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KRISHNKAUSHIKNEWDELHI, AUGUST11

■ Pakistan’s Inter ServicesIntelligence (ISI) knewKulbushan Jadhavwas “small fry” butwaited to “manufac-ture a big, fat Indiancatch”.■ Indian intelligenceagencies infiltratedHizbul Mujahideencommander BurhanWani’s circles andwaited for foreignmilitants to joinhim.

■ On the 26/11 attack, foreignagencies sent 18detailedbriefs,including likely targets inMumbai, thenumberof attack-ers, their route, andmethod—but all this intelligence was“largely ignored”.

THESE ARE some of the claimsin Spy Stories: Inside the Secret

World of the RAW andtheISI, journalistcoupleAdrian Levy andCathyScott-Clark’s latestbook, published byJuggernaut, on the al-legedsecretdealingsofIndianandPakistaniin-telligenceagencies.While the authors

have pieced togetherthe anecdotes in the

book from talking to severalhigh-profile serving and retiredspies,theirmainsourcesaretwo

lesser-known,mid-levelex-offi-cers, one in the ISIandtheotherR&AW.The ISI officer, identified

by his nom de guerre ‘MajorIftikhar’, is supposed to havetaken part in several ISI opera-tions, including in Kashmir, be-fore going rogue. The formerR&AW officer, identified as‘Monisha’, too got disillusionedby the agency she served and isnow settled in the US, the au-thorswrite.On Jadhav — who was ar-

rested inBalochistan in2016oncharges of being an Indian spyandwho has been languishinginaPakistanjailsincethen—theauthors write that ISI used thenetwork of Uzair Baloch, aKarachi-based“landlord,trader,thug,localhero,robber,andphil-anthropist”with “deepconnec-tions into Iranian Baluchistan”,

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AuthorsAdrianLevy,CathyScott-Clark. Pic courtesy: Juggernaut

Spy vs Spy: ISI knew Jadhav was ‘small fry’,waited before snaring him, says new book

JOURNALISM OF COURAGESINCE 1932

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‘Govt readytotakepoliticalrisks, industrytoomuststepuprisk-taking’

ENSECONOMICBUREAUNEWDELHI, AUGUST11

PRIMEMINISTERNarendraModiWednesday said the decision toendretrospectivetaxationwouldstrengthen trust between theGovernment and industry. Hesaid theGovernment is pushingthe boundaries on reforms andthat its recent legislativemeas-ureswillhelpsmallinvestorsanddepositors.“Recently, fixingmistakes of

thepast,wehavedecidedtoendretrospective taxation. Thewayin which this is being appreci-ated by the industrymakesmebelieve that thiswill lead to thetrust between industry andGovernment being strength-ened,” Modi said at the annualsession of the Confederation ofIndian Industry (CII) through avideo-conference.The Prime Minister’s re-

markscameafterbothHousesofParliament cleared amend-mentstotheIncome-TaxActandFinanceAct,2012toensure thatno demand shall be raised in

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EXPRESSNEWSSERVICENEWDELHI, AUGUST11

BOTH HOUSES of Parliamentwere adjourned sine dieWednesday, two days beforeschedule, after a MonsoonSession that was continuouslydisruptedbyOppositionprotestsover the Pegasus snooping row,farmlawsandotherissues.BothVice-PresidentVenkaiahNaidu,theChairmanoftheRajyaSabha,andLokSabhaSpeakerOmBirlaexpressed anguishWednesdayover the washout, with Naidubriefly breaking down in theHouse.Naidu’s outburst was di-

rected at Tuesday’s incidents,which he called “sacrilege” anda new “low” for the country’s“temple of democracy”. Duringa discussion on farmers’ issues,Opposition members hadclimbedatopatable,andthrownanofficial fileat theChair. Some

MPswerealsoseensquattingonthetablesof thefront-rowseats,forcingmultiple adjournments.As Rajya Sabha TV did not tele-cast the protest, severalOpposition MPs recorded theevents and posted them onTwitter.Naidusaidthesceneshadin-

flicted “incalculable damage tothe dignity and stature” of theHouse. “I havenowords to con-veymyanguishandtocondemnsuch acts... I spent a sleeplessnight... last night,” he said, hisvoicequivering.Afterapause,hecontinued,“Istruggletofindthereasonorprovocationforthisau-gustHousetohitsuchalowyes-terday.”In separate remarks, Union

minister Anurag ThakurWednesday likened the behav-iour of Congress MP PartapSingh Bajwa, among the MPswho climbed atop the table inthe Rajya Sabha, to the January

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36 yrs after Sikh riots, probe team picksevidence from locked Kanpur houseMANISHSAHULUCKNOW,AUGUST11

MORETHANthreedecadesaftertheanti-SikhriotssweptKanpurinthewakeofIndiraGandhi'sas-sassination, a SpecialInvestigation Team (SIT) un-lockedahouse in thecity tocol-

lect evidence, including humanremains, Tuesday.Businessman Tej Pratap

Singh, 45, and son Satpal Singh,22, were killed in the house inGovindNagarareaonNovember1, 1984, and their bodies burnt.The familymembers who sur-vivedmoved first to a refugeecamp, and then Punjab and

Delhi, selling off the house. Thenew owners never entered thetwo rooms where the killingstook place, and the SIT foundthemvirtuallyuntouched.SetupbytheYogiAdityanath

government,theSITprobeisthefirst-ever investigation in UttarPradeshintotheviolenceagainst

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APURVAVISHWANATHNEWDELHI, AUGUST11

JUSTICEROHINTONFaliNariman,the secondmost senior judge ofthe Supreme Court, retiresThursdayandhisexit,apartfromaddingtothevacancylist,willre-turnthespotlightontheunprece-dented impasse within theCollegiumover appointment ofjudges that has been there fornearly22monthsnow.Sources told The Indian

Express that Justice Nariman,

who has been part of theSupremeCourtCollegiumsinceMarch2019,has stood firmthatno consensus can emerge onnames unless two judges whoaremost senior in the All IndiaSeniority List for High Court

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Boulders tumbledontotheKinnaur-ShimlahighwayonWednesday.PradeepKumar

PMModi,Shah,SoniaGandhiandotherswithLokSabhaSpeakerOmBirla inNewDelhionWednesday.ANI

Hasbeenpartof SCCollegiumsinceMarch2019

Early end to Housesession: Naidubreaks down, Birlaexpresses anguish

MANOJCGNEWDELHI, AUGUST11

AS THE tumultuous monsoonsession of Parliament drew to acloseWednesday – it also sawthe Opposition parties put up aunited front — Congress presi-dent Sonia Gandhi was said tohave spoken to some seniorOpposition leaders, includingSharadPawar,MamataBanerjee,Uddhav Thackeray and M KStalin, invitingthemforaget-to-gether.No date has been finalised

yetforthemeeting,sourcessaid,

adding that the get-togetheroverlunchordinnerwilldependon the schedule andavailabilityof the leaders.Incidentally,Gandhireached

out two days after severalOpposition leaders turnedupata dinner hosted by Congressleader Kapil Sibal, one from theGroup of 23 which have beenseekingsweepingchangesintheparty.The dinner hosted by Sibal

wasseenintheCongressasasig-nalthattheletterwriters(G-23)are still active, the group intactand the turmoil in the party far

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Sonia plans Oppositionget-together, leadersto stage protest today

SUNNYVERMA,KARUNJITSINGH&AASHISHARYANNEWDELHI, AUGUST11

WITH PARLIAMENT clearing alawtomarkanendtoretrospec-tive taxation, the Governmenthas initiated “informal discus-sions”withcompanies thathadbeenservedwithnotices in thiscategory,includingCairnEnergyand Vodafone Group, to settleoutstanding issues, The IndianExpresshas learnt.These negotiations could be

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TAXDEMANDSwereraisedagainst17compa-niesfollowingtheretro-spectiveamendmentmovedin2012.TheCentre’snewapproachbringsclosuretolong-drawnlegaldisputesandensurescertaintyaroundtaxlawsfor investors.

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OMPRAKASHTHAKUR&MAHENDERSINGHMANRALSHIMLA,NEWDELHI,AUGUST11

AT LEAST ten people, includingfivewomenand a two-year-oldgirl, were killed and 60 othersfeared trapped under debris af-ter several vehicles, including abus carrying 24 passengers,werehitbyalandslideonahigh-waynearNigulsariinHimachal'sKinnaurdistrict onWednesday,

officials said.SpeakingtoTheIndianExpress,

officials cited eyewitness ac-countsoflargeboulderstumblingdownthemountainsidearound12.45 pm and on to NH-5 fromKinnaur to Shimla. At least 13people,includingthestatetrans-port bus's driverMahinder PalandconductorGulabSingh,havebeenrescuedandtakentoalocalhospital, theysaid.Himachal Road Transport

Corporation (HRTC) RegionalManager, Ajender Chaudhry,said24peoplehadboardedthe

company’sbusatReckongPeo.“When the landslide tookplace, thedriver, conductorandfive other passengers hadstepped out to check the boul-ders blocking the road. All ofthem,except forawomanwhosustained serious injuries, es-caped while the rest wentdownwith the bus,” he said.Teams of ITBP, along with

units of the State DisasterResponse Force (SDRF) andNationalDisasterResponseForce(NDRF),areengagedinrescue

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10 killed, 60 trapped in Himachallandslide; bus buried under debris

Fixingmistakes of past,retrospective taxmovewill build trust, says PM

PMModiat theCIImeet inNewDelhionWednesday. PTI

17 cases on tax table,Centre reaches out tocompanies for closure

Justice Nariman retirestoday, focus back onappointments deadlock

AMARINDERMEETSPMWITHDEMANDTO‘IMMEDIATELY’REPEALFARMLAWSPAGE6

THEWORLD

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EXPRESSNEWSSERVICEMUMBAI, AUGUST11

MANOJBAJPAYEE'Sturnasase-cretagentinthethrillerweb-se-ries The Family Man has beenone of the most talked-aboutperformances in the OTT spaceinrecenttimes,withtheactorre-turning for a second season asShrikant Tiwari, a secret agentperpetually struggling withwork/lifebalance.The 52-year-old, who has

beenoneofHindicinema’smostdependable actors for over twodecades,willbeaguestatan on-line Adda hosted by The IndianExpressonThursdayevening.Hewill be in conversation withAnant Goenka, ExecutiveDirector, The Indian Express

Group, and film critic ShubhraGupta.Bajpayee won the National

FilmAwardforBestActorforhisrole as a freshly retired police-

man inBhonsle (2018), amovieset in a Mumbai chawl that issplitbetweenits‘native’Marathimanoosand‘outsiders’ fromUP

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Powerhouse performer ManojBajpayee is guest at e-Adda today

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Vodafone, Cairnwrapped up within the nextmonth,sourcessaid,addingthatany formal statement by eithertheGovernment or the compa-nieswouldbeissuedafterthat.The Government, however,

hasreiteratedthatitsrighttotax-ation cannot be challenged andhasassertedthatanysettlementwill hinge upon the companiesdropping their demands for in-terestandothercosts, andwith-drawingallpendinglitigation.“Some informal discussions

have been initiated,” a seniorGovernmentofficialsaid.Respondingtoanemailfrom

The Indian Express, a spokesper-son for theVodafoneGroupsaidtheywere “not commenting onthe retrospective tax develop-ment”. But a source close to thecompany said it will clarify itsstandonlyafter“thenegotiation”withtheGovernmentisover.Following the retrospective

amendmentbytheUPAgovern-mentin2012,taxdemandshavebeenraised in17cases.Thegov-ernment has collected Rs 8,100crore in four of these cases. Thisamountwillberefundedtocom-panies once they indicate theirwillingness to settle on termsspecifiedbytheGovernment.Last Thursday, the

Government moved amend-mentstotheIncome-TaxActand

Finance Act, 2012 to effectivelystate that no demand shall beraisedforanyindirecttransferofIndian assets if the transactionhadbeenundertakenbeforeMay28,2012.TheamendmentshavebeenclearedbyParliament.Followingtheintroductionof

theBill,Cairnsaid,“Wearemon-itoringthesituationandwillpro-vide a further update in duecourse.”CairnEnergydidnotre-spond to requests for commentfromTheIndianExpress.Accordingtothenewlaw,de-

mandraisedforindirecttransferofIndianassetsmadebeforeMay2012 shall be nullified on fulfil-mentofspecifiedconditionssuchaswithdrawalorfurnishingofanundertaking forwithdrawal ofpending litigation, and furnish-ing of an undertaking to the ef-fectthatnoclaimshallbefiled.

House session26vandalismat theRed Fort. “Ifsomeonetakesprideinresortingto such an act, I feel that theshamefulincidentsofJanuary26arebeingrepeated,”Thakursaid,asreportedbyPTI.The Opposition could have

used Tuesday’s discussion as anopportunity to place on recordtheir positiononall issues relat-ingtofarmers,Naidusaid.“I findit difficult to understand as tohow the way the subject waslisted in the List of Business...wouldhavepreventedanymem-bertoraiseanyissueconcerningthe farm sector including thethree farmBills... the sole inten-tionseems to (havebeen) tonotallowtheHousetofunction.”The protests had erupted af-

terCongressMP JairamRameshobjected to the “unilateral” con-versionofhisnoticeforcallingat-tentionmotion to a short dura-tion discussion, saying thiswasdonewithout taking “the senseof theHouse”.Healsoprotestedagainst the “dilution” of his no-tice on the “three black farm

laws” to a general discussion on“agriculturalproblems”.Naidu’sremarksWednesday

provoked strong reactions fromMPs. TheRajya Sabha again dis-solved into confusion,withMPstroopingintotheWellandshout-ingslogans.Later in the day though, the

RajyaSabhafunctionedsmoothlyfor almost six hours, duringwhichtheamendmentBilltore-turnpowertostatestoframeOBClistswas passed. However, at 6pm,whentheChair triedtotakeup the General InsuranceBusiness (Nationalisation)AmendmentBill,theOppositionMPs again rose up in protest.Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman introduced the Billwithoutanyremarks,anditwaspassed in less than 20minutes.The fewwho spoke asked thatthe Bill be referred to a selectcommitteeforconsideration.Theonly non-BJP allywho spoke infavourof theBillwastheBJD.SpeakerOmBirlasaidhewas

disappointed by the “poor pro-ductivity” of the Lok Sabhadur-ingtheSession.“ItriedmybesttoruntheHousesmoothlyandgiveequal opportunity to all mem-bers but theHouseproductivitywasverypoor...unliketheprevi-ous sessions of the 17th LokSabha,”hetoldreportersaftertheHousewas adjourned. “I sharethe people’s pain in their issuesnot being discussed in theHouse,”hesaid.Birla suggested ameeting of

allpartiesto“reviewtheexistingparliamentary rules”, and said acommittee of presiding officershadbeenconstitutedandhas fi-nalisedareport.“Thenextmeet-ing of the presiding officerswillconsider its recommendations,”hesaid,addingthatalmostallthepresidingofficershadexpressedtheir concern over the develop-ments intheHouse.Onpossibleactionagainstun-

rulymembers,Birla said there isno guarantee that such actionwould yield the desired result,butaddedthathewillcallameet-ing of leaders fromall parties todiscuss “stringentactionagainsthabitualoffenders”.After the sine die adjourn-

ment, PrimeMinisterNarendraModi,HomeMinisterAmitShah,CongresspresidentSoniaGandhiandfloorleadersofotherpartiesmettheSpeakerovertea.The Lok Sabha functioned

only21hours14minutesduringtheMonsoonSessionagainstthestipulatedtimeof96hours.“Theproductivitywas just 22%,” theSpeaker said. However, theHousepassed20Bills and intro-duced13.TheRajyaSabha func-tionedfor17hoursoutofroughly97hoursandpassed19Bills.The only debate in the Lok

Sabhawasovertheamendmenttorestorestates’powerstodecidetheirOBClists.In contrast, the Budget

SessionhadseenLokSabhapro-ductivityat114%,asperPTI.

Opp get-togetherfromover.Gandhi,whohadbeenkeep-

ing away from Parliament andavoidingpublicengagements,at-tended House proceedingsTuesday and Wednesday. OnWednesday, she also attendedthe customary tea gathering,hostedbyLokSabhaSpeakerOmBirla. PrimeMinister NarendraModi andHomeMinister AmitShahtoowerepresent.Having forged unity in

Parliament, theOpposition par-tiesarenowworkingonkeepingit intact. All Opposition leadersare set tomeet Thursday at theParliament chamber ofMallikarjun Kharge, Leader ofOpposition in the Rajya Sabha,andthenstageasymbolicproteston the premises of ParliamentHouse. They also plan tomarchtoVijayChowk.SourcessaidCongress leader

RahulGandhihadsuggestedthatthe leaders stage aprotest at RajGhat to protest “stifling of their

voices in Parliament” after thesinedieadjournmentof theses-sion, butmost leaders were infavour of assembling inParliament.

Justice Narimanjudgesarefirstrecommended.KarnatakaHigh Court Chief

JusticeAbhayOkaisNo.1onthesenioritylist,followedbyTripuraHigh Court Chief Justice AkilKureshi.WhileJusticeOka’spar-entHighCourtisBombay,JusticeKureshi is fromtheGujaratHighCourt.WithJusticeNariman’sretire-

ment, the Supreme Court willhave only 25 judges against asanctionedstrengthof34judges.Additionally, JusticeNavinSinhaissettoretireonAugust19,whichwill leave the Supreme Courtwith10vacanciestobefilled.The last appointmentwas in

September2019andtheearliestvacancy was created inNovember 2019when formerChief Justice of India RanjanGogoiretired.Thisweek,JusticeNageswara

Raowill replaceJusticeNarimanin the Collegiumand a fresh at-temptatarrivingataconsensusislikelytobegin.Whileaprolongedimpasse affects the functioningof the SupremeCourt currently,itwouldmeanshortertenuresforthosewhowould be appointedtothetopcourt later.Apart fromCJI NVRamana,

the Collegium also comprisesJusticesUULalit,AMKhanwilkar,DYChandrachudandRao.Whilethe fivemost senior judges de-cide on appointments to theSupremeCourt, the threemostsenior decide appointments totheHighCourts.Acrisisof sortsbeganduring

the tenure of former CJI S ABobde,whohadinheritedalmostafullcourt fromCJIGogoi.A lackof consensus on the names ofJusticesOka andKureshi stalledtheprocessentirelyandCJIBobderetiredwithoutmaking a singleappointment recommendationduringhis18-monthtenure.TheIndianExpresshadearlier

reportedthatat leasttwojudgesof the Supreme Court had ex-pressed their reservations to aCollegiummeeting called byCJIBobde,justdaysbeforehisretire-ment. Even that last ditch effortended in a deadlock with “noconsensus”oncourseofaction.ItislearntthatCJIBobdeeven

initiated a conversation on rec-ommending a judgewho couldpotentially become the first fe-male Chief Justice of India. Thenames of KarnatakaHighCourtjudgeJusticeBVNagarathnaandJustice Bela Trivedi of GujaratHighCourtcameup.Theimpassehasalsoaffected

the appointment of High Courtjudges and Chief Justices. FourHigh Courts — Allahabad,Calcutta, Chhattisgarh andHimachalPradesh—haveactingChief Justices. Since CJI Ramanatookoffice,onlysevenjudicialof-ficers -- six toMadhya PradeshHighCourtandonetoGauhati--havebeenrecommendedforap-pointmentas judges.Notasinglerecommendation

of an advocate has beenmadesinceApril for appointment as ajudgeofaHighCourt.Thelasttimesuchanimpasse

on judicial appointments oc-curredwas in 2015 during thetenure of CJI H L Dattu whentherewasastandoffbetweenthejudiciary and the governmentover the National JudicialAppointmentsCommission.

Manoj BajpayeeandBihar. Yet, his breakout rolewas as BhikuMhatre, the gang-sterwithaheart andquick tem-per in RamGopal Varma's cult1998movieSatya.The Padma Shri recipient,

who debuted as dacoit ManSingh in ShekharKapur'sBanditQueen,hasconsolidatedhisposi-tionasapowerhouseperformerbyplayinga rangeof characters,in Kaun (1999), Shool (1999),Zubeidaa (2001), Pinjar (2002),1971(2006)andRaajneeti(2010).The actor embarked on an

eventfulsecondinningsinhisca-reerwhenheappearedasSardar

Khan in Gangs of Wasseypur 1(2012).InAligarh(2015),Bajpajeedeliveredanotherpowerfulper-formance,asanageingprofessorstrugglingwithhissexuality.Theversatileactor,withaca-

reer spanning three decades intheatre, TV and movies, hasworkedwith veteran directorssuch as ShyamBenegal, AnuragKashyap andHansalMehta, asalso young directors such asDevashishMakhija(Bhonsle)andAtanuMukherjee (Rukh).TheExpressAdda isaseriesof

informal interactions organisedbyTheIndianExpressGroupandfeatures those at the centre ofchange. Past guests includeFinance Minister NirmalaSitharaman, Punjab ChiefMinisterAmarinderSingh,actorPankaj Tripathi, CMD of KotakMahindraBankUdayKotak,andwriter and Morgan StanleystrategistRuchirSharma.

Spy vs Spyto spy in the Iranian port city ofChabahar.Sometime in2014, ina com-

poundinChabahar,theISI“iden-tifiedmen they believed to beRAWofficers and they puzzledover one repeat visitor they didnotknow...HewasnotanIranian.Butheappeared toberunningamarine freight business,” thebookquotesanISIofficer.The authors quote an un-

namedcolonelintheexternalin-telligencewing of the ISI as say-ing, “The ISI waited patiently,hoping to grow Jadhav intosomething special and thenwhenhewasbigenough,asatar-get, ISIwouldpullhimin.”The book says Jadhav was

outraged by the Parliament at-tackof2001andofferedtoassistIndianagencies.Fouryearsafter26/11,Jadhav

reportedsomethingthatwastoogoodtobetrue.“Hetoldthepeo-ple hewas speaking to that hehadmanaged towork his wayintotheBalochfamilyofLyari.Hiscontactwas a nephewof UzairBaloch,”saysthebook.Jadhav had thus “been en-

snaredbytheISIwhichhadbeendanglingtheBalochfamily,hop-ing hewould bite… the ISI thatwantedtomanufactureabig, fatIndiancatch”.OnHizbulMujahideencom-

mander BurhanWani, whosekilling in 2016 set off protestsacrosstheValley,LevyandScott-Clark say he could have beenkilledearlier,butIndianagencieshadinfiltratedhis internalcircle,andkepthimunderconstantsur-veillance, using him to trap for-eignmilitants.“More people of every kind

wanted in. Veterans risked theLoC crossing into India,withoutknowingthattheNTROandRAWwere constantly monitoringthem, BurhanWani acting likeflypaper for the Indian intelli-gencecommunity,” theywrite.Onthe26/11terroristattacks

in Mumbai, the authors saywhat“unfoldedon26/11wassoclose to the intelligence exca-vated by Western agencies”,who had an undeclared, highvalue source in David Headley,thePakistani-AmericanLashkarterroristwhoisservingaprisonsentence in theUS.Indianagencieshadbeentold

bytheUStosafeguardthetargets-- intelligencethatwent“largelyignored”.ThebookquotesMonisha as

saying, “Iwasunable toget trac-tion in Lodhi Road [R&AW]…What mattered was whetherIndiabotheredtodevelopthein-telligence fromGCHQ and theNSAbeforetheraid.Ordidwefail,through laziness,or–worsestill–byintent?”

Anti-Sikh riotsSikhs in 1984. Kanpur had seentheworstriotingafterDelhi,with127killed.WithTejSingh'swife,andan-

other son and daughter-in-lawleavingKanpur, an FIRhadbeenlodged in the case by a Sub-Inspector against unidentifiedpersons, under IPC Sections 396(dacoitywithmurder),436(mis-chief with intent to destroyhouse,etc)and201(destruction

ofevidence).The SIT entered Tej Singh's

former housewith forensic ex-pertsonTuesday,inthepresenceof an eyewitness to the incidentwho lives in the same area.SuperintendentofPoliceandSITmember BalenduBhushan toldThe Indian Express that officialsof the Forensic ScienceLaboratory(FSL)haddeterminedthat the samples collectedwerehumanremains."Since the crime scenewas

not disturbed,we called an FSLteam.Ithasbeenestablishedthatmurders tookplace at the spot,"Bhushansaid.The new occupants report-

edly kept to the first floor, keep-ingtheroomsonthegroundfloorassociated with the killingslocked, not even entering themforcleaning.OnWednesday, the SIT also

got the statement of Tej Singh'ssurviving sonCharanjeet Singh,now61, recordedbefore amag-istrate. Charanjeet lives inDelhiwith his wife and family. TejSingh's wife died a couple ofyearsago.As per the SIT probe, on

November 1, 1984, a mob hadforced its way into Tej Singh'shouse and caught hold of himandSatpal,asotherfamilymem-bershidthemselves.Afterkillingthe two, they had robbed thehouse.Bhushan said, "Charanjeet

witnessed the incident fromwhere he was hiding. In hisstatement,he told thenamesofthepeople involvedinthemur-ders."Earlier, in January this year,

theSIThadcollectedbloodsam-plesandevidenceofarsonfromahouse in Naubasta area ofKanpur,whereSardulSinghandhisrelativeGurudayalSinghhadbeenkilledandsetablaze.Inthiscase too, the family hadmovedaway,leavingthehouselockedasitwas.Sardul's family told the SIT

that after the riots started, hisbrotherPurushotamhadtriedtoshift all the familymembers toneighbouringhouses.Buttheri-oters had arrivedwhen Sarduland Gurudayal were trying toflee. Purushotamhad lodged acaseagainsteightpeople,buttheaccusedwere released after thelocalpolicefiledaclosurereport,citinglackofevidence.TheAdityanath government

hadtaskedtheSITwithre-exam-ining 1,251 cases filed followingtheriots. Ithadshortlisted40forfurtherinvestigation.Ofthese40,the Kanpur Police had filed achargesheetin11andclosurere-port intherest.Amongthe11chargesheeted

cases,theSIThassoughtpermis-sion from the state governmenttofileanappealagainstthejudg-mentoflowercourtsinfivecases.Thematter is pendingwith thegovernment.Ofthe29caseswhereclosure

reportswere filed bypolice, theSIT is reinvestigating19. It couldnot probe the remaining as itcould not find any evidence inthem.Sourcessaidthatinnineofthe cases, the complainants andwitnesses refused to come for-ward.In 11 of these 29 cases,

sourcessaid,theSITinvestigationhas reached an advanced stage,and legal opinion has beensoughtforfurtheraction.As part of its investigations,

SITteamstravelledtostatessuchasHaryana,PunjabandMadhyaPradesh tomeetwitnesses andrecordtheirstatements.The SIT is also trying to trace

the 135 Kanpur residents whohad filed affidavits before theRanganathMishraCommission,setupin1986bytheRajivGandhigovernment to probe the anti-Sikhriots.Charanjeetwasamongthosewho filed an affidavit be-fore the panel, naming the peo-ple involved in the killing of hisfatherandbrother.

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THE REPORT ‘British educationbroke self-respect, need NEP:Bhagwat’, mistakenly men-tioned that the author of thebook Bharat Vaibhav is OmPrakash Chautala. The author’sname isOmPrakashPandey.Theerror isdeeplyregretted.

Retro tax move will build trust: PMconnectionwithretrospectivetax for any indirect transfer ofIndianassetsif thetransactionhad been undertaken beforeMay28,2012.Followingtheretrospective

amendment moved by theUPA government in 2012, taxdemands have been raised in17 cases, including againstBritish telecom companyVodafoneandgasmajorCairnEnergy. The GovernmentwillhavetorefundanestimatedRs8,100croretosuchcompaniesinlieuoftaxescollectedearlier.Stressing that the

Governmentwas pushing theboundaries in taking bold de-cisions, Modi said recent re-forms have been done withconviction. “We have takenbold decisions. Reforms con-tinued even during the pan-demic.TheGovernmentisim-

plementingreformsnotoutofcompulsionbutoutof convic-tion,” he said while speakingon the theme ‘India@75:Government and BusinessWorking together towardsAtmanirbharBharat’.The passage of The

Factoring RegulationAmendmentBill inParliamentwill help small businessmenget credit, and The DepositInsurance and CreditGuarantee CorporationAmendment Bill will protectthe interests of small deposi-tors,hesaid.Changes to the factoring

lawwill enable nearly 9,000NBFCs to participate in thismarket instead of just sevennow. Improved participationbyNBFCsinthefactoringmar-ket will enhance liquidity forMSMEs and lower their inter-

est costs.On thegrowthof start-ups,

the PrimeMinister said Indiahas 60 unicorns, 21 of whichreached that status in the lastfewmonths,asopposedtopos-siblythree-fourunicornsseven-eight years ago. Investor re-sponse has been tremendousfor start-ups and this signalsthatIndiahasextraordinaryop-portunitiesforgrowth,hesaid.ModisaidtheGovernment

isreadytotakepoliticalrisksinthe interest of the nation andpush the boundaries of re-formsevenashesoughtindus-tryinputsonwhatmorecanbedone. He stressed that theGoods and Service Tax wasstuck for somany years onlybecause previous govern-mentscouldnotmusterupthecourage to takepolitical risks.Modi alsoexhorted the in-

dustrytoboostinvestmentandtakemore risks to ensure thesuccess of the AtmanirbharBharatmission,notingthattheGovernmentwas prepared toremove restrictions to enableindustry todobusiness.“Industryneedstoincrease

its natural risk-taking ten-dency. We will have to takenewanddifficult roads for thesuccess of the AatmanirbharBharatmission,” the PM said,notingthatthecountryhadex-pectationsthatindustrywouldspeed up growth in employ-mentand investment.“The success of

Aatmanirbhar Bharat will re-quireamanifoldincreaseinin-vestment inR&D,which isnotpossiblethroughGovernmenteffortsalone. It requiresmajorparticipation from industry,”Modi said.

10 killed, 60 trapped in Himachal landslideoperations that continue tobehindered by falling rocks, offi-cialssaid.Chief Minister Jai Ram

Thakur said 60 people werefeared trapped under the de-bris. He said PrimeMinisterNarendra Modi and UnionHome Minister Amit Shahhaveassuredall help fromtheCentre. Thakur said that theArmy, too,hasofferedhelp in-cluding the deployment of ahelicopter.Deputy Commissioner

(Kinnaur),AbidHussainSadiq,told The Indian Express thattheyexpect rescueoperations

tocontinuethroughthenight.Apart from the bus, two cars,an SUV and a truck wereburiedunderthedebris,asen-iorpoliceofficer said.“One car was recovered,

but no onewas found inside.Thebus and several of its pas-sengers have not yet been lo-cated.Thereisapossibilitythatthe vehicles rolleddownwiththedebris.Eightpersonswerefound dead in the SUV. Thetruckrolleddowntowardstheriver,andthebodyofthedriverwas recovered,” the officersaid.“We have cleared the de-

bris and trafficmovementhasstarted on NH-5. We havestartedrescueoperationsnearthe river,” said DevinderKumarSharma,Commandant,17thBattalion, ITBP.ITBP spokesperson Vivek

Pandey said they have recov-eredtenbodiessofar.Thedeadhave been identified as RohitKumar (23), VijayKumar (32),Meera Devi, Nitisha Singh,Prem Kumari (42), KamleshKumar(34),Vanshuka(2),DeviChand (53), Radhika Singh(22), andGyanDassi.“Manypeoplearereported

trapped. Personnel of ITBP

units -- 43rd Battalion, 17thBattalionand19thBattalion--startedtherescueoperationatthe site. But the rolling stonesandrubbleontwosidesof theapproach route stopping theirmovement (for a while),”Pandeysaid.Another police officer told

TheIndianExpressthat“apor-tion of the hill started to slideandhuge boulders and debrisfell downhill”. “The DistrictAdministration has deployed10ambulances and four earthmoversat thesite,” saidasen-iorofficialof theStateDisasterManagementAuthority.

New Delhi

ANANDMOHANJNEWDELHI, AUGUST11

OBSERVINGTHAT “conspiratorswouldprefertoexecutetheirun-lawfuldesigninsecrecy”andnotcreatewitnesses against them-selves, aDelhi courtWednesdaydischargedChiefMinisterArvindKejriwal, Deputy ChiefMinisterManishSisodiaandnineothersinacaseofallegedassaultonformerChiefSecretaryAnshuPrakash.A Special MP/MLA court,

presidedoverbyAdditionalChiefMetropolitanMagistrate SachinGuptaatRouseAvenue,however,framed charges against AAPMLAs Amanatullah Khan andPrakash Jarwal in the case, de-spite “contradictions” pointedoutbythedefencecounselinthestatement of star prosecutionwitnessVKJain.Jainwasthenanadvisor totheCM.A case was registered on

Prakash’scomplaint, inwhichheallegedhewascalled forameet-ingatKejriwal’s residenceontheinterveningnight of February19and20, 2018, andwas allegedlyassaulted by AAP MLAs whentheyquestionedhimoverdelayinclearingTVadvertisements.Police had booked Kejriwal

and 12 others in the case underIPCsections186(obstructingpub-lic servant indischargeof publicfunctions), 353 (assault or crimi-nal force to deter public servantfromdischarge of his duty), 332(voluntarilycausinghurttodeterpublicservantfromhisduty)and120-B (punishment of criminalconspiracy),amongothers.Apart from Kejriwal and

Sisodia,MLAsAmanatullahKhan,PrakashJarwal,NitinTyagi,RiturajGovind, Sanjeev Jha, Ajay Dutt,RajeshRishi,RajeshGupta,MadanLal, ParveenKumar andDinesh

Mohaniya were named as ac-cusedinthecase.Khan and Jarwal have also

beenchargedunder IPC sections186,33,353,323and34.The court, in its order, said all

MLAs gathered therewere in-formed of themeeting before-hand. “Conspirators or personswithcriminalbentofmindwouldprefer to execute their unlawfuldesign in secrecy, without itsknowledgebeingshared to thirdpersons. Theywould not createwitnesses against themselves.Hence, the aforesaid circum-stances do not subscribe to thetheoryof commonunlawful ob-ject, criminal conspiracy, abet-mentorcommonintention,asal-legedbytheprosecution,” itsaid.On allegations that the CM’s

residencewas chosen as therewerenoCCTVcameras,thecourtsaid, “It cannot be inferred thatmeeting at that placewasdelib-eratelyheld in conspiracyby ac-cusedpersons to assault and in-timidatethecomplainant.”Thecourtmadethisobserva-

tionaftergoingthroughthecom-plainant’s supplementary state-mentandsaidhehadattendedameetinginthesameroomaweekbeforetheincidentanditwasnotuncommon toholdmeetings attheCM’sresidence.Perusing Jain’s statement to

theMagistrate, the court said it“can fairly be inferred that com-plainant sat on the sofabetweenaccusedKhanandJarwal,withoutbeing...forcedbyanyone.Thus,theveryallegationthatcomplainant,under apre-plannedconspiracy,wasmade to sit on the sofa be-tweenaccusedKhanand Jarwal,inordertoassaultandintimidatehim,doesnotsurvive.”Jain in his statement alleged

thatwhenhecamebackfromthewashroom, he saw Khan andJarwal, “touching, pushing andputtinghandson the chinof theChief Secretary, askinghimas towhyhewas not performing hisduties”.Hestatedthatduringthat

incident, “his (Chief Secretary’s)spectacles fell down... ChiefMinister askedboth theMLAs torefrainfromdoingsoandpermit-tedhimtoleavefromthere”.The court, however, said: “If

theCMwouldhavebeenpart ofany conspiracy, thenhowcomeheobjected to theaforesaidcon-ductof twoMLAs,askedthemtorefrain fromdoing so, and evenpermitted the complainant toleavewhen permissionwas sosoughtbythecomplainant.”The court held that from the

conductoftheCMandsurround-ing circumstances, it “cannot beinferred even remotely that hewaspartofanysuchconspiracy”.As the court order was an-

nounced, Kejriwal tweeted,“SatyamevJayate”.Sisodiawelcomed the court

orderandsaid,“Thisdecisionhasalso increased people’s confi-dence in the judiciary. The con-spiracyhatchedbytheCentreandthePrimeMinisteragainstArvindKejriwal and the governmentelectedbythepeopleofDelhihasbeenexposed.TheCentreandthePM should come in front of thepeopleofDelhiandapologise.”

