENDER KUMAR SUMA.
0040680768-2
I,Bhupender s/o-Raj Kumar
Sharma,R/o H.No-193C/30A
Near-Prabhat Church Subhash-
Nagar Rohtak(HR)-124001,have
changed my name to
Bhupender Sharma,for all
purposes. 0040680740-5
I,Ashok Kumar Agarwal S/o-
Navrang Rai Agarwal,R/O-A-
5/3,Second-Floor,Rana Pratap-
Bagh,Delhi 110007,have
changed my name to Ashok
Aggarwal. 0040680759-4
I,Anju Gupta,W/o Raj Kumar
Gupta,R/o S/165,School-
Block,Shakarpur,Delhi-
110092,have changed the name
of my minor-son,from Shivaay
Gupta to Shivaay Raj Gupta.
0040680759-3
I,ASHA RANI alias AASHA BAJAJ
W/o Jitender Bajaj R/o-1322 1st-
Floor Rani Bagh,north west
Delhi-110034,have changed my
name to ASHA BAJAJ
0040680752-3
I,ANUJ KUMAR TYAGI,S/O SHIV
KUMAR TYAGI,R/o-
1/3575,Street.No.3,Near-Tyagi
Dharmshala,Tyagi-Colony,
Delhi-110032,have changed my
name to ANUJ TYAGI,for
all,future purposes.
0040680751-1
belong to me and both are MISCONDUCT, OUT OF CONTROL LOST & FOUND
same & one person. My AND INDULGE IN ANTI SOCIAL
Permanent address is Village ACTIVITIES. ANY ONE DEALING Lost my original Perpetual
WITH HIM SHALL BE AT THEIR OWN
Lease Deed of my-Plot No.153,
Kharagpur, Post Office RISK AND PERIL. MY CLIENT SHALL
Block-C,Pocket-5, Sector-
Tilasara, Birno, Ghazipur- NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS ANY
ACT WHATSOEVER. 34,Rohini, Delhi-
233001 0040680678-1
Sd/-
110085,(Executed on-
SRI KRISHAN MITTAL
I, Divakar Kumar Sharma, S/o Advocate 19/12/2019 & Registered
Herdav Mistri, R/o-Plot.No-28, Enrl. No. D/1859/2001
on-20/12/2019).Finder may
Flat-No.103,New T-Block, Ch. No. 526, Lawyer’s Chamber Bock
Rohini Courts Complex, Delhi-110085 Contact-Narottam Singhania
Matiala-Road,Uttam Nagar,
at-A-3/16, Satyawati Nagar,
New Delhi-110059, have
Ashok Vihar,Phase-3, Delhi-
changed my name to Divakar PUBLIC NOTICE
110052 0040680740-11
Sharma.Divakar Kumar
General public is hereby informed that
Lost one gift deed vasika 9141
Sharma,and Divakar Sharma my client Shri. Gyan Prakash Diwedi
one,and the same person. S/O Late Shri Uma Shankar Diwedi dated 12.07.2003 pertaining to
residing at House No 163 First Floor, J1103 Sushant Lok 1, Gurugram,
0040680672-2 Jasola Vihar, Pocket 2 New Delhi
Haryana. If found 9910004419
110025 have served all their relation
I, Ashok Kumar Upadhyay S/o with his late brother Satya Prakash
0040680670-1
J.K. Upadhyay residence Diwedi son’s Shri Ankit Diwedi, he
have disowned and debarred his
Flat.No.08D, 4th Floor, Harmukh
deceased brother’ son from all kind of
Co-Operative Housing Society, affairs with his family, anybody dealing ''IMPORTANT''
Sector-Alpha-1, Greater Noida, with Sh Ankit Diwedi will do so at
his/her/their own risk and responsibility
Gautam Budh Nagar, Uttar Whilst care is taken prior to
Pradesh-201310 my name in my
and my client is not responsible for any
act. acceptance of advertising OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL
passport is Ashok Kumar. S/o
Jai Krishna Upadhyay,
Sd/-
Utkarsh Bhatt (Advocate)
copy, it is not possible to verify
its contents. The Indian
COUNCIL: KEONJHARGARH,
residence-1442, Wazir Nagar,
Enroll. No. D/8179/2022
1090G, Mahavira Enclave, Express (P) Limited cannot be C-955
KEONJHAR, ODISHA
Kotla Mubarakpur, Delhi- Gate No. 2, Mall Road, Sector-29,
held responsible for such
Noida-201301 Advt. Letter No:...... Date:.......
110003. But correct name contents, nor for any loss or
Ashok Kumar Upadhyay. Ashok REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) FOR “SELECTION OF AGENCY FOR
damage incurred as a result of
Kumar Upadhyay & Ashok ‘ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATIONS OF WORKING WOMEN'S HOSTEL
PUBLIC NOTICE transactions with companies, FOR 50 INMATES, AT KEONJHAR, ODISHA UNDER DISTRICT MINERAL
Kumar same person associations or individuals
My Client Mr. Surinder Singh, S/o FOUNDATION (DMF) KEONJHAR”.
0070856180-1 Late Sh. J.S. Verma, R/o E-37, advertising in its newspapers A Request For Proposal (RFP) is invited from the reputed and experienced
Jawahar Park, Devli Road, or Publications. We therefore Agencies/Organizations / Firms / NGOs for “Selection of Agency for ‘Establishment
I, Ashok Kumar S/o Jagan Nath Khanpur, Delhi 110080, has
recommend that readers and Operations of Working Women’s Hostel for 50 Inmates, at Keonjhar, Odisha’ under
Batra R/o MIG-34, Metro Apt, severed all relations and disowned
make necessary inquiries District Mineral Foundation (DMF), Keonjhar”. The eligibility criteria and detailed
Jahangir puri, Delhi-110033 his son Deepanshu Verma and his
wife Mrs. Shweta Guptraj Naik, before sending any monies or requirements for said RFP and the formats for submission of proposal are set forth in the
have changed my name to
from all his movable and entering into any agreements RFP document which can be downloaded from the district NIC Website i.e.
Ashok Kumar Batra for all
immovable properties. My client with advertisers or otherwise www.kendujhar.nic.in. Interested bidders fulfilling the eligibility criteria may submit
future purposes. 0070856083-1 and his other family members shall
acting on an advertisement in their proposal & documents as set forth in this RFP and submit to the undersigned in
not be responsible for their acts,
I, Aranav Jain, S/O- Shri Ashu any manner whatsoever. sealed envelope (s) clearly super scribing “REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) FOR
they are not in my control.
Jain, R/O- 2/103 Royal Greens Sd/- “SELECTION OF AGENCY FOR ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATIONS OF
Appartments, Sirsi Road, Sirsi Aman Jain WORKING WOMEN’S HOSTEL FOR 50 INMATES, AT KEONJHAR,
Mode, Jaipur- 302012 have Advocate ODISHA UNDER DISTRICT MINERAL FOUNDATION (DMF) KEONJHAR”.
Ch. No. 369 & 960
changed my name to Arnav Proposal complete in all respect should reach the Office of the ‘Executive Officer (EO),
Patiala House Court,
Jain for all purposes. Keonjhargarh Municipality, Keonjhar, 0/0 The Municipal Council, Keonjhargarh
Near India Gate,
0040680482-1 New Delhi-110001 Municipality, At/Po-Keonjhargarh, PS Town, Dist- Keonjhar, Odisha, 758001’ by
Speed Post / Regd. Post only on or before date 21.08.2023 before 05.00 PM. The
I, Anshul Tyagi S/o-Late.
proposal(s) shall be opened on date 22.08.2023 at 11.30 AM in ‘O/O The Municipal
Omeshwar Tyagi, R/o- A2-1202, PUBLIC NOTICE Council, Keonjhargarh Municipality, At/Po-Keonjhargarh, PS Town, Dist-
Supertech Eco Village 2, Keonjhar, Odisha, 758001’. Incomplete applications received in an open envelop
The general public is hereby informed that my

