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Thought of the Week ldquoPerseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after the otherrdquo - Walter Elliot

INSIDE THIS ISSUEConvicted sex trafficker dies

California landlord Lakireddy Bali Reddy who pled guilty to sex traffi cking dies at 84 Page 4

Indiarsquos Prime Minister Narendra Modirsquos controversial policies and reversals

Controversial policies of Modi

Page 8

Prabhas emerges as the highest paid actor of India ndash charges Rs 150 crores for fi lm Page 12

Rahul ruled out of New Zealand tests

India opener KL Rahul ruled out of the two-match test series against New Zealand with thigh strain Page 20

Virat Kohli rues soft ball

The highest paid actor in India

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By Manoj Kumar

NEW DELHI - India and the United States agreed on Tuesday to expand trade of some agricul-tural products including US cherries alfalfa and distiller dried grains as well as Indian mangoes grapes shrimp and water buff alo meat

In a joint statement issued after the fi rst US-India Trade Policy Forum meeting in four years in New Delhi the two countriesrsquo trade ministers also discussed the possibility of restoring In-diarsquos trade benefi ts under the US Generalized System of Preferences

The statement came as US Trade Representative Kather-ine Tai ended a two-day visit to try to rebuild trade ties between the worldrsquos richest and largest democracies

ldquoThe Ministers expressed an intent to continue to work togeth-er on resolving outstanding trade issues as some of these require additional engagement in order to reach convergence in the near fu-turerdquo the statement from Tai and Indian Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal said

New Delhi and Washington have sparred over a range of is-sues including tariff s for over a year hampering the prospects of concluding a bilateral trade package

Tuesdayrsquos meeting followed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modirsquos meeting with US Presi-dent Joe Biden in Washington in September when both leaders agreed to expand trade ties to strengthen relations

ldquoThe forum heralds a new be-ginning in India-US trade part-nershiprdquo Goyal said in a tweet after the meeting

The two ministers agreed to use the ldquorevitalizedrdquo forum to rapidly engage on new trade concerns as they arise and plan to evaluate progress on a quarterly basis

The two sides also discussed US interest in supplying ethanol to India and speeding up phyto-sanitary work to allow more ag-ricultural imports for both coun-tries including US pork and Indian table grapes

India also raised its interest in restoration of its benefi ciary status under GSP the US pro-gram that provides some tariff -free access for imports from de-veloping countries that expired at the end of 2020 The Trump administration in 2019 had ter-minated Indiarsquos access for about

$56 billion of annual exports amid disputes over digital trade and other issues

The United States noted in the statement that ldquothis could be considered as warranted in relation to the eligibility cri-teria determined by the US Congressrdquo

For India and other developing countries to receive GSP trade benefi ts Congress would have to reauthorize the program which may come with new restrictions and conditions on labor and environmental issues

India and US to expand farm trade India and US to expand farm trade aim to resolve market access issuesaim to resolve market access issues

US Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Indiarsquos Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal poses for a picture before the start of their meeting in New Delhi India on November 22 2021

Indiarsquos plan to ban cryptocurrencies leads to heavy sellingIndiarsquos plan to ban cryptocurrencies leads to heavy sellingMUMBAI - Plans by the Indian

government for a new bill that would bar most private cryptocur-rencies has triggered heavy selling in the countryrsquos digital currency markets as investors look to exit positions despite the losses said traders and investors

The government will allow only certain cryptocurrencies to promote the underlying technol-ogy and its uses according to a

legislative agenda released late on Tuesday for the winter session of Parliament set to start this month

The bill if passed would ef-fectively ban citizens in India from transacting in most crypto-currencies

The dollar-linked stable coin tether (USDT) slumped 25 to nearly 60 rupees ($08061) on Wednesday after news of the bill according to Naimish Sanghvi a

cryptocurrency investorA second crypto investor said

the value of his portfolio had fall-en to about 22000 rupees from 34000 rupees on Tuesday as aresult of the heavy selling

ldquoI am contemplating selling because the future is so unclearrdquo said the investor who asked not to be named as the information is sensitive

Several exchanges were facing

deposit and withdrawal challeng-es due to the high volume of sell-ing said cryptocurrency traders

There are an estimated 15 mil-lion to 20 million cryptocurren-cy investors in India with total crypto holdings of around 400 billion rupees according to indus-try estimates There is no offi cial data available on cyrptocurrencyholdings and the user base

($1 = 744310 Indian rupees)

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By Mayank Bhardwaj and Rajendra Jadhav

GHAZIABAD - In a surprise announcement last Friday Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he would repeal agriculture laws that farmers have been pro-testing against for more than a year sparking celebrations for what farmers called a hard-fought victory

Modirsquos decision is a signifi cant climb-down for the combative leader and comes as state elections in politically important grain-belt

states loomThe legislation - three laws in-

troduced in September last year - was aimed at deregulating the sector allowing farmers to sell produce to buyers beyond govern-ment-regulated wholesale markets where growers are assured of a minimum price

Farmers fearing the reform would cut the prices they get for their crops staged nationwide protests that drew in activists and celebrities from India and beyond including climate activist Greta Thunberg and pop singer Rihanna

ldquoToday I have come to tell you the whole country that we have decided to withdraw all three ag-ricultural lawsrdquo Modi said in an address to the nation

ldquoI urge farmers to return to their homes their farms and their fami-lies and I also request them to start afreshrdquo

The government would repeal the laws in the new session of parliament starting this month he said

The concession on laws the government had said were es-sential to tackle chronic wastage and ineffi ciencies comes ahead of elections early next year in Uttar Pradesh (UP) Indiarsquos most populous state and long a key po-litical battleground and two other northern states with large rural populations

Modirsquos capitulation leaves un-resolved a complex system of farm subsidies and price supports that critics say the government cannot aff ord

It could also raise questions for investors about how economic re-forms risk being undermined by political pressures

Protesting farmers who have been camped out in their thou-sands by main roads around the capital New Delhi celebrated

Modirsquos back-trackldquoDespite a lot of diffi culties we

have been here for nearly a year and today our sacrifi ce fi nally paid off rdquo said Ranjit Kumar a 36-year-old farmer at Ghazipur a major protest site in Uttar Pradesh

Jubilant farmers handed out sweets in celebration and chanted ldquohail the farmerrdquo and ldquolong live farmersrsquo movementrdquo

Rakesh Tikait a farmersrsquo group leader said the protests would only be called off when parliament repealed the laws

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Modirsquos Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government said last year there was no question of repealing the laws It attempted to break the impasse by off ering to water down the legislation but protracted negotiations failed

The protests took a violent turn on Jan 26 Indiarsquos Repub-lic Day when farmers over-whelmed police and stormed the historic Red Fort in New Delhi after tearing down barricades and driving tractors through roadblocks

One protester was killed and scores of farmers and policemen were injured

Farmers say the changes would make them vulnerable to compe-tition from big business and they could eventually lose price sup-port for staples such as wheat and rice

The government says reform of the sector which accounts for about 15 of the $27 trillion economy would have meant new opportunities and better prices for farmers

Modi announced the scrapping of the laws in a speech mark-ing the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak the founder of Sikhism Many of the protesting farmers are Sikh

He acknowledged that the gov-ernment had failed to win the argument

The farmers are also calling for minimum support prices for all of their crops not just rice and wheat a new demand that has gained traction among farmers across the country

Some agriculture experts said Modirsquos reversal was unfortunate because the reforms would have brought new technology and investment

ldquoItrsquos a blow to Indiarsquos agri-culturerdquo said Sandip Das a New Delhi-based researcher and agricultural policy analyst

Modi backs down on farm reforms in surprise victory for protesters

Farmers feed each other sweets and celebrate as they pose for pictures after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that he will repeal the contro-versial farm laws at the Ghazipur farmers protest site near Delhi-UP border India on November 19 2021

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India Bulletin Saturday November 27 2021

Lakireddy Bali Reddy

OAKLAND CA - Lakireddy Bali Reddy an infamous Berkeley landlord who went to prison for sex trafficking young women from India has died according to media reports He was 84

Reddy was found unrespon-sive in his home last Monday and transported to Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland where he was pronounced dead of natu-ral causes the Alameda County Sheriffrsquos Office told Berkeleyside

Telegu News International first reported his death adding it was due to ldquorespiratory ailmentsrdquo

Reddy was a wealthy landlord in Berkeley best known for his sex trafficking of young women from low castes to work in his empire of hotels and restaurants

Prosecutors accused Reddy of bringing girls and women from India on fraudulent visas and then paying them low wages as if they were slaves and also sexually abusing many of them

At the time of his arrest in 2000 Reddy owned more than 1000 rental properties in Berkeley in-clude the once popular Pasand Restaurant on Shattuck Avenue making him one of the cityrsquos rich-est landlords

The criminal case started to be revealed when student journal-ists from Berkeley High School asked probing questions when 17-year-old Chanti Pratipatti died of carbon monoxide poisoning at one of his Berkeley properties in 1999

In addition a Berkeley resident

named Marcia Poole became sus-picious when she saw four men moving what she first thought was a rolled-up rug out of the apartment building that Reddy owned and putting it into a Red-dy Realty van She noticed that a girlrsquos leg was sticking out of the carpet

The Berkeley students won-dered why that teenager wasnrsquot in school and their reporting exposed a string of abuses

In addition to the sex traffick-ing plea Reddy and other family members were convicted of cheat-ing immigration laws by having men pose as fathers in order to bring them to the United States

Many of the young women were from the Dalit caste in India and their parents thought life with Reddy in the United States was better than their poor lot at home

Ultimately Reddy pleaded guilty and was convicted of sexu-ally abusing nearly 25 women from India between 1986 and 2001 He ultimately spent eight years in Lompoc federal prison and registered as a sex offender in California He also had to pay $2 million in restitution payments to his victims

A businessman originally from Andhra Pradesh India he found-ed an engineering college that bears his name in his hometown

of MylavaramThe college shared a message

in tribute to Reddy on its website after he died saying ldquowe miss you Sirrdquo and calling him ldquoIndiarsquos favorite sonrdquo

But not many in Berkeley felt that way about him

Reddyrsquos crimes were cited in the books ldquoHidden Slaves Forced Labor in the United Statesrdquo and ldquoBody Evidence Intimate Vio-lence against South Asian Women in Americardquo among others

ldquoHe was a horrible man who did terrible thingsrdquo said attorney Mi-chael Rubin who sued Reddy in a civil case representing the young women

California landlord who pled guilty to sex trafficking dies at 84

FedEx shooting victims ask Indianapolis for $21 million

INDIANAPOLIS IN - Three members of the Sikh commu-nity affected by a mass shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx facility in April are seeking compensa-tion from the city over claims that local officials failed to pur-sue a court hearing that could have prevented the shooter from accessing guns used in the attack

An Oct 12 letter obtained by The Indianapolis Star indicates that Harpreet Singh Lakhwind-er Kaur and Gurinder Bains who were injured or lost family members in the April 15 attack are each requesting $700000 in damages from the city

Lawyers for the victims said the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and the Mar-ion County Prosecutorrsquos Office failed to follow Indianarsquos red flag law when they decided not to file a case with the courts to suspend the shooterrsquos gun rights in March of 2020

The ldquored flagrdquo legislation which became law in Indiana in 2005 allows police or the courts to seize guns from people who show signs that they might be violence

