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RESHUFFLE TODAY OFFICIALS START DRAFTING NOTE FOR CABINET BOMBAY HIGH COURT ORDER

Balancing act in
Rajasthan: 5 Pilot Workbeginstorepealfarmlaws, In Aryan bail, HC
rebuts NCB: hardly
loyalists set to join unionspressotherdemands any evidence to
Gehlot Cabinet SKM says MSP guarantee issue still pending, asks farmers to continue protests
show conspiracy
Emphasis on SC, ST; no Independents, HARIKISHAN SHARMA Nothing objectionable in WhatsApp
& AMIL BHATNAGAR
BSP MLA who joined Cong finds place NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 20 chats, says single-judge bench
A DAY after Prime Minister
HAMZA KHAN Narendra Modi announced that SADAF MODAK WHAT COURT SAID
& MANOJ C G the three new agriculture laws MUMBAI, NOVEMBER 20 NARCOTICS CONTROL
JAIPUR, NEW DELHI, NOV 20 will be repealed, the Samyukta
BOARD: Conspiracy so
Kisan Morcha, the body spear- INITSdetailedordergrantingbail
all drug recoveries in the
FOR THE first time since it took heading the farmer protest, said toAryanKhan,sonof Bollywood
case, including
charge in 2018 and about 16 it will continue the agitation to actor Shah Rukh Khan; Arbaaz
commercial quantity,
months after a rebellion led by get “all demands” fulfilled. Merchant; and model Munmun
linked to all accused
then Deputy Chief Minister The SKM called a meeting Dhamecha, the Bombay High
BOMBAY HIGH COURT:
Sachin Pilot pushed it to the even as officials of the Ministry Court has said that there was
Hardly any evidence
brink, the Ashok Gehlot-led of Agriculture and Farmers’ “hardlyanypositiveevidence”to
that accused had
Rajasthan state governmentwill Welfare and the Ministry of showconspiracybetweentheac-
common intention to
see a Cabinet reshuffle. CM Ashok Gehlot, Governor Consumer Affairs, Food and cusedasallegedbytheNarcotics
commit unlawful act.
Theimperativeis morepolit- Kalraj Mishra at Jaipur Raj Public Distribution began the Control Bureau (NCB).

E
ical than governance. The new Bhavan on Saturday. ANI process of drafting the repeal The court also said that NCB: Aryan Khan,
Cabinet, finalised by the Bills which are expected to get
SUNDAY STORY "nothing objectionable" wasno- Arbaaz Merchant and
E X P L AI N E D

Congress high command, will Cabinet nod early next week. Women protesters in ticed in the WhatsApp chats al- Munmun Dhamecha
have five ministers who are seen Conghigh The SKM appealed to farm- Duggan, Sangrur, head legedly recovered from Aryan's were to travel on the
as supporters of Pilot. command ers to gather in large numbers at POSTCARDS FROM A for a meeting at the phone to suggest that there was cruise together, hence
While Pilot loyalists Ramesh asserts protest sites on November 26, village gurdwara on a conspiracy. were linked
Meena and Vishwendra Singh
●
exactly a year after they first PROTEST PAGE 11 Saturday. Gurmeet Singh The single bench of Justice HC: Travelling together
will return to the Ministry, AFTER PUNJAB, the expan- showed up at Delhi’s border in NitinSambrehadgranted bailto by itself not conspiracy
Brijendra Singh Ola, Hemaram sion of the Gehlot cabinet Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur to the three on October 28. They
NCB: Accused admitted
ChoudharyandMurarilalMeena signals an assertive lodge their protest. were arrested on October 2 after
will make an entry. Murarilal
Meena will be inducted as a
Congress high command.
By forcing Gehlot to induct
It said a kisan mahapan-
chayat, scheduled forNovember Govt stand positive but big araidonacruisebytheNCB.The
14-page order was made avail-
to consumption of drugs
HC: Not admissible; no
medical exam done
minister of state while the other
four will be Cabinet ministers.
Pilot, who had the support of
five loyalists of rival Sachin
Pilot, it has tried to paper
over the cracks.
22 in Lucknow, will go ahead as
planned.
“The Kisan Andolan led by
question on MSP: Tikait able Saturday.
"There is hardly any positive
evidence on record to convince
NCB: WhatsApp chats
show Aryan's links with
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Samyukt Kisan Morcha contin- moving in the right direction, this Court that all the accused trafficking
ues the struggle to get all de- SANDEEP SINGH saidRakeshTikait, farmerleader personswithcommonintention HC: Nothing
mands of protestingfarmersful- Tikait at Ghazipur border NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 20 and national spokesperson of agreed to commit unlawful act. objectionable in chats
For fifth year, THE WORLD filled. While the PM announced
repeal of the three farm laws, he
Saturday. Gajendra Yadav
THE PRIME Minister’s an-
Bhartiya Kisan Union.
However, he made it clear,
Rather the investigation carried
out till this date suggests that
Indore ranked EUROPE AGAIN COVID chose to remain silent on other
demands. Demand for statutory VARUN WRITES TO
nouncementthatthethree farm
laws would be repealed came as
speaking to The Sunday Express,
thatfarmerswould notleavethe
Applicant/Accused nos. 1 & 2
(Aryan and Merchant respec-
(Dhamecha) and there was no
meeting of minds on the afore-
EPICENTRE, NEW PM: COULD HAVE
cleanest city; CURBS TRIGGER
guarantee for a fair MSP is an
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 SAVED LIVES PAGE 6
a “surprise” and it’s a “positive”
sign that the Government is
protest site until the laws are
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
tively)weretravellingindepend-
ent of Applicant/Accused no. 3
said issue," the court said.
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
RESISTANCE PAGE 14
Chhattisgarh
cleanest state
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At Kartarpur border, Sidhu calls
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 20

INDOREHASbeenrankedIndia’s
Imran ‘bada bhai’, draws BJP fire
cleanest city for the fifth yearin a
rowbySwachhSurvekshan2021, MAN AMAN SINGH CHHINA
the central government’s annual KARTARPUR SAHIB
cleanliness survey to promote (PAKISTAN), NOVEMBER 20
sanitationinurbancentresunder
the Swachh Bharat Mission. PUNJAB CONGRESS president
Surat and Vijaywada were Navjot Singh Sidhu was at the
ranked second and third clean- centre of a new row Saturday af-
est respectively in the category ter he called Pakistan Prime
of cities with over 10 lakh popu- Minister Imran Khan his “bada
lation. bhai” (elder brother) who had Navjot Singh Sidhu at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, Kartarpur. PTI
Amongthesmallercitieswith showered him “a lot of love”.
population between 1-10 lakh, Sidhu made this remark
New Delhi ranked first, followed Saturday morning while being crossing. He visited the minister Pargat Singh, Revenue
by Ambikapur in Chhattisgarh greeted by a Pakistani official at GurdwaraatKartarpurSahib,ac- Minister Aruna Chaudhary,
and Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh. the Kartarpur Corridor border companied by Punjab Sports CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
Varanasi was ranked the
cleanest in the “Ganga town”
category, followed by Munger
and Patna. Hockey diplomacy after 7 yrs: Pak
junior team arrives for World Cup
Among the states with over
100 urban local bodies,
Chattisgarh was ranked on top
for the third consecutive year,
followed by Maharashtra and SHUBHAJIT ROY &
Madhya Pradesh; Bihar, Tamil MIHIR VASAVDA
Nadu and Rajasthan were NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 20
ranked last.
Among the states with less INDIA AND Pakistan have
than 100 urban local bodies, stepped up people-to-people
Jharkhand, Haryana and Goa engagement — from reopening
were ranked on top while the Kartarpur corridor earlier
Meghalaya, Kerala and Tripura this week to restarting hockey
were ranked last. diplomacy after seven years.
Ahmedabad Cantonment For the first time since 2014,
was adjudged “cleanest canton- thePakistanmen’sjuniorhockey The team at the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi on
ment”, followed by Meerut team reached Delhi on Saturday Saturday. Photo courtesy: Pakistan High Commission
Cantonment and Delhi to participate in the Junior
Cantonment. Hockey World Cup. The World
Presenting the awards on Cup is being held in The last time a Pakistan Bhubaneswar in 2014. That was
Saturday, President Ram Nath Bhubaneswar from November hockeyteamwasinIndiawasfor the year when Prime Minister
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 24 to December 5. the Champions Trophy in CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

Bengaluru hacker broke into state’s

e-procurement site and ‘stole’ funds
PAGE 1 weeks, has revealed data of a enclosed as a report in a
ANCHOR hack carried out at the e-pro- chargesheetfiledinthecybercase.
curement cell of the state gov- Accordingtothecyberforen-
ernmentwhereRs11.5crorewas sics report, one hard disk
stolen by a hacker gang in 2019. “marked 01” recovered from a
JOHNSON TA The analysis of these hard MacbookbelongingtoSrikrishna
BENGALURU, NOVEMBER 20 disks from laptops seized from contains “hacking data'' for the
the hacker and an associate allegedhackingof theeproc.kar-
ONE OF six hard disks recovered Robin Khandelwal, following nataka.gov site of the e-gover-
from laptops belonging to their arrest in Bengaluru in Srikrishna Ramesh alias Sriki nance cell of the Karnataka gov-
hacker Srikrishna Ramesh alias November2020,wascarriedout ernment and other sites.
Sriki, 26, who is at the centre of by private cyber forensics firm The report has cited a text
an alleged Bitcoin-for-bribes Group Cyber ID Technology Pvt bercrimepoliceinacaseof hack- file, created in 2018, that con-
controversy that has hit Ltd earlier this year at the in- ing of two poker gaming sites. firms the hacking of the
Karnataka politics in recent stance of the Bengaluru city cy- The details of the analysis are CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

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Gehlot Cabinet Earlier, at a meeting of the money deposits from the e-pro- material to infer that the three

18MLAswhenherebelled,issaid
tobesatisfiedwiththerepresen-
tation.
Council of Ministers called at the
Chief Minister’s residence, all
ministerstenderedtheirresigna-
tion to party chief Sonia Gandhi.
Work begins to repeal farm laws curement cell and that officials
were able to stop the theft of Rs
7.37 crore.
Srikrishna and his associates
hatched a conspiracy to commit
offence or that there was any
meeting of minds with other ac-
cused arrested in the case.
In total, 15 ministers will take In the meeting, also attended by integral part of the current agi- The martyrs also deserve hom- (PromotionandFacilitation)Act, sumedworkSaturday. areaccusedinthee-procurement It has also said that it is diffi-
oath Sunday: 12 new and three AICC in charge of Rajasthan Ajay tation. We are also seeking the age to be paid to them in the 2020; Farmers (Empowerment The teams are working in cellhackingcaseandseveralother culttoinferatthisstagethatappli-
Ministers of State who are being Maken, Congress state president withdrawal of the Electricity Parliament session, and a me- and Protection) Agreement on Krishi Bhawan, which houses incidents of hacking Bitcoin ex- cantsareinvolvedinanoffenceof
elevated to Cabinet rank. Govind Singh Dotasra tabled a AmendmentBillcompletelyand morialerectedintheirname,"it Price Assurance and Farm thetwoministries,sourcessaid, changes and poker gaming sites. commercialquantity."ThisCourt
Besides accommodating proposal for the reshuffle. to keep farmers out of penal stated. At the Singhu border ServicesAct,2020;andEssential adding that the draft Cabinet Since his arrest in November isoftheopinionthattheclaimput
some Pilot loyalists as part of the The ministers have been clausesrelatedtostatutesonair protest site, Saturday was far Commodities (Amendment) notestorepealthefarmlawsare 2020, initially in a case of buying forth by the Respondent that
peace formula, the reshuffle called to the Pradesh Congress quality regulation in Delhi," the moremutedthanthedayearlier. Act, 2020 – will be completed likelytobereadyMonday. drugs with Bitcoins, Srikrishna Applicants should be considered
clearlyiswithaneyeonAssembly Committeeofficeat2pmSunday, SKMsaidinastatement. A prayer ceremony was held at thiswintersessionofParliament. Once the Law Ministry does hasclaimedthatheandhisasso- tohaveintentiontocommitanof-
elections just two years away. from where they will go to Raj FromNovember29onward, the main stage, attended by While the first two laws the legal vetting, the draft Bills, ciates were trying to steal Rs 46 fenceundertheNDPSAct,having
Thereisanattempttosendames- Bhawanfortheoath-takingcere- the SKM said it will send 500 nearly100people.Protestersin- come under the administrative sources said, will be sent to the crorefromthee-procurementcell found in possession of commer-
sage to the Scheduled Caste and mony. protesters each day towards sistedmorepeopleareexpected control of the Agriculture Cabinetwhichisexpectedtodis- – in three tranches — but man- cial quantity, in the backdrop of
ScheduledTribecommunitiesas Sourcessaidthat,additionally, Parliamentintractorstoprotest toarriveinthecomingweek. Ministry, the third is under the cussthemandgrantitsapproval aged to get only Rs 11.5 crore be- case of hatching conspiracy is li-
well. seven MLAs may be inducted as duringthewintersession.Itde- Lakha Sidhana, whose al- jurisdiction of the Department earlynextweek.“Assoonaspos- foreofficialsgotwindofthecrime. abletoberejected,"thecourtsaid.
All three Ministers of State AdvisorstotheCMand15others manded that a memorial be leged role in the January 26 Red ofConsumerAffairs.Sourcessaid sible,itwillcometotheCabinet,” Police said the hacker and his Last month, initsremand ap-
whoarebeingelevatedbelongto will be made Parliamentary built in memory of protesters Fort violence is being probed, officials in the two ministries asourcesaid.WhilearepealBill associatessetupanelaboratesys- plications submitted before
ScheduledCastecommunities:T Secretaries. “The MLAs left after whodiedduringthepastyear. alsovisitedtheprotestsitetoin- started working on drafting the usually has only three sections, tem of routing the stolen money courts to seek custody of Aryan
BhajanlalJathav,MamtaBhupesh these assignments will be ad- “So far, more than 670 pro- teractwithfarmers. repeal Billssoon after the Prime it is the Cabinet note which back through hawala channels -- and others, the NCB had referred
and Tikaram Jully. justed in Boards and testershavesacrificedtheirlives OnFriday,thePrimeMinister Ministerannouncedhisdecision needstobeexhaustive.Besides, after it was initially moved from tothetotalquantityof recoveries
There will be three ministers Corporations,” sources said. in this movement. The Modi said the process to repeal the in his address to the nation. The severalformalitiesandapprovals the e-procurement cell to an madeinthecaseclaimingthatthe
from the Scheduled Tribe com- Gehlot met Governor Kalraj government has refused to ac- three laws -- the Farmers’ officials, sources said, worked arerequiredtocompletetheleg- NGO's account in Nagpur in charge of conspiracy linked each
munity–formerMPGovindRam MishralateSaturdayandhanded knowledgethehighhumancost. Produce Trade and Commerce lateintothenightFridayandre- islativeprocess. Maharashtra and the account of accused, including those who
Meghwal and Ramesh Meena as him the resignations of three a private firm in Bulandshahr in werenotonthecruiseorthosear-
Cabinet ministers and Murarilal ministers who hold positions in Uttar Pradesh. rested subsequently with com-
Meena. theparty:HealthMinisterRaghu and Ramesh Meena was re- Chief Executive Officer of the mannerisms, so why should we on the Kartarpur corridor, which In a voluntary statement to mercial quantities.
Despite the Gehlot govern- Sharmawhoispartyinchargefor movedasFoodandCivilSupplies Project Management Unit of have to indulge in trade in a was reopened earlier this week. thepoliceafterhisarrestlastyear, TheNCBhadarguedthathigh
ment enjoying the support of 19 Gujarat;RevenueMinisterHarish Minister. Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, roundaboutmanner?Thereis37 But, the relationship remains Srikrishna admitted his involve- degreeofevidenceisnotrequired
Independents,theCongresslead- Chaudharywhoispartyincharge Earlier in the day, at a ‘Kisan Kartarpur, said he was welcom- billiondollarworthoftradewhich complex,asIslamabadisyettoal- ment in the hack: “In May/June at the bail stage to establish the
ershiphasdecidednottoinclude for Punjab and Education VijayDiwas’rallyinJaipur,Gehlot ing Sidhu on behalf of Prime canbedonebythetwocountries low the Indian government to 2019,Ihackedintothee-procure- case of conspiracy. The HC said
any.OneBSPMLAwhohadjoined Minister Dotasra who is party had claimed even he wasn’t Minister Imran Khan and the along with Central Asian re- send wheat to Afghanistan mentsiteoftheGovtofKarnataka that it is required to be sensitive
the Congress, Rajendrasingh state president. awareofhowthereshufflewould Pakistanination,Sidhusaid:“Iam publics. I want this to happen for through the land route crossing where I exploited a remote code to the fact that there has to be
Gudha, will find a place in the Including Chief Minister turnout:“Don’tknowwhatdeci- honoured. Mera bada bhai hai, the prosperity of the two coun- Pakistan. This, despite Pakistan execution vulnerability and got presence of basic material in the
Council as a minister of state. Gehlot,therecanbe30ministers sionswillbetaken.Onlythehigh Usne bada pyar diya hai (He is my triesandforthreecrorePunjabis,” PrimeMinisterImranKhanassur- access to the bidder information formofevidencesoastosubstan-
Sources said the party’s cen- inRajasthan.Therewerenineva- command knows or he (Ajay elderbrother.Hehasgivenalotof he said. ing the Taliban delegation last and downloaded all the files re- tiate the case of conspiracy.
tral leadership factored in the cancies earlier and following the Maken) knows. We are impa- love).” Speaking in Punjabi, the week that his government will lating to the bids happening at "MerelybecauseofApplicants
changed numerical situation as resignationofthethree,12minis- tiently waiting for the lottery to TheBJPslammedSidhuforhis Pakistani official said that re- “favourably consider” the pro- that moment.'' weretravellingonthecruise,that
also the factional equations. By terial slots were to be filled. open.” remark on Imran Khan. BJP na- opening of the corridor was a posal under exceptional circum- The analysis of the hard disk by itself cannot be termed as sat-
wresting a seat from the BJP and In January this year, the AICC Since Rajasthan’s electorate tional general secretary Tarun credit to the governments of the stancesforhumanitarianreasons. from Srikrishna's laptop has also isfying foundation for invoking
retaining the one it had in the re- haddoneabalancingactinitsap- hasbeentakingturnstoelectthe Chugh said “Sidhu is Congress’s two countries. “Tuhadey layi revealed hacking data for poker provisionsofSection29(conspir-
cent by-elections, the Congress pointmentstotheCongressstate BJPandthentheCongressforover agentforPakistan”.Inastatement, saaddeydarveekhullene,gharvee Swachh ranking sites PokerSaint, pppoker, Poker acy) against the Applicants," the
hascrossedthemajoritymarkon executive, where Pilot’s loyalists two decades, some within the Chughsaiditismostunfortunate khulle ne te dil vee khulle ne (For Kovind said: “This year's Swachh Baazi, for a Bitcoin exchange court said.
its own in the 200-member figured in appropriate numbers. Pilotfactionwanthimtobemade for Punjab and the country that you, our doors are open, homes Survekshan Awards have special called Koinex and several other On the NCB's claim of
Assembly.Thepartynowhas102 However, Gehlot seems to have the CM at least two years before Sidhu, while in Pakistan, has no are open and hearts are open significancebecausewearecele- sitesincludingfoodsupplyservice WhatsAppchatsallegedlyrecov-
MLAs. grown stronger since then. the polls – which is now – in a words of praise for his mother- too),” he said. brating 'Azadi Ka Amrit provider Zomato. ered from Aryan's phone, the
“Wearenolongerdependent Following the rebellion, the hope to break the cycle and help land,andisinsteadsingingpraise On his return to India, Sidhu Mahotsav'...Safaimitrasandsan- The cyber forensic experts court said that "nothing objec-
onIndependents.Thatiswhywe partyremovedPilotasdeputyCM re-elect the Congress in 2023. of the Pakistan Prime Minister dismissedthe uproaroverhis re- itation workers have continu- couldaccesstheharddiskofonly tionable"wasfoundtoprovecon-
have not included any and as the Panchayati Raj minis- who has been "sending drones marks on Imran Khan, saying ously rendered their services, two of six laptops seized from spiracy.
Independents,” a senior leader ter; his loyalist Vishvendra Singh and tiffin bombs" to Punjab. somepeoplewereconcentrating evenduringtheCovidpandemic.” SrikrishnaandhisassociateRobin "After having gone through
said. wasremovedasTourismMinister Tikait “Sidhu is more in love with on petty issues while there were He said environment conser- Khandelwal.Threelaptopscould the WhatsApp chats extracted
repealed in the upcoming PakistanthanIndiaandisbehav- bigger things to consider. vationhasbeenanintegralpartof notbeanalysedduetoencryption from Applicant/Accused no. 1’s
IT DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (ITDA) winter session of Parliament. inglikeaPakistanagentinPunjab India'straditionallifestyle.“Today, codesthatcouldnotbebypassed phone, nothing objectionable
Information & SicenceTechnology Department
He suggested that a legally here. AICC president Sonia the whole world is emphasising whileonewasdamaged,saysthe could be noticed to suggest that
ITDA
Government of Uttarakhand
IT Bhawan, Plot No. IT-07, IT Park, Sahastradhara Road, Dehradun
0135-2608330, diritda-uk@nic.in binding Minimum SupportPrice GandhiandRahulGandhishould Hockey on environment protection... fo- forensics report. Applicant nos. 1 & 2 or all three
e-Tender
Tender Notice No. 17/ITDA/efile no. 55/2021 dated 21/11/2021
would be the next issue for the explain their party's stand on Narendra Modi had reached out cus is on to reduce, reuse and re- Incidentally, the same cyber applicants along with other
Request for Proposal (RFP) for Authorized class “A” ISPs for farmers to press. Pakistan,”Chughsaid.Hesaiditis to all SAARC leaders, including cycle resources,” he said. forensics firm conducted an Accused persons in agreement
1Gbps (1:1) Redundant Internet Leased line with DDoS Protection
RFP (Request for Proposal) is being issued by ITDA, Department of IT, Uttarakhand, Dehradun for “Wearenotgoingbackbefore “grosslycondemnableandrepre- then Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif, “Today,themissionhastaken analysis of data held in a cloud have meeting of minds and have
Request for Proposal (RFP) for Authorized class “A” ISPs for 1Gbps (1:1) Redundant Internet Leased
line with DDoS Protection. we see the farm laws getting re- hensible” that on the one hand, for his swearing-in ceremony. the shape of a people’s move- server by the hacker and found hatched conspiracy committing
The RFP document can be downloaded from www.uktenders.gov.in from 20/11/2021 (17.30 Hrs). The
tender document fee of Rs. 1000/- (Rupees One Thousand Only) through demand draft (non-
refundable) favouring “Director, ITDA” payable at Dehradun should be submitted along with the Bid. The
pealedinParliamentandthenwe Pakistan has been “killing our Officials said the Pakistan ment, a true jan andolan. This is that Srikrishna had as many as theoffenceinquestion,"thecourt
parties willing to participate in the bidding will have to apply through the Electronic Tendering Procedure
(e-Tendering) as per the guidelines issued by Government of Uttarakhand available on the above
willstartourdiscussionsonMSP. jawans”ontheborder,andonthe players were not issued visas for also reflected in the massive 76.13 lakh public addresses/pri- said.
mentioned web site under the link “Bidders Manual Kit”.
The amendments in RFP in future, if any, would be published in the website www.uktenders.gov.in
The big question mark now is on otherhand,Congressleadershave the Junior Hockey World Cup in growth of the Swachh vatekeysforBitcoinsandasmany On the NCB's claim that the
only. No other notification would be published separately.
Director ITDA reserves the right to cancel the tender at any point of time, without assigning any reason
the MSP,” Tikait said. been singing praise of the 2016 – the year of the Pathankot Survekshan which began as a pi- as26e-wallets.Sourcessaidthese accused had admitted to con-
thereof.
DIRECTOR Asked if he had a sense of the Pakistan Prime Minister. (January 2016) and Uri lotin2016among73cities,andis could have been acquired by sumptionof drugs,thecourtsaid
rollback, Tikait said: “Since (InNewDelhi,BJPspokesper- (September2016)attacks,which the world’s largest urban cleanli- hacking or through data trading thatthecontentionthatthethree
January 22, we have had no dis- sonSambitPatraalsotargetedthe was followed by the surgical ness survey today,” said Union on the dark web as part of efforts accepted their involvement can-
cussion with the Government. Congress,allegingthatitseester- strikes (September 2016). Housing and Urban Affairs by hacker groups to steal cryp- notbeconsideredasitamounted

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EvenduringtheLakhimpurissue, ror groups like ISIS and Boko In 2019, Pakistan's shooting Minister Hardeep Singh Puri. He tocurrency. toconfessionalstatementswhich
wehaddiscussionsonlywiththe Haram in Hindutva while it finds teammissedtheDelhiWorldCup said the next few years will be Oneofthewalletsinthecloud are not admissible as evidence.
officials on that particular is- a "bhai jaan" in Khan.) for the same reason – they were dedicatedtofocusingon“holistic with 31 Bitcoins was initially Thecourtsaidthatevenif the
sue…PrimeMinister’sannounce- Sidhu and the Congress dele- not issued visas – which almost cleanliness–cleanair,cleanland, shownbythehackertothepolice allegationisconsidered,themax-
ment Friday morning came as a gation were showered with rose led to India's sporting isolation. and clean water”. as his own by providing only the imumpunishmentforconsump-
surprise, we had no prior knowl- petals,garlandedandescortedto This happened in the shadow of The survey’s findings were publicaddressandnottheprivate tion is not more than one year.
edge of it.” the Pakistan immigration check the Pulwama terror attack, in basedonassessmentsbyfieldof- key that is needed to access the "Applicants have already suf-
He expressed relief that the post where Sidhu was flooded whichatleast40securityperson- ficers and citizens’ feedback on Bitcoins in the wallet. fered incarceration for almost 25
deadlock had been broken and with requests for photographs nel were killed. garbagedisposal,opendefecation The ruling BJP in Karnataka days. The Applicants were not
that things have started “moving and selfies by Pakistan Rangers But,followingasternwarning free ratings, functionality and has been questioned in recent evensubjectedtomedicalexam-
in the right direction.” personnelandimmigrationstaff. by the International Olympic maintenance of community toi- weeksbytheoppositionCongress ination so as to determine
“The government has started Heobligedeachandeveryonebe- Committee,thegovernmentgave letsandsafemanagementof fae- overtheallegeddisappearanceof whetherattherelevanttime,they
movingonalineandthatisapos- fore proceeding to the Gurdwara a written assurance that cal sludge from the toilets. over 5000 Bitcoins reported to had consumed drugs" the court
itive sign for us,” he said, adding a few kilometres down the road. sportspersons from Pakistan Under the “Prerak Daaur have been in the possession of said. While the NCB had also re-
that more clarity of their line of In August 2018, Sidhu was wouldnotbestoppedfromcom- Samman”, a new performance Srikrishna (as claimed by the lied on confessional statements
action would emerge after the criticised by Captain Amarinder ing to India. category introduced under hacker himself) before his arrest given by the accused, the court
meeting of farm leaders later in Singh, then Chief Minister of This time, Pakistan was in- Swachh Survekshan 2021, five inNovember2020.TheCongress saidthatitcanalsobeconsidered
the day. Punjab,andtheBJPleadershipfor vited to compete as the Asian cities – Indore, Surat, Navi hassuggestedcorruptioninvolv- onlyforpurposeof investigation.
OnFriday,inanaddresstothe hugging Pakistan Army chief qualifierscouldnotbehelddueto Mumbai, New Delhi Municipal ingafewBJPleadersandtheirkin. "...it is worth to clarify here
nation, the Prime Minister an- General Qamar Javed Bajwa in thepandemicanditsplayersand Council and Tirupati -- were cat- The BJP has alleged that the thatsuchconfessionalstatements
nounced that the three con- Islamabad. Sidhu was a special officials were granted visas, offi- egorised as ‘divya’ (platinum). hacker was associated with the can be considered by the investi-
tentious farm laws would be re- guest of Imran Khan at the cere- cials said. Maharashtrabaggedatotalof kinofmanyCongressleaderstoo. gating agency only for the inves-
pealed and the process would be monyforhisswearing-inasPrime A senior diplomat of the 92 awards, the highest by any tigation purpose and cannot be
completedintheupcomingwin- Minister. Their friendship dates Pakistan High Commission re- state, followed by Chhattisgarh used as a tool for drawing an in-
ter session of Parliament. back to their cricketing days. ceived the members of Pakistan with 67 awards. Aryan bail ferencethatApplicantshavecom-
The farmers have been Before he crossed over to Men’sJuniorHockeyTeamatthe “Over the years, Swachh It added that there has to be mittedanoffenceundertheNDPS
protesting against and demand- Pakistan Saturday, Sidhu, re- IGI Airport in Delhi. Aftab Hasan Survekshan (SS) has emerged as positiveevidenceaboutanagree- Act as has been alleged against
ing the repeal of the three laws sponding to a query from The Khan,Charged’Affaires,Pakistan aneffectivetoolfortransforming ment to do an unlawful act or to them," it said relying on the
over the last one year. The Union Sunday Express about aspersions High Commission, also hosted a the urban landscape. Despite the do lawful act by unlawful means Supreme Court judgment in
Cabinet approved the three farm cast on his role in the develop- lunchintheirhonouronSaturday. on-ground challenges posed by and such agreement must pre- Tofan Singh vs State of Tamil
laws:TheFarmersProduceTrade ment of the Kartarpur Sahib cor- “They are fully prepared and Covid-19,ateamofover2,000as- cede with meeting of minds. Nadu.
and Commerce (Promotion and ridor, said these remarks do not in high spirits, ready to give their sessorsvisitedover65,000wards While no drugs were recov- The NCB has arrested 20 ac-
Facilitation) Act, 2020; The bother him. best during the matches,” said a in a record time of 28 days,” the ered from Aryan, and allegedly cused in all so far. A special court
Farmers (Empowerment and AttheGurdwarainKartarpur Pakistani diplomat. ministry said. smallquantitiesofdrugs(charas) hadrejectedAryan'sbailplealast
Protection) Agreement on Price Sahib, Sidhu was mobbed by SinceFebruarythisyear,back were recovered from Merchant month on October 20 relying on
AssuranceandFarmServicesAct, Pakistanis,includingHindusvisit- channelsbetweenthetwocoun- andDhamecha,theNCBhadsaid WhatsApp chats and agreeing
2020; and The Essential inginlargenumbersfromSukkur trieshavebeenworkingovertime Bengaluru hacker thatalltheaccused,includingoth- with the NCB's contention that
Commodities(Amendment)Act, inSindh.Speakingtothem,Sidhu tokeeptheLineofControlpeace- e-procurement site. ers from whom commercial since his friend Merchant, who
2020. Farmershavealsobeende- thankedPrimeMinisterNarendra ful.Butinthelastfewmonths,tar- InAugust2019,officialsatthe quantity of drugs were found, was traveling with him, was
manding legislation that makes ModiandPakistanPrimeMinister getedkillingsinKashmirqueered e-procurement cell of the were “linked in conspiracy” to found with contraband and he
MSP legally binding. Imran Khan for having taken the the pitch. Karnatakagovernmentfiledcom- commit offences under the had its knowledge, it amounted
initiative to establish the WhileIndiainvitedPakistan’s plaints with the cybercrime unit Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic to “conscious possession.”
Kartarpur Corridor. NSA for the regional dialogue of of the Criminal Investigation Substances(NDPS)Actandhence Followingtheorderof theHC
Contact for Advt. Booking: M/s Friends Publicity Service Sidhu “But why should not the two NSAs on Afghanistan, Islamabad Department of the state police drug recovery in the case should grantingbailtothethree,sofar12
(M): 9212665841, 9212008155 severalCongressMLAsandanMP.
When Mohammad Latif,
Punjabshavecloserties?Wehave
the same language, culture and
declinedtheinvitation.Bothsides,
however,agreedtomoveforward
saying unknown persons had
stolen Rs 11.5 crore of earnest
be considered cumulatively.
Thecourtsaidthatthereisno
othershavealsobeenreleasedon
bail by the special court.

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Farm fires DDMA nod to 30 standing passengers per coach in Metro

down, Delhi air
Metrohavebeenallowedtofunc- of the prevailingairpollutionsit- tivitiesinNCTofDelhiwitheffect Metro,” he said. lowed only from the front door,”
EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE tion at 100% capacity. uationinNCTofDelhi,ithasbeen from intervening night of “Intra-state (within NCT of he added.
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 20 TheDDMAordercomesafter felt to augment the carrying ca- November 15 and November 16 Delhi) movement of buses (DTC Dev said, “Transport
theDelhigovernmentsentapro- pacityofthepublictransportsys- till intervening night of as well as cluster) shall be per- Department,DTCaswellasDMRC
THEDELHIDisasterManagement posal to them to allow standing tem (buses/Delhi Metro) so as to November30andDecember1or mittedwith100%seating capac- shall be responsible for strict

still ‘very poor’

Authority (DDMA) Saturday al- passengers in buses and the minimisetheuseof privatevehi- till further orders...” ityof thebusesalongwithstand- complianceofCovid-appropriate
lowedtheDelhiMetroandbuses Metro. The proposal was sent by cles to improve the ambient air “Transportation by the Delhi ing passengers up to 50% of the behaviour (viz social distancing,
tohavestandingpassengers—30 Transport Minister Kailash quality of the city.” Metroshallbeallowedwith100% seating capacity of a bus. In the wearing of mask, use of hand
persons per coach for the Delhi Gahlot on November 16. He partially modified the or- seating capacity of the coach case of buses, boarding shall be sanitiser etc) as well as relevant
Metro,and50%of theseatingca- In an order, Saturday, Chief derdatedNovember15“withre- alongwithupto30standingpas- allowed only from the rear door SOPs of the respective depart-
pacity in buses. Both buses and SecretaryVijayDevsaid,“Inview gard to prohibited/restricted ac- sengers in a coach in the Delhi while de-boarding shall be al- ments/authoritiesinthisregard”.

