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Striking a discordant noteahead of joining the all-

party meet convened by PrimeMinister Narendera Modi inNew Delhi on June 24, thePeople’s Alliance for GupkarDeclaration (PAGD) onTuesday announced they willattend the meeting but therecan be no compromise onArticle 370 and 35A, whichgranted special status to theerstwhile State of Jammu &Kashmir.

The PAGD leaders, whoassembled at the residence ofDr Farooq Abdullah, discussedthe contours of the agenda ofthe June 24 conclave.

After the meeting was over,chairman of the PAGD allianceDr Farooq Abdullah toldreporters, “Mehbooba Mufti,Mohmmad Yusuf Tarigami,and I will attend the all-partymeeting called by the PM. Wehope to keep our agenda beforethe PM and Home Minister”.

Dr Abdullah said, “Ourstand is clear and all of youknow what our stand is. Thereis no need to repeat the same.

Since New Delhi has invited theleaders individually, we havedecided that all those invitedwill attend the meeting and putforth their points on J&K.”

The chief spokesperson ofthe PAGD and CPI(M) leaderMohammad Yousuf Tarigamisaid they will not ask for moonduring the meeting with thePM. “We will seek somethingthat is ours and will remain

ours,” he said.Tarigami said they will go

to Delhi and represent thepeople of Jammu, Kashmirand Ladakh. “We will put forththe aspirations of people ofJammu, Kashmir and Ladakhin the meeting. Whatever ispossible within the Indian con-stitution is what we are goingto seek. We will not put our sig-nature on their agenda, we will

agree to the agenda which is inthe interest of the people ofJammu, Kashmir and Ladakh,”said Tarigami.

PDP chief Mehbooba saidduring the meeting with thePrime Minister on Thursday,she will press for the restorationof the special status of Jammuand Kashmir which was“snatched away from us”.

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Aday after India recorded amilestone of 86 lakh vac-

cination in a day, numbersslumped drastically on daytwo of the implementation of“revised guidelines for Covid-19 jab drive” with just around53.4 lakh people vaccinated asper the Government data avail-able till 10pm.

According to the UnionHealth Ministry, on the secondday of the new phase of Covid-19 vaccination, more than 53.4lakh vaccine doses were admin-istered on Tuesday till 10 pmwith Uttar Pradesh recordinghighest single-day vaccine cov-erage by administering 7.96lakh doses.

Other States, like MadhyaPradesh, Uttar Pradesh andKarnataka, which reported asharp surge in vaccination on

June 21, showed poor perfor-mance on Tuesday.

Since the launch of thenationwide vaccination drive,Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh,Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana,Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala,Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra,Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu,Telangana, Odisha, UttarPradesh and West Bengal haveadministered first dose to morethan 10 lakh beneficiaries of theage group 18-44 years, said a

statement from theGovernment.

Overall, more than 29.35crore (29,35,04,820) vaccinedoses have been provided toStates/UTs so far, through theCentre Government of India(free of cost channel) andthrough direct state procure-ment category.

More than 2.14 crore(2,14,90,297) Covid vaccinedoses are still available with theStates/UTs to be administered

while more than 33,80,590vaccine doses are in thepipeline and will be received bythe States/UTs within the next3 days, said the Government.

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The Mumbai Bench of theNational Company Law

Tribunal (NCLT) on Tuesdayapproved the resolution plan ofKalrock Capital and entrepre-neur Murari Lal Jalan to revivethe grounded airline JetAirways.

The NCLT has given 90days to the Directorate Generalof Civil Aviation (DGCA) andMinistry of Civil Aviation(MoCA) to allot slots to the air-line. The decision marks thefirst step in what could be thereturn of India’s oldest andlargest private airline.Following the NCLT’s approval,shares of Jet Airways hit the 5per cent upper circuit on theNational Stock Exchange.

As per the NCLT order, theDGCA will take the final deci-sion on the allotment of slots tothe airline.

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The Supreme Court onTuesday refused to interfere

with the assessment schemepropounded by both theCentral Board of SecondaryEducation (CBSE) and theCouncil for the Indian SchoolCertificate Examinations(CICSE) for evaluation of Class12 students, whose boardexaminations have been can-celled due to the Covid-19pandemic.

The top court rejected theobjections raised by a parents’body as well as students andsaid that it is not possible tohave a second guess approachwith regard to various aspectsof the assessment scheme.

A special bench of JusticesAM Khanwilkar and DineshMaheshwari said, “We acceptthe scheme as propounded byboth the boards — CBSE andCISCE”.

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In a serious setback for the Lakshadweep

Administration, the KeralaHigh Court on Tuesday stayedtill further orders the operationof two controversial ordersissued by the UT on May 21.

Chief Justice Manikumarand Justice Shaji P Chali stayedthe orders issued by theLakshadweep Administrationto shut down the dairy farmsoperated by the administrationand to remove beef and relat-ed items from the noon mealserved to children in the islandschools. Resident of one of theislands who filed a public inter-est litigation (PIL) had statedthat order was passed with amalicious intention to changethe food habits of the islandinhabitants.

According to the petition-

er, this was a prelude to theimplementation of the pro-posed Animal Preservation(Regulation), 2021, which seeksto ban slaughter of cows andconsumption of beef and beefproducts.

These orders had causedwide resentment in the islandsthat saw massive protests anden masse resignation from theLakshadweep unit of the BJP.

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The Congress’ three-memberpanel constituted to resolve

the infighting in Punjab partyunit on Tuesday gave ChiefMinister Capt AmarinderSingh virtually six months tokeep the promises his partymade before the 2017 elections,that were not fulfilled duringpast four-and-a-half years.

The deadline came duringhis three-hour-long meetingwith the panel, led by Leader ofOpposition in Rajya SabhaMallikarjun Kharge, Punjab party affairs’ in-chargeHarish Rawat, and former MPJP Aggarwal.

At the same time, the panel

also took a strong note ofparty MLA and formerMinister Navjot Singh Sidhu’s“two families taking advantagein the State” remarks after“miffed” Chief Minister lodgeda strong objection to suchstatements that too at a timewhen the efforts are on toresolve the issue.

In fact, senior Congressleader Rahul Gandhi was alsonot happy with the formercricketer’s latest statements.

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What could be better thanlunch to call it a political

truce? This exactly happenedon Tuesday when ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanathreached the house of DeputyChief Minister Keshav PrasadMaurya to have lunch. This wasthe first time Yogi had gone toa Minister’s house in the lastfour and a half years.

The official explanationgiven was that he had gone tocongratulate Maurya’s son whogot married recently, but inpolitical circles this visit isseen as an attempt to scotch speculation that Yogiand Maurya are not on thesame page.

Maurya’s son Yogesh gotmarried on May 22 amid Covidprotocol. No leaders orMinisters from the Cabinetwere invited to that marriage.

Yogi was accompanied byDeputy Chief Minister DrDinesh Sharma, BJP’s nation-al general secretary organiza-tion BL Santosh, and RSSleader Krishna Gopal.

Politically speakingthrough this meeting a messageis being sent among the partyleaders and the adversariesthat all is well between Yogi andMaurya.

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The “successful Centre-Statebhagidari”, said the Prime

Minister Narendra Modi onTuesday, has helped States raisean extra �1.06 lakh crore in2020-21 and this, he said, hap-pened despite the challengesthrown by Covid-19 pandem-ic. States were able to raise anextra �1.06 lakh crore in 2020-21 by implementing a set ofreforms that allowed them toborrow more from the Centre,Modi said in a blog titled“Reforms by Conviction andIncentives”,.

He wrote in his blog that 23States availed of additionalborrowings of �1.06 lakh croreout of a potential �2.14 lakhcrore. “This significant increasein availability of resources wasmade possible by an approachof Centre-State bhagidari,” hewrote.

The Prime Minister saidthe Covid-19 pandemic hascome with a whole new set ofchallenges to Governments

across the world in terms ofpolicy-making. India is noexception. Raising enoughresources for public welfarewhile ensuring sustainability isproving to be one of the biggestchallenges, he said.

“In this backdrop of thefinancial crunch seen across theworld, do you know that IndianStates were able to borrow sig-nificantly more in 2020-21?,”Modi sought to say.

“When we formulated oureconomic response to theCovid-19 pandemic, we want-

ed to ensure that our solutionsdo not follow a ‘one size fits all’model. For a federal country ofcontinental dimensions, find-ing policy instruments at thenational level to promotereforms by State Governmentsis indeed challenging. But, wehad faith in the robustness ofour federal polity and wemoved ahead in the spirit ofCentre-State bhagidari,” Modiwrote detailing the said “bhagi-dari’’ and highlighted someparagraphs in his blog.

“In May 2020, as part of theAatmanirbhar Bharat package,the Government of Indiaannounced that StateGovernments would beallowed enhanced borrowingfor 2020-21. An extra 2 per centof GSDP was allowed, of which1 per cent was made condi-tional on the implementationof certain economic reforms,”said the Prime Minister.

Modi said this nudge forreform is rare in Indian publicfinance.

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Putting aside apprehensionsover the seasonal discount

offers, the Ministry ofConsumer Affairs on Tuesdaymade it clear that discount salesthat benefit consumers willcontinue but flash sales thatseek to exploit market would behit under the proposed amend-ments to the ConsumerProtection (e-commerce)Rules, 2020, on which theGovernment has sought publiccomments by July 6.

Ministry’s AdditionalSecretary Nidhi Khare onTuesday made it clear that theMinistry “will not regulate”the trade on e-commerce plat-forms. And the e-commerceplayers need not be anxiousabout the proposed changes inthe rules. “We will take actionon fraudulent flash sales if wereceive any complaints or

CCPA (Central ConsumerProtection Authority) can takesuo motu cognizance,” she said.

Khare added that theGovernment will not seek dis-closure of flash sales from e-commerce players to regulatethe fraudulent sale of goodsand services but will takeappropriate action as per thelaw on consumer complaints.“We are not going to seek dis-closure of flash sales. We arewith sales that benefit maxi-mum consumers. If someonewants to complain, thereshould at least be a provision,”Khare said.

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After two and half hours ofconfabulations among

eight Opposition parties overthe “need for preparing analternate vision in the country”,their leaders emerged to takegreat pains in refuting that itwas a Third Front, it was apolitical grouping minus theCongress and its huddle was atthe behest of NCP chief Sharad Pawar.

“It is being reported in themedia that this meeting ofRashtra Manch was held bySharad Pawar to unite anti-BJPpolitical parties. This is totallyincorrect. I want to clarify thatthis meeting took place atPawar’s residence but he didn’tcall this meeting,” NCP leaderMajeed Memon told the mediaafter the meeting on Tuesday.

Former BJP leadersYashwant Sinha andShatrughan Sinha have found-ed the Rashtra Manch.

Memon further said the

perception that there is goingto be a big Opposition groupexcluding the Congress iswrong. “It is being said thatPawar is taking a big politicalstep and the Congress hasbeen boycotted. This is incor-rect. There is no political exclu-sion. We have invited the lead-ers who subscribe to the ide-ology of Rashtra Manch inwhich leaders of all politicalparties could come. There is nopolitical discrimination. I per-sonally invited Congress mem-bers,” Memon stressed.

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New Delhi: Anticipating athird Covid-19 wave inOctober, the Government onTuesday said schools, shut sinceMarch last year due to the pan-demic, will only re-open oncea significant portion of the pop-ulation has been vaccinatedagainst coronavirus.

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Aday after the WHO saidthe existing Covid-19 vac-

cines are showing reducedsigns of efficacy against theDelta variant of coronavirus,the Government on Tuesdayalerted that the Delta plus vari-ant is prevalent in Maharashtra,Kerala and MP in India and 8other countries.

However, it asserted thatboth Covishield and Covaxinare effective against the newmutation. It said it would short-ly come out with the extent oftheir effectiveness.

As a precautionary mea-sure, the Union HealthMinistry has issued an adviso-ry to the three StateGovernments to keep a vigil onthe new mutated virus which is

said to be more virulent. Deltaplus, also known as AY.1 vari-ant or B.1.617.2.1, is consideredto be the most dangerous vari-ant of Covid-19.

Union Health SecretaryRajesh Bhushan said at a Pressbriefing here that India isamong the nine countrieswhere the Delta plus mutationof the cornavirus has beenfound so far. However, heunderlined that it is currentlya “variant of interest” and hasnot yet been classified as a“variant of concern”.

Of the 22 cases of Deltaplus variant of the coronavirusdetected in India, 16 have beendetected in Maharashtra’sRatnagiri and Jalgaon whileothers are from parts of Keralaand Madhya Pradesh.

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In a shocking incident inBahraich, a one-and-a-half-

year-old girl died after she wasabducted and sexually assault-ed by her neighbour. The victimwent missing on Monday nightand after a night-long search,she was recovered in a criticalcondition. She was taken to hos-pital where doctors pronouncedher dead upon arrival. Theaccused was caught by localsand thrashed before beinghanded over to police. He triedto escape from police custodywhile being taken to court butwas overpowered after beingshot in the leg.

The toddler was sleeping ina courtyard on Monday nightwhen the accused (30) pickedher up and took her to a desert-ed school building and rapedher. When the parents did notfind the girl, they started search-ing for her. After hectic efforts,she was found profusely bleed-ing. The accused, who was alsowith the victim, was caught bythe villagers and handed over topolice. A case of murder wasregistered against the accusedand he was also booked underPOCSO Act.

Meanwhile in LakhimpurKheri, an 8-year-old Dalit girlwas found dead. She was report-ed missing on Sunday after-noon. Her body was recoveredfrom a cane field in the Pasgavaarea. While her family allegedthat she was killed after beingraped, police suspected thatthe girl was murdered after sheresisted sexual assault. A case ofmurder was registered in thisregard. The girl and her grand-mother had gone to a field withtheir goats on Sunday. “In theafternoon, the girl said she wasreturning home. But in theevening, I was informed that shedidn’t reach home. We startedsearching for her and laterfound her dead,” her grand-mother said.

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Aday after the Anti-TerrorSquad arrested two indi-

viduals in the alleged reli-gious conversion racket, thepolice have now invoked theNational Security Act (NSA)against the accused on thedirections of Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath.

Those arrested have beenidentified as Mufti QaziJahangir Alam Qasmi andMohammad Umar Gautamby Addit ional DirectorGeneral of Pol ice (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar.Both accused are the resi-dents of Jamia Nagar in NewDelhi.

According to reports, theproperties of the accused willalso be confiscated. OnTuesday, the ATS also gottheir police custody remand

for further interrogation.The alleged conversion

racket was busted by the ATSfollowing the registration ofan FIR in the case at the ATSpolice station in Lucknow. Asper reports, two men ofDelhi’s Jamia Nagar, wereallegedly running an outfitinvolved in converting deafand dumb students and otherpoor people to Islam in UttarPradesh with funding fromPakistan’s ISI. Moreover, chil-dren and women were alsolured with false promises ofcash, jobs, and marriage forconversion.

Gautam, who is himself aconvert, claimed to have con-verted at least 1,000 people toIslam. “I converted at least1,000 to Islam and marriedthem off all to Muslims,”Gautam reportedly disclosedduring interrogation.

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BJP national leaders held ameeting with Chief

Minister Yogi Adityanath andhis cabinet colleagues to chalkout the strategy for the 2022 UPAssembly elections amidstspeculations of lack of coordi-nation between the party andgovernment.

BJP national secretary(organisation) BL Santosh andUP incharge Radha MohanSingh held an almost 3-hourmeeting with the ministersand asked them about theprogress of different depart-ments and how they can pro-ject the same in the nextsankalp patra (election mani-festo).

Besides the chief minister,his two deputies also took partin the meeting. Former state

presidents Vinay Katiyar,Laxmi Kant Bajpayi andRamapati Shastri were also inattendance. BJP state presi-dent Swatantra Dev Singh andsecretary (organisation) SunilBansal also attended the meet-ing. “The meeting fine-tunedthe party’s strategy for the2022 elections which will bebased on the government’sachievements. The promisesmade during 2017 and howmany of them were fulfilledwere discussed in detail,” sourcesaid. Only cabinet ministerswere invited to the meeting.

The sources told thisreporter that the cabinet min-isters were asked to prepare areport card of their respectivedepartments so that the themeof the 2022 elections could befinalised.

During his last visit to

Lucknow almost three weeksago, Santosh had met ministersindividually to know about theprogress of the government.

It was the second day of themeeting of senior RSS andBJP leaders with the party offi-cials and the chief minister. OnMonday, Santosh held a seriesof meetings with the BJP work-ers and RSS leaders and later inthe day, he held a meeting withCM Yogi Adityanath. Themeeting was also attended byDeputy CMs Dr DineshSharma and Keshav PrasadMaurya.

On Tuesday morning, thenational leaders met BJP office-bearers where the strategy forpanchayat elections was dis-cussed. The party leaders wereasked to ensure victory of atleast 65 district panchayat pres-ident candidates.

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The chief minister will alsolaunch the online transforma-tion of ‘One District OneProduct, Common FacilityCentre’ scheme. He will also laythe foundation for commonfacility centres online. Thesecentres will be constructed innine districts. The state govern-ment is working with commit-ment to make India self-reliantand making people self-reliantby providing them employ-ment was a top priority of thegovernment, officials said.

body from a cane field outsidethe village. The police said thevictim was strangled to death byher trousers. A panel of threedoctors conducted the autopsyand the final report was await-ed. “The autopsy report willascertain sexual assault,” SSPVijay Dhull said.

Meanwhile, the Delhi Policearrested a youth from Bijnorand rescued a kidnapped minorgirl. Reports said that the copswere probing the kidnapping ofa 15-year-old girl, a resident ofNeb Sarai village. The girl wentmissing on Monday morning.The girl’s elder sister told thepolice that she came in contactwith a person through socialmedia. She suspected hisinvolvement in the case. An FIRwas registered against theaccused, identified as TanzeelAhmed (19). The cops reachedBijnor on Tuesday morningand raided a house in AnishaNangli village under Seoharapolice station limits and rescuedthe girl. The girl is a student ofClass VIII while the accused isa carpenter.

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9��'�� Lucknow (PNS): In the Rabimarketing season 2021-2022,the Uttar Pradesh governmenthas made the highest-ever pur-chase of wheat from the high-est number of farmers. Wheatprocurement in UP hasincreased eight times in YogiAdityanath’s regime, going upfrom 7.97 lakh MT in 2016 to56.25 lakh MT, an all-timehigh, in the ongoing season.

The sharp hike in procure-ment has benefited 13 timesmore farmers than the previousSamajwadi Party government in2016. During the Rabi market-ing season 2016-17, wheat waspurchased from merely1,66,073 farmers whereas in the2021-22 season, over 12.88lakh farmers benefited from thepurchase despite the pandem-ic situation.

The Yogi Adityanath gov-ernment has purchased morethan 2.22 crore MT of foodgrains on higher MSP so far inits tenure which is 110 per centmore than the target. In com-parison, during the erstwhileAkhilesh Yadav government,the total purchase of wheatfrom 2012 to 2017 was justabout 94.38 lakh MT, only 42per cent of the target.

In the five years preceding2017, the Samajwadi Party wasin power in Uttar Pradesh andthe total number of farmerswho benefited from the wheatpurchase was 19,02,098. Incontrast, during 2017-21, theYogi-led government in UPbenefited more than 46,33,526farmers. According toCommissioner of Food andSupply Manish Chauhan, thereare several reasons behind therecord wheat purchase thisyear. The increased number ofpurchase centres, the high MSP,no fixed time limit and trans-parency in procurement adopt-ed by the government are thefactors that contributed to theall-time high purchase.

The Central governmentincreased the MSP of wheatfrom Rs 1,925 in 2020-21 to Rs1,975 in 2021-22.

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:>1��+��+��Lucknow (PNS): A womanaccused Shia Waqf Boardmember Wasim Rizvi of sexu-ally exploitation and thrashingher husband on demanding anexplanation. However, Rizvireleased a video in which heclaimed that the allegationswere levelled because he sackedher husband, who was his dri-ver, for conspiring against him.

Police said they havereceived a complaint againstRizvi and the veracity of theallegations was being ascer-tained. Earlier, the woman,along with some lawyers,reached Saadatganj police sta-tion to lodge a case in this con-nection. She said her husbandworked as Rizvi’s driver and hewas thrashed by him and hismen for seeking an explana-tion. She alleged that she wasforced to submit to his wisheswhen her husband was sent outfor some work. ADCP, West,Rajesh Srivastava said thepolice received the applicationand an investigation wasunderway. He said no FIR wasregistered in this connection.

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The Indian Council ofMedical Research (ICMR)

has given its nod for the set-ting up of the first MycologyCentre at King George’sMedical University to study allkinds of fungi and fungal dis-eases. KGMU spokespersonDr Sudhir Singh said it wouldbe the first such centre in the

state and 13th in the country.“ICMR will be funding

for the infrastructure andKGMU has been selectedbecause it has the maximumnumber of black funguspatients in the state,” Dr Singhsaid. He added that molecularand genetic testing of the fun-gus would be carried out at thecentre.

“The levels of the antifun-

gals in blood will be tested sothat their amount can be esti-mated to reduce their harmfuleffects,” he said.

Dr Singh said theMycology Centre would be setup in one of the wings of theMicrobiology department ofKGMU.

On Tuesday, there weretwo black fungus deaths atKGMU while 12 new patients

were admitted, taking the tallyto 451. The deceased includ-ed a 52-year-old woman fromBadaun and a 45-year-oldwoman from Bareilly.

Meanwhile, he said thatKGMU has completed 20 lakhRT-PCR tests, the maximumin the country. He said that thecredit for that goes to theentire microbiology teamheaded by Prof Amita Jain.

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District Magistrate AbhishekPrakash held a meeting

with the representatives fromprivate and government hospi-tals to chalk out a strategy inview of the third wave which islikely to impact children. Hesaid that looking into this pos-sibility, the medical colleges andhospitals should have PICUand NICU ventilator beds,senior & junior residents,equipment and required logis-tics ready. He said it was impor-tant to be prepared because itwould help them deal with anemergency situation with ease.

The DM said the entire

staff should be trained andthose present in the meetingwas informed that a virtualtraining was being organised bySGPGI and a hands-on train-ing by KGMU.

He said the hospitalsshould inform if there is pauci-ty of junior and senior residentsand directed the CMO to pro-vide for the required staff. Hesaid that the hospitals shouldalso make arrangements foroxygen.

KGMU representative saidthey have 100 beds, including50 PICU and NICU beds, whilethe rest are oxygen beds.

SGPGI representative saidthey are making a 50-bed PICU

and NICU facility and have noproblems regarding the staff orlogistics.

At RMLIMS, a 50-bedfacility is coming up but thereis a shortage of senior residents.ERA’s Medical College andHospital representative saidthey have a 30-bed PICU andNICU facility and they aremaking arrangements for a100-bed paediatric ward with50 PICU/NICU beds and 50oxygen beds.

Balrampur Hospital hasmade arrangements for a 50-bed paediatric ward with 20PICU/NICU beds and 30 oxy-gen beds. The hospital also hasa liquid medical oxygen plant.

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The paediatric units being setup at city hospitals in view

of the third Covid wave areequipped with projectors, car-toon characters on the wallsand coloured bedsheets as doc-tors are of the view that such anenvironment would give asoothing feeling to the kidsadmitted there.

Nodal officer for Covid atLok Bandhu Hospital, Dr ArunTewari said they have pre-pared a 100-bed paediatricunit with several innovations.“We have tried to make itchild-friendly. The interiorshave been done in an attractiveway with several cartoon char-acters and different kinds ofimages on the walls. The bed-sheets are colourful and carrydifferent kinds of pictures whiletoys have also been placed. Thewall colours have beenchanged. The idea is to makethe kids feel at home and givethem a soothing feeling.”

Dr Tewari said it was theidea of their paediatriciansbecause a child is alwaysinquisitive, curious and playful.

“Children cannot berestricted because they want toroam around and explore theirsurroundings. Hence, the theunit has been designed in sucha way that the kids can get max-imum pleasure from the sur-roundings,” he added.

“These kinds of decora-tions are made in private clin-

ics by doctors but is a first foran ICU,” he pointed out. Whenasked if they are also selectingthe child-friendly staff, he saidthey have selected staff nurseswho can take good care of thechildren because of their expe-rience. “The small-sized venti-lators have been installed andfor big ventilators, the systemhas been made in such a waythat the same can be used foradults by selecting a specificmode,” he said.

Dr Tewari said the parentswould also be allowed in thepaediatric ICU. “It is for thesame reason that parents ofchildren under 12 years arebeing vaccinated with priority.If such children fall ill and areis admitted to the ICU, theirparents can take care of themwithout being bothered,” headded.

Dr Shrikesh Singh fromRam Manohar Lohia Institute

of Medical Sciences said theyhave also planned a child-friendly ICU. “Ours will be amixed ICU which will haveboth the adults and kids. Thereis no doubt about the fact thatif the ward is meant for chil-dren, it should have some paint-ings as well as sculptures on thewalls to make them feel athome,” he said. “We will alsoinstall a projector to showcasemovies and cartoons,” he added.

