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MD, RKCL CONVENTION- ICSI EVENT- KIET TEACHER’S DAY- I.T.S DENTAL EVENT- AKGEC
The Institute of Company Secretaries announced a number of new KIET Group of Institutions, Ghaziabad, organized the closing cere- Teacher's Day celebration took place with much fanfare & aplomb at AKGEC students brought glory to their college by spectacular per-
initiatives at its three-day 50th National Convention of Company mony of the Smart India Hackathon-2022 Grand Finale that was I.T.S Centre of Dental Studies & Research, Ghaziabad. Educationist formance in the 5th edition of Smart India Hackathon (SIH’22),
Secretaries in Kolkata attended by over 1100 delegates in person held at the institute last week. Acclaimed as the biggest open innova- par excellence. Chairman R.P. Chadha, VC Arpit Chadha, Director P.G. held Nationwide from 25th to 29th August 2022. A record number
from all over India & 4,500 members joined in virtually. This yr’s tion model in the world, Smart India Hackathon is a nation-wide ini- Studies Dr.Srinath Thakur, Principal Dr. Devi Charan Shetty graced the of seven teams from AKGEC won the Hackathon titles and each of
Convention themed `Company Secretary: A Vishwaguru in Gover- tiative organized jointly by the Ministry of Education’s Innovation occasion along with the heads & faculty members from various depart- the teams were awarded with rupees one Lac prize money. Dur-
nance & Sustainability’ will explore the renewed role & responsibility Cell, AICTE, Persistent Systems, & i4c. A total of 15 teams partici- ments of the dental college.VC Arpit Chadha, expressed great appreci- ing the grand finale, team Ideal Bits of AKGEC had the honor of inter-
of Company Secretaries in response to the changing dynamics of the pated in the event, working on 4 problem statements, provided by 2 ation & deep gratitude to all the teachers for their support and efforts in acting and explaining their application to the PM, Modi, who was
regulatory environment. org., namely, Coal India Ltd., & the Dept. of Food & Public Distribution. nurturing the minds of the future dentists. highly appreciative of the idea presented by the students.

CHAMPIONSHIP-AMITY UNIVERSITY
Amity University UP organized the “All India Karate Championship-20-
22”, in collaboration with Karate Welfare Society at Amity Univ. UP,
Noida Campus on 28th August 2022. The Championship Trophy
was won by UP Team, followed by Delhi Team as the 1st Runners Up
and Bihar Team as the 2nd Runners Up. The highlight of the Champi-
onship is a massive, 21ft high Trophy which is the world’s biggest
Trophy & is placed at Amity University Noida campus, itself, as a
souvenir of the Championship.
TALK SERIES- IMS GHAZIABAD
IMS Ghaziabad is humbled to share that under the leadership of Direc-
tor, Dr. Urvashi Makkar, the Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneur-
ship of the Institute organized a vital Expert Talk Series on “Ethical En-
trepreneurship” by Distinguished Speaker, Govind Dholakia, Founder
& Chairman, Shree Ramkrishna Exports Pvt. Ltd. (SRK), Surat, Gu-
jarat on August 24, 2022. The session was also graced by the pres-
ence of luminaries from the SRK group, Dr. Nirav Mandir; Vallabh
Dholakia; Kamlesh Yagnik; Tej Dholakia and Hill Selia.
TEACHER’S DAY- KR MANGALAM UNIVERSITY
KR Mangalam University& its School of Management & Commerce or-
ganised a PAN university teacher’s day event in accordance to Shik-
shak Parv 2022 anncounced by Ministry of Education & GOI.The
event was held in presence of Guest of Honor Prof. (Dr.) NK Chadha-
former Professor & HoD of Psychology, University of Delhi, VC, Prof
(Dr.) Chandra Shekhar Dubey& Pro VC Prof. (Dr.) Pushplata Tripathi.
Prof. (Dr.) P. Tripathi delivered the welcome address to the faculties of
KRMU followed by guest of honor Prof. (Dr.) N.K. Chadha.
PROJECT- SHARDA UNIVERSITY
Use of plastic is emerging as an adequate challenge to the entire human
race in the form of a threat to the environment. Keeping this in mind, the
scientists and researchers of Sharda University has come up with the
solution in the form of project titled "Smart Synthesis of Carbon Waste
Material from Hazardous Single Use Plastic around the Surroundings
for Energy Application". The Project is led by Prof. Pramod Kumar
Singh, HoD, Physics and Ritu Singh, Assistant Professor, Electronics
and Communication Engineering Sharda University.

EVENT- NALANDA UNIVERSITY
Addressing the inaugural event of ASEAN -India Network of Univer-
sity at Jakarta, MoS for External Affairs Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
commended the efforts of Nalanda University. “I am indeed grateful
to the Nalanda University for its diligent effort to implement the vision
of our PM in building a strategic partnership between institutions of
ASEAN & India for collective knowledge network". Commemorating
the 30 yrs of ASEAN-India Dialogue Relations.
LECTURE-JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Jerusalem’s Entrepreneurship Development Cell and Department of
Management Studies, of Jerusalem College of Engineering, Chennai
organised a Guest Lecture on “Entrepreneurship in Thirukkural”,
held on 26th August, 2022 for students of II year MBA and final
year students of Engineering. VK Srinivasan, Advisor – Application
services, DXC Technology Chennai, India, presided over the ses-
sion and discussed with students on various aspects of Thirukkural.
TRIP- UNITED GROUP
A flag-off session pertaining to the 15-day summer educational trip to the
prestigious Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok was held at UCER
Seminar hall, recently. As many as 70 shortlisted meritorious students
from all colleges of UGI alongwith their parents attended the ses-
sion.These students were selected among the 700 students of UGI who
had applied for this foreign trip. The exercise began with the registration
of these students & foreign exchange under the supervision of UGI.
CEREMONY- SRU
Recent inaugural ceremony organized in the University to set up the
training and skill center for the students where they get training and be-
come job ready for working in the industrial & corporate sectors of
various fields in the future.In the inaugural ceremony, MD at Chhattis-
garh State Electric Board Raipur Ujjwala Baghel, Country Head & Ex-
ecutive VP Toyota Kirloskar Motor. Vikram Gulati, GM Associate Toyota
Kirloskar Motor Varinder Kumar Wadhwa was the special guest.

HIMACHAL PRADESH PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT

Telephone No. 01970233116 E-mail ID: ee-deh-hp@nic.in
INVITATION FOR BIDS (IFB)
The Executive Engineer Dehra Division HPPWD Dehra H.P. on behalf of Governor of H.P. invites the item rate bids,in the electron-
ic tendering system from the eligible class of contractors registered with HPPWD for the works as detailed in the table.
Sr. Name of Work Estimated Starting date Earnest Deadline for
No. Cost for Money submission
(Rs.) downloading bid of bid
1 C/o Indoor Game Area/Stadium and Science Lab at Govt. Rs.2,11,07,119/- 14.09.2022 Rs.4,22,150/- 20.09.2022
Model Sr. Sec. School Majheen Ditrict Kangra (HP) (SH:- C/o 10.00 AM. (6.00 PM)
building portion including Water supply & Sanitary installation
& Rain Harvesting Tank & Site Development i/c RCC).

The bidders are advised to note other details of tender form the department website www.hptenders.gov in. Date of opening of
tender 21.09.2022.
Executive Engineer,
Dehra Division HP.PWD., Dehra
Pin No. 177101.Tel. No. 01970-233116.,
e-mail:- ee-deh-hp@nic.in
3822/HP HIM LOK SAMPARK on behalf of Governor of Himachal Pradesh

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in electronic tendering system in 2 Cover System for the under mentioned work from the eligible and approved contractor’s/Firm
registered with HPPWD Department.
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No Cost Tender of Contractor
1. C/o Langar Bhawan for Durga Mata Temple at Pujarli in G.P. Bag Dumehar Rs. Rs. Rs. Twelve Class C
Kotkhai, Distt. Shimla, H.P. (SH:- C/o, Building Portion. W.S. & S.I.) 1,15,95,882/- 1,48,500/- 5000/ Months & Class B

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3821/HP on behalf of Governor of Himachal Pradesh

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damage incurred as a result of 1 Augmentation/ Improvement for increasing population of 2,53,38,801/- 2,86,000/- Six 2500/-
transactions with companies, WSS Manali, Nasogi& group of villages in Tehsil Manali
Distt. Kullu H.P. (SH:- C/O Nallah intake, C/O
Months

associations or individuals Sedimentation tank 121000 ltrs. Cap., C/O slow sand
filter bed 182.0 sqm, C/o main storage tank of 483000
advertising in its newspapers ltrs. Cap., C/O RCC storage tank of 41000 ltrs. Cap., C/O
RCC storage tank of 49000 ltrs. Cap., C/O RCC storage
or Publications. We therefore tank of 157000 ltrs. Cap., C/O Locking & fencing
recommend that readers arrangement around the civil works, Site development,
C.O Trench weir, C/O complaint cell & chlorination
make necessary inquiries chamber, C/O Anchor block, C/O R/R pedestal and
laying, jointing and testing of gravity main) Part-1s
before sending any monies or 2 Augmentation/Improvement for increasing population of 1,02,66,687/- 1,35,167/- Six 1500/-
entering into any agreements WSS Manali, Nasogi& group of villages in Tehsil Manali Months
Distt. Kullu H.P. (SH:- C/O intake chamber, C/O
with advertisers or otherwise Sedimentation tank 28500 ltrs. Cap., C/O slow sand filter
bed 71.0 sqm, C/O main storage tank/clear water tank of
acting on an advertisement in 113000 ltrs. Cap., C?O Barbed wire fencing arround the
any manner whatsoever. civil structure, C/O Chlorinator chamber, C/O RCC
storage tank of 32000 ltrs. Cap., C/O RCC storage tank
of 53000 ltrs., site development for civil structures and
laying, jointing and testing of gravity main) Part-2nd
HIMACHAL PRADESH 3 Improvement of WSS GP Baragran&Zaindi Bari 1,11,66,763/- 1,44,168/- Six 1500/-
Patlikuhal in Tehsil Manali Distt. Kullu H.P. (SH:- C/O Months
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT Nallah intake, C/O Sedimentation tank, C/O filter bed,
Phone No.01903-221031 Fax: 01903-221031 C/O main storage tank, C/O sector storage tanks, C/O
INVITATION FOR BIDS (IFB) barbed wire fencing, Site development for C/O civil work,
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The Executive Engineer, Banjar Division, HP,PWD, Banjar on behalf of Governor of Himachal Pradesh invites the item laying, jointing & testing of gravity main line) in Phase-1st
rate bids in electronic tendering system from the eligible Class of Contractors registered with HPPWD for the works as detailed (Baragran) Job-1
in the table:- 4 Improvement of WSS Karjan, Sajla in GP Karjan tehsil 22,97,054/- 45,941/- Two 400/-
Sr. Name of Work Estimated Starting Date of Earnest Deadline for Manali Distt. Kullu (SH:- C/O RCC intake 1 No, Months
No Cost downloading money submission Chlorination chamber, Sedimentation tank 13,520 ltrs
(Rs.) Bid of Bid capacity, filter bed 41.86 Sqm, RCC storage tank 82,000
ltrs capacity 1 No and laying, jointing and testing of GMS
1 Improvement of Siund to Railla road Km.0/0 to 19/200. (SH:- 8,19,90,058 08.09.2022 1640000 21.9.2022 tube 80 mm dia at RD 0 to 2500 Rmt)
Metalling and Tarring work from Km.0/0 to 19/200).
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HIM SUCHNA AVAM JAN SAMPARK
Executive Engineer,
Executive Engineer
Banjar Division ,
HP.PWD., Banjar 175123 Jal Shakti Division
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BY UNNY
ED arrests NSE
ex-chief as it
probes money
laundering
Former NSE
MD & CEO
Ravi Narain
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6
THE ENFORCEMENT Directorate
Tuesday arrested Ravi Narain,
the former Managing Director
and CEO of the National Stock
Exchange (NSE), in connection
with a money laundering case
related to the alleged illegal
phone-tappingof theexchange's
employees. He was the MD and
CEO of the exchange between
April 1994 and March 2013, be-
fore being appointed its non-ex-
ecutive Vice-Chairman in April
2013. He served as the Vice-
Chairman till June 2017.
The ED had in July arrested
Chitra Ramkrishna (who had
taken over as the MD of the ex-
change from Narain) and former
MumbaiCommissionerof Police
Sanjay Pandey in the case.
CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
MODI SAYS TALKS SOON ON TRADE AGREEMENT
Delhi, Dhaka sign river pact, first
in 25 years; Hasina praises Modi
Hopeful pact on
Teesta waters too
will happen early,
says Bangla PM
SHUBHAJIT ROY
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6
VISITING BANGLADESH Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina said
Tuesday that “as long as Prime
Minister(Narendra)Modiishere,
Bangladesh and India will re-
solve” problems between them.
She said this in the context of
sharing river waters as the two
countries signed an interim wa-
ter sharing agreement for the
Kushiyara river, the first such
pact between them in over 25
years — the Ganga water treaty
was signed in 1996.
The two sides also decidedto
start negotiations on a
CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
Study: 11% of Class 3 kids lack basic
maths skills, 37% have limited skills
SOURAV ROY BARMAN
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6
A NATIONWIDE study carried
out by the Centre in March has
found that 37 per cent of stu-
dents enrolled in Class III have
“limited” foundational numer-
acy skills, such as identifying
numbers,while11percent“lack
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PM Narendra Modi with Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina at
Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Tuesday. Praveen Khanna
TRADENOWSETFORCEPABOOST EXPLAINED,PAGE13
the most basic knowledge and
The Covid skills”.
impact With a sample size of 86,000
students in 10,000 schools, the
THE STUDY shows out- study — the largest ever in terms
comes among children of scale at the foundational level
in lower primary classes —alsoassessedthe literacyskills
with limited experience of students in 20 languages in-
of classroom learning cluding English. While 15 per
due to Covid-19 curbs. cent lacked “basic skills” in
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Regulator gives nod
for first intra-nasal
Covid-19 vaccine
CDSCO’s green signal for emergency
On Rohingya, use in adults who are not immunised
Bangladesh asks ANONNA DUTT
India to lean NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6
on Myanmar THE NATIONAL drug regulator
has given the green signal to the
country's first intra-nasal Covid
NIRUPAMA
SUBRAMANIAN
vaccine for emergency use in
adults, the Government said on
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6 Tuesday.
Called iNCOVACC and manu-
AHEAD of her arrival in India,
Bangladesh Prime Minister
factured by Bharat Biotech, the
company behind Covaxin, the
SheikhHasinasaidtheRohingya new vaccine has been approved
were“abigburden”onhercoun- for primary immunisation — it
try, and suggested India could can be administered only to the
play a role in persuading unimmunised.
Myanmar to take them back. Officials said those who have
Briefing the media Tuesday already received the first and
on Hasina’s visit, Foreign second doses of other vaccines
Secretary Vinay Kwatra did not will not be eligible to get
respond directly to a flurry of iNCOVACC as the “precaution”
questions on whether the third dose.
Bangladesh side had raised the Yet, Tuesday's approval by
issue. the Central Drugs Standard
CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 Control Organisation (CDSCO) is
Across aisles, UP MLAs reach out —
EXPRESS NETWORK
as doctors, MBAs, engineers, women
KAPPAN BAIL PLEA:
HE IS PFI THINK TANK, MAULSHREE SETH
U.P. GOVT TELLS SC LUCKNOW, SEPTEMBER 6
RAHUL GANDHI THERE’S LITTLE in common be-
BEGINS BHARAT tween Alam Badi, 86, and Harsh
JODO YATRA TODAY Vardhan Bajpai, 42. Members of
NMC ALLOWS INDIAN rival parties in the UP Assembly
— Badi is a veteran Samajwadi
MEDICAL STUDENTS Party leader and Bajpai is a sec-
IN UKRAINE TO SHIFT ond-time MLA — the two have
TO OTHER NATIONS often faced off across the aisle.
PAGES 7, 8 Recently,however,thetwolegis-
lators, part of a group of engi-
New Delhi
significant: iNCOVACC will be
delivered through the nasal
route, which would potentially
trigger an immune response in
the mucosal membrane. It has
been designed to not only pro-
tect against infectionbut also re-
duce transmission of the virus.
Taking to Twitter, Union
Health Minister Mansukh
Mandaviya posted: “Big Boost to
India's Fight Against COVID-19!
Bharat Biotech's ChAd36-SARS-
CoV-S COVID-19 (Chimpanzee
Adenovirus Vectored) recombi-
nant nasal vaccine approved by
@CDSCO_INDIA_INFforprimary
immunizationagainstCOVID-19
in 18+ age group for restricted
use in emergency situation.”
The vaccine uses a modified
chimpanzee adenovirus, which
cannot replicate in the body, to
carry the Covid spike protein to
induce immunity.
CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
IN THE HOUSE
18 47
Doctors Women
16 70
Engineers Law degrees
15 50
Management MLAs below
degrees 40
126 first-timers
After Cyrus
incident, cars
to have alarm
for rear seat
belts: Gadkari
AVISHEK G DASTIDAR
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6
TWO DAYS after industrialist
Cyrus Mistry was killed in a car
crash, Road Transport and
HighwaysMinisterNitinGadkari
saidTuesdaythatseatbeltalarms
for those on rear seats will now
be a permanent feature in all
four-wheelers. A draft notifica-
tion will be issued soon, propos-
ingtomakethisamandatoryfea-
ture in all cars manufactured
afterthenewdirectiveisnotified.
Car manufacturers will be
given a lead time by which they
willhavetogettheiraffairsinor-
derforcomplianceinfuturecars.
“Because of the Cyrus inci-
dent, we havetakenthedecision
that all cars will have to have the
alarmforseatbelts,eventherear
ones. The order will be issued in
the next few days,” Gadkari told
reporters.
A provision to penalise rear
seat passengers for not wearing
CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
neer-MLAs in the House, sat
down to discuss how they could
use their professional degrees to
help their constituencies.
While Alam has a diploma in
engineering that goes back al-
most five decades, Bajpai gradu-
atedwithaBTechdegreein2007
from UK's Sheffield University.
In a first for the polarised and
partisanworldof UttarPradesh's
politics, an exercise by the
Speaker of the Assembly to
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On Rohingya
“OntheRohingyaissue,weall
know too well, and the interna-
tional community has also ac-
knowledged the role that
Bangladesh has played in giving
refugetoRohingyas.Theinterna-
tional community supports this
effort.AndIndiahasalsodoneso,
including giving economic help.
In days to come, whatever other
help may be required,
Governmentof Indiawillkeepin
mind. The Government of India
also supports a safe, stable and
earlyreturnofRohingyarefugees
toMyanmarfromothercountries.
In this connection, India will al-
waysplayaconstructiveroleand
will have a constructive view,”
Kwatra said.
Bangladesh,whichhostsover
amillionRohingyarefugees,how-
ever,hasmadeclearonseveraloc-
casionsthatIndiamustuseitsin-
fluence with the Myanmar junta
totakethemback.Evenbeforethe
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coup in Myanmar, Dhaka had
tried without success to get
Naypidaw to take the refugees
back. In recent weeks, the issue
has grown more complex for
Bangladeshwithaflare-upinthe
Rakhine state, which borders
Bangladesh, and which the
Rohingya consider their home.
Aninformalceasefireinplace
inRakhinesinceNovember2020
betweentheMyanmarArmyand
the Arakan Army (AA), an ethnic
armed organisation of Rakhine
Buddhists, has been fraying and,
muchtoDhaka’schagrin,thecon-
flict has been spilling over to the
Bangladeshside.TheAAhassofar
keptdistancefromthearmedre-
sistance to the junta by the “peo-
ple’s defence forces” and ethnic
armed organisations in other
partsofthecountry.Ithasnotex-
pressedsupportforthe“national
unity government” in exile.
Relationsweretensebetween
theAAandthepreviousAungSan
SuuKyi’sgovernmentwhichhad
Ayushi
Rank 48
CSE-2021
Tilak Nagar
Sunday 11th Sept.
10am to 12pm &
4pm to 6pm
Sd/- Chief Executive Officer,
A.P. Maritime Board
described the outfit as a terrorist
group. Formed in 2009, the AA is
fightingforself-determinationof
theRakhineBuddhists,whocon-
sider themselves to be ethnically
differentfromthemajorityBamar
Buddhists. Over the last two
months,however,thetruceisre-
portedtobebreakingdownasthe
Arakan Army attempts to domi-
nate Rakhine state. According to
reports from Myanmar, the AA
nowcontrolsoverhalfofthestate,
and is trying to establish domi-
nanceincrucialborderareas.The
Myanmar army is responding
with aerial bombardment, ar-
tillery and mortar shelling.
On at least two of those occa-
sions,theconflicthasspilledover
into Bangladesh. For the third
time in a week, the Bangladesh
Foreign Ministry summoned the
Myanmar envoy to Dhaka last
Sunday to express its “deep con-
cern” over the incidents of “mor-
tarshelling,indiscriminate aerial
firing in the border areas and air
space violations”.
Bangladesh has been asking
Delhi to use its good offices with
the Myanmar junta to take back
the Rohingya refugees who have
nowbeenlivinginasettlementin
Cox’s Bazar, now known as the
“world’s largest refugee camp”.
However, the conflict in
Rakhine state complicates any
repatriation effort, especially as
the AA is said to be in control of
manyareaswhereRohingyawere
formerlyliving.Thefreshconflict
has also created concerns of new
wavesofdisplacedpersonscross-
ing the border into Bangladesh.
According to the Bangladesh
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the
Myanmar envoy was told that
suchactivitiesareof“gravethreat”
to the safety and security of the
peace-loving people, violation of
border agreement between
Bangladesh and Myanmar and
contrarytothegoodneighbourly
relationship.Theambassadorwas
also urged to ensure that no tres-
passing by newly displaced
Myanmar residents takes place
from Rakhine. It was also con-
veyed to him that a safe, secure
and conducive environment in
theplaceoftheirorigininRakhine
is essential for sustainable and
voluntary repatriation of the dis-
placed Rohingyas from
Bangladesh, according to the
Bangladesh Foreign Ministry.
Before her arrival, Sheikh
Hasina toldtheANInewsagency
inaninterviewthat“Indiaisavast
country; you can accommodate,
but you don’t have much. But in
our country. We have 1.1 million
Rohingya.Weareconsultingwith
theinternationalcommunityand
also our neighbouring countries.
Theyshouldalsotakesomesteps
so that they can go back home,”
she said. Elections are due next
year in Bangladesh, and the
Rohingyaproblemcouldbecome
an issue for the ruling Awami
League as it campaigns for a
fourth successive term.
Covid vaccine
BharatBiotechdevelopedthe
new vaccine in partnership with
Washington University-St Louis.
While the US university devel-
oped the vector that carries the
spike protein and evaluated it in
pre-clinical studies, Bharat
Biotech is handling product de-
velopment and manufacturing.
The development of the vaccine
was partly funded by the
Department of Biotechnology’s
Covid Suraksha programme.
“iNCOVACC has the double
benefit of enabling faster devel-
opment of variant specific vac-
cinesandeasynasaldeliverythat
enables mass immunization to
protectfromemergingvariantsof
concern,”BharatBiotechsaidina
statement. “Being an intranasal
vaccine, BBV154 (iNCOVACC)
mayproducelocalantibodiesin
the upper respiratory tract,
whichmayprovidethepotential
to reduce infection and trans-
mission.”
Stableat2-8°C,whichmakes
iteasytostoreanddistribute,the
vaccinewillbemanufacturedat
multiple sites in thecountry,in-
cluding Gujarat, Karnataka,
Maharashtra and Telangana.
Delivered through a nasal
drop, the vaccine will do away
with the need for needles and
syringes that are currently re-
quiredforallavailableCovidvac-
cines.Itwillalsoreducedepend-
ence on trained personnel to
administer the shots.
AccordingtoBharatBiotech,
the vaccine was found to be
“safe, well-tolerated, and im-
munogenic”whencomparedto
itsownCovaxininaphaseIIItrial
of nearly 3,100 participants
across14sitesinIndia.Thecom-
panyalsoconductedatrialwith
875 participants to see whether
the vaccine may be used as a
booster in those who received
Covaxin or Covishield as their
primary vaccine.
Indiahas,sofar,administered
atotalof213crorevaccinedoses,
ofwhich102crorearefirstdoses,
according to the Government’s
CoWINportal.Nearly98percent
of adults in India had received at
leastonedosebythethirdweekof
July, according to the Union
Health Ministry. Currently,
Covishield,CovaxinandCorbevax
are part of the Government’s
Covid immunisation drive while
vaccineslikeCovovaxandSputnik
are available at private centres.
DrKrishnaElla,chairmanand
managing director of Bharat
Biotech,said,“Weareproudtoan-
nounce the approval of
iNCOVACC... Despite the lack of
demand for COVID-19 vaccines,
we continued product develop-
mentinintranasalvaccinestoen-
sure we are well prepared with
platform technologies for future
infectious diseases.”
(WITHENS,PUNE)
Rear seat belts
seatbeltsisalreadypresentinthe
MotorVehiclesAct,2019.Officials
saidthealarmrulewillmakeitin-
convenient for rear seat passen-
gers to ignore seat belts.
Car sensors are installed in
suchawaythatiftheseatbeltclip
orthebuckleisnotfastenedthen
the alarm goes off.
Gadkari said that many peo-
ple, in order to rig the system, at-
tachjusttheclip,purchasedfrom
outside, without the belt. “We
havealsomadeamovetogetthe
manufacture and sale of those
clips declared illegal by the
Consumer Affairs Ministry,” he
said. He said the Ministry is also
mullingamovetomakeseatbelts
mandatory for passengers in in-
ter-city buses to begin with.
The government, Gadkari
said,isaimingtomakeitmanda-
tory for eight-seater cars to have
at least six airbags in cars manu-
facturedafterOctober1thisyear.
A draft notification in this regard
was already issued in January.
Airbags are more effective if pas-
sengers fasten their seat belts.
Gadkari will be chairing a
meeting of the Transport
DevelopmentCouncil,whichhas
representationfromallstates,on
September 8 in Bengaluru.
“Iwillraisetheissuesofspeed
limits and other enforcement
matters there,” he said, adding
thathewillalsoraisethematterof
cappingvolumesofvehiclehorns
to 70 decibel. “Also, I feel there
couldbesweet-soundinghorns.”
Road safety activists wel-
comedthemovefortherearseat
belt alarm. “In about 35 per cent
of the accident deaths, the cause
wefindisnon-usageofseatbelts,
especially rear seat belts. The
alarm is a welcome step, as seat
belts stop collision of passengers
withintheinteriorsofthecarand
alsoejectionintheeventofanac-
cident. We are hopeful that the
automobile industry will also
welcomethismove,”saidPiyush
Tewary of NGO SaveLIFE
Foundation which collaborates
with states as well as Gadkari’s
ministry on road safety matters.
NSE ex-chief
Ramkrishna was the MD and
CEO of NSE from April 2013 to
December 2016.
The agency has claimed that
iSecSecuritiesPvtLtd,anITaudit
firmlinkedtoPandey,hadillegally
tappedphonesofNSEemployees
between 2009 and 2017 upon
Ramakrishna’s instructions.
SourcessaidNaraintoohadarole
inallowingillegalphonetapping.
The present ED case is based on
an FIR registered recently by the
Central Bureau of Investigation
against Pandey, iSec Securities
and Ramkrishna, among others.
Seeking Ramkrishna’s remand,
the ED had told the court of
SpecialJudgeSunenaSharmathat
the payment of Rs 4.54 crore to
iSecSecuritiesfor“periodicstudy
of cyber vulnerabilities” was al-
legedly phone tapping.
“The work orders/ contracts/
agreements were processed by
Chitra Ramkrishna during her
tenure as Deputy Managing
Director and Managing Director
of NSE. During the entire period
ofoffencei.e.,from01.01.2009till
13.02.2017,MsChitraRamkrishna
washoldingthepositionofeither
Deputy Managing Director (till
2010)orJointManagingDirector
(till 2013) or Managing Director
(tillDecember,2016)of NSE,”the
ED told the court.
It also alleged there was evi-
dence to show that iSec Services
contract was coterminous with
Chitra Ramkrishna’s stint in NSE.
“Itisfurtheraverredthatafter
she relinquished the post of
Managing Director of NSE in
December, 2016, the contract for
so called ‘Periodic Study of Cyber
VulnerabilitiesofNSE’expiredon
13.02.2017 and was never re-
newed subsequently, thus prov-
ing that the said illegal activity
was co-terminus with her hold-
ingkeypositionasJointManaging
Director/Managing Director of
NSE,” the ED had said.
This is the second case relat-
ingtomanipulationoftheNSEco-
location facility by some brokers.
ThefirstEDcaseisbasedonaCBI
FIRwhichhasallegedthatduring
Delhi, Dhaka sign river pact, first in 25 yrs
comprehensive trade pact and
strengthencooperationagainst
terrorism and radicalism.
Speaking after her bilateral
meeting with Prime Minister
ModiinNewDelhi,Hasinasaid:
“Both countries have achieved
remarkable progress in a num-
berof areas.Irecallthatthetwo
countries have resolved many
outstanding issues in the spirit
of friendship and cooperation,
andhopethatalloutstandingis-
suesincludingtheTeestawater-
sharingtreatywillbeconcluded
at an early date.”
“Today,IthankMrModithat
we resolved the issue of
Kushiyara(river)…soIknowas
long as Prime Minister Modi is
here, Bangladesh and India will
resolvealltheseproblems,”she
said, Modi by her side.
ShemetPresidentDroupadi
Murmu and Vice President
Jagdeep Dhankhar.
Earlierintheday,Hasinasaid
that friendship can solve any
problem. Modi said the
Kushiyarapactwillbenefitpeo-
ple in southern Assam and
Sylhet in Bangladesh. He also
thetenureofRamkrishnaasCEO,
some stock brokers illegally got
preferential access to the NSE
server through its co-location fa-
cility leading to huge financial
gains to them.
Class 3 students
English, 30 per cent were found
to have “limited skills”.
The study was carried out
jointly by the Union Ministry of
Education and the National
Council of Educational Research
and Training (NCERT) between
March23-26.UnliketheNational
Achievement Survey (NAS),
which evaluates learning out-
comesofstudentsinClassesIII,V,
VIIIandXthroughatestbasedon
multiplechoicequestions(MCQs)
every three years, the findings of
the Foundational Learning Study
(FLS) were based on one-to-one
interviewswitheachparticipant.
“Since the study was inter-
view-based,adryrunwascarried
outsothattheinteractionsof the
studentswiththefieldinvestiga-
tors were standardised.
Otherwise, the same student
would be assessed differently by
two different investigators,” said
an official. Depending on their
performance, the students were
categorised into four groups:
those who lacked the most basic
knowledgeandskills;thosewho
hadlimitedknowledgeandskills;
those who had developed suffi-
cient knowledge and skills; and
those who had developed supe-
rior knowledge and skills.
According to a copy of the re-
port seen by The Indian Express,
students who could partially
complete their grade-level tasks
were put in the “limited skills”
group, while those who failed to
completeeventhesimplegrade-
level tasks were categorised as
“lacking the most basic skills”.
In numeracy, Tamil Nadu, at
29 per cent, had the maximum
number of students who could
not complete the most basic
grade-level tasks, followed by
Jammu and Kashmir (28 per
cent), Assam, Chhattisgarh and
Gujarat (18 per cent).
At the national level, 11 per
centdidnothavethebasicgrade-
level skills; 37 per cent had lim-
ited skills; 42 per cent had suffi-
cient skills; and 10 per cent had
superior skills.
The tasks included number
identification, number discrimi-
nation (identifying the bigger
number), addition and subtrac-
tion, division and multiplication,
fractions, identifying patterns
comprisingnumbersandshapes.
The states and Union territo-
ries where over 40 per cent chil-
drenfellinthe“limitedskills”cat-
egory included Arunachal
Pradesh(49percent),Chandigarh
(47percent),Chhattisgarh(41per
cent), Goa (50 per cent), Gujarat
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said that the two countries will
share the data on floods.
The two sides, Modi said,
will start discussions on a trade
agreement,underliningthatthe
Covid-19 pandemic and the re-
cent geopolitical challenges
make it essential to strengthen
bilateral economic ties.
“Withtheexpansionofcon-
nectivity between our two
countries,andthedevelopment
of trade infrastructure on the
border, the two economies will
be able to connect more with
each other, support each other.
Our bilateral trade is growing
rapidly.Today,Indiaisthelargest
market in Asia for Bangladesh’s
exports. To further accelerate
this growth, we will soon start
discussions on the Bilateral
Comprehensive Economic
Partnership Agreement,” he
said. Besides the agreement on
the Kushiyara water-sharing,
the two sides signed pacts on
railways, space, IT and media.
The spirit of the 1971 war
was also invoked by the two
leaders in their statements.
Modi said, “Today, we also
(44 per cent), Haryana (41 per
cent), Madhya Pradesh (46 per
cent),Nagaland(56percent),and
Tamil Nadu (48 per cent ).
In literacy, the findings were
based on phonological aware-
ness, decoding letters, decoding
words, decoding non-words,
readingfluencyandcomprehen-
sion. For instance, a child was
made to read a text aloud and
asked questions based on that
text, which was not from the
school syllabus.
In English, 15 per cent stu-
dents were found to be lacking
even basic skills, 30 per cent had
limitedskills,21percenthadsuf-
ficientskills,while34percenthad
fairly superior skills.
InHindi,21percentfellunder
the worst performing bracket,
while32percenthadlimitedpro-
ficiency.AmongotherIndianlan-
guages, the proportion of stu-
dentswholackedbasicskillswas:
17percentinMarathi,20percent
inBengali,17percentinGujarati,
17 per cent in Malayalam, 42 per
cent in Tamil, and 25 per cent in
Urdu.Theproportionof students
who had limited skills in these
languages was: 39 per cent in
Marathi,43percentinBengali,40
percentinGujarati,39percentin
Malayalam, 35 per cent in Tamil,
and 40 per cent in Urdu.
That the findings are impor-
tant is underlined in the report,
with Education Minister
DharmendraPradhandescribing
the study as “critical”, stressing
that the ability to read and write,
and perform basic operations
with numbers, is a necessary
foundation and an “indispensa-
ble prerequisite for all future
schooling”.
School Education Secretary
AnitaKarwalhassaidthat“80-90
per cent of the brain develops by
the time a child is 6-7 years old.
Thatiswhythefocusonbuilding
a strong foundation for better
growth, development and learn-
inginearlyyearsbecomesoneof
themostimportantindicatorsfor
the development of a productive
and efficient human capital”.
According to the report, the
findings will set the baseline for
NIPUNBharat(NationalInitiative
for Proficiency in Reading with
Understanding and Numeracy),
the Centre's scheme to improve
foundationallearning.“Thestudy
alsoaimstoestablishreadingpro-
ficiency benchmarks for fluency
and comprehension for each of
the languages being assessed. It
willalsoprovidedatatoreporton
Sustainable Development Goals
at the global level,” it said.
UP MLAs
group legislators according to
theirprofessionaldegrees,gender
and legislative stints, is helping
themexchangeideasandexperi-
ences without the constraint of
New Delhi
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stressedoncooperationagainst
terrorism and radicalism. To
keepthespiritof 1971alive,itis
also very important that we to-
gether fight such forces, which
wanttoattackourmutualtrust.”
Hasina said, “We are grate-
fulfortheinvaluablesupportex-
tendedbytheGovernmentand
the people of India in the great
WarofLiberationofBangladesh
in1971whichwasawatershed
moment in our bilateral rela-
tions. Since then, Bangladesh-
Indiatiesareanchoredinshared
historyandculture,mutualtrust
and respect... I appreciate
Modiji’s visionary leadership
that continues to provide mo-
mentum to our bilateral rela-
tions.”
She said, “I reiterate that
Indiaisthemostimportantand
closest neighbour for
Bangladesh. Bangladesh-India
bilateral relations are known to
be Role Model for
Neighborhood diplomacy.”
Hasina also announced the
Mujib Scholarship on Tuesday
forthedirectdescendantsofthe
Indian soldiers killed or griev-
party whips and ideologies.
Sofar,SpeakerSatishMahana
hasheldmeetingswithatleastsix
such groups – of doctors, engi-
neers, management degrees,
women, MLAs under 40 years of
age, and those who have had five
or more legislative terms.
Started about a month and a
half ago by the Speaker as an ini-
tiative to “develop a better rap-
port”withtheMLAsandfor“bet-
ter functioning” of the
403-member-strong House, it is
nowaplatformforlegislatorscut-
ting across party lines to bond
over shared concerns and come
up with solutions.
The UP Assembly, which has
for long fought a severe percep-
tion battle – over 50 per cent of
the MLAs have a criminal back-
ground, according to the latest
data by the Association of
DemocraticReforms(ADR)–has,
with this exercise, come up with
someflatteringdataonitsMLAs:
the18thAssemblyhas18doctors,
16 engineers, 15 with manage-
ment degrees, over 70 with law
degrees, 47 women, 126 first-
timers, and about 50 MLAs who
are below 40.
“People think of MLAs as be-
ing uneducated and rowdy. As a
member of the UP Assembly for
over three decades, I know that
this is not true. I hope to change
that perception by motivating
memberstousetheirprofessional
skills,alongwiththeirleadership
qualities,” said Speaker Mahana.
“Ihaveaskeddifferentgroups
to use their professional skills for
the betterment of their con-
stituencies. For instance, MLAs
with a medical degree can work
as a link between the Chief
Medical Officers in their con-
stituencies and the government,
and take proposals forward,” he
added. As the Speaker's office
grouped the MLAs, they realised
thatsomeonelikeDrSurabhi,the
Apna Dal (Sonelal) MLA from
KaimganjinFarrukhabad,would
have to be grouped in multiple
baskets – and attend multiple
meetings. Surabhi is a dentist by
training and also has a degree
from IIM Calcutta. Besides, as a
womanlegislator,shewouldhave
to be in the group for women
MLAs as well.
At one such session with the
Speaker, women MLAs, cutting
across party lines, spoke of how
their male colleagues usually set
the agenda while they did not
haveenoughopportunitytobring
uptheirissues.Followingthisses-
sion, the Speaker promised to
take the issue to the Business
AdvisoryCommitteeoftheHouse
and said that an entire day could
be set aside for women MLAs in
theupcomingsessionoftheState
Assembly expected later this
month.“Whenthewomenlegis-
latures spoke of how most of
ously injured in the 1971
BangladeshLiberationWar.The
awards will be conferred on
Wednesday, she said.
The award is named after
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman, Hasina’s father.
As many as 1,984 Indian
Army personnel were killed in
the war, according to the
Bangladeshi government.
Earlier, Modi welcomed
Hasina at the Rashtrapati
Bhavan forecourt in New Delhi,
where she was accorded a tri-
services guard of honour.
Interactingwithreportersat
RashtrapatiBhavan,Hasinasaid
hertalkswithModiwouldfocus
on improving the condition of
the people in their respective
countries, poverty alleviation
and economic development.
Hasina also offered floral
tributes at Mahatma Gandhi’s
memorial in Rajghat. Congress
leader Rahul Gandhi called on
her and later said, "India and
Bangladesh are natural allies
and it’s crucial that both our
countries work towards
strengthening this bond."
themfelthesitantwhiletryingto
raise their issues inside the
Assembly,Itoldthemthatasrep-
resentatives, they should only
think of themselves as represen-
tativesof thepeople.Someof the
senior women legislators even
cameupwithsuggestionsforthe
younger MLAs.”
Speaking to the Indian
Express, Aradhana Mishra, one
of onlytwoCongressMLAsinthe
House, who was part of the
meeting with women MLAs,
said,“Twomajorconcernscame
up during the meeting – one,
thatmanyof usdonotgetanop-
portunity to speak in the
Assembly, which could be be-
cause we are fewer in numbers.
TheSpeaker haspromised to set
aside one day for us to put our
questions in the House. The sec-
ond concern for some was that
whenweapproachgovernment
officials for issues related to our
constituencies, they do not re-
spond the way they do to our
male colleagues. To this, the
Speakerpromisedthatprivileges
of women MLAs would be pro-
tected and he would take note if
suchanissuecametohisnotice.”
SP MLA from Arya Nagar,
Amitabh Bajpai, 48, who has an
MBA from Bundelkhand
University,said,“Wetendtoforget
howourprofessionalbackground
can come in handy for resolving
public issues. After the meeting,
it was decided that all of us with
management degrees could
come up with a better public
grievanceredressalsysteminour
constituencies. I have started a
WhatsApp group for people to
share complaints related to wa-
ter, power and roads. I have also
included local officials in the
group, so now, every morning, I
get updates on issues that were
raised and subsequently re-
solved.”
Neeraj Bora, BJP MLA from
Lucknow, who has degrees in
medicineaswellasmanagement,
said, “It came out during the
meeting that we could monitor
the local health services better
withourprofessionalbackground
and can act as a link between
health officials working on the
groundandthestategovernment
to raise the issues of immediate
concern.”
The Speaker's office said that
withoneroundof meetingsheld
with members of all six groups –
doctors, engineers, MBAs,
women, those below 40, and
MLAswhohavebeenelectedfive
or more times – next on the
agenda is a meeting with MLAs
who have a degree in law, fol-
lowed by those from agriculture
or farming backgrounds. “That
shouldcoveralltheMLAs,”saida
source in the Assembly.
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Of 56 cities in AAP TARGETS PM: ‘HE INSTRUCTED ED’
North India,
Ghaziabad
most polluted;
Delhi, Noida, NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6 Manish Sisodia are not being
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE that the premises of Deputy CM
Faridabad next THE ENFORCEMENTDirectorate ducted
EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6
OFABOUT56citiesinNorthIndia
forwhichdataonPM2.5levelsin
2021 were considered in a study
by the Centre for Science and
Environment (CSE), Ghaziabad
was found to be the most pol-
luted, followed by Delhi,
Faridabad and Noida.
The annual average PM2.5
level in 2021 in Ghaziabad was
found to be 116 µg/m3, while it
was 109 µg/m3 in Delhi, 106
µg/m3 in Faridabad, and 101
µg/m3 in Noida.
Delhi, Ghaziabad and Noida
areonthelistof ‘non-attainment
cities’thatreceivefundingunder
the National Clean Air
Programme (NCAP). Only seven
cities in the NCR region are cov-
ered under two central govern-
ment programs that provide
funds to mitigate air pollution. In
additiontoDelhi,Ghaziabadand
Noida, Khurja and Alwar are also
on the list of non-attainment
cities, which are required to re-
duce air pollution by 20% to 30%
by 2024 under the NCAP.
Faridabad and Meerut receive
funds under the 15th Finance
Commission.
The CSE analysis notes that
onlytheseNCRcitiesareincluded
in the funding schemes “despite
the known fact that at least 26
NCR cities/towns are highly pol-
luted given the data available
from official real-time monitor-
ing”. Avikal Somvanshi, senior
programmemanager,UrbanLab,
CSE, said, “All cities in the NCR
that are monitoring, including
Gurgaon, Rohtak, Bulandshahr,
are not getting funding under
NCAP,andthesecitieshavePM2.5
levels that are high and don’t
meetthestandards.Theproblem
here is that CPCB (Central
PollutionControlBoard)hasonly
used PM10 data from manual
monitors (to decide inclusion or
exclusion in these funding
schemes) and these cities don’t
havemanualmonitors,theyonly
have real-time monitors. Also,
manualmonitoringisverypoorly
done in India. It’s a bureaucratic
faultbecausethesearehighlypol-
luted cities.”
Somvanshiadded,“Ingeneral
we observed, compared to the
rest of the country, NCR cities
haveshownimprovementinthe
last three years, which is despite
most of these cities not getting
any funding. There is no differ-
ence as such in the outcomes of
these cities whether they were
fundedornotfunded,whichputs
a question mark on whether
funding is actually helping.”
The annual PM2.5 level in
Delhibetween2019and2021de-
creased by just around 1%, going
by the analysis, which used data
from the CPCB. In 2019, the aver-
age annual PM2.5 level was 110
µg/m3.Itdroppedto97µg/m3in
2020, on account of the lock-
downs, according to the study,
before climbing back up to 109
µg/m3 in 2021.
BRIEFLY
Ownerbooked
afterpetdog
bites9-yr-old
Ghaziabad: A nine-year-
oldboywasbittenbyapet
Beagle inside a lift at an
apartment complex in
Ghaziabad's Raj Nagar
Extension Monday. Police
saidtheyhaveregistereda
case against the owner of
the dog based on a com-
plaint by the boy’s father.
Boykillsfather
witharolling
pin,held
New Delhi: The Delhi
Police have apprehended
a 17-year-old boy for al-
legedly beating his father
to death with a rolling pin
after he found he was al-
legedly abusing his
mother. The deceased
worked with the Railway
Protection Special Force
andwashitalmosttwenty
times, said police. ENS
ED raids 35 locations across India over excise policy
an ED official said, confirming
raided. The CBI had earlier con-
raids on Sisodia’s prem-
conducted searches at 35 loca-
tions acrossthecountrypertain-
ingtoamoneylaunderingprobe
it has registered in connection
with the Delhi government’s
now scrapped liquor policy.
Sources said the searches
were conducted at different lo-
cationsinDelhi,Noida,Gurgaon,
Mumbai, Chennai, Chandigarh
and Jalandhar, among other
places. They said the searches
were aimed at various vendors,
distributors and middlemen en-
gaged by the Delhi government
under the policy.
“PeoplementionedintheCBI
FIRasaccusedandtheirconduits
are being raided. No leader of
AAPisbeingsearchedcurrently,”
Kartavya Path is ready
Six new parking lots; over 400 benches; amphitheatres for public performances; 64 toilets for women, 32 for men and 10 for the differently abled;
underpasses for barrier-free crossing; 16 permanent walkway bridges are some of the new features at the India Gate and Rajpath lawns. Abhinav Saha & Express
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6
OFFICES AND departments lo-
cated in the New Delhi district
will remain shut after 4 pm, and
officials will be asked to work
from home on Thursday, as the
inauguration of the Central Vista
Avenue, which is expected to be
renamedtoKartavyaPath today,
is scheduled in the evening.
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi will inaugurate the stretch
on Thursday after 6 pm and
most roads in and around the
area will be shut between 6 pm
and 9 pm.
The revamped Central Vista
avenue, which is slated to be in-
auguratedModionThursday,in-
cludes around 16.5 km of gran-
ite walkways that lie parallelly
along both sides of Rajpath. The
canals that lie on either side of
Rajpath now have bridges over
them connecting the walkways
that run alongside. A total of 16
bridges, eight over each of two
canals, have been laid out. The
ARRESTED FROM DELHI
Rs 10 cr villa, govt links, 3 wives: Meet man who stole 5,000 cars
EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6
ONE OF India's biggest automo-
bile thieves, Anil Chauhan, has
been arrested by the Delhi Police
fromCentralDelhiafterapursuit
spanning over three months.
Chauhan is accused of stealing
more than 5,000 cars and is
knownforhislavishlifestylewith
expensive clothes, gold bracelets
and a villa worth Rs 10 crore.
Police said he would take
ises.
Among the locations
searched on Tuesday, sources
said, is the Jor Bagh residence of
Sameer Mahendru, the
Managing Director of Indospirit
Group, who is an accused in the
case.
The ED case, registered three
daysago,isbasedonaCBIFIRfiled
last month. The CBI had booked
Sisodia, three excise department
officialsandvariousvendorsand
distributors among the 15 ac-
cused it had arraigned in its FIR.
The CBI FIR had stated:
“Praveen Kumar Rai, Director,
MHA… has conveyed directions
of competent authority for en-
quiry into the matter of irregu-
lawns have been spruced up.
Underpasses, that also have
ramps for differently-abled per-
sons, have been built along the
stretch to allow pedestrians to
cross over.
The stretch includes storm
water drains to prevent water-
loggingof thelawns.Effortswere
madetoensurethespaceiswell-
lit with five rows of light poles
installed along the stretch.
Infrastructure like power cables
and pipelines have been laid in
underground trenches.
Amenities will include toilet
blocks and vending kiosks.
In the lead up to the inaugu-
ration of the Central Vista on 8th
September, the Delhi Traffic
Police have issued a traffic advi-
sory for that day, anticipating a
largenumberof arrivals post-in-
auguration.
The Traffic Police announced
general traffic diversions from 6
pm to 9 pm on several roads to
ensurethesafetyof children and
pedestrians, and smooth traffic
movementinNewDelhiDistrict.
The diversions (beginning at the
flights from North Eastern states
to the capital to commit thefts
and then travel back.
The52-year-oldhasbeensuc-
cessfully selling stolen cars in
Gangtok, parts of Assam, Nepal
and other places with the help of
25-30 associates. Though he has
been arrested before, police said
searching for him was not a sim-
ple task.
A team led by inspector
SandeepGodaraprobedtheftsof
high-end SUVs and sedans in
Central Delhi and suspected
ANANDVIHAR
Poor
251
AQI
PM: 10
0 500
0-50 Good
Among the locations searched is the Jor Bagh residence of
Sameer Mahendru, an accused in the case. Abhinav Saha
larities in framing and imple-
mentation of the excise policy of
GNCTD of Delhi for the year
2021-22 by Central Bureau of
Investigation. He has also for-
warded a letter of L-G Vinai
Kumar Saxena alleging irregu-
C Hexagon at each road) would
stretch from Tilak Marg to the
Bhagwan Dass Road Crossing,
Purana Qila Road to Mathura
Road,ShershahRoadtoMathura
Road, Dr Zakir Hussain Marg to
Subramanian Bharti Marg
Crossing, Pandora Road to
Subramanian Bharti Marg
Crossing, Shahjahan road to Q
point, Akbar Road to R/A
Mansingh Road, Ashoka Road to
R/A Jaswant Singh Road, KG
Marg to Madhav Rao Scindia
Marg Crossing, and Copernicus
Marg to Madhav Rao Scindia
Marg Crossing.
The Traffic Police also an-
nounced several diversion
points for buses from 6 pm to 9
pm, requesting the DTC, DIMTS
and others to plan accordingly.
The DTC has also been asked
to organise a ‘park and ride’ fa-
cilities to the C-Hexagon from
Bhairon Road, Rajghat,
Connaught Place and Jawaharlal
Nehru Stadium.
Visitors havebeenadvised to
avoid cabs and private vehicles
and use these facilities instead.
Chauhan. “Teams were sent to
Assam,Sikkim,NepalandNCRto
look for him. To evade arrest, he
roams around in expensive cars
and poses as a businessman or a
government official. He was a
contractor working with the
Assam government and has
sources there,” said an officer.
OnAugust23,policereceived
atipoffthatChauhanwasinDelhi
and is planning to commit more
thefts with his associates.
“We arrested him from DBG
roadwithabikeandapistol.Later,
SIRIFORT
Moderate
114
AQI
PM: 10
0 500
51-100 Satisfactory 101-200 Moderate
larities in framing and imple-
mentation of the excise policy.
The OM is enclosed herewith,
which discloses that Manish
Sisodia, Deputy CM; Arava Gopi
Krishna, then Commissioner
(Excise); Anand Tiwari, then
Some of the cars stolen by
Anil Chauhan
SHADIPUR
Moderate
122
AQI
PM: 10
0 500
201-300 Poor 301-400 Very Poor
Deputy Commissioner (Excise);
and Pankaj Bhatnagar, Assistant
Commissioner (Excise) were in-
strumental in recommending
and taking decisions pertaining
to excise policy for the year
2021-22 without the approval
of competent authority with an
intention to extend undue
favours to the licencees post ten-
der.”
“Apart from the above, reli-
able sources have revealed that
Vijay Nair, former CEO of Only
Much Louder, an entertainment
and event management com-
pany; Manoj Rai, former em-
ployee of Pernod Ricard;
Amandeep Dhal, owner of
Brindco Spirits; and Sameer
Mahendru, owner of Indospirit,
areactivelyinvolvedinirregular-
itiesinframingandimplementa-
tionof excisepolicy,”theCBIsaid
in its FIR.
five more pistols were recovered
from his possession,” said the of-
ficer.
Over the last two decades,
Chauhan has not only dealt in
stealing cars but also poached
rare animals such as rhinos for
theirhorns.Policesaidhealsoal-
legedlysmugglesillegalweapons
with his cars. He is involved in
over 181 cases and was declared
a proclaimed offender by the
court. The ED has seized his 10
crore villa and other assets.
“He never stops. He has been
New Delhi
ITO S K Y WA T C H
Moderate
108
AQI
PM: 10 500
0
MAX: 37
401-500 Severe 2.7°Cabovenormal
AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay
Singh, meanwhile, said the raids
were carried out to “fraudu-
lently” linkthem to Sisodia. “PM
Modi has instructed the ED to
conduct raids all over the coun-
tryandfraudulentlylinkthemto
Dy CM Manish Sisodia. Why has
there been no CBI-ED investiga-
tion into the Rs 110 crore MP
RationScamandRs10,000crore
illegal liquor trade in Gujarat?
BJP's central government is con-
spiring against the AAP because
of its fear of Kejriwal's rising
popularity in Gujarat… The
Prime Minister is disturbed by
the mockery which his party BJP
has subjected itself to. He is sad
that they tried, they unleashed
the CBI, they raided the resi-
dence of Manish Sisodia for 14
hours. They dug up everything
possible and yet they could not
find anything against him…
BJP’s plan to keep
pressure on AAP:
Hop on the Metro
ABHINAV RAJPUT
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6
THE BJP Delhi leadership has
beentoldtocarryoutasustained
campaignagainsttheAAPliquor
policy and train guns on them at
least till the Gujarat and
Himachal assembly elections,
sources in the party said.
To this end, the party MPs
from Delhi will be travelling on
the Metro in the coming days,
which would be followed by
campaigns, including nukkad
sabhas and two-day outreach
programmes by party president
JP Nadda, senior leaders said.
BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri said
all MPs present in Delhi at pres-
ent would take the Metro over
the next few days. He said the
idea is to go among the people
andspeaktothemaboutcorrup-
tion. On Wednesday, 13 leaders,
including MP Manoj Tiwari and
national vice-president
BaijayantPanda,willtravelinthe
Metro.TiwariwilltaketheMetro
train from Lakshmi Nagar and
Bidhuri from Vishwavidyalaya.
Party chief Nadda will hold a
two-day pravas (outreach) in
Delhi during which he will meet
party workers till the mandal-
level to inject fresh energy on
how to take the message to the
masses, said an office bearer in
the state unit.
Sources said the party lead-
ers have been told to go all guns
blazing,especiallytilltheVidhan
Sabha polls in Gujarat and
Himachal as the party believes
Decongestion plan to
tackle traffic woes
BHUMIKA SALUJA
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6
THE DELHI government is im-
plementing a large-scale decon-
gestion plan to combat traffic
snarls within the national capi-
tal. The project aims to make
Delhi free of traffic jams by re-
designing roads and construct-
ing flyovers, underpasses and
foot-over bridges across 77 traf-
fic hotspots.
Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal, who held a meeting
with senior officials Thursday,
said, “We will soon make 77
arrested several times but goes
backtostealingcars.Hehasthree
mainreceivers–inAssam,Nepal
and Gangtok. He steals cars from
Delhi, Noida and Meerut and
takes them to his receivers. All
cars are sold within a month or
twotoeludepolice.Chauhanonly
takesflightstogobacktohishide-
outstoshowheisnotinvolvedin
any crime,” added the officer.
Chauhanhadthreewivesand
seven children, who left him af-
ter the ED raids and arrest. Police
said two of the wives claimed
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Then he fielded the ED… I warn
the Prime Minister to stop play-
ing this gimmick,” he said.
Revenue Rs 269 crore
in 6 days: Excise dept
The Excise Department said
Tuesday that revenue of Rs 269
crore has been generated in the
six days since the old excise pol-
icy came into force on
September 1.
At present, 350 liquor shops
run by the government are open
in the city and 150 more are ex-
pected to open soon.
The now-scrapped Excise
policy had made a major change
in revenue collection models,
with a hefty license fee — rang-
ing from Rs 250 crore to Rs 350
crore — to be paid upfront
monthly to the government and
the revenue from VAT being re-
duced.
that they need to “counter and
expose” AAP in Delhi if it wants
to stop it in other parts of the
country.
The AAP is the only party be-
sides Congress and BJP with
Chief Ministersintwostates.The
elections in Gujarat and
Himachal are scheduled for
November-December.
Senior leaders in the party
saidthewholecampaignagainst
the AAP ever since the arrest of
HealthMinisterSatyendarJainis
being closely monitored by the
central leadership.
The senior leader said Delhi
BJP received clear instructions
fromthecentralleadershiptore-
formulate its communication
strategy and “build a narrative”
against the AAP – something it
has failed to do in recent times.
It is for the first time in years
that the central office is being
used more than the state office
for holding press briefings on
Delhi issues, with central senior
spokespersonslikeSambitPatra,
Gaurav Bhatia and all MPs tak-
ing an active stand on issues.
BJP spokesperson Harish
Khuranasaidthepartywouldhit
where it would hurt the AAP the
most – its plank of being born
out of an anti-corruption move-
ment and its projection as an
honest party.
The leaders have also been
instructed to stick to attacking
the AAP over the liquor policy
and not get into a debate on the
PM vs the CM, or any other de-
bate that AAP tries to pull them
into, said another BJP leader.
points jam-free on the roads of
Delhi. I held a meeting with
PWD today and discussed the
entire plan in detail. To make
such corridors jam-free, we will
take up widening of roads, build
underpasses, flyovers and foot-
over bridges.”
Several stretches on the
Outer Ring Road will also be re-
constructed. This includes the
stretch from Mangolpuri flyover
to Madhuban Chowk, the 3.8
kilometre stretchfrom Mukarba
Chowk to Madhuban Chowk
and about 3.4 kilometres from
Chandgi Ram Akhara to
Wazirabad.
they didn't know about
Chauhan'scriminalactivitiesand
thought he was a car dealer.
Shweta Chauhan, DCP
(Central), said, “He was last ar-
rested in January in Assam's
Dispur but got out on bail. This
time, we are producing his rap
sheet in the court, so he doesn't
comeoutsoon.Asperrecords,he
tooktostealingintheearly1990s
and has been arrested and con-
victedinmanycases.Heistrying
tosmuggledrugstohisclientsoff-
shore.”
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Boy’s death at mosque leaves family in shock: ‘Thought he’ll be safe’

