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C hina has undertaken a major exercise to use Tibetans and Uyghurs of mixed parentage for carrying out cyber-attacks worldwide, tar- geting computer networks of countries and acquiring their data in order to hit their economies. The move, according to experts, comes as Chinese tele- com companies, especially those related to 5G technology, are increasingly being under scrutiny of various Governments and Beijing’s credibility taking a hit due to its suspected role in suppressing information on the origin and spread of Covid-19 in Wuhan, potentially hitting its business prospects. Amid the expanding Chinese footprint through mega infrastructure projects under the Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing has already put in place an Internet which is parallel to the Internet led by the US dubbed as Digital Silk Road to exploit the same for advancing its strategic and eco- nomic agenda, the experts said. China has been organising the China Skills Competition or the Tibet Autonomous Region Cyber Security Skills Competition in collaboration with the telecommunication firms and engineering/hard- ware companies and academ- ic institutions to scout talent from the Tibetan and Uyghur communities with mixed parentage to evade scrutiny of the law enforcement agencies in the targeted countries. While such a Tibetan has been arrested in the US, the set- ting up of a Software Park in Gilgit-Baltistan region in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir has emerged as a major con- cern for India, they said. Earlier this week, Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa visited Skardu to assess the latest situation and operational preparedness of Force Command Northern Areas (FCNA) troops deployed along the Line of Control (LoC) and later inaugurated a state-of- the art Software Technology Park in Gilgit. The Software Technology Park is an initiative of the Special Communication Organisation (SCO) backed by China to carry out cyber- attacks and compromise com- puter networks in the region. The Park will also seek to gather intelligence to secure the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor through data mining and modulating narratives based on such inputs. India could also be vul- nerable to such sophisticated attacks in the cyberspace as major technological upgrades in the telecommunication sec- tor and Information technolo- gy-related hardware were majorly sourced from China as late as a few months before the onset of the confrontation between the armies of India and China in eastern Ladakh. A n ugly war of words broke out between Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari and Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday over the re-opening of places of worship which were closed down in the wake of Covid 19- triggered lockdown imposed in the State in March this year. A day ahead of the BJP’s proposed launch of a State- wide agitation for reopening of temples in the State, the Governor had on Monday writ- ten a letter — which smacked of political overtones — to the Chief Minister, questioning the latter’s Hindutva credentials and wondering if Uddhav was receiving any “divine premo- nition” to keep postponing the re-opening of the places of wor- ship time and again or whether he suddenly turned “secular”. Uddhav, who normally is not agitated over the criticism directed at him or his Government, hit back at Koshyari on Tuesday with vehemence, saying that he did not need any certificate for his being practitioner of Hindutva from the Governor and asking the latter if the latter meant “merely opening of temple means Hindutva and not open- ing means secular”. In a related development, an understandably upset NCP chief Sharad Pawar, whose party is one of the three con- stituents in the M VA Government in the State, shot off a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, throwing his weight behind the Chief Minister, questioning the con- tents of the letter written by Koshyari to the Chief Minister and the “intemperate” lan- guage in it, saying that the Governor’s letter to the Chief Minister “invokes the conno- tation as if it is written to the leader of a political party”. T he Government on Tuesday said there are three novel coronavirus re-infection cases — two in Mumbai and one in Ahemedabad — identified in the country which are being studied by the Indian Medical Research Council (ICMR), a research wing of the Union Health Ministry. Re-infection cases are those cases where people con- tract the deadly virus for the second time after being cured. This means that even people who have had Covid-19 earli- er need to take the same pre- cautions as everyone else. Some studies said patients showed more severe symptoms in the second re-infection. The premier health research agency ICMR DG Dr Balram Bhargava at a Press briefing here pointed out that such cases of re-infection of the virus were a few, one in Ahmedabad and two in Mumbai. “As per World Health Organisation (WHO) data, there are about 24 re-infection cases in the world. The criteria to identify a re-infection case is somewhere between 90 and 100 days. The WHO has not yet decided the number of days. However, we’re taking cut-off of about 100 days,” said Dr Bhargava. His comments came days after Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan said, “Though there are sporadic reports of re- infection surfacing in various States, careful analysis of ICMR database reveals that many of these cases have actually been misclassified as re-infections.” Dr Vardhan said re-infec- tion cases are under investiga- tion. He said such cases in India were negligible at the moment and were being studied by an expert panel of ICMR. The first instance of coro- navirus infection was recorded in Hong Kong when a 33-year- old man, who was initially infected with the coronavirus in March and made a full recovery, was re-infected more than four months later after a trip abroad, researchers report- ed in August. The Lancet Infectious Diseases on Tuesday reported another confirmed case of the Covid re-infection, but a first in the US wherein a resident of Washoe County in Nevada was tested positive on April 18. During follow-up, he tested negative twice in May, but test- ed positive on June 5. The Lancet stated the patient showed more severe symptoms in the second re- infection. T he Odisha Government has proposed axing over one lakh trees on behalf of Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL), a coal mining company jointly owned by the Government of Telangana and Government of India, for con- ducting mining operations in the Naini block in Angul dis- trict in the State. However, the proposal has been put on hold by the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) of the Union Environment Ministry after it found that there were discrepancies in the number of trees that will be felled in various reports sub- mitted by the various agencies. “As per DFO report, it is 1,06,536 trees, whereas RCCF reported 1,06,209, and the SIR (site inspection report) of Regional office reported 1,05,092 trees,” said the panel headed by Dr Sanjay Kumar, Director General of Forests and Special Secretary in the Ministry in minutes of meeting held on September 21, 2020. The FAC was studying the Odisha Government’s propos- al for diversion of 783.275 hectares of forest land consist- ing of 643.095 hectares of reserve forest in Chhendipada and Kankurupal Reserved Forest and 140.180 hectares of village forest land in Chhendipada Range of Angul Division for Naini Coal Block (Open Cast) in Angul district, Odisha for SCCL. According to the SCCL, Naini would boost its output, which was aiming to produce one crore tonnes of coal every year and has targeted com- mencement of production by February 2021. D elhi’s air quality was recorded “very poor” on Tuesday morning. The dip in the air quality for the first time in the season was attributed to low wind speed and tempera- tures which allowed accumu- lation of pollutants, said a senior scientist at the Delhi Pollution Control Committee, adding that stubble burning cases have also increased in neighbouring States. The national Capital recorded an air quality index (AQI) of 304 at 9:30 am, which falls in the “very poor” catego- ry. The 24-hour average AQI was 261 on Monday, the worst since February. It was 216 on Sunday and 221 on Saturday. Wazirpur (AQI 380), Vivek Vihar (AQI 355) and Jahangirpuri (AQI 349) record- ed the highest pollution levels. According to the Ministry of Earth Sciences’ Air Quality Early Warning System for Delhi, an increase in farm fires in Punjab, Haryana and neigh- bouring regions of Pakistan is also going to impact the air quality in Delhi-NCR. An AQI between 0 and 50 is considered “good”, 51 and 100 “satisfactory”, 101 and 200 “moderate”, 201 and 300 “poor”, 301 and 400 “very poor”, and 401 and 500 “severe”. According to the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research, farm fires contributed 3 per cent par- ticulate matter to Delhi’s PM2.5 concentration on Monday. A day after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated 44 permanent bridges in bor- der areas, China on Tuesday said “it does not recognise the Ladakh Union Territory ille- gally set up by India” and opposes infrastructure building in the region. It also claimed infrastructure development is the “root cause for tension” between the two countries. The sharp reaction from Beijing came as eight of 44 bridges are in Ladakh where a stand-off is on between the armies of the two countries for the last five months. Successive rounds of military and diplo- matic level talks between the two sides have so far failed to break the logjam. The seventh round of Corps Commander level talks were held on Monday in which both the countries reiterated their resolve to continue the process of dialogue to disen- gage and de-escalation. The parleys lasted for more than 11 hours in Chushul on the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC). Issuing a joint statement on the talks, the two countries said on Tuesday the “two sides had a sincere, in-depth and con- structive exchange of views on disengagement along the LAC in the Western Sector of India- China border areas.” They were of the view that these discussions were positive, constructive and had enhanced understanding of each other’s positions. Both sides agreed to maintain dialogue and com- munication through military and diplomatic channels, and arrive at a mutually acceptable solution for disengagement as early as possible. Both sides agreed to earnestly implement the important understandings reached by the leaders of the two countries, not to turn dif- ferences into disputes, and jointly safeguard peace and tranquility in the border areas. Incidentally, this is the sec- ond time the two armies came out with a joint statement. In the first such communiqué after the sixth round of military level talks on September 21, both the countries agreed to refrain from sending more troops to the border and main- tain peace. Against this backdrop when the process of talks is on in the right earnest, Zhao Lijian, spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry, on Tuesday while blaming infrastructure projects for tension, said nei- ther country should take action that might escalate tensions. This is the second time in the past few weeks when China has raised questions about Ladakh. F ormer Chief Minister and Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) Chief Mehbooba Mufti was set free by the Jammu & Kashmir administration which revoked her detention under the Public Safety Act (PSA) late on Tuesday. Mehbooba was placed under preventive detention ahead of Abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019. Later she was slapped with PSA in the month of February 2020. On April 7, 2020 she was shift- ed to her own house but was barred from speaking to media and meeting others, including her party leaders. Spokesman of Jammu & Kashmir Government Rohit Kansal announced the decision. He wrote, “Mehbooba Mufti being released today.” Mehbooba’’s daughter Iltija Mufti also tweeted instantly confirming the news. New Delhi: Lt General Harinder Singh, chief of Leh based 14 Corps known as ‘Fire and Fury Corps,’ who led the Indian delegation during the seven rounds of Corps Commander-level talks in the last five months on Tuesday handed over charge to Lt General PGK Menon. Singh will take over as the Commandant of the Indian Military Academy (IMA). B oth major political parties BJP and Congress are engaged in war of words over absence of their respective leaders’ photos from the by- election campaigns. BJP has questioned the Congress on missing Rahul Gandhi pictures from Vachan Patras, the election manifesto distributed by Congress party locally, while on the other hand, the grand old party has hit back asking as why Jyotiraditya Scindia’s face is missing from digital chariots sent to poll- bound constituencies. The BJP had mocked Congress party move of skipping Rahul Gandhi’s pictures in Vachan Patras which are distributed in poll-bound constituencies. “Digvijay Singh in MP and Rahul Gandhi nationally has lost relevance for Congress party which is aware that keep- ing their faces in front could cost them votes so they are avoiding them,” Shivraj cabinet minister Gopal Bhargav told. Besides Gandhi, Digvijay Singh too is also missing from Vachan Patras which features late PM Indira Gandhi, AICC president Sonia Gandhi and MPCC president Kamal Nath. Congress media cell co- ordinator Narendra Saluja replied to Bhargav’s comment saying it was a local election manifesto so as per protocol, pictures of national president and state heads were used. Soon we are releasing a main manifesto which will have pic- ture of Rahul Gandhi and oth- ers, added the leader. However, as the BJP green signalled digi- tal chariots to 28 poll bound con- stituencies for promoting Shivraj government achievements from Bhopal, the Congress quickly spotted that Jyotiraditya Scindia pictures were missing from these modern vehicles. Continued on Page 3 RNI Regn. No. MPENG/2004/13703, Regd. No. L-2/BPLON/41/2006-2008

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China has undertaken amajor exercise to use

Tibetans and Uyghurs of mixedparentage for carrying outcyber-attacks worldwide, tar-geting computer networks ofcountries and acquiring theirdata in order to hit theireconomies.

The move, according toexperts, comes as Chinese tele-com companies, especiallythose related to 5G technology,are increasingly being underscrutiny of variousGovernments and Beijing’scredibility taking a hit due to itssuspected role in suppressinginformation on the origin andspread of Covid-19 in Wuhan,potentially hitting its businessprospects.

Amid the expandingChinese footprint throughmega infrastructure projectsunder the Belt and RoadInitiative, Beijing has alreadyput in place an Internet whichis parallel to the Internet led bythe US dubbed as Digital SilkRoad to exploit the same foradvancing its strategic and eco-nomic agenda, the experts said.

China has been organisingthe China Skills Competitionor the Tibet AutonomousRegion Cyber Security SkillsCompetition in collaborationwith the telecommunicationfirms and engineering/hard-ware companies and academ-ic institutions to scout talentfrom the Tibetan and Uyghurcommunities with mixedparentage to evade scrutiny of

the law enforcement agenciesin the targeted countries.

While such a Tibetan hasbeen arrested in the US, the set-ting up of a Software Park inGilgit-Baltistan region inPakistan Occupied Kashmirhas emerged as a major con-cern for India, they said.

Earlier this week, PakistanArmy Chief General QamarJaved Bajwa visited Skardu toassess the latest situation andoperational preparedness ofForce Command NorthernAreas (FCNA) troops deployedalong the Line of Control (LoC)and later inaugurated a state-of-the art Software Technology

Park in Gilgit. The SoftwareTechnology Park is an initiativeof the Special CommunicationOrganisation (SCO) backedby China to carry out cyber-attacks and compromise com-puter networks in the region.The Park will also seek togather intelligence to secure theChina-Pakistan EconomicCorridor through data miningand modulating narrativesbased on such inputs.

India could also be vul-nerable to such sophisticatedattacks in the cyberspace asmajor technological upgradesin the telecommunication sec-tor and Information technolo-

gy-related hardware weremajorly sourced from China as

late as a few months before theonset of the confrontation

between the armies of Indiaand China in eastern Ladakh.

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An ugly war of words brokeout between Maharashtra

Governor Bhagat SinghKoshyari and Chief MinisterUddhav Thackeray on Tuesdayover the re-opening of places ofworship which were closeddown in the wake of Covid 19-triggered lockdown imposed inthe State in March this year.

A day ahead of the BJP’sproposed launch of a State-wide agitation for reopening oftemples in the State, theGovernor had on Monday writ-ten a letter — which smackedof political overtones — to theChief Minister, questioningthe latter’s Hindutva credentialsand wondering if Uddhav wasreceiving any “divine premo-nition” to keep postponing there-opening of the places of wor-ship time and again or whetherhe suddenly turned “secular”.

Uddhav, who normally isnot agitated over the criticismdirected at him or hisGovernment, hit back atKoshyari on Tuesday withvehemence, saying that he didnot need any certificate for hisbeing practitioner of Hindutvafrom the Governor and askingthe latter if the latter meant“merely opening of templemeans Hindutva and not open-ing means secular”.

In a related development,an understandably upset NCPchief Sharad Pawar, whose

party is one of the three con-stituents in the MVAGovernment in the State, shotoff a letter to Prime MinisterNarendra Modi, throwing hisweight behind the ChiefMinister, questioning the con-tents of the letter written byKoshyari to the Chief Ministerand the “intemperate” lan-guage in it, saying that theGovernor’s letter to the ChiefMinister “invokes the conno-tation as if it is written to theleader of a political party”.

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The Government on Tuesdaysaid there are three novel

coronavirus re-infection cases— two in Mumbai and one inAhemedabad — identified inthe country which are beingstudied by the Indian MedicalResearch Council (ICMR), aresearch wing of the UnionHealth Ministry.

Re-infection cases arethose cases where people con-tract the deadly virus for thesecond time after being cured.This means that even peoplewho have had Covid-19 earli-er need to take the same pre-cautions as everyone else. Somestudies said patients showedmore severe symptoms in thesecond re-infection.

The premier healthresearch agency ICMR DG DrBalram Bhargava at a Pressbriefing here pointed out thatsuch cases of re-infection of thevirus were a few, one inAhmedabad and two in

Mumbai.“As per World Health

Organisation (WHO) data,there are about 24 re-infectioncases in the world. The criteriato identify a re-infection caseis somewhere between 90 and

100 days. The WHO has notyet decided the number ofdays. However, we’re takingcut-off of about 100 days,” saidDr Bhargava.

His comments came daysafter Union Health Minister Dr

Harsh Vardhan said, “Thoughthere are sporadic reports of re-infection surfacing in variousStates, careful analysis of ICMRdatabase reveals that many ofthese cases have actually beenmisclassified as re-infections.”

Dr Vardhan said re-infec-tion cases are under investiga-tion. He said such cases in Indiawere negligible at the momentand were being studied by anexpert panel of ICMR.

The first instance of coro-navirus infection was recordedin Hong Kong when a 33-year-old man, who was initiallyinfected with the coronavirusin March and made a fullrecovery, was re-infected morethan four months later after atrip abroad, researchers report-ed in August.

The Lancet InfectiousDiseases on Tuesday reportedanother confirmed case of theCovid re-infection, but a firstin the US wherein a resident ofWashoe County in Nevada wastested positive on April 18.During follow-up, he testednegative twice in May, but test-ed positive on June 5.

The Lancet stated thepatient showed more severesymptoms in the second re-infection.

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The Odisha Government hasproposed axing over one

lakh trees on behalf ofSingareni Collieries CompanyLimited (SCCL), a coal miningcompany jointly owned by theGovernment of Telangana andGovernment of India, for con-ducting mining operations inthe Naini block in Angul dis-trict in the State.

However, the proposal hasbeen put on hold by the ForestAdvisory Committee (FAC) ofthe Union EnvironmentMinistry after it found thatthere were discrepancies inthe number of trees that will befelled in various reports sub-mitted by the various agencies.

“As per DFO report, it is1,06,536 trees, whereas RCCFreported 1,06,209, and the SIR(site inspection report) of

Regional office reported1,05,092 trees,” said the panelheaded by Dr Sanjay Kumar,Director General of Forestsand Special Secretary in theMinistry in minutes of meetingheld on September 21, 2020.

The FAC was studying theOdisha Government’s propos-al for diversion of 783.275hectares of forest land consist-ing of 643.095 hectares ofreserve forest in Chhendipadaand Kankurupal ReservedForest and 140.180 hectares ofvillage forest land inChhendipada Range of AngulDivision for Naini Coal Block(Open Cast) in Angul district,Odisha for SCCL.

According to the SCCL,Naini would boost its output,which was aiming to produceone crore tonnes of coal everyyear and has targeted com-mencement of production byFebruary 2021.

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Delhi’s air quality wasrecorded “very poor” on

Tuesday morning. The dip inthe air quality for the first timein the season was attributed tolow wind speed and tempera-tures which allowed accumu-lation of pollutants, said asenior scientist at the DelhiPollution Control Committee,adding that stubble burningcases have also increased inneighbouring States.

The national Capitalrecorded an air quality index(AQI) of 304 at 9:30 am, which

falls in the “very poor” catego-ry. The 24-hour average AQIwas 261 on Monday, the worstsince February. It was 216 onSunday and 221 on Saturday.Wazirpur (AQI 380), VivekVihar (AQI 355) andJahangirpuri (AQI 349) record-ed the highest pollution levels.

According to the Ministryof Earth Sciences’ Air QualityEarly Warning System forDelhi, an increase in farm firesin Punjab, Haryana and neigh-

bouring regions of Pakistan isalso going to impact the airquality in Delhi-NCR.

An AQI between 0 and 50is considered “good”, 51 and 100“satisfactory”, 101 and 200“moderate”, 201 and 300 “poor”,301 and 400 “very poor”, and401 and 500 “severe”.

According to the System ofAir Quality and WeatherForecasting and Research, farmfires contributed 3 per cent par-ticulate matter to Delhi’s PM2.5concentration on Monday.

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Aday after Defence MinisterRajnath Singh inaugurated

44 permanent bridges in bor-der areas, China on Tuesdaysaid “it does not recognise theLadakh Union Territory ille-gally set up by India” andopposes infrastructure buildingin the region. It also claimedinfrastructure development isthe “root cause for tension”between the two countries.

The sharp reaction fromBeijing came as eight of 44bridges are in Ladakh where astand-off is on between thearmies of the two countries forthe last five months. Successiverounds of military and diplo-matic level talks between the

two sides have so far failed tobreak the logjam.

The seventh round ofCorps Commander level talkswere held on Monday in whichboth the countries reiteratedtheir resolve to continue theprocess of dialogue to disen-gage and de-escalation. Theparleys lasted for more than 11hours in Chushul on the Indianside of the Line of ActualControl (LAC).

Issuing a joint statement onthe talks, the two countries saidon Tuesday the “two sides hada sincere, in-depth and con-structive exchange of views ondisengagement along the LACin the Western Sector of India-

China border areas.”They were of the view that

these discussions were positive,constructive and had enhancedunderstanding of each other’spositions. Both sides agreed tomaintain dialogue and com-munication through militaryand diplomatic channels, andarrive at a mutually acceptablesolution for disengagement asearly as possible.

Both sides agreed toearnestly implement theimportant understandingsreached by the leaders of thetwo countries, not to turn dif-ferences into disputes, andjointly safeguard peace andtranquility in the border areas.

