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IC-13718H CAPT B SUBRAMANIAM, 09 SEP 1968

On this day IC-13718H Capt B Subramaniam and
JC-45151L Nb Sub Chhabi Lal Limbu of 1/11 Gorkha
Rifles (BATALIK) made the supreme sacrifice during
‘OP ORCHID’ in NAGA HILLS on 09 Sep 1968 in a
true act of valour. The brave soldiers will always be
remembered for their enthusiasm and outstanding
professionalism. To these brave hearts we pledge that their
immortal spirit shall always guide us and we shall strive to do their
names proud.’

Gdr Tamradhawaj Gdr Manish Kumar

Singh Raghubanshi
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POLICE HEADQUARTERS, CHHATTISGARH, DIRECTORATE OF GEOLOGY & MINING MP

Sector-19, Nava Raipur Atal Nagar, 492002
29 A, KHANIJ BHAVAN, ARERA HILLS, BHOPAL
NOTICE INVITING FOR TACTICAL ENGAGEMENT SIMULATOR
PHONE 0755 2551795
No. PHQ/P&P/MOD/3578/2022 Nava Raipur, Dated : 05/09/2022 E-MAIL dirgeomn@mp.nic.in
Sealed tenders are being invited by the Director General of Police, Chhattisgarh on behalf of Governor of Chhattisgarh
from original equipment manufacturers (OEM) Or authorized by OEM for the following item- No. 11981 /DGM/2022-23 Bhopal Dated 07.09.22
SI. No. Name of Items Qty. EMD in Rs. Tender number - RFP 01/2022
1 Tactical Engagement Simulator 01 2,50,000.00
The tender offer in the prescribed tender form along with all the relevant documents sealed and completed in all the E-TENDER NOTICE
respect, must be submitted as per the schedule below-
SCHEDULE FOR TENDER
(REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL)
a) Address for submission of Tender Document AIG of Police(P&P), Police Headquarters,Chhattisgarh, Sector Directorate of Geology and Mining Madhya Pradesh invites online
19, Nava Raipur.-Atal Nagar, Chhattisgarh, Pin-492002
b) Last Date and Time of Submission on Bids 06/10/2022 till 02.00 pm Block no 03, Room No.309 Police tender from suitable company for providing manpower services of
Headquarters, Chhattisgarh, Sector 19, Nava Raipur-Atal Nagar. steno typist, driver, watchman, sweeper, cleaner and chainman as per
,Pin-492002
c) Date,Time and place of Opening 06/10/2022 till 03.00 pm Block no 03, Room No.309 Police the requirement. Tender schedule is as follows -
Technical Bid:- Headquarters, Chhattisgarh, Sector 19, Nava Raipur-Atal Nagar. No. Particulars Details
,Pin-492002
d) Date time and Place of opening Financial Bid Shall be intimated later. 1 Tender publishing date 08.09.2022
e) Date till which the Bid to remain valid 180 days from the scheduled date of submission of the Bid.
Note: 1. Tender documents can be downloaded from our website www.cgpolice.gov.in and at the time of submission of 2 Tender download start date 09.09.2022 from 11.00 am
document tender fee of Rs. 5,000/- will be paid in the form of DD of State Bank of India/Scheduled Bank (other than
Cooperative Bank) payable at Raipur in favour of Director General of Police, PHQ C.G. Raipur Or State Govt. Challan
of Rs. 5,000/- to be deposited in the Head of A/c- 0055-Police- 800- other receipt. Tender fee is non refundable and can't
3 EMD Rs. 5,00,000 (Five Lakhs)
be exempted in any condition.2. If any bidder sends tender documents through Courier/Speed post, the tender documents
will be accepted till 02.00 pm on 06/10/2022 at Block no.3, Room No.309 Police Headquarters, Chhattisgarh, Sector 19,
4 Bid submission start date 12.09.2022 from 11.00 am
Nava Raipur-Atal Nagar only. Received tender documents in any Other address at PHQ on stipulated date and time, will
not be accepted 3. The Purchaser shall not be responsibe for any postal delay resulting into non-receipt/non-delivery or
5 Bid submission Last date 21.09.2022 upto 6.00 pm
last receipt of tender documents. 4. In case of tender opening date being declared as holiday, tenders will be opened on
next working day. 5. Modification/Amendments/Corrigendum, if any shall not be advertised on the news paper but shall 6 Opening of technical bids 23.09.2022 from 11.00 am
be published in the aforesaid web site only and the time of submission of bid will also be extended if required.6. Quantity
will be variable at any stage without assigning any reason. 7 Opening of financial bids 27.09.2022 from 11.00 am
sd/-
(Manish Sharma) 8 Cost of tender document Free of cost
A.I.G. of Police (P&P)
93916 For-Direcdor General of Police
For detailed scope and terms & conditions, please refer the tender
document available at https://mptenders.gov.in or
Varthana Finance Private Limited https://ekhanij.mp.gov.in
(Formerly known as M/s. Thirumeni Finance Private Ltd.,) Sd/-
Registered Office at : No. 5 BC-110, Varasiddhi. 3rd Floor, Outer Ring Road, Service Road, 3rd Block, HRBR Layout, Kalyan Nagar,
Bangalore-560043. Website www.varthana.com, Email: care@varthana.com, Phone : 080-68455777, Branch Office : No. 109, G-16551/22 DIRECTOR
Ground Floor, Tagore Villa, Chakrata Road, Dehradun 248001. IYûSXû³ff ÀfZ ¶f¨f³fZ IYe °fe³f ¶ff°fZÔ ¶fWbX°f ªføYSXe, MXeIYf »f¦f½ff³ff, ¸ffÀIY ´fWX³f³ff AüSX A´f³ff³ff Qû ¦fªf QcSXeÜ
DEMAND NOTICE
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
(Amdt.)Act, 2016 (44 of 2016) and furtherAmended by The Security Interest (Enforcement) (Amendment) Rules, 2018.
We, M/s. Varthana Finance Private Limited, (hereinafter referred to as “The Company ” for sake of brevity and formerly known
as M/s. Thirumeni Finance Pvt. Ltd.,) is a Non-Banking Finance Company, Incorporated under the Companies Act 1956 and
registered with the Reserve Bank of India, having its registered office at Bangalore and one of its Branches at Dehradun 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 the Applicants/ Co-Applicants and the Mortgagors for the Recovery of the Outstanding dues. Demand Notice
issued on 14-07-2022, the 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 2002, by way of alternative service upon the Applicants/ Co-Applicants/ Mortgagors No. 1, 2 and 3, for
service of notice, since notices could not be served on the given addresses.
You had approached our Dehradun branch for Credit Facility for School and accordingly made an application. The Company had
considered your request and sanctioned the same, details of which are as hereunder.
Loan Account No's : No's. S19DHD-DHD-009528, U21DHD-DHD-017102, U20DHD-DHD-015018 and U21DHD-DHD-018625,
Sanctioned Loan Amount: Rs.21,21,212/-, Rs.2,31,113/-, Rs.2,75,000/- and Rs. 3,99,152/-, Total Liability as on 09-07-2022 :
Rs. 32,89,083/- (With Contractual Rate Of Interest), Name & Addresses of Applicant, Co-Applicants & Mortgagors : 1). M/s.
Mother Land Junior High School, Represented By Its Authorised Signatory, 2). M/s. Mother Land Public School Panthavpura
Samiti, Represented By Its Authorised Signatory, No. 1 and 2 are having office at Village Dathera Post Ghari Hasanpur, Shamli, Uttar
Pradesh - 247778., 3). Ajay Kumar, S/o. Sukhbeer Singh, 4). Anil Kumar, S/o. Sukhbeer Singh, No. 3 and 4 are residing at Nautana
Rural Unn Shamli, Uttar Pradesh – 247778.
You No. 1 to 4 are Applicants/Co-Applicants/Mortgagors have executed the necessary security documents in favour of the Company to
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
amount and to ensure that the account does not become a Non-performing Asset, but you wilfully and unjustifiably failed to pay and not
heeded to the innumerable requests made to you from time to time and as a result, the above-mentioned loan account has been
Classified as Non Performing Asset on 10-04-2022.
By virtue of the documents duly executed by the Mortgagors, the charge has been created in favour of the Company on the below
mentioned Securities. The Company hereby informs all of you that, under Sub-Section (13) of Section 13 of the Securitisation and
Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act,2002 (hereinafter referred to as the Act) you shall, after
receipt of this notice refrain from either transfer by way of Sale, Lease or otherwise create third party interest in any of the below
mentioned secured assets, without prior written consent of the Company. The Applicants/ Co-Applicants and Mortgagors attention is
invited to sub-section (8) of Section 13 in respect of time available to redeem the SecuredAssets.
In view of the above, the Company hereby issues this notice under Sub-Sec (2) of the Section 13 of theAct and calls upon you all to pay,
a sum of Rs.32,89,083/- (Rupees Thirty Two Lakhs Eighty Nine Thousand Eighty Three Only) as on 09-07-2022 with interest
from 10-07-2022 with contractual rate of interest, untill the date of payment, together with incidental expenses, cost and other charges,
within 60 days from the date of receipt of this notice, failing which the Company shall be constrained to attach, sell and/or take all
actions as envisaged in Sub-Sec (4) of Sec.13 of the Act and/or adopt any other legal proceedings against all of you before the
competent Court/Authority.
If you have any representations to be made in response to this Notice, please mark the same to The Authorised Officer, M/s. Varthana
Finance Pvt. Ltd, No.5BC-110, 'Varasiddhi', 3rd Floor, Outer Ring Road Service Road, HRBR Layout 3rd Block, Kalyan Nagar,
Bangalore–560043, to enable us to respond in time. Please note we shall not be responsible for not responding to any representations
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WXÀ°FF/- land area Admeasuring 0.1370 hectare situated at Village Panthupura, Pargana Jhinjana, Tehsil Kairana & District Shamli Uttar
Pradesh and bounded as under, East By : District Rute, West By: Extra Land Of Seller, North By: Chuk of Fateh Singh, South By: Chuk
A²FeÃF¯F Ad·F¹Fa°FF of Fateh Singh.
93915 ÕXû.d³F.d½F. d¶FÕXFÀF´FbSX ¸F¯OXÕX, d¶FÕXFÀF´FbSX Date : 09.09.2022, Place: Dehradun Authorised Officer, Varthana Finance Private Limited

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‘Slavery symbol is history’

erased forever, says Prime Minister to be PM’s guests next Republic Day absent, say no proper invitation

CHARLES IS KING

Queen Elizabeth II,

monarch who ruled
for 7 decades, dies
Royal family was by the Queen’s side
at Balmoral Castle when the end came
Anil Sharma
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Kartavya Path and the statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose (left), as part of the
Central Vista project in New Delhi on Thursday.

Opening revamped Kartavya Path, unveiling Netaji

QUEEN
statue, PM underlines role of ‘cultural infrastructure’ ELIZABETH II
“Kingsway, or Rajpath, the a statue of the representative of which was attended by 1,500 1926-2022
ANI DIVYA A symbol of slavery, has become a the British Raj. Today, the coun- people,includingahostof Union
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 8 matterof historyfromtodayand try has also brought to life a ministers,artists,diplomats,MPs
THE IDEAS PAGE has been erased forever. A new modern, strong India by estab- and several state chief ministers,
INAUGURATING THE revamped history has been created in the lishing the statue of Netaji at the including Maharashtra Chief
MODERN AND ROOTED Central Vista Avenue (Rajpath), form of Kartavya Path,” said same place.” Minister Eknath Shinde and
BY ABHINAV PRAKASH now renamed as Kartavya Path, Modiashecongratulatedthena- ”Netaji’s statue coming up at Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Courtesy: Twitter/@RoyalFamily
and unveiling Netaji Subhas tion“for(their)freedomfromyet the spot where King George's Singh. Opposition leaders and queen had remained at Balmoral
ROAD TO KARTAVYA PATH Chandra Bose's statue at India another symbol of slavery of the statue once stood, is like 'Praan Delhi Chief Minister Arvind ALAN COWELL for much of the summer. On
BY SATISH DESHPANDE
Gate Thursday, Prime Minister British Raj”. Pratishtha' of a new India," Modi Kejriwal were conspicuous by Wednesdayevening,sheabruptly
PAGE 13 Narendra Modi framed these as Referring to the statue of said. their absence. QUEENELIZABETHII,theworld’s canceled a virtual meeting with
a decisive moment in the na- King George V, which once “On the occasion of Azadi ka Earlier in the day, West longest-servingmonarch,whose members of her Privy Council af-
NATIONANDNARRATION tion's contemporary history adorned the Grand Canopy, AmritMahotsav,thecountryhas Bengal Chief Minister Mamata reign of almost seven decades terherdoctorsadvisedhertorest.
PM frames his grand project whenitburiedthelegacyof slav- where a 28-feet statue of Netaji received a new inspiration. We Banerjee has said she won’t at- survived tectonic shifts in OnTuesday,shemetwiththe
of erasure and construction. ery and colonialism in its march Subhas Chandra Bose was un- can now leave the past behind tendtheinaugurationceremony Britain’s post-imperial society, incoming Conservative prime
Opposition should listen in towards a more confident, self- veiled, the Prime Minister said, and fill new colours in the pres- of the Netaji statue in Delhi as inspired broad affection among minister, Liz Truss – the 15th
THE EDITORIAL PAGE, 12 PAGE 6 assured future. “Atthetimeof slavery,therewas ent,” he said on the occasion CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 her subjects andweatheredsuc- prime minister the queen dealt
cessive challenges posed by the with during her reign – though
romantic choices, missteps and in doing so, because of infirmity,
imbroglios of her descendants, shebrokewithlongstandingtra-
diedThursdayatBalmoralCastle dition by receiving her at
‘Beautification’ Breakthrough in Ladakh: Indian, Chinese EXPRESS NETWORK in Scotland, her summer retreat.
She was 96.
Balmoral rather than at
Buckingham Palace.
of 1993 blasts The royal family announced Elizabeth’s long years as sov-

convict Yakub troops disengaging in Gogra-Hot Springs her death online, saying she had
“diedpeacefully.”Theannounce-
ment did not specify a cause.
ereign were a time of enormous
upheaval,inwhichshesoughtto
project and protect the royal
Memon grave: Begun to disengage in coordinated Ladakh DepsangPlains
dinated and planned way, which
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EarlierThursday,Buckingham
Palace said that she had been
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Maharashtra and planned way: Joint statement Daulat

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quility in the border areas.” placedundermedicalsupervision
FULL COVERAGE
The 16th Corps Commander and that her doctors were “con-
Galwan Springs
orders probe PAGE 16
PAKISTAN

the friction points in the region. J&K leveltalkswereheldonJuly17at cerned” about her health. The
DEEPTIMAN TIWARY A joint statement, issued in
Leh
the Chushul-Moldo border MAMATA NAMES OPP
Srinagar Darbuk LEADERS: TOGETHER
CHINA

NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 8 New Delhi Thursday by the meetingpointontheIndianside.

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE MORE THAN two years after the

Ministry of Defence, stated: “On
8thSeptember2022,accordingto
With the disengagement at PP
15, forces of the two countries
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MUMBAI, SEPTEMBER 8 startof themilitaryfaceoff along theconsensusreachedinthe16th have disengaged at all friction
theLineof ActualControlineast- round of India China Corps WILDLIFE PANEL OKs points in the region – the north ON U.N. HUMAN
MAHARASHTRA DEPUTY Chief ern Ladakh, Indian and Chinese Commander Level Meeting, the IAF BASE IN LADAKH and south banks of Pangong Tso, DEVELOPMENT INDEX
Minister Devendra Fadnavis or- troops have begun disengaging Indian and Chinese troops in the SANCTUARIES PP 14, PP 15 and PP 17A. PAGES 8, 11
violates basic structure

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dered a probe Thursday after a at Patrolling Point 15 in the areaof Gogra-Hotsprings(PP-15) PAGE 9 The disengagement at PP 15
video showed that the grave of Gogra-HotSpringarea,thelastof havebeguntodisengageinacoor- CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
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NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 8 The 103rd
● amendment
grave with marble tiles, LED A CONSTITUTION Bench of the
lights and rose petals. defence budget substantially to SupremeCourt,hearingpetitions
Sudhir Mungantiwar, State SHUBHAJIT ROY strengthen their capabilities. against the 10 per cent quota for THE 103RD
Minister for Forests, Cultural NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 8 Singh and Jaishankar, who Economically Weaker Sections Amendment inserts
Affairs and Fisheries, said, heldthe2+2ministerialmeeting (EWS) in government jobs and Articles 15 (6) and 16 (6)
“Deputy CM Fadnavis has or- WITH AN eye on China, Japan’s in Tokyo with Japan’s Foreign admissions, will examine in the Constitution to
dered a thorough investigation foreignanddefenceministerson MinisterYoshimasaHayashiand whethertheConstitution(103rd provide up to 10% reser-
inthematter.Appropriateaction Thursday told visiting External Defence Minister Yasukazu Amendment) Act, by which it vation to EWS other
will be taken against those try- Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Hamada, expressed their sup- was introduced, violates the ba- than backward classes,
ing to transform a grave into a Defence Minister Rajnath Singh port for enhanced security and sic structure of the Constitution. SCs and STs in higher
tomb. The beautification of the that they are examining “all op- defence cooperation. On Thursday, a five-judge educational institutions
grave of a terrorist responsible External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Defence Minister tions” necessary for national de- “While expressing its resolve bench, presided by Chief Justice and initial recruitment
fortheMumbaibombblaststhat Rajnath Singh with their Japanese counterparts Yoshimasa fenceincluding“counterstrikeca- toexamine alloptions necessary of India U U Lalit, decided to in government posts.
CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 Hayashi and Yasukazu Hamada in Tokyo on Thursday. Reuters pabilities”,andwillincreasetheir CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

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ANCHOR With micro forests, how a district in Punjab expands its green cover
of land in Kuharianwali village will see the project kick-off by
RAAKHI JAGGA
KUHARIANWALI, SEPTEMBER 8
and develop a “forest” by apply-
ing the so-called Miyawaki
method. In less than a year, the
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the end of the calendar year.
“Panchayats are being per-
suaded to give a chunk of land
KUHARIANWALI,Avillageinthe efforts have borne fruit with the for this purpose,” said Aggarwal.
Fazilkadistrictof Punjab,has be- area now full of firm plants such PUNJAB He said the government is also
comea trendsetter in expanding as kachnar, neem, arjun, ashok, constructing pathways inside
forest cover. As of 2021, accord- jamun, guava and others. replicate the success. these forests so that village resi-
ing to data from the Forest “Theforestisnowself-sustain- “It was decided that to cele- dents can walk through them.
Research Institute, the district ableasplantshavegainedenough brate 75 years of Indian Last year itself, more than 11
had just 1.34 per cent forest strength,” said Karanjeet Singh, Different stages of a micro forest’s growth in Kuharianwali village of Punjab’s Fazilka district. Express Independence and Azadi ka lakh saplings of 23 different va-
cover, one of the lowest in the the sarpanch of Kuharianwali. Amrit Mahotsav, 75 such forests rieties were prepared in differ-
state.Thedistrictadministration Singh said that in the initial few would be created by the end of ent nurseries of the villages —
knew it had to do something to months, the trees needed to be botanist Akira Miyawaki in the the plot of land has different lay- a point where the micro forest transferred in July this year. But 2022,” said Aggarwal. this was done with the help of
drastically change the picture. caredfor,butoncetheygrewtaller 1980s, is a technique to create ers of a forest such as shrubs and becomes self-sustaining. Dr Himanshu Aggarwal, Deputy As things stand, work for workers under MGNREGA, the
They launched a pilot project than an adult, they could be con- micro forests over small plots of canopies and not just trees. The project was initiated by Commissioner of Fazilka, said such micro forests has been rural jobs guarantee scheme. A
called “My village, my forest” in sidered strong enough. land.Achievingthisgoalrequires Plants typically require any- Sagar Setia, the then Additional thatsincetheprojecthadworked completed in 12 villages. The total of 6,200 plants can be
October last year. The idea was The Miyawaki method, planting a wide variety of plants where between eight to nine Deputy Commissioner well in Kuharianwali, more process is underway in another grown in one acre of land, but
totargetanunusedone-acreplot which was devised by Japanese in a fairly dense manner so that months of care before reaching (Development)ofFazilka.Hewas sarpanches were approached to 25 villages, and all 75 villages CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

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Ajay Sonawane guilty under added, ”Netaji's statue at the royaleventofitskindtobebroad- his American wife, Meghan issues along the LAC in the mand that we address these new TheNCPandCongresstootar- ingtheamendmenttoafive-judge
charges, including section 302 Kartavya Path will become a castinfullonTV.Butitwasatoken Markle,announcedplansto“step Western Sector in a constructive challenges,”hesaid. getedtheBJP.“In2015,thebodyof bench,sayingitinvolves“substan-
(murder) and 353 (use of crimi- source of inspiration... In the past of the changes – and global fasci- back” from royal duties – a move andforwardlookingmanner.They The 2+2 dialogue is taking terroristYakubMemonwasgiven tialquestionsof law”.
nalforceorassaultonapublicser- eight years, we have taken deci- nation – that accompanied her that some commentators com- hadafrankandin-depthexchange placemorethanfivemonthsafter to his family by the BJP govern- “Itisthecaseofthepetitioners,
vant)readwith149(unlawfulas- sions that bear the impression of time as queen that her reign be- pared to the decision in 1936 by of views in this regard, in keeping Japanese Prime Minister Fumio ment. Why did BJP give the body that the very amendments run
sembly)of theIndianPenalCode. Netaji'sideals.” came the subject of a Hollywood the queen’s uncle, King Edward withtheguidanceprovidedbythe KishidavisitedIndiafortheannual oftheterroristtohisfamily?”Atul contrary to the constitutional
The three were employees of Modi said that India is now movieandablockbusterserieson VIII, to abdicate so that he could State Leaders to work for the res- India-Japansummit. Londhe,chiefspokespersonofthe scheme, and no segment of avail-
the main accused, who had moving beyond the mindset of Netflix, while her family’s travails proceed with plans to marry the olution of the remaining issues at The joint statement said the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress able seats/posts can be reserved,
rented a dhaba where the oil colonialism.Hementionedthere- offered voluminous grist to the AmericanWallisSimpson. the earliest. The two sides reaf- ministers highlighted their com- Committee,said. onlyon the basisof economic cri-
adulteration was taking place. namingof AndamanIslandsafter heatedmillof socialmedia. Despite the challenges, the firmed that the resolution of re- mitment to a “common strategic The NCP too said the BJP gov- terion.Assuch,weareof theview
Themain accused hadsustained NetajiBoseandalsorenamingthe Justastellinginthechronicles queenpressedaheadwithprepa- maining issues would help in goal of achieving a free and open ernment handed over Memon’s that such questions do constitute
70 per cent burns while pouring Race Course Road as Lok Kalyan ofherrule,Britons’unquestioning rations for her Platinum Jubilee restorationof peaceandtranquil- Indo-Pacific, that is inclusive and bodytohisfamily.“Alltheseissues substantial questions of law to be
kerosene on Sonawane. He died Marg. "The Indian Navy has also deference to the crown was sup- celebration in June this year, to ity along the LAC in the Western resilient, based on the rule of law, arebeingdeliberatelyraisedahead considered by a bench of five
within a week of the incident at adoptedChhatrapatiShivaji'ssym- planted by a gamut of emotions commemoratehersevendecades Sector and enable progress in bi- and free from coercion. The min- of the civic elections in Mumbai judges”,thebenchof Chief Justice
Mumbai's J J hospital. bol and shed the symbol of ghu- rangingfromloyalandoftenaffec- assovereignwithafour-daypub- lateralrelations.” isters also reiterated their strong and names of Sharad Pawar and of India S A Bobde and Justices R
The CBI had also named the lami. These changes are not lim- tionatetolerancetounbridledhos- licholiday.Butintherun-uptothe Thestatementhadsaidthatin support for ASEAN’s unity and Uddhav Thackeray are being SubhashReddyandBRGavaihad
main accused's son, a juvenile at itedtosymbols.Thesechangesare tility. The monarchy was forced, occasion, the twin themes of fail- the interim, the two sides had centralityandtheirfullsupportfor draggedinunnecessarily.Theplan ruled.TheSupremeCourtalsoor-
the time of the incident, as one a part of the country's founda- more than ever, to justify its exis- ing health and family frictions agreed to maintain the security the 'ASEAN Outlook on the Indo- is to defame regional parties,” dered that petitions on the issue
of the perpetrators of the crime. tions,"hesaid,adding,"IfIndiahad tenceinthefaceof oftenskeptical seemedtoblurtogether. and stability on the ground in the Pacific' which upholds principles NCP'schiefspokespersonMahesh pending before different High
The case against him is pending walked the path shown by Netaji publicattentionandscrutiny. InFebruary,shetestedpositive WesternSectorandtomaintaindi- such as the rule of law, openness, Tapasesaid. Courts be transferred to the five-
beforetheJuvenileJusticeBoard. after the independence, it would Elizabeth, though, remained forthecoronavirusandinMayshe aloguethroughmilitaryanddiplo- freedom,transparencyandinclu- judgebench.
Special Public Prosecutor have been a different story. But determinedly committed to the was forced by what Buckingham maticchannelstoworkoutamu- siveness.” 10% EWS quota The petitions challenge the
Manoj Chaladan said that 21 Indiaforgotitshero.” hallmarkaloofness,formalityand Palacecalled“episodicmobilityis- tuallyacceptableresolutionofthe Underliningthattheministers examine three of the four issues constitutional validity of The
witnesses deposed in the case, The Prime Minister said that pageantrybywhichthemonarchy sues” to cancel an appearance in remainingissuesattheearliest. had a “frank and fruitful” discus- suggested by Attorney General K Constitution (One Hundred and
including two eyewitnesses. thesechanges are notconfinedto has long sought to preserve the Parliamenttodeliveraspeechset- Sources said China had until sion on regional and global issues KVenugopalonthematter. Third Amendment) Act, 2019. By
They were Sonawane's driver symbolsbuthavealsoinfusedthe mystiquethatunderpinneditsex- tingoutthegovernment’slegisla- now not been suggesting work- of mutual interests and concerns, These are “whether the 103rd this, new clause (6) was intro-
and his personal assistant who policiesofthecountry.“Today,the istence. Her courtly and reserved tiveagenda–oneof hermostim- ableproposalsfordisengagement particularly those in the Indo- Constitution amendment can be ducedinArticles15and16.
were with him at the time of the countryhaschangedhundredsof mannerchangedlittle. portantpublicceremonies. atPP15. Pacific as well as Ukraine, it said said to breach the basic structure Article15(6)empowersstates
incident. lawsthathavebeengoingonsince As the coronavirus pandemic It was the first time in almost AtPP17A,Indiantroopspulled theyalsoreaffirmedtheircommit- of the Constitution by permitting to make special provision for ad-
theBritishera.Thetimeanddateof of 2020 spread to Britain, forcing 60 years that she had missed the backtotheirpermanentpostatPP mentswithrespecttoregionaland the State to make special provi- vancementofanyEWSotherthan
theIndianBudget,whichfollowed people to suspend their normal event. She had been absent from 17,rightbehindtheChineseclaim globalsecuritychallenges. sions,includingreservation,based thosementionedinclauses(4)and
EU-India Green thetimesoftheBritishParliament livesandsocialways,thequeenleft it only twice before during her line.TheChinesehavepulledback “We held extensive discus- oneconomiccriteria?...whetherit (5)andtomakeaspecialprovision
forsomanydecades,waschanged. BuckinghamPalaceinLondonfor reignbecauseofpregnancieswith 2kmnortheastofPP17Awiththe sions on ways to enhance mar- can be said to breach the basic ontheiradmissiontoeducational
Hydrogen Forum Through the National Education Windsor Castle, west of the capi- princesAndrewandEdward. condition there would be no pa- itimecooperationincludingmar- structure of the Constitution by institutions — including aided or
Policy,nowtheyouthofthecoun- tal, a move that recalled the Significantly, her eldest son, trollinginthedemilitarisedzone. itimedomainawareness.Thereis permittingtheStatetomakespe- unaided private — other than the
inaugurated try are being liberated from the decades she had spent inspiring Charles,heirtothethrone,readthe consensus on both sides that a cialprovisionsinrelationtoadmis- minority educational institutions
compulsion of foreign language,” genuineaffectionamongBritons. speech on her behalf, with the Japan strong India-Japan relationship is sion to private unaided institu- referred to in clause (1) of Article
Modisaid. ItwastoWindsorthatsheand queen’s bejeweled ceremonial fornationaldefence,includingso- very important for a free, open, tions”and“whetheritcanbesaid 30. This will be in addition to ex-
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE He said Kartavya Path is not heryoungersister,Margaret,were crown–theImperialStateCrown called 'counterstrike capabilities', rule-based and inclusive Indo- tobreachthebasicstructureofthe istingreservationandsubjecttoa
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 8 just a path of bricks and stones, sent to escape the threat of –placednexttohim,asiftoassert theJapanesesideexpresseditsde- Pacific based upon sovereignty Constitution in excluding the maximumof10percentoftheto-
"Whenpeoplecomehere,Netaji's German bombing after the out- hersymbolicpresence. terminationtofundamentallyre- andterritorialintegrityofnations. SEBCs(SociallyandEducationally tal seats in each category. Article
EUROPEAN COMMISSIONER for statue,theNationalWarMemorial break of World War II in 1939. It On September 9, 2015, inforce Japan’s defence capabili- India’s Indo-Pacific Oceans Backward Classes)/OBCs (Other 16(6)empowerstheStatetomake
Energy Kadri Simson and India’s will inspire people.” He added, was from Windsor, too, that she ElizabethsurpassedVictoriaasher tieswithinthenextfiveyearsand Initiative shares many common- BackwardClasses)/SCs(Scheduled anyprovisionforreservationofap-
Minister for Power and “Today, not only the architecture, madeherfirstradiobroadcastasa country’s longest-serving secure substantial increase of alitieswithJapan’sFreeandOpen Castes)/STs (Scheduled Tribes) pointments or posts in favour of
Renewable Energy R K Singh but also the soul of Rajpath has princess in 1940, age 14, ostensi- monarch, and after the death of Japan’sdefencebudgetneededto Indo-Pacific. India has also devel- from the scope of EWS reserva- any EWS other than classes men-
Thursday inaugurated the first changed.Whenministersandof- blydirectedatBritishchildrenwho Thailand’s king on October 13, effect it. Acknowledging Japan’s oped maritime cooperation with tion”. tioned in clause (4), in addition to
EU-IndiaGreenHydrogenForum. ficials walk down Kartavya Path, had been evacuated to North 2016, she became the world’s determination to reinforce its de- regional partners in consonance The Attorney General had the existing reservation and sub-
Commissioner Simson theywillberemindedoftheirduty America,butalsointendedtosway longestreigning. fence capabilities, Indian side ex- with our inclusive vision of draftedfourissuesfortheconsid- jecttoamaximumof10percentof
stressed that the European towardsthenation.” officialthinkinginWashington. So enduring was Elizabeth’s pressed its support to work to- Security andGrowthfor Allinthe eration of the bench. The bench, thepostsineachcategory.
Union would be keen to explore As he entered the Grand “Mysister,MargaretRose,and griponthenation’ssupremeoffice wards enhanced security and Region,”saidSingh. also comprising Justices Dinesh The petitioners have con-
with financingpartners the pos- CanopyCircle,thePMwasgreeted Ifeelsomuchforyou,asweknow that her reign overlapped the defence cooperation,” said the Jaishankarsaidthatintheface Maheshwari,SRavindraBhat,Bela tended that the amendments are
sibility of building a pipeline of with chants of Netaji Subhas fromexperiencewhatitmeansto tenures of 15 British PMs and 14 jointstatementafterthe2+2min- of such challenges, the case for MTrivediandJBPardiwala,which ultra vires as they alter the basic
hydrogenprojectsinIndia,lever- Chandra Bose zindabad and Jai beawayfromthosewelovemost Americanpresidents. isterialmeeting. India and Japan to collaborate perused the matter was of the structureoftheConstitution.They
agingprivatesectorinvestments HindfromtheINAveteransinthe of all,”Elizabethsaidthen. Although her role was largely Without mentioning China’s morecloselyonforeignpolicyand view that the first three issues argue that the amendments run
in innovative technology under crowd. He also inspected the In 2020, too, she sought to ceremonial as a constitutional belligerence in the region, the security has become even werethepertinentones. contrary to the dictum in the ma-
the framework of EU Global Central Vista Avenue Project, equate her plight with that of her monarch without executive statement said: “Acknowledging stronger. “Strengthening our for- “Having considered the mat- jority judgment, in the 1992 case
Gateway initiative. which has 16.5 km of walkways subjects. “Many of us will need to power,hersupportersmaintained thatglobalcooperationisrequired eign policy coordination is essen- ter,inourview,(the)firstthreeis- Indra Sawhney & Ors. V. Union of
TheEUandIndiahavesetam- and canals under bridges, with find new ways of staying in touch thatsheplayedalesstangiblerole morethanevertoaddresssecurity tial to realise the true benefits of sues suggested by the Attorney India, that a backward class can-
bitious programmes and targets lawns beautified on either side, with each other and making sure asthenation’sanchor. NYT challengesthathavebecomemore thesubstantialconvergenceinour Generalaretheissueswhicharise notbedeterminedonlyandexclu-
for wider adoption of green hy- andfountainsrestored, that loved ones are safe,” she said acute, the ministers reaffirmed interests and outlook. They obvi- in the matter. Whatever has been sivelywithreferencetoeconomic
drogen. While India announced After unveiling the Netaji in a statement released after she Ladakh their commitment to a rules- ously concentrate on the Indo- suggestedthroughotherissuesby criterion.
itsNationalHydrogenMissionlast statue and inspecting the re- andherhusband,PrincePhilip,ar- comesdaysaheadof asummitof based global order that respects Pacific but extend to many other the learned counsel are in the na- The petitioners have also
year, the EU launched the vampedlawns,thePMmetwork- rivedatWindsor.“Iamcertainthat the Shanghai Cooperation sovereignty and territorial in- regional, global and multilateral tureofsubmissionsadvancingone pleadedthatthereservationof 10
European Hydrogen Strategy in ers who built the Central Vista we are up to that challenge. You OrganisationinUzbekistan–SCO tegrityofnations,andemphasised platformsaswell.Theexchangeof ofthepropositionsemergingfrom per cent of vacancies, in available
2020. The Russian invasion of Avenueandartisanswhowerein- canbeassuredthatmyfamilyand leaders will be meeting in the need for all countries to seek viewsonthecrucialsituationsfac- the issues suggested by the vacancies/posts,inopencompeti-
Ukraine has accelerated the im- volvedinsculptingtheBosestatue. I stand ready to play our part.” In SamarkandonSeptember15-16. peacefulresolutionof disputes,in ing the international community Attorney General. We, therefore, tiononthebasisofeconomiccrite-
plementation of EU Green Deal He said that these "shramjeevis" 2017,Elizabethcelebratedthe70th Other contentious issues re- accordancewithinternationallaw, today was particularly useful. In shall be proceeding further with rion will exclude all other classes
policies, including on hydrogen. who worked on the Central Vista anniversary of her marriage to latedtotheSino-Indianboundary without resorting to threat or use parallel, there is an ongoing en- thehearingaproposthefirstthree of those above the demarcating
Philip, whom she first met when still remain and Chinese forces offorceoranyattempttounilater- deavortodeepenourdefenceex- issues suggested by the Attorney lineof suchtenpercentseats.
he was a teenager in the 1930s. continuetoblockIndianaccessto allychangethestatusquo.” changes and explore areas for General,” the bench said in its or- Theycontendthatreservation
UntilhisdeathinApril2021,Philip traditional patrolling areas in the “During today’s discussions, practicalcooperation,”hesaid. der. It has fixed September 13 to inunaidedinstitutionsviolatesthe
had settled into an unusual role – DepsangPlainsandChardingNala wenotedtheprogressinthemili- commencehearingargumentsof fundamental right under Article
Yakub Memon
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usuallytwostepsbehindhiswife, regions. tary-to-military cooperation and thedifferentsidesinthematter. 19 (1) (g) of the Constitution. The
providing her with stoic support, The last disengagement be- exchangesbetweenthetwosides. killed many innocent people is a Senior Advocate Gopal State,theysay,cannotinsistonpri-
evenifhisoccasionaltactlesscom- tweentheforcesof thetwocoun- We shared a common desire to seriousmatter.” Sankaranarayanan, who was en- vate educational institutions
ments hurt his image. Despite trieswasatPP17A(GograPost)in further increase the scope and Yakub Memon, convicted in trusted with the task of collating whichreceivenoaidfromittoim-
manyreportsofearlypeccadilloes Augustlastyearfollowingthe12th complexitiesofourbilateralexer- the 1993 serial blasts case, was thequestionssuggestedbythedif- plementthepolicyonreservation
on Philip’s part, their bonds en- Corp Commander level talks. No cises. We have established staff hanged at the Nagpur Central Jail ferentcounsel,toldthebenchthat forgrantingadmissiononanycri-
dured, a throwback to earlier breakthrough could be achieved talks and high-level dialogue be- onJuly30,2015andburiedinBada manyofthemhadraisedthepoint terionexceptmerit.
decadesofmoredurablerelation- thereafterinthenextthreerounds tween all the three services and QabrastaninMumbaiCentral. whethertheamendmentviolated
ships. And his death, their second of talks, but an agreement was theCoastGuard.Iamgladthatwe On Thursday, police removed the basic structure by not provid- Green cover
son, Prince Andrew, said, “left a reachedatthe16thmeeting. havenowagreedonstafftalksbe- lights installed around Memon’s ing for exclusion of creamy layer manypanchayatshaveplantedas

