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Prime Minister NarendraModi on Tuesday laid the

foundation stone for the RajaMahendra Pratap Singh StateUniversity and reviewed theprogress of work on the Aligarhnode of Uttar Pradesh defensecorridor, calling it a “big day”and sounding the bugle for the2022 State Assembly polls.

Locks manufactured inAligarh used to secure housesand now the defence equip-ment made in Aligarh willsecure the nation’s borders, hesaid.

In his 40-minute address,apart from introducing theyouth to Raja Mahendra PratapSingh, Modi also highlightedthe importance of Aligarh.

Praising the work of Yogi

Adityanath, he said the ChiefMinister has created an envi-ronment of investment in UP,wooing a large number ofinvestors to the State.

He said the YogiGovernment has given a newidentity to the locks and hard-ware industry of Aligarh.

Industries and SMSEs will getspecial benefits from this, andin the next few years �900 crorewill be invested, he said.

UP defense corridor isbringing huge investment andemployment opportunities.This happens when the neces-sary environment for invest-

ment is created, the PM added.Calling it a big day for UP,

Modi said Aligarh, which wasknown to manufacture locksfor securing houses will nowplay an important role in secur-ing the boundaries of India bymanufacturing defence equipment.

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As the Covid-19 pandemic-induced lockdowns

wreaked havoc on the econo-my and livelihoods, an addi-

tional 31 million people werepushed into extreme poverty in2020 compared to 2019,according to a report that high-lighted stark disparities causedby the crisis worldwide.

The annual GoalkeepersReport, co-authored by Bill

Gates and Melinda FrenchGates for their foundation,however, noted that while 90per cent of advancedeconomies will regain pre-pan-demic per capita income levelsby next year, only a third of lowand middle income economiesare expected to do so. Hence,there is a need for investmentin local partners to strengthenthe capacity of researchers andmanufacturers in lower-incomecountries to create the vaccines

and medicines they need, thereport said.

“(The past year) has rein-forced our belief that progressis possible but not inevitable,”wrote the co-chairs. “If we canexpand upon the best of whatwe’ve seen these past 18months, we can finally put thepandemic behind us and onceagain accelerate progress inaddressing fundamental issueslike health, hunger, and climatechange,” they wrote.

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The Vigilance police onTuesday conducted simul-

taneous searches on the prop-erties of Kabita Mathan,Anganwadi Worker ofKoradakanta AnganwadiCentre in Bhubaneswar, onthe allegation of possession ofassets disproportionate to herknown sources of income.

The raids were conductedat six places in Khordha,Kendrapada and Jagatsinghpurdistricts by Vigilance teamscomprising 10 DSPs, fiveInspectors and other staffs.

Four buildings, including afour-storied one, a three-sto-ried one and two double-sto-ried ones, at Bhubaneswar, 14

plots of land including 10 atBhubaneswar, three atTalakusuma in Jagatsinghpurand one at Balianta in Khordhadistrict were found.

Besides, a four-wheeler,three two-wheelers, insurancedeposits of over Rs 2.2 lakh,gold ornaments weighing 212grams worth over Rs 6.36 lakhand other movable and immov-able properties, all totallingover Rs 4 crore, were unearthedtill last reports came in.

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Sa Vidya Ya Bimuktaye" meaning that education is a weaponthat can be used to free one from

enslavement. To that end, the Odisha StateOpen University (OSOU) has establishedits 82nd study centre in the Jharapada jailin Bhubaneswar.

OSOU Vice-Chancellor Prof AK DasMohapatra and DG (Prisons) SKUpaddhyay inaugurated the study centrein the jail premises on Tuesday. He saidthe OSOU is working with the motto of reaching the unreachedwith special attention to the less privileged, including jail inmates.Upadhyay invited all the jail inmates to get enrolled as learnersas well as the counsellors those who have qualifications.

Meanwhile 15 inmates have enrolled in various courses ofthe university at the study centre.

The OSOU is providing free education to the circle jailinmates at Choudwar, Sambalpur, Brahmapur and Jharpada. Infuture, it would open study centres in the other special and cir-cle jails, said Dr Das Mohapatra.

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Like last year, the BalubazarPuja Committee this year

too has approached the OrissaHigh Court challenging theState Government’s restrictionon the height of GoddessDurga’s idols for the ensuing

Dusshera festival next month.Terming the Government’s

restriction on the idol size as“arbitrary”, the committeethrough its president SuryakantSangneria has appealed to theHigh Court to direct theGovernment to withdraw thecontroversial norm.

Notably, the Governmenton August 9 announced therestrictions, among others, lim-iting the height of all idols atthe puja pandals across theState to four feet or less in viewof the prevailing pandemic.

The Government again thismonth also refused to relax the

restrictions for the puja whena delegation of puja committeesof Cuttack city met the ChiefSecretary and the Special ReliefCommissioner atBhubaneswar.

Several puja committeessupported the BJP-calledCuttack Bandh on Mondayand once again appealed to theGovernment to lift the restric-tion on idol size.

While the Mahanagar PujaCommittee and the City PeaceCommittee have decided toappeal to the Chief Ministeronce again on September 16,the Balubazar Puja Committee, which had beensporting Durga idol of eightfeet for over 500 years, hasapproached the High Court toallow it maintain its age-old tra-dition.

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Bhubaneswar on Tuesdayregistered 163 Covid-19

cases. With this, the total tallyin the State capital cityincreased to 1,09,791.

Notably, on Monday, 174cases had been detected in thecity. Out of the new cases, 131were local contacts and 32from quarantine. The active

cases stood at 3,494.Two more patients suc-

cumbed to the disease in thecity, pushing the total death tollto 1,011. However, 142 morepatients recovered from the dis-ease, increasing the total recov-eries to 1,05, 265.

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The State Governmentshould take appropriate

steps for a smooth conductof the Durga Puja keeping inmind the emotions of the res-idents of Cuttack, said UnionMinister DharmendraPradhan in a tweet onTuesday.

The festivities in the his-

torical city of Cuttack have aspecial place. But a few daysago, a dispute over the obser-vance of Durga Puja has erupt-ed. Discussions and agitationsover the height of idols andother matters have cropped up,Pradhan pointed out.

The Cuttack Sahi, Pujaand Peace Committees, intel-lectuals, social and culturalorganisations are expressingdifferent opinions. The StateGovernment would seriouslyconsider this and hold dis-cussions with different stake-holders keeping in mind theemotions of the Cuttack peo-

ple, hoped he.The Covid-19 pandemic

situation has improved slight-ly. Keeping in view the Covidrestrictions, discussionsshould be held as to how thefestivities can be carried outin a disciplined manner, hesaid.

“I came to know that aportion of the ceiling of theCuttack Chandi Temple’sDarshan Mandap fell off dueto incessant rains. I hope theState Government would takesteps for the safety and preser-vation of the temple,” Pradhanfurther tweeted.

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The State on Tuesday regis-tered 428 Covid-19 cases in

22 districts and the State pool,with which thetotal tally rose to10,17,261.

Of the newcases, 55 caseswere detected inthe 0 to 18 year age group.

In the last 24 hours, 48,086samples were tested and the testpositivity rate (TPR) was 0.89per cent. The active cases stoodat 6,290.

Khordha district reportedthe day’s highest 179 cases fol-lowed by Cuttack with 46,Jagatsinghpur 20, Mayurbhanjand Baleswar 18 each and Puri15.

The district which report-ed below-10 cases wereSambalpur nine, Nayagarheight, Sundargarh six, Angulfive, Ganjam, Rayagada,Nuapada and Deogarh foureach, Bargarh three andGajapati one.

Besides, 42 cases werereported from the State pool.

The State reported fourmore deaths, with which thetotal toll mounted to 8,108.

Khordha district reportedtwo deaths and Puri andCuttack one each.

However, 793 personsrecovered on the day, increas-ing the total recoveries to10,03,603.

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In a major success in the crackdown againstillegal narcotics trade in the State, the

Special Task Force (STF) of the CrimeBranch seized more than one kg of brownsugar near Rasulgarh in Bhubaneswar andarrested two inter-State drug peddlers in thisconnection on Monday.

The market value of the seized contra-band is more than Rs 1 crore.

The arrested peddlers were identified asRakibul Laskar (30) and Sudhanya Gayen(44), both natives of West Bengal.

On the basis of intelligence inputs, a raidwas conducted by an STF team, whichzeroed down on the drug peddlers whilethey were striking a deal.

During search, brown sugar weighing1.025 kg and other incriminating materialswere recovered and seized from the pos-session of the duo. As they could not pro-

duce any valid documents in support of pos-session of the contraband, the accused werearrested. They were forwarded to the courtof Bhubaneswar District and Sessions Judge.A case under Section 21(c)/29 of the NDPSAct has been registered against the two.

During preliminary investigation, WestBengal link as well as inter-State ramifica-tion has been established. Efforts were onto nab others involved in the racket, the STFsaid.

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With more resources avail-able from the State’s Own

Revenue sources, spending bythe Government departmentshas increased and utilisation ofthe Annual Budget has risen.

While the Department ofFinance is keeping a tab on thespending on various sectors,stress is on the expenditures inthe sectors like social, infra-structure and other develop-ment areas.

While the Annual BudgetEstimate is Rs 1,45,350 crore,the total expenditure during thefirst five months of the year of2021-22 touched Rs 40,292crore. This is much more thanthe corresponding period ofprevious year, officials pointedout.

While the expenditure ason August 31, 2020 was Rs33,770 crore, the Governmenthas spent Rs 6,522 crore moreduring the corresponding peri-od of 2021-22.

The expenditure as on July31, 2021 was Rs 32,776 crore;and during the month ofAugust more than Rs 7,500crore was spent.

Notably, the Budget utili-sation has gone up to 27.72%as compared to 23.9% during2020-21. Similarly, programmeexpenditure during April-August 2021 touched Rs 18,827

crore compared to Rs 14,715crore spent during the corre-sponding period previous year.

The Budget utilisation onprogramme expenditure was24.43% compared to 19.34%during 2020-21.

The spending by theDepartments of Food, Suppliesand Consumer Welfare,Cooperation and DisasterManagement tops the list ofdepartments, the funds beingmostly spent on welfareschemes.

Food security is one of theprime areas of the Governmentrequiring a lot of spending; so,spending by the Food Suppliesand Consumer WelfareDepartment was 43.70%.

The spending in the infra-structure sector was a bit slowdue to various reasons, includ-

ing rainy season. As morefunds are provided in this sec-tor, it is expected that the paceof spending would be acceler-ated.

However, the programmeexpenditure during the first fivemonths of 2021-22 has gone upcompared to the correspondingperiod of 2020-21.

Now stress is being givenfor more spending under theCAPEX programme as thelevel of spending in this sectorrequires improvement, offi-cials admit.

While continuous moni-toring of spending is beingdone, more field visits areneeded to be undertaken bysenior officials to boost spend-ing at the field level, opineexperts in Government spending.

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Over 19.53 lakh people of2,789 villages in 53 blocks

and 14 Urban Local Bodies(ULBs) of 11 districts havebeen affected due to the inces-sant heavy rains since Sunday,said the office of the SpecialRelief Commissioner (SRC).

The districts are Kalahandi,Kandhamal, Koraput, Cuttack,Jajpur, Puri, Jagatsinghpur,Kendrapada, Dhenkanal,Khordha and Angul.

SRC Pradeep Jena said thatwhile the highest quantum ofrainfall of 500 mm was report-ed from three blocks in Puridistrict, Nabarangpur districthad the lowest amount of rain-fall.

The Government said ithas evacuated 3,819 personsfrom low-lying areas in fiveaffected districts while 265houses have been damaged innine districts.

Highest 11.36 lakh peoplehave been affected in

Jagatsinghpur district followedby 7.79 lakh in Kendrapada,over 15,000 in Puri, 10,000 inKandhamal, 8,000 in Jajpurand 2,500 in Cuttack.

As per the report, 1,590persons have been evacuated inJagatsinghpur followed by Puri(1,584), Kendrapada (532),Cuttack (106) and Kandhamal(7). Major rivers in the Sate arein spate following the rains.The water level in theMahanadi at Naraj, Devi(Alipingal), Ib (Sundargarh),Kushabhadra (Nimapada),Brahamani (Panposh andJenapur), Baitarani (Anandpurand Akhuapada),Subarnarekha (Rajghat),Vansadhara (Gunupur) andRushikulya at Purusottampurwere rising.

The Jalaka river was flow-ing at 05.60 metres at Mahtaniagainst the danger level of05.50 metres. The WaterResources department has can-celled leaves of all employees inview of the heavy rains.

However, the SRC deniedany possibility of flood situa-tion in the State.

All the schools in Puri,Khordha, Cuttack,Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapada,Dhenkanal, Nayagarh,Sambalpur, Deogarh, Angul,Subarnapur and Bargarh dis-tricts were closed for two dayson September 13 and 14.

Meanwhile, the IndiaMeteorological Department(IMD) said the deep depressionover north coastal Odishamoved further west-north-westwards and lay centred closeto Keonjhar.

It is very likely to contin-ue to move west-northwest-wards across northChhattisgarh and MadhyaPradesh during next 48 hoursand weaken into a depressionduring subsequent 12 hours,the IMD added.

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In a major success in the fight against Leftwingextremism, the Odisha police arrested a top

Maoist leader Dubashi Sankar from theBoipariguda police station area in Koraput dis-trict on Monday.

"Dubashi Sankar, who was carrying a cashreward of Rs 20 lakh on his head, was arrestedyesterday during a joint operation by theSpecial Operation Group (SOG) and DistrictVoluntary Force (DVF) of the Odisha Police andthe Border Security Force (BSF), DGP Abhaysaid on Tuesday.

He was nabbed from under the Baiparigudapolice station when he was conspiring to carryout violent activities with the help of other mem-bers, the DGP said.

"An Insas rifle, 10 rounds of ammunitionand other articles were recovered from the pos-session of Shankar. the Koraput police forwardedhim to court today," he added.

He said Shankar is the highest-rankingMaoist to be arrested or neutralised in the past20 years by the Odisha Police. He was a mem-ber of the Andhra-Odisha Special ZonalCommittee and involved in a series of violentattacks on security forces and killing of civiliansin Koraput, Malkangiri in Odisha and

Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh."We suspect his involvement in the 2009

Maoist ambush in Damanjodi in which nineCISF jawans were martyred. He was alsoinvolved in Govindpalli landmine blast in 2010in which 11 personnel of Odisha police werekilled. Besides, he was part of Janiguda ambushunder Chitrakonda in which four BSF person-nel were killed," Abhay said.

"We will soon take him on remand for fur-ther questioning about the Maoist organisationand will try to p," he added.

The DGP further said that some otherMaoists who were with Shankar and had fledafter his arrest exchanged fire with the Odishapolice on Tuesday afternoon. While no casual-ties were reported from either side, some armsand ammunition were recovered after the gunbattle.

In another development, a member ofGuma Area Committee surrendered before theDIG SP of Koraput. "He expressed his willing-ness to join the mainstream by shunning vio-lence," the DGP said.

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The general body meeting ofthe Odisha branch of the

Association of Small andMedium Newspapers’Federation (ASMNI) was heldin Bhubaneswar on Monday.

In the meeting presidedover by State president RabiRath, it was decided that thebiannual convention of theorganisation would be held inBhubaneswar on December 25and 26. The election for elect-ing the office-bearers of theorganisation would also beconducted soon.

It was also decided that adelegation would meet theInformation and Public

Relations Department officialsregarding non-issuing of adver-tisements on annual founda-tion day and national days tothe small and medium news-papers. The cooperation of allthe editors was sought to makethe organisation more proac-tive.

Two minutes of silencewas observed for 11 editorswho died in 2020-21.

Among others, convenorAkshay Kumar Patnaik, generalsecretary Jagdish Mishra,nation federation memberPradipta Kumar Parida, vicepresident Rajram Mahapatra,Atanu Kumar Nayak,Chittaranjan Swain and AtanuMishra were present.

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Chief Secretary SCMahapatra on Tuesday

urged Ministry of CoalAdditional Secretary MNagaraju and MahanadiCoalfields Limited (MCL)senior officials to make theMahanadi Medical Science andResearch Institute Hospital atTalcher functional.