Kalan,Sector-2,pocket-3
rohini,Delhi-110085,have
changed my name to Gautam
Lohchab. 0040680740-8
I Sachin Singh being father of Minor
Sachkeerat Singh R/o II-B/139
Vaishali Ghaziabad changed the
144,Noida(U.P.)-201306,have
I,AKBAL BAHADUR,S/O BIRBAL
changed my name to Rimjhim
Kakoty Gupta,for all purposes.
0040680740-9
I,Navita Agrawal/Navita
Agarwal,W/o- Ashok
SINGH SACHAN, R/o.803,
Antriksh Green, Kaushambi,
Ghaziabad(UP)-201010,have
changed my name to AKBAL
BAHADUR SACHAN.
Greater Noida West, 201009 client Shri Bhagwan Dass S/o Shri Shiv Charan,
applications received after the due date will be summarily rejected.
and his wife Smt. Laxmi Devi, resident of House
have changed my minor Son no. 23 and 24, Khasra No. 847, B-Block, Shyam
The authority reserves the right to cancel or reject the any of the RFP without assigning
Vihar, Phase-I, Najafgarh, Delhi-110043, have
name from Adiraj Mudgal to severed all relation with their son Nand Kishor any of the reasons thereof. No personal query shall be entertained. The decision of the
Adhiraj Mudgal for all future Gupta and his wife Smt. Kamya Devi due to their
bad habits, both of my clients have disowned committees shall be treated as final.
purposes. 0040680671-1 and debarred their said son and his wife from all
their movable and immovable properties. Sd/- Executive Officer,
Anyone dealing with Nand Kishore Gupta and (OIPR-13115/11/0006/2324) Keonjhargarh Municipality, Keonjhar, Odisha
I, KUSUM LATA GUPTA W/O MR. his wife Smt. Kamya Devi will do so at his/her
/their own risk and responsibility, and my client

Aggarwal,R/O-A-5/3, Second- MADAN MOHAN R/O CG-04, will not be held responsible for any actions.
name of my daughter from 0040680751-3 Deed. or transactions carried out by Shri Nand
Floor, Rana Pratap-Bagh,Delhi- AMRAPALI GREEN, 1/3, VAIBHAV Kishore Gupta and his wife Smt. Kamya Devi.
Sachkeerat Kaur to Sachkeerat KHAND, INDIRAPURAM, Sd/-
110007,have changed my name I, Vandana Rani W/o Neelam
Singh 0130035574-1 GHAZIABAD, UTTAR PRADESH
Deepak Gupta

to Navita Aggarwal. Kumar R/o A-140 DDA Slum (ADVOCATE)

Ch. No. K-62, Tis Hazari Court,
I,Kulbir Bindra S/o Inder Singh Flats, Jahangirpuri, Delhi 201014 HAVE CHANGED MY Delhi-110054

