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T he state Assembly contin- ued to witness pandemo- nium for the third day of its Monsoon Session as Congress members created ruckus throughout the day over the alleged corruption and irregu- larities in the Odisha Staff Selection Commission (OSSC). Soon after the House assembled for the day, the Congress legislators stood up at their seats and then went into the Well of the House and shouted anti-Government slo- gans. Congress Legislature Party Leader Narasingha Mishra raised the alleged corruption in the selection process of candi- dates through the OSSC. Other Congress members shouted slogans against the Government on the issue. Unable to run the House, Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro adjourned the proceedings till 4 pm. The Speaker called an all- party meeting to bring nor- malcy in the House. Ministers tabled different reports as nor- malcy returned after the all- party meeting. Meanwhile, both BJP and Congress indulged in a blame game over the stalemate in the Assembly. Speaking to reporters outside the house, BJP Chief Whip Mohan Charan Majhi alleged that there is a deal between the ruling BJD and the Congress to pre- vent smooth functioning of the House. “Adjournment of the House directly till 4 pm just 1 minute after the beginning of Question Hour shows that there was a secret deal between the BJD and the Congress to stall the Assembly. The Government knew that it would get into trouble by dis- cussing issues like the Mahanga double murder case and the law and order situa- tion,” said Majhi. The BJP had moved an adjournment motion to discuss the law and order situation in the State. On the other hand, Congress MLA Tara Prasad Bahinipati said, “Yesterday, the BJP had raised the Mahanga double murder case and demanded action against Law Minister Pratap Jena. But today, they remained silent. They became silent because they have a nexus with the ruling BJD.” O disha may witness above- normal rainfall in September as a low pressure is likely to form over the Bay of Bengal next week. The low pressure area is likely to form over north and adjoining central Bay of Bengal o around September 6, pre- dicted the Regional Meteorological Centre here. Due to this, above-normal rainfall activity is expected, reducing the deficit rainfall between June and August. Meanwhile, the IMD issued heavy rainfall and thun- derstorm alert for several dis- tricts of Odisha till September 7. T he State Government would establish an Iconic Adarsh Vidyalaya in Bhubaneswar, for which foun- dation stone would be laid on September 5 on the occasion of Teacher’s Day, informed School and Mass Education Minister Samir Ranjan Dash on Friday. The higher secondary school for Classes-XI and XII would be built on 25 acres of land at Andharua in the city at an expenditure of Rs 100 crore, he said. While the project is likely to be completed in 2022, a first batch of 500 students would take admission from the 2022- 23 academic year. Meritorious students from 314 Adarsh Vidyalayas from across the State would be selected for studying in this school, said Dash. All expenses of the board- ing school would be borne by the Government, he added. W ith the detection of 849 new Covid-19 cases on Friday in 28 districts and the State pool, the total caseload in the State surged to 10,10,072. Out of the new cases, 120 were in the age group of 0 to18 years. In the last 24 hours, 71,247 samples were tested and the test positivity Rate (TPR) was 1.19 per cent. The number of active cases stood at 7,345. Of the 849 cases, 495 were from quarantine and 354 local contacts. Khordha district reported the high- est 341 cases followed by Cuttack with 117, Baleswar 51, Jajpur 32, Puri 31, Dhenkanal 26, Mayurbhanj 21, Angul 20, Sundargarh 18, Sambalpur 16, Keonjhar and Jagatsinghpur 12 each, Bhadrak 11, Deogarh eight, Naygarh seven, Balangir, Nabarangpur, Jharsuguda and Kalahandi four each, Bargarh and Subarnapur three each, Gajapati, Boudh, Ganjam , Kandhamal and Malkangiri one each. Besides, 78 cases were reported from the State pool. Seven patients, including a six-year-old girl, suc- cumbed to the virus in the last 24 hours, taking the total toll to 8,035. Two causalities were reported from Ganjam and one each from Baleswar, Cuttack, Dhenkanal, Kendrapada and Puri. However, another 835 patients recovered on the day, taking the total recoveries to 9,95,474. B hubaneswar on Friday registered 243 new Covid-19 cases, with which the total tally in the capital city rose to 1,07,850 Out of the new cases, 196 were local con- tacts and 47 were from quar- antine. The active cases in the city stood at 3,068. Till now, 1,002 persons have succumbed to the disease in the city. However, 256 patients recovered on the day, increasing the total recoveries to 1,03,489. T aliban co-founder Mullah Baradar will lead the upcoming Government in Afghanistan where the group seized control last control fol- lowing months of offensives. Baradar, who heads the Taliban’s political office in Doha, will be joined by Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, the son of late Taliban co-founder Mullah Omar, and Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, in senior positions in the government, Tolo News reported citing sources from the Islamic group. Earlier, the Taliban had announced that Haibatullah Akhunzada, may lead the forthcoming government in the country but the sources have informed that he will focus on religious matters and governance within the frame- work of Islam. But the new Government’s most immediate priority may be to avert the collapse of an economy grappling with drought and the ravages of a 20-year conflict that killed around 240,000 Afghans before US forces completed a tumul- tuous pullout on August 30. At stake is whether the Taliban can govern a country facing economic meltdown, a humanitarian disaster and threats to security and stabili- ty from rival jihadist groups, including a local offshoot of Islamic State. “All the top leaders have arrived in Kabul, where prepa- rations are in final stages to announce the new govern- ment,” a Taliban official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. The Taliban, which seized Kabul on Aug. 15 after sweep- ing across most of the country, have faced resistance in the Panjshir Valley, where there have been reports of heavy fighting and casualties. Several thousand fighters of regional militias and rem- nants of the government’s armed forces have massed in the rugged valley under the leadership of Ahmad Massoud, the son of former Mujahideen commander Ahmad Shah Massoud. T he Supreme Court on Friday stayed for a week Kerala Government’s decision to conduct offline exams for Class XI from September 6 amid rising cases of Covid. “There is an alarming” situa- tion in the State owing to Covid-19, observed the apex court, adding that “cases in Kerala are about 70 per cent cases of the country. Children of this age cannot be exposed to this risk.” “Prima facie, we find force in submission made by peti- tioner that the State Government has not seriously considered the prevailing situ- ation before having a physical exam proposed to be conduct- ed in September this year. As we couldn’t get a satisfactory response from counsel for the State in this regard, we grant interim relief staying the offline exam till next date of hearing,” said a bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar, Hrishikesh Roy and CT Ravikumar. The apex court posted the matter for next hearing on September 13. The Kerala High Court had earlier observed that con- ducting examination was a matter of Government policy and no interference was war- ranted. The apex court bench passed the order on an appeal filed by advocate Rasoolshan A challenging a decision of the high court refusing to interfere with the decision to hold offline exams. Meanwhile, the night cur- few slapped on Kerala since last Sunday has failed to yield any result as the number of new patients diagnosed with Covid- 19 continue to remain high. On Friday, out of the 1.63 lakh samples sent for testing, 29,322 persons were found to be infected with Covid-19, said a release by Health Minister Veena George. The Test Positivity Rate remained high with 17.91 per cent while the pandemic claimed 131 lives taking the death toll in the State till date to 21,280. The State also saw 118 health workers falling prey to Covid-19. T he Supreme Court on Friday expressed displea- sure over delay in framing guidelines for issuance of death certificates to the families of those who died of Covid-19 and directed the Centre to do so and file compliance report by September 11. “We passed the order a long time back. We have already extended the time once. By the time you frame the guidelines, the third phase will also be over”, a bench com- prising Justices MR Shah and Aniruddha Bose observed. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, assured the apex court that everything is under con- sideration. Advocate Gaurav Kumar Bansal, who has filed the peti- tion, submitted that under the pretext of consideration things should not be delayed as the top court has already granted four-week extension to the Centre on August 16 to frame guidelines for ex-gratia com- pensation and now it is seeking more time. Advocate Sumeer Sodhi, who appeared for some of the applicants, said extend- ed time for the first direction passed on June 30 is getting over on September 8. The bench said it is for the Centre to take decision on compensation within that peri- od of time and today it was adjourning the matter only for the purpose of compliance with other directions. “Put up on September 13 as Solicitor General seeks time to enable Union of India to comply with earlier order and place on record compliance report of other directions issued by this court on June 30, 2021. Compliance report to be filed with the registry on or before September 11,” the bench said. The apex court had in its June 30 verdict directed the National Disaster Management Authority(NDMA) to recom- mend within six weeks appro- priate guidelines for ex-gratia assistance on account of loss of life to the family members of persons who died due to Covid-19. The Centre had moved an application seeking some more time to frame the guidelines on the ground that the exercise which was in active consider- ation of the NDMA was at an advanced stage and requires a little more in-depth examination. A mid debate whether or not students should be sent to schools in view of impending third wave of the coronavirus pandemic in India, a study by University College London and Public Health England has found that even as children rarely become severely ill due to the infection, at least one in seven infected kids may have lingering symptoms. The study found that 11- to-17-year-olds who tested pos- itive for the virus were twice as likely to report three or more symptoms 15 weeks later than those who had tested negative. Researchers surveyed 3,065 kids in England who had pos- itive results in a PCR test between January and March, and a control group of 3,739 who tested negative over the same period. Among those who tested positive, 14 per cent reported three or more symptoms such as unusual tiredness or headaches 15 weeks later, com- pared with 7 per cent reporting symptoms by that time among the control group. The researchers said while the findings suggested as many as 32,000 teenagers might have had multiple symptoms linked to Covid-19 after 15 weeks, the prevalence of long Covid in the age group was lower than some had feared last year. The findings were a pre- print which had not been peer- reviewed. The authors said any decision to extend vaccination to 12-15-year-olds in Britain was unlikely to be based on this study as there was not enough data on whether vaccination protects against long Covid-19. Early this year, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control had said the majority of children don’t develop symptoms when infected with the coronavirus, or their symptoms are very mild. However, it is becoming increasingly apparent that a large number of children with symptomatic and asympto- matic Covid-19 are experienc- ing long-term effects, many months after the infection. So far, most long Covid research is based on adults. There is less information about under-18s, in part because it takes longer to get ethical approval to study children, said Natalie Lambert at Indiana University School of Medicine. Symptoms of long Covid were first thought to include fatigue, muscle and joint pain, headache, insomnia, respira- tory problems and heart pal- pitations. Now, support groups and researchers said there may be up to 100 other symptoms, including gastrointestinal prob- lems, nausea, dizziness, seizures, hallucinations and testicular pain. D escribing China as its “most important partner”, the Taliban have said they look to Beijing to rebuild Afghanistan and exploit its rich copper deposits as the war- ravaged country faces wide- spread hunger and fears of an economic collapse. Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said the group supports China’s One Belt, One Road initiative that seeks to link China with Africa, Asia and Europe through an enormous network of ports, railways, roads and industrial parks. “China is our most impor- tant partner and represents a fundamental and extraordi- nary opportunity for us because it is ready to invest and rebuild our country,” Geo News quoted Mujahid as saying in an interview to an Italian newspaper on Thursday. There are “rich copper mines in the country, which, thanks to the Chinese, can be put back into operation and modernised. In addition, China is our pass to markets all over the world,” said Mujahid. China has been making some positive statements towards the Taliban and has expressed the hope that the insurgents will follow moder- ate and prudent domestic and foreign policies, combat all forms of terrorist forces, live in harmony with other countries, and live up to the aspiration of its own people and the inter- national community. Stating that China respects Afghanistan’s sovereignty and will not interfere and follow the friendship with “entire Afghan people”, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Tuesday that, “facts show that in realising economic development we need an open inclusive politi- cal structure, implementation of moderate foreign and domestic policies and clean break from terrorist groups in all forms”. The Taliban also view Russia as an important partner in the region and will maintain good relations with Moscow, Mujahid said. A mid concerns in India that Afghan soil under the Taliban regime can be used for terrorist activities against it, the insurgent group has said it has the right to speak out in favour of Muslims anywhere, includ- ing in Kashmir, though it does not have a policy of conduct- ing “armed operations” against any country. Suhail Shaheen, Taliban spokesman for its political office in Doha, in an exclusive interview to BBC through video link on Thursday, said: “We will raise our voice and say that Muslims are your own people, your own citizens and they are entitled to equal rights under your law.” As Muslims, it was the group’s right to speak out for Muslims living in Kashmir and any other country, Shaheen said while speaking from Doha. While recalling the terms of the Doha agreement with the US, he said they had “no poli- cy of conducting armed oper- ations against any country”.

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The state Assembly contin-ued to witness pandemo-

nium for the third day of itsMonsoon Session as Congressmembers created ruckusthroughout the day over thealleged corruption and irregu-larities in the Odisha StaffSelection Commission (OSSC).

Soon after the Houseassembled for the day, theCongress legislators stood up attheir seats and then went intothe Well of the House andshouted anti-Government slo-gans.

Congress Legislature PartyLeader Narasingha Mishraraised the alleged corruption inthe selection process of candi-dates through the OSSC.

Other Congress membersshouted slogans against theGovernment on the issue.

Unable to run the House,Speaker Surjya Narayan Patroadjourned the proceedings till4 pm.

The Speaker called an all-party meeting to bring nor-malcy in the House. Ministerstabled different reports as nor-malcy returned after the all-party meeting.

Meanwhile, both BJP andCongress indulged in a blamegame over the stalemate in theAssembly. Speaking toreporters outside the house,BJP Chief Whip MohanCharan Majhi alleged that thereis a deal between the rulingBJD and the Congress to pre-vent smooth functioning of theHouse.

“Adjournment of theHouse directly till 4 pm just 1minute after the beginning ofQuestion Hour shows thatthere was a secret deal betweenthe BJD and the Congress tostall the Assembly. TheGovernment knew that itwould get into trouble by dis-cussing issues like the Mahanga double murder caseand the law and order situa-tion,” said Majhi.

The BJP had moved anadjournment motion to discussthe law and order situation inthe State.

On the other hand,Congress MLA Tara PrasadBahinipati said, “Yesterday, theBJP had raised the Mahangadouble murder case anddemanded action against LawMinister Pratap Jena. But today,they remained silent. Theybecame silent because theyhave a nexus with the rulingBJD.”

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Odisha may witness above-normal rainfall in

September as a low pressure islikely to form over the Bay ofBengal next week.

The low pressure area islikely to form over north andadjoining central Bay of Bengalo around September 6, pre-

dicted the RegionalMeteorological Centre here.

Due to this, above-normalrainfall activity is expected,reducing the deficit rainfallbetween June and August.

Meanwhile, the IMDissued heavy rainfall and thun-derstorm alert for several dis-tricts of Odisha till September7.

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The State Governmentwould establish an Iconic

Adarsh Vidyalaya inBhubaneswar, for which foun-dation stone would be laid onSeptember 5 on the occasion ofTeacher’s Day, informed Schooland Mass Education MinisterSamir Ranjan Dash on Friday.

The higher secondaryschool for Classes-XI and XIIwould be built on 25 acres ofland at Andharua in the city atan expenditure of Rs 100 crore,he said.

While the project is likelyto be completed in 2022, a first

batch of 500 students wouldtake admission from the 2022-23 academic year. Meritoriousstudents from 314 AdarshVidyalayas from across theState would be selected forstudying in this school, saidDash.

All expenses of the board-ing school would be borne bythe Government, he added.

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With the detection of 849new Covid-19 cases on

Friday in 28 districts and theState pool, the total caseload in the State surged to 10,10,072.

Out of the new cases, 120 were in the age group of 0 to18years. In the last 24 hours, 71,247 samples were tested and thetest positivity Rate (TPR) was 1.19 per cent. The number of active

cases stood at 7,345.Of the 849 cases, 495 were from quarantine and

354 local contacts. Khordha district reported the high-est 341 cases followed by Cuttack with 117, Baleswar51, Jajpur 32, Puri 31, Dhenkanal 26, Mayurbhanj 21,Angul 20, Sundargarh 18, Sambalpur 16, Keonjhar andJagatsinghpur 12 each, Bhadrak 11, Deogarh eight,Naygarh seven, Balangir, Nabarangpur, Jharsuguda andKalahandi four each, Bargarh and Subarnapur threeeach, Gajapati, Boudh, Ganjam , Kandhamal andMalkangiri one each.

Besides, 78 cases were reported from the State pool.Seven patients, including a six-year-old girl, suc-

cumbed to the virus in the last 24 hours, taking thetotal toll to 8,035. Two causalities were reported fromGanjam and one each from Baleswar, Cuttack,Dhenkanal, Kendrapada and Puri.

However, another 835 patients recovered on theday, taking the total recoveries to 9,95,474.

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Taliban co-founder MullahBaradar will lead the

upcoming Government inAfghanistan where the groupseized control last control fol-lowing months of offensives.

Baradar, who heads theTaliban’s political office inDoha, will be joined by MullahMohammad Yaqoob, the son of

late Taliban co-founder MullahOmar, and Sher MohammadAbbas Stanekzai, in seniorpositions in the government,

Tolo News reported citingsources from the Islamic group.

Earlier, the Taliban hadannounced that Haibatullah

Akhunzada, may lead theforthcoming government inthe country but the sourceshave informed that he willfocus on religious matters andgovernance within the frame-work of Islam.

But the new Government’smost immediate priority maybe to avert the collapse of aneconomy grappling withdrought and the ravages of a20-year conflict that killedaround 240,000 Afghans beforeUS forces completed a tumul-tuous pullout on August 30.

At stake is whether theTaliban can govern a countryfacing economic meltdown, ahumanitarian disaster andthreats to security and stabili-ty from rival jihadist groups,including a local offshoot ofIslamic State.

“All the top leaders havearrived in Kabul, where prepa-rations are in final stages toannounce the new govern-ment,” a Taliban official toldReuters, speaking on conditionof anonymity.

The Taliban, which seizedKabul on Aug. 15 after sweep-ing across most of the country,have faced resistance in thePanjshir Valley, where therehave been reports of heavyfighting and casualties.

Several thousand fightersof regional militias and rem-nants of the government’sarmed forces have massed inthe rugged valley under theleadership of Ahmad Massoud,the son of former Mujahideencommander Ahmad ShahMassoud.

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The Supreme Court onFriday stayed for a week

Kerala Government’s decisionto conduct offline exams forClass XI from September 6amid rising cases of Covid.“There is an alarming” situa-tion in the State owing toCovid-19, observed the apexcourt, adding that “cases inKerala are about 70 per centcases of the country. Childrenof this age cannot be exposedto this risk.”

“Prima facie, we find forcein submission made by peti-tioner that the StateGovernment has not seriouslyconsidered the prevailing situ-ation before having a physicalexam proposed to be conduct-ed in September this year. Aswe couldn’t get a satisfactoryresponse from counsel for theState in this regard, we grantinterim relief staying the offlineexam till next date of hearing,”said a bench of Justices AMKhanwilkar, Hrishikesh Royand CT Ravikumar. The apexcourt posted the matter for nexthearing on September 13.

The Kerala High Courthad earlier observed that con-ducting examination was amatter of Government policyand no interference was war-ranted. The apex court benchpassed the order on an appealfiled by advocate Rasoolshan A

challenging a decision of thehigh court refusing to interferewith the decision to hold offlineexams.

Meanwhile, the night cur-few slapped on Kerala since lastSunday has failed to yield anyresult as the number of newpatients diagnosed with Covid-19 continue to remain high. OnFriday, out of the 1.63 lakhsamples sent for testing, 29,322persons were found to beinfected with Covid-19, said arelease by Health MinisterVeena George.

The Test Positivity Rateremained high with 17.91 percent while the pandemicclaimed 131 lives taking thedeath toll in the State till dateto 21,280. The State also saw118 health workers falling preyto Covid-19.

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The Supreme Court onFriday expressed displea-

sure over delay in framingguidelines for issuance of deathcertificates to the families ofthose who died of Covid-19and directed the Centre to doso and file compliance reportby September 11.

“We passed the order along time back. We havealready extended the time once.By the time you frame theguidelines, the third phase willalso be over”, a bench com-prising Justices MR Shah andAniruddha Bose observed.

Solicitor General TusharMehta, appearing for theCentre, assured the apex courtthat everything is under con-sideration.

Advocate Gaurav KumarBansal, who has filed the peti-tion, submitted that under thepretext of consideration thingsshould not be delayed as thetop court has already grantedfour-week extension to theCentre on August 16 to frameguidelines for ex-gratia com-pensation and now it is seekingmore time. Advocate SumeerSodhi, who appeared for someof the applicants, said extend-ed time for the first directionpassed on June 30 is gettingover on September 8.

The bench said it is for theCentre to take decision oncompensation within that peri-

od of time and today it wasadjourning the matter only forthe purpose of compliancewith other directions. “Put upon September 13 as SolicitorGeneral seeks time to enableUnion of India to comply withearlier order and place onrecord compliance report ofother directions issued by thiscourt on June 30, 2021.Compliance report to be filedwith the registry on or beforeSeptember 11,” the bench said.

The apex court had in itsJune 30 verdict directed theNational Disaster ManagementAuthority(NDMA) to recom-mend within six weeks appro-priate guidelines for ex-gratiaassistance on account of loss oflife to the family members ofpersons who died due toCovid-19.