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ANANDMOHANJNEWDELHI, AUGUST11

ADELHIcourthasgrantedbailtoSupreme Court lawyer and for-mer Delhi BJP spokespersonAshwiniUpadhyay,whowasar-rested in connection with in-flammatory and anti-Muslimslogans raisedat JantarMantar.LinkMetropolitanMagistrate

UdbhavKumar Jain, inhis order,observed,“Conspiracyisnodoubthatchedbehindcloseddoorsandinvestigation inthepresentmat-terisatanascentstage;that,how-ever,doesnotimplythatlibertyofacitizenbecurtailedonmereas-sertionsandapprehension.”Thecourtheldthatasfarasthe

offence under IPC section 153A(promotingenmitybetweendif-ferent groupsongroundsof reli-gion,race,placeofbirth,residence,language,etc.,anddoingactsprej-udicial tomaintenance of har-mony) is concerned, “except formere assertion, there is nothingonrecordtoshowtheallegedhatespeech to promote enmity be-tweendifferentgroupswasdoneinthepresenceoratthebehestoftheapplicant/accused”.“Even during hearing, this

courthasinquiredfromAPPand,so far, there is nothing againsttheaccusedintheallegedvideo.It isnotthecasewheretherearechances that applicant/accusedwill abscond,” it said.The court agreed with the

prosecutor that it is a “difficulttimeforeveryoneduringthispan-demicandseriousviewshouldbetaken against thosewhoviolateguidelines/restrictions”. “Yet theoffences as far asbreachof theseguidelinesareconcernedarebail-able...,which canbedealt by the

trialcourtonmerit,” itsaid.Upadhyay was released on

bail subject to furnishing a per-sonal bond of Rs 50,000 withonesuretyof the likeamount.Police opposed the bail plea

andtoldthecourtthatUpadhyaywas a speaker at the event andwhether hewaspresent duringthe time of sloganeering is un-der investigation.Senioradvocates,VikasSingh

andSiddharthLuthra, andadvo-cate AshwaniDubey, argued onbehalfofUpadhyay.Singhtoldthecourt that Upadhyay was notpresentatthetimeoftheincidentas per timing of the videos thatwentviral, and informedthathewas inGhaziabad. “Iwill be thelast person to represent some-bodywhomadesuchreprehensi-ble slogans... He is a very re-spected person... It is a veryserious case. Police can’t indis-criminatelyarresthim.Heshouldbe released today. This is an ille-gal incarceration,”hesaid.Luthrasaid,“Veryofteninlife

wemaybepartof apublic func-tion,thatdoesnotmeanthatifafracas breaks out whenwe arenot there,weshouldbeheld re-sponsible...”Additional Public Prosecutor

SikharMahajantoldthecourtthegravity of the offence and sensi-tivityofthecasehavetobelooked

into. He said at the timewhenCovid restrictionswere in place,themonsoonsessionwasunder-way as were preparations forIndependenceDaycelebrations.“Theyshouldhavebeencalcu-

lativewhile arranging this gath-ering. It was to create a ruckus,whatwas the need to do this atthistime?Theydidnothaveper-mission.TheydidnotrespecttheDCP order. Policemen on theground had been telling themaboutsocialdistancingandwear-ing masks but they were dis-obeyed,”hetoldthecourt.MahajansaidUpadhyaywas

aspeakerattheeventandhisin-volvementmustbelookedinto:“... There is an admission.Whether he was there or notduringthehatespeech,wedon’tknowbuthewasaspeaker.”TheprosecutorsaidUpadhyay

should have first complained topolice,which insteadundertookthiscaseonitsown.Hesaidvideosinvestigatedby the IO containedhate speechwhichwas evident.“Hisversion is thathe left.Whenheleftisamatterofinvestigation.There isnoevidenceassuchthatheleft...Exactlywhatisthenexus,whogave the speeches?Weareatanascentstageoftheinvestiga-tion,”Mahajansaid.Singh told the court, “... We

weresayingwearenotinvolvedintheincident.Lookatthevideofootage. It is against the rule oflawtoarrest anyone...Dubeyalsorebuttedthepros-

ecutor’sclaimthatUpadhyaydidnotbring the incident to theno-tice of police: “Upadhyaywrotean email to the DCP to arrestthese persons. He eventuallygavea3-pageletterandpendrivetopolice... It’s not that hehasnorespect for law.”

AshwiniUpadhyay

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THE DELHI Board of SchoolEducation signed anMoUwithInternational Baccalaureate toimplementIBprogrammesin30governmentschoolsthisyear,in-cluding 20 of its newSchools ofSpecialisedExcellence(SOSE).ADelhi government official

saidadmissionapplications forthe SOSEswill begin Thursday.TheIBprogrammewillbein-

troduced from class IX to XII inthe SOSEs and from nursery toclass VIII in 10 Sarvodaya

Vidyalayas in East Delhi.Admissionswillbedoneonlyforclass IX for the SOSEs, exceptthose specialising in STEMwhere admissions will also bedone to classXII.In this session, seats will be

on offer across SOESs specialis-inginfourdomains—1,920seatsat STEM schools, 600 atHumanitiesschools,600athigh-end 21st Century Skills schools,and 240 at Performing andVisualArts schools.As per a document shared

withteachers,admissionstotheSOSEswill be conducted via anaptitude and interest test and

“interface,wherenecessary”.The IB is a private interna-

tional education boardwith itsFoundation Office in Geneva. Ithas around 5,000 schools glob-ally. There are currently 193 IBschools in India, all ofwhicharetop-endeliteprivateschools.TheIndian Express had earlier re-ported on the Delhi govern-ment's interest in collaboratingwithitandoftheIB'sproposaltothe Delhi government on howthis canbe implemented.Speaking at the MoU ex-

changeceremony,ChiefMinisterKejriwal said: “It’s almost like adream for us... I’m very happy

that education in Delhi govern-mentschoolsinthelastsixyearshasundergoneacompletetrans-formation...Nowwewerestand-ing at a juncturewherewe hadtoimprovewhatisbeingtaught,how it is being taught, andwehad to prepare our children upto international standards. TheIB is a body that the best of thestudents of our country long tobe guided by, to be affiliated orassociatedwith... I’m glad thatthe knowledge and experienceof IBwillbeavailabletopoorstu-dents of Delhi. And perhaps itwill be a unique experience forIB also. Till now for IB, perhaps

wherever you have gone allaround the world, you alwaysused to get the best of the stu-dentsandthebestoftheschools.But now by signing this agree-ment, you are becoming aknowledge partnerwith a gov-ernmentboardwherethepoor-estof thepoorstudentsstudy. IBandthegovernmentwillgettheopportunity to together groomthepoorest students to interna-tional standards.”Kejriwalsaidtheprogramme

willbescaledupinthefutureandprivate schoolswill also be abletobeaffiliatedwiththeboard.A senior Delhi government

official said students of theseschoolswillbe issued jointcer-tification by the IB and Delhiboard when they completeschooling.Introducing IB is an expen-

siveproject: just the fees forap-plication of candidacy for these30 schools is over Rs 50 lakh af-ter a 75%discount, and thepro-fessionaldevelopmentfeesesti-matedbytheIBfor594teachersacrosstheseschoolsisoverRs54lakhaftera20%discount.Existing Rajkiya Pratibha

VikasVidyalayas andSchools ofExcellence are being convertedinto theSOSEs.

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Rescueopsat thebaoli inHazratNizamuddinDargahonWednesday.PraveenKhanna


ALLBUTtwoservicesofferedbyregional transport offices in thecitywent onlineWednesday asthe transport department’s“faceless services”were flaggedoff.Thisincludesonlinelearner’slicencetests,vehicleregistration,permits, etc.The twoservices forwhicha

personwillhavetovisit theRTOare the driving test for getting alicence and vehicle fitness cer-tificates.“With the launchof Faceless

Services,initially,33majortrans-port-related services will be-come online, covering almost95% of the applications. Thelaunch of faceless services willprovide freedom from longqueues, brokers, middlemen atthe RTO office to the people of

Delhi. All thework can be doneonline sitting at home,” a state-

ment issuedbytheCMOsaid.Theyeventuallyplantomake

provisionstoprocessmostserv-ices in the government depart-mentsonline.The services offered include

theonlinelearner’stest.“Theap-plication draws demographicdata and photos from theAadhaar database and uses AI-basedfacialrecognition(featuremapping) tool to ensure candi-date credentials are correct.Additional security throughvideocapturingofapplicanttak-ing the test is being developedbyNICandwillalsobelaunchedsoon,” thestatement said.In the trial conducted be-

tweenSundayandTuesday,400applicationswere received.CMArvindKejriwallaunched

theservicebylockinguptheRTOofficeat IPEstate. “It isamassivestep alongwith the direction ofthe technological revolution.Officesarenowcompletelydigi-tised,thefilesaredigitised.Even

the 1076 agent (doorstep deliv-ery of services) won’t come toyour doorstep... You just have tologin to your computer and getallyourworkdone... Justturnthecomputeronanddoit,”hesaid.Transport Minister Kailash

Gahlot said one can call 1076,which is the number fordoorstepdeliveryof services.“We started the trial five

monthsagoonFebruary19andtillnowwehaveacceptedmorethan3.50 lakhservice requestsin a faceless manner. The suc-cess rateof theapplicationsweare approving so far is morethan80%andour rejectionrateis less than 1%... We will havethree deputy commissionerssitting in Surajmal Vihar,Dwarka and Sarai Kale Khan,who will listen to the griev-ances of the people. You canalso register your complaintsthere,” he said.


A38-YEAR-OLDmandrownedinthe baoli at Hazrat NizamuddinDargahTuesdayevening.Theman,identifiedasBarkat

Mohd.Pathan,went swimmingin the baoli late in the eveningwithhisbrotherKamil. The twojumpedinthebaoli tobathebutBarkatdrowned.Police said the baoli is over

150 feetdeep.R PMeena, DCP (Southeast)

said, “We received a PCR callaboutapersondrowning inside

thedargah.Apoliceteamrushedto the spot andmet Kamil. Hetold us he and his brotherjumped into the baoli but hecameoutof thewatersoonashewas scared of drowning. Hewaited for Barkat to resurfacebuthedrowned.”Police informed the fire

brigade andother agencies andsoondivers, teamsofNDRFandDelhi Fire Services were calledto the spot. However, Barkat’sbody wasn’t recovered onTuesdaynight.On Wednesday, police re-

sumedthesearchandpulledoutBarkat’sbody.Police said it took

them time as the baoli is deepand many local divers had toclimbdeepdownwith the helpof ropes topullout thebody.“Thebodyhasbeensent for

a post-mortem examination toascertain the cause of death.Prima facie... theman died dueto drowning, there seems to benofoulplay.However,hisfamilymembers said he often tookbath in baoli and knew how toswim,” saidapoliceofficer.Police are conductinganen-

quiry in thematter.Barkat livedwith his father

near the dargah andworked ata shop.

Leak in riots case probe: HC calls issue serious

Dalit girl found dead:Family cremates heramid tight securityEXPRESSNEWSSERVICENEWDELHI, AUGUST11

DAYS AFTER a nine-year-oldDalit girl was found dead at acrematorium in SouthwestDelhi, her family cremated herremains onWednesday amidtight security.Policesaidtheyincreasedse-

curity around the crematoriumandthelocalityamidprotestsbyvillagers and members of theBhimArmy.The family has alleged she

wasraped,killed, andcrematedagainst their wishes inside thecrematoriumonAugust1.Policearrested fourmen— cremato-riumpriest Radhey Shyam (55)andKuldeepKumar (63), LaxmiNarain(48)andMohdSalim(49)— on charges of rape andmur-der.Thecaseisnowbeinginves-tigatedby theCrimeBranch.DCP(Southwest)IngitPratap

Singh said, “The cremationwasdonewith the family’s consent

afterdoctorsfromDDUHospitalreturnedthebody.Thefinalriteswereperformedinthepresenceof familyandfriends.Duringthecremation,agroupof25-30peo-ple who have been protestingthe girl’s death tried to stop it.Since the girl’s parents wantedto cremate the body, police re-movedtheprotesters.”According to police, the girl

had gone to get water from acooler at the crematoriumnearherhouse.Policesaidaround30minuteslater,thepriestandtwo-threeotherpeopleknowntothegirl’s mother called her andshowed her the body, claimingshewas electrocutedwhile get-ting water. The girl’s parentsclaimedShyamcoercedthemtocremate her body. However, agroup of villagers intervened,stopped the cremation, andpulledthebodyfromthepyre.The girl’s remainswere sent

for a forensic examination, butdoctors haven’t submitted a re-portyet.

Man drowns in Nizamuddin baoli

SOFIAHSANNEWDELHI, AUGUST11

THE DELHI High CourtWednesdaysaidaninvestigationreport is valuable property andtheleakofprobedetailsisa"veryseriousissue"inthejusticedeliv-erysystem.Thecourtsaiditmustbeensuredthatselectiveleakagedoesnothappeninthefuture.It made the observations

whilehearingapetitionfiledbyJamiaMillia IslamiastudentAsifIqbal Tanha, one of the accusedin the UAPA case alleging alarger conspiracy behind the2020 Northeast Delhi riots,against leaking of his alleged

“confession statement” by po-lice to themedia.The supplementary

chargesheetfiledbeforethetrialcourt on February 25 was alsoleaked even before the courttook cognizance, the court wastoldpreviously.The Delhi Police, in its reply

filedlastweek,toldthecourtthatit has failed to identify the offi-cers/officefromwhere“detailsofinvestigation”were“sharedwiththemedia”asjournalistshavere-fusedtodivulgetheir source.Additional Solicitor General

Aman Lekhi Wednesday toldthe court that a comprehensiveinquiry has taken place but a“deeper examination”will “stir

a hornet’s nest” which, in thefactsof thecasepresently, isnotrequired.However, Justice Mukta

Gupta disagreedwith the sub-mission: “Tosay the factsof thiscase don’t require... I’d disagreeforthereasonthat itnotonlyaf-fects a valuable right of peti-tioner. It is a casewhere there isan order of this court that pressbriefing will not be done, so tocircumventthatwhatyoudois...youdon’tdoapressbriefingbutsomehow... Iamnotimputingtoanyparticularofficer...butsome-how in the form of leakageeverythingcomesout,thatisnotpermissible.”The court said police has ex-

amined many people but hasconcludedthat itwasdifficult topinpointthesourceoftheleakasmany copies of the chargesheetweremade.WhenLekhisubmit-ted that police were in theprocess of issuing a circular topreemptandpreventanyfurtherrepetition, the court said advi-soriesdon’thelp.“There has to be something

more than that. There are twoaspects. Why has this hap-pened?Therehastobeadefiniteanswer; secondly, it should nothappeninfuture.Of course,youcantakeremedialaction,butad-visories don’t have any effect.Every time some cover-up ismade,” JusticeGuptasaid.

While the court said policemay have some explanation onthemedia reporting of the sup-plementarychargesheet,itaskedhow the disclosure statementswere in themediamuchearlier.Lekhirespondedthatsinceitwasa UAPA case, several steps havetobetakenduringwhichthefilegoestodifferentplaces.Senior Advocate Siddharth

Aggarwal, representing Tanha,argued that the accused in theUAPAcaseare “terrorists” todayand if what they have allegedlydone is fundamental to the fab-ric of this country then “howdare anybody disclose such aconfidentialandseriousinvesti-gation”.

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27labourersarrestedNoida: Twenty-sevenlabourers were arrestedby Noida Police after aprotestagainstthedeathof a constructionworkerturned violent. Policesaid Tarun Basu, fromWest Bengal, diedMondayallegedlyduetoelectrocution at a con-struction site in Ecotech3. A protest was stagedthe following day byotherworkersat thesite.

Mankilledingangrivalry,twoarrestedNewDelhi:Policehavear-rested twomenwho al-legedly killed aman in-side his house in Karala.Police said over fivemenentered Nitesh’s houseandfiredmultiplebulletsathim.TheaccusedhavebeenidentifiedasAkshay(21)andSuraj(22),mem-bers of a local gang. DCP(Rohini) said, “We foundthat Nitesh’s elderbrotherParveshislodgedin jail in a murder caseand is a member of theJitender aliasGogi gang.”Parvesh had allegedlykilledamemberoftheri-valgang. ENS

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Minor raped, accused apprehendedNewDelhi:Asix-year-oldgirlwasallegedlyrapedbyherneighbourinEastDelhiWednesday.Thegirlsustained injuries andwas ad-mitted to AIIMS. Police said theaccusedhasbeenapprehended.“A case has been registered

under IPC sections 376AB (sex-ualassaultonawomanunder12yearsofage),376(rape)andsec-

tionsofthePOCSOActandSC/STAct.Thegirlwasmedicallyexam-inedandhasbeenreferredtoAI-IMS for a paediatrician’s opin-ion,” said DCP (East) PriyankaKashyap.Meanwhile, members from

the Congress and AAPwent tothehospitalandspoketothevic-tim's family.ENS

Notice issued to clearencroachments onFaridabad forest landSAKSHIDAYALGURGAON,AUGUST11

AFORTNIGHTafterofficialsfromFaridabad said illegal encroach-mentswould be removed fromAravalli forestlandandPLPAno-tified land across the district inthecomingdays,likeitwasdoneat Khori village, a public noticehasbeen issued in this regard.“It has come to our notice

that non-forestry activities andunauthorisedconstructionhavebeen done on land notified un-der sections 4 and 5 of thePunjab Land Conservation Act(PLPA),1900,”saidDistrictForestOfficerRajKumar.According to officials, illegal

constructions include farm-houses and unauthorised con-structions in notified areas ofMewla Maharajpur, Ankheer,Badkhal, Anangpur, Ladakpur,Bhankri, Pali, Dhauj, Mangar,Silakhri, Kot and Sirohi, KhoriJamalpur,andGothaMohtabad.“Through the public notice,

directionshavebeengiventore-move all illegal constructionfrom forest land. If permissionhasbeenobtainedfromanygov-ernmentdepartmentagencyforany non-forest activity con-ducted in forest landor for con-struction of any structure, thisshould be brought to the atten-

tionof thisoffice,” saidKumar.“Ifviolatorsfailtoremovethe

illegalencroachmentwithinfivedays, actionwill be initiated onour part to remove thesewith-out further reference to thevio-lators.All costs incurred in theirremoval and restoration of thearea would be recovered fromtheviolator,”hesaid.On July 28, officials from

Faridabad administration hadstated that after clearing “en-croachments”from“forestland”inKhorivillage,theywouldtakesimilar actionagainst all “illegalstructures” in theAravalli forestareaandPLPAnotifiedland,withtheforestdepartmentoperatingas thenodaldepartment.Officials said around 5,430

hectares of land in Faridabadhave been notified under thePLPA, and encroachment is onaround500hectareswith“130-140 illegal constructions”.The FaridabadMetropolitan

DevelopmentAuthority(FMDA)hasstartedamovementto“pro-mote environment protection,clean environment, and green-ery”, it is focusing on plantingsaplings in the district, “espe-ciallyvacatedforestlandinKhoriarea”.Officialshaveappealedtopeople to join their “campaign”by providing “financial assis-tance,donatingplants,oradopt-ingvacantplaces”.

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LOKSABHABJPMPFROMSATNA,GANESHSINGH, TELLS LIZMATHEWABOUTTHEDEMANDFORACASTE-BASEDCENSUS.

TheOppositionhadexpressedconcernduringthedebateonthe102ndConstitutionAmendmentBillitselfwhetheritcouldaffectthestates’powerstodecideOBCs...ButthegovernmentclarifiedithadnointentiontotakeawaytherightsofstatesandallitintendedtodowasgrantconstitutionalstatustotheNationalCommi-ssionforBackwardClasses.

ButthegovernmentwasforcedtobringanewBill.That’sbecauseallstategovern-mentshavedemandedforit.

Therewerealsodemandstodoawaywiththe50percentcaponreservation.Theissueisdifferent. IntheIndraSawhneycase,SupremeCourtlaiddownthetotalnumberofreservedseats/places/positionscannotexceed50percentofwhatisavailable.

Whatdoyouhavetosayaboutthedemandforacaste-basedcensus?NowthatthestatesaregivenpowerstodecidetheOBClist,theycandoacensusbasedoncastes.

YouchairedthestandingcommitteeonSocialJusticeandEmpowermentthathadbackedacastebasedcensus.Yes,thecommitteesuggestedthatunlessthegovernmentsknowthesizeofthepopulationofthebackwards,howwouldyoudistributetheirschemesandtheamenities?...HadtheHousefunctionedproperly,theissuecouldhavecomeupfordetaileddiscussion.

5QUESTIONS

RITIKACHOPRA&KRISHNKAUSHIKNEWDELHI, AUGUST11

WITHAunanimousverdictfromRajya Sabha, Parliament onWednesday passed theConstitution (127thAmendment) Bill, 2021, givingback states the power tomaketheir own list ofOBCsby identi-fying and notifying socially andeconomically backward classes(SEBCs).TheBill,clearedbyLokSabha

onTuesday,waspassedinUpperHouse bydivision vote—187 infavourandnonevotesagainst.Aconstitutionalamendment

needs to pass withmajority ofthe total strength of the House,and not less than a two-third

majorityofMPspresent.Prime Minister Narendra

Modi later tweeted, “Passage ofConstitution (127thAmendment)BillinbothHousesis a landmarkmoment for ournation. This Bill furthers socialempowerment. It also reflectsourGovernment’scommitmenttoensuringdignity,opportunityand justice to themarginalisedsections.”Eventhoughnomemberob-

jectedtotheBill, theOppositionraised certain concerns aboutabsence of a caste census and ademand to remove the 50-percent cap on states for reserva-tions. OppositionMPs said theConstitutional amendmentwould not have beennecessaryhad the government addressedtheir concerns in2018.

Congress'sAbhishekSinghvisaid the Bill was the govern-ment's attempt at undoing its

ownmistake.Hesaid,“Whenthe102ndAmendment Bill was re-ferredtotheselectcommitteein2018, the committee had ex-pressedconcernsaboutpossibil-ityoftheamendmentbeingreadas an encroachment of statepowers.Theministryatthetimesaid therewere no such inten-tion.Thechangeproposedbythecommittee (clarifying that theamendmentdoesnottakeawaystates'powertomaintainastateOBClist)wasnotaccepted.WhentheBillcametotheHousefordis-cussion,manyMPs pointed outthesameissueandaskedforclar-ification. Even then the govern-mentrefusedtomakechanges.”“TheSupremeCourt'sverdict

isbasedontheloss(of)wordingof your 2018 amendment," hesaid. Singhvi said the govern-

ment cannot first make amis-take,rectifyit,andthemcongrat-ulate itself fordoingso.TMC's Derek O'Brien said:

“Thegovernment'sincompetenceisdeep.TheypassedtheGSTBill,but latermade376 changes to itin 10months. For farmBills, too,theydidn't listentous...”Almost all OppositionMPs

agreedthattheBillwouldberen-dered uselesswithout the gov-ernment removing the cap on50%reservation,andtodothat,acaste-censusisneeded,theysaid.Without these two steps, the127th amendmentwould onlyamount to paying lip service totheOBCcause, theyargued.“This move is of no use to

state governments unless youremove the 50 per cent ceilingon reservations.... We need to

knowhowmanypeopleinback-wardclassesandcastesareedu-cated, howmany of them areemployed in government jobs,and how many own houses.Only then can the governmentidentify beneficiaries of thisamendment," SP's RamgopalYadavsaid.RJD'sManojJha,AIADMK’sM

Thambidurai and JD(U)'sRamnath Thakurmade similardemand forcastecensus.Shiv Sena's Sanjay Raut said

the credit for the127th amend-mentshouldnotgototheCentrebut to theMarathaAndolan.NCP's Vandana Chavan also

supported the Bill but said it is“not in the form thatwould as-sure justice topeople or class ofcitizens it ismeant for”.For BJP, the defencewas led

by Education MinisterDharmendra Pradhan. He saidthatwhileOBCreservationswerebroughtinin1990,itwasnotim-plementeduntil2008-09.Whenhistory is researched, he said, itwillbe“blackandwhiteclear”.Leader of Opposition

Mallikarjun Kharge called it a“verygoodBill”.But,hesaid,BJPleaders, including BhupendraYadav, who spoke before him,haddiscussedtheBilllessandat-tacked theCongressmore.Social Justice and

Empowerment MinisterVirendra Kumar thanked allmembers for the unanimity ontheBill.“Wecanbelongtodiffer-entparties,havedifferentideolo-gies,differentcommitments,butevenafterthat...todaythemem-bersput forward their ideas”.

KRISHNKAUSHIK&APURVAVISHWANATHNEWDELHI, AUGUST11

THE RAJYA SabhaWednesdaypassed three Bills amidOppositionprotestsandwasad-journedsinedie.The General Insurance

Business (Nationalisation) Bill,2021,waspassedafter less than20minutes of discussion in theevening.TheRajyaSabhalatertookup

the National Commission forHomoeopathy (Amendment)Bill, 2021, and the NationalCommission for Indian Systemof Medicine (Amendment) Bill,2021 that were passed by theLokSabhaonAugust10.Thedis-cussionandpassagewere com-

pletedwithin10minutes.As the insuranceBill cameup

for discussion, the Oppositionprotested, asking “that theChairmusttakethesenseoftheHouse”.But the government insisted onlegislative business and BJD’sSasmitPatra,whowasintheChair,saidthe“Housemaysitbeyond6pm,asandwhennecessaryforthetransactionofgovernment,legisla-tiveandotherbusiness”.Leader of the House Piyush

Goelsaidthatdespitetheeffortsof Rajya Sabha ChairpersonVenkaiah Naidu and others tohave fruitful discussions in theHouse,theOpposition’saimhasbeentodisrupt its functioning.The Bill, intended to amend

the General Insurance Business(Nationalisation) Act, 1972,willallowthegovernmenttoreduce

itsstakeininsurancecompanies,andwill stopallyingwith insur-ers from the date the Centreceasestohavecontroloverthem.TheBill,whichwaspassedby

the Lok SabhaonAugust 2,wasclearedbyavoicevote,andthepro-posedamendmentstosendittoaselectcommitteewererejected.Finance Minister Nirmala

Sitharaman introduced the Billwithout making any remarks.FouramendmentswerelistedtorefertheBilltoaselectpanel,butonly DMK’s Tiruchi Sivawas inhisseattomovetheamendment.Initiating the discussion,

Sukhendu Sekhar Ray of TMCsaid“thisgovernmenthaskilleddemocracy by introducing thisBill”. DMK’s TKSElangovan saidthelegislationwill“killtheecon-omyof this country”.

The House was later ad-journed.CongressMPChhayaVarma

alleged that male marshalspushed womenMPs. She saidhercolleaguePhuloDeviNetamfelldownin themelee.Leader of Opposition

Mallikarjuna Kharge earlierraisedtheissueofmarshalspres-ent in the House in huge num-bers. “Our ladymembersare in-sultedhere.Wearenotsafe.Ourladymembersarenotsafe.”In response, Parliamentary

Affairs Minister Prahlad Joshisaid that some of the femalemarshalshadbeenmanhandled.“If we are doing a mistake, letthem go to the people. Peoplehave given a mandate to us,”Joshisaid.Oppositionmemberswalkedoutduring Joshi’s reply.

SPREADING A GREEN MESSAGERajyaSabhaChairmanandVicePresidentMVenkaiahNaiduplantsa treeonthe lawnsofParliamentonWednesday.RenukaPuri

Insurance Bill among 3 passedamid Opp protests in Rajya Sabha

RajyaSabhavotesunanimously,PMcalls it landmarkmoment forcountry; inHouse,Oppdoesn’tobjectbut raisescastecensusconcern

187-0:Bill to restore states’ poweronOBC list passed

Leaderof theOpposition inRajyaSabhaMallikarjunKharge. RSTV/PTI

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DELHICONFIDENTIAL

NOOSEPROTESTTRINAMOOLCONGRESSmanaged to grab quite some atten-tion with its protests in Rajya Sabha this session. AndWednesdaywasnodifferent,withitsMPShantaChhetriwear-inganoosearoundherneckthroughtheentireprotest.WhileChhetriworethenoose,fellowpartyMPDolaSenheldtheropeas they joined othermembers to protest against, what theycalled, the“murderof democracy”byTreasurybenches.EvenaftertheHousewasadjourned,Chhetrikeptwearingthenooseas she came out to the lobby. “Abhimain ye nikal loon,” sheaskedpartycolleaguesinthelobby,triggeringaroundoflaugh-ter among other oppositionMPs standing in the lobby. Theytoldhershecantakeitoff sincetheHousewasadjourned.

HITTINGTHEROADWITHTHEBJPplanninga JanAshirwadYatraacross22statesfor39Unionministers,avisithomeformanyof thenewmin-isterswill have towait. Several of themhave to been able tovisit their native places since becomingministers as theMonsoon Session got underway immediately. And then thepartydecided that theywouldhead straight for these yatras.AccordingtoBJPgeneralsecretaryinchargeoftheprogramme,Tarun Chugh, the shortest yatrawould be of three days andsomewouldhavetotravel forsevenstraightdays. Itwill span142working days, he said. “Since oneminister [BishweswarTudufromOdisha]isunwell,theremaining39ministersfrom19stateswill cover19,567kmacross22states,”Chughsaid.

HEADINGNORTHNOWTHATtheMonsoonSessionisover, itappearsthatmostMPswill beheading for JammuandKashmir.More than200MPsareexpectedtovisit J&Kwithinamonth,aspartof eightstandingcommitteeswhichwillbeheadingthere.ThePublicAccountsCommitteewill visitnextweek (August14-17), fol-lowed by the Committee onUrbanDevelopment. Then thecommittees on Home, Energy, Labour, Railways, ExternalAffairsandCommerceareexpectedtovisitJ&Kbeforetheendof September, sourcessaid.

KANCHANVASDEVCHANDIGARH,AUGUST11

ADAYafterCMAmarinderSinghmetCongresschiefSoniaGandhiinDelhi,thepoliticaltemperatureroseafewnotchesinPunjabwithPPCCchiefNavjotSidhuappoint-ing four new advisers and hiscampdeciding that ameetingofpartyMLAswillsoonbecalledtopassaresolutionseekingtheCM’sreplacement.As the day ended, one of the

fouradvisersappointedbySidhu— formerDGPMohdMustafa—turneddown theoffer sayinghewasnotcutoutforthejob.Butthevery act of appointing advisersriledmany in the state Congressastheyquestionedtheneedtodosoafterhavingfourworkingpres-idents. Several leaders said that“there was no need to run thepartylikeacorporatehouse”.The four advisers that Sidhu

appointed includedpartyMPDrAmar Singh, Dr Pyare Lal Garg,Malwinder Singh Mali andMustafa.

Meanwhile late on Tuesdayevening,Sidhuandhissupportersmet at Cabinet minister TriptRajinderSinghBajwa’s residencewith about 15MLAs andminis-ters, and decided that the PPCCchief should call a meeting ofMLAs to chalk out a strategy for2022Assemblyelections.“Itwasdecidedthatwhiledis-

cussingthe2022elections,wewillbringupalatentagendathatares-olutionshouldbepassedseekingremoval of theChiefMinister asmajorityofthepartyleaderswerenotwithhimanymore.Letussee

whenSidhuwould call anMLAsmeetnow,” saidasourceprivy tothediscussions.Whilemost leaders present

were not willing to come onrecordaboutthemeetingandde-niedthatanysuchdiscussiontookplace, a leaderwhoattended thediscussions said that theMLAshavebeendemandingthat thereshouldbeameeting.“Peoplearegoingtotakeusto

taskintheelections...questioningourgovernmentisourright.”Amidall this,CM’scampwas

abuzzwithtalkthatAmarinderhadforcefully raised issues relatedtoSidhu in themeetingwithSoniaGandhi,statingthathewasbashinghisowngovernmentandthiswasdilutingthechancesoftheCongresspartyforarepeatofitsperformance.“The CM has told his camp

that SoniaGandhi told him thathe would continue to be theCM...SoniaaskedHarishRawatinthemeetingaboutwhatwasgo-ingon inPunjab. She thenaskedhimtogo toPunjabandsort thisissue,” said a source fromCM’scamp.

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICECHANDIGARH,AUGUST11

PUNJAB CHIEF MinisterAmarinder SinghWednesdayurged PrimeMinister NarendraModi to immediately initiatestepstorepeal thethreecontro-versial farm laws and bringamendmentsintherelevantlawtomake farmers eligible to ob-tain free legal aid.TheChiefMinister,whocalled

on the Prime Minister late onWednesday evening, submittedtwoseparateletterscallingfortheimmediate review and revoca-tionofthethreecontentiousfarmlaws that have triggeredwide-spreadresentmentamongfarm-ers of Punjab and other states, agovernmentstatementsaid.

Pointingtotheprolongedag-itation,whichhassofarcost thelives of more than 400 farmersand farmworkers, the ChiefMinistersaidthestirhadthepo-tentialofposingsecuritythreatsforPunjabandthecountry,with

Pakistan-backed anti-Indiaforces looking to exploit thefarmers’disgruntlementagainstthegovernment.HesaidhehadearliersoughtthePM’sappoint-ment for ameetingwith an all-partydelegation fromPunjab.

ANANTHAKRISHNANGNEWDELHI,AUGUST11

JUSTICEROHINTONFaliNariman,whodemitsofficeThursdayafterseven years as a SupremeCourtjudge, leaves behind a trove ofjudgmentsthatsoughttofurtherfreespeech,privacyandpersonalliberty, cleanse politics, rein inconstitutionalauthoritiesandre-calcitrant businesses andensuregenderjustice.Son of noted jurist Fali

NarimanandapostgraduatefromHarvardLawSchool,Narimanwasdesignatedasaseniorcounsel inDecember1993,attheyoungageof37.While practising as a senior

counselintheSupremeCourt,he

was appointed SolicitorGeneralofIndiainJuly2011forthreeyears.But inFebruary2013,hegaveuptheposition.Speculationwasrifethathequitfollowingdifferencesover somedirectionsof the thenlawministerAshwaniKumar,buthisresignationlettergavenohints.Thejudiciary,however,hadno

doubts onhismerit, and in littleoverayear,onJuly7,2014,hewassworn in as a Supreme Courtjudge, making him the fourthsuch counsel to be directly ele-vatedfromthebartothebench.Justice Narimanminced no

words when it came to judg-ments.InMarch 2015,writing for a

two-judge bench that struckdown the controversial Section66A introducedby theUPAgov-

ernment in the InformationTechnologyAct,2000,hesaiditisclearthattheprovision“arbitrar-ily,excessivelyanddisproportion-ately invades the right of freespeechandupsetsthebalancebe-tweensuchrightandthereason-able restrictions thatmaybe im-posedonsuchright”.“Such is the reach of the

Sectionandifitistowithstandthetestof constitutionality, thechill-ingeffectonfreespeechwouldbetotal,”hesaidabouttheprovision,which empoweredpolice to ar-rest people for commentson so-cialmedia.In August 2017, a majority

judgmentbyhimandtwoothersheldasunconstitutionalthecen-turies-oldpracticeofinstanttripletalaqortalaq-e-bidat.Indoingso,

Justice Nariman laid out a newruleofjurisprudence–thatman-ifestarbitrarinesscanbeagroundforstrikingdownalaw.Thatmonth also sawanine-

judgebench, includinghim, ruleunanimously in the landmarkAadhaar case that “privacy is in-trinsic tofreedomof lifeandper-sonal liberty guaranteed underArticle21ofConstitution”.Decriminalisinghomosexual-

ity in 2018 in the Navtej SinghJoharandOthersvsUnionofIndiacase,JusticeNarimanwascategor-icalthat“personswhoarehomo-sexual have a fundamental rightto livewithdignity... are entitledto the protection of equal laws,and are entitled to be treated insocietyashumanbeingswithoutanystigmabeingattachedtoanyof them”.An ordained Parsi priest, his

knowledge of scriptures andphilosophies ofmajor religionsmadehimanobvious choice forthebenchwhichtookuppetitionschallenging restrictionsonentryofwomenofaparticularageintheSabarimala shrine. He spoke ongenderrightsinSeptember2018,concurringwiththemajority4:1verdict which favoured doing

awaywiththerestrictions.JusticeNarimanwasalsopart

of thebenchwhich sawthroughthe updation of the NationalRegister of Citizens (NRC) forAssam. Rights groups had criti-cised the exercise, saying it vio-latedthe1955CitizenshipAct.InAugust2018,thebenchrep-

rimanded Assam NRCCoordinator PrateekHajela andRegistrar General and CensusCommissioner Sailesh for givingstatementson theprocess to thepress andwarned themof con-tempt action and time in jail.ThoughHajelatenderedanapol-ogy, Justice Nariman told him:“Whatapology?Wefindthisverystrange...Speakingformyself,Iamappalled.”In December 2020, a three-

judge bench headed by himdi-rected installationof CCTV inof-fices of central agencies such astheCBI andNIA and in all policestations,inabidtofurtherprotec-tionofhumanrights.On affirmative action, a con-

stitutionbenchcomprisinghiminSeptember 2018 upheld thecreamylayerprincipleof exclud-ing the affluent among SC/STsfromtheambitof reservation.JusticeNariman also hadhis

ways of dealingwith constitu-tionalauthoritiesandprivateen-tities.In March 2020, a bench

headed by him did not takekindly to the delay byManipurAssembly Speaker in decidingpleas seekingdisqualificationofminister Thounaojam

Shyamkumar Singh. The benchtookupon itself the responsibil-ity of removing Singh from thestate cabinet, invoking its ex-traordinarypowersunderArticle142of theConstitution.Anotherbenchheadedbyhim

foundRelianceCommunicationsLtdchairmanAnilAmbaniguiltyof contemptof court inFebruary2019fornothonouringanunder-takingtopayRs550croreinduestoEricssonIndiaLtd.JusticeNarimanalsodidhisbit

tocleanupelections,directingpo-litical parties last year tomakepublic details of criminal casesagainst its candidateswithin astipulated time. On Tuesday, abenchheadedbyhimheld ninepolitical parties guilty of con-tempt.