Dr Nishant Verma fromKGMU said they have createda 100-bed paediatric unit onthree floors in the psychiatrybuilding. “The unit has 50ICU beds and 50 oxygen bedsand each bed has a couchalongside for parents,” he said.

He added that it is separatefrom the unit which theyalready have at the hospital.The first and second floorshave oxygen beds and theground floor has ICU beds.

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Uttar Pradesh created arecord of sorts as close to

8 lakh people were vaccinatedin 24 hours even as 255 newcases of Covid were reportedon Tuesday while 397 patientsrecovered.

Government spokesmanShishir Singh said that till 8 pmon Tuesday, 7.63 lakh peoplewere vaccinated and the countcould reach 8 lakh.

On June 21, the state hadrecorded 7,29,197 vaccinations.Till now, 2,63,22,777 vaccinedoses have been administeredacross the state. “From July 1,the government has fixed a tar-get to vaccinate 12 lakh peopleper day,” the spokesman said.

At present, there are 3,910active Covid cases in the stateand 2,525 patients are in homeisolation. “Today, no new cases

of infection were found in 16districts while fresh cases insingle digit were reported in 55districts,” Additional Chief

Secretary, Information,Navneet Sehgal said here onTuesday. There were double-digit fresh cases in just two dis-tricts, including Lucknowwhere 28 patients were diag-nosed with COVID-19. In thestate capital, 10 patients suc-cumbed while the active casesstand at 293.

The number of patientswho have recovered fromCovid in the state has gone upto 16,78,486. UP’s Covid recov-ery rate has gone up to 98.5 percent while the positivity rate is0.1%.

Till now, 5,57,30, 488Covid tests have been conduct-ed in the state. In the last 24hours, 2,44,275 tests were con-ducted.

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Lucknow (PNS): A joint teamof the Special Task Force (STF)and Sushant Golf City (SGC)police on Tuesday nabbed awanted dacoit bearing a rewardof Rs 25,000. The accused wasidentified as Mohammed Arifaka Cheeni of Ghaziabad. Thepolice recovered a country-made pistol, two live cartridges,40 precious stones and orna-ments which were looted fromSGC police station area.

Arif spent some time inLucknow where his aunt livesand formed a gang of youth. Hewas named in several cases ofcrime and was sent to jail on anumber of occasions. Lately, heand his aides had committeddacoity in a flat under SGCpolice station area on April 22.

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A Class XII student diedwhile seven of his friends hada narrow escape their SUV fellinto the Gomti river inNishatganj on the interveningnight of Monday and Friday.The deceased was identified asNikhil Gupta (17) of Para whilehis friends as Abdullah,Saurabh Singh, Shivam Singh,Vinod Pal, Gaurav Singh, BabuGupta and Shivam Kumar.

Saurabh was in the driver’sseat while the SUV is registeredin the name of one Atul Gupta.

As per reports, the groupwas going back to their homesin Para from Barabanki. On theway, they took the Gomti river-front lane after reaching SamtaMulak crossing and reachedPapermill Colony culvertaround 2:30 am.

Inspector Pradeep Singhsaid the group reached thespot where Kukrail drain fallsinto the Gomti river. There was

an unfenced portion with alayer of moss on the road. “TheSUV was moving at a highspeed and Saurabh could notsense the danger ahead. As aresult, the SUV skidded and fellinto the river,” he said.

“The windscreen of theSUV was broken by constablesAnil Yadav and Nitin Sharmawho rescued three youths, butthey could not pull out thevehicle. Later, additional copsand divers reached the sceneand a search operation wasstarted, but in vain. TheSDRF men were also called.However, four others swam tosafety.

The SDRF team consistingof 18 personnel started thesearch operation using dragoncameras and located the SUV.They also traced Nikhil but hehad died by then. The youthshad gone to Shivam’s house inBarabanki where they had aparty and decided to returnthe same night.

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Lucknow (PNS): BJP MP from Badaun Dr SanghamitraMaurya demanded the disqualification of West Bengal’s TMCMP and actress Nusrat Jahan for allegedly giving a false affidavitin parliament and hiding her marital status. Maurya handed overa letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla recently.

The BJP MP demanded cancellation of Nusrat Jahan’s LokSabha membership. In the letter, said that the TMC MP’s con-duct was indecent. “She has deceived her voters on the issue ofmarriage. The dignity of parliament has also been tarnished byher act,” she stated in the letter.

She said that the matter should be sent to the EthicsCommittee of Lok Sabha for investigation. Maurya, on a day-long visit to her Lok Sabha constituency, said that Nusrat Jahanlied in the affidavit. “I have no interest in the TMC MP’s per-sonal life but with her affidavit where she has shown her mari-tal status as married. Her name in the affidavit is Nusrat Jahanalias Noori Jain and her husband’s name is Nikhil Jain. Now sheclaims that her marriage was not valid. You lied to the publicand parliament. There should be an investigation into this mat-ter and action be taken,” Maurya said.

Lucknow (PNS): A 15-year-old boy was injured after aleopard entered a residentialarea in the Sitanagar area ofAgra early Tuesday morning.

Police and forest officialsreached the spot to trap the bigcat while the boy’s conditionwas said to be stable. SumitSolanki (15) said he saw aleopard when he entered hishouse and was attacked whenhe tried to run away. “Later,the leopard strayed into amango godown. Locals lockedthe godown from outside,”claimed the district adminis-tration officials who reachedthe spot.

Meanwhile in Sonbhadra,local police and forest sleuths

claimed to have arrested threesmugglers under Karma policestation area on Monday nightand seized from their posses-sion ivory worth over Rs 2.50crore. The police said theteam seized around 10.60 kgivory from the smugglers.

SP Amarendra PrasadSingh said that on Mondayevening, an informer tippedoff police and forest officersthat some smugglers weregoing to Varanasi with ivory.A trap was laid and threeaccused with ivory werenabbed, the SP said.

Those arrested were iden-tif ied as ParameshwarPrajapati, Bhaiya Lal Mauryaand Dharmalal Maurya.

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Four people, including threeof a family, were found

dead under mysterious cir-cumstances in Rajpur Kesariyavillage under Dilari police sta-tion area of Moradabad.

Police recovered the bod-ies of Rajendra, his two sonsand a servant from a smallbasement beneath a room ofRajendra Singh’s house in thewee hours of Tuesday. Thepolice sent the bodies forautopsy.

The deceased were identi-fied as Rajendra (50), his twosons Harkesh (30) & Preetam(25), and their servant Ramesh(40). After preliminary inves-tigation, police said RajendraSingh used to make and sellillicit liquor. A year ago, 250boxes of illicit liquor wererecovered from his house andhe was sent to jail.

After coming out,Rajendra Singh again startedmaking hooch with his twosons. Even on the day of theaccident, he was drinking illic-it liquor in another house builtnear his house. In the mean-time, Rajendra, his two sonsand servants fainted one afteranother, probably after inhalingsome poisonous gas. Rajendra’swife Phoolvati, who was sittingoutside, reached there found

them unresponsive.Phoolvati raised an alarm

after which neighbours reachedthere and they also found it dif-ficult to breathe. On beinginformed, the police reachedthe spot and pulled out thedeceased. Moradabad SSPPawan Kumar also reachedthe spot and called a team offorensic experts. Prima facie, itappeared that the four died ofsuffocation due to inhalingtoxic gas released by half-drydung cakes stored in the base-ment, the SSP said.

Meanwhile, a woman andher son were killed in a roadaccident on the YamunaExpressway in Mathura in thewee hours of Tuesday. Herhusband and daughter werealso injured in the mishap.The injured were first admittedto a nearby hospital but thenreferred to a hospital in Agra inview of their critical condition.

Ramesh Chandra wasreturning home in Indra Viharlocality of Delhi with his fam-ily following his daughterKushboo’s marriage at a 5-starhotel in Agra on Monday.Chandra was accompanied byhis wife, son and a daughter intheir car (Swift).

As soon as the familyreached near Baldeo town, thespeeding car hit a culvert andoverturned.

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The investor-friendly poli-cies of the Yogi Adityanath

government are attracting alarge number of industrialistsfrom diverse sectors to investin the state and textile sectoris no exception.

According to the Textiledepartment, big players in theIndian textile industry haveinvested Rs 8,715.16 crore inthe last four years to set up 66factories in the state. Of thesetextile factories, 12 havealready been set up while con-struction of 18 others is under-way and it will provideemployment to 5,25,087 peo-ple. As many as 18 factoriesare expected to start produc-tion this year itself. Besides,the construction of 17 moretextile factories is also expect-ed to begin this year. These

factories will start productionnext year.

The officials further point-ed out that a total sum of Rs645 crore was spent for settingup the 12 textile factories thathave become operational. Asmany as 2,870 people have alsogot employment in the 12units. “UP was synonymouswith fear, perennial insecuri-ty and risks for these industri-alists four years ago. Theywere afraid of investing due torampant crime and red tape.However, things changedrapidly after Yogi Adityanathtook over as the CM in 2017.He succeeded in changing thiscommon perception about UPthrough his massive crack-down against organised crime.In the changed environment,investors in India and abroadconsider UP as one of thesafest places for investment

and are investing as neverbefore in different sectorsincluding in textile, infra-structure, food processing,electronic manufacturing, realestate, and power and manu-facturing sectors. The textilesector has emerged as themost preferred sector forinvestors,” the officials said.

Meanwhile, with the set-ting up of these factories,Kanpur is emerging fast as amajor textile hub. KanpurPlastipack Limited has invest-ed Rs 200 crore in Kanpur(Rural) while RP Poly Packshas invested Rs 150 crore inRania for the production ofpolybags. GLKK Industrieshas invested Rs 25 crore inRuma Kanpur for fabric pro-duction while SrishtiIndustries has set up a knittingfactory in Kanpur (Rural).Furthermore, Gadgets Apparel

and Anilikha Fabric haveestablished garment andhosiery cloth factories respec-tively in Kanpur.

Similarly, RajlakshmiCotton Mills has set up a gar-ment factory in Noida at thecost of Rs 50 crore apart fromone in Kanpur while KalyaniInnerwear has established aninner garment factory inGhaziabad. TT Limited hasestablished a garment factoryin Amroha at the cost of Rs 50crore whereas Sunwin Textilehas set up a lace fabrics facto-ry in Badaun.

There are 28 more invest-ment proposals related to set-ting up of textile factories,whose investors are yet toapply for land. Officials fromthe department are in touchwith these investors and theland deal is likely to befinalised.

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Anew political alliance led bythe Bahuhjan Samaj Party

and Bhagidari Sankalp Morchacomprising Om PrakashRajbhar-led Suheldeo BhartiyaSamaj Party (SBSP) and AIMIMis likely to include three moresmall political parties.

BSP chief Mayawati andHyderabad MP AsaduddinOwaisi have held several roundsof talks and the latter is comingto Lucknow next month. Thealliance is likely to be formalisedand the BSP supremo is expect-ed to make the announcement.Assembly polls in Uttar Pradeshare scheduled for early nextyear. Om Prakash Rajbhar haddropped hints about broadeningthe alliance on June 20. Rajbharsaid he was trying to rope in sev-eral other parties, includingTMC and Aam Aadmi Party toform an effective front tocounter the BJP.

In the 2017 UP Assemblyelections, the SBSP in alliancewith the BJP had contestedeight seats and won four.Rajbhar was made a cabinetminister but he was dismissed inMay 2019 soon after the LokSabha elections.

The SBSP, for strengtheningits ground in eastern UttarPradesh, had stitched up analliance with the Hyderabad-based All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM)in January earlier this year.

AIMIM presidentAsaduddin Owaisi had made aone-day tour to Purvanchalwith Rajbhar. Owaisi visitedAzamgarh and Jaunpur dis-tricts.

In UP, Owaisi has joinedhands with SBSP and eightother parties, including Krishna

Patel’s Apna Dal, Jan AdhikarParty and ChandrasekharRavan’s Azad Samaj Party.

This Bhagidari SankalpMorcha has announced to con-test the 2022 UP Assembly elec-tions against the BJP to representthe unheard Muslim-Backwardand Dalit caste voices. The ApnaDal (Krishna Patel) is likely toquit the alliance as it is said tohave cut a deal with the BJP. Itspresident Krishna Patel is like-ly to be nominated as the mem-ber of the UP LegislativeCouncil. The Apna Dal (Sonelal)led by Anupriya Patel MP,daughter of Krishna Patel, isalready an ally of the BJP.

Ever since the entry of theAIMIM in Bihar elections inOctober last year, small caste-based political parties have beentrying to get the caste arithmeticin their favour in eastern UP.

Although the BhagidariSankalp Morcha and Owaisi inparticular have been targetingthe BJP, the presence of thisalliance in Azamgarh andadjoining districts will directlyaffect the Samajwadi Party per-formance in the region. With thenew alliance coming up with acombination of the extremebackward Muslim population, itwill primarily dent the SP votebank.

SP sources said the entry ofthe BSP with an almost commit-ted vote bank of 20 per centwould make it a deadly politicalcombination which woulddirectly target the roots of theSamajwadi Party.

A Samajwadi Party MLAsaid this alliance would almostentirely target the vote bank ofthe SP as also division of theanti-BJP votes, thus immenselybenefitting the ruling party inthe 2022 UP Assembly elections.

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Yadav’s remarks came aday after a report claimed thatthe death toll due to COVID-19 in 24 districts of UttarPradesh from July 1, 2020 toMarch 31, 2021 was up to 43times higher than the officialfigures.

The findings were based ona comparison of the officialdeath toll in these districtsduring the nine-month periodwith the excess deaths regis-tered in the state’s CivilRegistration System (CRS).The mortality data wasaccessed through a Right toInformation (RTI) application.

In a tweet in Hindi, Yadavsaid, “According to informationaccessed through the Right toInformation, it has come tolight that the death toll in 24districts of Uttar Pradesh in thenine months of the pandemictill March 31 this year is up to43 times higher than the gov-ernment figures. Actually, theBJP government is not hidingthe death figures but its face,”he said.

As on Monday, UttarPradesh’s Covid death toll stoodat 22,224 while the total num-ber of cases was 17,04,476,according to a governmentbulletin. Yadav said that the BJPgovernment has only scriptedmisery for the people of UP.

He said there is no end tothe sufferings of people as lawand order has collapsed whilethe BJP government is busypromising moon to the people.

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The Trinamool Congresshas strongly reacted to

Centre’s decision to take puni-tive action against formerBengal Chief Secretary AlapanBandopadhyay for allegedinsubordination (to the PrimeMinister’s Office) and derelic-tion of duty in the cyclone Yaascase.

Calling the central pro-ceedings againstBandopadhyay for avoiding ameeting at Kalaikunda wherehe was asked to brief PrimeMinister Narendra Modi onthe damages caused by thesuper cyclone seniorTrinamool Congress MPSaugato Roy on Tuesday saidthat “the actions taken by theDepartment of Personnel andTraining which in all essenceruns under the PrimeMinister’s (Narendra Modi)instruction is a proof of hiscruelty and heartlessness …this order has been passed tointimidate the upright officerslike Alapan Bandopadhyay tostop them from working inde-pendently… such actions area blow to the federal structure

of the country.”The action a “cruel and

heartless one” at a time when“the former Chief Secretaryhas just lost his mother” Roysaid.

Bengal Pradesh Congresspresident Adhir Chowdhurysaid that the Centre was“unnecessarily” making it anego clash of sorts “in a bid toshow who is more powerful or‘look, I am more powerfulthan you’ … Such childishfights should stop.”

The Centre had sent a“memorandum” of “chargesheet” service's DisciplineRules 1969 and the RetirementBenefits Rules 1958 — to beexplained within 30 days ofreceipt —to the retired IASofficer.

It states “Shri AlapanBandyopadhyay, IAS (Retd) isinformed that an inquiry willbe held only in respect of the Article ofCharge as is not admitted. Heshould, therefore, specificallyadmit or deny the Article of Charge.”

Bandopadhyay known forhis integrity, merit and highliterary talents was pulled upby the Centre for failing to

abide by the PMO directivesrequiring him to make a digi-tal presentation of the damagescaused by cyclone Yaas in aPrime Ministerial meeting —in the last week of May — atKalaikunda off Kharagpur.

Bandopadhyay had gonethere with Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee but left alongwith her after she decided toleave the venue immediatelyafter coming to know thatOpposition Leader SuvenduAdhikari had too been invitedin the meeting. She left the spotin a huff alleging protocolbreach with Bandopadhyay intow.

Subsequently the ChiefSecretary was transferred bythe central Home Ministry toDelhi. However he chose to

retire on May 31post which hewas appointed the ChiefAdvisor of the Chief Minister.

“If at all the Centre wantsto take any action it is free todo that but its action will notpass the test of judicial scruti-ny … they will end up with eggon the face … so they shouldact prudently and drop theissue right here …Bandopadhyay was not an invi-tee to Kalaikunda and was notscheduled to do what he hadbeen asked to do leaving thecompany of his immediateboss the Chief Minister whomhe had accompanied toKalaikunda on the said day andwith whom and underwhoseinstruction he had returnedfrom the venue,” said a TMCleader and an advocate.

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In a relief to Lok Sabha MPNavneet Kaur Rana, the

Supreme Court on Tuesdaystayed the Bombay High Courtverdict cancelling the castecertificate of the independentlawmaker representingMaharashtra's Amravati con-stituency, reserved for sched-uled castes. The Bombay HighCourt had on June 9 cancelledthe caste certificate of Rana,saying it was obtained fraudu-lently using fabricated docu-ments, and had also imposed afine of �2 lakh on her.

A vacation bench ofJustices Vineet Saran andDinesh Maheshwari took noteof the submissions of senior

advocate Mukul Rohatgi,appearing for the lawmaker,and issued notices to respon-dents including the StateGovernment, District CasteScrutiny Committee andAnandra Vithoba Adsul whohad challenged the veracity ofthe caste certificate of the MP.

“Issue notice. We willhave it for hearing on July 27.Meanwhile, we have stayedthe judgment of the BombayHigh Court. It is understoodthat on the next date of hear-ing the matter will be dis-posed of,” the bench said.The court, which proposed toissue notice on Rana's appealand stay the high court'sjudgement at the outset, tooknote of vehement submissionof senior advocate Kapil Sibal,appearing for Adsul, that theverdict not be stayed withouthearing him.

Rana, backed byNationalist Congress Party(NCP), had won fromAmravati constituency in 2019by claiming to be a member of'Mochi' scheduled caste. Thehigh court had held that Rana'sclaim of belonging to 'Mochi'caste for obtaining the SC cer-tificate itself was fraudulent andmade with the intention ofobtaining various benefitsavailable to a candidate fromsuch category, despite knowingshe does not belong to thatcaste.

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In a significant development,Editor-in-Chief of Republic TV

was on Tuesday named as amongthe seven additional accused ina supplementary chargesheetfiled in the much-discussedTelevision Rating Points (TRP)scam before a MetropolitanMagistrate’s Court here.

In a 1,912-page supplemen-tary chargesheet filed before the37th Mumbai MetropolitanCourt at Esplanade namedGoswani and six other employ-ees from Republic TV andRepublican Bharat TV channelsas accused for offences registeredagainst them under Section 420(cheating, Section 120-b (con-spiracy), 406 (criminal breach oftrust), 465 (forgery), 204(destruction of evidence) andvarious other Sections of theIndian Penal Code (IPC).

Apart from Goswami, sixothers named in the supple-mentary charge-sheet are PriyaMukherjee, Chief OperatingOfficer, Republic TV, SivaSubramaniam, Chief FinancialOfficer, Republic TV, AmitMohan Dave, Sanjay SukhdevVarma, Shivendra Mundherkarand Ranjit Walter.

With addition of sevennames in the supplementarychargesheet, the total number ofaccused charge-sheeted in thealleged TRP scam has gone up to22. In two charge-sheets filed ear-lier in the case on November 11,2020 and January 11, 2021, thepolice had named 15 accused inthe case.

Those charge-sheetedinclude: the ex-CEO of BroadcastAudience Research Council(BARC) Partho Dasgupta andRepublic TV CEO VikashKhanchandani all of whom hadbeen booked for alleged cheating,forgery, criminal conspiracy,destroying evidence and crimi-nal breach of trust etc.

In their three charge-sheetsrunning into 22 accused in theTRP scam case, the police havesaid that the investigations in thecase had revealed three kinds oftweaking of TRP data — induc-ing the panel homes whereBar-o-meters are installed byway of paying money to watchcertain channels for specifictime, placing of one televisionchannel on two different fre-quencies by multi systemOperators/Cable operators forone television channel andmanipulation of television view-ership data )metarule) receivedat BARC.

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Union Minister for SkillDevelopment and

Entrepreneurship MahendraNath Pandey visited thePradhan Mantri KaushalKendra (PMKK) here onTuesday to review the progressof healthcare training andinteract with the trainers tounderstand the trainingmethodology.

He has also interacted withthe students enrolled in CovidFrontline Worker (basic caresupport) courses.

It was a productive andinformative visit in presence ofmultiple dignitaries along withOrion Edutech officials (train-ing partner).

Pandey said that launchingtraining on a customised crashcourse programme in thehealthcare sector was a greatinitiative taken by PrimeMinister Narendra Modi.

“This programme aims toproduce one lakh healthcareprofessionals to support staffshortage in the healthcareindustry. Students will under-go OJT (on job training) aftershort training and stipend willbe provided during OJT.Special care will be taken tomaintain Covid protocol dur-ing the training," the Unionminister said, wishing alltrainees for successful comple-tion of their training and work-ing as healthcare professionals.

According to him, asCOVID-19 has put the existinghealthcare system under

extreme stress and the require-ment of frontline workers inthe country is more criticalthan before.

“Today, under the leader-ship and guidance of the primeminister on enhancing thecapacity of Covid frontlineworkers across the country,the Ministry of SkillDevelopment andEntrepreneurship (MSDE) hasdecided to create skilled front-line professionals to support

the healthcare system. OrionEdutech is proud to be a partof the esteemed programmeand contribute in the efforts tomake a better and safer India,”said the minister.

The PMKK Varanasi cen-tre was launched as a modelmulti-skill training centre in2015 and it was built as an aspi-rational and largest skill train-ing centre in the country forpromoting training on cus-tomised crash course pro-

grammes in the healthcare sec-tor to train healthcareprofessionals in a fast-trackmode. The centre has trainedand placed more than 1,650healthcare professionals tilldate. Keeping in mind itsequipped centres and profes-sional trainers, Orion intendsto contribute it's job-readyworkforce to India's healthcaresystem through skilling, re-skilling and up-skilling initia-tives.

The function was alsoattended by district coordina-tor of Skill DevelopmentMission, Deena Nath Dwivedi,district manager AbhishekSingh, fellow (MSDE coordina-tor, IIM Bengaluru) Shubham,state engagement officer(NSDC) Prashant Katiyar, asso-ciated vice-president of OrionEdutech Somnath Acharya,general manager Abhijit Kunduand centre manager AnirbanBiswas.

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Justice Munishwar NathBhandari will take over as

the acting chief justice ofAllahabad High Court onJune 26 following retirementof Chief Justice Sanjay Yadav.

Chief Justice SanjayYadav was sworn in on June13 this year and he willattain superannuation onJune 25.

The Union Ministry ofLaw and Justice declared inits notification that after theretirement of Chief JusticeSanjay Yadav, JusticeMunishwar Nath Bhandariwill take over as the actingchief justice on June 26,2021.

After the retirement ofChief Justice Govind Mathur,Justice Sanjay Yadav wasappointed as the acting chiefjustice of the Allahabad HighCourt and on June 13 he wassworn in as the chief justice,but for 13 days only.

Justice MN Bhandariwas appointed as high courtjudge at the Rajasthan HighCourt on July 5, 2007 andwas transferred to theAllahabad High Court onMarch 15, 2019.

His retirement is due onSeptember 12, 2022.

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The OPD of Sir SunderlalHospital (SSH) in Banaras

Hindu University (BHU) willstart opening, along with thoseof Trauma Centre and Facultyof Dental Sciences, fromWednesday.

After the surge in COVID-19 cases during the secondwave, the OPD services at thisbiggest hospital of the regionwere suspended. Being thelargest hospital between Kolkataand Lucknow, a large number ofpatients not only from differentdistricts of Purvanchal (easternUP) but also from adjoiningstates of Bihar, Jharkhand,Madhya Pradesh andChhattisgarh come here fortreatment. The decision to openthe OPDs at SSH, TraumaCentre and Dental unit wastaken at a meeting of the Covidcare and monitoring committeeof the Institute of MedicalSciences (IMS), BHU recently.The meeting, presided over byIMS Director Prof BR Mittalhad passed several resolutionsincluding opening of OPDswith a limited number ofpatients from June 23.

According to SSH MedicalSuperintendent Prof KailashKumar, it was decided that thenumber of registration for gen-eral specialty as well as superspecialty would be 50 while theregistration of patients for spe-cialty clinics of general special-ty departments would berestricted to 25 patients. He said

this registration would be doneup to 11 am or earlier if the limitof registration was over and thecapping of limits also includedfollow up cases.

According to the decision,the outdoor patients and theirattendants should follow Covidappropriate behaviour whilethe indoor patients would beadmitted only after furnishingRT-PCR negative report of sam-ple collected within 72 hoursprior to admission.