The Centre had moved anapplication seeking some moretime to frame the guidelines onthe ground that the exercisewhich was in active consider-ation of the NDMA was at anadvanced stage and requires alittle more in-depth examination.

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Amid debate whether or notstudents should be sent to

schools in view of impendingthird wave of the coronaviruspandemic in India, a study byUniversity College London andPublic Health England hasfound that even as childrenrarely become severely ill dueto the infection, at least one inseven infected kids may havelingering symptoms.

The study found that 11-to-17-year-olds who tested pos-itive for the virus were twice aslikely to report three or moresymptoms 15 weeks later thanthose who had tested negative.

Researchers surveyed 3,065kids in England who had pos-itive results in a PCR testbetween January and March,

and a control group of 3,739who tested negative over thesame period.

Among those who testedpositive, 14 per cent reportedthree or more symptoms suchas unusual tiredness orheadaches 15 weeks later, com-pared with 7 per cent reportingsymptoms by that time amongthe control group.

The researchers said whilethe findings suggested as manyas 32,000 teenagers might havehad multiple symptoms linked

to Covid-19 after 15 weeks, theprevalence of long Covid in theage group was lower than somehad feared last year.

The findings were a pre-print which had not been peer-reviewed. The authors said anydecision to extend vaccinationto 12-15-year-olds in Britainwas unlikely to be based on thisstudy as there was not enoughdata on whether vaccinationprotects against long Covid-19.

Early this year, theEuropean Centre for Disease

Prevention and Control hadsaid the majority of childrendon’t develop symptoms wheninfected with the coronavirus,or their symptoms are verymild.

However, it is becomingincreasingly apparent that alarge number of children withsymptomatic and asympto-matic Covid-19 are experienc-ing long-term effects, manymonths after the infection.

So far, most long Covidresearch is based on adults.There is less information aboutunder-18s, in part because ittakes longer to get ethicalapproval to study children,said Natalie Lambert at IndianaUniversity School of Medicine.

Symptoms of long Covidwere first thought to includefatigue, muscle and joint pain,headache, insomnia, respira-tory problems and heart pal-pitations. Now, support groupsand researchers said there maybe up to 100 other symptoms,including gastrointestinal prob-lems, nausea, dizziness,seizures, hallucinations andtesticular pain.

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Describing China as its“most important partner”,

the Taliban have said they lookto Beijing to rebuildAfghanistan and exploit itsrich copper deposits as the war-ravaged country faces wide-spread hunger and fears of aneconomic collapse.

Taliban spokespersonZabihullah Mujahid said thegroup supports China’s OneBelt, One Road initiative thatseeks to link China with Africa,Asia and Europe through anenormous network of ports,railways, roads and industrialparks.

“China is our most impor-tant partner and represents afundamental and extraordi-nary opportunity for usbecause it is ready to invest andrebuild our country,” Geo News quoted Mujahid assaying in an interview to an Italian newspaper onThursday.

There are “rich coppermines in the country, which,thanks to the Chinese, can beput back into operation andmodernised.

In addition, China is ourpass to markets all over theworld,” said Mujahid.

China has been makingsome positive statementstowards the Taliban and hasexpressed the hope that theinsurgents will follow moder-ate and prudent domestic andforeign policies, combat allforms of terrorist forces, live inharmony with other countries,and live up to the aspiration ofits own people and the inter-national community.

Stating that China respectsAfghanistan’s sovereignty andwill not interfere and follow thefriendship with “entire Afghanpeople”, Chinese ForeignMinistry spokesman WangWenbin said on Tuesday that,“facts show that in realisingeconomic development weneed an open inclusive politi-cal structure, implementationof moderate foreign anddomestic policies and cleanbreak from terrorist groups inall forms”.

The Taliban also viewRussia as an important partnerin the region and will maintaingood relations with Moscow,Mujahid said.

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Amid concerns in India thatAfghan soil under the

Taliban regime can be used forterrorist activities against it, theinsurgent group has said it hasthe right to speak out in favourof Muslims anywhere, includ-ing in Kashmir, though it doesnot have a policy of conduct-ing “armed operations” againstany country.

Suhail Shaheen, Talibanspokesman for its politicaloffice in Doha, in an exclusive

interview to BBC throughvideo link on Thursday, said:

“We will raise our voice and saythat Muslims are your ownpeople, your own citizens andthey are entitled to equal rightsunder your law.”

As Muslims, it was thegroup’s right to speak out forMuslims living in Kashmir and any other country, Shaheen said while speakingfrom Doha.

While recalling the termsof the Doha agreement with theUS, he said they had “no poli-cy of conducting armed oper-ations against any country”.

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In spite of the provision in theCentral Motor Vehicles Rules

(CMVR) that the two-wheelermanufacturers or dealersshould mandatorily supply twohelmets “to the buyer at thetime of purchase of new vehi-cles”, the dealers in the State arenot following the law.

Besides, provision in Rrule138 (4) (f) of Central MotorsVehicles Rules, 1989 states thatat the time of purchase of thetwo-wheeler, the manufactur-er of the two-wheeler or thedealer should supply the pro-tective headgear (helmet) con-forming to specifications pre-scribed by the Bureau of IndianStandards (BIS) under theBureau of Indian StandardsAct, 1986.”

However, these rules areblatantly flouted by the dealersin the State despite the fact thatmore than 72% of the casual-ties in road mishaps in the Stateare of two-wheeler riders. Byproviding helmets awarenesscan be created among the rid-ers, particularly in the semi-urban and rural areas wherehelmetless driving is rampantand enforcement is absolutelyzero, said Road Safety Councilmember Subrat Kumar Nanda.

Besides, the failure to com-ply with this rule prohibits anew two-wheeler from getting

registered with any RTO. Butthe two-wheeler dealers in theState are not providing helmetsbut are getting the new vehiclesregistered as now registrationis done by them, Nanda added.

The flouting of the MV Actrules by the dealers can beascertained from the fact thata rattled TransportCommissioner and theChairman of State TransportAuthority (STA) in a circular(02 of 2021) on September 2stated, “It is noticed that mostof the two-wheeler dealers inthe State are not supplying BISmarked protective head gear(helmet) to every purchaser atthe time of sale of two-wheel-ers though there is explicitprovision under the statutethat two-wheeler manufactur-ers shall supply protective headgear conforming to BIS markwith every vehicle.”

For such reasons some two-wheeler owners are found dri-ving their vehicles on the roadwithout protective headgearwhich is a serious threat to road

safety. (I Rule 138 (4) (f) ofCentral Motor Vehicles Rules,1989), the circular added.

The TransportCommissioner also instructedthe Regional Transport Officers(RTOs) to issue necessarydirections to all two-wheelerdealers under their jurisdictionto strictly adhere to the aboveinstruction as well as provisionof law.

“Regular enforcement beconducted at all dealer desti-nations to ensure that they aresupplying protective headgear(helmet) to every purchaserconforming to BIS standardswhile selling the two wheelersand for violations e-challan bedrawn against erring dealers,”he added.

Besides, dealers should beinstructed to affix signboards atconspicuous places at theirshowrooms to create publicawareness so that people canclaim protective head gear atthe time of purchase of two-wheelers, the Commissionerstated.

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Odisha witnessed monsoonrain deficit by 29 per cent

between June 1 and August 31,which is sixth worst in over acentury.

During the period, theState received a cumulative661.1 mm rainfall against itsnormal rate of 935.8 mm, lead-ing to a drought-like situation.This is the sixth occasion in last120 years when the southwestmonsoon rainfall has beendeficient by 20% or more, saidthe India MeteorologicalDepartment (IMD) RegionalCentre here.

The previous years thathad recorded deficit rainfall by29% or more are 1924 (636.2mm), 1954 (646.8 mm), 1974( 658.7 mm), 1987 (641.4 mm)and 1998 (657.5 mm).

“The seasonal deficiency ismainly due to large deficit inthe August rainfall. Cumulativetotal rainfall realised overOdisha during August is 204.9mm as against its normal value366.4 mm (44 % deficient).Previously, the August monthrainfall was less than 204.9 mmin the years 1965 (187.3 mm),1987 (190.3 mm) and 1998(203.5 mm) during the last 120years,” the MeT centreinformed.

In August, only four out ofthe 30 districts received normalrainfall while 18 districts wereunder deficient category. Eightdistricts, Boudh (-75%),Sambalpur and Subranapur (-68%), Angul and Balangir (-63%), Kandhamal (-62%),Bargarh and Jajpur (-61%)were under large deficient cat-egory.

“Apparently, absence ofmonsoon depression and lessnumber of monsoon lows (onlytwo observed) over Bay ofBengal in August causes lessamount of rainfall. Most of thedays, the monsoon troughlocated north of its normal

position, which also causessubdued monsoon activities,”the MeT centre stated.

However, the IMD pre-dicted that the State wouldreceive normal rainfall inSeptember, the final month ofmonsoon season.

“The rainfall averaged overthe country as a whole duringSeptember is most likely to beabove normal Considering theexpected above normal rainfallactivity, the current deficiencyof 9% in seasonal rainfallbetween June and August isvery likely to reduce and accu-mulated seasonal rainfallbetween June 1 and September30 is very likely to be aroundlower end of the normal,”informed IMD DGMrutyunjay Mohapatra.

“The forecast suggests thatabove normal to normal rain-fall is likely over many areas ofcentral India in September.Similarly, normal to below nor-mal rainfall is most likely overmany areas of northwest andnortheast India and southernparts of peninsular India,” headded.

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The Guru KelucharanMohapatra Award 2021

will be presented to veterantheatre artist Binodini Debi, forher invaluable contributionand lifetime achievement in thefield of Odia theatre.

The Guru KelucharanMohapatra Yuva PratibhaSamman will be presented toArushi Mudgal for Odishidance and to RamachandraBehera for Odishi music(Mardala), acknowledging theirdedication to the art forms andin recognition of their inspir-ing performances.

The Srjan will host theOMC GKCM Award Festivallive on the Srjan GKCMONFacebook page and YouTubechannel, from September 5 to9 at 7.30 pm each day.

The award festival will beconducted with strict adher-ence to all the Governmentmandated Covid-19 safetyguidelines, with virtual atten-dance of several dignitariesand luminaries from the worldof art.

The Srjan has dedicatedthis year’s festival in memory ofGuruma, late LaxmipriyaMohapatra, the first everdancer to perform Odishi onstage and the fountain of inspi-ration for many doyennes ofOdishi dance.

This year, the dance pre-

sentations scheduled for theaward festival include Odishiby Sharmila Mukerjee,Bharatanatyam by AnitaMallick, Sattriya by Dr AnwesaMahanta, and Kathak bySushree Nikkita Banawalikar.The festival will also featurerecitals by world-renownedViolinist, Dr Sangeeta Shankar,popular Odishi vocalist RupakKumar Parida, acclaimedHindustani vocalist ManjushaPatil and reputed flautistAbhiram Nanda.

The concluding eveningwill feature the prestigiousaward ceremony, followed bythe much-awaited finale bythe Srjan ensemble. The Srjanwill present a bouquet of neo-classical choreographs inOdishi dance, conceptualizedand choreographed by GuruRatikant Mohapatra.

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An MoU was signed onThursday between the

Directorate of Handicrafts andCottage Industries and theOdisha Bamboo DevelopmentAgency (OBDA) under theForest, Environment andClimate Change Department todevelop bamboo craft in Odisha.

The focus for developmentof the craft would be in six loca-

tions of five districts with thefunding support of OBDA to thetune of Rs 721.30 lakh. The cen-tres are Ichinda (Rairangapur) inMayurbhanj, Gopalpur(Rasulpur) in Jajpur, Baulapur(Odapada) in Dhenkanal,Bargaon, Kantapalli andBrahmanadihi (Padmapur) inBargarh and Binika inSubarnapur district.

While the Directorate ofHandicrafts and Cottage

Industries will implement theprogramme through its districtoffices headed by AssistantDirector of Handicrafts, themajor interventions will be con-struction of CFCs and intro-duction of new technologythrough mechanisation in treat-ment and processing of rawbamboo, apart from skill devel-opment of the artisans.

Marketing assistance willalso be provided through estab-

lishment of rural haats, BambooBazar, in addition to e-Commerce. Besides, steps wouldbe taken for opening of aMarketing and Design Cell atSIDAC, Bhubaneswar forimprovement of market-orient-ed products.

Odisha has an immenselyrich craft tradition with mag-nificent craftsmanship. As manyas 50 different crafts have beenapproved by the Government of

Odisha practiced by the artisansin varied degrees and are dis-persed throughout the State andbamboo craft is one of theapproved crafts of the State.

Although the craft is prac-tised in almost all districts of theState, mostly the artisans arefound in districts like Dhenkanal,Mayurbhanj, Jajpur, Bargarh,Subarnapur, Khordha, Rayagada,Nayagarh, Kandhamal,Malkangiri and Sundargarh. The

artisan population of the State inthe craft is about 22,000.

The MoU was signed in thepresence of Handlooms, Textileand Handicrafts (HT and H)Minister Padmini Dian,Commissioner-cum-SecretaryShubha Sarma and PCCF SisirRatho. Director Handicraft andCottage Industries, SanatanNayak and State MissionDirector, OBDA Prem KumarJha signed the MoU.

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The Commissionerate policeon Friday detained the edi-

tor of a web-channel, SudhansuSekhar Rout, following acesprinter Dutee Chand’s caseagainst him and one PradipPradhan for allegedly causingher stress during her partici-pation at the recent TokyoOlympics.

Chand lodged her FIRagainst the duo at the Mahilapolice station here allegingharassment by them by pub-lishing news stories about hercharacter and the performanceat the games.

Chand also moved thecivil court here demanding acompensation of Rs 5 crorefrom the journalist for defam-ing her and subsequently caus-ing her to lose advertisementcontracts with several corpo-rate houses.

Chand alleged that the sto-

ries published by the duoproved traumatic for her whichaffected her performance at theOlympics.

Notably, the sprinter hadfailed to qualify for the semi-finals in the women's 200mevent in Tokyo Olympics onAugust 2.

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Union Minister of State for JalShakti and Tribal Affairs

Bishweswar Tudu has urgedDefence Minister Rajnath Singhto set up a Sainik School atBaripada. He called on Singhhere on Thursday and handedhim a request letter for setting upa Sainik School in the tribal zone.

Tudu said, “I have come toknow that the Ministry ofDefence is planning to openaround 100 new Sainik Schoolsin various parts of the country.I would like to draw your kindattention that my Parliamentaryconstituency Mayurbhanj(Odisha) is a land of rich cultureand heritage with a majority oftibal population.”

However, due to inadequateeducational infrastructure, thetribal students are deprived ofquality education, he stated.

Tudu requested Singh todirect the concerned officers inhis Ministry for a favourable con-sideration of opening a SainikSchool at Baripada at the earli-est.

He said this move wouldbenefit the children of a largenumber of Central Governmentand Armed Forces employeesand also the staffs of the DRDOStation at Chandipur, which is inclose proximity of Baripada.

The Ministry of Defenceruns the Sainik Schools in vari-ous locations of the country forproviding quality education tonurture the natural talent of thestudents and preparing them forserving the country through theArmed Forces. Recently, theMinistry has decided to enrollgirl students in Sainik Schools.

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The Shree JagannathTemple Administration

(SJTA) on Thursday receivedtwo quintals of sandalwoodfrom one Sakaleswar Rath ofGanajam district.

Rath, who hails fromKhallikote, was present withhis father Artatran Rath andother family members at Puri.

The donated sandalwoodcomprises 17 logs, 22 branch-es, 9 root portions, besides 3kg of Chheli, the residualpieces left after cutting.

Sources said two yearsago, Rath had first contactedthe SJTA intending to donatehis sandal tree grown up inhis house yard. Earlier, he had

distributed sandal saplings inPuri also. However, the forestclearance was a constraintfor cutting the sandal tree.

Meanwhile, after gettingthe needed clearance, the treewas chopped in presence ofKhallikote Ranger SidharthSankar Sahu before sendingthe logs to the Puri JagannathTemple.

Among others, Puri ADMBinay Kumar Dash andDeputy Administrator(Revenue) SJTA SubratKumar Behera during donation of sandalwood werepresent.

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The world famousBhitarkanika mangrove

forests of Odisha are nowunder severe threat due toplanned diversion of freshwater from the Brahmani riverbasin. Though a notifiedRamsar Convention wetland,the State Government hasignored the need to conserve itfor posterity.

The Talcher-Angul coalmines, steel and power plantsas well as the Kalinga Nagarsteel and power hub are draw-ing enormous quantities offresh water from the Brahmaniriver. Once the Rengali irriga-tion canals are completed, morewater shall be diverted leavingalmost no fresh water fordownstream areas.

The total live storagecapacity (LSC) of Rengali reser-voir is 4,400 million cubicmetres (mcum). Rengali canalsshall require 3,450 mcum.Large industrial users likeNTPC, Nalco, MahanadiCoalfields, JSPL shall draw 454mcum from the Samal Barragein Angul district. Additional414 million cubic metres shallbe drawn from Kharasrota (adistributary of Brahmani river)at Jokadia barrage to meetwater needs o the KalingaNagar industrial complex.

The Government claimsthat only 105 millon litres shallbe withdrawn for the megadrinking water project inKendrapada district onKharasrota river. Even this willaffect the sensitive water bal-ance.

The Government shouldconsider other sources of freshwater. Hadgarh Reservoir onthe Salandi river or the newlybuilt Kanpur barrage on theBaitrani river are potentialsources to meet the require-ments of Bhadrak district. Themega drinking water project onKharasrota shall hasten thewater shortage since there shallbe hardly any water to spare

once the Rengali canals arefully operational.

The reduction in waterflow will lead to drastic changesin the water regime ofBhitarkanika mangroves asthere shall be acute shortage offresh water. In a bad monsoonyear, the situation will be cat-astrophic for the mangroves.The water availability at Jokadiais drastically reducing everyyear. It was only 98.56 cusecs inApril, 2003 compared to 231.66cusecs in April,1999 - adecrease of nearly 58% in justfour years !

Lack of normal flow offresh water will increase salineingression upstream. This shallaffect the local flora and faunaas well as the livelihoods offarmers and fishermen depen-dent upon Brahmani and

Kharasrota waters. Similarly,commercially importantspecies like fresh water shrimp,mullets, mud crabs and bhek-ti are expected to disappear,leading to a decline in incomesof thousands of fishermen ofKendrapada district.

There shall be a quantumjump in man –crocodile con-flict since the estuarine croco-diles shall leave the core sanc-tuary area and migrateupstream once salinity increas-es. Crocodiles may move up theriver in Dhenkanal district.Many local people are likely tobe attacked by the salt watercrocodiles while bathing inthe Brahmani and Kharasrotarivers.

(Dr Mohanty is secretary,Wildlife Society of Orissa;Mobile: 9437024265)

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The Philatelic Congress of India,the nodal national federation of

Indian philatelic societies, hasannounced Achievement Awardsfor 2021 in which philatelists fromOdisha have featured prominently.

The awards, which wereannounced under three categories,have nine prominent philatelistsfrom Odisha. While Sahadev Sahoohas been conferred the PhilatelicRatna Award, Anil Dhir has beeninvited as a Fellow of the PhilatelicCongress of India, the first fellow-ship to be conferred on any philat-elist of the State.

Certificates of Appreciations forexcellence in promoting the hobbyhas been given to Shanti SwarupRath, Shakil Ahmed, Ajit KumarDash, Ajit Kumar Raut, NandaKishore Agrawal, Jeevan Jyoti andNaresh Agrawal.

Two philatelic bodies of theState, the Eastern India Philatelists’

Association and the Orissa PhilatelicAssociation, too have been accord-ed PCI Certificates of Appreciation-Societies.

According to Anil Dhir, aprominent philatelist and a postalhistorian who has written fouraward winning books on the subject,Odisha is now the philatelic capitalof India. So, it is not a surprise thatthe maximum awards were given tophilatelists of the State.

Recollecting the contributionof the Late Bijayshree Routray, thefounding president of EIPA, Dhirsaid the hobby which is at a declineall over, is flourishing in Odisha.

Dr Bhibhudatta Mishra, whosebook on Odishan Special Covers wasrecently released, is of the opinionthat the India Post should adopt aproactive role in promoting thedying hobby. Holding of regular dis-trict- and State-level exhibitionsand workshops is necessary to keepthe hobby alive.

Shakil Ahmed gave the example

of the recent decision of the author-ities to close down the heritagePhilatelic Bureau at Cuttack. Theproposal was shelved only aftermany protests by philatelists.

Ajit Kumar Dash, one of thefounder members of EIPA, saidsuch awards would bolster the effortsof philatelists and popularise thehobby. He has retired from theOdisha Police Service as anAdditional SP and is among the fore-most forensic document experts ofIndia with several research papers.He is known for his internationalaward winning exhibits on Odisha,Dogs and Scouts & Guides.

