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Vikas shot deadin UP ‘encounter’Kanpur (UP), July 10:Gangster Vikas Dubeywas shot dead on Fridayby police, who claim hewas trying to flee afterthe vehicle carrying himfrom Ujjain overturnedon an isolated stretch ofthe highway on the out-skirts of the city.

The SUV met with theaccident at Bhaunti inKanpur district, topplingon the road which wasslippery after the rains,police claimed. Accord-ing to a statement fromthe Special Task Force,the driver had tried toavoid cattle on the road.The vehicle was part of asmall convoy of policevehicles.

Police said the gangstersnatched a pistol fromone of the policemeninjured in the accidentand was shot when heopened fire while tryingto flee, an account beingquestioned by oppositionparties. Six policemen,including two from theSpecial Task Force, werehurt in the accident andthe exchange of fire arou-nd 6 am, an official said.

Dubey was the sixthman to die in a policeencounter after the amb-ush he allegedly master-minded in Kanpur’sBikru village past mid-night on July 2, killingeight policemen who hadcome to arrest him.

Madhya Pradesh policearrested Vikas Dubeyoutside the Mahakal tem-ple in Ujjain on Thurs-day. He was handed overto an UP police team latein the evening. KanpurRange IG Mohit Agarwalsaid Dubey fled from thecar with an injuredpoliceman’s pistol.

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VUJJINI VAMSHIDHARA I DCHYDERABAD, JULY 10

The Telangana HighCourt on Friday directedthe state government stopthe ongoing demolition ofthe Secretariat tillMonday. The court gavethis interim direction asthe government has notcomplied with rules andprocedures of getting per-mission from the GHMCto demolish buildings.

According to Rule 4 (3) ofConstruction and Demoli-tion Waste ManagementRules, 2016, permissionhas to be obtained fromthe local authority(GHMC) and a waste man-agement plan is also to besubmitted before demoli-tion.

The government failedto show permission let-ters from the GHMC whenthe division bench com-prising Chief Justice Rag-havendra Singh Chauhanand Justice B. ViiaysenReddy on Friday askedabout the issue. The ben-ch was dealing with a PILseeking a direction to gov-ernment that the demoli-tion be kept in abeyance.

The PIL was filed byProf. P.L. VishweshwarRao and Cherukuri Sudh-akar contending that thedemolition was illegal, asit violated the Solid WasteManagement Rules, andRules of the GHMC Act.Chikkudu Prabhakar, co-unsel for the petitioners,submitted that the gov-ernment should present aplan for demolition of abuilding before the civicbody to get permission.

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Patient tests Covid +veafter getting dischargedBALU PULIPAKA I DCHYDERABAD, JULY 10

The ICMR’s policy onthose deemed to haverecovered from Covid-19after a certain number ofdays and thus can be dis-charged from hospitalsand freed from homequarantine, appears to becausing some confusion,since many patients afterbeing discharged are test-ing positive again.

Many states, includingTelangana, are followingthis guideline. At leastone case of a person test-ing positive for Covid-19after being dischargedfrom a government hos-pital after completing themandatory 10 days with-out symptoms, followedby a week of home quar-antine, and an additional10 days of self-imposedquarantine, has come tolight here in the city.This person underwent asecond test before report-ing back to work and theresult came in positiveon Friday, sources said.

The patient is not surewhat to do next. This per-

son is showing symptomsincluding mild cold andcough. As per the lastrevised guidelines byICMR, people admitted tohospitals with very mild,mild, or pre-symptomaticconditions, can be dis-

charged without any con-firmatory tests if theystay symptom free for 10days including threedays without fever.

■ Page 4: Experts allayfears of Covid reinfection

FOUR DIE IN NIZAMABAD DISTRICTHOSPITAL DUE TO LACK OF OXYGENNARENDER PULLOOR | DCNIZAMABAD, JULY 10

The families of three dec-eased Covid-19 patientsstaged a protest outsidethe Government GeneralHospital here, allegingnegligence on the part ofthe hospital staff andlack of oxygen in the hos-pital.

The three Covid-19 pati-ents belong to Bheemgal,Jakranpally and ARPCamp in Yedapally man-dal. In the last 24 hours,five Covid-19 patientshave died in GGH,Nizamabad, wherepatients from Nizamab-

ad, Kamareddy and Nir-mal districts are beingtreated for the virus.

A senior governmentdoctor at GGH said, “Theallegations of relativesare baseless. We have acentralised oxygen sys-tem with sensors todetect emptying of cylin-ders. We also have a backup of 100 big cylinders.The three patients whodied had severe co-mor-bid conditions. There isno question of oxygenshortage as sufficientarrangements have beenmade.”

■ Page 4: No lapses intreatment, says doctor

S.A. ISHAQUI | DCHYDERABAD, JULY 10

Gangster Vikas Dubey’sencounter in Uttar Prad-esh brings back memo-ries of the many encoun-ters that took place inerstwhile Andhra Prade-sh and the two newTelugu states during theregimes of Chief Minis-ter K. ChandrashekarRao and his predecessorsY.S. Rajasekhar Reddyand N. ChandrababuNaidu.

Undivided AP was amo-ng the top three states interms of encounterkillings after Punjab andJammu and Kashmir, tilllate 2009. The spree final-ly led to a court judgmentwhich made it mandato-ry for police officersinvolved in encounters to

be booked for murder inthe FIR and tried. Howe-ver, no police official hasbeen sentenced or con-victed so far. Those killedin ‘encounters’ in undi-vided AP and the twonew states can be dividedinto three main cate-gories: Maoists, so-calledgangsters or alleged offe-nders, including thoseinvolved in sexual assau-lt and Islamic terrorists.

Encounter killings inAP began after the Srika-kulam peasant uprising,an armed struggle from1968-71. The first of thevictims were VempatapuSatyam and AdibhatlaKailasam in 1970 whowere associated with theNaxalbari movement.

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None punished forTS, AP encounters

A toppled vehicle in which the police was bringingback gangster Vikas Dubey before he was killed in anencounter is being shifted from the encounter sitenear Kanpur on Friday. — PTI

TWO-DAY PAUSEFOR DEMOLITIONOF SECRETARIAT

Vehicle overturns near goon’s town; copsclaim he snatched weapon, tried to flee

SRIDHARKUMARASWAMI | DCNEW DELHI, JULY 10

Reaching out to India in along video-address thatindicates a considerablesoftening of stand byBeijing, Chinese Ambas-sador Sun Weidong onFriday said that his coun-try is “neither a war-likestate nor an assertivecountry” and that bothChina and India should

be partners, maintain pe-ace, build trust and have“win-win cooperation”instead of rivalry, con-frontation, suspicionsand a “zero-sum game”.

The ambassador, how-ever, warned that anymove to boycott theChinese goods or throwout Chinese companieswould only end up hurt-ing India economically.

Admitting that theSino-Indian ties are cur-

rently “facing a complexsituation”, the Chineseenvoy said both coun-tries should together“overcome and turn itaround as soon as possi-ble” by “meeting eachother the half way”.

Sounding a note of cau-tion, the Chinese ambas-sador said this was theonly way in which bothnations can “avoid anystrategic miscalcula-tion.”

China’s envoy now talks ofpeace, trust, partnership

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There shouldbe an unbi-ased probeunder thesupervisionof theSupremeCourt intothe killing ofpolicemen in Kanpur and theencounter of main accusedVikas Dubey while he was try-ing to flee when the policevehicle overturned. This high-level probe is necessary forensuring justice to eightpolicemen and to identify thenexus between police andcriminal political elements. Bysuch steps, UP can becomecrime-free

— MAYAWATIBSP supremo

Darasal yecar nahi palti,raj khulne sesarkarpalatne sebach gayi hai(Actually, thecar did nottopple. It isan effort to save the govern-ment which would have top-pled if facts came to light)

— AKHILESH YADAVSP supremo

The criminalhas gone, butwhat aboutthe crimeand thoseprotectinghim.

—PRIYANKA GANDHI

Congress leader

Dubey hadkilled eightpolicemen.Attack on theuniformmeans thereis no law andorder. Takingstrict actionis the need of that statespolice be it in Maharashtra orUttar Pradesh. There is noneed to shed tears over thekilling of Dubey in anencounter. Why is the policeaction being questioned

— SANJAY RAUTShiv Sena MP

It is the jobof the courtsto deliver jus-tice. It is thejob of thepolice todeliver theaccused.Shocking thatIndia under @BJP has con-fused the two. Only thingkilled in Yogiji’s “encounterRaj” is justice!”

— MAHUA MOITRA Trinamul MP

Post-encounter, police alwaysclaim they acted in self-defence

Police, doctor givedifferent versionsFrom Page 1

He was chased and sur-rounded by policemenwho asked him to surren-der. When he started fir-ing with an intention tokill, police opened fire inself-defence, Kanpurpolice said. Bloodsmudges marked the spoton a dirt road, trailing offthe highway, where thealleged gangster wasshot. A press release saidhe was immediatelytaken to a hospital, wherehe died during treatment.

Ganesh VidhyarthiMedical College principalDr R B Kamal said he wasbrought dead to the hospi-tal. Dubey sustained fourbullet injuries, three inthe chest and one in thehand, he told reporters.

Hours before theencounter, an advocatehad filed a petition in theSupreme Court seeking adirection to the UP gov-ernment and police toensure that he is not

killed. Uttar Pradesh’sInspector General (CivilDefence) AmitabhThakur too had appre-hended the possibility, aday before it happened.

Questions were beingraised over the police ver-sion, challenging theaccount of the attemptedescape of a gangster whohad made no attempt toflee when nabbed inUjjain’s a day earlier.

There was also scepti-cism over the possibilityof someone managing tosnatch a policeman’sweapon and then extricat-ing himself from an over-turned vehicle.

There were allegationsthat the media trailingthe police convoy wasstopped for a few minutesbefore the encounter.Video clips also appearedto show Dubey sitting in adifferent car when theconvoy set out fromUjjain. The UP policehave denied any switch-ing of cars.

Much needed move, say ex-encounter specialists Mumbai, July 10: Some for-mer police officials fromMumbai on Friday praised theUttar Pradesh Police over thekilling of notorious gangsterVikas Dubey in an encounter,saying that the action was“much needed” to keep themorale of the force high.

Mumbai’s former ‘encounterspecialist’ police officerPradeep Sharma defended theaction against the gangster.

Sharma, who was reportedlyinvolved in the ‘encounter’killings of over 100 criminals,said, “We should congratulatethe UP police for this daringaction and this is a genuineencounter as four police personnel also got injured init.”

“The man who killed eightpolicemen got what hedeserved. At the place wherethe incident occurred, it hadrained and the vehicle carry-ing him skidded. After that,Dubey tried to run away bysnatching a weapon of a police-man and fired at them, butpolice opened fire in retalia-tion,” he said.

“This action will boost the

morale of the police force. Noquestion should be raised overthis encounter and if anyonedoes so, then they should firstgo and meet the family mem-bers of eight police personnel,who were killed by the gang-ster,” he said.

“Where were those activists,when the police personnelwere killed by the gangster,” heasked.

Another ‘encounter special-ist’ Praful Bhosle, who retiredas Assistant Commissioner ofPolice, said, in view of the cir-cumstances at the time of theincident as described by theUP police, this action was“much needed”.

“Nobody should dare to killthe police, who is performinghis duty and this encountercan be a lesson to the crimi-nals,” he said.

Police have the authority andthe criminals should not chal-lenge them, otherwise there isno fear left for the police forceamong the criminals. Thereare legal ways to challenge theauthority and that should behonoured, he said.

- PTI

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Several prominentNaxalites were gunneddown by the police, promi-nent among them beingNalla Adireddy aliasShayam, Seelam Naresh,Yerramreddy SantoshReddy, Puli Anjaiah,Daggu Rajalingam, PatelSudhakar Reddy,Sakhamuri Appa Raoalias Ravi alias Venkanna,Cherukuri Rajkumaralias Azad, KonapuriIlaiah aliasSambashivudu, SandeRajamouli alias Prasadand several others.

The encounter ofKoyyuru in Karimnagardistrict wherein three topMaoist leaders —Adireddy, Naresh andSantosh Reddy — werekilled took place whenNaidu was CM in 1999.

Fasiuddin and his asso-ciates were killed inHyderabad in the early 90s

for alleged links with theSIMI and Islamic terrorgroups and LaiqueAhmad, alleged associateof Jaish-e-Mohammed, in1993.

After the formation ofTelangana state, five sus-pected terrorists, includ-ing Vikaruddin Ahmed,the founder of Tehreek-e-Ghalba-e-Islam, an allegedlocal terror module,

were killed in anencounter near Alair onApril 8, 2015.

When Rajashekar Reddywas Chief Minister, thethen SP of Warangal dis-trict, V.C. Sajjanar, and his team, killed three sus-pects — S. Srinivas Rao, P.Harikrishna and D. Sanjay— after they attacked agirl with acid.

Sajjanar also oversawthe killing of the fouraccused in the Disha rapeand murder case onDecember 6, 2019.

The state has also wit-nessed the encounterkillings of gangster AzizReddy in Jubilee Hills ofHyderabad and Maoist-t u r n e d - g a n g s t e rNayeemuddin.

In AP in 2015, 20 peoplesuspected to be redsanders smugglers weregunned down in Chittoordistrict.

They were said to bewoodcutters from Tamil

Nadu.D. Suresh Kumar, an

advocate of the TelanganaHigh Court, who hadfought against allegedfake encounters, said thatsince 1968, the practice fol-lowed by the police was tokill people and claim thatit was done in self-defence.In all encounter cases, thepractice was to register acase against the dead per-son under IPC Section 307(attempt to murder).

He said the CivilLiberties Committee chal-lenged this by pleadingthat police can plead self-defence only during thetrial and not while regis-tering the FIR.

In 2009, the then AP HighCourt made it mandatoryfor the police to lodge acase under IPC Section 302(murder) naming officersinvolved in encounterkillings.

The Supreme Courtupheld the order.

JAYENDRA CHAITHANYAT. I DCHYDERABAD, JULY 10

Eleven persons have beenkilled in four encountersin the six years sinceTelangana state wasformed. Only two of thesekillings — that ofNayeemuddin and theDisha case accused — havecaught the attention of thecountry and are beingprobed.

On the night of August15, 2014, K. Shiva, 28, achain-snatcher involved inover 300 offences wasgunned down.

As per the police version,Shiva, travelling on a bike,was stopped by the policeon the service road of theOuter Ring Road atKotwalguda. He reported-ly attacked and injured asub-inspector and tried toflee and was shot dead.

On April 7, 2015, fiveundertrials, Vikaruddinalias Vikar Ahmed, andhis aides Izhar Khan,Mohd Zakir, Syed Amjed,and Mohd Anif, suspectedof being terrorists, werebeing transported to acourt in Hyderabad fromWarangal prison for courtproceedings when theyreportedly attacked thepolice and were shot dead.

That encounter had along and bloody prequel.The police gunned downtwo alleged operatives ofthe banned SIMI, AslamAyub and Eizajuddin, atJanakipuram in Nalgondaon April 5, 2015.

The duo, along withthree other undertrials,had escaped from TantyaBheel jail in Khandwa,Madhya Pradesh, onOctober 3, 2013, and hadkilled two police officers atSuryapet in Nalgonda.

With the killing of itstwo personnel, the policelaunched the manhuntand killed Ayub andEizajuddin. In thatencounter, constableNagaraju was killed whilesub-inspector Siddaiahwas wounded and suc-cumbed three days later.Inspector Balanagi Reddywas injured but survived.

On August 8, 2016, gang-ster MohammedNayeemuddin, a formerM a o i s t - t u r n e d - p o l i c einformer, was gunneddown at his hideout on theoutskirts of Shadnagar. Hewas involved in over 174cases, including 27 mur-ders. That encounter isstill being probed. Policeseized properties worth`100 crore and weapons.

