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I n a sensational admission, a senior Pakistani Minister on Thursday admitted that Pakistan was responsible for the Pulwama terrorist attack in Jammu & Kashmir in 2019 that killed 40 CRPF personnel and brought the two countries to the brink of a war. “Humne Hindustan ko ghus ke maara (We hit India in their home). Our success in Pulwama is a success of this nation under the leadership of Imran Khan. You and we are all part of that success,” Science & Technology Minister Fawad Chaudhry said in the National Assembly during a debate. When some of his fellow lawmakers objected to his men- tion of “success in Pulwama”, the Minister said that “after the Pulwama incident, the way Pakistan went inside the Indian territory to target it, the entire media in India was ashamed of it.” However, he didn’t retract his statement about “success in Pulwama” under Prime Minister Khan’s leadership. Chaudhry, a close aide of Prime Minister Khan, made the remarks a day after Opposition Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) leader Ayaz Sadiq said that Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in an important meet- ing pleaded to release Indian Air Force Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, who was captured by the Pakistani Army on February 27, 2019 after his MiG-21 Bison jet was shot down in a dogfight with Pakistani jets. In the early hours of February 26, 2019, the IAF jets bombed the Jaish-e- Mohammad (JeM) terror camps in Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan and avenged the Pulwama terrorist attack that claimed the lives of 40 CRPF personnel. The international commu- nity led by the US has pressed Pakistan to deny safe haven to terror groups operating from its soil and bring the perpetrators of the Pulwama attack to jus- tice. “Legs were shaking and forehead perspiring, and the foreign minister (Qureshi) told us, ‘For God’s sake, let him (Varthaman) go back now because India is attacking Pakistan at 9 PM in the night’”, Sadiq said, recalling the high- level meeting which was also attended by Army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, and added that “India was not planning to attack...They just wanted to kneel before India and send back Abhinandan.” Chaudhry, who was the Information & Broadcasting Minister at the time of the Pulwama attack, criticised Sadiq’s remarks and termed them as “inappropriate”. He said Sadiq lied with a lot of confidence regarding his statements and asserted that everyone has the right to dis- agree with the Government but the state should not be sub- jected to criticism. B rushing aside Pakistan objection on reference to it backing terrorism in the 2+2 India-US dialogue, India on Thursday said the whole world knows about its role in sup- porting terrorism and no amount of denial can hide this truth. This terse statement by the Ministry of External Affairs came in response to Islamabad’s objection to ref- erences to it and cross-border terrorism in the India-US joint statement after their 2+2 dia- logue on Tuesday here. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said the country that provides shelter to “max- imum number of UN-pro- scribed terrorists” should not even attempt to play the victim card. “The whole world knows truth about Pakistan’s role in supporting terrorism,” he said at a media briefing while answering questions on Islamabad’s reaction to the Indo-US joint statement. “Even their leaders have time and again spoken about their role with regard to ter- rorism,” Srivastava said. In the joint statement, India and the US on Tuesday strongly condemned cross- border terrorism in all its forms and asked Pakistan to take “immediate, sustained and irreversible” action to ensure that no territory under its control is used for launch- ing terror attacks. In its reaction, Pakistan on Wednesday called it “unwar- ranted” the reference made towards it. “We reject the Pakistan-specific reference in the joint statement’,’ issued by India and the US after their 2+2 ministerial dialogue,” the Pakistan Foreign Office had said in its reaction. The India-US statement also asked Pakistan to take immediate, sustained and irre- versible action to ensure that no territory under its control is used for terrorist attacks, and to expeditiously bring to jus- tice the perpetrators of all such attacks, including 26/11 Mumbai, Uri, and Pathankot. The two sides “empha- sised the need for concerted action against all terrorist net- works, including al-Qaeda, ISIS/Daesh, Lashkar-e- Tayyeba (LeT), Jaish-e- Mohammad (JeM) and Hizb- ul-Mujahideen,” the statement said. Reacting to the joint state- ment, the Pakistan Foreign Office said, “We reject the Pakistan-specific reference in the ‘joint statement’, issued by India and the US after their ‘2+2 Ministerial Dialogue’, as unwarranted and misleading.” The Pakistan Foreign Office also said the world should recognise the sacri- fices and successes in fighting terrorism by it. Islamabad also said the country has suffered the most from cross border terrorism. Islamabad: “Legs were shak- ing and forehead perspiring” at a meeting of Pakistan’s top leaders, including Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, wherein Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi pleaded to release Indian Air Force Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, say- ing if he was not released, India would attack Pakistan, a top Pakistani opposition leader has said. P ollution-related offences will now invite a jail term of up to 5 years and a penalty up to 1 crore. The Centre issued an Ordinance — Commission for Air Quality Management — on Wednesday night after the approval of President of India to curb air pollution in Delhi and NCR. In recent years, the region has been facing huge air pol- lution issues with respective Governments in Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan passing the buck on each other. The ordinance will also have the power to prohibit activities that are likely to cause or increase air pollution in the NCR and adjoining areas. “The Ordinance may be called the Commission for Air Quality Management In National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas Ordinance 2020. It shall apply to NCR and also adjoining areas in so far as it relates to matters con- cerning air pollution in the NCR. It shall come into force at once,” said the notification issued by the Union Law Ministry. As per the Ordinance, the adjoining areas where it shall be in force include Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, adjoining areas of the NCR and Delhi where any source of pollution is located which is causing an adverse impact on air quality in the NCR. The commission which will be heavily dominated by bureaucrats will consist of over 20 members, including a chairperson, who is or has been a secretary of the Government of India or chief secretary of a State, a repre- sentative of Environment Secretary and five ex-officio members who are either chief secretaries or secretaries in charge of the environment departments of Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, it added. “There shall be a full- time secretary who shall be the chief coordinating offi- cer of the commission and shall assist in managing the affairs of the commission,” it said. The commission which will have three sub-commit- tees, one each for monitoring and identification, safeguard- ing and enforcement, and research and development will have power to take mitigation measures, issue directions/orders suo moto and entertain complaints under any other existing laws such as the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 and the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986. The EPCA in the last 22 years when it was set up by the apex court has introduced several important interven- tions to control pollution. Continued on Page 4 A n attacker armed with a knife killed three people inside a church on Thursday in the southern French city of Nice, prompting the Government to raise its secu- rity alert status to the maxi- mum level hours before a nationwide Covid lockdown. “He cried ‘Allah Akbar!’ over and over, even after he was injured,” said Christian Estrosi, the mayor of the Mediterranean city who con- firmed a woman and a man died inside the church, while a second woman fled to a near- by bar but was mortally wounded. “The meaning of his gesture left no doubt.” It was the third attack in two months in France that authorities have attributed to Muslim extremists, including the beheading of a teacher. It comes during a growing furor over caricatures of the Prophet that were republished in recent months by the satirical news- paper Charlie Hebdo, renewing vociferous debate in France and the Muslim world over the depictions that Muslims con- sider offensive but are protect- ed by French free speech laws. Other confrontations and attacks were reported on Thursday in the southern French city of Avignon and in the Saudi city of Jeddah, but it was not clear if they were linked to the attack in Nice. French President Emmanuel Macron said he would immediately increase the number of soldiers deployed to protect schools and religious sites from around 3,000 currently to 7,000, and France’s anti-terrorism prose- cutor opened an investigation. French churches have been ferociously attacked by extrem- ists in recent years, and Thursday’s killings come ahead of the Roman Catholic All Saints’ holiday. Continued on Page 4 C ovid-19 survivors should not drop their guard and should avoid close contact with others as they could still be car- rying the virulent coronavirus, researchers have said. According to a study, pub- lished in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, close to 17 per cent of patients consid- ered fully recovered, as per the WHO criteria, from Covid-19 tested positive for the virus in follow-up screening. Patients who continued to have respiratory symptoms, especially sore throat and rhini- tis, were more likely to have a new positive test result. This suggests the persis- tence of these two symptoms should not be underestimated and should be adequately assessed in all patients consid- ered recovered from Covid-19. Researchers from Agostino Gemelli University Policlinic looked at a group of recovering Covid patients to see how their bodies react after treatment and quarantine. The study includ- ed 131 patients who all met the WHO’s guidelines for ending quarantine following their infections. Those guidelines require a patient to be fever- free without using medica- tions for three days. They must also have an improvement in their symptoms and test nega- tive for Covid twice at least 24 hours apart. “Researchers have focused on the acute phase of Covid-19, but continued monitoring after discharge for long-lasting effects is needed,” said the study lead author Francesco Landi from Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Italy. A new RT-PCR test was administered at the time of post-acute care admission. Demographic, medical, and clinical information was collected, with an emphasis on the persistence of symptoms and signs related to Covid-19 such as cough, fatigue, diar- rhea, headache, smelling dis- orders, loss of appetite, sore throat, and rhinitis. Continued on Page 4 T wo former Jammu & Kashmir Chief Ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti jointly mounted a fierce attack on the Central Government after police in Srinagar stopped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief from joining protests by her party workers against the new land laws on Thursday. Several PDP workers were prevented by the police from taking out a protest march and the PDP office was sealed after detaining party workers. Reacting strongly, National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah lashed out at the Central Government asking if it wants political parties in the State to leave mainstream pol- itics in Kashmir. “What do you want from us? Do you want us to leave mainstream politics here?” former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah asked. Continued on Page 4 D ays ahead of UP Legislative Council polls, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Thursday suspended seven of her MLAs for revolting against the party candidate and said her party would vote for Bharatiya Janata Party or any other party candidate to defeat the Samajwadi Party. “Candidate of any party, even the BJP, who will be dom- inant over the SP’s second can- didate, will get votes of all BSP MLAs for sure,” she said. She also regretted her party’s alliance with the Samajwadi Party before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. The BSP and the SP had joined hands after a gap of over two decades to contest against the BJP in the 2019 Parliamentary elections. The BSP had won 10 of the 38 Lok Sabha seats it contest- ed while the SP won five out of 37 seats. Continued on Page 4 F resh violence erupted in Munger on Thursday even as the Election Commission (EC) shifted out Bihar’s Munger District Magistrate Rajesh Meena and Superintendent of Police Lipi Singh. The protesters set some police stations and outposts on fire and ransacked the SP office. The EC has also ordered an enquiry into the firing and stone-pelting during the immersion of an idol of Goddess Durga on late on Monday in which one person had died and several others were injured. The poll body has asked Magadh Divisional Commissioner Asangba Chuba Ao to complete the probe with- in a week. The EC has also asked the State Government to appoint a new DM and SP in the district soon. Meanwhile, in a fresh vio- lence, the agitated crowd, com- prising mostly youth, set police outposts at Purab Sarai and Basudeopur on fire, and ran- sacked the SP office and several other police stations and out- posts. The office of SDO was also allegedly targeted by the protesters. Continued on Page 4 T he Uttar Pradesh Government has chalked out a 10 crore plan to cleanse the Ganga Ghats in the State with the help of CCTVs and state-of-the art gadgets. The cleaning and moni- toring plan will be executed in phases, with work to be first rolling out from religious hotspot Kashi. Around 200 CCTVs and best of state-of- the-art gadgets will be deployed to cleanse and mon- itor sanitation work at the ghats which are thronged by thousands of devotees every day. The officials posted at the Ganga Namami Department of the Yogi Government will monitor the activities sitting in their offices in Lucknow through the computers con- nected with the 200 CCTVs installed on the Ghats. “The 200 CCTV cameras to monitor the safety and cleanliness of the Ghats will be directly connected to the com- puters of officials associated with the Namami Gange project at Lucknow, the capi- tal of the State,” said an offi- cial from the State Government. The task is in keeping with the promise made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and State Chief Minister Yogi who have promised to make Ganga incessant and clean. Not only the ghats, efforts are already being undertaken to keep cleanse the con- stituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi so as to make it a role model. For executing this mam- moth task, the UP Government has already start- ed the process of selection of an agency. This time along with cleaning workers, modern machines will also be deployed on the Ghats. The waste released from the Ganga Ghats will be col- lected into these machines to be recycled to ensure that the garbage does not again flow into the water and spoil ghat on the bank of the river. After 79 ghats of Kashi, the Namami Gange depart- ment is also working on a plan to rejuvenate the cleaning sys- tem of 19 ghats of Prayagraj, 20 in Bithur, 21 of Kanpur Nagar, 27 ghats of Mathura and Vrindavan. “With the completion of the job at Kashi, work will be started at other ghats as well,” said the official.