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SERVICE
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 20

DELHI’SAIRqualityremained
in the ‘very poor’ category on
Saturday, whenthe contribu-
tion of stubble burning to PM
DIP/Shabdarth/D/0128/21-22

2.5 levels in Delhi was “negli-

gible,”accordingtotheSAFAR
forecasting system.
The AQI, as a 24-hour av- A tanker sprays water at
erage, was 374, according to ITO. Praveen Khanna
the Central Pollution Control
Board (CPCB) bulletin. This is
only marginally better than November 18. On Saturday,
the 380 recorded on Friday. the figure stood at 5%.
Local wind speed remains Meanwhile, the spraying
low resulting in poor disper- of the PUSA decomposer,
sion of pollutants. which was meant to prevent
From Sunday to Tuesday, stubble burning within Delhi
strong local winds are likely and help decompose crop
to help with the dispersion of residue, has not been com-
pollutants,theSAFARforecast pleted yet. Of around 4,300
indicates. Winds coming acres, for which applications
from the north or northwest were received, around 3,800
during this period are also acres have been covered so
likely to help with flushing far, said A P Saini, Joint
out local pollutants. Director, Agriculture. The re-
The farm fire count maining area is likely to be
Saturday,accordingtotheSA- covered over the next two
FAR system, was 752. The fire days, he said.
count peaked at a figure of Anagriculture(extension)
around5,450onNovember8. officer in North Delhi said
After a count of 5,317 on that around 30 to 40 acres
November 10, the count fell that were remaining would
to 3,125 on November 15; be covered in the next two
2,643 on November 17; and days. Fields in some parts of
to 773 on November 18. North Delhi, like Nangal
The contribution of stub- Thakran,arestillwaterlogged
ble burning to PM 2.5 levels after the rains, he said.
has also been declining. It “Farmers in this area usu-
stood at 48% on November 7, ally sow wheat by around
felltoabout27%onNovember November 15. This has been
9, and climbed up again to delayed this year due to rain-
about 35% on November 12. fall. They are considering not
Thesharefelltoaround12%on sowing wheat this year and
November 14, 10% on growing something else, like
November 15, and 2% on sunflower,” he said.

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LAST 24 HOURS 14,40,637 ICU BEDS 2,802 2,764
71,183

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Cases Recoveries Deaths Tests

CORONAVIRUS Nov 19
Nov 20
30
32
67
32
0
0
56,689
54,249
IN THE CAPITAL Total 325* 14,15,217 25,095 3,04,04,086

BRIEFLY SECOND DRAW OF LOTS PENDING IN GURGAON

DJBV-Cfiles
defamation Inseveralsmallpvtschools,seats Apprehensions
over Haryana’s
forEWSstudentsarestillvacant
suit:Delhi
BJPchief
summoned law to reserve
jobs for locals
New Delhi: A Delhi court
summoned four BJP school on this, the department round should be held to fill these
leaders, including Delhi SUKRITA BARUAH responded that it had taken the seats, it’s not right that no stu-
BJP president Adesh NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 20 decisiontomake100%allotment dents be allotted to them,” said
Gupta, in a criminal to schools running on govern- Chandrakant Singh, whose are being protectionist at a local
defamation complaint WITH A second draw of lots yet ment attached land and around school, Ideal Radiant Public PAVNEET SINGH CHADHA level,whileGurgaonhasemerged
filed by Delhi Jal Board to be held for EWS admissions 50% allotment on schools run- School, has 17 out of its 30 re- GURGAON, NOVEMBER 19 as an IT and BPO giant on a global
vice-chairman Raghav to Delhi’s private schools, sev- ning on private land. served seats vacant. stage,attractingtalentfromevery-
Chadha for levelling alle- eral small private schools say For instance, at Rajiv Gandhi In the meantime, the cycle THE HARYANA government no- where. We are nervous that the
gations of a Rs 26,000 only half of their EWS seats have Memorial Public School, there of admissions to the 2022-2023 tifying a law to reserve 75% jobs reservations can be expanded
scam in the Jal Board on been allotted so far. are 128 reserved seats at entry- academic session is set to start in the private sector for those laterandformanufacturingcom-
social media. Additional According to provisions of level classes. Of these, students soon, with the process normally fromthestatecouldseverelyim- panieswhichhavetomakealarge
Chief Metropolitan the Right to Education Act, 25% were allotted to 59 seats, and 54 beginning in December in most pact firms in BPO, IT, manufac- commitment in terms of setting
Magistrate Dharmender of all seats at entry-level classes took admission. The school now years. turing,andservices,deterinvest- up a business, such policy deci-
Singh, in his order passed in the city’s private schools are Out of around 45,000 such seats across schools, around has 74 vacant reserved seats. At “Wewouldideallyliketohold ment, andeven forcecompanies sions will create a doubt.”
Thursday, summoned reserved for students from eco- 32,000 were allotted through the first round. Abhinav Saha Vivek Modern School, there are a second round of draw of lots. to relocate from Gurgaon in the Hiringmanagerssaidthegov-
Gupta, MLAs Ramvir nomically weaker section 40reservedseats,of whichallot- We are collecting data on how long run, industry bodies and ernment must invest in a pro-
Singh Bidhuri and (EWS), disadvantaged groups mentsweredoneagainst20,and manyseatshavebeenfilledsofar employers say. grammetoupskillthelabourforce
Vijender Gupta, and BJP’s (DG) and children with special puterised centralised draw of As a result of this, several 17 students took admission, and are trying to take a decision “Themovewillleadtoashort- before bringing in such a law. A
Delhi unit spokesperson needs (CWSN) categories. lots had taken place on June 16. schools that are a part of the leaving 23 vacant seats. on holding it,” said an education age of skilled manpower in the former hiring manager of a BPO,
Harish Khurana in However, so far this year, allot- Out of around 45,000 such Private Land Public School Trust “We are so many months department official, adding that state and affect competitiveness said,“Talentcannotbesnubbedin
the defamation suit ment has not taken place seats across schools, around said they have been allotted stu- into this academic year but the limited allotment had been and productivity. A majority of favour of a domicile law. There is
moved through advocate against all these seats. While the 32,000 were allotted through dents for about half of their re- there are so many seats vacant done based on the experience of manpower in manufacturing, alreadyashortageofskilledman-
PrashantManchanda.The new academic year had begun the first round of draw of lots, an served seats. In response to a while students are waiting to get howmanystudentscouldbead- services and allied sectors work- power in the state. For BPO jobs,
courtheldthattherewere in April, the first round of com- education official said. grievance placed by one such their admissions. A second mitted last year. inginGurgaonfallwithintheam- voiceandaccenttraining,techni-
sufficientgroundsforpro- bitof thequota...Allthesesectors cal proficiency and soft skills are
ceedings against the re- wouldbeseverelyimpacted.The important and they can’t be im-
spondents and sum-
moned them under IPC Man hires companies in IT and ITES sectors
have to hire the best talent to re-
parted overnight. The law in-
fringesontheconstitutionalright
sections500(punishment
for defamation) and 33
(common intention).
two hitmen maincompetitive.Ourpositionis
that there should be no imposi-
tion and people should be al-
of freedom to migrate for work
and could cause friction at the
workplace among employees.”

Regional
to kill wife; lowed to work in any state,” said
PranavGupta,chairman,Haryana
“Afocusedskilldevelopment
plan for providing the right kind

3 arrested
PHD Chamber of Commerce. of trained manpower to BPOs
WorldSkills He said they are in consulta-
tion withthe government tofur-
and KPOs should have been
brought in. For unskilled man-
event:Delhi EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
ther lower the Rs 30,000 ceiling.
The law — a poll promise of
power jobs, that is security
guards, office boys, runner staff,
wins21medals NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 20 theJannayakJantaParty—comes
intoforcefromJanuary15.Itstip-
the law will not have much of an
impact,” said Shweta Joshi, HR
New Delhi: Participants TWO DAYS after a 33-year-old ulatesthatfirmswith10ormore senior specialist at a Gurgaon-
from Delhi won 21 woman was stabbed to death in employees must reserve 75% of based consultancy.
medals in the regional South Delhi’s Malviya Nagar, her alljobswhichofferasalaryof less Praveen Yadav, president of
competition of World- husbandandtwocontractkillers than Rs 30,000 a month to those GurgaonUdyogAssociation,said
Skills in Chandigarh in hired by him were arrested having a domicile (resident cer- the law will act as an impedi-
skills like cyber security, Saturday. Police said investiga- tificate) of Haryana. The state ment tothe growth of industries
fashion technology, tion revealed that the man, a ca- government has made certain in the city. “Though certain ex-
beautytherapy.Itwasthe ble operator, was having an af- exemptions — lowering the up- emptions have been given, the
first time that Delhi had fair and allegedly decided to kill per limit of gross monthly salary decision is not business friendly.
participated in the re- his wife when she found out. fromRs50,000to30,000.ITunits Newunits, especiallylargeman-
gionalcompetitionatthis DCP (South) Benita Mary and startups set up after January ufacturing ones, will think twice
level.Delhi’sdelegationof Jaiker said, “The couple con- 15, 2022, will be exempted for beforesettingupbusiness.There
53participantsin28skills stantly fought over this. So, the twoyearsfromhiringlocalcandi- would be a lot of red tape in
weretrainedatDelhiSkill
and Entrepreneurship
University. “As a
CELEBRATING HERITAGE husband decided to hire two
contractkillers,RahulandSonu.”
She said the woman was
dates under the law.
Manas Fuloria, co-founder of
digital engineering and technol-
terms of implementation. The
lawisregressiveandgoesagainst
the business-friendly image of
University, we will focus Visitors at Safdarjung Tomb, Saturday. World Heritage Week is being celebrated from November 19-25. Praveen Khanna stabbed at least 17 times. ogy solutions firm Nagarro, said, Haryana. At a time (after Covid)
on training for our skill According to police, they “For an IT firm like ours, a few lo- when investments are needed,
champions and support found CCTV footage which cal jobs (security, housekeeping) such restrictions should not be
them in their holistic de- showed two men entering the and entry-level positions for imposed,” he said.

92 AUD teachers slam letter to six

velopment to increase victim’s house on Thursday but trainees and freshers will be af- Another official from a city-
theirchancestosecurean threepersonsleavingaftersome fected.Itwillnotbefeasibletohire based industries association, on
excellent performance at time. “We traced them to them all in Haryana and in many condition of anonymity, said the
IndiaSkills and make Pamposh Enclave in Kalkaji. The cases,onewillseesuchpeoplebe- association was exploring legal

colleagues ‘absent’ from Sisodia event

Delhi and India proud,” husband became a suspect after ing absorbed in operations in options to challenge the imple-
said DSEU Vice- his call records showed he made other states. It is strange that we mentation of the law in court.
Chancellor Neharika multiple calls to one number, a
Vohra. The 21 winning woman he was in a relationship
participants will now be
trainedbyDSEUtopartic- ARANYA SHANKAR
dated November 15, 92 of the to-
tal130facultymemberssaid,“We
teaching,preparation,supervision
andresearch,isself-defeatingand
the management to desist from
theunwarranteddisciplinaryact
with. Call records also revealed
he got a WhatsApp call from
Nigerian national held for
ipate in the IndiaSkills
competitionscheduledto
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 20 the members of Ambedkar
University Delhi Faculty Associa-
demoralising,” the letter states.
They said such letters were
... We stand in solidarity with all
our colleagues who have been
Rahul, to whom he promised to
pay Rs 5 lakh after the murder,” hacking WhatsApp accounts
be held in Bengaluru OVER 90 teachers across the tion unequivocally condemn the “antithetical to the very fact that carrying out their academic du- Jaiker said.
from December 23 to 27. three campuses of Ambedkar letter of explanation issued to suchaneventissupposedtopro- ties in extremely challenging “When the husband was The complainant alleged he re-
University Delhi have issued a some of our colleagues asking vide enabling institutional sup- conditionsforthelast20months. questioned, he initially misled EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE ceived a message on WhatsApp
2arrestedfor statement, under the general
body of the AUD Faculty
them to provide valid reasons for
not being present at the inaugu-
porttoeffectivedeliveryof teach-
ing-learning function at AUD”.
AUDFA strongly demands that
this letter of explanation should
police saying he had gone to see
a homoeopathy doctor in
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 20 thatthefacilitiesontheplatform
were being upgraded for which
illegallyserving Association (AUDFA), “unequiv-
ocally condemning” a letter is-
ration of anauditoriumandmul-
tipurposeblockbytheDeputyCM
“Such a punitive act defies
the logic of infrastructure sup-
be withdrawn with immediate
effect,” they said.
DefenceColonywithhisson,and
his wife was alone at home on
A 40-YEAR-OLD Nigerian na-
tional was arrested from
the system was generating a six-
digit code. He said as soon as he
liquor,hookah suedtoatleastsixteacherstoex-
plain their “absenteeism” from
of Delhi on the Karampura cam-
pusofAUDonNovember2,2021.”
port which comes at the cost of
academic commitment of fac-
Earlier, AUD’s PR office had
defended its decision to The
Thursdayafternoon.Hethen left
hissonatabarbershopandwent
Bengaluru for allegedly hacking
people’s WhatsApp accounts
typed his mobile number fol-
lowed by the 6-digit code pro-
Gurgaon:Two people in the inauguration of an audito- “Theinaugurationwasheldin ulty. This situation is a stark re- Indian Express, saying the event to his office,” the DCP said. and swindling money. vided by an unknown mobile
Gurgaon’s Sector 72 were rium and multipurpose block by the first week of a much-delayed minder of misplaced priorities was a “University-level pro- Policesaidaftersometime,he DCP (New Delhi) Deepak number,his screen froze and the
arrested for illegally serv- Deputy Chief Minister Manish semester. The construction and of the university that teachers gramme” and that “as per the called one of his employees to Yadavsaidtheaccused,Okwudiri accountwashacked,”Yadavsaid.
ing alcohol and flavoured Sisodia. They have demanded inauguration of a multipurpose are being asked to show the rea- records, some members of drophissonhomeafterthehair- Paschal, was arrested while Yadav said the hacker then
hookah to customers in that the letters be withdrawn. hallandauditoriumarewelcome; son for carrying out academic Karampurafacultywere onduty cut.“At4.45pm,hegotacallfrom he was withdrawing Rs 20,000 sentmessagestothevictim’srel-
their restaurant on The Indian Express had re- however, we must remember dutiesinsteadof mandatorilyat- but were not seen on campus”. hisemployeesayinghiswifewas from an ATM in Bengaluru on atives via the latter’s WhatsApp
Friday. The arrests were portedonNovember10thatAUD theseinfrastructuresaremeantto tending an auditorium inaugu- It had said the letters had been lyinginapoolofblood.Hequickly November16.Hesaidtheaccused number and demanded money.
made after the CM flying had taken “serious note” of the provide enabling support for ef- ration. It needs to be underlined sent to “know where they were rushedhomeandtookhiswifeto is part of an international cyber Account numbers of several
squad and officials of the matter and sent emails to the fectivedeliveryofteaching-learn- that AUD is an autonomous in- during working hours”. a nearby hospital where she was fraud racket and has allegedly banks were provided by the ac-
excise department con- teachers from Karampura cam- ingactivities.Theissuanceofalet- stitution established by an act of The teachers concerned, declared dead,” Jaiker said. duped hundreds across India. cused to the victim’s kin for
ducted a raid at the pus,askingthemtoprovide“valid terofexplanationtothefacultyfor the Delhi Legislature, and its ac- however, had said the invitation "During questioning, he con- “The incident came to light transferring money. “During in-
restaurant. ENS reasons” for their absenteeism not attending such an inaugural ademic integrity must not be sent to them only said their fessed to having hired Rahul. He when one of the victims regis- vestigation, it was revealed he
from the November 2 event. event and for concentrating on sacrificed,” they said. “presence was requested” and alsosentthelocationof hishouse tered a complaint at Tilak Marg was prompting people to trans-
In a statement by the AUDFA their academic duties, including “AUDFA General Body urges not that it was “mandatory”. to the contract killer,” she said. police station on November 2. fer money,” the DCP added.

NEW DELHI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL FIRST IN CATEGORY OF CITIES WITH 1-10 LAKH POPULATION

Swachh Survekshan 2021: North, East MCDs in bottom 10 among 48 cities

Gurgaon ranks 24 among
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
of 46. Like 2020, the South MCD
ranked 31 this year. HOW MCDS RANK chines are being used,” he said.
A senior North MCD official 425 cities, Noida bags
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 20 Indore topped the category 2020 – out of 47 local 2021- out of 48 local added, “Source segregation will cleanest city award
of cities with a population above bodies (cities with bodies (cities with have to be improved and we will
THENORTHandEastMCDshave 10 lakh, followed by Surat, population over 10 lakh) population over 10 lakh) also have to work towards 100% Gurgaonjumpedseveralspots
onceagainfinishedinthebottom Vijayawada, Navi Mumbai and processing of waste.” in the survey, ranking 24 among
10 among cities with a popula- Pune. EDMC 46 EDMC 40 At the East MCD, a 425 cities in the category of cities
tion over 10 lakh, results of TheDelhiCantonmentBoard North MCD 43 North MCD 45 spokesperson said, “We are try- with a population of 1 lakh to 10
Swachh Survekshan 2021 show. ranked third in the Cantonment ing to focus on problems like lakh and recording its best per-
SDMC 31 SDMC 31
The New Delhi Municipal Boards category. waste segregation and handling formance in the past 6 years. As
Council, meanwhile, topped the Swachh Survekshan ranks garbage burning. But spreading per officials of the Municipal
survey in the category of cities cities and urban local bodies on the source, particularly in unau- pacity for waste disposal.” awarenessonthistakestime.We CorporationofGurugram,itsper-
with1lakhto10lakhpopulation. various parameters like waste The MCDs are using trommel machines to clear waste at thorised colonies. We are reach- North MCD standing com- have tried to reach out through formance in the survey has
The North MCD ranked 45 segregationandgarbagedisposal, landfills, which have exceeded their capacity. Archive ing out with information and mittee chairperson Jogi Ram fo- meetingswithRWAsandaware- steadily improved overthe years.
out of 48 cities surveyed in the among others, as part of the communication activities to cused on the “achievement” nesscampaigns.AttheGhazipur Meanwhile,Noidabaggedthe
urban local body category with Centre’s Swachh Bharat Mission. workonthis.Ourwetwastepro- which is that the MCD has per- landfill as well, trommel ma- Cleanest City Award in the
a population over 10 lakh, two A senior New Delhi The results have led to ques- The MCDs have, in the past, cessing capacity is also a little formed well in terms of citizen chines are running.” mediumcategorywhichconsists
placeslowerthanlastyear’srank Municipal Council official said tions over the strategy of MCDs claimed that a fresh push is be- low. But a new waste-to-energy feedback. “Segregation is also According to a senior EDMC of places with a population of 3
of 43 (of 47 local bodies). The the result was due to the coun- in ensuring waste segregation, ing given in these directions. plant is coming up near Okhla, gradually beginning to be done. official, an integrated waste lakh and less than 10 lakh. Noida
East MCD, which ranked 40 this cil’s efforts to continuously pur- waste dumping at landfills A senior official of the South and we are also working on de- Insomecolonies,thereareprob- processing plant is coming up has been ranked fourth in the
year, has seen a marginal im- sueexcellenceinrenderingserv- which have exceeded their ca- MCD said, “The main problem centralisedcompostingfacilities. lems with segregation. At the to improve waste processing fa- overall survey in the population
provement from last year’s rank ices and civic amenities. pacity, and cleanliness of toilets. area is segregation of waste at We are trying to improve our ca- Bhalswa landfill, trommel ma- cilities. ofcitieslessthan10lakhcategory.

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Gujarat
TRINAMOOL’S MOVE ‘NOT IN GOOD TASTE’, SAYS REGIONAL PARTY’S CHIEF

Alliance talks stalled, TMC lures away senior GFP leader

BJP
chief says no outsiders’ dadagiri (bullying) — Congress is the B-team of BJP. form an alliance with Congress.

coercive action
MAYURA JANWALKAR we want insiders to work,” Leaders like Rahul Gandhi fail to But we have not forged any al-
PANAJI, NOVEMBER 20 Banerjee had said after their stand up to (Prime Minister) liancesofarandhisdecisionwas
meeting. Narendra Modi. (AAP chief based only on conjectures.
IN A “shock” to Goa Forward Talks between the two par- Arvind)Kejriwalonlycomesand Kiran’s decision is hasty and we

on non-veg carts
Party(GFP),itsworkingpresident ties subsequently fell through. promises to give this for free and will get to know eventually why
Kiran Kandolkar, second only to Kandolkar, a former MLA that for free. Mamata-didi alone he took it. But now that he has
party chief Vijai Sardesai, joined from Tivim, resigned from pri- stands up to Modi and Amit joined another party, I wish him
Trinamool Congress (TMC) on mary membership of GFP on Shah and is serious about pack- all the best.”
Saturday,hoursafterhetendered Saturday morning and joined ing the BJP off from Goa.” Kandolkar was expected to
his resignation from the GFP. TMC hours later. He had not dis- He claimed that many of his be GFP’s candidate from Aldona
TheTMC,latestentrantinthe cussed the move with Sardesai supporters, including MLAs and constituency, and the party had EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
contest for Goa Assembly elec- until his resignation from the ex-MLAs, are set to join TMC in already announced candidature RAJKOT, NOVEMBER 20 State BJP
tions, inducted Kandolkar, his party, sources said. the days ahead. of Kavita,aZillaPanchayatmem- unit chief
wife Kavita Kandolkar and 40 TMC national vice-president Kandolkar had joined GFP in ber from Colvale, from Tivim GUJARAT BJP chief CR Paatil CR Paatil
others, including sarpanches of Luizinho Faleiro and Lok Sabha November 2020 and was soon constituency. Saturday said he has instructed
five villages from Assembly con- MP Mahua Moitra, who recently made the party’s working pres- Kandolkar, however, said the Mayors not to take coercive ac-
stituencies of Tivim and Aldona Kiran Kandolkar (centre, holding flag), with TMC leaders on tookoverastheparty'sin-charge ident.OnSaturday, Faleirocalled Aldona seat may not remain tions against those selling non- gious sentiments of the vegetar-
in North Goa. Saturday. @AITCofficial for Goa, were among those pres- the Kandolkars “agents of with GFP if it forms an alliance vegetarianfoodonroadsidecarts ians. Soon, other civic bodies in
Sardesai said Kandolkar’s ent at the induction ceremony change”. with Congress, and pointed out in the name of hurting religious the state followed the suit and
move was “shocking and unex- held at the International Centre Sardesai told The Sunday that senior Congress leader P feelings. The statement came af- took similar action.
pected”, and “hasty”, and called in talks with the Congress over a “winnable” candidates. in Dona Paula. Express,“Nodoubt this is a hit for Chidambaram “was campaign- ter BJP-ruled civic bodies issued However, Paatil as well Chief
TMC’s action “not in good taste”. pre-election alliance. Sardesai had met West Kandolkar said, “No party us, but I am not someone who ing in Aldona yesterday”. directivestoremoveallcartsand Minister Bhupendra Patel as-
The move comes days after While this was TMC’s first Bengal chief minister and TMC apart from TMC is serious about runs away from a fight.” Sardesai said, “If we were to stallssellingnon-vegetarianfood sertedlastweekthatpeoplewere
discussions between TMC and grab from GFP, the development chief Mamata Banerjee on her defeating BJP in Goa. I quit GFP Maintaining that Kandolkar form an alliance, we would have from the main roads. freetoeatwhatevertheyliked.At
GFP over a possible pre-poll al- is seen as a setback to the re- visit to Goa on October 30. in protest against a possible al- was “highly respected in our fought for him and ensured that “Everyoneinthiscountryhas the same time, the CM had also
liance hit a dead end. The GFP, gional party, as Kandolkar is a “Regional parties are strong par- liance with Congress because party”, the GFP chief said, “He winnable candidates are not de- the liberty to decide what to eat. said the removal of encroach-
which has three MLAs in the 40- prominent Scheduled Caste ties and we want to see a strong the Congress has not shown any had apprehension about being nied a ticket. But there is no al- It is not appropriate to remove a ments in cities was a decision of
memberAssembly,isonceagain leaderandwasseenasamongits federal structure. We don’t want seriousness (in defeating BJP). denied a ticket to contest if we liance yet...” person selling non-vegetarian the respective civic bodies.
food on a cart if people are buy- Meanwhile, addressing a
ing from him. There is no such gathering of industrialists in
FARM LAW REPEAL: A DAY LATER provision in the law either.
People are free to sell anything
Rajkot Saturday, the BJP chief as-
sured the government would fa-
that is not prohibited. So, there cilitate the growth of industries
KCR: Withdraw Don’t share stage with is no question of removing carts
(from roads),” Paatil said
by removing bottlenecks and
providing facilities. However, he
cases against
MoS at conference:
Saturday in Rajkot. also asked industrialists to see
However, when pointed out to it that factories do not cause
farmers, give thattheRajkotMayorandoffice- pollution. “There would be other

Rs 25 lakh to Priyanka in letter to PM bearers of the Bhavnagar

Municipal Corporation have or-
dered the removal of non-vege-
problems, too, including pollu-
tion. But you are not raising
them because we tend to think
kin of deceased EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
tarian food carts from the road-
sides citing hurt to religious
that causing pollution is our
right,” Paatil said, adding the
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 20 sentiments, the BJP president general perception about the
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Priyanka said: “They all have been in- Gujarat Pollution Control Board
HYDERABAD, NOVEMBER 20 CONGRESS GENERAL secretary Gandhi structednottodoanysuchthing.” (GPCB) among industrialists is
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Incidentally, the Rajkot that of a ‘police’ who punishes
TELANGANA CHIEF Minister K Saturday wrote to Prime Municipal Corporation (RMC) polluters. “But its actual work is
Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday Minister Narendra Modi urging “You must be understanding had launched a drive earlier this to educate people, to guide in-
demanded that Prime Minister him not to share the dais with your responsibility towards the month to remove non-vegetar- dustries the type of plants and
NarendraModiimmediatelytake Union Minister of State for farmers of the country. ian food carts saying they were machinery to install to reduce
stepstowithdrawallcasesagainst Home, Ajay Mishra 'Teni' – Ensuring justice to every citizen encroaching on the city roads pollution and within how much
farmers who have been protest- whose son has been arrested in is not only the duty but also the and the public display of such time. Only then can we solve the
ing over the three contentious connection with the violence in moral responsibility of the food items was hurting the reli- problem."
agriculture laws, and announce Lakhimpur Kheri – at a confer- prime minister,” Priyanka said
ex-gratia compensation of Rs 25 ence of Director Generals of in the letter. “... getting justice
lakheachforthefamiliesof those Police (DGPs) and Inspector delivered to the families of
who died during the agitation. JUBILATION: At Singhu border on Saturday. Amit Mehra Generals of Police (IGPs) being those killed in Lakhimpur Kheri
Rao also held in Lucknow. should be your top priority. But,
said the “If your intentions are clean, Union Minister of State for

Varun writes to PM: Decision

Telangana don’t share dais with the Union Home Ajay Mishra ‘Teni’ still re-
government Minister of State for Home. mains a member of your coun-
will provide Dismiss him,” she said in the cil of ministers. If you share the

earlier could have saved lives

ex-gratiaofRs letter. stage with the father of the ac-
3 lakh to the Responding to her com- cused at the DGP conference
families of ments, Uttar Pradesh minister then a clear message will go to
Telangana each of the Siddharth Nath Singh asked her the aggrieved families that you
CM Rao “700-750 heartedness” in announcing re- since when the “corporate are standing with those who are
farmers”who LIZ MATHEW peal of the three farm laws and Congress” has started caring for giving protection to the mur-
losttheirlives. NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 20 a statutory guarantee of MSP for farmers,accordingtoaPTIreport. derers,” she wrote.
Hisstatementcomesadayaf- Varun crops, he wrote, “More than 700
ter PM Modi announced that the A DAY after Prime Minister Gandhi of our farmer brothers and sis- PM Modi at the conference in Lucknow. @narendramodi
central government will repeal
thethreelegislationsthatsparked
NarendraModi’sannouncement
on repeal of the contentious
ters have been martyred in this
movement, as they peacefully
Country understands everything,
oneof thelargestfarmagitations
in the country last year.
There will be no meaning in
farmlaws,BJPMPVarunGandhi,
who has been critical of these
laws,onSaturdaysaidthatmany
against Union Minister of State
for Home Ajay Kumar Mishra,
whose son Ashish Mishra was
protested in extremely difficult
and hostile conditions. I believe
if this decision had been taken
‘suit-boot’ govt doesn’t: Congress
New Delhi: Targeting Prime the“benefits”of thelegislations.
PM attends DGP
continuingthecaseswhenapol-
icydecisionhasbeentakentore-
peal the farm laws, the CM said.
“innocentlives”of farmerscould
have been saved had the deci-
sion been taken earlier.
arrested for the October 3 inci-
dentinLakhimpurKherithatled
to the deaths of four farmers.
earlier, all these innocent lives
would not have been lost.” He
urged the Prime Minister to ex-
Minister Narendra Modi, the
Congress on Saturday said he
could not explain the benefits of
Calling the PM “bhashan-
jeevi”,Congress’schiefspokesper-
sonRandeepSurjewalasaidModi
meet; cyber crime,
He also demanded that the case
against environmental activist
DishaRavibewithdrawn.Raviwas
Varun wrote to the Prime
MinisterseekingRs1crorecom-
pensation for the families of
Varunisthefirst BJPleaderto
publicly seek action against the
Union MoS. “The heartbreaking
press condolences to families of
thesefarmersandannounceRs1
crore compensation for them.
steps such as farm laws, demon-
etisation and CAA, but the coun-
try understands everything.
could not explain the benefits of
the Land Acquisition Ordinance
and those of demonetisation to
Maoism in focus
accused of sedition and promot- thesedeceasedfarmers,towith- incident is a blemish on our “Furthermore, all politically The party’s attack on the PM economists and countrymen. is held every year to share best
ingenmityinconnectionwithon- draw “politically motivated false democracy,” he wrote. motivated false FIRS that have cameadayafterModiannounced Inaseriesoftweets,Surjewala EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE practices among state police and
linedisseminationofa“toolkit”re- FIRs” against the protesters, and Varun said many top leaders been registered as weapons of the government’s decision to re- saidthePMalsocouldnotexplain NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 20 centralagenciesoverkeylawand
latedtothefamers’protest. tomakeminimumsupportprice had given “provocative state- harassmentagainstfarmersdur- peal the three farm laws that led the benefits of GST to traders and orderandsecurityissues.
Rao echoed the farm union (MSP) legally binding. ments”, and an “adversarial at- ing this movement must be im- to major protests, and also apolo- thebenefitsof CAAtominorities. LEFT-WINGextremism,counter- This year's conference was in-
stand on bringing a new law to Inhisletter,theLokSabhaMP mosphere” was “created”. mediately quashed,” he wrote. gised to the people over his gov- “The country understands terrorism, prison reforms, in- auguratedbyHomeMinisterAmit
guarantee Minimum Support from Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh, also Beginning the letter by Varun also said MSP for crops ernment not being able to “con- everything, the suit-boot gov- dustrial security, cyber crime Shahwhostressedonbettercoor-
Price (MSP) for crops. askedModitotake“strictaction” thanking Modi for his “large- should be legally binding. vince” a section of farmers about ernment doesn’t,” he said. PTI and optimal utilisation of train- dinationbetweenthestatepolice
ing were some of the topics dis- and other Central agencies in his

Nothing black in laws except ink: Singh Farmer unity forced PM’s decision: RLD
cussed at the 56th DGPs/IGPs address.Theeventisbeingheldin
Conference currently on in hybrid mode for the first time.
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. DGPs of all States/UTs and DGs of
mentary session. holds one on how to lie. The second day of the CAPFs are attending from police
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA “I asked a farmer leader to EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE “Everyone will have to be- Conference was attended by headquartersatLucknow.Inaddi-
BASTI (UP), NOVEMBER 20 Union tell me what is black (in the farm MEERUT, NOVEMBER 20 (RLD) chief come an andolanjeevi to claim Prime Minister Narendra Modi tion, about 350 other officers are
Minister laws). You people say this is a Jayant their right,” he said. who, sources said, sat through all attending the same through vir-
WHAT IS black in the farm laws V K Singh black law. I asked them what is IT IS the unprecedented unity Chaudhary He also said his party sup- thepresentations,makingspecific tualplatformfromIBofficesinvar-
other than the ink used to write black barring the ink (used),? among farmers that forced ported the decision taken by commentsandgivingsuggestions. iousstatesandUTs.
them, Union minister V K Singh the former Army chief told re- Prime Minister Narendra Modi farmers agitating at the Dehli Sources said UP police, being Thisyear,forthefirsttime,over
asked Saturday. He claimed Road Transport & Highways and porters here. to decide to repeal the three Muzzafarnagar's Baghra town border. “You have won a pro- thehoststate,madeapresentation 200 officers from various
there was a fight for supremacy Civil Aviation put the poser a day “In farmers' organisations, farm laws, said Rashtriya Lok Saturday, Chaudhary said farm- longed battle with the govern- onitshistoryandwhatithasdone states/UTswerealsoaskedtosub-
among farmer organisations, after Prime Minister Narendra there is a fight for supremacy Dal (RLD) chief Jayant ers will have to remain alert till ment you voted to power. With in the past few years to improve mit papers on contemporary se-
which are not thinking about Modi announced his decision to among themselves. These peo- Chaudhary. these laws are repealed in the our unity, we can force any gov- policinginthestate. curityissuesbeingdiscussedinthe
benefits to small farmers. repeal the three central farm ple cannot think about the ben- Addressing a gathering at a Parliament as the PM may not ernment to kneel down if it does The three-day conference, conference,theMinistryofHome
The Minister of State for laws in the upcoming parlia- efits to small farmers,” he said. government college at have an academic degree but he any wrong,” said the RLD chief. hostedbytheIntelligenceBureau, Affairssaid.