The operation theatreswould be functional with only50 per cent capacity but theEmergency OT would functionas usual. The Special Ward ‘A’would be made available forallotment to general patients asper rule while Special Ward ‘B’would remain reserved forasymptomatic COVID-19healthcare workers of the IMSBHU. The meeting also decid-ed that the telemedicine OPDwould continue and the consul-tant/ resident would collect/return the mobile phone fromRoom No 116, NOPDComplex, on a daily basis.

The post-COVID-19mucormycosis ward would beshifted to 5th and 2nd floors ofthe Centenary Super SpecialtyBlock (CSSB) and an appropri-ate number of consultants andresidents would be posted thereby their respective duty rostercommittees. The 1st floor ofCSSB building having 45 bedswould be ready and reserved forCOVID-19 associatedmucormycosis patients.

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Under the ‘Arogya Se AapdaPrabandhan’ programme, the

personnel of National DisasterResponse Force (NDRF) are pro-viding free medical facilities fromRajghat to Assi Ghat under thesupervision of Dr Pankaj Gauravand Dr Amit Nandan Tripathi.

In this direction, a medicalhealth and awareness camp wasorganised by the NDRF’s medicalteam on Tuesday on the directionof Commandant Manoj KumarSharma.

They offered free health check-up and distributed medicines,along with thermal screening andchecking of blood pressure,oxygen level and diabetes etc atHanuman, Dandi, Shivala,Rajendra Prasad, Dashashwamedh,Sankatha, Gangamahal and Scindiaghats.

Besides, masks and sanitiserswere distributed to the underpriv-ileged and needy people throughwater ambulances at various ghatsincluding Manikarnika.

The medical team membersalso tried to dispel the misconcep-tions related to Covid vaccinethrough counselling and adminis-tered the vaccine to the people by

following the Covid appropriatebehaviour.

Due to the monsoon rains inthe state, the water level of riverGanga has started rising so theNDRF team at Dashashwamedh

Ghat is keeping an eye on it andproviding health facilities to thelocal people at the ghats throughwater ambulance. The NDRF teammembers said that the campaignwould continue.

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The water level of Ganga andYamuna was stable on

Tuesday but if the release ofwater from the dams into theGanga continues, the waterlevel will start rising.

More than 3.31 lakh cusecsof water was released into theGanga from Haridwar, Naroraand Kanpur dams on Tuesday.Water has been released inGanga continuously for thelast three days. Due to this,there is a possibility of waterentering the coastal kachar inthe coming days.

On the other hand, due tothe spread of water on the sandof Sangam, the makeshift plat-forms were removed even onTuesday.

The water level of Gangastabilised on Tuesday andYamuna's stream was also sta-ble. People have breathed a sighof relief from the fear ofuntimely floods, but the releaseof water from the dams stillscares people.

The purohits have beenstruggling for a week to removethe makeshift platforms and

other items from the Sangam.Due to the continuous releaseof water, people have startedtransporting goods to saferplaces. Dozens of shops andmakeshift platforms wereremoved by Tuesday evening.

On the other hand, the dif-ficulties are increasing due tothe increase in the area of ero-sion in the Ganga atPhaphamau Ghat. According toShaligram Pandey ofGangaputra Ghaatiya Sangh, ifwater continues to be releasedfrom the dams like this, theremay be a danger of flood soon.

Pawan Shukla and DiwakarPandey said that hundreds ofmakeshift platforms and tem-porary shops had beenremoved from Sangam in aweek so far.

According to the IrrigationFlood Control Room, the waterlevel of Ganga in Phaphamauwas recorded at 76.70 metre at8 pm on Monday. It added thatthe Ganga became stable late inthe evening. Similarly, the waterlevel in Chhatnag reached71.57 meter. In Naini, Yamunawas stable with its water levelat 72.36 metre.

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Allahabad (PNS): The workers of SamajwadiParty demanded waiver of electricity bills, water taxand house tax for one year of the COVID-19 peri-od. They said the people would get a lot of relief ifthe taxes were waived.

They said that during the COVID-19 period,people were faced with a financial crisis and in sucha situation they would face a lot of problems indepositing the tax and therefore, the governmentshould waive all taxes in the interest of the public.

The SP workers also demanded waiver of inter-est on EMIs. They also demanded financial assis-tance of Rs 5,000 per month to the needy, includ-ing daily wagers, street labourers and e-rickshaw dri-vers.

In a meeting held at the SP city unit office, theworkers said that businesses had come to a stand-still during the Covid-19 period and it would takea long time for the businesses to get back on track.They said in such a situation, small traders shouldget financial help from the government.

The meeting was attended by SP city unit pres-ident S Iftekhar Hussain, Ravindra Yadav, VijayVaish, Israr Anjum, Mahendra Nishad, MoinHabibi, Dinesh Yadav, Narendra Singh, GS Yadav,S. Mohd Askari, Mashhad Ali Khan, Abdul Samad,Mohd. Shariq, Manju Yadav, Shahid Pradhan, SPSrivastava, Pappu Pasi, Ashish Pal, Ashok Maurya,Harish Chandra Srivastava, Rakesh Verma, Azhar,OP Yadav, Bhola Pal, Sunny Gupta, Aaqib JavedKhan, Tahir Umar, Shyamu Yadav, Ritesh Prajapati,and Pankaj.

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Varanasi (PNS): BanarasHindu University Vice chancel-lor Prof VK Shukla releasedtwo books on Ayurveda at afunction here on Tuesday.

The book titled ‘IntegratedAyurvedic Pain Management’has been written by ProfDN Pande while the otherbook, ‘Ayurvedic Chikitsa KeVaidic Aayam’ (Vedic dimen-sions of Ayurvedic medicine)has been penned by assistantprofessor Dr Rakesh KumarJaiswal.

Prof Pande is head ofSangyaharan department inFaculty of Ayurveda, Instituteof Medical Sciences, BHUwhile Dr Jaiswal is also fromthe same department.

The book of Dr Pandefocuses on management ofpainful conditions throughintegrated approach and it cov-ers the different concepts ofpain in Ayurveda and allopa-thy apart from the assessmentand diagnosis mentioned inboth the systems of medical sci-

ence. In this book, both med-ical systems are discussed bydifferent eminent authors.

In Dr Jaiswal’s book, thereare brief descriptions aboutthe four Vedas, along withmedicine and related subjectsdescribed in them.

This book is basically forthe general public and doctorswho have very little knowledgeof Vedas.

Earlier, in the same facul-ty, a national webinar on‘Yogayurveda for Adaptationand Well-being’ was organ-ised under the aegis of theSwasthavritta and Yoga depart-ment on the occasion of 7thInternational Yoga Day cele-brated with the theme ‘Be withYoga, Be at Home’. About 270scholars from over 18 statesparticipated in it.

Speaking as chief guest,Prof VK Shukla emphasised theimportance of Yoga andAyurveda in lifestyle disordersand health promotion.

Guest of honour and

Director of IMS BHU, Prof BRMittal, threw focus on theimportance of Yogic practicesin daily life for physical andmental well-being in the pre-sent COVID-19 times whiledean of the Faculty ofAyurveda, Prof VP Singh,stressed upon the importanceof Yoga and Ayurveda forhealth promotion and preven-tion of diseases.

Among the other speakers,Prof KN Dwivedi fromDravyaguna department high-lighted the importance ofahara, vihara and vichara forwell-being along with theircurative perspective while ProfKS Dhiman from ShalakyaTantra department threw lighton the role of Ayurveda andYoga in well-being.

Chairman of the webinarand head of Swasthavritta andYoga department Prof NeeruNathani emphasised the signif-icance of golden rules ofswasthavritta and yoga foradaptation and revitalisation.�� E4'4�4��

The activists of National Students Union ofIndia (NSUI), the student wing of All India

Congress Committee (AICC), on Tuesdaystaged a protest in Lanka against the UttarPradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities(Prevention) Act slapped by police on 10 stu-dents of Hindu Hostel of Prof Rajendra Singh(Rajju Bhaiya) University, formerly known asAllahabad University.

They said the state government should with-draw the police action against these innocenthostel inmates immediately and threatened tolaunch a state-wide agitation if the demand wasnot met.

The NSUI activists in scores gathered at themain entrance gate of the Banaras HinduUniversity (BHU) here and extended theirsupport to the students protesting againstaction under which the Prayagraj Police hadslapped Gangster Act on 10 inmates of HinduHostel of Prof Rajendra Singh (Rajju Bhaiya)University.

They raised slogans against the state govern-

ment for the action against hostel inmates.The police slapped Gangster Act against 10

inmates of the Hindu Hostel in connection witha violent clash that took place in May 2020 evenwhen none among them was present on the spotat the time of the incident, NSUI state leaderAkhilesh Yadav said adding that at the behestof the government, the police were harassingthese students and their guardians even in thepresent COVID-19 period.

NSUI district president Rishabh Pandey saideven one year after the incident, the police per-sonnel were conducting raids at their residencesof these students

NSUI state general secretary RanjeetTiwari said the government and police wereharassing these innocent students just to con-ceal their failures. He said the NSUI would notlet the government and police play with thefuture of these innocent students and demand-ed the government withdraw the police actionat the earliest.

NSUI activists Abhishek Giri, KrishanMohan Shukla, Shivam Chaubey, Ajit Chaubeyand Ashutosh Kumar Mishra joined the protest.

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The 15-day programme on environ-ment conservation organised by the

economics department of IshwarSharan PG College came to an end onInternational Yoga Day on Monday.

It was a huge initiative for mobil-ising students, research scholars, theirparents and grandparents along withthe common people of the nearby areastowards tree plantation and environ-ment conservation at their homes andvillages.

The event also spread awarenessthrough a series of online events likespecial lectures series, quizzes andphotography competitions.

At the valedictory session of the

programme, the team of faculty mem-bers and students visited and inspiredpeople of Balkaranpur village in Soraonby distributing 101 fruit saplings andhad them planted by the villagers.

This was in line with the suggestionof Governor Anandiben Patel duringthe golden jubilee celebration of the col-lege, and it was translated by infusingthe motivation in the faculty membersby principal of the college, Prof AnandShankar Singh, to adopt a village andspread awareness about various govern-ment schemes and programmes amongthe villagers.

Dr Ajay Kumar Srivastava from theeconomics department promised toinclude and adopt more villages in thefuture after the COVID-19 outbreak

subsided.Convener of the programme, Dr

Ved Prakash Mishra, said that therewould be more emphasis on awarenessabout literacy, health and cleanliness ofthe people of the villages.

Gram pradhan of Balkaranpur,Rita Sahoo, expressed her willingnessand happiness for such future endeav-ours of the college.

Dr Harsh Mani Singh and DrGarima Maurya along with the researchscholars of the department also extend-ed support in the successful completionof this programme.

The completion of EnvironmentConservation Fortnight was announcedby Prof Anand Shanker Singh throughan online program.

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After the end of the Covidcurfew after two months,

markets have started openingtill 9 pm from Monday. Due tothis, the markets are abuzz inthe night also. After about twomonths, people are seen shop-ping till around 8 O'clock in thenight.

Now shopping malls andrestaurants have also reopenedafter a long time. On Mondaynight, apart from Katra andChowk market, people reachedCivil Lines to shop. During this,at some places the Covid pro-tocol was followed and at oth-ers people were negligent.

Shops opened till 9 pm inKatra, Manmohan Park, LaxmiTalkies, Mumfordganj,Teliarganj, Rajapur, Jansenganj,Ghantaghar, Chowk, Loknath,Kothaparcha, Shahganj,Muthiganj, Kydganj, NoorullaRoad and Roshanbagh andCivil Lines market.

Traders were happy seeing

the excitement in the market.However, being the first day,the number of buyers hadreduced by 8 pm. In manyplaces people did not take careof wearing masks and main-taining physical distance.

At the same time, thetraders had made full prepara-tions to open the market atnight as well.

There were no customers atthe footpath shops in Katraafter 8 pm. The Covid protocolwas followed during the pur-chase of goods including atCivil Lines. In Shahganj, GallaMandi and Loknath, the crowdreduced after 8 pm. In CivilLines, the number of peoplesuddenly increased in theevening in big showroomsincluding Vinayak City Mall,Big Bazaar. However, by 8o'clock in the night, the crowdhad dispersed.

As restaurants reopened,people were seen enjoying foodand other eatables. However,the footfall was low.

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Varanasi (PNS): Varanasi reported17 more novel coronavirus positivecases during the past 24 hours, taking thetally of confirmed cases to 82,199, as perthe figures released by the health depart-ment on Tuesday evening. With noCOVID-19 death reported from duringthe last 24 hours, the death toll remainedat 773. As many as 17 COVID-19patients recovered during the past 24hours -- 15 in home isolation and twoin hospitals. With this, 81,270 COVID-19 patients have been cured in the dis-trict so far – 74,995 in home isolation and6,275 in Covid hospitals. The vaccina-tion drive continued on Tuesday at 143vaccination centres.

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Two persons died in road mishaps onMonday. Akhilesh Singh Yadav (18), a res-

ident of Bhaunsod Balaay Pahad, going on amotorcycle on Mirzapur-Rewa highway diedon the spot when was hit by a unknown vehi-cle at Dramondganj hillock under Halia policestation. The victim was identified with the helpof the documents of the motorcycle. The policetook his body for completing the legal for-malities. Besides, under Lalganj police stationAbhishek Dwivedi (31), a resident of Banwariunder Manda police station in Prayagraj, wasinjured when he was hit by a freight carrierwhile going on his motorcycle on Mirzapur-Rewa highway. Police reached the spot and wasmaking arrangements to send the victim to ahospital but he died on the spot. The police tookthe body for completing the legal formalities.Meanwhile, in another incident, Ramasrey wastaken aback on finding his wife, Parvati (31),missing in Judvariya Dhurikar village underMadihan police station on Monday. Helaunched a search for her with the help of locals.Her body was found in a well. No case had beenregistered at the police station in this connec-tion, last reports received here said.

MEETING: A meeting of state levelempowered committee under Shyama PrasadMukherji Rurban Mission Scheme was heldthrough the Zoom app on Monday which waspresided over by chief secretary RK Tiwari. Inthe district it was attended by DM PK Laxkar,CDO Srilaxmi VS and PD DRDA RishimuniUpadhyay. In it DPR for approval of cluster atPatehrakala was discussed. Under the scheme mul-tipurpose building was to be constructed alongwith complex for skill development, 10 projectsrelated to livelihood and minicentre for excel-lence by Horticulture department. As per the PDDRDA, other issues discussed were related to con-struction of a hall, kitchen, a community toilet etc.

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On International Yoga Day on Monday underthe aegis of Personnel department, in

Varanasi division and it’s major stations, train-ing centres and diesel lobbies yoga programmeswere organised on the theme ‘Stay with Yoga, Stayat Home.’ In the badminton court of Officers’Club in Lahartara under the leadership of DRMVijay Kumar Panjiyar, principal branch officers,senior railway officers and their families did yogapractice. On the occasion the DRM while admin-istering the pledge to officers and employees pre-

sent there to adopt yoga saidit improves physical andmental health and an indi-vidual works without stress.Describing yoga as neces-sary in the present envi-ronment, he said railwaypersonnel by making yogaan integral part of theirlives and keeping themselvesphysically and mentallyhealthy should ensure theiractive participation in unin-

terrupted train movement. During the yoga prac-tice, the officers and employees did ‘pranayama’ andother forms of yoga. Senior Divisional PersonnelOfficer Sameer Paul conducted the programme andproposed the vote of thanks. In addition to theOfficers’ Club located in Varanasi division, ZonalTraining Centre, Ghazipur, Diesel Lobby Mau,Varanasi, Gorakhpur and Chhapra besides RailwayHospital Varanasi, DEMU shed Aunrihar, RPF bar-rack Manduadih, all RPF posts and major stationsyoga programmes took place. During the yogapractice, the rules for prevention from Covid-19were followed, PRO Ashok Kumar said.

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In NTPC Vindhyachal’s VindhyaClub on the occasion of seventh

International Yoga Day on Mondayunder the chairmanship ofExecutive Director (Vindhyachal)Munish Johri a yoga programmewas organised. Yoga guru Dr RD Pandey got theyoga practice done. As per the guidelines of theGovernment of India all the precautions forCovid-19 prevention were taken on the occasionand social distancing was maintained. Allemployees of NTPC and their families also joined

through virtual platformand shared pictures andvideos of their respectiveyoga practice. In the pro-gramme ED (Vindhyachal),Munish Johri, all GMs,president Suhasini SanghMridula Johri along with its

other members did yoga practice and took apledge to adopt yoga in their lives. The membersof NTPC Vindhyachal family took a pledge toinclude yoga in their daily routine and in the timeof Covid-19 while following social distancingnorms all did yoga practice in their homes.

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The railway administrationin view of the long waiting

list in the following specialtrains will for the convenienceof passeners extend their run-ning period. All coaches inthese trains will be of reservedclass and passengers travellingin them will have to follow theCovid-19 prevention norms,CPRO PK Singh said.

BDTS-BARAUNI WEEK-LY SPECIAL: The 09005Bandra Terminus (BDTS)-Barauni weekly special trainwill be run on June 25 for onetrip. Likewise the 09006Barauni-Bandra Terminusweekly special train will be runon June 28 for one trip.

U D H NA- DA NA P U RWEEKLY : The 09011 Udhna-Danapur superfast weekly spe-cial train will be run on June 28.The 09012 Danapur-Udhna

superfast weekly special trainwill be run on June 23 and 30for two trips.

MUMBAI CENTRAL -SAMASTIPUR SPL: The09049 Mumbai Central -Samastipur special train will berun on June 24, 26, 28 and 29.The 09050 Samastipur-Mumbai Central special trainwill be run on June 23, 24, 26,28, 30 and July 1 for six trips.

U D H NA- C H HA P R AWEEKLY: The 09087 Udhna-Chhapra superfast weekly spe-cial train will be run on June 25for one trip. The 09088Chhapra-Udhna superfastweekly special train will be runon June 27 for one trip.

BANDRA TERMINUS -MAU SUPERFAST: The 09099Bandra Terminus (BDTS) -Mau Superfast weekly specialtrain will be run on June 29.The 09100 Mau-BandraTerminus weekly special train

will be run on June 24 and July1 for two trips.

MUMBAI CENTRAL –BHAGALPUR SPECIAL: The09117 Mumbai Central –Bhagalpur special train will berun on June 25 for one trip.The 09118 Bhagalpur-MumbaiCentral special train will be runon June 28 for one trip.

MUMBAI CENTRAL –BHAGALPUR SPECIAL: The09177 Mumbai Central –Bhagalpur special train will berun on June 23 and 30 for twotrips. The 09178 Bhagalpur-Mumbai Central special trainwill be run on June 26 and July3 for two trips.

RAJKOT-SAMASTIPURSPECIAL: The 09521 Rajkot-Samastipur special train will berun for two trips on June 23and 30. The 09522 Samastipur-Rajkot special train will berun for two trips on June 26and July 3.

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During the conclusion of thefive-day-long yoga camp

Vice-Chancellor of ChaudharyCharan Singh University (CCSU),Professor Narendra KumarTaneja, said yoga should be donenot only on Yoga Day but daily.He said benefits of yoga comefrom continuous practice. Bydoing yoga the body, mind, intellect and soulare purified, he said. The yoga camp was organ-ised by CCSU and Krida Bharti. Pro-Vice-

Chancellor Prof Y Vimala saidyoga is a tradition of Indianlife. Yoga Guru SwamiKarmaveer Maharaj andPrasad Mahankar also spokeon the occasion. The yogacamp was conducted by Rajan.On the occasion FinanceOfficer Sushil Kumar Gupta,Prof AK Choubey, ProfYogendra Singh, Prof Veerpal,

Prof Jaymala, Prof Mridul Gupta, Prof AlokKumar, Manish Mishra, Dr Dushyant Chauhan,Dr Manoj Srivastava and others were present.

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Taking forward theGovernment of India’s pres-

tigious campaign ‘SwachhBharat Abhiyan’, Chairman andManaging Director (CMD ofSingrauli-situated NorthernCoalfields Limited (NCL),Prabhat Kumar Sinha, throughvirtual medium inauguratedthree public toilet complexesbuilt under its Corporate SocialResponsibility (CSR). A totalcost of �69.15 lakh has beenincurred for the construction ofthese toilet complexes built onVaranasi-Singrauli highway.The construction of these com-plexes will bring great conve-nience to the commuters trav-eling on the Varanasi-Singraulihighway. While dedicating toi-let complexes to the generalpublic, Sinha expressed happi-ness and congratulated theteam of NCL and SulabhInternational on the comple-tion of the work. Sinha said thatwithout cleanliness a healthynation cannot be imagined

and hence NCL is giving widepublicity to cleanliness cam-paign in its surrounding areasalong with ensuring energysecurity of the nation. Heexpressed confidence that theconstruction of these com-plexes would bring great con-venience to the passersby trav-elling on Singrauli-Varanasihighway and would also help inthe efforts to keep the areasqualor free. On the occasionDirector (Personnel), NCLBimlendu Kumar apprisedeveryone about the facilitiesavailable in these Sulabh com-plexes and expressed happinessover the fact that the comple-tion of the project will providea lot of conveniece to commontravellers. Kumar also men-

tioned the major works done byNCL under CSR in the lastfinancial year and expressedconfidence that it will contin-ue its public welfare activitiesin future also. NCL Director(Personnel) Bimlendu Kumar,Director (Technical/Operations) Dr Anindya Sinha,Director (Finance) RN Dubey,Director (Technical/Projects &Planning) SS Sinha as well asregional GMs and the heads ofthe department from the head-quarters also joined throughvirtual medium. For the con-struction of toilet complexes,NCL had entered into aMemorandum of Understanding(MoU) with Sulabh InternationalSocial Service Organisation, awell-known organisation of thecountry working in the field ofsanitation. The maintenance fothese complexes will also bedone by Sulabh International. Inthis complex along with bath-rooms, arrangements for sep-arate toilets and urinals havebeen made for women, menand differently-abled persons.

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Apossible third wave of theCOVID-19 outbreak in

India is likely and it will peakbetween September andOctober this year, assumingIndia fully unlocks by July 12,says a study by Prof RajeshRanjan and Prof MahendraVerma of the Indian Institute ofTechnology, Kanpur and theirteam, giving three scenarios.

They said, "There is sig-nificant anxiety among policymakers and the public aboutthe third wave. For the same,using the SIR model, we haveconstructed… three scenariosof a possible third wave usingthe epidemic parameters ofthe second wave. We assumethat India is fully unlocked onJuly 15.”

In the first scenario (back-to-normal), the third wave willpeak in October with a lowerpeak height than the secondwave. In the second scenario(normal with virus mutations),the peak could be higher thanthe second wave and mayappear early (September). Inthe third scenario (stricterinterventions), the peak ofthe third wave could bedelayed until late Octoberwith strict social distancing

and in this case the peakwould be lower than the secondwave.

Prof Rajesh Ranjan ofphysics department and ProfMahendra Verma of aerospaceengineering, along with theirteam at IIT Kanpur, providedaily COVID-19 forecasts inIndia on covid19-forecast.org.

As per the assessment ofthe IIT Kanpur team, the sec-ond wave has waned signifi-cantly in almost every stateexcept in some Northeast stateslike Mizoram, Manipur andSikkim.

The study notes that most-

ly the positivity rate is less than5 per cent but Kerala, Goa,Sikkim and Meghalaya stillhave a positivity rate of morethan 10 per cent.

India's average daily casecount has reduced significant-ly. As on June 19, it was 63,000compared to the peak of aboutfour lakhs.

Most states have a dailyTest Positivity Rate (TPR) lessthan the World HealthOrganisation recommendedlevel (5 per cent). However,Kerala, Goa, Sikkim,Meghalaya still have high dailyTPR of more than 10 per

cent)," they said.As per the study, India's

daily Case Fatality Rate (CFR)has increased recently to 3.5 percent but the cumulative CFR ofthe second wave is comparableto that of the first wave.

“At present, the model doesnot include vaccination, whichshould decrease the peak sig-nificantly. Revised model withvaccination and with morerecent data on the same is beingworked out," the study says.

Another study by IITKanpur on the third wave isexpected to come by the end ofthis week.

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The Indian traditional pat-tern of social contact has

since ages been the most pop-ular method of gifts given insocial functions. Keeping thisaspect in view, the LifeInsurance Corporation of Indiahas decided to make this trendeven more effective by intro-ducing Personalised LIC CardsServices Ltd on RuPay plat-form. This will in fact be a pre-paid gift card christenedShagun.

This was stated by the LifeInsurance Corporation of IndiaChairman MR Kumar. He saidthe main objective to introducethe Shagun gift card was toconvert the cash market into aplastic market and then furtherchange it into a gift card mar-ket.

He said in near future thisgift card would be promoted ina big way and the LIC in thisway would extend further sup-

port to the Digital IndiaCampaign.