Incidentally, this is the sec-ond time the two armies cameout with a joint statement. Inthe first such communiquéafter the sixth round of militarylevel talks on September 21,both the countries agreed torefrain from sending moretroops to the border and main-tain peace.

Against this backdropwhen the process of talks is onin the right earnest, ZhaoLijian, spokesman for China’sForeign Ministry, on Tuesdaywhile blaming infrastructureprojects for tension, said nei-ther country should take actionthat might escalate tensions.This is the second time in the

past few weeks when China hasraised questions about Ladakh.

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Former Chief Minister andPeoples’ Democratic Party

(PDP) Chief Mehbooba Muftiwas set free by the Jammu &Kashmir administration whichrevoked her detention underthe Public Safety Act (PSA) lateon Tuesday.

Mehbooba was placedunder preventive detentionahead of Abrogation of Article370 on August 5, 2019. Latershe was slapped with PSA inthe month of February 2020.On April 7, 2020 she was shift-ed to her own house but wasbarred from speaking to mediaand meeting others, includingher party leaders.

Spokesman of Jammu &Kashmir Government RohitKansal announced the decision.He wrote, “Mehbooba Muftibeing released today.”Mehbooba’’s daughter IltijaMufti also tweeted instantlyconfirming the news.

New Delhi: Lt GeneralHarinder Singh, chief of Lehbased 14 Corps known as‘Fire and Fury Corps,’ who ledthe Indian delegation duringthe seven rounds of CorpsCommander-level talks inthe last five months onTuesday handed over chargeto Lt General PGK Menon.Singh will take over as theCommandant of the IndianMilitary Academy (IMA).

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Both major political partiesBJP and Congress are

engaged in war of words overabsence of their respectiveleaders’ photos from the by-election campaigns.

BJP has questioned theCongress on missing RahulGandhi pictures from VachanPatras, the election manifestodistributed by Congress partylocally, while on the other hand,the grand old party has hit backasking as why JyotiradityaScindia’s face is missing fromdigital chariots sent to poll-bound constituencies. The BJPhad mocked Congress partymove of skipping RahulGandhi’s pictures in VachanPatras which are distributed inpoll-bound constituencies.

“Digvijay Singh in MP andRahul Gandhi nationally haslost relevance for Congressparty which is aware that keep-ing their faces in front could

cost them votes so they areavoiding them,” Shivraj cabinetminister Gopal Bhargav told.

Besides Gandhi, DigvijaySingh too is also missing fromVachan Patras which featureslate PM Indira Gandhi, AICCpresident Sonia Gandhi andMPCC president Kamal Nath.

Congress media cell co-ordinator Narendra Salujareplied to Bhargav’s commentsaying it was a local electionmanifesto so as per protocol,pictures of national presidentand state heads were used.Soon we are releasing a mainmanifesto which will have pic-ture of Rahul Gandhi and oth-ers, added the leader. However,as the BJP green signalled digi-tal chariots to 28 poll bound con-stituencies for promoting Shivrajgovernment achievements fromBhopal, the Congress quicklyspotted that Jyotiraditya Scindiapictures were missing from thesemodern vehicles.

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Octogenarian journalistMark Tully, lamented the

sensationalism of TV news,“India has a terrible history ofgoing through traumas andthen everything goes on as ifnothing happened.

I think it is so unfair thatyou have media trials and veryoften the person is found notguilty, but we never hear aboutthat at all. I often move awayfrom the news bulletins as yousee the same sort of standardcoverage presented as tonight’s‘big story’ with no background,nothing about why it is hap-pening.”

Tully further said that it isappalling and sad that thecolonial legacy of a “governingpolice force” rather than a“serving police force” is stilloperational in India.

In an hourlong Tete-a-Tea

session organized by PrabhaKhaitan Foundation of Kolkata,Sir William Mark Tully - thevoice and face of BBC in SouthAsia for three decades – rem-inisced about his childhood inCalcutta where he was born.

He shared his views onmaking curries, his love for theradio and the railways. SirTully also touched upon arange of topics germane to thecurrent state of affairs in India.Conversationalist, Lady MohiniKent Noon, connected fromLondon to engage Mark Tullyto respond to some of thepressing issues pertaining tojournalism, media trials, polic-ing in India, colonial legaciesand the plight of women.

Tully explained, “The own-ers and proprietors of TVchannels are obsessed withgetting the maximum viewersand so they stick by the rule –

news is the views of the day. Ibelieve very strongly in radio.Even now, I often turn to radiorather than television if I wantto be entertained,” he said.

1935-born Sir Mark Tully,the recipient of Padma Shri andPadma Bhushan, had coveredsome of the momentous his-torical events of the century inthe subcontinent as a journal-ist over a career spanning threedecades (1964 to 94).

As a BBC correspondent,he had covered the Indo-Pakconflicts, Shimla Summit,Bhopal gas tragedy, impositionof Emergency, Operation BlueStar, assassination of IndiraGandhi, anti-Sikh riots, assas-sination of Rajiv Gandhi, thedemolition of Babari masjidand many other big happen-ings.

He was the bureau chief ofBBC in New Delhi for 20 years.

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The Archdiocese of Bhopal alongwith the Catholic and Christian

communities, expressed its solidaritywith Fr. Stan Swamy 83, a Jesuit priestwho was illegally arrested from his res-idence on October 08, 2020 in Jharkhandby the National Investigation Agency andaccusing him of connections with Bhim-Koregan Incident.

Fr. Stan Swamy is 83 years old anda Jesuit Priest. He has spent almost threedecades of his life identifying himselfwith the tribal people and their struggleto get their land rights. He stood firmlyfor the dignity and self-respect of the trib-al community.

Archbishop Leo Cornelio SVD in hisstatement said that in a democraticcountry arresting an innocent senior cit-izen without sufficient evidence is a seri-ous concern to all peace loving people.The NIA has accused and implicated Fr.Stan who committed his entire life for the

wellbeing of poor and justice to the trib-al people in the region.

It is important to note that Fr Stanhas always cooperated with the investi-gating agencies and provided the need-ed information and documents to provethat he is innocent and still he is arrest-ed on supposedly flimsy grounds is unac-ceptable to every peace loving citizen ofIndia. It is true that Fr Stan has expressedhis dissent with several policies and lawsenacted by the Government in the lightof the Constitution of India. Every citi-zen has the freedom to express his con-viction and stand for truth and justice.

“It is beyond comprehension that theNIA has arrested Fr. Stan during this pan-demic, as he has other ailments whichcould pose a great risk to the life and well-being of this Human Right Defender andChampion of the poor. We demand thatFr. Stan be released immediately andgiven the right to prove his innocence inthe eyes of the Law” said Archbishop.

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Chief Minister Shivraj SinghChouhan said that it is nec-

essary to have school buildingsto improve educational envi-ronment. It is our endeavour toensure that children get goodeducation in the school build-ings. Educational activitieshave been affected in the coro-na period, but the Governmenthas taken the task of connect-ing children online with edu-cation through innovative alter-native arrangements. ChiefMinister Chouhan on Tuesdayaddressed a programme of vir-tual dedication of 145 neweducational buildings at MintoHall in Bhopal constructed ata cost of �497.70 crore.

The educational buildingsdedicated by the Chief Ministertoday include 13 SpecializedResidential Schools (GirlsEducation Complex) of TribalWelfare Department built at a

cost of �357 crore 9 lakhs, 3new hostel buildings of �4crore 63 lakhs and 129 highschools and higher secondaryschool buildings costing �135crore 98 lakh of the SchoolEduction Department.

These buildings were con-structed for the Tribal WelfareDepartment and SchoolEducation Department by thePublic Works Department. Theacademic infrastructures ded-icated in the programme are ofthe election unaffected dis-tricts. Public Works andCottage Gramodyog MinisterGopal Bhargava, Micro Smalland Medium Enterprises,Science and TechnologyMinister OmprakashSakhlecha, Minister of State forSchool Education,(Independent Charge) InderSingh Parmar were present.Protem Speaker RameshwarSharma and Tribal Welfareand Scheduled Caste Welfare

Minister Meena Singh partic-ipated in the virtual pro-gramme. Principal SecretarySchool Education, PrincipalSecretary Tribal Welfare,Principal Secretary PublicWorks Department and otherofficers were present.

Chief Minister Chouhansaid that in the next 3 years, tenthousand such huge schoolbuildings will be constructed inwhich many children can getquality education under oneroof. These school complexeswill be fully euqipped with res-idential facility, library, sportscomplex and transportationfacility will be available for chil-dren living in the radius of 25-30 km. Protem SpeakarRameshwar Sharma, who waspresent in the virtual pro-gramme, termed the concept arevolution in the field of edu-cation. He said that with thistype of educational institution,it will be possible to give qual-

ity education at the same placein the same building.

Chief Minister Chouhandiscussed the facilities availablein the newly constructed build-ing with the guardianPurushottram present in thepremises of Kanya ShikshaParisar in Umaria district. TheChief Minister sought infor-mation from the Principalregarding conduct of educationduring Covid period. ThePrincipal told that 33 percentof children are being providedonline education during theCorona period. Apart fromthis, books are being providedto all children in their homes.The teachers are also in con-stant contact with the stu-dents. Regardng opening ofschools, Chief MinisterChouhan said that schools willstart functioning after Diwali inview of current circumstances.

Chouhan asked PanchayatPradhan Nandkishore Patidar

present in Shujalpur Karwalaschool building in Shajapur dis-trict, what his action plan is formaintenance of the schoolbuilding after its construction.Patidar informed that there isaccommodation for 195 chil-dren in the school building. Asa public representative I willmonitor its maintenance fromtime to time.

Principal DharmendraYadav said that the school wasa high school in 2002 and wasconverted into HigherSecondary School in 2013. Thebuilding has sufficient roomsand systematically constructedstaff room, toilet etc.. ProtemSpeakar RameshwarkarSharma, who was present as arepresentative in GovernmentHigher Secondary School inAkbarpur, Bhopal, urged theconstruction of one more floorin the school building in viewof the number of children inthe school.

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SBI Card, India’s largest pureplay credit card issuer, is all

set to add to the festive cheer ofits cardholders this festive sea-son. With more than thousandoffers across 2000 cities, spe-cially curated to meet the chang-ing trends and consumer pref-erences, SBI Card endeavors tobring customers a rewardingshopping experience on theirfestive season purchases.

The wide range of offersinclude more than three hun-dred national and above sevenhundred regional & hyperlocaloffers. The delightful spread ofoffers range across a wide set of

categories such as fashion &lifestyle, electronics, mobiles,jewelry, departmental storesand travel & online market-places. Offers are availablenationally across marqueebrands such as Amazon, BrandFactory, Croma, Caratlane,Fabindia, FirstCry, Grofers,Homecentre, Lloyds, MoreHypermarket, MoreSupermarket, Pantaloons,Samsung Mobile and Tata Cliq.

These strategic partner-ships will enable the customersto derive benefits across all therelevant shopping categories.Offers include attractive cash-backs as well as instant dis-counts ranging upto 10%.

SBI Card is also the exclu-sive credit card partner forFlipkart’s ‘The Big Billion Days’online shopping festival, one ofthe largest online sale events inIndia. SBI Card customers canavail 10% instant discount onFlipkart during the offer peri-od, in addition to the plethoraof deals on the platform, fromthe safety of their homes.

Ashwini Kumar Tewari,MD & CEO, SBI Card, said,“Every year our endeavor is tobring our consumers a superi-or experience and maximumsavings on their festive shop-ping through carefullydesigned national and region-al offers.

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Hindi play Baisakhi was presented onTuesday on Facebook Live. The play

was presented under the five-dayFacebook online theatre event of AdmireTheater Group.

The play, written by Anand Mishraand performed by Yogesh Tripathidepicts intensive society.

Many families in our society haveseen that daughters have contributed alot in their growth. This is the story ofone such illiterate family, which has a tra-ditional father and a progressive moth-er. Due to the strict discipline of themother, the daughter is studying, thenshe becomes disabled in an accident.

Despite this, her self-confidencedoes not diminish, and when an incidentcomes, she rescues her father from a

humiliating state of illiteracy. This drama of rural environment is

written in Sahaj Saral Bagheli which haslyric music in it. Little red poor illiter-ate is looking after his family in Natakin some way. The groom's side wants thegirl well, even if the boy is defiant, butfate has written something else: LittleLal's daughter Paran falls in the well dueto which her legs are broken, then ChhotiLal takes treatment for her by taking aloan. The message is sent by Pradhanthat he will not make his daughter-in-law his daughter-in-law and takes sweetsfor the loan. He goes to the small redbank where he does not fill any form, andhe is insulted a lot, due to this he is nearParan Comes, Paran decides to teach hisfather and makes him literate and takeshis father to the bank and opens theaccount by filling the form himself.

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The second series of‘Gamak’ began from

Tuesday with a musical con-cert. The musical concert‘Woh Shaam Kuch Ajeeb Thi’was held remembering leg-endary singer Kishore Kumarat Madhya Pradesh StateTribal Museum.

The event began with apresentation showcasing thelife span of Kishore Kumar. Itwas presented by RahulRastogi and was scripted bya renowned playwright RafiShabbir.

It is to be noted on thedeath anniversary of KishoreKumar the event was held.The programme has beenstarted with the objective to

encourage and bring to lightthe talented artists who willsing the tracks of KishoreKumar.

Singers like Shiv Rao,Raju Rao, Shobhana Pradhanand Shivani Dhuria. Thesingers were accompaniedby Vatan Dhuria andMoolchand on tabla, Praveenon Padon,Sandeep Verma onguitar, Raju Rao on keyboardand Vatan Dhuria and onbass guitar will performmeaningful racks.

The singers performed asmany as 30 solo and duetsongs of Kishore Kumar leav-ing the audience mesmerised.The event began with thefamous track ‘Woh ShaamKuch Ajeeb Thi’. Then one ofthe famous songs by Kishore

Kumar ‘Yeh Shaam Mastani’was performed.

The concert was muchenjoyed by the audiences andmany people took the plea-sure to go back in the oldtimes.

The audiences wereawestruck by the perfor-mance of the artists. Thesongs took the audiencesback in the era of black andwhite movies. There weresongs like Phoolon ke rang se,Ek Ajnabi Haseena, Chudinahi ye and many more pre-sented on the show.

The audiences wereenthralled to watch the show.They enjoyed the programmewholeheartedly and relivedthe golden era of Bollywood.

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The players of differentsports will be given special

training in Bhopal. Keeping inmind the upcoming nationaland international competitions,62 boarding players havereached Bhopal on Tuesday forreceiving training.

The players include 41boys and 21 girls called in thesecond phase on the recom-mendation of sports coaches.

All these national andinternational level players willbe given high-level training.These include 8 boys of athlet-ics, 6 girls, 15 boys and 9 girlsof water sports, 11 boys of malehockey and 4-4 boys of shoot-ing, one of fencing, two girls

and two boys of triathlon.Director Sports and Youth

Welfare Pawan Kumar Jainsaid that our sportspersonshave not only performed bril-liantly at national and interna-tional levels but have also madeMadhya Pradesh proud by set-ting a record.

He said that even duringthe Corona era, our playershave practised under the guid-ance of their coaches by stay-ing at home and joining on-lineand their enthusiasm andenthusiasm remains intact.Keeping in view the upcomingsports competitions, the play-ers will be given high-leveltraining for which all necessaryarrangements have been made.

He said that precautionarymeasures have been taken forsportspersons, sports coachesand staff in the wake of Coronainfection and strict guidelineshave been ensured by theCentral and State Governmentregarding prevention of Kovidinfection.

Notably, the players whoreached Bhopal for the secondphase for training wentthrough the COVID 19 test.The test was conducted at theSports Science Center at NagarStadium. Health testing of theplayers including thermalscreening was also done.Currently, they have been quar-antined for a week after whichhis training will begin.

Players also reached

Gwalior, Jabalpur and Shivpuri.The 32 players called in the sec-ond phase have reached theState Archery AcademyJabalpur, Women's HockeyAcademy Gwalior and CricketAcademy Shivpuri.

The Chief Instructor ofWomen's Hockey Academy,Paramjit Singh Brar informedthat 9 out of 32 women hock-ey players selected by the acad-emy have reached Gwalior.Divisional Sports OfficerShivpuri MK Dholpuri toldthat 7 cricketers have come tothe academy. While the firstphase saw 12 players who aretrained. Similarly, in ArcheryAcademy, Jabalpur, 8 boys and8 girl players have reached thesecond phase.

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Godown of cooking oilwas gutted in fire after

a massive fire broke out inthe early morning house atAzad Market area in themorning on Tuesday;owner had claimed a lossof over �1.5 crores.

The godown ofShankar Soya Oil wasgutted in fire due to shortcircuit borne fire in themorning at around 8 am.The locals found electric-ity meter burning in flamesand immediately informedfire brigade which tookaround three hours topacify the fire.

Soon after the firebrigade reached the spot

and informed MPSEB asthe electricity meter caughtfire and after which powersupply of the area was dis-connected and rescue workwas started. The fire spreadin the godown by the timefire tender vehicles man-aged to reach the spot.

The Mangalwarapolice were also informed

and to control the situationteam was rushed to thespot. Panic prevailed in thearea after the fire brokeout. The fire took massiveshape after the cookingoil stored in the godowncaught fire.

At the spot around 12fire tender vehicles werepressed into service whichtook controlled and paci-fy the fire completely. Thefire was controlled beforeit could damage the near-by shops and godowns.The area is a busy anddense market place havingnumber of shops and bycontrolling fire early majoraccident has been averted.In the fire no one wasinjured and no casualtywas reported, said police.

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Ashoka Garden police havebooked a miscreant who

molested a 21-year-old girland assaulted her brother whoopposed molestation in AshokaGarden on Monday.

The victims have gone formorning walk at around 6 inthe morning when the accusedJitendra Sahu molested girland assaulted her brother. Theboy sustained minor injuries inthe fight.

Accused escaped the spotwhile victim approachedAshoka Garden police andlodged complaint against themiscreant.

Based on the complaintpolice have registered a case ofmolestation and assault andstarted to search for theaccused who went abscondingafter the crime.

Details of the accused arebeen searched and his crimerecord details would be inves-tigated. The victim wasacquainted with the accused isyet to be investigated.

Meanwhile Chola Mandirpolice have booked a youth onthe charge of molesting an 18-year-old girl on Monday.

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The logo and poster of theInternational Film Festival

were launched here on Tuesdayat Rabindranath TagoreUniversity.

The logo and poster werelaunched by a renowned film-maker Rajendra Jangle.

It is to be noted that theInternational Film Festival willbe the centre of attraction ofVishwarang 2020, the grandfestival of culture and literature.

In a programme held at theKatha Auditorium ofRabindranath TagoreUniversity on Tuesday, eminentfilmmaker Rajendra Jangle,who received the NationalAward, launched the campaignby releasing the logo and posterof the film festival.

On this occasion, theChancellor of the Universityand the Director ofVishwangrang, SantoshChoubey, Vice-ChancellorBrahmaprakash, TagoreDirector of the Center for Arts

and Culture Vinay Upadhyay,Director of IQAC Nitin Vats,Director Sudip Sohni were alsopresent.

Rajendra Jangle said thatthis film festival is a new andunique beginning in MadhyaPradesh. On this occasion,Santosh Chabe said that thecultural activities in the uni-versity are continuing evenduring the Covid era.

Certainly, this festival orga-nized under Vishwarang willcreate a global effect across theworld. Initially, Sudeep Sohni

highlighted the outline of thefilm festival. Vinay Upadhyaydescribed the film festival as aplatform to explore new cre-ative possibilities. Prashant

Soni gave a vote of thanks.Various faculty and staff of theuniversity were present on theoccasion.

The International Film

Festival will take place on var-ious online platforms of Worldfrom November 23 to 26. Thefilm festival has three categoriesspecially set up in the compe-tition section for the youth -Arts-Culture, a maximum of 15minutes of films on the subjectsof Science and Technology andWild Life and Nature are invit-ed.

In the competition sec-tion, the films selected by thejury will be rewarded with aprize of up to Rs. 1 lakh for thefirst, second and third prizes.

Also, the non-competition sec-tion will include films which donot cover the above subjects butwhich satisfy other conditions.Particularly, both the segmentswill be eligible to send entriesfor the films of the year 2018,2019 and 2020. CompetitionSending entries to is com-pletely free. The last date forsending movies is 5 November2020.

Participants can send theirfilms by registering on thewebsite created for the film fes-tival.