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    In a sensational admission, asenior Pakistani Minister onThursday admitted thatPakistan was responsible forthe Pulwama terrorist attack inJammu & Kashmir in 2019 thatkilled 40 CRPF personnel andbrought the two countries tothe brink of a war.

    “Humne Hindustan koghus ke maara (We hit India intheir home). Our success inPulwama is a success of thisnation under the leadership ofImran Khan. You and we are allpart of that success,” Science &Technology Minister FawadChaudhry said in the NationalAssembly during a debate.

    When some of his fellowlawmakers objected to his men-tion of “success in Pulwama”,the Minister said that “after thePulwama incident, the wayPakistan went inside the Indianterritory to target it, the entiremedia in India was ashamed ofit.”

    However, he didn’t retracthis statement about “success inPulwama” under PrimeMinister Khan’s leadership.

    Chaudhry, a close aide ofPrime Minister Khan, made theremarks a day after OppositionPakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader AyazSadiq said that ForeignMinister Shah Mahmood

    Qureshi in an important meet-ing pleaded to release IndianAir Force Wing CommanderAbhinandan Varthaman, whowas captured by the PakistaniArmy on February 27, 2019after his MiG-21 Bison jet wasshot down in a dogfight withPakistani jets.

    In the early hours ofFebruary 26, 2019, the IAF jetsbombed the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorcamps in Balakot in KhyberPakhtunkhwa of Pakistan andavenged the Pulwama terroristattack that claimed the lives of40 CRPF personnel.

    The international commu-nity led by the US has pressedPakistan to deny safe haven toterror groups operating from itssoil and bring the perpetrators

    of the Pulwama attack to jus-tice.

    “Legs were shaking andforehead perspiring, and theforeign minister (Qureshi) toldus, ‘For God’s sake, let him

    (Varthaman) go back nowbecause India is attackingPakistan at 9 PM in the night’”,Sadiq said, recalling the high-level meeting which was alsoattended by Army chief GenQamar Javed Bajwa, and addedthat “India was not planning toattack...They just wanted tokneel before India and sendback Abhinandan.”

    Chaudhry, who was theInformation & BroadcastingMinister at the time of thePulwama attack, criticisedSadiq’s remarks and termedthem as “inappropriate”.

    He said Sadiq lied with alot of confidence regarding hisstatements and asserted thateveryone has the right to dis-agree with the Government butthe state should not be sub-jected to criticism.

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    12th International Media Conference onlineon Friday. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanathwill be the chief guest on the occasion. Thetopic of the conference is ‘Ensuring genderjustice’. Renowned media personnel, bureauchiefs, editors, senior correspondents andeducationists from India and abroad will besharing their thoughts on ensuring gender

    justice, establishing gender equality andcurbing crime and violence against girls andwomen. It will focus on the role of schools,society and media in dealing with suchissues. There will also be a panel discussionson different topics.

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    Diwas (National Unity Day), Minister ofRailways Piyush Goel administered nation-al unity pledge to RDSO officials throughvideo-conferencing on Thursday. Director-General (Special) Engineering, RDSO,Sudhir Agarwal, ADG Ramesh Pinjaniand other senior officers took the oath inthe mini-conference hall, adhering toCovid-19 guidelines. In other directoratesand field units of RDSO, the senior mostofficers administered pledge to their subor-dinates.

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    Coming down heavily on the‘Muslim fundamentalists’,Uttar Pradesh Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath on Thursdaysaid that gone were the dayswhen the country used to berun on ‘fatwas’ as it was nowrun by the Constitution.

    Ripping apart the Congressand its allies, he said suchparty leaders used to kneelbefore these ‘fundamentalist’and toe their line. “This was thereason, the Congress nevershowed guts to abolish socialevils like triple talaq,’’ hesaid, while addressing threeelection meetings in Daruanda(Siwan), Lalganj (Vaishali) andJhanjharpur (Madhubani)constituencies during three-phase Bihar assembly polls.

    The UP CM said that notonly the disrespect for womenand girls, the Congress hadnever put welfare of youth andfarmers on their agenda. “Nowthe parties like Congress havebeen thoroughly exposed andthe people have seen and expe-rienced ‘Sabka Saath, SabkaVikas’ narrative of theBharatiya Janata Party,” headded.

    He said that the countryfaced many terrorist attacksduring the UPA regime anddespite the fact that Pakistanwas involved in all the attacks,the then government at theCentre showed no courage tocorner the neighbouring coun-try. “On the contrary, nowbrave soldiers cross the bordersand kill terrorists in their hous-es”, said the UP CM.

    Yogi said that the abolitionof Article 370 last year was thelast nail in the coffin of terror-ists and terrorism and thedevelopment-oriented govern-ment would soon uprootNaxalism and Maoism fromthe country.

    “The UPA also has a softcorner for Naxalism and this isevident from the fact that theyhave given all the tickets of theconstituencies surroundingPatna to its ally CommunistParty of India (Lenin)” he said.

    Continuing further, theCM said that the policies ofCongress and Rashtriya JanataDal (RJD) were only focusedon the development of onefamily and for them the coun-try was the last priority.

    “Do you find anyone else’spicture on the election posters

    of Congress other than themembers of the Gandhi fami-ly? For RJD also, only the fam-ily matters. Even lateRaghuvansh Prasad, who wasa former Central minister andsenior party leader, had writtento party president Lalu PrasadYadav questioning as to whynot a fifth person finds aplace on the party postersother than family members,” headded.

    The CM also questionedthe purpose of Gandhi familymembers visiting temples dur-ing elections. “When they(Congress) were in power, theymade all efforts to prove thatLord Ram and Lord Krishnanever existed but during elec-tions they start moving fromone temple to another,” hesaid.

    Making an obvious refer-ence to the Gandhi family, he

    remarked that when the coun-try faces some calamities likeflood, the family rushes toItaly and they are never seen inthe affected areas helping thevictims.

    “For 55 years (when theCongress ruled the country),development was not on itsagenda and their focus wasonly on looting the resources ofthe country and compoundingit in their Swiss Bank accounts,”,he added.

    Making light of the claimof the opposition’s promise ofproviding lakhs of jobs to theyouths of Bihar, Yogi said:“They already robbed Bihar ofits pristine past and now theywant to come back to power byselling these false dreams. Canyou trust these people who did

    not even spare the foddermeant for cattle?

    Yogi, who was campaign-ing in favour of the candidatesof BJP’s ally Janata Dal(United), said that the com-mendable work of ChiefMinister Nitish Kumar hadgiven a new identity toBihar which was tarnished byRJD and Congress over theyears.

    He said that under theleadership of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi, Bihar has beendeveloping at a fast pace.“There is no place for nepo-tism, caste and religion basedpolitics in the country as wellas Bihar while the people ofBihar are smart enough not tofall for false promises,” said theCM.

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    In a setback to the Congressjust before bypolls to theBangarmau Assembly seat inUnnao, two of its senior lead-ers from the district, formerMP Anu Tandon and stategeneral secretary Ankit Pariharrevolted against the state lead-ership and resigned from theprimary membership of theparty on Thursday.

    Interestingly, as usual, thecentral leadership reacted toTandon’s resignation, as she wasalso an AICC member, withstate president Ajay Kumar‘Lallu’ issuing an expulsionletter to Tandon, claiming tohave removed her for anti-party activities. The expulsionwas made just a few hours afterTandon resigned.

    In a letter to party presi-dent Sonia Gandhi, Tandonsaid, “I have been associatedwith the Congress party foralmost 15 years, as an electedrepresentative, as a party office-bearer and as an ordinaryworker.”

    “At no time during myassociation with the Congressdid I not have access to thesenior leadership. I havereceived warmth and guid-ance from both Congress pres-idents under whom I haveserved — Sonia Gandhi andRahul Gandhi. I owe themgratitude for their support overthe years. My ideology andprinciples have been alignedwith the senior leadership ofthe party and my resignationdoes not change that.”

