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A s Delhi’s air pollution has risen to an alarming level, the infamous “paddy straw” burning by the farmers of Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh and Punjab has aggra- vated the ever-deteriorating pollution level in the national Capital and its periph- eral areas. In Haryana paddy straw were being burnt at Karnal, Kurukshetra, Panipat and Yamunanagar areas, whereas Sirsa, Fatehabad, Jind and Kaithal are yet to start weeding out stubble. Farmers prefer burning stubble at night in the false hope that satellite won’t catch images at night. Due to Covid-19 this year, there is a shortage of labourers mainly supplied from Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh in Haryana and Punjab and farmers alleged that opting stubble burning is cheaper for them as they can’t afford subsidised machines used for weeding out straw. The Pioneer carried out a fact check in the fields of Haryana to know the reasons behind paddy straw burning by the farmers year after year. The Pioneer team visited Haryana and met farmers in Karnal, Kaithal, Kurukshetra and Ambala districts who told the daily that stubble burning was largely because the subsidy for machines wasn’t covering the costs of the equipment and the labour involved. Farmers said burning paddy straw was still much cheaper and easier to burn the residue. According to Arvind Kumar, a farmer at Pundri vil- lage near Kurukshetra, farmers know about the repercussions of burning crop stubble and that’s why you won’t come across a single farmer who really wants to continue with the practice. “But the cost of disposing of crop residue is so prohibitive that most farmers are forced to set the stubble on fire. The fact that Government officials want us to use expensive machines clearly shows that they are far removed from reality and in Haryana 70 per cent owns land less than 10 acres,” he said. Continued on Page 2 F our terrorists were gunned down by the joint team of security forces in two separate encounters in Pulwama and Shopian on Tuesday, taking the total tally of terrorists killed this year so far to 187. According to the ground reports, “Three LeT terrorists were eliminated in a joint oper- ation in Hakripora area of Pulwama while one terrorist was neutralised by the securi- ty forces after the gunfight resumed at the encounter site in Melhoora area of Shopian in the wee hours of Tuesday”. “Both terrorists killed were cadre of Hizbul Mujahideen and have been identified as Towseef Ahmad Khanday of Kulgam and Umar Thoker res- ident of Shganpora, Kulgam,” a police spokesman said adding they were involved in the recent terror attacks in Kulgam- Shopian areas. Continued on Page 2 P unjab on Tuesday became the first State to formally “reject” and “counter” the BJP- led Central Government’s three controversial farm laws with the Vidhan Sabha “unani- mously” passing three Bills in a matter of minutes. Apart from this, “The Code of Civil Procedure (Punjab Amendment) Bill, 2020”, to provide relief to the farmers against attachment of land up to 2.5 acres, was also passed by the House. With the BJP deciding to stay away from the “special” session, all the political parties — the ruling Congress, the AAP, the SAD, and the Lok Insaaf Party (LIP) — come together to ensure the passage of the four Bills. Continued on Page 2 A day after its soldier was apprehended by the Indian Army in eastern Ladakh, China on Tuesday appealed for his early release. The two sides are engaged in a face-off for the past five months in Ladakh. The Indian agencies interro- gated the Chinese corporal and have not found anything suspicious so far. He is likely to be handed over to the Chinese in a few days after thorough questioning. Giving this information here on Tuesday, sources said Corporal Wang Ya was looked after well by the Indian Army after he was caught on Monday morning in Demchok area. He was provided medical aid and warm clothes to protect him from extreme altitude and harsh climatic conditions. The Corporal is an armourer in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and hails from Shangxizhen town of central Zhejiang province, China. He was carrying his identity card at the time of his capture, they added. Taking up his case, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said in Beijing on Tuesday, “We hope Indian side will keep its promise and return the missing soldier as soon as possible, and work with China to promote the consensus reached at 7th round of India- China commander-level talks.” Similar appeal was made by the Chinese Army on Monday evening. It said the Chinese military hopes India will make good on its pledge to swiftly return a Chinese soldier found lost along their moun- tainous border where the sides have been locked in a tense standoff. The Chinese Defense Ministry said the soldier had been helping herders round up yaks when he lost his way on Sunday evening. The Chinese side informed the Indian coun- terparts about the missing indi- vidual and was informed short- ly afterward that he had been found and would be returned after undergoing a medical checkup, a spokesperson for the Western Theater Command, Zhang Shuili, was quoted as saying. Continued on Page 2 P utting the party in a fix at a time when it is under severe attack from all quarters on the issue, veteran Congress leader Kamal Nath on Tuesday refused to apologise for terming Madhya Pradesh Minister Imarti Devi an “item” even though former Congress president Rahul Gandhi dis- approved of his language and termed the incident as “unfor- tunate”. In fact, Nath brazened it out saying what Rahul said was his own opinion, but as for him, he has already clarified the con- text and had nothing to apol- ogise for when he didn’t intend to insult anyone. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said it showed Kamal Nath’s arrogance and by trying hard to justify and defend his remarks he is “committing another crime”. National Commission for Women chief Rekha Sharma came down hard on Nath saying he is giving “useless explanation” instead of saying sorry and it only showed his character. On Nath’s remarks, Rahul told reporters, “I think one can- not treat women with disre- spect. Kamal Nath ji is from my party but personally, I don’t like the type of language that he used...I don’t appreciate it, regardless of who he is. It is unfortunate.” His remark came a day after Union Minister Smriti Irani questioned the Gandhi family’s “silence” on the matter and alleged that they will not take action against Nath for his derogatory comment, since people like Nath and Digvijay Singh “keep the fire burning in the Congress family’s kitchen”. However, reacting to Rahul’s comments, Nath retort- ed: “It is Rahul Gandhi’s opin- ion. I have already clarified the context in which I made that statement... Why should I apol- ogise when I did not intend to insult anyone? If anyone felt insulted, I have already expressed regret.” Continued on Page 2 I n one of the lowest spikes in the last three months, India on Tuesday recorded less than 50,000 new cases. The decline is significant considering the number of total tests on the day was in excess of 10 lakh, which has been the daily average for some time now, except on Sunday when it was below nine lakh. 46,790 new coronavirus cases are less than what were registered on July 28 when for two consecutive days the tally of fresh cases was 47,703 and 48,513, before it shot up to an alarming high of 97,894 on September 17. While the number of tests stood at 10.32 lakh, up from Monday’s 8.60 lakh, the recov- ery rate stands at 88.26 per cent and the fatality rate at 1.52 per cent, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said at a press briefing here. The total case load is expected to breach the 76- lakh mark shortly even as the death toll stands at 1.15 lakh. The number of active cases in the country has dipped below 7.5 lakh as recoveries continued to outpace the rise in daily new cases. In past 24 hours, 69,720 patients were declared cured of Covid, taking the total recoveries to 67.33 lakh, said the official. During the same period, 587 Covid- related deaths were reported. Around 78 per cent of the new recovered cases are observed to be concentrated in 10 States/UTs and 75 per cent of the new confirmed cases are from 10 States and UTs. Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala each are contributing more than 5,000 new con- firmed cases. With health experts fearing a rise in Covid-19 cases during the upcoming festivals and the winter season, Bhushan assert- ed that the Government is in a “comfortable position” as far as availability of oxygen is con- sidered to meet any medical emergency for serious patients. “There has been no scarci- ty in oxygen supply in the last 10 months with the daily pro- duction capacity enhanced to 6,862 metric tonnes by September and projected to further increase to 7,191 met- ric tonnes by the end of October,” he said. Giving the details of the preparations, he said, the Centre has initiated the process of installing 246 oxygen gen- eration plants in 18 States and UTs in the first phase. Continued on Page 2 M aintaining that the “lock- down is gone but not the virus”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday cautioned citizens ahead of the festival season to not let their guard down in the fight against Covid-19 and allow things to deteriorate. “Jab tak dawai nahi, tab tak dhilayi nahi (no laxity until there is a vaccine for cure),” he reiterat- ed and cited how after wit- nessing a decline there was a spurt in the caseload in many countries. In his special address to the nation, his seventh since the Covid-19 outbreak, the Prime Minister said though the hus- tle-bustle is back in the market, the economy is picking up and people have put their lives back on track, the virus has not gone and the battle against it would continue unless it is fin- ished to the last. He said many countries, including India, are working on credible vaccine and the Government is readying itself to ensure its speedy delivery to every one in the country. Modi’s address this time round came in view of the fes- tival season which could dis- rupt the coronavirus code of conduct, particularly that of social distancing and wearing of masks, thus potentially spik- ing up the cases manifold. The ongoing campaign for Bihar elections and bypolls to the 28- odd Assembly seats across the country, especially in Madhya Pradesh, also has the potential to contribute to the increase in the virus infections through public meeting, rallies or one- to-one contact. “India is succeeding in sav- ing more and more lives of its citizens and fares better than developed nations in combat- ing the virus but we need to continue the fight against the virus till the vaccine comes. As against 25,000 persons in a population of 10 lakh getting infected in the US and Brazil, only 5,500 persons in a similar size here were infected in India. As against over 600 deaths per 10 lakh population in countries like the US, Spain, Britain and Brazil, India registered 83 deaths for a similar size group,” he outlined. He also cited the expansion of the large network and activ- ities in the last few months to combat coronavirus. He said 90 lakh beds have been put in place for coronavirus patients, 12,000 quarantine centres have been installed, 2,000 testing labs established and “soon our testing will be crossing the 10 crore mark”. But at the same time, he pointed out, pictures and videos have, of late, emerged showing that many people have either stopped following pre- cautions like wearing masks or have become negligent. “This is absolutely not right. Those who have become negligent and are moving around with- out masks are putting them- selves and their families, including children and elderly, at risk. Ye bilkul theek nahin hai (This attitude is absolutely wrong),” he said, adding in the last eight-month selfless health workers and many others have stabilised the situation in the country which should not be allowed to deteriorate. Citing couplets of saint Kabir and from “Ramcharitmanas”, Modi said one should not rest or feel too happy unless the last mile of success is reached as he requested people to “wear mask, keep distance and wash hands with soap”. He asked all sections of the society and sectors, particularly media, to create awareness about the need to fight the coronavirus pandemic till the last. Modi signed off his address by wishing all good health and extending greetings for ‘navra- tra’, ‘Id’, ‘Chhath puja’, ‘Gurunanak Parv’ and other festivals in the coming months. According to the Government, in the last 30 days since Covid-19 cases peaked in India, the growth rate of infec- tions has more than halved- from 92 per cent in the month prior to September 18 to 42 per cent since then. New Delhi: Amid a political furore over the three new farm laws, a Gaon Connection survey has found that about 52 per cent of the country’s peasantry oppose these, but one-third of them did not know details of the legisla- tions. Of the 35 per cent sup- porting the agri laws, almost 18 per cent were not informed about them. PTI A fter approving incentives for Taiwanese firms, the Government is now likely to have formal talks on a trade deal with the Tsai Ing-wen administration. The move will be signifi- cant since India, like most countries, does not formally recognise Taiwan because of Beijing’s “One China” principle under which the democratic island is its “integral” part. However, in the last six months, China’s aggression against India along the LAC in Ladakh has pushed New Delhi to review its foreign policy in the region and its approach towards the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime. The CCP has been threat- ening to invade Taiwan but President Tsai Ing-wen recent- ly warned it against any such move. Incidentally, on Taiwan’s National Day celebrations early this month, Tsai had announced that Taipei will play an active role in estab- lishing a new regional and international order in the face of the Chinese aggression against democracies. Tsai’s statement had come days after the foreign ministry level meeting of the Quad — Japan, Australia, US and India — in Tokyo where US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lashed out at China’s military moves against India, Taiwan and in South China Sea. The Quad has also been discussing global over depen- dence on China’s supply chains for manufactured products. India and Taiwan signed a bilateral investment agreement in 2018. Continued on Page 2

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As Delhi’s air pollution hasrisen to an alarming level,

the infamous “paddy straw”burning by the farmers ofHaryana, Western UttarPradesh and Punjab has aggra-vated the ever-deterioratingpollution level in the national Capital and its periph-eral areas.

In Haryana paddy strawwere being burnt at Karnal,Kurukshetra, Panipat andYamunanagar areas, whereasSirsa, Fatehabad, Jind andKaithal are yet to start weedingout stubble. Farmers preferburning stubble at night in thefalse hope that satellite won’tcatch images at night.

Due to Covid-19 this year,there is a shortage of labourersmainly supplied from Bihar,Madhya Pradesh and UttarPradesh in Haryana and

Punjab and farmers allegedthat opting stubble burning ischeaper for them as they can’tafford subsidised machinesused for weeding out straw.

The Pioneer carried out afact check in the fields ofHaryana to know the reasonsbehind paddy straw burning bythe farmers year after year. ThePioneer team visited Haryanaand met farmers in Karnal,Kaithal, Kurukshetra andAmbala districts who told thedaily that stubble burning waslargely because the subsidy formachines wasn’t covering thecosts of the equipment and thelabour involved.

Farmers said burningpaddy straw was still muchcheaper and easier to burn theresidue.

According to ArvindKumar, a farmer at Pundri vil-lage near Kurukshetra, farmersknow about the repercussions

of burning crop stubble andthat’s why you won’t comeacross a single farmer whoreally wants to continue withthe practice.

