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T he disqualification pro- ceedings against Shiv Sena’s rebel MLAs will be kept in abeyance till July 11, and there will not be any stay on the floor test during this period, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday in what is seen as a major setback for the embattled Uddhav Thackeray -led alliance Government. The top court said the rebels may file replies to the disqualification notices issued by the Deputy Speaker of the Maharashtra Assembly till 5.30 pm on July 12. The court also sought responses to pleas by rebel MLAs questioning the legality of notices seeking their dis- qualification. A vacation bench of Justices Surya Kant and JB Pardiwala, however, refused to pass any interim order on the plea by Senior advocate Devdutt Kamat, who appeared for the MVA Government, that there should not be any floor test in the Assembly and said they can always approach it in case of illegality. “We can’t pass an order on the floor test as that would cre- ate unnecessary complications. If anything illegal happens, you can always move this court,” said the SC while refus- ing to pass an interim order. The court directed the Maharashtra Government to protect the life, liberty, and property of 39 rebel Shiv Sena MLAs and their family members. While issuing the notice to the Maharashtra Deputy Speaker, the top court directed him to put on affidavit the records of no trust notice served upon him by the rebel MLAs who have relied upon on the Nabam Rebia judgment to drive home the point that he cannot proceed with the dis- qualification proceedings when the resolution seeking his own removal is pending. “Meanwhile as an interim measure, the time granted by the Deputy Speaker of the Assembly to the petitioners or other similarly placed Members of the Legislative Assembly to submit their written submis- sions up to today by 5.30 pm is extended till July 12, 2022,” the apex court said. The top court, while post- ing the matter for further hear- ing on July 11, said it wants the status quo to continue till it bal- ances competing claims made by the rival Sena camps. The top court also record- ed the statement of Maharashtra’s counsel that ade- quate steps have been taken to protect the life and property of rebel MLAs. Shinde and 15 other rebel Shiv Sena MLAs have moved the SC challenging the dis- qualification notices issued by the Deputy Speaker under the Tenth Schedule of Constitution on grounds including defec- tion. Besides Shinde, the other 15 MLAs are Bharat Gogawale, Prakash R Surve, Tanhaji Jaywant Savant, Mahesh S Shinde, Abdul Sattar, Sandeepan A Bhumre, Sanjay P Sirhsat, Yamini Y Jadhav, Anil K Babar, Latabai C Sonawane, Ramesh N Bornare, Sanjay B Raimulkar, Chimanrao R Patil, Balaji D Kalyankar and Balaji P Kinilkar. At the outset, senior advo- cate Neeraj Kishan Kaul, appearing for Shinde and other Sena rebel MLAs, submitted that the Deputy Speaker cannot proceed with the disqualifica- tion proceedings when the res- olution seeking his removal is pending. Continued on Page 9 P rime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said India’s contribution to pro- tecting climate is noteworthy and urged wealthy nations, including the G7, to invest in research in producing clean energy due to the huge market in India. Underlining various efforts made by the country in pro- tecting climate, Modi also said 17 per cent of the world’s pop- ulation resides in India. “But, our contribution to global car- bon emissions is only 5 per cent. The main reason behind this is our lifestyle, which is based on the theory of coexis- tence with nature,” he said in an effort to dispel the notion that poor people cause more dam- age to the environment. Earlier, Modi met US President Joe Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron at the G7 summit in Germany. He arrived at the G7 annu- al summit, where he was wel- comed by German chancellor Olaf Scholz. The Group of Seven comprises the US, the UK, France, Italy, Japan, Canada and the European Union. The annual summit may also discuss the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Addressing the session on “Investing in a better Future: Climate, Energy, Health” at the G7 Summit, the Prime Minister said India’s dedication to climate commitments is evi- dent from our performance. “We have achieved the tar- get of 40 per cent energy- capacity from non-fossil sources 9 years before time. The target of 10 per cent ethanol-blending in petrol has been achieved 5 months before time. India has the world’s first fully solar power operated air- port. India’s huge railway sys- tem will become net zero in this decade,” he said. With India constantly achieving its goals, the Prime Minister said, “We hope that the rich countries of G7 will support India’s efforts. Today, a huge market for clean ener- gy technologies is emerging in India. The G7 countries can invest in research, innovation, and manufacturing in this field.” He said the scale that India can provide for every new technology can make that technology affordable for the whole world. The core theories of the circular economy have been an integral part of Indian culture and lifestyle. The Prime Minister stressed on the need for equi- table access to energy and said this should not be the privilege of the rich only — a poor fam- ily also has the same rights on energy. He also said he called for a movement called LIFE — Lifestyle for Environment — in Glasgow last year. Continued on Page 9 T he Enforcement Directorate (ED) has sum- moned Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Tuesday for question- ing in a money laundering probe linked to the re-devel- opment of a Mumbai chawl and other related financial transactions involving his wife and associates. The agency has asked the Rajya Sabha member to depose before the ED’s office in south Mumbai and record his state- ment under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The development comes in the wake of a group of Shiv Sena MLAs turning rebel against the party, putting a question mark on the future of Maharashtra’s Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) Government. Rebel Shiv Sena legislators, who were first taken to Surat, are now camping in Guwahati. In April, the ED had pro- visionally attached assets worth over 11.15 crore of Sanjay Raut’s wife Varsha Raut and two of his associates as part of this investigation. The attached properties are in the form of land held by Pravin M Raut, Sanjay Raut’s aide and a former director of Guru Ashish Construction Pvt Ltd, at Palghar, Saphale (town in Palghar) and Padgha (in Thane district). The attached properties also include a flat in Mumbai’s suburb Dadar held by Varsha Raut and eight plots at Kihim beach in Alibaug jointly held by Varsha Raut and Swapna Patkar, wife of Sujit Patkar, the ED said in a statement. According to the ED, Sujit is a close associate of Sanjay Raut. The agency wants to question Sanjay Raut to know about his “business and other links” with Pravin Raut and Patkar and also about the prop- erty deals involving his wife. After arresting Pravin Raut in February, the ED had said he appears to be “acting as a front” or in collusion with some influential person(s). Continued on Page 9 I n a new dimension to the rebellion-triggered crisis within the ruling Shiv Sena, the Sena’s breakaway rebel faction leader Eknath Shinde has established contact with MNS chief Raj Thackeray apparent- ly with an eye on the emerging political situation in general and forthcoming elections to Brihanmumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai and Aurangabad in particular. Informed sources within the MNS camp said that Shinde telephoned Raj twice during the last few days to enquire about his health and also dis- cuss the political situation in the State. Raj — who was discharged from Lilavati Hospital on June 25 after a hip replacement surgery and has been keenly observing the political devel- opments during the last one week — spoke to Shinde at length on both the occasions. Despite the fact that the MNS has just one MLA in the State Assembly, its importance should be seen in the light of the fact that it is an established regional political party with an election symbol (that of a rail- way engine) and a decent base in the urban areas of the State. The telephonic interac- tions should be seen in the light of the fact that it will take some time before Shinde registers a new party and gets an election symbol of his own and at some stage, he might consider a pro- posal to merge his outfit with an established political party. Going by the available indi- cations, the Shinde-led rebel Sena faction — which claims to enjoy the support of 39 out of the total 55 Sena MLAs in the State — will eventually join hands with the Opposition to form a government in the State. Apart from sharing power with the BJP in the State, the Shinde faction wants to expand its base in Mumbai, neigh- bouring Thane, Navi Mumbai and other parts of the State. In pursuit of expanding its base, the Shinde faction needs the help of the MNS which Raj Thackeray — an erstwhile Shiv Sena leader — founded on June 9, 2006 after staging a rebellion against his cousin and Sena president Uddhav Thackeray, and resigning from the Shiv Sena. The MNS won as many as 13 out of the 288 seats in the 2009 Assembly polls. The MNS won won 28 seats in the 2012 BMC polls, as against the 75 seats won by the Sena and 32 seats won by its ally, the BJP. It may be recalled that the BMC polls held in 2017 had thrown up a hung house. The Shiv Sena had emerged as the single largest party with 84 seats in the 227-member BMC, followed by BJP- 82, Congress- 31, NCP- 9, MNS- 7 and oth- ers-14. During the first two and a half years in power, the Shiv Sena increased its strength to 94 by inducting among others seven corporators from the MNS. The MNS’ importance should be seen in the context of the fact that the Opposition BJP has been cosying up to Raj Thackeray with an eye on the BMC polls scheduled to be held in September-October 2022. No wonder that even the rebel Sena camp is getting closer to the MNS for its own reasons. W ithin just four days of the start of registration process for Agnipath defence recruitment scheme, the Indian Air Force (IAF) has received as many as 94,281 applications for the short-term military job. “A total of 94,281 Agniveer Vayu aspirants have registered till 10.30 am (Monday). Registration closes on July 5,” Defence Ministry Spokesperson A Bharat Bhushan Babu said on Twitter. Till Sunday, the IAF had received 56,960 applications under the scheme. After the scheme was unveiled on June 14, violent protests against the scheme rocked several States for near- ly a week and several Opposition parties demanded its rollback. Under the scheme, the Government had announced that youths between the ages of 17-and-a-half and 21 years would be inducted for a four- year tenure. Twenty-five per cent of them will be subse- quently inducted for regular service. On June 16, the Government increased the upper age limit for recruitment under the scheme to 23 years from 21 for the year 2022, and subsequently announced a slew of placatory steps like a pref- erence for Agniveers in recruit- ment into the Central para- military forces and defence public sector undertakings upon their retirement. Continued on Page 9 W ith the construction of Bundelkhand Expressway almost complete, the Uttar Pradesh Expressway Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA) will go for its inauguration on July 13. The expressway is likely to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “Tentatively, the inaugura- tion has been fixed for July 13 and the same has been com- municated to the Prime Minister’s Office. If the PM agrees, then it will be inaugu- rated on July 13,” a senior offi- cial of UPEIDA said here on Monday. He said almost 100 per cent physical work of this express- way had been completed and the rest of the construction work would be completed by the end of this month. He said that the construc- tion of three Railway Over Bridges (ROBs) had been com- pleted and the work of elec- tricity was also being complet- ed rapidly. The Bundelkhand Expressway has 19 flyovers and the construction of bridges over rivers Yamuna, Betwa and Ken has been completed. There are 14 long bridges, six toll plazas, seven ramp plazas, 268 small bridges and 214 under- passes on this expressway. The total length of the Bundelkhand Expressway is 296.07 km. This expressway will pass through Chitrakoot, Banda, Hamirpur, Jalaun, Auraiya and Etawah. For the safety of the passengers, 15 patrolling vehicles are being deployed on the expressway. Industry Minister Nand Gopal Gupta ‘Nandi’ said that with the construction of this expressway, the entire Bundelkhand region would be directly connected with nation- al capital Delhi through Agra- Lucknow Expressway. “The farmers of Bundelkhand gave their land for the expressway and pro- vided their full support. The expressway will boost the prof- its of the farmers of Bundelkhand,” he said and added that the Bundelkhand Expressway would go a long way in ensuring socio-eco- nomic development of the area which had been neglected for decades. The four-lane expressway, which will be expandable to six lanes, has been divided into six packages. The access-con- trolled expressway has a right of way (total land area acquired for the construction of the roadway) of 110 metres. A service road (3.75 metres wide) has been constructed on one side of the expressway. The total estimated cost of the Bundelkhand Expressway project is 14,849.09 crore including 7766.81 crore as the cost of civil construction. The expressway will start from Chitrakoot district and end at Etawah on Agra- Lucknow Expressway. It will pass through the districts of Chitrakoot, Banda, Mahoba, Hamirpur, Jalaun, and Etawah. Lucknow (PNS): Film director and producer Ram Gopal Varma has been booked for making uncharitable remarks on NDA’s presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu, a police official said here on Monday. Lucknow’s Police Commissioner DK Thakur said that a case was registered against Ram Gopal Varma for making indecent remarks against Droupadi Murmu in a tweet. The case has been registered at Hazratganj police station on Sunday, he said. In a tweet on June 22, Varma had said, “If Drapaudi is the President who are the Pandavas? And more impor- tantly, who are the Kauravas?” In a tweet on June 24 he tried to clear his stand and said, “This was said just in an earnest irony and not intended in any other way... Draupadi in Mahabharata is my favourite character but since the name is such a rarity I just remembered the associated char- acters and hence my expression. Not at all intended to hurt sen- timents of anyone.”
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The disqualification pro-ceedings against Shiv Sena’s
rebel MLAs will be kept inabeyance till July 11, and therewill not be any stay on the floortest during this period, theSupreme Court ruled onMonday in what is seen as amajor setback for the embattledUddhav Thackeray -led allianceGovernment.
The top court said therebels may file replies to thedisqualification notices issuedby the Deputy Speaker of theMaharashtra Assembly till 5.30pm on July 12.
The court also soughtresponses to pleas by rebelMLAs questioning the legalityof notices seeking their dis-qualification.
A vacation bench ofJustices Surya Kant and JBPardiwala, however, refused topass any interim order on theplea by Senior advocateDevdutt Kamat, who appearedfor the MVA Government, thatthere should not be any floortest in the Assembly and saidthey can always approach it incase of illegality.
“We can’t pass an order onthe floor test as that would cre-ate unnecessary complications.If anything illegal happens,you can always move thiscourt,” said the SC while refus-ing to pass an interim order.
The court directed theMaharashtra Government toprotect the life, liberty, andproperty of 39 rebel Shiv SenaMLAs and their family members.
While issuing the notice tothe Maharashtra DeputySpeaker, the top court directedhim to put on affidavit therecords of no trust noticeserved upon him by the rebelMLAs who have relied upon onthe Nabam Rebia judgment todrive home the point that hecannot proceed with the dis-qualification proceedings whenthe resolution seeking his ownremoval is pending.
“Meanwhile as an interimmeasure, the time granted bythe Deputy Speaker of theAssembly to the petitioners orother similarly placed Membersof the Legislative Assembly tosubmit their written submis-sions up to today by 5.30 pm isextended till July 12, 2022,” theapex court said.
The top court, while post-
ing the matter for further hear-ing on July 11, said it wants thestatus quo to continue till it bal-ances competing claims madeby the rival Sena camps.
The top court also record-ed the statement ofMaharashtra’s counsel that ade-quate steps have been taken toprotect the life and property ofrebel MLAs.
Shinde and 15 other rebelShiv Sena MLAs have movedthe SC challenging the dis-qualification notices issued bythe Deputy Speaker under theTenth Schedule of Constitutionon grounds including defec-tion. Besides Shinde, the other15 MLAs are Bharat Gogawale,Prakash R Surve, TanhajiJaywant Savant, Mahesh SShinde, Abdul Sattar,Sandeepan A Bhumre, SanjayP Sirhsat, Yamini Y Jadhav, AnilK Babar, Latabai C Sonawane,Ramesh N Bornare, Sanjay BRaimulkar, Chimanrao R Patil,Balaji D Kalyankar and BalajiP Kinilkar.
At the outset, senior advo-cate Neeraj Kishan Kaul,appearing for Shinde and otherSena rebel MLAs, submittedthat the Deputy Speaker cannotproceed with the disqualifica-tion proceedings when the res-olution seeking his removal ispending.
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Prime Minister NarendraModi on Monday said
India’s contribution to pro-tecting climate is noteworthyand urged wealthy nations,including the G7, to invest inresearch in producing cleanenergy due to the huge marketin India.
Underlining various effortsmade by the country in pro-tecting climate, Modi also said17 per cent of the world’s pop-ulation resides in India. “But,our contribution to global car-bon emissions is only 5 percent. The main reason behindthis is our lifestyle, which isbased on the theory of coexis-tence with nature,” he said in aneffort to dispel the notion thatpoor people cause more dam-age to the environment.
Earlier, Modi met USPresident Joe Biden, CanadianPrime Minister Justin Trudeauand French PresidentEmmanuel Macron at the G7summit in Germany.
He arrived at the G7 annu-al summit, where he was wel-comed by German chancellorOlaf Scholz. The Group ofSeven comprises the US, theUK, France, Italy, Japan,Canada and the EuropeanUnion. The annual summitmay also discuss the ongoingconflict in Ukraine.
Addressing the session on
“Investing in a better Future:Climate, Energy, Health” atthe G7 Summit, the PrimeMinister said India’s dedicationto climate commitments is evi-dent from our performance.
“We have achieved the tar-get of 40 per cent energy-capacity from non-fossilsources 9 years before time.The target of 10 per centethanol-blending in petrol hasbeen achieved 5 months beforetime. India has the world’s firstfully solar power operated air-port. India’s huge railway sys-tem will become net zero inthis decade,” he said.
With India constantlyachieving its goals, the PrimeMinister said, “We hope thatthe rich countries of G7 willsupport India’s efforts. Today,a huge market for clean ener-
gy technologies is emerging inIndia. The G7 countries caninvest in research, innovation,and manufacturing in thisfield.”
He said the scale thatIndia can provide for every newtechnology can make thattechnology affordable for thewhole world. The core theoriesof the circular economy havebeen an integral part of Indianculture and lifestyle.
The Prime Ministerstressed on the need for equi-table access to energy and saidthis should not be the privilegeof the rich only — a poor fam-ily also has the same rights onenergy. He also said he calledfor a movement called LIFE —Lifestyle for Environment — inGlasgow last year.
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The EnforcementDirectorate (ED) has sum-
moned Shiv Sena MP SanjayRaut on Tuesday for question-ing in a money launderingprobe linked to the re-devel-opment of a Mumbai chawland other related financialtransactions involving his wifeand associates.
The agency has asked theRajya Sabha member to deposebefore the ED’s office in southMumbai and record his state-ment under the Prevention ofMoney Laundering Act.
The development comes inthe wake of a group of ShivSena MLAs turning rebelagainst the party, putting aquestion mark on the future ofMaharashtra’s Maha VikasAghadi (MVA) Government.Rebel Shiv Sena legislators,who were first taken to Surat,are now camping in Guwahati.
In April, the ED had pro-visionally attached assets worthover �11.15 crore of SanjayRaut’s wife Varsha Raut and
two of his associates as part ofthis investigation.
The attached propertiesare in the form of land held byPravin M Raut, Sanjay Raut’saide and a former director ofGuru Ashish Construction PvtLtd, at Palghar, Saphale (townin Palghar) and Padgha (inThane district).
The attached propertiesalso include a flat in Mumbai’ssuburb Dadar held by VarshaRaut and eight plots at Kihimbeach in Alibaug jointly held byVarsha Raut and SwapnaPatkar, wife of Sujit Patkar, theED said in a statement.
According to the ED, Sujitis a close associate of SanjayRaut. The agency wants toquestion Sanjay Raut to knowabout his “business and otherlinks” with Pravin Raut andPatkar and also about the prop-erty deals involving his wife.
After arresting Pravin Rautin February, the ED had said heappears to be “acting as afront” or in collusion withsome influential person(s).
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In a new dimension to therebellion-triggered crisis
within the ruling Shiv Sena, theSena’s breakaway rebel factionleader Eknath Shinde hasestablished contact with MNSchief Raj Thackeray apparent-ly with an eye on the emergingpolitical situation in generaland forthcoming elections toBrihanmumbai, Thane, NaviMumbai and Aurangabad inparticular.
Informed sources withinthe MNS camp said that Shindetelephoned Raj twice duringthe last few days to enquireabout his health and also dis-cuss the political situation inthe State.
Raj — who was dischargedfrom Lilavati Hospital on June25 after a hip replacementsurgery and has been keenlyobserving the political devel-opments during the last oneweek — spoke to Shinde atlength on both the occasions.
Despite the fact that theMNS has just one MLA in theState Assembly, its importanceshould be seen in the light ofthe fact that it is an established
regional political party with anelection symbol (that of a rail-way engine) and a decent basein the urban areas of the State.
The telephonic interac-tions should be seen in the lightof the fact that it will take sometime before Shinde registers anew party and gets an electionsymbol of his own and at somestage, he might consider a pro-posal to merge his outfit withan established political party.
Going by the available indi-cations, the Shinde-led rebelSena faction — which claims toenjoy the support of 39 out ofthe total 55 Sena MLAs in theState — will eventually joinhands with the Opposition toform a government in theState.
Apart from sharing powerwith the BJP in the State, theShinde faction wants to expandits base in Mumbai, neigh-bouring Thane, Navi Mumbaiand other parts of the State. Inpursuit of expanding its base,the Shinde faction needs thehelp of the MNS which RajThackeray — an erstwhile ShivSena leader — founded onJune 9, 2006 after staging arebellion against his cousin
and Sena president UddhavThackeray, and resigning fromthe Shiv Sena.
The MNS won as many as13 out of the 288 seats in the2009 Assembly polls. The MNSwon won 28 seats in the 2012BMC polls, as against the 75seats won by the Sena and 32seats won by its ally, the BJP.
It may be recalled that theBMC polls held in 2017 hadthrown up a hung house. TheShiv Sena had emerged as thesingle largest party with 84seats in the 227-member BMC,followed by BJP- 82, Congress-31, NCP- 9, MNS- 7 and oth-ers-14. During the first two anda half years in power, the ShivSena increased its strength to94 by inducting among othersseven corporators from theMNS.
The MNS’ importanceshould be seen in the contextof the fact that the OppositionBJP has been cosying up to RajThackeray with an eye on theBMC polls scheduled to be heldin September-October 2022.
No wonder that even therebel Sena camp is gettingcloser to the MNS for its ownreasons.
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Within just four days of thestart of registration
process for Agnipath defencerecruitment scheme, the IndianAir Force (IAF) has received asmany as 94,281 applications forthe short-term military job.
“A total of 94,281 AgniveerVayu aspirants have registeredtill 10.30 am (Monday).Registration closes on July 5,”Defence MinistrySpokesperson A BharatBhushan Babu said on Twitter.
Till Sunday, the IAF hadreceived 56,960 applicationsunder the scheme.
After the scheme wasunveiled on June 14, violentprotests against the schemerocked several States for near-ly a week and several
Opposition parties demandedits rollback.
Under the scheme, theGovernment had announcedthat youths between the ages of17-and-a-half and 21 yearswould be inducted for a four-year tenure. Twenty-five percent of them will be subse-quently inducted for regularservice.
On June 16, theGovernment increased theupper age limit for recruitmentunder the scheme to 23 yearsfrom 21 for the year 2022, andsubsequently announced a slewof placatory steps like a pref-erence for Agniveers in recruit-ment into the Central para-military forces and defencepublic sector undertakingsupon their retirement.
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With the construction ofB u n d e l k h a n d
Expressway almost complete,the Uttar Pradesh ExpresswayIndustrial DevelopmentAuthority (UPEIDA) will gofor its inauguration on July 13.
The expressway is likely tobe inaugurated by PrimeMinister Narendra Modi.
“Tentatively, the inaugura-tion has been fixed for July 13and the same has been com-municated to the PrimeMinister’s Office. If the PMagrees, then it will be inaugu-rated on July 13,” a senior offi-cial of UPEIDA said here onMonday.
He said almost 100 per centphysical work of this express-way had been completed and
the rest of the constructionwork would be completed bythe end of this month.
He said that the construc-tion of three Railway OverBridges (ROBs) had been com-pleted and the work of elec-tricity was also being complet-ed rapidly.