UP-Uttarakhand agreement: Rawat says Health to education, TN brings out child rights policy

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Dhami ‘surrendered’ interests of state defecation, etc,” said the docu- The policy will focus on key
EXPLAINED

a state CM and is the advocate of

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, NOVEMBER 20 Legacy ofsocial ment.
Thepolicydocumentwas re-
health interventions and as-
pects such as investing in the
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
DEHRADUN, NOVEMBER 20 Former CM
the rights of their state. It ap-
pears that Uttarakhand CM has THE TAMIL Nadu government
●
welfare investment leased by Chief Minister M K
Stalin at a function held at the
first 1,000 days of children; ad-
dressing determinants of foeti-
Harish completely surrendered to the Saturday released a policy Secretariat,saidastatement.The cide, child mortality and mor-
SENIOR CONGRESS leader and Rawat national stature of UP CM. I feel specifically aimed at ensuring KNOWN FOR pioneering the mid-day meal scheme — policy for children is intended to bidity; taking measures to help
former Uttarakhand CM Harish sad that Uttarakhand CM ap- the well-being of children which was later picked up by other states in the past four set benchmarks on all indicators people take informed decisions
Rawat on Saturday alleged that peared very small in front of UP across a range of indices such as decades — Tamil Nadu also has the lowest rates of infant on a par with international stan- on birth; strengthening the
Chief Minister Pushkar Singh The former CM said the party CM in advocating the welfare of health, nutrition, and access to and neonatal mortalities and prevalence of stunting. Its pri- dards. public health system; and en-
Dhami has “surrendered” to his would also explore legal ways to Uttarakhand,” he said. schooling. mary school enrolment rate is also among the highest in The document formulates suring nutrition, safe institu-
Uttar Pradesh counterpart over oppose the agreement. Rawat was referring to The government said The India.The latest policy drafted for children is in line with the guiding principles based on the tional deliveries, and childcare
an agreement between the two “It is our allegation that in Dhami’s meeting with UP CM Tamil Nadu State Policy for state’s track record of investing in social welfare systems. UN Convention on the Rights of access.
states on the division of assets the meeting of Thursday be- YogiAdityanathondivisionofthe Children aims “to create a bright the Child (UNCRC), 1989, Thepolicyalsocontainsmul-
and liabilities. tween two chief ministers, not two states’ liabilities and assets. future for its children, and National Policy for Children, tiple measures on providing
Uttarakhand was carved out only have the present rights of BJP spokesperson Shadab achieve the Sustainable average, the following are some mortality rate, under 5 mortal- 2013, the National Plan of Action learning access and removing
of UP in 2000. Uttarakhand been sold out to Shams said that Rawat is ques- Development Goals” for them. issues that are preventable and ity rate, child sex ratio, full im- 2016 and the UN document barriers to education such as
Rawat told reporters in Uttar Pradesh, but even the fu- tioning the agreement only be- “Even though Tamil Nadu needs the attention of the munization, body mass index, ‘Transforming our world, The gender and social exclusion,
DehradunthattheCongresswill ture rights related to water have cause he failed to do it during his fares better on many of the in- Government of Tamil Nadu: gross enrolment ratio at high 2030 Agenda for Sustainable childmarriage,childlabour,gen-
opposethisinthestateAssembly. been handed over. A state CM is tenure as CM. dices compared to the national malnutrition, anaemia, infant andhighersecondarylevel,open Development’. der and social exclusion.

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Maharashtra slashes excise duty

on imported foreign liquor by 50%
25 killed, 17 missing as flash Bengal: 10 people
arrested for child

floods ravage Andhra Pradesh

trafficking, 20

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those international brands that kids rescued
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EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE are bottled in India. It also does

MUMBAI, NOVEMBER 20 notapplytoIndianMadeForeign
Why excise Liquor brands. The new excise EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
THE MAHARASHTRA govern- ● duty was cut rates have come into effect from Annamayya project getting KOLKATA, NOVEMBER 20
ment has slashed excise duty on the date of the notification, on PRESS TRUST OF INDIA breached and left a trail of de-
imported foreign liquor by 50 WITH MAHARASHTRA November 18, Nair said. AMARAVATI, NOVEMBER 20 structioninmanyvillagesdown- THEDAUGHTER-IN-LAWofafor-
per cent to curb inter-state levying 300-per cent ex- According to officials, the cut stream undertheRajampetcon- mer top civic body official and
smuggling and bring the prices cise duty on imported inexcise duty willhelpboostde- HEAVYRAINundertheinfluence stituency. nineotherswerearrestedearlyon
of imported liquor on par with whisky, the exorbitant clining sales of importedwhisky of a low-pressure area in the Bay Over30peoplewerewashed Saturday for allegedly running a
those of other states. State gov- rates of imported liquor in Maharashtra. The state gov- of Bengal left25 persons, includ- away from three villages along child trafficking racket from a
ernment officials said the meas- in the state has meant ernment has earned revenue of ing a member of the State theCheyyerurivercourse,where home care centre in Kolkata. At
ure was expected to increasethe there was a lot of smug- approximatelyRs 100 croreeach Disaster Response Force (SDRF), water from the Annamayya least 20 children have been res-
government’srevenue by Rs 150 gling, and black market- in 2019-20 and 2020-21 finan- dead in different districts of medium irrigation project cued from the home run by the
crore in a year. ing from other states and cial years, which is half of its rev- Andhra Pradesh since Friday, gushedin.AtonepointonFriday, woman for the last five years.
State excise department offi- UTs such as Goa, Daman, enuein2018-19,fromsaleof im- while 17 persons were reported two lakh cusecs of floodwater Policealsoquestionedtheformer
cials said that excise duty on im- Delhi, Chandigarh, ported whisky. to be missing, the state govern- flowed out of Annamayya proj- civic body official.
ported whisky, brandy, rum and among others. The re- The excise rates were in- ment said on Saturday. ectwhileitsnormalcapacitywas Accordingtosources,afamily
vodka has been brought down duction in excise duty is creased in January 2019. TheIndianAirForce,National just two tmc ft. adoptedagirlfromthehometwo
from300percentto150percent expected to boost sales, Officials said the decline in Disaster Response Force(NDRF), Kadapa, thus, reported the andahalfyearsago.Thegirlcom-
of the manufacturing cost. “We and thereby lift revenues revenuewasduetohightaxeson SDRF, Police and Fire Services highest toll of 13 so far. plained to her adoptive parents
expect that the sales will go up of the state excise imported whisky. In fact, personnel saved at least 64 per- In Kadiri town in thatshehadbeensexuallyabused
fromthe current1lakhcasesper department. Maharashtra had among the sons, including a police inspec- Anantapuramu district, a build- at the home. The couple then
year to 2.5 lakh cases per year. highest excise duty on imported tor,fromthemassiveflashfloods ingunderconstructioncollapsed lodged a police complaint.
The revenue is expected to in- whisky of 300 per cent as com- in Anantapuramu, Kadapa and due to incessant rain and fell on Based on the allegations, po-
crease from Rs 100 crore to The excise reduction will ap- pared to neighbouring states. Chittoor districts, the govern- an adjoining building, killing at lice and the Child Welfare
Rs 250 crore,” said Valsa Nair ply only to imported liquor Now, with the new notification, ment said in a note. least seven persons, including Department raided the home on
Singh, principal secretary of the brandsbottledandpackedinthe theexcisedutyhasbeenbrought Chief Minister Y S Jagan three children. Friday.Sourcessaidofficialsfound
state excise department. country of origin, and not to on par with the other states. MohanReddyconductedanaer- Police and revenue authori- thatthenumberofchildrenatthe
ial survey in Kadapa, ties rescuedsevenmore persons homedidnotmatchwiththegov-
AnantapuramuandChittoordis- from the mishap site. ernmentdata.Policearrestedthe
Maoists blow up railway Narendra Giri death
case: Disciple, two
tricts to assess the damage.
He spoke to Collectors of
In Chittoor district, four per-
sons were killed in rain-related
owner and nine others.
Child and Women

tracks in Jharkhand, train others charged with

Kadapa and Chittoor districts
and obtained details about the
devastation and asked the offi-
incidents, according to the gov-
ernment. In SPS Nellore district,
aconstable placedintheSDRFat
Development Minister Sashi
Panja said, “Whoever is the cul-
prit,policewilltakeactionwithin
services disrupted briefly abetting suicide cials to conduct enumeration of
the crop losses as soon as the
Vizianagaram drowned while
carrying out a rescue operation
thelegalframework.Nobodywill
be spared.”
floodwater receded. A Naval helicopter conducts rescue operations in Kadapa in Damaramadugu village.
MANISH SAHU The government announced district of Andhra Pradesh on Saturday. PTI A total of 243 relief camps
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA LUCKNOW, NOVEMBER 20 an ex-gratia payment of Rs 5 were opened in thefour districts Out on survey
LATEHAR, MEDININAGAR, lakh each to the kin of those where 20,923 persons evacu-
CHAIBASA, NOVEMBER 20 THE CBI, which is investigating killed. grim, with many areas inun- thoughthetwostairwaysmeant ated from flood-hit areas were work, forest
the death of Akhil Bharatiya The intensity of the rainfall dated, the scene on the holy for pilgrims to trek the Hills re- lodged.
SUSPECTED MEMBERS of Akhara Parishad chairman reduced on Saturday, but TirumalaHillswasrelativelybet- mained closed. Pilgrims who Meanwhile, at least 10 guard mauled
banned CPI (Maoist) blew up Mahant Narendra Giri, on broughtlittlerespitetopeopleas ter, though pouring rain did in- booked tickets online were be- Express trains have been can-
portions of railway tracks in Saturday filed a chargesheet several habitations remained convenience pilgrims. The ing allowed for darshan of Lord celled on Saturday and Sunday to death by tiger
Jharkhand’s Latehar and West against three men, including his marooned because of the flash Tirumala Tirupati Venkateswara. due to flooding of the railway
Singhbhum districts in the early disciple Anand Giri, on charges floods. While the situation in Devasthanams reopened the ThedelugeintheCM’snative trackintheNellore-Padugupadu
hours of Saturday, disrupting of abetmentof suicideandcrim- Tirupati town still remained ghat roads for vehicular traffic, Kadapa district saw the section in Vijayawada division. VIVEK DESHPANDE
train services on Barkakana- Officials at the site of the inal conspiracy. NAGPUR, NOVEMBER 20
Garhwa and Howrah-Mumbai explosion on Saturday. PTI The other two accused are
routes, police said. AddhyaTiwari,priestof theBade KERALA A WOMAN forest guard was
A rail track between Sonua
and Lotapahar stations in West
Singhbhum, under
between Sonua and Lotapahar
anddamagedsome sleepersun-
Hanuman temple in Prayagraj,
and his son Sandeep.
The accused are presently
RSS worker killing: BJP to seek NIA probe mauledtodeathbyatigressinthe
core area of
Tadoba-Andhari
ChakradharpurDivisionof South derneath the tracks. lodged in Naini Central Jail in Local police are yet to make any the last five years, 10 RSS-BJP life,’’ Surendran added. Tiger Reserve in
EasternRailway(SER),wasdam- Services on the Howrah- Prayagraj. SHAJU PHILIP arrests in the case. workers have been killed by the The FIR on Sanjith’s killing, Chandrapur dis-
aged on Friday night in a blast Mumbai line were restored via The CBI is investigating the THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Kerala BJP had alleged that group. Police are yet to unravel submitted in a local court, had trictonSaturday.
that was allegedly triggered by an alternate track from 8 am on case on the recommendation of NOVEMBER 20 the Social Democratic Party of the conspiracy behind these stated that the murder was po- Accordingto
the Maoists. Saturday and fully restored two the state government. India (SDPI), the political arm of killings. In the killing of Sanjith, liticalinnature,butdidnotname TATR Field
The banned outfit had called hours later, he said. “Achargesheethasbeenfiled SIX DAYS after RSS worker the Popular Front of India (PFI), police are afraid of revealing the any party. Swati Director Jitendra
for a nationwide bandh on In Latehar, too, a blast took against Anand Giri, Addhya S Sanjith was killed in an attack was behind the killing – an alle- role of PFI and SDPI,” he alleged. In the Sanjith killing, the as- Dhumane Ramgaokar, 46-
Saturday to protest against the place on the railway tracks be- Tiwari and Sandeep Tiwari on by unidentified assailants in gation denied by SDPI. Surendran said the police sailants chose a deserted stretch year-old forest
arrest of its top leader Prashant tween Richughuta and Demu charges of abetment of suicide Palakkad district, the state unit Speaking to reporters on were reluctant to arrest the ac- of road, which indicates plan- guard Swati
Bose alias Kishan Da, who was stations around 12:30 am, and criminal conspiracy. of the BJP on Saturday said it Saturday, state BJP chief K cused due to a nexus between ning,theysaid.OnTuesday,aday Dhumane was doing a sign sur-
carrying a bounty of Rs 1 crore, Deputy Inspector General of Investigation is on,” said an offi- would seek an NIA investigation Surendran said he would meet the ruling CPI(M) and SPDI. after the murder, five swords vey under All India Tiger
by the Jharkhand Police. Police,PalamuRange,RajKumar cer of the central agency. into the matter. Union Minister Amit Shah on “CPI(M) is using SDPI to execute were found abandoned in the Estimation (AITE) 2022 pro-
Ajay Linda, the District Lakra, said. On September 20, the seer Sanjith, 27, was attacked by a Monday to seek an NIA probe its barbaric policy of killing po- district. Police have intensified gramme with the help of three
Superintendent of Police, told All police stations in Palamu, wasfoundhangingfromtheceil- group of people in the presence into the killing. “BJP would con- litical rivals. Sanjith had faced searches in Palakkad and neigh- forestlabourersonfootwhenthe
PTI that suspected insurgents Garhwa and Latehar have been ing of his room at the of his wife Arshika on Monday duct mass agitations against threats in the past, but police did bouring Coimbatore district of tigress, known as Maya (aged
triggered a low-intensity blast put on high alert, the DIG said. Baghambari Math in Prayagraj. morning in Elappully village. CPI(M)-SDPI nexus in Kerala. In not take any action to protect his Tamil Nadu, they said. about 10 years), attacked and
killed Dhumane.
“Dhumane and three forest
Swachh 2021 rankings: Surat still ED serves summons to labourers started their work
around 7 am and had walked

in 2nd spot, Vijayawada follows US-based executive in about four km from the Kolara
gate of TATR, when they spotted
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Devas-Antrix deal case
Housing and Urban Affairs said Saturday.
In the state awards, Chhattisgarh
emerged as the ‘Cleanest State’ for the
leaveforabout30minutes.Butas
she didn't move, Dhumane de-
cidedtotakeadetour...Itwasthen
third consecutive year in the category of MultimediaAmericaInc(DMAI), that the tigress followed the four
GUJARAT’SSURATmaintaineditsposition “morethan100UrbanLocalBodies”while EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE the US subsidiary. personsandattackedDhumane,”
as the second cleanest city in India with a Jharkhand, for the second time, won the BENGALURU, NOVEMBER 20 In September this year, the Ramgaokar said.
population over 10 lakh after Madhya cleanest state award in the ‘less than 100 special court rejected a plea by
Pradesh’s Indore in the Swachh ULBs category’. THE ENFORCEMENTDirectorate theEDtosplitthetrialintotwo—
Survekshan 2021, the Centre’s annual The findings were released on (ED) has served summons to the one against eight accused who Antilia scare:
cleanliness survey to promote sanitation Saturday by President Ram Nath Kovind. Founder CEO of a Bengaluru have been served summons and
inurbancentresundertheSwachhBharat The second session of the event focused space start-up and the firm’s US another against Vishwanathan Court grants bail
Mission. Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh, on commemorating World Toilet Day subsidiary through diplomatic and Devas Multimedia America
swapped places with Navi Mumbai to (November 19) and saw the top perform- channels to facilitate the start of Inc. in this case. to accused, NIA
OFFICE OF THE SUPRINTENDING ENGINEER move to the third spot from last year’s ers in the first-ever Safaimitra Suraksha a trial in a money laundering TheEDchargesheetwasfiled
RURAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, fourth. Challenge being recognised. case over three years after filing in July 2018. to approach HC
Among states, Karnataka and Indore, Navi Mumbai, Nellore and a chargesheet against them. Amongtheotheraccusedare
CIRCLE BAREILLY Mizoram were the ‘fastest mover states’ Dewas emerged as the top performers, The money laundering case severalDevasofficials,threesub-
Address :- Near D.M Compound, Station Road, Bareilly in the rankings in the big (more than 100 across different population categories arose out of a failed satellite deal sidiariesof the firmanda former EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
E-Procurement Notice Urban Local Bodies) and small (less than among 246 participating cities in the in 2005 between Devas executive director of the Antrix MUMBAI, NOVEMBER 20
Letter NO: 1174/RED/Tender-Bareilly/ E-Tender/2021-22 dated: 12.11.2021 100 ULBs) state category, respectively. Challenge, launched last year by the Multimedia and ISRO’s Antrix Corporation – the commercial
1. THE SUPRINTENDING ENGINEER RURAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, CIRCLE
“Hoshangabad (Madhya Pradesh) Ministry to eradicate human fatalities Corporation. arm of ISRO. A SPECIAL court on Saturday
BAREILLY on behalf of Governor of Uttar Pradesh invites the percentage rate bids emergedasthe ‘FastestMoverCity’(inthe from hazardous cleaning of sewers and The ED informed a special The chargesheet alleged that granted bail to an accused in the
through e-tenderingsystem from the eligible and approved Contractors registered with ‘more than 1 lakh population’ category) septic tanks. court in Bengaluru about the Devas Multimedia transferred Antilia terror scare case. Naresh
UP RED, in appropriate class A, B and C as the case may be. The Bidder may submit with a jump of 274 ranks from 361st posi- Chhattisgarh and Chandigarh bagged serving of summons on 85percentof Rs579croreof for- Gaur is the first among the 10 ac-
bid for any or all of the works. tion in the 2020 rankings to the 87th po- the award for best performing State and Ramachandran Vishwanathan, eign funding it received through cused, who were arrested, to be
2. Name of work as per table. sition this year, thus securing a place Union Territory respectively under the Founder CEO of Devas a 2005 deal with ISRO to the US granted bail.
S. Name of Name of work Total Bid Cost of Bid Period of among the top 100 cities,” the Ministry of Challenge. Multimedia, and Devas under various claims. Gaur, however, will not be re-
No District estimated security document completion leased immediately as the court
cost (EMD) in including including hasgrantedastayontheorderfor

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IFFI kicks off; Top honours for Scorsese, Hema Malini 25 days after the National
Investigation Agency (NIA) said
thatitwantstoapproachtheHigh
Twarit Aarthik Vikas Yojna (Aonla)
portunity asweleapfrogintothe dig- Court against his bail.
1 Bareilly Laying work on Khadanja 49.640 99300.00 2354.00 03 Month
road from Rajpur Kala Amla KRISHN KAUSHIK ital era of content and filmmaking, GaurwasarrestedinMarchfor
road to village Bara Sirsa. PANAJI, NOVEMBER 20 not to forget film archiving for future allegedly being involved in the
2 Bareilly Laying work on Khadanja 55.995 112000.00 2354.00 03 Month generations of film lovers,” he said. procurementofSIMcardsusedby
from village intention Rampur THE 52ND annual International Film The film screenings will open the other accused in the alleged
to Jogither. Festival of India (IFFI) began in Goa with the international premiere of conspiracy. Hisbailpleasaidthat
3 Bareilly Laying work on Khadanja 40.328 80700.00 2354.00 03 Month on Saturday with performances by the Spanish musical ‘The King of all Gaur was never contacted by the
from in front of petrol pump Bollywood personalities including the World’, directed by Carlos Saura. allegedconspiratorSachinWaze,
on village Visaratganj Aliganj
Salman Khan and Ranveer Singh, in Thenine-dayeventwill see12world, nor were there any meetings be-
road to village Wehta.
a break from tradition. 7 international and 64 national pre- tween them. It was also argued
Note:- All Tenders are being invited in anticipation of the budget. The prestigious film festival, mieres.Atotalof 624entries werere- that there is no evidence to show
3. Date of availability of Bid documents on website:- 23-11-2021 which will run eight more days, ceived from 96 countries, and from that Gaur was part of or aware of
4. Last Date/ Time for receipt of bids through e-procurement: 12-12-2021 up to 12.00 Noon awarded Hollywood legend Martin India 44 movies in 18 languages will theallegedconspiracywheregel-
5. Date of opening of bids through e-procurement: 13-12-2021 at 12.30 pm. Scorsese and Hungarian director be showcased. A total of 48 interna- atin sticks were planted in a car
6. The Employer has right to issue addendum/corrigendum as per ITB clause-10 on-line Istvan Szabo with the Satyajit Ray Union minister Anurag Thakur presents the Indian Film Personality tional films from nearly 75 nations and parked near Antilia, the resi-
which will not be published in any news paper. All prospective bidders are advised to
Lifetime Achievement Award. of the Year award to Hema Malini in Panaji on Saturday. PTI will be screened at the festival. dence of industrialist Mukesh
keep regular watch and visit e-tender portal regularly.
In an acceptance video, Scorsese In another change from previous Ambaniandthesubsequentmur-
For further details please log on to https://etender.up.nic.in and down load the bid
document. said he considers Ray one of his mas- years, realising the significant role der of Thane-resident Mansukh
(Anil Kumar Sharma) ters. Szabo, whose 1981 film Former actor and BJP MP from Minister for Information and that OTT players now have in the en- Hiran, linked to the car.
Superintending Engineer
‘Mephisto’ won Hungary’s first Oscar Mathura, Hema Malini, received the Broadcasting Anurag Thakur pitched tertainment industry, major OTT TheNIAinitschargesheethad
Rural Engineering Department
Circle Bareilly for best foreign film, said that he was Indian Film Personality of the Year Indiaasaglobalcontentcreationhub. platforms including Netflix,Amazon, not invoked the charges of
UPID-169954 honoured thatIndianswere aware of Award for 2021, “The film and entertainment in- Sony among others have also partic- UnlawfulActivity(Prevention)Act
On behalf of Governor of UP
his work. At the opening ceremony, Union dustryoffersahugeemploymentop- ipated in IFFI. against Gaur.

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E-AUCTION SALE NOTICE FOR SALE OF IMMOVABLE PROPERTIES
E-auction Sale Notice for Sale of Immovable Assets under the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement
of Security Interest Act, 2002 read with proviso to Rule 8(6) of the Security Interest (Enforcement) Rules, 2002.

2008 Malegaon blast:

Notice is hereby given to the public in general and in particular to the Borrower(s) and Guarantor(s) that the below described immovable property
mortgaged/charged to the Secured Creditor, the CONSTRUCTIVE POSSESSION of which have been taken by the Authorised Officer of State
Bank of India, the Secured Creditor, will be sold on “As is Where is”, As is What is” and “Whatever there is” basis on 08.12.2021 (Wednesday).

Witness denies meeting

Other detials of the e-auction are as under:
Sl. Name of Amount of Description of the property Name of Date of Reserve Price
No. Borrower(s) Demand (as Mortgagor/ demand below which

Purohit, declared hostile per SARFAESI (All that part and parcel of the property Guarantor notice the property
will not be sold
notice) consisting of land, building & structures as per under
EMD
details hereunder) SARFAESI
Bid Increment
oneofthetrusteesoftheorganisa- Act
Amount
SADAF MODAK tion,deposedbeforethecourtlast 1. M/s Mayank `30,93,008.00 All that land & building measuring 1 Kattha 10 1. Shri Amrendra 30.01.2020 `47,00,000/-
MUMBAI, NOVEMBER 20 week that she had never met Enterprises, Prop.: as on Dhur or 0.04¾ Acres located at Mouza-Takiya, Kumar Tiwari `4,70,000/-
Purohit, nor was Purohit present Mrs. Kiran Kumari 19.12.2019 Ward No.-1/3/25, Anchal-Sasaram, Holding 2. Smt. Lacho `10,000/-
A WITNESS linked to Abhinav in meetings organised by Trust W/o Shri Amrendra with further No.-1072, Thana-Sasaram, Thana No.-151, Devi W/o Shri
Bharat Trust denied having met members in Pune after it was es- Kumar Tiwari Interest, Cost Distt.-Rohtas, Bihar. This land is covered under Ramdarash Tiwari
2008 Malegaon blast accused Lt tablishedin2006.Shealsodenied Charges, Other Khata No.269, Plot No.1182 and the Registered 3. Shri Pramod
Col Prasad Purohit and was de- thatPurohithadcontrolontheex- miscellaneous Mortgage/Simple Mortgage executed by Smt. Kumar Tiwari
clared hostile for not supporting penditure of the Trust. expenses etc. Lacho Devi, Shri Pramod Kumar Tiwari & Shri 4. Shri Binod
Binod Kumar Tiwari vide Deed No.-13297 dated Kumar Tiwari
the prosecution. This is the sev- Asked about the statement
30/09/2015. The Boundaries of the land are:-
enthwitnesssofartoturnhostile part of ATS chargesheet, the wit- dk;kZy;] jk¡ph uxj fuxe] jk¡ph North-Lalita Devi, South-Chandrika Mahto, East-
in the case. ness told the court she could not
The Maharashtra Anti- remember whether her state-
(vfHk;a=.k 'kk[kk) Rasta 6 Feet, West-Niz Man Mokir.
Property ID: SBIN88538404588
TerrorismSquad(ATS),whichini- ment had been recorded at all. dpgjh jksM] jkaph] fiu & 834001
e-mail :- support@ranchimunicipal.com 2. M/s Rameshwar `23,12,609.00 Equitable Mortgage of all that land & building Shri Rameshwar 08.01.2019 `17,00,000/-
tially probed the case, had said The ATS had said the witness Enterprises, as on in the name of Shri Rameshwar Tiwari S/o Shri Tiwari S/o Shri `1,70,000/-
i=kad %& 125/Eng fnukad %& 20-11-2021
thatPurohitwasafounder-mem- was a trustee of Abhinav Bharat 'kqf¼&i= Prop. Shri Vishnu 07.01.2019 Ramadhar Tiwari vide Gift Deed No.-3367 dated Ramadhar Tiwari `10,000/-
berofAbhinavBharatTrustandit andtwoaccused,PurohitandAjay Shankar Tiwari S/o with further 30/06/1997 located at Mouza-Dharupur, Thana &
wasallegedlybeingusedasaplat- Rahirkar, were its members. The NIT No- 112/vfHk0] fnukad 21-10-2021 }kjk vkeaf=r Shri Rameshwar Interest, Cost Anchal-Bikramganj, Bihar under Thana No.-526,
formtoimplementtheextremist statement was to establish their fufonk ds ek/;e ls Laying of pavour block at different Tiwari Charges, Other Halka No.-3, Sub Registry Office-Bikramganj,
ideology of the accused. The ATS linktotheTrust. roads under ward no-50,51 & 53 dks vifjgk;Z dkj.ko'k miscellaneous Distt.-Rohtas, Bihar & Khata No.-296(new),
expenses etc. Plot No.-2512(new), Area-01 Kattha 7¾ Dhur.
linked the Trust to the blast at “I cannot assign any reason jnn~ fd;k tkrk gSA Boundaries of Land: North-Rameshwar Tiwari,
MalegaononSeptember29,2008, why these facts are mentioned in g0@&
which killed six people. The wit- my statement. I never met Prasad
'ks"k 'krsZ ;Fkkor~ jgsxhA South-Plot No.-2507 & 2511, East-Ram Equbal
PR No- 255331 dk;Zikyd vfHk;ark Tiwari, West-PCC Road/Plot No.-2767.
ness, who was said to have been Purohit,”shesaid. jkWph uxj fuxe] jkWph Property ID: SBIN89879439821
PR 257388 Ranchi Municipal Corporation(21-22)#D
E-auction Terms and Condition

After questioning
1. Date & Time of e-auction: 08.12.2021(Wednesday): Time: 120 Minutes. From 12:00 Noon to 02:00 P.M. with unlimited extension of 10
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their mobile number and email-id, and thereafter upload requisite KYC documents. Once the KYC documents are verified by the service
provider (may take 2 working days), the Bidders/Purchasers have to transfer the EMD amount using online mode (NEFT) in his Global EMD

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before the e-auction.
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DEBRAJ DEB allowed to participate in the e-auction. The Earnest Money Deposited shall not bear any interest.
AGARTALA, NOVEMBER 20 IZ AfUZQ³f R f¸fÊ ´fS AÔdI °f Wû þf°fe W`Ü BÀf ´fiI fS ÀfZ AfUZQ³fI °ffÊ IZ R f¸fÊ ·fS³fZ I e ´fidIi ¹ff ·fe A°¹fÔ°f ÀfS»f 5. MSTC Helpdesk Number (for any technical help): 033-40645207, 40645316, 40602403, 40628253. SBI contact no. (for property related
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In order to strengthen the faculty position (Speciality & Super Speciality) for U.G./P.G, courses at Government Medical
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College, Haldwani (Nainital) a "Walk-In-Interview" will be held on 27 November 2021 (Saturday) from 11:00 AM onwards,
in the "Office of the Principal, Government Medical College, Rampur Road, Haldwani (Nainital) Uttarakhand". The
appointments will be made on the contractual basis initially for one year, which may be further extendable annually, subject to a
satisfactory appraisal report by the concerned Head of Department, for a maximum tenure of 03 years only or till regular
appointment are made. The vacancy position in various departments is as given below:

S.No. Department Designation

Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor
1 Anatomy (MD/MS) 01 -- 04
2 Physiology (MD) -- 01 04
3 Biochemistry (M.D.) 01 01 02
4 Microbiology (MD) -- 01 02
5 Pharmacology (MD) -- 01 03
6 Pathology (MD) -- 01 02
7 Forensic Medicine (MD) -- 02 01
8 Community Medicine -- 02 04
9 General Medicine -- 02 11
10 T.B. Chest -- 01 02
11 Skin V.D -- 01 01
12 Psychiatry -- 01 01
13 Paediatrics 01 01 04
14 General Surgery -- 03 09
15 Orthopaedics -- 02 03
16 E.N.T. 01 00 01
17 Gynaecology & Obstetrics -- 02 10
18 Radiology -- 02 04
19 Anesthesiology -- 03 04
20 Emergency Medicine 01 01 02
21 Neuro Surgery 01 -- --
22 Nephrology 01 01 01
23 Cardiology 01 01 01
24 Urology 01 01 --
25 Plastic Surgery 01 -- --

Emoluments per month :

(a) Professor :- Rs. 1.43,000/-p.m. fixed (Annual increment Rs 6000/-)
(b) Associate Professor :- Rs. 1,23,000/-p.m. fixed (Annual increment Rs. 6000/-)
(c) Assistant Professor :- Rs. 95,000/-p.m. fixed (Annual increment Rs. 3600/-)
Age: As per MCI norms.
Qualification for Faculty:- As per MCI Norms.
Reservation: As per Uttarakhand State Govt. Rules.