“But the cost of disposingof crop residue is so prohibitivethat most farmers are forced to

set the stubble on fire. The factthat Government officials wantus to use expensive machinesclearly shows that they are farremoved from reality and inHaryana 70 per cent ownsland less than 10 acres,” he said.

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Four terrorists were gunneddown by the joint team of

security forces in two separateencounters in Pulwama andShopian on Tuesday, takingthe total tally of terrorists killedthis year so far to 187.

According to the groundreports, “Three LeT terroristswere eliminated in a joint oper-ation in Hakripora area ofPulwama while one terroristwas neutralised by the securi-ty forces after the gunfightresumed at the encounter sitein Melhoora area of Shopian inthe wee hours of Tuesday”.

“Both terrorists killed werecadre of Hizbul Mujahideenand have been identified asTowseef Ahmad Khanday ofKulgam and Umar Thoker res-ident of Shganpora, Kulgam,” apolice spokesman said addingthey were involved in the recentterror attacks in Kulgam-Shopian areas.

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Punjab on Tuesday becamethe first State to formally

“reject” and “counter” the BJP-led Central Government’s threecontroversial farm laws withthe Vidhan Sabha “unani-mously” passing three Bills ina matter of minutes.

Apart from this, “TheCode of Civil Procedure(Punjab Amendment) Bill,2020”, to provide relief to thefarmers against attachment ofland up to 2.5 acres, was alsopassed by the House.

With the BJP deciding tostay away from the “special”session, all the political parties— the ruling Congress, theAAP, the SAD, and the LokInsaaf Party (LIP) — come

together to ensure the passageof the four Bills.

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Aday after its soldier wasapprehended by the Indian

Army in eastern Ladakh, Chinaon Tuesday appealed for hisearly release. The two sides areengaged in a face-off for thepast five months in Ladakh.The Indian agencies interro-gated the Chinese corporaland have not found anythingsuspicious so far. He is likelyto be handed over to theChinese in a few days afterthorough questioning.

Giving this informationhere on Tuesday, sources saidCorporal Wang Ya was lookedafter well by the Indian Armyafter he was caught on Mondaymorning in Demchok area.He was provided medical aid

and warm clothes to protecthim from extreme altitude andharsh climatic conditions. TheCorporal is an armourer in thePeople’s Liberation Army(PLA) and hails fromShangxizhen town of centralZhejiang province, China. Hewas carrying his identity cardat the time of his capture, theyadded.

Taking up his case, ChineseForeign Ministry spokespersonZhao Lijian said in Beijing onTuesday, “We hope Indian sidewill keep its promise and return

the missing soldier as soon aspossible, and work with Chinato promote the consensusreached at 7th round of India-China commander-level talks.”

Similar appeal was madeby the Chinese Army onMonday evening. It said theChinese military hopes Indiawill make good on its pledge toswiftly return a Chinese soldierfound lost along their moun-tainous border where the sideshave been locked in a tensestandoff.

The Chinese DefenseMinistry said the soldier hadbeen helping herders round upyaks when he lost his way onSunday evening. The Chineseside informed the Indian coun-terparts about the missing indi-vidual and was informed short-ly afterward that he had beenfound and would be returnedafter undergoing a medicalcheckup, a spokesperson for theWestern Theater Command,Zhang Shuili, was quoted assaying.

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Putting the party in a fix at atime when it is under severe

attack from all quarters on theissue, veteran Congress leaderKamal Nath on Tuesdayrefused to apologise forterming Madhya PradeshMinister Imarti Devi an “item”even though former Congresspresident Rahul Gandhi dis-approved of his language andtermed the incident as “unfor-tunate”.

In fact, Nath brazened itout saying what Rahul said washis own opinion, but as for him,he has already clarified the con-text and had nothing to apol-ogise for when he didn’t intendto insult anyone.

Madhya Pradesh ChiefMinister Shivraj SinghChouhan said it showed KamalNath’s arrogance and by tryinghard to justify and defend hisremarks he is “committinganother crime”.

National Commission forWomen chief Rekha Sharmacame down hard on Nath saying he is giving “uselessexplanation” instead of sayingsorry and it only showed hischaracter.

On Nath’s remarks, Rahultold reporters, “I think one can-not treat women with disre-spect. Kamal Nath ji is from myparty but personally, I don’t likethe type of language that heused...I don’t appreciate it,regardless of who he is. It isunfortunate.”

His remark came a dayafter Union Minister SmritiIrani questioned the Gandhifamily’s “silence” on the matterand alleged that they will nottake action against Nath for hisderogatory comment, sincepeople like Nath and DigvijaySingh “keep the fire burning inthe Congress family’s kitchen”.

However, reacting toRahul’s comments, Nath retort-ed: “It is Rahul Gandhi’s opin-ion. I have already clarified thecontext in which I made thatstatement... Why should I apol-ogise when I did not intend toinsult anyone? If anyone feltinsulted, I have alreadyexpressed regret.”

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In one of the lowest spikes inthe last three months, India

on Tuesday recorded less than50,000 new cases. The declineis significant considering thenumber of total tests on the daywas in excess of 10 lakh, whichhas been the daily average forsome time now, except onSunday when it was belownine lakh.

46,790 new coronaviruscases are less than what wereregistered on July 28 when fortwo consecutive days the tallyof fresh cases was 47,703 and48,513, before it shot up to analarming high of 97,894 onSeptember 17.

While the number of testsstood at 10.32 lakh, up fromMonday’s 8.60 lakh, the recov-ery rate stands at 88.26 per centand the fatality rate at 1.52 percent, Union Health SecretaryRajesh Bhushan said at a pressbriefing here.

The total case load isexpected to breach the 76-lakh mark shortly even as thedeath toll stands at 1.15 lakh.

The number of active casesin the country has dippedbelow 7.5 lakh as recoveriescontinued to outpace the rise indaily new cases. In past 24hours, 69,720 patients weredeclared cured of Covid, takingthe total recoveries to 67.33lakh, said the official. During

the same period, 587 Covid-related deaths were reported.

Around 78 per cent of thenew recovered cases areobserved to be concentrated in10 States/UTs and 75 per centof the new confirmed cases arefrom 10 States and UTs.Maharashtra, Karnataka andKerala each are contributingmore than 5,000 new con-firmed cases.

With health experts fearinga rise in Covid-19 cases duringthe upcoming festivals and thewinter season, Bhushan assert-ed that the Government is in a“comfortable position” as far asavailability of oxygen is con-sidered to meet any medicalemergency for serious patients.

“There has been no scarci-ty in oxygen supply in the last10 months with the daily pro-duction capacity enhanced to

6,862 metric tonnes bySeptember and projected tofurther increase to 7,191 met-ric tonnes by the end ofOctober,” he said.

Giving the details of the

preparations, he said, theCentre has initiated the processof installing 246 oxygen gen-eration plants in 18 States andUTs in the first phase.

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Maintaining that the “lock-down is gone but not the

virus”, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on Tuesdaycautioned citizens ahead ofthe festival season to not lettheir guard down in the fightagainst Covid-19 and allowthings to deteriorate. “Jab takdawai nahi, tab tak dhilayinahi (no laxity until there is avaccine for cure),” he reiterat-ed and cited how after wit-nessing a decline there was aspurt in the caseload in manycountries.

In his special address to thenation, his seventh since theCovid-19 outbreak, the PrimeMinister said though the hus-tle-bustle is back in the market,the economy is picking up andpeople have put their livesback on track, the virus has notgone and the battle against itwould continue unless it is fin-ished to the last.

He said many countries,including India, are working oncredible vaccine and theGovernment is readying itselfto ensure its speedy delivery toevery one in the country.

Modi’s address this timeround came in view of the fes-tival season which could dis-rupt the coronavirus code ofconduct, particularly that ofsocial distancing and wearingof masks, thus potentially spik-ing up the cases manifold. Theongoing campaign for Biharelections and bypolls to the 28-odd Assembly seats across the

country, especially in MadhyaPradesh, also has the potentialto contribute to the increase inthe virus infections throughpublic meeting, rallies or one-to-one contact.

“India is succeeding in sav-ing more and more lives of itscitizens and fares better thandeveloped nations in combat-ing the virus but we need tocontinue the fight against the

virus till the vaccine comes. Asagainst 25,000 persons in apopulation of 10 lakh gettinginfected in the US and Brazil,only 5,500 persons in a similarsize here were infected in India.As against over 600 deaths per10 lakh population in countrieslike the US, Spain, Britain andBrazil, India registered 83deaths for a similar size group,”he outlined.

He also cited the expansionof the large network and activ-ities in the last few months tocombat coronavirus. He said 90lakh beds have been put inplace for coronavirus patients,12,000 quarantine centres havebeen installed, 2,000 testinglabs established and “soon ourtesting will be crossing the 10crore mark”.

But at the same time, hepointed out, pictures andvideos have, of late, emergedshowing that many people have

either stopped following pre-cautions like wearing masks orhave become negligent. “Thisis absolutely not right. Thosewho have become negligentand are moving around with-out masks are putting them-selves and their families,including children and elderly,at risk. Ye bilkul theek nahin hai(This attitude is absolutelywrong),” he said, adding in thelast eight-month selfless healthworkers and many others havestabilised the situation in thecountry which should not beallowed to deteriorate.

Citing couplets of saintKabir and from“Ramcharitmanas”, Modi saidone should not rest or feel toohappy unless the last mile ofsuccess is reached as herequested people to “wearmask, keep distance and washhands with soap”.

He asked all sections of thesociety and sectors, particularlymedia, to create awarenessabout the need to fight thecoronavirus pandemic till thelast.

Modi signed off his addressby wishing all good health andextending greetings for ‘navra-tra’, ‘Id’, ‘Chhath puja’,‘Gurunanak Parv’ and otherfestivals in the coming months.

According to theGovernment, in the last 30 dayssince Covid-19 cases peaked inIndia, the growth rate of infec-tions has more than halved-from 92 per cent in the monthprior to September 18 to 42 percent since then.

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Government is now likely tohave formal talks on a tradedeal with the Tsai Ing-wenadministration.

The move will be signifi-cant since India, like mostcountries, does not formallyrecognise Taiwan because ofBeijing’s “One China” principleunder which the democraticisland is its “integral” part.

However, in the last sixmonths, China’s aggressionagainst India along the LAC inLadakh has pushed New Delhito review its foreign policy inthe region and its approachtowards the ChineseCommunist Party (CCP)regime.

The CCP has been threat-ening to invade Taiwan butPresident Tsai Ing-wen recent-

ly warned it against any suchmove. Incidentally, on Taiwan’sNational Day celebrations earlythis month, Tsai hadannounced that Taipei willplay an active role in estab-lishing a new regional andinternational order in the faceof the Chinese aggressionagainst democracies.

Tsai’s statement had comedays after the foreign ministrylevel meeting of the Quad —Japan, Australia, US and India— in Tokyo where USSecretary of State MikePompeo lashed out at China’smilitary moves against India,Taiwan and in South ChinaSea. The Quad has also beendiscussing global over depen-dence on China’s supply chainsfor manufactured products.

India and Taiwan signed abilateral investment agreementin 2018.

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the three recent farm lawshave no information aboutthem. According to a survey,“The Indian Farmer’sPerception of the New AgriLaws”, conducted by “GaonConnection” found that out ofthe 52 per cent who opposedthem 36 per cent did not knowthe details of the legislations.Similarly, of the 35 per centsupporting the agri laws,almost 18 per cent were notinformed about them, the sur-vey found.

This face-to-face surveywas conducted betweenOctober 3 and October 9 across

53 districts in 16 states of thecountry, according to a state-ment issued by GaonConnection. The surveyincluded 5,022 farmers asrespondents. As per the find-ings of the survey, released as‘The Rural Report 2: TheIndian Farmer’s Perception ofthe New Agri Laws’, the biggestfear of these new agri lawsamong the respondent farmers(57 per cent) is that they willnow be forced to sell their cropproduce at a lower price in theopen market, while 33 percent farmers fear theGovernment will end the sys-tem of minimum support price (MSP).

Further, 59 per centrespondent farmers want the

MSP system to be made amandatory law in India. Abigger proportion of marginaland small farmers, who ownless than five acres of land, sup-port these agri laws in com-parison to medium and largefarmers. “Interestingly in spiteof slightly more than half (52%)the respondent farmers oppos-ing the three new agri laws (ofwhich 36% were not informedabout these laws), almost 44%respondent farmers said theModi government was ‘pro-farmer’, whereas about 28%said it was ‘anti-farmer’.

Further, to another surveyquestion, a majority of farmers(35 per cent) said the Modigovernment supported thefarmers, whereas about 20 per

cent said it supported the pri-vate corporates/companies,”the statement said.

The survey found thatoverall 67 per cent farmerrespondents were aware of therecent three agricultural laws.

Meanwhile, two-third offarmers were aware about therecent farmers’ protest in thecountry.

Awareness about suchprotests was more among thefarmers in north-west region(91 per cent), which includesthe states of Punjab, Haryanaand Himachal Pradesh. Leastawareness was reported in theeast region (West Bengal,Odisha, Chhattisgarh) whereless than half (46 per cent) wereaware about recent farmers’

protest. Overall, 52 per centfarmers reportedly oppose thethree new agri laws, whereas 35per cent support these Acts. Ofthose who support these laws,almost half (47 per cent) favourthem because they believe itwill give them freedom to selltheir crop anywhere in thecountry.

