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F resh tension is reported from Line of Actual Control (LAC) after the Chinese army tried to intrude into Indian ter- ritory on Monday and Tuesday in eastern and southern Ladakh. While the first attempt came at the south bank of the Pangong Tso (lake), the other took place in Chumar and Depsang. The Indian Army foiled all the three bids in the last 24 hours and is on high alert all along the 1,600 km long LAC in the Ladakh region. All these “brazen” and “provocative” actions by the Chinese took place even as the Brigadier-level talks were on between the two sides at Chushul-Moldo at the LAC on Monday and Tuesday Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held a series of meetings with the military top brass here on Tuesday to review India’s readiness to meet this threat. The Chinese troops engaged in “provocative action” on August 31 “even as the ground commanders of the two sides were in discussions to de-escalate the situation,” the External Affairs Ministry said. India has taken up the issue with China through diplomatic and military chan- nels and has “urged them to discipline and control their frontline troops,” it said. Giving details, sources said the Indian soldiers were sur- rounded by Chinese soldiers, who were trying to regain the heights that are being domi- nated by the Indian Army fol- lowing the action on August 29-30. Chinese soldiers were warned not to proceed near the Black Top hill and they were dissuaded. This came after their military comman- der in discussions with the Indian brigadier at the time was told to tell his forces to stand down to prevent any escalation. The Chumar incident on Tuesday saw the Chinese try- ing to provoke the Indian forces by attempting to intrude into India in ten to 12 armoured vehicles. However, the Indian forces blocked them and asked the Chinese to desist from escalating the sit- uation, sources said. F ormer President Pranab Mukherjee’s last rites were performed at the Lodhi Crematorium in the national Capital on Tuesday. His son Abhijit Mukherjee performed his last rites in the presence of friends and family. The former President was consigned to flames with full military hon- ours, under restrictions for Covid-19. The mortal remains of the late ex-President were taken to the crematorium in a hearse van, instead of a normal gun carriage, keeping Covid-19 protocols in consideration. Several political leaders, including President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi paid their last respects to the former President. “Paid tributes to respected Pranab Mukherjee. He would be remembered by generations for his efforts towards India’s progress,” Modi tweeted. The demise of the for- mer President was also con- doled by the Union Cabinet. The Union Cabinet said the country has lost an outstand- ing parliamentarian and a dis- tinguished leader. Headed by Prime Minister, the Cabinet also observed two minutes of silence in the memory of Mukherjee. “Joined the Union Cabinet meeting via video conferencing in presence of the Prime Minister to express pro- found sorrow on the sad demise of former President of India Pranab Mukherjee,” Home Minister Amit Shah tweeted. O n the 12th day of its inves- tigations in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case, the CBI on Tuesday questioned actress Rhea Chakraborty’s parents Indrajit and Indrajit Chakraborty extensively, even as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) grilled hote- lier from Goa Guarav Arya in the Sushant case-linked money laundering case. On a day when the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) — in an apparently Sushant death case-triggered raids conducted in Mumbai and Delhi — seized 3.5 kg Marijuana (bud) worth 1.75 crore, the CBI subjected Rhea’s parents to questioning for more than eight hours. Rhea’s parents reached the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO)’s guest house at 11 am at Santa Cruz’s Kalina area in north-west Mumbai, where the CBI investigators have been camping ever since their arrival from Mumbai on August 20. After extensive questioning that went well beyond 7 pm, Indrajit and Indrajit Chakraborty returned from the DRDO guest house to their nearby Juhu residence. However, the CBI did not question Rhea and her brother Showik on Tuesday. Till Monday, Rhea had been ques- tioned for four consecutive days involving 36 hours, while her brother Showik had been grilled for five consecutive days. In simultaneous operations against the trafficked bud (curated marijuana) sourced from abroad carried out in Mumbai and Delhi, the NCB seized 3.5 kg of bud “having high street value in Mumbai and the best quality is sold at the price of 5,000 per gram”. “The seizure made in Delhi was destined for Mumbai. The seizure made in Mumbai was sourced from Canada and des- tined for Goa... The operations in Mumbai had links with Goa and one person namely F Ahmed, a resident of Calangute, Goa has been inter- cepted, who works in a promi- nent resort as driver,” a senior NCB official said. Tuesday was the first occa- sion when Rhea’s parents were questioned in connection with the actor’s death case. Indrajit and Sandhya Chakraborty are among the persons named along with Rhea, her brother Showik, Sushaant’s ex-manag- er Shruti Manager Shruti Modi and others in an FIR lodged by the actor’s father KK Singh with Rajiv Nagar police station in Patna. It was on the basis of this FIR that the Supreme Court ordered the transfer of the Rajput death case to the CBI. Rhea, her parents, her brother and others have been booked as part of this FIR under sections 341 (wrongful restraint) 342 (wrongful con- finement, 380 (theft), 406 (breach of trust), 420 (cheat- ing), 306 (abetting suicide) and 120-B (conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code. D espite all-round protests, the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE)-Mains for admission to IITs and NITs took place on Tuesday amid stringent pre- cautions and social distancing measures in view of the Covid-19 pandemic. Staggered entry and exit for candidates, sanitisers at the gate, distribution of masks, and maintaining social dis- tancing as candidates queued up, were some of the measures at the exam centres across the country. But several States reported that candidates faced difficulties in reaching centres due to heavy rain and lack of conveyance facilities. Education Secretary Amit Khare said JEE was conduct- ed smoothly all over the coun- try. “I would like to thank all the State Governments and officials of the National Testing Agency (NTA) for the smooth conduct of the exam- ination,” Khare told The Pioneer. There has been a decline in JEE aspirants in 2020 with 8,58,273 registering as com- pared to 9,35,741 in 2019. The West Bengal Government had earlier opposed the Centre’s deci- sion to conduct JEE during Covid times as students would be exposed to the pandemic. W aiver of interest on deferred EMIs during the moratorium period would be against “the basic canons of finance” and unfair to those who repaid loans as per sched- ule, the Centre told the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Reserve Bank of India has however come out with a scheme which provides for extension of moratorium for two years to certain stressed borrowers, the Cenre informed the apex court. The Ministry of Finance has filed an affidavit before the apex court which had asked the Centre and the RBI to review the move to charge interest on EMIs and interest on the inter- est during the moratorium period introduced under the scheme due to the Covid-19 pandemic. During the hearing of a PIL on the issue, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre and RBI, told a bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan that the moratorium period on repayment of loans amid the Covid-19 pandemic is “extendable” by two years. The bench would hear the case on Wednesday. A gainst the backdrop of the Congress’ allegations that social media platform Facebook (FB) favoured the BJP and the RSS, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has written a letter to FB CEO Mark Zuckerberg claiming it was the BJP which suffered due to policy pursued by some biased officials of the Facebook India. Prasad said there was a “concerted effort” by FB India officials to delete pages of right-of-centre ideology. New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will take part respective Ministers’ meets of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Moscow. China and Pakistan too are part of this grouping. Both the Ministers may meet their Chinese counterparts there. A belligerent China has blamed India for the latest round of friction at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) on south bank of the Pangong Lake, call- ing it a step to divert public attention from the domestic issues, and warned India that, “the PLA is bound to make the Indian Army suffer much more severe losses than it did in 1962.” China’s Western Theatre Command said on Monday evening that Indian troops once again illegally crossed the LAC near the south bank of the Pangong Lake and Reqin mountain pass, a blatant provocative move that seri- ously infringed on China’s ter- ritorial sovereignty, and under- mined the peace and stability in the China-India border area. China on Monday also tried to come close to one of the peaks occupied by India on August 29, however, local com- manders dissuaded the Chinese from coming close. A report in the China’s mouthpiece Global Times said that after the June clash between the two armies in the Galwan Valley anti-China opinion dominated Indian society and India overreached itself by economically sanc- tioning China and strength- ened interaction with the US in order to gain an upper hand over Beijing. Washington almost publicly sided with New Delhi, which further encouraged the latter, the report said. T he number of active cases of Covid-19 infection on Tuesday crossed the 15,000 mark in Jharkhand for the first time after more than 2000 people were found infected in 24 hours, data released by the health department on Tuesday late night stated. As per figures with the health department, nearly 1000 cases of infection surfaced in Ranchi alone on Tuesday, tak- ing the Covid tally in Jharkhand’s worst-affected dis- trict to 8,754. The number of active cases in the district also drew close to 4000 as only 60 patients recovered and 951 tested positive for the virus. East Singhbhum, the sec- ond worst-affected district in the state, reported 244 cases of infection on Tuesday, taking the tally in the district to 7,342, a bulletin from the National Health Mission (NHM) high- lighted. It further stated that East Singhbhum reported three of the five Covid deaths in state on Tuesday, taking the Covid toll in the district to 192, which is over 40 per cent of the total Covid casualties reported in Jharkhand so far. Meanwhile, state health minister Banna Gupta, who was found Covid infected on August 18, tested negative for the virus on Tuesday after undergoing treatment for 14 days. The minister announced his recovery from the viral infection from his official Twitter handle on Tuesday, and lauded the efforts of health workers, who were putting their own wellbeing at risk to treat the infected people.“I will donate my blood plasma for treatment of Covid patients now. I would like to thank the RIMS (Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences) administra- tion for doing such a com- mendable job in treating Covid patients,” he said. Besides Ranchi and East Singhbhum, Bokaro reported an unprecedented rise in the number of Covid cases as 203 people in the district tested positive for the virus on Tuesday. Giridih reported 155 Covid cases. C hief Minister Hemant Soren today said that preparations are on (by the Centre) to fulfill the require- ments of the entire country with the resources of Jharkhand. Talking to media persons here on Tuesday the CM said that an amount of more than Rs 5000 crore goes as a cess from Jharkhand, which goes into Centre’s pocket. The CM said that the Central government is again trying to confuse the states in the matter of GST. “Recently GST council meeting was held. In a nutshell the economy of the State and the country has already been hugely strained. The Centre has utterly failed to control the situation and the situation has come when in near future the country has to see very bad days,” he said. “The way the Centre is try- ing to trap states in the GST issue, we understand and take it very seriously. We are working on the issue and will put forth our concerns very seriously. Our producing State has to bear the brunt of Centre’s policies. This will not be tolerated. We will fight for our rights at any cost and put forth our issues at all available platforms,” said the CM. The CM said that there are several issues on which the State government is working and trying to find out ways to augment revenue and get back its dues from the Centre. Meanwhile, praising Dr. Smriti the CM tweeted on Tuesday that the role of a war- rior and saviour has been played by Dr. Smriti during this critical Corona period. “Plasma donation is an important dona- tion, life donation. My appeal to the people who conquered the corona is to donate plasma, support the fight against coro- na infection,” he said. The CM was informed that Dr. Smriti was performing the duty of being a Doctor during the corona period. Then she herself got infected, but she did not lose courage and recovered from Corona. Dr. Smriti also donated plasma to treat other patients. The CM said that one and a half lakh tests were done in one day in Jharkhand. “This is probably the most tests done in a single day in the country. Despite its limited resources, the present govern- ment is fully committed to the service, safety and health of every Jharkhand resident. I appeal to all not to leave the house without masks,” he added.

