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Former Maharashtra

Home Minister Anil

Deshmukh arrested

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Centre set to scrap

castebased payment

of MGNREGA wages

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25 killed, more than

50 injured in attack on

Kabul military hospital

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India, looking for fi�rst

win, takes on

Afghanistan today

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OPPORTUNITIES A PAGE 7

Leaders at the COP26 globalclimate conference in Glasgow have pledged to stop deforestation by the end of thedecade and slash emissionsof the greenhouse gas, methane, to help slow climatechange.

The inability of majorpowers so far to agree morebroadly on rapid reductionsin the use of fossil fuels, themain cause of manmadeglobal warming, has upsetthe poorer, smaller countries likely to suff�er its worsteff�ects.

Surangel Whipps Jr, President of Palau, a Pacifi�c stateof 500 lowlying islands under threat from rising sea levels, told the leaders of theG20 industrial powers in aspeech: “We are drowningand our only hope is the lifering you are holding.”

Nearly 90 countries havejoined a U.S. and EUled effort to slash emissions ofmethane 30% by 2030 from2020 levels, a senior Bidenadministration offi�cial saidahead of a formal announcement on Tuesday.

The Global MethanePledge, fi�rst announced inSeptember, now coversemissions from twothirds ofthe global economy, according to the U.S. offi�cial.Among the signatories is Brazil — one of the fi�ve biggest

emitters of methane, whichis generated in cows’ digestive systems, in landfi�ll wasteand in oil and gas production. Three others — China,Russia and India — have notsigned up. Australia has saidit will not back the pledge.

$19 billion for forestsIn 2020, the world lost2,58,000 sq. km of forestsaccording to the Global Forest Watch. The conservationcharity WWF estimates that27 football fi�elds of forest are

lost every minute.Over 100 national leaders

pledged to halt and reversedeforestation and land degradation by the end of thedecade, underpinned by $19billion in public and privatefunds to invest in protectingand restoring forests.

The agreement expands acommitment by 40 countries as part of the 2014 NewYork Declaration of Forests.

COP26 aims to keep alivea receding target of cappingglobal warming at 1.5 de

grees Celsius above preindustrial levels to avert stillgreater damage from heatwaves, droughts, fl�oods andcoastal damage that climatechange is already causing.

Under the agreement, 12countries pledged to provide$12 billion of public fundingbetween 2021 and 2025 fordeveloping countries to restore degraded land and tackle wildfi�res.

World leaders pledge to saveforests, cut methane emissions90 countries join U.S.-EU plan at COP26; India, China, Russia yet to sign up

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Common goals: Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his British counterpart, Boris Johnson,at the UN Climate Change Conference, COP26, in Glasgow on Tuesday. * AP

Fifteen years after the Supreme Court issued directions for police reforms,the National Human RightsCommission (NHRC) hasasked the Union Home Ministry and the State Governments to set up policecomplaints authorities asper the judgment in thePrakash Singh vs Union ofIndia, 2006, case.

The NHRC’s core advisory group on criminal justice system reforms hassaid there is an “immediateneed to set up police complaints authorities at theState/UT and district level”as per the Supreme Court’sdirectives, according to theminutes of its meeting published on Tuesday. Thecore group, which met onAugust 18, recommendedto the MHA and the Statesthat the status of compliance should be displayed on the websites ofthe Ministry and the StateHome Departments.

The NHRC group alsosaid the MHA and the LawMinistry should considerimplementing the recommendations of the 113th report of the Law Commission to add Section 114 B tothe Indian Evidence Act.

This would ensure that ifa person sustains injuriesin custody, it is presumedthat the injuries were infl�icted by the police.

Set up policecomplaintsbodies: NHRC

Damini Nath

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Byelection results on Tuesday threw up a mixed bagfor the BJP and the Congress, with the BJP losing allfour Himachal Pradesh seatsto the Congress, but securing its victory in Assam withthe help of defectors fromthe Congress.

The Trinamool Congressswept the four West BengalAssembly seats.

The results to the byelections to three Lok Sabhaseats and 30 Assembly seatsin 14 States and one UnionTerritory were a mixed bagfor the BJP. The party lostthe Himachal Pradesh LokSabha seat of Mandi, whichis the home district of itsChief Minister Jairam Thakur, to the Congress’ Pratib

ha Singh, wife of late formerHimachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh. However, the BJP and its allywon all fi�ve seats in Assam.

In Haryana, the IndianNational Lok Dal leader Abhay Chautala won the Ellenabad Assembly seat. Mr.Chautala had resigned hisseat earlier this year to express solidarity with theprotesting farmers, leadingto the byelection.

The YSRCP retained theBadvel Assembly seat inAndhra Pradesh, while theBJP won from Huzurabad inTelangana. The Janata Dal(United) won the two BiharAssembly seats. In Karnataka, the BJP and Congresswon one seat each.

Trinamool sweeps all 4 seats in Bengal

Blow to BJP inHimachal bypolls

MORE REPORTS A PAGES 4 & 11

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI

India has launched a newinitiative — Infrastructurefor Resilient Island States —for developing theinfrastructure of smallisland nations vulnerableto climate change. A page 12

India to helpsmall islands

One Sun One World OneGrid group — an IndiaU.K.initiative to tap solarenergy and have it travelseamlessly across borders— was announced inGlasgow. A page 12

One Solar Gridannounced

Former Punjab Chief Minsterand Congress leader CaptainAmarinder Singh (retd.) onTuesday tendered his resignation from the party, stating that he was hurt by theconduct of party presidentSonia Gandhi and her children — Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

He also announced thename of his new party —‘Punjab Lok Congress’. Itwould be formally launchedlater, he said.

In his letter to party president Sonia Gandhi, Capt.Singh said: “I actually feltdeeply hurt by your conductand that of your childrenwho I still deeply love asmuch as my own children,having known their father,since we were in school to

gether since 1954, which isfor 67 years now.”

He said he hoped that noother senior Congresspersonwas subjected to the ignominy that he was put through.

In his letter, Capt. Singhrevealed that Congress leaders were involved in illegalsand mining. “As far as theissue of illegal sand miningwas concerned, the off�enders unfortunately were thesubstantive bulk of CongressMLAs and Ministers, including an overwhelming number in the current Government. One of my enduringregrets would remain as towhy I did not take some ofthem to task. The thoughtthat it would embarrass theparty held me back. However, I intend on making thelist of these people public,”he wrote.

Amarinder quits Cong.,announces new party‘Deeply hurt by Gandhi family conduct’

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MORE REPORTS A PAGE 12

Climate fi�nance cannotcontinue at the levelsdecided in 2009, andshould be at least $1trillion, India said at ameeting of developingcountries. A page 12

Call to hikeclimate funds

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The Capital’s air qualityworsened to the “verypoor” level on Tuesday andis expected to remain in thesame category for the nexttwo days, according to offi�cial data.

The contribution of stubble burning in neighbouringStates to PM2.5, a chief pollutant, in Delhi is expectedto go up from 6% on Tuesday to 20%38% on Deepavali and the next two days,said governmentrun monitoring agency SAFAR (System of Air Quality andWeather Forecasting andResearch) in a statement.

The number of active fi�recounts in the region was1,795 on Tuesday.

“Delhi’s AQI is in the verypoor category and likely to

remain so for the next twodays,” said SAFAR.

The AQI of Delhi was 303on Tuesday, up from 281 onMonday, according to theCentral Pollution ControlBoard’s 4 p.m. bulletin,which is an average of thepast 24 hours and is considered the day’s AQI.

City’s air quality dropsto ‘very poor’ levelSituation to remain same till Deepavali

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Smog envelops the Yamuna inDelhi on Tuesday afternoon.

* SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA

Calling India a “spoiler” in Afghanistan, Pakistan’s National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf said he would not acceptthe Modi Government’s invitation to the meeting of re

gional security chiefs beingorganised in Delhi next week.

“I won’t go,” said Mr. Yusufin response to questions in Islamabad about Pakistan’s decision. “A spoiler cannot tryto become a peacemaker,” headded.

Mr. Yusuf was speaking tothe Pakistani media after ameeting with Uzbekistan’s Secretary of the Security Council Lt. Gen. Viktor Makhmudov, who was in Islamabadfor the Establishment of aJoint Security Commission

with Pakistan, and has alsobeen invited to the conference in Delhi.

Confi�rmations receivedDiplomatic sources said Gen.Makhmudov is likely to attend the conference. India

of strict quarantine regulations in place there, an offi�cial told The Hindu. India ispursuing a videoconferenceappearance if no Chinese delegate travels to Delhi.

has also received confi�rmations from other invitees, including Russia, Kyrgyzstan,Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.

The Chinese Governmenthas not yet confi�rmed if it willsend a security offi�cial to theconference, mainly because

Pakistan’s NSA to skip Indian conference on AfghanistanSuhasini Haidar

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Schools fully open in 22 States, U.T.sNEW DELHI

Schools have reopened for

Classes I to XII in 22 States

and Union Territories, the

Education Ministry said on

Tuesday, adding that 12

States and UTs have opened

schools for older children.

The only States where

schools are still completely

closed are West Bengal

and Manipur.

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Assam, Meghalaya CMsto visit areas of frictionGUWAHATI

The Chief Ministers of Assam

and Meghalaya are expected

to visit some of the disputed

areas along the boundary

between the two States.

There are 12 areas of dispute

along the border but the

Governments have targeted

six of the “less complicated”

areas for resolving.

Meghalaya Chief Minister

Conrad K. Sangma said he had

a telephonic conversation

with his Assam counterpart

Himanta Biswa Sarma.

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The Delhi Government hasrestarted a scheme underwhich students can get freecoaching for various competitive exams at private coaching centres if the annual income of their families is lessthan ₹�8 lakh.

A total of 15,000 studentshave applied for Jai BhimMukhyamantri Pratibha Vikas Yojana, and all the available seats for the scheme havebeen fi�lled, Social Welfare Minister Rajendra Pal Gautamsaid on Tuesday. The classeswill begin soon, he added.

The scheme, which wasstarted in 2018, was discontinued in 2020 after the COVID19 pandemic hit the city.

To get the benefi�ts, a student should have passedClasses X and XII from a Delhi school and should meetthe eligibility criteria of thecompetitive exam he/she is

preparing for. The scheme isavailable for JEE, NEET,CLAT, Civil Services, banking, railways, SSC and othercompetitive exams and a stipend of ₹�2,500 is also givento each student, apart fromthe course fee, to meet thetravel expenses.

“The Government hasmade arrangements and issued notices in newspapers

for reopening of offl�inecoaching classes. Under thescheme, 15,000 talented students of Delhi have enrolledthemselves with the 46 empanelled institutes,” the Minister said.

A student can register forthe scheme at the institutefrom where he/she takescoaching. If that institute isnot one of the 46 empanelledcoaching centres, then theGovernment will give the student up to ₹�1 lakh if foundeligible and ₹�40,000 for extra subjects.

Mr. Gautam said certainbig institutes like Vajiram forCivil Services, or FIITJEE andAakash for engineering andmedical exams are not on thelist. “They did not participateeven after we requested,” hesaid.

The list of empanelledcoaching centres can be accessed onscstwelfare.delhigovt.nic.in.

Delhi Govt. restartsfree entrance coaching15,000 students have applied for the scheme, says Minister

Staff Reporter

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The antiCAA protest wassecular but the chargesheet in the Delhi riots conspiracy case was communal and the policefabricated a story to suittheir narrative, former JNUstudent leader Umar Khalid told a court here onTuesday, calling it a “nakedform of false implication”.

Senior advocate TrideepPais, appearing for Mr.Khalid, made the remarksduring a hearing on his bailplea in a case related to thecommunal violence thatbroke out in Delhi in February 2020.

Mr. Pais said the chargesheet was a fertile imagination of the police, callingthe investigating offi�cer ascriptwriter who “literallywrote a novel”. “No recovery, not present in Delhi,no violence attributed tome, no traces of funding,”Mr. Pais told the courtwhile opposing the police’sallegations.

‘Chargesheet inriots case wascommunal’

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Gurgaon Nagrik Ekta Manch,a citizens’ forum, on Tuesdayannounced that it wouldlaunch a public awarenesscampaign, counteringhatred, fake news and falseallegations with reason andfacts on the controversy surrounding the off�ering of Friday prayers ( Jumma Namaz)in the open.

Addressing a press conference, Manch cofounder Altaf Ahmad said Muslims wereobligated to off�er Jumma Namaz in a congregation andideally, the prayer would bein a mosque. But there were

only a handful of mosques inthe city.

He added that the community had voluntarily reduced the number of sites forFriday prayers to less thanonethird in 2018, and noneof the sites obstructed traffi�cor caused any inconvenienceto others. “There is not a single case in any police stationabout namazis harassing women or indulging in crime,”said Mr. Ahmad.

Meanwhile, offi�cebearersof Sanyukt Hindu SangharshSamiti held a meeting withDeputy Commissioner YashGarg. Dr. Garg put forth theviewpoints of the administra

tion and the Muslim community on the matter, and setup a joint committee with representations of all the threestakeholders to meet onWednesday, said the Samitileaders.

Samiti’s president MahavirBhardwaj claimed that someMuslim groups had giventheir consent to not hold Friday prayers at public places,but their agitation wouldcontinue till the administration comes out with an offi�cial order. The Samiti leadersreiterated that they would goahead with their programmeto hold “Govardhan Pooja” atnamaz sites on November 5.

Gurugram DC sets up committee to resolve issue


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Forum to launch campaign tocounter namaz disruptions

Two former employees ofAgarwal Packers and Movershave been arrested for allegedly creating fake websites ofthe company and duping customers by posing as repre

sentatives of the fi�rm, DelhiPolice said on Tuesday.

Deputy Commissioner ofPolice (Crime) Manoj C saidthe accused have been identifi�ed as Ashish Singh and Deepak Goel, and eff�orts are onto nab their associate — Su

resh Chauhan.Mr. Singh lost his job with

the company during the lockdown in March last year. Later, he contacted Mr. Goelwho stole data from the company’s server. The data wasthen sent to Mr. Chauhan.

Fake movers and packers fi�rm bustedStaff Reporter

New Delhi

Delhi Police on Tuesday saidthat a few cars were damaged after the electricallyoperated floor plates usedto shift cars fell inside a multilevel parking facility in

south Delhi’s Hauz Khas. The police said the inci

dent did not lead to any casualty. “The multilevel parking facility is now blockedand no entry is permittedtill a technical investigationis completed,” they said.

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The Bharatiya Janata Partybagged one Lok Sabha andtwo Assembly seats in thebypolls in Madhya Pradesh, setting alarm bellsringing for the Congress.

The BJP has retainedKhandwa LS seat andwrested Jobat (ST) andPrithivpur seats from theCongress. However, theCongress wrested Raigaon(SC) Assembly seat fromthe BJP.

Though there have beenbig gains for CM ShivrajSingh Chouhan, there issome cause for worry asthe BJP’s 2019 victory margin of nearly 2.75 lakh votesin Khandwa has shrunk to50,000.

The Congress’s tripleloss is the worst news forthe Opposition after theKamal Nath governmentfell in March 2020. Prithvipur and Jobat were last represented by BrajendraSingh Rathore and Kalawati Bhuria respectively.

The party’s win in Raigaon after 31 years is theonly good news.

Results ringalarm bells forCong. in M.P.

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The ruling Janata Dal (United)in Bihar retained both Assembly seats in the State onTuesday by defeating Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) candidates. In Kusheshwarsthan,JD(U) won comfortably whilein Tarapur it was a close contest. Bypolls to both seatswere held on October 30.

In Kusheshwarsthan(Darbhanga), Aman BhushanHazari ( JD(U)) defeated Ganesh Bharti (RJD) by over12,000 votes. In Tarapur(Munger) Rajeev KumarSingh ( JD(U)) won the seatagainst Arun Kumar Shah(RJD) by a thin margin of3,821 votes. Mr. Hazari is sonof Maheshwar Hazari, whosedeath resulted in the Kusheshwarsthan bypoll, while inTarapur it was due to thedeath of Mewalal Choudhary.

Soon after the results wereannounced, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, who was camping at Darbhanga to monitorthe result of Kusheshwarsthan, said: “We fought hard

at Kusheshwarsthan, whereour party had never contested, but the JD(U) candidategot sympathy votes as well.We respect people’s mandateas we believe in democracybut people of Bihar needchange and change willcome.”

The Congress has beencontesting from Kusheshwarsthan as part of the mahagathbandhan. In the 2020 Assembly polls, Ashok Kumar(Congress) was defeated byMaheshwar Hazari by over7,000 votes.

This time too the Congresswanted to stake claim to thisseat but RJD chose to put upits own candidate, which wi

dened the rift between theparties and they fi�elded theirown candidates.

However, Congress candidates Rajesh Kumar Mishraand Atirek Kumar at Tarapurand Kusheshwarsthan managed to get only a few thousands votes. “We admit thatpeople at both places did nottake any notice of Congressbut we’ll mull and strengthenour position gradually,” senior State Congress leaderPrem Chandra Mishra said.

The bypolls had become aprestige issue for JD(U) andRJD. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and a host of JD(U) andBJP leaders campaigned hardin both constituencies. RJDchief Lalu Prasad too jumpedinto the ring and addressedtwo wellattended publicmeetings.

“Though, the Congresscandidates couldn’t do muchat both places, the ruling party campaign managed tocreate confusion among voters by talking of the rift between RJD and Congress,” saidpolitical analyst Ajay Kumar.

JD(U) retains both Assemblyseats in Bihar by-electionsComfortable win in Kusheshwarsthan, close fi�ght in TarapurAmarnath Tewary

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India’s green pushOne believes that the PrimeMinister was not carriedaway by the surchargedenvironment around theCOP26 summit beforecommitting to the year2070 as the country’stargeted date for achievingzero net emission (Page 1,November 2). There is nodoubt that we need to payheed to the stark warningson the disaster that loomsover the world community.In this, the developednations should walk thetalk. For India, theimmediate priority shouldbe to accomplish targetsearmarked for renewableenergy goals, electricvehicle change andincreasing forest cover, tocite only a few examples.