No TA / DA will be admissible for attending the interview. The Chairman, interview committee reserves the right to
accept/reject any application without assigning any reason and also reserves the right to fill or not to fill any of the the post.
Number of posts advertised may be increased or decreased as per requirement. Candidate must bring their resume along
with original MBBS, MD/MS/DM/MCH/DNB degree, Medical Council/State Council Registration certificate, Experience
Certificate and Undergraduate teaching certificate during MD/MS/DM/MCh/DNB course and other relevant documents, a set of
photocopies thereof. Two recent passport size color photographs are needed at the time of Interview.
-Sd
PRINCIPAL,
Advt No. 216/GMC/Apptt. Date: 20/11/2021 GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE, HALDWANI

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KUMAR alias PATIL KUMAR S/O 103, Link Apartment, I.P. Extension,
LATE SHRI PHOOL SINGH, Delhi-10092 is the owner and in
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PHUGANA, TEHSIL-SHAMLI, possession letter dated 24/02/1991,
GPA, Agreement to Sell, Will &
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PRADESH-247776 have regarding her above said Flat. An
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18/11/2021 P.S- Crime Branch, Delhi
hereafter be known as PATIL to this effect has been lodged.
KUMAR. Any person(s) claiming any right,
interest or having any objection or
0040592707-1 found in possession of above original
documents may write/contact with
I, Saif Ahmad Khan S/o Nadeem above said client or to her son Sh.
Ahmed R/o-A-48, Vivek Vihar, Venkatesh Shantaram at phone
number 9741790142 or me.
PH-2, Delhi have changed my
Sd/-
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ENGINEER,
name to Saif Ahmed VIKAS GOYAL (ADVOCATE) KASHMIR PHE JAL SHAKTI DEPARTMENT SRINAGAR
permanently. CHAMBER No. 735 L, NOTICE INVITING TENDER
WESTERN WING
0070762194-1 TIS HAZARI COURTS, e-NIT No. 71 OF 2021-22 Dated: 17.11.2021
DELHI-110054 For and on behalf of Lt. Governor of UT of J&K, Chief Engineer Jal Shakti (PHE) Department, Kashmir/Jammu invites e-tenders from
I, SHYAM TAK s/o POONAM M-8588827669 reputed and resourceful Contractors/ Firms/Companies/Joint Venture of all classes registered in JKPWD/CPWD/Railways or any other
CHAND TAK r/o F-288, GF, Back state Government for “Empanelment of Eligible Contractors at Provincial Level and fixing of item rates for HILLY AREAS (GRAVITY)
falling in District Baramulla for Execution of Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) works costing Above 50 lacs up to 100 lacs (GROUP III)”, details
Side portion, Mansarover of which are given below. The bidding process shall be completed online in two covers viz. Cover 1st consisting of Pre-Qualification
Garden, Delhi-110015 have Bidding, tender fee, earnest money, General Terms and Conditions and Technical Specifications. Cover ‘2nd’ shall consist of Financial
changed my name to SHYAM PUBLIC NOTICE Bid in the prescribed BOQ.
SUNDER TAK. This is for information of General public that
my client Smt. Pragati Saxena W/o Sh. Rahul
Sr. Particulars of the work Estimated Cost of Earnest Bid Time of
Saxena absolute owner of the Residential
No. Cost Document/Tender Money Validity Completion of
0040592745-1 Dwelling Unit bearing No. 311/GC-10, on 3rd (Lacs) Fee (in Rs.) (Lacs) Work (Days)
MALYALEE KERALITE Floor, in Tower-B, Gaur City-2, at Plot No.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
I, Maninder Kaur w/o Tejinder GH-03, in Sector-16-C, Greater Noida, Distt.
Singh Kohli, R/o 15/40, Punjabi Hindu G. B. Nagar, U.P. misplaced & lost the 1. Empanelment of eligible contractors at Provincial Work/Scheme 1000/- 180
original Sub Lease Deed dated 23.01.2017
Bagh West, New Delhi-110026 Maruthuvar/Vilakkuthalai Nair executed between GNIDA & M/s. Gaursons level and fixing of item rates for each district/geo- wise details given Days
,fair,tall ,26yrs engineer seeks Promoters Pvt. Ltd. in favour of Smt. Pragati graphically different zone for execution of Jal in Section-II of
have changed my name to Saxena, registered as document No. 1392. tender document
suitable groom. Contact Jeevan Mission (JJM) works. These works are
Maninder Kaur Kohli That complaint had been lodged at Police
broadly consisting of: -
9486407217 Station Bisrakh Greater Noida, 07.09.2020
U.P. if any persons finds the above stated a. Construction of water supply schemes by way of
document, it is requested to hand over the
0050186735-1 same to the undersigned And If any persons filtration plants, pump houses, service reservoir,
0040592762-1 have any claim whatsoever with respect to Overhead tanks, laying of distribution mains.
the above said property, he/she is required b. Retrofitting of electro-mechanical equipment’s
I, Kavita w/o Raman Wadhwa r/o undersigned within 15 days from the date of

46, White avenue, distt

SIKH/PUNJABI publication forming basis of such claim, failing at various Water Supply Schemes

Amritsar-143001 have changed Required Suitable match for

which it shall be concluded that there is no
clam whatsoever against the abovesaid Group- III Above 50 Lacs 0.50 90 OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDING ENGINEER
my name to KAVITA WADHWA. beautiful Weaver Girl
property and my clients can proceed with her
intended object pertaining to the abovestated
upto 100 Lacs
PHED CIRCLE SAWAI MADHOPUR
M.A.(Eco), B.Com, B.Ed. Aged
property.
Sd/-
Position of funds: Approved Under Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM)
The tender inviting authority is Chief Engineer, Kashmir Jal Shakti (PHE) Department. The awarding authority is District Jal Jeevan
(Ph 07462-220062) e-mail - sephed_swm@rediffmail.com
about 35 years, working as Suresh Kumar
Mission (DJJM). No.: SE/PH/SWM/2021-22/NIT/8291-8303 Date. 12.11.2021
0040592744-1 Advocate
Note: In view of the fact, that this NIT for item rate contract has been framed for the first time in the Department, a helpdesk Notice Inviting Tender (e-NIT No. 113 to 114/2021-22)
Govt. Elementary Teacher En. No. D/3617/2009
shall be established at the Direction office level as well as district level for encouraging and facilitating the intending On behalf of the Governor of Rajasthan Online Tenders are hereby invited from eligible
I, Kamal Kumar Chopra, S/o- since 2009. Boy residing 26/48, DSIDC, PKT-2, Mayur Vihar
bidders for participation in the instant NIT to ensure wide participation across all the Districts.
Ph-I, New Delhi-110091 bidders for following various works under Jal Jeevan Mission as per criteria mentioned in
Devender Mohan Chopra, Patiala, Ropar, Fatehgarh KEY/CRITICAL DATES: the detailed NIT/Tender documents available on website “http://eproc.rajasthan.gov.in”,
residing-B-116, Swasthya Sahib, Ludhiana and I PUBLISH DATE 18.11.2021 “www.rajwater.gov.in”, “http://sppp.rajasthan.gov.in. Tenders are to be submitted online
Vihar, Delhi-110092,have Malerkotla, Districtspreferred. in electronic format on website “http://eproc.rajasthan.gov.in” as per prescribed schedule.
II DOCUMENT DOWNLOAD/SALE START DATE 18.11.2021
changed my name to Kamal Contact +91-7506780727, +91- NIB PHE2122A4244
III CLARIFICATION START DATE 18.11.2021
Chopra,for all purposes. 9465225114 NIT No Name of work E.C. Rs. Completion UBN No.
IV BID SUBMISSION START DATE 23.11.2021 In lacs Period
0040592771-1 0020429815-1 V CLARIFICATION END DATE 10.12.2021 113/21-22 Conversion from HP to MVS water supply 113.00 09 Months PHE2122WS
VI PRE-BID MEETING DATE 23.11.2021 scheme Soorgarh Tehsil Bamanwas and OB09425
I,LALAN YADAV,S/o-Domi Distt. S. Madhopur Under JJM
VII DOCUMENT DOWNLOAD/SALE END DATE 14.12.2021
Yadav,R/o-107/12,IVth 114/21-22 Conversion from Handpump to Solar 230.76 09 Months PHE2122WS
VIII BID SUBMISSION END DATE 14.12.2021
Floor,Room No.1,Gali PUBLIC NOTICE IX DATE AND TIME OF BID OPENING 16.12.2021
based piped water supply scheme In 05
Villages of Block Khandar and Distt.
OB09427
No.5,Krishna Nagar, S.Madhopur Under JJM
Safdarjung Enclave,New Delhi- 1. Bid documents can be assessed at and downloaded from the websites http://jktenders.gov.in
Bid Bidder has to submit declaration on Rs. 50/- plus 30% surcharge stamp paper
110029,have change my name 2. The pre-bid meeting will be held in the office chamber of the Chief Engineer, Kashmir/Jammu, PHE Department, through
Security as per F.D. Circular Dt. 23.12.2020
virtual/online mode.
to LALAN KUMAR YADAV, for all 3. The Bids shall be deposited on the websitehttp://jktenders.gov.in Last date of Bid Submission 06.12.2021 up to 6.00 PM
purposes. 4. The complete bidding process will be online http://jktenders.gov.in. Bid opening date 07.12.2021 at 02.00 Pm
5. The Financial bids of the bidders shall be opened online in the office of the Chief Engineer, Kashmir/Jammu, Jal Shakti (PHE) Department.
0040592767-4 6. Bids must be accompanied by bid security and cost of Tender Document as specified in column 6 & 7 of the table and shall be Note - The cost of tender document payable online in favour of Executive Engineer PHED
Div Sawai Madhopur, RISL processing charges of Rs. 500/- (NIB cost upto 50.00 Lacs and
payable at Srinagar/Jammu.
I,Nishi Bidhuri D/o Vinod Rs. 1000/- (NIB cost above 50.00 Lacs).
a. Bid Security to be pledged in favour of FA/CAO, Kashmir/Jammu, Jal Shakti PHE Department. Bid Security will have to be in
Sd/-
Bidhuri,W/o Abhishek Basoya form of CDR/ FDR/BG of any scheduled Bank and shall have to be valid for at least one year after last date of submission of
Bid. The Bid of bidders having bid security less than as specified above will be rejected. (Sitaram Meena)
R/o.House. No.275, Churiya- Superintending Engineer
b. The cost of downloaded tender documents should be in form of DD /TR/e challan in favour of FA/CAO, Kashmir/Jammu, Jal
Mohalla, Madanpur-Khadar, Shakti (PHE) Department. DIPR - 11637 PHED Circle Sawai Madhopur
Sarita -Vihar,New Delhi-110076, 7. The hard copies of cost of tender document in shape of DD/TR/e-challan, Earnest money in shape of CDR/FDR/BG and other rel-
have changed my name to evant documents shall be obtained from the bidder who is declared as L1 after opening of financial cover.
Nishi,for all purposes.
8. The bid shall remain open for acceptance for a period of 180 days from the date of opening of price bids. If any bidder/tenderer
withdraws his bid/tender before the said period or makes any modifications in the terms and conditions of the bid, the said earnest
;krk;kr fu;eksa dk ikyu djas ,oa nq?kZVuk ls cpsaA
0040592767-5 money shall stand forfeited and the bid shall be declared non-responsive.
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10. Queries by email if any should be made at kmrphed@gmail.com
I,RIKABU SHAH R/o-SADAN RAM
GARH CHANDAULI,CHANDAULI- No: CE/PHE/27551-62 Chief Engineer, iFk fuekZ.k foHkkx] iF
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Date: 17.11.2021 DIPK-12995/21 Kashmir, Jal Shakti,
UTTAR PRADESH-232107, have
changed my son’s name,from
PHE Department.
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MUHMMAD ADIL SHAH to Tender Reference No. : RCD/KODERMA/1342/2021
MUHMMAD ADIL,vide-
affidavit,dated-17-11-2021. fnukad:-20.11.2021
IRQP/Strengthening Work of Khori
0040592771-4
dk;Z dk uke Mahua-Dhanwar-Sariya Road under
1.
I Haiment S/O Ashok Kumar Road Division, Koderma for the Year
born on 11-08-1988 residing at Web site : www.assamtenders.gov.in, www.dmeassam.gov.in, email:dme@assam.gov.in, dmeassam@gmail.com, 2021-22
Wz-2121 2nd Floor Rani Bagh No. Rs. 18,88,27,300.00 (vB~Bkjg djksM+
Delhi-110034 have changed my 2. izkDdfyr jkf'k vB~Bklh yk[k lÙkkbZl gtkj rhu lkS :Ik;s ) ek=A
name to Hemant Malhotra vide
affidavit dated 16-11-2021
INVITATION FOR E-BID (IFB) Rs. 18,88,273.00 (vB~Bkjg yk[k vB~Bklh
3. vxz/ku dh jkf'k
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4. dk;Z iw.kZ djus dh vof/k 06(N%) ekgA
0050187510-1 E-Tenders are invited online through e-procurement system i.e. through website 5. csolkbV ij fufonk izdk’ku dh
29.11.2021, 10:30 cts rdA
I hitherto known as ANIL www.assamtenders.gov.in from the intending Manufacturer/Accredited Dealers for supply & frfFkA
AGARWAL alias DHANANJAI installation of various equipment related to Ophthalmology Department for all Medical College 6. fcM izkfIr dh vfUre frfFk 17.12.2021, 12.00 cts rdA
AGARWAL S/O SHRI CHAMAN fcM [kqyus dh frfFk
PRAKASH AGARWAL residing at
Hospitals of Assam, under the Health & F.W. Department, Govt. of Assam. 7. 21.12.2021, 12.30 cts rdA
The e-Tender is Two-Bid System, to be submitted with affixed Court Fee Stamp Rs.8.25 (Rupees eight fufonk vkeaf=r djus okys dk;Zikyd vfHk;Urk dk dk;kZy;]iåfuåfoå] iFk
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DELHI, DELHI-110016 have point two five paisa) only (for local bidders) or IPO of Rs. 10/- (Rupees Ten) only (in case of bidders 9. nwjHkk"k la[;k 06534 - 227076
changed my name and shall from outside of the State of Assam) in favour of “Director of Medical Education, Assam, Sixmile, 10. gsYi ykbu ua0 0651-2446002
hereafter be known as
DHANANJAI AGARWAL. Khanapara,Guwahati-781022. iFk fuekZ.k foHkkx]>kj[k.M ljdkj esa fucaf/kr laosndksa ds fy;s UCAN fuca/ku
vko’;d gSA
0130022658-1 Important dates of the e-Tender Further details can be seen on website http://jharkhandtenders.gov.in
I Deepa Akhilesh Shukla alias dk;Zikyd vfHk;Urk]
Deepali Shukla D/o Sh. Akhilesh iåfuåfoå] iFk ize.My] dksMjek
PR 257340 Road(21-22).D
Shukla R/o D-2, 6-Aurangzeb
Road, Nirman Bhawan, Central
Delhi, Delhi-110011 have
changed my name to Deepali
Shukla for all purposes.
0040592716-1

LOST & FOUND

I,Manju Devi W/o-Govind
Singh,D-4,Institute of Bid
Economic Growth(D.U)-
110007,govindsinghjeth71@gm
ail.com have lost my,File of
Yogender Tyagi to Yogesh Supply & installation of
Sharma and Previous files of
Sanjeev Kohli,of flot measuring
50sq.yds.,
Khasra.no.10/2/1,8/22,at
Kamal Vihar,Burari,Delhi-
110084.
0040592771-5 The detailed information of bidding documents are available online through e-procurement system i.e.
through website www.assamtenders.gov.in only. The bidders would be required to register in the
website for submission of the bids. The bidders are required to have Digital Signature (DSC) from any
PROPERTY FOR SALE of the Certifying Authorities. Aspiring bidders who have not obtained the user ID and password for
participating in e- procurement may obtain the same by registering in the www.assamtenders.gov.in.
13.33 Cents at Oruvathilkotta,
Trivandrum, near Lulu Mall.
The requirements to register with the e-procurement portal are available on the website indicated above.
Call 94444 97711
0050187439-1
Sd/-
Janasanyog/C/8034/21
New Delhi
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THE SUNDAY EXPRESS, NOVEMBER 21, 2021

360 DAYS 2,500+ TEMPORARY 100+ PAKKA 4 LAKH 20 KM

& COUNTING SETTLEMENTS DHARNAS TRACTORS length of protest site at Tikri

Number of days since the protest

began at Delhi borders
at Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur
protest sites
in Punjab since
October 1 last year
turned up at Delhi’s borders
on January 26 this year
15KM
length of protest site at Singhu
Source: SKM

POSTCARDS FROM A PROTEST

For a year, farmers and their families, mainly from Punjab, camped at Delhi's border protesting against the farm laws. After the Prime Minister announced a
repeal, RAAKHI JAGGA retraces their journey: from the village where the spark of an agitation was lit to one where the earliest death was recorded.
Along the way, she meets some women who led from the front, shaped the groundswell — and got the Centre to yield

Some of the women

leaders who stood
up, spoke out
OVER THE last year, as men, young
and old, set off to Delhi and
elsewhere to protest against the
laws, back home, a largely invisible
force held up the other end — their
wives, mothers, daughters and
daughters-in-law, who worked the
fields and tended to families. Yet,
there were several women who
took the plunge, joined the
agitation and led from the front.

MALAN KAUR, 70
General secretary
of the women’s
wing of BKU
Ugrahan in
Bathinda district,
Kaur, who has
never gone to
school, says it was son’s teacher
who inspired her son and later her
to speak up for farmers and their
rights. Since 2004, she has been
part of the women’s wing of BKU
Ugrahan.
Kaur was 60 when she first
went up on stage to speak. Since
then, she has motivated several
women in Bathinda to step out of
their homes. “I cannot read or
write so I listen to recorded videos
or ask my daughters-in-law to read
DUGGAN, SANGRUR, ONE OF THE EPICENTRES OF THE AGITATION out to me. That’s how I learnt more

‘We will be in Singhu again. But this time,

about the farm laws.”

JASBIR KAUR NATT, 60

A state
committee

on a happy note: we won’

member of the
Punjab Kisan
Morcha, Jasbir
has been

I
managing the
TBEGANwithasmallmotorcyclerally toneighbouringstatesandthenationalCapital. which every house contributes, even if it is stage at Tikri border since the first
thatwounditswaythroughthelanes “A little more than 17 months have one glass.” week of December last year.
ofthevillage.ThatwasonJune7,2020. passed and we are still strong. Dilli Chalo Satnam Singh, 33, another villager who “I have been at Tikri all these
The entire country was under a lock- (when farmers marched to Delhi) happened owns 15 acres, says, “I spent around six days and went home only once to
down to control the pandemic, but in on November 26, when 35 tractor-trolleys months at Singhu and Tikri. In my absence, see my sick mother,” says Jasbir,
Duggan,avillageinSangrurdistrictof Punjab, fromourvillagewenttoDelhi.ButwePunjab my neighbour took care of my crops and I who retired as a clerk from the
there was something else that agitated the villages were up in arms much before that,” did the same when he went to Delhi. People electricity board.
villagers: a couple of days ago, three farm or- says Joshi. called us ‘rich farmers’. But the fact is, we
dinances had been promulgated by the “A number of villages slowed down after managed only because we helped each HARINDER KAUR BINDU, 42
President of India and some of the villagers, theRepublicDayviolenceorstoppedtheag- other and had the heart to donate. It took the Vice-president of
amongthemovera1,000retiredgovernment itationforawhile,butDugganvillagekeptat Central government over a year to under- the BKU Ugrahan,
employees,thoughtitwasimpor- it. They have been the most con- stand everything.” Harinder, from
tant to educate the small farmers
of thevillageaboutthe“dangers” 6,000+ sistent village,” says Jagmohan
SinghPatiala,stategeneralsecre-
Gurmail Kaur, 60, president of the
women’s wing of the farm union in the vil-
village Ramgarh
Bhagatuana in
in the proposed laws. Estimated number tary of BKU Dakaunda. lage,says,“Womenfromthevillagewentreg- Faridkot district
“We understood the ordi- of Punjab villages Joshi says 52 farmers repre- ularlytoDelhiandtolocalmorchasinSangrur of Punjab, has
nances, and quickly realised that that “actively sented Duggan village at the city,tollplazasetc.Wenotonlydidlangarsewa been associated with the farmer
we are not ready for this 360-de- participated” in Muzaffarnagar mahapanchayat. but also managed the morchas. We can man- union for over 16 years. “I am a
gree change in farming. This vil- the agitation, Besides, every Sunday, a bus ageaprotestsiteaswellaswedoourhomes.” farmer, a mother, a daughter. But
lage has over 3,700 acres of farm according to would take 40-45 villagers to Gurmail says the gurdwara langar in the since June 2020, I have had just one
land andnearly60 percentof the farmer unions Singhu or Tikri and bring back a village regularlysuppliedsweetriceanddal- purpose: getting the farm laws
farmersownlessthan5acres.We batch of those who had already roti to the protest site at the Sangrur railway revoked. My teenage son came
knew that these new laws would been protesting there. “This is (Top and above) Protesters in Duggan at a meeting at the village gurdwara on station. once to meet me at the Tikri
kill the small farmer. A few of us sat together our own struggle. We did all on our own, us- Saturday, a day after the PM announced a repeal of the farm laws. Gurmeet Singh For now, the villagers are preparing for border. I miss them. But you need
and discussed the ordinances on June 5 last ing our personal expenses. We never the next trip to Singhu, on Sunday to make some sacrifices to set an
year, when few people even noticed them,” stopped,” he says. (November 21). Roop Kaur, 65, will be part example for others,” she says.
says Kuldeep Joshi, 63, a villager who retired This village, with a population of 10,000, since the morcha began, we have been using says, “We collect ration from time to time of this batch of 40.
as inspector from the Punjab Police’s has 52 acres of nazool land, common land the money to sustain the agitation,” adds and deposit it in the village gurdwara. So On Saturday, as she packs for the trip, she BALBIR KAUR SIDHU, 40
Vigilance Bureau. that has been given on annual lease for Joshi, adding that the village spends around whenever one jatha leaves for Delhi, they says, “We will continue our protest till the A practising
And thus, a spark was lit, with the move- Rs 70,000 an acre. “We usually use this fund Rs 25,000 every week on the agitation. takesomestockoutof thatpooledration.We laws are repealed in Parliament. But this advocate, Balbir is
mentsoonspreadingacrossthestateandlater for development work in the village. But Gurcharan Singh, 65, another villager, send 100-200 litres of milk every week for time, we going on a happy note: we won.” in charge of BKU
Dakaunda’s
Mansa unit.
“Women were not
very active and
DHANNA SINGH, 45 AMONG THE FIRST DEATHS visit dharnas in Mansa often.” farmer unions hardly had any
IN THE DELHI CHALO MORCHA After Dhanna Singh’s death, the Punjab women’s wings. I joined BKU
government gave Kaur a job on compassion- Dakaunda in 2010. Today, most of

‘This is no time for tears...

ate grounds — as a peon in a government the villages in Mansa have women’s
senior secondary school where Harvinder wings of farm unions. I was able to
is in Class 8. mobilise a number of women to

Sacrifices of my father,
With Kaur drawing a monthly salary of step out of their homes and travel to
Rs 18,000, the family decided to let out Delhi to protest. Many of them also
their 2.5-acre farm land on contract to lead morchas in Punjab. Our hard
Dhanna’s younger brother. Kaur was also work has paid off.”

others led to this victory’ given a compensation of Rs 5 lakh by the

Punjab government, Rs 4 lakh by the
Haryana Government and Rs 1 lakh by the
SURJIT KAUR AKLIA, 75
Member of the

S
Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Mansa unit of
ITTING ON a charpoy in their two- make you weak. This is a big victory of farm- Committee (SGPC). Some help poured in BKU Dakaunda,
roomhouse,SukhdeepKaur,17,says ers that was possible because of the sacri- from NRIs too. Surjit Kaur, from
not a single day goes by when she fices of many, including my father”. With Prime Minister Narendra Modi an- Aklia village in
doesn’t think of her father Dhanna That day, Dhanna Singh, with Baljinder nouncing a repeal of the farm laws, Kaur says Mansa, is part of
Singh. The 45-year-old died in a Singh, 28, and a few other vil- her husband’s soul will be at peace. “I am the langar
road accident in the early hours
of November 27, 2020, while on 670 lagers, were on their way to Delhi
from their village Khiyali
At Dhanna Singh’s home in Mansa district on Saturday. The 45-year-old died in an
accident last November, while on his way to Delhi. Gurmeet Singh
glad that the announcement came on
Babaji’s (Guru Nanak) birthday,” she says, as
committee at Singhu. “My sons are
both farmers. I stayed in Delhi for
his way to Singhu border to The estimated Chehlan Wali in Mansa district her children interrupt firmly: “We will strug- 70 days and came home only on
protest against the three farm number of when a truck hit their tractor gle till the time the laws are not actually March 7. After that, I kept going for
laws,makinghimamongtheear- farmers who died trolley from the rear. Dhanna His children keep saying that they wish His wife Manjit Kaur, 40, says, “He used to taken back.” shorter durations,” says Kaur, who
liestcasualtiesof the‘DelhiChalo’ during the protest came under the tyre of the trac- their father had only sustained injuries like motivate people to be part of the Dilli Kaur nods. “Yes, we have been protest- spoke into a mic for the first time
morcha,whenhundredsof farm- against the farm tor while Baljinder’s left hand me. At least he would have been with them Chalo morcha. We had sent him to Delhi ing from Day 1 of the ordinances. I wish the during the protest in Delhi. “I have
ersfromPunjabandHaryanahad laws, according to was crushed. Driver Gora Singh, now.” with a lot of hope; instead, it was his body PM had understood the spirit of the farm- never been to school and didn’t
marched to the Capital. Samyukta Kisan 38, sustained minor injuries. Baljinder says he is still undergoing treat- that came back. Though my husband died ers... So many precious lives could have been think I would be able to do this...
Now, with the farm laws re- Morcha, with over Baljinder recalls, “After the mentatPGI,Chandigarh,forhisdamagedarm. much before he could reach Delhi, my chil- saved,” she says, before adding, “Zindagi taan I got this strength after this
pealed, Sukhdeep says she 500 of them from accident, his family did get fi- Dhanna Singh was the village granthi dren and I have visited Singhu and Tikri a jeeni hai... bachhe kuchh vadda kar jaan struggle started.”
misses her father sorely but this Punjab nancial help, but no money can and secretary of the village unit of number of times,” Kaur said. (Anyway, this life has to be lived. I hope the
“is no time for tears. Crying make up for the void they feel. Bharatiya Kisan Union, Dakaunda faction. Her son Harvinder Singh, 14, adds, “I also children do well.”

New Delhi
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THE SUNDAY EXPRESS, NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Across Fifth

Happy With My Hinduism

THEAISLE COLUMN
TAVLEENSINGH
Twitter@tavleen_singh

I WAS born in a village in what is now kaavadi. The Tamil Hindus have lived for believer or an agnostic or an atheist! Christiansandotherreligiousgroupshere.”
Sivagangaidistrict,thenRamanathapuram centurieswithpeoplepractisingotherre- ■Initssecularaspects,Hinduismdoes However, many Muslims and Christians
district, of Tamil Nadu. I am proud that
Kaniyan Poongunranar was born a few
kilometres away in a village called
ligions, especially Christianity, for over
2,000 years and Islam for over 800 years.
Muslim and Christian scholars and writ-
not prescribe one system of marriage or
onesystemofsuccession/inheritance.The
Hindu law reforms (1955-1956) tried to
donoteatbeefandmanynon-vegetarians
do not eat red meat at all. Well done
PM Modi
Poongunram(nowMahibalanpatti)inthe ers have made remarkable contributions bring about uniformity but there exist
PCHIDAMBARAM same district. He was a poet who lived in toTamilliteratureandthedevelopmentof myriad variations even today. I DON’T NEED
Website:pchidambaram.in theSangamagebetween6thcenturyBCE the language. To my knowledge, no Tamil ■HinduismallowsaHindutoworship HINDUTVA
Twitter @Pchidambaram_IN and 1st century CE. He is best known for Hindu king waged a war to establish the other gods and saints. Thousands of
his 13-line poem starting with the words supremacy of the Hindu religion over Hindus go to worship at the shrine in In his famous undelivered speech IN THE end it was not about the farm laws
‘Yaadum oore yaavarum kelir’. A simple other religions. Velankanni or pray at the Golden Temple (1936) ‘Annihilation of Caste’, Dr B R but about democracy and the right to
translation is ‘Every place is my village, What is Hinduism apart from the in Amritsar or offer obeisance at the Ambedkar, after tracing the conflict be- protest. Democracy won. The most pow-
every one is my relation’. There are other nameofareveredreligion?AlthoughIhad DargahSharif inAjmer.Historiansarenot tween the Indian National Congress erful Prime Minister India has seen for
gems in the poem. read books by Dr S Radhakrishnan and agreedwhethertheSaiBabaofShirdiwas (foundedin1885)andtheIndianNational more than three decades bowed to the
The first line is inscribed on the walls SwamiVivekananda,Ineverfeltitwasnec- aMuslimoraHindu;hewasperhapsboth Social Conference (founded in 1887), and wishes of the people last week when he
of the United Nations. The poem is be- essary to undertake that inquiry. From because he did not see any difference be- noting with regret that the ‘political re- announced the repeal of the three farm
The Tamil Hindus have lived lievedtoreflectthewayoflifeoftheTamils what I have read, heard, gathered and tween the two. One of his famous epi- formers’ had vanquished the ‘social re- laws.Those who believe that, in repealing
for centuries with people 2,000 years ago and earlier. gleaned, it seems to me ‘What is grams was Allah Malik (God is King). formers’,posedaseriesofquestionstothe these laws, Narendra Modi has reversed
Hinduism?’canbeansweredinafewsim- ■ Dr Wendy Doniger, Professor of “political minded Hindus”, that included necessary agricultural reforms miss the
practising other religions,
ple paragraphs: HistoryofReligions,UniversityofChicago, the following: “Are you fit for political point. If farmers were ready to risk their
especially Christianity, for THE WORD ‘HINDU’ who studied Sanskrit and ancient Indian powereventhoughyoudonotallowthem lives to protest laws that they believe
over 2,000 years and Islam Tamilliteraturerecordsthereligionsof religion for over 50 years, has observed: to wear what apparel or ornaments they would have left them at the mercy of cor-
for over 800 years. Muslim that age as Saivam and Vaishnavam. SIMPLE TRUTHS “Scholars have known for centuries that like? Are you fit for political power even porations, then there was no point in the
Samanam (Jainism) and Bouddham ■ Hinduism does not claim to be the the ancient Indians ate beef.” She has though you do not allow them to eat any reforms. When he announced their re-
and Christian scholars and (Buddhism) were later religions. The only true religion. Swami Vivekananda quoted texts such as Rig Veda and foodtheylike?”Thesequestionsringtrue peal, the Prime Minister said that farmers
writers have made remarkable words Hindu and Hinduism are in not said, “I am proud to belong to a religion Brahmanas as well Yajnavalkya and M N even today, but in a different context. would be consulted when his govern-
contributions to Tamil found in ancient Tamil literature. whichhastaughttheworldbothtolerance Srinivas.Currently,mostHinduseatmeat, Like Mr Tharoor, “I was born a Hindu, mentinitiatedfuturereforms.Thisisgood.
literature and the AccordingtoMrShashiTharoor,“theword and universal acceptance. We believe not fish and eggs, but not beef; many Hindus grewupasone,andhaveconsideredmy- There is no question that agricultural
‘Hindu’didnotexistinanyIndianlanguage onlyinuniversaltoleration,butweaccept are vegetarian. self as one all my life.” I am one among reforms are needed. It was the manner in
development of the language. tillitsusebyforeignersgaveIndiansaterm all religions as true.” ■ Dr Doniger also points out that 81.6 per cent of the Hindus who said in a which these three laws were rammed
To my knowledge, no Tamil for self-definition”. ■ Hinduism does not have One Gandhiji never called for banning cow Pew survey that they were raised as through Parliament that led to a break-
Hindu king waged a Most Tamils are born in families that Church,OnePope,OneProphet,OneHoly slaughter, and quotes him as having said: Hinduandcurrentlyidentifythemselves down in trust between the government
war to establish the practise Hinduism. They worship many BookorOneRitual.Therearemanyofeach, “How can I force anyone not to slaughter as Hindu. I am happy with my Hinduism and the people, which it believed would
gods (including village deities), celebrate and a Hindu is free to choose among the cowsunlessheishimselfsodisposed?Itis and with Kaniyan Poongunranar’s sim- benefit from them. On top of this came
supremacy of the Hindu festivalslikePongalandDeepavali,andob- many or reject all. Some scholars have ar- not as if there were only Hindus in the plelesson‘everyoneismyrelation’.Why ugly attempts to stop protesting farmers
religion over other religions serve rituals like pongal, pal kudam and gued that one can be a Hindu as well as a Indian Union. There are Muslims, Parsis, do I need Hindutva? from reaching Delhi and uglier attempts
to malign people desperate enough to
spend seasons of heat, rain and extreme
coldintheopentomaketheirpoint.Modi
must take personal responsibility for the

history
Gujarat: The myth of
Secretary Samant Goel have all got exten- malignant campaign. It was his decision
inside sions. RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das is on not to meet those who sat in protest on