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    Fresh tension is reportedfrom Line of Actual Control(LAC) after the Chinese armytried to intrude into Indian ter-ritory on Monday and Tuesdayin eastern and southernLadakh. While the first attemptcame at the south bank of thePangong Tso (lake), the othertook place in Chumar andDepsang.

    The Indian Army foiled allthe three bids in the last 24hours and is on high alert allalong the 1,600 km long LACin the Ladakh region.

    All these “brazen” and“provocative” actions by theChinese took place even as theBrigadier-level talks were onbetween the two sides atChushul-Moldo at the LAC onMonday and Tuesday

    Defence Minister RajnathSingh held a series of meetingswith the military top brass hereon Tuesday to review India’sreadiness to meet this threat.

    The Chinese troopsengaged in “provocativeaction” on August 31 “even asthe ground commanders of thetwo sides were in discussionsto de-escalate the situation,”the External Affairs Ministrysaid.

    India has taken up theissue with China throughdiplomatic and military chan-nels and has “urged them todiscipline and control theirfrontline troops,” it said.

    Giving details, sources saidthe Indian soldiers were sur-

    rounded by Chinese soldiers,who were trying to regain theheights that are being domi-nated by the Indian Army fol-lowing the action on August29-30. Chinese soldiers werewarned not to proceed nearthe Black Top hill and theywere dissuaded. This cameafter their military comman-der in discussions with theIndian brigadier at the timewas told to tell his forces tostand down to prevent anyescalation.

    The Chumar incident onTuesday saw the Chinese try-ing to provoke the Indianforces by attempting tointrude into India in ten to 12armoured vehicles. However,the Indian forces blocked themand asked the Chinese todesist from escalating the sit-uation, sources said.

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    Former President PranabMukherjee’s last rites wereperformed at the LodhiCrematorium in the nationalCapital on Tuesday. His sonAbhijit Mukherjee performedhis last rites in the presence offriends and family. The formerPresident was consigned toflames with full military hon-ours, under restrictions forCovid-19.

    The mortal remains of thelate ex-President were taken tothe crematorium in a hearsevan, instead of a normal guncarriage, keeping Covid-19protocols in consideration.

    Several political leaders,including President Ram NathKovind, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi, former PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh,Delhi Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal, Congress leaderRahul Gandhi paid their lastrespects to the former

    President. “Paid tributes torespected Pranab Mukherjee.He would be remembered bygenerations for his effortstowards India’s progress,” Moditweeted. The demise of the for-mer President was also con-doled by the Union Cabinet.

    The Union Cabinet said thecountry has lost an outstand-ing parliamentarian and a dis-tinguished leader. Headed byPrime Minister, the Cabinetalso observed two minutes ofsilence in the memory ofMukherjee. “Joined the Union

    Cabinet meeting via videoconferencing in presence of thePrime Minister to express pro-found sorrow on the saddemise of former President ofIndia Pranab Mukherjee,”Home Minister Amit Shahtweeted.

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    On the 12th day of its inves-tigations in the SushantSingh Rajput death case, theCBI on Tuesday questionedactress Rhea Chakraborty’sparents Indrajit and IndrajitChakraborty extensively, evenas the Enforcement Directorate (ED) grilled hote-lier from Goa Guarav Arya inthe Sushant case-linked moneylaundering case.

    On a day when theNarcotics Control Bureau(NCB) — in an apparentlySushant death case-triggeredraids conducted in Mumbaiand Delhi — seized 3.5 kgMarijuana (bud) worth �1.75crore, the CBI subjected Rhea’sparents to questioning for morethan eight hours.

    Rhea’s parents reached theDefence Research &Development Organisation(DRDO)’s guest house at 11 amat Santa Cruz’s Kalina area innorth-west Mumbai, where theCBI investigators have beencamping ever since their arrivalfrom Mumbai on August 20.After extensive questioningthat went well beyond 7 pm,Indrajit and IndrajitChakraborty returned fromthe DRDO guest house to theirnearby Juhu residence.

    However, the CBI did notquestion Rhea and her brotherShowik on Tuesday. TillMonday, Rhea had been ques-tioned for four consecutivedays involving 36 hours, whileher brother Showik had beengrilled for five consecutive days.

    In simultaneous operationsagainst the trafficked bud(curated marijuana) sourcedfrom abroad carried out inMumbai and Delhi, the NCBseized 3.5 kg of bud “havinghigh street value in Mumbaiand the best quality is sold atthe price of �5,000 per gram”.

    “The seizure made in Delhiwas destined for Mumbai. Theseizure made in Mumbai wassourced from Canada and des-tined for Goa... The operationsin Mumbai had links with Goaand one person namely FAhmed, a resident ofCalangute, Goa has been inter-cepted, who works in a promi-nent resort as driver,” a seniorNCB official said.

    Tuesday was the first occa-sion when Rhea’s parents werequestioned in connection with

    the actor’s death case. Indrajitand Sandhya Chakraborty areamong the persons namedalong with Rhea, her brotherShowik, Sushaant’s ex-manag-er Shruti Manager Shruti Modiand others in an FIR lodged bythe actor’s father KK Singh withRajiv Nagar police station inPatna.

    It was on the basis of thisFIR that the Supreme Courtordered the transfer of theRajput death case to the CBI.

    Rhea, her parents, herbrother and others have beenbooked as part of this FIRunder sections 341 (wrongfulrestraint) 342 (wrongful con-finement, 380 (theft), 406(breach of trust), 420 (cheat-ing), 306 (abetting suicide)and 120-B (conspiracy) of theIndian Penal Code.