Kashinath Sahoo pointed outthat Odisha has some unique aspectsin Postal history which include theonly Pigeon Post in the world, theoldest letter box of the country andsome most unique heritage PostOffice buildings. The erstwhilefeudatory of Bamra was one of thefew to have issued postage stampsduring the British rule.

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Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik flagged off 110new modern buses at the Odisha State Road

Transport Corporation headquarters here onFriday.

For safety, CCTVs cameras, emergency but-tons and vehicle tracking system facilities havebeen provided in these buses.

Another 70 new buses would be added tothe fleet soon.

The CM also inaugurated a new restaurant‘Nimantran’ of the Odisha TourismDevelopment Corporation near the Rama DeviUniversity. The eatery would serve authenticOdia cuisine. The move aims to popularise Odiafood.

Later, he inaugurated two ‘Mo Bus’ deposat Patia and Bhagbanpur.

Patnaik also inaugurated a centre forPersons with Disabilities (PWDs) at Pokhariputwhich has been constructed at a cost of Rs 19crore. This facility has accommodation for 100children with disabilities.

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The Economic OffencesWing (EOW) of the Crime

Branch has arrested oneSrinath Rana from theBaleswar Sadar police stationarea for embezzlingGovernment subsidy of to Rs6 crore meant for agricultur-al equipments.

Later, the EOW producedSrinath in the BhubaneswarSDJM Court.

A case has also been reg-istered against him underSections 409, 420, 468, 471 and120-B of IPC r.w. Section 66, 66(C) and 66 (D) of IT Act, 2000.

The EOW began probeinto a case registered onJanuary 20, 2021 with theBharatpur police on the basis ofa complaint filed by KG SreeCharan, director ofVarushapriya Agrotech PrivateLimited, Bangalore.

The Bangalore-based com-pany having its branch office atBaramunda here supplies ricetransplanters to farmers acrossthe country and also deliversservices and supplies to OdishaGovernment under varioussubsidised schemes.

The complainant allegedthat the accused siphoned offthe subsidy amount of Rs 6crore and thereby duped theGovernment as well as thepetetioner by fraudulentlyusing the company’s login ID.

Srinath, who was regionalmanager in the companybetween 2018 and 2020, wasauthorised to register the saleof machineries in the Stateand facilitate subsidies to thebeneficiaries by accessing theAgriculture Department’s web-site www.agrisnetodisha.ori.nic.in using the logincredentials meant exclusivelyfor the company.

During investigation, it

was revealed that Srinath, whoalso owns an automobileagency in Baleswar, in nexuswith others had fraudulentlyuploaded details of over 500paddy transplanters with fakeengine and chassis numbersand photos with names ofequal numbers of farmers cov-ering 18 districts on the web-site between 2017 and 2021.

Against this, he managedto get release of about Rs 6crore subsidy amount in favourof the beneficiaries.

Soon after release of thesubsidy amounts in the bene-ficiaries’ accounts, the accusedmanaged to lure the beneficia-ries by giving them some tokenamount and siphoned off thesubsidy.

While cost of each paddytransplanter ranged between Rs2.33 lakh and Rs 3 lakh andagainst each machinery, theGovernment was providing Rs93,320 to Rs 1.50 lakh subsidy.

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Several farmers of Athagarhhave been victimised as

Societies under Athagarh basedCuttack Central CooperativeBank have issued fraud loans intheir names at least two yearsago.

When Birendra PratapSwain, elder brother ofCooperation Minister and localMLA Ranendra Pratap Swain,was the president of theCuttack Central CooperativeBank, crores of rupees wereembezzled from the bank byissuing fraud loans in thenames of several farmers inAthagarh.

When the victims raisedthe matter before Minister

Swain, the latter lent a deaf earto their grievances, giving riseto a suspicion of his involve-ment in the scam.

However, a departmentalinquiry has found gross irreg-ularities in sanctioning of loansto the farmers worth over Rs 1crore. Tainted employeesinvolved in the scam have beensacked from their services andarrested as a part of depart-mental action.

Meanwhile, local BJP lead-ers and even some rebel lead-ers of the ruling BJD haveraised their voice againstMinister Swain, alleging hisinvolvement in the loan scamand demand his sacking fromthe ministry.

BJP leaders like BrajendraRay and Ramnarayan Mohantywarned of launching agitationsoon, if the bank doesn't clar-ify the amount embezzled, theconnection of Minister Swain in the matter and actionwas not taken against theaccused.

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Brahmapur MLA BikramPanda once again hogged

limelight for helping the poor,helpless and distressed people.

Mention may be made that,one old and ailing helplesswoman, identified as ChittiAmma who was reportedlystaying near Hanuman Bazarunder Bada Bazar Police circlewas found dead and the bodyof the deceased was lying fora long time near by a temple.

Soon after getting infor-mation about the body,Brahmapur MLA BikramKumar Panda instantly reachedat the spot and made allarrangements for cremation.Panda with a band of BJDYouth and Student wing lead-ers and volunteers took thebody to the nearestNilakantheswar Cremationground and made all necessaryarrangements for the crema-tion. Even though the deceasedwas having no one to take careof her body, but MLA Pandaconducted the cremation withall rituals under his assistance

and supervision in a most dig-nified way and set an examplefor others.

Panda was accompaniedwith District BJD VP SanjeetKumar Panigrahi, besides party

workers and volunteers here onMonday.

It may be recalled here that,Panda during the crucial pan-demic had opened a help deskat Nilakantheswar Cremationground where wood and otherrequired materials were madeavailable to the poor and help-less Covid victims for crema-tion. Panda then facilitatedseveral Covid victims for cre-mation with the help of “MoParivar” programme. He wasalso honored with “CovidYodha Samman” for hisungrudging help to poor andhelpless.

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Sambhunath Sahoo, current-ly working as Assistant

Librarian in the IIT-Bhubaneswar, has beendeclared qualified for thedegree of Doctor of Philosophyin Library & InformationScience (PhD) under theBerhampur University.

Sahoo was pursuing hisdoctoral research under theguidance of Prof KrushnaChnadra Panda, a former

Professor, Head and Dean ofSambalpur University, since2016 on the topic, “Library 2.0Initiatives and Implications in

Designing Library Websites:A Study of Library Websites”.

His thesis was assessed bytwo eminent external adjudi-cators, Prof RK Bhatt of DelhiUniversity and Prof BTSmapath Kumar of TumkurUniversity, Bangalore,besideshis own research super-visor, who all highly appreci-ated his strong research acu-men.

Sahoo is the son of latesocial worker DhaneswarSahoo and Damayanti of village

Ramachandrapur inKendrapada district and son-in-law of Birakishore Patra.

His research has unfoldedthe extent to which the websitesof IITs in India are user-friend-ly and have completely meta-morphosed the traditionalchokepoints in meeting thediverse approaches of thelibrary patrons.

Sahoo is the 31st doctoralscholar to be awarded PhDunder the guidance of Prof KCPanda.

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Terming transport as amother sector which was

hugely affected by Covid pan-demic, Electronic and ITSecretary Manoj Kumar Mishrasaid the sector unlocks manyopportunities for MSMEs of theState to work on innovation.

“Transport sector has greatimpact on other sectors also. Ifthere is no transport, thenthere is no tourism. We have tolook at other derived industriesfor innovations,” he said.

Addressing the E-confer-ence on InformationTechnology (IT-PostPandemic-Opportunities andChallenges) organised by theIndian Chamber of Commerce(ICC) in association with theState Department ofElectronics and InformationTechnology here through vir-tual mode, he said, “TheMSMEs have to look at thosesectors that changed drastical-ly due to changes in transport

sector and accordingly theyhave to innovate products andservices to solve new kinds ofproblem of these sectors.”

Director, SoftwareTechnology Parks of India(STPI), Government of IndiaManas Panda opined, “Due topandemic whole world willadopt IT system and India willbe a natural choice for all ofthem. Due to this Indian ITindustry will see double digitgrowth in coming years.”

The New Education Policyof 2020 focuses on technologybased learning. So it will also

create a lot of opportunities foredu-tech sector.

Work from Home is a newphenomenon. Much innova-tion goes to happen in this sec-tor, he added. ICC OdishaState Council chairman JBPany said, “Due to the pan-demic, the IT sector hasbecome stronger than earlier.Today IT becomes a necessitynow because of emergence ofdigital payment. Post pan-demic further integration, digi-tisation and optimisation willhappen in IT sector.”

Mentor, IT Committee,

ICC Odisha State Council andCEO, Cozentus TechnologiesPvt Ltd Devesh Sinha said, “Inthe redefined business model,Information Technology isplaying a pivotal role, be it inthe governance, healthcare,education, BFSI or for thatmatter even small Kirana shopat the corner. Our world neverlooked flatter than this before,thanks to the innovation in theInformation Technology.”

Convenor, IT Committee,ICC Odisha State CouncilAbanis Nayak proposed thevote of thanks.

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The State GST EnforcementWing on Thursday busted

a huge GST fraud racket byarresting two persons, includ-ing a Jharsuguda-based char-tered accountant.

The nabbed accused wereidentified as chartered accoun-tant Amit Kumar Agrawal,partner of the Amit Kanheyalaland Company and SatindraKumar Yadav, proprietor of. SSSyndicate in Bhubaneswar.

The duo were allegedlyinvolved in the floating of 13fictitious firms through whichthey availed input tax credit(ITC) worth crores.

As per reports, the accusedmasterminds in collusion withothers availed and passed onbogus ITC worth at least Rs 323crore by raising fake purchaseand sale invoices to the tune ofRs 1,819 crore in the name of13 fictitious or non-existentfirms.

The actual loss to the Stateexchequer is Rs 58.14 crore.The case came to the fore aftera GST Enforcement Teamapprehended a truck during aroutine check. The racket wasactive in West Bengal, Delhi,Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh aswell.

The State GSTEnforcement Wing has so fararrested 23 fraudsters for theirinvolvement in the issuance offake invoices. Registration of29,002 dealers has been can-celled so far on differentgrounds after field enquiry.

To eliminate bogus regis-tration, the registration processhas been streamlined.Moreover, a two-month-longspecial drive starting from July16, 2021 to September 15, 2021in ongoing to weed out all non-existing registrants.

GST Commissioner SushilKumar Lohani has appealed topeople not to provide theiridentity documents, personaland bank details to any unau-thorised person.

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Bodies of two youths wererecovered from a closed

portion along NH-16 under thePanikoili police station inJajpur district on Friday morn-ing.

The incident triggered ten-sion as locals demanded imme-diate arrest of the accused inthe case. The deceased youths,identified as Bijay Sahoo andManas Ranjan Das, were resi-dents of nearby Janha village inthe district. Sahoo was an auto-driver while Das was workingin a private company.

Locals spotted the bodieson the road along the NH,which was closed due to ongo-ing construction work, andinformed police.

Sahoo’s family membersalleged murder.

Some villagers alleged thatboth Sahoo and Das had goneto meet a girl of nearby villageon Thursday night. The vil-lagers further suspectedinvolvement of the familymembers of the girl behind thedeath of the duo.

“It seems a well-plannedmurder,” alleged a resident ofJanha village,

The Panikoili police start-ed an investigation and ques-tioning the family members ofthe two youths and villagers.Police also seized a tiffin boxcontaining makeup items anda motorcycle from the spot.

“The two bodies will besent for postmortem,” said apolice official.

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Civil society organisation,the Ama Balasore, with

the help of Mumbai-basedNGO Shraddha RehabilitationFoundation, rescued a mental-ly deranged widow (50) who

was missing for three yearsfrom Mumbai and owned upthe responsibility of her treat-ment and other cares.

The woman, identified asSalma Hansda , wife of GopalHansda , a resident of Talasahihamlet of Gopalgaon villageunder the Town police station,had gone missing three yearsago although she had informed

that she was going to visit herbrother at Bahanaga. Her fam-ily members had made a fran-tic search of her but in vain.Finally, they had lodged a miss-ing complaint with police.

In fact, she boarded awrong train and instead ofBahanaga she reachedKharagpur and from there,she took another train and

reached Mumbai. While shehad been roaming on streets foryears living on begging, on July7 Shradhha Foundation res-cued her and began her treat-ment.

After treatment when shecould faintly recollect her fam-ily and native place, the foun-dation contacted AmaBalasore. Promptly responding,

the organisation facilitated herreturn to Baleswar by train andreunion with her family mem-bers.

“Her treatment and liveli-hood would be looked after byAma Balasore,” said a func-tionary of Ama BalasoreSubasini Jena. Notably, theAma Balasore is headed by for-mer MP RK Jena.

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Amit Rohidas, a key mem-ber of the Indian National

Men’s Hockey team, whichrecently won Bronze medal inHockey defeating Germany atthe Tokyo Olympics, has joinedthe East Coast Railway (ECoR)as Senior Sports Officer. Earlierhe was working in the Western

Railway as Officer on SpecialDuty (OSD) in Sports.

ECoR General ManagerVidya Bhushan and Presidentand General Secretary of EastCoast Railway SportsAssociation congratulated himat the Rail Sadan for his newjoining, which, they said, woulddefinitely motivate players in allsports disciplines.

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Unearthing a cold blooded murder mysteryof realtor Ramesh Behera that took place on

Saturday last, the Industrial police here havearrested seven people, including the mainaccused.

The accused were forwarded to court afterbeing booked under Sections 302/216/120(b)and 34 of IPC.

Superintendent of Police Sudhanshu SekharMishra said that the reason behind the murderwas professional rivalry.

And the main accused, ChittaranjanPanigrahi (47) of Ganeswarpur village had hiredgoons against cash allurement for eliminatingRamesh Behera.

The enmity between Panigrahi and Beherawas for purchase of a piece of land of about 2.27acres in Srikrishnapur village from ManoranjanSen and others.

According to SP Mishra, Panigrahi hiredgoons against a deal of Rs 50 lakh with RanjanSahu (28) of Achuyatpur village andSambhunath Bisoi (25) of Srikrishnapur.

While Rs 1.5 lakh was paid in advance aftercommission of the murder, they were paid Rs70,000 cash. Rs 42,000 cash was recovered fromthem after their arrest. Ranjan and Sambhunathfurther engaged other accused persons.

The other accused persons nabbed bypolice were identified as Kamal Behera (21) ofSrikrishnapur, Gopinath Pakal (27) of Astapur, Manas Pradhan (22) of Chengua village,Mangalpur, Badasahi of Mayurbhanj and BhanjKumar Behera of Bhogadia village , Berhampur(Nilgiri), Baleswar.

On that fateful day, after a conspiracy washatched, Kamal had called Behera to the dis-puted site, Achuyatapur for having a discussionabout the land.

When he arrived, others attacked him withsharp edged weapons killing him on the spot.Besides the weapons, police seized two SUVs,two bikes and one auto rickshaw.

“The investigation is on and more peoplewill be arrested who are absconding in the case,”said Industrial police station IIC Minati Biswal.

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Avideo clip purportedly shotby an inmate inside a toi-

let of the Soro Sub-Jail allegingextortion and torture by theJailor has gone viral in socialmedia.

The inmate identifyinghimself as Kamalakant Das inthe video clip alleged that hewas beaten black and blue byJailor Priyambada Panda after

a mobile phonewas recoveredfrom a toilet.

He alsoalleged shebeats the otherprisoners mer-

cilessly only to extort moneyfrom them and does not givethem proper food and otherfacilities.

In the viral video, he wasshowing his injury marks onthe legs and thighs, indicatingthe degree of torture meted outto him by Jailor Panda. She isdemanding Rs 50,000, elsethreatening me to shift to otherjails, alleged Das, further dis-closing that he had already paidRs 30,000 to her.

Das even alleged that theshe was responsible for therecent death of an inmatewhich was shown as suicide.

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Hundreds of workers underthe banner of the Paradip

Erasama Industrial WorkersUnion (PEIWU) demonstrat-ed in front of the ParadipIOCL Refinery by showingblack flags on Tuesday, press-ing for their long pendingdemands.

The demanded wages as

fixed by the Government, pay-ment of salaries on every 7thday of the month, full time gatepass for workers who havebeen working in the plant sinceits inception, a compensation ofRs 50 lakh for death due toCorona, rest room, canteen,parking facilities in the refin-ery site, preference in job forlocal youths, besides EPF andESI benefits etc.

The protestors were led byits president Bapi Sarkhel, sec-retary Samir Biswal and others.They warned of intensifyingtheir agitation if the demandswere ignored.

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In order to ascertain the antibodiesagainst Covid-19, a sero survey has

begun in Baleswar district by a five-member team of the ICMR (IndianCouncil of Medical Research) RegionalOfficer, Bhubaneswar.

The team consisting of a doctor, ascientist, a data entry operator and twolaboratory technicians began their oper-ations on Tuesday.

They would collect blood samplesof 500 people from various categoriesincluding 100 samples from the healthand frontline workers in Baleswar Sadar,Soro, Khaira, Nilgiri, Baliapal andJaleswar blocks.

“A sero survey involves testing ofblood serum of a group of individualsand this is used to monitor trends inprevalence of the novel Coronavirus, orSARS-COV-2, infection at the districtlevel and percentage of antibodies in dif-

ferent age groups in different sections.In the district the survey will culminateon September 6. The blood samples arebeing sent to Bhubaneswar ICMR laband the result would be known after test-ing,” District Project Manager, NationalHealth Mission (NHM) Anil Mohantyinformed.

For the exercise, 10 clusters havebeen identified across the six blocks.And the samples are being collectedfrom the persons (both Covid positiveand negative), children above 10 andfrom the elderly persons. On the firstday the samples were collected from per-sons involved in the Health Departmentincluding doctors, health workers, Para-medical staff, security guards and san-itizing workers etc, Mohanty said.

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The EnforcementDirectorate (ED) has pro-

visionally attached assets in theform of fixed deposit receipts(FDR) worth Rs13.34 crorebelonging to Rajya Sabha MPfrom RJD Amarendra DhariSingh, under the Prevention ofMoney-laundering Act in theongoing investigations againstIFFCO MD US Awasthi andothers.

The ED had initiatedmoney laundering investiga-tion on the basis of an FIRdated May 17 registered by CBIunder the provisions of theIndian Penal Code (IPC) andPrevention of Corruption Actagainst US Awasthi, MD ofIFFCO and others, for criminalconspiracy, cheating and crim-inal misconduct.

“Money laundering inves-tigation conducted by ED hasrevealed that there had beensiphoning of funds amountingto Rs 27.79 crore related tocriminal activities. Such pro-ceeds of crime were launderedby way of projecting the sameas consultancy income, first inthe hands of entities under thecontrol of Dubai-based

Chartered Accountant RajivSaxena (an accused inAgustawestland case) and sub-sequently in the hands of enti-ties controlled by India basedChartered Accountant AlokKumar Agarwal and thereafterin the form of cash toAmarendra Dhari Singh,” theagency said in a statement.

Based on the investigationconducted so far by the ED,proceeds of crime have beenquantified to the tune of Rs27.79 crore, which had beenused by Amarendra DhariSingh on his own, it said.

ED had also filed aProsecution Complaint(chargesheet) before SpecialCourt on July 30 against sixaccused including AmarendraDhari Singh and Alok KumarAgarwal. In its order on August7, the court has held that therewas sufficient evidence on recordto take cognizance of the offenceunder PMLA. The Court furtherheld that all accused personsknowingly assisted/were know-ingly involved in acquisition ofproceeds of crime and hencewere liable to be summoned forthe said offence and proceededto issue summons to the accusedpersons.

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In a step to further strength-en defence and strategic ties,

India and the United State ofAmerica(USA) have inked apact for co-operation in thedevelopment of Air-LaunchedUnmanned Aerial Vehicle(ALUAV).

The ProjectAgreement(PA) for ALUAVwas signed on July 30 under theoverall framework of theDefence Technology and TradeInitiative (DTTI) between thetwo countries, the DefenceMinistry said here on Friday.

Describing the pact as amajor step towards deepeningdefence technology coopera-tion between India and the US,officials said here, the agree-ment falls under the ambit ofthe Research, Development,Testing and Evaluation(RDT&E) agreement betweenthe two sides that was firstsigned in 2006 and renewed inJanuary 2015.

"The PA outlines the col-laboration between Air ForceResearch Laboratory, IndianAir Force, and DefenceResearch and DevelopmentOrganisation(DRDO) towardsdesign, development, demon-stration, testing and evaluationof systems to co-develop anALUAV Prototype," the min-istry said.

It said the main aim ofDTTI is to bring sustained

leadership focus to promotecollaborative technologyexchange and create opportu-nities for co-production andco-development of future tech-nologies for Indian and US mil-itary forces.

Under DTTI, JointWorking Groups on land,naval, air, and aircraft carriertechnologies have been estab-lished to focus on mutuallyagreed projects in respective

domains.The PA for co-develop-

ment of ALUAV has been over-seen by the Joint WorkingGroup on Air Systems and is amajor accomplishment forDTTI, officials said.

The latest agreementcomes in the backdrop of theUS terming India in 2016 as a"Major Defence Partner." Inthe past few years the twocountries key pacts like theLogistics ExchangeMemorandum of Agreement(LEMOA) in 2016. It allowstheir armed forces to use eachother's bases for repair andreplenishment of supplies.