Among those who opposethese laws, the highest per-centage of respondent farmers(57 per cent) said they did notsupport the three laws because“farmers will be forced to selltheir produce at lower price inopen market”.

The new farm lawspromise, among other things,freedom to farmers to sell theirproduce in the open market.

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In a rise in the number of deathsand infections, as many as 213

more people died of Covid-19 and8,151 others tested positive for thepandemic in various parts of thestate on Tuesday.

A day after the state logged125 deaths and 5984 infectedcases, Maharashtra witnessed anincrease of 88 deaths in the num-ber of fatalities to take3 the tallyto 213 and a rise of 2167 in thenumber of infections to take thetally of new cases to 8,151.

With 213 fresh deaths, theCovid-19 toll rose from 42,240 to42,453. Similarly with 8,151 newinfections, the total infected casesjumped from 16,01,365 to16,09,516.

On a day when 7,429 peoplewere discharged from varioushospitals in the state, the numberof people discharged from varioushospitals after full recovery sincethe second week of March thisyear went up to 13,92,308.

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He also wrote to Chouhanafter the latter shot off a letterto Congress chief Sonia Gandhiasking her to take actionagainst Nath. “It would havebeen better if you would havewritten to your party presidentover derogatory remarks madeby Ministers of your party,”Nath wrote to Chouhan.

Following this, Chouhanreplied: “I believe you shouldtender an honest apology...Learn to love people of theState. Despite you not belong-ing to MP, its people are tryingto accept you.”

Earlier, Chouhan toldmediapersons that Nath wasdefending himself instead ofapologising. “He is trying hardto justify his remarks saying‘this is item no.1, this is item

no.2’. Can he call a seniorparty leader item? He still hasnot remembered the name ofImarti Devi. She was a Ministerin his Cabinet. Why is he feel-ing ashamed to call out hername? What is this arrogance,”said Chouhan,

“What happened to youformer CM Kamal Nath? Youare 74-yr-old and I can’t repeatwhat you said about BJP’sImarti Devi...When we object-ed, he shamelessly called every-one an item including him-self...If anyone calls their moth-er and sister ‘item’, will you tol-erate it,” Chouhan asked.

For her part, commentingon the entire episode, the NCWchief said, “It’s (item remark)very demeaning and later, he(Nath) said that he was readingfrom a list, I want to ask him,in the same list where was he

standing? Which item he was?”“This is disgraceful for

him. It shows the character ofthe person saying it. Instead ofsaying sorry, he is giving a use-less explanation. His partyshould take strict action againsthim,” Sharma added.

On Sunday, while cam-paigning in Dabra, Nath hadtargeted Imarti Devi, saying theCongress candidate Suresh Rajewas a “simple person” unlikehis opponent who is an “item”.

Nath has not apologised forthe comment so far. Instead, hetried to explain it away as anordinary term, which he usedas he could not remember hername.

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Meanwhile, three LeT terrorists wereneutralised by the security forces inHakripora area of Pulwama during the day-long operation. Local reports suggested ahandful of local residents in the area triedto disrupt the operations but were prevented

by the paramilitary forces to come closer tothe encounter site.

Earlier, Director General of PoliceDilbagh Singh along with several othersenior police officers visited the residenceof martyred Inspector Mohd Ashraf Bhatin Bijbehara area of Anantnag and conveyedheartfelt condolences and assured all helpto the martyr’s family.

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From Page 1Earlier this month, the

Modi Government approved$6.65 billion incentives for 16firms, including Taiwan’s threemajor partners of Apple —Foxconn Technology Group,Wistron Corp and PegatronCorp — to boost domesticsmartphone production overthe next five years. Incidentally,Apple launched its online storein India last month.

Though in the last threeyears, Wistron and Foxconnbegan assembling a few iPhonemodels in India, but sourcessaid the incentives to them willnow change the whole dynam-ic. Overall, the 16 firms willcreate more than 200,000 directemployment opportunities forIndians. Around 60 per cent ofthe products manufactured inIndia will be exported.

Sources said that incentivesto the three Taiwanese firmshave led the government toconsider holding formal talksabout a trade deal with theTaiwanese government. Indiaand Taiwan, sources said arekeen on strengthening theirtrade in technology and elec-tronics.

India and Taiwan havealready signed a bilateralinvestment agreement in 2018.But a formal trade deal amidsttensions with China can lead tofurther breakdown of the NewDelhi-Beijing relationship andmay also result in complica-tions at the World TradeOrganization.

However, sources said, a lotwill depend on the US backingto Taiwan.

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From Page 1Out of this, 67 are at various stages of

completion.“In the second phase, 150 more such

plants in 30 States and UTs would beinstalled, he said, adding India was in a“comfortable position” in terms of oxygenavailability.

“There has been no shortage of oxygenin the last 10 months. There is no paucityat present also. We are in an extremely com-fortable position,” Bhushan added.

The number of patients on oxygen sup-port, which includes those in ICU, venti-lator and oxygen supported beds, increasedfrom 43,022 on September 1 to 75,000 inthe third week of that month. The numberthen started declining and as of Tuesday itwas over 57,000, he said.

“Though there has been a dip, it is stillhigher as compared to September 1.

However, it should not be a reason to worryas our capacity is much higher,” the HealthSecretary said adding that 775 CryogenicOxygen Tanks (total 7438 MT) have beeninstalled in hospitals.

“We are also creating control room indifferent places to monitor efficient and ade-quate availability of medical oxygen inStates/UTs,” he added.

Elucidating further, Bhushan said on anaverage, 2,397 metric tonnes of medical oxy-gen was consumed daily from September2 to 8, and even then 15,282 metric tonnesof oxygen was in stock at the end of theweek. “Oxygen production capacity hasbeen enhanced from 5,913 metric tonnesin April to 6,862 metric tonnes inSeptember. It will be further increased to7,191 metric tonnes by October-end,” theHealth Secretary said.

Bhushan further said that India’s Covid-19 cases per million population reported inthe last seven days stood at 310, while theglobal average was 315.

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The Indian Army in astatement on Monday said theCorporal was apprehendedafter he had strayed across theLAC. The statement also saida request was received from thePLA about the whereabouts ofthe missing soldier.

“As per established proto-cols, he will be returned toChinese officials at theChushul-Moldo meeting pointafter completion of formalities,”the Army said. Sources said thePLA soldier was interrogatedon how he crossed over to theIndian side.

Both Indian and ChineseArmies have deployed over50,000 troops each along theLAC in eastern Ladakh, includ-ing in the Demchok sector fol-lowing escalation of the five-month-long military standoff that began in earlyMay. Situation remains tenseat the LAC.

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The Delhi Government onTuesday suspended the bar

licence of Delhi’s Gymkhanaclub after an investigation bythe Government found that theclub was allegedly involved inthe sale of liquor even duringthe lockdown period.

The order of the suspensionof the bar license of the highprofile club was issued byRanjeet Singh, the DeputyExcise Commissioner. In itsorder, the Deputy ExciseCommissioner stated that thelicense of the club has been sus-pended with immediate effectand the club officials concernedhave been directed to appearbefore the Excise Department

on October 27 for further pro-ceedings in the matter.

The order further statedthat during the course of inspec-tion on September 17, a bar sub-store was found in the club, forwhich no approval of the ExciseDepartment was taken.

“During inspection, a clubofficial said some liquor stockwas found to be short from thebar sub-store as a former offi-cial had taken out liquor fromit during the coronavirus-trig-gered lockdown, without bring-ing it to the knowledge of themanager or the members of theclub’s managing committee,”the order further stated.

It may be noted that follow-ing the Covid-19 outbreak, in lateMarch, the Union Government

had announced a nationwidelockdown. Bars in hotels, clubsand restaurants had reopened inDelhi on September 10 under‘Unlock-4’ after being closed

for over 170 days. “It is reasonably clear that

the licensee was involved inselling of liquor during theperiod of lockdown in violation

of this office order dated21.04.2020, wherein all thelicensees-wholesale, retail,hotels, clubs and restaurantswere warned to refrain from

indulging in the unlawful activ-ities of sale of liquor during thelockdown,” stated the order.

“In view of the facts and cir-cumstances of the matter andwritten submissions made by therepresentative of the licensee, I,Deputy Commissioner(Excise)/Licensing Authority,deem it fit to suspend the licenseissued...to Delhi GymkhanaClub, with immediate effect,”stated the order issued byDeputy Excise Commissioner.

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Illustrating the example of 53students of Delhi

Government schools, whocleared the Advanced JointEntrance Examination (JEE)and 569 students have clearedthe National Eligibility cumEntrance Test (NEET) this year,Delhi Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal and his deputy ManishSisodia said stories of hopehave emerged of students fromhumble backgrounds whofought all odds to qualify theseexams with flying colours.

Kejriwal said a total of 569students of Delhi Governmentschools have cleared the NationalEligibility cum Entrance Test(NEET) examination, out ofwhich 379 are girls.

Addressing the media,Kejriwal said 53 students ofschools run by the DelhiGovernment have cleared theAdvanced Joint EntranceExamination (JEE) and 569students have cleared the NEETthis year.

The Chief Minister andDeputy Chief Minister ManishSisodia congratulated the stu-dents and teachers on theirrecord-breaking achievement.Applauding students studyingin Government-run schools inDelhi on their commendableperformance in NEET andJEE, Kejriwal said around 569students from schools run bythe Delhi Government quali-fied for the exam. “Out ofthese 569 students, approxi-mately 67 per cent are girls. Iam extremely proud of thefact that girls have performedextremely well,” he said.

Talking about JEE the CMsaid, “Around 443 studentsfrom Government schoolscleared JEE mains and 53 havequalified for JEE advanced andhave secured a seat for them-selves in IITs.”

Kejriwal said, “I am appris-ing you about these studentsand their background becausetalent isn’t determined bymoney. If given an equal

opportunity and right to qual-ity education, children belong-ing to lower-middle-class fam-ilies have the ability to achievegreater heights.”

“The result is a testamentthat Delhi Government schoolsare undergoing a revolutionarychange and students from poorfamilies studying in theseschools are paving the way tosuccess. I believe that provid-ing equal and quality educationto all is the only way by whichwe can eradicate poverty fromthis nation. These students areinspirations for all those whoare currently pursuing theirschooling,” he said.

The Chief Minister said, “Iwant to promise to every stu-dent that they need not worryabout financial resources. Allstudents who have cleared 12thand who lack resources forhigher education, but havesecured admission in colleges,the Delhi Government hasscholarships to offer and anystudent, rich or poor can get aloan amount of up to Rs 10lakh without submitting anycollateral from DelhiGovernment and can exercisetheir right to education.”

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Delhi Transport MinisterKailash Gahlot inaugurat-

ed HCNG ((hydrogen com-pressed natural gas) plant anddispensing station at Raj GhatDepot. The inauguration cere-mony was attended by UnionMinister for Petroleum andNatural Gas DharmendraPradhan along with senior offi-cers from the Ministry ofPetroleum and Natural Gas,Indian Oil Corporation Limited(IOCL) and Indraprastha Gas

Limited (IGL).The four tonne a day com-

pact reformer- based HCNGproduction plant has been set-up by IOCL in collaborationwith transport department ofDelhi. “The DTC has provid-ed a fund of Rs 15 Cr for thesetting up of the plant and con-ducting the study,” he said.

Further, 50 cluster buseshave been earmarked by the

transport department for hold-ing demonstration trials start-ing today for a period of sixmonths. The Ministry of RoadTransport and Highways(MoRTH) has also notifiedHCNG as a fuel startingSeptember, 2020.

Hydrogen enriched-Compressed Natural Gas orHCNG, is predicted to be thefirst step to a hydrogen econ-

omy and can be used in placeof gasoline, diesel fuel, LPG andits combustion produces fewerundesirable gases in compari-son to a normal automobilefuel. It reduces the emission ofCO up to 70 per cent andincreases the fuel efficiency byup to three per cent resultingin overall fuel savings of aroundfive per cent.

Transport Minister KailashGahlot said “We are starting thesix month trial of HCNG fuelin 50 BS- IV compliant buses ofRajghat depot starting. Delhi asthe country’s capital is taking alead in promoting environ-ment conscious transport poli-

cies, like adopting cleaner fuelslike HCNG, electric vehicles etc.

“The most important ben-efit of HCNG fuel is that itemits 70 per cent less Carbonmonoxide, which will reducetotal hydrocarbons emissionsby around 15 per cent, alongwith 3 to 4 per cent increasedfuel efficiency. Over the courseof this six month trial, thetailpipe emissions of the buseswill be continuously moni-tored and analyzed. I amassured that once the trial issuccessfully completed, use ofHCNG can be scaled up toother buses and private vehiclesin Delhi,” he said.

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In order to speed up the cam-paign to register construction

workers on a war footing,Delhi Deputy Chief MinisterManish Sisodia on Tuesdayconducted a surprise inspec-tion of the District LabourOffice at Pushp Vihar anddirected the officers to resolveall the pending issues in thenext 24 hours.

Expressing his displeasureover the various flaws foundduring the inspection, Sisodiasaid not complying with theinstructions given in the past isa serious matter of concern.“The Government will not tol-erate any carelessness or excus-es when it comes to the welfareof the Delhi workers,” he said.

Sisodia asked the officialsto make such a system of reg-istration that ensures no poorlabourer is forced to pay bribeto anyone, nor faces any diffi-culty in travelling toGovernment offices every day.