Ayushi hugevoidinherlife.”
SomepredictedthatElizabeth
In April, around the time its
Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited
tween the joint staff of the
Japanese Self Defence Forces and
grave after the video clip did the
rounds.
fromtheEWS.
The AG, however, wondered
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Rank 48 wouldrecedeintotheshadowsaf-
ter Philip’s death, much as Queen
India, China sent a proposal to
Indiaondisengagementoftroops
the Integrated Defence Staff of
India,”saidSingh.
“When we inquired with the
authorities concerned, it came to
“howthatquestion(can)arise”.He
asked “where is the question of
75 micro forests is around Rs 5.3
crore. In other words, the average
Victoria did after the death of her from PP 15 in the Hot Spring area. “Theparticipationof Japanfor lightthatthemarble,surrounding creamylayerwhenwearetalking costperprojectisRs7lakh.Theex-
CSE-2021 husband, Prince Albert. But she
surprisedmanybyreemergingas
The proposal, however, was re-
jectedbyIndiaafterconsideration.
thefirsttimeinthemultilateralex-
erciseMILANandoperationalisa-
the grave, was placed there three
years ago, while the halogen and
ofthepoorestofthepoor”andthat
thequestion“reallydoesnotarise”.
actexpenseinaparticularvillage,
however, depends on the size of
a spry presence in public life, en- According to government tion of the Reciprocal Provision of LED lights were installed in SeniorAdvocatePWilsonsaidthe thelandbeingused.Somevillages,
tertainingworldleadersatasum- sources, China had proposed that SupplyandServicesAgreementin March,”apoliceofficersaid. courtshouldexamineifitviolated forinstance,haveearmarkedonly
Free Seminar mit meeting in Cornwall in June
2021andplayinghosttoBillGates
Indiantroops,whowereinaneye-
ball-to-eyeballconfrontationwith
March this year are milestones in
the progress of defence coopera-
According to the officer, the
“beautification” was probably
the 50 per cent cap placed on
reservationbytheIndraSawhney
abouthalfanacrewhilesomeoth-
ers have dedicated up to 5 acres.
Rohini Tilak Nagar and other businesspeople at theChinesetroopsatPP15,move tion between our forces. We are done by members of the Memon judgement(MandalCommission Theforestsgiveresidentsofthevil-
Windsor Castle after a climate- backtotheirKaramSinghpostbe- happy to note that our Air Forces family. Earlier, BJP MLA Ram case). lagesasenseofbelonging,saidRaj
Saturday 10th Sept. Sunday 11th Sept. changeinvestmentconference. tweenPP16andPP17.Onitspart, are working closely for early con- Kadam tweeted a photograph of Legal scholar G Mohan Gopal Babbar, the sarpanch of Rana vil-
10am to 12pm & 10am to 12pm & Elizabeth’s children seemed China proposed it would with- duct of the inaugural Air Force thegraveandsoughtaction. called it the “ADM Jabalpur of so- lage. "As these forests are being
lessimmunetomaritalcalamity. drawitstroopsjustbehindtheLAC fighterexercise,”hesaid. MumbaiBJPpresidentAshish cialjustice”. raisedbyourvillagers,itgivesusa
4pm to 6pm 4pm to 6pm In 1992, her firstborn son, asclaimedbyIndiainthatregion. “Enhancingthedefenceequip- ShelarcriticisedtheShivSenaun- “We are crossing the Rubicon. senseofbelonging,adesiretopro-
Subjects Offered: PrinceCharles,andhisimmensely
popularwife,Diana,agreedtosep-
This was not acceptable to
Indiaasunderthisproposalwhile
ment and technological coopera-
tion between India and Japan is
derUddhavThackeray.
“How did former CM Uddhav
This is the first time in the history
ofIndiathatprivilegeisbeinggiven
tect and conserve them,” he said.
Babbar is certain that apart from
General Studies Law Political Science History arate,asdidPrinceAndrewandhis Chinese troops would move back oneofourkeypriorityareas.Inour Thackeray grant permission for to forward classes, and to be born providingarichsourceof oxygen,
wife, Sarah Ferguson. Elizabeth’s just behind PP 15, Indian troops meetingtoday,Ihadtheopportu- the beautification of the grave of into an upper caste is a privilege thepresenceof amicroforestwill
s Start
Batche ept. thirdchild,PrincessAnne,divorced would have to leave even PP 16 nity to propose engagements in Yakub Memon,” he asked. He al- andtobebornintoalowercasteis alsohaveapositiveimpactonrain-
26th S her husband, Mark Phillips, the whichisnotundercontention. emerging and critical technologi- legedthatthe“beautification”was a disability… This is the ADM fall.“IthardlyrainsinFazilka;per-
2022 same year. Coupled with a series “Multiple rounds of negotia- caldomains.Ihavealsoinvitedthe allowed by the Sena-controlled Jabalpur of social justice”, he said. haps this can help in bringing
of other upheavals, the queen la- tions have taken place at various Japanese defence companies to Brihanmumbai Municipal In the ADM Jabalpur case, also morerainsaswell,”saidBabbar.
beled1992her“annushorribilis.” levels since then and a mutually look at opportunities in investing Corporation. The Shiv Sena re- knownastheHabeasCorpuscase, The other benefit of this proj-
Butworsewastocome. agreeable formula of disengage- in the Indian defence corridors,” jected the BJP charge. “Why was the SC had in 1976 ruled that the ect is already visible. The work-
In1997,thedeathofDianaina menthasbeenreached,”agovern- hesaid. Yakub Memon not buried in the right to enforce fundamental forcerequiredformakinglakhsof
carcrashinPariswrotesomeofthe mentsourcesaid. Jaishankar flagged the Covid- sealikeOsamabinLaden?Whose rightscanremainsuspendeddur- saplings is coming from MGN-
darkest chapters of Elizabeth’s A‘jointpressrelease’issuedby 19 pandemic and the “ongoing governmentwasitwhenthebody ingEmergency.Therulingcamein REGA.Fazilkahasalwaysseencon-
reign, and for a while the monar- theMinistryofExternalAffairsaf- conflicts”as“newchallenges”and wasburied?Theallegationsmade for much criticismand was even- siderable demand for MGNREGA
Contact for Advt. Booking: M/s Friends Publicity Service chyitself seemedthreatenedbya ter the 16th Corps Commander underscored the need to address todayarefalse.Itisaprivateceme- tually overruled by the Supreme jobs, and this project has helped
(M): 9212665841, 9212008155 huge wave of public support for level talks had said, “Building on them. “We have witnessed in re- tery,”AadityaThackeraysaid.The Court in the 2017 case K S thedistrictcopewiththisdemand
Dianathatleftthequeenseeming the progress made at the last cent times very serious develop- Brihanmumbai Municipal PuttaswamyvsUnionof India. toalargeextent.

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‘Where is criminal activity?’: New scam: ‘Dear customer,
Judge to ED at Jain hearing your electricity bill is unpaid’
uretoaccommodationentries.To Jamtaragang,whichoverseesthe phones used for the scam were
ANANDMOHANJ this, the court said, "Even if they JIGNASA SINHA operations. First, people looking switched off. They were again
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 8 take accommodation entries, NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 8 for SIM cards are scammed and switched on at other locations,
what is the criminal activity? It their details are sent to the gang. with the accused frequently
DURING THE bail hearing of AAP could be, at the most, a person THE DELHI Police’s Cyber Crime Theirpersonaldetailsareusedto changing hideouts. Police said
minister Satyendar Jain, who is withundisclosedincome.Where Unit has arrested 65 persons for create bank accounts to receive theyposedasdecoycustomersin
currently in jail in connection is the criminal activity in this?" allegedly cheating hundreds of the cheated money. The gang Kolkata and got fake SIM cards
with an alleged money launder- The ASG told the court that people under the pretense of thensendsbulkmessagestopeo- made to catch the accused. In 10
ing case, a Delhi judge asked the there was an additional offence paying their electricity bills. The ple, telling them about pending days, raids were held in 22 cities
Enforcement Directorate why it of cheating in this case. accusedwereheldfrom22cities electricity bills,” said an officer. in MP, West Bengal, Jharkhand,
went beyond the CBI case by in- Special Judge Goel said, and 100 bank accounts linked to The message most people get Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Punjab,
vestigating alleged proceeds of "Somebody has been cheated by them were ‘frozen’. Sources said reads: “Dear Consumer, your Gujrat and Bihar, and 65 persons
crime not mentioned in their ED arrested Jain in an SatyendarJain,whoisanaccused they cheated people to the tune electricity will be discontinued were arrested.
chargesheet. It sought an expla- alleged money laundering in your own complaint. Who is of over Rs 1 crore. tonight because your previous The first module is the SIM
nationonwhatthecriminalityin case based on a CBI FIR cheated? The company. Those Police said the syndicate has month's bill was not updated. card vendors – these are retail-
thiscaseis,andremarkedthatthe very same companies have been different modules running from Please click on the following link ers who give out SIM cards to
companies said to be cheated by made an accused in your case." Jamtara in Jharkhand, parts of to pay the bill.” When they click send bulk messages to victims.
the AAP leader were also made is not so sacrosanct.” ASG Raju told the court that WestBengal,Rajasthan, Madhya on the link, they are either di- “They had also bypassed secu-
accused. Asking the ASG how the ED the agency is not bound by the Pradesh and other cities. The rected to a telecaller or to a web- rity features of telecom compa-
The CBI had chargesheeted can attribute a higher amount in figure quoted by the CBI, which Jamtara module, famous for site where their details are taken nies. Duplicate SIM cards were
Jainforallegedlyamassingassets their case, the judge said the CBI may change during the framing cheatingpeoplethroughvarious to make the payment. The tele- being issued without a person’s
to the tune of Rs 1.47 crore in a hadmentionedthesameamount of charges. “It (figure) may techniques, has of late resorted callersoftenposeasBSESofficials knowledge,” said an officer. The
Disproportionate Assets (DA) initschargesheetandwasaware change… to bind me to CBI to using the pretext of unpaid and ask for bank account details. second module is the account
case.Later,theEDattachedprop- of the amount. The judge then amount will be premature." electricity bills. Delhi Police said KPS Malhotra, DCP (Cyber providers and holders. These
ertiesworthRs4.81croreincon- gave an example to illustrate her The judge has asked the ASG over1,000complaintshavebeen CrimeUnit),said,“Thetelecallers people give their bank accounts
nectionwithamoneylaundering point. "I come to a finding that whether the agency could say received across India. also install remote access soft- to the accused to earn quick
probe.TheEDhaswrappedupar- therearenodisproportionateas- that Jain was in control of the ac- Cyber Crime officials said ware. Once the details are money. The accounts are used to
guments in the bail application, setsofRs1.47crore...thencanyou cused companies if he was not a many modules work in tandem shared, the fraudster transfers transfer cheated money.
and Jain's lawyers will rebut ar- pursuethecasefortheremaining shareholder. ASG Raju said, "A –withscamstersposingaslogis- theamountfromthevictim'sac- The third module, mainly
guments raised by the ASG. amount(mentionedbytheED)?” personmaynotbeashareholder ticproviders,telecallers,bankof- count to the fake accounts using basedinRajasthan,arethee-mi-
Pointing to the two different The ASG said, "At this stage, and be in control." ficials, SIM card sellers and e-mi- the remote access software.” tras. Though these people were
figures, Special Judge Geetanjli we can take." "He is actually in control. trapersons.TheCyberCrimeUnit Many complainants ap- initially working to help locals
GoelaskedASGSVRaju,appear- Thejudgefurtherpressedher Shareholding is misleading. A isalsowritingtotheDepartment proached police or filed com- withpayingcreditcardandelec- Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India
ing for the ED, "Can Rs 4.61 crore questions,"How?Onwhatbasis? shrewd operator would have no of Telecommunications since it plaints at National Cybercrime tricity bills, they later came in (A Statutory Body of the Government of India)
be the proceeds of crime when What is the criminal activity in- shareholding.Thestringsarecon- has noticed that the accused use ReportingPortalafterlosingthou- contact with Jamtara gangs and AERA Building, Administrative Complex,
the CBI in its chargesheet has volvedinthat?Whatarethepro- trolled by him… On paper, it duplicate SIM cards without the sands or lakhs from their ac- started misusing their cus- Safdarjung Airport, New Delhi - 110003
mentionedRs1.46crore?Canthe ceedsof crime?CanRs4.61crore couldbethattheshareholdersare knowledge of companies con- counts. A team under DCP tomers’ credit card details to di- Ph: 24695044-47, Fax: 24695048, Website: http://aera.gov.in
amountexceedtheamountmen- be proceeds of crime when 1.47 beneficiaries. But if they are his cerned to steal personal details. Malhotra and four ACPs were vert the cheated money. The
tioned in the DA case?" crore is the predicate offence?" cronies it has to be looked into," “Each module has been as- askedtolookintothemoneytrail. fourth module, the tele callers,
VACANCY NOTICE
To this, ASG Raju said, "Figure Theagencyattributedthefig- Raju told the court. signed a specific task by the They found that most of the are based in different cities. Airports Economic Regulatory Authority, invites
applications from eligible candidates for filling up the posts
of: Director (Legal)- Pay level 13 (01 No.), Under
Boy’s death Secretary (Personnel & Administration)- Pay level 11
(01 No.), Under Secretary (Finance & Accounts)- Pay
inside Nuh level 11 (01 No.), Principal Private Secretary- Pay level
11 (01 no.), Junior Hindi Translator- Pay level 6 (01 no.),

mosque: Receptionist-cum-telephone operator- Pay level 2 (01

no.) in New Delhi on deputation basis. Details are

Autopsy
available on AERA’s website http://aera.gov.in. Last date
for receipt of applications through proper channel is
25.10.2022 till 5:30 pm. Corrigendum/ Addendum, if any,
points to in this regard would be published only on AERA’s website.
Note:- The vacancies are liable to change without notice.
blunt trauma davp 03112/12/0002/2223 Deputy Chief, AERA

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GURGAON, SEPTEMBER 8

THREE DAYS after the decom-

posedbodyofan11-year-oldboy,
partially covered in sand, was
found in a room inside a mosque
in Nuh, police said the post-
mortem had found that the boy
hadsufferedabluntinjuryonthe
backofheadandafracturednose.
Police said swabs and viscera
samples from the body and pri-
vate parts have been sent to the
laboratory for forensic examina-
tion. A police officer, said, “The
post-mortem report is awaited.
Asperapreliminaryexamination
of the autopsy, it has been found
that the victim had one blunt in-
jury on the back of his head and
his nose was fractured. Since the
bodywasdecomposed,theswab
sampleshavebeensentforforen-
sic analysis.”
Police said no arrest has been
madesofarinthecase.“Wehave
questioned more than 30 people
and have got some leads.”
Police said the boy, who had
been studying at a madrasa in
Nuh for over a year, had gone
missingfromthereonSeptember
3 evening. On September 5,
around 11 am, his body was
found from a room in a mosque
onthepremises.Policeregistered
a case of murder against uniden-
tified persons.
The boy’s family had told The
Indian Express on Tuesday, “We
haveamadrasainourvillagetoo,
but we had sent him to the
madrasaatadargahseveralkilo-
metresfromhere,sinceithasbet-
terfacilitiesandabetterenviron-
ment. The madrasa here has 100
studentswhostudyinacramped
place,” his uncle had said.

BRIEFLY
Petpitbull
maulschild
Ghaziabad: A 10-year-old
childwasmauledintheface
byapitbullinGhaziabadon
September 3, said police,
addingthattheownerofthe
dog was taking it for a walk
in a park when it escaped
and attacked the child.The
ownerhasbeenfined,police
said.

Manheldfor
cheatingover
150people
New Delhi: The director of a
realestatefirmwasarrested
from Chandigarh for al-
legedly cheating over 150
persons of crores by luring
them to invest in apart-
ments at a high riser. ENS

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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2022 VACCINATIONS IN DELHI TOTAL Total Vacant NOIDA
LAST 24 HOURS CASES HOSPITAL BEDS 9,391 9,287 Sep 7 Sep 8

22,811 20,01,309 ICU BEDS 2,145 2,117 Cases N/A N/A

Cases Recoveries Deaths Tests Deaths N/A N/A
PATIENTSINHOSPITAL: 105
CORONAVIRUS OXYGEN SUPPORT 24
Sep 7
Sep 8
177
182
260
255
2
3
13,004
13,309
GURGAON
IN THE CAPITAL VENTILATOR SUPPORT 1 Cases 50 52
Total 860* 19,73,962 26,487 4,00,42,640
*Total active cases in Delhi Deaths 0 0

CENTRAL VISTA AVENUE INAUGURATED

Meet the shramjeevis, highlighted in PM’s speech

At the inauguration, workers at the Four-day
site who were acknowledged by
Modi say ‘were making history’ ‘cultural
ABHINAYA HARIGOVIND
festival’
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 8
kicked off
AMONG THOSE who met Prime
Minister Narendra Modi at the ABHINAYAHARIGOVIND
Central Vista Avenue inaugura- NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 8
tion on Thursday was Neeraj
Kumar from Bhagalpur, Bihar, DANCERS AND musicians from
who worked on the avenue. differentstatesperformedaspart
Kumar, 25, said, “I have been of theculturaleventthatmarked
working at this site from Modimetagroupof workers theinaugurationoftherevamped
February 10, 2021, onwards. I including gardeners, Central Vista avenue.
work as a helper, which means electricians andmasons The performance was held at
that whatever work needs to be one of the stepped plazas that
doneIdo,whetherit’sworkwith have been set up near the India
concrete or something else. I felt new Parliament building. Gate as part of the redeveloped
good about working in a place For the workers who set up avenue. The performance was
that is historic. I have worked on the Subhas Chandra Bose statue soon after Prime Minister
other sites as well. This felt good. under the canopy near India Narendra Modi unveiled the
Withtheinaugurationtoday, we Gate, work lasted for over a statueof SubhasChandraBoseat
were free. It was closed earlier week. “It took around eight days the canopy near the India Gate.
and now the public can come in, to put it up. We started working Pratyash Nair, 34, was part of
walk around… our work will on September 1. There was a the panchavadyam and chen-
continue. It felt like I was mak- metal frame and the statue was damelam,musicalperformances
ing history working here.” placed within that. There were from Kerala, that punctuated the
Modi met a group of workers around 70 to 80 people working Prime Minister’s walk down the
who had worked at the site, in- on putting it up. The statue ar- Rajpathafterunveilingthestatue.
cluding gardeners, masons and rived here in a big vehicle, and it “There were 18 of us, nine for the
electricians. was completely covered,” said panchavadyam and nine for the
VasudevKumar,fromKatihar Sharik, from Rampur, Uttar chendamelam.Wearepartofthe
in Bihar, said he had been work- Pradesh. Paintings depicting Delhi Panchavadyam Trust,
ing at the site for about a year. “I Bose and his life are on the walls which is a charitable trust. It was
was working with the concrete that surround the canopy that a great pleasure to perform
and the cleaning. The Prime now houses the statue. here…in terms of the protocol,
Minister said that he was happy Speakingattheinauguration, the coordination. Earlier, the av-
about meeting us. We were sim- Modi acknowledged those who enue was not very clean. Now, it
ilarlyhappyaboutmeetinghim,” worked on the project, “On this looksclassyandelegant.Thearea
Kumar said. occasion, I would like to thank is clean, the gardens are good,”
Workers who are part of the the workers on behalf of the na- Nair said.
larger Central Vista project were tion. I met the workers today. I A total of 15 Karagam (a folk
also at the inauguration. Around have toldthemthat this time,on dance from Tamil Nadu) dancers
10to15peoplewhoareworking January 26, those who worked had arrived from Trichy, said
on the new Parliament building here along with their families, (From left) Arjun Ram Elavalagan, 31, one of the per-
attended the event, said Mohan will be my special guests.” Meghwal, Hardeep Singh formers. “Dancers from all states
Lal, 21. “I have been working on “Aftertheconstructionof the Puri, G Kishan Reddy, and mingledinsynchronywhileper-
the Parliament building site for new Parliament building, those Meenakshi Lekhi on the dais forming on stage for the Prime
aroundoneandahalf yearsnow. who worked on it will be given with the PM; Actor Kangana Minister. There were dancers
Work is progressing very fast. space in a special gallery. This Ranaut was also present. fromsevenstates,30performers.
We came here to watch the in- gallery will remind future gen- Tashi Tobgyal Wehavebeenpractisingforthree
auguration and got to see the erations that on the foundations days.Theavenueisniceanditwas
Prime Minister for the first time. of democracy on one side there very exciting to be here,” he said.

We are going to write history of country’s

I have seen the avenue before is the Constitution and on the Some of the dancers performed
also. We would come here other side there is the contribu- later. “Manyperformerscameto-
sometimes while the work was tion of the labour force. This is gether, and we were happy to be
happening,”saidMohalLal,who the inspiration that the Kartavya part of it. This was the first time

growth: Puri calls the project transformational

is from Barmer, Rajasthan,and is Path will also give the people of we were seeing the Prime
working on the interiors of the the country,” Modi said. Minister,” said Venkat, 33, from
Trichy, who was also among the
Karagamperformers.Afterthein-
always draw inspiration on sculpted using traditional tech- Unity in Diversity, a cultural fes- would be projected at IndiaGate auguration event, performances
DIVYA A deshbhakti (patriotism) from it. niques and modern tools. The tival by 500 dancers drawn from at 8 pm on September 9-11, continued at a smaller stage that
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 8 Besides Puri, Union Minister team of sculptors for executing all parts of the country, was 2022. Both the cultural festival wassetuponRajpathclosetoRafi
of Tourism G Kishan Reddy, the statue was led by Arun showcased. The glimpse of the and the drone show would be Ahmed Marg.
“AFTERINDEPENDENCE,atrans- Ministers of State for Culture, Yogiraj. same was shown to the Prime open to public with free entry. Sumit, from Sambalpur,
formational project of the coun- Arjun Ram Meghwal and The statue has been installed Minister on the step Over the years, Rajpath and Odisha, said, “We performed a
try is being done under Prime Meenakshi Lekhi, MoS, Housing in the same place where a holo- AmphitheatrenearIndiaGateby adjoining areas of the Central Sambalpuri dance that is called
Minister Narendra Modi's lead- and Urban Affairs, Kaushal gram statue of Netaji was un- around 30 artists who per- Vista Avenue had been witness- Dalkhai. There were nine of us
ership for the first time. A proj- Kishore,werepresentonthedais veiled earlier this year on formedtribalfolk-artformssuch ing pressure of increasing traffic whoperformedbeforethePrime
ect that no other government alongside the PM. Parakram Diwas (January 23) by as Sambalpuri, Panthi, Kalbelia, of visitors, putting stress on its Minister. This was a historic mo-
had imagined is being devel- The jet-black granite statue the PM to mark the 125th birth Kargam and Drums. infrastructure. It lacked basic ment and we were happy to be a
oped,” Union Minister for of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, anniversary of Netaji. Mangalgaan penned by amenities like public toilets, part of this inauguration.”
Housing and Urban Affairs which was unveiled by the The Prime Minister’s arrival Padma Bhushan Pt. Shrikrishna drinking water, street furniture The‘culturalfestival’attheav-
Hardeep Singh Puri said during Prime Minister at the event, atthecanopyfortheunveilingof Ratanjankarji on the occasion of andadequateparkingspace,said enue, which will continue from
the inaugural event of the measures28ft. andisplacedun- the statueof Netajiwasheralded 1stIndependenceDayof Indiain PMO in a statement. There was September 9 to 11, will be one of
Kartavya Path in Delhi on der theGrandCanopy nearIndia with traditional Manipuri 1947 was presented by Pt. Suhas inadequate signage, poor main- the things that visitors to the re-
Thursday. Gate.Thestatuehas beencarved Shankh Vadayam and Kerala’s Vashi along with a team of tenance of water features and vamped avenue will get to see.
Headded,“TheKartavyaPath from a monolithic block of gran- traditional Panch Vadayam and singers and musicians. haphazard parking. Also, a need The 2-km stretch from
is the heart of the national capi- ite weighing 280 MT. After Chanda. The unveiling of the The festival commenced at was felt to organise the Republic Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate
tal.Wearegoingtowritethehis- 26,000 man hours of intense statue was accompanied by the 08.45pmafterthemainfunction Day parade and other National wasilluminatedonThursday.The
The jet-black granite statue of Subhas Chandra Bose, which tory of India's growth story." He artistic endeavour, the granite tune of Kadam Kadam Badhaye and will also continue till events less disruptively with fountains that are part of the
was unveiled by the PM at the event, measures 28 ft. and is alsoremarkedthat theunveiling monolith was chiseled to pro- jaa, the traditional INA song. September 11, 2022, from 7 pm minimal restrictions on public canals that lie alongside Rajpath
placed under the Grand Canopy near India Gate. Tashi Tobgyal of the Subhas Chandra Bose duce a statue weighing 65 MT. To demonstrate the spirit of to 9 pm. A special 10-minute movement, the ministry state- were decked up in lights in the
statue is symbolic in that wewill The statue is completely hand Ek Bharat – Shrestra Bharat and drone show on Netaji’s life ment said. colours of the Indian flag.

Fashion designer, IIM dropouts Indo-Pak Rooh Afza battle: HC directs Amazon to
among seven arrested for take down listing of products not by Hamdard
procuring drugs on dark net EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 8
morethanacenturynow,andits
qualitystandardshavetocomply
with the applicable regulations
Rooh Afza was first intro-
duced by Hakim Hafiz Abdul
Majeed in Delhi, but following
ings were removed after it sent
noticestothesellersandAmazon
India,thecourtwastold,thecom-
“Thus, any consumer or user
on the platform is likely to con-
fuse the ‘ROOH AFZA’ product
patches and MDMA drugs Branch),said,“Thegangsinvolved prescribedbytheFoodSafetyand Partition, his elder son moved to panyrecentlyfoundaselleroffer- originating from Hamdard
EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE (Ecstasy),” said a source. revealedthattheyropeinyoung- THE DELHI High Court has di- Standards Act and Legal India and the younger one to ing‘RoohAfza’bottleswhichhave Laboratories (Waqf), Pakistan as
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 8 The students were later em- stersastheirprimaryconsumers. rectedAmazontoremovethelist- MetrologyAct.Itissurprisingthat Pakistan. While Hamdard been manufactured in Pakistan. being connected or originating
ployedtoselldrugsatdifferentin- Students are first trapped into ings of Pakistan-manufactured animportedproductisbeingsold NationalFoundationownsrights The same does not comply with from the Plaintiffs..,” said the
THE DELHI Police Crime Branch stitutes, hotels and parties. In drug addiction at their college Rooh Afza from its platform in on Amazon without complete over the drink in India, Hamdard the legal requirements in India, court. The bench said since
arrestedsevenpersons,including threedifferentoperations,police campus and then they are lured India after the famed drink’s detailsofthemanufacturerbeing Laboratories (Waqf) manufac- the court was told. Amazonclaimstobeaninterme-
an IIM dropout and a fashion de- seizedmorethan28LSDblotting into selling the same to others to Indian manufacturer, Hamdard disclosed, it said. “The listings of tures it in Pakistan. The court in the order dated diary, it has an obligation to dis-
signer, for allegedly smuggling papers, 12.6 grams of MDMA, 84 meettheirfinancialrequirements National Foundation, filed a suit infringing‘ROOHAFZA’products Inthesuit,HamdardNational September5saidwhenoneclicks close names of sellers and their
drugs with the help of the dark grams of curated marijuana and of tending to their addiction.” alleging that the products of its on the website www.amazon.in Foundation and Hamdard on the link ‘Visit the Hamdard contact details, with the product
net. Police said the accused used 220 grams of hashish. The ac- In the first operation, a 22- Pakistani counterpart are being notoriginatingfromthePlaintiffs LaboratoriesIndiasubmittedthat Store’, which is provided next to listings. It has also directed
differentinternetcallingappsand cusedusedthedarknettoaccess year-old MBA student was ar- sold in India through the e-com- (Hamdard National Foundation) itownsrightsover‘Hamdard’and theproductlistingof GoldenLeaf Amazon to file an affidavit clari-
app-based delivery services for websiteswheretheywouldcon- restedfromWazirabadRoadwith merce site. shall be removed within 48 ‘Rooh Afza’ marks, but lastyear it — the seller of imported Rooh fying whether such details are
their clients to place orders and tactdrugdealersfromRussiaand curatedmarijuana. Hisdrugsup- The court said ‘Rooh Afza’ is a hours,” said Justice Prathiba M noticedvariousentitiesweresell- AfzaonAmazon,theconsumeris mentioned on the Rooh Afza
receive consignments. Canada and ask them to supply plier was arrested from product which has been con- Singh in an order released ing ‘Rooh Afza’ products on taken to the webpage of product listings, invoices and
The team is now looking for MDMA and marijuana to India. Chattarpur. They used VPN to sumed by the Indian public for Wednesday. Amazon. While some of the list- Hamdard Laboratories India. product labels.
another IIM dropout who is part Police said the drugs are smug- hide their activities online.

Repairing power line, man electrocuted in Noida

of the syndicate. Sources said gled through courier services or Inthe secondoperation,a28-
most of the accused met each through porous borders. year-oldIIMdropoutwasarrested
other on social media through Toattractacustomerbase,the fromKirtiNagar.Hesaidhedidhis
friends and in different groups. accusedusedapp-baseddelivery BTech but couldn’t study further
“They started using drugs services to deliver drugs. Sources duetodrugabuse.Hehascontacts On Thursday afternoon, leading to his death,” said Mohd. on was switched on suddenly. the power supply was turned on
while in college and had to drop saidasmallcommissionwaspaid in South Delhi and Gurgaon KINJALGARG Mohd.JumratiAnsariwasrepair- Shabbir, Jumrati’s nephew. Jumrati was taken to the emer- when Jumrati was still working.
out because they couldn’t study to delivery executives. The ac- where he supplied drugs at par- NOIDA, SEPTEMBER 8 ing electricity lines in the area, “There is no complaint at gency ward at Kailash Hospital OriginallyfromBihar,Jumrati
and sustain themselves finan- cusedwouldpackdrugswithfood ties.“Wefoundafashiondesigner, andthepowersupplyontheline present. if it is filed, we will take but succumbed to injuries. He is had been working as a lineman
cially.Oncetheyhadenoughcon- ormedicineorderstoevadesuspi- involvedinthegangandarrested A LINEMAN with the Noida was shut. “Another lineman told action,” said additional DCP survived by his wife and six chil- forthepastfiveyearsandwasthe
tacts,theystarteddealingindrugs cion. The men were using inter- him from Gurgaon,” said Power Company Limited (NPCL) us that the power on the line he Noida, Ashutosh Dwivedi. dren. solebreadwinnerofhisfamily.He
on their own to earn quick net calling apps and private mes- Malhotra. He was caught with waselectrocutedwhilerepairing wasfixingwasshut.Itwasonthe Ansari said he went to the An NCPL official said on con- lived in Sector 9, Noida with his
money. They would encourage saging apps to communicate. MDMA and was buying from the powerlinesinSector10,Noidaon secondline.Somehow,thelinehe NPCL office and learnt that the dition of anonymity that they family. A post-mortem will be
school boys and girls to use LSD KPS Malhotra, DCP (Crime dealers regularly. Thursday. was working on became live, line that his uncle was working were looking into how and why conducted on Friday.

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TERRITORY OF DELHI
DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF HEALTH SERVICES
SWASTHYA SEWA NIDESHALAYA BHAWAN
F-17 KARKARDOOMA, DELHI:110032
INAUGURATION OF KARTAVYA PATH PUBLIC NOTICE
The general public is hereby informed that the list of functional

Cong: PM wants nursing homes in NCT of Delhi registered under Delhi Nursing
Homes Registration Act, 1953 containing the name & address
of the nursing home; approved bed strength; registration

to divert attention
number and the date upto which the registration is/was valid is
available on Delhi Government Website and can be viewed on
the following links:

from issues like

1. http://health.delhigovt.nic.in/wps/wcm/connect/DoIT_
Health/health/our+services/Iist+of+registered+private+nursi
ng+homes+or+ hospitals+in+delhi

jobs and price rise

2. h t t p : / / h e a l t h . d e l h i g o v t . n i c . i n / w p s / w c m / c o n n e c t /
45d17b80483ffe3a943a9ea64b8e2271/A.pdf?MOD=AJPE
RES&lmod=-834199456&CACHEID=45d17b80483ffe3a9
43a9ea64b8e2271
attention from issues like unem-
EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE ployment,economicmismanage- Sd/-DIRECTOR GENERAL OF HEALTH SERVICES
NEWDELHI,SEPTEMBER8 mentandpricerisethroughsuch DIP/SHABDARTH/0322/22-23
events,” he said.
HOURS AFTER Prime Minister On unveiling of the statue of
Narendra Modi unveiled the Netaji, he said, “Netaji was the
statue of Subhas Chandra Bose presidentof theCongress...Atthe
and inaugurated the Kartavya inaugurationofthestatueofsuch
Path, the Congress hit out at the agreatfreedomfighter,alltheMPs
government, accusing it of not and Opposition leaders should
invitingOppositionleaderstothe have been invited....”
event and alleging that such Congress leader in Lok Sabha
eventsarebeingorganisedonlyto AdhirRanjanChowdhurysaidhe
divert attention from critical is- was not aware of any invitation
sues of governance. fromthegovernmentashewasin
“Leave aside inviting the Kanyakumaritoattendthelaunch
Opposition... we don’t expect oftheCongressBharatJodoYatra.
them to invite... but what has he “Butletmetellyousomething.
inaugurated? It is an old road. He There was so much stress on the
expanded and beautified it. It is duties of the citizens in the last
notanewacquisitionoflandoran Presidential address. But what
expanded road. Redoing a foot- about the rights of the citizens?
path and doing some beautifica- Whyishe(Modi)silentonthefun-
tion...givingitanewnameandthe damental rights of the citizens?
PrimeMinisterhimselfinaugurat- Whytalkonlyaboutdutiesandnot
ing it... for small things like this... I rights.DoestheModigovernment
can’t understand what was the implement in letter and spirit the
need for it,” Leader of Opposition fundamentalrightsguaranteedto
inRajyaSabhaMallikarjunKharge the citizens in the Constitution.
told The Indian Express. Theykeeptalkingaboutduties...in
“This road is part of Central the near future... there is a possi-
Vistaproject.Thenwhyaseparate bility that they will say it is your
inaugurationfunction.Ifyoucon- duty to send a person from every
struct a new building would you familytotheArmyforthecountry.
inaugurate a door, a window, a Give your land and wealth for the
bedroomseparately.Becauseyou sake of the country….,” he said.
(Modi)wanttocreatenewsevery “Theydon’ttalkaboutfundamen-
two months... so just to create tal rights... but only about duties.
news... at the cost of public ex- RememberHitlerandMussolini...
chequer... holding a big function theyalsousedtochanttheslogan
like this. Is it some big develop- of dutiesandthensnatchedaway
ment project? Create something the rights of the people. So is
new and then take credit. thereanimpureintentionbehind
Renaming a road and holding a this constant talk about duties...
big function like this. It is not ex- They could have renamed
pected of the Prime Minister.” Rajpath as Adhikarpath…why
“Hebasicallywantedtodivert KartavyaPath.”