The BundelkhandExpressway has 19 flyoversand the construction of bridgesover rivers Yamuna, Betwa andKen has been completed. Thereare 14 long bridges, six tollplazas, seven ramp plazas, 268small bridges and 214 under-passes on this expressway.
The total length of theBundelkhand Expressway is296.07 km. This expresswaywill pass through Chitrakoot,Banda, Hamirpur, Jalaun,Auraiya and Etawah. For the
safety of the passengers, 15patrolling vehicles are beingdeployed on the expressway.
Industry Minister NandGopal Gupta ‘Nandi’ said thatwith the construction of thisexpressway, the entireBundelkhand region would bedirectly connected with nation-al capital Delhi through Agra-Lucknow Expressway.
“The farmers ofBundelkhand gave their landfor the expressway and pro-vided their full support. Theexpressway will boost the prof-its of the farmers ofBundelkhand,” he said andadded that the BundelkhandExpressway would go a longway in ensuring socio-eco-nomic development of the areawhich had been neglected fordecades.
The four-lane expressway,which will be expandable to sixlanes, has been divided into sixpackages. The access-con-trolled expressway has a rightof way (total land area acquiredfor the construction of theroadway) of 110 metres. Aservice road (3.75 metres wide)has been constructed on oneside of the expressway.
The total estimated costof the BundelkhandExpressway project is �14,849.09 crore including �7766.81 crore as the cost ofcivil construction.
The expressway will startfrom Chitrakoot district andend at Etawah on Agra-Lucknow Expressway. It willpass through the districts ofChitrakoot, Banda, Mahoba,Hamirpur, Jalaun, and Etawah.
(�,�)��� ������������������Lucknow (PNS): Film directorand producer Ram Gopal Varmahas been booked for makinguncharitable remarks on NDA’spresidential candidate DroupadiMurmu, a police official said hereon Monday. Lucknow’s PoliceCommissioner DK Thakur saidthat a case was registered againstRam Gopal Varma for makingindecent remarks againstDroupadi Murmu in a tweet.
The case has been registeredat Hazratganj police station onSunday, he said. In a tweet onJune 22, Varma had said, “IfDrapaudi is the President who arethe Pandavas? And more impor-tantly, who are the Kauravas?” Ina tweet on June 24 he tried toclear his stand and said, “This wassaid just in an earnest irony andnot intended in any other way...Draupadi in Mahabharata is myfavourite character but since thename is such a rarity I justremembered the associated char-acters and hence my expression.Not at all intended to hurt sen-timents of anyone.”
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After losing the Rampurand Azamgarh Lok Sabha
bypolls, the Samajwadi Partyleadership is looking for thescapegoats and has to decodewhat went wrong in both theparliamentary constituencies,seen as a cakewalk for it.
Sources in the SP said theparty had to introspect anddecide how it intended toconduct its politics after thedebacle in Rampur andAzamgarh.
“The Muslims desertedthe SP and voted for defeatingits candidate in Azamgarhand in Rampur, despite over 50per cent population ofMuslims, they did not vote forthe victory of the SP candidateand the results were same inboth the constituencies - theSP lost,” said a SP leaderadding , “Bahujan Samaj Partycandidate in Azamgarh,Guddu Jamali, polled 2.5 lakhvotes and even if 20 per centof these votes had gone to theSP, Dharmendra Yadav wouldhave won.”
“For the 2022 polls, the SPhad forged a coalition of non-Yadav Other Backward Classparties which impressed theMuslims and they voted indroves, yet the SP was short ofthe magic number of 203 inthe UP assembly. EvenMulayam Singh Yadav nevergot such an overwhelmingsupport of the minority com-munity. The SP never tried todecode what went wrong,"said SP leader.
The political observers
feel that the SP, after impres-sive improvement in its tally of111 seats and 14 of the allies,became complacent and tookthe voters for granted.
A SP leader said, "Even theBSP cannot take Jatav votes forgranted and they have shiftedtowards the Bharatiya JanataParty. As things stand todayYadavs may also shift to theBJP in the 2024 Lok Sabhaelections.”
“Muslims were angry withthe SP's inaction over the longdetention of MohammadAzam Khan for 27 months anddemolition of the petrol pumpof Muslim SP MLA ShazilIslam in Bareilly. AkhileshYadav just issued a tweet. Theindifference of the SP leader-ship infuriated the Muslimleaders and it was visible inRampur and Azamgarh,” saidpolitical analyst Prof AbhayDube. Why was AkhileshYadav reluctant to speak forAzam Khan and protest thedemolition of the petrol pumpof his party MLA? he asked.
“Akhilesh Yadav is caughtin the trap laid by the BJP ashe is reluctant to take up thecudgels for the Muslims. TheBJP has created a phobiaamong its rival political partiesthat if a party speaks for theMuslims then it will alienateand antagonise the Hinducommunity,” Prof Dube said.
“This phobia does notstand scrutiny if the votingpattern of different communi-ties in previous elections isexamined. If one Hindu votesfor the BJP then the otherHindu votes against the BJP.
All the OBC communitieswhich voted for the SP areHindus and not Muslims.Muslim voters made a contri-bution in the victory of the SPcandidates in a large numberof constituencies in the 2022assembly polls and the SPwon on the strength of Hinduvoters,” Prof Dube said andadded, “If Akhilesh Yadavshows the courage of convic-tion and demands justice forMuslims, that their establish-ments would not be demol-ished without the due processof law, by mobilising the partycadre then it will add to hispolitical stature,” he added.
“Akhilesh Yadav shouldhave taken cudgels against thedemolition drive by the YogiAdityanath government usingbulldozers. It may not fetchhim immediate political divi-dends but huge politicalreturns are guaranteed in longterm politics which will cata-pult him as a leader of the poorand the downtrodden. Thestance against bulldozers islikely to get him national andglobal acclaim. It is highlyerroneous to believe that onlyMuslims are targeted, homesand roadside business estab-lishments of poor Hindus havealso been demolished in manytowns of Uttar Pradesh,” ProfDube said and added, “Otheropposition parties will alsorally around the SamajwadiParty as the message will godown that Akhilesh Yadav hasbroken new ice in electoralpolitics, but for reasons knownonly to Akhilesh Yadav, he hastaken no initiative so far.”
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Uttar Pradesh ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath
has said that the governmentwill constitute a board for pro-moting natural farming in thestate. Provision for promotingnatural farming in seven dis-tricts of Bundelkhand regionhas been made in the budgetfor the current fiscal 2022-23.
Addressing a conclaveorganised by the World Bankon 'Uttar Pradesh towards sus-tainable and equitable growth'here on Monday, the chiefminister said Prime MinisterNarendra Modi had laid specialemphasis on natural farmingand the Central governmenthad made budget provisionfor it.
The Central governmenthas identified five-kilometrearea along the banks of riverGanga for promoting naturalfarming. The UP government,in January 2020, had launcheda special campaign `GangaYatra' to create awareness aboutnatural farming. UP has iden-tified 27 districts along thecourse of the river Ganga andseven districts of Bundelkhandregion for natural farming.
The chief minister said thequestion before the govern-ment was how to enhance theincome of the farmers with lowcost of agricultural inputs andthe simple answer was natural
farming. “If the productiongoes up and cost is low thenincome goes up," he pointedout. “In India, rishi and krishiare closely linked and comple-mentary to each other. The cowis not an issue of faith but alsoof economy. The religious cus-toms sustain the economy inthe form of natural farming.Two years ago a seminar wasorganised in Kanpur on natur-al farming where 500 progres-sive farmers had participated.It has resulted in natural farm-ing in thousands of hectares ofagricultural land," the chiefminister said.
He said the objective ofnatural farming was toxic freeagriculture by reducing theuse of fertilisers, chemicalsand pesticides and using theinputs produced by the farm-ers with low or zero cost.
Referring to the negativeconsequences of the intensiveuse of chemicals and fertilizersin Punjab, Yogi Adityanathsaid, “The Cancer Express trainrunning in Punjab is wellknown and diseases are grow-ing fast with the rise in use ofchemicals and fertilisers inagriculture. If humanity andmother earth have to be to bepreserved and protected thenwe have to opt for naturalfarming. This is the mostpotent alternative available tothe farmers.”
Recalling his days of child-hood, the chief minister saidthere were naturally grownflowers in agriculture fieldsthat were full of fragrance invillages in Garhwali region ofUttarakhand. The fragrance offlowers is so intense that no oneis allowed to stay there at night
as it can harm the person, headded.
“With the rapid rise in useof fertilisers and chemicals,the flowers may have grown insize but they have lost the fra-grance and also the natural andmedicinal properties. Same hashappened in the case of tasteand quality of the food grains.The production has increasedwith the green revolution andhas given rise to many unfore-seen consequences,” YogiAdityanath said.
He said the innovativeexperiment of natural farmingwas progressing well in the stateand agriculture scientists andprogressive farmers would havean important role in expandingthe scope of natural farming.
“In a state like UP, farmingwill immensely increase theincome of farmers. UP has thelargest number of farmers,most fertile land, which is 11-12 per cent, and abundantwater resources. Even as UP isyet to fully deploy the modernagriculture technology, the stateis producing 20 per cent foodgrains of the total food grainsproduced in the country. If wemove forward with scientificapproach along with modernagriculture techniques and usethe tool of natural farming thenwe will not only succeed inincreasing production but alsoincrease the income of thefarmers,” he said.
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The Uttar Pradesh Policeclaimed to have achieved
more than 100 per cent successin the target set for it on the lawand order front.
Making this claim here onMonday evening, AdditionalChief Secretary (Home)Awanish Kumar Awasthi, saidthat a thorough review of theaction plan set by the govern-ment on the instructions ofChief Minister Yogi Adityanathfor 100 days to further improvethe law and order in the stateand to effectively crack down oncriminals, showed that excellentresults had been achieved.
Awasthi claimed thatagainst the target of 25, 50 dif-ferent types of mafia, like min-ing, liquor, cattle, forest, landmafia, were identified andaction taken against them wasreviewed every week. He saidagainst the set target of confis-cation of Rs 500 crore underSection 14(1) of the GangstersAct, Rs.844 crore had beenrecovered from the mafiasahead of time.
Similarly, he said, a targetwas set for identification of top10 criminals at each police sta-tion level and effective actionagainst 15,000 criminals. Under
this, a total of 16,158 top 10criminals were identified ateach police station againstwhom 83,721 cases had beenregistered so far and their prop-erty worth Rs 648 crore had alsobeen confiscated. He said crim-inal activities of mafia gangs hadbeen effectively curbed.According to Awasthi, man-power has been identified forfive new BDDS teams and 10new anti-sabotage check teamsand effective action has alsobeen taken against anti-nation-al activities like illegal conver-sion, terrorism, Naxalism, armssmuggling, terror funding, ISIPak agents, sleeper cells, onlineradicalisation, illegal immi-grants, Rohingiyas/Bangladeshisand international human traf-ficking syndicate.
The process of identifica-tion of land for formation andtraining of a new commandoteam of SWAT has been com-pleted. A Special Task Force unithas also been formed inAyodhya. Apart from this, theprocess of appointment of 135commands on various postsand arrangement of equip-ment/resources has also beencompleted. Effective efforts havealso been made for preventionof human trafficking in coordi-nation with SSB in seven dis-
tricts located on the Indo-Nepalborder.
To make the State CrimeRecords Bureau more efficientand effective, it has beenmerged with the crime branchof the director general of policeheadquarters. Against the tar-get of increasing 12,39,216members in Digital VolunteerC-Plan App to 15 lakh,15,30,454 members have beenmade so far, achieving 100 percent achievement.
To make the prosecutionsystem more efficient and effec-tive, e-Prosecution Mobile Apphas been developed. In order toprovide effective punishment to1,000 booked under Protectionof Children from SexualOffences Act for offencesagainst minor girls, action hasbeen taken beyond the target bypunishing 1,546 accused.
Toilets and washroom facil-ities have been made availablefor the visiting women andwomen police personnel in thepolice stations. The prevailingwomen's beat system has beenmade more effective and a spe-cial team has been formed forwomen's safety and a massivecampaign has been launched incrowded places. Besides, 100per cent complaints received onWomen Power Line 1090 have
also been redressed.In every police station of
the state, arrangements havebeen made for cleanliness toensure a clean environmentfor the general public andarrangements for the commonpeople to sit and clean drinkingwater have been made. Underthe tree plantation campaign inall the police stations, 100 percent target has been achieved byplanting 2,23,379 saplingsagainst the order to plant a min-imum of 7,500 saplings in eachdistrict. Under the 100-daycampaign to provide employ-ment to the youth in the policedepartment, the target of 10,000police recruitment has beenachieved 100 per cent ahead oftime. With this 1,805 womenare being recruited on sub-inspectors and equivalent posts,which will be a historic achieve-ment in terms of women'sempowerment as well aswomen's safety and women'sinterests. The youths have thehighest representation in thisrecruitment and about 60 percent of the selected candidatesare below 25 years of age andthe recruitment has been donein a fair and transparent man-ner and representation hasbeen received from every dis-trict of the state.
2��������.�������������������3���.��Lucknow (PNS): The policeforce and sleuths of intelligenceagencies went on a high alert aftermore than a dozen hand grenadeswere found lying unclaimed inthe Cantonment area ofRamnagari Ayodhya on Mondayafternoon.
The personnel of the BombDetection and Disposal Squad(BDDS) along with other seniorofficers, including officials ofMilitary Intelligence, rushed tothe spot and safely took all thegrenades in their custody andwere making further investiga-tion. The area is said to be nearthe military firing range and asthe grenades had no pins or fuses,it is apprehended that thegrenades might be those whichdid not explode during practiceby military personnel.
Reports from Ayodhya saidthat about 18 hand grenadeswere found scattered in the bush-es in the Nirmali Kund intersec-tion of the district on Mondaymorning. The top police officersof the district reached the spot assoon as they got informationabout these hand grenades foundscattered like fruits in a pit on theside of the road. It may be men-tioned that security remains verytight in the district after the ter-rorist attack at Shri Ram LallaMandir premises in Ayodhya.The area after the Nirmali Kundintersection comes in theCantonment area and is a highsecurity zone. The Guptar Ghatof Saryu river also comes in theCantonment area where thou-sands of tourists come every day.
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Dedicating the victory ofBharatiya Janata Party to
its Shakti Kendras in Azamgarhand Rampur parliamentary by-elections, the state unit of theparty has decided to strength-en these centres across thestate.
"The bye-election resultsare a clear indication of the suc-cess of the Shakti centres. Theparty workers were able tomeet people and convincethem about the programmes ofthe Central and the state gov-ernments," BJP vice-presidentVijay Bahadur Pathak said.
He said that these centreswere the focal point of the partyat the ground level where theleaders apprised the votersabout the policies of the gov-ernment and motivated themto cast their votes.
"During this election, theworkers went to over one lakhShakti Kendras each inAzamgarh and Rampur con-stituencies," he said and addedthat the Shakti Kendras would
be strengthened for the 2024general election.
Pathak said it was time forintrospection for AkhileshYadav because it was the fourthelection the party had lostunder his leadership.
"The SP has reached itslowest number in Lok Sabhaafter this result. It now hasthree members in the lowerHouse of Parliament," the BJPleader said.
BJP's Dinesh Lal Yadav'Nirahua' won the parliamen-tary bypoll from Azamgarhand Ghanshyam Singh Lodhifrom Rampur, defeatingSamajwadi Party's candidatesDharmendra Yadav and AsimRaja by margins of 8,679 and42,192 votes, respectively.
Lodhi, an Other BackwardClass candidate, is a former SPMLC. He had started his polit-ical career with the BJP but heswitched sides later. He hadcontested the Lok Sabha elec-tion from Rampur as a BahujanSamaj Party candidate in 2009but finished third. He waselected to UP Legislative
Council from the Rampur-Bareilly local bodies con-stituency in 2016 as an SP can-didate. His term ended inMarch this year.
The Azamgarh seat saw atriangular contest betweenBJP's Dinesh Lal Yadav'Nirahua', SP's DharmendraYadav and BSP's Shah Alamwhile in Rampur, the contestwas between BJP and SPbecause the BSP had not field-ed a candidate from there.
Azamgarh was the SP bas-tion as Mulayam Singh Yadavwon the Lok Sabha electionsfrom Azamgarh in 2014 and in2019 also Akhilesh won com-fortably from there. In the by-election the SP had fieldedAkhilesh's cousin DharmendraYadav.
Mohammad Azam Khanhad won from Rampur in theLok Sabha election in 2019when the SP had an alliancewith the BSP and the RashtriyaLok Dal. In 2014, BJP's NepalSingh, a Lodhi, had won theRampur seat but with a thinmargin.
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They might be strong com-petitors in the Bhojpuri
film industry, vying for tophonours as singer-hero, but thetrio of Manoj Tiwari, RaviKishan and Dinesh Lal Yadav‘Nirahua’ will now be seensharing the treasury benches inthe Lok Sabha as members ofthe same political party BJP.
Though Tiwari who repre-sents North-East Delhi, andGorakhpur MP Kishan arealready popular faces in thecorridors of power, Nirahua isthe latest to make his entry bywinning Azamgarh Lok Sabhabypoll, the results of whichwere announced on Sunday.
The three stars of theBhojpuri film industry hadworked together in the movie‘Ganga Jamuna Saraswati’released in 2013.
Though there might beother factors also for Nirahuawinning the Azamgarh seat,his direct attack in his nowpopular style among the mass-
es because of his several out-ings in the Bhojpuri cinemawith Akhilesh hue fararNirahua datal rahe (Akhileshis absconding, Nirahua is dig-ging his heels in ) helped himget prompt reaction during hiscampaign trail. Nirahua, whogot a pan India identity thanksto his stint in the reality show‘Bigg Boss 6’, helped the rulingBJP not only in winning pop-ular support but also cut intothe base of the SamajwadiParty’s core Yadav vote bank.
Knowing well the supportbecause of his backgroundthat he got, Nirahua took toTwitter to thank his two col-leagues Kishan and Tiwari,terming both as ‘bade bhaiya’(big brother). “Honorable MPGorakhpur and Bhojpuri cin-ema’s superstar bade bhaiya@ravikishannji, I express myheartfelt gratitude to your trustand blessings. I promise youthat I will live up to the expec-tations of the respected peopleof Azamgarh,” he said throughhis official ‘Nirahua
Hindustani’ account. He alsomade a similar tweet thankingTiwari for his blessings.
From the same seat,Nirahua had lost to SP supre-mo Akhilesh Yadav in 2019Lok Sabha polls. After winningby over 8,000 votes, the actor-singer tweeted, People’s victo-ry! You have done wonders tothe people of Azamgarh. Thisis your victory. From the dayof announcement of the bypolldates, the way you all haveshowered love, support andblessings to the BJP this is itsvictory.
Speaking on the success ofBhojpuri actors in the electoralarena, Ravi Kishan said,“Bhojpuri samaj consists ofsome 25 crore people and alsocontributes to electing PM ofthe country.” On the recentback-to-back success of starslike him, Kishann said that alllike him are connected withthe masses and come fromhumble backgrounds andthanked PM Narendra Modifor recognising them.
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Hailing the performance ofher party candidate in the
recent Azamgarh parliamen-tary bypoll, Bahujan SamajParty president Mayawati, onMonday, asked party workers tokeep the momentum and pre-vent Muslims from being mis-led in the 2024 general elections.
“The determination andcourage with which all the BSPworkers, office-bearers andparty candidate Shah Alamalias Guddu Jamali have foughtthe Azamgarh Lok Sabha bypollneeds to be maintained till2024 Lok Sabha elections as partof the resolve while maintainingelection readiness,” Mayawatisaid in a tweet in Hindi.
In another tweet, she said,not only in Azamgarh, BSP'sstruggle and efforts had to be
continued in the entire UP toconvert the groundwork intovotes. “In this sequence, it is alsoimportant to protect a particu-lar community from being mis-led in the upcoming elections,”she said, in an apparent refer-ence to Muslim voters.
Mayawati had on Sundaysaid that the outcome of thebypoll had proved that only BSPhad the "ground force" to defeatthe Bharatiya Janata Party in thestate. “The UP bypoll result hasonce again proved that only BSP
has the ‘ground force’ to defeatBJP here. The party's effort toprove this to the entire commu-nity will continue so that themuch awaited political changecan take place in the state,” theBSP chief said.
She tweeted, "The rulingparty wins most of the bypollsyet the tough fight the BahujanSamaj Party has given to the rul-ing Bharatiya Janata Party andthe Samajwadi Party inAzamgarh is commendable. Allparty workers have to move for-ward with more strength."
The BSP contested only theAzamgarh bypoll. Party's candi-date Shah Alam alias GudduJamali stood third with 29.27per cent votes there. The BJPcandidates won both theAzamgarh and Rampur seats inthe bypolls, the counting forwhich were held on Sunday.
Lucknow (PNS): In a sensa-tional incident, two Nepaleseminor girls were gang-rapedin the Haraiyya area ofBalrampur district. The policehave arrested four youths inthis connection.Superintendent of Police,Balrampur, Rajesh Kumar,said the Gangsters Act and theNational Security Act wouldbe invoked on accusedRamchandra, Rajendra,Rakesh and Pintu.
The incident took placeon Sunday when the two girlsfrom Nepal's Dong districthad come to the weeklyManipur Bazaar in the borderarea, police said.
The four accused stoppedthem on the way and alleged-ly raped them in a forest. Thegirls went back to their homesand narrated the ordeal totheir family members afterwhich the families approachedthe Nepal Police which thenreached out to the Haraiyyapolice station. A case wasregistered and the arrests weremade, the SP said. The casewould be heard in a fast-
track court, he said. The girlswere sent for medical exami-nation and further investiga-tions are underway.
In another incident, a 13-year-old boy was killed by hiscolleagues over a petty disputein Moradabad. According to areport, Mohammad Raza (13)son of Rashid Ali, a residentof Chamraua, was a fifth stan-dard student in the primaryschool of the village. OnSunday morning, he left thehouse to attend tuition class-es. About a kilometer awayfrom the house, Raza got intoan argument with twoteenagers of the village. Bothcalled another friend. Afterthis, al l three attackedMohammad Raza. The stu-dent fainted after being bru-tally beaten up by his col-leagues.
Rashid claimed that heand his wife Rukhsana rushedto the spot after learning ofthe attack and found their sonlying unconscious and tookhim to a private hospital onDelhi Road but the doctorspronounced him dead.
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Uttar Pradesh is close tofully vaccinating 100 per
cent population in the 18-plusage category, according toState Immunisation OfficerDr Ajay Ghai. A total of14,24,63,191 doses have beengiven to beneficiaries above 18years of age, which means96.64 per cent of the popula-tion in this group has beenvaccinated.
Shahjahanpur is leading interms of the double dose cov-erage by vaccinating 24,38,590people (112% coverage), fol-lowed by Mainpuri at 107.53%coverage, Sultanpur 107.22%,Etawah 107.02%, GautamBuddha Nagar 106.59% andPilibhit 105.32%.
In Lucknow, as many as35,27,109 (94.52%) peoplehave been vaccinated.
Ghai said efforts are beingmade in some of the districts
which have not performedwell. “There are 12-15 districtswhere the vaccination cover-age is 80-92 per cent and thedrive needs to be expedited,”he said. About booster dosesgiven to those in the age groupof 18-59 years at private hos-pitals, he said the numbers arenegligible. “Most people are ofthe view that there is no needto go for booster shots andthey are not getting vaccinat-ed,” he said.