The two sides have alsosigned CommunicationsCompatibility and SecurityAgreement(COMCASA) in2018 that provides for interop-erability between the two mili-taries and the sale of high-endtechnology from the US to India.

In October last year, Indiaand the US sealed the BasicExchange and Cooperation

Agreement(BECA) agreementto further boost bilateraldefence ties. The pact pro-vides for sharing of high-endmilitary technology, logisticsand geospatial maps betweenthe two countries.

The Indian army, a coupleof days ago, signed a pact forover 100 ‘Explosive-LadenDrones’, which will be manu-factured by Bengaluru-basedfirm Alpha Design-led jointventure along with Israel’s ElbitSecurity Systems (ELSEC). Thedrones are called ‘SkyStrikers.’

The contract is estimatedto be around Rs 100 crore andwas signed as per the emer-gency powers given to thearmed forces for procurement.

The ‘SkyStriker’ drones willhave a range of about 100km.These drones will address theArmy’s requirement for “loi-tering munition” – a type ofUnmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs) built to engage beyondthe line-of-sight ground targetswith an explosive warhead.

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Retail edible oil prices in thecountry are not coming

down anytime soon. And evenif they do, the Centre on Fridaymade it clear, there "would notbe any dramatic decline".

Retail prices of edible oilsin India, which imports 60 percent of its requirement, haveshot up to 64 per cent in thepast just one year, in line withthe global developments.

Union Food SecretarySudhanshu Pandey on Fridaysaid, "However, looking at thedeclining trend shown in pricesof edible oils for Decembermonth in the futures market, itlooks like retail prices willstart declining. But, there won'tbe any dramatic decline asthere is still global pressure".The arrival of new crops and alikely drop in global pricesshould help in softening of edi-ble oils' retail prices in thecountry, he said.

Citing reasons for thesharp rise in domestic edibleoils prices, the secretary saidone major reason is that priceshave gone up in the interna-tional markets as many coun-tries are aggressively pursuingthe biofuel policy using theirown resources.

For instance, Malaysia andIndonesia, which are majorsuppliers of palm oil to India,are using palm oil for their bio-fuel policy. Likewise, the US isdiverting soyabean for biofuelmaking, he said. Moreover,palm oil and soyabean oil arethe top-two oils in terms ofshare in the Indian market.Palm oil is about 30-31 per cent,soyabean oil is 22 per cent.

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The Supreme Court on Fridayrefused to entertain West

Bengal Government's plea seek-ing to appoint Director Generalof Police (DGP) without con-sulting the Union Public ServiceCommission (UPSC), saying itwould be "abuse of law".Expressing displeasure at onepoint, the apex court told theState not to file applications likethese.

"We have seen your appli-cation. The points you areraising are exactly the samewhich you have raised earlierthat UPSC should not have arole. When the main matter istaken you can argue this mat-ter. We cannot permit this.This is abuse of process. Wewill dismiss your application.We cannot have petitions likethis. Why are we wasting somuch time on these applica-tions," the bench comprisingJustices Nageswara Rao, B RGavai and B V Nagarathnaobserved.

However, the Bench

allowed the State's implead-ment application in the mainmatter on police reforms andsaid it will start hearing mat-ter which "hasn't seen thelight of day for many years".

Advocate PrashantBhushan, appearing for PrakashSingh (main petitioner),requested the bench for anearly hearing of the main peti-tion on police reforms saying"unfortunately in most statesimplementation of directions ofthe top court remains unim-plemented." The court has nowposted the matter for hearing inOctober and said, "We will starthearing the matter. It hasn't seenthe light of day for many years."

The apex court was hear-ing an application filed byWest Bengal stating that UPSCdoes not have expertise to con-sider and appoint DGP of astate as also that it is not in linewith the federal System of gov-ernance. The StateGovernment, in its plea,requested the top court tomodify its 2018 order in thePrakash Singh case on policereforms which made it manda-tory for the state governmentsto appoint the DGP from apanel of three most seniorpolice officers.

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Citing huge delays in prose-cution of high profile cor-

ruption cases, BJP leaderSubramanian Swamy on Fridayurged Prime MinisterNarendra Modi to form aninter-departmental monitor-ing mechanism in the prose-cution proceedings.

In a detailed letter to Modi,Swamy said all agency headsand prosecutors must sittogether regularly to speed upthe big corruption cases.Swamy blamed the prosecutionfor lethargy in handling the 2Gscam appeal, Aircel-Maxis andINX-Media bribery case andNational Herald cases.

“There is, without doubt,an inordinate and inexplicabledelay in prosecution of manycorruption cases by theGovernment, which had hap-pened during the UPA tenureat the Centre. Be it 2G Scamappeal pending in Delhi HighCourt, prosecution in the pend-ing trial of those out on bail viz.,Chidambaram involving hisand his son’s bribery in Aircel-Maxis and INX Media briberycases, or cases against SoniaGandhi and Rahul Gandhi inthe National Herald IncomeTax evasion of Rs. 450 crores,and cases of eviction and seiz-ing of Herald House by YoungIndian Pvt Ltd company ownedby these two accused held up inSupreme Court.

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New Delhi: Stressing the‘Special and Privileged StrategicPartnership’ between India andRussia, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on Fridayrecalled that the friendshipbetween the two countries hasstood the test of time andnoted the 'robust' cooperationduring the Covid-19 pandem-ic, including in the vaccinationprogramme and affirmed thatmutual partnership can helpbring stability to the globalenergy market

Addressing the plenary ses-sion of the Eastern EconomicForum (EEF), Modi said thepandemic has highlighted theimportance of the health andpharma sectors in our bilater-al cooperation.

The Prime Minister wasdelivering a video-addressduring the plenary session ofEEF forum held inVladivostok, Russia. Modiwas the Chief Guest for the 5th

EEF in 2019, the first by anIndian Prime Minister.Recalling the visit of ChiefMinisters of Indian States toEEF-2019, Prime Ministerextended an invitation toGovernors of the 11 regions ofRussian Far East to visit India.

Energy, he said, is anothermajor pillar of our strategicpartnership. India – Russiaenergy partnership can helpbring stability to the globalenergy market, said Modi.

The Prime Minister saidMinister of Petroleum andNatural Gas Hardeep Puri is inVladivostok to represent India atthis forum and that Indianworkers are participating inmajor gas projects in the Amurregion, from Yamal toVladivostok and onward toChennai. “We envisage an ener-gy and trade bridge. I am happythat the Chennai – VladivostokMaritime Corridor is makingheadway. This connectivity pro-

ject along with the InternationalNorth- South Corridor willbring India and Russia physicallycloser to each other”, he said.

Noting that India has a tal-ented and dedicated workforcewhile the Far East is rich inresources, the prime ministersaid there is tremendous scopefor Indian talent to contributeto the development of theRussian Far East.

Modi recalled his 2019visit to the Russian city ofVladivostok to attend theforum and the thenannouncement of India's com-mitment to an "Act Far Eastpolicy".The policy is an impor-tant part of India's "special andprivileged strategic partner-ship" with Russia, Modi said.

An online meeting betweenChief Minister of Gujarat VijayRupani and Governor of Sakha-Yakutia province of Russia washeld on 2 September on the side-lines of EEF. PNS

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The Centre on Fridayannounced that the Central

Universities will work on mis-sion-mode to fill-up the 6,000vacant posts by end of nextmonth.

Addressing a conference ofCentral Universities ViceChancellors, Union EducationMinister Dharmendra Pradhanencouraged the CentralUniversities to work on mis-sion-mode to fill-up the 6,000vacant posts by October, 2021.

There have been more than10,000 posts lying vacant inteaching and non teaching cat-egory at the 40 CentralUniversities.

Pradhan expressed his hap-piness to learn about the bestpractices of Central Universitiesand on several matters ofimportance, including filling upof general and reserved vacan-cies, education during Covid19,online learning and status ofNEP implementation. He alsourged them to create a frame-work for alumni endowment.

Pradhan held the meetingwith Vice Chancellors ofCentral Universities throughvideo conferencing. Minister ofState for Education SubhashSarkar, Secretary, Higher

Education, AmitKhare,Chairman UGC, Prof D PSingh and senior officials of theMinistry and UGC attendedthe meeting.

The VCs were also request-ed to encourage Sports in theirUniversities, thereby promotinga sporting culture in the country.The VCs were encouraged tomake their students Job Creatorsby promoting innovation andresearch in their campuses.

Addressing the participants,Pradhan said that our universi-ties are cradles of creativity,innovation and opportunities.The New Education Policy-2020 will play a crucial role inplacing India at the top of theemerging new world order and,as custodians of India’s destiny,

our universities should fulfiltheir responsibilities outlined inthe NEP. He stressed on mak-ing education a lot more vibrant& holistic and establishing Indiaas a knowledge superpowerthrough NEP.

The Minister said that ourhigher education institutionsare key catalysts for promotingsocio-economic developmentand for realising aspirationsand national goals. The Ministerappealed that universitiesshould popularise and promotelearning in Indian languages,&cultural heritage of India.

The Minister exhorted theUniversities to come with thestrategies for making Indiafully literate, as well as to con-tribute helping the country tomeet its Nutrition Challengeduring ‘Poshan Month’ as amark ofAzadiKaAmrutMahotsav.

The Minister thanked theVCs for their insights and valu-able suggestions. He urged thatas thought leaders, our centraluniversities should assume pio-neering roles in building capac-ities, initiating frameworks forimplementation of AcademicBank of Credit, Multiple Entry& Exit, virtual universities andseveral other facets of the NEPfrom this academic year itself.

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Amajor infiltration bid bythe heavily armed group of

terrorists was foiled by thealert Indian troops along theline of control in Poonch sec-tor early Friday morning.

This is the second majorincident of cross LoC infiltra-tion bid in the Poonch sectorin the last one week.

Two foreign terrorists wereneutralised by the troops alongthe LoC in Poonch on August30.

According to DefencePRO, Lt- Col Devender Anand," On the intervening night of2nd and 3rd September 2021,a group of heavily armedPakistani terrorists attemptedto infiltrate in Poonch sector(J&K).

The infiltration attempt ofPakistani terrorists was detect-

ed by alert troops of the IndianArmy. The infiltrators werechallenged and heavy firingensued".

Defence PRO said, "Owingto undulating terrain and heavyundergrowth, the terroristsmanaged to break contact andescaped back towards PakistanOccupied Jammu & Kashmir

under the cover of darkness"."A thorough search of the

encounter site was carried outand a huge quantity of admin-istrative stores left behind bythe terrorists were recovered toinclude clothing, packagedfood items and medicines withPakistani markings", he added.

Aligarh: Viral Fever anddengue have started wreakinghavoc in the district. It spreadas an epidemic in the cities likeMathura, Firozabad, Aligarhand Hathras. More than 60 per-son have lost their lives due tothis. About 2000 people areadmitted in hospitals of thesedistrict and 150 new patientsarrived in the OPD of MalkhanSingh District Hospital ofAligarh for treatment. Morethan ten percent are sufferingfrom viral fever. Two denguepatients are admitted in thehospital, who are undergoingtreatment. So far five cases ofdengue have been found in theAligarh district.

Chief MedicalSuperintendent Dr. Ramkishansaid that out of the totalpatients, more than 10 percent

patients are coming with fever.Fewer cases of dengue andmalaria have been reported sofar. At present, two denguepatients are admitted in thehospital, who are undergoingtreatment. Fever patients arealso reaching the Pt. DeendayalUpadhyay Joint Hospital. CMODr. Anand Upadhyay informedthat medicines have been madeavailable at all CHCs and PHCsof the district. Spraying ofchemicals has been ordered. Sofar five cases of dengue havebeen found in the district. TheHealth Department team iskeeping an eye.

Epidemiologist Dr. Rohithad gone to Konh village ofMathura. All major hospitalshave been directed to makewards for dengue and feverpatients. PNS

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The night curfew slapped onKerala since last Sunday has

failed to yield any result as thenumber of new patients diag-nosed with Covid-19 continueto remain high. On Friday, outof the 1.63 lakh samples sentfor testing, 29,322 persons werefound to be infected withCovid-19, said a release byhealth minister Veena George.

The Test Positivity Rateremained high with 17.91 percent while the pandemicclaimed 131 lives taking thedeath toll in the State till dateto 21,280. The State also saw118 health workers falling preyto Covid-19.

Thrissur diagnosed 3530persons on Friday andremained at the top of the tableof districts with high patients.Ernakulam (3435), Kozhikode(3344), Kollam (2957) were thedistricts with highest numberof Covid -19 patients.

Across the State, 2.46 lakhpatients are undergoing treat-

ment for Covid-19. TheGovernment’s move to reopenschools in the State and con-duct examinations for Class XIsuffered a set back as theSupreme Court on Fridaystayed the move of the LDFGovernment in this regard inthe backdrop of the increasingnumber of Covid patients inthe State.

The apex court took noteof the unabated increase in thenumber of Covid-19 cases inthe State and asked the admin-istration whether theGovernment of Kerala hastaken into account the 30,000cases being recorded per day.

“As we could not get satis-factory response from counselfor the State in this regard wegrant interim relief stayingoffline exam till next date ofhearing,” said the Bench con-sistinhg of Judges A MKhanwilkar, Hrishikesh Royand C T Ravikumar while con-sidering a petition moved onbehalf of Plus One students inthe State.

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Acting fast after taking charge the CBI, inves-tigating the graver offences post Assembly

elections on Friday submitted a secondchargesheet, this time in a North 24 Parganasmurder case where a BJP supporter JP Yadav wasbombed to death on June 6 by alleged TrinamoolCongress miscreants.

This is the second chargesheet filed in twoconsecutive days with the first one being filed bythe Central Agency in a Rampurhat murder casein Birbhum district.

“Four persons have been named in thechargesheet,” a CBI source said adding moreinvestigations were being conducted againstother persons who had been named by the com-plainants.

The CBI is acting upon the orders of theCalcutta High Court which earlier directed a two-pronged probe deputing the central agency toinvestigate the graver offences whereas asking aSpecial Investigating Team of the State police toinquire into other offences.

In a related development former CalcuttaHigh Court Chief Justice Manjula Chellur hadagreed to supervise the SIT investigation into the“other” post poll “offences.” According to sourcesunavailability of a retired Supreme Court Judge,

for supervising the SIT probe — as was direct-ed by the High Court — Justice Chellur wasappointed for the task.

More than a hundred cases of murder, loot,rape and arson was reported post Assembly elec-tions that saw Chief Minister Mamata Banerjeeand Trinamool Congress roaring back to powerfor the third time in a row.

In the post poll violence an allegation ofwhich was summarily rejected by the ChiefMinister hundreds of BJP, Left, Congress andTrinamool Congress workers were attacked andtheir properties looted leading the Opposition BJPand the Left to raise demands for impartial probeaccusing the State police of active connivance withthe ruling party assailants.

Meanwhile, the TMC leadership which hadalready filed a petition in the Supreme Courtagainst the High Court order continued to reactstrongly wondering why only the SIT and not theCBI was being monitored by the judiciary.

“Everyone knows how all the institutions havebeen saffronised by the BJP— from CBI to ECto NHRC and others —in that case where is theguarantee that the CBI will not conduct biasedinvestigation … CBI’s bias is a well-known factso why only the SIT and not the CBI will be mon-itored by the Court,” Sukhendu Shekhar RoyTMC Rajya Sabha MP said.

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Kolkata: Congress Leader ofOpposition in Lok Sabha Adhir RanjanChowdhury was allegedly gheraoed andharassed on Friday by allegedTrinamool Congress supporters even ashe went to Raninagar in Murshidabaddistrict to inquire into the reports ofalleged violence on Congress men.

Chowdhury’s vehicle was blockedand he was shown black flags, brooms,sandals and stick by a large crowd thatgathered at the entry point ofRaninagar, the MP said adding his per-sonal security officers managed toescort him out of the crowd.

“I have written to the ChiefMinister, Chief Secretary, the DM andSP about the continuous violence beingperpetrated on the Congress workers …I have told the Chief Minister to con-tain political violence in the Statereminding if her party needed to resort

to violence even after coming to powerfor three consecutive terms then thereis no more shame that it … She shouldnow consider that the acts of her partymen is putting Bengal to disrepute …how will outsiders come here … howwill investors come here,” Chowdhurysaid.

According to the Congress threehouses of Congress men were ransackedand their owners beaten up by allegedTMC men on Thursday night. WhenChowdhury went to find out the alle-gations for himself he too was block-aded away by alleged Trinamool menand women.

Reacting to the reports BengalMinister Firhad Hakim said he had noinformation of such attack saying “theTrinamool does not believe in violence… I am sure no TMC worker would beinvolved in the incident.”

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New Delhi: At least 70 per cent of 100 mostclimate change vulnerable districts in thecountry are in the five States of eastern India- Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradeshand Odisha. Outlining this, scientists onFriday called for the urgent need to put inplace a multi-hazard warning system,implement local action along with bettercoordination at inter-agency, inter-minis-terial and Centre-State levels to combat theglobal warming-induced threat.

“Overall, eight States in the country viz.,Jharkhand, Mizoram, Odisha, Chhattisgarh,Assam, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, andWest Bengal, all in the Eastern India arefound to have higher vulnerability. However,out of country’s 100 most vulnerable dis-tricts, 70 per cent are in Assam, Bihar,Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Orissa,” saidDr Akhilesh Gupta, Senior Adviser andHead, Policy Coordination & ProgrammeManagement Division, and a climate changeexpert at the Department of Science andTechnology (DST).

He was speaking at the inaugural ses-sion of the two-day policy dialogue on‘Localizing Climate Resilience Agenda:Vision 2050 and 2100’ under CAP-RESDST-GOI Project on Friday here.

“As projected by the recent Workinggroup-I report of IPCC, the global tem-perature which has already increased to 1.1degree C above the pre-industrial era level

is likely to further increase to 1.5-deg. C innext 2 decades. India too is expected to expe-rience greater impact of global warming inthe time to come, There may be an increasein frequency, severity and duration of heatwave.

“Monsoon may become more erratic.There may be more frequent droughts andfloods. The Indian seas may witness themore sea-level rise. There has already beenincrease in sea level in last two decades..With the increase of carbon dioxide contentin the oceans, the sea water may becomemore acidic, and so on” Dr Gupta pointedout at the programme organized by NationalInstitute of Disaster Management (NIDM),Ministry of Home Affairs and DST in col-laboration with Deutsche Gesellschaft furInternationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)GmbH.

“Next two decades are going to be verycrucial. IPCC‘s working group report givesthe starkest of warnings for global climateimpacts. The two-degree rise in global tem-peratures may come earlier than expected.It may have a huge impact on India, espe-cially on agriculture, health and watersecurity. India is confronted with a challengeof addressing such impacts,” he added.

“Science and technology is a major toolto fight the menace of climate change. Oflate, hazards are not happening in isolation

but in combination with two or more. Thereis urgent need to put in place a multi-haz-ard warning system, along with bettercoordination at inter-agency, inter-minis-terial and Centre-State levels. India madesome excellent progress in climate actionboth in adaptation and mitigation areas,” hepointed out.

Maj. Gen. MK Bindal, ExecutiveDirector, NIDM, MHA, warned that thedanger mark has been reached, rapid accessto information is needed to protect lives andlivelihood and the use of STI is key to fightclimate change problems.

“The sixth IPCC report has pushed thebutton to act now, and it is time to act local-ly. Good policies need to be translated intoaction. We are working with state govern-ments for localising action plan,” saidChristiane Hieronymus, Head of EconomicCooperation & Development, Embassy ofthe Federal Republic of Germany while ProfV K Sharma, Vice Chairman, SikkimSDMA said that, “We will have to do some-thing at local level, at the municipal levelwith regional and local approach and alsoat the panchayat level.”

Kamal Kishore, Member, NDMA, urgedfor action with much greater vision, diver-sifying risks and continuous policy revisionswhile Prof Anil K Gupta, Head, ECDRMDivision, NIDM, discussed ways of trans-lating the concerns to local action. PNS

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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) onFriday filed a charge-sheet against 10

accused, including police officers a a convict-ed constables, in the sensational case involvingthe recovery of an explosive-laden SUV the res-idence of industrialist Mukesh Ambani in southMumbai and the subsequent suspected murderof the vehicle owner Mansukh Hiran.

In a voluminous charge-sheet filed in aSpecial NIA Special Court here, the NIAcharged the ten accused – including dismissedAssistant Sub-Inspectors Sachin Waze,Riyazuddin Kazi, yesteryear encounter-spe-cialist Pradeep Sharma, convicted constableVinayak Shinde – with various offences undervarious sections of Indian Penal Code for mur-der, cheating, conspiracy and also various sec-tions of the Arms Act, Explosive Substance Actand the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

Apart from Waze, Kazi, Sharma and Shinde,the others who have been named in the charge-sheet are: Naresh R. Gor, Sunil D. Mane, SantoshA. Shelar, Manish V. Soni, Anand P. Jadhav andSatish T. Mothkuri.