Nagaraju informed thatthe construction of the facilityat Talcher has been completed.The MCL has provided Rs 500crore for the 500-bed hospital’sconstruction, equipments and

furniture.The management of the

medical college would be doneby a professional organisation.For this, a bid for expression ofinterest has been issued. Adecision on this would betaken soon, said Nagaraju.

After the hospital becomesfunctional, the people of Angul,Keonjhar, Dhenkanal districtsand nearby areas would getadvanced healthcare services.

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Hundreds of BJP workerswere arrested when they

staged a demonstration protest-

ing against the Chief Minister’svisit to Rourkela on Tuesday.

The party had posed sevenquestions to the CM; but asthere were no answers, the

party workers protested shout-ing slogans against the StateGovernment.

The party expressed strongresentment over the failure oflaw and order mechanism inRourkela city.

Despite the CM’s assuranceto convert the onlyGovernment hospital inRourkela as a district hospital,no step has been taken so farand not a single more bed hasbeen added. The StateGovernment has handed overhundreds of acres of its land toprivate companies throughIDCO. The party alsoexpressed concern over misu-tilisation of DMF fund andITDA grants.

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The kidnapping case ofSwiggy delivery boy

Patitapaban Prusty took amajor turn with police trackinghim in Madhya Pradesh with agirlfriend while they were trav-elling in a train.

While the RailwayProtection Force (RPF) havedetained him and the girl, ateam lead by the Dhauli policestation IIC have left for MadhyaPradesh, to bring them here.The truth behind the incidentwould be unravlelled afterquestioning the two, said cityDCP Umashankar Dash.

But prima facie investiga-tions it has been ascertained theyouth had gone there on hisown and was not kidnapped,said Dash.

During investigation, theDhauli Police found CCTVfootage which showedPatitapaban at theBhubaneswar railway stationand later his mobile numberwas put under surveillanceand he was tracked.

The RPF detained him at arailway station in MadhyaPradesh.

This was contrary to theallegation of his family mem-

bers that he had been kid-napped at Lingipur near Dayariver on the outskirts of the cityon September 11 night.

Police had seized hisfootwear, bag, wallet, T-shirtand a knife from the spot.Moreover, Patitapaban’s wifehad received a voice messagefrom him, in which he washeard saying that he was beingabducted by four drunk youthsin an auto-rickshaw.

It was suspected that hefaked the kidnapping to makehis kin believe that he wasabducted.

The entire incident hasbecome more mysterious asparents of a girl of Balanga areain Puri district have lodged acomplaint with the Gop police

alleging that Patitapaban kid-napped their daughter, a collegestudent.

They also claimed thatPatitapaban had a relationshipwith their daughter before hismarriage. He continued therelationship even after his mar-riage, they said.

Bonding between the twodeveloped while Patitapabanused to come to his maternalaunt’s house near the girl’s res-idence, the complainants said.

Notably, Patitapaban hadmarried Ahalya Parida ofMaliatutha village underRamachandi police station inPuri district, eight months ago.Later, the couple started stay-ing at a rented house in theDhauli area of the city.

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Basing on intelligence inputs,four contractual employees

engaged in the Integrated TestRange (ITR), a unit of DRDO,at Chandipur were appre-hended by the police on thecharge of passing classifiedinformation to foreign agents.

The accused were appre-hended in a Chandipur policestation case under the OfficialSecrets Act by the Baleswarpolice for committing offenceof causing serious harm to thesecurity, sovereignty andintegrity of the nation.

“Interrogation of the fourdetainees and some others isgoing on to unearth more evi-

dence in the case. In this case,we had got credible intelligencethat some persons are wrong-fully and willfully communi-cating the classified defencesecrets to foreign agents,appearing to be Pakistaniagents, being contacted fromvarious ISD phone numbersand in exchange, they were get-ting wrongful monetary bene-fits from them,” an officialpolice release said.

Basing on these inputs,multiple police teams wereformed to apprehend the cul-prits. In the course of raids byBaleswar police, several incrim-inating materials were alsorecovered, it added.

Reports said these employ-ees were engaged as drivers and

generator operators.It may be recalled that a

similar case in Baleswar districtwas earlier registered inChandipur police station inwhich Iswar Behera, a nativeof Kantipur of Mayurbhanjdistrict, a contractual photog-rapher, was apprehended forpassing classified informationregarding the defence estab-lishment(ITR) in 2014 and fol-lowing trial, a sessions courthere convicted him for lifeterm in February 11.

In Behera's case, duringinvestigation it was found thatmoney was transferred to hisaccount through internet bank-ing and money order from various places includingMumbai, Meerut, AjmerAndhra Pradesh, Bihar andAbu Dhabi etc. Behera was intouch with one Asif Ali ofMeerut city, a suspected ISI agent.

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People from cross sections ofthe society and organisa-

tions expressed strong resent-ment over the silence of ChiefSecretary Suresh ChandraMahapatra over the long-standing demand of the peopleof Ganjam for establishment ofan airport at Rangeilunda.

During his recent visit to thedistrict, though Mahapatraspoke on various developmentprojects, he didn't utter a singleword about the airport issue,pointed out these organisations.

They have demanded thatthe State Government acquire1,500 acres of land near

Berhampur for establishmentof a civilian and cargo airport.Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik

had laid foundation-stone atRangeilunda for an airport in2016, they pointed out.

The Odisha DevelopmentForum (ODF) recently organ-ised an awareness programme

and street corner meetingshere and demanded an earlyestablishment of an airport.The programme was attendedby many eminent persons ofthe city.

They argued that the city'simportance for being home topeople from major cities of thecountry and frequent move-ment of people from the city tometros like Delhi, Bombay,Chennai, Kolkata, Bengalure,Visakhapatnam, Hyderabadand Bhubaneswar should beconsidered for establishment ofan airport.

The meeting wasaddressed, among others, byforum ODF vice-presidentBabita Patro, secretarySwarjajya Sahu and seniormembers LaxminarayanPadhee and V Someswar Rao.

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After Malkangiri andKalahandi districts earlier,

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaikon Tuesday launched distribu-tion of smart health cardsunder the Biju Swasthya KalyanYojana (BSKY) to beneficiariesin Sundargarh district.

Despite bad weather con-ditions, the CM attended a spe-cial event organised at the IGHhere and distributed the smarthealth cards.

Twelve Ministers were pre-sent in 17 blocks for distribu-tion of the cards. As many as4,37,333 beneficiaries in thedistrict, including 68,575 inRourkela, availed the cards.

The programme wouldbenefit total 15,09,631 peoplein the district, including2,23,418 in Rourkela alone.

Patnaik reiterated, “TheState’s 4.5 crore people are myfamily and every life is precious

to me. My aim is to ensurehealthcare services to all.”

The CM also inauguratedand laid foundation-stones ofdifferent projects worth Rs580.82 crore in Sundargarhdistrict.

Notably, the Biju SwasthyaKalyan Yojana was launched onAugust 15, 2018 to provide uni-versal health coverage withspecial emphasis on the health

protection of economically vul-nerable families. Through thesmart health card under thehealthcare scheme, each fami-ly can avail treatment cost upto Rs 5 lakh per annum (Rs 10lakh for women members).

All Biju Krushak KalyanYojana card holders, BPL cardholders, AAY card holders andlow-income families are eligi-ble to avail the benefit.

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Incessant rains for last twodays caused havoc in all

eight blocks and two munici-palities in Jagatsinghpur dis-trict.

While many low-lyingareas suffered worst flooding,roads and paddy fields weresubmerged.

The district administra-tion shifted as many as 1,590people from coastal areasbelonging to Erasama,Naugaon, and Balikuda blockstill Monday.

The dist EmergencyDepartment revealed that

about 1,590 people in low-lying villages were shifted tocyclone shelters and dry foodsand medicines were providedto them at the rescue centers.

The district was on redalert since Sunday whichrecorded 120 mm rainfall in thelast 48 hours, putting the nor-mal life to a standstill.

With the sea continuing toremain rough, the IMD hasadvised fishermen not to ven-ture into the sea in Paradip.

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On Monday the KeonjharCitizen Forum handed

over a memorendum to UnionMinister of Jal ShaktiBishweswar Tudu, expressingtheir concern over inordinatedelay in completion of theKanpur Irrigation project on theBaitarani river near Basudebpurunder Joda block of Keonjhardistrict.

President of the forumKiran Sahu revealed that theKanpur irrigation project which

started in the year 1991- 92 wasestimated to be completed with-in a period of five years at a costof Rs 428.62 crore. However,more than 30 years have passedbut the project couldn't be com-pleted although the project costhas escalated to Rs 1,801 crore

as per estimation in the year2013 and out of this, Rs 1,583.11crore has already been spent byMarch 31 ,2018.

It is expected that the pro-ject cost will cross Rs 2,700 crorein the coming days becauseextra Rs 500 crore is required to

be spent for correcting thefaulty implemention of thedesign at the foundation level ofthe reservoir of the water at thecatchment area, he told.

Sahu further revealed thatthere is no certainity in the suc-cess of the renovation workbecause the technology whichwill be imported from Germanis going to be experimented forthe first time in the Kanpur pro-ject.

The project is expected toirrigate 48,000 hectares of landin 238 villages and two lakhfarmers in the villages havebeen waiting for completion ofthe ambitious project. But the

prolonged delays have dashedtheir hope, the memorandumsaid.

However, the UnionMinister assured the forum thatthe project would be complet-ed by 2023.

He is said that there is noscarcity of fund from theCentral Government but it isgetting delayed due to poorimplemention, which is duty ofthe State Government.

Earlier ,Tudu was accordeda grand welcome at the circuithouse in Keonjhar by many BJPleaders and workers led bySadar MLA Mohan Mahji andothers.

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JAGATSINGHPUR: A mid-dle-aged man, Kangali CharanSahoo, who was working as apeon in Alando High School inBiridi block, was found dead ina schoolroom on Sunday.

Kangali hailing fromBatimira village was residing inthe school. On Sunday morn-ing when two school employ-ees reached at the school, theyfound that Kangali's room waslocked inside and he could notrespond while calling him.

Later school headmasterand local Sarpanch informedpolice. The police broke openthe room and found Kangalilying dead on floor. Policebegan a probe taking assistancefrom scientific team and sentthe body for postmortem. PNS

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Memories of the recently-concluded Olympics

games in Tokyo have reflectedhow Indian sportspersons fromhumble backgrounds wereovercoming every odd to per-form well at the biggest inter-national sports event.

Whatever be the quantumresult and number of medals,they have achieved throughtheir hard work and persever-ance, that resulted in winningmedals and wide spread admi-

ration. Profiles of several sportspersons, male and female, whowere representing India at dif-ferent games in general as wellas male and female hockeyplayers in particular in therecent Olympics reveal thatthey grew up in conditions ofgreat economic hardships. Thisis true for many players whorepresented India in severalgames at the Olympics events.

Their parents and siblingsmade immense sacrifices tosave the pennies for their equip-ment, dress and training. Theyovercame very difficult situa-

tions to come up with flyingcolours.

Efforts taken by ChiefMinister Naveen Patnaik in set-ting up the high performancesports centres and sponsoringboth men’s and women's hock-ey teams since 2018 translatedinto better performances byboth the teams at TokyoOlympics. The Chief Ministerhas earned country wide admi-ration for transforming the per-formance of men’s and women’shockey teams. In recognition oftheir achievement and theirpotential to be the top teams in

the world, the Chief Ministerannounced that Odisha willcontinue to sponsor Indianhockey teams, for another 10years.

The State should also iden-tify and promote raw talentfrom a tender age and providethem with the much neededsupport of international stan-dards in terms of equipment,sports kit, coaching (team andindividual) exposure and men-tal conditioning in order to nur-ture them for participation andpodium finish at the interna-tional level.

Policies should be focussedmore on encouraging the talentexisting among poorer com-munities including tribal andDalit communities as well assmall farmer communities.Those belonging to fisher folkand boatman communitiesshould in particular receiveencouragement and trainingfor aquatics,swimming, row-ing sports while the talent ofAdivasis should be identified fortraining in archery. Some circusartists' potential can be tappedfor gymnastics. In particularencouragement should be given

to those team sports like foot-ball which do not require exten-sive equipment. There should beadequate space for playing incities and villages , particularlyfor school children. Whereschools are some what cramped,arrangements for adequatespaces for playing should bemade. There should be specialemphasis right from early train-ing days on team sports andencourage team spirits.

Trainers and sports schoolswhich are sympathetic to theaspirations of sports studentsfrom weaker sections and pro-

vide them very encouragingconditions should be promoted.A "Sports mela" should beorganised at village and districtlevel for tapping talent across theState for different games.Selectors having national andState level stature should selectthe candidates. Inter- and intra-district sports competition ondifferent games should be pro-moted. Besides, theGovernment needs to promotesports schools and colleges.

Sportspersons who bringlaurels for the State need to behonoured and the Government

should make concerted effortsfor ensuring sustainableemployment opportunities forall meritorious sportspersons.Apart from this, sports quotareservation in Government jobsfor all medal winning athletesshould be ensured.

The message to our youngsports persons should be: Doone's best for the game andenjoy every moment of thegame.

Above all, one shouldalways play with the true spiritof sports as sports should alwayspromote friendship.

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The Vigilance police onTuesday caught Dr

Nabakishore Behera,Additional District PublicHealth Officer of Subarnapurdistrict red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs16,000.

Behera had demanded thebribe from a complainant tofavour him in his PerformanceAppraisal Report (PAR) for

extension of his contractualengagement with higher pay.

Following the trap, simul-taneous searches were carriedout on Behera’s residentialGovernment quarter atPatabhadi and residentialbuilding at Dunguripali inSubarnapur and his house atnative village at Phulbani, inKandhamal district.

Later, the accused wasarrested and forwarded tocourt.

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Incessant rains and overflow-ing rivers created havoc in

Baleswar district on Tuesday.The spectre of floods stillloomed large as the majorrivers were swelling.

While the water level in theSubarnarekha andBudhabalanga rivers werebelow the danger levels, that ofthe Jalaka river was 6.33 meterwith the danger mark being 5.5meter near Mathani.

Though the district admin-istration said that the situationhas not aggravated as the floodsituation is strictly monitoredin all places and preparationhas been made to face anyeventuality, people in manyplaces are living with constantfear.

The rains threw life out ofgear in Baleswar town andmany villages were water-logged.

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There is no river or canal atJajpur Road. However,

always rain creates havoc for thewhole 26 Wards underVyasanagar Municipality.

Over several years it is saidthat efforts are on to streamlinedrainage system of theMunicipality but nothing tan-gible happens. The Municipalauthorities have been lending adeaf ear to the people’s genuineproblems.

Due to lack of properdrains, many areas have been

experiencing waterlogging dueto incessant rain in last 2-3 days.In Ward No.12 from LateKaram Chand Laha house toBuilding Centre Chhak throughPriyadarsini Road, the roadhas been completely inundated.

Similarly, in Ward No.03from Upendranath Mohantyhouse to Sapagadia Chhak thereis no drain. So waterlogging isa permanent issue here. TheVyasanagar Tehsil Officepremises also witnessed floodlike situation.

Ward No.2 Panasia Basti,Bus stand area, Umapada,

Stadium area, Ganesh Bazar,Binapani Sahi and many areasof the municipality were lyingsubmerged.

A JE staying here for morethan 10 years has been playingdirty games, alleged many. It issaid that he has political con-nections. It is also alleged thathe takes PC for every con-struction works.

A senior citizen and socialworker, Upendranath Mohantyhas been demanding for a drainat Ward No.3 to SapagadiaChhak for a long time, but noone is paying any heed.

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Normal life was affected dueto heavy rainfall in

Balangir. A youth was sweptaway in flood water.

Due to heavy rainfall, thenearby Laxmijore was in a spateand flooded Staynarayan padaand other adjoining areas. Waistdeep water was flowing in manyhabitations while water enteredinto the low-lying houses.

One of the major reasonsfor the flood was a small bridgeover the Laxmijore throughwhich water cannot pass as itremains clogged. So water over-flew, leading to flooding.

The district administrationhad declared the bridge as tech-nically unsound since 2019.

The Laxmijore which was amajor passage of drainage ofrainwater also has been chokedwith garbage and due to silta-tion.