On whether there has
been any vaccine hesitancy insome particular community orgroup, Ghai said there is nosuch thing.
On the wastage of vac-cines, he said it has been with-in the standard limit. “Only incase of Corbevax vaccine,there has been 5% wastage inthe state but it is also withinthe standard limit,” he added.
He said once the vaccina-tion is completed, some vacci-nation centres will be closed.He pointed out that totaladverse reactions have beenless than 0.2%.
Meanwhile, OMAG(Organized MedicineAcademic Guild) secretary DrIshwar Gilada said the pace ofthe vaccination has been goodin Uttar Pradesh as well as inthe country. “India has donewell as compared to othercountries. It will help becauseif you are fully vaccinated, youare less likely to die of Covid,”he said.
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Speaking at the ‘UttarPradesh MSME Sammelan-
2022’ on Monday, DeputyChief Minister Brajesh Pathaksaid that the state governmentis taking necessary steps toattract investment and boostemployment opportunities,especially in the MSME sector.
He said their emphasis ison ease of doing business alongwith maintaining good lawand order. The two-day confer-ence has been organised by theAssociated Chambers ofCommerce and Industry ofIndia (ASSOCHAM) in associ-ation with the Ministry ofMSME, Government of India.
The conference, whichaims to develop cottage andsmall-scale industries andimprove their competitiveness,is being organised at a timewhen the country is celebratingthe ‘Amrit Mahotsav ofIndependence’.
Pathak laudedASSOCHAM for organisingthis conference for entrepre-neurs from within the countryand around the world inLucknow. He assured all pos-sible help to the industry bodyin its efforts to increase invest-ment in the state.
He said the government iscommitted to improving lawand order to create a betterenvironment for investors inthe state. “Entrepreneurs usedto shy away from investing inUP earlier but have startedinvesting in the state after thesituation has improved. Apartfrom having skilled manpow-er, there is also a huge market,”Pathak said.
The deputy CM added thatthe government has introduceda single-window system forthe convenience of entrepre-neurs so that all types of
approvals can be given to themat one place.
“For speedy settlement ofcommercial disputes, the UPgovernment has opened 13new commercial courts in thelast five years,” he pointed out.
He said the MSME sectorcontributes close to 50 percent of the country’s export sec-tor. “At the same time, this sec-tor accounts for about 30 percent of the country’s GDP. Insuch a situation, the role ofMSMEs becomes crucial inmaking India’s positionstronger in global trade,” he
added. Pathak also launchedthe ‘Dettol Diarrhoea Net Zero’campaign in a bid to make thestate free from diseases likediarrhoea and pneumoniaamong others.
Chairperson ofASSOCHAM National Councilon Business Facilitation andGlobal CompetitivenessSushma Paul Berlia said theMSME sector can help a lot inmaking the country self-reliantas around 11 crore people areemployed in 6.33 croreMSMEs.
She said that since theCovid pandemic, bottlenecks inthe supply side around theworld have led to the rise ofinflation. “This situation pro-vides better opportunities forMSMEs, where it can con-tribute to augment supply inthe sector, both domesticallyand internationally,” she added.
C o - c h a i r p e r s o n ,ASSOCHAM CSR, RaviBhatnagar emphasised onincreasing investments in theCSR sector in Uttar Pradesh.
He said that participationin every field is the need of thehour. Investment can beincreased with equal participa-tion from all so that it can leadto an increase in employmentopportunities.
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Lucknow received its firstpre-monsoon showers on
Monday. Though the rainsbrought relief from the scorch-ing weather, humidity made lifedifficult for people. The south-west monsoon is expected inthe city on May 28-29.
The skies turned overcast inthe afternoon and it startedraining in the evening. Theshowers continued for nearly an
hour. The state capital record-ed the maximum temperatureat 39.4 degree Celsius, whichwas 3.7 degrees above normal,while the minimum tempera-ture settled at 30 degree Celsius,which was 3.6 points above nor-mal. Met director JP Gupta saidthat the local forecast forTuesday is partly cloudy skywhile rains and thundershow-ers are likely in some areas.
The maximum and mini-mum temperatures are expect-
ed to be around 38 degreeCelsius and 29 degree Celsius,respectively.
Rains and thundershowersary likely at isolated placesover west UP and at manyplaces over eastern UP. Heavyto very heavy rains are likely atisolated places over easternUP while heavy rains are like-ly at isolated places over westUP. Thunderstorm accompa-nied by lighting is likely at iso-lated places over the state.
Lucknow (PNS): The LucknowDevelopment Authority haschanged its rules to dispose ofthe flats lying unsold in NehruEnclave in Gomti Nagar andGomti Nagar Extension. Withthe change in rules, the flatsand other properties will besold on the first-come-first-served basis rather thanthrough lottery draw.
However, the LDA admin-istration will continue to sellflats, residential & commer-cial plots and other propertiesin different housing schemesand sites in other parts of thecity through lottery system.
Secretary Pawan Gangwarsaid the LDA administration iskeen on disposing of the unsoldproperties at the earliest, oth-
erwise they would become aliability. Earlier, the LDAadministration had sold prop-erties in the Kanpur Roadhousing scheme on the first-come-first-served basis in 2019.
Over 70 per cent of prop-erties were sold but thereafterthe scheme was cancelled as theflats and residential plots weresold at lower rates. The moneycollected from the buyers wasreturned to them without anydelay. The secretary claimedthat the LDA administrationwould now ensure adequateprecautions under the newsystem to maintain transparen-cy. People can visit the headoffice in Gomti Nagar and buyflats of their choice afterdepositing money.
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Montessori School have beenselected for Kishore VaigyanikProtsahan Yojana (KVPYFellowship) of the Governmentof India. All these meritoriousstudents will be getting a totalof Rs 41,76,000 during theirhigher studies for five years.The meritorious students, whohave been awarded the KYPYfellowship are Saharsh Saxena,Videh Jha, Aditya Jaiswal,Aryashi Tripathi, DevanshBansal, Kanishk, KumarYashavi, Naman Mishra andRohan Chaturvedi.
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between the DCP (North) andtraders at the Faizabad Roadguest house to discuss the issueof encroachments in trans-
Gomti areas. The DCP noteddown all the problems men-tioned by the traders anddirected officials concerned tolook into the same. Traders ofAdarsh Vyapar Mandal point-ed out that the service road ofLekhraj Market remains fullwith samosa vendors. Theyalso pointed out that the furni-ture shops which had beenremoved under the anti-encroachment exercise carriedout by Nagar Nigam. Presidentof Adarsh Vyapar Mandal felic-itated the DCP, S Chinappa.
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annual training camp fornaval NCC cadets, a firingpractice event was conductedfor over 250 participants at 41Brigade Firing Range withspecial focus on girl cadets.
Over 80 young girl cadetscarried out firing practiceusing .22 rifle. The trainingteam for the firing activity wasled by Vimlesh Mishra of APSen Girls Inter College andKK Tiwari along with navalsailors JP Singh, Ankur Shuklaand Satish.
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programme on Divya Janani,‘Breast Feeding andComplementary Nutrition’ wasconducted at HeartfulnessInstitute in Lucknow. ICDSdirector Dr Sarika Mohan, incollaboration with state pro-gramme director ofHeartfulness Institute ShaliniMehrotra, organised this train-ing programme for 57 supervi-sors and CDPOs, chosen from75 districts of UP.
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A38-year-old man was killedin a road mishap in
Ashiyana around noon onMonday. The deceased wasidentified as Vijay KumarMaurya of Azad Nagar locali-ty in Sarojininagar. He wasgoing towards Kamta inChinhat for some work.
When he reached NewGudaura locality in Ashiyana,his bike was hit by an unidenti-fied vehicle. Commuters rushedhim to Lok Bandhu Hospitalwhere he was pronouncedbrought dead. After the hospi-tal staff sent a memo to thepolice, a team of cops reachedthere to collect details related tothe incident. The police contact-ed the deceased’s family and latersent the body for autopsy.
Meanwhile, a missing 34-year-old man was found deadin Kukrail canal on Mondayafternoon. The deceased was
identified as Piyush Singh ofKalyanpur. The incident trig-gered panic in the area whenlocals spotted the body floatingin the canal under Gudambapolice station. A police teamfished out the body with thehelp of local divers. Thedeceased was missing sinceSunday. Family members ofPiyush told the police that hehad gone swimming on Sundayafternoon but did not returnhome.
In another case, the bodyof an unidentified youth, agedaround 20 years, was recoveredfrom Kukrail drain near ShaktiNagar Dhaal in Ghazipurpolice station area on Mondayafternoon. A police spokesmansaid the identity of the deceasedcould not be ascertained. “Thebody appeared to be severaldays old and was beyondrecognition. Efforts are under-way to ascertain the identity ofthe deceased,” he said.
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arrested for threatening to killa Lucknow resident andrefused to pay back the moneyborrowed from him in GomtiNagar. As per reports,Naseeruddin of Nehru Enclavehad given Rs 5 lakh to hisacquaintance Arsh Mujahidof Navi Mumbai some timeback back. Mujahid hadpromised to return the moneyin two days.
After a week passed by,Naseeruddin demanded hismoney but Mujahid refused toreturn the money and threat-ened the former. Left with nooption, Naseeruddin lodged acase in this connection.Thereafter, Mujahid went intoa hiding. However, a teamworked on the case andnabbed the accused on theintervening night of Sundayand Monday from near afamous hotel in the area.
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Filmmaker Ram GopalVarma landed in soup for
his controversial remarksagainst NDA presidential can-didate Droupadi Murmu.
Additional DeputyCommissioner of Police(Central) Raghvendra Mishrasaid a case was registeredagainst Varma at theHazratganj police station onthe complaint of a local resident.
“If Draupadi is thePresident who are thePandavas? And more impor-tantly, who are the Kauravas?(sic), Varma had tweeted.
The additional deputycommissioner of police saidVarma was booked under sec-tions 295 (a), 501, 504, 505 1(b)of IPC and under IT Act on thecomplaint of Manoj Singh ofKursi Road in Aliganj. He saidan investigation is underway.
In his complaint, Singhsaid Varma’s derogatory com-ments against a presidentialcandidate had hurt the senti-ments of several like him.Varma is facing similar com-plaints against him in otherstates too. He had made thecomments in a tweet on June 22.
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Apetty dispute over 'rotis'cost the life of a youth
after he was brutally batteredto death, that too during hisbirthday, in Bareil ly onSunday. The killing also led tocommunal tension in the areaand a heavy police force wascamping there to prevent anyuntoward incident. The bodywas sent for autopsy andefforts were on to nab theprime accused.
The incident took place inChanehata area under theCantonment police station onSunday, when a restaurantowner, with his staff, thrashedone Sunny and his cousinBabloo. Both had to be admit-ted to a hospital.
Sunny had placed an orderfor 150 'rotis' to the restaurantin Chanehata area for hisbirthday party on Sunday andhad also made the payment.But when the owner sent only40 'rotis', Sunny, along with hiscousin, went to the restaurantand raised the matter with the
owner and got into an argu-ment with him, said the com-plaint filed by the father of thedeceased.
As the argument got heat-ed, Zeeshan, the owner of therestaurant , along with hisstaff attacked the two menwith sticks, leaving them crit-ically injured. Both wererushed to a hospital whereSunny succumbed to hisinjuries later in the night,while his cousin Babloo isundergoing treatment, policesaid. Two cousins of therestaurant owner and a work-er have been arrested and ahunt is on for Zeeshan,according to police.
In another shockingkilling reported from Balliadistrict, a youth killed hisfather with a sharp weaponover a land related dispute.The incident took place in theSikanderpur police stationarea late Sunday night. Thepolice sent the body for autop-sy and detained the son forinterrogation. According tothe reports, 60-year-old Lallan
Chaudhary, a resident ofAhirpurwa village of Bhatigram panchayat underSikanderpur police stationarea, was murdered late onSunday night by slitting histhroat with a sharp weapon.
Lallan Chaudhary wassleeping at the door of hisbrother, Rampravesh Yadav'shouse as usual and his elderson, Ajay Chaudhary, killedhim by slitting his throat witha sharp weapon.
On Monday morning, thefamily members found LallanChaudhary lying dead in apool of blood. The familymembers informed the policeabout this incident. SP DurgaPrasad Tiwari said that LallanChaudhary had made a landdeed in the name of the wifeof younger son SanjayChaudhary, due to which hiselder son Ajay Chaudhary andhis wife were angry. Accordingto Tiwari, the police havetaken Ajay Chaudhary intocustody and have also recovered the weapon used inthe crime.
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Lucknow (PNS): A 3-month trainingprogramme on dehydrated floral craftskicked off at CSIR-NBRI on Monday.The training programme is designedfor women empowerment under theDepartment of Scientific and IndustrialResearch (DSIR) sponsored projectentitled ‘Dehydrated flowers andfoliages for women empowerment’ incollaboration with an NGO workingfor street urchins and women empow-erment. Chief scientist and principalinvestigator of the project Dr SK Tewarisaid 23 women from different districtsare participating in the programme. Heelaborated on how this dehydrated crafttechnology can help women in theuplift of their economic status byincome generation.
Sachi Singh, social activist andfounder of the NGO, said the trainingprogramme would help in women
empowerment and financial indepen-dence. She expressed hope that in col-laboration with CSIR-NBRI, thetrainees would be made capable ofexporting artefacts.
Experts from CSIR-NBRI Dr AtulBatra and Dr Shweta Singh presentedtechnical details on collection and pro-cessing of fresh flowers and foliage.They also demonstrated how driedflowers can be used in preparation ofgreeting cards, landscapes, wall hang-ing, glass containers, tea coasters andfloral jewellery.
In this training programme, femaleparticipants will not only learn aboutthe preparation of various artefacts, butwill also get to know the use of impor-tant plants which are easily available inthe local climate. They will also learntheir collection, drying and its storageprocess.
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The Uttar Pradesh SarrafaAssociation has crossed
swords on government effortto extend hallmarking further.The delegation of theAssociation which metDefence Minister RajnathSingh in Delhi expressed con-cern over government decisionwhich was hitting them belowthe belt. The association in ameeting held on Mondaydecided to give furthermomentum to their agitationif the government did notstick to its previous decision toconfine hallmarking till theCentre.
Addressing the meeting
state president Mahesh C Jainsaid it was a matter of greatconcern that government hadmade a volte face on its deci-sion and was trying to ‘vic-timise’ the jewellers in small-er cities and towns. He saidthere was much resentmentamong association membersand thus the issue had beentaken up with Singh and it washoped that he would take it upwith the Central governmentand ensure that justice wasdone to the jewellers.
He said in the secondphase hallmarking had alsobeen made mandatory andwill cover additional threecaratages of goldjewellery/artefacts (ie 20, 23
and 24 carats) and 32 new dis-tricts had further been broughtunder this and thus anAssaying and HallmarkingCentre had been set up post-implementation of the firstphase. He said as per theCentral Government notifi-cation the order in this regardwas to come into force fromJune 1, 2022, and since thenparleys were going on with thejewellers and the governmentbut there continues to be astalemate in this regard.
He said it may be recalledthat the nodal agency Bureauof Indian Standards (BIS) hadsuccessfully implemented themandatory gold hallmarking in256 districts of the country
with effect from June 23, 2021,wherein more than three lakhgold articles were being hall-marked with Hallmark UniqueIdentification (HUID) everyday. He said the BIS had madea provision to allow a commonconsumer to get the purity oftheir unhallmarked gold jew-ellery tested at any of the BISrecognised AHCs.
The AHC was intended totake up the testing of gold jew-ellery from common con-sumers on priority and providea test report to them and thetest report issued to the con-sumer will assure about puri-ty of their jewellery and willalso be useful if the consumerwished to sell it.
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Vice-Chancellor (V-C) ofChandra Shekhar Azad
University of Agriculture andTechnology CSAUA&T), DrDR Singh paid floral tribute tothe Iron Man of India, SardarVallabhbhai Patel and unveiledthe bust of Patel at theAgricultural Museum. He saidit was the duty of every citizento emulate the great leaderand tread the path shown byhim. He said Patel believed thatreal India resided in villages. Hesaid Patel himself belonged toa rural background and hadplayed an important role inuniting India and making itstrong. He said Patel wasstrongly in support of promo-tion of agriculture and uplift offarmers. He appealed to the fac-ulty present there to ensurethey kept on adding theirresearch which can adorn themuseum of this varsity. Heemphasised on the need foradopting newer technologiesand digitalisation which alonecan cater to the needs of farm-ers and hungry people of thecountry.
He said the YogiGovernment had decided toensure that farming becamelucrative and brought in mas-sive profits to farmers as well.He said if farmers were happythe nation will also be happyand prosperous.
Director Research DrKaram Hussain expressing hisopinion over newer technolo-
gy said today robots and droneswere accelerating farm automa-tion by replacing manual farmoperations and added thatimagery from drones and satel-lites, coupled with GlobalPositioning System (GPS) pro-vided a high-resolution andlocation-specific view of thefield. He said pests and diseaseshad been an ongoing battle forfarmers. He said another areawas machine learning algo-rithms which have also beeneffective in assisting farmers tohit peak efficiency regardingthe application of chemicals toward off pests and diseases.
He said automation infarming was a key driver inmaking farms more efficient,meaning prices were reducedfor customers and environ-mental footprint of farms waslower and labour costs wereslashed. He said fromautonomous tractors and
robotic harvesters to automat-ic watering and seeding robots,an increasing number of tradi-tional agriculture companieswere starting to adopt farmautomation into their process-es.
Dr Hussain said modernagriculture technology hadestablished a firm grip on agri-cultural development over thelast decade.
Without this revolutionaryapproach to farming, efficien-cy in farms will deplete whilstcrops will continue to be pro-duced with devastating impactson the environment, destroyingthe scarce land that was neces-sary to continue to grow cropsfor years to come.
Among those present wereDr AK Singh, Dr Y Malik,Registrar, CL Maurya, DrDharamraj Singh and otherfaculty and officials of the varsity.
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Ateam of scientists andresearchers from the
Indian Institute of Technology(IIT), Kanpur, has developeda solar energy-based root zoneheating system and vermi-bed method for plants in high-altitude areas. The novel tech-nology has been developedkeeping in view the scarcity offresh vegetables or agricultur-al produce and the lack ofeffective organic waste man-agement in high altitude areaslike the Leh-Ladakh region.The team comprising ProfMukesh Sharma, Prof AnubhaGoel and MTech student,Anshul Rawat, have beengranted patent for this devel-oped technology.
Prof Sharma informedthat the crisis of fresh vegeta-bles especially for defenceforces deployed at high alti-
tude, especially winters, madeagriculture difficult. He saidthis issue was further com-pounded due to increasedtourism in those areas as thedemand for vegetablesincreased. He said the regionfaced a severe scarcity of freshvegetables leading to increasedfood miles of fresh food sup-ply, adverse impact on envi-ronment and economic lossesdue to perishable nature ofvegetables.
Prof Anubha said anothermajor challenge faced in high-altitude areas was organicwaste management as its dis-posal was a critical issue in theregions of sub-zero tempera-tures. She said if organicwastes like food waste was dis-posed of in a landfill, it rotsand becomes a significantsource of methane, a green-house gas. She said poorwaste management– ranging
from non-existing collectionsystem to ineffective disposal–caused air pollution, waterand soil contamination. Shesaid now this waste can beextremely beneficial whenconverted into compost andcan be used for growinghealthier plants, but was notfeasible under extremely lowtemperature.
Director, IIT-K Prof.Abhay Karandikar, said, “thehigh- altitude areas pose somecrucial problems when itcomes to availability of freshproduce and organic wastemanagement, especially forour defence forces that requirea good amount of fresh pro-duce in their daily diet.” Headded that due to climate andweather conditions, it was dif-ficult to avail fresh produceyear-long. He congratulatedthe whole team for their inno-vative invention and for taking
a step further in sustainableresearch and developmentpractised at IIT Kanpur.
Speaking on the technol-ogy, Anshul Rawat said it wasa greenhouse (polyhouse)plantation of vegetables and aprovision of the heating rootzone of the plants.
He said the root zoneheating was scientifically stud-ied and modelled by laying anetwork of GI (GalvanisedIron) pipes below the groundcarrying solar-heated waterand by integrating aluminumsheet fins with the buried GIpipes to enhance the heattransfer.
He said a significant tem-perature increase (7oC to18oC) in soil was achieved,depending upon the temper-ature of hot water being flowninside the GI pipes whichraised temperature and helpedplants grow faster and health-
ier. Dr Sharma said to resolvethe issue of waste manage-ment, on-site treatment oforganic waste by vermicom-posting was also carried outinside the polyhouse in a pit,wherein additional heat wasprovided to the vermi-bed byrunning hot water throughburied rubber pipes.
He said this technologyhad unified organic wastemanagement practice withagriculture and the technolo-gy can assist our troopsdeployed in high-altitude areasby making them self-reliant toa large extent in terms offresh food supply by growingdesired vegetables in a protect-ed environment like a green-house with solar-operated rootzone heating and at the sametime, it will assist in managingthe organic waste generated bymaintaining high-temperaturevermicomposting.
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District Magistrate VisakhG Aiyer address ing
presspersons on Mondayinformed that officials ofFood Safety and DrugAdministration had collect-ed samples from six shopsand sent to Agra laboratoryfor testing.
He said the report hadarrived where all the six sam-ples failed the laboratory test.
He said thus on the basis ofthe report the administrationhad found that the productswere unsafe for human con-
sumption and thus their licencewas cancelled.
He said in view of thismore samples were being col-lected from the shops of thecity. Food Safety and DrugAdministration, Uttar Pradesh,was the prime organisation ofconsumer protection.
The edible items whichwere being prepared all overwere under the direct controlof FSDA and the FIs wereempowered to collect samplesof food and drugs from anyshop in a surprise raid. Theteam had carried out raids on
umpteen shops out of the totalsix samples failed the test andthus the administration can-celled the licence of the shops.
The DM has said that ithad been decided to collectsamples in a big way especial-ly to protect the interest of theconsumers.
F E L I C I TAT E D : T h eBrahmvarta BundelkhandTourism Corporation andMuskuraye Kanpur felicitat-ed all those who had playeda major role in promotingtourism. The award wasgiven for their untiring
efforts in promoting tourismand giving Kanpur an iden-tity.
The funct ion waspresided over by CabinetMinister Pratibha Shukla.MP, Satyadev Pachauri wasalso present on the occasionalong with Arun Pathak andseveral others.
The programme was suc-cessful ly conducted byShikha Shukla and PankajSrivastava.
Noted orthopaedic sur-geon Dr AS Prasad was alsopresent.
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Chief Medical Officer(CMO) Dr Nepal Singh
while addressing the familyplanning camp said vasectomywas far easier and less compli-cated as compared to tubecto-my and was far more safer andthus the onus rested on malemembers to adopt this familyplanning method. He said asper the records in 2021-22, 132vasectomies were performedand added that apart from thisother contraceptives werenowadays being adopted in abig way. He said there was aneed to keep the family smallas it had many benefits. He said
the Health Department as perthe UP Government was tak-ing up family planning cam-paigns in a big way.