The NIA has based its charge-sheet on threeFIRs it registered in connection with the twinincidents. While the first FIR registered at the

Gamdevi police station relates to the recoveryof a Mahindra Scorpio Vehicle on CarmichaelRoad, Mumbai during the intervening night ofFebruary 24 and 25, 2021 with 20 Gelatine SticksExplosive and a threat note addressed toMukesh Ambani.

The second FIR registered with at theVikhroli Police Stationn relates to theft of theseized Mahindra Scorpio vehicle, while the thirdFIR registered at Mumbra police station relatesto the recovery of Mansukh Hiran’s body fromthe nearby creek on March 5, 2021.

“During the investigations, incriminatingevidences came to fore against the ten arrest-ed accused involved in various stages of con-spiracy of placing explosive laden MahindraScorpio vehicle, its theft and commission of mur-der of Mansukh Hiran,” the CBI said in a state-ment.

The IPC sections invoked against theaccused in the case relate to criminal conspir-acy, destroying evidences to escape the conse-quences, negligence with explosives, abductionwith intent to kill, extortion with threats of deathor physical harm, grabbing property, criminalbreach of trust by public servant, forgery andforging documents of electronic evidence to passthem off as genuine, possession of a fake seal tocommit forgery, common intentions, etc.

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Slamming the BJP-ledGovernment over its

National Monetisation Pipeline(NMP) decision, formerFinance Minister and seniorCongressman P Chidambaramon Friday demanded an assur-ance from the Narendra ModiGovernment that the entireamount of �6 lakh crore, whenrealized, “will not be used forpartly financing the fiscaldeficit of �5.5 lakh crore in2021-22 or for retiring olddebts”

Posing as many as 20 ques-tions to the BJP-led NDAGovernment over the NMP,Chidambaram also sought anassurance from the Modi dis-pensation that the expectedsum of �6 lakh crore would notbe merged with general rev-enues and will not be used forgeneral expenditure.

In a series of other ques-tions on NMP, the formerFinance Minister wanted toknow if the Government float-ed a consultation paper onNMP “Did Government con-sult the workers or the tradeunions or other stakeholdersbefore announcing the NMP?When and where did these

consultations take place? Willthe government make publicthe outcome or the minutes ofthese consultations?,” he asked,while speaking to media per-sons here.

Chidambaram alsodemanded to know as to whydid not the government discussthe NMP in Parliament andasked if the Government pro-posed to consult theOpposition parties or discussthe NMP Parliament.

Charging that PrimeMinister Narendra Modi’s oft-repeated claim of “nothing wasdone in 70 years” stoodexposed, Chidambaram said:“The NMP will wash awaywhat has been done in the last70 years”.

“The NMP was notannounced in the Parliament.It was announced after thesession ended. There was noconsultation paper. There wereno meetings with trade unions.Nor were there consultationswith political parties,” he said.

Chidambaram ridiculedModi by saying that “he is theonly Chief Executive in theworld who has never interact-ed with the press”.

“The Prime Minister has inthe last 7 years never interact-

ed with the press and in thenext three years he would notdo so. The Finance Minister(Nirmala Sitharaman) neverresponds to questions in pressconference….for farm bills theyhave not allowed a debate, onPegasus no debate tookplace…and I am sure that theywill not allow a debate onNMP also,” the former financeminister said.

“What are the objectives ofthe NMP? Is the sole objectiveof NMP the raising of revenueover a four year period?...Certain assets have been iden-tified by the NMP for moneti-zation. What are the criteriaapplied for the choice of assets?,he asked.

Chidambaram said thatunder the UPA, certain criteriawere adopted upfront for iden-tifying the PSU that would bedisinvested or privatized.

“In the case of roads/high-ways, there is currently a PPPpolicy. What is the difference,if any, between the model thatis in force for such PPPs andthe model that will be adopt-ed under the NMP for mone-tization?,” he wondered.

“If an asset is 'monetized'for, say, 30 or 50 of years, whatis the value of the piece of paper

that declares the Governmentto be the 'owner' of the asset?What kind of asset does thegovernment expect will bereturned at the end of theperiod? Will it not be a fullydepreciated asset worth prac-tically nothing?,”Chidambaram wanted toknow.

“Since the NMP is silent onthe subject, will theGovernment stipulate in thecontract that the amount ofdepreciation should be put ina Depreciation ReserveAccount which was used onlyto maintain, upgrade or add tothe asset so that at the end ofthe lease period a valuableasset is returned to the gov-ernment?,” he asked.

Chidambaram wanted toknow if there would be a pro-vision in the contract to preventasset-stripping by the lessee?“What provisions will beincluded in the Invitation toBid (ITB) to ensure that the'monetization' process doesnot create monopolies or duop-olies in that sector? In partic-ular, what provisions will beincluded to prevent monopo-lies/duopolies emerging in theports, airports, telecom andpower sectors?,” he asked.

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���������� ���� (6���� �� ����:;/ ����� ������� ��� !�����Bengaluru: Karnataka's Leader ofOpposition Siddaramaiah on Fridayurged the state government to with-draw its decision to implement thenew National Education Policy, whilerefusing to take part in the discussionon the subject.

"A letter has been written fromthe office of the Minister of HigherEducation informing the implemen-tation of new National EducationPolicy and requesting the appoint-ment of Leader of Opposition to dis-cuss regarding the same. It is to benoted that the government hasalready decided and inaugurated toimplementation the said policy fromthe current academic year, withoutany discussion with the students,teachers, education experts or oppo-sition. It is not correct to call for dis-cussion now after inaugurating theimplementation," he said.

"Policy change in matters likeeducation and health are not smallissues. Detailed deliberations shouldhave been initiated democraticallybefore drafting such issues whichhave wide implications. Governmentsof many developed countries take thecomplete responsibility of health andeducation but here in India the gov-ernment is trying to wash away theresponsibility, the former ChiefMinister said.

Siddaramaiah further noted thatIndia has a high student to teacherratio which should come down forthe benefit of students. Also, the gov-ernment allocation for education asa percentage of GDP is very low.Noting that NEP also recommendsthe allocation to education to be at 6per cent of GDP, he said that thenKarnataka should allocate about Rs1.08 lakh crore.

"There are many objections andconcerns about NEP. It violates fed-eral arrangements and infringes uponthe autonomy of states over educationand universities. It promotes privati-sation leading to inequality andsocial injustice. The intention is toindoctrinate students with the idea ofcommunalism through education.NEP is unscientific and will pushlakhs of students to darkness," theCongress leader contended.

"Government should have dis-cussed and debated these issuesbefore the implementation. NEPdecides the future of many studentsshaping the next 70-80 years.Education is a tool for social eleva-tion for many marginalised sections.Has BJP implemented NEP to pre-vent this elevation of social statusamong marginalised sections?" heasked. IANS

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the Gangster Act and over 500under the National SecurityAct. The Yogi administrationhas also hit criminals hard bytargeting their finances; in theState Government’s driveagainst the mafia, their illicitproperty worth more than�1,500 crore has either beenattached or demolished. Alongwith action against the mafia,the Yogi administration hasalso provided protection towitnesses.

And a vastly improved lawand order has begun to pay offin the realm of development.Here too, figures speak forthemselves. The State’s develop-ment data reveals that over theyears, UP has received invest-ment proposals worth �66,000crore from both foreign andlocal investors. The administra-tion has acted promptly onthese proposals. More to thepoint, companies from Japan,Canada, Germany, Hong Kong,the UK, the US, Taiwan andSouth Korea are lining up toinvest in UP; one company hasleft from China to set up oper-ations in Agra. It is also signif-icant that the Government isensuring that the flow of invest-ment is not confined to theState’s bigger cities, but is alsobeing channeled to smallertowns like Etah, Amroha,Mirzapur, and so on.

Apart from the fresh pro-posals for investment, MoUsworth �4.68 lakh crore havebeen signed at investors’ sum-mits, of which 371 proposalsworth close to �3 lakh crore arealready functional, generatingemployment for up to 5 lakhpeople. Here, one must makemention of the work beingdone by this Government onthe defence industrial manu-facturing corridor, which hasalready drawn up to 14 MoUs.The aim is to transform UttarPradesh into a hub of capital-intensive manufacturing,which the defence industryinvariably entails.

Farmers have much to behappy about in YogiAdityanath’s rule.Development schemes andprogrammes, for their long-term success, also need thehealth of the rural economy tobe robust. The Adityanathpolicy of transparent pur-chase of wheat and paddy, asalso his continuous supervi-sion of purchase centres, hasbeen successful. The exampleof paddy should suffice; theState Government has pur-chased a record 60 lakh met-ric tonne of the grain againsta slated target of 55 lakhmetric tonne. Payments madeto the State’s farmers havebeen touching new records as

well. The Government hasstepped up its efforts to dou-ble the income of the State’sfarmers. Nearly �33,000 crorehave been transferred to theaccounts of the nearly threecrore farmers under thePradhan Mantri KisanSamman Nidhi Yojana, plusseparate transfers under cropinsurance schemes. The mod-ernisation of 20 sugar mills inthe State, along with thereopening of the Pipraich,Munderwa and Ramala sugarmills, is a particularly signif-icant milestone in the Yogiadministration’s agriculturepolicy.

Uttar Pradesh under YogiAdityanath is clearly not the“Bimaru” State it was oncederided as, but a State on arapid march upwards. This isimportant for the State, whichis one-fifth of India. Beingbackward is bad enough, butif one-fifth of the frame is sick,the rest of the body cannot inany way be healthy. Moreover,the Narasimha Rao-initiated1991 reforms did not benefitUP. This makes UP’s marchunder Adityanath all the moreremarkable.

(The writer is a well-knowncolumnist, an author and a for-mer member of the RajyaSabha. The views expressed arepersonal.)

��������������� ���Sir — I remember during my school in thelate 80s, when I first came across the name‘Chandan Mitra’ in an article published inThe Statesman on an issue of that time.Later, in January 1994, after the suddendemise of music director Rahul DevBurman, a memoir titled Agar Tum NaHote written by him was published in TheHindustan Times and it made me his fan.However, there was another reason for myadmiration for him because in those daysI had the impression that a man who worksat such an important position of arenowned publication would not engagehimself in writing on the least importantsubject like cinema and music.

That culture still prevails in most of thepopular publications. The senior journal-ists/ writers, who write on various burgeon-ing issues of the country and abroad sel-dom write on these topics. The editorial pol-icy of promoting cinema, music and cul-ture continued to grow in The Pioneerunder his able leadership. At a time whensome of the esteemed English newspapershave stopped publishing the letters of thereaders, The Pioneer continued to bring outthe column honouring the sentiments ofthe letter writers.

Abhijit Roy | Jamshedpur

��������� �����������������Sir — LIC of India celebrates 1st Septemberas LIC-day in commemoration of the for-mation of the Life Insurance Corporationof India in 1956 by nationalising and merg-ing 245 private insurance companies.Nearing branches of LIC of India shouldbe merged to reduce unnecessary over-heads. But gradually life insurance businessis being captured by later constituted pri-vate insurance companies, many of whichare promoted by private banks. These pri-vate banks and their promoted insurancecompanies always work in alliance to pro-mote their insurance business in additionto their banking business.

Several public sector banks collaboratewith private insurance companies ratherthan promoting the LIC of India. Bankingand insurance divisions of the Department

of Financial Services should jointly plan asystem whereby every branch of each pub-lic sector bank may be attached to somenearing unit of LIC of India. All insuranceformalities must go through attached unitsof LIC of India and General Insurance.Healthy competition can be developed bygiving appreciation points to branch man-agers bringing more insurance business intothe public sector. This will promote the pub-lic-sector, save people from gimmicks andbefooling insurance plans of private-sectorcompanies, and provide a single-windowfacility for all banking and insurance needs.

Madhu Agrawal | Delhi

���������� ��������������Sir — Chief Justice of India NV Ramanarightly pointed out that certain sections ofthe media ‘communalise everything’. Allright-thinking people share the concernvoiced by him over the distinct propensi-ty shown by the media for ‘showing every-thing with a communal angle’. Switching oncertain TV channels, you find them spew-

ing communal venom day in, day out, bear-ing out the veracity of what the CJI had said.Evidently, TV anchors in some newschannels are predisposed or conditioned topresent a slanted view of events.

Journalists are supposed to be political-ly neutral and speak the truth, but theseanchors openly take the side of the rulingdispensation. They peddle the line of the rul-ing party and package propaganda asnews, leaving us to wonder if they are inde-pendent journalists or party spokespersons.They are complicit in the attempt made byHindu Right to tap the political potential ofHindu identity. Some channels try to keepa fine balance between communalism andsecularism to maximise viewership. Asobserved by the CJI, communal contentaired by media outlets brings a bad nameto the country. Still, ironically enough, theydo it assuming an air of patriotism.

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the fastest. Be it in the layout ofhighways, appointments toGovernment services, providingemployment to the people,increasing investments, improvinglaw and order, encouragingtourism and pilgrimage, as well asexpanding the small and mediumenterprises sector, Uttar Pradeshis making waves.

Since Independence, onenever heard that this State hadmoved in the area of development.It is surprising that New Delhi didnot bother, perhaps ignoring thefact that UP is one-fifth of India.If, therefore, UP leaps in progress,the country races ahead in termsof development. Evidently, forthe powers-that-be in India’s rajdhani, UP was treated as a bankof 84 Lok Sabha seats (80 now)and a sure-shot ticket to parlia-mentary majority at the Centre,but nothing more. In fact, a chiefformer ruling dynasty was report-ed to have voiced an opinion infavour of keeping Uttar Pradeshbackward and fragmented.

The State today in 2021 is avastly changed place. From thebackwaters of most economicindices, it today has moved tobecoming India’s second-richest interms of Gross State DomesticProduct (GSDP), which stands at$268 billion, behind onlyMaharashtra now. This, underYogi Adityanath has been anachievement despite the ravages ofthe COVID-19 pandemic. In theease of doing business, a crucialglobal benchmark, UP, whichlanguished at 16th position in thecountry in 2016, has moved up tothe second rank among India’sStates.

Law and order, the mostimportant prerequisite for anydevelopment activity to flower,was never a strong suit in UttarPradesh before Adityanath tookover. Any economic or capitalinvestment in the State remaineda dream. The scenario after Yogi’scoming to office in March 2017 isa sharp contrast. Over the pastfour-and-a-half years, 137 crimi-nals have been liquidated in policeaction, while close to 3,000 crim-inals were injured; nearly 37,000accused have been booked under

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Mohammed bin Salman isdescribed as a Machiavellianreformer, visionary, revolu-tionary and reactionary. Itis

fair to say that because of these eye-catch-ing traits ofhis political activities that MBS,as he is popularly known as, is being keen-ly noticed in Saudi Arabia and beyond.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia hadlong been known for two things: oil andIslam — and lately for its Crown Prince.The oil-rich Kingdom has witnessedwide-ranging changes, and the man dri-ving them is the visionary son of KingMohammed bin Salman. His admirersdescribe him as a hard-working, business-minded leader with no stomach for cor-ruption and a burning desire to modern-ize the country while avoiding the trap-pings of royalty. On the other hand, his crit-ics view him as power-hungry, ‘immature’,and someone unaware of the dangers ofreforming too much too fast. Such viewsare hardly surprising given the rush forreform across the Kingdom since MBS wasappointed as the crown prince.

MBS is already his country’s de factoruler, and perhaps the most powerful per-son in the Middle East region. It was onlyafter his father was appointed as the CrownPrince in 2012 that he began to accumu-late power. The following year, MBSbecame the head of the Crown PrinceCourt and soon was made the Minister ofDefense. Muhammad Bin Salman was alsoappointed as the Deputy Crown Prince andtook over the Council of Economic andDevelopment Affairs. There was no stop-ping the ambitious prince. Now in chargeof the war in Yemen and Saudi Arabia’seconomy, his importance as a policymak-er became clear the following year whenhe unveiled an ambitious and wide-rang-ing plan to bring economic and socialchange to the Kingdom and end its“addiction” to oil. The destination goal forSalman was to be the most powerful manin Saudi Arabia and that meant assumingthe title of Crown Prince.

After his anointment as Crown Prince,he started making moves that wouldshock not only the conservative SaudiWahabbi clerics but also the world as awhole. In an interview, when he was askedwhat was his concept of moderation, thePrince replied: “Of course, this is a broadterm. All Muslim jurists and scholars havebeen talking about the concept of moder-ation for over a thousand years. So, I donot think I am in a position to clarify thisconcept, as much as I can ... abide by theSaudi constitution, which is the Quran, theSunnah, and our basic governance systemand to implement it fully in a broad sensethat is inclusive of everybody. This leadsme to another question, namely the spaceSharia occupies in the State. Meaning, onthe level of the constitution, the judicia-ry, the public space, and the level of free-doms of individuals. As I said earlier, ourconstitution is the Quran, has been, stillis, and will continue to be so forever.”

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If you’re worried about your‘carbon footprint’ - a con-cept foisted on the world in

2004 by British Petroleum topersuade people that theirown behaviour, and not giantoil companies like BP, is caus-ing the climate problem - thenyou definitely should not signup for a sub-orbital spaceflight. Besides, you probablycan’t afford it ($250,000 pp).

Millions of people canafford it, however, and sincethe Branson/Bezos ‘space race’last month tickets for sub-orbital flights are selling fast.These are commercial ven-tures, after all.

There are only three moreflights scheduled for JeffBezos’s ‘Blue Origin’ rocketbefore the end of the year, andtwo more for RichardBranson’s ‘VSS Unity’, but both

men clearly intend to ramp upto more frequent flights.(Branson predicts 400 flightsa year.) The era of mass spacetourism is just around thecorner.

Well, what did you expect?The travel and tourism indus-try accounted for 10.7 per centof world GDP in the last nor-mal year (2019), so nowhere issafe, including the stratos-phere. And like every othertourist destination, the stratos-phere suffers some environ-mental damage from all thetourists passing through. Thekey question, so far unan-swered, is: how much?

Hardly any at the moment.The typical rocket launchdumps the same amount ofCO2 into the atmosphere asone airliner does in the courseof a trans-Atlantic crossing.

Since there are only three orfour passengers aboard each ofthose sub-orbital flights, theirindividual carbon footprintsare huge - but more than1,700 commercial jets cross theAtlantic on the average day.

Most rockets, includingElon Musk’s ‘Falcon Heavies’and most of the big Chineseand Russian vehicles, burn amixture of kerosene and liquidoxygen and produce anexhaust plume little differentfrom that of jet aircraft: most-ly carbon dioxide and water.

But the total fuel used annu-ally by all the world’s rocketsis less than one percent of thatburned by commercial aircraft.

Moreover, some of thenewer rockets, like Bezos’s‘New Shepard’, most Europeanlaunch vehicles, and the laststage of the new Long Marchrockets, use Liquid Hydrogenand Liquid Oxygen, whichleaves only water and a fewtraces of other chemicals. Sofar, so relatively harmless -except that all the other rock-ets leave black carbon ('soot')in the upper stratosphere,where airliners don’t fly.

The commercial aircraftdo leave soot in the lowest partof the stratosphere, where itseffects are reasonably wellunderstood. It warms thelower stratosphere. It presum-ably does that in the upper

parts of the stratosphere too.The annual orbital rocket

traffic is surprisingly low: arecord 1,283 satellites wereput into orbit last year, but only104 rocket launches were usedto put them there. (Anotherten launches were failures, butfailures tend to happen beforerockets reach the stratosphere.)This means the prospective‘tourist’ launches represent afour- or five-fold jump in thestratospheric traffic.

Bezos’s launches get apass because he’s not burningkerosene and leaving sootbehind. Branson’s rocket,however, is powered by a‘hybrid engine’ that burnshydroxyl-terminated polybu-tadiene (synthetic rubber),with nitrous oxide as an oxi-diser. You can think of it as asoot generator with stratos-

pheric capability. And 400flights a year.

So, the Branson rocketshould be closely monitoredfor its impact on the stratos-phere, and how that mightaffect the climate. The impactcould be insignificant, but itwill be a much bigger con-tributor to stratospheric pol-lution than its size suggests.And what of space flight ingeneral?

There will certainly bemore orbital flights as timegoes on, but most satellites arenow very small packages thatcan be packed together on asingle launch. Moreover, thereis a clear move towards usingliquid hydrogen rather thankerosene as a fuel, despitehydrogen’s current high price,and a longer-term aspiration touse high-energy biofuels that

are carbon-neutral.Aviation as a whole

remains a significant part ofthe warming problem, produc-ing more than 3 per cent ofglobal CO2 emissions, and thesolutions are expensive ortechnically difficult. Biofuelscan eventually address thecarbon dioxide emissions, butat least half the aviation-linkedwarming is not CO2. Its heatreflected back to the ground bycontrails.

The remedy for that is tofly in the lower atmosphere,where contrails rarely form -but that puts planes back downin the turbulence, which pas-sengers do not like. Planescould be designed that wouldcounter that turbulence (duct-ed flow and computer-driveninstant response), but there’sno sign of it yet.