Bindra R/o A-101, Sector-40,
Noida(U.P) have changed my
name to Kulbir Singh Bindra for
all purposes. 0040680684-2
In my high school marksheet,
my father and mother’s names
are wrongly mentioned as
Ambrish Singh & Kamlesh
Dave, but their real and actual
names are Ambrish Pundir &
Kamalesh Devi. Prashant
Kumar S/o Sh. Ambrish Pundir
R/o H.No.-3, Gali.No.-5,
Shivajipuram, Akash Nagar
Indergarhi, Adhyatmik Nagar,
Ghaziabad, U.P. 0070856166-1
I,yeshpal saini,S/o-narender
Saini, Address-H.no-B-
14,najafgarhpark dichaon road
najafgarh Delhi-110043,
changed my name to yashpal
saini. 0040680751-8
I,VINAY KUMAR SHARMA S/O
KAMLA PRASAD SHARMA R/O
FLAT NO-626 POCKET GH-
1,SECTOR-28 ROHINI DELHI-42
HAVE CHANGED MY NAME TO
VINAY SHARMA 0040680751-6
I, Punish Ahuja S/o Sh. Lekh Raj
Ahuja, R/o 1049, Sector 14,
Gurgaon-122001 have changed
my name from Punish to
Punish Ahuja for all future
purpose.
0040680688-1
I, Niket S/o Veena Mishra R/o
Flat-No.D1-42, Gold Croft
Apartments, Plot-No.4, Sector-
11, Dwarka, New Delhi-
110075,have changed my-name
to Niket Mishra.
0040680768-5
I, Km.Aruna Dhuper, W/o Naresh
Kumar,R/o-C-86, Vikaspuri,
New-Delhi-110018,have
changed my name as Deepika
Virmani,for all future
purposes. 0040680672-4
0040680759-5
I,NINGAVVA S NARI,wife
of,SADEPPA H NARI,resident
of,J-62,GALI.NO.4,RAJNAGAR
PART-1,PALAM,NEW DELHI-
110045,has changed my
name,from NINGAVVA S NARI
TO NINGAVVA SADEPPA
NARI,vide-affidavit dated-
01.08.2023,at New-Delhi.
0040680752-9
I,NEETU W/O-ANUJ TYAGI,R/o
1/3575, Street.No.3,Near-Tyagi
Dharmshala,Tyagi
Colony,Delhi-110032,have
changed my name TO NEETU
RANI,for all,future purposes.
0040680751-2
I,NEELAM KUMARI W/O ASHOK
KUMAR GARG R/O,D-121,
PUSHPANJALI ENCLAVE,
PITAMPURA, DELHI -110034.
HAVE CHANGED MY NAME TO
NEELAM GARG. 0040680768-1
I,Monika Batra,W/o Rajesh
Kumar,R/o H.No.838,Ist-
Floor,Near ESIC Hospital,
Sector-9A,Gurgaon(Haryana)-
122001,have changed my name
to Monika Kumar. 0040680768-4
I,Manmeet Bindra W/o Lovneet
Singh Bindra R/o A-101, Sector-
40, Noida(U.P) have changed
my name to Manmeet Kaur
Bindra for all purposes.
0040680684-1
I,MOHAMMED YAOUB
KHOKHAR,S/0-MOHAME AMIN
KHOKAR,R/0-IMAM BARA
WARD.NO-39,SARDARSHAHAR
CHURU RAJASTHAN-
331403,HAVE CHANGED MY
NAME TO MOHD YAKUB AMIN
KHOKHAR. 0040680768-3
I,Varun S/o Chander Bhan R/o
SH-3/36, New Moti Nagar,New
Delhi-15,have changed my
name to Varun Lalwani.
0040680751-7
declare that I have changed my
name from Vandana Rani to
Vandana permanently
0040680731-1
I, Tejpal Singh Maheru @ Tejpal
Singh S/o Sh. Darshan Singh
Maheru R/o A-1/334, 1st Floor,
Janakpuri, Delhi—110058 have
changed my name to Tejpal
Singh for all future purposes.
0040680676-1
I, Sonia W/o Prem Prakash Negi
R/o H.No.44-C, W.P-Block, near
Gopal Mandir, Shalimar Bagh,
West Delhi-110088, have
changed my name to Soniya
Kaur Negi. 0070856194-1
I, Shubham S/o Sharwan Kumar
R/o B-1028 Second Floor, Green
Field Colony, Faridabad,
Haryana-121003, have changed
my name to Shubham Kumar
for all future purposes.
0040680735-2
I, Sarita Kumari Rana W/o Ravi
Dutt Rana R/o-1524, Sector-9
faridabad, have changed my
name to Sarita Rana
0040680672-3
I, Sanjay Kumar S/o Shyam Lal
R/o T-30/1FA, Baljeet Nagar,
New Delhi-110008, have
changed my name to Sanjay
Budhiraja, for all purposes.
0040680680-1
I, Naveen Kumar,S/o Sh.Govind
Ram Sahni R/o F-7A/69,Sector
16 Rohini Delhi 110089, have
changed my name to Naveen
Sahni.
0040680772-5
I, Bhagwan Dass S/o Rood Mal
Gupta R/o-G504, Indian Oil
Apartment, Sec-62, Noida have
changed my name to Bhagwan
Dass Gupta.
0070856172-1
NAME FROM KUSUM LATA
GUPTA TO KUSUM GUPTA FOR
ALL FUTURE PURPOSES.
0040680198-7
PUBLIC NOTICE
PUBLIC NOTICE
My Client Dalip Kaur W/o Davinder
Singh R/o WZ-14C Gali No.15
Santgarh Tilak Nagar New Delhi-18
have disown their daughters Jagjit
Kaur W/o Ranjit Singh, Inderjeet
Kaur W/o Parvinder Singh,Taranjeet
Kaur W/o Jatinder Pal Singh and
Paramjit Kaur W/o Jagmohan Singh
from all their moveable and immov-
eable properties. My client shall not
be responsible in any manner for
any Act/Deed done by Jagjit Kaur ,
Inderjeet Kaur, Taranjeet Kaur and
Paramjit Kaur. Any person dealing
with them shall deal at his/her own
risk and cost.
Advocate-Rajender Prasd (BCD281/14)
PUBLIC NOTICE
This is for the information of general public that
my client S. PARAM PAL SINGH S/O LATE
SH. BISHAN SINGH GUJRAL R/O B-132,
HARI NAGAR, NEW DELHI- 110064 has
disowned and debarred his son namely
HARDEEP SINGH, his wife MANMEET KAUR
and their children from all his movable and
immovable properties in Delhi/New Delhi with
immediate effect because they do not pay
respects/regards to my client and they are also out
of control of my client. Anybody dealing with
them shall do so at his/her own risk, cost and
responsibilities thereto. My client shall not be
responsible in any manner for the same.
Sd/-
HK Babbar (Advocate)
ENRL NO- D/142C/1978
DG-3/409, Vikas Puri, ND-18
PUBLIC NOTICE
Be it known to general public at large
that my client Predeep Sharan Gupta &
his wife Archana Gupta both R/o A-268,
MIG Brij Vihar, Ghaziabad have severed
all relations & disowned & disinherited
their son Umang and Daughter in law
Akansha from their all movable and
immovable properties as they are out of
control and misbehave with my clients.
Anybody dealing with them shall be doing
so at his own cost, risk and consequences.
My client & other family members shall
not be responsible for any conduct and
manner. Shashikant (Advocate)
Ch.No. D-209, Karkardooma Court, Delhi-32
Water Resources Department
Tembhu Lift Irrigation Project Management Division, Ogalewadi
e- TENDER NOTICE NO. 07 FOR 2023-24
Main Tender Portal: https://mahatenders.gov.in
CIRCLE : SANGLI IRRIGATION CIRCLE; SANGLI
DIVISION : TEMBHU LIFT IRRIGATION PROJECT MANAGEMENT DIVISION, OGALEWADI
Online electronic bids in B-1 form for below mentioned works is invited by Executive Engineer,
Tembhu Lift Irrigation Project Management Division, Oglewadi Water Resources Department
Maharashtra Governement from registered contractors with Public works department,
Government of Maharashtra in appropriate class register/Non Register with Government are
download from Government website https://mahatenders.gov.in. Executive Engineer, Tembhu
Lift Irrigation Project Management Division, Oglewadi reserves the right to reject/accept of
tender. Tender is not accepeted with any condition.
1. Name of Work Repairs to Main canal and Distributeries at Ch. 48/610 to
Ch 64/500 of Krishna Canl. Tal. Palus, Dist.- Sangli.
2. Cost Put to Tender 1) Rs. 4,14,27,780/-
3. E-Tender Period Dt. 03.08.2023 to 17.08.2023
4. E-Tender Opening Dt. 21.08.2023
All information of above E-tender is available on below link.
1. https://mahatenders.gov.in
2. Any changes in E-Tender will inform on above website
3. Name of Officer and Address:- Executive Engineer, Tembhu Lift Irrigation Project
Management Divison Ogalewadi Tal- Karad, Dist- Satara
Sd/-
Ph. No. 02164-271327 E-mail- eetlimd@gmail.com
Executive Engineer,
Tembhu Lift Irrigation Project
dgipr 2023-24/2489 Management Divison Ogalewadi, Karad
18 DIRECTOR EXTENSION EDUCATION I-HUB QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION, IISER PUNE
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DIRECTORATE OF EXTENSION EDUCATION First Floor, Main Building, IISER Pune Campus, Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 411 008

CCS HARYANA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, Tel: 020-25908647 Email: qtf_purchase@quantech.org.in Website: www.quantech.org.in

