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A dvocating a tough stance against terrorism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday urged the interna- tional community to call out nations backing this scourge and they must be “brought to book.” He also favoured reforms in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Trade Organisation (WTO). Modi made these observa- tions during his address at the Brazil-Russia-China-South Africa (BRICS) conclave. The virtual event was attended by heads of Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa. President Vladimir Putin hosted the high-powered con- clave. Besides Modi and Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attended the meet- ing. The 12th summit’s theme was “Global Stability, Shared Security and Innovative Growth.” Incidentally, this was the second time Modi and Chinese President Xi Jingping were coming face to face albeit vir- tually since the stand-offs start- ed between the two nations in Eastern Ladakh in May. During the first meeting at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on November 10, Modi in a veiled reference to China’s expan- sionist policy said, “India believes that to improve con- nectivity it is important to respect the other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.” Prime Minister Imran Khan was also present at that event. Modi said, “Terrorism is the biggest problem facing the world today. We have to ensure that the countries that support and assist the terrorists are held accountable, and this problem is tackled in an organised man- ner.” The Prime Minister was apparently underlining the role of Pakistan in fanning cross- border terrorism in India and China’s support to it. He congratulated Russia for the finalisation of the BRICS counter-terrorism strat- egy under its leadership and promised that India will take forward the matter during its leadership next year. With the world battling coronavirus pandemic, the Prime Minister highlighted India’s contribution to the international community dur- ing the crisis. Modi said due to the strength of India’s pharmaceu- tical sector, India was able to provide medicines to over 150 countries during lockdown. He assured the BRICS nations that India’s coronavirus vaccine production and delivery abili- ty will help mankind in the same way. As India will be taking over the chairmanship of the BRICS in 2021, Modi announced that his country will promote digital health and traditional medicine among BRICS countries. The summit held against the backdrop of the 75th anniversary of the UN, the leaders discussed intra-BRICS cooperation and key issues in the global context, including the reform of the multilateral system, measures to mitigate the impact of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, coopera- tion in counter terrorism, trade, health, energy and people to people exchanges. Modi highlighted his Government’s flagship Atmanirbhar Bharat or Self- Reliant India campaign on the BRICS platform. The Prime Minister said the campaign will instill a comprehensive reform process, which can help India become a strong con- tributor to the global value chains in the post-Covid era. “We have started a com- prehensive reform process under the ‘Self-reliant India’ campaign. The campaign is based on the belief that a self- reliant and resilient India post- Covid can be a force multipli- er for the global economy and make a strong contribution to the global value chains,” Modi said. He also called for urgent reforms in the United Nations to ensure that the organisation remains relevant. Being a founding nation of the United Nations, India has always upheld its values of multilater- alism, “but the organisation has not kept up with the changing times,” he said. The Prime Minister also stressed the need to reform UN Security Council as well as organisations like IMF and WTO. The Prime Minister also highlighted reform initiatives undertaken by his government under the ‘self-reliant India” campaign. “We have started a com- prehensive reform process under the ‘Self-reliant India’ campaign. The campaign is based on the belief that a self- reliant and resilient India post- Covid can be a force multipli- er for the global economy and make a strong contribution to the global value chains,” the PM said. I n view of alarming surge in coronavirus cases in the national Capital, the Delhi Government on Tuesday sent a proposal to the Centre seek- ing power to shut down mar- kets which may emerge as Covid hotspots. In another proposal sent to the Lieutenant-Governor (L- G), the Government sought to permit only 50 people to attend wedding functions now against the earlier limit of 200 people. Addressing the media, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said, “Following the Central Government’s guidelines and considering the marriage sea- son, the Delhi Government earlier allowed 200 guests at the marriage functions. Earlier, this number was 50 but con- sidering the recent spike in the number of corona cases, the Delhi Government has decid- ed to withdraw this relaxation. I have sent the proposal to the L-G for his approval.” The CM said, “We wit- nessed massive crowds in some of the popular markets of Delhi before Diwali. In these markets, no social distancing was fol- lowed and due to this situation, the number of Covid-19 cases has surged significantly in the Capital. In the last order passed by the Central Government, it was noted that permission to impose local lockdowns in the State should be taken from the Centre. We have requested the Centre to permit shutting down markets if necessary.” Kejriwal thanked the Centre for providing 750 addi- tional ICU beds for Covid patients in Delhi. He appealed to the people of Delhi to wear masks and follow social dis- tancing norms to protect them- selves from Covid. New Delhi: The number of new coronavirus infections reported in a day ropped below 30,000 after four months, taking India’s COVID-19 caseload to 88.74 lakh, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 82,90,370 according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday suggested that Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19 could be produced in China and India, which are members of the five-nation BRICS bloc. T he Congress on Tuesday distanced itself from Gupkar alliance after Home Minister Amit Shah sought clarification from Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi about their stand on the agen- da put forth by a conglomera- tion of leaders from the Kashmir valley. In a series of tweets Shah termed Gupkar “gang” as an unholy alliance and said Sonia and Rahul must clarify their stand clear to people of India. Hitting out at Shah, Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said, “To spread lies, fraud and creating new illusions have become the way of the Modi Government. It’s a shame that Home Minister Amit Shah is keeping aside the responsibility of the national security and is making false, misleading and mischievous statements on Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh... Congress party is not a part of Gupkar alliance.” Shah alleged that the “Gupkar Gang is going global” and wants foreign forces to intervene in Jammu & Kashmir. T he Government on Tuesday imposed a 30-day morato- rium on Lakshmi Vilas Bank, restricting cash withdrawals at 25,000 per depositor, and simultaneously announced a scheme to merge the cash-strapped lender with DBS India. Singapore’s DBS will infuse 2,500 crore into DBS Bank India for the proposed merger with cash-strapped Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB). The step was taken on the advice of the Reserve Bank in view of the private sector bank’s deteriorating financial health. The Reserve Bank also superseded the board of LVB and appointed TN Manoharan, former non-executive chair- man of Canara Bank, as its administrator for 30 days. The RBI placed in the pub- lic domain a draft scheme of amalgamation of LVB with DBS Bank India Ltd (DBIL). DBS Bank India, in a state- ment, said the proposed amal- gamation will provide stability and better prospects to LVB’s depositors, customers and employees. “To support the amalga- mation, DBS will inject 2,500 crore (SGD 463 million) into DBIL if the scheme is approved. This will be fully funded from DBS’ existing resources,” it said. LVB is the second private sector bank after Yes Bank which has run into rough weather during this year. In March, capital-starved Yes Bank was placed under a moratorium. The government rescued it by asking state-run SBI to infuse 7,250 crore and take 45 per cent stake in the bank. The Department of Financial Services, in a gazette notification, said LVB “shall not, without the permission in writing of the Reserve Bank of India, make, in the aggregate, payment to a depositor of a sum exceeding 25,000 lying to his credit, in any savings, cur- rent or any other deposit account” during the moratori- um period up to December 16, 2020. However, the bank can make payment in excess of 25,000 to meet unforeseen expenses in connection with medical treatment of a depos- itor or any dependent person, or towards the cost of higher education of the person/depen- dants. Besides, the Central ban can permit the bank to disburse more than 25,000 for payment towards obligatory expenses in connection with marriage or other ceremonies or any other unavoidable emergency. S poradic rain and stronger winds improved the air quality significantly in the national Capital to the “mod- erate” category on Tuesday. According to the Central Pollution Control Board’s mobile application SAMEER, the city recorded an air quali- ty index of 168, which falls in the “moderate” category, much better than Monday’s AQI of 221, which falls in the “poor” category. However, Ministry of Earth Sciences’ air quality monitor, SAFAR, said the improvement will be short-lived and the AQI is likely to slip back into the “poor” category on Thursday. The city’s 24-hour average AQI was 435 on Sunday and 414 on Saturday. An AQI between 0 and 50 is considered “good”, 51 and 100 “satisfacto- ry”, 101 and 200 “moderate”, 201 and 300 “poor”, 301 and 400 “very poor”, and 401 and 500 “severe”. “Surface winds are west- southwesterly and energetic, very favourable for pollutant dispersion. Rainfall along with stronger winds under the influ- ence of western disturbance helped clean the build-up of pollution in the Indo-Gangetic Plain,” it said. U nion Home Minister Amit Shah’s tweet labeling People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) as “Gupkar Gang” triggered a fresh war of words between him and two former Chief Ministers of Jammu & Kashmir, Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, in the virtu- al world on Tuesday. Reacting sharply, Omar tweeted, “We are not a “gang” Amit Shah ji, we are a legiti- mate political alliance having fought & continuing to fight elections, much to your disap- pointment”. U nion Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan on Tuesday at a Press briefing expressed disappointment over laxity in the implemen- tation of the Central SOPs in Delhi despite the national Capital having more than 4,000 containment zones. He noted that now, an active case search and house to house surveillance need to be stepped up in Delhi. The Centre’s intervention follows emergence of “unprecedented situation” in Delhi, which, experts said, could worsen in coming weeks with Covid-19 cases ris- ing to 500 cases per million population. Noida: People coming from Delhi to Noida will be ran- domly tested for Covid-19 from Wednesday, the admin- istration of Gautam Buddh Nagar, adjoining Delhi, in Uttar Pradesh said. T he Madhya Pradesh Government is mulling to formulate a law to prevent love jihad. The central Indian State is planning to formulate a law shortly to deter love jihad, Home minister Narottam Mishra said on Tuesday. "We are planning to table MP Dharm Swatantrya 2020 bill in the assembly shortly," said Mishra adding that a bill will cover the issue of love jihad. However, the law will require a complaint mandatory from parents. This will make the offence a punishable crime with provision of jail term upto five years.Besides, forceful conver- sion shall also invite jail terms, added the Home minister. Those abetting the act will also be considered criminal, added Mishra. Those willing to covert by will for marriage, have to apply for the same with the collector one month prior to the mar- riage, said the minister. New provisions will make forceful and deceitful marriage null and void, said the Minister. Notably, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had recently said that love jihad cases will be dealt sternly in the state and has ordered officials to formulate preventive measures. C ongress MLA from Bhopal Arif Masood further plunged into trouble on Tuesday, as a special court in Bhopal issued an arrest warrant against him over an inflamma- tory speech delivered recently. Masood, Congress MLA from Bhopal Madhya seat, had led a protest of over 2,000 per- sons at Iqbal Maidan recently, against French president Emanuel Macron’s alleged remarks against Prophet Mohammed. The MLA and several oth- ers were booked for violating Covid19 guidelines in the protest and later Masood was also booked by police for deliv- ering an instigating speech at the gathering. Six of those booked by police in the case have been arrested while Masood who was away campaigning for Bihar Assembly polls has remained elusive for police till now. Talaiya police of Bhopal on Tuesday moved an application in the special court of judge Pravendra Kumar Singh under sections 82 and 83 and the judge after hearing the pleas issued orders for issuance of an arrest warrant against Masood. Notably, a local court on Nov 8 had rejected the antici- patory bail plea moved by Masood. SHO DP Singh of Talaiya police station said that Masood and his aides have two cases lodged against them in his police station. In one of the cases, Masood has secured bail but in another one, of offering provocative speech, Masood has a case lodged against him under section 153 of IPC, a non-bailable section. Masood’s lawyer however had pleaded in the court that two FIRs cannot be lodged in a single incident. The judge while rejecting his bail plea had observed that the MLA had committed two offences, one by holding protest without permission from the collector and the another one was that of offering provocative speech to instigate anguish between two communities. RNI Regn. No. MPENG/2004/13703, Regd. No. L-2/BPLON/41/2006-2008

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Advocating a tough stanceagainst terrorism, Prime

Minister Narendra Modi onTuesday urged the interna-tional community to call outnations backing this scourgeand they must be “brought tobook.” He also favouredreforms in the United NationsSecurity Council (UNSC),International Monetary Fund(IMF) and World TradeOrganisation (WTO).

Modi made these observa-tions during his address at theBrazil-Russia-China-SouthAfrica (BRICS) conclave. Thevirtual event was attended byheads of Brazil, Russia, Chinaand South Africa.

President Vladimir Putinhosted the high-powered con-clave. Besides Modi and Putin,Chinese President Xi Jinpingand Brazilian President JairBolsonaro attended the meet-ing. The 12th summit’s themewas “Global Stability, SharedSecurity and InnovativeGrowth.”

Incidentally, this was thesecond time Modi and ChinesePresident Xi Jingping werecoming face to face albeit vir-tually since the stand-offs start-ed between the two nations inEastern Ladakh in May.

During the first meeting atthe Shanghai CooperationOrganisation (SCO) onNovember 10, Modi in a veiledreference to China’s expan-sionist policy said, “Indiabelieves that to improve con-nectivity it is important to

respect the other’s sovereigntyand territorial integrity.” PrimeMinister Imran Khan was alsopresent at that event.

Modi said, “Terrorism isthe biggest problem facing theworld today. We have to ensurethat the countries that supportand assist the terrorists are heldaccountable, and this problemis tackled in an organised man-ner.”

The Prime Minister wasapparently underlining the roleof Pakistan in fanning cross-border terrorism in India andChina’s support to it.

He congratulated Russiafor the finalisation of theBRICS counter-terrorism strat-egy under its leadership andpromised that India will takeforward the matter during itsleadership next year.

With the world battlingcoronavirus pandemic, thePrime Minister highlightedIndia’s contribution to the

international community dur-ing the crisis.

Modi said due to thestrength of India’s pharmaceu-tical sector, India was able toprovide medicines to over 150countries during lockdown.He assured the BRICS nationsthat India’s coronavirus vaccineproduction and delivery abili-ty will help mankind in thesame way.

As India will be takingover the chairmanship of theBRICS in 2021, Modiannounced that his countrywill promote digital health andtraditional medicine amongBRICS countries.

The summit held againstthe backdrop of the 75thanniversary of the UN, theleaders discussed intra-BRICScooperation and key issues inthe global context, includingthe reform of the multilateralsystem, measures to mitigatethe impact of the ongoing

Covid-19 pandemic, coopera-tion in counter terrorism, trade,health, energy and people topeople exchanges.

Modi highlighted hisGovernment’s f lagshipAtmanirbhar Bharat or Self-Reliant India campaign on theBRICS platform. The PrimeMinister said the campaignwill instill a comprehensivereform process, which can helpIndia become a strong con-tributor to the global valuechains in the post-Covid era.

“We have started a com-prehensive reform processunder the ‘Self-reliant India’campaign. The campaign isbased on the belief that a self-reliant and resilient India post-Covid can be a force multipli-er for the global economy andmake a strong contribution tothe global value chains,” Modisaid.

He also called for urgentreforms in the United Nations

to ensure that the organisationremains relevant. Being afounding nation of the UnitedNations, India has alwaysupheld its values of multilater-alism, “but the organisation hasnot kept up with the changingtimes,” he said. The PrimeMinister also stressed the needto reform UN Security Councilas well as organisations likeIMF and WTO.

The Prime Minister alsohighlighted reform initiativesundertaken by his governmentunder the ‘self-reliant India”campaign.

“We have started a com-prehensive reform processunder the ‘Self-reliant India’campaign. The campaign isbased on the belief that a self-reliant and resilient India post-Covid can be a force multipli-er for the global economy andmake a strong contribution tothe global value chains,” the PMsaid.

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In view of alarming surge incoronavirus cases in the

national Capital, the DelhiGovernment on Tuesday senta proposal to the Centre seek-ing power to shut down mar-kets which may emerge asCovid hotspots.

In another proposal sent tothe Lieutenant-Governor (L-G), the Government sought topermit only 50 people to attendwedding functions now againstthe earlier limit of 200 people.

Addressing the media,Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwalsaid, “Following the CentralGovernment’s guidelines andconsidering the marriage sea-son, the Delhi Governmentearlier allowed 200 guests at themarriage functions. Earlier,this number was 50 but con-sidering the recent spike in thenumber of corona cases, theDelhi Government has decid-ed to withdraw this relaxation.I have sent the proposal to theL-G for his approval.”

The CM said, “We wit-nessed massive crowds in someof the popular markets of Delhibefore Diwali. In these markets,no social distancing was fol-lowed and due to this situation,the number of Covid-19 caseshas surged significantly in theCapital. In the last order passedby the Central Government, itwas noted that permission toimpose local lockdowns in theState should be taken from theCentre. We have requested theCentre to permit shutting

down markets if necessary.”

Kejriwal thanked theCentre for providing 750 addi-tional ICU beds for Covidpatients in Delhi. He appealedto the people of Delhi to wearmasks and follow social dis-tancing norms to protect them-selves from Covid.

New Delhi: The number ofnew coronavirus infectionsreported in a day roppedbelow 30,000 after fourmonths, taking India’sCOVID-19 caseload to 88.74lakh, while the number ofpeople who have recuperatedfrom the disease surged to82,90,370 according to theUnion Health Ministry dataupdated on Tuesday.

Moscow: Russian PresidentVladimir Putin on Tuesdaysuggested that Russia’s SputnikV vaccine against Covid-19could be produced in Chinaand India, which are membersof the five-nation BRICS bloc.

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The Congress on Tuesdaydistanced itself from

Gupkar alliance after HomeMinister Amit Shah soughtclarification from SoniaGandhi and Rahul Gandhiabout their stand on the agen-da put forth by a conglomera-tion of leaders from theKashmir valley.

In a series of tweets Shahtermed Gupkar “gang” as anunholy alliance and said Soniaand Rahul must clarify theirstand clear to people of India.

Hitting out at Shah,Congress spokespersonRandeep Surjewala said, “Tospread lies, fraud and creatingnew illusions have become theway of the Modi Government.It’s a shame that Home MinisterAmit Shah is keeping aside theresponsibility of the nationalsecurity and is making false,misleading and mischievousstatements on Jammu, Kashmirand Ladakh... Congress party is

not a part of Gupkar alliance.”Shah alleged that the

“Gupkar Gang is going global”and wants foreign forces tointervene in Jammu &Kashmir.

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The Government on Tuesdayimposed a 30-day morato-

rium on Lakshmi Vilas Bank,restricting cash withdrawals at�25,000 per depositor, andsimultaneously announced ascheme to merge the cash-strapped lender with DBSIndia.

Singapore’s DBS will infuse�2,500 crore into DBS BankIndia for the proposed mergerwith cash-strapped LakshmiVilas Bank (LVB).

The step was taken on theadvice of the Reserve Bank inview of the private sector bank’s

deteriorating financial health. The Reserve Bank also

superseded the board of LVBand appointed TN Manoharan,former non-executive chair-man of Canara Bank, as itsadministrator for 30 days.

The RBI placed in the pub-lic domain a draft scheme ofamalgamation of LVB withDBS Bank India Ltd (DBIL).

DBS Bank India, in a state-ment, said the proposed amal-gamation will provide stabilityand better prospects to LVB’sdepositors, customers andemployees.

“To support the amalga-

mation, DBS will inject �2,500crore (SGD 463 million) intoDBIL if the scheme is approved.This will be fully funded fromDBS’ existing resources,” itsaid.

LVB is the second privatesector bank after Yes Bankwhich has run into roughweather during this year.

In March, capital-starvedYes Bank was placed under amoratorium. The governmentrescued it by asking state-runSBI to infuse �7,250 crore andtake 45 per cent stake in thebank.

The Department ofFinancial Services, in a gazettenotification, said LVB “shallnot, without the permission inwriting of the Reserve Bank ofIndia, make, in the aggregate,

payment to a depositor of asum exceeding �25,000 lying tohis credit, in any savings, cur-rent or any other depositaccount” during the moratori-um period up to December 16,2020.

However, the bank canmake payment in excess of�25,000 to meet unforeseenexpenses in connection withmedical treatment of a depos-itor or any dependent person,or towards the cost of highereducation of the person/depen-dants.

Besides, the Central bancan permit the bank to disbursemore than �25,000 for paymenttowards obligatory expensesin connection with marriage orother ceremonies or any otherunavoidable emergency.

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Sporadic rain and strongerwinds improved the air

quality significantly in thenational Capital to the “mod-erate” category on Tuesday.

According to the CentralPollution Control Board’smobile application SAMEER,the city recorded an air quali-ty index of 168, which falls inthe “moderate” category, muchbetter than Monday’s AQI of221, which falls in the “poor”category.

However, Ministry of EarthSciences’ air quality monitor,SAFAR, said the improvementwill be short-lived and theAQI is likely to slip back intothe “poor” category onThursday.

The city’s 24-hour averageAQI was 435 on Sunday and

414 on Saturday. An AQIbetween 0 and 50 is considered“good”, 51 and 100 “satisfacto-ry”, 101 and 200 “moderate”,201 and 300 “poor”, 301 and400 “very poor”, and 401 and500 “severe”.

“Surface winds are west-southwesterly and energetic,very favourable for pollutantdispersion. Rainfall along withstronger winds under the influ-ence of western disturbancehelped clean the build-up ofpollution in the Indo-GangeticPlain,” it said.