the circumstances that led to the
PAVNEET SINGH CHADHA death.
NUH, SEPTEMBER 6 His family said they received
information that he had gone
BARELY 30 metres from the hall missingfromthemadrasaat7.05
lageandnearbyareasandputout
messages on social media. We
wenttothemadrasaandchecked
the premises. The search contin-
uedintothenight.Theroominthe
CM to launch
‘Make India
smell coming from an enclosure Tuesday afternoon to offer their “The scene of the crime sug-
and found the body when she condolences. His family said the gested that the body had been
went inside to check. boy’sfather,alabourer,diedof an hidden…itwasdecomposed.We
“We want justice. It is strange illness a couple of years ago. His have registered a case of murder.
thatforalmosttwodays,hecould uncle, who filed the police com- Several teams including special

#1’ yatra today

where he studied at a madrasa, pm on Saturday. eidgah(mosque),fromwherethe not be found and later his body plaint, works as a labourer, earn- units are working to trace the ac-
the decomposed body of an 11- “Wehaveamadrasainourvil- body was eventually recovered, was found from an enclosure on ing Rs 300-400 a day, while his cused.Primafacie,itappearsthat
year-old boy, partially covered in lagetoo,butwesenthimlastyear waslocked.Theworkerstheretold the same premises. From the ad- mother is a home-maker raising theboywentmissingonSaturday
sand with a wooden ply lying on hereasithasbetterfacilities…and us they had already searched the jacent room, announcement for three daughters. “On festivals or evening.Weareinvestigatingthe
his face and upper body, was abetterenvironment.Wethought roomandfoundnothing.Theyre- azaan(callforprayer)ismadefive duringafunctioninthevillage,he sequence of events. At the mo-
found in a small room inside a he would be safe and taken care fusedtoallowustocheckCCTVs… timesadayandnoneofthework- would return home. He had vis- ment, outsiders as well as people
mosqueinNuhonMonday.Police of there, but…,” said his uncle. then, at 11.50 am on Monday, we ers at the madrasa could spot the ited on Eid recently…I have lost workingatthemadrasaareunder
said the boy, suspected to have Hesaidhegotacallfromahaji heard his body had been found bodyfortwodays,”saidarelative. everything,” she said. suspicion, but we can only say EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE Coinciding
gone missing from the madrasa on Saturday evening asking if his fromthatroom,”healleged. The madrasa’s caretaker said Nuh SP Varun Singla visited moreoncetheprobeiscomplete,” NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6
on Saturday evening, was found nephew had returned home. Police said that on Monday thatatleast15studentsstaythere. the madrasa on Tuesday after- saidSingla.Postmortemwascon- yatras
murdered. No arrest has been “They said he is missing. We morning,awomanwhoworksat At the boy’s house in his vil- noon and questioned the care- ducted by a board and report is DELHI CHIEF Minister Arvind
made so far as mystery shrouds started looking for him in the vil- the nearby dargah noticed foul lage, hundreds had gathered on taker and staff. awaited. KejriwalsaidTuesdaythathewill CMKEJRIWAL’Srallycoin-
start the AAP’s ‘Make India cides with the Congress’s
Number 1’ countrywide cam- Bharat Jodo Yatra through
Largest ever drug bust, value Rs 1,200 cr paign Wednesday from Hisar,
Haryana and urged the citizens
12 states, covering more
than 3,570 km from
of the country to come together Kanyakumari to Kashmir
New Delhi: Two Afghan nation- ternationalvalueof overRs1,200 hadprovidedalow-costmethod and ‘work like a family’. which Rahul Gandhi will
als were arrested by the Special crore.Previousseizuresof 330kg to extract ephedrine and make Kejriwal launched the ‘Make kick off from Chennai on
Cell from Delhi's Southeast dis- and 354 kg of heroin had been methamphetamines from it, India number 1’ campaign ear- Wednesday.Talkingabout
trict on September 3 in an al- made in 2019 and 2021. which had replaced heroin as lier this month with his five- the timing, AAP leaders
legeddrugcartelbust.Policesaid Police identified the accused the drug of choice. They added point “vision” of free education, said it was a coincidence.
that the seizure of 312.5 kg of as Mustafa Stanikzai (23) and thattoinvestigate its emergence employment, healthcare, re-
methamphetamines and 10 kg Rahimullah Rahimi (44). and involvement in the narco- spect,dignity,equalityandsafety
of heroin was the largest seizure Police said the presence of terror link, a UAPA FIR was filed for women as well as a fair price tiontoeverychildinthecountry.
evermade,withanestimatedin- ephedra plants in Afghanistan and a probe was started. ENS for farm crops. “The country will not move
This came after the Prime ahead unless each and every
Minister spoke about paanch child,richorpoor,getsqualityed-
Varthana Finance Private Limited pran (five resolves) on ucation,” he added.
(Formerly known as M/s. Thirumeni Finance Private Ltd.,) Independecne Day. The AAP leader said Prime
Registered Office at : No. 5 BC-110, Varasiddhi. 3rd Floor, Outer Ring Road, Service Road, 3rd Block, HRBR Layout, Kalyan Nagar, Kejriwal had even asked the MinisterNarendraModi’srecent
Bangalore-560043. Website www.varthana.com, Email: care@varthana.com, Phone : 080-68455777, Branch Office : Sushma Infinium, BJPandCongresstojointhecam- announcement on revamping
Unit no 5, 4th Floor Near Best price Chandigarh Ambala Highway, Zirakpur – 140603.
paign,whichhesaidwouldmake 14,500 schools is not enough as
DEMAND NOTICE India “super rich” and the “best there are 10.5 lakh schools in the
Notice under Sub-Section (2) of Section 13 of the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security
Interest Act, 2002 as amended by The Enforcement of Security Interest and Recovery of Debts Laws and Miscellaneous Provisions
country in the world”. country which need to be devel-
(Amdt.)Act, 2016 (44 of 2016) and furtherAmended by The Security Interest (Enforcement) (Amendment) Rules, 2018. “I am inaugurating the cam- oped.
We, M/s. Varthana Finance Private Limited, (hereinafter referred to as “The Company ” for sake of brevity and formerly known as paign tomorrow (Wednesday) "Yesterday (Monday), the
M/s. Thirumeni Finance Pvt. Ltd.,) is a Non-Banking Finance Company, Incorporated under the Companies Act 1956 and registered with and the first place I will be visit- Prime Minister announced that
the Reserve Bank of India, having its registered office at Bangalore and one of its Branches at Chandigarh as mentioned in the above
address (hereinafter referred as “ Branch”) hereby issue the following notice under Section 13(2) of the SARFAESI ACT, 2002 to You being ing is my birthplace which is 14,500 government schools
the Applicants/Co-Applicants and the Mortgagors for the Recovery of the Outstanding dues. Demand Notice issued on 28-07-2022, the Hisar in Haryana. I was born in a across the country will be mod-
contents of which are being published herewith as per Sec.13(2) of the Act R/w Rule.3(1) of the Security Interest (Enforcement) Rules village called Siwani near Hisar. I ernised. I am happy that he took
2002, by way of alternative service upon theApplicants/ Co-Applicants/ Mortgagors No. 1 to 5, for service of notice, since notices could not will kickstart this pious journey such a step but it is not at all ade-
be served on the given addresses.
You had approached our Chandigarh branch for Credit Facility for School and accordingly made an application. The Company had from my native place. quate. What will we achieve by
considered your request and sanctioned the same, details of which are as hereunder. IYF¹FFÊÕX¹F IYF¹FÊ´FFÕX³F Ad·F¹Fa°FF, ÕXûIY À½FFÀ±¹F ¹FFadÂFIYe J¯OX IYû¯OXF¦FFa½F, dªFÕXF-IYû¯OXF¦FFa½F (LX.¦F.) Afterwards, I will visit other onlymodernising14,500govern-
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Rs.2,44,000/-, Total Liability as on 25-07-2022 : Rs. 22,61,115/- (With Contractual Rate Of Interest), Name & Addresses of (Phone No. 07786-296071, Email id -eekon-phe-cg@gov.in)
this movement,” said Kejriwal. lakh government schools in the
Applicant, Co-Applicants & Mortgagors : 1). M/s. SMB Geeta Public School, Represented By Its Authorised Signatory, 2). M/s. MB
Geeta Education Society, Represented By Its Authorised Signatory, No. 1 and 2 are having office at Ward No. 7, Gharaunda, Karnal BÊ-´Fiû¢¹FcSX¸FZÔMX d³Fd½FQF ÀFc¨F³FF The Delhi Chief Minister entire country. If we will mod-
District, Haryana – 132114., 3). Sanjay Kumar, S/o. Jang Bahadur Singh, 4). Sharmishtha, W/o. Sanjay Kumar, No. 3 and 4 are residing LXØFeÀF¦FPÞ IYe SXFª¹F´FFÕX IYe AûSX ÀFZ dªFÕXF IYû¯OXF¦FFa½F ¸FZÔ EIYeIÈY°F ´FaªFe¹F³F ´Fi¯FFÕXe Aa°F¦FÊ°F ÀFÃF¸F ßFZ¯Fe ¸FZÔ ´FaªFeIÈY°F NZXIZYQFSXûÔ ÀFZ d³F¸³FdÕXdJ°F d³F¸FFʯF IYF¹FÊ Tuesday said to make India a de- ernise schools at the rate of
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the country’s 130 crore citizens year, it will take a good 70-80
You No. 1 to 5 are Applicants/Co-Applicants/Mortgagors have executed the necessary security documents in favour of the Company to IYF¹FÊ IYF ³FF¸F:- ªFÕX ªFe½F³F d¸F¾F³F Aa°F¦FÊ°F d½Fd·FÖF ¦FiF¸FûÔ ¸FZÔ EIYÕX ¦FiF¸F ³FÕXªFÕX ´FiQF¹F ¹FûªF³FF IYF¹FÊÜ need to unite and work like a years to modernise all the gov-
secure the repayment of dues and payable under the said Loan agreement.
The Manager/Collection Manager and other officers of the Company have repeatedly requested to all of you, to pay the outstanding ÀF.IiY. d³Fd½FQF IiY¸FFaIY E½Fa dQ³FFaIY dÀFÀMX¸F d³Fd½FQF IiY¸FFaIY IYF¹FÊ IYF ³FF¸F IYF¹FÊ IYe A³Fb¸FFd³F°F ÕXF¦F°F (÷Y. ÕXFJ ¸FZÔ) family. “To attain this, I have de- ernment schools in the country.
amount and to ensure that the account does not become a Non-performing Asset, but you wilfully and unjustifiably failed to pay and not 01 210/25.08.2022 107975 PûÕX¶FZ³QSXe (½F³F¦FiF¸F) EIYÕX ¦FiF¸F ³FÕXªFÕX ´FiQF¹F ¹FûªF³FF 24.17 cided to travel the country and We do not have that much time
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as Non Performing Asset on 14-07-2022.
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mentioned Securities. The Company hereby informs all of you that, under Sub-Section (13) of Section 13 of the Securitisation and 04 213/25.08.2022 107981 ¶FûSX¦FFa½F EIYÕX ¦FiF¸F ³FÕXªFÕX ´FiQF¹F ¹FûªF³FF 78.18 added. He said whoever wants to
Reconstruction of FinancialAssets and Enforcement of Security InterestAct,2002 (hereinafter referred to as theAct) you shall, after receipt Kejriwalsaidanecessarycon- join the “Make India Number 1
of this notice refrain from either transfer by way of Sale, Lease or otherwise create third party interest in any of the below mentioned 05 214/25.08.2022 107982 ²F³FÀFbÕXe EIYÕX ¦FiF¸F ³FÕXªFÕX ´FiQF¹F ¹FûªF³FF 62.33
secured assets, without prior written consent of the Company. The Applicants/ Co-Applicants and Mortgagors attention is invited to sub- 06 215/25.08.2022 107983 ¸FSX½FF¶FZOXÞF EIYÕX ¦FiF¸F ¦FiF¸F ³FÕXªFÕX ´FiQF¹F ¹FûªF³FF 62.92 ditiontomakeIndianumberone campaign” should give a missed
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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Home Minister Amit Shah with BJP chief J P Nadda at the
party headquarters in New Delhi on Tuesday. PTI
BJP brass to ministers:
strengthen party for
victory in 2024 polls
LIZ MATHEW
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6
WITH THE first round of Union
ministers'visitstothechosen144
constituenciesthatthepartyhad
lostin2019electionalmostcom-
plete, BJP leadership has set a
newtargetforthenextLokSabha
election and reminded the min-
isters that “organisation should
be their priority and without
strengthening the organisation,
thepartywillnotberepeatingits
success”, said sources.
Pointing out that the party
could win more than 60 per cent
of the target it had set for the
tough seats ahead of the 2019
election,theBJPleadershipurged
its Union ministers to see that
“strikerateishigher”thistime.In
this mission, the BJP had identi-
fied 144 constituencies in the
southern and eastern states and
several Union ministers were
giventhetasktospendatleast48
hours in each constituency as-
signed and prepare reports in a
bid to find the route to victory by
frequently visiting them. The
ministers were expected to see
howthecentral-runprogrammes
are implemented in these states,
takefeedbackfromthelocalunits
on the rolling out of these
schemes and find out the chal-
lenges they are facing in the
process of implementation.
On Tuesday, Union Home
MinisterAmitShah,whoissuper-
vising the exercise of the minis-
ters, national president J P Nadda
and general secretary (organisa-
tion)BLSantoshattendedameet-
ing where a presentation was
madeonthebasisofthefeedback
the party received from the min-
istersduringtheirvisitsinthelast
three months. In the meeting,
Shah said that only if the organi-
sation is strong, the party will be
able to take advantage of Prime
Minister Narendra Modi's popu-
larity. “He said there is no party if
the organisation is weak. So, the
ministershavebeenstrictlyasked
to work on it,” said a source.
RSS office in Punjab not cooperating in resolving
Delhi gets CISF SYL Canal dispute, Centre tells SC
security cover PRESS TRUST OF INDIA ties have to have a “broader out-
look" and realise the ramifica-
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6
THE MINISTRY of Home Affairs
has accorded the RSS headquar-
tersinDelhisecuritycoverof the
Central Industrial Security Force
(CISF).
The force has taken over the
security at the under-construc-
tion headquarters of the organi-
sation, Keshav Kunj, and the
UdasinAsharmafromwherethe
RSS is currently functioning.
The CISF has been deployed
at both the places since
September 1.
Earlier, too, both had been
provided security by the
Ministry of Home Affairs but the
forces engaged then were Delhi
Police and the CRPF.
Sources said the Central
Industrial Security Force has
beenhandedoverthesecurityas
it is a force specifically trained to
secure important premises.
Theforcepersonnel willcon-
trol the entry and exit of the two
building complexes and guards
will be posted at vantage points
to secure the RSS campus.
The decision to identify 144
constituencies was taken after
themeetingof PMModiwithhis
council of ministers in May.
Modi has called his council of
ministers for another round of
meeting on Wednesday.
The second phase of 'pravas'
will begin in October, sources
said.
With the BJP's election strat-
egyfocussingon thegovernance
record, the party has decided to
convene another meeting of
chief ministers and deputy chief
ministers by mid-October “for a
stock taking on the implemen-
tation of the schemes”.
Although the ministers were
expectedtowinduptheirtravels
andgivethereportbeforeAugust
31,someof themcouldnotmeet
the target. But Nadda said they
can complete the process in
September, sources said.
Union Ministers Nirmala
Sitharaman, S Jaishankar Piyush
Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan,
Bhupendra Yadav, Smriti Irani,
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat,
Anurag Thakur were among the
ministerswhowereassignedcon-
stituenciesfor“strengtheningthe
partyfromthegroundlevel”.The
144 constituencies – mainly in
West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh,
Telangana, Odisha, Tamil Nadu
andKeralawherethepartycould
not win many seats – were di-
vided into different clusters and
the ministers were given charge
of one cluster each. They have
done a SWOT (strengths, weak-
nesses,opportunities,andthreats)
analysis of the party's position in
theseseatsandidentifiedstepsto
improve its electoral prospects.
In another exercise, the party
had appointed a three-member
panel to work on the 73,000
booths across the country for
strengthening hold in some, and
togaingroundinothersithasnot
been able to win so far. The panel
hasalmostcompletedtheir visits
to the booths and is expected to
submit a report to the top brass
laterthismonth. FULLREPORTON
www.indianexpress.com
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6
THECENTREonTuesdaytoldthe
Supreme Court the Punjab gov-
ernment is "not cooperating" in
resolvingthedecades-oldSutlej-
YamunaLink(SYL) canaldispute
between the state and Haryana.
The apex court, which posted
the matter for hearing on
January 19 next year, observed
that water is a natural resource
and living beings must learn to
share it and added that the par-
>OBBOP
"5-/"00
Cong’s revival in mind, Rahul
sets off on Bharat Yatra today
March seen as attempt to shrug off image as non-serious, reluctant politician
MANOJ C G
KANYAKUMARI, SEPTEMBER 6
HIS PARTY has not won an
Assembly election on its own
since the humiliating defeat in
2019 Lok Sabha elections. His
critics, both inside and outside
the Congress, have labelled him
as a non-serious and reluctant
politician.
On Wednesday, Rahul
Gandhi will begin a determined
bid to change both — the party’s
battered fortunes and his
bruisedimage—bysettingoff on
agruelling3,570-kmBharatJodo
Yatra from here.
Starting from Kanyakumari,
Rahul and 100-odd “Bharat ya-
tris” from different states plan to
finishtheir ambitiousodysseyin
Srinagar by the beginning of
February next year. Rahul’s pa-
dayatra is unique in many as-
pects — he will be the first politi-
cian in the last nearly four
decades to walk from
Kanyakumari to Kashmir.
He and his fellow yatris will
staythenightontheroadincon-
tainers mounted on trucks.
The last time a politician un-
dertook such a journey on foot
was in the 1980s, when Chandra
Shekhar, president of the erst-
while Janata Party, crisscrossed
the country from Kanyakumari
to Delhi. He was 56 then.
In his bid to bring Opposition together, Nitish
meets Kejriwal, Akhilesh, Yechury in Delhi
SOURAV ROY BARMAN
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6
FORBIHARCM NitishKumar,the
second day of his first visit to the
national capital after exiting the
National Democratic Alliance
(NDA) was an opportunity to
rekindle “old ties” and infuse
“unity” in the Opposition camp.
Emerging from one meeting
after another, Kumar, who met
CongressleaderRahulGandhion
Monday, stuck to the script of re-
viving“puraanesambandh”now
that“Ihaveleftthem”,avoidingso
much as naming the BJP.
On Tuesday, he met Delhi CM
ArvindKejriwal,CPIMgeneralsec-
retary Sitaram Yechury, CPI gen-
eral secretary D Raja, former
Union minister and RJD leader
Sharad Yadav, Samajwadi Party
chief Akhilesh Yadav and INLD
chief OP Chautala.
tions and necessity of a negoti-
atedsettlement,moreso inview
of security concerns.
Attorney General K K
Venugopal, appearing for Centre,
toldthebenchthatonSCdirections,
theCentrehasbeentryingtobring
together states of Haryana and
Punjabforanamicablesettlement.
"Unfortunately, Punjab has not
beencooperating,"thetoplawof-
ficersaid,addinglettersweresent
in 2020 and 2021 to then CM of
Punjabwhodidnotrespondatall.
Srinagar KANYAKUMARI
(Ends)
TO KASHMIR
Jammu
Pathankot YatraRoute ■ KeyPlaces
Ambala
Delhi
Bulandshahar
Alwar
Dausa
Kota
Indore
Jalgaon Jamod
Total Distance
Nanded
3,570km
Vikarabad innearlyfivemonths
Raichur
Bellary 12states 2UTs
Mysuru
Nilambur
Thiruvananthapuram
Kochi
Kanyakumari (startshere)
Other leaders had embarked In Kanyakumari, Rahul will
on Bharat yatras since then, but visit Thiruvalluvar memorial,
on ‘raths’ or buses. Vivekananda memorial and
Rahul wants to do it the hard Kamaraj memorial before at-
way, as the challenges that he tending a prayer meeting at the
and his party faces are huge. Mahatma Gandhi mandapam.
The former Congress presi- He will then receive the national
dentwillbeginWednesdaybyat- flag from Tamil Nadu Chief
tending a prayer gathering at the Minister M K Stalin before walk-
memorial of his slain father, for- ing to the seaside venue of the
merPrimeMinisterRajivGandhi. public rally, where the yatra will
Nitish Kumar with Sitaram Yechury in New Delhi. Tashi Tobgyal
Kumar also continued to play These are my old ties. Now, we
downsuggestionsthathewanted haveonceagaincometogetherin
tobetheprimeministerialfacein Bihar. We are putting efforts to
the 2024 election. “I am not even unite. Be it Left parties, Congress,
a claimant. I do not harbour any orregionalparties,ifalljoinhands
suchwish,”Kumartoldreporters. thenitwillbeabigthing,”Kumar
“I had separated (from the said after meeting Yechury.
Oppositioncamp).Butbeforethat Yechury said Kumar's return
I used to come here (CPIM office) totheOppositionfoldwasagood
regularlyduringmyDelhivisitsin development, which he said, will
thepast.Youmaynothaveseenit. providemomentumtoeffortsfor
GOVT & POLITICS 7
Panel set up to draft cooperative policy
New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday announced the constitution of a
committee for drafting of the national cooperative policy document.
In a statement, the Union Cooperative Ministry said the 47-member
committee will be headed by former Union minister Suresh Prabhu.
The panel includes experts of the cooperative sector and representa-
tives of Cooperative societies, the ministry said in a statement. ENS
beformallylaunchedinthepres-
ence of all top Congress leaders,
including its two chief ministers
— Rajasthan’s Ashok Gehlot and
Chhattisgarh’s Bhupesh Baghel.
The Congress believes the
BharatJodoYatrawillbea"trans-
formational moment" for Indian
politics and a "decisive moment"
for the party's rejuvenation. The
yatra will pass through 12 states
over the next 150 days — from
TamilNadu,itwillgotoKeralaand
enterKarnataka,akeystatewhere
the Congress believes it has a
strong chance to oust BJP in the
Assemblypolls,duenextsummer.
It will pass through Madhya
Pradesh and Rajasthan, where
Assembly elections are due in
November-December next year
butwillskipGujarat,wherepolls
are around the corner.
The decision to set off on a
nationwide yatra is seen as an
answer to the criticism that
Rahul and the party’s central
leadership were reluctant to hit
the roads. Many senior leaders
have over the years argued that
Congress’s presence has largely
been confined to social media.
Addressing a rally on Sunday,
Rahul, however, argued that
Congress had no option but to go
to the people directly, as the BJP-
ledgovernmentattheCentrehas
“blockedallavenues”toreachout
to the people. FULLREPORTON
www.indianexpress.com
parties to join hands to “save the
Constitution”.
But that script could not de-
scribeallhisengagements,partic-
ularly the one with Delhi Chief
Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The
meeting, in which Deputy CM
Manish Sisodia was also present,
was the JD(U)'s way of signalling
that it was not in favour of any
formof“politicaluntouchability”.
“We don't want that. There is
no point trying to revive a third
frontorasecondfront.Allsuchex-
periments have failed in the past.
At a time when the BJP is friend-
less, the Opposition camp will
onlygrow,”JDUgeneralsecretary
KC Tyagi told The Indian Express.
Kejriwal said they discussed
variousimportantissues,ranging
fromeducation,heath,blatantat-
tempts to “purchase MLAs and
toppling elected governments,
corruption, unemployment and
price rise.
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UP opposes Kappan bail plea, tells SC: Use of Sec 66A