    She said, “Unfortunately,there is a ‘misalignment’between the state-level leader-ship and me and I do not seetheir support in allowing me towork since the past severalmonths. The loss I faced in the2019 election was not as painfulas seeing the party organisationdisintegrate and decimate itselfsince then. The state leadershipof the party has focused onlyon social media managementand self-branding and is obliv-ious of the deep divisions in theparty and the voters it has thuscaused.”

    “Spreading canards aboutmy associates in Unnao andme, by the local irrelevant andchosen few, to get browniepoints despite my genuineintent is painful, rather quitedisgusting with no attemptor endeavour by the partyleadership to stem this,” sheclaimed.

    “I had continued to remainin the party for several months

    despite being at oddswith those in the state leader-ship as I hoped that therewould be progress towardsgrooming the correct set ofleaders in the State towards abetter future. I also had anopportunity to speak withPriyanka Gandhi. She hasassured me that the CongressPresident is fully apprised ofthe situation too. However, wehave been unable to resolve aforward path that is amenableto all parties concerned,” sheadded.

    “I have requested theCongress president to acceptmy resignation immediately.As far as my future path goes,I will be consulting with myworkers, who are core to every-thing I have achieved so farand I am confident that wewill continue to be a force forgood, a force for change and ameans to truly represent thevoice of the people,” Tandonsaid.

    Meanwhile, reports saidthat Anu Tandon could bejoining the Samajwadi Party.

    Ankit Singh Parihar,another youth leader fromUnnao, also resigned withTandon and attacked the topleadership and alleged that theideological structure of theparty changed since PriyankaGandhi Vadra became the statein-charge. In his resignation let-ter to Vadra, Parihar took aveiled dig at her and said theideological structure of theparty changed since shebecame the state in-charge ofthe party.

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    The ruling Bharatiya JantaParty (BJP) created a recordof sorts as none of its candidatefor the seven assembly seats inthe state, where polls are sched-uled for November 3, has acriminal record.

    After analysing records of87 out of 88 candidates, it wasfound that 18 candidates had acriminal background.Surprisingly, 15 of them haveserious criminal cases againstthem.

    According to Associationfor Democratic Reforms(ADR) report released hereon Thursday, among the majorparties, 5 out of 7 candidatesfrom BSP, 5 out of 6 candidatesanalysed from SP, 1 out of 6candidates from Congress and3 out of 22 independent candi-dates have declared criminalcases against themselves intheir affidavits.

    Among the major parties,5 out of 7 candidates analysedfrom the BSP, 5 out of 6 candi-dates from the SP and 2 out of22 independent candidateshave declared serious criminalcases against themselves intheir affidavits.

    One candidate has declareda case related to rape (IPC sec-tion 376) against himself whileanother had disclosed a caserelated to murder (IPC Section-302) against himeself while 4candidates have declared casesrelated of attempt to murder(IPC Section-307) againstthemselves.

    Two out of 7 constituenciesgoing to polls are red alert con-stituencies. Red alert con-stituencies are those where 3 ormore contesting candidateshave declared criminal casesagainst themselves.

    There are 34 crorepatiscontesting the by-polls. All 7 ofthe BSP, 5 of the SP, 4 each ofCongress and BJP and 6 inde-pendents are in this group. Theaverage assets per candidatecontesting the by-elections are��2.91 crore.

    SP’s Brahma ShankerTripathi is the richest candidatein the state contesting fromDeoria seat as his assets shownin the nomination paper are �31crore. The second and thirdplace is shared by independentcandidate Dhananjay Singhcontesting from Malhani andRLD candidate Praveen KumarSingh contesting from

    Bulandshahr, as both haveassets worth ��23 crore.

    Rashtriya Jankranti Partycandidate Rahul alias RahulBhati, contesting fromBulandshahr seat, has declaredthat he has zero assets whileIndependent Ranjan Yadav,contesting from Deoria seat,has just �� 10,000 in asset.Parivartan Samaj Partycandidate Satish Kumar con-testing from Tundla seat hasalso shown his assets at �22,000.

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    In a bizarre case, to save him-self after killing his father, a17-year-old boy in Vrindavanwatched a TV serial over 100times to learn ways to destroyevidence.

    The fact came to lightafter the accused, a class 12student, was held by theMathura police on Wednesday.The cops checked his mobilephone and found that he hadwatched the ‘Crime Patrol’series over a 100 times.

    On May 2, 42-year-oldManoj Mishra scolded his son.Upset with his rebukes, the boyhit his father on the headwith an iron rod and when hefainted, he strangled him witha piece of cloth.

    Later, the same night, theboy, with the help of his moth-er, carried the body on hisscooty to a forest area aboutfive kilometres away and burntit to destroy the identity.

    On May 3, police found apartially burnt body thatremained unidentified foralmost three weeks as no miss-ing person report was filed inany police station. The family,

    finally, lodged a missing per-son complaint on May 27under pressure from ISKCONofficials since Manoj Mishraworked there as a donationcollector. Some of his col-leagues identified the body tobe that of Manoj, on the basisof the spectacles recovered.

    Meanwhile, suspicionsarose as MathuraSuperintendent of Police UdaiShanker Singh said that when-ever they called Manoj’s sonfor questioning, he wouldevade coming and wouldinstead ask the police underwhat provisions of the lawwere they trying to interrogatehim. However, when policechecked his mobile phone,they found a history of the boywatching Crime Patrolepisodes at least 100 times.After several rounds of ques-tioning, the boy finally brokedown and admitted to hiscrime.

    The police arrested theboy and his mother SangeetaMishra and booked them formurder and destroying evi-dence. The 11-year-old sisterof the accused has been hand-ed over to his grandparents.

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    Mayawati’s claim that she isready to align withBharatiya Janata Party to defeatSamajwadi Party has failed toenthuse the BJP leadership ofUttar Pradesh as they opinedthat the BSP chief should firstset her house in order ratherthan start scouting for allies.

    “The BSP is shrinking byevery passing day. How can shehelp BJP in defeating theSamajwadi Party. Mayawati hasa habit of issuing statements. Itis her own view and the BJP hasnothing to do with it. Earliershe had aligned with the SP,saying she has joined hands todefeat the BJP and now she issaying she will join hands withBJP to defeat SP. Her state-ments lack seriousness,” said asenior BJP leader.

    “The BSP had 19 MLAs

    and Mayawati has suspendedseven today. How can she helpthe BJP with its depletingstrength,” he asked.

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    Congress leader PriyankaGandhi Vadra took a dig atBahujan Samaj Party (BSP)supremo Mayawati on herremarks that the BSP willensure the defeat of theSamajwadi Party at all costseven if that required to “sidewith the BJP”.

    Sharing a video of BSPchief Mayawati where she saysthat to ensure the defeat ofSamajwadi Party candidates infuture elections, her party willside with BJP or any otherparty’s candidate, PriyankaGandhi Vadra wrote, “Now isthere anything more to besaid?"

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    Lucknow (PTI):Commercial flights from theBareilly airport are expected tostart by December this year,said the Airports Authority ofIndia (AAI) on Thursday.

    “Bareilly airport belongs tothe Indian Air Force (IAF) andAAI has developed a new civilenclave with interim terminalbuilding of area 525 squaremetre along with apron for park-ing of one ATR-72 type of air-craft,” said the AAI’s pressrelease. The release said the AAIis also building a regular termi-nal building with an area of 2,520square metre at the Bareilly air-port and more than 80 per centof its construction work hasbeen completed.

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    The Uttar PradeshExpressway IndustrialDevelopment Authority(UPEIDA) has proposed �22,145 crore for civil work forthe construction of the GangaExpressway for which theBoard has asked UPEIDA tolook for financial options.

    The decision was taken inthe Board meeting which washeld under the chairmanship ofUPEIDA CEO AwanishAwasthi here on Thursday.

    The governmentspokesman said that the Boardhad approved a proposal of �22,145 crore for the civil worksfor the construction of theGanga Expressway.

    “To generate finances, theBoard proposed that avenues ofthe PPP model should beexplored. The investorsshould be identified as perthe records of the NHAI andthen Expression of Interest(EOI) should be signed,” he

    said.The total cost of the

    Ganga Expressway is ��36,410crore of which �� 9,255 crorehas been earmarked for acqui-sition of 7,800 hectare ofland.

    The Ganga Expressway is asix-lane greenfield expresswayproject. The total length of theproject will be 602 km and itwill be constructed in twophases.

    Earlier, the UPEIDA Boardhad cleared a proposal for rais-ing loans totalling �� 5,900crore for the BundelkhandExpressway from a consor-tium of banks led by public sec-tor bank, Bank of Baroda(BoB), and also comprisingUnion Bank of India, IndianBank, Bank of Maharashtraand UCO Bank.

    So far, the BoB has offeredloans worth ��4,000 crore fordifferent expressway projects inUP, of which ��2,000 crore wasmeant for 296 kmBundelkhand Expressway.

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    The Health department hasbegun preparations for theCovid-19 vaccination drivewhich is likely to take placenext year. A senior official atthe CMO office said a Healthdepartment team visited theDistrict Immunization Centrein Aishbagh on Thursday withthe team of engineers and dis-trict immunisation officer.

    He said with these prepa-rations, they have to makesure that before the vaccinearrives, they are prepared tostore it in deep freezers and dis-tribute accordingly. He said itwas expected in the month ofFebruary.

    “This is being done underthe state government directivesand we were making arrange-ments for proper space, logis-tics and assessing at the sametime as to whatever gaps arethere in the present set-up andwhat is required. The teamchecked on the issues whichwere there and we will be ask-ing the government to give ussome budget for renovation ofthe building,” he said. He addedthat this vaccine has to bekept separately from other vac-cines, hence new deep freezersare required.

    The official said they havestarted making a list of allhealth workers who are work-ing in the Covid area, be it inthe government or private sec-tor and even the list of ASHAworkers is being made so thatthe number of vaccinesrequired for the district isascertained.