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Union Home Minister AmitShah’s tweet labeling

People’s Alliance for GupkarDeclaration (PAGD) as“Gupkar Gang” triggered afresh war of words betweenhim and two former ChiefMinisters of Jammu &Kashmir, Omar Abdullah andMehbooba Mufti, in the virtu-al world on Tuesday.

Reacting sharply, Omartweeted, “We are not a “gang”Amit Shah ji, we are a legiti-mate political alliance havingfought & continuing to fightelections, much to your disap-pointment”.

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Union Health SecretaryRajesh Bhushan on

Tuesday at a Press briefingexpressed disappointmentover laxity in the implemen-tation of the Central SOPs inDelhi despite the nationalCapital having more than4,000 containment zones.

He noted that now, anactive case search and houseto house surveillance need tobe stepped up in Delhi.

The Centre’s interventionfollows emergence of“unprecedented situation” inDelhi, which, experts said,could worsen in comingweeks with Covid-19 cases ris-ing to 500 cases per millionpopulation.

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The Madhya PradeshGovernment is mulling to

formulate a law to prevent lovejihad.

The central Indian State isplanning to formulate a lawshortly to deter love jihad,Home minister NarottamMishra said on Tuesday.

"We are planning to tableMP Dharm Swatantrya 2020 billin the assembly shortly," saidMishra adding that a bill will

cover the issue of love jihad.However, the law will

require a complaint mandatoryfrom parents. This will make theoffence a punishable crime withprovision of jail term upto fiveyears.Besides, forceful conver-sion shall also invite jail terms,added the Home minister.Those abetting the act will alsobe considered criminal, addedMishra.

Those willing to covert bywill for marriage, have to applyfor the same with the collectorone month prior to the mar-riage, said the minister. Newprovisions will make forcefuland deceitful marriage null andvoid, said the Minister. Notably, ChiefMinister Shivraj Singh Chouhanhad recently said that love jihadcases will be dealt sternly in thestate and has ordered officials toformulate preventive measures.

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Congress MLA from BhopalArif Masood further

plunged into trouble onTuesday, as a special court inBhopal issued an arrest warrantagainst him over an inflamma-tory speech delivered recently.

Masood, Congress MLAfrom Bhopal Madhya seat, hadled a protest of over 2,000 per-sons at Iqbal Maidan recently,against French presidentEmanuel Macron’s allegedremarks against ProphetMohammed.

The MLA and several oth-ers were booked for violatingCovid19 guidelines in theprotest and later Masood wasalso booked by police for deliv-ering an instigating speech atthe gathering.

Six of those booked bypolice in the case have beenarrested while Masood who wasaway campaigning for BiharAssembly polls has remainedelusive for police till now.

Talaiya police of Bhopal onTuesday moved an applicationin the special court of judge

Pravendra Kumar Singh undersections 82 and 83 and thejudge after hearing the pleasissued orders for issuance of anarrest warrant against Masood.

Notably, a local court onNov 8 had rejected the antici-patory bail plea moved byMasood.

SHO DP Singh of Talaiyapolice station said that Masoodand his aides have two caseslodged against them in hispolice station. In one of thecases, Masood has secured bailbut in another one, of offeringprovocative speech, Masoodhas a case lodged against himunder section 153 of IPC, anon-bailable section.

Masood’s lawyer howeverhad pleaded in the court thattwo FIRs cannot be lodged ina single incident.

The judge while rejectinghis bail plea had observed thatthe MLA had committed twooffences, one by holding protestwithout permission from thecollector and the another onewas that of offering provocativespeech to instigate anguishbetween two communities.

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Party is facing a fresh challengeto keep party cadre satisfiedespecially those who left theCongress party to join BJP inMarch this year.

As one of the Ministers (ex-Congressman) Aidal SinghKansana had resigned soonafter losing in the bypoll, twoScindia loyalists –Imarti Deviand Girraj Dandotiya are yet to

resign from Cabinet d espitetheir losses in the just conclud-ed by-elections from Dabra andDimni seats respectively.

Imarti Devi, after her losshad publically claimed that shewill continue to be a Ministerdespite her loss in bypoll, a claimwhich is yet to be challenged bythe party.Party insiders saythose who lost shall be accom-modated in boards and corpo-rations.

Both the Ministers couldserve in Cabinet till Dec 31, tocomplete their six-months-peri-od without being an MLA butafterwards, they had to resign asthere is no chance of themreturning to Assembly.

Besides, two former

Ministers, both Scindia aides,Tulsiram Silawat and GovindSingh Rajput, too are awaitingtheir return to Cabinet as theyhad resigned in October aftercompletion of six months. Bothhave won with sizable votes andare strong claimants of a berthin Cabinet.

Congress spokespersonBhupendra Gupta demandedresignation from Imarti Deviand Girraj Dandotiya on moralgrounds saying their continu-ance in Cabinet will be a disre-spect to democracy. Minister ofState Bharat Singh Kushwahtold that BJP was a vast organ-isation and everyone workshere as a party worker and thosewho lost will be assigned key

responsibility in party andGovernment. Meanwhile sev-eral others are also demandingregional balance as in the run upto bypolls, Gwalior-Chambalregion had pocketed lion’s shareon key posts.Senior MLA wholeft Congress to join BJP earlythis year, Bisahulal Singh hasopenly staked claim onAssembly speaker’s post. Sayingthat every person loves his/herregion, Singh on Monday hadtold the media if the public ofVindhya wishes for speaker’spost, the BJP Governmentshould fulfil it.

Former minister AjayVishnoi too backed Singh say-ing there should be regional bal-ance in the Government while

keeping an eye on 2023Assembly polls. Vishnoi whohimself is a claimant for speak-er’s post, though denied hisclaim saying he believes in 360days working and not in 60-days-annual work (as a speak-er).Also a claimant forMinisterial berth in ShivrajCabinet and BJP’s prominentface from Vindhya region,Rajendra Shukl said that CMShivraj will take a call onCabinet expansion. He dubbedBisahulal Singh’s remarks ashis personal opinion.

Amid speculations overCabinet expansion, CM Shivrajhas clarified that this is not duein near future, fuelling moreunease among claimants.

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Board CEO Manisha Jat bun-galow located at DSOI squareis inviting accidents as whenthe people change their way ofvehicle to avoid potholes eitherthey hit the other vehicle orthey slip.

The big problem is faced bythe two wheelers riders as theyget disbalance due to pot holes

and fall. Interestingly the can-tonment board CEO ManishaJat daily pass through this pot-holes Infront of her housewhile going to her office.

Locals alleged that theadministrative officers shouldbe sensitive for the welfare ofthe people and should take ini-tiative to repair the potholes.

When The Pioneer tried tocontact the CEO Manisha Jatshe didn't pick up the phone.

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The second edition of theVishwa Rang Tagore

International Literature andArts Festival is being organizedby Rabindranath TagoreUniversity on digital virtualplatform.

The event will be heldfrom November 20 to 29. OnTuesday, the Higher EducationMinister of Madhya Pradesh,Mohan Yadav inaugurated theVishwa Rang 2020. On thisoccasion, Vishwa Rang Poster,Vishwa Rang Coffee TableBook and International FilmFestival Poster were launched.

At the same time specialissue Gandhi special issue onFather of the Nation MahatmaGandhi and Rang Samvad, theliterary magazine of TagoreInternational Center for Artsand Culture were also released.

On this occasion, HigherEducation Minister of MadhyaPradesh Mohan Yadav,Chancellor and Director of theUniversity, Vishwa Rang,

Santosh Chaubey, LiladharMandloi, Former DirectorGeneral, Doordarshan and Co-Director Vishwa Rang,Siddharth Chaturvedi,Executive Vice President,ICECT and Co-DirectorVishwa Rang, Mukesh Verma,Editor Kathadesh and MemberOrganizing Committee VishwaRang, Brahmaprakash, ViceChancellor RabindranathTagore University, SriramTiwari, Member Higher

Education Task Force MadhyaPradesh, Prof. Amitabh Saxena,Vice Chancellor, CV RamanUniversity Khandwa, VijaySingh, Registrar RabindranathTagore University, VinayUpadhyay, Director TagoreInternational Center forLiterature and Arts, PushpaAsiwal, Director iSect werespecially present.

On this occasion, SantoshChoubey said that VishwaRang 2020 is the largest eventin the world on more than 16countries on the virtual plat-form for art, literature andculture. The main objective ofthis festival is to promote Hindiand Indian languages, to coor-dinate with Hindi and itsdialects, to provide centrality toIndia and Indianness and tobuild a global cultural network.

The co-director of VishwaRang, Liladhar Mandloi saidthat the Vishwa Rang hasbecome global. Certainly theVishwa Rang will establish theworld humanity.

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Amovie depicting the braveryand contribution of Indian

Navy was screened at ShauryaSmarak on Tuesday. The moviewas screened at the open air audi-torium of Shaurya Samrak underthe regular series of film screen-ings. It is to be noted that every daymovies based on the bravery of theIndian army, air force, navy andpolice is being screened at ShauryaSmarak. The regular film screen-ing is being organised as a tributeto their contributions and theirsacrifices.The movie ‘Sailors ofTomorrow’ focuses on the con-tributions of Navy officers duringwars. Indian Navy Force TheIndian Navy is the naval branch ofthe Indian Armed Forces.

The President Of India is theSupreme Commander of theIndian Navy. The Chief of NavalStaff, a four star admiral, com-mands the navy. The Indian Navytraces its origins back to the East

India Company's Marine whichwas founded in 1612 to protectBritish merchant shipping in theregion.

In 1793, the East IndiaCompany established its rule overeastern part of the IndianSubcontinent i.e. Bengal, but it wasnot until 1830 that the colonialnavy was titled as His Majesty'sIndian Navy. When India becamerepublic in 1950, the Royal IndianNavy as it had been named since1934 was renamed to IndianNavy. The primary objective of thenavy is to safeguard the nation'smaritime borders, and in con-junction with other Armed Forcesof the union, act to deter or defeatany threats or aggression againstthe territory, people or maritimeinterests of India, both in war andpeace.

Through joint exercises,goodwill visits and humanitarianmissions, including disaster relief,Indian Navy promotes bilateralrelations between nations.

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Except footage of suspiciouscar, police investigation

remained futile after 48 hoursof ATM breaking at NipaniaJaat village in Eithkhedi inwhich miscreants escaped withRs 7.5 lakh of cash. The policehave blamed the bank for poormanagement which lead toburglary.

In the investigation, policehave found that gas cylinderwas stolen from Harrakhedavillage under Gunga policestation area from SurendraDangi’s shop and a complaintfor the same has been lodgedwith the police. Apart fromdeclaring reward on providingthe details police search hasalso been intensified but noth-ing concrete has been found.

Notably, unidentified mis-creants break ATM of IDBIbank at Nipania Jaat village and

escaped with Rs 7.5 lakh cashon Sunday night, DIG Bhopalpolice declared a cash rewardof Rs 20000 for providingdetails of miscreants.

The footages of car used inthe crime has been made viralover social media to establishidentity of the accused. Themiscreants committed thecrime were not spotted in theCCTV footages and are underinvestigation.Police said thatthe CCTV footages would behelp in the identification andnabbing the miscreants. Thenumber of miscreants in theincident would be searched inthe investigation.

During the investigationpolice have found that gas cut-ter for used to make way to thecash in the ATM which was Rs753800. The police have regis-tered a case under sections 457and 380 of the IPC and havestarted further investigation.

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A26-year-old youth and his wife were allegedly manhandledby two policemen near Nutan College after their car was

stopped over moving in wrong direction in the evening onMonday; a complaint has been lodged with the Habibganj police.

Anas Khan sustained five stitches in his head after he wasthrashed by two policemen near Nutan College after Anas hada brawl with the policemen.

The two policemen were not identified who stopped Anasand thrashed Anas who engaged in brawl at the spot. He wasmanhandled and sustained injury in his head while his wife hadalleged that she was slapped by the policemen.

The victim and his wife approached Habibganj police and lodgeda complaint against the two policemen. Anas claimed that after shestarted bleeding policemen escaped the spot and remained uniden-tified.The victim is a resident of Old Categorised market and hadgone with the wife and family members for shopping and outing.Meanwhile, a 56-year-old woman lost a tooth after she was attackedby a woman at Sanjay Nagar under Shahjehanabad police stationarea on Monday. The victim Saroj Choudhary was attacked byNandini of the Sanjay when she was on her way to work on Monday.

In their complaint, the victim stated that she was on her wayto work and incidentally her keys fell in front of Nandini’s houseand while she was picking the keys clothes of Nandini fell whichwere drying outside her house. Nandini started to abuse Saroj andpunched her in which Saroj lost a tooth.

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After three days of intensesearch for murder accused

police have managed to arrestone of the eight accused whostabbed Neeraj Unthwal todeath on the eve of Diwali;police have raised reward to Rs40000 for providing details ofmurderers.

Handling the case by form-ing several teams policeremained empty handed on thefourth day of the murder ofNeeraj who was brutally mur-dered.The murder which looksto be done in fit of rage wasplanned as the accused attackedwith the intention to kill andstabbed Neeraj to death whichwas over old dispute. In theattack two cousins of Neerajwere also injured.

Later, in the investigation itwas found that deceased wasaffiliated to ruling party whileaccused were inclined towardsCongress which was also rea-son of rift between them apartfrom the fact that theybelonged to same communityand have tussle over domi-nance in the area due to dif-ference in their financial status.

In the investigation so farone of the accused Ankit hasbeen arrested by the policewhile seven accused remainedabsconding. Encroachment ofmurder accused Rajendra aliasRaju Dhanwar’s in NehruNagar was razed on Monday.The reward for providing thedetails of killers have beenraised to Rs 40000.

The armed miscreantsidentified Chhotu aka Vinay(19) of Nehru Naga, Rajendraalias Raju Dhanwar(19) ofAmbedkar Nagar, AnkitLavaria (22) of Nehru Colony,Kapil, Dipendra Pal(23), Golualias Tiger Jainwar(23), AmitDhanwar and Pappu aliasHemant Chaudhary.

The police registered a caseunder sections 294, 323, 307,302, 147, 148, 149 IPC of the IPCand started investigation.

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A40-year-old man died afterhis bike collided with

another bike in the evening onMonday at Lambhakheda Jodunder Eithkhedi police sta-tion area.

Police said that localsrushed injured men to nearbyhospital after their bikes col-lided One was declared deathwhen checked by doctors whileother is undergoing treat-ment.

The deceased was identi-fied as Harbhajan who sus-tained severe head injuries anddied during treatment. Doctorssaid that profuse bleeding andhead injuries lead to the deathof Harbhajan.

Bodies was sent for thepost mortem after the prelim-inary investigation. The policehave registered a case undersection 304 A of the IPC andstarted further investigation.The deceased used to work aslabourer in the area, said police.

Meanwhile, a 36-year oldman committed suicide byhanging with the ceiling atParwalia Sani village underEithkhedi police station area onMonday.

According to the police,Mohan Singh was found hang-ing when taken to hospital hewas declared dead. Police saidthat the deceased used to workin the village.

The family members werenot aware of the reason behindthe death No suicide note hasbeen recovered. The reasonbehind the suicide would beinvestigated in the furtherinvestigation.

In the investigation state-ments of family members areyet to be recorded which couldhelp in revealing the reasonbehind the suicide.

After the preliminaryinvestigation the body was sentfor the post mortem. The policehave registered a case undersection 174 of the CrPC andhave started further investiga-tion.

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Chief Minister Shivraj SinghChouhan has expressed

deep grief over the death of sixlabourers after a truck fell intothe Tawa river in Chopna areaof Betul district and prayed forpeace to the departed souls.

Chief Minister Chouhanhas prayed to the Almighty togrant strength to the families ofthe deceased labourers to bearthis loss. He directed Betul dis-trict administration to pro-

vide relief assistance to the fam-ily of the deceased labourers.

Besides, Chouhan hasexpressed deep grief over thedeath of five members of a fam-ily who had gone for a picnic toRahatgarh Waterfall in Sagardistrict.Chief Minister Chouhanhas instructed the Sagar districtadministration to provide reliefassistance as per provision.Prayers have been offered to theAlmighty to grant strength tothe bereaved family withstrength to bear the grief.

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adulterators so far in the cam-paign launched since Augustand a penalty of Rs 30.62 lakhhas been imposed on adulter-ators in 220 cases on theinstructions of Chief MinisterShivraj Singh Chouhan.

Total Rs 15.05 lakh hasalready been recovered fromthe total penalty imposed so far.Hearing in 39 cases registeredin CJM court is in progress.Public Health and FamilyWelfare Minister PrabhuramChaudhary has issued direc-tions to the departmental offi-cers to take more stringentaction against the adulteratorsunder the campaign. Heinformed that a campaign hasbeen launched against adul-

terators to ensure availability ofpure food items to the citizensof the State.

The Minister has issuedinstructions to the departmen-tal officers to provide pure fooditems to the people of the stateand to take strict action againstadulterators and those whomanufacture and sell fake com-modities. He informed thatdivisional mobile labs vans wassent off from Bhopal by ChiefMinister Shivraj Singh Chouhanrecently. These mobile labs areworking on the spot for gener-ating public awareness regard-ing collection, testing, and adul-teration of food items in remote areas.

The Controller Food andDrug Administration hasincluded activities like increas-ing the number of licenses andregistrations, conducting cleanstreet food hubs, Eat RightSchool, Eat Right Campus andpublic awareness programmesin the districts included underthe Eat Right Challenge.

In the action taken duringthe campaign against adulter-

ation, 6428 samples were takenfor inspection and samples of2,941 food items were taken forinvestigation. Surveillance sam-ples of 521 foods were collect-ed from the State Food MobileLaboratory, 2158 throughMagic Box and 438 from othersources. The test report of 3638samples was released by theState Food Laboratory out of6428 surveillance samples col-lected for testing. Notices wereissued to 484 adulteratorsunder Section 32 under theprovisions prescribed againstfood adulterators.

The State Food Laboratoryhas collected food item samplesin the last three months andissued reports of 3638 samples.Of these, 3064 samples werefound to be of standard levelwhile 311 samples were found tobe sub-standard. In addition,207 samples were found to befake. Of the total food samplescollected, 24 samples were foundto be unsafe. In addition toSection 32 and other sections 32samples were found to berestricted under other sections.

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An online event ofDastangoi will be held on

November 22. ‘Dastaan MiyanAazad Ki’ from Fasana e Aazadwill be held live on Zoom.

It is written by PanditRatan Nath Sarshar and will beorganised by LucknowBioscope. It will be performedby Valentina Trivedi and AskariNaqvi

Fasana e Aazad is a collec-tion of Qadeem Lucknow keQisse. A nostalgic account ofthe times of Wajid Ali Shah thelast Navab of Awadh. Thenovel is one of the few writtendocuments of oral history ofAwadh in a language mostsuitable to Dastangoi. It willtake audience on a journey ofLucknow and Awadh and offeryou the multiple aspects oftehzeeb o zabaan.

Dastaangoi is a years’ oldtradition of storytelling. The artwas again brought to life inIndia during the year 2005.

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word Dastangoi is a compoundof two Persian words Dastanand goi which means to tell aDastan.

Dastans were epics, oftenoral in nature, which wererecited or read aloud and inessence, were like medievalromances everywhere. Tellingtales of adventure, magic andwarfare, Dastans mapped newworlds and horizons. The hero’sadventures could sometimesparallel the mystic quest, atother times the story narrateda purely profane tale. It was thatRumi’s Masnavi and ArabianNights both came to containmany stories from thePanchtantra tradition.

The main feature ofDastaangoi is the voice of theartists and the art of voice mod-ulation. It is all about the imag-ination that all matters inDastaangoi.

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Sanitary wares worth Rs45,000 were stolen from a

storeroom of Dwarika Dhamcolony under Gandhi Nagarpolice station area on Tuesday.

According to the police, thecomplainant Jitendra Ahirwarfound that the lock of storeroom was broken and tapswere found burgled in theafternoon morning on Tuesday.

A complaint was lodged bythe victim with the police andin his complaint he stated thatsanitary ware machines werefound missing. The total loss in

the burglary is around Rs45000. The police have regis-tered a case under section 457and 380 of the IPC and havestarted further investigation.

Police said that the lockwas found broken which wasused to enter the godown andtargeted the goods and suggeststhat the miscreants have reccedthe area and godown and wereaware of the goods.

Meanwhile, electronicgoods worth Rs 30,000 werestolen from City ApartmentMuqaddas Nagar underAishbagh police station area onMonday.

Police said the victim

Anees-Ur-Rehmaan found thatone laptop and one mobilephones were stolen. In hiscomplaint the victim statedthat he lives at City Apartmentand in the evening he returnedand found that goods werestolen.

The miscreants escapedwith one laptop and one mobilephone. The total loss in thetheft would be around Rs30000 claimed the victim.Based on the complaint afterthe preliminary investigationthe police have registered a caseunder section 380 of IPCagainst unidentified miscre-ant.