FIRST SINCE CJI TOOK OATH

SC collegium discusses
judges’ appointment,
meeting lasts 4 hours
APURVAVISHWANATH
NEWDELHISEPTEMBER8 CJIUULalit
tookoath on
ATITSfirstmeeting,theSupreme August27
Court collegium headed by Chief
Justice of India U U Lalit spent
more than four hours discussing Court advocates Sakya Sen and
severalkeyissuesconcerningap- Amitesh Banerjee.
pointment of judges, the Indian First recommended in
Express has learnt. October2019,Naik’snamewasre-
Reconstituted after CJI Lalit iteratedbycollegiumonMarch2,
took oath on August 27, the 3- 2021 and then again on
membercollegium,whichmakes September 1, 2021. Sen was first
recommendations for appoint- recommended in July 2019 and
ment of High Court judges, also his name was reiterated in
comprises Justices DY October 2021. Banerjee’s name
Chandrachud and Sanjay Kishan was recommended in July 2019
Kaul.The collegium, sources said, andreiteratedinSeptember2021.
met on September 7 and cleared Sourcessaidthefive-member
recommendationsforseveralHCs collegium is likely to meet next
and is likely to send it to the gov- week to consider recommenda-
ernment this week. tionsforSCjudges.ApartfromCJI
It is learnt that the collegium Lalit, Justices Chandrachud and
discussed earlier recommenda- Kaul, this 5-member collegium
tions pending with the govern- also comprises Justices Indira
mentinthemeetingthatwenton Banerjee and Abdul Nazeer.
from 5pm to almost 9pm. Currently,theSChas30judges
Atleast10recommendations, including the CJI against a sanc-
reiterated by the collegium, are tioned strength of 34. Three
currently pending with the gov- judges are set to retire this year:
ernment. These include JusticeBanerjeeonSeptember23;
Karnataka High Court advocate JusticeHemantGuptaonOctober
RamachandraNaik,CalcuttaHigh 16 and CJI Lalit on November 8.

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‘TOGETHER, WE WILL DEFEAT BJP’ India becoming 5th

Mamata makes Opp unity pitch: largest economy an
Nitish, Soren, Akhilesh, Tejashwi
DELHI CONFIDENTIAL
impetus to work for
No invite from
larger goals: PM
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
KOLKATA, SEPTEMBER 8
Centre, Bengal EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
AMID POSTURING by different
leaders for the main Opposition
excluded from SURAT, SEPTEMBER 8

space,WestBengalChief Minister
Mamata Banerjee Thursday said
Hasina visit: CM INDIA BECOMING the world’s
fifth largest economy has given
her Bihar and Jharkhand counter- the country an impetus to fulfil
parts Nitish Kumar and Hemant EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE andworktowardsbiggerresolu-
Soren, apart from the Samajwadi KOLKATA, SEPTEMBER 8 tions, said Prime Minister
Party's Akhilesh Yadav, the RJD's Narendra Modi Thursday.
HELPING HAND TejashwiYadavandotherleaders,
wouldjointheTrinamoolCongress
WEST BENGAL Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee has criticised
“Recently, India has become
the fifth largest economy in the The PM virtually addresses
WITH THE government set to launch a scheme letting com- toousttheBJPfrompowerin2024. Mamata Banerjee with other TMC leaders in Kolkata. Partha Paul the Centre for not inviting her to world.Thisachievementgaveus the event in Surat. Hanif Malek
munity members “adopt” TB patients and provide them nu- Addressing a party pro- be a part of the ongoing visit of confidence to work even harder
tritional support every month, Union Health Minister gramme here, the TMC chief Bangladesh Prime Minister and achieve bigger goals in this
Mansukh Mandaviya will adopt 15 of 98 patients who have said: “I, Nitish Kumar, Hemant day trip to Delhi, where he met to me the day before yesterday Sheikh Hasina to New Delhi. Amrit Kaal. This progress is not a better future. In the past two
consented to be a part of the programme from his hometown Sorenandmanyotherswillcome several leaders in his bid for (Tuesday). He said to me that you “Ineversawthat.Bangladesh ordinary. Every Indian is feeling decades, the number of medical
— Palitana block of Bhavnagar district in Gujarat. The block together in 2024. All Opposition Opposition unity, including the shouldbepresentthere.Hewrote Prime Minister came to India, proudaboutit.Weneedtomain- colleges in Gujarat has increased
has 185 TB patients. Designed for community engagement, parties will join hands to defeat Congress. Before that, Telangana tomeasifIwerehisservant.They and Bengal was excluded from tain this enthusiasm,” the PM from 11 colleges to 31,” he said.
the government is looking for people to adopt these patients the BJP. All of us will be on one Rashtra Samithi leader K donothavebasiccourtesy.” that,” said Banerjee addressing a said while virtually addressing Further,headvisedthedoctorsof
and form a connection with them along with providing a nu- sideandtheBJPontheother.The ChandrashekarRaohadtravelled The CM said she decided special session of the TMC. beneficiaries of various govern- themegamedicalcamptospread
trition basket every month. State-, district-, and block-level BJP's arrogance of 300 seats will to Patna seeking Nitish's support against travelling to Delhi and Claiming she “shares a very mentschemesandthosepresent awarenessabouttheimportance
information of the number of persons will be available on the be its nemesis. There will be forasimilarfront.OnWednesday, went to Netaji's statue early good relationship with Hasina”, at a mega medical camp organ- of nutritiousfoodandchangesto
government’s Ni-kshay dashboard. ‘Khela Hobe’ in 2024.” AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal Thursday and paid him her trib- Banerjee said, “She (Hasina) ised in the Olpad area of Surat. lifestyle. “When society and the
BeforeBanerjeespoke,allthe launched his 'Make India No. 1' utesthere.Later,shewroteinher used to send me Hilsa, mangoes The PM praised Surat for its government work as a unit, then
leaders of the TMC, including national campaign from Hisar. Facebook account, "He (Netaji) and other things. I also send her unity and the way it was “tested success is within everyone's
ON OVERDRIVE Sudip Banerjee, Abhishek
BanerjeeandKalyanBanerjee,in
Speaking at the party meet-
ing,BanerjeecriticisedtheCentre
lives in our hearts and continues
toinspireus,daily.Todayisavery
gifts every year.”
“Hasinajiwantedtomeetme
by floods and the pandemic”.
“Together we united to
reach,"Modisaid.Referringtothe
"double engine sarkar" while in-
SINCE JUSTICE UU Lalit took over as the CJI on August 27, the their speeches said the and Prime Minister Narendra special day as all my leaders, and had expressed her desire to thwart the attempts to launch a teracting with one beneficiary
Supreme Court has been on an overdrive, listing and hearing Opposition parties can fight Modioveritsvariouspolicies,say- party workers and members of Central Government officials. I malicious campaign against from Olpad Kanchanben Patel,
more cases than it did in the last few years. The cause list — a against the BJP only under the ing: "They increased unemploy- the West Bengal Trinamool amgratefultoher,”saidBanerjee. Surat in the name of the pan- Modi said " both Narendra and
list of cases to be heard by the court — is now constantly up- leadership of Mamata Banerjee. ment, fuel prices. We are yet to CongresscametogetheratNetaji “I do not want to talk about demic,” said Modi. Bhupendra are at your service".
dated every evening. Some cases are listed for hearing very The TMC chief said: "They seethebullettrainbutwearesee- IndoorStadiumforanimportant external affairs issues or bilateral Remembering the late union “Gujaratisamongthetopinin
late in the evening, with little time to prepare — not just for (the BJP) always say that they ing their lies spread at the speed session. I thank all my brothers ties. But I have seen and did not minister Kashiram Rana and the theinstitutionaldeliverysector.It
lawyers but also the judges. Case files are then packed and have 300 seats. They should re- of the bullet train. They sell the and sisters of the Trinamool know why the Central late state minister Hemant hadstartedfinancialhelpof upto
sent by the registry to judges after listing, sometimes even at member that Rajiv Gandhi had country.ThePrimeMinisterdoes Congress family for your tireless Government is trying to stop me Chapatwala, and former Rajya Rs 2 lakh for medical treatment,
10.30 pm. While requests for adjournments are mostly de- 400 seats but lost in the next Mann ki Baat. It will be Mann ki fight against autocracy." wheneverIgetaninvitationfrom SabhaMPPravinNaik,Modisaid whichwasnotlimitedtothepoor
nied,judgesareaccommodatingadvocatesinsomecases,giv- election. The BJP will also lose. byatha (pain) very soon." Banerjeeexhortedpartylead- any foreign country. Why this he had the opportunity to work but includes the middle-class.
ing themselves and the lawyers time to prepare. They will lose 100 seats in these She claimed that the Centre ers to continue “to fight every angeragainstme?Igotaninvita- with such “countless people for Today, under the Ayushman
states. There are other parties in had sent her an invitation for the hate-ridden campaign, shameful tionfromChicagobuttheCentral 30-40 years”. Bharatscheme,whichwasimple-
other parts of the country. Soon unveiling of the statue of Netaji propaganda, and to raise voice Government refused to give per- The prime minister also said mented across the country, over
they will also come with us.” SubhasChandraBasuatIndiaGate against the atrocities that the BJP mission for that tour. I want to thathealthisanimportantfactor 4 crore patients have got free
Banerjee's remarks came in on Tuesday at the last moment. government inflicts on our peo- knowwhatthegovernmentisso for the progress of the nation. medical treatment. Over 30 lakh
thewakeofNitishKumar'sthree- "Anundersecretarywrotealetter ple”. “It's now or never," she said. worried about,” she said. “Betterhealthshowsthepathfor ofsuchpatientsarefromGujarat.”

Rahul begins Bharat Jodo Yatra, rich NOTES FROM THE ROAD

in symbolism and high on energy

First break on Day 1 comes at school visited by the Mahtama, Rajagopalachari
Yadav was seen walking with
MANOJ C G civil society representatives.
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, with Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann SUCHINDRAM (NAGERCOIL), The much-discussed sleep-
and former MP Ashok Tanwar, at Adampur on Thursday. PTI SEPTEMBER 8 over of the yatris in 60 container
cabins mounted on trucks adds
IT WAS around 10 am on tothesymbolism.Thecontainers
AHEAD OF BYPOLLS Thursday. Waiting outside have beds ranging from 2 to 12.

Adampur gateway
SMSM Higher Secondary School Rahul and senior party leaders
in this temple town, located be- such as K C Venugopal, Digvijaya
tween Kanyakumari and Singh and Jairam Ramesh stayed
Yatra participants unwind after Day 1. @Jairam_Ramesh

to Haryana, give us
Nagercoil, was a teenager, the night in the containers.
Fathima, with her father. They IftheCongresswantedtocre-
had come to see Congress leader ate a buzz around the yatra and
Rahul Gandhi who, along with energise local party units en Farming A Frame Congress veteran from Tamil

a chance: Kejriwal party workers from across the

country, took the first break on
Day One of his cross-country
route, the participation on Day
One has perhaps warmed party
leaders' hearts. But it is still early
Photographsof RahulGandhi
— new and old, and in different
looks — dotted the road leading
Nadu, on the back. In fact, huge
cutouts of Kamaraj, who headed
the party in the 1960s, could be
has it gone? Make AAP victori- Bharat Jodo Yatra at the school. days.KanyakumariandNagercoil, from Kanyakumari to Nagercoil seen at the rally venue and at
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE ous this time, it will have a name Rahul had already walked 13 for instance, are traditional as the Congress's Bharat Jodo someplacesenroute,alongwith
CHANDIGARH, SEPTEMBER 8 in the entire country. Adampur km from Kanyakumari on Congress strongholds. Three of Yatra passed through. But one hoardingsfeaturingSoniaGandhi
is a gate, and with this gate, the Thursday. Fathima and her fa- five MLAs from the district are hoarding stood out: this one and Rahul Gandhi's images.
STATING THAT Adampur is the AAP will form government in ther, who live in Nagercoil, be- from the Congress. The local MP showed Rahul holding a plough,
gatewaythroughwhichtheAam Haryana in 2024,” Kejriwal said, lieve the yatra carries a noble — businessman Vijay Vasanth — farmer-style. Clearly photo- Veteran Leads The Way
AadmiPartywillformitsgovern- citing how the AAP could win message. Among hundreds of is also from Congress. The party shopped, the image caught StateCongressleaderKumari
ment in Haryana in 2024, Delhi only one parliamentary seat Congress workers milling out- has 18 MLAs in Tamil Nadu. everyone’s attention. Ananthan, 89, who belongs to
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal fromPunjabin2019butwenton sidetheschoolwasArulPandian, Sitting under a tree at the the K Kamaraj era, unfurled the
Thursdayurgedtheelectoratein to form its government in the who runs an electric shop in schoolandlookingrelaxed,yatra Trailing, Not Failing national flag before the yatra
the Assembly constituency, state in 2022. Nagercoil; there was Sarfaraz coordinatorsJairamRameshand A political yatra cannot be started on Thursday. Ananthan,
where bypolls are likely within TheAdampurseatfellvacant Qazi,whorunsanentrepreneur- Digvijaya Singh said it has begun likened to a military-style pa- uncleof KanyakumariLokSabha
nextfewmonths,togivehimand after Kuldeep Bishnoi, who quit ial development programme in on a positive note. “Between rade. It is bound to be chaotic. MP Vijay Vasanth, Ananthan has
his outfit a chance. Congress to join the ruling BJP, Osmanabad, Maharashtra. Rahul Gandhi marches with Congress workers in Tamil 3,000and4,000peopletookpart Day One of the Congress's yatra, an interesting past so far as pa-
"After two years, (Assembly) resignedfromtheVidhanSabha. Qazisaidhehastakenabreak Nadu’s Kanyakumari on Thursday. PTI in the padayatra in the morning. thus, saw many leaders strug- dayatras are concerned. He had
electionswillbeheldinHaryana. The constituency is considered from work to participate in the There will be mass mobilisation gling to catch up with the main undertaken a march from
This (Adampur bypoll) is the a stronghold of Bishnoi. yatra for a few days. He said he is by state and district Congress in group of yatris. So the likes of Kanyakumari to Chennai — then
trailer. Give one chance to your Without naming Bishnoi, not a Congress worker — the notes of Mahatma Gandhi and C followedbyrecitationof “jhanda the evening. We hope the num- Digvijaya Singh, Adhir Ranjan Madras — in 1967 to spread the
'lal'(son)Kejriwal.If Iamnotable Kejriwal, addressing a rally in partyclaimscloseto50,000peo- Rajagopalachari, when they had geet” and Vande Mataram. ber will reach around 20,000 Chowdhury, Supriya Shrinate ideas and ideals of Mahatma
to changeHaryana,then kickme Adampur, said he had been MLA ple have already registered on visited the school in 1937. Rahul attended a painting (then),” Ramesh said. “Rahul and K V Thangkabalu could be Gandhi. Ten years later, in 1977,
out. I won't return to Haryana for 24 years. "If he had done the Bharat Jodo website — but Rahul planted saplings with competition by children organ- wants to cover 25 km a day, but found walking with a group of heundertookanotherpadayatra
again," said Kejriwal. something good, then vote for wants to be part of the event, soil brought from the Andaman ised by Jawahar Bal Manch and many veterans are also walking. Congress workers much behind from Chennai to Coimbatore
The AAP national convenor him and if not, then bring a given the “growing atmosphere and Nicobar Islands. The yatra is then, away from media glare, Weplantowalk20-22kmaday.” the main yatra. The spirit, with the same objective. As late
said,“Thetrailerof 2024election change this time," he added. of hate” in the country. A quick rich in symbolism — besides held separate interactions with The break over, the yatris be- though, was high. as in 2017, he had undertaken an
will take place now. The bypoll On a two-day visit to conversation led to a discussion planting of saplings with soil select groups of women and gan the next approximately 8- “ahimsa yatra” from Chennai to
for Adampur will take place af- Haryana, Kejriwal sought to on the release of the convicts in broughtfromvariouspartsof the Dalit activists and representa- km walk sometime after 4 pm Giant From The Past Paaparapatti in Dharmapuri dis-
ter3-4months.Therewasatime strike an emotional chord with Bilkis Bano case in Gujarat. country every day, it will begin tives of the civil society. and concludedthe day'sjourney A large number of party trict.Interestingly,Ananthanhad
when Adampur had a people saying he has many rela- More than a century old, the daily with a morning ritual of Among those in the last in- a little after 6 pm for a night halt workers wore T-shirts with the twice left the Congress and
'chaudhrahat' (dignity), tives in Adampur and referred to school has a rich history. Inside, “jhanda vandan” (hoisting and teraction was Yogendra Yadav, a atScottChristianCollegeground yatra route map on the front and floated separate political outfits.
Adampur had a name. Where himself as“Haryanakalal(son)”. Rahul was shown handwritten salutation of the national flag), Congress fellow-traveler now. in Nagercoil. a photograph of K Kamaraj, late —MANOJCG

Nitish, Kishor war of words rages: ‘Doesn’t know ABC’ vs ‘He knows A to Z’
(Grand Alliance) government of a large number of stakehold- inBiharsince2005(whenNitish leged hobnobbing with the BJP Prime Minister Narendra Modi
SANTOSH SINGH lastmonth,Kishor,whilerefrain- ers and many prime ministerial took charge as the CM for the ahead of his padyatra assumes at various functions during their
PATNA, SEPTEMBER 8 ing from making a frontal attack candidates in their ranks. first time)”, he said, "Andband political significance. It could be NDA alliance period — that he
on the former, took potshots at Nitish's fierce, bristling retal- bolte rahta hai.. Usko kuchh pata partoftheJD(U)supremo'sbidto deleted moments later.
IT MIGHT not be the first time him by highlighting his political iation came Wednesday – the nahi hai ki kitna kaam hua hai targetKishor'scredibilityandun- Later in the day, while ad-
that Bihar Chief Minister and flip-flop-flips. concluding day of his Delhi visit (Kishor talks nonsense. He has dermine his padyatra, which is dressing a press conference at
Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kishor had taken to social during which he met a slew of no idea how much work has supposedtobeacurtain-raiserto Bhagalpur,KishordaredNitishto
Kumar took aim at election media, saying Bihar has seen six top Opposition leaders – as he beendoneinBihar".TheCMalso his move to float his own politi- fulfilhispromiseofgiving10lakh
strategist Prashant Kishor, but it political “experiments” for gov- dismissedKishor'scommentsas said, “All he (Kishor) can do is cal party in Bihar in near future. jobs to youths in one year. “He
washissharpestattackonhises- ernment-formationoverthelast “meaningless” and “irrelevant”. make statements for publicity. Kishor has so far travelled (Nitish) has ruled Bihar for 17
tranged ex-colleague so far. And 10yearswithNitishasthe“com- “He (Kishor) was with us. I Heisanexpertindoingthat.And through a dozen Bihar districts. yearsandcouldnotcreate10lakh
it came right ahead of Kishor's mon factor” in all of them. He had asked him to leave his polit- going by it, maybe, he wants to His apolitical movement, “Jan jobs. If he is able to give 10 lakh
proposed 3,000-km Biharpady- also took to Twitter to ask the ical consultancy. But he did not be with the BJP or support it Suraj (public good governance)" jobs in coming 11 months (one
atra that he would kick off from public if Nitish's latest move to agree,” Nitish said. "Wo apna covertly.” seemstobeinlinewithhispolit- monthislost),Iwillwithdrawmy
October 2. join the Grand Alliance would dhandha kar raha tha (He was ThoughNitishhadearliersaid ical plans. campaign and accept him as my
Following Nitish's dramatic work. He also sounded his scep- doing his business)", the CM that he inducted Kishor into the Kishor hit back at Nitish leader and work for him again.
move to cut his ties with the BJP ticism about Nitish's claims of Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav said. JD(U) after Union home minister Thursday by posting a four- Like the omniscient god, he
and re-embrace the RJD to form working for the unity of the inspect a dam on the Falgu river on Thursday. PTI Charging that “Kishor does Amit Shah requested him to do photo tweet — showing Nitish knows A to Z and one does not
a new Mahagathbandhan Opposition, given the presence not know ABC of the work done so, his latest jibes at Kishor's al- greeting with folded hands know even ABC,” he said.

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BRIEFLY KARNATAKA HIJAB BAN CASE

KARNATAKA
Normallifeback Don’t compare hijab
with Sikh turbans: SC
inBengaluru
Bengaluru:Citizensofrain-
battered Bengaluru are
trying to get back to rou-
tine, after some respite
from rains. Forecasts of 500 years,” Justice Gupta said as says “Alas! We must ask our-
more rain since Thursday ANANTHAKRISHNAN G. Pasha cited the example of Sikhs selves the question: ‘Are these
continue to cause worry. NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 8 wearing turban. conditions present among us to-
Residentsof localitiesthat The counsel said several Sikh day?’”
wereinundatedaretrying ASSERTING THAT wearing of a boysinhisclassworeaturbanor Pasha said the question was
to drain out water and re- hijab is mandated by the Quran, a patka of the same colouras the “rhetorical”,andthe“authoronly
move sludge from their which Muslims believe is “per- uniform. “The fact that it doesn’t says the same condition prevails
houses. While waterlog- fectforalltimestocome”,appel- affect discipline has been estab- now...but it's cited in the wrong
gingonroadsinmostparts lants before the Supreme Court lished in India.... There will even context” by HC. “A rhetorical
of the city are by and large in Karnataka hijab ban case on be Sikh boys who don’t sport question was posed, which was
clear, potholescontinueto Thursday questioned conclu- long hair, who believe in transposed to hijab to say that
haunt motorists. PTI sions in the High Court judg- Sikhism. Will they feel inferior? therefore this was relevant only
mentlinkingitsrelevancetopas- Should that be a ground for dis- to that time as per the under-
KERALA sage of time since the practice allowing boys wearing it,” he standing and opinion of this au-

Congchiefhits originated.
They submitted that to say
asked.
The bench, also comprising
thor”, which is not the case, he
said.
outatRahul verses of the Quran “have be-
come obsolete is bordering on
Justice Sudhashu Dhulia, re-
sponded: “Kara or turban, they
Pasha submitted, “We be-
lieve in a God who created time.
Thiruvananthapuram: On blasphemy”. are different norms of Sikhism, So to say that with passage of
the day Congress leader
Rahul Gandhi kicked off
Bharat Jodo Yatra, party's
PREPPING FOR A NEW HOME A bench of Justices Hemant
Gutpa and Sudhanshu Ddulia,
meanwhile, told Advocate
well established and well in-
grained in the culture of this
country.... Please don’t draw any
time, this verse has become ob-
solete or (its) understanding has
changed, directly contravenes
Kerala unit president K Two cheetahs inside a quarantine facility at a reserve near Bella Bella in South Africa. The two wild cats are among the 50 that Nizam Pasha, who appeared for parallel with Sikhism. That’s the verse I have cited.... The last
Sudhakaranhitoutathim will be acquired by India as part of its cheetah reintroduction project. The first batch of cheetahs will be released into appellant Muslim parties, to what we are saying”. verse of the Quran that was re-
for his failure to “imbibe Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park on September 17. AP not draw parallels between Pasha said that “my submis- vealed...which, in the under-
criticism” and bring wearing of hijab with members sion is exactly on the same standing of believing Muslims,
around the G23 leaders. of Sikh community wearing lines...500 years of practice has means that the religion as it

Wildlife panel OKs IAF base, other

Talking to a TV channel, turbans. been suggested. Mine is 1,400 stands, the Quran as it stands, is
Sudhakaran said “Several “The 5 Ks (kesh, or hair; years of practice”. perfectfor all times tocome....So
times I told those close to kanga,comb;kara,bracelet;kad- The court said it will exam- to say verses of the Quran have
Rahul that the leadership hera, a white undergarment; ine his contentions, independ- becomeobsoleteisborderingon

infra in Ladakh sanctuaries near LAC

should accommodate and kirpa, curved knife) are well ent of the Sikh argument. blasphemy.”
them(G23)...leadersdon't established. 1925 Act prescribes Pasha also referred to the JusticeDhuliatoldhim“don’t
listen to other opinions,’’ that.Theonewho doesn’tfollow part of HC judgment which said go that far” and said that com-
he said. ENS the 5 Ks is not a Sikh... Under that “it can be reasonably as- mentators' views have
match similar initiatives being a proposal for the use of 1259.25 sanctuaries. Article 25, carrying a kirpan is sumedthatthepracticeof wear- been cited.
JAMMU & KASHMIR EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE takenbyChinatoupgradeitsmil- ha of land from the Changthang Spread over 1600 sq km, the permissible. In a way that (sepa- ing hijab had a thick nexus to the Justice Dhulia asked him not

Govtofficial NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 8 itary infrastructure in the area.

The projects were cleared by
wildlife sanctuary for the Mahe
field firing range.
Changthangsanctuaryislocated
on the Tibetan Changthang
raterightsof Sikhs)isrecognised
by the Constitution. Don’t com-
socio-cultural conditions then
prevalent in the region”. To ar-
to “that far” and said that
commentators' views have been
suspended THESTANDINGcommitteeofthe
National Board for Wildlife
the Chief Wildlife Warden of
Ladakh before being sent to the
The upgradation of three
roads,locatedinthestrategically
plateau and has some of the
highest altitude lakes including
pare...because they are statuto-
rily recognised for over 100
rive at this conclusion, he said,
the HC had relied on a commen-
cited. But Pasha replied, “The
commentatorshavenotsaidthat.
Jammu: J&K Police in (NBWL)hasclearedthesettingup NBWL for clearance. The important region, has also been Tso Moriri and is famous for be- years.... Actually it's more than tary from the scriptures, which Thelearnedjudgeissayingthat.”
Rajouri district Thursday ofanewIAFbaseinLadakhwhere Ministry of Defence will now re- cleared – 27.5 ha from the ing the home of the snow leop-
registered an FIR against a Indian and Chinese troops have quire environmental clearances, Karakoram sanctuary for the ard. The Tibetan wolf, wild yak,
J&KAdministrativeService been facing off along the Line of including under the Forest double-laning of 22.5 km of the bharal, brown bear, mormot, GUJARAT
officialwhowassuspend- Actual Control since May 2020. Conservation Act (1980) and Khalsar-Agham road, 6.875 ha Tibetan wild ass and dark-
edfollowing a complaint
from his subordinate that
TheclearancefortheIAFbase
was given at a high-level meet-
Environment Protection Act
(1986), as the region falls under
from the Karakoram sanctuary
for upgradation of the Leh-
necked crane are also found in
the sanctuary apart from almost
HC disposes of
hemadeobjectionablere-
marks against the latter's
ing on July 29. The base, which
will be located in the
Ladakh’s protected cold desert.
The NBWL has also stipu-
Chalunka road and another
107.406hafromtheChangthang
200 species of wild plants.
The Karakoram sanctuary is
PIL by Tushar
religion after he ordered
veg food. The official has
Changthang wildlife sanctuary
in eastern Ladakh,will be spread
lated: “The officers/officials of
the wildlife protection depart-
sanctuaryfortheconstructionof
T-Salu Changchemo road in
spread over 5,000 sq km in Leh
district and houses the famous
Gandhi against
been identified as
Assistant Commissioner,
over 508.187 hectares of land,
not very far from the LAC.
ment shall have unhindered ac-
cess to the project site for dis-
Ladakh.
The NBWL stipulated that
Tibetan antelope. This is the first
time that the NBWL has looked
Ashram revamp
Abdul Rashid Kohli. ENS The NBWL cleared eight charging of their duties.’’ animal passages must be imple- at proposals from the Ladakh re-
Defence projects in the As the government looks to mentedandmaintainedinthese gion as the area did not fall un- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
ODISHA Changthang and Karakoram expand and upgrade infrastruc- stretches. der the Wildlife Protection Act AHMEDABAD, SEPTEMBER 8
Flight-testsof wildlifesanctuariesasIndiatakes
steps to ramp up its defence in-
ture along the LAC, the standing
committee, apart from the cre-
Environmentalclearancehas
also been given for the laying of
prior to the 2019 abrogation of
Article 370 for Jammu and A DIVISION bench of the Gujarat
QRSAM held frastructure near the LAC to ation of an IAF base, has cleared optical fibre cables in these two Kashmir. Videograbs of the accused after the incident. HighCourtThursdaydisposedof
apublicinterestlitigation(PIL)by
Pune: The DRDO and TusharGandhi,greatgrandsonof
IndianArmyhavesuccess- 2017 lynching of PROTEST TO GIVE ‘PROOF’ OF LIFE
Accused of being drunk, Mahatma Gandhi, against the

102-year-old man in Haryana claims man killed by Nihangs

fully completed six flight- Gandhi Ashram Memorial and
tests of Quick Reaction cop: NIA court PrecinctDevelopmentProject,in
SurfacetoAirMissile(QR- effectgivingthegreenlighttothe
grants bail to all
shown dead in ID, pension stopped near Golden Temple
SAM) system from the project.
IntegratedTestRange(ITR) By dis-
in Chandipur off the 17 accused posingof the
Odishacoast,aspartofthe petition, the
missile system’s evalua- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE court also
tion trials, the Ministry of EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE CHANDIGARH, SEPTEMBER 8 EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE Bystanders watched as upheld the
DefencesaidonThursday. SRINAGAR, SEPTEMBER 8 AMRITSAR, SEPTEMBER 8 the man was attacked stategovern-
The six flight-tests were A 102-YEAR-OLD man Thursday ment's reso-
carried out against high- AN NIA court has granted bail to staged a protest in Haryana’s A 22-YEAR-OLD man was found with swords, but did lution (GR)
speedaerialtargets,mim- 17 persons accused of lynching a Rohtak, claiming that his pen- deadhoursafterhewasattacked nothing to save him, of March 5, Tushar Gandhi
icking various threats, the police officer outside the Jamia sion was stopped in March this with swords allegedly by two 2021 issued
MoD said. ENS Masjid in Srinagar five years ago, year on the ground that he was Nihang Sikhs and another man,
said the police through the
saying there are “no reasonable dead. whoaccusedhimof beingdrunk Industries and Mines
BIHAR grounds”tobelievetheyareguilty. Sitting on a decorated char- andconsumingtobacconearthe joining the attackers and over- Department.Theresolutionwas

Terrorcase:NIA Deputy Superintendent of

Police (DSP) Mohammad Ayub
iot, Duli Chand undertook a pro-
cession to hand over a memo- Duli Chand during a protest in Rohtak on Thursday. The
Golden Temple in Amritsar, po-
lice said Thursday.
powering Harmanjit as the lat-
ter falls on the ground.
the first move towards formalis-
ing the execution of the project,
holdssearches Pandit was lynched on the night
of 22 June, 2017 by a crowd that
randum to administrative
officers and former minister
placard reads: ‘Your uncle is still alive’. Around half a dozen on-
lookers kept watching the en-
Hadmanjit'sbodywasrecov-
ered on Thursday morning, po-
bynotifyingagoverningcouncil,
and executive council and the
New Delhi: THE NIA on suspected of him being an intel- Manish Grover urging them to tire episode at Kahia Wala lice said, adding he probably implementing authority.
Thursday conducted ligence officer. Posted in the J&K restore his old-age pension. He sion was not restored. Jaihind 170otherseniorcitizenstoowho Bazar on Wednesday night but died due to excessive bleeding. In his petition, Tushar
searchesat 20locationsin Police’s security wing, he was in was seen holding a board which said: “Duli Chand’s pension was have alleged that their pensions did not come forward to pre- Police commissioner Arun Gandhi had claimed that he “is
Bihar in connection with his civvies when he was killed. read, “Your Phupha is still alive.” discontinued despite the fact have been stopped showing vent it. A video footage of the Pal Singh said they have identi- apprehensive that by the nature
the Phulwari Sharif terror Observing that prosecution On Wednesday, Chand, ac- that he has a valid Aadhar card, them dead in the documents. incident, captured on a CCTV fied the third person as of redevelopment and over-
case that it took over from witnesses in the case had turned companied by AAP former state PAN number and bank state- There are over 150 cases of simi- camera, surfaced on social Ramandeep Singh, who worked sized involvement of the gov-
Bihar police recently. hostile, NIA Additional Session chief Naveen Jaihind appeared ment. He had received his last lar nature in Hisar too. This has media Thursday. as a waiter in a nearby hotel. He ernment authorities in the proj-
According to the agency, JudgeMSManhaswroteinhisor- before the local media to prove pension on March 2 but it was happened during preparing the The victim has been identi- has been arrested. ect, the ashram may lose the
Searches were also con- der Wednesday: “After perusing he is not dead and also showed discontinued after that.” family IDs. If someone is shown fied as Harmanjit Singh of “He said he had joined the Gandhian ethos”.
ducted in Shiv Ganga dis- the material available on record relevant documents. Sources Anofficerofthesocialwelfare dead in the family ID, then his or Chattiwind in Amritsar. fight spontaneously and did not The division bench of Chief
trict in Tamil Nadu and in including the statement of the saidhispensionwasnotrestored department told The Indian her pension is stopped as the Inthetwo-minutevideoclip, know the two men who first at- JusticeAravindKumarandJustice
Karnataka in the case per- witnesses recorded during the despiteaformalcomplainttothe Express Chand’s pension was pensionislinkedwiththefamily two Nihang Sikhs could be seen tacked Harmanjit. The incident AJShastri,whilepronouncingthe
tainingtotheinvolvement course of trial…There are no rea- authoritiesnearly a monthback. stoppedafterhewasshowndead IDs in Haryana.” engaging in an altercation with was reported around 12.30am operative part of the verdict
of Popular Front of India sonablegroundsforbelievingthat Givinga deadline of 24 hours in his family ID. Requesting He added: “Once their cases Harmanjit. Later, they could be near Hotel Royal,” he said, Thursdayinopencourt,notedthat
(PFI)inanti-nationalactiv- the accused persons/ applicants to restore Chand’s pension, anonymity,theofficer said:“Not are cleared from the headquar- seen assaulting him with adding raids are being con- thecourtwhiledecidingthePILon
ities,” the NIA said. ENS are guilty of an offence as alleged Jaihind had warned that a onlyDuliChand,butwehavealso ter, their pension will be swords. One person among the ducted to nab the two Nihang merits, took into consideration
in the charge sheet.” protest would be held if his pen- received similar requests from restored.” onlookerswasseenjoiningthem Sikhs. WITHPTI INPUTS whether the GR of March 2021 is
liabletobequashedonanyground

Food baskets for patients, job training for kin in bid for ‘TB mukt Bharat’
whatsoever, as was sought for by
the petitioner, and found the an-
swertobeinnegative.
Thecourtobserved,“Inconclu-
als, NGOs and corporates can groundnut. The sponsors are ministry official. them, check whether they are sion this court has to necessarily
ANONNA DUTT
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 8
“adopt” TB patients by commit-
tingsupportfor1-3years.Tojoin MONTHLY FOOD BASKETS FOR TB PATIENTS also asked toencourage patients
to consume fresh vegetables,
“Nutrition is a key factor
when it comes to TB. Most of us
receivingtheirmonthlysupplies
and if they are taking their med-
hold that the proposed project
wouldnotonlypromotetheideas
the initiative, they will have to FORADULTS FORCHILDREN beans and fruits. have the TB bacteria in our body icinesregularly,” saidtheofficial. and philosophies of Mahatma
WORKING TOWARDS the goal register on the site, https://com- Cereals/millets 3kg 2kg Eachnutritionbasketislikely but it gets activated if nutrition In addition, the sponsors Gandhi which would be for the
of eliminating tuberculosis (TB) munitysupport.nikshay.in, which to cost about Rs 1,000, said offi- is poor and the immune system may also offer vocational train- benefitofsociety...ThesaidGandhi
Pulses 1.5kg 1kg
by 2025, the Union Health has an anonymous list of TB pa- cials. The food baskets will is impaired. Not only will the ing to family members of the Ashramwouldbeaplaceforlearn-
Ministry is launching the tients, categorised according to Vegetablecookingoil 250g 150g be modified by the district programme provide the much- TB patient. “Most of the TB pa- ing for mankind of all age
Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat the primary health centres, Milkpowder/ 1kg/6litres/1kg 750g/3.5litres/0.7kg officials as per the locally needed nutritional support to tients are breadwinners, and groups....Theproposedplanof ac-
Abhiyan on Friday, which will blocks, districts and states. The Milk/Groundnut acceptable food. the people, it will also connect this puts financial strain on tion...wouldclearlyindicatetheex-
include community support for sponsors can select the number Eggs(optional) 30nos 30nos “Wedon'twantpeopletodo- the community,” said an official. their families. If a family mem- istingandtheproposedAshram.”
patients – nutritional and addi- of patients as per their capacity. natemoney,wewantthehuman Besides raising awareness about ber is trained in a vocation, they The court also mentioned
tional diagnostic support for A mail will be sent from the touch. We want them to either TB, officials hope that it will also will be able to continue earn- that the state government has
them, and vocational training central TB division to the spon- make the baskets themselves or, help reduce the stigma associ- ing,” said an official. assured that the project would
for their families. sor with details of their district's laboration with ICMR’s National litres of milk or 1 kg groundnut. if theyaredonatingfromoutside ated with it. India detects 20-25 lakh TB be carried out with the consent
While the initiative, called TB officer, while the TB officer Institute of Nutrition, has devel- The non-vegetarian option will the area, have someone do it on “AdherencetoTBmedication cases every year, and nearly 4 andcooperationandguidanceof
‘Ni-kshay Mitra’, is already un- will be notified about the spon- oped two options for monthly have an additional 30 eggs. their behalf. If that is not possi- forseveralmonthsisachallenge, lakh die of it. At present, 13.5 five trusts – Sabarmati Ashram
derway in some states like Uttar sor. The details of the patients food baskets. The vegetarian For children, the basket has ble,thentheycanasktheirTBof- but, if not done, can lead to drug lakh are undergoing TB treat- Preservation and Memorial
Pradesh and Maharashtra, will be provided to the spon- foodbasketforadultshastocon- to contain 2 kg cereals or millets, ficer to connect them to local or- resistant forms of the disease. ment, of whom 9.26 lakh have Trust, Khadi Gramodyog Prayog
President Droupadi Murmu will sors by the officer, on condition tain 3 kg cereals or millets, 1.5 kg 1 kg pulses, 150 g vegetable ganisations which can do it. But When the sponsors are con- already consented to being Samiti, Harijan Ashram Trust,
formally launch it on Friday. that they maintain anonymity. pulses, 250 g vegetable cooking cookingoil, and 750g milkpow- we would prefer that people do nected to the patients, we want “adopted” under the initiative, Sabarmati Ashram Gaushala
Under the scheme, individu- The health ministry, in col- oil, and 1 kg milk powder or 6 der or 3.5 litres of milk or 0.7 kg it on their own,” said a health them to remain in contact with said officials. Trust and Harijan Sevak Sangh.