HISAR-125004 (HARYANA)
(Established by Parliament Act 16 of 1970)
Phone: 01662-255234, 284320, 255238, 941648240, 9053068379
TENDER NOTICE
Tender are invited for Display material/ Infrastructure/ Tentage for “Agro-
Industrial Exhibition” for Krishi Mela (Rabi)-2023 to be organised by CCS
Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar (Haryana) on dated September 13-
14, 2023. For detailed information, please visit university website:
https://www.hau.ac.in or contact Director, Extension Education, Gandhi
Bhawan, CCSHAU, Hisar-125004 (Haryana) or on above mentioned num-
bers. Last date of submission of tender is August 21, 2023 till 4:30 PM.
Advt. No: I-HUBQTF/AD/23-24/003 Dated: 27/07/2023
Sd/-
Director Extension Education
CCSHAU, Hisar
Tender Notice Regd. Office.: PSEB Head Office The Mall, Patiala-147001
CIN: U40109PB2010SGC033813; Website: www.pspcl.in
I-HUB Quantum Technology Foundation, IISER Pune invites bids for the
following scientific equipment: (Contact No. 96461-17604, 96461-17659)
Combinatorial Pulsed Laser Deposition system
Semiconductor Parameter Analyzer Tender Enquiry No. 1562/TGP/MM-I/O&M/PC-2458 Dated: 01.08.2023
Chief Engineer/ O&M (P&P Cell-II), GHTP, Lehra Mohabbat, invites
Last date for bid submission is:26-08-2023 16:00 hrs.
Details of tender are provided in the tender documents published on: E-tender for the Procurement of Spares for Boiler Feed Pumps,
• gem.gov.in • quantech.org.in/header/tenders Booster Pumps & Condensate Extraction Pumps. Quantity as per
NIT. For detailed NIT & Tender Specification please refer to
PROJECT DIRECTOR, I-HUB QTF
The Executive Engineer, PWD (NH) Division, Netaji https://eproc.punjab.gov.in from 01.08.2023 17.00 hrs. onwards.
Chowmuhani, Agartala, Tripura west invites NOTE:- Corrigendum and addendum, if any will be published
e- tender against press eNIT No. 01/EE-NHD/PWD online at https://eproc.punjab.gov.in GHTP-53/23 26416/Pb

(NH)/AGT/ 2023-24, Dated: 31.07.2023.