People are in a panickystage as rain was pounding tillthe report was filed last.Meanwhile, Laxmijore gateshave been opened.

District Collector ChanchalRana in a tweet said measureswere being taken to reach out tothe worst hit. He also said waterwas being released from a wardin the DHH.

Balangir MLA NarsinghaMishra visited various floodaffected areas of the town. BJDleader Arkesh Singh Deo alsovisited various flood affected

areas and interacted with thepeople. In an unexpected inci-dent,a youth of Phatkara(A) vil-lage was swift away in the tor-rential flood water, while he wastrying to cross a culvert overLaxmijore near his village.

ODRAFT and fire officialsrushed to the spot and launcheda search operation but the vic-tim was not traced. However,flood water was graduallyreceding by evening.

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Septuagenarian KamalaNayak,76, a resident of Koro

under the Nikirai police stationin the district died on Tuesdayfollowing a wall collapse due toincessant rains while she wasgoing to have lunch. With this,the death toll because of wall

collapse in the district went upto three though the adminis-tration was yet to confirm thelatest casualty.

As many as 7, 79,241 peo-ple of 811 villages in 126 GPsin five blocks and 22 wards intwo urban local bodies wereaffected by the rains.

Ten roads including

Kundupur-Babar-JambooRoad, Marshaghai-Jamboo,C u t t a c k - C h a n d a b a l i ,Ke n d r ap a d a - G o l a r h a at ,Katikata-Jaipur, Paika leftembankment, Prabhakarpur-Kharanashi, Orta-Badhi,Aitipur Charichowk toGopinathpur, Haladiagada-Patkura roads were cut off.

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday said itwould not reopen its decision on

granting reservation in promotions toScheduled Castes (SCs) and ScheduledTribes (STs) as it was for the States todecide how they implement it.

Taking up various pleas pertaining toalleged hurdles in granting reservation inpromotions to SCs and STs in variousStates, a three-judge Bench headed byJustice Nageswara Rao directed theAdvocate on Records of StateGovernments to identify issues peculiarto them and submit those within twoweeks.

"We are making it very clear that weare not going to reopen Nagraj or JarnailSingh (cases) because the idea was onlyto decide these cases in accordance withthe law laid down by the court," said thebench, also comprising Justices SanjivKhannna and B R Gavai.

The top court noted that in its earli-er order, the state governments weredirected to finalise the issues which arepeculiar to them sothat court can proceedin the matter.

The issues framed by the AttorneyGeneral K K Venugopal and the ones cir-culated by others are enhancing thescope of cases, it said.

"We are not willing to do that. Thereare certain issues which are alreadydecided in Nagraj that also we are notgoing to take up. We are very clear thatwe are not going to permit any argumentsfor reopening of cases or arguing that lawlaid down from indira sahney is wrongbecause the very scope of these cases isto apply the law as laid down by thiscourt." the court said.

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The Supreme Court on Tuesdaydirected the All India Institute of

Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to give bySeptember 17 its report on determin-ing the age of a girl who went missingfrom Gorakhpur in UP since July 8 andwas later recovered by Delhi Police ear-lier this month.

The apex court observed that fur-ther steps will be taken in the matterdepending on the age determinationreport of the girl, who according to hermother is aged around 15-16 yearswhile in Aadhaar her age is mentionedas 13.

A Bench headed by Justice A MKhanwilkar also permitted two lawyersassisting senior advocate K VViswanathan, who was nominated bythe top court to appear for the girl asshe was not represented before itthrough a counsel, to interact with her.

“We direct the concerned author-ity of AIIMS, Delhi to ensure that agedetermination report is given before thenext date of hearing which we sched-

ule on September 17,” said the bench,also comprising justices DineshMaheshwari and C T Ravikumar.

The top court had on September 7handed over the investigation of thecase lodged in Uttar Pradesh, after thegirl was missing from Gorakhpur, toDelhi Police which recently recoveredher and arrested the alleged abductor.

During the hearing on Tuesday,Viswanathan said that he has seen thetwo status reports and also the sugges-tions of Additional Solicitor General(ASG) R S Suri, who is appearing forDelhi Police, and the counsel appear-ing for the girl's mother.

He said age of the girl has to bedetermined as the report says preg-nancy was detected but ultrasound doesnot show pregnancy.

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Former Tripura Chief Minister and CPI(M)leader Manik Sarkar on Tuesday alleged that

he was prevented from visiting the State and hisconstituency by the rulingBJP multiple times.

Addressing the mediahere along with the partygeneral secretary SitramYechury, Sarkar accused theBJP Government ofunleashing political vio-lence in Tripura.

"In Tripura, the Constitution of India does-n't work. CPI(M) MLAs, including me, aren'tallowed to visit their constituency. In the 42months that the BJP has been in power, I havebeen stalled 15 times from visiting various partsof the state and my Constituency," alleged Sarkar,who was Chief Minister from 1998 to 2018.

The two Left leaders claimed that there is a"huge discontent" against the BJP governmentin Tripura. "The CPI(M) is spearheading effortsto galvanise people's protest. They (BJP) do notwant to allow this process and are unleashingviolence?" Yechury alleged. A few days ago, inhis letter to the Prime Minister, Yechury hadalleged that the party's offices in Tripura wereattacked by "mobs of BJP men" in a "pre-plannedfashion" on September 8.

In the letter, Yechury has alleged the"impunity" with which the attackers operatedshows the "connivance of the state government".

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Taking note of several complaintsfrom the public about their business,

livelihood, and daily life being adverse-ly affected by the ongoing farmers’protests against the three CentralAgriculture Laws, the National HumanRights Commission on Tuesday steppedin and issued notices to the Centre andChief Secretaries UP, Haryana,Rajasthan, Delhi and Director Generalsof Police, UP, Haryana, Rajasthan andCommissioner of Police, Delhi “callingupon them to submit their respectiveAction Taken Reports”.

The NHRC said it had “received sev-eral complaints regarding the ongoingfarmers’ protest”, including about 9,000micro, medium and large companiesbeing adversely affected.

“Allegedly, transportation is alsoadversely impacted, causing commuters,patients, physically challenged peopleand senior citizens to suffer due to theheavy congestion on roads. There arealso reports that people have to travellong distances to reach their destinationsand barricades have been put on theborders,” the NHRC statement said.

“There is an allegation that there isbreach of the COVID-19 protocols bythe agitating farmers at the protest site.There is further allegation that theinhabitants are not being allowed to

move out of their houses due to theblockade of the passage. Since the agi-tation involves the issue of humanrights, the right to agitate in a peacefulmanner is also to be respected. TheCommission needs to take care of var-ious human rights issues,” the statementread.

Also, the commission has request-ed the Delhi School of Social Work,University of Delhi, is to depute teamsto conduct a survey and assess and sub-mit a report on the disruption of liveli-hood, lives of people, impact on the aged,and infirm persons due to protractedagitation by farmers. The institute hasgiven a deadline of October 10 to sendthe report.

The NHRC said it had also soughtreports from the National DisasterManagement Authority, the UnionMinistry of Home Affairs and theUnion Ministry of Health on the adverseimpact on COVID-19 protocols at theprotest sites.

Besides, it has issued notice to thedistrict magistrate, Jhajjar in Haryana,in the case of alleged gang rape of ahuman rights activist at the protest siteand asked a reply to it by October 10. Ineffect, it has issued a fresh reminder tothe official to file a report.

The farmers have been picketing andstaging indefinite sit-ins at a number ofplaces in these states, including the out-skirts of Delhi’s borders.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Thursdayinaugurate the office complexes of the Defence

Ministry here. They are part of the Central Vista pro-ject.

These offices have been constructed at a cost of � 775 crores provided by the Defence Ministry. TheMinistry of Housing and Urban Development under-took this project.

Over 7000 officers and staff belonging to 27 dif-ferent organizations (attached offices of defence min-istry, Service Headquarters and other subordinateoffices) are going to get new office complexes. Theywere earlier functioning from hutments and buildingsnear the South Block.

The new office complexes have come up at theKasturba Gandhi Marg and Africa Avenue, officials saidhere on Tuesday. In addition to the office space for theofficers and staff, there is provision for multi level carparking for over 1500 cars in these complexes.

The new buildings, which are under the CentralVista Development/Redevelopment Master Plan pro-vide modern eco-friendly, green building environment.The total space in these buildings is 9.60 Lakhs sq ftas against 9.22 Lakh sq ft vacated in various hutmentsand buildings.

The new buildings also provide modern amenities,connectivity and welfare facilities like canteens andbanks. The location and space of these buildings havebeen so designed that pre existing trees have not beendisturbed.

The project has released 37 acres of land (as only13 acres of land have been used for modern office com-plex as against the existing 50 acres of land) for officespace for Central Vista Development Master Plan, theysaid.

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Vice President and Rajya Sabha ChairmanM Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister

Narendra Modi and Lok Sabha Speaker OmBirla will jointly launch Sansad TV onWednesday, the Prime Minister's Office said.The launch date coincides with theInternational Day of Democracy, the PMOnoted.

The decision to merge Lok Sabha TV andRajya Sabha TV was taken in February, and theCEO of Sansad TV was appointed in March.However, during a Session, the two channelswill live broadcast the proceedings of LokSabha and Rajya Sabha separately. The PMOsaid Sansad TV programming will primarilybe in four categories; functioning of Parliamentand democratic institutions, governance andimplementation of schemes, policies, historyand culture of India and issues, interests, concerns of contemporary nature.

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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) onTuesday said it has arrested Chandeshwar

Prasad Yadav, Senior Section Engineer andCustodian of condemned wagons of JamalpurRailway Workshop, Jamalpur at the time ofoffence under money laundering law.

Yadav is allegedly involved in misappro-priation of condemned wagons and wheel setsand other excluded fittings of Eastern RailwayJamalpur workshop. The total value of such mis-appropriated wagons, wheel sets and excludedfittings is � 34 crore approximately.

The ED initiated money laundering inves-tigation on the basis of FIR dated February 9,2018 filed by ACB, CBI, Patna, which was reg-istered after a complaint received from EasternRailway against Shree Maharani Steels, Patna;unknown officials of Eastern Railway, Jamalpurand unknown private persons.

It has been alleged that misappropriationand irregularities were noticed in the dispos-al of condemned wagons and other excludedfittings from Dhobi Ghat Siding of EasternRailway, Jamalpur.

It has further been alleged that during apreventive check conducted by the VigilanceDepartment of the Eastern Railway, it wasfound that 100 condemned wagons and 3,220wheel sets along with other excluded fittingshaving net value of �34 crore approximatelyhave been misappropriated by an outside pri-vate agency in connivance with others.

"Throughout the investigation,Yadav hadresorted to non-cooperation with the investi-gation and has not divulged any truth or infor-mation, the ED said in a statement.

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah onTuesday cited Prime Minister

Narendra Modi's example of speakingonly in Hindi at all international forumsto call for shedding the hesitation overspeaking the language. At the sametime, he also maintained that Hindi isa friend of India's regional languagesand all of them should be promoted andencouraged.

He praised Prime MinisterNarendra Modi, saying, "If PM canspeak Hindi internationally, what are weembarrassed about? Gone are the dayswhen speaking Hindi was a matter ofconcern".

Addressing a function on the occa-sion of Hindi Diwas, Shah also appealedto parents to communicate with theirchildren at home in their mother tongueeven if they study in English mediumschools. Otherwise, the children will becut off from their roots, he said.

“Hindi has no difference with anyregional language. Hindi is the 'Sakhi'(friend) of all Indian regional lan-guages,” he said.

Shah said all Indian regional lan-guages complement and complete Hindiand all regional languages must be pro-moted and encouraged.

Since 2014, more MPs are speakingin their own regional language in

Parliament and they are being translatedverbatim to English and Hindi, he saidand added that this has helped people'srepresentatives to highlight the prob-lems of their respective areas in thehighest forum.

The home minister said peopleshould not only be 'Atma Nirbhar' (self-reliant) in producing goods but also forlanguages. He cited Prime MinisterNarendra Modi's example of speakingonly in Hindi at all international forumsto convey his thoughts. The PM andDefence Minister Rajnath Singh alsoextended their wishes on the occasion.

Referring to the New EducationPolicy (NEP) envisaged by Modi, Shahsaid it has provisions for promotion ofregional and Hindi languages.

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Signaling the growing impor-tance of the Quad com-

bine, Prime Minister NarendraModi will visit the US nextweek to participate in the firstin-person summit of the fournation grouping including theUS, India, Japan and Australia.He will also address the UnitedNations (UN) GeneralAssembly session.

Modi will also hold summitlevel talks with President JoeBiden, who is hosting the Quadmeeting of the Heads of State."Prime Minister NarendraModi would be participating,along with Prime Minister ScottMorrison of Australia, PrimeMinister Yoshihide Suga ofJapan and President Joseph RBiden of USA, in the Leaders'Summit of the QuadrilateralFramework in Washington DC,USA, on September 24," theministry of externalaffairs(MEA)announced hereon Tuesday.

The agenda of the Quadsummit will see the leaders tak-ing stock of the progress madesince their first virtual summiton March 12 and discussregional issues of shared inter-est. "As part of their ongoingefforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, they will reviewthe Quad Vaccine initiativewhich was announced in

March this year," the MEAsaid.

The four leaders are alsolikely to discuss the situation inAfghanistan and ensuring afree and open Indo-Pacific.The navies of the four nationshave so far carried twoMalabar series of exercisesincluding one last year and onethis year. The latest drill wasconducted in the WesternPacific while the exercise lastyear was conducted off theIndian coast.

China has all alongopposed the formation of Quadand claims the naval exerciseswill lead to the militarization ofthe Indo-Pacific where it is nowflexing its maritime muscle.

Modi will be visiting the

US for the first time sinceBiden assumed office early thisyear. Besides the Quad sum-mit and bilateral talks with theUS, Modi will also address the76th session of the UN GeneralAssembly in New York thenext day. Modi is also expect-ed to hold bilateral talks withAustralian Prime MinisterScott Morrison.

The Modi-Biden bilateralmeeting is expected to takeplace at the White House onSeptember 23. Both leadershave spoken virtually on mul-tiple occasions after Bidenbecame president in January.

The last time Modi visitedthe US was in September 2019when he and the then US pres-ident Donald Trump addressed

the Howdy-Modi event inHouston.

This will be Modi's firstforeign visit in nearly sixmonths and his second sincethe outbreak of the pandemiccoronavirus. In March, Moditravelled to Bangladesh toattend events organised tomark the birth centenary ofBangabandhu Sheikh MujiburRahman and 50 years of thewar of liberation of that coun-try.

The US is hosting the in-person summit of the leaders ofQuad to boost practical coop-eration in the Indo-Pacificregion as well as to send astrong signal aboutWashington's commitment tothe grouping.

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea seek-ing directions to the Centre and others to pay �50

lakh ex-gratia to kin of advocates who have died with-in 60 years whether due to Covid-19 or other reasons,saying life of lawyers cannot be said to be "more precious"than others.

Observing that it cannot encourage filing of "bogus"public interest litigation (PIL) by lawyers, a bench head-ed by Justice D Y Chandrachud said the plea is a "pub-licity interest litigation" and not a single relevantground has been raised in it.

The bench, also comprising Justices Vikram Nath andB V Nagarathna, said several people have died due toCovid-19 in the country and there is already a judge-ment passed by the apex court dealing with framing ofguidelines for disbursement of compensation to kin ofthose who have died as a result of coronavirus.

"Are other people of the society not important," thebench told advocate Pradeep Kumar Yadav, who had filedthe petition.

"This is a publicity interest litigation and justbecause you are in black coat does not mean your life ismore precious than others," the bench observed, adding,"We must not encourage lawyers to file bogus PILs."

The top court, which observed that "cut-copy-paste"has been done in the plea, said it would not happen thatlawyers will file PIL like this to demand compensationand the court will allow it.

It said several people have died of COVID-19 andlawyers cannot be an exception.

Yadav requested the bench that he will withdraw theplea and file it with better grounds.

The bench, however, dismissed the petition with acost of Rs 10,000 payable to the Supreme Court BarAssociation within a week.

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In the third day in a row, thedaily count of covid cases on

Tuesday remained below the30,000-mark with the countryreporting 25,404 daily new casespushing the overall coronavirustally to 33,289,579. The count ofactive cases declined to 3,62,207,said the Union Health Ministry ina statement here.