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Jyotiraditya Scindia whoclaimed credit on Congressassembly poll wins in Gwalior-Chambal region but later lost tohis support KP Yadav in LokSabha polls, said former min-ister Sajjan Singh Verma whoclaimed that BJP seems pre-pared to dilute Scindia’s identi-ty in Gwalior-Chambal region.

These chariots flagged offby CM Shivraj Singh Chouhanfrom Bhopal on Tuesday havepictures of top leaders from theCentre and the state. However,the BJP was yet to respond tothe Congress questions onmissing Scindia pictures fromthe digital chariots sent forcampaigning in poll-boundconstituencies.

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Chief Minister Shivraj SinghChouhan will perform vir-

tual bhumi-pujan of 107 ruralpotable water schemes of 18districts at 10.30 a.m. at MintoHall on October 14.

The 107 rural potablewater schemes, costing Rs.117.983 crore of 18 districts ofthe state include 12 of Betul dis-tricts, 13 of Sehore district, 2 ofVidisha, One of Jhabua, 8 ofKhargone, 5 of Barwani, 6 ofUjjain district, 2 of Shajapurdistrict, 2 of Sheopur district,4 of Damoh district, One ofPanna district, 3 of Tikamgarhdistrict, 6 of Narsinghpur dis-trict, 2 of Mandla district, 4 ofSatna district, 12 ofChhindwara district, 17 ofBalaghat district and 7 of Seoni

district. All these potable water

schemes are of the districts,where by-elections are not tak-ing place. Works of the districts,where the by-elections are tak-ing place, have not been includ-ed in the foundation stonelaying programme.

Chouhan will also holdtalks with villagers, members ofWater and SanitationCommittee and public repre-sentatives of Sehore, Balaghat,Narsinghpur, Jhabua, Ujjainetc. via video conferencing. Itis to be mantioned that underthe National Water LifeMission, water structures arebeing constructed continuous-ly to provide potable waterthrough tap connections tothe entire rural population bythe year 2023.

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Chief Minister Shivraj SinghChouhan has said that the

situation of corona in the stateis constantly improving. Therehas been a decline of 37 per-cent in new cases of corona inthe state in the last 3 weeks.The state's recovery rate hasgone up to 88.4 and a largenumber of patients are recov-ering every day.

The number of activepatients, which had reachedabove 20000, has now comedown to 14932. There has alsobeen a significant decline in thefatality rate in the state and nowit has come down to 1.78 percent.

Chouhan said that ade-quate number of beds are avail-able in corona hospitals in allthe districts of the state andthere is also adequate availabil-ity of oxygen. Industries willalso get oxygen as per theirrequirement. Chief MinisterChouhan instructed all collec-tors and officials concerned to

take special precautions duringthe upcoming festivals andkeep corona related prepara-tions ready in all districts forthe winter season.

Chouhan was reviewingthe situation of Corona andarrangements in the state viavideo conferencing on Tuesday.Minister for Medical EducationVishwas Sarang, Chief SecretaryIqbal Singh Bains, AdditionalChief Secretary HealthMohammad Suleman and otherwere present at the meeting.

Additional Chief SecretarySuleman said that the situationof corona in Madhya Pradeshwas reviewed in detail by theHealth Secretary, Governmentof India Luv Agrawal onTuesday. The situation of coro-na in Madhya Pradesh is con-stantly improving. The UnionSecretary has given instructionsregarding the arrangement ofcold chain in the state for thecorona vaccine in the comingtimes. Chief Minister Chouhandirected to ensure action

accordingly.During the district-wise

review, it was found that thehighest new cases of corona arein Indore and Bhopal. InIndore 418 new cases of coro-na have come up and 213 newcases in Bhopal. However, thegrowth rate of corona in all thedistricts is continuously declin-ing. The growth rate of Coronain Indore is 1.59 percent and atthe same time, it is 1.15 percentin Bhopal.

It was found in the reviewthat there has been a significantimprovement in the situation ofcorona in Gwalior, Ujjain andMorena districts, where therewas more corona infection inthe past,. In Gwalior 50 newcorona cases have come up andthe corona growth rate is 0.51%there. Similarly, 10 new coro-na cases are found in Ujjainwith corona growth rate of0.51%. There are 8 new cases ofcorona in Morena and thecorona growth rate is 0.27%there.

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To curtail road accidentsand deaths in road acci-

dents by 50 percent, instruc-tions are issued by SupremeCourt Committee on RoadSafety constituted by SupremeCourt and for fulfilment ofthese instructions based onaccidents in the past threeyears (2017-18-19), 16 blackspots(Extremely ProneAccident Zones) have beenidentified and to review, thesespots were visited by seniorpolice official on Tuesday.

After the discussion ofthese black spots ADG PoliceTraining and ResearchInstitute, State PoliceHeadquarters DC Sagar withthe senior officers spots werevisited by the team of seniorofficers.

In the meeting and review-ing the spot Deputy InspectorGeneral of Police, Bhopal, IrshadWali, ASP Sandeep Dixit, DSPTraffic, Sushil Tiwari, Govind

Bihari Rawat, Manoj Sharmaand officials of concerned gov-ernment departments PWDand Municipal Corporation offi-cials were present.

At the meeting, AdditionalSuperintendent of PoliceSandeep Dixit gave the presen-tation of the former status of 16black spots identified in districtBhopal and the changed blackspots during the rectificationprocess. With the help of var-ious government departments,most of the black spots identi-

fied in the district Bhopal arenear completion for rectifica-tion.

As a result, there has beena decrease of 39 percent in roadaccidents, 40 percent of injurycases and 13.40 percent in thedeaths of September 2020 inBhopal district as compared tothe previous year.

A black spot is a stretch of500 metres in which five seri-ous accidents or 10 road acci-dent deaths have occurred inthe past three years.

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The Chunbahtti police havebooked owner of Gujarat

based Omatics GPS serviceprovider company for dupingDilip Buildcon of Bhopal to thetune of �57 lakh by installingsub-standard GPS devices in400 vehicles.

Police said that the accusedTejas B Patel of Omatics com-pany was booked for dupingthe state capital based compa-ny.

In the complaint made byemployee of Dilip Buildcon,Ajay Chawaria stated that theOmatics was scheduled toinstall GPS device of theircompany worth Rs 12500 pervehicle and 400 such deviceswere to be installed in vehicles.

The fraud surfaced after itwas found that the deviceswere not working properly andmost of the devices were defec-tive. It was checked and foundthat instead of Omatics, GPS ofTeltonika were supplied. Thecompany has installed 250 GPSdevices which were workingperfectly but in the order of 400vehicle fraud was committingby providing sub-standardgoods.

The Omatics providedstandard product at the initialdelivery of 250 devices to gainconfidence of the companyand later committed fraud.

The devices were labelledwith Omatics but were of othercompany which was foundwhen the devices used to defectand technical faults wereobserved.

The sub-standard deviceswere worth Rs 2000 per device.Based on the complaint policehave registered a case of fraudagainst the owner of theOmatics and started investiga-tion into the matter.

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For the Assembly By-elec-tions, 2020, 32 nomination

papers have been submitted by28 candidates today in 28assembly constituencies of 19districts of the state. Thus, sofar, 66 nomination papers havebeen filed by 56 candidates.

One nomination papereach by one candidate each in6-Morena assembly constituen-cy and assembly constituencynumber 8-Ambah, 4 nomina-tion papers by 4 candidates inassembly constituency 7-Dimniof Morena district have beenfiled. Similarly, 2 nominationpapers by one candidate inAssembly constituency 13-Gohad of Bhind district andone nomination paper by onecandidate in assembly number15-Gwalior of Gwalior districthave been submitted.

Two nomination papers by2 candidates in assembly con-stituency number 37-Surkhi ofSagar district, 3 nominationpapers by 2 candidates inassembly constituency num-ber 87-Anuppur of Anuppurdistrict, 2 nomination papers by2 candidates in assembly con-stituency number 142-Sanchi ofRaisen district, 3 nomination

papers by 3 candidates inAssembly Constituency No.172-Hatpipalaya of Dewas dis-trict, 2 nomination papers by 2candidates in assembly con-stituency 202-Badnawar ofDhar district, 3 nominationpapers by 3 candidates inassembly constituency num-ber 226-Suwasra of Mandsaurdistrict and 2 nominationpapers by one candidate inassembly constituency num-ber 53-Malhara of Chhatarpurdistrict have been filed.

Two nomination papersby two candidates in assemblyconstituency number 179-Nepanagar of Burhanpur dis-trict, 2 nomination papers byone candidate in assembly con-stituency number 175-Mandhata of Khandwa dis-trict and 2 nomination papersby 2 candidates in assemblyconstituency number 161-Biaora of Rajgarh district havebeen filed.

Nomination papers will besubmitted by October 16.Scrutiny of nomination paperswill be done on October 17.The process of withdrawal ofnominations will be held tillOctober 19. Polling will takeplace on November 3 andcounting on November 10.

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Crime branch has nabbedtwo drug peddlers near

Bhopal talkies square andrecovered 8.4 gm MDMA(Ecstasy) worth Rs 28000 fromtheir possession; scooter usedto carry the drugs was seized bythe police in the night onMonday.

Police said that acting on atip-off regarding two men car-rying drugs were tracked nearBhopal talkies square and whenthey were checked MDMA(Ecstasy) was recovered fromtheir possession.

Initially the two managedto escape from the spot butwere nabbed by the police.

The nabbed were identifiedas Sohail (42) and Haris (33).

Police said that the detailsof procurement and delivery ofthe drugs would be searched inthe further investigation. Afterthe initial investigation policehave registered a case undersections 8 and 20 of the NDPSAct.

During the investigationpolice have found that the two

work with gang of drug ped-dlers and bought drugs andwould sell in different parts ofthe state capital and nearbyareas.

The accused Shab Khanwho used to provide drugs tothe nabbed accused wentabsconding and search for theaccused has been started.

Police have also seizedscooter bearing registrationnumber MP04UE7176 whichwas used by the two to carrydrugs.

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With Delhi’s air qualityrecorded “very poor” on

Tuesday, Delhi Deputy ChiefMinister Manish Sisodiaappealed to the Centre to playa "crucial role" in controllingpollution in north India andcurb stubble burning.

The Deputy Chief Ministersaid stubble burning has start-ed in neighbouring States andsmoke has started reachingDelhi. "The Delhi Governmenthas taken several measures toreduce pollution throughoutthe year but why is that sud-denly when stubble burningbegins everybody is concernedabout pollution and nothing isdone throughout the year," hesaid.

Sisodia said, “This year,due to the Corona crisis, stub-ble pollution is very deadly. Thecentral government has com-pletely failed to save NorthIndia from pollution.”

The AAP leader demand-ed immediate concrete stepsfrom the Central Governmentto stop pollution in NorthIndia. Furthermore, he saidthat the Delhi Government iscontinuously making effortsto stop pollution throughoutthe year while the CentralGovernment keeps sitting byidle and engages in tokenismwhen pollution levels increase.

The Deputy Chief Ministerpointed out that the smoke ofcrop burning from neighbour-ing states has started showingits effect this time also.

“The Government has con-sistently taken many concretesteps over the years to tacklepollution. We are also contin-uously seeing success in reduc-ing Delhi’s pollution. Delhi'sgreen zone has had a recordincrease, and a large number ofnew trees have been planted.The new tree plantation poli-cy has also been introduced sothat the green zones continue

to grow. Along with installingsmog towers, and implement-ing e-vehicle policies, the num-ber of buses have also beenincreased to encourage publictransport,” said Sisodia at theconference," he said.

Sisodia said that theCentral Government's concernabout pollution is seen only inthese three months of pollu-tion, while the Delhi govern-ment has been continuouslyworking on it for years. Despitethe Corona crisis, Delhi's Forestand Environment MinisterGopal Rai continues to work on

the streets on multiple mea-sures to prevent pollution, headded.

The minister said that stub-ble burning is not just a prob-lem of Delhi neither is it a giftof Delhi. "The entire NorthIndia is affected and disturbedby the problem of stubbleburning, but the CentralGovernment sits by idly. Hedescribed the CentralGovernment as a completefailure when it comes to thematter of stopping pollution,"he said.

The entire Northern part ofIndia is suffering the adverseconsequences of the CentralGovernment’s inaction, he said.

Sisodia emphasized thatthe Central Government willhave to take the responsibilityfor preventing pollutionthroughout North India. "Dueto the inactivity of the Centrein cases like stubble pollution,smoke from Punjab or Haryanareaches Delhi " he said.

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In the fourth accident in pastfive days in the national

Capital, two sisters, aged sevenand four, died, while their minorbrother and a 55-year-old fam-ily friend sustained injuries afterthey were hit by an unidentifiedcar while crossing a road innorthwest Delhi's Model Town.The incident occurred onMonday night near GurduwaraNanak Piao on GT Road.

Police said Jaspal Singh, hiswife, three children and friendMilap Singh were going to visitan acquaintance in a car whenthe incident occurred.

According to VijayantaArya, the Deputy Commissionerof Police (DCP), Northwest dis-trict, a police control room(PCR) call was received around11.49 pm about an accident

near Gurduwara Nanak Piao bysome unknown vehicle follow-ing which an EmergencyResponse Vehicle (ERV) was dis-patched for the spot.

“Initially, two injured chil-dren were admitted to Pentamedhospital by their parents and sub-sequently referred to AIIMSTrauma Centre, while MilapSingh and a four-year-old girlchild were hospitalized by thePCR vehicle in Trauma Centre,Civil Line, and referred toSafdarjung hospital,” said theDCP. “During treatment, theseven-year-old girl admitted toAIIMS Trauma Centre and herfour-year-old sister admitted toSafdarjung hospital succumbedto injuries. Milap Singh and thesix-year-old injured boy are stillundergoing treatment,” said theDCP “During initial investiga-tion, it was found that on the way,

they had stopped at a CNG sta-tion opposite Gurudwara NanakPio. Milap Singh got out of thevehicle and proceeded to crossGT Road along with JaspalSingh's three children when theaccident took place,” said theDCP. “All four persons, includ-ing Milap Singh and three chil-dren, got injured in the accident.The offending vehicle and its dri-ver are yet to be traced. Policeteams are looking at CCTVfootage from the adjoining areasto identify the vehicle and ascer-tain the sequence of the acci-dent,” said the DCP. “A caseunder section 279 (rash drivingor riding on a public way), 304A(causing death by negligence)and 337 (causing hurt by actendangering life or personalsafety of others) of Indian PenalCode has been registered”, sheadded.

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Congress and Left parties onTuesday said the

Government’s latest financialpackage will not stimulatedemand and termed it anoth-er “sly attempt” to dazzle peo-ple with exaggerated numbersand it was a move to hoodwinkpeople.

Former finance minister PChidambaram said FinanceMinister Nirmala Sitharaman’sannouncements on Mondaywere like “dig a mountain andfind a mouse”, and an attemptto lead people to believe thatthe Government is hands-onand responsive to the needs ofpeople and the economy rav-

aged by the coronavirus pan-demic.

The Rajya Saha memberalleged that it is also an admis-sion that the earlier “�20 lakhcrore package” was a failure andtermed it a “hoax”. He also saidthat by the latest announce-ments, the Government is try-ing to interfere in people’s livesby telling them how to spendtheir own money.

“After carefully reading thestatement of the finance min-ister on the so-called stimuluspackage, I am reminded of theHindi proverb ‘Khoda Pahaad,Nikla Chuha’ or loosely trans-lated, it means ‘dig a mountainand find a mouse’. The grandannouncement yesterday wasno stimulus package to push

economic growth, it was anoth-er sly attempt to dazzle the peo-ple with exaggerated numbersand lead them to believe thatthe government is hands-onand responsive to the needs ofthe people and the economy,”Chidambaram said at AICCPress briefing.

The former finance min-ister said it is also a candid con-fession that the earlier so-called ‘�20 lakh crore packagewas a massive failure’. “It wasa failure because it was a hoax,”he said.

Chidambaram said thenumbers claimed in the pack-age are a “hoax” as the stim-ulus is not of a value of�73,000 crore, as claimed, butmerely 0.1 per cent of GDP, as

estimated bysome econo-mists.

T h eC o n g r e s sleader alsoalleged that theGovernment isalso trying toplay the role of“maa-baap” bytelling employ-ees whatamount and onwhat goodsand when theyshould spendtheir ownmoney.

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As it warned that Covid-19is a respiratory virus and

most such pathogens escalateduring winter calling betterhygiene practices, the UnionHealth Ministry on Tuesdayissued guidelines for the man-agement of co-infection of thecoronavirus with other sea-sonal epidemic-prone dis-eases such as dengue, malar-ia, seasonal influenza (H1N1),etc.

“Given the seasonal pat-tern of epidemic-prone dis-eases observed every year inour country, diseases likedengue, malaria, seasonalinf luenza, leptospirosis ,chikungunya, enteric fever,etc. can not only present adiagnostic dilemma but mayco-exist in Covid-19 cases.This poses challenges in theclinical and laboratory diag-nosis of Covid-19, and mayhave a bearing on clinicalmanagement and patient out-comes,” said the statement.

“The scope of this docu-ment is to provide clearguidelines on prevention andtreatment of co-infections…”the statement further read.

The document is based onthe standards set up by inter-

national health agencies suchas the World HealthOrganization (WHO), whichsay that apart from fever,patients could present othersymptoms mimicking Covid-19 making the diagnosis dif-ficult.

A high index of suspicionmust be maintained for theseepidemic-prone diseasesprevalent in a particular geo-graphic region during mon-soon and post-monsoon sea-sons. Bacterial co-infectionsmust also be suspected inmoderate or severe cases ofCovid-19 not responding totreatment, said the guide-lines.

Despite the possibility ofvarious co-infections, in pre-sent times of the pandemic,the approach to diagnosis forCovid-19 essentially remainsthe same. Testing protocol asper the ministry of health andfamily welfare and IndianCouncil of Medical Researchguidelines will be followed.However, in addition, fur-ther tests for a likely co-

infection will also be under-taken, whenever suspected,the ministry guidelines read.

Meanwhile, addressingthe media on Tuesday overthe COVID-19 situation inthe countr y, VK Paul,Member (Health), NITIAayog, said that COVID-19 isa respiratory virus and mostsuch viruses escalate duringwinter. “We have to be morecareful in our hygiene prac-

tices as it is a respiratory virusand most respiratory virusesescalate during winter.Behavioural change is neces-sary, masks are mandatory,”he said.

The three-ply masks andhomemade masks are benefi-cial against preventing thetransmission of the virus. N-95 masks are beneficial forhealth workers working inhospitals while surgical masks

are effective in general prac-tice use, VK Paul said.

Amit Khare, Secretary,Ministry of Information andBroadcasting also said thatthe intensive Jan Andolancampaign for Covid-19Appropriate Behaviourlaunched for two months par-ticularly during festival time,October and November, willcontinue in various forms tillMarch.

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Gender-wise nearly 70 percent of those who have

died due to coronavirus so farare males while age-wise,about 53 per cent Covid-19deaths are of patients aged 60and above, about 35 per centdeaths are of patients in 45 to60 years age group and 10 percent in 26 to 44 years agegroup.

Sharing the details of theprofile of the people who suc-cumbed to the virus, Union

Health Secretary RajeshBhushan said, “gender wise, 30per cent deaths are in femaleand 70 per cent in male.”

He further added, India’scase fatality rate is 1.53 percent compared to 17.9 per centwith comorbid people and 1.2per cent for people withoutcomorbidities.

As per the existing mor-tality figures, nearly 17.9 percent of people with co-mor-bidities have succumbed to theinfection as compared to 1.2per cent of those who are not

suffering from any pre-exist-ing chronic disease condi-tions.

Among those above 60,the share goes up to 24.6 percent as against 4.8 per cent inthe same age group withoutany co-morbidities.

Rajesh Bhushan alsowarned that, “Young people inthe country feel that they willnot be affected by Covid-19and even if they are infectedthey will recover fast. There isa need for the youth to get outof this misconception.”

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After promoting use of cowurine and cow dung-based

products such as hand sanitis-ers and face masks to checkspread of Covid-19, Diwalithis year may see lamps (diyas)candles, dhoop, agarbatti(incense stick), havan materi-als, shubh-labh, swastik, sam-rani, hardboard, wall-piece,paper-weight, havan materials,idols of Ganesha and Lakshmijimade out of cow dung, a virtualend of Chinese products. TheRashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog(RKA) has planned to produce33 crore eco-friendly earthenlamps (diyas) made from cowdung this festive season, inorder to counter Chinese prod-ucts. It is estimated that about192 crore kg of cow dung perday is produced in India at pre-sent.