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    Despite all-round protests,the Joint Entrance Exam(JEE)-Mains for admission toIITs and NITs took place onTuesday amid stringent pre-cautions and social distancingmeasures in view of theCovid-19 pandemic.

    Staggered entry and exitfor candidates, sanitisers at thegate, distribution of masks,and maintaining social dis-tancing as candidates queuedup, were some of the measuresat the exam centres across thecountry. But several States

    reported that candidates faceddifficulties in reaching centresdue to heavy rain and lack ofconveyance facilities.

    Education Secretary AmitKhare said JEE was conduct-ed smoothly all over the coun-try. “I would like to thank allthe State Governments andofficials of the NationalTesting Agency (NTA) for thesmooth conduct of the exam-ination,” Khare told ThePioneer.

    There has been a declinein JEE aspirants in 2020 with8,58,273 registering as com-pared to 9,35,741 in 2019.

    The West BengalGovernment had earlieropposed the Centre’s deci-sion to conduct JEE duringCovid times as students wouldbe exposed to the pandemic.

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    Waiver of interest ondeferred EMIs duringthe moratorium period wouldbe against “the basic canons offinance” and unfair to thosewho repaid loans as per sched-ule, the Centre told theSupreme Court on Tuesday.Reserve Bank of India hashowever come out with ascheme which provides forextension of moratorium fortwo years to certain stressedborrowers, the Cenre informedthe apex court.

    The Ministry of Financehas filed an affidavit before theapex court which had asked theCentre and the RBI to reviewthe move to charge interest onEMIs and interest on the inter-est during the moratoriumperiod introduced under thescheme due to the Covid-19pandemic.

    During the hearing of a PILon the issue, Solicitor GeneralTushar Mehta, appearing forthe Centre and RBI, told abench headed by Justice AshokBhushan that the moratoriumperiod on repayment of loansamid the Covid-19 pandemic is“extendable” by two years. Thebench would hear the case onWednesday.

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    Against the backdrop of theCongress’ allegations thatsocial media platformFacebook (FB) favoured theBJP and the RSS, Union LawMinister Ravi Shankar Prasadhas written a letter to FB CEOMark Zuckerberg claiming itwas the BJP which suffered dueto policy pursued by somebiased officials of the FacebookIndia. Prasad said there was a“concerted effort” by FB Indiaofficials to delete pages ofright-of-centre ideology.

    New Delhi: DefenceMinister Rajnath Singh andExternal Affairs Minister SJaishankar will take partrespective Ministers’ meets ofthe Shanghai CooperationOrganisation (SCO) inMoscow. China and Pakistantoo are part of this grouping.Both the Ministers may meettheir Chinese counterpartsthere.

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    Abelligerent China hasblamed India for the latestround of friction at the Line ofActual Control (LAC) on southbank of the Pangong Lake, call-ing it a step to divert publicattention from the domesticissues, and warned India that,“the PLA is bound to make theIndian Army suffer muchmore severe losses than it didin 1962.”

    China’s Western TheatreCommand said on Monday

    evening that Indian troopsonce again illegally crossedthe LAC near the south bankof the Pangong Lake and Reqinmountain pass, a blatantprovocative move that seri-ously infringed on China’s ter-ritorial sovereignty, and under-mined the peace and stabilityin the China-India border area.

    China on Monday alsotried to come close to one ofthe peaks occupied by India onAugust 29, however, local com-manders dissuaded theChinese from coming close.

    A report in the China’smouthpiece Global Times saidthat after the June clashbetween the two armies in theGalwan Valley anti-Chinaopinion dominated Indiansociety and India overreacheditself by economically sanc-tioning China and strength-ened interaction with the US inorder to gain an upper handover Beijing. Washingtonalmost publicly sided withNew Delhi, which furtherencouraged the latter, thereport said.

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    The number of active casesof Covid-19 infection onTuesday crossed the 15,000mark in Jharkhand for the firsttime after more than 2000people were found infected in24 hours, data released by thehealth department on Tuesdaylate night stated.

    As per figures with thehealth department, nearly 1000cases of infection surfaced inRanchi alone on Tuesday, tak-ing the Covid tally inJharkhand’s worst-affected dis-trict to 8,754. The number ofactive cases in the district alsodrew close to 4000 as only 60patients recovered and 951tested positive for the virus.

    East Singhbhum, the sec-ond worst-affected district inthe state, reported 244 cases ofinfection on Tuesday, takingthe tally in the district to 7,342,a bulletin from the NationalHealth Mission (NHM) high-lighted. It further stated thatEast Singhbhum reported threeof the five Covid deaths in state

    on Tuesday, taking the Covidtoll in the district to 192, whichis over 40 per cent of the totalCovid casualties reported inJharkhand so far.

    Meanwhile, state healthminister Banna Gupta, whowas found Covid infected onAugust 18, tested negative forthe virus on Tuesday afterundergoing treatment for 14days.

    The minister announcedhis recovery from the viralinfection from his officialTwitter handle on Tuesday,and lauded the efforts of healthworkers, who were putting

    their own wellbeing at risk totreat the infected people.“I willdonate my blood plasma fortreatment of Covid patientsnow. I would like to thank theRIMS (Rajendra Institute ofMedical Sciences) administra-tion for doing such a com-mendable job in treating Covidpatients,” he said.

    Besides Ranchi and EastSinghbhum, Bokaro reportedan unprecedented rise in thenumber of Covid cases as 203people in the district testedpositive for the virus onTuesday. Giridih reported 155Covid cases.

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    Chief Minister HemantSoren today said thatpreparations are on (by theCentre) to fulfill the require-ments of the entire countrywith the resources ofJharkhand. Talking to mediapersons here on Tuesday theCM said that an amount ofmore than Rs 5000 croregoes as a cess fromJharkhand, which goes intoCentre’s pocket.

    The CM said that theCentral government is againtrying to confuse the states inthe matter of GST. “RecentlyGST council meeting was held.In a nutshell the economy ofthe State and the country hasalready been hugely strained.The Centre has utterly failed tocontrol the situation and thesituation has come when innear future the country has tosee very bad days,” he said.

    “The way the Centre is try-ing to trap states in the GSTissue, we understand and takeit very seriously.

    We are working on theissue and will put forth ourconcerns very seriously. Ourproducing State has to bear thebrunt of Centre’s policies. Thiswill not be tolerated. We willfight for our rights at any costand put forth our issues at allavailable platforms,” said theCM.

    The CM said that there areseveral issues on which theState government is workingand trying to find out ways toaugment revenue and get backits dues from the Centre.

    Meanwhile, praising Dr.Smriti the CM tweeted onTuesday that the role of a war-rior and saviour has beenplayed by Dr. Smriti during thiscritical Corona period. “Plasmadonation is an important dona-tion, life donation. My appealto the people who conqueredthe corona is to donate plasma,support the fight against coro-na infection,” he said.

    The CM was informed thatDr. Smriti was performing theduty of being a Doctor duringthe corona period. Then sheherself got infected, but she didnot lose courage and recoveredfrom Corona. Dr. Smriti alsodonated plasma to treat otherpatients.

    The CM said that one anda half lakh tests were done inone day in Jharkhand. “This isprobably the most tests done ina single day in the country.

    Despite its limitedresources, the present govern-ment is fully committed to theservice, safety and health ofevery Jharkhand resident. Iappeal to all not to leave thehouse without masks,” headded.

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    On the orders of RaviShankar Shukla MissionDirector- National RuralHealth Mission, Ranchi,Brahmananda NarayanaHospital in Tamulia has agreedto come up with a 30 beddedCOVID care unit at the hospi-tal. Moreover, the Deputy

    Commissioner Suraj Kumarhas approached MeditrinaHospital at Adityapur for a 50-bedded COVID-19 facility. Thedistrict administration is feel-ing the pressure with COVIDcases spiralling rapidly in thecity and its vicinity. Moreover,Tata Motors Hospital is alsoworking on plans to come withadditional beds.

    With bed occupancyreaching 95 per cent in most ofthe COVID hospitals in thecity, the administration hasstarted hunting for new healthhubs. “ We are looking for newoptions and want to reducepressure on Tata Main Hospital(TMH) and MGM MedicalCollege and Hospital,” said anofficial.

    TMH alone manages atotal 1087 beds for COVID-19management which includes661 beds for COVID positivepatients, 112 numbers of rou-tine isolation beds, 18 ICU iso-lation beds and 36 ICU COVID

    beds. TMH is equipped with 83ventilators for the criticalpatients. This includes manag-ing 100 beds at hotel Sonnetand 160 beds at hotel Gingerfor COVID positive patientswith continuous onsite moni-toring by TMH doctors andnurses. TMH has a team ofover 350 doctors and over2000 paramedical staff.