“It is estimated that therewill be one million constructionlaborers in Delhi and our pri-ority to register each and everysingle labourer and ensure theyare provided with the benefits ofthese welfare schemes. Toimplement it effectively, help ofofficials of labour departmentand other departments apartfrom the officers of the boardwill also be taken,” he said.

During the surprise inspec-tion, Sisodia directed to issuea show cause notice against theDeputy Secretary who found

absent in the office.Sisodia had taken over the

charge of the Labour andEmployment Department lastweek and had directed to com-plete the registration and ver-ification of construction work-ers immediately after meetingwith the concerned officials.

During the surprise inspec-tion of the South DistrictConstruction Board LabuorOffice at Pushp Vihar, Sisodiatried to understand the reasonsfor the delay in the process andthe difficulties faced by theworkers who were standing inthe queues.

Sisodia reached PushpVihar Centre at 10.45 am andspoke to the workers standingin queues to check out theprocess.

“The workers said theyreached the office at 4 am andhad been queuing since then.The queues included workers

such as labourers who hadcome to file their applicationfor registration, renewal andverification of their docu-ments,” he said.

Sisodia gave strict instruc-tions to the officers that the reg-istration process should beexplained in a simple and easylanguage. He said, “Whicheverbroker is caught taking bribes,an FIR should be lodged imme-diately against him.”

The deputy CM also said ifany role of the middlemen isfound, the responsibility of theofficers will be fixed.

During the inspection, sev-eral flaws and blocks in the sys-tem were unearthed. Sisodiaimmediately ordered the officialsto correct them. He was also sur-prised to find that not even a sin-

gle application was processed inthe first hour of the office beingopen to the public.

Sisodia said no negligencewill be tolerated in providingbenefits of welfare schemes tothe city construction workers. Inthis matter, strict actions will betaken against whoever is foundguilty. Additionally, he orderedthe registration, verification andrenewal process to be fasttracked with immediate effect.

During his conversationwith the people present in thequeues, Sisodia found out thatthe workers had to stand in theline for 6-7 hours and it affect-ed their work as they had tocome to the office regularly tofinish their documentation.On receiving information thatthe Deputy Secretary was not

present in the office for the pasttwo days, Sisodia also instruct-ed to issue a tell notice. He alsodirected to issue notices againstother negligent employees atthe office.

Sisodia also expressed hisdispleasure over the fact thatthe middlemen collect moneyfrom the construction workersin the name of getting themregistered with the construc-tion board, which is a failure ofthe overcomplicated process.

The Deputy CM ordered theofficers to themselves be on theground and verify the docu-ments of the workers standing inthe line. He further directed toshift the renewal process onlineso that the workers do not haveto come to the ConstructionLabor Board Office.

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The Delhi Police has arrest-ed three men for opening

fire at a man for allegedlyrefusing to give them “beedi”.

The accused have beenidentified as Vivek, Dineshand Vikas, all aged 23 and res-idents of SS Nagar in WazirpurIndustrial Area.

According to VijayantaArya, the DeputyCommissioner of Police(DCP), northwest district, theincident took place on theintervening night of October14-15, when 35-year-oldMithilesh was going to a SabziMandi in Keshavpuram alongwith his helper Rajkumar andanother person after loadingpotato in his truck.

“On the way, he parked hisvehicle near Azadpur Flyoverto pass urine but when heboarded in his truck, one per-son asked them for a “Beedi”.When he denied and started hisvehicle, the accused called histwo accomplices and one ofthem fired a bullet on hishelper Rajkumar which hit onthe left side of his stomach.Thereafter, all three personsfled away from the spot,” saidthe DCP.

“The injured was immedi-ately taken to hospital by policeand a case was registered atAshok Vihar police station.Using technical surveillanceand local intelligence, all thethree accused were identified.Subsequently, team conductedraid on the basis of specificinputs and nabbed Vikas fromGreen Belt Park, Railway Linein Ashok Vihar,” said the DCP.

“During interrogation, heconfessed his involvement incrime along with his associates.On his instance, his associatesDinesh and Vivek were alsoarrested from WazirpurIndustrial Area, she said.

Both Dinesh and Vivekwere running in judicial cus-tody in a 2016 murder case reg-istered at Ashok Vihar policestation and were released onparole three months ago, theDCP said, adding that onepistol and two live cartridgewere recovered from the pos-session of the accused.

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The Delhi Police on Tuesdaysaid they have issued 144

challans to metro passengers forviolating guidelines pertainingto the Covid-19 pandemic.

According to JitendraMani, the DeputyCommissioner of Police (DCP),Metro unit of the Delhi Police,in the last six days of metrotrain checking drive, total 3,691trains were checked and 144challans were issued to passen-gers for violating the guidelinesto control the pandemic.

He requested all metro

passengers to follow Covid-19protocol inside metro train aswell as all places.

The police personnel atmetro stations have been con-ducting a drive to check on thosefound violating Covid-19 guide-lines. Passengers who were notwearing masks or maintainingsocial distancing have been chal-laned, police said.

The Delhi Metro wasclosed on March 22 to containthe spread of the coronavirus,and after 169 days it resumedservices in early Septemberwith strict safety and social dis-tancing measures.

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Aman allegedly strangulatedhis two-and-half-year-old

niece following personal enmi-ty with the girl’s family. Police said that they havearrested the accused.

The accused has been iden-tified as Chandan Pandey, whohails from Bihar.

According to a seniorpolice official, based on thecomplaint of the girl’s mother,the police arrested the accused.

“The body of the victim

has been sent for post mortem.During initial investigation itwas revealed that the accusedhad taken the girl from hermother on the pretext of feed-ing her,” said the senior policeofficial.

“The girl lived near RTOoffice on Buland city roadindustrial area,” he said.Meanwhile the Superintendentof Police (SP) City AbhishekVerma said that ChandanPandey had a dispute with hiselder brother following whichhe killed the girl.

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The Delhi Police has arrest-ed two men were arrested

for allegedly killing a buffalotrader over monetary dispute ineast Delhi’s Gazipur area.

The accused have beenidentified as Gagan Bindraand Mohammad Anas. Policesaid that the vehicle used in thecommission of crime has beenrecovered. The accused owedmoney to deceased Omkar

Sharma, a buffalo trader. According to a senior

police official, police recoveredthe body of Sharma, a residentof Jind in Haryana, fromGazipur Dairy Farms onFriday. “There were multiplestab injuries on his body.During investigation, theyarrested the accused persons onMonday. Interrogation revealedthat Bindra bought baffaloesfrom Sharma and owed aroundRs 15 to 20 lakh to him,” said

the senior police official. “On the day of the incident,

Bindra and Anas took him toYamuna khadar area on thepretext of returning the buf-faloes which he had purchasedfrom the victim. The accusedkilled him after stabbing thevictim multiple times,” saidthe police official privy toinvestigation.

They later dumped thebody in Gazipur Dairy farmarea, he added.

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According to police, 53protesters were detained beforethey could reach the Delhisecretariat and released subse-quently. NSUI national presi-

dent Neeraj Kundan said thestudents’ fund is part of the feescollected from students andaccording to university statutes,it cannot be utilised for payingsalaries to teachers.

“On one hand, the Delhigovernment says it allocatessuch a high budget for educa-tion and on the other, it is notready to give grants for pay-ment of salaries. We demandthat the order be revoked andthe Government release grantsto these colleges,” he said.

ABVP Delhi State secretary

Sidharth Yadav said, “After aseries of fee hikes in collegesunder its management, therecent directive legitimisingthe embezzlement of students’money is yet another assault bythe Delhi Government on therights of the student commu-nity. The Delhi government isusing the Covid-19 pandemicas a convenient excuse to cam-ouflage its incompetence andjustify the misappropriationof the SSF corpus towardsfunctions not connected tostudent welfare.” PTI

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In what could come as a set-back to the States which

have invested in setting upinfrastructure for conductingplasma therapy and launchedplasma donation drives to treatcoronavirus infected patients,the Centre is mulling to deleteconvalescent plasma as aninvestigational therapy from itstreatment protocol guidelines.

Giving a hint in thisregard, Indian Council ofMedical Research (ICMR)Director General ProfessorBalram Bhargava on Tuesdaysaid “discussions are on in thenational task force on Covid-19 for deletion on plasma ther-

apy from the national treat-ment guidelines”.

Governments in variousStates like Delhi, Karnatakaand Maharashtra had toutedthis as an effective strategyagainst Covid-19.

The Centre’s considera-tion to ban the therapy comesafter multiple internationaltrials and the ICMR, whichconducted the largest trial inthe world, concluded thatinfusing blood plasma from arecovered patient showed nosignificant benefits on theeventual outcome of a Covidpatient.

In April itself, the Centrehad opined that convalescentplasma therapy can create life-

threatening complications in aCovid-19 patient and is stillexperimental. Joint Secretaryin Health Ministry, LavAgarwal, had pointed out that

the use of this therapy is “ille-gal” unless the medical facili-ty administering it is part of astudy being conducted by theICMR.

Dr Bhargava said that wehave “done the largest trial onplasma therapy in the worldwith 464 patients across 39hospitals and with more than350 authors. It has now beenaccepted in BMJ (the BritishMedical Journal) and we have

received proof, it will appearvery soon … more than 10pages of hardcore science talk-ing about the role of plasma inCovid.”

Bhargava, further said,“We have discussed this in thenational task force and are dis-

cussing further now with thejoint monitoring group thatthis (plasma therapy) may bedeleted from the nationalguidelines. That is the discus-sions ongoing and more or lesswe are reaching towards that.”

At a press briefing earlier

also, Professor Bhargava hadsaid that the study demon-strated no benefit in mortali-ty in moderate to severe casesof Covid-19. “It also did notarrest the progression ofCovid-19 from moderate tosevere,” he had said.

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In the wake of cases of a fewCoronovirus re-infection

cases being reported in thecountry, the Indian Council ofMedical Research (ICMR) onTuesday said that if antibodiesreduce in any person in fivemonths post recovering fromthe virus, then there is a pos-sibility of Covid-19 reinfection.

It also did not rule out re-infection of the Covid-19recovered patients by the virusonce the antibodies of the viraldisease starts depleting.“According to the Centre for

Disease Control (USA), youcall it a reinfection (of Covid-19) if the person is reinfectedafter 90 days from turningnegative to the Sars-CoV-2after testing positive to it.

“However, there are multi-ple studies which suggest thatthe antibodies that developafter Covid-19 sustain for up tofive months,” said BalramBhargava, Director-General ofICMR, while answering a queryin the weekly press briefing ofthe Union Health Ministry.

“Since the disease is new,we do not have any furtherinformation about it. However,people can recontract the infec-

tion if antibodies start deplet-ing from the body,” he added.

Bhargava also stressed thatone should not become com-placent, and follow all precau-tionary measures such as wear-ing mask, staying cautious andnot relying on antibodies toastray the re-contraction.

“Even after contractingthe virus, one must not avoidusing a mask,” he cautioned.

Bhargava also informedthat the ICMR is conductingan assessment on the subjectof reinfection as commis-sioned by the Union HealthMinistry, and its result will beout shortly.

As per the ICMR, so far,three cases of reinfection havebeen reported in the country-- two from Mumbai and onefrom Ahmedabad. The apexbody of medical research hadalso stated that the cut-offdate for depletion of anti-bodies set by it for the assess-ment is 100 days from theinfection.

“There are various cut-offdays that are being referred tofor reinfection. Though thepublic is going by up to 110days, we are taking 100 daysas the cut-off period becausethe antibodies last until then,”Bhargava had said.

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Aday after Prime MinisterNarendra Modi said digi-

tal health IDs will be used tosystematically carry out thevaccination process, UnionHealth Secretary RajeshBhushan on Tuesday made itclear that the health ID will notbe mandatory for a person toreceive a Covid vaccine.

“The health IDs, being setup under the National DigitalHealth Mission, is still innascent stages. Pilots wererolled out in some UnionTerritories on August 15,” hesaid at a press conference here.

“National Digital Health

Mission, as it exists today,does not make digital health IDmandatory to receive serviceunder the digital ecosystem. Tosay it would become manda-tory for vaccination is not theright interpretation. (But)health ID would be utilised,”Bhushan said.

“In cases where the bene-ficiary does not have one,there are multiple IDs whichcan be utilised, almost like aelectoral scenario where mul-tiple IDs are prescribed before-hand so that nobody isdeprived of their voting righton the day of elections or onthe day of vaccinations,” headded.

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The EnforcementDirectorate (ED) has

attached assets worth �22.42crore in Iqbal Mirchi Case.

The attached assets includeseven immovable propertiesand balances in seven bankaccounts worth �22.42 crore ofthe family members of Lategangster Iqbal Mirchi underprovisions of the Prevention ofMoney Laundering Act, the EDsaid in a statement.

These attached assetsinclude one talkies and onehotel in Mumbai, one underconstruction hotel, one farmhouse, two bungalows and 3.5acre land in Panchgani, it said.

Earlier, the ED hadattached assets valued to thetune of �776 crore includingoverseas assets worth �203crore. The total attachment inthis case is approximately �798crore including the latestattachment.

The ED had initiatedinvestigation under PMLAagainst Iqbal Memon aliasMirchi and others on

September 26, 2019. Fiveaccused persons includingKapil Wadhawan, Dheeraj

Wadhawan and HumayunMerchant were arrested inconnection with the probe.