For “Improvement of KA Road from Erarpur to
Ambassa in the state of Tripura under NESIDS
(Roads) on Engineering, Procurement &
Construction (EPC) mode”.
With Project cost: `. 90.05 Crore
Bid Security: `.1.801 crore
Time of Completion - 24 (twenty four) months.
Last Date of bidding for bids - 29.08.2023
upto 15.00 Hrs.
For more details kindly visit:
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E-Tender Notice No.18
IN RUPEES DETAILS/EMAIL
1 UHBVN PROCUREMENT OF 400 MW HYDRO POWER 01.08.2023 RS. 5,00,000/- PER 9812451200
MWS-2023-24" "Up gradation of Toilets in
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OFFERED no.107/HPPC under Bulk RSP Pink Book no. 1255/23-
2 CONVERSION OF EXISTING OVERHEAD 11 KV AND
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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2023
Behind Ronaldo’s headed goals
record: 5G-force, strong thighs, a
jump higher than NBA players
Al Nassr's Cristiano Ronaldo broke late German Gerd Muller's record for most
goals via headers when he scored against Tunisian club Monastir on Monday
On Monday, Cristiano Ronaldo scored
his 145th headed goal, breaking the
long-standing record of late German
striker Gerd Muller.
Ronaldo achieved the feat when he
scored his first goal of the season for
Saudi Pro League club Al Nassr with a
trademark header in the 74th minute
against Tunisian club Monastir in a 2-1
win. Ronaldo met the cross from the
right at the back post and gave the
keeper no chance in a match of the Arab
Club Champions Cup .
But if you look at Ronaldo’s career
graph, he wasn’t known for his headed
goals and leaps when he started off.
In his early days at Sporting CP, he
scored with his head just once in his
two seasons there. He was then brought
to Manchester United by Alex Ferguson
and he scored 21 headed goals in his
first stint which was from 2003 to 2009.
On his return to Manchester United in
the 2021/22 season, he scored three
more times via the header.
However, it was when playing for
Real Madrid that Ronaldo honed him-
self to become the predator in the air
with one of his most famous goals
scored, ironically against former club
Manchester United in the 2012/13
Champions League.
Real header spree
In 2009, after he moved to
the Spanish capital, Ronaldo
would work on his fitness
and morph into one of the
greatest-ever headers of the
ball. He started slowly with just three
headed goals in his first season
(2009/2010), then added more to
his tally with 5 (10/11), 9 (12/13),
5 (13/14), 17 (14/15), 9 (15/16), 8
(16/17) and finally 7 in the
17/18 season, his last for the
Los Blancos. By the time he
left Spain, Ronaldo had
scored 64 of his 450 goals for
the 14-time Champions League
winners via headers.
The most-talked-about goal
in this stint was the 2.93-me-
tre leap — height from the
top of his head to the
ground — against
Manchester United in 2012/13,
which is still his highest
recorded jump. The best, how-
ever, was yet to come.
Wonder goal vs Sampdoria
After his move to the Italian Serie A
with Juventus, he would continue his
header-scoring streak with 9 in his first
season in 18/19 but the second season
would see him net only 2. He would
end his 3rd season with 9 more headed
goals in the 2020/21 season but the one
goal which would be talked about most
in his Turin stint would be the one he
scored against Sampdoria in his second
season.
Right at the stroke of half time,
Ronaldo would leap in the air and re-
main suspended there for 1.5 seconds
before scoring past the keeper with a
FROM AVERAGE TO OUTSTANDING
Why India struggled to find a world-class men’s doubles pair before Sat-Chi
SHIVANI NAIK
AUGUST 1
IT WAS the parallel game at great speed that
would hit them like a blitzing storm in the
face, recalls Jaseel Ismail, one of India’s finest
doubles names from the past.
Now 50, Ismail ruled the scene in the late
90s and early noughties. He remembers
Indian men’s doubles pairings trying to as-
sert their own game – fairly decent angled
attacks and defence with great control from
the backcourt – but coming a cropper. There
are many reasons why Satwiksairaj
Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty took so long
to emerge.
As such, men’s doubles took the longest
amongallfivedisciplines.PrakashPadukone
and Pullela Gopichand have found worthy
descendants in Kashyap, Srikanth, Sai
Praneeth, Prannoy, Lakshya Sen and now
Priyanshu Rajawat in men’s singles.
Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu took
women’ssingles intothe stratosphere. Jwala
Gutta, along with V Diju first and Ashwini
Ponappa later, took long strides in mixed
doubles and women’s doubles. But men’s
doubles took its time and needed multiple
pieces of the jigsaw to fall into place, before
India got a pairing which, at No 2 now, is on
the brink of World No 1.
Speaking to The Indian Express team last
month after their Indonesia Open triumph,
Chirag Shetty offered up a perspective. “As
we kept on winning, we saw the potential in
powerful header. The hang time for that
goal was unbelievable. It was also re-
portedly his second-highest jump at
2.56m and redefined what Ronaldo
could do even when he was 36.
Science behind the leap
So what helps Ronaldo pull off these
superhuman jumps? In a documentary
titled, "Cristiano Ronaldo: Tested to the
Limit,” the reason was revealed. In 2011,
scientists at the University of Chichester
conducted a series of biometric tests
which revealed that Ronaldo can leap
higher than an average NBA player.
“While jumping, he can generate 5G
of G-force on take-off. He is also helped
by a thigh circumference of 62cm,
which enables him to reach the heights
of 44 cm (feet off the ground) from a
standing start and 78 cm with a run-up,
which is 7cm more than the average
basketballer,” the study, also quoted by
various publications, said.
SAYAK DUTTA
8.39ft
2.32 ft
■ Ronaldo’s header against Sampdoria
in his second season in Serie A is still
talked about for his gravity-defying leap.
TOP-3 GOAL SCORERS
VIA HEADERS
Name Country Goals
Ronaldo Portugal 145
Gerd Muller Germany 144
Carlos Spain 125
Santillana
Illustration: Suvajit Dey
us. I won’t say Satwik and I are the best dou-
blespairIndiahasproduced.Probablyweare
the best in terms of performance but there
have been a lot of players who have been
much more talented than us,” he said.
“Like the way they controlled the shuttle
at the net and backcourt. I think there have
been a lot of players who were much better
but I think the difference between them and
us was we had the belief in ourselves. But
they didn’t. They never believed that they
can beat pairings abroad and are much bet-
ter. So the coaches we have had over the
years have instilled confidence in us. Even
Tan (Kim Her) coach and Mathias (Boe) right
now keep telling us that you are meant for
greater things, so never be satisfied with
theseresults.Thisisjustasteppingstoneand
there are bigger things to be achieved.”
“Winning is a habit,” Jaseel Ismail says,
“and Satwik-Chirag have the confidence at
the highest level.”
Lack of confidence
Confidence would often abandon Indian
pairings of old as tournaments progressed.
“We couldn’t adapt to the flat exchanges and
speed,” Ismail continues. Doubles outside
wasadifferentgame,headmits,andthelevel
of difference was far too high. Ismail recalls
coming very close to beating the World No
3 Chinese at an Asian Team Championship
in Vietnam but losing after a deuce point in
the decider.
Indians would find the Indonesians,
Koreans and Chinese tougher because the
A scheduling banana skin
Malaysia, Korea and Japan unhappy with tournament being held just five weeks before the Asian Games
VENKATA KRISHNA B
CHENNAI, AUGUST 1
EVER SINCE they have landed in Chennai for
the Asian Champions Trophy (ACT), visiting
teams have had few issues to complain
about.Beingtreatedasstateguests,theyhave
been all praise for the hospitality offered.
They have been exploring the city, stepping
out to malls and the beach, enjoying the lo-
cal cuisine and taking rides on auto rick-
shaws.
However, the timing of the Asian
Champions Trophy which begins on
Thursday and runs till August 12, may
prompt a few raised eyebrows. The tourna-
ment hascome at a critical juncture for most
of the teams, affecting their preparations for
theHangzhouAsianGamesthatbeginabout
five weeks after the conclusion of this event.
Although a competition featuring the best
teams in the continent should come as an
ideal preparation of sorts, giving sides
enoughopportunitiestoanalyseeachof their
opponents.
TheACT,announcedinAprilthisyear,was
a last-minuteinclusion in the calendar. With
an eye on the Asian Games, where the gold
medallist gets a direct entry to the Olympics
nextyear,mostteamswerelookingforexpo-
sure trips and camps before they have been
made to feature in the tournament.
Malaysia, for instance, had already fi-
nalised their trip to Europe where they were
scheduledto play friendliesagainstBelgium,
France, Spain and the Netherlands. Instead,
Arul Anthoni Selvaraj is not happy with this
11th-hour pit-stop in Chennai.
“We as coaches need 18-24 months to
plan and the Asian Games was supposed to
be in 2022, but then it got postponed. To or-
ganise a tournament4-5 weeksbeforeama-
jor event — an Olympic qualifying event — I
am curious to know the reason behind it. I
am sure some of us know why. In the future,
I hope Asian Hockey and FIH work closely to
organise better because our programme has
been interrupted. We were supposed to
travel to Belgium and have friendly matches
against Belgium, Holland, France and Spain.
Everything was in place. It's difficult to get
those matches again. This tournament has
come smack in the middle. In the future, I