New Delhi
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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

SC to hear pleas
challenging Stirintensifiedaftervisitby MOHAN DELKAR CASE

Bombay HC
CAA on Monday
Britishofficial:Allahabad quashes FIR
against UT

UniversitywritestoCentre
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 8 admin, 8 others
THESUPREMECourtwouldhear OMKARGOKHALE
onSeptember12abatchof pleas MUMBAI,SEPTEMBER8
challenging the constitutional the issue of fee hike. These High diplomats) did not meet univer-
validity of the Citizenship MAULSHREE SETH Commission officials neither sity officials. Only meeting the THE BOMBAY High Court on
(Amendment) Act (CAA) which LUCKNOW, SEPTEMBER 8 contacted any university official volatile groups of students put Thursday quashed a Mumbai
seekstograntcitizenshiptonon- nor informed them about their themunderascanner.Therefore, PoliceFIRlodgedinconnectionto
Muslim migrants who came MORE THAN a week after a sen- visit to the campus and nor we have written to the Union the death of Dadra and Nagar
here from Pakistan, Bangladesh, ior official of the British High sought any permission,” the AU Education Ministry, raising con- Haveli(DNH)MPMohanDelkar.It
and Afghanistan on or before CommissioninNewDelhivisited administration said. cern over the incident. It is upon allowedpleasbyninepersons,in-
December 31, 2014. theAllahabadUniversityandmet OnAugust29,RichardBarlow, them to initiate further action.” cludingDNHAdministratorPraful
While refusing to stay the op- students, the central university the head of Political and Bilateral TheBritishHighCommission KhodaPatel,whohadsoughtthat
eration of the law, the top court has raised concern over the visit Affairs at the British High spokesperson said, “The British theFIRlodgedonacomplaintfiled
hadonDecember18,2019,issued in a letter to the Union Education Commission in New Delhi; and HighCommissionmeetsanden- by the deceased's son Abhinav
noticestotheCentreonthepleas. Ministry, alleging that the diplo- Bhavana Vij, senior political eco- gages with a range of individu- Delkar be quashed.
Asperthelistofbusinessesup- mat'svisitandhisinteractionwith nomicadviser,visitedtheAUcam- als and organisations as part of Mohan Delkar (58), a seven-
loadedontheapexcourtwebsite, students “intensified” the ongo- pus. During the three-day visit to the UK’s work in India. We can- term MP from DNH, was found
a bench comprising CJI UU Lalit ing agitations on the campus. Prayagraj, the officials held infor- not comment further on the dead in a room at a hotel in
and Justice S Ravindra Bhat has In a statement released on mal interaction with “an alumna contentorspecificaspectsof pri- Mumbai's Marine Drive on
posted220petitions,includingthe
lead plea of the Indian Union of
Muslim League, for hearing on
Thursday, the Allahabad
University (AU) administration
said:“Reportsinthepressbrought
of aUKGovernment-fundedpro-
gramme for young Indians”, and
metofficialsoftheUPgovernment
vate meetings.”
According to sources, among
the alumna of the UK govern-
HASINA AT AJMER SHARIF February 22, last year.
A division bench of Justice
Prasanna B Varale and Justice
Monday.Thetopcourthadissued to the notice of the university ad- anddistrictadministration. ment-funded programme for Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Dargah Ajmer Sharif on Thursday. A chadar was Shrikant D Kulkarni had con-
notice to the Centre and had ministration that two officials of Speaking to The Indian youngIndianswasformerAUstu- offered at the shrine on her behalf and prayers were performed for peace and prosperity in cluded the hearing in the case on
soughtitsresponsebythesecond theBritishHighCommissionhad Express, AU Public Relations dent union leader Richa Singh, a both countries. She spent nearly an hour at the dargah. PTI July 5 and reserved its verdict,
week of January 2020. However, come to the university and con- Officer Jaya Kapoor said: “It is a beneficiary of one of the leader- whichitpronouncedonThursday.
duetoCovid,themattercouldnot tactedstudentsinvariousdepart- sad incident as there are certain shipprogrammesintheUK.Richa, The bench said, "Considering

Reservation a responsibility,
comeupforafull-fledgedhearing. ments through some so-called protocols, which should have the first women students' union all aspects, we find merit in the
student leaders and made been followed while visiting the president at AU, has been associ- submissionsbypetitionersandin
provocative statements among campus. We came to know atedwiththeSamajwadiParty.“I ouropinion,thesearethefitcases
thestudentsonsomecontrover- through newspapers that they wascontactedbythe(Britishem- soastoexercisethepowersofthis

not a burden, says Pradhan

sial topics, including the issue of spoke on some sensitive issues bassy) officials who wanted to court under Section 482 of CrPC
students' union.” like the students' union. After visittheoldcampusbuildingand to prevent an abuse of process of
“As a result, students have their visit, the protests against interactwithstudentsastheyrun law. The FIR filed by Abhinav
beenagitatingandprotestingin the fee hike intensified and that several programmes for stu- Delkar(MP'sson)isthusquashed
and around the university on drewourattention.They(British dents.” Richa said. Constitution has provision for affirmative action, the and set aside.”
On March 9, 2021, the
challenge is to expand the base, says Education Minister Mumbai Police booked the ac-
OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE ENGINEER, cusedonthebasisof a complaint
RWS&S DIVISION, BALASORE rationalebehindprovidingreser- filedagainstPatel,thendistrictcol-
O-943 Tel: 06782-262249, Fax: 262931, EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE vation in higher education, lectorSandeepKumarSingh,then
email: eerwss_bls@nic.in, eerwssbls@gmail.com. NEWDELHI,SEPTEMBER8 Pradhan said that people from SP Sharad Darade, then deputy
NATIONAL COMPETITIVE BIDDING THROUGH e-Tendering Dharmendra Adivasi communities have been collectorApurvaSharma,sub-di-
Identification No. 25 / 2022-23 Dt. 08.09.2022 ARGUINGSTRONGLYinfavourof Pradhan discriminated against for cen- visional officer Manasvi Jain, po-
The Executive Engineer, RWS&S Division, Balasore on behalf of the reservationsinhighereducation, turiesdespitetheircrucialrolein lice inspector (Silvassa) Manoj
Governor of Odisha invites bids from bidders of eligible class registered Union Education Minister protecting ecology. “Who kept Patel,DNHadministrativedepart-
with the Odisha State Government and bidders of equivalent Grade / Dharmendra Pradhan said that category family. In all, there are ourforestssecured?TheAdivasis mentofficialRohitYadav,political
Class registered with Central Government / MES / Railways for the works newgenerationshouldconsider sevenOBC-NCLcandidatesinthe did.We discriminated against leader Fattesingh Chauhan and
detailed in the table below to be eventually drawn up in P1 contract with
affirmative action for margin- list of top 50. those who kept the planet safe. thenSilvassatalathiDilipPatel,for
design and execution of the following Piped Water Supply Projects.
alised communities as their re- Pradhan's response came af- Should we not handhold them allegedly abetting the suicide by
1. Nos. of Work : 13 Nos RPWS schemes in Balasore
district (Clubbed-up).
sponsibilityratherthanaburden. termultiplestudentsquestioned and bring them up?" “misusingtheirpostsandpowers
2. Estimated cost : Rs. 323.25 lakhs & Rs. 457.56 lakhs
Pradhansaidthefoundingfa- thereservationpolicyduringthe He also referred to the intro- and intentionally conspiring and
3. Period of completion : 330 days
thers decided to adopt affirma- interaction, arguing that quotas duction of the Economically planning against Delkar”.
4. Availability of bid : Dt. 13.09.2022 at 16.00 hours to
tive action following debates in putstudentsbelongingtogeneral Weaker Section (EWS) quota TheHCsaidthattherewasno
document in Portal 22.09.2022 up to 17.00 hours through theConstituentAssembly,which category at a disadvantageous and said the government does other material to show any posi-
online. felt theIndianStatemustprovide position. Lok Sabha Speaker Om not work to favour any particu- tive or active role played by peti-
5. Seeking of Clarification : Dt. 14.09.2022 at 10.00 hours to Dt. alevel-playingfieldtothehistor- Birla also attended the event. lar group. “The Constituent tionersotherthantheallegations
20.09.2022 up to 15.00 hours ically disadvantaged groups. Category-wise break-up of Assemblyalsodebatedtheneed Abhinav,meanwhile,saidthey
6. Date of opening of Bid : Dt. 23.09.2022 at 11.00 hours in the O/O Pradhan made the remarks qualifying NEET-UG candidates to provide the marginalised are going to appeal against the
EE, RWSS Division, Balasore.
while interacting with students this year shows that 13.3% are communities a level-playing HC's judgment in the Supreme
7. Name and address of the : Executive Engineer, RWS&S Division,
of a private coaching institute in from Scheduled Castes (SC) cat- field. Not doing so carried the Court.“...despite presenting all
Officer Inviting Tender Balasore
Rajasthan's Kota on Tuesday. egory,45.08%fromOBC,and4.7% risk of inviting a civil war-like witnessesandevidence,thecourt
Bid Cost will be receipt through electronic payment by NEFT / RTGS.
Incidentally, the 2022 NEET- fromScheduledTribecategory— situation. That's why the ruledintheir(petitioners)favour,"
Further details can be seen from the e-Procurement Portal:
UG topper, Tanishka, is from this is against last year's 13.1%, Constitution has a provision on he told The Indian Express.
http://tendersodisha.gov.in
Sd/- Rajasthan and comes from an 4.6%, and 45.6%, respectively. affirmative action. The chal- "This is a long battle and we
EXECUTIVE ENGINEER, OBC (non-creamy layer, or NCL) In his attempt to explain the lenge is to expand the base.” are ready to fight it," he added.
RWS&S DIVISION, BALASORE.
OIPR/25013/11/0018/2223
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qualifying rate decreased state's per cent) and Sikkim (43.89 per (46.35 to 64.77), Maharashtra
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d³fd½fQf Af¸faÂf¯f §fû¿f¯ff-´fÂf NEWDELHI,SEPTEMBER8 percentage points over last year. pass percentages below the na- (44.23 to 51.37).
IiY¸ffaIY 153/¹ffa.d½f./2022 ·fû´ff»f, dQ³ffaIY 07/09/2022 In 2022, the pass percentage tional average in 2022 are Tamil Stateswhichhaveslippedsig-
d³f¸³fd»fdJ°f d³f¸ffʯf I f¹fÊ WZ °fb Qû d»fR fR f ´fðd°f IZ A³fbÀffS ¸f.´fi. »fûI d³f¸ffʯf d½f·ff¦f ¸fZÔ IZ ³QieIÈ °f ½¹f½fÀ±ff IZ Aa°f¦fÊ°f ´faªfeIÈ °f NZ IZ QfS ´fSÀfZ³MZ ªf OVER THE last four years, overall (numberofcandidateswhoqual- Nadu (51.3 per cent), nificantly include the southern
¸fûWS ¶faQ d³fd½fQf¹fZ d³f²ffÊdS°f ´fi´fÂf ´fS Af³f»ffBʳf Afa¸fdÂf°f I e ªff°fe W` Ü pass percentage of NEET-UG has ified with respect to those who Chhattisgarh (48.73 per cent), states of Andhra (70.72 to 61.77),
S. Tender No Name of Work Probable Amount Earnest Money Cost of Bid Period of SOR remained nearly constant, but applied)of21statesandUTswas Kerala (55.01 per cent), Madhya Kerala(66.59to55.01),Telangana
No of Contract Deposit (EMD) Document Completion some states including Gujarat, below the national average of Pradesh (44.88 per cent), and (67.44 to 59.27). In contrast with
(Rs. in) (In Rs) (In Rs) (in Months) Meghalaya and Nagaland have 56.3 per cent. In 2021, when the Uttar Pradesh (53.52 per cent). most Northeastern states ,
1 2022_UAD_ SHOPS TRANSPORT 21038297/- 105191/- 15000/- 09 months MPUADD
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made big gains. A few like pass percentage was 56.3 per While Meghalaya and Manipur's performance fell
Z-15 THIRD CALL. rainy season Telangana, Kerala and Manipur cent,20statesandUTsperformed Nagaland performed below na- (63.38to54.72).MadhyaPradesh
1. Interested bidders can view the NIT on website https://www.mptenders.gov.in/ haveshownadipinperformance. belowthenationalaverage,while tional average, pass percentages (50.15 to 44.88), UP (58.61 to
2. The Bid Document can be purchased only online from 10:30A.M. (time) 08.09.2022(date) to 17:30P.M. (time) WhileTamilNadu,whichhas the corresponding number was of these states have improved 53.52) also recorded marginal
22.09.2022(date). consistently opposed introduc- 18 in 2019. over the years. Meghalaya regis- dips.InTamilNadu,thepassper-
3. The bidder who bids in the tender will have to submit the document of participating firm. Documents of other firm viz any tionofNEETirrespectiveofparty Apartfromthenorth-eastern tered a pass percentage of 36.27 centage rose from 48.6 per cent
other partnership firm/sister concern etc. will not be valid. inpower,substantiallyimproved states of Assam (51.37 per cent), per cent in 2019, while it was in 2019 to 57.4 per cent in 2021,
4. For electrification related works : - It is mandatory for bidder should have own “A” Class electrical registration or agreement its performance between 2019 Manipur (54.72 per cent), 34.52 per cent in Nagaland. before dropping to 51.3 per cent
with “A” Class electrical registration Holder (Attach as per)
and 2021, this time, the state's Meghalaya (51.13 per cent), Otherstatestohaverecorded in2022.Thistime,thereweretwo
5. Amendments to NIT, if any, would be published on website https://www.mptenders.gov.in/ only, and not in newspaper.
Nagaland an increase in qualifying rate of candidates,includingonebelong-
The initial period of 3 (Three) year after completion shall be treated as Defect Liability Period (DLP).
(54.51percent), over five percentage points be- ing to OBC-NCL category, from
Sd/- In Chief Engineer
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Tripura (49.59 tween2019and2022areGujarat the state in the list of top 50.
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ACCUSED OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT, JAMMU VARSITY PROF DIES BY SUICIDE CYRUS MISTRY DEATH
Teachers question ‘haste’ of probe, wife alleges foul play
Brakes were hit 5 secs
before crash: Police
recommended that Shekhar be Psychology; daughter, who is 2; haste. Dean of Students Welfare
ARUN SHARMA disassociated from teaching, and son, who is 12. ProfPrakashAntahalsaidthevice-
JAMMU, SEPTEMBER 8 pendingfinalinquiryagainsthim. Neeta,whoaccompaniedthe chancellor had received a com-
While people close to body to Shekhar's hometown — plaint of sexual harassment from
A DAY after an associate profes- Shekhar alleged that he was “in- Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh — around25studentsonSeptember

cite Mercedes report

sor from Jammu University’s stitutionally murdered’’, the JU alleged that her husband was 1 and sent it to CASH for inquiry
PsychologyDepartmentallegedly Teachers'Association,headedby deliberately harassed in the de- as per established protocol.
diedbysuicide,minutesafter his Prof P K Srivastva, demanded a partment since he came from a CASH, headed by Prof Alka
suspension on the basis of a pre- high-level probe by an inde- Scheduled Caste background. Sharma, videographed state-
liminary inquiry report by the Prof Chander Shekhar pendent agency such as CBI. Allegingconspiracy,Neetaurged mentsof allcomplainantsandfi-
university's Committee Against Chander was an associate OnThursday,JUsuspendedac- the J&K administration, the uni- nalised its report in record 2-3
SexualHarassment(CASH),many professor in Psychology ademic and administrative work versity and police to bring to days, many on the campus al-
varsity teachers on Thursday ex- Dept of Jammu University. on campus to mourn the death. book the conspirators. leged, keeping in mind the var- YOGESH NAIK
pressed surprise over what they Shekharwasduetotakechargeas Sometimebeforeheallegedly sity was closed on September 3 MUMBAI, SEPTEMBER 8
calledan“unduehaste”shownby HoD,Psychology,followingretire- hangedhimselfinhisroominthe and4(SaturdayandSunday)and
CASH to conclude its probe and not present. Neither did they ment of the incumbent, Prof Arti campus, Prof Shekhar wrote on there was no administrative or AGAINST THE backdrop of
hold him prima facie guilty. record the statement of the de- Bakshi,onSeptember30. the board, “Sab sach hai kyunki academic work on Monday on Sunday's road accident in
Theypointedoutthatthecom- ceased, Prof Chander Shekhar Prof Alka Sharma and JU kahanihijhoothihai(everything account of Teachers Day. On Palghar, resulting in the death of
mitteetookonlytwoorthreedays Chander, or issue him a show RegistrarProf ArvindJasrotiadid is true but for the plot)”. September 7, they noted, CASH industrialist Cyrus Mistry and
to conclude its inquiry, and went cause notice, Jammu University not respond to repeated calls. Accordingtosectionsof JUof- concludedthatShekharwasand one more person, the Palghar
aheadevenwhensomeof itsstu- (JU)teacherspointedout. Shekhar is survived by wife ficials, the committee examining askedforsuspensionandhisdis- Police said on Thursday that Dr
dent members were reportedly Sources said CASH had also Neeta, who is a PhD scholar in the allegations showed undue associationfromacademicwork. AnahitaPandole, who wasatthe
wheels, had applied brakes five
seconds prior to the accident.
90 PER CENT OF COUNTRIES REGISTER REDUCTION IN HDI VALUE, SAYS UNDP REPORT Palghar SP Balasaheb Patil
saidthepolicehaveareceivedan

India slips 2 places interim report from Mercedes

on the crash late Wednesday.
“The report sent to us by
The SUV in which Mistry and others were travelling. ANI/File

on HDI as Covid-19 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Mercedes said that the vehicle
was being driven at a speed of
48 where the mishap took place,
to install rumbler strips (grooves
used as warning and slowing
mechanism) will be put up on

TRACKING GLOBAL DECLINE

100 kmph and Dr Anahita and indents used as warning and the highway. Curves will be in-

reverses global gains INDIA’SRANK HDIVALUE

Pandole applied brakes five sec-
ondspriortotheaccident.When
the crash took place, the vehicle
slowingmechanism)onatleast12
spotsonthehighway.
“WehavetoldtheNHAItoin-
spected and measures like lane
reduction will be discussed dur-
ingthejoint visit," Bodke saidaf-
worldwidewhencriseslikeCovid- was travelling at a speed of 89 tall rumbler strips on at least 12 terameetingof thepolice,NHAI,
HARIKISHAN SHARMA
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 8
19andthewarinUkrainehitback-
to-back and interacted with
sweeping social and economic
132 130 0.633 0.732 * kmph,'' he added.
Mistry (54) and his friend
Jahangir Pandole were killed
spots so that the speed of vehi-
cles automatically reduces. We
have also asked them to install
PWD, MSRDC, CIDCO and other
stakeholders in the evening.
The police have also asked
in 2021 in 2020 India World
INDIA’S RANK on the Human shifts and dangerous planetary Sunday when their car hit a road cats eyes reflectors and signages NHAI and other authorities to in-
Development Index has slipped changes,”thestatementsaid. TOP5COUNTRIES INDIA’SPERFORMANCEONTHEHUMAN divider in Palghar. Two other car to caution motorists,” said Patil. stallCCTVcamerasatadistanceof
from 130 in 2020 to 132 in 2021, HDI is composite index that DEVELOPMENTINDEXSINCE1990 occupants,Anahita Pandole (55) Palghar Collector Govind every 2 km on the highway. Patil
in line with a global fall in HDI measuresaverageachievementin 1 Switzerland andherhusbandDariusPandole Bodke said a joint visit of high- saidthepolicehavealsoaskedfor
scores in the wake of the Covid- human development taking into 2 Norway
0.8
0.633 (60) had suffered injuries. Both wayofficialsandpolicehasbeen the deployment of cranes and a
19 pandemic, shows the Human account four indicators: life ex- 0.7 were admitted to Shri H N plannedforSeptember14tofind firetenderonthestretch.
3 Iceland
Development Report 2021-22 pectancy at birth (Sustainable 0.6 0.434 Reliance Foundation Hospital out technical flaws and recom- Meanwhile, Darius Pandole,
released Thursday. Development Goal 3); expected 4 Hong Kong 0.5 andResearch Centre inMumbai. mend mitigating measures. who survived the accident, un-
According to the report, re- yearsofschooling(SDG4.3);mean 5 Australia A Mercedes spokesperson They have been asked to put derwent a surgery on Thursday
0.4
leased by the United Nations years of schooling (SDG 4.4); and said the letter to the SP was an prominent signboards at black to fix his forearm fractures.
Development Programme gross national income (GNI) per 0.3 internal communication. spots (perennially accident “The surgery wentwell. He is
BOTTOM5
(UNDP), India’s HDI value stood capita(2017PPP$)(SDG8.5). 0.2 Meanwhile,thedistrictadmin- pronestretches)ontheroute,the stable and recuperating... Dr
at 0.633 during 2021, which was In2021,India’slifeexpectancy 191 South Sudan 0.1 istration on Thursday asked the collector added. AnahitaPandoleisstillunderob-
lower than the world average of atbirthwasrecordedat67.2years; 190 Chad 0.0 National Highway Authority of "As a short-term measure, servation, stable and is improv-
0.732.In2020,too,Indiarecorded expectedyearsofschoolingat11.9 1990 2021 India(NHAI),whichmanagesNH- rumblers (grooves and indents ing,” a source said.
a decline in its HDI value (0.642) years;meanyearsof schoolingat 189 Niger
in comparison to the pre-Covid 6.7 years; and gross national in- WHATISHDI

Silly Souls Cafe being run under

188 CAR
level of 2019 (0.645). come per capita (2017 PPP) at The HDI is “composite” index that measures
187 Burundi average achievement in three basic dimensions
In a statement, the UNDP $6,590.Onallthesefourparame-
said: “India ranks 132 out of 191 ters, India was behind the world of human development: a long and healthy life,

lease to Eightall: RTI documents

countries and territories on the averages in 2021: life expectancy WHERENEIGHBOURING knowledge, decent standard of living
2021/22 Human Development at 71.4 years, expected years of COUNTRIESSTAND
Index,trackingtheglobaldecline schooling at 12.8 years, mean 73 Sri Lanka FOUR INDICATORS CONSIDERED
in human development.” yearsofschoolingat8.6yearsand in Goa under RTI said the docu- where the restaurant was run,
79 China
“Ninety percent of countries gross national income per capita EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE ments revealed that a lease stated that the property was “ex-
have registered a reduction in (2017 PPP$) at $16,752. 127 Bhutan PANAJI, SEPTEMBER 8 agreement was signed between clusively”their“business”andin-
theirHumanDevelopmentIndex “Like global trends, in India’s 129 Bangladesh Life Expected Mean GNI** per Anthony D’Gama’s lawful attor- volved“nootherperson/persons”.
value in 2020 or 2021, reversing case, the drop in HDI from 0.645 expectancy years of years of capita DOCUMENTS AVAILED under ney Dean D’Gama and Eightall The lease agreement, an-
much of the progress toward the in 2019 to 0.633 in 2021 can be 143 Nepal at birth schooling schooling the Right to Information (RTI) Food and Beverages on January nexed with the documents with
SustainableDevelopmentGoals,” attributed to falling life ex- 161 Pakistan **Gross national income
Act have revealed that the Silly 1, 2021, for a period of ten years the Directorate of Food and
said the statement. pectancy — 69.7 to 67.2 years. Souls Café and Bar in Goa was at a monthly rent of Rs 50,000. Drugs Administration that
“A large contributor to the India’s expected years of school- *HDIvalueisthegeometricmean(equally-weighted)oflifeexpectancy,GNIpercapita, run under a lease agreementbe- Documents show that the lease granted the persion for the
Human Development Index's re- ing stand at 11.9 years, and the andeducation(arithmeticmeanofyearsofschoolingandexpectedyearsofschooling) tween Dean D’Gama, the lawful agreement was executed at restaurant, names Anthony
centdeclineis a global drop in life meanyearsof schoolingareat6.7 Source: UNDP report Graphic: IE Design attorney of his father Anthony Mapusa on January 7, 2021, be- D’Gama, through his lawful at-
expectancy,downfrom72.8years years. The GNI per capita level is D’Gama, and Eightall Food and fore Notary Benedict Nazareth. torney his son Dean D’Gama as
in 2019 to 71.4 years in 2021. The $6,590,” the statement said. Beverages Limited Liability When contacted, Nazareth, the“lessor”andM/sEightallFood
lasttwoyearshavehadadevastat- Indiahasalsobeenranked122 Partnership (LLP). who also represents the and Beverages Limited Liability
ing impact on billions of people on the Gender Inequality Index. The Indian Express had on D’Gamas in the proceedings be- Partnership(LLP),representedby
August3reportedthattwocom- fore the Excise Commissioner, itsauthorisedsignatoryChalston
panies — Ugraya Mercantile and told The Indian Express, on D’Souza as the “lessee”.
Frame policy for
‘reasonable
Places of Worship Act challenged in SC Ugraya Agro Farms — owned by
Union Minister of Women and
ChildDevelopmentSmritiIrani’s
Thursday, “I have instructions
from my clients that whatever
communication is exchanged
The agreement states, “All li-
censesstandinginthenameofthe
lessorshallberenewedbytheles-
in the most undemocratic of On the Places of Worship Act, Ayodhya dispute from its kin, had in 2020-21 invested in between my clients and myself seeinthenameofthelessoratthe
accommodation’ EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE manners possible, without any the application stated, “For a leg- purview “itself highlights in Eightall Food and Beverages. As is confidential and I am not sup- lessee’s cost and expense and all
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 8 regard for fundamental rights of islationthatshutsthedoorsofjus- stark relief the discriminatory, perGSTINrecords,Eightallmen- posed to disclose it to anyone. taxes as applicable such as
of transpeople in affected parties,in particular the tice to affected communities and arbitrary and capricious nature tions its “principal place of busi- Whateverhastobedecided,will GST/TDS/garbage tax, trade li-

jobs: SC to govt Arepresentativeof theerstwhile

royal family of Kashi has ap-
right of formerly colonised in-
digenous communities to seek
parties, it was 'debated' only on
three dates i.e., 23.08.1991,
of the Act”, the petition said.
TheAct“activelystandsinthe
ness” as H No 452, Ground Floor,
Bouta Waddo, Assagao, North
be decided by the courts. The
matter is before the quasi-judi-
censeetc.shallbebornebytheles-
see at his own cost and expense.”
proached the Supreme Court reclamation of occupied reli- 09.09.1991and10.09.1991andthe way of the truth being laid bare Goa, Goa. This is also the address cial authority. Let the authorities When contacted, Harsh
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE challenging the Places of gious cum civilisational sites”. Bill was passed on the last of the throughconstitutionalmeansbe- of Silly Souls Goa Café and Bar. decide. Whatever documents Khaneja, designated partner at
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 8 Worship Act, 1992. The plea filed through advo- said dates. The debate of fore a court of law through evi- Smriti Irani is, however, not a have to be given to the quasi-ju- Eightall Food and Beverages LLP,
The application by Maharaja cateJSaiDeepak urgedthecourt 23.08.1991clearlycapturesthefact dence which is legally admissi- shareholderinUgrayaMercantile dicial authority have already who was appointed the autho-
THE SUPREME Court on Kumari Krishna Priya, daughter to permit them to become par- that the period of seven days’ no- ble”, the application stated. and Ugraya Agro Farms. been given by my clients.” rised signatory said he was no
Thursdayaskedthegovernment of the current titular head of the ties in writ petitions — already ticewasnotaffordedtomembers The second applicant is On Thursday, lawyer and ac- Intheirreplytotheshowcause longer with Eightall Food and
to come up with a policy frame- erstwhile royal family, and two pending and listed for hearing of Lok Sabha before the Places of Santosh Tamilarasan, a member tivist Aires Rodrigues, who notice issued by the Excise Beverages and he was not aware
work under which reasonable others has contended that the before the SC on Friday — on the Worship (Special Provisions) Bill of Tuluva Vellalar community. availed the lease agreement and Commissioner on July 25, late ofthedocuments.Aquestionnaire
accommodation can be given to 1992 Act is a “textbook instance issue so that they can present dated22.08.1991wasintroduced”. The third applicant is a the permissions given to the Anthony D’Gama’s wife Merlyn mailedtoYogeshVajani,Director,
transgender people for seeking of a legislation that was passed their arguments in law. That it exempted the Vaishnavaite. restaurant by the Directorate of and son Dean D’Gama, owners of Eightall Food and Beverages, did
employment in establishments Food and Drugs Administration the premises in Assagao from not elicit a response.
covered by provisions of the
TransgenderPersons(Protection AFTER MURDER OF MINOR IN DUMKA Goat pox vaccine
of Rights) Act, 2019.
A bench of Justices D Y
Chandrachud and Hima Kohli
askedtheCentretocompletethe
NCW asks Jharkhand ‘100% effective’
for lumpy skin
same in three months in consul-
tation with the National Council
for Transgender Persons.
to improve hospitals disease: Minister
It also asked the government
to place a report on record.
The court also gave the
for burn victims HARIKISHAN SHARMA
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 8

Department of Personnel and finding committee said, “Phulo THE GOAT pox vaccine is “100
Training and the Ministry of ESHA ROY Jhano Medical college, Dumka per cent effective” against the
Social Justice and NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 8 andRajendraInstituteof Medical lumpy skin disease (LSD) too,
Empowerment at liberty to con- Sciences, Ranchi lacked basic in- Union Minister of Fisheries,
sult all stakeholders. THE NATIONAL Commission for frastructure for treatment of pa- Animal Husbandry and
The court was hearing a plea WomenonThursdaydirectedthe tientswithsevereburns.TheState Dairying, Parshottam Rupala,
by a transgender woman who Jharkhand government to “im- Government may be recom- said Thursday, as the country
challenged the denial of a cabin prove hospital infrastructure” to mendedtoimprovethehospitals’ battles an outbreak that has so
crew job by Air India to her. providetreatmenttoburnvictims infrastructure to provide the best far affected 15 lakh cattle.
An engineering graduate, afterafactfindingcommitteevis- treatment in such exigency.” The LSD outbreak has been
Shanavi Ponnuswamy, said she ited the state to investigate the Thevictimhadbeentakenfor reported from “6-7” states in-
was working with AI customer death of a 15-year-old girl who treatmenttoboththesehospitals. cluding Gujarat, Rajasthan,
support in Chennai when the was set on fire by her stalker. The committee sought to Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh
airline came out with an adver- The incident took place on clarify any “confusion” regard- and Andhra Pradesh, the minis-
tisement for cabin crew in 2012. August23.Shahrukh,theaccused ing the age of the victim, and ter said, adding both the Centre
Though she applied, it was re- inthecase,allegedlythrewpetrol confirmed that she was a minor. and the state governments are
jected. She challenged this as a on the victim through a window Italsosaid“confusionregard- working hard to contain its
violation of her fundamental and set her ablaze while she and ing the degree of burn as alleged spread.Theministersaidthedis-
rights and contended that the herfamilyweresleeping.Thevic- inmediareportswereclarifiedaf- ease has already ebbed in
job was denied to her due to her tim succumbed to her injuries ter discussion with different au- around 15 districts of Gujarat
gender identity. later that month. thorities”. “Phulo Jhano Medical while some cases are being re-
Senior Advocate K V The incident triggered College, Dumka had stated the ported from Rajasthan.
Viswanathan, appearing for the protests by the VHP and Bajrang burns to be less than 90% while “Wehaveadequate(goatpox)
airline, told the bench that she Dal in Dumka town, following the doctors of Rajendra Institute vaccines…work is on to protect
was rejected because she had which prohibitory orders were of Medical Sciences, Ranchi in- the animals,” Rupala said at a
not scored the requisite qualify- put in place. The accused and his formed that the burns were 60- pressconferenceaheadoftheIDF
ing marks. allegedaccomplice, ChotuKhan, 65%. Further, the doctors in- World Dairy Summit 2022 in
Thecourtnotedthatthemat- whoisalsobelievedtohavesup- formed that the chances of GreaterNoida.“Goatpox[vaccine]
ter has wider ramifications and pliedthefuel,havesincebeenar- survival in cases with more than is 100% safe and effective.”
directed the government to rested and booked for murder. 50%burnsareveryless,’’thecom- FULL REPORT ON
come up with the policy. In its report, the NCW’s fact mission said in its report. www.indianexpress.com

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India-Bangladeshties havegrown.Matureleadershipon
BECAUSE THE TRUTH INVOLVES US ALL
bothsideshasnotletminordisagreementsdisruptthem

NATION & NARRATION Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty

PM frames his grand project of erasure and construction.
THE JOINT STATEMENT issued after Prime informationandbroadcastingamongothers. country diversifies its defence hardware in-
To get a sense of its challenge, Opposition needs to listen in