Three years later, onDecember 6, 2019, fouryoungsters — Mohammedalias Areef, J. Shiva, J.Naveen, and C.Chennakeshavulu —accused of rape and themurder of a woman veteri-nary doctor were gunneddown in an encounter atChattanpally in the out-skirts of Shadnagar.

The accused were at acrime scene reconstruc-tion when they reportedlysnatched the pistols fromthe policemen andattempted to escape. TheSupreme Court hasordered an enquiry with a

three-member committee.The killing of Vikas

Dubey and some of hishenchmen in a series ofalleged encounters is rem-iniscent of the Disha

encounter. Police in boththe cases claimed that thesuspects “snatched” theirweapons and opened fireat them forcing them toretaliatory action “in self-

defence.” Surprisingly inboth the Kanpur andCyberabad encounters, theaccused were not hand-cuffed while they werebeing taken in vehicles

before the alleged retalia-tory firing took place.

The snatched weaponswere in “unlocked” posi-tion and the slain accusedwere not handcuffed when

the firing took place, theCyberabad PoliceCommissioner VCSajjanar had earlier saidwhen asked whether theywere handcuffed.

6-year-old TS too has witnessed 11 encounter deaths so far

DURGA PRASAD SUNKU IDCHYDERABAD, JULY 10

Taking serious exceptionto Friday’s encounterkilling of Uttar Pradesh’smost wanted don VikasDubey, and comparing it togangster Nayeemuddin'sencounter in the state,human rights activiststermed it as state murdersand vengeful acts of policeand stated that encountershave become a part ofadministration.

Civil LibertiesCommittee general secre-tary N. Narayana Rao said“Both Nayeem and Vikasexpanded their criminalactivities, thanks to influ-ential people. They wereeliminated so that thenexus between gangstersand politicians would notcome to light.”

Prof. Gaddam Laxman,president of State CivilLiberties Committee, said“once a gangster, who theypatronise, becomes athreat to their nefariousactivities, the politicalbosses conspire to get thegangster killed. In bothcases, they were made

scapegoats.”Speaking to Deccan

Chronicle, S. JeevanKumar, co-ordination com-mittee member of twoTelugu States for HumanRights Forum (HRF), said,“The Vikas Dubeyencounter is an act ofvengeance by the UPpolice, who have killedthousands in encountersin the last 16 months.Encounters have become away of administration.”

He added that police arelosing confidence in thejudicial system. They areplaying with the emotionsof people, who also want

instant justice.Social activist Sadaf

Jafar from Uttar Pradeshsaid in a phone conversa-tion “Vikas was a smallfish but protected by pow-erful leaders. It is wrongfor people to cheer thosewho encountered himafter he had killed eightpolicemen a few daysback. In fact, killing himwas a grave injustice.”

She added, “If he couldenter the police stationand kill people it was onlypossible if he had thebacking of influential god-fathers. If Vikas was real-ly on the run, police wouldhave shot him on the legs.He was killed at point-blank range.”

Terming it as ‘encounterof justice’ she said“Encounter ought to bethe last resort but now ithas become their firstact.”

Almost all human rightsactivists demanded a thorough investigationinto the incident and theneed to expose influentialpeople and politicians who patronise gangstersfor their own vested inter-ests.

Rights activists condemn‘encounter of justice’

Karthikeyan findsencounter ‘strange’VIKRAM SHARMA I DCHYDERABAD JUNE 10

The early morning‘encounter’ of gangsterVikas Dubey is beingdescribed as a “verystrange happening” byone of the members of theSupreme Court-appointedinquiry commission thatis probing the killing offour alleged accused in thegangrape and murder ofveterinary doctor Disha.

“Going by all the reportssince morning (aboutVikas Dubey’s killing), allI can say is that it is a verystrange happening,” D.R.Karthikeyan, former CBIdirector and one of themembers of the inquirycommission, told DeccanChronicle, a clear indica-tion that the former IPSofficer, who headed theSpecial InvestigationTeam (SIT) and probed theRajiv Gandhi assassina-tion case, is not convincedby the Uttar Pradeshpolice’s version about thecircumstances that led tothe gangster’s killing inpolice custody.

With Covid-19 pandemichampering their work, thecommission will return to

Hyderabad to restart theproceedings in the Dishacase once the situationnormalises.

The four accused in theDisha case had beengunned down in an earlymorning “encounter” in Shadnagar onDecember 6.

Referring to the Dishaprobe, Karthikeyan saidthat the commission hasnot yet finalised the datefor their return toHyderabad.

The Supreme Court hadgranted the commissionsix months to probe andsubmit their findings. Thecommission, appointed inDecember, will be seekingmore time from the apexcourt, as the six-monthdeadline has already cometo an end.

While retired SupremeCourt judge Justice V.S.Sirpurkar is heading thecommission, retired HighCourt judge Justice RekhaSundar Baldota andKarthikeyan are its mem-bers. The commission hadvisited Hyderabad in thefirst week of Februaryand they had been allottedan office in the TelanganaHigh Court premises.

Social workers garland policemen for killing of Vikas Dubey, outside the mortuary at the Lala Lajpat Rai Hospital in Kanpur on Friday. - PTI

FROM AMBUSHTO ENCOUNTER

JULY 3● ● Eight police personnel,including a DSP, gunneddown in Bikru village nearKanpur allegedly by thehenchmen of gangsterVikas Dubey.

● ● Hours later, VikasDubey’s two accomplicesalso killed in an encounter.

JULY 4● ● UP Police suspendsChaubeypur station officerVinay Tiwari, suspected oftipping off Dubey about araid to arrest him.

● ● Vikas Dubey’s house inBikru village razed underpolice presence.

JULY 5● ● Vikas Dubey’s aideDayashankar Agnihotriarrested in a pre-dawnencounter in Kanpur.

JULY 6● ● UP Police suspendsthree more of their men.

● ● UP Police says they areprobing allegations in aletter purportedly writtenby slain DSP DevendraMishra, alleging linksbetween Vinay Tiwari andDubey.

JULY 7● ● All 68 personnel of theChaubeypur police stationshunted to the reservepolice line.

● ● Three more peoplelinked with Dubey arrested.

● ● DIG Anant Deo, a former Kanpur Nagar SSP,transferred to theProvincial ArmedConstabulary inMoradabad.

JULY 8● ● Police shoot dead anaide of gangster VikasDubey and arrest six otheralleged accomplices.

● ● Two suspended subinspectors, Vinay Tiwariand Bikru beat in-chargeK.K. Sharma, arrested.

JULY 9● ● Madhya Pradesh policearrest Vikas Dubey outsideMahakal temple in Ujjain,hand him over to UPPolice.

● ● Dubey’s aides Prabhatand Praveen shot dead inseparate encounters in UP.

● ● Dubey’s wife, son and ahelp held by the UttarPradesh police for ques-tioning.

JULY 10● ● Vikas Dubey shot deadon the outskirts of Kanpur.Police say he was trying toescape from the custody.

● ● WHEN RAJASHEKARReddy was Chief Minister,the then SP of Warangaldistrict, V.C. Sajjanar, andhis team, killed three sus-pects — S. Srinivas Rao, P.Harikrishna and D. Sanjay— after they attacked agirl with acid.

● ● Sajjanar also oversawthe killing of the fouraccused in the Disha rapeand murder case onDecember 6, 2019.

Kanpur encounter reminiscent of gunning down of four accused in city doc’s rape & murder case

THE VIKAS DUBEYencounter is an act

of vengeance by the UPpolice, who have killedthousands in encountersin the last 16 months.Encounters havebecome a way ofadministration

S. JEEVAN KUMAR, co-ordination

committee member oftwo Telugu States forHuman Rights Forum

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IN BRIEFAutorickshaw

driver ends lifeHyderabad: A 28-year-old

autorickshaw driver, A.Naresh, died by suicide at

his residence underGandhinagar police stationlimits. He was alone at that

time, his mother who worksas a domestic help had goneout at that time and saw his

body on her return.Gandhinagar police recov-

ered the body and shifted toGandhi Hospital for autopsy.

Mother of Covid+ve son ends life

Hyderabad: A 37-year-oldwoman from the city was

found dead at a lake inAlmasguda on Friday. Her

17-year-old son had recentlytested positive for Covid-19.

Meerpet sub-inspector G.Uday Bhasker said she

woman had been sufferingfrom health-related issues

for five years. “Her son wasunder home quarantine athis maternal uncle’s house

and the period was to end ina couple of days. The family

had not informed thewoman of her son testingpositive. When he did not

come home for 10 days shequestioned her family mem-

bers and learnt about herson’s condition, which

reportedly upset her more,”the official said.

Lt. Gen. Shuklalauds officers

Hyderabad: Lt Gen. RajShukla, General Officer

Commanding, Army TrainingCommand, on Friday con-

gratulated all officers includ-ing the award winners who

passed out of the 23rdOfficers of Technical Entry

Scheme Course (TES-33) oncompletion of their Bachelor

of Technology programmeat the Engineering Course at

the Military College ofElectronics and Engineering

(MCEME). Speaking at theconvocation, Lt Gen. Shukla,

who conferred degrees onthe pass-outs, said that

completing the engineeringdegree with a military cur-riculum is a tough proposi-tion and therefore techno-warriors are a rare breed.He said technology is the

key for the future and itneeds to be leveraged to

enhance the strategic andnational security posture. Heemphasised on the need for

the Indian military to forayinto research and develop-ment programme to bridge

the gap between militaryrequirements developed in-house for meeting the aspi-

rations of frontline troops.

Teams to inspect O2 cylinders sale DC CORRESPONDENTHYDERABAD, JULY 10

The government hasdecided to set up jointteams comprising offi-cials from the DrugControl Administration,Task Force of theHyderabad police,Director of PublicHealth and DeputyChief Controller ofExplosives to inspecthospitals and dealers toassess whether sale andutilisation of oxygencylinders has been inconformity with

guidelines. Chief Secretary

Somesh Kumar whoreviewed the oxygencylinders supply situa-tion in the wake ofextensive media reportson shortages and black-marketing of the cylin-ders, said the teams willinitiate prosecution incase any violation ofrules isnoticed.According to anews release from thegovernment, it wasdecided to advise all hos-pitals treating Covid-19patients to migrate to

cryogenic liquid oxygentanks/vessels in orderto avoid any likelihoodof bottlenecks due tousage of cylinders. Anydealer holding stocks ofoxygen cylinders mustpossess valid licencesfailing which they willbe prosecuted under theExplosives Act.

The police informedthe review meeting thattwo cases have beenbooked under variouslaws with respect to ille-gal stocking or sale ofoxygen cylinders in thecity.

Covid warriors seeking payhike, regular jobs arrestedSANJAY SAMUEL PAUL IDCHYDERABAD, JULY 10

Covid-19 Nightingalesof Telangana state werearrested for the only-too-familiar ‘crime‘ ofprotesting. On Friday,220 nursing staff, out-sourced contractemployees in GandhiHospital, protested infront of the Director ofMedical Education’soffice at Sultan Bazaar,Koti.

They have for a longtime been demandingthat their servicesshould be regularised,or paid the minimumwage decided by thewage board, but theyhave been consistentlyignored sidelined by thegovernment for manyyears.

They work at GandhiHospital which was con-verted into the state’sprimary Covid-19 treat-ment centre and have

been tending to thepatients since March.

The nurses met Dr K.Ramesh Reddy, Directorof Medical Education,on Friday but got theanswer they always get:“The file has to moveyet, and the ChiefMinister has to take thedecision.” This natural-ly led to a protest, whichwas enough for thepolice to arrest them.

Recently, the govern-ment appointed 2,116medical nurses andparamedical staff, andpaid each nurse `25,000,and `28,000 for thosewho have five years’experience. Nurses whohave been working for13 years in the samehospital are paid`17,000.The nurses obvi-ously questioned whythey are paid less. “Wedemand the minimumwage decided by thewage board and as perthe guidelines of theSupreme Court,” said

Adupu Dhanalakshmi,staff nurse working atGandhi Hospital since2007.

Nurse Kanaka Durgapointed out: “From thetime the Coronavirusarrived in the state weare the people who stoodas the warriors. We havenot cared for our lives orfor our families andtook care of the Covid-19 patients. Is this thereward the governmentis giving, by arrestingus and throwing us intopolice custody?”

B. Indra has beennursing for 13 years,and she too is angry atthe injustice done to thenurses. “After servingCovid-19 patients, Ireach home to take careof my six-year-olddaughter and 18-month-old daughter. I am risk-ing their life as well.And the government isdodging our petition ofabsorbing us into therolls,” she said.

GHMC puts infodashboard at Covidhouse clustersMADDY DEEKSHITH I DCHYDERABAD, JULY 10

The GHMC and the healthdepartment have beenforced to set up a dash-board on house clusterswith a notice asking peo-ple not to visit the placeuntil the end of the isola-tion period. The healthand civic body teamsshould enter the numberof visits and timings onthe dashboard for trans-parency.

The authorities will setup a dashboard with anotice saying “Covid19.Do not visit home isola-tion’ printed on it. It willhave the home isolationperiod, name, andaddress of the patient.Medical staff will visittwice a day to check thehealth status of thepatient.

Authorities said thatthey will seal the indexhouse or residence oncethe house clusters areidentified by the fieldlevel staff. They will alsosupply food and otheressentials to the residentsin the containment zones

for a period of 14 days,after which the area willbe de-sealed.

In case of containmentzones, the corporationwill restrict movement inthe entire area.Containment zones willbe notified if there aremore than five Covid-19cases in a particular area.

Officials have identifiedover 4,000 house clusterswith active Covid-19 casesand around 2,500 contain-ment zones.

“With the existing staffwe cannot monitor bothof them. We take up con-tainment activities basedon the emergency ofcases in containmentzones and house clus-ters,” an official said.

NO LAPSES INTREATMENT,

SAYS DOCTORFrom Page 1

With a functioning virologylaboratory in GGH, Covid-19patients are tested and treatedin Nizamabad only. Earlier, thepatients found to test positivewere shifted to GandhiHospital. District collector C.Narayana Reddy reviewed thesituation with GGH officialsafter the death of the Covid-19patients on Friday. He said, “Allthe necessary requirements ofoxygen are being monitored ona day to day basis. We are fullyequipped to treat Covid-19patients.” GGH’s medicalsuperintendent M. NageshwarRao said that Covid-19 patientsdied due to low levels of oxy-gen and due to their co-morbidconditions. There were no laps-es in medical treatment andoxygen facility, he said.

`4.58 CR SEIZEDFROM INSPECTOR’S

RESIDENCEJAYENDRA CHAITHANYA T. |DCHYDERABAD, JULY 10

The ACB on Friday seizedproperties worth `4.58 crorefrom the house of Shabadinspector B. Shankaraiah,who had been arrested for tak-ing a bribe of `1.2 lakh onThursday. The ACB is stillassessing the value of otherassets owned by the inspectorand his benamis. Shankaraiahhad been arrested along withassistant sub-inspector K.Rajender. Searches were sub-sequently conducted atShankaraiah’s houses inHyderabad, Mulkapatnam,and Mothe villages ofNalgonda district.

ACB said the inspector ownstwo houses including one atVanasthalipuram worth `1.05crore, 11 house plots worth`2.28 crore, 41.3 acres of landat Renjal of Nizamabad,Mudimyala in Chevella andMiryalaguda, among others.

BALU PULIPAKA I DCHYDERABAD, JULY 10

Every time a questionhas been asked on thestate government’sapproach to Covid-19management or uncom-fortable queries on dis-ease data raised, thehealth department hasstruck back strongly atits critics.