    TMH is also providingsupport to Tinplate Hospitaland Jamshedpur Eye Hospitalfor COVID. Moreover, the hos-pital is in the process of sup-porting KGMH (once it istaken over from Medica) fortreating COVID patients.KGMH is equipped with 100beds including 25 critical carebeds.

    TMH so far has manageda total 2375 COVID positivecases out of which, 1809 haverecovered and discharged.Number of active cases is 372.The recovery rate for COVIDat TMH is about 76.17%

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    The situation is untenableand it has become very diffi-cult to operate the hospitalunder such conditions wherealready approx. 50% of the

    medical staff are compro-mised due to COVID19 expo-sure. Should this continue tohappen, it will not be possi-ble to run operations withdepleted medical staff and wewill have no option but toscale down the COVID19treatment capacity at TataMain Hospital”.

    “It may not be out ofplace to mention that TataSteel stays committed to worktowards improving the qual-ity of life of the community inand around its areas of oper-ations.

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    appeared in examination centreslocated at Barwaada andKolakushma. Both examinationcentres had separate arrange-ments for corona positive stu-dents . While Barwaada centrehad 60seats for such candidatesthe Kolakushma centre has tenseats for corona positive cases .However, no corona positivecandidate appeared for exams onday one of six day examinationschedule. According to availablereport all together 4600candi-dates are to appear for remain-ing of days examinations here atDhanbad.

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    Solid waste in steel plantsare essential by-products gen-erated during various pro-cessing steps involved in the

    production of iron and steel.Until the last decade, the slag,dust and sludge generated byintegrated steel plants wascalled waste, but now thisterm has been replaced with“by-product” due to intensivere-utilization of these wastes,said a Public Relations officialof ESL.

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    In a more or less desertedpremise of Birsa Munda Busterminal in the capital city, staffof private buses were desper-ately looking for passengersafter the JharkhandGovernment permittedintrastate bus service as part ofun-lockdown 4 from Tuesday.

    But they were left disap-pointed as passengers hardlyturned-up. “Don’t know howlong this situation will prevail.Fearing Covid-19 people areavoiding public transport. Thisvirus has ruined our life,” saidMunna, a staff member of aprivate bus.

    Even bus owners soundedworried saying Covid-19 badlyhit the transport sector and thegovernment must give somerelief to bail-out this sector outof the crisis.Few days back theState Government allowedintrastate operation of busesunder certain terms and con-ditions which are mandatory tofollow.For instance, no Covid-

    19 affected person or whosetest report is awaited will beallowed to travel.

    Masks, gloves and faceshields will be mandatory forall occupants of the bus. Tomaintain social distancing onlyhalf of the sitting capacity willbe allowed whereas operatorswill have to ensure proper san-

    itization of the bus. Also, busoperators will have to keep therecord of the passengers“I vis-ited all the bus terminals of thecity capital and everywherethe situation was the same. Notmore than 10 per cent busescould operate. Many buseswere cancelled due to lack ofpassengers. Nobody can predict

    when the situation willimprove. Bus owners have beenthe worst ever crisis that willruin them financially sincethere is no support from thegovernment side,” said KishoreMantri, general secretary ofRanchi Bus OwnersAssociation. In Jharkhandthere are around 7500 buses

    registered out of which 3500buses operate within the statewhereas 1500 buses have inter-state road permit and remain-ing are school buses. Afternationwide lockdown imposedacross the country during thelast week of March, to stop thespread of Covid-19, the trans-port services came to a halt inthe State.

    Buses remained parked fora long period so developedtechnical snags due to lack ofmaintenance. Bus owners saidthat now they have to spendhuge amounts for repair ofbuses for which they are norfinancially capable.

    “We are financially bleed-ing and the worst thing is thatthe State Government is fleec-ing us on the name of road tax.We have been asked to payroad tax even during the lock-down period else we have topay a penalty up to 200 percent. It is now too hard to sur-vive with no institutional sup-port. We have applied for a loanin a bid to revive the business.Government will immediatelytake some steps otherwise itwill be tough for us to survive,”said president of Jharkhand BusOwner Association, KrishnaMohan Singh.

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    Authorities from the BirsaMunda Airport in Ranchihave requested the StateGovernment to provide at leastfive more flights citing anincrease in the passenger den-sity owing to relaxations in thelockdown curbs.

    The airport was operatingat a flight frequency of less thanhalf of the usual frequencysince resumption of flight ser-vices in May end.

    “We have requested thegovernment to provide us moreflights as the count of passen-gers is increasing. They are con-sidering our request,” said air-port director Vinod Sharma.

    “We would require at least fivemore flights to meet thedemand of passengers,” headded. Jharkhand’s largest andbusiest airport in the state cap-ital had at least 30 flights con-necting the state to almost allmajor cities across India beforea nationwide lockdown wasimposed on March 24.

    However, once flight ser-vices resumed on May 25, theRanchi airport was permitted tooperate only seven flights, air-port officials said. While thecount of flights graduallyincreased to 10 by August end,the number was still less thanhalf of the number of flightsthat took off from Ranchibefore lockdown.

    “Many migrants who hadreturned during the lockdownare returning to work. Somefrequent flyers have also start-ed travelling again for work. Itwill be helpful if we get at leasthalf of our flights,” said Sharma.

    Ranchi MP Sanjay Seth, amember of the AirportAdvisory Committee (AAC),admitted that the passengerdensity has increased andRanchi was in need of more

    flights to meet the demands. Hesaid that the AAC will hold ameeting this week and take acall on the requirement offlights in Ranchi. “I will per-sonally speak to the Civil

    Aviation Minister, and ask himto increase flights from Ranchi,”said Seth, who was in NewDelhi on Tuesday to attend ameeting. A majority of passen-gers travelling from Ranchi by

    air were migrants, who hadreturned home during lock-down, said Seth, adding thatmost of the migrants were fly-ing to New Delhi from Ranchi.“We still have a rule of quar-antining visitors for 14 days inJharkhand, which is why thedensity of businessmen travel-ling from other cities hasreduced. The passenger densi-ty will further increase whenthe 14-day-quarantine normis done away with,” the local MPsaid.

    Currently, Ranchi is onlyconnected to New Delhi,Bangalore, Hyderabad andMumbai by air. Prior to thelockdown, Ranchi had flights toKolkata and Patna as well.Some private players, airportsources said, have shown inter-est in starting flights fromRanchi to Chennai in nearfuture. The airport also has aninternational bay, but is yet toget any international flights.

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    Day one of JEE Mains examspassed off peacefully onTuesday amid strict restric-tions and special Covid-19 pre-cautionary measures taken at allthe centres across five cities inthe State – Ranchi, Jamshedpur,Dhanbad, Bokaro andHazaribag.

    Loudspeakers wereinstalled at an examinationcentre in Tupudana here toremind students about main-taining social distancing.Besides, circles were alsomarked at the entry to ensurethat students do not come closeto each other.

    The examinees were alsoprovided triple layer masks atthe centres and asked to removethe masks that they were wear-ing when they left home. Thebody temperature of all theexaminees was checked using athermal scanner. A separate iso-lation room was also set up forthose students who showed

    symptoms of Covid-19 infec-tion, the examinees said.Despiteall the precautionary measures,as many as 190 students missedthe first sitting of the exam atthe Tupudana centre. “Around190 of the 410 students wereabsent during the first sitting ofthe exam at Tupudana centre,”said the city coordinator of JEEMain, Ram Singh.

    Singh, however, said thatmany students, who are satis-fied with their performance inthe first round of JEE Mains, donot appear for the secondround, which is why the 190students may have missed the

    exam on Tuesday.Students atthe Tupudana centre in Ranchiwere mostly satisfied with thepapers. However, some of themsaid that the mathematics paperwas difficult. “I was very ner-vous initially, but everythingwent smoothly after the examsbegan,” said Puja Mahto, anexaminee from Gumla, whotravelled to Ranchi by a privatecar on Tuesday to appear for theexam.

    Around 23,000 studentsare supposed to appear for theJEE Mains exams at eight cen-tres spread across five cities inJharkhand till September 6.