Rahul’s accountlocked, tweetviolated ourpolicy: Twitterto Delhi HC

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICENEWDELHI,AUGUST11

TWITTER onWednesday toldDelhi High Court that it hasdeleted a tweet from seniorCongress leader Rahul Gandhi'saccount,whichhadwithitapho-tographof theparentsof anine-year-old Dalit girl whowas al-legedly raped and killed at acrematoriuminsouthwestDelhionAugust1.Thesubmissionwasmadein

responsetoapetitionseekingle-galaction, includingregistrationofanFIRagainstRahulfortweet-ingthephotograph.Senior advocate Sajan

Poovayya, representing Twitter,told the court that the post hasalreadybeendeletedsinceitwasinviolationofthemicro-bloggingsite’s policy. Poovayya told thecourt that Rahul's account hasalsobeenlocked.The division bench of Chief

JusticeDNPatel and Justice JyotSingh said, “so nice of you.... Noneedtoexplainonceyouhavere-moved. Immediately you haveresponded.”WhenadvocateGautam Jha,

representing the petitioner, dis-putedthecompany'ssubmissionandsaidthatitneedstobeputonrecord through an affidavit, thecourttookexception.“Thereisnoreasontodispute...If thisistheat-titude.Wearenotissuingnotice,”thebenchadded.The court listed the case for

September27.

4Congaccounts lockedMeanwhile,theTwitterhan-

dles of at least four seniorCongress leaders — RandeepSurjewala,AjayMaken,SushmitaDev and Manickam Tagore —were locked onWednesday bythemicrobloggingsite.Theyhadtweeted the same photographthatwasuploadedbyRahulandanother posted by theNationalCommissionofScheduledCastesof itsmembersmeetingthefam-ilymembersof thevictim.They slammed the “double

standards” of Twitter for takinga different position on govern-mentbodies.

AISHWARYAMOHANTYBHUBANESWAR,AUGUST11

A PARLIAMENTARY delegationof the BJD onWednesday sub-mittedamemorandumtoUnionHomeMinister Amit Shah de-manding the inclusion of enu-meration of Socially andEducationallyBackwardClassesand Other BackwardClasses/Castes in the General

Census2021.InJuly,afteraquestiontothe

HomeMinistry,thegovernmenthad said that as amatter of pol-icy, they have decided not toenumerate castes in the Censusother thanSCandST.The delegation, led by MP

PinakiMishra, contended that adetailed scientific database is re-quired regarding the SEBC/OBCcategoryforformulationofanac-curatereservationpolicyforholis-

ticdevelopment.Therearearound209 communities identified asSEBCs comprisingaround54percentofOdisha’spopulation.“No formalcensus including

the caste details of the popula-tion has been carried out since1931...legislation of most of thestates on reservation policies...had been struck down...on theground that the policies onreservation are made withoutanyscientificdatabase...”

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICEAGARTALA,KOLKATA,AUG11

THETRIPURAPolicehas bookedTrinamool Congress (TMC) gen-eralsecretaryAbhishekBanerjee,West Bengal EducationMinisterBratya Basu,MPDola Sen, partyspokespersonKunal Ghosh andothers forallegedlymisbehavingwiththepolice.This comes twodays after 14

TMCworkerswerearrestedforal-legedlyviolatingCovid-19normsandblocking the national high-

wayonSaturday.TMCinBengalreactedsharply,

saying the BJP government inTripurawas“terrified”.Khowai district SP Kiran

KumarsaidtheywerebookedinasuomotuFIR registeredTuesdayunderIPCsection186(obstructinga public servant in discharge ofpublicfunctions),amongothers.TheFIRwasregisteredshortly

afterBJP spokespersonNabenduBhattacharya said TMC leadershad allegedlymisbehavedwithpoliceofficialsduringtheirvisittoTripura.

The TMCmemberswere re-turning to Agartala fromAmbassa in the Dhalai districtwhenaclashwiththerulingBJPsupporters left youth leadersSudip Raha and Jaya Dutta in-jured. A local court in Khowaidistrict later granted bail to allthe14 TMCworkers, whowerearrested,on thesameday.BJP leader Sayantan Basu

said:“WhatevertheTripuragov-ernmentthoughtwasright,theydid. TMC may go toTripura...TMCwillnotsucceedindoinganything.”

Discussionsto‘replaceCM’;ex-DGPturnsdownSidhuoffer

Sidhupicksnewadvisers,camptalksofMLAs’meet

TMC leaders booked for ‘misbehaving’ with cops

TMCactivistsprotestoutsidetheGovernor’shouse inKolkata. PTI

‘Widespread resentment’: Captmeets PM, seeks farm laws repeal

Justice Rohinton Nariman exits, batted for free speech, privacy

BJD panel meets Shah, demands caste census

CM’scampwasabuzzwithtalk thatheraised issuesrelatedtoSidhuinameetwithSoniaGandhi File

JusticeRohintonFaliNariman

AmitShahatParliamentHouseonWednesday.PTI

AmarinderSinghwithPMModi in DelhiWednesday.PTI

AISHWARYAMOHANTYBHUBANESWAR,AUGUST11

FORMER BJD MLA PradeepPanigrahi onWednesday filedacontempt petition againstOdisha Lokayukta Justice AjitSingh and Lokayukta SecretaryManas Tripathy for allegedlyforging High Court orders per-taining to a vigilance probeagainstPanigrahi.After Panigrahi’s arrest in

Decemberlastyearbythecrimebranch, the Lokayukta directedthe state vigilance departmenttoprobe thecorruptionchargesagainstPanigrahi.TheBJDleaderwas expelled by his party andserved sevenmonths in prisonbeforebeinggrantedbail.Itwasthefirstsuchcaseofcor-

ruptionagainstapoliticianthatwasreferredbythestategovernmenttotheLokayuktaafteritscreation.ButtheHighCourtinFebruarydis-missedtheLokayukta’sorder,say-ingthatacomplainantcannotbetheinvestigatorinaquasi-judicialproceeding.The Lokayukta then filed a

Special Leave Petition (SLP) intheSupremeCourtonApril 5.Panigrahi, in his contempt

petition, has now alleged thattheHighCourtorderassubmit-

ted by the Lokayukta with theSLPhasbeenforged.“Nosuchor-der running into six pages con-tainingnineparagraphsexhaus-tively dealing with theprovisions of law, including thegrounds of locus standi for dis-missaloftheviewofjudicialpro-ceedingsinthereviewpetition,”the contempt petition stated.“The parties have forged, fabri-cated andmanufactured the al-legedjudgementforthepurposeof litigation before theapexcourt.”PapersaccessedbyTheIndian

Expressshowthedifferenceinthetwoorders--therearenineaddi-tionalparagraphsontheproceed-ingsintheallegedlyforgedorderwhichalsofavoursdismissingthevigilanceprobe.Panigrahi’s lawyer Pitambar

Acharyasaid, “Ihaveneverseensuch amisconduct. It is not justcontempt but also a crime toforge judicial documents andalsoprovide themaspart of theSLP in theapexcourt.”The Indian Express tried to

contact Justice Singh andTripathy for comment, but theywereunavailable.High Court Registrar Suman

Mishra refused to comment onthematter,sayinghewasnotau-thorised todoso.

Ex-MLA files contemptplea against Lokayukta,says he forged HC order

ODISHA

SHAJUPHILIPTHIRUVANANANTHAPURAM,AUGUST11

ANACCUSEDintheallegedsmug-glingof gold throughdiplomaticcargo meant for the UAEConsulate in Kerala has allegedthat Chief Minister PinarayiVijayan tookapacket containinga bundle of currency to theUAEduring one of his visits to theEmiratesin2017.TheCustomsclaimedthatthe

statement was made byConsulate’s former staffer P SSarith, inadepositioninOctober.It was while probing the goldsmugglingcasethattheCustomshad, inAugust2019,comeacrossalleged illegal export of US$190,000by theConsulate’s for-mer financial head, KhaledMohamedAlShoukry.TheCustomshasmentioned

theclaimagainstVijayaninshowcausenoticesissuedonJuly29tothesixpersonsnamedintheille-galexportofdollars.The six— includingShoukry,

Sarith,SwapnaSuresh(thenexec-utive secretaryat theConsulate),and formerprincipal secretary toVijayanPSivasankar—havetofiletheir replywithin30days,beforethecasecanbeadjudicatedonthebasis of the evidence on record.Swapna is also anaccused in thegoldsmugglingcase.Earlier,CPMleaderandformer

Assembly Speaker P Sreera-makrishnan’snamehadcomeupoverallegedsmugglingofforeigncurrency. On Wednesday,Sreeramakrishnan said theCus-toms had not issued any show-casenoticetohim.“TheCustomsis convincedwithmystatementand about my innocence.Otherwise, they would haveservedanoticetometoo.”Separately, the Kerala High

CourtWednesdaystayedanorderby the Vijayan government ap-pointingaCommissionofInquiry(CoI)tolookintoany“attempt”bytheEnforcementDirectorate(ED)to implicate the CM in the goldsmuggling case, saying aparallelinquirywould“derailtheinvesti-gation”.TheLeftgovernmenthadappointed theCoI onMay7. ThestaycameonapleabytheED.Reacting to reports of Sarith

namingVijayan, theCM’sOfficesaid, “The issuedoesnot requireanyreaction.Ithadbeendebatedalot inthepast.Thematter isnotgoing to affect us in anymanner.Thestatedshowcausenoticeshadbeenissuedlastmonth,butmighthave been leaked today againstthebackdropof thecourtverdict(theHighCourt staying the stategovernment’sCoI).”TheCustomssaysinitsnotices,

“Duringinvestigation,incriminat-ingevidenceofillegalexportoffor-eign currency was unearthedagainst former Consul GeneralJamalHuseinAlZaabi,AliShoukry.However, they couldnotbe con-fronted...astheywerenotavailableinthecountry...Investigationsalsorevealed the involvementof per-sonsholdingconstitutionalposts...However, as the key personsAlZaabiandAliShoukrycouldnotbeexamined so far, appropriate ac-tionwill be initiatedagainstper-sons,hereinnamedornot,onthebasisofevidences.”TheCustoms says that in his

statement under Section 124 oftheCustomsAct, Sarith said thatinearly2017,hegotacallfromtheGeneral AdministrationDepart-ment (of the state government)sayingtheCMplannedtotraveltotheUAE.Thearrangementsforthedelegationvisitwerecoordinatedby the Consulate,with SwapnaandthenConsulGeneralJamalAlZaabihandlingthetravelplans.According to Sarith, Swapna

sought the contact number ofVijayan’s aide Sivasankar in thisregard.SarithsaidafterVijayanleftfor

theUAE, Swapna calledhimandsaid theConsulGeneralwantedhimtocollectapacketwhichtheCMhad forgotten to carry. Sarithsaid he accordingly picked up apacketfromtheSecretariat, froman employee of the GeneralAdministrationDepartment.Theshowcausenoticequotes

Sarithassayinghedecidedtoputthepacket throughanX-rayma-chineat theConsulateoutof cu-riosity. “He foundthat thepacketcontainedabundleofcurrencyandsomeother items.He confiden-tiallyconveyedthistoSwapna.Asper thedirectionsof Swapna, hehandedoverthepackettoAhamedAlDoukhi,theadminAttacheattheConsulate,whowas travelling totheUAE, tohandover thatpackettotheChiefMinister,onthedirec-tionsoftheConsulGeneral.”Swapna has reportedly sec-

ondedthisinherstatementtotheCustoms, saying Sivasankar hadcalledher and said therewas animportant packet that had to besenttotheUAEtotheCM.ShesaidAlDoukhitookthepacket.

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Gold smugglingaccused saidPinarayi carriedbundle of cash toUAE: Customs

KeralaCMPinarayiVijayan

IRAMSIDDIQUEBHOPAL,AUGUST11

FIVE CONGRESS leaders werebooked and around 100 YouthCongressworkersweredetainedonWednesdaywhile theywereattempting to 'gherao ChiefMinisterShivrajSinghChouhan'sresidenceinBhopaltoproteston

several issues, including thePegasus snooping allegations,unemploymentandinflation.National Youth Congress

president Srinivas B V, stateYouth Congress presidentVikrant Bhuriya, and MLAsJaivardhan Singh and KunalChaudhary were among thosebooked under sections 188 and147of the IPC.

Youth Cong protest inMP: Four leaders booked

New Delhi



EXPRESSNETWORK

Chaduni: Noplan to contestPunjab polls, notin race to be CM

VISHWASWAGHMODEMUMBAI, AUGUST11

FOLLOWINGDEMANDSfromho-telandrestaurantassociations,re-tailersandothersectionsof soci-ety,theMaharashtragovernmentonWednesday eased lockdownrestrictions further byextendingtradetimingsacrossthestatefromAugust15.Restaurants,bars,shops,shop-

pingmalls, gymnasiums, yogacentres, salons and spas arenowallowed to remainopenuntil 10pmonall days. However,movieanddrama theatres,multiplexes(independentorpartofshoppingmalls) and all places ofworshipwillremainclosed.Earlier,while restaurantshad

toshutdownat4pm,otherestab-lishmentswerepermitted to re-main open until 8 pm. OnSaturdays,allestablishmentshadtoshutdownat3pm,andevery-thingwasclosedonSundays.Whilethegovernmenthasre-

laxed these restriction, a lock-downwillbeimposedacrossthestate if the demand formedicaloxygenforCovid-19patientsrises

to 700MTper day,which trans-lates into30,000patients requir-ingoxygen.Accordingtotheorder issued

onWednesday, the governmenthasallowedrestaurantsandbarsto remainopenuntil 10pmwith50per cent capacity on all days.Last orders can be taken until 9pmbut takeawayorhomedeliv-ery service can be provided24hours.Shopsandshoppingmallscan

remainopentill10pmonalldays.However, only customerswhohavetakenbothdosesof vaccineand completed14days after thesecondjabareallowedentry.The order further said that

fully vaccinated people are al-lowedtotravelbysuburbanlocaltrains fromAugust 15, provided14 days have passed since theywere administered theseconddose.Chief Minister Uddhav

Thackeray said in a statement: “I

reiteratethatwedon’tfeelhappyimposing restrictions. TheDeltaplusvariantisspreadingwidelyincountriessuchastheUnitedStatesandBritain.Insuchasituation,wehave to open up activities verycarefully.”While air-conditioned and

non-air-conditioned gymnasi-ums,yogacentres,salonsandspascan remain open till 10 pm, air-conditionedestablishmentsneedtoensureproperventilationinthepremises. Indoor sports such asbadminton, table tennis andsquashareallowedbutwithonlytwoplayers.Private and industrial estab-

lishments,whichhavevaccinatedtheir employees, can operate atfullcapacity.However,privatees-tablishmentscanremainopen24hourswith25percentattendancepershift.Thackeray said the govern-

mentwouldimposealockdownifthe requirement of oxygenincreases.“Ifthestaterequires700met-

ric tonne of oxygen daily forCovid-19 patients, then a lock-downwill be imposed immedi-ately,”headded.

Commuters lineuptobuy local trainpasses inThaneonWednesday.Deepak Joshi

23,251 monthly local passes issued

UddhavThackeray

Maharashtra curbs relaxed further;theatres, places ofworship still shut

Mumbai: A total of 23,251monthly local train passeswereissued on the first day as theCentralandWesternRailwaybe-gan the process to issue passesWednesday for thosewhohavebeen fully vaccinated and com-pleted the14-daypost-jabwait-ingperiod.OnAugust 8, Chief Minister

Uddhav Thackeray had an-nouncedthatthelocaltrainserv-iceswere scheduled to open for

fully vaccinated citizens fromAugust15.On Wednesday, a total of

25,000peoplegottheirCovid-19vaccine certificates verified butonly23,251passeswereissuedbytherailways,officialssaid.Railwayofficials,meanwhile,

saidtheywereworkingonaplanon how many train serviceswouldberequiredtocater to theincrease in passengers fromAugust15onwards. ENS

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICEPUNE,AUGUST11

THE LAUNCH of EOS-03— partofanewgenerationofearthob-servationsatellites—intheearlyhours of Thursday will likelymark the end of the Covid-trig-gered lull in India’s space sectorasISROplansastringof launchesin thecomingmonths.This is the firstmajor launch

byISROthisyear; it launched18small, mainly foreign, satellitesinFebruary.EOS-03, which is capable of

imaging the entire country fourto five times every day, is ridingon a GSLV rocket (GSLV-F10),whichhasanewpayloadcarrierdesignedtosignificantlyreduceaerodynamic drag and thuscarry largerpayloads.

The rocket will deposit thesatellite in the geostationarytransfer orbit, fromwhere thesatellite’s onboard propulsionsystemwill guide it to a geosta-tionary orbit, 36,000 km fromearth’s surface.EOS-03 ismeant to provide

almostreal-timeimagesof largeparts of the country andwill beused formonitoringwaterbod-ies, crops, vegetation, forestcover,andnaturaldisasterssuchas floodsandcyclones.EOS-03isbeingsentaheadof

EOS-02whichhasbeendelayedby the pandemic. EOS-02 wassupposed to ride on ISRO’s newSSLV (Small Satellite LaunchVehicle) rocket. SSLVs willbroaden ISRO’s current rocketrange that comprisesPSLVsandGSLVs, and cater to the increas-ing demand for launching of

small commercial satellites.EOS-02was supposed to be

launched aroundMarch-Aprilthis year, but now has beenrescheduled for September-October. At least four morelaunches are expected by theend of this year, including thelaunchoftwomoreearthobser-vationsatellites.In November last year, ISRO

hadlaunchedEOS-01,thefirstintheseriesofnewearthobserva-tion satellites that bear a newgeneric naming system. Earlier,the satellites were named ac-cording to the specific purposethey were supposed to serve,eventhoughtheyallwereearthobservation satellites. ISROlaunched a series comprisingCartosa,Risat,Oceansat and thelike. All such satellites arebeingnamedEOS.

EOS-3 launch today; set to befirst of several launches this yr

TheGSLV-F10 launchvehicleatSatishDhawanSpaceCentre inSriharikotaWednesday. Twitter


DELHI HIGH Court onWednesday issued a notice tojournalist Priya Ramani in con-nectionwith an appeal filed byformerUnionministerMJAkbaragainstatrialcourtorderacquit-tingherinadefamationcasefiledbyhimafter she accusedhimofsexualharassment.After hearing submissions

made by Senior Advocate RajivNayarandSeniorAdvocateGeetaLuthra,who representedAkbar,JusticeMukta Gupta listed thecaseforhearingonJanuary13.Akbarhadfiledadefamation

caseagainstRamaniin2018.Thetrial courthadacquittedRamaniinthecaseonFebruary17.In the criminal defamation

case against Ramani, Akbar hadaccusedherofdamaginghisrep-utationbywayof tweetsandar-ticles published in printmediaandonline.While acquitting Ramani,

Additional Chief MetropolitanMagistrate Ravindra KumarPandey had said that the courttook intoconsiderationthe“sys-tematicabuseattheworkplace”,whichwas prevalent due to thelack of amechanism to redressthe grievance of sexual harass-ment at the timeof the incidentagainst Ramani and witnessGhazalaWahab.

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICECHANDIGARH,AUGUST11

TWODAYS after an industrial-ists’outfit fromPunjab floatedanew political party — BhartiyaArthik Party (BAP)—projectingBKU (Chaduni) leader GurnamSinghChaduniasitsCMface,thefarmer leaderWednesdayclari-fied that he is not going to con-test the upcoming Assembly

polls inPunjab.“NeitheramI

the CM face nordo I intend tocontest polls inPunjab,” de-clared Chaduniin a videomes-sage to thefarmers.He said:

“Thereisspecu-lation for thepast fewdays thatinassociationwiththetradersofPunjab, I have formed a party. Iwould like tomake it clear thatneitherhave I formedanypartynor I have joined any party. Thetraders of Punjabhadcalledmefor a seminar and stated thattheywouldsupporttheMissionPunjab.What happened in (theseminar) further, I had noideaearlier.”“I never said I am going to

contestpollsorwillbecometheChiefMinister. Please stayawayfromsuch speculationandcon-tinue supporting the ongoingfarmers’ agitation...”hesaid.Nearlyamonthago,Chaduni

had called upon the people ofPunjab to launch‘MissionPunjab’.A prominent face of farmer

agitation, Chaduni had sug-gestedtheleadersoffarmersandmajdoorstocontesttheupcom-ing Punjab Assembly polls toformgovernment and to offer amodel of alternative govern-ment to theentirecountry.

GurnamSinghChaduni

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICEAHMEDABAD,AUGUST11

POLICEHAVEdetained twoper-sonsinBanaskanthaforallegedlyuploadingasleazyvideoonsocialmedia claiming it to be of BJPmember of parliament ParbatPatel,72.Accordingtopolice,anFIRwas

lodgedatTharadPoliceStationonTuesday after ShaileshPatel, sonoftheMP,filedacomplaintalleg-ingthattheaccused,inaconspir-acy to extortmoneyanddefamehis family, haduploadeda “doc-tored video” on social mediaclaimingittobeofhisfather.The FIR bookedMagha Patel

andMukesh Rajput, both resi-dents of Banaskantha, under IPCsections389forextortion,500fordefamationand120bforcriminalconspiracyalongwithsectionsofthe Information Technology(Amendment)Act.According to the police,

Magha had announced on hisFacebookpagethathewouldposta video about theMPonAugust15.However,byAugust9,avideosurfaced on socialmediawhichshowed amanwith awoman.According to the complaint filedbyShaileshPatel,thevideowasal-legedlypostedbyMukeshRajputonaWhatsAppgroupwhichthenbecameviral.After the FIRwas lodged, po-

liceofficerssaidthattheprobehas

been handed over to PalanpurLocalCrimeBranch.Speaking to The Indian

Express, deputy superintendentof police PH Chaudhary ofDeodar division said, "MaghaPatel andMukesh Rajput havebeendetainedforquestioningasof now. We have seized theirphonesandthevideofootagehasbeensenttotheforensicsciencelaboratory foranalysis."Shailesh Patel told reporters

that thevideohasbeenused fordefaminghisfatherandtoextortmoney."MaghaPatelhasbeenthreat-

ening to release the video forsometime.Thisisaneditedvideocreatedonlytodefamemyfather.This is a conspiracy and the ac-cused had earlier demandedmoneyinexchangefornotreleas-ingthevideo,"aPTIreportquotedShaileshPatelassaying.ParbatbhaiPatel,whohadpre-

viouslyservedasaministerintheBJPgovernmentinGujarat,thePTIreportsaid,claimedthevideohasbeeneditedbysuperimposinghisfaceonthepersonseenintheclip."Everyone knows aboutmy

character. Inever indulged inanywrongdoingsinmyentirelife.Itispossible thatmyphotowasusedformaking suchaneditedvideo.Peoplehavebeentryingtoextortmoneyfrommesince2016forthisvideo.Ihadchallengedthemtore-leaseitiftheywantto,"thePTIre-portquotedtheMPassaying.

Lucknow: Police onWednesdaysaid that twomenwho tried tolootmoney fromacash vanandshot an ATMguard onMondaywerekilledinanencounteradayafterthefailedheistattempt.Accordingtopolice,Abhishek

andNitintriedtolootmoneyfromacashvan in theSingramauareaof Jaunpur onMonday eveningand opened fire that led to thedeathof anATMguard. Theduofledafterthesecurityguardsofthecashvanopenedretaliatoryfire.“On Tuesday, a police patrol

team got inputs about them.Policeteamsreachedthespot.Thetwoassailantswereonabikeandopenedfire.Oneofthebulletshitaconstable. Inretaliatoryfire,thetwocriminalswereinjured.Theywere taken to district hospitalwheretheyweredeclareddead,”Superintendent of Police(Jaunpur)AjaySahanisaid. ENS

Mangaldoi:Adacoitwaskilled ina police encounterwhenhe at-tempted to escape fromcustodyin Assam's Darrang district onWednesday, a senior officer said.With the fresh encounter, a totalof 17 accusedpeople have beenkilled and 31 others injured inAssam as they allegedly at-temptedtoevadearrestorescapefrom police custody since theHimanta Biswa Sarma govern-mentassumedofficeonMay10.The dacoit, who was the

prime suspect in themurder ofprominent advocate BinoyKumar Ghosh, was nabbed inKharupetiainDalgaonpolicesta-tion area.While being taken tothe police station, he attemptedto escape by attacking a police-man, followingwhich other lawenforcersretaliated,leadingtohisdeath on the spot,SuperintendentofPoliceSushantBiswaSarmasaid. PTI

2 detained for uploadingGujarat MP’s ‘sleazevideo’; doctored, he says

DEFAMATIONCASE

HC notice toRamani onAkbar’s pleaagainst acquittal

DELHI

CanadaextendsbanondirectIndiaflightsToronto:Canadahasagainextended itsbanonarriv-ing passenger flights di-rectly from India tillSeptember 21due to therisks posed by the pan-demic,thefederaltransportministry has said. OmarAlghabra, Minister ofTransport of Canada,tweeted,“TheGovernmentof Canadahas suspendedflights from India untilSeptember21...passengerswhotraveltoCanadafromIndiaviaan indirect routewill need toobtain apre-departurenegativeCovid-19 molecular test resultfromathirdcountrybeforecontinuingtheirjourneytoCanada.” PTI

HIMACHALPRADESH

VaccinationorCovidreportmustfortravelShimla: The HimachalPradesh government hasmadeanegativeCovid-19report or full vaccinationmandatory for all peopleintending to visit the hillstatefromAugust13.ChiefSecretary Ram SubhagSinghstated,“ItisobservedthatthenumberofCovid-19activecasesandpositiv-ityrateareincreasinginthestate and the situation isstillprecarious.”OnAugust6, the state governmentmademandatory anega-tive RT-PCR report or fullvaccination for visitingtemples during 'ShrawanAshtmi Navratras' fromAugust9toAugust17. PTI

GOA

Manheldforrape‘metminoronsocialmedia’Panaji:A31-year-oldmanwasarrested for allegedlyrapinga13-year-oldgirlinNorth Goa. The accusedhadbefriendedthegirlonsocial media and hadcome from Maneri inMaharashtra tomeet thegirl inavillageclosetotheGoa-Maharashtra border.North Goa SP ShobhitSaksena said the girl’s fa-ther had lodged a com-plaintaftershedidnotre-turnhomefromschoolonTuesday.Theaccusedwasarrested by the police onTuesdayevening. ENS

BRIEFLY

Two who killedATM guard shotin UP encounter

Dacoit ‘fleeingcustody’ killed inAssam encounter

Minister writes to PM over ‘attackson religious minorities’ in BangladeshKolkata: Minister of state forPorts,ShippingandWaterways,ShantanuThakur,haswrittentoPrimeminister NarendraModihighlighting recent alleged at-tacks on religiousminorities inBangladesh. Thakur is a BJP LokSabhaMPfromBongaon.

Thakur appealed to thePrimeminister to look into thematter and “instruct the con-cerned department” to safe-guard the “Right of MinorityCommunity (Matua/Hindu)through multi dimensionalperspective”. ENS

528DAYSSINCEPANDEMICBEGAN

TRACKING THE SECOND SURGE

NEWCASES: 41,479ACTIVE CASES:3,89,956TOTAL VACCINATION:51,90,80,524

DAILY DEATHS493

TOTALDEATHS4,29,672

WEEKLY CFR1.25%

OVERALL CFR1.36%

TESTS TODAY: 19,27,579 | TOTAL TESTS: 48,69,84,086

WEEKLY POSITIVITY: 2.20% | OVERALL POSITIVITY: 6.59%

STATESREPORTINGMOSTCASES

STATE NEW ACTIVE WEEKLY TOTALCASES CASES POSITIVITY VACCINATION

■Kerala 23,500 1,76,399 13.93% 2,22,01,978

■Maharashtra 5,560 64,570 3.05% 4,75,01,569

■TamilNadu 1,964 20,382 1.23% 2,57,59,024

■AndhraPradesh 1,869 18,417 2.52% 2,41,24,201

■Karnataka 1,826 22,877 1.07% 3,35,10,210

STATESREPORTINGMOSTDEATHS

STATE TODAY’S TOTAL WEEKLY OVERALLDEATHS DEATHS CFR CFR

■Maharashtra 169 1,37,812 2.19% 2.19%

■Kerala 116 18,199 0.74% 0.55%

■Odisha 65 6,683 3.23% 0.69%

■Karnataka 33 36,881 1.85% 1.27%

■TamilNadu 28 34,395 1.57% 1.35%

Note:DataasonAug11;vaccinationnumbersasofAug10.Deathsincludethosefrompreviousdays.

ARMYCHOPPERCRASH

MANAMANSINGHCHHINACHANDIGARH,AUGUST11

THEWRECKAGEofanArmyhel-icopter, which crashed intoRanjit Sagar Dam reservoir onAugust 3, has been located at adepth80metres,Armyauthori-ties saidonWednesday.Thewreckagewas found on

theninthdayofthesearchoper-ationsafteranareaof60x60me-treswaslocalisedinthelakeandspecial Sonarequipment, flownin from Kochi, was pressedintoservice.Army authorities said the

wreckageofthecabinofthehel-icopter appears to be intact asper Sonar signature. However,therearenosignsof theremainsof thetwopilots.Specialsalvage

equipmentwillhavetobetrans-ported to thesite, asequipmentbeingusedisnotadequatetoliftthewreckage, itwas informed.Heavy-duty remotely oper-

ated vehicles are also beingtransported to the site, as per atweet put out by theWesternCommand Headquarters inChandimandir.A senior Army officer said

private companieswithexpert-ise to conduct such salvage op-erationsarebeingengagedtogetthewreckageout of thedepths.The National Disaster ReliefForce (NDRF) is also in touchwithafirm,whichspecialises insuchwork,theofficerinformed.“Militaryauthoritiesareleav-

ingnostoneunturned,”Jammu-basedArmyPROLtColDevenderAnandhadearlier said.

Wreckage located, nosigns of pilots’ remains

SAGARRAJPUT&VIVEKDESHPANDEMUMBAI,NAGPUR,AUGUST11

A29-YEAR-OLD school dropoutturnedaviationenthusiast fromFulsawangi in Yavatmal district,whowas keen on building hisown helicopter, died onWednesday.Hewasstruckbytherotorbladeofthecontraptionhehadbuiltandwastesting.Engaged inweldingand fab-

rication works in Fulsawangi,ShaikhIsmail,aclassVIIIdropout,haddevelopedaninterestinavi-ation a few years ago. He wasworking on building his own‘Munna Helicopter’ for the lasttwoyears.Early Wednesday, when

Shaikhhaddecidedtoundertakeatrialrunof thecontraptionand

startedtheengine,itsrotorbladetore off and hit him, killing himimmediately.“Onethebladesfelloffandhit

theyouthonhishead,”YavatmalSP Dilip Patil Bhujbal said. Thepolice said Shaikh didweldingand other fabrication work tofundhisdailybasicneeds,andatnightworkedonhishelicopter.

He had told his friends thathelicopters are usually sold forcroresandonlyrichpeoplecouldaffordtoridethem.Hewantedtobuildahelicop-

ter at Rs 30 lakh so that even amiddle-class person could buyoneoritcanbeusedinrescueop-erations during natural calami-ties,apoliceofficersaid.PolicehavelearntthatShaikh

hadusedtheengineofaMaruti-800 car in his helicopter. Otherparts such as rotors, shaft andlanding skids weremade fromthematerialheprocuredfromlo-cal scrapdealers,anofficersaid.KhurshidAkram,ateakwood

trader from Pusad town, said,“Shaikh often said he wouldpresenthishelicopter to thena-tionaspartof ‘MakeinIndia’ ini-tiative and hadwritten the slo-ganonhishelicopteraswell.”

Thecontraptionthat Ismailwastesting. Express

Trying to make a chopper, manstruck by its rotor blade, dies

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICEBENGALURU,AUGUST11

KARNATAKA CHIEF MinisterBasavaraj Bommai has comeupagainsthisfirstcrisissincetakingoverthetopjob,withacontrover-sialminister in his new cabinetthreateningtoquitovertheport-folioallocatedtohim.AnandSingh,whowasmade

theMinister for Environment,EcologyandTourism,isawealthymining businessman-turned-politicianwhohasbeenaccusedofillegalminingandforestcrimes.AnditistheForestportfolio—

whichwasgiventohimforabriefperiodduringthetenureofformerChiefMinisterBSYediyurappa—that theVijayanagaraMLAissaidtohavehiseyeson.Hisalternativedemandis the

Energyportfolio,whichhasbeen

given to Sunil Kumar Karkala, afirst-timeministerwithRSSroots.Singhisoneof theMLAswho

helpedtoppletheCongress-JD(S)governmentin2019.DespiteeffortsbyBommai to

convincehim, Singh seemed in-tent on leaving the cabinet if hedidnothavehisway.Yediyurappaorganised ameetingwith SinghWednesday. Singh also metBommailateWednesday.“Anand Singh iswith us and

he is a part of the BJP govern-ment,” Bommai said.Hedidnotcategorically statewhether theportfoliocrisishadbeenresolved.

Portfolio row: Karnatakaminister threatens to quit

AnandSinghisseekingtheForestportfolio

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SANTOSHSINGHPATNA,AUGUST11

GIVEN THE responsibility of sell-ing empty gunny bags after theiruse in themiddaymeal scheme,Biharteacherassociationshavede-cidedtoprotestatalldistricthead-quarters against the governmentorder.Theywillalsoprotestthere-sultant suspension of a schoolteacher fromKatihar.On July22, Biharmiddaymeal

directorSatishChandraJhahadis-sued anorder asking eachdistrictprogrammeofficer tohaveemptygunny bags sold at a rate of Rs 10per piece, and to deposit theamountwith thegovernment.Theorder cameafter theprin-

cipal accountant general soughtdetails of gunnybags used for themiddaymeal scheme in 2014-15and2015-16.Last week, a Katihar teacher,

Mohammed Tamizuddin, wasseeninavideowalkingwithgunnybags on his head and urging peo-ple tobuyhisbags.Orelse,hewasheard saying in the video whichwassharedwidely,hissalarycouldbededucted.Tamizuddinwaslatersuspended for “violating” pan-chayat teachers’ conduct rules.BiharPrimarySchool Teachers'

Association president BrajnandanSharmasaid:“Wehaveheldameet-ingwith our various associationsanddecidedtoholdprotestsagainstthesuspensionoftheteacher....Weare(also)protestingagainstthegov-ernment’s order to teachers tosellbagsatblockheadquarters

on August 13, and at the districtheadquartersonAugust16.”State Additional Chief

Secretary, Education, SanjayKumar told The Indian Express,“There is nothingwrongwith theMDMdirector'sorder.Teachersarenot asked to sell gunny bags likeonesawinaviralvideo—theycanengagekabadiwals...”But State Middle School

Teachers' Association spokesper-son Abhishek Kumar sad that the“primary identity of teachers”must bemaintained.Many stateshavedissociatedteachersfromthescheme,headded.Brajnandan Sharma said: “It is

not a teacher's job to sell gunnybags. (But in Bihar) teachers havebeenengagedmoreinnon-teach-ingworkthantheirmainjobof im-partingeducation.”