The lawyers say the law

doesnrsquot give the authorities dis-cretion and that they must file such cases with the courts Had such a case been filed the mass shooting could have been pre-vented according to the letter that serves as a tort claim no-tice which precedes a formal lawsuit

Police said Brandon Scott Hole 19 used the attack as an act of ldquosuicidal murderrdquo Eight em-ployees including four members of the cityrsquos Sikh community were killed and five others were injured

Hole a former FedEx em-ployee was able to legally pur-chase the two rifles used in the shooting even after his mother called police in March of 2020 to say her son might attempt ldquosuicide by coprdquo Police seized a pump-action shotgun from Hole then 18 when responding to his motherrsquos call

Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears has since faced sharp criticism for choosing not to pur-sue the red flag court hearing that could have prevented Hole from accessing the guns used in the April attack Mears said shortly after the attack that prosecutors didnrsquot pursue such a hearing

because they didnrsquot have enough time under the law to definitively demonstrate his propensity for suicidal thoughts

Mears Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett and Indianapolis police Chief Randal Taylor have not commented on the tort claim according to The Star

Singh who was shot in the head during the attack still has a bullet lodged in the left side of his head between his ear and eye His injuries resulted in ldquohospi-talization multiple surgical pro-cedures extensive rehabilitation inability to work at full capacity and continued physical and psy-chological injuriesrdquo according to the letter

Kaur was grazed by a bul-let on her left underarm She was standing behind Jaswinder Singh mdash Bainsrsquo father mdash when he was fatally shot and now suf-fers from psychological distress the letter says Bains is request-ing compensation on behalf of his fatherrsquos estate

The victims are being repre-sented by Amandeep S Sidhu of the Washington DC law firm Winston amp Strawn LLP The Sikh Coalition is acting as co-counsel

Indian man from Telangana dies in road accident in Maryland

ELLICOTT CITY MD - How-ard County police identified Shek-har Mandali 29 of Ellicott City as the pedestrian who was killed last Thursday on US Route 40 in Ellicott City

According to a police news release at about 630 pm on Thursday a 2021 Toyota Venza was traveling westbound on US Route 40 near Greenway Drive when it struck Mandali who was not in a crosswalk nor at an inter-section when he was struck police said

His family members received the information that he was cross-ing the road after coming out of his office when a speeding car hit him He was shifted to Howard County General Hospital but by then had succumbed to his injuries

Shekharrsquos father M Muthyalu a farmer and mother Komaramma were shocked on receiving the

news of his deathShekhar has a brother and four

sisters The family has appealed to the state and the central govern-ments to help in bringing home the body of Shekhar

According to The Hindu a newspaper published in India Shekhar worked as an event man-ager in the hospitality industry He was from the Theratigudem village of Gurrampode mandal in Nalgonda according to The Hin-du and came to live in the US in 2018

A GoFundMe account set up by family and friends to ldquosupport (Mandalirsquos) family and send his body to Indiardquo had garnered about $35000 from more than 750 do-nations as of Monday afternoon

Police said an investigation into the crash is ongoing no one in the vehicle was injured and no charges have been filed

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HALF MOON BAY CA - A family who lost their 12-year-old son to a drowning accident earlier this year wants no one else to feel the pain they were forced to feel

The search for Arunay Pruthi lasted nearly two months before

it was called off at Cowell Ranch State Beach in Half Moon Bay

Now months later Arunayrsquos legacy lives on through emer-gency life rings newly installed in Half Moon Bay

The sound of waves crashing is calming to many but for the

Boyrsquos tragic drowning death inspires life ring stations at beachesPruthi family it has a diff erent meaning

In January their 12-year-old son Arunay lost his life after be-ing drug out to sea by a sneaker wave

But through tragedy the fam-ily found their purpose

ldquoArunay battled the ocean waves for 15 minutes before they eventually took him downrdquo Arunay Foundation Secretary Vikram Saxena said on behalf of the family Wednesday ldquoOur hope is in the event of any unfor-tunate incident like that family members bystanders and fi rst responders have the necessary equipment accessible to them to mount a rescuerdquo

Now that equipment is now available in Half Moon Bay

Thanks to the vision of Arunay Foundation three emergency life rings are now in place

The foundation seeks to edu-cate equip and inform Wednes-dayrsquos ribbon cutting ceremony of the life rings is their mission put into action

ldquoWhen I look at this life ring right here I donrsquot just see a life ringrdquo CALFIRE Deputy Chief Jonathon Cox said ldquoI see a daughter thatrsquos going to be sur-viving in the future or a son I see Arunayrsquos legacy living onrdquo

19 lives including Arunayrsquos were lost along the California coast this year

Arunay drowned trying to save his eight-year-old brother Arunayrsquos brother survived and with these rings others may too

ldquoItrsquos inspiring for me to see that out of tragedy comes hope for othersrdquo San Mateo County Sheriff Carlos Bolanos said ldquoIrsquom assured that with this new tool lives will be savedrdquo

Two rings are stationed near Pillar Point Harbor and another one at the famous Maverickrsquos beach

The rings come through a partnership with Sea Valor the nonprofi t who helped design them

The hope is no family has to suff er like the Pruthirsquos ever again

Umar Dutt sentenced to life for psychiatristrsquos murder

WICHITA KA - Four years after stabbing Wichita psychia-trist Dr Achutha Reddy to death at his business Umar Dutt was sentenced to life in prison last Tuesday

Dutt will be eligible for pa-role in 25 years with credit for time served of four years Attor-neys for both sides and the judge recommended that he serve his sentence at Larned Correctional Mental Health Facility because of a history of mental illness but that determination will be made by the Kansas Department of Corrections

Dutt pleaded guilty to the crime in September The Sedg-wick County District Attorney said Dutt went to Dr Reddyrsquos offi ce in Wichitarsquos Carriage Park-

way near Central and Edgemoor in 2017 to confi ne Dr Reddy and hurt him Dr Reddy tried to es-cape but Dutt pursued him even further

In the alley behind the busi-ness Dutt stabbed Dr Reddy repeatedly more than 160 times which led to his death He then ran over the doctorrsquos body

ldquoI have not been able to sleep for four years due to nightmares when I think of the last moments of my husbandrsquos life I shake with fearrdquo said Dr Beena Reddy wife of Dr Achutha Reddy

The wife of Doctor Reddy spoke about the impact of the murder during the hearing

ldquoUmar Dutt gave me a life sen-tence of grief and fear and mis-ery This is my daily reality and

it will never ever change I will never forgive him and I will nev-er forgetrdquo said Dr Beena Reddy ldquoUmar Dutt deserves to go to the state penitentiary for the rest of his liferdquo

Dr Beena Reddy said the death of her husband left their three kids without a father to be there for all their achievements

She said ldquoMy children and I have been devastated by Achutharsquos death Our stability our security our peace of mind has been destroyed by the pre-meditated evil actions of Umar Duttrdquo

She said Dr Reddy is being re-membered for his love and being a kind and gentle man who cared about helping people Thatrsquos what he was trying to for Dutt

Arunay Pruthi

India Bulletin

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NATIONAL NEWS

ROBBINSVILLE NJ - A prominent Hindu sect that oper-ates a New Jersey temple raided by federal authorities earlier this year is facing new accusations that it forced hundreds of low-caste workers to labor at worship sites across the United States under dangerous conditions for little pay The New York Timesreported

In a lawsuit fi led in New Jersey federal court and amended last month lawyers representing the workers accused the sect known as BAPS of luring laborers from India to work on temples near Atlanta Chicago Houston and Los Angeles as well as in Rob-binsville NJ paying them just $450 a month

The suit was originally fi led in

May on the same day that federal agents descended on the New Jer-sey temple removing about 100 workers in an early morning ac-tion that was said by several peo-ple with knowledge of the matter to be connected to possible vio-lations of labor and immigration laws

At the time the lawsuit focused only on the temple in New Jersey claiming men were brought into the country under false pretenses and then worked seven days a week to build and maintain the sumptuous structures and grounds for as little as $120 an hour The amended lawsuit expanded those claims to include temples around the country where some of the men said they were also sent to work Hundreds of workers were

potentially exploited the lawsuit claimed

The lawsuit claimed the temple workers were presented to US immigration offi cials as volun-teers trained to do specialized work such as stone carving or painting qualifying them for reli-gious or R-1 visas

Leaders for the sect Bochasan-wasi Akshar Purushottam Swami-narayan Sanstha have strenuously denied any wrongdoing A lawyer for BAPS Paul J Fishman a for-mer US attorney for New Jersey said the federal government has routinely allowed stone artisans to qualify for R-1 visas and that agencies had regularly inspected ldquoall of the construction projects on which those artisans volunteeredrdquo

It is unclear if the federal agen-cies that removed the workers from the New Jersey temple - in-cluding the FBI the Department of Homeland Security and the De-partment of Labor - are criminally investigating the sect Representa-tives for the Homeland Security and Labor departments declined to comment a spokeswoman for the FBI said the agency could not ldquoconfi rm nor deny the exis-tence of investigationsrdquo

BAPS which has strong ties with Narendra Modi Indiarsquos

prime minister has built temples around the world that draw visi-tors with impressive spires and arches intricate stone carvings gurgling fountains and wander-ing peacocks Modi and his rul-ing Bharatiya Janata Party have underscored their connection with the sect as they have sought to shift India from its secular foun-dations toward a Hindu identity Over the years the BAPS organi-zation has grown into the largest Hindu sect in the United States and a global enterprise made up of both for-profi t and nonprofi t entities

The organization also pledged the equivalent of about $290000 to Modirsquos most important election promise building a temple in the city of Ayodhya where a mosque had stood before Hindu devotees destroyed it in 1992

The New Jersey lawsuit said workers were lured to the United States with the promise of fair pay and good hours but instead they had nearly no time off from work that was grueling and frequently dangerous moving stones that weighed several tons and fac-ing health risks from exposure to harmful dust and chemicals

The workers were confi ned to the temples and their living quar-

ters and had their passports confi s-cated according to the claim For-bidden from speaking to visitors they were also threatened with retaliation if they spoke out about their working conditions

The men were intentionally recruited based on their margin-alized status most are Dalit or Adivasi from the lowest rungs in Indiarsquos social hierarchy the law-suit claimed adding that one over-seer called the workers ldquowormsrdquo

ldquoItrsquos important that all work-ers who saw their labor and civil rights violated at BAPS temples across the US have the oppor-tunity to seek justicerdquo said Dan-iel Werner a lawyer in the wage claim suit

The amended complaint ac-cused BAPS offi cials of violating state labor laws and the Racketeer Infl uenced and Corrupt Organiza-tions Act better known as RICO which was created to go afterorganized crime

The raid in May occurred after a worker died at the New Jer-sey temple in late 2020 and a co-worker 37-year-old Mukesh Kumar contacted a lawyer The lawsuit claimed that at least three other workers who had labored on BAPS temples died in India short-ly after leaving the United States

BAPS accused of using forced labor at temples across US

BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Robbinsville Township New Jersey


India Bulletin

NEW DELHI - Buoyed by huge mandates in back-to-back gen-eral elections in 2014 and 2019 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pushed through many controversial policies