Kumar said the gift cardwas prepaid and facilitatedspace for messages and wascompletely ready to be handedover as a gift at any point oftime. He said the card could bepurchased from Rs 500 to Rs10,000 and could be obtainedeasily and had a validity peri-od of three years. He furthersaid this gift card would beacceptable at all commercialcentres and also had the facil-ity of on-line purchase. Hesaid this card up to Rs 5,000was valid even “sans any con-tact".

The chairman said some ofthe essential features of Shaguncard were its transaction his-tory, card balance and facilityof being auto-linked to mobileapp M-Passbook. He said keep-ing in view that it was anew feature introduced for thebenefit of the masses, the LIChad decided to set up an in-

house customer support teamwhich would be functional 24hours a day and seven days aweek.

He said the LIC gift cardShagun was launched with thestrong support of IDBI andthrough Ru-Pay platform. Hesaid it would be available forsister concerns and internal useas well.

He said in the coming daysit would be available for givinggifts. He said a vigorous pro-motional drive would belaunched so that this projectreached the grassroots level,especially with the support ofthe LIC's huge infrastructure.

He said the card could beused at any point of time andwas pre-paid.

Prominent among thosepresent on the occasion wereMDs, LIC Cards Services Ltd,CEO Rakesh Sharma, IDBIMD Dilip Absey, and NPCIMD and CEO and several oth-ers.

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Kanpur (PNS): The UttarPradesh government hasdirected that all the agricultureuniversities of the state willfocus on organic farming andtake their research works to theagricultural fields. KrishiVigyan Kendras will now bemade better and fully equippedto promote organic farming inthe current time so as toimprove the profits of the farm-ing community.

This was stated by ChandraShekhar Azad University ofAgriculture and Technology(CSAUAT), Kanpur scientistDr RK Kanaujia while address-ing a virtual session on organ-ic farming on Tuesday. He saiddespite the vast potential fororganic production and mar-keting, its achievement on pro-duction, certification andexport was low due to variousreasons. He said the biggestdrawback was lack of sufficienteducation on production withspecific standards, lack of eas-ily accessible information onorganic methods, requirementsand markets, lack of good con-sumer information on organ-ic farming and organic food.

He said the farm universi-ties should extend help tofarmers by holding interac-tion and provide informationto farmers on how to switchover to organic farming. Hesaid there was a need for aninstitutional approach and allfarm universities of the statewould be assigned a particularrole in this drive.

He said the CSAUAT haddecided to hold training anddemonstration for skill upgra-dation under which farmerswould be trained in soil fertil-ity management, principlesand practices of organic farm-ing, organic input productiontechnologies, use of naturalresources etc.

Dr Kanaujia emphasisedon the awareness campaignsand said universities need tohold exhibitions to apprisefarmers of the benefits oforganic farming. He addedthat most of the organic inputswere produced locally reducingdependence on external inputsand the most widely usedorganic manure was vermi-compost. He said the use oforganic inputs reduced theinput cost while the organical-ly grown produce fetched addi-tional price, leading to addi-tional net income of the farm-ers.

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Uttar Pradesh Child Rights andProtection Commission members Dr

Sakshi Baijal and Dr Shuchita Chaturvedi,addressing the officials at collectorate onTuesday, said in view of the apprehendedthird wave of COVID-19, every effortshould be made for proper preparation tomeet the challenge.

They said in every district hospitalthere should be a PICU and properarrangement of oxygen should also bemade.

Dr Baijal said all other medical needsshould be arranged well in advance. Shesaid the state had launched the driveagainst communicable diseases thus everyeffort had to be made to ensure there wasno spread of any vector-borne disease.

She directed the names of all childrenwho were rendered orphans by COVID-19 and their details should be uploaded onthe Bal Swaraj Portal and all effortsshould be made so that they were given thebenefits as per the state governmentannouncement. She said the DIOS shouldensure that the school fees of COVID-10

orphans are condoned. She said childreninvolved in beggary should be identifiedand efforts should be made to admit themin schools. She expressed satisfaction at thepace of work in this direction.

Prominent among those who took part

in the meeting were CMO Dr Nepal Singh,DPO Abhay Kumar and various officialsfrom the labour department.

Earlier both visited Rajkiya Bal Grahin Swarup Nagar, Subhash Children Homeand held interactions with the inmates.

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Kanpur (PNS): A manlodged an FIR against his in-laws and the mediator for mis-leading him to marry a trans-gender at the Kakadeo policestation.

He alleged the accuseddeceived him by keeping himand his family in dark aboutthis fact at the time of the mar-riage.

According to reports, theShastri Nagar resident whomarried a woman of Panki areaon April 28, came to knowabout his wife's condition whenhe tried to consummate themarriage. He said the genitalsof his wife were not fully devel-oped due to which she wasunable to establish physicalrelations with him.

During medical examina-tion, the report revealed thatshe was a transgender.

Kakadeo Station HouseOfficer Kunj Behari Mishrasaid "after the marriage, thebride was found uncomfortablein making relationships withthe groom on the pretext ofsome health issues. Gradually,the man began to suspectsomething wrong and took hiswife to a gynecologist for amedical check-up. To his sur-prise, he was informed by thedoctor that his wife was atransgender".

He then lodged the FIRwith the police along with themedical report of his wife onSunday.

Police have registered theFIR under Section 420 (cheat-ing) of the Indian Penal Codeagainst the bride, her parentsand the mediator. The SHOsaid, adding that investiga-tions were on in the matter.

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President of Malabar Goldand Diamonds, MP

Ahmed, said on Tuesday thathallmarking would mainlybenefit customers andexpressed hope that it wouldbring in transparency in thetrade.

He said when one pur-chased hallmarked jewellery,the buyer was confident of thepurity of the gold purchased.He said apart from this it alsooffered higher resale orexchange value of gold articlesas quality standardisation led toprice parity.

Ahmed said the hallmarkwas certification and confir-mation of the quality purity ofgold and left no doubts in themind of consumers.

He said mandatory hall-marking safeguarded the con-sumer against lower karatage of

gold jewellery and ensuredthat customers were not misled.He added that the purity ofhallmarked gold could not becontested by another jewellerwhen a consumer wanted toscrap it or exchange old jew-ellery.

He said the consumercould, with all the details of thejewellery piece, take the sellerof the piece to the court.

Ahmed said currentlyhallmarking had been intro-duced in 256 districts, whichhad BIS-recognised assayingand hallmarking centres forgold jewellery and artefacts in14, 18, and 22-carats and 20, 23and 24-carat items would becovered over the next twophases.

He added that BIS hadgranted liberty to jewellers tosell other karatage, if they hadthe necessary machinery andexpertise to manufacture it.

He advised the purchasersto look at the four signs of hall-marking on the gold articleswith the help of a magnifyingglass.

He said the four signs wereBIS Mark, purity in carat andfineness for gold, assay centre’sidentification mark and num-ber, jeweller’s identificationmark and number.

He said the customershould always take the bill ofthe purchases and verify that itmentioned hallmarking cost(not more than Rs.35 plus GSTper piece for gold), netweight of the precious metal,purity in carat, and fineness, onthe bill.

He welcomed the step ofthe government and said it wasmeant to protect the interest ofthe customers which till datewere ignorant of the purity ofgold and purchased on theface value of the jeweller.

Kanpur (PNS): Amid ahigh-voltage drama, a womanslashed her wrist and throat atthe house of her paramourwhen the latter refused tomarry her, in CTS Colonyunder Kalyanpur police stationon Monday.

Local police reached thespot and sent the injuredwoman to Barasirohi commu-nity health centre and took herparamour into custody.

Kalyanpur Inspector VeerSingh said the man and womanwere already married and shewas insisting him to marry herbut he refused. He said this hadupset the woman and sheslashed her wrist and throatwith a blade. Singh said effortswere on to arrive at a compro-mise on the issue.

According to reports, ShivNath Singh alias Kanhaiya, anative of Krishna Nagar inGorakhpur, lives in CTS Colonyin Kalyanpur with his wife andchildren. Some time ago, ShivNath had an affair with a local

woman and soon both decidedto sacrifice their life for eachother. When the issue came tothe notice of Shiv Nath's wife,she strongly opposed her hus-band’s move and this sometimesculminated into exchange ofheated arguments betweenthem. In a bid to cool down hiswife, when Shiv Nath asked thewoman not to meet him for afew days, she insisted for themarriage. On being refused,she threatened to commit sui-cide. Upset from the humilia-tion by his wife and paramour,Shiv Nath had migrated to hisnative place Gorakhpur andswitched off his mobile phone.

But after coming to knowabout his return to Kanpur onSunday, the woman reachedhis house on Monday morningand staged a high-voltagedrama, accusing Shiv Nath ofcheating her. When the localresidents tried to make herunderstand the situation, sheslashed her wrist and throatwith a blade.

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Anticipating a third Covid-19 wave in October, the

Government on Tuesday saidthat schools, shut since Marchlast year due to the pandem-ic, will only re-open once asignificant portion of the pop-ulation has been vaccinatedagainst coronavirus.

The Government had lastweek also cancelled CBSE andICSE exams for Class 10 and12. An alternative markingsystem has been proposed,amended with suggestionsfrom parents and students,and accepted by the SupremeCourt.

“Schools require teachersand children to sit together. Itgives the virus an opportuni-ty to spread. We can only havethis (re-opening of schools)when a large part of the pop-ulation is protected,” Dr VKPaul, Member (Health), NITIAayog, said at a press confer-ence on Tuesday here.

“Until it (the spread of thevirus) is predictable it is hardto re-open,” he said.

Dr Paul also warnedagainst re-opening schoolsbecause of the declining trendin daily new cases, saying:

“The lull right now is becauseof restrictions. When they areremoved cases may spike.”

The re-opening ofschools, colleges and otherplaces of education will“always be under active con-sideration... but the overallguidance is to be cautious”, headded.

Some states like Telanganahave said they will re-openschools and colleges from July1. Others, like Delhi andKerala, have said they willcontinue with virtual classesfor now.

“We should also remem-ber that in many countriesschools reopened then out-breaks were reported and theyhad to shut them down again.We don’t want to put ourchildren and teachers in thatsituation unless we have moreconfidence that the pandem-ic won’t harm us,” the gov-ernment has been saying inthe past few days.

The government has saidnext month’s sero survey willinclude 14,000 kids over theage of six.

In a recently released sero-survey by the AIIMS, theseroprevalence, presence ofvirus-fighting antibodies

against Sars-CoV-2, amongchildren was found to be55.7% across five study sites,in comparison to 63.5%among adults.

Last month, over 8,000

children and teenagers werefound to be tested positive forCovid-19 in Maharashtra’sAhmednagar, accounting forabout 10 per cent of cases inthe district.

Children below 18 havenot yet been cleared to receivea Covid vaccine, althoughBharat Biotech has begun tri-als for 2-18 year old candi-dates with Covaxin.

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Monsoon in large parts ofnorthwest India would

actually be delayed, quite con-trary to the forecasts about itsonset a fortnight earlier than itsscheduled date or slightlybefore time. With the IndiaMeteorological Department(IMD) on Tuesday saying thatfurther progress of the mon-soon into Delhi and parts ofRajasthan, Uttar Pradesh,Haryana and Punjab is “unlike-ly” during the next seven days,it is clear that even the usualonset date of June 27 would notbe met in the region.

This also means there

would not be any relief fromthe scorching heat and humid-ity anytime soon.

India has received 37 percent excess rainfall during themonsoon season so far. As perthe IMD data, northwest Indiahas received 71.3 mm rainfallagainst the normal of 40.6 mmrainfall during the period, asurplus of 76 per cent. CentralIndia has registered 145.8 mmrainfall against the normal of92.2 mm, an increase of 58 percent. The southern peninsulahas received 133.6 mm rainfall,which is 24 per cent more thannormal, while east and north-east India witnessed 253.9 mmrainfall against the normal of224.8 mm during the period.

On the advancement ofmonsoon, the IMD said thatfurther advance of southwestmonsoon into remaining partsof Rajasthan, west UttarPradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh& Delhi and Punjab is likely tobe slow as large scale featuresare not favourable.

“The forecast wind patternby the numerical models donot indicate any favourable condition for sus-tained rainfall over the regionduring the forecast period,” itsaid.

“Southwest monsoon hasso far covered most parts of thecountry except parts ofRajasthan, Delhi, Haryana andPunjab,” it said.

“The salient feature of themonsoon in 2021 is its progressto eastern, central and adjoin-ing northwest India earlierthan normal (up to 7-10 days).However, further progress overthe remaining parts of thecountry is unlikely during thenext seven days,” it said.

Kuldeep Srivastava, thehead of the IMD’s regionalforecasting centre, said lightrains are likely in Delhi-NCRaround June 26 but the region will have to wait formonsoonal showers.

The MeT office had earli-er predicted that the wind sys-tem may reach Delhi by June15, which would have been 12days early. Normally, the mon-

soon reaches Delhi by June 27and covers the entire countryby July 8.

Last year, the wind systemhad reached Delhi on June 25and covered the entire countryby June 29, according toSkymet Weather, a private fore-casting agency.

Mahesh Palawat fromSkymet Weather said chancesare that Delhi will get mon-soonal showers only aroundJune end.

“Westerly winds have beenblocking the advance of themonsoon into the remainingparts of northwest India forsome days. These are expectedto persist for at least one week,”he said.

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Bharat Biotech’s Covaxinhas shown 77.8 per cent

efficacy in Phase III trials,according to sources in theGovernment’s panel of expertswhich has reviewed the phase3 clinical trial data of thecountry’s indigenous Covid-19jab. The phase 3 data will nowbe reviewed by the top drugregulator, Directorate ofController General of India(DCGI).

The data will also bereviewed by the World HealthOrganization (WHO) on 23June for approval. Onceapproved by WHO, India willbe able to export Covaxin tomany developed countries likethe UK and the US.

The trial was conductedon 25,800 subjects, and thedata submitted to the SubjectExpert Committee (SEC)showed the vaccine was “well-tolerated”. Covaxin hadreceived emergency useapproval (EUA) by the DrugsController General of India(DCGI) in January 2021, andhas been used to vaccinate thepopulation since. However,

the WHO is yet to give it EUAapproval, restricting its exportto many developed countrieslike the US and the UK.

“According to the datasubmitted, Covaxin has shown77.8 per cent efficacy in thelast stage trials conducted on25,800 subjects. It is almost thesame as the interim efficacy,”a member of the SEC on thecondition of anonymity said.“The data shows the vaccinewas well-tolerated.”

The SEC, however, didnot discuss changing the sta-tus of the vaccine from emergency use to full licen-sure, which means regularapproval or marketing autho-risation of the vaccine undernormal circumstances, thesources said.

A panel of independentexperts, SECI advises theDCGI on applications seekingapprovals for new drugs, vac-

cines and clinical trials.Hyderabad-based BharatBiotech had submitted thedata to DCGI over the week-end.

In March, Bharat Biotechhad announced an interimefficacy of 81 per cent from thetrial, where participantsreceived vaccine or placebo ina 1:1 ratio.

The company had thensaid the clinical trial will con-tinue through to final analysis,to gather more data and to fur-ther evaluate the efficacy ofCovaxin. The final data isknown to be more accurateand reliable.

Besides Covaxin,Covishield, developed byAstraZeneca and manufac-tured locally by SerumInstitute of India and Russia’sSputnik V are the other twovaccines being currently usedin India.

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Eleven persons—seven fromKerala in India and four

from the UK—who receivedthe AstraZeneca-OxfordCovid-19 vaccine, have devel-oped a rare neurological dis-order called Guillain-Barresyndrome, clinicians in Indiaand England have reported intwo separate studies.

The studies, published inthe peer-reviewed medicaljournal Annals of Neurology,described an unusual variantof Guillain-Barre syndromecharacterised by prominentfacial weakness.

All the 11 cases wereamong people who hadreceived that vaccine 10-22days earlier. Seven cases werereported from a regional med-ical center in Kerala, India,where approximately 1.2 mil-lion people were vaccinatedwith the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine till April 22.

The cases occurred with-in two weeks of the first doseof vaccination. “Six out of theseven patients progressed toareflexic quadriplegia andrequired mechanical ventila-tory support,” said BobyVarkey Maramattom, from theDepartment of Neurology,Aster Medcity, Kochi, Kerala.

“The frequency of GBSwas 1.4 to 10 fold higher thanthat expected in this period fora population of this magni-tude. In addition, the fre-

quency of bilateral facial weak-ness, which typically occurs inless than 20 percent of GBScases, suggests a pattern asso-ciated with the vaccination,” headded.

Four cases were reportedfrom Nottingham, England,in which approximately700,000 people received thesame vaccine. These werecharacterised by bifacialweakness with a paraesthesiasvariant of GBS occurringwithin three weeks of vacci-nation with the Oxford-AstraZeneca SARS-CoV-2

vaccine.“This rare neurological

syndrome has previously beenreported in association withSARS-CoV-2 infection itself.Our cases were given eitherintravenous immunoglobu-lin, oral steroids, or no treat-ment,” said Jonathan RhysEvans, Department ofNeurology, NottinghamUniversity Hospitals NHSTrust, UK.

“If the link is causal itcould be due to a cross-reac-tive immune response to theSARS-CoV-2 spike proteinand components of theperipheral immune system,”wrote the authors of thereport from England.

“We suggest vigilance forcases of bifacial weaknesswith paraesthesias variantGBS following vaccinationfor SARS-CoV-2 and thatpost-vaccination surveillanceprogrammes ensure robustdata capture of this outcome,to assess for causality,” Evanssaid.

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Former Congress presidentRahul Gandhi on Tuesday

warned the Government of animminent third wave of thecoronavirus pandemic andurged the Centre to prepare forit. But not before hitting out atPrime Minister NarendraModi, who, he charged, wasbusy with West Bengal pollswhen many died due to lack ofoxygen.

“The whole countryknows that a third wave willstrike,” Rahul said at a virtualPress conference during whichhe also released a “whitepaper” on the pandemic.

Rahul said the aim of thiswhite paper on Covid-19 is notfinger-pointing at the govern-ment but to help the nationprepare for the third wave ofinfection.

However, he criticisedModi for conducting electionrallies for Assembly polls amidthe second wave of coron-avirus.

“In the second wave, manydied needless deaths. Wecouldn’t provide them oxygencylinders. Prime Minister’stears cannot wipe the tears offamilies who lost family mem-bers. His tears cannot savethem, oxygen can. But he didnot take it seriously as hisfocus was on Bengal,” Rahulsaid.

He also said that the gov-ernment’s management of thefirst two waves of the pan-demic was “disastrous”, adding

that his intention was to pro-vide the government “infor-mation and insights on whatwent wrong”.

The Congress MP sug-

gested the ramping up ofhealth infrastructure in thecountry as the Governmentwas “not ready” during the firsttwo waves of the pandemic.

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Giving a riposte to theCongress white paper on

Covid-19 management, theBJP on Tuesday took a sharpjibe at Rahul Gandhi sayingthe ‘Gyani Baba’ dishing out“pearls of wisdom” to thePrime Minister should intro-spect why Congress-ruledStates caused the second waveof coronavirus, why they did-n’t accept vaccines initially andalso share the actual count ofdeaths ?

The BJP accused theCongress of “derailing” coun-try’s fight against the pan-demic.

Union Minister and BJPleader Smriti Irani, who haddefeated Rahul in Amethi inthe 2019 Lok Sabha polls,tweeted saying: “While GyaniBaba is dishing out pearls ofwisdom to the HonourablePrime Minister, he may like tointrospect on the following -Where did the second wavestart? - Congress ruled states.Which states had a huge per-centage of India’s cases and

deaths? - Congress ruledstates.”

“State with the highestcase fatality rate - Congressruled state. States with maxi-mum noise against vaccinescreating vaccine hesitancy -Congress ruled states. Stateswhich had an astronomicalpositivity rate during the sec-ond wave - Congress ruledstates”, the Minister alleged.

She also said that it wasthe Congress-ruled states thatdemanded decentralisation ofvaccine procurement and laterdid a “U-turn”.

“Who demanded decen-tralization & then did a u-turn?- Congress. Which statesdid the worst in terms of vac-cination yesterday even asthe country created a worldrecord? - Congress ruledstates. It is darkness under thelamp,” she said.

Making another attackon the Congress after Rahulreleased the white paper, BJPspokesperson Sambit Patrathe opposition party of twist-ing India’s fight againstCovid19.

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After Justice IndiraBanerjee’s recusal from

hearing West Bengal post elec-tion violence cases, anotherjudge from the State JusticeAniruddha Bose recused him-self from the politically sensi-tive Narada case on Tuesday.

Later, the Supreme Court’snew Bench comprising JusticesVineet Saran and DineshMaheswari decided to hear onJune 25 the appeals of WestBengal Chief Minister MamataBanerjee and the state LawMinister Moloy Ghatak againstthe June 9 order of the CalcuttaHigh Court which had refusedto take on record their affi-davits on the CBI’s transfer plearelated to the Narada scamcase.

The appeals, initially listedbefore a vacation bench ofJustices Hemant Gupta andAniruddha Bose, were referredto another bench by ChiefJustice N V Ramana during theday itself after Justice Boserecused from the hearing with-out citing any reason. Thebench of Vineet Saran andDinesh Maheswari, to whichthe cases were referred, took upthe matter in the afternoon.Justice Saran said that the mat-ters are fresh for the bench and

they needed to go through thefiles before the hearing.

On being pointed out thatearlier the top court hadrequested the high court todefer the hearing till it decidesthe appeals, the bench said thatit would pass the same orderurging the high court to post-pone the scheduled hearingthere on June 23 and wait fortwo more days. The benchthen enquired from Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta, andsenior Advocates RakeshDwivedi and Vikas Singhwhether they will be able toconclude the arguments onFriday. The lawyers answeredin the affirmative.

Initially, the state govern-ment and the law minister hadmoved the top court with theirappeals and later the chiefminister filed her plea againstthe June 9 order of the highcourt.

On June 9, a five-judgebench of the Calcutta HighCourt, hearing CBI’s applica-tion for transfer of the Naradasting tape case from the specialCBI court to the high court,had said it will decide later onconsidering the affidavits byBanerjee and Ghatak on theirrespective roles on the day ofthe arrest of four leaders inconnection with the case.

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As the Indian Ocean hasemerged as one of the

most strategically importantregions and China is flexing itsmaritime muscle there, theIAF will take part in an exer-cise with the US there for twodays starting Wednesday.

Giving details here onTuesday, IAF officials said as astrategic outreach exercise withthe defence forces of friendlyforeign countries in the IndianOcean Region (IOR), IAF andthe US Navy will participate inan exercise to be carried outwith Ronald Reagan CarrierStrike Group (CSG).

The Exercise in the area ofresponsibility of the SouthernAir Command will see theIAF forces operate from basesunder four operational com-mands and will include Jaguars

and Su-30 MKI fighter jets,AWACS, AEW&C and Air toAir Refueller aircraft. The USCSG is expected to field F-18fighters and E-2C Hawkeye

AEW&C aircraft. The exercisewill be carried out south ofThiruvananthapuram, on thewestern seaboard, over twodays.

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Giving a boost to the Indianship building capabilities,

the Defence Ministry onTuesday signed a contractwith Goa Shipyard Ltd (GSL)for the construction of twopollution control vessels(PCV)for the Indian Coast Guard ata cost of about �583 crore.

The ships are being pro-cured to significantly aug-ment the capability of theIndian Coast Guard to

respond to incidents of oilspills at the sea and also boostthe force’s pollution responsemechanism. These two vesselsare scheduled for delivery byNovember 2024 and May 2025respectively.

The defence ministry saidthe “special role ships” will beindigenously designed, devel-oped and built by GSL. Theacquisition will significantlyaugment the capability of ICGto respond to oil spill disastersat sea, it said.

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Signaling the growing impor-tance of India’s maritime

prowess and its significance inthe Indian Ocean region, theUK on Tuesday posted a liaisonofficer at the Indian Navy’sInformation Fusion Centre(IFC). It is the key hub of mar-itime security information relat-ing to the Indian Ocean.

The Indian Navy estab-lished the IFC-IOR in 2018 in

Gurugram to effectively keeptrack of the shipping traffic aswell as other critical develop-ments in the region under a col-laborative framework with like-minded countries. Australiaand USA have already deputedtheir officers to this centre.

The positioning of theBritish officer at the centrecomes ahead of a planned visitto India by the UK’s CarrierStrike Group, led by aircraft car-rier HMS Queen Elizabeth.

“Lt Commander Stephen

Smith will be based full-time atthe Centre, working directlywith the Indian armed forcesand fellow liaison officers frompartner nations to enhancemaritime domain awareness inthe region,” the British highcommission said here onTuesday.

Admiral Tony Radakin,Chief of Naval Staff of the UK,described it as a significant steptowards maritime domainawareness by both India andBritain.

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played with them, attendedtheir PTMs is gone. A bleakfuture and hardships awaitthem; the innocence all set toyield at the altar of the realworld.

Corona took away thechildren’s childhood as it didtheir innocence. Most peopleat a tender age wilt underpressure. If it is a child, thechances of her/his beingaltered for life are high. Forchildren, losing parents istraumatic. Parents fulfil notonly the needs of a child butgive him a sense of securitywhich is important in thegrowing up years. Most of thebehavioural traits of the chil-dren get consolidated in thefirst seven years. Losing par-ents during that time scarschildren, changing theirworldview forever.