K
MinisterNarendraModi’svisittoBangladesh Five new infrastructure projects have been ventory. China’s footprint in Bangladesh has
ARTAVYA PATH, THE remade Rajpath, stretches from Rashtrapati Bhavan in March 2021 noted that bilateral ties were announced. Significantly, there is an agree- increased via the BRI, as part of Beijing's con-
to India Gate in the national capital. But as Prime Minister Narendra Modi enjoying a “Shonali Adhhaye” (golden chap- ment on the water-sharing formula for the certed effort to influence New Delhi's neigh-
ter). The last decade or so has indeed been river Kushyara that flows into Bangladesh bours.Bangladeshhasbeencarefulinassess-
inaugurated it on Thursday, he located it at the heart of a large and grand
the best period in the relations between the from Assam’s Silchar district. India has re- ing China’s “debt-trap” diplomacy, given the
project — much larger and much grander than the Central Vista revamp of twocountriesinthelast50years.Bangladesh questedthefinalisationof thetemporarywa- economic crises in Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
which it is a part. In PM Modi's narration, the Kartavya Path is the symbol of a nation free- is now central to India’s “Neighbourhood ter sharing accord on the Feni river, which The Rohingya refugee issue has imposed
ing itself of “ghulami ki mansikta (colonial mindset)” by erasing the vestiges of the past. First Policy”,particularly given theeconomic meets Tripura’s water requirements. The a huge burden on Bangladesh. PM Hasina
There are other symbols of this erasure — he mentioned the renaming of Race Course crisis affecting Pakistan and Sri Lanka. pending Teesta agreement has been caught raisedthisissueandcalledonIndiatohelpin
Road to Lok Kalyan Marg, filling the Beating Retreat ceremony with homegrown song, Bangladesh remains an oasis of political and in the quagmire of Centre-state relations in repatriating the refugees to Myanmar. India
economicstability,thoughstressfactorsgen- India. The Joint Rivers Commission has been has done so with humanitarian assistance
altering the “samay aur tareek”, the rhythm and beat, of the annual presentation of the
erated by the Covid pandemic and the war mandated to examine the sharing of waters and quiet dialogue with the military govern-
UnionBudget.Itwasn'tjustasymbolicchange.Anewarchitecturewas alsoneededinthis in Ukraine have caused inflation linked to of 54 transboundary rivers and flood data mentinNaypyidaw.Onlyinternationalpres-
“aitihasik kshan”, historic and transformational moment, he said, to house the “aatma” high energy prices. sharing. Bangladesh has announced 200 sure can help but China is unlikely to push
or national consciousness that was being born. It required a whole new “cultural infra- Even with the friendliest of neighbours, scholarships to descendants of children of Naypyidaw to resolve the issue.
structure”, in fact, which encompasses not just places of pilgrimage and centres of faith, there are always areas of disagreement. It is Indian military personnel who laid down PM Hasina has strived to reinforce the
but also monuments connected to national heritage and heroes relegated by those who asignof thematureleadershipinbothcoun- theirlivesinthe1971Warof Liberation.India secular nature of Bangladesh’s polity, in the
told the earlier histories. The road to “sarvshreshtha Bharat (nation at its best)” of the fu- tries that these differences have not been al- has a programme of providing medical facil- teeth of opposition from Islamists and puri-
lowed to upset the broad positive trend in itiesforwarveteransandtheirfamilies.These tanical sections. With her overwhelming
ture also passes through Kartavya Path, the PM said.
therelationship.BangladeshisIndia’slargest measures cement people-to-people ties. majority in parliament, she has restored sec-
Thewidthof theproject,thedepthsitseekstotouchandtrawl,wereframedinthePM's trading partner in the Subcontinent, the Negotiations on the Comprehensive ularism as a founding principle of the coun-
speech from Kartavya Path on Thursday. For him and his party, 2014 inaugurated a rup- largest development partner, the most pro- EconomicPartnershipAgreement(CEPA)are try's constitution but has avoided expung-
ture — not just a change from politics-as-usual in the erstwhile Congress-dominated sys- ductive connectivity partner and the largest to start shortly. Bangladesh will graduate ing the provision which makes Islam the
tem, but a deeper and more fundamental cultural shift. That shift is now being mapped source of foreign tourists. The total trade fromaLessDevelopedCountry(LDC)toade- state religion. She does not want to allow her
and consecrated on the nation's landscape, one renaming, one makeover, and one take- turnover in 2021 touched $18 billion. veloping country by 2026 and will no longer opponents to hurl allegations of being anti-
PM Shiekh Hasina’s visit follows former be entitled to trade and other benefits that Islam. She ensured that war criminals were
overatatime,allpackagedasnewIndiainthemaking.Andyet,whiletheambitionisclear,
Rashtrapati Ram Nath Kovind’s and PM areaccordedtoLDCsunderinternationaland convicted and executed. This dampened the
the harping on the “colonial mindset”, a thinly veiled attack on the supposedly western- Modi’svisittoBangladeshin2021,forthecel- PM Hasina has strived to regional trading agreements. The CEPA will morale of the Islamists, particularly the pro-
ised elites that have profited from the old order, also points to a paradox. For all its clar- ebration of 50 years of the country's indepe- reinforce the secular nature helpmanagethistransitionandpreservethe Pakistani Jamaat-e-Islami.
ion call to the more empowered India of the future, the PM's project seems far too pre- ndenceand“MujibBorsho”.Theupwardtra- trade privileges that Bangladesh enjoys. Hardline Islamists will remain a source
of Bangladesh’s polity, in the
occupied with a past that has either lost its power to cramp the nation's present and jectory in bilateral ties began in 2008, under The rising energy demand in Bangladesh of dangerandinstabilityinBangladesh.Their
the military-backed caretaker government. teeth of opposition from hasledtothe1,320MWthermalpowerplant networks have links to Pakistan’s terrorist
future, or has become so entangled with it that separation seems to be a hopeless en-
deavour. The “colonial hangover” in a nation that is mostly young, embracing new tech-
Maitri Express, the first passenger train be- Islamists and puritanical being built at Rampal by the NTPC in a 50:50 organisationsandterroristelementsinIndia.
nologies and facing the world more confidently, and finding its stride in the digital age,
tween Dhaka and Kolkata, made its inaugu- sections. With her joint venture. A 1,600 MW power plant in They seek to destabilise Bangladesh and
ral run in April 2008. Since 2009, PM Hasina Godda, Jharkhand built by the Adani group India.Onetoolof theseanti-Indiagroupsisto
is a fading spectre better left to die on its own. It doesn't need a monument built to com- overwhelming majority in
has ensured that the momentum in ties was will supply power to Bangladesh via a dedi- harass and attack Hindus and force them to
memorate its passing. maintained by taking the bold decision to parliament, she has restored cated transmission line by December next migrate. Better intelligence cooperation has
The Opposition, rendered invisible from Thursday's event, would nevertheless do crack down on Indian insurgent groups op- secularism as a founding year.The“Friendship”pipelinefromAssam’s helped both sides to tackle these disruptive
welltolistencarefullytothePM'sspeechfromKartavyaPath.Togetasenseof thefactthat erating from Bangladesh. This eliminated a principle of the country's Numaligarh refinery is nearing completion elements.Whilebilateraltieswillcontinueto
long-termirritantinbilateralties.Hervisitto and will deliver petroleum products to grow, these inimical forces will seek to un-
its challenge is bigger and more daunting than it thinks it is — it is facing an opponent
India in 2010 led to the signing of the
constitution but has avoided Parbatipur in Bangladesh dermine goodwill. Both countries must co-
who is armed not just with politics and a policy, but also, more primally, with the will to expunging the provision
Comprehensive Framework of Cooperation. Around $8 billion Line of Credit (LoC) has operate more closely against this menace if
erase and create. Thisfacilitatedthegrantof duty-freeaccessto which makes Islam the state been extended to Bangladesh, including the future has to be secured for economic
Bangladesh’s exports to India in 2011. religion. She does not want $500 million for defence-related procure- growth and prosperity.
During the current visit, seven agree- ment. This is significant because
ments have been concluded in sectors like
to allow her opponents to Bangladesh'sdefenceforceshavebeenheav- The writer is a former High Commissioner to
connectivity, environment, water manage- hurl allegations of ilydependenton Chinesemilitaryhardware. Bangladesh, founder-Director of DeepStrat

PAIN TO THE FORE ment, science and technology, railway, law, being anti-Islam. Progress on this issue will ensure that the and Visiting Fellow at ORF, Delhi

Souring MSME loans speak of a continuing distress that

simmers in the labour markets

A SUITABLE TEACHER
D
URING THE EARLY days of the pandemic, the Union government had an-
nounced an emergency credit line guarantee scheme designed to help
micro, small and medium enterprises in distress. This facility was meant
to ease the cash flow woes of these units, helping them pay off their ob-
ligations and salaries to employees. MSMEs were provided credit facilities up to a max-
Success of new education policy depends on how we recruit and assess teachers
imum of 20 per cent of their outstanding debt. Subsequently, the government enhanced
the scheme, expanding its scope in order to ensure greater fund flows into the econ- Aanchal Chomal and Anupama Raj
omy. As per data, around Rs 2.8 lakh crore of loans have been disbursed under this
scheme across one crore accounts. However, as reported in this paper, 16.4 per cent of RECRUITMENT OF WELL-QUALIFIED teach- passion and motivation of individuals to- of a teacher. The recruitment process should
these accounts have turned non-performing as borrowers have not been able to serv- ers into the schooling system is the first pre- wards teaching. It further recommends ex- assess the teacher’s aptitude in this respect.
ice their loans due to financial stress. These numbers suggest that even though the requisitetoensurethatstudentsreceivequal- tending these processes to all stages of edu- Therefore,anecessaryprecursortoawell-
overall economy has surpassed its pre-Covid level, large parts of it continue to be mired ityeducation.However,teacherrecruitment cation in public and private schools alike. rounded teacher recruitment process is to
processes in the country are not adequately These are welcome measures. What we have a comprehensive competency frame-
in distress.
streamlined. There are diverse recruitment needisacoherentstrategytotietogetherthe work that details the skills a teacher should
According to data furnished by the National Credit Guarantee Trustee Company, 16.22 processes across regions, school stages, and various tests and processes such as TET, have.Thiscouldbederivedfromateachered-
lakh loans have turned bad. In value terms, this works out to Rs 11,893 crore. This implies school types — central, state, and private teacherrecruitmenttests,classroomdemon- ucationcurriculumrootedinpolicyperspec-
that among the firms that availed the ECLGS facility, it is the relatively smaller firms that schools. This, in turn, leads to multiple crite- strationsandteacherinterviews.Thiswillen- tivesof theday.Forinstance,inthecaseof the
are under stress and have not been able to meet their obligations. Also, most of the loans riaandprocessesforhiringteachers,thereby ablea holistic assessmentof teacher compe- NEP,thecurriculumcouldbegearedtowards
that have turned bad were under the first tranche of the scheme. This is worrying as it bringing a wide disparity in teacher quality tence. impartingtraininginclassroompracticesthat
points towards the possibility of more pain surfacing in the months ahead. across institutions and regions. Many of the A starting point for this could be framing make learning joyful.
processesarealsosub-optimalinmeasuring a common understanding of what qualifies Therewillbemultiplelong-termbenefits
While these numbers do provide some sense of the scale of financial stress among
the competency of a candidate. as teacher competence. Simply speaking, to adopting such a holistic model of teacher
the MSMEs, it is important to draw a distinction — these are “formal” MSMEs with access One of the most common and widely- teachercompetencecanbeunderstoodasthe recruitment.Tobeginwith,itwillensurebet-
to formal sources of finances. For the informal MSMEs, much larger in number, the fi- taken tests to ensure eligibility for recruit- A necessary precursor to a core knowledge, skills, and dispositions ex- ter parity in the quality of teachers recruited
nancialstressislikelytohavebeengreaterasmostof themeasuresannouncedbythegov- mentistheTeacherEligibilityTest(TET),con- well-rounded teacher pected of a teacher to effectively contribute across the country. This, in turn, will con-
ernment to help the MSMEs deal with the fallout of the pandemic, flowed through the ducted at both the state (STET) and central recruitment process is to totheteaching-learningprocess.Butitisim- tribute to equitable education for students
formalmonetarychannels.InformalMSMEswithnoaccesstoformalsourcesof creditand levels (CTET). TET is the equivalent of the li- possible to reliably measure all this through from diverse sections of society. The recruit-
censure tests that are undertaken by teacher have a comprehensive a single test or process. Certain knowledge ment process will also become credible if it
such facilities are likely to have fared worse. Only those with sufficient reserves are likely competency framework in
candidates in various countries. However, in and skills such as conceptual depth in a sub- isrootedinaframeworkthatoutlinesthecore
to have been able to survive this turbulent period. Given that MSMEs, both formal and in- India,thetestisrequiredonlyforgovernment place that details the skills a jectandunderstandingof educationandlan- competencies of becoming a teacher. At the
formal, employ a sizeable section of the labour force, their continuing financial stress schoolteacherrecruitmentattheelementary guage comprehension can, of course, be as- systemic level, this may also lead to a reduc-
teacher should have. This
points to the simmering distress in the labour market. stage(Class1-8).TEThasbeencritiquedtime sessedthroughapaper-penciltest.However, tion in coaching centres as the assessment
and again for various reasons. These include could be derived from a to evaluate several other skills and disposi- processeswillbenon-standardisedandcan-
low pass percentages, poor test quality, teacher education tions, one requires multiple methods of as- not be easily gleaned from coaching materi-
lengthytestpapersandaseriouslackof align- curriculum rooted in policy sessment including classroom demonstra- als and guidebooks.
mentwithteacherpreparationprogrammes. tions and teacher interviews. These Teacherswithapassionfortheprofession
perspectives of the day. For

APPARAT-CHIC
The test was in the news recently because of assessments could help gauge skills like ef- are foundational to the positive educational
the teachers' recruitment scam in West instance, in case of the NEP fectivedisseminationof aconceptandselec- changeenvisagedbytheNEP.Settingupclear
Bengal. the curriculum could be tion of appropriate resources and learning benchmarksof qualityandwell-designedre-
To mitigate the longstanding gaps, the geared towards imparting materials. Most importantly, such processes cruitment processes hold the key to ensur-
Why are young people in China dressing up like civil servants? NEP2020recommendsnotonlyarevisionof shouldhelpevaluateateacher’sempathyto- ing better teaching-learning outcomes.
training in classroom
The answer may be easy to find the existing test but also supplementing it wardsstudents.Respectinglearnerdiversity

I
with other processes such as classroom practices that make and skills in building a participative/demo- Chomal and Raj teach at the Azim Premji
N THE STYLE-OBSESSED corners of the Chinese internet, which teem with evi- demonstrations and interviews to gauge the learning joyful. craticclassroomculturearecrucialrequisites University
dence of Gen Z’s passion for big-name brands and cutting-edge global fashion, a
new trend in conservative clothing is gaining in popularity. Young men have been
posting photos of themselves in clothes of the kind that are worn by their fathers,
and earning admiration for their on-trend looks.
Called “ting ju feng” or “office and bureau style”, this new trend celebrates what is SEPTEMBER 9, 1982, FORTY YEARS AGO
seen as the cadre or bureaucrat look: Neatly tucked-in shirt, oversized trousers and dark
blue jacket, with the only concession to visual flair coming from the red Chinese SHEIKH ABDULLAH DIES on the proposed supply of French nuclear
fuel for the Tarapur atomic power plant. The
could not go on with this kind of financing.
Communist Party pin in the chest. Chinese youth are not unique in embracing the gar-
ments of those older and decidedly less stylish than them — consider, for example, the SHEIKH MOHAMMAD ABDULLAH died on
September 8 after valiantly fighting for his
Indian delegation told the visiting French of-
ficials that to receive enriched uranium from
ARAB PEACE TALKS
baggy “mom” jeans which are among the hottest items of clothing right now around the
life following a prolonged illness. An ambu- France,Indiawouldnotacceptanyfreshsafe- ARAB HEADS OF state meeting in the east-
world, or the “normcore” aesthetic that swept the world a few years ago. lance carrying his body was taken from his guards. India has made it plain that it cannot ern Moroccan city of Fes agreed on a West
But beyond the mechanics of the fashion cycle — in today, out tomorrow, back in day- residence to his private office. His eldest son, accept the “pursuit” or “perpetuity” clauses Asiapeaceplan, basedonSaudiandTunisian
after—canbereadthesignsof asocietyandcultureinflux.SomeChineseyoungstershave FarooqAbdullah,wassworninasactingchief being insisted upon by the French. proposals. The Tunisian proposal is based on
described the cadre look as projecting a “mature” and “reliable” appearance. So does the minister of Jammu and Kashmir the1947UN decision to create separate Arab
new trend hint at a search for stability in a world thrown out of gear? An attempt to look Immediately after the swearing in, Farooq
Abdullah presided over a Cabinet meeting.
FOREIGN BORROWING and Jewish states.
responsible enough for a job in an economy that has yet to recover from the shock of
Covid-19? Is this adoption of a pared-down aesthetic a backlash against the excesses of
FINANCE MINISTER PRANAB Mukherjee
SOVIET LEADER DIES
the years leading up to the pandemic? Most likely, though, this adoption of what is essen- INDO-FRANCE TALKS stunned the foreign press by telling them
that the eventual cost to India of one years NIKOLAIYSUSLOV,aleadingcommunistoffi-
tiallyauniformisjusttheresultof decisionparalysis,thankstoasurfeitof choice—inother THE TALKS BETWEEN India and France con- shift of part of the borrowing from IDA to the cial in Leningrad and member of the central
words, simply the problem of “so many clothes, but nothing to wear”. cluded without resolving their differences World Bank would be $2.2 billion. So India committee, died in an automobile crash.

New Delhi
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13 THE IDEAS PAGE

THE INDIAN EXPRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2022 WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
“The US is paying closest attention to China-Russia cooperation, promoting the
creation of the international public opinion that 'binds' the two. However, the two
independent powers seek harmony, not uniformity and their relations are
partnership rather than alliance.” — GLOBALTIMES, CHINA

Modern and rooted The road to

Justas2014markedthedeparturefromtheoldpolity,CentralVistaprojectmarks
anemergencefromthecolonialshadow
Kartavya Path
Renaming of Rajpath isn’t about combating
‘colonial mindset’. It is about the
performance of power
themselves unable to resist corporate
“sponsorship”. This is a worldwide phe-
nomenon which now has a fancy name —
Abhinav Prakash “toponymic commodification”.
The Rajpath-Kartavya Path makeover
does not fit any of these models. The claim
ON SEPTEMBER 8, Prime Minister Narendra that itmarksthe moment of truedecoloni-
Modi inaugurated the first phase of the re- sation in2022isunconvincing,toputitpo-
vampedCentralVistaavenuestretchingfrom Satish Deshpande litely.TheoriginalnameKingswaycertainly
Vijay Chowk to India Gate to the public. He stood for British imperial power. However,
also unveiled the statue of Netaji Subhas the post-Independence name, Rajpath,
ChandraBosestatueatIndiaGate.Scheduled THE RENAMING of Rajpath, one of New need not be interpreted as a mere transla-
between 2020 and 2026, the Central Vista Delhi’s shortest and widest roads, may or tion of Kingsway. It is more plausible that
project is the first major reconstruction of may not mark the dawn of a new era. But it the name stood for the postcolonial state,
the heart of the national capital since does remind us that the naming of public particularly since in Indian languages, the
Independence.Itwillmeettherequirements objects is an act — literally, a performance onewhorules—orexercisesraj—neednot
of the coming decades. The need to revamp —of power.Itfollowsthattheactof renam- literally be a king or queen. Raj or rule is
and rebuild, augment the capacity of ing is meant to signal a change, the arrival more properly understood as the exercise
Parliament House, reimagine the office of a newer, stronger power. of legitimate power. It would be more in
buildings to increase the efficiency of the Since the wisdom of those wielding keeping with historical fact to say that this
Central Secretariat, allocate more space to power today declares the humanities and is a weak attempt to obscure the embar-
the ministries and parliamentarians and social sciences to be basically worthless, it rassingroleof theSangh Parivar inthecon-
make the place more accessible to the pub- may come as a revelation to many that text of our freedom struggle. If they are to
lic was felt for a long time. But just like most there is an established field of study de- be used in debate rather than for abuse,
other infrastructure projects in the country, voted to the naming of public places. terms like “colonial mindset” must be ac-
this one, too, suffered from a lack of clarity Indeed, I myself was pleasantly surprised companiedbycleardescriptionsthatallow
and willpower. to discover the sub-field of “critical to- us to separate it from, for example, love for
It did not matter to the previous regime ponymy” or the study of the politics of Western power or its symbols like former
that the dilapidated buildings in the seat of place names. President Donald Trump, or pride in the
the government imposed huge costs on the It is not so surprising, however, to find fact that an “Indian” almost became the
country about which much has been writ- thathistorically,regimechangeisoftenfol- prime minister of the UK.
ten about and argued over in the public do- lowed by name change. The 20th century Whatif westepbackfromsuchdisputes
main.ParliamentHousewas notdesignedto seemstohavebeenparticularlyeventfulin to simply ask: What is wrong with a name
host the bicameral legislature of the world’s this regard because it witnessed a wide va- likeKartavyaPath?Theanswerrequiresus
largest assembly. A new purpose-built riety of regime changes. The overthrow of to revisit earlier instances of renaming. I
Parliamentwasneededtoaccommodatethe right-wing dictatorships in Europe began must confess that I was pleased when my
anticipated increase in the number of par- the trend, with Germany being the most home town was renamed from the angli-
liamentarians after 2026. Similarly, an inte- famous case, but Italy, Spain and Portugal cised Hubli to Hubballi. This came after
grated Central Secretariat, hosting 25,000- must not be forgotten. This was followed muchbiggerchangeslikeChennai,Kolkata,
32,000 employees of various ministries, by the wave of decolonisation in Asia and MumbaiandBengaluru.Thoughtherewas
would greatly increase the efficiency of the Africa that brought independence to many someresistance,usuallyfrommiddle-class
central government in addition to reducing countries. Then, towards the end of the cosmopolitans, particularly in Mumbai,
economic and environmental costs. century, the collapse of Soviet and East thesechangeswerebroadlyinkeepingwith
But as usual, even this critical project has European communism led to further popular local usage. They could arguably
comeunder vicious attack by an unimagina- regime changes. This was quickly followed claim to be in the people’s interest.
tive opposition that thrives on pessimism. In bytheendof theApartheidregimeinSouth Now consider another set of changes
a way, the criticism of the Central Vista is no Africa. In each case, the transfer of power with a very different motivation. When re-
different from the criticism of every other C R Sasikumar was followed, sometimes immediately, naming is done or proposed for cities like
initiative of the Modi government — un- verted into green spaces. forward and no longer accepts them as the sometimes with a lag, by a spate of name Allahabad, Mughalsarai, Ahmedabad, or
grounded in facts and incomprehensible Modern office buildings built with sus- gatekeepers and arbiters of what is accept- changing.Provinces,cities—and,of course, Muzaffarnagar there is little doubt about
gobbledygook. So, the Central Vista project tainability and functionality at their core will able. Just as 2014 marked the final departure roads and streets — were vigorously re- the intention. It is an effort to erase and
is anti-democratic, anti-people, anti-envi- reduce the carbon footprint by curbing un- from the old polity of the last 100 years, the named in an effort to exorcise the past, deny our shared “Muslim past”. An inter-
ronment,fascistandtyrannical.Thenthereis necessary travel between ministries located Central Vista project marks the departure whether fascist, colonial or communist. esting case here is the conversion – if one
criticism thatit is a vanityproject,which will at random locations in the city and optimis- No listed heritage building in from the colonial roots of central Delhi. That naming and renaming are an inte- might call it that – of Aurangzeb Road to
destroy India's heritage to enrich construc- ing space and energy consumption. And no the Central Vista is being Renaming Rajpath as Kartavya Path is sym- gral part of the struggle for hegemony is APJ Abdul Kalam Marg, where the “bad,
tion companies. Even the best architects and listed heritage building in the Central Vista is bolic of this departure from the polity and demonstrated by the more complex and powerfulMuslim”isreplacedbythe“good,
demolished. The project
experts worldwide would fail to compre- beingdemolished.Theprojectconservesher- architecture of the erstwhileimperialcapital entangled histories of countries like Hindu-ised Muslim”. Also interesting, in a
hendsuchcriticismof aninfrastructureproj- itage buildings by relieving excess stress on conserves heritage buildings of the Raj. Installing the Bose statue during Ireland,Israel,Poland,Zimbabwe,thecoun- related but different sense, are instances
ect. Such commentary ranks in the category them due to roles for which they were not by relieving excess stress on Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav is another step to- tries of the former Yugoslavia, and, most liketherenamingof Gurgaon(Gudganvaan
of Twitter trolling and only showcases the originally meant and refurbishing them. And them due to roles for which ward removing traces of the colonial mind- poignantly today, Ukraine. In these cases, in Haryanvi) to Gurugram. Once again, the
damage social media has done to the public public objections, public consultation, and set, which is part of the Panch Pran for New the identities of victor and vanquished are motivations are transparent.
discourse across the world. hearingshavebeenfollowedasperthestatu-
they were not originally India during Amrit Kaal. unstable and continually contested. If re- TheRajpathto KartavyaPathstorydoes
The fact is that the project increases the tory requirements. The project even with- meant and refurbishing Thereclamationof thepeople’shistoryof naming public spaces is seen as especially not fit any of these models either. The only
green cover and public space with better stoodthescrutinythatcamefromseveralpe- them. And public objections, thefreedomstrugglefromthepropagandists important even in such contexts, it is clear comparable case is the rebirth of Race
amenities and public transport. No trees titions in the High Court and Supreme Court. public consultation, and of the old regime and taking back public that names matter and renaming is not a Course Road (where the Prime Minister
will be cut down for the project; instead, There can be legitimate disagreement with spaceand architecture from the commissars trivial act. lives)asLok KalyanMarg(People’s Welfare
there will be a net gain of 563 trees after all thedesignandaesthetics,asthesearesubjec-
hearings have been followed is indeed an important outcome of the The 21st century has brought an en- Path). These changes are not about colo-
transplants/plantations are completed. tive. But the fake narrative about the lack of as per the statutory Central Vista project beyond the core objec- tirely different variety of name changes nialism,communalpolitics,orSanskrit-ori-
Around 80,000 sqm of space in the North consultation and democratic legitimacy by requirements. The project tive of building a sustainable, efficient and with a commercial motivation. This takes ented shuddhi or purification. They are at-
and South Blocks will be added as public certain quarters simply means that they are even withstood the scrutiny democraticseatof governmentwhichisboth the form of corporate “naming rights” tempts to represent state power today, or
space due to their conversion to national miffedaboutnotbeingpersonallyconsulted. modern and rooted at the same time. where a company’s name and/or logo are “Modiraj”,tothepublicinasanctimonious
museums. Plus, around 2.25 hectares of So, what is the opposition to the project that came from several attached to a prominent public place or in- manner filled with a for-show hyper-
public and semi-public land currently be- all about? The answer lies in the inability of petitions in the High Court The writer is National Vice-President, stitution in return for payment of royalty. morality. After all is saidand done, perhaps
ing used by the government shall be con- the old guard to accept that India has moved and Supreme Court. Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha This development is a product of the ne- it is only fitting that this regime renames
oliberal era with its imperative for the an ornamental, little-used road — which
monetisationof previously“price-less”en- runs perpendicular to the people’s path
tities, and its discouragement of state (Janpath) — as the path of duty.

Way of seeing
spending on public goods and services.
Starved of public funding, many institu- The writer teaches at Delhi University.
tions, including city governments, find Views are personal

Uncorrectedrefractiveerrorsinchildrenaretakingahightoll.Thisneedstochange
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Amarjit Singh
SOME 35 years ago, Rajendra Prasad Yadav corrected or the correction is inadequate. source constraints precludes population- liminary examination by the teachers saved A FRUITFUL STEP A LARGER PROBLEM
was studying in a primary school in a Bihar Uncorrectedrefractiveerrorshaveaprofound based screening for childhood refractive er- the precious time of the ophthalmologists
village. A bright lad, he had a deep yearn- effect on the overall development of a child, rors in India. Furthermore, the availability of and optometrists. THIS REFERS TO the report, 'Prime THISREFERSTO theeditorial,‘Scenesof
ing for education. But he could only see particularly on their educational and psy- eye care services in the country varies be- The children who were identified with Ministertoopennew-lookCentralVista adeluge’(IE,September8).Theprimary
blurred images on the blackboard and, chosocial development. According to ASER tween and within regions. refractive problems were given a slip, which Avenue and unveil Netaji statue today' cause of the civic disaster that struck
therefore, could not participate in the class (2018),onlyhalf (50.3percent)of allstudents Given these disparities, school-based vi- they could take to the nearby optician con- (IE, September 8). The inauguration of Bengaluru may have been the heaviest
fully. He did not know why this was hap- inClass5canreadtextsmeantforClassIIstu- sion screening services are considered cost tracted by the District Blindness Control the Kartavya Path signifies a shift from rainfallinSeptemberonasingledaylast
pening and his teachers also did not under- dents. Only 40 per cent of Class 8 students in effective in detecting correctable causes of Society and get the spectacles for free. In this beinganiconof powertopublicowner- Sunday. But what lay hidden was
stand his predicament. In their ignorance, government schools can do simple division. decreased vision. In India, it is widely prac- manner DANIDA could cover the five pilot ship and empowerment. This redevel- decades of poor governance, steep cor-
they would often reprimand Rajendra, and Interalia,impairedvisioncontributestothese tised as part of the National Programme for districts fully and provide spectacles to all opment is a great step. It will be fruitful ruption and an unholy nexus between
send him to the back of the class as punish- poor outcomes. In later years, this manifests Control of Blindness (NPCB). However, the children with refractive errors. While this in attracting tourists, as well as relieve politicians and developers. As India’s
ment. Here, he would be at a further disad- as lost educational and employment oppor- coverage with traditional methods is mea- may not be an optimal solution, it is much the traffic clogs in the area. Honouring fastest growing city, since the 1980s,
vantage for he would not be able to see the tunities,foregoneeconomicgainsforindivid- gre. For example, in Gujarat, one of the bet- better than leavingouta majorityof thechil- Subhash Chandra Bose is a clear indica- Bengaluru expanded unrecognisably.
blackboard at all. uals, families and societies, as well as a com- ter performing states, close to 7.4 lakh chil- dren who need spectacles. We need to try tion that the spirit of public service is City planning rules and regulations
Rajendra’sisnotanisolatedcase.Millions promised quality of life. dren need refractive correction. Despite out homegrown remedies, which can be op- rooted in the duty to serve. were thrown to the winds to satiate the
of our students suffer from visual impair- Variousfactorsareresponsibleforrefrac- considerable expansionof theeyecare infra- erationalised on a scale. Kritika Thakur, Rajpur IT hub’s appetite. Water bodies andwa-
ment due to uncorrected refractive errors. tive errors remaining uncorrected: Lack of structure, the state is able to reach only Schools appear to be the best forum for terways hadlongago giveninto thede-
Studies have shown the overall prevalence
of refractive errors in children to be around
awareness and recognition; non-availability
of and/or inability to afford refractive serv-
around 96,000 children (13 per cent) and
provide them with free spectacles.
implanting health education for children
and for early detection of ocular morbidi-
THE RIGHT PATH veloper’s greed to starling effect.
S S Paul, Nadia
8.0 per cent.Amongthese,61.02 percent did ices for testing; insufficient provision of af- So what can be done? Years ago, the ties. Well-trained teachers, appropriately THIS REFERS TO the article, ‘Reaching
notusespectacles.Thepopulation-basedes-
timates of refractive errors in children in
fordable corrective glasses; and cultural dis-
incentives to compliance.
Danish agency DANIDA piloted a unique eye
care programme in five districts.
backed by optometrists as well as ophthal-
mologists, could make a major difference to
the journey’ (IE, September 8). India is a
vastcountrytrulyreflectingtheconcept
LEARN FROM HISTORY
India indicate that around 33.4 million chil- Rajendra was lucky. A local philan- Ophthalmologists and optometrists trained the malaise. Effective mechanisms can be of “unity in diversity”. The “Bharat Jodo THIS REFERS TO the report, ‘Rahul
dren in the country are in need of spectacles thropistsawhisdistressandgothimapairof school teachers in basic eye care. The teach- put in place through the area district hospi- Yatra” is a win-win situation for Rahul launches yatra: BJP wants to divide, flag
for vision correction. spectacles.Oncetherefractiveerrorwascor- ersselectedwereusuallywomen,preferably tals and medical colleges to make random Gandhi, as it would broaden his hori- belongstoall’(IE,September8).Notbe-
Children often do not complain of defec- rected, over a period of time, Rajendra be- science graduates, who understood the checks to ensure capacity building and qual- zons and might also help him stake his ing cognisant of your history is one of
tive vision as they may not even be aware of came a distinguished scholar. After special- structure of the eye, and the key role of re- ity of the programme. claim in the upcoming presidential the key causes of a community’s back-
their problem. They may adjust to poor vi- ising in chest diseases, he monitored the TB fractive correction and spectacles in dealing Concerted efforts from various stake- elections in the Congress. However, the wardness. Congressmen under the
sion by strategies such as changing position programme in India, on behalf of WHO. with the condition. Those wearing eye- holders including health, education exclusion of two poll-bound states — leadershipof RahulGandhi,byvirtueof
in the classroom, moving objects closer, and Currently, he is Country Medical Officer at glasses themselves were preferred as they providers and parents are required to man- Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat — from this lack, fail to draw lessons. Yatras
tending to avoid tasks that require more vi- WHO (Philippines). All children, however, could be an appropriate role model for the age uncorrected refractive errorsin children. the route is a miscalculation. Every po- since Mahatma Gandhi have become a
sual concentration. are not so fortunate. young girls. Their job was to screen the chil- Itwouldbeapityif weallowthelackof apair litical yatra in Indian political history source of knowledge that has informed
Refractiveerrorscanbeeasilydiagnosed, In India, there are around 365 million dren and identify those who needed refrac- of spectacles to stymie the potential of mil- has paid rich dividends to the leaders political strategy . Rahul Gandhi has
measured and corrected with spectacles or children aged less than 15 years (29 per cent tive error correction. At a prevalence rate of lions of our children. who embarked upon them. Let’s hope only focussed on BJP resulting in his
other refractive corrections to attain normal of thepopulation).Ideally,everychildshould 8 per cent, a school with 500 children would this journey proves meaningful. party’s marginalisation.
vision. They become a major cause of low vi- be screened for refractive errors. However, have around 40 cases which would have to The writer, former health commissioner, Devendra Awasthi , Lucknow G Javaid Rasool, Lucknow
sion and even blindness only if they are not the large number of children as well as re- be examined by the optometrists. The pre- Gujarat, is chairman, Gujarat RERA

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I,Gurmeen Kaur Gandhi,W/o I,Akhalakh S/o Yasin R/o A-50 Ground I, Anshul Bagri D/o Kunwar Singh