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Ateam of researchers fromNational Centre for

Biological Sciences (NCBS),Bengaluru, and ZoologicalSurvey of India, Chennai, havestumbled upon three newspecies of colorful damselfly --blue-legged reedtail, Myristicareedtail and Shola reedtail fromWestern Ghats in South India.

Smaller and more slenderthan dragonflies, damselfliesare weak fliers and usually spot-ted near water, found typicallyresting with the wings folded

back along the body. They aretouted as one of the most beau-tiful insects and are completelyharmless to humans, do notsting or bite. The discovery ofthese three new species haspushed the number of species ofdamselflies in the region to 12.

Shantanu Joshi, researcherfrom the NCBS said that hespotted the damselfly at aMyristica swamp, a unique habi-tat endemic to the WesternGhats. “It was very small in size,flying among the roots of trees,”he said according to ResearchMatters, a science news portal.

On comparing them withthe available descriptions ofother damselflies, the researcherslater realized that they hadfound a new species of damselflybelonging to the genusProtosticta. The study is pub-lished in the journal Zootaxa.

In India, species of dam-selfly from the genus Protostictahave only been found in theWestern Ghats and the EasternHimalaya. “In recent decades,scientists worldwide have dis-covered certain hotspots or cen-tres of endemism such as theWestern Ghats, which offer an

excellent opportunity for evo-lution of new species,” saidShantanu, as per the portal.The other team members wereK A Subramanian, R Babu,Krushnamegh Kunte andDuttaprasad Sawant.

To their surprise, they foundtwo more undescribed species ofthe same genus among their col-lected samples. The blue-leggedreedtail was spotted at the wetevergreen forests of ShendurneyWildlife Sanctuary in Keralaand Kalakkad MundanthuraiTiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu.The Shola reedtail was found in

the Meghamalai WildlifeSanctuary in Tamil Nadu,named after the Sholas (mon-tane evergreen forests), the habi-tat of these species, said the web-site about the study which waspartially supported by NCBS,the Department of AtomicEnergy and the Rufford SmallGrant.

According to Sneha fromResearch Matters, insects such asdamselflies and dragonflies areclosely associated with freshwa-ter habitats and are a great indi-cator of the health of theseecosystems.

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The National InvestigationAgency (NIA) on Tuesday

filed a 14,000-page chargesheetagainst 10 accused persons inthe Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM)Narco-Terror Case before theNIA Special Court at Mohali,Punjab.

The chargesheet has beenfiled under various IPCSections and provisions ofNarcotic Drugs andPsychotropic Substances Act,1985, Unlawful Activities(Prevention) Act, 1967 andIndian Passports Act.

The chargesheeted accusedincluding Hilal AhmedShergojri of Pulwama (J&K),Bikram Singh of Amritsar,Maninder Singh, both of

Amritsar, Ranjit Singh andJaswant Singh Gurdaspur,Ranjit Singh of Amritsar,Gagandeep Singh of Amritsar,Iqbal Singh of Amritsar(Absconding), Zafar HussainBhat of Anantnag (J&K),Presently in Pakistan(Absconding) and RiyazAhmed Naikoo of Pulwama(J&K) (Killed).

This case arose out of PSSadar Amritsar Case No: 135dated April 25, 2020 pertainingto arrest of one Hilal AhmedShergojri and recovery of Rs 29lakh from his possession, byPunjab Police on April 25,2020.

The NIA took up the inves-tigation of the case on May 8,2020.

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Retail onion prices on Tuesdaysurged to �73 per kg in

Chennai —the highest amongthe metro cities — as supply dis-ruption due to rains in produc-ing areas have flared up bulbrates across the country. Onionprices ruled at Rs 51 per kg inDelhi, at �65 per kg in Kolkataand at �67 per kg in Mumbai onTuesday, a data of Ministry ofConsumer Affairs showed. Theprices remained to be high in the

coming days due to short supplyfrom southern and westernstates.

Currently, stored onion ofrabi crop is being sold in themarket. Normally, prices comeunder pressure during this timein consuming areas but rainshave created havoc in key pro-ducing areas, adding to supplywoes.

Experts and traders are ofthe view that heavy rainfall insouth and western regions hasled to supply disruption and

impacted the arrival of the kharifcrop which will begin in fullswing in the coming weeks.Farmers, though worried aboutthe low production, are happyabout the high price they fetchfor what they are bring to themarket. On the other hand,consumers are upset about thehigh prices of vegetables, espe-cially during the festive season.

South and west zones haveseen a sharp rise in retail onionprices, according to the ministry’sdata.

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In a move to encouragegreater participation of the

Indian start-ups and smalland medium scale industriesin research and development,Defence Minister RajnathSingh on Tuesday approvedthe new Defence Research &D e v e l o p m e n tOrganisation(DRDO)Procurement Manual(PM) 2020.

Announcing this here, theDRDO also said this step willensure self-reliance in thedefence industry. “The newDRDO PM-2020 will facili-tate the indigenous defence

Industry by simplifying theprocesses and ensure theirparticipation in design anddevelopment activit ies ,”Rajnath said after the release.It will help towards realisingthe objective of ‘A

tmanirbhar Bharat’, hesaid. The DRDO PM was lastmodified in 2016.

Bid security declarationoption for earnest moneydeposit, increase of thresholdlimit for advance payment,placement of order on lowestbidder 2 (L2) in case L1 (low-est bidder) backs out aresome of the salient features ofthe new manual, which willassist the industry for the

speedy execution of projects,the DRDO said.

The PM-2020 alsoexempts bid security and per-formance security up to Rs 10lakh and no negotiationsrequired for commercial off-the-shelf items or serviceswherever price discovery ishappening through marketforces.

In addition, performancesecurity for service contractsis linked to the payment cycleinstead of total contract value.Many of the internal proce-dures have been further sim-plified for faster engagementwith industry, the DRDOadded.

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Of the 1,064 candidates con-testing in the phase I of the

Bihar Assembly elections, 375or 35 per cent have given theirfinancial assets worth crores ofrupees while five candidateshave declared zero assets. Theaverage of assets per candidatecontesting in the phase I Biharpolls is �1.99 crore. Besides, 328candidates have criminal casesregistered against them while23 percent or 244 candidateshave declared serious criminalcases non-bailable offenceswith over five years of impris-onment (against themselves).

The Association forDemocratic Reforms (ADR)which has analysed self-swornaffidavits of 1064 out of 1066candidates in the fray, revealedthat 375 (35 per cent) arecrorepatis. While 93 (9 percent) candidates have declaredassets worth �5 crore andabove, 123 (12 per cent) can-didates have declared assetsworth �2 crore to �5 crore.

According to the ADR,the average assets per candi-date for 35 JD(U) candidatesis �8.12 crore while the aver-age � 6.98 crore. The averageassets for 21 Congress candi-dates is � 6.03 crore. For LJPcandidates, the average assetsof 41 candidates is estimated�4.62 crore while the 29 BJPcandidates have average assetsof �3.10 crore and 26 BSPcandidates have average assetsworth Rs. 1.36 crore.

The ADR said that 31 (89per cent) out of 35 candidatesfrom JDU, 24 (83 per cent) outof 29 candidates from BJP, 30

(73 per cent) out of 41 candi-dates from LJP, 14 (67 percent) out of 21 candidatesfrom Congress and 12 (46 percent) out of 26 candidatesfrom BSP have declared assetsworth more than Rs one crore.

According to the report,30 (73 per cent) out of 41 can-didates from the RJD havedeclared criminal casesagainst themselves and 22 (54per cent) have declared seri-ous criminal cases againstthemselves in their affidavits.About 21 (72 per cent) out of29 candidates from the BJPhave declared criminal casesand 13 (45 per cent) havedeclared serious criminalcases against themselves intheir affidavits.

The poll body report saidthat about 24 (59 per cent) outof 41 candidates analysedfrom the LJP have declaredcriminal cases against them-selves and 20 (49 per cent)have declared serious criminalcases against themselves intheir affidavits.

About 12 (57 per cent) outof 21 candidates from theCongress, 15 (43 per cent) outof 35 candidates of the JD(U)and eight (31 per cent) out of26 candidates of the BSP havedeclared criminal casesagainst themselves.

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Ramgarh: Uttar Pradesh ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath onTuesday forayed into battle-ground Bihar where he askedpeople to vote the NDA back topower, drawing upon PrimeMinister Narendra Modis massappeal and the BJPs ability towalk the talk on Ayodhya,Kashmir and Pakistan-spon-sored terrorism.

The BJP's star campaignerblazed through three assemblysegments with back-to-backrallies on the first day of hiscampaign in the poll-boundState, commencing his speech-es with roars of VandeMataram and signing off withchants of Jai Shri Ram.

Yogi also made it a point toask the voters to cast their bal-lots only for adhikrit (autho-rised) NDA candidates andhelp Nitish Kumar return as thechief minister in line with thestance adopted by the BJP inthe wake of the revolt by LJPchief Chirag Paswan who hasfielded a number of rebelsfrom the saffron party and the

JD(U).I am glad to see that you

have defeated corona under theleadership of Nitish Kumar.While leaving Lucknow, I hadanticipated crowds of not morethan two or three thousand.But here I am amazed to seeturnout ten times of that, saidYogi.

The firebrand Hindutvaicon said that under Modisleadership the BJPs old promiseof abrogation of Article 370 hasbeen achieved in Kashmir andPakistan made to realise that itcan no longer sponsor terror-ism on the Indian soil.

Ghar mein ghus kemaarenge (will kill you in yourterritory), he asserted, in anobvious reference to theBalakot air strikes.

Modi presided over thefoundation laying ceremonyfor the Ram temple andbrought to an end misgivingswhether this thorny issue thatstuck out like a sore thumb forfive centuries will ever beaddressed squarely, Yogi said.

Under Modis rule terror-ism has been wiped out and 95per cent of naxals have beendealt with. We will ensure theirRam Naam Satya Hai (elimi-nation) by the time the Ramtemples construction is com-plete, he said evoking a wildapplause.

The Uttar Pradesh chiefminister, whose rallies wereheld in central Bihar, torment-ed by clashes between Maoistgroups and private militias oflandlords till a couple ofdecades ago, alleged that theelectoral tie-up of the RJD-Congress combine with ultra-Left CPI(ML) indicates theywant to bring back the old daysof frequent "ghastly massacres.

This is Modis India, whereeven chants of Bharat TereTukde Honge (India may yougo to pieces) inside the JNUcampus will not be tolerated,said Adityanath referring to thestudents protests of 2016 whichleft many activists booked forsedition. PTI

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Aday after Calcutta HighCourt passed a rigorous

order disciplining the DurgaPuja organisers by makingPuja pandals out of bounds forthe general public, Kolkata’s topPuja organisers on Tuesdayfiled a review petition in thesame court seeking relaxationin severity of the order.

The matter will be heardon Wednesday, the petitionerssaid.

Among the petitioners areChetla Agrani, Suruchi Sangha,NaktalaUdayan Sangha,Hindusthan Club, backed byState Ministers andseniorTrinamool Congressleaders like Firhad Hakim,Arup Biswas, ParthoChatterjeeand Chandrima Bhattacharya.

Apart from them ForumFor Durgotsav Committee anumbrella body ofabout 150Puja organizers too filed areviewed petition to be heardonWednesday.

Though the ministerswould not want to be quotedsources close to themthe ordercould cause grave hardships forthe management committeesinterms of maintaining thecrowds.

One of the spokespersonsof the Forum said, “Most of thebig Pujas areorganized insidesmall lanes particularly inNorth Kolkata where it isverydifficult to manage thousandsof visitors who choke the pan-dalpremises… which is why wehave to make plans to managethe crowd wellin advance …this year we made special plansto ease the crowd. Butthe orderhas put us in a bind as it hasmade the pandal and 10metressurrounding it as ‘noentry zones’.

“This will add to the chaosbecause unlike in usual cir-cumstances thevisitors will notbe able to use entry-exit gates

both of which arewithin noentry zones. So they will comenear the pandal and return-taking the same route whichwill create a logjam … imaginethere aretimes when the eachpandal records 5,000-10,000visitors per hour…. Soinsteadof social distance it will createchaos.”

The organizers said theorder could have an impact onbusiness inBengal whichamounted to several thousandcrores.

Delivering the Monday’sorder Bench of Justices SanjibBanerjee andArijit Banerjeesaid that the Puja pandalsshould be treated ascontain-ment zones and directed theState administration to mark5metre area around small pan-dals and the 10 metre areaaround biggerpandals as thelimit till which the generalpeople would be allowed togo.

Even the entry of the clubmembers was restricted insidethe pandalseven as the Courtsaid that not more than 25members would be allowedin-side. The Court directed the

administration to collect thenames of25 persons each fromthe respective Durga Puja com-mittees beyond whono onewould be allowed to enter thePuja premises. These namesandnumbers of such personshave to be fixed and cannotchange every day,the courtsaid.

The Court’s decision cameagainst a Public InterestLitigation filedby AdvocateSabyasachi Chatterjee and willbe applicable to about37,000Durga Puja pandals, big andsmall all across the State. Outofthese there are about 3,500Puja pandals in Kolkata alone.

Incidentally a band of topKolkata doctors requested theGovernment toscale down thefestivites warning post Pujasthere could be a massivespikein corona cases.