It is the time when we, asa nation, need to step up ourefforts to take care of suchchildren. The parents cannotbe replaced but, in the least,the child can be given a sensethat there is someone whocares and provides him sup-port. It could be his relatives,adopting parents, non-gov-ernmental organisations, orthe Government itself.

The moot question is,what next for these children?

Indeed, adoption comes up asthe most natural way thesechildren could be given a sec-ond lease of life. But there aresome inherent dangers. Thechances of fake adoptionsare high. Child traffickerssee it as an opportunity.Often, the children get adopt-ed by traffickers and sold off.

The Central AdoptionResource Authority (CARA)handles adoptions in thecountry. Strict guidelines gov-ern the process of adoption inIndia. Any adoption withoutfollowing this process is ille-gal. It puts children at highrisk. Many adopted childrenare exploited, trafficked andabused. Moreover, the adop-tion rate in India is rather low.Only around 4,000 childrenare adopted every year; so fewchildren would find a familythat way.

An abandoned child is aneasy prey for traffickers. Inthis situation, it becomes theresponsibility of each one ofus to help a child in distress.At the least, one could callchildren’s helpline number(1098) and inform theauthorities about the child indistress. Or, one can also con-tact the district Child WelfareCommittees (CWCs) orinform the local police sta-

tion. The CWC decides thefate of these children —whether the child needs to goto a long-term or short-termshelter or for adoption. ThePrime Minister hasannounced that such chil-dren will get a monthlystipend once they turn 18through a corpus fund of �10lakh under the “PM-CARESfor children” scheme. Butthe important question ishow a child, says age two,survives 16 years to take thatstipend!

Foster care is anotheroption that can be exploredand encouraged. The kithand kin of the deceased cantake care of the child. Butthen that, again, is not free ofproblems. Many a time, thechildren end up working asdomestic helps, their educa-tion stopped, their rightscurtailed. There must be anagency to monitor such cases.There is an urgent need totackle this issue on priority sothat these children do not fallinto the wrong hands. We, asa nation, have to think out ofthe box to help these childrenof a lesser god!

(The writer is a columnistand documentary film-maker.The views expressed are personal.)

�� Sir — We have only heard of insurancecompanies trying to find some loopholesin the claim applications and find somelame excuses to deny claims made againstpolicies issued by them. It is shocking thatthe Central Government is trying to followthe tactics of such insurance companies todeny ex gratia compensation to the fami-ly of those who died of COVID-19 on theplea that this is not a one-time disaster andthat such a huge payout will empty the dis-aster funds available with the Government.

While we have witnessed theGovernment defending the expenditure ofmore than �20,000 crore for the not-so-urgent and not at all necessary Central Vistaproject and a luxury mansion for the PrimeMinister, the Government has deniedcompensation to the victims’ families.What is the use of dumping the availablefunds in developing new infrastructure formedical facilities without paying the amountto the bereaved families that need imme-diate support in the absence of the bread-winner of the family?

The argument of the Government todeny COVID-19 compensation is unchar-itable when it has taken decisions to givehuge tax benefits to the corporates and alsoto write off non-performing assets inbanks amounting to millions of rupees.

Tharcius S Fernando | Chennai

� �� Sir — The strains of the third wave ofCoronavirus would fall upon us duringOctober, according to medical experts. So,it is the foremost duty of the States and theCentre to be prepared to combat it from alldirections. Further, people should strictlyfollow guidelines, protocols and advisoriesissued by the authorities concerned. It is alsosuggested that stress should be on the pro-duction of vaccines, medicines and otherhealthcare facilities. Hopefully, this thirdwave may be outcast from the country with-out putting any deleterious impact on thehealth of people.

If the Government takes their adviceand opens up schools, then what will hap-

pen? The issue is not just whether childrenget severe illness, it is about children easi-ly becoming the link in the transmissionchain in society. ?What is needed is a tem-porary restructuring of society whereeverything from travel, commerce, educa-tion, Government interactions, food sup-ply and so on isn’t hampered in the after-math of the virus.

Krishnan Subramaniam | Kozhikode

�� Sir — It is perplexing why the Centre is stilltightlipped over the reopening of theIntegrated Vaccine Complex on the outskirtsof Chennai in Chengalpattu for the produc-tion of antidotes for COVID-19 thoughthere have been strong representationsfrom the DMK-led Government and as wellby Chief Minister MK Stalin himself dur-ing his recent meeting with Prime Minister

Narendra Modi in New Delhi.Handing over the unit on lease will not

only enable commencement of productionquickly and ramp up the vaccination drivefor all age groups in the State, but also willhelp cater to the needs of other States.Meanwhile, it pains one to read mediareports that this state-of-the-art unit, whichis built in a sprawling area of 100 acres andwhich reportedly has a capacity to produceone billion doses of any vaccine annually,has been lying idle for years due to issueslike shortage of staff, pending wages, andsuchlike issues. At a time when people arescurrying for jabs, it is grossly unfair for abig vaccine-producing unit owned by theCentral Government to have been quiescentfor long.

Ranganathan Sivakumar | Chennai

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Even as the countrybraces for the thirdCorona wave whichexperts feel would be

tougher on children, the pan-demic has already taken a toll.On June 1, the NationalCommission for Protection ofChild Rights (NCPCR) report-ed in the Supreme Court morethan 9,300 Corona orphans inIndia. These include more than1,700 children who lost both theparents. The actual figure couldbe many times this number asthe data is yet to be collectedfrom across the country.

Unfortunately, as of now, theGovernment does not have aplan in place to rehabilitatethese children. Let alone a plan,it has not even identified thesechildren yet. Many childrenhave been orphaned due to cir-cumstances created by the pan-demic. Many people lost theirlives while going back to theirhometowns during the lock-down. They carried children intheir arms or dragged them onwheeled suitcases. Many neverreached their destinations andthe children were left in themiddle of nowhere. Who canforget the pictures of a toddlertrying to wake up her deadmother on a railway platform?Of course, these children wouldnot figure in the Governmentdata of Corona orphans.

The pandemic has alreadykilled the dreams, aspirationsand hopes of the Coronaorphans. Their number is nowin thousands, if not lakhs, afterthe second wave. Many peoplewho succumbed to Coronacould not even have the lastword with their children. Somechildren are still waiting for theirparents to return. They are fedon lies that their parents have“gone to work” and will “returnwith goodies”. The day theyfind out the truth would be shat-tering for them.

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Great corporations exist only because theyare created and safeguarded by our insti-tutions, and it is, therefore, our right andduty to see that they work in harmony

with these institutions." These were the words ofthe 26th US President Theodore Roosevelt dur-ing his 1901 State of the Union address. "Thereis a widespread conviction in the minds of theAmerican people that the great corporationsknown as trusts are in certain of their features andtendencies hurtful to the general welfare," he wrotebefore he used the Sherman Antitrust Act to breakup monopolies including the largest railroad con-glomerate, J.P Morgan's Northern Securities, andthe largest oil company, Rockefeller's Standard Oil.

The US since then has used updated antitrustlegislatures to clip the wings of giants includingAT&T and Microsoft which were deemed pow-erful enough to stifle free-market competitiveness.The extent of influence of Big Tech companies thatdrive today's internet-technology-driven world ismuch more profound.

None of us can imagine a life where we do notuse one of their products. They have aided in thecreation of a hyper connected planet where anyindividual with technical know-how, irrespectiveof other differences, can access the internet andfind myriad avenues for acquiring knowledge,form communities, create or get access to digitalproducts and services, and be a part of a globaldigital economy. They act as instruments of eco-nomic and social mobility for billions.

Their valuations also unsurprisingly increasedwith their rapid expansion. Currently, eight of theworld's largest ten companies based on their mar-ket capitalisation are from this industry. Theyexceed the GDP of most nations. Some of theirbalance sheets have surplus cash greater than thereserves of most countries. Apple, for instance, hasa valuation exceeding $2 trillion, and cashreserves of nearly $200 billion.

The growth of this sector has been immuneeven to the Covid-19 pandemic that wreckedeconomies as people's reliance on digital toolsincreased during lockdowns. This sector's grow-ing prominence has also led to some of the greatmaladies of our time, including never-seen-before inequalities, and democratic recession.

Integration of Artificial Intelligence, andAutomation into Big Tech products has cut downthe need for new jobs, leading to jobless growth.The same platforms that disrupted mass commu-nication have ironically been used by governmentswith authoritarian tendencies to further extendstate control. They have also aided in the rise ofmany demagogues to power across the world.

As these tech titans continue their market con-quests, run-ins with governments have becomecommonplace. The past year saw fronts openingacross continents between these companies andvarious governments. Antitrust lawsuits are thebiggest battlegrounds. Major Big Tech firmsincluding Google, Amazon, Apple, Alibaba,FaceBook, and FlipKart are facing multiple inves-tigations across the United States, European Union,China, and India.

This is mainly because the Big Tech firms haveevolved into the gatekeepers of the Internet. Theyhave userbases in hundreds of millions. Customersand enterprises cannot access many markets with-out going through their tech infrastructure.These companies set up large barriers of entry, orpromote unfair business practices that charge

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Nadu chief minister J.Jayalalithaa, make a come-back? It is a question mark aspolitics is changing fast in thestate. 'Chinnamma', as shewas known, has had her upsand downs in the past fourdecades. She enjoyed power asJayalalithaa's shadow but shenever did understand that shewas only the shadow, notJayalalithaa. She took over theparty and nearly became Jaya'ssuccessor in 2017 but the BJPspoiled her plans and sheinstead went to ParappanaAgrahara jail in Karnataka forfour years.

In 2017, on a sunnyFebruary morning, Sasikalastopped at Jayalalithaa's grave

before going to the Bengalurujail and thumped the memo-rial platform thrice with herpalm vowing to avenge herenemies. Now, after her releaseand a month after theAIADMK lost power in theTamil Nadu polls, she is all setto return to active politics. Ina recent alleged, phone con-versation with one of theparty cadres, Sasikala confirmsher plans to take the politicalplunge.

She has been sending con-fusing signals about her future.Significantly, 2021 is not 2017.Much has changed in the pastfour years. Her two hand-picked leaders -former chiefministers O.Panneerselvam(OPS) and E.Palaniswamy(EPS)—have captured theparty and they do not want

her to return. Sasikala hadbeen involved in separatepower tussles with both lead-ers earlier.

The intensifying feudbetween EPS and OPS evenafter the electoral defeat andSasikala's come-back plansare threatening to break theparty again. EPS pipped OPSto the post of the leader of

opposition after a literal showof strength: the former hadmore legislators backing him.Sasikala, on the other hand,sees an opportunity in the twoleaders' tussle to avenge hersetbacks.

Though she cannot con-test until 2027, there is no legalban to head a party. It is a mys-tery why Sasikala announcedher retirement from politics inMarch and why she wants tocome back now. The timingshe has chosen is also signif-icant because the AIADMK isstill struggling to come toterms with the loss of power.The cadres, especially EPSbackers, are opposed to heremerging as a power centre-once again. EPS is one of thebig hurdles for her return tothe AIADMK because he

senses a threat to his positionin the party.

The 'leaked' audio clip ofan alleged conversationbetween Sasikala and one ofher supporters has gone viral,creating a flutter about herimminent return. In the clipshe is heard saying, "we will forsure streamline theparty…certainly, I will come".And this as well: "You don'tworry at all. Sure. We willresolve all the problems in theparty. I will come. I will defi-nitely come. You take care andbe safe." For now, she has sentenough signals to her support-ers that she is ready and wait-ing. Will Sasikala achieve herambition? Though age isagainst her, those who knowher believe she will not throwin the towel easily and will

weigh her options to see howshe can stage a comeback.

The second hurdle is herown corrupt image. Her firsteffort to float an outfit AMMKthrough her nephew, TTVDhinakaran, flopped in therecent assembly polls eventhough he initially won theR.K.Nagarassembly by-poll in2017. Now she wants to finda place for herself in politics.

Thirdly, there still areother cases against her pend-ing in the courts. She is par-ticularly troubled by a caseinvolving the purchase ofproperties with demonetizedcurrency. With aUnionGovernment and theState Government hostile toher she is skating on thin ice.

Fourthly, according toinsiders, Sasikala is in no

hurry as her target is the 2024Lok Sabha polls. She wants toget back into the BJP's goodbooks by that time and estab-lish herself and her nephew asplayers by using her moneypower. She wants to do thiseither by dividing theAIADMK or expanding hernephew's AMMK. Being thebackroom player andJayalalithaa's shadow in TamilNadu politics since the 1980s,Sasikala knows the ins andouts of Dravidian politics.She and her family were calledthe "Mannargudi mafia" inJaya's time.

Chinnamma's futurehangs in balance for now. Itdepends on many factors.Where one week is long inpolitics, another three years istoo long.

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excessive platform fees, limit com-petition, and kill smaller business-es.

Very recently, five bills havebeen moved with bipartisan supportin the US House of Representativesmeant to prevent big tech firmsfrom favouring their products andservices through their platformover their competitors. These pro-posed laws could separate their pri-mary platform from their other lineof businesses. Interestingly, USPresident Joe Biden has named LinaKhan, a very vocal Big Tech critic,as the country's top regulator.

The EU has proposed a sweep-ing set of legislation through theDigital Markets Act (DMA) that hasclauses to fine an offender up to 10per cent of their annual global rev-enue for anti-competitive behaviour.Provisions are included to break uprepeat offenders. Aspirants arevying to be modern-day TeddyRoosevelts on both sides of theAtlantic.

India in 2018 itself had bannede-commerce companies from sell-ing products they have an equityinterest in through their platforms.The latest CCI probes are based onallegations of them circumventingthese laws through circuitous busi-ness structures.

Google and FaceBook, mean-while, locked horns with theAustralian Government over a newlaw that requires these tech compa-nies to pay news companies for anyoriginal content they share on theirplatforms. After an altercation thatresulted in a week-long blockade ofthe country's news links onFaceBook, local news publishersstarted receiving payments. Thesedevelopments will have conse-

quential effects.Our digital economy is driven

by data and all the Big Tech firmsderive tremendous value from thedata collected from their myriadusers. We should see more coun-tries make laws that would mandatethe Big Tech firms to share some ofthe wealth created with the maincontributors including publishers.Upcoming technologies likeBlockChain would enable micro-payments to be made to every per-son contributing value in cyber-space. Big Tech's unassailable influ-ence was highlighted during themonths following the 2020 USPresidential elections when DonaldTrump and some of his most vocalsupporters were locked out of allsocial media platforms in a unitedeffort by Big Tech. What can hap-pen to the all-powerful President ofthe United States could happen toanyone. Angela Merkel of Germanycalled Trump's bans 'problematic'.

The prospect of a few unac-countable and unelected corpora-tions having the power to silence oramplify any voice or opinion basedon their predilectionsand therebydirecting a country's political dis-course does not bode well for anydemocracy. Since then, Ugandabanned Twitter before theirPresidential elections, and Nigeriabanned Twitter after the socialmedia platform deleted a tweet oftheir President.

Twitter and the IndianGovernment are at loggerheadsover its intermediary status. Techplatforms have created internalsystems for flagging and deletingquestionable content posted ontheir platforms. However, thereare repeated altercations with

authorities. India could again takea leaf out of the EU, which throughits newly proposed Digital ServicesAct (DSA) makes it mandatory forall platforms to reveal to regulatorscurrently opaque areas of techplatform functioning includingpossible dissections of their propri-etary algorithms, and requiresclear-cut mechanisms on filteringor removing content. Penalties upto six per cent of the company'sturnover, and even suspension ofservice await non-complyingoffenders.

The tech sector, whose role andimpact would only increase withtime, requires broad, standardized,holistic regulations including well-defined penalties. Policy ambigui-ty would only create avenues ofGovernment overreach. Regulatorybodies and tax authorities couldarbitrarily open probes based onindividual whims and fancies.

India's ruling party and theUnion Government have many atime been accused of using thesevery same platforms for spreadingfalse narratives, and for the prop-agation of underhanded politicalpractices. Our ParliamentaryCommittee of IT should take theinitiative in creating watchdoginstitutions under their purview,comprised of domain experts,with independence and authorityto check Government excesses intech policy.

Institutions and regulationsthus formed are essential to ensurethat our markets and politicalprocesses remain free and fair, andour digital landscape remains safeplaces for open discourses, with-out being subjected to digital col-onization.

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RALLIS 340.85 347.60 337.40 339.30NAVINFLUOR 3359.95 3474.35 3333.50 3412.00BEL 150.90 152.00 149.00 151.35APOLLOHOSP 3246.00 3301.90 3236.95 3258.00RAIN 193.15 198.40 192.35 194.75MOIL 197.80 208.00 193.20 199.40PHILIPCARB 228.40 234.35 227.00 227.75HINDCOPPER 150.40 156.25 150.15 152.60TECHM 1060.50 1071.70 1053.55 1056.00MFSL 1021.00 1032.35 1002.05 1004.60POWERGRID 232.95 237.00 232.45 234.00BPCL 477.50 478.60 472.90 473.75MMTC 56.80 59.20 56.15 56.75CRISIL 2760.80 2897.65 2751.00 2840.40SHREECEM 28371.40 29478.00 28353.75 29254.25UBL 1434.20 1474.05 1418.00 1456.70IRB 153.00 160.00 151.70 154.90RAJESHEXPO 594.00 598.00 582.30 583.95KPITTECH 246.10 257.50 242.00 243.85ZEEL 223.50 223.50 217.10 218.05AARTIIND 911.65 911.65 873.00 876.85TV18BRDCST 45.65 47.30 44.50 44.95MUTHOOTFIN 1493.00 1518.40 1493.00 1506.75CANBK 153.80 155.90 151.10 151.85MAZDOCK 252.00 264.00 250.40 260.00IFCI 13.51 14.78 13.50 14.78GREAVESCOT 161.10 166.85 160.55 161.50HINDPETRO 305.00 306.70 297.20 303.60KRBL 236.40 236.40 232.30 234.80TRIDENT 16.75 17.15 16.65 16.70HAPPSTMNDS 929.85 929.85 914.00 917.30MAHABANK 26.75 26.75 25.80 26.00HEROMOTOCO 2900.00 2941.50 2898.00 2906.55ROUTE 1731.00 1792.20 1723.10 1730.75BAJAJ-AUTO 4165.30 4229.90 4155.00 4221.25CENTURYTEX 575.60 614.30 575.60 592.10COROMANDEL 923.00 923.00 896.70 917.55INDHOTEL 134.00 140.80 134.00 139.95ESCORTS 1170.00 1188.60 1167.45 1169.80INDIACEM 195.00 199.40 195.00 197.65DRREDDY 5283.00 5321.65 5251.00 5307.20DABUR 572.15 578.15 565.00 566.35AUBANK 1078.50 1078.50 1012.25 1028.15ICICIPRULI 583.05 607.25 578.80 602.35LTI 4080.70 4143.35 4052.30 4112.05GLAND 3050.15 3200.00 3050.15 3176.40EICHERMOT 2709.00 2759.40 2699.55 2718.55GLENMARK 644.25 649.75 638.10 640.70MGL 1198.00 1203.10 1183.00 1185.15AMARAJABAT 757.90 757.90 745.25 747.35AUROPHARMA 960.00 967.80 948.00 952.50LALPATHLAB 3190.00 3190.00 3127.00 3139.35TATACHEM 725.95 735.65 719.85 724.15TANLA 868.00 868.00 832.00 844.10HDFCLIFE 720.00 724.00 713.30 716.55GEPIL 363.00 371.80 343.10 351.25UCOBANK 14.60 15.14 14.45 14.56GRANULES 319.00 322.30 315.10 315.80TATAELXSI 3690.00 3710.00 3636.00 3687.55RITES 269.80 273.00 265.50 270.25CUMMINSIND 832.45 843.85 827.75 833.05CHAMBLFERT 314.70 315.20 306.00 307.00HSCL 58.35 58.75 56.75 56.95

ENGINERSIN 81.25 83.85 81.25 81.90BSOFT 389.90 396.90 383.30 386.00GODREJCP 890.00 896.55 874.75 876.75FRETAIL 70.45 71.65 66.45 67.25GAIL 157.15 158.80 154.95 155.35STAR 793.90 798.95 739.00 776.70IDBI 38.80 39.35 38.50 38.60FSL 167.10 170.35 165.00 165.90ROSSARI 1265.00 1265.00 1231.15 1237.80TORNTPOWER 464.00 471.10 457.05 459.20JINDALSAW 109.40 109.75 105.75 106.65CESC 769.00 784.80 769.00 775.80BIOCON 408.85 409.00 400.45 401.35SRF 6940.15 7049.35 6940.15 6976.95POLYCAB 1971.00 2006.00 1932.45 1944.05COFORGE 4015.45 4037.20 3967.20 3976.90CHOLAFIN 543.00 553.15 535.00 541.85PIDILITIND 2155.00 2173.15 2143.05 2146.65ATGL 1387.00 1387.05 1340.00 1387.05NOCIL 219.00 219.70 213.25 214.65LAURUSLABS 610.70 618.15 607.75 613.30ACC 2035.55 2078.50 2029.95 2052.45BATAINDIA 1663.70 1696.90 1661.20 1668.35ALOKTEXT 27.35 28.65 27.35 27.65

HDFCAMC 3000.00 3004.50 2950.55 2961.45JSWENERGY 158.00 163.80 158.00 162.05VBL 782.00 793.50 771.40 777.35MRPL 52.40 55.70 52.35 52.75LTTS 2829.70 2841.80 2816.75 2823.40SFL 2233.50 2440.00 2219.40 2291.70MPHASIS 2055.45 2084.55 2001.80 2010.80BHARATFORG 738.40 743.95 731.60 741.15GSPL 325.00 338.00 325.00 331.35DIVISLAB 4250.00 4299.95 4220.95 4287.75BERGEPAINT 830.15 835.00 807.20 808.45JUBLFOOD 3290.00 3290.00 3214.10 3220.90TATAMTRDVR 157.95 162.20 157.50 159.60ICICIGI 1550.00 1560.00 1520.80 1528.05NESTLEIND 17798.95 17798.95 17415.00 17451.20IRCON 47.30 49.30 46.75 48.10POLYMED 879.35 970.70 879.35 962.20APOLLOTYRE 229.70 230.25 224.25 224.85BEML 1355.50 1372.90 1345.10 1350.45ADANITRANS 1290.00 1362.50 1260.00 1362.50TATAMETALI 1113.00 1132.30 1106.85 1118.40ADANIGREEN 1160.00 1171.60 1159.90 1171.15INDIGO 1722.00 1736.40 1707.55 1720.20AVANTI 583.80 591.20 555.50 560.70TRENT 858.45 864.25 849.30 851.60BRITANNIA 3660.00 3661.35 3617.00 3651.30BOSCHLTD 15205.40 15276.15 15074.45 15139.50SHILPAMED 539.95 561.25 539.20 547.95JSLHISAR 191.50 202.35 191.50 200.40EDELWEISS 74.25 75.85 74.20 74.50TATACOMM 1286.40 1326.80 1261.75 1268.20DELTACORP 183.20 184.50 180.25 181.15SPARC 234.95 238.30 231.15 233.80CGCL 532.75 535.00 528.25 532.70AFFLE 4778.00 4778.00 4590.00 4656.15DISHTV 15.30 15.42 14.65 14.72RBLBANK 213.25 214.65 209.55 210.15ASTRAL 2004.00 2006.80 1972.95 1994.75IOLCP 641.00 646.45 621.90 631.65BASF 2600.00 2695.15 2599.95 2609.35FCONSUMER 10.75 10.84 10.11 10.16HATHWAY 27.05 27.35 26.75 26.90THYROCARE 1334.90 1346.90 1309.15 1334.90INFIBEAM 51.50 51.50 50.70 51.00EXIDEIND 186.15 187.75 185.35 185.85RVNL 32.50 32.80 32.05 32.15LEMONTREE 42.65 44.20 42.20 42.55OIL 148.65 152.25 146.40 151.20MRF 82250.00 82394.00 81502.35 81803.90GODREJPROP 1422.00 1430.40 1396.90 1403.00EIDPARRY 437.50 442.50 430.30 434.50MINDTREE 2505.00 2507.60 2477.50 2479.90JSL 102.80 107.45 101.70 105.20PAGEIND 29685.00 29941.00 29397.55 29461.90MANAPPURAM 161.85 164.15 161.40 162.05RECLTD 148.80 149.00 144.80 145.05PNBHOUSING 671.55 737.50 670.00 737.45GNFC 361.90 373.30 357.10 367.65ALKYLAMINE 3553.35 3610.00 3553.35 3593.15JAICORPLTD 153.45 155.35 147.80 148.40NCC 84.00 86.40 84.00 84.25FINOLEXIND 170.00 176.00 170.00 172.70KSCL 725.15 747.15 725.15 731.70IEX 380.00 380.00 368.05 369.45DEEPAKFERT 388.70 429.10 388.70 417.25BANKINDIA 80.10 81.50 78.35 78.70PFC 126.00 126.20 123.50 123.80AMBUJACEM 348.00 351.15 343.15 346.50BURGERKING 159.70 160.65 156.20 156.70WOCKPHARMA 608.00 613.75 595.40 596.95NH 464.00 489.30 464.00 485.40COLPAL 1675.00 1706.00 1675.00 1689.30SCI 109.55 114.35 109.55 113.65PRESTIGE 295.90 300.40 286.05 289.40PERSISTENT 2579.00 2634.20 2557.00 2586.50GMM 4650.00 4786.10 4616.50 4708.85MARICO 526.75 526.75 514.60 515.85RCF 82.50 84.05 82.15 82.35SUNTECK 305.00 313.85 294.30 299.55SUMICHEM 392.05 399.50 383.05 393.35CAMS 2820.75 2829.60 2747.00 2755.90ASHOKA 99.60 100.55 97.20 97.55CROMPTON 420.95 420.95 408.70 414.05VOLTAS 1025.30 1030.00 1017.60 1020.50VINATIORGA 1810.00 1826.35 1791.80 1798.10VAKRANGEE 46.95 47.00 46.05 46.30PIIND 2840.50 2840.50 2780.00 2788.90TATACOFFEE 174.20 178.55 174.20 175.95WELCORP 145.00 151.65 145.00 149.85KEC 441.00 448.95 434.75 437.10AARTIDRUGS 720.00 727.00 714.40 715.90CANFINHOME 515.00 530.55 514.65 524.05GESHIP 403.00 413.55 396.40 401.75BALAMINES 2549.80 2632.25 2540.60 2582.75IGL 536.90 538.95 526.85 528.10CYIENT 875.65 886.50 857.00 869.75MINDAIND 669.50 669.50 638.80 642.20ORIENTREF 313.00 332.00 310.20 329.10GMDCLTD 73.85 75.65 73.85 74.45RELAXO 1115.00 1125.00 1105.00 1108.15PFIZER 5584.00 5590.00 5471.20 5494.70INTELLECT 750.20 760.10 735.90 740.25EIHOTEL 110.05 116.95 110.05 113.90ORIENTELEC 314.00 323.60 313.80 315.55BALRAMCHIN 333.50 338.60 327.15 330.25TORNTPHARM 2915.15 2952.20 2886.40 2926.90ZENSARTECH 298.00 303.50 296.10 298.25INOXLEISUR 310.20 321.50 309.00 319.90