Our dependence oncoalfi�red thermal powerplants cannot be wishedaway in a day. Newtechnologies in runningthese plants must beexplored. The constitutionof a task force to monitorprogress at periodicalintervals would helpidentify the grey areas thatneed attention.V. Subramanian,

Chennai

■ India’s target year is not abelievable statement.Climate change is for realand is already in eff�ect,Kerala, Uttarakhand andMumbai being examples ofdrastic change. Coalconsumption should bereduced. Green cover has tobe restored, with stringent

targets set and reviewedevery few months. Everysingle day is important inaddressing the dangers ofclimate change and warming.T. Anand Raj,

Chennai

■ The world faces acataclysmic future and has toact without any delay.Nations must now preparefor grassroots actions ratherthan make dubiouscommitments. After all, theearth is what all of us have incommon.Anubhav Nautiyal,

Patiala, Punjab

■ It is high time thegovernments of the worldstopped running after thenotion of growth anddevelopment which is

unsustainable. In the nameof ‘ease of doing business’,the Central and Stategovernments of India areglossing over the necessaryenvironmental checks. InKerala for instance, thewrath of the elements doesnot seem to have created anyawareness. Environmentallycatastrophic projects such asthe SilverLine high speedrailway need to be shown thedoor. The proponents ofunsustainable developmentshould keep in mind whatClive Hamilton says in hisominous book, Requiem fora Species: Why We Resist theTruth about Climate Change:“Humanity’s determinationto transform the planet forits own material benefi�t isnow backfi�ring on us in themost spectacular way so that

tendencies exist there needsto be a framework ofregulation.T. Chandramouli,

Chennai

Team IndiaAfter a very disappointingperformance that resulted inPakistan infl�icting a crushingdefeat in the T20 World Cupmatch, the Indian team againput up an uninspiring displayagainst New Zealand. Thereis probably much more thanmeets the eye. The BCCI, thecoach and the captain,should make a sincereassessment. This is the leastthey owe to the ardent fansof Indian cricket.S.N. Srinivasan,

Bengaluru

the climate crisis is for thehuman species now anexistential one.”Sukumaran C.V.,

Kongad, Palakkad, Kerala

On cryptocurrenciesThe major objective of amonetary policy is to enablethe stabilisation of prices andeconomic growth. India’scentral bank has done fairlywell in this. When one comesto cryptocurrencies (OpEdpage, “The cryptoconundrum”, November 1),there is need for regulation.To put it in simple words, theemergence ofcryptocurrencies in themidst of economic upheavalsis like playing an IPL cricketmatch when regular formatsof the game of cricket are inplace. When speculative

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The Gulf Cooperation Council(GCC) region — it is nowknown as the Cooperation

Council for the Arab States of theGulf — that hosts about 23 millionmigrant workers (International Labour Organization, 2017) is riddledwith problems that are particularly related to the discrimination ofwomen migrant workers. Most ofthe migrant workforce whichdominates the workspace of theGCC region — accounting for aboutthreequarters of the workforce ofthe region (ILO, 2017) — hails fromthe South Asian and SoutheastAsian countries, and are on temporary contracts and mostly engaged in lowwage occupations.

A thread of vulnerabilityWomen account for 39% of migrant workers in the GCC (International Labour Organization, 2017)and the feminisation of the workforce across multiple sectors of theeconomy demonstrates a growingtrend. Women migrants, who arein the skilled category are mainlynurses in the organised health industry; those in the semiskilled orunskilled category are domesticworkers, care workers, cleaningcrew, manufacturing workers, salon staff� and salespersons. Theseworkers are vulnerable to abuseand exploitation. For instance,domestic workers, who are mostlywomen, are greatly vulnerable toabuse owing to the very nature oftheir workspace.

The onset of the COVID19 pandemic has exacerbated the vulner

abilities of women migrant workers. For health workers it is moreabout the deterioration of theirworking conditions than the problem of losing their jobs. While interviewing women working acrossthe broad spectrum of jobs, a senior nursing staff� said, “The government wanted nurses to be deployed at the COVID centres, andall the hospitals under the Ministry were asked to send their staff�.The private hospitals on the otherhand were asked not to function.This drastically increased the burden on the government hospitals.”As a result, private hospital staff�were asked to go on unpaid leaveduring the lockdown and the Ministry staff� could not even takeleave as the situation was declaredan emergency.

Stress in the health sectorIn many countries, the work hoursof nurses in many countries wereextended from eight hours to 12hours without overtime remuneration — that too in challengingworking conditions. A governmentnurse in Kuwait, recounted, “Initially, our doctor asked us not touse excess gloves and masks because of the fear of falling short ofthese supplies. So only the nursesat the point of care were allowedto wear a mask. But then the casesstarted to increase, and we wereallowed to wear a mask.”

Another one of them told us, Iwas assigned the triage area. Thepersonal protective equipment(PPE) gown, mask, and face shieldwere there, but we were not usinggloves; we were using sanitisers. Ihad to be there continuously everyday for three months, from 7 a.m.to 2 p.m.; I had to stand continuously, taking temperature for eachpatient. This was stressful for myback; this was diffi�cult work forme.”

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ing in Saudi Arabia, recounted,“The area where I stay was completely locked down due to a largenumber of cases, we had just oneopen road. Many hospitals gaveleave to staff� staying there, but myhospital asked us to continue tocommute to work. It was stressfulnot knowing whether we wouldcatch the infection, as we were also exposing our children and other family members.” A staff� working in Kuwait, shared her anxiety.“We used to wear two N95 masks,but there was no social distancing.The staff� from diff�erent wards travelled together to and from work.This was very risky as workerswith asthma and respiratory problems travelled by the same bus.”

Even in January 2021, many ofthese nurses from diff�erent countries had not taken leave, including their annual leave, except ifthey were COVID19 positive. Eventhose who could manage to get off�days could not travel home, whichadded to the immense mentalstress. Amidst all the pandemicchaos, our respondents soundedrelieved that they somehow kept ajob and monthly pay; many oftheir spouses had lost jobs and hadfamilies waiting for their monetary assistance in India.

For semi-skilled workersMany of the semiskilled and unskilled workers found themselvesin a bind when they lost their jobs,wages and their accommodationtoo. When we spoke to another

staff� in early 2021, her visa wasabout to expire, and she wassearching for a job. She worked ina salon in Kuwait owned by a localwoman who had provided herwith shared accommodation, salary and decent working hours.The salon had 30 married womenworkers from South and Southeast Asia. The salon fi�rst closedtemporarily in March 2020 and allthe workers were given accommodation and food till October, whichwas deducted from their indemnity benefi�t. However, the salonsoon went bankrupt in Octoberand the workers had to vacatewithout benefi�ts.

A social worker we spoke to described the situation of womenworking in vulnerable sectors during COVID19. The vulnerability ofthe workers has worsened duringCOVID19 because of the severerestrictions to mobility. “These exploited women include domesticworkers, beauty parlour workersand cleaning crew in hospitals andbig companies. Those staying inemployer’s premises, especiallyhousemaids are more vulnerable.They did not know what was happening outside, about [the] coronasituation. Many women workinghere, especially housemaids, donot have any medium for gettingnews about the current situation.Some do not even have [a] phone,while most have only basicphones.” Their communication tothe outside world including familyis restricted and it is diffi�cult for anoutsider to reach them, a hardtruth we learned while trying tocontact these women for this article.

We spoke to a 60yearold housemaid who had returned to Indiafrom the United Arab Emirates.She had health problems and heremployer did not want to be saddled with her health problemsduring the pandemic. Her maid vi

sa that had an insurance coverageof 600 dirhams, was just notenough to cover her health costs.

Other casesSome of the more vulnerableworkers were the ones working ‘illegally’. For example, there was awoman who had emigrated on achildcare visa, but lost her job asher former employers were concerned about the safety of theirchild during COVID19. The woman then started working as ahousemaid with very low wagesbut was reluctant to ask for a raise,as she feared being reported.There was also another womanwho emigrated as a housemaid in2008, received her last salary inMarch 2020, after which her employer gave her the option to workwithout pay or to return home.Some who found themselves inmore challenging situations havequit their jobs and returned homepenniless; some have had to borrow money for the air ticket home.Situations such as these havemade women workers more vulnerable and susceptible toexploitation.

Whether professionally skilledor unskilled, migrant womenworkers have not had it easy in aforeign land where the discrimination and exploitation they facedwere compounded by the novelcoronavirus pandemic. This defi�nitely focuses light on the lacunaepersisting in the creation of womencentric, rightsbased policiesto safeguard migrants.

Ginu Zacharia Oommen is currently

Member of the Kerala Public Service

Commission and formerly Visiting

Professor at the Fondation Maison des

Sciences de l’homme (FMSH), Paris,

France. Anu Abraham is PhD Scholar, IIT

Madras and Assistant Professor at the

School of Economics, NMIMS (deemed to

be) University, Mumbai

COVID-19 as a tale of job hardship and marginalisationThe plight of Indian women migrant workers in West Asia highlights the lack of gender-centric, rights-based safeguards

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When the history of the 21stcentury is written, Indiaand the United States

and the strategic alliance theyforge should play starring roles.Granted, it is far too early to predict how successful their joint efforts will be in creating a free andopen IndoPacifi�c — one that advances democratic values and confronts autocracies globally and locally. As 2021 closes, withCOVID19 still a present dangerand China, the emerging superpower on the global stage, viewedby both as a strategic competitor,India and the U.S. have a long wayto go before they can inspire confi�dence that this blossoming alliance will endure for the longterm.

Areas of convergenceWe believe that the fate of thegrand strategic ambitions of therelationship may in fact dependsubstantially on how well they collaborate in two areas to whichtheir joint attention is only belatedly turning — climate and trade.The fi�rst presents an existentialthreat while the second is too often dismissed as a secondary consideration, even dispensable in thename of pursuing larger strategicinterests. Such thinking ignores

the lessons of history: strategicpartnerships capable of reshaping the international global ordercannot be based simply on a negative agenda. Shared concernsabout China provide the U.S.Indiapartnership a muchneeded impetus to overcome the awkward efforts for deeper collaboration thathave characterised the past fewdecades. What risks being lost is areckoning with how interrelatedclimate and trade are to securingU.S.India leadership globally, andhow their strategic eff�orts canfl�ounder without sincere commitment to a robust bilateral agendaon both fronts.

Some encouraging signsThere has been progress. The U.S.Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, has visited Indiatwice already, and India and theU.S. are collaborating under theClimate and Clean Energy AgendaPartnership. In parallel, there arehopeful signs that they are nowprioritising the bilateral trade relationship by rechartering the TradePolicy Forum. Both countries arealso taking leading roles, articulating their climate concerns andcommitments. However, earlysigns suggest we might be headedfor a replay of previous showdowns at COP26 in Glasgow: whileIndia just announced a net zerogoal for 2070 — a welcome development even if well after catastrophic climate scenarios may bebaked in — it has called for westerncountries to commit to negativeemissions targets. India’s rhetoricof climate justice is likely to be received poorly by U.S. negotiators,

particularly if it aligns with China’smessaging and obstructs eff�orts toreach concrete results. Likewise,the failure of the U.S. and India toarticulate a shared vision for acomprehensive trade relationshipraises doubts about how seriousthey are when each spends moretime and eff�ort negotiating withother trading partners. Protectionist tendencies infect the politics ofboth countries these days, and,with a contentious U.S. midtermelection a year away, the politicalwindow for achieving problemsolving outcomes and setting a vision on trade for the future is closing fast.

The interlinksClimate and trade are interrelatedin many ways, from commercialdissemination of cuttingedge carbon mitigation and adaptationproducts and technologies to thecarbon emissions that come withthe transport of goods and humans from one country to another. If governments, such as Indiaand the U.S., coordinate policies toincentivise sharing of climatere

lated technologies and align approaches for reducing emissionsassociated with trade, the climatetrade interrelationship can be anet positive one.

Work on early solutionsFor example, India and the U.S.could fi�nd opportunities to aligntheir climate and trade approaches better, starting with a resolutionof their disputes in the WorldTrade Organization (WTO) on solar panels. As they have ditheredin pursuing cases in the WTO andsettling them, China has eff�ectively captured the global market,leaving each dependent on asource they view as a threat. Thetwo countries could also chart apath that allows trade to fl�ow fortransitional energy sources, suchas fuel ethanol. India currentlybans imports of fuel ethanol evenas it seeks to ramp up its own ethanol blend mandates and build adomestic sector that can join theU.S. and Brazil in exporting to theworld. Left unaddressed, this willbe another missed opportunity forthe two economies to work to mutual benefi�t.

Shared strategic interests willbe undermined if India and theU.S. cannot jointly map coordinated policies on climate and trade.The most immediate threat couldbe the possibility of new climateand trade tensions were India toinsist that technology is transferred in ways that undermine incentives for innovation in bothcountries or if the U.S. decides thatimports from India be subject toincreased tariff�s in the form of carbon border adjustment mechan

isms or “CBAMs”. Climateinspired trade tensions that mighteven lead to new trade wars canhardly bolster the strategicpartnership.

A point to ponder overDiplomats on both sides haveworked hard over the past fewyears to paper over such diff�erences so that they do not distract fromthe eff�orts to lay the foundationsfor a closer strategic partnership,but the fi�ssures have not disappeared and ignoring them will notmake them go away. Rather, thedanger is that they will widen anddeepen and come to undermineshared longerterm goals. A mutual failure to confront these issues and present a united front inrelations with other countries willsurely have strategicconsequences.

So, even as they continue to embrace warmly in various strategicsettings, U.S. President Joe Bidenand India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi might want to ask howthis partnership is clearly fallingshort of its potential, and why.Concerted action on both the climate and trade fronts is mutuallybenefi�cial and will lend additionalstrength to the foundation of atrue partnership for the comingcentury.

Mark Linscott is a former Assistant U.S.

Trade Representative and is a Senior

Fellow with The Atlantic Council’s South

Asia Center and a Senior Adviser with The

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Foreign Service at Georgetown University

Trade and climate, the pivot for India-U.S. ties The two areas are interrelated and will lend additional strength to the foundation of a true partnership

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An exclusive internal quota for a single caste

group was always fraught with the danger of jud

icial invalidation. It is no surprise, therefore, that

the Madras High Court has struck down the Tamil Nadu

law that earmarked 10.5% of seats in educational insti

tutions and jobs for the Vanniyakula Kshatriya com

munity and its subcastes. The court’s foremost reason

is that the State Assembly lacked the legislative compe

tence to enact the law in February 2021, at a time when

the Constitution 102nd Amendment, conferring exclu

sive power to identify backward classes on the Presi

dent, was in force. That the Constitution 105th Amend

ment subsequently restored the States’ powers to

identify backward classes was not deemed relevant as,

on the date of the enactment, the Assembly had been

denuded of such power. The Bench of Justices M. Du

raiswamy and K. Murali Shankar, also ruled that identi

fying one caste as a separate group for creating an ex

clusive quota, without any quantifi�able data on its

backwardness relative to others, amounted to giving re

servation solely on the basis of caste and, therefore, im

permissible under the Constitution. Further, it noted

that the remaining 115 castes under the ‘MBC and De

notifi�ed Communities’ category were forced to share

the remaining 9.5% (in two groups with 2.5% and 7%,

respectively) of what used to be a 20% MBC/DNC quota.

This amounted to discrimination.

The court also rejected the comparison with the sub

quotas enjoyed without hindrance by Backward Class

Muslims and Arundhatiyars, a Scheduled Caste, noting

that these two measures were backed by Census data

and valid recommendations. What may cause some

concern is that the court has said changes in the exist

ing 69% quota classifi�cation cannot be made without

amending the State’s 1994 reservation protection law,

which received the President’s assent and was also in

cluded in the Ninth Schedule to put it beyond judicial

review. This legal position may pose problems for the

BC (Muslim) and SC (Arundhatiyar) quota too, as these

were introduced through standalone laws that re

ceived only the Governor’s assent without any amend

ment to the 1994 Act. That an impending agitation by

the PMK, a restive ally of the then ruling AIADMK, was

behind the Vanniyar quota law is known. The govern

ment did not wait for the report of a commission it had

appointed earlier to gather quantifi�able data to justify

the State’s 69% total reservation. The present DMK re

gime also backed the exclusive Vanniyar quota in court,

and is likely to go on appeal. The Supreme Court has

been asking governments to justify their reservation le

vels through quantifi�able data. Instead of looking for

shortcuts to popularity, regimes in all States should fo

cus on compiling credible data both on the backward

ness of sections of society and their level of representa

tion in public services and educational opportunities.

Quota without dataStates should base reservation policies on

data, not political expediency

In a surprise move at COP26 in Glasgow, Prime Minis

ter Narendra Modi announced that India will com

mit to ambitious, enhanced climate targets and cuts

in carbon emissions in its Nationally Determined Con

tributions (NDCs). There were promises to increase

nonfossil fuel energy capacity to 500 GW, meet 50%

energy from renewable energy, reduce emissions by

one billion tonnes, and bring down the economy’s car

bon intensity below 45%, all by 2030. Finally, the PM

made the muchawaited declaration: to reach Net Zero

emissions by 2070. The announcement came as a sur

prise given that India had given no assurances to visit

ing western climate negotiators before the conference,

and had not fi�led updated NDCs by the deadline last

month. Earlier, the G20 summit in Rome ended with

out any new commitments on climate change, and In

dia’s G20 Sherpa and Minister Piyush Goyal had said

that India could not “identify a year” for ending net car

bon emissions (ensuring carbon dioxide emissions are

absorbed by the use of technology and lowering out

put), unless the developed world committed to funding

India’s energy transition and enabled clean technology

transfers on a much higher scale. Mr. Goyal even sug

gested that India could not switch to nonfossil fuel and

end coalbased thermal plants unless it was made a

member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, where it is be

ing blocked by China and a number of other countries.

Mr. Modi’s pledges in 2021 will require an almost im

mediate shift in the Government’s priorities if it wishes

to meet its fi�rst few goals in just eight years. According

to one estimate (the Centre for Science and Environ

ment), the promise to reduce emissions by one billion

tonnes would need a reduction in India’s carbon output

by a massive 22% by 2030. On Net Zero, the target of

2070 is two decades after the global goal at midcentu

ry, and would require the world’s other growing econo

mies including China to peak emissions, preferably by

2030 itself. India meets about 12% of its electricity

needs through renewable energy, and ramping that up

to 50% by 2030 will be a tall ask too. If the Government

realises Mr. Modi’s promises in Glasgow, India will be a

global beacon in fi�ghting climate change and ensuring

sustainable development. At the least, it is hoped the

commitments will inspire other countries to keep their

word, particularly the developed world that has lagged

behind in fulfi�lling combined promises of billions of

dollars to fund emerging economies, LDCs and the

most climate vulnerable countries in the global South.

When it comes to climate change, countries must re

member they are not in competition with one another,

but trying together to outrun the clock.

Climate pledgeNations must realise they are not in a

competitive race but trying to outrun the clock

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We note the repressive activities of the LocalGovernment are on the increase. For the lastfew months a repressive campaign on an extensive scale has been carried on, and evennow continues to be carried on, in the Andhra district where public workers held ingreat esteem like Mr. Gopalakrishniah andothers have been run down under the vaguesecurity sections of the Criminal ProcedureCode. Within the last two or three weeks,more than one prosecution for sedition havebeen undertaken. Mr. Yakub Hassan, Dr. Varadarajulu Naidu and Mr. Subramania Sivahave all been proceeded against for sedition.The latest victim of this policy is Mr. AbdulMajid Sherer, a Muslim public worker of sober views who has always thrown his weighton the side of moderation. When, after theTanjore Khilafat Conference of which he wasthe President, the “Madras Mail” represented him as advocating “Jihad,” Mr. Shererwrote to the paper repudiating the suggestion and adding that, as a member of the JamiatulUlema, he was bound by its ordinance proscribing religious war. The form of“Jihad” which he spoke of was “Jihad” with“Mal” or property and not “Jihad” with“Jan” or lives.