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start from Wednesday at Madhya Pradesh State Tribal Museum. The third season will be held from November 18 to 30. It will

begin om Friday with the 'lecture session' by Ashok Manwani,Sindhi Sahitya Akademi on November 18, 2020 from 06:30 pm.Besides, a dance performance will be presented by Satish Tejwaniand companions under the 'Gamak' series. Gamak is organisedby Department of Culture, Department of Madhya Pradesh in theMadhya Pradesh Tribal Museum.

It is to be noted that Satish Tejwani is a renowned chreogra-pher of the city. He will present the Sindhi Cultural Dance. SindhiBhagat is a Sindhi folk art incorporating song, dance, story anddrama.

It is the most popular Sindhi folk form of entertainment. Thepivotal character in the performance is the "Bhagat", after whomthe art form is named. He is the prime dancer, the storyteller, andthe soul of the performance. Bhagat is the most important andintegral part of Sindhi folk-art, a rich cultural heritage of the Sindhicommunity and widely acclaimed. There were once scores of theseversatile artists in the countryside as well as in the urban pock-ets of Sind. SR

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Haryana Chief MinisterManohar Lal Khattar on

Tuesday asked the DistrictTransport Officers (DTOs) towork dedicatedly to bringabout a complete transparencyin the functioning of TransportDepartment by implementing“Faceless and Cashless” systemin government’s efforts of pro-viding clean and graft-freegovernance to its people,

Presiding over a meeting ofDTOs of all 22 districts of theState in which TransportMinister Mool Chand Sharmawas also present, the ChiefMinister symbolically distrib-uted portable weighingmachines to DTOs of Karnaland Gurugram to keep a tab onoverloading of vehicles. Hesaid that initially 45 portableweighing machines have beenpurchased by the Departmentand if this experiment provessuccessful, more such machineswould be purchased.

Khattar said that the StateGovernment has been workingwith the sole aim of providinga clean administration to thepeople of the State and hasadopted a policy of zero toler-ance against corruption. Hesaid that taking strict note ofthe frequent complaints of cor-ruption in the TransportDepartment; the StateGovernment had launched“Operation Shudhi” underwhich several decisions weretaken to infuse transparency inthe department and deputeindependent DTOs in all dis-tricts is among such decisions.

The chief minister saidthat the State Government has

not only transferred about 250employees of the Departmentbut also circulated the list ofUndesirable Contact Men(USM) to all DTOs followingwhich their entry has beencompletely banned thus givinga clear message to thoseinvolved in the corrupt prac-tices to mend their ways.

Addressing the DTOs, theChief Minister said that theState Government has posed agreat faith in them while deput-ing them in the districts andthey should deliver their best toserve the society. Khattar saidthat all DTOs should make bestuse of technology and otherdigital equipment like CCTVcameras in their offices to keepa close vigil on the movementof the people entering theiroffices. Apart from this, sepa-rate registers should be main-tained to keep the details of vis-itors entering their offices. Healso asked the Officers to main-tain secrecy while conductingraids in the fields and ensurethat the same is not disclosedin any manner.

The Chief Minister alsoasked them to interact with therepresentatives of differentTransport Unions from time totime and patiently hear theirconcerns so that appropriateaction could be taken to resolvethem.

While taking serious noteof complaints regarding the

entry of overloading vehiclescarrying goods and miningmaterial in Haryana from otherStates, the Chief Ministerdirected that regular checkingbe conducted at the interstateborders to keep a check on theinfiltration of overloading vehi-cles from neighboring states ofRajasthan, Uttar Pradesh,Punjab and Himachal Pradesh.

Khattar also directed theDTOs to maintain proper coor-dination with departments likeHaryana Shehri VikasPradhikaran (HSVP) and Townand Country PlanningDepartment for the setting up ofTransport Nagars which havebeen proposed in major townsof the State. Besides, they shouldalso follow up the matter withthe concerned departmentsregarding setting up of parkingsites for the systematic parkingof vehicles to avoid traffic jams.He also asked the officers tostudy the latest policies of theTransport Department issuedfrom time to time for road safe-ty, school buses etc and alsoshare their best practices toimprove their efficiency.

It was informed that with aview to minimize human inter-vention in the existing practiceof Inspection and Certificationof vehicles which was beingdone by Motor VehicleInspectors (MVIs), the StateGovernment has set up anInspection and CertificationCentre at Kanheli in districtRohtak which would cater thevehicles of districts Jind, Sonipat,Panipat and Jhajjar. It was alsoinformed that such Centreswould also be set up in districtsnamely Karnal, Ambala, Rewari,Hisar, Faridabad and Gurugram.

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In an extremely unfortunateand shocking incident, seven

years old Harman Kaur fromHassanpur village in Khararsub-division of Mohali districtlost life after falling into a vil-lage pond on Tuesday.

As per villagers, Harmanwas learning to ride a bicycle,and in the process lost controland fell in the pond at around3:15 pm. A young girl from thevillage witnessed the tragedywhile returning from college,and called out for help. The vil-lagers reached the spot in fiveto seven minutes.

“The Police received thecall around 3:35 pm. Police andthe officers from local admin-istration, including Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM)Himanshu Jain, rushed to thespot,” said Mohali DeputyCommissioner Girish Dayalan.

He said that the immediaterescue operation was initiated.

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Two more city residents suc-cumbed to the COVID-19

as 136 fresh positive cases werereported in Chandigarh onTuesday.

“With this, the positivecases crossed 16000-mark inthe city. The total case tallystood at 16022 while the deathtoll reached 252 in the city”,stated Chandigarh HealthDepartment’s evening bulletin.

The COVID-19 mortalityrate stood at 1.57 percent in thecity.

According to the bulletin,“There were 1026 active casestill the evening. 160 patientshave recovered in the past 24hours taking the total numberof recoveries to 14744.”

The recovery rate wasrecorded at 92 percent whilethe active ratio of cases was

recorded at 6.4 percent whichmeans for every 100 confirmedcases, six are currently infect-ed in the city.

Giving details of theCOVID-19 fatalities, the bul-

letin said, “A 61 years old maleresident of Dadumajra, acomorbid, expired at PGIMER.A 77 years old male resident ofSector 44, a comorbid died atAce Heart Hospital, Mohali.”

Among 136 fresh cases, 81were males and 55 werefemales. A maximum of 14cases were reported inManimajra here.

As per the health bulletin,the fresh cases were reported inSectors 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 18,19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28,29, 31, 32, 33, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40,41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49,50, 51, 52, Behlana, Dadumajra,Daria, Kaimbwala, KhudaAlisher, PGIMER, Manimajra,Mauli Jagran and Ram Darbar.

124741 samples have so farbeen tested in the city. 1415samples were tested in the last24 hours and the report of 151is awaited, the bulletin added.

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Twenty five people died ofCovid-19 in Haryana on

Tuesday, taking the total fatal-ities in the State to 2063. TheState also reported 2450 coro-navirus cases, bringing theinfection tally to 204,477,according to a State Healthdepartment’s bulletin.

Expressing apprehensionover increasing number ofCovid-19 cases, HaryanaHealth Minister Anil Vijappealed to people to followCovid-19 protocol. He saidthat appropriate steps will betaken to keep the State safefrom increasing cases of Covid-19 in Delhi. The HealthMinister said that a strategy is

being made by the StateGovernment and urged thepeople that they should followthe rules to avoid the spread ofcoronavirus.

Meanwhile, of the new fatal-ities, six were from Rohtak, fivefrom Hisar, four from Faridabad,three from Gurugram andPanipat; one each from Ambala,Karnal, Kurukshetra andFatehabad, according to thedaily bulletin. Among the dis-tricts which reported a spike inCovid-19 cases includedFaridabad (756), Gurugram(588) and Hisar (268).

The State has an active casecount of 19,153 while the rateof recovery from the infectionis 89.62 per cent, the bulletinstated.

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Senior Aam Aadmi Partyleader Durgesh Pathak on

Tuesday said that the BJP ruledCentral government has issuedguidelines to stop the celebra-tion of Chhath puja but thesame party is accusing theKejriwal Government of notallowing the celebration inDelhi.

Pathak said that the AAPdemands the BJP to get per-mission from Home MinisterAmit Shah to celebrate ChhathPuja and the Aam Aadmi Partywill ensure the celebration inDelhi. Senior leader and MLASanjeev Jha said that the partydoes not want any kind of pol-itics on the matters of faith andBJP leaders should also avoiddoing such politics.

AAP senior leader SanjayBhagat said that earlier in Delhithere were only 72 places wherethe celebration of Chhath pujaused to take place but after theAAP government was formed,we increased the number ofChhath Ghats to 1200.

Pathak said, "The celebra-tion of Chhath Puja is a veryimportant festival for the peo-ple of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.In Delhi, there are lakhs of peo-

ple who originally reside fromUttar Pradesh and Bihar.People from Uttar Pradesh andBihar travel to various states forwork but they never leave theirculture and festivals. Theguidelines issued by the Centralgovernment’s Home Ministryhave imposed several restric-tions on the celebration ofChhath Puja and this is why inDelhi and in many other statesChhath Puja will not take placein public.”

“It is unfortunate andshameful that BJP at one sideis stopping the celebration ofChhath Puja and on the otherside, politicising the issue.

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Delhi Police has arrested a 65-year-old woman for alleged-

ly selling illicit liquor in south-east Delhi's Sarita Vihar area.Police said that a total of 246quarter bottles of illicit liquorwere recovered from her pos-session. The accused has beenidentified as Sunari Devi, a res-ident of Rajasthani Camp inSarita Vihar area.

According to R P Meena, theDeputy Commissioner of Police(DCP), Southeast district,around 4.45 pm on Sunday, apolice patrol team reached nearJanta Flats, Sarita Vihar, wherethey gave specific inputs that awoman was in possession of illic-it liquor in Rajasthani Camp.

“Acting on the specificinputs, the woman, who was sit-ting in front of her jhuggi witha plastic bag, was apprehended.During interrogation, theaccused disclosed that shebought the liquor from anunknown person in Suraj Kund,Faridabad. She has been arrest-ed under the same offence ear-lier as well,” said the DCP.

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A18-year-old man and hisfriend were allegedly

stabbed by a group of men innorthwest Delhi's Azadpur area.Police said that they have arrest-ed two accused while manhunthas been initiated to nab theremaining culprits.

Police said that the injuredidentified as Shivam and Mohit(17), are both residents ofAzadpur. “They are undergoingtreatment at a city hospital andare stated to be stable,” saidpolice.

The incident took placeon Sunday morning, a dayafter Diwali, and it was capturedon a CCTV camera. In theCCTV footage, a man can beseen being targeted by a groupin a busy lane. He is beaten up,stabbed and later dragged to anarrow bylane. When his friendtries to save him, he is alsostabbed, even as passersbywatched the incident.

According to VijayantaArya, the DeputyCommissioner of Police (DCP),Northwest district, based on the

CCTV footage, two of theaccused -- Suraj Kumar (24)and Somprakash (23) -- havebeen arrested, while efforts arebeing made to nab their asso-ciates.

“Two victims were target-ed over a petty altercation thattook place on Diwali over a par-ticular seat in a park. Followingthe quarrel, the accused hadthreatened Shivam and Mohitof dire consequences,” said theDCP.

“Subsequently, on Sundaymorning, the accused alongwith their accomplices attackedShivam and Mohit with kniveson railway road in Azadpur area.Both the injured were taken toBabu Jagjivan Ram MemorialHospital. Shivam, who sustainedmultiple stab injuries in hisstomach and thigh, was laterreferred to a trauma centrewhere he underwent an opera-tion,” said the DCP.

“Police have registered acase under sections 307(attempt to murder) and 34(acts done by several persons infurtherance of common inten-tion) of the Indian Penal Code.

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After successfully complet-ing the first phase of the

high-profile Malabar series ofnaval exercises in earlyNovember, the navies of India,the US, Australia and Japan onTuesday began the secondphase of the exercise in thenorthern Arabian Sea.

Raising the profile of theexercise, the USA deployedaircraft carriers besides a num-ber of frontline warships, sub-marines and maritime recon-naissance aircraft.

The highlight of the four-day exercise is participation ofIndian Navy’s Vikramadityacarrier battle group and theNimitz strike group of the USNavy. The USS Nimitz is theworld’s largest warship.

The first phase of theMalabar exercise took place in

the Bay of Bengal fromNovember 3 to 6 and featureda number of complex drillsincluding anti-submarine andanti-air warfare operations.

The Australian Navy hasdeployed its HMAS Ballarat, anAnzac-class frigate while theJapanese Navy has sent itsleading destroyer JS Murasamefor the exercise.

The mega exercise is takingplace at a time India and Chinaare locked in an over six-month-long bitter border standoff ineastern Ladakh. This exercise isinvolving coordinated opera-tions of increasing complexityamong the navies of the fourcountries which are part of theQuad or Quadrilateral Coalition,officials said.

“The two carriers, alongwith other ships, submarinesand aircraft of the participatingnavies, would be engaged in

high-intensity naval operationsover four days,” the IndianNavy said on Monday.

A carrier battle group orcarrier strike group is a meganaval fleet comprising an air-craft carrier, accompanied by alarge number of destroyers,frigates and other ships.

The Navy said the exercise

will include cross-deck flyingoperations and advanced airdefence exercises by MIG 29Kfighters of Vikramaditya and F-18 fighters and E2C Hawkeyefrom Nimitz.

Apart from Vikramadityaand its fighter and helicopterair-wings, the Indian Navy isalso deploying destroyers

Kolkata and Chennai, stealthfrigate Talwar and fleet supportship Deepak in the exercise.The Indian contingent is beingled by Rear Admiral KrishnaSwaminathan, Flag OfficerCommanding Western Fleet.

Last month, Indiaannounced that Australia willbe part of the Malabar exercise

which effectively made it adrill by all four member nationsof the Quad which is primari-ly focusing on containingChina’s military expansionismin the Indo-Pacific region.

China has been suspiciousabout the purpose of theMalabar exercise as it feelsthat the annual war game is aneffort to contain its influence inthe Indo-Pacific region.

The invitation by India tothe Australian Navy for theexercise came two weeks afterforeign ministers of the ‘Quad’member nations held extensivetalks in Tokyo with a focus onenhancing their cooperation inthe Indo-Pacific. The Malabarexercise started in 1992 as abilateral drill between theIndian Navy and the US Navyin the Indian Ocean. Japanbecame a permanent memberof the exercise in 2015.

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Amid declining Covid-19cases in the past few days,

the Government on Tuesdaywarned people not to be com-placent as “effects of polls,Durga Puja, Diwali may beseen in coming weeks”.

Union Health SecretaryRajesh Bhushan told mediapersons that it was essentialthat people strictly follow allthe precautionary measureslike not visiting crowded places,taking extra care of vulnerablesections of the society andmaintaining “6-feet” distance.

“As part of Covid-19appropriate behaviour, citizensmust ensure that if they areexperiencing any symptoms,then they must get tested.Don’t hesitate, get yourself test-ed,” he said.

“We believe that effects ofrecent elections (in Bihar andelsewhere), Durga Puja, Diwaliand other festivals are still to beplayed out in full. We have tokeep watching new cases verycarefully,” he said cautioningpeople against letting theirguard down despite “very lowper million cases” in India.

In the last two days, India’s

Covid-19 daily case countdropped to an average of 30,000,Government data released onTuesday showed after 4-weekaverage of 48,000 daily cases.

“We are not reading toomuch into this (drop),”Bhushan said, adding weeklytrends better reflected the pan-demic’s progress. However, asteady case surge has beenobserved in West Bengal sinceDurga Puja, in Kerala sinceOnam and in Delhi for the pastfortnight ahead of Diwali.

The Union Health

Ministry also noted India’sincreased capacity to conductCovid-19 tests on a daily basis.Evaluating India’s testing capa-bilities as compared to othernations, the Secretary said, “interms of Covid-19 tests con-ducted daily we are abovenations like the United States,United Kingdom and Russia.”

Also, India’s positivity rateis declining continuously andits death rate is low as com-pared to the rest of the world,said the official. India’s Deathsper Million Population is also

amongst lowest in world;stands at 94 deaths per millionpopulation, he added.

About the progress of vac-cines, VK Paul, NITI Aayogmember added that the one ofthe Serum Institute is in thethird phase. Meanwhile, at leastfive vaccines are under trial inIndia, out of which two are inthe third phase, he added.

As per the Ministry data,75.14 per cent of the new casesare being reported from 10states and UTs. Delhi, which sawa surge in new cases over the lastfew days, reported only 3,797new cases yesterday, followed byWest Bengal which reported3,012 new cases. Kerala record-ed 2,710 new cases.

In terms of new fatalities,the data suggests 78.40 per centof the 449 new deaths are con-centrated in ten states and UTs.More than a fifth, 22.76 per centof the new fatalities reported arefrom Delhi which reported 99deaths. Maharashtra reported 60fatalities, followed by WestBengal (53).

The total recovered casesstand at 82,90,370. With this, the recovery rate hasimproved to 93.42 per cent, theMinistry added.

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Amajor measles outbreak islikely to occur during 2021

as many children have missedout on measles vaccination amidCovid-19 pandemic, researchershave raised concerns.

They have suggested “threepillars” of action — helpingcountries vaccinate their chil-dren through catch-up andcampaigns; countries need toprepare for expected outbreaksand maintaining measles andrubella elimination targets pro-vided by WHO’s new MeaslesRubella Strategic Framework2021-2030 in alignment withthe Immunization Agenda2030 — to address the con-cerning situation.

In their article published inthe Lancet, the researchersincluding lead author ProfessorKim Mulholland, from theMurdoch Children’s ResearchInstitute and Chair of theWHO’s SAGE Working Groupon measles and rubella vac-cines, said many children havemissed out on measles vacci-nation this year, making futuremeasles outbreaks inevitable.

Professor Mulholland saidwhile 2020 had been a quiet

year for measles, in part due totravel reductions and nationalCovid-19 control measures,the economic impacts wouldlead to many cases of child-hood malnutrition.

The study mentioned thatthe WHO estimates that by theend of October 2020, delayedvaccination campaigns in 26countries have led to 94 millionchildren missing scheduledmeasles vaccine doses.

“The inadequate vaccina-tion that led to the 2019 measlesoutbreaks has still not been ade-quately addressed, and the sit-uation is now exacerbated byservice disruptions during theCovid-19 pandemic so thathigh-risk, unimmunised chil-dren are clustered together in

unreached communities,”Professor Mulholland added.

Just a few days ago,Henrietta Fore, UNICEFExecutive Director had notedthat before there was a coron-avirus crisis, the world wasgrappling with a measles crisis,and it has not gone away.

“While health systems arestrained by the Covid-19 pan-demic, we must not allow ourfight against one deadly diseaseto come at the expense of ourfight against another. This means ensuring we havethe resources to continueimmunisation campaigns forall vaccine-preventable dis-eases, even as we address thegrowing Covid-19 pandemic,”Fore said.

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The Central Reserve PoliceForce (CRPF) has deployed

20 doctors and six dozen para-medical staff for ramping upmedical facilities to counter thefresh surge in Covid-19 cases inDelhi and the National CapitalRegion (NCR).

“As intimated by MHA, inview of rising number of Covidpositive cases in Delhi and NCR,it has been decided to opera-tionalise additional number ofbeds/ICU beds in Covid CareCentres at Chattarpur (being runby ITBP) and Delhi Cantt. (beingrun by AFMS),” reads an inter-nal order of the CRPF.

Accordingly, MHA(Ministry of Home Affairs)has desired to detail 20 MedicalOfficers and 60 paramedicalstaff from CRPF and they wereasked to report in Delhi byMonday (November 16), offi-cials said.

After consideration of prosand cons, competent authori-ty in the CRPF has approveddeployment of medical officersand paramedical staff fromvarious formations of theparamilitary, they said.

Apart from those detailed

in the Covid Care Centres inthe national capital, 14 doctorshave been kept in reserve and10 paramedical staff have beenkept on standby to augmentany further exigency in thenational Capital.

The Union Home Ministryhas further instructed that those

who are not entitled to air trav-el may be allowed to travel by airso that they can reach Delhi intime by the earliest flight.

For smooth deploymentof the medical officers andparamedical staff, the SectorInspector Generals and Headsof Offices were directed torelieve the identified personnelby Monday so that they canreport in Delhi on the desig-nated time.

The CRPF headquarters hasfurther directed its units not togrant leave to the medical offi-cers and paramedical staff keptin reserve without the approvalof the Medical Directorate of theparamilitary force.

The move comes after theUnion Home Minister AmitShah chaired a high level meet-ing on Sunday with Delhi ChiefMinister Arvind Kejriwal andofficials of the Central gov-ernment and Delhi adminis-tration to contain the spike inthe numbers of those gettinginfected with Covid-19 here.

The ITBP-run Sardar PatelCovid Care Centre at Chattarpurhas 10,000 beds capacity and theother one at Delhi Cantt. hasprovision for 1,000 beds, includ-ing 250 ICU beds.