“The upcoming campaignto use ‘diyas’, made from cowdung, will will counter theChinese made lamps and thusboost the ‘make in India’ con-cept of the Prime MinisterNarendra Modi’s atma nirbharbharat abhiyan. The Aayog istargeting production of 33 croreeco-friendly cow dung madediyas this diwali. There is hugeuntapped potential in cowdung-based products,” RKAchairman Vallabh BhaiKathiriya said.

“More than 15 Statesincluding Kerala, Tamil Nadu,Maharashtra, have agreed to bepart of the campaign. Aboutthree lakh diyas will be lit in theholy city of Ayodhya, while onelakh diyas in Varanasi, Uttar

Pradesh, he said. “The manufacturing has

started. A group of studentsfrom the Indian Institute ofTechnology Delhi has come outwith an online platform formarketing these cow dungmade diyas and have alreadyplaced an order for nearly onecrore diyas,” Kathiriya said.Under the campaign, allgaushalas in the country arepassing economic uncertaintybecause of Covid-19. Makingdiyas and other products likenameplates and idols usingcow dung will help them to beself-reliant.

The Aayog said though it isnot directly involved in pro-duction of cow dung-basedproducts, it is facilitating andoffering training to self helpgroups and entreprenuers seek-ing to set up business.According to officials, theprocess of making these diyasis quite interesting. First, theGobar is dried and powdered ina machine, following whichcompostable adhesives liketamarind seed paste is added forbinding.

Then, dried herbs are addedfor fragrance and preservation,the dough is kneaded and placedinto diya-shaped moulds. Oncedried, the diyas are paintedwith all-natural colours andornate motifs. Made out of cowdung, dried and powdered herbsand tamarind seed paste – the cow dung diyas are100 per cent eco-friendly andcan last a long time. Even if theyare discarded after the festivities,they will decompose in a jiffy,leaving no residue. The cost of

such diyas are between �4 to �20depending on their size and dec-orative intricacy.

Besides diyas, the Aayog ispromoting production of otherproducts made from dung, urineand milk such as anti-radiationchip, paper weights, Ganeshaand Lakshmi idols, incensesticks, candles among others.

According to Kathirya,many non-governmental organ-isations are coming forward tosupply moulds for making thesediyas to farmers and even dis-tributing pre-mix materials usedin making these diyas to them.

“Apart from generatingbusiness opportunities to thou-sands of cow-based entrepre-neurs / farmers/ women entre-preneurs, the use of cow-dungproducts will lead to cleaner andhealthier enviornment. It willboost up in making cow shel-ters atma nirbhar too,” headded.

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The Rashtriya KamdhenuAayog (RKA) has come up

with a ‘chip’ made of cow dungand claimed that it reducesradiation from mobile hand-sets and it will be a safeguardagainst diseases.The ‘chip’,named Gausatva Kavach, ismanufactured by Rajkot-basedShrijee Gaushala. According toRKA chairman DrVallabhbhai Kathiria, Cowdung will protect everyone, itis anti-radiation... It is scien-tifically proven...This is a radi-ation chip that can be used inmobile phones to reduce radi-ation. It will be safeguardedagainst diseases.”

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The Election Commission (EC) onTuesday announced that elections for

11 Rajya Sabha seats – 10 from UttarPradesh and one from Uttarakhand –will be held on November 9. The count-ing will also be held on the same day.

In the last Parliament session, RajyaSabha bid farewell to 11 of its memberswho are due to retire in November thisyear. They include Civil AviationMinister Hardeep Singh Puri, SamajwadiParty leader Ram Gopal Yadav, BSP’sVeer Singh and Raj Babbar of Congress.Others who will retire are: Javed AliKhan (SP), P L Punia (Congress),Rajaram (BSP), Neeraj Shekhar (BJP),Arun Singh (BJP), Ravi Prakash Verma(SP) and Chandrapal Singh Yadav (SP).

Masks, thermal scanning, and use ofsanitisers will be ensured to check thespread of coronavirus, which has affect-ed over 70 lakh people in India so far.The government-mandated rules onsocial distancing will also be strictly fol-

lowed, the EC said in a statement.The EC The official statement fur-

ther said that "chief electoral officers asobservers in the two states" have beenappointed, and the chief secretaries of thetwo states have been directed to "deputea senior officer to ensure the instructionsregarding COVID-19 containment mea-sures are compiled with while makingarrangements for conducting the elec-tions."

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswamy’smother Tavasaayi Ammal (94) passed away in the early

hours of Tuesday in a Salem hospital. She was under treat-ment for age related issues.

Palaniswamy who was in Chennai in connection withMonday’s signing of Memoranda of Understanding with14 business conglomerates worth Rs 10,000 crore for set-ting up mega industrial units in the State and had disclosedthat 7,000 new jobs would be created because of theseprojects rushed to Salem by road on being informed aboutthe passing away of his mother.

At Salem, the Chief Minister was seen breaking downuncontrollably despite his elder brother Govindarajan’sefforts to console him. Palaniswamy was attached to hismother and made it a point to call on her at least once ina fortnight to spend time with her.

The last rites were performed by Govindarajan in thepresence of hundreds of people in the family village.Tavasaayi Ammal leaves behind sons Palaniswamy,Govindarajan and a daughter Vijayalakshmi.

Palaniswamy’s father V Karuppa Goundar had passedaway in 2004.

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There was no relief for Keraladespite the reduced num-

ber of tests to identify newcases of Covid-19 patients onTuesday, according to ChiefMinister Pinarayi Vijayan.Briefing the media atThiruvananthapuram, the chiefminister said 8,764 new per-sons were diagnosed onTuesday across Kerala while 21persons succumbed to the pan-demic.

“There are 95, 407 activepatients undergoing treatmentacross Kerala as on Tuesday. Iam disappointed with the kindof behaviour shown by somesections of the Kerala societytowards my request to observethe Covid-19 protocol,” saidVijayan. He said there hasbeen a reduction in the num-

ber of tests which should nothave happened.

He said that though therehas been a small decline in thenumber of patients inThiruvananthapuram district,the number of children belowthe age group of 15 hasincreased and this is a cause forworry. “Parents are forcingtheir children to attend privatetuition and entrance coachingclasses. This is the reason forthe children in large numbersgetting afflicted with the pan-demic,” said Vijayan.

He said that as on Tuesdaythe Test Positivity Rate was 18.1per cent.

The health departmenttested 48,000 samples duringthe last 24 hours. Vijayan saidthat 7,723 patients across theState were cured of the pan-demic on Tuesday.

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As the Kerala High Courtstayed the CBI probe into

the role of bureaucrats in thescam associated with the LIFEMission project for buildinghouses for those without roofsover their head, the rulingCPI(M) claimed victory whilethe Opposition BJP and theCongress termed it as a setbackfor the Pinarayi VijayanGovernment.

Justice V G Arun of theKerala High Court stayed fortwo months the CBI probeinto the role of U V Jose, theCEO of the project. But thejudge refused to quash the FIRfiled by the CBI in the case. Thecourt also said the investigatingagency is at liberty to probe theprivate contractor Unitac whichwas building the apartmentcomplex in Thrissur district.

The probe against theGovernment official has beenstayed taking into account thecontention that the financialassistance received from RedCrescent for the project wouldnot come under the ForeignCurrency Regulation Act(FCRA).

The judge said that this hasthe be heard in detail. But theCBI has been allowed by the

court to pursue with its probeinto the roles played by SwapnaSuresh, the kingpin of the goldsmuggling scam from whosebank locker the NIA seizedcrores of rupees alleged to becommission received in theKerala Government-RedCrescent deal.

Meanwhile political Keralais in turmoil as Janmabhumi, aMalayalam newspaper which isthe mouthpiece of SanghParivar published excerpts ofSwapna’s statement to the NIA.She has reportedly told theNIA team that it was ChiefMinister Pinarayi Vijayan whointroduced her to M Sivsankar,his former principal secretarywith a direction to the latter tooffer all help to the controver-sial woman.

Swapna’s statement is beingseen as a setback to Vijayan,who had claimed that he doesnot know anything about thecontroversial woman.

The NIA, according to theleaked report, had confirmedthat she had visited the officeand official residence of Vijayanmany times. The CPI(M)spokespersons remainedincommunicado after theexcerpts were published givingcredence to the reports thatchief minister was upset.

Hathras: The Enforcement Directorate has filed an applicationin the court for the interrogation of 4 members of the CampusFront of India who are in jail, on which the hearing of the courtheld today. The court has given the permission to interrogate theCFI members on the court's order.

On the night of 5 October, police caught 4 youths in a carfrom the Mont Toll Plaza of Yamuna Expressway. They told theirnames as Ateequr Rahman (Ratanpuri Nagla, Muzaffar Nagar),Siddiqui (Mallapuram, Kerala), Masood Ahmed (Jarwar Road,Bahraich) and Alam (Gher Fater, Rampur). They were all goingto Bulgadi village of Hathras.

Police recovered a document of 17 pages containing theprotest-related matters. On Monday, the team led by ED's deputydirector Vinay Kumar reached the CJM court and an applica-tion was given for the interrogation in the jail. PNS

Hathras: Dr Rajkumari Bansalof Jabalpur, who lived two daysin the house of the victim'sfamily in the Hathras case, isassociated with the BhimArmy. Officials of the GwaliorBhim Army have admitted thatshe is associated with the orga-nization. Bansal has postedmany inflammatory messageson her Facebook.

Dr. Bansal original hailsfrom Gwalior. In her post of3rd October, she even wrotethat it is a pity that the daugh-ter of Hathras was a Hindu.The postmortem could havebeen possible if she had beenburied. After getting into con-troversies in the Hathras case,her post has also come underdiscussion.

Action has been takenagainst her in Dindori forgoing from Jabalpur to Hathraswithout getting permission.Dr. Bansal was posted as aMedical Officer at DindoriDistrict Hospital in 2013. PNS

KOCHI: 47-year-old MPadmanabha, a primary schoolteacher in Kerala’s Kasaragod dis-trict, succumbed to Covid-19 onSunday and his relations and col-leagues blame the callousness of theState administration for what theyclaim as a mishap which couldhave been avoided.

The ground reality is thedemise of Padmanabha due toCovid-19 is a bloat on the face ofKerala Government which takespride in claiming that it hasbecome a role model to the worldin managing the pandemic,” saidSukumaran Periyachoor, a retiredGovernment Higher SecondarySchool principal

Padmanabha was one of the1,740 school teachers deployed in777 local body wards in the districtby the Kasaragod administration togo around market places, busi-

nesses, funerals and maidans wherepeople gather to ensure that alladhered to Covid-19 protocol.

Most of these teachers areuntrained to undertake such a mas-sive operation which needs basicskills in management of crowd,inter personal communication.“The district has more than 15,000Covid-19 patients but there are nosufficient medical staff like doctors,nurses and paramedical staff,” saidSukumaran. He pointed out thatthe Kerala Government whichboasts itself as the State withIndia’s best health care system washeard accusing the KarnatakaGovernment when the latter shutdown the road from Kerala fear-ing transmission of the disease.Though the Tata Group built astate-of-the-art exclusive CovidHospital in Thekkil village in thedistrict at a cost of Rs 70 crore

where 542 patients could be treat-ed, the Government is yet toappoint a single doctor or othermedical staff.

The Tata Group handed overthe fully equipped hospital to theDistrict Collector on September 9and the matter ended there.

The last one week saw 30 per-sons in the district succumbing tothe pandemic. “Most of the teach-ers who have been appointed asCovid volunteers are above the ageof 50 and this is a matter of con-cern. The Government is under-stood to have sanctioned onSeptember 30 the appointment of191 medical staff.

But the discussion between thefinance and health departmentsabout the mode of appointmentremains inconclusive,” said RajeshPuthiyakandam, leader of theaction committee. PNS

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The BJP has demanded a NationalInvestigation Agency probe into the

massive blast that on Tuesday rocked abuilding housing a local club in northKolkata’s Beliaghata area ripping apart thewalls and blowing off the roof of the roomwhere the explosion occurred.

The explosion occurred early onTuesday morning. No one, however, sus-tained injuries in the blast that occurred onthe second floor of the club building onBeliaghata Main Road, police said addingthey were “looking into the matter.”

A team of forensic experts reached theexplosion site to collect evidence, and snif-fer dogs were also pressed into service togather clues officials said.

“We heard a huge explosion, followingwhich we rushed out of our houses and

found two persons fleeing. Their faces werecovered... We do not know what exactlyhappened,” a resident of the area said.

Even as opposition BJP upped the anteagainst the Mamata Banerjee Government,party MP Locket Chatterjee said, “this blastis another instance of criminalization ofBengal and its deteriorating law and ordersituation,” blaming a Trinamool Congresshand behind the blasts.

“Everyone knows that Beleghata is oneplace in Kolkata where no elections takeplace… where no one is allowed to vote beit parliamentary or Assembly or munici-pal elections… this is one region whereonly goonda raj of TMC prevails. Hence wedemand an NIA investigation into the factsthat led to the blast,|” she said while policesuspected local goons were behind the blast.

“It seems that there was a huge stock-pile of explosives which were being used

to produce country-made bombs whenthings went wrong leading to the blast,” apolice officer said.

The impact of the explosion was suchthat two walls of the room where the mate-rials were stored caved in and the asbestosroof flew off. Window panes of housesabout 60 feet away got shattered under theimpact of the blast, sources said.

Even as a BJP team led by Chatterjeewas prevented from entering the Beleghataarea, Bengal Minister Firhad Hakimlaunched a counterattack on the saffronoutfit saying “we are not Gujarat or UP orany other BJP ruled state that crimes andcriminals will go unpunished. Any crim-inal from any party involved in the crimewould be brought to book and there is noneed for the BJP leaders to create aruckus to win political brownie pointsbecause.”

Kolkata: In a new twist to theSikh man heckling case theNational Commission forMinorities (NCM) has sought areport from the BengalGovernment within the next 15days asking why the turban ofa Sikh person was allegedlypulled off by the state policeduring a political rally.

The protest rally was orga-nized by the BJP on Thursdaywhen the police pinned down aSikh man Balwinder Singh car-rying a gun. Singh claimed itwas a licensed gun and pre-sented himself as the bodyguard of a State BJP leader.

In the scuffle that tookplace in consequence to the

police bid to arrest the man theperson’s turban fell off, policeadministration subsequentlysaid. The man has since beenremanded to police custody.

Acting on a complaint fromTajinder Pal Singh Bagga, asenior leader of Delhi BJP unitthe Commission wrote a letterto State Chief secretary AlapanBandopadhyay and DGP whereit said “The undersigned isdirected to request you to senda report in this matter within 15days so that the matter could beplaced before the commissionfor its consideration.” The letterbore the signature of NCMJoint Secretary, D E Richards. PNS

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Mumbai: The NCP will contestthe Bihar Assembly polls inde-pendently after it was not allot-ted any seat by the RJD-Congress alliance with which itwanted to tie-up in the state,senior party leader Praful Patelsaid on Tuesday.

Patel said the NationalistCongress Party (NCP) wasready to go with the'Mahagathbandhan' (megaalliance) of the RJD-Congress inthe eastern state, but it was notceded a single seat by the oppo-sition combine.

He said it is not possible forthe NCP to join forces with itsally in Maharashtra, the ShivSena, for the October-November polls as its workersfrom Bihar are for contesting theelection independently.

Besides the Shiv Sena, theSharad Pawar-led party is alsoan ally of the Congress inMaharashtra.

“We had been with them(RJD-Congress) previously too.Yet, the RJD and the Congress

have not ceded a single seat tous this time despite talks. Hence,the NCP will contest the pollsindependently,” the formerUnion Minister said.

Patel said he had discussedthe tie-up issue with Congressleaders Ahmed Patel, ShaktisinhGohil and RJDs Tejashwi Yadav,who is the face of the oppositionalliance. Yet, the Congress didnot find it right to leave someseats for the NCP, he said.

The former Union ministersaid the NCP had demandedonly five seats, out of the total

243, as part of the possibleunderstanding among the par-ties.

On one hand, they say allshould come together to face theBJP-JD(U) (in Bihar). But onthe other, they do not giveimportance to other parties.“This position of theirs is veryunfortunate,” Patel said, hittingout at the opposition alliance.The NCP leader said'Mahagathbandhan' partiesshould not blame others if theysuffer losses in the polls. Agencies

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Gonda (Uttar Pradesh: In ashocking incident, three minorDalit sisters received burninjuries when an unidentifiedattacker threw acid on them inPaska village in Gonda districtin the wee hours of Tuesday.

Two of the girls receivedminor burn injuries while thethird was injured in the face.

Kajal, 17, Mahima, 12, andSonam, 8, were sleeping on theroof of their house when theywere attacked by an unidenti-fied person. No arrest has beenmade so far.

The victims were admittedin a district hospital for treat-ment. The village come underthe Paraspur police circle juris-diction.

The girls' father RamAvatar maintained that he hadenmity with no one and wasclueless about the motivebehind the crime.

Gonda Superintendent ofPolice Shailesh Kumar Pandeysaid that police was question-ing the girls and police teamsset up to track down the culprit.

The crime comes in thewake of gang rape and murderof a 19-year-old Dalit womanin Hathras. IANS

New Delhi: The NationalInvestigation Agency (NIA) onTuesday conducted searches inconnection with the PurneaArms Case.

The house of Chandra VijayPratap alias Sushil of Patna andpremises of SanmarioPharmaceuticals PrivateLimited, Patna were searched.Chandra Vijay Pratap is theDirector of the accused firmSanmario Pharmaceuticals.

The case pertains to inter-diction of an SUV and seizure ofhighly sophisticated weaponsand ammunition on February 7,2019 by Purnea Police fromthree persons---Suraj Prasad,Varengnow Kahorngam andClearson Kabo. The weaponsincluded two Under BarrelGrenade Launchers (UBGL),one AK series rifle and 1,800rounds of 5.56 mm ammunitionwhich were kept concealed andwere being transported by theabove mentioned three personsin the SUV. The local police reg-istered an FIR No. 35/19 datedFebruary 7 last year at PoliceStation Baisi against the threeaccused persons.

The NIA re-registered thecase as RC-05/2019/NIA-DLIdated February 28, 2019, undervarious Sections of the UnlawfulActivities (Prevention) Act andvarious provisions of the IPCand Arms Act. During its inves-tigation, the NIA arrested fourmore accused namely TripuariSingh, Mukesh Singh, NingkhanSangtam and Santosh Singhand filed chargesheet against theseven accused persons.

“The investigation revealedthat a large number of illegalsophisticated prohibitedweapons and ammunition weresupplied by accused NingkhanSangtam, a self-styled Major ofNSCN (IM) through an armsdealer of Bihar to the abscond-ing accused Bhikhan Ganjhu,Zonal Commander of the TrityaPrastuti Committee (TPC), aNaxal terrorist gang. SuspectChandra Vijay Pratap aliasSushil had transferred a hugeamount of funds to the accountof accused Ningkhan Sangtam,”the NIA said in a statement.PNS

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Lt General Harinder Singh,chief of Leh based 14 Corps

known as ‘Fire and Fury Corps,’who led the Indian delegationduring the seven rounds ofCorps Commander level talksin the last five months onTuesday handed over charge toLt General PGK Menon. Singhwill take over as theCommandant of theIndian MilitaryAcademy(IMA).

Menon was also part of thelast two rounds of talks with theChinese to resolve the logjamat the Line of ActualControl(LAC).

He has had a distinguishedcareer in the Army holdingimportant command and staffappointments. He is also TheColonel of the SIKH Regiment.

The officer commanded aRashtriya Rif les unit inKashmir valley, an InfantryBrigade along the Line ofControl(LOC) in Jammu andKashmir and an InfantryDivision in the Eastern Sector.Prior to assuming command ofFire & Fury Corps, he wasDirector General Recruitingat New Delhi.

New Delhi: Vice President MVenkaiah Naidu on Tuesdaysaid despite his age and certainmedical problems, he couldovercome the coronavirus infec-tion because of physical fitness,mental tenacity and eating only“desi” food. He had tested pos-itive for COVID-19 onSeptember 29 and was found tohave recovered from the infec-tion on Monday.

Naidu, 71, was asympto-matic and was under homeisolation. His wife Usha hadtested negative for the infection.In a Facebook post, he said 13employees of the VicePresident's Secretariat, who hadtested COVID-19 positive ear-lier, have now fully recovered.

“Similarly, I am pleased toknow that 136 COVID-19-affected employees of the RajyaSabha Secretariat have recov-ered. While 127 of the officialsare attending office, the remain-ing are functioning from home,”Naidu, who is also Rajya SabhaChairman, said.