SUPREMECOURT onWednesday expressed dis-pleasure over delay in filling up vacancies in theNationalConsumerDisputesRedressalCommissionand State Consumer Disputes RedressalCommissions,anddirectedtheCentreandstatestocompletetheprocesswithineightweeks.Abenchof JusticesSKKaulandHrishikeshRoy

alsoaskedtheCentrewhether ithadconductedalegislative impactstudypriortotheenactmentoftheConsumerProtectionAct,2019andgaveitfourweeks time to complete this and submit a reportto thecourt.Thebenchwashearingasuomotucaseon in-

actioninappointingpresidentandmembers/staffofDistrictsandStateConsumerDisputesRedressalCommissionandinadequateinfrastructureacrossIndia.Appearing for the Centre, Additional Solicitor

General Aman Lekhi said hewill try to persuadethe authorities concerned to fill up the vacanciesfastandaddedthatthetermsofappointmentwillbeaspertherecentlypassedlawTribunalReformsAct, 2021.Thebench,however,didnotappearconvinced

andremindedthathehadsaidevenearlierthatallvacanciesattheNationalCommissionwillbefilledupbut thathasnothappened. “Don't raisehopeswhenyoucannotfulfiltheaspirations.Consumersaregettingnoredressalof theirgrievancesduetocases piling up owing to the vacancies at the fo-

rum,” said thebench.The bench also conveyed its

unhappiness on the lack of a leg-islative impact study, saying“nothingunfortunatelywasdonebefore the 2019 Act was intro-duced”. It said that an affidavitfiled by the Centre only referredto a post-facto exercise after theAct had come into force and thattoo only in respect of increase inpecuniary jurisdiction.“Atleastnowacomprehensive

legislativeimpactstudyshouldbedone,” it said, and directed thattheexercisebecompletedandthereportplacedbeforeitwithinfourweeks.Lekhi said there is already a

pre-legislative consultation pol-icy, which provides for consulta-tions with the stakeholders. Hesaid the 2019 Act is only anamendment of the 2015 Bill,which was dealt with by thestandingcommitteeandnostatehadobjected to it.Butthebenchsaidalegislative

impactstudyisnecessaryifanewavatar of an Act is brought intoforce.

Battery (Management & Handling) Rules, 2001came into force w.e.f 16th May, 2001. These rulesmandate various responsibilities onmanufacturers, importers, assemblers, re-conditioners, dealers, recyclers, consumers, bulkconsumers and auctioneers. Major responsibilitiesof each of these stakeholders are listed as under.

Manufacturers/ImportersShall ensure that the new batteries be sold only

to the registered dealers and the used batteriesare collected back as per the schedule againstnew batteries sold excluding those sold to originalequipment manufacturer and bulk consumer(s).

Shall file a half-yearly return of their salesand buy-back to the Delhi Pollution ControlCommittee (DPCC) in Form- I latest by 30th June(for Oct-Mar) and 31st December (for Apr-Sept)of every year.

Set up collection centres either individually orjointly at various places for collection of usedbatteries from consumers or dealers and shallensure that the collected batteries are sent only tothe registered recyclers.

Shall ensure that necessary arrangements aremade with dealers for safe transportation fromcollection centres to the premises of registeredrecyclers and shall ensure that no damage to theenvironment occurs during the transportation.

Create public awareness throughadvertisement, publications, posters or by othermeans with regards to (a) hazard of lead (b)responsibility of consumers to return theirused batteries only to the dealer or deliver atdesignated collection centre and (c) addressof the dealer and designated collectioncentres.

Buy recycled lead only from registeredrecyclers.

Bring to the notice of the DPCC or the Ministryof Environment, Forests and Climate Change,Government of India for any violation by thedealers.

Importers shall apply for registration as perForm II and Form III on the Central PollutionControl Board (CPCB) online portal for a period offive years (link: http://cpcbbrms.nic.in/).

Assemblers/Re-conditionersShall ensure that the used batteries collected

back are of similar type and specifications as thatof the new batteries sold and shall ensure thatused batteries collected are sent only toregistered recyclers.

Create public awareness throughadvertisement, publications, posters or by othermeans with regard to hazards of lead.

DealersApply for registration by submitting online

application in Form- IV available on DPCCwebsite by creating user ID and password for theperiod of five years.

Shall ensure that the used batteries arecollected back as per the schedule against newbatteries sold.

Shall ensure safe transportation of collectedbatteries to the designated collection centres or toregistered recyclers.

Shall file a half-yearly return of their sales

and buy-back of old batteries to the DPCC andmanufacturer in Form-V latest by 31st May (forOct-Mar) and 30th November (for Apr-Sept) ofevery year.

RecyclersShall apply for registration to the Ministry of

Environment, Forests and Climate Change or anagency designated by it (if not applied already), bysubmitting information in Form VI.

Shall submit half-yearly returns as per Form-VII to the DPCC latest by 30th June (for Oct-Mar)and 31st December (for Apr-Sept) of every year.

Shall make available all records relating toreceipt of used batteries, sources, quantities andmetal yield to be submitted to the DPCC.

Create public awareness throughadvertisement, publications, posters or by other

means with regards to (a) hazard of lead, and(b) obligation of consumers to return usedbatteries only to the registered dealers ordeliver at the designated collection centres.

Consumers/Bulk ConsumersShall ensure that used batteries are not

disposed off in any manner other than bydepositing with the dealer/ manufacturer/registered recycler/ importer/ re-conditioner or atthe designated collection centres.

Bulk consumers shall file half-yearly returnlatest by 30th June (for Oct-Mar) and 31stDecember (for Apr-Sept) in Form- I to DPCC.

Bulk consumers to their user units may auctionused batteries to registered recyclers only.

AuctioneersShall ensure that used batteries are auctioned

to the registered recyclers only.Shall maintain records relating to receipt of

used batteries, sources, quantities and metal yieldand submit to DPCC.

Shall file half-yearly returns of their auctionslatest by 30th June and 31st December to DPCCin Form-IX.

Note:- As per Batteries (Management andHandling) Amendment Rules, 2010, everydealer of Lead Acid Battery shall obtainregistration from DPCC, within 30 days of thisNotice and in case of failure legal actionincluding prosecution shall be initiated.

Member Secretary

DELHI POLLUTION CONTROL COMMITTEE(DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT)

4th FLOOR, ISBT BUILDING, KASHMERE GATE, DELHI-110006Visit us at: http://dpcc.delhigovt.nic.in

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Bihar teachers say not our job to sellmidday meal sacks; to hold protest

Fill vacanciesin consumerforums in 8weeks, says SC

Jammu: Traffic on the Rajouri-Poonch high-way remained suspended for nearly threehoursWednesday as residents blocked theroad to protest the alleged killing of an18-year-old man in Rajouri the previousnight.Acasehasbeenregistered. ENS


INDIA'STOTALfoodgrainproduc-tionhashitarecordhighof308.65million tonnes (MT) for 2020-21as the rabi foodgrain output ex-ceededthetarget,accordingtothefourth advance estimate of pro-duction released by theMinistryof Agriculture and Farmers’WelfareonWednesday.AccordingtotheMinistry, the

total foodgrainproduction targetfor 2020-21was 301MT and theprevious years figure stood at297.50MT.Rabi foodgrain production is

estimated at 159.08MT during2020-21, which is 5 percenthigher than the year’s target of151.65MT. It is also higher thanthe153.69MToutputrecordedin2019-20, shows data released bytheministry.According to the data, output

ofwheat – aprincipal rabi crop–is estimated at a record high of109.52MT, which is higher thantheyear’stargetof108MTandtheprevious year’s production of107.86MT.“Total production of rice dur-

ing2020-21isestimatedatrecord122.27milliontonnes. It ishigherby 9.83million tonnes than thelastfiveyears’averageproductionof 112.44 million tonnes,” theministry said inastatement.“Total pulses production dur-

ing2020-21isestimatedat25.72milliontonnes,whichishigherby3.73million tonnes than the lastfive years’ average production of21.99 million tonnes,” said thestatement.“Total oilseeds production in

thecountryduring2020-21ises-timated at record 36.10milliontonnes, which is higher by 2.88million tonnes than the produc-tionduring 2019-20. Further, theproduction of oilseeds during2020-21 ishigherby5.56milliontonnes than the average oilseedsproduction of 30.55 milliontonnes,” it said.

Govt: Rabi grainoutput exceedstarget, foodgrainoutput at recordhigh of 308 MT

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CENTRAL BUREAU ofInvestigation (CBI) has arrestedninepeopleinconnectionwithaRs 100.67-crore scam involvingfraudulentforeclosureandwith-drawaloffixeddepositsmadebyChennaiPortTrustinIndianBank.CBIsourcessaidmorearrests

were likely as they suspect in-volvementof port trust insidersin the scam, which surfaced inMay last year shortly after thefixeddepositsweremade.“It is certain that therewere

peoplefromtheportwhoplayedaroleinthis.Weareprobing,”saidasourcefamiliarwiththeinvesti-gation, referring to thebreach inseveral layersofsecuritymecha-nismsthat ledtothefraud.ThearrestsonTuesdaycame

twomonths after port trust au-thorities moved the MadrasHigh Court, seeking repaymentof theamountby thebank.Theporttrust,whichusually

investsitsfundsinfixeddepositswith nationalised banks afterinviting sealed bids, had de-positedthemoneyinfiveinstall-mentsbetweenMarchandMay2020 at Indian Bank’sKoyambedubranch.Aheadof the deposits, it had

followed the norm of invitingquotes for the FD in “non-callable”category,whichensuresnoforeclosurecanbemadewith-outapenalty.Also,thetermsandconditions stated that the porttrust won't foreclose the ac-countsandtherewillbemanda-tory communication with thebankforeachof thedeposits.The first hint of irregularity

emerged during communica-tionsbetweentheporttrustandthe bankwith regard to an on-line deposit of Rs 62.08 crore.The bank receipt said itwas de-posited onMay 5, 2020, whilethedepositwasoriginallymadeonMay4.TheissuewasresolvedwiththebankonMay8assuringacorrection.Ten days later, the port trust

receivedabankcommunicationstating that the deposit of Rs62.08crorewasclosedonMay8.This alarmedport authorities astheyhadnotsoughtforeclosure.The CBI, whichwas handed

overtheprobeamonthafterthefraudemerged,registeredacasein July 2020 against the bank’sbranchmanager and unknownsuspects for fraud, forgery andimpersonation.Althoughtheporttrustclaims

to have lost Rs 100.67 crore, theCBIsaidRs45.4crorewaslostandtherestwas frozen immediately

ondetectionof thefraud.Onthefraud,theCBIsaidthe

accusedallegedlygatheredsup-portinthebankandporttoopenterm deposit accounts in thebank.Followingthis,45termde-posit accountswerecreated.“Oneoftheaccusedallegedly

impersonated as DeputyDirector (Finance) of ChPT[ChennaiPortTrust]andopeneda fake current account in theport's name. After receipt of in-vestment from the ChPT oneveryoccasion,thebankcreatedterm deposit receipts [bond]against thesaid investmentandthe said bondwas received bythe accused from the bank di-rectly. Instead of delivering theoriginal bond to ChPT, the ac-cusedmadeduplicatebondsandsubmitted the forged bonds toChPT,” saidaCBI statement.The accused then allegedly

presented the original bonds inIndian Bank, KoyambeduBranch, and pre-closed the FDsoneafteranotherwithindaysofthedeposits.The money was allegedly

credited into the fake currentaccount created in the port'snameandsubsequentlytrans-ferred to 28 other accounts.The account holders thenwithdrew the money andhandeditovertotheaccused.

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICEBENGALURU,AUGUST11

AUSfederalcourthasrefusedtostayproceedingsinapleabyfor-eign investors in DevasMultimedia seeking confirma-tionof$1.3billioncompensationtobepaidbyAntrixCorporation,the commercial arm of theIndian Space ResearchOrganisation, on account of afailed 2005 deal for Antrix tobuild and launch two satellitesforDevas.The US federal court for the

Western district ofWashingtonhas cited delays in the appoint-ment of an advocate for DevasMultimedia by a liquidator forthe companywhile rejecting apleaforastayonconfirmationofa September 14, 2015International Chamber ofCommercearbitrationaward.The liquidator appointed on

the orders of the NationalCompany Law Tribunal inBengaluru had opposed themoveby three foreign investors

in Devas Multimedia to seekconfirmation of the arbitrationawardby citing anorder for liq-uidationofDevasbyNCLT.“Theliquidatorforpetitioner

firedpetitioner’sformercounselin early February 2021 and al-though the court directed theliquidatortohirenewcounselincompliancewith the local civilrulesonMarch23,2021, the liq-uidator waited nearly fourmonths to do so on July 14,2021,''theUScourthasobserved.“Asthecourthasrepeatedlyem-phasized,this matterhas beensubjectedtohindranceand delay,largely onthe part ofrespondentAntrixCorp.Ltd.Thepar-ties’ disputearises fromconduct inFebruary

2011,theawardwasissuedinfa-vor of petitioner in September2015, and petitioner’s relatedconfirmationactionwas filed inthiscourtnearlythreeyearsagoinSeptember2018,” thedistrictjudgeThomasSZillynoted.“Thecourtconcludesthatpe-

titioner’smotion forastay lacksmerit under these circum-stances and is intended to fur-therdelaytheseproceedings,aswell as petitioners or inter-venors’ right to recover on theaward,''theUScourthasstated.

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICEPANAJI, AUGUST11

A RECENT study has foundmi-croplasticsinsamples oftapwa-ter supplied toGoahouseholds.The study report, released

Wednesday, showed that 288microplastic particles werefound in 11 samples— five col-lected from Panaji, Mapusa,Margao, Marcel and Cancona,and six fromwater treatment

plants (WTPs) atOpa, AssonoraandSelaulim.Thestudywascarriedoutby

by CSIR-National Institute ofOceanographyandDelhi-basedresearchandadvocacyorganisa-tionToxics Link.“Shockingly,MPs(microplas-

tics)weredetectedinall tapwa-tersamplesaswellaswatersam-ples collected from differentWTPs.Thoughtheirnumbervar-ied, their presence, especially intapwatersamples,raisesserious

concernaboutmicroplasticex-posure for residents,” the re-port said.Microplasticswerepresent in pre-treatment andposttreatmentsamples,how-ever,thecontentintreatedwa-terwas lower.The report stated,

“However,althoughthereisnodocumentedevidence tilldatethatingestingmicroplasticscandirectly harmhumanhealth,the potential threat of mi-croplasticscannotbeignored.”

9 held for Rs 100-cr ChennaiPort Trust fixed deposit scam

Microplastics in Goa tap water samples: study

US court cites Antrix ‘delay’ tactics,refuses to stay proceedings in case


AHEAD OF the Teej festival, aHindutvaoutfitTuesdaytookoutamarchinaMuzaffarnagarmar-ket to “ensure” that noMuslimapplies henna to a Hindu cus-tomer.AnFIRhasbeenfiledafterthedemonstrationbythegroup,calling itselfKrantiSena.“Itwasbroughttoournotice

after a video was uploaded onsocialmedia. Security has been

heavilydeployedinpublicplacessince there aremany festivals.There is no lawandorder situa-tion,” said Aprit Vijayvargia, SPCityMuzaffarnagar.“WecarriedoutadriveinNayi

Mandi to check if therewas anyMuslimapplyinghenna.Wedidnot find any suchperson. Thereare ‘love jihad’ cases happeningand theMuslimmenwould tar-getHinduwomen.Ourmenwillmaintain constant vigil thatthingsarekeptincheck,”claimedManojSaini fromKrantiSena.

UP: Hindutva group protestsagainst Muslim henna artists

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COUNTING INAcastecensusislongoverdue.Accuratedatawillaidgovernmentsintargetingpolicies,helppartiestofocuspoliticaloutreach

CONSTITUENTSOFTHENDAhavecalledforacastecensusinrecentdays,andduringthepassageofthe127thConstitutionAmendmentBill,whichrestoresthe rights of state governments tomake their ownOBC lists, in Parliament.TheJanataDal (United),ApnaDal,andRPI(Athawale)havespokeninfavour

of conducting the exercise. Opposition parties such as the SP, RJD, DMK and TDP havealsoaskedforacastecount.TheUPAgovernmentheldaSocio-EconomicCasteCensusin2011,butthedatawasnotreleased. InJulythisyear,theUnionMinisterofStateforHomeAffairs told Parliament that “theGovernment of India has decided as amatter of policynottoenumeratecaste-wisepopulationotherthanSCsandSTsinCensus”.Thispositionis increasinglyuntenable.Thearchitectureof India’saffirmativeprogrammeisbasedoncaste. Public policymust not be formulated on the basis of hazy projections andblurryextrapolations. Accurate data on the caste composition of the population is needed tomaximise thegainsof policies suchas reservation ineducationandemployment.Acastecensuswaslastheldin1931anddiscontinuedthereafter.Nationalpartiessuchas

theCongressandBJPopposeditsreintroductionostensiblyonthegroundthatenumerationwill leadtocongealingandperpetuationofcasteidentities,defeatingfreeIndia’saimofan-nihilationofthecastesystem.Butthestarkfactisthatcastecontinuestobeaninfluentialde-terminantinpublicaffairsandaccesstoresources.Intheabsenceofupdateddata,therefore,politicalpartiesandpublicinstitutionsextrapolatefromthe1931CensusandNationalSampleSurvey tomake claims, arrive at conclusions andevenpolicies. TheMandalisationof thepolity in the1990shas failed tobreakpolitical resistance to thecastecensus—itmayevenhavestrengthenedit.Byallaccounts,despitetheBJP’shecticsocialengineeringontheground,theSanghParivar’sapprehensionseemstobethatacastecensuswillshinethelightonfault-linesinHindusocietyandundermineitsgrandprojectofcreatingamonolithicvotebank.Thepredominantlyuppercasteleadershipsofmajorpoliticalpartiesareagainstgeneratingcastenumbers,probablybecauseenumerationwouldexposethedominanceandprivilegecertaincasteshavecontinuedtoenjoy insocial, cultural,politicalandeconomicspheres—despitetherhetoricofequality,andpromisesofsocial justiceandalevelplayingfield.SanghamitraMaurya, the leadspeaker for theBJP inthediscussionontheOBCbill in

LokSabha, claimed that theNarendraModi government is in favourof a caste census—theparty is yet to clarify its positiononher statement.However, theBJPhas beenwoo-ing OBC leaders by offering themposts in the party and administration. And theModigovernmenthasbeenfocussedontargeteddeliveryofpublicgoodsandservicesthroughinitiativessuchas JAM(JanDhan,Aadhaarandmobile).Accuratedataoncastewillhelpboth party and government— the latter in plugging the gaps and leaks in its schemes,andthe former in focusing itspoliticaloutreach.

DUE PROCESS FOR ALLSCcheckongovernments’powertowithdrawcasesagainstMPs-MLAsiswelcome.Cleanerpoliticscallsforfar-reachingchanges

INAUGUSTLASTyear,theKarnatakagovernmentdecidedtodropchargesin61crimin-al cases, severalofwhich involvedelectedrepresentativesandministers, includingthestate’slawminister.Fourmonthslater,thestatehighcourtrestrainedthestategov-ernmentfromactingonthatorder.“Courtsaredutyboundtoassesswhetherprima

facieacaseismadeornot,” itobserved.TheHC’s insistenceondueprocessbeingfollowedincriminalcasesinvolvingmembersof thepoliticalclasswassalutary. ItnowhastheSup-remeCourt’simprimatur.“NoprosecutionagainstasittingorformerMP/MLAshallbewith-drawnwithouttheleaveofthehighcourt,”athree-judgebenchheadedbyCJINVRamanaruled on Tuesday. “While determiningwhether thewithdrawal of the prosecution sub-servestheadministrationof justice, thecourtwouldbejustifiedinscrutinisingthenatureandgravityoftheoffence”,itsaid.Thisassertionoftheprimacyofpublicinterest,oftenjet-tisonedbygovernmentstofavourmembersof rulingpartiesoralliances, isverywelcome.Links betweenmoney andmuscle powerwith politics continue to bedevil democ-

racy,despitenumerous interventionsby thecountry’shighest court.OnTuesday,whiletheirbrotherjudgeswererulingonthegovernment’spowertowithdrawcriminalcases,JusticesRohintonNarimanandBRGavai lamented that “thisCourt, timeandagain,hasappealed to the law-makersof thecountry to…bringoutnecessaryamendments…Alltheseappealshave fallenondeaf ears”. Thebenchwas referring to the failureof theBJP,Congress, JD(U),RJD,LJP,CPM,CPI,RLSPandNCPtoabidebytheSC’s2020directivethataskedpoliticalpartiestopubliclydisclosethecriminalantecedentsofcandidatesputupbytheminelectionstoParliamentandstateassemblies.Theprinciplebehindthatdirec-tive,reiteratedbythecourtonTuesday, is“toenablevoterstohaveallnecessaryinforma-tion, so that theycanexercise their right to franchise inaneffectivemanner”.Inaverdict lastyear, theKarnatakaHChadsaidthatpublicprosecutorshadtheright

todisagreewhengovernmentsinvokedArticle21oftheCrPCtowithdrawcriminalcases.“Apublicprosecutorcannotact likeapostboxor submit to thediktatsof theexecutive,”it said. The apex court has reaffirmed the public servant’s autonomy and asserted thatpower towithdraw cases cannot be “used for political purposes”. These are importantsteps,butasJusticesNarimanandGavaipointedout,rootingoutthe“malignancyofcrim-inalisationofpolitics”requires“amajorsurgery”.Theball is inthecourtof theexecutive.

KEEP CALM, CURRY ONIndiansdon’tneedtoworry, theyhavealreadyhadtheir

culinaryrevengeontherestof theworld

AN INDIAN-AMERICAN FOOD blogger, Chaheti Bansal, put out a now-viralvideo calling onpeople to cancel theword “curry”, apparently because it’saterminventedby“whitepeoplewhocouldn’tbebotheredtolearntheac-tualnamesof ourdishes.”Oncue, the internetdivided itself intopro-curry

andanti-currycamps.ManyIndiansandIndian-originpeoplehaveagreedwithBansal’sargumentthatusing

onewordtodefineallfoodfromacountryasdiverseandcomplexasIndiasmacksofracismand ignorance. Itwas, theypointout, inventedby theBritishandthe fact that Indians stilluse it indicatesacolonialhangover.Thentherearethose—especiallyBritons—whohavetakenumbrage, saying that theword “curry” describes a belovedBritish-Indian culinarytraditionand that IndianEnglishhasanywayappropriated theword todescribeavarietyofIndiandishes(oftengravy-based)forthesakeofconvenience.Nottomentiontheterm’soriginintheTamilword,“kari”,usedtodescribecertainkindsof savourypreparations.Noneof the above is entirelywrong. Yet the “curry is a badwordbecause it’s a colo-

nial invention” argument is as stale as lastweek’s chicken tikkamasala. Sure, there arethosewhousethewordasavaguedescriptorofanythingremotelyclosetoIndianflavours(whatexactlydo “curry-flavoured fries” tasteof?)or,worse, as a racist slur.Noneof thisisacceptableandmustbecounteredwheneverpossible.But it’snotas if Indianshaven’tgot evenwith the rest of theworld for insisting that all Indian food is bright orangeandcauses “Delhi belly”. Because there is no otherway of describing such creations as gobimanchurian, pasta in pink sauce, tandoorimomo and paneer cannelloniwhich, unlikemostotherkindsof revenge, arebest servedhot.

Amartya Lahiri

Sarabjit Arjan Singh

Wayforwardliesinregulatoryreformsinlabourandlandmarkets, large-scalelow-techmanufacturing

GETTING BACK ON TRACKRailwaysmustgiveupcontrol, reduce risk, togetprivateplayers to run trains

THEINDIANECONOMYisheadingtowardsanuncertainbutpivotalmoment. It iscom-ingoffahistoricallypoorrunwiththeecon-omyhavingshrunkbyapost-Independencerecord7.3percent in2020-21.Thiscontrac-tionwasalsoanorderofmagnitudegreaterthan the 3.3 per cent contraction of theworld economy in 2020. In other words,Indiadidpoorlywithrespecttobothitsownpastandtherestof theworld.Theeconomyis now expected to return to its pre-pan-demic level of GDP only in 2022. The pan-demic will effectively have cost India twoyearsof lost incomegrowth.This isn’t the only bad news. The Covid

contractionwasprecededbyalmost13quar-tersofcontinuousdeclineinrealGDPgrowth.This backdrop of declining growth and theprecipitousCovidcontractionislikelygoingtoreversedecadesofprogressinliftingIndiansoutofpoverty.A littlebackgroundonpoverty in India is

usefulhere.Thepercentageof Indians livingbelowthepovertyline(theHeadcountIndex)in1985wasalmostthesameasin1952.Inef-fect, Indiamadelittleprogress inpovertyre-ductionbetween1952and1985.Itisonlyaf-ter 1991-92 that India began to makesignificant progress in fighting poverty. A2016 study by World Bank affiliated re-searchers Gaurav Dutt, RinkuMurgai andMartin Ravallion found that during the pe-riod 1992-2012, the Headcount Index de-clinedbyaround25percentagepoints.Onacumulative basis, the post-reform periodliftedover200millionpeopleoutofpovertybetween1992and2012.The big difference between the pre and

post-liberalisationphaseswasthedoublingof India’sGDPgrowth rate. Thewelfarediv-idends of this growth turn-around can alsobe found inmeasuresof economic inequal-ity. In a series of recent research papers,Viktoria Hnatkovska and I have found evi-denceofdeclininggapsinwagesandhouse-holdconsumptionbetweenSC/STsandnon-SC/STs during 1983-2012. There is similarevidence of decreasing gaps between ruraland urban workers during this period. Inshort,thegrowthpick-upafter1991-92lifted

theeconomicfortunesofmanydisparateso-cio-economicgroups.Withthisbackgroundonpovertyallevia-

tioninIndia,considerthefollowingfacts.Are-centstudybyresearchersat theAzimPremjiUniversityestimatesthat230millionpeoplemayhave fallenbelowapovertymeasureofRs375/dayinruralIndiaandRs430/dayinur-banIndiabetweenJanuaryandOctober2020.Inaseparate study, thePewResearchCenterestimates that the number of Indians livingbelowamoreconservativemeasureof$2/dayincreasedby75million inthespaceof ayearsincethepandemicstruck.Inotherwords,theeconomiccontractionof2020hasreversedalarge part of the poverty reduction thatwasachieved over the past three decades. And,while absorbing these facts, note that thesestudiesdonotconsidertheravagesofthesec-ondwaveanditseffectsonthefinancialhealthofhouseholdsandfirms.Thekeylessontotakeawayfromthishis-

toryofpovertyalleviationinIndia is thatthemost effective way of helping the poor isfaster economic growth. Socialwelfare pro-grammes thatwork through redistributiveschemes can at best be complementarymechanisms that provide social insuranceagainst bad luck in the labourmarket or inhealth.But, intheabsenceofgrowth,relyingon redistribution to fightpovertyonlyguar-anteesa lotofpoorpeople.So,whatareIndia’sgrowthprospectsgo-

ing forward?Unfortunately, both domesticandexternalconditions lookfraught.Ontheexternal side, themost favourable aspect isthe ongoing return of the advancedeconomiestowardseconomicnormalcy.Theeconomic recovery in the advancedeconomieswill create demand for productsfromtherestof theworld, including India.The external conditions however also

havepotentiallysevereheadwinds.First, there are signs of rising inflation in

advancedeconomieswhichtypicallyinducesamonetarytighteningcycle.Second,thereisrisingconcerninadvancedeconomiesaboutthe need to normalise themonetary policystancebyraisinginterestratesfromtheircur-rentnear-zerolevels.Asgrowthandinflation

firmup in these economies, the pressure toraise rateswill only grow. These forceswillmakeforeigncapitalmoreexpensive,whichwill put downward pressure on an alreadytepid investment rate as the cost of financerises. Third, public debt levels in advancedeconomies have risen sharply during thepandemic as they responded to the crisiswithdebt-financedfiscalexpansions.Therewill be belt-tightening which will likelytemper demand. Fourth, the increase inglobaloilpricespresentsyetanotherexter-nal constraint.Domesticeconomicconditionswereal-

ready problematic leading into the pan-demic,whichwasthereasonfor theswoonin growth rates since 2016. The NPA over-hang in thebankingsectorhasnotbeenra-tionalised.Theeconomiccontractionof lastyearwill haveonlyworsened thesituation.Theuncertaintysurroundingtheeconomicenvironmenthadalreadyinducedaninvest-ment slowdownbefore 2020. None of thathasdissipated. Rather, thebotchedvaccinepolicy has now created additional uncer-tainty regarding the state of public healthgoing forward.Giventheacutelackofavailablefiscalre-

sources, themost promising way forwardforthegovernmentistoembraceregulatoryreforms in labour and landmarkets whichgobeyondcollectingdifferentcodesintooneheadandcallingitareform.India’ssalvationlies in the growth of large-scale low-techmanufacturing. This is the only sector thatcan employ the 10 million new workersjoiningthelabourmarketannuallyatwagesthat reflect their aspirations. Without re-forms that reduce the risksof hiring labourandacquiringland,thissectorwillnotgrow.And,publicsectordivestmenthastobeem-bracedonawar-footing.The fiscal costs of deep reforms are low,

but their economic returns are potentiallyhigh.Ofcourse,meaningfulreformshavepo-tentiallyhighthoughuncertainpoliticalcosts.It is timetopaythepiper.

Thewriter isRoyalBankResearchProfessorofEconomics,UniversityofBritishColumbia

ON JULY 1, 2020, the Indian Railwayslaunched the formalprocessof invitingpri-vate parties to run trains on the Indian rail-way system. Bids were finally opened lastmonth. Hopes of a large participationwerebeliedastherewerenobidsfornineclustersandonlytwobidsforthreeclusters.Evenforthesethreeclusters,theonlyseriousbidwasbyIndianRailways’(IR)owncompanyIRCTC,which ineffectnegated thebasicobjectivesof bringing inprivatecapital.Whatarethereasonsforthisfailure?It is

an outcome of the lack of alignment of theinterests of IR and the concessioners. IRwants the capital and technologywithoutgiving up control, while the concessionerwants a far more equal relationship to bemoderated by a regulator. IR has imposedconstraints that prevent efficient decisionsand adopted an organisational design thatdoes not take into account the characteris-ticsandassociatedrisksthatwilldetermineoutcomesand investmentdecisions.Whataretheserisksandconstraints?The

biggestdampeneristhelumpinessof invest-ment before a single passenger can be car-ried. Train sets have to be purchasedwith-out really knowing howmuch traffic theservicewill be able to attract in the face ofrisingcompetitionfromairlines. IRdoesnotguarantee the investor that, incase thecon-cessionfails, itwillacquirethetrainsets.Theother big dampener is the absence of a reg-ulator for resolving disputes. The proposedindependent engineer is far from satisfac-

tory. There are other risks that put off in-vestors thatwewill not go into. But sufficetosaythatthecurrentmodelof invitingpri-vate players to run trains has failed. To takeforwardtheinitiative,anewmodelbasedonanewstrategy is required.Thecentralissueishowtoalignthethree

interests: India’s need to be capable of de-signingandmanufacturing state-of-the-artrollingstock,IR’sneedforprivatecapitalpar-ticipation and private capital’s necessity ofearning a profit. They can be aligned pro-vided the lumpiness of investment in trainsetscanbeeliminatedbyestablishingacom-panythatleasesrollingstocknotonlytocon-cessionersbutalsotoIR.Thiswillalsoenablereducing the concession period from 35years to a more reasonable 10-15 years,bringing incompetition.The rolling stock company, apart from

leasingtrainsets,canalsobethewindowforbringing in new technology, preferably bypurchasingfromthosewhomanufacture inIndia in collaborationwith one of IR’s pro-ductionunits andarewilling to transfer thetechnology.ThiswillrequireIRtoguaranteeaminimum offtake, say for a period of 10years,tothemanufacturer.Forstarters, IRFC,which is already into leasing rolling stock,canbe that company.Aword about bringing in new technol-

ogy. It is essential that the opportunityopenedupbyinvitingprivateplayersisusedtomovetherollingstockindustryupthein-dustrialvaluechainandbringaboutastruc-

turalchangeof theIndianeconomy.Thiscanonly be brought about by a vision that en-courages long-term arrangements withrollingstocksuppliers.AnarrangementthatgivesaccesstoIR’srollingstockmarketistheonlyway to compel global players to sharetechnology and form joint ventures withIndiancompanies.However, technologytransfer isnotsim-

plyamatterofmanufacturing in India. It re-quiresunderstandingthecriticalelementsofthetechnologyandabsorbingthemintothedesign-productionprocess.Thiscalls for theinvestment of large sumsofmoney and theinvolvement of universities, research insti-tutesandnationallaboratories.Forexample,fordevelopinghigh-speed train technology,the Chinese involved 25 national first-classkeyuniversities, 11 first-class research insti-tutes, and 51 national-level laboratories forresearch,developmentandproduction.Indiawillalsoneedtodosomethingsimilar.As far as drawing private players is con-

cerned, all that is required is to reduce therisks for the concessioners, reduce the pe-riodoftheconcessiontoaround15years,es-tablisharegulatorandmoderatechargeslikethe amount for themaintenance of tracksand stations.With these changes, the planmaystill takeoff.However,theinitiativewillremainlimitedtojustrunningtrainsif thereisno long-termvision.

Thewriter is formergeneralmanagerofIndianRailways

Given the acute lack ofavailable fiscal resources, themost promising way forwardfor the government is toembrace regulatory reformsin labour and land marketsthat go beyond collectingdifferent codes into one headand calling it a reform.India’s salvation lies in thegrowth of large-scale low-tech manufacturing. This isthe only sector that canemploy the 10 million newworkers joining the labourmarket annually at wagesthat reflect their aspirations.Without reforms that reducethe risks of hiring labour andacquiring land, this sectorwill not grow. And, publicsector divestment has to beembraced on a war-footing.

What are the reasons for thisfailure? It is an outcome ofthe lack of alignment of theinterests of IR and theconcessioners. IR wants thecapital and technologywithout giving up control,while the concessioner wantsa far more equal relationshipto be moderated by aregulator. IR has imposedconstraints that preventefficient decisions andadopted an organisationaldesign that does not takeinto account thecharacteristics andassociated risks that willdetermine outcomes andinvestment decisions.

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MORE RAIN WOESTHEGHAGRAANDtheRaptiwroughthavoconmore villages on August 11 as floodwa-ters breached the tenuous remains of theTurtipar-Srinagar bund at a village in Balliadistrict. The fierceGhagrahadbeenerodingthe bund forweeks. It cut a 50-metrewidebreachinthebundatChandpurvillage,saidMurliShyamManohar,theUttarPradeshre-liefcommissionerinLucknow.Hetoldnews-men that no damage had been done so farbecause the floodwaters gushing throughthebreechwerebeingheldbyaretiringbundabout500metresawayfromthemainbund.Accordingtothereliefcommissioner,atleast

50 villagers are likely to be affected in casetheretiringbundalsogaveaway.

LIMAYE CHALLENGEDMADHU LIMAYE’S CLAIMS of a Lok Dal-Janata-Congress (U) consensus onmergerinto a united party was challenged by themembers of Congress (U) and Janata Party.Though theLokDalpresidentCharanSinghrefusedtocommentonthesubject,asectionofhispartywasunhappyoverwhatsomeofthe party leaders described as “prematurepublicity to themerger plan”. Janata PartyPresident Chandrashekar said Limaye had“given a distorted picture and that did not

serve the cause of Opposition unity”.Congress (U) general secretary K PUnnikrishnanwasmoreforthrightindenial.

IMF LOAN SOUGHTFINANCEMINISTERRVenkataramansaidina radio interview that therewas no need tobeapprehensiveabouttakingabigloanfromthe IMF. He said the “governmentwill cer-tainlynotdoanythingderogatoryto itsself-respectandIndiahasaveryhighreputationinternationally as a borrower”. He said theGovernment was negotiating for 5 billionSDRs (special drawing rights), a loan of Rs5,000crores.