Here are a few of his aggres-sive decisions some of which have backfired

FARM REFORMSModirsquos aim of bringing private

investments into Indiarsquos huge agriculture sector through three laws enacted by parliament late in 2020 triggered the countryrsquos

longest-ever farm protestsMultiple rounds of discussions

between farmersrsquo groups and the government failed to end the agitations as ten of thousands of protesters in tractors trucks and SUVs blocked roads leading into New Delhi

Ahead of elections in some big rural states Modi said last Friday he was repealing the laws The announcement came on the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak the founder of Sikhism

Many of the farmers camped out near the capital are Sikhs from

Punjab which votes early next year One of the other states where elections are due and where Modi is facing a backlash in some pock-ets is Uttar Pradesh Indiarsquos most populous

lsquoDISCRIMINATORYrsquo CITIZENSHIP LAW

In late 2019 Modirsquos Hindu nationalist government secured parliamentary approval for a citi-zenship law that critics say under-mines Indiarsquos secular constitution by excluding Muslim migrants from neighbouring countries

The law grants Indian national-ity to Buddhists Christians Hin-dus Jains Parsis and Sikhs who fled Afghanistan Bangladesh and Pakistan before 2015

The United Nations human rights office said the law which led to a wave of protests in parts of the country including sit-ins in New Delhi was ldquofundamentally

discriminatory in naturerdquo

KASHMIRFresh after a thumping re-elec-

tion win in 2019 Modirsquos govern-ment revoked the special status of Kashmir in a bid to fully integrate the Muslim-majority region with the rest of the country It also split the state of Jammu amp Kashmir into two federal territories under the direct control of New Delhi

To keep a lid on protests the administration detained many Kashmir political leaders and sent many more paramilitary police and soldiers to the Himalayan region also claimed by Pakistan

LAND ACQUISITION DECREE

In 2015 Modi let an execu-tive order making it easier for businesses to buy land lapse af-ter failing to win support from opposition parties

This meant that projects in

defence rural electrification rural housing and industrial corridors continued to need the consent of 80 of the affected landowners as mandated

The policy had united Indiarsquos disparate opposition parties and farmers in protest

DEMONETISATIONModi stunned the nation of 135

billion people on the night of Nov 8 2016 announcing a plan to ditch 500- and 1000-rupee notes a demonetisation campaign he said would uncover unaccounted wealth and counterfeit money

The sudden implementation of the move sparked chaos forced people to queue outside banks to exchange the now-banned notes and killed many cash-dependent businesses The economy was just finishing absorbing the shock when it was hit again by the coronavirus pandemic

Indian PM Modirsquos controversial policies and reversals

FILE PHOTO Indiarsquos Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a gathering be-fore flagging off the ldquoDandi Marchrdquo or Salt March to celebrate the 75th anniver-sary of Indiarsquos Independence in Ahmedabad India on March 12 2021

Delhi lifts ban on construction asair quality improves marginally

NEW DELHI - New Delhi has lifted a ban on construction activi-ties as air quality improved mar-ginally but schools and offices will remain closed its environ-

ment minister saidDelhirsquos Air Quality Index

(AQI) dropped to 303 on a scale of 500 down from 499 nearly a week ago when a thick haze

hung over the city of more than 200 million people The current AQI levels still indicate ldquovery poorrdquo conditions according to government monitoring agencies

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HEALTH amp SCIENCE9

INTERNATIONAL NEWSIndia Bulletin

A motherrsquos year-long search for her missing baby in India came to an end on Wednes-day when a court handed over the child to her after a scandal which has caused outrage and whipped up a political storm

For more than two weeks now a couple has been protest-ing outside an adoption agency in the southern state of Kerala demanding the return of their missing child

Amid pounding rains and un-der the glare of cameras they have camped under a tarp on a thrumming thoroughfare in the capital Thiruvananthapuram (formerly Trivandrum) When night falls the couple retire to a Suzuki minivan parked alongside the road

The woman holds up a plac-ard saying ldquoGive me my babyrdquo She says her family gave away her child for adoption without her consent an accusation that her father denies

On October 19 last year Anu-pama S Chandran gave birth to a boy weighing about 2kg (44 pounds) in a local hospital

The 22-year-old activist had braved social stigma by having a child out of wedlock with her al-ready-married boyfriend Ajith Kumar Baby 34 who worked as a public relations officer in a hospital

The relationship and the preg-nancy had whipped up a storm in the womanrsquos family

Having a child out of wedlock is anathema in India Making matters more fraught was the fact that Anupama belongs to a dominant caste compared to Ajith whorsquos a Dalit (formerly untouchables) who languish at the bottom of Indiarsquos rigid caste hierarchy Inter-caste and inter-faith marriages are frowned upon

Yet both Anupama and Ajith hailed from what many Indians would regard as middle class progressive families

Both families were staunch supporters of the statersquos rul-ing Communist Party of India (Marxist) - Kerala is a tradi-tional redoubt of parliamentary Communism

Anupamarsquos father a bank manager was also a local party leader while her grandparents had been prominent trade union-ists and municipal councillors

A physics graduate Anupama was the first woman to head the studentsrsquo union of Communist party in her college Ajith was a leader of the partyrsquos youth wing

They had grown up up in the same neighbourhood and met while working for the Com-munist party Three years ago they began living together Ajith said he was separated from his wife by then - the couple had no children ldquoIt was not love at first sight or anything We began as friends Then eventually we decided to live togetherrdquo Anu-pama said

Last year Anupama became pregnant and the couple decided to have the baby ldquoWe never had doubts about having the baby We were ready to become par-entsrdquo she said She broke the news to her ldquoshockedrdquo parents a month-and-a-half before she delivered They persuaded her to return home to prepare for her pregnancy and forbade her to keep in touch with Ajith

When Anupama was dis-charged from the hospital her parents arrived to take her and the child home They told her she would stay at a friendrsquos place and return home after the marriage of Anupamarsquos sister which was three months away They said they didnrsquot want in-quisitive guests asking about a new-born in the house

She claims that her father took the baby away on a car-ride back from hospital ldquoHe told me he was taking the child to a safer place where I could meet him laterrdquo she said

Kerala adoption row A motherrsquos search for her missing baby in IndialdquoMy bundle of joy just disap-

pearedrdquoOver the next few months

they shuttled her between two homes before taking her to her grandmotherrsquos home some 200km (124 miles) away from the city

When she returned home to attend her sisterrsquos wedding in February this year she called Ajith and told him that their son was missing Anupama said her parents had put her child up for adoption She finally left their home in March and began liv-ing with Ajith and his parents They also began looking for their child

It turned out to be an ordealAt the hospital they found

that their childrsquos birth certificate contained the name of an un-known man - not Ajith - as the father The police initially re-fused to register their complaint of a missing baby Instead they told her they were investigating a complaint made by her father about Anupama ldquogoing missingrdquo from her parentrsquos home

In August the police sprang a surprise on the couple They said her father had informed them that Anupama had vol-untarily given up the child for adoption

The distraught couple now registered complaints with the ruling party the chief minister the adoption agency and the statersquos police chief They also filed a police complaint against the statersquos minister of culture Saji Cheriyan for allegedly de-faming Anupama after he told a news channel that ldquoher parents have done what everyone will dordquo

Last month Anupama and Ajith also went on news net-works narrating their experi-ence Politicians and officials finally sat up and took notice Opposition lawmakers raised a stink in the state assembly saying this was an example of an

ldquohonour crimerdquo ldquoIt was an hon-our crime executed collectively by the state machineryrdquo said KK Rema a female opposition legislator

Anupamarsquos father S Jay-achandran has defended his actions ldquoWhen something like this happens in our home how do we handle it I left the baby at the place where Anupama wanted him to be She had no wherewithal to protect the child We canrsquot do it eitherrdquo he told a news network

ldquoAnupama says the babyrsquos father is a man who has a wife How can I leave my daughter and her child with him Anu-pama was not keeping well after giving birth So I entrusted the child with an adoption agency to look after itrdquo

Mr Jayachandran wondered how the family could keep an ldquoillegal childrdquo He said he hand-ed over the infant to the adop-tion agency only after taking the advice of the Communist party and a lawyer When the anchor asked him if he had anything to tell his daughter he said ldquoI donrsquot want to hear anything from herrdquo

Following the uproar the

police registered cases against six people including Anupamarsquos parents sister and brother-in-law They face charges of wrong-ful confinement kidnapping and forgery all have denied the allegations

A court ordered DNA tests on a baby the adoption agency had handed over to a foster couple in Andhra Pradesh state in August this year The infant was taken back from the adoptive parents and bought back to Trivandrum

On Tuesday evening Anu-pama and Ajith were told that their DNA matched with that of the baby And they finally saw him briefly at a home for chil-dren run by a charity They say they will continue their protest until the people responsible for ldquotraffickingrdquo the baby are punished

The court heard the DNA evi-dence on Wednesday and hand-ed over the infant to the parents

It has been a very tough year say the couple Anupama has worried incessantly about her child who is more than a year old now

ldquoIsnrsquot it my right to choose with whom I should live and have a childrdquo

Anupama and Ajith met while working for the Communist party

Saturday November 27 2021

India Bulletin

By Neha Aroraand Mayank Bhardwaj

NEW DELHI - New Delhi will consider restricting private ve-hicles to driving on alternate days from next week if severe air pol-lution continues to plague Indiarsquos capital its environment minister told Reuters last Thursday

As choking smog enveloped the city of 20 million people this month its government initiated a clutch of measures such as shut-ting down schools banning con-struction and garbage burning al-

lowing people to work from home and launching various dust-con-trol steps such as using fire trucks to spray water

ldquoIf air pollution levels stay high we will look at new measures like the odd-even (vehicle) systemrdquo Gopal Rai the capitalrsquos Minis-ter for Environment Forest and Wildlife Development said in the interview

Under the odd-even system pri-vate vehicles can be driven only on alternating days depending on the last digit of their number plate

ldquoWersquoll see if therersquos a need for a

complete lockdown to tackle pol-lution But these measures will not work if Delhirsquos neighbouring cit-ies do not reciprocaterdquo Rai said

More children are in hospi-tal with breathing problems due to dangerously heavy smog in New Delhi doctors warned last Wednesday here and the govern-ment shut five power stations and extended school closures to try to contain the crisis

Citing a new study by the Centre for Science and Environment re-search body Rai said only 30 of

pollutants in Delhirsquos air stem from the city itself with the rest coming from the vast urban sprawl around it where tens of thousands of big and small industries operate

ldquoEven if we take more mea-sures in Delhi air quality will not improve if our neighbouring states do not ensure that pollution lev-els come down in the cities that surround Delhirdquo

Rai said the federal govern-ment should call a meeting of Delhi and the state governments of neighbouring Punjab Haryana

and Uttar Pradesh to prepare ldquoa joint action planrdquo to deal with air pollution

ldquoOnce the joint action plan is ready there should be an indepen-dent panel to monitor the progress on the groundrdquo

Neither the Bharatiya Janata Party which governs at the fed-eral level nor the main opposition Congress is in power in the capital giving them little incentive to co-operate with the city government run by the Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party (AAP)

New Delhi to consider curbing private vehicles to fight dangerous smog

People ride on boats on the Yamuna river on a smoggy morning in New Delhi India on November 19 2021

Flu vaccine demand takes off in India as pandemic raises awareness

By Manas Mishra and Leroy Leo

A pandemic-spurred demand for flu vaccines in India has surged since a devastating second wave of COVID-19 brought the nationrsquos healthcare system to its knees earlier this year