Of the new cases reported,Kerala recorded Covid-19 cases and99 deaths which pushed the totalinfections to 43,90,489 and thedeath toll to 22,650.

The death toll due to the dis-ease has climbed to 4,43,213, with339 daily fatalities being recorded,the data updated at 8 am showed.

The tally of active cases hasdeclined to 3,62,207, which com-prises 1.09 per cent of the totalinfections, while the nationalCovid-19 recovery rate was record-ed at 97.58 per cent, the ministrysaid.

A reduction of 12,062, cases hasbeen recorded in the active Covid-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.

The daily positivity rate wasrecorded at 1.78 per cent. This hasbeen below three per cent for thelast 15 days.

The weekly positivity rate wasrecorded at 2.07 per cent. The fig-

ure has been below three per centfor the last 81 days, according to theMinistry.

The number of people whohave recuperated from the diseasesurged to 3,24,84,159, while thecase fatality rate was recorded at1.33 per cent.

The cumulative number ofCovid-19 vaccine doses adminis-tered in the country so far underthe nationwide vaccination drivehas reached 75.22 crore, accordingto the ministry.

India's Covid-19 tally hadcrossed the 20-lakh mark onAugust 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August23, 40 lakh on September 5, 50lakh on September 16, 60 lakh onSeptember 28, 70 lakh on October11, 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakhon November 20 and the one-crore mark on December 19.

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Bengaluru: In protest againstthe "imposition of Hindi",Kannada organisations onTuesday held a twitter campaignand picketing in front of banksin several parts of Karnataka, onthe occasion of Hindi Diwas.

The Karnataka RakshanaVedike (KRV) has organised aTwitter campaign with hashtag"#StopHindiImposition" from10 am to 10 pm on Tuesday,while its activists staged picket-ing in front of banks in differ-ent parts of the State. KRV hastweeted pictures of its activistsstaging picketing in Sedam,Chincholi, Ron, Hungund,Hiriyur, Pandavapura,Bengaluru, Vijayapura,Kalaburagi, Chikkaballapura,Thirthahalli, Udupi, UttaraKannada, Kolar, Mandya and

Dharwad, among several otherplaces. They submitted a peti-tion to managers of the banks

urging them to stop allegedHindi imposition and to provideservices in Kannada. According

to Arun Javgal, state organisa-tion secretary of KarnatakaRakshana Vedike (KRV), theintention behind conductingprotests in front of nationalisedbanks is also to raise awarenessamong the masses and there-by tell the people of Karnatakaabout the way, "HindiImposition" has snatched thou-sands of jobs from Kannadigasin Banks operating in the State.

"Using the Taxpayersmoney from across the countryand yet, giving undue impor-tance only to Hindi in a multi-lingual country like India issomething KRV opposes vehe-mently," he said in a tweet. KRVstate President?Narayanagowdru T A termedHindi Diwas celebrations as"anti-democratic and immoral".

Patna: AIMIM chiefAsaduddin Owaisi on Tuesdaytook umbrage over “suspi-cions” that he had a soft cornerfor the Taliban and dared theNarendra Modi Government atthe Centre to declare the mil-itant group a “terrorist organ-isation”.

Addressing a Press confer-ence here, the firebrandHyderabad MP also demand-ed that the Government, giventhe fact that India currentlyheaded the UN committee onsanctions, give an assurancethat none of the Taliban lead-ers will be delisted from the listof terrorists. “Why do youraise suspicions (shaq) over mewith regard to Taliban? Was it

Asaduddin Owaisi who hadhanded over jailed terrorists tosecure the release of passengersof the hijacked plane inKandahar”, said Owaisi inresponse to questions aboutsome BJP leaders havingdubbed him as a man of“Talibani soch (mindset)”.

Owaisi said he has madehis stance clear about theTaliban on the f loor ofParliament but his words ofcaution were not heeded.

“During the debate onCAA, I had requested the gov-ernment to consider makingthe Act religion-neutral, warn-ing them of a possible takeoverby the Taliban. But for thatstrategic blunder, we would

have been in a position togrant safe asylum to Tajiks,Uzbeks, and members of otherminority tribes”, said Owaisi.

He also said that theTaliban takeover would“strengthen Pakistan andChina” while giving India a lotto worry about which wasregrettable since India hadinvested a lot in Afghanistan.“The country had spent Rs35,000 crore in Afghanistan.Thousands of its youngstershave been provided educationon our soil. We had so much atstake in that rugged countrywhich lies en route to theChabahar port in Iran we weredeveloping”, Owaisi lamented.

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A case has been registeredagainst the 12-year-old accusedunder relevant provisions of the IPCand Protection of Children fromSexual Offences (POCSO) Act, theofficial said. According to the police,the accused allegedly took the girl tothe terrace of the residential build-ing where they lived and raped her.

The girl, who sustained injuriesto in her private parts, told to her

parents about the assault, followingwhich a complaint was lodged withthe police. While the victim is cur-rently undergoing treatment at ahospital, the accused minor wasdetained and sent to a remandhome, the official said, adding thatthe families of both children hailfrom Bihar. PTI

Jayamkondam (TN): A day after she appeared for theNational Eligibility cum Entrance Test, a 17-year-old girldied by suicide at a village near here, police said on Tuesday.

The girl, Kanimozhi, took the extreme step when herparents were away on Monday night and they returnedhome to find her hanging, a police official here said.

Daughter of a lawyer, Kanimozhi is the 16th medicalaspirant from Tamil Nadu to end her life fearing outcomeof the test, coupled with dejection that their dream to pur-sue medical education may not fructify.

She appeared for the national test on Sunday and hadtold her parents that some questions were tough and thatshe was concerned about the outcome, he said adding"investigation is still on." Another official told PTI thatpolice received information early today and the body wassent for post-mortem to a Government hospital and laterhanded over to the family. PTI

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Pune: An offence has been registered against anunidentified food delivery agent for allegedly molestinga woman while riding past her in Pimpri Chinchwad areaof Maharashtra's Pune, police said on Tuesday. The inci-dent took place in Wakad area of Pimpri Chinchwad lateon Sunday night, an official said. According to the police,the woman runs a small eatery in the area with her hus-band.

"The complainant was on her way home after clos-ing the eatery with her husband and son around 11.45pm, when a food delivery man came on a motorcyclefrom behind and allegedly passed a remark and touchedher inappropriately, outraging her modesty," an officialfrom Wakad police station.

A case has been registered against the unidentifiedaccused under relevant sections of the IPC, he said.

The police are examining the CCTV footagefrom the area to ascertain the identity of the accused,he added. PTI

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In a shocking tragedy, 11 membersof a family met a watery grave on

Tuesday, as the boat in which theywere travelling capsised in Wardhariver in Narked taluka of Amravatidistrict in eastern Maharashtra.

Till the evening, four of the 11bodies had been recovered, whilethe search was on for the remain-ing people, all of whom are feareddead. The bodies of a boatman, twowomen and one man were recov-ered from the bed of the river wherethe mishap took place. From amongthe bodies recovered so far, thepolice identified three of them asNarayan Matare (45), KiranKhandare (28) and VanshikaShivankar.

The deceased were heading tothe temple of Lord Shiva at Jhunjwhen the boat they were travellingoverturned midway.

The family had gone toGadegaon to attend the post-funer-al rituals of a deceased relative. Afterthe ritual, the family was on its wayto Jhunj in a boat when the mishapoccurred.

Following heavy rain inWardha, Amravati, Chandrapurand Gadchiroli districts of easternMaharashtra during the past oneweek, the Wardha river was in spate.After the mishap, the police havelaunched a massive search for theremaining seven missing personswho are all feared dead. The searchis on in the downstream areas of theriver.

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Bengal on Tuesday got its fourth AdvocateGeneral in a decade Soumendranath

Mukherjee was appointed the State’s fourth AGin the place of Kishore Dutta who resigned ear-lier on the day citing “personal reasons.”

The first three AGs in Mamata Banerjeeregime were Barristers Anindya Mitra, JayantaMitra and Bimal Mukherjee following whichDutta a senior counsel took charge in 2017.

Reacting to his resignation BJP MP ArjunSingh said that “this TMC Government puts somuch pressure on the AGs to do act in illegalway that no senior advocate one’s salt can con-tinue on the job… though Kishore Dutta triedto please Mamata Banerjee even he failed to doso … now there is a new incumbent.”

Hitting back TMC Rajya Sabha MPSukhendu Shekhar Roy wondered “why threePrincipal Advisors to the Prime Minister was andwhy we had three RBI Governors in so shortspan of a time … the BJP should look into itsown issues before pointing fingers at others.”

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New Delhi: Congress leaderPriyanka Gandhi Vadra onTuesday attacked Uttar PradeshChief Minister Yogi Adityanathover the issue of crimes againstwomen in the State and allegedthat he was the champion of"anti-women mindset".

Her attack on Adityanathcame as on this day, last year, the hor-rific Hathras incident took place inwhich a young Dalit woman was rapedby four men. The woman died onSeptember 29 at Delhi's SafdarjungHospital during treatment.

"A year ago from today, a horrificincident of rape had happened inHathras and instead of providing justiceand security to the family, the UttarPradesh Government had threatened thefamily and also snatched away their rightto give their daughter an honourablefuneral," Priyanka Gandhi said in a tweetin Hindi.

Government officialsand BJP leaders had madestatements to the effectthat there was "no rape"and the energy of theentire Governmentmachinery was spent oncharacter assassination ofthe victim, the Congress

general secretary alleged.How can you even expect sensitiv-

ity from the head of a Government thathas such a horrible stance on crimesagainst women, Priyanka Gandhi asked.

"Anyway, the Chief Minister ofUttar Pradesh is the champion of anti-women mindset. He has said that'women should not be independent'," sheclaimed.

The victim was cremated in the deadof the night near her home on September30. Her family alleged they were forcedby the local police to hurriedly conducther last rites. PTI

Lucknow: Samajwadi Partychief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesdaychallenged Prime MinisterNarerndra Modi's claim aboutthe crime situation in UttarPradesh, asking him to checkdata of the Home Departmentand other central agencies.

At a function after layingthe stone of Raja MahendraPratap Singh State University inAligarh, PM Modi earlier in theday said UP was run by gangstersand mafias before 2017. TheSamajwadi Party (SP) was rulingthe State then.

In a scathing attack at theBJP, Yadav told reporters at apress conference here that it isgood to set up a university butthe party "runs the best trainingcentre of telling lies".

He asked the BJP to pick

"bulldozer" as its election symbol,referring to the alleged demoli-tion of houses of some Ayodhyaresidents.

Yadav also asked UttarPradesh Chief Minister YogiAdityanath to get his eyesighttested, replying to the CM'sassertion that the Oppositionleader lacked vision.

Yadav told reporters thatthe UP Government is not work-ing according to the law andwarned officials that his party ispreparing a list of those who vio-lated the law, stressing that theywon't be spared once his party'sGovernment comes to power.

When his attention wasdrawn to the PM's comment overthe law and order, Yadav said,"He should ask for the data of the

Home Department or Dial 100to see who is increasing thecrime."

He asked the PM to gothrough the NCRB report andalso see which state has beenserved maximum notices by theNational Human RightsCommission.

Yadav said the PM shouldalso ask the Uttar Pradesh CMwho are the top 10 mafia in thestate.

All are aware how the CMwithdrew cases against himself,he said. He also accused theruling party of failing to honourits own leaders, referring to thefoundation laying of a universi-ty after former Prime MinisterAtal Bihari Vajpayee in Lucknowin 2019 and asked about its sta-tus. PTI

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Mumbai: The Shiv Sena on Tuesday said the suddenchange of guard in Gandhinagar, where first-time BJPMLA Bhupendra Patel has been appointed the newChief Minister, reflected the style of functioning gen-erally associated with the Congress and claimed themove shows the 'balloon' of Gujarat's developmentmodel has burst.

An editorial in Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana' saidthe people of Gujarat were extremely angry over the"collapse" of healthcare system during the secondwave of Covid-19, when Vijay Rupani was the ChiefMinister, and the BJP also realized that the influen-tial Patidar community, to which Patel belongs, ismiffed with the party, leading to the change at thetop in the adjoining state.

"The same thing takes place in the Congress andwe have to call it democracy," quipped the Sena, a for-mer BJP ally which now shares power with theCongress and the NCP in Maharashtra.

With the sudden leadership change, the edito-rial claimed the "balloon' of Gujarat's model of devel-opment, governance and democracy has now burst.

"Patel was not even made a minister in the lastfour years, but he was directly made the chief min-

ister. If Gujarat was truly on path of progress, thenwhy did the BJP change its Chief Minister overnight?"the Marathi daily sought to know.

Amid the cacophony of 'vikas' (development),if leadership is suddenly changed, people raisedoubts, it said.

“Is this the Gujarat model where Prime MinisterNarendra Modi will actually have to call the shots bykeeping Patel at the forefront ahead of the state polls(due in December next year)?" the editorial asked.

Patel is a staunch supporter of former Gujaratchief minister Anandiben Patel while Rupani had thebacking of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and thiswould make the coming days "chaotic as well as inter-esting," the publication said.

"Replacing Rupani with Patel was a facile act.The BJP is convinced that it would face a backlashdue to unemployment, closure of major factories,including carmaker Ford's plant near Ahmedabad,"it said. Gujarat's healthcare system "collapsed"during the second wave of Covid-19 and people areextremely angry over it, the editorial claimed,adding the closure of Ford plant has led to around40,000 people losing their livelihood. PTI

Panaji: Senior BJP leaders, includingformer Maharashtra CM DevendraFadnavis, would be arriving in Goa onSeptember 20 to discuss the rulingparty's strategy for the 2022 Assemblyelections, Chief Minister PramodSawant said on Tuesday.

Fadnavis, who will be leading aBJP team, has been appointed theelection in-charge of Goa, wherepolls are slated in early 2022. Sawanttold mediapersons here that he metFadnavis in Mumbai earlier in the day.

Union Minister for Culture andTourism G Kishan Reddy and

Minister of State for Railways andTextiles Darshana Jardosh have beenappointed as co-incharge for thestate polls.

Sawant said the team, comprisingFadnavis, Reddy and Jardosh, wouldbe arriving in the state on September20 to decide the BJP's strategy for theelections. Fadnavis' vast experience inhandling elections will be beneficialfor the BJP in Goa, he said.

Last year, the BJP had appointedthe former Maharashtra CM as its in-charge for the Bihar assembly elec-tions. PTI

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Thane: The Thane unit of theBJP said it would holding talu-ka-level protests on Wednesdayagainst the Maharashtra'sGovernment's "failure" to pro-tect OBC quota in local bodies.

The OBC quota was struckdown by the Supreme Court,which had said reservationcould not exceed 50 per cent ofthe total seats in local bodies.

Addressing a press confer-ence here, Thane BJP chief andMLC Niranjan Davkhare andlocal MLA Sanjay Kelkar saidthe Uddhav Thackeray gov-ernment's lack of efforts led tothe legal setback.

The two leaders said theBJP wanted the MVA govern-ment to collect empirical dataon Other Backward Classes assoon as possible and take everystep to restore the quota. PTI

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In a double whammy for BJPleader and former MP Kirit

Somaiya, Maharashtra TransportMinister Anil Parab of the Shiv Senaon Tuesday slapped a �100 croredefamation notice against him formaking “false” and “reckless” alle-gations against the Sena leader,while a Mumbai court issued aprocess against him under section500 of IPC for allegedly defamingNGO Earth. Reacting to several alle-gations made by Somaiya on twitterover the past few months, Parab —in a notice issued through his lawyerSushma Singh — said that the BJP’sformer MP had, through his officialTwitter handle, allegedly been car-rying out a “defamatory, maliciousand mala fide” campaign againsthim. Among other things, Somaiyahad alleged that Parab owned twoillegal resorts in “No DevelopmentZone” of Murud sea shore at Dapoliin Ratnagiri district in coastalKonkan region, his secretaryBajarang Kharmate owned 40 bena-mi properties in Pune and Sangli dis-tricts in western Maharashtra, andhe owned an illegal office at Mahadland at Bandra in north-westMumbai.