AUGUST 12, 1981, FORTYYEARSAGO

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In practice, China’s domesticpolitics in the lead up to the20th Congress will meanthat its leaders, diplomatsand generals will bedisplaying maximumnationalistic fervour. Thismay well mean China takingpolitical and policy decisions,which in a normal seasonthey would not becausedoing so could compromiseBeijing’s longstandingdiplomatic and strategicgoals, including in dealingswith India. Needless to say,this is potentially dangerousin all of China’s externalrelationships where land ormaritime boundaries are indispute and where militaryor naval deployments areactive.

RECENTLY,THEgovernmentlaunchedanewschemetoimprovethedistributioninfrastruc-tureofthedistributioncompanies(discoms)withtheprimaryintentionofimprovingtheirfinancialhealth.Under this scheme, thedis-comswillbeofferedfinancialassistancepro-videdtheymeetcertainlaiddowncriteria.ThetotaloutlayfortheschemeisaroundRs3.03lakhcrore,spreadoverfiveyears.Theobjectiveof the scheme is tobringdowncommerciallossesintherangeof12-15percentandalsoreduce thedifferencebetween theaveragecostof supply(ACS)andaveragerevenuere-alised(ARR)tozeroby2024-25.This kind of assistance programme for

discomsisnothingnewandhasbeengoingonsince2001,whentheAcceleratedPowerDevelopment Schemewas initiated. Thiswasfollowedbyvariousotherschemeswithsome differences between them. But theoverallprincipleremainedthesame—finan-cial assistancewill beoffered in the formofgrantsandloansprovidedsomepre-identi-fied parametersmove in a direction thatwould indicate better performance of dis-coms.Priortothelaunchingof thisscheme,the government had launched the UDAYschemein2015.UDAY,however,didnot in-volveanymonetaryassistancetothestates,but only promised to help the states in re-ducing thecostof power throughcoal link-agerationalisation,etc.Theproblemwithalltheseschemes(in-

cludingUDAY) is that they have not deliv-eredandthefinancialpositionofthediscomshas only worsened. The Power FinanceCorporationreportsthattheaggregatelossofthediscoms(aftertax)wasaboutRs49,600crorein2018-19.ArecentreportofNitiAayoghasassessedthelossestobeaboutRs90,000crore in 2020-21, though this figure is notstrictly comparable to the PFC figure.Surprisingly,suchschemesarebeingformu-lated, one after another,with outlays run-ning into trillions of rupees knowing fullywellthattheyarenoteffectiveandhavenotworked in the past. Reduction of commer-cial losses is not really about improving in-frastructure,itismoreofamanagerialissue.Though the average losses (inclusive of

technical and commercial) is about 22 percenttoday,severaldiscomshavelossesinex-cessof40percent.Itiscommonknowledgethat it ispossible tobringdownlosses from40percenttoabout15percentwithoutanysignificant investments in infrastructure.Investments,however,wouldberequiredtobring down losses further to a single-digitlevelsincealllow-hangingfruitswouldhavebeenconsumedbythen.The governance of these reform-linked

schemesisacomplexissuebecausetheper-formanceof thediscomsneedstobemoni-tored quarterly to facilitate the release offunds to deserving discoms. The twomost

popular parameterswhich aremonitoredarethelosslevelsandthedifferencebetweentheACS andARR. There are inherent prob-lemswiththeseparameterssincetheykeepfluctuating and it is verydifficult to fathomtheir trendonaquarter-wisebasis, render-ingthereleaseoffundstobetrickyandcum-bersome.In the scheme now announced by the

government,monitoringwillbeallthemorecomplexsinceabout26parameterswill betaken into consideration and assigned ascore, thoughhereagain, loss levelsandthedifference betweenACS andARRwill havethehighestweightage.Moreover,forsomeoftheparameters, itmaybedifficult toassigna score across discomswhichmay lead tosome amount of subjectivity. Some exam-plesbeing—providingaccurate energy ac-counts, tariff reforms initiated, consumerrights and grievance redressal handled.Someof theparametersareevenquestion-able, for instance, liquidation of regulatoryassets,sincethesearemandatedbythereg-ulatorycommissionsandtherefore,thedis-comshavenoroletoplayinthem.Due toall theproblemsassociatedwith

reform-linkedassistanceschemes,analter-nate approach that could be considered bythe Centre (in lieu of such assistanceschemes) is providing only transitional fi-nancialsupporttoalldiscoms,whicharepri-vatisedundertheprivate-publicpartnershipmode.Onewouldagain like tocite thecaseof Delhi. A transitional support of Rs 3,450crorespreadoverfiveyearsprovedtobeex-ceedinglybeneficialsinceitallowedthepri-vatisedutilitiessomebreathingtimetobringdown their losses. On the flip side, one canalsomentionthecaseofthefirstphaseofpri-vatisationofdiscomsinOdisha(late1990s),whichproved tobea failure andoneof thereasonsoftencitedwasthelackofanytran-sitionalsupport.Since in an earlier policy statement the

governmenthadmentioned thatprivatisa-tionof discoms is tobepromoted, itwouldmakesensetoconsiderthistransitionalsup-port as a catalyst. The quantumof supportcanbeworkedout on somenormative ba-sis and the performance of the discomcanbemonitored over a five-year period. Theonuswouldbeontheprivatisedutilitytousethis support judiciouslyunder the supervi-sion of the regulatory commission. Targetsoflossreductioncanbelaiddownonayear-wise basis and if these targets are notmet,the privatised utilitieswould have to bearthe loss. Incentivescouldalsobethoughtofin case therewas over-achievement vis-à-vis the targets. This is exactly the approachfollowed in the case of Delhi. Adopting thisapproachwill ensure that the central gov-ernmentmovesawayfromthemicro-man-agementofdiscoms,which inevitablyhap-pens if the release of funds is linked toreform-linkedparametersonaquarter-wisebasis.Itwouldalsogiveanopportunitytotrya new approach, different fromwhatwasdone in thepastwhich clearlyhasnot paiddividends despite the huge quantum ofmoneyspent.

Thewriter isseniorvisitingfellow, ICRIERandformermember(Economic&

Commercial),CEA

WHENCHINESEPRESIDENTXiJinpingmadeasurprise visit to Tibet on July 21—becomingthe first Chinese leader to do so since JiangZeminin1990—histripconspicuouslybeganinNyingchi,atownonlyafewkilometresfromtheborderwithArunachalPradesh,beforehedepartedforLhasaviaanew,strategically im-portantrailline.Xi’svisitwas,therefore,anun-mistakablesignalbyBeijingoftheseriousnesswithwhich itcontinues totake itsHimalayanborderdisputewithIndia.MorethanayearaftertheclashatGalwan

Valley, efforts to resolve theborder crisis con-tinue tomove slowly,while tensions remainhigh.AlimitednewagreementreachedatthestartofAugusthasyettobeimplemented,andas Indian ForeignMinister SubrahmanyamJaishankar noted in a frostymeetingwithChineseForeignMinisterWangYiinmid-July(theirfirstmeetingsinceSeptember2020),theChinesesidehaspreviouslyfailedtocompletetroopwithdrawalsandreverttothestatusquothattheIndiansidebelievedChinaagreedto.These events have understandably led

many in India toworry that China is deter-mined topress its border claims andeven toriskwarinpursuitofterritorialgain.ButwhileChina’s behaviour has been calculated todemonstratepoliticalconfidence,abetterun-derstandingofChina’sstrategic intentionsre-quiresustograspthewidercontextofBeijing’sforeign and security policy challenges acrossAsia,aswellasXi’sowndomesticpoliticalanx-ietiesathome.Inaperfectworld,Xiwouldprobablypre-

feracalmborderandamorestable,positivere-lationshipwithIndia,giventhemanystrategicchallengesChinanowfacesonallsides.Seen fromBeijing, the strategic environ-

mentforChinaisbeginningtoworseninSouthandCentralAsia.AstheUSwithdrawsandtheTaliban advances inAfghanistan, China fearsthe prospect of instability and an emerginghavenforterrorismdirectedagainstitspoliciesinXinjiang.Thisinstabilityalsothreatenstodis-ruptChina’s largeregional investmentsmadeaspartofitsBeltandRoadInitiative(BRI)—are-alityalreadyhighlightedbythegrowingthreatofterrorisminPakistan,wheretherehavebeenmultipleterroristattacksonChineseinterests,including the July 14 bombing,which killednine Chinese nationals working on a hy-dropower dam that is part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. Even as Chinaseekstoscalebackthedebt-ladenBRI,suchin-stabilitymayalsoresultinBeijingincreasingitsalreadyoverstretchedexternalcommitments—particularlyinthesecuritydomain.Meanwhile, Beijing continues to exhibit

profoundconcernabouttheever-presentspec-treof ethnic separatism insideChina, and theperceived relationship between separatismandnationstoitssouthandwest.Itisprobablynot a coincidence that Xi visited the PotalaPalace in Lhasa only twoweeks after IndianPrimeMinister NarendraModi sent officialbirthdaywishestotheDalaiLamaforthefirsttimesinceModicametopowerin2014.But,aboveall,Beijing’soverallstrategicanx-

iety is inducedbygrowingpressure fromtheUnited States and its allies as competitive ri-valrycontinuestoadvanceundertheadminis-trationofUSPresidentJoeBiden.ForChina,thisrepresentsapersistentthreatnotonlyeconom-ically and in foreignpolicy, but alsomilitarilyalongitsmaritimeperipheryintheSouthand

EastChinaSeas,aswellastheTaiwanStrait.Inparticular,Chinaisdeeplyworriedbythe

re-emergenceand strengtheningofmultilat-eraloppositiontoChina,andtheQuadrilateralSecurityDialogue(or“Quad”)betweentheUS,Japan, Australia and India. This has beenevi-dencedby shifting Chinese responses to theQuad,whose latest incarnation it initiallydis-missedin2019asself-contradictoryandlikelytodissolve, before then tryingunsuccessfullyto split it apart through amix of carrots andsticksin2020and2021.Forstudentsofhistory, theQuaditselfhas

comealongwaysinceJapanesePrimeMinisterShinzoAbefirstproposedthatAustralia,India,JapanandtheUSworktogetherondisasterre-sponse in thewakeof the2004 IndianOceantsunami.Theresponseinothercapitals,though,wastentativeatbest.InWashington,PresidentGeorgeWBushworriedthatsuchcooperationwouldunhelpfullyalienateChina.InNewDelhi,PrimeMinisterManmohanSingh repeatedlyruled out any real security cooperationwiththeQuadwhile categorising tieswithBeijingashis“imperativenecessity”.AndinCanberra,thegovernmentofmyconservativepredeces-sor JohnHowardbothworried about under-miningeconomicallybeneficialtieswithChinaandopposedexpandingexisting trilateral co-operationwith theUS and Japan by addingIndia;andinJune2007,Australiaformallywith-drewand announced thedecision in Beijingsoonafter.AfterAbe, thedriving forcebehindtheQuad,unexpectedlyresignedinSeptember2007,hissuccessorYasuoFukudaformallycon-signedtheQuadtothedustbinofhistoryuntilitsrecentreincarnation.ThatiswhyBeijingbelievedtheQuadcould

easilybesplitapartagain.ButChina’s“carrotsand sticks” approach tobreakingup the cur-rent reincarnation hasn’tworked so far, notleastbecauseofChina’sdeepalienationofIndiasincethecriticaleventsofJune2020.AndasUSmultilateralcooperationwith itspartnershasincreased,Beijinghascometoincreasinglyseeitselfasbesetbythreatsonallsides—apredica-mentthatChina’scultureisdeeplyattunedto,given that being “ambushed on 10 sides” isamong the ultimate strategic dilemmarecordedinChina’scanonofmilitaryclassics.Sofar,however,theresponsefromChina’s

newclass of “wolfwarrior” diplomats to thisemergingstrategicchallengehasbeentoonlygrowmoreassertiveinrhetoricandbehaviour.Thismay seemperplexing, given that it hasservedonlytoalienateothercountriesandiso-lateChinafurther.Understandingit,therefore,requiresafinalpieceinthepuzzle:China’sdo-mesticpolitics.Inthefallof2022,China’sCommunistParty

will hold its 20th Party Congress,whennewranksofseniorleadershipwillbeelevated,andwhereXiislikelytobeconfirmedinpowerforanother term—andpotentially for life. Untilthisoccurs,allfactsofpoliticallifeinChinawillbe shaped by Xi’s need to display absolutestrength and resolveonallmatters— foreignanddomestic.Andforhissubordinatestodis-playabsoluteloyalty.Inpractice,China’sdomesticpoliticsinthe

leaduptothe20thCongresswillmeanthatitsleaders,diplomatsandgeneralswillbedisplay-ingmaximumnationalistic fervour. ThismaywellmeanChinatakingpoliticalandpolicyde-cisions,which inanormalseasontheywouldnot because doing so could compromiseBeijing’s longstandingdiplomatic and strate-gic goals, including in dealingswith India.Needlesstosay,thisispotentiallydangerousinallofChina’sexternalrelationshipswherelandormaritime boundaries are in dispute andwheremilitary or naval deployments are ac-tive.OverridingChinesedomesticimperativesareunlikely to be accommodatingof normaldiplomaticnuance.WithUSSecretaryofStateAntonyBlinken

havingjustvisitedIndiatopressforcloserbilat-eralstrategiccooperation,includingalikelyin-personmeeting of theQuad leaders on thesidelinesoftheUNGeneralAssemblymeetinginNewYork in September,we should expectChina’sbehaviourtowardIndiatohardenfur-therinthecomingmonths.But if PresidentXi insteaddecided that it

wasbetterdomesticpolitics(againstaninter-nal critiqueof his predisposition for strategicoverreach) to improveChina’s strategic posi-tion in Asia amid its competition withWashington,Beijing’sdiplomatsmayyetadoptamoremoderate approach, includingwithIndia. If stability canberestored to theChina-Indiastrategicrelationship,thiscouldprovideawindow forAsia’s twomega-economies toreopentheirmarketstoeachother,helpingtostimulategrowthasbothseekasmootherre-coveryfromtheCovid-19pandemic.Indeed, the choicebetween these twoal-

ternatives—an increasinglyhardlinenation-alistresponse,asopposedtoextendingatem-porary olive branch offered to, say, Europe,JapanandIndia—is likelytobeonthediscus-sion table thismonth as China’smost seniorleadersretirefortheirannualretreattoBeidaiheduringAugust.BySeptember,weare likely tosee the first signsofwhichof theseviewshasprevailed.

Thewriter isPresidentof theAsiaSociety,whichhasacentre inMumbai.He isalsoa

formerprimeministerofAustralia

Kevin Rudd

SomitDasgupta

TounderstanditsapproachtowardsIndia, it is importanttograspwidercontextofBeijing’s foreignandsecuritypolicychallengesacrossAsia,aswellasXi’sdomesticcompulsions

China’s guiding anxieties Hownot tohelp discoms

Centralgovernmentschemestoimprovefinancialpositionofdiscomshavenotworked.

Anewapproachisneeded

CR Sasikumar

HARDLY REFORMISTTHIS REFERS TO the article, ‘Retro taxout, reform in’ (IE, August 11). Callingtherepealof the2012retrospective in-cometax lawbytheBJP led-NDAgov-ernment itsreformistagendaishyper-bolic. One swallow does not make asummer.Oureconomic,social,anded-ucationalsectorsneedimaginativere-forms. But unfortunately, the powersthat be undertake them only if theybenefit themelectorally.

TarsemSingh,Mahilpur

GLUE NEEDEDTHISREFERSTOtheeditorial, “Foodforthought” (IE,August11).While itmaybe possible for the emerging opposi-tion-coalition to adopt a commonagenda, it will also have to declare itsPrimeMinisterial candidate to lead inthe next Lok Sabha elections. This is amust to dislodge Narendra Modi —voters opted forModi rather than hisparty in the2019election.

YGChouksey,Pune

THISREFERSTOtheeditorial, “Foodforthought” (IE, August 11). Political al-liances, in order to be able to trulywork for people’s welfare, should bebaseduponthe ideological coherenceof the parties coming together ratherthan the lust for power. There shouldbe a long-term vision. An alliance ofparties with conflicting ideologies isfar too busy manoeuvring to save itsgovernment, to deliver upon the

promisesmadeduring elections.VinaySaroha,Delhi

INDIA UNDERMINEDTHIS REFERS TO the report, “Delhi‘hate speech’ : Accused have history;BJPex-spokesman,5held”(IE,Aug11).The report does not reveal underwhich sections of the Indian PenalCode (IPC) they are charged. Not longago,atthesameplace, therewasanin-cident of burning the copy of theConstitution along with derogatoryslogans against Ambedkar andDalits.No information as to the fate of thecase and culprits. These criminal actsare undermining the very foundationof theRepublic of Unionof India.

LRMurmu,Delhi

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FOURMEN, includingaBrahminpriest,havebeenaccusedofrapingandmurderinganine-year-oldDalit child at a crematorium in thenation’scapitalonAugust1andthencremat-ingheroverhermother’sprotests.Lessthanayearago,inSeptember2020,fouruppercastemenwere arrested for raping a 19-year-oldDalitwomaninHathrasinUttarPradesh.Twoweeks later, she succumbed to injuries and,according to reports,was forcibly crematedby the policewhile her parents and familywerelockedintheirhouse.Inboththesecases,theparentsofpoorDalitvictimswereseentobeofnoconsequence.TheseareDalitparentsand itwouldappear that theyhavenorightsvis-à-vis their children—not even the rightovertheirdeadbodies.Onlyweeksearlier, inJuly2021, fourmen

posingaspolicemenwereaccusedof rapingtwominor girls on Benaulimbeach inGoa.The ChiefMinister’s responsewas to blamethe parents, asking how their children hadbeenallowedoutontheirownsolate.TheGoaCMwastakensternlytotaskonsocialmediaandremindedoftheresponsibilityofthegov-ernment to ensure law and order. He re-sponded by asserting his own status as theparentofa14-year-oldgirl,perhapsattempt-ingtosuggestthathehadrespondedasa“par-

ent”,a“good”parent.TheGoaCM’s comments in regard to the

teensbeingon thebeachall night suggestedthattheparentsofthesegirlshadfailednotjustto“protect” theirwardsbutalso failedatcon-trollingthemadequately.Theparentsherearechargedwith the responsibility of being the“guardians”of theirdaughters’ virtuebywayofrestrictingtheirbodiestospaceswheretheymightbecontrolled.It isthisvirtuethatistiedto ideasof reputationsof families, communi-tiesand, indeed,of ahomogeneouslydefinedIndianculture.Children,especiallygirlchildren,havefewrights.TheProtectionofChildrenfromSexualOffences(POCSO)Act(2012)raisedtheageof consent from16 to18, giving the statetherighttodecidethatyoungpeoplebetweentheagesof 16and18donothave rights overtheirownbodiesinsexualcontexts.The state often tends to arrogate to itself

thestatusoftheparent,withitscitizensoftenseenasrecalcitrantchildren,butequallywhenitchooses,asinthiscase,itarrogatestherightback to the citizen-parents ofminors, relin-quishingitsroleasstate-patriarch.Inthiscase,thestaterepresentedherebytheGoaCMas-serts the right of parents over their childrenasdisciplinariansandguardiansoftheirvirtueandmorality.Theseanxietiesareparticularly

located in the bodies of Hindu upper castewomenanditistheirparentswhoarerecog-nisedashavingrightsoverthebodiesoftheirchildren.Thisisreflectedintheanxietiesarticulated

in regard to the bogey of love jihad and theanti-RomeosquadsinstitutedinUttarPradeshtoensurethat“good”Hindugirlsarenot“en-snaredbythewiles”ofMuslimmen.Theyre-flect the zealousway inwhich upper-casteHindus families are required to control theirdaughters,overwhomtheyhaveownershiprights.However,thestateisneverentirelycon-vinced that parents can indeed control theirwaywarddaughtersand,therefore,theycon-tinuetoexercise theirowncontrols. Inan in-creasinglymajoritarian communalised con-text, the state is uncertain, for instance,whether parentswill satisfactorily regulatetheromanticchoicestheirchildrenmakeandfeels the need to step in. TheUttar PradeshProhibitionofUnlawfulReligiousConversionOrdinance 2020must be read in the light ofthese observations. From the perspective ofthe communalised state-patriarch, then,women themselves are commodities eitherof little consequence if they are Dalit orMuslimorof relevanceonlyasobjectsofpa-triarchyif theyareHinduanduppercaste.

Manywomen, across caste and religion,refuse to bemute spectators to this travesty.ThePinjraTodmovementagainsthostelcur-fewsandotherslikeitgrewoutofsuchrestric-tions onwomen’smobility, often supportedbyparentseagertoendorsethesurveillanceoftheir daughter’s choices and especially theirsexuality. Youngwomen subvert and resistthetacticsoftheirparentsandtheinstitutionstorestraintheminavarietyofways,oftenbe-comingdeeplypoliticisedintheprocess.Suchyoungwomen are a source of fear, and thattheyare fearedby the state-patriarch canbeseen from the pattern of arrests of youngwomen,manyof themMuslimandDalit, inthe last 10months, especially in thewakeoftheanti-CAAprotests.Whathappens,then,whenthestate-patri-

arch gets anxious? It responds bybecomingincreasingly authoritarian, demanding thatthecitizen-parenteitherstaysilentinthefaceof increasing violence from the powers thatbeoraidtheagendasofthestateincontrollingnot just their daughters, but also its unrulypopulations.

ShilpaPhadkeisasociologistandco-authorofWhyLoiter?WomenandRiskon

MumbaiStreets

Shilpa Phadke

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Canadamansentencedto11yearsincasetiedtoHuaweiDandong:ACanadian en-trepreneurwassentencedto 11 years in prisonWednesday in a spyingcase linked toBeijing's ef-fort topushhis country toreleaseanexecutiveoftechgiant Huawei.Entrepreneur MichaelSpavor and a formerCanadian diplomatweredetainedinwhatcriticsla-beled“hostagepolitics”af-ter Huawei's MengWanzhouwas arrested inDecember 2018 at theVancouverairport.Spavorwas sentenced by a courtinDandong,with fewde-tails released other thanaccusations that Spavorpassed along sensitive in-formation to the formerdiplomat,Michael Kovrig,beginning in 2017. BothhavebeenheldinisolationandhavelittlecontactwithCanadiandiplomats. AP

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UNITEDKINGDOM

USagaintriestoextraditeJulianAssangeLondon: A London judgeonWednesdaywidenedthe scopeof aU.S. appealagainstablockontheex-tradition of Wikileaksfounder Julian AssangefromBritainandwillhearthe renewed bid in lateOctober.Assangefaces18criminal charges in theUnitedStatesofbreakingan espionage law andconspiring to hack gov-ernment computers.Lawyers for both sidesagreed that the full ap-peal hearing should bescheduledforOctober27and28. REUTERS

ALGERIA

Tollinwildfiresrisesto65;nationtomournAlgiers:Wildfires tearingthrough forested areas ofnorthern Algeria havekilled at least 65 people,state television reportedonWednesday,assomeofthe most destructiveblazesinthecountry'shis-torycontinuedtorage.Thegovernmenthasdeployedthearmy tohelp fight thefires, which have burntmostfiercelyintheKabylieregion,and28of thedeadare soldiers. PresidentAbdelmadjid Tebbounedeclared three days ofmourningforthedeadandfrozestateactivitiesnotre-latedtothefires. AP

ASSOCIATEDPRESSKABUL,AUGUST11

THETALIBANseizedthreemoreprovincial capitals inAfghanistan and a local armyheadquartersinablitzacrossthecountry'snortheast,officialssaidWednesday,withtheinsurgentsnow controlling some two-thirdsofthenationastheUSandNATO finalise their withdrawalafteritsdecades-longwarthere.The fall of the capitals of

Badakhshan and Baghlanprovinces to the northeast andFarah province to thewest putincreasingpressureonthecoun-try'scentralgovernmenttostemthe tide of the advance, even asits lostamajorbase inKunduz.Afghan President Ashraf

GhanirushedtoBalkhprovince,already surrounded by Taliban-heldterritory,toseekhelppush-ing back the insurgents fromwarlordslinkedtoallegationsofatrocitiesandcorruption.A Defence Ministry official

said Ghani has replaced thearmy chief of staff amid theTalibanblitzacross thecountry.The official said Gen

Hibatullah Alizai replaced GenWali Ahmadzai as the Afghanarmychief of staff.TheAfghangovernmentand

military did not respond to re-peatedrequests for comment.While Kabul itself has not

been directly threatened in theadvance, its stunning speedraisesquestionsofhowlongtheAfghan government canmain-tain control of its countryside.Themultiple frontsof thebattlehavestretchedthegovernment'sspecialoperationsforces—while

regulartroopshaveoftenfledthebattlefield — and the violencehas pushed thousands of civil-ians toseeksafety in thecapital.The insurgents earlier cap-

tured six other provincial capi-tals in the country in less thanaweek, including Kunduz inKunduzprovince—asignificantgain and one of the country'slargest cities. OnWednesday,the headquarters of the AfghanNational Army's 217th Corps atKunduzairport fell to the insur-gents, according toofficials.

PresidentGhanigovtunderpressureoverblitz, replacesarmychief of staff

3provincial capitals fall, Taliban nowcontrols two-thirds of Afghanistan

Talibanfighterspatrol thecityof Farah, thecapitalof Farahprovince,onWednesday.Reuters

AFTERTHETalibanemerged in the1990s,thesouthernandpre-dominantlyethnicPashtun insurgencyfaced fierce resistancefrommilitiagroups in thenorthknownas theNorthernAlliance.EvenwhentheTalibanseizedcontrolof Kabul in1996,theNorthernAlliancede-prived thegroupof acomplete takeover forthecourseof their five-year rule.Butnow,withthecaptureof severalnortherncities in just fivedays, expertswarn that ifthe insurgentsareable toconquer thenorth—squashing thecountry'sbesthope foragrassrootsresistancestrongenoughto takeontheTaliban—thecountrycould fall intheirhandscompletely.

Completetakeoverbyinsurgentsonthecards?E●EX

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Biden rules outchanges in UStroop withdrawal

LALITKJHAWASHINGTON,AUGUST11

PRESIDENT JOEBidenhas ruledoutanychange intheUSplantowithdraw its troops fromAfghanistandespite the Talibanincreasinglygainingcontroloverlarge swaths of the war-torncountry, saying Afghan leadersneedtocometogetherandfightfor themselvesandtheirnation.Biden in April ordered the

withdrawal of all the US troopsfromAfghanistanbySeptember11. The Pentagon'smassive taskof removing service membersand equipment out ofAfghanistan isnearlycomplete.“No,”Bidentoldreporterson

Tuesday at the White Housewhenaskedifhiscurrentplantowithdraw troops could changeatall.“Look,wespentoveratrillion

dollarsover20years.Wetrainedand equipped over 300,000Afghan forces... They've got tofight for themselves.” PTI

REUTERSYANGON,AUGUST11

AUTHORITIES INMyanmarcur-rently have no plan to includeminorityRohingyaMuslimsliv-ing indensely-packedcampsasthey begin vaccinating prioritygroupsagainstCovid-19inwest-ernRakhineState, the junta-ap-pointedlocaladministratorsaid.Hundreds of thousands of

RohingyafledtoBangladeshdur-ingmilitary operations in 2017andthosewhoremaincomplainof discrimination andmistreat-ment in a country that does notrecognisethemascitizens.Local administrator Kyaw

Lwin told Reuters from Sittwetownship that the rollout hadbegun therewith 10,000 vacci-nations for priority groups suchas the elderly, healthcarework-ers, government staff and

Buddhistmonks.Therewerenocurrentplans

for vaccinating any of theMuslims living in camps inSittwe,hesaid.“We are only following or-

ders,”hesaid,decliningtocom-ment on whether the planamounted to discriminationagainst theRohingya.“Italldependsonhowmany

vaccineswe receive and the in-structions we get. So far wehaven'treceivedanyinstructionsregarding that,”KyawLinsaid.SpokespeopleforMyanmar's

healthministryandthemilitaryauthorities did not answer callsseeking comment on the vacci-nationplans.Myanmar's coronavirus re-

sponse almost collapsed after aFebruary1coupasmanyhealthworkersstoppedworkinprotest,butthearmyisnowtryingtostepup vaccinations as Myanmar

facesitsworstspikeininfections.An average of nearly 300

peopleadayhavediedinrecentdays,accordingtoofficialfiguresthatmedics believe are signifi-cantunderestimates.The densely packed shacks

andmuddynarrowalleyswhereRohingya live behind barbedwire to separate them from theBuddhistmajorityinSittwehavealsobeenhitbythecoronavirus,residents say.FromtheThetKalPyincamp,

NuMaung, 51, told Reuters au-thoritieshadcollectednamesforpossiblevaccinationsifshotsbe-comeavailableforthosewhoareover60,buttherewasnosignofthathappening.He himself had suffered

Covidsymptoms,buthewasun-able to get to the hospital fortests, he said. “Many people aresick. A lot. A few people died,mostlyolderpeople,”hesaid.Authorities have not given

figures for infections in thecamps.At two other camps near

Sittwe,PhweYarGoneandThetKal Pyin, residents said the au-thoritieshadnot sentanyone topreparethegroundforpotentialvaccinations.HumanrightsspecialistZaw

Winsaiditwasshockingbutun-surprising thatRohingyawouldnotbeapriority forvaccination.“Rohingya have long faced

extreme restrictions on theirrightsandintheireverydaylives,includingtherighttohealth,”hetold Reuters. “Rohingya we arespeakingtoinNorthernRakhinehaveexpressedfearanddistrustof the statemedical systemandwhatmight happen to them ifthey try to go to hospital withCovid-19symptoms.”At least 700,000 Rohingya

fled Rakhine for Bangladesh in2017 during operations by thearmy under the command ofSeniorGeneralMinAungHlaing,who is nowprimeminister andheadofMyanmar's junta.UNinvestigatorssaidtheop-

erations were carried out with"genocidal intent" but the armydenied that and said theywereaimedatcountering terrorists.Vaccinations started this

week at refugee camps inBangladeshthathousemorethanonemillionRohingyarefugees.

Rohingyarefugeeswait togetvaccinatedatacampinCox’sBazar,Bangladesh,onTuesday.AP

Myanmar vaccination rollout leaves Rohingya waiting

ANTHONYBOADLEBRASILIA,AUGUST10

BRAZIL'S LOWER house ofCongress voted down a plan byfar-rightPresidentJairBolsonarotoalterthecountry'svotingsys-tem on Tuesday, despite on anunusualdisplayofmilitaryhard-wareby thearmedforces.Politiciansofallstripescalled

theparadeofnavytanksandar-moredpersonnelcarriersaformof intimidation hours beforelawmakersweresettovoteonaconstitutional amendmentbackedbyBolsonaro.Brazil's lower house of

Congress voted down the pro-posal with 229 votes in favour,218 against and 1 abstention,with dozens of lawmakers ab-sent.Thevote fell79votesshortof the three-fifths majorityneeded to approve a constitu-tional amendment.TheNavysaidtheparadehad

been planned long before thevote in the lower house ofCongresswasscheduled.Thepresidentialmediaoffice

did not respond to a request forcommentontheparade.Withhis popularity flagging

amid theworld's second-dead-liest Covid-19 outbreak,Bolsonarohas insisted in recentweeksonadoptingpaperballotsfor the 2022 election, based onunproven claims of fraud inBrazil'selectronicvotingsystem.Hehas threatenednot toac-

cept the results of next year'spresidentialelection,whichpollsshowhimlosingtoformerleftistpresident Luiz Inacio Lula daSilva. Neithermanhas officiallyannouncedhis candidacy.Flankedbythecommanders

of the armed forces, Bolsonaro

stoodoutside thePlanaltopres-identialpalaceasthemilitarypa-radepassedby.ANavyofficer incombat gear walked up theramptohandhimtheinvitation.Lawmakerssaidtheunusual

militarypresence in frontof thepresidential palacewasmeanttointimidatethem.“Tanksinthestreet,preciselyonthedayofthevoteonthepaperballotamend-ment, isreal,clearandunconsti-tutional intimidation,” SenatorSimone Tebet of the BrazilianDemocratic Movement partysaidonsocialmedia.

Amidredsmokefromflares,policedetaintwoprotestersblockingamilitaryconvoy inBrasilia.AP

PROPOSALTOALTERVOTINGSYSTEM

Brazil Congress blocks changesdespite military show of force

ASSOCIATEDPRESSALBANY,AUGUST11

KATHYHOCHUL,awesternNewYork Democrat unfamiliar tomanypeopleinthestateevenaf-tersixyearsasitslieutenantgov-ernor, was set to begin reintro-ducing herself to the publicWednesday as she prepared totakethereinsofpowerafterGovAndrew Cuomo announced hewould resign fromoffice.Hochul,62,intwoweekswill

become the state’s first femalegovernor, following a remark-able transition period inwhichCuomo has said hewill stay onandwork to ease her into a jobthathedominatedoverhisthreeterms inoffice.Shestayedoutofpublicsight

Tuesdaybut said in a statementthat shewas“prepared to lead.”Hochulplannedtoholdher firstnewsconferenceWednesdayaf-ternoon at the State Capitol, intheveryroomwhereCuomobe-came a familiar face to peopleacross the US for his televisedbriefings on New York’s fightagainst thepandemic.Cuomo, 63, announced

Tuesday that he would stepdown rather than face a likelyimpeachment trial over allega-tions that he sexually harassedat least11women.Cuomo has continued to

denythathetouchedanyonein-appropriately, and said his in-stinct was to fight back againstclaimshefeltwereunfairorfab-ricated.Buthesaidthatwiththestate still in apandemic crisis, itwasbest forhimtostepasidesothe state’s leaders could “getback togoverning.”That jobwill fall to Hochul,

who purposely kept amodestprofileaslieutenantgovernorinastatewhereCuomocommanded—anddemanded—thespotlight.A seasoned veteran of retail

politics, Hochul shares some ofCuomo’s centrist politics, but isa stylistic contrastwithagover-norfamousforhisloveofsteam-rolling opponents and holdinggrudges, state political veteranssay. She’s well-liked by col-leagues,whosayvotersshould-n’t confuse her quiet approachunderCuomowithalackofcon-fidenceorcompetence.Itremainstobeseenhowin-

volved Cuomowill be in stategovernment over the next twoweeks, or how he’ll managehandingoverauthority.His circle of advisers has

shrunk, but his closest aide andpolicymakingpartner—MelissaDeRosa—madeasurprisereturntoCuomo’ssideafterhavingan-nounced her resignation fromthe administration Sunday. Thegovernor’sofficesaidshewillre-maininherjobassecretarytothegovernoruntilCuomodeparts.Leaders in the state legisla-

turehaveyettosaywhethertheyplan on dropping an impeach-mentinvestigationthathasbeenongoingsinceMarch,andwhichhad been expected to concludein thecomingweeks.In addition to examininghis

conductwithwomen, lawyershiredbythestateAssemblywereinvestigatingwhethertheadmin-istration manipulated data onCovid-19deathsinnursinghomesandwhetherCuomo improperlygot help fromhis staff writing abookaboutthepandemic.

KathyHochul

Hochul preparesfor spotlight asCuomo steps aside

Provincial CM resigns inanother setback for OliYUBARAJGHIMIREKATHMANDU,AUGUST11

SHANKAR POKHREL, a strongsupporterof formerNepalPrimeMinisterKPOli,resignedasChiefMinisterofLumbiniprovinceonWednesday, hours ahead of ascheduled debate and vote ofconfidenceagainsthim.Pokhrel submittedhis resig-

nation to Province Head AmikSerchan, rendering theno-confi-dencemotioninfructuous.Helostthesupportofthemajorityintheprovincial assembly after a newcoalition comprising theNepaliCongress, CPN-Maoist-Centre,Janata Samajbadi Party and theRastriya Janamorcha togethermustered enough votes. KulPrasadKCaliasSonam,aMaoistleaderbackedbythenewalliance,

is likelytosucceedhimasCM.Oliwasforcedtostepdownas

PrimeMinisteronJuly28aftertheSupreme Court ruled that hisreappointment to thepost in theeventofdissolutionof theHouseby President Bidhya DeviBhandari onMay22wasconsti-tutionally flawed, and the courtruledthatNepaliCongressleaderSher Bahadur Deuba be ap-pointedtothepostonthebasisofnumericalstrengthheclaimedinwritingbeforethePresident.Pokhrel's resignation indi-

catesthatpro-OlichiefministersfromtheCPN-UMLpartyareonthe verge of an exit in thechanged political context —hesteppeddownsoonafterPrithviSubbaGurung, chiefministerofGandakiprovince,wasaxedfol-lowinghisdefeatinthefloortestsoonafterOli'sdownfall.

