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Today is Independence Day; sothere was bound to be a patrioticfilm that had to release. This

year, there are two. Both have a greatstory to tell, while one is based on truepremise, Shershaah is the real life storyof Captain Vikram Batra who diedfighting for the country during theKargil War in 1999. Batra, at 24, hadled one of the toughest operations inmountain warfare. He was awardedParam Vir Chakra, the country’shighest military decoration.

The Kargil War definitely leavesa bitter taste in the mouth. It was

definitely a sad day in Indian historyand the death of 527 soldiers indefending the country has not goneunnoticed.

Shershaah is definitely a tribute tothese heroic soldiers who gave uptheir lives because they loved theircountry over and above any otherrelationship. To see this kind of loveunfold on the 70 mm screen givesgoosebumps. That Batra decided todie for his country rather than let theenemy win, says a lot about him. Hiswar cry: Yeh Dil Mange More, after thecapture of Point 5140 is well-remembered.

Siddharth Malhotra essays thisrole rather well. It is not easy to playa real-life person on reel. ButMalhotra has managed to deliver it

on-spot. As Batra, he has managed todeliver the love and dedication thatthe real Batra had for his country andlady love.

It is this real love story here thatis somewhat lost in what happened toBatra. The real love story is how hiscollege love Dimple Cheema nevermarried. It is rare to see such lovethese days. As the credits roll in theend, it will give a sneak peak to wherethe heroes who survived are. It willalso tell you Cheema, now a teacher,remains committed to Batra till date.If this is not true love, one wonderswhat is!

Shershaah is definitely worth awatch— of bravery, valour, dedicationand above all love!

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War movies are alwaysinteresting to watchespecially if it involves

India and Pakistan. Of coursewhat adds to the watchingexperience is to see Pakistansoldiers run away. In that sense,Bhuj… is no different. Directedby Abhishek Dudhaiya, the heartis on the right place — honouringunsung heroes.

It is always great to see filmswhere soldiers step up to defendthe country at the cost of theirlives. The pride that one feelswatching such films is like noother. The premise of the story

tells us how people step up incrisis. Here it was the Indo-Pakwar of 1971. The IAF airstrip atBhuj was destroyed by the enemy.Around 300 local women, led byIAF squadron leader VijayKarnik, worked round the clockto reconstruct the airbase. Thishelped India win the war. Whata feat!

As for the film, Dudhaiyaended up with a cartoonishversion of this historic event.The shoddy manner in whichthe movie has been shot makesone want to cry as to why themakers even tried to approach itin the first place. One definitelyexpected more from Ajay Devgn.

Unfortunately, it is theexecution that fails here howeverclose the subject has been for thedirector. His grandmother was one of the 300 women involved

in the construction of the airstrip. Still there are so many things

that don’t make sense and areridiculous from the word go.Take an example. Sonakshi Sinhain the middle of the night with ababy in hand single handedlymanages to kill a leopard with ahasiya! We understand the needof the director to tell us that thelocal women of Bhuj were fearlessbut this is ridiculous.

There there is Sanjay Dutt.He seriously needs to step up orstep out. Here he plays Pagi. Ofcourse, he is not going to die —how can he? He just put his pagriin the mandir! But of course theArmy officer RK Nair had to die!The other starcast amble along.

Sadly, a great story lost itsway in the lacklustre treatment.

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Narendra Modi on Saturdaysaid in memory of the strugglesand sacrifices of our people, 14thAugust will be observed as“Partition HorrorsRemembrance Day”. TheCongress was quick to accuse thePrime Minister of playing “divi-sive and diversionary politics”.

“Partition’s pains can neverbe forgotten. Millions of our sis-ters and brothers were displacedand many lost their lives due tomindless hate and violence. Inmemory of the struggles andsacrifices of our people, 14thAugust will be observed asPartition Horrors RemembranceDay,” said Modi in a series oftweets. The partition of Indiainvolved the division of twoprovinces, Bengal and Punjabbased on district-wise non-Muslim or Muslim majoritiesinvolving displacement of anestimated 1.5 core people alongreligious lines. It led to unprece-dented violence and refugeecrisis in India and Pakistan.

“May the#PartitionHorrorsRemembranceDay keep reminding us of theneed to remove the poison ofsocial divisions, disharmonyand further strengthen thespirit of oneness, social har-mony and human empower-ment,” the Prime Minister saidin his tweet. The Union HomeMinistry soon issued a notifi-cation declaring that August 14will be observed as PartitionHorrors Remembrance Day.

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against Covid-19 as more than1,140 session sites remainedoperational across the Stateand each of them inoculatedabout 100 residents on an aver-age, figures compiled by thehealth department highlighted.

As per provisional datareleased by the National HealthMission (NHM), at least 97,429residents received the first doseof vaccine in Jharkhand on theday, while 33,369 beneficiariesgot their second jab. Nearly 1lakh beneficiaries inoculatedon the day fell in the agebracket of 18 years to 44 years.

Figures available on Co-Win platform highlighted thatat least 77 session sites wereoperational in Ranchi andalmost 20,000 residents werevaccinated here on the day,

while over 16,500 residentsreceived vaccine jabs across 88session sites that opened theirdoors for beneficiaries in EastSinghbhum. At least 70 sessionsites were open in Dhanbadand more than 12,000 residents

were vaccinated there, as perdata on Co-Win portal.

Jharkhand on Saturday alsodistributed at least 2,64,200doses of Covishield vaccineamong the 24 districts to con-tinue the mass immunisation

drive against Covid-19 in thetribal state, a document fromthe health department stated.

As per data with the NHM,Ranchi got the highest share of20,000 vaccine doses from thefresh lot, while Dhanbad andEast Singhbhum received17,500 doses each.

Among other districts,Bokaro was alloted 14,000doses, while 17,000 doses weregiven to Giridih and 13,000 toPalamu, highlighted NHMdata. Hazaribag was alloted12,250 doses and WastSinghbhum received 11,700doses of Covishield vaccine inthe fresh allotment.

As per Government data,over 87 lakh residents in theState have received at least thefirst dose of vaccine againstCovid-19, while more than 21lakh of them have also got theirsecond jab.

At least 34 Covid recover-

ies against 28 fresh cases ofinfection brought the activecaseload in Jharkhand to 217on Saturday, data released bythe NHM highlighted.

However, at least 10 casesagainst seven recoveries tookthe active caseload in Ranchi to98, a bulletin from NHM stat-ed. All the remaining 23 dis-tricts either reported a single-digit-spike or did not reportfresh cases of infection.

The State did not reportfresh cases of Covid-inducedMucormycosis on Saturdayand the death toll also did notrise. As per data compiled bythe Integrated DiseaseSurveillance Programme(IDSP), so far, the state hasreported 106 confirmed and 61suspected cases of black fungus.At least 31 people have died ofthe fungal infection inJharkhand and 115 patientshave recovered.

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The count of active Covidcases has almost doubled in

Ranchi in the past one weekwith a majority of patientsfound during this period beingpassengers from other states,especially Karnataka and TamilNadu, health officials said onSaturday.

“Most of the Covid patientsdetected in the past one weekwere passengers who came toRanchi from southern states,particularly Karnataka andTamil Nadu,” said Ranchi CivilSurgeon Dr. Vinod Kumar.“There were very few casesamong locals,” he added.

As per data compiled by theHealth Department, the activecaseload of Covid-19 in Ranchiwas 52 on August 8. Cut toSaturday, at least 95 peoplewere battling Coronavirus infec-tion in this district. This lastweek has seen a rise in Covidcases after a sustained drop incases over a period of severalweeks owing to strict restric-tions, health officials said.

“We have come acrosscases wherein passengers havetried to dodge Covid tests at therailway station and later testedpositive for Covid-19,” the civilsurgeon said. “I would suggestthat security be beefed uparound railway stations and busstands, so no passenger can

avoid the mandatory Covidtest,” he added.

Testing all passengers com-ing to Ranchi was important asundetected Covid patients maytransmit the infection to localsand the cases might increase,said Kumar, claiming that theeasing of restrictions in thestate did not play a major rolein the spike in Covid cases.

“If the spike was due to therelaxations provided by the gov-ernment, then more locals wouldhave tested positive. We haveonly one patient admitted in theCovid ward of Sadar Hospitaltoday. Most of the new patientsare travelers from other statesand they have been kept atCovid care centres,” said Kumar.

Ranchi has been the worst-affected Jharkhand district in

terms of caseload and fatalitysince Coronavirus made itsentry in the state back in March2020. As per government data,this district has reported 1585 ofthe 5131 casualties in Jharkhandand also accounted for 85,468 ofthe over 3.47 lakh Covid casesreported in the state so far.

Ranchi is also well-con-nected to different cities ofIndia via railways and airways,which increases the chances ofinfected people entering thedistrict and spreading the virusamong locals, officials said.

“It is important to keep acheck on the passengers com-ing to Ranchi from other states,especially the ones that havereported cases of Delta Plus, inorder to prevent a spike in caseshere,” Kumar said.

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In view of the possible thirdwave of Corona, Central

Coalfield Limited, a subsidiaryof Coal India has come forwardto cooperate with the districtadministration. Under CSR,CCL will contribute an amountof Rs 1.126 crore. In this regard,a MoU was signed betweenCCL and Ranchi DistrictAdministration on Friday.

In the presence of theRanchi Deputy Commissioner(DC) Chhavi Ranjan, Head ofDepartment and GeneralManager CSR, CCL, SS Lal anMoU was exchanged betweenLal and the Civil Surgeon,Ranchi as the representative ofthe district administration.

Under CCL CSR head, twoPSA Oxygen Generation Plantswith Oxygen Pipeline System

with 200 LPM capacity will beset up at a cost of Rs 1.126 crore.

The project is a steptowards preparedness for apossible third wave of COVID-19 and will help strengthenhealth services in the district.

On this occasion, Head of theDepartment, CSRSS Lal,Deputy Manager Civil, SakshiHoro, Assistant Manager,Shweta Hansda, AssistantManager, Uphaar Kaushal werepresent on this occasion.

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Ranchi: Following the instruc-tion of National Legal ServicesAuthority (NALSA), NationalLok Adalat will be organized byRanchi, District Legal ServicesAuthority (DLSA) onSeptember 11, for the executionof various cases in the CivilCourt Ranchi premises underthe supervision of theJharkhand State Legal ServicesAuthority (JHALSA).

Additional DistrictMagistrate (Law and Order),Sub-Divisional Officer Sadar,Project Director ITDA, DistrictLand Acquisition Officer,Special Regulation Officer werepresent in the meeting orga-nized under the chairmanshipof Deputy Commissioner (DC)cum Vice-Chairman DistrictLegal Services AuthorityRanchi, Chhavi Ranjan in

Collectorate. District TransportOfficer, District EstablishmentDeputy Collector, TreasuryOfficer, District Provident FundOfficer, Auction Letter Officer,Secretary, District Legal ServicesAuthority and other concernedofficers were present.

In the meeting, the DCdirected the execution of max-

imum cases by Lok Adalat.Taking information about pend-ing cases from the departmen-tal officers concerned, he askedthem to review and submit theupdated report in a week. Givingnecessary directions to officials,the DC talked about cooperationin the execution of as many casesas possible. PNS

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Ranchi: Director, Directorateof Urban Administration,Vijaya Jadhav on Fridaystressed on empowering poorwomen and motivating them toengage in self-employment Shesaid this during training cumcapacity building programmeorganised to CommunityResource Servicemen (CRPs)under Dindayal AntodayaYojna- National UrbanLivelihood Mission (DAY-NULM) of all urban bodiesthrough Jharkhand StateLivelihood Promotion Society(JSLPS).

Jadhav said that underNULM, CRPs of all urbanbodies of the State would begiven capacity building train-ing through JSLPS. She direct-ed that all Didi make at least 15women of their area awareand connect them with thescheme.

The Director gave certifi-cates to all the trainees and con-gratulated them for their suc-cessful completion of training

The objective of the train-ing program was to empowerpoor women belonging to self-help groups of urban areas, todevelop their intellect and todevelop mutual understandingamong them. This trainingprogram was completelyprocess based. Through this,the capacity building of thetrainees was done.

Three Days ResidentialOrientation cum ScreeningTraining Program” of CRPsunder DAY-NULM was orga-nized from Wednesday toFriday at three different placesin Ranchi under the supervi-sion of Jadhav in which a total120 trainees in groups of 40-40were successfully trained.

The beginning of the train-ing program was mainly ‘Whatis poverty? Definition of pover-ty and who is poor’ was dis-cussed with the topic. In thesecond session of the training

program, discussions were heldunder the topic ‘The maincauses of poverty, the reasonsfor increasing poverty andseven steps to remove poverty’.After this, in the last session of

the first day, the trainee wasintroduced to the group why,instructor’s case study, chartwork and exercises throughwritten, speech and educa-tional games. PNS

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Security has been increased atNaxal infested areas in view

of Independence Day celebra-tion on Sunday.