He said family planningprogrammes had made vastprogress in Uttar Pradesh andmore emphasis was being laidon male engagement thatmight result in better out-comes, especially in countrieswith strong patriarchal soci-eties.
He said four prominentfactors that had been identifiedwere socioeconomic motiva-tions which drove men’s inter-est in family planning. He saidmen strongly disapprove ofunilateral decisions by women
to use family planning, mis-conceptions surroundingmodern methods can hindersupport for family planningand limited method choice formen, insufficient venues toreceive services and few mes-sages that target men createbarriers for male engagementin family planning.
Dr Nepal Singh said theUP government had decidedto engage men in family plan-ning programmes and thus ithad been decided to educatemen on socioeconomic andhealth benefits of family plan-ning while explaining possibleside effects and dispellingmyths. He said to help buildtrust and facilitate open com-munication, family planningprogrammes that encouragedcounselling of husbands intheir homes by communityhealth workers, trusted men orcouples who have successful-ly used or were currently usingfamily planning to achievetheir desired family size willbenefit a great deal. NodalOfficer, FP, Dr SK Singh saidgender inequality, rooted incultural norms and lack ofmale involvement, continuedto cause poor family planningpractices statewide.
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Cash and valuables wortharound Rs 4 lakh were
stolen from a farmer’s house inSen Pashchim Para villageunder Vidhnu police stationarea late on Sunday night.Farmer Ram Gopal Diwakar ofSen Pashchim Para village saidon Sunday night he was sleep-ing at the door of his housewhile his wife, daughter,younger son and daughter-in-law were sleeping on therooftop. His elder son anddaughter-in-law had gone to arelative’s place in Bilhaur. Latein the night miscreantsclimbed onto the rooftop withthe help of a ladder, broke openthe locks of both the sons’rooms and took away jewelleryworth around Rs 3 lakh fromthe almirahs. From the thirdroom, they took away a boxcontaining Rs 90,000 cashreceived against sale of a buf-falo two days ago. Miscreantsremoved the cash and dumpedthe empty box in a field in theoutskirts of the village.Villagers Radheylal Rajput,Ramu Singh, Shailendra Singh,Sushil Sahu, Mayank Kumar,
Pradip Kumar and PawanDiwakar said the police out-post situated in the villagehad always been found lockedfor the past three years.Villagers have to go to thePolice Help Centre at PaharpurGalla Mandi, about 25 kmaway from the village, for lodg-ing complaint of any crime,they said. SO Amit KumarMishra said on the basis ofcomplaint, investigation will becarried out. He will also ascer-
tain the reason for lock on theoutpost in the village.
SUPPORT FOR AGNI-PATH SCHEME: Director andco-founder of Corpseed ItesVipan Thakur extended hissupport in favour of new armyrecruitment scheme launchedby Government of India. In histweet, he stated that “We atCorpseed will be pleased toadd our small part in theAgnipath scheme by providingjob opportunities to the
Agniveers in our organisationas much as possible dependingupon our capabilities as werecognise the potential, hon-esty and discipline of a youngsoul who served the nation forfour years.” Many Industryleaders like Mahindra Group,TATA Sons, RPG Group camein support of this new recruit-ment scheme by promisingjob opportunities to the armyveterans after four years, headded.
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Samiti, Kanpur division, are onthe warpath. At a generalmeeting held here at theRawatpur Roadways Bus Standon Sunday, leaders announcedto launch agitation in Augustin Delhi which included indef-inite dharna-demonstrationand blocking of roads till thesettlement of their demands.Speaking on the occasion,national advisor Rajesh KumarShukla called upon all themembers to make the ensuingstate convention to be held inVaranasi on July 21 a grandsuccess. National SecretaryOm Shanker Tewari saiddespite repeated meetings andfollow ups, the governmenthad failed to settle theirdemands so far. These includ-ed the increase in pensionamount to Rs 7,500 per month,payment of dearnessallowance; free medical facili-ty and inclusion of pensionersin higher salary and higherpension scheme according toSupreme Court judgement.Other leaders Sunder LalPandey, Kripa Shanker Shukla,Sudhir Kumar Mishra, SudhaNigam and PC Mishra alsoaddressed the gathering.Prominent leaders present onthe occasion were HariShanker Shukla, ON Bajpai,Ram Prakash Gupta, AbdulRauf, SK Dixit, DN Shukla,
Har Prasad Shukla, OP Shukla,Rama Kant Sahan, MohdIsmail, Ramesh Yadav aliasMama, Jitendra Pal, Afsar Ali,KK Mishra, KP Verma,Chandra Prakash, DharmpalSingh, Shakoor Ahmad, RajivMishra and Jageshwar Prasad.Besides, Jairup Singh Pariharconducted the proceedings. TWO BOOKS RELEASED:The sons of noted litterateurand poet Dr Ram KumarTripathi released two books‘Gaao Man Ke Geet Priye’ and‘Har Disha Viksit Kamal Jyo’, acollection of his poetries, to
pay floral tribute to their fatherat a function organised atRamlila Ground, Saket Nagar,on Sunday.
Elder son Rakesh ShankerTripathi and Dr Anuja Tripathihighlighted the ideals of thepoet. Chief guest MP SatyadevPachauri, said sons of the poet- Rakesh, Dinesh, Rajesh,Awadhesh, Nishesh andBrijesh - had paid him the realtribute by releasing the collec-tion of his poetries in theshape of two books. Formerstate minister Bal ChandMishra chaired the function.
Former mayor and MP CaptJagatvir Singh Drone and MLCArun Pathak highlighted thedevotion and role of Dr RamKumar Tripathi as SanghChalak of RSS. MaheshTrivedi, Surendra Maithani,Saroj Kureel (MLAs), RavindraPatni, Prem Arora, Bina Arya,Prakash Pal, Gaurang Dixit,Vikas Gupta, Liladhar, AnkurDixit and Yogendra Sachanwere present.
Dr Anuja Tripathi con-ducted the proceedings whileAwadhesh Tripathi proposedthe vote of thanks.
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Senior Vice PresidentJustice Rajesh Kumar, whileexplaining the background ofthe formation of the council,drew attention to the problemsof senior citizens and said thatfacilities would be provided bytaking a permanent building.
Secretary CA (Dr) NavinChandra Agrawal informedthat the council has been reg-istered under Section 12A and80G of Income Tax. It was alsodiscussed that according tothe trust deed, additional coun-cil members would be made inaddition to the trustees, whowould participate in fulfillingthe objectives of the trustthrough various committeessuch as medical committee, lawcommittee etc. The programwill be organized on the day ofSenior Citizens Day on August21. The council includesRavinder Kumar Gupta, SatpalGulati, Dr. Vinay KrishnaAgarwal, Dinesh KumarRastogi, Dr. Gopal KrishnaGupta as trustees.
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During the investigation,the police got information aboutthe presence of truck cleanerRajkamal of Chattisgarh nearTengda turn in Ramnagar wait-ing for a vehicle.
The cops swung into actionand succeeded in arresting thetruck cleaner and also recovereda sharp-eyed weapon used inthe crime.
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VARANASI (PNS): The socialactivists on Monday staged aprotest against the arrest ofsenior social activist and lawyerTeesta Setalvad and formerIPS officer RB Sreekumar anddemanded their immediaterelease. Under the banner ofNagrik Samaj, Varanasi, scoresof social activists gathered atShastri Ghat here and staged a
protest against the arrest ofsenior social activist and lawyerTeesta Setalvad and formerIPS officer RB Sreekumar.
After the Supreme Courtupheld the SIT clean chit to 64including the then Gujarat CMand the PM Narendra Modi in2002 riot case in Gujarat, theGujarat police arrested TeestaSetalvad and RB Sreekumar
without any warrant, the agita-tors blamed. Teesta Setalvadbecame the voice of Gujaratriot victims and fought forgetting justice to them, theysaid and blamed that the policearrested her and former policeofficer illegally and unconstitu-tionally. The arrest of both is ajolt for those who believe indemocracy and Constitution,
they added. They demandedthe immediate release ofSetalvad and Sreekumar, with-drawal of fake cases lodgedagainst social activists and stopthe house arresting of humanright activists. Muniza,Ramjanam, Nandlal Master,Prem Kumar, Ranju Singh,Aflatoon and others joined theprotest.
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Congressmen on Mondaystaged a dharna in protest
against the Agnipath recruit-ment scheme and demandedthe government to roll backthe new scheme in armedforces.
On the directive of theAICC general secretary and in-charge of party affairs in UPPriyanka Gandhi Vadra, theworkers of the city unit of theCongress Party gathered atTown Hall in Maidagin hereand staged a dharna to raisetheir protest against theAgnipath recruitment schemein the armed forces.
The present government atCentre has crushed down thedreams of the youths by intro-ducing the new recruitmentscheme who have seen dreamof flourishing their career in thearmy and serve the nation, theagitated Congressmen blamed,adding that the government hasplayed with the future of theyouths by introducing con-tractual recruitment for four
years in the forces by endingregular recruitment policy. Thenew scheme is not only fatal forthe future of youths but also forthe security of the country, theyblamed further.
The new recruitmentscheme in armed forcesshowed the ill intention of the
government regarding thefuture of youths, the agitatorsblamed and added that theparty would not tolerate anyattempt to play with the futureof youths and continue it’sfight for their cause until thescheme is withdrawan. Theydemanded the roll back of the
scheme in the larger interest ofyouths.
The city president of theparty Raghvendra Chaubey ledthe dharna while many joinedit including Rajesh Gupta,Durga Prasad Gupta, FasahatHussein Babu, Pramod Vermaand Arvind Kumar.
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)on Monday held a pro-
gramme in party office inRohaniya here to celebrate theparty victory in the bypoll inparliamentary constituenciesAzamgarh and Rampur.
The BJP leaders and work-ers offered sweets to each oth-ers and danced on the beats ofdhol and nagada. Extending hiscongratulation to the partyworkers on the victory of partycandidates in byelections inAzamgarh and Rampur parlia-mentary constituencies, theBJP regional president MaheshChandra Srivastava said thatthe victory was the result of theworks done by the govern-ments of double engine beingled by the PM Narendra Modiat Centre and the CM YogiAdityanath in the state in thepublic interest and the untiringefforts of the party workers.
The victory in Azamgarhand Rampur, said to be fortressof the Samajwadi Party, hasstrengthened the people truston the leadership of the PMModi and the CM Yogi,Srivastava said, acting that theparty is determined to serve thepeople and the development of
the people is the goal of thegovernment. The victory showsthat the people have rejectedthe politics of those who makepolitics of familism and dynas-tic and entrusted their trust on
the politics of developmentand progress, he said andadded that this victory was atrailor of 2024 elections. TheRohaniya MLA Sunil Patel,Zila Panchayat Chairperson
Poonam Maurya, the districtpresident of BJP HanshrajVishwakarma, Navratan Rathi,Vineeta Singh, Rouni Vermaand many others were presenton the occasion.
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Torch Relay for the 44thChess Olympiad was given
warm welcome by the districtadministration and the DistrictChess Association when itreached the city on Monday.
When the chess playersTejas Barkare and AvantikaAgrawal reached the city withtorch relay on a decoratedvehicle, the district administra-tion and the District ChessAssociation accorded warmwelcome.
A token chess competi-tion was also held at GandhiAdhyayan Peeth auditoriumin Mahatma Gandhi KashiVidyapith and thereafter, thenational president of All IndiaChess Federation SanjayKapoor handed over the torchto the Vice-Chancellor of uni-versity Prof Anand KumarTyagi.
The V-C handed over thetorch to chess players TejasBarkare and Avantika Agrawal.The torch relay left the city forAyodhya later.
It is learnt that the PrimeMinister Narendra Modi had
flagged off the first-ever torchrelay on June 19 in New Delhifor the 44th Chess Olympiad to
be held from July 28 to August10 in Chennai.
The torch relay reached the
city from Prayagraj and it willcover 75 districts to reachChennai on July 28.
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Ajoint team of excise, SOG,SWAT and Kachhawaan
police led by CO SadarShailendra Tripathi arrestedtwo liquor smugglers andrecovered 200 boxes of liquoron Sunday. Kachhawaan policewas tipped off by an informeron Saturday evening that aDCM truck was standing at adhaba near Katka village.Kachhawaan police informedCO police concerned. COShailendra Tripathi formed ateam and raided the place.During the search police foundtwo persons sleeping in the
cabin and a huge quantity ofliquor was loaded in the truck.During interrogation they saidthat they were going to Bihar.Police arrested the accused,seized the vehicle under MVAct and recovered the liquoralong with two mobile phones.
The accused were identi-fied as Badshah Ali, a residentof Hisar, Haryana, and Satpala resident of Bahadurgarh,Jhajjar, Haryana.
On the recommendation ofthe CO the SP announced areward of �15,000 for the team.
CONFERENCE: Nationalpresident Akhil BhartiyaAgrahari Samaj Subhash
Chandra Agrahari while pre-siding over the national confer-ence of the community onSunday appealed to help theneedy for higher educationwhich was the need of the hour.He said there was no place ofdowry in a cultured society. Itwas the need of the hour thatveterans become example firstand then pursue others, headded. To encourage talent thepresident appealed to the com-munity to honour successfulaspirants of any examination orcompetition who earn laurelsby securing remarkable place.He said felicitation pro-grammes might inspire other
aspirants to work hard toachieve the goal. DivyanshiAgrahri from Fatehpur whohad recently topped in theIntermediate examinationsconducted by UP Board washonoured. The programmewas conducted by all India gen-eral secretary of the organisa-tion Ashok Agrahari and thevote of thanks was proposed byGanesh Agrahri, convener ofthe programme. Those whoworked hard for the success ofthe programme were PankajAgrahari, Sulekha Agrahari,Krishna Kumar Agrahari,Rajesh Agrahri, Asha Agrahariand Kali Charan.
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The pace of COVID-19infection in Prayagraj has
increased in the second week ofJune. Earlier one or two peoplewere getting infected everyday , now this number hascrossed 10. More than 60 peo-ple have been infected andthree people have died sinceJune 1.
However, the doctors havenot considered the cause ofdeath to be corona as theinfected people were alreadysuffering from serious dis-eases. This situation may con-tinue. People who are alreadysick need more to avoid coro-na infection. Whereas all oth-ers will have to repeat thesame lesson to avoid corona,which have been able to staysafe before .
In the case of the fourth
wave of corona infection, theforecast of experts has startedappearing. The pace of infec-tion is increasing continuous-ly in Prayagraj. Patients areincreasing day by day foralmost a week. There is no needto panic about corona, do notbe careless about corona guide-lines and follow the advice ofdoctors. The guidelines issuedby the government have beensuccessful in avoiding the waythe pandemic hit in the earlystages. Wearing a mask, keep-ing two yards distance andhand sanitisation have paidoff and as a result, the deathsdue to the coronavirus infec-tion were not even one percentof population. In the fourthwave, the infection has startedspreading rapidly while theseriousness about avoiding it isin hardly one or two percent ofthe people.
Corona infection can hap-
pen anywhere, anytime. Theweather is changing, the rainyseason is also beginning.Doctors say that the coronamay increase at this time andtherefore, it is not safe toassume that if the double doseof vaccine has been adminis-tered, corona infection cannotbe caused. Do not go anywherein a crowd and neither stay veryclose to each other and do notuse other used clothes, glasses,towels, food items etc.
Dr Sujit Verma, physicianand Covid WardSuperintendent of SwaroopraniNehru Hospital, has said that itis most important to wear amask because corona infectionis more likely to be contractedfrom the mouth and nose.While going to hospitals, avoidtouching counters, chairs, rail-ings, etc. In Prayagraj, 11 peo-ple contracted corona infectionin the last 24 hours. The rate of
infection is increasing contin-uously. The situation is increas-ing day by day for almost aweek.
Meanwhile, 17 new infect-ed patients were found in thelast 24 hours in Pratapgarh dis-trict. This is the highest num-ber of this month. This has cre-ated panic in the health depart-ment. Now number of coronainfected in the district hasreached 35. 29 patients havebeen home isolated , the resthave become healthy.
CMO Dr AK Srivastavasaid that people are being madeaware to avoid corona. Peopleshould get tested in case offever , body ache . Every dayinvestigation is being done atPratap Bahadur Hospital CHCand railway station. Peoplethemselves have to be careful.Now seeing the increasing paceof infection , the resources ofprevention will be revamped.
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Sensation prevailed due to adouble murder in Karchana
area of Yamunapar on Monday.Santosh , a resident of Dharivillage , was strangled to deathlate on Sunday night. Rambabu, who was trying to escape thescene after murdering Santosh, was caught by the villagers andwas thrashed fiercely. Seriouslyinjured Rambabu died on
Monday morning . This causedpanic in the village . Police offi-cers reached the spot on gettinginformation and reviewed thesituation.
It was told that Rambabu ofPachdevra village was having alove affair with the wife ofSantosh, a resident of Dhari vil-lage of Karchana police stationarea. When Rambabu went tomeet her on Sunday night, thehusband caught him red-hand-
ed. On being caught, Rambabustrangled Santosh to death andtried to escape, but the villagerscaught him and thrashed himfiercely . He was taken to CHC, where doctors declared himbrought dead .
SP, Yamunapar, SaurabhDixit told reporters that thematter of illicit relationshiphas come to fore. Based on theinvestigation necessary actionwill be taken after registering a
case . Santosh's wife and broth-er are being questioned.Santosh and Rambabu used towork as laborers . Both were 40years old. It is said thatRambabu was staying atSantosh's house for the last sixmonths. During this , the lovebetween Rambabu andSantosh's wife developed.Santosh's brother Brijesh hasaccused his sister- in-law andher lover of murder.
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In a tragic incident, two peo-ple were killed while one sus-
tained grave injuries in a roadaccident which occurred inGhurpur area of Yamunapar onMonday morning. A brick-laden tractor-trolley rammedinto the bike. As a result, twopeople on the bike died in theaccident while one was injured.A mother-daughter duo wasamong those who died. Peoplebecame infuriated after theaccident and resorted to chak-ka jam on the NationalHighway. The police, whoreached the spot on getting theinformation managed the situ-ation after persuading the iratemob with assuring them to nabthe accused at the earliest,.
The accident occurred onMonday morning nearChitupur petrol pump underGhurpur police station ofPrayagraj. Akoda residentJunaid Siddiqui, along with28-year-old pregnant wife Sabaand daughter Maryam, wasgoing back to his in- laws’house after taking medicinesfrom Karma Bazaar.
According to eyewitnesses,the brick-laden tractor-trolley
suddenly went out of controlnear the Chitupur petrol pumpand hit the bike from behind.After the collision, all three ofthe bike riders fell on the road.Mother and daughter i.e. Shabaand Maryam died on the spot.Local people informed thepolice and took the injured tothe hospital for treatment.
On the other hand, thelocal people got angry after the
accident and resorted to chak-ka jam. After getting the infor-mation, the police of Ghurpurpolice station reached the spot.Seeing the crowd getting furi-ous, the force of many otherpolice stations were also calledon the spot to bring the situa-tion under control.
The family members ofthe deceased and the villagersdemanded of early arrest of the
absconding tractor trolley dri-ver and compensation to thenext of the kin.
The agitated people calmeddown after Karchana CircleOfficer Rajesh Yadav andGhurpur police station in -charge Chirag Jain assuredspeedy action. After this thepolice took the dead bodies intheir possession and sent themfor postmortem .
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Prayagraj violence have beenarrested. In search of others, thepolice is continuously con-ducting raids at places. On theother hand, Prayagraj SSP AjayKumar Pandey has announceda reward of Rs 25,000 on theheads of the five accusedinvolved in the violence.
These accused are 1- UmarKhalid son of Sayyed Mazharresident of Shahganj , 2- FazalKhan (corporator) son ofRamanand Singh resident ofKarelabagh, 3- Ashish Mittalson of Vimal Chandra Mittal
resident of Lohia Marg CivilLine 4- Jisan Rahmani son ofHakim Ahmed resident ofAmrauli 5- Shah Alam(AIMIM District President)son of Syed Mahmood Ahmed,resident of Karaili.
It may be pointed out herethat notice has been pasted bythe PDA at house number-37/18J located in Gausnagar,Kareli, regarding the house ofthe brother of AIMIM districtPresident Shah Alam, who wasinvolved in the Prayagraj vio-lence. This house belongs to
Syed Maqsood, brother ofAIMIM district president ShahAlam. His brother Shah Alamalso lives in this house. If thereply is not received accordingto the notice, then the PDA willtake demolition action. Thisnotice, issued on June 14, waspasted at the house of SyedMaqsood on June 24. A noticehas been issued on behalf ofAjay Kumar, Zonal Officer ofZone-2 of this PDA, underSection 27(1) of the UttarPradesh Town Planning andDevelopment Act 1973.
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The visuals of MLAs staying in five-star hotels and making themselves merrymock the people of Assam struggling tocope with the floods. Nobody thinks thatthe internecine revolt has anything evenremotely to do with public service whichthe elected representatives are supposed toperform. It is a fond wish that the money,time and effort expended on politicalmachinations and intrigues could havebeen channelled into tackling issues affect-ing the lives of people. Whatever grievancesthe rebel MLAs had, they could have raisedthem in party forums. Instead, they choseto hobnob with the BJP for a change ofGovernment.
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�� ����� ��� ��������Sir — Politics is like a game of chess andeach and every move counts and that tooin bypolls for parliamentary seats seek aphenomenal power game to win presti-gious seats. Both Azamgarh and Rampurwere considered bastions of the SamajwadiParty in its own right. Moreover, Rampuris the stronghold of Azam Khan and so itis of prime importance to pocket the seat.The BJP did good spadework under YogiAdityanath and that resulted in a winningspree for the ruling party. It was revealedtime and again and the margin of victoryrevealed the real story. The UP CM attrib-uted the win to the public welfare schemes
of his ‘double engine’ Government.In a setback to the Samajwadi Party but
a bigger personal jolt for senior party leaderAzam Khan, BJP candidate GhanshyamSingh Lodhi won the Rampur Lok Sabhabyelection by defeating SP nominee andKhan’s long-time associate Asim Raja bya margin of over 42,000 votes. In Tripura,the BJP won three out of four seats withChief Minister Manik Saha emerging vic-torious in his first-ever direct electoral bat-tle from the Town Bardowali constituen-cy. The BJP alsowon the Jubarajnagar and Surma seats inthe Tripura bypolls.
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�������� ������� ���Sir — The National Doctor’s Day in Indiais celebrated on July 1 every year. The dayhonours doctors for their relentless servicethroughout the year. In India, Doctors' Dayis celebrated to honour the legendary DrBidhan Chandra Roy, who was also the sec-ond Chief Minister of West Bengal. This
day serves to show gratitude to all thosewho have selflessly aided us in our time ofneed and tirelessly worked for the healthof their patients. With the number ofinfected people on the rise every day andhospitals teeming with hundreds ofpatients, it has never been more importantto appreciate the efforts that doctors maketo ensure that we recover from whatevermay be ailing us and continue to remainhealthy.
Doctors’ Day is an opportunity tothank all the heroes in the medical frater-nity for their selfless contribution. They areworking round the clock to cure peoplefrom whatever sickness they may be suf-fering from. Instead of thinking about theirown safety and their family’s, they choseto serve the nation. Kudos to their spiritand dedication that they continued to workuntiringly in the hours of crisis!