Classifieds Chiplun Municipal Council

Late.Surinder Pal Singh Floor,Kh.No.71-72,Gali-No.1/3, Bagri R/o Z-162, Sector-12, Noida,
Gandhi,R/o.A-248, Vikaspuri, Bhagirathi Vihar Gokalpur Delhi- Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar
Delhi-110018,have changed 110094, changed my name to Akhlaq Pradesh-201301, infrorm that Anshul Government of Maharashtra
PERSONAL
my minor-son’s name Simar
Preet Singh to Simarpreet
Ali. 0040631328-2 Bagri and Anshul are one and same
person. 0040631207-1 Notice for Tender
I,AJAY KUMAR S/O GOVIND
Singh Gandhi. 0040631328-1
RAM GUPTA R/O PLOT NO.34,T- Biogas Project of 5 Ton capacity
I,Madan Mohan,S/o Amar Nath EXTN,2ND-FLOOR,JAIN
Sharma R/o.Town House- I,ISHA D/O SANDEEP KUMAR R/O COLONY PART-1,UTTAM
CHIPLUN Municipal Council, Government
D9,Uniworld-City West-Behind RZ-161B NARSINGH GARDEN NAGAR,DELHI-110059.
LOST & FOUND of Maharashtra, invites proposal from reputed
Star-Mall,Sector-30,Gurgaon KHYALA DELHI HAVE CHANGED CHANGED MY NAME TO AJAY Lost Share Certificate Of TAJ and experienced companies to participate in
(Haryana)-122001,have MY NAME TO ISHA MIGLANI. GUPTA. 0040631328-7
changed my name to Madan
SARTAJ CO-OP GROUP the competitive bidding process for Biogas
0040631283-8 HOUSING SOCIETY LTD Of
Mohan Sharma. 0040631286-2
I, Vibhor Yadav S/o. Ajay Yadav
Qubool Ahmed Siddiqui
Project of 5 ton capacity at land No. 168/4/2
R/o. H.No. S-147, Sunder Block,
It is for general information
I,KM Pooja Grover,D/o-Desh Raj
Shakarpur Baramad, East Delhi Membership No 187 & Flat No under Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban). For
Grover W/o-Manish Arora,R/o-
that I,Rose Farooqi,D/o 337/338/4,Gali No.1,Opp.Sai have changed my name to Y- 201 At Jasola, New Delhi. detailed tender documents, interested bidder
Please Contact 9717787684 If
Aalluddin,R/o F-10,New- Vatika, Ramnagar,Gurgaon, Viibhor Yadhav. 0040631208-1
Found. 0050204170-1
should visit https://www.mahatenders.gov.in/tenders.
Seelampur,Delhi-110053,
declare that name of my-
(Haryana)-122001,have I, Utkarsh Singh, S/o Vijay Tender submission would be online and the
changed my name to Pooja Singh, R/o 138/86, Sanjay Gandhi I, Laxmi Narayan S/o Gulab
father has been wrongly- Arora. 0040631286-1 Nagar, Naubasta, Kanpur Nagar, Singh, R/o 84, F/F, Type-2 Qtr, deadline to submit the proposal is 29.09.2022.
written as Alauddin in my
10th-class Marksheet and I,Kawaljit Kaur W/O.Nanak Uttar Pradesh-208021, have Lancers Road, Near Jawahar Date : 08.09.2022
changed my name and shall Market, Timarpur, Delhi-
Certificate.The actual-name of Singh R/O.WZ-54A, second-
hereafter be known as Vansh 110054, have lost my property Sd/-
floor, gali.no.25, Sant-garh,
my is father Aalluddin, which
may be amended accordingly. Tilak-Nagar,New Delhi- Singh. 0070803014-1 papers (1.Demand Letter, Chief Officer
2.Possession Letter, 3.Side
0040631283-6
110018,have changed my I, Savita, W/o Puneet Gulati, R/o Possession Letter, 4.NOC- Chiplun Municipal Council
name to Kawaljeet Kaur,for all 119/13, Naveen Colony, Ward 1,
I.Mohd Zafar Sayeed,S/O purposes. Naraingarh, Ambala, Haryana-
Water & Electricity and other Government of Maharashtra
documents) of property No.
MR.MOHD. TAHA KHAN, 0040631211-4 134203, have changed my 220, G/5, Ground Floor, Janta
HOUSE.NO.B-14/105, GALI name and shall hereafter be Flat, Sector-16, Rohini, Delhi-
NO.15,SUBHASH MOHALLA, I,LOVEPREET SINGH,S/O known as Megha Gulati.
Harjinder Singh,R/O.167- 110085. 0040631234-1
NORTHGHONDA, NEAR-
A,Ground-Floor,Vijay-Laxmi 0070803010-1 I,SAROJ KUMARI,W/O
SHISHEY WALI-MASJID,DELHI-
110053,have changed my Park,Nilothi- I, Rajiv Gupta S/o Churia Mal LATE.SUBHASH CHANDER,
name to Mohd Zafar Extn.,Nangloi,Delhi-110041, Bansal R/o Plot No-265,266 R/O.A-l64,JHILMIL-COLONY,
saeed,permanently. inform that in my passport-my Fourth Floor, Pocket-A4, DELHI-110095,THAT MY-LOST
mother’s name is incorrectly- Sector-4, Rohini, Delhi have 6-ORIGINAL-AGREEMENT TO
0040631328-4 mentioned DEVINDER KAUR changed my name as Rajeev SELL,POSSESSION-LETTER,
I,shakil s/o jitender pal R/o.d- while his correct-name is- Bansal permanently AFIDAVIT & OTHER-
1401, Today-ridge residency, DEWINDER KAUR. DOCUMENTS,IN RESPECT OF
0040631278-1
sector-135,near noida- 0040631284-1 PROPERTY.NO.A-164, JHILMIL-
expressway, noida,up- I, Rajinder Kaur D/o Surjit Singh, COLONY DELHI,IN THE NAME
201305,have changed my I,MANDEEP SINGH,S/O R/o WZ-71, S/F, Guru Nanak OF SAROJ KUMARI VIDE-FILE
name to Shakil Rataeeya,for RAJINDER SINGH ANAND,R/O Nagar, Tilak Nagar, Delhi- LR.NO.675256/2022,PLEASE-
all purpose. 0040631211-3 BA-239/1 TAGORE-GARDEN 110018. My correct name is FINDER CONTACT-MR.PANKAJ
DELHI,HAVE CHANGED NAME Rajinder Kaur but in my ARORA-9911011077.
I,hitherto known as Jonat J OF MY-MINOR SON passport (K2912730) it has 0040631284-11
Mathew alias Jonat John PRABHNOOR SINGH ANAND TO been written as Rajinder Kuar,
Mathew,S/O John Mathew R/O PRABHNOOR SINGH. that in future correct name i.e.
H.No.1872A, Housing Board
0040631283-7 Rajinder Kaur. 0040631203-1
Colony,Sector-29,Faridabad- PUBLIC NOTICE
121008,have changed my I,Mohd Shamshad,S/O Abdul I, Rajesh, S/o Shri. Ram Kumar, General Public is informed that my
name and shall hereafter be Aziz,R/o H.No.C-131,Gali No-05, R/o House No.845, Type-2, New client Mrs. Ramwati W/O Late
known as Jonat John Mathew. Residential Complex, Tihar Jail Kanti Prasad R/O M-39, Gali No.
Shri Ram-colony, Rajiv- 13, Brahm Puri, Seelampur, Delhi,
0040631283-11 Nagar,Delhi-110094.have Hari Ngar, South West Delhi- have severed all relationship with
Changed my name to Mohd 110064, have changed my her youngest son NARENDER
I,Sweety,W/o-Punjab Singh, name and shall hereafter be KUMAR and have DEBARRED &
Samsad.permanently. DISOWNED him from all her
R/o-Kh.No.41/6, 1st Floor, known as Rajesh Kumar. movable and immovable
Gautam Colony,Narela, Delhi- 0040631211-6 properties absolutely & forever
0070803057-1 due to his misbehavious and
110040,that name of mine, I,Nayan Kumar S/O Sanjay involvement in frauds. Anybody
mistakenly written in my Kumar,R/O, H.No-234,Second- I, Pawandeep Kaur w/o dealing with him shall do so at his
aadhar card,as Sweety Rani floor Ashoka Enclave-I, Sector- Arvinder Singh, R/o WZ-429-A, own cost & risk.
instead of Sweety. Nanakpura, Hari Nagar, Delhi- Sd/- (ABHINAY GUPTA
34,Amarnagar-Faridabad ADVOCATE
0040631286-6 Haryana-121003,have changed 110064 have changed my name (M) : 9811142367
my name to Nayan Jaiswal,for to PAWAN DEEP KAUR
I,Susila Devi W/o,No.6600814 All,Futura Purpose. 0040631209-2
SEP Lt. RAJENDRA Prasad
Tiwari R/o,B-156,Resettlement 0040631211-8 I, Neeraj AN Malhotra s/o
Colony,Khyala,ND-18,have I,PARKASH S/O SOHAN LAL R/O Amarnath Malhotra, R/o
changed my,name to Sushila FLAT NO-324 GH-14 PASCHIM 11/138, Geeta Colony, Delhi-
Devi,vide-affidavit date.7.9.22 VIHAR DELHI HAVE CHANGED 110031 have changed my name
before, Delhi. 0040631283-1 MY NAME TO PRAKASH to NEERAJ MALHOTRA
I,Sunil S/o Pokar Dass,R/o B- RATAWAL. 0040631209-1
2/222,JJ Colony,Raghubir 0040631283-10 I, Monika Sood, D/o Yash Pal
Nagar, Delhi-110027,have Sood, R/o M173A, Second
I,Parmod Kumar R/O F-16,
changed my name to Sunil Floor, Near, Artimis Hospital,
Mahavir
Kumar. 0040631211-2 Today Blassom-2, Sector-51,
Enclave,Dwarka,Delhi-110045,
I,Shivani Makkar W/o Sameer changing name of minor child Sikanderpur Ghosi (68),
Chawla R/o H.No.23-B, Road Yug to Yug Singla. Gurgaon, Haryana-122002,
No.77, Punjabi Bagh west, New have changed my name and
0040631283-3
Delhi-110026,have changed shall hereafter be known as
my name to Shivani Chawla. I,Parmod Singla Alias Parmod Monica Sood. 0070803012-1
Kumar Singla,S/O Suresh
0040631286-7 I, Mohit Chauhan, S/o
Kumar R/O F-16, Mahavir-
Anangpal Singh, R/o 09,
I,Sadaf Nafees,W/o-Saud Enclave,Delhi-110045,
Budhakhera, Muzaffarnagar,
Rashid,R/o-E-18,Haji Colony, changing name to Parmod
Uttar Pradesh-247772, declare
Jamia Nagar,New Delhi- Kumar.
that name of my Wife has been
110025, declare that,the both 0040631283-4 wrongly written as Mayumi
names,Sadaf Saud and Sadaf
I,Rajkumar R/O.65/10, back- Borava in my minor Son
Nafees are the,name of
Medhaansh Chauhan, aged
one,and the same person,i.e. side second-floor, Ashok-
about 1 years, in his Birth
Sadaf Nafees. That in future Nagar,Tilak-Nagar,New Delhi-
Certificate. The actual name of
I,will be known,by the name of 110018,have changed
my Wife is Mayumi Boruah,
Sadaf Nafees,for all purposes. my-minor Son’s name Krish to
which may be amended
Krish Sareen,for all purposes.
0040631286-11 accordingly. 0070803011-1
0040631211-10
I,SHUBHABRATO CHATTERJEE, I, Arjuna Anand, S/o J. Lal, R/o
R/o- H-3/1101, TOWER- I,Ram Niwas S/o Chandan R/o- 7/489, Near St. Mary College,
G,CLASSIC RESIDENCY RZ-37, Y-Block, New Jankipuram Vistar, Lucknow,
RAJNAGAR-EXTENSION Roshanpura, Najafgarh, Uttar Pradesh-226021, have
GHAZIABAD, UP Delhi,have changed my name changed my name and shall
201001,CHANGED MY NAME to Ram Niwas Dahiya. hereafter be known as Arjuna
SHUBHABRATO 0040631286-9 Anandn. 0070803015-1
CHATTAPADHAYAY TO
I,Raminder Singh,S/o Attar I, Devender Kumar, S/o Hem
SHUBHABRATO
CHATTERJEE,FOR ALL Singh,R/o 211, Block-M,Guru- Chand, R/o 2358, Gali Ravi
PURPOSE. 0040631211-9 Harkishan Nagar,Paschim Dass, Sita Ram Bazar, North
Vihar,Delhi-110087,have Delhi-110006. I have changed
I,SHIVENDRA KUMAR SINGH, changed my name to the name of my minor Son PUBLIC NOTICE
S/O-JITENDRA SINGH, H.NO. Raminder Singh Sachdeva. Ochitya Singh aged about 12 My client Shri Ashok Kumar
349K BLOCK GALI.NO.6B years and he shall hereafter S/o Shri Shamber Lal R/o A-
MAHIPALPUR EXTENSION 0040631283-2
be known as Anirudh Singh. I/144, Madangir, New Delhi-
SOUTH-WEST DELHI-110037, I,Vinay Kumar S/O Suresh PUBLIC NOTICE 62, have disowned/debarred
0070803009-1 his son Rahul Kumar (Toni),
HAVE CHANGED MY NAME TO Aggarwal R/O 137, H17,Sec-7, This is for the information of the
general public that my client Sh. Om
SHIVENDRA SINGH. Rohini Delhi-110085, have I, Kehara Ram, S/o Bhoma Ram, Prakash S/o Late Sh. G.L.Dulgas R/o
from his all moveable and
R/o Huddo Ki Dhani, Newra 180, Matiala Village, Lal Dora, Uttam immoveable properties, due to
0040631328-5 changed my name to Vinay N a g a r, N e w D e l h i - 11 0 0 5 9 h a s N.I.T. No. S.N. 18-A & B-2022-23-W-V
his misbehve and unsocial
Kumar Aggarwal. 0040631283-5 Road, Jodhpur, Rajasthan- disowned and debarred his son
activity, and ended all their 1 Name of work with its location: A) Conducting a Drone Videography UAV/
I,SALEEM AHMAD,S/O RAIS 342303, have changed my Deepak Prakash from all his movable
I,Devender Kumar S/o Trilok and immovable properties with relations in future, and
AHMED,R/o 493.GALI MATIA name and shall hereafter be immediate effect because his bad Drone by capturing 4K resolution videography of the whole alignment at Delhi
Nath Suri R/o-5A/30,Tilak habits and his constant fighting at
anybody dealing with him in
MAHAL JAMA MASJID DELHI- known as Kailash Hudda. home and outside, and loss of my client his own risk. area. Similar nature of work: Any work involving "conducting aerial mapping/
6,HAVE CHANGED MY NAME TO Nagar,N.D-18,have changed mental peace, harassment, torture, videography using UAS drone technology for generation of orthophotos/videos.
0070803020-1 Sd/-
SALEEM AHMED. 0040631211-7 my name to Davender kumar cruelty, atrocities committed by him
PRADEEP KUMAR
against client. Anybody dealing with C) Provision of toliet, ramps and other facilities in Divyangjan station of JNC-PWL
Suri. 0040631211-1 I, Krishna, W/o Ram Dhan, R/o him shall do so at his/her/their own risk, (Advocate)
I,Richa sachdeva W/o- cost and responsibilities thereto. My section under ADEN/TKD.
I, Laxmi Gangwar, D/o Gali No, House No, Lalheri client shall not be responsible in any
E.No. D/5921/2018
Roshandeep Singh bagga, Ch. No. 116, patiala House Similar nature of work: Any civil work other than Track work.
Bishamber Dayal Gangwar, Khurd, Lalheri (102), Larsauli, manner for the same.
R/o.J-12/22,second-floor Sd/- B.B.N. DEO, Advocate Court, New Delhi 2 Approx. Cost of work: A) Rs. 88,74,450.00, C) Rs. 2,17,19,969.82
W/o Sunil Johri R/o Moh, Sonipat, Haryana-131039, S.R.IInd,B Coumpus, Janak Puri,ND-58
rajouri garden,Delhi- 3 Earnest Money Deposit: (It should be in the form of net banking or payment
Khakra, Pilibhit, Uttar declare that name of Mine and
110027,have changed my
Pradesh-262001, have My Husband has been wrongly PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE gateway Only. Note:- FDR will not be accepted as EMD for tender invited on
name to Richa bagga.
changed my name and shall written as Krishna Malik and It is hereby informed through this general public
Be it known to general public that my IREPS as per Railway Boards letter no. 201025//CE-I/CT/5/1 dated 31.08.2016)
client Shabra W/o Late Sh. Sher
0040631211-5 hereafter be known as Pooja Ramdhan Malik in my minor that my client Shri Udai Vir Singh S/o Late Shri
Mohammad R/o 149A, Second Floor, A) Rs. 1,77,500.00, C) Rs. 2,58,600.00
Kirpal Singh. R/o Flat no. 96, Rishi Apartments.
Johri. 0070803019-1 Son Dhawan Malik, aged about Plot No. 25/4. Sector-9, Rohini. Delhi-110085 has Hauzrani, Malviya Nagar, New Delhi-
I,Bechan Kumar Rai S/o Jagdish Rai debarred and disowned his son namely Mr. Mukul 110017 had disowned and debarred her 4 Completion period of Work A) 4 Months, C) 6 Months
R/o L-1224, Mangolpuri Delhi- 13 years, In his Birth Singh from their movable and immovable son namely Mohammad Zubair from all
I,RAJ KUMAR GUJELA,S/O.SIYA 5 Date and time for submission of tender and opening of tender: Upto 15.00
110083 have changed my name to Certificate. The actual name of properties since 30th August 2022 as he has not her movable and immovable properties.
RAM ADD-201,33 FEET-ROAD obeyed my client and misbehave with him. Due to My client and her other family members hrs. on 30.09.2022. Opening of tender at 15.00 hrs. On 30.09.2022
Bechan Rai. 0040631328-3 Mine and My Husband are their disrespectful and unethical behavior towards
have severed all relations with him as
SEC-23 SANJAY-COLONY Krishna and Ram Dhan, which
my client, my client has also severed all relations
he has gone wayward and he is not in 6 Website particulars notice board location complete details of tender can
with him and if anybody deals with him in any
I,GEETA GUJELA,W/O.RAJ FARIDABAD HARYANA 121005, may be amended accordingly. manner, he/she shall do so at his/her own risks, control of my client. If anybody deals be seen and address of the office from where the tender form can be
cost and consequences. My client shall not be with him then my client and her other
KUMAR ADD-201,33 FEET- changed my name to RAJ responsible in any manner, whatsoever for any act family members shall not be purchased etc.: Above tender available on IREPS site i.e. www.ireps.gov.in
0070803023-1
ROAD SEC-23 SANJAY-COLONY KUMAR,for all,future of his son namely Mukul Singh. responsible for the same.
Sd/- Sd/-
FARIDABAD HARYANA- Purposes. 0040631286-4 I, Kunwarpal Singh S/o Shri Mandeep Bansal M.S. HUSSAIN (ADVOCATE)
Advocate
121005,changed my name to Badri Singh R/o T-21, B-A/1, ENROL. NO. D-2032/1999
I Misban Roman alias Misban D-2377-B/06
Ch. NO.451, Saket Courts
GEETA,for all,future Purposes. Dagar Apartment, Ward No.3, Off. D-11/88, G.F. Sec-07
New Delhi-17
Romana D/o Mohd Shakir Saifi Rohini Delhi-110085

0040631286-5 Mehrauli, New Delhi-110030

R/o H.No.5B/26, Gali No.6,
have changed my name Amar PUBLIC NOTICE
I,GURPEET SINGH S/O
Gurudwara Mohalla, Maujpur,
Kumar to Kunwarpal Singh for PUBLIC NOTICE Public at large is hereinformed, that my
North East Delhi, Delhi-110053 This to inform public at large that
MOHINDER SINGH R/O F-110 all purpose. 0040631202-1 clients Sh. Upender Chugh son of Sh
have changed my name to my client Sh. Naresh S/o Late Sh. Laxmi Das Chugh, and his wife Mrs.
MANSAROVER GARDEN DELHI Chander and Smt. Angoori R/o Pushpa, both residents of flat No. 101 &
Karishma Saifi for all I Bhrahmanand Bhaskar S/o Sh.
HAVE CHANGED MY NAME TO House No. 2321-2322, EE- Block, Plot No. 40 The Vijeta Shri Society, Sector
purposes. 0040631198-7 Sukh Lal R/o B-12, Block-B, Jahangir Puri, Delhi, have cut off No. 65 Faridabad, has severed all their
GURPREET SINGH. 40631283-9
I Mudit Gadhok S/o Sh. Tejinder Jagat Puri, Krishna Nagar, East their family relations and have
disowned their son Sh. Rohan and
relations with their son Nikhil Chugh and
daughter in law Ishita Chugh, both E-Auction Notice
I,Bhupinder Kaur,W/o Delhi-110051, have changed temporary residents of our abovesaid
Sh.Sukhchain Singh R/o-C-
Singh Gadhok R/o Q-1302, VVIP
my name from DEVANAND
his wife Smt. Gomti @ Priyanka
R/o House No. 2321-2322, EE-
address and pmt. residents of C-580 JJ HARYANA TOURISM CORPORATION LIMITED
Addresses, Raj Nagar Camp Tigri, Dr Ambedkar Nagar, N. Delhi,
12/1,Mandawali,Unchepar,
Extension, Ghaziabad, Uttar
BHASKAR to BHRAHMANAND Block, Jahangir Puri, Delhi from
their all movable and immovable
with immediate effect and they will not be
entitled to inherit any of their movable and
invites e-bids for licensing out Swaran Jayanti
Delhi-110092,inform that BHASKAR for all future
my,name was wrongly-written
Pradesh-201001 have changed
purposes. 0040631254-1
properties due to their disobedient,
quarrelsome and dis-respective
immovable properties. Any body dealing
with them, shall do so, at his/her cost and
Multipurpose Hall at Jagadhari, Yamuna Nagar on
the name of my minor son
in my Schooling-Certificate as
from Pranshul Gadhok to I Rajesh Kumar alias Rajesh
nature and my clients shall not be
responsible for any act of their son
consequences.
Sd/- S.C. ARORA
License basis for a period of 9 Years (3 + 3 + 3) on
Sweeta Kaur instead of
correct name is Bhupinder
Atharv Gadhok for all Kumar Choudhary S/o Late Sh.
and his wife in any manner,
whatsoever in future.
(Advocate)
B-3/64-B, Lawrence Road, Delhi-35 “as is where is basis”. E-Auction documents are
purposes. 0040631198-6
Kaur,both names are same Shish Ram R/o H.No.1967, Sd/- VIKASH BHARDWAJ
Enrl. No. D/2044/2009 Advocate
available at the website of HTC i.e. www.haryana-
persons. 0040631328-6 I Priya Pradeep Bhoir D/o Sh. Sector-4, Urban Estate, PUBLIC NOTICE

Pradeep Jagannath Bhoir W/o

Gurgaon, Haryana-122001
Ch. No. 722, 7th Floor,
Lawyers Chamber Block,
Be it known to General public tourism.gov.in as well as on NIC portal http://eauc-
that my client JEET SINGH
I,Aseem Batra S/o,Rajesh Batra
Sh. Akash Sharma R/o Plot
have changed my name to Rohini Court, New Delhi-110085
SON OF LATE PYARE LAL tion.gov. in for online participation.
Rajesh Kumar Choudhary for R/O 6 BHOGAL ROAD
R/o,Sultanpur Metro-Depot, 24 No.112 and 113, L-1-Block,
Mohan Garden, Uttam Nagar,
all purposes. 0040631198-8 PUBLIC NOTICE BHOGAL NEW DELHI-110014 Last date for submission of documents are
Prakriti-Marg, Sultanpur-Farms, has disowned and debarred his
Sultanpur, South-Delhi, Delhi- New Delhi-110059 have I, Ageem S/o Amir Mohammad R/o
That Our client Sh. Jai Singh S/o
Bhartu Singh and Smt. Bimla W/o
''IMPORTANT'' SON namely LAXMI NARAIN 15.09.2022 till 11:00 AM & E-Auction will start from
110030,have changed my-minor changed my name to Priya New F-196 Raghubir Nagar Tagore Sh. Jai Singh R/o A 1262/63, Whilst care is taken prior to
acceptance of advertising
and his family member from
severed his all relations and his
19.09.2022 (11 am) to 19.09.2022 (04 pm).
daughter’s name Syra Batra to Akash Sharma for all Garden Delhi have changed my Jahangir Puri, Delhi-110033, copy, it is not possible to verify

Syrrah Batra. 0040631286-8 purposes. 0040631198-10 name as Ageem Khan permanently debarred their Son Sh. Yogesh its contents. The Indian
Express (P) Limited cannot be
all moveable, immoveable
properties and also severed all
For enquiry please call at Mobile no. 8742901812
Kumar with respect to all movable
I have changed my name from I,Sujata,W/o-Madan Mohan 0040631278-2 and immovable properties and
held responsible for such
contents, nor for any loss or
his relations with them due
being them disobedient and
(Sh. Rajpal, Assistant General Manager).
inheritance of our client and our
Managing Director, HTC reserves the right to
damage incurred as a result of
Diliip Kumar Shah to Diliip Sharma,R/o-Town House-D9, I Roopal Singh D/o Sh. Virender clients have already severed all transactions with companies, disloyal towards my client. My
Shah for all future purposes. Uniworld-City West Behind relations with him and our clients associations or individuals client shall not be responsible
Diliip Shah, S/o Mohit Shah, Star-Mall,Sector-30,Gurgaon
Singh R/o House No.261, Third
are not responsible for any act or
advertising in its newspapers
or Publications. We therefore for any their acts deeds done by accept or reject any or all bids without assigning
Floor, Block-A, Pocket-2, commitment done by Sh. Yogesh them anyone dealing with them
any reason.
recommend that readers
R/o-A-248, Block-62, Mahadev (Haryana)-122001,have Sector-17, Dwarka, New Delhi- Kumar. make necessary inquiries shall be on their risk and
Apartment, Sector-73, Noida, changed my name to Sujata before sending any monies or
consequences.
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Can onions reduce blood
sugar? Study says yes, doctors
want findings tested in India
Pak floods & Indian response
PM Modi has expressed sympathy. For New Delhi, the decision to offer further help will involve balancing
EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE between projecting power as a global responder and managing the ruling party’s domestic political base
NEWDELHI,SEPTEMBER8
material losses caused by floods. With their
ANEWstudyhassuggestedthatonioncould characteristicresiliencethepeopleofPakistan
beamiraclesuperfoodtolowerbloodsugar shall,InshaAllah,overcometheadverseeffects
levels by 50%, adding that it can be consid- ofthisnaturalcalamity&rebuildtheirlivesand
ered for “potential use” in diets of patients communities.”
withType2diabetes.Thefindingswerepre- Pakistan’s Finance Minister Miftah Ismail
sented at The Endocrine Society’s 97th an- hassaidthatthegovernmentcanconsiderim-
nual meeting in San Diego on August 25. portingvegetablesandotheredibleitemsfrom
According to the study, the extract of an
onionbulbcould“stronglylower”highblood
Onions are a kitchen staple in India,
which also has a rising prevalence of
Shubhajit Roy India following the destruction of standing
cropsduetothefloods.Pricesofvegetablesand
sugarandtotalcholesterollevelswhengiven diabetes. Getty Images fruit have gone through the roof as supplies
alongsidetheanti-diabeticdrugMetformin. AS A flood that has been described as one of fromBalochistan,Sindh,andsouthPunjabes-
The researchers tested the theory on rats. Biblical proportions devastated Pakistan, pecially, have been badly affected.
In total, three groups of rats with med- cholesterollevelindiabeticrats,withthe400 PrimeMinisterNarendraModiexpressedhis The two major partners in Pakistan’s rul-
ically induced diabetes were given various mg and 600 mg having the greatest effects. condolences and hoped “for an early restora- ing coalition, the PPP led by Foreign Minister
doses of the onion extract. Dr Ambrish Mithal, Chairman and tion of normalcy”. Bilawal Bhutto, and the PML(N) led by the
The lead study author, Anthony Ojieh of Head, Endocrinology and Diabetes, Max “Saddened to see the devastation caused Sharifs, are waiting for further gestures from
DeltaStateUniversity,inAbraka,Nigeria,was Healthcare, called the observations “inter- by the floods in Pakistan. We extend our New Delhi. On the Pakistani side, Army Chief
quoted as saying, “Onion is cheap and avail- esting”, but pointed towards the quantity heartfelt condolences to the families of the India and Pakistan have a history of reaching out to each other during calamities. Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa has earlier spoken in
able. It has the potential for use in treating of onions used, something that is difficult victims, the injured and all those affected by PM Modi’s message has created a potential opening for ‘disaster diplomacy’. AP favour of improving ties. But the PTI under
patients with diabetes.” to internalise through a dietary route, even this natural calamity and hope for an early ImranKhanhasbeenopposingreconciliatory
Scepticalof the results,DrAnoopMisra, by humans. restorationof normalcy,”Modisaidinatweet moves, pushing the other political actors into
Chairman,FortisCDOCCenterforDiabetes, “They used up to 600 mg/ kg of body on August 29. to Jammu and Kashmir, in August that year. India abrogated Article 370 in August 2019. a corner.
said, “Going by this logic, India wouldn’t weight in rats with induced diabetes. Only This is the only statement that the Prime That led to the downsizing of the High In New Delhi, officials read Sharif’s state- FortheIndiangovernment,thecaseforex-
have been the diabetes hotspot it is today. thendiditresultinasignificantreductionin Ministerhasmadeonthefloodsthatcontinue Commissionsinbothcapitals;therearenofull- ment,andtheexchangeof greetingsandmis- tendinghumanitarianhelptiesinwellwithits
We consume a lot of onions, they are a blood glucose levels.” to wreak havoc across Pakistan. A total 1,355 time High Commissioners in either country siveswithindaysoftheswearing-inofthenew desire to project itself as the “first responder”
kitchen staple and still we have so many He added: “We can only assume that people have been killed since June 14, and 33 now. The constitutional changes in J&K, and Pakistan PM, as “positive”. intimesofdisasterandcrisisintheneighbour-
people with diabetes.” the onion-induced reduction of blood glu- millionoutof thecountry’spopulationof 220 Pakistan’sresponsetothem,tookbilateralties hood. Vaccine diplomacy and the efforts to
He, however, added: “These interesting cose levels is because of quercetin, a millionhavebeenhit,accordingtoofficialfig- to a new low — and the subsequent contro- Responses to disasters brand India as the “pharmacy to the world”
findings in rats should be replicated in hu- flavonoid, which has been found to give uresofThursday.Morethan3,500peoplehave versyinvolvingdiplomatsofbothcountriesin In the past, when natural disasters struck havebeenbilledasmajorachievementsofthe
mans through clinical trials. And they must onions a therapeutic potential in reducing beeninjured,andtherearemassiveshortages 2020 have not helped the ties. IndiaandPakistan,thetwocountriesattimes government.Inrecentmonthsandyears,India
betestedseparatelyonIndianswhohavetra- inflammation. Butthen quercetinhas to be of wheatandfuel.Preliminaryestimatessug- reached out to each other with offers of help. hasextendeditshandofhelpandcooperation
ditionally lived on onions.” identified as the differentiator. Without gest a third of the country’s cultivated land — Change of PM in Pak Forexample,inJanuary-February2001,af- to the Maldives, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka,
Thestudyfoundthatgivinganonionex- identifying the causative factor, the study 7millionhectaresoutofthetotal22million— After the ouster of Imran Khan, and the tertheearthquakehitBhujinGujarat,Pakistan Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan, and Afghanistan.
tract dose of 400 mg and 600 mg per kg of is still in the realm of theory. Also, if have been inundated, and about 2 million coming to power of the new coalition gov- hadreachedoutwithhelp,andhadsenttents Trucks filled with Indian grain have travelled
body weight to diabetic rats “strongly re- quercetin is indeed identified, then the homes will have to be rebuilt from scratch. ernment led by Prime Minister Shehbaz and blankets for the survivors. Then Prime to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan via Pakistan.
duced” their blood sugar levels by 50% and amount needed by a human body can only Sharif, some positive noises have emanated Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had spoken to Pakistan’sestablishmenthasdiscussedthe
35%, respectively. be administered as an extract in a pill. We Deterioration of ties from Islamabad. Pakistan’s military ruler, General Pervez possibility of getting food grains through in-
The onion extract also lowered the total need human-tested research for that.” The statement by the Prime Minister last InAprilthisyear,hoursafterPrimeMinister Musharraf, to formally thank him for sending ternational organisations, who want to send
month came as a surprise to many, given the SharifaskedModitocomeforwardtoaddress aid.Itwasnotabigconsignment,seniordiplo- relief materialfromIndia.ThehelpfromIndia
steady deterioration of India’s relationship the Kashmir issue so that the two countries mats recall, but the gesture was important. canbeatthemicroandshort-termlevel:food,
Coming: cyborg cockroaches to help with Pakistan over the last eight years since
Modi came to power.
couldconcentrateontacklingpovertyandun-
employment, the Indian Prime Minister con-
VajpayeeandMusharrafhadabriefconversa-
tion, the first since the general had seized
fuel,tents,medicines,andemergencyessential
supplies. At the macro and medium-to-long-

in urban search-rescue missions Modihadfamouslybegunhistenurewith

aninvitationtoPakistan’sthenPrimeMinister
NawazShariffortheswearing-inceremonyin
gratulatedthenewleaderofPakistan,andsaid
that India desired peace and stability in a re-
gion free of terrorism.
power in a coup 15 months previously.
In 2005, when a powerful earthquake
struck both India and Pakistan, India sent air-
term, it could involve help in the reconstruc-
tion of damaged homes and properties, and
the archaeological site of Mohenjo Daro, part
cockroaches, reaching an estimated 6 cm, May2014.SharifhadcometoIndia,alongwith In a letter written to Modi, Sharif said craft with relief supplies to Pakistan and oftheculturalheritageofbothcountries.India’s
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE but are also known for making hissing the leaders of other SAARC nations. Pakistan remained committed to “regional pledged $ 25 million through the United expertise in healthcare can be of help in the
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 8 sounds when disturbed, which they make Modi’sgesture,andthemeetingbetween peaceandsecurity”,andsought“peacefuland Nations to support Pakistan’s relief efforts. post-floods scenario — dengue is already on
by expelling air from the openings on their the two Prime Ministers had held the prom- cooperative” ties with India. Prime Minister In 2010, when a “superflood” — the worst the rise, and diseases such as typhoid are ex-
AN INTERNATIONAL team of researchers back. Despite their hefty size, researchers ise of a new beginning for the bilateral rela- Sharif,whoistheyoungerbrotherofthethree- in recent decades until the deluge of 2022 — pected to spike sharply.
ledbyJapan’sscientificinstitution,RIKEN’s onlyhadlimitedsurfaceareaonwhichthey tionship that had suffered a severe setback time Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, hit Pakistan, India offered $ 5 million in help, However,someintheIndianestablishment
ClusterforPioneeringResearch(CPR),have could place the complex devices. Using a after the 26/11 terrorist attacks in Mumbai also underlined in his letter that these peace- but Islamabad declined to accept it. believethatthegovernment’sstatedpolicyof
devised a system that can create cyborg 3D printed soft backpack that was con- in 2008. ful and cooperative ties could be achieved “talksandterrorcan’tgotogether”,andtheex-
cockroaches, that are part in- nected to the insect’s nervous However,astringofincidentsthatfollowed through “meaningful dialogue”. The case for help now tending of help to Pakistan are at odds with
sect and part machine. They system, they were able to con- — India’s red line on the meeting between In his maiden address to the National Though there has not been much follow- each other. For New Delhi, the decision is as
claimthattheseinsects,whose trol its leg segments. Pakistan’s diplomats and leaders of the sepa- Assembly as Prime Minister, Shehbaz, who up activity, the Indian Prime Minister’s out- much about projecting power as a global re-
movements are controlled by The adhesion of the back- ratist Hurriyat, the terrorist attacks in was Chief Minister of Pakistan’s Punjab reachbywayof amessagecreatedapotential sponder as with managing the ruling party’s
tiny integrated circuits, will be pack that was affixed to the PathankotandUri—impactedtherelationship province when his brother, then Prime opening for “disaster diplomacy”. domestic political base.
able to conduct surveillance in thorax remained secured negatively, and New Delhi made it clear that Minister Nawaz Sharif, visited India at Modi’s That the ruling dispensation in Pakistan is
procedures like urban search “even after a month in the “talks and terror can’t go together”. invitation in 2014, said: “We want good ties welldisposedtowardsapossiblegestureofhu-
and rescue, environmental PAPER breeding environment,” the Tieshavebeenhitfurtheroverthelastfew with India but durable peace is not possible manitarian support from India was indicated
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FOCUSESONINDIA'SPOLICYAND
monitoring and inspection of
areas dangerous to humans. CLIP paper stated, confirming that
it remained on the body for a
years, especially after the Pulwama terror at-
tack in February 2019, and the abrogation of
until the Kashmir dispute is resolved.” He at-
tacked his predecessor, Imran Khan, for not
by Prime Minister Sharif, who tweeted: “I
thank Indian PM Narendra Modi @naren-
PLACEINTHEREGION,ANDINA
RAPIDLYCHANGINGWORLD.
The researchers who pub- long period of time. Article 370, which revoked the special status making“seriousanddiplomaticefforts”when dramodi for condolences over the human &
lished their findings in the sci- NEW RESEARCH The researchers also de-

China’s solar-powered, semi-satellite drone

entific journal npJ Flexible signed the system to be
Electronics on September 5, claim that by rechargeable, by powering it with a super
equipping the cockroaches with small thin 0.004 mm solar cell module that is in-
wireless control modules, handlers will be stalledonthedorsalsideof thecockroach’s
abletocontroltheinsect’slegsremotelyfor abdomen. This was donetoensurethatthe
long periods of time. batteryremainschargedandthecockroach with no clouds. This helps the drone make has this capacity, but the Qimingxing-50's
The team, led by RIKEN CPR’s Kenjiro can be controlled for long periods of time, SAURABH KAPOOR the maximum use of its solar panels to stay long-endurance provides an added advan-
Fukuda, used Madagascar cockroaches, while simultaneously ensuring that the NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 8 functionalforextendeddurations.Infact,the tage of extended flights.
which are not only the largest species of movement remains unhindered. drone's chief designer told the South China In July this year, the US Army helped test
CHINA'S FIRST fully solar-powered un- Morning Post that it can operate without a a solar-powered, near-space Airbus Zephyr
manned aerial vehiclehassuccessfully com- break for months, even years. S drone that set a new record by being air-
pleted its maiden test flight with all onboard borne for 42 days. Both these drones can un-
systems functioning optimally.
Crossing drone and satellite dertake surveillance missions that require
AccordingtoChinesestatemediareports, The fact that the drone can operate in them to stay operational for months.
thedrone took off from an airport in Shaanxi near-space – 20 km to 100 km above the
provinceat5.50pmonSaturday(September The Qimingxing-50 is a high-altitude, Earth's surface – makes it capable of carry- Easy to lock-and-load
3), had a smooth flight for 26 minutes and long-endurance UAV @SpokespersonCHN ing out satellite-like functions. If satellite Drones like the Morning Star-50 are cost-
landed safely. services are not available for, say, time-sen- effective to build and easy to operate.
sitive operations or in case of wartime dis- Being entirely powered by the Sun, this
The new machine (HALE) UAV can stay airborne for long dura- ruption, then near-space UAVs can step in to HALE UAV is capable of conducting high-al-
With a wingspan of 164-ft, the drone is a tions. Named the Qimingxing-50, or filltheoperationalgap. Thesedronesarealso titude reconnaissance, apart from monitor-
largemachinepoweredentirelybysolarpan- Morning Star-50, this drone flies above 20- referred to as 'High Altitude Platform ing forest fires, providing communication
els. The high-altitude, long-endurance km altitude where there is a stable airflow Stations' or pseudo-satellites. China already and environment relay.