This it has done so bywrapping itself furthertighter in a cloak ofsecrecy and making stuffdisappear. This approachover the past four monthshas seen several changesmade in the daily Covid-19 bulletin each time aquestion was raised onCovid-19 cases, be it withregard to testing, thenumber of cases, thenumber of people ‘dis-charged’ (the government

still does not explain inthe bulletin how many ofthose discharged dailyhave actually recovered).

The latest in these seriesof information lockdownshas been the deletion of awebsite that providedreal-time updates on casesacross the state.

It was this website —http://124.124.103.93/COVID/statistics.htm —that was in the middle ofa serious controversy inthe first week of thismonth when it was dis-covered that the numberof Covid-19 cases dis-played on the website wasvastly different from thedata released every dayin the health departmentbulletin. The differencewas nearly 3,000 cases,with the website showinga higher number.

This difference became

controversial with notjust the reports beingshared very widely onsocial media platformsbut with Opposition par-ties claiming that thenumbers yet again high-lighted the lackadaisicalapproach of the govern-ment. The health depart-ment subsequentlyclaimed that the numberson the website were notadded to the Covid-19 bul-letins owing to confusion

over validity of tests con-ducted by some privatelabs that showed ‘abnor-mal’ rates of disease pos-itivity. There were offi-cial claims that the bul-letin has a cut-off time ofcases reported till 5 pmwhile the website reflect-ed live updates.

However, the websitehas since been takendown as has been thehomepage from wherethe page on ‘statistics’

could be accessed. The website of the

health department –health.telangana.gov.in –shows a link ‘Covid-19’with the word ‘New’blinking next to it. It wasupon clicking on thisCovid-19 link that onewould be taken to thewebsite –124.124.103.93/COVID/home.htm – which displayeda tab that said ‘statistics’.This tab was never acti-

vated but by substitutingthe word ‘home’, with‘statistics’ in the web-page’s url, one couldaccess the statistics pagewith regular updates onCovid-19 numbers.

As on Friday evening,the ‘Covid-19’ link on the‘health.telangana.gov.in’no longer is active andclicking on it takes a per-son to a page that says‘the requested resourcein not available,’ insteadof the page with the url124.124.103.93/COVID/home.htm, that was thehome page for the‘Department of Health &Family Welfare,Government ofTelangana, COVID-19’which also displayed apicture of Chief MinisterK. Chandrashekar Raoand health minister EtalaRajendar.

TS takes down Covid data site

Notice displayed outsidea house.

Builders mull ways toovercome Covid impactDC CORRESPONDENTHYDERABAD, JULY 10

The Confederation ofReal Estate DevelopersAssociation of India(Credai), Hyderabad,discussed key chal-lenges faced by the realestate sector during theCovid-19 crisis andhighlighted the stimula-tors that will act as acatalyst to fuel econom-ic and real estategrowth.

The effects of Covid-19have been felt aroundthe world, and realestate companies arebeing impacted due tothe stoppage of con-

struction, shortage oflabour, difficulty insourcing raw materials,and other issues, it wasstated. Delay inapprovals for water andelectricity is also caus-ing inconvenience tothe industry and homebuyers.

V. Rajashekar Reddy,general secretary,Credai-Hyderabad, saidthat representatives ofthe organisation hadrecently met ministerK.T. Rama Rao andsought his interventionin helping resolve theissues that the healthcrisis has thrown up,and the minister assured

his total support.“The minister has ini-

tiated immediate actionon our requests and sug-gestions to help us navi-gate the crisis and drivethe real estate sector onan upward spiral. Basedon our requests the gov-ernment has issued fourGovernment Orders,which has come as ahuge relief to the sec-tor,” Reddy said. Headded that the state gov-ernment had doneremarkable work dur-ing the lockdown inbuilding the city’s infra-structure and complet-ing pending civil projects.

Experts allay fearsof Covid reinfectionFrom Page 1

This was the protocolduring the initial phasesof the Covid-19 disease inthe country.

In the case of those withmoderate symptoms, dis-charge was recommendedby ICMR without anytests once the patient’soxygen levels stay above95 through normalbreathing, and there is nofever. Testing before dis-charge is recommendedby ICMR only in case ofpatients whose diseaseconditions are consideredsevere.

According to a seniorinfectious diseases’ spe-cialist, the case of theindividual who testedpositive for the secondtime does not come as asurprise. ICMR was clearin the guidelines becauseafter five to seven days,the chances of a person

infected by Coronavirusspreading it to others, isreduced severely. Also,resolution of symptomsmeans the disease hasrun its course.

Explaining further, thedoctor said the secondRT-PCR test on this par-ticular patient, like thefirst one, would find theRNA of the virus in thebody. Presence of theCoronavirus has beenrecorded in people fromfour to six weeks and insome cases up to twomonths after they weretreated.

Meanwhile, globally,there is no unanimity inscientific circles onwhether a person whohas recovered can get re-infected. But the broadaccepted scientific opin-ion currently onCoronavirus is that re-infections are a rare pos-sibility.

1,278 Covid positivecases in Telangana KANIZA GARARI I DCHYDERABAD, JULY 10

The state tested its high-est-ever 10,354 samples onFriday of which 1,278returned positive. Thetotal number of casesstands at 32,224. The statehas tested 1,51,109 sam-ples so far, of which1,18,885 were negative.

A bulletin of the statehealth departmentreported eight deaths,taking the toll to 339.

In the GreaterHyderabad MunicipalCorporation area, therewere 762 new cases. Manyareas have three to fourcases within a 500-metreradius. The districts con-tinue to see rising num-bers with Ranga Reddyreporting 171 cases,Medchal 85, Sangareddy36, Kamareddy 23,

Khammam 18, Medak 22,Nalgonda 32, Adilabadand Suryapet 14 cases.

The doubling time in TSis 10.6 days due to whichthere are new clustersformed and the spread ofthe disease is very easy.Although patients arebeing discharged in gov-ernment hospital, thebeds are being filled up intwo to three hours.

Despite people imposingrestrictions while travel-ling, there are new casesdue to the congestednature of cities. The pres-ence of asymptomaticpersons is allowing thespread of the virus.

PAGDI

Sri NARAYAN DAS BHOJWANIS/o Late Parmanand Bhojwani

Expired on 08-07-2020Pagdi will be held on 11-07-2020between 4 pm - 4.30 pm at our residence.Due to prevailing conditions, everyone isrequested to pray from their homes.

Inserted by: BHOJWANI FAMILYDHARMENDER BHOJWANI (Son)

Ph: 9949206277(S/2021/D00264)

1st DEATH ANNIVERSARYPrecious in the sight of the Lord. Pslams

116:15

Mr. M. RAVI SHANKERDOB: 24-06-1960 DOD: 11-07-2019

Inserted by: Leela Rao (Wife),R. Poornima, R. Prithvi, R. Deexitha,

G. Prashanth (Childrens)

(S/2021/D00258)

MEMORIAL SERVICE“I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”

Ps 23:6

Late MOGILI DAS ROBINSONDOB: 12-11-1946 DOD: 07-07-2020

Memorial Service will be held on 11-07-2020at 12.00 noon at our residence (ECIL)

Remembered with love by:Wife, Sons, Daughter, Son-in-law,

Daughters-in-law, Grand Children andNear and Dear.

Ph: 8886336137, 9490216170(S/2021/D00263)

Contract nurses of Gandhi Hospital protest demanding regularisation of services and increased salary at the Directorate of Medical Education office in Koti on Friday. — P. SURENDRA

Website1: The home page of Telangana Health Department. Note the Covid-19 linkon the right side of the page. (2) CLicking on the Covid-19 tab used to take users tothis website. This page is no longer available as the Covid-19 tab on the home pageof the health department is no longer active. Note the ‘Statistics’ tab on the rightside of the page. (3) Attempts to access the statistics page comes up with thisresult.

41 COPS BACK TO DUTYHyderabad: Fortyone policepersonnel from Hyderabad com-missionerate rejoined duty afterbattling Covid-19 and were wel-comed back by Hyderabad policecommissioner Anjani Kumar onFriday. “The role of the police indisastrous circumstances ismemorable. Police efforts tocombat Coronavirus wouldstand out in history,” he said.

●● A BULLETIN of thestate health depart-ment reported eightdeaths, taking the tollto 339.

CITY pg 5DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | SATURDAY | 11 JULY 2020

IN BRIEF

The Hyderabad Metropolitan

Development Authority(HMDA) on Friday

clarified that it has paid`20.70 lakh towards hiredvehicles which were usedfor official purpose during

the 45 day lockdown period. The HMDA in itsclarification said that it

has already deducted 50per cent of the amounttowards hire charges of

April as it has rightly mentioned by Deccan

Chronicle. It has said thatHMDA officials told DC

that HMDA has collected`17,000 for few vehicles.

More TS students clear ISC,ICSE, pass percentage risesCISCE says students can apply for checking marks till July 16HARLEEN MINOCHA | DCHYDERABAD, JULY 10

The Council for the IndianSchool CertificateExaminations (CISCE) onFriday announced theresults for ICSE and ISCexams. As per the data, thenumber of students clear-ing the exams has gone upthis year.

The pass percentage ofClass 10 was recorded at99.33, from 98.54 last year.In Class 12, 96.84 per centof students cleared theexam, a slight hike from96.52 last year.

More boys appeared forthe ICSE and ISC examsthis year: 54.19 per centand 53.65 per centrespectively.

In Telangana state, thestatistics were the oppo-site. Out of the 4,487 stu-dents that appeared forICSE, 50.84 per cent weregirls, and in ISC 57.70 percent. Out of the 4,487 can-didates of ICSE, only onewas declared as unsuc-cessful and out of 851 can-didates of ISC, 24 weredeclared failed.

Keeping in view the cur-rent situation, CISCE hasdecided to not publish amerit list. The pass per-centage in the state was99.97 per cent for ICSE and

97.2 per cent for ISC.The CISCE said that stu-

dents can apply for re-checking of marks tillJuly 16 at cisce.org andwill be available only forthe subjects for whichexams were conducted.

There is no certainty onthe next plan of action forthose who failed the examsthis year. “We weren’t ableto conduct all the regularexams earlier, we can’t sayif we will be able to con-duct the compartment

exams too. We will observethe situation until it isconducive to take a deci-sion’, said CISCE chair-person Gerry Arathoon.

A special marking sche-me was put in place for cal-culating marks this year.

The subjects for whichexams were not held,marks were given on thebasis of internal assess-ment and the best of thethree subjects. The weigh-tage of 70:30 was used inthe marking scheme.

KCR apologises, to build new shrinesS.A. ISHAQUI ANDIREDDY SRINIVAS REDDY I DCHYDERABAD, JULY 10

Chief Minister K.Chandrashekar Rao onFriday expressed “regret”and “pain” over the demo-lition of a temple and amosque in the Secretariatpremises. Rao said thegovernment would con-struct a new temple andmosque at a more spa-cious site at its expense inthe new Secretariat complex.

In a statement, the ChiefMinister said: “I came toknow that, while demol-ishing the multistoriedold buildings, the templeand mosque adjacent tothe old buildings weredamaged as debris fell onthem.”

“I feel sorry about theincident. It should nothave happened. The gov-ernment’s intention wasto build a new complex bydemolishing the old build-ings without causing anydamage to the temple orthe mosque.”

“We will construct a tem-ple and mosque in theSecretariat premises in amore spacious way even ifit means spending ofcrores of rupees. We willconstruct the temple andmosque at governmentcost and hand them overto the people concerned.”

He said he would discusswith the temple andmosque organisers andhave the places of worshipconstructed in the newSecretariat. “This is mypromise. Telangana is asecular state. We will con-tinue the secular spiritcome what may. This inci-dent happened unexpect-edly,” the CM said.

The Chief Minister said,“everyone should under-stand this properly with-out prejudice.”

The Opposition criti-cised the state govern-ment, terming the demoli-tion of the mosque andtemple as nasty and hastyand hurting the religioussentiments of the people.

CM added insult toinjury: Uttam

TPCC president N.Uttam Kumar Reddy con-demned the demolitionand said the reaction ofthe Chief Minister addedinsult to injury. Rao’sstatement was self-contra-dictory, he said. Themosque and temple wereconsidered very sacred bygovernment employeesand all others in both inerstwhile AP and in sepa-rate Telangana, the TPCCchief said.

He said, “if theSecretariat demolitionwas bad enough and aTughlaq-like decision, thedamage of the temple andmosque has hurt the senti-ments of people belongingto all communities.”

Reddy said the CM’sstatement indicated thatthe places of worshipwere completely damaged.

He found fault with theChief Minister for notconsulting the heads ofthe temple and mosquebefore carrying out thedemolition.

“KCR is trampling uponthe religious sentiments ofthose people who madehim what he is today. Hewill get a befitting replyfrom the Hyderabadis atan appropriate time,” hesaid.

Shabbir Ali recallsBabri Masjid dispute

Congress leader ShabbirAli said that the statementissued by the ChiefMinister was disappoint-ing. He said that all citi-zens were deeply hurt bythe demolition of mosqueand the temple.

He also condemned thestatement of MIM presi-dent Asaduddin Owaisiwho welcomed the ChiefMinister’s announcementof re-constructing theshrines. He said that theChief Minister did notpromise that the mosquewould be reconstructed atthe same place. Hereminded that the BabriMasjid-Ram Janmbhoomidispute pertained to thelocation.

Shabbir Ali said thedemolition of mosquesand temple were carriedout with full knowledge ofthe Chief Minister. Hesaid even Owaisi wasaware that the mosqueswere being razed and forthe same reason he wentaround hospitals onThursday to divert peo-ple’s attention.

TPCC working presidentA. Revanth Reddy saidthat the demolition wouldbe remembered as ‘BlackDay’. He said building onthe Hussainsagar shorewas disallowed and hewould be moving the topcourt. He was addressingthe media with ex-MPKonda Vishweswar Reddyand Shabbir Ali.

SC counsel says govtshould have taken permission

Sarasani Satyam Reddy,Supreme Court seniorcounsel, said, “it is unfor-tunate that the govern-ment is hurting religioussentiments of people withits nasty and hastyactions.”

He said that the law stat-ed that whenever the gov-ernment wants to removea religious structure for apublic purpose, it has totake consent of the peopleconcerned and assure itsre-location or providecompensation.

Satyam Reddy said thatthe Hyderabad MunicipalCorporation Act says per-mission must be takenfrom the GHMC demoli-tion of any building. Inthis case, the governmenthad not spelt out whetherit had obtained permission.

BJP demands temple atthe same place

BJP state president

Bandi Sanjay Kumar andBJP chief spokespersonK. Krishna Sagar Raowarned the government ofserious consequences andbacklash from Hindusacross the state for demol-ishing a temple.

“Destroying a temple isblasphemy. The KCR gov-ernment has undertakenthe insulting and insinuat-ing act of demolishing aHindu religious place ofworship unilaterally,”they said. They demandedthat the Chief Ministervisit the site and apologisefor the demolition, andbuild a temple at the verysame site.

BJP general secretary P.Muralidhar Rao told a vir-tual rally for

Mahbubnagar andNalgonda districts thatthe days of the TRS gov-ernment were numbered.He said the curse of thetemple goddess wouldhaunt the ChandrashekarRao government.

He also criticised thedemolition of theSecretariet building in themiddle of a global pan-demic. “KCR has failed tolead the state from thefrontlines during theCoronavirus crisis and ithas led to death, fear andpain for the people,”Muralidhar Rao said.

Owaisi welcomes CM’sapology

MIM presidentAsaduddin Owaisi wel-

comed the statement ofthe Chief Minister expre-ssing his regret and pain.

Home minister Moha-mmed Mahmood Ali wel-comed the decision of theChief Minister to recon-struct the places of wor-ship on a grand scale.“The Chief Minister hasmade clear that a newtemple and mosque will beconstructed on a muchlarger scale,” MahmoodAli said.