Jubel D’Cruz | Mumbai
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alists. It is believed that onaccount of its religious charac-teristic, civil society couldmerge as an effective actor inPakistan, as against the west-ern model, to influence civiclife and State. Nonetheless,from a functional perspectivebased on traditional model ofregulating civic life, communi-ty action and counter-balancethe Sate’s excess, civil society inPakistan has shown someeffectiveness.
Civil society’s activismin the past: Despite the com-plexities, spurts of civil society’sactivism have been discernible,particularly in terms of effect-ing a democratic transitionprocess and to bring aboutregime changes — bothauthoritarian and democratic.Civil society’s role in the anti-Ayub and anti-Musharraf agi-tation as well as during theGovernment of Zulfikar AliBhutto is noteworthy. Themost vibrant role and activismof civil society was seen dur-ing lawyers’ movement(‘Adliya Bachao Tehreek’ orSave Judiciary Movement) in2007 when they stood againstthe dictatorship of Musharrafto restore autonomy of thejudiciary and democracy.
Civil society and ‘tepid’activism: Today, on account ofthe political reality in Pakistan
marked by continued militarycontrol, the civil society hasbeen forced to shy away frompro-activism displayed episod-ically in the past in terms ofraising awareness among itscitizens and promoting demo-cratic participation.
While Pakistan’s peoplecontinue to be perturbed aboutimportant issues like corrup-tion and unemployment, thecivil society seems to be lack-ing any constructive debateand meaningful pro-activism.Does such tepid activism rein-force the perception that thecivil society is driven either byvested interests or is political-ly partisan acting under theinfluence of the military, polit-ical parties and other interestgroups? Or, is it a reflection ofthe absence of ‘free space’ forcivil society to thrive inPakistan? The answers to allthese questions continue toperplex everyone, sometimesraising questions on the sus-tainability of democracy in thecountry.
Breaking the silence:Although civil society inPakistan displayed ’sporadicpresence’ through demonstra-tions and rallies, majorly spear-headed by the Opposition,against the Imran KhanGovernment, such activismhas lost the earlier vigour. In
order to sustain and consoli-date democracy in its true spir-it, it will not be sufficient forcivil society to break the silenceby simply demonstrating onthe streets but independentlyspearheading and steeringsuch rallies per se to promotethe real purpose of its existenceand responsibilities like in thepast, and adopting a more pro-active approach to effect mean-ingful changes. It has to act asthe prime conduit for thedemands of the people,restrain the misuse of power ofState and serve as a citadel ofdemocracy. At the same time,the Government should alsorefrain from suppressing thediverse voices and interestsexpressed though the civilsociety. In any healthy democ-racy, a positive Oppositionand a culture of debate and dis-sent is necessary for civil soci-ety to flourish and democra-cy to nurture.
It is only when bothPakistan Government and civilsociety understand theirresponsibilities and collaboratepositively that democracy willsustain and consolidate itselfand prevent the country’sdescent into a failed State.
(The author is SeniorConsultant, Indian Councilfor Cultural Relations. The
views expressed are personal.)
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Astrong and durable demo-cratic Government is pos-sible only when it and the
civil society play a collaborativerole in upholding the spirit ofdemocratic ethos and spreadingawareness about the value ofdemocratic participation. In fact,civil society has a major role toplay to promote and consolidatedemocracy by acting as a linkbetween the people and theGovernment. Therefore, it is con-sidered the ‘third space’ betweenpeople and the State, incorporat-ing the dimension of pluralismand diversity.
The civil society’s activism inPakistan, however, appears to beat times erratic and compro-mised. It is also argued that thefundamental obstacle in the pathof development and democrati-sation of civil society there is dueto the confluence of ‘military rule’and ‘religion’.
Pakistan’s civil society — Acomplex matrix: Civil society inPakistan appears to be complex,assuming a sui generis characterover the years. This complexitymust be viewed in the context ofrepeated military interventionsand influence of religion. In fact,civil society in Pakistan compris-es muti-stakeholders includingnon-governmental organisations(NGOs), community-basedorganisations, think tanks, tradeunions, cultural groups, religiousgroups and informal citizenorganisations.
Pakistani scholarMohammad Qadeer aptly cate-gorises its sui generis nature intotwo tracks. One is the modernsecular track and the other is thetraditional ideological track. Thefirst track constitutes the urban,modern, liberal/secular and edu-cated section which includesNGO, civil society organisationsand professionals advocatinghuman rights through confer-ences, seminars and protestmarches. The traditional is con-stituted by primordial ties and tra-ditional base of religious civil soci-ety and is protected from State’sintrusion. This segment compris-es mosques, seminaries,Islamic/ethnic/territorial seg-ments of students and labourunions, rural groups, bazaartraders and small-town industri-
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Is the ongoing Maharashtrapolitical crisis an ideologicalbattle within the Shiv Sena or
the inability of MaharashtraChief Minister UddhavThackeray to convince hisSainiks about his soft Hindutva?Or is it the BJP's ambition toeliminate all non-BJP govern-ments? Or is it for the realign-ment of political forces? It is per-haps a combination of all.
When Uddhav headed theMVA coalition Government in2019, doubting Thomases werebusy speculating how long hisgovernment would last. It wasbecause of the heterogeneousnature of the coalition. True totheir prediction, Uddhav hasbeen facing crisis after crisissince then. Now it has come toa head.
The party faces a verticalsplit in a fast-developing drama,
unless there is a realignment ofpolitical forces or the two war-ring factions come together.There is also the danger of theMVA coalition Governmentcollapsing.
Uddhav woke up on June 21to hear about the brewing revoltwithin his party, led by hisCabinet colleague EknathShinde. Also, Shinde was notalone as he had mobilised some30-odd rebel legislators.
In the past three years,Uddhav has grown as one of theprominent Opposition leaders,rubbing shoulders with power-ful chief ministers like MamataBanerjee (West Bengal) andM.K. Stalin (DMK).
Ironically, the present prob-lem is not from the allies butfrom within Shiv Sena. In anemotional speech, he recentlysaid, "The sad part for me is that
my people (Shiv Sainiks) havelost trust in me."
Ignoring the rebellion with-in the party that has been brew-ing for some time, Uddhav kepthimself in splendid isolation,attending to Covid relief andOpposition politics at thenational level. He did not realisethat his priority should havebeen keeping his flock together.
The Shiv Sena and its long-term partner Bharatiya JanataParty fought the 2019 pollstogether. The BJP won 106 seats;the Shiv Sena bagged only 56.Together, they would have com-fortably formed the govern-ment in the 288-memberAssembly. But then theSena wanted the post of ChiefMinister to be shared as dis-cussed before the polls betweenthe partners, but the BJP reject-ed it. Sena had become the
junior partner in the pastdecade.
It was not the first time theSena faced rebellion, as threerevolts happened under thewatch of its charismatic founderBalasaheb Thackeray. He was amesmerising personality—auda-cious, smoking pipes, wearingsunglasses and saffron clothes,and even drinking his favouritedrink, beer. He was respected bya few but feared by all. Even thePop King, Michael Jackson,posed with Thackeray and gotclearance for his solo concert inIndia.
Balasaheb Thackeray’s abil-ity to create mass hysteria gavehim a larger-than-life persona,though he himself never contest-ed elections or held power. Amaster orator, he got his party topower in 1995 and aligned withthe BJP in the 1990s, which last-ed for decades. He anointed hisson Uddhav as working presi-dent in 2003 against his nephewRaj Thackeray. Uddhav is seeingthe fourth revolt now.
But Uddhav’s primary mis-calculation was taking hisSainiks for granted. He failed tosell his brand of soft Hindutvaor the controversial nature of hiscoalition or alliance withCongress. He also should havebeen careful about projecting hisson Aditya at the cost of somesenior leaders. Instead heremained inaccessible to evenhis senior ministers.
Thirdly, the Sainiks couldnot be comfortable with thecoalition partners as they hadgrown for decades fighting theCongress. Some sections of theSena felt that the alliance wasdamaging the party's growth.
Fourthly, the rebels appre-hend scrutiny from theEnforcement Directorate, theCentral Bureau of Investigation,and income tax officials. Theysee returning to the BJP-ledNational Democratic Alliance asa way out of this unnecessaryharassment.
To escape the rigors of theanti-defection law, the Shindegroup has to satisfy the test oftwo-thirds of elected members.NCP chief Sharad Pawar hasrightly said the real test wouldbe the floor test. Hence Hobson'sChoice before Eknath Shindeand his supporters.
Uddhav cannot fight ontwo fronts—the might of the BJPand the growing number ofrebels. He may have to compro-mise or lose both his party andthe government. Since Shindehas invoked Balasaheb's nameand ideology in his demands toUddhav, the Thackeray clanmust also ensure keepingBalasaheb's legacy.
While the legal battles maygo on for months, the ongoingdrama has to end sooner or later.In all probability, there is likelyto be a realignment of politicalforces.
It will be challenging forUddhav to unite the party. If hedoes so, he will emerge as astrong leader. He has the advan-tage because the party is withhim, though some of the legis-lators are not. Above all, he hasthe Thackeray surname.
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�������'.(�&,�� The Supreme Court’s verdict dismiss-ing the appeal filed by Zakia Jafriand Teesta Setalvad challenging theSpecial Investigative Team’s (SIT’s)
clean chit to Narendra Modi in the 2002Gujarat riots should settle the issue for onceand all. But, alas, that is not likely to hap-pen, what with the aandolanjeevis’ obstina-cy with maligning the Prime Minister whowas Gujarat chief minister in 2002.
The Bench headed by Justices A.M.Khanwilkar was clear in its ruling: “The SIThas not found any conspiracy, linking sep-arate and disparate acts of arson and loot-ing or outrageous claims made in sting oper-ations or individual utterances/publicationsof purported hate speech, to any singularlarger conspiracy or planned event.”
The Bench went on to say: “The mate-rials gathered during the investigation in noway link any ‘meeting of the minds’ in anyof the nine cases investigated by the SIT orfor that matter, other incidents alleged inthe complaint or the protest petition. Theriots across the state had taken place spon-taneously, immediately after the Godhratrain carnage.”
Further, it said that no material was dis-covered “pointing towards any meeting ofminds/conspiracy in the higher echelons ofthe administration or [that] the politicalestablishment conspired with other personsto cause such riots or [it] turned a Nelson’seye when the riots had triggered and con-tinued.”
Not only was there no conspiracyinvolving the top ruling politicians but therewere also “disgruntled officials” in Gujaratat that time who wanted “to create sensa-tion by making revelations which werefalse.” The apex court said the SIT investi-gation has “fully exposed” the “falsity ofclaims” of such officials.
Representing the anti-Modi litigants,senior advocate and former Union minis-ter Kapil Sibal argued that the SupremeCourt-appointed SIT did not conductinvestigation on the crucial aspects of thematter, which was essential to establish alarger conspiracy.
Countering Sibal, senior advocate andformer attorney-general Mukul Rohatgi saidthat the SIT not only did its job but oftenexceeded the remit set out by the SupremeCourt. All in its pursuit of justice. Hestressed that Zakia’s charges mainly point-ed towards the dereliction of duty and didnot hint at any criminality.
Rohatgi also said that he suspected thatthe petition was being driven not by Zakia,the aggrieved party, but by Petitioner No.2, i.e. social activist Teesta Setalvad who hasulterior motives in pursuing the same.
In this context, it would be instructiveto scrutinize the chronology for the SCorder. In 2006, Jafri urged the Gujarat Policeto file an FIR against some officials andpoliticians, including Modi, who was thenchief minister. She alleged that the state gov-ernment had not done enough to preventthe riots and save people, including her hus-
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band.In 2008, the apex court appoint-
ed an SIT to submit a report on theriots trials and also probe Jafri’scomplaint.
In 2012, the SIT gave a cleanchit to Modi and others, citing “noprosecutable evidence” and submit-ted its closure report to theMagistrate.
In 2013, Jafri filed a petitionopposing the closure report. TheMagistrate upheld the SIT’s closurereport and dismissed her plea.
In response, Jafri moved theGujarat High Court which upheld,in 2017, the Magistrate’s decision.
In 2018, Jafri and activist TeestaSetalvad approached the SupremeCourt, saying the SIT did notexamine all the material available,its investigation was biased, andinvestigators themselves shouldface a probe.
The allegations against Modiwere based on former Gujaratpolice officer Sanjiv Bhat’s submis-sions. He had claimed to be presentat a crucial government meeting.The SIT later found and conclud-ed that Bhatt was not present at themeeting and hence, there was noother way to confirm the charges.
Three points need to be madehere. First, Narendra Modi’s namehas been cleared by experiencedcops (comprising the SIT) as well asby the various levels of judiciary.One has to be a conspiracy theorybuff to believe that so many copsand judicial officers, including threeSupreme Court judges, could bemanipulated.
Second, the Gujarat Police wasunder Modi, as he was chief min-ister till 2014, but not the SIT or thejudiciary. Till that time, theCongress-led United ProgressiveAlliance was in power at the Centre;
and it was in this period that Modiwas exonerated of all charges notjust by the SIT but also the localmagistrate.
It is an open secret that theCongress has never been fond ofNarendra Modi; in fact, the grandold party hates him the most. It hasdone everything possible to demeanand demonize him. We should notlose sight of the fact that the UPAwas in office for 10 long years (2004-14)—very long from the perspectiveof Modi, for he was the constant tar-get of calumny, character assassina-tion, and innuendo. The assaultswere relentless—direct (fromCongress leaders) and indirect(from pro-Congress activists likeSetalvad), legal and political.
In that period, the Congressheld every lever of power; as the rul-ing party, it also had access to theresources of the Indian State. Andyet, it could not find anythingagainst Narendra Modi.
Instead of acknowledging thetruth or at least giving some cre-dence to the possibility of his inno-cence and going slow against him(‘Maybe the person is innocent,maybe we got is all wrong’), theCongress and its privateer-free-booters like Setalvad consistentlyand persistently worked to malignNarendra Modi.
As the SC Bench pointed out,“allegations regarding larger con-spiracy at the highest level… isfounded on the alleged utterancesmade by the then Chief Minister inan official meeting (on February 27,2002, in Gandhinagar) whileaddressing the DGP, the then ChiefSecretary and other senior officialsof the state to allow to vent to theHindu anger on the minority in thewake of Godhra incident.”
The petitioner relied on the
statements of police officers SanjivBhatt, who claimed to have attend-ed the meeting, and R.B. Sreekumar,and former Minister Haren Pandya,but the SIT concluded “that theclaim of concerned persons is falseand figment of imagination,” the SCsaid.
“The SIT after thorough inves-tigation has recorded its opinionthat neither Mr Sanjiv Bhatt nor MrHaren Pandya was present in thestated meeting. Similarly, even MrR.B. Sreekumar had no personalknowledge as he did not attend thesaid meeting. Besides, Mr R.B.Sreekumar was a disgruntled offi-cer,” said the top court.
In a way, the apex court’s rulingvalidates the SIT’s findings, whichhad given a clean chit to NarendraModi way back in 2013, when theUPA was in office. On April 25,2013, SIT lawyer R.S. Jamuar said,“Modi has never said that go and killpeople.”
Also, he said, “Teesta Setalvadand others have falsified the com-plaint targeting the chief ministerwho had never said that ‘go and killpeople’.”
Investigating something againand again doesn’t change the resultif it has been done properly. But theaandolanjeevis like Setalvad can’tbelieve in any finding unless it is inaccordance with their own preju-dices and dogmas. She is not both-ered how her stubbornness hurtsothers. She and others of her ilk mayface the consequences for malign-ing others.
The trials and tribulations theaandolanjeevis subjected NarendraModi didn’t shatter him, showingthat he is made of sterner stuff. Theyhounded him for almost twodecades, but he continues to striveto take India to greater heights.
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Former Union MinisterYashwant Sinha filed hisnomination on Monday as
the common Opposition can-didate against the NDA nomi-nee Droupadi Murmu for theJuly 18 presidential election, acontest described by his sup-porters as a “battle of ideologies.”
The former BJP leader wasaccompanied by his wife Nilimaand flanked by leaders of at least15 Opposition parties includingRahul Gandhi, Sharad Pawar,Akhilesh Yadav, FarooqAbdullah and KT Rama Rao.
Telangana Chief Minister KChandrasekhar Rao announcedhis support to Sinha hoursbefore he filed the nomination.Rao’s son and senior MinisterKT Rama Rao led a delegationof party leaders to be by Sinha’sside in Parliament.
Others present wereRajasthan Chief Minister AshokGehlot, DMK leaders TiruchiSiva and A Raja, SitaramYechury, CPI’s D Raja, RashtriyaLok Dal’s Jayant Chaudhary,RJD’s Misa Bharti,Revolutionary Socialist Party’sNK Premchandran and IndianUnion Muslim League’sMohammed Bashir and theNCP’s Praful Patel.
There was no representativefrom the Jharkhand MuktiMorcha (JMM), which hadendorsed Sinha’s candidature.Leaders of the Shiv Sena, too,were not present as they werebusy with the political crisis inMaharashtra.
Addressing the media afterfiling four sets of nominationpapers, Sinha said he wouldreach out to his former col-leagues in the BJP seeking their
support. Sinha said he hadreached out to Prime MinisterModi and Defence MinisterRajnath Singh for support.
On the occasion, Sinha hitout at the BJP saying that thesaffron party under PrimeMinister Narendra Modi lackedinternal democracy. “The BJP Iwas part of had internal democ-racy, the current BJP lacks inter-nal democracy,” he said.
Addressing the media, for-mer Congress president RahulGandhi said all Opposition par-ties were united in supportingSinha’s candidature for the top
Constitutional post. “Of course,we support the individual, butthe real fight is between two ide-ologies. One is the ideology ofthe RSS, that of anger, hatred,and the other of compassion ofall the Opposition parties whoare standing together,” RahulGandhi said.
Sinha served as FinanceMinister and External AffairsMinister in the Government ledby Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He hadresigned from the BJP in 2018and joined the TrinamoolCongress in 2021. He quit theTrinamool Congress before hiscandidature was announced onJune 21.
Sinha described the candi-dature of his rival NDA nomi-nee Droupadi Murmu, a tribal,as part of “politics of symbol-ism” and insisted that he wouldcontest the poll on the trackrecord of the Modi Governmentwith regard to the welfare ofbackward communities and theScheduled Castes andScheduled Tribes. “The currentPresident also belongs to a par-ticular community. Does itmean that the community hasbenefited,” Sinha asked. Sinhasaid the presidential electionwas a battle between the ideol-ogy of absolute power and thatof freedom.
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The effectiveness of antibiotics totreat typhoid infections is threat-
ened by the emergence of the resistantS Typhi strains.
According to a study published inThe Lancet Microbe journal, thelargest-ever genome analysis ofSalmonella enterica serovarTyphimurium (S Typhi), shows thatresistant strains – almost all origi-nating in South Asia – have spread toother countries nearly 200 timessince 1990.
Calling the finding of the study asa cause for worry, a scientist fromAIIMS, Delhi said, “The bacteriacausing typhoid has become a “smartbacteria” which has been able to find
mechanisms to evade the usual antibi-otics. It’s worrying, and the currentantibiotic regimen needs to bereviewed urgently.”
The Lancet study noted thattyphoid fever is a global public healthconcern, causing 11 million infectionsand more than 1,00,000 deaths peryear.
While it is most prevalent inSouth Asia, which accounts for 70 percent of the global disease burden, italso has significant impacts in sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, andOceania, highlighting the need for aglobal response, they said.
“The speed at which highly-resis-tant strains of S Typhi have emergedand spread in recent years is a realcause for concern, and highlights the
need to urgently expand preventionmeasures, particularly in countries atgreatest risk,” said the study’s leadauthor, Jason Andrews, from StanfordUniversity.
“At the same time, the fact thatresistant strains of S Typhi havespread internationally so many timesalso underscores the need to view
typhoid control, and antibiotic resis-tance more generally, as a globalrather than local problem,” Andrewssaid.
In the new study, the researchersperformed whole-genome sequencingon 3,489 S Typhi isolates obtainedfrom blood samples collected between2014-2019 from people in Bangladesh,
India, Nepal, and Pakistan with con-firmed cases of typhoid fever.
A collection of 4,169 S Typhi sam-ples isolated from more than 70countries between 1905 and 2018 wasalso sequenced and included in theanalysis. Resistance-conferring genesin the 7,658 sequenced genomes wereidentified using genetic databases.
Strains were classified as mul-tidrug-resistant (MDR) if they con-tained genes giving resistance to clas-sical front-line antibiotics ampicillin,chloramphenicol, and trimetho-prim/sulfamethoxazole.
The authors also traced the pres-ence of genes conferring resistance tomacrolides and quinolones, which areamong the most critically importantantibiotics for human health.
Since 2000, MDR S Typhi hasdeclined steadily in Bangladesh andIndia, and remained low in Nepal,though it has increased slightly inPakistan.
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Amid the possible threat ofthe fourth wave of the
coronavirus pandemic, Indiaon Monday logged 17,073 newinfections, a 45 per cent jumpfrom Sunday when 11,739 peo-ple tested positive for Covid.
The death toll climbed to5,25,020 with 21 fresh fatalities,data updated at 8 A.M. by theMinistry stated.
There were — six fromKerala, five from Maharashtra,four from Delhi, two eachfrom Goa and Punjab and oneeach from Jammu and Kashmir(J&K) and Uttar Pradesh.
The active cases in thecountry stood at 94,420. Thedaily positivity rate was record-ed at 5.62 per cent, while theweekly positivity rate wasrecorded at 3.39 per cent, itstated. The daily positivitycrossed 5 per cent after a gapof 139 days.
In the last 24 hours, a totalof five patients infected withCovid-19 in Mumbai lost theirlives. This is the highest single-day deaths reported sinceFebruary 7, when the city wit-nessed five deaths out of 356registered cases. Of the fivedeceased, four were above theage of 70 years with comor-bidities. Delhi saw yet anotherjump in cases with 1,891 casesrecorded on Sunday as com-pared to 666 infections record-ed a day before. Kerala, too, has
been another State where therise in cases has been worrying.
The active cases increasedto 94,420, comprising 0.22 percent of the total infections. Thenational Covid recovery ratewas recorded at 98.57 per cent,the Ministry said.
An increase of 1,844 caseswas recorded in the activeCovid case count in a span of24 hours, as per the data.
The number of people whohave recuperated from the dis-ease surged to 4,27,87,606,while the case fatality rate wasrecorded at 1.21 per cent.
According to the Ministry,197.11 crore doses of vaccinehave been administered in the
country so far under thenationwide Covid-19 inocula-tion drive.
India’s Covid tally hadcrossed the 20-lakh mark onAugust 7 in 2020, 30 lakh onAugust 23, 40 lakh onSeptember 5 and 50 lakh onSeptember 16. It went past 60lakh on September 28, 70 lakhon October 11, crossed 80 lakhon October 29, 90 lakh onNovember 20 and surpassedthe one-crore mark onDecember 19. The countrycrossed the grim milestone oftwo crore cases on May 4,2021, three crore on June 23and four crore cases on January25 this year.
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The Congress on Mondaytermed as “deeply disap-
pointing” the Supreme Courtruling upholding the SIT’sclean chit to the then GujaratChief Minister Narendra Modiand 63 others in the 2002communal riots, and askedwhether Modi and the StateGovernment will ever be heldaccountable.