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed displeasure over theCentre’s affidavit in the case related to media reporting of

Tablighi Jamaat congregation here during the onset of Covid-19 pandemic, and said the Government should consider settingup a regulatory mechanism to deal with such contents on TV.

Observing that the Ministry of Information andBroadcasting’s affidavit did not deal with the applicability of CableTelevision Network Act (CTNA) in the case, the apex court saidthe Government has the power to put a regulatory mechanismin place and it cannot be left to an outside agency like NBSA(News Broadcasters Standards Authority.

“We want to know the mechanism employed by you and thisaffidavit has nothing on it. Why should we refer to NBSA etc.When you have the authority to look into it. If it does not existthen you create an authority. We can also hand it over to an out-side agency,” said a bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde.

The top court, which was hearing the pleas filed by JamiatUlama-I-Hind and others alleging that a section of the mediawas spreading communal hatred over Tablighi Jamaat congre-gation during the onset of pandemic, asked the Centre to file afresh affidavit dealing with mechanism to regulate electronicmedia under the CTNA. The congregation at Nizamuddin Markazin the national capital in March, attended by thousands of Indian and foreign nationals, was cited as being responsible foraccelerating the spread of coronavirus or Covid-19, with its attendees allegedly carrying the infection to different partsof the country.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre,referred to the freedom of speech and expression of the mediaand said that NBSA is a part of the self-regulatory mechanism.

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In a move to back farmers’protests, ten Central trade

unions on Tuesday announcedtheir support to nationwidegeneral strike on November 26.The meeting of the JointPlatform of Central TradeUnions (CTUs) and SectoralIndependent Federations andAssociations was held virtual-ly on November 16, 2020.

Unions expressed satisfac-tion over the tremendousresponse being received fromworkers and the people at largethroughout the country to theongoing campaign for thecountrywide general strike onNovember 26, 2020, a jointforum statement said.

The forum consists ofIndian National Trade UnionCongress (INTUC), All IndiaTrade Union Congress(AITUC), Hind MazdoorSabha (HMS), Centre of IndianTrade Unions (CITU), AllIndia United Trade UnionCentre (AIUTUC), TradeUnion Co-ordination Centre(TUCC), Self-EmployedWomen’s Association (SEWA),All India Central Council ofTrade Unions (AICCTU),Labour Progressive Federation(LPF) and United Trade UnionCongress (UTUC).

The preparatory campaignfor the general strike against“the anti-people, anti-worker,anti-national and destructivepolicies of the BJP Governmentled by Modi, has been going onwith great enthusiasm all overthe country”, the statementsaid. Joint conventions, posters,leaflets jointly as well as inde-pendently by the Central tradeunions and their affiliated tradeunions are being held at state,district and local levels as wellas at the sectoral level.

The strike notices havebeen served, it said adding thatin addition to workers, peoplefrom all walks of life and all sec-tions of the society, viz, students,youth, women, peasants havebeen coming forward extendingtheir whole-hearted support tothe call of general strike onNovember 26. The meeting wel-comed the whole-hearted sup-

port extended by the unitedplatform of the peasants’ organ-isations, the All India KisanSangharsh CoordinationCommittee (AIKSCC), to thegeneral strike by the workers.

“It is heartening that thepeasants, who are already in themidst of struggle against thedraconian farm laws passed bythe Modi govt, support theworkers fighting against theanti-worker measures of thisGovernment,” it added.

The Joint Platform andSectoral Federations andAssociations, which has beenextending active solidarity andsupport to the struggles of thepeasantry and agriculturalworkers from the very begin-ning, has reiterated its activesupport to the countrywideprotest actions and march toDelhi on 26-27 November 2020announced by the AIKSCC.

The charter of demands ofthe general strike by CTUs andfederations and associationsincludes the demand to scrapthe draconian farm laws.Along with the demandsdirectly related to the workers,the trade unions have alsobeen campaigning on thisdemand, it added.

Meanwhile, the All IndiaPower Engineers Federation(AIPEF) has also stated thatpower engineers across thecountry will protest onNovember 26 against the pri-vatisation policies of theCentral Government. TheAIPEF is demanding to scrapof Electricity (Amendment)Bill, 2020 and standard biddingdocument (SBD) for the pri-vatisation of electricity.

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India on Tuesday successful-ly test-fired the Quick

Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile(QRSAM) system at an inte-grated test range in Chandipuroff the Odisha coast, thedefence ministry said. It saidthe missile “accurately and suc-cessfully” neutralised an air-borne target. It was the secondsuccessful test firing of themissile in the last five days.

“The flight test, second inthe series, was conducted todayat around 1542 hours from theintegrated test range,Chandipur, off the coast ofOdisha. “The test was carriedout once again, against thehigh-performance jetunmanned aerial target calledBanshee, which simulates anaircraft,” the ministry said.

Defence Minister RajnathSingh congratulated DRDOscientists on the successfultest-firing of the missile.

“Congratulations to@DRDO_India for two back toback successful test trials ofQuick Reaction Surface to Air

Missile. First launch test on 13thNov proved the Radar andMissile capabilities with directhit. Today’s test demonstrated thewarhead performance on prox-imity detection,” he tweeted.

The successful test-firing ofthe QRSAM, having a range ofaround 30 km, paves the way forits commercial production, offi-cials said. “The flight test wasconducted in the deploymentconfiguration of the weaponsystem comprising of the launch-er, fully automated commandand control system, surveillancesystem and multi-functionradars,” the ministry said.

“The QRSAM weapon sys-tem, which can operate on themove, consists of all indige-nously developed subsystems.All objectives of the test werefully met. The launch was car-ried out in the presence of theusers from Indian Army,” it said.

In the last two months,India has test-fired a number ofmissiles, including a new ver-sion of the surface-to-surfacesupersonic cruise missileBrahMos, and an anti-radiationmissile named Rudram-1.

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The special committee of theCongress to assist party

chief Sonia Gandhi on Tuesdayavoided any discussion on Biharpoll debacle as also trenchantcriticism of the party’s func-tioning by senior leader KapilSibal. These issues will now betaken up at the CWC meetingscheduled later this month.

AICC sources said this wasa routine meeting for party’sadministrative issues throughvideo conferencing.

The special panel of theCongress was formed in Augustto assist Sonia Gandhi on organ-isational and operational mat-ters. Ahmed Patel, KCVenugopal, AK Antony, Ambika

Soni, Mukul Wasnik, RandeepSurjewala are its members.

“This was a scheduledmeeting and nothing to do withthe Kapil Sibal controversialremarks. And not much wasdiscussed due to the absence ofsenior party leader and mem-ber of the group Ahmed Patel.The only agenda was the sig-nature campaign. Some mem-bers made a brief critical ref-erence to Sibal’s commentsand said that the party chiefshould take note of of is fre-quent comments against theparty on public fora. It wasdecided that such issues to betaken up in the CWC,” said theAICC sources.

On the administrative part,the party discussed setting up

committees and create certainposts in all the states and unitsto review the party’s groundsituation. All these points willbe briefed to the party chief forher opinion and action there-after,” said the sources.

The Bihar poll debacle hasonce again brought up a pub-lic blow-out among its topleaders after Kapil Sibal’s opencriticism of the party leader-ship. Sibal had called for “expe-rienced minds, experiencedhands and those who under-stand political realities” torevive the organisation. Healso said the “time for intro-spection is over”.

Rebutting Sibal, RajasthanChief Minister Ashok Gehloton Monday said that there was

“no need” for his colleague tomention “internal issues” in themedia. In a series of tweets.Gehlot also said that afterevery electoral loss, the partyhad shown “undivided andfirm belief in the party leader-ship” and had emerged strongerfrom each crises.

Sibal was one of the 23Congress leaders behind the“dissent letter” that caused anall-out clash within the party inAugust but changed littleexcept for key letter-writersbeing shunted out. The letterhad suggested sweepingchanges after the Congress lostpower in Madhya Pradesh aftera revolt by Jyotiraditya Scindiaand barely saved its Rajasthangovernment after a rebellion.

Earlier in the day seniorparty leader Salman Khurshidtook a dig at such party col-leagues calling them “doubtingThomases” who suffer period-ic “pangs of anxiety”.

In a Facebook post thatstarted with an Urdu couplet ofMughal emperor Bahadur ShahZafar, former union ministerKhurshid, who is among theleaders considered close to theGandhi family, said if the moodof the electorate is resistant tothe liberal values the party hasespoused and cherished, itshould be prepared for a longstruggle rather than look forshort cuts to get back intopower. Noting that everyone inthe party is perplexed andpained by the continuing mis-

fortunes of the Congress thatsome have chosen to describeas “our misadventures”,Khurshid said there is some-thing called faith, not neces-sarily blind, in destiny.

The favourite panacea of“doubting Thomases”, intro-spection and collective leader-ship, might do no collateraldamage but is a bit overesti-mated, Khurshid asserted.

“Our real redemptionmight be found in under-standing the mind of the con-temporary citizen, molded byprevailing circumstances andinfluenced by a self-servingpotion of social envy and suspicion, if not hate, fedby the ruling establishment,” he said.

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Migratory foreign birdshave began arriving on

Shekha lake in Aligarh fromsiberia, eastern Europe, Chinaand the Philippines for dating.After dating , they return totheir respective countries withtheir new born in February .

The Forest department hasfound after its survey onShekha lake that this year 5600foreign birds have alreadyarrived and 43 rare species ofMigratory birds have alreadybeen identified by forestdepartment . Though these

migratory foreign birds arebusy in dating but they have nosecurity at all from hunters andstray dogs . In this connection, District Forest Officer told, “survey on Shekha lake wasunder taken through binocularsystem . Till moment we havecalculated that 56,00 foreignbirds have arrived on Shekhalake which belongs to 147species . Among them 43 arerare species of Migratory birds. These migratory birds havebeen provided complete secu-rity and required environmentfor their dating in a free atmos-phere”.

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With an eye on the 2021Assembly elections the BJP

has divided Bengal into five orga-nizational divisions to be super-vised by as many central leaders.

According to sources thesefive divisions are North Bengal,Rarh Bengal comprising Purulia,Bankura and Birbhum, Kolkataand surrounding areas, Hooghlyand West Midnapore andKrishnagar-Nadia and surround-ing regions.

These regions would besupervised by Garish Dwivedi,Vinod Sonkar, D Gautam, SunilDeodhar and Vinod Tawade in

that order, party sources saidadding these leaders in consulta-tion with the local leadershipwould hold organizational meet-ings to prepare a preliminary listof party candidates by November20, whereafter the report would besent to BJP national president JPNadda and Union Home MinisterAmit Shah.

The Home Minister whocame to Bengal on a two-day tripearly this month is likely tomake a second visit of the Statearound November 30 apparent-ly to discuss the organizationalmatters, inside sources said.

Meanwhile, Bengal BJP pres-ident Dilip Ghosh on Tuesday

mounted a fresh attack on theTrinamool CongressGovernment for failing to doanything for the minorities allow-ing All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) to findbase in the State.

What the TMC leadershipdismissed as the BJP’s ploy todivide the Muslims votes throughdisinformation campaign, Ghoshsaid “though the Trinamool hasextracted votes from the Muslimsby promising them sky they havedone nothing for them which iswhy the minorities of this Stateare a disgruntled lot and are look-ing for an alternative.”

Ghosh said a search for an

alternative by the Muslim votershas provided the AIMIM a toe-hold in Bengal. “The AIMIM isgetting toehold in this Statebecause the Muslim voters whohad reposed faith in theTrinamool Congress are nowleaning towards that party as theyhave felt cheated,” he said.

The State BJP president alsosaid that the elections wouldhave to be held by the centralforces as no one had any faith inthe State police. “The BengalPolice is a servant of the TMC andso the elections will have to beconducted by the CRPF,” he said.

Reacting to Ghosh’s state-ments senior Bengal Minister

Firhad Hakim said that it was hisploy to divide the Muslim votes inthe State. “By saying this the BJPis trying to divide votes inBengal… this is why we havealready said that AIMIM is an allyof the BJP… The voters from boththe minority and majority com-munities in Bengal are consciousenough about the present politi-cal circumstances and hence theywill take the right decision andone is sure that BJP will not befavoured by any of them.”

Incidentally Bengal ChiefMinister had in a circuitous ref-erence of the AIMIM said last yearthat some radical organizationswith terror links were trying to

make inroads in Bengal but wouldfail to win any seat in this State.

After winning five seats inBihar the AIMIM leadership hasdeclared that they would contestfrom Bengal where they havepresence in more than 30 seats.

“Now that our organizationhas become stronger why shouldnot find election in Bengal… ofcourse we will,” AIMIM chiefAsaduddin Owaisi had said soonafter the Bihar poll results.

In a separate development theLeft and the Congress were meet-ing on Tuesday evening to decideon the seat-sharing and other con-ditions of their alliance, sourcessaid.

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In a major development a senior BSF official facingcharges of cow-smuggling was questioned for several

hours by the Central Bureau of Investigation.Cows worth several thousand crores were smuggled

out to Bangladesh in 2016-17 when Satish Kumar a seniorcommanding of the BSF posted here, sources said.

The CBI had earlier raided Kumar’s residence at SaltLake. According to sources Kumar who appeared at theNizam Palace of the central agency was asked as towhether other influential persons were involved in theracket or not. He was reportedly avoiding certain ques-tions, sources said.

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Agartala: Vice President MVenkaiah Naidu on Tuesdaysaid that the new NationalEducation Policy (NEP) aimedto make India a global knowl-edge superpower and under-lined the need for the countryto again become a 'VishwaGuru' in education.

He said that the NEP drawsinspiration from the ancientIndian education system which

focused on developing holisticand well-rounded personalitiesand thus seeks to make Indianeducation holistic, multi-dis-ciplinary, and practical.

“The ancient educationsystem always taught us to livein harmony with nature andrespect all beings and non-beings. Our education waspractical, wholesome, andcomplementary to life,” Naidu

said while virtually addressingthe 13th convocation ofNational Institute ofTechnology (NIT), Agartala.

Calling upon higher edu-cation institutions and uni-versities to make India a thriv-ing hub of knowledge andinnovation, the Vice Presidentadvised them to take up cut-ting- edge research in variousfields, establish synergy with

industries and other similarinstitutions, and turn campus-es into exciting centres of cre-ativity and research.

Recalling the advice of for-mer President APJ AbdulKalam to the youth to dreambig, he asked the students to setgoals and then strive hard toachieve them.

“You will succeed if youwork with dedication, disci-

pline and sincerity withoutwavering from your chosenpath. Students, researchers andacademicians, therefore, cannotafford to remain in a world ofstatus quo. They have to con-stantly learn, update themselves, and innovate everyday.”

The Vice President alsourged the corporate sector toidentify key research projects in

various sectors and fund themunder the CSR initiatives.

“Enhancing public and pri-vate investments in research isof vital importance for creatinga knowledge-driven society.”

With about 65 per cent ofthe country's population com-prising youth, the Vice-President called for fully chan-neling their energies and cre-ating the right ecosystem for

promoting entrepreneurshipamong them.

Naidu asked all students tospend some time in villages tounderstand the challengesfaced by rural India. Termingagriculture as 'our basic cul-ture', he called for makingfarming a viable and profitableactivity.

Agartala NIT's Chairmanof Board of Governors Dr

Subhash Chandra Sati, DirectorProf HK Sharma and othersparticipated in the virtualevent.

In the convocation 24 PhDscholars, 181 MTech and 14MBA students, 24 MSc and 20MCA passouts were among 857students who received theirdegrees. Gold medals weregiven to 25 students for meri-torious achievements. IANS

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Six-year-old granddaughter of BJP MP RitaBahuguna Joshi succumbed to burn injuries on

Tuesday morning.Kiya had sustained 60 per cent burn injuries while

bursting crackers on the roof of her house onMonday evening.

She was admitted to a private hospital for treat-ment and the family was making arrangements to shifther to Delhi for advanced treatment in an air ambu-lance on Tuesday.

Kiya was the only daughter of the MP's sonMayank Joshi and his wife Richa Joshi.

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President MK Stalin onTuesday demanded scrappingof NEET for medical collegeadmissions as the Centre hadallowed for separate entrancetests in its 11 such institutionsin Tamil Nadu.

Similarly, in medical col-leges in Tamil Nadu, admis-sions for postgraduate coursesshould not be made based onNational Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) scores,

he said.Stalin urged Chief Minister

K Palaniswami to write toPrime Minister Narendra Modion this subject so that admis-sions to postgraduate medicalcourses could be made and 69per cent reservation quotaimplemented for the same.

The Leader of theOpposition in the Tamil NaduAssembly also urgedPalanswami to hold counsellingfor admissions to special med-ical courses for governmentdoctors with 50 per cent reser-vation.

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various political parties andcommoners paid homage tothe founder-patriarch of ShivSena, the late BalasahebThackeray on his eighth deathanniversary here on Tuesday.

Chief Minister UddhavThackeray led the state alongwith his wife RashmiThackeray, son and MinisterAditya Thackeray besides min-isters, leaders of other parties,and paid floral tributes at thelate leader's memorial at ShivajiPark.

In a message, Deputy ChiefMinister Ajit Pawar said: “Aheartfelt tribute to BalasahebThackeray whose leadership,

eloquence and contributionswill rule forever in the hearts ofthe Marathis.”

Nationalist Congress PartyPresident Sharad Pawar saidthe late Balasaheb Thackeray'swork as “an effective orator,cartoonist and political com-mentator” are of special sig-nificance and political activistsare reminded of his ever-vigi-lante attitude.

Similarly, Congress leaderand Minister Ashok Chavanpaid homage to the memory ofBal Thackeray.

The Bharatiya JanataParty's Leader of OppositionDevendra Fadnavis saluted thelate leader who remained com-

mitted to his thoughts andspeeches while Prasad Laddescribed him as the “HinduHriday Samrat, Nationalist,enlightening leader”.

The MaharashtraNavnirman Sena spokespersonSandeep Deshpande ques-tioned why despite coming topower since one year, the MahaVikas Aghadi government hasfailed to construct a memori-al to Balasaheb Thackeray atthe site near the Shivaji Park.

Scores of Shiv Sainiks andfollowers converged at theShivaji Park and offered theirtributes to the late leader whopassed away at the age of 86 onNovember 17, 2012. IANS ����������������������� ,�� � ������������������-�� ��� ��� ! � �

Amaravati:Andhra Pradeshhas registered 1,395 newCovid-19 infections, increasingthe state's tally to 8.56 lakh,even as 2,293 more recoveriesoutnumbered infections onTuesday.

Krishna district accountedfor the highest number of casesin the past 24 hours, 260, fol-lowed by West Godavari (247),East Godavari (214), Guntur(199), Chittoor (137) andVisakhapatnam (75).

Among other places,Anantapur (58), Kadapa (52),Srikakulam (37), Vizianagaram(35), Nellore (32), Prakasam(31) and Kurnool (18).

With the new additions,Kurnool's tally is inching clos-er to the 60,000-mark.

East Godavari continues to

shoulder the highest number ofcases at 1.2 lakh.

Meanwhile, nine morepatients succumbed to thevirus in the past 24 hours, tak-ing the state's death toll to6,890. Chittoor continues to bethe district with the highestnumber of Covid deaths at 812.

However, the southernstate is consistently recordingan impressive number of recov-

eries every day.On Monday, 2,293 more

patients recovered from the dis-ease to increase the total num-ber of recoveries to 8.32 lakh.

Of the 8.56 lakh cases,active cases currently stand at16,985. In the past 24 hours,Covid-19 tests fell to 66,778samples. The state has so farconducted over 92.6 lakh tests. IANS

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Kochi: A court here on Tuesday refusedto grant bail to IAS officer and KeralaChief Minister's former PrincipalSecretary, M. Sivasankar.

Sivasankar was arrested by theEnforcement Directorate on October 29in the gold smuggling case and is beingquestioned by the financial probe agency.

His judicial custody ends onNovember 26 and prior to that, reportsindicate he will be continue to be ques-tioned by the various national probeagencies.

Heated arguments had taken placeat the Principal Sessions Court withcounsel for Sivasankar arguing that hewas being pressurised to name high-fly-ing ruling front political leaders, but theprosecution denied the claim.

The prosecution, however, citedseveral pieces of evidence against

Sivasankar and it was these the courtrelied on to dismiss his bail plea.

The ED even contended that SwapnaSuresh, the prime accused in the goldsmuggling and Life Mission cases, wasbeing used by Sivasankar who kneweverything what was happening.

The Customs had arrested P.S. Sarith,a former employee of the UAE Consulatehere, on July 5 for allegedly smugglinggold in a diplomatic baggage destined forthe Consulate. Swapna, who was also anex-employee of the Consulate, and herassociate Sandip Nair were also arrest-ed by the National Investigation Agencyfrom Bengaluru.