DELHI CONFIDENTIAL
He is PFI think tank, advised hit squadgeneral secretary of CFI, PFI’s stu-
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6
OPPOSING KERALA journalist
Siddique Kappan’s bail plea, the
UttarPradeshPolicethatarrested
himundertheUnlawfulActivities
Prevention Act-1967 has told the
SupremeCourtthat“investigation
hasrevealedthatpetitioneristhe
Sachin Pilot cuts a cake outside his residence in Jaipur thinktankofPFI(PopularFrontof
on Tuesday. At least 21 MLAs of the Congress and allies India)” and had even “advised”
turned up to greet Pilot. Rohit Jain Paras one of the two PFI “hit squad”
members arrested with explo-
sives in Lucknow in February
SHOW OF WELL-WISHERS last year.
In an affidavit filed in the top
ONTUESDAY,celebrationsontheeveof CongressleaderSachin court in response to a notice on
Pilot’sbirthdayinJaipurwasseenasashowofstrengthamidthe Kappan's plea on August 29, the
chorusfromhissupporterstoseehimasthenextCMofRajasthan. UPPoliceSpecialTaskForce(STF),
His well-wishers in Lutyens' Delhi also sent their greetings on which is investigating the case,
the occasion, wishing that he rises to the top post in the state. said that Ansad Badruddin, “a
AmongthemwasBSP’sBijnorMPMalookNagarwhopenneda close associate” of Kappan, and
letter to Pilot. “May you continue to work in the interest of peo- “oneFiroz(bothco-accused)were
ple and the country and I pray to God that you work even more arrested in Lucknow with explo-
andbecomechief ministerof Rajasthanverysoonandalsoplay sives”, adding, they were the “hit
an important role in parties and governments in the country,” squad” of the PFI who were
wroteNagar,whoisanadmirerofSachin’sfatherlateRajeshPilot. funded by Rauf Sharif (national
OBLIGING LITTLE ONE
dent wing) and Kamal K P, and
were advised by the petitioner to
“target Hindu organisations...”
TheED,itclaimed,“hasfound
Sharif to be the main fundraiser
and money launderer of the CFI,
which utilised Sharif’s account
...lakhs [rupees] of money was
transferred to Sharif’s account
from abroad and then funneled
into illegal and terrorist activities
in India. Interrogations of Sharif
detailed the entire money trail;
how it was laundered and what
terrorist/unlawfulactsitwasused
towards.Onesuchtrailwasofthe
moneytransferredtoco-accused
Atiq-ur-Rahmantohirethecabto
taketheCFIdelegationtoHathras
on 05.10.2020”.
Kappanandthreeothers,were
arrestedinMathuraonOctober5,
2020, while they were on their
way to Hathras, where a Dalit
womanhaddiedaftershewasal-
legedly gangraped. They were
booked under the UAPA and on
charges of sedition.
Journalist Siddique Kappan
Kappan had claimed that he
was employed with a web portal
‘Azhimukham’ which had “de-
puted”himtogotoHathrastore-
port on the incident, but the STF
sought to contradict him, saying,
“the statement of the Editor of
Azhimukham...nowhere states
that the said publication had de-
puted the petitioner to cover the
Hathrasincident;itmerelystates
thatthepetitionerhadat12.10am
on 5.10.2022, sent the office a
WhatsAppmessagethatheisgo-
ing to Hathras”.
It added that “the official
Twitter handle of the CFI had
tweeted in February 2021:
CampusFrontdelegationwasar-
rested en route to Hathras and
falsely charged with draconian
laws...” The STF also accused him
ofsuppressingfactsinhisbailplea.
Kappan, it said, had stated he
was “employed” in Saudi Arabia
from 2002-2011, and that he had
quit the job in 2011 and returned
to Kerala where he “opted to join
asasub-editorofThejasnewspa-
peratKozhikode”,buthadnotre-
vealed that in Saudi too, “he was
a reporter for Gulf Thejas Daily,
Jeddah...”
It said that “Thejas is a
Malayalamlanguagemouthpiece
of the PFI...” and “was compelled
to shut down in India in 2018
amidst reports (including by a
Kerala High Court-appointed in-
dependent committee) that the
paper’s coverage was aimed at
creating religious discord”.
The affidavit also disputed
Kappan’s claim about money
WILL NOT APPLY TO COLLEGES IN INDIA: OFFICIAL
found in his account. It pointed
outthatheclaimedthatRs25,000
deposited in his account on
September15,2020,“wasmoney
deposited by him which he had
saved to construct a house” and
that Rs 20,000 deposited on
October4,2020,“wasmoneythat
hadbeenborrowedbyfriendsand
returned to him”.
“However, in his supplemen-
tary rejoinder before the High
Court (which rejected his bail
plea), the petitioner states that
“the alleged payments made to
the applicant are relating to his
salary paid for working at Thejas
Daily,” the STF affidavit said,
adding “thus, there is a clear con-
tradiction in the petitioner’s ver-
sion of source of the said funds”.
The STF also said there are as
many as 55 witnesses, including
11 public witnesses to be exam-
ined in the case and that “there is
a grave and credible threat to the
lives of these witnesses, who are
already being targeted online for
deposing against the petitioner”.
despite it
being struck
down matter
of concern: SC
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6
THE SUPREME Court on Tuesday
expressed“seriousconcern”over
states continuing to register FIRs
for offences underSection 66A of
the Information Technology Act
despite the court holding it un-
constitutional in 2015.
“It is a matter of serious con-
cern that despite authoritative
pronouncementbythiscourt,the
offence under the provision, the
validityofwhichwaspronounced
by this court, is still being regis-
tered and is being continued,” a
benchpresidedbyChiefJusticeof
India U U Lalit said.
The bench also comprising
Justice S Ravindra Bhat asked
AdvocateZohebHossain,whoap-
peared for Centre, to get in touch
withconcernedChief Secretaries
of the states where the offences
are still being registered and im-
press upon them “to take reme-
dialmeasuresasearlyaspossible”.
The court was hearing an ap-

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plication by NGO People’s Union
for Civil Liberties (PUCL), which
Birla in his Kota constituency in Rajasthan, Union Education saidthattheprovisionwasstillbe-
Between January and March this year, the Education Ministry conducted a
Ukraine can continue in
Minister Dharmendra Pradhan was also present. During the ing invoked in many cases even
function, Pradhan spotted a girl struggling to grab his atten- survey in schools across states and UTs to find out about the ‘mental health and afterthetopcourtruledagainstit.
tion.Shewasapparentlyaccompanyinghermother,ateacher well-being’ of students. The survey was held through a self-report questionnaire On March 24, 2015, in the

other countries: NMC

in Kendriya Vidyalaya. Noticing the child, Pradhan called her case Shreya Singhal v. Union of
on to the stage and had a brief chat with her. She wanted a
selfie with him and Pradhan happily obliged. 3.78 lakh India, the Supreme Court struck
down Section 66A of the
students took part, including 1.06 lakh from Kendriya Vidyalaya (KVs) informed that the mobility pro- Information Technology Act,
CLOSED FOR OPENING and 94,000 from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNVs) ANONNADUTT
NEWDELHI,SEPTEMBER6
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THE THURSDAY inauguration of Central Vista is turning out CLASSES 6-12 Commissioninconsultationwith
tobeaholidayof sortsfortheCentralgovernmentemployees THE NATIONAL Medical Ministry of External Affairs, ELGAAR PARISHAD
working in offices located in New Delhi. Owing to the VVIP GIRLS BOYS THIRD GENDER Commission (NMC) issued a no- whereinitwasintimatedthatthe
movement, Delhi Police has advised that only absolutely es- tice on Tuesday stating that it has Academic Mobility Program is a Navlakha denied
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lunch on Thursday. Many establishments, such as the Press colleges, which allows them to It said: “The Commission ‘ample material
Club of India, will also remain closed. completetheireducationinother hereby conveys its No-objection
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ria of Screening Test Regulations
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heldthat“primafacie”,theactivist
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KANCHAN VASDEV
CHANDIGARH, SEPTEMBER 6
SIX DAYS into September, the
Punjab government is yet to
clear the salaries of its employ-
eesforthemonthof August.And
hushedrumoursinthecorridors
of power has it that the govern-
ment was grappling with a
paucity of funds.
As a norm, the government
usually pays salaries for the pre-
vious monthon the first of every
month. Officialsintheknowhow
said that the government had
been facing a funds crunch ever
since the GST compensation
regimecametoanend.Thestate
had got Rs 16,000 crore as GST
compensationfromCentreinthe
previous fiscal year. This year, it
received compensation only for
thefirstquarterof thecurrentfis-
cal, post which the GST regime
Punjab CM
Bhagwant
Mann
ment investing Rs 1,000 crore to
make money as interest for the
state exchequer.“Asitwasabout
money for the state exchequer,
we thought that the employees
couldbearwiththegovernment
for at least a week. We have paid
salariestoClassCandDemploy-
ees onTuesdayevening. The rest
will be paid on Wednesday.”
Class C and Class D employ-
ees, who are paid less than their
Class A and Class B collegues,
usually get paid the first when-
ever the government is short of
money, officials said.
On Monday, the Cabinet had
givenitsapprovaltoanewpolicy
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Kerala road transport staff to New fronts in MP BJP as Delhi’s

came to an end on June 30.
Officials said that the the
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) govern-
ment has been paying salaries
on time, ever since it came to
power in March this year and
thiswasthefirsttimethatwages
had been delayed.
of adding a special cadre of em-
ployees to the existing strength
byabsorbingcontractualandad-
hoc employees. This would
mean an extra burden of Rs 400
work on 12-hr shifts from Oct 1 signal on Chouhan sparks churn
E
crore on state exchequer.
Afatbillof Rs20,000croreto-
wards power subsidy is already system would be implemented are considered Scindia loyalists,
E X P L A I NE D

The state’s annual salary bill,
as reflected in the current fiscal
budget, is pegged at Rs 31,171
crore, or roughly Rs 2,597 crore
every month. A senior func-
tionary of the government, re-
questing anonymity, said that
the delay was due to the govern-
Uttarakhand honours investors,
CM calls them brand ambassadors
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
DEHRADUN, SEPTEMBER 6
CLAIMING THAT investments
amountingtoRs35,000crore,as
promised during the 2018 state
Investors’Summit,havebeenre-
alised, the Uttarakhand govern-
ment on Tuesday felicitated 67
big and small industrialists who
havelaunchedproductioninthe
hill-state in the last two years.
Addressingtheinvestorsatan
event here, CM Pushkar Singh
Dhami called them the state's
new brand ambassadors who
havetakenUttarakhandtoanew
staring at the state this year. This
includes Rs 18,000 crore towards
free farm power and 300 units of
power free every month to do-
mestic users. An amount of Rs
1298 crore has been incurred by
waiving pending power bills of
consumers until last December.
heightinindustrialdevelopment.
HesaidUttarakhandiswidely
known as the land of yoga, spiri-
tuality and Ayush, but it is now
also moving towards industrial
development. Officials of the
Industries Department — which
is organising the event, dubbed
as the Investors’ Felicitation
Ceremony—saidmorethan600
projects in the state have re-
ceived investments worth Rs
35,000 crore, and the govern-
ment has pledged to generate
89,000 jobs in future.
At the event, 24 investors
from MSME sector and 43 from
larger units were felicitated.
SHAJU PHILIP
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM,
SEPTEMBER 6
AMIDSEVEREfinancialcrisisgrip-
ping the Kerala State Road
Transport Corporation (KSRTC),
the CPI(M)-led LDF government
hasdecidedtointroduce12-hour
duty a day for employees of the
KSRTC, the state’s largest public
sector company, from October 1.
The CPI(M)-affiliated CITU
wasopposingthebidtointroduce
the12-hourdutysystem,forasix-
dayworkweek,inplaceoftheex-
isting 8-hour work a day in the
KSRTC, but it was forced, along
with other trade unions, to agree
totheproposalasthegovernment
made its implementation a con-
dition for paying the employees’
outstanding salaries.
The non-payment of salaries
for the past two months had
driven the KSRTC employees,
numbering about 25,000, to the
wallaheadoftheOnamfestivalto
be celebrated on September 8.
A day after Chief Minister
Pinarayi Vijayan chaired a meet-
ing of the KSRTC management
Pinarayi’s
tough labour
● moves
THE CPI(M)-led govern-
ment's decision to intro-
duce 12-hour duty for
KSRTC has sparked a row
with questions being
raised over its labour
rights commitment. The
government has said the
move is necessary to res-
cue the loss-making
KSRTC. It is also in keeping
with CM Vijayan's tough
stance towards trade
unions in a bid to stream-
line the PSUs’ functioning.
and trade union leaders in order
toresolvethesalarycrisis,thegov-
ernmentonTuesdayissuedanor-
der for release of Rs 100 crore to-
wards the PSU’s salary bill with
the rest to be borne by the com-
pany. The order states that the
governmentisreleasingfundsfor
theKSRTCemployees’salarieson
theconditionthata12-hourduty
for the crew of the state bus fleet.
By introducing the new work
regime,thegovernmentwantsto
press1,300buses,whichhavere-
portedlybeenidlingindepotsfor
wantofcrew,intoservice.Thebus
crew on 12-hour duty would be
givenover-timeallowanceforthe
extra four hours they are put on
work. This would, the govern-
mentbelieves,helptheloss-mak-
ingKSRTC,makemorerevenueby
usingtheexistingstaff.Atpresent,
theKSRTCisabletooperate3,750
buses daily on an average.
The government’s move has
drawn criticism from various
quarters,includingtheOpposition,
whichhavecalledita“dilution”of
the communist party’s commit-
ment to fight for the labour rights
of theworking-classpeople.
Regardingthedutyhours,the
CPI(M) has always taken a stand
that all protective legislation for
workers across the world ensure
that a work day will consist of
eight hours. When the NDA gov-
ernmentattheCentreintroduced
new labour laws, the CPI(M) op-
posed it, saying they would in-
crease exploitation of workers.
IRAM SIDDIQUE
BHOPAL, SEPTEMBER 6
POLITICAL wheels have begun
churninginMadhyaPradeshever
sinceChiefMinisterShivrajSingh
Chouhan was unceremoniously
droppedfromtheParliamentary
Board of the BJP – its highest de-
cision-making body – recently.
The move is being read as a
signal that Chouhan, a four-time
CM,wouldfortheforeseeablefu-
ture be confined to the state.
With the BJP in Madhya Pradesh
riven by multiple factions, sev-
eral developments since are be-
ing seen as linked.
On August 29, Minister for
Panchayat and Rural
Development Mahendra Singh
Sisodia demanded action against
SPRajeshSinghChandelfortrans-
ferring police inspectors without
his approval. Subsequently, he
blamed Chief Secretary Iqbal
SinghBainsforthe“uncontrolled”
bureaucracy in the state.
Whilethestatementwasstill
being parsed for its import vis-
a-vis Chouhan, on September 2,
state stalwarts Jyotiraditya
MP CM
Shivraj
Singh
Chouhan
Scindia and Kailash Vijayvargiya
– no friends of Chouhan — dis-
played newfound bonhomie. At
an annual event of the Madhya
Pradesh Cricket Board in Indore,
Vijayvargiya's territory, Union
minister Scindia walked up to
Vijayvargiya and requested him
to share the dais with him.
Days earlier, while on a tour
of Ujjain,Scindiahaddropped in
at Vijayvargia’s house in Indore
with his son Mahaaryaman
Scindia.
Anotherfront was opened by
Minister of State, Public Health
andEngineering,BrijendraSingh
Yadav, who recently sent a letter
to the state cooperative society
commissioner seeking a probe
against the Ashok Nagar District
Collector over “irregularities in
appointments”.
Both the ministers who have
accused officials of irregularities
being part of the group of 22
who had crossed over from the
Congress to the BJP in 2020,
bringing down the Kamal Nath-
led Congress government.
Then came the “leaks” from
a Madhya Pradesh general audit
report highlighting fraud in the
WomenandChildDevelopment
Department, which is directly
under the CM's supervision.
Chouhanhassofarplayedhis
cardsclosetohischest.Speaking
to reporters in Bhopal after he
was dropped from the
Parliamentary Board, he told re-
porters, “I don't care at all
whether I am qualified (and
hencedeservetobeintheboard).
If the party gives me the task of
layingcarpets,Iwilldoeventhat
in the interest of the nation.”
Others played down the ru-
mours, saying Chouhan contin-
uestohavethefullbackingof the
top leadership and would be the
CM face in the Assembly polls in
2023. A leader said that the BJP
leadership remembers his ef-
forts in securing the CM post af-
ter toppling the Congress
in 2020.