Vaccinations against influenza are not very common in India due to a lack of awareness access and steep prices and they are also not part of the federal governmentrsquos universal immunization program that includes polio tuberculosis

and Hepatitis BStill more than 1000 shots

were administered at Manipal Hospitalrsquos sites in the tech hub of Bengaluru in southern India be-tween July and September com-pared with about 3000 for all of last year according to the health-care provider

ldquoInitially everyone thought if you got flu vaccines COVID-19 wonrsquot affect you severelyrdquo said Dr Ram Shankar Mishra direc-tor of internal medicine at the Max Super Specialty Hospital Saket in the national capital of

New DelhiMishra added demand has in-

creased even as COVID-19 vac-cinations gather pace

Apollo Hospitals and Fortis Healthcare are also witnessing higher demand for flu shots in-cluding Abbott Indiarsquos imported vaccine Influvac the private hos-pital operators told Reuters

Sales in its vaccine unit rose 423 in the financial year end-ed March largely due to the influenza prevention shot Ab-bott India disclosed in its annual report

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Bollywood BeatBombay HC rejects Raj Kundrarsquos bail in porn film racket case

Bombay High court rejected the anticipatory bail application of businessman Raj Kundra Poonam Pandey and Sherlyn Chopra in the 2020 cyber cell porn fi lm racket case

Kundra was earlier arrested in July in another case that was be-ing investigated by the Mumbai Crime Branch He got bail in that case in September

The anticipatory bail plea of a total of six including Kun-dra Poonam Pandey Sherlyn Chopra was rejected by Justice N W Sambre However Justice Sambre granted an extension on their interim protection for four weeks for any further legalaction

ldquoWe will be challenging this orderrdquo said advocate Sudip Pas-bola representing one of the ac-cused in the case Justice Sam-bre has only given an operative order right now detailed order with reason will be passed by the court later

During the hearing Senior Advocate Shirish Gupte repre-senting Kundra argued that there is not a single iota of evidence by the prosecution to connect the Hotshots app with the of-fences alleged as none of the ac-tresses that were called in as ac-cused in the case had raised anygrievance

Raj Kundra was arrested by the Mumbai crime branch on July 19 for allegedly producing and distributing porn fi lms using a subscriber-driven mobile app called ldquoHotShotsrdquo

He was also granted bail in September

Prabhas emerges the highest paid actor of India ndash charges Rs 150 crores

Prabhas is undoubtedly one of the big-gest stars of India today whose fi lms ap-peal to audiences not just in Hindi speaking belts but also the Southern belts like Tamil Nadu Andhra Pradesh Karnataka and Kerala He has half a dozen fi lms under his kitty - ranging from Radhe Shyam Salaar Adipurush Project K and Spirit More than half of his upcoming releases are with Bollywood producer Bhushan Kumar

And now we have got an exclusive scoop on this Pan-India star ldquoBhushan Kumar is amongst the biggest producers of Bollywood today and he is looking to make the biggest of the fi lms in the post-pandemic world And hence he is teaming up not only with a Bollywood actor but someone who has the widest possible reach pan India - Prabhas His presence gives Bhushan and his team the liberty to make fi lms without being bothered much about the budgets He is

supremely excited to take things to the next level with Radhe Shyam Adipurush and Spiritrdquo revealed a source close to the development

But one doesnrsquot get to do back-to-back films with Prabhas so easily ldquoWorking with Prabhas is a matter of prestige today given his unparalleled stardom

The actor has reportedly charged Rs 150 crores fl at to be a part of Sandeep Reddy Vangarsquos Spirit and with this he has emerged as the highest-paid actor of India today He got Rs 150 crores for Adipurush as well He is the third actor in the last 10 years to be paid upwards of Rs 100 crores after Salman Khan (who got Rs 100 crores plus for Sultan and Tiger Zinda Hai) and Akshay Kumar (who started charging Rs 100 crores from Bell Bottom)rdquo the source added

Spirit goes on floors by the end of 2022

Priyanka Chopra drops Jonas surname from her social media handles

Priyanka Chopra just dropped lsquoChopra Jonasrsquo from her name on Twitter and Instagram handles sparking divorce rumours with her popstar husband Nick Jonas Netizens started speculating that the couple is headed for separa-tion after three years of mar-riage Her name on the social media handles read as Priyanka But there is no truth to these rumours

As per reports the actress re-portedly has removed her sur-name from her social media handles as she wants to move forward with her fi rst name for her future projects The actress has not just dropped Jonas but also Chopra from her social me-dia handles Responding to a tabloid her mother Madhu Cho-pra also denied these rumours of separation

Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Manage-ment Committee President Man-jinder Singh Sirsa on Saturday fi led a complaint against Kan-gana Ranaut accusing her for de-rogatory remarks and demanded the withdrawal of Padma Shri given to her

As per reports everywhere Manjinder has alleged that Kan-ganarsquos statement highlights a very cheap mentality and say-ing that the three farm laws were

repealed because of the Khalist terrorists is a disrespect to the farmers She is a factory of hate he said

He further said that they de-mand strict action from the gov-ernment for her hateful content on Instagram Moreover her security and Padam Shri must be withdrawn immediately and she should either be put in a mental hospital or in jail added Manjinder

Delhi Sikh Gurdwara files complaint against Kangana Ranaut says her Padma Shri should be withdrawn

UNKNOWN FACTS ABOUTBOLLYWOODCELEBRITIES

Most people mistake The Hero Love Story of a Spy (2003) to be

Priyanka Choprarsquos fi rst brush with the fi lm

industry but she actually made her acting debut through with the 2002 Tamil fi lm Thamizhan

Dil Chahta Hai won a whole lot of

awards and marked Saifrsquos coming of

age as an actor but when the role was offered to him he initially rejected it

Bollywood TriviaWhich was Akshay Kumarrsquos

fi rst movie

Answer 2

1) Saugandh2) Aaj3) Khiladi4) Khiladi 786When is Kangana Ranautrsquos

birthday

Answer 2

1) December 122) March 23 3) March 124) October 14

12 India Bulletin Saturday November 27 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Bollywood Beat

Shah Rukh Khans son Aryan Khan was arrested along with Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Oc-tober 3 following a raid on a cruise ship by the Mumbai coast

The three accused were grant-ed bail by the Bombay HC after spending nearly three weeks in judicial custody The Bombay High Court released an order which stated that there is no evi-dence of a conspiracy between Aryan Arbaaz and Munmun Dhamecha to commit drug- related offences

The Bombay HC also said that there was nothing objectionable found in their Whatsapp chats During the bail hearings in Oc-tober the NCB had objected to the bail plea stating conspiracy and incriminating evidence found on Whatsapp chats of the accused

ldquoThere is hardly any positive evidence on record to convince this Court that all the accused persons with common intention agreed to commit unlawful act the order by the Bombay HC read

ldquoMerely because Aryan Khan Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha were travelling in the same cruise that by itself cannot be a foundation for the charge of conspiracy against themrdquo the court explained

The court also said that the anti-narcotics bureau cannot rely on alleged confessional state-ments recorded by the inves-tigating officer as they are not binding

No evidence against Aryan Khan

Bombay High Court

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Shahid Kapoorand Mrunal Thakur

Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2Kiara Advani

Kartik Aaryan Tabu and Rajpal Yadav

83Ranveer Singh

and Deepika Padukone

Radhe ShyamPrabhas

Pooja Hegde and Krishnam Raju

MaidaanAjay Devgn Priyamani

and Keerthy Suresh

Bachchan PandeyAkshay Kumar Bobby Deol

and Riteish Deshmukh

Atrangi ReHrithik Roshan Akshay Kumar

Dhanush and Sara Ali Khan

Gangubai KathiawadiAlia Bhatt Parth Samthaan

and Emraan Hashmi

BrahmastraRanbir Kapoor Alia Bhatt and

Amitabh Bachchan

MOVIE REVIEW

Dhamaka is the story of a prime time reporter getting the biggest scoop of his career Ar-jun Pathak (Kartik Aaryan) was a reputed TV reporter of Bharosa 24x7 He is married to Saumya Mehra Pathak (Mrunal Thakur) All is going well but due to an unsavoury incident Arjun is de-moted and is given the post of a radio jockey on Radio Bha-rosa His marriage with Saumya is about to end as their divorce proceedings are going on One day during his morning show Arjun receives a call from a man called Raghubeer Mhata (Soham Majumdar) He claims that he has planted a bomb on the Sea Link in Mumbai Arjun assumes that itrsquos a prank call and abrupt-ly cuts it The next moment he hears a loud blast He looks out of the window and sees that a part of the sea link has explod-ed Raghubeer calls again and wants to talk A scared Arjun immediately phones the cops But he cuts the call when he re-alizes that this is his chance to get back his position as a prime time news anchor He requests Raghubeer to wait for some time He immediately dials his

boss Ankita (Amruta Subhash) and informs her about the situa-tion He also gets an assurance from her that he can go on air with this story A temporary stu-dio is set up in the radio station Arjun goes on air and begins to further talk to Raghubeer At this point Raghubeer informs that he wants an apology from the minister Jaydev Patil im-mediately or else hersquoll do more blasts He also tells Arjun that therersquos a bomb in his earpiece and that hersquoll execute the blast if he moves from his seat To add to Arjunrsquos fears he learns that Saumya is the one who has gone to the Sea Link to cover the story on the ground Another blast rocks the Sea Link and now Saumya and the rest of the people present there are in dan-ger What happens next forms the rest of the film

Dhamaka is based on the Korean film Terror Live [writ-ten and directed by Kim Byung Woo] The story is unique and one of its kind Dhamaka is a thriller but it starts on a sweet note Soon the tone changes as Arjun gets the call from the mys-terious caller The first half will give you no reason to complain as the makers neatly explain the setting the dynamics between the various characters and why Arjun has got demoted The way Arjun uses his divorce papers to make notes is quite assuming and shows that the director has tried to make the product stand out The scene where Jayant Patilrsquos deputy Subhash Mathur (Vishwajeet Pradhan) comes to the studio and speaks to Ra-ghubeer is a terrific scene and will leave viewers astonished Another heart-in-the-mouth scene is when Saumya attempts to save a girl from a car before it falls off the Sea Link The second half too has its share of good scenes but due to the above-mentioned glitches the impact is diluted

Puneet Sharma and Ram Mad-hvanis screenplay is impressive

and ensures that audiences re-main glued to their seats How-ever some of the developments in the second half are not con-vincing Even the finale is dif-ficult to digest Puneet Sharma and Ram Madhvanis dialogues are sharp and acidic

Dhamaka scores when it comes to the performances Kar-tik Aaryan is known for comic and light-hearted roles but here he steps into altogether new ter-ritory and comes out with flying colours Hersquos sure to surprise many and proves that hersquos able to portray different kinds of roles with ease Mrunal Thakur is mentioned first in the open-ing credits before Kartik Her role is also credited as a special appearance and she does very well Amruta Subhash leaves a tremendous mark and adds a lot to the drama in the film Soham Majumdar has a limited appear-ance but his voice plays an im-portant role and overall he does

a fine job Vishwajeet Pradhan is memorable in a cameo Vi-kas Kumar (Praveen Kamath counter-terrorism official) gives a fine no-nonsense perfor-mance Anuj Gurwara (Manas Sethi INL News anchor) is okay