Secretariat EmployeesAssociation office bearersNarender Rao andMangamma thanked theChief Minister for declar-ing that the governmentwill construct a new tem-ple and mosque in theSecretariat premises.

Muslim groups wary of CM’sstatement on new mosquesATHER MOIN I DCHYDERABAD, JULY 10

Muslim groups reactedwith circumspection tothe statement of ChiefMinister K.Chandrashekar Rao overthe demolition of placesof worship at theSecretariat.

United Muslim Forum(UMF) said expressingregret was not enoughand demanded therebuilding of themosques at the sameplace.

Moulana Syed Shah AliAkbar Nizamuddin,Chancellor JamiaNizamia, Moulana KhalidSaifullah Rahmani,Secretary AIMPLB,Moulana Qubul BadshaShuttari, secretary, SadarMajlis Ulema-e-Deccan,Moulana Mufti KhaleelAhmed, head of JamiaNizamia, Moulana ShahMohammed Jamal urRahman, patron, DeeniMadaris Board, andMoulana MuftiMohammed GiyasuddinRahmani, state presidentof the Jamiat Ulema Hind

and others demanded tolodge criminal complaintagainst the officials andcontractors who wereresponsible for demoli-tion.

Mohammed AbdulSattar, state convener,Muslim RashtriyaManch, the governmentshould take stern actionas the places of worshipdemolished deliberately.

Meanwhile, the policetightened securityaround mosques appre-hending protests in thewake of the demolition ofmosques inside theSecretariat, during theJuma prayers.

Jamiat Ulema Hind andother organisations havethreatened to organiseprotests.

Police restricted atten-dance in a few mosques.Only a few dozen were

allowed to enter JamiaMasjid, Mahboob Chowk.A police platoon was post-ed at Masjid Zam Zam,Amberpet, which is theheadquarters of JamiatUlema Hind. However, noprotest was reported. Afew activists kept underhouse arrest. Osman binMohammed Alhajiri,president, Deccan WakfProperties ProtectionSociety, who is underhome quarantine afterreturning from Qatar,said police personnelwere deputed in front ofhis house and officialsinquired whether he hadany plan to protest.

Amjedullah KhanKhalid, spokesperson ofthe Majlis BachaoTehreek, claimed that hewas kept at Hafez BabaNagar since morning. Helodged a complaint withthe Saifabad policeagainst the demolition ofmosques and soughtaction against all thoseresponsible includingChief Minister K.Chandrashekar Rao, thechairman and CEO of theWakf Board.

● ● UNITED MUSLIMFORUM (UMF) saidexpressing regret wasnot enough and demand-ed the rebuilding of themosques at the sameplace.

GUNTUR CHILLI SENT TO B’DESH BY TRAINADITYA CHUNDURU | DCHYDERABAD, JULY 10

In a first, the famous Gunturchilli was transported toBangladesh via a specialtrain. Operated by SouthCentral Railway (SCR), thetrain set off with 384 tonnesof chillies from Reddipalemin Guntur district, AndhraPradesh, for Benapole inBangladesh.

A few weeks ago, SCR had

operated a train whichtransported turmeric fromNizamabad to Bangladesh.

Railways officials arereported to have activelycourted farmers, who wereunable to transport produceto Bangladesh by road due tolockdown restrictions.

The farmers spent around`4,606 per tonne on trans-portation by train, asopposed to around `7,000 byroad.

ERRATA

ELDERLY COUPLEENDS LIFE IN

WARANGAL ANUDEEP CEREMILLA I DCWARANGAL, JULY 10

An elderly couple died by sui-cide at Ashoknagar of Khan-apur mandal in WarangalRural district on Friday. Thevictims, T. Alluru (80) and hiswife Yellamma (77), were stay-ing with their son.

According to Khanapur sub-inspector N. Sai Baba, the eld-erly couple consumed pesti-cide. Their bodies were foundby their son. Locals informedthe police, who rushed to thespot and started investigatingthe cause of death.

Police said a case is regis-tered under Section 174 CRPC(suspicious death).

22-yr-old held forganja peddling

Hyderabad: V. Bhaskar, 22, ofHayathnagar, involved in

ganja smuggling, wasbooked under the Preventive

Detention Act by Rachak-onda police commissioner on

Friday. Bhaskar runs a carrental agency and uses hisvehicles to transport ganja

from AP to Maharashtra, pol-ice said. He was arrested inMarch with his aides. Rach-

akonda police commissionerMahesh Bhagwat said the

police seized 100 kg ganjaand `30,000 cash from a car

belonging to Bhaskar.

T.S.S. SIDDHARTH | DCHYDERABAD, JULY 10

The Sri Ujjaini MahankaliAmma Bonalu in Secunder-abad will be held in the presen-ce of temple officials and scho-lars on July 12 in accordancewith government orders aspart of Coronavirus control measures. No crowds will beallowed to attend the festivi-ties and people have been urg-ed to celebrate the festival athome. Temple executive offi-cer Manohar Reddy and tem-ple scholars on Friday visitedminister Talasani Srinivas Ya-dav’s residence to discuss thepreparations for the festival.

The minister will presentsilk garments for the deity onbehalf of the government tothe temple officials on July 12.

Due to the ongoing demolition work in the Secretariat, traffic police divertmotorists on Friday. — R. PAVAN

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He told the division bench thatin this case, the government hadviolated the procedure in itsoverenthusiasm to raze theSecretariat.

As Advocate General B.S.Prasad was not in a position topresent information whetherany such plan was submittedand approval taken, the courtobserved: “Prima facie, the pres-ent demolition of theSecretariat is in violation ofRule 4 (3) of Construction andDemolition Waste ManagementRules, 2016. Therefore, the gov-ernment is directed to stop thedemolition forthwith. Orderswill continue till next date (13thJuly, 2020) until and unless thestate satisfies this court thatsuch approval was taken.”

The Chief Justice observed:“Any citizen has a right to raiseany question challenging theaction of the state if the citizenis of the opinion that the state’saction is in violation of law.Please do not continue the dem-olition. We understand from themedia reports that the demoli-tion of the Secretariat will becomplete in seven days. Threedays have gone by whereinBlock A and B have gone. Cert-ain religious constructionswithin the campus have alsobeen destroyed. In another fourdays, the entire Secretariat willbe demolished. Therefore,please stop demolition”.

ANYONE CANQUESTION GOVT,

SAYS HC

Namit Agarwal:395/400Percentage: 98.75(Commerce)School: GitanjaliSenior School,Begumpet

It feels surreal to see the results.My parents and I are extremelyhappy and at the same time con-cerned about the situation too. Ihad planned on pursuing BBA ITfrom Mumbai, but now with theprevailing situation I will pursueit from St. Joseph’s, Hyderabad.

Isha Gandham: 480 / 500 Percentage: 96 (Science)School: The Hyderabad PublicSchool, BegumpetIt is an overwhelming feeling.I have been able to get admitsfrom New York University,

Abu Dhabi campus, and will start my onlineclasses in September. I hope to join the campus for the spring semester in January.My family and I are optimistic and hopefulthat we will come out of this unprecedentedsituation and that things will be better. I amplanning to do major in biology and go aheadwith research in wildlife later.

TOPPERS OF CLASS 12 (ISC)

TOPPERS OF CLASS 10 (ICSE)Vedika Agarwal: 589/600Percentage: 98.16School: Gitanjali Senior School, Begumpet

J.B. Akshan: 497/500Percentage: 99.4School: Gitanjali Devshala, Secunderabad

ShreyashiChattoraj:591/600Percentage:98.5School: The

Hyderabad PublicSchool, Begumpet

ICSE:Students appeared: 4,487 Boys: 2,206 (49.16%)Girls: 2,281 (50.84%)Unsuccessful: 1 Pass percentage: 99.97

ISC:Students appeared: 851 Boys: 360 (42.30%)Girls: 491 (57.70%)Pass percentage: 97.2

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It is surreal that the fugitive criminal Vikas Dubey, who surrenderedto the Madhya Pradesh police at Ujjain on Thursday, is then shotdead by the UP police on Friday morning — allegedly because hetried to snatch a gun and escape when the vehicle carrying him in a

police convoy overturned at Kanpur (the only vehicle to do so).Incidentally, the media, which was shadowing the convoy, was stopped15 minutes before the incident. It is evidence that the killing was nothingmore than a brazen act of extra-judicial execution. It may not be shock-ing, but it is nothing if not condemnable.

Not many in UP would bat an eye at this gruesome shortcut of justice.Popular bloodlust for summary justice — as witnessed last Decemberwhen the Telangana police was feted for shooting dead the four accusedin a veterinarian’s rape-murder on Hyderabad’s outskirts — continuesto be fed by a political class that was complicit in Dubey’s crimes.

The extra-judicial execution cannot be justified on the grounds thatDubey’s men killed eight policemen. The Constitution gives everyonethe right to a fair trial under Article 14, and Article 21 renders a fair trialas part of any individual’s guarantee of life and personal liberty. Anextra-judicial execution is unconstitutional. The absence of due processsubverts not only the criminal justice system but democracy as well. Itmight sit well with a cynical populace impatient with the slow wheels ofjustice. But it erodes the fabric of our democracy and society in waysthat are much graver than an extra-judicial execution. One way is themanner of late in which the victims of riots are charged as the culprits,or in which dissenting students are deemed more anti-national thanactual terrorists.

Vikas Dubey was a bad man. He had over 60 cases to his name includ-ing five in which he was directly accused of murder. In 2001, he report-edly killed a state minister — inside a police station. Yet he would nothave thrived for so long had it not been for the police-criminal-politiciannexus that has existed for longer than most Indians have been alive.Kunda MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya, for instance, isone of many notorious politicians with a long criminal record. In UP thepolitician-criminal nexus is so widespread that any Netflix crime serialis by default set in UP. In Dubey’s case, there was much talk of how hecould have spilled the beans on the high and mighty — a former CM saidif his vehicle had not toppled, the government would have — and it isspeculated that five of the 12 named in the police deaths FIR were“encountered” because of such links. Killing Dubey might have been anact of self-preservation by the UP police. In which case society mustaccept that Dubey’s extra-judicial execution is no panacea to UP’s (orIndia’s) law and order problems; it only preserves and perpetuates thedirty, lawless and corrupt status quo.

11 JULY 2020

The don is dead, longlive UP’s neta-thug net

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Headline onWednesday,July 10: VikasDubey arrest-ed. Shabaash.

Breaking news a littlelater: Vikas Dubey shotdead. Wah! Badhiya hai!How convenient. Let’scheck out the various andvery imaginative ver-sions of this bloodydrama. The man with amurderous past wasapparently “caught” by asecurity guard at Ujjain’sMahakal temple, after heand his wife boughtprasad and performedaarti. The criminal on therun crossed severalcheckposts and travelledundetected across fourstates before gettingnabbed. All of this soundsbogus to me. A man whohas been running a paral-lel state within a state foryears in YogiAdityanath’s Wild Westterritory, also known asUttar Pradesh, getspicked up a few days laterin another state (MadhyaPradesh) and then the“usual” happens! He getsshot trying to “escape”from a police party whena vehicle overturns! Allthis action takes placeseven days after hishenchmen ambush andgun down eight police-men in cold blood. Relax,everyone! Now that themastermind behind theattack has been bumpedoff, we will never get toknow what exactly hap-pened or why. Let’s say itwas a huge setup, withbetrayals, informers, andpolitical connivanceinvolved. Nobody woulddare to ambush and openfire on men in vardi,without being guaran-teed protection by politi-cal bosses. Even the mosthardened criminals hesi-tate before taking on themen in uniform. Dubey’ssubsequent arrest andmurder are clearly a partof the huge coverup, nowthat the game is up. Itsounds like the mostbrazen and audacious

political charade. A totaleyewash… and completehogwash. The same men,from the same party thatwas working hand inglove with the criminal,seem to have struck adeal with political bossesof another party, andsmoothly staged thearrest and encounterkilling, but only afterdoing a deal with VikasDubey himself. Endgame!

This is how it hasalways worked in India.Nothing new about thisnarrative. There’s ablurred line betweennetas and goondas, politi-cal bosses and hardcorecriminals — this is trueacross parties. In fact, it’spretty hard to distinguishone lot (gangsters) fromthe other (netas).Sometimes, very rarely,the situation gets com-pletely out of hand — as itdid in Dubey’s case. Allhell breaks loose, butonly for a while. You canbe sure while citizens arekept distracted withhocus pocus stories aboutthe valour and efficiencyof the police partyinvolved in the drama,frantic negotiations aretaking place simultane-ously between the crimi-nal’s family, his gangmembers and their politi-cal patrons. During thetime all these hardwork-ing folks are busy cuttingdeals and managing thedivision of loot, othersare busy buying time, tillall the stolen monies aresecured and the incrimi-natory trails are fixed.This time is very pre-cious indeed. It’s like thegolden hour in medicalterminology. Millions areat stake, and severalmighty political reputa-tions on the line. Thestash has to be protectedat all costs, as also theidentities of the politicalbosses for whom crimi-nals like Vikas Dubeywork. The money trailmust be hastily coveredup and as much evidencedestroyed as possible.

This needs the interven-tion of experts andtechies, who can efficient-ly destroy files and createalibis. Generally, 48hours are sufficient foreliminating all compro-mising evidence. Someinconvenient people canalso be blown away alongthe way. The few that areleft behind can be man-aged with pressure fromthe investigating agen-cies. One just has to leanon them. In return forsuch big favours, therewards are prettyimpressive and there’s awell-understood modusoperandi to fix remainingloopholes. The heat isturned up, only after allthese areas are sealed.The rest is pure drama,scripted by intelligenceofficers and corruptbureaucrats. It is an eye-wash that only thegullible believe.

The ludicrous sequenceof Dubey’s arrest anddeath has been betterchoreographed thansome clumsier encoun-ters from the past. It start-ed with Dubey’s nephewbeing shot dead, with twocompromised cops andfour aides getting hauledin. Errrrr… the nephewhas been the gangster’sshadow for the longesttime. But of coursenobody could find him…till now. Gangsterismruns in the family and isconducted like any busi-ness across India. Therule of terror unleashedis so dreadful, not a singlepolice thana dares tointrude into the well- for-tified dens of men likeDubey, with heavilyarmed “soldiers” protect-ing the don. Gangsterslive their lives with com-plete impunity, withnobody to fear.Successive governmentskowtow to them andopenly display solidarity,

by attending weddingand family functions. Thelooted money is sharedby whichever neta hap-pens to be in power. Takea look at some of the pho-tographs floating aroundof Dubey with severalpolitical leaders.

The multi-billion dollarquestion is this: Why hasnobody as much as triedto crack the D-Gangnexus? For decades oneheard stories about howseamlessly this globalnetwork of some of themost dangerous peoplealive operates. D-Gangwatchers also knowabout the multiple busi-ness interests and deal-ings that have gone onwithout a break all theseyears. The names ofheavyweight politiciansand movie stars who arebusiness partners withunderworld goons comeup periodically. Despiteall the buzz around thesenefarious activities, noaction is ever taken, norany investigations laun-ched. Whether it involvesairline deals, real estateor Bollywood — dhandamerrily stays dhanda —no questions asked.

It’s a wonder Dubey wasnabbed in the first place.Citizens were pretty cer-tain he’d be provided safepassage out of India — ashave many other hard-core criminals beforehim. Making Dubey anexample must have beenan afterthought… andonly because of thebrazenness with whichthe sitting duck police-men were gunned down.Those who tipped off thegangster about the raidhave already been takencare of. Watch out for afresh bunch of suspectswho will be paradedbefore the media, andmade to take the rap,while shielding the politi-cal patrons who set up theambush in the first place,believing they’d get awaywith it yet again.

Well, they almost did!But like with everythingelse in life, it’s payouttime now. Someone’shead has got to roll. Let itbe Dubey’s… while hispolitical bosses have thelast laugh, which is, asalways, on us!