“I firmly believe that in spiteof my age and certain medicalproblems like diabetes, I couldovercome the COVID-19 infec-tion because of my physical fit-ness, mental tenacity, regularphysical exercise like walking

and yoga, apart from eating onlydesi (traditional) food,” hewrote. Naidu said he has alwayspreferred to eat desi food andcontinued the same during hisself-isolation period. “Based onmy own experience and firmconviction, I urge everyone toundertake some of physicalexercise daily—be it walking,jogging or yoga. Also, it isimportant to eat protein-richfood and avoid junk food,” heobserved.

Equally crucial for the peo-ple is to not lower their guardand to strictly adhere to proto-cols such as wearing masks,washing hands frequently andmaintaining personal hygiene atall times, the vice presidentpointed out. During home quar-antine, Naidu said he was ableto spend a good amount of timeby reading newspapers, maga-zines and articles on variousissues, including the pandemic.

While the government hasbeen adopting a well-calibratedstrategy to contain the spread ofCOVID-19, the need of thehour is for people to display acollective determination todefeat the virus by wearingmasks, washing hands and fol-lowing safe distancing norms,he said. PNS

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Congress MP RahulGandhi, understood tobe the de facto presi-dent of his party, madea hectic rendezvous in

the heat and dust with the farmersof Punjab and to some extent withthose in Haryana on the farm Acts.Some observers once again termedhis latest avatar as “version 2.0 or3.0”, depending on how they sawthe political graph and career of theGandhi scion.

The visits got good traction inboth the States, particularly inPunjab, as the Congress is not onlythe ruling party there, it is in a posi-tion to organise the machinery forprotest marches and public meet-ings. Plus there is resentmentagainst the laws across the State andamong all parties, except for theBJP, which initiated the Acts.

The two political protests in arow — first in Hathras, UttarPradesh, in support of the Dalitwoman who was gang-raped byupper caste men, followed by theone in the food bowl of the coun-try, Punjab and Haryana — cata-pulted him into the public eye. Andhe did seize the first mover advan-tage on both these issues. At leastnow he is being viewed as some sortof a “fighter” rather than a “shirk-er.” Also, since these visits are notrelated to elections but concern spe-cific issues, the images and foot-prints of both Hathras and Punjabwould remain imprinted on thepublic consciousness for a while.The image of Rahul being roughedup by cops, consoling the victim’sfather in Hathras and riding a trac-tor in Punjab would help his causeimmensely in the medium to longrun.

But there is a rider. Rahul hasshown consistently that he adoptsa strategy and abandons it com-pletely and goes for a long politi-cal vacation. Hathras and Punjab —the cause of a Dalit girl and farm-ers, besides other issues of the sub-altern — need to be sustained andadopted in the long term politicalstrategy of the Congress and shouldnot remain a photo opportunityalone. Adopted for a while and thenabandoned, something which hadbecome Rahul’s signature for long,the news-grabbing moments gavehis opposition repeated opportuni-ty to project him as a politicianaloof from the grind, not suited forthe heat and dust or the combativebrand of grassroots politics. Thisimage can be altered only when

there is consistency in his polit-ical approach followed by anaction plan for each and everyissue which concerns the peopleat large. You cannot be a part-time agitationist and also a part-time tourist vacationing in a for-eign country when face to facewith an extremely combativeadversary who is better plannedand always a step ahead.

Remember the temple-hop-ping spree of Rahul and hisattempt to sport a Janeu by pro-claiming himself as a DattatreyaBrahmin in the run-up to thelast Lok Sabha polls? No one,not even Rahul himself, knowswhat happened to those half-hearted attempts to play themajority religion card and theefficacy of the strategy itself. Noone has even asked him if hehad gone to a temple afterthose photo ops and does hewear a Janeu now. Perhapsafter getting a thorough drub-bing in the 2019 Lok Sabhapolls, the Congress strategistswho advised him and he him-self realised that this was notgoing to cut any ice with thevoters and abandoned the dis-course.

Long ago, when the UPAwas in power and Rahul wascalling the shots, he used tooccasionally visit Dalit hamletsin parts of UP and used to spendthe evenings and nights there,trying to understand what thedowntrodden faced. Once, in2009, he even took the visitingBritish Foreign Secretary DavidMiliband along with him tospend a night in such a house-hold, which became a mediasensation worldwide. But thispractice, too, was abandonedsummarily, suggesting a lack ofconsistency and strategy in the

political methodology adopted.No one has heard if he ever spenta night in a rural household afterthe Congress-led UPA was oust-ed from power in the 2014 gen-eral elections.

Remember, the Hathras visitcame nine years after his muchpublicised visit to Bhatta Parsaulvillage in Greater Noida areaduring a farmers’ agitation,when they were protestingagainst alleged forcible landacquisition. He was pillion rid-ing a motorcycle then and hadentered the village in solidaritywith the agitating farmers andsat on a dharna with them. TheBahujan Samaj Party (BSP) wasruling the State then withMayawati as Chief Minister andRahul was detained for a fewhours. Of course, the Congress-led Government at the Centresubsequently passed the LandAcquisition Act, 2013, whichraised the compensation givento farmers manifold.

Bhatta-Parsaul was a successstory of sorts, which led to thepassage of a Bill, consideredextremely friendly to farmers ifany Government/private agencywanted to acquire the land. ButRahul failed to publicise thissuccess story. Perhaps not real-ising its significance, he and hisparty let go of an opportunitywhich could have helped bothpolitically. On the contrary, theCongress became defensivewhen its political opponents tar-geted it over the Bill, saying ithampered easy land acquisitionand prevented industrialistsfrom setting up new units andgiving employment.

Rahul has been put throughtough scrutiny all these years,more so in the post-2014 erawhen the Congress lost to the

BJP lock, stock and barrel andthe decline continued like afree fall. In 2017, as Congresspresident, Rahul did a magnif-icent job for his party by tryingto halt the BJP juggernaut in itsstrongest base for decades —Gujarat. The party lost but didput up a spirited fight against thepolitical giants — PrimeMinister Narendra Modi andthen BJP president Amit Shah —both from the same State. Theperformance of the underdog(Congress) was hailed and it wasbilled as a new beginning, a newdawn for Congress. This perfor-mance was followed byKarnataka where the incumbentCongress government did rea-sonably well and prevented theBJP from claiming power.Victories in Madhya Pradesh,Chhattisgarh and Rajasthanadded to Rahul’s stature and thepossibilities of a Congress revivalbecame real. But come May2019 and all advantage was lost.The party simply could notbuild the momentum or keepthe pressure and lost out onissues to tackle its opponent, dri-ven as it was by aggressivenationalism and Hindutva. Itsimply had no answer to theblitzkrieg launched by the BJP in2019 and surrendered meeklywithout even putting up a sem-blance of a fight.

The question now is when themomentum seems to haveslightly become favourable withHathras and the farmers’ issues,will the party, particularly Rahul,be able to sustain it in the medi-um to long term? That will be achallenge and also provideanswers to the political dis-course in the run-up to a seriesof Assembly elections in the nextone-and-a-half years.

Many Congress leaders pri-vately say that the practice ofstarting a campaign or a narra-tive and then abandoning itmidway has to come to an end.A narrative, once adopted andmade a part of political strate-gy, has to continue and given anincubation time. Only then canone build momentum and swingtides of opinion. Partymen needto be consistent and have to hitthe streets every two to threeweeks to get traction and occu-py the opposition space, notwake up every three years.

The Uttar Pradesh Assemblypolls, scheduled for Februaryand March 2022, are less thanone-and-a-half years away. AState where BJP is firmlyentrenched under YogiAdityanath as Chief Minister, theCongress is still considered to bea rank outsider at this juncturedespite Hathras and despite theabsence of Samajwadi Party(SP) and the BSP from the pol-itics of agitation. Can Congressfill the vacuum here? Can itspring a surprise? Will theRahul-Priyanka duo be able toproject themselves as some sortof an alternative and replace thecaste narrative of SP and BSP?Will they come out with agame-changer? Do they have itin them? This is what Congressleaders and workers alike areasking. For many within theparty and outside, the revival ofthe organisation in UP is the keyfor success in the 2024 generalelections. The road to Delhi goesthrough UP was an old sayingbut this holds true even at thisjuncture where a great churningof the political process is takingplace.

(The writer is Senior ResidentEditor, The Pioneer, Chandigarh)

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�������������� ������Sir — The process of adoptingvirtual reality, augmented reali-ty and Artificial Intelligence (AI)has been accelerated by theCOVID-19 pandemic. This hasboosted the chances of India’sElectronics System Design andManufacturing (ESDM) sector.Companies have cut down work-related travel and are encourag-ing remote working.Consequently, India has regis-tered a drastic increase in theusage of data and internet in thelast few months. In an attempt tomake India digitally-enabledpost-COVID, the Governmentlaunched three schemes in Aprilthis year that are estimated togenerate around five lakh directand 15 lakh indirect jobs.However, the Government alsoneeds to integrate the vibrantstart-up ecosystem with the dig-ital platform and develop theindigenous electronics manu-facturing industry.

Khushboo Ved Ujjain

��������������Sir — In August this year, thePunjab and Haryana High Courtsaid that a person with a physi-

cal disability has the right to con-tinue his/her job and disabilitycannot be a reason to terminateemployment or to reduce one’srank. Prior to that, on July 8, theSupreme Court confirmed thatpeople suffering from disabilitiesare also socially backward andequally entitled to the same ben-efits of relaxation as ScheduledCaste and Scheduled Tribe can-didates in public employment

and education. While these aresignificant decisions, there is aneed for a strict protocol for insti-tutions to follow in terms ofinfrastructure for the physicallychallenged and academic cours-es crafted to specifically cater tothe needs of the disabled people.Their needs in all sectors shouldbe given equal weightage.

Yash Pal RalhanJalandhar

� ��������� ���Sir — The farm Acts are here tohaunt the nation largely due tothe growing mistrust in theGovernment as it hurriedlypushed through the laws withoutany conversation with farmers’unions. The first inkling of theGovernment’s intent in the agri-culture sector was evident in thereport submitted by the Shanta

Kumar Committee, which wasconstituted in August 2014, with-in three months of the BJP com-ing to power. The Centre wasaverse to the Food Corporationof India (FCI) intermediatingpurchase and storage of agricul-tural produce. Its deep-seatedintention was to dilute its insti-tutional involvement in foodprocurement and allocation.Recommendations were madefor substantial reduction of ben-eficiaries under the FoodSecurity Act and bringing downthe primacy of the MinimumSupport Price (MSP) a couple ofnotches by scrapping bonuses.

The Government, throughthese Acts, has been quick to takeaway its protective umbrella andavoid dialogue, leaving farmersto inclement market weather.

In these Acts, there is neithermention of the MSP, nor a mech-anism of price stability and guar-antees to pre-empt farmers’exploitation by corporates. TheCentre should ensure a level play-ing field for all with safeguardsin place for small and mediumfarmers.

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In an unprecedented move recently, theChinese embassy in New Delhi issued a seriesof “directives” to Indian journalists and media

houses regarding the coverage of the National Dayof Taiwan on October 10. The press release thatwas issued by the media section of the embassyappeared to be more of a diktat and declared, “Wewill like to remind our media friends that thereis only one China in the world, and theGovernment of the People’s Republic of China isthe sole legitimate Government representing thewhole of China. Taiwan is an inalienable part ofChina’s territory.” It further dictated to the jour-nalists, “Taiwan shall not be referred to as a coun-try or Republic of China or the leader of China’sTaiwan region as ‘President,’ so as not to sendwrong signals to the general public.”

Significantly, no such “advisory” was issuedby the Chinese embassy in 2019 on the TaiwaneseNational Day. What is even more infuriating isthat after the event, it issued a statement on “mis-reporting by the Indian media on Taiwan”, seri-ously objecting to and expressing strong dissat-isfaction at some of the journalists referring toTaiwan as a country. “Taiwan is an inalienable partof China’s territory. It is an objective fact and auniversally recognised norm governing interna-tional relations,” emphasised the Chinese envoy.

What was so different this year that theembassy issued a virtual threat to the Indianmedia? China is preparing for the celebration ofthe 100th year of the formation of the CommunistParty of China (CCP) under the watchful eye ofits all-powerful President Xi Jinping. The currentbehaviour of the Chinese diplomatic staff is themanifestation of its “wolf warrior” diplomacy. Xiwants China not only to be powerful but assertiveas well. He is aggressively pushing China’s “3 WStrategy”, which includes media warfare. Xidesires that the CCP should not only control selectforeign media but also be able to manipulate itto further its ideology and portray itsComprehensive National Power (CNP).

But why is China so sensitive about Taiwan?It is said that Taiwan would be the main triggerof a Sino-American conflict if it ever manifests.Ironically, the US does not officially recognise theRepublic of China or Taiwan. Even India does-n’t. Only 17 countries in the world recogniseTaiwan. Yet, the US is the biggest arms supplierto Taiwan, its 11th-largest trading partner andavowed guarantor of its sovereignty.

The self-ruled island’s uncertain future, amidtensions between Washington and a newly-pow-erful Beijing, is the greatest unresolved legacy ofthe Chinese civil war. While China claimsTaiwan to be one of its regions and refers to it asTaiwan region, the latter is in no mood to alterthe status quo and lose its status as an indepen-dent democratic nation. Xi has offered to resolvethe matter on the pattern of Hong Kong by advo-cating the “One Nation, Two Systems” model,which has been rejected by the island nation.

Dwelling into history, the dispute is a lega-cy of the Mao-led Chinese civil war. The islandformally became a Chinese province only in 1887.But China’s faltering Qing imperial governmentwas forced to cede it to Japan in 1895 after a briefwar. Japan ran Taiwan as a colony until 1945,when it was effectively handed over to ChiangKai-shek’s Nationalist (KMT) Government inChina. In 1949, Mao Zedong’s forces won theChinese civil war and the KMT fled to the island,ruling it under martial law until democratisingit in the 1980s, while the Communists controlled

China. It continues to remain a disputetill date since no peace treaty has everbeen signed.

However, China’s official positionon Taiwan is unambiguous. It claimsthat the latter is, was and always hasbeen an inseparable part of it, and thatinternational law supports such a claim.This is drilled into every mainlandChinese child’s mind as part of theCCP’s ideology campaign with no sec-ond thought on the issue and no pub-lic discussion of alternate views beingpermitted.

The CCP wants outright reunifica-tion, the sooner the better, seeing therecovery of the island as the final chap-ter in the civil war and end of pasthumiliations when China was forced tocede territory to foreigners. Xi has suc-ceeded in reasserting party controlover society, which had loosened to anextent during the era of his immediatepredecessors who believed in “collectiveleadership.”

His clarion call to the nation afterassuming its control was, “Don’t forgetthe original intention. Stick to the mis-sion.” With multifarious threats chal-lenging him, the slogan has becomemore relevant in the present days andis emerging as a battle cry for unity andperseverance. With increasing US inter-ference in Taiwan and the non-recon-ciliatory approach of its newly-electedhardliner President, iron lady Tsai Ing-wen, China is becoming increasinglysensitive and restive about Taiwan. Onthe other hand, Taiwan is becomingmore assertive and confident.

During the ongoing pandemic, theTaiwanese were denied entry into var-ious countries which believed them tobe Chinese since their passport is of theRepublic of China. The TaiwaneseGovernment has, therefore, decided tochange the cover of its citizens’ passports

to read “Taiwan Passport” while retain-ing the Republic of China in Mandarin.

It has its own currency, the NewTaiwan dollar controlled by the centralbank of the Republic of China. It isincreasingly stamping Taiwanese madegoods as “Made in Taiwan” and all thisis not going down well with the CCP,which is increasingly threatening topunish the errant island nation. Chinais also worried and annoyed with thefact that more and more nations arespeaking up for Taiwan and are reluc-tant to back down under Chinese pres-sure.

Xi is being labelled as a revisionistand expansionist and the world is get-ting united to counter his designsunder the banner of democratic forcesand supporting the Taiwanese cause.There are growing voices in India forrecognition of Taiwan though that maynot be easy due to the prevailing agree-ments and treaties with Beijing.However, a change in intent and desireto strengthen relations between the twocountries has been signalled by the pre-sent regime by deputing two of its seniorparty leaders to attend the swearing-inceremony of the new President.

The CCP is unwilling to settle foranything less than reunification. For Xiit has an additional emotional angle aswell, related to his family history. Chinaregards Taiwan as unfinished businessas part of the civil war and Xi is a firmbeliever of this historic mission.

Apart from being an unfinishedmission of the civil war, it is the geostrategic location and buzzing high-techmicro-chip industry of Taiwan that isthe compelling reason for China toclaim ownership of the island territory.Taiwan is also the world’s 22nd largesteconomy and an important supplychain link of Silicon Valley. Many high-tech companies from the mainland have

changed base to the island territory withTaiwan emerging as a potential high-tech superpower. It is home to theworld’s biggest contract chipmaker,Taiwan Semiconductor ManufacturingLimited.

Taiwan’s location and economy arecritical to China in its pursuance ofbecoming the numero uno world power.If Taiwan becomes integral to China asdesired by the latter, it would becomea Pacific power, strengthen its positionin the South China Sea and be in a posi-tion to threaten vital US interests in thePacific region. It would also have theleverage to cut off oil supplies to Japanand South Korea, important US alliesin the region. Economically, Beijingwould have control over the world’smajor cutting-edge technologies. All thisexplains China’s sensitivities aboutTaiwan and its allergy to other nationscalling it a “country” rather than Taiwan,Region of the People’s Republic ofChina. The US, on the other hand, doesnot want to take any chance in the secu-rity of the island-nation that may helpChina fulfil its mission. Stepped-up USsupport for Taiwan has angered China,which has often cautioned WashingtonDC that it amounts to US support forTaiwan’s independence. If it feels threat-ened enough, Beijing may forciblyoccupy the island by launching militaryoperations across the strait.

With India and China on the vergeof war in eastern Ladakh and theheightened anti-China sentimentsacross the country, the Chinese wereapprehensive of the Indian media giv-ing prominence to Taiwan on itsNational Day. It was to pre-empt thesame and gauge India’s concerns to itssensitivities that the advisory was issuedby the Chinese embassy.

(The author is a Jammu-based vet-eran, columnist and security analyst)

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Knowledge is the key to success.This has been proved time andagain by the achievements of

start-ups. In almost all fields, new busi-nesses have not only challenged mar-ket leaders but also undercut them.Unicorns like Paytm, PhonePe, Flipkart,Netmeds, MakeMyTrip, OYO did notcreate a new market but rearranged theexisting one and became leaders. A sim-ilar approach is needed in the manu-facturing sector if we are keen to takeon the world and are dreaming ofbecoming a $5 trillion economy.

The Micro, Small and Medium

Enterprises (MSME) sector is key to theIndian economy as it is one of thebiggest job generators. It has also cre-ated resilience to withstand globaleconomic shocks and turmoil. Witharound 63.4 million units throughoutIndia, MSMEs contribute to around6.11 per cent of the manufacturingGross Domestic Product (GDP) and24.63 per cent of the GDP from serviceactivities, as well as 33.4 per cent of themanufacturing output. Their exportshare is 40 per cent. The MSME sec-tor is the second-largest employer afteragriculture, giving jobs to more than120 million people in rural areas.MSMEs are now contributing close to15 per cent to the overall GDP of India.

If the Government wants to sup-port MSMEs and equip them to meetglobal standards — as in the currentscenario we are not only working to“Make in India” but also trying to“Make for the World” — we need toupgrade them in all aspects:Infrastructure, technology, manpowerand capital. Plus, in addition to finan-

cial and logistics support, MSMEsneed information technology (IT) sup-port to upgrade themselves. They canbe carriers of knowledge and experienceand create a repository for others.

To match international standardsand compete globally, upgraded ITinfrastructure is needed for MSMEsand if the same is provided by theGovernment free or at reduced costs,then it will take a huge financial andoperational burden off small entities.

In the current scenario, skilledmanpower will be a challenge forMSMEs and with shared IT support,

they can reduce their dependence oninternal staff. Another big challenge infront of MSMEs will be limited budgetsfor upgradation of their existing ITinfrastructure and affordability of oper-ating costs. The requirement of researchand development in MSMEs is differ-ent from that of big industries as theyneed cost and resource efficient solu-tions. MSMEs need continuous upgra-dation to compete globally and bench-marking is required so that they canproduce world-class goods. Big indus-try players, who are cash-rich, alwaysupgrade by deploying huge capitaland beat small competitors likeMSMEs.

By introducing shared IT infra-structure from the Government’s side,MSMEs can save on capital expenditureand operating costs, giving them bet-ter profitability. Owing to the nature oftheir business and size, most MSMEsdon’t use a high level of IT support andlack badly in IT infrastructure. As theseare promoter/owner-driven and focusmore on their core job, their investment

in core job IT and research is alwayslacking.