KJMVARMABEIJING,AUGUST11

FACEDWITH scathing criticismfrom the US of its expansiveclaims over the disputed SouthChina Sea at a UN SecurityCouncil meeting presided overbyIndiathisweek,ChinasaidonWednesdaythatthehigh-powerbodyoftheUnitedNationsisnota “suitable place” to discuss thecontentious issue.PrimeMinisterNarendraModi

had onMonday chaired a high-levelopendebateonmaritimese-curity attended virtually byRussianPresidentVladimirPutin,US Secretary of State AntonyBlinken,ChefdeCabinetoftheUNSecretary-GeneralMaria LuizaRibeiroViotti,amongothers.“TheSecurityCouncil is not a

suitableplacetodiscusstheSouthChina Sea issue,” the ChineseForeignMinistrysaidinitsfirstre-action to the high-level UNSCmeeting.China attaches great impor-

tancetomaritimesecurity, advo-cates a commonmaritime secu-rity concept featuringmutuallybeneficial cooperation andwin-win results and is committed to

buildingamaritimesecurityarchi-tecturefeaturingequality,mutualtrust,fairness,justice,jointcontri-butionandsharedbenefits,itsaid.AtMonday’smeeting,apresi-

dential statement onmaritimesecurity which recognised theimportance of enhancing inter-nationalandregionalcooperationto counter threats tomaritimesafety and securitywas unani-mouslyadopted.However, the US and China

had clashed at themeeting. “Inthe South China Sea, we haveseen dangerous encounters be-tween vessels at sea andprovocative actions to advanceunlawful maritime claims,”Blinken had said, in a veiled at-tack on Chinawhich claims al-most all of the 1.3 million sq-mile South China Sea as itssovereign territory.While China's Deputy

Permanent Representative DaiBinginhisaddresshadhitoutattheUS,oftencriticisedbyBeijingas an outside power, sayingWashington is not qualified tospeak on the issue, Blinken as-serted that it is the responsibil-ity of all countries to followagreed rules topeacefully settlemaritimedisputes. PTI

MZULQERNAINLAHORE,AUGUST11

PAKISTAN’S DEPOSED PrimeMinister Nawaz Sharif told acourt on Wednesday that hecannot return to the country asdoctors have advised him toavoid air travel and stay in closeproximitytohealthcarefacilitiesuntil theCovid-19threat isover.AdvocateAmjadPervaizsub-

mitted Sharif's medical report,prepared by the former pre-mier's cardiothoracic surgeonDavid Lawrance, to the LahoreHighCourt.Sharif, 71, convicted in two

corruptioncasesinPakistan,hasbeen living in London sinceNovember2019aftertheLahoreHighCourtgrantedhimpermis-siontogoabroadfor fourweeksformedical treatment.“He (Sharif) should by all

means avoid travelling and vis-iting public places like airportsandaircrafts.Myopinionregard-ingMr.Sharif'straveltoPakistananditsimplicationsonhishealthremains the same as reiterated

inmy earliermedical reports—thatheshouldnottravel.Hehasbeengettingmedical treatmentin Londonwherehe is in careofthe doctors and paramedicalstaffwhoare awareof hismed-icalhistory,” the report stated.Sharif should only stay in

closeproximitytothehealthcarefacilitieswherehehasbeenget-ting his treatment until theCovid-19 threat is over and hishealthproblemsareadequately

addressed, it said.Sharif's passport expired in

February this year. The rulingPakistanTehreek-i-Insafgovern-ment had earlier declined a re-quest for issuance of a newdiplomaticpassport tohim.According to reports from

London, the PML-N supremo’sapplication for visa extensionhasbeenturneddownbytheUKHome Office with the right toappeal. PTI

UNSC not a suitable placeto discuss South ChinaSea issue, says Beijing

KRISHANFRANCISCOLOMBO,AUGUST11

SRI LANKA has filed 23,270charges against 25 people inconnectionwiththe2019EasterSundaysuicidebombattacksonchurches and hotels that killed269people,thepresident’sofficesaidWednesday.The charges filed Tuesday

under the country’s anti-terrorlaw include conspiring tomur-der,aidingandabetting,collect-ing arms and ammunition, andattemptedmurder, it said.The attorney general also

askedthechief justicetoappointa special three-member highcourt bench to hear the casesspeedily, it said inastatement.TwolocalMuslimgroupsthat

had pledged allegiance to theIslamicStategroupwereblamedfor the six near-simultaneoussuicidebombattacksonApril21,2019. The blasts targeted threechurchesandthreehotels.Friction and a communica-

tion breakdownbetween then-PresidentMaithripala Sirisenaand then-PrimeMinister RanilWickremesinghewere blamed

for the government's failure toactonnear-specificforeignintel-ligencewarningsaheadoftheat-tacks. That led to the election ofPresident Gotabaya Rajapaksalaterin2019onaplatformofna-tionalsecurity.Rajapaksawasaformerarmy

officerandadefenseofficialwhohadplayedadecisive role inde-feating Tamil Tiger rebels andendinga26-yearcivilwar.The head of the Roman

Catholic archdiocese ofColombo, Cardinal MalcolmRanjith, has repeatedly chargedthat the investigation into theblastswas not being conductedproperly. AP

ThesuicidebombblastsonApril21,2019hadleft269peopledead. File

SOUTH AFRICA’S PRESIDENT TESTIFIES AT HEARING

‘TRIEDTORESISTGRAFTASZUMA’SDEPUTY’South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, testifying at a inquiry, said he chose to “remain butresist” rather than resign as deputy president when allegations of corruption surfaced under hispredecessor Jacob Zuma.Ramaphosa has made the fight against corruption a pillar of hispresidency, though opposition parties have criticised him for not doing enough to stop the rotduring his time as deputy.

Lanka files chargesagainst 25 Easterbombing suspects

NawazSharif isliving inLondon

Can’t return to Pakistan on doctors’ advice: Nawaz

New Delhi

Productivity of ParliamentMANOJCGNEWDELHI, AUGUST11

PARLIAMENT’SMonsoon Session ended onastormynoteonWednesday,twodaysaheadofschedule.FromthetimetheSessionbeganon July19,OppositionpartieshaddisruptedbothHouses over the government’s unwill-ingness to allow discussion on the Pegasussnoopingscandal, the farmers’protests, andtherise inprices,especiallyof auto fuels.Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Rajya

Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu ex-pressed anguish over the disruptions. Birlasaid, “I share the people’s pain that their is-sues could not be discussed in the House.”NaidubrokedownwhilespeakingabouttheconductofMPsonTuesday,andsaidhehadspentasleeplessnight.“TheTableareawheretheofficersandthe

reportersoftheHouse,theSecretaryGeneraland the PresidingOfficer are seated, is con-sidered as the holy sanctum sanctorum oftheHouse.Acertaindegreeof sacredness isattached to this place... While someMembers sat on the Table, some othersclimbedon theTable of theHouse, perhapstobemorevisiblewithsuchactsofsacrilege.I have nowords to conveymy anguish andtocondemnsuchacts,”Naidusaid.According to PRS Legislative Research

data, theMonsoon Sessionwas the fourthleastproductiveLokSabhasessionofthelasttwo decades, with a productivity of just 21percent.RajyaSabhaloggedaproductivityof28 per cent, its eighth least productiveSessionsince1999.

Most disrupted Sessions■According to PRS Legislative Research

records since 1999, the worst Session interms of productivity for both HouseswastheWinterSessionof 2010.TheBJPwas inOpposition then, and the

party allowednobusiness to be transacted,demandingaJointParliamentaryCommittee(JPC)probe into the2Gspectrumlicenceal-location in thewakeof theCAG’s report.The productivity of Rajya Sabha in that

Session plunged to amere 2 per cent; LokSabhadidmarginallybetterat6percent,ac-cording toPRSdata.

■ For Lok Sabha, theWinter Sessions of2013and2016werethesecondworst-hit intermsof productivity.In 2013, the last Session of the 15th Lok

Sabhawasmarred by disruptions over thecreation of a separate Telangana state,withMPs favouring andopposing thedivisionoftheerstwhile stateofAndhraPradeshhold-ing theHouses to ransom.In2016,thedisruptionswereoverthede-

monetisation of high-value currency notes

announcedbyPrimeMinisterNarendraModiinNovember. Theproductivityof LokSabhawasamere15percentbothin2013and2016.

■TheBudgetSessionof 2018witnesseda productivity of 21 per cent in Lok Sabha.The second part of the Session was com-pletelyparalysed.Earlier, in theMonsoon Session of 2012,

LokSabhahadseenasimilarproductivityof21 per cent. The disruptions in 2012wereover theallocationof coalblocks.

■For Rajya Sabha, the Budget Session of2019— the last of the16th Lok Sabha—wasthe secondworst in termsof productivity: 7percent.The13-daySessionwaswashedoutasOppositionpartiesstalledproceedingsdailyoverissuesrangingfromtheRafalefighterjetdealtotheCitizenship(Amendment)Bill.

■ThethirdworstsessionforRajyaSabhaproductivity was theMonsoon Session of2015—9per cent, as theVyapamscamandtheLalitModicontroversyturnedtheHouseturbulent. LokSabhatoowasdisrupted,butitmanaged toclockaproductivityof 48percent. In terms of numbers, the Oppositionthenhadtheupperhand inRajyaSabha.

■TheUpperHousehadseenmassivedis-ruptionsduring the first Sessionof the14thLokSabha in2004 (17per cent), theWinterSession of 2016 (18 per cent), theWinterSession of 2013 (25 per cent), the BudgetSession of 2018 (27 per cent) and theMonsoonSessionof 2012(28percent).

Theworst disturbancesOnWednesday,Leaderof theOpposition

inRajyaSabhaMallikarjunKhargeprotestedthepresenceofmarshals in theHouse, say-ingwomenMPswerenot “safe”, andDerekO’Brienof theTrinamoolCongresstweeted:“6.30pm FASCISM #Parliament. CENSOR-SHIPRSTV.Badtoworse.Modi-Shah’sbrutalgovernment is now using “GENDER

SHIELDS” to foil MP protests inside RajyaSabha. Male marshals for women MPs.FemalemarshalspostedinfrontofmaleMPs.(FewOppnMPsshootingvideos forproof)”Leader of theHouse PiyushGoyal coun-

teredthatOppositionmembershadtriedtoattack table staff and theSecretaryGeneral,andattemptshadbeenmadetostrangulateawomansecurity staffer.TheMonsoon Session also saw the sus-

pension of six TMCMPs for a day for disor-derlyconduct.

■On February 14, 2014, Lok Sabhawit-nesseddramaanddisruptionunlikeanyotherwitnessed inParliament. As thegovernmentintroducedtheBilltobifurcateAndhraPradesh,thenCongressMPLRajagopalsmashedaglassitemontheSecretaryGeneral’stable,andthenstartedtoindiscriminatelyspraypeppersprayintheHouse.ThreeMPswerehospitalised,and16anti-TelanganaMPsweresuspendedfortheremainderof theSession.

■ InMarch2010, Rajya Sabhawitnessedchaos as theWomen’s Reservation Bill wastakenup.MembersopposedtotheBillthrewaroundcopiesandcreatedsuchastormthatmarshalshadtobecalledintophysicallyevictthemfromtheHouse.SevenMPs—SubhashYadav (RJD), Kamal Akhtar, Veerpal SinghYadav, NandKishore Yadav, and Amir AlamKhan(SP),SabirAli(LJP),andEjazAli(JD-U)—weresuspendeduntiltheendoftheSession.

■Lastyear, thepassageof thethreecon-tentiousfarmlawshadwitnessedunsavouryscenes. The scenes of Tuesdaywere antici-patedwhenRajeevSatavoftheCongressandSanjay Singh of the Aam Aadmi Partyclimbedon to theSecretaryGeneral’s table.Eight OppositionMPs — TMC floor leaderO’BrienandhispartycolleagueDolaSen,KKRageshandElamaramKareemoftheCPI(M),and SyedNasirHussain andRipunBorahoftheCongress,besidesSatavandSanjaySingh

—weresuspended foraweek.■ Before that, in March 2020, seven

CongressMPs—Gaurav Gogoi,TNPrathapan,ManickamTagore,GurjeetSinghAujla,BennyBehanan,RajmohanUnnithan,andAdv.DeanKuriakose—weresuspendedfromLokSabhafor the rest of theBudget Session. Theywereaccused of snatching papers from theSpeaker’stableastheOppositionstronglyde-mandedadiscussionontheDelhiriots.

■ In January2019, thenSpeakerSumitraMahajan had suspended as many as 45membersbelongingtotheTDPandAIADMKafter they continuously disruptedproceed-ings for days.While the AIADMKmemberswereprotestingoveraproposeddamontheCauvery, the TDPmemberswere demand-ingspecial status toAndhraPradesh.

■ In September 2013, nine AndhraMPs— four from the TDP and five from theCongress—were suspended for disruptingthe proceedingswith their protests againstthebifurcationofAndhraPradesh.

■ In August 2013, 12MPs fromAndhraPradeshweresuspendedfromLokSabhaforfivedaysover thesame issue.

■InApril2012,eightCongressMPsfromTelanganaweresuspendedfor fourdays fordisrupting the proceedingswith demandsfora separateTelangana.

The difference this timeEven though theMonsoon Sessionwas

badlyhitintermsofproductivity,andthetimespentondiscussionandpassageofBillscamedowndrastically,thegovernmentdidmanagetopushthroughalargevolumeof legislation.According to PRS data, Lok Sabha took

only 34minutes on average to pass a Bill,whileRajyaSabhadiditin46minutes.SomeBills, like the Limited Liability Partnership(Amendment)Bill,2021,werepassedwithinfiveminutes.OnlytheOBCBillwasdiscussedformore thananhour inbothHouses.In comparison, the current LokSabhaas

awholehassofarspent2hoursand23min-utesonaveragediscussingaBill;RajyaSabhahasspent2hoursonaverage.While Lok Sabha sat for 21hours and14

minutes in theMonsoonSessionagainst thestipulated time of 96 hours, thus losing 74hours and 46minutes to interruptions, asmanyas13Billswere introducedand20Billswere passed. The important ones: TheConstitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Amendment) Bill, 2021; TheInsolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amend-ment) Bill, 2021; The General InsuranceBusiness(Nationalisation)AmendmentBill.RajyaSabhasatfor28hoursand21min-

utesagainst thescheduled timeof 97hoursand30minutes, losing76hoursand26min-utes to interruptions. The House passed 19Bills; fourBillswere introduced.


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DEEPMUKHERJEEJAIPUR,AUGUST11

DAYSAFTERtribalgroupsandHinduoutfitstargeted each other over the hoisting of asaffronflagandallegeddesecrationof idolsat apre-RajputMeena fortoutside Jaipur, adisputehaseruptedinRajasthan’ssouthernUdaipurdistrict,whereaflagwasraisedonastatueofRanaPunjaBhil,ahistoricalfigurewhomthetribalBhils revereasahero.AlocaladivasigrouphasfiledanFIRac-

cusing “people from the BJP and RSS” ofplanting the flag onAugust 9. A BJP leadernamed in the FIR has claimed the flagwasinfactthestandardofMaharanaPratap,andthat ithadbeenraisedonthestatuebytheBhils themselves.

Punja Bhil, Pratap’s brave allyPunja Bhil is historically placed in the

latterhalfof the16thcentury;hewasacon-temporary of Maharana Pratap of Mewar.HewasaloyalallyofthevalorousMaharanainhiswaragainst theMughals, and is con-sidered to havemade a significant contri-bution tobolsteringPratap’s strength.“WhenMaharanaPratapwas readying

forhisbattlewithAkbar,thetribalBhilcom-munity voluntarily came to his assistance.TheBhilarmyatthetimewascommandedby Punja, and owing to his status of com-mander,hewasbestowedthetitleofRana,”said historian Rima Hooja, the author ofMaharana Pratap: The Invincible Warrior(2019). Punja continues to be respected tothis day, and several awards and scholar-shipsarenamedafterhim,Hooja said.

Claims on Punja’s legacyIn recent years, attempts have been

madebyseveralgroupstostakeclaimtothelegacyofRanaPunjaBhil,historiansandpo-

liticalanalystsfromtheMewarregionsaid.“ItisnotyetclearwhetherPunjahimself

was a Bhil or a Rajput chieftainwho com-mandedalargearmyofBhils.Butthereisnodoubt that duringMaharana Pratap’s cam-paign against Akbar, including the battle ofHaldighatiin1576,theBhilsplayedacrucialrole. From this time onward, a changewasseenintheearliercustominwhichonlyksha-triyaswere allowed to take part in battle,”saidBhanuKapil,headoftheDepartmentofHistoryatBNUniversity inUdaipur.Repeated attempts have beenmade in

recentdecadestoestablishPunjaasatribalheroandtoappropriatehislegacy,Kapilsaid.“Much like Maharana Pratap, Rana

Punja Bhil too has become a characterwhoselegacyvariouspoliticalpartieswantto appropriate. In the past three decades,Punja has been styled as a tribal icon, andthispositioninghascoincidedwiththeriseofpartiessuchastheBharatiyaTribalParty

(BTP), which talks of tribal assertion. Thedemand for a separate ‘Bhil Pradesh’ com-prisingthetribaldistrictsislinkedwiththisassertion,andclaimsarebeingmadeonthelegaciesof historical figures,”headded.TheBTP,whichwasformedin2017,has

apresenceintheMewarregion,whichwasearlier abastionof theBJP. Ridingon tribalsupport, the BTP won two seats in theRajasthanAssemblyelectionsof 2018.

Bhils in historyGenerations of Rajput rulers of Mewar

haveforgedpoliticalallianceswiththeBhils,a traditionally forest-dwellingpeoplewhoare now classified as a Scheduled Tribe inRajasthan.“TheBhilsareanancienttribewhotrace

their history back tomythological times.Due to their unmatchedknowledge of thehills and forestsofMewar, thecommunityhas always exercised a strong influence in

theregion,”Hooja said.ShesaidtheRajputsrecognisedtheim-

portant contribution of the Bhils in theirkingdoms, and the emblemof theMewarroyal family features a Bhil alongside aRajput, reflectingthevalueaccordedtothealliancebetweenthe twocommunities.Kapil said: “Mewar is rich innatural re-

sources, andBhilshavealwayshadcontrolover the region’s forest produce. The Bhilswere also adept at guerrilla warfare withbows,arrows,andslingshots.Owingtotheirintimate knowledge of the land and its to-pography, theywere able to play a signifi-cantroleintheRajputresistanceagainsttheMughals. Later, the Bhils frequently con-fronted theBritishgovernmentaswell.”

Battle for identitiesOn August 9,World Tribal Day, mem-

bers of the Akhil Bharatiya AdivasiMahasabhawhohadgatherednearastatue

of Rana Punja Bhil in Udaipur objected towhat they saidwas a saffron flag put on itby the Sangh Parivar. The BJP denied in-volvement, said the flagwas not “saffron”butMewar’s “kesariya” standard, and thataneedlesscontroversyhadbeencreatedby“outsidersincludingcommunistsandtribalpartymembers who claimed that tribalswerenotHindus”.EarlieronJuly21,asaffronflagwastaken

downat Jaipur’s Amagarh fort, andHinduoutfitshadaccusedindependentMLARam-keshMeenaandothermembersofthetribalMeenacommunityoftearingitdown.SomeMeenashadinturnaccusedtheHindugroupsoftryingtoappropriateAdivasisymbolsanderasingtribalculture.MLAMeena had asserted thatMeenas

werenotHindus,andhadtheirownindige-nous culture. The BJP’s Rajya Sabha MPKirodiLalMeenahad,however,insistedthatMeenaswere indeed,Hindus.

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What to watch in launch of EOS-03 todayAMITABHSINHAPUNE,AUGUST11

LIKEalmosteveryothersector, India’sspaceprogrammehas also suffered delays on ac-count of the Covid-19 pandemic. Since thebeginningoftheoutbreakinMarchlastyear,Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)hasmanaged just two launches—theearthobservationsatelliteEOS-01lastNovember,and the one in February this yearwhen 18small satellites, mainly of other countries,weresent intospace.Thoughwork on the big ticket projects

likethehumanspaceflightmissionhascon-tinuedinthebackground,thepandemichasupset thescheduleof the launches,pushingback many keenly-awaited missions.Thursday’s launch of the EOS-03 satellite isexpected to break that lull, and bring backactivity in the Indianspacescene.

Anew launch, a newnameThursday’s scheduled launch — in

which ISROwill sendanearthobservationsatelliteonboardaGSLVrocket—isa fairlyroutine event. ISRO has several earth ob-servation satellites in orbit, even thoughthis is only the second one with the newnomenclature that ISROstarted touse lastNovember.ISROusedtoearliernameitssatellitesac-

cording to the purpose theyweremeant toserve. So, satellites thatweremeant to pro-videdata for land topographyandmappingwere named Cartosat, while thosemakingobservations over sea were part of theOceansat series. The INSAT series,Resourcesatseries,GISAT,Scatsat,andafewmorewere all earth observation satellites,but named differently for the specific jobstheywereassignedtodo.All future earth observation satellites,

however,willbecomepartof theEOSseries.

A different rocketButwith every launch these days, ISRO

hasalsobeentryingsomethingnew.Forthelaunch of EOS-01 inNovember last year forexample, ISROusedanewvariantof itsPSLVrocket thathadbeenusedonlyonceearlier.Unlikeotherrockets, thisvariantof PSLV

does not go entirelywaste after depositingthesatelliteinitsorbit. Instead,thelaststageof the rocket, what remains after the satel-lite has detached, can acquire its ownorbit,and can be used as an orbital platform forotheronboardinstrumentsthatcanperformexperiments inspace.TherocketforThursday’sflight,theGSLV-

F10,isequippedwithanewly-designedpay-loadcarrier at the top. The shapeof the car-rierhasbeendesignedtosignificantlyreduceaerodynamic drag, and allows the rocket tocarrymuchbiggerpayloads.EOS-03 is being sent ahead of EOS-02,

which has been delayed. EOS-02 is now

scheduledforalaunchinSeptember-October.That launchwill tryoutanewrocket—SSLV,orsmallsatellitelaunchvehicle.ThoughIndiahas developed four rockets till now— SLV,ASLV,anddifferentversionsofPSLVandGSLV— only two are currently operational. TheSSLVisdesignedtocatertotheincreasingde-mand for launch of small satellites, mainlyfrom businesses and universities; it costsmuchlessandconsumes lessenergy.

What next in space?The big-ticket missions, like the un-

mannedmission as a precursor to the firsthuman space flight, Chandrayaan-3, andAditya, India’sfirstmissiontostudytheSun,havebeenpushedbackbecauseof thepan-demic.Freshdatesfortheseareyettobean-nounced, but a string of other launches areplanned for this year. Among them, apartfromEOS-02, are twomore launches in thisseries—EOS-04andEOS-06.

After AmagarhMeenas, Udaipur Bhils: assertion of tribal identity

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Classifieds II,,JJiitteennddeerr Kumar,S/OSarangRamR/OB-2/243UpperGround-Floor PaschimVihar,Delhi-110063,have changemyname JitenderMaheshwari,for all purpose.

0040579728-8

II,,JJaaggjjiitt Singh,S/OHarbansSingh,R/O.B-2/243 125/21,Double-StoreyPO&DisttSonipat,Haryana-131001, havechangemyname JagjeetSinghBhatti,for all purpose.

0040579728-6

II,,BBhhaaggwwaannDevi,W/OYashPal,R/O.A-105/5,Vijay-Vihar,Phase-2,Rohini,Delhi-110085,inform that BhagwanDevi&Meenabothareone& thesameperson. 0040579751-4

II,,HHeemmaanntt Kaim,S/oSh.GianChandKaimR/o.6/149, Village-Jharera,GopinathBazar,Delhi-Cantt.,Delhi-110010,havechangedmyname,fromHemantRai Kaim toHemantKaim,for all,futurepurposes.

0040579795-1

II,,GGeeeettaaKumari,D/oBhupendraPrasad,R/oH.No.L-1/2297/14,AsthalMandir, SangamVihar,PushpaBhawan,NewDelhi-110062, have changedmyname toGeetArya,for allfuturepurposes.

0040579786-10

II,,GGeeeettaaDeviW/oRameshwar,H.No.6669, Block.No.09,Street.No.7, Dev-Nagar, Karol-Bagh,NewDelhi-110005,havechangedmyname toGeeta.

0040579795-7

II,,AAkkhhiilleesshh S/oRamBrij SinghR/o-B-1501,(VictoryOneAmaraSociety) Sector-16B,GreaterNoidaWest,GautambudhNagar-201318,HaveChangedMyNameToAkhileshSinghYadav.

0040579751-1

II,,AARRVVIINNDDEERRPALSINGHANAND,Sonof,PRITPALSINGHANAND,R/o-B-36, VISHAL-ENCLAVE,TAGORE-GARDEN,NEWDELHI-110027,haveChanged thenameofmyminordaughter,fromRHEANNAANAND toRHEANNAKAURANAND,permanantly.

0040579740-4

II,,AANNOOOOPPKUMARBANSALS/OMAHENDERKUMARBANSALR/OPOCKET-11A/20,FF,PANCHSHEEL-ENCLAVE,SECTOR-23,ROHINI,DELHI-110085.CHANGEDMYNAMETOANOOPBANSAL. 0040579786-4

II,,AAKKAASSHHDEEPS/OANILKAUSHAL,R/o-B-206, VIVEKVIHAR, DELHI-110095,havechangedmyname toAKASHDEEPP,for all futurepurposes.

0040579751-3

II,,AAJJAAYYKUMARGOEL,S/OROSHALLAL,R/o L2-906,GULMOHARGARDENSOCIETY,RAJNAGAREXTENSION,GHAZIABAD,UTTARPRADESH-201017,Changedmyname toAJAYKUMAR. 0040579751-7

II,, lalit kumar,S/o jugalkishore,Address.B-7 bholi-nagarmasjidmoth south expart-2 delhi-110049,Changedmyname to lalit kumargug.

0040579728-7

II,, hitherto knownasSunitaNayyarW/oVinodKumarNayyar employedasHousewife residingat flatNo.L-4, NavbharatApartments,BlockA-4,PaschimViharNewDelhi-63have changedmynameandshall hereafter be knownasSatishNayyar. 0040579792-3

II,, YashDalal S/ORajeshKumar,R/oHNo-40,MainGali, AzadNagar, Hisar, Haryana-125001,declare thatNameofMineandMyFather hasbeenwronglywrittenasYashandRajesh inmyEducational Documents.Theactual nameofMineandMyFather areYashDalal andRajeshKumar,whichmaybeamendedaccordingly.

0070749467-1

II,, VivekKumar S/oShiveshwarPrasadSinghYadavR/oSapta,Sapta,Madhubani, Bihar,847214, that nameofmy fatherandmother hasbeenwronglywrittenasShiveshwarPrasadYadavandPoonamKumarirespectively inmySchoolCertificate of 10thClass. Theactual nameofmy father andmother are ShiveshwarPrasadSinghYadavandPunamKumari respectively

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II,, VipinKumarVishwakarmaS/OLate ShitlaDinVishwakarma, R/oKrishnaNagar,Murai Bagh, Dalmau,RaeBareli, Uttar Pradesh-229207. Declare thatNameofMyFather hasbeenwronglywrittenas ShitalaDinVishwakarma inmy10thClassCertificateNo- 0729430, thatnameofmineandmy fatherhasbeenwronglywrittenasVipinKumarVishvkarmaandShitlaDeen inmyAadharCardNo- 431323612908 . TheactualnameofMyFather areVipinKumarVishwakarmaandShitlaDinVishwakarma,whichmaybeamendedaccordingly. 0070749505-1

II,, PerumalM. S/OMaheswaran,EmployedasSecretariatAssistant, PostingAddress :LokSabhaSecretariat,Parliament of India,ParliamentHouseAnnexe,NewDelhi-110001R/O49/67Dr.SantoshNagar EgmoreChennai Tamil Nadu-600008,havingParmanentAddress-49/67Dr. SantoshNagarEgmoreChennai Tamil Nadu-600008, have changedmynameandshall hereafter beKnownasM.WinstonBenjamin. 0070749489-1

II,, NeemaLamuSherpaW/OJyotish SinghRajvanshi, R/o15-B, Hoshiyar SinghPark, CODDelhi, Cantt, SouthWestDelhi-110010, Declare that nameofMineandMyMinorDaughterhasbeenwronglywrittenasAshaRajvanshi andPrernaRajvanshi inmyminorDaughter PrernaSherpa, agedabout 8Years, In her BirthRegistrationNo.MCDOL I R-0113-005671571. TheactualnameofMineandMyMinorDaughter areNeemaLamuSherpaandPrernaSherpa ,whichmaybeamendedaccordingly. 0070749500-1

II,, NancyDograaliasNancyCheemaw/oHarvinder Singhr/oB-161,MansaroverGarden,NewDelhi-110015havechangedmyname toKulvinderKaur. 0040579693-1

II,,Md. Riazuddin S/o LateMubinAhmadR/oB-412/2, StreetNo.11, SubhashMohalla, NorthGhonda, Delhi - 110053 havechangedmyname toMohammadRiyazuddin

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II,,Manoj KumarKinhaS/oBalwanSingh, R/o F-43, ashokvihar phase-3, oppbestechflats, gurgaonharyana-122001. HaveChangedmyname toManoj Kinha for allpurposes. 0070749512-1

I,MaddalaRaj KumarS/oMaddalaDavidRajuR/o20/252/1, Yerrakonda, NetajiNagar, Dowleswaram,DisttEast Godavari, AndhraPradesh-533125, have changedmyminor daughter’s namefrom MaddalaVennela aged 9years toMaddalaBeauty Angeland shehas changedonly hername not her religion forever.

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II,,MaddalaRaj KumarS/oMaddalaDavidRajuR/o20/252/1, Yerrakonda, NetajiNagar, Dowleswaram,DisttEast Godavari, AndhraPradesh-533125, havechangedmyminor daughter’sname from MaddalaNila aged8 years toMaddalaCutyAngel and shehas changedonly her name not her religionforever. 0070749595-1

II,, AbhishekVermaS/OAshokKumar, R/oMDDAColonyRoad, ShivNagar, PODefenceColony, Dehradun,Uttarakhand-248001, havechangedmynameandshallhereafter be knownasAbhishekDogra.

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I, Kum. PoonamMohtaW/oPradeepKumarDhanuka, R/oHouseno 67 3rd floor, pocket-11Apanchsheel sector-23rohini delhi-110085 inform thatKum. PoonamMohtaandPoonamDhanukabothare thesameandoneperson

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II,, KartikNaahal S/ORajinderKumar, R/oHNo-44, EightMarla Sonipat, Haryana-131001. declare thatNameofMinehasbeenwronglywrittenasKartik inmy10thClassCertificateNo- 2196951 .Theactual nameofMine isKartikNaahal,whichmaybeamendedaccordingly.

0070749481-1

II,, Jai Devi D/ODhanraj, R/o134/9, PanaChhajyanBeri,Jhajjar Pin:124201, Haryana .have changedmynameandshall hereafter be knownasJayaRauniyar. 0070749478-1

I, DarshnaKD/OKhirodKumarKhandai, R/oM.E.K- 303A, GaliNo- 4,Mahipalpur Extention,SouthWest, NewDelhi- 110037 .have changedmynameandshall hereafter beKnownasDarshnaKhandai .

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II,, BalwanSinghKinhaS/oGangaram,R/o F-43, AshokVihar phase-3, opp Bestechflats, Gurgaon Haryana-122001. Have Changedmyname to BalwanSingh for allpurposes. 0070749589-1

II,, AnkitaNegi,W/oAkshayKumar,H.No.6669/9,Gali.No.7,DevNagar,KarolBagh,NewDelhi-110005,havechangedmyname toAnkita.

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II,, AdityaYashKapur S/o YashKapur, R/oA-209, defencecolony, SouthDelhi-110024.Have Changedmyname toAdityaKapur for all purposes.

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II Vishal GuptaS/oSh.HariChandGuptaR/oD10/1,ModelTown-2,NorthWestDelhi,Delhi-110009have changedmyname toMvishal Gupta for allpurposes.

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II Shivanshi D/oGovindNathMishraR/o 3/142, Sector-H,Jankipuram,NearGudambaThana, Lucknow,UttarPradesh-226021, havechangedmyname toMannat

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II RakeshSharma/RakeshKumar SharmaS/OVedKumarR/O-FlatNo-37,GulabVihar,Sector-9, Rohini Delhi-110085,have changedmyname toRakeshKumar.

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IIMonaD/oAshokGoswamiR/oA-627, Gharoli Dairy, Colony,MayurVihar, Phase-3, Delhi-110096, have changedmyname toManviGoswami

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I KartikVermaS/oMukeshVermaR/oH-1402, EliteHomz,Sector-77, Noida, GautamBuddhaNagar, Uttar Pradesh-201301, have changedmynametoKartikkVermaa

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II,, VaraprasadRaoYerra S/oJosephYerraR/o 2-3-105,Shanthi Nagar, Uppal, GulamAliguda, Rangareddi, AndhraPradesh-500039, havechangedmyminordaughter’sname fromSanjanaYerra aged14 years toRidhima JoyceYerra forever 0070749549-1

II,, VandanaGoelW/oPuneetAggarwal R/o-C-224VivekVihar Phase-1Delhi-110095have changedmyname toVandanaAggarwal.

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II,, Tejvir S/ODeepchand, R/oAmarpur(177), Palwal,Haryana-121004, Declare thatnameofMineandMyMinorSonhasbeenwronglywrittenasTejveer SinghandVinaySingh inmyminor SonVinayKumar, agedabout 17Year, Inhis Educational DocumentsTheactual nameofMineandMyMinor SonareTejvir andVinayKumar,whichmaybeamendedaccordingly.

0070749508-1

II,, THAMARAKSHAKURUPS/OSh. KuttanPillai R/O.15/63, 2ndFloor, Front Side, SubhashNagar, NewDelhi-110027havechangedmynameKAMAL toTHAMARAKSHAKURUP for allfuturepurpose, videaffidavitdated 5thAug-21.

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II,, Suraj SinghS/oManoj KumarR/o 10/5, LabourColony,AligarhRoad,Hathras, UttarPradesh-204101, that nameofmy father hasbeenwronglywrittenasManoj Singh inmy12thClass School CertificateandBachelor of ScienceDegree. Theactual nameofmyfather isManoj Kumar

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II,, SonuKumar S/ORajeshKumar, R/oHNo- 3,Mataur,PS- Daurala, TEH- Sardhana,Dist-Meerut- 250221, havechangedmynameandshallhereafter beKnownasSunilChauhan. 0070749485-1

II,, Shwetambra ,W/OMohitVermaR/O64/7, LalQuarters,LohiaNagar, Ghaziabad, UttarPradesh-201001have changedmyname toShwetambraSingh. 0040579755-1

II,, Sarita Prakash,W/oVijayPrakash,R/o-A-7, Sector-26,Noida,(U.P) havechangedmyname,fromSarita Prakash toSarita Singh,for all,futurepurposes. 0040579795-8

II,, SanjayKumar S/oDevPrakashUpadhyayR/o A-164Himalya Enclave KhoraColonyGhaziabad UP201010havechanged myname toSanjayKumarUpadhyay for all futurepurposes. 0070749594-1

II,, SURENDRASINGH S/oMRRAMSINGHR/oHNo. E -294/A,NewAshokNagar, Delhi-96,have changedmyname toSONUSINGH for all purposes.

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II,, SGTSudhanshuKumar S/OChandramaPandit, R/oSMQ-121/06NewPintopark 13BRDAir ForceNewDelhi-110010.have changed thenameofmyminor SonSashi Bhushanagedabout 14Years andheshall hereafter be knownasShashi Bhushan.

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II,, RupinderKaurw/oSh.Inderjeet SinghKambowR/oPT-62/7,Second Floor,Kalkaji, Delhi-110019,havechangedmyname toRupinderKaur kambow,Permanently.