In view of rising cases ofMaoists violence in Kolhandivision, the borders with WestBengal and Odisha have beensealed.

CRPF and District Forcepersonnel are being deployedalong with Cobra Battalion.Every year on IndependenceDay, ultras proclaim black flag.This time, the border of the

Maoists areas has been a day inadvance. Security has beenbeefed up in view of the active-ness of Aseem Mandal aliasAkash squad at Patmada andGaludih areas.

Apart from this, MadanMahato’s squad is reported tobe active again in Galudih.

SSP M Tamil Vanan saidthat vigilance has beenincreased in Naxal areas. LRPhas started in all three districts.Special monitoring is beingdone on the border of theareas from where the move-ment of Naxalites is known.

Meanwhile, in the city toosecurity has been tightened inthe district in view of theIndependence Day celebra-tions on August 15. ThoughIntelligence reports have notspecified any particular threatperception, the focus this yearwill be on social distancing inview of the spread of coronavirus.

The administration is notallowing school children toparticipate at Gopal Maidan.Health Minister Banna Guptawill hoist at the National Flagat 9. 05 am.

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The Congress and Nationaist CongressParty ( NCP) are all set to field candidates

for DMC mayor post. Dhanbad Congress dis-trict president Brajendra Prasad Singh whileholding a preparatory meeting at Katras said hisparty would field candidates for both Mayor,Deputy Mayor and Ward Councillors of DMC.Initial discussions with party leaders of ward 1to 8 has been done and soon discussions withremaining wards would also be done.

Candidates for ward councillors would beselected on consensus so that our candidates win,said Singh.

As far as both top posts are concerned can-didates would be finalised by party high com-mand.

Party has started preparations for the elec-tions though final dates are yet to be notified,added Singh.

Meanwhile, the youth wing of the NCP isalso preparing to contest for mayor post and hasannounced its proposed candidate for the post.

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Six Army personnel wereawarded Shaurya Chakra,

the third highest peacetimegallantry medal on the occa-sion of Independence Day. Allthe six, including one posthu-mously, were named for theaward for their bravery in anti-terrorist operations in Jammuand Kashmir.

The recipients are MajorArun Kumar Pandey, MajorRavi Kumar Chaudhary,Captain Ashutosh Kumar(posthumously), Captain VikasKhatri, Rifleman MukeshKumar and Sepoy NeerajAhlawat.

Four Army personnel wereconferred the Bar to Senamedal while 116 others werenamed for the Sena medal onthe eve of Independence Day.

Brief narration of the actsof bravery by the ShauryaChakra awardees are as follows:

Pandey(44th battalion ofthe Rashtriya Rifles) led ananti-terror operation in a vil-lage in Jammu and Kashmir onJune 9 and 10 last year andshowed “unparalleled courage”while neutralising two hardcoreterrorists.

Chaudhary (55th battalionof the Rashtriya Rifles) “exhib-ited exceptional resoluteness”and fortitude in leading foursuccessful operations by hisunit resulting in the eliminationof 13 terrorists, the Army said.An operation led by him onJune 3 last year was specifical-ly mentioned in his citation.

Captain Kumar (MadrasRegiment) has been conferredthe Shaurya Chakra awardposthumously for displaying“indomitable courage” and pro-fessional acumen of “highestorder” in saving the life of oneof his fellow soldier and elim-inating a hardcore terrorist inan operation on November 8last year.

Captain Vikas Khatri( 16thbattalion of the RashtriyaRifles) was deployed as part ofa special task of “area domina-tion patrol” in Jammu and

Kashmir under the challengingterrain at the height of 12,000feet on the nights of December12 and 13 last year. He elimi-nated one foreign terroristdespite heavy retaliation, show-ing raw courage and bravery.

Rifleman MukeshKumar(ninth battalion of the

Rashtriya Rifles) physicallywrestled with a terrorist, whowas shocked by the ferocity ofthe assault in spite of sustain-ing a “gunshot wound” andneutralised the terrorist frompoint-blank range ensuring noinjuries to own troops or thecivilians, the Army said.

Sepoy Ahlawat has beenconferred the Shaurya Chakraaward for showing “exception-al gallantry beyond the call ofduty and nerves of steel” dur-ing an anti-terror operation inJammu and Kashmir on June20 last year, the Army said. OnePakistani terrorist was elimi-nated in the operation, it said.

The Commanding Officerof a Su-30 MKI Squadron sinceJanuary 2020, Group CaptainPerminder Antil of the IAF, wasawarded the Shaurya Chakrafor his superior piloting skillsensuring safety of a nationalasset worth hundreds of croresand precluded possible damageto life and property on groundin case of an ejection from hisaircraft on September 21 lastyear due to black-out condi-tions.

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Centre on Saturday announcedgallantry medals to 20 Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)troopers for valiant display ofbravery during stand-offs andclashes with the Chinese PLAin Galwan in eastern Ladakhregion last year. The militariesof the two countries wereengaged in bitter clashes ineastern Ladakh in May-June.

Among the 23 gallantrymedals for the ITBP, twenty arefor operations that took placeduring the May-June 2020clashes with the ChinesePeople’s Liberation Army(PLA) in Ladakh where theCentral paramilitary isdeployed shoulder-to-shoul-der with the Army as part of itsprimary mandate to guard the3,488-km-long Line of ActualControl (LAC) in the treach-erous Himalayan region.

Out of the 20, eight per-sonnel have been awarded thePresident’s Medal for Gallantry

(PMG) for their gallant act,meticulous planning and tac-tical insightfulness and fordefending the motherland inGalwan Nalla on June 15, theITBP said in a statement.

Six ITBP personnel havebeen awarded with the PMGfor gallant action during violentface off on May 18 in theFinger IV area while the rest sixhave been decorated with thesame medal for their gallantaction near Hot Springs inLadakh on the same day, thestatement said.

“This is the highest num-ber of gallantry medals award-ed to the force for the braveryof its men in border face offs,skirmishes and border guard-ing duties,” ITBP spokespersonVivek Kumar Pandey said.

In eastern Ladakh, theITBP troops not only effectivelyused shields to protect them-selves but also respondedfiercely to advancing ChinesePLA troops and brought thesituation under control during“fierce” face offs and skir-mishes, the statement said.

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Four personnel of the CISFhave been awarded the

police medal for gallantry forintercepting and killing threeterrorists who were trying tosneak into the Kashmir valleyby hiding inside a truck.

Constables Rahul Kumar,Muttamala Ravi, MutumBikramjit Singh and AnilLakra displayed courage andengaged the terrorists in a gunbattle on January 31 last yearat the Ban Toll plaza inNagrota, Jammu.

The CISF personnel havealso been awarded with otherprestigious medals likePresident’s Police Medal forDistinguished Service andPolice Medal for MeritoriousService for their outstandingservices in various fields.

As per a CISF Pressrelease, the recipients ofPresident’s Police Medal forDistinguished Service areJagbir Singh, InspectorGeneral, R. Balashanmugam,Asstt. Commandant andMohan Singh Thapa. Therecipients of Police Medal for

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The President’s FireService Medal forDistinguished and MeritoriousService are JaydeepChoudhury, K Ajayan, SureshKumar, Sudhir Kumar,Mukesh Chand and BaljitSingh.

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The Jammu & KashmirPolice on Saturday claimed

to have busted a terror moduleof Jaish-e-Mohammad byarresting four terrorists andtheir associates ahead of the75th Independence day cele-brations in Jammu.

According to police, theJeM terrorists were directed tocollect arms (to be dropped bydrones) and supply the same toactive terrorists in Kashmirvalley, plant a vehicle basedIED in Jammu and conductrecee of vital targets in otherparts of the country.

According to a policespokesman, first of all JeMterrorist Muntazir Manzoor@Saifulla S/O Manzoor AhmedBhat R/O Prichoo Pulwama,was arrested in this chain.Police recovered one pistol,one magazine, eight live roundsand two Chinese handgrenades from his custody.According to police, a truckused for transporting weaponsto the Kashmir valley was alsoseized.

Following his interroga-tion police claimed to havearrested three more JeM ter-rorists

They have been identifiedas Ijahar khan @ Sonu KhanS/O Intejar Khan R/O MirdanMohalla Kandala Shamli(UP),Touseef Ahmed Shah @Showket & Adnan S/O GhulamMohd Shah R/O Jeff, Shopianand Jahangir Ahmed Bhat S/OMusthaq Ahmed Bhat R/OBandzoo Pulwama.

According to police, IjaharKhan was directed by aPakistan based JeM comman-der Shahid to collect weaponsfrom near Amritsar whichwould be dropped by a drone.

Ijahar Khan ,during his inter-rogation also revealed that hewas directed by the JeM to con-duct recee of the Panipat Oilrefinery. He claimed after com-pleting the task he sharedvideos with him.He alsoclaimed he was tasked to con-duct recee of Ram Temple inAyodhya.Before he could dothe same he was arrested by theJ&K police.

According to police, “tocreate a safe hideout of terror-ists in Jammu and trigger moreIED blasts Touseef was taskedby Jaish commander Shahidand another Jaish terrorist bythe name Abrar in Pakistan totake up an accommodation in

Jammu which he did”. He wasthen asked to procure a secondhand motorcycle for causing anIED blast at Jammu.

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task. According to police,“Jahangir Ahmed Bhat S/OMusthaq Ahmed Bhat R/OBandzoo Pulwam, a fruit mer-chant from Kashmir was con-stantly in touch with Shahid ofJaish in Pakistan and had intro-duced Ijahgar Khan to him.

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According to police, theJeM terrorists were directed tocollect arms (to be dropped bydrones) and supply the same toactive terrorists in Kashmirvalley, plant a vehicle basedIED in Jammu and conductrecee of vital targets in otherparts of the country.

According to a policespokesman, first of all JeMterrorist Muntazir Manzoor@Saifulla S/O Manzoor AhmedBhat R/O Prichoo Pulwama,was arrested in this chain.Police recovered one pistol,one magazine, eight live roundsand two Chinese handgrenades from his custody.According to police, a truckused for transporting weaponsto the Kashmir valley was alsoseized.

Following his interroga-tion police claimed to havearrested three more JeM ter-rorists

They have been identifiedas Ijahar khan @ Sonu KhanS/O Intejar Khan R/O MirdanMohalla Kandala Shamli(UP),Touseef Ahmed Shah @Showket & Adnan S/O Ghulam

Mohd Shah R/O Jeff, Shopianand Jahangir Ahmed Bhat S/OMusthaq Ahmed Bhat R/OBandzoo Pulwama.

According to police, IjaharKhan was directed by aPakistan based JeM comman-der Shahid to collect weaponsfrom near Amritsar whichwould be dropped by a drone.

Ijahar Khan ,during his inter-rogation also revealed that hewas directed by the JeM to con-duct recee of the Panipat Oilrefinery. He claimed after com-pleting the task he sharedvideos with him.He alsoclaimed he was tasked to con-duct recee of Ram Temple inAyodhya.Before he could do

the same he was arrested by theJ&K police.

According to police, "tocreate a safe hideout of terror-ists in Jammu and trigger moreIED blasts Touseef was taskedby Jaish commander Shahidand another Jaish terrorist bythe name Abrar in Pakistan totake up an accommodation in

Jammu which he did". He wasthen asked to procure a secondhand motorcycle for causing anIED blast at Jammu.

The IED for this purposewould be dropped by a drone.Touseef was arrested before hecould complete thistask.

According to police,

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United Nations: PrimeMinister Narendra Modi isexpected to address the annu-al high-level UN GeneralAssembly session in person onSeptember 25, according to aprovisional list of speakersreleased by the UN.

The list and schedule aresubject to changes and thepresence of world leaders in theUnited Nations headquartershere for the high-level annualsession will significantlydepend on the global Covid-19situation, particularly as thehighly transmissible Delta vari-ant rages in the US as well asacross other UN membernations.

According to the first pro-visional list of speakers for theGeneral Debate at the 76th ses-sion of the UN GeneralAssembly, Modi is scheduled tospeak at the high-level sessionon the morning of September25, the first leader listed for theday.

In 2019, Modi travelled toNew York for the high-levelUN General Assembly session.

Last year, world leaders,including Modi, submitted pre-recorded video statements forthe United Nations GeneralAssembly session in September,as heads of state and govern-ment could not physicallyattend the annual gathering dueto the coronavirus pandemic.

It was the first time in theUN's 75-year history that thehigh-level session had gonevirtual. This year too, theoption has been kept open forthe world leaders to send inpre-recorded statements sincethe pandemic continues torage across several nationsaround the world. PTI

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helicopter which had crashedinto the Ranjit Sagar Dam onAugust 3 has intensified withthe Submarine Rescue Unit ofIndian Navy being flown in toexplore digitally located wreck-age at depth of approximately80 - 100 metres.