HINDZINC 334.00 334.00 328.85 332.90SIEMENS 2015.55 2021.75 1991.05 1995.90STLTECH 268.75 272.45 261.00 269.70UJJIVAN 209.85 216.40 195.00 209.30ABCAPITAL 119.90 122.15 118.95 120.25NATCOPHARM 1104.60 1104.60 1083.60 1089.30ASTERDM 159.15 162.50 156.50 158.20AMBER 2723.05 2787.95 2723.05 2780.10NHPC 26.80 27.15 26.70 26.95

ALLCARGO 143.25 151.45 143.00 147.95CUB 165.30 167.00 163.00 163.35PETRONET 230.00 230.60 227.45 230.05JKTYRE 153.00 153.00 145.05 145.90HAL 1016.00 1020.80 999.00 1001.95LUXIND 3387.05 3569.70 3387.00 3541.30ADVENZYMES 420.00 428.00 418.00 419.75NIACL 169.50 174.25 168.95 169.35SUPREMEIND 2185.00 2198.00 2122.50 2160.80CAPPL 679.90 679.90 660.20 662.80GARFIBRES 3343.30 3368.80 3205.00 3227.45MIDHANI 213.00 214.45 209.20 209.75CASTROLIND 147.70 149.75 145.50 146.65METROPOLIS 2735.00 2790.00 2696.00 2767.85SOBHA 513.00 520.00 497.50 502.50TRITURBINE 122.45 127.20 119.60 120.85APLLTD 1003.00 1008.85 992.95 997.80VRLLOG 277.05 286.50 275.10 277.20TCNSBRANDS 613.00 624.95 580.00 589.45ECLERX 1749.00 1793.40 1710.00 1793.40ITDC 406.45 412.95 387.00 394.10UTIAMC 773.00 791.40 773.00 788.15ISEC 627.10 641.95 627.10 633.55BALMLAWRIE 139.15 142.80 139.15 140.40MCX 1519.95 1525.00 1493.00 1496.05HONAUT 40210.00 41000.00 40210.00 40744.55FORTIS 237.50 237.50 231.50 232.00DCBBANK 108.15 110.25 107.40 107.70EQUITAS 91.95 97.90 91.60 94.85INDIAMART 7299.85 7299.85 7140.00 7167.40VAIBHAVGBL 850.00 850.05 826.35 835.80BAJAJCON 299.40 299.60 291.60 292.90SYNGENE 589.90 591.30 579.50 586.05UJJIVANSFB 31.50 32.40 31.50 31.70MOTILALOFS 811.60 816.10 786.00 793.85BAJAJELEC 1015.00 1035.30 1008.10 1020.80KEI 690.30 700.30 672.35 678.60DCAL 195.55 206.50 195.55 199.60NAM-INDIA 355.10 362.65 355.10 357.70OBEROIRLTY 627.00 632.00 606.60 614.90AJANTPHARM 2009.40 2010.00 1950.00 1958.60MAXHEALTH 250.00 251.55 247.25 249.55EMAMILTD 530.20 539.45 525.00 527.95APLAPOLLO 1645.80 1650.05 1597.75 1607.90KTKBANK 62.80 64.10 62.80 63.40DHANUKA 970.00 970.00 943.25 947.95JBCHEPHARM 1526.00 1538.80 1512.25 1527.90QUESS 848.45 849.50 820.00 822.65GSFC 115.90 116.35 113.70 113.90VIPIND 381.10 398.05 381.10 390.50BLUEDART 5793.60 5863.30 5769.70 5835.95ASTRAZEN 3685.00 3721.15 3675.05 3691.90SOLARA 1743.05 1776.55 1730.00 1740.85SUDARSCHEM 686.90 692.30 673.90 679.05KAJARIACER 980.00 990.00 958.00 964.85JMFINANCIL 93.20 95.05 93.20 94.20SJVN 29.00 29.25 28.70 28.90PTC 107.60 108.00 105.20 106.05SCHNEIDER 127.90 131.50 127.40 128.00HEIDELBERG 260.00 263.00 255.95 256.70GUJALKALI 403.25 414.75 403.25 408.60IFBIND 1059.50 1108.00 1045.85 1090.05REDINGTON 269.50 273.10 265.40 268.20SHK 175.00 181.60 173.00 177.00FINEORG 2848.90 2923.75 2830.55 2900.00CEATLTD 1350.05 1363.90 1345.05 1351.50DALBHARAT 1829.85 1850.95 1820.00 1848.90BAJAJHLDNG 3530.00 3590.65 3518.70 3543.70ATUL 8869.05 8912.00 8838.45 8865.90ABBOTINDIA 16562.70 16750.00 16426.70 16673.05FDC 369.90 369.90 358.20 359.10TCIEXP 1475.00 1486.45 1391.00 1415.30JKLAKSHMI 584.00 587.55 572.00 575.95GRSE 203.05 206.50 199.30 202.35NETWORK18 53.85 55.50 53.00 53.20WHIRLPOOL 2200.00 2224.60 2192.85 2199.25MINDACORP 130.00 134.50 130.00 132.85SWANENERGY 144.25 145.05 142.05 143.65BIRLACORPN 1200.00 1200.00 1165.60 1172.05ABB 1726.05 1764.20 1726.05 1739.80CARBORUNIV 580.10 591.40 579.60 588.15EPL 280.00 291.70 280.00 286.10

SIS 422.95 426.95 418.45 424.55MHRIL 260.00 262.95 252.10 253.45IDFC 55.00 55.00 53.60 54.05FORCEMOT 1178.30 1240.00 1178.30 1197.30IPCALAB 2026.30 2027.05 1992.95 2004.55UFLEX 469.20 471.55 456.10 461.00FINCABLES 489.00 503.15 489.00 499.75SEQUENT 271.75 274.15 268.00 269.70DBL 552.00 564.45 546.00 549.35JCHAC 2253.90 2312.75 2250.70 2287.80ALKEM 3140.00 3161.80 3131.50 3147.95JAMNAAUTO 88.00 88.00 85.45 85.75SONATSOFTW 728.05 744.00 728.05 732.70ITI 131.00 132.00 127.00 127.55OFSS 3560.45 3626.30 3553.15 3557.75SANOFI 7690.00 7725.00 7620.00 7694.10COCHINSHIP 413.05 418.00 407.00 410.30GRINDWELL 1180.05 1196.95 1156.50 1170.95ORIENTCEM 135.25 137.35 133.10 133.60GODREJIND 537.90 543.25 529.50 534.75LINDEINDIA 1571.00 1617.35 1557.65 1594.95KNRCON 224.80 225.20 222.35 223.45VGUARD 267.40 267.40 262.05 263.75EQUITASBNK 59.05 61.00 59.05 60.00CSBBANK 333.00 335.00 322.60 324.95VARROC 372.00 379.20 372.00 375.80BLISSGVS 109.65 111.05 109.00 109.65GODFRYPHLP 926.30 950.00 926.30 931.45AEGISLOG 361.70 365.30 355.00 358.45CCL 350.75 350.75 343.00 345.25VMART 2892.20 2892.20 2807.30 2818.30PNCINFRA 259.90 260.20 249.10 250.95PGHH 13284.65 13450.00 13063.00 13325.75GPPL 115.00 115.35 111.60 112.00BRIGADE 283.65 299.75 280.00 286.30KPRMILL 1579.95 1579.95 1550.00 1564.05GICRE 201.00 204.50 198.60 199.65PHOENIXLTD 815.00 829.00 811.70 824.30FLUOROCHEM 1169.00 1169.00 1110.35 1124.95KANSAINER 577.55 583.00 572.95 580.75AIAENG 2029.50 2040.00 1989.40 2030.40KALPATPOWR 424.00 429.00 421.95 422.45ZYDUSWELL 2041.20 2078.00 2041.20 2058.00LAXMIMACH 6201.00 6395.40 6195.00 6227.65TATAINVEST 1140.00 1145.10 1130.00 1137.15INDOSTAR 364.55 367.75 353.75 355.60SOLARINDS 1600.00 1624.15 1597.00 1610.25PRSMJOHNSN 130.00 132.00 128.75 131.20SUVENPHAR 475.90 482.95 475.90 479.80JTEKTINDIA 107.60 109.20 106.20 107.10TEAMLEASE 3574.90 3621.75 3568.70 3610.50THERMAX 1420.50 1424.80 1381.60 1390.30KSB 935.00 945.55 920.00 929.05SYMPHONY 1065.00 1076.45 1054.60 1058.00STARCEMENT 106.00 108.30 105.10 105.40SKFINDIA 2613.15 2641.55 2565.90 2618.75RATNAMANI 2099.00 2111.25 2012.00 2024.35TIMKEN 1449.50 1451.00 1395.70 1406.60JYOTHYLAB 152.00 155.80 152.00 154.45ERIS 708.50 716.70 694.50 696.80ENDURANCE 1590.00 1590.00 1531.30 1544.70BBTC 1332.55 1337.00 1307.05 1313.35AAVAS 2582.60 2585.85 2529.65 2546.90GLAXO 1546.35 1546.35 1506.75 1511.60GALAXYSURF 3060.05 3070.00 3029.00 3033.65SPANDANA 682.30 700.00 662.50 670.80BDL 357.45 357.45 348.60 349.70JKCEMENT 2782.00 2838.00 2782.00 2810.80HAWKINCOOK 5946.95 5989.00 5860.00 5870.35GHCL 288.95 288.95 280.45 281.95GULFOILLUB 693.00 699.35 692.45 694.45BLUESTARCO 825.00 825.95 811.05 816.60TIINDIA 1165.45 1195.60 1153.75 1169.90INDOCO 420.00 422.60 408.35 411.80AKZOINDIA 2262.30 2316.25 2235.10 2288.15SUNDRMFAST 797.60 806.80 784.50 787.60CREDITACC 750.00 754.70 728.00 730.25CHOLAHLDNG 644.65 674.00 634.60 668.55WESTLIFE 500.00 501.45 485.00 490.10BAYERCROP 5699.00 5699.00 5545.30 5552.35PGHL 5801.00 5920.00 5801.00 5819.05NILKAMAL 2243.50 2265.00 2220.65 2229.40CHALET 177.60 183.55 177.60 181.25MAHSEAMLES 310.00 317.80 310.00 314.85MAHLIFE 638.00 638.00 594.80 599.35TTKPRESTIG 8720.00 8815.00 8638.10 8744.85WABCOINDIA 6970.00 7049.00 6935.55 6951.70MASFIN 880.00 889.90 862.00 863.10POWERINDIA 1858.25 1875.00 1840.00 1844.55GDL 294.00 310.00 294.00 297.05RESPONIND 144.00 148.90 142.30 143.80SCHAEFFLER 5282.75 5378.55 5239.00 5312.75LAOPALA 282.00 282.95 272.00 272.553MINDIA 25461.00 25612.95 25200.00 25605.25CENTURYPLY 422.00 422.00 406.90 409.55NAVNETEDUL* 95.80 97.25 95.00 95.35NESCO 567.00 575.35 562.65 565.65GILLETTE 5627.90 5750.00 5627.90 5720.15IIFLWAM 1141.45 1163.15 1129.20 1152.90IIFL 259.00 259.00 249.00 252.35MAHLOG 588.60 589.15 582.45 584.70SHRIRAMCIT 1727.40 1732.45 1713.05 1724.40SHOPERSTOP 239.95 239.95 228.10 229.75MAHSCOOTER 3690.00 3764.95 3690.00 3737.30TASTYBIT 15233.35 15574.00 15181.95 15185.50VTL 1390.70 1409.40 1365.00 1373.80VSTIND 3504.65 3516.70 3474.30 3505.20ESABINDIA 1812.45 1840.75 1812.45 1822.40

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Equity benchmark Sensexended on a flat note after

scaling the 53,000-mark onTuesday as investors bookedprofits at higher levels.

A depreciating trend inthe rupee also weighed onsentiment, traders said.

After touching a lifetimeintra-day peak of 53,057.11, the30-share BSE Sensex settled14.25 points or 0.03 per centhigher at 52,588.71, marking itsthird straight session of gains.

Similarly, the broader NSENifty rose 26.25 points or 0.17per cent to close at 15,772.75.

Maruti Suzuki, which wasthe biggest laggard in Monday’ssession, topped the Sensexgainers’ chart on Tuesday witha jump of 5.25 per cent.

L&T, UltraTech Cement,TCS, Titan, Tata Steel andBajaj Auto were the other win-ners, advancing up to 2.20 percent.

On the other hand, AsianPaints, Bajaj Finance, NestleIndia, HUL, IndusInd Bankand Sun Pharma were amongthe major laggards, droppingup to 1.91 per cent.

Markets opened strong onthe back of global cues andpick-up in the pace of vacci-

nation. Tuesday’s trade sawhectic activity in stocks per-taining to the ‘unlock’ theme,said S Ranganathan, Head ofResearch at LKP Securities.

Nearing Mount 53K, how-ever, Sensex witnessed profit-taking across the board inafternoon trade, he noted.

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Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman on Tuesday

reviewed with Infosys officialsthe technical glitches that con-tinue to mar the new incometax e-filing portal.

Sitharaman, along withMinister of State for FinanceAnurag Thakur, RevenueSecretary Tarun Bajaj, CBDTChairman JagannathMohapatra and other seniorministry officials, went point bypoint on the issues facing thenew portal with officials ofInfosys - the vendor whichdeveloped the site.

While there was no officialword on what transpired at themeeting, a statement issued bythe Institute of CharteredAccountants of India (ICAI)

said “the technical glitchesshall be addressed fast”.

ICAI representativesattended the meeting onTuesday.

The portal launched onJune 7 continued to face glitch-es, including longer logging intime, inability to generate OTPfor Aadhaar validation, non-availability of ITRs for pastyears.

Several stakeholders have

submitted written inputs high-lighting the issues facing theportal as well as areas that needto be fixed.

The stakeholders have alsohighlighted weak user interface,inability to view old demand,grievances and intimationorders as the issues that need tobe fixed. The ICAI in a state-ment issued after the meetingsaid that it has been asked toprovide its continuous sup-port and inputs to CBDT andInfosys, in resolving the issues,as early as possible.

“The Income TaxDepartment said the new por-tal was aimed at making com-pliance more taxpayer-friend-ly, however the technical glitch-es shall be addressed fast, forconvenience of all,” the ICAIstatement

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Mumbai:The Indian rupeedepreciated 27 paise to close at74.37 against the US dollar onTuesday in its second straightday of losses following astronger dollar overseas andelevated crude oil prices.At theinterbank forex market, thedomestic unit opened weak at74.18 against the Americancurrency, lost further groundand finally closed at 74.37,showing a fall of 27 paise overits previous close. PTI

New Delhi:Gold in thenational capital on Tuesdaygained �45 to �46,213 per 10gram, according to HDFCSecurities.

In the previous trade, theprecious metal had closed at�46,168 per 10 gram.Silverdeclined marginally by �86 to�66,389 per kilogram from�66,475 per kilogram in theprevious trade.

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India’s crude oil output fell 6.3per cent in May after state-

owned ONGC produced near-ly a tenth less due to cyclone‘Tauktae’, government data

showed on Tuesday.Crude oil production at

2.43 million tonne in May was6.32 per cent lower than 2.6million tonne output in thesame month last year, accord-ing to the latest data released by

Ministry of Petroleum andNatural Gas. Oil and NaturalGas Corporation (ONGC), thenation’s biggest producer,reported a massive 9.63 percent drop in output at 1.5 mil-lion tonne “due to conditions

created by cyclone Tauktae”, itsaid. Severe cyclone Tauktaeslammed the western coastlast month disrupting eco-nomic activity. ONGC’s mainoil and gas producing fields arein western offshore.

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As small cap and midcapfunds continue their out-

performance amid the pan-demic, an ICICI Securities reporthas said that the category aver-age return of small cap funds

have been around 100 per centin the past one year.” Small capfunds and midcap funds con-tinue to outperform since lastone year with category averagereturn of small cap funds ataround 100 per cent in the lastone year,” it said. Further, the

credit risk funds and medium-term funds are outperforming asa stable yield environment led tohigher return in these higherYTM funds. Also, global fundshave seen underperformance inthe last one year as Indian mar-kets have seen outperformance,

noted the report. Within largecap-oriented ETFs, Nifty Next 50and Sensex Next 50 have seenoutperformance over Nifty 50ETFs since the last six months.Smart beta ETFs like NV 20/LowVol 30, Quality 30, among oth-ers have underperformed.

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Kathmandu: The political cri-sis deepened in Nepal onTuesday after the SupremeCourt quashed the appoint-ment of 20 Ministers by belea-guered Prime Minister KPSharma Oli, invalidating histwo Cabinet expansions sincethe dissolution of the House ofRepresentatives, according to amedia report.

A division bench of ChiefJustice Cholendra ShumsherRana and Justice Prakash

Kumar Dhungana said thatCabinet expansions after thedissolution of the House wereunconstitutional and hence,the Ministers cannot dischargetheir duties, a report in theKathmandu Post said.

With the order, there areonly five ministers left in Oli’sCabinet, including the PrimeMinister, it said.

The court passed thejudgement on petitions filed onJune 7 by six individuals,including senior advocateDinesh Tripathi, demandingthat the Cabinet expansions bythe caretaker Government bequashed.

Oli, 69, who is heading a

minority Government afterlosing a trust vote in the Houselast month, expanded hisCabinet on June 10 and June 4,inducting 17 ministers, amidwidespread criticism and theongoing political crisis in theHimalayan nation. Three StateMinisters were also appointed.

“The Supreme Court hasissued an interim order askingnot to allow the ministersappointed after the House dis-solution to function,” saidsenior advocate Tripathi.

The Supreme Court hascited Article 77 (3) in its rulingto quash the appointments. Itstates if the Office of the PrimeMinister falls vacant after the

Prime Minister fails to win avote of confidence or resigns,the same Council of Ministersshall continue to act untilanother Council of Ministers isconstituted, the report said.

The development comeswhen the Supreme Court ishearing the case regarding thereinstatement of the House ofRepresentatives, which wasdissolved by President BidyaDevi Bhandari on May 22 atthe recommendation of PrimeMinister Oli.

Oli last week defended hisgovernment’’s controversialdecision to dissolve the Houseof Representatives and toldthe Supreme Court that it is not

up to the judiciary to appointa premier as it cannot under-take the legislative and theexecutive functions of the state.

Nepal plunged into a polit-ical crisis on December 20 lastyear after President Bhandaridissolved the 275-memberHouse and announced freshelections on April 30 and May10 at the recommendation ofPrime Minister Oli, amidst atussle for power within the rul-ing Nepal Communist Party

In February, the SupremeCourt reinstated the dissolvedHouse of Representatives, in asetback to the embattled PrimeMinister who was preparing forsnap polls. PTI

Washington: US President JoeBiden is looking forward to ameeting with his Afghan coun-terpart Ashraf Ghani duringwhich the two leaders will dis-cuss ways to ensureAfghanistan never againbecomes a safe haven for ter-rorist groups who pose a threatto America, the White Househas said.

Biden would meet Ghani atthe White House on Friday forthe first face-to-face interactionahead of the withdrawal of theremaining US and NATOforces from the war-torn coun-try by September 11.

“The President looks for-ward to welcoming him to theWhite House for a meeting on

Friday. I expect their focus oftheir conversation will be tocontinue to discuss how we canwork together to ensure thatAfghanistan never againbecomes a safe haven for ter-rorist groups who pose a threatto the US homeland,” WhiteHouse Press Secretary Jen Psakitold reporters on Monday.

Their conversation willalso be about how they canwork together to continue toimplement humanitarian assis-tance, other assistance that theUnited States remains com-mitted to, even as the US worksto draw down its troops fromAfghanistan.

At the Pentagon, theDefense Department said that

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austinand the military leadership“are constantly looking at thepace we’’re going at, and thecapabilities we have, and thecapabilities that we’’re going toneed throughout to completethe withdrawal.

Biden has directed thePentagon to withdraw troopsfrom Afghanistan bySeptember 11 this year.

The high-level meetingbetween Biden and Ghani willtake place as the Taliban insur-gents have in recent weekscaptured dozens of new dis-tricts in Afghanistan and bothsides are said to have sufferedheavy casualties.

Jerusalem: Palestinians andJewish settlers hurled stones,chairs and fireworks at eachother overnight in a tenseJerusalem neighbourhoodwhere settler groups are try-ing to evict severa lPalestinian families, officialssaid Tuesday.

The threatened evictionsfuelled protests and clashes inthe runup to last month’’s 11-day Gaza war and pose a testfor Israel’s new governingcoalition. AP

Islamabad: Prime MinisterImran Khan has ruled outhosting American bases inPakistan for military actioninside war-torn Afghanistan,fearing it might lead to hiscountry being “targeted inrevenge attacks” by terrorists.

In an opinion piece in TheWashington Post newspaperahead of US President JoeBiden’s meeting with topAfghan leaders at the WhiteHouse later this week, Khanalso questioned the efficacy ofsuch US bases in Pakistan.

“We simply cannot affordthis. We have already paid tooheavy a price,” Khan said, amidreports that the US continuesto focus on Pakistan for a mil-itary base in the region.

Elaborating the reasons fornot giving nod the US to havebases in Pakistan, which wereearlier allowed after 9/11 tocoordinate operations inAfghanistan, the prime minis-ter said, “If Pakistan were toagree to host US bases, from

which to bomb Afghanistan,and an Afghan civil warensued, Pakistan would be tar-geted for revenge by terroristsagain.”

According to mediareports, the US used the Shamsiair base in Balochistan to carryout hundreds of drone strikessince 2008. The drone strikesfocused primarily on suspect-ed Al Qaeda operatives inmountainous tribal areas, butalso crossed the border intoAfghanistan.

“If the United States, withthe most powerful militarymachine in history, couldn’twin the war from insideAfghanistan after 20 years,how would America do it frombases in our country?” Khanasked.

Khan, however, underlinedthat Pakistan and the US havethe same interests inAfghanistan: a political settle-ment, stability, economic devel-opment and the denial of anyhaven for terrorists. PTI

Beijing: China on Tuesdaypolitely declined UN HighCommissioner for HumanRights Michelle Bachelet’’s callfor a “meaningful access” toverify the “serious” reports ofhuman rights violations in therestive region of Xinjiang, say-ing she is welcome for a“friendly visit” but not to pur-sue a probe with “presumptionof guilt”.

The US and the EU besides

other countries have accusedChina of committing a geno-cide against the minorityMuslim Uygurs in Xinjiangand called for an internationalprobe by human rights groups.

In her address to the 47thsession of the Human RightsCouncil in Geneva on Monday,Bachelet said, “I continue todiscuss with China modalitiesfor a visit, including meaning-ful access, to the Xinjiang

Uyghur Autonomous Region,and hope this can be achievedthis year, particularly as reportsof serious human rights viola-tions continue to emerge.”