TRACK a second three-year tenure. Another

HEADLINE Delhi’s borders, and his decision to mock

a vegetarian state
favourite, P C Mody, has got three exten- them asprofessionalprotestersbydeclar-
COOMIKAPOOR sions as Chairperson of the Central Board
of DirectTaxes.Hewasrecentlyappointed
GHANSHYAMSHAH ing them ‘andolanjeevis’ in Parliament.
Long before this inopportune com-
Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha and ghanshyam.shah2008@gmail.com ment,hisarmyof socialmediatrolls,blind
the incumbent, Dr P P K Ramacharyulu, followers and sycophants had started to
who had less than three months in office, shriekaboutKhalistanisand‘anti-nation-
was made adviser to the Rajya Sabha IT WOULD not be incorrect to say that als’ having infiltrated the protest. To seri-
BANERJEE KA GUSSA Chairperson. Ajit Kumar, Chairperson of Gujarat’s geography has impacted its cui- ously believe that Greta Thunberg and
PRIYANKA GANDHI Vadra is keen to the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and sine. Gujarat has a long coastal length of RihannawereinleaguewiththeKhalistan
pacify Mamata Banerjee, fearing the Customs, who is to retire this month, ex- more than 1,250 km, and a rich history of movement is to seriously need your head
Trinamool Congress is nibbling into the pects an extension. Pankaj KumarMishra, trading with the outside world. Then, to- examined, but till last week this was be-
Congress vote share outside West Bengal. head of the Financial Investigation Unit wards the east is the tribal area. As a row lieved by many who should know better.
ButBanerjeeisinnomoodtorespond.She for five years, will continue in the post for brewsovernon-vegetarianfoodstallsinthe Will they know better in future? Will
is still fuming over Rahul Gandhi’s behav- anothertwoyearsashispositionhasbeen state, the truth is there is a wide variety they give up bootlicking for real analysis?
iouraftertheTMCvictoryinBengal.Rahul upgraded to Additional Secretary rank. amongthefoodhabitsoftribals,thefisher- Possibly not. But, it is probably time for
did not telephone to congratulate Ajay Tyagi, Chairperson of the Securities folkalongthecoastalareasandthoseincen- the Prime Minister to acknowledge that
Banerjee and took two days to put out a and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), was tral Gujarat. Similarly, the fertile South his devotees have done more damage to
tweet. Nevertheless, when Sonia Gandhi granted an 18-month extension after Gujarathasaltogetherdifferentfoodhabits hisimagethanhisworstcritics.Theyhave
requested Banerjee to come to Delhi to completing his term in August last year. from the North, which is dry and arid. done this by spending most of their wak-
talk about a possible grand alliance, the During the pre-colonial period, the ing hours spreading hatred and venom,
Bengal Chief Minister agreed to fly down. state was ruled by a number of small and it is this that has led to Modi being
What Banerjee did not bargain for was YES, NO, MAYBE princelystates,andareasthatsawMughal seen as a man who has divided India’s
that Rahul would casually walk into the PrimeMinisterNarendraModiwasfurious dominance. The parts inhabited by the communities. And, not as the reformer he
roomduringthemeeting,though shehad when presented three pre-poll Uttar Koli, Bhil tribals etc were isolated. would like to be seen as. For a while now
notbeeninformedof it. Rahuldidnotstay Pradesh surveys, diametrically different However, the different regimes that ruled he has made abundantly clear that what
for long, and the next day, Congress Lok from one another. Modi felt the BJP was the state were not monolithic — they he really wants is for India to walk more
SabhaleaderAdhirRanjanChowdhuryis- blowing up money on meaningless sur- largely focused on collecting revenue and swiftly on the path to prosperity, and not
sued a statement attacking the TMC for veys. However, Chief Minister Yogi left the people to themselves. This meant continue with the agenda of hatred that
unleashing violence in Bengal. Banerjee Adityanathexpressedsupremeconfidence that till early 19th century, Gujarat was a hascometodefineHindutva.But,if hehas
believes both of Rahul’s protégés in the that the party was winning. Usually in UP pluralistic society. One proof of this is that conveyed this message to his devotees,
state,ChowdhuryandAbdulMannan,tar- themostvocalinexpressingvotingprefer- more than 20% of the words in the An egg stall in Ahmedabad, where many such kiosks were removed. Express they show no sign yet.
get the TMC thinking the Congress would encesareBrahmins,whoarefarmoreinflu- Gujarati vocabulary have roots in Persian Before he announced the repeal of the
be better off aligning with the Left in ential in impacting voter trends than their and Arabic. The first history of the state, three farm laws, people already noticed
Bengal. Even in UP, Banerjee has given the actual numbers. But, in a departure, the Gujarat No Itihas, was written in Parsi. when you ask a Gujarati what is a samaj, gains popularity and spreads. that he was trying to change the agenda.
Congress something to think about. The Brahmins,seenasangryovertheCM“pro- The food found across the state is no they invariably talk about their caste. Gujarat has seen the influence of both Those who have the unhappy task of be-
TMC’s latest recruits include Kamalapati moting” his own Thakur community, are different, being an amalgamation of dif- Therefore you see the Patidar samaj, the Bhakti and Sufi movements, which ing forced to spend more time in govern-
Tripathi’s grandson Rajesh Pati and his relatively silent. The anti-BJP voters, ferent tastes. The first attempt at “ho- Kshatriya samaj and others. Similarly, wereegalitarian.However,thelatermove- ment offices than necessary report that,
great grandson Lalitesh Pati. whetherfarmers,minoritiesorYadavs,ap- mogenisation” by a regime, which made when you talk about Gujarat or Gujarat’s ments, such as of the Swaminarayan sect, in recent weeks, they had begun to ob-
pearthemostoutspoken.TheBJP’shopeis itsimplertogovernthepeople,was made food habits or business, invariably we talk were Brahminical and impacted food serve that ministers dealing with the
that eventually it will be the silent voters during the colonial period. Questions by about the perceptions of the upper strata habits. They found their first followers economy were suddenly eager to hear
ORDER OF ORDINANCE who will decide the outcome. Adityanath theCensusandgazetteersdemandedthat of society, mainly the Brahmins and amongtheBaniyasortheVaishnavs.Infact, suggestions on how they could make the
On the basis of an ordinance, the Ministry has granted several benefits to the people, people identify themselves with a partic- Baniyas and very lately the Patidars. even Mahatma Gandhi blessed a move- economymovefaster.ThePrimeMinister
ofPersonnellastweekputoutasomewhat from grains to cooking oil, and a one-time ular structure. One of those who labelled However, even between them, there mentthatencouragedthatthePanchmahal himself is believed to have complained
confusing notification amending rules of Rs 1,000 dole for those in the BPL category Indian history as “a Hindu period” and “a are variations — between the Nagar Bhil tribes be recognised as “backward privately that he could not understand
the Central Government of India in public sinceMaythisyear.Thespecialperkswere Muslim period”, “an Islam period” and “a Brahmins, who were writer-advisors in Hindus” rather than as Adivasis. Another why businessmen had to deal with so
interest.Insum,itputacapoftwo-yearex- to help out after the havoc of the British period” was John Mill, who had courts, and the Anavil Brahmins of South example are the Machhimaars who, many ‘compliances’. If it was these things
tensionsfortheSecretariesof Defenceand Coronavirus pandemic and will continue never visited the country. Gujarat, who were largely tillers and are throughco-option,havebeenmadetofeel that his devoteesandthe BJP’sarmyof so-
Home, Director, Intelligence Bureau, and till Holi next year. The beneficiaries of this British rule often called “Khato-Pito Brahman” as they guilty about their traditional food habits. cial media trolls emphasised, the man
Secretary,RAW.Howevertenuresfordirec- and demarcation were obviously those in eat and drink without inhibition. Among others who eat non-vegetar- they see as India’s saviour would perhaps
torsof investigativebodies,suchastheCBI business and the upper strata of society Accordingtoastudybyanthropologist ianfoodtoo,thereisamoralcostattached, not have such a hard time convincing his
and Enforcement Directorate, it said, can HUMILIATING DEFEAT — the Brahmins and Baniyas — who were K S Singh, with which I was associated, with meat or alcohol to be shunned on critics that he is working to make life bet-
be extended up to five years. Clearly those At a Haryana Congress post-mortem already several steps ahead when it came only about 26% of Gujarat’s population is “auspicious” days. ter for the average Indian. And, most im-
who frame intelligence and policy require meeting, Bhupinder Hooda and Kuldeep toeducation.Astheirinfluenceincreased, actually“purevegetarian”—meaningthey Interestingly, a survey in 2016 found portantly,thathebelievesthatdemocracy
less continuity than those in charge of in- Bishnoi nearlycametoblowsoverthehu- they also reconstructed the history of nevereateggsormeat--andmostpeople that people in Gujarat who identified istobecherishednotjustduringelections
vestigation, and can turn the screws on miliating results of the recent bypolls in Gujarat as they perceived it. are better classified as “frequent vegetar- themselves as non-vegetarian outnum- but after they have been won.
those whom the government desires. Ellenabad constituency. Abhay Chautala Today, when we say Gujarat is a vege- ians” and “frequent non-vegetarians”. beredthoseinPunjabandHaryana,which When he announced the repeal of the
of the INLD retained his seat, while the tarian state, I recall my own experience. I When I was in college, I spent a couple of makenoboastsorclaimsaboutbeingveg- farm laws last week, many of his most de-
Congress candidate lost his deposit. comefromanupperstrataof society,from sleepless nights once over a Brahmin etarianstates.AsChief Minister,Narendra voted devotees seemed visibly confused
CLEAR FAVOURITES Bishnoi felt that the Congress misjudged the relatively vegetarian Vaishnav com- friendeatingomelette!Thefactalsoisthat Modididnotventureintothisterritory(in and clearly tongue-tied, as the much
Extensions are always available for in assuming it could ride to victory by munity,whereeveneatingeggsisataboo. while they classify as non-vegetarian, fact, he belongs to a caste in which non- weaker social media army that supports
favouredofficersintheModigovernment. backing the farmers’ movement. In Around 70 years back, when I was young, many communities in Gujarat, including vegetarianfoodistraditionallynottaboo), RahulGandhigloatedopenly.Theyposted
Some examples: Director, Enforcement Haryana, the Congress is basically a non- my father gave me eggs because they Muslims and tribals, can hardly afford andthisisperhapswhyBJPchief CRPaatil video clips of their hero saying that the
Directorate, S K Mishra was recently Jat party, he pointed out. Incidentally, the were good for health, inside several lay- meat regularly in their meals. and CM Bhupendra Patel have played government would be forced in the end
granted another term, before his three- BJP lost the by-election narrowly and ers of wrapping. I would go to the roof of When we talk about vegetarianism down calls for action against non-vege- to repeal the farm laws. In doing this they
year tenure ends this month. Director, polled more votes than in the 2019 our building or pol to eat them. and Gujarat, we are really talking about a tarian stalls along main roads in cities. showed that they had not understood
IntelligenceBureau,ArvindKumar;Home Assembly elections, thanks to the over- My understanding of Gujarat growing verysmallsectionof society,whoseworld The writer is a political sociologist that,inthismoment,theyneededtoshow
Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla; and RAW whelming support of urban voters. up was that it was a kind of samaj. Today viewistransferredandimposed,andlater As told to Ritu Sharma grace, not gloating. For a powerful Prime
Minister to have shown the humility to
publicly acknowledge a mistake is a good
moment for India.
The farmers understood this and cele-

She
The missing Draupadis of UP fight
brated by distributing sweets at their
protest site. When reporters asked them
SAID whytheyweresohappy,theyadmittedon
camerathattheybelievedthattherepealof
SHALINILANGER the hated laws was a victory for them and
40% seats for women in the coming supporters latched on to the fact that its night. Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Vadra’s “dialogue with women”, a vindication of their long protest. They
shalini.langer@expressindia.com Assemblyelections,anemptypromisethat author Pushyamitra Upadhyay said he NarottamMishra,whohastwicemadeitto which started with the rally in Chitrakoot, showed the grace to say that if the Prime
few now buy, with a slogan that is much didn’t want what he had written, amidst headlinesrecentlybyopposingSabyasachi’s assembled a group of them across age Ministercameandsharedthesweetswith
morepowerfulinitssimplicity:“Ladkihun, the anger following the 2012 Delhi gan- mangalsutra ad and a bleach firm’s same- groups along the Ganga. Girls in school them, he would be welcomed. They seem
DOESANYONEtalkforthewomenofUttar lad sakti hun (I am a woman, I can fight)”. grape-murder, to be used for “cheap pol- sex Karva Chauth aspirations, declared Vir uniforms filled the front rows, women in to have understood better than carping
Pradesh? Remember those? The ones On Wednesday, in Chiktrakoot, Vadra itics”, and that he didn’t support the Das a persona non grata in the state. saris and covered heads the remaining. critics and know-all political pundits that
foundhangingfromtrees,orpoisonednext added a poem to her reach-out to women Congress’s ideology. As for the essence of It was telling that both the celebrated, TheCongressgeneralsecretary’sattempts this was a good day for India and a great
tofields,strangledtonear-death,orshamed —“SunoDraupadi,shastrauthalo,abGovind Upadhyay’s exhortation — including “Kal cerebral fashion designer and the way- to rouse them did not really draw a re- day for Indian democracy.
over ‘love jihad’? The Congress can be naaayenge(HeyDraupadi,pickuparms,no tak keval andha raja, ab goonga-behra bhi less-esoteric Dabur firm thought the way sponse, and the “Suno Draupadi” poem It was a goodday for Modi.He showed
faulted for many misdemeanours in the god is coming to defend you now)”. hai. Honth si diye janata ke, kaanon pe to liberal hearts was by redrawing some drifted away without creating waves, thathewasabiggermanthanhehasbeen
country’s most populous state, which has ThisbeinganeasilyoutragedIndia,the pehra bhi hai (The king who was just blind traditional boundaries, but not really same as the river lapping behind Vadra. given credit for. He showed that he was
amongIndia’slargestwomennumbers,the messageislostaswefocusonthemessen- yesterday, is now deaf and dumb too. The crossing them. The same as Union Home However,theangryresponsesthatfol- ready to acknowledge that the will of the
highest proportion of young women, the ger. BJP Union minister Smriti Irani coun- public’slipsaresealed,itsearsshuttered)” Minister Amit Shah attesting that a sign lowed Vadra’s rally showed someone was people is greater than the will of the most
lowesthealthindicatorsandthemaximum tered Vadra with: “Ghar par ladka hai, par — it unsurprisingly didn’t ring any bells. of UP’s improving law and order was that listening. And, even amidst the rancour of powerful political leaders. For the mo-
crimes against them — but, surely, speak- lad nahin sakta (There is a man at home, The huffing and puffing over Vadra us- women could zip on their Scooties at the polls, there was no doubt about what ment it is not about agricultural reform
ing up for one-half of UP can’t be one. but he can’t fight)”. One would have ex- ing the poem brewed alongside cases night covered with jewellery. they heard, to their alarm — the sound of but about celebrating the strength of
Even if she and her party don’t get far pected better from the feisty leader, who against stand-up comic Vir Das for daring Onewouldhavestruggledtofindsuch millions of Draupadis possibly zipping Indian democracy. This columnist is
in the state, Congress general secretary hasrisenfrombeinganoutsidertothetop to suggest in a poem that India’s diabolic women at the poll rallies in the state. Or awayonScooties,inthemiddleofthenight. counted among Modi’s sharpest critics,
PriyankaGandhiVadracouldhavegotthis ranksof apartyfrontedbyaggressivemen. contradictions include worshipping any women at all — as the fight centres National Editor Shalini Langer curates but what he did last week has restored
part right. She has followed up her offer of Regarding thepoemVadrarecited,BJP womeninthedayandgangrapingthemat aroundmensuchasJinnahdeadandpast. the fortnightly ‘She Said’ column some of the faith that I once had in him.

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THE SUNDAY EXPRESS, NOVEMBER 21, 2021 Crude Watch
OIL SLIPS FOR 4TH WEEK ON THE TROT
New York: Oil benchmarks fell for the fourth straight week, for the
first time since March 2020, amid surging Covid-19 cases in
Europe. Brent crude was at $78.42 a barrel, while US WTI crude
reach $76.11 per barrel. REUTERS

LABOUR MINISTER CHAIRS 229TH MEETING OF CENTRAL BOARD OF TRUSTEES SAUDI OIL CO, RELIANCE TO ‘RE-EVALUATE’ PROPOSED INVESTMENT

EPFOboardmeet:InvestmentinAIFson RIL focus on green energy,

Covid hit for Aramco: Why
case-to-casebasis;centraliseddatabase 229thmeetingof theEPFO’sCBT, will yield a higher rate of return, Indiabulls, with some members
both cos put O2C deal on hold
ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU chaired by Union Labour 15.41 lakh the earlier ban on investment advising for a careful encash- KARUNJITSINGH DEAL TO PURCHASE 20% STAKE
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 20 Minister Bhupender Yadav. pattern by CBT was lifted ment of those investments. NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER20
In April, the Labour Ministry subscribers net and FIAC has been empowered The draft 68th annual report ■InAugust2019,RILand ■InOctober,Reliancealso
THE CENTRAL Board of Trustees
(CBT) of retirement fund body
notified changes in investment
options to include units issued
added in Sept to approve on a case to case ba-
sis,” said CBT member and em-
on the functioning of the EPFO
fortheyear2020-21wasalsoap-
RELIANCE INDUSTRIES Ltd (RIL)
and Saudi Arabia’s national oil
Aramcosigneda
non-bindingletterof intent
namedSaudiAramco
chairmanYasir
EPFO on Saturday approved in- byCategoryIandCategoryIIAIFs New Delhi: EPFO net added ployers’ representative proved in the meeting, with the companySaudiAramcoonFriday forthelattertobuy20%stake Al-Rumayyantoitsboardas
vestmentof upto5percentof its regulated by the Securities and 15.41 lakh subscribers in KE Raghunathan. recommendation to place it be- decided to “re-evaluate” a pro- inReliance’sO2Cbusiness anindependentdirector
annual deposits in new asset Exchange Board of India (Sebi). September2021,reflectinga The Board also approved de- fore Parliament. posed investment by the latter in
classesof alternativeinvestment The EPFO can invest up to 15 growing trend in net payroll velopment of centralised IT-en- The Board also decided to RIL’s O2C business.
funds(AIFs),includinginfrastruc- per cent of investment in equity, additions post the second abled systems by C-DAC. constitute foursub-committees, this likely impacted world view. Oil pro-
ture investment trusts (InvITs). as per the pattern of investment wave of the pandemic. For Followingthis,thefieldfunction- comprising members of the Whatwastheproposed Aramco’sabilitytoac- ducing nations have
The Board has empowered notified by the central govern- September, the net sub- alities will move on a central board from employees’ and em- investment? quire the 20 per cent beenmakingthecase
the Finance Investment & Audit mentandtheinternalguidelines scriber addition has in- database in a phased manner ployers’ side aswell as represen- In August 2019, RIL and stake in the RIL’s O2C that fossil fuel assets
Committee (FIAC) to decide of theEPFOapprovedbytheCBT. creased by 1.81 lakh (or over which will facilitate de-duplica- tatives of the government. Two Aramcosignedanon-bindinglet- business. Further need to be given
upontheinvestmentoptions,on It had invested Rs 7,715 crore in 13 per cent) over August tion and merger of all provident committees on establishment- terofintentforthelattertoacquire RIL’s announcement more time and in-
a case-to-case basis, for invest- equity till June 30 this year. when it was 13.60 lakh. PTI fund (PF) accounts of any mem- related matters and futuristic a 20 per cent stake in Reliance’s to become a net zero vestment so that the
ment in all such asset classes. Asked whethertheEPFO will ber. It will also remove the re- implementation of Social oil-to-chemical(O2C)businessin carbon emitter by energytransitioncan
The Employees’ Provident Fund invest in private sector InvITs, quirementof transfer of account Security Code will be headed by a deal worth $15 billion. The deal 2030 and plans to optimise its begradual,”saidanequityanalyst
Organisation (EPFO) would go Yadav toldreporters, “At present Barthwal told reporters, “There on change of job. the Minister of State for Labour wasexpectedtobenefitRIL’sO2C Jamnagar refinery to produce on who wished to be anonymous.
for investments in public sector wehavedecidedtoinvestinonly are certain instruments (pre- The CBT meeting saw a low and Employment. business in terms of higher feed- jet fuels and petrochemicals may Jamnagar is set to be the site
bonds. At present, the National newly added government in- scribed in norms) where we participation rate from the The remaining two commit- stock security for its tilt towards have impacted Aramco’s interest for RIL’s ‘Green Energy Giga
Highways Authority of India struments (bonds and InvITs). were not able to invest due to states, a point which is learnt to tees on digital capacity building higher crude to petrochemical in investing in the O2C. Complex’, which is set to include
(NHAI) and Power Grid There is no percentage for that. various reasons. Now, we would have been raised as a concern by and pension related issues will conversion. Reliance had applied “RIL and Aramco have mutu- an integrated solar photovoltaic
Corporation (PGCIL) have It will be decided on case to case be in a position to invest in those the Labour Minister. CBT mem- be headed by the Union Labour tohiveoff itsO2Cbusiness in line ally determined that it would be module factory, an advanced en-
launched public sector InvITs. basis by the FIAC.” instruments.” bers also discussed the risky in- and Employment Secretary, an with the National Company Law beneficial for both parties to re- ergy storage factory, an electrol-
Thedecisionwastakenatthe Labour Secretary Sunil “In a significant decision that vestments in DHFL, YES Bank, official statement said. Tribunal (NCLT). In October, RIL evaluatetheproposedinvestment yserfactoryandafuelcellfactory.
also named Saudi Aramco chair- in O2C business in light of the The analyst said Aramco may
man Yasir Al-Rumayyan to its changed context,” RIL said in a havealsohadconcernsthatalarge
RBI WATCH boardasanindependentdirector. statement.Thecompanyalsosaid part of its investment could be

FOREIGN EXCHANGE ‘Global cos set to deliver DIVIDENDS SLUMPED

LAST YEAR against the Whatarethefactorsthathave
that the Jamnagar complex,
which is a key part of the com-
used to repay loans to RIL, which
the Mukesh Ambani-led con-
backdrop of the Covid-19 ledtothedealbeingcalledoff? pany’sO2Cbusiness,wouldbethe glomerate may then use to fund
record dividends this year’ pandemic for companies in
most sectors globally and as
Covid-19 played a significant centreofReliance’srenewableen- its green energy related projects.

Forex reserves fall

role in delaying the planned in- ergy & new materials business, After reorganisation of the O2C
Global corporate dividends are set to reach a record high this regulatory constraints and vestment by Aramco, as the pan- supporting its net zero carbon business, the new entity would
year, as a rebound in business activity and a rise in consumer government pressures to demic caused crude oil prices to emissions commitment. have had a $25 billion loan from
restrict payments weighed
for second week in a
crashinlinewithdemandforpe- “Theseplansarecounterintu- RIL on its balance sheet, as per an
demand boosted profits, as per an analysis of Refinitiv data troleum products. Experts said itive to Aramco’s interest and investor presentation by RIL.
EUROPEAN COMPANIES’
$1.37 trillion payouts in 2021 are estimated
row, down $763 mn of estimated total
payouts to
at $252.4 billion, a 25% rise
over last year FM: Greater coordination among
CURRENCY ASSETS FUEL SLIDE
Nov 5 Nov 12
` shareholders in 2021 US DIVIDENDS are expected
to grow to $562.3 billion, an
8.6% increase
authorities, regulators required
2021 2021
Foreign currency assets 577,581 575,487 GLOBAL CORPORATE MINING FIRMS led the EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE
dividend payouts globally,
Gold 38,778 40,239 1400
DIVIDENDS BY YEAR boosted by a surge in
AHMEDABAD,NOVEMBER20

SDRs 19,287 19,184 1300 commodity prices this year GREATER COORDINATION is re-
1200 quiredamongregulatoryauthor-
Reserve tranche position 5,228 5,201
1100 FINANCIAL SECTOR isalso
in $ billion

ities,includingthosedealingwith
Total 640,874 640,112 1000 expectedtodeliverhigher stockexchangesoperatingwithin
in million US dollars; source: Reserve Bank of India/Reuters 900 dividends,asglobalcentralbanks the upcoming financial hub at
800 relaxedrestrictionsondividends Gandhinagar, said Finance
700 andbuybacksimposedlastyear Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman inspects the utility
ing week, according to the 600 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 who was on a day-long visit to tunnel at GIFT City, Gandhinagar, Saturday. PTI
ENSECONOMICBUREAU central bank data. Source: Refinitiv/Reuters GIFT City in Gujarat on Saturday.
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 20 Expressedindollarterms, “This visit was long overdue. I
the FCA include the effect of hadwantedtocomeherewellbe- wasexpectedtogoliveonOctober settlement of foreign currency
THE FOREIGN exchange — appreciation or depreciation Survey details: The analysis of Refinitiv data was for 3,394 global companies fore the Covid lockdown hap- 1, was seeing “small delays” and possibleatIFSC,”anofficialadded.
forex — reserves fell by $763 of non-US currencies such as with market capitalization of at least $1 billion pened. But after that it got post- will soon become operational. “I During the visit, Sitharaman
million to $640.112 billion in the euro, pound sterling and poned. However, I am glad to be was glad to hear that the bullion alsoannouncedapprovaltothree
the week ended November Japanese yen held in the for- here. We had very useful interac- exchange will soon come into projects worth over Rs 500 crore

Zomato a great bet: Uber CEO

12,accordingtodatareleased eign exchange reserves. tion and the entire leadership of play, for which all the necessary for the International Financial
by the RBI. Gold reserves were up by GIFTCityandIFSCwerewithusall infrastructure inclusive of safe ServicesCentreAuthority(IFSCA),
In the preceding week $1.461 billion to $40.239 bil- through the day, showing us the vaults are all ready and opera- said a government release.
ended November 5, the re- lion in the reporting week. physical assets and telling us tional. So, the bullion exchange Accompanied by a team of
servesdecreasedby$1.145bil- Thespecialdrawingrights DeepinderGoyal,thefounder,and about the future plans. In the willbebiggamechangerforIndia secretaries and ministers of state
lion to $640.874 billion. They (SDRs)withtheInternational PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA CEO there and I would say it has process, we realised there are becauseinIndiaweconsumealot forfinancePankajChaudharyand
hadtouchedalifetimehighof Monetary Fund (IMF) dipped NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER20 beenagreatbetandcertainlyone quite a few things on which ofgoldandeverygramofgoldthat Dr Bhagwat Karad, Sitharaman
$642.453 billion in the week $103millionto$19.184billion. that we are very pleased about in greater coordination is required weconsumeisimported.Tohave alsosuggestedtotheGIFTCityau-
ended September 3. The country’s reserve po- UBER CEO Dara Khosrowshahi terms of how the model has among the authorities dealing anexchangeinIndiaandtodeter- thorities to develop the immedi-
During the reporting sitionwiththeIMFwasdown said the company’s partnership grown, how the model has con- with stock exchanges and also mine price being one of the lead- ate periphery of IFSC and make it
week, the decline in the forex by $27 million to $5.201 bil- with Zomato has been a “great tinued to gain share, and obvi- among the regulators. They are ing buyers in global gold market more “dynamic”. She said the
reserveswasprimarilyonac- lion in the week, as per RBI. bet” and he is pleased with how ously the incredibly successful notmajorconcerns,butitispossi- willbeabigimportantmilestone.” meetings largely dealt with ex-
countof aslideinforeigncur- Fallingforexreservesmay the model has grown, continued IPO,”Khosrowshahisaidinanin- bletositaroundatableandsortit Whilediscussionslargelycen- ploring avenues for attracting
rency assets (FCA), Reserve cause issues for the govern- togainshareanditssuccessfulini- terview to CNBC-TV18. out,” Sitharaman told mediaper- tredaroundIFSC,thefocuswason more companies to GIFT City.
Bank of India’s (RBI) weekly ment and the RBI in manag- tial public offering (IPO). DARA KHOSROWSHAHI In 2020, Zomato had an- sonsafterfinishinghermeetings. achieving “exponential growth” “Ihavesuggestedthereshould
data released Friday showed. ing the nation’s external and Khosrowshahi said Uber is CEO, Uber File nounced the acquisition of the She said Sebi, Irdai and RBI at GIFT City and make it a “gate- be an interaction with leading
FCA, a major component internal financial issues. witnessinganincreaseindemand IndianbusinessofUberEatsinan needs to talk among themselves, way” for international financial startups—notthosedealingwith
of the overall reserves, Higher reserves are a big as cities open up after COVID-in- all-stock deal that gave Uber 9.99 whilestockexchangestooneedto services, officials who attend the fintech,butstartupsdealingwith
dropped by $2.094 billion to cushion in the event of any duced lockdowns, and also ex- ket has been incredibly competi- per cent stake in the Indian interact with each other. meeting told The Sunday Express. different activities in Bengaluru,
$575.487billioninthereport- crisis. WITH PTI pects the driver shortage easing. tive and really are partnering up food delivery and restaurant dis- Sitharaman said the interna- “Oneimportantareathatcameup Hyderabad and Gurugram to be
“The India food delivery mar- with Zomato was a bet on covery platform. tional bullion exchange, which for discussion was to make local brought here,” she said.

BRIEFLY Govt puts on sale MTNL, BSNL Musk: Tesla Apple says workers National mining
conclave: Focus
Japanoilrelease app coming
Tokyo: Japanese Prime
MinisterFumioKishidasaid
assets at base price of `970 cr online after
‘free’ to discuss wages, on exploration,
Saturday his government is
considering releasing oil
fromitsreservesinresponse
New Delhi: The government has
listed for sale real estate assets of
state-run telcos MTNL and BSNL
BSNL properties have
MTNL assets worth Rs 310 crore.
We plan to complete the entire
process within one-and-half
server outage working conditions auction regime
to rising crude oil prices, atareservepriceofaroundRs970 been posted for sale at a months,”BSNLChairmanandMD ENSECONOMICBUREAU
Kyodo news agency said. It crore,accordingtodocumentsup- reserve price of around P K Purwar said. JULIALOVE In a post on an internal NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER20
would be the first time for loaded on the DIPAM website. `660 crore, and those of MTNL’s 20 flats located in SANFRANCISCO,NOVEMBER20
Japan to release oil reserves BSNL properties located in Oshiwara have also been put up site, Apple said its DIFFERENT STAKEHOLDERS of
to lower prices. REUTERS Hyderabad, Chandigarh, MTNL at around `310 for sale as part of the asset mon- APPLE DELIVERED a message to policies do not preclude the mining industry will partici-
BhavnagarandKolkatahavebeen crore, as per DIPAM etisationplanofthecompany.The employees on Friday that was employees from pate in a national conclave next
WestElmforay postedforsaleatareservepriceof
aroundRs660crore.TheDepart-
flats include two units of 1-room
set,17unitsof1bedroomhalland
strikinggivenitsreputationforse-
crecy: a reminder that workers “speaking freely” about
week and hold strategic discus-
sions on major issues and oppor-
New Delhi: Global design ment of Investment and Public of around Rs 310 crore. kitchen (BHK) and one unit of 2 may discuss wages, hours and working conditions tunities in the sector to bring in
home retailer WestElm has Asset Management (DIPAM) “This is the first stage of asset BHK. Their reserve prices range working conditions. The notice higher growth and facilitate ease
entered India, with the lau- websitehaslistedMTNLassetslo- monetisationatMTNLandBSNL. fromRs52.26lakhtoRs1.59crore. came as some employees have of doing business, the govern-
nchoftwostoresinpartner- cated in Vasari Hill, Goregaon in Bids have been invited for BSNL Thee-auctionforMTNLassetswill beenpushingAppletodomoreto underUSlaw.Butemployeeswho ment said on Saturday.
shipwithRelianceBrands.It Mumbaiforsaleatareserveprice assets worth Rs 660 crore and take place on December 14. PTI ELON MUSK ensuretherearenounfairgapsin havespokenoutinrecentmonths To be held on November 23,
opened its first brick-and- CEO, Tesla Reuters File pay across the company. havefacedresistance,saidformer the fifth National Conclave on
mortarstoreinOctoberatJio In a post on an internal site, a AppleprogrammanagerJanneke Mines and Minerals will have
World Drive, followed by a
store at the Ambience Mall
in Gurgaon this week.
Failure to report old deals: Alibaba, New York: Tesla Inc chief Elon
MusksaidonFridaythatthecom-
copyofwhichwasseenbyReuters,
Apple said its policies do not pre-
clude employees from “speaking
Parrish.
Parrish, who was fired after
playingaleadingroleinemployee
many significant segments that
willencourageexploration activ-
ities,auctionregimeandsustain-

OlaElectrictest Baidu among China tech cos fined pany’s mobile application was
coming back online after an app
server outage earlier prevented
freely”aboutworkingconditions.
“We encourage any employee
withconcernstoraisetheminthe
activism, said she is hopeful that
Apple’s message will ease the
path for others.
able mining practices.
An award ceremony for five-
star rated mines for noteworthy
New Delhi: Ola Electric said olatedanti-monopolylegislation. therisk of abusing marketpower manyownersfromconnectingto way they feel most comfortable, Apple has previously said it performance will be another
it has expanded the cus- REUTERS Enterprises involved in the to stifle competition, misuse of their cars. Musk was responding internallyorexternally,”itstates.A doesn’tdiscussspecificemployee highlightoftheone-dayconclave,
tomer test rides for its elec- BEIJING,NOVEMBER20 cases would be fined 500,000 consumers’ data and violation of toaTeslaowner’stweet,whosaid spokesperson for Apple declined matters and is “deeply commit- an official statement said.
tric scooters across India. yuan ($78,000) each, it said, the consumerrights.Theearliestdeal that he was experiencing a “500 to comment. tedtocreatingandmaintaininga The mines ministry intro-
Withthis,customersinover CHINA’S MARKET regulator said maximum under China’s 2008 listed was a 2012 acquisition in- servererror”toconnecthisModel Apple’sbusinessconductpol- positiveandinclusiveworkplace.” duced the concept of National
1,000 cities and towns will Saturdayitwasfiningcompanies Anti-Monopoly Law. Alibaba, volving Baidu and a partner, and 3 through the iOS app in Seoul. icy already included language The move comes amid a broader Mining Conclave in 2016 to pro-
beabletotestrideandexpe- including Alibaba, Baidu and Baidu, JD.com and Geely did not themostrecentwasthe2021deal About 500 users said they stating that workers were not re- push by Silicon Valley workers to vide the right platform for inter-
rience the Ola S1 electric JD.com for failing to declare 43 immediately comment. between Baidu and automaker facedanerroratFriday,2140GMT, stricted in their ability to discuss speak out about their working actionamongallstakeholderslike
scooter,astatementsaid. PTI dealsthatdateasfarbackas2012 China has been tightening its ZhejiangGeelyHoldingstocreate asperoutagemonitoringwebsite wages,hoursandworkingcondi- conditionsandtheimpactoftech- government officers, industrial
toauthorities,sayingthattheyvi- grip on internet platforms, citing a new-energy vehicle company. Down detector. REUTERS tions,whichisgenerallyprotected nology on society. REUTERS sectorandassociations. WITHPTI

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THE SUNDAY EXPRESS, NOVEMBER 21, 2021
MEANWHILE
TRUMP PUBLISHING NEW PHOTO BOOK
Donald Trump is publishing a book of photographs celebrating his time as US
President, according to a statement from his office. Titled ‘Our Journey Together’,
the book includes more than 300 photographs and captions written by Trump.