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II,, RupalliW/ORachit RanaR/OFlat UG02, Tower-C, CivitechSampriti, Sector-77, Noida-201304, have changedmyname toRupalli Grover Ranapermanently. 0040579711-1

II,, Roopal Pachauri ,W/ODeepakSharmaR/oH.No- 72, PocketA-8, Kalkaji Extn, SouthDelhi,NewDelhi- 110019 . havechangedmynameandshallhereafter beKnownasRoopalSharma. 0070749486-1

II,, Savitri Devi ,W/OSamar JeetR/oMalakBelaBargaonBadagaonAllahabad, UttarPradesh-212502 . havechangedmynameandshallhereafter beKnownasNeeluDevi. 0070749497-1

II,, PawanSharmaS/oBhagwanDutt R/oT-235/61-A, BaljeetNagar, Delhi-110008, havechangedname toPawanDuttSharma. 0040579740-3

II,, NeemaLamuSherpaW/OJyotish SinghRajvanshi, R/o15-B, Hoshiyar SinghPark, CODDelhi, Cantt, SouthWestDelhi-110010, declare that nameofMineandMyMinorDaughterhasbeenwronglywrittenasAshaRajvanshi andPrernaRajvanshi inmyminorDaughter PrernaSherpa, agedabout 8Years, In her BirthRegistrationNo.-MCDOL I R-0113-005671571. TheactualnameofMineandMyMinorDaughter areNeemaLamuSherpaandPrernaSherpa ,whichmaybeamendedaccordingly.

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II,, AnandPrakashSrivastavaS/OGyanPrakashSrivastava,R/o 2/331, VinamraKhand,Near LPCSchool,Gomti Nagar, Lucknow,UttarPradesh-226010. havechanged thenameofmyminor SonRavi PrakashSrivastavaagedabout 11Years andHeshall hereafterbe knownasAvyamSrivastava. 0070749494-1

II PremPatel S/oBabuLal PatelR/o 52/1, BhavaniMataMainRoad,MRPatel Kabada,Khandwa,MadhyaPradesh-450001, have changedmyname toPremLal Patel

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PUBLIC NOTICEThis notice is hereby given to the publicat large on that my client late Mr. DivyaSharma, son of Late Shri JagdishChander Sharma R/o C-26 B, FirstFloor Kalkaji, New Delhi- 110019, whopassed away intestate on 11th June2021 has his wife Mrs. Sharda Sharma,daughter Mrs. Disha Khosla and son Mr.Gandharv Vashisth as Legal heirs. Allother persons having any claim againsthis estate are hereby required to makesame in writing within 10 days from thepublication of this notice to theundersigned. Otherwise the same willbe considered waived or abandoned.

(Chadha & Associates)Office Address: D Block, Chamber

No. 306 3rd Floor, Advocates ChamberBlock, Karkardooma Court Complex,

Delhi-110032.

PUBLIC NOTICEIT IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT MYCLIENT LEKH RAJ S/O SH. RIJU MAL R/OA-33, MAJLIS PARK, DELHI, IS THEOWNER OF SHOP BEARING NO. B-948,NEW SUBZI MANDI, AZADPUR, DELHI,AND HE HAS MISPLACED/LOST ALL THEORIGINAL DDA PAPERS INCLUDINGALLOTMENT LETTER CUM DEMANDLETTER, DDA POSSESSION LETTER,POSSESSION SLIP, BANK CHALLAN ANDALL OTHER DOCUMENTS IN RESPECTOF ABOVE SAID PROPERTY & HASLODGED A FIR/NCR VIDE LR NO.551865/2021 DATED 07.08.2021, WITHPOLICE STATION, CRIME BRANCH, DELHI,IF ANY BODY FIND THE SAID DOCUMENT,PLEASE INFORM HER AT THE ABOVESAIDADDRESS OR PH. NO. 9891749495.IF ANY OTHER CLAIMENT HAS ANY RIGHTIN THE AFORESAID PROPERTY, HE/SHESHOULD FILE AN FIR & GIVE INTIMATIONTO ASST./DEPUTY DIRECTOR, DDA(CE)WITHIN 15 DAYS FROM THE DATE OFISSUE OF THIS NOTICE.

SACHIN KUMAR (Advocate)Enrl No. D/2092/2008

PUBLIC NOTICEIT IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT MY CLIENT SMT.POONAM HEERA W/O LATE SH. SHYAM HEERAR/O E-2/45, SECTOR-11, ROHINI, DELHI- 110085,IS THE OWNER OF ENTIRE GROUND FLOOR OFFREE HOLD BUILT-UP PROPERTY BEARINGNO. 158, AREA MEASURING 160 SQ. YDS.(133.76 SQ. MTRS.), SITUATED IN THE LAYOUTPLAN OF THE GUJRANWALA CO-OPERATIVEHOUSE BUILDING SOCIETY LTD., ALSO KNOWNAS “GUJRANWALA TOWN”, PART–II, DELHI-110009 AND SHE HAS MISPLACED /LOST THEORIGINAL SALE DEED WHICH WAS EXECUTEDBY (1) SH. KEWAL KRISHAN MADAN & (2) SH.NARENDER MADAN BOTH SONS OF LATE SH.HARBANS LAL MADAN IN FAVOUR OF SMT.KULJEET KAUR W/O S. TARANDEEP SINGH INRESPECT OF ABOVE SAID PROPERTY & HASLODGED A FIR/NCR VIDE LR NO. 327461/2021DATED 20.04.2021, WITH POLICE STATION,CRIME BRANCH, DELHI, IF ANY BODY FIND THESAID DOCUMENT, PLEASE INFORM HIM AT THEABOVESAID ADDRESS OR PH. NO. 9999994051IF ANY OTHER CLAIMENT HAS ANY RIGHT INTHE AFORESAID PROPERTY, HE/SHE SHOULDFILE AN FIR AND HIS/HER CLAIM WITHIN 15DAYS, OTHERWISE MY CLIENT MAY DISPOSEOFF THE SAID PROPERTY.

Sd/-SACHIN KUMAR (Advocate)

Enrl. No. D/2092/2008

PUBLIC NOTICENotified to the public that my client, Mr.Laxmi Narayan S/o Mr. Dal Chand R/o3053/37, Beadon Pura, Karol Bagh, Delhi,and his other family members including hiswife Smt. Kaushalya, and elder son ParveenKumar & his family, have got no connectionof whatsoever nature with his younger sonMr. Vipin Kumar and his wife Mrs. MeenuSingh @ Nehal, who have been livingseparately since the day of their marriage.My aforesaid client and his family membershave severed all their relations, connectionsof whatsoever nature with aforesaid VipinKumar and his wife Mrs. Meenu Singh @Nehal. Any person dealing with them shalldo so on his own risks and consequences.

Sd/- (R.D. Vats) Advocate668, Western Wing, Tis Hazari Courts,

Delhi-110054.

PUBLIC NOTICEIt is informed to the public at large that myclient SH. SUNIL KUMAR GOEL S/O LATESH. UPENDRA PRASAD GOEL R/O HOUSENO. 193/56, RAVINDER PURI, NAYA BAZAR,CANTT. BOARD, MEERUT CANTT., U.P.AND PRESENTLY RESIDING AT:- ABHAMANAV MANDIR, VARISTH NAGRIK SEWASADAN (VRADH ASHRAM), PANCHWATICOLONY, MAWANA ROAD, MEERUT, U.P.,hereby declaring/ debarring/ disowning/severing all his relations and ties with his wifeand adopted son namely SMT. SAVITA GOEL& SH. VIBHU GOEL @ GAUTAM (withoutadoption deed) respectively, from his life,properties and estates, movable or immovablesituated at Meerut, U.P. or outside of Meerut,U.P. because they both tried to kill my client onvarious occasions and the complaint has beenlodged against them. Neither my client nor theproperties (movable and immovable) ownedby him shall be responsible or liable for anyact, deed and thing done by abovenamedpersons from today.

Sd/- HIMANSHU YADAVEn.No. D-2892/10 Advocate

Chamber No. E-721, Lawyer’s ChamberKarkardooma Courts, Delhi-110032

Mob.: +91-9654315379

PUBLIC NOTICENotice is given on behalf of myclientess Ms. Manisha Gupta W/oMr. Varoon Gupta, that the propertyas more particularly described in theschedule here in under and situatedat SURAJMAL VIHAR, DELHI, whichis held by my above clientess and shehas decided to sell the said scheduleproperty.Therefore any person(s) havingany claim in respect of the abovereferred property or part thereof byway of sale, exchange, mortgage,charge, gift. maintenance,inheritance, possession, lease,tenancy, sub-tenancy, lien, license,hypothecation, transfer of title orbeneficial interest under any trustright of prescription or preemptionor under any agreement or otherdisposition or under any decree,order or award or otherwiseclaiming, howsoever, are herebyrequested to make the sameknown in writing together withsupporting documents to theundersigned at his office at D-90,Basement, Surajmal Vihar, Delhi-110 092 within a period of 15 daysof the date of publication hereoffailing which the claim of suchperson(s) will be deemed to havebeen waived and oblique orabandoned.

SCHEDULEBuildup Freehold ResidentialProperty Bearing No. B-238, Landarea measuring 125.42 Sq. Mtrs. i.e.150 Sq. Yds., situated in the layoutplan of "Delhi School Teachers Co-Operative House Building SocietyLtd.", Colony known as"SURAJMAL VIHAR", Delhi-110092 which is bounder as under:-EAST : Plot No. 237 WEST : PlotNo. 239 North : Road 45 Ft. WideSouth : Service Lane

Sd/-JAGJIT SINGH SAHNI)

ADVOCATEEnr. No. D-868/98(R),CHAMBER NO. 421,

WESTERN WINGSTIS HAZARI COURT,

DELHI-110 054Dated: 09.08.2021DELHI

PUBLIC NOTICEKnow all men by these present thatmy clients PRODIP CHAKI S/o LATEGANESH CHAKI and MINATICHAKI W/o PRODIP CHAKI bothR/o RZ-G-11-12, DABRI EXTN,NEW DELHI 110045, andMEGHALAYA have debarred theirson named PIJUSH CHAKI andDaughter in Law UDESHNA RABHAand from all movable and immovableproperties and severed all relationswith them. Any person/s dealing withthem shall be doing at his/her ownrisk and responsibilities.

Sd/- H.K. BABBAR (Advocate)OFFICE: C3/266, JANAKPURI,

NEW DELHI-110058

PUBLIC NOTICEGeneral Public is hereby informed that myclient Smt. Visalam Rangarajan W/O M.Rangarajan, R/O B-31, Air India EmployeesCGHS, Plot No -9, Sector-3, N.S.I.T, SouthWest Delhi, Delhi -110078 has severed all herrelations with her son Sh. Karthick Krishnanand his wife Deepika due to their bad habits offighting, creating nuisance in my clientpersonal life and dragging her in false andfrivolous cases. My client Smt VisalamRangarajan also disowned and debarred hersaid son and his wife from all her movable andimmovable properties. Anybody dealing withsh. Karthick Krishnan and his wife Deepikawill do so at his/her/their own risk,responsibilities, consequences and my clientwill not be responsible for any act, omission,liability, deed, contract, or dealing done byKarthick Krishnan and his wife Deepika.

RAJEEV PANDEY (ADVOCATE)ENROL NO. D/2298/2009

RP4X3RKD(11)PUBLIC NOTICE

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENT,that my clients SMT. BEERO RANI (UID-9953-4166-2116) W/O. SH. GAJRAJSINGH & MR. GAJRAJ SINGH (UID-3498-2582-6112) S/O. SH. SABHA CHANDBOTH R/O. H.NO. 44, NEW HIRA PARK,DICHAON ROAD, NAJAFGARH, NEWDELHI-43, has debarred and disownedtheir son ANKIT alias PRAVEEN S/O. SH.GAJRAJ SINGH & dau.in.law JYOTI W/O.SH. ANKIT alias PRAVEEN from their allmoveable and immovable properties,served all relations with him due to hishostile behaviour towards my clients andtheir other family members, Anybody dealswith them may do so at their own risk, costand consequences and my clients not beresponsible for any kinds ofacts/deeds/misdeeds of MR. ANKIT aliasPRAVEEN & SMT. JYOTI.

Sd/-R.C. JOSHI (Advocate)

151-A, Sangam Vihar, Najafgarh,New Delhi-43

PUBLIC NOTICEIt is certify on the behalf of my clientMr. Devender Singh son of Mr.Giani Ram and Mrs. Sarla Devi wifeof Mr. Devender Singh both residentof 73/14, Galui No. 2A, SwatantarNagar, Narela, Delhi- 110040,declare that my clients havedisowned their daughter namelyHIMANSHI from their moveable andimmovable property with immediateeffect. That their daughter is out ofcontrol and not obedient. My clientwill not responsible for any dealingdone by their daughter.

Sd/- Deo Raj Singh (Advocate)Chamber No. B-108,

Baba Guru Charan Singh Block,Tis Hazari Court, Delhi- 110054.

WWee,,KKuummaarr VikasRanjan,andChandnaKumar,R/o-SRC-31B,ShipraRiviera, Gyan-Khand-III,Indirapuram,Gzb,have changed,thenameofourminor,daughterAdhya,toAdhyaSrivastava forever,forall purposes. 0040579795-2

IItt is for general information thatI,Sunita,W/o-Shankar,residingat-2755,Gali.No.18,KailashNagar,Gandhi-Nagar,Delhi-110031,declare that nameofminehasbeenwrongly-writtenasSaloni inmyminor daughterTannu14Years School-Record.Theactual-nameofmine is Sunitawhichmaybeamendedaccordingly.

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IItt is for general information thatI,Nidhi Khandelwal,W/o-AshokKhandelwal,R/o-B-21, East-Azad-Nagar, Krishna-NagarDelhi-110051, declare thatnameofminehasbeenwrongly-writtenasBhoneshwari inmyPNB-AccountNo.0646000100348299and inXth-PassMarksheet andBhaveshwari inmyVoter I-CardNo.DL/04/053/258300. Theactual-nameofmine isNidhiKhandelwalwhichmaybeamendedaccordingly.

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IItt is for general information thatI, Sirajuddin,S/oKamruddin,R/oR-237, Gali.No-4,JogabaiExtension, JamiaNagar,Okhla,Delhi-110025,declarethatmydaughter namehasbeenwrongly-writtenasMahakShirin in her School FeeReceipt.Theactual-nameofmydaughter isMahekShirinrespectivelywhichmaybeamendedaccordingly.

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II,,hhiitthheerrttoo knownas Lal ChandRamalias Lal Chand,S/OSh.Munni Lal,R/O.1-104,Block-I,Harkesh-Nagar,NewDelhi-110020,have changedmynameandshall hereafter be knownas Lal ChandHarijan.

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II,,YYoosshhiittaaD/oNo.1087597X, RankLD, ParveenKumarR/o,C-104,C-Block, YadavNagar,Samaipur,Delhi-42 havechangedmyname toYoshitaSharma for,all purposes.

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II,,VViirreennddrraa SinghChahar,S/o-SobranSinghChahar,R/oA8/003,GFOliveCounty,Sector-5,Vasundhara,Ghaziabad-201012,changedmyname toVirendraChahar. 0040579792-1

II,,UUsshhaaVohra,W/OSanjayVohraR/o-19/35, OldRajinder-NagarNewDelhi-110060, havechangedmyname toShefaliVohra, for all purposes

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II,,SSuukkhhbbiirr Singh,R/oWZ-198,2nd-Floor,Street.No.12,Shiv-Nagar,Jail-Road,NewDelhi-110058,have changedmyminordaughter name,fromPrabhnoorKaur toPrabhnoorKaurArora,permanently.

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II,,SSuuddhhiirr Kumar Singh,R/o-H.No.231,Gali.No.15,MeethapurExtn.,Part-III,Badarpur,NewDelhi-110044,inform that inmy,daughter’sschool.Admission formhernameTanviwrongly-writteninsteadof correct nameTanviSingh.Pls amendmentaccordly. 0040579786-1

II,,SSrreeeeDevi G,W/oUnniKrishnanPuthanthara kunjcherukkenR/o-B-820,3rd-Floor,Avantika,Rohini,Sector-1,Delhi-110085,changedmyname toSreeDevi.

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II,,SShhuubbhhaammS/oNo.1087597X,Rank LD, ParveenKumarR/o,C-104,C-Block, YadavNagar,Samaipur,Delhi-42,havechangedmyname toShubhamSharma for,all purposes.

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II,,SSeerrvviicceeNo.6505382MRankSEP/ASHDileep, Residingat,Vill-MandpurPost-LalpurThana-Gaurella teh-PendraRoadDistrict-BilaspurChhattisgarhPin-495117, havechangedmyname, fromDileeptoDILEEPKUMAR, vide-affidavit ser.no.3773dt-09/08/21, before-RajendraSejpal(CL1Notary,Bhuj,Kutch,Gujrat.

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II,,SSaayyaaDhingra,W/oPrabhjeetSinghSaluja, R/o-33/44, Thirdfloor,west Punjabi-Bagh,WestDelhi, Delhi-110026,havechangedmyname toSayaSaluja,for all,futurepurposes.

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II,, SSaannjjeeeevvKumar, S/o-KrishanPal, R/o-H.No.154, Gali No.4,Durgapuri Extn., NandNagri,North EastDelhi, Delhi-110093, declare that nameofmywife hasbeenwrongly-writtenasBabita Baliyan inmyminor sonAbhijeet Baliyanaged 15-years in his schoolrecord.Theactual nameofmywife is Babita 0040579728-10

II,,SSAACCHHIINNKUMARS/OSUBHASHSINGH,R/OB-141A,DURGAVIHAR,DEVLI,DELHI-110062.HAVECHANGEDMYNAMETOSACHINSINGH.

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II,,KKAALLPPAANNOBERAL,W/ODEEPAKOBEROI R/O-10715GALI.NO-11-12, PARAP-NAGAR,DELHI-110007,HAVECHANGEDMYNAMEKALPANOBERALTOKALPAXIOBEROI.

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II,,SSaannjjaayy Singh,S/o-Kirpal Singh,R/o-B-3,Mansarover Park,Shahdara,Delhi-110032, statethatmyname ismentionedasSanjay, S/oKripal Singh insomeofmydocuments,whileSanjaySingh, S/o-Kirpal SinghandSanjay, S/o-Kripal Singh,bothareoneandsamepersonfor all recordpurposes.

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II,,SSaaddddaammHussain S/oMohdHabibR/o-VP-209-D, PitampuraDelhi-110034, inform thatmymother’s namewrongly,writtenNavihanBegum inmy10th,ClassCBSE,Certificate butmymother correct,name isNabihan. 0040579786-11

II,,RRuucchhii Bajpai D/oSh.KunwarSinghBishtW/oSh.VedRatnBajpai R/oD-702, PrateekWisteria, Sector-77, Noida,Distt. GautamBuddhaNagar,Uttar Pradesh-201301 havechangedmyname toRuuchiBajpai for all purposes.

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I,RameshSinghNo.4198051PLNK, R/o,32-F, Pocket-B-6,KondliGharoliMayur-Vihar-3,Delhi-96,have changedmyminorSon’s nameKhemSingh toKhinSingh for,all purposes.

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II,,RRaakkeesshh Sharma/RakeshKumar SharmaS/OVedKumar,R/OFlat.No-37,GulabVihar, Sector-9,Rohini Delhi-110085,have changedmynametoRakeshKumar. 0040579740-5

II,,RRaajjeesshhKumar,S/oS.P.SinghR/o-H.No.X/1941-ARajgarhExtn.-II,Gali.No.9Delhi-110031,have changed thenameofmyminor sonDeepak toDivyanshSingh,for allpurposes. 0040579740-8

I,RAVIJEETKAUR,W/oRANBIRSINGHR/O.WZ-104, PLOT.NO.L-2/44, THIRD-FLOOR,GALI.NO.6,SHIV-NAGAR, JANAKPURI-B-1,WEST-DELHI-110058,HAVECHANGEDMY NAME,FROMRAVIJEETKAURSALUJATORAVIJEETKAUR. 0040579728-4

II,,SSAAGGAARR,,SS//OO..SSHHAAHHIIDD,, ADD-H.NO.131, KHERI ROAD,MAWAIGAONKHERI KALAN,FARIDABAD-121002, ChangedMyname toSAGARKHAN,permanantly. 0040579728-5

II,,RRAAJJEESSHHCHAUHANS/OVEDPRAKASHR/O.6H/151, SECTOR-5, RAJENDER-NAGAR,SAHIBABAD,GHAZIABAD,UTTARPRADESH-201001,CHANGEDMYNAMETORAJESHKUMAR. 0040579795-9

II,,PPyyaarree Lal S/o FatehChandGoelR/o-03, SecondFloor,RamVihar, Delhi-110092,havechangedmyname toPyare LalGoel. 0040579795-5

II,,PPrreeeett pal Singh,S/oMunshiRam,R/o J-1/295Kalkaji D.D.A-Flats, Delhi-110019, havechangedmynameToPirthPalsingh,S/oMunshaRam,For allpupose. 0040579751-2

II,,PPRREERRNNAAw/oLateChanderMohanSharma, R/o 19, DDAFlats, NewRanjeetNagar, NewDelhi-110008have changedmyname toMamtaShama, for allpurposes. 0040579722-1

II,,NNooooppuurr Gupta,D/oNaveenGupta,R/o J-102,AgrasenApartments, I.P.Extension,NewDelhi-110092,have lostmyOriginal Degree-Certificateand4OriginalMarksheets ofmyBachelor ofTechnology(Electrical andElectronicsEngineering),Roll.No.1009721063,Batch-2010-2014, EnrollmentNo.100972120353, issuedbyUttar-PradeshTechnicalUniversity,Lucknow,Uttar-Pradesh. 0040579792-2

II,,NNoo--22998844336699--NN,,HHaavv--MMoohhddRamzanChopan,S/O-Ab.AzizChopanVill/Tehsil- Trehgam,District- Kupwara. Inmyservice recordsnameandDoBofmychildren’s havebeenwronglymentionedas son’sSazadAhmadChopan (DoB-15-05-1999),Sabir AhmadChopan (DoB- 20-01-2003)insteadof SajadAhmadChopan (DoB-08Nov.2002),Shabir AhmadChopan (DoB-01May2006) anddaughterrecordedasMariya (DoB-30-01-2005) insteadof RefatRamzan (DoB-01May2006)respectively. It needscorrection.Objectionsbe filedto 163 TA SIKHLI ,C/o-56APO,within sevendays.

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II,,NNeehhaaKhungar,D/oSatishChandGawri R/o.H.no-116,First-Floor, Pocket-16, Sector-24, Rohini,Delhi-110085, havechangedmyname toNehaGawri.

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III,Manoj Kumar,S/OBirjuMohanRai,R/O.H.No-92, 2nd-FloorPocket-13, Sector-20, RohiniDelhi-110086,have changedmyname toManoj Rai.

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II,,MMAAJJIIDDKHAN,S/OAMEERAHMED,R/O8130,Gali.No-4,CHIMNIMILLBARAHINDURAO,DELHI-110006,HAVECHANGEDMYMINERDAUGHTERNAME IFZAHTOHIFZA. 0040579740-7

I, RavindraKumar S/oBanarsiDassDhiman, R/oB-328 secondfloor, sector-8 dwarka, bagdola,southwest delhi- 110077. HaveChangedmyname toRavinderKumarDhiman for all purposes.

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II KamlaDeviW/o PradeepKumar SharmaR/oHouseNo.138, Gali No.2 GargColony,BallabgarhDist. Faridabad-121004, (Haryana) havechangedmyname toKamleshSharma for all futurepurpose

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II AnjanaD/oKrishanKumarandW/oMohit KumarR/oHouseNo-84, Kirti Nagar, Sector-15Part-1, JharsaRoad, Gurgaon,Haryana-122001, India, havechangedmyname toAnjanaMohit Kumar 0070749532-1

II DEEPALIMITTALW/ORAMITGUPTAR/OD-1/21 JANAKPURIB-1, DELHI-110058HAVECHANGEDMYNAMETODEEPALIGUPTA.

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I Anil S/oParveenKumarR/oPlotNo-23, Chanchal Park, BakkarWala, Delhi-110041, havechangedmyname toSumitGill

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I,SOBHA W/O RADHA CHARANR/O HNO.F-298,STREETNO.6,WAZIRABADVILLAGE,BURARI,DELHI-110084.CHANGED MY NAME TOSHOBHA RANI. 0040579786-5

II,, AbhishekSrivastavaS/o-S.NSrivastavaHaveLostOriginalTransferDeedOfHouseNo:1084, BlockC-2, PalamVihar, Gurugram-122017FinderContact:9999160890

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I,Bhupinder Singh Jaggi S/oRaghbir Singh Jaggi have lostmyBuilder BuyerAgreement,PaymentsReciepts andAllotment LetterOf Property E-804,MapskoMountVilie Sector79Gurgaon-122101 finderContact 9891114000.

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II,, RakeshKumarS/o-LateHariPrasadHave LostOriginalsDDADemand-Letter,Possession-Letter, NOCElectric andWaterOf PropertyNo:A-5A/323, Janakpuri, NewDelhi–58 FinderContact:9582214803

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II,,KKaanniikkaa anand,w/o sunnyanand r/o.B-4 inderpuri,newdelhi-110012,have changedmyminorChild,SAINAANAND toSAAINAANAND.

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II,, Vikas Taneja S/ONKTaneja,R/oSatyadeepGandhiColony, Behind IndianHerbsFactory, Saharanpur, UttarPradesh- 247001. have changedthenameofmyminor SonVrishanTaneja agedabout 16Years andHeshall hereafter beknownasVrishaanTaneja.

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PUBLIC NOTICENotified to the public that our clients Mrs.Kavita Kanwaria wife of Shri BhupenderKanwaria, R/o A-26, SF, Ashoka EnclaveExt., Sector 37, Faridabad, Haryana, ShriPraveen Kankheria son of Late Shri LajpatRai Kankheria R/o 73/5521, Raigarpura,Karol Bagh, Delhi, Mrs. Meenakshi Jajoriawife of Sh. Narender Jajoria, R/o B-3/43,Paschim Vihar, Delhi, and Mrs. JaishreeGugdodiya wife of Hemant Gugdodiya,6178/3, Block No. 1, Dev Nagar, Delhi-110005, have got no connection ofwhatsoever nature with their brother ShriHemant Kankheria and his family. Sh.Hemant Kankheria and his family have beenliving separately since after his marriage in1995. Our aforesaid clients have severed alltheir relations, connections of whatsoevernature with their aforesaid brother, ShriHemant Kankheria and his family. Anyperson dealing with them shall do so on hisown risks and consequences.

Sd/-(R.D.Vats) Advocate

For & on behalf of R.D.Vats & Associates668, Western Wing, Tis Hazari Courts,

Delhi-110054.

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URGINGCORPORATES to reviveanimal spirits to increaseprivateinvestment and boost growth,RevenueSecretaryTarunBajajonWednesday sought suggestionsfrom the industry to takemeas-urestosupportgrowth.Bajajalsosaid that tax revenues are ex-pected tobe robust this fiscal onthebackof better-than-expectedcorporatesectorperformance.“I want to understand from

you one thing which I still seemissingfromthecorporatesectoristheanimalspirits,Idon’tseetheprivate investmenthappeningasmuch. Iwant tounderstandas towhatyouexpectfromus,todo,sothatwecanalsostart,”BajajsaidattheCIIAnnualSession.AcknowledgingthathighGST

rates are impacting theautomo-

tive sector, Bajaj said the GSTCouncilwouldlookatsolutionstobring down rates that are veryhigh, takeout certain items fromthetax-exemptcategoryandcor-rect the invertedduty structure.“When I look at the current first

quarter, the results have startedcomingand (tax) revenueshavealso startedcoming. The first ad-vance tax is over, theTDSdate iscomingandgoing,Iseeavery,veryrobusttaxrevenuethatiscoming.”“Rates have come down at

macro level, yes, in a fewsectorstheymayhave goneup. Butwehave to lookat solutions tobringdown rateswhich are veryhighandtakeoutcertain itemswhichare under exempted items, in-verteddutystructures,weneedtodo that and I’msure, in the com-ingGSTcouncilmeetingwhenwegivethisagenda,Iamsurewewillbeabletogetthosethings,”hesaid.“It is not that we have in-

creased the taxes, orwehavebe-comemore intrusiveandwearecomingtoyouaskingtopaymoretaxes...thehappythingbehindthisis,perhapsthecorporatesector isdoingbetterthanwhatwehadan-ticipateditto,”Bajajsaid.

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COORDINATEDCYBERgroupsfrom Russia targeted audi-ences in India, LatinAmericaandtoasmallextentintheUSto spread misinformationaboutCovid-19vaccinesdevel-oped by AstraZeneca andPfizer on Facebook, theplat-formsaidinareport.TheCoordinated Inauth-

enticBehaviorReport for July2021,releasedbytheplatformonAugust10,saidthatwiththehelp of influencers, Fazze, asubsidiaryof aUK-registeredmarketingfirmwhoseopera-tionswereconductedfromin-sideRussia,used65Facebookand243InstagramaccountstospreadmisinformationsuchastheCovidvaccineturningpeo-pletochimpanzees.“Fivemonths later, inMay

2021, it questioned the safetyofthePfizervaccinebypostinganallegedlyhackedandleakedAstraZeneca document. It isnoteworthy thatbothphasescoincidedwithperiodswhenanumberofgovernments,in-cludinginLatinAmerica,IndiaandtheUnitedStates,werere-portedlydiscussingtheemer-gencyauthorizationsforthese

respectivevaccines,”itsaid.These campaigns, the so-

cialmedia conglomerate saidinthereport,createdmislead-ing articles andpetitions onmultiple platforms such asMedium,Reddit, Change.org,amongothers andused fakeaccounts of Facebook andInstagramto“seedandamplifythis off-platformcontent, us-ingcrudespammytactics”.Facebook claimed that

most targeted campaigns,meant for audiences in India,“fellflat”.Apart fromtheanti-Pfizer

and anti-AstraZeneca cam-paigns, Facebook said it alsotookdownacoordinatednet-work targeting audiences inMyanmar. The saidnetwork,which originated inside thecountry, used “duplicate andfake accounts” to post onFacebook, commenton theirownpostsandcreategroups.

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SECTORWATCHCYBERSECURITY


THEGOVERNMENTispushingtheassetmonetisationprogrammeand aims to complete strategicsales inkeycompaniesalongsideinitialpublicofferofLifeInsuranceCorporation(LIC)bytheendofthisfiscalyear.AsecondInfrastructureInvestment Trust (InvIT) is likelyformonetisingGAILpipelines.Thegovernmentwill also in-

vite expression of interest forstrategic sale of ContainerCorporationofIndiasoonaftertheland lease policy is finalised,Department of Investment andPublic Asset ManagementSecretaryTuhinKantaPandeysaid

onWednesday.“The nationalmonetisation

planwill have a range of assetsfromPowerGridpipeline tona-tionalhighways,tolloperatetrans-fer…On the assetmonetisationside,wehavethePowerGridInvITthatwas successfully done,” hesaid, adding that a second suchstructureforGasAuthorityofIndiaisbeingplanned.Thereisabigas-setmonetisationpipelinewhereprivate sectorparticipation is ex-pected,hetoldindustryleaders.“Weshouldnot lookatdisin-

vestmentsasafiscalplug-in,ratherweneedtohaveareformapproachandrecognisethattherealopera-tionalefficiencyinpublicsectoren-terpriseswill comebychangeofownershipcontrol,”hesaid.

RussiancybergroupstargetedaudiencesinIndia,LatinAmericaandtheUS,saidaFacebookreport

‘Cyber groups misuseFB to spread Covidvaccine lies in India’

THEGOVERNMENTislookingatrobusttaxrev-enuesthisyear,seeingitasanindicationofbetter-than-expectedcorporateperformance.Butstagnantprivateinvestmentre-mainsaconcern,prompt-ingthegovernmenttourgetheprivatesectortoreviveanimalspirits.

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GreatWallMotorhasdecidedtore-allocate to Brazil a portion ofits$1-billioninvestmentinIndia,as the Chinese automaker hasbeenunnervedbyayear-longde-lay in winning governmentapprovals, three sourcestoldReuters.There-allocation,whichcould

rangeup to $300million, comesas, thesourcessaid, themakerofpopularsport-utilityvehiclesandpick-upswasclosetoacquiringaformerDaimlerplant inBrazil tobuildcars.

GreatWall has also taskedJames Yang, its India presidentsincelastyear,withtheresponsi-bilityofassistingwithoperationsintheLatinAmericannation,saidthe sources, who have directknowledgeof thematter.“Brazil is almost a done deal

anditdidnotmakesensetokeepthefundsblockedforIndia,”saidone of the sources. GreatWall’smove is a fallout of India’s deci-sioninApril2020tomorecloselyscrutinise investments fromChina, the sources said. GreatWall declined to comment. TheIndian government did not im-mediatelyreplytoanemailseek-ingcomment.

‘Great Wall Motor tore-allocate some Indiainvestment to Brazil’

ENSECONOMICBUREAUMUMBAI,AUGUST11

THE BSE has levied additionalcurbs on securities exclusivelylistedonitsplatform,withmarketcapof less thanRs1,000crore, tocurtail price manipulation insmall-cap stocks. The curbswillcoveronlyscripsthatarepartofX,XT, Z, ZP, ZY and Y groups andquoteatmorethanRs10pershareandwithamarket capitalisationof lessthanRs1,000crore.Underthenewrule,thebourse

has capped the upside and thedownsideforastockduringapar-ticularperiod. Thedirectivecoin-cidedwitha fall in the small andmidcapstock,stokingfearsthatin-vestors and traderswere panic

sellingonaccountofthecircular.Theadd-onpricebandswillbe

inadditiontotheapplicabledailypricebandsofsuchsecurities.Ase-curityplacedinadd-onpricebandwill remain in the framework foraminimumperiodof30calendardaysandwill beeligible tomoveoutif itdoesnotqualifytheprovi-sions of the above frameworkthereafter.

Privateinvestmentslow,telluswhatyouexpect:RevenueSecytoIndiaInc

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US lawmakers table Bill tocontrol Big Tech app storesWashington:AbipartisantrioofUSsenators introduced a Bill thatwould rein inappstoresof firmsthey saidexert toomuchmarketcontrol,suchasApple andGoogle.Democratic SenatorsRichard

Blumenthal andAmyKlobucharteamed up with RepublicanSenator Marsha Blackburn tosponsortheBill,whichwouldbarbigappstoresfromrequiringappproviders to use their payment

system. Itwould prohibit themfrompunishingappsthatofferdif-ferentpricesthroughanotherappstoreorpaymentsystem.Googledeclinedtocomment,

butaspokeswomancitedpreviousstatements thatAndroiddevicescomepreloadedwithtwoormoreappstoresandthat sellerscanal-low downloads without usingtheirone.Appledidnotrespondtoarequestforcomment.REUTERS

TOCURBMANIPULATION

Big asset monetisation inthe works: DIPAM Secy

PwC Indiato invest`1.6K cr, add10,000 jobsin next 5 yrsENSECONOMICBUREAUNEWDELHI,AUGUST11

CONSULTANCYFIRMPwC Indiasaid itwill invest up to Rs 1,600croreandcreateadditional10,000jobsinthenextfiveyears.Announcingitsnewbusiness

strategy‘TheNewEquation’,PwCIndia onWednesday said itwillalsoraiseitscampushiringbyoverfivetimesinthesametimeperiod.“India has strong economic

fundamentals,ahugeadvantagein the form of its demographicdividend and an ecosystem toboostinnovation.Ournewstrat-egywillenableusandourclientsto further the country’s eco-nomicdevelopment,harnessthepotential of the domesticmar-ket and createmoreopportuni-ties for society at large,” saidSanjeev Krishan, chairman atPwCIndia, said.


INDIANEEDStoengagewiththerest of the world on trade andneeds to enter into free tradeagreements (FTAs), CommerceSecretary BVR Subrahmanyamsaid onWednesday. He notedthatthegovernmentwastarget-ingmerchandised exports of $1trillionby2027-28upfrom$290billioninthelast fiscal.“Weneedtobeengagedwith

therestoftheworld,withoutthatIndiawillbeshutoutoftheglobalmarkets,”saidSubrahmanyamata CII event, adding India neededtoenterbilateralagreementsasitwasnotpartofanyregionaltradearrangementsHe said the government is

fast-tracking six of the 20 FTAsthat are currently undernegotiationwith the restgoingon “slightly on the backburner”, adding that an FTAwith the UAE would likely be

struck the earliest.“There’sone(FTA)underdisc-

ussionwith theUK. After Brexit,UKislookingatapartnershipwithIndiaeconomically. TheAustrali-ansarelookingatanFTAwithus,negotiations are on,” said theCommerceSecretary,notingthatnegotiationswith the EUweremorecomplexas theywould re-quire internal agreement be-tween27membercountries.“WeneedtohaveFTAsbutat

the same time, youhave to do itin a balanced manner,”Subrahmanyamsaid.HealsonotedthattheCentre

hoped to notify the tax refundrates for theRemissionofDutiesandTaxes onExported Products(RoDTEP) laterthisweek.