A HUNDRED YEARS AGO NOVEMBER 3, 1921

More Prosecutions

In a famous 1990s advertisement forchocolate, an Indian woman withouta bindi is seen dancing unabashedlyin public to celebrate her boyfriend’ssuccess. If that ad had come today, itwould have hardly been surprising ifit some had deemed it to be “againstIndian culture”.

Outrage over adsA series of recent ads has sparkedcontroversy. A JBL ad showing a woman using noisecancelling headphones to shut out the noise of Diwali crackers caused consternation.Some wondered aloud how the agency could think of suggesting that Diwali should be peaceful and noisefree. An ACKO ad for automobile insurance annoyed some simplybecause it was set in a garage where apuja for a car was being performedand also contained slapstick comedy.“Why copywriter cannot thinkbeyond targeting Hindu traditions,”someone asked. A recent Fabindia adgot brickbats fi�rst because it used anUrdu phrase which means ‘celebration of traditions’ to refer to a collection being launched before Diwali;and second because some of the models in the ads were not wearingbindis.

Nowadays, anything, it seems, canbecome the basis for outrage. Voicesare picked up from obscure cornersof social media, relayed by the ultrapowerful on social media, and sometimes even seconded by the rulingparty’s ministers. Sure, such outrages used to happen earlier too, but thefrequency with which this is happening now is alarming.

The connecting thread betweenall the above examples is that the ads“hurt Hindu sentiments”. A lot ofoutrage can be manufactured usingthis framing. Strangely, even an adthat endorsed the bursting of crackers during Diwali sparked outrage.This was the Ceat ad featuring AamirKhan. In the ad, Khan advises peoplein an apartment complex to avoidbursting crackers on roads after acricket match and asks them to in

stead burst crackers inside theirapartment complex so that theydon’t disturb the fl�ow of traffi�c. ManyCeat ads refer to objects or acts thathinder the movement of traffi�c. Butpeople got angry. Some people, including a minister, said Muslims takeup public spaces for namaaz and thecompany must “address that problem” too.

Two kinds of campaignsAll this anger seems to be rooted inthe fear that advertisements have thepotential to infl�uence people —whether it is about being casual withregard to religious rituals during Hindu festivals or about the intermingling of people from diff�erent religions. To stop ads from infl�uencingpeople, people react in two ways.The fi�rst is by launching a coordinated campaign. Those participating insuch a campaign argue that if brandscan launch a coordinated campaignfor a product, why can’t people dothe same by using the power of socialmedia? Of course they can. This isentirely legitimate. To put across acounterview to what the ads propagate is to show a civil disagreementwith the ads. If there is a concertedbacklash to an ad and if it occurswithout threats or coercion, thebrands could engage in a conversation with such people by putting forward their counterpoints. But advertising agencies have never been goodat conversations; they are only good

at broadcasting. Zomato is perhapsthe only brand that recently engagedwith its critics after the ads starringHrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif wereput out. Many people argued that theads normalised the stressful workingconditions of gig workers. Zomatoresponded that its ads were “wellintentioned, but were unfortunatelymisinterpreted by some people.” Theads, it said, were “shot with the purpose of making the delivery executive ‘the hero’.”

The second is through a coordinated boycott campaign. This too is legitimate but is an uncivil disagreement. Brands do not have a worldview — brands rarely have worldviews except some such as Patagonia; only people do. Brands onlyhave a sales view and invest moneyin ads accordingly. And brands advertise positive narratives — they donot ask anyone to boycott, hate, orhurt someone. The coordinated boycott campaigns are uncivil preciselybecause they elicit sentiments ofhatred and divisiveness in responseto brands asking people to come together and look beyond their diff�erences or proposing newer ways ofthinking — both of which are merelyperspectives. We saw the fi�rst, i.e., abrand depicting togetherness, in theTanishq Ekatvam ad. It showed aMuslim family preparing a traditional Hindu baby shower for their pregnant Hindu daughterinlaw. It attempted to “celebrate the coming

together of people from diff�erentwalks of life,” Tanishq said in a statement after anger erupted, but withdrew the ad nevertheless. And wesaw the second, i.e., a brand pushingus to think in new ways, in the recentDabur ad depicting a homosexualcouple celebrating Karva Chauth. InIndia, samesex marriages are not legally recognised.

A chilling eff�ectAt the most basic level, brands merely propagate a message in order tosell a product. Brands cannot imposeanything on the people, unlike governments. If a person does not approve of or like a brand’s ad or itsmessage, they have the freedom toignore the ad or message. They alsohave the freedom to disagree vocallyand share a counterpoint. But whenthat disagreement is taken to an extreme level, such as calling for a boycott, that means that the aggrievedperson wants to force the brand tocomply with their line of thought.That is not just intolerance, it is bullying. This is bound to lead to selfcensorship and inhibit the ideas andcreativity of brands. It creates a chilling eff�ect on companies.

To be sure, people have been taking off�ence citing “hurt sentiments”for a long time. This is certainly not arecent phenomenon. But earlier, inthe quieter days when there was nosocial media, “sentiments were hurt”in small, isolated circles. Now, anycounterperspective is shared withthe world within minutes. And theones who say their sentiments havebeen hurt usually tag others whothey know will espouse the same ideology or cause. If they all have a hugesocial media following, the post goesviral within hours or even minutes.

Brands should stand by their ideasand creativity. They must decidewhat is the best way to tell the storyof the brand as long as they are notmiscommunicating with consumersor misleading them. But that conviction seems to be missing these days.All we see is brands quickly capitulating to bullies and withdrawing theirads. This will only embolden the bullies to call for more boycotts in theassumption that all brands will submit meekly to every threat. This willonly fuel intolerance.

Karthik Srinivasan is a communications

professional

If companies capitulate to bullies and withdraw controversial ads, it will only fuel intolerance

Controversy erupted over a recent Fabindia ad because the ad used an Urduphrase to talk of a collection that was being launched before Diwali and alsobecause some of the models were not wearing bindis. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Brands must stick to their stand

Karthik Srinivasan

Whenever I think about ‘Data’, I think ofBrent Spiner. The android of Star Trek wasselfaware, sapient, sentient, and had strivenfor his own humanity. Today, ‘Data’ is already ‘Big’ and everexpanding and has the potential to infl�uence every bit of human lifestyle. However, “There is terror in numbers,”as Darrell Huff� wrote in How to Lie with Sta-tistics. The task of statisticians is to churn thedata and obtain summary measures, diagrams and fi�gures, rankings and indices, andmake conclusions. Is this the muchdesired‘human chip’ to make ‘Data’ human?

Proper understanding of statisticsIn reality, statisticians are often like the blindmen of the parable, standing in front of anelephant. And inadequate or partial analysisof data may lead to an incorrect portrayal ofthe elephant. As H.G. Wells is known to havesaid: “Statistical thinking will one day be asnecessary for effi�cient citizenship as the ability to read and write.” Yes, understandingthe meaning of statistical and probabilisticconclusions is very important. This was exemplifi�ed by the case of Stephen Jay Gouldwho explained how the statistic that peritoneal mesothelioma, the form of cancer withwhich he was diagnosed, has a “median survival time of eight months” is misleading given the distribution of that data, and relevant data regarding his individual prognosis.Gould showed a positive outlook to beat theodds. Some of the fi�ghting spirit, he proposed, was the result of his proper understanding of statistics. For once, he argued,statistics manifested itself as a source of optimism, rather than the sterile methodologythat most people associate with the term.

Misleading statistics maybe produced dueto limitations of the concerned statisticians,or it may even be deliberate, or both. “Misinforming people by the use of statistical material might be called statistical manipulation,”Huff� wrote. Huff� pointed out seven commontactics to knead statistical data into ‘dough’,which include polling a nonrepresentativegroup, small sample sizes, and averaging values across nonuniform populations. Huff� illustrated how statistical graphs could beused to distort reality. If the bottom of a lineor bar chart is truncated, diff�erences looklarger than they are. Also, the proportionbetween the ordinate and the abscissa is sometimes changed for this purpose. With the

help of several real examples, Huff� also discussed the ‘posthoc fallacy’, which incorrectly asserts a direct correlation betweentwo fi�ndings. In his 2001 book, Damned Lies& Statistics, Joel Best also used fascinatingexamples from leading newspapers and television programmes to unravel the use, misuse, and abuse of statistical information.

The goal of statistics is to search for ‘truth’amid the randomness of nature. “Uncertainknowledge + Knowledge of the amount of uncertainty in it = Usable knowledge,” wroteC.R. Rao in his book Statistics and Truth:Putting Chance to Work. Prof. Rao discussedhow statistics can be used to judge whether anewly discovered poem is composed by Shakespeare or to mix blood samples from diff�erent persons together to test for certain rarediseases to reduce the number of tests.

Need for innovationChurning for truth from the ocean of data sometimes demands fi�ner statistical expertise.It also needs innovation. During the communal riots in Delhi after Independence, manypeople from a minority community took refuge in Red Fort, and some in HumanyunTomb. The government had no exact countof the refugees, and contractors responsibleto feed them charged high amounts. A teamfrom the Indian Statistical Institute wasasked to estimate the number. They estimated the number of persons inside a given areawithout having an opportunity to look at theconcentrations of persons inside the areaand without using any known sampling techniques for estimation or census methods. Infact, based on an idea suggested by J.M. Sengupta, they divided the quantities of rice,pulses, and salt used per day to feed all therefugees, as quoted by the contractors, bythe respective per capita requirements ofrice, pulses, and salt known from consumption surveys, and got three widely diff�erentestimates of the number of refugees. The estimate obtained by salt was the smallest andthe estimate from the rice was the largest. Asrice was the most expensive, its quantity wasprobably exaggerated. They proposed thequantity obtained from salt as an estimate ofthe number of refugees. The method wasverifi�ed to provide a good approximation inthe Humayun tomb.

The lesson is clear. In order to extract‘truths’ by using statistics, one needs expertise and innovation from the concerned statisticians. Ideal statistical thinking and proper understanding of statistics of the commonpeople, of course, is no less important. Apinch of salt is needed, indeed.

Atanu Biswas is Professor of Statistics, Indian

Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Data and the quest for truthLooking for truth in the ocean of data available demandsstatistical expertise and also innovation

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Just when its leadership was comingto terms with its poor performance inthe Assembly polls, the Indian UnionMuslim League (IUML) saw a tusslebreak out between the men and women of its student organisation, theMuslim Students’ Federation. Some10 leaders of Haritha, the women’swing of MSF, accused the offi�cebearers of making sexist remarks againstthem in Kozhikode in June. In response, the IUML leadership dissolved the State committee of Haritha and said that the issue is a“closed chapter” but the case is stillunder investigation.

A label to shake off�Amid this controversy, NoorbinaRasheed, national general secretaryof the IUML’s women’s wing, defended the party asserting that itsideology is minority politicsand not gender politics.While maintaining that thereis no discrimination betweenmen and women in the party,Ms. Rasheed said that womenin the IUML should not forgetthat they were “Muslims fi�rstand only then women”. Shesaid that her role model is Hajira Beevi, wife of Prophet Ibrahim,while former Haritha leader FathimaThahiliya had stated that she drew inspiration from the legendary communist leader, K.R. Gowri Amma.

For the IUML, the label of patriarchy is not easy to shake off�. It fi�eldeda woman candidate (KamarunnisaAnwar) in the Assembly elections forthe fi�rst time only in 1996. The second time it fi�elded a woman candidate was 25 years later, in 2021. Thecandidate was Ms. Rasheed, who lostthe election. Early last month, afterHaritha leaders attacked the partyleadership for being patriarchal, theIUML State working committeeadopted a policy to reserve 20% oforganisational posts for women inpartylinked outfi�ts despite the IUMLbacked Samastha Kerala JamiatulUlema reportedly expressing its reservations about the move. And yet,no woman fi�gured in the list of offi�cebearers of the newly constituted

committee of the Muslim YouthLeague, the IUML’s youth wing, overa week ago. The IUML leadership believes that its defectors are responsible for the Haritha controversy.

A snowball eff�ectMeanwhile, while the IUML grappleswith the churn, the alleged misogynyin the party has triggered demands inother political parties for more representation for women. The newly constituted 56member Kerala PradeshCongress Committee has only fi�vewomen leaders, including three general secretaries, which has become asubject of discussion. The party leadership was left embarrassed when aformer District Congress Committeepresident, Bindu Krishna, burst intotears while demanding an assuranceon her candidature in the Kollam seatin March, and the party’s women’s

wing president, Lathika Subhash, resigned from her postand shaved her head as a markof protest against the denial ofticket to her at Ettumanoor.The CPI(M), despite its tallclaims about gender equalityin the State, faces awkwardquestions about representation at times, although womenare assuming leadership roles

now in the party committee. It remains to be seen how many womenwill occupy positions in the Statecommittee as well as the Centralcommittee of the party. The BJP Stateunit underwent a revamp recently,but the party is still maledominated.Not one of the general secretaries is awoman. The party vicepresident,Sobha Surendran, often perceived asa disgruntled leader, was droppedfrom the reconstituted national executive committee.

Kerala has an impressive HumanDevelopment Index and has produced inspirational women leaders.But the representation of women inpolitical parties in leadership and decisionmaking roles remains low. It isno wonder that the 140member Legislative Assembly has only 11 womenlegislators. The recent developmentsare little steps towards change.

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Resisting patriarchy in politicsAllegations of patriarchy in the IUML in Kerala haveset off� demands for better representation of women

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STATE OF PLAY

New Delhi, Nov.2: After the Prime Minister’sreturn, the Government of India is expectedto take the policy decision soon to resumefull diplomatic relations with China by reverting to ambassadorlevel representationin both the capitals as a fi�rst step towards aSinoIndian detente in due course. The necessary soundings have already been madeand the Government is now looking for asuitable person from public life or the foreign service for this key assignment. ThePrime Minister’s advisers on foreign policyfeel that India should take advantage of thecurrent SinoIndian thaw and set the ballrolling for an early resumption of normal relations. They consider the present politicalclimate in the country quite appropriate forclosing the sad chapter of the sixties and establishing a more equitable relationshipwith China consistent with India’s nationalinterests. There is hardly any political partyin the country which is now opposing theidea of normalisation of relations with Chinawithout a border settlement. Even the JanSangh is not demanding the vacation of Chinese aggression before the resumption offull diplomatic relations.

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The burden of proof to explain the injury lies on theauthority concerned.

The core group also recommended making the legal framework technologyfriendly to speed up the criminal justice system.“Presently the legal framework is not suitable foradoption of technology inthe criminal justice system,”the minutes said.

The group also recommended that the SupremeCourt’s December 2020 order to install CCTV cameraswith night vision in all pol

ice stations should be “implemented immediately” toensure accountability.Among the recommendations were the involvementof trained social workersand law students with policestations as part of community policing and incorporating community policing inpolice manuals, laws andadvisories.

According to data provided by the Home Ministry tothe Lok Sabha in March, 16States and UTs had implemented police complaintsboards.

‘Set up policecomplaints bodies’

Iran, which did not includeIndia in a meeting of Foreign Ministers from Afghanistan’s neighbouringcountries and is believed tohave taken External Aff�airsMinister S. Jaishankar’s participation in a quadrilateralwith IsraelUAEU.S. amiss,“welcomed the invitation”,said a source, indicating itis likely to send a delegate.

Blames IndiaMr. Yusuf also blamed Indiafor holding up regional security processes, while declining India’s invitation.

“I think the region’s obstacles are in front of you,there is no need for debateon this. On one hand India,[...] unfortunately [becauseof ] the government's behaviour and ideology there, Idon't see how this [peace]process will move forward— not just for Pakistan butthe region,” Mr. Yusuf wasquoted saying by the Dawn

Newspaper.The Ministry of External

Aff�airs declined a requestfor a response to Mr. Yusuf’s remarks.

Invitations to the regional conference on November1011 were sent out in October by the National Security Council Secretariat(NSCS) through each coun

tries’ embassy in Delhi. Offi�cials said plans for the twoday conference were in fullswing, including a dinnerevent hosted by Mr. Doval.The sessions would discussregional and shared threatsof terrorism emanatingfrom groups in Afghanistan, as well as the problemof drug traffi�cking, refugees, and connectivityamidst a growing economicand humanitarian crisis inAfghanistan.

Tension remainsThe government has not invited any offi�cials from theacting Taliban governmentin Kabul, which has notbeen formally recognisedby any country. However,offi�cials did not rule out thepresence of Afghans associated with the dialogueprocess based in Doha.

Signifi�cantly, a delegation led by Turkmen Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov met with Taliban PrimeMinister Mullah Hassan Akhund in Kabul over theweekend to discuss theTurkmenistanAfghanistanPakistanIndia (TAPI) gaspipeline project.

The invitations sent bythe NSCS to both Pakistanand China had raised eyebrows given deep tensions.

Pak. NSA to skip Indianmeet on Afghanistan

The Defence AcquisitionCouncil, which met on Tuesday, cancelled a tender forprocurement of naval gunsfrom the U.S. and added thequantity to an existing upgraded Super Rapid GunMount (SRGM) being manufactured by Bharat HeavyElectricals Ltd. (BHEL). Thecouncil accorded Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) forcapital acquisition and modernisation proposals estimated at ₹�7,965 crore.

A defence source said theSRGM was earlier proposedto be procured under theU.S. Foreign Military Sales(FMS) category. “But nowthis will be given to BHEL topromote ‘Make in India’.This measure will result in asaving of ₹�3,000 crore,” thesource said.

“Key approvals of procurement from domestic

sources include 12 light utility helicopters from Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL),Lynx U2 fi�re control systemfrom the Bharat ElectronicsLtd. (BEL), which will en

hance the detection, tracking and engagement capabilities of warships and midlifeupgradation of the Dornieraircraft from HAL to increasethe naval capacity of coastal

surveillance…,” the DefenceMinistry said.

In November 2019, theU.S. had approved the sale of13 MK45 127 mm naval gunsbuilt by BAE Systems esti

mated at around $1 billion.These bigger guns with larger range and fi�repower overthe current main gun on warships were to become themainstay of frontline shipsunder construction at various shipyards in India.

The deal for which thecontract negotiations wereunder way has been cancelled because “the cost hasgone by over 50% from theestimated price and there isalso limited technologytransfer”, the source said.

Niche capabilities“These SRGMs provide nichecapabilities of engaging fastmanoeuvring targets usingguided munitions and rangeextensions and are to be fi�tted on the warships of theNavy. All of these proposalsare under ‘Make in India’with focus on design, development and manufacturingin India.”

DAC clears proposals worth ₹�7,965 cr.Naval guns deal from U.S. cancelled over high cost, limited technology transfer, say sources

Dinakar Peri

NEW DELHI

Air power: The indigenously developed light utility helicopter. * FILE PHOTO

The Income Tax Department has provisionally attached assets worth ₹�1,000crore allegedly linked toMaharashtra Deputy ChiefMinister Ajit Pawar.

The move follows thesearches last month on businesses and properties belonging to Mr. Pawar’s relatives and aides.