China has been vehement-ly refuting allegations of intern-ing millions of Uygurs in massdetention camps, which wereofficially termed as educationcamps, in a bid to wean themaway from religious extremism.

Washington: A federal US court is all set to hold on Thursdayan in-person extradition hearing of Pakistani-origin Canadianbusinessman Tahawwur Rana, who is sought for his involvementin the 2008 Mumbai terror attack. A team of officials from Indiais believed to have arrived in the US for the proceedings that willtake place in a federal court in Los Angeles. US District CourtJudge in Los Angeles Jacqueline Chooljian in her order on April5 had moved the in-person extradition hearing of 59-year-oldRana to India from April 22 to June 24. The United State gov-ernment, in multiple submissions before the court, has made adeclaration in support of the “United States’ Surrebuttal in Supportof its Request for Certification of Extradition.” PTI

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During a UN SecurityCouncil debate on the UNAssistance Mission inAfghanistan, Jaishankar alsopressed for a permanent andcomprehensive ceasefire in thewar-torn nation to ensureimmediate reduction in vio-lence and protection of civilianlives.

“A durable peace inAfghanistan requires a genuinedouble peace. That is, peacewithin Afghanistan and peacearound Afghanistan. It requiresharmonising the interests of all,both within and around thatcountry,” he said.

“For enduring peace inAfghanistan, terrorist safehavens and sanctuaries must be

dismantled immediately andterrorist supply chains dis-rupted. There needs to be zerotolerance for terrorism in all itsforms and manifestationsincluding its cross-border one,”he said in an apparent referenceto Pakistan.

“It is equally important toensure that the territory ofAfghanistan is not used byterrorist groups to threaten orattack any other country. Thoseproviding material and finan-cial support to terrorist entitiesmust be held accountable,” headded.

Referring to last week’sreport of UN SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres onthe situation in Afghanistan,Jaishankar said the report isclear that intra-Afghan talkshave not resulted in a reduc-tion of violence inAfghanistan.

But on the contrary, vio-lence has only increased, espe-cially after May 1 as the coun-try has been witnessing tar-geted attacks on religious and

ethnic minorities, girl stu-dents, Afghan security forces,Ulemas, women occupyingpositions of responsibility,journalists, civil rights activistsand youth.

“It is therefore crucial thatthe international communityand, in particular, this Councilpresses for a permanent andcomprehensive ceasefire toensure immediate reduction inviolence and protection ofcivilian lives,” he said.

The UNSG’s report notedthat the security situation inAfghanistan “continued todeteriorate”. Between February12 and May 15, the UnitedNations recorded 6,827 secu-rity-related incidents, a 26.3per cent increase from the5,407 recorded during thesame period in 2020, it said.

India has been supportiveof all the efforts being made toaccelerate the dialoguebetween the Afghan govern-ment and the Taliban, includ-ing the intra-Afghan negotia-tions, Jaishankar said.

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She said earlier there was a suggestionthat only Dr Farooq would representPAGD in the June 24 meeting but nowthere is a consensus that all those who havebeen invited will go.

“We are not against the dialogue. Mylate father Mufti Muhammad Sayeed hasalways advocated dialogue for resolutionof issues. I believe New Delhi should havereleased all political prisoners for creatingan atmosphere for talks but it didn’t,” shesaid. “Now we will demand the release ofpolitical prisoners as there are many whoare ill in jails. We will also seek immedi-ate shifting of prisoners back to J&K jailsfrom various Indian prisons,” she said.

Another Gupkar Alliance member,Muzaffar Shah, said, “There can be nocompromise on Article 370 and 35A.”

After the Abrogation of Article 370and 35-A it is for the first time mainstreamleaders from Jammu and Kashmir havebeen invited by the Prime Minister to dis-cuss the political scenario without any pre-conditions.

Four former Chief Ministers NationalConference president Dr Farooq, his sonOmar Abdullah, senior Congress leaderGhulam Nabi Azad and PDP presidentMehbooba have been invited for the talksalong with former deputy Chief MinistersTara Chand, Muzaffar Hussain Beig, ProfNirmal Singh and Kavinder Gupta.

Supremo of the Panthers party ProfBhim Singh, JKAPNI party PresidentSyed Altaf Bukhari have also received theinvitation to attend the meeting.

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The bench also noted the submissionof Attorney General KK Venugopal, assist-ing the court in individual capacity andalso appearing for the Centre, thatUniversity Grants Commission (UGC) willissue directives to all the colleges and var-sities that admissions be made after thedeclaration of results by all the boards --CBSE, CISCE and State boards.

The top court, which dealt with all themajor objections of the interveners -- UttarPradesh Parents’ Association, and secondcompartment and private students -- saidthe scheme propounded cannot be doubt-ed on the mere apprehension of manipu-lation of marks by the CBSE schools tofavour their own students.

The bench rejected the submission ofsenior advocate Vikas Singh, appearing forUP Parents Association, Lucknow, thatoption to students for external examina-tion as given in the CBSE’s scheme shouldbe offered at the very initial stage to boththe school and the students and theresults should be declared together.

It said after hearing the views ofVenugopal, “We are of the view that thissuggestion cannot be taken forward. Thiswould result in denial of an option to the

students and also result in increasing theuncertainty until the exam of improvisa-tion is conducted and the results aredeclared”. The bench said that if studentsare given the option of internal assessmentthen as per the schemes, their results willbe declared by July 31 and thereafter theycan opt for improvisation, if their marksare less.

Therefore, the suggestions given can-not be accepted, the bench said, addingthat the boards have taken a consciousdecision to cancel the Class 12 exams,which is in larger public interest.

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The meeting assumes importancebecause a few days back Maurya had givena statement that the next Chief Ministerof UP, if the BJP comes to power, will bedecided by central leadership. This state-ment was seconded by another Maurya,Swami Prasad Maurya, who hinted thatAssam like formula can be replicated in UPwhere election is fought under one’s lead-ership and another leader becomes CM.

Sources in the BJP claimed that seniorRSS leaders brokered peace between Yogiand Maurya. “The presence of Santosh andKrishna Gopal in that lunch-on meetingis a reflection of Sangh’s efforts to bring apatch up,” he said.

It is no secret that backwards, whoform almost 32 per cent of the votes, arenot happy with Yogi style of governance.They believe that Maurya, who is backwardby caste, and was front runner for the postof Chief Minister in 2017, was sidelined inthe last four and a half years. On manyoccasions the CM even held a review of thePublic Works Department, the departmentheld by Maurya, without informing theMinister. “Look at the timing of this lunchmeeting. The media is already speculatingabout the blow hot blow cold relationbetween Yogi and Maurya and a smilingfamily picture will help in dispelling thedoubt,” the BJP leader said.

Later, the RSS leaders held a meetingwith the Chief Minister and his Cabinetcolleagues in the BJP party headquarterswhich was attended by both Deputy ChiefMinisters too.

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“This was a nudge, incentivising theStates to adopt progressive policies to availadditional funds. The results of this exer-cise are not only encouraging but also runcontrary to the notion that there are lim-ited takers for sound economic policies, hesaid.

The four reforms to which addition-al borrowings were linked (with 0.25 percent of GDP tied to each one) had twocharacteristics. Firstly, each of the reformswas linked to improving the Ease ofLiving to the public and particularly thepoor, the vulnerable, and the middleclass. Secondly, they also promoted fiscalsustainability, the Prime Minister said,

explaining reforms undertaken by theStates.

The first reform under the ‘OneNation One Ration Card’ policy requiredState Governments to ensure that allration cards in the State under the NationalFood Security Act (NFSA) were seededwith the Aadhaar number of all familymembers and that all Fair Price Shops hadElectronic Point of Sale devices.

The main benefit from this is thatmigrant workers can draw their food rationfrom anywhere in the country.

The second reform, the Prime Ministersaid aimed at improving ease of doing busi-ness, required states to ensure that renew-al of business-related licences under 7 Actsis made automatic, online and non-dis-cretionary on mere payment of fees.

Another requirement was implemen-tation of a computerised random inspec-tion system and prior notice of inspectionto reduce harassment and corruptionunder a further 12 Acts.

This reform (covering 19 laws) is ofparticular help to micro and small enter-prises, who suffer the most from the bur-den of the ‘inspector raj’.

Modi said 20 States completed thisreform and were allowed additional bor-rowing of Rs. 39,521 crore.

The third reform required states tonotify floor rates of property tax and ofwater & sewerage charges, in consonancewith stamp duty guideline values forproperty transactions and current costsrespectively, in urban areas. This wouldenable better quality of services to theurban poor and middle class, support bet-ter infrastructure and stimulate growth.

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It has also been learnt that the matterhas also reached the party’s interim pres-ident Sonia Gandhi.

What is more, the final resolution tothe prevailing crisis was also expected bythe end of this week in terms of a newPunjab Pradesh Congress Committee(PPCC) with the likely change in partyleadership in the State.

However, there is still uncertainty overthe role the high command will decide forSidhu, whose unremitting diatribe againsthis own party’s Government and nowagainst the Chief Minister is the key rea-son behind the formation of Kharge com-mittee. Sources informed The Pioneer, thatthe Chief Minister has told the panel thatSidhu’s statements are “unacceptable” andhis continuous tirade would “dent” theparty’s poll prospects besides lowering theparty cadre’s morale.

Amarinder, during the meeting, raisedstrong objection to the fact that at the timewhen all out efforts were being made toresolve all the prevailing issues that too bythe party high command, why Sidhu wasgoing ahead criticising the Chief Minister,and the party with such comments.

It has been learnt that the three-mem-ber panel and the high command were alsoof the view that Sidhu should not havemade a public statement.

“We have sought complete details ofhis statement…We have asked for the offi-cial version…he has been talking to themedia, but we have our own means ofcommunication,” said Harish Rawat afterthe meeting.

Amidst escalating tension in the Stateparty unit over a slew of issues, Khargepanel also sought some clarificationsfrom the Chief Minister over issues andproblems raised by the party leaders, pri-marily the legislators and the Ministers,during previous meetings.

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The judges asked the administrationto respond to a public interest litigationfiled by a resident of the island within twoweeks. It was while considering the PILthat the judges sought explanation fromthe administration.

The director, department of animalhusbandry, Lakshadweep Administration,by an order dated May 21 had shut downthe local dairy farms. The petitioneralleged that this was done with the ulte-rior motive of promoting dairy productsof a manufacturer from Gujarat.

The petitioner challenged the decisionsto shut down the dairy farms and changein the menu of meals served to school chil-dren “arbitrary and discriminatory” vio-lating Article 14 of the Constitution. It wasalso argued that these decisions interferewith the traditional culture and foodhabits of the people, and violated their rightto choice and preserve culture. Thus theorders were violative of right to privacy andright to life under Article 21 of theConstitution, he contented.

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The infection cases have also been ona declining trend. India on Tuesdayreported 42,640 new Covid-19 infectionsover the past 24 hours. It is after 91 daysthat the country has reported daily casesbelow 50,000. The country’s active case-load declines to 6,62,521, falling below 7lakh-mark after 79 days.

Case wise, India also reported less than50,000 new Covid-19 cases, the lowest in91 days, in the last 24 hours, according tothe Ministry data on Tuesday. With thefresh cases, the total tally of Covid-19 casesincreased to 2,99,77,861.

The death toll has climbed to 3,89,302with 1,167 daily fatalities, the lowest in 68days; active cases fell below 7 lakh after 79days, the Health Ministry said.

The country has been reporting below1 lakh Covid-19 cases for the past twoweeks. Active cases in the country havebeen falling sharply.

Covid-19 deaths and positivity ratehave also dropped. Overall, it seems thepeak of the Covid-19 second wave isbehind us. Several States/UTs like Delhi,Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu& Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra,Karnataka, Telangana have started the

process of unlocking/relaxed Covid restric-tions as cases continue to fall.

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Besides India, the Delta plus varianthas been found in the US, UK, Portugal,Switzerland, Japan, Poland, Nepal, Chinaand Russia. The Delta variant has beendetected in 80 countries, he said.According to INSACOG, the Delta plusalso shows stronger binding to receptorsof lung cells and potentially reducedmonoclonal antibody response.

It may also show resistance to existingtreatment protocol for Covid. There areconcerns over whether current vaccineswill be effective against the Delta plus.

“Any variant’s transmissibility andvirulence decides whether it is a variant ofconcern or interest. Delta variant is foundin 80 countries around the world, includ-ing India and it is a variant of concern.

“Delta plus variant has been detectedin nine countries including India. InIndia, 22 cases of Delta plus variant havebeen found and it is in the category of vari-ant of interest, (and) yet not a variant ofconcern,” Bhushan said.

He said the Ministry has released anadvisory on the kind of public healthresponse that Maharashtra, MP and Keralashould initiate to address this issue which“presently looks fairly small in terms ofnumber but we would not want this toassume significant proportions”.

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His statement came amid heightenedspeculation about a Third Front, minus theCongress and led by NCP chief SharadPawar, taking shape to take on the rulingBJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Leaders from TMC, SP, AAP, RLD andthe Left parties participated in the meet-ing under the aegis of Rashtra Manch. Themeeting was chalked out jointly by Pawarand Yashwant Sinha along with electionstrategist Prashant Kishor to explore thepossibility of a Third Front against the rul-ing BJP. Kishor, however, kept away fromthe meeting.

The Congress and the Shiv Sena werealso invited but they refused to attend. Thetwo along with the NCP share power inMaharahstra.

SP leader Ghanshyam Tiwari said,“The summary of today’s meeting is thatthere is a need for preparation of an alter-nate vision in the country that is strong toaddress issues related to the common man.Rashtra Manch has appointed YashwantSinha, who is the convenor, to set up ateam to give a strong vision on variousimportant issues. The next meeting willfocus on including more people.”

Former Congress president RahulGandhi refused to comment on the meet-ing saying today is not the time to discusspolitics. “My intention is to bring focus onCovid,” he said while releasing the party’swhite paper on Covid-19.

Among those who made it includedNational Conference (NC) leader and for-mer Jammu and Kashmir Chief MinisterOmar Abdullah, RLD president JayantChaudhary, AAP leader Sushil Gupta, Leftleaders Binoy Viswam (CPI) and NilotpalBasu (CPI-M), former Congress leaderSanjay Jha and former Janata Dal (United)leader Pavan Verma besides former JusticeAP Shah, former Rajya Sabha membersJaved Akhtar and KC Singh. The meetingcomes against the backdrop of the TMChanding over a crushing defeat to the BJPin West Bengal in the recent spate ofassembly polls and its supremo MamataBanerjee calling for all opposition partiesto unite.

While several assembly polls areexpected next year, including in key stateslike Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, efforts tobring together regional forces and othernon-BJP parties are mainly being seen asaimed at the next Lok Sabha elections in2024.

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flash sales are also being evaluated in west-ern countries because many times shellcompanies organise flash sales without anyinventory, which is against the interest ofconsumers and limits fair competition.“This is a step taken in time. These mar-kets are evolving, consumer preferences areevolving. We have to keep pace with thechanges so that consumers are not duped,”she added. The government assured thatdiscount sales will continue. “Such com-petition actually helps the business over-all to bring goods at better prices to con-sumers. We are not against that,” she said.Khare is also the chief commissioner of theCCPA.

When asked why the proposedamendments do not specify a time framefor the appointment of compliance officerand grievance redressal officer, the officialsaid: “I take note of this point. We canchange ‘as soon as possible’ to effectivefrom the date of the notification”.

Based on public comments from dif-ferent stakeholders, the proposed amend-ments to the rules will further be modi-fied, she said.

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The Board exams havenow been replaced by“well-defined objective

criteria”, according to theGovernment’s notification onthe same. The CBSE Board willfollow a 30:30:40 criteria, with30 per cent of weightage givento the Class X Board examresults, 30 per cent to Class XIfinal results, and 40 per cent tothe Class XII Pre-Board orinternal assignment results(flexibility for which has beengiven to schools). The resultsare to be announced beforeJuly 31.

What does this mean forstudents applying abroad?

With around 14 lakh stu-dents who would take ClassXII CBSE Boards, of which asignificant portion will applyabroad, there is now the pos-sibility that even more studentsmay meet the eligibility crite-ria set by foreign universities,as these will not be contingenton Board results anymore.

January 2021 has alreadyseen over 10.9 lakh Indian stu-dents enrolled in universitiesabroad — a number that wasexpected to rise this year withstudents who had deferred

their 2020 admits or wereawaiting a relaxation in pan-demic restrictions around theworld. As the scope of themarking criteria has beenincreased, there is a slightchance that universities mightintroduce a foundation courseor prerequisite programmethat applicants would need tocomplete before they can beoffered admission. The latestruling may also not do justiceto the students who are alreadyapplying for external examsand courses, having thoughtthat these may be preferred inplace of a variable predictivescore. For future test takers andaspirants, it also reiterates theimportance of academic con-sistency and continuousassessment throughout theschool year, not merely duringBoards.

What will be the impact ofthis possibility on country-spe-cific applications?

UK, Ireland, Australia:The term commencementdates for universities in the UKand Ireland are usually inSeptember-October, withmany institutions requiringacademic transcripts and final

scores before they can make anadmission offer. Now thatthere is a confirmed markingprocess and date for the releaseof results, students can breathea sigh of relief about theirapplication timeline.

The only challenge wecan see here is if universitiesrescind their conditional offersdue to the updated grades thestudent has received. Manystudents bank on the Boardfinals to showcase their acad-emic strength while notpreparing as intensively fortheir internal assessments orClass X /XI exams. Their newscores may not reflect theiracademic potential accuratelyand may not meet universitycut-offs. While the CBSEBoard has stated that thosewho are unsatisfied with thenew marking scheme can takethe Board exams later whenthe pandemic regulations ease,this is not feasible for interna-tional applicants who arealready operating on a tighttimeline.

US & Canada: As univer-sities in these regions acceptstudents with unconditionaloffers from the get go, there

may not be as much of a hic-cup, provided that the studentrelays the complexity of the sit-uation to the university.

In Canada, some univer-sities like McMaster andWaterloo are providing uncon-ditional offers on the basis oftheir predictive scores. Heretoo, the process would con-tinue as usual, and the newmarking system could still beapplied for scholarship appli-cations that depend on the stu-dent’s scores.

As a student, what can youdo at this time?

Write to the universityand the relevant authorities,explaining the new develop-ments in the Board exam sce-nario. Check with your schoolto see what marking schemethey are opting to follow interms of the 40 per cent weigh-tage for Class XII assessments.If you have been placed on awaiting list, ensure that yousend out periodic emails toregister your continued inter-est and detail all the newlyadded information or updatesin your profile and applicationstatus.

In the meantime, you cannetwork and liaise with otherinternational aspirants, uni-versity connections, and indus-try figures to ensure that youare kept in the loop about whatcould change, how others areevaluating and adapting tothe circumstances, and anyother opportunities that youcan avail of while you wait.

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Refugee Day, VIT-APSchool of Law, VIT-APUniversity, Andhra Pradesh,organised an event on June 21,2021 jointly with the Centre forStateless-ness and RefugeeStudies, Tata Institute of SocialSciences, Mumbai, along withUnited Nations HighCommissioner for Refugees,India.

The inaugural session fol-lowed by national webinar onGlobal Compact on Refugees infostering Laws, Policies andPractices vis-à-vis Protection

and care. The daylong national webi-

nar deliberated upon the impor-tance of Global Compact onRefugees and reminded the Stateparties to be bound by the oblig-ations of the sovereign States.Experts from academia, civilsociety, practitioners, refugeeorganisations and students haveparticipated in the programme.

The Global Compact onRefugees (GCR) has followingbroad four objectives: (i) easepressures on host countries; (ii)enhance refugee self-reliance;(iii) expand access to third coun-

try solutions; and (iv) supportconditions in countries of originfor return in safety and dignity,with relevant indicators frame-work. Are the objectives specifiedin GCR, recast of earlier durablesolutions? Or do they have newmeaning in text and context wasdiscussed in national webinar.

Yukiko Koyama, SeniorProtection Officer, UNHCR,India stressed upon the relevanceof Global Compact on Refugeesfor the protection of the refugeesand Stateless people across theworld.

Dr Arvind Tiwari Dean

School of Law TISS, Mumbaigave the presidential addressand Prof Samir Kumar Das,Former Vice-Chancellor ofUniversity of North Bengal deliv-ered the keynote address.

Dr Parivelan K.MChairperson of Centre forStatelessness and Refugee Studiesat TISS Mumbai explained theimportance of the occasion. DrBenarji Chakka, Dean, VSL, wel-comed the chief guest, partici-pant, students, faculty and staffand chaired the session on GlobalCompact on Refugees and Legaland Policy issues.

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The seventh International Yoga Day was observed by KIITGroup of Institutions & KISS on June 21, 2021 online. The

theme of the International Yoga Day for this year was “Yoga forFitness”. On this occasion, Dr Gaganendu Dash, Director Sports,KIIT & KISS, delivered the introduction speech and read outthe message of the founder which said: “Yoga is the ancient cus-tom of India and it is India’s best gift to the global community.It is often seen that more people are being attracted towards yogaaround the world nowadays. While, it brings wonders to our body,during the pandemic, yoga is creating miracles to mitigate men-tal stress of the people.”

Among others, Prof Hrushikesha Mohanty, VC of KIIT DU;Prof Sasmaita Samanta, Pro VC; Prof Jnyana Ranjan Mohanty,Registrar, KIIT DU; and Dr Prasanta Kumar Routray, CEO ofKISS laid focus on the advantages of various aspects of some fore-most yoga asanas.

Some staff members of KIT and KISS practiced various pos-tures of yoga under the guidance of the Yoga Coach of KIIT &KISS.

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The event saw active par-ticipation of over 600 attendeesfrom renowned businessschools, technical institutes,budding entrepreneurs and e-commerce buffs. The eventconsisted of numerous ses-sions, which allowed the atten-dees to directly interact withDroom’s Founder & CEO,Sandeep Aggarwal and otherdynamic leadership membersof the company.

Students from reputed uni-versities/colleges such as IIMAhmedabad, IIM Kozhikode,IIM Indore, IIM Kashipur andmany others, participated inthe event and learned thenuances of entrepreneurshipand the e-commerce industrythrough multiple fascinatingsessions.

It was a highly interactiveevent, filled with pep talks andbrainstorming sessions, show-casing Droom’s unicorn jour-ney highlights. Furthermore,through experience sharingsessions, Aggarwal andDroom’s leadership sharedchallenges and potential solu-tions of their professional jour-ney and advised the youngentrepreneurs to build on theirideas & passion. At the event,Aggarwal continuously empha-sised the role of new-age tech-nologies and transformationbrought by digital and mod-ernistic approach in all indus-tries and domains.

In his keynote address,Aggarwal said, “Our annualmeet-up of e-commerce dayevent is planned to ensurethat the youth are armed totake on any hurdle that comestheir way and make the mostof this growing industry. Wefeel that these budding entre-preneurs will be making his-tory in the entrepreneurshipand economic growth seg-ment of the country, and weplan to back them in all pos-sible aspects”.

In recent times, the beauty industry hasseen a significant shift with everyone

making eco-conscious choices. It is the eraof ‘end of more’ and getting back to basics.No longer one cares for beauty for the sakeof beauty, now it’s beauty for the sake ofyou. With most of us stuck at home dur-ing these unprecedented times, it’s impor-tant more than ever to spend time pam-pering your skin, consciously. From DIYmasks, tonics, and a better understandingof what works best with the increasedawareness, it will be the dawn of cleanbeauty as an answer to the future of theever-growing beauty industry. If you wantto succeed in the beauty industry take alook at the prospects of the beauty arenaand understand it better to get ahead.

Consumer choices to anticipate inthe beauty industry

The consumer today is making con-scious choices towards eco-friendly, sus-tainable, toxin, and cruelty-free products.This new guilt-free beauty norm is allabout organic and natural ingredients toleave skin healthy and hair lustrous. Cleansignifies beauty products that are free fromnasties with nothing artificial than thegoodness of nature. On the other hand, allthe ingredients are sustainably sourced tounburden the natural resources whileincorporating recycling practices to be eco-friendlier.

Knowing what the consumers demandwill help you understand their needs andtweak your products according to theirpreference, ensuring a long-lasting rela-tionship.

Here are the top trends that you needto know that will play a vital role in shap-ing the beauty landscape. If you inculcatethese within your profession, you will sure-ly be successful in building your brand andbuilding trust with your consumers.

Building trust within the communityNothing grows the community

stronger than a common interest. Anauthentic, personal review helps build trustand interest that will effectively boom theindustry as well as an increase in the con-

sumer base. This aspect will definitely playa vital role in the near future.

Be part of inclusive beauty standardsA beauty consumer always often looks

for cues from the closest to them, appro-priate to their age, skin type, age, and eth-nicity. They expect a brand to be inclusiveand cater to all colours, shapes and sizesin the most realistic ways.

Deliver hassle-free beauty at doorstepWhen the world has come to a still, we

have understood that the way we connectwith beauty has changed completely. Itsdo-it-yourself-beauty encouraged somesmall changes like — comprehensive skinand hair care regime, less use of mascara,we all became our own groomers, mani-curists, and colourists. This shift hasincreased the requirement of interactive,impressive at-home deliveries.