According to a defencespokesman in Jammu, "IndianAir Force has lifted the heavyequipment fromVisakhapatnam to Pathankotfor speeding up the underwa-ter search".

The Defence spokesmansaid, "Indian Army and allother agencies to include

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Amid increasing incidents ofterrorist violence across

Jammu & Kashmir the Armiesof the two neighbouring coun-tries — India and Pakistan onSaturday resorted to 'sweetdiplomacy' to mark Pakistan’sIndependence Day.

According to a defencespokesman, the Indian army onthe occasion of Pakistan'sIndependence day exchangedsweets and compliments withthe Pakistan Army troops inPoonch and Mendhar. A sim-ilar ceremony was organised atTeethwal crossing point inNorth Kashmir's Kupwara dis-trict

Indian Army and PakistanArmy exchanged sweets on

the latter’s I-Day at the Line ofControl at Poonch-RawalakotCrossing Point and Mendhar-Hotspring Crossing Point inPoonch district on Wednesday,”

said a defencespokesperson.

A senior Border SecurityForce (BSF) officer said thatsweets and pleasantries were

exchanged between BSF andPak Rangers on four meetingpoints along the 200 km longinternational border in Jammuregion on the occasion ofPakistan’s I-Day.

“Today, Pak Rangers andBSF exchanged sweets on theoccasion of Pakistan’sIndependence Day at variousborder outposts along the 200km long Indo-Pak interna-tional border from Kathua toAKhnoor,” said BSF Jammufrontier DIG SPS Sandhu.

Meanwhile, security forceshave been directed to remain ina state of high alert across theUnion Territory of Jammu andKashmir following attemptsbeing made by the terror out-fits to disturb peace in theregion during theIndependence day celebrations.

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Union Health MinisterMansukh Mandaviya will

lead a delegation of experts toKerala on August 16 to takestock of the situation arising outof the unabated hike in Covid-19 cases in the State.

As the countdown forOnam, the major festival ofKerala has begun, a grave situ-ation is prevailing all over theState with the transmission ofpandemic refusing to show anysign of abatement. On Saturday,the State diagnosed 19,451 newpatients afflicted with Covid-19,according to Kerala’s Minister ofHealth Veena George. Onamfalls on August 21 and Keralais in the midst of high pitchshopping activities. All mallsand markets are filled withshoppers who have given safe-ty measures a go for the timebeing.

The Test Positivity Ratecontinues to be higher at 13.97per cent. The death till date onaccount of the pandemicreached 18, 499 on Saturday as105 patients succumbed toCovid-19 during the last 24hours.

The central team thattoured the State as part of factfinding came across disturbingtrends, across union minister ofstate for foreign affairs VMuraleedharan. “The UnionHealth Minister’s visit to Keralais to help the State Governmentto chalk out ways and means totake on the transmission ofCovid-19,” said Muraleedharan.

According to sources inKerala Government MedicalOfficers Association, theCentral team came across flawsin the State’s Covid-19 protocol.“They pointed out may inade-quacies in quarantine, homecare and contact tracing,” said asenior physician.

The Kerala GovernmentMedical Officers Association(KGMOA), an umbrella orga-nization of all Governmentphysicians in the State and theKerala branch of the IndianMedical Association are on awarpath with the KeralaGovernment over a number ofissues.

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New Delhi: Opposition leaderson Saturday latched on toCommerce Minister PiyushGoyal's criticism of businesspractices of Indian industry toattack the Government withsome also taking a swipe atIndia Inc for backing the rul-ing dispensation, saying "youreap what you sow".

Senior Congress leaderJairam Ramesh said he wasflabbergasted at Goyal's"unprovoked attacks" on Indianindustry.

"First, he ensured RajyaSabha did not function at all,and now this bizarre tirade! Hecouldn't be speaking without

official sanction, could he?"Ramesh said in a tweet.Speaking at a CII plenary ses-sion, Goyal reportedly assert-ed that the business practices ofIndian industry went againstnational interests. However,sources close to the ministersaid his comments were repre-sented out of context.

"The thrust of his interac-tion was on national interest.The minister's heart-felt appealmust be viewed in its entiretyand not singled out for slander,"a source close to himsaid.Congress spokespersonJaiveer Shergill claimed that bymaking this statement, Goyal

has mocked Prime MinisterNarendra Modi's slogan “Easeof doing business in India”.

Senior Congress leaderManish Tewari said, "You reapwhat you sow INDIA INC.""Bombay Club 1.0 createdNDA/BJP Govt between 2012-2014. Threw collective weightbehind one individual and noteven one party. And now@PiyushGoyal terms themanti-national," the formerUnion Minister tweeted.Takingto Twitter, AAP leader RaghavChadha said, "Dear CorporateIndia, Whatsoever a mansoweth, that shall he also reap.Best wishes. PNS

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The last-minute decision to send 3,000 U.S. Troops toAfghanistan to help partially evacuate the U.S.

Embassy is calling into question whether President JoeBiden will meet his August 31 deadline for fully with-drawing combat forces.

The vanguard of a Marine contingent arrived inKabul, the capital, on Friday, and most of the rest of the3,000 are due by Sunday.

Officials have stressed that the newly arriving troops'mission is limited to assisting the airlift of embassy per-sonnel and Afghan allies, and they expect to completeit by month's end. But they might have to stay longer ifthe embassy is threatened by a Taliban takeover of Kabulby then.

On Saturday, the Taliban seized two more provincesand approached the outskirts of Kabul while also launch-ing a multi-pronged assault on a major northern citydefended by former warlords, Afghan officials said.

“Clearly from their actions, it appears as if they aretrying to get Kabul isolated,” Pentagon spokesman JohnKirby said, referring to the Taliban's speedy and efficienttakedown of major provincial capitals this past week.

Biden had given the Pentagon until August 31 tocomplete the withdrawal of the 2,500 to 3,000 troops thatwere in Afghanistan when he announced in April thathe was ending U.S. Involvement in the war.

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Afghan President Ashraf Ghanisays he will not give up the

“achievements” of the last 20 yearsand that “consultations” are under-way.

He delivered a brief and vaguetelevised address on Saturday, hisfirst public appearance in days fol-lowing a major Taliban advance.

The insurgents have seizedmost of northern, western andsouthern Afghanistan and are bat-tling Government forces some 11kilometers (7 miles) south of Kabul.

The United States is set to with-draw its last forces by Aug. 31, rais-ing questions about the survival ofGhani's Western-backed govern-ment.

The U.S. Invaded Afghanistanafter the 9/11 attacks nearly 20years ago.

The Taliban seized a provincejust south of Afghanistan's capitaland launched a multi-prongedassault early Saturday on a majorcity in the north defended by pow-erful former warlords, Afghan offi-cials said.

The insurgents have capturedmuch of northern, western and

southern Afghanistan in a break-neck offensive less than threeweeks before the United States is setto withdraw its last troops, raisingfears of a full militant takeover oranother Afghan civil war.

The Taliban captured all ofLogar and detained its provincialofficials, Hoda Ahmadi, a law-maker from the province, saidSaturday. She said the Taliban havereached the Char Asyab district,just 11 kilometers (7 miles) southof the capital, Kabul.

The Taliban also attacked thenorthern city of Mazar-e-Shariffrom several directions, setting offheavy fighting on its outskirts,according to Munir AhmadFarhad, a spokesman for theprovincial governor.

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Karachi: Pakistan on Saturdayreopened the Chaman-SpinBoldak border crossing withAfghanistan, after two roundsof successful negotiations withthe Taliban on repatriatingstranded individuals, amidstrapid territorial gains by themilitant group in the war-rav-aged neighbouring country.

In a blitz assault onThursday and Friday, theTaliban gained control ofAfghanistan's main cities Heratand Kandahar, encirclingnational capital Kabul.

The insurgents are believedto control two-thirds of thecountry's territory and over halfof the 34 provincial capitals.

Speaking to the media, aPakistani government officialin Chaman said the Talibanand Pakistani authorities decid-ed to open the economically-critical border sector after suc-

cessful negotiations on Friday.He said two rounds of

negotiations were held betweenthe two sides.

The Taliban officials arenow running affairs of theAfghan border district of Spin-Boldak, which the group cap-tured last month. All taxesand toll fees in the province arebeing collected by the Taliban.

The Chaman-Spin Boldakcrossing generates huge rev-enue for both sides. Nearly1,000 trucks carrying com-mercial goods cross the bordereach day during times of peace.

The Chaman-Spin Boldakborder was closed last weekafter the Taliban took controlof Spin Boldak.

The Taliban then demand-ed the Pakistani authorities toallow Afghans stranded inPakistan to cross theborder. PTI

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Afirefighting plane that wasrented from Russia crashed

Saturday in a mountainousarea in southern Turkey,Turkish State media reported.

Anadolu news agency saidthe plane was linked to theGeneral Directory of Forestry.Search and rescue teams weresent to the area inKahramanmaras.

Private news agency DHAsaid the plane crashed as it wasfighting a forest fire in theinland Bertiz region. It said thecause of the crash had not yetbeen identified.

Kahramanmaras governorOmer Faruk Coskun toldAnadolu that a wildfire hadbegun after lightning strucktrees.

“We had dispatched a planeto the area but we lost com-munication with the plane awhile ago and it crashed. Thesituation is very new. We dis-patched many units to the areawhere the plane crashed,” hesaid.

Colombo: Sri Lanka will import100 metric tonnes of medicalgrade oxygen from India nextweek to meet the shortage ofsupply in hospitals, the HealthMinister said on Saturday asWHO experts warned that thenumber of Covid-19 cases anddeaths in the country wouldspike by mid-October.

Health Minister PavithraWanniarachchi told reportersthat the government will ordermedical grade oxygen fromIndia to meet the current needswith the rapid increase of Covid-19 cases. She said 100 metrictonnes of oxygen would beimported from India next weekand more orders would beplaced depending on the need.

A group of Sri Lankanhealth experts, who make theWHO independent expertgroup, has said that patientsdependent on oxygen signifi-cantly increased from 528 lastweek to 646 by August 12.

“If this trend continues,there could be a serious short-age of oxygen supply and inter-ruption of care," she said.Thehealth experts have warned thatthe number of Covid-19 caseswould increase up to 6,000 perday up to mid September anddeaths would peak to 220 perday by mid October. PTI

Albuquerque (US): It's only afew days into the new schoolyear, but New Mexico's largestdistrict is reeling from a shoot-ing that left one student deadand landed another in custody.

The gunfire at WashingtonMiddle School during thelunch hour Friday marked thesecond shooting inAlbuquerque in less than 24hours. With the city on pace toshatter its homicide record thisyear, top state officials said theywere heartbroken by what theydescribed as a scourge.

“These tragedies shouldnever occur. That they do tellsus there is more work to bedone,” Governor MichelleLujan Grisham said.

Albuquerque PoliceDeputy Commander KyleHartsock described the shoot-ing as an isolated incidentbetween two students whowere believed to be about 13years old. He said a schoolresource officer ran towardthe two boys after gunfireerupted and prevented anyother violence while tending tothe boy who was shot.

Investigators were tryingto determine how the studentobtained the gun and what mayhave prompted the shooting,Hartsock said. Other studentswere being interviewed asdetectives tried to piece togeth-er what happened, he said.AP

Sydney: Australia's most pop-ulous state reported a dailyrecord 466 new locally acquiredCovid-19 infections onSaturday and increased finesfor breaches of pandemicrestrictions.

The previous record tally inNew South Wales, home toSydney, was 390 reported onFriday.

Four people had diedovernight, bringing the deathtoll in New South Wales froman outbreak of the delta variantfirst detected in Sydney inmid-June to 42.

New South Wales PremierGladys Berejiklian said fines forbreaking pandemic rules suchas breaching quarantine ordershad been increased from 1,000Australian dollars to AU$5,000.

Sydney residents will berestricted to within 5 kilome-ters (3 miles) of home, half thedistance they were previouslyallowed.

The government laterannounced that all of NewSouth Wales would be lockeddown from 5 p.M. Until Aug.22.

Deputy Premier JohnBarilaro tweeted that the stay-at-home orders were to mini-mize movement and protectregional communities fromthe evolving Covid-19 situationin Sydney. PTI

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Aday after India dismissed aslies Pakistan's allegations of

Indian intelligence support toa deadly bus bombing in therestive Pakistani province ofKhyber Pakhtunkhwa thatkilled 13 people, includingnine Chinese nationals,Islamabad on Saturday said itwill not accept New Delhi'sdenial of its role in the attack.

At least 13 people, includ-ing nine Chinese engineers,were killed in the suicide attackin Dasu area of Upper Kohistandistrict last month following which Pakistan hadordered an investigation into it.

Addressing a press con-ference here on the completionof the probe, Pakistan ForeignMinister Shah MahmoodQureshi accused India'sResearch and Analysis Wing(R&AW) and Afghanistan'sNational Directorate ofSecurity (NDS) of carryingout the attack.