Among other things, the minis-ter demanded that Somaiya stopmaking defamatory statements,withdraw all his baseless allega-tions and tender unconditional apol-

ogy. Parab said that in the event ofSomaiya’s failure to comply with hisdemands in the next 72 hours, hewould launch civil and criminal pro-ceedings, including claims of dam-ages amounting to �100 crore againstthe former BJP MP.

Meanwhile, in another case reg-istered by NGO Earth against,Metropolitan Magistrate, 25th Court,Mazgaon Sewree P I Mokashiordered issuance of process againstSomaiya under Somaiya underSection 500 of the IPC vide Section204 (a) of the Cr PC.

In his order, the MetropolitanMagistrate Mokashi said: “It is alsoprima facie proved by the words spo-ken by accused Kirit Somaiya weresuch that, it had harmed the repu-tation of the NGO Earth”.

The court summoned Somaiyato appear before it on September 22and October 5. Somaiya had amongother things alleged thatMaharashtra Housing MinisterJitendra Awhad was using NGOEarth to collect money from devel-opers. The complainant told thecourt that Somaiya had publishedposts and articles regarding a matterwhich is sub judice before· the Courtalong with these posts and articlescontaining false, derogatory anddefamatory statements about theNGO Earth (Complainant), "whichhas lowered down the image of theNGO Earth (complainant) in thesociety".

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guffaws and derelictions.Today, over eight months as

the POTUS, Biden has takenone substantial decision in themilitaristic realm, ie, withdraw-al of US troops fromAfghanistan and his conse-quential approval ratings haveplummeted. While ending the20-year war in Afghanistanwas much sought after, theunheroically defeated and hur-ried manner (with the casual-ty from the ISIL-K attack) inwhich they withdrew hasdiminished the image and per-ceptions of the US military,externally and internally.Comparisons of a Vietnamredux are inevitable and odious,and it is only the Veteran whowill pay that ignominious priceand humiliation over time.Despair is magnified by theunfiltered reality of havingamateurly underestimated thespeed of collapse, the obviouslack of an operational plan andthe embarrassment of having totake permission from the‘enemy’, ie, Taliban, to ‘evict safe-ly’. Unlike the militarily unini-tiated and unconcerned politi-cos, the US soldier will sufferthe additional and unimagin-able moral injury in the knowof what it has left behind interms of allies (interpreters,drivers and support staff), andthe sure fate that awaits them.The chaotic and mismanageddeparture has left the uni-

formed fraternity pained, frus-trated and shamed, and theblame is coming understand-ably on the POTUS.

Seemingly, Biden cannotseem to get much right with the‘uniformed’ sentiments as hewas seen disrespectfully check-ing his watch as casket after cas-ket appeared during the somber“dignified transfer” ceremonyfor the 13 fallen US troops whowere killed at the Kabul airport.

Many also commented onthe inappropriateness of thePresident repeatedly invokinghis late son’s name, instead ofthat of those who had actuallyfallen under his watch. Manyfamily members of the fallensoldiers refused to meet thePresident, while some otherswho did so, did some plain-speaking to his face. The moth-er of one called Biden “adementia-ridden piece of crapwho doesn’t even know he’s inthe White House”. Importantly,it is not a partisan divide asmany of these families haveequally slammed DonaldTrump’s ill-timed opportunismin politicising the soldiers’deaths, with many calling it“without honour”, “disgusting”and “gross”.

Trump with his patent cat-tiness has sought to spin griev-ing families predatorially intodangerous territory — insin-cere and qualified as his sup-port always is, only to those

who back him politically, andsmearing those who don’t, likethe Gold Star family of CaptainHumayun Khan. The politicaltooling of the military isincreasingly irresistible indemocracies across the worldwith unwarranted usurpationof the narrative, parading andmilking of raw emotionstowards electoral harvest —even mature democracies likethe US are prone to it.

In an unavoidably compar-ative sense, most Veteransknow that the Commander-in-Chief requires selfless devotionto constitutionality, restraint,depth of character and princi-pled leadership — and, there-fore, they may still back Bidenover Trump, but the recenthandling of Afghanistan has ledto the rightful questioning ofBiden beyond partisanship. Inthe world of professional ‘uni-form’, winning a “just war” isimportant and, if not that,then going down fighting withvalour and dignity is the onlyother option — in Afghanistan,neither of the two was achieved,and the slip is clearly showingfor Biden amongst the frater-nity. He must be put to ques-tion, beyond partisan prefer-ences.

(The writer, a military vet-eran, is a former Lt Governor ofAndaman & Nicobar Islandsand Puducherry. The viewsexpressed are personal.)

�� Sir — During a pandemic, a certainamount of restraint is expected of every-one. Indian cricket team coach RaviShastri, along with the batting coach,fielding coach and physio contractedCoronavirus in England when the teamwas in the midst of a Test series and onthe cusp of creating history. Shastri’sbook — Stargazing: The Players in MyLife — has been hitting the headlineswith its extracts being published in themedia. But was it so important torelease a book at a function where out-siders were allowed, and most of themdid not adhere to personal protection, isthe moot question?

It is said that no prior permission wassought from the BCCI by Shastri. Theentire Indian team, too, was present atthe book release in London on August31, two days before the fifth Test atManchester. The hugely anticipated fifthTest was called off. Obviously, Shastriknows he is not answerable to anybody,let alone the board. After all this, theIndian team’s image has taken a beating.This comes at a time when the teamseemed to have hit a purple patch.

Ganapathi Bhat | Nagpur

� ��Sir — The Tamil Nadu Government haspassed the Anti-NEET Bill, 2021, in theAssembly to ban NEET exams in theState. The decision to pass the Bill wastaken in the wake of the suicide by deathof a medical aspirant. With the passingof the Bill, students would get admissionto UG medical degree courses based onthe qualifying HSC or class 12 marks. TNhas been in strong opposition to NEETsince its recommendation in 2013. TheTN Government’s move to ban theexam raises questions about its suitabil-ity for admission to medical courses.

Strong arguments have been put for-ward against the need of conducting theexam. NEET is an assault on the auton-omy of private, unaided institutions. Itis an example of over-centralisation ofeducation and violates the rights of

unaided, private and minority institu-tions. As most of the institutions are incities and the fees are very high, poor stu-dents from rural areas face disadvantage.Considering all these facts, it is of greatimportance to arrive at a decisionwhether the imposition of NEET is fair.If all State Governments conduct admis-sion to medical courses in fair and trans-parent ways, the imposition of NEETwould be unreasonable.

Venu GS | Kollam

�� Sir — The schools in Odisha are closedfor two days amid downpour; there isrecord rainfall in Puri and Bhubaneswar.The Odisha Government has shut downschools in 12 districts for two days as raincontinues to lash the State for the thirdday due to a deep depression over the Bayof Bengal. The deep depression aftercrossing the coast has moved west-northwest and is now lying as a depres-

sion over north coastal parts of Odishaand adjoining BoB. The system will con-tinue to move west-northwest towardsChhattisgarh in the next 24 hours andover southern parts of Madhya Pradeshand adjoining Maharashtra in the subse-quent 24 hours.

Heavy rainfall is expected during thisperiod over these States till September 15.Slight breather is foreseen betweenSeptember 16 and 19 as of now. The rain-fall deficiency for Odisha will drop backto normal range from a whopping 30 percent or even more till August. Some ofthe districts will possibly shift to surplusfor the season. Heavy rainfall over theState will continue for 24 hours andreduce thereafter. It is indeed good newsbut the damage caused by rains has giventhe State Government sleepless nights.

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Political parties, gearing up for theAssembly elections in UttarPradesh, are looking for new polit-ical strategies that could bring

them back to power. Caste and religion arethe two basic fundamentals on which thiselection would be contested and the par-ties are planning their strategies aroundthese planks. In this melee, the biggestcasualty is development as no politicalparty is talking about it. “Sadak, pani, bijli”is no longer an issue for them, but casteand religion are.

Just a few months back the oppositionparties were tearing apart the YogiGovernment for its failure to preventdeaths of people in the second wave ofCOVID-19. Then there were issues of poorlaw and order and lack of governancewhich the opposition claimed will provedetrimental for the ruling BJP. We wereexpecting protests across the state, almostevery day, highlighting people's issues. Wewere expecting the opposition wouldcome up with a vision and project itself asan alternative to the BJP; nothing of thatsort has happened so far.

For the last one month, dengue andviral fever have been raging in westernUttar Pradesh where over 100 childrenhave died so far. Senior leaders have crit-icized the government by issuing state-ments through tweets but none of the topopposition leaders has visited the affect-ed region. Opposition leaders of substancemerely shared their agonies throughpress notes.

The shades of what we can expect inthe elections have started emanating whenAam Aadmi Party (AAP) claimed that itwill start its Tiranga Yatra after "darshanof Ram Lalla" in Ayodhya. Samajwadi Partynational president Akhilesh Yadav hasstarted hopping from one temple toanother while in an attempt to invigorateMuslims, Asaduddin Owaisi, President ofthe All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen(AIMIM), has raised the issue of the raz-ing of a mosque in Barabanki. He even tar-geted the Samajwadi Party saying why itdid not protest.

The Bharatiya Janata Party, on theother hand, is silently working on itsHindutva agenda. Chief Minister YogiAdityanath has declared a 10 sq. km.-areaaround the Krishna Janmashtami aroundMathura-Vrindavan as pilgrimage areathus prohibiting sale of liquor and meat in22 wards of Mathura city. The Deepotsavain Ayodhya would be a grand affair thisyear. Prime Minister Narendra Modi islikely to attend the program when the gov-ernment will attempt to break the Guinnessrecord by lighting over seven lakh diyas.

Then there is caste which is the ful-crum of elections in Uttar Pradesh sincethe Mandal days. The emergence ofsmaller caste parties that have influencein small pockets has changed poll dynam-ics. The big parties are too eager to alignwith them realizing that all small gains cancatapult them into power. This is evident

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Who does not want abirthday bash, par-ticularly politicians?

It has been in vogue for manyyears, particularly among thefamous and populist leaders.There are dedicated birthdayfunctions for JawaharlalNehru, Mahatma Gandhi,Indira Gandhi, B RAmbedkar, and so on.

It is normal practice forsupporters to greet their lead-ers with flowers and cakes.The bigger the cake they get,the better the leader is pleasedwith his courtiers. RJD chiefLalu Prasad Yadav celebrateshis birthday with secular cakes.On his 55th birthday, the cakewas shaped like a church,masjid, and temple. LateTamil Nadu Chief MinisterJayalalithaa once cut a cake inthe shape of parliament, reveal-

ing her ambition for a nation-al role.

Mayawati uses her birth-day for crowdfunding andgets enormous amounts forher party on January 16.Samajwadi Party patriarchMulayam Singh Yadav waspresented an 81-kilo "laddoo"when he turned 80 inNovember 2019. On NarendraModi's birthday in 2019, aSurat bakery baked a 700-foot-long cake. In Delhi, BJP MPscut a 370 kg cake to celebratethe revocation of Article 370.

The BJP too has foundnovel ways of celebrating birth-day events. For instance, thesilver jubilee function of theparty held in Mumbai in 2005had BJP leader Atal BihariVajpayee emerging from avast lotus built for the occasionat the Shivaji stadium.

The BJP plans to celebratePrime Minister NarendraModi's 71st birthday as amega event. A flurry of eventsis scheduled from September17 (his birthday) till October7 (when he became GujaratChief Minister 20 years ago).Last year, there were no grandbirthday celebrations whenModi turned 70 because of thepandemic.

In the past, his birthdaywas marked as "Seva Saptah".

The drive this year has beenwidened as "Seva ourSamarpan Abhiyan"in tributeto his service and dedication.This period will also includethe birth anniversaries ofMahatma Gandhi (October 2)and Deen Dayal Upadhyay(September 25).

The campaign will focuson how Modi had handled theaftermath of the Bhuj earth-quake and how he managedto create brands such as theGujarat Model and VibrantGujarat. Five crore'Thank YouModiji' postcards will bemailed directly to him as atoken of gratitude. Fourteenration bags with Modi's pic-ture will be distributed.Videos and documentarieswill be shown projectingModi as the messiah of thepoor.

The Covid-19pandemicis not yet over. Then whythese gala functions?

Internationally, Modi hasmuch to be pleased about.Morning Consult, a USresearch firm has recentlygiven Modi the highestapproval rating of 70 per centamong global leaders. He ledthe chart that tracked 12other leaders. Japan'sYoshihide Suga was at the bot-tom.

No doubt the opposition,which is looking for an issue,has criticised this mega pro-gramme when people stillsuffer from Covid-19. Theypoint out that mishandlingthe pandemic is one of the sig-nificant failures of the Modigovernment, particularly thesecond wave, which tookeveryone unawares. The econ-

omy is down, and there ismassive unemployment, infla-tion and price rise. So, whatis there to rejoice, they ask.

Modi is aware of howimportant image-building isfor a politician. Elections arescheduled in half a dozenstates, including UP, earlynext year. The party's electionmachinery has already beenactivated. The birthday cele-brations will give a boost tothe party cadres and preparethem to face the elections.

Further, they are intend-ed to make Modi a cult figure,through BJP's parent organi-sation, RSS, is against suchculture. Many regional lead-ers practice personality cults,including Mamata Banerjee,Mayawati, Kejriwal, LaluPrasad Yadav, and others whohave their own fiefdoms.

These little tinpot dictatorscoexist in a democracy withtheir personality cults, whichis indeed a paradox.

Modi is presently in themid-term of his second stint.Despite fulfilling most of theRSS-BJP core agenda likerevoking Article 370 andbuilding of Ram Mandir atAyodhya, Covid-19 has unex-pectedly ruined the BJP'splans for the 2024 Lok Sabhapolls. His courtiers arguewhat is wrong with using thebirthday as an occasion toproject Modi as pro-poor.They contend that one shouldnot grudge Modi his birthdaybashes. After all, it is now clearthat Modi is BJP and BJP isModi and damage to one willdamage the other. Birthdaybashes are indeed a show ofstrength.

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the way Bharatiya Janata Party istrying to woo Apna Dal, a Kurmibased party and Nishad party, thathas influence among Nishads - theboating community.

Akhilesh Yadav too has shownhis willingness to align with small-er parties as he has publiclyclaimed that Samajwadi Party willnot forge an alliance with big par-ties but his party's doors are alwaysopen for smaller parties. He hasalready declared an alliance withMahan Dal and is also in touchwith Om Prakash Rajbhar, anOBC leader whoseSuheldevBharatiya Samaj Party,is an alliance with AIMIM but heis looking for greener pasture.

Castes like Sahus, Kashyaps,Sainis, Kushwahas, Mauryas,Shakyas, Pals, Dhangars, Gaderiyas,Kumhars, Nishads, and Mallas aremuch in "demand". The BJP in 2017had also expanded its reach amongOther Backward Castes (OBCs), byallying with Om Prakash Rajbhar'sSuheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party(SBSP) and the Nishad Party in 2019.The SBSP, however, broke off tiesafter the 2019 Lok Sabha electionsdespite Rajbhar being made a cab-inet minister in the YogiGovernment and his son and othersupporters given chairmanships ofstate-run corporations.

On the other hand, SamajwadiParty is focussing on Kurmis,Mauryas, Sainis, Sahus, Kashyaps,and other such. There is a feeling inSamajwadi Party that it might givemore tickets to non-Yadav OBCs inthe coming elections.

The search for caste alliance isnot limited to backward or OtherBackward Caste (OBC) only eventhe upper caste, particularlyBrahmins are now much in demand.Persecution of Brahmins is believedto be the new mantra of UP politicsas Bahujan Samaj Party and theSamajwadi Parry have declared thatif their parties return to power, theywill order a probe into the atrocitiesbeing committed against Brahminsduring the Yogi Raj.

At the concluding session of theBSP's Prabudh Sammelan,Mayawati declared that if she wasvoted to power, a Commissionwould be set up to enquire intoatrocities and injustice done toBrahmins by the BJP government.She even claimed that injustice wasalso done during Akhilesh Yadav'sregime and her the party will workto restore the "samman" of theBrahmins.