Dhamaka ideally should have been a song-less fare but the three songs are neatly wo-ven into the narrative Khoya Paaya boasts of powerful lyrics and vocals by Amit Trivedi The female version by Jasleen Royal is also hard-hitting Kasoor is sweet and has the trademark Prateek Kuhad stamp Vishal Khuranas background score is impactful

On the whole Dhamaka is an edge-of-the-seat thriller and boasts of one of the finest per-formances by Kartik Aaryan But sadly the film loses steam in the second half

BannerRSVP Movies

Ram Madhvani FilmsLotte Cultureworks

Global Gate EntertainmentLionsgate

ProducerRonnie ScrewvalaAmita MadhvaniRam Madhvani

DirectorRam Madhvani

StarringKartik AaryanMrunal Thakur

Music ByVishal Khurana

Released DateNovember 19 2021

Dhamaka

Rating

Celebrity BirthdaysNovember 29thNeha Pendse (1984)

November 30thPriyanka Kothari (1983)

December 1stUdit Narayan (1955)

December 2ndBoman Irani (1959)

December 3rdJimmy Shergill (1970)

December 10thRati Agnihotri (1960)

December 11thSara Loren (1985)

December 4thJaaved Jaaferi (1963)

December 6thKunal Kumar (1978) Sofia Hayat (1984)

December 8thDharmendra (1935)

December 9thRahat Fateh Ali Khan (1974)

13India BulletinSaturday November 27 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Biz Briefs

Indiarsquos Akasa Air last Tuesday placed an order for 72 Boeing 737 MAX jets valued at nearly $9 billion at list prices - a deal that could help the US plane-maker regain lost ground in one of the worldrsquos most promising markets

The order by billionaire in-vestor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala-backed airline comes months after Indiarsquos air safety regulator allowed the countryrsquos airlines to fly the MAX jet ending its near-ly two and a half years of regu-latory grounding after two fatal crashes in five months killed 346 people

Jhunjhunwala known as ldquoIndiarsquos Warren Buffettrdquo has teamed up with former chief executives of IndiGo the coun-tryrsquos biggest carrier and Jet Airways to tap into demand for domestic air travel which is nearing pre-pandemic levels as the country recovers from a devastating outbreak earlier this year

The low-cost airline received initial clearance from the civil aviation ministry to start opera-tions in October and is expected to begin flying next year

AA bets onnon-stop travel

demand to IndiaAmerican Airlines relaunched

flights to India nearly a decade after stopping them looking to capitalise on growing demand for non-stop travel amid the coronavi-rus pandemic said a senior execu-tive of the airline

With travel demand bouncing back at home American Airlines wants to expand its international network and India was ldquoone of the biggest untapped marketsrdquo for it said Tom Lattig managing director of EMEA sales

ldquoA lot of customers really want to fly non-stop particularly as wersquove come through the pandem-ic We know there is huge demand for travel between India and the United States so there is an op-portunity right now in the middle of the pandemic to come backrdquo Lattig said in an interview in New Delhi

American Airlines which sus-pended services to India in 2012 started flying between New Delhi and New York on the weekend and will add flights between Indiarsquos tech city of Bengaluru and Seattle in March

Akasa Air orders 72 Boeing

737 MAX jets

HEALTH amp SCIENCEBUSINESS14 India Bulletin Saturday November 27 2021

By Sankalp Phartiyal

NEW DELHI - At 27 Vi-jay Shekhar Sharma was mak-ing 10000 rupees ($13430) a month a modest salary that did not help his marriage prospects

ldquoIn 2004-05 my father asked me to shut my company and take up a job even if it was for 30000 rupeesrdquo said Sharma who went on to found digital payments firm Paytm in 2010

At the time the trained engi-neer sold mobile content via a small company

ldquoFamilies of prospective brides would never call us back after finding out that I earn around 10000 rupees a monthrdquo Sharma said ldquoI had become an ineligible bachelor for my familyrdquo

Last week the 43-year-old Sharma led Paytmrsquos $25 billion initial public offering (IPO) The fintech firm has become the toast of a new India where the first-generation of the countryrsquos startups are making stellar stock market debuts and minting new millionaires

Born to a school teacher father and a home maker mother in a small city in Indiarsquos most popu-lous Uttar Pradesh state Shar-ma who became Indiarsquos young-est billionaire in 2017 still loves having tea at a roadside cart and often takes short morning walks

to buy milk and breadldquoFor a long time my parents

had no idea what their son was doingrdquo Sharma said of the time Chinarsquos Ant Group first invested in Paytm in 2015 ldquoOnce my mother read about my net worth in a Hindi newspaper and asked me lsquoVijay do you really have the kind of money they say you haversquordquo

Forbes puts Sharmarsquos net worth at $24 billion

ldquoWHAT ARE MY ODDSrdquoPaytm began just over a de-

cade ago as a mobile recharge company and grew quickly after ride-hailing firm Uber listed it as a quick payment option in In-dia Its use leapfrogged in 2016 when Indiarsquos shock ban on high-value currency notes boosted digital payments

Paytm which also counts SoftBank (9984T) and Berk-shire Hathaway as its backers has since branched out into ser-vices including insurance and gold sales movie and flight ticketing and bank deposits and remittances

While Paytm pioneered digital payments in India the space soon became crowded as Google Amazon What-sApp and Walmartrsquos PhonePe launched payment services to grab a slice of a market ex-pected to grow to more than

Paytmrsquos Sharma goes from lsquoineligiblersquo bachelor to billionaire

$9529 trillion by the end of March 2025 according to EY

That push by global giants gave Sharma a rare moment of doubt which he raised with SoftBankrsquos tycoon billionaire founder Masayoshi Son

ldquoI called up Masa and said - now everyonersquos here what do you think are my oddsrdquo

Son an early investor in Ya-hoo and Alibaba told Sharma to ldquoraise more money double down and go all inrdquo and focus all his energy on building pay-ments unlike rivals which had other primary businesses

Sharma who is married and

has a son said he has never looked backed since

While some market analysts have concerns over when Pay-tm will turn profitable Sharma is confident of his companyrsquos success

In 2017 Paytm launched a bill payments app in Canada and a year later entered Japan with a mobile wallet

ldquoMy dream is to take the Pay-tm flag to San Francisco New York London Hong Kong and Tokyo And when people see it they say - you know what thatrsquos an Indian companyrdquo Sharma said

Modi urges democracies cooperate to make cryptocurrencies safe

By Rupam Jain

MUMBAI - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged cooperation between the worldrsquos democracies to ensure crypto-currencies like Bitcoin do not ldquoend up in the wrong handsrdquo de-livering the comments while his government drew up new rules for digital currencies

Modi did not elaborate on those fears in his speech de-livered virtually to the Sydney Dialogue a forum focused on emerging critical and cyber technologies

But authorities in India and elsewhere have flagged the dan-gers of cryptocurrencies being used by terrorist groups and or-ganised crime and the destabi-lising risk they posed to national economies

After extolling the opportu-nities presented by cyber age technology Modi sound a note

Paytm founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma poses for a picture at a clubhouse of a residential building in New Delhi on November 14 2021

of caution regarding digital currencies

ldquoTake cryptocurrency or Bit-coin for example It is important that all democratic nations work together on this

and ensure it does not end

up in the wrong hands which can spoil our youthrdquo Modi said

Indian officials currently drafting regulations are like-ly to propose a ban on all transactions and payments in

cryptocurrencies while letting investors hold them as assetslike gold bonds and stocks the Economic Times newspaper reported

Modi chaired a meeting to dis-cuss Indiarsquos approach to crypto-currencies last Saturday and the Economic Times said his cabinet could receive the draft regula-tions for review within two to three weeks

In September regulators in China banned all cryptocur-rency transactions and mining of cryptocurrency

Bitcoin the worldrsquos biggest cryptocurrency is hovering around the $60000-level hav-ing more than doubled its value since the start of this year

Indiarsquos digital currency mar-ket was worth $66 billion in May 2021 compared with $923 million in April 2020 accord-ing to blockchain data platform Chainalysis

Indiarsquos Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during the ldquoAccelerating Clean Technology Innovation and Deploymentrdquo session at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow Scotland Britain on November 2 2021

HEALTH amp SCIENCE15

BUSINESSIndia BulletinSaturday November 27 2021

By Abhirup Roy and Aditya Kalra

SANGLI - For eight straight days household goods salesman Vipresh Shah has failed to sell a single pack of Dettol soap to the storekeepers who have been buying from him ever since he took over his family business as a teenager 14 years ago

Shah is an official distributor for Britainrsquos Reckitt Benckiser in Vita near Sangli city around 200 miles south of Mumbai But he said once-loyal customers now point to an app - JioMart Partner - on their smartphones showing prices up to 15 lower instead of placing orders

ldquoAs Reckittrsquos distributor I used to be like a prince in the marketrdquo said Shah ldquoNow the buyer tells me lsquoSee how much yoursquove been ripping us offrsquordquo

The 31-year-old said he lost $2000 of his own money as he discounted products to match prices on JioMart the app rolled out by Reliance Industries bil-lionaire Mukesh Ambani in his drive to revolutionise retail dis-tribution in India

Up and down India in places like small town Vita the mom-and-pop stores that account for four-fifths of a near-$900 billion retail market - more than $700 billion - are increasingly turning to JioMart to stock up on foreign and domestic brands

Just as Ambani Indiarsquos richest man has disrupted the countryrsquos telecoms industry the tycoon is intent on shaking up retail dis-tribution taking on US e-com-merce giants like Amazon and Walmart Inc expanding fast in India

The country has around 450000 traditional distributors who have legions of salespeople to service every corner of the vast nation including 600000 villages They typically earn a margin of 3-5 on product prices and mostly take orders physically once a week making deliveries to retailers within a couple of days

But Reliancersquos model throws a wrench in that supply chain the mom-and-pop stores known as lsquokiranasrsquo can order goods on JioMart Partner with deliveries promised within 24 hours Reli-

Princes to paupers Indiarsquos salesmen face ruin as Ambani targets mom-and-pop stores

ance also offers training on or-dering credit facilities and free product samples for affiliated ki-ranasrsquo customers

That means hundreds of thou-sands of salesmen representing consumer giants like Reckitt Unilever and Colgate-Palmolive face an existential threat to their business according to interviews with salespeople 20 distributors and a trader group with members across India

Many of the distributors con-tacted by Reuters said they have slashed their workforce or vehi-cle fleet seeing their sales from door-to-door agents drop 20-25 in the last year as shopkeepers partner with Reliance

In Vita salesman Shah said he has had to lay off half of his staff of four He fears the 50-year-old family firm might not last beyond the next six months

The scale and speed of the dis-ruption have triggered tensions between traditional distributors and Reliance that have boiled over into physical confrontation in some cases

In Maharashtra state in the west - home to Vita - and Tamil

Nadu in south traditional sales-men have organised blockades of some JioMart delivery vehicles

ldquoWe will employ guerrilla tac-ticsrdquo said Dhairyashil Patil pres-ident of the All India Consumer Products Distributors Federation which represents 400000 agents of local and foreign consumer firms ldquoWe will continue to agi-taterdquo he told Reuters ldquowe want (consumer goods) companies to realise our valuerdquo