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Asian Americans grew fasterthan any other minority

group in the US in the lastdecade, rising to 24 million in2020, according to the firstdetailed data released fromlast year''s census.

The growth in theAmerican population over thelast decade was driven entire-ly by minority communities,according to the new datareleased on Thursday by the USCensus Bureau.

The number of whiteAmericans declined for thefirst time since the nation'sfounding in 1776.

Non-Hispanic whites makeup just under 58 per cent of theAmerican population, the firsttime since the census was firstconducted that they have fall-en under the 60 per cent mark.

By contrast, the 2000 cen-sus showed non-Hispanicwhites made up just over 69 percent of the population, and 63.7per cent in 2010.

Istanbul: The death toll fromsevere floods and mudslides incoastal Turkey has climbed toat least 44, the country's emer-gency and disaster agency saidSaturday.

Torrential rains thatpounded the Black Seaprovinces of Bartin, Kastamonuand Sinop on Wednesdaycaused flooding that demol-ished homes, severed at leastfive bridges, swept away carsand rendered numerous roadsunpassable.

Turkish disaster agencyAFAD said 36 people werekilled in Kastamonu, seven inSinop and one in Bartin.

Nine people remained hos-pitalized in Sinop, according tothe agency. But some residentsin Kastamonu said on socialmedia that there are hundredsmore missing, a statement alsomade by an opposition law-maker.

Rescue teams and snifferdogs continued the painstakingtask of trying to locate resi-dents. AFAD said 5,188 per-sonnel, 27 rescue dogs, 19 heli-copters and two search planeswere at the disaster spots.

About 2,250 people wereevacuated across the regionbefore, during and after thefloods, some lifted fromrooftops by helicopters. AP

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The UK on Saturday reducedthe cost of Covid-19 tests

for international travellers fromAmber list countries like Indiafrom 88 pounds to 68 pounds(USD 122 to USD 94), aftermany representations over thehigh charges of the mandato-ry testing.

Passengers returning fromGreen list countries or Amberlist destinations like India, ifthey are fully vaccinated, willnow pay 20 pounds (USD 27)less per Polymerase ChainReaction (PCR) test.

The test must be taken onor before day two after the trav-eller arrives in England.

People who have not hadboth doses of the coronavirusvaccine and are returning fromAmber list countries like Indiawill also see the price of the twotests they need fall from 170pounds to 136 pounds (USD235 to USD 188). The testsmust be taken on days two andeight of their arrival fromabroad.

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New Delhi: Apparel exports tomajor markets such as the US,Europe, UK, Saudi Arabia,Canada, Japan, and Australiaare recording healthy growthand the sector would con-tribute significantly in achiev-ing India’s $400 billion exportstarget for the current fiscal year,AEPC said on Saturday.

Apparel Export PromotionCouncil (AEPC) Chairman ASakthivel said apparel exportsare picking up in every westernmarket. “Exports to the USincreased by 22 per cent dur-ing January-May 2021 as com-pared to the same period of

previous year,” he said whileaddressing the members of thecouncil at the 42nd AnnualGeneral Meeting.

The chairman said he hasrepresented the governmentfor fast- tracking free tradepacts with the European Union,UK, US, Australia and Canada.

“India has been facing dutydisadvantages against com-petitors in the major overseasdestination. India’s exports facea duty disadvantage of 9.6 percent for exports to EU vis-a-visexports from other countrieslike Bangladesh, Cambodia,Turkey, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

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Union Minister R K Singhinteracted with investors

from the US and invited them toexplore investment opportunitiesin the renewable energy andpower sector in India.

The Power and New &Renewable Energy Minister alsohighlighted India’s achievementin the sector during his virtualmeeting with the business com-munity.

“The meeting provided anopportunity to the businesscommunity to interact withUnion Minister on variousaspects the renewable energy andpower sector in India and theassociated opportunities availableto the global investors,” a PowerMinistry statement said.

Singh’s meeting with themembers of the US IndiaBusiness Council (USIBC) hada theme “Advancing cleaner,more sustainable and affordableenergy to mitigate climatechange and power India’s eco-nomic growth”. More than 50industry leaders cutting acrossvarious sectors of the economyincluding information technol-ogy, infrastructure developers,renewable energy producers,banking, aviation participated inthe event, the statement said.

During the meeting, Singhapprised the business leaders thatIndia is on track to achieve theset renewable energy target of450 GW by 2030 and said thatelectricity distribution reforms

and the promotion of openaccess to the electricity grid willenhance the consumption ofrenewable energy.

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US consumer sentiment inearly August fell to its

lowest level in a decade amidconcerns over the spread of theDelta Covid-19 variant, accord-ing to a survey released by theUniversity of Michigan.

The preliminary consumersentiment index fell to 70.2 inthe first half of August from afinal reading of 81.2 in July,marking the lowest level since2011, the survey released onFriday revealed.

“Consumers reported astunning loss of confidence inthe first half of August,”Richard Curtin, chief econo-mist for the survey, said in astatement, adding the losseswere widespread acrossincome, age, and educationsubgroups and observed acrossall regions. “There is littledoubt that the pandemic’sresurgence due to the Deltavariant has been met with amixture of reason and emotion.

“Consumers have correct-ly reasoned that the economy’sperformance will be dimin-ished over the next several

months, but the extraordinarysurge in negative economicassessments also reflects anemotional response, mainlyfrom dashed hopes that thepandemic would soon end,” headded.

The fall in consumer sen-timent came as Covid-19 cases,hospitalisations and deaths arerising at a record level acrossthe country.

According to the Centersfor Disease Control andPrevention (CDC), the seven-day average of new Covid-19cases in the US have reachedabout 113,000 per day, a near-ly 24 per cent increase from theprevious week.

Hospital admissions rose31 per cent, to an average of9,700 hospitalisations per day,and fatalities increased to 452per day, a 22 per cent spike fromthe prior seven-day period. Asof Saturday morning, the US’overall caseload and death tollstood at 36,592,398 and 621,005,respectively, according to theJohns Hopkins University. Thetwo tallies are the highest in theworld, making the US the worst-hit country.

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Healthy macro-economicdata as well as hopes of a

faster economic revival liftedIndia’s key equity marketindices’ on Friday.

Initially, the two key equi-ty indices had a gap up openingand continued to move higher,however, a late session bout ofprofit booking capped gains.

Accordingly, the S&P BSESensex breached the 55,487.79points mark, while NSENifty50 reached 16,543.60points. Globally, Asian stockmarkets traded mostly lower astraders remained concernedover the recent regulatorycrackdown in China and thealarming spread of the highlycontagious coronavirus vari-ants in the region.

However, European stocksscaled new highs hitting arecord high for the tenthstraight session and were ontrack for their fourth consecu-tive week of gains on optimismover a strong earnings seasonand steady recovery from thepandemic-led economic down-turn.

On the domestic front,Capital Goods, Telecom and ITsectors rose the most, whileRealty and Healthcare fell.

Consequently, the S&PBSE Sensex closed the day’strade at 55,437.29, higher by593.31 points or 1.08 per centfrom its previous close.

The NSE Nifty50 ended thesession at 16,529.10, higher by

164.70 points or 1.01 per centfrom its previous close.

“Encouraging data pointsovernight helped as did thehopes of an early relaxations ofthe balance Covid curbs,”Deepak Jasani, Head of RetailResearch, HDFC Securities.

“Late profit-taking led toadvance decline ratio turningnegative from positive early inthe day. The broader indicesunderperformed the largerpeers with both the S&P BSEMidCap and S&P BSESmallCap almost unchanged.”

According to SiddharthaKhemka, Head - RetailResearch, Motilal OswalFinancial Services: “On domes-tic front, CPI-based retail infla-tion came in at a three-monthlow of 5.6 per cent YoY in July2021, as against 6.7 per centYoY in July 2020. With July2021 inflation data, CPI-basedinflation is likely to averagearound 5.5 per cent in FY22,moderately lower than 5.7 percent YoY forecast by the RBI.”

“This would be within

RBI’s comfort zone and hencemore likely that RBI wouldmaintain its monetary policystance in the near term aswell.”

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Celebrating the ‘spirit ofnationalism’, the company onthe eve of Independence Dayalso dedicated 15 mobilebowsers and 9 jerry can facil-ities in different corners of theEastern Region.

The initiative of door-to-door delivery through mobile dispensers has resulted in commissioning of1588 FuelKarts and 129FuelEnts within a span of about two years across theindustry.

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Not too long after the deadly second waveof the COVID-19 pandemic ended, theforthcoming third wave became the

talk of the town. Several States started preppingup for the equally dangerous, if not more, thirdwave, which is expected to hit children big time.

However, a matter of discussion is whatpreparation are we even doing, for who knewthe first wave will result in COVID pneumo-nia in the patients and that the second willbecome synonymous to oxygen scarcity. Hence,the question remains what does the third wavehold for us, especially the children?

Will there be neurological problems or awhole lot of digestive issues or a totally new setof complications and symptoms? While this maysound too unrealistic, given the continuousmutations of the virus, it can happen soonerthan expected.

But, Dr Sumit Gupta, Senior Consultant,Paediatrics, Columbia Asia Hospital, Ghaziabad,has a different take and believes that in the com-ing days, COVID-19 may start behaving like anyother common cold virus.

“In the next few days, COVID-19 maybehave like other common cold coronavirusesand mostly young children may be at risk whohave not yet been vaccinated or exposed to thevirus. Also, there is no concrete evidence yetshowing that children with the COVID-19infection will have severe disease in the thirdwave. However, in the absence of a vaccine forchildren, we can protect them by makingthem aware and asking them to follow allCOVID appropriate behaviour. But, this does-n’t mean that the rest of us can put our guardsdown,” says Gupta.

The infection, he says, may happen in theform of cold. “Even now, we have been seeingabout 15 kids every week with symptoms likecold, fever or chills, shortness of breath andbody or muscle ache,” says Gupta.

Dr Shuchin Bajaj, Founder-Director, UjalaCygnus Group of Hospitals, says that the ris-ing number of cases in Kerala continue to be astress for all of us because that points towardsa trend that the third wave may hit us towardsthe end of August or early September as it hasbeen feared.

“Our only hope is that with the high zeropositivity rate already present in North India,and with the increasing pace of vaccinations, wemay be spared of a lethal or a very high mor-bidity wave and we may see a mild wave like inthe UK. However, we may see a variety of symp-toms including gastrointestinal, conjunctivitis,headache, fatigue, loss of appetite, in additionto the symptoms that we have seen in the pre-vious year. So we should be careful and weshould watch out for any such symptoms, espe-cially symptoms like diarrhoea and vomiting,”says Bajaj.

Dr Abha, Paediatrician, Sharda Hospital,says that fortunately, children have been rela-tively less affected so far due to several fac-tors. The most important being the less expres-sion of specific receptors to which this virusbinds to the host and also their immune sys-tem. “A very small percentage of infected chil-dren may develop moderate to severe diseasein the third wave. But, if there is a massiveincrease in the overall numbers of infected indi-

viduals, a larger number of children withmoderate to severe disease may be seen. It isvery difficult to comment on which presenta-tions would predominate in children becauseso far we have seen variable symptoms and com-plications in children that include the involve-ment of gastrointestinal, respiratory and neu-rological system,” she says.

Another entity known as MultisystemInflammatory Syndrome ( MIS-C) may also beseen due to immune dysregulation and someof these cases may also turn severe. “However,the silver lining is that it’s a treatable conditionwith a good outcome, if diagnosed early,”Abha tells you.

Dr Nidhi Rawal, Senior Consultant,Paediatric Gastroenterologist, MadhukarRainbow Children’s Hospital, agrees with Abhaand says that so far, a lot of varied symptomswere seen in children.

“They can range from mild flu-like illnesswith fever and cough to severe complicationssuch as MISC. So we as doctors and healthcareproviders will have to have a low threshold toevaluate and treat a child for COVID-19, if stan-dardised treatment approach fails,” says Rawal.

She adds that children tend to have moredigestive tract symptoms such as abdominalpain, bloating, nausea and diarrhoea. “GIsymptoms are seen in 20-30 per cent of childrenand are usually mild but can persist for aboutthree months after the patient has tested neg-ative for COVID. It usually requires support-ive care with some diet modification and useof probiotics and most kids recover well,” opinesRawal.

In such a scenario, where doctors believe itis not incorrect to look for other treatments ifstandardised approach fails in the third wave,is it right to say we are all-prepared?

“All efforts are underway to make sure thatour children are and will be safe. All major hos-pitals in the country are putting in place therequired infrastructure in case the third waveaffects children drastically. We have also set uppaediatric intensive care units (PICUs) at ourhospital,” Gupta tells you.

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the experience of handling the first and secondwave will help the healthcare providers fight thevirus more effectively.