Vijayan removed Sivasankar as hisPrincipal Secretary and then as ITSecretary after it surfaced that Swapnaand Sivasankar were allegedly closefriends. IANS

Bengaluru: Karnataka wouldsoon set up a developmentboard for the betterment ofVeerashaiva-Lingayat commu-nity in the southern State, anofficial said on Tuesday.

“Chief Minister B.S.Yediyurappa directed state chiefsecretary T.M, Vijay Bhaskar toconstitute a KarnatakaVe e r a s h a i v a - L i n g a y a tDevelopment Board for thesocio-economic improvementof the dominant community inthe state,” a Social Welfaredepartment official told IANShere.

The decision to set up theboard came three days afterYediyurappa on Saturdaydirected the department to

form a Maratha DevelopmentAuthority with Rs 50-crorecorpus for the welfare ofMarathas living in the state.

The dominant Lingayatcommunity is estimate toaccount for 16 per cent of thestate's 7-crore population.

Incidentally, Yediyarappais considered the tallestLingayat leader in the statethough the community is con-sidered economically andsocially backward.

“Veerashaiva-Lingayatsform a large community in thestate, many of whom are eco-nomically, socially and educa-tionally backward,”Yediyurappa said in a note toChief Secretary TM Vijay

Bhaskar. “The board will workfor the overall development ofthe community,” said the ChiefMinister.

Several Lingayat legisla-tors of the ruling BJP, opposi-tion Congress and JD-S urgedYediyurappa to set up the boardfor the Lingayat sect, whosemembers are more than othercommunities across the state.

Congress lawmaker M.B.Patil and JD-S senior legislatorBasaraj Horatti also urged theChief Minister to make 16 percent reservation in govern-ment jobs and educationalinstitutions for the Lingayats, asMaharashtra has done forMarathas in the neighbouringstate. IANS

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The Juhu police on Tuesdayclaimed to have busted a major

inter-State kidnapping and humantraffic racket, with the rescue of a4-month-old infant from Telanganastate and arrest of three personswho had sold the kid for Rs 4 lakh.

Acting on a complaint lodgedby a resident from a poor family liv-ing at Juhu in north-west Mumbaion November 11 that his four-month-old male child had been

taken away by some unidentifiedabductors, Mumbai PoliceCommissioner Param Bir Singhhad formed a special team, led bySenior Police InspectorPandharinath Wahval, to crack thecase.

In the absence of any evi-dence or witnesses, the police teamused tech-intel ad and policeinformers to crack the kidnappingcase.

During the course of investi-gation, the police learnt that after

abducting the infant, the miscreantshad ‘sold’ the child for Rs 4 lakh tosome persons in Telangana.

While one of the accused wasarrested Andheri (west), anotherperson was taken into custodyfrom Bongir in Nalgonda district.The third one was arrested fromSaroornagar near Hyderabad.

“We have arrested three per-sons. We have rescued the child andhanded him over his parents,”Additional Commissioner of Police(West) Sandeep Karnik said.

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Lucknow: Congress general sec-retary Priyanka Gandhi Vadraon Tuesday questioned thewomen empowerment pro-gramme 'Mission Shakti'launched by the Yogi AdityanathGovernment.

In a tweet, Priyanka askedthe Chief Minister to explainhow successful 'Mission Shakti'has been in UP.

“From the reports of crimeagainst women UP, it is clear thatwomen are not safe in the state.

A number women have endedtheir lives because no one hasresponded to their problems,”she said.

Priyanka also listed aboutten incidents of crime againstwomen in UP.

Priyanka has been regular-ly lashing out at the growingincidents of crime againstwomen in the state and has beencriticizing the Yogi Adityanath government on theissue. IANS

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As part of the ongoing agitationagainst the Central farm laws,

the Maharashtra Congress hascollected signatures of a stagger-ing 60 lakh farmers to demandrepeal of the “anti-farmer”Central farm laws.

A petition carrying 60 lakhsignatures was handed over byRevenue minister and StateCongress President BalasahebThorat to the Congress’ in-chargefor Maharashtra HK Patil. “Noother party has ever carried outsuch a massive campaign and col-lected such a large number of sig-natures,” a state party statementsaid.

“Today, we handed over thesignatures of 60 lakh farmers in thestate to Shri HK Patil ji who will

hand over the petition to Congresspresident Sonia Gandhi,” Thoratsaid. These signatures –along witha statement signed by farmersacross the country -- will be hand-ed over by the Congress toPresident Ramnath Kovind inNew Delhi on November 19.

“These 60 lakh signaturesshow the huge opposition of thefarmers to this law. Maharashtra'sfight against agricultural laws hasbecome a role model for the coun-try,” Patil said

Speaking at a function organ-ised at Tilak Bhavan here, Thoratsaid: “During the recent weeks, wecarried out agitations against thenew agriculture laws. We organ-ised a virtual rally of Maharashtrafarmers – which was attended by50 lakh farmers”.

“It is not a small task to sub-

mit a petition with 60 lakh signa-tures. It is a historic campaign.These unjust laws should berepealed. Maharashtra has alwaysbeen a guiding state for the rest ofthe Country. We intend to protectthe interests of farmers by enact-ing a better agricultural law thanPunjab,” Thorat said. .

Thorat said that under theleadership of late Indira Gandhi,a green revolution took place inthe country and the agriculturalsector was transformed. “But thepresent BJP government has con-tinuously worked to weaken thefarmers and the agricultural sys-tems of the country,” he said.

Apart from Thorat and Patil,prominent among those present atthe function organised at TilakBhavan were Energy minister Dr.Nitin Raut, Medical Education

Minister Amit Deshmukh,Mumbai Guardian Minister AslamShaikh, Mumbai CongressPresident Eknath Gaikwad.Former Minister Naseem Khan,Former MP Hussain Dalwai andState party working PresidentMuzaffar Hussain.

It may recalled that onSeptember 30, the Maharashtragovernment had stayed the notifi-cation issued by it in August toimplement the three ordinancesissued by the Centre that had pre-ceded the farm Bills which havenow been enacted and set up aCabinet sub-committee to studyimplementation or otherwise of the“anti-farmer” central farm lawswhich have evoked vociferousprotests from farmers across thecountry.

The ruling Congress and NCP,

which are two constituents of theMVA government in Maharashtra,have come out in the open abouttheir opposition to the farm laws,while the Shiv Sena is also verymuch with the two of its rulingpartners in the state in its reserva-tions in implementing the threefarm laws in the state.

Talking to media persons ear-lier on Tuesday, Thorat said that thestate government would soon comeout a law that would nullify theadverse impact of the three newlypassed laws --the Farmers ProduceTrade and Commerce (Promotion& Facilitation) Act, 2020, TheFarmers (Empowerment &Protection) Assurance and FarmService Act, 2020, and The EssentialCommodities (Amendment) Act2020 – would have on the farmersin the state.

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Adisengagement deal onthe Line of ActualControl (LAC) withChina, whose ingredi-

ents have been leaked, is beingconsidered by the Government.External Affairs Minister SJaishankar mentioned it in mid-October as a confidential Chineseproposal and Army Chief GenNaravane recently likened it to awork in progress. It apparentlyinvolves vacating the strategicChushul heights on Kailash range — a critical bargainingleverage superbly created by theSpecial Frontier Force (SFF), whichmust not be frittered away in apiecemeal limited disengagementfor Chinese withdrawal from theFingers area.

Defence Minister RajnathSingh is speaking the obvious: “Weneed a strong military to deteraggression.” We have one but it cancheckmate Pakistan, not China.Prime Minister Narendra Modiknows that due to economic reces-sion, the modernisation of armedforces will be grounded. So he isboosting soldiers’ morale by cele-brating Diwali with them, ridingthe Arjun tank and acclaiming hisGovernment’s record in defencereforms. But defence allocationunder his watch has been the low-est as a percentage of GDP, whichhas been declining since hisGovernment came to power. Singhshould be informed that shastrapuja (worshipping weapons) alonewill not add to deterrence.

If a limited disengagementand not a full and complete disen-gagement and de-escalation isimplemented, it will be at anextraordinary strategic cost. Chinahas been insisting that Chushulheights be vacated as part of a par-tial disengagement limited to northand south bank of Pangong lake.Colossal confusion prevails aboutthe exact contours of the with-drawal as to whether it will beacross all intrusion points in EastLadakh or just the Pangong Lakeregion. The strategic heightsgained by SFF must not be vacat-ed as these are on the Indian sideof the LAC and were in our pos-session in 1962. An infantrybrigade fought on these heights butwithdrew prematurely, first toChushul and then in panic to Leh.India must not repeat theHimalayan blunder for paintingpolitical success after a poundingfrom the opposition for loss of ter-

ritory. China has already pushedIndia into a corner by imposingunequal terms during the initialdisengagement, which separat-ed troops from friction pointsculminating in the Galwanclash.

The Indian Army wasforced back from positions itheld earlier in Galwan, HotSprings and Gogra; buffer zoneswere created on the Indian sideof the LAC even as the People’sLiberation Army (PLA) failed tofaithfully disengage from all theflashpoints. The Chinese haverefused to discuss Depsang,where it has intruded 18 kmand blocked Indian patrols. Onits part, the PLA has managedto creep forward towards its1959 claim line and annexedterritory. In the proposed disen-gagement plan, China wantsvacation of Kailash range forwithdrawal from the Fingersarea.

What is incentivising Indiato de-induct from the com-manding heights overlookingthe PLA Moldo garrison andfrom where, on a clear day, onecan see the Aksai Chin road thatChina has illegally constructed?It could be the difficulty of sup-porting a Brigade on and alongthese heights in the harsh win-ter to follow where temperatureis already minus 30 degreescentigrade and will go down tominus 40 degrees centigrade.The snow will be different fromwhat the soldiers are used to inSiachen, which has been made

habitable and defensible overnearly four decades of occupa-tion. If sustenance of troops isthe compulsion, a smaller forcecan be kept and turned over asis being done on Saltoro Ridgein Siachen. Withdrawal fromKailash range should never bepart of any limited Chinese pro-posal on disengagement.

The Chushul heights are acountervailing advantage inforcing withdrawal fromDepsang and becoming thepivot of any tradeoff in anoverall disengagement and de-escalation agreement, which isreturn of status quo ante, April2020. PLA is occupying BlackTop post close to the Mukhparipost on Kailash range. Chinesesoldiers are conscripts, whonormally do not man posts atan altitude of 17,000 feet. TheChinese are facing a greaterdegree of difficulty in theiroccupation of heights in areasnear the Kailash range. Thethree-step withdrawal plan lim-ited to both banks of PangongLake area reportedly consists ofthe following:(a) Removal of heavy weaponsfrom both banks of the lake(b) Full vacation by PLA fromNorth Bank in Fingers area,back to the original Finger 8.The Indian Army similarly willpull back to its permanent loca-tion at Dhan Singh Post nearFinger 3. Area between Fingers4 and 8 will be converted tobuffer zone (another bufferzone on Indian side).

(c) Indian Army will vacateChushul heights and PLA, BlackTop. Withdrawal will includedismantling of structures onNorth Bank like barracks, for-tifications, jetties.(d) A verification and monitor-ing mechanism has beenincluded.

Apparently, a more authen-tic version of the selective dis-engagement was discussed onNovember 6 during the eighthround of military comman-ders’ talks, which weredescribed by India as “candid,in-depth and constructive inwhich views were exchanged onall friction points along LAC inthe western sector of India-China border areas.” It was alsothe first time that the twoGenerals held a one-on-one,which is very rare with Chineseinterlocutors. The ninth roundof the commanders’ talks isexpected later this month sothat withdrawals can begin bymid-December.

The Government relies onleaking information throughits civil and military officials totest ideas. So while some news-papers have reported that dis-engagement is confined to theLake area, North and SouthBank, others have said it coversall friction points, includingDepsang. In other words, it is afull and complete disengage-ment. With trust and faith gonewith the wind after Galwan, fearis that once you pull out fromthe Kailash range, its re-occu-pation will not be easy giventhat terrain and PLA’s duplici-ty. The strategic heights haveshifted the balance of militaryadvantage and bargainingpotential to India. In 2005,India came close to withdraw-ing from Siachen in an agree-ment with Pakistan. With com-plete breakdown of trust, ArmyChief Gen JJ Singh said: “IndianArmy will withdraw if ordered.But don’t ask it to re-occupySiachen.” Since then any with-drawal from Siachen isenveloped in silence.

Two former NorthernArmy Commanders, Lt GensHS Panag and DS Hooda, havesaid that vacating Chushulheights without full restorationof status quo ante will be squan-dering a strategic asset. Anyagreement with China, which isabout a piecemeal disengage-ment, must be unacceptable.Nothing should be left to lateror a separate phase of withdraw-al. Surrendering one’s trump-card ab initio is a monumentalfolly.

(The writer, a retired MajorGeneral, was Commander, IPKFSouth, Sri Lanka, and foundermember of the Defence PlanningStaff, currently the IntegratedDefence Staff)

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������������������Sir — Kerala-based journalistSiddique Kappan has beendenied interim bail by theSupreme Court (SC). Arrestedon October 5, he was on his wayto meet the Hathras rape-mur-der victim’s family when he wasconfronted by the Uttar Pradesh(UP) Police. After denying reliefto Kappan, the SC issued anotice to the UP Governmentand sought a response on theplea seeking his release.

The apex court was hearinga plea filed by the Kerala Unionof Working Journalists (KUWJ)challenging Kappan’s arrest.Arguing for the journalist, senioradvocate Kapil Sibal said that theFIR does not disclose any offencecommitted by him. And while aplea for interim bail had beenfiled, other journalists were notallowed to meet him in jail.

The brutal torture and gan-grape of the Dalit girl had gotnational attention. The victimsuccumbed to her injuries a fewdays after the incident and wascremated in the dead of night bythe police. Her family was notallowed any access to her bodyand the UP Government andpolice were widely criticised forviolation of human rights and

due legal processes. Her death triggered protests

across India. Kappan, along witha few other journalists, was on hisway to meet the family when hewas arrested. He must be givenbail immediately. For he was justdoing his duty as a journalist,gathering facts, and had noteven filed a biased report. Thevoice of the media should not bestifled like this in a democracy.

And it is a crying shame thatnone of the other journalists inthe national media is coming outin support of Kappan. Why arethey so afraid?

Bhagwan ThadaniMumbai

�������������Sir — The legendary SoumitraChatterjee was a man of many

parts. He was a screen actor, atheatre doyen, a playwright, apoet, a literary figure, a painter,an intellectual and a cultural icon.Eulogised as Satyajit Ray’s pro-tégé and alter ego, he enrichedthe cultural life of West Bengaland India. Ray brought out thebest in Chatterjee. But it may beworthwhile to say that Chatterjeebrought out the best in Ray, beingthe perfect vehicle for the latter’s

creative expression. His actingcareer spanned over six decadesand he starred in over 300 films.Apur Sansar, Abhijan Charulata,Aparichito, Ashani Sanket andDekha are among the worksthat have made movie buffsidolise him.

At one level, he breathed lifeinto characters struggling tocope with the perennial conflictbetween personal urges andsocial mores. At another level, heplayed the roles of characters inquest of opportunities to realisetheir potential in an independentIndia. He had that indefinableedge that made him a greatactor. His was a screen presencepeople could relate to, love andadmire. He had a great zest forlife and retirement was the lastthing on his mind. In WestBengal, Chatterjee and UttamKumar shared all the populari-ty between them. It is a sad partof history that he is not in theframes made by Ritwik Ghatak,even though he acted in filmsmade by acclaimed directorslike Mrinal Sen, Tapan Sinha andAjoy Kar. He will be missed.

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India’s premier investigation agency, theCentral Bureau of Investigation (CBI), is nowpassing through the worst crisis it has ever

faced in all the years of its existence. In the past,the agency has often faced allegations (especial-ly when handling politically-sensitive casesagainst Opposition or rival party leaders), ofworking at the behest of its political masters atthe helm of affairs at the Centre. To the extentthat it has often been called a “caged parrot” bythe judiciary and the media. However, now thewoes of India’s premier investigation agency seemto have multiplied with eight non-BJP ruled Statesbanning its entry into their territory. The CBI isthe Central Government’s anti-corruption agencyand its main activity is to check corruption orillegal activities in Central Government depart-ments, Central Government PSUs, banks and soon. However, the major problem with the CBIis that it is governed by an archaic law called theDelhi Special Police Establishment (DSPE) Act,1946 (DSPE Act). This law has a curious provi-sion that allows State Governments to withdrawthe “general consent” to it. In such a case, the CBIneeds directions from the High Court or theSupreme Court on probes related to the Stateinvestigating agencies.

As a result of this provision, the CBI has beenblocked by Punjab, Kerala, Maharashtra,Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, West Bengaland Mizoram. This is the first time in the his-tory of the agency that so many States havebanned it from their turfs. As a result, the CBIhas had to approach courts in order to be ableto conduct raids and investigations in these States.This restriction even stops the CBI from conduct-ing investigations at Central Government officesin these States. Probes into complaints of pettybribery in Central Government organisations inthese States are subject to permissions of the localgovernments. Needless to say, this is a big hur-dle in the working of the CBI.

When in 2018, the Telugu Desam Party(TDP) left the BJP-headed NDA, the AndhraPradesh Government used this special provisionin the DSPE Act and blocked the CBI from enter-ing the State, sensing political vendetta. It wasonly in mid-2019 that the position changed afterthe BJP-friendly YSR Congress regime came topower. Similarly, during the probe in the Saradhascam, when the CBI summoned the KolkataPolice Commissioner, the West BengalGovernment ruled by the Trinamool Congress(TMC) also did the same and refused it permis-sion. Anyway, in the end, the State could notblock the probe in the Saradha Scam, as the inves-tigation was handed over to the CBI by theSupreme Court. The agency also got supportfrom the Supreme Court in arresting the KolkataPolice Commissioner, which had earlier beenprevented by the State administration.

Now, it faces the same situation with the eightStates and will have to knock on the door of thecourts just to be able to do its duty. So what isthe remedy of this peculiar situation? Theanswer is simple: The archaic DSPE Act will haveto be amended by the Central Government. Theamendment, if it ever passes muster inParliament, will empower the CBI to register orprobe any case related to the Central Governmentin any part of the country without requiring the

general consent of the States. The CBIshould have been empowered long ago.Particularly after 2013, when theGauhati High Court first questioned thevalidity of the agency. Even though thenext day the CBI was saved by a stayorder issued by the apex court, this inci-dent should have been an eye-openerfor the Central Government to eitheramend the DSPE Act or bring about anew Act empowering the CBI.

But for the past seven years noth-ing happened to ameliorate the situa-tion and the CBI’s administrativeMinistry, the Department of Personneland Training (DoPT), which is underthe Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) hasnot yet taken a call to settle this vexedissue.

Ever since the dilution of thePrevention of Corruption Act in 2018,the CBI has been facing a big handicap.Section 13(1)(d), which gave the agencyits powers, was scrapped. The 2018amendment of the Act put too manyrestrictions on the CBI even for a basicprobe. As per the new rules, the CBI hasto get a sanction for starting an inves-tigation against officers under suspi-cion. This means getting a sanctionfrom the senior officers of the sameorganisation where corrupt practiceshave been spotted. Will a senior offi-cer, particularly one who is in cahootswith corrupt officers, give sanction toprobe his/her junior? Plus, even if thesenior officer is honest, the moment theCBI applies for sanction to probe graftin the organisation, others will come toknow of it, corrupt officers will cover

their tracks and the trail will go cold. When these amendments were

brought about, the Government said inParliament that they were needed toprotect officers. These changes weremooted by the UPA Government in2012, when it was facing the heat of ahuge anti-corruption wave in the coun-try. It is intriguing why the BJPGovernment, despite being in power formany years, has carried forward theCongress-led UPA’s policy which dilut-ed the powers of the CBI.

The amendments have opened aPandora’s Box as many accused peopleand companies, facing trial or appealin corruption cases, have approachedHigh Courts around the country argu-ing that they should also get the ben-efit of the now diluted Prevention ofCorruption Act of 2018.

The CBI and the EnforcementDirectorate (ED) are appealing in theDelhi High Court against the 2G casetrial court’s verdict, which surprising-ly acquitted all accused persons andcompanies. From October 5 onwards,a daily hearing is being held on theappeal and for the last 30 days, all theaccused are arguing that they have fileda case in another Bench seeking thefavours of the provisions of the newPrevention of Corruption Act, thoughthey were charged under the old Act.This has affected ongoing trials too.

Though the law is very clear on thisaspect that the charges are based on thelaws that were prevalent at the time ofthe commission of the crime, thisamendment has delayed many cases

across India. The CBI was onceslammed by the Supreme Court fordragging its feet in the Jain Hawala case.In the 1997 judgment in the case filedby journalist Vineet Narain, the courtlaid down guidelines to ensure indepen-dence and autonomy of the CBI andordered that the agency be placedunder the supervision of the CentralVigilance Commission (CVC) and befreed from executive control or inter-ference. But we have seen the spirit ofthis landmark judgment sabotaged inthe infamous tussle between the CBIDirector Alok Verma and SpecialDirector Rakesh Asthana in 2018.