    “In the first phase, all thehealth workers will be given thevaccine and then if we receivemore vaccines, we will expandour programme,” he said.

    He added that there wouldalso be some categorisationwhich would be put up whenthe vaccine is administered togeneral public. “It may be givento people above 40 or 50 years

    of age to begin with. This is stillin the planning process, butright now we are preparing thelist of manpower,” he said.

    Meanwhile, nodal officerfor KGMU’s Covid-19 task

    force and incharge of InfectiousDiseases Centre Dr DHimanshu said Lucknow hasgone past the first wave, butpeople have to be careful, fol-low social distancing, avoidcrowds and wear masks.

    Referring to herd immuni-ty, he said it is about a certainpercentage of population devel-oping antibodies, after which the infection starts com-ing down.

    “It depends on how muchthe population has beenexposed to the virus till now.With almost everything opennow, people who were notroaming outside will start ven-turing out, and many peopleare expected to be lax in adher-ing to Covid-19 protocols. Inthat case, we will have a certainpercentage of people contractthe infection and it is then thatwe may get the second wave,which is what happened in theUS, Europe and other places.The same thing happened inDelhi and other states of India,”he said, adding that the diseaseis following its natural course.

    Regarding the planning ofhospital for the coming days, hesaid KGMU is slowly openingits OPDs and keeping a watchon the course of the pandem-ic while stressing on taking pre-cautionary measures.

    Being a Level-3 hospital,KGMU’s occupancy is highand patients are coming fromother districts as well. “We aregetting patients who have someother diseases along withCovid-19 ,” he said. He addedthat they are not finding highlevels of positivity amongstpatients reporting directly.“Those who are in the triagearea for treatment, their posi-tivity rate is also coming out tobe low,” he pointed out.

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    Ascience toon book titled‘Bye Bye Corona’, written byscientoonist Pradeep Srivastava,who is former senior principalscientist of Central DrugResearch Institute (CDRI), wasreleased in a function held at RajBhawan by GovernorAnandiben Patel on Thursday.Srivastava said that this wasworld’s first science toon bookon coronavirus.

    “Cartoons are the mosteffective way of communicatingwith human beings as they notonly tickle us but are also capa-ble of delivering tough messagesin a simple, subtle and rivetingmanner. Human mind is hardwired to take their messages onboard ahead of other forms ofcommunication. A science toonis a cartoon communicationbased on science. Science toonsare meant to inform and sensi-tise people about science andscientific concepts in an intelli-

    gible and interesting way,” he said.

    The book is published byVigyan Prasar, an autonomousagency under the Departmentof Science and Technology,Government of India. The 220-

    page book contains comprehen-sive information on the coron-avirus pandemic, Covid-19symptoms and preventionthrough precautions. It also hasa very interesting chapter on the‘Art of Living with Coronavirus’

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    The University of Lucknow iscelebrating its 100th year thisNovember and preparations foronce-in-a-century celebrations aregoing on in full swing.

    Vice-Chancellor AK Raipresided over a meeting onThursday and it was attended bymembers of CentennialCelebrations Committee. Heshared certain guidelines for suc-cessful completion of all the eventsplanned by the university. Rai saidseven days of events have beenplanned, including convocation ofstudents, heritage walks, sportsevents, science fests, art festivals,cultural programmes, poetryevenings, alumni meets, etc. A

    documentary on LU and its 100years of achievements is also beingprepared which will be releasedduring this peri-od. The vice-chancellor invit-ed everyone tobe a part of thec e l e br at i ons .The meetingwas also attend-ed by convenorof theC e n t e n n i a lC e l e br at i on sC o m m i t t e eNishi Pandey.

    Meanwhile,principal consultant in a privatecompany Ashish Johri said it is ourreaction to the uncertain situation

    or crisis that determines whetherwe will become hopeless or end updeveloping new potentialities about

    which wewere unawareof. He wasspeaking on‘Dealing withuncertainty -being resilientduring crisisat a webinarorganised byt h eCounsellingand GuidanceCell of LU’sdepartment

    of Psychology. Johri asked studentsto first conceptualise about whatthey mean by uncertainty. He

    encouraged participants to probedeeper in their inner selves andunderstand the real source of cri-sis within them.

    Johri explained how uncer-tainty creates a dilemma and incon-gruence within ourselves and con-tributes to negative thoughts. Hethen stressed on the importance ofmeditation. He also conducted arejuvenating meditative sessionfocused on lifting away the burdenof negative thoughts within mind.All the participants took part in thismeditative exercise and were alsotold about the strategies throughwhich they can respond resilient-ly whenever they face uncertain sit-uations in life. CGC directorMadhurima Pradhan also attend-ed the webinar.

    %�������/������/���� $���/����������� �����!�-������/��Lucknow (PNS): Two brothersthrashed their neighbour inThakurganj on Wednesdaynight and threatened his wifeto leave the house if she want-ed her husband to be alive.Victim’s brother was alsoaccused of being complicit inthe attack, which was said to beaimed at terrorising the victimto vacate the house.

    As per reports, AshishKumar Mishra of Ekta Nagar inthe area was in the house whenhis neighbours BrijendraMohan Bajpai and his brotherMunindra Mohan Bajpai, alongwith victim’s brother AmitMishra, reached there around 9:30 pm. They askedAshish to come out of thehouse and attacked him whenstepped out.

    “We have an enmity withthe Bajpai brothers and theyattacked us. My brother Amitwas also with them. Theythrashed me and then threat-ened my wife Kshama to vacatethe house or face dire conse-quences,” Ashish alleged.

    Police registered a caseagainst the accused. The victimsaid the attackers wanted tooust him from the house andhis brother was supportingthem in their plan.

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    Aman aged around 50years was murdered andthe body was dumped in amango grove alongsideMadiaon highway onThursday. Police said the bodywas in a highly decomposedstate and they were makingefforts to ascertaining theidentity of the victim. As perreports, Amit Kumar Saini ofThakurganj passed by themango grove owned by IqbalBaig and felt putrid smell. Hecalled police and a team led bysub-inspector Pradeep Yadavreached the scene. However,the police could not ascertain

    the identity of the victim.The body was later sent forautopsy.

    Meanwhile, a 65-year-oldwoman was fatally moweddown by a speeding mini-truck in Kakori on Wednesdayafternoon. Reports saidShakuntala Devi Gautam ofBegariya village in Dubaggawent to Dubagga crossing forsome work on Wednesdayafternoon and was crossingthe road to reach the otherside when she was hit by aspeeding mini-truck comingfrom Hardoi side. She wasrushed to KGMU TraumaCentre where she was declaredbrought dead. The errant dri-

    ver fled the scene abandoningthe vehicle at the crime scene.

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    A man accused the manag-ing director and other officialsof a company dealing in saleand purchase of lands of dup-ing him and his friends by lur-ing them into investment forattractive refunds.

    The complainant, SanjayGautam of Mohanlalganj, saidhe met the managing directorof the company, Ratan ChandDwivedi of Deoria, and direc-tor Zainuddin Ansari throughhis friend DharmendraPrajapati who is the marketing

    head. He alleged that he invest-ed Rs 84,000 and his friends Rs1.38 lakh in the companywhich promised them an dou-ble the returns.

    “We got money as profitshare for three months andlater, the company stoppedpaying us. We contacted thecompany and were promisedpayment once the finances ofthe company soared. Due to theCovid pandemic, we could notcontact the company officials.In July, we met Ratan ChandDwivedi and were denied thepayment. He also threatenedus,” the complainant alleged. Acase was registered in this connection.

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    In a meeting held onThursday at Collectorateregarding increasing air pollu-tion conditions prevailing inthe city, District MagistrateAbhishek Prakash said actionshould be taken as per the workplan made by Uttar PradeshPollution Control Board.

    He said all the depart-ments working to curb airpollution should work on awar-footing. “All the depart-ments should finish the workof road repair and water be

    sprinkled on under-construc-tion buildings. Arrangementsshould be made for green netsand construction material becovered at the sites, anti-smokes guns be used and vehi-cles carrying constructionmaterial should also be cov-ered,” the DM said.

    He also gave directionsfor all construction agencies toupload their dust audit ongovernment portal. “Thisshould be uploaded by theagencies by Friday and actionwill be taken against the agen-cies which do not upload the

    details along with pho-tographs,” he said.

    The DM also gave direc-tions to all Uttar PradeshPollution Control Board offi-cials to make teams and mon-itor the industrial units andconstruction projects causingpollution and take actionagainst them. He said theadministrative officers shouldalso carry out surprise inspec-tions. The DM said if theinstructions given by theUPPCB were not followed,fines could be imposed on con-struction agencies.

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    The VIP road trisection in Alambaghwill now be called Guru Nanak Devcrossing. Mayor Sanyukta Bhatiaunveiled the new name at a programmeorganised on Thursday.

    “Guru Nanak Dev was not only aninspiration for the Sikh community butfor entire humanity. The Sikh commu-nity has given several sacrifices in thehistory of the country and its members

    have been known for their valour andbravery. They also serve the communi-

    ty because no one goes hungry fromtheir langar or community kitchens,” shesaid.

    The mayor later visited AlambaghGurdwara and told the GurdwaraPrabandhak Committee that they couldsubmit any project of any museum ormonument which could inspire thecoming generations then she wouldtake up the project for posterity. Therenaming coincided with the 550thPrakash Utsav of Guru Nanak Dev.

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    Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)chief spokesman VaibhavMaheshwari on Thursdaydemanded a CBI probe into thesmart meter scam and refundof money with interest chargedfrom electricity consumers forthese meters.

    Maheshwari was speakingto newsmen at the party officein Lucknow on Thursday. Hesaid a large number of electric-ity consumers were filing com-plaints in this regard on AAPhelpline number and the party

    planned to stage a state-wideprotest on the issue.

    Maheshwari said powertariff was high in UP due tocorruption in the Energydepartment and the peoplewere facing hardship.

    “The people in UP arepaying a big amount of theirearnings on power bills but thestate government is least both-ered about them,” he said.

    Maheshwari said the AAPgovernment in Delhi was pro-viding electricity to the peopleat the low tariff and was mak-ing efforts to lower it further.”