Reliance remains undeterred in pushing ahead with Ambanirsquos

ldquonew commercerdquo retail venture first announced in 2018

Last year it raised funds from marquee investors including Sil-ver Lake Partners and KKR amp Co Inc as it seeks to integrate mom-and-pop stores in what it has tout-ed as a more inclusive approach to digital commerce That push is widely seen countering the likes of Amazon which have for years faced - and denied - claims in India of favouring select big sellers at the expense of smaller retailers

Just as Ambani Indiarsquos richest man has disrupted the countryrsquos telecoms industry the tycoon is intent on shaking up retail distribution taking on US e-commerce giants like Amazon and Walmart Inc expanding fast in India

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Aries (March 21 to April 20)Growing older is mandatory growing up is optional The madness surrounding the materialistic race that you have now accustomed your life to has taken a toll on your inner child

Taurus (April 21 to May 21)Never underestimate the power of foolish people in large groups and this week you will find yourself surrounded by such groups The best way to avoid losing your peace is to stop arguing and start ignoring You will be tempted to get into a tussle but that will only result in stress and agony

Gemini (May 22 to June 21)Worry about your character and not your reputation because your character is who you are and your reputation is only what people think of you You have been doing the exact opposite recently and itrsquos high time you should be yourself and stop thinking too much about perception management

Cancer (June 22 to July 22)People say that laughter is the best medicine and this week you will meet a lot of faces who are curing the world A high-octane period wherein you will be socially active and surrounded by high-energy souls

Leo (July 23 to August 22)Make yourself indispensable and yoursquoll be moved up Act as if yoursquore indispensable and yoursquoll be moved out You are primar-ily dealing with the kind of people who act indispensable and this might annoy you

Virgo (August 23 to September 23)Business is like a wheelbarrow Nothing ever happens until you start pushing Whether you are in a job or in business the only way to move ahead is to start pushing more Advice Time to work extra hard

Libra (September 24 to October 23)Children are natural mimics who act like their parents de-spite every effort to teach them good manners The same is applicable to our social setup which influences our behaviour

Scorpio (October 24 to November 22)Sow a thought reap an action sow an action reap a habit sow a habit reap a character sow a character reap a destiny All your thoughts and actions have been focused on your goals for all these years and all the hurdles are a testimony of your hard work

Sagittarius (November 23 to December 21)A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes smart enough to profit from them and strong enough to correct them The habit of defending your mistake is not helping you in any way

Capricorn (December 22 to January 20)Do something today that your future self will thank you for If you feel you are stuck in the wrong place or with the wrong people do not take a second to move out and change your destiny Aquarius (January 21 to February 19)Professionals are people who can do their job when they donrsquot feel like it The routine and monotony of life have taken a toll on your motivation and this is the right week for you to realise that itrsquos always in your hand to be self-motivated and do what is expected from you

Pisces (February 20 to March 20)Never trust people who smile constantly Theyrsquore either selling something or not very bright This week you will be surrounded with such smiles all around and you should ensure that you do not get into any trap

WEEKLY HOROSCOPE(December 5 - 11 2021)

INTERNATIONAL NEWSASTROLOGYIndia Bulletin Saturday November 27 2021

She died from a snakebite but the real killer was her husbandMUMBAI - A man in India

who used a snake to murder his wife was convicted and given a double life sentence the BBC reported

In the spring of 2020 Suraj Kumar 28 bought a highly ven-omous Indian spectacled cobra from a snake catcher took it to his wifersquos parentsrsquo home and forced its fangs into her arm

His wife who went only by the name Uthra was at her par-entsrsquo home recovering from an-other snakebite also caused by Kumar

CNN reported that in late Feb-ruary 2020 Kumar purchased a viper and left it on the staircase in his home with Uthra He then called her to come downstairs in hopes the snake would bite her Instead she saw the snake and called for help

A few days later Kumar mixed sedatives into Uthrarsquos food and forced the same snake to bite her before throwing it out the window CNN reported

Uthra was hospitalized for 52 days before she was released to her parents the BBC reported

On May 6 Kumar tried again taking a cobra to Uthrarsquos par-entsrsquo home giving her a drink laced with sedatives and then forcing the fangs of the ven-omous snake into her left arm

The next morning Uthrarsquos mother found her uncon-scious with ldquoher mouth open and her left hand dangling on one siderdquo the BBC reported She was rushed to the hospi-tal where she was pronounced dead

In 2018 Kumar and Uthra met through a matchmaking service Uthra had a learning disability and wanted someone who could take of her Her family paid Kumar a dowry of 720 grams of gold a Suzuki sedan and 500000 rupees (about $6700) CNN reported

A few months after they mar-ried Kumarrsquos family demanded more from Uthrarsquos family CNN reported though the court ruling said Kumar was tired of dealing with Uthrarsquos disability and set out to kill her

The BBC reported that more than 90 people including herpe-tologists and doctors testified in Kumarrsquos trial One herpetologist testified it was highly unlikely that the cobra was able to get into Uthrarsquos room by itself

ldquoCobras generally do not bite unless they are highly provoked And after 8 pm theyrsquore gener-ally dormantrdquo Hari Shankar who worked as lead investiga-tor on the case for the Kerala Police told CNN

Investigators also recreated the crime scene by throwing a cobra onto a mannequin and found that the snake did not bite unless it was provoked the BBC reported

ldquoThis is a case of diabolical and ghastly uxoriciderdquo Judge M Manoj said according to the BBC

India logs slimmest rise in COVID-19 cases in 543 days despite festivals

NEW DELHI - India reported 7579 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday the smallest rise in one-and-a-half-years despite huge festival gatherings in recent weeks thanks to rising vaccina-tions and antibodies from prior infections

The country of 135 billion celebrated Durga Puja in Octo-ber and Diwali this month dur-ing which millions of people shopped travelled and met fam-ily mostly without masks Mask-wearing is nearly non-existent outside the big cities

ldquoEven after Diwali we are not seeing a surgerdquo said MD Gupte a former director of the state-run National Institute of Epidemi-ology attributing it mainly to the presence of antibodies in a huge majority of Indians through natural infection

ldquoI think we are much safer nowrdquo

Government surveys have es-timated that nearly 70 of Indi-ans had been naturally infected by July following a record rise in infections and deaths in April and May

So far 81 of Indiarsquos 944 mil-lion adults have received at least one dose of vaccine and 43 have had two doses Vaccination for people under 18 has not yet begun

India has reported a total of 345 million COVID-19 cases second only to the tally in the United States Indiarsquos COVID deaths rose by 236 in the past 24 hours to 466147

Daily testing has also fallen dipping below 1 million on Mon-day compared with a capacity of more than 2 million

Pakistan disputes Indiarsquos claim that pilot downed F-16 jet

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Tuesday rejected Indiarsquos claim that an Indian pilot shot down the Islamic nationrsquos F-16 fighter plane in 2019

The statement from Pakistan came a day after Indian President Ram Nath Kovind awarded pilot

Abhinandan Varthaman Indiarsquos third-highest honor with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and top military officials looking on at the ceremony in New Delhi

According to India Varthaman shot down a Pakistani F-16 fighter plane during aerial com-

bat with Pakistanrsquos air force in February 2019 showing ldquocon-spicuous couragerdquo and an excep-tional sense of duty the award reads

Pakistan denies that claim say-ing none of its planes had been downed

HEALTH amp SCIENCE17India Bulletin

HEALTH amp SCIENCE


By Julie Steenhuysen

CHICAGO - The US Centers for Disease Control and Preven-tion last Friday expanded avail-ability of COVID-19 booster shots to all American adults hoping to preserve vaccine pro-tection against the fast-spreading Delta variant

Previously the agency had recommended booster shots only for people age 65 and older or at high-risk from COVID and said they could choose a diff erent vac-cine from the one they received for their initial inoculation

Now millions more Americans face the choice of which booster to use Here is what some experts advise

THE LATEST GUIDELINESPrior CDC booster guidance

was based on meeting specifi c age health or other risk require-ments that left some people con-fused about whether they were eligible

The new guidance aims to clarify that It says all adults 18 and older who received their sec-ond dose of a Pfi zerBioNTech

or Moderna vaccine at least six months ago are eligible for a booster shot

Advisers to the CDC also rec-ommended boosters to adults ages 50 and older Prior guidance recommended boosters for all ages 65 and older

Many people 18 to 64 won-dered whether they were quali-fi ed for boosters under prior guidance which permitted them for people that age with medi-cal conditions that increase their risk of serious disease such as obesity or diabetes It also in-cluded people at greater risk due to their professions or living situations

For adults who initially re-ceived the single-dose Johnson amp Johnson vaccine guidance remains unchanged they should receive any one of the authorized COVID-19 boosters two months later

WHICH BOOSTER IS RIGHT

US booster guidance permits individuals to mix and match using the same vaccine as their original series or a diff erent one

All US adults qualify forCOVID-19 boosters which is best

of their choosingAlthough the choices may

seem confusing Dr Monica Gandhi an infectious disease ex-pert at the University of Califor-nia San Francisco tried to break it down simply

ldquoFundamentally you can get whatever you want for your booster except for something very particular Johnson amp John-son should be followed by an mRNA (from Pfi zer or Moderna) periodrdquo

The FDA cleared a second JampJ shot based on data showing increased effi cacy against CO-VID-19 to 94 up from 72 as a single-dose vaccine

But a US-government study of mixed booster shots found people who followed a JampJ shot with an mRNA booster had signifi cantly higher levels of protective antibodies

The mix and match policy gives physicians more leeway to advise patients at risk for certain side eff ects to try a diff erent vac-cine It also allows for the possi-bility that not every pharmacy or doctorrsquos offi ce will carry all three types of boosters

For those who got mRNA vac-cines the evidence suggesting a need for a booster is strongest for older adults who got the Pfi zerBioNTech shots said Dr Paul Offi t an infectious disease expert at the University of Pennsylva-nia and a member of the FDArsquos vaccine advisory panel

For younger individuals ini-tially vaccinated with an mRNA vaccine the decision is more nuanced According to data pre-sented to a CDC vaccine ad-visory panel protection from

the Pfi zerBioNTech vaccine appears to wane more quickly than the Moderna shots but both still do a good job at preventing hospitalization and death

Pfi zerrsquos shot contains 30 mi-crograms of vaccine and so does its booster Modernarsquos origi-nal shots were 100-microgram doses but the booster is ap-proved as a half dose It is not yet known whether Modernarsquos lower-dose booster will have the same durability as the original shots

FILE PHOTO A woman receives the Pfi zer-BioNTech coronavirus disease(COVID-19) vaccine as a booster dose at Skippack Pharmacy in Schwenksville Pennsylvania US on August 14 2021

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18HEALTH amp SCIENCE


By David Shepardson

WASHINGTON - The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the State Department on Monday advised against travel to Germany and Denmark because of a rising number of COVID-19 cases in those countries

The CDC elevated its trav-el recommendation to ldquoLevel Four Very Highrdquo for the two European countries telling Americans they should avoid

travel there while the State De-partment issued parallel ldquoDo Not Travelrdquo advisories for both countries

The CDC currently lists about 75 destinations worldwide at Level Four with many Euro-pean countries on the list includ-ing Austria Britain Belgium Greece Norway Switzerland Romania Ireland and the Czech Republic