The Opposition party saidit stands by party leader, the lateEhsan Jafri, and his family andasserted that what happened tohim in a most tragic mannerwas the result of a “funda-mental lapse on the part of theState Government”. Ehsan Jafri,a former Congress MP, wasamong the 68 people killed atAhmedabad’s Gulberg Societyduring the violence onFebruary 28, 2002, a day afterthe Godhra train burning thatclaimed 59 lives.
The party’s detailed reac-tion to the Supreme Courtruling came after the top courtalso dismissed a plea by Jafri’swife Zakia, terming it as“devoid of merits”.
In a statement on the courtruling, Congress general sec-retary Jairam Ramesh said theSupreme Court judgment inthe Zakia Jafri case is “deeplydisappointing”. Despite thejudgment dated June 24, 2022,certain fundamental questionsstill remain unanswered,Ramesh said.
“What is the constitution-al and moral responsibility ofthe Chief Minister and theState Government in cases oflarge-scale communal riots,”Ramesh said. “Is the responsi-bility in such cases only everthat of the Collector & DeputyCommissioner of Police andnot of political executive? Willthe Chief Minister, Cabinetand State Government never beheld accountable, even if aState is thrown into a circle ofviolence and riots?” he said.
While the Supreme Courthas pronounced its judgment,there are some questions thatwill continue to haunt PrimeMinister Modi, including washe not the Gujarat ChiefMinister when the horrificriots took place in 2002,Ramesh said. He listed the fol-lowing questions:
� Why was PM Vajpayeeso affected by his lack of actionthat he had to publicly remindhim to do his duty, to follow his‘Rajdharma?”
� Was it not the SupremeCourt which called out theconduct of the ModiGovernment in Gujarat as thatof “modern day Nero’s (who)were looking elsewhere wheninnocent children and helplesswomen were burning, and wereprobably deliberating how theperpetrators of the crime canbe saved or protected?
� ’Why did sections of theBJP, including now member of
the Modi Cabinet Smriti Iraniprotest and call for his dismissalas CM if he was not guilty ofany wrongdoing?
� What about all thenumerous convictions thathave been carried out on thebasis of the evidence collectedby the SIT relating to theGujarat riots? Can the BJPclaim that those also standinvalidated?
Ramesh asserted that noamount of “propaganda’’ by theBJP can ever erase these facts.
The Supreme Court had onFriday observed that inactionor failure of some officials ofone section of the administra-tion cannot be the basis toreadily infer a pre-plannedcriminal conspiracy by theauthorities or to term it as aState-sponsored crime againstthe minority community.
The Communist Party ofIndia also condemned thearrest and subsequent deten-tion of Teesta Setalvad and R BSreekumar, ex-DGP whofought for bringing justice tothe families of the victims of the2002 Gujarat massacre. “TeestaSetalvad is an acknowledgedrenowned fighter for the rightsof the citizens and her activi-ties as an ardent fighter againstcommunalism and for thedemocratic rights of people hasbeen appreciated by even theUN.
“Her arrest along with oth-ers is a hard blow to the demo-cratic polity of the country andthe right of the people to ques-tion the role of the Governmentwhen such inhuman riots, tar-geting one section of the pop-ulation, resulting in the killingsof hundreds takes place.
“The Party reiterates itsstand that all those responsiblefor the massacre must bebrought to book,” the party saidin a statement.
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India and Malaysia onMonday agreed to further
boost their Defence andstrategic ties during the talksbetween Defence MinisterRajnath Singh and SeniorDefence Minister YB Dato‘Seri HishammuddinTunHussein
The two Ministers heldthe meeting through videoconference and also discusseda wide range of issues con-cerning bilateral, regional andDefence industrial coopera-tion, Defence Ministry offi-cials said here.
Rajnath congratulatedDato ‘Seri HishammuddinTunHussein for assuming theoffice of the Senior DefenceMinister in August, 2021.Both Ministers expressed theintent to further boost thealready strong India-MalaysiaDefence cooperation.
The two Ministers dis-cussed the existing Defencecooperation activities andframework, and ways to fur-ther enhance them under the
existing Malaysia IndiaDefence Cooperation Meeting(MIDCOM) framework.
The next MIDCOM isscheduled to be held in July2022, and it was decided touse this platform for a deep-er engagement in defence.
Rajnath highlighted theareas in which Indian defenceindustries could assistMalaysia. He suggested a visitof senior off icers fromMalaysia to India to get first-hand experience of the facil-ities and products of theIndian defence industry.
The Malaysian SeniorDefence Minister expressedthe need for inducting womenpersonnel in peacekeepingmissions. Both sides agreed toengage each other on thisissue. It was also agreed toupgrade capabil ity forHumanitarian Assistance andDisaster Relief (HADR) oper-ations. Rajnath also invitedthe Senior Defence Minister ofMalaysia to visit India at anearly convenient date to dis-cuss closer and strategicdefence ties.
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The Supreme Court onMonday agreed to hear on
June 28, a plea by the Centreagainst the Tripura HighCourt orders on a PIL chal-lenging the grant of securitycover to industrialist MukeshAmbani and his family.
Solicitor General TusharMehta told a vacation Benchof Justices Surya Kant and JBPardiwala that the High Courthas no jurisdiction to enter-tain the PIL as the StateGovernment has nothing todo with the security cover
provided to the Ambanis bythe Centre on the recom-mendation of the MaharashtraGovernment.
Mehta said he wants theappeal to be heard urgently asthe High Court has askedUnion Home Ministry offi-cials to appear before it onTuesday with original records
concerning the threat per-ception to the Ambanis, andstated no more adjournmentwill be granted.
The Tripura High Courthad on a PIL filed by oneBikash Saha had passed twointerim orders on May 31 andJune 21 and had directed theCentral Government to placethe original file maintained bythe Ministry of Home Affairs(MHA) regarding threat per-ception and assessment reportof Ambani, his wife and chil-dren based on which securi-ty has been granted to them.
The Centre said that vide
the said orders, the HighCourt has also directed theCentral Government todepute a responsible officer toappear before the Court withthe original record, in a sealedcover, on the next date ofhearing on June 28, 2022, forconsideration of the Court.The Centre said that whileentertaining the PIL petitionthe High Court had failed toappreciate that MukeshAmbani and his families wereneither residents of Tripuranor any part of the cause ofaction remotely arising fromTripura existed.
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The Researchers fromAmity University inHaryana and University of
Nebraska, USA have jointlydeveloped a reusable, odourlessand anti-microbial N95 mask byusing 3D printing technology.The four-layer mask whose outerlayer is made up of silicon witha shelf life of more than five yearscan also be used by workerswhere they are exposed to highvolumes of dust, cement andpaint fumes.
It can be modified by chang-ing the filter configurationaccording to the place in whichit will be used and can help pre-
vent severe lung diseases such asSilicosis, said a statement here.
A trademark and a patenthave also been filed for themask called Nano Breath.
A 4-layer filtration mecha-nism has been provided in themask wherein the outer and firstlayer of the filter is coated withnanoparticles. The second layeris a high-efficiency particulateabsorbing (HEPA) filter, thethird layer is a 100 μm filter andthe fourth layer is a moistureabsorbent filter. The mask hasbeen developed under the pro-ject funded by the Departmentof Science & Technology (DST),Union Ministry of Science andTechnology.
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Former Congress presidentRahul Gandhi on Monday
alleged that Prime MinisterNarendra Modi is making hisfriends “daulatveer” by handingairports to them for 50 yearswhile making youths“Agniveers” on a four-year con-tract.
Rahul’s attack came on a daythe party’s leaders and activistsobserved a “peaceful satyagraha”
in all Assembly constituencies todemand a withdrawal of the newmilitary recruitment scheme.
“The Prime Minister ismaking his friends ‘daulatveer’(rich) by handing them coun-try’s airports for 50 years whilemaking youths ‘Agniveers’ on afour-year contract,” RahulGandhi said in a tweet in Hindi.“The Congress party is doing#SatyagrahaForYouth againstAgnipath across the countrytoday. This satyagraha will not
stop until the youth get justice,”he said.
Several States witnessedprotests, including unbridledviolence, after the Agnipathrecruitment scheme for thearmed forces was announced onJune 14. It envisages recruitingyouths in the age bracket of 17-and-half to 21 years for fouryears with a provision to retain25 per cent of them for 15 moreyears. For 2022, the upper agelimit has been extended to 23
years. The Congress hadobserved a peaceful satyagrahaat Jantar Mantar in New Delhias well as in various states on theissue on June 20. Congress MPshad also taken out a peacefulmarch from Parliament. A del-egation of senior leaders sub-mitted a memorandum toPresident Ram Nath Kovindrequesting him to withdraw thecontroversial scheme. The pres-ident is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces
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The Education Ministry on Mondayreleased the Performance GradingIndex for Districts (PGI-D) for 2018-
19 and 2019-20 prepared by the Departmentof School Education and Literacy (DoSE&L),to assess the performance of the school edu-cation system at the district level. Accordingto the Education Ministry, the IndianEducation System is one of the world’slargest with 15 lakh schools, 97 lakh teach-ers, and nearly 26 crore students. TheDoSE&L devised the Performance GradingIndex (PGI) for States and released reports
for the reference years 2017-18 to 2019-20.Based on the success of State PGI, 83-indi-cator-based PGI-D has been designed tograde the performance of all 733 districts. Thedata is filled by districts via an online portal.The PGI-D is expected to help the State edu-cation departments identify gaps at the dis-trict level and improve their performance ina decentralised manner. The indicator-wisePGI score shows where a district needs toimprove. The PGI-D will reflect relative per-formance of districts in a uniform scale.
The PGI-D’s structure comprises totalweightage of 600 points across 83 indicators,which are grouped under six categories viz.,
Outcomes, Effective Classroom Transaction,Infrastructure Facilities & Student’sEntitlements, School Safety & ChildProtection, Digital Learning and GovernanceProcess. These categories are further divid-ed into 12 domains, viz., Learning Outcomesand Quality, Access Outcomes, TeacherAvailability and Professional DevelopmentOutcomes, Learning Management, LearningEnrichment Activities, Infrastructure,Facilities, Student Entitlements, School Safetyand Child Protection, Digital Learning,Funds convergence and utilisation, EnhancingCRCs Performance, Attendance MonitoringSystems and School Leadership Development.
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The nation paid rich tributesto Filed Marshal SHFJ
Manekshaw, former Chief ofArmy Staff and IndependentIndia’s first Field Marshal, onMonday. It was on June 27,2008, the Field Marshalbreathed his last at the MilitaryHospital in Wellington.
Wreaths were laid at thefinal resting place of the reveredsoldier at Parsi ZoroastrianCemetery in Udhagamandalamon behalf of the three ServicesChiefs, Southern ArmyCommander and GeneralOfficer Commanding, DakshinBharat Area.
The senior most GeneralOfficer of the Wellington StationLieutenant General SMohan, Commandant DefenceService Staff College, Wellingtonand Station CommanderWellington also laid wreaths andpaid their respect.
A release by MadrasRegimental Centre,Wellington,said that Field MarshalManekshaw had settled down atWellington after active service.
“His association with the stationgoes back to the time when hewas Commandant of DefenceService Staff College. He shareda special bond with the Nilgirisand was equally endearing tothe local population. A manwith unflinching moral courage
and exemplary leadership qual-ities, his life would alwaysremain a source of inspirationto the armed forces and theNation,” said the release.
Nilgiris residents stillremember Sam Manekshawdriving around the hill station
in his Sun Beam Rapier car tillmonths before his demise. “Itwas a treat to watch him drivingaround. He never had the auraof a VVIP and always used towave at us when we greetedhim,” said Selvaraj, a Nilgirisshopkeeper.
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Nanjappa Chattram, a remote andquiet village in Nilgiris district of
Tamil Nadu comes alive once in a monthas the vehicles of Madras RegimentalCentre, Wellington, roar in through thedilapidated roads with medicine andfood. It is not for the soldiers who are ona mission but for the villagers themselves.Doctors and para-medical staff fromMilitary Hospital, Wellington, accompa-nied by a group of soldiers attend to themedical needs of the villagers. If thepatients need specialized treatment ordiagnosis, they are referred to theGovernment Hospital with notes issuedby the Army doctors.
Sunday turned out to be an importantday for the village women folk as gyne-cologists and obstetricians from MHWellington made it a ‘Mother and ChildDay’, a new experience to the villagers.They were briefed in their own local lan-guage about the importance of pregnan-cy and childcare by the doctors. All thepregnant women were diagnosed by thespecialists and prescribed medicines.The doctors and nurses of StateGovernment's Health Department are yetto reach the villages.
While the lady doctors were explain-ing the significance of pregnancy, the chil-dren in the village were entertained by the
soldiers with toys, learn through fun andstory telling sessions. “They gave aspaints, paper and brush to tone up ourpainting and writing skills, The Armyuncles had brought lot of chocolates withthem and this was cherished by all of us,”said Jamuna, a village girl.
The medical camp is Indian Army’sway of thanking the villagers for the helprendered by them during the rescueoperations of the December 8, 2021helicopter crash in which General BipinRawat and 13 others perished. It was thevillagers of Nanjappa Chattram villagers
who reached the spot first and tried to res-cue the passengers.
As a mark of gratitude, the DakhsinBharat Area of Indian Army adopted thevillage and is conducting once-in-a-month free medical aid to the villagers.MRC Wellington, one of the oldest Armyestablishments, is no stranger to villagersin the district as they had provided freefood and ration to them during theCovid-19 pandemic proving again thatthe Army was not only for guarding theborders but helping the civilians in hoursof emergency.
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Bengal Chief MinisterMamata Baner jee on
Monday said that the Centrehad launched the Agniveerscheme with an eye on the2024 general elections andasked New Delhi to extendthe retirement age of the newAgniveer recruits to 65 years.
“The BJP is concernedabout its own electoral gameplans … its eyes are on the2024 elections … so it has cre-ated a half-baked scheme likeAgniveer where young peoplewill be recruited for only fouryears … has anyone heard
about a service tenure asshort as that?” Banerjee saidadding “In the name of theArmy recruits the BJP is try-ing to create its own armedcadre base.”
“We in our State alwayskeep the concern of the youthin mind while taking suchschemes … this is because mymotto is to create moreemployment for the youth …but here what the young peo-ple who will retire --- evenbefore they grow up --- afterfour years do … they willagain be jobless trained inarms,” the Chief Minister tolda meeting in Burdwan.
Saying that it was not
advisable to leave unem-ployed youth trained in armsto fend for themselves,Banerjee said instead of “giv-ing arms into the hands of theyouth,” the “Governmentshould consider extendingthe retirement age of theAgniveers to 65 years… it isnot fare to train the youth forfour months and then retirethem after four years.”
Banerjee’s remarks camedays after widespread protestsbroke out all over the coun-tr y in the wake of theGovernment’s declaration ofAgniveer scheme.
In an apparent referenceto the Maharashtra political
turmoil the Chief Ministerattacked the BJP for using thecentral agencies against theOpposition parties. “They(BJP) want to devour every-thing … they do not and can-
not tolerate opposition whichis why they are sending theED and CBI to the houses ofthe Opposition leaders whodare speak against them …this vendetta politics is being
resorted to only against theopposition parties whereastheir own leaders are left off.”
Baner jee’s commentscame at a time when hun-dreds of Trinamool Congressworkers led by leaders likeBabul Supriyo, Kunal Ghoshand Sayani Ghosh staged sit-in agitation in front of theCGO complex in Kolkata.
They demanded arrest ofBengal Opposition LeaderSuvendu Adhikari for hisalleged involvement in theSharada chit fund and Naradapayoff scams where he wasseen accepting cash on cam-era.
“I left the BJP … and I
dare the Centre to touch mewith the agencies … theycannot but my hands areclean … but what aboutSuvendu Adhikari who wascaught on camera acceptingcash … though his name fig-ures in the FIR he has beenleft alone because he hasjoined the washing machinecalled BJP.”
The TMC staged a num-ber of rallies in Bengal aftera letter from Sudipto Sen —the prime accused in theSharada scam — was leaked.The letter a l leged howAdhikari repeatedly black-mailed him and extortedmoney from him in the name
of saving him from the SEBIand ED. Adhikari, then aBengal minister, was a pow-erful TMC leader. He joinedthe BJP just ahead of the2021 Assembly elections inwhich the BJP suffered ahumiliating defeat.
The TMC’s protests inten-sified days after the ED andCBI questioned Rujira NarulaBanerjee — the wife of TMCMP and national secretaryand Mamata Baner jee’snephew Abhishek Banerjee —regarding a money launderingcase. Several crores had beenfound in a bank accountallegedly related to her in aThailand bank.
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Ahead of the beginning of the 42-daylong Amarnath yatra from June 30,
two more terrorists were gunned downby the joint team of the security forcesin Trubji area of South Kashmir'sKulgam district while a Pakistaniintruder was shot dead by BSF per-sonnel in R S Pura sector while he wastrying to sneak inside the Indian ter-ritory on Monday.
On the other hand, Doda policealso arrested one terrorist and recov-ered 01 Chinese pistol, 02 Magazine,14live cartridges and one mobile phonefrom his possession.
The entire security grid acrossJammu and Kashmir is already in astate of high alert to ensure peacefulconduct of the yatra. Inspector Generalof Police Kashmir range, Vijay Kumarchaired the final security review meet-ing related to Amarnath Yatra in SouthKashmir’s Anantnag.
GOC Victor Force, IG CRPF, DIGsof BSF, ITBP, CRPF & JKP besidesSouth Kashmir district SSPs &Commanding Officers attended themeeting. Real threats & countermea-sures being taken by police and secu-rity forces were reviewed to ensure inci-dent free yatra this year.
Official sources in Jammu
claimed, the Pakistani intruder musthave been sent on a path finding mis-sion or to look for possible infiltrationroutes to push fresh batch of infiltra-tors to execute a terror plot during theyatra period. In the recent weeks sev-eral attempts have been made byPakistan based agencies to smugglearms consignment using drones todeliver arms and ammunition or dropmagnetic improvised explosive device(IEDs) or sticky bombs to sabotage
peace in Jammu region. Keeping in view the threat, special
security checkpoints have been acti-vated along the entire yatra routewhile quick reaction teams have beendeployed near the yatri base camps atdifferent locations to ensure safety ofthe pilgrims. The base camps andother vital transit points includingrefreshment counters, resting placeshave been kept under close watchwith the help of drone cameras to
record any suspected movement of mis-creants.
Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha,who is chairman of the Shri AmarnathjiShrine Board (SASB) Monday visitedYatri Niwas at Bhagwati Nagar andreviewed arrangements for ShriAmarnath Ji Yatra pilgrims. The secu-rity forces are alert and have made ade-quate arrangements for the smoothconduct of Yatra, besides it has been ourendeavor to make the best arrange-ments this year, the Governor added.
The Lt Governor directed the con-cerned officials to ensure health facil-ities, adequate number of Doctors,nursing staff, sanitation staff, dutyofficers on the Yatra routes. Earlier, theLt Governor was briefed by concernedofficers regarding the facilities along theYatra route, besides the arrangementsin regard to water, power supply,sewage disposal, food and RFID coun-ters at the Yatri Niwas. Speaking tomedia persons on the sidelines of thevisit, the Lt Governor said, lakhs of fam-ilies had to face financial hardship sinceShri Amarnath Ji Yatra could not beheld for the last two years due to Covidpandemic. There is a lot of enthusiasmin the people of Jammu region and inKashmir too this year and I see the localpeople are also ready to welcome thevisiting pilgrims.
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He referred to the Constitution benchdecision of the apex court in the “NabamRebia” case in which it was held that itwould be constitutionally impermissiblefor a Speaker to adjudicate upon disqual-ification petitions under the TenthSchedule while a notice of resolution forhis own removal from the office of Speakeris pending.
At this juncture, the bench asked whythe rebel Shiv Sena MLAs did not movethe Bombay High Court against disqual-ification notice issued by the DeputySpeaker. Kaul replied that existence ofArticle 226 is not a Constitutional bar toinvoke Article 32 of Constitution toapproach the top court.
Kaul claimed that the UddhavThackeray group is in ‘minority’ and‘subverting’ the State machinery andattacking the houses of rebel Sena MLAs.
Kaul further submitted that the topcourt in its earlier decisions has said thatit is impermissible for the Deputy Speakerto decide on the disqualification petitiontill the no-confidence motion againsthim is decided.
He said the “majority faction” of theShiv Sena legislative party appointedEknath Shinde as its chief, but the “minor-ity” faction, which has 19 MLAs, quietlymade Ajay Choudhari as their chief.
“The majority faction wrote to theDeputy Speaker about their decision.Then the rebel MLAs get a notice to reportto a meeting by the minority MLAs. Whenthe MLAs do not attend, based on thenotice issued on the same day, a disqual-ification plea is filed.”
The bench asked the petitioners whydid they not raise the issue of DeputySpeaker’s incompetency before the DeputySpeaker himself to which Kaul respond-ed that he proceeded with the noticesdespite the fact that he was informed.
Kaul said the Deputy Speaker is pro-ceeding, allegedly in undue haste, withoutfollowing the principles of natural justice
Senior advocate Abhishek ManuSinghvi, appearing for Shiv Sena legisla-tive party leader Ajay Chaudhary and SunilPrabhu, questioned the petitioners’ moveof “leap frogging” to the top court with-out approaching the High Court first.
“There is no reason given why yourlordships should not exercise the discre-tion to send them to the High Court,”
Singhvi said, adding the courts cannotintervene when the proceedings are pend-ing before the Speaker.
Singhvi cited the landmark judgmentin Kihoto Hollohan vs Zachillhu andOthers (1992), in which the court upheldthe sweeping discretion available to theSpeaker in deciding cases of disqualifica-tion of MLAs. “They have wrongly inter-preted Nabam Rebia and presented itbefore this Court.” Singhvi said in this casemedia reports are rampant that theseMLAs sent notice from an unverifiedemail, and the Speaker rejected the no-con-fidence motion and that has not been chal-lenged. “The Deputy Speaker has takenon record the unverified letter and reject-ed it, which has to be challenged… On(May) 20th these MLAs went to Surat, on21st they are supposed to have written thismail, on 22nd Speaker received this notice.14 days have not elapsed.”
Article 179 of the Constitutionrequires a 14-day notice if notice forremoval of the Speaker is made, he said.
Senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan,appearing for the Deputy Speaker, saidthere was a notice and a reply was sent butthe authenticity of the notice is under ques-tion.
“It (notice) was not sent from the reg-istered email. It was not sent to the leg-islative office. The Deputy Speaker acts ina judicial capacity. If somebody dashes offa letter, not to the registered office, theSpeaker is entitled to ask who you are.”
The bench then remarked, “Then itwill be contradictory. If there is no validnotice, there is no question of 14 days. Theissue will arise only if notice is valid.”
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“This year on World EnvironmentDay, we launched the Global Initiative forLiFE campaign. The goal of this campaignis to encourage an eco-friendly lifestyle. Wecan call the followers of this movementTriple-P, i.e. “pro planet people”, and weshould all take the responsibility of increas-ing the number of Triple-P people in ourown countries. This will be our greatestcontribution to the coming generations,”Modi said.