“We all know that the second wave poseda big challenge and there were many fatalitiesdue to the deadly infection as authoritiesfailed to prepare adequately. We cannot predictthe challenges or consequences of third waveclearly but strong measures and the experienceof first and second waves will help in avoidingfatalities,” says Gupta.

Dr Garima, Paediatrician, Sharda Hospital,too believes that the doctors, during the first andsecond wave, has learned a lot about COVID-19 illness from our shared experiences inadult medicine. And as for children, variousguidelines on the management of COVID arein place.

“The paediatricians have been sensitizedand trained on COVID management. We areready for a more significant number ofpatients seeking consultations and will work

towards educating the parents regarding the ill-ness and warning signs on different platforms,and also arranging more COVID wards for chil-dren with more special wards such as high andintensive care units (ICU). high dependencyunits (HDU),” she tells you.

Rawal says that while the previous experi-ences of understanding the effects of COVID-19 virus on our body as well as new devisedtreatment plans will definitely help us manag-

ing children and adults in the third wave, butwe have to understand that children are affect-ed differently than adults. “Hence, they mightrequire a completely different treatment andguidelines,” opines Rawal.

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a new variant that could be worse than Deltacan emerge. In such a scenario, there is no vac-cine for children yet and this sets alarm bellsringing over their safety during the upcomingthird wave. A lot of schools are reopening asparents and the Government are also concernedabout the future of children and there is no solidproof, yet that third wave will specifically tar-get children. The lack of vaccine is, of course,a big challenge and schools and colleges canavoid the risk by opting for online classes andask students to follow all COVID protocols incase they need to come in person. Children inprimary classes should ideally stay at home,advises Gupta.

Bajaj agrees with Gupta and mentions thatlack of vaccine for children is a red alert. “It goeswithout saying that vaccine stays important forboth adults and children. The reason why manyexperts are predicting that the third wave willhit children is because of the lack of a vaccinefor them. The complications might differ,there can be several mutations, but we need tohave a vaccine for the younger population assoon as possible. Several companies, includingPfizer, are conducting vaccine trials on childrenbelow the age of 12 and the data will be avail-able by the end of this year, most probably. So,until then, we would like to again emphasize onthe fact that masks, sanitiser and social dis-tancing are here to stay, at least for this year, tosay the least. Whether the cases are low or high,make sure that you and your children are fol-lowing COVID appropriate behaviour at alltimes. With that being said, vaccine or no vac-cine, don’t put your guards down already,” heconcludes.

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qualification status in the nearfuture as the sport’s global gov-erning body contemplatesrestricting the quota places toonly the world championshipsand continental tournaments.

The International ShootingSport Federation (ISSF) hasbeen planning to introducechanges to its Olympic qualifi-cation criteria for a while nowand the system used for therecently-concluded TokyoGames is unlikely to be there forthe 2024 Paris edition.

This was confirmed by aninsider in the National RifleAssociation of India (NRAI),which has in its possession theISSF documents related to theproposed changes in the quali-fication criteria for the multi-sporting showpiece.

“The ISSF has sent its mate-rial to the federations regardingthe changes. So, once the pro-posal is approved, the worldcups will not carry quota places,which will be there in only theworld championships and thecontinental tournaments,” hesaid. In the wake of the Indianshooters’ disappointing outing atthe Tokyo Olympics despiteentering the Games with a fewmedal contenders, a school ofthought has emerged that theytook part in too many ISSFworld cups, thereby exposingthemselves to the participantsfrom other nations ahead oftheir biggest challenge.

“It was felt by many that theIndian shooters competed in toomany world cups. Now if thereis a change, they can choosewhich world cup to participatein and which to skip. That waythey will not end up participat-ing in every tournament,” thesource said.

Also the existing MQS(Minimum Qualification Score)could be replaced by MOQS(Minimum OlympicQualification Score), and ifNRAI sources are to believed, ashooter will need to reach a min-imum score set by the ISSF to goto the Olympics. The MQS foreach shooting event are desig-nated by the ISSF. The qualifi-cation system for shooting isbased on quota places.

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son who is not to be messed with. When you dothese kind of roles, you walk a razor’s edge. Itis a comedy and I play the villain. I had toensure that I played the goon to the hilt andwithout missing out on the laughter quotient.�What made you do this comedy film?

When I was approached for the role, Iloved the narration of my character. Pinky

bhaiyya is the bad guy here. However, itis a comedy film. I loved how I had tomaintain a straight face and yet be funny

and be villainous at the same time.Comedy is a tough genre to tackle.You can really mess it up. We havedone our best to make sure that theaudience had plenty of laughs.Then there is my look. I had to puton a lot of weight for this role. �Has the quintessential villain hasvanished?

Yes, definitely. But there is a rea-son for this. Today, the quintessential

villain no longer exits in real life too.Gone are the days when the villain was

totally black. Back then, the hero waswhite and the villain was all black. He hadno shades of grey. Today, the society has

changed. The villains of today have shadesto them. Just like in real life, even a normal

person has shades to his personality. People areno longer absolutely good. Films are a reflectionof what the society is. If the yesteryear villain hasdisappeared how can our films continue to have

such a character. If you see, today’s films have shades; each char-acter is neither good nor bad. The bad man has disappeared.However, there is an exception. Sooryavanshi, sees the return ofthe bad man. �You play Usmani in this movie. What’s your character like?

Like I said, the movie sees the return of the bad man. Peoplehave been waiting for his return for a long time. I play the mainopposition to Akshay Kumar’s character in the film here. Thenthere is Ajay Devgn, Ranveer Singh and Katrina Kaif. It will beinteresting film to watch. He doesn’t see that what he is doingis wrong. For him, what he is doing is correct. �Has it been tough to reinvent yourself?

Every actor who wants to work in the industry has to changewith times. If you can’t change, you won’t last for very long here.Change is inevitable. Everybody has to change. You can’t get stuckin the past and lament about what had happened. You have livein the present and and see how you can remain relevant in thefuture. This is true not just for people who work in the indus-try. �How tough has it been to work with all the COVID restric-tions?

It has been extremely difficult. The last one-and-a-half-yearshas been tough for all why just actors. The whole idea of main-taining social distancing and staying safe has take a toll of every-one of us. It has not been easy. There is fear and anxiety amongthe people the minute they step out. It is difficult to survive underthis new normal. But humans are resilient.�Do you think releasing movies on the digital platform is nowthe normal?

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project?I play Sakshi and second

lead who comes into Agastya’slife. She comes in when he isgoing through some toughtimes. She helps him throughthis phase in his life. Sakshi isa very grounded character anddeals with each situation witha lot of maturity. This is whatattracted me to this role. She isso different from what hasbeen seen or heard about. Itwas nice to step into her shoesand walk with her; it is freshtake on a role. I also took it upbecause I thought it would bea good challenge to essay hergiven the fact that she goesthrough so many things in herlife. �How did acting happen?

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I love editing and being anactor. Right now, I am con-centrating on acting. I canonly hope that I get somegood work.� What are your futureplans?

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Vitamin C than anorange”, says Diwekar inher latest audiobook.Cashew Apple is a sum-mer conical fruit thatmakes for the “perfecttangy drink with just asingle bite”. Being rich incarbohydrates, this fruithas excellent antitumorand antimicrobial prop-erties - that's exactly whyeven the global foodgiants are interested in it.

Loved by everyone,this staple dessert usuallyfinds its way to every cel-ebration due to itsgooey goodness.Overloaded withflavours, Gajarhalwa is never reallyconsidered good for one’shealth. But Diwekar busts

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halwa, that is cookedwith love, warmthand joy in yourkitchen can be

and in fact, always is100 times healthier thancereals”.

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answer to flaky scalps, scaly skin and ailing the body torestore moisture; Amla, “The Wonder fruit” is a greatfix to several issues. Its iron, magnesium and vitamin Bsoothes the nerves during winter and is key to counterageing with its phytonutrients, antioxidants and diges-tive enzymes. The king of winter fights infections,and even headaches or dizziness with its highlevels of vitamin C. Amla can be consumedas is or had as chyavanprash, pick-le, sharbat or even murabba.

This is a winter delicacy, with essential fattyacids to “add char chand on to the celebra-tions” yet can be eaten year round. Til isthe richest non-dairy source of calciumand is also rich in essential fats, copper,magnesium and zinc. A perfect answer for

painful joints with its unique taste and nutrition-al properties. That’s exactly why food con-

taining til should be consumed. It has allit takes to keep your bones, tendons,joints and ligaments well-nourished,

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Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane tofind form soon, saying both thebatsmen are world-class playersand experienced enough toknow what it takes to returnamong runs.

The experienced duo ofPujara and Test vice-captainRahane have not been at theirbest of late, averaging in the 20sthis year.

While Pujara made 4, 12 notout and 9 in the three innings inEngland so far, Rahane managedjust 5 and 1 in the two inningshe got to play.

“Pujara and Ajinkya havedone the job for India manytimes we were in trouble. Theyare world-class and experiencedplayers so they know how to

come out of a couple of inningsthey haven’t scored runs,” Rahulsaid at the press conferenceafter the second day’s play.

“You have also to realisethey are playing in tough con-ditions. In English conditionsbatting is always going to bechallenging, you are going to getgood balls. You can’t go out thereand score runs in every innings,but if you get a start you makeit count.”

Rahul (129) scored his fifthTest century at the hallowedLord’s on Thursday. But headmitted he was frustrated atmissing out on a bigger hundredand taking the visitors to a big-ger total.

He could add only two runsto his Thursday’s score beforewalking back to the dressingroom amid a big applause.Having played a fine knock,

Rahul’s was a soft dismissal as hedrove straight to the cover field-er in only the day’s seconddelivery, bowled by OllieRobinson.

“I get frustrated when I amset and then get out. Obviouslythis (Friday) morning was real-ly crucial for us having put 270on board last night to go outthere and get 70-80 runs in thefirst session which would haveset things up really nicely. Sothat’s what I was looking to do,”Rahul said.

“I was feeling good andfresh, so wanted to go out thereand being set batting at 127, Icould have played with a lot offreedom. Really frustrated thatI missed out on a juicy half vol-ley. Just drove a half volleystraight into covers hands. I waslooking to build on my inningsand get a bigger score.”

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England captain Joe Rootwas hardly perturbed dur-ing his undefeated knock

of 132 but the Indian paceattack fared marginally better tomake a few breakthroughsbefore the hosts reached 314 for5 at tea on the third day of thesecond Test.

With India struggling to dis-lodge Root, who has so farfaced 237 balls, England have agood chance of surpassing thevisitors’ first-innings score of364, which will certainly givethem a lot of psychologicaladvantage going into the last twodays.

As many as 97 and 98 runswere scored in first two sessions,signalling the plight of theIndian bowling attack, primar-ily due to Root, who has tweakedhis stance with lesser triggermovement of back-foot.

Along with Root, Moeen Ali(20 batting off 31 balls) was atthe crease after MohammedSiraj (3/71 in 23 overs) andIshant Sharma (1/60 in 20 overs)did well enough to remove theset Jonny Bairstow (57 off 107balls) and Jos Buttler (23 off 42balls).

However, Siraj was guilty ofbowling too many short andwide balls on the day and aplethora of boundaries camequickly.

Root, a nemesis of Indianbowlers since his internationaldebut, was once again at his bestas he attacked them from thestart of the third day and foundan able ally in Bairstow, as theyadded 121 runs for the fourthwicket before Siraj hurried thelater with a short ball.

Old warhorse Ishant, then,bowled a fuller delivery thatnipped back in to breach

Buttler’s defence.In between, Root ran a

quick single to score his 22ndTest hundred and also becamethe first England captain toscore five centuries in a season.

Save Jasprit Bumrah (0/62in 20 overs), none of the Indianpacers looked like troubling theduo, who scored boundaries atwill to release the pressure in thefirst hour itself.

Root started the first sessionwith a square drive off Siraj toreach his third successive fiftyplus score in the series.

Shami (1/87 in 21 overs)and Siraj during the first half anhour gave away at least six

boundaries as skipper ViratKohli had no clue about settingthe field for the bad deliveriesthat the normally dependableShami and the inexperiencedSiraj bowled.

There were only two maid-en overs in that first hour of playin which 54 runs were scoredand suddenly India, who wereleading the charge on the firsttwo days, went onto the back-foot.

Bumrah bowled hardlengths with the old ball whileIshant, who was not played inthe first Test, drifted too muchon the pads, and Shami provid-ed a lot of width for both Root

like a champagne bottle corkduring the 69th over, bowled byMohammed Shami.

It was after the fourth deliv-ery of Shami's over that Rahul,who was fielding near theboundary ropes, was targeted.

Indian skipper Virat Kohliwasn't pleased with the incidentand instructed Rahul to throwit outside.

The game was briefly halt-ed as Indian players were seentalking to umpires MichaelGough and Richard Illingworth.

It couldn't be confirmedwhether it was only a way ofdrawing the umpire's attention

or a formal com-plaint.