Even though the Supreme Courthas given many judgments on sanctionfor prosecution, all Governments havebeen eager to protect senior officersfrom the Joint Secretary level andabove in corruption cases. And the dilu-tion of the Act in 2018 completely sab-otaged the spirit of many landmarkjudgments on Sanction for Prosecutionof high level officers.

Laws are an evolving process andit is time for the Central Governmentto bring appropriate amendments in thearchaic DSPE Act of 1946. It is time tonullify the general consent-givingpower of the States to the CBI for prob-ing Central Government organisationson their turfs. The Central Governmentmust also analyse what it achieved bydiluting the Prevention of CorruptionAct in 2018 and its impact on the pros-ecution of corrupt people.

(The writer is Special Correspondentof The Pioneer)

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In spite of global efforts to containand mitigate the Coronavirusoutbreak, the world is still battling

the pandemic, with a number ofcountries facing recurrent peaks.Our own national Capital has beengrappling with an upsurge ofCOVID-19 cases with the start of thewinter season, which usually sees thecity enveloped in smog.

There has been a sharp rise inthe number of COVID-19 patients(7,000 to 8,000 cases daily) in the lastthree weeks due to the dangerouscocktail of an early winter andCoronavirus fatigue. The last sawhuge crowds mill around markets,restaurants and private parties. Thisis the third surge of cases followingthe first peak in late June and the sec-ond peak in September. This is

actually in line with my predictionof multiple waves of COVID-19happening in India, in these columnsin June. This also reflects our under-standing of different peaks occurringin various parts of India at differenttimes.

This has been the trend acrossthe globe with the pandemic behav-ing in a similar way, be it in Americawhere the cases rose sharply in oneState and then moved across gradi-ents to affect another State. Manycountries in Europe, too, have expe-rienced a similar phenomenon ofmultiple waves of the pandemic atdifferent times.

It is not just the number of newcases that is worrying. The more dev-astating factor is the number of dailydeaths, almost one hundred in thelast week itself in Delhi. So far, thenational as well as Delhi’s COVID-19 case fatality rate has been report-ed to be one of the lowest in theworld with an improving recoveryrate. However, since the cases aresurging, the number of daily deathsis bound to rise, too, owing to thefragile healthcare system, which isbuckling under the pressure of therising infections.

It was expected that cases will goup with the double whammy ofcrowds during the festival seasonalong with the increased infectivi-ty of the Coronavirus due to thesurge of influenza-like illnesses in thewinter months. However, the air pol-lution has made matters worse.

Pollution not only hampers thecapacity of our lungs to clear theCoronavirus infection but particulatematter or pollutants can also facili-tate its transmission by acting as avehicle for large droplets which tendto stay suspended longer and lowerdown in the environment. These caninfect more people.

There is enough evidence nowthat there is a direct relation betweenhigh PM2.5 levels and increasedinfectivity of the Coronavirus asshown in studies from China, the UKand Italy during this pandemic. It isalso pertinent to know that the newpositive cases being reported as ofnow are the reflection of exposureand infections which occurred in theprevious weeks. There is a lagbetween exposure and clinical symp-toms due to the incubation period ofthe viral infection, which is anythingbetween two to 14 days for the

SARSCoV2 virus. Therefore, thenew positive cases represent theinfections occurring five to sevendays preceding the reports.

Similarly there is a lag betweenexposure, clinical symptoms andthe need for ICU admissions andassisted ventilation and fatalities insevere cases of COVID-19. Thisperiod is usually 10 to 14 days.

It is important to understand thislag period as the number of deathsbeing reported today is reflective ofinfections occurring at least twoweeks ago, since deaths lag behindinfections by weeks.

This is an important implicationas the number of new positive casesis bound to increase tremendously inthe coming two weeks post-Diwalidue to compounded effects of overcrowding, air pollution, bursting ofcrackers and the cold weather. It isquite predictable that the coming twoweeks will be crucial, both in termsof new positive cases, the number offatalities and the unfolding of a seri-ous situation. Therefore, an urgentaction plan is mandatory and inte-grative and coordinated efforts fromall stakeholders are required torespond to this looming scenario.

First, containment and mitiga-tion measures, which slow down thespread, are the only options in theface of the unrelenting infectionphase, while augmentation of infra-structure in terms of ICU beds andtrained manpower in critical care, arecrucial to prevent deaths. Provisionof ICU beds is not the solution unlesswe have enough trained manpowerto manage the severe COVID-19patients and run these critical carefacilities.

Moreover the fundamentals ofcontainment and mitigation remainthe same, including sanitising, mask-ing and distancing. We all know thedrill but it is crucial to enforcebehavioural changes like in the caseof driving laws.

Second, since the positivity ratein Delhi (15 per cent) is too high,which is more than three timesthan the national average, there is noother option but to scale up testingto contain the spread of the infection.This needs to be brought below fiveper cent consistently to ensure ade-quate testing is being done.

There has been more of therapid antigen testing in Delhi andfewer RT-PCR tests, a formula which

needs to be reversed. Ideally all thetests should be RT-PCR tests, whichare more sensitive and would pick upmore cases. Moreover anyone whoundergoes the test should remain inquarantine till they get the results to limit transmission of the infection.

There needs to be a two-stagehouse-to-house cluster sero surveil-lance, as is being done in countrieswith robust healthcare systems. Thisensures identification of people withsymptoms of COVID-19. The RT-PCR testing for them confirms activeinfection and measures the quantumof past infection through antibodytesting.

This strategy would not onlymitigate cases but also help policy-makers plan a public health responsein the coming months. We need toact aggressively and quickly to savelives and avoid preventable deaths.The time to act proactively is now tosave each and every life in the com-ing weeks. The fact remains that thevirus is here to stay and the vaccineis still miles away.

(The writer is Head of NeurologyDepartment, Lady Hardinge MedicalCollege and SSK Hospital)

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Washington: President-electJoe Biden has warned that manymore Americans “may die” ifincumbent President DonaldTrump does not cooperate withthe transition process and ham-per the incoming administra-tion’s ability to tackle the dead-ly coronavirus pandemic.

According to media pro-jections, Democrat Biden haswon the November 3 presiden-tial election. Biden has 306votes in the electoral college,surpassing the 270 thresholdneeded to win.

However, Trump, aRepublican, has not concededand instead alleged electionfraud without presenting anysignificant evidence. The Trumpcampaign has also mountedlegal fights in a number of bat-tleground states where he lost.

“More people may die if wedon’t coordinate,” Biden said inhis home state of Delaware onMonday, responding to a ques-tion on President Trump refus-ing to concede the election and

the outgoing administrationnot co-operating in the transi-tion process.

The US Governmentagency that launches transitionprocess — the General ServicesAdministration (GSA), headedby a Trump appointee — has yetto recognise Biden and his run-ning mate Kamala Harris aswinners.

The Trump-appointedadministrator of the GeneralServices Administration has sofar refused to take the legallynecessary step to begin thetransition process, which wouldgive Biden’s team a budget,intelligence briefings and accessto federal agencies.

“A vaccine is important. It’sof little use until you’re vacci-nated. So, how do we get thevaccine, how do we get over 300million Americans vaccinated?What’s the game plan? It’s ahuge, huge, huge undertaking toget it done, prioritise thosegreatest in need and workingour way through, and also

cooperate with the WorldHealth Organisation and therest of the world in dealing withthis,” he said.

“So they (Trump adminis-tration) say they have this ‘WarpSpeed’ programme that notonly dealt with getting vac-cines, but also how to distributethis.

The number of COVID-19infections in the US has reachednew heights in recent days,surpassing 160,000 cases in oneday for the first time since theoutbreak began. More than247,000 people have died in theUS do the disease.

Dr Anthony Fauci, the topUS infectious diseases expert,has warned that the countryfaces “a very challenging andominous situation” as itapproaches winter.

Calling nationwide vaccinedistribution a “huge undertak-ing”, Biden said that if his teamhad to wait until 20 January - hispresidential inauguration - untilthey could begin work on the

distribution programme, theywould be behind by “over amonth, month and a half ”.

Biden said coordination isimportant “now, or as rapidly aswe can get that done,” and saidthat “it would make it a lot eas-ier if the President were to par-ticipate.”

“I am hopeful that thePresident will be mildly moreenlightened before we get toJanuary 20,” he said.

“The idea the President isstill playing golf and not doinganything about it is beyond mycomprehension,” Biden said.

Biden also criticised Trumpfor failing to work withCongress to negotiate a measureto aid businesses and unem-ployed Americans as the pan-demic rages heading into thewinter.

Biden was also asked abouthis thoughts on Trump’s tweetover the weekend where hefirst seemed to acknowledgethat Biden had won the election.However, soon after Trump

said he would not concede,and that he had won.

He called Trump’s refusal toacknowledge he lost the elec-tion, despite calls to do so fromboth sides, “totally irresponsi-ble”.

“I interpret that asTrumping-ism, no change in hismodus operandi. And I thinkthe pressure will continue tobuild,” he said.

The President-elect saidthat he is having a lot of meet-ings with world leaders on thetelephone and he can get intonegotiating with them aboutthings that are going to bedone. They are calling withsome degree of enthusiasmeveryone from a holy father toprime ministers across theglobe.

“So we are moving alongknowing what the outcomewill be and … but I find thismore embarrassing for thecountry than debilitating formy ability to get started,” Bidensaid. PTI

Tokyo: Australian PrimeMinister Scott Morrison is inJapan to hold talks with hisJapanese counterpart, YoshihideSuga, to bolster defence tiesbetween the two US allies tocounter China’s growingassertiveness in the Asia-Pacificregion amid a transition inAmerican leadership.

The two countries are closeto concluding a ReciprocalAccess Agreement, a legalframework to allow theirtroops to visit each other’scountries and conduct trainingand joint operations.

Morrison and Suga are tohold talks later Tuesday andmay conclude the deal. Theyare also expected to discuss thecoronavirus and the economy,Japanese officials said.

If signed, it will be Japan’sfirst such agreement since the1960 status of forces agreementwith the United States, whichset bases for about 50,000American troops to operate inand around Japan under theJapan-US security pact.

Japan is committed tomaintain and deepen its 60-year-old alliance with the US as

the cornerstone of Japanesediplomacy and security, buthas in recent years sought tocomplement its regionaldefence by stepping up coop-eration with others, especial-ly Australia, amid China’sgrowing maritime activitythat has spread from the Eastand South China seas andbeyond. AP

Washington: Barack Obamahas said that he had ruled outinvolving Pakistan in the raidon Osama bin Laden’s hideoutbecause it was an “open secret”that certain elements insidePakistan’s military, and espe-cially its intelligence services,maintained links to the Talibanand perhaps even al-Qaeda,sometimes using them asstrategic assets againstAfghanistan and India.

Giving a blow-by-blowaccount of the Abbottabad raidby American commandos thatkilled the world’s most wantedterrorist on May 2, 2011 in hislatest book “A Promised Land”,the former US president saidthat the top secret operationwas opposed by the thendefence secretary Robert Gatesand his former vice presidentJoe Biden, who is now thePresident-elect.

In the book that hit thestands globally on Tuesday,America’s first Black presidentdescribed the various optionsof killing bin Laden once itbecame increasingly clear thatthe elusive al Qaeda chief wasliving in a safe hideout on theoutskirts of a Pakistani militarycantonment in Abbottabad.

“Based on what I’d heard,

I decided we had enough infor-mation to begin developingoptions for an attack on thecompound. While the CIAteam continued to work onidentifying the Pacer, I askedTom Donilon and JohnBrennan to explore what araid would look like,” Obamawrites in his memoir.

The need for secrecy addedto the challenge; if even theslightest hint of our lead on binLaden leaked, we knew ouropportunity would be lost. Asa result, only a handful of peo-ple across the entire federalgovernment were read into theplanning phase of the opera-tion, he said.

“We had one other con-straint: Whatever option wechose could not involve thePakistanis,” he wrote.

“Although Pakistan’s gov-ernment cooperated with us ona host of counterterrorismoperations and provided a vitalsupply path for our forces inAfghanistan, it was an opensecret that certain elementsinside the country’s military,and especially its intelligence

services, maintained links tothe Taliban and perhaps evenal-Qaeda, sometimes usingthem as strategic assets toensure that the Afghan gov-ernment remained weak andunable to align itself withPakistan’s number one rival,India,” Obama revealed.

Despite all the risksinvolved, Obama and hisnational security team optedfor the second option, but notbefore multiple rounds of dis-cussions and intensive plan-ning.

“Joe (Biden) also weighedin against the raid, arguing thatgiven the enormous conse-quences of failure, I shoulddefer any decision until theintelligence community wasmore certain that bin Ladenwas in the compound.

“As had been true in everymajor decision I’d made aspresident, I appreciated Joe’swillingness to buck the pre-vailing mood and ask toughquestions, often in the interestof giving me the space I need-ed for my own internal delib-erations,” Obama wrote. PTI

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Thailand’s political battle-ground shifted on Tuesday

from the streets to the country’sParliament, where lawmakersare considering proposals toamend the constitution, one ofthe core demands of thenation’s student-led pro-democracy movement.

Seven draft constitutionalamendments are scheduled tobe voted on in a two-day jointsession of the House andSenate. Constitutional changesrequire a joint vote of those twobodies. Any that are passed willhave to go through secondand third readings at least amonth after this week’s vote.

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Brussels: NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenbergwarned on Tuesday that themilitary organisation couldpay a heavy price for leavingAfghanistan too early, after aUS Official said PresidentDonald Trump is expected towithdraw a significant numberof American troops fromAfghanistan in the comingweeks.

“We now face a difficultdecision. We have been inAfghanistan for almost 20years, and no NATO ally wantsto stay any longer than neces-sary. But at the same time, theprice for leaving too soon or inan uncoordinated way couldbe very high,” Stoltenberg said

in a statement.He said the conflict-rav-

aged country “risks becomingonce again a platform forinternational terrorists to planand organize attacks on ourhomelands. And ISIS (IslamicState) could rebuild inAfghanistan the terrorcaliphate it lost in Syria andIraq.”

The US decision comesjust days after Trump installeda new slate of loyalists in topPentagon positions who sharehis frustration with the con-tinued troop presence in thewar zones. The expected planswould leave 2,500 troops inAfghanistan after mid-January. AP

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Kabul: The UN’s top official forrefugees said on Tuesday thatif the Afghan peace process col-lapses and violence continues,there will be a humanitariandisaster as thousands of dis-placed people struggle to sur-vive the pandemic amid theharsh winter.

UN High Commissionerfor Refugees Filippo Granditold The Associated Press at theend of a four-day visit toAfghanistan that if the fightingcontinues, there will be moreinternal displacement.

“If this peace effort col-lapses then we could see a bighumanitarian disaster in thecountry that is for sure, I hopeit won’t,” he said.

Violence and chaos haveincreased in Afghanistan inrecent months even as govern-ment negotiators and theTaliban are meeting in Qatar tofind an end to decades ofrelentless war. The two sideshave made little progress.

“I think we need to beready for everything here, weneed to be ready for morehumanitarian issues,” Grandisaid. AP

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Sanaa: Fierce fighting in south-ern Yemen between Emirati-backed separatists and the coun-try’s internationally recognisedgovernment killed nearly 50fighters this week on both sides,security officials said onTuesday.

The flare-up of clashes inthe province of Abyan was thelatest blow to a cease-fire agree-ment brokered by Saudi Arabialate in 2019 with the goal of clos-ing the rift between the twosides. The sides are allies in a US-backed, Saudi-led coalition fight-ing against the Iranian-backedHouthi rebels since 2015.

At least 47 fighters were

killed and around 90 otherswere wounded in the clashescentred in Zinjibar, the Abyanprovincial capital, and the offi-cials described it as the fiercestin the recent months.

The officials spoke on con-dition of anonymity becausethey weren’t authorised to briefthe media. The fightingbetween Yemen’s internation-ally recognised governmentand the separatists’ SouthernTransitional Council startedin August 2019. Last fall, thetwo sides signed a power-shar-ing deal in the Saudi capital ofRiyadh, but the agreement wasnever implemented. AP

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Washington: Hate crimes inthe U.S. Rose to the highestlevel in more than a decade asfederal officials also recordedthe highest number of hate-motivated killings since theFBI began collecting that datain the early 1990s, according toan FBI report released Monday.

There were 51 hate crimemurders in 2019, whichincludes 22 people who werekilled in a shooting that tar-geted Mexicans at a Walmart inthe border city of El Paso,Texas, the report said.

The suspect in that August

2019 shooting, which left twodozen other people injured,was charged with both stateand federal crimes in whatauthorities said was an attemptto scare Hispanics into leavingthe United States.

There were 7,314 hatecrimes last year, up from 7,120the year before — andapproaching the 7,783 of 2008.

The FBI’s annual reportdefines hate crimes as thosemotivated by bias based on aperson’s race, religion or sexu-al orientation, among other cat-egories. AP

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Cape Canaveral: SpaceX’snewly launched capsule withfour astronauts arrived Mondayat the International SpaceStation, their new home untilspring.

The Dragon capsule pulledup and docked late Mondaynight, following a 27-hour, com-pletely automated flight fromNASA’s Kennedy Space Center.The linkup occurred 262 miles(422 kilometers) above Idaho.

“Oh, what a good voice tohear,” space station astronautKate Rubins called out when theDragon’s commander, Mike

Hopkins, first made radio con-tact. “We can’t wait to have youon board,” she added after thetwo spacecraft were latchedtogether.

This is the second astronautmission for SpaceX. But it’s thefirst time Elon Musk’s compa-ny delivered a crew for a fullhalf-year station stay. The two-pilot test flight earlier this yearlasted two months.

The three Americans andone Japanese astronaut willremain at the orbiting lab untiltheir replacements arrive onanother Dragon in April. AP

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Nairobi: Ethiopia’s prime min-ister says “the final and cru-cial” military operation willlaunch in the coming daysagainst the Government of thecountry’s rebellious northernTigray region.

Prime Minister AbiyAhmed in a social media poston Tuesday said a three-daydeadline given to the Tigrayregion’s leaders and specialforces “has expired today.”

Abiy, last year’s NobelPeace Prize winner, continuesto reject international pleas fordialogue and de-escalation inthe two-week conflict in theHorn of Africa that has spilledinto neighboring Eritrea andsent more than 25,000 fright-ened Ethiopian refugees pour-ing into Sudan AlarmedAfrican neighbors includingUganda and Kenya are callingfor a peaceful resolution, butAbiy’s Government regardsthe Tigray regionalGovernment as illegal after itdefiantly held a local electionin September. AP

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Sugar production rosesharply in the ongoing sugar

season 2020-21 which startedfrom October 1, as more than270 sugar mills were in opera-tion till November 15.Thesugar mills operating in thecurrent season produced 14.1lakh tonne sugar till November15, 2020 as against 4.84 lakhtonne during the same periodlast year, as per the official datareleased by the India SugarMills Association (ISMA), anapex industry body. Therefore,sugar production in the one-and-a-half months of the cur-rent sugar season 2020-21increased by more than 191%from last year.

As compared to 127 sugarmills crushing sugarcane lastyear on November 15, 2019,274 sugar mills were crushing

sugarcane on November 15this year, said ISMA in a state-ment.In UP, 76 sugar millshave started their crushingoperations for the current sea-son and produced 3.85 lakh tonsugar by November 15, 2020.During the same period lastyear, 78 mills were in operationand had produced 2.93 lakhtons till November 15.Unlike in2019, owing to good rainfalland sufficient water availabil-ity in reservoirs in Maharashtraand Karnataka, as also bettercane availability due to highercane acreage and improvedyield per hectare, crushing sea-son commenced well in timeduring the last week of October2020.In Maha, 117 sugar millsstarted crushing operations onNov 15, 2020 while last year’sseason commenced late in thefourth week of November 2019due to drought.

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The State Bank of India is setto offer a �5,000-crore loan

to Adani Enterprises Ltd’sAustralian mining company,now renamed Bravus Mining &Resources, as per mediareports.

As per media reports, theloan agreement between SBIand Adani Group is nearlydone and a ratification isexpected from the bank’s exec-utive committee soon.

This could mark the resur-gence of on earlier controver-sy. SBI and Adani had enteredinto a memorandum of under-standing in 2014 for a $1-bil-lion loan. The loan was not exe-cuted after it became a politi-cal controversy.

Opposition parties hadquestioned the loan agreementat a time when the mining pro-ject was mired in controversy.

The Opposition had point-ed out that five leading globalbanks - Citibank, DeutscheBank, Royal Bank of Scotland,HSBC and Barclays - haddeclined to fund the project cit-ing a decline in coal mining inAustralia.

SBI had then walked backon the loan agreement statingthat it was only an MoU and nomoney had been lent to thecompany.

Media reports quotedsources as saying that six yearslater, there is a better under-standing on the future of theproject.