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    Lucknow (PNS): In continu-ation of the downward trendof cases, as many as 218 per-sons tested positive for coro-navirus in the city onThursday while 236 patientsrecovered. The death tollstands at 876.

    The new patients includ-ed 27 from Gomtinagar, 25from Indiranagar, 17 fromRae Bareli road, 14 each fromHasanganj & Aliganj, 13 fromMadiaon, 12 from Vikasnagarand 10 from Chowk.

    There were eight deathsin the city and two of thedeceased belonged toLucknow while the rest toother districts like Barabanki,Basti, Kannauj, Ghazipur,Jaunpur and Gorakhpur. Asmany as 6,562 samples werecollected in the district undercontact tracing.

    There were three deaths at

    KGMU, including that of a72-year-old man fromLucknow, a 40-year-oldwoman from Jaunpur and a75-year-old man fromBarabanki.

    Across the state, 1,979persons tested positive,including 79 in Varanasi, 130in Gautam Buddhnagar and118 in Meerut, taking the UPtally of cases to 4,77,895.

    There were 25 deathsacross the state, includingfive in Varanasi, and one eachin Kanpur, Prayagraj, GautamBuddhnagar, Meerut, Agra,Barabanki, Kheri,Bulandshahr, Sitapur,Farrukhabad, Chandauli,Siddharthnagar, Amethi,Jalaun, Mirzapur andAuraiyya, taking the totalnumber of deaths to 6,983.Besides, 2,465 patients recov-ered, taking the recovery fig-

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    time. The book offers a perspec-tive insight into the intricaciesof the deadly pandemic withoutscaring the reader.

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    Senior Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) leader and formerMLC Dr Veena Pandeyexpressed concern over thepresentation of a wrong pictureof Mirzapur in the PankajTripathi-starrer Amazon Primeweb series ‘Mirzapur 2’ anddemanded a ban on the same.According to her, thoughMirzapur is a peaceful area, ithas been shown as violence-dominated place in the popu-lar web series which is farfrom the truth and reality.After receiving a huge success,the second season of the webseries premiered on October 23last with a flavour of guns, mur-ders, drugs and lawlessness.

    ‘Mirzapur is the city of spir-ituality with major shrines likeVindhyachal, Kali Khoh,Ashtabhuja, Ahraura locatedBhandari Devi and others.

    Besides, there are several attrac-tive tourist destinations such asVindham and Lakhania Dari inAhraura. It was the birth as wellas work place of great scholarChaudhary BadrinarayanUpadhyay ‘Premghan’ who hadinspired several litterateursincluding Acharya

    Ramchandra Shukla a lot. Itsfamous folk song ‘MirzapuriKajri’ is considered as a songconveying the message of love,harmony and peace amongthe people. It is also a leadingcentre of traditional handi-craft industries of brass, carpetand dari. Not only this,

    Mirzapur is also a centre ofmany prominent freedomfighters,’ she said, adding thatbut surprisingly and shocking-ly, the place has been shown ina distorted way of ethnic con-flicts and violence.

    Expressing her anguishover the manner Mirzapur isshown in the web series, ex-MLC said ‘it is condemnableand worrying because thisleads to a wrong message in thesociety due to presentation ofdistorted history.’ Dr Pandeyurged the Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath tostop telecast of such web serieswhich are devoid of culture bydistorting history apart fromspreading ethnic disharmony.She also requested the PM andCM to give clear instructions tothe district administration andpolice not to allow shooting ofsuch serial in future.

    VARANASI (PNS): A planta-tion programme was organisedunder the joint aegis of 137Composite Eco-Task Force of39-GTC and DAV PG Collegehere on Thursday. UP Ministerof State (Independent Charge)Neelkanth Tiwari, eminentvocalist Padma Bhushan Pt.Sajan Mishra, Principal DrSatyadev Singh, 39- GTCLieutenant Colonel VineetSeth, Manager of the collegeAjit Kumar Singh Yadav andmany others were present.

    A large number of saplingswere planted in the sportsground areas in both DAVInter College and PG Collegepremises. The participants alsotook a pledge to protect theenvironment. Addressing thesoldiers, NCC cadets, scout-guides, teachers, staff and oth-ers, the Minister said that it isour responsibility to keep theenvironment clean and beauti-

    ful, for this, planting trees is thebest solution. He also said thatthe Prime Minister and ChiefMinister always inspire theyouth to plant a tree on theirbirthday. Tiwari furtherinformed that so far, morethan 25 crore saplings havebeen planted in the entire stateduring the last two years due tothe efforts of the state govern-ment. Principal Dr SatyadevSingh said that due to beinglocated in the middle of the city,a large number of trees havebeen planted in our collegepremises to maintain environ-mental balance. Our effort is toplant more and more plants onthe campus, he added. A totalof 101 saplings of Mango,Ashok, Sheesham, Gulmohar,Chikwan etc. were planted inthe programme On the occa-sion, Dr PK Sen, HaribanshSingh, Dr Vikramaditya Rai,Narendra Kumar Singh and

    many other teachers andemployees were also present.Earlier, under the joint auspicesof 95th Battalion of CRPF andSrijan Samajik Vikas Nyas, aplantation drive was launchedat Aghore Peeth Baba KinaramSthal, Ravindrapuri. Under theleadership of CRPFCommandant Narendra PalSingh, the particiapnts planted151 saplings of Rudraksh,Parijaat, Shesham, Jamun,Tulsi, Panchyana, Sitaphal etc.Speaking on the occasion,CRPF Commandant appealedto all to protect the environ-ment. Srijan chief Anil Singhpresided over the functionwhich was also attended byKinaram Ashram managerArun Kumar Singh, PremNarayan Singh, Rana, Kanta,Sanjay Singh, Aparna Bajpaiand Hari Shankar Pandey.

    G R A N T F O R F I S H -ERIES: Aiming at promoting

    the fisheries, the governmenthas decided to give 40 per centgrant for the same in the pondon the private land under theNational AgricultureDevelopment Scheme. Theonline application can be sub-mitted on the departmentalportal of the fisheries develop-ment agency by 5 pm onNovember 21. The interestedcan apply for the grant on thedepartmental portal of theagency by 5 pm on November21, the Chief Executive Officer,Fisheries Development agencyRavindra Prasad informedadding, the candidates arerequired to construct ponds ontheir private lands to get grant.The project cost is � 8.50 lakhper hectare and out of which,� 7 lakh on the construction ofpond and the rest � 1.5 lakhper hectare for fisheries inthe first year, he informed fur-ther.

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    In the presence of UPMinister of State(Independent Charge) forTourism Neelkanth Tiwari andZonal Incharge of ISKCON(International Society forKrishna Consciousness)Devakinandan Das, digitalstone laying programme ofYouth Welfare Centre in theISKCON premises was heldhere on Wednesday evening.Speaking on the occasion,Tiwari said that incubationand skill development centre isan important venture becausetoday’s youth is in great need ofit as Prime Minister NarendraModi is also giving specialemphasis on youth upliftment.Devkinandan Prabhu empha-sised not only on businessknowledge but also on spiritu-al and character development.

    Chairman of AdvisoryCommittee of ISKCON(Varanasi) Arvind KumarAgrawal and Chairman ofExecutive Committee KushagraAgrawal were also present. Thecentre is being built near BHU’sHyderabad Gate underCorporate Social Responsibility(CSR) of ISKCON Varanasi.

    This four-storey centre is beingdeveloped with an aim of moti-vating and training youth forupliftment of intellectual, busi-ness and spiritual values andcharacter building. Besides,through the centre, the youthwill learn the art of improvingtheir lives by connecting them-selves with Vedic knowledgeand culture. The centre willhave facility for conductingseminars for deaddiction, megakitchens for distribution offree ‘prasad’ (offerings), multi-

    purpose halls for culturalevents, career counselling facil-ity, recording studios for onlineeducation, classes and confer-ence rooms for value educationand physical. Besides, therewill also be a centre for medi-tation for exercise and medita-tion for mental balance.

    This centre is being builtunder the Sanskar Projectbeing run by ISKCON for theyouth upliftment and empow-erment. Every year, throughthis much awaited centre,

    efforts will be made to providefully sponsored certificatecourses to 250 youths, fundingand business friendly environ-ment to 10 startups, daily foodarrangements for 250, voca-tional training to 40, education-al scholarship to 60, free edu-cation to 120 children and runcourses related to value educa-tion and deaddiction to 1000students.

    Chairman of ISKCON(Varanasi) Achut MohanPrabhu said ‘the youth is thefuture of society and for this itis very important to give themthe right guidance, charactervalues and training at the rightstage of life.’ The centre is beingdeveloped by ISKCON in asso-ciation with voluntary organi-sation Ummed Foundationwhose Sandeep Kumar is him-self a student of IIT-BHU. Hesaid ‘we want to contribute tosociety building by admiringthe talents and potential ofyouth in an atmosphere oflove, hope and positivity.’

    The function was alsoattended by Siddhant Agarwal,Raj Kumar Yadav, AnoopSahni, Chaitanya Chandra Das,Manish, Dhawal Patel andLakshya Sharma.

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    As a part of ongoingVigilance Awareness Week,a seminar on the central themeof the year ‘Vigilant India,Prosperous India (SatarkBharat, Samriddh Bharat)’ wasorganised on Thursday inNorth Central Railway HQoffice. In this web-based sem-inar chaired by GeneralManager Rajiv Chaudhry,retired Justice Arun Tandon ofAllahabad High Court partic-ipated as chief guest besides allPHODs and other senior offi-cials of North Central Railwaywhile DRMs from the threedivisions and divisional officialsjoined through video confer-encing.

    At the outset GeneralManager, chief guest JusticeArun Tandon, SDGM andother PHODs offered flowerson picture of SardarVallabhbhai Patel and lamplighting was also done. In theopening session of seminarSDGM and CVO NCR NavinKumar Sinha made a detailedpresentation covering evolutionof vigilance, need of separatevigilance organisation, vigi-lance activities in railways,relation in corruption percep-tion index (CPI) and humandevelopment index (HDI).Sinha emphasised on role of

    each executive as vigilanceofficer in his own domain andstressed on maximising use ofIT tools in railway working.