For example, a small auto-compo-nent manufacturer requires designingsoftware to improvise designs or toreduce cost. New software could costthe business �5-8 lakh, which is unaf-fordable for most. By using shared ITservices, the manufacturer can improvethe design, control quality and delivera better product under stringent costcontrol. Such a requirement can be verydiverse, starting from basic software,communication or meeting tools tohighly-advanced Enterprise ResourcePlanning (ERP) solutions. It can bedesigned or categorised based on therequirement level or reach and can bepriced accordingly. The biggest strengthof MSMEs is their agility and ease ofresponse to change as per the client’srequirement. If the same is supportedby IT and other high technology, theycan be a double engine of growth forIndia.

This can be designed on a PPPmodel and create employment for ser-

vice providers too. Post the pandemic,the Government is budgeting hugegrowth in the MSME sector and plan-ning multiple packages for them. IT isa consistent requirement and alwayslooking for upgradation. Hence if theGovernment can provide IT infrastruc-ture resources at a nominal fee or freeof cost, then it will be a huge saving forMSMEs. On the other hand, due to thebulk purchase of such services, theirtotal outgo will be considerably loweras compared to individual purchase.

If we want to develop the “Made inIndia” brand as a global signature andbeat competition around the world, wehave to upgrade all systems of manu-facturing and service. This can only bedone after improving the IT infrastruc-ture. This one-point cost will save andsupport millions who are looking togrow and make India a manufacturingand services hub.

(The writer is Associate Professor,Atal Bihari Vajpayee School ofManagement and Entrepreneurship,JNU)

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Washington: The White Houseis moving forward with threesales of advanced weaponry toTaiwan, sending in recent daysa notification of the deals toCongress for approval, fivesources said on Monday, whileChina threatened retaliation.

The move in the run-up tothe Nov. 3 U.S. election, firstreported by Reuters, is likely toanger China, which considersTaiwan a wayward provincethat it has vowed to reunitewith the mainland, by force ifnecessary.

Reuters broke the news inSeptember that as many asseven major weapons systemswere making their way throughthe U.S. export process as theTrump administration rampsup pressure on China.

Leaders of the SenateForeign Relations and House ofRepresentatives Foreign Affairscommittees were notified thatthree of the planned weaponssales had been approved by theU.S. State Department whichoversees foreign military sales,said the sources, who are famil-iar with the situation butdeclined to be identified.

The informal notificationswere for a truck-based rocketlauncher made by LockheedMartin Corp called a HighMobility Artillery RocketSystem (HIMARS), long-rangeair-to-ground missiles made byBoeing Co called SLAM-ER,and external sensor pods for F-16 jets that allow the real-timetransmission of imagery anddata from the aircraft back toground stations.

Notifications for the sale ofother weapons systems, includ-ing large, sophisticated aerialdrones, land-based Harpoonanti-ship missiles and under-

water mines, to deter amphibi-ous landings, have yet to reachCapitol Hill, but these wereexpected soon, the sources said.

A State Departmentspokesman said: “As a matter ofpolicy, the United States doesnot confirm or comment onproposed defense sales ortransfers until they are formallynotified to Congress.”

Chinese foreign ministryspokesman Zhao Lijian saidU.S. arms sales to Taiwanseverely damaged China’s sov-ereignty and security interests,urging Washington to clearlyrecognize the harm they causedand immediately cancel them.

“China will make a legiti-mate and necessary responseaccording to how the situationdevelops,” Zhao told reporters inBeijing, without elaborating. AP

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dismissed new spying allega-tions by China as a furtherattempt to smear the govern-ment of the self-governingisland democracy that Beijingclaims as its own territory.

The remarks follow areport on Monday night byChinese broadcaster CCTVfeaturing a taped confessionfrom a man identified as ChengYu-chin, the second suchreport in as many days.

On Sunday, CCTV broad-cast a confession by a manidentified as Li Mengju, whosename is also spelled Lee Meng-chu, who like Cheng said hehad been working to destabiliseChina and harm the rulingCommunist Party’s reputation.

In the same report, CCTVsaid security personnel hadsolved more than 100 spyingcases as part of an initiativedubbed Operation Thunder2020.

Taiwanese Premier SuTseng-chang called the accusa-tions an attempt by Beijing to“defame and create fear,” whilethe foreign ministry’s head ofEuropean affairs, JohnsonChiang, called the allegations“pure defamation and calum-ny”. CCTV’s airing of videoedconfessions have prompted law-suits abroad amid accusationsthat the accounts were coercedand that the broadcaster ismerely a propaganda arm of theCommunist Party. AP

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Manila: The Philippine mili-tary chief said Tuesday there isvirtually no risk that towersand communications equip-ment to be put up in militarycamps by a China-backed tele-com firm can be used forespionage.

Gen. Gilbert Gapay saidinstalling the towers andequipment of DitoTelecommunity Corp., aPhilippine firm in whichBeijing’s China Telecom has a40% financial stake, in campswould allow the military tobetter monitor its operations.

“We don’t see any securi-ty risk, it’s very low and we findit better that they are insidebecause we could have unan-nounced inspections. Wecould inspect them at mid-night,” Gapay told reporters ina video news conference.

Dito was accepted by thePhilippine government as thethird major player in the local

telecom industry. The compa-ny is controlled by Filipinobusinessman Dennis Uy, asupporter of President RodrigoDuterte, who has long com-plained about poor internetconnections and cellphoneservices in the country.

Critics and some lawmak-ers have raised concerns thatChina may be able to spy on thePhilippines through Dito’s com-munications equipment to beinstalled in military campsgiven the long-raging territor-ial disputes of the Asian neigh-bors in the South China Sea.

The Philippines is a treatyally of the United States. TheTrump administration haswanted its allies to excludeChinese companies liketelecommunications giantHuawei Technologies Ltd.,which Washington regards asa security risk, as they upgradeto fifth-generation, or 5G,technology. AP

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Berlin: Germany’s foreign min-ister headed Tuesday to Greeceand Cyprus, pledging “full sol-idarity” with them in theirdispute with Turkey over seaboundaries and drilling rightsin the eastern Mediterranean.

Germany holds the rotat-ing European Union presiden-cy and before departing Berlin,Foreign Minister Heiko Maassaid Greece and Cyprus hadboth German and EU backingbut urged an “honest effort onall sides” to find a solution.

Greece on Mondayaccused neighbour Turkey ofundermining efforts to ease acrisis over easternMediterranean drilling rights,after Ankara redeployed a sur-vey vessel for new energyexploration in disputed waters— including an area very closeto a secluded Greek island.

The move reignited ten-sions over sea boundariesbetween Greek islands, Cyprusand Turkey’s southern coast,which had flared up over the

summer, prompting a militarybuild-up, bellicose rhetoricand fears of a confrontationbetween the two NATO mem-bers and historic regionalrivals.

The Turkish search vessel,Oruc Reis, left the port ofAntalya on Monday for a mis-sion expected o end October22. Maas stressed that talksbetween the nations can onlywork in a “constructive atmos-phere” and appealed “to Turkeynot to close the window for dia-

logue that has just openedwith Greece through unilater-al measures.”

“Ankara must stop alter-nating between relaxation andprovocation if the governmentis interested in talks, as it hasrepeatedly said,” he said.

Renewed Turkish gasexploration in the disputedareas would be “a major setbackto efforts to de-escalate andthus also for the further devel-opment of EU-Turkey rela-tions,” Maas said. AP

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Tokyo: Tokyo has lodgedprotests to Beijing over theentry of Chinese coast guardships into Japan’s territorialwaters off disputed East ChinaSea islands and their refusal tomove out for a third day onTuesday, Japanese officialssaid.

The two Chinese shipsentered the Japanese-claimedwaters Sunday morning,appearing to approach aJapanese fishing boat carryingthree crew members. Theyhave remained there, whileignoring repeated warningsand exit demands by theJapanese side, Japanese coastguard officials said.

Chinese coast guard ves-sels routinely violate territor-ial waters around the Japanese-controlled southern islands ofSenkaku, which China callsDiaoyu and also claims.

Chief Cabinet SecretaryKatsunobu Kato said Tuesdaythat it was “extremely regret-table” that the two Chinesecoast guard ships were still inJapanese waters.

Japan “strictly protested”to the Chinese side anddemanded that the Chineseships immediately move out ofJapanese waters, Kato said.

He said Japan would firm-ly defend its territorial waters,land and airspace “with asense of urgency.” Japanesecoast guard officials said thefishing boat with the threecrew members was safely pro-tected, but declined to give anyother details.

The Japanese governmentsays Japan has had ownershipof the islands since the late1890s under international law.Tokyo also says Beijing start-ed claiming its ownershiparound 1970 when possibleundersea oil deposits near theislands were reported.

Japan sees China’s militarydevelopment and increasing-ly assertive stance in the Eastand South China seas as amajor security threat.

Japan’s military invasion ofChina in the 1930s and 1940sremains a sore spot betweenthe two sides. AP

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysianopposition leader AnwarIbrahim said he presented thenation’s king on Tuesday withevidence that he has enoughsupport among lawmakers totopple the prime minister andform a new government, anassertion the palace denied.

Anwar said he presentedthe monarch with evidence ofthe support he has from over120 lawmakers, which wouldallow him to unseat PrimeMinister Muhyiddin Yassin.

Anwar said the monarchpledged to abide by the con-stitution, and would consultleaders from other partiesbefore making a decision. Hedeclined to give details, urgingMalaysians to be patient andgive the king space to reviewthe evidence.

“These documents made itabundantly clear that we haveregistered a formidable andconvincing majority amongparliamentarians,” Anwar tolda news conference after theroyal meeting.

“Prime MinisterMuhyiddin Yassin has lost hismajority and therefore, it wouldbe appropriate for him toresign.”

After that news confer-ence, however, the palacereleased a statement denyingthat Anwar provided evidenceof support. It said Anwar onlytold Sultan Abdullah SultanAhmad Shah how many law-makers supported him butdidn’t reveal their identities.

It said the king advisedAnwar “to abide by and respectthe legal process” based on theconstitution.

Muhyiddin, who tookpower in March after securingenough support in Parliamentto unseat Anwar’s reformistalliance, has previously dis-missed Anwar’s claim to amajority.

Muhyiddin currentlyboasts a slim two-seat majori-ty in the 222-seat Parliamentand has been grappling tomaintain support amid infight-ing in his coalition. AP

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The United States poses a“huge security risk” to Asia

by pushing to boost engage-ment with the region, China’sforeign minister said Tuesdayduring a tour of SoutheastAsia, where Beijing andWashington are locked in a bat-tle for influence.

Speaking in Malaysia,Wang Yi said the US’s real aimis “to build an Indo-PacificNATO,” in a strategy he saidharkened back to the ColdWar.

Washington is trying to“stir up confrontation amongdifferent groups and blocs, andstir up geopolitical competitionwhile maintaining the pre-dominance and hegemony sys-tem of the US,” Wang said at ajoint news conference with hisMalaysian counterpart,Hishammuddin Hussein.

“In this sense, this strategyitself is a huge security risk,”Wang said.

Wang also urged SoutheastAsian nations, which are aim-ing to draw up a code of con-duct with China in the South

China Sea, to remove “externaldisruption” in the disputedwaters, but did not elaborate.

Wang’s tone is typical ofChina’s increasingly hard-lineapproach to disputes withWashington as it seeks to cap-italize on political divisionswithin the US and a perceiveddecline in America’s globalinfluence to advance its ownforeign policy aims.

China’s aggressive moves toassert its territorial claims inthe South China Sea, throughwhich a third of global shippingpasses, have drawn rebukefrom the United States andbecome a flashpoint for aregion in which SoutheastAsian nations Vietnam, thePhilippines, Malaysia andBrunei all have rival claims.

Hishammuddin said the disputes over the SouthChina Sea must be resolvedpeacefully through regionaldialogue.

The US says its Indo-Pacific engagement frameworksupports sovereignty, trans-parency, good governance anda rules-based order, amongother things.

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London: Racially aggravatedattacks registered a spike inhate crimes recorded in Englandand Wales in 2019-2020 even asreligious hate crimes showed adownward trend, according toofficial UK Home Office statis-tics released on Tuesday.

There were 105,090 hatecrimes recorded in the pastyear, which marks an increase of8 per cent on the previous year,with race hate crimes rising byaround 4,000.

“As in previous years, themajority of hate crimes were racehate crimes, accounting foraround three-quarters ofoffences (72 per cent or 76,070offences). These increased by 6per cent between 2018/19 and2019/20,” notes the Home Officereport. “Religious hate crimes fellby five per cent (to 6,822offences), down from a peak of7,203 in 2019. This was the firstfall in religious hate crimessince 2012-13,” it said. PTI

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Yerevan (Armenia): The report-ed death toll in clashes betweenArmenian and Azerbaijaniforces over the separatist terri-tory of Nagorno-Karabakh hasreached about 600, with officialsreporting more military andcivilian deaths as the fightingcontinues despite a cease-fireannounced over the weekend.

Nagorno-Karabakh mili-tary officials said Tuesday that 16more of their servicemen havebeen killed in fighting, bringin-he total number of dead amongmilitary members to 532 sinceSept. 27, when the fighting

started. Azerbaijan hasn’t disclosed

its military losses, and the over-all toll is likely to be much high-er with both sides regularlyclaiming to have inflicted sig-nificant military casualties onone another.

Azerbaijani authorities said42 civilians have been killed ontheir side in over two weeks.

Nagorno-Karabakh humanrights ombudsman ArtakBeglaryan late Monday report-ed at least 31 civilian deaths inthe breakaway region. Hundredsmore have been wounded.

The recent fighting betweenArmenian and Azerbaijaniforces broke out on Sept 27.More than two weeks of dead-ly clashes marked the biggestescalation of a decades-old con-flict over Nagorno-Karabakh,which lies in Azerbaijan but hasbeen under control of ethnicArmenian forces backed byArmenia since the end of a sep-aratist war in 1994.

Both sides have repeatedlyaccused each other of attacksamid appeals from the aroundthe globe to end the hostilitiesand start peace talks. AP

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Ramallah: The Palestinianprime minister has said it willbe disastrous for his people and

the world at large if PresidentDonald Trump wins re-electionnext month.

Speaking remotely toEuropean lawmakers, PrimeMinister MohammadShtayyeh said the last fouryears of the Trump adminis-tration have greatly harmedthe Palestinians.

“If we are going to liveanother four years withPresident Trump,” he said,God help us and the wholeworld, Shtayyeh said onMonday. The comments wereposted on his Facebook page.

The Palestinians have tra-ditionally refrained from tak-ing an explicit public positionin American presidential elec-tions. Shtayyeh’s commentsreflected the sense of desper-ation on the Palestinian sideafter a series of US moves thathave left them weakened andisolated.

The Palestinians severedties with Trump after herecognised contestedJerusalem as Israel’s capital inlate 2017 and subsequentlymoved the AmericanEmbassy to the holy city.

Trump has also cut offhundreds of millions of dol-lars of American aid to thePalestinians, shut thePalestinian diplomatic officesin Washington and issued aMideast plan this year thatlargely favoured Israel. ThePalestinians have rejected theplan out of hand.

The Trump administra-tion also has persuaded twoArab countries, the UnitedArab Emirates and Bahrain, toestablish full diplomatic rela-tions with Israel and promisedthat other Arab nations willfollow suit.

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The Indian economy, severe-ly hit by the coronavirus

pandemic, is projected to con-tract by a massive 10.3 per centthis year, the InternationalMonetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday.

However, India is likely tobounce back with an impres-sive 8.8 per cent growth rate in2021, thus regaining the posi-tion of the fastest growingemerging economy, surpassingChina’s projected growth rate of8.2 per cent, the IMF said in itslatest ‘World EconomicOutlook’ report.

Released ahead of theannual meetings of the IMF

and the World Bank, the reportsaid global growth would con-tract by 4.4 per cent this yearand bounce back to 5.2 per centin 2021. The IMF in its reportsaid that revisions to the fore-cast are particularly large forIndia, where Gross DomesticProduct (GDP) contractedmuch more severely thanexpected in the second quarter.

“As a result, the economy isprojected to contract by 10.3per cent in 2020, beforerebounding by 8.8 per cent in2021,” it said.

In 2019, India’s growth ratewas 4.2 per cent.

According to the IMF,India is among those likely tosuffer the greatest damage from

global warming, reflecting itsinitially high temperatures. ForIndia, the net gains from cli-mate change mitigation-relativeto inaction-would be up to 60-80 per cent of GDP by 2100.

While estimates of lossesfrom climate change are some-what smaller for colder regions(for example, Europe, NorthAmerica, and east Asia), theseare likely underestimations asthey do not include a numberof damages (for example, risein sea levels, natural disasters,damage to infrastructure fromthawing of permafrost inRussia) and negative globalspillovers from large econom-ic disruptions in other parts ofthe world.

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Equity benchmarks Sensexand Nifty ended marginal-

ly higher after choppy trade onTuesday, propped up by RILand IT stocks amid lacklustrecues from the global markets.

Rising for the ninth sessionin a row, the 30-share BSESensex ended 31.71 points or0.08 per cent higher at40,625.51.

Similarly, the broader NSENifty inched up 3.55 points or0.03 per cent to 11,934.50.

HCL Tech was the top

gainer in the Sensex pack,climbing 3.94 per cent, fol-lowed by Kotak Bank, Infosys,Reliance Industries, UltraTechCement and Tech Mahindra.

On the other hand, Titan,Sun Pharma, ICICI Bank, BajajFinance, SBI and Maruti wereamong the main laggards,shedding up to 2.18 per cent.

According to analysts, therecent recovery in market wasled by expectations of fresh fis-cal stimulus from the govern-ment, but the sops announcedhave failed to cheer investorsentiment. IT stocks continued

to gain momentum ahead ofcrucial Q2 results and betterearnings visibility, they added.

“Market may consolidatedue to below than anticipatedstimulus package and the largepart of the positive Q2 resultsannounced till date is well fac-tored in the prices.

“The momentum mayreverse into a narrow-range, inthe near-term, while the under-current of the rally is still pos-itive and a break-up is likelybased on the continuity ofpositive results, more fiscalmeasures in the future and

developments in the globalmarket. Today, the bankingsector lost some grounds due toadjournment of moratoriumhearing to next day,” said VinodNair, Head of Research atGeojit Financial Services.

BSE energy, IT, teck, power,metal and basic materialsindices rose as much as 1.54 percent, while healthcare, con-sumer durables, finance andbankex ended in the red.

Broader BSE midcap andsmallcap indices slipped up to0.29 per cent.

Global equities stumbled

following reports that Johnson& Johnson was pausing itsCOVID-19 vaccine trialsbecause of an unexplained ill-ness in a study participant.

Bourses in Shanghai andTokyo ended on a positivenote, while Seoul was in thered. Hong Kong was closed fora holiday.

Stock markets in Europewere trading in the negativeterritory in early deals.

New Delhi: The Centre onTuesday permitted 20 States toraise additional Rs 68,825 crorethrough open market borrow-ings to bridge the revenueshortfall caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The decision comes a dayafter the GST Council meetingfailed to reach a consensus onthe stalemate over the Centre’sproposal of states borrowingagainst future GST collections tomake up for the shortfall. Theprojected total GST compensa-tion shortfall in the current fis-cal stands at Rs 2.35 lakh crore.

The Department ofExpenditure, Ministry ofFinance, has granted permis-sion to 20 states to raise anadditional amount of Rs 68,825crore through open marketborrowings, an official state-ment said. “Additional bor-rowing permission has been

granted at the rate of 0.50 percent of the Gross StateDomestic Product (GSDP) tothose States who have opted forOption-1 out of the twooptions suggested by theMinistry of Finance to meet theshortfall arising out of GSTimplementation,” it said.

In the meeting held onAugust 27, it said, these twooptions were put forward andwere subsequently communi-cated to the states on August 29.“Twenty States have given theirpreferences for Option-1. TheseStates are — Andhra Pradesh,Arunachal Pradesh, Assam,Bihar, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana,Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka,Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra,Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram,Nagaland, Odisha, Sikkim,Tripura, UP and Uttarakhand.Eight States are yet to exercise anoption,” it said. PTI

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Union Minister HardeepSingh Puri on Tuesday

reached out to scientists, pro-fessors and senior professionals from farm sectorin Congress-ruled Punjab toclear misgivings about newfarm laws, saying that the reforms will even benefit ‘arthiyas’ (commissionagents).

The Minister also assertedthat the MSP regime will stay.Farmers in Punjab andHaryana and other states areprotesting against new farmlaws which they feel will lead toprocurement in the hands ofcorporates and the end of min-imum support price (MSP)regime.