Remember, this is the sameMayawati whose party had coinedthe slogan "Tilak tarazu aur talwar,inkomaarojutteychaar" (BeatBrahmins, Vaishyas, and Thakurswith slippers). Such is her compul-sion to appease Brahmins that shedid not hesitate to go for identitypolitics when she accepted a trishul,conch shell, and a silver elephant,the election symbol of the party, asgifts during a Prabudh Sammelanfrom party leaders.

The Brahmins, who constitutearound 10 percent of the voteshare in Uttar Pradesh, have sud-denly become very important inUttar Pradesh. Not only opposition,

even the ruling BJP has startedlooking for Brahmin icons toappease this politically importantcommunity. This was probably thefirst time when a ruling party cel-ebrated the birth anniversary ofGovind Ballabh Pant, a ChiefMinister of an opposition party.Chief Minister Yogi Adityanathhimself laid a wreath on the statueof the former Chief Minister.

Why are the political partiesgiving so much attention to thisvote bank in UP? First, theBrahmins make up a significant sizeof the electorate, and secondly,theirstrong socio-political history helpsin influencing opinions duringelections. Thirdly, though Brahminslargely remain with BJP, they do nothesitate to switch sides.

The Brahmins can influence104 assembly seats out of 403 seats.According to the Lokniti-CSDS sur-vey data, more than half of theBrahmin electorate always voted forthe BJP till 2004. However, the com-munity's support for the BJP fellbelow 40 percent in the 2007assembly elections when Mayawati'sBSP won the majority. It stayed thatway till equations changed in the2014 Lok Sabha elections when theBJP got almost 72 percent of theBrahmins votes.The trend wasrepeated in the 2017 assembly andthe 2019 Lok Sabha elections whenthe party got 80 percent and 82 per-cent of Brahmin votes, respective-ly. After these three elections,Brahmin votes are to the BJP whatYadav votes are for the SP and Jatavvotes are for the BSP.

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The international commu-nity has announced over

$1.2 billion in aid for theAfghanistan humanitarian cri-sis, with UN Secretary GeneralAntonio Guterres underliningthe importance to engage withthe Taliban to ensure continuedhumanitarian assistance in thecountry and address other con-cerns including terrorism,human rights and the nature ofthe Government.

The United Nations onMonday convened a high-levelministerial event in Geneva onthe humanitarian situation inAfghanistan to highlight theacute needs in the countryand underscore the urgentfunding support and actionsrequired by international part-ners to support the people ofAfghanistan.

UN agencies and non-gov-ernmental partners launched aflash appeal seeking $606 mil-lion for the remainder of theyear to bring vital relief to 11million people in the war-tornnation.

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the meeting, Under-Secretary-General for HumanitarianAffairs and Emergency ReliefCoordinator Martin Griffithssaid more than $1.2 billion inhumanitarian and develop-ment aid has been announcedby “very generous memberStates” for the Afghanistanhumanitarian crisis. Thisincludes funding for the flashappeal as well as for the region-al response.

“This conference has fullymet my expectations in relation

to the solidarity with the peo-ple of Afghanistan,” Guterressaid at a Press conference.

“Considering the flashappeal, considering the supportto neighbouring countries andother programmes that sever-al countries mentioned, todaywe already heard clearly morethan $1 billion of pledges. It isimpossible, as I said, to say howmuch of these will be for theflash appeal; but in any case, itrepresents a quantum leap inrelation to the financial com-mitment of the internationalcommunity towards theAfghan people,” he said.

The UN chief emphasisedthat “it is impossible to provide”humanitarian assistance insideAfghanistan “without engagingwith the de facto authorities ofthe country”.

“It is very important toengage with the Taliban at thepresent moment for all aspectsthat concern the internationalcommunity, be it about terror-ism, be it about human rights,be it about drugs, be it aboutthe nature of the Government,our attitude is to engage,” hesaid.

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China on Tuesday hit out atthe upcoming first-ever

Quad summit to be hosted byUS President Joe Biden, sayingthe formation of “exclusivecliques” targeting other countriesruns counter to the trend of thetimes and is “doomed to fail”.

President Biden would hostthe first in-person Quad sum-mit on September 24 inWashington which will beattended by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi, PrimeMinister Scott Morrison ofAustralia and Japanese pre-mier Yoshihide Suga.

Asked for his comment onthe upcoming Quad summit,Chinese Foreign Ministryspokesman Zhao Lijian told amedia briefing here that coop-eration between the countriesshould not target third parties.

“It is China’s consistentbelief that any regional coop-eration mechanism should fol-low the trend of peace anddevelopment, and help pro-

mote mutual trust and coop-eration among regional coun-tries rather than target a thirdparty or undermine its inter-ests,” Zhao said.

“Forming closed and exclu-sive ‘cliques’ targeting othercountries runs counter to thetrend of the times and deviatesfrom the expectation of region-al countries. It thus wins no sup-port and is doomed to fail,” hesaid. China is not only a majorengine of economic growth inthe Asia-Pacific, but also astaunch defender of regionalpeace and stability, he said.

“China’s development is aforce for world peace and aboon for regional prosperityand development. Relevantcountries should discard theoutdated zero-sum mentalityand narrow-minded geopolit-ical perception,

view China’s developmentcorrectly and respect people’saspiration in the region and domore that is conducive to sol-idarity and cooperation ofregional countries,” he said.

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bility for Kabul airport without“clear” agreements with allinvolved, including the Taliban,about its operations.

Doha has become a keybroker in Afghanistan follow-ing last month’s withdrawal ofUS forces, helping evacuatethousands of foreigners andAfghans, engaging the newTaliban rulers and supportingoperations at Kabul airport.

“We need to make sure thateverything is addressed veryclearly otherwise... we are notable to take any responsibility

of the airport (if) all thesethings are not addressed,”Foreign Minister SheikhMohammed bin AbdulrahmanAl-Thani said at a press brief-ing.

“Right now the status is still(under) negotiation.”

Since the US pullout, QatarAirways planes have made sev-eral trips to Kabul, flying in aidand Doha’s representatives andferrying out foreign passportholders.

The two-decade US inter-vention in Afghanistan endedwith the hurried airlift of morethan 120,000 people fromKabul as the Taliban returnedto power.

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Prime Minister NarendraModi and US President Joe

Biden will address the UNGeneral Debate in-person nextweek, as over 100 heads of stateand Government arrive in NewYork to attend the annual high-level General Assembly session,which had gone virtual in 2020due to the Covid-19.

Modi will address worldleaders from the iconic UNGeneral Assembly hall on themorning of September 25, aday after he participates in theQuad Leaders’ Summit inWashington DC hosted byBiden on September 24.

Modi, Biden, AustralianPrime Minister Scott Morrisonand his Japanese counterpartYoshihide Suga will participatein the Leaders’ Summit of theQuadrilateral Framework in

Washington and “reviewprogress made since their firstvirtual Summit on 12 March2021 and discuss regionalissues of shared interest,” theMinistry of External Affairssaid in a statement.

Modi will address theGeneral Debate of the 76thSession of the United NationsGeneral Assembly (UNGA)on September 25. “The themefor this year’s General Debateis ‘Building Resilience throughhope to recover from Covid-19,rebuild sustainably, respondto the needs of the planet,respect the rights of people, andrevitalise the United Nations’,”the MEA statement said.

As per the second provi-sional list of speakers for theGeneral Assembly, about 109heads of state and governmentwill address the General Debatein person.

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India on Tuesday expresseddisappointment over “unwar-

ranted remarks” made by theUN human rights chief onJammu & Kashmir, saying hercomments do not reflect theground reality and any short-comings in upholding humanrights must be addressed in animpartial manner andanchored in non-interferencein a country’s internal affairs.

“We take note of refer-ences to India in the oral updateby the High Commissionerand express our disappointmentover her unwarranted remarkson the Union Territory ofJammu & Kashmir, which donot reflect the ground reality,”Secretary (West) in the Ministryof External Affairs ReenatSandhu said on Tuesday whiledelivering India’s statementunder the General Debate onOral Update of the HighCommissioner at the 48th

Session of the Human RightsCouncil. Sandhu said India’sapproach to global promotionand protection of human rightsis based on “our own experienceas a pluralistic and inclusivesociety and vibrant democracy.”

She said India believes thatpromotion and protection ofhuman rights are best pursuedthrough dialogue, consulta-tion among States and throughprovision of technical assis-tance and capacity building.

“Any shortcomings inupholding human rights must beaddressed in a transparent andimpartial manner, anchored inrespect for national sovereigntyand non-interference in internalaffairs of States,” she said.

UN high commissioner forhuman rights Michelle Bacheleton Monday described as “wor-rying” India’s use of theUnlawful Activities(Prevention) Act as well as “fre-quent” temporary communi-cation blackouts in J&K.

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The leaders of Egypt andIsrael have met as part of

the first official trip to Egypt byan Israeli Prime Minister inover a decade, and rising ten-sions in the Gaza Strip at thetop of their agenda.

Gaza is sandwichedbetween Israel and Egypt, andboth countries have enforced aborder blockade of the territo-ry to varying degrees since 2007when the Islamic militant groupHamas took control there.

The meeting betweenEgyptian President Abdel Fattahel-Sissi and Israeli Prime MinisterNaftali Bennett on Monday sig-nalled a warming in a relation-ship that had security-focusedbut somewhat cool under

Bennett’s predecessor, Israelihard-liner Benjamin Netanyahu.

El-Sissi and Bennett met inthe Red Sea resort town ofSharm el-Sheikh, according to anofficial statement from theEgyptian presidency. Egypt’sstate television showed bothleaders sitting side by side infront of both of national flags,with the Israeli army’s chief ofstaff and Egypt’s foreign minis-ter and the head of its intelligenceservice also in attendance.

It was the first official visitby an Israeli premier since2010, when then EgyptianPresident Hosni Mubarak host-ed a summit with Netanyahu,Palestinian PresidentMahmoud Abbas and USSecretary of State HillaryClinton.

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Senior diplomats from Japan,the United States and South

Korea urged North Korea onTuesday to return to talks overits missile and nuclear devel-opment, a day after itannounced it successfully test-ed new long-range cruise mis-siles, indicating an advance-ment of its military capabilities.

The three-way meeting inTokyo was attended by USSpecial Representative forNorth Korea Policy Sung Kim,South Korea’s SpecialRepresentative for KoreanPeninsula Peace and SecurityAffairs Noh Kyu-duk andJapanese Director-General forAsian and Oceanian affairsTakehiro Funakoshi.

US Envoy Kim said thethree countries were open todiplomacy with North Korea“to make tangible progress thatincreases the security of theUnited States and our allies.”

Damascus: Russian PresidentVladimir Putin criticised thepresence of foreign troops inSyria, saying they are thereagainst the will of the SyrianGovernment and are blockingthe consolidation of the war-torn country.

Putin was referring to hun-dreds of US troops stationed ineastern Syria and working withKurdish-led fighters in bat-tling the militant Islamic Stategroup, as well as Turkish forces.

Speaking during a meetingwith his Syrian counterpartBashar Assad, he said the pres-ence of the foreigners is illegalbecause they don’t have per-mission from the UnitedNations or Syria’s Govt. AP

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The British Government willbe accepting an expert

panel’s recommendation andbegin the rollout of boostervaccine shots across Englandfor over-50s from next week,UK Health Secretary SajidJavid told Parliament onTuesday.

Tabling the government’swinter strategy to tackle Covid-19, Javid told the House ofCommons that the NationalHealth Service (NHS) inEngland is preparing for therollout following the JointCommittee on Vaccination andImmunisation’s (JCVI) recom-mendation earlier.

Wales has also accepted theJCVI advice, with otherdevolved regions of the UK —

Scotland and Northern Ireland— also expected to follow.

“I can confirm that I haveaccepted the JCVI’s advice andthat the NHS is preparing tooffer booster doses from nextweek,” said Javid.

“There’s evidence that theprotection offered by Covid-19vaccines reduces over time,particularly older people whoare at greater risk, so boosterdoses are an important way ofkeeping the virus under controlfor the long-term,” he said.

Among the otherannouncements for the gov-ernment’s winter strategy of“living with the virus” withoutthe need to resort to further fulllockdowns, Javid also outlineda “Plan B” of contingency mea-sures, including working fromhome and face coverings.

Houston: Hurricane Nicholas,now a tropical storm, madelandfall along the Texas coaston Tuesday, bringing the threatof up to 20 inches of rainfall toparts of the Gulf Coast, includ-ing the same area hit byHurricane Harvey in 2017 andstorm-battered Louisiana. Thestorm could also cause life-threatening flash floods acrossthe deep south.

Nicholas touched down onthe eastern part of theMatagorda Peninsula and isnow about 30 miles (50 kilo-meters) south southwest ofHouston, Texas, with maxi-mum winds of 70 mph (110kph), according to the NationalHurricane Center in Miami.

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The Foreign Minister inAfghanistan’s new Taliban-

run Cabinet on Tuesday saidthe Government remains com-mitted to its promises not toallow militants to use its terri-tory to attack others.

The first Press conference byAmir Khan Muttaqi since theTaliban formed an interimGovernment a week ago comesas governments around theworld — and many Afghans athome — are searching for indi-cations on how it will ruleAfghanistan after sweeping outthe US-backed Government andtaking over Kabul a month ago.

The US and its allies havepushed the Taliban not torepeat its harsh rule of the1990s, when it monopolisedpower and imposed its harshinterpretation of Islamic law,including severe restrictionson women and minorities.

Mottaqi gave little signwhether the Taliban will bend tothe international pressure. Hewould not give say how long the

interim Government would be inplace or whether it would even-tually be opened up to other fac-tions, minorities or women.

He repeatedly insistedother countries must not inter-fere in Afghanistan’s internalissues, including in response toa question on whether electionswould eventually be held.

Mottaqi, a longtimeTaliban negotiator, did makethe first confirmation by amember of the newGovernment of its commit-ment to the Taliban deal lastyear with the United States thatopened the way for theAmerican withdrawal fromAfghanistan.

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gross capital formation or newgreenfield assets to become aUSD 5 trillion (around �368lakh crore) economy byFY2027, a report said.

The report by Deloittesaid despite the Covid-19 dis-ruption, FDI inflow into thecountry provides necessaryoptimism and display under-lying strengths of the Indianeconomy.

In FY2020-21, FDI inflows(including equity, re-investedearnings, and capital) amount-ed to a record USD 81.72 bil-lion, 10 per cent higher thanthe previous financial year, itsaid.

While India remains afavoured foreign direct invest-ment (FDI) destination, thecountry must enact morereforms to ensure FDI flowsnot only continue but also playa meaningful role in attainingthe USD 5 trillion economy tar-get, the report compiled basedon the survey response of 1,200business leaders of multina-tional corporations in the US,the UK, Japan and Singaporesaid.

It found that India remainsan attractive destination forinvestments, scoring highly forits skilled workforce andprospects for economic growth.

It also suggested that thecountry must continue to enactreforms and initiatives thatdrive improvement, buildingconfidence in and enhancingthe competitiveness of India’seconomy.

While these inflows weredriven primarily by the ser-vices sector, a more propor-tionate contribution to grosscapital formation and theincrease in exports can beachieved through greater FDIin manufacturing, it said,adding, average FDI fromFY15 to FY21 in manufactur-ing was USD 8.6 billion com-pared to about USD 25 billionfor services.

“Our analysis shows thatIndia will require at least USD8 trillion of cumulative grosscapital formation to grow intoa USD 5 trillion economy,assuming we are on the fastestgrowth track. Based on pasttrends, our research suggestsIndia needs approximatelyUSD 400 billion of foreigncapital cumulatively over thenext six years,” it said.

New Delhi:Cement produc-tion declined 12 per cent to 82million tonne in April-June2021-22 compared to the pre-vious quarter as Covid-inducedlockdowns in various statesimpacted demand, a report byIcra said. However, year-on-year, the output was 54 per centhigher helped by a lower baseon account of nationwide lock-down in April 2020, the ratingagency said.

“The production in 4MFY2022 (April-July) is lower by2 per cent compared to pre-COVID levels (4M FY2020),” itsaid. Though Icra expects totalproduction in the country to goup by 12 per cent in the currentfiscal year supported by factorslike pent-up demand, ruralhousing demand and pick-upin infrastructure activity. PTI

Mumbai:The rupee pared itsearly gains to close flat at 73.68against the US currency onTuesday due to inflationaryconcerns and a muted trend indomestic equities.