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It’s a wonderDubey was nabbed

in the first place.Citizens were pret-

ty certain he’d beprovided safe pas-

sage out of India —as have others

before him. MakingDubey an examplemust have been an

afterthought.

Gangsterism in politics:Dubey in UP Wild West

The decision of the Union government to set up an inter-ministerialcommittee to investigate whether three trusts linked to theCongress’ national leadership have violated laws related to money

laundering, income tax and foreign funding is welcome. The committeeprobing the affairs of the trusts — Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF), theRajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust (RGCT) and the Indira Gandhi MemorialTrust (IGMT) — will be headed by a special director of the enforcementdirectorate and will have officials from the Central Bureau ofInvestigation. The committee will make a preliminary inquiry and if it isfound that there are irregularities, then the agency concerned will takethe investigation further, according to reports.

The BJP recently brought the three trusts to the focus with its presi-dent J.P. Nadda and Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad allegingthat the Congress pushed for a free trade agreement with China when theUnited Progressive Alliance (UPA) government was in power to repaythe reported Chinese contribution of $3,00,000 to RGF in 2005-06. MrNadda even saw a link between the Congress stand on the border skir-mishes and the donation.

It is interesting to note that those at the helm of the NDA dispensationsmelled foul only when the principal Opposition party asked uncomfort-able questions on the border developments, including the death of 20Indian soldiers. The Congress’ allegation that the investigation is anattempt to intimidate its leaders into silence over the government policyon the border has merit but the party must utilise it as an opportunity tocome clean on the issue and deny the ruling party a chance to use it as aruse next time. All that the Congress, as well as those who believe indemocracy, must ensure is that the investigation does not degenerateinto a process to harass the Opposition.

Six months into the Covid-19pandemic, no one will disputethat its impact has been uni-versal — across all countries

and across all sectors. Like othersectors, in education too, the impactof Covid-19 is going to be huge andwill have long-term implications.According to Unesco, in the begin-ning of April 2020, schools hadclosed across 194 countries, affecting1.6 billion learners, constituting 91per cent of all enrolled students.Even today, with schools reopeningin some countries, 1.1 billion learn-ers are still affected.Psacharopoulos, Patrinos, Collisand Vegas estimate that the impactof these four months of school clo-sures could be as much as $10 tril-lion for the world as a whole, interms of the loss in lifelong earningsof this entire generation of students.

What makes the situation farworse is that the adverse impact ofthe pandemic has been muchgreater on already vulnerable anddisadvantaged groups — this is truewithin countries as well as acrosscountries, in that developing coun-tries are likely to be worse hit eco-

nomically as compared to the devel-oped ones. And in education too,equity is going to be a big issue.

The fact that there was already aglobal learning crisis is now widelyacknowledged. The United Nations’Millennium Development Goals, setin 2000, focused on universalisingaccess and enrollment in education;but its Sustainable DevelopmentGoals, set in 2015, aim to ensure min-imum learning outcomes for school-going children. Not surprisingly,learning levels are lower in the glob-al South, and within these countriesamong the poorer and disadvan-taged groups.

In India, Pratham has, through itsAnnual Status of Education Reports(ASER), been focusing on basic read-ing and arithmetic since 2005. Yearon year, ASER shows that large pro-portions of children are more thantwo grades behind in these founda-tional skills that we expect them toacquire in the first three years ofprimary school. For instance, evenin 2018, 73 per cent of children inClass 3 and 50 per cent children inClass 5 were unable to read a Class 2level text. ASER data as well as

other available research shows thatif children do not acquire basic foun-dational skills in primary grades,when they are supposed to, they willcomplete the mandated years of ele-mentary schooling without ade-quate “value add” in terms of yearsof learning.

This situation is not unique toIndia. Similar situations exist inmany other developing countries aswell. The inclusive nature of theASER architecture and the simplici-ty of its approach resonated withmany in other countries of Asia,Africa and Central America. Today,ASER-like initiatives are being doneby organisations in 12 other coun-tries — Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda,Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, Mexico,Pakistan, Mozambique, Bangladesh,Nepal and Nicaragua. Each countryadapted the ASER tool and theapproach to their context, with thecommon thread being that all coun-tries focus on foundational readingand arithmetic. However, since thespecific items used were different,estimates from these assessments,that touch almost a million children,could not be easily compared across

contexts.Led by the work done in India by

Pratham and ASER, this consor-tium of organisations, known as thePAL Network, has now launched afoundational assessment in maths --International Common Assessmentof Numeracy (ICAN) — that uses thesame items across all countries.ICAN includes simple tasks in thedomains of number knowledge,measurement, geometry and datadisplay. The assessment is alignedto Unesco’s Global ProficiencyFramework for SDG 4.1.1(a) forClasses 2 and 3. A pilot assessmentin one district of each of the 13 coun-tries (including India) was done in2019 and the report was launchedearlier this week. ICAN is an opensource oral one-on-one assessment,available in 11 languages, aligned tothe measurement of SDG minimumproficiency, that is easy to imple-ment and scale up.

In the context of the current pan-demic-related crisis, it becomeseven more important to understandwhere children are with respect tobasic reading and arithmetic skills.As schools start to open up, the first

job of the day will be to assess wherechildren are at and how muchground has been lost. It is impera-tive to do this so that children cancatch up and the learning lossaccrued during this period of schoolclosures does not result in persistentdeficits. Younger and children at thelower end of the learning distribu-tion will need special attention. One-on-one, activity based, simpleassessment tools like ASER andICAN are ideal for the situationsince they are not only easy toimplement and scale up but also pro-vide evidence that is actionable forimproving children’s learning. Aspart of the team that launched theASER effort in India 15 years ago, weare excited to see that a citizen-ledeffort that started in the villages ofIndia has now become an interna-tional people’s movement. A toolthat originated from work done bycitizens in developing countriesmay help the world’s educationalsystems devise solutions in thisperiod of global crisis.

The writer is the director of theASER Centre

WilimaWadhwa

Probe welcome, not politics

N-plant in City tofunction by year end

HYDERABAD, July 10 The first of the seven plants ofthe Nuclear Fuel Complex nowfast coming up will be commis-sioned before the end of thisyear. The last plant is expected tobe commissioned by 1973-74. Thenuclear fuel produced will be

s u p p l i e dto powerstations.H y d e -rabad wasc o n s i d -

ered as one of the most qualifiedcities suitable for development ofelectronics industries. Accor-dingly Electronics Corporationof India, the Defence ElectronicsResearch Laboratory, theHindustan Aeronautics etc werelocated here by the Centre.

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SC TO TAKE CALLON SOCIAL MEDIA

‘BAN’ FOR BAILPAMOD KUMAR | DCNEW DELHI, JULY 10

The Supreme Court on Fridaysaid that it will examine the question whether restrict-ing an accused from usingsocial media platforms couldbe a condition for the grant ofbail.

Seeking response from theCentre and the Uttar Pradeshgovernment, a bench comprising Chief JusticeSharad A. Bobde, Justice R. Subhash Reddy and JusticeA.S. Bopanna said that they would examine the ques-tion of law while refusing togive interim relief to the peti-tioner.

The petitioner SachinChoudhary has moved the topcourt challenging theAllahabad High Court orderrestricting him from using thesocial media platforms as a condition ofbail.

The High Court restrainedChoudhary from using socialmedia till the completion oftrial.

Besides other charges,Sachin Choudhary is slappedwith sedition case for criticis-ing the state government forits handling of the situationarising from Covid pandemicand the issue of migrantlabourers.

Initially in the course ofthe hearing, the Chief Justicetold senior counsel SalmanKhurshid “We don’t think it’s too onerous if a person’s participation onsocial media creates mischief.Why can’t the court say you don’t use the instrumentby which you caused mis-chief ?”

The CJI said, “It is not unrea-sonable to impose such restric-tions, to prevent further mis-chief.”

Responding to this, Khurshidappearing for Choudhary said,“There are no allegationsrelating to social media useagainst my client.”.

Telling Khurshid that they are not going to grant any relief as sought by his client, CJI said, “we wouldlike to lay down the law on this.”

India crosses 8-lakh Covid cases markTally goes up by 1 lakh in four days; cases doubled in 20 days; India logs highest daily increaseDC CORRESPONDENTwith agency inputsNEW DELHI, JULY 10

With another big single-day jump in coronaviruscases, India’s Covid-19tally crossed the eight-lakh-mark on Friday, justfour days after the numberof infections in the coun-try had reached sevenlakh.

According to Unionhealth ministry figuresupdated in the morning,yet another record single-day jump of 26,506 casespushed India’s tally to7,93,802, while the deathtoll climbed to 21,604 with475 people succumbing tothe infection.

However, a PTI tally

showed India’s Covid-19caseload at 8,14,898 and thedeath toll at 22,106. Thetally has been compiled asper information providedby respective states andunion territories.

The number of personswho have recovered is4,95,515 while there are2,76,882 active cases undertreatment. The last 24hours saw 19,138 patientsgetting discharged and therecovery rate at present is62.42 per cent.

Union health ministryofficials said that thecountry as a whole is wit-nessing an encouragingupward trend in the recov-ery rate. As many as 18states/UTs have recordeda recovery rate more than

the national average. Recovery Rate is highest

in Ladakh (86.73%),Uttarakhand (80.85%),Chhattisgarh (78.99%),Chandigarh (77.06%) andDelhi (76.81%). It is lowestin West Bengal (64.94%).

High number of casescontinue to be detected inMaharashtra, Tamil Nadu,Delhi, Karnataka, Telan-gana, West Bengal andAndhra Pradesh. High nu-mber of deaths have beenrecorded from Maharash-tra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi,West Bengal, Uttar Prad-esh, Karnataka.

However, the Union hea-lth ministry said the fatal-ity rate has declined to 2.72per cent in India now andsome 30 states and UTs

have fatality rate lesserthan national average.

“At the national level, theCase Fatality Rate hasdeclined to 2.72%. This islower than the fatalityrates observed in manyother countries in theworld. The focus of Covid-19 management in thecountry has been to keepthe fatalities low. With thesupport and guidance ofthe Centre, the states/UTshave taken many steps inthis regard like mappingof the communities to foc-us on the high risk grouplike the elderly/aged and population with co-morbidities, and providingspecial care to them,” he-alth ministry officialssaid.

Up in arms

Police use water cannons to disperse Youth League activists who were protesting over Kerala gold smuggling case,in front of the Collectorate in Kozhikode on Friday. Swapna Suresh, former woman employee of the UAE consulate,and a key suspect in the gold smuggling bid through diplomatic baggage, has been booked under the UnlawfulActivities (Prevention) Act, the National Investigation Agency informed the Kerala High Court. — PTI

PAWAN BALI | DCNEW DELHI, JULY 10

Defence minister RajnathSingh on Friday reviewedthe situation in Ladakhwith top military brass asIndian and Chinese troopscompleted their initialphase of disengagementby moving out of the flashpoints at the Line ofActual Control (LAC).

The security reviewmeeting on China wasattended by Chief ofDefence Staff Gen. BipinRawat, Army Chief Gen.M.M. Naravane, NavyChief Admiral KarambirSingh and Air ChiefMarshal R.K.S. Bhadauriabesides several other sen-ior military officials.

Gen. Naravane gave adetailed account of theimplementation of thefirst phase of mutual dis-engagement of troopsfrom Galwan Valley,Gogra, Hot Springs andFinger 4 areas in PangongTso. He gave details about

the measures taken by theIndian Army to preventany aggression by theChinese troops.

Sources said that statusquo has been maintainedat the LAC after the com-pletion of the first phaseof disengagement and fur-ther movement of troopswill depend on the out-come of the CorpsCommanders meetingbetween India and Chinanext week.

While Indian andChinese troops havemoved slightly away fromflash-points, the biggerconcern is the presence ofa large number of troopsfrom both sides with

heavy weapons, includingartillery and tanks, in theforward areas along theLAC in Ladakh.

Till these troops movefrom the LAC to theirpeace-time locations, ten-sion between India andChina will remain high.

On Friday, Mr Singh alsoheld a telephonic conver-sation with his US coun-terpart, Mark T. Esper,during which India’sstandoff with China inLadakh and the overallsecurity scenario in theregion was discussed.

In a boost to the IndianAir Force’s firepower, USaerospace major Boeingsaid on Friday that it hashanded over the final fiveof the 22 Apache attackhelicopters to the IAF inJune at Air Force Station,Hindan.

The company said thatin March, Boeing hadhanded over the last fiveof 15 CH-47F(I) Chinookheavy-lift helicopters tothe IAF.

India, China complete initial phase of pullback

Pune to have 10-day lockdownfrom Monday as cases go upSONU SHRIVASTAVA | DCMUMBAI, JULY 10

Amid the growing num-bers of Covid-19 patientsin Pune city and Pimpri-Chinchwad, the Mahar-ashtra government hasannounced to impose a 10-day lockdown in Pune tocontain the spread of coro-navirus. The decision wastaken in a meeting chairedby Maharashtra deputychief minister and districtguardian minister Ajit

Pawar along with the divi-sional commissioner anddistrict collector. A seniorofficial said that a detailedorder would be issued inthe next two days.

The lockdown will comeinto force from midnightof July 13 and end on July23. “A lockdown will beimposed in Pune, PimpriChinchwad and someother areas of the districtconsidering the rise inCovid-19 cases,” divisionalcommissioner (Pune divi-

sion) Deepak Mhaisekarsaid. The lockdown periodbetween July 13 and July18 will be stricter, whereinonly milk shops, pharma-cies and clinics will beallowed to operate.Emergency services havebeen excluded from thelockdown.

An official said that alo-ng with the city areas of P-une and Pimpri-Chinchw-ad, some parts of rural Pu-ne have also decided to im-pose lockdown till July 23.

China, US in new spatover Uighur crackdown Tit-for-tat steps planned after US sanctions on China officialsBeijing, July 10: Chinasaid on Friday it willimpose tit-for-tat meas-ures after the UnitedStates slapped sanctionson Chinese officials fortheir involvement in acrackdown on Muslimminorities, raising ten-sions between the super-powers.

The two countries havetraded barbs and sanc-tions on a slew of issuessince President DonaldTrump took office, fromtrade to more recent spatsover the Coronavirus pan-demic, a security law inHong Kong, and Chinesepolicies in the far westregions of Tibet andXinjiang.

The latest Chineseresponse followed a USannouncement of visabans and an assets freezeon three officials, includ-ing Chen Quanquo, theCommunist Party chief inXinjiang and architect ofBeijing’s hardline policiesagainst restive minori-ties.

“The US actions serious-ly interfere in China’sinternal affairs, seriouslyviolate the basic norms ofinternational relations,and seriously damage Ch-ina-US relations,” foreignministry spokesman ZhaoLijian said in a briefing.

“China has decided toimpose reciprocal meas-ures against the relevantUS institutions and indi-viduals who behave badlyon Xinjiang-related issu-es,” Zhao said, withoutproviding details aboutthe sanctions.

Secretary of State MikePompeo said on Thursdaythe United States was act-ing against “horrific andsystematic abuses” inXinjiang including forcedlabour, mass detentionand involuntary popula-tion control.

The back-and-forth overXinjiang comes just daysafter the two countriesimposed visa restrictionson each other over theirdisagreement on Tibet.

— AFP

US inks pact with Thailand;sells 105 F-35 jets to Japan

China rejects USinvite for arms talk

RIGHTS LAWYERFILES COMPLAINTAGAINST OFFICIALSBeijing, July 10: FreedChinese human rightslawyer Wang Quanzhanghas filed a rare complaintseeking charges againsttwo officials, accusing the-m of torturing him duringhis secret detention acc-ording to documents.