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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
PM to launch cheetah project on Sept 17 in MP
IRAM SIDDIQUE
BHOPAL, SEPTEMBER 6
PRIMEMINISTERNarendraModi
willbeinauguratetheinterconti-
nentalcheetahtranslocationproj-
ect at the Kuno National Park in
Sheopur district of Madhya
Pradesh on September 17. With
the release of eight cheetahs be-
ingbroughtfromNamibia,thebig
catspecieswillbereintroducedin
Indiaafter70yearssincebeingde-
clared extinct in 1952.
Madhya Pradesh Chief
Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan
toldthestateCabinetonTuesday
that the PM will reach Kuno
National Park on September 17,
whichisalsohisbirthday,andin-
augurate the cheetah transloca-
tion programme. The PM will
also address members of
BRIEFLY
UTTAR PRADESH
Dayafterblaze,
hotelowners,
managerheld
Lucknow: A day after four
people were killed in a
fire at Levana Suites hotel
in Hazratganj here, the
owners — Rohit Agarwal
and his cousin Rahul --
and the manager, Sagar
Srivastava, were arrested
on Tuesday. Rohit’s fa-
ther,Pavan,whohasbeen
booked, has not been ar-
rested yet. The four have
been booked under IPC
Sections 304 (causing
death by negligence) and
308 (attempt to commit
culpable homicide). “The
three were arrested after
questioning. They were
produced before a local
court which sent them to
judicial custody,” Joint
CP (Lucknow) Piyush
Mordia said. ENS
GUJARAT
Formerstaffer
bookedforfire
Surat: A former employee
of a garment factory in
Surat was booked on
Tuesday for allegedly set-
ting the factory’s godown
on fire after he was ex-
pelled from job. A com-
plaint was lodged by the
factory owner, who
claimed that the fire
caused him losses worth
Rs 78 lakh. KrunalReyani,
son of owner Bhanuben
Reyani,saidCCTVfootage
showed a personpouring
inflammable liquid a few
days ago over garments
stocked in the godown
and later he allegedly set
it on fire. The suspect
was seen coming out
from the factory after fire
started. He was later
identified as Ajaz
Ahmed, a former em-
ployee, Krunal said. ENS
ODISHA
Antattackleads
people toflee
Bhubaneswar: Scientists
at Odisha University of
Agriculture and
Technology (OUAT) have
launched an operation in
Puri district after poison-
ous red and fire ants in-
vaded a village, forcing
some people to flee, of-
ficials said on Tuesday.
The ants took over
Brahmansahi village in
Chandradeipur area af-
ter flood waters re-
ceded. People have
been forced to draw cir-
cles with pesticide pow-
ders wherever they sit,
stand or sleep. PTI
KARNATAKA
NIAconducts
searches
Bengaluru: The NIA on
Tuesday conducted
searchesin33locationsin
Karnataka in connection
with the murder of BJYM
worker Praveen Nettaru.
Searcheswerecarriedout
in Mysuru, Kodagu and
Dakshina Kannada dis-
tricts, the NIA stated.
SomePFIactivistsaresus-
pects in the case, accord-
ing to NIA officers. ENS
women self-help groups at
Karahal at Sheopur.
AccordingtoMadhyaPradesh
Forest Department officials, an
Airforce chopper is being
arranged to transport cheetahs
from Delhi to Kuno to minimise
thetraveltimeandfatigueforthe
big cats. At least six helipads are
being constructed around the
KunoNationalParkasseveraldig-
nitaries are expected to arrive for
theevent,includingUnionminis-
ter Narendra Singh Tomar.
The translocation of cheetah
wastotakeplaceinNovemberlast
year, but it got delayed owing to
the Covid pandemic.
Last month, Union
EnvironmentMinisterBhupender
Yadav had confirmed to The
IndianExpress thateightAfrican
cheetahs were being brought to
Kuno in September. The pro-
BENGALURU AREAS SUBMERGED, TRACTORS TO THE RESCUE
Aspartsofcitysink,ITsectorgoes
WFHmode;CMblamespastgovts
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
BENGALURU, SEPTEMBER 6
ON MONDAY, Gaurav Munjal,
founder and CEO of edtech uni-
corn Unacademy, tweeted a
video showing his family being
evacuated from their home in
southeast Bengaluru. “Family
and my pet Albus have been
evacuated on a tractor from our
society that is now submerged.
Things are bad. Please take
care…” he wrote.
The same day, Arjun Mohan,
CEO of another edtech firm,
UpGrad, posted a video on net-
working platform LinkedIn. He
wrote: “State of Bangalore after
yesterday's rains. Entire area
around Bellandur and Outer
Ring Road is submerged and
apartments are without power
or water. I had to walk 7 km, take
a tractor to cross waist deep wa-
ter and hitch rides from passing
bikers to reach office. Quite an
adventurous day and looks like
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara
Palike (BBMP) and Karnataka
govt has decided to do every-
thing to keep us healthy with all
the walking.”
A day later, the country's IT
capital continued to totter on
Tuesday after the torrential
downpour that threw life out of
gear on Monday, with parts of
the city still submerged.
Over the last two days, resi-
dents of some of Bengaluru's
most high-end residential prop-
erties and well-known tech
parks on Yemalur-Bellandur
Road, behind the Old Bengaluru
Airport and bordering two lakes
that are an integral part of the
city's drainage system, have
been among the hardest hit.
Reason: overflow of Bellandur
and Yemlur lakes.
EpsilonandDivyasree77-de-
gree East, where properties are
valuedupwardof Rs10croreand
home to many of the top man-
agement of several IT firms and
start-ups, have seen most resi-
dents being ‘evacuated’, as
ground levels stay flooded.
“The whole of Epsilon has
been evacuated. Friends living in
Divyasree have also left. All high-
end cars in the two properties
havebecomeworthless.Theover-
flow from Bellandur Lake has
nowheretogoatpresent,sowater
isnotlikelytorecedeforawhile,''
said Michael P R, friend of a resi-
dent at Epsilon who was evacu-
ated early Tuesday morning.
On Tuesday, Karnataka Chief
MinisterBasavarajBommaisaid,
“It is raining every day. The pic-
Who is Anahita Pandole, steering the SUV with Cyrus Mistry in it?
RUPSA CHAKRABORTY
MUMBAI, SEPTEMBER 6
DR ANAHITA Pandole, one of
Mumbai’s top gynaecologists, is
the reason that the Parsis have a
reason to save their dwindling
population,aresultof intra-mar-
riage in the community. In fact,
she gained nationwide recogni-
tion for the promotion and
preservation of Parsi heritage by
providing fertility treatments to
them at subsidised rates.
In January 2004, Dr Pandole,
in collaboration with the
BombayParsiPanchayet,started
The Bombay Parsi Panchayet
CHEETAH TO GROWL AGAIN
■ Last cheetah died in India
in 1947 and species was
declared extinct in 1952
■ Project to translocate
the big cat from Africa
was conceived in 2009
■ An Air Force chopper will
transport the cheetahs from
Delhi to Kuno National Park
to minimise travel time and
fatigue
■ Six helipads being built
around the park as several
dignitaries are expected
gramme got further delayed
briefly as four leopards had en-
tered the enclosure the cheetahs
weretobereleasedinto.Forestof-
A tractor being used to evacuate people stranded at the waterlogged Yemalur area after
heavy rainfall, in Bengaluru, Tuesday. PTI
ture being given is that the en-
tirecityisfacingagrimsituation,
which is not true. Not the entire
Bengaluruisfacingasituation(of
waterlogging) —
Mahadevapura the situation is
grim; the encroachments are
in
rampant and we are clearing
them''.
Blaming "maladministration
and unplanned administration"
under previous Congress gov-
ernments for this misery,
Bommaisaidtheyhadgivenper-
missions for construction activ-
ities "right-left-centre" in the
lakeareas,onthetankbundsand
buffer zones, PTI reported.
Hitting back, Karnataka
Congress president D K
Shivakumar on Tuesday urged
theBommai governmentto per-
form or face election. He also al-
leged that the "corrupt" BJP gov-
ernment and its officials are
responsible for Bengaluru's cur-
rent situation, PTI reported.
Urging against a blame-
game, executive chairperson of
Biocon Limited,
Mazumdar Shaw, said the city
Kiran
hasnotwitnessedsuchunprece-
dented rainfall in the past. “Both
the government and developers
need to take collective responsi-
bility to address waterlogging,”
she said. “There is no point in
blame-game but an action plan
that can be expeditiously imple-
mented is needed.”
Outer Ring Road Companies
Association(ORRCA),whichrep-
resents firms and banks located
on the area just behind Yemalur
Bellandur Road, on Monday is-
Fertility Project, which allowed
them to have access to state-of-
the-art medical facilities.
She played a key role in the
ideation and formulation of the
methodology required for the
Jiyo Parsi programme, a govern-
ment-fundedschemetohelpin-
fertilecouplesfromthe commu-
nity become parents.
“With time, the Parsi com-
munity is witnessing a gradual
drop in population. The fertility
rate of the Parsi has gone below
1. So, Dr Pandole lent a helping
hand to help couples conceive,”
said a doctor, who has been as-
sociated with her for over a
decade.
Morena
Gwalior
KUNO
NATIONAL
PARK
Shivpuri
MADHYA
PRADESH
ficials said three of the four leop-
ardshavebeendrivenout,andef-
forts are on to remove the fourth.
A senior official said, “We are
sued an advisory asking its
memberstoworkfromhomefor
the next five days.
The ORR area and Bellandur
is home to some of the biggest
tech brands, including CISCO,
Deloitte, Intel, Accenture, HP
India, Shell India, SAP, Persistent
Systems, Intuit. LG, iQuanti,
Yokogawa, Infiniti Research,
Accolite, AT&T and InMobi.
Blaming the unprecedented
rainfall, Bruhat Bengaluru
MahanagaraPalike(BBMP)chief
commissioner, Tushar Giri Nath,
said: “This is the second-wettest
rainy season seen by Bengaluru
in the last 50 years. Torrential
rain from August 30 to
September 4 has been five times
thenormalrainfall.Thesituation
was brought under control
quickly and flooding is now lo-
calised between the city’s two
biggest lakes — Bellandur and
Varthur.”
He also said, “Out of 800 sq
km(area)of Bengaluru,only 5 or
6 sq km have seen flooding. Out
of the city’s eight zones, only
Mahadevapura zone is severely
affected.”
Lending a funny take to the
grim situation, IT industry vet-
eran T V Mohandas Pai shared a
video on Twitter of a man
dressed as Lord Ganesh wading
through the flooded roads and
tagged a message that has gone
viralonsocialmedia:“Bangalore
must be the only tech hub in the
world where software develop-
ers travel two hours to get to of-
ficesothattheybuildappstode-
liver groceries in 10 mins.”
Anahita
Pandole
Notonlythat,withthehelpof
theParzorFoundation,shehelped
create a current database of all
ParsislivinginIndiafortheUnion
Ministry of Minority Affairs.
An associate of Dr Anahita
from the Jiyo Parshi programme
said,“Wearereallytoodisturbed
to talk right now. We are just
praying for her recovery.”
As per the quarterly report
allhereattheKunoNationalPark
andeffortsareontogetthefourth
leopard out before the cheetahs
arrive.” However, the enclosures
createdforquarantineandtheac-
climatisation of the cheetahs are
all clear, officials said.
Union ministry officials,
meanwhile, said that over the
next 3-4 years, the Indian gov-
ernment aims at acquiring 50
African cheetahs.
The cheetah is believed to
have disappeared from the
Indian landscape when the
Maharaja RamanujPratap Singh
Deo of Koriya in the present day
Chhattisgarh hunted and shot
the last three recorded Asiatic
cheetahs in India in 1947.The
species was declared extinct in
1952. The 'African Cheetah
IntroductionProjectinIndia'was
conceived in 2009.
22-yr-old woman
returning home
from office
electrocuted
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
BENGALURU, SEPTEMBER 6
POLICE HAVE registered a case of
death due to negligence against
officials of Bengaluru Electricity
Supply Company (BESCOM) and
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara
Palike(BBMP)followingthedeath
of a 22-year-old woman due to
electrocution while she was ne-
gotiating a flooded Whitefield
Main Road on Monday night fol-
lowing heavy rainfall in the city.
Akhila, 22, who worked as a
receptionistataprivatefirm,was
electrocuted while she was re-
turning home in Sarjapura area
on her two-wheeler, police said.
Theysaidshe lost herbalance on
the flooded road and near
Mahira Bakery and fell down.
“At9.30pm,Akhilawasgoing
home on her scooty from her
workplace. Whilegoingbackthe
roads were flooded. She lost bal-
anceandtouchedanelectricpole
andthenwaselectrocuted.Ithap-
pened on the main road,”
Whitefield DCP S Girish said.
Following a complaint filed
by her parents, a case under
Section 304 A of IPC for causing
deathduetonegligencewasreg-
istered against the BESCOM and
BBMP at Whitefield Police
Station, the police said.
published under the scheme, Dr
Anahita treated 18 couples in
Mumbai between January and
March this year. And over the
years, besides her fertility treat-
ment, she has counselled Parsi
youth andtheirfamilies forearly
marriage, conceivingat theright
time and training volunteers.
Besides being a doctor, Dr
Pandole has been an active citi-
zen committed to community
service.Onseveraloccasions,she
has raised her voice against ille-
gal hoardings. Only last week,
she wrote to the Brihanmumbai
Municipal Corporation (BMC),
opposing hoardings erected on
footpaths along the Western
Diversity furthers
our grasp of fairness,
social justice: SC judge
ANANTHAKRISHNAN G.
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6
THERE IS still a need for “struc-
tural changes” to ensure thatthe
“positive legal effects” of the top
court’s ruling decriminalsing
same-sexrelationsareextended
to “marginalised queer people”,
Supreme Court judge, Justice D
YChandrachud,saidonTuesday.
“While decriminalisation of
Section 377 has enabled queer
people to emerge as legally em-
powered citizens and demand
for their rights, rightfully and
proudly, structural changes are
stillneededtoensurethatweare
able to extend these positive le-
gal effects to marginalised queer
people, who continue to face in-
tersecting oppressions,” Justice
Chandrachud said.
“Certaingroupsof queerpeo-
ple, due to their caste and class
positions, are more susceptible
and vulnerable to the abuse of
law, both in terms of symbolic
and material harm,” he said, de-
livering the inaugural lecture for
the Office of Diversity and
Inclusion at IIT- Delhi.
JusticeChandarchudrecalled
that Tuesday “also marks a spe-
cial occasion, as we get a chance
to celebrate the fourth anniver-
sary" of Supreme Court’s judg-
ment in Navtej Singh Johar vs
Union of India decriminalising
Section 377 of IPC.
On September 5, 2018, a
five-judge Constitution Bench
of SC had read down the provi-
sion, saying it is violative of
Articles 14, 15, 19, and 21 of the
Constitution insofar as it crimi-
nalises consensual sexual acts
of adults in private.
Quotingfromthejudgement
— which said that "our
Constitution, above all, is an es-
sayintheacceptanceof diversity.
It is founded on a vision of an in-
clusivesocietywhichaccommo-
4th Assam madrasa razed
over ‘terror links’, police say
angry locals tore it down
DEBRAJ DEB
AGARTALA, SEPTEMBER 6
RESIDENTS OF Pakhiura Char, in
Assam's Goalpara district, on
Tuesday demolished a madrasa,
alleging that the premises were
beingusedfor“anti-nationaland
jihadiactivities”,accordingtopo-
lice. Darogar Alga Pakhiura Char
Madrasa is the fourth madrasa to
have been demolished in Assam
in about a month (see box).
Asked whether police had in-
tervened, or were deployed dur-
ing Tuesday’s incident, Goalpara
Superintendent of Police, V V
Rakesh Reddy, called it a “volun-
tary act”. The district administra-
tionorpolice“werenotpartofit”,
he said. Reddy told The Indian
Express that a group of residents
were angry at the madrasa being
used to further “anti-India and ji-
hadi” agenda after the August 20
arrest of Jalaluddin Sheikh, 49.
According to Reddy, two
Bangladesh nationals, identified
asAminulIslam,aliasUsman,and
Jahangir Alam, who are allegedly
members of the al-Qaeda in
Indian Sub-continent (AQIS) and
AnsarulBanglaTeam,aterrorout-
fit banned in Bangladesh, had al-
legedly used a residence close to
the madrasa for anti-national ac-
tivities. The two are absconding.
Reddy said the two were in-
Express Highway, arguing they
couldposeadangertomotorists.
“This has to stop,” she wrote
in the letter.
Currently, she is undergoing
surgery at HN Reliance Hospital.
ItsCEO,DrTarangGianchandani,
said, “They (Dr Pandole and the
other survivor) reached the hos-
pital in the early hours this
morning — the journey was un-
eventful. Our clinical team of 20
multi-disciplinary doctors are
evaluating them currently and
shall be looking after them.”
DrPandoleisassociatedwith
hospitals like Jaslok, Breach
Candy, Masina and BD Petit
Parsee General Hospital.
New Delhi
Justice D Y Chandrachud
dates plural ways of life” —
JusticeChandrachudsaid,“What
it signifies for all our universities
and institutes of higher educa-
tion is that they must look like
the India they represent.”
He said that “people belong-
ing to different genders, regions,
castes and socio-economic
backgrounds bring in their own
unique experiences, ideas, val-
ues and perspectives to bear on
the task at hand by asking new
questions and seeking unique
solutions”.
On the aspect of diversity, he
said it has “an intrinsic worth in
itself, and furthers our under-
standing of fairness and social
justice.... Innovation in science
occurs when someone has the
courage to ask different ques-
tions, look at problems from dif-
ferent perspectives, and gain
new insights.Diversity results in
innovative thinking and deci-
sion-making, and richness in
originality of scholarly thought.
Learning is impoverished when
it happens in groups of like-
minded people”.
Citing his own example,
Justice Chandrachud said that
over the years, he has had “bril-
liant law clerks from diverse
backgrounds — from different
genders, castes, classes, regions
and cultural experiences — and
my interactions with them con-
tinue to give me new perspec-
tives,whetherthroughasugges-
tion of a new movie or book, or
by actively seeking new solu-
tions to old problems.”
DEMOLISHED IN A MONTH
AUGUST 4: Jamiul Huda
Madrasa at Moirabari, in
Morigaon district,
demolished by
government authorities
AUGUST 29: Jamiul Huda
Academy Madrasa at
Howli, in Barpeta district,
demolished
troduced to unsuspecting lo-
cal residents as "knowledgeable
teachers from West Bengal" and
had taught at the madrasa for a
while since 2020. He said: “It
(demolition of the madrasa) was
astrongmessagefromthepublic
thattheyareagainstanti-national
elements and they don't want to
be party to such activities. They
showed it by demolishing the
madrasa themselves.”
Asked about the “anti-na-
tional and jihadi activities” ex-
posedthroughthecrackdownon
thesemadrasas,theSPsaid,“After
busting the Goalpara module of
AQIS we found clues that these
modules were interconnected at
Barpeta, Morigaon and Goalpara
through training activities, or
through common Bangladeshi
contactwhotriedtoindoctrinate
people here, set up bases here at
various points of time.”
Investigationsofarhassuggested
Family members and friends at the funeral Cyrus Mistry, in
Mumbai on Tuesday. Among others who attended the last
rites were industrialists Anil Ambani, Ajit Gulabchand,
Deepak Parekh, NCP Lok Sabha MP Supriya Sule and
former Union minister Milind Deora. Ganesh Shirsekar
WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM
BIOCON BRIBERY
Credibility of
proof has to be
assessed, says
HC; 3 get bail
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6
THE DELHI High Court on
Tuesdaygrantedbail tothree ac-
cusedinthe Biocon briberycase,
being investigated by CBI.
The three granted bail are S
Eswara Reddy, now-suspended
joint drug controller in the bio-
logicaldivisionof DrugController
General of India (DCGI); Dinesh
Dua, director, Synergy Network
India Private Limited; and L
Praveen Kumar, associate vice-
president and head, National
Regulatory Affairs of Biocon
Biologics Limited (BBL).
On CBI’s case that the ac-
cused were caught red-handed,
the court said it cannot be over-
looked that the alleged recovery
in the case is “not pursuant to
any usual trap proceedings”.
Theconsiderationof credibil-
ity of circumstantial evidence
would have to be assessed,
Justice Anu Malhotra said.
In the order, the court said
there is nothing to indicate that
the recommendation made by
the Special Expert Committee
(SEC)forwaiverof phase-IIIclini-
caltrialinIndiatoBioconBiologics
for import and marketing of
Insulin Aspart injection has been
approved and given effect to by
DCGI of Central Drugs Standard
Control Organisation (CDSCO).
The court noted that a
chargesheet has been filed in the
case and voice samples of the ac-
cused persons have been taken.
Granting bail, the court said of-
fences alleged tohave been com-
mittedbythethreeapplicantsare
punishablewithimprisonmentof
a maximum of seven years and
theyapparentlyarenotflightrisks.
In June, CBI had arrested
Reddy, who has since been sus-
pended, after he and Dua were
caught allegedly red-handed
withabribeamountof Rs4lakh.
AUGUST 31: Markazul Ma-
Arif Quariayana Madrasa
in Bongaigaon district
demolished by authorities
SEPTEMBER 6: Darogar
Alga Pakhiura Char
Madrasa in Goalpara
district demolished by
local residents
these terror sleeper cell mod-
uleswereusuallysetupbyestab-
lishingbasesthroughmadrasasor
using local logistics such as SIM
cards, he said.
Cong seeks probe into
August 31 incident
Congress lawmakers from
Assam have written to the
National Commission for
Minoritiesandurgedittoinvesti-
gate the demolition of a madrasa
in Bongaigaon and ensure justice
for its 224 residential students. A
CongressMPandsomeMLAsina
letter to NCM chairperson Iqbal S
Lalpura alleged that the govern-
mentdemolishedtheBongaigaon
madrasa "in blatant disregard to
theruleoflaw",PTIreported."The
studentshadtovacateinthemid-
dle of the night, and had no shel-
terasmostofthemcamefromfar-
off places," the letter stated.
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THE EDITORIAL PAGE

WORDLY WISE
Hate has caused a lot of problems in this
world but has not solved one yet.
— MAYA ANGELOU

FOUNDED BY
The next reforms
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§
RAMNATH GOENKA
Focus must be on leveraging India's special
BECAUSE THE TRUTH INVOLVES US ALL
circumstances and areas of comparative advantage

DIP & FALL Ashima Goyal

THE INDIAN ECONOMY was expected tocol-
Imports remain robust as exports slow down sharply. Slowing tioning of courts and police. Instead of wast- since this would benefit exporters. But pass-
lapse due to the pandemic. But its recovery ingpoliticalcapitalonreformsthatencounter throughofexchangeratedepreciationismuch
global economy and trade suggest subdued outlook

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has been better than that of most countries.
FTER GROWING AT a healthy 22 per cent in the first quarter of the ongoing Appropriate counter-cyclical policy enabled
financial year, India's merchandise export growth has dipped sharply in the this but it worked because reforms had
months thereafter. This is reflective of slowing global demand and price reachedathresholdofadequacy.Intherecent
corrections. Data from the ministry of commerce and industry shows that past growth suffered because of an excessive
export growth slowed down to 2.1 per cent in July, contracting by 1.2 per cent in August focus on structural reforms while neglecting
to a nine-month low of $33 billion. In fact, August was the first time that exports have thesmootheningofshocks.Currentpolicyhas
contracted in 18 months. In comparison, merchandise imports have continued to grow responded to the latter. But talk of the neces-
at a robust pace, rising by around 37 per cent in August. While imports have been driven sity of reforms is again in the air. So what re-
by fossil fuels (petroleum and coal), non-energy imports (such as electronics and ma- forms are required?
chinery)havealsosurged.Infact,overthisfive-monthperiod,non-oilimportshavegrown Amajorobjectiveof internationalinstitu-
by 32 per cent, indicative of strong domestic demand. As a consequence of weak exports tionssuchastheIMF-WBistoensureadvan-
and robust import growth, the merchandise trade deficit (April-August) has more than tages to other countries from India’s growth,
doubled over the same period last year. inparticulartotheirmainfinancierswhoare
The disaggregated data shows that, excluding petroleum, the decline in India's ex- the large capital exporting countries. It fol-
ports in August was sharper at 2.2 per cent. The fall was driven by engineering goods, cot- lows that they want to ensure freer markets
ton yarn, and gems and jewellery, among others. In its July update of the world economic and fewer restrictions on all types of capital
outlook, the International Monetary Fund projected global growth to slow down to 3.2 flows. Much of this is in India’s interest since
per cent in 2022, from 6.1 per cent in 2021. The IMF had earlier forecasted growth at 3.6 we need more capital and better integration
per cent, but lowered its assessment as several shocks ranging from high inflation and withworldmarkets.Butademocracycannot
tightening of global financial conditions, a slowdown in China, and negative spillovers ignore the concerns of its own citizens. The
from the war in Ukraine, are impacting economic activity. Growth for the next year has IMF-WBholytrinityof structuralland,labour
been pegged even lower at 2.9 per cent. Alongside, the Fund has also lowered its projec- and other market-opening reforms harms
tion of world trade volume in goods and services to 4.1 per cent in 2022 (it had earlier as- many domestic citizens and, beyond a point,
sessed growth at 5 per cent), down from 10.1 per cent last year. It expects world trade runsintosevereresistancethatimposeslarge
growth to slow down further to 3.2 per cent in 2023. political costs.
On the other hand, services exports have continued to maintain their healthy growth, Liberalisation has reached a point of di-
even as imports have seen a decline. As per some analysts, the services surplus is likely minishing returns. Whatever was feasible in
to exceed levels seen last year as demand remains firm, and the currency remains weak. the above is surely in motion by now. Further
Notwithstanding that, the sharp deterioration in the goods trade deficit will imply a organic reform will take place as states com-
worsening of the current account deficit. As per some assessments, the deficit will rise pete. Improving the supply-side has many
sharply in the second quarter. In times of globally tightening financial conditions, while other aspects. In choosing from the reform
financing this will be challenging, the recent turnaround in foreign portfolio flows pro- menu, the Centre must be guided by feasibil-
vides some comfort. ity and pragmatism and ensure that benefits
accrue to a majority.
Thefocusshouldbeonleveragingthespe-
Attention should be given to
developing skills and
capabilities, improving
employability, augmenting
infrastructure, reducing
logistics and other business
costs through better Centre-
largeresistanceandshockthesystem,reforms
should enhance favourable trends.
Yet,reformsuggestionscontinuewiththe
liberalisation agenda.
Privatisation of banks: There is a recom-
mendation to privatise most public sector
banks (PSBs), starting with those doing well.
ButtheargumentthatPSBsareadrainontax-
payers’ money is based on the experience of
thelastdecade.Inthe2000s,theyweredoing
better than private banks and withstood the
globalfinancialcrisisbetter.NPAsrosebecause
they were pushed into lending to infrastruc-
ture where there are inherent asset liability
mismatchesforcommercialbanks.Moreover,
it was the first time that the lending was to
privatecompanies.Therefore,afullresolution
hadtoawaitthesettingupof themissingreg-
ulatory framework for bankruptcy.
Improvements in PSB governance and risk-
basedlendingprofileshaveresultedinfalling
NPA ratios and strong capital adequacy even
under the pandemic shocks. Social schemes
that were a drain on PSB resources are now
largely financed through direct subsidies by
the government.
Diversity in institutions and approaches
makesforamorestablefinancialsector.PSBs
are trusted by many savers. They have gar-
neredRs1.7trillionintheirJanDhanaccounts,
whileprivatebankshavehardlyany.PSBscan
leveragetheiradvantagesinlow-costdeposits
through many co-lending opportunities and
partnerships.Theeconomyhassufferedvery
lowcreditgrowththroughthelastdecadeand
isreadyforaturnaround.Privatebanksalone
fasterinIndianimports,whicharedominated
bydollar-denominatedcommoditiessuchas
crude oil. Indian exporters largely have little
marketpowerandareforcedtosharetheben-
efitsof depreciation.Manystudiesshowthey
do notgain fromvolatility.Asimportedinfla-
tion rises, monetary tightening follows and
hurtstherealsector.Realappreciationresults
in and requires more nominal depreciation.
Any gain to exporters from overshooting is
temporary.Thefallintheexchangerateof the
rupee from about Rs 8 in the 1990s to about
Rs 80 currently has not brought about a sus-
tained rise in exports.
Market panics and large deviations from
competitive real exchange rates hurt the
economy and most participants. Lower
volatilityintherealexchangeratehelpsboth
gainersandloserswhentherearechangesin
the rupee value. Both positive and negative
deviations from equilibrium real rates are
harmful.Onlyafractionof theforeignportfo-
lio flows (FPI) that look for trading benefits
gainfromvolatility,notthemajoritythathas
a steady commitment and is here to benefit
from India's growth. Trading FPIs want to be
the first to go out, take profits and then wait
for a rupee crash before coming back in. If
theyknowtherewillbenocrash,thereisless
incentivetobethefirstout.Thecountry'srisk
premium falls. This may have contributed to
a reversal of outflows.
Somerupeevolatilityisgoodandencour-
ages firms to hedge currency risks. Central
bankstypicallyletthecurrencyfallunderout-
flows, so exiting FPIs get less. Then the bank

FIGHTING LSD
cialcircumstancesthatcurrentlyfavourIndia.
TheseincludetheimpetusCovid-19hasgiven
to digital aspects, where India has a compar-
Lumpy skin disease is not a normal viral outbreak. A ativeadvantage,thepossibilityofsupplychain
coordinated effort is needed diversification away from China, moving to a
state coordination, and
enhancing the quality of
governance and
countercyclical regulation
with good incentives. Much
could not increase credit adequately — when
lendingfromPSBshadslowed.Thisisnotthe
timeto disruptthe recovery in creditgrowth.
PSBs should be allowed to compete and raise
resources on their own. Only those who can-
comesin,buyinglow,stabilisingthecurrency
andreducingtheovershooting.Trenddepre-
ciation has to compensate for inflation and
productivitydifferentials.ThatUSinflationex-
ceeds that of India, and productivity tends to

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netzeroeconomyandharnessinggreeninitia- can be done to improve data not do so, or have other serious weaknesses, risewithgrowth,reducestherequireddepre-
UMPY SKIN DISEASE (LSD) has infected around 11.25 lakhcattle, caused nearly tives as a source of investment and innova- shouldbeallowedtoexitthroughtheprivati- ciation. It helps exports if the rupee depreci-
50,000 deaths and spread to 165 districts in 12 states. Despite this officially use and privacy, functioning
tion.Attentionshouldbegiventodeveloping sation or merger route. The strong will pros- ates as much as major export competitors.
confirmed data, there seems to be no coordinated national effort for dealing of courts and of police.
skillsandcapabilities,improvingemployabil- per. The Chinese way of growth, where the Depreciation has been close to that of the
withwhat’sclearlymore thananormalviraloutbreak.TheLSDvirus,transmit- ity, augmenting infrastructure, reducing lo-
Instead of wasting political public sector shrinks as the private sector Chinese currency. So intervention that pre-
tedbymosquitoesandotherblood-feedingarthropodvectors,wasfirstdetectedinOdisha gistics and other business costs through bet- capital on reforms that growsfaster,wouldworkbetterforIndiaalso. vents overshooting has only facilitated the
in August 2019 and the neighbouring eastern states by the year-end. Over the next two terCentre-statecoordination,andenhancing encounter large resistance Overshooting of the exchange rate: There working of markets and their discovery of
years, sporadic cases were seen, including in Maharashtra and Gujarat. The recent wave, thequalityofgovernanceandcounter-cyclical and shock the system, are recommendations that the rupee should equilibrium values.
since May-June 2022, is unusual not only for morbidity or the rate at which animals are regulationwithgoodincentives.Muchcanbe reforms should enhance be completely market-determined. It should The writer is member, Monetary Policy
contracting the disease, but also mortality. The symptoms, too, aren’t restricted to the done to improve data use and privacy, func- favourable trends. be allowed to sink under foreign outflows Committee and Emeritus Professor, IGIDR
mere appearance of skin nodules. In many cases, infected animals are experiencing acute
pain, swelling in limbs and bleeding, alongside fever and loss of appetite.
For now, it looks that susceptibility to the disease is more among the cattle with ham-
pered immune systems. That would include stray animals or even those in gaushalas not

A MORE NURTURING FORCE

properly fed and looked after. To that extent, there may be no immediate impact on milk
production(LSDhasn’talsobeenreportedmuchinbuffaloes).Itis,moreover,possiblethat
the current surge may have largely to do with an increase in vector population from the
monsoon — and could subside for the same reason. But that only adds to the urgency to
act now and launch a concerted vaccine-cum-awareness drive on the lines of the fight
against Covid-19. The dairy sector, which accountsfor over a fifth of the gross value added
Police constabulary faces stress, mental health challenges. Leadership must intervene
from Indian agriculture, needs to be prepared for a fresh resurgence that might come
sooner than later — with deadlier consequences. Rahul Gupta
Three things should be done on a priority basis. The first is tostep upsupply of goat pox
andsheeppoxvaccines.SinceLSDbelongstothesamecapripoxvirusgenus,thesevaccines SOMETIMEAGO,aninspectorcametomyof- CourtofInquiry'sfindingsaboutacaseoffrat- adopted. This is where the police leadership
canprovideatleastpartialcross-protectionagainsttheformerevenif thatisspecifictocat- fice. He requested me to immediately send a ricide at a BSF camp in Amritsar. The person comesintothepicture.Weshouldstrivetocre-
tle. At present, only the goat pox vaccine has been approved for administering to cattle constableinthedistrictpolicebacktohishome who shot his colleagues had shown signs of ate a working environment that provides ful-
against LSD. The same may be extended to sheep pox vaccines, for which there are many with60days'leave.Iaskedhimwhattheissue mentalstressbutthesewerenotgivenenough filment and reduces the chances of stress.
was,towhichherepliedthattheconstablewas attention.Hewasassignedtasksthatmayhave Wemustincreasecommunicationwithall
moremanufacturers.Secondly,thegovernmentmustexpeditethecommercialisationofthe
showing signs of severe mental stress on ac- aggravated the stress. Mental stress is a less- the ranks. The enforcement of discipline has
Indian Council of Agricultural Research’s recently-developed live attenuated homologous countofbeingawayfromhomeandlivingun- understoodmedicalconditioninIndia.Those togohand-in-handwithconcernforstaffwell-
vaccine that is said to provide full protection against LSD. It could consider granting emer- derconstantanxietythatsomeunknownper- whoexpresstheproblemaretermedasweak being.Regularsamparksabhasneedtobecon-
gency use authorisation to enable large-scale production and roll-out, similar to that for son will attack him. He was sent on leave. The and are seen as shying away from the rigours ducted where personnel can air their griev-
Covidvaccines.Third,thevaccinationshouldbedoneonmissionmode,withthepushcom- constableisfromBiharandhasbeenservingin of life. In a uniformed setup, subordinate staff ances and proper follow-up action must be
ing from the top and not the department of animal husbandry and dairying. theArunachalPradeshPolicesince2000.Itap- To cope with the difficulty of do not want to appear weak. taken on all possible issues. During random
pearedthatwithhissalary,hecouldnotafford such a setup, personnel often The constabulary accounts for around 85 fieldinspections,friendlycommunicationwith
to bring his family here. percentofstatepoliceandCAPFs.Theymostly the person on duty does not hurt discipline —
Thestressaffectingthementalwell-being
resort to alcoholism and remain in the background with less recogni- itonlyincreaseshistrustintheleadershipand

CRICKETERS VS HATERS of uniformed personnel is often overlooked.

Uniformedforcesaretightlystructured.Asen-
iorofficeristhereportingauthorityforhisim-
Targeting of Arshdeep Singh for a slip-up on the field is mediatejuniorandthisjuniorhastofulfiltheir
tasks with manpower under his/her com-
reprehensible, goes against letter and spirit of the game mand. The system ensures discipline, clarity
drug abuse. In the latter
cases, defaulters are
punished as per the law and
suitable departmental action
is also taken. Bad apples
tionfortheirachievementsandmorefrequent
persecutionforfailure.Asalaryalonemaynot
providethemwithenoughjobsatisfactionvis-
a-vis the hardships they endure.
To cope with the difficulty of such a setup,
personneloftenresorttoalcoholismanddrug
dedication.Dignityattheworkplaceandpride
in the uniform compensate for any lack of re-
sources. But this has to be reinforced with
proactive interventions.
I called the constable after a few days and
suggested that he bring his family and prom-

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S THE BALL slipped between his fingers and even before it hit the ground, ofrolesandaccountability.However,ittendsto should be eliminated but abuse. In the latter cases, defaulters are pun- ised that we will help him however possible.
becomeinhuman,especiallytothosewhocan- those with underlying issues ished as per the law and suitable departmen-
thefatethatawaitedArshdeepSingh,post-match,couldhavebeenforetold.
not communicate their personal issues in an tal action is also taken. Bad apples should be The writer is an IPS officer serving as
A stand-up comic suggested that the young Indian pacer's social media appropriate forum. must be identified and a eliminated but those with underlying issues Superintendent of Police in Arunachal Pradesh.
manager delete the apps from his phone, predicting a barrage of hateful In July, The Indian Express reported on a different approach adopted. must be identified and a different approach Views are personal
messages. It was said half-jokingly. But what followed wasn’t funny at all. For hours af-
ter the match, the 23-year-old was vilified across social media platforms, his Wikipedia
page edited to add references to Khalistan, prompting the government to seek an expla-
nation from the website’s executives. All this over a dropped catch in the match in which
India was defeated by Pakistan in the Asia Cup on Sunday. SEPTEMBER 7, 1982, FORTY YEARS AGO
The overreaction of sports fans isn’t new. It follows a tediously predictable pattern:
Outrageous, xenophobic comments are made against a player in the garb of criticism; a INSAT-1A FAILS search of food have not got any relief. Many
who have managed to cross over to safer
should be disbanded and that the “repres-
sion against the Polish people should be
show of support follows and, in rare cases, there’s condemnation of the vicious attacks
from teammates; the outrage subsides and it is business as usual. Until the next such in- INDIANSPACESCIENTISTSabandonedInsat- places by their own efforts have reported stopped”.
IA, the first multi-purpose domestic satellite looting and snatching of food grains from
cidenttakesplace.ThishasbeenhappeningsincethetimeChetanSharmawashitforalast-
ballsixbyJavedMiandad.Buttherecentwaveof socialmediaabuseisdifferent–ithasbeen
as it had become totally unoperational. The
master control facility (MCF) at Hassan dis-
government stocks or private godowns.
ASSAM TALKS
directedprominentlyatplayersfromminoritycommunities.BeforeArshdeep,Mohammed
Shami was targeted after India’s defeat to Pakistan in the T20 World Cup last October.
covered that all the fuel on board the space-
craft had been depleted, making control of
EMBASSY OCCUPIED THE SPIRIT OF cordiality has taken over the
protractedAssamtalksintheCapitalpercep-
IndianandPakistaniplayershavealwaysenjoyedcordialrelationshipsoff thefield.The the satellite impossible. “Investigations are AN ARMED GROUP occupied the Polish em- tibly accelerating the process of ending the
bonhomie, however, has been missing on social media. TV studios fan the flames with a continuing to determine the precise cause of bassy in Berne, took diplomats hostage and deadlock and evolving an honourable solu-
build-up that borders on warmongering. Social media executives, too, need to be much these events,” a press release by MCF said. threatened to blow it up in 48 hours unless tion totheforeigners’issue.“A package deal”
thePolishGovernmentliftedmartiallawand is what is stated to be in the offing through a
more responsible in ensuring their platforms are not used to spread hate. Every cricketer
has made a slip-up like Arshdeep's at one time or another. The reasonable reaction to LOOTING IN FLOODS freed political prisoners in Poland, the police
said. The group, which contacted the Berne
seriesof informaldiscussions,whichdoaway
with the time-consuming debates of a for-
such a mishap would be slapping the head or throwing it back in disappointment. LOOTING AND CLASHES have been reported police after occupying the mission, also de- mal talk and enable participants to concen-
Anything beyond that isn't cricket. from the flooded areas where people in manded that all prison camps in Poland trate more on the core problems.