hope Asian Hockey looks into this seriously
to help the Asian teams,” he said on Tuesday.
Although Selvaraj didn’t take any names
as to who this tournament benefits and only
questioned the timing of it, Korea’s head
Good to play in India... there is pressure too: Pak coach
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, AUGUST 1
A26-memberPakistanhockeyteam,thatin-
cludes players and support staff, arrived in
Chennai on Tuesday evening for the upcom-
ing Asian Champions Trophy that begins on
Thursday. Led by Muhammad Umar Bhutta,
Pakistan are scheduled to face Malaysia in
their opening fixture on Thursday and the
team,whichenteredIndiaviaWagahborder,
flewfromAmritsartoChennaiviaBengaluru.
ThisisthePakistanteam’firstvisittoIndia
since the 2018 Hockey World Cup held in
Bhubaneswar.Theformergiantshadfailedto
make the cut for the World Cup held in India
earlier this year. “It is always good to play in
India. It is also pressure, but big players are
Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy are the No.2 pair in the world.
parallel game – which Satwik-Chirag have
learnttostraddle–wasneveranIndianforte.
Suddenly finding themselves facing the flat
game, they might adjust to the pace briefly,
but consistently scoring points was impos-
sible back then.
It wasn’t easy because they tended to
ASIAN CHAMPIONS TROPHY
Japanese players during a training session at the Mayor Radhakrishnan hockey stadium in Chennai. PTI
coach Seok Kyo Shin was scathing.
“Idon'tlikethistournamentbecausenext
month wehave animportant tournament in
the Asian Games,” he said. The defending
champions, who made it to the quarterfinals
of the World Cup earlier this year and was
the highest-finishing Asian team, have been
one of the most improved teams in the con-
tinent and will no doubt be a challenge for
India at Hangzhou.
4 pm matches
To make it worse for Korea, their first
three matches are all scheduled at 4 pm, and
their coach didn't mince words.
“Weather is hard. We are playing all our
first three matches at 4 pm and I ask why
only Korea has this schedule? I don't like
that. Only India is playing at 8.30 pm with
cooler conditions. I don't understand that.
Is it because India is the host? Mixed tim-
ings for everyone would have been better.
Seven matches in 10 days are possible, not
a problem, but the problem is it’s so close to
the Asian Games. If anyone gets injured
here, they cannot play in the Asian Games,”
Shin said.
The Pakistan hockey team at the
Attari-Wagah border on Tuesday. PTI
those that perform well under pressure. We
want to perform well on and off the field.
We've come to play with an open heart, to
playpositivehockey.Bothcountrieswillonly
survive in cricket and hockey if they play
make mistakes trying to negotiate an unfa-
miliar game as the matches wore on.
Replicatingtheparallelgameathomeinprac-
ticewasn’tasolution,becausesparringpart-
ners back home didn’t play that game either.
Back then – this was during pre-Saina
Nehwal days – even the top Indian shuttlers
MANE JOINS AL-NASSR
Bayern Munich’s Senegal forward Sadio Mane
has joined Saudi Pro League club Al-Nassr after
one season with the Bundesliga champions,
both clubs said on Tuesday. REUTERS
While Japan too echoed similar senti-
ments later, India were not complaining.
Although they landed in Chennai only on
early Tuesday morning after competing in a
Four-Nations tournament involving Spain,
England and the Netherlands, the Asian
Champions Trophy allows them to under-
stand their opponents better.
AlthoughIndiahavebeenfaringdecently
against higher-ranked teams, especially
Europeans sides, theyhave struggledagainst
Asian opponents,lettingcomplacencysetin.
“We need the games, it is important we
play,” India’s coach Craig Fulton said later
on Tuesday. “There are positives and nega-
tives. I understand the issue about timings,
but we need the games. The main focus is
on us. We have a slightly different group,
two new players joining. We have the rest of
the guys that came from Spain who would
be training alongside the team that plays in
the tournament... all our staff and everyone
is here. So, we are using this as a training
and preparation phase for the Asian
Games,” Fulton said.
While India are not overly worried about
fatigue, they will use the next two weeks to
more against each other. If we play against
each other, then it will benefit us when play-
ing at the next level,” coach Muhammad
Saqlain said on arrival in Chennai.
For Pakistan, which has fallen off their
perch, the upcoming Asian Games – where
they have won a record eight gold medals –
remains a daunting task. Having picked a
young team, which will most likely head to
Hangzhou, the Asian Champions Trophy is
of big importance to Pakistan, a team which
is undercooked.
“We will be using it as a full dress re-
hearsalasthesameteamswouldplayagainst
each other (at Asian Games). It's good, we
will get to understand each other's weak-
nesses and strengths,” captain Bhutta said.
Saqlain said they have decided to back
youngsters and will use the Netherlands as
Indians would find the
Indonesians, Koreans and
Chinese tougher because the
parallel game – which Satwik-
Chirag have learnt to straddle –
was never an Indian forte.
travelled to two, at best three, tournaments
abroad. There was the All England and the
World Championships, and in years that it
was scheduled, the Thomas and Uber Cups.
Now,topplayerschoosewhichtournaments
to play in.
Earlier, the funding and government
sanction for trips, until the 2010
Commonwealth Games came around, was
hugely limited, which meant not only facing
an unfamiliar game but doing it just once or
twice a year. In turn, that meant no progress
could be made in negotiating the parallel
style of play. Shuttlers would travel to a few
nearby countries at their own cost.
A foreign coach like Mathias Boe, who is
so pivotal to the Satwik-Chirag success story,
was unheard of both for singles and doubles,
but generally in the sport of badminton as
such.IsmailremembersChinesecoachesbe-
ing brought down for three weeks up to a
month. But they weren’t continuously avail-
able throughout the year. Moreover, they
wouldbeentrustedwiththeresponsibilityof
30-40 players at a time.
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fully analyse each of their opponents. While
theteamledbyHarmanpreetSinghhasbeen
onthewayup,oftenmatchingtheEuropeans
in intensity, against Asian teams they have
hadahabitof lettingtheirguarddown.Inthe
past, players have admitted not being fully
charged up against Asian teams, which has
reflected on the field.
It is the reason why they have roped in
mental conditioning coach Paddy Upton,
who was part of the backroom staff during
the Indian cricket team's victorious 2011
World Cup campaign, till the Asian Games.
“ThemainreasonwhywebroughtPaddy
isbecausehebringsalotof experiencewhen
it comes to working in India and the success
he has had with the cricket team. He knows
the culture, the diversity and what sort of
performance is required. At the same time,
he brings leadership that we are looking to
instil and to help deal with the expectation
and the big moments. Sports is all about the
decisions you take at key moments. We will
be faced with those going forward and so it
is more about being aware of it, focusing on
it and practising it. Paddy is instigating that,”
the South African said.
an inspiration to build the team going for-
ward. As many as nine players in the squad
have less than 10 international caps, and will
face a tough challenge at the tournament.
“Holland has a young team but they top
theworld.Inmodernhockeyyouneedtotake
thatchance,becausefitnesshasbecomevery
important. Young talent helps in bringing
rapid changes. So a combination of experi-
encewithyoungtalentisimportant,”hesaid.
Saqlain hoped that the young team
would take inspiration from their past per-
formances on Indian soil. “We have a silver
medal from the Junior Asia Cup here. We are
coming after 2018. We are looking to put on
ourbestperformance.It'sagoodtesteventto
try combinations ahead of the Asian Games,
which is the most important event as the
same teams will be here,” he said.
“Theypreferfocusingon3-4pairsatbest,
but they were given 10-12 for a short time,
andthatneverwasgoingtoworkout,”Ismail
says.
Players themselves prioritised doubles
very late in their careers when singles hopes
would start waning. Ismail shifted full-time
as late as 23. And parents almost always
wanted their wards to give singles a good go
before looking at the doubles option.
Kerala had a great doubles culture
though, and alongside Ismail, Vincent Lobo,
Marcos Bristow, Jaison Xavier, and V Diju (he
was Top 10 in the world in mixed doubles),
Rupesh Kumar and Sanave Thomas repre-
sented India, but making headway in men’s
doublesinternationallyalwaysprovedtough.
Just as there was a dearth of role models
in doubles who had found success interna-
tionally, there was also the missing ecosys-
tem surrounding the top Indian names.
“Travelling physios was unheard of, and it’s
only when Gopi became a coach and started
trainingSainathatthatbittookoff.We never
had a physio travel with us even for a World
Championship. Mental trainers, physical
trainers – all that is needed and available to
Satwik-Chirag now, even the singles stars
didn’thavethen,”Ismailsays,notasalament,
but a sheer comparison of different times.
Ultimatelyonthecourtthough,itwasthe
pace of the flat, parallel game – something
Satwik-Chirag have aced – and stringing to-
gether wins over a week, that had proven
elusive for doubles shuttlers who were tal-
ented in the past.
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Ishan gives India an option