Germanyrsquos Chancellor Angela Merkel told leaders of her con-servative party that measures

being taken to stop the spread of the coronavirus in Europersquos big-gest economy were insufficient and that stronger action needed to be taken Reuters reported on Monday

Case numbers in Germany have been soaring especially among the elderly whose first two shots of COVID-19 vac-cine were at the start of the year and among children who are not eligible for inoculation

Earlier this month the World Health Organization (WHO) said European countries must work harder to prevent the

coronavirus spreading fur-ther as deaths and new cases surge

Current transmission rates in 53 European countries are of ldquograve concernrdquo and new cases are nearing record levels exac-erbated by the more transmis-sible Delta variant of the virus the WHOrsquos Hans Kluge warned ldquoWe must change our tactics from reacting to surges of COV-ID-19 to preventing them from happening in the first placerdquo he said

Germany has already decid-ed to limit large parts of pub-

lic life in areas where hospi-tals are filling with COVID-19 patients

Neighboring Austria on Mon-day imposed a full COVID-19 lockdown after announcing some renewed restrictions last week German acting Health Minister Jens Spahn warned last Friday that Germany may follow

The CDC separately low-ered its COVID-19 travel advi-sory from Level Four to ldquoLevel Three Lowrdquo for Israel Aruba the US Virgin Islands Curacao and Guadeloupe

US issues lsquoDo Not Travelrsquo COVID-19 warning for Germany Denmark

Passengers check in for Delta Airlines flights and make their way through a TSA security checkpoint ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday and amid the corona-virus disease (COVID-19) pandemic at Logan International Airport in Boston Massachusetts US on November 22 2021

US not heading toward COVID lockdown White House says

By Ahmed Aboulenein and David Shepardson

WASHINGTON - The United States does not need to impose a lockdown or shut down its econ-omy to curb the spread of CO-VID-19 and will rely on other tools White House COVID-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients said on Monday

ldquoWe are not headed in that direction We have the tools to accelerate the path out of this pandemic widely available vaccinations booster shots kid shots therapeuticsrdquo Zients told reporters at a White House briefing

ldquoWe can curb the spread of the virus without having to in any way shut down our economyrdquo

US regulators expanded eligibility for booster shots of

COVID-19 vaccines to all adults last Friday and 3 million peo-ple received them since Zients said

ldquoIn fact just across last Friday Saturday and Sunday we got 3 million booster shots into arms A million booster shots per dayrdquo he said ldquoDonrsquot delay get your booster shot so you can have enhanced protection for COVID as we head into the winterrdquo

Separately White House press secretary Jen Psaki said US health officials are not currently recommending lockdowns or economic restrictions to curb rising COVID-19 cases

Europe is once again the epi-center of the global pandemic with Austria reimposing full lockdown riots breaking out in cities across the Netherlands

over a partial lockdown and many other countries imposing restrictions

The current seven-day aver-age of COVID-19 cases in the United States rose 18 from last weekrsquos average to 92800 per day US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said at the briefing

US hospitalizations rose 6 to an average of 5600 per day and average daily deaths are about 1000 per day she said Around 47 million eli-gible American adults and over 12 million teenagers are still not fully vaccinated Walensky added

As of Sunday COVID-19 had killed 776188 people in the United States according to a Reuters tally

Pfizer sues departing employee it says stole COVID-19 vaccine secrets

By Jonathan Stempel

Pfizer Inc has sued a longtime employee for allegedly steal-ing ldquoscoresrdquo of confidential documents including some re-lated to its COVID-19 vaccine as she prepared to jump to a competitor

In a complaint filed on Tues-day in San Diego federal court Pfizer said Chun Xiao Li breached her confidential-ity agreement by uploading more than 12000 files without permission to her personal ac-counts and devices from her company-issued laptop

The alleged materials include a Sept 24 ldquoplaybookrdquo contain-ing internal assessments and recommendations about the PfizerBioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Pfizerrsquos relationship with its German vaccine part-ner and presentations related to cancer antibodies

Pfizer said Li an associate di-rector of statistics tried repeat-edly to cover her tracks even providing a ldquodecoyrdquo laptop to fool it into thinking what she did with the files

Li ldquohas misled Pfizer about

what she took how she took it when and why she did it and where those files (and possi-bly others) can be foundrdquo the New York-based drugmaker said

Pfizer said Li is resigning af-ter 15 years at the company and appears to have an offer to join Xencor Inc a California clinical-stage company focus-ing on treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases on Nov 29

Li could not immediately be reached for comment through her LinkedIn account Xencor is not a defendant in the lawsuit and declined to comment

Pfizer said competitors have been trying to recruit its em-ployees ldquorelentlessly especially during 2021rdquo

In an order late on Tuesday US District Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo temporarily blocked Li from using Pfizerrsquos trade se-crets and said the companyrsquos lawyers can review accounts and devices where she might have stored them

The judge scheduled a Dec 9 hearing to consider a longer injunction

COVID-19 cases surge 23 in Americas mostly in North America says health agency

BRASILIA - New COVID-19 cases have jumped 23 in the Americas in the last week most-ly in North America where both the United States and Canada are reporting increasing infection rates the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on Wednesday warning that the re-gion might be facing a relapse as in Europe

Canadarsquos Yukon and North-west territories saw a two- to three-fold increase in new infec-tions over the last week it said

In Central America by con-trast there has been a 37 re-duction in new infections In South America nearly every country except Brazil Suriname and Venezuela is reporting in-creasing COVID-19 incidence The biggest jumps were in Ec-uador and Paraguay PAHO said

Cases surged 400 in Bo-liviarsquos Santa Cruz department

after recent strikes and protests prevented people from access-ing COVID-19 vaccination and testing sites the health agency said

ldquoEven though cases have dropped significantly over the last few months COVID trans-mission is still active across our region so every time we lower our guard the virus gains momentumrdquo PAHO Director Carissa Etienne said

Etienne warned that the expe-rience of Europe where many

countries have reported record numbers of new cases in the last few weeks could be a window into the future for the Americas

While 51 of people in Latin America and the Caribbean have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 there are 19 coun-tries where vaccination coverage is below 40 of the population

PAHO said case surges are mainly in densely populated ar-eas where preventive measures have been lifted or relaxed

With the approaching holiday season and summer vacations in the Southern Hemisphere Eti-enne urged people to continue using masks and maintaining social distancing

ldquoOur region witnessed a large jump in new cases following last yearrsquos holiday season and it took months for countries to reduce the incidence of new casesrdquo she said


HEALTH amp SCIENCEIndia BulletinSaturday November 27 2021

By David Shepardson

WASHINGTON - The White House confirmed on Monday that more than 90 of the 35 million federal employees cov-ered by a presidential COVID-19 vaccine mandate had received at least one dose ahead of a Monday deadline

In total the administration has deemed that 95 of federal workers have complied with its requirements in that they have either been vaccinated are com-pleting vaccinations or have a pending religious or medical exemption request the White House said

Officials declined to disclose the total number of fully vacci-nated federal employees but said the ldquovast majorityrdquo of the 90 had received both doses

White House officials on Mon-day confirmed the figures first reported by Reuters

The figures suggest relatively high vaccination rates for federal employees compared with the US population as a whole and underscore the Biden administra-tionrsquos effort to get every Ameri-can inoculated in a drive to bring COVID-19 under control

Officials said the final numbers would change as employees con-tinue to submit documentation

90 of US federal employees have received at least one COVID-19 dose says White House

until the deadline later on Mon-day and as all employee sub-missions may not yet have been processed The figures suggest that potentially 175000 federal employees may not be vaccinat-ed and are not yet in compliance with the rules

The administration has repeat-edly said that it will not immedi-ately seek to suspend or fire un-vaccinated employees Officials said the fact that thousands of employees had not yet complied would not affect holiday travel or government services

ldquoAlready 95 of (US gov-ernment) employees are in com-pliance with the presidentrsquos vax requirement There are no disrup-

tions related to the requirementrdquo White House spokesman Kevin Munoz said on Twitter

White House COVID-19 re-sponse coordinator Jeff Zients said 99 of employees at the Federal Aviation Administration nearly 98 of Customs and Bor-der Protection and 93 of Trans-portation Security Administra-tion employees are in compliance with the vaccine and exemption requirements

ldquoLooking at the federal work-force vaccination data makes one thing obvious Vaccination requirements workrdquo Zients said

Zients added that 99 of em-ployees at the FBI 98 at the In-ternal Revenue Service and 99 of employees in the White House Executive Office of the President are in compliance

On Nov 1 the Pentagon said 97 of the active-duty force had received at least one COVID-19 dose

lsquoEDUCATION AND COUNSELINGrsquo

The vaccine mandate imposed by President Joe Biden in Sep-tember does not cover federal employees in the judicial and legislative branches or the US

Postal ServiceThe White House has told

agencies that for federal employ-ees not in compliance agencies should begin ldquoa brief period of education and counselingrdquo to last five days If employees do not ldquodemonstrate progress toward becoming fully vaccinatedrdquo that ldquoshould be followed by a short suspensionrdquo of no more than 14 days If an employee gets a first shot agencies are directed to halt any disciplinary action

Officials are confident that as the disciplinary pro-cess begins a rising number of federal employees will get vaccinated

On Wednesday the White House Office of Management and Budget will release agency-by-agency data on vaccinated employeesand those in compli-ance with the rules from 24 major federal agencies like the Defense Department Transportation De-partment Health and Human Services and others More gran-ular data will be released in the following week

Employees who have an ex-emption request denied have two weeks to get their first shot and a further six weeks to get their second

The White House confirmed on Monday that more than 90 of the 35 million federal employees covered by a presidential COVID-19 vaccine mandate had received at least one dose ahead of a Monday deadline

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Marines on track for worst vaccination record in US military

By Ahmed Aboulenein

WASHINGTON - The US Marine Corps is set to have the worst vaccination record among military branches with thou-sands of active-duty personnel set to miss the servicersquos Nov 28 deadline to be fully inoculated

About 91 of active person-nel are fully vaccinated and 94 partially vaccinated as of Wednesday according to a Ma-rine Corps statement on Sunday

Service members are consid-ered fully vaccinated 14 days after getting a single Johnson amp Johnson shot or 14 days after their second dose of Pfizer or Moderna vaccine -- meaning it is too late for many to complete the vaccination process by the deadline

The Navy has the highest vac-cination rate at 967 of active-duty personnel fully vaccinated followed by the Air Force at 964 An Army spokesperson

said 92 of active-duty soldiers were fully vaccinated The Army deadline is Dec 15 for active duty and June 30 for the National Guard

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth warned on Tuesday that soldiers including National Guard members who refuse to get vaccinated would not have their service renewed unless they have an approved exemption according to a memo seen by Reuters

Her warnings come as Okla-homa Governor Kevin Stitt a Republican defied the fed-eral mandate and said he would not require National Guard members in his state to get vaccinated

Other Republicans opposing vaccine mandates include Sena-tor Ted Cruz who on Saturday responded to Wormuthrsquos memo by tweeting ldquoBiden admin per-secuting our soldiers This is not good for Americardquo

FILE PHOTO US President Joe Biden looks on as he hands challenge coins to the members of the US Marine Corps Honor Guard before boarding Air Force One at Dover Air Force Base in Dover Delaware US on August 29 2021

By Ian Ransom

New Zealand open their World Test Championship defence against India this week with an air of fatigue after a long road trip and the emotional letdown of the T20 World Cup