    Addressing participants onthis occasion General ManagerRajiv Chaudhry said that NorthCentral Railway has convertedcurrent crisis into opportuni-ty through maximum use of ITand other technological toolsand this e-working environ-ment will help in better vigi-lance management. He saidthat all officers are vigilanceofficers in their own field andwe should have zero tolerancetowards corrupt practices.Chaudhry suggested on devis-ing and implementing trans-parency index over NCR so asunit with better vigilance man-agement can be benchmarkedand scope of improvement canbe quantified more objective-ly. General Manager also saidthat a small module on ethicsneeds to be incorporated inproject Saksham a skill devel-opment training being given toall employees every year.

    Speaking on this occasionchief guest, Justice ArunTandon said that illiteratedemocracy is no democracyand stressed on need of educa-tion in vigilance awarenessand bringing desired trans-parency in public dealing. Hecongratulated team NCR under

    the leadership of Chaudhry forimproved housekeeping andwork culture on North CentralRailway. He added that honestytravel from top to bottom andone should learn to say no tounfair and corrupt practices inpublic as well as personal life.Justice Tandon said that hon-ouring and recognising a hon-est person is equally importantto stringent action against cor-rupt officials.

    During the seminar vigi-lance bulletin ‘Jagriti’ was alsoreleased electronically byGeneral Manager RajivChaudhry and Justice ArunTandon. This annual publica-tion contains case studies,checklist of important worksbeing done in railways, suggest-ed system improvements, list ofDo’s and Don’ts in tender andcontract dealing maters, latestguidelines and circulars, andserves as ready reckoner on vig-ilance sensitive matters onRailways. This e-book shall besent to all units and officials onNCR through electronic andsocial media means.

    PHODs, DRMs from thedivisions and other officialsalso expressed their views dur-ing the seminar and sharedideas to promote integrity,accountability and transparen-cy in public life. Seminar wascoordinated by Dy CVO Traffic

    Brijesh Mishra and CVO(Engineering) Devendra Singhproposed vote of thanks. Otherofficials from NCR’s vigilanceorganisation including DyCVO Store Ankur Chandra, DyCVO Mechanical Ajay KumarSahni, Dy CVO ElectricalDharmendra Kumar partici-pated in this seminar.

    Vigilance awareness weekis also the week in which thebirthday of Bharat Ratna SardarVallabhbhai Patel falls. Hiscommitment to national inte-gration in the newly indepen-dent country was total anduncompromising, earning himthe sobriquet ‘Iron Man ofIndia’ and life of Sardar Patel isa model for honesty, integrityand probity in public life forpresent as well as for futuregenerations. 145th BirthAnniversary of SaradarVallabhbhai Patel on October31,2020 is being observed asRashtriya Ekta Diwas.

    On Thursday Minister ofRailway Piyush Goyal admin-istered National Integritypledge to CRB, all members ofRailway Board, GMs, DRMsand other senior officials ofRailways and PSUs etc. at 17:00hrs. Rashtriya Ekta pledge hasbeen administered all overNCR in similar programmesorganized at HQ, Divisionsand other units.

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    The number of coronainfected in the district con-tinued to provide relief onWednesday. Samples of 4,786people were collected for theCovid testing. At the sametime 94 new Covid positivepatients were detected withinthe last 24 hours..Corona wasdefeated by 127 people on thesame day. One infected diedduring treatment.

    According to CMO Dr GSBajpai, the scope of corona test-ing has been increased, but thenumber of infected hasdecreased. On Wednesday, only94 people were found to becorona infected after beingtested. At the same time 127people were also infection free.Of these, 102 people complet-ed home isolation. The 25infected were discharged fromvarious Covid hospitals. 131infected people are being treat-ed at various Covid hospitals.The number of active patientshas come down to 1,330 at thelowest level. The death tollfrom Covid has increased to313 after the death of an infect-ed on Wednesday. The coronadeath was zero for three daysbefore that.

    On Wednesday, the list ofCorona-infected people includ-

    ed the most bank officers. Onthe other hand, the medicalofficer of Beli Blood Bank, asection officer of the HighCourt and the Covid report ofthe PRO of a Justice has comepositive. Nodal Officer forCorona Dr Rishi Sahai gave thisinformation. He said that PO ofPhulpur Gramin Bank, manag-er of SBI Civil Lines branch, POof Gramin Bank Handia, man-ager of SBI Meja branch, recov-ery officer of BoB are amongthe infected tested on the sameday.

    Nodal Officer Dr Sahaisaid that the infected includeda primary school teacher, advo-cate, a loco pilot of the railway,

    deputy manager of IFFCO, anS-I posted at Phulpur policestation, engineer of PDA,teacher of GGIC etc.

    Nodal Officer Dr RishiSahai has appealed to the peo-ple to have a Covid checkimmediately if cough, fever ordifficulty in breathing persists.Vigilance is very importantright now, so inevitably applya mask, keep proper distancewith repeated hand wash,added Dr Sahai.

    H E A L T H R E P O R TCARD: Officials of Healthdepartment are tracking andmaintaining the health reportcard of cured \ recoveredCOVID-19 infected patients

    who had complained co-mor-bidity and were above 60 yearsof age during the diagnosis forthe coronavirus infection.Ateam of RRT (Rapid ResponseTeam) has been assigned to callsuch patients on every fourthand seventh day and maintaintheir health card reports.

    Nodal Officer andAdditional Chief MedicalOfficer, Dr Rishi Sahaiinformed the newspersons theyhave maintained a database of2600 patients who got curedand recovered from COVID-19infection. These patients hadcomplained of co-morbidityand were above the age of 60years when they were diag-nosed for the coronavirusinfection.

    He added despite the factthat Prayagraj district hasrecorded a decline in the graphof covid patients and alsorecovered over 92 per centrecovery rate department hasplans to turn hyper-local in itspublic health strategies.

    The rapid response teamsat ICCC (Integrated CovidCommand Centre) metamor-phose into health cells withinformation about local seniorcitizens and those with chron-ic conditions such as diabetesand hypertension or other seri-ous health ailments.

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    In a shocking incident, ateenaged girl aged around 17was killed over an issue of loveaffair by some unidentifiedmiscreants at Tala village underthe Kandhai police station ofthe district. The family of thedeceased and her lover clashedwith each other, accusing eachother of murder.

    The two sides foughtfiercely with sticks, injuring thelover and six of his family. Thedeceased’s brother also suf-fered serious injuries in theassault. Police detained fourpeople, including the head ofthe village who had reached asettlement in the case.

    According to the police,Tala resident Rajkumar aliasRaja was in love with Sadhana,who lived next door. The twohad run away from home a fewdays earlier, but returned onlytwo days later. On Tuesday,both of them came out of thehouse to see the fair of BharatMilap.

    On Wednesday morning,Sadhana did not return to herhouse and stayed at the houseof Rajkumar alias Raja, whichsparked a dispute between thetwo families. Later, both sidesreached the house of PradhanAyodhya Prasad Gupta, whereduring the panchayat it wasdecided that the family ofRajkumar should surrenderthe case by paying � 30,000 tothe family members of theSadhana.

    After the agreement,Sadhana went to her home.Sadhana’s body was found in

    front of the lover Rajkumar’shouse at around 7.30 pm, afterwhich both the sides enteredinto an altercation. Theyattacked each other with lath-is and sticks accusing eachother of killing Sadhana.

    During this, Sadhna’sbrother Akhilesh (32) and herlover Rajkumar alias Raja (19),his brother Dharmaraja (18),Pankaj (14) son of Dudhanath,Pappuram (40), Rajendra (45)and Lalti (40) were seriouslyinjured.

    The police rushed every-one to the district hospital.Sadhna’s brother Akhilesh con-tinued to accuse Rajkumar andhis family of hanging her todeath. At the same time,Rajkumar alleged that Sadhanawas killed by her family mem-bers and threw the body infront of his house.

    Superintendent of PoliceAnurag Arya said that in viewof the tension, a police force hasbeen deployed on the spot.Four people, includingPradhan, are being interrogat-ed. On getting a written com-plaint, a case will be registeredand action will be taken againstthe accused. The cause of deathwill be clear after the post-mortem, added SP.

    PETTY ISSUE CLAIMSLIFE: A petty issue of moneytransaction dispute claimedthe life of one Khursheed Alamof Yaseen Lane Shahganj. Hewas shot dead from a pointblank rage by Nulla, an oldfriend in Meerapur area underthe Attersuiya police station onWednesday night. Weaponused in this murder is being

    searched in a nullah near Karelibarrier.

    The Attersuiya police hadfirst registered a case of acci-dent, but on the arrival of thefamily members FIR underSection 302 of the IPC was reg-istered.

    It is learnt that KhursheedAlam, 30, received a phone callfrom Nulla, an old friend. Heleft the residence on his scootyand met Nulla. Nulla occupiedthe pillion seat and askedKhursheed to drive towardsMeerapur.

    At a lonely place Nullawhipped out his pistol andfired on Khursheed, whoinjured his neck badly andcollapsed. After killing hisfriend Nulla made a successfulescape towards Kareli. Thepolice thought it was an acci-dental death, but the familymembers after seeing the injurymark, insisted that it was amurder.

    They also revealed the dif-ferences between Khursheedand Nulla over some moneytransaction.

    The police nabbed Nullafrom Kareli on Thursday. Heaccepted his involvement inthis murder, and informed thepolice that the countrymadepistol used in this incident, wasthrown in a nullah in Kareli.

    TWO KILLED IN ROADMISHAP : In a tragic incident,two persons of the same fam-ily were killed after the mobikeon which they were travellingwere hit by an ambulance nearRastipur intersection underthe Sarayamumrej police sta-tion of the district.

    The collision was so severethat the youth riding the bikefell away. Police reached thespot on getting information ofthe accident. The police tookthe injured to PHC where doc-tors declared one of them deadwhile referring another youngman to SRN Hospital. Doctorsat SRN Hospital also declaredanother young man dead.