“Already the health infra-structure is bursting at itsseams and if thecrowding isallowed then it would go out ofcontrol,” a senior doctorhadtold reporters in the PressClub.

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Tuesday said that the numberof seats in MBBS course hadgone up to 4,000 in the State.This was effected after additionof 100 seats in PuruliaGovernment MedicalCollegeand Gouri Devi MedicalCollege.

Banerjee tweeted, “I ampleased to announce that wenow have 4,000MBBS seats forBengal's vibrant medical stu-dents with the initiationof thefirst MBBS batch in PuruliaGovernment MCH consistingof 100seats and the addition of150 MBBS seats in Gouri DeviMedicalCollege.”

The announcement comeswithin days of the NEET resultbeing declared.

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Kochi: A day after the KeralaHigh Court stayed the move bythe Customs Department toarrest M Sivsankar, formerprincipal secretary to ChiefMinister Pinarayi Vijayan, inconnection with the goldsmuggling scam, the statementgiven by Sarith, the primeaccused in the gold smugglingscam, to the EnforcementDirectorate has got leaked andthis has put the KeralaGovernment in a dilemma.

Sarith in his statement tothe ED had said that twoKerala ministers were regularvisitors to the UAE Consulateat Thiruvananthapuram. Sarithwas a former staff of the UAEConsulate and had establishedrapport with most of the Kerala

Ministers.“Kadakampalli Surendran,

minister for tourism and coop-eration and K T Jaleel minis-ter for higher education, wereregular visitors to theConsulate. Surendran’s visitswere in connection with a jobin UAE for his son while Jaleelwanted to import Quran anddates from West Asia,” Sarithhad told the ED.

Ministers meeting thediplomats of other countriesposted in India without takingthe Central Government intoconfidence is seen as violationof protocol and improper.

But Surendran reacting tothe report said that it was toseek the cooperation of theUAE in resolving the traffic

problems in the capital city hehad gone to the UAEConsulate.

Sivsankar is engaged in alegal battle with the CustomsDepartment which is out toarrest him in connection withcharges of money laundering.The consul who appeared forthe Customs told the HighCourt of Kerala on Tuesdaythat Sivsankar was feigningsick to escape from question-ing by the sleuths. “His actionsare all as per a script preparedto avoid the questioning by theCustoms officials. Last Fridaywhen he was summoned to theCustoms office for questioning,he acted as if he had cardiacproblems. It was found to befake. Now he is claiming that hehas back pain. The medicalboard has found that he is per-fectly alright,” said KRamkumar, senior counsel.

The Court is hearing ananticipatory bail filed bySivsankar and had told theCustoms not to arrest him tillFriday. PNS

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Aligarh: Prof Babu BakhshMansuri, Women's College,Aligarh Muslim University(AMU) discussed how retailsector is becoming a next boomindustry in the internationalvirtual conference on 'RecentTrends in BusinessManagement, Social scienceand Education' organised bythe Karnataka StateAkkamahadevi Women'sUniversity, Vijayapura.

In the presentation of apaper Prof Mansuri shed lighton mall attributes playing animportant role in the selectionof a retail store by customers.He pointed out: "The purchaseof goods or services includes anumber of factors, which havegreatly affected the purchasedecision since the Covid-19outbreak. PNS

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Aligarh: Energy efficiency canimprove the economic compet-itiveness of countries and busi-nesses, as well as reduce green-house gas emissions and improvethe quality of life. Having realisedthe growing demand for alter-native energy sources, GreenWarriors, a team of Zakir HusainCollege of Engineering andTechnology (ZHCET), AligarhMuslim University (AMU) stu-dents designed a hybrid vehiclethat can be operated by chargingthe battery through non-con-ventional methods. The car hasan intelligent system for potholeand hump identification onroads, ADAS and other e-Mobility systems.

Green Warriors members,Arquam Hashim Siddiquie(Captain), Mohammad Zain(Vice Captain), Adiitya KumarSingh (Treasurer), Jyoti Kumari

(Manager), Aryan Varshney,Yash Singhal, Aakash Gupta,Prasun Jain, Tahseen Mirza,Sarfaraz Ibrahimi and M AnasHabib presented the vehicledesign at the Virtual Efficycle2020 organised by the Society ofAutomotive Engineers India,where it has been evaluated forover two months on the engi-neering concepts and techniques.

The smart vehicle isequipped with kinetic energyregeneration system, solar charg-ing, infotainment system, musicsystem, display screen, phonecharger, cyclo computer, digitalspeedometer, digital odometer,battery level indicator, clock,speed alert mechanism, reverseparking assistance, sensors tohelp park and reverse with abuzzer as a warning mechanism,adjustable headlamps and a seat-belt reminder. PNS

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Aligarh: An E-Seminar on'National Education Policy(NEP) ' will be held in theAligarh Muslim University(AMU) on October 30 in which,the Union Cabinet Minister forEducation, Dr Ramesh PokhriyalNishank will also release the 'ThePhysics of Neutrino Interactions(Cambridge University Press,July 2020)' authored by AMUFaculty member, ProfMohammad Sajjad Athar andProf S K Singh, former Vice-Chancellor of a CentralUniversity, Garhwal University.Dr Pokhriyal will also address onNEP. The Vice Chancellor, ProfTariq Mansoor will deliver theinaugural address. Prof S KSingh will give an introductionto NEP followed by UGCChairman, Prof D P Singh'sspeech. PNS

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Aligarh: For the HathrasBoolgadi case, two CBI inves-tigation teams camped inAligarh. One team interrogated the fouraccused in jails for 7 hours sep-arately and another team visit-ed JN Medical College andspoke to the doctors about thetreatment and medical exam-inations of the victim.

After the incident of 14thSeptember in Bulgadi, the girlwas admitted to the districthospital of Hathras from whereshe was referred to JN MedicalCollege, Aligarh, she was undertreatment in Medical college upto 27 September and on 28thSeptember she was againreferred to Delhi. There shedied on September 29 duringtreatment. PNS

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Aligarh: A high-security num-ber plate has been mademandatory for any vehicle-related work in the RTO office.The vehicle will not be insuredwithout a high-security num-ber plate. Action can also betaken against those who do notinstall this new number plate.RTO KD Singh said that ifsomeone has not yet installeda high-security number plate inhis personal or commercialvehicle, get it done soon.Otherwise, there can be a prob-lem in vehicle-related workslike vehicle fitness check, reg-istration copy, vehicle transfer,address chasing, new registra-tion certificate, new permit, aduplicate copy of the permit,permit renewal, temporary per-mit, special permit, nationalpermit etc.Let us understandthe details of a high-securitynumber plate. PNS

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Mumbai: After initial hiccupswhich saw the Western Railway(WR) and Central Railway (CR)refused to toe the line drawn bythe Maharashtra government,the Indian Railways on Tuesdaypermitted the WR and CR toallow all ladies to travel by sub-urban trains for a specifiednumber of hours during a day inMumbai and MumbaiMetropolitan Region (MMR)from October 21.

In a formal announcementmade late in the afternoon,Railway Minister Piyush Goyaltweeted: “I am happy toannounce that Railways willallow women to travel on sub-urban trains from 21 Octbetween 11 am to 3 pm & after7 pm”.

Downplaying the manner inwhich the WR and CR had putspokes in the wheels of theMaharashtra government whichwanted women to travel by sub-urban trains for a specifiednumber of hours during a day in

the MMR from October 17,Goyal said in the second part ofhis tweet : “We were always readyand with the receipt of the letterfrom Maharashtra governmenttoday, we have allowed this trav-el”.

In a joint statement issued inthe evening, the Central andWestern Railway said: “Railwaysare currently operating 1406special suburban services onMumbai suburban network ofCentral and Western Railway.Central Railway has added 225suburban services making ittotal 706 from October 19, 2020”.

“Western Railway haveadded 194 services on October15, 2020 and will add 4 services(ladies special) on October 21,2020 .The WR will be running704 suburban services on itsnetwork including six ladiesspecial. Thus, Railways will beoperating 1410 special suburbanservices with effect fromOctober 21, 2020,” the jointstatement said. PNS

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In the absence of a face-to-facemeeting between PrimeMinister Narendra Modi andChinese President Xi Jinping,likely due to the Shanghai

Cooperation Organisation (SCO)and BRICS summits at Moscowgoing virtual, it is External AffairsMinister S Jaishankar, who is talk-ing to China through interactionswith think tanks and media over hisbook, The India Way, completedbefore the current standoff in eastLadakh.

The last and only high-levelface-to-face meeting was at Moscowon September 10 betweenJaishankar and his counterpart,Wang Yi, which sealed the stalematealong the Line of Actual Control(LAC) on troop withdrawals witha standstill agreement followingIndia’s pre-emptive occupation ofseven Chushul heights on theKailash range that rattled thePeople’s Liberation Army (PLA).The eighth round of MilitaryCommander’s talks, which havebecome military-diplomatic withthe inclusion of Foreign Ministrymandarins from both sides, expect-ed next week, is unlikely to revivethe comatose Disengagement andDe-escalation Process (DDP) thathas created buffer zones and pre-vented Indian forces from patrollingup to their claimed LAC. The PLAhas unilaterally promulgated its1959 claim line, annexing 1,000 sqkm through multiple intrusions inApril and May which India, indenial, has not acknowledged. TheChinese negotiators have creative-ly avoided the use of acronyms likeLAC (instead use “border areas”)and the Restoration of Status QuoAnte (RSQA) (instead use “perma-nent disengagement”). Six monthson, both sides are hunkering downfor a harsh winter with Chinasmiling.

So what precisely is Jaishankartelling China? First, that the peaceand tranquillity in border areas havebeen deeply disturbed by thedeployment of 50,000 Chinesetroops on the LAC, which is a crit-ical security challenge. Second, thestrategic framework and securityprotocols crafted for peace and tran-quility since the 1980s are nolonger working. Third, the tragicGalwan clash and firing shots in theair occurred for the first time in 45years. Fourth, India is not asking forresolution of the complex bound-ary question but only a peacefulborder, which is a pre-requisite for

normal bilateral relations. Fifth,India doesn’t have a reasonableexplanation for the change inChinese behaviour even aftertwo informal summits. These areextremely reasonable urgings,even conceding concessions toChina, as expediting the bound-ary question was always upfront.Collectively, this message reflectsIndia’s faith in dialogue anddiplomacy despite Chief ofDefence Staff (CDS) GeneralBipin Rawat’s threat — accom-panied with a fusillade of missiletests — of military option ifdiplomacy failed.

Let’s be clear, war was never onthe table. Neither side wants con-flict, especially China, whichhas got what it had sought bycheating, through unarmedcombat and firing shots in the air.The Chinese statement on com-plete disengagement at frictionpoints (PLA intrusions) andneed for early de-escalation(Moscow declaration) are merewords unlikely to be translatedinto deeds so that as both sidesacknowledge, “differences donot become disputes.” But theLAC and border areas arealready disputed. Beijing hassaid that the root cause of tensionis India building infrastructurein disputed areas and makingLadakh a Union Territory, whenanother reason is the loss of faceat Doklam, where Indian soldiersprevented PLA from construct-ing a road through a disputedarea. New Delhi has rejectedChinese statements on non-recognition of Ladakh andArunachal Pradesh with asser-

tions that both are integral partsof its territory.

Another issue Jaishankarrevealed is about a recentChinese confidential proposal,which has been considered bythe China Study Group. Kite fly-ers advocate de-escalation takingpriority over disengagementbefore the onset of winter. Chinawants both sides to withdrawtanks and artillery, which willdeprive India of terrain andequipment advantage for mech-anised warfare, especially aroundthe critical Depsang plains areawhere PLA has made its deep-est intrusion, opposite the strate-gic Daulat Beg Oldie airbase andgarrison, which China views asa launchpad against Aksai Chin.An additional reason for notwithdrawing is the difficulty inbringing back tanks and gunsover snow-covered passes. Withtrust completely shattered byPLA breaking existing protocols,no Indian commander will riskforfeiting a battlefield asset unlessde-escalation is inclusive of“complete and full disengage-ment” amounting to RSQA.Tanks and guns at above 15,000ft at minus 40 degrees centigradein winter make for a mad first.

With Bihar elections aroundthe corner, the game of denialand bragging by the Governmentover LAC has started. HomeMinister Amit Shah, the triggerfor the stand-off, is claiming noone can snatch an inch of landwhen large swathes have alreadybeen snatched. Wonder whatModi, who cleared China of anyperfidy, will say during the elec-

tion campaign. The American onslaught

against China, led by Secretaryof State Mike Pompeo, is gain-ing momentum in sync withDonald Trump’s election cam-paign. Pompeo and his teamhave called China all sorts ofnames and accused it of badbehaviour. The US NationalSecurity Advisor, RobertO’Brien, has said talks and agree-ments will not work to changeChinese behaviour.