DEODHAR TROPHY If Bumrah doesn’t
play WC semis or
Murasingh, final, we wasted
Parag fire East Scores third consecutive 50 and shares stand of 143 with Gill, coming good as back-up opener time on him: Kapil
Zone to victory TUSHAR BHADURI
the final few overs, reaching his half-century
in 45 balls. His long levers make him particu- EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE
over West Zone AUGUST 1 larlystrongdowntheground,againstbothfull
balls and short, and his assault on Romario
AUGUST1

Puducherry: A second century in the
Deodhar Trophy for Riyan Parag (102) and a
superb five-wicket haul for Manisankar
Murasingh fired East Zone to a massive
157–run victory over the West Zone here on
Tuesday.
After Parag's blitzkrieg — 102 not out off
just 68 balls, studded with five sixes and six
fours — powered the East Zone to a huge
319/7 in their 50 overs, Murasingh ran riot
in the West Zone ranks to help his side to a
huge win.
BRIEF SCORES: East Zone 319-7 in 50 overs
(R Parag 102*, K Kushagra 53, Utkarsh S 50,
Virat S 42; S Mulani 3-45) bt West Zone 162
all out in 34 overs (H Desai 92; M Murasingh
5-28, Utkarsh S 3-16) by 157 runs
Markande, Rana shine
NorthZoneproducedadominatingallround
display to hand North East Zone a crushing
nine-wicket loss in a round-robin match of
the Deodhar Trophy here on Tuesday.
After bowling out North East Zone for a
mere 101 in 32.1 overs, the North Zone team
knocked off the target in 12.5 overs, scoring
102forthelossofonewicket.SpinnerMayank
Markande and pacer Mayank Yadav shared
sevenwicketsbetweenthemafterNorthEast
Zone won the toss and elected to bat.
BRIEF SCORES: North East Zone 101 all out
in 32.1 overs (L Keishangbam 36; Markande
4-14, Yadav 3-21) lost to North Zone 102-1
in 12.5 overs (H Rana 52*, P Singh 40*) by 9
wickets
Sudharsan scores unbeaten 132
South Zone stormed into the final of the
Deodhar Trophy after Sai Sudharsan's un-
beaten132setupacommandingseven-win
over Central Zone here on Tuesday.
South Zone will now take on East Zone
in the final to be played here on Thursday.
South Zone's win was also their fifth in a
row, putting them far ahead of the competi-
tion with 20 points.
BRIEF SCORES: Central Zone 261-9 in 50
overs (Y Dubey 77, S Mavi 38; M Redkar 3-
51) lost to South Zone 262-3 in 48.2 overs (S
Sudharsan132*,WSundar43*)by7wickets
PTI
IFISHANKishanisnothandedalongerstintat
the topof the order in the upcoming AsiaCup
andbeyond,histhreeconsecutivefiftiesinthe
ODIs against the West Indies will hold little
meaning.Theleft-handerwasgivenaspecific
role, of going after the bowling from the first
ball,andhasperformeditselflessly.Ofcourse,
the West Indies bowling these days presents
few demons, especially with the new ball.
Kishancouldhavebeenoutcaughtatpoint
inthesecondover,butthereprievedidlittleto
douse his attacking instincts. Eight fours and
three sixes flowed from his bat, not always
fromthesweetspot,buttheoperativewordin
thewholeexerciseis'intent',withthe50-over
gameincreasinglybecominganextendedver-
sionof T20format.Hisknockof 77off 64balls
continued his rich vein of form in the
Caribbean. His opening partnership of 143 in
118 balls with Shubman Gill was the bedrock
onwhichIndia'seventualscoreof351/5rested.
AftersittingoutthesecondODIinBarbados
onSaturday,regularcaptainRohitSharmaand
Virat Kohli were missing from the series de-
cider as well. Head coach Rahul Dravid had
stressedthattheteamwasnottooconcerned
about the result of every match and every se-
ries, and was looking to try out players in the
leaduptotheWorldCupintwomonths'time.
DoesthatmeanthatKishanisnowincon-
tention to displace Rohit from the opener's
slot?WiththetalentpoolthatIndiapossesses,
there will always be players available to be
tried. But on the cusp of a marquee event, the
thinktank should haveatleastabroadideaof
their best 11 or 15 – which is not necessarily
the case with India.
Making it count
OnTuesday,Gillendedhisleanpatchwith
a score of 80-odd at the top of the order, but
struggledforrhythminthelatterpartofhisin-
nings.SanjuSamsonjustaboutstayedincon-
tentionwithabetter-than-a-run-a-ball51,but
suffered a soft dismissal, not for the first time
in his career, when he had plenty of overs to
batandmakeamuchbiggerscoreandimpact.
ButKishanandSamson,whomaybevyingfor
one spot in the World Cupsquad, hadpushed
theIndianrunratewellpastsevenanoverwith
a large part of the innings left to capitalise.
SuryakumarYadavhasnowbeenassigned
Ishan Kishan’s 64-ball 77 had three sixes and eight boundaries. PTI
thefinisher'srole,afternotlivinguptoexpec-
tations higher up the line-up, and alongside
stand-in captain Hardik Pandya, managed to
resurrect the scoring rate, which had fallen to
justabovesixwith10overstogo.Inthedeath
overs,abatsmandoesn'thavetobefluentcon-
sistently,butgetthefewbighitsawaythatcan
makethevitaldifference,andSuryadidshow-
case a bit of his 360-degree skills with a hoick
over fine leg and a slice over point, both shots
goingformaximums.Buta30-ball35willnot
answerallquestionsregardinghisproficiency
in the 50-over format.
It was Pandya who showed his power in
Shepherd in the 50th over took the team past
350,abareminimumwhatIndiaseemeddes-
tinedforafterthebattingeffortsofKishanand
Samson. Pandya's 52-ball 70 came at a time
whentheinningswaslosingmomentumata
crucial stage.
Sloppy hosts
The wicket at the Brian Lara Cricket
AcademyatTarouba,Trinidad,hostingitsfirst
men's ODI, slowed down as the innings went
on, making West Indies captain Shai Hope's
call at the toss to field first a debatable one.
There was initial movement on offer, but the
hometeam'sbowlerslackedtheconsistencyto
make use of it. The only bowler to exert some
sort of control over the Indian batting line-up
was left-arm spinner Gudakesh Motie with
figures of 1/38 in 10 overs, which included a
maiden.Allotherbowlerswentwellinexcess
ofsixrunsanover.Leg-spinnerYannickCariah
got some purchase from the surface, but was
also targeted by the batsmen.
Their bowling, which made good use of
helpful conditions at the Kensington Oval in
thepreviousmatch,erredonbothsidesof the
wicket, allowing Gill and Kishan to get off to a
flying start.
Alzarri Joseph is considered the premier
bowler for the West Indies in the format, but
it's high time he lives up to the responsibility.
After an underwhelming Test series in which
he was erratic most of the time, Joseph's fig-
uresof1/77in10overslettheteamdownonce
again. Jayden Seales was targeted both at the
start and the end of the innings, going at well
over nine an over in his eight overs.
ThelesssaidabouttheWestIndianfielding
the better.
Apart from dropping Kishan very early on
in the piece, an error that turned out to be
pretty expensive, the ground fielding and
throwing often reached comical proportions.
Apart from giving away extra runs, there
werepossiblerun-outopportunitiesthatwent
abegging due to poor out-cricket, alluding to
one of the main reasons for the West Indies
suffering a debacle at the World Cup qualifier
in Zimbabwe.
BRIEFSCORES:India351-5in50overs(Ishan
Kishan77,ShubmanGill85,SanjuSamson51;
Romario Shepherd 2-73)
JASPRIT BUMRAH’Sback injury hasbeen the
talk of Indian cricket since last year. A recur-
ringinjurythat’sbeenbugginghimsince the
Indiatourof EnglandinJulyandhasseenhim
miss out on professional cricket since
October last year.
With a home ODI World Cup on horizon,
there have been doubts over Bumrah’s fit-
ness in the first team leading up to the tour-
nament and Asia Cup ahead of it. Former
India World Cup-winning skipper Kapil Dev
has shared his views on the 29-year-old and
even Rishabh Pant’s absence from the na-
tional side ahead of the marquee event.
“What happened to Bumrah? He started
working with so much belief, but if he’s not
there (in World Cup semi-final/final)… we
wasted time on him. Rishabh Pant… such a
great cricketer. Had he been there, our Test
cricket would’ve been better,” Kapil told The
Wire.
If today, you have resources,
money, but you don’t have three or
five-year calendars. There’s
something wrong with cricket
board there.”
-KAPIL DEV
Pant has also remained out of action fol-
lowing hiscaraccident attheturnof theyear
and has made “significant progress in his re-
habilitation” as stated in a recent press re-
lease by the Board for Control of Cricket in
India (BCCI).
“Godiskind,it’snotasifInevergotinjured.
Buttoday,theyareplaying10monthsinayear.
Give a benefit of doubt to that, but everybody
hastolookafterthemselves.IPLisagreatthing
but IPL can spoil you also. Because, a little bit
ofinjuriesandyouwillplayinIPL.Alittlebitof
injuries, you won’t play for India. You would
takeabreak.I’mbeingveryopenaboutit,”the
formerIndiaall-rounderadded.“If youhavea
smallinjury,youwouldplayinIPLifit’sanim-
portantgame.Atthisstage,cricketboardhasto
understand how much cricket they should
play. That is the bottomline. If today, you have
resources,money,butyoudon’thavethreeor
five-yearcalendars.There’ssomethingwrong
with cricket board there.”