TOPOFTHE
WORLD
US CDC endorses
Covid vaccine US seeks balance
booster shots
for all adults as fears grow
APOORVA MANDAVILLI
NOVEMBER 20
that Russia may
AP FACED WITH rising infections
invade Ukraine
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USA and an anticipated surge in hol-
iday travel, the US Centers for
NASAseeks Disease Control and Prevention

E X P L A I NE D
ideasfora onFridayendorsedboostershots NOMAAN MERCHANT Fewgood
of the coronavirus vaccines for WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 20 optionsfor
nuclearreactor all Americans over 18.
The recommendation fulfills THE BUILDUP of Russian troops ● Washington
ontheMoon President Joe Biden’s pledge in near Ukraine has left US officials
IFANYONEhasagoodidea August to make the extra doses perplexed, muddying the Biden THERUSSIANtroopbuildup
onhowtoputanuclearfis- available to all adults, and caps administration’s response. nearUkrainehaslefttheUS
sion power plant on the months of scientific debate over SomeRepublicanlawmakers withveryfewgoodoptions,as
Moon, the US government whether most people really havebeenpressingtheUStostep theBidenadministrationtries
wants to hear about it. needed boosters. The shots are up military support for Ukraine. tomakesureitsresponseis
NASA and the nation’s top already available at many drug- But that risks turning what may perceivedasneithertooweak
federalnuclearresearchlab stores, doctors’ offices and vac- be mere muscle-flexing by nortooaggressive.Talksbe-
on Friday put out a request cination centres. RussianPresidentVladimirPutin tweenUS,Russianand
for proposals for a fission At a protest against Covid curbs in Vienna, Austria, on Saturday. The banner reads: ‘Control the border. Not your people.’ Reuters The CDC said that Americans into a full-blown confrontation Ukrainianofficialshavetaken
surface power system. overage50,aswellasthose18and that only adds to the peril for placeinrecentweeks,butthey

InEurope,againCovid’sepicentre,
NASA is collaborating with older living in long-term care fa- Ukraine and could trigger an en- seemtohavehadlittleeffect
the US Department of cilities,“should”getboostershots ergy crisis in Europe. onRussia’saggressivestance.
Energy’s Idaho National of the Pfizer-BioNTech or But a weak US response car- ExpertssaymoreUSsanctions
Modernavaccines.Allotheradults ries its own risks. It could em- onRussiaarealsounlikelyto

newrestrictionsprovokeresistance
Laboratory to establish a
sun-independent power over age 18 “may” get booster bolden Putin to take more ag- swayPutin.Therehavebeen
source for missions to the doses, the agency decided. gressivestepsagainstUkraineas callsfortheUStoprovide
Moon by the end of the Recipients of Johnson & fears grow he could try to seize moreweaponsandinfrastruc-
decade. “Providing a reli- Johnson’s one-dose vaccine al- more of its territory. And it could turetoUkraineandforittode-
able,high-powersystemon ready were cleared to get a cause more political damage for ployalargerpresenceof its
themoonisavitalnextstep hundredsofprotesterswhowere booster at least two months af- President Joe Biden at a time his owntotheBlackSea.Butthese
in human space explo- ELIAN PELTIER demonstratingoverthecountry’s ter the initial shot. NYT popularity is dropping. measuresriskRussiaincreas-
ration, and achieving it is & MELISSA EDDY pandemic restrictions. Seven Knowing how to strike the ingitstroopnumbersatthe
within our grasp,” NOVEMBER 20 people were injured and dozens right balance would be easier if Ukraineborder,andevenre-
Sebastian Corbisiero, the were arrested amid what the Singapore set to the US had a better understand- taliatingbycuttingenergyex-
Fission Surface Power RIOTERS SET fires on the streets city’s mayor, Ahmed Aboutaleb, ing of what Putin was trying to portstoEurope.
Project lead at the lab, said. of Rotterdam and attacked po- describedas“anorgyofviolence”. begin easing accomplish. But top officials ad-
lice officers at a demonstration In Austria’s capital, Vienna, mit they don’t know.
The reactor would be built
on Earth and then sent to against Covid measures in the thousandsprotestedonSaturday curbs next week “We’re not sure exactly what Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and
theMoon. AP Netherlands on Friday night. over a vaccination mandate that Mr Putin is up to,” US Defence an ongoing conflict in eastern
Austrians protested a newly an- is set to come into force in SINGAPORE SAID on Saturday Secretary Lloyd Austin said Ukraine between Kyiv and
nounced nationwide lockdown PolicearriveataprotestinRotterdam,Netherlands.onFriday. AP Februaryandanationwidelock- that it would begin easing its Wednesday. Russian-backed rebels in the re-
and plan to make coronavirus down that begins on Monday. pandemic restrictions next Rep. Mike Quigley, an Illinois gion known as Donbas has left
UNITED KINGDOM vaccinations compulsory. And Thoseactions,whichwerean- week, another sign that the city Democrat and member of the an estimated 14,000 dead. Now,
Englandplans protesters gathered in Germany,
Italy and Switzerland.
againstthoserulesarealsorising.
With infections soaring and
of the public also appears to be
growing on both sides. Although
nounced Friday and would have
beenconsideredunthinkablejust
state is recovering from a recent
surge of hospitalisations that
House Intelligence Committee,
said better understanding
Ukraine says an estimated
90,000 Russian troops have
banonsingle-use Ayearandahalfafterthecoro- antiviral drugs to treat the coron- recentanti-vaccineprotestshave months ago, are the strongest re- delayed its reopening plan. Putin’sintentionswascritical“to massed near the border.

plasticcutlery navirus swept through Europe

with devastating effect, prompt-
avirus not yet available, govern-
ments have doubled down on
fizzled in countries like France
and Italy, they have flared up in
centmeasurestakeninaWestern
democracytotamethepandemic.
From Monday, fully vacci-
nated people will be allowed to
avoid the mistakes that have
started great wars”.
The buildup could be a prel-
ude to another Russian inva-
SINGLE-USE CUTLERY and ing strict lockdowns, the conti- calls for people to get vaccinated, the Netherlands, where a three- Portugal may also face new gather in households and “This is a tough, tough area to sion. Speaking to Ukraine’s for-
plates could be banned in nentisonceagaintheepicentreof includingwithboostershots.They weekpartiallockdownisinplace lockdown restrictions, and the restaurants in groups of up to try to gain information,” he said. eign minister this month,
England as part of a public the pandemic. And as govern- have also shifted from voluntary in an attempt to quell a fourth CzechRepublic,whichisfacingits five, an increase from the cur- “It’s a challenge that’s as tough or Blinken said Putin’s “playbook”
consultationandcallforev- ments increasingly return to measures to mandatory ones as wave of coronavirus infections. highestcaseloadofthepandemic, rent two, government minis- tougherthanit’severbeen.Ithasa was for Russia to build up forces
idence launched to tackle measures limiting public life and they lose patience with people OnFridaynight,policeofficers will require proof of vaccination ters on Singapore’s Covid task pretty serious impact on our abil- near the border and then in-
so-calledproblematicplas- introduce vaccination require- who are resisting inoculation. inRotterdamfiredwarningshots forentryintorestaurants,barsand force told a news conference. itytomakethecorrectdecisions.” vade, “claiming falsely that it
tics on Saturday. ments, protests pushing back Frustration among members and used water cannons against hairsalonsstartingMonday. NYT NYT Russia seized Ukraine’s was provoked.” AP
Throwaway plastic plates,

Pak lifts ban on TikTok Flood-hit Canadian province Pentagon chief seeks
cutlery, expanded and ex-
truded polystyrene cups
andfoodandbeveragecon-

after assurances to
tainers could all be phased
outinthelatestUKgovern-
ment bid to eliminate all limits fuel, non-essential travel to reassure concerned
control ‘immoral and REUTERS
avoidableplasticwaste,the
Department
Environment, Food and
for
Middle East allies
indecent’ content
Rural Affairs said. Under HOPE (BRITISH COLUMBIA),
proposals in a 12-week NOVEMBER 20
public consultation, busi- IDREES ALI
nesses and consumers will essary measures to control un- BRITISH COLUMBIA imposed MANAMA, NOVEMBER 20
needtomovetowardsmore SAJJAD HUSSAIN lawful content in accordance temporary restrictions on fuel
sustainablealternatives. PTI ISLAMABAD, NOVEMBER 20 with local laws and societal and non-essential travel on US DEFENCE Secretary Lloyd
norms,” the statement said. Friday to ease supply chain dis- Austin sought on Saturday to re-
EUROPE PAKISTAN’S TELECOM regulator It further said that the social ruptions and support recovery assure allies in the Middle East
Polandreports has for the fourth time lifted a
ban on TikTok following assur-
media company had also given
the assurance of blocking the
work after floods and mudslides
destroyed roads, houses and left
that President Joe Biden’s ad-
ministration was committed to US Defence Secretary
fewerbidstocross ances by the popular Chinese
video-sharing platform that it
users for their continuous in-
volvementinuploading“unlaw-
thousands stranded in the west-
ern Canadian province. On a flooded road in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Reuters
the region despite Washington
increasinglyturningitsattention
Lloyd Austin

Belarusborder would control “immoral and in- ful content” on TikTok. The orders, announced by towards countering China.
THE NUMBER of migrants decent” content. “Keeping in view the assur- DeputyPremierMikeFarnworth Itwasunclearhowmuchim- China’s challenge.
trying to force their way The Pakistan Telecommuni- ances, the authority has decided in a briefing, limits people in “These orders will help keep Trans Mountain pipeline and cut pact Austin’s speech would have “Let’s be clear: America’s
into Poland from Belarus cation Authority (PTA) had to lift the ban on TikTok forth- some areas, including the commercial traffic moving, sta- two critical east-west rail lines with Washington’s allies in the commitment to security in the
fellagainonFridayafteran banneditinJulyaftercomplaints with,”thestatementsaid,adding VancouverIsland,to30litres(7.9 bilise our supply chains and owned by Canadian Pacific Middle East, since it was not Middle East is strong and sure,”
apparentchangeintackby thatitwasuploadinganddissem- that the PTA would continue to gallons) of fuel per visit to a gas make sure everyone gets home Railway and Canadian National backed by any announcements Austin said.
Minsk that could help inating immoral content. monitor the video-sharing plat- station until Dec 1. Non-essen- safely,” Farnworth said. Railway Co that lead to Canada's of further deployments or new HesaidtheUnitedStateswas
calm a crisis that has “PTAhasrestoredtheservices form to ensure that “unlawful tialtravelalongseverely affected The storms, which started on busiestportofVancouver,imped- weapon sales in the region. committed to countering Iran,
mushroomed intoa major of TikTok on assurances by the content, contrary to Pakistan’s highwayswillalsobeprohibited. Sunday, forced the closure of the ing the supply of fuel and goods. Gulf Arab states, heavily re- evenasWashingtonworkstore-
East-West confrontation. platform (that it would) control law and societal values, is not liantontheUSmilitaryumbrella, vive the 2015 nuclear deal.
The Polish Border Guard immoral and indecent content,” disseminated”. have expressed uncertainty “We remain committed to a
said there were 195 at-
tempts to cross the fron-
the regulator said on Friday.
According to the PTA state-
This is the fourth time that
the PTA has lifted a ban on the
Prominent Afghan doctor kidnapped, killed about Biden’s focus on the re-
gion, especially after the US
diplomatic outcome of the nu-
clear issue. But if Iran isn’t will-
tier on Friday, down from ment, the authority had last platformafterblockingitforvar- Kabul: A prominent doctor was them$350,000,afternegotiating “My father was badly tor- withdrawal from Afghanistan. ing to engage seriously, then we
250 on Thursday and 501 blockedaccesstotheapplication ious reasons. kidnappedandkilledinnorthern down their initial demand of tured, there are signs of harm on They are now closely watching will look at all the options nec-
the day before. Europe ac- on July 20 and since then, it had TikTok was banned in Afghanistan,hisfamilysaidFriday. more than twice that, he said. his body,” Roheen Alemi said. efforts to revive a global-powers essary to keep the United States
cuses Belarus of flying in been communicating with Pakistan for the first time in Mohamed Nader Alemi was Despite the payment, the Alemi, a psychiatrist, worked nuclear pact with Iran. secure,” Austin said.
thousands of people from TikTokmanagementontheissue. October 2020, but it was lifted abducted two months ago in the kidnappers then killed Alemi, for the government’s provincial In a speech in Bahrain during The Pentagon chief said that
the Middle East and push- “Asaresultof continuousen- after just 10 days following an cityofMazar-i-Sharif,andhiskid- leaving his body in the street, his hospital in Mazar-i-Sharif. He a trip to the Gulf, Austin ac- Washington would be coming to
ing them to cross into the gagement, senior management assurance by the company to nappersdemandedaransomfor son said. They called the family also owned a private clinic, said knowledged concern in the re- theindirectnegotiationsonreviv-
EU. REUTERS of theplatformassured(the)PTA block accounts “spreading hisrelease,hissonRoheenAlemi andtoldthemwheretofinditon to be the city’s first private psy- gionandgloballythattheUnited ingthedealstarting onNov.29in
of its commitment to take nec- obscenity”. PTI said. The family eventually paid Thursday, he said. chiatric clinic. AP States was solely focussed on Vienna in good faith. REUTERS

RIGHTS GROUPS WARN THAT THE WORKERS COULD BE VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING OR EVEN SLAVERY

Vietnamese workers at Chinese factory in Serbia desperate for help

Shandong Linglong Tire Co. sets Zrenjaninska Akcija (Zrenjanin ing is good,” he said. “Everything Vietnamese workers in the first tofinanceChinesecompaniesthat
DUSAN STOJANOVIC up the huge facility. Action) nongovernmental organ- is different from documents we place. It promised to return the buildhighways,railwaysandfac-
ZRENJANIN, NOVEMBER 20 The project, which Serbian isation told The Associated Press signed in Vietnam. Life is bad, documents it said were taken to toriesandemploytheirowncon-
and Chinese officials tout as a atthedrabone-storeywarehouses food, medicine, water … every- stampworkpermits. struction workers. This is not the
THEY ARE shivering in barracks display of the “strategic partner- wheretheworkersareliving. thing is bad.” Thecompanydeniedthatthe first time rights groups have
without heat, going hungry and ship” between the two coun- “Theirpassportsandidentifi- Wearing sandals and shiver- Vietnameseworkersarelivingin pointed out possible breaches of
have no money. They say their tries, has already faced scrutiny cation documents have been ing in the cold, he said about 100 poor conditions and said their workers’rights,includingthoseof
passports have been taken by fromenvironmentalistsoverpo- taken by their Chinese employ- of his fellow workers who live in monthlysalarieswerepaidinac- Chinese miners at a copper mine
their Chinese employer and that tentially dangerous pollution ers,” he said. “They have been the same barracks have gone on cordance with the number of in eastern Serbia.
they are now stuck in a grim from tire production. heresinceMay,andtheyreceived strike to protest their plight and working hours. After days of silence, Serbian
plainland in Serbia with no help Now, it has caught the atten- onlyonesalary.Theyaretryingto that some of them have been Populist-run Serbia is a key officials spoke against “inhu-
from local authorities. tion of human rights groups in getbacktoVietnambutfirstneed fired because of that. spot for China’s expansion and mane”conditionsattheconstruc-
These are the Vietnamese Serbia, which have warned that to get back their documents.” Linglongdidnotrespondtoan investment policies in Europe, tion site but were quick to down-
workers who are helping build the workers could be victims of Workers sleep on bunk beds Vietnamese workers near the Serbian town of Zrenjanin. AP AP call seeking comment but de- and Chinese companies have playChineseresponsibilityforthe
the first Chinese car tire factory humantraffickingorevenslavery. without mattresses in barracks nied to Serbian media that the kept a tight lid on their projects workers’ plight. Serbian Prime
in Europe. The Associated Press “Wearewitnessingabreachof with no heating or warm water. company is responsible for the amid reports they run afoul of Minister Ana Brnabic said she
visited the construction site in human rights because the They told the AP that they have theirmanagerssimplytoremain fulfilled from the job contract he workers, blaming their situation the Balkan nation’s anti-pollu- “wouldnotruleoutthattheattack
northern Serbia where some Vietnamese (workers) are work- received no medical care even in their rooms. signedinVietnambeforeembark- on subcontractors and job agen- tionlawsandlabourregulations. againsttheLinglongfactory”isor-
500 of the workers are living in inginterribleconditions,”Serbian when they developed Covid-19- Nguyen Van Tri, one of the ing on the long journey to Serbia. cies in Vietnam. It said the com- Chinese banks have granted ganised“bythoseagainstChinese
harsh conditions as China’s activist Miso Zivanov of the like symptoms, being told by workers, said nothing has been “Since we arrivedhere, noth- pany didn’t employ the billionsofdollarsinloanstoSerbia investments” in Serbia. AP

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SPOTLIGHT BOOKS
Birds of a Feather ● Review of Wole Soyinka’s Chronicles from
the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
A peep into the world of the Great Slaty,
● Review of Ranjit Hoskote’s Hunchprose
now the largest woodpecker in the world

NEVER MORE ALIVE

RAHULJHANGIANI

What makes Vicky Kaushal one of the tions of 19-year-old Singh and gained 14 kg
for the older character. To isolate his real self
from the historical figure he was essaying,
most dependable contemporary actors Kaushal never used the phone once he was
in costume. The film left Kaushal, who re-
cently sported a hoodie with Singh’s words
Alaka Sahani far. For a while, it even diverted attention “TellpeopleIwasarevolutionary”imprinted
from his talked-about December wedding on it, with some realisations.

W
with actor Katrina Kaif. “Till I acted in this film, I thought the con-
HILE SHOOTING for “It’s a great feeling when the audience cept of freedom was confined to a country.
Shoojit Sircar-di- grasps the soul of the movie. What’s over- They (revolutionaries) had an open mind to
rectedfeatureSardar whelming is that the film has initiated a dis- thinkof theentireworld.Thefilmtalksabout
Udham, actor Vicky cussion about the sacrifices that have gone equality, free speech, and sharing,” says
Kaushal found him- into creating a free world and equality,” says Kaushal, who adds that he still has to fully
self amid a sea of Kaushal, who sports the tattoo “Ram comprehend the “politics of left, right
bodies. This was expected. He had already Mohammad Singh Azad” on his arm in the and centre”.
gone over this unsettling sequence, which movie. That’s the name the revolutionary Whathelps Kaushalbring authenticity to
recreatesthe1919JallianwalaBaghmassacre, went by during the later years of his life as a his performances? “No matter what role he
several timeson paper. Yet,Kaushal, who es- signifier of unity and secularism. plays,thereisadedicationandconsistencyin
says the titular character of the revolution- The elder son of the prominent action- his craft,” says Meghna Gulzar. When she
ary Sardar Udham Singh in the movie that director Sham Kaushal, Kaushal is an indus- was casting for Raazi, the writer-director re-
released last month, was overcome with try kid. Yet, he is not. He was born in a 10x10 members that Kaushal came “with no bag-
numbness. This pre-climactic sequence of a house in a Mumbai chawl, after his father, gage or set image”. She says, “It was impor-
young Singh’s deep shock and desperate at- whohadshiftedfromPunjabwithamaster’s tant for me to get someone who would be
tempttosavelivesturnedouttobeemotion- degree in English, tried to make a living as a completely malleable to fit the part of a
ally and physically draining. “It was like un- stuntmanin the Hindi film industry. Even af- Pakistani officer. Vicky’s part had fewer dia-
dergoingcommandotraining,”saystheactor. terShambecameasuccessfulactiondirector, logues; he used his eyes and the power of si-
The scene marks Singh’s transition from a Kaushal and his brother, actor Sunny, hardly lence to express himself.”
loved-upyoungstertoabroodingrevolution- visited the sets or mingled with people from Gulzar is teaming up with Kaushal next
ary, who carried the scar of this horrific inci- the industry. Like most Indians, he was fasci- for Sam Bahadur, a biopic of Field Marshal
dent for two decades. nated by movies and cricket. Engineering Sam Manekshaw. “It is such a difficult part
Sircar, who often borrows his filmmak- was a natural choice since he was good at to play and direct. We did a look test to see
ingmethodsfromtheatre,keptitorganicand mathematics, and for a brief while, he even how close we were to depicting Sam
realistic. As the actor rushed to the aid of the dreamt of a job in the US. Manekshaw. In the first test, we got the re-
injured, with a three- But at 21, Kaushal’s sult that stumped us both. That makes it ev-
camera set-up focussing ● ● ● dream changed. After he ident the kind of actor that he is and what he
on him, he was asked to visited anMNC in the sec- doeswithhiseyes.Hejustbecomesthepart,”
instinctively pick the in- Born in a Mumbai ond year of his engineer- says the director of Talvar (2015) and
jured persons he would ing course at Rajiv Gandhi Chhapaak (2020).
attendto.“Inthecourseof chawl, to action Institute of Technology, Notwithstanding the success and star-
the shoot, it hit me that Versova, he realised he dom, Gulzar finds Kaushal “rooted as a per-
there were real cries for director Sham wasn’t cut out for a nine- son”. “Vicky has seen tremendous success
helpandbloodshedwhen to-five job. As he won- ROCK SOLID early in his career but has that changed his
the firing left so many Kaushal, Vicky and dered what would make (Clockwise from top) Vicky Kaushal; stills from Sardar Udham; Manmarziyaan; Masaan approach to his craft? Not yet. I have not
people dead and injured. him happy, he thought of seen it and I don’t think I will either. The
That numbed me,” brother Sunny hardly all those times he was on kind of person he is makes him the kind of
says Kaushal.
During the re-enact- mingled with people the stage for school plays
and skits. “With my curly
Khurana (2012) and Bombay Velvet (2015).
However, it would be Masaan (2015) that
what bolstered Kaushal’s status as a crowd-
puller and a star was the box-office success
heard from his parents and grandparents.
Sircar, however, went through his share of
person he is,” she says. This is, probably,
something that’s instilled into Kaushal by
ment of this tragedy,
Kaushalhadanotherchal-
from the industry hair and sanwla (dusky)
complexion, I didn’t have
would turn it around for Kaushal.
It has been six years since Kaushal
of Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019), which
earned nearly Rs 350 crore at the box-office.
dilemmasbeforezeroingonKaushal.“Itwas-
n’t easy to make the transition from Irrfan to
his family.
Urging Kaushal to always be “genuine in
lenge to deal with: The ● ● ● the confidence that I earned the “fine actor” tag for his breakout His captivating performance as an Indian Vicky. As we contemplated who can play the hisrelationshipsandprofessionallife”,Sham
33-year-old actor had to could become an actor,” performance as the guileless and grieving Army Major who leads a covert operation role, Ronnie (Lahiri, co-producer of Sardar says,“If hewantssomething,hegiveshisbest
maintain the innocence and body language recalls Kaushal. Nonetheless, he decided to Deepak in Masaan. Since then, he has carved against militants, won him theNationalFilm Udham) said, ‘Why not Vicky?’. We spent toit—beitfriendship,professionorpersonal
of a 19-year-old. The biopic of the 1899-born give it a shot. out an impressive filmography as he refuses Award for Best Actor that same year. several days looking at Vicky’s images and relationship. He did face a lot of rejections
Singh, now streaming on Amazon Prime With that, Kaushal’s parents’ eagerness to be boxed in. A year after he appeared in However, it is through his powerful yet revisiting Masaan. After a couple of meet- earlier but he didn’t let that affect him.”
Video, tells the story of the revolutionary at that he would be the first member of the Kashyap’s Raman Raghav 2.0 (2016) as a restrained performance in Sardar Udham — ings, I realised that Vicky is aware of that his- Soon after wrapping up the strenuous
different stages of his life. The movie shows family to have a stable job was replaced by volatile cop with a drug addiction, he has the late Irrfan Khan was Sircar’s original tory,” says thedirector of Madras Cafe (2013), Sardar Udham shoot, the actor found himself
him as a youngster in love, a young idealist theirconcernthatitwouldn’tbeaneasyride. had five releases in 2018. He delivered a riv- choice— thatKaushalhasshownthathecan Piku (2015) and Gulabo Sitabo (2020). on an unscheduled break owing to the lock-
rebel influenced by his friend Bhagat Singh, Sham, who sat Kaushal down, recalls: “Just eting performance as a sensitive Pakistani completely immerse himself in a role. Kaushal’s journey thus far has been pro- down. This worked for him because Kaushal
an activist who moves to London and tries to because I work in this industry, I didn’t want officer in Raazi that proved to be the perfect ItwassurrealforKaushalwhenSircarcast pelled by his dedication to his craft and per- usually tries to take a month-long break be-
rebuild the HSRA (Hindustan Socialist my son to assume that it would be a cake- foil to Alia Bhatt’s lead spy act; in Sanju, he him as Udham Singh. In 2019, the actor had severance. “For Masaan, I spent three weeks tweenfilms—“toexittheworldof onemovie
Republican Association) movement, and an walk. He had to learn the craft if he wanted grabbed attention as the titular character’s messaged Sircar, expressing his wish to be in Benares, learning the local language and before entering a new one”. During this pe-
undertrial who won’t plead guilty after he to be an actor and, most importantly, be pre- loyal friend Kamli; and in the Karan Johar- part of the director’s celluloid world. Within soaking in its world. I learnt Gujarati for riod, he mostly travels to Hoshiarpur. “My
shot Michael O’Dwyer, former lieutenant pared for rejections.” Kaushal took his fa- directed segment of the anthology Lust two weeks, they met and the conversation Sanju. While doing Uri, my focus was on get- village is just like what you see in the movies
governor of the Punjab and a mastermind of ther’s advice. He worked with Manav Kaul’s Stories, he was convincing as the husband veered towards Singh. ting the body language and physique right. — kheton ke beech gaon. For my village folks,
the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. Mumbai-based theatre group, Aranya, acted unaware of his newly-wed wife’s desires. “ComingfromaPunjabi family,of course, Sardar Udham was different. Shoojit da told I am still that kid who used to be in a chaddi.
Kaushal’s character-driven roles have ce- in the play, Laal Pencil, assisted Anurag Another talked-about performance that I knew about him. My ancestral home in me to work more on the character’s state of I can walk into anyone’s home, relax there,
mentedhis reputationasadependablelead- Kashyap and made a blink-and-you-miss-it year was as the commitment-phobic DJ Hoshiarpur district is two hours away from mind than his actions,” says Kaushal. eat, or play cards. My childhood friends still
ing actor in Hindi cinema. Many have com- appearanceinGangsofWasseypur(2012).He in Manmarziyaan. JallianwalaBagh,”saysKaushal,whosawthis Some preparations, though, were exter- live there. These are the people who know
mented that this is his best performance so got more screen time in Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Even as he showed amazing consistency, asanopportunitytotellthestorythathehad nal. Kaushal lost weight for filming the por- what I am,” says Kaushal.

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DOWN IN
RISE
With the extinction of its

JUNGLELAND Western cousin, the Great Slaty

is now the world’s largest

RanjitLal OF woodpecker. But there’s a lot

we still don’t know about it
Ranjit Lal is an author,
environmentalist and
bird watcher THE
The Octopus’s GREY
Garden
Lessons from My Octopus Teacher
GIANT
I
FINALLYmanaged to see Craig Foster’s Oscar-winning
My Octopus Teacher and promptly saw it again. Foster
might have learnt a lot from his octopus friend, but
there are huge takeaways for anyone interested in na-
ture or spreading the message via media ( TV channels).
IwouldimaginethatchannelslikeNationalGeographic
andDiscoverywouldhavealottotakehomeandquietly
ponderoverafterseeingthisfilm.Alltheyseemtobedoing
thesedaysismakingHollywood-stylenatureblockbusters
—whereblood,gore,dismemberment,appallingviolence,
andtheever-presentthreattous—arehighlightedas,inse-
RAMANKUMAR
riessuchasAnimalFightClub,overlymelodramaticwith
killervoice-oversandmusic.“Survivalexperts”outinthe Raman Kumar landscape is dominated by sal forests, that in Sacrificinglarge-sizedtreesandthencompen-
wildseemfirmlyconvincedthateverylivingcreatureout India have been protected either as national sating for the loss by planting scores of new