The US dollar regainingstrength ahead of the release of

US inflation data and highcrude oil prices also restrictedgains in the rupee, analysts said.

At the interbank foreignexchange market, the localcurrency opened higher at73.62 and touched an intra-dayhigh of 73.57. PTI

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India and the 10-memberASEAN bloc should strive to

announce the review of the freetrade agreement (FTA)between them before the year-end, Minister of State forCommerce and IndustryAnupriya Patel suggested onTuesday.

The issue came up for dis-cussion during the 18thASEAN-India EconomicMinisters Consultations.

The ASEAN-India Tradein Goods Agreement wassigned on August 13, 2009. Itcame into force on January 1,2010.

The Association ofSoutheast Asian Nations(ASEAN) members are --Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore,Malaysia, the Philippines,

Vietnam, Myanmar,Cambodia, Brunei and Laos.

Patel resolved to completethe scoping process expedi-tiously to make the agreementtrade facilitative, user-friendlywith contemporary andstreamlined customs and reg-ulatory procedures, the com-merce ministry said in a state-ment.

She stated that the tradearrangement has to be recip-rocal, mutually beneficial andshould balance the aspirationsof all the partners.

Patel emphasised on theneed for securing the FTAprovisions to prevent misuse ofpreferential treatment and alsohighlighted the non-tariff mea-sures faced by Indian exportersin accessing ASEAN market,especially in agriculture andauto sectors.

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The GST Council might onFriday consider taxing

petrol, diesel and other petro-leum products under the sin-gle national GST regime, amove that may require hugecompromises by both centraland state governments on therevenues they collect from tax-ing these products.

The Council, which com-prises central and state financeministers, in its meeting sched-uled in Lucknow on Friday, isalso likely to consider extend-ing the time for duty relief onCovid-19 essentials, accord-ing to sources in the know ofthe development.

GST is being thought to bea solution for the problem ofnear-record high petrol anddiesel rates in the country, as itwould end the cascading effectof tax on tax (state VAT beinglevied not just on the cost ofproduction but also on theexcise duty charged by the

Centre on such output).In June, the Kerala High

Court, based on a writ petition,had asked the GST Council todecide on bringing petrol anddiesel within the goods and ser-vices tax (GST) ambit. Thesources said bringing petroland diesel within GST wouldbe placed before the Councilfor discussion in the light of thecourt asking the Council to doso. When a national GST sub-sumed central taxes such asexcise duty and state levies likeVAT on July 1, 2017, five petro-

leum goods – petrol, diesel,ATF, natural gas and crude oil– were kept out of its purviewfor the time being. This isbecause both central and stategovernment finances reliedheavily on taxes on these prod-ucts. Since GST is a consump-tion-based tax, bringing petroproducts under the regimewould have mean states wherethese products are sold get therevenue and not ones that cur-rently derive the most benefitout of them because of theybeing the production centre.

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Equity indices resumed theirclimb on Tuesday after a

day’s pause following gains inIT, bank and engineering stocksamid a muted trend overseas.

The 30-share BSE Sensexended 69.33 points or 0.12 percent higher at 58,247.09. Thebroader NSE Nifty advanced24.70 points or 0.14 per cent toits fresh closing record of17,380.

IndusInd Bank topped theSensex gainers chart with ajump of 4.07 per cent, followedby HCL Tech, Kotak Bank,Bajaj Auto, Tech Mahindra,L&T, Titan and TCS.

In contrast, HDFC, NestleIndia, UltraTech Cement,HUL, Tata Steel, Bajaj Finserv

and Bajaj Finance were amongthe prominent laggards, shed-ding up to 1.07 per cent.

“Despite a bullish opening,domestic indices closed flatwith a positive bias amid mixedsentiments among global peers.India’s retail inflation softenedto 5.3 per cent in August, stay-ing within RBI’s comfort zone,which was led by lower foodinflation.

“However, the wholesaleprice inflation accelerated to11.39 per cent, snapping thetwo-month easing trend owingto non-food articles. Globalmarkets traded cautiouslyahead of the US consumerprice index to be releasedtoday,” said Vinod Nair, Headof Research at Geojit FinancialServices.

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The wholesale price-basedinflation rose marginally to

11.39 per cent in August, main-ly due to costlier manufacturedgoods, even as food pricessoftened.

Snapping the two-montheasing trend, WPI inflationrose in August and remained indouble-digit for the fifth con-secutive month.

In July 2021, WPI inflationwas 11.16 per cent, while inAugust 2020 it was 0.41 percent. “The high rate of infla-tion in August 2021 is primar-ily due to rise in prices of non-food articles, mineral oils;crude petroleum and naturalgas; manufactured productslike basic metals; food prod-ucts; textiles; chemicals andchemical products etc as com-pared the correspondingmonth of the previous year,” theCommerce and IndustryMinistry said in a statement.

Inflation in food articleseased for the fourth straightmonth, recording (-) 1.29 percent in August, against zero per

cent in July, even as onion andpulses prices spiked.

Inflation in onions washigh at 62.78 per cent, whilethat in pulses was 9.41 per cent.In vegetables it was (-) 13.30per cent in August.

Inflation in crude petro-leum and natural gas was 40.03per cent in August. In manu-factured products, inflationstood at 11.39 per cent inAugust, against 11.20 per cent

in July. The manufacturedgoods inflation has remained indouble digit for the fourthmonth in a row.

The RBI, which mainlytakes into account retail infla-tion, in its monetary policy lastmonth kept interest ratesunchanged at record lows. Itprojected CPI or retail inflationat 5.7 per cent during 2021-22,up from its earlier projection of5.1 per cent.

New Delhi:Co-founder ofonline food delivery platformZomato Gaurav Gupta, a keyfigure in the run-up to thecompany’s IPO in July, hasresigned. In an email sent tostaff at Zomato, Gupta - whowas the head of supply - said hewill be starting a new chapterafter spending six years at thecompany. “I am taking a newturn in my life and will be start-ing a new chapter, taking a lotfrom this defining chapter ofmy life - the last 6 years atZomato. We have a great teamnow to take Zomato forward,and it’s time for me to take analternate path in my journey,”Gupta said. PTI

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The Finance Ministry haspermitted 11 states to bor-

row an additional amount of �15,721 crore after these statesachieved the capital expendi-ture target set for the June quar-ter.

These states are AndhraPradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh,Haryana, Kerala, MadhyaPradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya,Nagaland, Rajasthan andUttarakhand.

“11 states.... Have achievedthe target set by the Ministry ofFinance for the capital expen-diture in the 1st Quarter of2021-22. As an incentive, theseStates have been granted per-mission by the Department ofExpenditure to borrow an addi-tional amount of �15,721crore,” the Ministry said in a

statement.The additional open mar-

ket borrowing permissiongranted is equivalent to 0.25per cent of their Gross StateDomestic Product (GSDP).Additional financial resourcesthus made available will helpthe States in pushing their cap-ital expenditure further.

The Ministry said capitalexpenditure has a high multi-plier effect, enhances thefuture productive capacity ofthe economy, and results in ahigher rate of economicgrowth.

Accordingly, out of the netborrowing ceiling (NBC) of 4per cent of GSDP for the statesfor 2021-22, 0.50 per cent ofGSDP was earmarked forincremental capital expenditureto be incurred by the Statesduring 2021-22.

Jamshedpur:Tata Steel onTuesday commissioned a 5-tonne per day (TPD) carboncapture plant at its JamshedpurWorks, making it the country’sfirst steel company to adoptsuch a carbon capture tech-nology that extracts CO2directly from the blast furnacegas.Tata Steel will reuse the cap-tured CO2 on site to promotecircular carbon economy.

This carbon capture andutilisation (CCU) facility usesamine-based technology andmakes the captured carbonavailable for onsite reuse. Thedepleted CO2 gas is sent backto the gas network withincreased calorific value. Thisproject has been executed withtechnological support fromCarbon Clean, a global leaderin low-cost CO2 capture tech-

nology. The CCU plant wasinaugurated by T.V. Narendran,CEO and MD, Tata Steel, in thepresence of company officialsand other dignitaries. “In align-ment with the Tata group’spioneering values, we havetaken this strategic step in ourjourney towards decarbonisa-tion. We will continue ourquest to remain an industryleader in sustainability by set-ting new benchmarks for a bet-ter tomorrow,” Narendran said.“The operational experiencegathered from this 5 TPD CO2capture plant will give us therequired data and confidence toestablish larger carbon captureplants in future. As a nextstep, we aim to establish scaledup facilities of CO2 captureintegrated with utilisationavenues,” he added. IANS

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Eleven states have achievedthe capex target set by the

finance ministry in the 1stQuarter of 2021-22 therebygetting permission to borrowan additional amount of �15,721 crore as an incentive.

The 11 states includeAndhra Pradesh, Bihar,Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Kerala,Madhya Pradesh, Manipur,Meghalaya, Nagaland,Rajasthan and Uttarakhand.

The additional open mar-ket borrowing permissiongranted to states under the pro-gramme is equivalent to 0.25per cent of their Gross StateDomestic Product (GSDP).Additional financial resourcesthus made available will helpthe States in pushing their cap-ital expenditure further, thefinance ministry said in astatement.

The capital expenditurehas a high multiplier effect,enhances the future productivecapacity of the economy, andresults in a higher rate of eco-nomic growth. Accordingly,out of the net borrowing ceil-ing of 4% of GSDP for theStates for 2021-22, 0.50 per centof GSDP was earmarked forincremental capital expenditureto be incurred by the Statesduring 2021-22. The target forincremental capital expenditurefor each state to qualify for thisincremental borrowing wasfixed by the Dept ofExpenditure. To become eligi-ble for incremental borrowing,States were required to achieveat least 15 per cent of the tar-get set for 2021-22 by the endof 1st quarter of 2021-22, 45per cent by the end of 2ndquarter, 70 per cent by the endof 3rd quarter and 100 per centby March 31, 2022.

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been published in UK basedjournal Scientific Reports, andPubMed, titled Identification ofVaccine Targets in Pathogensand Design of a Vaccine UsingComputational Approaches byDr Kamal Rawal, scientist,Associate Professor and ProjectDirector, Amity Institute ofBiotechnology, Amity University.

Dr Peter Hotez, (Dean,National School of TropicalMedicine, Baylor College ofMedicine), Dr Maria Elena

Bottazzi (Co-Dean, NationalSchool of Tropical Medicine,BCM) and Dr Ulrich Strych(Associate Professor, BCM) aresenior co-authors.

According to Dr Rawal, “Thekey innovation is using artificialintelligence to combine severalhundred parameters to mineseveral thousand proteins andgenes to reach to the right targetsand design vaccine using theseproteins.”

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While addressing thesession Dr Kulneet Suri,Senior Director said:“Effectiveness is the qual-ity of being successful inproducing an intendedresult. Especially, theteaching profession is

expected to evolve a setof ethical principles toguide the conduct andbehaviours of its mem-bers.”

The ethical princi-ples provide the basis todifferentiate betweendesirable and undesirableprofessional conduct andbehavior of the teachers.

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having an effectiveteacher with profession-al ethics in the process ofeducation is one of theimportant needs of soci-ety.

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During the ongoing COVID19 pandemic, big IT com-

panies like Google, Amazon,Apple, Facebook, and Microsofthave accelerated their activitiesof business expansion and gain-ing a monopoly. As a result,governments in several majorcountries, including the US andIndia have started amending oldlaws and enacting new laws tocurb the monopoly of thesecompanies.

The monopoly war hasbecome very prevalent in techcompanies. Google, fundedApple and other mobile manu-facturing companies, carriers,and browsers to put its searchengines and other apps as thedefault apps. This led to fewerconsumers of other searchengines and a drastic surge ofGoogle's search engine sub-scribers. There are also allega-tions that Google and Applehave teamed up to outplaycompetition like Nokia andBlackBerry. Most apps are nowdownloaded from Google’s PlayStore or Apple's App Store, forwhich Google and Apple chargeup to 30 percent commissionfrom App Manufacturers.

Leading E-commerce com-panies like Amazon & Flipkartcontinue to have a differentgame of monopoly in India.These companies are control-

ling their operations and prod-uct prices by promoting select-ed vendors on their platforms.The Delhi Vyapar Mahasangh,an organization of retailers,had filed a complaint to theCompetition Commission ofIndia (CCI) accusing Amazonand Flipkart of trying to endcompetition by using wrongmeans. After which the CCI haddirected the Director-Generalfor Preliminary Inquiry of theallegations. Amazon andFlipkart also approached theKarnataka High Court and theSupreme Court to avoid theseinvestigations but could notfind any relief. Microsoft isknown for ruining its competi-tors since the success ofWindows as an operating sys-tem. A successful browsernamed Netscape was madeincompatible and InternetExplorer was promoted to swipethe business.

Similarly, whether it issearch engine business or cloudcomputing, or social media,Microsoft never shied awayfrom using unethical tactics toderail competitors in everybusiness line they are into. As aresult, Microsoft has alreadybeen prosecuted for antitrust in2001 as well.

Major cases of antitrusthave taken place in the past and

hard steps have also been taken.In 1911, John D. Rockefeller'scompany Standard Oil was splitinto 34 parts for an antitrustviolation. Realizing the urgencyof the occasion, the USCongress passed five newantitrust bills in June 2021 - theAmerican Innovation andChoice Act, The PlatformCompetition and OpportunityAct, The Ending PlatformMonopoly Act, the Access act,The Merger Filing FeeModernization Act. TheEuropean Union has proposedtwo bills to control anti-com-petition and illegal content inDecember 2020 itself.

In India, MRTP Act 1969 -Monopolistic and RestrictiveTrade Practice Act was alreadyin practice since 1969. Howeverthe rule was too old to controlthe antitrust after the 90s glob-alization, so the CompetitionAct was passed in 2002 underwhich the CompetitionCommission of India was con-stituted in 2009. New IT law -Intermediary guidelines anddigital media ethics code 2021and amendment into Consumerprotection (e-commerce) Act2020 are the few major steps tocurb the tech giants and protectthe interest of consumers.

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business school in India to be accredit-ed by the Association to AdvanceCollegiate Schools of Business(AACSB).However, ISB is not accredit-ed by the Indian statutory body and theAll India Council for TechnicalEducation (AICTE) as ISB has chosennot to apply for its accreditation.

Programmes offered�Post Graduate Programme in

Management (PGP)�An incisive one-year programme

designed for mid-career professionals�Post Graduate Programme for

Working Professionals (PGPpro)�A weekend residential MBA pro-

gramme designed for mid-career work-ing executives

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2021-22. It also announces thefirst set of Fellows for its 2022cohort. The Fellowshipreceived 2,614 applicationsfrom 46 countries, with candi-dates as young as 16 and as oldas 59 applying to be one of the30 fellows.

The fellowship gives fel-lows the chance to work withtop climate pioneers in theworld. It is a unique one-yearinternational climate educa-tion programme based on amentor-mentee framework. Itis designed to help fellowsdevelop the skills required tolead large scale solutions tomitigate climate change.

The first set of seven fel-lows for the 2022 cohort,announced, will arrive at thefellowship, having alreadymade a mark in their fieldsranging from Microbiologyand Biotechnology to AI andData Science and Forestry andEnvironmental Sciences.

The Anant Fellowship forClimate Action is a member ofMIT Solve, an initiative of theMassachusetts Institute ofTechnology, US, to solve worldchallenges.

How to apply : Visit:ht t p s : / / a n u . e d u . i n / p r o -gramme/anant-fellowship-for-climate-action/

Application deadline:It is September 18, 2021.

The University ofBirmingham Dubaiannounces scholarships forIndian students domiciledand living in India. TheUniversity of Birmingham is aglobal top 100 university and amember of the elite RussellGroup of UK universities. It isatop most targeted universityby leading employers with itsown campus in Dubai.

The scholarship is availablefor all students. Once the stu-dent has submitted the appli-cation and if they receive anoffer from the university, thevalue of the scholarship will beadvised based on predictedgrades or on meeting the offerconditions. The scholarshipssupports applicants who wishto experience the high-qualityeducation we deliver in Dubai.

Applications for Fall 2021are open until late September,provided applicants have alldocuments.

The value of scholarshipwill be advised based on pre-dicted grades or on meetingoffer conditions.