The assets include a sugar factory in Satara (₹�600crore), a residential property in South Delhi (₹�20crore), an offi�ce in Mumbai’s upmarket area (believed to be Nirmal Towerin Nariman Point, ₹�25crore), a resort in Goa(₹�250 crore) and land indiff�erent parts of the State,said sources, adding thatthe department had seizedthe properties under theBenami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 1988.

Assets linkedto Ajit Pawarattached

Special correspondent

PUNE

The Chief Ministers of Assam and Meghalaya are expected to visit some of thedisputed areas along theboundary between the twoStates towards a permanentsettlement.

There are 12 areas of dispute along the 884.9kmborder but the Governments have targeted six ofthe “less complicated” areasfor resolving.

Meghalaya Chief MinisterConrad K. Sangma said hehad a telephonic conversation with his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma.“We will choose one or twolocations for a joint visit byNovember 15,” he said.

The two Governmentshad, a few months ago,formed regional committeescomprising the local MLAsand offi�cials. These committees were tasked with meeting the villagers in the dis

puted areas, recording theirviews and submitting reports for perusal and discussion at a higher level.

Submission delayed The reports were scheduledto be submitted on October30, but got delayed becauseof the byelections to eightAssembly seats in the twoStates.

They are likely to be submitted after the two ChiefMinisters visit any two of thethree locations both havelisted.

The joint visit has beenplanned as a confi�dencebuilding measure, offi�cialssaid.

Assam and Meghalayahave agreed to resolve theboundary disputes amicably under a giveandtakepolicy. The six areas of diff�erences are Tarabari, Gizang,Hahim, Boklapara, KhanaparaPilangkata and Ratacherra.

Assam, Meghalaya CMsto visit areas of friction Border disputes to be settled amicably


Guwahati

Schools have reopened forClasses 1 to 12 in 22 Statesand Union Territories, theEducation Ministry said onTuesday, adding that 12States and UTs have openedschools for older children.The only States whereschools are still completelyclosed are West Bengal andManipur.

Over 92% of schoolteachers across the country havebeen vaccinated, and 86% ofnonteaching staff� inschools, Education MinisterDharmendra Pradhan said

after conducting a review ofthe vaccination status.

“With rapid vaccination

atscale in the country, weare looking at a future withrestored normalcy and vi

brancy in our schools andother educational and skilling institutions”, he said, in atweet, after the review.

Schools in Ladakh, Punjab, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Nagaland, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and Daman and Diuhave opened for Classes 612,while those in Jammu andKashmir, Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Puducherry,and Andaman and Nicobarhave opened for Classes 912only. Apart from West Bengal and Manipur, whereschools remain closed, all remaining States have openedschools for all classes.

Schools fully open in 22 States, U.T.s92% of teachers, 86% of nonteaching staff� have been vaccinated, says Pradhan

Back to school: Students at a school in Salem after classesresumed in Tamil Nadu on Monday. * LAKSHMI NARAYANAN E.


NEW DELHI

A Bokarobased fi�rm, Kamladityya Construction Pvt.Ltd., on Tuesday emergedas the lowest bidder for theCentral Public Works Department’s project to construct a new residence for

the VicePresident. The fi�rmbid 3.52% below the CPWD’sestimated cost of ₹�214.03crore with a bid of ₹�206.49crore, beating fi�ve otherfi�rms.

The new complex is proposed to come up nearRashtrapati Bhavan.

Bokaro fi�rm placeslowest bid for VP houseSpecial correspondent

NEW DELHI

Delay in releasing undertrials from jail merely because the court ordergranting them bail has notbeen either received orprocessed on time by jailauthorities is a travesty ofjustice, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud has said.

Justice Chandrachudwas speaking at the einauguration of virtualcourts and the eSewa Kendra at the Allahabad HighCourt and the districtcourt. He also highlightedthe problem of huge pendency in the lower courts.

The Supreme Courtjudge said the issue has tobe addressed on a warfooting. “This touchesupon the human liberty ofevery undertrial,”he said.

Mr.Chandrachud referred to an initiative of the“ecustody certifi�cate”launched by Orissa HighCourt Chief Justice S. Muralidhar. The certifi�catewould electronically contain the details of an undertrial and would immediately convey the informationto grant bail to the prisonauthorities and thus speedup the process.

‘Proceduraldelay of bailunacceptable’

Legal Correspondent

NEW DELHI

The Centre has decided toscrap the system of castebased wage payments in theMahatma Gandhi NationalRural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) schemeafter complaints from StateGovernments.

In an order dated November 1, the Finance Ministrydirected the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) to“revert to the previous system of generating singlemuster, single FTO [or FundTransfer Order] and transferring money into a singleNeFMS [or National Electronic Fund ManagementSystem] account”.

However, a revised accounting procedure willnow be implemented to allow expenditure to be captured under three MinorHeads for Scheduled Castesand Tribes and others,through a single FTO, saidthe order, which The Hindu

has seen a copy of. TheMoRD has been told to set adate on which the new process will come into eff�ect.

The Hindu had reported

that the Centre planned torevoke its controversialcastebased wage system after the State Governmentswarned of rising social tensions in an October 11meeting.

The contentious directiveissued on March 2 by MoRD,on instructions from the Finance Ministry, had askedthe States to generate threeseparate FTOs for each ofthe three caste groups for every muster roll at anMGNREGA worksite. Threesanctions would then begenerated and then payments would be made intothree separate accounts of

the State Government.In a meeting with the Fi

nance Secretary and Expenditure Secretary on October11, MoRD Secretary N.N. Sinha said that “many Stateshave conveyed diffi�cultiesbeing faced by them due tothe new process”, said anote attached to the FinanceMinistry order. “This has notonly multiplied the work atall levels but also resulted inpayments going at diff�erenttimes to diff�erent communities,” it added.

In many villages, therewere social frictions amongcommunities who got paidas much as two months laterthan others from the samemuster roll, according to reports from workers’ unions.A study by LibTech Indiaanalysing 18 lakh FTOs overthe last six months in 10States found that SC and STworkers were getting paidsignifi�cantly faster thanthose from other communities. Several State governments, including Karnataka,Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, raisedthe issue with the Central government.

Centre to scrap castebasedpayments for MGNREGAMinistry directed to revert to single Fund Transfer Order

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NEW DELHI

MGNREGA work in progressat Kusugal village inDharwad district. * FILE PHOTO

Facebook India’s representative has been allowed toappear before the Delhi Assembly’s Committee onPeace and Harmony on November 18 since the company requested an extension of 14 days to fi�nd theright person “best placedto provide the Committeewith the data required”.

According to the DelhiAssembly, in a response tothe summons issued by itto the social media giant onOctober 27, Facebook Indiahas requested an extensionof 14 days to appear beforethe Committee on Peaceand Harmony headed byMLA Raghav Chadha.

The committee is examining what it termed “unprecedented communaldisharmony and violencein Delhi” in February 2020.

FB offi�cial tomeet panel ofDelhi House


New Delhi

As almost 26 crore childrenreturn to physical classes after 18 months of school closures, a business as usual approach will lead to adeepening of existing educational inequity, warned theNational Coalition on theEducation Emergency in areport released online onTuesday.

The NCEE cited data fromthe recent SCHOOL surveyconducted in 15 States,which showed that 72% ofelementary age children didnot do any regular studyingby any method during thelockdown, with only 8% ofrural children able to accessonline classes. An NCEE survey of teachers in a sampleof Karnataka schools found

that 85% of Class 8 teachersthought that most of theirstudents were not at theirgrade level in mathematicsand language. Threefourthsof Class 10 teachers agreed.The worst aff�ected are children of the rural and urbanpoor, migrants, minorities,Dalit, adivasi and other backward communities, many ofwhose families faced ahealth and livelihood crisisduring the lockdown apartfrom a lack of educationalaccess.

“When schools reopen, itcannot be about pouncingon children to make themlearn the three R’s. We can’tjust go on from where theyleft off� two years ago, or expect them to match up to theregular syllabus at their newgrade level with some sort of

short bridge course”, saidShantha Sinha, former headof the National Commissionfor Protection of ChildRights, speaking at the report of the release. “Somuch has happened sincethen, and there needs to be afocus on children’s mentalhealth and selfesteem before anything else”.

The report, “A Future AtStake Guidelines and Principles to Resume and RenewEducation”, suggests specific ways to bring childrenback to school, communicate with parents and teachers and processes to supportthe most disadvantaged. Tilllower secondary level, curriculum need to be redesigned with a focus on socioemotional development,language and maths skills.

As schools reopen, studywarns of deepening divides72% of elementary age students missed studies, it says


NEW DELHI

Former Maharashtra HomeMinister Anil Deshmukh wasarrested by the EnforcementDirectorate (ED) on Tuesdayon charges of corruptionand money laundering.

A holiday court in Mumbai remanded him in ED custody till November 6. Senioradvocate Vikram Chaudharyrepresented Mr. Deshmukhbefore holiday Judge P.B.Jadhav.

On Monday, Mr. Deshmukh had appeared beforethe ED and was questionedfor 12 hours.

Investigations by the EDhad reportedly revealed 13companies directly controlled by members of Mr.Deshmukh’s family. Anotherset of 14 companies in thenames of the family’s closeassociates and controlled by

the family members have also come to light. It has beenalleged that Mr. Deshmukhparked his money in theseentities.

The remand applicationsubmitted by the ED stated,“By virtue of his position asHome Minister, he has received amounts of ₹�470crore collected from Orches

tra Bar owners/managers forsmooth functioning of barsand the said bribe moneywas used by him through hisson Hrishikesh for providingcash to Delhibased papercompanies and, after layering, the same was routed to aTrust in the garb of donation, managed and controlled by Mr. Deshmukh”

ED arrests Deshmukhin corruption caseFormer Minister to be held in ED custody till Nov. 6

Special correspondent

MUMBAI

Anil Deshmukh being taken for a medical check-up after hisarrest in Mumbai on Tuesday. * PTI

The Delhi Commission forWomen (DCW) on Tuesdayissued notice to the CyberCrime Cell of the Delhi Police regarding online rapethreats against Indiancricketer Virat Kohli’sdaughter on social media.

DCW chief Swati Maliwal, in a press note, saidthat the commission tooksuo motu cognisance ofmedia reports stating thatKohli’s daughter has beenreceiving threats after India’s loss to Pakistan in theT20 World Cup. The Indiancaptain lashing out againstthose trolling pacer Mohammed Shami on the basis of his religion has further infuriated them.

In the notice given toDelhi Police, DCW hasasked for a copy of the FIRagainst those who issuedrape threats and other details pertaining to the accused persons.

DCW noticeon threat toKohli’s child

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Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi andPradesh Congress Committee (PCC) chief NavjotSingh Sidhu on Tuesdayput up a united face by visiting the Kedarnath shrinetogether.

On a day when the Punjab Cabinet had announced a cut of ₹�3 per unit of electricity, Mr. Sidhusaid people didn’t want“lollipops”, but development. Mr. Channi hit backby reversing his decisionon AdvocateGeneral A.P.S.Deol who had reportedlyresigned, one of the key demands of Mr. Sidhu. “At Kedarnath, the heavenlyabode of Lord Shiva,” Mr.Sidhu tweeted, along witha photograph of him withMr. Channi.

Punjab CM,Sidhu visitKedarnath


New Delhi

Bypoll results on Tuesdaybrought mixed results forthe BJP — a victorious sweepof all fi�ve Assembly seats inAssam to the worrying trendin Himachal Pradesh wherethe party lost all three Assembly and the one Lok Sabha seats up for grabs. Questions on whether the losseswere all about intrapartyfactionalism or the eff�ect ofhigh prices of fuel and edibleoils are also being raised.

Party leaders counteredthe argument that the BJPlost in Himachal Pradeshdue to the high cost of fueland edible oil, to point to thenarrowing of the lead of Abhay Singh Chautala in Ellenabad in Haryana (the epicentre of the farmersprotest) from 12,000 votesto just over 6,000 votes.

“Bypolls are largelyfought on local issues. Ifprice rise can be termed anissue in Himachal, can Mr.Chautala’s narrow margin ofvictory and the Congresscoming third in Ellenabadnot be termed as the waningof the farmers movement,”said a national offi�cebearer.

Prestige seatsThe loss in Himachal Pradesh, however, will rankle inthe BJP for a while as it lostnot just the three Assemblyseats in the fray, but also theLok Sabha seat of Mandi,previously held by the party.

Mandi is the home districtof Chief Minister Jairam Thakur and Himachal Pradesh isthe home State of BJP national president J.P. Nadda.While local leaders are attributing the loss to issues suchas price rise, the intrapartywrangling is being pointed

out by senior leaders in Delhi. “The seat in JubbalKotkhai was lost as Chetan Bragtawas not given the ticket andhe turned rebel. It was nothandled well,” said a seniorleader, while no explanationwas given for the loss inMandi. The party needs tointrospect on why the Congress, considered enfeebledin Himachal Pradesh, wasable to defeat the ruling BJP,and this introspection needsto take place before the Stategoes in for the Assemblyelection in late 2022.

In Karnataka, too, newlyappointed Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai faced embarrassment when the BJPcould not win the Hangalseat in the home district ofthe Chief Minister andwhere he had invested muchtime.

Gracefully acknowledgingthe defeat in Hangal andthanking party workers fortheir work in both Sindgi(where the BJP won handsomely) and Hangal, Mr.Bommai gave due credit tothe Congress candidate, Srinivas Mane, who, he said,had been rewarded by thepeople for his work duringthe COVID19 pandemic. Onthe question of his own leadership and the mixed re

sults for the party, he pointed to former Chief MinisterSiddaramaiah’s own patchybypoll record in the past.

“Mr. Siddaramaiah alsofaced such loss and wins, soelections pertain to a particular time and particular issues and are not a verdict onthe entire tenure.” But thereference to Mr. Mane’swork during the pandemic isan important pointer towhere Mr. Bommai shouldexpend his energies.

The victories in Assam(fi�ve seats), Telangana (oneseat, Huzurabad) and Madhya Pradesh (where the BJPmanaged to win the Jobat Assembly seat, a ScheduledTribe seat where the partyhad managed to win onlytwice in the last 70 years),brought some cheer to theparty, with BJP general secretary (organisation) B.L.Santhosh tweeting his congratulations to Assam ChiefMinister Himanta BiswaSarma.

This year, which saw aprocession of BJP Chief Ministers make their way to various Raj Bhawans to tendertheir resignations, the question remains whether the bypolls will restart that queuebefore the Assembly elections in these States.

Warning bells for BJP asbypolls bring mixed bag Party faces questions on reasons for the worrying losses

Nistula Hebbar

NEW DELHI

Victory sign: Sushanta Borgohain, the BJP candidate fromThowra in Assam, after winning the bypolls on Tuesday. * PTI

The clean sweep in the Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan bypolls and the wins inKarnataka and Maharashtraon Tuesday prompted theCongress to claim that the results refl�ect the moodagainst the Narendra ModiGovernment.

With Himachal Pradeshscheduled to have its Assembly election around November next year, the bypollresults are of special signifi�cance for the party since theState witnessed a direct contest between the ruling BJPand the Congress.

“The win in the MandiLok Sabha seat, which wasnot only a BJP strongholdbut also part of the Chief Minister’s home district, indicates that the vote is againstthe Union Government. Ifyou look at the data of theLok Sabha elections in Himachal Pradesh, the BJP had gota 70% vote share. We havenot only bridged that defi�cit,

but got more to win a seat,”All India Congress Committee (AICC) incharge for Himachal Rajeev Shukla said ata press conference.

Most leaders attributedthe BJP’s loss to “runaway infl�ation, alltime high fuelprices and the three farmlaws”.

Party Deputy Leader inthe Rajya Sabha and seniorleader from Himachal Pradesh, Anand Sharma, saidthe victory, despite “themassive use of power, auth

ority and resources”, was aclear rejection of the antipeople policies of the BJP and abetrayal of the mandate.

“The tide has turned, andthe countdown has begunfor the BJP,” Mr. Sharma,said on Twitter.

The Congress said even inthe Opposition’s defeat in Bihar, there was a lesson to belearnt. “It is a selfevidentreality that if the Oppositionstays united, its victory issure,” Mr. Shukla said at apress briefi�ng, referring to

the Rashtriya Janata Dal(RJD) losing both the seats.

The RJD leadership, including Lalu Prasad, hadslammed the Congress fordemanding one seat to contest. Eventually, the Congress contested both theseats that were won by theruling party in Bihar.

While the results were encouraging in Rajasthan amidthe ongoing leadership tussle, the most worrying newscame from its previousstronghold, Assam.

Of the fi�ve seats that wentto the polls in Assam, theparty not only failed to retain the two seats it won inMay but also registered ablank.

In fact, the CongressMLAs of these two seats —Thowra and Mariani — whoswitched to the BJP withinmonths of winning on theCongress ticket, managed toretain their seats for the BJP.

“We have been hollowedout as an organisation,” saida leader from Assam.

‘Results refl�ect mood against Centre’Himachal, Rajasthan cheer up Congress, but losses in Assam a cause of worry

Celebration mode: Congress candidate for the Mandi LokSabha seat Pratibha Singh celebrating in Shimla. * PTI


New Delhi

The J&K Government hasset up a new State Investigation Agency (SIA) for“speedy and eff�ective investigation and prosecution of militancyrelatedcases in the Union Territory”. However, the PeoplesAlliance for the Gupkar Declaration, a conglomerateof regional parties, has expressed concern over itsformation.

The SIA will be a nodalagency for coordinatingwith the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and other Central agencies, a Government Order said onMonday.

The head of the CIDwing shall be the exoffi�cioDirector of the SIA.

Anti-terroragency set up in J&K

special correspondent

Srinagar

The Supreme Court hasheld that possession anddisplay of a deadly weaponto strike terror in thehearts of victims is essential to convict a person ofdacoity with intention tomurder.

A Bench of Justices D.Y.Chandrachud and M.R.Shah was interpreting Section 397 (robbery/dacoitywith attempt to causedeath or grievous hurt) ofthe Indian Penal Code(IPC). The judgment pertained to an appeal fi�led bya man who claimed he didnot have a deadly weaponin his hands during an attempted robbery.

Weapon mustfor dacoityconviction: SC

Legal Correspondent

NEW DELHI

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has fi�led twochargesheets against sixpersons, including a servingNavy commander and tworetired offi�cers, for allegedlysharing confi�dential commercial information relatedto the Kilo Class submarines’ refi�t and upgrade programme to unauthorisedpersons for illegalgratifi�cation.

“In the fi�rst chargesheet,Commander (retd.) S.J.Singh and Commodore(retd.) Randeep Singh havebeen arraigned. The agencyhad seized about ₹�2.40crore in cash, including₹�2.90 lakh that the retiredCommodore was handingover to Commander (retd.)Singh,” said a CBI offi�cial.Commander Singh workedfor a Korean company.

The second chargesheethas been fi�led against sixpersons, including the two

retired offi�cers and oneserving Commander, AjitKumar Pandey. The otherthree accused are directorsof Hyderabadbased AllenReinforced Plastics PrivateLtd. They have been identifi�ed by the agency as T.P.Shastri, N.V. Rao and K.Chandrashekar Rao. TheCBI has invoked various provisions of the Indian PenalCode and the Prevention ofCorruption Act against theaccused. The Navy is alsoconducting an internal inquiry into the allegations.