    An ambulance coming tothe Community Health CentrePratappur carrying a patient hitthe bike on Thursday morningnear Janghai Nedula nearRastipur Intersection underthe Sarayamumrej police sta-tion. An ambulance collisionleft bike borne Jayaprakash(52) resident of Sindhura,Sarayamumrej and his nephewAjit Kumar (23) who was alsoa competitive student severelyinjured.

    After the accident, whenthe passersby reached the spotthey found the mobike bornemen lying in a pool of blood.The police took the injured toPratappur Community HealthCentre for treatment wheredoctors declared Jayaprakashdead. At the same time, hisnephew Ajit was referred toSRN Hospital. But beforereaching SRN, Ajit too suc-cumbed. Enraged over theaccident, the irate mob resort-ed to chakka jam at Rastipurcrossing. SDM and CO Handiaalso reached the spot alongwith force on receipt of infor-mation and got the jam liftedafter giving them an assurancethat the ambulance driverwould be caught soon andsent behind the bar.

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    As many as 71 new COVID-19 positive patients havebeen detected in the district onThursday, increasing the totalnumber of cases to 16,727.The day also saw one moredeath, increasing the toll to 269.During the day, the follow-upnegative reports included 56patients. Out of them, 43 havebeen recovered from homeisolation and 13 from the hos-pitals, increasing the number to12,947 and 2,821 respectively.The total number of patientswho have been recovered so faris 15,768, leaving 690 activecases. The recovery has slight-ly declined to 94.26 per centand mortality rate hasremained at 1.60 per cent.

    Meanwhile, a three-dayawareness campaign waslaunched by the Varanasi unitof Regional Outreach Bureau(ROB), Union Ministry ofInformation and Broadcasting,to raise public awareness about

    national unity and measures toprevent coronavirus infection.The campaign was launched bythe MLC Laxman Acharya, byflagging off an awareness vehi-cle from the statue of formerPrime Minister Lal BahadurShastri near Ramnagar Fort.Speaking on the occasion,Acharya said that as the chal-lenge of corona is not over yetso all of us should wear masksproperly, wash hands thor-

    oughly with soaps from time totime, follow a distance of twoyards and leave home onlywhen it is very necessary. Healso said that everyone shouldcome forward to maintain theunity and integrity of the coun-try by following the ideals of‘Iron Man’ Sardar VallabhbhaiPatel. Regional PublicityOfficer Dr. Lalji said thatthrough mobile exhibition andposters, the people would be

    made aware towards preven-tion measures of COVID-19appealing to them ‘jab taqdawai nahi, tab taq dilai nahi’(do not relax till medicine isfound).

    Earlier, Chief MedicalOfficer (CMO) Dr. VB Singhhas informed that in the firstreport of the day, 45 positivepatients were found out of2,785 reports received. Tillthen, the total test reportsreceived were 3,16,237 and theresults of 1,926 are awaited. Outof them, 2,99,536 were nega-tive, while 16,701 positive. Thetotal number of samples col-lected was 3,34,172. A maleaged 67 from Sonarpur suc-cumbed to COVID-19 at SirSundarlal Hospital (SSH),Banaras Hindu University(BHU).

    With the addition of eightnew red zones, the total num-ber of hotspots has increased to2,306 including 236 red zones.There are 2,070 green zoneswith 14 new ones.

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    On the second day of theVigilance Awareness Weekbeing observed on the instruc-tions of the Central VigilanceCommission the NERVigilance Organisation keepingin mind the theme ‘SatarkBharat, Samriddh Bharat’(Vigilant India, ProsperousIndia) on Wednesday organ-ised a webinar with officials ofVaranasi division. Inauguratingthe webinar, Senior Deputy

    GM and Chief VigilanceOfficer (CVO) Amitabh Ojhaunderlined the importance ofpreventive vigilance.Subsequently all deputy CVOsmade a presentation on majorvigilance cases detected by theVigilance Organisation dur-ing the last year through casestudy in which while high-lighting irregularities found byStores department in procure-ment etc importance of imple-mentation of system improve-ment was emphasised.

    Divisional Railway Manager(DRM), Varanasi, Vijay KumarPanjiar, emphasised the need tosuggest system improvement toeffectively check shortcomingsfound as a result of preventiveinvestigations by the VigilanceOrganisation. In this webinarAdditional Divisional RailwayManager (ADRM)/OperationsSPS Yadav, AdditionalDivisional Railway Manager/Infra Praveen Kumar andbranch officer were present,CPRO PK Singh said.

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    Padari police on Wednesdayarrested two accused inconnection with the murder ofa 10-year-old boy. Accordingto a report, Sunny (10), son ofBalram Yadav, a resident ofDubeypur Mahewa villagewent missing on October 17and his body was found in theriver the next day. The post-mortem examination report revealed that he wasstrangled and thrown into the river. As a resulta case was registered against four residents ofthe village by the father of the victim and theinvestigation was on. The police was inves-tigating the motive when they found a clue thatthe accused were involved in a theft committedin the house of the victim some time earlier andhe had identified them. The accused appre-hended that the victim could reveal their iden-tity so they murdered him. SHO VenkateshTiwari said that after being satisfied with themotive the accused were nabbed and they con-fessed the crime. He said too that out of fouraccused, Ramji and Bodhayi, were arrested andRajmani and his wife were still at large. The SHOclaimed that the remaining accused would bearrested soon.

    YOUTH DIES: A youth died when a heavystone fell on him during blasting at a stone min-ing site in Bagahiya village under Ahraura policestation on Wednesday. Reports said that VikasMaurya (18), a resident of Bagahiya village diedwhen a heavy stone fell on him at Bagahiyahillock in Jigna village during blasting at min-ing site. The labourers became and agitated couldbe controlled after police force was deployedthere. SO Ahraura Rajesh Chaubey said that theleaseholder had licence for blasting but regard-ing security points responsibility would be fixedafter investigation. SDM gave an assurance forcompensation in this connection. An earlierreport said that Ramji Jaiswal (25), son of late

    Suresh Kumar Jaiswal, a resi-dent of Nakahra Road NayiBasti under Katra Kotwalipolice station, was foundhanging in his house onWednesday. On getting infor-mation police reached thespot and took his body intocustody for completing thelegal formalities. Meanwhile astudent committed suicide inBajahaan village under

    Kachhawaan police station. Reports said thatShashwat (17), son of Vijayanand, was foundhanging from the roof of his house in the morn-ing. The police reached the spot, recovered thebody and completed the legal formalities andsaid that he took this drastic step after being rep-rimanded by his guardian for studies.

    TRIKON ROUTE: CDO Avinash Singhsaid that the Rural Development department wasplanning to give the Trikon route of Vindhyachala facelift. Talking to ‘The Pioneer’ he said thatthe route was important not only for devoteesbut tourists too. Though the route comprised thethree main temples, including Vindhyachal, theywere planning to develop only the rural part, headded. He said that works would be done inphases. He said in the first phase the route wouldbe decorated with coloured cement bricks and infurther phases plan was being prepared to installhigh-mast lights, tapes for potable water, dustbins,community toilets, sheds adjacent to trees etc. Apartfrom spiritual purposes visitors came to Vindhyachalhillocks for picnic so he was planning to make avail-able facilities for them too. Temporary stay facili-ties would be made available and to rechargegroundwater level construction of checkdams hadbeen included in the plan, he added. In furtherphases not only the ponds but ‘rain baseras’ toowould be renovated and the place would be madeas the prime destination for tourists. About the fundhe said that most of the work would be carriedout under MNREGA and as per the requirementother agencies would be approached for it.

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    The Northern CoalfieldsLimited (NCL), theSingrauli-based Miniratnacompany will provide health-care equipment worth about�95 lakh to Singrauli districtunder its CSR initiatives. AnMoU in this regard was signedbetween GM, Jhingurda Area,NCL, SP Singh, and Chief Medical HealthOfficer, Singrauli, RP Patel, on Tuesday. This ini-tiative will strengthen the fight against Covid-19. GM, CSR NCL, Atmeshwar Pathak, and otherkey officials were present on the occasion. NCLhas already given �20 crore to MP govt to fight

    Covid and �5 crore to UPGovernment to procure50 ambulances besidesother measures taken tocurb the infection.Distribution of ration,masks and sanitiser wasdone on a massive scale inSingrauli and Sonbhadraduring the lockdown peri-od. NCL is playing a piv-

    otal role in fightign Covid in collaboration withthe district administrations of Singrauli andSonbhadra. NCL is a flagship subsidiary com-pany of Coal India ensuring energy security ofthe nation with more than 100 million tonnecoal production annually.

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    All areas and units of NCL are observing VigilanceAwareness Week from October 27 to November2 and have started many activities, including pledge,competitions like essay writing, debate, painting, slo-gan writing and speech besides webinars and e-train-ing. Earlier the Vigilance Awareness Week-2020 onthe theme ‘Vigilant India, Prosperous India’ was inau-gurated at NCL HQ, all its coal areas and units. Inthe inaugural ceremony, NCL CMD PK Sinha wasthe chief guest. On the occasion he said vigilanceawareness is one of the fundamental requirementsof official life. NCL is committed towards transpar-ent work culture supported by an ethical climate andmodern technology. NCL is not only ensuring pro-duction and productivity as per the expectation ofthe nation but also adopting best vigilance practices.Director (Technical/ Operations) Dr Anindya Sinhaand Director (Finance) RN Dubey were present asspecial guests on the occasion. The head of depart-

    ments ofHQ andGM of allprojects,t r a d eu n i o nl e a d e r sand otheremploy-ees were

    connected through video conferencing. In the programme Dr Anindya Sinha, Dir (T/O)

    said with the extensive use of new technologies NCLis ensuring transparency in the functioning of thecompany. He also said use of many technologies andapps like e-office, OITDS, CCTV is making NCL’simage as a technically competent and quality coalproducing company at the national level. During theprogramme NCL Director (Finance) Ram NarayanDubey said that the purpose of Vigilance AwarenessWeek is to make more and more people aware aboutrules and regulations so that they can practice fair-ness and transparency in their work. Chief VigilanceOfficer of NCL Amit Kumar Srivastava also sharedhis views on preventive vigilance with NCL employ-ees connecting through VC. He appreciated NCL’seffort like purchase from GeM portal, e-tendering,e-office, coal net, operator Independent TruckDispatch System (OITDS), GPS-based vehicle track-ing system, CCTV surveillance system, biometricattendance system, land record digitization, fuel man-agement system to establish transparent system andpromote preventive vigilance. GM (Vigilance),NCL, SK Ghosh welcomed the dignitaries to the pro-gramme and BC Sharma, Chief Manager(Excavation/ Vigilance) proposed the vote of thanks.