“In Punjab, some peoplehave been spreading lies, fakepropaganda and inciting thefarmers against the governmentby calling the new agriculturelaws anti-farmers despiteknowing the benefits of theselaws for farmers to increasetheir income,” Puri said in avirtual meeting.

Explaining the benefits ofthe reforms to arthiyas, Purisaid the laws will also createnew opportunities for them.

Arthiyas can provide bet-ter seeds, inputs, knowledge,supply chain assistance apart from their existing rolesin mandis, he said in a statement.

“Investments will drivechange across the supply chain

benefiting all stakeholders toreduce the agriculture wastagewhich is currently at 30 percent,” he added.

The Minister was interact-ing with scientists, professorsand other senior professionalsfrom the agriculture sectorfrom Taran Taran and Amritsarin Punjab.

During his interaction, Purialso noted that there has beenan increase in procurement ofgrains at minimum supportprice in Punjab.

Punjab registered anunprecedented increase inkharif paddy procurement thathas increased to 26.1 lakh tonnetill October 11 of the ongoingkharif marketing season from7.4 lakh tonne in the year-agoperiod, he said.

Across India, total kharifpaddy procurement rose 35 percent to 42.5 lakh tonne from31.7 lakh tonne in the said peri-od, he said, adding that thegovernment has increased bynearly 30 per cent the numberof procurement centers from30,549 in 2019-20 to 39,130 this year.

Paddy procurement com-menced in Punjab andHaryana from September 26due to early arrival of the crop,while in other states it beganfrom October 1.

The minister also outlinedimportant steps, including thelaunch of PM-KISAN scheme,taken by the NDA Governmentin the last six years for the ben-efit of farmers.

Chittaranjan: The 150th locono WAG9HC(32922) wasflagged off by Shri PraveenKumar Mishra, GM, today inpresence of sr officers and stafffrom CLW siding. DespiteLockdown & Unlockdownfrom April to August and

COVID related instructionslater on . First 100 locos wereproduced in 102 working daysand the next 50 locos have beenproduced in only 27 workingdays. As such 150 locomotiveshave been produced in 129working days this year in FY

2020-21, as against 150 loco-motives produced in 128 work-ing days in FY 2019-20, attain-ing the same trend in loco pro-duction despite of COVID-19restrictions.This has been pos-sible with the active support ofmotivated workforce of CLW

and monitoring of supplychain & production by theGeneral Manager at apex level. It is expected that CLW willbe able to achieve anothermilestone in this current finan-cial year 2020-21 by surpassingthe target again.

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Reliance Jio continues toremain the fastest mobile

network with an average down-load speed of 19.3 megabitper second (mbps), whileVodafone recorded the highestspeed in terms of upload inSeptember, according to the lat-est data from telecom regula-tor Trai.

Idea Cellular network (nowVodafone Idea) followed Jiowith a download speed of 8.6mbps, Vodafone 7.9 mbps andBharti Airtel 7.5 mbps, accord-ing to the Trai data updated onOctober 10.

Though Vodafone and Ideahave merged their mobile busi-nesses, Trai measured theirperformance separately as theintegration of networks of boththe companies is currently on.

The report comes follow-ing a study, across 49 cities,released by private firmOpenSignal in September

declaring Bharti Airtel to havethe fastest download speed inIndia.

The Telecom RegulatoryAuthority of India (Trai) com-puted average network speedfrom data collected at pan-India level with the help of itsMySpeed application on a real-time basis.

The average speed of allprivate telecom operatorsincreased in September com-pared to the data recorded inAugust, according to the Traichart. Download speed on theReliance Jio network increasedby 21 per cent in September to19.3 mbps from 15.9 mbps inAugust, 7 per cent on Airtelnetwork to 7.5 mbps from 7mbps, and 1-3 per cent on thenetwork of Vodafone and Idea.

The download speed helpsin accessing content from var-ious applications, while uploadspeed helps in sharing of con-tent like photos and videos bysubscribers.

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IT services major Wipro onTuesday posted a 3.4 per cent

decline in consolidated netprofit to Rs 2,465.7 crore in thethree months ended Septemberand projected revenue growthin the December quarter evenas it announced a plan to buy-back shares worth up to Rs9,500 crore.

The Bengaluru-based com-pany, which had registered anet profit (attributable to equi-ty holders of the company) atRs 2,552.7 crore in the year-agoperiod, registered an almost flatyear-on-year revenue growth atRs 15,114.5 crore in the latestSeptember quarter.

On a quarter-on-quarterbasis, the company’s net prof-it climbed over 3 per centwhile revenue was up by littleover 1 per cent.

Wipro CEO and ManagingDirector Thierry Delaportesaid the demand environmenthas improved from the firstquarter even though the paceof decision making remains abit slower on the larger deals.

Under the buyback pro-posal, which is subject to share-holders’ approval, will involvepurchase of up to 23.75 croreequity shares, representing 4.16per cent of the company’s totalpaid up equity capital, at Rs 400per share. The buyback size willbe up to Rs 9,500 crore and theprice of Rs 400 per scrip ismore than 6 per cent higherthan than the company’s clos-ing price of Rs 375.5 apiece onBSE on Tuesday.

Wipro’s announcementcomes just a week after biggerrival Tata Consultancy Services’unveiled a Rs 16,000 crore-share buyback offer.

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The IMF on Tuesday pre-dicted a deep global reces-

sion this year and the worldgrowth to be -4.4 per cent,asserting that the global eco-nomic crisis is far from overmainly due to the impact of thecoronavirus pandemic.

In its latest WorldEconomic Outlook report, theInternational Monetary Fundalso said the swift recovery inChina has surprised on theupside while the global econ-omy’s long ascent back to pre-pandemic levels of activityremains prone to setbacks.

This crisis is however farfrom over. In our latest WorldEconomic Outlook, we con-

tinue to project a deep reces-sion in 2020. Global growth isprojected to be -4.4 per cent, anupward revision of 0.8 per-centage points compared toour June update, GitaGopinath, the Chief Economistof the IMF, said.

This upgrade owes tosomewhat less dire outcomesin the second quarter, as wellas signs of a stronger recoveryin the third quarter, offsetpartly by downgrades in someemerging and developingeconomies.

According to the report, in2021, growth is projected torebound to 5.2 per cent, -0.2percentage points below itsJune projection.

Noting that the COVID-19

pandemic continues to spreadwith over one million livestragically lost so far, the Indian-American economistsaid living with the novel coro-navirus has been a challengelike no other.

However, she said theworld is adapting as a result ofeased lockdowns and the rapiddeployment of policy supportat an unprecedented scale bycentral banks and govern-ments around the world.

The global economy iscoming back from the depthsof its collapse in the first halfof this year, she said.

Employment has partiallyrebounded after having plum-meted during the peak of thecrisis. This crisis is however far

from over. Employmentremains well below pre-pan-demic levels and the labourmarket has become morepolarised with low-incomeworkers, youth, and womenbeing harder hit, she added.

She added the poor are get-ting poorer with close to 90million people expected to fallinto extreme deprivation thisyear. The ascent out of thiscalamity is likely to be long,uneven, and highly uncertain.It is essential that fiscal andmonetary policy support arenot prematurely withdrawn, asbest possible, Gopinath said.

Gopinath said that exceptfor China, where output isexpected to exceed 2019 levelsthis year, output in both

advanced economies andemerging market and devel-oping economies is projectedto remain below 2019 levelseven next year.

Countries that rely moreon contact intensive servicesand oil exporters face weakerrecoveries compared to man-ufacturing-led economies.

The divergence in incomeprospects between advancedeconomies and emerging anddeveloping economies, exclud-ing China, triggered by thispandemic is projected to wors-en, she said.

The IMF has upgraded itsforecast for advancedeconomies for 2020 to -5.8 percent, followed by a rebound ingrowth to 3.9 per cent in 2021.

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The rupee depreciated 7 paiseto close at 73.35 against the

US dollar on Tuesday, trackingmuted domestic equities and a strengthening greenbackoverseas.

At the interbank forex mar-ket, the rupee opened on aweak note at 73.41, and shut-tled between a high of 73.32and a low of 73.41 against theAmerican currency.

It finally finished at 73.35,down 7 paise over its previousclose of 73.28.

The dollar index, whichgauges the greenback’s strengthagainst a basket of six curren-cies, rose 0.18 per cent to93.23. Forex traders said therupee dropped for the secondstraight session as investorsremained cautious followingmuted domestic macroeco-nomic data.

Rising food prices pushedretail inflation to an eight-month high of 7.34 per cent inSeptember, above the RBI’scomfort level, while industrialoutput contracted 8 per cent inAugust, official data showed onMonday.

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The OSHWC Code, on a cursoryreading, appears to be gender-

neutral. The definition of “workers”mentions “persons”, sans gender.However, even though the languagedoesn't show a gender bias, the lackof special consideration for womenworkers, especially migrant womenworkers shows that the Code lacksgender inclusivity and equity.

While the Ministry of Labourand Employment told theParliamentary Standing Committeeon Labour that they would “protectthe interests of women workers inevery industry/establishment andprovide safety for them”, the OSHWCCode in its current form fails to doso. Systemic sexual violence andexploitation of women — especiallyin the informal sector (such as brickkilns, construction, factories) — isrampant and under-reported. But theCode does not recognise this back-drop of a strong, existing work-placeculture of misogyny and sexism. Infact, it leaves out a large number ofwomen migrant workers who areengaged in the informal sector — e.g.domestic workers, daily wage labour-ers, etc.

“It’s also important to note thatwhile laws exist to protect womenfrom sexual harassment at the work-place, no laws make the process ofmigration to the workplace safer forwomen. Women, who migrate forwork by themselves or with families,have often reported facing physicaland sexual violence during migration.This absence, in a legislation claim-ing to affirm migrant workers’ rights,is glaring,” Mishty Varma, aCommunications, Policy and PublicAffairs Professional, a creative writer,and an ex-journalist, tells you.

A great gap is that women’s pro-tections against criminal activitiesand intent at the work-site are nei-ther stated explicitly nor guaranteed.

The Code also needs to be amend-ed to link with existing provisionsand laws in our Constitution and theIndian Penal Code which ensureaffirmative action for women work-ers. This can guarantee protectionsfor them against discrimination onthe basis of gender, class, and caste.Additionally, agents, employers, con-tractors and Government authoritiesmust ensure zero tolerance for suchinstances at the worksite and duringmigration for women workers, andshould be held accountable.

While there is a chapter onwomen workers’ rights, it falls woe-fully short in addressing the systemicissues women face at the workplace.In fact, the Code prohibits womenfrom working a job if the appropri-ate Government considers that work“too dangerous”, but does not define“too dangerous”.

This is extremely discriminato-ry and prejudicial, and equivalent toprohibiting mobility and migrationof women due to their vulnerabilityto physical and sexual violence,instead of addressing the factors thatmake them vulnerable. It also raisesthe question — why, if a work is “toodangerous”, are men expected to per-

form it, while women are asked tostay away from it? It would be farmore inclusive and effective for theCode to direct appropriate authori-ties to provide resources and equip-ment to make workplaces less dan-gerous, instead of keeping womenworkers away from work.

“Further, special provisions pre-scribed for women in the Code arevalid only for workplaces that employat least 10 workers. In effect, a work-place with nine employees would beexempt from giving these special pro-visions to women workers. Therefore,the Code needs to lower this thresh-old for all provisions that offer pro-tection to the most vulnerable work-ers. The Code must also ensure pro-tective measures are applicable to allworkplaces, including the period ofmigration for workers to reach thework-site,” Pompi Banerjee, a psy-chologist, researcher and humanrights activist, and a member ofSanjog, says.

The Code also makes the rightof women to work night-shifts (inmines, factories, plantations andbeedi/cigar units) subject to condi-tions prescribed by the appropriateGovernment, including for safetymeasures, holidays, and workinghours. This makes the right ofwomen to work night-shifts extreme-ly vague and altogether dependent onthe whim of the authorities.

Sections that make women’swork conditional need to be doneaway with in the Code. StateGovernments also need to draftrules that actively encourage womento work across shifts and industries,while guaranteeing their person ade-quate protections.

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The isolation from theCOVID-19 lockdown has

manifested a facelift to the mun-dane performance in business-es through the introduction ofRPA-induced roles in acquiringoptimum results. L2H Lab, aChicago based start-up is the lat-est entrant into the AI (artificialintelligence) sector with itshyper-automated IPA(Intelligent Process Automation)technology that befits and ben-efits operations for organisationsacross the globe.

The start-up offers a multi-tude of AI-enabled RPA servicesthat facilitates three integralindustries — Healthcare, HumanResources, and Shared Services(Contact Center, Finance &Accounts, Ticket Managementand Customer QueryResolution). Our AI bots auto-mate regular and repetitive tasksusing Machine Learning, NLP,Computer Vision and OCRengine to save several hundredsof business hours, drasticallyslash costs and accelerate pro-ductivity and efficiency acrossbusiness verticals to function

error-free, 24*7.Along with AI and IPA, the

company also offers Big DataAnalytics Solutions — L2H Labenables Predictive andPreventive Modelling, throughvarious Data Visualisation toolas well as Machine LearningAlgorithms, to enhance decisionmaking capabilities as well asreduce revenue leakage up to 50per cent.

The services have enabled a30 per cent boost in NetPromoter Scores, by enabling upto 60 per cent automation oftasks across business functions.

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The Institute of ManagementStudies (IMS) Noida organ-

ised Business Mark fest 2020online programme for theirstudents. The competition wasorganised under the aegis ofIMS Marketing Club.

The mark fest consists ofvarious competitions likeproduct development, logomaking, brochure making andmeme making.

In competition, two roundswere kept for the contestants. Inwhose first round the creationsof the students were voted

through social media. Duringthe competition, the creationswith the most likes, shares andpositive comments were select-ed for the second round. In thesecond round, 10 selected par-ticipants presented their ideasin front of the jury.

Inaugurating the pro-gramme, Dean Prof (Dr)Manju Gupta said that nowa-days is the time for digital mar-keting. There is also a lot ofpotential in this area for stu-dents, in the coming time,companies will conduct itsbusiness through e-commerceand online.

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announced admissions openfor the application of BTechprograms for the year 2020.The institute currently offersthree undergraduate pro-grammes: BTech inElectronics &Communication Engineering(ECE), BTech in ComputerScience & Engineering (CSE)and BTech in Data Science &Artificial Intelligence (DSAI).

These credit-based pro-grammes are designed to fos-ter core skills with innovationand entrepreneurship skillsamong students.

Eligibility: Admission toB. Tech. programmes is basedon JEE (Main) rank. There arethree different categoriesthrough which students areadmitted:�All India Quota (35 per centseats amounting to 63 seats:21 in CSE, 21 in ECE and 21in DSAI): Candidates whocompleted their school edu-cation from any part of Indiabelong to this category. Theireligibility will be as per thebusiness rules of JoSAA 2020.Admissions will be based onJEE (Main) 2020rank.Candidates seekingadmission under this Quotamust apply through JoSAA(http://josaa.nic.in).� NTPC Quota (15 per centSeats amounting to 27 seats: 9in CSE, 9 in ECE and 9 inDSAI): Candidates employedwith NTPC or their wardswho completed their schooleducation from any part ofIndia belong to this category.Please visit https://josaa.nic.infor eligibil ity criteria.Admissions will be based onJEE (Main) 2020 rank. Allreservations will be as perGovernment of India norms.

Candidates seeking admis-sion under this quota mustapply through the instituteonline portal (https://www.iiit-nr.ac.in/content/btech-admis-sion-2020).� Chhattisgarh State Quota(50 per cent Seats amountingto 90 seats: 30 in CSE, 30 inECE and 30 in DSAI):Candidates who passed bothClass X and XII examinationsfrom schools situated in theState of Chhattisgarh belongto this category. The candi-dates must have scored 50%aggregate marks in Chemistry,Physics and Mathematics(45% for SC/ST/OBC/PWDcandidates) in their 12th stan-dard examination.Admissions will be based onJEE (Main) 2020 rank.

The reservation for candi-dates belonging to SC, ST andOBC categories shall be as perChhattisgarh Governmentnorms.

Candidates seeking admis-sion under this quota mustapply through the instituteonline portal (https://www.iiit-nr.ac.in/content/btech-admis-sion-2020).

L ast date to apply :October 15, 2020.

How to apply: Log on tohttps://www.iiitnr.ac.in/.

According to studies conductedacross various sectors in India, a

majority of recruiters do not deemmost graduates as employable. As thenation grapples with an economicslowdown and employment crunchin the aftermath of the COVID-19pandemic, it is incumbent upon us tointrospect on the reasons.

Upon further questioning, it wasfound that recruiters had contrastingdefinitions of an employable candi-date. While some preferred a self-suf-ficient employee requiring minimalsupervision, others looked for tenac-ity and ambition. Still others searchfor multitaskers or polyglots.However, while these definitionsindicate certain attributes of a can-didate’s personality, they fail to iden-tify and actually define what recruitersneed.This lack of a common frame-work for defining employability cre-ates a conundrum not only for stu-dents searching for these jobs, but alsofor educational institutions aroundthe world that are expected to createemployable graduates.

Another gaping issue is theflawed system used inthe hiring ofcandidates. More often than not,companies delegate the responsibil-ities of a recruitment firm to juniorlevel employees, who are left with alarge number of resumes to siftthrough as well as interview poten-tial candidates. These interviews

mostly comprise of some standardquestions, with the candidate dolingout pre-rehearsed answers. Sincemost colleges prepare their studentsto clear such interviews, the trueemployability of a candidate may notbe determined until after they arehired. It is no wonder that almost 60per cent of new entry-level hires donot work out as expected once theyjoin the company.

A key component for building aneducation system that creates employ-able candidates is to first define theparameters of employability, whichneed to be valid in entry level jobsacross most industries.

Research across a large numberof surveys of employers has deter-mined that the most commonly cited

employability traits include:� Strong communication skills: tounderstand others and convey apoint of view effectively�Good teamworking ability: tocollaborate with peers to achieve com-pany goals�An aptitude for solving problems:to face new challenges and overcomethem�Proactivity: to work without need-ing constant supervision �Professional work ethic: to deliv-er what was promised on time

Interestingly, most employers donot want a creative, highly intelligentcandidate. Instead they look foremployees who can understand theneeds of the organisation and theirsuperiors, and deliver efficiently. This

is a relatively simple ask and it wouldbe easy for universities to develop aneducation model that hones thesetraits.

Faculty, thus, need to make a shiftfrom giving lectures, a one-way com-munication method,to becomingfacilitators for self-discovery, whichinvolves two-way communicationand engages students in the quest fornew knowledge and skills.Pedagogical innovations already exist,that can aid in this, such as problem-based learning where students workindividually or in teams to solve chal-lenges set by their teacher; flippedclassrooms where students study thecourse material before coming toclass;case studies or simulationswhich involve the application of theknowledge learned; and work-studyassignments where students intern ata real company and implement a pro-ject.

Peter Drucker said: “What getsmeasured, gets managed”. If recruitersand universities could find commonground for defining what makes anemployable candidate, they will beable to devise a robust framework toenable the development of a skilledworkforce that can match the require-ments of the industry and help themachieve organisational goals success-fully.

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The pandemic unleashed chal-lenges for the healthcare sec-tors like we had never imag-

ined. As the situation went out ofcontrol owing to the growing num-ber of cases across the world, the sec-tor revamped steadily to combat thechallenges while opening up aplethora of opportunities for Gen Z.

As health is prime importancethan anything else including wealth,so health care professional has theresponsibility to sustain the worldhealthy to enjoy the charm of godgifted life; whereas, Pharmacy is thebasis of healthcare professional-ism.There is no denying the fact thatthe healthcare industry is one of themost lucrative industries to explorea career today and its growth isexpected to increase manifolds in thecoming years. While more than ahundred companies across the worldare working tirelessly to develop avaccine for COVID, the healthcareinstitutions and medical collegesare working in tandem with the newresearches that are coming along theway.

Pharmacy is one field that haswitnessed a lot of interest by theorganisations, Governments in thepast couple of the months. As a dis-cipline being versatile and dynamic,the Pharma Industry is certainly a‘sunrise sector’ that is constantlygrowing and evolving.

Therefore if you are looking fora career in the field of pharma, thetime is right now. Pharmacy offerslifelong learning and the disciplineof pharmacy has a good future,offering wide range of employmentopportunities with an excellentsalary.

Why Pharmacy as a Career?Some of the reasons why phar-

macy has become the go to career formost of the youngsters today include:

Unique approach to health-care: Pharmacists play a vital role inconnecting patients and medicalprofessionals. The pharmacist ofteninteracts with patients more oftenthan the prescribing medical pro-fessional. They help patients under-stand their medication regimens

and improve their health outcomes.This further strengthens pharmacist-patient relationship and helps rein-force the role of the pharmacist as atrusted health advisor.