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THE IDEAS PAGE
Not a debate for EC and SC
Discussion on revdis and freebies is a political one. Given poverty and inequality in India, we need to
reaffirm the value and necessity of welfare programmes and the urgent need to expand them
S Y Quraishi
ELECTIONSININDIAareusuallyatimeof en-
ticingpromisesandelaborateofferswhenall
politiciansaresuddenlyandtouchinglycon-
cernedbytheeverydayplightof thecommon
citizen. Free electricity and water, cheaper
food grain and fuel, bicycles, phones, laptops
andwadsof cashusuallyappearonthemenu
of offerings.
Therearetwoquestionshere:First,isthis
fanciful, excessive and often misleading vein
of promise-making indistinguishable from
the state-led provision of basic goods in a
rights-based, welfarist apparatus? Second,
must there be judicial or EC intervention to
tackle the issue of freebies?
The recent debate sparked by the Prime
Minister’s comments on what he termed
“revdiculture” hasreignited thesignificance
of the above two questions. Let me first ad-
dress the second question.
Promisesmadebythepoliticalparties,of-
ten driven by short-term electoral calcula-
tions,canbedividedintotwotypes:Promises
madebeforetheelectionsareannouncedand
those made after. These promises are made
by both the ruling and Opposition parties,
withtherulingpartyhavingadistinctadvan-
tageastheycontrolthetreasury.Theyarealso
in a rush to make such promises before the
EC plays spoilsport with its much-dreaded
model code of conduct.
The second type of promise is the one
made through manifestos after the elections
havebeenannounced.Thegovernmentcan-
not announce new schemes after the decla-
ration of poll dates because of the model
code of conduct. The promises made in the
manifestos, however, do not attract the
model code. This is also why the EC has no
powers to question the manifestos as they
are perfectly legal, however infeasible their
promises may seem.
Even the SC, in its judgment dated July 5,
2013, accepted that the promises in mani-
festos cannot be construed as “corrupt prac-
tice” under the RP Act. However, it conceded
thattheydo“influencethepeopleandshake
therootsof freeandfairelections”.Itdirected
theEC to frameguidelineswith regard tothe
contentof manifestosinconsultationwithall
therecognisedpoliticalparties.Intheirmeet-
ingwiththeElectionCommission,angrypo-
litical parties argued that in a healthy demo-
craticpolityitistheir“rightandduty”towards
thevoterstomakepromisestothemthrough
their manifestos. Agreeing with this in prin-
ciple, the EC, however, underlined its “unde-
sirable impact”.
In my opinion, neither the EC nor the SC
cangetinvolvedin thisperfectly legalandle-
gitimate democratic instrument. Even if the
promises are unrealistic or absurd, it is for
the rival parties and the media to expose
them. And the voters do remember which
promiseshavebeen fulfilledandwhich have
not been. They are now seen constantly re-
warding good performance and punishing
non-delivery.
Moreover, as matters of economic policy
lieinthehandsofelectedrepresentatives,nei-
ther the EC nor the SC must intervene in the
Aakash Joshi
IT IS EASY, as the years wear on, to forget the
bondsof fellowshipthatbindustoourclosest
friends.Bythetimethemid-30scomearound,
the raucous drinking sessions of the decade
beforehavebecomeabitmorestaidandalot
moremaudlin.Loudrevelry,barfightsandro-
mantic misadventures are replaced by remi-
niscing,pointlessgossiportheanxiety-induc-
ing, never-ending drudgery of EMIs, SIPs,
school admissions and IT return deadlines.
Butperhapstheworstdevelopmentof all,
in recent years, has been the insidious ways
inwhichthepoliticsofvirtuesignallingonthe
one hand and deep bigotry — enabled in no
smallpartbytechnology—ontheother,have
infected relationships. The final blow came
whenthefakesenseofvictimhoodthatmarks
majoritarian politics found its way to J R R
Tolkien’s Legendarium in the long run-up to
Prime Video’s The Rings of Power.
First,alittlebackground.Therearelevelsto
Tolkien fandom and many of the more ex-
treme are no better than religious fanatics.
MostpeoplehaveseenPeterJackson'strilogy.
Then there are those who have read The Lord
oftheRingsandTheHobbit—iftheyhavedone
soonlyonce,theymaywellbemockedbythe
more senior monks of this erudite order. To
be a true fan, one has to also have read The
Silmarillion,UnfinishedTales,ChildrenofHurin,
The Histories of Middle Earth as well as many
of thecompilationsChristopherTolkienpub-
lished of his father's letters, notes and other
purely political domain of the legislature. It is
ultimatelyforthevotertojudgetheeconomic
and fiscal implications of freebie policies.
We must now turn to the first question:
Welfarismvsfreebies.ThePM’sremarkabout
“revdi culture” is indeed surprising as it
strikes at the legitimacy of welfarism itself,
particularlystate-ledwelfarism,asasuitable
model of development in which his govern-
ment has done enormous work.
Oxfam’s2022annualreportoninequality
inIndiahasmanytroubling,starkrevelations.
Thenumberof poordoubledto134millionas
its dollar billionaires’ wealth doubled. The
richest1percenthaveamassed51.5percent
of the total wealth while the bottom 60 per
cent of the population a mere 5 per cent. All
of these indications clearly suggest a picture
of anationthatismorefractiousandunequal.
Criticshavepointedoutthatprovisionsto
poorbeneficiariesaretermedas“revdi”while
state-sponsored support to the rich is called
“incentive”. In September 2019, the govern-
ment slashed corporate tax rates for domes-
ticcompaniesfrom30percentto22percent,
andfornewmanufacturingcompaniesfrom
25 per cent to 15 per cent. The government
tookjust36hourstoimplementthisdecision.
TheOxfamreporthasstatedthatthesecorpo-
rate cuts resulted in a loss of 1.5 lakh crore.
The report further highlighted that the
governmentmanagedtocompensateforthe
shortfall in direct taxes (income tax, corpo-
rate tax and capital gains tax) by increasing
indirect taxes (goods and services tax, excise
andcustomsduty)duringthepandemic.This
directly led to a rise in fuel prices impacting
the prices of essential commodities such as
Fans and fanatics in Middle Earth
Politicsof victimhoodcannotruinthejoysof JRRTolkien’suniverse
assortedwritings.Finally,therearethecrazies
who start learning Elvish, Dwarvish and a bit
of the Black Speech of Mordor.
Imagine,then,whenayoungfanfindslike-
mindedsoulswhoseethefascinatinglayersof
this universe. Like in the hundreds of
Ramayanas and several versions of the
Mahabharata, they flesh out the book’s char-
acters, see the story from the perspective of
thevillains,andimaginethepoliticalimplica-
tions of the metaphorical “White Man's
Burden” in the myth.
TheRingsofPowerwasoneofthemostan-
ticipated cinematic-television events of the
last few years. Fans, while numerically mini-
mal, often present themselves as an army of
zealots, bound across geographies by their
love of Tolkien's universe. That universalism,
as it turns out, was misplaced.
When the first look and trailer came out,
many diehard fans insisted that the show
wouldbeadisappointment.Itappearedtode-
part too much from the source material. The
more disturbing kinds of criticism were just
outright prejudicial: How can there be black,
brown and women characters in the lead?
How can a high-elf “glow” with the light of
Valinor if they are a shade darker than the
Nordic,Germanic,orAryanideaof asuperior
race? How can a story revolve around
Galadriel,whoisfairandstrongtobesure,but
not a woman of action (in their eyes)?
Wokepolitics,concludedthelargelywhite
In my opinion, neither the
EC nor the SC can get
involved in this perfectly
legal and legitimate
democratic instrument.
Even if the promises are
unrealistic or absurd, it is for
the rival parties and the
media to expose them. And
the voters do remember
what promises have been
fulfilled and what have not
been. They are now seen
constantly rewarding good
performance and punishing
non-delivery.
male fandom, without even watching the
show, would destroy the universe.
There are, in this universe of nerds, many
unfortunate parallels to the wider politics of
hurt sentiments. For all its biblical imagery,
the stories from the Legendarium have more
in common with “pagan” myths and deities
—fromtheNorsegods,toancientGreeceand
closerhome,totheSubcontinent’sgreatepics.
In video games, fan fiction, and just conjec-
turevideosonYouTube(inaddition,ofcourse,
toprivateconversations)wehavealladdedto
the story, come up with our own interpreta-
tionsandenjoyedtheuniversalismofthetale.
The Rings of Power is, in essence, the ulti-
mate form of fan fiction — albeit on an as-
tounding scale with an almost unthinkable
budget. How can it be, then, that some from
thecommunityabusethosetryingtodowhat
theyhavebeendoingsincetheyfirstreadthe
books or were introduced to the mythical
world through Peter Jackson’s films 20 years
ago?Thisissupposedtobeabandofthefaith-
ful, not an insecure government trying to po-
lice a syllabus.
So,intherun-uptothereleaseoftheshow
onSeptember2,therewasanunderstandable
senseofdespondency.Fantasywassupposed
to be a refuge from the polarised politics that
marks so much of life now. Politics, and the
vitriol that accompanies it, had long ago
crossed the water’s edge and invaded family
WhatsAppgroupsandcollegereunions.Now,
C R Sasikumar
foodgrain, which only impact the poor.
These policies are the main reason that
helped make the rich richer, while the na-
tional minimum wage has remained at Rs
178 a day since 2020. Reduced federal
funding to local administrations amidst
growing privatisation in the health and ed-
ucation sectors has further boosted in-
equalities. Meanwhile, our nation is home
to a quarter of the world’s undernourished
people, according to the World Food
Programme.
Given this overall socio-economic con-
text,itisimportantthatwereaffirmthevalue
and necessity of our welfare programmes,
and the urgent need to expand them.
Providing its citizens with food, education
and employment is the most fundamental
responsibility of a democratic state.
The so-called “freebie” promises like
cheap foodgrains and free items of utility
haveactuallydoneconsiderablegoodtofur-
ther the dream of democracy. Starvation
deaths haven’t occurred since Rs 1-2 kg rice
was introduced. The distribution of bicycles
had improved enrollment and retention of
girls in schools in Bihar. Employment guar-
antee schemes have brought visible relief to
the rural poor.
Finally, I firmly believe that our nation
would become a greater democracy if we
redirect our concerned attention from
“revdi”and“freebies”torightsandfreedoms.
The writer is former Chief Election
Commissioner of India and the author of An
Undocumented Wonder — The Making of
the Great Indian Elections
it would take away the joys that have sus-
tainedsomanyforsolong—justasithastaken
away our human gods and tries to dam the
river that feeds our collective imagination as
itsplitsintothemanystories,thedistributaries
of ourownmaking—throughasingularidea
of religion and nationhood.
But as the humble Samwise Gamgee said
in the film version of The Two Towers, “this
darkness too shall pass”.
On Friday, just after I binge-watched the
first two episodes of The Rings of Power, the
phonebuzzed.Andwespokeof whothenew
characters could “actually” be; whether the
man on the boat was the Witch King or
Sauron;whetherTheStrangerwasGandalfor
one of the Blue Wizards. Gibberish, really, for
allthepeoplewhoarenotintheknow.Notso
high-minded as the discussions about
Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in the soirees
of thesnooty,butnotsobasicastheMCU.Just
the pure joy of being a fan. Or, maybe, it is the
joy of fellowship that Tolkien wrote about so
well,offriendshipsrecalledandstrengthened,
slipping into old patterns and conversations
like into a comfortable pair of slippers.
Politics and social media posturing may
have contaminated the public conversation,
spreadinglikethedarknessoutofMordor.But
ithasn’tyetinfectedthesimplejoysofHobbits
in the Shire.
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“Western elites have attempted to push China and India into a game of ‘dragon
and elephant competition’ out of a Cold War mentality. However, as two emerging
economies, and two neighboring countries, we share common interests that are
far larger than their differences.” —GLOBALTIMES,CHINA
The ideal Indian
citizen in 2047
Wewillallbecalm,pink-skinned,beardedand
wealthy.Ahhhhmen!
and with no coercion whatsoever, be con-
vinced to stop eating and thereby “lose
weight”. Millions of young women are al-
ready fully engaged in this form of self-re-
moval. They refer to this practice as “diet-
ing”,whichalreadyincludestheword“die”
init,inordertoremindeveryonethatit’sre-
ally about mortality. The most advanced
Manjula form of weight reduction results in Total
Padmanabhan Body Loss. Crude and ignorant people will
insist on referring to this as “death” but of
course,weknowthatinthecaseof females,
INDIA’SIDEALCITIZENin2047willbemale. it means transference to a higher plane of
It’s that simple. existence. Whenever a female succeeds in
Atonestroke,everysingleproblemthat thisformofself-elimination,astatuewillbe
has beset the nation since the time of the erected to her. Eventually, every home will
Invasions*willbesolved:Thebirthratewill have a room filled with such statues. It will
fall to within absolutely perfect limits; be a glorious sight to see. Perhaps even a
there will be no more crimes against fe- tourist attraction.
males; there will be perfect harmony in Third,insteadof employingtheold,out-
everyhome.(*Allinvasions:Itdoesn’tmat- dated methods of reproduction, the
ter who the invaders were or when they Government will provide all households
plundered and destroyed our Glorious with gleaming, fully-automated Cloning
Nation. Our history books are being up- Units.Allable-bodiedMenwillbeexpected
dated on an hourly basis, so that they will to perform the sacred and patriotic rituals
always reflect the truths, dreams and am- bywhichanendlesstideof sonswillbecre-
bitions of the ruling party). ated. We know that the technology for this
Because—let’sfaceit—allofthenation’s existed in the past, because our Sacred
problems stem from the presence of fe- Histories mention the multiple births of a
males. They clog up the thoughts of all de- hundred sons from a single egg. If it hap-
cent, god-fearing humans – by which, of penedonce,itcanbemadetohappenagain.
course, we mean Men — with their myste- It is only a matter of faith. And we certainly
rious,jigglingbodies.Theycauseinadequate have an unlimited supply of that!
dowries to be paid, by being born into im- Whilewecanneverforaninstantdoubt
poverishedfamilies.Byrefusingtopayade- thatourNationhasbeengreatsinceitcame
quate dowries to the families of innocent into existence at the same time as the
bridegrooms, these im- Universe was created, we
poverished females cause must acknowledge that
themselves to be mur- blemishes have devel-
dered,bringingshameand oped now and then. All
LOOKING AT
100
international criticism suchblemisheshavebeen
upon the Nation. the result of Invaders (see
Another vile quality of *note above). Fortunately,
females is their ability to Wehavealwaysbeenable
use their voices as to eliminate Invaders.
weapons. It is easy to understand why they Wehaveusedoneof threemethods.(1)
use words rather than, say, knives or brute If they are very annoying and bring us use-
strength. It’s because they are smaller and ful technology in the form of railways and
weaker,onaverage,thanMen.Soinsteadof modern medicine, we wait until we have
fighting fairly — that is, with fists — they learnttousetheirlegalmachineryandthen
stand around shrieking at Men in their we kick them out. (2) If they have occupied
sharp, piercing voices. They harass us with our Great Nation for so long that it’s almost
lawsuitsanddivorce.Andtheymarchinthe impossible to tell Us and Them apart, we
streets parading their vicious ideas about forceThemtoassimilateuntilsomeof Their
protectingtheEarthwhichtheycruellystig- celebritiesareperformingourownreligious
matise with the title of “Mother”. They op- ritualsforus!Yaay!(3)Weonlyrecordthose
pose all forms of progress. Whenever Men items in our news media and history books
want to do something to burnish the that suit our version of the truth. This is ac-
Nation’s image — such as by building giant tually the most effective system of all.
dams, mining tribal lands or erecting tow- Frankly, by the time the Nation cele-
ering statues — out they come, jiggling and brates its 100th Anniversary, Method 3 will
wiggling,squawkingabout“environmental have been used so thoroughly that this ar-
damage” and “climate change” and other ticlewillitself havedisappeared.Wewillno
godless nonsense. longer be celebrating a 100th Anniversary,
There is absolutely no question of re- because we will have declared ourselves as
moving females by violent means. No, no, theEternalRepublicof India,havingexisted
we are always and forever the most non- forever in the past and forever into the fu-
violent culture that the world has ever ture. There will no longer be any history of
seen. Our methods of elimination will be wars,defeats,riotsornegativityof anykind.
completely natural and organic. First, by All citizens will be identical and perfect in
insisting that all births can only be of every respect. We will all be calm, pink-
males. This is easily achieved by combin- skinned, bearded and wealthy. Forever and
ing yogic breathing with ultrasound im- ever! Ahhhhmen.
aging. Whenever a female foetus is noticed
on the ultrasound screen, the technician’s The writer is an author,
breath will automatically stop. This will playwright and cartoonist. This article is
lead to spontaneous and/or chemically as- part of an ongoing series, which began on
sisted miscarriage. August 15, by women who have made a
Second, all existing females will, gently mark, across sectors
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
BUDDING RELATIONS spectacle’ (IE, September 6). Politicians’
display of power in public reflects their
THIS REFERS TO the editorial, ‘Friend in political immaturity and incompetence
deed’ (IE, September 6). India- to manage authority. Charging the bu-
Bangladesh relations have come a long reaucrat who complained against the
way. Bangladesh has offered immense politicianwithseditionisvindictiveand
support to India and vice-versa. excessive.Whensuchcasesgounnoticed
Bangladesh stands as an important byhigher-upsinthehierarchy,itdemor-
partner in India’s neighbourhood-first alisesthecommonmanandthebureau-
policy. Yet there are some issues which cracy alike, and raises serious questions
need constant negotiations like the about the priorities of the state.
Teesta water-sharing issue. Resolving Y G Chouksey, Pune
bilateral matters will help both the re-
gionsenormouslyandBangladeshPM’s
four day visit to India will help in nur-
A MUSICAL LEGEND
turing these ties furthermore. THIS REFERS TO the editorial, ‘The
S Haritha Rao, Wanaparthy Carnatic maestro’ (IE, September 6).
Coming from a family of musicians, T V
REBUILDING TRUST Sankaranarayanan was formally initi-
ated into the fascinating world of
THISREFERSTOthearticle,‘Theburden Carnaticmusicbyhismother.Hisuncle,
of the crown’ (IE, September 6). UK Madurai Mani Iyer, a leading light of the
Prime Minister Liz Truss is going to find Carnatic music fraternity, assumed the
herself stuck between a rock and a hard role of his guru and polished his art. He
placeinhernewrole,giventhatshewill provedtobeahardworkingandpassion-
have to work on reviving the country’s ate disciple of his uncle-cum-guru and
battered economy. On the political came to be hailed as the torch-bearer of
front, she will have to regain the peo- his school. Making a mark in the realm
ple’strustintheConservativeParty.The of Carnatic music, dominated by the
damage done by her predecessors is greats was no small feat. He could
massive. However, if she can resurrect achieve the status of a living legend
the economy of the country, she will thanks to his dedication to the art. His
have won half the battle. demiseisanirreparablelossforloversas
Bal Govind, Noida wellasartistsofCarnaticmusic.Itwould
bearealtributetothedepartedmaestro
POWER TRIP tocreateaninstitutioninhismemoryto
train young musicians.
THIS REFERS TO the editorial, ‘Power as Samiul Hassan Quadri, Bikaner
New Delhi
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FLAG MEET HELD

Pak forces violate

ceasefire along
Jammu border
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
JAMMU, SEPTEMBER 6
TAMIL NADU WATER SUPPLY AND DRAINAGE BOARD
INVITATION OF BIDS – TWO COVER – ITEMWAR TENDER SYSTEM (E-Submission) PAKISTANI FORCES fired at Indian positions along
the International Border in Jammu’s Arnia sector,
IFB No. 11 / F.Ramnad Retro /JJM / DO I/ CW /Dt.06.09.2022 officialssaidTuesday,inthefirstmajorceasefirevi-
Funding Pattern JJM Fund 2022-23 olationattheborderalongJ&Kinmorethanayear.
Eligibility Registered Class I Contractors (Civil) Just hours afterthe incident, however,the two
Tender Invitee The Chief Engineer, TWAD Board, Madurai – 625 007 sides held a flag meeting and agreed to “exercise
maximum restraint’’ and “respect the existing
Sale of Bid 09.09.2022 to 10.10.2022 upto 17.45 hours
norms in future’’. “The company commander-
Through ONLINE Mode in the E-Tendering website level meeting was held at 1.45 pm on the border
EMD Payable
www.tntenders.gov.in
and it ended in a cordial atmosphere,” Deputy
Pre Bid meeting 23.09.2022 at 11.00 hours at the office of the Tender Invitee Inspector General of BSF S P S Sandhu said.
11.10.2022 before 15.00 hours at the office of the Tender Invitee. According to a statement, BSF personnel were
Bid Submission Digitally signed encrypted Tenders through E-Tendering website
www.tntenders.gov.in
Government of Manipur patrollingaforwardareaattheborderonTuesday
morning when Pakistan Rangers resorted to un-
Bid opening
12.10.2022 at 15.30 hours at the office of Tender Invitee through
E-Tender Portal
Public Works Department provokedfiring. TheIndiansideretaliated“giving
abefittingreply”,itadded. Therewasnolossof life
Sl.
Appx. value
Bid Security REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI): or injury on either side, the statement said.
Name of work (Rs.in Crore
No. (Rs.in lakhs)
CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISION Tuesday’s firing by Pakistan Rangers was the
including GST)
first since February 2021, when Director Generals
1 Jal Jeevan Mission - Retrofitting of Existing CONSULTANCY (CSC) SERVICES of Military Operations of both India and Pakistan
Ramnad CWSS to Ramanathapuram and 4 other
Municipalities, 11 Town Panchayats and 3163 Rural
FOR GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH had agreed to observe a ceasefire “for achieving
mutually beneficial and sustainable peace” along
Habitations in 18 Panchayat Unions in
560.00 280.00
IMPHAL RING ROAD PROJECT DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES the borders. There have, however, been attempts
Ramanathapuram, Sivagangai and Pudukkottai
Districts for the Construction Period of 18 months OPEN COMPETITIVE BIDDING (OCB) Advertisement No. 879/C/2022 Date: 07.09.2022 by militants to infiltrate into the Indian side and
and operation and Maintenance of Ramnad CWSS No. 22/PD/EAP/IRR/PROC-CSC/2022/1 Leading vendors are called for Request for Proposals (RFP) through e-procurement
also of weapons being smuggled in from across
for 60 months in MLD Basis the border using drones.
Public Works Department, Manipur has invited for EOI for CSC platform for (i) Promotion of branding and CRM for ‘Fish Andhra’ Brand (3rd call) (ii)
DIPR / 4013 / TENDER / 2022 SAVE WATER,DIPR/ /TENDER/2020
CONSERVE WATER, EVERY DROP COUNTS Chief Engineer, Co-branding partnership with AFCOF (3rd call) (iii) Agency for establishment of Fish
services for Imphal Ring Road Project which is to be

‘Nrhjid fle;J Rje;jpuk; mile;Njhk;> rhjid Ghpe;J rhpj;jpuk; gilg;Nghk;”
TWAD Board, Madurai
implemented as an Externally Aided Project with assistance of
ADB. The detailed description of EOI is available on ADB
Two Hizbul
Retail Outlets (3rd call) and (iv) Agency for supply and installation of equipment to
Fish Retail Outlets in Andhra Pradesh (2nd call).
The detailed documents can be downloaded from the website of

militants killed
website http://csrn.adb.org.
https://tender.apeprocurement.gov.in and www.fisheries.ap.gov.in from
Sd./-
07.09.2022 and the last date for submission of bid is 15.09.2022. Contact email:
(Y. Joykumar Singh)

in J&K encounter
apfisheriestender@gmail.com.
Project Director
PIU, EAP, PWD, Manipur. R.O.- 1251PP/CL/ADVT/1/1/2021-22 Sd/- Commissioner of Fisheries

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SRINAGAR, SEPTEMBER 6

TWO HIZBUL Mujahideen militants were killed

in an encounter with security forces on Tuesday,
police said.
According to ADGP, Kashmir Zone, Vijay
Kumar, the two militants were involved in the
killing of Territorial Army personnel Saleem last
year. "Killed terrorists identified as Danish Bhat
@ Kokab Duree & Basharat Nabi, both affiliated
with proscribed terror outfit HM. Both were in-
NOTICE INVITING TENDERS volved in killing of one TA soldier Saleem on 9
OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE ENGINEER, RURAL WORKS DIVISION April 2021 & killing of two civilians on 29 May
2021 in Jablipora (Bijbehara)," Kumar tweeted.
TAWANG ARUNACHAL PRADESH Police said the encounter at Poshkreeri village
PRESS RELEASE in Anantnag broke out after security forces
Executive Engineer, Rural Works Division, Tawang invites on behalf of Governor of Arunachal Pradesh launched a cordon and search operation follow-
ing information about the presence of militants
sealed item rate tenders from approved and eligible Contractors registered with CPWD/PWD/NBCC etc there. They said the gunfight started as the mili-
for below mentioned works. Subject to availability of Fund (NABARD) from State Government. tants fired at the security forces.
SI District Name of Estimated Earnest Time Last date Time and Place of Cost of Bid Class of Apolicespokespersonsaid:“Asperrecords,the
No. works cost of Money allowed and time for date of sale of Documents contractor twoterroristswereactivesince2019.Bothhadahis-
Construction Rs. for receipt of opening of documents tory of terror crime cases, including attacks on po-
(Rs. In lakh) In lakh) completion application tender lice/security forces and civilian atrocities.
for issue of Incriminating materials, arms and ammuni-
Tender form tion, including an AK-56 rifle, 35 AK rounds, two
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 AKmagazines,onepistol,onepistolmagazineand
1. Tawang Upgradation Rs. 5343.00 Rs. 53.45 24 Months 26/09/2022 1030 Hrs Office of the 15000 Class-A 02 pistol rounds were recovered from the site of
of Road from (For 4.30 pm (Technical) Executive encounter, police said.
Teli Khet To APST) 27.09.2022 Engineer Meanwhile, in Srinagar, an IED weighing over
Bongleng 1030 Hrs Rural Works 30 kg was recovered from the orchards in
village. (Financial) Division, Khanmoh area on the city outskirts, police said.
28.09.2022 Tawang “Bomb disposal squad called on spot. IED is being
destroyed in situ,” police said.
2. The bidders are required to pay the cost of bid document in the form of demand draft/cash towards the
cost of bid document drawn in the favour of EE, RWD Tawang 790104, payable at SBI, Tawang for
amount (non-refundable) as shown above scheme. Missing teenagers
3. Availability of Bid Document and mode of submission: The bid document is available at office of
the Executive Engineer Rural Works Division Tawang, PO+PS+Distt. -Tawang Arunachal Pradesh from in Bengal killed by
07/09/2022 10.30 AM to 26.09.2022 till 4.30 PM.
4. Submission of Original Documents: The bidders are required to submit (a) Original Earnest Money family friend: Police
in approved form (b) original solvency certificate on the letter head from nationalized bank (C) original
class Registration and (d) original affidavit regarding correctness of information furnished with bid EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
document as per provisions of Clause 4.4 B.a (ii) of ITB (f) original documents viz. RC book, invoice, KOLKATA, SEPTEMBER 6
sale deed, uptodate insurance premium paid receipt in support of owning road construction MORETHANtwoweeksaftertwoteenagerswent
machinaries as stated in the SBD. (g) original certificate on the letter head from nationalized bank as missing from Baguihati town in North 24
evidence of access to line of credit (h) original copy of power of attorney (POA) agreement in case Parganas, police on Tuesday said they were killed
project is executed by attorney holder to the Superintending Engineer, Rural Works Circle, Rupa, by a family friend for money, and their bodies
were lying as “unidentified” all this time at a
Arunachal Pradesh, two working days before the opening of technical Bid, by hand, failing which the
morgue in Basirhat, some 55 km away.
bids shall be declared non-responsive. After verification, original documents of road machinaries, The bodies of the two teenagers Atanu Dey
class registration certificate and power of attorney (POA) agreement shall be released and the (15) and his cousin Abhishek Naskar (16), who
rest documents shall be retained. went missing on August 22, were recovered from
5. The site for the work is available. NazatandHabra—bothinNorth24Parganas dis-
trict — on August 23 and 25.
6. The bids must be submitted physically in tender box marked for RIDF-XXVII. 2022-2023 at Police said they have arrested four people –
Superintending Engineer Rural Works Circle, Rupa. The technical qualification First cover of the Abhijit Bose, Shamim Ali, Shaheen Ali and
bids will be opened at 1030 Hours (time) on 27.09.2022 and if qualifies then Second cover Financial Dibyendu Das, all in their 20s – and are looking
bid will be opened at 1030 Hours on 28.09.2022 (date) by the authorized officers i.e. Superintending for prime accused Satyendra Chowdhury (25), a
Engineer Rural Works Circle, Rupa. If the office happens to be closed on the date of opening of the family friend of the victims.
According to police, Satyendra had planned to
bids as specified, the bids will be opened on the next working day at the same time and venue. kill Atanu after he could not repay Rs 50,000
7. The bid for the work shall remain valid for acceptance for a period of 90 (ninety) days from the date of loaned to buy a motorcycle. “But Satyendra nei-
opening of bids. If any bidder/ tenderer withdraws his bid before the said period the earnest money shall ther bought a bike for Atanu nor returned the
stand forfeited. money. As a result, Atanu started asking for his
money. On August 22, Satyendra hired a cab
8. It is compulsory for the Bidder, at his own cost, responsibility and risk, to visit, examine and familiarize
through an app for self-driving and took Atanu
himself with the site of works and its surroundings including source of principal materials, earth, water, and his cousin Abhishek along with him,”
sand, aggregates etc. before submitting the bid. BidhannagarDCP(Detective)BiswajitGhoshsaid.
9. Bidders may bid for any one or more of the works mentioned in the Table above. To qualify for a Both Atanu and Abhishek studied in Class 10.
package of contracts made up of this and other contracts for which bids are invited in the same SBD, According to police, there were six people in
the car – Satyendra, the two teenagers and three
the bidder must demonstrate having experience and resources sufficient to meet the aggregate of the accomplices of Satyendra. While Satyendra was
qualifying criteria for the individual contracts. on the wheel, his two accomplices were seated in
10. A bidder shall not be permitted to bid for works in the Circle responsible for award and execution of the rear seat along with the teenagers.
contracts in which his or his spouse's near relative (defined as first blood relations, and their spouses) “Satyendra and his accomplices even took the
is posted as Divisional Accountant or as an officer in any capacity between the grades of two teenagers to a bike showroom and stayed
there for 15-20 minutes. Later, while driving
Superintending Engineer and Assistant Engineer (both inclusive). through Rajarhat, they strangulated the two boys
11. No Engineer of Gazetted rank or other Gazetted officer employed in Engineering or Administrative with ropes and threw their bodies out of the car,"
duties in an Engineering Department of the State Government is allowed to work as a Contractor for a Ghosh said. “Prima facie, it appears that the two
period of two years after his retirement from Government service, without Government permission. teenagers were killed for Rs 50,000. But our in-
vestigation is still on,” Ghosh added.
This contract is liable to be cancelled if either the Contractor or any of his employees is found any time
According to police, the bodies were traced to
to be such a person who had not obtained the permission of the Government as aforesaid before the Basirhat morgue after one of the accused was
submission of the tender or engagement in the Contractor's service. detained and questioned. Police then asked the
12. The undersigned has right to extend or cancel the tender w:lhout declaring any reason. families of the two boys to identify the bodies.
13. Any kind of tempering of BOQ by the bidder will cause his bid to be disqualified and rejected . On Tuesday, residents of the area gheraoed the
houseof Satyendra andvandalisedit.Aneighbour
Sd/- of Atanuallegedthatlackof coordinationbetween
Executive Engineer theBasirhatpolicedistrictandtheBidhannagarpo-
* To be filled by the authority inviting tender. Rural Works Division Tawang licecommissionerateledtodelayinsolvingthecase.
** Earnest money is 1% of the estimated cost, rounded to Takingcognisanceof thematter,stateWomen
Arunachal Pradesh and Child Welfare Minister Shashi Panja has
the nearest thousand for APST Contractors.
for and on behalf of sought an urgent report from the district magis-
DIPR/ARN/1721-24/2022 HE Governor of Arunachal Pradesh trate and superintendent of police.
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Trade between India and Bangladesh, now set for CEPA boost
SHUBHAJITROY
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6
FOLLOWINGAmeetingwiththevisitingPrime
Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina, Prime
MinisterNarendraModionTuesdaysaidIndia
and Bangladesh will soon commence negoti-
ationsonaBilateralComprehensiveEconomic
Partnership Agreement (CEPA).
“We both believe that by taking lessons
from the Covid pandemic and recent global
developments, we need to make our
economies stronger,” Modi said.
“With the expansion of connectivity be-
tween our two countries, and the develop-
mentoftradeinfrastructureontheborder,the
two economies will be able to connect more
with each other, support each other. Our bi-
lateraltradeisgrowingrapidly.Today,Indiais
Arshdeep’s page vandalised:
who can edit Wikipedia?
SOUMYARENDRA BARIK
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6
THE UNION Ministry of Electronics and IT
(MeitY) has summoned executives of the
Wikimedia Foundation, the organisation
thatrunsWikipedia,toseekanexplanation
on how the Wikipediapage of Indiancrick-
eter Arshdeep Singh was vandalised on
Sunday night after he dropped a crucial
catch during an Asia Cup match that India
eventually lost against Pakistan.
Key details on Singh’s Wikipedia page
about his nationality were edited with ref-
erences to ‘Khalistan’.
Who can edit Wikipedia pages?
Wikipedia pages are written andedited
by volunteers. It is also not necessary to
have a Wikipedia accounttomake changes
to a page. So, practically anyone can make
an edit on a Wikipedia page and the
changes carried out are visible to everyone.
On its website, Wikipedia encourages peo-
ple to create a user account, saying that by
logging in, editors “can build a record of
goodedits”,andthat“it iseasiertocommu-
nicate and collaborate with others if you
have a fixed, reputable identity”.
Are there any safeguards in place?
When a user logs in to make an edit, the
edit history of the page shows their user-
name along with the edit they have made.
If a user makes an edit anonymously, the
platform records their IP address.
Also, Wikipedia has page histories. So
along with the latest version, the previous
version exists,available tobothreaders and
editors.
Wikipediaeditorsmonitor whatis hap-
pening across the site on a page that lists
the most recent changes, and they will re-
vert to the older version if the latest change
is erroneous or malicious. The website also
uses bots to weed out wrong or misleading
information.
In case a page frequently attracts wrong
edits or are “critical to the project”, then
Wikipedia, according to its website, re-
stricts its editing, and in the case of some
users,restrictstheirediting“asalastresort”.
In Arshdeep’s case, a Wikipedia
At threat from Pak monsoon, 5,000-yr-old heritage of Mohenjo Daro
DIVYA A
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6
IN THE 1960s, hydrologist Robert L Raikes
and archaeologist George F Dales put for-
wardthetheorythat aseriesof floodsinthe
Indus around c. 1800 BC had wiped out the
great urban centres of the Harappan civi-
lization. Last week, Pakistan’s Department
of Archaeology warned that heavy rainfall
intheSindhprovincethreatenedtheWorld
Heritage status of Mohenjo Daro, one of the
largest of Indus Valley Civilization sites.
The prehistoric antiquity of Mohenjo
Daro, which flourished on the right (west)
bank of the Indus in the 3rd millennium BC
wasestablishedbyRakhalDasBanerjiof the
Archaeological Survey of India in 1922. The
ruinsofthesprawlingcityofunbaked(burnt)
brick 510 km north-east of Karachi and 28
km from Larkana in Sindh were recognised
as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1980.
Damage at the site
AuthoritiesinSindhhavecalledforurgent
attentiontowardsconservationandrestora-
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
thelargestmarketinAsiaforBangladesh’sex-
ports. To further accelerate this growth, we
will soon start discussions on the Bilateral
Comprehensive Economic Partnership
Agreement,” he said.
Galloping trade
In 2021-22, Bangladesh emerged as the
largesttradepartnerforIndiainSouthAsiaand
the fourth largest destination for Indian ex-
portsworldwide.ExportstoBangladeshgrew
morethan66percentfrom$9.69billioninFY
2020-21 to $16.15 billion in FY 2021-22.
IndiaisBangladesh’ssecondbiggesttrade
partner, and its largest export market in Asia.
DespiteCovid-19relateddisruptions,bilateral
tradegrewatanunprecedentedrateofalmost
44 per cent from $10.78 billion in 2020-21 to
$18.13 billion in 2021-22.
India’smainexportstoBangladeshareraw
Wikipedia says only ‘trusted users’
can now edit Arshdeep’s page. PTI
spokesperson said that his page is now
“semi-protected (which allows edits by
only trusted users) to restrict further van-
dalism on the page”.
“Vandalism does occur on Wikipedia
from time totime, as can occur in any open,
online platform....The majority of vandal-
ism on Wikipedia is reverted by bots or ed-
itorswithinminutes,aswasdoneinthisre-
cent case,” the spokesperson said.
What are MeitY’s concerns?
Seniorgovernmentofficialssaidthatthe
edits in the present case could potentially
leadtonationalsecurityissuesforthecoun-
try and have implications for law and or-
der. They added that the edits were made
usingnetworksthatoriginatedfromneigh-
bouring countries.
“We will ask them how such edits were
allowed on their site which could have se-
rious implications for India’s national secu-
rity and law and order,” a senior govern-
ment official said.
A review of the edits on the cricketer’s
Wikipedia page shows that the first edits
with reference to ‘Khalistan’ were made by
a user using the Internet on the network of
Pakistan Telecommunication Company
Limited (PTCL), the country’s state-owned
telecom company.
tion work at the site, for fear that it might be
removedfromtheWorldHeritagelist,Dawn
reportedonSunday.Thereportsaidthecura-
torof the5,000-year-oldsitewrotetothedi-
rectorofculture,antiquities,andarchaeology
attheendof lastmonthsaying“wehaveput
in efforts to protect the site with our re-
sources”, but departments like irrigation,
roads,highways,andforestneededtostepin
because“landlordsandfarmershad...inserted
pipesandgivencutstocanalsandroadstore-
lease water into Mohenjo Daro’s channel”.
The Dawn report said that between
August 16 and 26, the archaeological ruins
of Mohenjo Daro had received a record
779.5 mm of rain, which had resulted in
“considerable damage to the site and par-
tial falling of several walls, including the
protection wall of the stupa dome”.
The Nation reported thatit had emerged
on Thursday that the ruins “did not remain
safe from the devastating effects of down-
pours”,andthatthe“DKArea,MuneerArea,
Stupa, Great Bath and other important sites
of these ruins have been badly affected by
the natural disaster”.
The “Paris Stairs, the Stupa and the DK
cotton, non-retail pure cotton yarn, and elec-
tricity; and its main imports from the coun-
try are pure vegetable oils, non-knit men’s
suits, and textile scraps.
CEPA objectives
While informal talks on CEPA have been
happening since 2018, officials said that the
pandemic has brought urgency. Chinese in-
vestments in Bangladesh were an initial trig-
ger for India, but New Delhi and Dhaka want
to step up the pace following the economic
shock faced by the two economies.
The CEPA is likely to focus on trade in
goods, services, and investment, with a key
objectivebeingthereductionof thetradegap
between the two countries. As Bangladesh
preparestograduateintoadevelopingnation
by 2026 — after which it may no longer qual-
ifyfortradebenefitsthatitcurrentlyenjoysas
The idea of climate reparation
Pakistan wants rich countries that have contributed the most to climate change, to pay damages to poorer
nations. It is an argument that has been made repeatedly, but which remains difficult to implement
AMITABH SINHA
FACINGTHEworstfloodingdisasterinitshis-
tory, Pakistan has begun demanding repara-
tions, or compensation, from the rich coun-
tries that are mainly responsible for causing
climate change. In repeated public state-
ments, Pakistan’s Minister for Climate
Change, Sherry Rehman, has been saying
thatwhilehercountrymakesnegligiblecon-
tribution to global warming, it has been
among the most vulnerable to climate
change. The current floods have already
claimed over 1,300 lives, and caused eco-
nomicdamage worthbillionsof dollars.Rich
nations, Rehman has argued, owe repara-
tions to countries like Pakistan for the con-
sequences of climate change.
On the face of it, Pakistan’s demand for
reparationsappearstobea long shot,butthe
principles being invoked are fairly well-es-
tablished in environmental jurisprudence.
In fact, Pakistan is not alone in making this
demand. Almost the entire developing
world, particularly the small island states,
has for years been insisting on setting up an
international mechanism for financial com-
pensation for loss and damage caused by cli-
mate disasters. The issue has come up re-
peatedly at international climate change
negotiations, and on other platforms.
Historical emissions argument
At its heart, the demand for compensa-
tion for loss and damage from climate disas-
ters is an extension of the universally ac-
knowledged “Polluter Pays” principle that
makes the polluter liable for paying not just
for the cost of remedial action, but also for
compensating the victims of environmental
damage caused by their actions.
In the climate change framework, the
burden of responsibility falls on those rich
countries that have contributed most of the
greenhouse gas emissions since 1850, gen-
erally considered to be the beginning of the
industrial age.
The United States and the European
Union,includingtheUK,accountforover50%
of all emissions during this time. If Russia,
Canada,Japan,andAustraliatooareincluded,
the combined contribution goes past 65%, or
The Great Bath at Mohenjo Daro Saqib Qayyum/Creative Commons
Area are particularly in a worst condition”,
the report said. It quoted site curator Ihsan
AliAbbasiassayingthat“althoughtheseru-
ins are not inundated with water, still per-
sistent rainfall has eroded them”.
TheFridayTimessaidinareportonAugust
31 that “much of Mohenjo Daro, including
the iconic Mound of the Dead site, has been
aleast-developedcountry—itiskeentoclinch
the CEPA in a year.
TheCEPAhadfiguredprominentlyduring
thelastcommercesecretary-levelmeetingin
New Delhi in March this year.
Existing frameworks
The current institutional frameworks for
trade and investment include:
■During the visit of Prime Minister Modi
toBangladeshinJune2015,thebilateraltrade
agreement between the two countries was
renewed for a period of five years with a pro-
vision for auto renewal.
■ UndertheprovisionsoftheSouthAsian
FreeTradeArea(SAFTA),Bangladeshextends
preferential tariffs to Indian exports of prod-
uctsoutsidethe‘sensitivelist’of 993items.In
2011, India announced duty-free, quota-free
access to Bangladesh for all tariff lines except
EXPLAINED CLIMATE CHANGE
The catastrophic flooding in Pakistan is believed to be the result of climate
change. While climate change affects everyone, the poor suffer the most. AP
almost two-thirds of all emissions.
Historical responsibility is important be-
cause carbon dioxide remains in the atmos-
phere for hundreds of years, and it is the cu-
mulative accumulation of this carbon
dioxide that causes global warming. A coun-
try like India, currently the third largest
emitter, accounts for only 3% of historical
emissions. China, which is the world’s
biggest emitter for over 15 years now, has
contributed about 11% to total emissions
since 1850.
While the impact of climate change is
global, it is much more severe on the poorer
nations because of their geographical loca-
tions and weaker capacity to cope. This is
what is giving rise to demands for loss and
damage compensation. Countries that have
had negligible contributions to historical
emissions and have severe limitations of re-
sources are the ones that face the most dev-
astating impacts of climate change.
Admission of responsibility
The UN Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC), the 1994 inter-
nationalagreementthatlaysdownthebroad
principles of the global effort to fight climate
change, explicitly acknowledges this differ-
entiated responsibility of nations. It makes
it very clear that rich countries must provide
both the finance and the technology to the
developing nations to help them tackle cli-
mate change. It is this mandate that later
evolvedintothe$100billionamountthatthe
richcountriesagreedtoprovideeveryyearto
the developing world.
ravagedbyfloodwaters,withexcavatedareas
being damaged as the water seeps through
and creates furrows as it fills out the site”.
In a separate report, The Nation said on
Monday that “keeping in view that...
MohenjoDaro...isfacingthedangerof oblit-
eration after braving the monstrosity of re-
centflashfloodsandtorrentialrains”,theen-
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■ An Agreement on Promotion and
Protection of Investments has been in force
since 2011. Joint Interpretative Notes to the
agreement were signed during the visit of
India’s Finance Minister to Bangladesh in
October 2017.
■ To facilitate trade and transit through
inland waterways, a Protocol on Inland
Waterways Trade and Transit (PIWTT) has
been in place since 1972. The PIWTT too was
renewed for five years with a provision for
auto renewal during Modi’s visit in 2015. The
protocol allows the movement of goods by
barges/vesselsoneightroutesbetweenpoints
in India and Bangladesh, as well as between
points in India through Bangladesh.
■ Directseamovementof containerized/
bulk/ dry cargo began after the signing of a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on
While this promise is yet to be met, this
$100 billion per year amount is not meant
for loss and damage. Climate disasters were
not a regularoccurrence in1994,andassuch
theUNFCCCdoesnotmakeamentionof loss
and damage. This particular demand
emerged much later, and faced stiff resist-
ance from the developed nations.
It was after much struggle that the devel-
oping countries and NGOs managed to es-
tablish a separate channel on loss and dam-
ages at international climate change
negotiations. The Warsaw International
Mechanism (WIM) for Loss and Damages,
set up in 2013, was the first formal acknowl-
edgment of the need to compensate devel-
oping countries struck by climate disasters.
However, the progress on this front has
been painfully slow. The discussions under
WIM so far have focused mainly on enhanc-
ing knowledge and strengthening dialogue.
No funding mechanism, or even a promise
to provide funds, has come about. At last
year’s climate conference in Glasgow, a
three-year task force was set up to discuss a
funding arrangement.
The pushback
It is not hard to understand why the de-
veloped countriesare dead against compen-
sation claims. They are struggling to put to-
gether even the $100 billion per year flow
that they had reluctantly agreed to provide.
Further, loss and damage claims can eas-
ilyspiralintobillionsof dollars,orevenmore.
Accordingto a recentreport by the UNOffice
for the Coordination of HumanitarianEfforts
tryoftouriststothesitehadbeenprohibited.
Mound of the Dead
AlongwithHarappa,MohenjoDaroisthe
bestknownsiteof thebronzeageurbanciv-
ilization that flourished in the valley of the
Indus between roughly 3,300 BC and 1,300
BC,withits‘mature’phasespanningthepe-
riod 2,600 BC to 1,900 BC. The civilization
went into decline in the middle of the sec-
ond millennium BC for reasons that are be-
lievedtoincludecatastrophicclimatechange.
Sites of the Indus Valley Civilization have
been found in a large area extending from
Sutkagen Dor in Balochistan near the
Pakistan-Iran border to Rakhigarhi in Har-
yana, and from Manda in Jammu to Daima-
badinMaharashtra.Otherimportantsitesin
India are at Lothal and Dholavira in Gujarat,
and Kalibangan in Rajasthan.
TheruinsofMohenjoDaroremainedun-
documented until Banerji visited the site in
1920,andbegandiggingthefollowingyear.
Excavation continued in phases until 1964-
65; even now only a portion of the site has
been excavated. The site is famous for its
elaborate town planning with street grids
New Delhi
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Coastal Shipping in June 2015. This has re-
duced the shipping time between India and
Bangladeshfrom30-40daysto7-10days,and
hasthepotentialtoemergeasaneconomical
modeof transportationforbusinesscommu-
nities on both sides.
■ MoUsweresignedin2015ontheuseof
the Chittagong and Mongla Ports for
Movement of Goods to and from India.
■The MoU on Border Haats on the India-
BangladeshborderwasrenewedinApril2017
during the visit of Prime Minister Hasina to
India.Currently,fourBorderHaats—twoeach
in Meghalaya (Kalaichar and Balat) and
Tripura (Srinagar and Kamalasagar) — are
functional.Workonsettinguptwomorehaats
ontheTripura-Bangladeshborderandfouron
the Meghalaya-Bangladesh border is under
way.Thetwosideshavealsodecidedtoiden-
tify locations for another six Border Haats.
(UNOCHA), prepared for the UN General
Assembly, annual funding requests related
to climate-linked disasters averaged $15.5
billioninthethree-yearperiodbetween2019
and 2021. The economic loss from cyclone
AmphaninIndiaandBangladeshin2020has
been assessed at $15 billion.
The report said that the United States
alone is estimated to have “inflicted more
than $1.9 trillion in damages to other coun-
tries” due to its emissions. Then there are
non-economic losses as well, including loss
of lives, displacement and migration, health
impacts, and damage to cultural heritage.
The report cited the results of another study
tosaythattheunavoidableannualeconomic
losses from climate change were projected
to reach somewhere between $290 billion
to $580 billion by the year 2030.
Estimating the quantum of loss
Of course, not every loss and damage can
beputupforcompensationclaims.Thereare
practicaldifficultiesinestimatinghowmuch
a country has actually suffered due to the ac-
tions of others. To begin with, it has to be es-
tablished that the disaster was caused by cli-
mate change. Good progress has been made
in attribution science over the last few years,
which now enables scientists to say with a
fair degree of certainty how much role cli-
mate change has had to play in a particular
extreme weather event. But it is still far from
being an exact science.
Thenthereisthisotherstepaboutassess-
ing how much of the losses are due to the
event itself, and what could be attributed to
misgovernance. For example, the kind of
flooding currently being witnessed in
Bengalurucould,toaverylargeextent,beat-
tributed to the lack of efficient urban plan-
ning even though a heavy downpour could
be the result of climate change.
A lot of background work is going on to
create the framework in which it would be
possible to quantify the compensation due
to an affected country.
What Pakistan has done, through its de-
mands for reparations, is to call attention to
this often neglected aspect, as the world
prepares for this year’s climate conference,
scheduled to be held in Sharm-el Shaikh in
Egypt in November. Pakistan has already re-
ceived widespread support from global cli-
mate NGOs that are likely to press for allot-
ting more time for this subject at the Egypt
conference.
● ANEXPLAINEDONSCIENCE,
ENVIRONMENTANDCLIMATE
CHANGEAPPEARSEVERYWEEK
withbrickpavements,developedwatersup-
ply, drainage, and covered sewerage sys-
tems,homeswithtoilets,andmonumental
buildingssuchastheGreatGranaryandthe
Great Bath. At its peak, Mohenjo Daro, liter-
ally ‘Mound of the Dead’, is estimated to
have between 30,000 and 60,000 residents
with a highly evolved social organisation.
Saving the site
Some reports from Pakistan said that
even though the site has suffered damage
in the heavy rain, it has not been flooded.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has
announcedplanstovisitPakistanthisweek,
and The Nation reported that it was “ex-
pected” that he would visit the archeologi-
cal site as well. Work on removing soil and
silt from drains at the site is ongoing.
There are around 1,100 UNESCO listed
sites across its 167 member countries. Last
year,theWorldHeritageCommitteedecided
to delete ‘Liverpool — Maritime Mercantile
City’intheUnitedKingdomfromtheWorld
Heritage List due to “the irreversible loss of
attributes conveying the outstanding uni-
versal value of the property”.