In September, the CBI arrested fi�ve persons and alsosearched locations in Delhi,Noida, Mumbai and Hyderabad. Commander Jagdish,who was arrested on September 21, has not yet beenchargesheeted as the agency has 18 more days beforethe 60day time limit expires. The serving commanders were posted at theWestern Naval Commandheadquarters.

CBI charges six for leakingconfi�dential informationCase relates to submarines programme


NEW DELHI/MUMBAI

Slamming former Comptroller and AuditorGeneral(CAG) Vinod Rai after hisapology to former Congress MP Sanjay Nirupam,the party on Tuesday demanded that Mr. Rai apologise to the nation.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi should also joinMr. Rai as he, too, was partof the “sinister plan” todestabilise former PrimeMinister ManmohanSingh’s Government, theparty said.

‘Modi, formerCAG mustapologise’

Staff Reporter

Mumbai

Indian National Lok Dal’s(INLD) Abhay Singh Chautala on Tuesday defeated hisnearest rival and BJP nominee, Gobind Kanda, by over6,000 votes in a close contest to retain the EllenabadAssembly seat in Haryana.However, the BJP managedto narrow the margin of defeat to almost half comparedto 2019.

The Congress’s Pawan Beniwal polled 20,904 votes tofi�nish a distant third.

In an election fought under the shadow of the farmers’ agitation, Mr. Chautalahad a clear edge over his rivals, with Ellenabad being thefortress of the Chautala clan.

However, Mr. Kanda, thejoint candidate of the BJPJJP( Jannayak Janta Party), putup a tough fi�ght, with themargin of votes between thetwo narrowing down to lessthan 3,000 after the tenthround of counting. WhileMr. Chautala polled 65,992

votes in 16round countingof votes, Mr. Kanda got59,253 votes, as per the Election Commission of Indiaapp.

Campaigning against theBJPJJP nominee, SamyuktKisan Morcha leader RakeshTikait had, in a broad hint,asked the voters to ensurevictory for Mr. Chautala withan improved margin.

In the fi�rst reaction to theresults, Home Minister AnilVij said, “Abhay Chautalahas won this election technically, but lost on moralgrounds”.

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11 In years, having four scores to settle, try retaliating, organising

action near... (12)

13 ... say, coffee restaurant — launching the last one (6)

15 Wrongly tag French water and cake (6)

18 Apt to fret like a guitar tuned under the infl�uence? (6,6)

21 Green vegetable salads often retain raw evergreen leaves for starters (6)

22 Fang still very rounded inside, eh? (3,5)

23 Strays devoured the last bit of leftovers, following Indian madam (8)

24 So, shedding tears eventually to get closure, initially nervous about

heartattack? (6)

■ DOWN

1 Joke about idiotic dope, pun essentially, killed (5,3)

2 Cop out and about — officer — gangster absconding near Central, Minnesota

(6)

3 Posh politician hugged by sweetheart, abandoning essentially hearty short

stocky man (8)

4 Jam ingredient obtaining mixture of nip, etc. (6)

6 Mac operated by company accountant, discontented without Internet at fi�rst

(8)

7 Coat in fact an explosive (6)

8 Rio takes shelter for a little bit (4)

12 Attractive charisma’s not gross (8)

14 Organise excellent German university students in singular grade allround

(8)

16 Yield to violently extreme rowdyism, initially awkwardly run inside (8)

17 Instruments that hold ragas inside (nothing as constant) exuding before

softly transcending (6)

18 In front of a German gentleman’s address in Munich — not quite in this place

(6)

19 Works hard to dismantle uneven backend, going extremely near to the rear

aboard ship (6)

20 HIT training’s good (4)

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Lord Narayana took the Krishna avatara so that peoplecould enjoy His saulabhya, said M.A. Venkatakrishnan in adiscourse. Rama too captured the hearts of people. Valmiki,in Ayodhya Kanda, says ‘pumsaam drishtichitta apahaari-nam’. In other words, Rama attracted the eyes and thoughtsof those who beheld Him. In the case of Krishna, the attention came automatically, without Kishna having to do anything. Moreover Rama was the son of a king, and so, naturally,people would have maintained a certain distance from Him.But with Krishna, there were no such barriers. And yet, notall had the good fortune of witnessing His childhood pranks.

Krishna was born as Vasudeva’s son, and Vasudeva hadthe boon of seeing Krishna with four hands. But beyondthat, he had nothing, for soon Krishna was taken away andleft at Gokula. Vasu means wealth, and to Vasudeva wasborn the unimaginable wealth, namely Krishna. But Vasudeva did not enjoy this wealth, just as many rich men never getto enjoy their riches. There is a story about a man who wasgiven eight pots of gold by a devata. He found seven were fullbut one only half full. The man spent the rest of his life trying to fi�ll this pot; by the time it was full, he died, withouthaving enjoyed the gold in the other pots.

Nanda means joy, and Nandagopa had the joy of watchingKrishna’s leelas. Two terms are used to describe the Supreme One — Atmadaa and baladaa. Atmadaa means theLord giving Himself to someone. Baladaa means the Lordgiving strength to someone to enjoy His deeds. To Vasudeva,He gave Himself, but was soon parted from him. To Nandagopa, He gave the bala to enjoy Him, and so Nandagopa wasas joyous as his name suggests.

FAITH

Nandagopa’s good fortune

nister Narendra Modi. In the presence of other

heads of government, including U.S. President Joe Biden, the two Prime Ministerspresented the One Sun Declaration, endorsed by morethan 80 countries, settingout the group’s aims.

Clean energy“All the energy humanity uses in a year is equal to theenergy that reaches theearth from the sun in a singlehour,” Mr. Modi said.

“The sun never sets — every hour, half the planet isbathed in sunshine. By trading energy from sun, windand water across borders,we can deliver more than

On the second day of COP26,an initiative by India and theUnited Kingdom to tap solarenergy and have it travelseamlessly across borderswas announced.

It includes a group of Governments called the GreenGrids Initiative — One SunOne World One Grid group —and was announced atCOP26 by summit host United Kingdom’s Prime MinisterBoris Johnson and Prime Mi

enough clean energy to meetthe needs of everyone onearth,” Mr. Modi added.

Mr. Modi said at the gathering that the Indian SpaceResearch Organisation (ISRO) had developed an appli

cation that could computethe potential solar energy atany point on earth and helpdecide if it would be suitablefor solar energy installations.

A Ministerial SteeringGroup will work towards ac

celerating the making oflarge solar power stationsand wind farms in the bestlocations, linked together bycontinentalscale grids crossing national borders.

Members of the groupThe Ministerial SteeringGroup includes France, India, the United Kingdom andthe United States, and will also have representatives fromAfrica, the Gulf, Latin America and Southeast Asia, saidan accompanying pressstatement by the GreenGrids Initiative.

Germany attended thefi�rst meeting as an observer,while postelection negotiations on a new government

continue, as did Australia.Research support for the

Green Grids Initiative is being provided by the ClimateCompatible Growth consortium of universities, whichincludes Cambridge, Imperial College, Oxford and University College London.

The Green Grids InitiativeWorking Groups made up ofnational and internationalagencies have already beenestablished for Africa and forthe AsiaPacifi�c region.

Their membership includes most major multilateral development banks,such as the African Development Bank (AfDB), the AsianDevelopment Bank (ADB)and the World Bank.

One Sun, One World, One Grid for seamless energyOver 80 countriesendorse initiativeby India and U.K.


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India’s headline announcement at COP26, to becomecarbon neutral by 2070, suggests that it has committed itself to decisive action to curbrunaway greenhouse gasemissions from midcentury.

However, experts say thatmuch will become clear onlyafter India submits its updated Nationally DeterminedContributions (NDC).

This document spells outthe minutiae on how exactlyit plans to go about achieving

these targets.India’s fi�vefold plan, as

Prime Minister Narendra Modi spelt out on Monday, saysIndia’s nonfossil energy capacity will reach 500 GW by2030; it will meet 50% of itsenergy requirements with renewable energy by 2030; itwill reduce its total projectedcarbon emissions by a billiontonnes by 2030; and reducethe carbon intensity of itseconomy to less than 45%and achieve net zero by2070. Net zero is when acountry’s carbon emissions

are off�set by taking out equivalent carbon from the atmosphere, so that emissionsin balance are zero.

Peaking yearHowever, achieving net zeroby a specifi�c date meansspecifying a year, also calleda peaking year, followingwhich emissions will start toreduce.

Though there is no clarityyet from the Government,experts in the runup toCOP26 have wrestled withthese questions.

A March 2021 study byanalyst Vaibhav Chaturvediat the Council for Energy, Environment and Water suggested that for a 2070 net zero year and peaking year of

2040, India would have to reduce the emissions intensity(emissions per unit GDP) by85% — it has so far reduced itto 24% from the 2005 levels.

The share of nonhydro re

newable energy has to increase to 65% from the 11%today; the share of electriccars in passenger sales has togo from 0.1% today to 75% by2040; and the share of fossilenergy in primary energyhas to decrease from 73% to40%.

For a peaking year of2030, these targets would bestiff�er.

India, as part of its NDC in2015, had committed itself toinstalling 175 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2022.Till February 28, 2021, thecountry had achieved 94 GW,comprising 25% share in total installed capacity forpower generation. If large hy

dro installed capacity is included (45 GW by February2021), then India’s nonfossilenergy capacity is 139 GW —close to 38% of installed capacity — according to theCentre for Science andEnvironment.

Diplomatic compulsionslikely forced India to announce a net zero date as itwas the only one among major economies not to havespecifi�ed a net zero year untilnow. India, however, shouldhave said that it will reachnet zero by 2070, only if other developed countriesthemselves commit to reaching net zero before 2050,said Navroz Dubash, Profes

sor, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.

There is also no clarity onhow many of the announcedtargets are unconditionaland how many areconditional.

Professor Dubash said thebillion tonnes of carbon dioxide reduction in the next decade also needed more clarity. The billion tonnes wouldbe premised on a referencepoint that shows what theemissions would be in a businessasusual scenario. “Wedon’t yet know what scenario has been considered.This is the time we shouldhave more careful and broadmodelling,” he noted.

India’s climate commitments are bold, but meeting them will be a challenge, say expertsThe scenario will become clear only when the country spellsout how it plans to go about achieving its targets, they say

Trouble billowing: Smoke rising from a coal-powered steelplant in Hehal village near Ranchi, in Jharkhand. * AP

Jacob Koshy

NEW DELHI

Prime Minister NarendraModi held two important bilateral meetings with hiscounterparts from Nepaland Israel on the sidelines ofthe COP26 meet in Glasgowon Tuesday.

The meeting between Indian and Nepalese PrimeMinisters was the fi�rst sinceSher Bahadur Deuba wasappointed by the SupremeCourt of Nepal in an extraordinary judicial interventionin July.

“The two leaders notedthe excellent cooperationbetween India and Nepal

during the pandemic particularly through the supply ofvaccines, medicines andmedical equipment from India to Nepal,” said the Ministry of External Aff�airs (MEA)in a statement.

The meeting is being interpreted as a signifi�cantone as both sides are in talksfor highlevel visits.

Mr. Modi also met IsraeliPrime Minister Naftali Bennett for the fi�rst time.

Mr. Modi invited the Israeli leader to visit India tomark the 30th anniversaryof the establishment of fulldiplomatic relations between India and Israel.

Modi holds discussionswith Nepal PM Deuba Kallol Bhattacherjee

NEW DELHI

India on Tuesday launchedan ambitious initiative for developing the infrastructureof small island nations, withPrime Minister NarendraModi saying it will give a newhope, a new confi�dence andsatisfaction of doing something for the most vulnerablecountries facing the biggestthreat from climate change.

Mr. Modi was joined by hisBritish counterpart BorisJohnson on the second dayof the COP26 climate summithere. The launch of Infrastructure for Resilient IslandStates (IRIS) was also attended by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and UNSecretaryGeneral AntonioGuterres.

“The last few decadeshave proved that no one isuntouched by the wrath ofclimate change. Whetherthey are developed countries or countries rich in natural resources, this is a bigthreat to everyone,” Mr. Modi said.

Stating that the Small Island Developing States(SIDS) face the biggest threatfrom climate change, Mr.Modi said it was a matter oflife and death for them, it

was a challenge to theirexistence.

Mr. Modi congratulatedthe Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)for the initiative, saying forhim the CDRI or IRIS is notjust about infrastructurething but it is part of a verysensitive responsibility of human welfare.

The Prime Minister saidIndia has made special arrangements for cooperationwith the Pacifi�c islands and

Caricom countries in thewake of the threat of climatechange.

He said India’s space agency ISRO will build a specialdata window for them toprovide them timely information about cyclones, coralreef monitoring, coastline monitoring throughsatellite.

Describing the launch ofIRIS as “very important”, Mr.Modi said through this initiative, it will be easy for SIDS to

mobilise technology, fi�nancenecessary information faster. “Promotion of quality infrastructure in Small IslandStates will benefi�t both livesand livelihoods there,” headded.

Britain’s gratitude“I assure you that India willfully support this new project, and will work closelywith CDRI, other partnercountries and the United Nations for its success,” he said.

Speaking on the occasion,British Prime Minister Johnson said he was “very grateful to my friend, NarendraModi – the Prime Minister ofIndia, for his leadership onthe Coalition for Disaster Resilient infrastructure. He hasbeen out in front on this for along time.”

“Last year, 600 billiontonnes of ice melted away inGreenland. It’s incrediblycruel that these incrediblysmall island states are rightin the frontline of the lossand damage that is caused byglobal warming,” he said.

“They have done virtuallynothing to cause the problem, they didn’t producethe huge volumes of CO2 tobe pumped into the atmosphere,” Mr. Johnson saidas he urged countries to jointhis campaign and help.

Mr. Johnson said that theU.K. is contributing fi�nancially to the initiative IRIS.“We are stomping up aswell.” The Australian PrimeMinister thanked India andthe U.K. for their leadershipof the CDRI. “I acknowledgethe Quad support, includingthe U.S. and Japan supportfor India's CDRI,” Mr. Morrison said.

The IRIS initiative is a part

of the CDRI that would focuson building capacity, havingpilot projects, especially insmall island developingstates.

“That would also involvein some senses, setting upnorms and standards for resilient infrastructure… withinfrastructure loss from cyclones etc, especially smallisland states and coastalareas are vulnerable to theseravages of climate change,and this [IRIS] is an eff�ort totry and equip countries thatare particularly vulnerableto climate change,” ForeignSecretary Harsh VardhanShringla said.

Small islandsThe new initiative is the result of cooperation betweenIndia, the U.K. and Australiaand included the participation of leaders of small islandnations such as Fiji, Jamaicaand Mauritius.

India’s Council on Energy,Environment and Water(CEEW) welcomed thelaunch of IRIS as a recognition of the severity of climaterisks which can unravel decades of development, especially for the most vulnerable countries andcommunities.

India to help countries prone to climate changeModi launches ‘Infrastructure for Resilient Island States’, says climate threats are a matter of life and death for them

Press Trust Of India

Glasgow

Leaders’ group: Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his counterparts from Mauritius, PravindKumar Jugnauth (left), from Fiji, Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama (second from left), and fromJamaica, Andrew Holness, in Glasgow on Tuesday. * AP

India on Tuesday said thatclimate fi�nance cannot continue at the levels decided in2009, and emphasised thatit should be at least $1 trillion to meet the goals of addressing climate change.

Speaking at the Ministerial meeting of LikeMindedDeveloping Countries(LMDC) at the 26th international climate conferenceunder way in Glasgow, Union Environment MinisterBhupender Yadav alsocalled upon the LMDC countries to work closely to protect their interests.

“Climate fi�nance cannotcontinue at the levels decided in 2009. It should be atleast $1 trillion to meet thegoals of addressing climatechange and there should bea system to monitor climatefi�nance as we have for monitoring mitigation,” Mr. Yadav said at the meeting.

The meeting, attended byrepresentatives from China,Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela and others, was presided over by Bolivian President Luis Alberto ArceCatacora.

Underlining the unity

and strength of LMDCs asfundamental in the UNFCCC(United Nations FrameworkConvention on ClimateChange) negotiations to preserve the interest of the Global South in the fi�ght againstclimate change, Mr. Yadavhighlighted that recognitionof the current challenges being faced by developingcountries required intensifi�ed multilateral cooperation, not intensifi�ed globaleconomic and geopoliticalcompetition and trade wars.

The Minister requestedthe LMDC members to joinhands with India to supportthe global initiatives it haspioneered, including the International Solar Alliance(ISA), Coalition for DisasterResilient Infrastructure(CDRI) and the LeadershipGroup for Industry Transition (LeadIT).

He also appreciated theeff�orts of the Third WorldNetwork (TWN) for its support to LMDC, and expressed the need to ensureresources to TWN.

The countries collectivelyunderscored that it needs tobe ensured that the voices ofthe LMDC countries areheard loud and clear.

India calls for hike inclimate fi�nance to $1tn2009 levels not enough, says Yadav


Glasgow

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WORLD

The longest line at Shanghai's Disney Resort this pastweekend was not for one ofits popular rides but for aCOVID19 test.

More then 30,000 visitorson Sunday night had to taketests and wait for the resultsfor several hours before being allowed to go home, after it emerged that one positive case had visited theresort.

The mass testing at Disney, and the largely orderlyway it was conducted withthe tens of thousands waiting patiently for their results— they all tested negative —has been framed by the media in China as underliningthe country’s capacities totackle its current COVID19outbreak.

With more than 400 casesreported in the past twoweeks across several provinces in a country that hasbeen following a “zero COVID” strategy, the country'sauthorities are deployingnow familiar sweeping measures of multiple lockdowns,mass testing and quarantining tens of thousands of people in designated facilities,all part of the playbook thathas broadly worked to allowChina to escape a major second wave after the initialoutbreak that began in Wuhan in December 2019 andJanuary 2020.

Stringent steps That strategy, coupled withthe patience of the public, isnow being tested to the limitwith the current outbreak.The numbers so far reportedby authorities are relativelylow, but the spread across atleast 16 provinces is drivingthe alarm, leading to morestringent than usualmeasures.

Beijing, the capital, is essentially being cordoned off�from the rest of the countryafter it reported two morecases on Tuesday, taking thetotal to 35. The BeijingHealth Commission on Monday asked residents not toleave the city and those“who have not returned toBeijing to postpone” theirtrips.

Part of the reason for themeasures in Beijing is itshosting of a major Communist Party conclave startingNovember 8, which will beamong the last signifi�cantmeetings of the CentralCommittee, called a plenum, before next year'sonceinfi�veyear congresswhere President Xi Jinping isexpected to begin a thirdfi�veyear term.

The stringent COVID19measures, including continuing restrictions on international travel into Chinaeven as the world opens, arelikely to continue at least until next October’s congress.Authorities are also concerned about the upcomingWinter Olympics which Beijing will be hosting startingFebruary 4.