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Crown Prince is clear about the sen-sitive matter: “We are simply revert-ing to what we followed — a mod-erate Islam open to the world andall religions. 70 per cent of theSaudis are younger than 30, honest-ly, we won’t waste 30 years of ourlife combating extremist thoughts,we will destroy them now andimmediately.”

In 2016, to prepare for thekingdom’s economic future, CrownPrince Mohammed bin Salmanlaid out a road map for the coun-try, known as Vision 2030. Theplan was to transform Saudi Arabiaby liberalising social norms andimproving Government services. Inhis words, “We seek to be proud ofour country, and allow the latter tocontribute to the development ofthe world, whether on the econom-ic, environmental, civilisational,or intellectual levels.” Such ambi-tious transformation projects comewith very high realisation costs.The country has plans to transformthe capital Riyadh into an econom-ic, social, and cultural hub by2030 at the cost of $800bn alongwith the planning of a new cityNEOM at an estimated cost of$500bn. Several other multi-bil-lion-dollar projects are planned tobe completed by 2035.

Under MBS, Saudi Arabia’stech scene has seen a dramatictransformation. The SaudiGovernment is pushing hugeamounts of capital into the indus-try and attracting foreign investorsin a bid to become the new eco-

nomic hub of the Middle East.Crown Prince is aiming to spendover $7 billion dollars within thenext 10 years across the public andprivate sectors to diversify its econ-omy away from oil. And his planseems to be working: in the lastyear, Google signed a $10 billionagreement with oil giant Aramco;Amazon has committed huge busi-ness in the country, and Huawei isset to open its largest flagship out-side of China in Riyadh. The grow-ing social cachet attached to thetech industry is a trend that can beattributed, in part, to CrownPrince’s own fascination withSilicon Valley. To raise funds foreconomic diversification, SaudiArabia has issued debt, drawndown its fiscal reserves and VAT -a form of sales tax. The kingdomcan also continue to draw from itsreserves, which stood at $130bn atthe end of the second quarter of2021. Nevertheless, privatisationsare likely to gain new momentumover the coming years.

When asked about SaudiArabia and the US, after the newadministration had arrived in theWhite House, was there any discordbetween these two allies? MBSstated that they were working onmaintaining relations with strategicpartners in the region, starting withthe Gulf countries, Arab countries,and Middle Eastern countries.They were also working onstrengthening their alliances withpartners throughout the world;the US, the UK, France, Europe,

and other countries, as well as seek-ing to create new partnershipswith everyone else, such as Russia,India, China, Latin America,African countries, and others. Thisis all to serve the interests of SaudiArabia without undermining anyother country.

Under Crown Prince and long-serving KSA Ambassador to India,Saud Al Sati, the relationshipbetween India and Saudi Arabiawas elevated to that of a strategicpartnership. The momentum forthis relationship began during thevisit of Prime Minister NarendraModi to the Kingdom in April2016, during which he was present-ed with the Sash of King AbdulAziz, the highest civilian decorationawarded by King Salman. Themomentum increased with thecrown Prince’s visit to India, dur-ing which he and Modi discussedprospects for bilateral cooperationin all fields, along with other issuesof mutual interest. And the confir-mation of India as one of theKingdom’s strategic partner coun-tries under Vision 2030, completewith a proposal to set up a high-level partnership council.

Finally on the lighter note,when asked why he is in a tearinghurry, Crown price replied smil-ing: “I fear that the day I die, I amgoing to die without accomplish-ing what I have in my mind, lifeis short, and a lot of things canhappen, and I am really keen tosee it with my own eyes - and thatis why I am in a hurry.”

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Anear-full house turned outto watch Afghanistan’s top

cricketers play in a trial matchon Friday, with Taliban andAfghan flags waving side byside in what sports officialscalled a show of national unity.

It was the first match sincethe Taliban swept to power onAugust 15, leaving organisers ofsports and cultural events won-dering what is now acceptableunder the hardline Islamists’rule.

The two sides — calledPeace Defenders and PeaceHeroes — featured many mem-bers of the Afghan nationalteam, currently preparing forthe Twenty20 World Cup to beplayed in UAE and Oman fromOctober 17.

“It is great to be here andwatch cricket,” Taliban’s Hamzatold AFP at the stadium inKabul, an American M-16 rifleslung over his shoulder.

He was in charge of a con-tingent of Taliban keepingguard among the crowd —some watching the game moreintently than the spectators.

“I am a player myself,” said

Hamza. “An all-rounder.”The return of the Taliban

has sparked widespread fear inAfghanistan and in the inter-national community, revivingmemories of their first stint inpower from 1996 to 2001,when they imposed a harshversion of Islamic law.

That regime banned mostforms of entertainment —including many sports — andstadiums doubled as publicexecution venues.

Sports the Taliban didallow were strictly controlled,

and were only for men to playor watch.

Certainly there were nowomen among the crowd ofaround 4,000 on Friday, butthere was plenty of enthusiasmas the teams played a Twenty20match — the shortest versionof the game — scheduled tofinish in time for Fridayprayers, the most important ofthe week.

Cricket was barely knownin Afghanistan until the early2000s, and its explosive rise inpopularity is linked with con-

flict — the sport was picked upin Pakistan by Afghan refugeeswho then seeded it in theirhome country.

The national team hasenjoyed a meteoric rise on theinternational scene since then,gaining coveted Test status in2017 and now ranking amongthe top 10 sides in the world inthe one-day and Twenty20 for-mats.

In the last 20 years, it hasemerged as a powerful symbolof national unity in a countryriven by civil war and ethnicconflict.

On Friday, fans wavedAfghan and Taliban flags sideby side, while “Baba cricket” —an elderly superfan dressedhead to toe in national colours— was ushered to a prime spotin the stand.

Entry was free for specta-tors on Friday, although every-one was patted down byTaliban guards as they enteredthe stadium near ChamanUzuri — a Kabul neighbour-hood dominated by Pashtuns,who make up a majority ofTaliban fighters.

Although many Kabul res-idents say security has

improved in the weeks sincethe government fell, the Talibanare still on alert following theIslamic State suicide bombattacks at the airport last weekthat killed more than 100 peo-ple — including 13 Americantroops as they wrapped up achaotic withdrawal.

A beaming HamidShinwari, CEO of the AfghanCricket Board, told AFP thedisplay of flags at the match —which Peace Defenders won by62 runs — was a positive signfor the country.

“It is unity,” he said, addingthat talks with Taliban officialssignalled a bright future for thesport.

He would not be drawn,however, on the fate of thewomen’s team, with variousmedia reports saying manymembers had already fled thecountry or were in hiding —fearful for their future underthe new regime.

“We have a group onWhatsApp and every night weare talking about our problemsand sharing plans about whatwe should do,” one member ofthe team told the BBC thisweek.

Kabul: The Taliban sayWestern Union will resume itsoperations in Afghanistan,opening a rare conduit for for-eign funds to flow into thecash-strapped country.

The group’s cultural com-mission spokesman,Ahmadullah Muttaqi,announced the move onFriday. The American financialservices giant had halted oper-ations in Afghanistan when theTaliban took power in the cap-ital on August 15.

The opening will be espe-cially welcomed by Afghanswith foreign relatives abroad.Hundreds of people have beenlining up daily outside Afghanbanks to withdraw cash. AP

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Brdo Castle (Slovenia):European Union officials onFriday listed a set of conditionsfor defining the EU’s level ofengagement with the Taliban asthe new rulers of Afghanistan,including respect for humanrights and the rule of law.

Following the Afghan

Government’s collapse lastmonth, the 27-nation bloc andits member countries have evac-uated their diplomats fromAfghanistan. But EU officialshave said they are willing tocooperate with the Taliban nowthat they have returned to power.

The EU is focusing on deliv-

ering humanitarian aid, guar-anteeing the safe passage out ofthe country of Afghan collabo-rators and employees who wereleft behind during the airliftsfrom Kabul, and trying to pre-vent a mass exodus of refugeesthat could prompt anothermigration crisis in Europe. AP

Kabul: A few dozen protestershave gathered outside the pres-idential palace in Kabul, urgingthe country’s new Taliban lead-ership to uphold women’srights achieved under Westernpatronage and include womenin the upcoming Government.

At one gate on Friday,around a dozen women held upsmall printed pages urging for “Aheroic Cabinet with the presence

of women.” The protesters chant-ed slogans asserting humanrights and saying they did notwant to return to the past.

A document circulated byprotesters demanded thatAfghan women are grantedfull rights to education, socialand political contributions inthe country’s future, and gen-eral freedoms including that offree speech. AP

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said it is important to engagewith the Taliban Governmentin Afghanistan for a range ofreasons, including the safe pas-sage of British citizens, but dis-missed talks of recognising itofficially as “premature”.

Addressing a joint pressconference in Islamabad along-side Pakistani Foreign MinisterShah Mahmood Qureshi, Raab,who is Secretary of State forForeign, Commonwealth andDevelopment Affairs, said itwould not have been possible toevacuate some 15,000 peoplefrom Kabul without some degreeof cooperation from the Taliban.

Peshawar: The formation of anew Afghan Government bythe Taliban, which was to beannounced on Friday, has nowbeen delayed by a day, accord-ing to the spokesman of theinsurgents Zabiullah Mujahid.

Mujahid said theannouncement about the for-mation of the new Governmentwill now be made on Saturday.

Sources said thatChairman of Taliban’s PoliticalOffice, Doha, Qatar MullaAbdul Ghani Baradar is likelyto be the head of the Taliban.

More than two weeks afterthe Taliban took overAfghanistan, the hardlineIslamists are all set to announcethe formation of a Governmentin Kabul on the lines of theIranian leadership, with thegroup’s top religious leaderMullah Hebatullah Akhundzadaas Afghanistan’s supremeauthority, a senior member ofthe group has said. PTI

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New Zealand authoritieswere so worried about an

extremist inspired by theIslamic State (ISIS) group theywere following him around-the-clock and were able toshoot and kill him within 60seconds of him unleashing afrenzied knife attack thatwounded six people on Fridayat an Auckland supermarket.

Three of the shoppers weretaken to Auckland hospitals incritical condition, police said.Another was in serious condi-tion, while two more were inmoderate condition.

Prime Minister JacindaArdern said the incident was aterror attack. She said the manwas a Sri Lankan national whowas inspired by the

Islamic State group andwas well known to the nation’ssecurity agencies.

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The center-right Union bloc’scandidate to succeed Angela

Merkel as chancellor in thismonth’s German electionannounced the naming of eightexperts on Friday to advise himon how to tackle issues such asclimate change and education, ashe struggles to reverse a sustaineddownward trend in the polls.

A survey released by pub-lic broadcaster ARD showedthe Union bloc receiving 20 percent of the vote compared to 25per cent support for the center-left Social Democrats.

The poll of 1,337 eligiblevoters conducted August 30-September 1 had a margin oferror of 2-3 percentage points.

The Union bloc’s candidatefor the chancellorship, Armin

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Laschet, has received particu-larly unfavourable reviews aftera series of slips on the cam-paign trail in recent months.

Speaking at the Berlinheadquarters of his ChristianDemocratic Union party,Laschet said he wants his newteam to reflect the Christian-social, liberal and conservativewings of the party.

Several of the experts arefamiliar faces, including formerrival Friedrich Merz, who wastapped to advise Laschet onfinance and business matters.

Others, like extremismresearcher Peter R. Neumann,have not previously figuredprominently in the party.

Warsaw: Polish Prime MinisterMateusz Morawiecki said onFriday that nobody has theright to lecture his country ondemocracy, after the EuropeanUnion said talks were still ongo-ing over the payment of billionsof euros to bloc member Poland.

“Nobody will teach us whatdemocracy and rule of law arebecause Poland has a very longand noble history of fightingagainst all kinds of totalitari-anism and despots,”Morawiecki said on Facebook.

“We fought for the rule oflaw and democracy during theterrible years of communism,but we have a much longerlonger tradition of democracyand we do not want to beinstructed by anyone inWestern Europe about whatdemocracy is, what the rule oflaw is,” the PM added. AP

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“Economy is booming in thecountry after the second

Covid wave”, said the SupremeCourt on Friday as it refused toentertain a batch of pleas seek-ing contempt action againstGovernor of Reserve Bank ofIndia and senior officials ofother banks for declaring theloan accounts as Non-Performing Assets (NPA).

The top court said thatcontempt is between court andcontemnor and it is notinclined to initiate contemptaction against senior officials ofbanks.

“In our considered view, weare not inclined to exercise ourcontempt jurisdiction, since itis not in the interest of justice,”said a bench of Justices DYChandrachud, Vikram Nathand Hima Kohli.The benchsaid that petitioners are at lib-erty to seek remedy under thee Securitisation andReconstruction of FinancialAssets and Enforcement ofSecurity Interest Act (SAR-FAESI Act), 2002.

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Digital infrastructure indus-try body Dipa, erstwhile

Taipa, on Friday expressed dis-appointment over non-imple-mentation of Trai’s recom-mendations since 2015 toenhance the scope of infra-structure providers.TelecomRegulatory Authority of India(Trai) has again recommendedto Department of Telecom onAugust 31 that its recommen-dations dated March 13, 2020to enhance the scope of infra-structure providers should bedecided by the departmentand the matter should befinalised within three months.

“We thank the Authority(Trai) for once again underlin-ing the need for ‘Enhancementof Scope of IP-1’ and this timeprescribing timelines also for itsimplementation i.E within 3months as the same is pendingdespite numerous follow-upswith DoT,” Dipa DirectorGeneral TR Dua said in astatement.

Infrastructure Providers

(IP-1) provide infrastructureassets such as dark fibre, rightof way, duct space and tower onlease, rent-out or sale basis totelecom operators on mutual-ly agreed terms and conditions.

Trai has recommendedthat the registered IP-1 com-panies be allowed to own,establish, maintain, and workall such infrastructure items,equipment, and systems whichare required for establishingWireline Access Network,Radio Access Network, andTransmission Links.

The regulator also sug-gested that the scope of IP-1registration should include,but not limited to, right of way,duct space, optical fiber, tower,feeder cable, antenna, base sta-tion, in-building solution (IBS),distributed antenna system(DAS) etc within any part ofIndia.Dua said that once therecommendations are imple-mented, it will go a long way innot only addressing the capexand opex requirements butalso improving the financialhealth of the sector.

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Four more States — MadhyaPradesh, Jharkhand,

Uttarakhand and Kerala —have decided to supply fortifiedrice through Integrated ChildDevelopment Services andMid-Day Meal scheme on apilot basis, Food SecretarySudhanshu Pandey said onFriday.

Prime Minister NarendraModi, in his speech on thecountry’s 75th IndependenceDay on August 15, hadannounced that the fortifiedrice will be made availableunder every government pro-gramme by the year 2024.

Currently, out of the 15states identified for the ‘Centralscheme on fortified rice and its

distribution via public distrib-ution system (PDS)’, seven areimplementing it in one districteach on a pilot basis.

“From this month, fourmore states have joined forpilot implementation.

They will implement inone district each,” Pandey toldreporters.

At present, about 7.59 lakhtonnes of fortified rice pro-cured by the state-run FoodCorporation of India (FCI) isavailable for distributionthrough Integrated ChildDevelopment Services andMid-Day Meal scheme, he said.

Efforts are being made toboost the capacity of fortifiedrice kernels (FRK) of ricemillers from present 60,000tonnes.

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The country’s foreignexchange reserves soared

by USD 16.663 billion to toucha lifetime high of USD 633.558billion in the week endedAugust 27, mainly due to anincrease in Special DrawingRights (SDR) holdings, RBIdata showed.

On Wednesday, RBI hadsaid the InternationalMonetary Fund (IMF) made anallocation of SDR 12.57 billion(equivalent to around USD17.86 billion at the latestexchange rate) to India onAugust 23, 2021.

SDR holdings are part ofthe foreign exchange reservesof a country. IMF makes thegeneral SDR allocation to itsmembers in proportion to theirexisting quotas in the Fund.

In the reporting weekended August 27, 2021, thecountry’s SDR holdings rose byUSD 17.866 billion to USD19.407 billion, as per weekly

data released by the ReserveBank of India (RBI) on Friday.

India’s forex kitty haddeclined by USD 2.47 billion toUSD 616.895 billion in the pre-vious week ended August 20,2021.

Foreign currency assets(FCAs), a major component ofthe overall reserves, dipped byUSD 1.409 billion to USD571.6 billion in the reportingweek, the data showed.

Expressed in dollar terms,

the foreign currency assetsinclude the effect of apprecia-tion or depreciation of non-USunits like the euro, pound andyen held in the foreignexchange reserves.

Gold reserves were up byUSD 192 million to USD37.441 billion.

The country’s reserve posi-tion with the IMF rose byUSD 14 million to USD 5.11billion in the reporting week,the data showed.

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Economists at the country’slargest lender SBI believe

that labour market activity willimprove in FY22, saying com-panies are continuing withtheir hiring plans as the pan-demic wanes.

They pointed to payrolldata from Employees ProvidentFund Organisation and NewPension Scheme, showing anuptick in new additions tosupport their optimistic view.

“We expect labour marketactivity to remain better in thecurrent fiscal as companieswill continue with their hiringplans to get ahead of the pan-demic,” its chief economistSoumya Kanti Ghosh said in anote.

The expectation comes ata time when concerns are beingraised about joblessness and thedip in labour participation inthe economy coming back tonormalcy after the second waveof the pandemic. As per an esti-mate by the Centre forMonitoring Indian Economy,15 lakh Indians, including 13lakh in rural areas alone, losttheir jobs in August alone.

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The Indian rupee settledwith a marginal gain of 4

paise at 73.02 against the USdollar on Friday, even as thedomestic equities continuedtheir record-setting spree.

At the interbank forex mar-ket, the local unit opened at73.05 against the greenbackand witnessed an intra-dayhigh of 73.01 and a low of73.15. It finally ended at 73.02against the American curren-cy, registering a gain of just 4paise over its previous close.Ona weekly basis, the local cur-rency has appreciated by 67paise against the US dollar.According to HDFC Securities’Dilip Parmar, spot USD/INRfacing resistance around 73.15and holding support at 72.90.“Expectations of dollar inflowsfrom many corporates’ fundraising also weighed on thepair. In near term, spot USD-INR is expected to consolidatebefore heading towards 72.

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The BSE Sensex scaled the58,000-mark for the first

time on Friday, buoyed by arally in market heavyweightReliance Industries as investorsremained in risk-on modeamid positive macroeconomicdata and sustained foreignfund inflows.

Rising for the secondstraight day, the 30-sharebenchmark climbed 277.41points or 0.48 per cent to itsl ifetime closing high of58,129.95.

It touched an intra-dayrecord of 58,194.79.

The Sensex has taken just3 sessions to go from the57,000-level to 58,000. Theindex closed at fresh all-timehighs in five of the previoussix sessions.

Similarly, Nifty advanced89.45 points or 0.52 per centto its all-time closing peak of17,323.60. During the ses-sion, it touched a record of

17,340.10. It was a scintillating week

for the benchmarks, with theSensex rallying 2,005.23points or 3.57 per cent, whilethe Nifty surged 618.40 pointsor 3.70 per cent.

Reliance Industries wasthe top gainer in the Sensexpack on Friday, darting up4.12 per cent after its chair-man Mukesh Ambani out-lined an ambitious greenenergy roadmap, including a‘1-1-1 vision’ to bring downthe cost of hydrogen tounder USD 1 per 1 kg in 1decade.

Titan, Tata Steel, BajajAuto, Maruti, Dr Reddy’s andAsian Paints were the otherprominent winners, spurtingup to 2.59 per cent.

Maruti Suzuki closed 1.06per cent higher even as thecountry’s largest carmakerannounced a recall of 1,81,754units of various models toreplace faulty motor generatorunits.

New Delhi:Internet majorGoogle on Friday said it firm-ly sees itself as a partner to theexisting financial ecosystem inIndia and that instances ofpartnerships being described asGoogle Pay’s offerings fuelmisinterpretation.

While the company didnot elaborate of any specificinstances, the latest assertioncomes against the backdrop ofreports that suggested GooglePay has launched fixed depositofferings in partnership with abank. The company empha-sised that in every geographywhere Google Pay is present, itsstance is consistently one ofpartnering with the existingfinancial services and bankingsystems to help scale andenable frictionless delivery offinancial products and ser-vices and contribute to thegoal of financial inclusion.In ablogpost, Google India saidthere have been a few instanceswhere these offerings havebeen reported as ‘Google Pay’sofferings’ which “fuels misin-terpretation”. PTI

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Nearly 80 per cent ofprospective home buyers

prefer to purchase propertiesthat are ready-to-move-in ornearing completion, while onlyaround 20 per cent of cus-tomers want to buy newlylaunched flats, according to asurvey conducted by CII andAnarock.

After pricing, the surveysuggests that developer credi-bility, project design and loca-tion are the most importantattributes while selecting ahome.