T
there—intheirhometerritories—ishell-bentonattacking parksandsanctuaries,orreservedforests.For treesisasabsurdasreplacingatrucktyrewith
us.Themessagecomingthroughisclear:MotherNatureis HEY CALLED it “the Lord God instance, in Uttarakhand, it is possible to see two dozen bicycle tyres.
avindictive,unpredictableoldwitcharmedwithcanines bird”,andnotwithoutreason.This Great Slaties without much difficulty in Thiswoodpeckeralsodisplayssomeinter-
andtalons,subjecttoferocioustempertantrums.Sheisout fabledbirdwastheprotagonistin Corbett and Rajaji national parks and the re- esting behaviours. For instance, at the start of
toripyouapart,so,watchit.Sure,therearefilm-makers several books; it even made its served forests adjacent to them. theirday,theGreatSlatiesofagrouproutinely
whohavespentyearsinthefieldstudyingtheirsubjects way to the music charts with a Despiteitscelebritystatus,surprisinglylit- assembleona“staging”tree—somethinglike
andproducingexemplaryfilms—buttheyseemtobeas songdedicatedtoit.Itmadenewswhenitlived, tle is known about the ecology of the Great a roll call. They then perch on the upper
endangeredastheanimalstheyfilm. and now haunts the headlineswith itsextinc- Slaty. We do know that it lives in joint families branches and repeatedly flick open their
Fosterhasshownwhatcanbedonebynearlyanyone tion.Expeditionsweredispatchedtosearchfor of generally half-a-dozen individuals. We also wingsinsynchrony,alsoemittingwhinnying
withacameraintheirlocalpatch—orasinthiscase,inthe this“ElvisBird”butitremainedelusive,withits knowthattheGreatSlatiestendtosleepinfam- callssimultaneously.Thisritualisnotunlikea
small,200mpatchof kelpforestnearhishome.Youdon’t last sighting more than 70 years ago, until fi- ilydormsmadeindeadordecayingtreeswith team huddle accompanied by battle cries to
needhalf of Africatomakeagrandnaturefilm.Butyes, nally the ghost of wishful thinking was laid to multiplecavities.Thesedormitorytreesarever- invoke the spirit of camaraderie before a
thereareotherrequirements,mostof whichtoday,espe- rest in September this year when the US for- itableheritagestructuresthatareusedbygen- match. They then take off to forage, with in-
ciallyyoungsters,professingtobeinterestedinnature,fall mallydeclaredthisfantasticbirdextinct. erationaftergenerationofwoodpeckers.Such dividuals sometimes breaking ranks to fly off
shortof.First,youneedcuriosityandlotsof it.Youmustbe The Ivory-billed woodpecker, measuring trees,unfortunately,areoftendeemeduseless in different directions.
VINAYAKOHRI
interestedinthewhys,whereforesandwhy-notsof the aphenomenal50cmfrombeaktotail,reigned andmarkedforremovalduringroutineforestry The Great Slaty has a special appetite for
dazzlingworldaroundyou.Equallyimportantisobserva- as the world’s largest woodpecker. It inhab- continuetostaywithparentstohelpthemraise KNOCKIN’ ON operations.Thenestcavities,builtinlivetrees, ants. Scientists believe that the species lacks
tion.Toomanyso-callednatureloversthesedaysseemonly ited the swamp forests of southern US and youngersiblings,astarkcontrasttothenuclear HEAVEN’S arelargeanddeepenoughtoholdthreetofour a typical woodpecker crest and sports an un-
tothinkintermsof listsandgooff tonationalparksand Cuba, dominated by giant trees until they familylivingseeninmostotherwoodpeckers. DOOR full-sized woodpeckers. Since these nest cavi- usually long neck because these traits make
sanctuaries—asif theywereoutshopping.So,yesyou werelogged,andthebirdsufferedafateaptly Despiteitsphysicalandbehaviouraldiffer- ties are spacious and safe refuges, they are iteasierfortheGreatSlatytoraidantcolonies
musttickoff the“bigfive”,thebirdroll-callmustbelonger described as “rarity unto death” by science ences, the Great Slaty is ominously similar to (From top) Great keenly sought after by a wide variety of other with minimum fuss.
thanwhatitwaslasttimeand,ataglance,youmustbeable writer David Quammen. the Ivory-billed in one aspect. The fact that it Slaty woodpecker animals(thatcannotexcavatetreeholesthem- However,wearestillinthedarkaboutmost
tonameaspecies,itssubspecies,andknowwhatthebird The Ivory-billed’s extinction also robbed occurs half a world away by no means cush- feeding on ants on a selves) for their homes and nurseries. These ecologicalaspectsof thisAsiangiant.Howbig
ateforbreakfastthatmorning,bytheexpressiononitsface: itof itslong-heldstatusastheplanet’slargest ionsitfromthethreatsthatitstranscontinen- dead sal tree; Great beneficiaries include hornbills, owls, mynas, is its territory? How far does it travel to forage
allthistobedoneinstantaneously,soyoucanrushoff tothe woodpecker, and the spotlight moved to the talcousinsuccumbedto.Lookingatthedistri- Slaty woodpecker monitorlizards,bats,flyingsquirrelsandbees, daily?Howlongdoesitlive?Howmanynests
nextdestinationlickety-splitandrepeattheprocedure. opposite side of the globe. The Asian Age in bution map of the species can lead you to the amongseveralothers. does it lose to predators and squatters? How
male at the nest
Observation means spending hours just quietly watch- thewoodpeckerworldwasthusushered;the happy misconception that a species spread Itisobviousthatlarge-sizedwoodpeckers big a forest patch is required for it to survive?
ing. Even when nothing seems to be happening, it’s about Great Slaty woodpecker — an Asian giant — over 15 countries — from India all the way to cannot make nest cavities in trees with thin Will we be able to find answers to these
wascrownedtheworld’sbiggestwoodpecker the Philippines — could hardly be in trouble. trunks. This means that the XXL-sized Great questions in time? Or will the Great Slaty
without ceremony or fanfare. However,theGreatSlatypopulationhasplum- Slatywoodpeckerneedsoldforestswiththick- woodpecker, too, follow its predecessor into
Though comparable in size with its meted by a dramatic 90 per cent in recent stemmedtreestogetby.Andthatisaresource theblackholeof extinction?If itdoes,thenan
Americanpredecessor,the45-cm-largeGreat decades.Themaincauseistheall-too-familiar whichisinshortsupplyglobally.Mostpeople, ecological meltdown is inevitable with cata-
Slaty hardly fits the bill as a poster boy. While spectre of deforestation, destroying large includingpoliticiansandadministrators,miss strophiceffectsonscoresofotheranimalsthat
the Ivory-billed resembled a soldier smartly chunks of its largely tropical habitat. The thepointthatgrowingold-growthforestscan- are dependent on its home-building skills.
dressed in ceremonial black-and-white uni- sharpestdeclineshavebeenrecordedinSouth- notbefast-tracked,especiallyinforestsofslow- Knock on wood!
form with a scarlet helmet, the Great Slaty eastAsia—particularlyBorneoandMalaysia— growing trees like sal that are preferred by
withitsinconspicuousgreyplumageandde- which used to be the species’ mainstay. Great Slaties. While a sal tree can attain near- RamanKumarisanecologistwhostudieshow
void of any headgear brings to mind a com- Paradoxically,theHimalayanfoothills—a maximum height relatively soon (“soon” in human-inducedchangesintheenvironment
mando in combat fatigue. regionatthemarginsoftheGreatSlaty’srange tree chronology easily being 50 years!), it can impactbirds,particularlywoodpeckers.Basedat
ItsrepresentationoftheAsianethosalsoex- whichhardlyqualifiesas“tropical”—seemsto takeconsiderablylonger(say,200years!)forit NatureScienceInitiative,Dehradun,healsoworks
tends to its behaviour: The Great Slaty lives in beanareawherethisnewly-crownedlargest to attain a respectable girth. This makes con- tocreateawarenessamongpeopleatlarge—
close-knitfamilygroups—thefledgedoffspring woodpecker appears to be doing well. This serving the Great Slaty a greater challenge. especiallychildren—aboutnature
WIKIMEDIACOMMONS
THROW IT IN THE SEA
Forget social distancing, when your octopus friend beckons

hanging around, waiting, wondering: day after day, hour

after hour, and after hours, too. Only then will the subject
of your observation begin to reveal what hitherto was its
secret life and bring you a deeper understanding of what’s
‘I was very struck by Bhakti poetry’
going on. It was only this kind of observation that made
Foster realise that his canny octopus friend was actually
Author and musician Amit Chaudhuri on his latest songwriter of the generation among others. I
lovedthesustainedchords—therewasabeau-
thinking out her strategies and learning from each experi- music album which travels back in time tifulambivalenceaboutthat.
ence — for example, using him as a shield to help her hunt.
Then there’s persistence. You’ve got to be at it day after You didn’t have much love for Bob Dylan?
day. If you are following a particular animal or species, this Suanshu Khurana A lot of musicians tend to cringe at their Ihadmixedfeelingsabouthim.Ilikesome
is the only way to eventually win its confidence and allow old work. How do you see Seventeen? ofhissongsverymuch,especially(thealbums)
you into its private world. It must know you’re non-threat- I don’t see it as my old work, I see it as the John Wesley Harding (1967) and Blood on the
ening. A careless move can easily break the built-up trust. Was the release of your latest album, workof adifferentself.Itdoesn’tmatterif the Tracks (1975).Musically,asasongwriter,hein-
Something as simple as feeding birds in your garden/ Seventeen, around the same time as your self was still evolving at that time in terms of terestedmedeeply,butdidn’tputmeinaspell.
terrace can prove equally rewarding. A gentleman I met in book, Finding the Raga: An Improvisation its ideas to do with poetry and literature. So, I With songs like Expecting to Fly or I Am a Child
Delhi many years ago would give breakfast to crows every on Indian Music, a conscious decision? wanttolookatthisself thatisnottryingtobe by Buffalo Springfield (Young’s band, 1968) or
morning on his terrace by calling them down: each bird No,itjustkindof happened.AdamMoore, somebody else, not trying to be Paul Mitchell, I was in a spell. I couldn’t figure out
flew down only when called by name! He knew their fam- whoplaystheguitarwithmewhenIperform McCartney or Bob Dylan, but working with whatthatspellwas.Iwasn’tinthatstateofen-
ily history: who was whose son, whether he was trying to in England, mastered the songs to reduce something. And that’s why I put it out there. chantmentwithDylan.Healsodeliberatelycul-
take over his father’s territory, fascinating details which some of the radio static. Then I just let it lie, tivated this all-knowing persona. I wasn’t in-
can only be revealed through persistence and observation. became busy with other things. I talk about What was your sense of the self while terested in the irony of that persona. I love the
Ispenthoursobservingtherhesusmacaquesatthe my singer-songwriter period in the book so I writing these songs? sense of surrender I felt when listening to
NicholsonCemeterynextdoor(andgotabookoutof it!), thought I must back this up. From 1979-83, I went intocompleteisola- Mitchell. However complex the songwriting,
andthey’renotexactlymyfavourite.Apartfromlearningto tion.TheonlypeopleImixed therewasalwaysadreamlikedimensiontoit.
recognisetheircalls:threats,orwarningsthatthemonkey- Was it hard to create withweremygurusandpar-
catcherwasaround,therewereotherrevelations.Hefty English songs as a young ents. I didn’t have any Why did you choose to be only known as a
donswouldsometimesgoof aroundwiththrilledtoddlers adult when most of India friends. I had withdrawn writer, and not a musician, all this time?
—likepoliticianskissingbabies:theyweredoingittocadge wasn’t listening to them? from that world. I’d always I thought that there would be scepticism
favourwiththeformidablematrons,whoseapprovalheav- When writing these felt a kind of resistance to about the fact that a writer who’s publishing
ilycountedintheirascensiontoandretainingof power! songs, I was already making Bombay’s unquestioning novels and doing a PhD could be a serious
ApartfromthecrystallinephotographyinMyOctopus mywaythroughHindustani embrace of the so-called Indian classical musician, which is what I was
Teacher,thefilm’sserenepacemadeitsomemorable.Of classical music. A lot of the pedigree of the English lan- by that time. It was a very different time and
course,therewasdrama—theattackbythehilariously music I sang was inspired guage, and of Hollywood you held back rather than advertise. I didn’t
namedpyjamashark—butalsoitsaftermath,theslow from there. I sang Armistice and Western pop, mainly havethetimetopromotemyselfasamusician.
eventualandastonishingrecoveryof theoctopus.Foster Hour (in Seventeen), for my becauseI’dbeenexposedto Inordertomakeaheadway,youneedtobepart
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believedthelittlepatchof kelpforestworkedasasingleliv- teachers who were invited Bengali culture — a modern ofagharanawithpatronage.Iwastheonlydis-
ingentity—witheachcreatureplayingitspart—theGaia home after I had not done too disgracefully in culturewithitsownliterature,songs,radiopro- RAGA FINDER poet William Blake and Bengali literature? ciple of my generation in Kunwar Shyam
concept.ScientistslikeRichardDawkinsmighthaveissues: my ICSE exams at the age of 15. I participated grammes. Why must we always in Bombay, (Above) Amit IwasverystruckbyBhaktipoetry.AndIwas GharanabutmyguruGovindPrasadJaipurwale
hebelievesit’sjustthegenes’dementedambitiontopropa- inacollegetalentcompetition,judgedby(rock dothisinEnglish?Iwasalsobecomingdisen- verystruckbytheideaofviraha,whichisofin- died at the age of 44. And I was already fairly
Chaudhuri; jacket of
gatewhichmadetheentitytheybelongedtotobehavethe vocalist) Nandu Bhende. Everybodysang cov- chantedwiththecorporateworld,thoughmy terest to (Rabindranath) Tagore and which well known as a writer. To go and sit outside
wayitdid.If thatassistedthesurvivalof thecommunity,so ers but I sang a song of my own, Shout. People father was doing well in it. I was composing his music album comes to him from his interest in Kalidasa. somebody’soffice,waitingtobeadmittedinto
beit,therewasnothingdeliberatelyaltruisticgoingon. began heckling me, but in the end, gave me a thesesongsinthecontextofthisself-imposed Seventeen, released Meghdoot is all about viraha. This whole con- someconference,issomethingIfeltalotofprej-
Themostrewardingpartof suchaninteractioniswhen rapturousapplause.Ididwinthatcompetition. loneliness. In Shame, I was conceiving, feeling earlier this year ceptofbeingseparatedfromsomebodywhom udiceagainst...Musicmanifestsaparticularkind
theanimalacceptsyouandseemsascuriousaboutyouas At the competition was activist Sanjay Ghose intenselyforandintenselybereftof,abeloved youdon’tactuallysee,thetruthandveracityis of aesthetic pride. It was definitely one of the
youareaboutit!Makingphysicalcontactisprobablythe (abductedandkilledbytheULFAin2008).He’d whowasn’tthere.Bhaktipoetryorthebhajans farmorethanbeingwiththatperson,thesep- thingsbesidesthereticenceandshyness,which
high-pointof thisrelationship:somethingwhichmanysci- arrangedtogetaslotonBombayAllIndiaRadio, mymothersangwereexposingmetothisidea arationbeingastate of beingthatproducesits alsowereamanifestationofthatpride...Imen-
entistsfrownat.Butwhenyouroctopusfriendrushesupto so I went with a guitar to sing. During broad- of love for invented beings. ownmeaning.Ihadspentsomuchtimelisten- tioned it finally, after (the album) This is Not
giveanaffectionatehug,socialdistancingrulesdon’tapply! casts, my mother would record my songs on a ingtothat,topeoplein,asIcallit,the American Fusion(2007).That’swhenpeoplebegantosay
two-in-one. Once AIR found out I was singing What were the outside influences, what orCanadiansinger-songwritertradition.There tomethatyoureallyhavetodoabitmorethan
myownstuff,theystoppedinvitingme. were you reading and listening to besides wasNeilYoung,andJoniMitchell,thegreatest you’redoingtodisseminateyourwork.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2021 B O O K S 17

Pursuits of Happiness All That

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka’s return to fiction reaffirms the plurality of the ‘global’ novel,
while making no attempts to perform otherness for an Euro-American consumption
We Carry
In his new book of poems, Ranjit
S Satish Kumar Hoskote meditates on a range of
themes with striking erudition

A
N EARLY reviewer of this novel
described it as being pes-
simistic, while others have ex-
pressed mild concern over the
“image of Africa” (more specif-
ically Nigeria, which one feels compelled to
emphasise are not one and the same) that a
global readership might glean from it. Many
more have sought to contextualise the
novel’s plot (or a perceived lack thereof)
while crafting sincere panegyrics for the 87-
year-old literary giant, who for nearly three
decades has held the unique distinction of
being the first “Black African person” to have
won the Nobel Prize for literature. What im-
mediately struck me when I learnt of
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Soyinka’s first novel in 48 years, was the title
hechoseforit.AnostensiblejibeattheWorld ONLY AS THE DAY IS LONG
Happiness Reports released by the United Ranjit Hoskote
Nations starting in 2012, the novel’s title, I
believe, goes beyond the apparent caustic Jonaki Ray
sarcasmandpoliticalsatire in articulating an

R
earnest inquiry about what it means to be
happy.One isalmostimmediatelyreminded ANJIT HOSKOTE’S latest poetry collection,
of the title to yet another author’s much Hunchprose, sweeps through history, mythol-
awaited return to fiction writing in 2017 — ogy, ecology, architecture, the climate crises,
Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost among other subjects, and reflects his erudi-
Happiness. Besides these two writers, who tion and ease with each of these areas. Such a diverse
can in many ways be thought of as kindred range can be intimidating, but while the collection does
spirits, such narrative inquiries into the require multiple readings, Hoskote’s striking wordplay
meaning of happiness have long been a sta- and shifting perspectives makes one do so willingly, with
ple in the world of fiction writing. Especially each reading throwing light on a new facet.
in more recent times, in a world that is no Consider the first poem, Sidi Mubarak Bombay, a prose
longersatisfiedwithmakinggoodbutseems poem, that is based on the history of slave trading in the
obsessed with making all things “great”, the Bombay of 19th century, and is inspired by the story of a
question of happiness — individual or other- south-east African boy sold to a merchant by Arab slavers.
wise — is often framed within a context of Growing up in Bombay and emancipated eventually, he
such pursuits of greatness. returns and settles in Zanzibar and earns fame as a guide.
EvocativeinformofTheInterpreters(1965), Yet, home and identity remain a challenge to him: “I
Soyinka’s first novel, Chronicles... also revisits should go home now, but I forget where that is./ ...City of
many themes that have preoccupied the jahazis, munshis, khalasis, sarafs, bhistis, sepoys that was
writer’sliteraryimaginationacrosshislifeand the only family I knew. So I called myself Bombay...”
career. Set in a nascently-formed independ- Similarly, the poem, Train, with its lines: “ ...a soul-
ent Nigerian nation of the early 1960s, The sleep elsewhere familiar/ only to livestock curtained from
FRANKIEFOUGANTHIN/WIKIMEDIACOMMONS
Interpreters presents a plot explored by sev- the falling axe/ and the sealed train/ that’s about to bump
eral writers of Soyinka’s generation from notinthelayingoutofthemajorplotlines,but RETURN OF THE MASTER west — east across cratered plains/ carrying its death-
acrossvariousAfricannationalitiesatthetime inthedetailshepopulatesthemwith.Yetan- Wole Soyinka during a lecture at Stockholm Public Library on October 4, 2018 weight” treads the arc of history from the trains carrying
— the returnee, who having acquired a other life chronicled in the novel is that of people to the concentration camps and certain death
Europeandegree,isdrivenbythedesiretodo DennisTibidje.Beginningasagarden-variety under Nazi Germany to the Partition era that divided the
good in his native land. As the destination for grifter,hereturnstoNigeriaescapingcharges andharmony.Ofcourse,heuseshismissionas “Africa” and subsequently thriving within an Indian subcontinent, to the current times. Words such as
foreign aspirations gradually starts to shift ofattemptedrapewhilebeingastudentinthe a front for his many backdoor dealings with assimilated model minority somewhere in “soulsleep” and “deathweight” show us the truth about
from European countries to the US, so do the UK. Met with lukewarm success in the local friends in high places, often on behalf of a the US or the EU have become a mainstay for those who are looking away and remain mute, or
challengesfacedbythereturningnatives.The film industry, Tibidje sets his sights on rein- rather exclusive clientele who come to him the“African novel” in thegloballiterary mar- muted, spectators.
horrors that plague Dr Kighare Menka, venting himself in the US, where he swiftly seeking salvation of both a worldly and oth- ketforsometimenow.Suchatrendisusually The poem, Glove, describes a lone baggage-han-
through whose character play out the ethical landshimself inadetentionfacilityforimmi- erworldly nature. offset by representations of the horrors of an dler’s glove, something any one of us would have en-
dilemmas of the major plotline in the novel, grantswithoutappropriatetraveldocuments. Afterallthetwists,turnsandintriguesthat existenceoutsideofEuropeorAmericawhich, countered. Yet, the lines, “...weapons can’t slash her/ fire
aremorecomplexinathinlyfictionalisedcon- Detention camps having been a hot-button holdthereaderinraptattentionfor444pages, let us face facts, is what one usually means can’t scorch her — ...” evoke the immutable lines from
temporary Nigeria. In gaining recognition for issue in the recent past, the author, true tohis CHRONICLES thestoryconcludesinneitherawhimpernor when invoking any kind of globality. In con- the Bhagavad Gita, and transform the mundane to
his clinical work with victims of communal satirical style that is grounded in a robust in- FROMTHE LAND abang,butratherinasomewhatawkwardsi- trast,Chronicles...spotlightsarealityotherthan something rare. There are other poems with similar
violence perpetrated by the militant Boko stitutionalmemory,isquicktoremindusthat
OF THE HAPPIEST lence. Hence, perhaps, the perceived pes- suchconventional“Afropolitan”imaginaries. deceptively simple titles, such as Saturday, Table, Shoe,
Haram, he also finds himself embroiled in a detention camps at the time were “not en-
PEOPLE ON simism. It is undoubtedly a pertinent ques- Makingnoattemptstoperformothernessfor that remain in memory because of their powerful
EARTH
racketforthetraffickingofhumanorgansand tirely inhumane”. Our resourceful picaro, tion to ask within indices that arrogate Euro-American consumption, Soyinka’s re- wordplay and the defiance con-
body parts. Such horror is more sinister as it however,arguestheinhumanenessof hisde- BY WOLE measures of human happiness — is it possi- turn to fiction writing reaffirms the plurivo- tained in them.
hides in plain sight with its agents emerging tentionasapersonbelongingtoaminoritised SOYINKA ble to be happy while inhabiting realities cality of the “global” novel. In this, one is reminded of
from the woodworks of every social or polit- andpersecutedgroup.Whenhispleasforasy- Bloomsbury whereoursurvivalimplicatesus,quiteliterally Tomas Tranströmer’s poem,
ical institution imaginable. It almost makes lum fall on deaf years in the Land of Liberty, 444 pages in the case of this novel, in the dismember- Satish Kumar holds a PhD in Comparative Allegro, and its powerful imagery:
one long for those times of straightforward Tibidje finds his true calling as an itinerant `499 mentofhumanityitself?Thatisnot,however, Literature and Intercultural Studies from the “I play Haydn after a black day/
military coups and dictatorships, when the evangelical preacher, before making his way whatmakesChronicles...relevanttoglobalfic- University of Georgia and is assistant professor and feel a simple warmth in my
oppression of people and the despoliation of backhometoNigeria,whereheisnowknown tiontoday,itisratherthelocationfromwhich of English in the School of Humanities and hands/ ...The sound says that free-
human dignity bore an identifiable face. asPapaDivinaandpreachesagloballyminded suchinquiriesaremade.Triumphalisttalesof Social Sciences at GITAM (Deemed to be dom exists,/ that someone does not
ThetruegeniusofSoyinkashinesthrough (and marketable) syncretic doctrine of peace escaping minoritisation and persecution in University), Hyderabad pay Caeser’s tax./ ...Music is a glass
house on the hillside/ Where stones
fly, stones crash. And the stones
crash straight through the glass,/
HUNCHPROSE But the house remains whole.”
BY RANJIT

Chronicle of an Assassination Foretold

The current ecology and cli-
HOSKOTE mate crises are brought out by po-
Penguin Hamish ems like The Book of Common
Hamilton Birds, The Lion Tamer’s Nightmare,
224 pages and Endling. The last two are par-
`499 ticularly interesting in presenting
Who killed Gandhi and why — a new book examines the Mahatma’s assassination a diptych of narratives, with the
perspective shifting from the lion tamer, alone with the
and the Hindutva imagination that led to the conspiracy against him lion, to the lion, “...the last, most famous member of my tribe.
/... in its far corner cowers my tamer, /a bag of skin peeling off
Aparna Vaidik several right-wing organisations (Hindu ther plays a crucial role in the circulation of a spine: /mangled by his worst nightmare come to life.”
Mahasabha, Hindu Rashtra Dal, Hindu thenarrativesandtheirseepageintothepub- Hoskote’s experience as a valued art critic and cura-
RashtraSena,RajputSevaSangh)andtheno- licpsyche.Couldabulletshowerof historical tor comes through poems such as Protest, dedicated to
THIS IS a book written by an investigative torious princely states came together under facts overturn the hagiographical narratives artist Sudhir Patwardhan. The hymn-like poem goes:
journalist, Appu E Suresh, and an independ- Savarkar’s leadership just before India be- of Savarkar in the public arena? At the least, “Hand at the gate/fist around the stone/ hand on the plac-
ent journalist, Priyanka Kotamraju, who are cameindependenttoeliminatethemanthey onehopes,itwouldpunchsomeholesintoit. ard/ fist around the stone... hand around the baton/fist
on a quest to understand the MK Gandhi sawasanobstacletotheestablishmentof the In fact, the acquittal of Savarkar in the around the stone/grip the flint-edge clarity/ of breath
murder conspiracy. The authors Hindu raj. January 30, 1948, was Gandhi murder conspiracy trial itself has ebbing from stone.”
set out searching for the “smok- not the first but the final attempt echoesof thepresent-daysnakes(discourse) Many of the poems are also embodiments of visual
ing gun” that killed Gandhi. The to assassinate Gandhi. and ladders (evidence) political game. poetry in their usage of spacing. Take the poem Ivory
gun here is a metaphor for the Theauthors’narrativeisbased Discourse does not thrive on facts/evidence, Bird, a concise one at 12 lines. The feathered indentation
mastermind behind the murder onnewlyunearthedarchivalma- nor does the crime of conspiracy. In legal of each line makes your imagination soar, until you can
— Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. terial,primarilythefilesof thein- terms, a conspiracy is an “imagined crime” visualise the bird in your cupped palm with its: “... wings
We know Gandhi was murdered telligencebureau(IB),thestatein- thatexistsbeforeandbeyondtheactualphys- folded back/ legs pulled in long neck-head-beak a missile
byNathuramGodsebutwhatre- telligence departments and the ical act. This means that the law does not re- pointed/ at water far below or the clouds/ the first cor-
mained unestablished was Crime Investigation Department quire a person to have committed a deed or morant/ ever sculpted/ in the sky of your palm”.
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Savarkar’s link to the killing. The (CID) that consists of Case Diary to have been directly involved in its commis- The Notes section, which makes for a fascinating read,
Gandhi murder trial acquitted notations and interrogation re- TRUTH AND sightintothecurrentnationalpoliticalchurn, sioninordertoindict.Onecouldbeimplicated shows the linkage of this poem to the fact that a piece of
Savarkar and the Jeevan Lal ports of the intelligence and po- DARE which appears familiar to the tensions in in the crime by a simple articulation of intent ivory dating back to the Upper Paleolithic Period (40,000-
Kapur Commission that was set liceofficersinvestigatingthemur- post-Independence politics. Although the and/or making a covenant to commit the 10,000 years ago) was discovered in the Hohle Fels cave,
THE MURDERER, Mahatma Gandhi in
up two decades later hinted at THE MONARCH der conspiracy in conjunction authors don’t really specify what these ten- crime. That means a conspiracy trial in effect and is considered to be the earliest carving of a bird.
his involvement but could not AND THE FAKIR:A with the Kapur Commission Bombay, 1937 sionswere andwhat aboutthem feels famil- isnotsimplydrivenby“facts”orevidence.The Finally, a word about the intriguing title. It is a play
provide firm evidence. NEW Report, court statements of the iar, they make a credible argument and shed elasticity of definition gives the courts a lee- on Victor Hugo’s Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1833), as
The book illumines two new INVESTIGATION SavarkarbrothersandGodse,pri- new light on the murder conspiracy. waytoimplicatebasedonatenuousconnec- mentioned by Hoskote in a reading. The poem ad-
connectionsthatdeepenourun- OF MAHATMA vatepapersof(HinduMahasabha The Murderer, the Monarch and the Fakir tionorsuspicion,oracquitcitinginsufficiency dresses, in a slightly satirical manner, the rivalry be-
derstanding of Gandhi’s assassi- GANDHI’S leader) BS Moonje, Hindu comesasaninterestingandawelcomeinter- of evidence as happened in Savarkar’s case, tween the different genres of literature and the margin-
nation. First, it pushes back the ASSASSINATION Mahasabha papers, The Collected vention in a public discourse teeming with and,sixdecadeslater,intheGodhrariotscase. alisation of poetry. “He calls me Hunchprose but what’s a
dateof originsoftheGandhimur- BY APPU ESTHOSE Works of Mahatma Gandhi and Savarkar’shagiographiesandGodseeulogies. So, it was not only the assassin’s bullets word/ between murderous rivals?/ ...And I what can I offer
der conspiracy to August 8, 1947, SURESH, other primary and secondary However, living as we do in a post-fact and but, as the authors show, the Hindutva dis- you except fraying knots coiled riddles scrolled bones/ keys
— a week before Independence, printed materials in National post-truth age, I ruminated whether it is courseof HinduvictimhoodthatfellGandhi, to doors that were carted away by raiders...”
PRIYANKA
instead of the period after — to ArchivesofIndia,NehruMemorial enoughforahistorianoraninvestigativejour- and that continues to mutilate Gandhi’s The poem ends with the assertion that a poet can be
show that it was not simply the KOTAMRAJU andMuseumLibraryinDelhiand nalist to deploy ever-new facts from their memory. In this much, Gandhi becomes a as powerful as Quasimodo, the much derided, mal-
issueof paymentof Rs50croreto HarperCollins the National Archives of London. archivalarsenaltochallengethepopulardis- metaphorasreflectedinthequestiontheau- formed, marginalised character who is a true creator of
Pakistanandtherehabilitationof India The use of different kinds of courses and/or received historical wisdom. thors ask — Which Gandhi did they kill? — music through the bells he rings through the years: “Call
Hindu refugees that made the 240 pages sources provides a closer look at Narrativeordiscourse,thatis,thewayastory onethatresidesintheHindutvaimagination me Hunchpraise...”
conspiratorsboilover.Theyargue `399 theeventsthatleduptoGandhi’s istold,iswhatmakesitpowerfulandpersua- or a man who was an apostle of peace? The In fact, now more than ever the need is for the power
that the conspiracy had roots in assassination, besides informing siveinapublicbattle.Itsstrengthcomesfrom bookisafact-armouredresponse—achron- of poetry through the “inkdrift words” that “spring up to
Savarkar’shypermasculineandmilitantphi- the reader about several new historical per- not just the facts it parleys but the imageries, icle of an assassination foretold — to the for- sting” in this collection.
losophy of Hindutva. Second, the book high- sons, their connections and role in the con- beliefs, attitudes, ways of being, vocabulary mer imagination that is increasingly gaining
lights the hitherto unknown role played by spiracy, and the ideas and frames of thought and the hubris that it generates. Discourse, discursive ground. JonakiRayisapoet,writer,andeditorinNewDelhi.Herpoetry
thebeleagueredprincelystatesandtheirbu- that allowed the assassins tojustifythe mur- like myths, harbours its own truth and may collectionisforthcomingin2022
reaucracies (especially that of the states of der. Studying Gandhi’s assassination is rele- have little or no grounding in reality or facts. AparnaVaidikisassociateprofessorofHistory,
AlwarandGwalior)inGandhi’smurder.Thus, vantinviewof theauthorsasitgivesusanin- Technology — print, media and digital — fur- AshokaUniversity,Sonepat,Haryana

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OFFICE OF THE CHIEF CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER

RURAL WORKS CIRCLE, BERHAMPUR
O-968 (E-Mail:- serwbpr2004@yahoo.com, Tel/Fax:- 0680-2404287)
E-Mail / E-despatch
NATIONAL COMPETITIVE BIDDING THROUGH e-Procurement
Bid Identification No. Online Tender/ 16-2021-22/BPR
Identification Name of work No. of Approx. Class of Period of
No Works Estimated Contractor Completion
Cost (In lakh)
Online Road works under 19 From Rs. “B” Class “A” 09 (Nine) &
Tender/ 16- Improvement of Nos 259.46 lakhs Class, 11 (Eleven)
2021-22/ BPR Newly Taken P.R. to Rs. 748.51 “Special” & Calendar
Roads by R.D. Lakhs “Super” Class Month as
Deptt as applicable provided