Last week, authoritiestook the extraordinary measure of stopping two trainsen route to the capital and

placing hundreds of passengers in quarantine. Themoves were triggered bycrew members emerging asclose contacts of a positivecase.

Severe lockdown Among the more extrememeasures have been deployed in Ruili, a town insouthwest Yunnan provincenear the Myanmar border,which has been put underrepeated lockdowns because of imported cases. Inrecent days, residents havetaken to social media tocomplain about the severityof the lockdown, with reports that one toddler, aspart of the repeated testing,was made to undergo as many as 74 tests over the pastfew months.

Responding to the fl�oodof social media posts, including by one former cityoffi�cial who wrote that theoutbreak had dashed people's incomes and “mercilessly robbed this city andsqueezed dry its last signs oflife”, the local governmentannounced new measures toimprove quarantine conditions as well economicsubsidies.

Health authorities havedefended the stringent “zeroCOVID” approach.

China battles new outbreakwith sweeping measures400 COVID19 cases reported in 2 weeks across provinces

Ananth Krishnan

HONG KONG

Virus alert: A health worker watches over travellers at theYantai railway station in Shandong province on Tuesday. * AFP

U.S. Internet services company Yahoo said on Tuesdayit has pulled out of mainlandChina, becoming the latesttech fi�rm to withdraw as acrackdown by Beijing on theindustry gathers pace.

The move comes just daysafter American gaming giantEpic said it will shut its popular game “Fortnite” following the imposition of strictcurbs on the world’s biggestgaming market.

Beijing has embarked on awideranging regulatory

clampdown on a number ofindustries in a drive to tighten its control of the economy, with tech fi�rms takingthe brunt.

The push has seen a number of U.S.based companieswithdraw major productsfrom China in recent weeks,with Microsoft in Octoberannouncing the closure of itscareeroriented social network LinkedIn.

“In recognition of the increasingly challenging business and legal environmentin China, Yahoo’s suite ofservices will no longer be ac

cessible from mainland China as of November 1,” Yahoosaid in a statement.

“Yahoo remains committed to the rights of our usersand a free and open internet.We thank our users for theirsupport.”

Foreign tech companieshave long walked a tightropein China, forced to complywith strict local laws and government censorship of content. Google shut down itssearch engine in China in2010, refusing Beijing’s requirement to censor searchresults.

Reports in 2018 of a planby Google executives to explore reopening a site in China sparked a backlash fromrights groups and Googleemployees warning that acensored search enginewould set a “dangerousprecedent”.

Yahoo China waslaunched in 1999, when thecompany was among theworld’s most important internet fi�rms. Its presence inthe country has shrunk in recent years, with Yahoo shutting down its Chinese mailservice in 2013.

Yahoo pulls China services as crackdown bitesFirm blames ‘increasingly challenging business and legal environment’ in China

Agence France-Presse

Beijing

France on Tuesday accusedAustralia of using “very inelegant methods” after atext message sent by President Emmanuel Macron toAustralian leader Scott Morrison was leaked in an apparent bid to imply that heknew about the collapse of amajor submarine deal earlier than he maintains.

Media in Australia andEurope reported on the SMSwhich the French leadersent to Mr. Morrison twodays before Australia announced that it had torn upa decadeold multibilliondollar contract with Franceto build a new fl�eet ofsubmarines.

France, which reacted furiously to the cancellation,has always said it had beenblindsided by the announcement, and Mr. Macron added to the furore at the weekend by accusing of Mr.Morrison of lying to him.

But the revelation of thetext message on Tuesdaycan be seen as suggestingMr. Macron was less surprised by the cancellationthan he has admitted.

“Should I expect good orbad news for our joint submarine ambitions?”, readsthe SMS sent to Mr. Morrison 48 hours before the offi�cial contract cancellationannouncement which wasmade at a news conference.

A source close to Mr. Macron, who asked not to benamed, said the leak wasproof of “very inelegantmethods”.

Standing by earlier assurances that Mr. Macron hadnot been given advancewarning of the cancellation,the source said the SMS didnot undermine that narrative.

“On the contrary, thisSMS shows that the President did not know that theywere going to cancel thecontract,” the sourceclaimed.

Leaked SMS sharpensAustraliaFrance sub rowCanberra used inelegant methods: Paris


paris

Emmanuel Macron

The French transport police shot and gravelywounded a man at a Parisrailway station who threatened them with a knifewhile shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) inArabic, the police and theprosecutors said onTuesday.

The man rushed at thepolice just before midnighton Monday at SaintLazare,one of the capital’s busiesttrain stations, said a policesource who asked not to benamed.

Shot twiceThe source added that theman drew a knife from abag as he shouted “AllahuAkbar”. “The two offi�cersused their service weaponsto defend themselves andneutralise him. Thewounded individual wastaken care of by the emergency services,” said a spokesman for France’s national rail operator SNCF.

Paris prosecutors saidthe man’s life was in danger after being shot twiceby the transport police,known as Suge in France.

Police shootknifeman atParis station


Paris

At least 25 people were killedand more than 50 woundedin an attack on Afghanistan’sbiggest military hospital onTuesday which saw two heavy blasts followed up by gunmen assaulting the site incentral Kabul, offi�cials said.

The explosions took placeat the entrance of the 400bed Sardar MohammadDaud Khan hospital andwere followed immediatelywith an assault by a group ofgunmen, Taliban spokesmanBilal Karimi said. Four of theattackers were killed by Taliban security forces and afi�fth was captured, he said.

The blasts add to a growing list of attacks and killingssince the Taliban completedtheir victory over the Westernbacked government inAugust, undermining theirclaim to have restored security to Afghanistan after de

cades of war. There was noimmediate claim of responsibility but the operation wastypical of the complex attacks mounted by the Islamic State. It follows a string ofbombings by the groupwhich has emerged as thebiggest threat to Taliban control of Afghanistan.

A Taliban security offi�cial,speaking on condition of

anonymity, said at least 25people had been killed andmore than 50 wounded inthe assault but there was nooffi�cially confi�rmed casualtytoll.

Photographs shared by residents showed a plume ofsmoke over the area of theblasts near the former diplomatic zone in the Wazir Akbar Khan area of the city and

witnesses said at least twohelicopters fl�ew over thearea as the assault went on.

A health worker at thehospital, who managed toescape, said he heard a largeexplosion followed by a couple of minutes of gunfi�re.About 10 minutes later, therewas a second, larger explosion, he said.

He said it was unclearwhether the blasts and thegunfi�re were inside thesprawling hospital complex.

The Islamic State, whichhas carried out a series of attacks on mosques and othertargets since the Taliban’sseizure of Kabul in August,mounted a complex attackon the hospital in 2017, killing more than 30 people.

The group’s attacks havecaused mounting worriesoutside Afghanistan aboutthe potential for the countryto become a haven for militant groups.

25 killed in Kabul hospital attackMore than 50 injured as blasts, gunfi�re hit military facility in Afghanistan’s capital

Reuters

Kabul

Seeking help: A boy who was injured in the blast lies on astretcher at the entrance of a hospital in Kabul. * REUTERS

Suspected jihadists killedaround 10 civilians innorthern Burkina Faso, offi�cials said on Tuesday,while four people were suspected to have been kidnapped.

“Around 10 civilianswere executed” afterarmed men, likely belonging to the region’s IslamicState branch, attacked residents of Dambam headingto market, a military offi�cial said.

The attack took place onMonday near the borderwith Niger.

A local offi�cial said the“terrorists set up a checkpoint between Dambamand Markoye and intercepted all those heading tothe market”. He said the assailants targeted people onfoot, motor cycles and other vehicles.

Jihadists kill10 civilians inBurkina Faso


Ouagadougou

Three Republican Senatorshave introduced an amendment to the National DefenseAuthorization Act FY2022 —an annual defence budgetBill — to make it harder forthe executive branch of theU.S. government to imposesanctions on members of theQuadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) for buying Russian arms.

The move comes as Indiais expected to take deliveryof the S400 Triumf missiledefence system from Moscow — possibly this month ornext, potentially attractingsanctions under U.S. domestic law, the CounteringAmericas Adversaries

Through Sanctions Act(CAATSA) of 2017.

The latest legislation,called the Circumspectly Reducing Unintended Consequences 15 Impairing Alliances and Leadership(CRUCIAL) Act of 2021, requires the U.S. President tocertify to “appropriate congressional committees” thata U.S. Quad partner country(India, Australia, Japan) isnot cooperating on “securitymatters critical to the UnitedStates strategic interests,”prior to applying CAATSAsanctions on entities fromthat country. Eff�ectively, thiswould mean the administration would have to say theQuad is dysfunctional, before imposing invoking

CAATSA sanctions on itsmembers.

The amendment is sponsored by Ted Cruz, a Republican Senator from Texaswho is part of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,and cosponsored by Republican Senators Todd Young(Indiana) and Roger Marshall(Kansas).

If the amendment goesthrough, this certifi�cation requirement will be in eff�ectfor 10 years from the date ofits passage.

While it is not certain thatthe amendment will pass, itsintroduction is one of severalrecent signals that some U.S.lawmakers have recentlybeen sending the administration to convey their desire

the Quad countries “cooperating to counter China”, theaide said, and is “the onlyQuad member that actuallyshares a border with China,the only Quad member thathas actually lost soldiers incombat with China.”

However, the authors’ intent is to also see a change inIndia’s procurement practices within a ten year timeframe.

“So I think I the consideration is that 20332034 andbeyond, if India is still goingto Russia, and is not takingsteps to deepen ties with theQuad, I think that's when itwould be a diff�erent conversation,” the aide said. “So Ido think there needs to besteps taken over time.”

not to see India sanctionedunder CAATSA.

Wrong time “Now would be exactly thewrong time for President Biden to undo all of that progress through the impositionof these sanctions, whichwere meant to deter Russia.Doing so would accomplishnothing except underminingour shared security goals ofcombatting China’s aggression and forcing India to become dependent on Russia,”Mr. Cruz said in a statement.

Speaking to The Hindu, aSenate Republican aide saidlawmakers recognised thesecurity situation India haswith China.

India is at the “centre” of

The amendment seeks to make it harder for the government to impose sanctions on a Quad member

Sriram Lakshman

Washington

GOP Senators support CAATSA waiver for India

Death toll rises to 15 inLagos high-rise collapse LAGOS

Nigerian rescue crews dug for

more survivors in the rubble

of a collapsed Lagos high-rise

building on Tuesday, a day

after the disaster killed at

least 15 people and left many

more trapped inside.

Rescuers said they had

recovered 15 bodies so far

and managed to pull nine

survivors from the wreckage

of the 21-storey under

construction building in the

wealthy Ikoyi district. AFP

ELSEWHERE

Pakistan frees protestersafter deal with IslamistsLAHORE

Authorities in Pakistan

released hundreds of

detained supporters of a

banned Islamist party on

Tuesday after a deal was

struck with the group to end

clashes that left seven

policemen dead. The

Tehreek-e-Labbaik (TLP) was

protesting over the detention

of its leader, arrested in April

when the group was

outlawed by authorities, and

was demanding the expulsion

of the French Ambassador

from Pakistan. AFP

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Asian Paints. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 3103.35. . . . . . -18.45

Axis Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 755.85. . . . . . . . . 3.50

Bajaj Auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 3741.85. . . . . . . 15.70

Bajaj Finserv. . . . . . . . . . .. 17542.60. . . . . . -23.10

Bajaj Finance . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 7455.35. . . . . . . 41.40

Bharti Airtel . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 713.95. . . . . . . . . 1.45

BPCL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 416.15. . . . . . . . -5.50

Britannia Ind . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 3682.90. . . . . . . . . 4.75

Cipla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 903.40. . . . . . . . -5.85

Coal India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 169.20. . . . . . . . -1.55

Divis Lab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 5205.40. . . . . . -22.80

Dr Reddys Lab . . . . . . . .. . . . 4746.10. . . . . . -55.35

Eicher Motors. . . . . . . . .. . . . 2542.45. . . . . . -17.55

Grasim Ind . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1744.05. . . . . . -44.95

HCL Tech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1170.65. . . . . . -18.55

HDFC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 2900.05. . . . . . . 12.10

HDFC Bank. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1606.75. . . . . . . . . 1.45

HDFC Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 692.65. . . . . . . . . 2.85

Hero MotoCorp . . . . . .. . . . 2684.30. . . . . . . . . 3.60

Hindalco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 468.40. . . . . . . . -9.75

Hind Unilever . . . . . . . . .. . . . 2418.90. . . . . . . 11.80

ICICI Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 800.95. . . . . . . . -2.95

IndusInd Bank . . . . . . . .. . . . 1212.55. . . . . . -16.55

Infosys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1697.90. . . . . . . . -2.15

Indian OilCorp . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 130.80. . . . . . . . -0.85

ITC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 225.60. . . . . . . . -1.25

JSW Steel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 672.85. . . . . . -16.10

Kotak Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 2076.65. . . . . . . . . 0.15

L&T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1815.65. . . . . . . 20.30

M&M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 861.50. . . . . . . . -8.85

Maruti Suzuki . . . . . . . . .. . . . 7791.75. . . . . 176.20

Nestle India Ltd. . . . .. 18773.95. . . -165.65

NTPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 136.65. . . . . . . . . 2.35

ONGC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 152.95. . . . . . . . -0.20

PowerGrid Corp . . . . .. . . . . . 185.50. . . . . . . . -2.25

Reliance Ind . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 2500.80. . . . . . -37.00

SBI Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1166.05. . . . . . . . . 2.70

State Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 521.70. . . . . . . . . 6.00

Shree Cement . . . . . . . .. 28868.15. . . -277.60

Sun Pharma . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 815.40. . . . . . . . . 3.60

Tata Consumer

Products Ltd. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 833.80. . . . . . . . . 8.90

Tata Motors . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 487.85. . . . . . . . . 2.15

Tata Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1313.65. . . . . . -51.25

TCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 3484.20. . . . . . . . . 7.80

Tech Mahindra . . . . . . .. . . . 1490.60. . . . . . -31.55

Titan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 2453.95. . . . . . . 47.65

UltraTech Cement. .. . . . 7713.35. . . . . . -61.75

UPL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 720.30. . . . . . . . . 0.25

Wipro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 653.80. . . . . . . . -1.65

EXCHANGE RATES

Indicative direct rates in rupees a unitexcept yen at 4 p.m. on November 02

CURRENCY TT BUY TT SELL

US Dollar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 74.48. . . . . . . . . 74.8

Euro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 86.34. . . . . . . 86.72

British Pound. . . . . . . . . . . . .101.51. . . . 101.95

Japanese Yen (100) . .. . . . 65.5. . . . . . . 65.81

Chinese Yuan . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 11.64. . . . . . . 11.69

Swiss Franc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 81.61. . . . . . . 81.96

Singapore Dollar . . . . . . .. . 55.24. . . . . . . 55.48

Canadian Dollar. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 60. . . . . . . 60.26

Malaysian Ringitt . . . . . .. . 17.95. . . . . . . 18.03

Source:Indian Bank

market watch

02-11-2021 % CHANGE

Sensex dddddddddddddddddddddd 60,029 ddddddddddddd-0.18

US Dollardddddddddddddddddddd 74.68 ddddddddddddddd0.25

Gold ddddddddddddddddddddddddddd 46,844 ddddddddddddddd0.36

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To streamline the functioning of asset reconstructioncompanies (ARCs), a ReserveBank panel has come outwith a host of suggestions including the creation of anonline platform for the saleof stressed assets and allowing ARCs to act as resolutionapplicants during the IBCprocess.

The committee, headedby former RBI Executive Director Sudarshan Sen, suggested that the scope of Section 5 of the SARFAESI Actbe expanded to permit ARCsto acquire fi�nancial assetsfrom all regulated entities,including AIFs, FPIs, AMCs

making investment on behalf of MFs and all NBFCs including HFCs. The performance of the ARCs has so farremained lacklustre, both inensuring recovery and in re

vival of businesses. Lenderscould recover only about14.29% of the amount owedby borrowers in respect ofstressed assets sold to ARCsin the 20042013 period. To

improve the performance ofARCs, the RBI had appointedthe committee to examinethe issues and recommendmeasures for enabling ARCsto meet the growing requirements of the fi�nancial sector.Stakeholders can send comments on the report to theRBI by December 15.

For accounts above ₹�500crore, two bankapprovedexternal valuers should carry out a valuation to determine liquidation value andfair market value. “Also, thefi�nal approval of the reserveprice should be given by ahighlevel committee thathas the power to approve thecorresponding writeoff� ofthe loan,” the report said.

RBI panel on ARCs proposesnorms for valuers, reserve priceCommittee recommends creation of online platform for sale of stressed assets


Mumbai

Effi�cacy mantra: The panel suggests that ARCs be allowed toact as resolution applicants in the bankruptcy process. * PTI

Infrastructure Leasing &Financial Services (IL&FS)said it had so far addressed₹�52,200 crore debt andwould achieve aggregateresolution of ₹�61,000 croreof the total debt of ₹�99,000crore.

“We will be able toachieve 62% of debt recovery,” said Uday Kotak,chairman, IL&FS, said aspart of the fi�rm’s update onthe progress of the ongoingIL&FS Group resolutionprocess.

“This... estimate is signifi�cantly higher than theaverage recovery observedunder IBC since its inception,” he added. The Groupestimates it would resolve₹�57,000crore debt byMarch.

‘IL&FS on trackfor 62% debtresolution’


MUMBAI

Rane Holdings Ltd.’s consolidated net profi�t for thesecond quarter ended September 30, rose threefoldto ₹�16.53 crore on stronggrowth. Total revenue rose33% to ₹�697 crore from theyearearlier period, thecompany said. “Increase incommodity prices impacted the profi�tability,” said L.Ganesh, CMD.

CFHL net rises

Separately, Cholamandalam Financial HoldingsLtd. reported consolidatednet profi�t for the quarterended September 30 rose29% to ₹�652 crore from ayear earlier. Cholamandalam Investment & FinanceCo. Ltd. reported a net profi�t of ₹�607 crore.

Rane Q2 netprofi�t jumps to₹�16.53 crore


CHENNAI

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. reported secondquarter consolidated netprofi�t surged 29% to ₹�2,047crore against the adjustednet profi�t of the yearearlier period. Gross sales increased 13% yearonyearto ₹�9,557 crore.

India sales at ₹�3,188crore were 26% higher over the same quarter lastyear and U.S. fi�nished dosage sales grew 8% to $361million over Q2 last year.

“Following our good Q1performance, we have sustained the positive momentum in Q2 with a toplinegrowth of 13% yoy, drivenby broadbased growthacross multiple geographies,” said managing director Dilip Shanghvi.

Sun Pharmanet rises 29%to ₹�2,047 crore


MUMBAI

Sundaram Finance (SF)Holdings Ltd. has plannedto invest up to €2 million inits portfolio company MindS.r.l., Italy, to augmentworking capital needs andfor further growth.

Last year, SF Holdingshad entered the carbonfi�bre market and invested₹�23.71 crore to pick up40.6% in the Italian fi�rm.