BRIEFLY Replacement ball swung

Women’sWorldCup:
EnglandthrashChina
Adelaide: Lauren James shone again
with two fine goals as England put in
their best performance of the
Women's World Cup so far to sweep
aside China 6-1 on Tuesday and
march into the last 16 as Group D
winners. Alessia Russo gave the
European champions the perfect
start with a goal in the fourth minute
and Lauren Hemp and James added
two more to give England a comfort-
able lead at the break at Hindmarsh
Stadium. Asian Champions China,
who exit in the group stage for the
first time in eight editions of the
World Cup, came out firing in the
second half and got a goal
back through a Wang Shuang
penalty. REUTERS
Treesa-Gayatrienter
secondround
Sydney: Commonwealth Games
bronze medallists Treesa Jolly and
Gayatri Gopichand progressed to the
second round of the Australia Open
Super 500 badminton tournament
with a straight game win over
Canada's Catherine Choi and
Josephine Wu on Tuesday. Treesa
and Gayatri, who climbed two spots
to world number 17 in the latest
BWF ranking on Tuesday, registered
a 21-16 21-17 win over world num-
ber 29 Canadian pair in the round of
32. The Indian pair have not crossed
the second round in any tournament
apart from the semifinal finish at the
All England Championships and the
duo will face a tough task against
world number 4 Japanese combina-
tion of Mayu Matsumoto and
Wakana Nagahara. PTI
India’swomen50m
rifleteamwinsgold
more, hit bat hard: Ponting
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
AUGUST 1
ACONTROVERSIALballchangeonthefourth
evening of the fifth and final Ashes Test at
the Oval has resulted in former Australian
skipper Ricky Ponting, also a commentator
for the series, calling for an investigation be-
cause he believed it helped the England
bowlers.
Post-match Australian opener Usman
Khawaja said the ball, that was changed in Ricky Ponting believes the new ball
the 37th over of Australia’s chase, was ‘very (right) helped England bowlers. Twitter
different’ and ‘hit the bat hard’.
Australia ended Day Four on 135 for no
loss in 38 overs but on the fifth and final day
lost David Warner in the 42nd over and
UsmanKhawajainthe44thduringtheirun- Decided to meet up
successfulchaseof 384runs.Warner60 and
Khawaja72,bothvictimsof fastbowlerChris in the club: Stokes
Wokaes, were Australia’s top scorers in the
fourth innings. Marnus Labuschagne de-
parted in the 49th over after he was caught
ENGLAND SKIPPER Ben Stokes has
clearedtheairaboutEnglandteamre-
at second slip off a delivery by Mark Wood jecting Australia’s offer to have a tra-
thatswungaway.Englandwonby49runsto ditionalpost-Ashesdrinksessionafter
leveltheseries2-2asAustraliawerebowled the end of the fifth Test at the Oval.
out for 334. On the fourth evening it was “Toclarify…Ourwraptooklonger
smooth sailing for Australia at 126 for no than expected because of multiple
loss. But the umpires Kumar Dharmasena last time event’s,” tweeted Stokes.
and Joel Wilson changed the ball after “We decided to meet up in the
Khawaja was hit on the helmet by fast night club rather than the dressing
bowler Wood early in the 37th over. room.”
Ponting felt the ball was not a like-for- The Australian media outlets have
like replacement and questioned the wis- criticized the England team for their
dom of the umpires. During lunch break, reluctance to have a drink with the
PontingsaidonSkySports,“Thebiggestcon- Australian cricket team after they
cern I have is the big discrepancy in the con- drew the series.
dition of the ball that was chosen to replace. Foxsports.com.au quoted a source
There’s no way in the world you can even close to the Australians said the
look at those two balls there and say in any English had no desire to do so.
way are they comparable. If you are going to While, the Sydney Morning
change the ball, you want to make sure that Herald has quoted an England team
you get it right, so it is as close as you possi- spokesman saying it was just a mis-
bly can to the one that you’re changing it understanding.
from. Now if you have a look in that box, “It’s a great shame that a drink
there weren’t too many older-condition
balls in there. There were some older ones
wasn’t shared and the opportunity of
looking back on an epic series,” the
that were picked up, the umpires looked at
that and threw them back.”
spokesman said. ENS

Chengdu: The Indian trio of Ashi
Chouksey, Manini Kaushik and Sift
Kaur Samra won gold in women's
50m rifle 3 positions team event at
the World University Games here on
Tuesday. Ashi, Manini and Sift
scored an impressive 3527 points to
take the top spot ahead of China
(3525) and Czech Republic (3499)
on day five of the Games. In the
men's 10m air pistol team event, the
Indian trio of Arjun Singh Cheema,
Varun Tomar and Anmol Jain bagged
a bronze medal, scoring 1730 points.
Korea and China took gold and silver
respectively. PTI
The former Australian skipper wanted
the change of ball to be investigated. Sky
Sports Cricket’s twitter handle also posted
two contrasting pictures of the original ball
and the replacement ball, which looked
much newer and shinier.
“The conditions were better for bowling
this morning. But what I saw last night, that
ball there, I’ll put my hand up and say I’ve
got absolutely no doubt at all that that ball
would not have done anywhere near as
much as what that one did this morning.
Double the amount of movement this
morning from yesterday afternoon, seam
movement and swing. I think it’s a huge
blunder that needs to be investigated.
“That is a huge moment in this game,
potentially a huge moment in the Test
match, and something I think actually has
to be investigated… whether there was the
right condition of balls in the box, or the
umpires have just picked one out of there
that they think will be okay to use,”
Ponting added.
Khawaja too shared a similar opinion
about the condition of the replacement ball.
“I knew straight away this ball was very
different. I went straight up to Kumar and
said ‘how old is this ball you’ve given them
becauseitfeelslikeit’sabouteightoversold.’
“I’ve opened in every single innings this
Ashes series and I haven’t felt the ball hit my
batashardasthatballfeltwhenithitmybat.”

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