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    PM Prasad took charge as thenew Chairman cumManaging Director (CMD),Central Coalfields Limited(CCL) here on Tuesday. Priorto this Prasad was working asCMD, Bharat Coking CoalLimited (BCCL), Dhanbad.Outgoing CCL CMD GopalSingh took over the charge ofCMD, BCCL as per the direc-tive. Prasad finished his grad-uation in B.E (Mining) fromOsmania University in 1984and joined Coal India Limited.He did M. Tech in open-castmining from Indian school ofmines, Dhanbad in 1991.

    Prasad started his careerwith Western CoalfieldsLimited and later became theGeneral Manager at MahanadiCoalfields Limited. He hasbeen the recipient of variousaccolades during his threedecades career at Coal IndiaLimited.

    He was responsible forreopening the undergroundfire area at D.R. C mines. Forthis magnificent work, he wasawarded with the meritoriouscertificate as best mine man-ager in 1995.

    As the General Manager ofLingaraj area, he was respon-sible for the successful com-mencement of operations atKaniha opencast coal projectand the railway siding atTalchar Coalfields.

    Safety in operations is ofparamount priority for Prasadand the projects with which hewas prizes on many occasion atthe Annual safety competi-tions.

    After a successful three-decade stint at Coal IndiaLimited, Prasad joined NTPCas Executive Director (CoalMining). He was instrumentalin commencing of Coal pro-duction at Pakribarwadih coal

    block, Hazaribagh. He heldconsultations and discussionswith the various stakeholdersand resolved issues with theproject-affected people, publicrepresentatives and districtadministration.

    Prasad returned to theCoal India family in February,2018 assuming the charge ofDirector (T) P and P, NorthernCoalfields Limited. During histerm at NCL he looked after theoperations of the five areas ofNCL along with the responsi-bility of vital departments likeCorporate Planning,Environment and Forest, civilengineering, Railway Sidingand others.

    Prasad took charge as theCMD BCCL, the Country’slargest coking coal producer inAugust 2019. Under his lead-ership, BCC L took varioussteps for augmenting the coalproduction and upgrading theinfrastructure.

    He led from the forefrontthe company’s battle againstCovid Pandemic. Under hisable leadership CCL will scalenew heights of success.

    Meanwhile, former CCLCMD, Singh addressed mediapersons and informed themthat he is leaving CCL as perthe Ministry's order and goingto join BCCL as CMD.

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    Union Minister of Coal andMines, Pralhad Joshi saidIndia aims for 100 milliontonnes (MT) coal gasificationby 2030 with investmentsworth over Rs 04 lakh crores.

    Joshi was addressing aWebinar in New Delhi onMonday on Coal Gasificationand Liquefaction organised bythe Ministry of Coal (MoC) fordiscussing road map for achiev-ing this target.

    “Coal Gasification andLiquefaction is no more anaspiration, but a requirement.For encouraging use of cleansources of fuel, governmenthas provided for a concessionof 20 per cent on revenueshare of coal used for gasifica-tion.

    This will boost productionof synthetic natural gas, ener-gy fuel, urea for fertilisers andproduction of other chemi-

    cals.” said Joshi.Reiterating onGovernment’s commitmentsfor green initiatives in the coalsector, Joshi said that CoalGasification and Liquefactionare well in Government’s agen-da and various actions havebeen taken for development ofSurface Coal Gasification inIndia.

    A Steering Committeehasbeen constituted in this regardunder chairmanship ofMember, NITI Aayog, VKSaraswat comprising membersfrom the Ministry of Coal.

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    The main objective of publicrelations is to make publicwelfare schemes accessible to tar-geted sections of society. To ful-fill this objective, role of PublicRelations department becomesvery important, said Director ofInformation and Public RelationsDepartment, Rajiv LochanBakshi in inaugural session of thetraining program for newlyappointed officials started inthe Suchna Bhawan auditorium.

    Bakshi said that PRD acts asa bridge between public and thegovernment. It works under atwo-way process. To ensure par-ticipation of people in democ-ratic systems, various means ofcommunication are taken aspracticable, under which matterof government is passed on topeople and talk of people toGovernment. Training pro-grammes to newly appointed

    officers of information cadrewill also be organized in head-quarters and districts. DeputyDirector Shalini Verma apprisednewly appointed trainee officersabout role of public relations incurrent context. She gave detailedinformation about use of vari-ous mediums of public relations.In training program, DeputyDirector Shalini Verma, VijayKumar, Anand, AssistantDirector Rashid Akhtar, ViruKushwaha, Avinash Kumar andmany officials were present.

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    Ramgarh boy 24- year oldShubham Singh underwenta critical surgery in Ranchi onAugust 21 and came out of itvictorious. The boy had suf-fered a road accident in 2013after which the doctors had puta cemented plate to fix thebones.

    The said plate had beencausing infection and uponvisiting various doctors andmulti specialty hospitals acrossthe country, it was Dr NitishPriya, Orthopedic and a JointReplacement Surgeon at HillView Hospital Ranchi whoconducted the surgery suc-cessfully.“A reputed surgeonhad operated him in 2013 afterthe accident but just six monthsafter the surgery it got infect-ed. We visited numerous doc-tors in Ranchi and even wentto Vellore in 2018 for his treat-ment but nothing came out ofit as the infection had spread a

    lot. At one point of time we alsothought that maybe his legwould have to be removed,”said the patient’s father KamalSingh.

    The father furtherinformed that an acquaintanceadvised them to get in touchwith Life Savers’ Atul Gera sug-gesting that he might be ofsome help. “It was Atulji whogot us in touch with Dr NitishPriya who conducted thesurgery successfully.

    The two of them have beenlike a God sending to us and weare extremely thankful to them.They even helped us in man-aging the expenses and we didnot have to pay a single rupeefor the entire process,” added anemotional Singh who is a doorto door salesman.

    The surgery lasted forabout four hours and thepatient had been kept in theICU under observation forthree days after the operation.“The boy had a nail in his thigh

    which had been stuck there forabout seven years. He hadmultiple surgeries and half ofthe nail had been removedwhile half had got stuck. I justhappened to be lucky to be ableto remove it. Presently the boyhas been prescribed antibi-otics and we are hoping that theinfection does not reoccur,”said Priya.

    During the course of thesurgery as many as four unitsof blood was administered tothe patient that was providedby Sadar Hospital,Ranchi.“Because of his leg, theboy was unable to continuewith his studies and his edu-cation was getting severelyhampered. When the familycontacted me, I got in touchwith my friend Ashish Budhiawho willingly opted to bear theexpenses for the surgery. Wejust wish him a speedy recov-ery and a bright future”, saidAtul Gera, volunteer at LifeSavers, Ranchi.

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    The State Government inpartnership with USAID-NISHTHA is now takinganother step towards ensuringactive surveillance of COVID-19 through an innovative sys-tem of IVRS – ‘NISHTHACOVID Sanchar’. TheNISHTHA COVID Sancharwas launched by MissionDirector, Ravi Shankar Shukla.in the presence of other digni-taries Dr. L. R. Pathak, Dr.Rakesh Dayal and develop-ment partner representativesfrom USAID and NISHTHA -Sangita Patel, Director, HealthOffice, USAID India, Dr.Anuradha Jain, Technical advi-sor, Health SystemStrengthening, USAID India,Vijay Paul, ReproductiveHealth and Family PlanningAdvisor, USAID India, Dr.Bulbul Sood, Country Director,Jhpiego, India, Dr. SwatiMahajan, Chief of Party,NISHTHA.

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    State BJP Spokesperson PratulShahdeo has said that theHemant Soren government hasstarted forgetting Rajdharmaand practicing Lalu Dharma.Pratul said that preparations aregoing on for the election ofBihar from the bungalow thatLalu Prasad got against therules.

    He said that everyday hun-dreds of people are comingfrom Bihar unofficially andsubmitting their bio-data inthe bungalow. Many of thesepeople are meeting Lalu Prasadeven if the jail manual is violat-ed.

    Pratul said that according toinformation about 50 policemenhave been deployed for thesecurity of Lalu Prasad, whichcosts more than ? 25 lakh permonth. Pratul said that wayHemant Soren government haslaid a red carpet for a convict-ed criminal is unconstitutional.The State BJP Spokespersonsaid that bench of Justice TS

    Thakur and Justice RBhanumathi of the SupremeCourt in its 2015 decisiondirected compulsory installationof CCTV cameras in all jails.The bungalow in which Lalu iscurrently living has also beennotified as a jail, but CCTV hasnot been installed in violation ofSupreme Court's decision.