In another inci-dent which manyIndian players

found amusing, a burly Englishfan, with 'Jarvo' printed on theback of his jersey, entered thefield of play.

When the security officialsintercepted, he pointed at theBCCI logo on his jersey andmade gestures of trying to set thefield, much to the amusement ofMohammed Siraj, who had ahearty laugh.

The security did get hold ofhim before he was ejected out ofthe venue. It couldn't be con-firmed whether he was in aninebriated state considering beeris allowed in English andAustralian grounds.

Earlier this year, the Indianteam faced racist taunts duringits tour of Australia where Sirajwas abused, leading to the evic-tion of some spectators from theSydney Cricket Ground duringthe New Year's Eve.

The Indian team had lodgedan official complaint with matchreferee David Boon back then,who had given them the optionto walk out.

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Ravindra Jadeja bowled 14overs but there was not muchhelp for him too.

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India's first-innings centurion KL Rahul from the spectatorsstand during the pre-lunch ses-sion while an English fandressed in India kit entered thefield before tea, in two separateincidents on the third day of thesecond Test.

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ences, what could have been the commonalitiesamong Manmohan Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru,Indira Gandhi, and Narendra Modi that madethem retain premiership for more than a term.How androgynous Indira would have to be tolead a male dominant team and principally apatriarchal nation? Besides many other reasons,was the attributive inconsistency between IndiaShining Campaign and Atal Bihari Vajpayee’spersonality an inconspicuous cause of electoralfailure? Why have we forgotten Narsimha Raodespite the radical changes brought to the econ-omy by his government?

According to the late Fred I. Greenstein,professor of Politics at Princeton University andan American political scientist, known for hiswork on political leadership and the U.S. presi-dency, “political institutions and processes oper-ate through human agency. The personalities(therefore) of political actors impinge on politi-cal affairs in countless ways, often with greatconsequences.”. Correspondingly, numerousresearches in past have accurately forecastedeffects of leadership styles of various politicalheads on national policy outcomes and choices.For example, in his seminal research paper titled,“Things I’ve learned about personality fromstudying political leaders at a distance on Iraq”,D. G. Winter predicted that Bush, in foreignaffairs, would endorse more aggressive policies,depending particularly on whether the “hawk”or “dove” faction of his foreign policy advisorscame to have the most influence over him.Validly enough, US invaded Iraq.

Beyond US, predictive studies have exam-ined leadership styles of Mugabe (Zimbabwe)and Saddam Hussain (Iraq) and forecastedvalidly the policy outcomes. An interestinginstance emerged about how despotic leader-ship births or forces sycophantism among fol-lowers when Mugabe was declared as the win-ner of a lottery run by state-operated bank thatwas open for all its investors for maintainingcertain daily balance. Fallot Chawawa, Masterof Ceremonies, could hardly “believe his eyes”.Why then no such studies are found in Indiancontext?

Several challenges lay ahead such investiga-tion. Political leaders are physically and sociallydistant and often unavailable for controlled labo-ratory-based experimental research. It will besurprising to see Modi or Rahul Gandhiresponding to a questionnaire sent by a psychol-ogist without being scrutinised by their vigilantteam. Besides such bold and investigative schol-arly endeavour requires an unbiased theoreticalapparatus that can produce valid and reliableoutcomes.

In my book, Narcissus or Machiavelli?:Learning Leadership from Indian Prime Ministers,as the name suggests I used Narcissism andMachiavellism as personality traits that are twouniversal representatives of political leadershipstyles. Several political leaders ranging fromBarrack Obama to Vladimir Putin have been putthrough these theoretical apparatuses to predictsome very valuable and reliable results. Since,

political leaders are usually unavailable asrespondents for direct experimental researches,in the book, I adopted historiometric approach.Historiometric analysis utilises historiophoty(the representation of history and our thoughtabout it in visual images and filmic discourse)and historiography (the representation of historyin verbal images and written discourse) to exam-ine the truth and accuracy presumed to governthe professional (or unprofessional social mediagoverned) practice of psychographic profiling ofthe subjects in question.

Yet another startling and unresolvable chal-lenge lies before such scholarly industry. Theseinvestigations oftentimes produce results andreveal insights which may pose existential threatto certain type of political leaders. It may lessenthe ignorance of masses whose unawareness orinnocence frequently cause escalations of unde-serving (sometimes despotic) individuals toleadership positions. Prospective and contempo-rary leaders with despotic or demagogic tenden-cies will naturally distaste and possibly disruptsuch investigations. Unlike Nasr Abu Zeid andMehtab Channa, not many of us are prepared toundergo insufferable exiles and labeled as apos-tate. This systematic risk in such intellectual pur-suit is unavoidable and yet extremely meaningfulspecially in liberal democracy such as India.Notwithstanding corollary threats, in my book, Iinvestigate leadership styles of imminent Indianprime ministers and showcase policy implica-tions. The study used comparable parameters toreveal several interesting findings. Indicative feware provided below.

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serves as a clear indicator of several leadershipbehaviors and subsequent policy decisions.While, Singh’s ascent to the position of primeminister was not a result of his personal aspira-tions or ambitions but a matter of appointment,Rajiv Gandhi ascension was not a very dissimilarcase. Both remained aloof and dispassionateabout their positions, and uniquely and surpris-ingly took intermittent vacations. While RajivGandhi towards the end of his tenure showedconfidence and boldness and utilised his posi-tion to advance some of the most radical deci-sions with far reaching consequences,Manmohan Singh remained resolutely reluctant.

Whereas, Rao represents the Machiavellianability to harbor the hope for positions of powerbut never come out as explicitly ambitious, sev-eral instances indicate Nehru’s, Indira’s Desai’sand Modi’s political ambitions. Political ambi-tions have invariably prompted the leaders toadapt desperate measures to sustain the positionleading to power indigestion.

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guides often shape their protégé’s public percep-tion. The Protégé frequently therefore chosetheir mentors prudently.

Some of the most prominent mentor-protegerelationships are Gandhi-Nehru, Nehru-Shastri,Nehru-Indira, Ramanand Tirtha-Rao, andVajpayee-many. The relationship betweenVajpayee-RSS and Modi-RSS can also be seenwithin a similar framework. The Nehru-Gandhi

duo largely had a symbiotic relationship,although there were rare yet circumstantial andideological dissents. Nonetheless, duo neveropenly showed signs of departure publicly.

Similarly, while during his lifetime Nehruacted fervently as mentor to Shastri, Shastri laterdeparted from several Nehruvian principles andestablished his individual identity. Nehru-Indiramentorship relation was too not an exceptionwhere protégé systematically and evidentlydeparted from ideology of the mentor to morecontemporarily suited doctrines. Such departurewas never so evident or vivid in case ofVajpayee-RSS and Modi-RSS duos. Both toyedwith association smartly and contextually. While,there are signs of submission to senior leader-ship in Manmohan Singh-Sonia Gandhi duo, wemay not confidently see it as mentor-protégérelationship due to demonstrable ideologicallystark differences.

���������������������Singh’s accidental escalation had brought a

naïve smile on several laymen’s faces in India. Asa person of outstanding scholarly record, strongacademic inclination, and international reputa-tion, he was supposed to bring great manychanges in right directions. Although, his timidi-ty and reluctance were widely acknowledged,history had shown a transition of a GungiGudiya into fervent Durga. Homeostasisnonetheless won over the situational require-ments for agility.

Prime Ministers can be compared by observ-ing whether the decision making is done unilat-erally, whether delegation of duties takes placeappropriately, and whether the general style ofadministration is collaborative or individualistic.While, consensus is key to administrative post ofPrime Minister, individualism has found its waysin several key decisions that were taken withminimal consent and amid vehement dissents.Nehru administrative style showcases most con-fusing evidences. His style evolved quickly tosuit the contemporary needs. Till his principalfreedom-fighter associates were active or alive,Nehru was seen as collaborative leader. However,later he pushed several decisions and agendas(Hindu code bill, foreign relations, Panchsheelagreement to quote a few) independently againstpopular vote. Such evolutionary instances can beseen in administrative styles of Indira and Rajivas well where a movement from collectivism toindividualism is apparent. Contradictorily, suchinstances are rarely observed in Vajpayee, Rao,Singh, or Shastri. Possibly, limited time in posi-tion, tumultuous coalitions, political and eco-nomic instability never allowed them to flextheir muscle.

Modi enjoys clear majority and can chosehis cabinet ministers more independently thanany of his past parallels. It is currently compli-cated to decipher if the consenting and sub-missive ministers are chosen a priori or he hasgodly charisma and prudence to gain consen-sus easily. We shall see with time.

����������������Nationalism is an essential feeling which

psychologically as well as sociologically consol-idates the collective identity of a nation.National leaders strive and consciously espousean identity as isomorphic as possible to nation-al identity. At artefact level, it will look terriblyawkward if a female national leader is found inmodern midi gown in public or on a foreignofficial visit (or rarely a male political and vil-lage leader —Pradhan — is seen in formaloffice blazer and tie). Therefore, national lead-ers’ speeches, attire, and even body gestures arecarefully trained to match national (current ordesired) identity. Sometimes, to an astronomi-cal extent, fashion experts advise on wearingself-named embroidered suit on foreign visits.These are just trivial examples to showcase theimportance of trained isomorphic identity ofnation and its leaders.

Nehru, Indira, and Modi are the three primeministers that stand out in this aspect. Their suc-cesses and failures are considered, either throughpropaganda or genuine efforts, as the successesor failures of the nation (and vice versa).Whether a victory and medal in Olympic or

nation’s successful military expedition, all areattributed to these Prime Ministers.

While such isomorphic identity is often use-ful for nation’s image, nationalism must not bemisconstrued for ultra-nationalism that fascistleaders may deploy as a tool to divide the com-munity into us and them, although the national-ism differs from ultra-nationalism only by a thinline. India’s integration has been attributed tosystematic and constitutional tolerance, unlikesome of our instable neighbours who changedtheir political philosophy and suffered dreadfulcivil rights and degenerative dissolutions.

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Chachaship, Indira was branded Durga andPriyadarshini, Modi has Moditva andModinomics, others seem to have largelymissed the articulate symbolisation.

Nehru’s exterior in the visual archives isthat of a sharply dressed, well-groomed man,though his choice of clothes evolved acrosstime from freedom struggler to PrimeMinister. The same can be said for Indira andModi who have been seen to constantly fash-ioning themselves according to the context.Modi changed his appearance and grew a flow-ing beard and long hair during the Kolkataassembly election campaign. Popular mediacompared it with Rabindranath Tagore.

While to some extent (not equivalent toprevious three) Rajiv Gandhi and Vajpayeeboth contextualised exteriors, despite the mostpivotal and unprecedented changes that werebrought in his regime, Rao did not claim com-plete credit or capitalise on it to enhance hisindividual public stature.

Freedom is a tricky concept as it allows theentity to sway and be swayed. While, Nehruand Shastri believed in freedom of the pressand were not vehemently opposed to criticismfrom the media, allegedly Indira, Modi, andRajiv went out of their way to curb the pressautonomy. Satirical jokes and cartoons werebanned during emergency and now they areexcessively scrutinised by government agenciesand vigilantes. Rao and Singh also never tookany aggressive stand against media and oftenself-admittedly chose not to react to personalcritical attacks and preferred to stay silent.

To sum it up, liberal democracy as a mostinclusive form of governance requires leaderswith democratic ideals such as collectivism,tolerance, and integrity. While democracyallows for fair selection or rejection of leaders,often it births disbalances created by craftscoundrels and spell-binders with superiorquality who deploy demagogic and propagan-dist approaches to curry favours. Therefore,whereas the deviations are possible, the consti-tutional checks are implanted to ensure healthydisplacements. And interestingly the truedemocratic leaders themselves create thosechecks by promoting healthy dissent in theirgovernments. Power and authority are not syn-onymous in democracy.

The writer is Associate Professor, HumanResource Management, IIM Lucknow. He hasrecently published Narcissus or Machiavelli?