Industry body CII andproperty consultant Anarockconducted an online surveyduring January-June this yearwith a sample size of 4,965 par-ticipants.

As per the survey findings,ready-to-move-in (completed)property continues to be themost preferred among theprospective buyers with 32 percent in favour.

Around 24 per cent ofrespondents are willing to buyproperties that will be readywithin six months, while 23per cent will not mind buy-ing properties to be readywithin a year.

Only 21 per cent are now

willing to purchase a newlylaunched property.

CII and Anarock saidthe Covid pandemic hasaltered homebuyers prefer-ences significantly, with thesecond wave being a signifi-cant change catalyst.

“For the first time,affordable housing is thelowest priority, with morethan 34 per cent respondenthome seekers focused onproperties priced between�90 lakh to �2.5 crore,”Anarock said in a statement.

The survey shows that 35per cent of respondentsfavoured properties pricedbetween � 45-90 lakh, just 27per cent of respondents votedfor af fordable housing(priced below � 45 lakh).

In the previous H2 2020survey, about 36 per cent ofrespondent property seekerseyed budget housing.

While attractive pricingcontinues to rule the roost ofmust-haves , es tabl isheddeveloper credibility is thesecond-highest priority for77 per cent of the surveyedbuyers.

Mumbai:Indiabulls HousingFinance on Friday said it is tar-geting to raise up to �1,000crore through public non-con-vertible debenture (NCD) issuenext week, the first such offer-ing in three years.The city-headquartered company, whichhad a difficult time followingthe IL&FS crisis in the non-banking financial company(NBFC) sector, is planning toraise money from both secureand unsecured debt, and thebase issue size is �200 crorewith an option to retain anoth-er �800 crore of subscrip-tions.The public issue is ofsecured/and or unsecured,redeemable, non-convertibledebentures of face value of�1,000 each, IndiabullsHousing said in a statement.

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Anurag Basu, director, screen-writer, actor and producer,began his career in direction

with the television serial Tara in1996, followed by a line of popu-lar shows like Saturday Suspense,Koshish.. Ek Aasha, Miit, and so on.He also directed Stories byRabindranath Tagore which recent-ly hit Netflix. Soon, he glided tofeature films and the showbizindustry saw some of the greatestcinema, encompassing Kucch TohHai, Murder, Gangster, Life In A...Metro, Kites, and the criticallyacclaimed Barfi!.

However, what we wanted toknow more about was his recentsuccess story - Ludo, a dark com-edy anthology that features inter-twined stories of brilliant actors likeAbhishek Bachchan, Aditya RoyKapur, Rajkummar Rao, SanyaMalhotra, Rohit Saraf, Fatima SanaShaikh, among others. The film-maker garnered the award for thebest director for the same, atIndian Film Festival of Melbourne(IFFM), 2021. Talking about IFFM,Basu expressed, “It was a great fes-tival. All my friends were presentand it was a great get-together.Melbourne had given a platform tonot just Hindi cinema but allIndian cinema, from Assam toBengal. They’ve been doing anamazing job since 2012.”

� Firstly, many congratulationson winning the best director forLudo!

I would like to know yourconjectures about using O Beta Jiin the film. Does it ironicallyreflect the life of Bhagwan Dada?

The song, I believe, is also aperfect summation of the year2020. What are your thoughts onthat?

Thank you. And that’s an inter-esting perception. I’m glad it fits inwell with the current situation.When we initially thought of thesong, I never realised it would takeoff like it did. It came as a surpriseto us as to how much the audienceappreciated the irony. You havecertain thoughts stored in thehard-drive of your brain, andsometimes it randomly strikesyou. I was lucky that O Beta Jicame to me then. As a child, Iwould listen to the cassette ofAlbela repeatedly and sometimes,things don’t come to you at theright time. I’m glad it did. But yes,I had never anticipated it wouldbecome so iconic.

� From passionate movies likeLife in a... Metro, Murder and

Gangster to sweet comedies likeBarfi! to a crime film like Ludo...You’ve experimented with vastgenres. How has the journeybeen?

A) It has been great, yaar. I’mhappy I have made these kinds offilms incorporating different gen-res, different kinds and styles. Ihope I keep doing that as long asI can. Although, in hindsight I feelI don’t have my own voice and stylewhich is why I keep changingstyles. I’m still looking for myvoice, I think.

� So, do you feel this change isdue to your personal life changes

projecting onto what you arecreating?

Of course, the personal life youlead also reflects onto whatthoughts are being created fromthe mind. But I also think I makea very conscious effort to notrepeat styles. I constantly have thequestion ‘what next?’ hoveringover me. It’s the first thing I wantto answer when I’m writing ascript. I should enjoy doing amovie, the uniqueness of the sub-ject is what allows that. Perhaps,that is the second reason.

�Do you think dark comedies, somuch appreciated by the current

generation, reflect the existentialcrisis, and perhaps, our privilegeddiscomforts?

A) That is dark and funny. Yes,I do not know how, otherwise,things would transpire. It is whatwe are feeling universally. Covidhappened and we suffered theconsequences together.

� You like a twist in the tale,beginning with Tara. That’s some-thing we find in Ludo, too. Is it aformat you enjoy?

Yeah, I think you’re right. It’s afashion in OTT shows, too. Everyepisode ends on a cliffhanger. Wedon’t need cliffhangers as much in

films because you know the audi-ence will not leave in between. InOTTs, they want to watch the nextepisode. So, this can be seen morein television that films.

� Talk to us about the end of thestar system, and rise of actors likePankaj Tripathi, and rise of pop-ularity of OTT platforms.

OTT has given rise to newactors, too, who otherwise wouldhave taken four-five years to findthe right platform and get knownbut these platforms have giventhem the opportunity.

However, I do not think thestar system is going to fade. This isvery temporary. People are stillwaiting for theatres to open andclap in the cinema halls on seeingtheir favourite actors. I believe boththings will co-exist. It’s the new 70sera. I’m making this comparisonbecause then HrishikeshMukherjee, and Basu Chatterjeewere making cinema, Amol Palekarwas acting and Amitabh Bachanwas also a star. Shyam Benegal wasalso making Manthan. All differentcinemas were blooming together. Ithink that that golden era is backagain.

�What will be the future of OTTplatforms once the covid situationeases up? is OTT here to stay?

It is going to grow, yes. It ishere to stay, too. But since OTT isalso ruled by data, like television,it might not remain so pure. Whenthe creators have free hands toproduce something, they keepcreating content. But I believe,when theatres will open, theatreswill strive, too. So, this debate oftheatres v/s OTT is redundant.With OTTs, diversification hastaken place. The audience isbecoming more cinema-literate.There are viewers for all kind ofstories right now, which has givena lot of freedom to us filmmakers,too, on trying our hands at vari-ous subjects.

� What is something you expectfrom the actors who work withyou? And subsequently the audi-ence that receives your films?

I expect only one thing frommy actors and that is trust.Perhaps, friendship will be anadded bonus. From my audience,I only expect them to pick andchoose right. They shouldn’t besurprised on finding a lot of songsin a film that belongs to the cate-gory of musicals. They shouldwatch the movie of genres theyenjoy.

Even as the pandemic continuesto cast its shadow of stress, Zee

TV is attempting to lighten up thecountry's collective mood by offer-ing its viewers an escape from allthe stress via the route of rib-tick-ling comedy through its realityshow, Zee Comedy Show. Whilethe show has helped every Indianfamily unwind on their couch withsome of India's top comediansmaking them LOL their stressaway, this weekend, we will see thepopular Bollywood actressBhagyashree entertain us withher interesting revelations as theactress appears as a special guestduring this Sunday’s episode. Hercharming personality and herbeautiful aura is set to mesmerisethe audience while all the tencomedians come together as teamHasaayenge and make each one ofus laugh out loud.

While the hilarious acts put upby all the comedians coupledwith the witty reactions of FarahKhan surely left everyone in splits,it was Khan’s candid confessionthat caught everyone’s attention.After Sugandha Mishra Bhosle, DrSanket Bhosale and SiddharthSagar’s hilarious Maine PyaarKiya act, Farah revealed how shehad tried to help Salman Khanduring the audition of MainePyaar Kya. However, after seeinghow it was going, she bailed outmid-way and went on to believethat Salman would never get thepart in the film. But, fate had itsown plan!

As Farah revealed, “Salmanand I are childhood friends, sowhen he had to audition forMaine Pyaar Kiya, he took me tohelp him learn some dance movesbefore his screen test. In fact, he

took me to Sooraj Barjatya’s officeand I tried teaching him for fourhours, but I ran away midwaythrough it because he was danc-ing so badly. I thought he willnever get the movie, and everyonewill doubt my ability after seeinghim. But a week or two later, Icame to know that he got the filmand I laughed back then, but themovie went on to be such a block-buster. They (Salman andBhagyashree) were so good in thefilm, and I must say that the direc-tor always makes the correct deci-sion. Sometimes, you need to seethings from the eyes of a directorand while both Salman andBhagyashree were great, we mustgive credit to Sooraj Barjatya too.”

Apart from Farah, Bhagyashreewill also be seen making someinteresting revelations about MainePyaar Kiya, Salman and muchmore. The comic acts by all theartistes during this weekend’sepisode is all set to make your week-end a happy one.

(To have a hearty laugh anddrive away your stress, tune in

to Zee Comedy Show thisSaturday and Sunday at 10 PM

on Zee TV.)

Spotify’s brand new original pod-cast, Virus 2062, voiced by

Bollywood actors and couple, RichaChadha and Ali Fazal is now avail-able to stream and download for freeon the platform. The audio thriller,a 10-episode, single season affair, iscentred around ‘Patient 63’, voiced byFazal, who tells Dr Gayatri Rajput,voiced by Chadha, at a psychiatricfacility, that he’s time traveled fromthe past to prevent a pandemic.

The podcast is an adaptation ofCaso 63, a Spotify Original fromChile. After transfixing listenerswith its science fiction and thrillerstorytelling in Chile and Brazil, thetime traveling show has gone thegeographical distance with its releasein India. It has been produced local-ly by MnM Talkies, the audio wingof the production house,MantraMugdh Productions, whichproduced podcasts such as BhaskarBose, I Hear You and Darr Ka Raazwith Dr Phobia. Virus 2062 is the firstpodcast on Spotify India which willbe led by voices from Bollywood,bringing together Chadha and Fazalas protagonists.

Actor/RJ Mantra, owner ofMantraMugdh Productions,expressed gleefully, “Virus 2062 ishands down the strongest piece ofcontent that has come my way. I canguarantee that people will be suckedinto this because there is a voyeuris-tic pleasure that one may derive fromlistening to their conversations. I canattest to this because I had mixed the

show, however, I am sure the listen-ers will agree.”

According to UnniNambudripad, the executive produc-er of podcasts at Spotify India,“Spotify is where audio story-telling is. The podcastwill keep listeners onthe edge of their seat.We are releasing allepisodes together sothat it’s a complete audiothriller experience thatcan be binge-listened to.It’s also been such a privi-lege to work with Chadhaand Fazal for this podcastgiven their background intheatre and the creative processthey brought while recordingthe podcast.”

He further shared that the rea-son they chose Fazal and Chadhawas because of their chemistry,and the quality they individuallyendorse. Mantra pitched in, “Wehave seen how on the mic theirchemistry helped the development ofthe characters and after witnessing

some improvisedmoments, we knew we

had made the right choice inroping in the couple.”

One may think that since a pod-cast is a new medium, film or tele-vision actors may take their time ingetting used to the proceedings,however, Chadha doesn’t reallyagree. She feels that there is a lotmore to this than what meets theeye.

“When we train for theatre,we are taught to express our-selves with our voices andbodies. I was glad I was pay-ing attention back thenbecause it came handy forVirus 2062. Recording apodcast is very differentfrom dubbing forshows. It requires theright voice modula-tion and practice tokeep listeners

engaged throughout,because even your expressions are

reflected in the narration. SinceVirus 2062 is a fictional thriller, I hadthe opportunity to explore a newform of storytelling and it was aninsightful experience for me to workwith Spotify and Mantra. I have

always tried to do unconventionalroles in theatre, film, and now onaudio, and hope my fans like thisnew experiment I’ve done”, sharedChadha.

Speaking about his experienceand creative process while record-ing for the show, Fazal said, “Makinga shift from onscreen to audio hasdefinitely been a fun ride. It was avery intimate experience, playingwith just our voices. The beauty isthat we are banking on people’simaginations. As an actor, I amalways looking for ways to expandmy creative abilities. While I recallworking on a radio play for BBC along time back, Virus 2062 hasbroadened my horizons and I amsure that listeners will be hookedright from the word go.”

The original story of Caso 63was written by Julio Rojas, and is setin the year 2022, when psychiatristElisa Aldunate begins a series oftherapy sessions with ‘patient 63.’ Asthe sessions progress, time, space,and reality begin to blur, playingwith listeners’ minds. Drama buildsover the course of 10 episodes,delivering thought-provoking mys-tery for listeners.

The team remarked that whileVirus 2062 is based on Caso 63, itcontains many elements which havebeen incorporated specifically tocater to the Hindi audience. Whatare you waiting for, go ahead andstream/download the episodes rightaway on Spotify!

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Ikka Singh or Ankit Singh Patyal,well known for creating a space forhimself in the music industry with

his party anthems, recently collaborat-ed with Aghor or Sanchit Kumar. Thelatter is also an Indian rapper and lyri-cist, popular for his initial music inTanzania.

The duo dropped their new bangerChanga on August 31, 2021. Thevideo of the same is directed byPrakash Tiwari aka Inflict, and wasreleased under Big Bang Music. Thevideo also features the boxer SagarNarwat and MMA fighter Amit Raj.Aghor and Ikka are calling their asso-ciation Thug Sangathan. Talking aboutit, Ikka explained,“Sanchit and I cre-ated this group in 2004, along with ourfriend Faraaz, and we called it ‘Thugsfor life’. When around eight monthsago, Sanchit and I discussed at to whatour name should be, we went back toour old one and gave it a fresh touch.”

‘Changa’ literally translates to ‘feel-ing good’ and Ikka thinks one mustalways feel good. The artistes spoke ofthe placebo effect - the idea that yourbrain can convince your body thatsomething fake is real. If you commandyour brain to feel good, it eventuallywill. “Something like aall izz well in 3Idiots. You put out energies in thisworld,” ruminated Aghor.

On asking the duo how changa itfelt on seeing listeners adoring the songand calling it their ‘new gym anthem’,Ikka commented, “Absolutely. Wewanted the vibe to be like that. There’s

energy exuding from the song and weare glad it is reaching our listeners likewe wanted to. It was the director’svision to create the video in a way thatfitness enthusiasts will feel connectedto it.”

“Sanchit has pulled off a deadlift inthe song, too!” he laughed.

On the subject of how the songtranspired, Aghor explained simply,“It’s an anti-anxiety song. I felt veryanxious at the studio one day, and start-ed humming this song. It turned out

to be a pretty nice chorus. Ikka and Iplanned to compose it when we weretogether at my flat.”

It is said that faith can movemountains, and having faith in oneselfis what one should persevere to accom-plish. Ikka agreed to it, saying “Wewould like our audience to live theirdreams. Believe in yourself and yourdreams. Trust me, every dream youhave ever dreamt gets fulfilled. There’snothing greater than that. Through thismusic, we just want to convey that.”

“Also, we’re celebrating brother-hood in the song. We’re celebratingunity amongst peers. More than sport-ing our flex, we’re encouraging ourfriend/brother to flex,” Aghor added.

“I was made to listen to hip-hoprap by a friend then, now our manag-er, and didn’t understand the music atall in the beginning. However, I lovedwhat I heard. It was very different andunique. I felt like they were talkingabout me,” confessed Ikka.

On talking about the start of their

music careers, both commented ontheir age-old friendship, and that theywere drawn to music together, hadsimilar interests. They had met in 2004and instantly connected.

“Sanchit and I have been friendsfor long and while the world mightknow him as Aghor, he will always beSanchit to me. So, he introduced meto Linkin Park’s Reanimation albumback then, then The Script, and somany more. I didn’t know raps couldcover such a wide range. Sanchitasked me to come to his place andmade me hear his own composition ofPunjabi rap. I was so moved! He haswidened my arena of interest greatly,”Ikka expressed.

Similar were the thoughts ofAghor, who mentioned,“I feel thesame. I saw Ikke (Ikka) writing hissongs, that’s when I decided to writemy own stuff, too.”

The celebration of brotherhoodand friendship is personal as the rap-pers finally produce a song togeth-er after 16-17 years of friendship.The collaboration has been a long-thought process for it never felt likethe right time.

“All good things take time. Werecorded a number of songs and hadbeen trying to write and create a songforever but something always wentarray.” Aghor conveyed. “We neededto be at the right place and the righttime, I believe. Which is probablywhy we could get Changa right at thefirst try,” Ikka added.

On asking how and why Aghorreturned to his roots after singingsongs mainly in English and Swahili,the rapper who focuses on introduc-ing new age hip hop through hismusic explained, “Most of my audi-ence couldn’t understand the musicI produced. I never received theresponse I got when I started writingand performing my songs in Hindi.The scene was so different! Even I feltmore comfortable and confident inperforming Hindi music.”

Ikka talked to us about howRaftaar was his childhood friend.“I’ve seen most of the musicians inthe industry. Raftaar and I used toidle around at each other’s place.We’ve struggled together to come tothis place. I’ve seen others struggleand I learn so much from them.Every day, a new artiste is emergingwho produces such amazing music.I feel I can learn from each ofthem.”

The Covid-19 pandemic and related lockdown have notjust brought unprecedented disruption in the provision

of classroom education and training but have catalysed inno-vation in e-learning and skills development among youths.Today, a majority of the youth is opting for learning the fun-damental skills needed to follow a passion or the skillsdemanded by the labour market rather than going for thetraditional education.

While you must have heard of, or come across, numer-ous online guides who can help you cook better, do youpossess the sweet tooth to learn from the best of the best?Meet the visionary, chef SahilMehta, India's first, and finest,certified bakery, pastry, andchocolate expert, who has collab-orated with Tedco School ofCulinary Arts to launch the‘French Patisserie Masterclass’— a specially curated coursetaught by him.

His early life was spent inParis, France which gave himexposure to the French culture ofdining. He finished his educationfrom one of the most reputedschools in Paris, L’ecole Internationale de sèvres and he grad-uated in hotel management from Santos Dumont Paris.After a sabbatical, he went on to pursue his interests atLenotre, which is regarded as the Harvard of bakery schools,and at Michelin 3 star recipient, Alain Ducasse's institute.

He is trained in Decoupage de fruits de Mer et Fromage,Flambage, blind chocolate tasting, innovative pastry cre-ation, bar management , restaurant and patisserie manage-ment.

He has worked with Ritz – Paris, Bristol , Salon Wilson,Travelers club m hotel Baltimore, potel et chabot , RolandGarros and UNESCO in Paris.

With a passion and vision for nurturing future lead-ers in the bakery and pastry industry, Mehta is credited withbringing a humongous change to the bakery and pastryscene in Delhi, after he returned to India in 2010, throughL’opera. He established bakeries across the country for manyhotels , chefs and standalone bakeries.

He is behind brands such as L’opera, Chocodiva,Renaissance, Bread et More, Cravity, Honey & Dough, Tesu,Fleur De Lis, The Artful Baker, Red Mango, BrooklynBakehouse, Meette, La Mia, Paris My Love. Read on forexcerpts of the interview:

What led you to embark on this journey to reachwhere you are today?

There is no one thing in particular, but a combinationof multiple life choices and other incidents. Back in the day,when I was growing up in France, I was drawn to Bollywoodand aspired to be an actor. But my parents belonged to adifferent school of thought, my mother being an art col-lector and a businesswoman, my stepdad was associatedwith UNESCO, so my plan of joining the film industry didnot go well with them. I decided to pursue hotel manage-ment as a backup plan, while pursuing my dream of mak-ing it big in tinseltown, and partially to appease them.However, when I came back to India, things didn't go asplanned. I tried to make my way in the industry by start-ing out as a model but I quickly realised that it wasn’t asglamorous as it looked. So I started a small restaurant, bank-ing on my backup plan. I was doing well too, but that iswhen the recession hit and I lost a lot of money.

That was when I happened to visit the bakery of a Delhi-based five star hotel’s pastry shop, and bought a cake fromthem. It was called the French Opera Cake and, long storyshort, I didn't really like it. As someone who was broughtup in France, I could not get over it and couldn’t help butthink about it. Overnight, I decided to go back and pur-sue a course on cooking, to show the folks in Delhi whatFrench desserts are all about. My parents took some con-vincing because even when they were the ones who, in thefirst place, had suggested that I pursue my love for bakingI told them I would be pursuing just the management aspectbecause it was just a back up, in case I cannot become thenext Shah Rukh Khan.

To prove that I was serious about this, I conducted anintensive, three-month survey to realise that there was ademand for quality breads. When I shared my findings, theyunderstood that I was committed to this and supported mewholeheartedly in my pursuit.

What was your experience of training at Lenotre?Lenotre is regarded as the Mecca of baking schools.