‘Fintechs attract record$2billion in first half of 2021’The fintech sector attracted a little over $2 billion in the firsthalf this year, almostmatching its total funding in theentire 2020,making it the best run ever, a KPMG report said

Four domestic companiesthatwere among top tendeals inAsia inH12021:

■Pinelabs’ $285million fromprivate equity funding round(third largest)

■Cred’s $215million in seriesD round (fourth largest)

■Razorpay’s raised$160million in series E round(eighth largest)

■Kreditbee’s $153million inseriesC round (tenth largest)

Digital banking, insurtechspacesgain:Most of themoney has flown into thedigital banking space andthe second biggestwasinsurtech,wherein the firsthalf sawseveral startupsraisingmoney fromPE/VCfunds, including:

■Turtlemint:$46million

■Renewbuy:$45million

■Digit Insurance:$18million

Source:KPMG/PTI

$98BILLION:RECORD FUND FLOWS INH1 2021 SEEN BY FINTECHSGLOBALLY, COMPARED TO$121.5 BILLION IN 2020

Commerce Secy: Needmore FTAs or will beshut out of global mkts

CommerceSecretaryBVRSubrahmanyamsaidgovthopestonotifyRoDTEPratesthisweek

GEORGEMATHEWMUMBAI,AUGUST11

ANINTERNALstudyconductedbytheReserveBankofIndia(RBI)hasproposed that a real-time basismonitoring of the offshore non-deliverableforward(NDF)marketintherupeeisessentialtocontainanysignificantspilloverstothedo-mesticmarket.Asperthestudy,acloserexa-

mination of thedata on volatili-tiesinthetwomarketsshowsthatvolatilityincreasesinoffshorema-rketbeforeitrisesinonshoremar-ketswithalagofonetotwodays.“Consequently,volatilityspilloverincreases from offshore to on-shoremarkets, as discussedear-lier,duringthestressperiod.”Globally,NDFsaretradedonly

inahandfulof locationswiththemaximum turnover in LondonfollowedbyNewYork,Singaporeand Hong Kong. South Korean

wonand the rupee are themostwidelytradedNDFsinLondon.As compared to the onshore

market, the turnover in offshorerupee markets has more thantripledbetween2016and2019.Infact, the rupeeNDF turnover at$50billonexceededthecombin-edOTCandexchangetradedforexturnover of $48.8 billion inApril2019.“Volatilityspilloversbecomeunidirectional, fromoffshore toonshore,andincreasessignifican-tlyduringtheperiodsofheighten-eduncertainty(forexample,dur-ing April 2012-November 2014

and October 2017-December2019),”theRBIstudysaid.AsNDFvolumeshave increa-

sedintherecentperiod,theyhavebeguntoplayanimportantroleinbothpricediscovery anddrivingvolatility,particularlyduringheig-hteneduncertaintyperiod.“Thus,areal-timebasismonitoringofthemarketisessentialtocontainanysignificantspilloversfromtheoff-shoreNDFmarket,” itadded.“The rise in offshore trading

can disrupt the price discoveryprocess of exchange rates in on-shoremarket,” the study said.

Large spread between onshoreandoffshoremarket encouragesmarket players to take arbitrageadvantagewhile speculative ac-tivityinthemarketresultinwidedivergences.Thelargespreadbe-tweentherupeeNDFrateandtherupeefutures/forwardratecanin-fluencethespotratessignificantly.Playersintheoffshoremarket

donothaveaccesstoenoughinfo-rmationthatdomesticmarketpl-ayershaveandtherefore,theyre-actexpressivelyinresponsetoanyglobal shocks thatmaynothavemuchimplicationsforthedomes-ticeconomy.“Moreover,thevolat-ility in the onshore segments iscontainedby central bank inter-vention.However,ariseinvolatil-ityinoffshoremarketisultimatelytransmittedtoonshoreforexmar-kets once the domesticmarketplayersstartreactingtothemove-mentsinNDFsegment,”itadded.

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ANINTENALRBIstudysaidareal-timebasismonitoringofthemarketisessentialtocontainanysignificantspill-oversfromtheoffshorenon-deliverableforwardmarket.

‘REAL-TIMEBASISMONITORING’

Amid high volatility, RBI for monitoring ofspillover from offshore to domestic market

Google: Under-18users can soonseek removal ofpics from searchNewDelhi:Googlehassaiditwillintroduce a new policy in thecomingweeks that will enablethoseunder18yearsortheirpar-ents to request for removal oftheir imagesfromGoogle Imagesearchresults.Googlewill also ensure that

Location History remains off(without theoption to turn iton)for accountsof users agedbelow18years.“Whileourpoliciesdon’tallow

kidsunder13tocreateastandardGoogle account, we’veworkedhard todesignenrichingproductexperiencesspecificallyforthem,teens,andfamilies,”Googlesaidinablogpost.PTI

BRIEFLYReNewdealsNewDelhi: ReNew Powerhasacquiredtwoprojectsatan enterprise value of Rs2,850crore,includingacqui-sition of a hydroelectricplantownedbyanL&TarmforRs985crore. PTI

SBIMFnewofferNewDelhi:SBIMutualFundhas launched SBI BalancedAdvantage Fund. The newfundofferwill openAugust12andcloseonAugust25.

NewIBSclientNewDelhi:SouthKoreanair-linestartupFlyGangwonhaspartneredwithIBSSoftwaretorehauloperations. ENS

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Online E-tenders in 'B-1' Forms are invited by ExecutiveEngineer, Public Works Division No. 2, "Bandhkam Sankul"Civil Lines, Nagpur for the following works from the regis-tered contractor who satisfy the qualifying criteria. The ten-der documents should be downloaded from the GovernmentWebsite https://mahatenders.gov.in The competent authorityreserves the right to accept or reject any or all the tenders.Conditional tenders will not be accepted.Sr. Name of Work Estimated CostNo. (Rupees in

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at Pipla (Bhade) Tahasil SaonerDistt. Nagpur

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NIT No: MHCHD/TS/2021-22/95/e-Tendering Dated: 10.08.2021For and on behalf of the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir state, e-tenders, valid for 180 days,

are invited from the Original equipment manufacturers of Lifts or their authorized dealers/ repre-sentatives or Registered/ reputed and experienced firms for the following works:

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Name of Work Est. Cost. Cost of Time of Position(Rs. in Lacs) T/Doc. Completion of AAA/

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265.00 3000 3 Months AvailableSupply, Installation, Testing & Commissioningof Five (05) No. 13 Passenger Five (05) No.06 Passenger MRL Lifts (G 7) along withallied civil/electrical works including CMC for03 years post Two years of defect liability peri-od at Shehjar Apartments of SrinagarDevelopment Authority

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CommunityHealthCentre

SonahatuBlock

1. Procurement of 200 LPMPSA(Pressure SwingAbsorption) Plant one Unit itConnection &Commissioning

2. Civil Work required for theinstallation of the 200 LPMPSA Plant.

3. Installation of manifold withOxygen pipeline for 20 beds. 10,000.00 1,12,60,000.00 10 Days

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HealthCentre

Ourmanjhi

1. Procurement of 200 LPMPSA Plant one Unit itConnection &Commissioning

2. Civil Work required for theinstallation of the 200 LPMPSA Plant.

3. Installation of manifold withOxygen pipeline for 20 beds.

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SRIRAMVEERAMUMBAI, AUGUST11

JAMES ANDERSON'S relationshipwith thenow famous wobble ball that excised outViratKohliandCheteshwarPujarainthefirstTestbeganin2006.Andersonwasimpressedwith what the Australian Stuart Clark didwithit.Thememoryrearedupagainin2010when he saw the ball weaponised by thatgreatPakistani conjurerMohammadAsif.ThelookofsurpriseonKohli's facewhen

theballflickeredunsteadilytowardshimbe-fore igniting the outside edge said much.When it left Anderson's fingers, the seamwas tilted towards the first slip. When itlandedonagoodlength,itwastiltedtowardsfine leg.Was it going to shape away, tilt-in,orplummetstraightathim?"It's an absolute fluke (where the seam

lands)," James Anderson told Sky Sports. "Iwanttheseamtowobbleslightlysoitmightnipeitherwayoff the seam. I kept theshinysideontheleft, tryingtoangleit in. If thereisanyswing, itwilldrift inandmightseamei-therwayonce itpitches."Kohli can’t possibly know because

Anderson himself doesn’t know. It’s a ballcarefully,consciously,craftedsothatitsdes-tinationisunknowneventothecreator.Theperfect crime.Whydoeshenot justgowiththe outswing shape instead of fussing overwobbling?"Tomakethemplay,basically. If Ihad bowled that ball with an outswingshape, there was a good chance that hewouldhave left it. It's to try todraghimintothe shot and bring the stumps in play asmuchaspossible."Kohlipressedforwardtopushatitwitha

slightly-openedbatface.It’sanapproachthatcoversthepotentialtargets-thestumps,theoutsideedge, andthe frontpad.Abat-anglewhich isusually goodenough toextinguishanylast-instantminordeviationseitherway-- inandout.Thisone,though,dinkedawayenoughoff the track tosendhimpacking.Thewobble ball took out Pujara aswell. .

The seamof the ball, whichwas initially to-wardsslips,keptwobbling thiswayandthatintheairevenastheballkepttailinginbutatthemomentof landing, theseamwaspoint-ingtowardsslipsagain.Theball thatseemedtobecominginwiththeangle,justabouthelditslineandalliedwithPujara’stendencytode-fendwithaclosedbat-face, it lituptheedge.“Again,acompletefluke!”saysAnderson.The“fluke”commentistechnicallycorrect

butitdoesn’tentirelypaintthefullpicture.Hedoesintendtolandtheballonthejaggedseamedges–halfleather,halfseamhittingtheturf.Afewyearsback,hehadtalkedaboutitonSky.“Theideaistohitthecorneroftheseam”!Justlike Asif did. The jagged-edge landing couldwelldecidetheeventualdestination.

How did Anderson’s wobbleball take out Kohli, PujaraAdeliverycarefully, consciously, craftedsothat itsdestination isunknowneventothecreator. It’s fastbowling’sversionof theperfectcrime

JamesAndersondismissedCheteswarPujaraandViratKohlioff successivedeliveries in thefirstTest.

Howdifferent isthewobble-ballgrip?Thewobble-ballgrip isalmostsimilartoAnderson’soutswinggripwithaminor tweak:eventhe index finger isonthe leatherysurfaceof theball,adjacent to theseam.For theoutswinger,hehas the index fingerontheseamandthemiddle fingeronthesurfaceof theball. For thewobble, thetwofingersaresplitacrossoneithersideof theseam.Theangleof theseamfor thewobbleball issimilar to theoutswinger,tilts towards theslips.Forthetraditionaloutswinger,Andersoncocksthewristandrunthefingersdowntheseamtogetthebackrotationthat’sneededtoswing.“Withthis (thewobbleball) Iamnot

tryingtocockthewristasmuchandIamnottryingtopullbackontheballasmuchtogetthatbackmotion–instead,I just trytorelease itassimpleaspossibleandthat’swhenitgets thatwobbleeffect.”

Theswinghestillmanagestoextractdifferentiateshiswobbleball frommostothers.Forhisconventionaloutswinger,heliftstheindexfingerlastoff theballatrelease.“If anythingIamthinkingaboutthefinger.WhatIdowiththe(index)fingeris Itrytopushtheball intothestumpsandthenitswingsawaylater.”Hedoesthesameforthewobble,pushesit inandhopesforthejagged-

seamlandingtodoitssurprisetrick.In2010,afterwatchinga

fewwickedspells fromAsif,Andersonhadhit thenets.“Triedto figureoutwithmygriphowtoget theball todowhathewasdoingwithit.Wegot thevideocamera

to focusontheseamtoseewhat itwasdoing,”heoncetold the formerplayerDerekPringle.Thesedays, theyoungerbowlersobsessoverAnderson’s fingersto learnhowhesends thebestTestbatsmanof theworldwobblingbacktothehut.

ANDREWAMSANNEWDELHI, AUGUST11

DISCUSTHROWERKamalpreetKaur’scoachRakhi Tyagi had packed her bags for Tokyo.She was part of the official send-off cere-mony and evenwent to the airport hopingthe glitch in her accreditation would besorted in time for the flight.“Therewassomeissuewithmyaccredi-

tation. But till the lastminute, I was hopingfor amiracle tohappen.However, it didn’t,”says Rakhi. This meant 25-year-oldKamalpreet had to compete at her firstOlympicGameswithoutthepresenceofher“Didi” andcoach for sevenyears.Even though Rakhi was in Patiala, her

heartandmindwereinTokyo.Shewouldbeon the phone with shot putter TajinderSingh’s coachMohinder SinghDhillon,whorelayed her coaching advice to Kamalpreetfromthestands.Afterabestthrowof64minthequalificationround,Kamalpreeteventu-ally finishedarespectablesixth inthefinal.“Itwouldhavemadea lotofdifference if

Iwerepresent therephysically. Anathlete’smotivationlevelgoesupwhenthey’rebeingwatched and guidedby their coach. Duringonenationalmeet,shehadmadesomepoorthrows and I was there to correct her. Shethen landedadecent throw,” saysRakhi.RakhiandKamalpreetshareaverystrong

bond that goes beyond the field. Theywereflatmates for some timewhen the railwayemployee trainedunderher coachatBadal.“She didn’t have accommodation then so Iaskedher tostaywithme,” recallsRakhi.Kamalpreet, the first Indianwoman to

breach the 65mmark and the current na-tional record-holder, looks back on thosedayswith gratitude. “Mera kaam tha train-ing karna, khana aur sona. (Training, eatingwell and taking restwere the only tasks as-signedtome).Andsometimeswhenthedo-mestic help took an off, I would happilysweepandmopthe floor,” shesays.Rakhi clearly rememberswhen she first

metKamalpreetmorethansevenyearsago.“Isawthiswell-builtgirlmakingthrowsandsomeonetoldmeshewasKamalpreet.Aftertheevent, shewalkedup tomeandasked ifIcouldcoachher.”Rakhisaysshe’sneversaidno to any kidwho has approached her fortraining.Thus Kamalpreet was enrolled inRakhi’s group of about 15which had ham-mer, discus, and shot put throwers. Shetrainedwith the groupbutwas given a “lit-tleextraattention”.

Dealingwith disappointmentKamalpreetquicklyprogressedandreg-

ularlymedalledat theNationals buthadal-ways harboured bigger dreams. The 2018AsianGames,shethought,wouldhavebeenan ideal stage to turn her into a recognised

internationalathlete.Butshecouldn’ttouchthe qualifyingmark of 57mwhich wouldhaveearnedhera ticket to Jakarta.Kamalpreetwassodisappointedthatshe

even contemplated quitting athletics andpursuing a career in cricket. “Mein bowlingbhifastkartihunaurbattingbhi. (Ibowlfastand score fast runs aswell). I don’t like thedefensivegame,” shesayspassionately.“Iwasdemotivatedafterfailingtoqualify

for Asiad. I felt miserable but my coachshowedfaithinme,”addsKamalpreet.“Didi(Rakhi)convincedmetostayandtryagain.”Cricket’s loss was athletics’ gain.

Reluctantly, she agreed to continue andthrew61mattheverynextmeet. “Igoogledthe results of the2014AsianGamesand re-alised this throwwould have earnedme amedalforsure,”saysKamalpreet.Sincethen,shehasnever lookedback.AttheFederationCupinMarchthisyear,

shebecamethefirstIndianwomantobreach65mwith a throwof 65.06mwhichearnedher Olympic qualification. KamalpreetrewrotethenationalrecordinJunewithhercareer-best throwof 66.59m.“Ioweeverything toRakhi. Iwouldhave

never reached so far without her. I shareeverythingwith her. I am restless at timesandshehelpsmekeepcalm,” shesays.CoachRakhihashighhopesforherward.

TheyareeyeingapodiumfinishattheWorldChampionships slated for July2022.“Hergreateststrength isheraggression.

That’swhatpropelsher.Shetrainshard.Shewas once doing sprint training and thequarter-mile national coach Galina(Bukharina) sawher and playfully toldmeto send Kamalpreet to her for sprint train-ing after discus.”

Through thick and thin:Discus star Kamalpreetkeeps faith in her coach

KamalpreetKaur, 25, finished sixthattheTokyoOlympics. ShehasbeentrainingunderRakhi Tyagi (right) forover sevenyears. AndrewAmsan

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Messi dreamsbig again afterPSG moveASSOCIATEDPRESSPARIS,AUGUST11

LIONELMESSIsaidhe's"intherightplace"towin another Champions League trophy andcitedareunionwithNeymarasakeyfactorinhisdecisiontosignwithParisSaint-Germain.The 34-year-old Argentina star spoke at hisintroductory news conference at Parc desPrincesstadiumonWednesday,themorningaftersigningatwo-yeardealwiththeoptionforathirdseasonafter leavingBarcelona."My goal and dream is to raise another

Champion's (League Trophy) and I believethat I am in the right place to have the bestchances toachieve that,"Messi said."When you see this squad, you really

wanttoplaywiththembecausetherearesomanypossibilities,”headded. “Wehavethesame goal. And Neymar of course did a lotandwas important formychoice."Qatari-backedPSGhasbeendesperateto

wintheChampionsLeague,fallingjustshortwhenitlostthe2020finaltoBayernMunich.MessihelpedBarcelonawinfourChampionsLeague trophies.Messi's arrival gives PSG formidable at-

tacking options as he links upwith not onlyNeymar ,his formerteammateatBarcelona,but also FranceWorld Cupwinner KylianMbappe. "I'm going to playwith best play-ers, it's verynice, it's incredible tobeable toexperience this,” saidMessi,who also citedArgentinateammatesandPSGplayersAngeldiMariaandLeandroParedes.“Obviously, one of the reasons (I came)

was the locker room: Neymar, Di Maria,Paredes,whomIknow.”Messi said he is ready to start playing

with PSG, which hosts Strasbourg onSaturdaynight.“WhenIfeelit,whenthestaffthinksI'mok,I'llbeready.I'mwillingtoplay,”hesaid.Messibecamethemosthigh-profilefreeagentinsoccerhistoryafterhisattemptstostayatBarcelonawererejected lastweekby the Spanish league because the salarywouldnotcomplywithfinancialregulations,with the Catalan club burdenedbydebts ofmore than1.2billioneuros ($1.4billion).PSGmovedquicklytosigntheArgentina

star.Theteam,Messisaid,"positionedthem-selvesandeverythingwentreally fastanditwas easy. It happened in little time. Itwas adifficult situationandtheywereefficient.”


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Ishant or Umesh may return for injured Shardul as 4-1 bowling combination likelySHAMIKCHAKRABARTYAUGUST11

SHARDUL THAKUR’S hamstring strain hasruled him out of the second Test againstEngland at Lord’s, starting on Thursday.WeatherforecastforLondonforthenextfourdays is sunny anddry,withmaximumtem-perature in the early 20s. But RavichandranAshwinmighthavetowait,forIndialookkeentoretainafour-prongedpaceattack,althoughplayingXIwouldbefinalisedtomorrow.In the first Test at Trent Bridge, the pace

quartetofJaspritBumrah,MohammedShami,MohammedSiraj and Thakur accounted forall 20Englandwickets. Thakurwas themul-titaskerinthepackbecauseofhisbattingabil-ity down the order. Ravindra Jadejawas thelonespin-allrounderandhishalf-centurywasareasonwhyIndiatookasizeablefirstinningslead.Littlewonderthenthatdespitethefifthdaywashout,ViratKohlispokeaboutfindingthe right template. “Most likely it will be atemplategoingahead(4-1bowlingcombina-tion),”saidtheIndiacaptain.Thakur’sinjuryisnotseriousandheisex-

pected to be back for the third Test. But hisabsenceatLord’scallsforselectiontweak.Theteammanagement trustshis batting ability,fortified by his game-turning half-centuryagainstAustraliainBrisbaneearlierthisyear.On the face of it, Ashwin,with five Test cen-turiesand11fiftiesunderhisbelt, shouldbea shoo-in if India prefer to retain the lower-order balance. Kohli, though, is thinkinggung-ho–offence is thebestdefence.

“Goodthing is that Jadejahasgotruns inthe first gamealready. Sohewill go into thesecondgameconfident.Thatalreadymakesour batting a bit deeper. Lower-order con-tributedwith the bat aswell. Yeah, Shardulbringsinmorebattingability,buthavingsaidthat,Ithinkfromthebatsmen’spointofviewwe are well placed,” Kohli said at the pre-matchpressconference.Maybe, therewasenoughof ahint thata

like-for-like replacementwould be the bestoption in English conditions. Historically,Lord’shashelpedfastbowlers,avenuewheremenof their ilkhave collectedwickets at anaverage less than28over thepast10years.“Weare very comfortablewhereweare

placedasabattingunitandwedon’tfeelthatwemightbeabatsmanshortifSharduldoes-n’t play.We definitelywill think first about

howtopickup20wicketsandnottrytoplugin another guywhowill give us some runswith thebat,”Kohli said.

Ishant in thewingsThis probably leaves the door open for

Ishant Sharma or Umesh Yadav, two sea-sonedprosbutnolongeranautomaticpick.Ishantisbacktohisfullfitness,butheisshortof game time. The 32-year-old didn’t looksharpduring theWorldTestChampionship(WTC)finalagainstNewZealandinJuneandhehasn’tplayedthewarm-upfixtureaheadof theTestseriesagainstEngland. It is learntthatmovingforward,theteammanagementis contemplating on using the senior fastbowlersparingly,similartohowEnglanduseJamesAndersonandStuartBroad.Ishant,however,lovestheLord’sslopeand

thebounceonoffer. Sevenyears ago, his ca-reer-best, 7/74, here had secured a TestwinforMSDhoni’sIndiabeforetheteamsurren-dered to England’s fightback. If it stays dry,reverseswingmightcomeintoplay,strength-ening Ishant’scasetobe intheeleven.As for Umesh, hewas impressive in the

warm-up game, taking threewickets in 15oversinthefirstinningsagainstCountySelectXI. More importantly, the radarworked. Intightcontests,notleakingrunswouldbeim-portantanditwouldbeinterestingtoseetheteammanagement’s thought process as re-gardstopickingthefourthseamer.Sometimes, playing with four fast

bowlerscanmakeateam’sbowlingattackabit one-dimensional. At times, a bowler isunder-bowled.ButKohlirotatedhisbowlerswell inthefirstTest,especiallyinthesecondinnings, when he gave the newball to Sirajto takeadvantageof thecross-breeze.

Licence to thrillFrom the purists’ point of view, Rishabh

Pant’sbattingapproachcouldbearecipefordisasterinEnglishconditionswheretheballdarts aroundall day. Lowscores in theWTCfinal followed by Trent Bridge drew somesharp criticism. But thewicketkeeper-bats-manhas thebackingof his skipper.“That’showheplays.Heobviouslyhasthe

capabilitytocarryonandplayalonginningsinthatmanner.Whereverthere’safifty-fiftysituation andhehas a chance to change themomentum of the game, hewill take thatchance,”Kohligavehissealof approval.”TV:SonyNetwork,3:30pm

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EXCERPTSBatsmensometimesstandoutsidethecreaseinEnglandtocuttheswing...doesitwork?Yes,itworks.Basically,whatyouaredoing

islettingthebowlerknowthatyouareoutsidethecrease.So,thebowlerhastochangethetra-jectory and the release point of the ball.Bowlers,whoarepitchingup,havetodragbackthe length. If someone is bowling short, youcould stay inside thecreasealso.But to standoutsidethecreaseisnotabadidea.

Whataretherisksinstandingoutsidethecrease?Whatarethethingsabatsmanneedstobewaryof?Sometimes,youwillthinkthatitisagood

leavebutbecausethedistancehasincreasedbetweenyouandthestumps,itstillhastimetocomeinandhitthestumps. Ifyouareout-side the crease, you should take amiddle-stumpguard, insteadof leg-stump. The fur-ther you are out of the crease, themore youcome towards the off-stump. It helps youjudgetheballbetter.

InEngland,battingisalsoaboutcurtailingyourshots.Onecantraintomasterashotbuthowcanonetrainnottoplayashot?Likeyoudidinthe2003-04AustraliaseriesatSydneybyscoring241withoutonecoverdrive...Tobehonest, thathappened tomespon-

taneously.Onthattour,Australianskeptbowl-ingawayfromme;their strategywasto frus-trateme.Theyhadplannedthat70percentoftheballsshouldgotoAdamGilchrist(wicket-keeper). The strategywas tonot getmeout,butbowlawayandgetdotballs.So, I thought‘youare trying to testmypatience then Iwilltest your patience’. Let’s see kaun haarta haipehle(Let’sseewhoblinksfirst).IfIhavetobatforaday,dayandahalforeventwodays,Iamprepared to do that. Eventually, they had tocomebackatme.

Butdon’tpeopletalkaboutmusclememoryandhowyourhandsjustreachoutfortheballinstinctively?Forme in Sydney, itwasn’t planned.My

brotherhadchallengedme.Heaskedmethatsincenoonecangetmeout,areyouwillingtotakeupthischallengewithmethatyouarenotgoingtogetoutinthismatch.So, Isaid,okayIamacceptingthatchallenge,nobowler isgo-ingtogetmeout.WhenIwenttobat,Irealisedthat theywerebowlingawayfrommeall thetime.That’swhenIdecidedIwillnotplaythecover drive at all. But till thatmoment, Iwasnotthinkingaboutallthosethings.Iwasthink-ing thatwhateverhappens, Iwill not get outtoanyone.

ViratKohlihasoftenspokenaboutthesessionswithyouafterthe2014Englandserieswherehedidn’tscoremanyruns.Hisquote:“IcamebackfromEnglandandspoketoSachinpaaji…ItoldhimthatIamworkingonmyhipposition.Hemademerealisetheimportanceofabigstride,aforwardpressagainstfastbowlersaswell.ThemomentIstarteddoingthatwithmy

hipalignment,thingsstartedironingoutnicely.”What,accordingtoyou,istheidealthingtodo?Likehesaidabouthipposition,ifthealign-

mentchangesfromthere,yourshouldersau-tomaticallyopen.Hippositionneedstoberightsothattheshouldersdon’topen.Manytimes,peoplewill tell you that your shoulder khulrahahai(isopening),butwhatistherootcauseiswhattheyforget.

Whatabouttheuseoftechnologyinsports…inyourtime,didyoutakehelpfromit?Technology has changed everything. In

2002, a laptopwas brought to the dressingroomand I said, ‘laptop kya karega dressingroommein?(Whatwillalaptopdointhedress-

ing room?)’. Over aperiodof time, therewasacceptance. Only if there is acceptance,willthere be adaptability. Our teammeetingsstartedtobemoreprecise.Itwasnotlefttoin-dividual imaginations.So, themeetingswerenot likeearlier,whereweused tosay ... “yaadhainaMelbournemeinoutswingpeoutkiyatha(rememberbackthenatMelbourne,howwegot themout)”. Andafter saying that, nooneknewwhowasthinkingaboutthatMelbourneday andhowwegot thebatsmenout. Now,wehaddatainfrontonthescreenwhereyoucouldpinpoint and saywhere the foot of thebatsmanwas.Weknewthenumberof timesaparticularbatsmanhasbeenoutinasimilarfashion.

Whataboutoverdependenceon

technologyandtheprobleminthinkingonyourown?Personallyspeaking,IfeltthedeeperIgot

intoit, themoremymindwouldgetcompli-cated.Oneneedstohavethatbalanceandseehowmuchisenough.Andinsteadofwatch-ingmy batting, I watched the oppositionbowlers. Let them spendmore time onmeand Iwill spend evenmore time on them. Ihavealwaysbelievedthatbattingandbowl-ingisatitsbestwhenthemindisattheoppo-siteendandnotatyourownend.Havingtheentire focus on youmeans you areworriedaboutyourtechniqueandyouarethinkingofmultiple things. This is when you literallyhaveafractionofasecondtoreactandinthatmuchtime,therearesomanythingsthatyouhavetothinkabout.

Didyoueverover-analyseyourgameanddidyoukeepwatchingthevideosofsomebowleryouhadaproblemdealingwithonthepitch?I liketothinkaboutmygamealot. If Ihad

anetsessionthatwasnottomyliking,thatdaywasabaddayforme.Intheevening, Iusedtobeslightlyrestless.See,crickethasbeenmylifeandifthatisn’tright,Iwouldberestless.AndtillthetimeIhadbattedwellthenextday,Iwouldfeel odd... somewhere in the subconsciousmind,youarenotfullyenjoyingwhateveryouaredoing. Butwhen Iwouldhear the soundof theballonthebat in thewayIwantedto ...that sound tome is confidence. Youmaynotbescoringruns,butwhenyouarehearingthatsound…that ping of the bat ... that is confi-dence. Sometimes, you score runswithouthearing that sound…so that youwould stillkeepsearchingforthatsound.

Howdoyouwatchlivecricket…doyougo,liketherestofus, ‘oh,whyhashedonethis,whydidn’thedothat?(Laughs)Ienjoy,wheneverI’mwatchinga

gamewithmy family or friends. There havebeenmanyoccasionswhenItellthemwhatisgoing to happen. See, you knowwhat thebowlerhas tried todo, howthebatsmanhasplayedthelasttwodeliveries,andwhatislikelytohappen.So,thosekindsofthingsIenjoydo-ing, Idothatwithmyfriendsandfamily.

Whatabouttheanxietythatsportspeoplehavetodealwithbeforeanimportantmatch?Ifyoucareaboutsomething,therewillcer-

tainlybesomerestlessness.That’sonlybecauseI cared aboutmy cricket and Iwanted to dowell every time Iwalkedout. Iwould say, forthefirst12yearsofmycareer, Icouldn’tsleepproperlyontheeveof thegame.Iwouldcon-stantlythinkabouthowIwillfacethebowlers.Whatwilltheybowl,whatoptionsdoIhave?Iwould keep thinking andwould fightmysleep.Later,Icoulddealwithit.Istartedaccept-ing; this is howmybodyandmind is gettinggearedupforthegame.Itisok,Idon’tneedtofightthisfeeling,Iembracedthat.Isaid‘it’sokayeven if I amawake at 12:30 or 1:00 at nightwatchingTV,listeningtomusicorwhateveritis,itdoesn’tmatter.ThereasonIamlikethisisbecause Iamgettingreadyforthegame.Andit’s okay as it is only part ofmypreparation.’The acceptancewas important. Themore Istarted tounderstandmyself, thingsbecameokay.(Laughs)I’llnotsayokaycompletely,butIknewthiswasnormal. Imadepeacewithit.

Didithappenallthroughoutthecareer,likefightingsleepbeforethegame?Yes, it happened all throughmy career

andpostdismissals, Iusedtodiscuss itwithmybrother.AndthatevenhappenedtillmylastTest.A fewhabitscontinuedall theway.After IwasdismissedinmylastTest,wehadadiscussion in the evening. After that Iwasthinking, I don’t knowwhywe discussed itbecauseifwebowlwellwemightnotbebat-tingasecondtime!(Tendulkar spoke toThe IndianExpress

beforethestartoftheTestseriesvsEngland)

SachinTendulkarenjoyswatching livecricketwithhis familyandpredictwhathappensnext. File

4-weekquarantineforOlympianssparksoutrageinAustraliaSydney: Astrictfour-weekquarantineimposed on 16 athletes returningfromtheTokyoGameshasbeencrit-icized as “cruel anduncaring” by theAustralianOlympicCommittee. AlltravelersenteringAustraliaduringtheCOVID-19pandemicaresubjectedtoamandatory14-dayhotelquarantine,andmembers of Australia's Olympicdelegationhavereturnedingroupstoundergotwoweeksofsupervisediso-lation invarious statecapitals.ButSouthAustraliaisimposinganad-ditional 14-daydomestic quarantineonthoseathleteswhowanttoreturnto the state after isolating in Sydney,where a coronavirus outbreak hasforced the city into lockdown. Andthathassparkedoutrageamongath-letesandOlympicofficials.AustralianOlympic committee chief executiveMatt Carroll on Wednesday saidSouthAustralia'sdecisionposedmen-tal health risks for the athletes, whohave all been fully vaccinated forCOVID-19 and lived and competedunderastrictbio-securityconditionssincebefore leaving for Japan.

Covid:Korea,MacauOpencalledoffNew Delhi: The Korea Open andMacau Open were onWednesdaycancelled by the game's governingbody BWF due to rising cases ofCOVID-19pandemic in the region.The apex body also postponed theWorld Junior badminton champi-onships whichwas scheduled to beheld in China. The Korea Open(August 31 to September 5), a Super500event,wasscheduled to resumetheBWFWorldTourwhichwas sus-pended after the All EnglandChampionshipsinMarch. TheMacauOpen Super 300, on the other hand,was scheduled to be held fromNovember2to7."TheKoreaMasters2021whichwas previously listed aspostponedisalsonowcancelled.Theongoing COVID-19 restrictions andcomplicationsleft localorganisersnochoice but to cancel the tourna-ments," BWFsaid ina release.

InjuredNadaloutofTorontotournamentToronto: Rafael Nadal pulled out oftheNationalBankOpenonTuesdaybecause of an injured left foot thathas troubled him for months, put-ting his preparation for the U.S.Open on hold. The 20-time GrandSlam championwas replaced in thedraw at the hard-court tournamentin Toronto by Feliciano Lopez, wholost in qualifying. "I need to go backand try to find a way to be betteragain, no? At the end of the day, forme, themost important thing is (to)enjoyplayingtennis.Today,withthispain, I am not able to enjoy it," saidNadal, a five-time champion inCanada. "And I really don't believethat I have chances to fight for thethings that I reallyneed to fight for."

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Themoment I returnedback to thewomen’s team,Savita(goalkeeper) came tomy roomandsaid 'Listenwearereally happy youare back.' Thatmoment formewas thechangingmoment. I feltOK it's good tobe there again.”

SJOERDMARIJNE, INDIAWOMEN’SHOCKEYCOACH

INJUREDBROADOUTOF TESTSERIESStuartBroadisoutof theIndia-EnglandTestseriesaftersustainingateartohisrightcalf, theEnglandandWalesCricketBoard(ECB)hasinformed.The35-year-oldfastbowlersustainedtheinjuryduringthewarm-uponTuesdayandwassentforascan.“HeunderwentanMRIscaninLondononWednesday,whichrevealedatear,”theECBpressreleasesaid.WithJamesAndersonalsonursingaquadstrain,Englandcouldbewithouttheirmost

successfulpaceduoatLord’s, forthefirst timeinahomeTestsince2007.Andersonmissedtrainingonthematcheveandhiscaseissaidtobefifty-fifty.EnglandhavecalledupLancashireseamerSaqibMahmoodascover.Andersonhas621wicketsfrom163Tests,whileBroadhasaccountedfor524scalps in149Tests.EnglandarelikelytoincludeMarkWoodasBroad’sreplacement,whileMoeenAlicouldbethespin-allrounder. ENS

SachinTendulkar talksabouthowhedealtwithanxiety,howheusedtechnologyto focusmoreonthebowlers thanhisownbattingashegivesamasterclassonhowtobat inEngland. Inan interviewtoDEVENDRAPANDEYandSANDEEPDWIVEDI,heelaboratesonwhatguardto take,whetherstandingoutside thecreaseworksandthe importanceof thehipposition.

‘I couldn’t sleep for years … later I said it’sokay, I don’t need to fight this feeling’

Iwouldkeepthinkingandwouldfightmysleep.Later, Icoulddealwith it. Istartedaccepting;this ishowmybodyandmindisgettinggearedupforthegame. It isok, Idon’tneedtofightthisfeeling, Iembracedthat. Isaid ‘it’sokayevenif Iamawakeat12:30or1:00atnightwatchingTV, listeningtomusicorwhatever it is, itdoesn’tmatter.“

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