    Pratul said that in front ofLalu Prasad's bungalow duringthis period of Corona infectionhundreds of people are mobi-lizing daily by disregardingsocial distancing.

    But, administration is nottaking any action. Leaders com-ing from Bihar are neither quar-antined nor is their permissionletter being investigated.

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    Five States — Maharashtra,Andhra Pradesh,Karnataka, Tamil Nadu andUttar Pradesh — are reportingover 500 deaths in a day, whichis over 65 per cent of the totalfatalities registered in the coun-try in the past 24 hours. TheseStates have also accounted forover half of the total COVID-19 cases in the country even asthey registered close to 60 percent of the total recoveriesduring the period.

    Worst-hit Maharashtratopped the list at 11,852 fol-lowed by Andhra Pradesh(10,004), Karnataka (6,495),Tamil Nadu (5,956) and UttarPradesh (4,782). Together theyaccount for 56 per cent of theconfirmed cases added in thelast 24 hours, a senior officialfrom the Union HealthMinistry.

    Incidentally, Tamil Nadu,Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtraare the three States that are con-tributing maximum to theoverall number of tests includeamong others. “These threeStates account for nearly 34 percent of the total testing, “ theofficial added.

    “These five states havealso reported the maximum

    number of patients that werecured and discharged in the last24 hours, cumulativelyaccounting for 58.04% of thenational figure of 65,081 per-sons. While Maharashtrareported recoveries of 11,158patients, the correspondingfigures for Andhra Pradeshand Karnataka stand at 8,772and 7,238. Tamil Nadu followswith 6,008, while Uttar Pradeshposted recovery of 4,597Covid-19 patients, “ said theofficial.

    With a cumulative figure of536 deaths in the last 24 hours,the above mentioned five statestogether account for 65.4 percent of the deaths added to thenational total (819).Maharashtra has reported 184deaths, Karnataka has added113, followed by Tamil Nadu(91), Andhra Pradesh (85) andUttar Pradesh (63).

    Meanwhile, India’s cumu-lative tests have crossed 4.3crores today (4,33,24,834).1,22,66,514 tests were done inthe last two weeks alone.Moreover, States/UTs are pro-gressively increasing their test-ing capacity.

    India’s per day testingcapacity has crossed 10 lakhstests, including 10,16,920 testsconducted in the last 24 hours.

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    Contrary to expectationsthat the new stringentMotor Vehicles AmendmentAct, implemented almost ayear ago, would lead to lessen-ing road crash deaths in thecountry, the numbers haveactually alarmingly increased—from 1,52,780 deaths in 2018 to1,54,732 deaths in 2019, whichis a 1.3 percent rise.

    Concerned over this wor-rying rise, reported by theNational Crime RecordsBureau (NCRB), a high-levelmeeting has been convened bythe Ministry of Road Transportand Highways to plug the loop-holes. Ministry sources said theincrease in overall road fatali-ties in last one year could bedue to the poor implementa-tion of the new MV Act by theStates.

    The report on ‘AccidentalDeaths and Suicides in India(ADSI)’ for the year 2019released by NCRB marks a yearsince the notification of theMotor Vehicles AmendmentAct, 2019.

    The NCRB report has alsohighlighted that road trafficinjuries constitute the eighthleading causes of death inIndia.

    As per the ADSI, 1,54,732people were killed and 4,39,262people were injured in 4,37,396road accidents in India in 2019.The number of road accidentfatalities increased from1,52,780 in 2018 to 1,54,732 in2019.

    During 2019, two wheelershave accounted for maximumfatal road accidents (58,747deaths), contributing 38.0% oftotal road accidental deaths,followed by trucks/lorries

    (22,637 deaths) (14.6%), cars(21,196 deaths) (13.7%) andbuses (9,192 deaths) (5.9%).

    Over speeding contributedto 56% of the total road crashdeaths (86,241 deaths), fol-lowed by dangerous or carelessdriving, contributing to 27.5%of total crash deaths (42,557deaths).

    The annual accident reportof 2019 also reveals that out ofthe total 154,732 people killedin road crash deaths in 2019, 65

    percent were the youth of 18 to45 years and children of 14years age group involved inroad crash deaths were 2.6percent.

    Among the States, UttarPradesh recorded the highestroad crash deaths with 23285deaths (15% of total deaths in2019) followed by Maharashtrarecording 14608 deaths (9.4%)and Madhya Pradesh recording11856 deaths (7.7%).

    Additionally, in terms of

    crashes - road accidents (67,228cases) accounted for 97.3% oftotal traffic accidents in 53mega cities during 2019.Chennai accounted for 10.2%(6,871 out of 67,228 cases) oftotal road accidents reported in53 mega cities followed byDelhi (8.0%) (5,349 cases).

    Last year as per the newMV Act hefty fines were leviedwhich accounted for anincrease in over 10 times ofexisting offences but some ofthe States protested the moveand are still to implementthem.

    “On one hand India con-tinues to see a rise in road crashfatalities, and on the other

    hand State Governments areyet to fully implement theMotor Vehicle (Amendment)Act 2019, which was passedwith the intent of reducing roadcrash deaths.

    The latest figures call forintrospection by all thosewho’ve been resisting or oppos-ing the implementation of thenew law, “ said Piyush Tewari,CEO and founder of Savelife Foundation, whensought for his comments in thisregard.

    Every year in India, around1,50, 000 lives are lost in roadaccidents alone according toRoad Transport and HighwaysMinistry.

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    In a major feat, the ITBPmountaineers of Sector HeadQuarter Shimla climbed 22,222feet high Leo Pargil peak locat-ed at International Boundary(IB) in Himachal Pradesh.

    Twelve members of the16-member team climbed thepeak and it is the only suc-cessful mountaineering expe-dition in Northern India amidthe Covid-19 pandemic, offi-cials said.

    The leader of this chal-lenging expedition was DeputyCommandant Kuldeep Singhand Deputy Leader was DeputyCommandant Dharmendra .Head Constable Pradeep Negi,native of Chhitkul, the lastborder village in Kinnaur,climbed it a second time.

    Negi has also climbed theworld’s largest mountain MtEverest twice.

    Leo Pargil peak is consid-ered one of the toughest andtechnical peaks in India. Thissnow-covered difficult peak islocated in remote Lahaul Spitidistrict of Himachal Pradesh.

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    Public health experts fromthree medical associations-— Indian Public HealthAssociation, the IndianAssociation of Preventive andSocial Medicine and the IndianAssociation of Epidemiologists— have written to PrimeMinister Narendra Modi sug-gesting that schools and othereducational institutions shouldbe reopened in a graded man-ner.

    They have stated that theclosure has had a significantimpact on the teaching-learn-ing system and mental healthof the children particularly oflower socio-economic strata,who do not have social capitalfor alternatives like digital plat-forms.

    “It is time now to movetowards normalcy. The open-ing of schools and other edu-cational institutions could bestarted in a graded manner.There should be a pragmaticapproach, especially in areaswhere a sufficient populationis already infected, “ theexperts said.

    The associations furthersaid that it must be assumedthat an effective vaccineagainst the novel coronavirus“would not be available in thenear future “ and any falsesense of hope that this panaceais just around the corner mustbe avoided.

    Twenty members of thejoint Covid-19 task force wenton to say that schools may be

    opened with due safety mea-sures with social distancing,alternate work days and withadequate surveillance even inlow infection areas.

    “Sufficient evidence isavailable that infected, youngchildren are at an extremelylow risk of developing mor-bidity, “ the public healthexperts said.

    They requested theGovernment to discontinuethe imposition of lockdown asa strategy to control the spreadof Coronavirus infection andsaid that limited restrictionsshould be imposed in epi-demiologically-defined clus-ters for short periods.

    The three health associa-tions said that even clusterrestrictions should be imposedonly after weighing its impacton the livelihood of the pop-ulation.

    They added that creatingcontainment zones and aggres-sive testing for Covid-19 offerslittle advantage in large citieswhere the infection has alreadyspread wide. “The focusshould instead be on prevent-ing deaths from Covid-19 andnot containing the infection. “

    The experts said that con-tainment zones should berevamped with a clearroadmap and timelines forperiodic review by an expertcommittee, with the aim to testall suspects, isolate all infected individuals for prop-er treatment and that theyshould be de-contained in 14days.