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TOPOFTHE
WORLD
Hinnamnor hits
Busan. Reuters
SOUTH KOREA
Typhoonrips
acrossindustrial
south,twodead
Seoul:Apowerfultyphoon
torethroughSouthKorea’s
southern industrial hubs
onTuesday,leavingatleast
twopeopledead,10miss-
ing and thousands dis-
placed, authorities said.
Typhoon Hinnamnor left
theKoreanpeninsulaearly
onTuesdayafterbattering
the southeastern indus-
trial cities of Pohang,
Gyeongju and Ulsan with
strong winds and heavy
rain. It was moving north-
east across Sea of Japan
andwasexpectedtobrush
past Japan’s northeastern
cityof Sapporoat9pm,ac-
cording to the Korea
Meteorological Admini-
stration. Japanese author-
ities said the island of
Hokkaido will face high
winds and waves
overnight and on
Wednesday. REUTERS
PAKISTAN
10-year-old
gangraped,
killedinPunjab
Lahore: A 10-year-old girl
waskilledaftershewasal-
legedly gangraped by the
owner of a swimming
poolandhisaccomplicein
Pakistan’s Lahore city, of-
ficialssaid.Alargenumber
of people, including the
family members of the
victim,heldademonstra-
tion outside the Punjab
Assembly on Tuesday to
press the authorities con-
cernedtotakestrictaction.
Members of civil society
andNGOsalsotookpartin
theprotestanddemanded
public hanging of the cul-
prits. Police also assured
the protesters that strict
action will be taken. PTI
YEMEN
Al-Qaedaattack
kills21troopsin
Abyan:Military
Cairo:Suspectedal-Qaeda
militants on Tuesday at-
tacked a security post in
southern Yemen, spark-
ing clashes that killed at
least 21 troops and six
militants,militaryofficials
said. The early morning
attack in Ahwar, in the
province of Abyan, tar-
geted a post manned by
troops from the Security
Belt, a security force loyal
to the secessionist
Southern Transitional
Council. The officials said
at least 21 troops were
killedintheattackandthe
clashes that ensures for
hours. Four more troops
were also wounded, they
said. Among the dead
was Yasser Nasser Shaea,
a senior commander in
the force. AP
SHOJI MORIMOTO CHARGES $71.30 PER BOOKING TO SIMPLY EXIST AS COMPANION
A dream job: The Japanese man who gets paid to do nothing
TOM BATEMAN &
RIKAKO MARUYAMA
TOKYO, SEPTEMBER 6
SHOJI MORIMOTO has what
some would see as a dream job:
he gets paid to do pretty much
nothing. The 38-year-old Tokyo
resident charges 10,000 yen
($71) per booking to accom-
pany clients and simply exist as
a companion.
“Basically, I rent myself out.
My job is to be wherever my
clients want me to be and to do
nothinginparticular,”Morimoto
Queen Elizabeth II welcomes Prime Minister Liz Truss at Balmoral, Scotland, on Tuesday. AP
Truss takes charge: Energy, economy priority
REUTERS
LONDON, SEPTEMBER 6
LIZ TRUSS took over as British
primeministeronTuesday,vow-
ing immediate action to tackle
one of the most daunting set of
challenges for an incoming
leaderinpost-Warhistoryledby
soaring energy bills, a looming
recession and industrial strife.
Truss,thefourthConservative
prime minister in six years, flew
to the royal family’s Scottish
home to be asked by Queen
Elizabeth to form a government.
She replaces Boris Johnson who
wasforcedoutafterthreetumul-
tuous years in power.
“We now face severe global
headwindscausedbyRussia’sap-
CONSTITUTION CHANGES AIMED AT EMPOWERING PARLIAMENT
Lanka’s 22nd Amendment gets
clearance from Supreme Court
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
COLOMBO, SEPTEMBER 6
SRI LANKA’S Supreme Court has
ruled that the bill seeking the
22nd over the executive presi-
dent can be adopted with a two-
thirds majority in the House but
some clauses will require a na-
tionwide referendum, the
Speaker announced on Tuesday.
Speaker Mahinda Yapa
Abeywardena told Parliament
that the Supreme Court has de-
termined that certain clauses of
the 22nd Amendment to the
Constitution Bill are not consis-
tentwiththeConstitution,anddi-
rectedthatthoseclausesrequired
tobepassedbyaspecialmajority
and a public referendum.
The draft bill on the 22nd
Amendment was approved by
Bomb kills 35 civilians in Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou: At least 35 civil-
ians were killed in northern
Burkina Faso after a convoy of
vehicleshita roadsidebomb, ac-
cording to the authorities, the
latest attack in the West African
countrythat hasfacedhundreds
from Islamist groups this year.
Theconvoy,whichwasbeing
escortedbythemilitary,wascar-
told Reuters, adding that he had
handled some 4,000 sessions in
the past four years.
With a lanky build and aver-
age looks, Morimoto nowboasts
nearly a quarter of a million fol-
lowers on Twitter, where he
findsmostof hisclients.Roughly
a quarter of them are repeat cus-
tomers, including one who has
hired him 270 times.
His job has taken him to a
park with a person who wanted
to play on a see-saw. He has also
beamed and waved through a
train window at a complete
stranger who wanted a send-off.
Boris Johnson leaves
Downing Street. Reuters
pallingwarinUkraineandtheaf-
termath of Covid,” the 47-year-
old former foreign secretary said
outsideherDowningStreetoffice.
“Iamconfidentthattogether
we can ride out the storm. We
canrebuildoureconomy,andwe
canbecomethemodernbrilliant
Britain that I know we can be."
TABLE IMF DEAL IN
PARLIAMENT: OPP
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s main
opposition on Tuesday
asked the government to
table the agreement
reached with the IMF in
Parliament if they need its
support for IMF-recom-
mended reforms.
Opposition and SJB leader
Sajith Premadasa told
ParliamentonTuesdaythat,
given that Parliament has
authorityonpublicfinance,
recently announced staff-
level agreement with the
IMFbetabledinParliament,
Economy Next said. PTI
the Cabinet and gazetted last
month. The 22nd Amendment
rying civilians and supplies to
OuagadougouonMonday,when
one of the vehicles detonated an
explosive device, the regional
governor,RodolpheSorgho,said.
At least 37 other people were
wounded, the governor said.
No group had claimed re-
sponsibility as of Tuesday, but
extremist groups linked with al-
Shoji Morimoto with his client Aruna Chida at a cafe in
Tokyo, Japan. Reuters
E
E X P L A I NE D
Her cabinet
choices to
● signal moves
IN HER choice of cabinet
members, Truss will give
the first clues about the di-
rection of her government,
and how magnanimous she
will be toward her defeated
rivals. The signs so far sug-
gest only limited efforts to
heal the divisions made
public during a bitter party
leadership contest.
Truss, who will later an-
nouncehergovernmentappoint-
ments, said she had three priori-
was originally named 21A and
meant to replace the 20A. It is
meant to replace the 20A that
had given unfettered powers
to ex-President Gotabaya
Rajapaksa after abolishing the
19th Amendment.
Speaker Abeywardene said
the 22nd Amendment can only
be adopted with a two-thirds
majority in Parliament and a na-
tionwide referendum on clauses
2 and 3 of the bill that are incon-
sistent with the Constitution.
The apex court recom-
mended changes to help
Parliament pass the bill with
only a special majority. The
bill aims to restore independ-
ent commissions and also
curbs some of the powers of
the president. Interested par-
ties were given time to peti-
tion the Supreme Court.
QaedaandtheIslamicStatehave
for years carried out attacks in
Burkina Faso and neighbouring
countries.TheattackonMonday
occurredalongtheroadfromthe
townof BourzangatoDjibo,are-
gional hub 130 miles north of
Ouagadougou that has been cut
off from the rest of the country
by armed groups. NYT
ties: growing the economy
throughtaxcuts,dealingwithris-
ing energy costs from this week,
and ensuring people got the care
they needed from the state-run
National Health Service.
“I will take action this day
and action every day to make it
happen. United with our allies,
wewillstandupforfreedomand
democracy around the world."
US President Joe Biden was one
of the first to congratulate Truss.
Johnson told reporters and
politicians gathered in Downing
Street that the country must
unite. “This is it folks,” he said.
“What I say to my fellow
Conservatives, it’s time for poli-
tics to be over, folks. It’s time for
us all to get behind Liz Truss and
her team and her programme."
Israeli President
evokes horrors,
ties at German
Parliament
KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
BERLIN, SEPTEMBER 6
ISRAEL’S PRESIDENT addressed
Germany’s parliament on
Tuesday about atrocities com-
mitted during the Third Reich,
while at the same time praising
the close and friendly relations
that have emerged between the
two countries since the end of
the Holocaust.
Six million European Jews
were murdered by Germany’s
Nazis and their henchmen dur-
ing World War II. “Never in hu-
man history was there a cam-
paign like the one the Nazis and
their accomplices conducted to
annihilate the Jewish people,”
Israeli President Isaac Herzog
said at the Bundestag.
“Never in history was a state
responsible, as Nazi Germany
was responsible, for the loss of
all semblance of humanity, for
the erasure of all mercy, for the
pursuit of the worldwide oblit-
eration, with such awful cruelty,
of an entire people.” Herzog also
spoke about his father, former
Israeli President Chaim Herzog,
whowasamongtheliberatorsof
the concentration camp of
Bergen-Belsen in northern
Germany in April 1945, as an of-
ficer of the British forces. AP
Doing nothing doesn’t mean
Morimoto will do anything. He
has turned down offers to move
a fridge and go to Cambodia, and
doesn’t take any requests of a
sexual nature.
Last week, Morimoto sat op-
posite Aruna Chida, a 27-year-
old data analyst clad in a sari,
having a sparse conversation
over tea and cakes.
Chida wanted to wear the
Indian garment out in public but
was worried it might embarrass
her friends. So she turned to
Morimoto for companionship.
“With my friends I feel I have
OHIO ROLLER COASTER
WORLD’S SECOND TALLEST RIDE IS CLOSING
An amusement park in Ohio announced it would be permanently closing the world’s
second-tallest roller coaster. The decision by Cedar Point comes a year after a small
metal object flew off the 420-foot tall Top Thrill Dragster coaster and struck a woman
in the head at the park in Sandusky.
UKRAINE SEEKS A SAFE ROUTE FOR CIVILIANS
Russia to buy rockets,
artillery shells from
North Korea: US intel
THE NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER 6
RUSSIA IS buying millions of ar-
tillery shells and rockets from
North Korea, according to newly
declassified American intelli-
gence, a sign that sanctions and
exportcontrolshaveseverelyre-
stricted Moscow’s supply chains
and forced it to turn to pariah
states for military supplies.
The disclosure comes days
after Russia received initial ship-
ments of Iranian-made drones,
some of which US officials said
had mechanical problems.
The US provided few details
fromthedeclassifiedintelligence
about the exact weaponry, tim-
ing or size of the North Korean
shipment,andthereisnowayyet
toindependentlyverifythesale.A
US official said, beyond short-
rangerocketsandartilleryshells,
Russiawasexpectedtotrytopur-
chase additional North Korean
equipment going forward.
“The Kremlin should be
alarmed that it has to buy any-
thingatallfromNorthKorea,”said
MasonClark,wholeadstheRussia
teamattheInstitutefortheStudy
of War, a US research group.
Broadeconomicsanctions,at
least so far, have not crippled
Russia. But US officials said,
when it came to Russia’s ability
to rebuild its military, the eco-
nomic actions of Europe and the
US had been effective.
In the battlefield, the
Russian-installed commandant
of asouthernUkrainiancitydied
inablastamidshellinginaround
the nuclear plant. An official
blamed the Ukrainian govern-
ment for Artyom Bardin’s death.
Russia’s VTB launches transfers
in Chinese yuan, bypassing SWIFT
REUTERS
MOSCOW, SEPTEMBER 6
VTB SAID on Tuesday it had be-
come the first Russian bank to
launch money transfers to China
in yuan without using the inter-
nationalmessagingsystemSWIFT
that underpins financial transac-
tions globally. Demand for the
yuaninRussiahasincreasedsince
Feb.24invasion,limitingitsaccess
66 DIE IN CHINA QUAKE
Chinese firefighters worked in treacherous terrain on
Tuesday to help evacuate more than 11,000 people
after a magnitude-6.8 quake struck China's Sichuan ,
killing at least 66 people. AP
to entertain them, but with the
rental-guy(Morimoto)Idon’tfeel
the need to be chatty,” she said.
Before Morimoto found his
true calling, he worked at a pub-
lishing company and was often
chided for “doing nothing”.
“I started wondering what
would happen if I provided my
ability to ‘do nothing’ as a serv-
ice to clients,” he said.
Thecompanionshipbusiness
isnowMorimoto’ssolesourceof
income, with which he supports
his wife and child. Although he
declined to disclose how much
he makes, he said he sees about
New Delhi
Putin on Tuesday attended sweeping war games in his
country’s far east involving troops from China, India and
other nations. The weeklong Vostok 2022 (East 2022)
exercise that began on Thursday is intended to showcase
growing defence ties between Russia and China. AP
IAEA calls for security zone
around Ukraine nuclear plant
THE NEW YORK TIMES
SEPTEMBER 6
SHELLING AT a nuclear plant in
Ukraine has international mon-
itors “gravely concerned” and a
security protection zone should
be established immediately, the
United Nations’ nuclear watch-
dog agency said in a report on
Tuesday after a visit to the em-
battled Zaporizhzhia facility.
But the experts from the
International Atomic Energy
Agency said the fighting has not
triggered a nuclear emergency
at the plant in southern Ukraine.
In a report on its findings,the
agency said that shelling should
be “stopped immediately” and
that it was prepared tostart con-
to the dollar and euro markets.
The sanctions on major
Russian banks, including state-
controlled VTB, have effectively
cut lenders off from the global fi-
nancial system. “The new reality
is leading to a massive rejection
of the use of the dollar and the
euro in international payments,”
VTB CEO Andrei Kostin said.
“Thelaunchoftheyuantrans-
fer system will significantly sim-
plify the work of Russian compa-
one or two clients a day. Before
the pandemic, it was three or
four a day.
AshespentaWednesdaydo-
ing nothing of note in Tokyo,
Morimoto reflected on the
bizarre nature of his job and ap-
peared to question a society that
values productivity and derides
uselessness.
“Peopletendtothinkthatmy
‘doing nothing’ is valuable be-
cause it is useful (for others) ...
But it’s fine to really not do any-
thing. People do not have to be
useful in any specific way,” he
said. REUTERS
WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM
sultations with both sides in the
conflictoversecurityattheplant,
which is the largest in Europe.
“While the ongoing shelling
has not yet triggered a nuclear
emergency,itcontinuestorepre-
sent a constant threat to nuclear
safetyandsecuritywithpotential
impactoncriticalsafetyfunctions
thatmayleadtoradiologicalcon-
sequences with great safety sig-
nificance,” the report said.
The report noted that the
plant’s workers are operating in
achallengingenvironment.“The
conditionthattheoperatingstaff
is subject to constant high stress
and pressure while operating
the NPP is not sustainable and
could lead to increased human
error with implications on nu-
clear safety,” the report said.
niesandindividualswithChinese
partners,increasingthepopularity
of yuan in our country,” he said.
VTB said the maximum amount
of a single money transfer was
equivalent to 20 million roubles
andthemaximummonthlylimit
is set at 100 million roubles.
Russia’s Gazprom also said
that it had signed an agreement
to start switching payments for
gassuppliestoChinatoyuanand
roubles instead of dollars.
1 dead, Canada
police hunt
last suspect in
stabbing attacks
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WELDON, SEPTEMBER 6
CANADIAN POLICE hunted for
the remaining suspect in the
stabbing deaths of 10 people in
an Indigenous community and
nearby town in the province of
Saskatchewan after finding the
body of his brother amid a mas-
sive manhunt for the pair.
Damien Sanderson, 31, was
found dead Monday near the
stabbingsitesandauthoritiesbe-
lieve his brother and fellow sus-
pect, Myles Sanderson, 30, is in-
jured, on the run and likely in
Regina, said police chief Evan
Bray. The series of stabbings also
wounded 18 people. RCMP
Commanding Officer Assistant
Commissioner Rhonda
Blackmoresaidauthoritiesarenot
sure of the cause of death yet but
theinjurieswerenotself-inflicted.
Damien Sanderson’s “body
waslocatedoutdoorsinaheavily
grassed area in proximity to a
house that was being examined.
We canconfirm he has visible in-
juries,” said Blackmore. Asked if
MylesSandersonwasresponsible
forhisbrother’sdeath,Blackmore
said police are investigating that
possibility, but “we can’t say that
definitively at this point in time.
Leaders of the James Smith
Cree Nation, where most of the
stabbing took place, blamed the
killings on the drug and alcohol
abuse plaguing the community,
whichtheysaidwasalegacyofthe
colonisationofIndigenouspeople.

15 ECONOMY
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
SENSEX: 59,196.99 ▼ 48.99 (-0.08%) NIFTY: 17,655.60 ▼ 10.20 (-0.06%) NIKKEI: 27,626.51 ▲ 6.90 HANG SENG: 19,202.73 ▼ 22.97 FTSE: 7,304.06 ▲ 16.63 DAX: 12,883.77 ▲ 122.99
SECTOR WATCH
RENEWABLE ENERGY
How SenseHawk
deal may brighten
up RIL’s solar biz
SOUMYARENDRABARIK
NEWDELHI,SEPTEMBER6
OIL-TO-TELECOMCONGLOM-
ERATE Reliance Industries
(RIL) has signed definitive
agreements to acquire a ma-
joritystakeinCalifornia-based
solar software start-up
SenseHawk Inc for a total
transaction value of $32 mil-
lion. The move comes as the
group turns its focus towards
the new energy sector where
it plans to achieve 100 GW of
solar energy by 2030.
Whytheacquisition?
Founded in 2018,
SenseHawk is a developer of
software based management
tools for the solar
energygeneration
industry. It offers
solutions ranging
from planning to
production by
helping compa-
nies streamline
processesanduse
automation.
SenseHawkalsooffersadigital
platform to manage the end-
to-end solar asset lifecycle
SenseHawkhasmorethan
140customersin15countries
with assets totalling more
than 100 GW. The company’s
turnoverFY2022,FY2021and
FY 2020 was US$ 2,326,369,
US$ 1,165,926, and US$
1,292,063 respectively.
RIL chairman Mukesh
Ambani said that the acquisi-
tion will help the conglomer-
ate in driving down costs, en-
hancing productivity, and
improving on-time perform-
ance to deliver low levelised
costofelectricity(LCoE)forso-
lar projects globally.
“We are on a mission to
improve the solar energy
ecosystem, acquiring 50 per
cent of the market by 2025
andwithRILasourpartner,we
will accelerate our execution
toward that goal,” said Rahul
IN OBJECTION RAISED EARLIER THIS MONTH BY CENTRE OVER PLATFORM’S PLEA AGAINST CONTENT BLOCKING ORDERS
Twitter can’t seek rights available to citizens: Govt in HC
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
BENGALURU, SEPTEMBER 6
THEDECISIONon“whethercon-
tent will cause national security
or public order issues or not
should not be allowed to be de-
termined by the platforms,’’ the
Central government had argued
in the counter to a petition filed
by Twitter Inc in the Karnataka
High Court against a series of or-
derstoblockcontentontheplat-
form that has been issued by the
center in the year 2021.
The counter was recently
filed in the high court, which is
scheduledtocontinuehearingof
BRIEFLY
Sebi,NCDs
NewDelhi:Sebigaveentities
withlistedNCDstillSeptem-
ber15togiveunclaimedre-
demption & dividend data.
USchipsplan
Washington: The US re-
leaseditsplantoimplement
its $50 billion program to
subsidise semiconductor
manufacturing.
Brazil,Apple
Sao Paulo: Brazil’s ordered
AppletostopsellingiPhones
without a battery charger.
FineonJuul
Bengaluru:JuulLabsIncwill
pay $438.5 million to settle
aUSprobeintomarketing&
sales practices. REUTERS
Goddaplant
New Delhi: Adani’s thermal
power plant in Jharkhand’s
Goddaissettobefunctional
by December 16. ENS
The start-up will be
bought for a
transaction value of
$32 million
Sankhe, president and co-
founder of SenseHawk.
HowisRelianceplacedin
thenewenergysector?
Last year, Reliance an-
nounced an investment of Rs
75,000 crore to be deployed
towards its new energy busi-
nessoverthenextthreeyears.
Before SenseHawk, the
conglomerate had made a
number of acquisitions to
boost its new energy play. In
February this
year,itcompleted
a 40 per cent ac-
quisition of
ShapoorjiPallonji
Group’sSterling&
Wilson
Renewable
Energy
(SWREL). SWREL
hastheexpertiseinexecuting
Ltd
11-plus gigawatts of solar
turnkey projects globally.
In December 2021,
RelianceNewEnergySolarLtd
—awholly-ownedsubsidiary
of Reliance Industries, took
over UK-based Faradion — a
batterycompany,for$135mil-
lion. In October 2021, it ac-
quired Norway-based REC
Solar for solar photovoltaic
(PV)manufacturing.Reliance’s
PV cell manufacturing facility
in Gujarat’s Jamnagar will be
based on REC’s technology.
The facility will commence
operations from 2024.
Last month, during
Reliance’s45thannualgeneral
meeting,Ambanihadsaidthat
the conglomerate will start
productionofbatterypacksby
2023andscaleuptoafullyin-
tegrated 5 GWh annual cell-
to-pack manufacturing facil-
ity by 2024.
the matter this month. Twitter
had moved the court earlier this
year with a plea to quash 10 or-
ders issued in the year 2021 by
theCentretoblockasmanyas39
accounts or to restrict the orders
to specific tweets which violate
Section 69A of the Information
Technology Act, 2000.
The Centre has argued in its
counter that Twitter being a for-
eign platform cannot seek free-
dom of speech and other funda-
mental rights available to Indian
citizens for the users of the plat-
form. “It is therefore submitted
thatthePetitionernotbeingnat-
ural person and not even being
an artificial person founded un-
VW triggers landmark
Porsche IPO plan,
defying market doubts
JAN SCHWARTZ &
EMMA-VICTORIA FARR
HAMBURG, SEPTEMBER 6
VOLKSWAGEN ON Monday an-
nounced its intention to float
sportscarbrandPorsche,trigger-
ing what could become one of
the world’s largest listings even
as record inflation and a Russia-
Europe energy standoff has sent
European stocks tumbling.
Thecarmakerpublishedaso-
calledintentiontofloatforanini-
tial public offering in late
SeptemberorearlyOctobertobe
completedbytheendof theyear,
but added the listing and timing
was “subject to further capital
market developments.”
Sources close to the negotia-
tions earlier told Reuters earlier
Volkswagen may extend the
four-week period for buyers to
express interest, or pull its plans
altogether, should investors not
show enough enthusiasm to
SOVEREIGNCREDITRATINGAT‘BAA3’,WITH‘STABLE’OUTLOOK
Moody’s retains India rating,
downplays global challenges
ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6
MOODY’SINVESTORSServiceon
Tuesday announced its decision
to retain India’s sovereign credit
rating at ‘Baa3’, the lowest in-
vestmentgrade,andpersistwith
its“stable”outlookonthenation.
The agency cited the coun-
try’s large and diversified econ-
omywith highgrowthpotential,
a relatively strong external posi-
tion, and a stable domestic fi-
nancing base for government
debt for the decision to affirm
the rating. It said the stable out-
look has been retained because
“risks from negative feedback
between the economy and fi-
nancial system are receding.”
Significantly, the rating
agency doesn’t expect rising
challenges to the global econ-
omy — including the impact of
theRussia-Ukrainemilitarycon-
flict, higher inflation, and the
tightening financial conditions
on the back of policy tightening
—toderailIndia’songoingrecov-
‘Just 44% of premium office
space green certified’
Only 44% of total Grade-A office space across
seven cities is green certified across the country,
according to report by JLL India
SEVEN MAJOR CITIES SURVEYED
Mumbai ● Delhi-NCR
The HC will be continue
hearing the case later
this month
der Indian law cannot claim
rights under Article 19 and fur-
ther cannot claim the vast ex-
panse of rights under Article 14
orArticle21eitherforitself oron
behalf of its users,’’ the Centre
said while asking the HC to dis-
miss Twitter’s plea.
The government argued that
Twitter did not comply with
many blocking orders until final
notices were issued by it to the
company on June 27. “The peti-
The VW plant in Osnabrueck,
Germany. Reuters file
make the move worthwhile.
“Itwouldbethetechnicalgo-
ahead,nothingmore,”oneof the
sources said ahead of the deci-
sion.“It’spavingtheway,butthis
would not guarantee that the
stock market bell will ring in the
end.” Investors expect a valua-
tion between 60 billion and 85
billion euros. While the Porsche
brand is strong, valuations of
other luxury carmakers such as
Aston Martin and Ferrari have
fallen. REUTERS
REASONS FOR
STABLE OUTLOOK
■ Moody’s said the
stable outlook has
been retained because
“risks from negative
feedback between the
economy and financial
system are receding
ery from the pandemic.
Moody’shadinOctober2021
changed the outlook on the
Government of India’s ratings to
stable from negative and af-
firmed its foreign-currency and
local-currency long-term issuer
ratings and the local-currency
senior unsecured rating at Baa3.
In June, Fitch Ratings revised
up its outlook for India’s long-
term foreign currency Issuer
Default Rating (IDR) to ‘stable’
from ‘negative’ aftera gap of two
years, even as it retained its sov-
ereign rating for the country at
the lowest investment grade of
SHAREOFGREEN-
CERTIFIEDGRADEA
OFFICESTOCKBASED
ONCERTIFICATION
80% 19%
IGBC IGBC
● Bengaluru ● Chennai ● Hyderabad
tioner Twitter claims to have
complied with the directions
and has filed the case. But
Twitter has unblocked multiple
user accounts that were earlier
blocked on government direc-
tions under Section 69A
(AtheistRepublic, sushant_says,
SikhPA, cjwerleman, stand-
wkashmir),’’ theCentre stated in
its counter arguments.
It added “that it is pertinent
to note that out of the 39 ac-
countsthatarechallengedinthis
case, one of the accounts is
(Account Name @savukku). On
16.03.2021 the Respondent No.1
had issued a blocking direction
under Section 69 A against the
Goyal: India
provides best
investment
opportunity
PTI
San Francisco: India provides the
best investment opportunity for
businesses across the world and
investors in the US should avail
the opportunities that New
Delhioffers,CommerceMinister
Piyush Goyal has said Monday.
He said time is “just ripe” to
engage in areas of mutual inter-
ests of India and the US.
Addressing industry leaders of
the US and India here, Goyal said
both countries can promote
global security, stability and re-
silient supply chains. PTI
‘BBB-’ continuously for 16 years.
In fact, all the three top rating
agencies — S&P, Moody’s and
Fitch—assignsimilarratingsand
outlook for India now.
According to Moody’s, prin-
cipal credit challenges for India
include low per capita income,
high general government debt,
low debt affordability and lim-
ited government effectiveness.
The agency said it could up-
grade the rating if India’s eco-
nomic growth potential rose
materially beyond its expecta-
tions, supported by effective im-
plementation of economic and
financial sector reforms that led
to a significant and sustained
pickup in private sector invest-
ment. Effective implementation
of fiscal policy measures that re-
sulted in a sustained decline in
the government’s debt burden
and improvements in debt af-
fordability would also support
the credit profile, it added.
Among factors that may lead
to a downgrade of India, it listed
“weaker economic conditions
than we currently expect that
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accordingtoJLLIndia’s‘Tracking
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marketreport.Ofthis:
■ ITstock: 522mnsqft
■ Non-ITstock: 210mnsqft
321
mnsqft:Grade-Aoffice
stockacrosstheseven
citiesinIndiawhichisgreen
certified,asofMarch2022,i.e.
43.8%ofthetotalstock
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account @savukku for “national
security” related reasons. The
petitioner did not comply with
this direction till June 2022.”
“Only on the diligent follow
up of the Respondent No 2 (des-
ignated officer at the Ministry of
Electronics and IT - MEITY) and
upontheissuanceof showcause
notice dated 27.06.2022 the pe-
titioner for reasons best known
to it suddenly complied with all
the blocking directions and then
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tions for specific set of 39 URLs,’’
the statement filed by the min-
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pointedtolowergrowthoverthe
medium term and/or a resur-
gence of financial sector risks.”
Last Wednesday, a day after
official data estimated a lower-
than-expectedrateof expansion
for the Indian economy in the
June quarter, Moody’s sharply
trimmed its real growth forecast
for thecountry to 7.7 per cent for
the calendar year 2022 from its
earlier projection of 8.8 per cent.
Goldman Sachs, too, cut its
2022growthforecastforIndiato
7 per cent from 7.6 per cent; for
the fiscal year (FY23) as well, the
projectionisnowpeggedat7per
cent, against 7.2 per cent earlier.
Similarly, Morgan Stanley said
thereis a downside risk of 40 ba-
sis points to its growth estimate
of 7.2 per cent for FY23, thanks
to weaker-than-expected
growth in investments and
higher drag from net exports.
The June quarter growth of
13.5 per cent was near the lower
band of the 12-17 per cent range
forecast by analysts and below
the Monetary Policy Commit-
tee’s predicted 16.2 per cent. FE
‘Adani says not
overleveraged,
loans from
PSBs halved’
NewDelhi:AdaniGrouphascited
an improved net debt to operat-
ing profit ratio and more than
halving of loans from public sec-
torbankstoallayconcernsabout
it being overleveraged.
In a 15-page notein response
to CreditSights report calling the
group overleveraged, it said
companies in the group have
consistentlyde-levered,withthe
netdebt toEbitdaratio declining
to 3.2 times from 7.6 times in the
last nine years. “The businesses
operate on a simple yet robust
and repeatable business model
focused on development and
origination, operations and
management and capital man-
agement plan,” the note said.
Thegroup hadagrossdebtof
Rs 1.88 lakh crore in March 2022
andnetdebt of Rs1.61lakhcrore
after considering the cash bal-
ance. While loans from public
sector banks (PSBs) in 2015-16
accounted for 55 per cent of all
debt of the group firms, in 2021-
22, borrowing from PSBs made
up for 21 per cent of all debt, it
said.InFY2016,privatebanksac-
counted for 31 per cent of loans,
which has now shrunk to 11 per
cent. Money raised through
bonds has jumped from 14 per
cent of all loans to account for 50
per cent now.
In a report titled ‘Adani
Group: Deeply Overleveraged’,
CreditSights, a Fitch group firm,
had last month stated that the
ports-to-power-to-cement con-
glomerate is “deeply overlever-
aged” with the group predomi-
nantly using debt to invest
aggressively across existing as
well as new businesses. PTI
New Delhi
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Emissions deadline
for coal-fired plants
deferred for 3rd time
SUDARSHAN VARADHAN
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6
INDIA EXTENDED a deadline for
coal-fired power plants toinstall
equipment to cut sulphur emis-
sions by two years, the govern-
ment said in a notification on
Tuesday, marking the third
pushback on a commitment to
clean up dirty air.
The initial deadline set for The Farakka thermal power
thermal power plants to install plant run by NTPC Ltd. File
flue gas desuphurisation (FGD)
units to cut sulphur emissions
was2017.Thatwaslaterchanged regions and the capital New
tovaryingdeadlinesfordifferent Delhi will have to pay penalties
regions, ending in 2022, and fur- tooperate fromend-2024,while
ther extended last year to a pe- utilities in less polluting areas
riod ending 2025. willbepenalisedafterend-2026,
Only40percent of India’sto- the order said.
tal coal power capacity of 211.6 The Power Ministry had
GW have been awarded bids for pushed for an extension, citing
installing FGD while another higher costs, lack of funds, Covid
42017 have already installed it, 19-related delays and geopoliti-
according to government data. cal tension with China, which
Most of the bids awarded were has restricted trade. The delay
by state-run NTPC Ltd. will be welcomed by operators
The order on Tuesday said of coal-fired utilities including
power plants will be forcibly re- private companies, such as Tata
tired if they do not comply to Power and Adani Power, which
norms on sulphur emissions by have long lobbied for less severe
end-2027. Plants near populous requirements. REUTERS
Govt kicks off review
of gas price formula
ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU KIRIT PARIKH-LED
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6
COMMITTEE
AMIDRISINGconcernsoversky-
■ The Ministry of
rocketing global natural gas
Petroleum and
prices jacking up energy and in-
Natural Gas has set up
dustrial costs, and derailing the
a committee under
efforts to contain inflation, the
noted energy expert
Centre hasbegun areviewof the
Kirit Parikh to review
pricing formula for domesti-
the current gas pricing
cally-produced gas.
formula
The Ministry of Petroleum
and Natural Gas has set up a
committee under noted energy
expert Kirit Parikh to review the ral gas from old and regulated
current gas pricing formula, fields was doubled to $6.1 per
Reuters reported,addingthatthe million British thermal unit
government order in this regard (mBtu). Price of gas produced
spoke of the need to ensure “a from difficult fields like KG-D6
fair price to the end consumer”. block operated by Reliance
Thoughthecommitteehasbeen Industries-bp combine, was
askedtosubmitthereportbythe hiked from $6.13 earlier to
end of this month, its inputs 9.92/mBtu for the April-
won’t be used for the next six September 2022 period.
monthly revision of the domes- Notably,thereviewof gaspr-
tic gas prices for the October icing formula taking consumer
2022-March 2023 period.
The next price revision will
likely lead to a further rise in
interests into consideration co-
mes despite Reliance Industries
repeatedly urging the Centre to
prices of gas from both the nor- remove the cap on gas price as it
mal and the “difficult” fields, “remains disconnected with the
given that the benchmark global global price trends, irrespective
prices have remained elevated. of any rise or a fall”. Of natural
In the last revision effective gas consumed in India, almost
April 1, 2022, the price of natu- 50 per cent is imported LNG. FE
Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy,
Heavy Water Plant (Kota)
e-Tender invitation notice no. - HWPK/INC/ITCMC/2022/01
Online item rate tenders are invited through e-Tendering mode for
“Comprehensive Maintenance Contract for IT infrastructure at HWP(K).”
by General Manager, Heavy Water Plant (Kota), Post: Anushakti 323303, Via
- Kota (Rajasthan) for and On behalf of the President of India, from approved,
eligible and experienced contractors. Estimated cost of work: Rs.
39,58,428/-. Tender document can be viewed/downloaded from 07.09.2022
(10:00 hrs) to 20.09.2022 (16:00 hrs). The last date for online submission
of tender is 20.09.2022 (16:00 hrs). The technical bids will be opened on
26.09.2022 at 15:00 hrs.
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Subject: Constitution of regular panel of Senior/ Junior Standing
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panel for Junior/Senior Counsels for representing the Central Board of Indirect
Taxes and Customs and its field formations and attached offices, in the Hon'ble High
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3. The fees and other charges for the panel Counsels are contained in CBIC’s letter
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4. Eligible and willing applicants may apply in proforma “A” or “A-I” (as applicable)
to the Additional Commissioner, Office of the Principal Chief Commissioner,
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completed application is 19.09.2022. Incomplete application shall not be
entertained. The date and time of interview shall be communicated to the
applicants who fulfil the eligibility criteria.
(Rajender Jindal)
Additional Commissioner
PCCO, CGST & CX, Delhi Zone