While baking might sound pretty straightforward, but letme tell you, they knew how to make us work to the pointof exhaustion. We were supposed to be there at the insti-tute at 5:30 in the morning and would not be free before5:30 in the evening, so almost 12 hours. We would take abreak for lunch in between, but apart from that, nothingelse, in terms of rest. I still remember how we would startour day, every day, with a croissant with coffee or a baguettewith butter. (laughs)

Those who would be signing up for the Masterclass,what should they expect?

Only people who are passionate about this should jointhis course. I mean no disrespect to anyone but this is nota fad that you can pick up, and drop, as per your conve-nience. You might be used to recreating recipes from theinternet but this is another ball game altogether. The coursethat I have put together entails the utmost dedication; it willguide you through the fundamentals right up to the expertmaterial. So, if you are signing up for my course, better pullyour socks up.

The new Imagine Dragonsalbum cover depicts a man

falling through space, gravitygently pulling him down. Insideis the sound of a man grapplingwith his own fall.

Lead singer, songwriter andlyricist Dan Reynolds haspoured heartache, tragedy andhis struggles with sobriety intothe raw, confessional and sear-ing Mercury — Act 1, a bravealbum from a band refusing toretreat into past hits. “In a lotof ways I felt like my founda-tion was completely rippedfrom under me over the lastdecade. I spent a lot of my timeembracing that self-pity andwallowing in it,” he says fromhis home in Las Vegas, “Thisrecord is primarily about tak-ing action and rebuilding.”

The 13-track collectionuses Reynolds’ falsetto to greateffect to explore different soniclandscapes, and his lyrics achewith a portrait of a man whohas lost friends to cancer, hadhis personal life collapse andbattled depression and addic-tion.

“I’m finding it hard to lovemyself,” he sings on My Life. On

Lonely, he offers, “These days,I’m becoming everything Ihate.” The song Dull Knives hasReynolds’ almost screaming inanguish, “Won’t someoneplease save my life?” and onesong has the sing-along chorus,“It’s OK to be not OK.”

The album was writtenover a three-year period andmuch happened in Reynolds’life. He separated from wife AjaVolkman, but the couplereunited in late 2018 after aseven-month break and wel-comed a fourth child, sonValentine, the next fall. He lostloved ones to cancer, includinghis business manager, an ex-girlfriend and his sister-in-law,which inspired Wrecked.

The deaths had the effect ofreminding Reynolds how shortlife is, and he says he wants tomake the most of the days he

has left, staying present andvulnerable.

“I want to grow as close asI can with those that I love, andthat really requires being rawand honest. Vulnerability is asuperpower. I certainly havenot even begun to master it,especially being an introvert,but it is one of my greatest lifegoals.”

Imagine Dragons — whichincludes guitarist WayneSermon, drummer DanielPlatzman and bassist BenMcKee — have always evolvedtheir sound, but this, their fifthstudio album, is a quite radicalstep. The big arena-readysounds of Believer andRadioactive earlier in theircareer have given way to murki-er, smaller songs with electron-ic flourishes.

For Mercury — Act 1, the

Dragons leaned on superstarproducer Rick Rubin, whourged the band to go deeperinto the darkness and notworry if what they found wouldalienate fans.

“Rick reminded me thatover the last decade my fanshave grown up with me. Theynot only want to grow with me,but they expected it. He told meto never worry about pushingthem in uncomfortable ways,”Reynolds said. “And that I real-ly would be doing them a dis-service if I ever tried to re-cre-ate the past or sugarcoat thepresent. I owe them vulnerabil-ity and honesty only.”

Reynolds said he agonisedabout frankly discussing hisown addiction battles, worriedthat fans might wrongly thinkhe was glorifying drugs.

“I just tried to paint anhonest depiction of sobrietyand addiction. Because in itsmost honest sense, there isnothing beautiful or alluringabout it at all. It can lookincredibly painful and ugly,” hesaid. “I have watched myfriends die to drug addiction.The last thing that I want to dois to glorify it. But I also don’twant to shame anyone for theircircumstances. And the pointof art is to share our darkestmoments as well as the lightones. I believe that by singingabout my own struggle with it,it hopefully will bring someoneelse some sort of peace orresolve,” he added.

For all its anguish, Mercury— Act 1 ends with two upbeatsongs, the tropical-tinged NoTime for Toxic People and theHawaiian-flavored One Day,with the hopeful lyric, “I knowthat one day/I’ll be that thingthat makes you happy.” Itevokes perfect waves and sunthrough the clouds.

“This record deals with alot of searching and loneli-ness, struggling with the finitestate of reality. However, I real-ly wanted it to end on a celebra-tory note. Setting the founda-tion for a more steady and sta-ble future,” said Reynolds.

“I wanted to end therecord by focusing on all thethings that make me happy.The simple things that keepme going every day. Lookingto the future. Pointing out tomyself all the beauty that sur-rounds me.”

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World No 1 Novak Djokovicmoved five matches from

completing the first men’s singlescalendar-year Grand Slam in 52years while Tokyo Olympicchampion Alexander Zverevand top-ranked Ashleigh Bartyalso rolled into the third roundof the US Open on Friday.

The 34-year-oldSerbian cruised past121st-ranked DutchmanTallon Griekspoor 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 at Arthur AsheStadium to booka third-rounddate with 2014US Open run-ner-up KeiNishikori.

T h eJapanese madehimself anobstacle inDjokovic’s path to his-tory by outlastingAmerican MackenzieMcDonald 7-6 (7/3),6-3, 6-7 (5/7), 2-6, 6-3, avenging a loss in

last month’s Washington semi-finals.

Djokovic has a 17-2 careerrecord against Nishikori, wholast beat the Serbian star in the2014 US Open semi-finals. Sincethen, Djokovic has won 16 in arow, most recently in the TokyoOlympic quarter-finals.

Remnants of Hurricane Idakilled at least eight people andtriggered a rare state of emer-gency for the city, floodingsubways and turning roadsinto rivers. With abandoned

cars scatteredacross streetsnear theN a t i o n a lTennis Centerand manyhighways shutdown, only asmattering ofs p e c t a t o r swatched in a

c a v e r n o u sArthur AsheStadium as Bartydispatched Danish

18-year-old ClaraTauson 6-1, 7-5.

Barty send a backhand longto surrender a break in the 10thgame of the second set whileserving for the match but heldher nerve, broke back and heldagain to win in 90 minutes.

Reigning Wimbledonchampion Barty, seeking herthird Grand Slam title, nextplays American Shelby Rogersas she chases a sixth trophy ofthe year and first US Openquarter-finals spot.

German fourth seed Zverevdowned 33rd-ranked Spanishleft-hander Albert Ramos-Vinolas 6-1, 6-0, 6-3. Zverev, lastyear’s US Open runner-up anda champion two weeks ago atCincinnati, took only 74 min-utes to advance.

German Oscar Otte, ranked144th, became the fifth men’squalifier to reach the thirdround by defeating 92nd-ranked American Denis Kudla6-4, 6-4, 6-2. There haven’tbeen so many qualifiers so deepat any Slam since six at the 2011French Open and not at the USOpen since five made it in1984.

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The Indian hockey teamsare unlikely to participate

in next year’s CommonwealthGames in Birmingham toensure that they hit peak formduring the Asian Games,which is a qualifier for the2024 Paris Olympics, IndianOlympic AssociationPresident Narinder Batra saidon Friday.

Batra said he has con-veyed this to Sports Authorityof India (SAI) DirectorGeneral Sandip Pradhan dur-ing a formal meeting onFriday.

Batra, who is the chief ofthe International HockeyFederation (FIH) and was aformer Hockey India presi-dent, said the Indian hockeyteams’ priority is to achievetheir peak at the Asian Games,which starts just 35 days afterthe CWG.

The Birmingham CWG isscheduled to be held from July28 to August 8, while the

Asian Games will be hosted byHangzhou, China fromSeptember 10 to 25.

“Based on my prelimi-nary discussions with HockeyIndia, it seems doubtful as ofnow whether Indian men andwomen hockey team’s willparticipate in CommonwealthGames 2022,” Batra, who stillholds considerable influencein Hockey India, said in astatement.

“Hockey India will notlike its hockey athletes topeak 35 days before the AsianGames 2022 and would likethe athletes to peak at the righttime i.e. during the AsianGames 2022.

“The CommonwealthGames in 2022 are just 35 daysbefore the Asian Games inChina and in hockey the win-ners of Asian Games directlyqualify for 2024 ParisOlympics. Hence, winningGold medal in the AsianGames is a must for both men& women’s hockey teams,” headded.

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Tokyo: India’s Pramod Bhagatand his partner Palak Kohliqualified for the mixed doublessemifinals, while three singlesplayers also made the last-fourstage to continue a rampagingrun at the Paralympics bad-minton competition on Friday.

Bhagat, who had qualifiedfor the men’s singles SL3 eventon Thursday, and Kohli beatThailand’s Siripong teamar-rom and Nipada Saensupa 21-15, 21-19 in a 29-minute clashto finish second in group B.

The Indian duo will clashwith Indonesian pair of HarySusanto and Leani Ratri in thesemifinals on Saturday.

In men’s singles, Suhas LY,Tarun Dhillon and ManojSarkar also made it to thesemifinals on a fruitful day forIndia.

In SL4 class, Suhas, a worldnumber 3, took 19 minutes toget rid of Indonesia’s HarySusanto 21-6, 21-12 in group A,while Tarun, seeded second,recovered from a mid-gameslump to outwit Korea’s ShinKyung Hwan 21-18, 15-21, 21-17 in a group B match.

However, Suhas suffered a15-21, 17-21 loss againstFrance’s top seed Lucas Mazurand Tarun went down 19-21, 9-21 to Indonesia’s FredySetiawan in their final groupmatches later in the day.

In the semifinals, Suhas hasbeen pitted against Setiawan,while Tarun will lock hornswith Mazur, a two-time worldchampion.

In SL3 class, Manoj secureda 21-16, 21-9 victory overUkraine’s Oleksandr Chyrkovto make it to the knockoutstage after finishing at the sec-ond spot in group A behindworld No 1 Bhagat.

In the semifinals, Manojwill face Great Britain’s DanielBethell, while Bhagat will takeon Japan’s Daisuke Fujihara onSaturday.

In SH6 class, KrishnaNagar, seeded second, pre-vailed 21-17, 21-14 over Brazil’sVitor Goncalves Tavares in 27minutes for his second win inas many matches to top groupB.

Krishna, who qualified forthe semifinals, will meet GreatBritain’s Krysten Coombs inthe knockout stage.

Young Kohli, however,signed off her women’s singlesSU5 campaign with a 11-21,15-21 loss against Japan’s KaedeKameyama in the quarterfinals.

Earlier, Kohli, 19, and ParulParmar, 48, suffered their sec-ond successive loss in women’sdoubles SL3-SU5 group A,going down 12-21, 20-22 to theFrench pair of Lenaig Morinand Faustine Noel.

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Ollie Pope helped Englandtake the first innings

lead against India with a sub-lime half-century, taking thehosts to 227 for seven at teaon day two of the fourth Testhere at the Oval on Friday.

The Indian pacers wereunable to sustain the pressureon a pitch that seems to begetting better for batting witheach passing session.

England led India by 36runs at the break with Pope(74 batting off 143) and ChrisWoakes (4 batting off 7) inthe middle.

The first wicket in thesession came throughMohammad Siraj, whotrapped Jonny Bairstow (37)with his stock ball — the nipbacker — in the fifth overafter lunch. That also broughtan end to an entertaining 89-run stand between Bairstowand Pope.

Pope then got togetherwith Moeen Ali (35) to giveEngland the upperhand. Thetwo shared a 71-run stand

and before aw e l l - s e tMoeen playeda poor shot offRavindra Jadejato throw hiswicket away. Theattempted slogsweep went straightinto the hands of thecover fielder.

Jasprit Bumrahcould have had Moeenleg before wicket earlierbut India did not review on-field umpire’s decision.

Pope played someexquisite shots en route tohis sixth half-century.The drive on the up, theflick and pull shots werea treat to the eye.

In the morningsession, UmeshYadav struck twicein the first hour ofplay before acounter-attackingstand betweenBairstow andPope tookEngland to139 for five

at lunch. Englandscored 86 runs in

the 25-over ses-sion.

Umesh, peren-nially in and out

of the playingeleven andfeaturing inhis first Testin ninemonths, was

impressive inhis openingspell after tak-ing the prizedwicket of JoeRoot onThursday.

He got his150th Test wick-et in his first overof the day afternightwatchman

Craig Overtonslashed onehard only toedge it to Virat

Kohli at firstslip.

D a w i dMalan (31 off67) once again

batted fluently until Umesh,coming from around thewicket, got one to slightlystraighten to take the outsideedge and Rohit Sharma tooka brilliant diving catch atsecond slip, leaving Englandat 62 for five.

With Bumrah also apply-ing pressure from the otherend, England managed toscore only 25 runs in the firsthour in which 12 overs werebowled.

However, the momentumshifted drastically inEngland’s favour after thedrinks break as ShardulThakur conceded fourboundaries in his over withthree of them coming fromPope’s bat.

One was a delightfulstraight drive and was fol-lowed by a flick between themid-on and mid-wicket arc.With the pitch not offeringmuch help to the pacers,

Thakur paid the price forbowling a bit too full.

The next over, Bairstowcollected three boundariesoff Siraj, who too wasn’t at hisbest.

Pope, playing his firstgame of the series, too battedwith supreme confidence andstruck a gorgeous cover driveoff Bumrah towards the endof the session.

Jadeja was guilty of bowl-ing two no-balls in his threeovers before lunch.

YouTuber Daniel Jarvis,who has gained notoriety forbreaching security at willduring the ongoing India ver-sus England series, on Fridayentered the Oval arena dur-ing the post lunch session.

Jarvis, who goes by thename Jarvo69 has been con-stantly impersonating asIndia cricketer and Fridaywas the third time in threegames that he has takenadvantage of the poor securi-ty arrangement by the ECBwhich has not taken trans-gressions seriously.

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Not quite satisf ieddespite becoming thefirst Indian woman to

win two Paralympic medals,shooter Avani Lekhara onFriday said she had it in her toperform better at the ongoingGames but was done in by thenerves.

The 19-year-old, who hadwon the 10m air rifle standingSH1 Gold, added a 50m rifle3 position SH1 Bronze to herhaul, making her the firstIndian woman with twoParalympic medals and sec-ond overall from the countryto claim multiple medals inthe same edition of the

Games.“I was not satisfied with

the Gold only (laughs), whenI won the Gold, I wanted tofire that last shot better...Sothis Bronze is definitely notsatisfying," Lekhara said in avirtual press conference facil-itated by broadcastersEurosport and the ParalympicCommittee of India.

“...That’s what finals do toyou, you become nervous.

“I am keeping all the cel-ebrations aside and focusingon the next match, so that ismy goal, to give my 100 percent in the next event also,”she said referring to the mixed50m rifle prone event onSunday.

Lekhara reiterated heradmiration for Olympic Gold-medallist Abhinav Bindra andthat she always wanted tobecome like him. On Friday,she in fact went one better onhim with her second medal.

“I always wanted tobecome like him (Bindra) andalways wanted to make mycountry proud, so that is whatinspired me a lot,” she said.

“I am very happy that Iwas able to get another medalfor the country and it is just Istill can’t believe it.

Athletes in SH1 Rifle havean impairment in their legs,for example amputations orparaplegia. Some athletescompete in a seated position,while others compete in astanding position.

The Jaipur-based shootersustained spinal cord injuriesin a car accident in 2012 ren-dering her immobile.

“I had never won a medalin sitting, this is my firstinternational (medal), so Iwas more nervous. But I justhad my focus on my shots. So(in the) last match I wasfocusing on one shot at a timeand it just happened,” she

said.

‘ROLE MODEL’Paralympic Committee of

India (PCI) President DeepaMalik on Friday lauded shoot-er Avani Lekhara, who creat-ed history by becoming thefirst Indian woman to win twoParalympic medals, saying thetrailblazing athlete hasemerged as a “role model” forthe country’s youngsters.

“She has risen above allthe challenges. The way she(Lekhara) showed maturityto handle the pressure duringcompetition, she has emergedas a role model and we are soproud of her,” Mailk said at avirtual press conference, facil-itated by official broadcastersEurosport, after the 19-year-old scripted history.

“A Gold and a Bronzefrom the same Paralympics,people will have to work veryhard to kind of reach thatmark, she has set the bench-mark so high and inspired somany with her performance,absolutely proud of her,” saidMalik who herself won a shotput Si lver in the 2016Paralympics.

Kolkata: Harvinder Singh, whoon Friday became the firstIndian to win a Paralympicsmedal in archery, is a man ofmany parts.

Pursuing PhD In econom-ics, the 31-year-old, whose legsstopped functioning properlydue to adverse effect from aninjection during his childhood,loves history, is a painter anddreams of cracking the UPSCexamination some day, accord-ing to his coach GauravSharma.

Having taken up archery inthe compound section after get-ting inspired from watching the2012 London Paralympics,Singh almost quit the sport afterhe did not make it to the 2014Incheon Asian Para GamesIndian team.

“He was completely

demoralised and was tellingarchery was not his domain,”his childhood coach Sharmasaid.

Sharma, however, did notwant to let his effort go in vainand “wanted to take a risk”.

In the Bronze playoff, Singh

was leading 5-3 before KimMin Su clinched the fifth set,shooting a perfect 10 to force ashoot-off where the Indianresponded in style with a per-fect 10 against the Korean’s 8 fora 6-5 (26-24, 27-29, 28-25, 25-25, 26-27) (10-8) win.

“He had the hunger toexcel and we took a risk and puthim into the tougher recurveevent which requires preciseskills,” Sharma said.

“There was 100 per centdedication from him, he wouldturn up at 6.30am and practicetill 8.30 and again come forpractice in the afternoon.”

He went on to top theselection trials for the 2017Beijing World Championshipsand has not looked back sincethen. He went on to win a Goldin the 2018 Asian Para Games.

Singh was offered a govern-ment job in the stateGovernment after his AsianGames feat. “He has not takenit since then. He wants to dosomething on his own, and hisdream is to crack the UPSC,”Sharma said. PTI

Not satisfied, could’ve done better: Avani

Tokyo: Praveen Kumarnever imagined being aParalympic Silver-medallistat 18 but being a driven ath-lete, the high-jumper leftno stone unturned to get tothis moment either even if itmeant creating a makeshiftpractice area for himselfwhen Covid-19 lockdownscaused closure of stadiums.

Praveen, son of a poorfarmer at a village near Jewarin Gautam Buddha Nagardistrict, clinched the Silvermedal in the men’s highjump T64/T44 event of theParalympics by setting anew Asian record of 2.07mon Friday morning.

The youngster had bat-tled Covid-19 and also itseffect on his training lastyear. Desperate to train forthe Games, Praveen had dugup a small pit near his houseand filled it with soft mud toensure he could carry onpractising despite not havingaccess to a landing mat-tress.

He created the space toensure that his knees did nottake too much of a beating.

“My school life wasmostly about sports. But at

that time I did not know Iwill reach at this level oneday. I was playing volleyballinitially in school, but thenslowly came to know of paraathletics and took up highjump,” Praveen said duringa virtual press conferenceorganised by Eurosport andParalympic Committee ofIndia.

“I came to know aboutParalympics and how to takepart in it after searching ongoogle," added the highjumper, whose congenitalimpairment affects the bonesthat connect his hip to hisleft leg.

Explaining how he cameto rise to this level, Praveensaid, “I took part in a districtlevel competition where Imet Ashok Saini sir whogave me phone number ofSatyapal sir (his currentcoach).

“I contacted (Satyapal)sir and then he found out inwhich classification I willcompete. He identified meand said he will take me in.This was 2018,” said Praveenwho is a BA second year stu-dent in the Motilal NehruCollege in Delhi. PTI

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take control of their group inWorld Cup qualifying, whileItaly were held by Bulgaria intheir first match since winningEuro 2020.

Viktor Claesson’s second-half strike, after excellent workfrom Juventus winger DejanKulusevski, put Sweden twopoints clear of Spain at the topof Group B with a game in hand.

Carlos Soler had given Spaina fifth-minute lead, butAlexander Isak levelled for thehosts just a minute later.

Only the group winnersqualify automatically for the2022 tournament in Qatar, withthe runners-up facing a play-off.

Italy extended their nation-al record unbeaten streak to 35matches, but it was not the cel-ebration in Florence RobertoMancini’s men were hoping foras they returned to action fol-lowing their penalty shoot-out

triumph over England in theEuro 2020 final in July.

Federico Chiesa gave theAzzurri the perfect start with theopening goal in the 16th minute,but Atanas Iliev’s equaliser fiveminutes before half-time gaveBulgaria a 1-1 draw.

British media reported thatRaheem Sterling and JudeBellingham were targeted withmonkey chants as Englandbounced back from their agonis-ing Euro final defeat by seeingoff Hungary 4-0 in Budapest.


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