Procurement Bid Availability of tender online

Officer Identification No for bidding
From To
Chief Construction Online Tender/ 20.11.2021 at 04.12.2021
Engineer, R.W. 16-2021-22/BPR 10.00 A.M. upto 3.00 P.M.
Circle, Berhampur
(i) No EMD is required as per O.M. No. 8943 Dt. 18.03.2021 of Finance
Department, Govt of Odisha. But Bid Security declaration should be
furnished by the bidders as mentioned in the DTCN.
(ii) Non-submission of the information/ documents through online by the
bidder as per the Items mentioned in the eligible criteria of the DTCN
will also liable for rejection of his tender.
Further details and corrigendum if any can be seen from the website:-
www.tendersodisha.gov.in
Sd/- Chief Construction Engineer
JAL SHAKTI, PUBLIC HEALTH ENGINEERING, DEPARTMENT R.W.Circle, Berhampur
NOTICE INVITING TENDER OIPR-25071/11/0018/2122
e-NIT No. 69 of 2021-22 Dated: 17-11-2021
For and on behalf of Lt. Governor of UT of J&K, Chief Engineer Jal Shakti (PHE) Department, Kashmir invites e-tenders from
reputed and resourceful Contractors/ Firms/Companies/Joint Venture of all classes registered in JKPWD/CPWD/Railways or any
other state Government for “Empanelment of eligible contractors at Provincial level and fixing of item rates for Group-III Plain Lift OFFICE OF THE SUPRINTENDING ENGINEER Prayagraj Smart City Limited (PSCL)
Schemes of Pulwama district (Region Pulwama) for execution of Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) works”, details of which are given
below. The bidding process shall be completed online in two covers viz. Cover 1st consisting of Pre-Qualification Bidding, tender
RURAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT,
1st Floor, P Square Mall, Civil Lines, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh- 211001
fee, earnest money, General Terms and Conditions and Technical Specifications. Cover ‘2nd’ shall consist of Financial Bid in the CIRCLE BAREILLY
prescribed BOQ.
Address :- Near D.M Compound, Station Road, Bareilly Notice Inviting Tender (NIT)
Sr. Particulars of the work Estimated Cost of Earnest Bid Time of
No. Cost Document/Tender Money Validity Completion of E-Procurement Notice for
(Lacs) Fee (in Rs.) (Lacs) Work (Days)
Letter NO: 1178/RED/Tender-Bareilly /E-Tender/2021-22/ dated: 12.11.2021 Implementation of Advance Surveillance System &
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1. THE SUPRINTENDING ENGINEER RURAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, CIRCLE Smart Components in Prayagraj City
1. Empanelment of eligible contractors at Provincial level Work/Scheme 1000/- 180
and fixing of item rates for District Pulwama for execu- wise details Days BAREILLY on behalf of Governor of Uttar Pradesh invites the percentage rate bids through (RFP No.: 1909 /PSCL./2021 Dated:.20.11.21)
tion of Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) works. These works are given in e-tenderingsystem from the eligible and approved Contractors registered with UP RED, in
broadly consisting of: iSection-II
Prayagraj Smart City Limited invites online tender for "Implementation of Advance Surveillance
a. Retrofitting of various Water Supply Schemes, of tender appropriate class A, B and C as the case may be. The Bidder may submit bid for any or System & Smart Components in Prayagraj City" from the bidders meeting the basic eligibility
b. Drilling of production tube well. document all of the works. criteria as stated in the RFP document.
c. SITC of pumping units along with associated electro-
mechanical works for harnessing of tube well. 2. Name of work as per table. 1. Start Date & Time for Tender Download 23-11-2021(Tuesday) from 16:00hrs
d. Retrofitting of electro- mechanical equipment’s at Cost of Bid Period of 2. Bid Processing Fees (Non- refundable) Rs. 5,900 (Rupees Five Thousand and Nine Hundred
various Water Supply Schemes Total Bid
Name document completion Only)including applicable taxes by Demand Draft
Group- III Above 50 Lacs 0.50 90 S. estimated security
of Name of work including including 3. Earnest Money Deposit (EMD) EMD of Rs. 2,50,00,000.00 (Rupees Two Crore Fifty Lakhs
upto 100 Lacs No cost (EMD)
District GST (in rainy Only) in the form of Demand Draft or Bank Guarantee of
Position of funds: Approved Under Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) (in Lakh) in Lakh
Rupees) season any nationalized/scheduled banks
The tender inviting authority is Chief Engineer, Kashmir Jal Shakti (PHE) Department. The awarding authority is District Jal
Jeevan Mission (DJJM). 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 4. Last date to submit the Pre-Bid Queries Bidders shall have to post queries by email to
Note: In view of the fact, that this NIT for item rate contract has been framed for the first time in the Department, a Twarit Aarthik Vikas Yojna (Meerganj) missionmanagerascl@gmail.com and
helpdesk shall be established at the Direction office level as well as district level for encouraging and facilitating assistantmanager.pscl@gmail.com on or before 28.11.
the intending bidders for participation in the instant NIT to ensure wide participation across all the Districts. Connectivity road from village
1. Bareilly Mahima Nagla to village 89.860 180000.00 2354.00 03 month 2021 (Sunday) till 17:00 hrs
KEY/CRITICAL DATES:
I PUBLISH DATE 18.11.2021 Kesarpur. 5. Pre-bid Conference (Date, Time & Pre-Bid conference will be held on 29-11-2021 (Monday) at
II DOCUMENT DOWNLOAD/SALE START DATE 18.11.2021 Connectivity road from village Venue) 15:00 hr
2. Bareilly 71.620 144000.00 2354.00 03 month Venue of Pre-Bid conference:
III CLARIFICATION START DATE 18.11.2021 Kulchha to Kulchha Gautia.
Prayagraj Smart City Limited, 1st Floor, P-Square Mall,
IV BID SUBMISSION START DATE 24.11.2021 Link road from Gram Ras to Civil Lines, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh-211001"
3. Bareilly 86.930 174000.00 2354.00 03 month
V CLARIFICATION END DATE 11.12.2021 Mohanpur.
6. Last date of Bid Submission 14-12-2021 (Tuesday) up to 15:00 hrs
VI PRE-BID MEETING DATE 24.11.2021 Connectivity road from village
4. Bareilly 38.280 76600.00 2354.00 03 month 7. Mode of Bid Submission along with Online through e-Procurement system
VII DOCUMENT DOWNLOAD/SALE END DATE 14.12.2021 Balli to village Hasanpur.
EMD & Bid fee https://etender.up.nic.in.
VIII BID SUBMISSION END DATE 14.12.2021 Connectivity road from village EMD & Bid Fee should be submitted in sealed envelope
5. Bareilly 62.170 125000.00 2354.00 03 month
IX DATE AND TIME OF BID OPENING 18.12.2021 Balli to village Malukpur. strictly through Speed Post/Courier which should reach to
1. Bid documents can be assessed at and downloaded from the websites http://jktenders.gov.in Construction of paved road in us on or before 14-12-2021 (Tuesday) up to 15:00 hrs
2. The pre-bid meeting will be held in the office chamber of the Chief Engineer, Kashmir, PHE Department, through 6. Bareilly 46.420 92900.00 2354.00 03 month addressing to "Chief Executive Officer, Prayagraj Smart
Sarnia till Bahijuiah
virtual/online mode. City Limited, 1st Floor, P-Square Mall, Civil Lines,
3. The Bids shall be deposited on the websitehttp://jktenders.gov.in Note:- All Tenders are being invited in anticipation of the budget. Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh-211001"
4. The complete bidding process will be online http://jktenders.gov.in.
5. The Financial bids of the bidders shall be opened online in the office of the Chief Engineer, Kashmir, Jal Shakti (PHE) Department. 3. Date of availability of Bid documents on website:- 23-11-2021 8. RFP Document Availability https://etender.up.nic.in.
6. Bids must be accompanied by bid security and cost of Tender Document as specified in column 6 & 7 of the table and shall 9. Technical Bid opening date 14-12-2021 (Tuesday) at 16:00 hrs
be payable at Srinagar. 4. Last Date/ Time for receipt of bids through e-procurement: 12-12-2021 up to 12.00 Noon 10. Contract Details for queries (if any) 1. Mission Manager (Technical), Prayagraj Smart City
a. Bid Security to be pledged in favour of FA/CAO, Kashmir, Jal Shakti PHE Department. Bid Security will have to be in form 5. Date of opening of bids through e-procurement: 13-12-2021 at 12.30 pm. Limited
of CDR/ FDR/BG of any scheduled Bank and shall have to be valid for at least one year after last date of submission of Email: missionmanager.ascl@gmail.com
Bid. The Bid of bidders having bid security less than as specified above will be rejected. 6. The Employer has right to issue addendum/corrigendum as per ITB clause-10 on-line which Contact Number: +91-9565555552
b. The cost of downloaded tender documents should be in form of DD /TR/e challan in favour of FA/CAO, Kashmir, Jal Shakti
(PHE) Department. will not be published in any news paper. All prospective bidders are advised to keep regular 2. Assistant Manager (Civil), Prayagraj Smart City Limited
7. The hard copies of cost of tender document in shape of DD/TR/e-challan, Earnest money in shape of CDR/FDR/BG and watch and visit e-tender portal regularly. and assistantmanager.pscl@gmail.com
other relevant documents shall be obtained from the bidder who is declared as L1 after opening of financial cover. Contact Number: +91-9415191331
8. The bid shall remain open for acceptance for a period of 180 days from the date of opening of price bids. If any bidder/ten- For further details please log on to https://etender.up.nic.in and down load the bid document
The right to accept/reject any or all bid(s) received is reserved without assigning any reason
derer withdraws his bid/tender before the said period or makes any modifications in the terms and conditions of the bid, the
said earnest money shall stand forfeited and the bid shall be declared non-responsive.
(Anil Kumar Sharma) thereof.
9. Other details can be seen in the bidding documents from the website http://jktenders.gov.in. Superintending Engineer Sd/-
10. Queries by email if any should be made at kmrphed@gmail.com/phecejmu@gmail.com Rural Engineering Department (Sanjeev Kumar Sinha)
No: CE/PHE/KMR/JSD/27527-38 Chief Engineer, Circle Bareilly Mission Manager (Technical)
Date: 17.11.2021 Kashmir, Jal Shakti, UPID-169950
DIPK-13070 PHE Department. On behalf of Governor of UP ´fÂffaI Oe-1835/ªf.Àf¸´fÊ.Ad²f./2021, dQ³ffaI : 20/11/2021 Prayagraj Smart City Limited

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THE SUNDAY EXPRESS, NOVEMBER 21, 2021 SPORT/CALENDAR 19
Australian Open chief to Djokovic: Hope to play my last Ole on the brink as
Man United lose
T20 in Chennai: Dhoni
No proof of vaccine, no entry SHAMIK CHAKRABARTY
4-1 to Watford
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Medvedev, Nadal, Serena have confirmed their participation in Melbourne KOLKATA, NOVEMBER 10 WATFORD, NOVEMBER 20

MS DHONI has confirmed that his last T20 THE WHEEL seems to be coming off for Ole
ASSOCIATED PRESS game will be in Chennai, putting his Indian Gunnar Solskjaer at Manchester United.
MELBOURNE, NOVEMBER 20 Premier League (IPL) retirement specula- The pressure on the Norwegian manager
tions to bed. reached new levels Saturday after the team’s
THE BALL is back in Novak Djokovic's court. “I have always planned my cricket. My latest Premier League setback, a dispiriting
Australian Open chief Craig Tiley con- last ODI that I played in India was in Ranchi. 4-1 loss to strugglingWatford.
firmed on Saturday that everyone who at- Hopefully my last T20 will be in Chennai. The result was bad enough but the per-
tends the first Grand Slam tennis tourna- Whether it’s next year or in five years’ time, formance was so lackluster — even before
mentof 2022willneedtobefullyvaccinated I don’t know,” Dhoni said at the Chennai two late goals padded the scoreline for
for COVID-19, including all the players. Super Kings felicitation – The Champions Watford — that it left Solskjaer’s future in in
That continues to leave the status of de- Call – in Chennai on Saturday. serious doubt, with United dropping to sev-
fending and nine-time champion Djokovic During the IPL, when asked by the TV enth place in the standings.
in question. Djokovic,who has refusedtosay presenters/commentators, the CSK captain Solskjaer has been able to ride out pre-
if he's vaccinated, would be attempting to had kept his retirement options open, al- vious stretches of underperformance, in part
win a record 21st Grand Slam singles title. though a CSK official had earlier told this because of his popularity with fans — whose
The tournament is scheduled for January paper that Dhoni would be having his chants of “Ole’s at the wheel” used to be a
17-30. The Victorian state government had farewell game at Chepauk, in front of a full display of confidence in the former striker’s
earlier said only vaccinated persons would house. Today, the skipper attested that. ability to turn United back into a title chal-
be allowed into the site for the tournament, He spoke about his association with lenger.
and Tiley reiterated that on Saturday. Chennai. “I am a bit of a wanderer. My par- However, that line is now chanted with
"Everyone on site, the fans, all the staff, ents are from Uttarakhand. They came to glee by opposing fans whenever United
the players, willneedto bevaccinated," Tiley Ranchi. I was born there. I went to struggles — which is increasingly often.
said at the tournament's official launch. Djokovic, the nine-time Australian Open champion, has refused to declare his Kharagpur in West Bengal for my job. This was United’s fifth loss in their last
"There's been a lot of speculation about vaccination status, but will need to do so to defend his title in Melbourne. AP “My association with CSK started in seven Premier League games — the previ-
Novak's position, he's said it's a private mat- 2008, but my association with Chennai Dhoni has skippered CSK since 2008, ous two coming to biggest rivals Liverpool
ter. We would love to see Novak here, but he started before that, when I made my Test leading them to four IPL titles. TNCA and Manchester City.
knows he needs to be vaccinated in order to withtheAustraliangovernmentandthaten- debut here. I never knew I would be picked This one could have been even worse,
play. He's always said that the Australian Medvedev reaches try for the Australian Open closes in by CSK. I was at the auction. (Coming here) but Ismaila Sarr missed two chances to con-
Open is the event that puts the wind in his December. helped me understand a different culture,” “I am a bit of a wanderer. My vert an early penalty — both of them saved
sails." final of ATP Finals "I know that he wants to play, he's clearly Dhoni said. parents are from Uttarakhand. by David De Gea — after the first was retaken
indicated that and he knows the conditions He spoke about CSK’s fan base, which They came to Ranchi. I was born because of encroachment.
Vaccinations mandatory Turin: Defending champion Daniil that he would have to undergo in order to be according to him goes “much beyond the there. I went to Kharagpur in West Joshua King still put Watford ahead in
The no-vaccine, no-play edict was made Medvedev stormed into the final of eligible to play," Tiley said of Djokovic. state of Tamil Nadu and beyond the borders the 28th and Sarr made amends by netting
by the Victorian state government in late the season-endingATP Finals tourna- "Entry in here will be determined by of India”.
Bengal for my job. My association the second just before the halftime break for
October. It means the Australian Open will mentinTurinonSaturdayaftercrush- around early to the middle of December on He lauded the fans for their sportsman- with CSK started in 2008, but my Claudio Ranieri’s team.
become the first Grand Slam tournament to ing Norway's Casper Ruud 6-4 6-2. the entry deadline, So you'll know when a ship and also keeping the franchise relevant association with Chennai started Solskjaer responded by making two half-
require mandatory COVID-19 vaccines for Russian Medvedev will face either player'senteredanevent...sointhenextcou- through their unflinching support on social before that, when I made my Test time substitutions — including bringing on
the players. Novak Djokovic or Germany's ple of weeks you will have really good indi- media, when they were out for two years. debut here. I never knew I would be the little-used Donny Van De Beek, who has
Victoria has been the hardest-hit state in Alexander Zverev in Sunday's final. cationof whereeveryone'satbecauseatthat “Sachin paaji (Tendulkar) got one of the picked by CSK. I was at the struggled to get chances under the
Australia, with 1,268 pandemic deaths out The match marked world number point there's an official list of who's going to biggest ovations here even when he was auction” Norwegian since signing for United last year.
of the country's total of 1,922 and 109,000 of twoMedvedev'sninthwinina row at be here." playing for Mumbai Indians.” The Dutch midfielder responded by
194,000 overall cases as of Saturday. the ATP Finals. REUTERS Tiley said there will be full crowds for the MS DHONI pulling a goal back in the 50th after being
Melbourne and many other areas of tournament, meaning Rod Laver Arena will Overcoming failure of 2020 set up by Cristiano Ronaldo.
Victoria have been subject to lengthy lock- return to its capacity of about 15,000, as will Last year was tough, when for the first ing: “Any player will give his best under MS United captain Harry Maguire was then
downs and overnight curfews over the past Roger Federer, who continues to recover the other main arenas. time CSK failed to reach the playoffs. “2020 Dhoni irrespective of his talent.” A bit of sent off for a second yellow card after a
18 months. from right knee surgery, has already said he Thesecondweek'sschedulehaschanged gave us a chance to test the real character wisecrack followed. “People keep bugging clumsy challenge in the 69th, with Ronaldo
"It's been made very clear, when the pre- won't be coming. He,Nadal and Djokovic are for January's tournament, with both of the franchise. him, are you continuing? Aare he is there, having an equalizer ruled out for offside
mier (Daniel Andrews) announced several all tied with 20 singles majors each. women's singles semifinals to be played Since 2008, it has been smooth sailing he hasn’t gone anywhere.” shortly afterward.
weeks ago that in order to participate at the Top-ranked Ash Barty of Australia will Thursday evening ahead of the Saturday and it’s easy when you are doing well. This The legendary Kapil Dev called Dhoni a Watford then added two goals in injury
Australian Open, to come into Victoria, you'll make another attempt to win her home ma- night final. The men's singles semifinals will time, the boys stood up to be counted and hero, while BCCI secretary Jay Shah revealed time to complete the rout.
need to be fully vaccinated," Tiley said ear- jor, and defending champion Naomi Osaka be split over the afternoon and evening ses- they walked the talk,” Dhoni said. that the ex-India captain agreed to mentor
lier on a morning television program. has also confirmed she'll play, Tiley said. siononFriday,withthefinalonSundaynight, CSK bounced back to win their fourth the squad for the recently concluded T20
"Immediately we communicated that to He said he'd been "on the phone" with Jan. 30. IPL title this year. They showed a similar re- World Cup without taking a penny. RESULTS
the playing group, it is the one direction that Serena Williams in the past few days and Also,VictoriastateSportsMinisterMartin solve in 2018 after returning from a two- Shah also confirmed that the next sea-
you take that is going to ensure everyone's Williams, who has 23 Grand Slam singles ti- Pakula announced that Melbourne Park will year ban. son of the IPL would be played in India. Leicester City 0 3 Chelsea
safety." tles and needs one more to tie Margaret host the Australian Open until 2044 under a N Srinivasan, the vice-chairman and As a batsman, Dhoni had a poor IPL this
Amongthetopmaleplayers,Tiley,whois Court's all-time record, is training and plans new deal negotiated with Tennis Australia. managing director of the India Cements term – 114 runs from 16 matches. But this is Newcastle United 3 3 Brentford
the tournament director, said Rafael Nadal to play. There's been speculation for several years Limited, recounted a rare occasion when he completely irrelevant to everybody related Burnley 3 3 Crystal Palace
and Daniil Medvedev, who beat Djokovic in Tiley, who said he'd also been in contact that Sydney and New South Wales state saw Dhoni emotional, upon CSK’s return to to CSK. Aston Villa 2 0 Brighton
the final of the U.S. Open, preventing the withDjokovicandhisteam,saiditwillbeap- wanted to poach the tournament from the IPL. Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin
Watford 4 1 Man United
Serbian player from completing a calendar- parent by mid-December who will be com- Melbourne, but Saturday's announcement “He just said, ‘we have to win’. And we spoke for the fans when he said: “Dear
year Grand Slam, plan to be in Melbourne in ing. He said international players were cur- appearstohaveendedanyspeculationabout won that year.” The former BCCI president Dhoni, we want you to lead CSK for many Wolves 1 0 West Ham
January. rently going through the travel visa process a move northeast to Australia's largest city. highlighted Dhoni’s leadership skills, say- more seasons.”

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THE SUNDAY EXPRESS, NOVEMBER 21, 2021
SMITH A CANDIDATE FOR AUS CAPTAINCY
Batting mainstay Steve Smith on Saturday emerged as one of the
candidates for Australian Test captaincy after the selectors had reportedly
approached the country's cricket board with a proposal to hand over the
reins to the former skipper. Though vice-captain Pat Cummins remains
the frontrunner for the top job, Smith is also in the reckoning. PTI

BRIEFLY SPORTLINE India's new T20 skipper is tactically shrewd but his strengths also lie in his
Hamiltonwinspole communication skills, shooting straight, grooming juniors and utilising experienced seniors
forinaugural
QatarGrandPrix
Losail(Qatar):LewisHamiltonandMax
Vetstappen qualified 1-2 for the inau-
DEVENDRA PANDEY
NOVEMBER 20 In Rohit’s words
gural Qatar Grand Prix, setting up a IN AN Instagram Live session with Rohit In his first media interaction as India's T20 captain, Rohit Sharma spoke about giving
showdown between the Formula One Sharma last year, Yuvraj Singh shared an as- players the confidence to perform respective roles and setting a template for the
championship contenders at the very sessment of the current Indian dressing team before the next T20 World Cup
start of Sunday's race. Hamilton won room.
the 102nd pole of his career, fourth of “I just feel that there are very few guys Freedom to play fearlessly His vision for the T20 World Cup
theseasonandfirstsincetheHungarian to look up to and I feel that a sense of re- “The pressure is always there. We “Template is a very important one and we
Grand Prix in August. Hamilton trails spect towards seniors, that has become a certainly will keep an eye on that aspect; need to set it right. We've got some time
Verstappen by 14 points in the cham- thin line now… They do what they want that's where the entire set-up will play a to do that. India has been brilliant in this
pionshipfightwiththreeracesremain- to. Koi bhi kisi ko kuchh bhi keh deta hai (any- big part that wherever that individual format, it's just that we haven't won the
ing. He beat Verstappen by 0.455 sec- one can say anything to anyone),” Yuvraj bats, and how we want him to bat, goes ICC tournament. We've played well and
onds Saturday to win the pole atLosail told Rohit, a long-time admirer-turned- and does the job for us. If he doesn't then performed well as a team. Of course,
InternationalCircuit.Theraceisthefirst close friend. we instill confidence in him that we have there are little holes we need to fill and
ina10-yeardealbetweenF1andQatar. Yuvraj isn’t one to tolerate perceived full faith in you, just go and do the role for make sure they're looked after. That will
Hamilton on Friday debuted a helmet slights. Being relegated to the Mumbai the team. As long as they're trying to do be the biggest challenge we'll have as a
that sported a rainbow in the colors of Indians bench for the 2019 Indian Premier the role for the team, we are happy.” team.”
the Progress Pride flag that recognizes League final by captain Rohit, however, was-
the LGBTQ+ community. AP n’t one of those moments. Those in the team
say all it took was a quick chat between the ROHIT AS LEADER let’s bring on that bowler’ and vice-versa.
Instead, like MS, he will back his instincts
SyedMushtaqAli: two. The friendship didn’t suffer, and Rohit’s
Mumbai beat Chennai Super Kings to win Knows how to lift a player
and take decisions on the spot. Rohit is
old school. At the same time, he has a lot
K’taka-TamilNadu the fourth of their five IPL titles.
Setting the obvious tactical acumen
“Rohit knows ek player ko kharab of match awareness.”

toclashinfinal aside, Rohit’s strengths as a leader lie in his

communication and man-management
situation se acche situation me kaise lana
hai (How to improve a player’s PRAGYAN OJHA,
LEFT-ARM SPINNER.
situation). It’s the quality that makes
New Delhi: Karnataka defeated skills, honing juniors and utilising seniors.
him different from others. What does a
Vidarbha by four runs in a thrilling Those who have played with, and under,
semifinaltoenterthesummitclashof thenewIndiaT20Icaptain,talkaboutRohit’s
player want? That his captain talks to Smart use of bowlers
him, gives him a clear idea about the "...He knows which bowlers to use and
the SyedMushtaqAliTrophynational instincts. Pragyan Ojha, former India inter-
team and shares his thinking about the when. Like he didn’t bowl Kieron Pollard
T20 tournament on Saturday. Asked national and childhood friend, saw it in the
player and how he can improve. Rohit much in the last season of IPL and the
to bat, Karnataka rode on Rohan initial years of the IPL when the two played
does just that.” team still won. The way he used Pat
Kadam's 87 off 56 balls to post 176 for together at Deccan Chargers.
seven and then restricted the opposi- “We all know Rohit Sharma became the DHAWAL KULKARNI, Cummins in the first leg of IPL and
tion to 172 for six with right-arm Rohit Sharma with Mumbai Indians. But I FAST BOWLER Nathan Coulter-Nile in the second leg. It
pacer Vidyadhar Patil (1/29) defend- feel it all started from Deccan Chargers. showed how clear he was in his thought
ing 14 in the final over. Earlier, rookie Credit should go to Adam Gilchrist, who process. He knows how to use his
medium pacer P Saravana Kumar saw something in him and made him vice-
Backs his instincts bowlers."
starred with a fifer as defending captain, despite having so many senior “He is not the one who believes in match-
champions Tamil Nadu outplayed players in the side,” Ojha recalls. “Rohit as- ups. Nowadays, captains think about SAURABH TIWARY,
Hyderabad by eight wickets. The TN sessed situations and provided inputs that various match-ups. ‘For this batsman, MI BATSMAN
bowlers backed skipper Vijay helped the team.”
Shankar'sdecision tofieldfirstasthey The elder brother to the generation af-
bundled out the hitherto unbeaten ter him, the Team India mainstay in all During a recent discussion to drop Ajinkya Rahane after a
Hyderabad for 90 in 18.3 overs with three formats treats everybody as his
Saravana finishing with 5 for 21. equal; is calm when he listens and caring
disappointing tour of England, Rohit backed the batsman.
BRIEFSCORES: Karnataka176for7in when he speaks. During the 2018 Boxing Day Test against Australia, it was Rohit’s
20 overs (R Kadam 87, M Pandey 54; D Mumbai Indians seamer Dhawal suggestion that led to Jasprit Bumrah bamboozling Shaun Marsh
Nalkande 4/28) beat Vidarbha 172 for Kulkarni says it is easier to remain focused
6in20(ATaide32;KCCariappa2/27)by thanks to Rohit’s down-to-earth attitude with a slower yorker.
four runs; Hyderabad 90 all out in 18.3 and tendency to back each player.
overs (PS Kumar 5/21) lost to Tamil “Rohit knows ek player ko kharab situa-
Nadu 92 for 2 in 14.2 overs (V Shankar tion se acche situation me kaise lana hai
43n.o.) by eight wickets (How to improve a player’s situation). It’s With a rise in stature, Rohit has gained to keep the discussions brief. And though and vice-versa. Instead, like MS, he will chance in the playing eleven for MI? But he
the quality that makes him different from trust and respect from Indian players. One the Mumbai Indians set-up is brimming back his instincts and take decisions on the took that decision. At the same time, he
Erigaisitakessole others,” Kulkarni explains. “What does a
player want?
of them, who does not wish to be named,
reveals how after a hard-fought game
with friends, Rohit has never pushed for a
name into the playing eleven.
spot. Rohit is old school. At the same time,
he has a lot of match awareness.”
knows which bowlers to use and when.
Like he didn’t bowl Kieron Pollard much in
leadinblitzevent That his captain talks to him, gives him
a clear idea about the team and shares his
against Mumbai Indians, captain Rohit
came through with some productive ad-
Another interesting facet about Rohit is
his approach to the ‘match-ups’ fad that has Bold and brave
the last season of IPL and the team still won.
The way he used Pat Cummins in the first
Kolkata: Indian teenager Arjun Erigaisi thinking about the player and how he can vice, wanting him to do well in the future. taken over the cricketing ecosystem, espe- Saurabh Tiwary, a middle-order bats- leg of IPL and Nathan Coulter-Nile in the
raced into the lead in blitz event a day improve. Rohit does just that.” Parthiv Patel, former India wicket- cially in T20s. It has led to a situation where man for Mumbai Indians, says the best second leg. It showed how clear he was in
afterhisstunningtriumphintherapid In the national set-up, though Virat keeper and Mumbai Indians talent scout, captains prefer to use low-quality off-spin- quality of Sharma’s captaincy is that he his thought process. He knows how to use
section of the Tata Steel Chess tourna- Kohli was the long-time India captain for feels that Rohit maximises players’ poten- ners just because there are left-handers at doesn’t hesitate in taking bold decisions. his bowlers,” Tiwary said.
ment here on Saturday. He will go into all three formats, Rohit had gradually be- tial by giving them the freedom to express the crease. Or keep the left-arm spinners He doesn’t get fazed by big names and At its core, the Rohit Sharma brand of
thefinaldayoftheblitzeventasthesole gun handling things. He has often been the themselves. away from left-handed batsmen. makes unexpected moves. Like not having captaincy is driven by communication. An
leader. A day after Erigaisi held off a one to speak up when it comes to pointing “He understands their minds because Rohit isn’t one of those new-age cap- Kieron Pollard bowl or drafting Tiwary into accessible senior, shooting straight and
strong challenge from world number things out in the dressing room. he spends time with everyone individually. tains who gets carried away with match- the playing XI and often sending him ahead lending an ear to his subordinates.
fourLevonAronianinthefinalroundto During a recent discussion to drop He allows bowlers to think and backs their ups, preferring to let quality bowlers do of other established batsmen. Tiwary too So when Yuvraj spoke of a lack of sen-
clinch the rapid title, the 18-year-old, Ajinkya Rahane after a disappointing tour plans,” Patel said. their thing irrespective of the kind of bats- was pleasantly surprised. Perhaps Rohit iors to look up to in the current dressing
who is rated highly by Viswanathan of England, Rohit backed the batsman. men on strike. saw in him what even he didn’t. room, Rohit replied: “When I came into the
Anand, was on 6.5 points at the end of During the 2018 Boxing Day Test against Going by instinct “He is not the one who believes in “If Mumbai Indians have won five titles, team, there were so many seniors… The at-
the ninth round on Saturday. PTI Australia, it was Rohit’s suggestion that led His composure has been compared to match-ups,” says Ojha. “Nowadays, cap- two would have come because of his cap- mosphere is light now. It is what I attempt
to Jasprit Bumrah bamboozling Shaun MS Dhoni’s. Like Dhoni, Rohit too isn’t long- tains think about various match-ups. ‘For taincy. He is so sharp in reading the game. to do. To keep talking to the youngsters, the
Marsh with a slower yorker. winded in team meetings, choosing instead this batsman, let’s bring on that bowler’ Who would have expected that I will get a five-six of them.”

Unverified photos of Shuai posted online Using smart angles and variations,
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
NOVEMBER 20
Patel makes an immediate impact
UNVERIFIED PHOTOS of Peng Shuai have
been posted online by a state-affiliated jour- SHAMIK CHAKRABARTY There’s something special in his
nalist as international concern mounts for NOVEMBER 20 bowling that he canbowl late
the Chinese tennis star not seen publicly outswing from wide of the crease
sinceaccusingaformervice-premierof forc- ANXIETY WRIT large on Harshal Patel’s and inswing from close to the
ing her to have sex. face. He had just claimed his maiden inter-
The Twitter account @shen_shiwei, la- national wicket, but the umpires asked
stumps despite not having the
belled"Chinesestate-affiliatedmedia"bythe New Zealand opener Daryl Mitchell to wait, perfect alignment at the time of
social network, posted four undated images as they were checking for a no-ball. loading andrelease. The alignment
of her late Friday. In a tweet, @shen_shiwei Harshal had delivered a well-disguised of his left shoulder andfront ankle is
said the pictures, which could not be inde- cutter from wide of the crease, so wide that not what you would call acopybook
pendently verified by AFP, were shared on he ran the risk of cutting the return crease. and it makes his action atad injury-
Peng's WeChat Moments, a function often The TV umpire concluded that Harshal did-
restricted to friends, to wish her followers a n’t transgress. Mitchell was done in by the
prone as well. Butthe ability to use
"good weekend". angle, and also the lack of pace. the crease isnatural...”
One photo shows the smiling player with The photos were shared on Peng's Figures of 2/25 from four overs on de- ASHWANI KUMAR, DIRECTOR COACHING
a cat in her arms, with stuffed animals, a tro- WeChat Moments, a function often but had been an achievement to savour. It OF HARYANA CRICKET ON HARSHAL’S BOWLING
phy, a Chinese flag and certificates visible in restricted to friends, to wish her also earned Harshal the Man of the Match
thebackground.Anothershotshowsaselfieof followers a "good weekend”. Twitter award in the second T20I in Ranchi. One of
Pengwithatoyfromthechildren'sanimation the standout features of his bowling was Cricket Club in Rohtak, said.
Kung Fu Panda, with an image of Winnie the how he used the crease – bowling away- Figures of 2/25 from four overs earned Harshal’s journey hasn’t been linear. He
Pooh in the background. The children's char- ing for a fully transparent investigation into goers from wide of it and bringing the ball Harshal Patel the Man of the Match played for India U-19 from Gujarat, but
acterisoftencensoredonlineinChinaascrit- Peng's claims. into the batsmen from close to the stumps. award on his debut. AP wasn’t considered good enough to repre-
icssayChineseleaderXiJinpingresemblesthe Taking the pace off the ball served him well. sent the state team at first-class level and
cartoon. Requests for comment from the user Players speak up Harshal is not a 140kph bowler. To make eventually migrated to Haryana after 2009.
@shen_shiwei were not immediately an- Some of the world’s most famous ten- up for that, he needed to load his bowling Back then, Harshal was too young to un- Kumar readily spotted the potential.
swered.Twitter is blocked in China and only nis players, distraught by the disappearance with variations to graduate to the interna- derstand the dynamics or physics of the Training sessions are specific at the
peoplewithaVPN-typeworkaroundcanac- of colleague Shuai, are challenging China’s tional level. Slower bouncers, variations in whole thing. But the trained eye of Ramnarayan Cricket Club where Harshal
cess it. However, many Chinese diplomats Communist Party to get answers. yorkers and cutters became his staple. Ashwani Kumar, director coaching of honed his skills. Morning sessions are re-
and official state media have accounts to de- So far it’s a standoff with little visible im- been the most outspoken in defense of the Using the crease to optimum effect came Haryana Cricket, spotted the speciality. served for fitness, strength and endurance
fend China's point of view. pact as tennis players like Naomi Osaka, Uyghurs, calling Xi a “brutal dictator.” naturally to him. “He wasn’t aware of it and at that age, training. In the afternoon/evening, trainees
Earlier this month, the former Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic — Peng’s case is unique. She is a star ath- “Angles have always been a big part of you actually don’t care. But there’s some- hit the nets.
Wimbledon doubles champion alleged on joined by tennis governing bodies, human lete and has a platform and credibility that my game and I use them to good effect. I thing special in his bowling that he can “Harshal was unorthodox from the out-
Chinese social media site Weibo that rights groups, retired players, and several few other women in China share. The effort think that’s another thing I realised that I bowl late outswing from wide of the crease set. He wasn’t side-on, the ideal action to
Communist Party grandee Zhang Gaoli, now athletes’ lobbies — try to turn their profiles to silence Peng reflects the Communist can add to my repertoire without trying too and inswing from close to the stumps de- bowl outswing. But he made the ball swing
in his 70s, had forced her into sex during a into power. Party’s determination to squelch criticism many different things,” the medium pacer spite not having the perfect alignment at away with an openish action. He wasn’t
long-term on-off relationship. Athletes may sense a pressure point. of its leaders and to prevent any organized said at the post-match presser. the time of loading and release. The align- quick. The challenge was to turn his weak-
Her message was quickly scrubbed from China is just 2 1/2 months from hosting the public response. Athletes are especially sen- Even as a teenager, he was ‘playing’ with ment of his left shoulder and front ankle is nesses into his strengths, which he has
the Chinese web, and Beijing has repeatedly Beijing Winter Olympics, which is facing a sitive politically because they are well- the angles – bowling outswingers on the not what you would call a copybook and it done,” Kumar said before giving his slower
refused to comment on the case. diplomatic boycott over allegations of known and admired. The ruling party pub- fourth stump line from wide of the crease. makes his action a tad injury-prone as well. deliveries a special mention.
The United States on Friday demanded crimes against humanity involving at least licizes their victories, especially those of a When he went close to the stumps, despite But the ability to use the crease is natural
proof of the 35-year-old's whereabouts and 1 million Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic three-time Olympian such as Peng, as evi- having his front toe pointing towards first and all I did was a bit of fine-tuning,” LIVE: India vs New Zealand Third T20I from
well-being,withtheUnitedNationsalsocall- minorities. NBA player Enes Kanter has dence it is making China strong again. slip, he brought the ball into the batsmen. Kumar, who also runs the Shri Ramnarayan 7pm on Star network and Hotstar

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