Whitewashed 3-0 by India in a T20 series on the heels of their World Cup final defeat by Australia the lsquoBlack Capsrsquo have lost that winning feeling as they head into the first test in Kanpur on Thursday against an opponent bent on revenge

New Zealand may have gold-en memories of beating India in Southampton to claim the inau-gural WTC trophy in June but the neutral territory of the Rose Bowl can hardly seem further away

Without pace spearhead Trent Boult and all-rounder Colin de Grandhomme New Zealand will face the same opponents where they have never won a test series let alone a test since the 198889 tour

ldquoYou realise the enormity of the challenge aheadrdquo head coach Gary Stead told reporters on Tuesday

ldquoIndia are a fantastic side Theyrsquove got world class spinners in their environment here as well

ldquo(They are) one of the great challenges on the test calendar Itrsquos something we havenrsquot done for a while we havenrsquot been here since 2016 but wersquore cer-tainly looking forward to whatrsquos aheadrdquo

New Zealand will have only two training sessions as a full squad before Thursday with the T20 players having rejoined the camp on Monday following the defeat in Kolkata

A number of players are well short of match fitness including batsman Ross Taylor and pace-man Neil Wagner

Selectors have yet to decide who will replace batsman Devon Conway for the first test after he broke his hand punching his bat at the World Cup

ldquoWersquore as prepared as we can be in this COVID worldrdquo said Stead

ldquoIndia are also coming off a T20 series Hopefully for us they are in a similar boat to what we are as wellrdquo

New Zealandrsquos four-prong pace attack reigned supreme in the last COVID-affected WTC cycle but the Black Caps will be

unable to fall back on their tra-ditional strengths in Kanpur and Mumbai

They will hope left-arm spin-ner Ajaz Patel and offspinner Will Somerville can pressure Indiarsquos powerful batting lineup with all-rounder Mitch Santner also likely to be on hand with left-arm spin

Stead acknowledged New Zea-

land would need to manage some players carefully after their long stint on the road but said there was little time to dwell on things

ldquoIn two weeks wersquoll be on a plane home things will happen really quickly for usrdquo he said ldquoSo itrsquos really important that we get focused on the job and the challenge thatrsquos in front of usrdquo

New Zealand ponder lsquoenormityrsquo of India challenge

New Zealandrsquos Kane Williamson celebrates with the trophy after winning the final to become the ICC World Test Champions

India opener Rahul ruled out of New Zealand tests with thigh strain

MUMBAI - India already missing a host of top names suf-fered a big blow ahead of their opening test against New Zea-land at home when batter KL Rahul was ruled out of the two-match series with a thigh injury

India skipper Virat Kohli has decided to skip the first of the two tests and batter Rohit Sharma wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant and fast bowlers Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami were given rest for the entire series

Opener Rahul suffered a mus-cle strain on his left thigh the In-dian cricket board (BCCI) said in a statement on Tuesday

ldquoHe will now undergo rehabili-

tation at NCA (National Cricket Academy) in preparation for the series against South Africa sched-uled next monthrdquo the BCCI said

The selectors added batter Suryakumar Yadav who has

played white-ball cricket for India but yet to make his test debut to the squad as Rahulrsquos replacement

The first test begins at Kanpur on Thursday

KL Rahul celebrates during a match

Under-strength India still tough ask for visiting New Zealand

By Sudipto Ganguly

MUMBAI - Indiarsquos fringe play-ers will have a chance to impress in the absence of big names when the hosts kick off their two-match series against inaugural World Test Championship winners New Zealand at Kanpur on Thursday

The series will be the first in the longest format between the two sides since they met in the final of the WTC but the setting and the personnel at Green Park will be starkly different from that June contest in Southampton

It will also be Indiarsquos first test series under head coach Ra-hul Dravid a batting great who played 164 tests and 344 one-dayers between 1996 and 2012 and accumulated more than 10000 runs in both formats

Dravid succeeded Ravi Shastri after the Twenty20 World Cup and has already tasted success against New Zealand during the three-match T20 series which his team won 3-0

The hosts will be without cap-tain and batting mainstay Virat Kohli who decided to skip the first of the two tests while bat-ter Rohit Sharma wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant and fast bowlers

Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami will miss both matches

Batter KL Rahul was also ruled out on Tuesday due to a left thigh muscle strain and replaced by Suryakumar Yadav

The side will be led by Ajinkya Rahane in Kanpur with Kohli re-turning at the helm for the second and final contest in Mumbai from Dec 3

New Zealand will also be miss-ing first-choice players in pace spearhead Trent Boult and all-rounder Colin de Grandhomme and will have their task cut out against the formidable Indian spinners in their own backyard

The touring side will also not find much confidence from their past record in India where they have never won a test series

let alone a test match since the 198889 tour

ldquoTheyrsquore one of the great chal-lenges on the test calendarrdquo New Zealand head coach Gary Stead told reporters on Tuesday

ldquoItrsquos something we havenrsquot done for a while we havenrsquot been here since 2016 but wersquore cer-tainly looking forward to whatrsquos aheadrdquo

While the Indian batting and fast bowling department would need reinforcements in the ab-sence of key players the hosts have their first-choice spinners in Ravichandran Ashwin Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel available

In the absence of Pant the ex-perienced Wriddhiman Saha is expected to don the wicketkeep-ing gloves

Former Indian cricket captain Rahul Dravid (R) speaks to Malaysian U-16 cricketers during a cricket clinic in Kuala Lumpur June 27 2012

India sweep T20 series against New Zealand to kick off Dravid era

NEW DELHI - India romped to a 73-run victory over New Zealand in their third and final Twenty20 International in Kolkata on Sunday as head coach Rahul Dravid began his tenure with a 3-0 series sweep

Home captain Rohit Sharma smashed 56 off 31 balls to fire the hosts to a strong 184-7 in the dead rubber at Eden Gardens

Martin Guptill made a breezy 51 but New Zealand runners-up at the recent Twenty20 World Cup were all out for 111 in the 18th over

ldquoItrsquos nice to start wellrdquo Dravid who inherited the coaching reins from Ravi Shastri after the World Cup told the official broadcasters

ldquoBut we have to be realistic about this win and keep our feet on the groundrdquo

ldquoItrsquos been really good to see some of the younger guys come throughrdquo

Opting to bat India plundered 69 runs off the first six overs and after a mid-innings blip 50 off the last five to post a strong total

Having taken over as Indiarsquos 20-overs captain after Virat Kohli relinquished the role following the World Cup Rohit combined with Ishan Kishan (29) to give India a flying start

Mitchell Santner (3-27) dis-missed Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav in the same over and then Ish Sodhi took a sharp return catch from Rohit to bring some relief for the tourists

India accelerated in the last five overs with Deepak Chahar pro-viding the late assault with 21 off eight balls

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By Mayank Bhardwaj and Rajendra Jadhav

GHAZIABAD - In a surprise announcement last Friday Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he would repeal agriculture laws that farmers have been pro-testing against for more than a year sparking celebrations for what farmers called a hard-fought victory

Modirsquos decision is a signifi cant climb-down for the combative leader and comes as state elections in politically important grain-belt

states loomThe legislation - three laws in-

troduced in September last year - was aimed at deregulating the sector allowing farmers to sell produce to buyers beyond govern-ment-regulated wholesale markets where growers are assured of a minimum price

Farmers fearing the reform would cut the prices they get for their crops staged nationwide protests that drew in activists and celebrities from India and beyond including climate activist Greta Thunberg and pop singer Rihanna

ldquoToday I have come to tell you the whole country that we have decided to withdraw all three ag-ricultural lawsrdquo Modi said in an address to the nation

ldquoI urge farmers to return to their homes their farms and their fami-lies and I also request them to start afreshrdquo

The government would repeal the laws in the new session of parliament starting this month he said

The concession on laws the government had said were es-sential to tackle chronic wastage and ineffi ciencies comes ahead of elections early next year in Uttar Pradesh (UP) Indiarsquos most populous state and long a key po-litical battleground and two other northern states with large rural populations

Modirsquos capitulation leaves un-resolved a complex system of farm subsidies and price supports that critics say the government cannot aff ord

It could also raise questions for investors about how economic re-forms risk being undermined by political pressures

Protesting farmers who have been camped out in their thou-sands by main roads around the capital New Delhi celebrated

Modirsquos back-trackldquoDespite a lot of diffi culties we

have been here for nearly a year and today our sacrifi ce fi nally paid off rdquo said Ranjit Kumar a 36-year-old farmer at Ghazipur a major protest site in Uttar Pradesh

Jubilant farmers handed out sweets in celebration and chanted ldquohail the farmerrdquo and ldquolong live farmersrsquo movementrdquo

Rakesh Tikait a farmersrsquo group leader said the protests would only be called off when parliament repealed the laws

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Modirsquos Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government said last year there was no question of repealing the laws It attempted to break the impasse by off ering to water down the legislation but protracted negotiations failed

The protests took a violent turn on Jan 26 Indiarsquos Repub-lic Day when farmers over-whelmed police and stormed the historic Red Fort in New Delhi after tearing down barricades and driving tractors through roadblocks

One protester was killed and scores of farmers and policemen were injured

Farmers say the changes would make them vulnerable to compe-tition from big business and they could eventually lose price sup-port for staples such as wheat and rice

The government says reform of the sector which accounts for about 15 of the $27 trillion economy would have meant new opportunities and better prices for farmers

Modi announced the scrapping of the laws in a speech mark-ing the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak the founder of Sikhism Many of the protesting farmers are Sikh

He acknowledged that the gov-ernment had failed to win the argument

The farmers are also calling for minimum support prices for all of their crops not just rice and wheat a new demand that has gained traction among farmers across the country

Some agriculture experts said Modirsquos reversal was unfortunate because the reforms would have brought new technology and investment

ldquoItrsquos a blow to Indiarsquos agri-culturerdquo said Sandip Das a New Delhi-based researcher and agricultural policy analyst

Modi backs down on farm reforms in surprise victory for protesters

Farmers feed each other sweets and celebrate as they pose for pictures after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that he will repeal the contro-versial farm laws at the Ghazipur farmers protest site near Delhi-UP border India on November 19 2021

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and Emraan Hashmi


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and Emraan Hashmi


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and Emraan Hashmi


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Dhamaka

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CAR$












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Roommate Needed


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Roommate Needed


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NATRAJ TRAVEL INC



and is good in Math

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HELP WANTED













CA$HFOR

CAR$












MARKET PLACE



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NEWLOCATION


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NANNY WANTED








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HELP WANTED






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MARKET PLACE


847-674-7941



Beautiful area

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Roommate Needed


Call




NATRAJ TRAVEL INC



and is good in Math

Call 845-300-5335

HELP WANTED













CA$HFOR

CAR$












MARKET PLACE



Sunday Closed









NEWLOCATION


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V17N26-04

V17N26-05

V17N26-06

V17N26-07

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V17N26-16

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V17N26-18

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V17N26-21

V17N26-22

V17N26-23

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847-674-7941



Beautiful area

Call 918-428-9184 or 773-425-4049

Roommate Needed


Call




NATRAJ TRAVEL INC



and is good in Math

Call 845-300-5335

HELP WANTED













CA$HFOR

CAR$












MARKET PLACE



Sunday Closed









NEWLOCATION


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V17N26-06

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