Be sustainable and transparentRecycling beauty products is another

trend that is reaping interest. With thispractice, you don’t have to discard yourempties that will end up going into thelandfills. Instead, it will be reused. Bybestowing an afterlife to your productempty, you will surely make a differencein the environment.

If you incorporate these practices, youwill surely be able to build an authentic,sustainable and successful brand.

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The growing relevanceof the digital world haspushed modern corpo-

rations to stay ahead of thecurve. From learning needsand habits to learning behav-iour, Modern corporates areincorporating huge changes attheir workplaces. But theonset of the pandemic madeit necessary more than ever.Corporations have had topivot to work-from-homemodels almost overnight andbecome more receptive to theuncalled change to bravethrough the pandemic and itsaftereffects. Especially in theseuncertain times, it becameimperative to invest in up-skilling of the workforce andleveraging technology-aidede-learning solutions to getthings done.

As corporates enabled e-learning during this pan-demic, employees becamemore adaptive to learningcurves. Learning and devel-opment were accessed effi-ciently, and still, effectivelymaintained productivity while

supporting social and physi-cal distancing. With e-learn-ing, the knowledge gapbetween conventionalemployees and modern work-ers blurred out and witnessedthe beginning of a new decadeof ample opportunities, thelatest technology, and fur-ther innovations.

The future of corporate e-learning holds immensepotential in reshaping thelandscape for the learningand development department.So, what does the new normalcorporate learning look like?Here are some e-learningtools that are going to makethe future bright.

Video-based learning:Learnings based on video isseen as a more interactiveexperience in the trainingprocess as they are faster andeffective in understanding thelearning. The increasing use ofsocial media and mobilelearning has also captivatedthe need for video-basedlearning tools. This buildsconnections and community

that can increase productivi-ty even when working apart.

Micro-learning: Theadoption of micro-learning isgrowing slowly. Organisationsare incorporating shortervideo formats for learning asmore social, mobile, interac-tive, and user-friendly learn-ing is demanded. The toolmakes it easier to create quick,accessible training for employ-ees right when they need it themost and encourage them toapply the learning immedi-ately.

mLearning or Mobile-based learning: Unlike con-ventional training methods,mLearning provides numer-ous benefits such as flexibili-ty, scheduling, access to morecontent, etc. Also, it offers anenhanced experience to thelearner including chat fea-tures, and audio/videos, theoption to record informa-tion, better assessments, etc.Many organisations arealready unleashing theirpotential as the mobile learn-ing industry is expected to

grow 10X in the comingtimes.

AR and VR-based learn-ing: Building real-worldopportunities; AR and VR-based learning are consid-ered as the future of corporateeLearning. With working fromhome posing difficulties inproviding on-the-job training,VR and Augmented Reality(AR) tools are deploying com-plex environments and casesto the employees to ascertaintheir real-life reactions andlearning's based on it.

Game-based learning:With more and more organ-isations working towardsbuilding an immersive learn-ing experience for theiremployees, game-based learn-ing tools are assisting them incombining businesses andtraining in an immersive way.As an alternative to the tradi-tional tool of learning, thistool increases engagementand motivation amongstemployees while also throw-ing real-world problemsthrough game designs.

AI based learning: Thesefuturistic learning tools are agreat indicator for employeeperformance analysis. AI isassisting the modern work-forces to identify skills theywant to apply at work. AI andlearning automation are help-ing corporates in deliveringperformance-driven and ROI-inclined solutions and alsoenabling them to upskill theworkforce.

Undoubtedly, the above-discussed sought-after e-learning tools are going to re-invent the whole process ofcorporate e-learning whilealso making it relevant for thenew-age workforce. Digitallearnings are here to stay andthe use of e-learning tools andadvanced technology willenable corporates to maintaina productive and healthyworkforce. Going forward,corporate learning will bemore about bringing learningto the learners than learnersto the learning.

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The dynamic start-up scene inToronto, Canada is gainingmomentum with early-stage

start-up founders. In a 2020 report byStartupBlink, Canada ranked third inthe world for COVID-19 innovation,and Toronto ranked fourth in theworld. Here are some reasons why youshould consider moving your start-upin Canada:

Tech-innovation: In a bid to laythe groundwork for a greener, strongerand more resilient economy, theCandian Government has made invest-ments in technology innovations. Inearly 2021, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister ofInnovation, Science and Industry,announced investments of $55.1 mil-lion in clean technology companiesacross Canada. This funding will sup-port small and medium-sized compa-nies that are developing innovativesolutions to help reduce greenhouse gasemissions, lessen the environmentalimpacts of conventional mining meth-ods and support more sustainableagricultural practices.

Government incentives:TheCanadian Government has specialprogrammes for entrepreneurs aroundthe world wanting to scale in the NorthAmerican market. The Start-up VisaProgram is designed for internationalentrepreneurs with businesses that areinnovative and have the potential togrow in Canada. The program offersPermanent Residence to entrepre-neurs to help support them in theirgrowth story.

Funding: The Canadian VentureCapital & Private Equity Associationboasts dozens of members and tracksdeals by region and amount. Accordingto its data, the Canadian venture cap-ital market is booming. According toKPMG’s report in April 2021,Canadian venture funding hit a recordhigh of $2.49 billion in the first quar-ter of 2021, solidifying Canada’s posi-tion as a global start-up hub.

Availability of top talent: Fueledby a strong set of universities, the stu-dent-friendly immigration policiesallow talented individuals from aroundthe world to join workforce in Canada

every year. Top technical universitieslike University of Toronto, theUniversity of BC and McGill andWaterloo offer access to workforcewithout cutthroat competitiveness ofSilicon Valley.

Proximity to software giants andfinancial institutions: FinancialInstitutions like JP Morgan, Citi,Morgan Stanley etc and softwaremoguls like Amazon, Microsoft,Facebook among others all have agrowing footprint in Canada.

Start-up culture: Successful start-ups like Slack, Shopify, FreshBooks,Tunnel Bear, Wattpad, Hootsuite andothers were founded in Canada andcontinue to thrive. The impact ofCOVID-19 has not curtailed invest-ment in Canadian technology andother high-growth sectors like ed-tech, healthcare, fintech and AI.

Diverse community: Canadaboasts one of the highest percentagesof foreign-born citizens than any otherG8 country and is home to more than14 million people with over 200 lan-guages spoken. This cultural boilingpot makes a great home for a start-upfounder and his family looking for aplace to thrive in.

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graduate diploma interna-tional scholarships. The pro-gramme is open to worldwideapplicants who want to under-take the postgraduate diplomafor the academic year 2021-2022.

Award: Each successfulscholar will receive the awardamount of $5,000 to covertheir study expenses in NewZealand.

Eligibility: Postgraduatediploma in any subject area.Applicants must be interna-tional citizens

Supporting documents:Pre-qualification degree, copiesof academic transcripts, certifi-cates of English language pro-ficiency, a statement, a copy ofpassport

Admission requirements:Applicants must have to fulfilthe entry criteria of the OtagoPolytechnic.

Language requirement:Students are expected todemonstrate adequate Englishcompetence if their schoolinghas not been performed inEnglish.

How to apply: Students arerequired to take admission inthe postgraduate diploma pro-gramme at the Otago. Afterthat, apply for the award.

Application deadline: It is

December 1, 2021.

The Vienna University ofTechnology invites applica-tions for Helmut Veith Stipendfor International FemaleStudents in Austria, 2021.

Eligibility: Internationalfemale candidates. Join a mas-ter’s degree programme in thefield of Computer Science. Musthave extensive knowledge inLogic in Computer science,formal methods and verifica-tion, the foundation of artificialintelligence, complexity theory,and computer security.

How to apply: After takingadmission, submit a PDF filethrough email to master-at-logic-cs.at. PDF file must con-tain: Cover letter describingtype of fund student is applyingfor, CV, motivation letter,reports on university examina-tions (transcripts), diplomasand/or certificates (first degree,bachelor degree, or higher). Ifthe final academic certificate isnot yet available at the time ofthe application deadline, a pre-liminary certificate (type ofdegree and the expected grad-uation date) signed andstamped by the degree-award-ing university must be provid-ed. Contact details of two ref-erees (for letters of recommen-dation). English language cer-tificate (TOEFL or similar).Copy of passport. You are askedto show your English languageability through the TOEFL orIELTS test.

Application deadline: Thelast date is November 30, 2021.

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Environment isn’t one subject but anassociate integration of many subjectsthat embrace each other, like Science

and Social Studies. It teaches us about sus-tainable way of living together with envi-ronment. Therefore the scope of environ-mental studies is very wide and covers someaspects of nearly each major discipline. Itoffers an overplus of job chance for envi-ronmental scientists, biologists, engineers,modellers and journalists.

Environmental scientists find opportu-nities in the mining industry, plant foodindustry, textile and dying industry, foodprocessing units and bio fuel industry.After holding a degree in this field you geta variability of careers to choose from andthat could be from Government, personalorganisations or from plentiful of alterna-tive industries.

One can also consider a teaching job inschools or universities. Several privateorganisations like food processing industries,refineries, distilleries and plant food indus-tries are providing various job opportuni-ties for the graduates in this field.

Aspirants doing various courses inenvironment field, can apply for a researchdegree in Government organisations. MScdegree holding candidates can find manylucrative career opportunities in India as wellas abroad in Environmental Science.

Environmental Professor: The scope of

environment studies is tremendously grow-ing in recent years with cutting-edgeresearch and continuous innovation in thefield. Researchers find EnvironmentalProfessor as a lucrative career choice. If youwant to be a part of this highly paid job ingovernment and private sectors then pur-sue a desired degree to achieve success.

Environmental Engineering: It is a jobtype in which environmentalists utilise theknowledge of engineering thus acquired insoil science, hydraulics, chemistry etc toevolve answers for ecological issues. Theyare also better equipped to address globalissues, such as ecological disparity, waterissues, climate change, and environmentalsustainability. If you choose to start yourcareer at the right place, you are bound toattain heights in your career. It offers youplenty of opportunities to work on broadrange of fields.

Environmental Biologists: They are sci-entists who study how living organismsinteract with each other, their environmentsand surroundings. In this field one can workas field technicians, laboratory technicians,researchers for private or government lab-oratories, or as independent contractors.

Environmental Scientists: They are theones who use their knowledge of natural sci-ence to protect the environment andhuman health. Environment scientists areemployed with mines, agencies involved in

cleaning up of polluted areas, dying indus-try, fertiliser industry, as advisory to poli-cymakers, or work with waste managementconcerns.

This sector provides plethora of highlypaid job opportunities. You can be employedby various Government organisations likePollution Control Board, Water Authority,Waste management and Urban Planning.

Environmental Journalist: With a lotof media attention off late to environmentconcerns, reporting on environmental prob-lems is at the rise. People search for com-plete information associated with the sur-roundings, for this reason there is anincrease in the demand for environmentaljournalists.

One may also opt for jobs in fertiliserplants and can also work in food process-ing companies as managers. Besides, regard-ing the environment issues many NGOs arecoming up to take up and work upon to findsolutions to the various Environment con-cerns. According to one’s interest, one canalso join these organisations.

There is plenty of opportunities, abun-dance of jobs and various paths a diplomaholder in environment field can choose totake. In addition, the earning hereinafteroffer a reasonable possibility to clear schol-ar mortgage debts if any and take care oftheir family in future.

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Denmark made it throughto the last 16 of Euro2020 on Monday after a

convincing 4-1 win over Russiawhich alongside Belgium’s vic-tory against Finland meant theyfinished second in Group B.

Goals from MikkelDamsgaard, Yussuf Poulsen,Andreas Christensen andJoakim Maehle gave the Danestheir fist win of the tournamenton a joyous evening at theParken Stadium inCopenhagen.

Delirious fans showeredeach other with beer asDenmark rattled in the goalsthat allowed them to end thegroup stage in party mood afterthe trauma of ChristianEriksen’s mid-match collapse intheir opening fixture against theFinns.

Denmark will face Wales inthe last 16 in Amsterdam onSaturday.

The Danes came into thematch with no points from

their first two matches butknowing a win over Russia bytwo goals or more and defeat forFinland would guarantee thempassage from the group as thesecond-placed team.

It was the Russians who hadthe first chance of the game,Aleksandr Golovin drivingtowards the goal and fashioninga great scoring opportunityonly to shoot straight at Kasper

Schmeichel from close range.

DAMSGAARD’S MOMENTThey were left to rue miss-

ing that chance six minutesbefore the break whenDamsgaard showed why hewas picked to replace Eriksen asDenmark’s playmaker.

The Sampdoria winger,who only turns 21 early nextmonth, looked like he had all

the time in the world when heunleashed a curling strike thatwhipped passed Matvei Safonovand caused an eruption of cel-ebrations in the stands.

Denmark second came inalmost comical circumstanceson the hour mark.

Poulsen could hardlybelieve his luck when DalerKuzyaev’s miscued back-passrolled straight to him in front ofthe Russian goal, leaving himthe simple task of rolling into anempty net and giving Denmarkthe two-goal lead they neededto finish second should Belgiumwin.

Soon after the alreadyrowdy fans in the Parken let outpossibly the loudest cheer ofthe night as news of RomeluLukaku’s opener againstFinland filtered through, butthey were soon dampened bythat goal being ruled out andRussia being awarded a penal-ty which was slotted home byArtem Dzyuba.

They were on their feetagain with 15 minutes remain-

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places in the Copa Americaquarter-finals, ending top ofGroup A after low-scoringmatches that left the othertwo spots up for grabs.

Argentina logged their sec-ond win in three group match-es played, beating Paraguay 1-0,with Alejandro ‘Papu’ Gomezscoring the sole goal of a lack-lustre match in the ninth minute.

The win placed LionelMessi’s La Albiceleste top ofGroup A with seven points —enough to secure its spot in thenext phase of the tournamentbeing played in empty stadiumsin coronavirus-battered Brazil.

The match marked a per-sonal milestone for Messi, whotied Javier Mascherano’s recordfor the most games played forArgentina — 147.

But it was not a night ofglory for Messi or his team,who in the second half seemedto resign themselves to defend-ing a spirited, but ultimatelyfruitless, Paraguayan attack.

In the other matchMonday, Chile drew 1-1 withUruguay to end the day withfive log points.

With four matches left toplay in Group A, Paraguay hasthree points, Uruguay one,and Bolivia zero, meaning theyall still stand a theoretical

chance to go to the quarter-finals.

Brazil has already qualifiedfrom Group B.

The build-up to Chile-Uruguay game had been over-shadowed by controversy inthe Chile camp after revela-tions the team had breachedCovid-19 protocols by bring-ing a local hairdresser into theteam hotel.

CONMEBOL said it wouldfine those involved $30,000.

However there was no signof the controversy affectingtheir play, with Vargas firingChile ahead on 26 minutesfrom a tight angle after latch-ing onto a clever pass fromEnglish-born Ben Brereton.

Uruguay grabbed a shareof the points in the second-halfwhen Suarez bundled in theball from close range during atangle with former Barcelonateam-mate Arturo Vidal at thefar post following a corner.

Manchester United strikerEdinson Cavani almostsnatched victory for Uruguayin the 85th minute, but hisglancing header flashed justwide of the post.

Vargas’s first-half strikesaw him draw level with Peru’sPaolo Guerrero on 14 goals inthe Copa America’s all-timegoalscoring rankings, threebehind the record of 17 held byBrazil’s Zizinho and Argentina’sNorberto Mendez.

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Keshav Maharaj completedjust the second hat-trick by

a South African in Test histo-ry as the Proteas completed a158-run victory over the WestIndies on the fourth day of thesecond Test of the two-matchseries at the Daren SammyCricket Ground in St Lucia onMonday night.

In the penultimate overbefore lunch the left-arm spin-ner removed Kieran Powell,Jason Holder and Joshua daSilva in successive deliveries tojoin fast bowler Geoff Griffen,who achieved the feat at Lord’sin 1960, in the record books.

Maharaj then followed upwith two of the last three to fallin the afternoon to finish withfigures of five for 36 as the WestIndies were dismissed for 165.

Following a comprehensiveinnings and 63-run victory

inside three days in the firstTest a week earlier at the samevenue, the result gave SouthAfrica the series 2-0, their firstaway series triumph since 2017in New Zealand.

“This is huge for usbecause we haven’t won on theroad for quite some time,” saidSouth African captain Dean

Elgar.“There will be teething

years as captain but this is agood, important step on theway forward.”

“As a batting unit we letourselves down but I mustreally commend the effort ofthe bowlers,” said a dejectedWindies captain Brathwaite.

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More than 60,000 fans willbe allowed to attend the

semi-finals and final of Euro2020 at Wembley with atten-dance increased to 75 percentof capacity, the BritishGovernment announced onTuesday.

The matches will see thelargest crowds assembled at asporting event in Britain inmore than 15 months, withnumbers previously strictlylimited due to the coronaviruspandemic.

All ticket holders will need

to follow a number of strictentry requirements, includ-ing having a negative Covid-19 test or proof of full vacci-nation.

“We have worked extreme-ly closely with UEFA and theFA (Football Association) toensure rigorous and tight pub-lic health measures are in placewhilst allowing more fans tosee the action live,” said cultureand sport secretary OliverDowden.

“The finals promise to bean unforgettable moment inour national recovery fromthe pandemic.”

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Munich: UEFA’s decision toblock plans by Munich to lightthe Allianz Arena in rainbowcolours for the Germany-Hungary Euro 2020 match wasmet on Tuesday with defiancein the Bavarian city whichvowed to decorate other land-marks in protest at a law passedby the Hungarian Government.

“UEFA is a politically andreligiously neutral organisa-tion,” said European football’sgoverning body in a statementahead of Wednesday’s match.

“Given the political contextof this request — a messageaimed at a decision taken by theHungarian national parliament

— UEFA must refuse.”Munich’s mayor Dieter

Reiter slammed UEFA’s decisionas ‘shameful’ and announcedplans to decorate other citylandmarks in rainbow coloursin defiance.

“I find it shameful thatUEFA forbids us to send a signfor cosmopolitanism, tolerance,

respect and solidarity with thepeople of the LGBTIQ commu-nity,” he said.

He plans to put up rain-bow-coloured flags at theMunich town hall and illumi-nate a huge wind turbine locat-ed close to the stadium, as wellas the city’s 291m-tall OlympicTower. AFP

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Mohammed Shami’s artistrywas on full display but

New Zealand still managed totake a crucial 32-run lead afterscoring 249 on the fifth day ofthe World Test Championshipfinal agianst India here onTuesday.

More than the quantum ofthe first innings lead, NewZealand will gain psychologicaladvantage as their seam attackcan go for the kill on the finalday to force a result.

New Zealand showed moreintent on keeping the scoreboardticking with Kyle Jamieson (21)and Tim Southee (30) throwingtheir bats around for usefulruns which certainly put thepressure back on India goinginto the final session of the day.

The tea break was calledafter the fall of last New Zealandwicket.

Mohammed Shami (4/76),after a mesmerising morningspell, got a couple of morewickets in the post-lunch ses-sion. He dismissed Colin deGrandhomme with a delivery

angled in and Jamieson with abouncer.

During the final half-an-hour, India’s senior-most playerIshant Sharma (3/48) deniedhalf-century to a dogged skipperKane Williamson (49) with aclassic Test match dismissal —delivery rearingup and shapingout which wasedged to ViratKohli at third slip.

Sensing that mere survivalwould spell doom, New Zealandscored 114 runs in the postlunch session even as Shami andIshant remained standout per-former bowling their hearts out.

Jamieson and Southee gotsome easy runs at the fag endwhich could prove to be usefulin the final context.

But no amount of praise isenough for Shami, who broughtIndia back in the match beforeNew Zealand could press its footon the pedal. Such was his

domination that Williamsonmanaged only seven runs in anentire session of play.

Ross Taylor (11) was dis-missed as Shami reaped therewards for finding the fullerlength which enticed the bats-man to go for a drive. ShubmanGill, at short cover, took a bril-liant diving catch.

Ishant then had the normal-ly dependable Henry Nicholls(7), who went for a ‘fishing expe-dition’ when the lanky speedsterpushed his length fuller by a yardand the edge at second slip wastaken by Rohit Sharma.

BJ Watling (1), in his lastTest, got a ball that would haveput the best in the business introuble. Shami, who by then hadstarted bossing the batsmen,bowled one that looked likeshaping in but held its line afterpitching, clipping the off-bail inthe process. From 117 for 2, NewZealand were reeling at 135 for5 in no time.

Karachi: Former captain YounisKhan on Tuesday stepped downas Pakistan’s batting coach in asurprise decision which thecricket board said was agreedupon ‘reluctantly but amicably’even though no reasons werespecified for it.

The Pakistan team is due tostart a tour of the UK from June25 to July 20 for three ODIs andthree T20Is. The team will nextgo to the West Indies from July21 to August 24 to feature in fiveT20Is and two Tests.

“Pakistan men’s nationalcricket team will travel to theUnited Kingdom without a bat-ting coach, while the decision toappoint Younis Khan’s replace-ment for the West Indies tourwill be made in due course,” aPCB statement said two daysbefore the team’s departure.

The announcement was fol-lowed by speculation that Younishimself had decided to quit theposition as he was not happywith his role and wanted greatersay in selection matters. PTI

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London: England will be with-out Chelsea duo Mason Mountand Ben Chilwell for their finalEuro 2020 Group D match onTuesday against the CzechRepublic and potentially theirlast-16 tie, after the pair wereforced to isolate following expo-sure to an opponent who hasCovid-19.

Mount and Chilwell wereseen embracing their club team-mate Billy Gilmour after Friday’s0-0 draw between England andScotland. Gilmour tested posi-tive on Monday.

England have already qual-ified ahead of the CzechRepublic’s visit to Wembley andif they beat the Czechs to win thegroup, they will play their last 16match at Wembley on June 29,giving both players a chance tofeature.

Second place in the groupwould see Southgate’s men trav-el to Copenhagen on June 28.

“We can confirm that BenChilwell and Mason Mountmust isolate up to and includingnext Monday (28 June). Thisdecision has been taken in con-sultation with Public HealthEngland,” the English FootballAssociation said in a statement.

“Chilwell and Mount willisolate and train individually inprivate areas at England’s train-ing base St George’s Park.” AFP

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ing thanks to Lukas Hradecky’sown goal which put Belgium agoal ahead and Denmark insecond place.

Denmark were now charg-ing forward and Safonov had topull of three incredible saves inquick succession beforeChristensen rammed home asuperb long-range strike in the79th minute.

As the fans, who had madea tremendous racket all game,began their celebrations formaking the knockout stage,Denmark ended the groupstage in style when Maehle slot-ted home the fourth three min-utes later to complete a perfectevening.

BELGIUM FINISH 1STIn other Group B game in

Saint Petersburg, Belgiumscored two late goals to see offa valiant Finland 2-0, pushingtheir opponents to the brink ofa group-stage exit.

Finnish goalkeeper LukasHradecky’s 74th-minute owngoal and Romelu Lukaku’s thirdstrike of the tournamentensured Roberto Martinez’sBelgium finished top of GroupB.

The world’s number-one-ranked side will face a third-placed team in the next roundon Sunday in Seville.

Finland finish third in thegroup, but appear unlikely to beone of the four best third-placed teams.

5 MAKE IT THROUGHFive teams advanced to

the round of 16 without evenplaying at the Euro 2020.

France, England, the CzechRepublic, Sweden andSwitzerland all are assured ofadvancing because they havefour points and will finish noworse than third in theirgroups.

Results in the final GroupB and C games have leftFinland and Ukraine in thirdplace in the respective stand-ings with three points. Thatmeans any team with fourpoints is guaranteed to be atleast among the four best third-place teams.

Finland and Ukraine havenot yet been eliminated. Resultsin Group D on Tuesday andGroup E on Wednesday couldleave those third-place finish-ers with only two points.

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Former Indian skipper andcommentator Anjum

Chopra was full of praise forthe Indian women’s cricketteam for the fight they showedin the one-off Test matchagainst England, which endedin a draw in Bristol onSaturday.

The Indian team whichwas playing its first red-ballgame in seven years, batted formore than 120 overs in the sec-ond innings after follow-on toavoid defeat.

Speaking to The Pioneerabout India’s show in thematch, Anjum said: “It was avery good performancebecause there were so manydebutants in the Indian playingXI. Barring Mithali (Raj) andJhulan (Goswami) everyonehas very little experience inplaying Test cricket. So it was

very nice to see the way theyhave performed.”

“I was very impressed withthe resolve and the grit anddetermination that the playerswere showing. It was a stand-out feature in that draw. Whenyou talk about Sneh Rana,Taniya Bhatia, Deepti Sharma,Shafali Verma, there was akind of very strong resolvewhich was very much visibleand that was very heartening tosee,” she added.

For Anjum, the biggestpositive was the fightback bythe young Indian side.

“The biggest gain from theTest was the resolve from theplayers, especially from theones who were making a come-back into the Indian team.Everyone knew that India isplaying without Internationalmatch practice, so that is finebut how they played was heart-ening,” she said.

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