Detained in 2015 as partof a sweeping crackdownon hundreds of lawyersand rights activists, Wangwas released in April afterfour-and-a-half yearsbehind bars in a case thatdrew international atten-tion. This week is also thefifth anniversary of themass arrest campaign, kn-own as the “709 crackdown”. — AFP

Beijing, July 10: Chinaon Friday rejected a newUS invitation to join armscontrol talks with Russia,complaining that Washi-ngton had continued to“pester” Beijing over theissue. President Donald Tru-mp’s administration hasdemanded that China takepart in talks on a succes-sor to the New STARTtreaty, which caps thenuclear warheads of theUnited States and Russia— the two Cold War-erasuperpowers.

Beijing said in responsethat it would only join thetalks if the US reduced itsarsenal to match China’s

much smaller nucleardeterrent, promptingWashington to again issuea fresh invitation to thetalks on Thursday.

But Chinese foreignministry spokesman ZhaoLijian poured cold wateron the idea during aFriday press briefing.

“China’s opposition ofthe so-called trilateralarms control negotiationsis very clear,” he said.

“However, the US contin-ues to pester China, evendistorting China’s posi-tion.” Zhao said Washi-ngton’s proposal for trilat-eral negotiations was “ne-ither serious nor sincere.”

— AFP

Bangkok, July 10: U.S.Army Chief of StaffGeneral James McCo-nville met with Thailand’sprime minister and itsarmy chief on Friday, inthe first high-level visit bya foreign delegation toThailand since the Covid-19 pandemic disruptedinternational travel.

McConville met withPrime Minister PrayuthChan-ocha and also Thaiarmy chief ApiratKongsompong and signeda Strategic Vision State-ment, a U.S. Embassy stat-ement said, as Washi-ngton looks to reassureallies about its commit-ment to the region.

The text of the statementwas not released, but theembassy said McConvilleand Apirat “discussedmodernisation, interoper-

ability, joint training, anddoctrine.”

The United States hassought to counter China’sinfluence in SoutheastAsia, most recently bysending two aircraft carri-ers to the South China Seawhile the Chinese mili-tary conducted drills nearislands that are alsoclaimed by Vietnam.

China’s defence min-istry has lambasted theUS for “provocative acts”after it sent two aircraftcarrier groups into theSouth China Sea while theChinese military was con-ducting exercises in thedisputed waters.

In a statement onThursday, the ministryclaimed the United Stateshad “carried out naviga-tional hegemony” throughrepeated deployments of

warships to the region,saying Washington wasthe biggest driver of mili-tarisation in the strategicwaterway.

The United States anno-unced on Thursday that ithas approved the sale of105 F-35 stealth aircraft toJapan for an estimated$23.11 billion.

Japan had asked to buy63 F-35A, the traditionalversion of the electronics-laden fighter aircraft, and42 F-35B, the short-takeoffand vertical-landing ver-sion for aircraft carriers,the State Department saidin a statement.

Washington gave itsgreen light to the transac-tion, which will improve“the security of a majorally” in the Asia-Pacificregion, the statementnoted. — Agencies

Biden unveilseconomic plan,challenges DonDunmore, US, July 10:Joe Biden unveiled a $700billion plan on Thursdayto create jobs and investin new technologies in anaggressive challenge toPresident Donald Trumpon economic policy, asthe warring sides clashedin key election battle-ground Pennsylvania.

The Democratic chal-lenger presented hissweeping “Build BackBetter” proposal, a con-trast to Trump’s“America first” agenda,during a speech at a met-alworks plant in a swingstate critical to eithercandidate's victory inNovember.

Vice President MikePence was simultaneous-ly barnstorming Pennsy-lvania, defending hisboss’s handling of theCoronavirus pandemicand assuring voters thatTrump was best qualifiedto revive the sputteringeconomy.

Biden’s manufacturingand innovation plan aimsto bring back positionslost during the coron-avirus pandemic, andcreate more than fivemillion new jobs byinvesting in domesticproduction and researchand shrinking foreignsupply chains.

The multi-prongedapproach also tightens

“Buy America” guide-lines, promotes new taxrules including hikingthe corporate tax rate to28 percent from 21 per-cent, and expands unionaccess to empowerAmerican workers.

“That’s what my planis, to build back better,”Biden told ironworkersafter touring their 101-year-old factory nearScranton, the blue-collarcity where the formervice president grew up.

The goal, he said, is “tosharpen America's com-petitive edge” in newindustries like batterytechnology, artificialintelligence, biotechnolo-gies and clean energy.“That’s the future.”Bidensaid he rejects the“defeatist view” thatautomation and global-ization will sap well-paidUS jobs.

“American manufactur-ing was the functioningarsenal of democracy inWorld War II, and has tobe part of the engine ofnew prosperity inAmerica now,” he said.

Biden’s plan to protectAmerican workersunderscores a recogni-tion that, despiteTrump’s poor jobapproval numbers, votersstill see him as strongerthan Biden on handlingthe economy. — AFP

THREE MARSMISSIONS OFFTO HOT STARTParis, July 10: “Wehave lift-off, we have lift-off !” The summer raceto land a space probe onMars is off to a hotstart.

Three countries —The Hope Probe (UnitedArab Emirates),Tianwen-1 (China) andMars 2020 (UnitedStates) — have all takentheir positions, hopingto take advantage of theperiod of time when theEarth and Mars arenearest: a mere 55 mil-lion kilometres (34 mil-lion miles) apart.

The neighbouringplanets only come thisclose once every 26months — a narrow“launch window” basedon their relative posi-tions in space.

Space agencies fromall three nations plan tosend rovers to the RedPlanet to look for addi-tional signs of past lifeand potentially pave theway to — someday —step foot on its surface.

The journey will takeabout six months.

The UAE’s Hope Probe—the first interplane-tary mission by an Arabcountry — launches onJuly 15. China plans tosend its inaugural Marsprobe, a small remote-controlled rover,between July 20 andJuly 25.

By far the most ambi-tious project, the USMars 2020, has aplanned launch date ofJuly 30.

The probe — calledPerseverance — isexpected to spend oneMars year (or about 687Earth days) on the plan-et’s surface collectingrock and soil samplesthat scientists hope willshed light on past lifeforms that may haveinhabited the farawayplanet.

The aim of subse-quent missions will beto bring those samplesback to Earth.

A fourth plannedlaunch, the EU-RussianExoMars, was post-poned until 2022 due tothe Covid-19 publichealth crisis.

— AFP

SWEDISH EX-ENVOY ACQUITTED OFPLANNING ILLEGAL CHINA MEETINGHelsinki, July 10: A co-urt has acquitted Sweden’sformer ambassador toChina of exceeding herauthority in negotiationswith a foreign country, con-cluding the first trial of itskind involving a Swedishdiplomat in more than 200years.

The Stockholm DistrictCourt ruled on Friday thatthe prosecutor couldn’tprove that Anna Lindstedt,Sweden’s envoy to Beijingduring 2016-2019, had gonebeyond her jurisdiction

and “negotiated in a diplo-matic matter with some-one who represented theinterests of the Chinesestate.”

The key issue in the trialwas the allegation whetheror not Lindstedt negotiatedwith persons who could beregarded as China’s directrepresentatives.

The Swedish ProsecutionAuthority said the ambas-sador was indicted on acharge of “arbitrarinessduring negotiations with aforeign power.” — AP

Nepal landslidesleave 22 dead

Kathmandu: The death toll inthe multiple landslides trig-

gered by incessant rainsacross Nepal in the past 24

hours has risen to 22, thehome ministry said on Friday.Seven people, including threechildren, lost their lives due to

landslides in Kaski district.Five of them were killed aftera landslide swept away a ho-use in Sarangkot area in Pok-hara in the district in the wee

hours of Friday, police said.Around 10 people were injured

in the same incident and areundergoing treatment at dif-

ferent hospitals, they said.

Iconic Hagia Sophiais now a mosque

Istanbul: Turkish PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdogan on

Friday formally reconvertedIstanbul’s sixth-century iconic

Hagia Sophia into a mosqueand declared it open to

Muslim worship, hours after ahigh court annulled a 1934decision that had turned it

into a museum. The decisionto reconvert Hagia Sophia —a former cathedral that wasturned into a mosque afterIstanbul’s conquest by theOttoman Empire and had

served as a museum for 86years — sparked deep

dismay among OrthodoxChristians. But there wasjubilation outside Hagia

Sophia. Dozens of peoplewho awaited the court’s

ruling outside chanted “Allah is great!” when the

news came out.

Dutch govt suesRussia over MH17The Hague: The Dutch gov-ernment is taking Russia to

the European Court of Hum-an Rights for its alleged rolein the shooting down of Mal-

aysia Airlines Flight 17 overeastern Ukraine six yearsago, the foreign minister

announced Friday. The moveis intended to support indi-vidual cases being brought

to the European court by rel-atives of some of the 298

people who were killedwhen a Buk surface-to-airmissile fired from territorycontrolled by pro-Moscow

Ukrainian rebels blew the Amsterdam-to-Kuala

Lumpur flight out of the skyon July 17, 2014.

● ● GEN. NARAVANE gavea detailed account of theimplementation of thefirst phase of mutual disengagement of troopsfrom Galwan Valley,Gogra, Hot Springs andFinger 4 areas in PangongTso.

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BCCI acceptsCEO’s resignation

New Delhi: The BCCI partedways with its chief executive

officer Rahul Johri after hislong-pending resignation was

accepted on Thursday.While the top bosses in theBCCI remained tight-lipped

about the development, a sen-ior official in the know of things

said that they have decided toaccept his resignation letter

sent on December 27. Johri’scontract was due to expire in

2021. — PTI

Pak forced to selllogo rights cheap

Karachi: The Pakistan CricketBoard (PCB) has managed to

rope in a sponsor for thenational team ahead of its

England tour but it had to settlefor a far less amount than what

it envisaged.According to a reliable source,

PCB has decided to sign a one-year contract with Transmedia,

a company which has been buy-ing various sponsorship andmedia rights for the last few

years. Transmedia has alreadybeen paying up to Rs 150 mil-lion annually to PCB for being

their associate sponsors.“Transmedia has offered 600

million rupees (60 crore) for athree-year deal for the main

logo on Pakistan team’s jerseysand kits. The Board after facing

disappointment on severalfronts has now decided to signa one-year deal for 200 millionrupees on a pro-rata basis,” the

source said.The source said the PCB could

rebid for the logo rights nextyear. Pepsi had a three-year

deal with PCB worth up to $5.5million for the main logo on

Pakistan team's jerseys and kits.But the contract expired last

month, and the company chosenot to renew it, offering only

around 30 per cent of the $5.5million amount. — PTI

Windies whizz pastGrab impressive lead over England Southampton, July 10:Shane Dowrich hit fiveboundaries in an unbeat-en 30 as the West Indiesbuilt a first-innings leadover England in the firstTest at Southampton onFriday.

The tourists were 235for 5 at Tea on the thirdday, 31 runs ahead ofEngland, with the newball available immediate-ly after the interval.

Roston Chase was 27 notout, having added anunbroken 49 withDowrich after openerKraigg Brathwaite made65.

England fast bowlersJofra Archer and MarkWood, both selectedahead of the droppedStuart Broad, have yet totake a wicket in the open-ing match of this three-game series, whichmarks internationalcricket’s return fromlockdown.

But James Anderson,

England’s all-time lead-ing Test wicket-taker, hadtea figures of 2-42 from 19overs, with off-spinnerDom Bess taking 2-51.

West Indies resumedbehind closed doors on57-1, with the first sunnyblue skies of the matchproviding ideal condi-tions for batting.

Brathwaite was 20 notout and Shai Hope threenot out, with the pair hav-ing scored three hun-dreds between them in asensational Test victoryat Headingley during theWest Indies’ 2017 tour ofEngland.

Barbados-born Archerwould have had Hope lbw

for 16 had a West Indiesreview not revealed a no-ball.

But Hope was still on 16when his edged drive offBess flew to first slipwhere Ben Stokes, cap-taining England in theabsence of regular skip-per Joe Root, held a sharpchance. It was an encour-aging moment for Stokes,who had brought on Bessearly in Friday’s playdespite England fieldingfour seamers.

Stokes could have beenforgiven for second-guessing himself afterdeciding to bat first onwinning the toss andbeing involved in thedecision to drop Broad.

BRIEF SCORES■ Day-3, At Tea: England204 vs West Indies 235 for5 (Kraigg Brathwaite 65,Shamarh Brooks 39,Roston Chase batting 27,Shane Dowrich batting 30,James Anderson 3/62,Dom Bess 2/51). — AFP

England captain Ben Stokes misses a ball in the slipsoff Mark Wood’s bowling on the third day of the firstTest against West Indies on Friday. — AFP

Holding breaks down whiletalking about racism in lifeSouthampton, July 10:West Indies fast bowlinggreat Michael Holdingstruggled to hold backtears on a live broadcastwhile talking about theracism his parents faced,a day after his powerfulspeech on the sensitivesubject.

Ahead of Day One ofthe first Test betweenEngland and West Indies,Holding had said that theblack race has been dehu-manised and it will con-tinue to be a victim untilthe entire human race isnot educated on racism.

On Day Two, he gotmore emotional talkingabout the subject. “Thatemotional part came

when I started thinkingof my parents and it iscoming again now. Iknow what my parentswent through. My moth-er’s family stopped talk-ing to her because her

husband was too dark,”he told Sky News.

“I know what they wentthrough and that cameback to me immediately. Iknow it is a slow processbut even it is a baby stepat a time, even snail’space but I am hoping itwill continue in the rightdirection,” he said.

Racism has become araging issue ever sinceA f r i c a n - A m e r i c a nGeorge Floyd’s death atthe hands of a whitepolice officer inMinneapolis. Before thestart of the opening Test,West Indies and Englandtook the knee in solidari-ty with the Black LivesMatter movement. — PTI

Michael Holding

New Delhi, July 10: Hockey IndiaPresident Mohd Mushtaque Ahmad hasresigned from his position citing personalcommitments, a development that wasexpected after the Sports Ministry askedhim to quit, declaring his election violative

of the national sports code’s tenure guide-lines. HI Executive Board namedManipur’s Gyanendro Nigombam, whowas senior vice president in the federation,as the officiating president in Ahmad’splace. — PTI

AHMAD QUITS AS HOCKEY PRESIDENT

MCA RESTORESSUNNY SEATSAT WANKHEDEMumbai, July 10: TheMumbai CricketAssociation on Thursdaydecided to reinstate andreposition the two perma-nent seats at theWankhede Stadium in thename of batting greatSunil Gavaskar after theywent missing following arenovation of the venuebefore the 2011 World Cup.

The two fixed seats wereoriginally allotted toGavaskar and his wife atthe Garware Pavilion tohonour him at the time ofhis retirement. However,the seats were notrestored after arrange-ment was changed fromcushioned wooden planksto bucket seats. — PTI

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Grapplingwith fees andgap yearsIndian parents express their reservations as

international universities in US and UK chargethe same, exorbitant fee for online courses too! NAYARE ALI

It is not just the tuition feethat is a matter of concern.Now, those students who

have enrolled at American univer-sities may run the risk of losing

their visas, if US president, Donaldtrump has his way. While Harvard,Cornell and MIT have sued the Trumpadministration for this decision; wespeak to parents and students who aregrappling with acute stress over feecharges and possible gap years.

UNIVERSITY ENROLLEDViva, a freshman at Rhode Island School ofDesign, ArtLavika, a final year student of businessadministration at Boston University, busi-ness administration, and is a senior (finalyear)

ANNUAL TUITION FEES$70,000 (per head at both these colleges)and it has remained the same for this aca-demic year.

Shaira’s view: I don’t feel my kids will bene-fit from online classes. We can definitely

wait for this period to get over. The stu-dent community of Viva and Lavika’s col-leges have created petitions to lower thefee for online classes, however, the collegesare unwilling to alter their plans.