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    Acriminal carrying a reward of �50,000on his head was arrested during anencounter on Thursday morning. Thearrested criminal was injured during theencounter while his accomplice managed toescape from the spot taking advantage of thedarkness. A motorcycle and a pistol wererecovered from the spot. The Balua Policewas tipped off by an got informer that acriminal was going on a motorcycle to com-mit some crime. On being chased themotorcycle-borne miscreants fired at thepolice team and tried to flee towards Kaili.The Balua police informed other police sta-tions and personnel from Alinagar policestation and Mughalsarai Kotwali encircledthe criminal from other side. On being sur-rounded by the personnel of three police sta-tions near Kaili the criminal fired at the teamand in retaliatory firing a bullet hit him in hisleg and he fell on the ground. He was admit-ted to the Government Women’s Hospital fortreatment by the police. ASP Premchand saidthat a dozen cases, including loot and mur-der, have been registered against the crimi-nal, Ashutosh Yadav alias Chitku, a residentof Nadi Nidaura village under Baluja policestation of the district, in Varanasi, Chandaulias well as Bihar. He was also involved in themurder committed in Dhurikot underSadar Kotwali area of Chandauli recently.

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    DDU Gorakhpur University(DDUGU) ViceChancellor Prof Rajesh Singhon Thursday called on UttarPradesh Chief Minister YogiAdityanath at the GorakhnathTemple and discussed a widerange of issues regarding thedevelopment of the Purvanchalregion.

    Economic advisor to thechief minister, Dr KV Raju, wasalso present in the meeting.

    They discussed in detailthe preparations for the two-day (November 27-28) webinaron ‘Purvanchal Development:Issues, Strategies and WayForward’, being organised byPurvanchal DevelopmentBoard.

    The chief minister empha-sised on highlighting localproducts of the Purvanchalregion such as terracotta ofGorakhpur, carpets of Bhadohi,sarees of Varanasi, black pot-tery of Azamgarh, decorativeproducts of Deoria, wood craftof Basti among others.

    Yogi Adityanath alsostressed on the need for link-ing the small industries mak-ing local products with bank-ing credit system. He said thatbankers and investors shouldalso be invited in the webinar.

    After the meeting, ProfSingh said that the office of thePurvanchal DevelopmentBoard had been established onDDU Gorakhpur Universitycampus with the aim of prepar-ing a holistic road map offuture development of devel-oping and resource-starveddistricts of Purvanchal region.

    He said that keeping this inview, the national webinar wasbeing organised jointly by thePlanning department of theGovernment of Uttar Pradeshand DDU GorakhpurUniversity and eminent per-sonalities had been invited tocontribute papers and speakon-line or off-line mode to pre-pare a blue print of the futureroad map of a ‘DevelopedPurvanchal’.

    The webinar has beendivided into five sections. It willbegin with the inauguraladdress by Chief Minister YogiAdityanath on November 27 aschairman of the PurvanchalDevelopment Board.

    In the webinar, to beattended by the chief secretary,additional chief secretaries, theprincipal secretaries of variousdepartments will speak on andpresent various schemes andpolicies of the Uttar Pradeshgovernment regarding devel-opment of the Purvanchalregion.

    KANPUR (PNS): With edu-cational institutions across thecountry closed due to theCOVID-19 pandemic, SrijanKa Sankalp, a leading NGObased in Hamirpur district ofUttar Pradesh that is workingin the areas of education, healthand skill development, hascome up with an innovativeidea to bringing education tothe doorsteps of village chil-dren and students to ensurethat their teachings are notaffected and they get qualityeducation at par with the stu-dents living in towns and bigcities. In order to translate itsidea into reality, this NGO hasrecently launched ‘Shiksha KiGaadi’. This vehicle, equippedwith smart television and othereducational tools will movefrom one village to anotherwhere the NGO volunteers

    with the help of smart TV andother teaching tools will edu-cate village children and stu-dents on various subjects andtopics.

    Talking about the motivebehind launching the ‘ShikshaKi Gaadi’, Srijan’s CEO PrabhatSaxena said this initiative hadbeen taken primarily to educatethose village children who donot have access to on-lineclasses because of non-avail-

    ability of smartphones, tablets,laptops and desktops at theirhomes.

    “On account of continuedlockdown of educational insti-tutions in the country, the newacademic session of studentshas got completely spoiled.Since many village schools donot have the facility of provid-ing on-line classes to the stu-dents because of internet prob-lems, this novel idea of reach-

    ing out to such students in vil-lages whose education has gotbadly hampered, stuck ourmind. Subsequently, we decid-ed to make education availableto all such students throughShiksha Ki Gaadi,” Prabhatsaid, adding that his organisa-tion intends to start the ShikshaKi Gaadi campaign in stateslike Madhya Pradesh, UttarPradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand,Uttarakhand and Maharashtra.

    “The Shiksha Ki Gaadicampaign has already beenstarted in the Bundelkhandregion of UP and now we areplanning to start it in MP aswell,” he added.

    According to RavindraGupta, operation head of SrijanKa Sankalp, through Shiksha KiGaadi, Srijan will providemobile education to villagechildren free of cost.

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    GSVM Medical CollegePrincipal Prof RB Kamalsaid that it had been decided toopen the out patient depart-ments (OPDs) of a few depart-ments of LLR Hospital on trialbasis with only 50 personsbeing accommodated for med-ical check-ups on a particularday

    Addressing a meeting ofthe LLR Hospital authorities onThursday, Prof Kamal said thetwo departments to start func-tioning were General SuperSpeciality and SurgicalSpeciality apart from OPD aswell. He said under the GSS,the OPDs for orthopaedicsand ophthalmology would

    run on three days — Monday,Wednesday and Friday.

    He said the general surgeryand the ENT OPD would alsorun for three day — Tuesday,Thursday and Saturday.

    Prof Kamal said each OPDwould accommodate only 50patients each day on first comefirst serve basis.

    He said in case all went welland the trials were smoothwithout any problem ofCOVID-19 infection, the facil-ity would be extended andmore patients would beallowed.

    He said it had been decid-ed to also run the OPD ofneuro surgery and neurologybut the days would be fixedafter consultation with the

    head of department and thechief medical superintendent.

    Prof Kamal said once theOPDs became functionalunder the new guidelines, crit-ical cases reported to the hos-pital would be administeredproper treatment and the testswould be carried out later.

    He said this was beingdone due to the inordinatedelay in carrying out all thetests for which the patient hadto run from pillar to post andoften the patient died evenbefore the treatment could bestarted.

    Vaccine trial Meanwhile, chief guide

    vaccine trial of GSVM MedicalCollege, Dr Saurabh Agarwal,said all such people who were

    voluntarily willing to offerthemselves for vaccinetrial could contact themedicine department of LLRHospital and get themselvesregistered.

    He said for the phase threetrial of the Russian vaccine,GSVM Medical College hadalso been included and oncethe ethical committee gave theapproval, the trial would bestarted from November 1,2020.

    He said in Kanpur, 200 vol-unteers had been included inthe phase three trial and theywould be immunised and thena deep study would be carriedout on the volunteers and theirthe blood sample reports wouldbe sent to the ICMR.

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    Kanpur Nagar DistrictMagistrate Alok Tiwari,while addressing a chaupal atBidhnoo block on Thursday,took feedback from the vil-lagers about their existing prob-lems and directed the officialsconcerned to solve them in thenext 10 days.

    He said the governmentwas focused on extending helpto pregnant mothers and thusit had decided to ensure thatthey were given nutritious dietduring this Nutrition Month.

    He also distributed healthyfood kits to the women as well.

    The district magistrate saidanaemia remained a majorcause of morbidity and mor-tality among women and chil-dren, especially in the ruralareas and it was more prevalentin Uttar Pradesh.

    He said deficiencies inessential micronutrients such asiron, folate and vitamin B12prior to and during the gesta-tion period increased awoman’s risk of being anaemicand so adequate dietary intakeof such nutrients was vitalduring this important phase inthe life.

    Tiwari said informationon the dietary micronutrientintakes of pregnant women inrural areas around KanpurNagar was scanty.

    He said a medical surveyhad brought to fore thathaemoglobin measurementwas used to determine preva-lence of anaemia and thedietary diversity of the ruralwomen.

    He said overall, anaemiawas present in 56.5 percent ofthe study population and inmajority of rural women,

    intake of iron, zinc, folate,calcium and vitamin A waspoor.

    Chief Development OfficerDr Dinesh Singh said a largepercentage of pregnant womenstill had insufficient dietaryintakes of essential nutrientsrequired to support the nutri-tional demands during preg-nancy.

    He said pregnant womenresiding in rural areas requiredinterventions such as nutritioneducation on the selection andpreparation of diversified mealsto mitigate the effects of under-nutrition.

    He added that regardless ofthe many life-threatening chal-lenges a woman experienced,this period of dynamic changerequired an expectant motherto pay critical attention to herhealth to ensure desirable birthoutcomes.

    He said anaemia was amajor cause of morbidity andmortality among pregnantwomen and about 40 per centplus of all maternal deathsduring pregnancy were attrib-uted to low blood haemoglobinconcentration.

    He said anaemia continuedto be a major issue of publichealth concern not only inIndia but in many developingcountries.

    The district magistrate latercut a cake to celebrate thebirthdays of two small kids ofthe village and as part of theannaprasan ceremony offeredkheer to them as well.

    He directed the authoritiesto ensure that there was noencroachment in the village. Healso directed the officials toensure that the incompletework of toilet construction wascompleted at the earliest.

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