Meanwhile, China is on a highalert on multiple fronts with allits five theatre commands in astate of war readiness. Jinping vis-ited the Marine Corps that he setup on taking over as theCommander-in-Chief. The sec-ond face-to-face ministerialmeeting of Quad was held inTokyo this month and whilePompeo called China aggressor,Jaishankar steered clear of takingany position of alignment. TheUS-India 2+2, the third minis-terial dialogue, will start nextweek in New Delhi, when Indiawill sign the fourth and finalfoundational agreement — BasicExchange and CooperationAgreement (BECA) — which isabout geospatial information onemploying armed drones (to beprocured from the US) andCruise and Ballistic missiles.BECA will deepen interoperabil-ity and facilitate access to USdefence technology. India’s deci-sions on BECA and finallyincluding Australia, after 13years, in the Malabar naval drill,which includes the US andJapan, indicate that strategicchoices are being made andrisks being taken in ensuringstrategic autonomy does notturn into strategic ambiguity —a Jaishankar prescription. On theother hand, Wang has alreadyreacted to Quad and its likelymilitarisation. Initially, he calledit “bubble and foam and noth-ing more” and is now calling it“Indo-Pacific NATO” fromAsian NATO earlier. For China,the expanded Malabar exerciseis a critical step India has takenin confirming Chinese suspicionthat India has become a US ally.

That the occupation ofChushul heights and expansionof Malabar let India negotiatefrom a position of strength iswishful thinking. On the LAC,India is alone. Any Chineseproposal on de-escalation with-out disengagement amounting toRSQA will be unacceptable.With only virtual summits on thecalendar, no grand bargain canbe expected even as soldiers bat-tle for survival in snow deserts.

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

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With every case, the police islosing its credibility. Commoners,who no longer trust the policeeither implicitly or explicitly, stilllook at it for some succour in thehour of crisis. Only when thepolice is able to balance the pub-lic, and the upholders of law andorder, can it effectively dischargeits duties towards society. Thebiggest danger that the Indianpolice poses to society is whenpersonnel refuse to let go of theirprejudices. The pre-conceivednotions on poverty, caste and reli-gion have proved to be mostinimical to the interests of soci-ety. Long working hours andinhuman working conditions areprecursors to police resorting toswift justice. Better funding, con-tinuous and augmented training,implementing efficacious mon-

itoring system and separating thepolice from the political grip maygo some way in stemming the rot.If we don’t start reforming the sys-tem soon, the very fabric ofdemocracy will be in danger.Also, the number of cases of casteand gender atrocities registeredmight gradually fall as people losefaith in the system.

Ganapathi BhatAkola

�������������Sir — On October 18, India test-fired its BrahMos supersonicmissile from a ship as part of thedrill to be operationally ready.The past few weeks have seenIndia conducting a series of suc-cessful tests of various missiles toshore up its defence. In order tosecure the de-facto border withChina in Ladakh and Arunachal

Pradesh, India has alreadydeployed a sizeable number ofthe original BrahMos missiles.The highly versatile missile,being a “prime strike weapon”,will ensure a warship’s invincibil-ity by engaging naval surface tar-gets. It will definitely prove to bea resurgence for the country’smilitary capability and combatpreparedness to deal with anysort of conflict at the Indo-

China border. In a fast-paced,highly intense military conflictsituation, BrahMos will be in aposition of encompassing an“across the spectrum” warfarecapability in all-weather, both dayand night conditions.

Yugal Kishore SharmaFaridabad

��������������Sir — As in the past, India’sabysmal rank in the GlobalHunger Index (GHI) 2020 isunlikely to be taken as a realitycheck either by the Governmentor the wider society. Similarreports in the past have not gal-vanised the Government intotaking tangible action to theneeded level to mitigate starva-tion. Hunger persists not becauseof lack of resources or food pro-duction but because of the lackof political will to raise the nutri-tional levels of people universal-ly. The eradication of starvationis certainly not an unachievablegoal. It will require the reversalof policies heavily skewedtowards the affluent classes.

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From a technological standpoint, we are livingin a glorious age, the time of the FourthIndustrial Revolution, one marked by the

transformative power of data and machine learning(ML). But the military has always been just a beatbehind industry historically. Compounding this isthe fact that military war fighting machines — par-ticularly command and control systems — are com-plex and driven by reliability, speed and security.Today it is critical that the armed forces pull a half-level ahead to set the technological tone for the indus-try and create Military 4.5. It is a roadmap that willguide the innovation we need to keep the nation andits allies ready and compatible to keep themselves safeand free.

Military technology takes time to pass reliabil-ity tests but this gestation period can be shortenedby thinking ahead. Chief among these innovationsis the creation of the Internet of Military Things(IoMT) and the Internet of Battle Things (IoBT).Most of us are familiar with the IoMT’s civilian coun-terpart, the Internet of Things. Loosely described,it is the notion that machines can be made smarterand do much more for their human users, all throughthe application of sensors for the transmission andanalysis of data. But the military version will be quitedifferent from its consumer counterpart with ther-mostats that adjust a home’s energy levels or refrig-erators that note when food will expire. The IoMTand the IoBT will be extended, hardened and morequickly advanced to help the armed forces make bet-ter decisions in a literal fraction of a second, win themissions necessary to defend the borders, promoteforce safety, warn and fix equipment well before itfails. The IoMT would enable hooking on to the larg-er network of organs engaged in related missions,working on national security by selecting securedomains by just the flick of a button and disconnectwith the same ease. If IoMT is the mother that movesall things military in the war zone, ubiquitously,beginning at the apex/strategic level, the IoBT wouldbe its subordinate that moves the “fighting things”(e.g., man and machine). The IoBT would work thefighting component on the battlefield in a physicalmanifestation of fighting battles of contact and prox-imity, typically in the tactical battle area.

We are well on our way to bringing the IoMTfurther along — but we need more from the indus-try. It should challenge itself to bring military hard-ware to comply with the digital needs of the systemsto work as part of a defined combat domain. Combatsystems have to work on data compatibility withinthe domain to infuse Artificial Intelligence (AI).Equipment manufacturers must know how muchflexibility the user must be given to exploit themachine. Certain machines would have better pro-grammability and others would require less, depen-dent on how much customisation is needed by itsuser. In a nutshell, not all equipment would be “plugand play” ready when received from the industry. Thesecond industrial process, mostly in-house, wouldbe needed to enable the equipment to become “plugand play” ready.

Find ways to better connect military machines:In the field, all the military’s machines — tanks, logis-tics, convoys, helicopters, fighter jets, command andcontrol, medevac and so on — must work togetheras a harmonious, synchronous whole. This is the net-worked military, formally known as C5I2-STAR2(Command, Control, Communications, Computers,Cyber, Intelligence and Information — Surveillance,

Target Acquisition, Reconnaissance andRobotics). To understand the IoMT andIoBT, let us look at C5I2 and STAR2 as sep-arate segments. To network war-fightingmachines to the next level, we require thesensors and underlying infrastructurethat make it possible for these disaggregat-ed parts to work together in a seamless,automatic, even robotic way.

The first segment, C5I2, is to get thenecessary inputs for decision-making;programme the higher to middle echelons;activate the battle fighting elementsthrough the Command and Controlmechanism based on the secure digital net-works.

The second segment, STAR2, lies inmoving battle platforms and machines.Surveillance and Target Acquisitionrequires sensors to be integrated for theoperator. Reconnaissance and robotics sup-plement this process through automatingthe process with AI engines that woulddecide the effects to deliver to the acquiredtarget within the pre-planned parameters.This would be the frontline cutting edge,powering the soldiers and machines to winbattle engagements. Such technologywould have to touch every part of themachine and operation (e.g., communica-tions, security, weapons systems, flight con-trols, targeting systems). Inter-operabili-ty is critical and all systems must be total-ly interfaced. This does not exist today tothe extent required. Sensors for militaryapplications will not only be a multi-tril-lion dollar business but shall also bringmore value in enriching the IoT concept.

Invest in and invent new materials:Companies and entrepreneurs adept atmaterial and computer science will havean incredible competitive advantage if theyturn their sights to military technology.Every part of the IoMT must be digitallycontrolled, down to the smallest sensors.If tanks are shot at, for example, they mustbe able to deflect projectiles, harden tar-getted surfaces or even be self-repaired.

That means the need for light, self-heal-ing, tough, amphibious materials that areeminently smart and survivable. Theymust work in all domains and also oper-ate with impunity through contaminatedzones such as Chemical, Biological,Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) envi-ronment. This would prepare the militaryto fight hybrid wars under the CBRN over-hang. The industry must help the armedforces to be faster in all respects, whetherit is making an urgent repair in the field,gaining instantaneous situational aware-ness, or outmaneuvering an aggressiveadversary. Non-traditional industry part-ners should feel encouraged to explore thepossibilities of working with the military.The armed forces’ leadership sees the cre-ativity, energy and speed of the commer-cial sector and is increasingly interested inthe potential of partnering to leap ahead.

Give us predictive capability: Sensorsopen the door to knowing much moreabout the machines we rely on. If theindustry can help us take a fresh look atthe way our machines work, we can domore with them and save budget in theprocess. Any military machine, such as afighting tank or an attack helicoptershould possess a nervous system, a senso-ry system. Sensors would be part built-insurveillance, acting as eyes and ears, parta decision-aiding system, part engagementof the target system and part evasive capa-bility, protecting from an attack, and so on.

Sensors could also tell us if and whena critical part will fail so we can pull it fromthe field and repair it. They could give usdata on fuel usage and other factors, allow-ing us to predict the costs of field opera-tions. They could predict what would hap-pen in various engagement scenarios,empowering us with data that let us pri-oritise innovations that increase survivabil-ity, range, flight time, communicationspower, and so on.

Create reliable electromagnetic fieldcommunications: We must have greater

spectrum efficiency, created through con-nectivity that relies not on fibre optics butthrough the undetectable electromagnet-ic field and space. Today, our communi-cation capabilities over long distances stillproduce some latency, more so, when largevolumes of data start to flow. As one canimagine, in the field, a delay of even a sec-ond or two can produce disastrous con-sequences. We need technology that dri-ves total spectral efficiency so we can syn-chronise machines — and integrate alliedweapons, troops and forces — on a veryfine time sequence. There cannot be evena moment of latency — and that is the chal-lenge we lay before the industry. There areheavy electronic emissions and signaturesin the battlefield. Electronic Warfare (EW)sensors would need to deal with an over-load of EW inputs. The targets which gen-erate heavy signatures would be engagedby automated target acquisition pro-grammes.

The defender must invest heavily insignature shields, deflection and deception.Imagine terabytes worth of data flowinginto a few square kilometres of tactical bat-tle area. With billions of IP addresses pre-sent in the same area, IP concealment orgroup addresses may have to be encrypt-ed. Quantum technology would be at playto break and protect codes. Such operationscan simply become too complicated forhuman control. This would necessitate get-ting the IoMT operating C5I2 segment toperform more efficiently to get hold of thecomplex STAR2 segment that runs theIoBT. MIL 4.5 is the future of military tech-nological advantage. But it won’t be pos-sible without the IoMT, which will under-pin every aspect of operations.

With the military leadership’s guid-ance and the industry’s ability to deliveradvances in sensors, telemetry, networkcentricity and more, we will achieve newheights of security.

(The writer is former Deputy Chief ofIndian Integrated Defence Staff)

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sciously optimising towards thesetargets. At an institutional level, com-panies work towards particular targetssuch as revenue, customer acquisitionor other metrics that they may deemfit, based on each firm’s need at thetime. To come to these conclusions,the decision-makers within the organ-isation generally rely on data, such asthe stage of institutional growth,market factors such as size, competi-tion, available financing options andan array of other considerations.

At an individual level, people tendto focus on enhancing productivity,contentment, or professional successbased on the stage of life, state of mind

and personal proclivities and prefer-ences inter alia.

The idea of pushing for specificoutcomes is one that permeates everyaspect of our lives, whether we realiseit or not. As students, we focus ongrades (often at the expense of knowl-edge); as investors, we push forwealth maximisation; as employees weoptimise based on the expectations ofour reporting managers; and in ourpersonal lives, we make strides to sat-isfy the needs of those who dependon us, while aligning our happinesswith the same.

Though the concept of optimis-ing oneself towards realising a goal hasbeen around for a while, social mediahas broadened the discourse and ideasaround it manifold. One would nothave to look beyond Twitter andLinkedIn, where high performingbusiness leaders, investors, life coach-es, spiritual gurus, constantly add tothe discourse of optimising for suc-cess.

While founders and venture cap-italists focus on advancement at anorganisational level, life coaches andself-help gurus fill the Twitter-verseand LinkedIn space with tips and

tricks to be adopted at the individuallevel.

As we progress in our personallives and at an organisational level, thequestion is, what should we be opti-mising for at a societal level? Theanswer lies within the Preamble to theConstitution of India — justice, lib-erty, equality and promotion of fra-ternity. All are essential componentsof maintaining the social fabric of thenation. But just as institutions andindividuals understand the need toprogress for different outcomes basedon their stage of growth,Governments too, need to be mind-ful of the realities and prevailing nar-ratives surrounding them, andadvance accordingly.

From an economic perspective,one would not be remiss to say thatthe last three decades have seen gov-ernments in India pushing for devel-opment and the average growth ratesince liberalisation has been about 6.5per cent. And while the economic suc-cess of India in the past few decadesmust be celebrated, indicators ofwell-being in the country show thatmaking strides for macroeconomicsuccess is not synonymous with per-

sonal well-being. The National MentalHealth Survey 2015-16 revealed thatnearly 15 per cent Indian adultsneed active intervention for one ormore mental health issue and one in20 of our citizens suffer from depres-sion. It is estimated that in 2012, Indiahad over 2,58,000 suicides, with theage group of 15-49 years being theworst affected.