Highlighting the fact that human andplanet health are inter-connected, he saidIndia has adopted the approach of one
world, one health. During the pandemic,India found many creative ways to use dig-ital technology in the health sector. The G-7 countries can help India to take theseinnovations to other developing countries,the Prime Minister said . “Recently we allcelebrated the International Day of Yoga.In times of the COVID crisis, yoga hasbecome a great tool for preventive healthfor people all over the world, this helpedmany people to maintain their physical andmental health,” he said.
On Sunday, Modi held a productivemeeting with Argentinian PresidentAlberto Fernandez here on the sidelines ofthe G-7 summit and reviewed the fullrange of bilateral ties. This was the firstbilateral meeting between the two leaders.
During the meeting, the two leadersdiscussed various issues like trade andinvestment, defence cooperation, agricul-ture, climate action and food security.
Modi is on a two-day visit to Germanyto attend the G7 summit on June 26 and27.
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the Agniveers — as the soldiers inducted
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it was revealed he made payments to cer-tain “politically exposed persons”.
Sanjay Raut, 60, told reporters that hewill not be able to make it to the ED officeon Tuesday as he has a public meeting inAlibaug. He, however, said he will coop-erate with the agency. The ED may issuehim a fresh date.
In the Alibaug land deal, apart fromthe registered value, “cash” payments weremade to the sellers, the agency hadalleged. Pravin Raut was arrested by the EDin a probe linked to a Rs 1,034 crore allegedland scam related to the redevelopment ofthe Patra chawl in Mumbai’s Goregaonarea. He is presently undergoing judicialcustody.
Guru Ashish Construction Pvt Ltd wasinvolved in the re-development of the Patrachawl which had 672 tenants in tenementson 47 acres belonging to the MaharashtraHousing Area Development Authority(MHADA), the ED had said earlier.
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Russia was mounting an all-outassault on the last Ukrainianstronghold in the eastern Luhansk
region, "pouring fire" on the city ofLysychansk from the ground and air, thelocal governor said Monday, as Westernleaders met to discuss ways of bolster-ing support for Kyiv.
Luhansk Gov. Serhiy Haidai saidRussian forces were pummelingLysychansk after capturing the neigh-boring city of Sievierodonetsk in recentdays. It's part of a stepped-up Russianoffensive to wrest the broader Donbasregion from Ukrainian governmentcontrol in what Western experts say hasbecome the new main goal of PresidentVladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, nowin its fifth month.
"They're pouring fire on the cityboth from the air and from the ground.After the takeover of Sievierodonetsk,the enemy army has concentrated all itsforces on capturing (our) last strongholdin the Luhansk region: Lysychansk,"Haidai told The Associated Press.
The Russians were trying to block-ade the city from the south, "destroy-ing everything that their artillery andmultiple rocket launchers can reach,"Haidai said.
Over the past week, the Russianarmy has captured several villages andtowns southeast of Lysychansk, now astaging area for airstrikes and shellingattacks.
The office of President VolodymyrZelenskyy said at least six civilians werekilled and 31 others injured as part ofintense Russian shelling against variouscities over the past 24 hours - includ-ing Kyiv and major cities in the coun-try's south and east.
It said Russian rocket attacks killedtwo and injured five overnight inKharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city,and its surrounding area. Russian forcesalso continued to target the key south-ern port of Odesa, with a missile attackdestroying residential buildings andinjuring six, including a child, it said.
The southern city of Mykolaiv like-wise saw Russian shells hit civilian infra-structure, including a kindergarten,the president's press office said. It didnot give details of any casualties.
In Lysychansk, at least five high-risebuildings in the city and the last roadbridge were damaged over the past day,Haidai said. A crucial highway linking
the city to government-held territoryfurther south was rendered impassablebecause of shelling - but it hasn't beencaptured, he said.
Such shelling is also making theevacuation of civilians increasingly dif-ficult, Haidai said. The city had a pre-war population of around 100,000,approximately half of whom remain.
Analysts say that Lysychansk's loca-tion high on the banks of the SiverskiyDonets river, as well as its large area dot-ted with hills, give a major advantageto the city's Ukrainian defenders.
"It's a very hard nut to crack. TheRussians could spend many months andmuch effort storming Lysychansk,"
military analyst Oleh Zhdanov told theAP.
The Siverskiy Donets river enclos-es Lysychansk from the north andeast, while the Ukrainian army contin-ues to hold territory west of the city,which it uses to supply arms andhumanitarian aid. Moscow has nowmoved to attempt to block Lysychanskfrom the south.
To the west, in the government-controlled city of Sloviansk, localauthorities accused Russian forces of fir-ing a cluster bomb, saying it hit a resi-dential neighborhood after dawn onMonday. Authorities say the number ofdead and injured are still to be con-firmed; the AP saw one fatality. A man'sbody lay hunched over a car door frame,his blood pooling onto the ground fromscattered chest and head wounds. Awoman, bandaged and covered inblood, sat shocked by the roadside, wait-ing for medics to arrive.
The shockwave from the explosionblew out most of the windows in thesurrounding apartment blocks and thecars parked below, littering the groundwith broken glass.
"In the last week we have seen anincrease in the use of these clusterbombs" said Sloviansk Mayor VadimLyakh, who was helping coordinate theemergency response. "As you can see,there is no military base here. This wasa residential area where there were onlycivilians."
Local resident Valentina Vitkovskacried as she spoke about the impact ofthe explosion.
"Everything is now destroyed. Weare the only people left living in this partof the building. There is no power. Ican't even call to tell others what hadhappened to us" she said.
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Leading economic powersconferred by video link
with Ukrainian PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy onMonday as they underscoredtheir commitment to Ukrainefor the long haul with plans topursue a price cap on Russianoil, raise tariffs on Russiangoods and impose other newsanctions.
In addition, the US waspreparing to announce the pur-chase of an advanced surface-to-air missile system for Kyiv tohelp Ukraine fight back againstVladimir Putin's aggression.The US was also preparing toannounce the purchase of anadvanced surface-to-air missilesystem for Kyiv.
The new aid and efforts toexact punishment on Moscowfrom the Group of 7 leaderscome as a Zelenskyy has open-ly worried that the West has
become fatigued by the cost ofa war that is contributing tosoaring energy costs and pricehikes on essential goods aroundthe globe.
Leaders were finalising thedeal to seek a price cap duringtheir three-day G-7 summit inthe German Alps. The details ofhow a price cap would work, aswell as its impact on the Russianeconomy, were to be resolved bythe G-7 finance ministers in thecoming weeks and months,according to a senior adminis-tration official spoke on thecondition of anonymity to pre-view the announcements fromthe summit.
The largest democraticeconomies will also commit toraising tariffs on Russianimports to their countries, withthe US announcing new tariffson 570 categories of goods, aswell as use of sanctions to tar-get Russia's defense supplychains that support its effort to
rearm during the war.Biden is expected to
announce the US, is purchas-ing NASAMS, a Norwegian-developed anti-aircraft system,to provide medium- to long-range defence, according to theperson familiar with the mat-ter, who spoke on the conditionof anonymity. NASAMS is thesame system used by the US toprotect the sensitive airspacearound the White House andUS Capitol in Washington.
Additional aid includesmore ammunition forUkrainian artillery, as well ascounter-battery radars, to sup-port its efforts against theRussian assault in the Donbas,the person said. Biden is alsoannouncing a $7.5 billion com-mitment to help Ukraine's gov-ernment meet its expenses, aspart of a drawdown of the $40billion military and economicaid package he signed into lawlast month.
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President Joe Biden is set to announce thatthe U.S. Is providing advanced an surface-
to-air missile system to Ukraine, as well asadditional artillery support, according to aperson familiar with the matter, in the latestassistance meant to help the country defendagainst Russia's four-month invasion.
The U.S. Is purchasing NASAMS, aNorwegian-developed anti-aircraft system, toprovide medium- to long-range defence,according to the person, who spoke on thecondition of anonymity. NASAMS is the samesystem used by the U.S. To protect the sen-sitive airspace around the White House andU.S. Capitol in Washington.
Additional aid includes more ammuni-tion for Ukrainian artillery, as well ascounter-battery radars, to support its effortsagainst the Russian assault in the Donbas, theperson said.
The announcement comes as Biden ishuddling with allies this week on supportingUkraine in meetings at the Group of Sevenadvanced economies summit in Germanyand NATO leaders' annual gathering inMadrid.
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Leaders of the Group of Seven eco-nomic powers are set to commit
themselves to the long haul in support-ing Ukraine as they meet in the GermanAlps and confer by video link withUkrainian President VolodymyrZelenskyy.
The G-7 leaders will begin Monday'ssession of their three-day summit with afocus on Ukraine. Later, they will bejoined by the leaders of five democraticemerging economies - India, Indonesia,South Africa, Senegal and Argentina - fora discussion on climate change, energyand other issues.
The war in Ukraine was already at theforefront of the G-7 leaders' minds as theyopened their summit at the secludedSchloss Elmau luxury hotel on Sunday -just as Russian missiles hit the Ukrainiancapital of Kyiv for the first time in weeks.
US President Joe Biden said RussianPresident Vladimir Putin "has beencounting on, from the beginning, thatsomehow NATO and the G-7 wouldsplinter, but we haven't and we're notgoing to." Britain's Boris Johnson warnedthe leaders not to give in to "fatigue."
On Monday, they have the opportu-nity to demonstrate that unity toZelenskyy and reaffirm their commit-ment to supporting Kyiv financially andotherwise. Biden hopes to use his trip toEurope to proclaim the unity of the coali-tion pressing to punish Russia for its inva-sion of Ukraine as much as he is urgingallies to do even more - seeking to counterdoubts about its endurance as the wargrinds into its fifth month.
The summit's host, GermanChancellor Olaf Scholz, said last week thathe wants to discuss the outlines of a
"Marshall plan for Ukraine" with his G-7 counterparts, referring to the U.S.-spon-sored plan that helped revive Europeaneconomies after World War II.
With the war still in progress anddestruction mounting by the day, it'sunlikely to be a detailed plan at this stage.Scholz has said that "rebuilding Ukrainewill be a task for generations."
The G-7 already is committed to helpfinance Ukraine's immediate needs.Finance ministers from the group lastmonth agreed to provide $19.8 billion ineconomic aid to help Kyiv keep basic ser-vices functioning and prevent tightfinances from hindering its defenseagainst Russian forces.
A senior US administration official,speaking on condition of anonymity todiscuss private conversations between theG-7 leaders, said the US and Europe arealigned in their aims for a negotiated endto the conflict, even if their roles some-times appear different.
Scholz and French President
Emmanuel Macron have tried to facili-tate that through active conversationswith Russian President Vladimir Putinand Zelenskyy, while also supplyingweapons to Ukraine. The U.S. Has large-ly cut off significant talks with Russia andaims to bolster Ukraine's battlefieldcapacity as much as possible so that itseventual position at the negotiating tableis stronger.
The endurance of the tough sanctionson Russia may ultimately come down towhether the G-7 and other leaders canidentify ways to ease energy supplyissues and skyrocketing prices once win-ter hits, as they seek to disengage fromRussian sources of fuel.
The G-7 meeting is sandwichedbetween a European Union summit lastweek that agreed to give Ukraine the sta-tus of a candidate for membership - kick-ing off a process that is likely to take yearsand whose success isn't guaranteed - anda summit of NATO leaders startingTuesday in Madrid.
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Ukrainian President VolodymyrZelenksyy has joined the Group of
Seven leaders by video link at their summitin the Bavarian Alps.
Zelenskyy could be seen on a televisionscreen next to the round table where theleaders sat Monday at the secluded SchlossElmau luxury hotel. His address wasn't beingshown to the public.
The G-7 leaders are committing them-selves to supporting Ukraine for the longhaul at their summit, with both immediatehelp and long-term rebuilding on the agen-da.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz saysahead of a session with Ukrainian PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy that the G-7 countries'policies on Ukraine are "very much aligned,"and that they see the need to be both toughand cautions.
Scholz said after meeting CanadianPrime Minister Justin Trudeau on Mondaythat "we are taking tough decisions, that weare also cautious, that we will help ...Ukraine as much as possible but that we alsoavoid that there will be a big conflictbetween Russia and NATO."
He added that "this is what is of essence-- to be tough and thinking about the neces-sities of the time we are living in."
The G-7 leaders are to confer by videolink Monday morning with Zelenskyy.
The Group of Seven economic powersare set to announce an agreement to pur-sue a price cap on Russian oil, aiming to curbMoscow's energy revenues, a US official saidMonday. The move is part of a joint effortof support for Ukraine that includes raisingtariffs on Russian goods and imposing newsanctions on hundreds of Russian officialsand entities supporting the four month longwar.
Leaders were finalising the deal to seeka price cap during their three-day summit
in the German Alps. The details of how aprice cap would work, as well as its impacton the Russian economy, were to be resolvedby the G-7 finance ministers in the comingweeks and months.
The largest democratic economies willalso commit to raising tariffs on Russianimports to their countries, with the USannouncing new tariffs on 570 categories ofgoods, as well as use of sanctions to targetRussia's defence supply chains that supportits effort to rearm during the war.
The senior administration official spokeon the condition of anonymity to previewthe announcements from the G-7 leaders'summit, where they are set to confer byvideo link with Ukrainian PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says theWest has no intention to "torpedo" theGroup of 20 - the group of major economiesthat also includes Russia.
This year's G-20 summit is due to takeplace in Indonesia in November. There arequestions over whether Western leaders willsit down with Russian President VladimirPutin.
Scholz, who is hosting this week's sum-mit of the smaller Group of Seven industrialpowers, on Monday also is hosting leadersfrom five major emerging democraticeconomies - India, Indonesia, Senegal,South Africa and Argentina.
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Adisplay of war-damagedRussian weapons in down-
town Warsaw serves as areminder of the horrors of thewar in Ukraine but also thatRussia's aggression can bedefeated, officials said Monday.
Ukraine's Deputy DefenceMinister Hanna Maliar and thehead of Poland's prime minis-ter's office, Michal Dworczyk,inaugurated the exhibit inWarsaw's Castle Square thatwas painstakingly rebuilt afterit's destruction during WorldWar II.
Dworczyk said the dam-aged T-72 tank, a self-pro-pelled howitzer and elements ofRussian missile systems showthat Russia's army, once con-sidered invincible, can bedefeated. The equipment fellinto the hands of Ukrainianforces early in the war thatstarted when Russia invased onFeb 24.
The tank was destroyedMarch 31 in fighting near thevillage of Dmytrivka, west of
Kyiv.Maliar said the equipment
also demonstrate the effective-ness of Ukraine's defense sys-tems - some of which havebeen provided by Europeancountries - and underscoreneed for more such support.
The display, called "ForOur Freedom and Yours,"opened on the eve of a NATOsummit in Madrid that aims toboost the strength of the mili-tary alliance's rapid reactionforce and military support forUkraine.
Maliar said Russia's
artillery is 10 times more pow-erful than Ukraine's. Ukrainehas been urging its westernallies to provide more militaryequipment and munitions tosupport its defense againstsevere Russian attacks in theeast of the country.
There are plans to take theweapons display to the CzechRepublic and elsewhere inEurope, Maliar said.
Ukraine's neighbourPoland has been a staunchsupporter of Kyiv, seeingUkraine's resistance as defend-ing all of Europe.
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Ahigh-level US delega-tion on Monday met SriLankan President
Gotabaya Rajapaksa and dis-cussed measures to help theisland nation cope with anunprecedented economic crisisand severe shortages of essen-tial supplies.
US Ambassador KellyKeiderling, Deputy AssistantSecretary of the USDepartment of State, andRobert Kaproth, DeputyAssistant Secretary of the USTreasury accompanied byAmbassador to Sri Lanka JulieJ Chung met the President todiscuss Sri Lanka's economiccrisis.
"It's a challenging time,but we continue to deliverassistance and long-term part-nership to help Sri Lankaachieve a prosperous, secure &democratic future," tweeted
the US Ambassador.The US delegation's meet-
ing with the President came asPower and Energy MinisterKanchana Wijesekera said twoministers are scheduled to leavefor Russia on Monday to holdtalks with Russian authoritiesto directly purchase fuel anddiscuss other diplomatic-relat-ed matters.
During their four-day offi-cial stay, the top officials fromthe US Treasury and the StateDepartment, who arrived hereon Sunday, will meet a widerange of political representa-tives, economists, and interna-tional organisations to "explorethe most effective ways for theUS to support Sri Lankans inneed, Sri Lankans working toresolve the current economiccrisis, and Sri Lankans plan-ning for a sustainable andinclusive economy for thefuture," the US Embassy hadsaid in a statement.
Over the past two weeks,the US has announced USD120 million in new financingfor Sri Lankan small and medi-um-sized businesses, a USD 27million contribution to SriLanka's dairy industry andUSD 5.75 million in humani-tarian assistance to help thosehit hardest by the economic cri-sis.
The United States alsocommitted USD 6 million innew grants to provide liveli-hood assistance to vulnerablepopulations, and technicalassistance on financial reformthat will help stabilise the econ-omy.
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka, whichhas remained neutral on theUkraine war, is exploringoptions to purchase oil fromRussia, as the island nation des-perately looks to replenish itsdwindling fuel stocks amid anunprecedented economic crisisdue to a crippling shortage of
foreign exchange reserves.On Sunday, petrol price
was hiked by LKR 50 anddiesel by LKR 60 respectively,the third price revision in justover two months.
The move was necessitat-ed after state-owned refineryCeylon PetroleumCorporation informed theSri Lankan government onSaturday that there would bea delay in the arrival of fuelshipments due to bankingand logistical reasons.
Since Russia's invasionof Ukraine in late February,global oil prices have sky-rocketed. While the US andits allies are trying to cutfinancial flows supportingMoscow's war effort, Russia isoffering its crude at a steepdiscount. Sri Lanka is facingthe worst economic crisissince independence in 1948which has led to an acuteshortage of essential items
like food, medicine, cookinggas and fuel across the coun-try. The nation of 22 millionhas amassed USD 51 billionin foreign debt, but has sus-pended repayment of nearlyUSD 7 billion due this year.
Sri Lankans continue tolanguish in long fuel and cook-ing gas queues as the govern-ment is unable to find dollarsto fund imports.
So far, there have been anestimated twelve deaths in fuelqueues due to exhaustion,physical ailments or accidents.
Indian credit lines for fueland essentials have providedlifelines until the ongoing talkswith the InternationalMonetary Fund could lead toa possible bailout.
There have been streetprotests in Sri Lanka against theGotabaya Rajapaksa regimesince early April due to its mis-handling of the economic cri-sis.
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Petr Cech became the latest member of Chelsea'ssenior management team to leave the club on
Monday following a change in ownership.Long-serving chairman Bruce Buck and director
Marina Granovskaia also departed Stamford Bridge lastweek in the wake of a takeover from American ToddBoehly's consortium.
Cech, who won 13major honours withChelsea during his play-ing career as a goal-keeper, became theclub's technical and per-formance advisor whenhe retired in 2019.
"It has been a hugeprivilege to perform thisrole at Chelsea for thepast three years," Cechsaid in a club statement.
"With the clubunder new ownership, Ifeel now is the righttime for me to step aside.
"I am pleased thatthe club is now in an excellent position with the newowners, and I am confident of its future success bothon and off the pitch."
Boehly has been installed as Chelsea's new chair-man and taken over as interim sporting director.
"Petr is an important member of the Chelsea fam-ily," said Boehly.
"We understand his decision to step away and thankhim for his contributions as an advisor and his com-mitment to the club and to our community."
Cech's departure puts Boehly under even morescrutiny during what is expected to be a hectic trans-fer window for the Blues.
Chelsea, who finished third in the Premier Leaguelast season, have been linked with moves for Juventusdefender Matthijs de Ligt, Manchester City's RaheemSterling and Barcelona forward Ousmane Dembele.
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PV Sindhu will look toquickly recover from her
first-round exit at Indonesia,while HS Prannoy will eyeanother consistent show as theduo spearhead the Indian chal-lenge at the Malaysia OpenSuper 750 tournament startinghere on Tuesday.
Sindhu, a two-timeOlympic medallist, was shownthe door in the opening roundby China's He Bing Jiao at theIndonesia Open Super 1000earlier this month and shewill have to put behind thatdefeat when she begins hercampaign against a formidablePornpawee Chochuwong ofThailand.
While Sindhu enjoys a 5-3head-to-head count againstChochuwong, the Indian haslost to the Thai world number10 three times in their last fivemeetings, making their clash amouth-watering prospect.
If she can cross the open-ing hurdle and hit a consistentrun, Sindhu might come acrossOlympic champion Chen YuFei of China.
London Olympics Bronzemedallist Saina Nehwal alsostars in the same half of thedraw and will open againstUSA's Iris Wang. A win willput her face-to-face withJapanese sixth seed NozomiOkuhara, a former worldchampion.
Saina had skipped the
Indonesia leg to manage work-load and will look to put up agood show against Wang,whom she had defeated inthree games the only time theymet last year at OrleansMasters.
In men's singles, Prannoyhas been on a consistent runwith a series of quarterfinals
since the world championshipslast year. He played a pivotalrole in India's epic ThomasCup win and then dished outsome superlative performancesin Jakarta to reach the semifi-nals.
The 29-year-old was crest-fallen after a series of unforcederrors led to his ouster from
Indonesia.Prannoy, who is desperate
to end his five year titledrought, will be pitted againstMalaysian veteran Daren Liew,who had defeated him at theThailand Open in May thisyear.
Among others, TokyoOlympian B Sai Praneeth will
be up against sixth seededIndonesian Anthony SinisukaGinting, while Sameer Vermatakes on another IndonesianJonata Christie, seeded sev-enth.
Former CommonwealthGames gold medallist ParupalliKashyap, also returning afterrecovering from an injury, willmeet Korea's Heo Kwang Heein the opening round.
World number 8 pairing ofSatwiksairaj Rankireddy andChirag Shetty will also be backin action after skipping the lasttwo events due to fitness issues.The duo will open Malaysia'sMan Wei Chong and Kai WunTee.
In mixed doubles, AshwiniPonnappa and B SumeethReddy, who are part of India'sCommonwealth Games squad,will take on the Netherland'sRobin Tabeling and SelenaPiek.
Venkat Gaurav Prasad andJuhi Dewangan will square offagainst Korea's Kim Won Hoand Jeong Na Eun.
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These days, Novak Djokovicmakes history just about everytime he wins another match. On
Monday, the top-ranked Serb did justthat at Wimbledon.
Djokovic, a six-time champion atthe All England Club, beat KwonSoon-woo 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 on CentreCourt, his 80th victory at the grass-court major. With it, he became thefirst man or woman to win that manymatches at each of the four GrandSlam tennis tournaments.
Djokovic was playing for the firsttime since losing to Rafael Nadal last
month in the French Open quarterfi-nals.
It didn't all go his way on Monday,however.
With the roof closed because ofsporadic rain, Kwon was able to pickhis spots with his booming forehand.It all came together in the second set,and even continued into the third, butDjokovic stepped it up and played likehe usually plays in southwest London— unbeatable.
Djokovic has won the last threeWimbledon titles and is going for hisseventh overall. That would put himin a tie for the second most with PeteSampras and William Renshaw. Only
Roger Federer, with eight, has more.Another major title would also
give him 21 for his career. Nadal has22, and Federer has 20.