Viva: I do not believe it is worth paying thesame tuition fee for a restricted collegeexperience.

Lavika: I have already experienced a semes-ter of online classes and it could nevercompare to the on-campus experience. So,Idon’t feel charging the same price for bothis acceptable.

Shaira Motwani, homemakerDaughters: Viva Motwani (18 years)

and Lavika Motwani (21 years)

FINAL DECISION VISA CANCELLATION IMPACTShaira:

Viva had deferred heradmission for a year.

Lavika is going to defera semester.

Viva: Visas getting cancelled would affectour immigration status, and thereforeaffect our ability to be employed in the US.

Gita Maini, Founder, gallery gChildren: Vikrant Maini (21 years) andMuskaan Maini (20 years)

Parental view: We have nooption but to go online. InMuskaan’s case that is nota good plan as she hasoffline studio sessions andwill have no access to thelab. So, we will have todefer a semester.

Vikrant Maini: In the currentscenario, going online isnot a bad option. Finishingrequired courses onlinealso helps us stay on trackacademically and we cangraduate without anydelays.

Gita: Vikrant’s college willonly reveal options by mid-July. Muskaan’s college hasno online option for Fall2020, so it means losing ayear.

Gita: The colleges will doeverything they canbecause this is the largestsource of revenue forthem; only a small percent-age comes on scholarship.I’m sure they will do peti-tions to ensure that thisdoesn’t happen and pro-vide all the paper work ifnecessary. It means apply-ing for the whole visaprocess. In case my kidsdon’t enter US by August15, their visa gets cancelledas they have been away forfive months. Or we willhave to reapply anyway.

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FINAL DECISION

CANCELLATIONIMPACT

UNIVERSITY ENROLLEDVikrant is a final year student BentleyUniversity, Majoring in Management.

Muskaan is a third-year student atPurdue University, Majoring in Interior

Design.

ANNUAL TUITION FEES $45,000 per head at both universities. Itis highly likely that it will remain the

same for this academic year.

A fountain or an aquarium in thenorth-eastern direction of your

home will ensure a safe and successful travel.

This week is allabout learning.

For some of you, amentor would enteryour life or youmight hear stories ofthe past and learnfrom the experiencesof your predeces-

sors. Just think — “What can this person teach me?”“What lessons can I learn?” It is time to understandhow these teachings and lessons play out in your ownlife now, and in those of others who share your heritage.This knowledge will prove instrumental and help youforge a new path. The cards also encourage you to teach,facilitate and write or blog.Lucky Number: 5 I Lucky Colour:Purple

ARIESMARCH 21 TO APRIL 20

Tarot Affirmation fromthe Light Seers Deck:

“I am my own guru andmy highest guidance is

rooted in faith.”

This week, you areentering a period

of new ideas orinsights. You arequick-witted, intelli-gent and sharp andare ready to takea c t i o n .Professionally, you

will work diligently to realise your ideas, still main-taining pace and energy. It is also a good time for stu-dents or anyone ready to learn new things and upgradetheir skills. Your creative and communicative skills willalso come in the forefront this week. This week, youmight hear good news or network with VIP’s or seniorleaders.Lucky Number: 2 I Lucky Colour:Steel grey

TAURUSAPRIL 21 TO MAY 21

Tarot Affirmation fromthe Light Seers Deck: “Iexpand my conscious-ness and open up tonew opportunities.”

This week, you arefeeling a little

disappointed. Youtried many new ven-tures or projects, butthese have notturned out as youhad hoped for themto. You might have a

million creative solutions, but you need to know how toimplement your ideas. It might be a good idea to go backto your original idea and look for alternative ways toexpress it. Just because you didn’t succeed the firsttime, it doesn’t mean that the concept is wrong; it maymerely be the implementation that is out of alignment.Probably, you may find another way to express it.Lucky Number: 21 I Lucky Colour: Violet

GEMINIMAY 22 TO JUNE 21

Tarot Affirmation fromthe Light Seers Deck:“As a dreamer of my

dream, I ignite thisflame.”

This week, youneed to take care

of your health. Ifyou suffer frommigraine or fre-quent headaches,consult a doctor. Thecards also indicatethat there might be

challenging situations ahead of you. However, in timesof great difficulty and stress, you will always havestrength to endure if you search for it deep inside your-self. Do not dwell on the past; try to let go. You mightfear that something bad might happen. Relax. Greatglory lies ahead, so reach down deep inside and give iteverything you’ve got.Lucky Number:9 I Lucky Colour: Rose red

CANCERJUNE 22 TO JULY 23

Tarot Affirmation fromthe Light Seers Deck:

“I push beyond my ownperceived limitations.”

This week, it istime to think

positively and takecontrol of your life.If you need materi-al objects to makeyou feel good, youare just beingempty and vain.

Focus on the spiritual world and do not be chained bythe allurements of the physical world. Also, you needto confront your inner fears and anxieties to free your-self from the chains that bind you to your limitingbeliefs and unhealthy attachments. Use positive visu-alisations and affirmations to live a more powerful andpositive life. The cards also predict marriage.Lucky Number:16 I Lucky Colour:Sunshine yellow

LEOJULY 24 TO AUGUST 23

Tarot Affirmation fromthe Light Seers Deck:

“In the darkness, I amfree to heal — every-

thing.”

This week, youseem to feel aban-

doned and lost. Maybe you are draggingand groping in thedarkness of the tun-nel trying to findlight at the end.However, you still

need to traverse a long distance. Your hopes and wishesmight not be fulfilled tomorrow but will in a distanttime in the future. Be optimistic, as you are on the rightpath and, ultimately, you shall reach your goal. Womenneed to be careful; they are apparently giving a lot toothers emotionally. Perhaps it is time to take care ofyour own emotional needs before you try to help othersLucky Number: 17 I Lucky Colour: Purple

SCORPIOOCT 24 TO NOV 22

Tarot Affirmation fromthe Light Seers Deck:

“I expect miracles.”

This week, youneed to let go of

addictions of allkinds, be it wealth,fame, materialism orintoxications. It justleads to hugeamounts of waste, athrowaway culture,

and a sense of not having enough, which ultimatelymeans not being enough. It is time to focus on the spir-itual world and not be chained by the allurements of thephysical world. Practice the principle of detachment —a state in which you overcome your attachment to thedesire for things, people or concepts of the world — andfree yourself from any restrictions.Lucky Number:16 I Lucky Colour: Sunshine yellow

SAGITTARIUSNOV 23 TO DEC 21

Tarot Affirmation fromthe Light Seers Deck:

“In the darkness, I amfree to heal — every-

thing.”

This week bringslife’s everyday

pleasures andencourages you toseek happinessthere. Allow yourselfbreathe, feel safe andfeel good. Know thatyou are okay, and

that is enough — that you are enough. You will find sat-isfaction at all levels — emotional, physical and sensu-al. Enjoy the abundance of life for as long as it lasts.Feel each of your emotions as if you had never felt anyof them before. Take some time to value every personyou love — and all those who love you back. Lastly,make a wish. Ask the Universe for help. Lucky Number: 9 I Lucky Colour: Ruby red

CAPRICORNDEC 22 TO JAN 20

Tarot Affirmation fromthe Light Seers Deck:

“I open my gratefulheart to the gifts thatare coming my way.”

This week indi-cates a time of

compulsion andregulation. It isquite possible thatthis restriction isself-imposed. Youmay be holdingyourself back

because you fear moving into the future, because youare wary of getting hurt by a new situation or for noreason at all. Most times in life, you are not bound bythe action — or inaction of another person but by yourown self-imposed limitations. You cannot be held backunless a part of you wants to be held back. Free your-self from the bonds of fear and face every challenge.Lucky Number: 8 I Lucky Colour: Navy blue

I push beyond my own perAQUARIUS JAN 21 TO FEB 19

Tarot Affirmation fromthe Light Seers Deck: “I am free to choose

my healing and mylight.”

This week indi-cates a few obsta-

cles in your path toprogress. The roadto success is notalways easy, andyou’ll face difficul-ties and setbacks.But of course, you

need to move forward with hard work and determina-tion. Put in the effort, plant your seeds carefully andnurture them. You may not see the results today. Haveself-control, self-discipline and focus. Then, over a peri-od of time, you shall emerge triumphant. Don’t worryall will be fine soon.

Lucky Number: 7 I Lucky Colour: Yellow

PISCES FEB 20 TO MARCH 20

Tarot Affirmation fromthe Light Seers Deck: “Ichose who I am becom-ing and I run towards it

with conviction.”

This week bringswith it the power

of creativity andindividuality. Youhave limitless powerthat comes fromsources outside yourbody yet under yourcontrol. This is an

excellent time to just start working towards whateveryou desire. If it’s a job you want, a relationship, moneyor anything else, just take the first step. The cardsremind you that a wish alone will change nothing butthat a decision can change everything. A desire to cre-ate is nothing without an ability to create, and vice-versa. Be ready to become a conduit for power

Lucky Number: 1 I Lucky Colour: Golden

VIRGOAUGUST 24 TO SEP 23

Tarot Affirmation fromthe Light Seers Deck:

“I manifest the life Idesire through energy

and intention.”

QMy daughter works in the US and wants to con-tinue there for some more years. Kindly let me

know when she will get married.

—V. J. Jeeva Raj Dear Jeeva Raj, The cards suggest that your daughter will get mar-ried soon. It might be a love marriage, based on love,trust and understanding.

QI used to live and work in Melbourne but hadto come back to India last year owing to visa

issues. Now, I am eligible for a PermanentResidency (PR) visa. I would like to know when Ishall get the visa and live and work overseasagain.

—VasishtDear Vasisht, The cards indicate the beginning of a new cycle inyour life. You shall get your PR and live and workoverseas within twenty-one months.

2Saturday 11 July 2020

Deccan Chronicletarot speak

CHOOSING YOUR BATTLES

Afew days ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Lehand addressed the jawans. “The age of expansionism isover… History is witness that expansionist forces have

either lost or were forced to turn back,” he said during hisspeech. This made me ponder upon the concept of expan-sionism. Merriam Webster defines expansionism as “a policyor practice of expansion and especially of territorial expan-sion by a nation”. As per numerology, however, the concept ofexpansionism corresponds to the number 5, which signifiesadventure, change, emancipation, exploration and expansion.It is the number of the querent, the experienced, the knowl-edge seeker, the knowledge teacher and the traveller.

In Tarot, the ‘Five of Swords’ is a complex card with numer-ous interpretations and meanings to it. It depicts a sly-lookingman picking up three swords from the ground. He is seenlooking over his shoulder at two men who are seen walkingaway. Two more swords lie strewn on the ground, suggestingthat a battle may have been fought and probably won by theman picking up the swords. One might wonder if this conflictresulted in a loss for the winner, too — say, a loss of friendshipor diplomatic relationship. The winner took a stand, but it onlyresulted in a gaping chasm between him and his opponents.

Here’s wishing that you understand sometimes when tofight, and when not to fight.

By MAANYA KOHLI

YOU ASK WE ANSWER

TAROT TIP He will win who knows when to fight and when not tofight. — Sun Tzu

If you have a question, Maanya Kohli has an answer. Send us your fullname, date of birth and question at askmaanya@deccanmail.com andMaanya will answer your question in this column

This week, you’llwaste time fight-

ing the inevitablechange awaitingyou. While youmight not fullyunderstand rightnow, remember it isdarkest before dawn,

and that this period shall soon end, bringing with it thedawn of increased awareness and understanding. Forthose in a relationship, the cards signify a turningpoint. The relationship could go either way — you couldrekindle the love, or it may have finally end. Be ready tostart over, with a different kind of energy. Maybe it’stime to shift to a more emotional way of looking at theworld.Lucky Number: 10 I Lucky Colour: Bronze

LIBRASEP 24 TO OCT 23

Tarot Affirmation fromthe Light Seers Deck:

“I am healing everyday.”

BVS PRAKASH

Visual effects (VFX) stu-dios facilitate the creationof fantastical backdrops in

all kinds of films — epics, fantasyor action movies. Some examplesof Telugu films which reliedheavily on visual effects are SyeRaa Narasimha Reddy, SarileruNeekevaru, Ala Vaikuntapu-ramloo and Mahanati, apart fromupcoming films such as thethriller Nishabdham.

The trend of using the servicesof VFX studios is increasing, andthe restrictions on film shootingnecessitated by the COVID-19 pan-demic has only increased produc-ers’ reliance on these facilities.As a result, VFX studios are mint-ing money.

FILMMAKERS GRIPE!

Director Teja feels an over-dependence on VFX is leading toa hike in film budgets. He says, “Ifa director wants 15 minutes ofVFX in his film, the producer con-cerned has to sell his house to payfor it.” Elaborating, he says, “VFXstudios charge anywhere between`800 and `1,200 per frame, andgiven that 24 frames make onesecond of a feature film, one canonly imagine the added costs ifthe VFX runs into minutes andhours.”

The new shooting guidelinesissued by the Governmentin the context of thepandemic have addedto the filmmakers’woes. Films nowhave to be shot withjunior artistes anddancers in masks.“That means VFXstudios will pocketmore money toremove the masks digi-tally,” points out Teja.

While producer Anil Sunkaraadmits that VFX experts havehelped cut down reshoots andmade filmmaking easier, hebelieves that budget allocationsfor VFX work have risen exponen-tially in recent times. “Costs goup to anywhere between `1 croreand `4 crore for a star-centric filmwhile it could be `40 lakh for asmall movie,” explains Anil. “So,for the moment, VFX is affordableonly to big producers. On the flipside, VFX allows digital cleaningthat would have previously need-ed expensive retakes and helps inthe re-creation of locations,which cuts down traveling to ‘vir-gin’ locales,” he points out.

Visual wonders such asBaahubali and 2.0 reportedly hadVFX budgets of around `20 croreto `40 crore.

A VFX STUDIO’S TAKE

Yugandar, an independent VFXsupervisor who has worked on100-odd Telugu movies includingSarileru Neekevvaru and AlaVaikuntapuramloo, however, doesnot agree that VFX budgets nor-mally amount to such astronomi-cal figures. “The budget for visualeffects in Telugu movies is a mea-gre two to three per cent for a`100-crore Telugu movie, whereasin Hollywood, the allocation isbetween 15 and 20 percent,” he

explains. “Moreover, Baahubaliand 2.0 are exceptions and visualeffects usually work within stipu-lated budgets.”

In fact, Yugandar believes visualeffects have actually cut down thebudgets of movies. “We can cre-ate gigantic sets and place actorsagainst eye-pleasing and breath-taking foreign locales at just 20%of the money which would other-wise have been spent on travel,boarding and other costs,” hepoints out.

“Earlier, some VFX studios usedpirated software, but now originalsoftware is used, and this costsmore than the manpower,” hesays, rationalising the high costs.

He also says local VFX studiosare having trouble due to compe-tition from Bollywood andHollywood studios. “WithHollywood studios attracting thebest brains in our field, we have topay extra to hire them, invariablyadding to producer’s cost,” hesays.

“Honestly, VFX studios aregoing through tough times. Forinstance, even a one-month down-time period could suck up profitsmade during the rest of the yearbecause of high maintenance costand hefty salaries for workforce,”he says, adding that even theHollywood-based special effectsstudio Technicolor has filed forbankruptcy.

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Costs go up to anywhere between Rs 1 crore and Rs 4crore for a big film with big stars in it, while it could

be Rs 30 lakh to 40 lakh for a small movie. So, for themoment, VFX is affordable only to big producers.However, VFX allows digital cleaning that wouldhave previously needed expensive retakes andhelps in the re-creation of locations, which cuts out

the travelling to a foreign ‘virgin’ locale.”