New Delhi
 18 CLASSIFIEDS & TENDERS
Classifieds
PERSONAL
It is,for general
information,that I,Ashwani
Sharma,S/o-Ram Partap
Sharma,R/o-183-184, 3rd-floor,
Pocket-22,Sec-24, Rohini,Delhi-
110085,declare that,name of
mine,has been wrongly-
written,as Ashwani in my
10th,educational
documents.The actual,name of
mine is Ashwani
Sharma,respectively
which,may be amended,
accordingly. 0040630889-9
It is for general information that
I Jitender Kumar Gupta S/o Sh.
Subhas Chander Gupta, R/O
TA-256, Tughlakabad
Extension, New Delhi. declare
that name of mine HAS BEEN
WRONGLY WRITTEN as Jitendra
Kumar Gupta in my
educational documents the
actual name of mine is Jitender
kumar Gupta respectively
which may be amended
accordingly. 0040630837-1
In my Passport No.S5486951, the
spelling of my father’s name is
written wrongly as Mansha
Singh instead of correct
name/spelling Munsha Singh.
Rajinder Singh s/o Munsha
Singh, R/o A-236, Sudarshan
Park, New Delhi-110015.
0040630885-3
I,vinod soni,s/o phool chand
soni,R/o d-206,phase-1,vivek
vihar,Delhi-110092,have
changed my name to vinod
kumar soni,for all purpose.
0040630802-1
I,hitherto known as
Poonam,W/o Paramjit,residing
at,H.No.57/17,Arya-
Nagar,Jhajjar,Haryana-
124103,have changed my name
and shall hereafter be known
as Poonam Devi. 0040630889-10
I,Sugiya Devi,W/o Mr. Rajender,
R/o Kharrak, Madhubani,Bihar-
847424,My name wrongly-
mentioned as Anita Devi in
Bank A/c but actual-name
Sugiya Devi which mentioned
in Aadhaar and PAN-card.
0040630887-3
I,Shivangi D/O-Anil Kumar
Bery,R/O,C-140, Peeragarhi
Camp Delhi-110056,have
changed my name to Shivangi
Bery 0040630889-5
I,SHARAD,S/O PURUSHOTTAM
PARADKAR,R/O.RZF
1/322,GALI.NO.2A, MAHAVIR-
ENCLAVE,PALAM,NEW-DELHI-
110045,have changed my name
to SHARAD CHANDRA
PARADKAR 0040630906-1
I,SHALINI,W/O:NITIN SINGLA
R/O: PRIDE A-304,HRC
APARTMENTS 1/2, VAIBHAV-
KHAND, INDIRAPURAM,
GHAZIABAD, UTTAR PRADESH-
201014, changed my name to
SHALINI SINGHLA.
0040630888-6
I,SHAILENDRA KUMAR,S/O VIJAY
PAL SINGH,R/o-B 5/56C,
DHAWALGIRI APARTMENT,
SECTOR 34,NOIDA,
GAUTAMBUDH-
NAGAR,U.P.Changed my name
to SHAILENDRA KUMAR SINGH.
0040630906-7
I,SATYENDRA SINGH,S/O-BHOGI
SINGHR/O.D3/249 3rd-floor
rear-side gali.no.9,mahavir-
enclave kh/n.85 palam-
village,new delhi-110045,HAVE
CHANGED MY NAME TO
SATYENDRA SINGH YADAV.
0040630888-1
I,Suman Lata D/o Jiwan Dass
Khetarpal R/o C-3/169 Sector-
36 Noida(U.P) have changed my
name from Suman Lata
Khetarpal to Suman Lata for all
future purposes 0040630800-1
I,SAGUFTA PRAWEEN,
W/O.SHAHFESAL, Add-
103,GALI.NO-4 DAHIYA WALI
GALI NANGLA-ENCLAVE PART-2
FARIDABAD SECTOR-22,
FARIDABAD,HARYANA-121005,
changed my name to SAGUFTA
PARWEEN, permanently.
0040630799-2
I,Rohit Mathawan,S/o Om
Parkash Mathwan,R/o MIG-
Flat.No.424, Block-A Sec-
18B,Atulya-
Apartment,Dwarka-New
Delhi-110078,have changed my
name to Rohit Kumar
Mathawan. 0040630906-5
I,Rashmi Bala Jain,W/o Rishi
Kumar Jain R/o-T8/001,Vipul
Belmonte Golf Course
Road,Sector-53,Gurgaon.
Haryana-122009.Have change
my name,from Rashmi Bala
Jain to Rashmi Jain,for all
purposes. 0040630888-5
I,Raman Kumar Bhardwaj Alias
Raman Kumar,S/o Baldev
Krishan R/o-22 Radheypuri-
Extns.1,Krishna-Nagar,East
Delhi-110051,Have Changed My
Name To Raman Bhardwaj,For
All Purposes. 0040630887-4
I,Rakesh Mittal,S/o Hukum
Chand R/o-992,Rani Bagh
Shakur,Basti-110034 have
Change my name to Rakesh
Gupta Permanently.
0040630887-1
I,Rajesh Choraria alias Rajesh
Jain,S/o Fateh Chand
Choraria,R/o-
4/1505,Gali.No.14A,Bholanath
Nagar,Shahdara,Delhi-
110032,do hereby solemnly
affirm and declare that both
the names are indicating and
referring myself as a same and
one identical person,not to
different person whatsoever
0040630887-8
I,JASVEER SINGH S/o
SH.BRAHAM SINGH R/o-UG-
3,PLOT.NO.244,GYAN KHAND-
I,INDIRAPURAM, GHAZIABAD,
UTTAR PRADESH-201014,have
changed my name to JASVEER
SINGH CHAUDHARY for all
future purpose. 0040630887-6
I,Rajiv Kumar Alagh,S/O Satpal
R/O,WZ-67A,Santgarh Tilak-
Nagar Delhi-110018,have
changed my name to Rajiv.
0040630889-4
I,RACHANA GUPTA W/O ASHOK
JAIN R/O E-2/40-41,SECTOR-16,
ROHINI, DELHI-110089,have
changed my name to RACHNA
JAIN. 0040630888-4
I,Preeti Kaur,W/o Harjeet
Singh,R/o.H.No-49A, Kh.No-
41/2 Uday-Vihar Nilothi-
Extn,Nangloi,Delhi-110041,
have changed my minor-
daughter’s name Tasmeen
Kaur to Aarvi Saluja.
0040630889-2
I,PROMILA BHATIA,W/o
SHAILENDRA KUMAR,
ADD:24,ASHOKA-ENCLAVE
PART-1,SECTOR-34, FARIDABAD,
HARYANA-121003,changed my
name to PROMILA RANGRA.
0040630802-2
I,NASEEMA KHATOON W/O
SHAHZAD R/O HNO.A-
137,GALINO.1,NEAR
MADARSA,NEW
BASTI,BANKNER,DELHI-
110040.CHANGED MY NAME TO
NASEEMA BEGUM.
0040630906-9
I,NAND KISHORE,S/o TIKA
RAM,R/o WZ-276-D,Ground
Floor,Inder Puri,New Delhi-
110012,have changed my name
to NAND KISHORE SAXENA,for
all,future Purposes.
0040630887-2
I,Mohd.Javed Khan S/o
Mohd.Ghulam Hussain R/o-T-
671 /1 Gali No. 10,Gautam
Puri,Delhi-110053,Have
Changed My Name To Javed
Khan,For All Purposes.
0040630887-5
I,Mohd Zakir Hussain Mansuri
S/o Abdul Wahid R/o A-6, Balbir
Nagar,kirari suleman
nagar,Delhi-86,have changed
my name to Zakir Hussain for
all-purposes. 0040630802-4
I,Mohammad chhidda,S/o-
Badlu Hasan, Ad-c-78,phase-
3,sector-3 nsit dwarka delhi-
110078,Changed my name to
Mohammad Saleem.
0040630799-1
I,Manoj Kumar,S/O Madan
Singh,R/O 2893,Street Pipal
Wali,Sabzi-Mandi, Malka
Ganj,Delhi-110007,have
changed my name to Manoj
Gahlot,for all Purposes.
0040630802-3
I,Mandeep Kaur,W/O Naseeb
Raja Sandhu R/O,H.No-2000
Street.No.5,Friends-Colony
Majitha-Road Amritsar.1
Punjab-143001,have changed
my name to Mandeep Sandhu.
0040630888-2
I,MITUSHI,D/o-Hukum
chand,R/o-1/7154,main-Road
Shivaji-Park,Shahdara,Delhi-
110032,declare that name of
my-father has been wrongly-
written as Hukam Chand in my
10th-Class marksheet and
certificate.The actual-name of
my father is Hukum
Chand.Which may be
amended-accordingly.
0040630887-10
I,MANINDER GALAUT S/O VIJAY
GAHLAUT R/O 3/10,GREEN
VIEW,ASHOK
MOHALLA,NANGLOI,DELHI-
110041.CHANGED MY NAME TO
MANINDER GAHLAUT.
0040630906-2
I,Koyal D/o Ashok Kumar,R/o
19/7 West Moti Sarai Rohilla
Gali.No.2,Onkar Nagar Delhi-
110035,have changed my name
to Koyal Mittal. 0040630906-8
I,Joginder Chawla W/o Daljit
Singh Chawla,R/o.T1-3204,
Block-D,Tata Primanti Garden
Estate Sohna-Road Near-Vatika
Chowk,Sector-72, Fazilpur
Gurgaon-122101,have changed
my name to Jindi Chawla.
0040630906-4
I,Jitender,S/o-Naresh
Singh,R/o-RZ-L-1,Gali No.2,New
Roshan Pura,Najafgarh,New
Delhi-110043,have changed my
name to Jitender Singhal for all
future purposes. 0040630903-2
I,GHANSHYAM CHENENI,S/O
SATRAM DAS CHAINANI,R/o 33,
BUNGLOW LINE,
MADHVNAGAR, KATNI
MURWARA, KATNI,MADHYA
PRADESH 483501,changed my
name to GHANSHYAM DAS
CHAINANI. 0040630906-6
I,Fateh Chand Choraria alias
Fateh Chand Jain,R/o-
4/1505,Gali.No.14A,Bholanath
Nagar,Shahdara,Delhi-
110032,do hereby solemnly
affirm and declare that both
the names are indicating and
referring myself as a same and
one identical person,not to
different person whatsoever
0040630887-9
I,Arun Kumar S/o Jagdish
Lal,R/o,83-B, Block-PD,Near ND-
Market, Pitampura, Delhi-
110034,have changed my-
minor son’s name Tanmay to
Tanmy A Kumar aged-11-years.
0040630889-7
I,Anil Bery/Anil Beri,S/O Ranjit
Kumar Bery,R/O,C-140,
Peeragarhi Camp,Delhi-
110056,have changed my name
to Anil Kumar Bery.
0040630889-3
I,Afzal Siddiqui S/o,Badruddin
Siddiqui,R/o-H.No.C-226/2,
Shaheen-Bagh, Abul-Fazal
Enclave Part-II,Jamia-Nagar,
Okhla,New Delhi-110025,have
changed my name to Mohd
Afzal Siddiqui.
0040630889-6
I, Vikash Maheshwari S/o Late
Shri Rajendra Maheshwari R/o
Flat No-102, Ankur Apartments
Plot No-7, I.P. Extension
Patparganj Delhi-110092 have
changed my name to Vikas
Maheshwari for all future
purposes.
0040630798-1
I, Vandana Patra, W/o Sanjib
Kumar Patra, R/o F-10C Dda,
Flats F Block, Saket (South
Delhi), Malviya Nagar, Delhi-
110017, have changed my name
and shall hereafter be known
as Vandana Khandelwal.
0070802662-1
I, Talib Khan, S/o Basruddin
Khan, R/o 134, Ami Chand
Khand, Giri Nagar, Kalkaji, New
Delhi-110019, declare that
name of my father wrongly
written as Bshruddin in 10th
Class school certificate. The
correct name is Basruddin
Khan permanently.
0070802680-1
I,Mohammad Juhi,S/O Lal
Nadaf,R/O-B-785, Mangol
Puri,Delhi-110083,have
Changed my name to Mahivul
Nadaf. 0040630903-1
I, Shalyar Khan S/o Shahnawaz
Khan R/o C-64, F/F, Shaheen
Bagh, Abul Fazal Enclave Part-
II,Delhi-110025,inform that my
father and mother name
wrongly written in my
Passport as Shahanawaz Khan
& Shama Khanem instead of
Shahnawaz Khan & Shama
Khanam respectively.
0040630790-2
I, Sameer Chander, S/o Subhash
Chandra, R/o 2623, Tower-C,
25th Floor, 12th Avenue, Gaur
City-2, G. Noida, UP, have
changed my name to Sameer
Chandra. 0070802651-1
I, Ravinder Kumar S/O Mahavir
Singh,R/O B-2/18, Budh
Vihar,Phase-I,Delhi-110086,
have changed my name to
Ravinder Saroha. 0040630888-3
I, Ratan Singh, S/o Sona, R/o
Vill- Piplabandpur, Pilkhuwa,
Dist- Hapur, UP-245304, have
changed my name to Ratan
Singh Chandela. 0070802649-1
I, Qaseem Abbasi Father of
Laiba Aly alias Enayah Aly R/o
3-A, DDA (MIG) Flats, Sarai
Jullena, New Delhi-110025,
India do hereby declare that I
have changed my daughter’s
name from Laiba Aly to Enayah
Aly for all purposes.
0040630787-1
I, Prempal, S/o Suresh Kumar,
R/o Nagla Jait, Nagla Padam,
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh-202132,
have changed my name and
shall hereafter be known as
Prempal Singh. 0070802668-1
I, Poonam Walia W/o Rupesh
Walia R/o 2402, Verona Tower,
Mahagun Moderne, Sec-78,
Noida have changed my Name
from Poonam Sharma to
Poonam Walia in future for all
purposes. 0040630915-1
I, Neetu, D/o Rajender Kundu,
R/o H.No-185/2, Kundu-Pana,
SunderPur (91), Rohtak,
Haryana-124001, have changed
my name to Neetu Kundu.
0070802659-1
I, Neelofar Tania D/o Md.
Tauqueer Usman R/o D-19/A1,
F/F, Block-D,Shaheen Bagh,
Abul Fazal Enclave Part-II,
Delhi-110025,inform that my
father name wrongly written
in my 10th Class Certificate as
Tauqueer Usman instead of
Md. Tauqueer Usman.
0040630790-1
I, Naaima Begum, W/o Saleem
Ahamad, R/o 106, Nirdhna,
Muzaffarnagar, UP, have
changed my name to Husan
Jahan. 0070802657-1
I, Manisha,W/O-Sandeep R/O
H.No.164,Village Harewali,
Delhi-110039,have changed my
son’s name from POORAV to
POORAV PARASHAR for all
future purposes. 0040630903-3
I, MURJINA BIBI,mother of,
SAJAHAN
MALLICK,presently,residing at,
25/202 Tejas-Enclave
Vayusena-vatika Gurugram,
HR-122001,have changed my
name,from MURJINA BIBI to
MARJINA BIBI,vide-affidavit
dated.06.Sep.2022.
0040630802-10
I, MOHMMED ANAS RASHEED,
S/o ABDUL RASHEED, R/o 2986,
Gulmohar Apartment, 2nd
Floor, Sir Syed Ahmed Road,
Qaziwara, Daryaganj, Delhi-
110002, have changed my name
to MOHD. ANAS RASHEED for all
purposes. 0070802604-1
I, MEENU NAGPAL alias MEENU
W/o Mr. Amit Nagpal, R/o 2/50,
Jangpura-A, Bhogal, New Delhi-
110014 have changed my name
to SIMRAN NAGPAL for all
purposes. 0040630885-4
I, MAJIBUN NISHA, D/o Majeed
Khan, R/o C-II/164, New Ashok
Nagar, East Delhi-110096, have
changed my name to M Nisha
for all future purposes.
0070802699-1
I, LISHA, D/o MUKESH KUMAR,
R/o 4/143, SHIVAJI NAGAR,
GURGAON HARYANA-122001,
HAVE CHANGED MY NAME TO
LISHA VERMA. 0070802681-1
I, Kiran Devi, D/o Gayabax Singh
and W/o Rajesh Singh, R/o
Gram Post- Dighaura Sommau,
Harchandpur, Rea Bareli, Uttar
Pradesh-229303, have changed
my name to Raj Lakshmi.
0070802647-1
I, Khwahish Sankhla, D/o
Krishan Sankhla, R/o D1/6,
Janakpuri, D.E.S.U. Colony,
West Dellhi-110058, have
changed my name and shall
hereafter be known as Lara
Sankhla. 0070802678-1
I JC-734267N Rank Nb-Sub Name
DHARMENDRA SINGH of AOC
Records, at present S/o Sunder
Lal R/o,Village-Bahadurpur,
Post-Lakh (Indergarh),Tehsil-
Tirwa, Distt-Kannauj,UP
declare that my-wife name as
Suman and DoB-14.02.1979
wrongly entered in my Army
Records insisted correct name
is Suman Yadav and correct
DoB-30-05.1977. Concerned
note. 0040630889-8
I, Karan Raj Singh Chandiock,
S/o Naunihal Singh Chandiock,
R/o 55, Hari Nagar Ashram,
Near Shalimar Cinema, South
Delhi, Delhi-110014, have
changed my name Chandiock
KaranRaj Singh Naunihal Singh
to Karan Raj Singh Chandiock
and I shall hereafter be known
as Karan Raj Singh Chandiock.
0070802684-1
I, INDERA RANI, W/o MADAN
SAIN, R/o F-224, RISHI NAGAR,
RANI BAGH, SHAKUR BASTI,
SARASWATI VIHAR, DELHI-
110034, have changed my name
to INDIRA RANI for all
purposes. 0070802605-1
I, GITANJALI KUMARI,W/O
ANJEET KUMAR,R/O-WZ-
81A,4TH FLOOR,MOHAN
NAGAR,PANKHA
ROAD,HANUMAN
MANDIR,NEAR D-
BLOCK,JANAKPURI RED
LIGHT,NEW DELHI-110046,AND
PERMANENT ADDRESS-VILL-
BALURI,THANA-HUNTERGANJ,
CHATRA,JHARKHAND-
825401,HAVE CHANGED MY
NAME TO GEETANJALI KUMARI.
0040630903-4
I, Dinesh, S/o Dharam Singh
Bhadana, R/o G-42, Block-G
Part 1, Harikesh Nagar, Okhla
Industrial Estate, Kalkaji South
Delhi-110020, have changed my
name and shall hereafter be
known as Yogesh Bhadana.
0070802665-1
I, Binit Kumar Singh, S/o Umesh
Singh, R/o B-134, 1st Floor, Flat
No. 2, Panchsheel Vihar,
Malviya Nagar, South Delhi-
110017. I have changed the
name of my minor Son Akshat
Singh aged about 3 Years and
He shall hereafter be known as
Devakshat Singh.
0070802667-1
I, Begwati Devi, W/o Amar Singh,
R/o Badalpur Dadri, Gautam
Budh Nagar, U.P., have change
my Name Begwati Devi to
Vegwati for all future
purposes. 0070802671-1
I, Asha Nagar, W/o Harendra
Nagar, R/o Badalpur Dadri,
Gautam Budh Nagar, U.P., have
change my name Asha Nagar
to Asha for all future purposes.
0070802669-1
I, Aqlima Begum, W/o Abdul
Kayyum, R/o 106, Nirdhna,
Muzaffarnagar, UP, have
changed my name to Akalima.
0070802658-1
I, Anshul Alias Ansul Verma, D/o
Dharam Pal, W/o Yogesh
Kumar, R/o F-16 B, Krishan
Vihar, Sultanpuri, C Block,
North West Delhi-110086, have
changed my name and shall
hereafter be known as Soniya.
0070802672-1
I, Abdul Qaiyoom, S/o
Mustakim, R/o 106, Nirdhna,
Muzaffarnagar, UP, have
changed my name to Abdul
Qayyum. 0070802661-1
I Rajpreet Singh Manocha S/o
Sh. Rajinder Singh R/o Flat No.
7-D, S.F.S. Flats, Pocket-B,
Vikaspuri Extension, Outer
Ring Road, New Delhi-110018
have changed the name of my
minor son from Sukirat
Manocha to Sukirat Singh
Manocha for all purposes.
0040630788-1
I Prahlad S/o Late Sh. Om
Prakash R/o 407/Y-9, Ghati
Road, Than Singh Nagar, Anand
Parbat, Central Delhi, Delhi-
110005 have changed my name
to Prahlad Kumar Brijwal for all
purposes.
0040630788-2
I Nandita Ahuja W/o-M.L.Ahuja
R/o-1850, 2nd Floor, Rani Bagh,
New Delhi-110034 have
changed my name to Amrit
Ahuja for all purposes.
0040630820-1
I, Harish Tyagi, S/o Vir Viranjan
Singh Tyagi, R/o P321, ATS
Green Vllage, Sec-93A, Noida,
have changed my name to
Harish Kumar Tyagi.
0070802655-1
I Kasturi Mandal Mitra W/O,
Dilip Kumar Mandal R/o D.L.F
Capital Green, Karam Pura, Flat
N 042, New Delhi-110015 have
changed my name to Kasturi
Mandal for all purposes
0040630880-1
I,SEEMA W/o-SH. JASVEER
SINGH R/o-UG-3,PLOT.NO.244,
GYAN KHAND-1,INDIRAPURAM,
GHAZIABAD,UTTAR PRADESH-
201014,have changed my name
to SEEMA CHAUDHARY,for all
future purpose.
0040630887-7
I,PREETI W/O-HARJEET
SINGH,H.NO-49-A,KH.NO-41/2,
UDAY VIHAR,NILOTHI-EXTN
NANGLOI, DELHI-110041,have
changed my name to PREETI
KAUR.
0040630889-1
I,Deepak R/o.C-114, Old DLF
Colony, Sector -14,
Gurgaon(Haryana)have
changed my-Minor Son name
from Himnish to Himnesh
Chhawri.
0040630906-3
I,RITA RANI, W/O SANJEEV
SHARMA, ADD-4/2795-A,
STREET.NO-2 BIHARI-COLONY
SHAHDARA,DELHI-110032,
Changed my name to REETA
SHARMA,for all,future Purposes.
0040630802-5
LOST & FOUND
I, B.M. Gupta ,S/o Late O.P.
Gupta , Flat 44, Kanchan
Changa CGHS, Plot 90, I.P. Extn,
New Delhi-110092 have lost my
original share certificate,
allotment letter and other
documents of above
mentioned address of
property. Finder contact 96504
39996
0040630851-1
PUBLIC NOTICE
PUBLIC NOTICE
My client Sh. Om Prakash S/o Sh.Guru
Charan R/o B-37-B, Janta Flats, Shivaji
Enclave, Raghubir Nagar, Tagore Garden,
New Delhi-110027, has Lost his Original
papers of Flat No, B-37-A, Ground Floor,
Raghubir Nagar, Shivaji Enclave, New
Delhi-110027, i.e. Allotment Letter,
Demand Letter and Possession Letter in
the name of Satpal, Mutation Letter in the
name Sarita Kashyap & Manju, GPA,
Agreement to Sell, Will, Receipt, Affidavit
& Possession in the name of Om Prakash,
was misplaced at Photocopy Shop on
Raghubir Nagar, New Delhi on Dated.
05/09/2022 at 11.00 hrs..., and if anyone
found then inform on Mobile No.
9811109777, ( Also Lodged NCR Vide
LR.No. 765295/2022 Dt. 06/09/2022).
Sd/- B.B.N. DEO, Advocate
S.R.IInd,B Coumpus, Janak Puri,ND-58
New Delhi-110058
PUBLIC NOTICE
My clients Sh. Anand Kumar &
Sonia, both R/o H.No 8 & 9, Block-
D-2, Om Vihar Phase-5, Uttam
N a g a r, N e w D e l h i - 5 9 , h a v e
disowned and debar their son
namely Jatin along with his wife
Shakshi Radi from their all
moveable & immovable properties
and they & their family members
have also severed all relations with
them as they are not under control
of my clients. My clients & their
family members shall not be
responsible for the acts & actions
of Jatin and his wife Shakshi Radi.
If anybody deals with them shall
be responsible for the same.
Randhir Kumar (Advocate)
Ch.No.542-E, Saket Courts New Delhi-17
PUBLIC NOTICE
THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC AT
LARGE THAT OUR CLIENT’S CUSTOMER MR.
BRIJESH SINGH & MRS. GUNJAN SINGH
ACQUIRED THE BUILT UP 2nd FLOOR, (FRONT
SIDE) WITHOUT ROOF RIGHTS, PROPERTY NO.5
& 6, AREA MEASURING 125 SQ. YARDS., KHASRA
NO. 321, SITUATED IN THE REVENUE ESTATE OF
VILLAGE BINDAPUR, DELHI STATE DELHI,
COLONY SANJAY ENCLAVE, IN BLOCK-D, UTTAM
NAGAR, NEW DELHI-110059 VIDE SALE DEED
DATED 01.08.2022 AS DOC NO. 18930.
HOWEVER, BACK SIDE OF. LAST PAGE. (L.E
REGISTRATION DETAILS PAGE) OF ORIGINAL
SALE DEED DATED 16.11.2018 AS DOC.N0.26861
HAS BEEN LOST AT DELHI. IF ANY FIND THE
ABOVE SAID ORIGINAL DOCUMENT, RETURN
BACK THE SAME TO “LIC HFL AT THE PLAZA”,
LAKSHMI INSURANCE BUILDING ASAF ALI
ROAD NEW DELHI 110002, AS THE SAME: IS
BEING MORTGAGE WITH LICHFL.
HENCE THIS NOTICE HEREBY GIVEN THAT ANY
PERSON, BANK/S OR FINANCIAL INSTITUTION/S,
OR ANY PARTY/IES, HAVING ANY CLAIM
CHARGE, INTEREST, TITLE, DEMAND, RIGHTS,
OF WHATSOEVER NATURE IN RESPECT OF OR
AGAINST THE SAID PROPERTY BY WAY OF
INHERITANCE, SHARE, TRANSFER, MORTGAGE,
POSSESSION, HOWSOEVER NATURE, ARE
HEREBY REQUIRED TO MAKE THE SAME
KNOWN IN WRITING WITH DOCUMENTARY
SUPPORT TO THE UNDERSIGNED WITHIN 7
DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION,
FAILING WHICH THE SAID CLAIM OF SUCH
PERSON/S, IF ANY WILL BE CONSIDERED AS
WAIVED AND SETTLED.
Sd/-
MR. SAMIR KUMAR
(ADVOCATE)
M/S. EXCEL LAW GROUP
OFFICE AT ADDRESS: 87-D,
ON 3RD FLOOR, POCKET-2,
SECTOR-6, DWARKA, NEW DELHI
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PUBLIC NOTICE
It is hereby informed to the Public at
large that my client Sh. Deepak Kumar
My clients Sh. Satbir Singal, S/o Late Sh. COURT NOTICE
Mangat Ram and his wife Smt. Kusum Singal,
Gupta, S/o Late Sh. Vinod Kumar, R/o
H-1/180-181, First Floor, Sector-11,
both R/o 67, Paschim Vihar Extn., New Delhi-
110063 had disowned & debarred his/her son
Rohini, Delhi-110085, is the lawful namely Sh. Shorya Singal and his wife Smt.
owner of 1/3rd share of property Ruchika Goel from his / her movable &
bearing No. B-5/384, Sector-11,
Rohini, Delhi-110085. A civil suit
immovable properties and also severed all
their relations with them and published the
bearing no. CS No. 305/22 “Deepak public notice dated 27.12.2018 in two leading
Kumar Gupta Vs Kamal Gupta & Ors.” newspapers i.e. The Indian Express &
is pending before the Hon'ble Court of Jansatta. Now for develop the relations in
family members, my clients hereby withdraw
Ms. Shivali Bansal Ld. ADJ, Rohini
Courts North District, Delhi regarding
their earlier aforesaid notice, which would be
aforesaid property. if anyone/ anybody
treated as null and void in future.
Sd/-
deals in regards to aforesaid property ASHOK GUPTA
including sale/ mortgage/ takes Advocate
earnest money or create any sort of
Enrl. No. D-2444/99
encumbrance including third party Ch. No. K-60,
interest, the same shall be treated as Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi-54
null and void and will face legal
consequences.
Sd/- NAVEEN THAKUR Advocate
Office: 9/2026, Gali No. 6, ADMISSION
Kailash Nagar, Delhi-110031
PUBLIC NOTICE
This is informed to General Public that my
clients Sh. Jagmohan Rawal, aged about
85 years, S/o. Late Sh. Kishan Chand
Rawal and Smt. Kamlesh Rawal, aged
about 75 years, W/o. Sh. Jagmohan
Rawal, both are R/o. B-10, 2nd Floor,
Rana Pratap Bagh, Delhi-110007.
It is to be declared to General Public that
my clients has debarred, dis-inherited and
disowned their son Sh. Puneet Rawal
from their movable and immovable
properties, Bank Accounts / FDR's /
Shares / Bank Lockers etc., as Sh.
Puneet Rawal is residing in Thailand
since last 3 years and is not in control and
not cooperative with my clients. My clients
has no concern with Sh. Puneet Rawal
and my clients are not responsible for the
act done by him and if anybody dealing
with him, shall deal at his own cost, risk
and consequences.
Sd/- RAVI SHARMA
(ADVOCATE)
A-14/5, Shyam Vihar Phase-2
Najafgarh, Delhi-43
UJVN LIMITED
H.O. “UJJWAL”, Maharani Bagh, GMS Road, Dehradun-248006
Phone: 01352763508, -2763808 Fax: 0135-2763507
PUBLIC NOTICE
Be it known to all concern that my
client Sh. Om Prakash S/o Late Sh. RO No 609 Notice Inviting Tender Dt. 05.09.2022
Ganga Sahay R/o H.No. A-274, Gali For and on behalf of UJVN Limited, Office of the Executive Engineer,
No.14, Near 25 Feet Road, Gagan
PCM(GV), Mayapur, Haridwar invites sealed & separate tenders from
Vihar Bhowpura Sahibabad, interested bidders. Brief summary of tenders are given below:-
Ghaziabad U.P. has completely
1. Tender Notice Reference:
severed his relation with his both Son
namely Yogendra Kumar & Dheeraj NIT No.- 06/2022-23/EE/PCM(GV)/Mayapur:- Annual M&R Work of
Kumar along with their wife Smt. Pooja Type-II Residences at Chilla Colony for the Year 2022-23.
& Roopam Devi, as they are out of
NIT No.- 07/2022-23/EE/PCM(GV)/Mayapur:- Epoxy Grouting in Draft
control of my Client. My client also
Tubes of Chilla Power House at Chilla for the year 2022-23.
disowned and debarred them from all
his movable & immovable properties. 2. Estimated Value of Tenders:- Rs. 24,97,617.59 & Rs. 22,93,014.14
only respectively.
My client shall not be responsible for
any act of Yogendra Kumar & his wife 3. Dateofavailabilityofbiddocumentonwebsite:-05.09.2022from17:00Hrs.
Pooja and Dheeraj &his wife Roopam 4. Last Date for Submission of Tender:- 26.09.2022 upto13:00 Hrs.
Devi in future in any manner and if
anybody deals with them, he/she will For eligibility criteria and full and further details kindly visit our website. The tender
can be downloaded from our website i.e. www.uttarakhandjalvidyut.com and
do on his own risk and responsibility.
tender cost shall be paid at the time of submission of the tender.
Akshat Aggarwal (Advocate)
418, Patiala House Courts, NewDelhi-110001 Executive Engineer, PCM (GV)
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double cover system in ONLINE MODE only, , for the works
BE IT KNOWN TO ALL THAT our client
Unique Speditorer Private Limited,
“Construction of New District Court Building (S+7) at
having its Delhi Office at property Rayagada” amounting to Rs. 42,92,00,000/- (Approximate) as
bearing no. Unique House, A-Ext.-32, detailed below.
Mohan Garden, Uttam Nagar, New
Delhi, comprising One Bedroom, Hall, 2. Nature of work : Building work
and Kitchen, is the sole and absolute
3. No. of work : 1 No.
owner of the above-mentioned
property. That no sale, purchase,
4. Bid Cost. : R 10,000/- (Each)
mortgage, or transfer of the said
property or any portion thereof may be
entered into by any person with Sh. 5. Class of Contractor : Super Class
Santosh Pandey or any other person
thereof. Any such illegal act shall invite 6. Availability of Bid : From dt. 15.09.2022 to 17.00
appropriate legal action by our client, Documents in the website Hours of dt. 10.10.2022.
before the competent Court of Law and
shall not in any manner, affect the legal 7. Date of Opening of Bids : Dt. 11.10.2022 at 11:30 AM.
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that our client Sh. Neeraj Mohiley S/o Odisha, Bhubaneswar
Late Sh. Upendra Nath Mohiley R/o OIPR-34117/11/0048/2223
H.No.1221, Sector-37, Faridabad-
121003, Haryana has severed/
“IMPORTANT”
disconnected his entire relations of
whatsoever nature with his real
younger brother Sh. Pankaj Mohiley Whilst care is taken prior to acceptance of
due to his bad habits, misconduct,
misbehaviour, quarrelsome nature
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consequences. Our client shall not be transactions with companies, associations or
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A player who fails is like a broken Ensure ‘eminent athletes’
take part in Nat’l Games:
tree... without support will suffer IOA informs federations
MIHIR VASAVDA
MUMBAI, SEPTEMBER 6
Gamesthatwillseeapproximately7,000ath-
letes compete in 34 disciplines. "If there is a
clashbetweeninternationaltournamentsand
coach to replace me at half time. the national games for some of the athletes
Afterhalftime,therewasamomentwhen Neeraj Chopra would’ve hoped for a well- we will discuss and find the best possible so-
Sardar picked the ball in front of my face and earned break after competing in the season- lution," Mehta told this paper.
I could have hit him with the hockey stick, ending Diamond League Final in Zurich on
conceded a foul and perhaps stopped the Thursday. Shooting schedule rejig
goal. But I didn’t do it because of sportsman- But the Olympic champion and World Take the case of shooters, who will be
ship. Championship silver medallist might be most affected. The shotgun World
Mir Ranjan Negi Therestof thematch,weplayedhaplessly. forced to alter his plans. And it’s not just him. Championships are scheduled to take place
Our defence was broken completely. Even From shooters – who will get their first in Osijek, Croatia, from September 19 to
biggerplayersthanmewouldhavecrumbled shot at the 2024 Paris Games berth – to the October 12. Then, from October 12 onwards,
Former hockey goalkeeper Mir Ranjan Negi at that time and it was a disaster for us. weightlifters, aiming to stay injury-free be- the rifle and pistol World Championships
faced vitriolic attacks and his house was When the match ended, the crowd fore their Olympic qualification cycle begins will begin in Cairo. The Worlds will give
vandalised after conceding 7 goals versus started shouting and abusing the players. I in December, to the wrestlers, whose hectic Indian shooters the first chance to book a
Pakistan in the 1982 Asian Games final. He alsogottoknowthatMrs(Indira)Gandhihad season was scheduled to end later this quota for the Paris Olympics.
can relate to what Arshdeep went through. sent her aide RK Dhawan to tell the coach to month after the World Championships – “Butnow,it’saCatch-22situation.Onone
replace me. While a lot of angry fans abused each of India’s top athletes will have to rejig hand, there are competitions where the
I AM 64, but am not too old to follow social me, the only grudge I had that day was that their schedules after the Indian Olympic Olympic quota is on offer. On the other,
media. Twenty-three-year-old Indian pacer neither the captain nor the coach supported Association (IOA) made it mandatory for there’s the National Games, which are tak-
Arshdeep Singh was trolled by fans for a me. The next day, I was dropped from the them to compete in this month’s National ingplaceafter severalyears,” a federation of-
dropped catch against arch rivals Pakistan in Arshdeep faced criticism on social media after the dropped catch against Pakistan. team and there was a news report that Negi Games in Gujarat. ficial said.
the Asia Cup in Dubai.I followed the kind of took one lakh for each of the seven goals The National Games are While the skeet shooters
abuse Arshdeep received as well as the mes- scoredbyPakistan.Therewasalsoanewsre- being held after a gap of The National Games who will travel for the
sages of support. My first thought while penalty stroke and I saved Kalimullah’s shot Singh, Zafar Iqbal and Mohammed Shahid port that a CBI inquiry had been initiated sevenyearsfromSeptember Worlds will have to give the
watching Arshdeep was that things like a with a dive and also saved another penalty toowouldmatchthemorexcelagainstthem. against me. Two days later, I and some of my 29 to October 12 across six are being held after a NationalGamesamiss,their
dropped catch are part of the game. No stroke taken by him. It was the first time I got I remember that once in the Asia Cup, our teammates went to Pandara Road to have cities in Gujarat. On Sunday, gap of seven years trap counterparts will com-
player drops a catch intentionally. toexperiencewhatawinoverPakistanmeant. threeforwardsmissedapenaltystrokeeach. dinnerandpeoplestartedshoutingatussay- Home Minister Amit Shah from September 29 pete in Osijek on October 2,
In the first match between India and Ihadonlylistenedtofellowplayersorcoaches Afterthis,somepeoplestartedsayingthatthe ing that we were partying after winning the launched the mascot and hop on to a flight to
Pakistanearlierinthetournament,Arshdeep saying things like 'kisi bhi team se har jao par Pakistanis resorted to some black magic on silver medal. the anthem for the Games, to October 12 across Ahmedabad immediately,
took two wickets. Some of the other players Pakistan se nahi harna chahiye’ (Lose against us. When I returned home to Indore, my which Sports Minister six cities in Gujarat. andcompeteatNationalson
did not play well on that particular day. India any team but don't lose against Pakistan). Atthe1982AsianGames,Irememberthat home was vandalised. I worked in Customs Anurag Thakur said would October 4.
had won the first match so those shortcom- Weeks later, when we went to Pakistan to Delhiwasdecoratedlikeafestival.Therewere at that time and nobody in the office would bethe ‘biggestandgrandest’ Similarly, the rifle and
ings were ignored. It was bad luck that India playtheremainingtwoTestmatches,thefirst new stadiums, flyovers, and posters all over talk with me. Sometimes, when I would go ever. pistol events at the National
lost the match and thingwesawwasacartoonin the city apart from the euphoria over the for training, people would say, “Saat goal To deliver that, the IOA, on Tuesday, shot Games will begin a day before the opening
Arshdeep was blamed. a newspaper depicting Games being telecast in colour for the first khanewalaaagaya”(Thechapwhoconceded off letters to the National Sports Federations ceremony, scheduled for September 29, so
India and Pakistan had After India-Pakistan Kalimullahasasmallrataim- time. During our practice sessions at the seven goals is here). But sitting at home with and State Olympic Associations to ensure ‘all thattheeventsarewrappedupbyOctober3.
not faced each other in ingforthepenaltystrokeand NationalStadium,thenPrimeMinisterIndira my father and brother, who always told me eligible eminent athletes’ take part in the The shooters are expected to leave for Cairo
matches in cricket
cricket since last year and my caricature as an elephant Gandhi’s son Rajiv, who was a pilot at that thattheyknewthatIcoulddonothingwrong, Games. Eminent athletes were described as on October 8. “We are trying to ensure a way
with both countries not nowadays, I see saving the penalty stroke. It time, would visit the Indian team along with gave me a lot of strength. I always wanted to theoneswhohavetakenpartorwonmedals through which at least some of our top-
playing any bilateral series, players from both made us laugh but also un- the chairperson of the Asian Games organis- be in hockey. I did not have any option since in international competitions. rankedshooterscantakepartintheNational
suchmatchesinmulti-team derstandthekindofpressure ing committee Buta Singh. Icouldnotspeakaboutthebadtacticsbythe In his letter, IOA secretary-general Rajeev Games. With regards to the rifle/pistol team,
tournaments are the only
countries sharing a they (Pakistan players) too Rajivwouldtellus,“Bharatnejitnebhigold coach in the final or anything against the Mehta asked for ‘wholehearted support and they will have to compete in Gujarat before
way players like Arshdeep good laugh but they faced at home. medal jeete hain, hockey ke gold medal sabse hockey federation. cooperation in making the National Games quickly turning their attention to the World
canexperiencethepressure. only know in their We roamed in Karachi beshkimti hain (The hockey goldmedalis the Arshdeep has his parents as well his successful’. “As far as athletes are concerned, Championships,” the official said.
So,eachIndia-Pakistangame and Lahore buying onyx most precious). If you win, you will be taken team’s support. He will get his chance again participation in the National Games is most Inaway,theNationalGamesposealesser
islikeafestivalforthefansas hearts how much lamps, for which no shop- on trucks in a parade”. in this tournament as well as in the future. important for them,” Mehta wrote. headache to the athletes compared to the
wellasthepeopleof thetwo pressure such keeper took money from us. Soonecanunderstandthepressureonus. One thing which I liked was former skipper He added: “To ensure the esteemed sig- Asian Games, which were originally sched-
countries. After the match, matches bring. We would also be hosted by My roommate Shahid and I could not even ViratKohli,whohadsupportedMohammad nificance of the National Games, participa- uled to be held this year. The continental
therearecelebrationsinone Hassan Sardar (centre for- sleepatnightthinkingwhatwouldhappenin Shami earlier after he was targeted on social tionof alleligibleeminentathleteswhohave multi-discipline event was slated to be held
country and sadness in the ward and 1984 Olympic the matches. Prior to the final, I had saved a media, supporting Arshdeep too. taken part/won medals in International in Hangzhou from September 10 to 25 but
other. gold-medal winning captain) and others at coupleof penaltystrokesandmyconfidence I was lucky that I had a shot at redemp- Games and Championships are necessary to got postponed to September-October 2023
After India-Pakistan matches in cricket their homes for dinner. But we noticed that was high. tion, first as a coach of the 1998 Asian Games compete in the 36th National Games also. due to the Covid situation in China.
nowadays, I see players from both countries all Pakistani players would give us the cold Going into the final, we knew that one of goldmedal-winningmen’shockeyteamand The Sports Federations and State Olympic Had the Asian Games gone ahead as
sharing a good laugh but they only know in shoulder whenever there was an official re- ourfullbackswasplayingwithaninjuredleg then as a coach with the 2002 Associations are requested to keep this in scheduled,itwouldhaveeitherclashedwith
theirheartshowmuchpressuresuchmatches ception by any political leader like General andwasplayinginhisfirstmatchof theAsian CommonwealthGamesgoldmedal-winning mind when selecting the athletes for repre- or been in close proximity to, several World
bring. Seeing a young Arshdeep play against Zia-ul-Haq (Pakistan president). Games. We scored the opening goal through Indian women’s hockey team. History has senting their sports and states.” Championships and other major competi-
PakistantookmebacktothedayswhenIwas Backthen,everykidknewournamesand Zafar Iqbal but then the Pakistanis took ad- seen many players who failed and could not ItwasonlyinJunethattheIOAdecidedto tions, including the Diamond League Final.
21 and played my first test series against thetensionbetweenIndiaandPakistanpolit- vantage of the weak fullback and made a make a comeback. A player who fails is just conducttheeventwhichwasoriginallysched- “So, in that sense, it’s all the same,” a
Pakistan. We played the second match of the ically was also on a high. The Pakistan team flurry of attacks against our combination of like a broken tree that will fall without sup- uled to be held in 2016 in Goa. In July, Gujarat coach said. “Our athletes do not get many
four-TestseriesatapackedEastBengalstadium hadsomebigplayerslikeSardar,Kalimullah, 5-3-2. It meant that I was under pressure. port.Ihopethat’snotthecasewithArshdeep Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel announced chances to compete in front of the home
in Calcutta. SamiullahandManzoorJunior,whodiedlast When Kalimullah, Hanif Khan and Manzoor Singh. thatthestate–whichisgearingupforlegisla- crowd. However, we might not go flat-out to
After we scored one goal, Pakistan got a week,intheirranksandourplayerslikeSurjit scored goals before half time, I asked the (Mir Ranjan Negi spoke to Nitin Sharma) tivecouncilpollslaterthisyear–willhostthe ensuretheathletesdon’tinjurethemselves.”