Learning Leadership from Indian PrimeMinisters with Routledge India

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Independent India is 75. Our tryst with destiny has reachedan important milestone. We have celebrated this with atill now best medal tally in the Olympics. And the Gold

in Athletics caps it. Amrit Mahotsav, then, has well begun.But the path ahead calls for some rethinking. And sports canoffer some valuable lessons. We need to develop sportsmanspirit in public life. Learning to work together and gel as ateam is something we still find difficult. We need to performto the best of our ability with the purest of intentions. A les-son that people in politics need to learn. Winning is impor-tant but playing fairly is more important. Winning shouldbe an objective but not winning at all costs. There was a timewhen India was a rich and prosperous civilisation. A worldleader in many respects. It was a knowledge society with glob-al centres of excellence like Takshila and Nalanda. We wereinto global business much before the fancy jargon globali-sation was coined. We had the world’s first democracy, inLicchavi of Vaishali. Ancient India was a marvel. Where didwe go wrong? As we prepare to celebrate the yearlong AmritMahotsav, we need to ponder why we faltered. The goldenbird lost its shine in the medieval. We need to think why?Our sports persons have done us proud, and the credit goesonly to them. What about the rest? Are we playing our gamefairly? The question needs to be answered. Finding India’splace in the world order is not only about coining slogansor taking credit. Loquaciousness is something we are knownfor. But talking big doesn’t give results. Doing big should beon agenda. It’s amazing what you can achieve if you don’tcare who gets the credit. But we are typically concerned aboutthe credit. Let this be a year of introspection to find whatwe have done rather than pointing out how others have fared.India has the potential to be the world leader it was. Onlywe need that same character that we had. Every Indian hasto play a role in nation building but for that, his involvementhas to be ensured. That is where democracies are important.A system where every citizen thinks he is a part. A democ-racy is not just about people talking. It is more about gov-ernments listening. This motivates people to contribute theirbest. If a citizen is feels insecure his involvement in nationbuilding will be half-hearted. Over the years we have seena trust deficit society, low on camaraderie. It reminds of theBritish days when any disagreement with government wasdisaffection. As we await Ram temple at Ayodhya let’s remem-ber what Lord Ram stood for. The comment of an ordinarycitizen made Him send his wife to exile because he thoughtit was demand of Raj Dharma. To take India to the sameold glorious heights of Ram Rajya days we must first builda values driven society, based on ethical principles rather thanpersonal convenience. A society where right, and not mightrules. A society which not only glorifies the victorious butalso respects the vanquished. That is the kind of culture weneed to build if we want India to be Vishwa Guru. To quotePierre de Coubertin, the founder of modern Olympic games:“Important thing in Olympics is not to win but to take part,the essential thing is not to have conquered but fought well.”

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Though there is only one worldexists in reality, in effect there aretwo — real (big) world and our

own (small). Our small world consistsof our bodies, our families, our sourcesof maintenance, etc. And the big worldconsists of everything including oursmall worlds, but is relevant to us in asmall way only. Take American troopswithdrawal from Afghanistan for exam-ple. Does it really concern us? Notdirectly, but this does not stop us fromdiscussing the topic endlessly.

Coming to our small world. Are wepaying attention to our health as weshould? In the Bhagavad Gita, it is stat-ed that we can reduce our suffering byappropriate eating, recreation, sleepingand striving. (6.17) There is no ques-tion of zero suffering for anyone,because we have material bodies andwe are living in this miserable mater-ial world. (8.15) Neither are our bod-ies spiritual nor this is a spiritual plan-et. So what do we do? We ignore thiswarning about appropriate habits, hop-ing for the best. But we know in ourhearts that there will be repercussions,and we worry. Thus we have added-onmental suffering to the inevitable phys-ical sufferings.

Another aspect of our lives, whichwe generally mess up quite badly is inour personal relationships. We arejust not ready to accept that all of ushave faults. Many of these shortcom-ings are related to our nature. Devoteesof God have a better chance of succeed-ing, because help from God is requiredto tame the mind, which has beendescribed by Lord Krishna as very dif-ficult to control due to its fickle nature.(6.35) To help us, the Lord has givenus the solution — to practice mind con-

trol, and be detached. The third problem is to assume that

self is much bigger than what we are.Everyone thinks that others shouldchange, while forgetting that theythemselves are unable to do so. Then,can we prevent the material nature’sworth, which is right now raging in theform of the current pandemic? Itshould be apparent to us that we aresmall and cannot control much, if any.This does not mean that someone is notin control. God is; we have to take Hisshelter, as He has instructed in theGeeta. (18.62) Then, things will not betough for us. God is so merciful that Heeven accompanies His devotees. (6.7)

Let us, therefore, not hurt ourselvesand realistically assess our personalroles. We have big roles to play in oursmall worlds, and a small, if any, rolein the big world, just the opposite ofwhat we are inclined to do. Let us behonest about our roles in the bigworld. A rare person makes some dif-ference in the big world; rest of us make

hardly any difference. Both worlds arerelevant to us but we have to see to whatextent. The big world is relevant to usin an informative way with little or noinfluence on our lives. Yes, globalcompetition is a factor for businessmen.Similarly, job seekers could be lookingfor opportunities globally.

Wise persons do not spend count-less hours discussing world events; theyare more focused on what they can doto improve their lives in their smallworlds. We need to act in our smallworlds in order to remain healthy as faras possible, improve interpersonal rela-tionships to the extent possible, workon our financial well-being and, mostimportantly, do what God expects usto do. He will guide and help us in orderthat our direction becomes proper.Then, we are set, and will not hurt our-selves by default; we will be doing whatwe should be doing and will avoid whatwe shouldn’t, i.e. talking fruitlessly.#�������������������������� ����������� �� ��� �

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People try a variety of meansto escape the pains and dis-appointments of life. Some tryto find happiness by visitingplaces of entertainment or

through engaging in sensual plea-sures. Many turn to drugs or alcohol.All these means of escape may providesome momentary or temporary happi-ness, but they are not cures. We stillmust return to face the problems of life.Some of these means of escape are evenaddictive or harmful. In this age of sci-entific advances, we begin to wonderif there is a way to find lasting happi-ness in this world. Is fulfilment possi-ble, or is it only a dream?

If we read the writings of saints andmystics through the ages, we find thatthey discovered that true happiness andpeace lies within ourselves. In the pastfew decades we find more peoplecoming to the same conclusion as didthe saints and mystics of the past. Peopleare exploring meditation as a means tofind peace and happiness within them-selves. Studies in the field of science areconfirming that meditation canimprove our physical and mental well-being. Besides having a positive effecton our body and mind, it also helps usdevelop spiritually. Thus, meditationcan help us in the physical, mental, andspiritual spheres of our lives.

Doctors and specialists are pre-scribing meditation as a treatment for

a number of stress-related ailments,such as heart disease, breathing diffi-culties, and stomach problems. Manyhospitals and medical centers havebegun to offer courses in meditation tohelp their patients improve their health.Meditation helps the body in severalways. First, it puts us into a relaxed state.While in meditation we forget the body.Our limbs and body become totallyrelaxed. While fully concentrated inmeditation, we even lose awareness ofany pain or discomfort in our body. Themore time we spend in meditation, themore time our body remains relaxed.It is said that one hour of complete con-centration in meditation is equal to fourhours of sleep. Thus in our busy life,putting in time for meditation has theeffect of several hours rest. We come outof the meditation with renewedstrength and vitality.

Meditation is also being used toreduce a variety of problems that affectpeople mentally and emotionally. Wefind that people have a host of problemsdealing with their interpersonal rela-tionships. They are troubled by anxi-ety, depression, anger, fear, lack of self-esteem, and a variety of emotional con-ditions. A large segment of the popu-lation takes alcohol and drugs to alle-viate their mental and emotional pain.Meditation provides a solution that issafe, effective, and lasting.

In meditation, we come in contact

with a divine power. This power man-ifests itself as a loving light. When wecontact this light within ourselves, weexperience a profound peace, bliss, andhappiness. We are permeated with adivine love that engulfs and fulfils us.There is so much joy within us that wedo not want to leave that state. Thebeauty of meditation is that intoxica-tion remains with us even after weresume our daily activities.

Meditation does not eliminate theproblems of life, but we look at themfrom a new perspective. The problemsbegin to dissipate as vaporous bubbles.We carry this inner ecstasy with us andcan tap into it anytime we wish. Thisinner bliss helps us to become oblivi-ous to our pains and sorrows. We realisethere is more to life than this physicalworld. When we realise that our life inthis world is but a temporary stay, andthat there is a life beyond, a higher real-ity, the problems of life do not seem toaffect as much. We recognise that thelittle idiosyncrasies of other people, thedifficulties that bother us in our jobs,homes, or neighbourhoods, are aspassing storms, and we know that thereis a realm of blue, clear skies filled withradiant Light shining above the clouds.

On another level, meditation helpsus to Increase our powers of concen-tration and our efficiency in our mun-dane spheres. By regularly practicingmeditation, we become used to control-

ling our attention. We then can directour attention to focus on anything wewish, such as our studies, our careers,our sports, our art, or in solving prob-lems. We become used to focusing onone thing at a time. This concentratedeffort helps us excel in any area wechoose. Thus, besides the physical andmental benefits of meditation, our cir-cumstances improve due to theincreased success we gain in our life.

Traditionally, meditation has beenthe means by which people developedthemselves spiritually. Whether it iscalled concentration, inversion, prayer,or meditation, each religion and phi-losophy speaks of it as a way to gainknowledge of our soul and of the divinePower within us.

For ages, humanity has wonderedabout questions such as who we are,from where did we come, to where dowe go when we die, and is there God.Both science and religion has sought toanswer these questions. The process ofmeditation is one that gives us an expe-riential knowledge of the Beyond andanswers to these questions.

Meditation helps us attain innerpeace. When our soul contacts the Lightbeyond, we are filled with a total tran-quillity and fulfilment. We become atpeace with ourselves and are not both-ered by problems around us. This peaceradiates to all who come in contact withus. Thus, we become a source of joy andinspiration for others, whether it is ourfamily members, our friends and rela-tions, our co-workers, our society, or theworld.

One of the benefits of achievinginner peace is that it contributes to outerpeace in the world. When we rise aboveour physical body and experience our-selves as soul, we also see that all otherbeings are also souls. We see that thesame Light that is within us is withineveryone else. We start to realise thatwe are all souls, all part of God. We areall members of one family. When we seeour essential unity, we begin to devel-op love for all. When we love others asif they were members of our own fam-ily, we feel a desire to help them. We donot want to see anyone in pain. Thus,we become nonviolent and peaceful.We care about all living things and ourenvironment. We begin to have a pos-itive influence on others in our environ-ment.

If each person attained inner peacethrough meditation and developedlove for all, it would not be long beforepeace prevailed on our planet. Wewould live in unity and harmony witheach other. In this way, our personalattainment of peace and happinesswould contribute to a golden age ofpeace and happiness on earth.

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Whether your beliefs aretrue or not, thinkingthat nobody likes you

can feel incredibly lonely andfrustrating. To get to the root,you have to find the reasonbehind it and fix it for all timesto come. It could be reflectingupon your behaviour. Making afew changes in your attitude iswhat you need to do to winhearts. Here are few tips:��Focus on the right people:The hard truth of life is thatcannot gel with everyonearound us. We may have con-flict of interests, opinions orpersonality may be entirely dif-ferent. If we focus our energyon them, we may feel depressedand anxious. Try to be in thecompany of right people, thosewho make you feel energised,happy and support you. Stick tothose you make you feel specialwhen you are with them.��Avoid judging others: It’snatural to judge others as ourbrain is wired that way.However, being judgmental isdifferent. You could be judg-mental if you: assume that yourassessments of other people arealways correct,rather than ten-tative; Make strong negativejudgments about others basedon little information; Expectothers to do things as per yoursocial values and morals andMake moral judgments aboutthe person than about theirbehaviour.��Demonstrate Empathy andrespect: If you want people tolike you, you must understand

what they go through. Beempathetic towards those whoare having a tough time. Theymay be misbehaving becausesomething terrible is happen-ing in their lives. Being empa-thetic builds trust and supportin a relationship. People feelloved and respected when theyare understood and they dostart liking you and you have amade a loyal acquaintance byshowing genuine empathy andrespect for the other person.��Do kind things to otherpeople: When we are kind to

others, we are able to connectwith them on a deeper level.Showing kindness can actuallypave way to building meaning-ful relationships as kindnessmeans doing a nice act of helpand comforting others. Youshow your interest in others bybeing kind and there are strongpossibilities that the other per-son will start liking you .��Be the one to take initia-tive: If you have found theright kind of people whom youlike and wish to be friendswith, don’t wait for them to

come to you. Instead, you takethe lead and express your fond-ness towards them throughyour actions and gestures.��Practice Self love: If youdon’t love yourself then how doyou expect others to love you .start practicing self love bybelieving and respecting your-self. As when you have faith inyour own identity, it shows inyour behavior and your attitudeis contagious and people startadmiring you for who you are.

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multi-faceted Indo-Saudirelationship is set to com-memorate 75 years of theirdiplomatic relations on theevent of “The Azadi Ka AmritMahotsav”, which is describedby Prime Minister NarendraModi as an elixir ofIndependence.

This is a festival of awak-ening of the nation and globalpeace and development. Thecelebration is not confined tothe political boundaries ofIndia, its shrillness is resonat-ing in Arab world, particular-ly in Saudi Arabia. ThoughIndo-Saudi relations are as oldas Indian civilisation, it gotmomentum after the emer-gence of Saudi Arabia andIndia as independent sovereignstates.

The bilateral ties betweenthese two countries haveevolved substantially over aperiod of time leading to con-ferring the highest civilianaward of the Kingdom onModi. The visit of Saudi CrownPrince Mohammad BinSalman to New Delhi inFebruary 2019 added freshimpetus to the bilateral ties.