“Much water has flowed inthe last 5-6 years. The concernsraised in 2014 are no longerthere.

“Most of the local regula-tory approvals are in place andthe company is expected tostart producing coal from 2021onward,” said a source close tothe development, the reportssaid.

Financial Times had earli-er reported that the AdaniGroup’s total outstanding debtcame to more than $30 billionas of November 11, accordingto data from Dealogic, includ-ing $7.8 billion worth of bondsand $ 22.3 billion in loans. Highdebt is nothing new amongIndian conglomerates but theAdani Group’s rapid expansionhas raised concern.

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The September quarter’s(2QFY21) corporate earn-

ings season was a blockbusterwith big beats and upgradesacross sectors.

According to a report byMotilal Oswal InstitutionalEquities, wiith an upgrade(more than 5 per cent) todowngrade ratio (less than 5per cent) of 4:1, this has by farbeen the best earnings seasonin many years.

“As many as 63 per cent ofthe companies in our coverageuniverse beat 2QFY21 esti-mates, while 18 per centreported below estimateresults.

This has resulted in the firstmaterial earnings upgrade forNifty EPS estimates in manyyears,” the report said.

New Delhi:The fifth-genera-tion (5G) cellular technologycould drive up to $31 trillion incumulative consumer revenuein the ICT industry globally by2030, said a report by Swedishtelecom gear maker Ericssonon Tuesday.The report esti-mates that communicationsservice providers (CSPs) couldearn $3.7 trillion of that total -a figure that could increase fur-ther as new adjacent digital ser-vices opportunities arise.

CSPs could generate up to$131 billion by 2030 from dig-ital service revenues alone, by

proactively bundling and mar-keting 5G use cases, accordingto the estimate.About 40 percent of these revenue projec-tions are attributed to con-sumer spending on enhancedvideo, augmented reality (AR),virtual reality (VR) and cloudgaming over 5G networks.

The report projects that ARis likely to drive more than halfof all consumer spending onimmersive media by 2030 --starting with gaming andextending to other areas likeshopping, education andremote collaboration.

New Delhi: The news of a suc-cessful vaccine against coron-avirus has brought fresh ener-gy in the oil markets withglobal crude oil prices crossing$ 44 a barrel mark. While an increase in crude

prices has been welcomedacross major global oil pro-

ducers, at home oil marketingcompanies are looking at thisfirming up with concern. Theconcern now is that at this levelof crude and higher productprices, it would be difficult tokeep the retail price of petroland diesel steady for any timelonger. IANS

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The States have paid thehighest price for their debt

at the latest round of marketborrowing on Tuesday where-in the cost of debt has gone upby 38 basis points (bps) to 6.65per cent, according to a report.

At Tuesday’s auction ofstate development loans(SDLs), nine States raised�8,716 crore, taking overallborrowings to �4.72 lakh croreor 93 per cent of the target, by28 States and two UnionTerritories since April 7, CareRatings said in a note after theauctions.

The entire notified amountwas raised at the auction.

At �4.72 lakh crore of mar-ket borrowings, these Stateshave raised 49 per cent morethan the borrowings in thesame period last fiscal whenthey had raised �3.16 lakhcrore. According to the bor-

rowing calendar, the stateshave borrowed �5.07 lakh crorein the first three quarters.

With this, the states havealready borrowed 93 per centof the targeted debt, with theaverage weekly borrowingbeing �14,328 crore, rangingbetween �5,200 crore and �32,560 crore.

According to MadanSabnavis, the chief economistat the rating agency, cost of bor-rowing rose this week with theweighted average cost comingin at 6.65 per cent, which is 38bps higher than last week andis the highest in the last six auc-tions.

The increase in yields attoday’s auction can in part beattributed to the expectations ofadditional supply of govern-ment securities following theCentre’s latest stimulus packagewhich can lead to higher mar-ket borrowings, Sabnavis said.

Although weighted aver-

age cost has declined after theRBI introduced OMOs in SDLslast month, the extent ofdecline has narrowed from 30bps on October 13 to 15 bpstoday, he said.

But this is still very lowconsidering that Kerala had inApril paid 9.96 per cent for itsfirst borrowing.

The RBI has so far pur-chased SDLs of �20,000 crorevia OMOs through two auc-tions held in late October andearly November.The spreadbetween the 10-year state debtand G-Secs this week stood at67 bps. Nearly 50 per cent ofthe SDLs on Tuesday and 40per cent of issuances so farcarry a tenure of 10 years.

States have been resortingto higher market borrowings tomeet the shortfalls in theirfinances consequent to thesharp fall in revenues due to thepandemic and the resultantlockdowns.

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Prime Minister NarendraModi on Tuesday pitched

India as the most attractiveinvestment destination forthose looking to invest inurbanisation, mobility, inno-vation and sustainable solu-tions.

Speaking at the BloombergNew Economy Forum, he saidIndia and some African nationswill witness the biggest wave ofurbanisation over the next twodecades.

The post pandemic worldhas to be rebuilt around peo-ple and cities will have to bemade more liveable, he saidadding post-Covid restart willnot be possible without a resetof mindset, process and prac-tices.

Modi said his govern-ment will deliver 10 millionaffordable houses before the2022 deadline.

As much as Rs 2 lakh croreis being invested in 100 smartcities, he said adding that of

this, projects worth Rs 1.4 lakhcrore have been completed orare nearing completion.

“If you are looking toinvest in urbanisation, Indiahas exciting opportunities foryou. If you are looking toinvest in mobility, India hasexciting opportunities for you.If you are looking at investingin sustainable solutions, Indiahas exciting opportunities foryou,” he said.

These opportunities, hesaid, come along with a vibrantdemocracy, business-friendlyenvironment and a big market.

“India is well on its way forurban transformation,” he said.

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Equity indices rallied to all-time highs on Tuesday, dri-

ven by banking, finance andmetal stocks, as encouragingdata from another Covid-19vaccine trial bolstered investorsentiment.

A recovering rupee added tothe buying momentum,

traders said. After touching itslifetime peak of 44,161.16 dur-ing the session, the 30-shareBSE Sensex settled 314.73points or 0.72 per cent higherat its new closing record of43,952.71.

Similarly, the broader NSENifty touched a fresh intra-dayhigh of 12,934.05. It finally fin-ished 93.95 points or 0.74 percent up at its lifetime peak of12,874.20.

Tata Steel was the top gain-er among the Sensex con-stituents, surging 6.24 per cent,followed by SBI, HDFC Bank,Bajaj Finance, Axis Bank, L&T,Maruti, IndusInd Bank andHDFC.

On the other hand, NTPC,HCL Tech, ONGC, Infosys,ITC, PowerGrid andHindustan Unilever wereamong the major laggards,dropping up to 2.69 per cent.

Wall Street vaulted to life-time highs in the overnight ses-sion after US-based biotech-nology giant Moderna said itsCOVID-19 vaccine candidatewas found to be 94.5 per centeffective in Phase 3 trials.

The announcement camejust a week after Pfizer andBioNtech said their COVID-19vaccine was more than 90 percent effective in preventingCOVID-19, based on prelimi-nary data. “The market hit theall-time high, factoring yester-day’s trading holiday, led bybanking stocks and investorsrejoicing about the news ofanother vaccine to end thepandemic. This week, globalmarkets started well, howevertoday, it experienced mixedsentiments owing to increase invirus cases and tighter restric-tions in the western world.

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Covid-19-triggered ‘workfromHome’ norm has

increased residential demandin suburbs in Bangaluru,Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi-NCR and Pune, according toreal estate platformNoBroker.Com.Areas that werenot previously considered byworking professionals are nowexperiencing greater demand,it said, citing latest data.Potential homebuyers were ear-lier researching best localitiesto buy a house near their work-place.But data from the plat-form shows how it has allchanged since the onset of thepandemic.Earlier, proximity toworkplace took the topmostspot among homebuyers’ con-siderations.”But ever since theCovid-19 outbreak triggeredthe new normal and workfrom home became the norm,the demand in areas otherthan the ones located near IThubs has been increasing,” itsaid in a statement.InBangaluru, localities such asWhitefield, Marathahalli, HSRLayout, and Electronic citywhich were sought-after inpre-Covid times.

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New Delhi:Gold prices rosemarginally by �3 to�50,114per 10 gram in the nationalcapital on Tuesday amidchoppy trade and rupeedepreciation, according toHDFC Securities. The pre-cious metal had closed at�50,111 per 10 gram in theprevious trade.Silver pricesjumped �451 to �62,023 perkilogram from �61,572 perkilogram in the lasttrade.”Spot gold prices for 24carat in Delhi were tradingmarginally up by �3 on chop-py global gold prices andrupee depreciation. The spotrupee was trading around 12paise weaker against the dol-lar for the day,” HDFCSecurities Senior Analyst(Commodities) Tapan Patelsaid.

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The rupee on Tuesdayappreciated by 16 paise to

settle at 74.46 against the USdollar as positive news oncoronavirus vaccine boostedappeal for riskier assets.

Besides, a weak dollaroverseas also supported thelocal unit.

At the interbank forexmarket, the domestic unitopened strong at 74.43against the US dollar andlater touched a high of 74.38in day trade.

The local unit finallyclosed at 74.46 against the USdollar, registering a gain of 16paise over its previous close.On Friday, the rupee had set-tled at 74.62 against the USdollar. Forex market wasclosed on Monday onaccount of Balipratipada.

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After restricted outing for morethan nine months, along with

the adults, kids are also movingtowards a new normal, adapting tothe new routine, new ways of study-ing, socialising, playing, and keep-ing themselves occupied. In anattempt to make the transforma-tions fun and easy, the Children’sBooks division of NavneetEducation Limited has launchedtwo new books, titled, Till We HugAgain and Mylo Discovers The RealSuperheroes, under the Mylo TheMongoose series.

Commenting on the launch ofthe new books, Shailendra Gala,Managing Director, NavneetEducation, said: “We at Navneethave undertaken various projects toease the transition to the new nor-mal. Addition of new books to theMylo series is one of the severalefforts to help children accept thesudden changes in their lives. It isknown that picture books helpchildren learn faster and we used thesame technique to teach them thenorms of new normal.”

Commenting on the launch ofthe new books, Prriety Gosalia,Publication Head, Children’s books,

Navneet Education, said, “Navneetis known for providing top-notch,engaging, content for children. Wehave received an exceptionally goodresponse for our other books in theseries. With the current scenario,where the lockdown is affectingeveryone, we believe it is also ourresponsibility to help children dealwith the difficult situation better,with curated content. We hope toreceive a similar, heart-warmingresponse, on our new books.”

Mylo Series are picture story-books about social-emotional issuesthat can help kids think deeplyabout feelings and social issues.

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Four scientists of AmritaVishwa Vidyapeetham

have been featured in theranking of top 2 per cent sci-entists in the world in theirrespective fields publishedby Stanford University of theUS. Dr Maneesha Ramesh,Dr Shanti Nair, Dr RJayakumar and Dr. MadhavDutta figure in the ranking inrecognition of the quality oftheir research.

Dr Maneesha Ramesh,from Amrita Center forWireless Networks &

Applications, Amrita Schoolof Engineering (AmritapuriCampus), has been recog-nised as among the world'stop scientists in the field ofnetworking, telecommunica-tions, artificial intelligenceand image processing.

Dr Shanti Nair and Dr RJayakumar, both from theCenter for Nanosciences &Molecular Medicine, AmritaInstitute of Medical Sciences(Kochi campus), figure inthe Stanford list for theirwork in the areas of polymers, nanoscience andnanotechnology.

Ranking agencies rank B-schoolsbased on several parameters, but

students who aspire to pursue an MBAstill look at placement opportunitiesprovided by the B-school as one of themost important parameters whilethey decide to select a B-school — topursue their Master of BusinessAdministration (MBA). This beingthe case, should B-schools becomeplacement hubs and focus and trum-pet about placement statistics? ShouldB-School focus on churning out peo-ple who are ‘just coolies’ of the cor-porate world? Shouldn’t the B-Schoolshape the mindset of students tobecome Atma Nirbhar or entrepre-neurs? These are some questions thatmust be pondered.

Indian B-schools must think outof the box to be able to face theIndustry 4.0 revolution. Being employ-able is an inherent requirement of anMBA graduate. The selection process,the pedagogy and syllabi must ensurestudents are industry-ready and alsolearn the way industry works. But indoing so, blindly joining the rat racemodel will be detrimental for B-schools. MBA is not just meant for giv-ing industry training to learners butit is also about equipping students withthe knowledge that is necessary for

taking the industry beyond, by pre-senting innovative solutions to theperennial problems.

B-schools must ensure that theMBA programme helps students tocontinuously learn and apply thelearning for bringing a change in theorganisation, in society, and thenation at large. In order to achieve this,B-schools must focus on impartingknowledge related to innovation andskills that can help them take theentrepreneurial journey. Structuredcourses on design thinking and prob-lem solving must become mandato-ry subjects in the MBA curriculum.In short, the MBA curriculum must

not only focus on creating coolies forthe corporate world but also giveexposure to the emerging aspects ofthe management discipline and mustkindle the fire in the graduates to bejob creators and not job seekers.

B-schools have a humongous taskin making the aspirants realise that theMBA programme is for making themhone their leadership abilities, learnteam building skills, learn negotiationskills, learn the art and science ofproblem solving and critical thinking,and several other skills and knowledgeneeded to lead the industry. Hence,they must understand that B-schoolsmust not be looked as a power house

for placement. There is a need tochange the mindset of students andmake them understand this aspectand it’s a tall order claim.

They must ensure that the desireto become entrepreneurs is seededinto the minds of students. Theopportunities that are available for anentrepreneur, the lucrative careeralong with the chance to create abright financial stability, must beshared and showcased to them. BSchools must focus on launching pro-grams which focus on Innovation &Entrepreneurship and must also makeit clear that no placement is given tothe students at the end of the pro-gramme.

Students who join such pro-grammes must be encouraged tokick-start their start-up and must begiven all the support needed to do so.The programme must have subjectslike design thinking, problem solving,global mega trends, etc along withmanagement disciplines like financialmanagement, organisational behav-iour, marketing management andothers. ���������������������D��!���������������������� ������D������E��� D7 ����!����� ������D��!�����

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Social and emotional abilities areconsidered as a relevant index toreckon how well an individual

can align to his or her surroundings,adjust to modifications and, eventu-ally, how successful she or he will bein life. Most children have school astheir place where deficiencies in theirabilities can be addressed before theytake up the role of being active zonemembers of the society. As a matterof fact, core development character-istics such as conscience, emotionalstability, sociability and agreement canbe as or more vital than cognitiveintelligence in deciding future employ-ment. In accordance to the compe-tencies with regard to the life out-comes it can be difficult for educatorsto work out efficacious methods tostructure, teach and assess the socialemotional skills.

Compounding these skills withacademic development forms a high-quality learning experience and sur-rounding which further empowersstudents to be more effective con-tributors in their classrooms today andamong their peers and professional life

tomorrow. Teachers and administrators at

schools now have a high emphasis forsocial emotional learning skills. Theeducating faculty is specifically eagerto render expert, training and supportnecessary for efficaciously imple-menting this new programme, toprovide the students with holisticdevelopment. The new curriculumwill promise improved students socialbehavior, learning and development.Given the recent assistance that SocialEmotional Learning has received inthe education community, it mayjust be a matter of time before it turnsout to be a general teaching practice,widely adopted.

Developing an emphasis on thisprogramme in schools will be groundsto an effective and supportive area forstudents to openly share their creativeideas, ask out questions without anyshame and learn academic conceptswhile structuring lifelong abilities. Thegeneral uplifting of social emotionallearning will require a step by stepalteration in pedagogy. In the dueprocess, the system can shape out a

holistic education system to bring upsocially responsible citizens, who arehighly equipped to work in a groupand create a better world.

How social-emotional learning

Skills aids students in their holisticdevelopment:

Self-awareness: An open mindwith an active sense of self awareness,aids the students to develop their emo-tions, acknowledge their strengthsalong with a frame of mind workingtowards creativity. Therefore an indi-vidual can assess one’s limitations andpositives.

Self-management: Today man-aging yourself is vital. All studentsmust have the general cognition formanaging their personal traits likeemotions, life goals, manage stress andcontrol impulses.

Social awareness: It is critical attimes to view things from other peo-ple's perspective, displaying empathy,and appreciating diversity of culture.

Relationship skills: All studentsneed to have active skills for com-munication, cooperation, and conflictresolution. This aids students to con-stitute a healthy and pleasing rela-tionships, and to act in accordancewith social norms.

Responsible decision-making:It provides the students with the

learning of how to make constructivechoices about personal behavior andsocial interactions across diverse sit-uations and settings.

Although the vast majority of edu-cation department will agree thatSocial Emotional Learning is impor-tant, but it has for long remained onthe sidelines. In the past educationistshave focused on academics, asopposed to the development of thewhole child.

All schools currently are mostlymulticultural and multilingual withstudents belonging to diverse socialand economic backgrounds.Educators and community agenciesneed to render students with con-trasting motivation for engaging inlearning, behaving positively, andperforming academically. Social andemotional learning will work as aground or a foundation for safe andpositive learning, eventually deepen-ing the students' noesis to succeed inschool, professionally, and in gener-al life.

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LED lighting plays a pivotalrole in uplifting the look of

your home or workspace.Whether it’s about giving a mod-ern look to the interior design orcontemporary look to the exte-rior design, lighting has becomea significant component whenyou think of decorating yourhouse, shop or office. Noveltiesin the LED lighting industry areemerging every day to meet thecontemporary decorating needsof the masses.

Now who is behind the con-cept of designing smart lightingsystems that complements yourspace? They are LED lightdesigners who have the perfectknowledge to design decorativeLED lights and give a sophisti-cated look to any defined space.As the LED lighting industry ischanging rapidly, new careeropportunities are coming up forstudents who are keen to make acareer in this emerging field.Generally, courses related to LEDlighting are not included in anycollege curriculum. However,there are some institutes offeringshort-term courses related tothis. But, after doing this course,you can start a career as an LEDengineer or designer in LED

manufacturing and designingcompanies.

Those who want to learn thelighting design essentials canundergo two to three months ofcertification course. Given theskill gap and the need of thelighting industry, ElectronicsSector Skills Council of Indiaformed under the Ministry ofSkill Development andEntrepreneurship and NationalSkill Development Corporationoffers a short-term course in thisfield via its different trainingpartners. The candidate shouldhave BTech or BE or Diploma inElectrical, Electronics, Optical orMechanical Engineering fordoing such short-term courses.

Career Opportunities: Thissector has both job and self-employment opportunities.There are many renowned elec-tronic companies in the country,where one can easily get job inthis field. In the field of LEDlighting, skilled freshers can getjobs on a package of �2.5 lakhsper annum. Further, your salarydepends upon the company’spolicy and your performance.

Entrepreneurship opportu-nities: In addition to jobs in thefield of LED lighting, there arealso good opportunities for entre-preneurship. After engineeringmost of the youth are cominginto this field and starting theirbusiness in LED lighting. Due tothe Self-Reliant India campaignand the Startup India campaignof the Government of India,youth are getting attractedtowards it in every state of thecountry. Youth can also availstartup business loans from thebank to start their business. Low-cost traders can start the businessof making lamp components.For starting a new business, atleast required �4 to �5 lakhs ini-tially. �������������/>�D�/���������������

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The Sweden India Nobel Memorial Quiz (SINMQ), one ofIndia’s most prestigious and eagerly awaited quiz contests

for college students organised by the Embassy of Sweden inNew Delhi along with the Consulate General of Sweden inMumbai, is back in an all-new, digital avatar designed for thenew normal.

Registrations for participation are open on www.swe-deninindia.com for the quiz which goes live on November 20,2020. semi-finals and finals of the SINMQ will be held onDecember 7 and December 9, respectively.

The first prize winner will take home a prize of 100 000INR!

In 2020, when most educational institutions are closed dueto COVID and students are studying from home, the compe-tition is between individuals as against the norm of three-mem-ber college team since 2008.

Over and above the winner, top 100 students will also winexciting prizes, including exclusive merchandise. Certificateswill also be provided to the finalists.

The quiz is powered by Quizworks and curated by quiz-master Raj Dam, and will test the students’ knowledge onAlfred Nobel, the Nobel Prize and Nobel Laureates. Therewould also be general questions around Swedish Innovations,industries, history, society and culture.

The SINMQ is conducted since 2008 as a part of the SwedenIndia Nobel Memorial Week, which is in 13th year.

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Anushka Chaturvedi, a student ofPratham Test Prep, scored an All India

Rank 3 in the recently declared results of theDelhi University’s Joint Admission test(DU-JAT). Around 18,000 students fromall over the country in pursuit of admissionto undergraduate management programmesat DU had appeared for the computer-basedadmission test.