OVER THE HEDGE by Michael Fry & T Lewis

CROSSWORD 4840 DAY TODAY
ARIES (Mar 21 - Apr 20)
I am afraid that not
everyone has your
high standards. The
only way to
survive will be to accept that
just for now the rest of the
world is out of step with
your lofty expectations. Don't
be too hard on other people,
though. Perhaps they just can’t
help it.
TAURUS (Apr 21 - May 21)
Today’s powerful
Moon piles on the
pressure and that’s a
BY PETER VIDAL
LIBRA (Sep 24 - Oct 23)
Rather than
concentrating
exclusively on the
details of your
savings and bank balance, get to
grips with the deeper issues.
For example, what is it exactly
that you need to make
you feel materially secure? A
profound question, I know,
but no less necessary for
all that.
SCORPIO (Oct 24 - Nov 23)
A spectacular
relationship

CALVIN & HOBBES by Bill Watterson good thing.

ACROSS
1 Points out the front end (5)
8 One who goes on watch (8)
9 Learning duty’s to be changed
(5)
10 Hamper holding spare
garments (8)
11 Keep shop (5)
12 Plant served as a meal (3)
16 Sound excuses gives
satisfaction (6)
17 He thrives on complaints (6)
18 I for example get nothing (3)
23 It dies eventually at the end of
four months (5)
24 They are paid by formal
visitors (8)
25 It is rare if you don’t find it well
done (5)
26 One who takes off in a hurry
(8)
27 Give instructions to society
(5)
SolutionsCrossword4839:Across: 1Characters,6Cuts,10Arena,11Outfitter,12
Wideopen,13Allot,15Italian,17Abolish,19Ensnare,21Mayfair,22Sinai,24
Eventual,27Atthetime,28Total,29Eros,30SantaMaria.Down:1Clap,2
Americans,3Awake,4Troopin,5Rotunda,7Until,8Stretchers,9Minatory,14Fire
escape,16Imagined,18Inacanter,20Evelina,21MaeWest,23Notso,25Totem,
26Plea.
JUMBLED WORDS
DOWN
2 Don’t mention it never (3,2,3)
3 Started making a subterranean
passage (5,3)
4 Gentleman I’ll see out (6)
5 Warms up for the opening
races (5)
6 Place for landing and take-off
(5)
7 Ships’ prisons (5)
12 Peg’s style of shirt? (3)
13 A celebration that spells
trouble (3)
14 Weapon - injure about one
thousand with it (8)
15 With fashion, price is not
extreme (8)
19 Conclude contract (6)
20 Order a seer to get rid of
unwanted letters (5)
21 A matter of extreme interest to
the lender (5)
22 Stop making bread (5)
Everything depends on your
sense of timing and it’s vital
that you instinctively know
when to stand firm and when to
compromise. Only you can take
these decisions, so there is no
reason to sit around while other
people make up their minds.
GEMINI (May 22 - June 21)
Your resilience may
be eroded, if only
because you could
do with a rest. Yet,
there is much that you can do to
help yourself, like standing
aside from battles you can’t
win. After all, there’s no reason
why you should waste your
energy on people who don’t
deserve it.
MARVIN by Tom Armstrong CANCER (June 22 - July 23)
The Moon blazes
brilliantly in parts of
your chart best
known for their
influence over cultural, creative
and artistic proclivities. Perhaps
it’s time for a spot of self-
improvement. It’s certainly the
moment for a few dramatic
gestures: you still have the
capacity to issue some big
surprises.
LEO (July 24 - Aug 23)
You’ll put the
maximum effort into
domestic and family
relationships,
perhaps because your instincts
tell you that partners need to be
DifficultyLevel5s
placated. Many of you will be
SOLUTION SUDOKU 4949
between Neptune
and the Moon could
soon set the cat among the
pigeons. Welcome changes are
in line for some of you, but
many will experience no more
than maddening obstruction
from partners. In the meantime,
stay out of trouble.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov 24 - Dec 22)
Don’t let all that
current tension get
to you physically.
Why not spare a
little thought for your body and
see to it that your diet and
exercise are exactly what is
needed? If there’s room for
improvement, make the
necessary moves without
undue delay.
CAPRICORN (Dec 23 - Jan 20)
I don’t think there’s
any use in going it
alone. Indeed, so
powerful are the
social trends in your solar chart
that you may do best to
abandon some of your own
plans and fall in with others’
arrangements. You may fear
rejection, but there will always
be room for you.
AQUARIUS (Jan 21- Feb 19)
A series of
spectacular aspects
is soon due to raise
questions about your
private life. In particular, it
seems that either you have
been reluctant to commit
yourself, or that you have done

reviving plans for a move of so on the basis of false

Instructions home, or at least for substantial information. All will become
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SUDOKU 4950

theanswerforthegivenquip. PISCES (Feb 20 - Mar 20)

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eachoftheninehorizontal wisdom will be energy. You
AIREE CEIJNT rowsandineachofthe highly valued - for stand to benefit both
nineboxes. once. You could try personally and professionally,
to bring your clear approach to even though your mood may be
all tangled emotional problems, a little unpredictable.
ALXAI AEHYCP DifficultyLevel both helping yourself and Insensitive people may be
assisting others in their efforts even more irritating than
1s=Veryeasy;2s=Easy; to free themselves from normal, but you can always
3s=Medium;4s=Hard; excessively successively do the Piscean thing and
5s=VeryHard;6s= complicated situations. slip away.
Answer: He that can have patience can have what he will. - Benjamin Franklin Genius
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Final scenario: India

still in it, but only just
INDIA’S SECOND defeat in three days
in the Super Four stage has not ex-
actly eliminated them from the Asia
Cup, but left them precariously de-
pendent on results of matches not
involving them.
Needless to say, they need to beat
Afghanistan on Thursday, that too by
as convincing a margin as possible.
But the result of that match could
very well be of only academic inter-
est as far as qualification for
Sunday’s final is concerned as India
could well be out of the reckoning
before taking the field.
That’s because Pakistan face
Afghanistan in Sharjah on
Wednesday, and a win for Babar
Azam’s team will put them out of
India’s reach.
For that reason, Rohit Sharma &
Co will be supporting the underdogs
in that contest.
With Sri Lanka already with two
Super Four wins, that will confirm a
Pakistan-Lanka title clash.
Even if Afghanistan manage to
beat Pakistan and then lose to India,
India will still depend on Sri Lanka
beating Pakistan on Friday.
That will seal the Lankans’ spot
in the final with three consecutive
wins, and the other three teams
with one win each, with net run rate
being the deciding criterion.
One thing possibly going in
India’s favour is that their two de-
feats have come on the penultimate
balls of the matches, and a big win
over Afghanistan can still put them
back in the equation, if other results
go their way. ENS
SUPER 4 STANDINGS
Team M W L N/R Pts
Sri Lanka 2 2 0 0
Pakistan 1 1 0 0
India 2 0 2 0
Afghanistan 1 0 1 0
Islanders leave India marooned
Rohit and Co's road to final gets tougher after second successive loss as resurgent Sri Lanka ace a tense chase
EXPRESSINUAE
SANDIPG
SEPTEMBER6
AFTER LUNGINGfull-throttle onto the crease,
whippingupaplumeof dust,DasunShanaka
scrambled back on his feet, and furiously
punchedhisfistsintheair.Shortly,hispartner
Bhanuka Rajapaksa, who had made a full-
stretch dive himself at the other end to com-
plete the double that put Sri Lanka in the Asia
Cup final, past India by six wickets, leapt onto
him. In a twinkling second, their teammates
piled over them.
NoonehadexpectedSriLankatoreachthis
far.Beforethetournament,theyhadlost10of
their 14 T20 games. The shoddy defeat at the
hands of Afghanistan in the group game con-
vinced the world that they would make easy
fodder for the favourites. India were one of
them—and after successive defeats in the
SuperFourleg,theirprospectsofreachingthe
finals are slim, and not in their hands. But it’s
the time to celebrate the spiritedness of Sri
Lanka rather than mourn the falling of giants.
TheLankanvictoryhadaretrofeel—anun-fan-
cied group toppling the giants, the old David
slaysGoliathtrope,theirknackof spoilingthe
best-laid plans and scripts, that characterised
the Sri Lankan of the early 90s.
Thiscampaign,theyhadbeenclumsy,un-
4 wieldy and ungainly, but when on the edge,
they mustered a rare courage. As they had
2
against Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and now
0 India.Typicalof them,theystoppedheartsen
0 route to their six-wicket win over India. The
start,inpursuitof 174,wasemphatic.Pathum
NissankaandKusalMendisrattledout97runs
Sri Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka (left) celebrates with teammate Bhanuka
Rajapaksa after beating India on Tuesday. AP
in 11.1 overs to lay the launchpad with un-
abashedhitting,evokingmemoriesof Sanath
Jayasuriya and Romesh Kaluwitharana.
But then struck a familiar, unavoidable
chaos. As only they could these days. In the
space of 13 runs and 16 balls, they lost four
wickets.HoperenewedamongtheIndiansup-
porters in the stance, while shock flashed
acrossthefacesof SriLankans.Buttheymight
nothavebeenentirelysurprisedbytheunrav-
elling, had they seen Sri Lankan cricket in re-
cent times. They can lose from winning junc-
tures, and equally, win from losing junctures.
A bit like in the 90s.
But Rajapaksa and Shanaka allayed fears
withmaturedbattinginanundefeated64-run
stand. Two understated cricketers, they illus-
trated total calm. Shanaka embraced the an-
chor role and Rajapaksa the counterpuncher.
To revert the pressure back on India, he pum-
melledRavichandranAshwinandYuzvendra
Chahal, the orchestrators of the collapse, for a
six each. They would happily block the balls, quota. I need to make the best decision the
butensuredthattheyfullypunishedtheloose teamneeds.”Heneedsarethink,forheisbet-
balls.Somehow,theyalwaysmanagednineto ter than what he thinks he is.
10runsanover,targetingbadballsratherthan He slowed himself even more, making it
specific bowlers. incredibly difficult to time him. Suryakumar
Therewasluck—twicedidShanaka’sedges Yadav tried to ramp him, a stroke that he exe-
fly past the vacant slips for fours in the eigh- cutesexceptionallywell,buthehadnopaceto
teenthand19thovers.Butheunleashedpow- harnessandendedupinthehandsoftheshort
erful strokes too—he clubbed Bhuvneshwar thirdman.Itwasprobablyashotoutofinstinct
KumarthroughextracoverandglancedHardik but unviable on this surface. Later, he nipped
Pandyaoverthefine-legfence.Intheend,albeit outHardikPandyatoowithalengthball,agift
thefranticrunningbetweenthewickets,itwas on most other pitches but not on this. Pandya
a composed finish. could not impart any power into the shot and
ended up getting caught at deep mid-wicket.
Madushanka stars It was thus a victory of Sri Lanka’s col-
ButSriLankawouldhaveendedupchasing lectivism, and fittingly it was Shanaka who
a steeper total but for the timely blows of ran the runs that sealed his team’s spot in
Dilshan Madushanka. With the fourth ball of the final.
his third over, he devoured Virat Kohli with a SCOREBOARD: INDIA: KL Rahul lbw b M
well-weighted in- Theekshana 6, R Sharma c
swinger.Aftersettinghim PNissankabCKarunaratne
up with a barrage of out- SriLanka'scampaignhad 72, V Kohli b D
swinger, he slipped in his beenclumsy,unwieldy Madushanka0,SYadavcC
first in-swinger. It swung M Theekshana b Shanaka
down the leg-side to be andungainly,butwhen 34,HPandyacPNissankab
adjudged wide. But the ontheedge,they Shanaka 17, R Pant c P
nextin-swingerhadlaser- musteredararecourage, NissankabDMadushanka
guided precision—-it 17, D Hooda b D
landedonoff-and-middle astheyhadagainst Madushanka 3, R Ashwin
stumpandbentafraction Bangladesh,Afghanistan, 15*, B Kumar b C
inwardly to blast his Karunaratne 0, A Singh 1*;
andnowIndia.
stumps, past an agricul- Extras:(w-7,nb-1)8;Total:
tural swipe. 173/8 in 20 overs; Fall of
Then he returned to snap the wickets of wickets: 11-1, 13-2, 110-3, 119-4, 149-5, 157-
Rishabh Pant and Deepak Hooda. Pant was 6, 158-7, 164-8; Bowling: Dilshan
lookingdangerous,havingstruckthreefours Madushanka4-0-24-3,MaheeshTheekshana
in his first five balls he faced. It was a slower, 4-0-29-1, Chamika Karunaratne 4-0-27-2,
short ball that Pant threw the proverbial Asitha Fernando 2-0-28-0, Wanindu
kitchen sink at, but was deceived by the lack Hasaranga 4-0-39-0, Dasun Shanaka 2-0-26-
of pace as well as the angle of the ball. Two 2;SRILANKA:PNissankacRohitbChahal52,
ballsago,hehadejectedHooda,anotherdev- KMendislbwbChahal57,CAsalankacSYadav
astating batsman at the death overs, with a bChahal0,DGunathilakacRahulbAshwin1,
length ball. B Rajapaksa 25*, D Shanaka 33*; Extras: (b-2,
The skipper Shanaka pulled out another lb-1, w-3) 6; Total: 174/4 in 19.5 overs; Fall of
masterstroke. It was to bring himself on. A re- wickets: 97-1, 97-2, 110-3, 110-4; Bowling:
luctant bowler, his medium pace could be in- Bhuvneshwar Kumar 4-0-30-0, Arshdeep
nocuous on aslowpitch. He explainedthe ra- Singh 3.5-0-40-0, Hardik Pandya 4-0-35-0,
tionale behind it: “It’s due to the team Yuzvendra Chahal 4-0-34-3, Ravichandran
combination, so I haven't been bowling my Ashwin 4-0-32-1.

On a slow pitch, Rohit Tiafoe ends Rafa’s

22-match Grand
made right adjustments Slam streak
SANDIP G ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEPTEMBER 6 SEPTEMBER 6

ROHIT SHARMA seemed soundproof to the FRANCESTIAFOE'Svisionwasblurryfromthe

applause when he was walking back to the
pavilion. Eyes down, shoulders arched, he
dragged his heat-weary limbs, not even re-
ciprocating a thud on his shoulder by the in-
coming Hardik Pandya, he walked, as if he
was in a world of his own.
Fornearly70minutesand41balls,hewas
batting in a world of his own. When his col-
leagues scratched and scraped on a slowish
surface Rohit purred along. He made the
same pitch feel like sprawling, six-lane high-
way without potholes. Or put it the other
way, Rohit could spin his Ferrari even on a
paddy-field. His 72 runs were stroked at a
strike rate of 175; none of his teammates
who faced more than 10 balls, could manage
a hitting rate of more than 130.
His lack of runs in the Indian Premier
LeagueandtheT20WorldCupweremiscon-
struedasafallibilityof playingonslowtracks.
The common refrain—he prospers on tracks
where the ball comes onto the bat but strug-
gles when it does. Once, he himself has fun-
nily quipped to a journalist: “What do you
mean by the ball not coming onto the bat? I
canneverunderstandthis.If theballdoesnot
come to the batsman, the batsman should
go for the ball.” He went out for the ball this
innings.
The slowness of the pitch was captured
by a stroke that Rohit timed rather than he
did not. Ashita Fernando had erred on the
shorter side butRohithadtowait for an eter-
nity for the ball in the pulling pose; the ball
arrived so late that he ended up hooking it,
hisbodymakinga360-degreeturninthefol-
low through. His ability to pause his stroke
to hit the ball at the most precise moment
was remarkable. There was another, a rather
humdrum shot, that he wonderfully ad-
justed though he was early into the stroke.
He premeditated a slog-sweep against
ChamikaKarunaratne,realisedhewasafrac-
tion early, and hence delayed the bat-swing
so that he fully times it.
It’saskillthatonlythebestof athletesand
dancers do. Lionel Messi does this when he
hangs for the ball in the air; so does Roger
Federer with his forehand returns. Geniuses
haveasenseof spaceandtimethatisbeyond
the reach of the commoner.
Rohit has a dancer’s feet too, a reason he
makes the least minimalistic of shots look
minimalistic. Like when he essayed a sweep
off Ashita Fernando. He languidly shuffled
across, slouched his lower body and just
twirled the ball behind fine leg. A lot of bats-
men make a lot of complicated movements
to play this stroke. But not Sharma. He just
makes three-four tiny, snapping move-
ments—one-two-three, or ta-tei-tei-ta, or
rat-a-tat. The harmony of limb movements
Rohit Sharma scored 72 runs at a strike
rate of 175 against Sri Lanka. Reuters
has a balletic grace.
The loose wrists enable placement. The
top hand remains static, provides stability,
while he twirls the bottom hand to whip the
ball, generating the requisite elevation and
momentum, besides making optimal use of
the bowlers' pace. His batting is pure dance;
even his best T20 knocks could transcend
time and place.
Leg-spinners are supposedly his neme-
sis. Wanindu Hasaranga is one of the best in
the T20 business. But when Rohit sets his
mindonhittinghim,andwhenhisfeetbegin
to not just obey him, but sense what he
would do, he could be unstoppable against
them. Hasaranga tried to plot his dismissal
with leg-breaks than his usual staple of
googlies. But Rohit busted the threat by
shimmying, sashaying and often gliding
down the surface. He struck him for a brace
of sixes in an over. Between the twos sixes
was a four through extra-cover, an instance
when his wrist-work was pure art. He
reached to the pitch of the ball and when his
bat made contact with the ball, he flicked his
wrists to open the bat face a touch and guide
it to the left of the fielder.
It was an innings wherein hesweptmore
frequently. Sweepisan understated but pro-
ductive stroke on slow wickets. There is no
fear of the ball bouncing awkwardly, suck-
ing the risk out of the shot. Sachin Tendulkar
wasamasterfulsweeperonslowpitchestoo.
Like Tendulkar, Rohit has this preternatural
ability to gauge a surface rapidly and make
therequisiteadjustments.AndonTuesday,in
a must-win match, he made those adjust-
ments better and faster than most. He was
truly in a world of his own.
tears.Hewasthrilled—overwhelmed,even—
whenthelastpointwasoverandithithimthat,
yes, he had ended Rafael Nadal's 22-match
Grand Slam winning streak and reached the
U.S. Open quarterfinals for the first time.
“Ifeltliketheworldstopped,”Tiafoesaid.“I
couldn't hear anything for a minute.” Then
Tiafoe found himself “losing it in the locker
room”whenhesawthatNBAsuperstarLeBron
James gave him a Twitter shoutout.
“Bro,”Tiafoesaid,“Iwasgoingcrazy.”What
meantthemosttoTiafoeabouthis6-4,4-6,6-
4, 6-3 victory over 22-time major champion
Nadal in the fourth round at Flushing
Meadows,though,waslookingupinhisArthur
AsheStadiumguestboxandknowinghispar-
ents, Constant and Alphina, were there.
“To see them experience me beat Rafa
Nadal—they'veseenmehavebigwins,butto
beatthoseMountRushmore'guys?Forthem,
I can't imagine what was going through their
heads,” said Tiafoe, a 24-year-old American
seeded22ndattheU.S.Open.“Imean,they're
going to remember today for the rest of their
lives.”HisparentsbothemigratedtotheUnited
States from Sierra Leone in West Africa amid
its civil war in the 1990s. They ended up in
Maryland,whereConstanthelpedconstructa
tennistrainingcenterforjuniors,thenbecame
a maintenance man there; Alphina, Frances
said,was“anurse,workingtwojobs,working
overtimethroughthenights.”Francesandhis
twinbrother,Franklin,werebornin1998,and
soon would be spending hour upon hour
where Dad's job was, rackets in hand.
Maybe one day, went the dream, a college
scholarship would come of it.
“It wasn't anything supposed to be like
this,” Tiafoe said hours after his victory.
Frances Tiafoe exults after beating
Rafael Nadal on Monday. AP

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