EXPLAINED YOUR MONEY

In sharp slide in global oil prices, hope for easing of inflation in India
India which imports almost 85% of its oil. est levels since January on Wednesday, af- edible oil prices, coal prices and also that of ward in line with the decline in the crude What impact will it have on equity and
Softening in crude oil prices can ease-off a ter weak economic prints from China, in- fertiliser as they use gas as the feedstock. oil prices and other commodities, it is un- debt markets?
part of the inflation. terest rate hikes and a surprise rise in US in- Gasaccountsfor80%of all fertiliser produc- likely that RBI would take a pause. Over the last four trading sessions the
ventories brewed concerns over slowing tion costs. Experts say that while the oil marketing benchmark Sensex at BSE has risen 1.5%.
What led to this? demand. The US energy watchdog forecast So if a rise in crude oil prices could lead companies (OMCs) have been bearing the Among other factors, a softening crude oil
The crude prices fell sharply by around slightly higher demand and tighter supply to a much enhanced import burden, it also burden of high oil prices, it will depend price has also played a role in the index rise
4% Wednesday and the decline has come going into 2023. We expect crude oil prices leads to reduction in demand in the econ- upon whether the government and OMCs as companies across sectors that are sensi-
despiteOPEC'sannouncementtocutsupply to trade sideways to down with resistance omy which hurts growth. It could also lead take steps to bring down the prices for con- tiveto crudeoil priceshave witnessedarise
by 100,000 barrels per day beginning at $84 per barrel with support at $80 per to higher fiscal deficit if the government sumers following the fall in global crude oil in their share prices. Market participants
Sandeep Singh Octoberinabidtopropuptheprices.While barrel," said Tapan Patel of HDFC Securities. chooses to bear the burden by way of sub- prices."WhileIthinkitwillbringabreather also believe that a revival in demand in the
the prices have been softening over the last sidies. to the OMCs, I don't see a decline in retail economy will lead to earnings revival for
IN A major relief to the Indian economy, the couple of months, the recent sharp decline What does this mean for India? In that sense, a softening in crude oil inflation on account of softening crude oil companiesoverthenextcoupleof quarters.
Brent crude prices have fallen sharply over is due to renewed fears of recession in India imports nearly 85% of its crude re- pricesisabigrelief forallstakeholders –the prices as retail prices of fuel may continue If decline in crude oil prices is positive
the last ten days. While they were trading Europe and decline in demand from China, quirement and in the year ended March government, the consumers and even the to stay high," said Madan Sabnavis, chief fortheIndianeconomyandequitymarkets,
at around $110 per barrel in July end, the which brought in new Covid lockdown 2022, theoilimportbill doubledto$119bil- corporates. If oil continues to trade at lower economist at Bank of Baroda. investors should invest with a long term fo-
prices have declined to under $90 per bar- measures amid weakening factory activity. lion on account of rise in prices. The rise in levels, it will result in lower inflation levels, If that is the case, the RBI may go for a cus; debt investors too should now prepare
rel. The decline has been very sharp over There is a concern that these factors could import bill not only leads to inflation and higher disposable incomes and thereby rate hike in its forthcoming monetary pol- themselves to lock into high interest rates
the last ten days as they dropped around dent the future demand of crude oil. rise in current account deficit and fiscal higher economic growth. icy meeting. So, one will have to wait for a as they peak over the next few months.
13% to trade at $88 per barrel on Thursday. Market participants sayOPEC'sdecision deficit, but also weakens the rupee against sustained lower crudeoilpricesfor a longer While 10-year GSec yield is currently trad-
If on the one hand it is a reflection of expec- to cut production is in itself an indication the dollar and hurts stock market senti- Will RBI pause on rate hike? periodof timeandforthesametobepassed ing at around 7.14%, given that the environ-
tationsof slowdowninglobalgrowthwhich that it expects decline in demand and fur- ment. While the inflation has softened from on to retail fuel prices and a meaningful ment continues to remain challenging and
may have its bearing on India's growth too, ther softening in prices. A rise in crude oil price also has an indi- 7.79 in April to 6.71 in July and the trajec- softeningininflationbeforeRBIdrawscom- RBI could continue to raise rates, the inter-
on the other it comes as a big respite for "Crude oil prices slumped to their low- rect impact on India as it leads to a rise in toryisexpectedtobedownwardsgoingfor- fort and takes a pause. est rates could rise further.

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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, FRIDAY,SEPTEMBER 9, 2022 USA
BERNARD SHAW, CNN’S 1ST CHIEF ANCHOR, DIES
Bernard Shaw, CNN’s chief anchor for two decades and a pioneering Black broadcast jour-
nalist best remembered for calmly reporting the beginning of the Gulf War in 1991 as mis-
siles flew around him in Baghdad, has died. He was 82. He died of pneumonia on
Wednesday at a hospital in Washington

Queen Elizabeth with Liz Truss during an audience where

she invited her to become Prime Minister on Tuesday. Reuters

The Queen with Philip after their wedding in 1947, with Mother Teresa in 1983 and at Rajghat, New Delhi, in 1983. Photos: AP/Reuters/Express Archive
Truss to cap energy
BRITAIN’S LONGEST-REIGNING MONARCH RESTS
prices, end fracking ban
Elizabeth, the Queen who moved
erage annual costs would be
THE NEW YORK TIMES capped at £2,500. Costs for busi-
LONDON, SEPTEMBER 8 nesses, charities and schools
would also be capped for six
SCRAMBLING TO spare millions months, underscoring the ex-

with changing world for decades

of households the pain of sky- traordinaryreachoftheprogram.
rocketing energy bills this win- Truss announced that the
ter,Britain’snewprimeminister, government would lift a ban on
LizTruss,announcedasweeping hydraulic fracking and grant ap-
plan on Thursday to freeze gas provals for new oil and gas
and electricity rates for two drilling in the North Sea. That is
years, at a cost of tens of billions part of a longer-term effort to
of poundstotheBritishTreasury. make Britain less dependent on
MICHAEL HOLDEN The plan, rolled out by Truss imported energy.
LONDON, SEPTEMBER 8 on her third day in office, could “This is a moment to be
represent the largest govern- bold,” Truss said to a raucous
THE CROWNING achievement of ment intervention in the econ- Houseof Commons.“Wearefac-
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who omy in decades. ing a global energy crisis, and
diedonThursdayafter70yearson The move is intended to there are no cost-free options.”
the throne, was to maintain the shield people from a jolting in- Themeasure,shesaid,would
popularityofthemonarchyacross crease in energy costs next saveatypicalhousehold£1,000a
decadesofseismicpolitical,social month, when the annual price year, including a £400 reduction
and cultural change that threat- for electricity and natural gas for on bills that the last government
ened to make it an anachronism. a typical British household was announced in May. “We’re sup-
Adignified,dependablefigure KEY DATES scheduled to jump to £3,549, portingthiscountrythroughthis
who reigned longer than any
other British monarch, Elizabeth IN HER LIFE from £1,971. Under the plan, av- winter and the next,” she said.

US OKs sale of F-16

helped steer the institution into ■ Elizabeth was born on
themodernworld,strippingaway April 21, 1926, christened
court ritual and making it some- on May 29 that year
what more open and accessible,

equipment to Pak
■ She became heir
all in the glare of an increasingly
apparent when her
intrusiveandoftenhostilemedia.
uncle, Edward VIII,
Whilethenationshereigned
abdicated on Dec. 11,
oversometimesstruggledtofind thiswillsustainIslamabad’scapa-
1936
its place in a new world order LALIT K JHA bility to meet current and future
andherownfamilyoftenfellfoul ■ She married Philip WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER 8 counterterrorism threats by
of publicexpectations,thequeen Mountbatten on Nov. 20, maintaining its F-16 fleet. The
herself remained a symbol of 1947 THE BIDEN administration has Defence Security Cooperation
stability. She also tried to tran- ■ They had four approved a $450 million F-16 Agencydeliveredtherequiredcer-
scend class barriers and earned children: Prince Charles , fighter jet fleet sustainment pro- tificationnotifyingtheCongressof
the grudging respect of even Princess Anne, Prince gramme to Pakistan to help it thispossiblesaleonWednesday.
hardened republicans. Andrew and Prince meetcurrentandfuturecountert- “The US Government has no-
To much of the world she Edward. Philip died in errorismthreats,inWashington’s tified Congress of a proposed
was the personification of
Britain, yet she remained some-
April 2021, aged 99. QUEEN ELIZABETH II first major security assistance to
Islamabad in four years.
ForeignMilitarySalescasetosus-
tain the Pakistan Air Force’s F-16
■ She ascended the
thing of an enigma as an indi-
throne on the death of
21 APRIL 1926 -- 8 SEPTEMBER 2022 In 2018, Biden’s predecessor programme.Pakistanisanimpor-
vidual, never giving an inter- Donald Trump had suspended tant counterterrorism partner,
her father on Feb. 6, 1952
view and rarely expressing about $2 billion in security aid to andaspartoflongstandingpolicy,
■ She was crowned on

Charles ascends to a role he

emotion or offering a personal Islamabad for failing to clamp theUSprovideslifecyclemainte-
opinion in public — a woman June 2, 1953 down on theAfghan Taliban and nanceandsustainmentpackages
recognised by millions but ■ When she ascended the Haqqani Network terror for US-origin platforms,” a State

has prepared for all his life

known by hardly anyone. groups and dismantle their safe Department spokesperson said.
“Ithink she’s broughtlife,en-
the throne, Josef Stalin,
Mao Zedong and Harry TRIBUTE havens in the country. “Pakistan'sF-16programmeis
ergy andpassion to thejob, she’s Truman were leading In a notification to the US an important part of the broader
“Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth
managed to modernise and ■ She has been served by CongressonWednesday,theState US-Pakistanbilateralrelationship.
II will be remembered as a
evolve the monarchy like no 15 Prime Ministers Princess of Wales, which crum- Department said it has approved The proposed sale will sustain
stalwart of our times. She
other,” her grandson Prince MARK LANDLER bledamidluridtabloidheadlines
provided inspiring leadership
a possible foreign military sale of Pakistan’s capability to meet cur-
William, who is now the heir to ■ On Sept. 9, 2015, she LONDON, SEPTEMBER 8 and mutual charges of infidelity, F-16caseforsustainmentandre- rentandfuturecounterterrorism
surpassed her great- to her nation and people.
the throne, said in 2012. remains for many the defining latedequipmentforanestimated threats by maintaining its F-16
grandmother’s reign Pained by her demise. My
During her reign, Labour NEVER, PERHAPS, has an heir event of his public life. cost of $450 million, arguing that fleet.,” the spokesperson said PTI
thoughts are with her
and Conservative governments been more ready for the crown. At the nadir of Charles’s pub-
family and people of the UK
came and went, feminism Charles, the eldest son of lic life, in the mid-1990s, some
changed attitudes to women,
and Britain became a much
Elizabeth was on the throne
for most of the Cold War from
QueenElizabethIIandamanborn
to be king, acceded to the throne
critics went so far as to say that
thescandal-scarredheirhadfor-
in this sad hour”
PM NARENDRA MODI Gotabaya nephew among
more cosmopolitan, multi-eth-
nic society.
the death of Soviet leader Josef
Stalin. REUTERS
on Thursday after being the des-
ignatedsuccessorforlongerthan
anyoneinthehistoryoftheBritish
feited the right to be king and
thatthecrownshouldskipagen-
eration, going to his elder son,
“(our) hearts and our
thoughts go to the family
37 MoS appointed in Lanka
monarchy.Inthosesevendecades, Prince William, who was untar- members of the Queen, (go) to FreedomParty (SLFP),whichde-
HOME-SCHOOLING TO MIMICRY Charlesstruggledtocharthisown
path,survivedscandalandheart-
nished by public blemishes.
From 1991 to 1996, the per-
the people of the UK ... Our
relationship with the people
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
COLOMBO, SEPTEMBER 8
cided to stay away during the
government formation in July.
break, and found a new tranquil- The Queen with Diana. Reuters centage of people who said they has grown stronger.” “New state ministers (were)
BRITAIN’S LONGEST- noted her ‘poker face,’ but
REIGNING MONARCH: those who knew her lity — all played out in the re- thought Charles would make a WHITE HOUSE SRI LANKA on Thursday ap- sworn in before the president at
Elizabeth, who marked 70 described her as having a morselessglareoftheworldstage. good king plunged to 41 per cent pointed 37 junior ministers, in- the presidential secretariat,” the
sense of humour and a Having aged from an awk- than most Britons have been from82percent,accordingtothe “She was a constant presence cluding the nephew of former president’s media division said.
years on the throne, is the
talent for mimicry ward, self-doubting young man alive,anchoringhercountrywith polling firm MORI. But Diana’s in our lives – and her service presidents Gotabaya and While lawmakers Ranjith
longest-reigning monarch
into an unhappy middle-aged stoic dignity as it made a turbu- death proved a turning point: to Canadians will forever MahindaRajapaksa,asPresident Siyambalapitiya and Shehan
in the British history ROYAL TAXPAYER husband, Charles hasbecome, at lent passage from globe-span- Charles worked with Tony Blair, remain an important part of Ranil Wickremesinghe went for Semasinghe were sworn in as
HOME-SCHOOLING: Like She may have been the 73, a self-assured, gray-haired ningempiretoreluctantmember the PM at the time, to nudge his our country’s history.” a major expansion to provide a state ministers in the finance
many royals of her time , queen, but she paid taxes eminence, steeped in causes like of the European Union to an un- mother into honouring Diana’s stable government to tackle the ministry,ShasheendraRajapaksa,
Elizabeth never went to a too — at least since 1992
CANADA PM TRUDEAU
climate change and environ- certain future after Brexit. memory,amidanationaloutpour- economic crisis. thenephewof Gotabaya,wasthe
public school. Instead, she LITTLE LILIBET mental protection, which were Charles’s journey was, per- ingof grief,andthensetaboutre- “... I remember her as a friend The majority of the junior other notable inclusion, ap-
was educated at home oncequirkybutnowseempecu- haps inevitably, less acclaimed. habilitatinghisownimage. of France, a kind-hearted ministers or lawmakers ap- pointedintheirrigationministry.
As a child, she was known
‘GREAT MIMICKER’: as young Lilibet by her liarly in sync with the times. His foibles and frustrations were He has mostly succeeded. queen who has left a lasting pointed in the ministers of state Thursday’s flurry of appoint-
Elizabeth often gave the family — said to be because WhetherCharleswilleveren- mercilessly dissected by the Few Britons now recoil at the impression.” rank were from the ruling Sri ments notwithstanding,
impression of a serious joytherespectoraffectionshow- news media; his pet hobbies, prospect of King Charles III. Lanka Podujana Peramuna President Wickremesinghe’s
she couldn’t pronounce
ered on his mother is another fromarchitecturecriticismtoor- He has been married since FRENCH PRESIDENT (SLPP)party. Afewalsoincluded dreams of forming an all-party
demeanor, and many have ‘Elizabeth’ properly EMMANUEL MACRON
question.Thrustontothethrone ganic farming, were frequently 2005 to Camilla, who will take the former president government to tackle the crisis
at25,Elizabethreignedforlonger mocked; his marriage to Diana, the title of queen. NYT Maithripala Sirisena’s Sri Lanka is still far from a reality.

19-YEAR-OLD ‘FREE SPIRIT’ TRAVELLING THE COUNTRY WAS KILLED BY TRUCK DRIVER

In a 1988 murder, DNA is used to identify both victim and her killer
victimtobeStaceyLynChahorski, charge at the Georgia Bureau of was determined just days ago a common challenge with cases After Othram built the DNA California between 1976 and
APRIL RUBIN a 19-year-old who was hitchhik- Investigation, who has been in and announced Tuesday. that are decades old. Sometimes profile, the information was 1986.
& REMY TUMIN ingacrosstheUnitedStates,mak- close contact with Chahorski’s The use of genetic or forensic olderremainscanyieldverylittle turned over to law enforcement Wise worked for Western
SEPTEMBER 8 ing her way home to Norton mother, Mary Beth Smith. “She genealogy,whichusesDNAdata- DNA to work with. Ultimately, inGeorgia,whodidthegenealog- CarolinaTruckingandlivedinthe
Shores, Michigan. was hitchhiking, even though bases to match unidentified re- moderntechniqueswereusedto icalresearch.Atthenewsconfer- Carolinas and in Florida,
IN DECEMBER 1988, two They have also identified the her mother warned her against mains,suchasthoseofChahorski, help solve Chahorski’s case. ence Tuesday, Montgomery said Montgomery said. His trucking
Department of Transportation killer, in a rare instance in which doing that. She wanted to see to a large network of people, has Bodily fluid found near where the genealogy testing “does not route would have taken him
workers in north Georgia found a investigative genetic genealogy parts of the country.” grown in recent years. The Chahorski’sbodywasdiscovered tell you exactly who it is” but de- throughChattanooga,Tennessee,
youngwoman’sbodyonInterstate wasusedtoidentifyboththevic- Chahorski called Smith in method has increasingly been was eventually traced to Wise. velopsaprofile.“It’s almostlikea andAlabama,“whichwouldhave
59 in Dade County, about 5 miles tim and the killer in the same September of 1988 to let her usedtosolveviolentcrimesasthe Othramcollaboratedwiththe treeandyou’reworkingyourway puthiminthedirectroutewhere
from the Alabama state line. The case. Henry Fredrick Wise, a know she was making her way technology has been fine-tuned, Georgia Bureau of Investigation back toward the trunk,” he said. Stacey was found.” The authori-
woman had been strangled and truck driver who regularly drove back home. Montgomery said Stacey Lyn Chahorski, 19, said David Mittelman, the and the Dade County Sheriff’s Genetic genealogy has been ties believed “all along” that the
abandonedonanorthboundlane. the I-59corridor,was the person Wise most likely picked her up who was hitchhiking across founder and chief executive of Office, which funded the work used to solve high-profile cold killer was a truck driver,
Her identity and that of her who killed Chahorski, the au- at a truck stop. Wise, who was the United States. NYT Othram Inc, the private DNA lab- done to identify Chahorski. But cases, including in 2018 to iden- Montgomerysaid.“Wejustcould
killerwouldremainunknownfor thorities said on Tuesday. also a stunt driver, died in a mo- oratorythatbuilttheprofilesused fundingforthekiller’sidentifica- tify Joseph James DeAngelo as notfigureoutwhoitwas.”IfWise
nearly 34 years. Now, with infor- “Shewasjustafreespirit.She torvehicleaccidentattheMyrtle to solve Chahorski’s case. tion came from the true-crime the Golden State Killer, who committed other unsolved
mation from forensic genealogy liked to travel,” said Joe Beach Speedway in South Chahorski’s identity was es- Chahorski’s skeletal remains media company Audiochuck, had been linked to over 50 crimes, Montgomery said, “they
testing,theauthoritiesbelievethe Montgomery, a special agent in Carolina in 1999. tablished in March. Her killer’s had degraded over time, he said, which sponsors Othram. rapes and 12 murders in should come to light now.” NYT

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‘IMPORTING RUSSIAN CRUDE OIL A PART OF INFLATION MANAGEMENT’

Inflation at half century high,
Centre,statesneedtoworktogether ECB goes for 75-bp rate hike
tohandleinflationarymatters:FM E

E X P L A I NE D
BALAZSKORANYI& Hoping to
FRANCESCOCANEPA
FRANKFURT, SEPTEMBER 8 reduce
● demand
THE EUROPEAN Central Bank
Centre and states,” she said. lar ones in May and June, RBI had (ECB) raised its key interest rates WITH THE 27-nation
ENSECONOMICBUREAU Sitharamanalsosaidthateven raiseditskeypolicyrateby50ba- by an unprecedented 75 basis European Union likely
NEWDELHI,SEPTEMBER8 though the Reserve Bank of India sispointsduringitsAugustreview. points Thursday and promised heading for a winter re-
(RBI) has to synchronise its mon- TheFMsaidinflationmanage- furtherhikes,prioritisingthefight cession and facing high
STATINGTHATinflationmanage- etary policy with other central ment has several factors, most of against inflation even as the EU energy prices, the ECB’s
ment cannot be left only to the banks,itmaynotbesynchronised which are outside the realm of likely heads towards a winter re- historic 75-bp hike in
Centre,FinanceMinisterNirmala as much as developed central monetarypolicy.“India’sexperie- cession and gas rationing. interest rates is ex-
Sitharaman said Thursday the banks. “The Reserve Bank will nceinhandlinginflationdepends Inflationroseto9.1percentin ECB President Christine pected to cool off soar-
Centre and states “need to have a havetosynchronise.Itmaynotbe somuchonsomanydifferentfac- August, a half-century high, and Lagarde at a news ing consumer prices by
way”inwhichbothworktogether synchronised as much as devel- tors. The central bank, its instru- is approaching double digits. conference in Frankfurt, reducing the demand
to handle inflationary matters. oped central banks. I am not pre- ments, and its interest rate man- After its July rate hike, the ECB Thursday. Reuters for goods.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) scribing anything to the Reserve agement form a very critical part raised its deposit rate to 0.75 per
forms a critical part of inflation Bank,Iamnotgivinganyforward ofit,butitcannotbetheonlyone.” centfromzeroandlifteditsmain
management,butfiscalpolicyhas Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman PTI file direction to the central bank. But On Russian crude oil, refinancing rate to 1.25 per cent,
to work together with monetary
policyinhandlingtheinflationary
it is the truth: India’s solution to
handling the economy, part of
Sitharaman said the decision to
continueimportingoilfromthere
their highest levels since 2011,
with further moves anticipated
Fed hopeful inflation can be
surge in the economy, she said.
Speaking at a conference on
‘TamingInflation’organisedbythe
it was possible, the government
twice reduced the price of petrol
andproducts.Now,veryrecently,
the CPI. Now, if states’ inflation is
alsotobeattributedtothegovern-
ment of India, we need to have a
whichishandlinginflationalso,is
an exercise where the fiscal pol-
icy together with monetary pol-
toowaspartof inflationmanage-
ment.“Inasituationwhereglobal
prices were going beyond any-
in October and December. “We
havemorejourneytocovergoing
forward,”ECBPresidentChristine
tamed sans Volcker-era pain
Indian Council for Research on widely available information in way in which we work together icy has been at work. It can’t be one’saffordability,atthatstageto Lagarde told reporters. Washington:TheFederalReserve terestratebyeitherhalf orthree-
InternationalEconomicRelations thepublicdomainshowshowin- to handle inflationary matters. singularlylefttomonetarypolicy, take a very strong political deci- Further,theECBsaiditwould is “strongly committed” to fight- quarters of a percentage point,
(Icrier),Sitharamannotedthatthe flation has varied from state to “Justastodaytherearealotof which has proved totally ineffec- sion, I respect the Prime Minister start paying interest on govern- ing inflation and remains hope- and the Fed chief did not volun-
inflationrateishigherthanthena- state. There could be several rea- discussions about devolution of tiveinmanycountries.Andthese for his courage on this to get it ment deposits, easing fears that ful that can be done without the teer any information on hispref-
tional level in states which have sons for it... But the fact remains, taxablerevenues...similarly,there are countries whose structures from Russia because they are euro zone countries would shift “very high social costs” involved erence.
not reduced fuel prices. coincidentally, I find inflation be- are, I would suggest, enough jus- formthebasisformonetarypolicy readytogiveittoyouatdiscount. thecashintogovernmentbonds. in prior campaigns to control ReferringtoformerFedChair
“I am not doing politics here, ing higher than the national level tifications to have this under- theory, that interest rates are the Andhowspeedilydidwemanage Sharesroseledbybankstocks. surging prices, Fed Chair Jerome Paul Volcker’s fight against infla-
butI’llbringinanelementwhere in states that have not reduced standing of how states also man- potent tool to manage inflation.” to do it. Otherwise our entire im- Thepan-EuropeanSTOXX600in- Powell said on Thursday. tionintheearly1980s,whenFed
you might suspect I am bringing fuel prices,” the FM added. agetheirinflation.Itcannotbethat India’sretailinflationratesoft- port from Russia was probably 2 dex rose 0.5 per cent Thursday, Powell, in a 40-minute web- policy triggered a recession and
politics, but it has definite rele- “You might think I am stating inflation is handled only by the ened to 6.71 per cent in July due percentorsometimesevenlesser, with banks up 2.3 per cent. cast interview with Cato the unemployment rate topped
vance. At a time when global fuel theobvious,butitestablishesthe Centre. And when states don’t to moderation in food prices but itwasrampeduptoalmost12-13 Meanwhile, oil rose 2 per cent, Institute President Peter 10 per cent, Powell noted that
priceswentup,youwanted tobe factthatmovementoffoodgrains take enough steps, that part of remained above the RBI’s upper per cent within a couple of but stayed below $90 a barrel. Goettler, was not asked about Volcker was trying to uproot
surethattheburdenisnotpassed and food-related items actually India suffers from wanting relief tolerancelevelof6percentforthe months,” she said. Brent rose $1.58, or 1.8 per cent, the US central bank’s policy years of rising inflation expecta-
ontotheendconsumer.Whereit has a bearing on the price of such fromthestressofinflation.Theex- seventhconsecutivemonth.Inits Full report on to$89.58,andUSWTIby$1.96,or meeting later this month, when tions that were feeding higher
waspossibleandhowmuchever items, which constitute a bulk of ogenous factors affect both the thirdstraight ratehikeaftersimi- www.indianexpress.com 2.4percent,to$83.90. REUTERS itisexpectedtoraiseitstargetin- prices and wages. REUTERS

SECTOR WATCH
‘Dwindling wage growth 5.7% Fallseeninnominal Non-basmati rice: 20% export duty
CREDIT ANALYSIS wagegrowthduring
FY17-21byhouseholds—which sued by the Finance Ministry, 20 tion,” it read, adding, “This notifi-
emerging as bigger worry’ accountfor44-45%ofthegross HARIKISHANSHARMA per cent export duty has been cationshallcomeintoforceonthe

CreditSights finds
valueadded(GVA)—fromahigh NEWDELHI,SEPTEMBER8 levied on three grades of rice — 09th of September, 2022.”
Dwindling wage growth is emerging as a big worry as it of8.2%duringFY12-16 rice in husk (paddy or rough); The move comes at a time
leads to tepid demand and resultant under-utilisation of THE CENTRE on Thursday levied husked (brown) rice; and semi- when 5.6 per cent lesser area has

‘calculation errors’
capacity, an India Ratings report said
~1% Wagegrowthinreal
terms,asper
aforementionedcalculations
20 per cent export duty on vari-
ous grades of rice including hus-
ked(brown)riceandsemi-milled
milled or wholly-milled rice,
whetherornotpolishedorglazed
(other than parboiled rice and
been reported under rice crop in
the ongoing kharif season. As per
the Agriculture Ministry, as on
WAGEGROWTHYEAR-ON- or wholly-milled rice (other than basmati rice). “... Whereas, the September 2, about 383.99 lakh

in its debt report

YEARINURBANANDRURAL
13.5%
` Overallgross parboiled and basmati rice), a Central Government is satisfied hectare area was reported under
` AREASINJUNE2022:
` domesticproduct move that may ease the grain’s thatexportdutyshouldbelevied rice,i.e.5.6percent,or22.90lakh
■ Urban (GDP)growthinfirstquarterof priceindomesticmarketbutfuel on certain articles and that cir- hectare, less than a year ago.

on Adani Group
5.5% ■ Rural currentfiscal global food inflation. cumstances existwhichrenderit Full report on
2.8% According to a notification is- necessary to take immediate ac- www.indianexpress.com
Recoveryinhouseholdsector’s
from INR 42 bn to INR 52 bn wagegrowthisgoingtobecritical
ENSECONOMICBUREAU
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 8
(from Rs 4,200 crore to Rs
5,200 crore). For Adani
Power,wehavecorrectedour
-3.7%
-1.6% forasustainableanddurable
recoveryinprivatefinal
consumptionexpenditureand
Google Play Store to add fantasy
games, rummy apps for one year
` Atthenominal Inreal
FITCH GROUP’S debt re- gross debtestimate from INR level terms* overallGDPgrowthinFY23
search unit CreditSights, 582 bn to INR 489 bn (from *i.e. adjusted for inflation
which had raised red flags Rs 58,200 crore to Rs 48,900 Source: India Ratings/PTI
over Adani Group being over crore). These corrections did the country will have to apply to ilyremovedpaymentsappPaytm
leveraged, said in a new re- not change our investment SOUMYARENDRABARIK get onboarded to the Play Store. fromthePlayStoreforpromoting
port that it “has discovered recommendations,” the re- NEWDELHI,SEPTEMBER8 DFS games are those where itsfantasyappPaytmFirstGames
calculation errors” in its re-
cent debt report on two
Adani Group companies, fol-
port added.
Last month, CreditSights
had said the Adani Group is
Uber pilots bus service in Gurgaon GOOGLEISchangingitslong-held
stanceondisallowingreal-money
contestants use their knowledge
of athletic events and athletes to
selectormanagerostersof simu-
which Google considered to be a
bettingapp.However,sincethen,
the online gaming sector in India
lowing a conversation with “deeply over leveraged”, and fantasy games on its Play Store in latedathleteswhoseperformance has picked up tremendous pace.
the management. may, “in the worst-case sce- PRANAVMUKUL India, as the company has an- directlycorrespondswiththeac- The fantasy sports market in
However, it also pointed nario”, spiral into a debt trap NEWDELHI,SEPTEMBER8 nounced a limited period pilot to tual performance of human ath- the country is projected to grow
out that the latest “correc- and possibly a default. allowsuchreal-moneygameslike letes on sports teams or in sports fromRs34,600croreinFY21toan
tions” did not change its in- The report noted that the RIDE-HAILING PLATFORM Uber daily fantasy sports (DFS) and events. This is a significant move estimated Rs 1,65,000 crore by
vestmentrecommendations. group has been making ag- has entered into a partnership rummy apps on its app market- byGooglewhichhadsofarnotal- FY25, as per a report by the
“In a follow-up to our re- gressiveinvestmentsthatare withGurugramMetropolitanCity place.Googlesaidthepilotwillbe lowed such apps on its app store. Federation of Indian Fantasy
portoutlining ourcreditcon- predominantly funded with BusServicesPrivateLimited(GM- for one year starting September Thecompanyhadmaintained Sports and Deloitte.
cerns with Adani Group debt, putting pressure on its CBL), under which the latter will 28, and DFS and rummy apps such a hard-line against these Full report on
companies, we are present- credit metrics and cash flow. operate buses on specific routes from developers incorporated in appsthatin2020ithadtemporar- www.indianexpress.com
ingthispieceto reconcileour Following this, the Adani and users of the ride-hailing app One of the 4 AC buses launched by Uber and GMCBL. via Uber
calculations with Adani Group issued a statement will be able to reserve tickets on
Group’s presentation. We
have also spoken with Adani
sayingitscompanieshavere-
duced their debt burden and
these 36-seater buses.
Currently, Uber is conducting tion, and BPTP Astaire Garden transport, and address all use-
Ogilvy: Devika Rajasthan State Road Development And Construction Corporation Ltd., JAIPUR
Group’sCFO(Mr.Jugeshinder
(Robbie) Singh), Head of
that the leverage ratios of the
group companies “continue
a pilot with GMCBL, which is a
special purpose vehicle with the
(Sector 70) to DLF Cyber Park
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668.51 Lakh
1180.00 Lakh
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Construction of ITI Building at Weir Distt. Bharatpur UBN : (3)RRC2223WLOB00591
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rors we had made in two of mainly debt funded”. provide four air-conditioned saidthatthemovetoenterthebus lot, but is expected to add to this. serving as global president and
the Adani Group companies, “Though we have taken busestobeginwithforwhichtick- segmentbuildsonUber’sstrategy The selection of routes has CEO of Ogilvy North America,
Adani Transmission and cognisanceof management’s ets will be booked on the Uber to become a multi-modal trans- happenedafterstudyingdemand succeeds Andy Main who is
Adani Power. For Adani viewpoints, we have a differ- app. These buses will ply on two portation platform. patterns and will primarily ad- stepping down as global CEO
Transmission, we have cor- ent opinion on the above,” routes—Badshahpurbusstandto “Uber is typically associated dressthecommuteuse-caseofof- andwillserve as a senioradvisor
rected our EBITDA estimate the agency further said. DLFCyberPark(ShankarChowk) with cabs, etc, but our vision is to fice-goers at a lower price-point, until the end of the year, the
via Huda City Centre metro sta- be the platform for any kind of Bhushan said. company said.
Inhernewroleshewillbere-
sponsible for all aspects of the
BRIEFLY `30K-cr revenue eyed off 300 EY plans
splitting audit,
creative network’s business
across131officesin93countries
Goyal,USTR and spanning its advertising,

LosAngeles:Commerceand
Industry Minister Piyush
upcoming cargo terminals consulting biz
publicrelations,experience,con-
sulting, and health units, it
added. Ogilvy is part of global
Goyal on Thursday held a by the web of cargo terminals. That’sthedifference.Forthefirst Bengaluru: Ernst & Young (EY) leading marketing and commu-
bilateral meeting with US AVISHEK G DASTIDAR Over90companiesareready time after decades, Railways’ saidonThursdayitwasplanning nications group, WPP. PTI
Trade Representative NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 8 to set up cargo terminals and modal share in freight increased to split its audit and consulting
(USTR) Katherine Tai here around 65 more have expressed since last year. We need to en- units into two companies, as the
and discussed ways to RARING TO expand its cargo interest, said Railway Minister courage this shift to bring down professional services firm looks
boosttradeandinvestment handling ecosystem riding on Ashwini Vaishnaw. logisticscostintheeconomy.The to ease regulatory concerns over DELHI JAL BOARD
ties. Goyal’s meeting with the newly liberalised land-lease The Railways has 62,000 ha cargoterminals are important in potential conflicts of interest. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ENGINEER SDW
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT (WSTP), DWARKA SECTOR 16D,
the USTR was held on the policy, the Railways has already of free land but a lot of it are nar- that context,” he told reporters The Big Four accounting
PAPPAN KALAN, NEW DELHI-110075 Email:- eesdw8@gmail.com
sidelinesof theIndo-Pacific identified250hectares(ha)of its row strips running parallel to on Thursday, a day after the firms — EY, Deloitte, KPMG and
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ministerial meeting. countrywherethe300newGati detail, Vaishnaw said it was term leasing of railway land at been under regulatory scanner No cost in Rs. Fee in tender in receipt of tender
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The minister said that the
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companies’ advisory services
could undermine their ability to
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operation and comprehensive maintenance of 11
buyastakeinVodafoneIdea Rs 100 crore — as per internal road, the logistics cost would be ment of CONCOR, the market EY said it would provide its years i/c 01 yearDLP (Re-invite)
(Vi) after the company’s calculationsbyofficials—thena- around 17-18 per cent of the leader by a huge margin, in rail 13,000 partners more informa- Further details in this regard can be seen at (https://govtprocurement.delhi.gov.in)
stock price stabilises at `10 tionaltransporteriseyeingarev- GDP. Similarly, if all goods went cargo handling business. tion before voting on the split ISSUED BY P.R.O. (WATER) Sd/- (K.P. Sharma)
or above, said a source. PTI enue of around Rs 30,000 crore by rail, that figure would come Full report on starts on a country-by-country Advt. No. J.S.V. 326(2022-23) EXECUTIVE ENGINEER (SDW)VIII
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The Indian Express Group chairman and managing director Viveck Goenka (L) WINNERS ALL: The winners of the FE India’s Best Banks Awards pose for a group photograph with finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman
with finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman

EXCELLENCE UNLIMITED
IT WAS celebration time once again, and the edged the contribution of everyone at the
mood at the FE India’s Best Banks Awards private sector bank.
was upbeat. Union finance and corporate af- Keki Mistry, vice chairman and CEO of
fairs minister Nirmala Sitharaman set the HDFC, walked away with the Lifetime
tone by reaffirming that the economy was in Achievement Award for his four decades of
good shape. Addressing a gathering of lead- work in the mortgage space. “I am proud to
ers in the financial sector and industry, receive the award from the Express group
Sitharamanhighlightedtherobustcorporate which is known for its journalistic integrity.
tax collections saying this was a clear sign I am proud that HDFC, which was set up to
private investments were picking up on the facilitate delivery of homes to middle-in-
promise of durable consumption demand. come Indians, has developed into a financial
The minister also hinted at sustained sup- conglomerate,” Mistry said.
port to exports, as “these are facing external Earlier, welcoming the guests, Viveck
headwinds” and steps to attract more for- audience applauded. Performances in 2019- Goenka, chairman and managing director, This Banker of the Year
eign investments. “We want to draw more 20 and 2020-21 were acknowledged; there The Indian Express Group, observed, the FE
foreign investments into India so that the were those who were recognised for organ- Best Banks awards have become a bench-
award actually belongs to
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman (L) with Indian Express Group growth momentum is not lost. We are defi- isationalefficiencyandothersforthesuccess mark for recognising excellence in the finan- the Indian Bank team. In a
executive director Anant Goenka nitely working on this,” Sitharaman said. of a product.Over the years, the awards have cial sector. The awards, he said, are not only very challenging year it
That assurance seemed to cheer up the appreciated individual performances. The about celebrating the success of the so- achieved the impossible.
mood for the rest of the evening, with jury picked Padmaja Chunduru, former called big boys of the sector; they have also
bankers and businessmen agreeing that the MD&CEO, Indian Bank, as Banker of the Year been about recognising talent early on. “FE PADMAJA CHUNDURU
government had done a great job of navigat- for 2019-20 acknowledging her efforts at re- was among the first to recognise the com- MD & CEO, NSDL
ing the pandemic. juvenatingthelender. Accepting the honour, ing disruption in the financial sector by ho-
The excitement mounted as the awards Chunduru credited the turnaround at Indian nouring the excellent work done by NBFCs,
presentation began. From fintech founders Bank to team effort. fintechs, and small finance banks. We are
to CEOs of small finance banks (SFB), non For exemplary leadership of ICICI Bank, immensely proud that some of those
banking financial companies (NBFC) and duringanextremelydifficultperiod,thejury awarded in the past have since joined the
bankers, the winners received their trophies selected Sandeep Bakhshi as the Banker of big league by doing phenomenal work,”
from the FM, posing for photographs as the the Year for 2020-21. Bakhshi too acknowl- Goenka said.