Out of the total students appearing forthe test, Anushka will get admission to theprestigious institution Shaheed SukhdevCollege of Business Studies (DelhiUniversity) under BMS. This test being theonly medium to get admission to top col-leges in DU for management programmes,

makes it one of its kind special.“The level of the exam this year was

between moderate to difficult. HarmandeepSingh Sahni, who secured the rank 1 underthe PwD category, is also eligible for admis-sion to Shaheed Sukhdev College ofBusiness Studies. As expected, historyrepeated itself, when four out of the top 10ranks were obtained by our students. Theother bright minds who secured the rank-ings among the top 10 list include SarthakBindal (AIR 4) and Anirudh Gupta (AIR7). Manan Jain who secured AIR 11 isamong the total 60 out of the top 100 stu-dents in the DU-JAT entrance exam whohave made us proud with their diligentefforts,” said Ankit Kapoor, ManagingDirector, Pratham Test Prep.

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Technology subject areas(General engineering,Electrical and ElectronicEngineering, MechanicalEngineering, CivilEngineering, ChemicalEngineering) of VelloreInstitute of Technology (VIT)are ranked among the topeight Universities in Indiaand among the Top 501-600universities in the world in therecently released WorldUniversity Rankings bySubject 2021 by the TimesHigher Education (THE), UK.

The Vellore Institute ofTechnology (VIT) ComputerScience is ranked one amongthe top four Universities inIndia in the THE WorldUniversity Ranking by Subject2021.

VIT Computer Sciencehas been ranked in the band

of 301-400 universities of theworld in the ranking.

The weightings for subjectrankings (in ComputerScience and Engineering andTechnology) are teaching(learning environment)-30%,research (volume, income andreputation) — 30%, citations(research influence) — 27.5 %,International outlook (staff,students and research) —7.5% per cent and industryincome (innovation) — 5%.

The Times HigherEducation (THE) Rankinguses 13 calibrated perfor-mance indicators to providethe most comprehensive andbalanced comparisons, andall data are independentlyaudited by professional ser-vices f irm. THE WorldUniversity Rankings, an inter-national ranking agency liststhe top universities globally.

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Post the great recession in2018, the Indian bankingindustry witnessed unprece-

dented growth until about a cou-ple of months before the COVID-19 outbreak. As the entire econo-my has come to a halt, an intimi-dating slowdown has now beenmaking the entire scenario worse.However, the silver lining of thiscrisis is that the unprecedentedtimes have given the immenseopportunity for the Banking,financial services and insurance(BFSI) sector to bring about a fun-damental change in the way thatit functions.

The time is just apt for play-ers in the BFSI space to reinventthemselves and test newer businessmodels that are more digitally-dri-ven. By leveraging advanced tech-nologies and digitising their exist-ing set of offerings, they can altertheir age-old processes with newer,more optimised workflows.

Considered a pivotal sectorthat can further accelerate thegrowth of the country, the man-power requirement in the BFSIindustry has also risen to fuel thatprogress.

The National SkillDevelopment Corporation(NSDC) has reported that the pro-jected human resource require-ment between 2008 and 2022 isestimated to reach over 4.2 mil-lion. Now, let us explore the var-ious aspects of the BFSI industry,its career prospects, and the kindof skills required to fulfill the skillrequirements for job roles within.

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relationships with potential cus-tomers to sell them insurance.Insurance Agents describe andexplain different types of insuranceand coverages to customers, offer-ing recommendations on whichpolicy to choose. Insurance Agentsmay work in different areas includ-ing auto, home, life, or healthinsurance coverage.

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retail banking branches and assistcustomers with various banking orfinancial needs. Such needs mayinclude opening checking andsavings accounts, obtaining mort-

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ogy, we are moving to a worldwhere financial services areadvancing at the speed of light.Here, the demand for a financialanalyst will grow further, settingto be one of the most highlydemanded jobs in the financialindustry. The job entails research-ing macroeconomic and micro-economic scenarios, gatheringfinancial information along withcompany fundamentals, to graftdynamic growth plans. Here, dex-terity over the economic variancesof the world and analytical insightsare required.

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Wicketkeeper-batsman Alex Carey on Tuesdaysaid he is hoping to regain his place in the

Australian T20 side for the series against India afterhaving worked on “little technical” aspects of hisgame under Ricky Ponting during the recent IPL.

Carey had the opportunity to work with Pontingin the UAE during his time with Delhi Capitals.

“...My first opportunity to be part of IPL and tohave Ricky as head coach of Delhi and a few otherfamiliar faces in the squad made it a really enjoy-able couple of months,” Carey told reporters duringa video conference.

“I was lucky enough to work with him throughthe World Cup last year and formed a good relation-ship. He was an amazing player, and is an amazingcoach, and he picks up on little things really quick-ly,” he added while talking about his maiden IPLexperience.

The 29-year-old was dropped from Australia’sT20 side before the final match of a series againstEngland in September due to poor form. In the IPL,he played just three matches, scoring 32 runs.

Australia and India will lock horns in three T20Isstarting December 4 after a three-match ODIseries, which begins on November 27.

“We had a lot to talk about and although I did-n’t play a lot of games it gave me a lot of opportu-nity to train and just work on a few little technicalparts of my game which will hopefully help me growand develop and have a successful summer,” he said.

Carey had hit his maiden international centuryin Australia’s series-clinching ODI win over England.

However, in the preceding T20 series againstEngland, he had to make way for Matthew Wade inthe third T20I after scoring just three runs in the firsttwo games.

He had an equally forgettable outing in SouthAfrica in February last year where he scored 7, 14and 27 in three T20 innings.

“I guess my numbers in the past few T20s prob-ably allowed the opening of the door for Wadey tocome in. I never like being left out of any team butit’s allowed me to go away and develop,” he said.

“If it’s a lower-order role or back up the top ofthe order, I’m doing everything I can to get back into

that team and it’s something I want to do.“Since then I felt like I finished

off that UKtour reallys t rong ly

and took alot out of the

IPL workingwith (Ponting).”

With therescheduled T20

World Cup just 12months away, Carey is

hoping to get hisplace back in theT20I series againstIndia.

“I think it’s agreat opportunity

to continuallywork out thebest line-up.Although it’s 12

months away, youwant to hone in on some specif-ic roles and getting some form

going into that World Cup.“Coming up against

England recently and Indiasoon, we’re playing the bestin the world so it’s a greatindicator of where our T20cricket is at.”

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Fast-rising Australian bats-man Will Pucovski feels hehas “earned the right” to be

in the red-ball squad for theseries against India and is betterprepared to make his Test debutcompared to a couple of seasonsago.

Pucovski, who was named ina 17-member extended Australian

Test squad for the four-matchseries against India, is coming offback-to-back double hundreds inthe Sheffield Shield.

Despite missing the openingtwo rounds of the competition, hehas scored 495 runs so far thisseason in three innings and is cur-rently the tournament’s highestrun-scorer.

“This time it feels like I’veearned the right to be here, and

I’m pretty pumped to take thechallenge on of playing India if Ido get the chance,” Pucovski saidon SEN Radio.

The 22-year-old was was firstnamed in the Test squad for the2019 Sri Lanka series but steppedaway from the game, citing men-tal health concerns.

It is the first time since thenthat Pucovski has earned a Testsquad call-up.

“I feel like I’m in a much bet-ter place to take the opportunityif it presents itself now, than I mayhave been a couple of years ago.

“I was 20 a couple of years agoand I’m 22 now. I’ve played 15 or20 more first-class games, and I’veput a stack of work in off-field tomake sure my life and my crick-et is in a really good place,” headded.

Very few young Australiancricketers have generated the

kind of buzz that Pucovski hasmanaged. His sensational form inthe Sheffield Shield has led sev-eral Australian greats to call for hisselection in the team.

Talking about what haschanged since the last call up,Pucovski said: “Probably the dif-ference in feeling is you’re excit-ed, but you’re ready to do a jobthis time.

“Whereas last time, not thatI wasn’t ready, but I was probably

just so excited to get picked forAustralia that I didn’t think toomuch about the job at hand,” headded.

Pucovski’s inclusion has setup a competition with fellowopener Joe Burns, who is feelingthe heat after a disastrous start tothe first-class summer.

But head coach Justin Langerand skipper Tim Paine both havehinted at persisting with theexperienced Burns.

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New Zealand captain KaneWilliamson and pace spear-

head Trent Boult will miss theupcoming T20 series against theWest Indies to concentrate onTest matches, selectors said onTuesday.

However, the Black Capshave added an exciting elementto the 13-man T20 squad in theform of South African-borndebutant Devon Conway, thestand-out domestic batsmanin recent seasons.

Coach GaryStead saidWilliamson and Boult were sit-ting out the three T20s —beginning in Auckland inNovember 27 — to keep themfresh for the two Tests againstthe West Indies in December.

“We’ve had to make adecision on Kane and Trent toprioritise the Test matches,given how important they areto our red-ball team and thefact they both played such big

roles in the recent IPL while alsomanaging injuries,” he said.

Stead said the NewZealanders focused on the five-day format because they were arealistic prospect of makingthe World Test Championshipfinal after posting an upset 2-0series win over India earlier this

year.He was looking for-

ward to seeing Conway onthe international stage,

predicting the 29-year-old would “soak up”the experience.

The left-hander,who became eligible toplay for New Zealandin August, replaces fel-low power hitter ColinMunro, who is playingin Australia’s Big Bash

League.Fast bowler Kyle

Jamieson is the only othernew cap in the T20 squad,while the Test side is thesame one that faced India

in February.

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The limited-overs competitionawaits them first but Indian

players, led by captain Virat Kohli,seemed focussed on next month’sTests against Australia as theypractised in simulated long-formatmatch conditions complete withpacers using red and pink ballshere on Tuesday.

All the top batsmen andbowlers, who are in all the threesquads, were seen taking part inthe practice session.

The likes of senior pacerMohammed Shami and youngsterMohammad Siraj were seen bowl-ing to Kohli in a video posted onTwitter by the captain himself.

“Love Test cricket sessions,”the tweet from Kohli read.

The star batsman will featurein just the opening day-nightTest, starting December 17 inAdelaide, before flying back toIndia for the birth of his first child.

The video showed the playersusing the centre strip of theground with proper Test matchfield and a batsman at the non-striker’s end, which is a deviation

from traditional net sessions.Given that the players were

kept busy by the IPL for the lasttwo months, the white-ball train-ing has taken a back-seat.

Opener KL Rahul facing thepink ball was an indicator that heis in line to be picked for the firstTest.

In another video, posted bythe BCCI, Shami was seen bowl-ing in tandem with youngsterSiraj.

The 30-year-old Shami, whotook 20 wickets from 14 matchesfor Kings XI Punjab in the IPL, isa part of all the three squads.

India will rely heavily on him

during the four-match Test seriesstarting with the day-night pinkball game in Adelaide.

Siraj, who is only in the Testsquad, followed his senior team-mate and was seen sending downa few deliveries as other seniorplayers watched him bowl.

The 26-year-old, who hasplayed one ODI and three T20Is,took 11 wickets from ninematches for Royal ChallengersBanagalore in the recent IPL.

“The master and hisapprentice. When@MdShami11 and Sirajbowled in tandem at#TeamIndia’s nets. Fast andaccurate!,” the BCCI tweetread.

On Monday, the starstudded batting line-up was seen gearing upfor the livelyAustralian pitcheswith the tradi-tional tennis balltraining aftercompeting onthe slow UAEtracks during theIPL.

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Cricket South Africa’smember council on

Tuesday made a U-turnand appointed the nine-member interim boardahead of the much-antic-ipated England series, justdays after rejecting it citingtechnicalities in terms ofCSA’s Memorandum ofIncorporation.

“Acting President ofCricket South Africa(CSA), Rihan Richardstoday confirmed that theMembers’ Council of CSAhas appointed the InterimBoard in terms of the CSAMemorandum ofIncorporation (MoI), witha clear understanding ofroles and responsibilitiesfor the immediate future ofCSA,” the board said in astatement.

“The appointment fol-

lows a frank, honest andconstructive engagementheld between representa-tives from the Members’Council and the InterimBoard. Everyone agreedon the way forward and tocollaborate, strictly inaccordance with the rele-vant legal framework.”

The interim board,which was appointed bySports Minister NathiMthethwa, will run theadministrative body forthe next kthree months.

CSA member council’srefusal to recognise theinterim board had earlierthrown England’s upcom-ing white-ball tour in jeop-ardy.

The England team hasreached South Africa forthree T20Is, startingNovember 27, followed byas many ODIs fromDecember 4 to 9.

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Athletes won’t be required to take a coro-navirus vaccine to compete at the

Tokyo Olympics, IOC chief Thomas Bachsaid on Tuesday, adding that mandatoryshots would be “going too far”.

Bach, who is in Tokyo to bolster con-fidence in the pandemic-postponed event,said taking a vaccine would be a “free deci-sion” for athletes and others involved in theGames.

“There are too many issues to consid-er. This is a question of private health,” theInternational Olympic Committee presi-dent said, during a tour of the OlympicVillage.

“It is a question also of (the) healthconditions of each and every person. It’sa question of availability.”

However, the IOC will “appeal” to ath-letes and others to be vaccinated, Bachadded, calling it a “sign of respect” for othercompetitors and the Japanese hosts.

Tokyo 2020 was put back by a year tostart next July because of the coron-avirus, becoming the first Olympics to berescheduled in peacetime. Bach andJapanese organisers have sounded a con-fident note that the event will go ahead —buoyed by recent positive vaccine trials anda successful international gymnastics eventin Tokyo this month.

Bach said the organising committeewould take “all the necessary precaution-ary measures, so that athletes can relax andfeel safe”.

On Monday, he said the IOC wouldlook to help athletes secure shots if theyare available and approved.

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England’s much-awaited tour ofPakistan for a short T20 series

early next year is set to be post-poned to October due to unavail-ability of top players and mattersrelated to costs.

According to media reportsthe tour, which was tentativelyscheduled for January-February, isexpected to be moved to Octoberbefore the T20 World Cup inIndia.

“The problem arising is thatearly next year England will beengaged in series with Sri Lankaand India and some of their T20specialist players are also signed upfor the Big Bash in Australia,” asource aware of the developmentssaid.

“The other problem is thecosts involved in England touringPakistan.

“As it is just a three-matchseries with Karachi the likely

venue, the costs of flying theEnglish team by a chartered flightafter holding a training camp inDubai does not make it cost effec-tive for the England board,” he said.

He said both the boards haddiscussed the more viable optionof shifting the series to October asthat would allow the full EnglandT20 team to stop over in Pakistanfor the short series before flying toIndia,” the source said.

England has not played in thecountry since 2005 due to securi-ty reasons and when the Pakistanand English boards confirmedthey were considering a shorttour, it gave a big boost to Pakistancricket.

“Even the PCB didn’t want a‘C’ team from England playingearly next year as it is a big seriesand a breakthrough for Pakistancricket.”

Pakistan is also due to hostSouth Africa early next year fortwo Tests and three T20Is.

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Fifa announced on Tuesday that itwas reviewing use of video refer-

ee assistance (VAR) across the gamewith a view to simplifying it and mak-ing it more affordable for “all levels offootball”.

The ‘Innovation and Excellence’working group of the world footballbody will present a “recommendation”for the implementation of this reform— dubbed the “VAR ‘light’ concept”— to Fifa and IFAB, the InternationalFootball Association Board which isthe guarantor of the laws of the game.

The report “aims to create moreaffordable VAR systems to enable theuse of VAR at all levels of the game”.

“The working group identifiedvariable cost factors, talked about the

potential quality decrease and theminimum requirements for such atechnology setup,” Fifa said in astatement.

VAR is currently only in place inmajor competitions and leagues andhas not been used for the group stageof the Uefa Nations League. This sum-mer, the Women’s Champions Leagueonly had VAR for the final, a limita-tion that drew criticism from sever-al players.

Fifa also said it was considering“the development of semi-automatedoffside technology to make the reviewprocess for offside incidents as effi-cient as possible”.

It has also solicited the technol-ogy market to come up with way ofimproving “the visualisation of closeoffside incidents”.

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DDominic Thiem earned acrucial victory at the Nitto

ATP Finals on Tuesday, as heovercame Rafael Nadal 7-6(7),7-6(4) at The O2 in London.

In a meeting between thetop two players in GroupLondon 2020, Thiem savedtwo set points in a marathon72-minute opener and held hisnerve after failing to convertthree consecutive match pointsas Nadal served at 4-5, 0/40 inthe second set. With his sev-enth win in nine matchesagainst Top 10 players this year,Thiem is now 2-0 in roundrobin play and has boosted hischances of reaching the semi-finals in London for the secondstraight year.

Earlier, Danii Medvedevdefeated Alexander Zverev instraight sets.

Russia’s Medvedev won 6-3, 6-4 against his Germanopponent to join NovakDjokovic on top of the GroupTokyo 1970.

Zverev hit four doublefaults in his first two servicegames, and never foundrhythm with his second servegoing. Medvedev won 79 percent of his second-servereturn points (15/19) onway to his one-hour,29-minute victory.

Medvedev is highon confidence hav-ing beaten Zverev inthe Rolex ParisMasters Final a fewdays back.

“Confidenceis the key, forsure. Winningan (ATP)Masters (1000)always helpsthe confi-d e n c e , ”M e d v e d e vsaid.

“I knewthat I canplay good. It

was a little bit shaky from bothof us in the beginning fromone (point) of view, but from

the other (point) of view,I think there were someunbelievable points. Tobe honest, the intensityof the match was one ofthe most [intense] I hadin my career.”

Medvedev is the firstRussian to compete at the

ATP Finals in consecutiveseasons since Nikolay

Davydenko made fivestraight appearances from

2005 to 2009.

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Cricket Australia on Tuesdayairlifted players, including

Test skipper Tim Paine andstar batsman MarnusLabuschagne, to New SouthWales from Adelaide in anattempt to save the seriesagainst India as a coronavirusoutbreak in South Australiathreatened the upcoming sum-mer.

As Western Australia,Queensland and Tasmaniaclosed their borders to SouthAustralia on Monday, the coun-try’s cricket board brought play-ers from Australia’s white-ball,Test match and Australia Asquads into Sydney from

Adelaide to ensure that theupcoming fixtures of the 300million dollars season remainunaffected.

“CA has taken a proactiveapproach and mobilised a num-ber of people across the countryover the past 24 hours to shore upour men’s domestic and interna-tional schedules,” CA’s interimchief executive Nick Hockleywas quoted as saying byESPNCricinfo.

“I would like to thank theplayers and staff for their under-standing regarding the changes totheir travel schedules and fortheir commitment to ensuringthe summer of cricket is a hugesuccess.”

Besides Paine and

Labuschagne, the list of playersrelocated include their colleaguesMatthew Wade, Travis Head andCameron Green among others.

Despite the spike in Covidcases and developments related toit, CA maintained that theAdelaide Oval will host the firstTest of the summer against Indiafrom December 17.

Hockley added, “CA willcontinue to monitor the situationin South Australia and the result-ing border restrictions around thecountry.

“As ever, we will remain agilein addressing the challenges pre-sented by the pandemic andremain more confident than everof hosting a safe and successfulsummer across all formats.”

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BCCI announce MPLSports as Team Indiakit sponsor��;����� The BCCI on Tuesdayformally announced MPL Sportsapparel and accessories as the offi-cial kit sponsor and merchandisepartner of both the national men’sand women’s sides as well as theU-19 team, replacing Nike.

The deal was cleared by theBoard’s apex council onNovember 2. Nike had a five-yeardeal during which they paid �370crore from 2016 to 2020.

As per the newly-inkedstrategic partnership, MPL Sports,the sports merchandise brandfrom Mobile Premier League —an e-sports platform has enteredinto a three-year agreement fromNovember 2020 to December2023.

MPL Sports’ association withthe BCCI begins with India’stour of Australia, which will seeTeam India sporting the new jer-seys. PTI

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The world number one isplaying in the ATP Finals inLondon at the end of a coro-navirus-truncated season butthe new campaign is due tostart in just seven weeks’ time.

Djokovic, who beatArgentine debutant DiegoSchwartzman 6-3, 6-2 in hisopening match at London’s O2Arena, said he had “notnoticed much of a doubt”over whether the tournamentswould go ahead.

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Australia,AustralianO p e n , ”added the

S e r b i a n ,who is an

eight-

time winner of the season-opening Grand Slam and thereigning champion.

“I’m not sure about theATP Cup and the tourna-ments before, because obvi-ously you have to leave quitein advance, actually, I thinktwo-and-a-half or three weeksprior to the first match.

“So let’s see how that goes.But I'm just hoping for thesake of tennis and sake of play-ers that we will have theAustralian Open and also thepossibility of the ATP Cup anda couple more tournaments atleast.”

The plan for Australiawould reportedly involvemore than 500 internationaltennis players arriving inVictoria and undergoing twoweeks of mandatory quaran-tine.

The players, many ofwhom travel with largeentourages, would be restrict-ed to hotels but have access totennis courts. Once they hadcompleted quarantine andtwice tested negative forCovid-19, they would be ableto move freely aroundVictoria.

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