With the fresh investment, the stake is expectedto increase to 48.9%. TheItalian company producescarbon fi�bre componentsfor the automotive industry in Europe.

Separately, SF Holdingsposted an almost threefoldrise in standalone net profi�t to ₹�11 crore for the quarter ended September 30.

SF Holdings toraise stake inItaly’s Mind


CHENNAI

To make India a global electronics export and manufacturing hub, the focus has tobe on building scale and exports via participation inglobal value chains (GVCs)by ‘lead’ fi�rms and their tier1, 2 and 3 manufacturers,Minister of State for Electronics & IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Tuesday.

GVCs are internationalproduction chains in whichproduction is broken downinto tasks carried out in different countries. “We arepreparing a 1,000day planto broaden and deepen electronics manufacturing, exports and share in GVCs,”the Minister said, speakingat the release of ‘Vision Document’ by India Cellular &

Electronics Association incollaboration with MeitY.

These fi�rms help train local manpower and their experience of setting up production and processes,operating hightech manufacturing with customisedmachinery and in supplychain procurement are valuable, he said.

‘Plan to boost electronicsmanufacturing on anvil’Role in global value chain is key: Min


NEW DELHI

Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Bharti Airtel on Tuesday announced net profi�t of ₹�1,134crore for the second quarterended September, helpedby a onetime gain.

This compares with a lossof ₹�763 crore a year earlier.On a sequential basis, consolidated net profi�t rose almost four times from ₹�284crore in the AprilJune quarter. Revenue climbed about19% yearonyear to ₹�28,326crore.

“We continue to maintaina high degree of fi�nancialfl�exibility,” said Gopal Vittal,MD and CEO, India & SouthAsia. “As a result, we havenow achieved Nil bank debtfor our India businesses. Wewill continue to evaluate alloptions to maintain a com

fortable leverage profi�le andmanage associated costs,”he added. “During the quarter ended September 30,net gain on account oftransfer of spectrum right toanother telecom operator of₹�7,221 [million]. Tax chargedue to this exceptional item[was] ₹�1,817 million,” thecompany said in a fi�ling.

Bharti said India revenuegrew 18.3% to ₹�19,890 crore,with mobile revenue rising20.3% due to an increase inaverage revenue per user(ARPU) and ‘strong’ 4G customer addition. ARPU camein at ₹�153 (₹�143), it said.

Bharti revenue growson ARPU, user additionsTelco turns profi�t on onetime gain


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fi�nancial fl�exibility,

the telco’s India

units have paid

back all bank debt

Sport cannot exist in a vacuum, divorcedfrom what is happening in the world

around. Gestures made on the fi�eld of play focus strongly on gestures not made. If the Indian cricket team took a knee in support ofBlack Lives Matter — a noble gesture — theywere simultaneously telling us about the livesthat don’t matter back home.

The World T20 has been as much about thecricket as about gestures made and not made.In India, we must remind ourselves of DLM(Dalit Lives Matter), and MLM (Muslim LivesMatter), but players hide behind the cliche:sport and politics ought not to mix. But theydo, whether we like it or not. Decades ago George Orwell declared that all art is politics.Perhaps all sport is politics too. Cricket is often diplomacy (or war) by other means.

Black lives do matter in India where cricketers from the West Indies have often com

plained about racist abuse from both spectators and colleagues. Dalit lives, Muslim lives,women’s lives, tribal lives, farmers’ lives matter too.

Had our players taken a knee (or madesome other gesture) in support of either DLMor MLM, they would have emerged bigger heroes than if they had won the tournament.Maybe I am being unfair here, falling into thetrap of expecting a small group of sportsmenand Bollywood stars to draw attention to national issues when their primary focus is ontheir professions. And while those betterplaced to do so seldom do.

But then consider the impact of Virat Kohli’s statement in support of Mohammed Shami, a Muslim trolled shamelessly by thosewho feel more ‘Indian’ that way. Here’s ayoung man, a national icon calling out the actfor what it is, and reminding the disaff�ected,the insecure, the Islamophobes (many ofwhom look up to him as a cricketer) that histeam will not let such behaviour aff�ect them.

“Our brotherhood, our friendship withinthe team, nothing can be shaken,” he said, aline that every Indian sick and tired of thesickening trolling of public fi�gures, especiallyif they are Muslim, ought to take in the largercontext of the nation itself. We stand by you isa powerful sentiment, and some consolation

for those who whatever their religion, havebeen falsely accused, thrown into jails andtreated inhumanely.

Kohli has plunged head fi�rst into a nationalconversation, and that is admirable. It doesn’tmatter when he said it, but the message isclear. He wasn’t making excuses for the defeat, he was standing up for a teammate.That’s what captains do.

Predictably, Kohli himself has now attracted the trolls for taking such a stand. His wifehasn’t been spared either, the mixture of nonsequiturs and irrelevancies barely disguisingthe nastiness of the attacks.

And he can expect worse from his fansturnedtrolls. The World T20 wasn’t his greatest tournament; it was a jaded, collapsing Indian team he was leading and not all the Dhonis nor all the Shastris could put it togetheragain. Too much cricket, too many days spentin bubbles, poor strategy, bad planning allcontributed to India’s poor showing. Theymanaged to take only two wickets in the fi�rsttwo matches, and hit just six sixes.

“Sometimes bubble fatigue, mental fatiguecreeps in when you’re doing the same thingagain and again and again,” Jasprit Bumrahsaid after the New Zealand match, and onecan sympathise.

But this defeat might be the best thing that

could have happened to India in T20 cricket.It might lead to a change in culture. It meansthe new captain and the new coach will havea free hand to change the essentially conservative nature of India’s approach. T20 is ayoung man’s game, calling for a young captain who is not a safetyfi�rst, riskaverse leader but takes chances.

It would be a mistake to hand over the captaincy to Rohit Sharma who is older, and belongs to the Kohli school. K.L. Rahul is on thecusp of 30. In many ways, the ideal choicewould be Rishabh Pant.

He is young (he just turned 24), evolved asa player when T20 was already a thrivingsport and not something one had to adjust to,and is the side’s most dangerous batsman.Teams tend to build themselves around thecaptain’s image (as both player and person),and a Pantlike T20 team is what India needs.

This also means a change in personnel,with selectors shaking off� conservatism andchoosing players from T20 tournaments regardless of their performances either in fi�rstclass or Test cricket. T20 calls for specialistsand they need to recognise this.

Kohli is only 33 himself. He has built a tightlyknit side that any young captain will behappy to inherit.

Defeat allows for necessary changes in India’s T20 culture

BETWEEN WICKETSsuresh menon

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Moon’s Blessing wins Royal Calcutta Turf Club Cup

RACING

Lionel Messi will miss Wednesday’s Champions Leagueclash with RB Leipzig due toinjury, Paris Saint Germainannounced on Tuesday.

The 34yearold sixtimeBallon d'Or winner has a lefthamstring problem and apainful knee.

PSG's statement said thefourtime ChampionsLeague winner was suff�eringfrom "a pain in his hamstringin his left thigh and a painfulknee due to bruising."

Messi may also be a doubtfor Saturday's Ligue 1 clashbetween tabletopper PSGand struggler Bordeaux.

PSG will also be missinginfl�uential midfi�elder Marco

Verratti — who has a hip injury — but welcomes back Kylian Mbappe who missed thematch against Lille. PSG ison top of its group with seven points from threematches.

Wednesday’s fi�xtures: RealMadrid vs Shakhtar; AC Milanvs Porto (both 11.15 p.m.);Sporting vs Besiktas; Dortmund vs Ajax; Sheriff� vs InterMilan; Liverpool vs Atletico;Manchester City vs Brugge;Leipzig vs PSG (all 1.30 a.m.).

Messi out of PSG’s clash with LeipzigArgentine has a left hamstring problem, a painful kneeAgence France-Presse

Leipzig

Injury woes: Messi will miss a match for the third time thisseason. * REUTERS

K. Sasikiran, continuing hisgood run, overpowered Russia’s Alexandr Predke andjoined four others in thelead at 4.5 points after sixrounds of the $425,000FIDE Chess.com GrandSwiss chess tournament inRiga, Latvia, on Monday.

Predke resigned in 53moves when Sasikiran threatened to win the Russian’sbishop. The victory withblack pieces put Sasikiran inthe company of Alireza Firouzja, Maxime VachierLagrave (both France), EvgeniyNajer (Russia) and AlexieShirov (Spain).

Nihal Sarin, after a thirdstraight draw, was amongthose trailing the leaders byhalf a point. Raunak Sadhwani upstaged D. Gukesh tojoin P. Harikrishna at 3.5points. R. Praggnanandhaa

and Arjun Erigaisi lost.D. Harika’s third succes

sive draw kept her a pointbehind leader Lei Tingjie(China).

The results (sixth round, involving Indians): Open: NihalSarin (4) drew with David Navara (Cze, 4); Alexandr Predke(Rus, 3.5) lost to K. Sasikiran(4.5); Matthias Bluebaum (Ger,3.5) drew with P. Harikrishna(3.5); Alexey Sarana (Rus, 4) btR. Praggnanandhaa (3); D. Gukesh (2.5) lost to Raunak Sadhwani (3.5); Volodymyr Onyshchuk (Ukr, 3.5) bt Arjun Erigaisi(2.5); Rauf Mamedov (Aze, 2.5)drew with Surya Shekhar Ganguly (2.5); S. P. Sethuraman (2)lost to Anton Demchenko (Rus,3); Aleksandra Goryachkina(Rus, 2) drew with B. Adhiban(2).

Women: D. Harika (4) drewwith Nino Batsiashvili (Geo,4.5); Alexandra Kosteniuk (Rus,4) bt Vantika Agarwal (3); R.Vaishali (3) drew with BibisaraAssaubayeva (Kaz, 3.5); Antoaneta Stefanova (Bul, 3) bt Padmini Rout (2); Divya Deshmukh(2) lost to Alina Bivol (Rus, 3).

Sasikiran shares top spot

CHESS


NEW DELHI

The RBI on Tuesday issued arevised Prompt CorrectiveAction (PCA) framework forbanks to enable supervisoryintervention at “appropriatetime” and also act as a toolfor eff�ective marketdiscipline.

Capital, asset quality andleverage will be the keyareas for monitoring in therevised framework, thebanking regulator said.

The revised PCA framework will be eff�ective fromJanuary 1, 2022.

“The objective of the PCAframework is to enable supervisory intervention at anappropriate time and require the supervised entityto initiate and implement remedial measures in a timely

manner, so as to restore itsfi�nancial health,” the centralbank said.

The central bank alsostressed that the PCA framework does not preclude theRBI from taking any otheraction as it deems fi�t at anytime, in addition to the corrective actions prescribed.

“Indicators to be trackedfor capital, asset quality andleverage would be CRAR/Common Equity Tier I Ratio, Net NPA Ratio and Tier ILeverage Ratio, respectively,” according to the revisedframework.

RBI issues revised PCAframework for banks‘Asset quality, capital key areas of watch’


Mumbai <> The framework’s

objective is to

enable supervisory

intervention at an

appropriate time

Delhivery files papers for ₹�7,460crore IPOMUMBAI

Logistics firm Delhivery has

filed papers with SEBI to

enter the capital market with

an IPO size of ₹�7,460 crore.

DeRozan stars for BullsBOSTON

DeMar DeRozan (37 points)

helped Chicago Bulls beat

Boston Celtics 128114 in the

NBA on Monday.Other results: Cleveland 113bt Charlotte 110; Indiana 131bt San Antonio 118;Philadelphia 113 bt Portland103; Atlanta 118 btWashington 111; Toronto 113bt NY 104; Memphis 106 btDenver 97; Orlando 115 btMinnesota 97; LA Clippers 99bt Oklahoma 94. REUTERS

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India is focused on executing its plans and gettingsome points on board whenit takes on Afghanistan, saidbatting coach VikramRathour.

“We need to win fi�rst before we get into the run ratepart,” said Rathour. “ Thefocus is to play good cricket,to win the remaining threegames.”

Rathour, who revealedthat he had reapplied forthe batting coach post, elaborated on what led to thelosses in the fi�rst two games.“We were not able to execute our plans the way wewanted to... that has beenthe issue, not preparation.

“When you bat fi�rst onthese surfaces, there is variation in pace and bounce.So strike rotation became anissue,” he added.

Want to win remainingthree games: Rathour‘Looking to play well, sort out issues’

Amol Karhadkar

ABU DHABI

Abu Dhabi, despite being thecapital of the United ArabEmirates (UAE), was till notlong ago referred to as the‘sleeping giant’.

It would be interesting tosee if the ‘sleeping giant’ ofthe ICC T20 World Cup — India — wakes up from its slumber and opens its account atthe Zayed Cricket Stadiumon Wednesday night.

Brave opponent

It wouldn’t be an easy task,however. After being demolished by New Zealand in Dubai on Sunday, skipper ViratKohli said that his battershadn’t been brave enough.That makes the next test,against Afghanistan, a toughone for the Men in Blue.

Despite being a wartorncountry, Afghanistan, overthe last few years, hasemerged as one of the mostfearless cricket teams in theinternational arena.

It even secured a directberth unlike Sri Lanka andBangladesh which had totake the qualifi�cation route.

While the Afghan batterswould be itching to use thelong handle against a bowling lineup that has failed tofi�re, the Indian batters’ struggles against the Kiwi spinners would encourage Rash

id Khan and Co. India needsto get it right on severalfronts. First, it has to fi�nd theideal combination and thebest batting order.

Kohli would also hope thatthe batting and bowling units

click fi�nally. It would be interesting to see if Suryakumar Yadav, having recoveredfrom a back spasm, is included along with Ishan Kishan.The Ishan experiment — heopened with K.L. Rahul —

failed miserably; so did therejigged middleorder.

It remains to be seen if India sticks to any of the twocombinations it has used sofar.

Jasprit Bumrah has had lit

tle support from his bowlinggroup. With mystery spinnerVarun Chakravarthy failingto work his magic, India maybe tempted to give either leggie Rahul Chahar or veteranR. Ashwin a chance.

A semifi�nal spot looks unlikely, but a win on Wednesday would at least revitalisethe players and the fans.

Men in Blue need to get their act togetherFace a tough test against Afghanistan, which has emerged as one of the most fearless teams in the last few years

Amol Karhadkar

ABU DHABI

ICC T20 WC

Will it roll in our favour? The Indian players, captain Kohli in particular, will be keen to grab a win, fi�nally. * AFP

Kagiso Rabada (320) andAnrich Nortje (38) registered careerbest T20I fi�gures as South Africa humbled Bangladesh by sixwickets in a Group 1 Super 12match of the ICC T20 WorldCup on Tuesday.

Chasing a paltry 85, SouthAfrica stuttered before a 47run stand between TembaBavuma and Rassie van derDussen guided the sidehome with 39 balls to spare.This win gives South Africa'snet run rate a boost (0.742)and keeps its qualifi�cationhopes alive.

An unchanged South Africa won the toss and chose tofi�eld. Opener MohammadNaim was caught off� Rabadain the fourth over, trying theslog across the line. SoumyaSarkar, in at No. 3, was givenout lbw off� the next ball,upon review.

With Rabada swinging theball at a good pace, Bavumagave him an extra over insidethe fi�rst six, and the pacerdidn't disappoint. He hadMushfi�qur Rahim caught atgully with a lifter from shortof a length.

There was no letup forBangladesh. If Rabada ranthrough the toporder,Nortje and Dwaine Pretoriuscarved out the middleorder.Nortje got Mahmudullahcaught at point with a pacy

short ball before Pretoriouscastled Afi�f Hossain for a golden duck. Bangladesh creptto 40 for fi�ve — the lowestscore after 10 overs in theSuper 12s.

Liton Das made a steady24 but soon joined the procession of shellshockedBangladesh batters whenleftarm wristspinner Tabraiz Shamsi (2 for 21)trapped him in front. Shamim Hossain and TaskinAhmed followed suit. Nortjethen wrapped up the inningswith two wickets in the 19thover.

South Africa keeps qualifi�cation hopes aliveMakes short work of Bangladesh

Ayan Acharya

Abu Dhabi

Takes two to tango: Rabada and Nortje ripped through theBangladesh lineup. * GETTY IMAGES

BANGLADESHMohammad Naim c Hendricks bRabada 9 (11b, 1x4), Liton Daslbw b Shamsi 24 (36b, 1x4),Soumya Sarkar lbw b Rabada 0(1b), Mushfiqur Rahim cHendricks b Rabada 0 (3b),Mahmudullah c Markram bNortje 3 (9b), Afif Hossain bPretorius 0 (1b), ShamimHossain c Maharaj b Shamsi 11(20b), Mahedi Hasan c & bNortje 27 (25b, 2x4, 1x6), TaskinAhmed run out 3 (5b), NasumAhmed hit wicket b Nortje 0(1b), Shoriful Islam (not out) 0(0b); Extras (lb1, w4, nb2): 7;Total (in 18.2 overs): 84.

FALL OF WICKETS122 (Naim, 3.5 overs), 222(Sarkar, 3.6), 324 (Mushfiqur,5.3), 434 (Mahmudullah, 7.6),534 (Afif, 8.1), 645 (Liton,11.3), 764 (Shamim, 15.2), 877(Taskin, 17.2), 984 (Mahedi,

18.1).

SOUTH AFRICA BOWLINGMaharaj 40230, Rabada 40203, Nortje 3.2083, Pretorius 30111, Shamsi 40212.

SOUTH AFRICAQuinton de Kock b Mahedi 16(15b, 3x4), Reeza Hendricks lbwb Taskin 4 (5b, 1x4), Rassie vander Dussen c Shoriful b Nasum22 (27b, 2x4), Aiden Markram cNaim b Taskin 0 (4b), TembaBavuma (not out) 31 (28b, 3x4,1x6), David Miller (not out) 5(2b, 1x4); Extras (b4, lb1,w3): 8; Total (for four wkts. in13.3 overs): 86.

FALL OF WICKETS16 (Hendricks, 0.6), 228 (deKock, 4.5), 333 (Markram, 5.5),480 (van der Dussen, 12.6).

BANGLADESH BOWLINGTaskin 40182, Shoriful 40150, Mahedi 2.30191, Nasum20221, Sarkar 1070.

Toss: South Africa. ManoftheMatch: Rabada.

South Africa won by six wick-ets with 39 balls to spare.

SCOREBOARD

Pakistan rode on BabarAzam’s measured fi�fty andMohammad Rizwan’s powerhitting to seal a place inthe ICC T20 World Cup semifi�nals with a 45run win overNamibia in a Group 2 Super12 game on Tuesday.

Chasing 190, Namibia lostMichael van Lingen early toHasan Ali before StephanBaard and Craig Williamstook the side to 34 for one insix overs.

With the asking rateclimbing, Williams hit Mohammad Hafeez for a six inthe ninth over before a misunderstanding led to Baardbeing run out. Skipper Gerhard Erasmus hit ShadabKhan for a six and four totake the side to 70 for two in10. He was caught off� Imad’sbowling in the 13th over andWilliams fell for 40 in thenext. David Wiese remainedunbeaten on 43, smashing asix off� Rauf in the 19th overand a massive six that landedon the grass banks plus afour off� Afridi in the 20th.