Diverse career options:Youngsters are always on a look outfor careers wherein there is a lot ofoptions to choose from. Pharmacy isone such field that has a pool ofcareer opportunities to explore.Fromresearch, to clinical and retail tobecoming pharmacists, the aspi-rants have the flexibility to train forand pursue the career that mostclosely matches with their area ofinterest. This also provides themwith an upper hand since they caneasily switch jobs within their pro-fession.

Flexibility: Everyone strives toget into a job which along with offer-

ing them a decent salary rewardsthem with a life where there is a bal-ance between professional as well aspersonal life. In this case, the phar-macists have quite flexible workinghours. Since they are in demandaround the clock, it is possible forthem to find work for any shift of theday.

Ability to help people:Pharmacists are among the mosttrusted and accessible health careprofessionals. This accessibilityallows them to perform more patientcare activities, including counseling,medication management, and pre-ventive care screenings. Like physi-cians, pharmacists have an advanceddegree and are experts at helpingpeople stay healthy.

The right path to build a careerin pharma:

Aspirants can enroll themselvesin some of the popular courses suchas B Pharmacy, D Pharmacy. Thereis a lot of scope in specialisations toowhere the aspirants can opt forshort term courses and invest theirtime in full-time research.

Scope and importanceResearch & Development:

Pharmacologist, Chemist, Drug dis-covery/ Process Development,Toxicology Studies, BioequivalenceStudy and many others.

Eligibility:For D.Pharma & B.Pharma: Phy,

Chem & Eng as Major Subject. Mostof the institutions demand minimum50 per cent Marks at Higher & SeniorSecondary level (Class X & XII)while filing for the applications.

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challenges and problemsengulfing school education sothat school leaders, teachersand educators understandand try convert problemsinto opportunities. A suc-cessful deployment of theseeducation convos in the ini-tial phase has already begunand have seen close to 1000+educators registering everyweek for it across India.

Each conversation ofFriday@5 is for 60 minutesduration and has two parts:One, The Experts Panel of 40minutes where 3-4 experts

will provide their insights ona specific topic and the chal-lenges and opportunities andconcern thereof. The expertswill include practitioners,policymakers, researchers &eminent speakers. Two, TheOpen Mic of 20 minuteswhere 10-15 participantsshare their thoughts on theissue with the audience.

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The pandemic has set highbars to acquire a reasonablejob. There are many reasons

for the rise in unemployment,including a lack of jobs opportu-nities and over-population. Inspite of having a higher education,college, degree it has become dif-ficult for youth to give a powerkick to their career while every-thing is on standstill.

Acquiring a desired job hasnot become difficult but it ismore competitive. For young peo-ple today, it is more importantthan ever that they are well-equipped to enter the workforce.

Experts predict that 26 billionor more sensors and devices willbe connected to the internet by2020, bringing in an era ofmachine intelligence that is alreadyre-framing the world of humans.While the technologists andresearchers prepare for the futureof digitisation. Despite being edu-cated, many lack the skills theyneed to get their desired job.

Here are the set of seven fireskills which can up skill the youthto become job ready.

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connecting with like-minded pro-fessionals maintaining good rela-tions with people who can becomeyour potential partners, investorsand more. It can become chal-lenging for a fresher to find theright time, or approach, to speakto someone you don’t know inorder to let them know about whatyou represent and what you haveto offer. Therefore building astrong network can help get moreopportunities.

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getting a job it has become utmostimportant to know the digitalworld. Digital literacy is on therise, the number is expected togrow at an additional rate of 18 percent to 536 million. due to thepandemic every industry opted fordigital working and it is becomingobvious to look for technicaladvancement. Digital world is thenew parameter to make you moreeligible to secure a reasonable job.

Knowing how to create onlinecontent, managing social mediapages, having ideas of how to edittext, image and video creating andcurating content, having full-fledged knowledge of MS-officeand many more you are digitallyliterate.

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preneurship as the new firm cre-ation has gone up dramatically in

India since 2014, said theEconomic Survey 2019-20.

If you have the will to takeresponsibility to generate ideas,self-driven work attitude, gettingmotivated to work, taking risk,responsibilities and ownership ofwork, having broader perspectiveand generating ideas that couldhelp in growing individually andcompany. These skills can possi-bly make youth more independentand ready to face any job relatedchallenges.

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needed for future jobs is curiosi-ty to learn, explore. Our future isunrestricted, so there is no limit towhat workers in the future mayneed to learn. Today education isnot limited to what is taught inschools, colleges, the scope oflearning has become wideremployers are looking for well-balanced people with transferableskills with ability to learn anddevelop.

Take advantage of training,mentoring opportunities and workon your continuous professionaldevelopment as you will likelybecome better at what you do andmore requisite to your current orfuture employer.

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skills. Before seeking a job youneed to know yourself well enoughto know your strengths and weak-nesses. When a worker under-stands him, he can make adjust-ments where needed and performat his or her best. Young peoplewho know themselves not onlyknow how to approach and solveproblems, but are also better ableto work effectively and efficient-ly.

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The IoT architecture is a structureof numerous elements. In simple words,IoT architecture has five major com-ponents.

IoT device: It can be wireless sen-sors, software, actuators and comput-er devices. They are fixed to a specificobject that runs through internet.

IoT Gateway: It is a device or asoftware program that serves as a con-nection point between cloud and mul-tiple IoT devices.

Network: This is the bridging ele-ment that connects an array of IoT gate-ways to the Cloud platform by tradi-tional TCP/IP network.

Cloud: It is a platform which takesmassive volumes of data generated.They receive them via IoT gatewayswhich in turn has tons of devicesbehind them.

Applications: The synthesised datafor the end user to derive meaningfulinsights. The application typically pro-vides a User Interface (UI) to the enduser.

Knowing the growing need of IoTbased skills in the market, theElectronics Sector Skills Council ofIndia and Entrepreneurship, skill theyouth of the country specifically in theelectronics domain. If you are lookingforward to making your career in thisdomain, you can simply take trainingfrom the registered training partners ofESSCI that are available pan India.

The council has prepared two job-oriented courses (QP’s) in which thecandidates can take training and get thejob easily in the IoT domain. They are:

IoT Hardware Analyst: This QPprimarily takes a complete hardware

perspective. For engineers comingfrom Electronics/Electrical back-ground, this is an ideal QP if you wantto have your career in the hardwareaspect of IoT. The QP is designed as apack of skills that includes circuitdesign, hardware realisation in termsof PCB, optimisation, verification andvalidation, and system thinking aspects.

Embedded Full-Stack IoTAnalyst: This QP primarily takes thesoftware perspective. With a primaryfocus on embedded software design,this QP focuses on skill-building. ThisQP also gives very good focus toinculcate engineering best practices.

According to Fortune BusinessInsights, the global IoT market was val-ued at $190 billion in 2018 and is pro-jected to reach $1,102.6 billion by 2026,growing at a CAGR of 24.7 per cent inthe forecast period.

The future of IoT is virtuallyunlimited due to advances in technol-ogy and consumers desire to integratedevices such as smartphones withhousehold machines. Also, there is somuch data travelling from device todevice. Security is another key concernwill need to be addressed to keep upwith demands.

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Award: £5,000Eligibility: To be considered

for this education award, theapplicant must be received anoffer to study the master’s degreeprogram at the university for theacademic year 2021-2022. Mustattach the copies of your pass-port, transcripts and exam cer-tificates, especially in subjectsrelated to your chosen degreeand CV.

Admission requirements:For taking entrance in the mas-ter’s degree at the university,seekers are demanded to holdtheir bachelor’s degree certifi-cates with good academic gradesin the relevant subject area.

Language requirements: IfEnglish is not your first languagethen you may be required to pro-duce evidence of your Englishlanguage proficiency.

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Australian big-hitter GlennMaxwell has attributed his

inconsistent run in the IPL overeight seasons to frequent changesin his role, something that is veryclear to him when playing for hiscountry.

Speaking to PTI, the Victorianexplained why he has realised hispotential while playing forAustralia and the reason for hisinconsistent run in the IPL.

“I probably would not (com-pare IPL and Australia career).The way I have played internation-al cricket, it has been more of aclearer role. I know exactly howthe guys will bat around me,” hesaid.

Having overcome mentalhealth issues last year, it seemsMaxwell is back to his best ininternational cricket. However,the same can’t be said about his

IPL performances — he hasscored 58 runs at 14.50 in sevengames so far.

Due to his exploits forAustralia, Maxwell has alwaysbeen sought after in the IPL andmost recently KXIP bought himback by paying a whopping �10.75crore at the auction.

“My role in IPL changes prob-ably for most games. In IPL, a lotof teams change their sides a lot.In the Australian set-up we havethe same eleven for most of thegames, we all know our roles real-ly well,” said Maxwell.

He is batting at five for KXIPthis season and said his role is tosupport the top-four.

“When you are only togeth-er for two months in the year withIPL, there is going to be choppingand changing. You are alwayslooking for that right team bal-ance. The team you pick at thestart of the tournament might not

have the balance you think as youprogress.

“We feel we are getting clos-er to that (team balance). I havehad different experiences (in theIPL) where I have not quite per-formed to the level people expectbut there has been no lack of try-ing, (or) putting the effort in train-ing.”

With the top-four facing most

of the balls, Maxwell feels he hasnot got enough time in the mid-dle to make an impact. On thebowling front, he has got theopportunity to roll his arm overonly thrice in seven games

“This year has been a differ-ent role (batting at five) and I amtrying to get used to it. I would liketo think that I have tried to do myrole as well as I can.

“We have got Nicky (NicholasPooran) batting unbelievably wellat four. With his power-hitting, myjob has been to get him on strikeand be there to help finish offgames.

“I have been not out fourtimes (three actually) in sevengames which is probably neverhappened to me in the history ofmy career. So, it has been astrange transition for me battingat five and one that I feel, I havestarted to become more accus-tomed to.”

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Bolstered by the arrival of BenStokes, Rajasthan Royals

will hope for a stronger showfrom its slightly off-colour toporder when the side tries to set-tle scores against second-placedDelhi Capitals in their return legIPL match here on Wednesday.

The Capitals had beaten RRby 46 runs last week and SteveSmith’s men will look to returnthe compliment when theymeet for the second time in thetournament.

The last time thetwo teams clashed,RR didn’t have Stokesin the ranks and eventhough the Englandall-rounder didn’t setthe stage on fire in hisfirst game but his presenceinspired the former championsto snap a four-match losingstreak with a five-wicket winover Sunrisers Hyderabad.

While Stokes will be animportant cog in the RR wheel,the team will also have to fix itstop order which has been shortof runs in the last fivegames, leaving toomuch for the lower-order to get.

Skipper Smithand Sanju Samsonhave failed to makeany significant contribu-tion with the bat since set-ting the Sharjahground on fire in theirfirst two matches.

Jos Buttler pro-duced a superb 44-ball70 against MumbaiIndians but didn’t cap-italise on the starts inthe last two matches.

In fact, if it was-n’t for RahulTewatia, theRoyals wouldstill be inthe dumps.

The all-rounder, who had blast-ed five sixes against Kings XIPunjab, once again rescued RRwith a 28-ball 45 in their lastgame against Sunrisers.

Delhi, on the other hand,were brought down by MumbaiIndians in their last game andShreyas Iyer’s men will look toshrug off the odd defeat and getback to the top with a profes-sional display.

The Capitals possess anexplosive batting department aswell as a formidable bowlingunit with Kagiso Rabada emerg-

ing as the best bowlerthis season, snaring17 wickets so far.

He has been sup-ported well by fellowSouth African pacerAnrich Nortje (8

wickets) and Harshal Patel.Ravichandran Ashwin too

has bowled well in the power-play and along with Axar Patel,has done well to suffocate theopposition teams.

However, it was MarcusStoinis, whose all-round showfloored RR in their last face-off

and Smith would hope that hisside has his match in Stokes.

In bowling, JofraArcher has led the chargefor RR. He, along with the

spin duo of Tewatiaand ShreyasGopal, have con-sistently figuredin the XI, whichhas gonethrough a lot ofchopping andchanging.

For DC,S h i k h a rD h a w a n ’ sreturn to formfurther booststheir battingorder, featur-ing PrithviShaw and Iyerin the top four.

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Murray, 33, the reigningOlympic champion, crashed outof last month’s French Open instraight sets with a lop-sided firstround defeat to Stan Wawrinka

as he works his way back fromhip surgery.

On Sunday, the Scotwatched in awe as Nadal, 34,demolished Novak Djokovic 6-0, 6-2, 7-5 in the final at RolandGarros to win his 13th FrenchOpen title.

The Spaniard has alsoequalled the all-time record of20 Grand Slam titles held byRoger Federer, who hailedNadal’s victory as “one of sport’sgreatest achievements”.

Murray echoed the Swisslegend and doubts anyone willeven get close to Nadal’s recordin Paris.

“It’s an amazing achieve-ment. I don’t think that what hehas done at Roland Garros willever be beaten. I just don’t see itbeing topped,” Murray said inCologne.

“He is one short of winningthe same amount of GrandSlams as (Pete) Sampras did justat one tournament. It’s incredi-ble.

“I don’t think it’ll be repeat-ed and I don’t think anyone willbe close.” AFP

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Fast-rising Indian shuttler LakshyaSen made a successful return to

competitive badminton, beatingChristo Popov in straight games in theopening round of the $750,000Denmark Open, which marked theresumption of the international calen-der after a coronavirus-forced break ofseven months.

The 19-year-old Indian, whoclaimed five titles including two Super100 tournaments last year, produced aclinical performance to outwit Popov21-9, 21-15 to reach the second round.

He will take on the winner of thematch between Denmark,s Hans-Kristian Solberg Vittinghus andBelgium,s Maxime Moreels.

“I moved quite well, that was thekey. In the second game he had a leadbut I had made a few mistakes. I wasable to cut down on them and find myrhythm,” Lakshya, who is currentlyranked world No 27, was quoted as say-ing by Badminton World Federation(BWF).

“I’m very happy to be playingagain after seven months and it felt verynormal on the court.”

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The Karni Singh Range will bedivided into four “risk” zones

to ensure that Olympic-boundshooters can safely resume train-ing at a two-month long nation-al camp which will be conduct-ed from Thursday in a bio-bub-ble to ward off the Covid-19threat.

The Sports Authority of India(SAI) and the National RifleAssociation of India (NRAI) willtake joint responsibility of con-ducting the camp in a secure envi-ronment.

“In order to maintain asecure bio-bubble whereby

the athletes can train safe-ly and to prevent a coro-navirus outbreak, the

responsibility of maintainingthe Standard Operating

Procedures (SOPs) will be sharedby the Sports Authority of Indiaand the NRAI,” read a statementfrom SAI on Tuesday.

The camp had earlier beenpostponed twice because of thepandemic and is expected to fea-

ture 32 shooters (18 men and 14women), eight coaches, threeforeign coaches and two supportstaff. All 15 Olympic quota win-ners will be a part of it.

“To maintain safety, zoning ofpremises by nature of risk catego-ry to minimise the contactbetween campers and range per-sonnel has been planned intoGreen, Orange, Yellow and RedZones,” it added.

The NRAI has made board-ing and lodging arrangements ata hotel close to the range, forwhich SAI is providing support asper existing SOP.

From the hotel to the entry tothe shooting range, it would beNRAI’s responsibility to ensurecompliance of the SOP in orderto keep the bio-bubble secure.

Shooters/coaches comingfrom outside the Delhi-NCRregion will have to be quarantinedat the hotel for seven days whilethe locals will require self-isola-tion at home for a week, afterwhich they will join othercampers in the hotel for theentire duration.

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Royal Challengers Bangalorecaptain Virat Kohli said AB

de Villiers’ match-wining 73against Kolkata Knight Riderswas a “superhuman” effort as“every other batsmen” struggledon the dry Sharjah pitch.

RCB registered a massive 82-run win on the back of deVilliers’ unbeaten 33 ballblitzkrieg on Monday.

“This pitch was drier. Andthe day was pleasant so wethought there would be no dew.Barring one superhuman, every

batsman struggled on thepitch. The talk was aroundgetting 165, but we got 194you know exactly why. It wasunbelievable,” Kohli said at thepost-match presentation.

“I thought I had a fewballs under my belt, and Imight start striking. He (deVilliers) just came in andstruck the third ball, and saidhe felt good. You might see alot of people do what is donein other games, but only ABcan did what he did. It was afabulous knock.”

Kohli, who remained not

out on 33 from 28 balls, saidit was only thanks to thegenius of de Villiers that hisside got to 194 for two.

“I was happy we couldstring together a partnership(of 100 runs), and mine wasthe best seat to watch from.”

Talking about the win,Kohli said, “It is a tremendouswin against a very strongside. Heading into a busyweek for us, it was importantto start off well. The bowlingunit looks that much morepotent with Chris Morriscoming back.”

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Cristiano Ronaldo has beenreleased from the Portuguese

national team camp after testingpositive for Covid-19.

A statement released by thePortuguese football federation onTuesday confirmed the 35-year-oldis asymptomatic and feeling fine,but he must now undergo a periodof self-isolation.

This means he will missPortugal’s Uefa Nations Leagueclash with Sweden onWednesday and is also adoubt for Juventus’ upcom-ing fixtures against Crotoneand Dynamo Kyiv.

The Serie A clubare yet to make astatement but thePortuguese federa-tion confirmed therest of thePortuguese squad allreturned negativeCovid-19 test resultson Tuesday, andRonaldo is the onlyplayer who must missthe Sweden game.

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Tokyo is planning to hold an international gym-nastics meet next month that will exempt non-

Japanese athletes from a 14-day quarantine period,an approach that might foreshadow planning fornext year’s postponed Olympics.

The Japanese Gymnastics Associationannounced the meet will feature athletes from theUnited States, Russia, China and Japan.

The one-day event is set for Nov 8 at the YoyogiNational Gymnasium. The Japanese news agencyKyodo reported that 2,000 fans will be allowed toattend, and it said athletes’ travel will be restrictedwhile in the country.

Kyodo said the non-Japanese athletes will takea polymerase chain reaction test before they leavehome, and will also be tested daily in Japan. Theevent will involve 32 gymnasts — eight from eachcountry.

Tokyo organisers are studying contingenciesfrom next year’s Olympics, which are scheduled toopen on July 23, 2021. The most difficult problemsis how to let 15,400 Olympic and Paralympic ath-letes compete in Tokyo and keep from spreading thecoronavirus.

In addition to athletes, organizers will have toaccommodate thousands of team officials, techni-cal officials who run the competitions, media, broad-casters, and sponsors. Also up in the air is the ques-tion of having fans attend events, or of allowing non-Japanese fans to even enter the country.

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to 167 for 6 in an Indian Premier League matchhere on Tuesday.

Watson’s 42 off 38 balls was studded withone four and three maximums, while Rayudu’shit three boundaries and two sixes in his 34-ball 41-run knock.

Jadeja (25 not out) and Dhoni (21 off 13balls) played quick cameos smashing a total of

five fours and two sixes betweenthem in a stand of 32 in just 2.4 overs.

SRH bowlers did a commendablejob, claiming four wickets for 47runs in the last six overs. SandeepSharma (2/19), Khaleel Ahmed(2/45) and T Natarajan (2/41)picked two wickets apiece.

Desperate to snap theirtwo-match losing streak, CSKelected to bat. The three-timechampions sent young Englandall-rounder Sam Curran instead of

Watson to open the innings with Faf duPlessis.

Sharma drew first blood for the Sunrisers,removing du Plessis in the beginning of the thirdover. The South African sneaked one to JonnyBairstow off the very first ball he faced for agolden duck.

Curran was off to a bright start, smashingAhmed for the first boundary of the match inthe second over. He continued his onslaught on

the pacer by hitting him two fours and asmany sixes in the fourth over, quickly rac-ing to 31 off 21-balls.

But Curran’s time in the mid-dle was brought to an end bySharma, who went around thewicket to bowl a good lengthdelivery angled into the legstump. CSK ended the power-

play at 44/2 with both openersback in the dugout.

With pacer Sandeep Sharmaaccounting for both openers inthe Powerplay, Watson and

Rayudu stitched a valuable 81-run partnership. The duo initial-

ly kept the score board ticking withoccasional boundaries on a dry but

weary surface but upped the ante inthe 15th over, hitting Rashid Khan fora six each.

Ahmed broke the stand by gettingrid of Rayudu, who was caught at long-off by skipper David Warner. Watsonsoon followed with T Natarajan dis-

missing the Australian.

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