Most of Djokovic's Grand Slamsingles championships have come atthe Australian Open, where he is anine-time champion. But he wasunable to defend his title in Melbournethis year after being deported becauseof Australia's vaccination protocols.
The first player to reach the sec-ond round was Alison Riske. The 28th-seeded American defeated Ylena In-Albon of Switzerland 6-2, 6-4.
Other seeded women whoadvanced were No. 3 Ons Jabeur ofTunisia and No. 29 Anhelina Kalininaof Ukraine. Kalinina will face anoth-er Ukrainian, Lesia Tsurenko, in thesecond round.
Tsurenko's match was halted forabout 10 minutes when her opponent,British wild-card entry Jodie Burrage,stopped to help a ballboy who was feel-ing faint.
Burrage gave the boy a sportsdrink and a nutritional gel beforesomeone in the crowd passed her somechewy candy. The boy was soonhelped off court.
French Open finalist Casper Ruudwon his opening match on Court 12.The third-seeded Norwegian defeat-ed Albert Ramos-Vinolas 7-6 (1), 7-6(9), 6-2.
Also in the men's draw, No. 9 CamNorrie of Britain, No. 22 NikolozBasilashvili of Georgia, No. 23 FrancesTiafoe of the United States and No. 30Tommy Paul of the United Statesadvanced.
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Former Borussia Dortmund coachLucien Favre was appointed manag-
er of Ligue 1 club Nice on Monday,replacing Christophe Galtier who is intalks with Paris Saint-Germain.
"Christophe Galtier is no longer incharge of OGC Nice's first team," Nicesaid in a statement.
Favre, the 64-year-old Swiss who hasbeen without a club since he was releasedby Dortmund in December 2020, super-vised training as the Nice squad returnedfrom a summer break.
PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaificonfirmed last week the Qatari-ownedclub were in discussions with Galtierabout taking over from MauricioPochettino.
Al-Khelaifi denied the club hadbeen in touch with Zinedine Zidane.
Galtier won the French league titlewith Lille in 2021 before leaving for Nice,leading the south coast club to fifth placelast season.
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Sri Lankans will stand to attention in afitting salute to all-time cricketing
great Australian spin wizard Shane Warnewhen the first Test between Sri Lanka andAustralia gets underway on June 29 at theGalle International Stadium.
Sri Lanka Cricket's (SLC's) noble ges-ture to dedicate the first Test to the mem-ory of Warne, will indeed be a movingsolemn occasion that will kindle stirringmemories of Warne who died premature-ly at the age of 53 of a heart attack onMarch 4 this year while holidaying inThailand. "The Sri Lankan cricket estab-lishment's gesture is one of recognisingWarne as a true friend of Sri Lanka whocame to the country's aid during the 2004Tsunami devastation by personally flyingover and visiting affected areas and mak-ing generous donations especially tohomeless cricketers families. This writerhad the privilege of having a word with thelegend on that occasion when he visitedthe Moratuwa Cricket Stadium where sev-eral teenage cricketers were lined up in aguard of honour. He did voice that he wasconcerned about the welfare of Sri Lankansaffected and as much saddened by the dev-astation of the Galle Stadium," SLC in astatement said.
For Galle was the venue where theAustralian great became the first bowlerin Test cricket history to take 500 wickets.Therein, this June 29 will surely evokemoving memories of Shane Warne, theunrelenting cricketing warrior in the mid-dle who gave no quarter nor asked for any,but who proved to be a true friend to hisadversaries off the field in time of distress.
Indeed Warne, by his magnanimousact did signify that the game of crickettranscended beyond the boundaries ofcompetition. It has been recognised by SriLanka Cricket by its decision to pay trib-ute to Warne posthumously by dedicatingthe Galle Test in memory of the great.
Born Shane Keith Warne onSeptember 13, 1969, the Australian wenton to turn the art of spin bowling on its
head by taking it to a new level. Amonghis most famous wicket taking deliverieswas the arm ball that stood him out. Heclaimed a record 708 Test wickets from 145appearances and 293 ODI wickets from194 games.
Warne is also remembered as perhapsthe most colourful personality the gamehas produced by his outgoing approachand his endearing chuckle and a big grin.
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Novak Djokovic repeated his hardline refusal to get aCovid-19 vaccination as he resigned himself to sitting
out the season's last Grand Slam at the US Open.Djokovic was deported from Melbourne in January over
his single-minded but controversial stance, forcing him toabandon an assault on a 10th Australian Open title.
With no sign of the US authorities relaxing their rulerequiring all visitors to be vaccinated, the 35-year-oldDjokovic admitted that Wimbledon will be his last Slam of2022.
When asked if he had completely closed his mind to get-ting vaccinated, he was unequivocal.
"Yes," he said.Djokovic was US Open champion in 2011, 2015 and 2018.He has 20 Slams to his name, two fewer than old rival
Rafael Nadal.Last year, defeat in the New York final to Daniil Medvedev
robbed him of the opportunity to become the first man since1969 to clinch a calendar Grand Slam.
His inability to travel to the United States - he alreadymissed the Indian Wells and Miami Masters - will serve asa key driver as he sets his sights on a seventh Wimbledontitle.
"As of today I'm not allowed to enter the States underthese circumstances. That is an extra motivation to do wellhere. Hopefully I can have a very good tournament," saidDjokovic.
"I would love to go to States. But as of today, that's notpossible. There is not much I can do any more."
"It's really up to the US government to make a decisionwhether or not they allow unvaccinated people to go intothe country."
Also adding fuel to the Djokovic fire is the chance to wina fourth successive Wimbledon title and join a select group.
In the Open era, only Bjorn Borg, Pete Sampras andRoger Federer have managed to complete such a streak ofdominance at the All England Club.
"As a seven, eight-year-old boy I've dreamt of winningWimbledon and becoming No. 1.," he added.
"Pete Sampras winning his first Wimbledon, was the firsttennis match I ever saw on the TV."
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Following his triumph at theMallorca Championships, Stefanos
Tsitsipas has moved back into the Top5 in the ATP Rankings, while MaximeCressy jumps to a career-high No. 45after reaching the final at theEastbourne International.
Tsitsipas climbed back to No 5 inthe ATP Rankings after he capturedhis first grass-court title and ninthtour-level crown overall at theMallorca Championships. The 23-year-old, who was making his debutat the ATP 250 event, defeatedSpaniard Roberto Bautista Agut in thechampionship match. StefanosTsitsipas showed few signs of nervesin his maiden ATP Tour grass-courtfinal at the Mallorca Championships,where the second seed downedRoberto Bautista Agut to claim hisfirst tour-level title on the surface.
The 25-year-old Maxime Cressyjumped 15 spots to a career-high No45 after he reached his second tour-level final of the season in Eastbourne.
The American downed Reilly Opelka,Daniel Evans, Cameron Norrie andJack Draper before falling to country-man Taylor Fritz.
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The emergence of a number of penal-ty corner specialists in the national
team gives India an edge over the othersides, according to former hockey captainSandeep Singh, who knows the "difficultart" of drag-flicking like the back of hishands.
The Birmingham CommonwealthGames-bound Indian team has as manyas three specialist drag-flickers inHarmanpreet Singh, Varun Kumar andAmit Rohidas.
And with junior players like Sanjay,Araijeet Singh Hundal and SudeepChirmako waiting in the wings, India arewell placed as far as the penalty cornerdepartment is concerned.
"Drag-flick is a difficult art whichtakes years of practice to master. It is avery technical thing, where besides brutepower, you need fast hands and quickbodyweight transfer," said Sandeep.
"Having options in drag-flick givesany team an advantage and we are luckythat we have many penalty corner special-ists in the team now. It adds variety.Harmanpreet is a world-class flicker,"added Sandeep, who is nicknamed 'FlickerSingh' for his exploits with the goal-scor-ing technique during his playing days.
Sandeep, a fiery drag-flicker in hisheydays, said the current national teamunder Manpreet Singh has the wherewith-
al to break its Gold medal jinx at theBirmingham Games, starting next month.
Since hockey's introduction in theCWG schedule in 1998 Kuala Lumpuredition, Australia has swept all the sixGold medals. India's best results are twoSilver medals in the 2010 edition at homeand 2014 Games in Glasgow, Scotland.
"Indian hockey has made tremendousprogress. The Bronze medal in Tokyo wasjust the fillip the game needed to revive
its past glory," Sandeep said."If you ask me I firmly believe we can
win a Gold in this CommonwealthGames.
"In today's hockey there is hardly anygap between the top 5 world teams. If weplay to our potential and plan, we can stopAustralia's dominance in the CWG thistime," added the player-turned-politician,who was part of the 2010 CWG Silvermedal-winning squad.
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Skipper Chamari Athapaththustruck a counter-attacking
48-ball 80 as Sri Lanka outplayedIndia by seven wickets in thethird and final T20I to avoid awhitewash here on Monday.
The 32-year-old Chamarismashed 14 boundaries andone six and in the processbecame the only cricketer fromthe island nation to get to the2000-run mark in T20Is.Tillakaratne Dilshan (1889) isthe highest run-scorer amongthe male cricketers from SriLanka.
Chasing a modest 139 toavoid a clean sweep by theIndians, Sri Lankan battingfinally came good as the hostshunt down the target with threeovers to spare to claim a conso-lation win.
The three-match T20I seriesthus ended 2-1 in favour ofIndia, who stuttered after optingto bat before skipperHarmanpreet Kaur's resilient39 not out (33b; 3x4, 1x6)propped up their total to 138 forfive.
In reply, Sri Lanka lostVishmi Gunaratne (5) in the firstover, but HarshithaSamarawickrama (13) gave afine support to Chamari in thepowerplay before being dis-missed by Radha Yadav in thefifth over.
Thereafter, Nilakshi de Silva(30 off 28 balls) joined handswith Chamari as the skippercruised to a 29-ball fifty — thefastest fifty for Sri Lankawomen's T20I.
Luck also was on her side asChamari got a reprieve on 42when Jemimah Rodriguesmissed a running catch in themidwicket boundary. She soonslammed back-to-back fours enroute to her fifth T20I fifty.
With Chamari looking furi-ous, Sri Lanka just needed 18runs in the final five overs andthe hosts it without much ado toseal their first T20 win againstIndia at home.
India were sloppy on thefield and missed a slew of run-outs and signed off the T20Iseries on a disappointing note.
Earlier, India stuttered in themiddle overs after SmritiMandhana (22 from 21b) andSabbhineni Meghana (22 from26b) departed in successiveovers to leave the visitors reelingat 51 for three.
The duo looked well incontrol in their 41-run secondwicket partnership after the tal-ented Shafali Verma (5) fell inthe opening over but run-ratedried up as the hosts bouncedback aided by some fine fielding.
There was a lull in the mid-dle when India failed to get aboundary in 38 deliveries withHarmanpreet and JemimahRodrigues struggling to getgoing.
The duo finally broke theshackles in the 13th over asJemimah showed her attackingintent in her 30-ball 33 (3x4),while the skipper was a classapart.
Jemimah fell in the penul-timate over but Harmanpreetlooked in firm control and dis-played her array of shots during
her 33-ball knock, which wasstudded with three fours andone six.
After Jemimah's departure,Harmanpreet took charge andalong with Pooja Vastrakarscored 49 runs in the final fiveovers to prop up the total.
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come a cropper in the finalwomen's T20I against Sri Lankabut chief coach Ramesh Powarsaid they are on the "right track"ahead of next month'sCommonwealth Games, wherecricket will make its debut.
"We touched upon all thebases. Honestly, the wicketswere slow, so we were notexpecting too many high-scor-ing games, but the way Harman,Shafali, Jemimah and Smritibatted, we are on the right trackas far as batting is concerned,"Powar said at the press confer-ence.
"Today Chamari put usunder the pump and we shouldlearn from this game and moveforward and plan accordingly,"Powar said.
The senior pace duo ofJhulan Goswami and ShikhaPandey was dropped for the tourof Sri Lanka, while spinnersPoonam Yadav and RajeshwariGayakwad were rested.
"The idea behind the bowl-ing unit for this series was to givechances, opening up options.Our frontline bowlers PoonamYadav, Rajeshwari Gayakwadwere rested for that purpose. Wewanted to see how our bowlershandle pressure," Powar said.
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India ticked all the requiredboxes during the four-daypractice match against
Leicestershire and will look tohit the ground running whenthey face England in therescheduled one-off Testbeginning Friday, said headcoach Rahul Dravid.
Shreyas Iyer, Virat Kohli,Shubman Gill, Rishabh Pantand Ravindra Jadeja — allstruck fifties during the drawnwarm-up game.
"I think whatever we need-ed to achieve and whateverboxes we needed to tick interms of our preparation lead-ing into the Test match onFriday, I think we are very sat-isfied and happy, we havebeen able to do that this week,"Dravid said in a video postedby Leicestershire Foxes onTwitter.
Asked about the chal-lenges of playing in Englishconditions, Dravid said:"When you have got just onegame or one-off game in aseries, its not really a lot oftime, you've got to hit theground running hard andyou've got to be able to hope-fully get your act togetherright from the first day of theTest match.
"There is not lot of roomto maneuver or things to gowrong. So having said that ithas been a good week. Ithought the match wicket waschallenging on first couple ofdays and settle down in the lasttwo so, it was good, it was agreat week."
The former India batter
also gave a thumbs up to thefacilities and atmosphere here.
"I thought you knoweveryone's really looked after
us really well. It's been greatcrowds you know, it's reallylovely to see so many peoplecome to watch the game like
this and just the atmosphereand the vibe have been excel-lent," he said.
India were leading the
series 2-1 last year before thefinal Test was abandonedowing to a COVID-19 out-break in the visitors' camp.
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Jonny Bairstow led England to awhitewash of Test world champions
New Zealand with a stunning fifty onhis Headingley home ground onMonday.
Bairstow made a blistering 71 notout, England's second quickest Test fiftyof all time, to follow a majestic 162 thathelped revive the hosts from a first-innings collapse after they had slumpedto 55-6.
Former captain Joe Root, largelyreduced to the role of a spectator byBairstow, was 86 not out after sharinga partnership of 111 with his Yorkshireteam-mate, having started the dayunbeaten on 55.
England reached their target of 296with just three wickets down to com-plete a 3-0 series clean sweep in a firstcampaign under their new leadershipduo of captain Ben Stokes and red-ballhead coach Brendon McCullum, a for-mer New Zealand skipper.
"To walk away with a 3-0 win overthe best team in the world is very spe-cial," said Stokes at the presentation cer-emony.
"The team has been phenomenal.For me when I took over this job it wasabout more than results, it was aboutchanging mindsets towards Test crick-et. "I wanted them to have fun and enjoyrepresenting their country."
New Zealand captain KaneWilliamson added: "It's been an incred-
ible series."In all three matches we had our
opportunities and we were ahead of thegame at times in each one but credit toEngland, they chose to counter-attackwhen they were under pressure andthey did it well, especially in thismatch."
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Kemar Roach reached thelandmark of 250 test wick-
ets as West Indies dominatedthe third day of the second testwith Bangladesh fighting toavoid an innings defeat.
Bangladesh was reducedto 132-6 in its second inningsat stumps on Sunday and stilltrailed the hosts by 42 runs atDaren Sammy Stadium.
Roach took the first threewickets to finish the day on 3-32 in 10 overs and move to 252wickets in his 73rd test forWest Indies. Bangladesh open-er Tamim Iqbal (4) was caughtbehind to give the pacer his250th wicket.
Roach is now the sixth-highest test wicket-taker forWest Indies. Another quick,Courtney Walsh, tops that listwith 519 wickets in 132 match-es.
Roach went on to dismissopener Mahmudul Hasan Joy(13) and Anamul Haque (4) toleave Bangladesh struggling on32-3.
Najmul Hossain Shanto isthe top scorer so far forBangladesh in its innings witha 91-ball 42. He was alsocaught behind off AlzarriJoseph (2-31).
West Indies earlierresumed on 340-5 - thanks toa chanceless and unbeaten126 from allrounder Kyle
Mayers — and extended itsovernight lead of 106 to 174after being dismissed for 408in the first innings.
Mayers was dismissed byKhaled Ahmed after movingon to 146, caught by ShorifulIslam. Mayers' innings includ-ed 18 fours and two sixes.Ahmed took 5-106.
Play was called off for theday at 5:30 p.M. Local timeafter heavy rain.
Bangladesh scored a sub-par 234 in the first innings.
West Indies won the firsttest in Antigua in just overthree days, by seven wickets.
Three T20 games and athree-match ODI series arealso scheduled.
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Ireland put up a spirted fight but Indiaproved too strong for the home
team to win the rain-hit opening T20Iby seven wickets here on Sunday.
Harry Tector's counter-attacking 64not out off 33 balls took Ireland to 108for four after the rain reduced the gameto 12 overs a side.
India were always ahead of the runrate in the chase and with contributionsfrom Ishan Kishan (26 off 11), DeepakHooda (47 not out off 29) and skipperHardik Pandya (24 off 12), cruised tovictory in 9.2 overs.
Kishan continued his good form toget India off to a quick start. The firstover of the innings went for 15 runs asKishan collected couple of fours and asix off Joshua Little.
In a rather surprising move,Deepak Hooda came to open alongsideKishan in place of Ruturaj Gaikwad. Hefound his rhythm after a scratchy startand put up a match winning 64-runstand with Hardik.
Just when it seemed Indian wererunning away with the contest, CraigYoung got rid of Kishan andSuryakumar Yadav (0) in successivedeliveries to raise hopes for his team.
Kishan's stumps were rattled inanother attempt to get a full ball out ofthe park.
Returning to the side after aninjury break, Suryakumar got a beau-ty first up that seamed back to trap himin front of the stumps.
However, Hardik and Hooda keptgoing for their strokes and a 21-run overfrom Andy Mcbrine put India back incontrol.
While Hardik departed after hittingthree sixes, Hooda stayed till the endto hit the winning four. His inningscomprised two sixes and half a dozenboundaries.
Earlier, India opted to bowl in over-
cast conditions but soon after the rainarrived, delaying the start of play bymore than two hours and 20 minutes.
The conditions were ripe forBhuvneshwar Kumar to make the balltalk and he did just that in the open-ing over of the match.
The wily operator got the ball toswing both ways before an inswingerbreached the defence of Ireland skip-per Andrew Balbirnie.
Skipper Hardik Pandya got himselfinto the attack in the second over andtook two balls to dismiss the danger-ous Paul Stirling.
Avesh Khan then had GarethDelany caught behind in his first overto leave Ireland at 22 for three.
India were expected to run throughthe opposition but Ireland staged a spir-ited recovery through Tector, whowent for the offensive against theIndian pacers, including debutantUmran Malik.
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Former India opener VirenderSehwag reckons that skipper
Rohit Sharma could be relievedfrom captaincy duties in the T20format which would allow himto manage his workload better.
Rohit has not been able tofeature in all of India's matchessince taking over as captain dueto injuries and workload man-agement.
"If the Indian team manage-ment has someone else in mindas captain in the T20 format,then I think, Rohit (Sharma)could be relieved and the follow-ing can be taken into consider-ation going forward," Sehwagsaid.
"One, that would allowRohit to manage his workloadand mental fatigue, given his age.
"Two, once someone new is
appointed as captain in T20s, itwould also allow Rohit to takebreaks and rejuvenate himself tolead India in both Tests andODIs," he said.
However, Sehwag main-tained that if the team manage-ment sticks with its currentpolicy of having one captain tolead India across the three for-mats, then Sharma is still anideal choice.
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Opener Mayank Agarwalhas been called up to join
the Indian squad in the UK ascover for skipper Rohit Sharma,who has been rendered doubt-ful for the Edgbaston Testagainst England after testingpositive for COVID-19.
Rohit competed on thefirst day of the drawn warm-upgame against Leicestershirebefore being placed under iso-lation. He had tested positive in
a Rapid Antigen Test (RAT).The 31-year-old Agarwal
had missed out on making the15-man squad for the game,starting July 1, but an opportu-nity has come his way as KLRahul got injured just ahead ofthe South Africa series and nowRohit has contracted infec-tion.
"The All-India SeniorSelection Committee has addedMayank Agarwal to India'sTest squad for the rescheduledfifth Test as cover for captain
Rohit Sharma, who tested pos-itive for COVID-19. Mayankhas left for the UK and will linkup with the squad inBirmingham," said the BCCI ina statement.
A BCCI source added: "Ifneeded he be will be availablefor the Test match as UK Covidprotocols don't require anyquarantine period on landingif RT PCR test is negative."
Agarwal has featured in 21Tests so far, scoring 1488 runsat an average of 41.33.
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India skipper Hardik Pandyarevealed that he didn't want to risk
sending out Ruturaj Gaikwad toopen the innings in the first T20against Ireland as he picked up a calfniggle in the first half of the game.
India chased down a 109-run tar-get with relative ease in the rain-cur-tailed T20 against hosts Ireland onSunday night. But at the halfway stageinstead of regular opener Gaikwad,Deepak Hooda walked out to openthe innings alongside Ishan Kishan.
"Rutu had a niggle in his calf,"Pandya said. "We had the choice oftaking a risk and sending him in (toopen), but I was not okay with it. Aplayer's well-being is more important,and (I thought) we'll be able tomanage what happens in the match."
Hooda, who was playing hisfourth T20I for India, ended up top-scoring for the visitors as he remainedunbeaten on 47 off 29.
"It was quite simple after that,there wasn't much of a decision tomake; whatever our (batting-order)numbers were, we all went up one
spot, and it wasn't a big headache. Wewanted to make sure we weren't tak-ing any chances with Rutu."
Pace sensation Umran Malikwas handed a much-anticipateddebut after spending time on thebench in the home series againstSouth Africa earlier this month.
However, the 22-year-old justbowled one over in which he gaveaway 14 runs, including a four andsix.
"Umran was kept back after I hada chat with him, he's more comfort-able with the older ball and they bat-
ted fantastically. So, hope he gets anopportunity. "When you play forIndia for the first time, and the jour-ney he has taken, it's important togive such a bowler and such a talenttime.
Malik was named in the Indiansquad after a breakthrough IPL sea-son with the Sunrisers Hyderabad.
"Whether it was a good day or abad day is irrelevant. For him, just toplay for India is itself a very big thing,and that is something which I'm veryhappy for, (irrespective) of how theresult went, good or bad, it's okay.
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England's World Cup-winningcaptain Eoin Morgan is set to
retire from international cricket,with an official announcementexpected as soon as Tuesday,according to the BBC.
Under Morgan, England wonthe 2019 50-over World Cup —their first major global limitedovers title — and reached the topof the one-day and T20 rankings.
But the 35-year-old Dublin-born batter has been strugglingwith form and fitness issues thisyear.
He was twice out for noughtduring the recent ODI series awayto the Netherlands in Amstelveenand withdrew from the third match
with a groin issue.England face India in a three-
match T20I series starting on July7, while the T20 World Cup inAustralia begins in October.
If Morgan does indeed stepdown ahead of the 2023 50-overWorld Cup in India, vice-captainJos Buttler would appear to be thefavourite to replace him asEngland's white-ball skipper.
Morgan is England's leadingrun-scorer of all time in ODI andT20 cricket with 6,957 and 2,458runs respectively. His tally of 225ODIs and 115 T20Is is also anEngland record.
But he has made just two fiftiesfrom his past 28 internationalinnings across the two white-ballformats.
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