Ties during pandemic The Covid-19 second wave

outbreak and the deadliesthealth emergency in Indiabrought the two countries clos-er and Saudi Arabia stood insolidarity with India as itsclose friend and shippedaround 200 tonnes of liquidoxygen to India as a goodwillgesture, whereas India as thelargest manufacturer of vac-cine, supplied millions of coro-navirus vaccine doses to SaudiArabia. Such gestures are theclear manifestation of the closefriendship between the twonations and their leadership.

Cultural relations The cultural linkages in the

past, in fact, have broughtthese two regions closer toeach other and provided thebase to maintain the relation-ship of similar sort in the con-temporary times. It is note-worthy that India, in ancienttimes, was far ahead of theworld in science, philosophyand literature. As a result ofage-old relations between Indiaand Arab world, the Arabsbecame acquainted with somefacts of rich intellectual heritageof India. They had a very highopinion of the Indians. Afterthe rise of Islam when Arabsdeveloped a keen sense ofintellectual curiosity and avoracious appetite for learning,they were naturally attracted tothe intellectual legacy of Indiawhich served as a source ofknowledge to them, especiallyin the fields of astronomy,mathematics, medicine, phi-losophy, wisdom and literature.

Moreover, Indians played amajor role in the economic andsocial life of the Saudi peopleduring pre-oil period onwards.The visits of affluent pilgrimsfrom India on Haj used to bea great source of income for thelocal people. The relationshipis not limited to people to peo-ple contact, its cultural relationsstrengthened at theGovernment level from time totime. The inauguration of the32nd edition of “Janaderiyahthe National Festival ofHeritage and Culture” jointlyby King Salman and lateShushma Swaraj, then IndianExternal Affairs Minister, asGuest of Honour in 2018, andsigning of an MoU betweenSaudi Ministry of Sports andIndian Ministry of Ayush onYoga cooperation are somerecent examples of growing

strong Indo-Saudi cultural rela-tions.

Social relations: Indianexpatriates are relatively

most preferred communityThere are about 3-million

strong Indian community inSaudi Arabia, which is thelargest expatriate communityin the Kingdom. They are rel-atively the most preferredcommunity among the expa-triates. The contributions madeby the Indian community forthe development of Saudi

Arabia have always been appre-ciated by the SaudiGovernment. During pan-demic, the Saudi Governmentprovided instant medical helpto the bulk of affected Indianworkers. Even some Indianexpatriates, having realised thegravity of the situation duringthe pandemic, created a socialmedia platform named “Indo-Arab Helping Hands” to estab-lish a bridge between the hugeIndian diaspora in the Gulfregion and India. The forum’smain focus is to serve the

Indo-Arab communities atlarge during these criticaltimes. It collected requests forhelp and shared them withteams active in India to connectthe helping hands with therecipients. They worked vol-untarily and tirelessly on socialmedia to make available plas-ma, blood, hospital beds, oxy-gen cylinders, ambulance andother necessary medicinesneeded by their countrymenback home and in the Gulfregion who have been hit by amassive Covid 19 wave. Their

efforts were noticed and appre-ciated by the mainstreammedia in India.

Prospects of Indo-Saudirelations

Indo-Saudi economic tiesshow tremendous growth overthe periods of time. Accordingto present data, Saudi Arabia isthe fourth largest trading part-ner of India after China, theUSA and Japan. Crude oil andLPG are the two major sourcesof energy that India imports

from Saudi Arabia. India iskeenly interested to attract for-eign investment, reflected inpolicies of the IndianGovernment’s “Ease ofBusiness” and FDI.

Gulf countries, particular-ly Saudi Arabia, could be anattractive strategic partner indeveloping India’s economy byinvesting in different econom-ic sectors.

On the other hand, Indiahas been and would be thefuture market for oil. As per thetrend and views of economists,the Indian economy wouldrise over the next couple ofdecades which will generate thedemand for oil, and accordingto the Ministry of Petroleumand Natural Gas, this demandis expected to rise by 130 percent by 2040. Saudi Arabia willbe an important market forIndian goods as well, particu-larly for precious stones, agri-cultural and pharmaceuticalproducts, etc.

Therefore, the celebrationof “The Azadi Ka AmritMahotsav” in Saudi Arabiaand entire Arab world seems tobe the manifestation anddemonstration of the strongties of Indo-Arab relations thatdeveloped steadily but strong-ly over the period. The cele-brations of continued efforts ofstrengthening their bilateralrelation for 75 years are cer-tainly the new herald of morestrong and vigorous Indo-Saudi ties.

(The writer is a facultymember of King Abdul AzizUniversity, Jeddah, KSA. He isthe founder and Chairman ofIndo-Arab Helping Hands andthe International Advisor ofMillennial India InternationalChamber of Commerce Industryand Agriculture)

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Zahra, her mother and threesisters were on their way to din-ner at another sister’s homewhen they saw people runningand heard gunshots on thestreet. “The Taliban are here!”people screamed.

In just a few minutes,everything changed for the26-year-old resident of Herat,Afghanistan’s third-largest city.

Zahra grew up in a most-ly Taliban-free Afghanistan,where women dared to dreamof careers and girls got aneducation. For the past fiveyears, she has been workingwith local nonprofit organisa-tions to raise awareness forwomen and press for genderequality.

Her dreams and ambitionscame crashing down onThursday evening as theTaliban swept into the city,planting their white flagsemblazoned with an Islamicproclamation of faith in a cen-tral square as people on motor-cycles and in cars rushed totheir homes.

Like most other residents,Zahra, her parents and five sib-lings are now hunkeringindoors, too scared to go outand worried about the future.The Associated Press chose notto identify her by her fullname to avoid making her atarget.

“I am in big shock,” saidZahra, a round-faced, soft-spoken young woman. “Howcan it be possible for me as awoman who has worked sohard and tried to learn andadvance, to now have to hidemyself and stay at home?”

Amid a lightning offensiveover the past several days, theTaliban now control more thantwo-thirds of the country, justtwo weeks before the US plansto withdraw its last troops. Andthey are slowly closing in onthe capital, Kabul.

The UN refugee agencysays nearly 250,000 Afghanshave fled their homes since theend of May amid fears theTaliban would reimpose their

strict and ruthless interpreta-tion of Islam, all but eliminat-ing women’s rights. Eighty percent of those displaced arewomen and children.

The fundamentalist groupruled the country for five yearsuntil the 2001 US-led invasion.During that time, it forbadegirls an education and women

the right to work, and refusedeven to let them travel outsidetheir homes without a male rel-ative to accompany them. TheTaliban also carried out publicexecutions, chopped off thehands of thieves and stonedwomen accused of adultery.

There have been no con-firmed reports of such extreme

measures in areas the Talibanfighters recently seized. Butmilitants were reported to havetaken over some houses and setfire to at least one school.

At a park in Kabul, trans-formed since last week into ashelter for the displaced, fam-ilies told the AP on Friday thatgirls riding home in a

motorised rickshaw in thenorthern Takhar province werestopped and lashed for wearing“revealing sandals.”

A schoolteacher from theprovince said no one wasallowed to go out to the mar-ket without a male escort.Some 3,000 families mainlyfrom northern provinces

recently taken over by theTaliban now live in tents insidethe park, some on the side-walks.

Zahra stopped going tothe office about a month ago asthe militants approached Herat,and she worked remotely fromhome. But on Thursday,Taliban fighters broke through

the city’s defensive lines, andshe has been unable to worksince.

Her eyes welled up withtears as she considered thepossibility that she will not beable to return to work; that her12-year-old sister will be unableto continue going to school(“She loves learning”); that her

older brother will not be ableplay football; or that she won’tbe able to freely play the gui-tar again. The instrument hungon a wall behind her as shespoke.

She listed some of theachievements made by womenin the past 20 years since theTaliban’s ouster - incrementalbut meaningful gains in whatis still a deeply conservative,male-dominated society: Girlsare now in school, and womenare in Parliament, governmentand business.

Marianne O’Grady, Kabul-based deputy country directorfor CARE International, saidthe strides made by womenover the past two decades havebeen dramatic, particularly inurban areas, adding she cannotsee things going back to theway they were, even with aTaliban takeover.

“You can’t uneducate mil-lions of people,” she said. Ifwomen “are back behind wallsand not able to go out asmuch, at least they can noweducate their cousins and theirneighbors and their own chil-dren in ways that couldn’t hap-pen 25 years ago.”

Still, a sense of dreadappears to be omnipresent,particularly among women, asTaliban forces take more terri-tory each day.

“I feel we are like a birdwho makes a nest for a livingand spends all the time build-ing it, but then suddenly andhelplessly watches othersdestroy it,” said Zarmina Kakar,a 26-year-old women’s rightsactivist in Kabul.

Kakar was a year old whenthe Taliban entered Kabul thefirst time in 1996, and sherecalled a time when her moth-er took her out to buy her icecream, back when the Talibanruled. Her mother waswhipped by a Taliban fighterfor revealing her face for a cou-ple of minutes.

“Today again, I feel that ifTaliban come to power, we willreturn back to the same darkdays,” she said. (AP)

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The energy streams excited duringBig-Bang, following a course ofprogressive evolution, eventually

culminated in the manifest plural worldwith all its enormity and diversity. So, allthat exists in this Universe, includinghuman being, is nothing but manifesta-tion of nature driven energies, all rootedto a ‘Singularity’. The obvious implicationis that all existences in the Universe areinterconnected at the root level. Here it ispertinent to make note of an establishedprinciple of theoretical physics — the the-ory of non-location. It states that energyparticles rooted to a common source, arein immediate and intimate contact, nomatter how distant they are from eachother. It implies that in the event of anychange in the cosmic order, its echoeswill resonate on earth as well.

Kathopanishad, through the simile ofan inverted Asvat (Banyan) tree explainsthat the Universe is a unified organism,where no existence has a reality, indepen-dent of the whole. Asvat tree, with itstrunk, branches, twigs and leaves, sym-bolises the manifest world. The root,directed towards the cosmos, implies thatthe source of existence lies in an infinitedimension beyond our purview. Break a

branch or twig of the tree, it will becomelifeless. Try to re-join it with the maintree again, it will not become live. So,there is something more than the treebody that holds the key to life. To sumup, once cut off from the primal-source— the eternal element of consciousness,the organism loses life for ever. We allexist as an inseparable part of the whole,all woven together with the thread ofeternal element of consciousness.

The above fact is further corroborat-ed by Australian physicist Paul Davies,who says: “For a novice realist, the worldis a collection of objects. But for a quan-tum physicist, it is an inseparable web ofvibrating energy patterns, where no indi-vidual component has a reality indepen-dent of the entirety, and included in thatentirety is the observer.”

Coming to the correspondencebetween happenings in the cosmic worldand life cycle on earth, there are enoughof scientific and empirical evidencesalready in hand. The first to note is thefinding of renowned Astro Physicist, FredHoyle. He in association with a team ofscientists led by Nobel Laurette coupleestablished that, “All familiar chemicalelements are generated at stellar bodies

and are made available to the Universe incourse of intermittent explosions takingplace there. Had there been no elementsuch as Carbon, there would have beenno life.” It implies empathetic connectbetween happenings in the cosmos andlife cycle on earth.

The most obvious example is thehigh tides in the ocean on a full moonday. Such is the cosmic pull that thewhole ocean is in a fury. Incidentally,human body comprises of 65% percentwater element, with the same water-saltmix as in the ocean. That makes it diffi-cult to digest that it will have no bearingon human beings, weaklings obviouslygetting affected the most. It has been amatter of record that most of the admis-sions in a Lunatic Asylum happens closeto full moon day.

On solar eclipse days, birds stopchirping. Animals become afraid.Monkeys always making noise becomesilent, come down from the trees, andherd together. In 1950, Jiyarji Giardi,developed a new branch of science —Cosmic chemistry. Through scientificexperiments he established that that thewhole Universe is organically connected.In 1920, a Russian scientist Chezevasky

found that every 11 years there is height-ened activity at the Sun, what is known assolar flare. Through a study of 700 yearshistory, he established that following theperiodical solar flare, the earth becomessubject to disastrous consequences —there is rise in incidents of revolutionsand war, epidemics happen. Stalin con-demned him to Siberia. He was releasedonly after Stalin’s death. Following hisrelease, he lived for a couple of monthsbut he established his theory.

500 years before Christ Era,Pythagoras came out with his concept ofplanetary harmony. He was of the viewthat every stellar body releases a particu-lar sound during its travel. And thereremains harmony amongst all the stellarbodies. Working on this principle, Swissdoctor, Paraselysus, observed that thestellar position at the time of one’s birthmakes an imprint on the person. So longas ongoing stellar positions are in harmo-ny with those at the time of one’s birth,the person remains healthy. The moment,harmony is disturbed, one becomes sick.

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