— Anil Sunkara, producer

Profitable timesfor VFX studios An increasing number of dream merchants have been seeking thesupport of visual effects experts (VFX) to create breath-takingbackdrops and lavish sets. But this also means film producers have todig deep into their pockets to pay for the special effects

Anushka Shetty and Madhavan from Nishabdam Chiranjeevi from the film, Sye Raa

Fans cry foul,say posterlacks novelty

The first look ofPrabhas’ filmRadhe Shyam,directed byRadhakrishna, isa patchwork ofolder films!

Film lovers have beencomplaining that the

first look of RadheShyam, starring Prabhasand Pooja Hegde, ismerely a culmination ofseveral posters of earlierfilms.

The first look poster ofthe period romanticdrama was released onFriday. However, no soon-er was it out, then neti-zens began pointing outthat it lacked novelty.

Film lovers and netizensare saying that the posterof the Radhakrishnadirectorial is an amalga-mation of several postersof earlier films. They haveexpressed disappoint-ment over the first look,especially given the factthat the film has been inthe making for over one-and-a-half years.

The poster closelyresembles those of filmslike Kanche, Ram Leela, I,etc.

A poster from Ram Leela

A poster from the film, Kanche

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COMMERCIAL

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DOUBLE BEDROOM

INDEPENDENT HOUSE

THREE & MORE

INDUSTRIAL SHEDS

LAND

PLOTS

FURNITURE

COMMERCIAL

RENTALS

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INDEPENDENT HOUSE

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INDUSTRIAL SHEDS

ACCOUNTS & FINANCE

SITUATION VACANT

ADVT. SALES & MKTG.

CALL CENTRE

DRIVERS

MEDICAL

OTHER VACANCIES

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UNIVERSITY ENROLLED:Studying business managementat University of Leeds.

ANNUAL TUITION FEES:19,750 pounds; new fee not yetrevealed.

PARENTAL VIEW: Sabina: Fee remaining same isnot fair as the last semester wasalso online after the lockdownand we were not given any reim-bursement for tuition but onlyfor accommodation. We stillhaven’t yet been given the feesstructure for the coming year sohave not addressed the issuewith the university.

FINAL DECISION:

Sabina: My husband and I strong-ly feel that living in a foreigncountry while studying is animportant part of his educationand if his was a complete onlinecourse we would have preferredthat he wait a year.

Karthik: Since my university isre-opening with partly onlineand partly on campus, I havetaken a call to go back as livingon campus is part of the experi-ence.

Shalini Manglani, nutrition advisorDaughter: Gehna Manglani (21 years)

Sabina Chellani, homemaker

Son: Karthik Chellani (19 years)

LIPIKA VARMA

KTina, with rising star DishaPatani in the lead, is creating a

buzz. The Balaji Productions andAlt Entertainment film has justcompleted five days of shooting in aplush location in Chandigarh. Wetalk to writer/director RaajShaandilyaa, about how he plans totake the film forward.

We start with the title. “WhyKTina?” we ask. The answer is sim-ple — “K isliye lagya taaki jo bhiproblem is film se juda hoga, khudsolve ho jayega.” (Whatever prob-lem this film may have attractedwill resolve itself by adding K.) “Sowe decided to add the alphabetbefore Tina.” The film is about agirl from Chandigarh, and it’s awoman-centric story. It’s about a

superstitious girl. But Raaj tookcare to imply that it’s not about anyactual person. “If our female leadwears many rings on every finger,does it mean the story is based onEkta Kapoor?” he asked. “If we seesomeone wearing multiple chains,will he become Bappi Lahiri?” As tofuture schedules, Raaj says “Most ofour shooting has to be completed inChandigarh. We have merely done afive-day schedule with the femalelead actor Disha Patni.” He addsthat, “Since Disha Patni is alsodoing Radhe: Most Wanted Bhai, wewill have to plan all her datesaccordingly.” The Ekta Kapoor filmwas announced in October 2019,and was slated to release in 2020.But of course, in the wake ofCOVID-19, we have to wait to seehow this plays out.

All about KTinaDisha Patani will star in a woman-centric film

Grapplingwith fees andgap years

UNIVERSITY ENROLLED:Gehna is a final year design andmanagement student at The NewSchool-Parsons — New York.

UNIVERSITY ENROLLEDAs per online sources it is $46,960 per head per year.

Gehna: Our last semester (Januaryto May) shifted to an asynchronousmodel about halfway through andthe fees remained the samethroughout. The college hasn’t saidanything about the fees for thisupcoming semester.

PARENTAL VIEW

Shalini: I think the decision is fair,because the work load on the teach-ers is the same, if not more.Gehna: I’ve heard so much abouteducation abroad being an ‘invest-ment’ and I feel a large part of thisis the learning and application thathappens outside of the classroom,in whatever form they may be. Nothaving that immediately reducesthe value of this entire collegeexperience, and paying the fees foran online experience is something Ican’t seem to justify

FINAL DECISION:

Shalini: I have left it to Gehna todecide. I would like her to do onlineclasses but if the load is too much,given that she is working now or ifshe finds that she is unable toengage with online learning — I amalright if she takes a gap year.Gehna: I’m glad my parents left thedecision to me, as I felt these pastfew months allowed for me to expe-rience both in-person as well asonline classes and the differencewas beyond evident.

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scrabble brand | G2 R1 As Ms S1

DIRECTIONS: Make a 2 to 7-letter word fromthe letters in each row. Add points of eachword, using scoring directions at right. 7-letter words get 50-point bonus. “Blanks”used as any letter have no point value. AllJudd’s words are in the Official ScrabblePlayers Dictionary (Merriam-Webster) andOSW Official Scrabble words (Chambers).JUDD’S Solution Tomorrow

TODAY’S RATINGS: 53 AVERAGE; 57 GOOD; 63 OUTSTANDING

Word Mine

How many words of four or more letterscan you make from the letters shown intoday’s puzzle? In making a word, each

letter may be used once only. Each wordmust contain the letter at the top of thepyramid. There should be at least one

nine letter word. Plurals, foreign wordsand proper names are not allowed.

IR P H

S E T A T

ANSWERS:apish, arise, artist, aspire, astir, atheist, attire, esprit, hair, harpist,hastier, heir, heist, hipster, hire, hitter, irate, pair, parish, pastier, perish, pettish,pier, pirate, pith, praise, priest, raise, rapist, reship, ripe, ripest, rise, rite, satire,sepia, ship, shire, shirt, sire, sitar, site, sitter, spire, spit, spite, sprite, stair, stir,strait, strip, stripe, tapir, tastier, their, THERAPIST, thirst, tier, tipster, tire, tithe,trait, trip, tripe, trite

WHAT TO DO

Fill in the gridso that every

row, everycolumn, and

every 3x3 boxcontains thedigits 1 to 9.Every puzzlehas only one

correctsolution.

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

SU◆DO◆KU

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

SU◆DO◆KU 2

Did you think the

SU◆DO◆KUon the left was easy?

Try this. Check the solution tomorrow.

Tips available at www.sudoku-xls.com

DC-AGE SU DO KUFORUM: Discuss theSU DO KU puzzlesprinted and con-

tribute mind teasersof your own at

www.sudexel.com/forum

Taurus: You’ll be more affectionatetowards your life partner. You cando anything you want but you’llworry about your children. You feel

responsibilities are increasing these days.

Gemini: Beware of strangers; avoidover indulgence with anyone. Heldup projects will be completed,bringing you mental peace. You

will find success in every endeavour.

Leo: Work on yourself and sharpenyour skills; be the best. Focus onyour career. You’ll accomplish rou-tine works daily. Those in enter-

tainment will find exciting deals.

Virgo: Avoid entering big deals.Old stressful situations ease outand life brightens. Make yourpresence felt about things you’ve

kept on hold for long. Financially, it’s a goodday; some of you may sign new deals.

Cancer: Avoid relying on anyone;close ones may turn into hiddenenemies. Expect benefits and suc-cess from past work. Strengthen

your financial base.

Capricorn: Expect a short trip torejuvenate yourself — a time outfrom your daily chores. Youdeserve this little break. Children

will need attention.

Aquarius: Planning done nowmay be fruitful. Expect successat work. Your over-possessive-ness and clinginess could cause

a fall out with your latest love interest.

Pisces: Those in media and pub-lishing will experience a high intheir careers. You may becomemore self-dependent. Don’t push

yourself more than necessary physicallyand/or mentally. Try to balance both yourpersonal and professional life.

Scorpio: Avoid investing in specula-tive ventures. Students performwell and may get good projects.You’ll get your act together; every-

thing else will work out.

Libra: The self-employed will makelots of money. Your family mem-bers won’t be able to appropriatelysupport you. Gossip could spoil

your chances of success at work. Try to stayaway from negativity.

Sagittarius: Personal relationshipsyou’ve long taken for granted maysour. You may feel depressed andlonely; seek the company of good

friends. Colleagues might betray you.

Aries: Friends and colleagues willsupport you in every field. Yournear ones will help you completelong-pending projects. Your repu-

tation gets a boost in society.

Your day today

By Dr C.V.B. Subrahmanyam

Amitav Ghosh, an Indianwriter and the winner ofthe 54th Jnanpith award.He is best known for his

works The Circle ofReason, The Shadow

Lines, The Glass Palace,The Hungry Tide, Sea ofPoppies, River of Smoke

and Flood of Fire amongstothers.

You share your b’day with

My vote for the mostnaturally talentedplayer ever would

go to John Collings, withwhom I played when I wasin my early 20s. He was aLondoner who alwaysseemed to know who hadwhat on every deal.

I called him the BobbyFischer of bridge. Becausehe had a broad undisci-plined streak, he did not doas well as he should have.He also had a hereditaryheart condition that didnot help. But he played arole in many deals thatdelighted columnists.

When Collings died atage 71 in 2005, I wrote up afew of my favorites. Butrecently Tom Townsendunearthed another withthe assistance of DavidCarlisle -- see today's deal.

Playing for money,Collings was sitting West,and South was Irving Rose,

another imaginative play-er who died too young (age58).

Collings was not contentwith overcalling five dia-monds. He tried to murkythe waters with one no-trump. North had beenthere before, so he raisedto four spades and compet-ed with five spades whenCollings showed his longsuit.

What did Collings leadagainst five spades?

Hoping to get a club ruffor two, he chose the dia-mond three! Then East wasallowed to take the trickwith his 10. Rose was notpaying attention!

East got the message andshifted to a club. But nowCollings was sure that hispartner had the diamondjack. So, after ruffing theclub, he led the diamondfour! Rose had to win the

trick with his jack, and heclaimed the remainder.West went ballistic, andSouth couldn't stop laugh-ing!

Copyright United FeatureSyndicate Asia Features)

bridge

PHILLIP ALDER

ANOTHER DEAL FROM A GENIUS

Across1.Eaten snail (8)6. Heal (4)7. Looking at (6)9. Dwelling (5)

11.Maltreat (5)12.Cunning (5)13.Happen again (5)16.Ill-fated (6)18.Formal dance (4)19.Scholastic life (8)

Down1. Swapped (9)2. Freight (5)

3. Delight (4)4. Quiver slightly (7)5. Devotee (3)8. Underground fighter

(9)10.Quandary (7)14.Ravine (5)15.Conception (4)17.Night bird (3)

QUICK CROSSWORD

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

Across: 6. Cappuccino, 8. Files, 10.Shoji, 13. Impartially, 14. Anger, 17.Stain, 19. Invigorate.

Down: 1. Tail, 2. Opus, 3. Acts, 4. Filo,5. Notifying, 7. Affidavit, 9. Erase, 11.Heart, 12. Sty, 15. Give, 16.Rags, 17. Sire, 18. Alto.

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DC CORRESPONDENT

Three monthsafter Thomas

Markle, the estrangedfather of MeghanMarkle, the Duchessof Sussex, wasunable to walk herdown the aislebecause of a heart

attack, the Duchesshad apparently sent him

a handwritten letter.However, the letter found its way intothe hands of the publishers at theMail of Sunday, which was then pub-lished.

Meghna has sued the publisher,Associated Newspapers, for privacybreach. According to a report inThe Sun, the publisher, in turn,alleged that Thomas Markle want-ed its content published to correct

the impressions her five friends hadgiven about its contents in their inter-views.

Under these circumstances in whichher friends might be named, theDuchess further hit out at the publisherfor considering to publicise their names.

While there is much speculation as towho the five friends may be, Meghansubmitted a statement, saying, “Thesefive women are not on trial, and nor amI. The publisher of the Mail on Sundayis the one on trial. It is this publisherthat acted unlawfully and is attemptingto evade accountability; to create a cir-cus and distract from the point of thiscase — that the Mail on Sunday unlaw-fully published my private letter. Each ofthese women is a private citizen, youngmother, and each has a basic right to pri-vacy.”

Meghan and her husband PrinceHarry now live in the US after quittingthe Royal Family earlier this year.

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DC CORRESPONDENT

Kangana Ranaut has been enjoying quarantiningwith her family in Manali. And now, the actress

has received an adorable present from one of herfans, who moulded her Manikarnika: The Queen ofJhansi avatar into dolls. The actress, who is elatedwith the sweet gesture, calls it a way for the new gen-eration kids to learn about history and bravery.

Kangana’s team took to social media to share aglimpse of the doll in Manikarnika look alongsideher own picture in the same look. “#ManikarnikaDolls are the new favourite for children. It’s nicewhen kids will learn about our heroes growing upand get inspired with patriotism and bravery (sic),”the Queen actress’ team captioned the picture onTwitter.

Kangana turnsinto a doll

DC CORRESPONDENT

The fans of Avenger starChris Evans and British

actress Lily James arerejoicing, as the stars havenow found love in each other.The it couple was recentlyspotted having an ice-creamdate in a park.

In the pictures clicked bypaparazzi, the CaptainAmerica star and theMamma Mia! actress wereseen laughing together andwere lying next to each in

the grass. The couple, whoare currently in London,were casually dressed for thebright sunny day. Later,Chris even hailed a cab,and opened the gates forLily.

It can be recalled thatLily was previouslyin a long-term rela-tionship with theCrown actor MattSmith. Theirbusy schedulethrew awrench.

These five women are not on trial, and nor am I. The publisher ofthe Mail on Sunday is the one on trial. It is this publisher that

acted unlawfully and is attempting to evade accountability; to create acircus and distract from the point of this case — that the Mail onSunday unlawfully published my private letter. Each of these womenis a private citizen, young mother, and each has a basic right toprivacy.” — Meghan Markle’s statement

Karan trolled againThe producer was crticised for having a

good time at Neetu Kapoor’s birthdayDC CORRESPONDENT

The demise of SushantSingh Rajput was theonset of a larger debate

in the film industry. While theactor’s tryst with depressionseems to have played a role inhis death, his fans named andshamed the who’s who of thefilm industry for exercisingnepotism, making it difficultfor the outsiders to sur-vive.

One among themwas Karan Joharwho has been facingthe ire of netizensfor some time now.He has been at thereceiving end of a lotof hate on socialmedia. Reportedly,Karan was heartbrokenwith the massive criti-cism, including deaththreats for his twins,and has been cry-ing constant-ly. Whilethe criti-cism wasnowheren e a rd y i n gdown, his

presence at Neetu Kapoor’sbirthday party has given birthto fresh ones.

His picture, in which he issmiling at the veteran actor’sbirthday party, has irked neti-zens. “#KaranJohar is so sadthat he is doing party at theKapoor’s on Neetu Singh’sbirthday! News is around thathe is broken, etc... etc.... ! Liars

, Hypocrite, killer!!!! (sic),”wrote one user. While

another user raisedquestions, saying, “IsKaran Johar really inbad situation so howcan he attend the lastnight party atNeetu's house? Howdumb #KaranJohar

#SCOrderforsushant# c b i f o r s u s h a n t

# C B I F o rSushantSinghRajput(sic).”

Meghan fights for her friends

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