Award: Up to 40% oftuition fees (2021 entry).

For scholarship inquiries,please contact: [email protected]

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The work of the forensicexperts captivated us. Manypeople are drawn towards

human anatomy and study offorensic science. The study offorensic science also known ascriminalistics is used everywherearound the world to enforce crim-inal laws and regulations to pro-tect public health and to resolvecivil disputes. India has 37 Statesand seven central forensic sciencelabs, 29 fingerprint bureaus, sev-eral regional forensic science labsand district mobile forensic units.

We also have an advancedCentre for DNA Fingerprintingand Diagnostics and the Centre forCellular and Molecular Biologyand Central Forensic ScienceLaboratory which facilitates DNAprofiling. The country also has pri-vate sectors at several places pro-viding opportunities in this field.

Even with so many opportu-nities in the field of criminalisticsin India, there are only 0.33 foren-sic scientists per 0.1 million pop-ulation. The need for forensicscientists is immense. Here are the

opportunities in this field.Crime Scene Investigator:

Students wanting to have a careerin this field should at least have abachelor's degree, mostly a mas-ter's degree is preferable. Oneshould have a degree in the fieldof science and criminal justice. Therole of a Crime Scene Investigator(CSI) is to conduct analysis, helpin investigating crime scenes,work with body parts and manymore.

Forensic Ballistics Expert: Aballistic expert is basically afirearm examiner who is trainedin criminal justice. The duty of aballistic expert is to collect andanalyse evidence on live ammu-nition, bullet fragments, firearmsand other tools associated with it.Another work of a ballistic expertis finding out the point of originof fire rounds, examining if a gunwas fired recently, identifying thetype of bullet and more. Studentswanting to pursue a career in thisfield should hold a bachelor degreein forensic science and haveknowledge in Maths, Physics and

Chemistry. A background inhuman anatomy and biology iscompulsory.

Forensic DNA Analyst: ADNA analyst plays a vital role inthe field of Forensic Science. Thework of the DNA analyst is toexamine the samples of victims,suspects, and various people as ithelps in identifying whether thegiven person was present at thecrime scene or not; DNA resultsare more accurate than fingerprinttesting. A career in this fieldshould be taken by students whoare passionate and determined.Students should have at least afour-year degree having educa-tional qualification in one of thestreams. The fields that one cangain qualification in order tobecome a DNA analyst is biology,criminalistics, biochemistry, genet-ics nd chemistry.

Lie Detector Examiner:Students wanting to pursue acareer as a polygraph examinershould have a degree in psychol-ogy, law enforcement or criminaljustice. The work of a lie detector

examiner includes conducting liedetector examinations, workingwith investigators, testifying incourt and many more.

Digital Forensic Expert: Tobecome a digital forensics expert,students should have a bachelor'sdegree in one of these courses likecomputer engineering, appliedmathematics, cybersecurity infor-mation technology, and manyothers. To have a superior positionin this field a master’s degree isrequired. Due to an increase incases in cybercrimes, there is agreat demand for digital forensicsexperts. The work of digital foren-sics includes analysing informa-tion in investigations and solvingcrimes related to computers.

As the career scope of crimi-nalistics is vast, the students canget employed in hospitals, insti-tutes, forensic labs, pharmaceuti-cal MNC’s and Government andprivate agencies. There are endlessopportunities for those who wishto have their forensic practiceand forensic service office.

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Kolkata Knight Riders headcoach Brendon McCullum

says they were “paralysed a lit-tle bit by fear” when coronavirusstruck the first half of the IPL inIndia.

It was KKR spinner VarunChakravarthy and seamerSandeep Warrier, who first test-ed positive for COVID-19 inMay in the middle of the League,which was eventually post-poned.The Purple and Goldbrigade led by England white-ball skipper Eoin Morgan had anunderwhelming first half. Theyare languishing at the seventhspot but McCullum is hopefulfor a strong showing whenaction resumes from September19 in the UAE.

“In regards to the tourna-ment which is upcoming (sec-ond half of the IPL phase), wecan end it right. We can take thegame on and we’re in a situationwhere we need things to go ourway,” McCullum was quoted assaying by the KKR website.

“We need to hit the groundrunning, challenge one anotherprivately, support one anotherpublicly and try and get the bestout of one another in the next 4-5 weeks. Who knows where wecan go with this.

“There were sometimesthroughout the season when Ijust felt we were being paralyseda little bit by fear,” he added.

The virus had wreakedhavoc in India at that time,claiming thousands of lives.

The 39-year-old formerNew Zealand skipper, who start-ed his IPL journey as a playerwith KKR, is hopeful the teamwill be able to get rid of the angstthat had been built in the firstphase of the league.

“I wasn't able to free theguys up enough to understand

that and that's sort of a challengefor me. But it is also a good chal-lenge for the guys as well thatthey need to push the envelopeof their own thinking as well.

“Hopefully we will be able tostrip away a bit of the angstwhich had built up in the firstpart of the season, just go outthere and try and enjoy our-selves.

“That's the ambition that Ihave got for the franchise andhence why I am unapologeticand unrelenting in my belief thatwe need to play a braver style ofplay," he said. Talking about hiscoaching style, McCullum said,“When we left India (after IPLwas called off due to Covid), Ithink everyone understood meas a coach on how I want ourteam to play.”

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Japan and South Korea mayhave wobbled in World Cup

qualification earlier this monthbut their clubs are dominant inAsian competition. Betweenthem, the two two countrieshave won 10 of the last 15 AsianChampions League titles andalso provide seven teams in theRound of 16 of the 2021 tour-nament.

The eastern zone of thecompetition starts the knockoutstage Tuesday with a clashbetween two of the titlefavorites: defending championUlsan Horang-i and Japanesechampion Kawasaki Frontale.

“I came to Ulsan because Iwant to win titles,” Ulsan mid-fielder Valeri Qazaishvili toldthe Asian FootballConfederation’s website.

“I’ve heard a lot aboutKawasaki and I know they’re avery good team who play goodfootball,” Qazaishvili said.

“It's a huge advantage for usto have this match at home inKorea with our fans behind us;to play at home is always spe-cial.”

Both teams are top of theirdomestic leagues. When theAsian Champions League groupstage finished in May, Kawasakiwas way out in front at the topof the J League but one winfrom the last five games has leftthe club just one point clear and

out of the Levain Cup.“We really wanted to win in

the cup game and progress tothe next stage so it is a painfulfeeling,” coach Toru Oniki said.

“We have no time to thinkabout that as we have to lookforward to a tough game in Asiaagainst the champion Ulsanand that gives us a chance to putthe cup exit behind us.”

The other two meetingsbetween clubs from Japan andSouth Korea feature NagoyaGrampus hosting Daegu FCand Pohang Steelers, three-timeAsian champion, traveling toCerezo Osaka. Korea’s Jeonbukwill host BG Pathum United ofThailand.

In the western zone, Tractorof Iran asked the Asian FootballConfederation for its game withAl-Nassr of Riyadh to be post-poned.

The team is struggling toput together the required 18-man roster as it has been hit byinjuries and an outbreak ofCOVID-19.

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Indian women's cricket teamopener Smriti Mandhana

says her side has improved"massively" since the WorldT20 final defeat to Australia lastyear and will be "extra compet-itive" during the upcomingseries here which also featuresits first day-night Test outing.

India and Australia are setto lock horns in a multi-formatseries comprising threeODIs, the day-night Testand three T20s, startingon September 21. TheTest will be playedfrom September 30 toOctober 3 inCanberra.

The last time thetwo sides met was atthe women's T20World Cup finalat the MCG lastyear where thehosts had ham-mered India by85 runs to lift thetrophy.

"The team has grown mas-sively (since the T20 WorldCup)," Mandhana told 'TheScoop podcast'.

The Indian squad finishedits 14-day hard hotel quarantineon Monday. "COVID was a bigbreak after the T20 World Cupand a lot of girls had a chance togo back and understand moreabout their games, where theylack as an individual and comeback stronger."

The stylish south-paw said that after theCOVID-19 enforced

break, the Indian teamis slowly getting backinto the rhythm of play-ing cricket. "The wholeteam has worked on theirfitness and skills...We are

still getting into arhythm of playingmatches continu-ously but the lastfive, six months we

have been playingcricket and now weare getting back intothe match mindset.

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Sri Lanka pace veteran LasithMalinga on Tuesdayannounced his retirement

from all forms of cricket after ter-rorising the world’s best batsmenfor over a decade and a half d withhis toe-crushing yorkers deliveredfrom a low and distinct sling-armaction.

A white ball legend in his ownright and one of the greatest T20bowlers, the 38-year-old was cap-tain of Sri Lanka’s 2014 T20 WorldCup winning team. He posted amessage on his social mediaaccount announcing his decision.

“Hanging up my T20 shoes andretiring from all forms of cricket!

Thankful to all those who sup-ported me in my journey, and look-ing forward to sharing my experi-ence with young cricketers in theyears to come,” Malinga tweeted.

“I want to give 100 per cent restto my T20 bowling shoes. While myshoes will rest, my love for the gamewill never ask for rest,” a smilingMalinga added in the video.

Malinga last played a T20Imatch for Sri Lanka in March2020 against West Indies inPallekele.

Malinga, who took a total of546 wickets across all formats forSri Lanka, had already retired fromTest cricket in 2011 and after thatfrom ODIs as well but continued to

play T20Is for the national side.He wasn’t named in Sri Lanka’s

squad for upcoming World Cup.Last year, he had expressed his

desire to lead Sri Lanka in the T20 World Cup, which was

originally scheduled to be held inAustralia in October-November2020 but will be held next monthafter a COVID-forced postpone-ment.

“I am looking forward to helpyoungsters and guide them in thecoming years,” he said as hethanked his national team and allthe franchises that he has played for,including IPL team MumbaiIndians.

Malinga, who has played astaggering 122 IPL matches, has 170wickets to his credit, the highest inthe cash-rich league, with the bestbowling figures of 5/13.

He picked up 107 wickets in 84T20 Internationals, 338 scalps in226 ODIs and 101 wickets in 30Tests.

He was the first bowler to bag100 T20I wickets and finishesfourth in the highest wicket-takercategory in the list behind DwayneBravo, Imran Tahir and SunilNarine.

The Sri Lanka pacer had alsoannounced his retirement fromfranchise cricket in January thisyear after being released byMumbai Indians.

Malinga, one of the best T20

bowlers of all time, was akey figure in the teams heplayed for in the IndianPremier League, the BigBash League, theCaribbean PremierLeague and other fran-chise tournaments.

During his 12-yearstint at Mumbai Indians,he was part of MI's four ofthe five IPL title triumphsbut had opted out of the 2020tournament due to personal reasonsat a time when his father was notkeeping well.

“The experience that I havegained through the past 17 years willno longer be needed in the field sinceI have decided to retire from T20Icricket marking my retirement fromall formats of cricket,” said Malingain a video on his YouTube channel.

He added, “But I will be con-tinuously supporting the youngergenerations who strive to uplift thespirit of the game and I will alwaysbe there with all who love thegame.”

A fearsome pacer known forhis menacing yorkers, the leadingwicket-taker in T20I also has twoT20I hat-tricks to his name.

Malinga also picked up threehat-tricks in ODI cricket, with hisperformance against South Africain the 2007 World Cup in WestIndies etched in history.

“Today is a very special day for

me,” he said.“I want to thank

each and everyonewho supported methroughout my T20journey. I want tothank the Sri Lankancricket board and

team members.And Mumbai Indianscricket team, especial-ly the team ownersand officials.

“I would also liketo thank the teammembers and staff atMelbourne Stars,Kent, Rangpur Riders,Kayana Warriors,Maratha Arabians andMontero Tigers. WhenI played with you all, Igot many experiencesthrough my cricketingjourney.”

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Yuriy Sedykh, a two-time Olympicchampion in the hammer throw

whose world record from 1986 stillstands, has died. He was 66.

The Russian track and field federa-

tion said Sedykh died early Tuesday fol-lowing a heart attack. “Deeply mourn theloss of Yuriy Sedykh,” World Athleticssenior vice president and pole vaultgreat Sergei Bubka wrote on Twitter. “Forme, Yuriy was a friend, a wise mentor.” Sedykh won gold at the 1976 and 1980

Olympics, but missed the 1984 LosAngeles Games because of a Soviet boy-cott. He returned to win a silver medalat the 1988 Seoul Olympics and won aworld title in 1991.

Sedykh threw a world record 86.74meters at the European Championshipsin Stuttgart, Germany, a mark which stillstands. At this year’s Tokyo Olympics, all12 finalists in the men’s hammer wereborn after Sedykh set the record.

Sedykh made his huge throw at a timewhen track and field was starting to real-ize the scale of performance-enhancingdrug use. Former Moscow anti-dopinglaboratory director Grigory Rodchenkovwrote in a book last year that Sedykh was“a huge steroid abuser” who benefitedfrom a Soviet cover-up. Rodchenkovsaid one of Sedykh’s samples containedsuch large traces of the steroid stanozololthat it contaminated laboratory equip-ment.

Sedykh denied doping. In a 2015interview with Russian newspaper SportExpress, Sedykh said athletes' big throwsin the 1980s were because of better coach-ing and the Soviet Union's intensive tal-ent scouting program.

After retiring, Sedykh worked inFrance as a physical education teacher. Hewas married to another Soviet worldrecord holder, shot putter Natalya

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India skipper Mithali Raj wason Tuesday joined at the top

by South Africa opener LizelleLee, whose unbeaten 91 in theopening match against theWest Indies helped her takejoint-first position in the latestICC women's ODI rankings.

While Mithali, who retainsher number one spot, is nowtied in first place with Lee at762 rating points, withAustralia's Alyssa Healy inthird place, India openerSmiriti Mandhana also held onto her ninth spot.

Lee, who first seized the

top position in June 2018 andagain reached the summit inMarch this year, scored 18runs in the second match,which also counted towardsthis week's rankings update.

Veteran Indian pacerJhulan Goswami and seniorspinner Poonam Yadavremained static on fifth andninth respectively among

bowlers, while Deepti Sharmamaintained her fifth spot in theall-rounders' list.

Indian teen star ShafaliVerma held on to her top rankin the T20 rankings with 759points, ahead of AustralianBeth Mooney (744) and

India T20 vice-captainMandhana (716).

There was no movementfor Sharma (sixth) and Yadav(eighth) in the T20 bowlingrankings with the former alsoretaining her fourth spot in theall rounders' list.

In T20 rankings forbowlers, England's SarahGlenn has moved up a slot to

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The BCCI is planning to havean e-bidding for the two

new IPL teams on October 17and the bids to buy the sidescan be made till October 5.“The Board is planning to havethe bidding on 17th Octoberand it will be an e-bidding,”sources in the know of thingstold PTI on Tuesday. The BCCIhad on August 31 invited bidsto own an IPL franchise with“Invitation to Tender” availablefor purchase till October 5.

“The Governing Council ofthe IPL invites bids to acquirethe right to own and operate 1

(one) of the 2 (two) new teamsproposed to be introduced totake part in the Indian PremierLeague from the IPL 2022 sea-son, through a tender process,”the BCCI had said in a state-ment.

“Any interested party wish-ing to submit a bid is requiredto purchase the ITT.

“However, only those sat-isfying the eligibility criteria setout in the ITT and subject tothe other terms and conditionsset out therein, shall be eligibleto bid. It is clarified that mere-ly purchasing this ITT does notentitle any person to bid," thecricket body had said.

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The eldest daughter ofBrazilian football legend Pele

has said that her father is expect-ed to move out of intensive carethis week as he recovers fromsurgery to remove a tumour fromhis colon. The 80-year-old under-went the procedure at Sao Paulo'sAlbert Einstein hospital onSeptember 4 after the tumourwas found during routine tests."He is doing well post-surgery, heis not in pain and is in a goodmood (annoyed that he can only

eat jello but will persevere!). Hewill move into a regular room inthe next day or two and then gohome,” Kely said in a post onTuesday morning (IST). Kely saidthe three-time World Cup win-ner has been buoyed by the sup-port of fans from around theworld and praised the work ofdoctors. “He is strong and stub-born and with the support andcare of the brilliant team atEinstein and all of the love,energy and light that the worldis sending, he will get throughthis,” she added.

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