The FE Awards is one of the

‘go to’ events for the
banking industry. It was
good to hear from the FM.
ICICI Bank MD & CEO Sandeep Bakhshi with finance minister SHWETA JALAN
Nirmala Sitharaman. Bakhshi received the Banker of the Year 2020-21 award MANAGING PARTNER,
ADVENT INTERNATIONAL

It was lovely to interact

with all the winners and
the candid conversation
with the FM made the
evening more enjoyable.
PRIYANKA MORARKA
PRESIDENT, CORPORATE AFFAIRS,
National Securities Depository Ltd MD & CEO and former Indian Bank MD & HDFC vice chairman & CEO Keki Mistry (L) with finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Mistry received the Lifetime DWARIKESH SUGAR
CEO Padmaja Chunduru with finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Achievement Award
Chunduru received the Banker of the Year award for 2019-20

State Bank of India chairman Dinesh Kumar Khara receives the best PSU bank
award from finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman The audience looks on as the names of the winners are announced

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19 FE BEST BANKS AWARDS

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ROLL OF HONOUR

▲ HSBC India CEO ▲ HDFC Bank ED ▲ Bank of Baroda MD

Hitendra Dave Kaizad Bharucha & CEO Sanjiv Chadha

Financial Express editor Shyamal Majumdar at an interactive session with finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman

▲IDFC First Bank ▲ Axis Bank digital ▲ Indian Bank ED

MD & CEO V business & Imran Amin Siddiqui
Vaidyanathan transformation head
Sameer Shetty

Edelweiss Group CEO Rashesh Shah Ceat MD Anant Goenka IDFC First Bank MD & CEO Dream 11 CEO & co-founder ▲ AU Small Finance ▲ IndusInd Bank ▲ Fincare managing
V Vaidyanathan Harsh Jain Bank executive country head director and CEO
director Uttam (consumer banking) Rajeev Yadav
Tibrewal Soumitra Sen

▲ Bajaj Finance ▲ Aavas Financiers ▲ BharatPe general

deputy CEO Anup MD & CEO Sushil counsel and corporate
Matrix founder Reshma Shetty (L) and Dwarikesh Sugar BJP spokesperson Hinduja Group of Gravittus Foundation Religare Enterprises Saha Kumar Agarwal affairs & corp. strategy
corporate affairs president Priyanka Morarka Shaina NC Companies (India) CMD Usha Kakade executive chairperson head Sumeet Singh
chairman Ashok P Rashmi Saluja
Hinduja

▲ Go Digit vice ▲ Pine Labs CBO ▲ Lendingkart

president (strategic Kush Mehra co-founder & CEO
partnerships) Harshvardhan Lunia
Divyansh Rastogi

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(L) and BJP spokesperson Zafar Islam Group executive director Anant Goenka Chandra

▲ PolicyBazaar group ▲ Iris Business ▲ OfBusiness Group

strategic Initiatives & Services founder legal and secretarial
public policy and CEO head Brij Kishore
president Rajiv Gupta S Swaminathan Kiradoo

The Indian Express Group CMD Viveck Goenka (L) with HDFC vice chairman & Ernst & Young Global member firm BentallGreenOak managing
CEO Keki Mistry partner Viren Mehta director Bharat Khanna

▲ Fisdom co-founder & CEO ▲ Sundaram Finance MD Rajiv

Subramanya SV (L) and Lochan receives the 2019-20 best
co-founder & CBO Anand Dalmia NBFC award from finance minister
Nirmala Sitharaman
HSBC India CEO Hitendra Dave (L) and Kesari Tours eMudhra chairman (L-R) ICICI Bank ED Sandeep Batra, ICICI Bank MD & CEO Sandeep Express Photo By Pradip Das, Amit Chakrabarty, Nerandra Vaskar and Deepak Joshi
managing director Shailesh Patil V Srinivasan Bakhshi and Advent International managing partner Shweta Jalan

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percentage rate/item bids, in electronic tendering system, for construction of roads under National Bank for
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Alcaraz proves his worth Klopp to ‘reinvent’ Liverpool
after shocking loss to Napoli
Spaniard defeats Jannik Sinner in a five-set thriller in one of the US Open’s all-time great matches
Sunday – for which he has now become the
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEPTEMBER 8
Chelsea hire Potter
NAMIT KUMAR
SEPTEMBER 8
overwhelming favourite – but even if he
does not, there is little doubt that the 19- The final whistle had just sounded on
to replace Tuchel
year-old has arrived, and is able to produce Liverpool's biggest away loss in Europe in London:Chelsea'snewAmericanown-
WELL INTO the fifth hour and the fourth set his best on the game’s biggest stage. morethanahalf-centurywhenJurgenKlopp ers took a gamble with the first mana-
of his US Open quarterfinal against Jannik made his way across the field to salute his gerialappointmentoftheirtenure,hir-
Sinner, in what was already a high-quality, Tiafoe makes history team's away fans. ing Graham Potter from Premier
high-octane encounter, Carlos Alcaraz Reuters adds: With the hopes of a nation Typically, Klopp's post-match routine League rival Brighton on Thursday de-
proved exactly why he has been touted as resting on his shoulders, American Frances sees him repeatedly punch the air in front of spitehislackofexperiencecoachingat
men’s tennis’ next superstar. Tiafoe rose to the occasion on Wednesday Liverpool's supporters — and get a guttural soccer's highest level.
The 19-year-old was much the better by reaching his first Grand Slam semi-final roar of approval in response. The 47-year-old Potter agreed to a
player in the early stages of the match, win- with a 7-6(3) 7-6(0) 6-4 win over Russian This time, he was raising his hands in five-year deal as the replacement for
ning the first set. But Sinner, two years his Andrey Rublev at the U.S. Open. apology. Thomas Tuchel, who was fired on
senior, weathered the storm brilliantly to Not since Andy Roddick in 2003 has a Liverpool's performance in its 4-1 loss at Wednesday after an apparent break-
go into the lead. He targeted Alcaraz’s weak- U.S. man won the title at Flushing Meadows Napoli in the Champions League on down in his relationship with
nesses in the second set more, and despite and the pressure was on for the 24-year-old Wednesday was so poor — so unlike Chelsea's recently installed owner-
the Spaniard hitting 16 winners and just 5 to build on his stunning win over second Liverpool — that it had Klopp scratching his ship team fronted by Los Angeles
unforced errors in the third, Sinner raised seed Rafa Nadal in the fourth round. head and wondering how things had gotten Dodgerspart-owner Todd Boehly.. AP
his level enough at the back end of the set to He did not disappoint, launching 18 aces this bad, this quickly for a team that was in
break back and force a tiebreaker, which he and 46 winners in a dominant performance, thefinalof Europe'stopcompetitiononly3½
won 7-0. Alcaraz had set points in both the injecting new excitement among the home months ago. to improve, but in this moment obviously
second and third set, but Sinner led 2-1. crowd after 23-times Grand Slam winner “At the moment it's not 100% clear,” everybody would be happy if we could just
At the start of the fourth, Sinner picked Serena Williams bowed out following what Kloppsaid.“Wehavetokindof reinventour- play similar stuff to what we used to play.”
up a break, and while Alcaraz broke back is expected to be her final appearance in the selves.” A midseason reinvention isn't easy,
later, he was unable to consolidate. The third round. though.Thetransferwindowhasjustclosed. Bayern win 2-0 at Inter
Italian stepped onto court to serve for the "I felt way comfortable coming out to- Klopp says he hasn't knowingly altered his Bayern Munich continued its tradition
match, and even had match point, before day than when I was playing Rafa," Tiafoe team's shape or tactics. And there is still a of winning its opening Champions League
Alcaraz did what most players at the top said. "Today I felt really comfortable and it slew of players either sidelined by injury — game by beating Inter Milan 2-0 at San Siro
level of tennis do – made him sweat hard showed in my performance." notably in central midfield where Jordan and it would have been more comfortable
for the win. Carlos Alcaraz celebrates after his win ober Jannik Sinner. USA Today Sports Henderson,NabyKeita,CurtisJonesandAlex had it not been for Nerazzurri goalkeeper
It sounds simple but it’s far from it. We all earned it: Swiatek Oxlade-Chamberlain are out — or far from André Onana.Leroy Sanéfired Bayernahead
Getting the ball back into play as many A first-time U.S. Open women's cham- match sharp after time out of the team be- in the 25th minute and also had a part in the
times as possible is a huge feat in an era of tent quality of the shotmaking, the twists reer to the next level. pion will be crowned on Saturday and causeof injuries,likeThiagoAlcantara,Diogo second goal, which Inter defender Danilo
the game that has been defined by baseline and turns creating tension and high drama, world number one Iga Swiatek said all four Jota and Joel Matip. D'Ambrosio turned into his own net in the
defence. Alcaraz refused to go down, used all made for the best tennis match of the Alcaraz’s swag semi-finalists deserve to be there. The most significant thing for Klopp 66th. It was the 19th straight time the
his footspeed to chase down ball after ball, year, by some distance. There were exquis- Alcaraz, on the other hand, is already Top seed Swiatek will meet Belarusian heading into what is shaping up to be a huge German team has won its opening match in
made Sinner win each point twice or thrice, itely-timed drop shots, high athleticism to one of the best players in the world. The first powerhouse Aryna Sabalenka, while in- match at home against Wolverhampton in the competition and the 17th time it has
and make split-second decisions in the meet those at the net, passing shots that will half of the year saw him ascend the rank- form Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia battles the Premier League on Saturday, it seems, is done so without conceding a goal.
process. The results were there, Sinner create quite the highlight-reel, and so much ings rapidly and win two Masters 1000s, tough Tunisian Ons Jabeur on Thursday forhisplayerstogetbacktoplayingasateam RESULTS: Ajax 4 bt Rangers 0, Eintracht
buckled under the pressure with a double more. and the pressure has only risen ever since. with trips to the final on the line. and to stop being so passive. Frankfurt 0 lost to Sporting Lisbon 3, Napoli
fault, before getting broken by missing a The expectations are high, and as "It feels like we all earned it," Swiatek “It was the least compact performance I 4 bt Liverpool 1, Atletico Madrid 2 bt Porto 1,
routine drive-by forehand volley. Spare a thought for Sinner Wednesday’s fight showed, he is living up to said after her straight-sets quarter-final win saw for a long, long time,” Klopp said of the Club Brugge 1 bt Bayer Leverkusen 0,
Alcaraz won three games in a row and Ultimately, the plaudits and headlines the billing. The Spaniard swaggered on the over American Jessica Pegula. "Sometimes Napoli game. “It's not that we have to rein- Barcelona 5 bt Viktoria Plzen 1, Inter Milan 0
took the match into a decider. He was down will be taken by Alcaraz, but Sinner de- court in recognition of his own shotmak- the semi-finals players are all a surprise. vent a new kind of football. You always try lost to Bayern 2, Tottenham 2 bt Marseille 0
a break again in the fifth, but there was a serves massive credit. The Italian may be ing, kept the crowd on its toes and perform- Right now we're pretty solid. So I'm happy
sense of calm and self-belief in his manner more mild-mannered on court and less ing to his tune as he followed up incredible about that."
that indicated he was not going to lose, go- flashy with his playing style, but the sheer moments of athleticism with gestures to
ing on to win five games in a row to round number of weapons in his arsenal were on rile them up, and more than anything else, Kyrgios fined
out a 6-3, 6-7 (7), 6-7 (0), 7-5, 6-3 win in full display. His serve was incredibly con- showed impressive resilience throughout. Nick Kyrgios was fined $14,000 for un-
what was one of the US Open’s all-time sistent, he came up with massive aces when Up next is America’s Frances Tiafoe who sportsmanlike conduct following his U.S.
great contests. it mattered most. His backhand is known to has been on a charge himself this week, beat- Open quarter-final loss to Karen Khachanov
The latter stages of men’s Majors have be a big strength, but it was his forehand ing Nadal in the fourth round. The crowd will on Tuesday where the fiery Australian de-
been dominated by Roger Federer, Rafael wing that was doing maximum damage – be with the local favourite, who is much the molished two rackets after the defeat.
Nadal, and Novak Djokovic for the better going for winners inside-out and cross- fresherplayerafterwrappinguphisquarterfi- Thefinewasthelargestleveledbythetour-
part of this century, but the fabled ‘Big 3’ are court, as well as slices and dropshots, to nal quickly on Wednesday. Alcaraz stayed on namentsofarthisyearandbringsKyrgios'to-
on the decline. Federer has not played a full keep Alcaraz on his toes. courttosignautographsandinteractwithfans tal up to $32,500 for his five offenses in New
season in three years, Djokovic is unvacci- The Italian has been considered to be well past 3 am, and with all post-match rou- York. The money will be automatically de-
nated and unwelcome on much of the tour, one of the top talents on the men’s tour, and tines, would not have gone to bed until the ducted from the $473,200 Krygios earned -
and Nadal – short on match practice, sharp- after his exciting breakthrough a few years early hours of the morning (perhaps pointing $445,000 for singles and $28,200 for doubles
ness, fitness, and seemingly on motivation ago, injury issues have caused problems. He toaseparatedebateregardingmoderntennis’ - at the year's final Grand Slam.
– fell away early. has become a consistent force – one of a warped scheduling). RESULTS: Men's Singles QF: 3-C Alcaraz
Alcaraz and Sinner, however, showed handful of active players to have reached But despite spending more than 10 beat 11-J Sinner 6-3, 6-7 (7), 6-7 (0), 7-5, 6-
the world they are the game’s present as the quarterfinal of each Grand Slam – and hours on court in his last two matches, 3; 22-F Tiafoe beat 9-A Rublev 7-6 (3), 7-6
much as they are the game’s future. The in- despite failing to close this match out, it Alcaraz looks fresh and raring to go. He will (0), 6-4; Women's Singles QF: 1-I Swiatek Giovanni Simeone collapses to ground in celebration after scoring Napoli's third
tensity from the very first point, the consis- could be the springboard that takes his ca- be the World No. 1 if he wins the title on 6-3, 7-6 (4); goal against Liverpool on Wednesday. Reuters

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confidence that your plans than on outmoded ways of
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end, even if they don't see all those bad habits that you
eye-to-eye now. know have been holding
you back.
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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2022 Angry celebrations are a thing of the past. You see
me standing here because one person has put
things in perspective for me. That's Anushka. This
hundred is for her and for our little daughter
Vamika as well."
VIRAT KOHLI

BRIEFLY ‘I was a bit shocked. This format is where I least expected to get a hundred’ - Virat Kohli

Drought
Shawhitshalf-tonin
rain-affectedgame
NewDelhi:PrithviShawhammeredan
unbeaten 61 off 66 balls and put on a
NOV 22 SEP 8
2019 2022
centurystandwithYashasviJaiswalas
West Zone raced to 116 for no loss on
a rain-hit opening day of their Duleep
TrophymatchagainstNorthEastZone
hereonThursday.Sentintobatbythe
North East skipper Hokaito Zhimomi
after a long delay, Shaw made his in-
ENDS IN A DESERT
tentions clear right from the start.
Brief scores: West zone 116 for no
losson25overs(PrithviShaw61bat-
After 1020 days, Kohli I surprised
ting,Yashasvi Jaiswal 55 batting) Vs
North East Zone.
In Puducherry, East Zone reached 179
scores an international
hundred — 122 n.o. in 61
myself today...
for 3 in 54 overs against North Zone
in the other quarterfinal on a rain-hit — to signal a turnaround dedicate ton to
opening day. The highly rated Riyan
Parag,whowas sent as the opener, fell
in form a month before Anushka: Kohli
to Navdeep Saini for 8 in the fourth
over after a delayed start. Fellow
T20 World Cup
opener Sudip Kumar Gharami (68, EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
137 balls, 10 fours) and Anustup SEPTEMBER 8
Majumdar (47) ensured that the
Northbowlersdidnotcauseanymore AFTER SCORING his maiden T20I ton in
damage with the new ball. India’s 101-run win over Afghanistan in the
Brief scores: East Zone 179 for 3 Asia Cup, Virat Kohli (61-ball 122) opened
(Sudip Kumar Gharami 68) Vs North up about his lean patch, when his wife
zone. PTI Anushka Sharma, who saw his 'absolute
raw side' pushed him and gave the right
AustraliathrashNew EXPRESSINUAE guidance. Here are the excerpts from
Kohli's post-match interview:
Zealandtosealseries SANDIP G On his hundred
Cairns: AdamZampatookhisfirstfive- DUBAI, SEPTEMBER 8 I was a bit shocked. This format is where
wicket haul in one-day international I least expected to get a hundred. Today, I
cricketasAustraliaclinchedtheseries THEREWASamomentof suspensefulsilence. think was a build-up from the last few
against New Zealand after a 113-run A moment when all the eyes in the stadium games. Today, I think I batted out of my
victoryonThursday.Australia'stopor- weretrackingawhiteball’spath.Thenasthe skin. I surprised myself out there.
derstruggledandslumpedto54-5af- balllandedontothescantly-filledgallerybe-
ter being sent in, but the home team hindthemidwicketfence,thestadiumletout On Anushka’s support
rallied to post 195-9. Steve Smith a collective roar of joy so loud that it could I feel blessed, grateful. The last two-and-
scored 61 and last-wicket pair of stop traffic at the bustling Sheikh half years have taught me a lot. I am going
Mitchell Starc (38) and Josh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road. to turn 34 soon. Angry celebrations are a
Hazlewood (23) combined for an un- Then the collective converged onto the thing of the past. You see me standing here
beaten 47. New Zealand was skittled five-foot-eleven sleek figure of Virat Kolhi, because one person has put things in per-
for82inreply,withlegspinnerZampa standingin the middleof the ground,statue- spective for me.
returning 5-35 from nine overs. AP like, immersed in a transcendental dream. That’s Anushka. She has seen the ab-
Brief scores: Australia 195 for 9 He woke up from the trance of his 71st hun- solute raw side of me. She kept pushing me,
(Smith61,Boult4-38,Henry3-33)beat dred—ahundredafter1020days,hislongest gave me the right guidance and I came back
New Zealand 82 (Williamson 17, ever wait — kissed the wedding ring tied into the system a relaxed person. This hun-
Zampa 5-35, Abbott 2-1) by 113 runs onto the chain on his neck, one for his wife dred is for her and for our little daughter
and daughter flashed a hearty smile, re- Vamika as well.
IOCultimatumfor moved his helmet and applauded the crowd
in every stand. Not like a man liberated or On the lean period
IndianOlympicbody unburdened but a man contented and satis-
fied, at peace with himself.
Virat Kohli’s celebrations were quiet and graceful, a far cry from his peak, when he used to hit centuries for fun. AP What surprised me was that my 60s be-
came failures, which was pretty shocking,
New Delhi: The International Olympic Thecelebrationswerequietandgraceful, to be honest. I was batting pretty well and
Committee (IOC) on Thursday post- a far cry from his peak, when he used to hit impeccable 5/4), or the physical drain and a rare symmetry in everything about him on line.Luck,avirtuethathadlargelyeludedhim contributing. I can't really pinpoint any-
poneditsannualsession,whichwasto centuries for fun. No punchy blows in the air, emotionalfatigueof Afghanistanplayers,but Thursday—shimmeredwithnewfoundfree- in the pursuit of his No 72, was finally wink- thing to anyone. As I said, God has blessed
beheldinMumbaiinMay2023,dueto no leaps and growls, no emotional excesses, the Kohli hundred. Only the Kohli hundred domanduninhibitedaggression,likehisearly ing at him, on a moonless night in a desert me with a lot of good times in the past and
‘ongoinginternaldisputes,governance no rage or anger, but a restrained show of Not just any other. His 71st. After 1020 days. days. Opening the innings in the absence of city. His kismet was written on the skies. that's why I am in this position where these
shortcomingsandongoingcourtcases’ emotions from a matured cricketer. Later, in The whole cricketing world had waited the Rohit Sharma, the start was watchful, care- Perhaps he knew it, for he stared long and things can be spoken about.
thathaveengulfedtheIndianOlympic the mid-innings chat with the host broad- wait for Kolhi’s hundred. fully accrued, nudged or tapped singles and deep into the skies after the century.
Association (IOA). The IOC has also casters, he said: "Last two and a half years Thewaitpassedthroughdistinctstages— twos. The first four arrived off the fifth ball, At the halfway stage, though, a century On the team environment
givenanultimatumtotheIOAthatfail- have taught me a lot. I am going to turn 34 in fromcasualnesstoconcernandworrytofear but off the thick inside edge through square seemedalongshot.Afterthe10thover,hewas The team management had great com-
ure to hold elections and resolve ‘all a month. So those angry celebrations are a and doubts. There were leg. The unshackling began on 45 off 29 balls. India were yet to lose a munication with me through these times.
governance issues’ before the next thing of the past.” hushed whispers of his ca- inthesixthover,off Mujeeb- wicket, and sooner than later, Kohli and KL They kept me very relaxed, and kept my
ExecutiveBoardmeetinginMaywould Thewaitforthehundred,though,seemed reer doomsday and dread Thewaitforthe ur-Rehman. He shimmied Rahul would look to hit the next gear. The perspective very right.
lead to the immediate suspension of eternal and had spiralled into a national ob- that he would never emerge down the wicket, and wicketsofRahulandSuryakumarinthesame And when I came back as well, there
hundred,though,
the IOA. ENS session, the frenzy matched only by the wait from the drought. It was an crunched the young spin- over dulled the scoring and delayed the final was not much information coming my way.
for Sachin Tendulkar’s hundredth hundred. uneasywaitforKohlihimself seemedeternaland ner’s wrong’un through ex- push.After15overs,Kohliwas59off 40balls. They just said you bat and enjoy yourself.
Rainplaysspoilsport Like Tendulkar, who achieved the landmark
in a nondescript Asia Cup match at Dhaka,
too, who had recently con- hadspiralledintoa
fessedof thementaldemons
nationalobsession,
tra over, a shot of pure bot-
tom-handed power. A ball
Somewonderedwhetherhewasgettingtired
or there was any instruction from the team
Out of experience, I know that when I am
playing well - I have done it in the past - I
inEng-SATest Kolhi’sarrivedinaninconsequentialAsiaCup
encounter against Afghanistan.
he was tussling with in the
last two years, a time when thefrenzymatched
later, he swept him through
square-leg, a shot that he
management to drop anchor. Whatever the
reasons,Kolhisoonswitchedintobeastmode.
can play like that.

London: Rain washed out the entire Bothteamshadalreadycrashedoutof the he had to fake emotions, onlybythewaitfor usually reserves for Nathan A glorious six off Rashid Khan over long-on On any technical changes
firstdayof thedecidingcrickettestbe- team, and the match would have been for- when he had to feign inten- LyoninTests.Thentodemol- wasjustaportendof thefurytofollow,before Nothing. I picked out all the videos of
tweenEnglandandSouthAfricaatthe gotten before it was over. But Kohli has in- sity, and when his heart was SachinTendulkar’s ish the last strands of he went hammer and tongs, treating every the best times I had; the same initial move-
Oval here on Thursday. Play was aban- jected context, consequence and archival not fully in the game. hundredthhundred. Mujeeb’s self-belief, Kolhi bowler with scant regard. He thus plundered ment, the same approach towards the ball...
donedforthedayaround4:45p.m.lo- value into a game that would have been of Kohli is back being Kohli, screamed down the track 72 off just 21 balls in an exhibition of unre- it's just what was going on inside my head
cal time. There is a similar forecast of only academic value. The few thousands as- doing Kolhi things, like scor- andloftedhimoverlong-off. strainedorthodoxhitting,intheprocessstrik- that I couldn't explain to anyone.
wetweatheronFriday,too.Theseriesis sembled here — the stadium was scantly- ingahundredwithdivineease.Inapresscon- A distant hope of a Kohli hundred began ing 12 fours and half a dozen sixes. At the end of the day, you know as an
tied at 1-1. The toss was made in be- filled—wouldreturnwithatreasuredmem- ference last week, he had admitted that he to flicker. They could sense that Kohli was in The fourth of the six sixes was most spe- individual where you stand and what you
tween showers during the morning ory that they would savour for a lifetime, a was feeling as fresh as he had ever felt, as fo- an irresistible mood and in unstoppable cial. The six that ended a national obsession, need to do in your journey. People are en-
andit waswon byEngland,whichwill scrap of memory that will remain fresh in cussedanddrivenashewasatthestartof his touch. He would play his strokes all through alongwaitandasceptreof doubts.Kolhiwas titled to their opinions. But they cannot feel
bowlwhenplayeventuallygetsunder- their mind, and would be passed onto gen- career.IntheAsiaCup,hehasexudedthehey- and not revert to grit and graft mode, for amused that the hundred finally arrived in a what you are feeling.
way. England's only change will be erations,asalegacyorheirloom,withobvious dayenergyandvibrancy,butwithoutthefury which he has copped flak. format wherein he had never scored one at
Brook in for Bairstow, who injured his flourishesandexaggeration in the narration. and hyper-intensity of his turbulent twen- The enterprise almost undid him—he the international level. “Actually I was Brief scores: India 212 for 2 (Kohli 122*,
leglastweekinwhathedescribedasa Noonewouldremembertheresult(India ties. As if he had exorcised the ghosts that lobbed a ball to deep midwicket, but like a shocked.ThisisthelastformatIthought[that Rahul 62, Fareed 2-57) beat Afghanistan
"freak accident" while playing golf. AP wonbyalandslide101runs)oranyotherde- were haunting him. goalkeepertippingaballoverthecrossbarto I would score a hundred].” But destiny has a 111 for 8 (Ibrahim 64*, Bhuvneshwar 5-4)
tailof thematch(likeBhuvneshwarKumar's During the 61-ball 122 not out there was safety,thefieldercushionedtheballoverthe way of pulling off surprises. by 101 runs

PAKISTAN VERSUS AFGHANISTAN

Line of No Control
multipletimes.Amgivingyouadvicenexttime cent—they have duelled only six times in any most notably Islamia in Peshawar, and were
baat ko nation pe mat lena.” formatininternationalcricket—ithasbeenin- granted entry to play in Pakistan domestic
Tensionbetweenthetwoteamshavebeen cident-rich. There are deeper layers, cricket- cricket. In 2013, PCB and ACB had signed an
simmering all day along. ing and geopolitical, to their rivalry. MoU whereby the PCB will provide technical
Pakistan’s bowlers would roar and growl Afghanistancricketboard’sclosetieswiththe andprofessionalsupport,includinggame-ed-
Geopoliticalfrictions,adisputedborderfence,a onthefacesofAfghanistan’sbatsmenafterget- India counterparts—for three years ucation programmes, coaching courses, skill
ting them out. Earlier in the day, after AfghanistanplayedtheirhomegamesinIndia andperformanceanalysis,andbasicumpiring
relationshipgonesourbetweencricketboardshave Afghanistan’s Fareed Ahmed dismissed Asif and played their inaugural Test also against and curator courses.
boiledoverinthestandsandonthefield Ali, he vigorously punched the air close to the
batsman's proximity.
them—left PCB embittered.
Pakistan felt that Afghanistan were being
But with the ACB and BCCI fostering a
warm relationship, ties between Afghanistan
Ali first pushed him away and raised his ungrateful to them, as most of the first gener- and Pakistan cricket boards began to strain. It
it escalated into an angry exchange of exple- bat, threatening to hit him. ation of Afghanistan cricketers, from reachedatippingpointaftertheblastinKabul
SANDIPG tives and plastic water bottles between the Before the incident blew into full-blown Mohammad Nabi to Rashid Khan, learned on May 31, 2017, which killed 90 people.
SEPTEMBER8 two sections, before the local police inter- punch-up, the umpires intervened and de- cricketintherefugeecampsinPeshawar.PCB Kabul’ssecurityagenciestrackedtheblaststo
vened and swept them aside. fused the volatility. There were similar inci- presidentNajamSethihadthensaid:“There- a local outfit but with Pakistan’s support.
TWO POWERFUL strokes from the bat of a But the scuffle in the virtual world raged dentsinthepasttoo.Inthe2018editionofthe lationship between us has not been like an Tradeanddiplomatictieswerecutoff and
teenagetearawaypropelledanationtoheights on. Former Pakistan fast bowler and televi- AsiaCup,AliandRashidKhanwereinvolvedin elder and younger brother, but like a mother the Afghanistan cricket board quickly can-
ofeuphoriaandplungedtheotherintodepths sion pundit Shoaib Akhtar wrote on his afracaswhenRashidwaggedhisfingerathim and child.” celled a friendly bilateral series between
of mourning.NaseemShah’stwinsixesinthe Twitter handle, captioning a video of the in- after dismissing him. Inasensehewastrue,Afghanistancricket them, saying that “no agreement could be
last over of the Super Four match in the Asia cident and tagging former CEO of The incensed Pakistan crowd began was born in the crammed, makeshift refugee validinacountrywhereterroristsarehoused
Cup, enabling a one-wicket heist, sparked ju- Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB), Shafiq mockinghimandinsultinghimwithderoga- camps across the Durand Line, slicing the and provided safe havens”. PCB wanted an
bilant celebrations in the Pakistan dressing Stanikzai: “This is what Afghan fans are do- toryphrases.Ayearlateratthe50-overWorld Pashtun heartland into two. apology, ACB refused. Their ties have re-
room as well as among the fervent fans at the ing. This is what they've done in the past CupinHeadingley,amatchthatendedinan- Nabiwastwoyearsoldwhenhisfamilyleft mained strained ever since.
Sharjah Cricket Stadium. But Afghanistan’s multiple times. This is a game and it’s sup- other last-over heartbreak for Afghanistan, his hometown of Logar, once known then as A broader geopolitical tension has been
players stood speechless, gazing at the skies, posed to be played and taken in the right some fans of both countries were bundled the Gates of Jihad and a bloody theatre of war stewingfordecades,sincetheBritishdrewthe
and a couple of them broke down. spirit. @ShafiqStanikzai your crowd & your outof thegroundafterthrowingchairswhile between US-trained mujahideen groups and Durand Line, a 2,640km land border, ripping
In the stands, though, a section of players both need to learn a few things if you some were denied entry as they were clash- theSoviet-backedAfghangovernmenttroops, the Pashtun heartland into two.
Afghanistan enthusiasts could no longer di- guys want to grow in the sport.” Afghanistan’s Fareed Ahmad and ing outside the stadium. and sought refuge in a camp in Peshawar. The largely porous border, a popular trail
gest the reality of the defeat that they started Stankizaiquicklyretorted:“Youcan’tcon- Pakistan’s Asif Ali in a heated exchange Rashid Khan, too, left his hometown for smugglers, mostly running along de-
breaking the bucket seats in the gallery and trol the emotions of the crowd and such inci- during a Super 4 game. AP A blast that cancelled a series Nangarhar, in his childhood. serted high-mountain terrain , has been per-
flingingthoseatthePakistansupporters.Soon dents have happened in the world of cricket Although their cricketing rivalry is nas- All of them were groomed in local clubs, petually disputed.

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