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    The India MeteorologicalDepartment (IMD) onTuesday said that Indiareceived 27 per cent more rain-fall than normal in August, thefourth highest amount in thelast 120 years. This is due toformation of five low pressureareas in Bay of Bengal inAugust which led to heavy tomoderate rainfall across India.

    The August of 1926 saw 33per cent more rainfall than nor-mal, the highest precipitationrecorded so far in the month;1976 recorded 28.4 per centmore rainfall than normal,while the August of 1973recorded 27.8 per cent thannormal. This year saw 27 percent rainfall.

    The IMD had predictedthat August was likely to receiverainfall that is 97 per cent of theLPA with an error margin ofplus/minus nine per cent.

    The overall rainfall record-ed in India from June 1 toAugust 31 was 9 per cent morethan normal. It has recorded784.8 mm rainfall as against

    the normal of 716.9 mm so far.According to the IMD,

    This is also one of the rainiestmonths of August recorded.“Rainfall recorded in August2020 is the fourth highest inthe last 120 years and highestin 44 years. August has record-ed 27 per cent more rainfallthan normal, “ IMD’s scientistRK Jenamani said. The officialrainfall season in the countryis from June 1 to September 30.Jenamani said five low pressureareas formed over Bay ofBengal brought heavy rainsover central and north India.Of the five, four developed intoa well-marked low pressurearea.

    In its forecast for Augustlast month, the IMD had pre-dicted rainfall of 97 per cent ofthe Long Period Average(LPA) with an error margin ofplus or minus 9 per cent.Monsoon in the range of 96-104 per cent of the LPA is con-sidered normal.

    According to the IMD,the first low pressure areaformed between August 4 and10 off the Odisha coast.

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    The Central Reserve PoliceForce (CRPF) has for thefirst time appointed a female IPSofficer as the Inspector General(IG) of the paramilitary’s sensi-tive Srinagar Sector, one of themost terror-hit areas in Jammuand Kashmir.

    The 1996-batch Telanganacadre IPS officer Charu Sinhawill head the Srinagar Sector ofCRPF as the Inspector General.She was earlier heading theJammu Sector.

    Earlier, Sinha had worked asIG of CRPF’s Bihar Sector andhad successfully led variousanti-Naxal operations in thearea of responsibility followingwhich she was transferred to

    Jammu to head the Sector as IG.On Monday, the CRPF

    headquarters issued an orderassigning her the task to leadthe Srinagar Sector.

    Director General of CRPFAP Maheshwari headed theSrinagar Sector as IG in 2005.The Srinagar Sector startedfunctioning in 2005 but neverhad a female officer to lead it.This sector is engaged in anti-terror operations in close con-junction with the Indian Armyand Jammu and Kashmirpolice.

    The Srinagar Sector, locat-ed at Brein Nishat, Srinagar hasoperational jurisdiction overthree districts of Budgam,Ganderbal and Srinagar as alsothe Union Territory of Ladakh.

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    The Supreme Court has soughtresponse from the Centre and theDelhi government on a plea challengingan NGT order refusing permission forregistration of diesel vehicles of theSpecial Protection Group.

    A three-judge bench headed byJustice R F Nariman issued notices to theCentre, Delhi government, CentralPollution Control Board, Delhi pollutioncontrol committee and others.

    “Issue notice returnable within fourweeks, “ the bench, also comprisingJustices Navin Sinha and Indira Banerjee,said.

    Special Protection Group moved theapex court against National GreenTribunal’s October 9, 2019 order dis-missing its plea seeking review of its orderrefusing permission for registration of

    diesel vehicles.The NGT had said the permission

    cannot be granted in view of the SupremeCourt order that no new diesel vehiclescan be registered in Delhi.

    “Subsequently, the top court per-mitted (registration of) diesel vehicles incategory of private cars and SUVs with

    the engine capacity of 2000 ccsubject to certain conditions.The vehicles in question are notcovered by the said category, “it had said.

    The green panel had saidthough it had earlier madeexception in cases where pub-lic utility was involved, suchorders cannot continue to bepassed forever so as to becomea rule.

    The tribunal noted that ithad earlier directed that no

    commercial diesel vehicle could be reg-istered in Delhi in view of the high lev-els of air pollution. The green panel saidit cannot pass conflicting orders.

    The tribunal was hearing plea filedby lawyer Vardhaman Kaushik who hadfiled a petition on deteriorating air qual-ity in Delhi and NCR.

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    Banda (UP): Thirty-two members of an extended fam-ily living in the same locality have tested positive forCovid.

    Chief Medical Officer (CMO) N D Sharma said.“Forty-four new patients of Covid-19 have been con-firmed in the district on Monday evening, including 32members of the same family living in Phuta Kuan local-ity of Banda city.”

    Since the family members live in different housesas well as separate portions of the house, they have beenquarantined for now.

    The CMO said that 807 infected patients have beenfound so far in the district of which eight have died and360 are still active. He said the remaining 439 have beentreated and discharged. IANS

    Patna: The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)office here has been witnessing a huge rushof ticket aspirants, ahead of the upcomingAssembly elections in Bihar.

    Kumar Rahul Singh, Bihar's RJDGeneral Secretary said: “We have askedevery aspiring candidate to submit the appli-cation and resume at the party office. Theyare coming in large numbers. Sometimes,the figure touches the 600-mark. We arereceiving applications since the last 10 daysand the numbers are expected to go up inthe coming days.”

    “The party has constituted a dedicatedteam to analyse each bio-data. The processof uploading the bio-data starts soon afterthe ticket seekers submit it to the party'sstate president Jagada Nand Singh. Onecopy is sent to Tejashvi Yadav and anothergoes to party chief Lalu Prasad Yadav,” Singhsaid.

    “We have ensured transparency in theselection of candidates. After shortlisting thenames of the candidates, another team willcross check the claims of the ticket seekerson the ground by conducting a survey intheir respective constituencies,” the RJDGeneral Secretary said.

    “As per the parameters, the party looksat the popularity of the candidates, theiractiveness in their constituencies, past

    work for the party and on the social front,number of people added recently throughdigital methods,” Singh said.

    Sanjiv Sahay, Spokesperson of the RJD,pointed out that the large turnout of tick-et seekers is also an indication of the RJD'spopularity in the state.

    “We already have a staggering one crorededicated members and digital membershipis currently underway to add maximumnumbers of people in the party,” Sahay said.

    Ram Nivas, a ticket seeker fromBenipatti constituency said: “I am associ-ated with the party since the last 12 yearsand digitally added 40,000 people in thephase of corona. I have a team workinground the clock to add more and more peo-ple. I came to Patna in the expectation ofa ticket.” The RJD alliance partner Congressclaims that 100 to 150 candidates are com-ing every day seeking a ticket.

    Madan Mohan Jha, the state presidentof the Congress said: “We have parameterssimilar to the RJD. Tickets will be given tocandidates having a good reputation, con-duct and impressive popularity amongvoters.”

    “We will look at the strength of indi-vidual candidates and the number of peo-ple added by them digitally. It is importantin the time of corona,” Jha added. IANS

    Lucknow: The Yogi Adityanathgovernment is planning to setup a 'Toy City' along theYamuna Expressway in thestate.

    The decision to speed upthe planning came a day afterPrime Minister Narendra Modibatted for a local toy industryin his radio programme “Mannki Baat'. Uttar Pradesh does nothave an established toy indus-try as such though toys fromJhansi have been included inthe “One District One Product'scheme.

    Additional Chief SecretaryMSME, Navneet Sehgal, saidthat around 70 entrepreneurshave shown interest in settingup toy units in the state. “Wehave even prepared a basicdraft proposal for the same andare now working towards set-ting up a toy city,” he said.

    Sources said that the stategovernment would providesubsidised land under theMSME provisions and alsomake arrangements for theraw material needed for the toy

    industry.The toy industry in the

    country is worth about Rs10,000 crore and according tothe International MarketAnalysis, Research andConsulting Group, Indian par-ticipation in the global toyindustry is merely 0.5 per cent.

    In the Indian market, thelocally made toys account formerely 12 per cent. The major-ity of the toys are importedfrom China and other coun-tries.

    Varanasi, which is PrimeMinister Narendra Modi's par-liamentary constituency, isknown for its wooden toys thathave lost their sheen over theyears.

    Dr Rajnikant, a PadmaShri awardee who works for theconservation and promotion oftraditional crafts, said, “Around3,000 artisans, including crafts-men and craftswomen, earntheir livelihood by making toysout of wood in Varanasi.”