Earlier, Babar won thetoss and decided to bat. Ruben Trumplemann andWiese were economical upfront. Rizwan survived a review for lbw in the fi�fth over.Jan Frylinck and Ben Shikongo dried up the boundariesbetween overs 79 before leggie Jan Nicol LoftieEaton

came into the attack in the10th. Babar immediatelydrove him for four.

Pakistan, 59 for no loss in10 overs, then shifted gears.It collected 12 and 18 fromthe 11th and 12th overs, with

Babar reaching yet another50 off� 39 balls. Rizwan got amove on, hitting Trumpelmann for a six and four before smacking LoftieEatonfor a second six.

Rizwan and Babar be

came the fi�rst pair to registerfi�ve century partnerships inT20Is before the latter fellfor a 49ball 70.

Fakhar Zaman got out inthe next over, thanks to astunning catch by wicketkeeper Zane Green. Hafeez,at No. 4, struck a 16ball 32before Rizwan hit four foursand a six off� JJ Smit as Pakistan plundered 24 off� the20th to fi�nish with 189. Itproved too steep for Namibia.

Relentless Pakistan strides into semifi�nalThe prolifi�c BabarRizwan combine sets up the team’s fourth successive win

Ayan Acharya

Abu Dhabi

Momentum shift: Rizwan upped the tempo in the fi�nal overs,scoring 24 in the 20th bowled by Smit. * AFP

Debutant Akash Kumar(54kg) secured India’s fi�rstmedal at the ongoing AIBAWorld men’s boxing championships here on Tuesdayafter advancing to the semifi�nals with a superb victoryover former Olympic silvermedallist Yoel Finol Rivas ofVenezuela.

The 21yearold Akashprevailed 50 in a fabulousperformance during whichhis punching and showmanship were outstanding.

He scored on counterattacks with a nonexistentguard and taunted his opponent, all this while stayingout of his range with terrifi�cpace and footwork.

“My strategy was to attack right from the start, Iwon the fi�rst round withthat,” Akash said.

Narender Berwal (+92kg)lost to Azerbaijan’s Mahammad Abdullayev while ShivaThapa (63.5kg) went downto Turkey’s 19yearold Kerem Oezmen in the quarterfi�nals, both by 05 margins.

Akash on song, assuresfi�rst medal for IndiaBeats Rivas 50, makes 54kg semifi�nal

Smashing away: Akash pounded Rivas into submission.* SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT


BELGRADE

Andy Murray blew sevenmatch points and lost his Paris Masters opener to luckyloser Dominik Koepfer ofGermany 64, 57, 76(9).

Murray was let down byhis serve — nine double faultsand landing only 49% of hisfi�rst serves — and 36 unforced errors.

The twotime Olympicchampion got off� to a poorstart and dropped the opening set with a shanked forehand return. Koepfer led 64,53 but Murray raised hisgame and won four straightgames to level the set score.

In the decider, Koepfersaved two match points at54 with a smash and a backhand winner before savingfi�ve more in the tiebreaker.They went for three hours.

“I didn’t deserve to winthe match. I didn’t play wellenough to win,” Murray said.

Ranked 144th in theworld, Murray received awild card in his stutteryquest to come back from hipsurgery and improve his

ranking and get easier drawsnext season.

His singles winloss recordis 1313 this year. Murray wasinitially scheduled to playAmerican qualifi�er JensonBrooksby. But Brooksbywithdrew because of abdominal pain and was replacedby Koepfer.

The results: First round: KarenKhachanov bt Mikael Ymer 64,75; Carlos Alcaraz bt PierreHugues Herbert 67(4), 76(2),75; Grigor Dimitrov bt RichardGasquet 61, 46, 62; TaylorFritz bt Lorenzo Sonego 36,

62, 63; Alexei Popyrin bt AlexDe Minaur 60, 63.

Reilly Opelka bt Filip Krajinovic 63, 76(4); James Duckworth bt Roberto Bautista 64,57, 76(4); Felix AugerAliassime bt Gianluca Mager 46,64, 61; Tommy Paul bt JanLennard Struff� 63, 64.

Dominik Koepfer bt AndyMurray 64, 57, 76(9); Alexander Bublik bt Dan Evans 26,75, 75; Adrian Mannarino btNikoloz Basilashvili 62, 64;Hugo Gaston bt Arthur Rinderknech 46, 64, 63; IlyaIvashka bt Albert Ramos 63, 76(2).

Associated Press

Paris

Marathon: Lucky loser Dominik Koepfer battled for threehours to outlast Andy Murray. * GETTY IMAGES

Murray blows seven matchpoints, falls to Koepfer

PARIS MASTERSCanada won the decisivedoubles to upset defendingchampion France 21 in theBillie Jean King Cup fi�nalshere.

Spain staged a comebackto beat Slovakia 21 for thefi�rst time after two losses, in

cluding the 2002 fi�nal. Also,the Czech Republic prevailed in the doubles to overcome Germany 21 in GroupD, and Belgium beat Belarus21 on the hard courts at theO2 Arena on Monday.

The results: Group A: Canadabt France 21; Group B: Belgium bt Belarus 21; Group C:Spain bt Slovakia 21; Group D:Czech Republic bt Germany 21.

Canada stuns France

Associated Press

Prague

BILLIE JEAN KING CUP

PAKISTANMohammad Rizwan (not out)79 (50b, 8x4, 4x6), Babar Azamc Frylinck b Wiese 70 (49b,7x4), Fakhar Zaman c Green bFrylinck 5 (5b), MohammadHafeez (not out) 32 (16b, 5x4);Extras (lb3): 3; Total (for twowkts. in 20 overs): 189.

FALL OF WICKETS1113 (Babar, 14.2 overs), 2122(Fakhar, 15.4).

NAMIBIA BOWLINGTrumpelmann 41360, Wiese40301, Smit 40500,Frylinck 40311, Shikongo 20190, LoftieEaton20200.

NAMIBIAStephan Baard run out 29 (29b,1x4, 1x6), Michael van Lingen bHasan 4 (2b, 1x4), Craig Williams c Hasan b Shadab 40 (37b,5x4, 1x6), Gerhard Erasmus cShadab b Imad 15 (10b, 1x4,1x6), David Wiese (not out) 43(31b, 3x4, 2x6), JJ Smit c Fakharb Rauf 2 (5b), Jan Nicol LoftieEaton (not out) 7 (7b); Extras(lb2, w1, nb1): 4; Total (forfive wkts. in 20 overs): 144.

FALL OF WICKETS18 (van Lingen, 1.3), 255(Baard, 8.4), 383 (Erasmus,12.3), 493 (Williams, 13.6), 5110 (Smit, 16.5).

PAKISTAN BOWLINGAfridi 40360, Hasan 40221, Imad 30131, Rauf 40251, Shadab 40351, Hafeez10110.Toss: Pakistan; MoM: Rizwan.

Pakistan won by 45 runs.

SCOREBOARD

Umpire Gough bannedfor biobubble breachLONDON

English umpire Michael

Gough was banned from

officiating in the ongoing ICC

T20 World Cup for six days

and placed under quarantine

for an alleged biobubble

breach. PTI

IN BRIEF

Yuvraj hints at comeback NEW DELHI

World Cupwinning former

India allrounder Yuvraj Singh

has decided to come out of

retirement in February next

year “on public demand”,

more than two years after he

called it quits. It is not clear if

he wants to return to the

Indian team or play in T20

leagues. PTI

Young Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen stormed into the second round of the HYLOOpen Super 500 tournament with a 2117, 2114 winover Thomas Rouxel ofFrance here on Tuesday.

In women’s doubles, seventhseeded Ashwini Ponnappa and N. Sikki Reddyadvanced with a 218, 2113win over Ukraine’s MariiaStoliarenko and YelyzavetaZharka in 24 minutes.

The other Indians in action all exited in the fi�rst

round.The results (fi�rst round): Men:Lakshya Sen bt Thomas Rouxel(Fra) 2117, 2114; RasmusGemke (Den) bt Ajay Jayaram2114, 1921, 2116; Doubles:Ben Lane & Sean Vendy (Eng)bt Manu Attri & B. SumeethReddy 219, 2111.Women: Maria Ulitina (Ukr) btSri Krishna Priya Kudaravalli 2118, 2114; Doubles: AshwiniPonnappa & N. Sikki Reddy btMariia Stoliarenko & Yelyzaveta Zharka (Ukr) 218, 2113; Mixed doubles: Niclas Nohr &Amalie Magelund (Den) bt B.Sumeeth Reddy & AshwiniPonnappa 2112, 2113; DanielLundgaard & Mathias Thyrri(Den) bt Tarun Kona & ShivamSharma 2116, 2118.

Lakshya progressesAshwiniSikki duo, too, moves up


Saarbrucken (Germany)

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Sergio Aguero out for 3months after heart testsBARCELONA

Barcelona striker Sergio

Aguero has been ruled out

for three months following

cardiac evaluation, the

Spanish club said on Monday.

The Argentine international

received medical assistance

on the pitch after he

complained of chest pain in

LaLiga match against Alaves

on Saturday and had to be

taken to hospital. REUTERS

IN BRIEF

Tottenham appointsConte as managerLONDON

Tottenham on Tuesday

announced the appointment

of former Chelsea and Inter

Milan boss Antonio Conte as

its new manager following the

sacking of Nuno Espirito

Santo. He will be on a

contract until the summer of

2023, with an option to

extend. Conte has won titles

in Serie A, including a

hat-trick of Scudettos with

Juventus, the Premier League

and also managed Italy,

leading the Azzurri to the

quarterfinals of Euro 2016. AFP

Former England seamerIgglesden passes awayLONDON

English county Kent has

condoled the demise of

former England seamer, Alan

Igglesden, who has died at

the age of 57. Igglesden made

seven appearances for

England across both Tests

and ODIs, taking eight

wickets, including Mark

Taylor and Steve Waugh on

debut in the sixth Test of the

1989 Ashes series. ANI

Wolves condemned Evertonto a third successive PremierLeague defeat as Max Kilmanand Raul Jimenez scored in a21 win at Molineux onMonday.

Bruno Lage’s side tookcontrol in the fi�rst halfthanks to Kilman’s fi�rst everWolves goal and a clinical fi�nish from Jimenez.

Alex Iwobi reduced thedefi�cit in the second half, butWolves held on to extendtheir unbeaten run to fi�veleague games.

With four wins in that impressive streak, Wolves haveclimbed to seventh, whileEverton dropped down in10th.

Everton has won just oneof its last six league games toshatter the optimism createdby their fourmatch unbea

ten start to Benitez’s fi�rst season in charge.

Radamel Falcao was heldscoreless as Rayo Vallecano’s

winning run at home washalted by Celta Vigo in theLaLiga.

The veteran Colombia

striker scored the winner inRayo’s win against Barcelonain the previous round, butcouldn’t capitalise on his

chances in drawing with Celta 00.

The result ended Rayo’sfi�vematch winning streak atits Vallecas Stadium this season, keeping the promotedMadrid club in sixth place,fi�ve points behind leaderReal Sociedad after 12matches.

Bologna moved up to midtable after beating lastplaced Cagliari 20 in SerieA. Lorenzi De Silvestri andMarko Arnautovic scored secondhalf goals as Bolognaended a threematch winlessrun.

The results:

Premier League: Wolves 2 (Kil-man 28, Jimenez 32) bt Everton1 (Iwobi 66).

LaLiga: Rayo Vallecano 0 drewwith Celta Vigo 0; Levante lostto Granada 3 (German 7, Suarez38, Puertas 69).

Serie A: Bologna 2 (De Silvestri49, Arnautovic 90+6) bt Ca-gliari 0.

Wolves pile on the misery for EvertonIn LaLiga, Rayo Vallecano’s winning run at home halted by Celta Vigo


LONDON

Joy unplugged: An ecstatic Raul Jimenez celebrates after netting Wolves’ second goal againstEverton. * REUTERS

EURO LEAGUES

Prajnesh Gunneswaranknocked out second seedTaro Daniel 67(2), 76(5),62 in the fi�rst round of the$52,080 Challenger tennistournament at Charlottesville, United States.

In the $15,000 ITF women’s event in Monastir(Tunisia), lucky loser Jennifer Luikham reached thesecond round with a 64, 76(5) victory over MilanaZhabrailova of Russia.Other result:$15,000 ITF men, Monastir,Tunisia: Singles (fi�rst round):Guy Den Ouden (Ned) btDharmil Shah 6-2, 6-3.

Prajneshshocks Daniel


NEW DELHI

INDIANS ABROAD

Radha Yadav of late hasbeen rather busy catch

ing — the white cricket balland the attention.

Her two brilliant catchesat the Women’s Big BashLeague have hit the headlines, and her leftarm spinhas been pretty eff�ective forSydney Sixers, too. Radha isglad that not just she, but theentire large Indian contingent is doing well at the extremely competitive T20 women’s league Down Under.

On Sunday, MelbourneRenegades’ HarmanpreetKaur, India’s T20 captain,and allrounder Deepti Sharma of Sydney Thunderswere named the player ofthe matches. Indian openerSmriti Mandhana had scored50 for Thunders in the samegame, against HobartHurricanes.

Shafali Verma (SydneySixers), Jemimah Rodrigues(Melbourne Renegades), Richa Ghosh (Hobart Hurricanes) and Poonam Yadav(Brisbane Heat) too havemade their presence felt atthe WBBL.

Great display“It is great that our playershave come (to the competition) and put up greatshows,” Radha said in a vir

tual interaction with selectmedia on Tuesday. “It makesme proud. I hope we couldcontinue performing likethis and try to win the WorldCup (early next year).”

She believes the experience of playing in theWBBL will indeed help theIndian team at the WorldCup, to be held in New Zealand in FebruaryMarch. “Alot of worldclass players areplaying at the WBBL, so thatwill help us a lot,” she said.

Radha added she enjoyedplaying alongside her Sydney Sixers teammates EllysePerry and Alyssa Healy.“They are legends in thegame,” she said. “I am learning a lot from them.”

About her two catchesthat won her a lot of praise,she said it felt good takingthem. “I had worked hardon my fi�tness,” she said.“Hopefully I will take somemore catches like those.”

Radha proud of Indians’ show at WBBLBelieves the experience will help Indian team at World Cup

CRICKET

P.K. Ajith Kumar

Radha Yadav.* SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Niki Poonacha may be themost prominent face of theRohan Bopanna TennisAcademy, winning the national title for the secondtime, but the academy hasseen success across alllevels.

“All four fi�nals in men’sand women’s events, wehad a presence and wonthree titles.

“Prior to that, SuhithaMaruri had won the under16 girls’ title and fi�nished runnerup in under18,” said the chief coachof RBTA, M. Balachandran.

Poonacha had won themen’s singles title and thedoubles with S.D. PrajwalDev.

Qualifi�er Sharmada Balu,who also coaches at the

academy, made the women’s fi�nal, and won thedoubles title with SravyaShivani.

Good team

“We have a good team ofcoaches with us.

“It was gratifying to fi�ndRohan and Sujith (Sachidanand) appreciating the efforts,” said Balachandran,who plays a stellar role inhaving a system in place,and had conducted 37 sessions online for coachesduring and after thelockdown.

“Investing time in training coaches and trainers isthe key. [It is] Easy to putup a tennis court or buy fewequipment,” he observed.

“All coaches work on similar lines. There is a structure in place, with coacheshaving a plan for each session with focus.”

Rohan Bopanna Academy excels in NationalsInvesting time in training coaches and trainers is the key, says Balachandran

Remarkable: Rohan Bopanna Tennis Academy has seensuccess across all levels under chief coach M. Balachandran.

* SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

TENNIS

Kamesh Srinivasan

NEW DELHI

Formula One is planning todouble the number of qualifying sprint races to six nextseason, the sport’s managing director Ross Brawn saidon Monday.

The two that have been

trialled so far this season atSilverstone and Monza havebeen generally well received, with a third scheduled for Brazil later thismonth. Brawn suggestedfurther tweaks to the systemto make it more attractivewere in the pipeline.

F1 plans six qualifying sprints Agence France-Presse

Paris

Despite Kapil Dev’s scintillating performance for K. Devils, BMWDeutsche Motoren eased to a 96.5 victoryand clinched the inauguralDelhi Golf Club League title.

In the best of sevenmatchcontest, Devils’ tally included 1.5 points from winningthe ‘byes’ from three decided matches but that was notenough to deny its rival.

BMW stayed ahead of Devils, pulling to leads of 20and 31. Though Kapil andRakesh Goel closed the gapby winning the fi�fth match,Jayant Kumar and HarinainSingh Malik ensured the triumph by winning the sixth

match. The fi�nal encounterended in a deadlock.The results (fi�nal): BMWDeutsche Motoren bt K. Devils96.5 (Atul Nath-Simran Bajaj btSandeep Khanna-Gia Lamba on14th hole; K.K. Bajoria-Mehul

Gulati bt Samshergill-Arun Sah-gal on 13th; Anirudh Chaudhary-Jagat Bedi lost to Keshav Ka-poor-Ravinder Zutshi on 18th;Puneet Kai Suri-Hiransh Singh btArvind Khanna-Anuj Chandra on16th; Shamsher Dhupia-Nav-

deep Singh Chopra lost to KapilDev-Rakesh Goel on 14th;Jayant Kumar-Harinain SinghMalik bt Prem Duggal-Upi Kash-yap on 17th; Aman Bajaj-VikramMalhotra all square against AjaySirohi-Chaman Lal Jain).

No stopping BMW-Deutsche MotorenWins 96.5 in the fi�nal; Kapil’s heroics not enough for K. Devils

GOLF

RAKESH RAO

NEW DELHI

Cruising home: BMW-Deutsche Motoren was in complete control in the summit clash. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Former FIFA offi�cials SeppBlatter and Michel Platiniwere charged with fraud andother off�ences by Swiss prosecutors on Tuesday after asixyear investigation into acontroversial $2 millionpayment.

The 85yearold Blatterand 65yearold Platini nowface a trial within months atfederal criminal court in Bellinzona. “This paymentdamaged FIFA’s assets andunlawfully enriched Platini,”Swiss federal prosecutorssaid in a statement.

The case from September2015 ousted Blatter ahead ofschedule as FIFA presidentand ended thenUEFA president Platini’s campaign tosucceed his former mentor.

The case centers on Plati

ni’s written request to FIFAin January 2011 to be paidbackdated additional salaryfor working as a presidentialadvisor in Blatter’s fi�rstterm, from 19982002.

Blatter authorised FIFA tomake the payment withinweeks. He was preparing tocampaign for reelection

against Mohamed bin Hammam of Qatar, where Platini’s infl�uence with Europeanvoters was a key factor.

Both Blatter and Platinihave long denied wrongdoing and cited a verbal agreement they had made, nowmore than 20 years ago, forthe money to be paid.

Blatter, Platini charged with fraudAssociated Press

GENEVA

Tough times: Blatte and Platini now face a trial. * FILE PHOTO

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