    He said that the woodentoys are exported to the US,

    Russia, Latin American coun-tries, European countries,including Germany and Spain,several South-East Asian coun-tries and the Gulf.

    The craftsmen, however,feel that they lag behind whenit comes to the promotion andadvertising of their products.

    Raghuveer, a toy maker,said, “What we need is anaggressive marketing policy topopularise our toys. The gov-ernment should lend a helpinghand because this cannot bedone on an individual basis.”

    The local artisans maketraditional wooden toys,including wooden utensils,spinning top, small woodenbirds and animals. They alsocarve many decorative itemsout of wood. These are espe-cially used on the occasions ofShri Krishna Janmashtami andDeepawali. Lacquerware andwooden toys made in Varanasi, Sonbhadra,Chandauli and Mirzapur gotthe Geographical Indication(GI) tag in 2015. IANS

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    The wish of sugarcane farmers hasbeen finally fulfilled. 13 crore rupeeshave been received for farmers who areyearning for the payment of arrears,which will be deposited in the accountsof the farmers from Monday.

    Due to non-payment in time, thefarmers were not interested in the sug-arcane crop. This is the reason that thearea kept decreasing continuously.Sugarcane acreage has been reduced byalmost half in the last five years. Alongwith the payment, the sugar mill is alsobeing repaired. The next crushing ses-sion will start running.

    Aligarh's land is suitable for sugar-cane production. Apart from the Saathasugar mill, Ladhaua mill was also oper-ational, which is now closed. Good har-vests and close proximity attractedfarmers to sugarcane. When the facili-ties started to go away, the farmersstopped taking interest in sugarcane.

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    These days there is continuous increase in the priceof pulses. All pulses are expensive including arhar,moong, urad, lentils, gram, peas, etc. From whole-sale market of Dhanipur Mandi to retail to consumer’shomes, their rates are increased by 15 to 20 rupeesper Kg. The main reason behind this is the govern-ment policies.

    Increasing farmer’s income, free gram distribu-tion, import duty of 200 percent on pea imports, fre-quent shortages in government agency NAFED’sgodown, unnecessary purchases during a lock-down, and now floods have spiked their prices.Forward trading is also adding inflation in pulses.Currently, from Mahavirganj to any retail market,pulses are getting expensive every week.

    The Government of India hikes the support priceof pulses to achieve the goal of increasing the incomeof farmers by one and a half times. Government agen-cies have purchased pulses from farmers afterincreasing the support price. In contrast, last year theprices of gram were down due to which farmers andbig traders of stock faced a loss. The government hadpurchased 19 lakh 50 thousand tons of pulses.

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    The difficulties of lock hardware manufacturers facing adownturn in corona virus, have increased. The marketis 40-50 percent down. There is no order, raw material priceshave increased. Rates of other raw materials including ironscrap, iron wire, brass blocks, brass scrap have increased by8-10 percent.

    If you look at the price of brass scrap, it was �280 per kgin March before the lockdown was �300 in early August, onMonday the price was �330. Jhangat (Silli) was�270 per kgbefore lockdown and in August it was �275 per kg. There isa huge loss of 400 crores annually due to lack of demand inlockdown.

    Malting iron scrap is up by �6 per kg. The prices havebeen increasing since July. In March it was �23 per kg, todayit is �29. Cutting seats coming from automobile companieswere �38 per kg in March, the price in July being �40.

    Today they are �43 to �44 per kg. Fresh sheet was �41per kg in March, �43 in July and �48 per kg today. An increaseof seven rupees per kg has been recorded on the black freshsheet.

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    Former President of India Pranab Mukherjeeis no more with us, but his memories willalways remain. He has a strong connection withAMU and visited AMU three times includinga one-night stay. He laid the foundation of theUniversity’s Murshidabad center in WestBengal. He stamped Prof. Tariq Mansoor as theVice-Chancellor of AMU during his workingtenure.

    Vice-Chancellor Prof. Tariq Mansoor saidthat the political life of Bharat Ratan PranabMukherjee has been more than 40 years, thecountry has lost a cerebral and qualified par-liamentarian. His last visit was during the bicen-tennial birth celebration of Sir Syed AhmedKhan on October 17th, 2017. The AMU fra-ternity is deeply saddened by his demise. Ourcondolences are with his family.

    The first visit of Pranab Mukherjee as aUnion Foreign Minister was on 10th March2007 as a Chief Guest in the opening ceremo-ny of Vice-Chancellor Nasim Ahmed’s tenure.After this, he attached with AMU.

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    The Indian Army on Tuesdayclaimed Pakistan based differentterror groups are desperately tryingto infiltrate weapons into J&K for ter-ror activities, with active connivanceof the Pakistan Army.

    Senior Army officers, deployedalong the line of control in Kashmirvalley, also asserted robust surveil-lance and Line of Control domina-tion activities will continue to denyall such misadventures.

    According to a statement issuedby the Indian Army, “a huge cacheof arms and ammunition were recov-ered from well concealed locationsin two hideouts in Rampur Sector ofBaramulla during extensive search-es between August 30-31”.

    “The searches in the area werelaunched after alert troops of theIndian army first detected movementof suspicious persons along the Lineof Control in Rampur Sector,Baramulla district on August 30”.

    Briefing media a senior armyofficer said, “The movement wasfrom a village close to the Line ofControl and the suspects crossed intoIndian territory. Due to terrain ofthick foliage and weather conditionsan alert of a likely infiltration attemptwas sounded”.

    “The surveillance grid was alsobeefed up all across the area and

    along the likely infiltration routes;ambushes were sited to thwart anyattempt of infiltration. Surveillancecontinued throughout the night.

    According to the statement, “onAugust 31 while the searches con-tinued for around seven hours thecache of arms were recovered whichcomprises of Five AK Series Rifles(along with six magazines & twosealed boxes with 1254 rounds of AKammunition), Six pistols (with ninemagazines & six rounds), Twenty-one grenades, two UBGL grenadesand two Kenwood Radio sets withone antenna”.

    Referring to the role of thePakistan army, a senior army officertold reporters, “the suspected modusoperandi is to drop war like stores incaches near the Line of Control, sub-sequently OGWs or terrorists wouldpick the same for further trans-portation into the hinterland for ter-ror activities”.

    According to the army officersimilar attempts were made on 22July 20, when inputs were receivedregarding likely weapon drop alongthe Line of Control ahead of the anti-infiltration fence. During the searchoperation along the Line of Controlin Rampur Sector, Baramulla, 01AKS-74U with magazines, 05 pistols(one with Chinese markings) &magazines, 24 grenades & otherwarlike stores were recovered.

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    Amid 'hullabaloo' by the several main-stream Kashmiri politicians around 10percent residents of Jammu & Kashmirhave been issued domicile certificates inthe last over two months.Significantly,11398 West PakistanRefugees, 415 Valmiki community mem-bers, 10 Gorkha community members and12340 Registered Migrants have also beenissued Domicile Certificates much to thechagrin of these 'valley centric' politicians.

    As per the 2011 census, the total pop-ulation of Jammu & Kashmir was around1.25 crores. On Tuesday, spokesman of theJammu & Kashmir government RohitKansal infomed, “ around 12.5 lakh domi-cile certificates have been issued so far withover 99 percent being erstwhile PermanentResident Certificate (PRC) holders”.

    Addressing a press conference inSrinagar, Rohit Kansal said that the processof issuance of Domicile Certificates is pick-ing up rapidly and certificate issuance isbeing monitored regularly.

    Kansal was flanked by PrincipalSecretary and Financial CommissionerRevenue, Dr Pawan Kotwal and DirectorInformation and Public Relations, DrSyed Sehrish Asgar.

    “About 12.5 lakh Domicile Certificateshave been issued so far. Over 99% of thoseissued certificates include erstwhile PRCsor including Kashmiri Pandit migrants.The process of issuance will be furtheraccelerated and the issuance will be mon-

    itored to ensure that pendency is broughtdown to the lowest,” Kansal informed.

    Giving a background about theDomicile Certificate procedure, he saidthat the Government had notified theJammu and Kashmir Grant of DomicileCertificate (Procedure) Rules, 2020, whichis the basic eligibility condition for appoint-ment to any post under the UnionTerritory of Jammu and Kashmir follow-ing amendments in the Jammu andKashmir Civil Services (Decentralizationand Recruitment) Act, 2010.

    Kansal reaffirmed that the rules pro-vide a simple and time bound procedurefor the issuance of the


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