According to the World HealthOrganisation (WHO), India is themost depressed country in the worldwith approximately 6.5 per cent of thepopulation suffering from some formof a serious mental disorder, with nodiscernible rural-urban differences.Though figures may vary, based onthe surveying method, one thing isclear: Indians are clearly unhappy. Assuch, it should be clear that while theeconomic growth machine is running,it is now necessary for theGovernment to start consideringindicators that are laggards, especial-ly those that can help contribute togreater levels of well-being.

In the past, learnings from reli-gions such as Buddhism on well-beingmay have been shunned because oftheir sectarian nature, but thankful-

ly, modern psychology, atheisticmindfulness and the field of human-istic positive psychology are now val-idating what was previously consid-ered merely religious dogma throughempirical research. This, and otherdevelopments in the field of emotion-al intelligence, can be leveraged to cre-ate a scientific pathway for theGovernment to re-prioritise and opti-mise for happiness and the well-beingof its constituents.

The introduction of positive psy-chology practices, such as savouring,gratitude and so on, and socio-emo-tional learning into educational cur-ricula are seeds that are likely to giveexponential returns over a generation.By focussing on and prioritisingemotional understanding and regu-lation early on, schools can equip chil-dren with the tools needed to createa comfort zone with thoughts andemotions, rather than view themantagonistically.

In the short to medium-run,linking administrative outcomes toimprovements in India’s ranking inthe World Happiness Report, whichcurrently stands at 144 out of 156, canyield fast results. Such expedited suc-

cesses are not unheard of. Soon aftercoming to power in 2014, PrimeMinister Narendra Modi madeimproving India’s ranking on theEase of Doing Business Index a pri-ority, and this led to administrativeoptimisation to this end. The result,India’s ranking on the index jumpedfrom 139 in 2010 to 63 in 2019.

Happiness has likely never beena priority because along with beinglow on the voting agenda, there hasbeen no defined method to optimiseit. While the first may not change, theroute to enhancement is now clearerand backed by science. For the rulingdispensation, the shift to this wouldnot be seismic, but a logical expansionof our own philosophy, which too, isuniquely indigenous.

While Buddhism spoke ofenlightenment in the abstract, psy-chology has been able to track andbreak down the causes of success ofthese methods. By pushing for the sci-ence based on an Indian philosophy,the Government can show its com-mitment to empirical methods whileboasting of its cultural past.

(The writer is a public policy con-sultant with Chase India)

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Beijing: China said on Tuesdaythat it had lodged a diplomat-ic protest with the US over theappointment of Robert Destroas a Special Coordinator forTibetan issues and his meetingwith Lobsang Sangay, the headof the Tibetan Government inexile.

US Secretary of State MikePompeo on October 15 namedsenior diplomat Destro asSpecial Coordinator forTibetan issues, who, amongother matters, would focus onadvancing dialogue betweenthe Communist government inChina and the Dalai Lama.

Assistant Secretary of Statefor Democracy and HumanRights and Labour RobertDestro will also serve as the USSpecial Coordinator forTibetan issues, Pompeo toldreporters in Washington.

Destro will focus on advanc-ing dialogue between theCommunist-run governmentin Beijing and the Dalai Lama,protecting the distinct religiouscultural and linguistic identity ofTibetans, improving respect fortheir human rights and much,much more, Pompeo said.

China has already criticisedDestro’s appointment, saying itamounted to political manip-ulation aimed at destabilisingTibet.

After Destro’s appoint-ment, Sangay met him and dis-cussed the situation in Tibet.

Asked about the Destro-Sangay meeting, ChineseForeign Ministry spokesmanZhao Lijian told a media brief-ing here: “Xizang’s (Tibet’s)affairs (are) purely China’sinternal affairs. No externalforces shall interfere in them”.

Unlike in the past, theChinese officials in recent timeshave been referring to Tibetonly as Xizang.

“Appointing the so-calledspecial coordinator for Tibetanissues is a political move to inter-fere in China’s internal affairsand sabotage Xizang’s stability.It is China’s consistent positionwe firmly oppose that and wewill not acknowledge that. Wehave lodged stern representationto the US side,” he said.

On Destro-Sangay meet-ing, Zhao said, “the so-calledTibetan government in exile isa separatist political organisa-

tion chasing a wild dream ofTibetan independence. It vio-lates China’s constitution andlaw and it is not recognised byany nation worldwide”.

“Lobsang Sangay as itshead is out and out anti-Chinaseparatist. China firmly oppos-es him engaging in anti-Chinaseparatist activities in whatev-er status and whatever pretextin any country. We firmlyoppose officials of other coun-tries having any kind of contactwith him,” he said.

“Destro, by meeting withthis person, violated the com-mitment and policies’ stance ofUS side of not supportingXizang’s independence and notacknowledging this govern-ment in exile”, he said.

He said this will send verywrong signal to Tibet’s inde-pendence forces. “We urgethe US side to stop interferingin China’s internal affairs andsabotaging Xizang’s develop-ment and stability and refrainfrom offering any support tothe separatist forces. Chinawill take all measures to safe-guard its own interests”, Zhaosaid. PTI

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Protests against Indonesia’snew jobs law were held in

cities across the country onTuesday, with demonstratorscalling on the president torevoke the legislation they saywill erode labor rights andweaken environmental protec-tions.

More than 1,000 studentsand workers gathered near thePresidential Palace in Jakarta toexpress their anger at the leg-islation, which was passed onOct. 5.

Protests were also heldelsewhere in the country,including in Bandung,Surabaya and Makassar.

There were no immediatereports of the violence thatmarred earlier protests against

the jobs law.The new legislation, which

amends 79 existing laws and reg-ulations, is expected to bringradical changes to Indonesia’slabor system and naturalresources management.President Joko Widodo’s admin-istration says it is needed to easebureaucracy, attract more invest-ment and create jobs at a timewhen Southeast Asia’s largesteconomy is reeling from thecoronavirus pandemic.

While the legislation wasgreeted by the business com-munity, critics allege it will domore harm than good.

Those gathered Tuesday,the first anniversary ofWidodo’s second term, voicedtheir frustration at the presi-dent’s overall performance.

“Instead of making

Indonesia more advanced, thefact is that the people arescreaming because of the poli-cies that do not take side of themajority of the Indonesianpeople,” Remy Hastian, thecoordinator of the NationalAssociation of UniversityStudent Executive Bodies, saidin a statement.

The president shouldrevoke the jobs law and replaceit with less sweeping regula-tions, said Nining Elitos, chair-woman Congress Alliance ofIndonesian Labor Unions.

Elitos said that beyond thejobs law, she has been disap-pointed with the president’sperformance.

“Over the past year wesaw those in power gettingmore opposite to the people,”Elitos said.

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Former Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif ’s daughter

and Opposition PakistanMuslim League-Nawaz’s vice-president Maryam Nawaz wason Tuesday booked along withover 2,000 party members forholding an anti-governmentrally in Lahore where shecalled Prime Minister ImranKhan a “coward, selected andpuppet” who hides behind theArmy.

The rally by the 11-mem-ber opposition alliance PakistanDemocratic Movement (PDM)was held here on October 16before the Gujranwala publicmeeting.

Beijing: China on Tuesdaysaid it has “taken note” ofIndia’s announcement thatAustralia will join the annualMalabar naval exercises alongwith the US and Japan, under-lining that military cooperationshould be “conducive” toregional peace and stability.

India on Mondayannounced that Australia willjoin the upcoming Malabarexercise which effectivelymeans that all the four-mem-ber countries of the ‘Quad’ orQuadrilateral coalition will beparticipating in the mega drill.

The US and Japan are theother countries that participatein the annual exercise, which is

likely to take place next monthin the Bay of Bengal and theArabian Sea.

Commenting on theannouncement, ForeignMinistry spokesman ZhaoLijian told a media briefinghere that China has “takennote of this development.”

“We always believe thatmilitary cooperation betweencountries should be conduciveto regional peace and stability,”he said in a brief reaction.

India’s decision to heed toAustralia’s request to be part ofthe mega naval drill comes inthe midst of growing strain inties with China over the borderrow in eastern Ladakh. PTI

Bangkok: Thailand’s Cabinet onTuesday approved a request torecall Parliament for a specialsession to deal with the politi-cal pressures from ongoing anti-government protests.

The Cabinet at its weeklymeeting approved the request,which calls for a non-voting ses-sion on October 26-27.

The request for the sessioncame from House speakerChuan Leekpai, who saidMonday that both governmentand opposition parties sup-ported it.

Prime Minister PrayuthChan-ocha had already saidearlier that he supports themove.

There is a deadlock betweenthe government and the stu-dent-led protesters, who wantPrayuth to step down, the con-

stitution to be amended tomake it more democratic, andreforms to the monarchy to haveit conform to democraticnorms.

The protesters charge thatPrayuth, an army commanderwho led a 2014 coup, wasreturned to power unfairly inlast year’s general electionbecause laws had been changedto favor a pro-military party.

The protesters say a consti-tution written and passed undermilitary rule is undemocratic.

But their more recentdemand for checks and balanceson the monarchy has deeplyangered conservative Thais —and broken a taboo, since themonarchy is considered sacro-sanct and tough laws protectingit from insult mean its role is notusually discussed openly. AP

Washington: Several individ-uals and organisations, includ-ing the US Chambers ofCommerce and the NationalAssociation of Manufacturers,have filed a lawsuit against theTrump administration’s recentrules related to the H-1B visa,terming them “arbitrary” and“haphazard” regulations thatwill undermine high skilledimmigration into America.

Early this month, the

Trump administrationannounced new restrictionson H-1B non-immigrant visaprogramme which it said isaimed at protecting Americanworkers, restoring integrityand to better guarantee that H-1B petitions are approved onlyfor qualified beneficiaries andpetitioners, a move which islikely to affect thousands ofIndian IT professionals.

The interim final rule

announced by the Departmentof Homeland Security will nar-row the definition of “special-ity occupation” as Congressintended by closing the over-broad definition that allowedcompanies to game the system.

It will also require compa-nies to make “real” offers to“real employees,” by closingloopholes and preventing thedisplacement of the Americanworkers. PTI

Washington: US PresidentDonald Trump has confirmedhis participation in the presi-dential debate with hisDemocratic challenger JoeBiden later this week, even as heraised objections about “unfair”changes in the format.

Trump, 74, and Biden, 77,are slated to face their final pres-idential debate at BelmontUniversity in Nashville,Tennessee on October 22.

The non-partisanCommission on PresidentialDebates (CPD) on Mondayannounced new rules underwhich it will mute microphonesfor two minutes of the rivalspeakers so as to give themuninterrupted openingremarks.

“I’ll participate, I just thinkit is very unfair,” Trump toldreporters aboard Air Force Oneon Monday.

“I will participate, but it’svery unfair that they changedthe topics and it is very unfairthat again we have an anchorwho is totally biased,” the pres-ident said, responding to a

question on changes in thedebate rules by CPD.

In a letter to CPD onMonday, Trump 2020 cam-paign manager Bill Stepienexpressed concern over theannounced topics for what wasalways billed as the ‘ForeignPolicy Debate’ in the series ofevents agreed to by both theTrump and the Biden cam-paigns many months ago.

“The topics announced bymoderator Kristen Welker (fight-ing COVID-19, American fam-ilies, race in America, climatechange, national security, andleadership) are serious and wor-thy of discussion, but only a fewof them even touch on foreignpolicy,” he said, asserting thatalmost all of the topics were dis-cussed at length during the firstdebate “won” by Trump. PTI

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committee in Pakistan has saidthat the country has not fulfilledits responsibility to protect reli-gious minorities from forcedconversions, according to amedia report on Tuesday.

The parliamentary com-mittee on forced religious con-versions headed by SenatorAnwarul Haq Kakar recentlyvisited parts of Sindh whereforced conversions of youngHindu girls have been reported.

During a media interaction

on Monday, Kakar said that“the state has not fulfilled itsresponsibility to protect reli-gious minorities from forcedconversions”, The Dawn Newsreported.

He, however, noted thatmost of the cases of conver-sions “have some degree ofwillingness”.

Replying to a question,Kakar said there are several def-initions of forced conversion,and the subject was debated bythe committee at length.

“Although conversion toseek a better lifestyle is also con-sidered forced conversion, eco-nomic reasons can be consid-ered exploitation and not force,as eventually it is after consent,”he said, adding that there is athin line between consent andexploitation.

Kakar said people who“encourage girls from the Hinducommunity to move out andmarry according to their ownwishes are not as liberal abouttheir own daughters”. PTI

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State-owned Oil and NaturalGas Corp (ONGC) and

Indian Oil Corp (IOC) haveraised Rs 3,140 crore in debt tomeet business expenses.

In separate regulatory fil-ings, the two firms said theyraised the debt through non-convertible debentures(NCDs).

IOC said it raised Rs 2,000crore on a private placementbasis.

“The funds raised throughthis issue will be utilized for,inter alia, refinancing of exist-ing borrowing and/or funding

of capital expenditure of thecompany, including recoup-ment of expenditure alreadyincurred and/or for any otherpurpose in the ordinary courseof business of the issuer,” IOCsaid.

Separately, ONGC said itraised Rs 1,140 crore througha 3-year debenture issue on aprivate placement basis at aninterest rate of 4.64 per cent perannum payable annually.

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Even as brands are bettingbig on Diwali to light up

their sales, a survey has shownbelow-average spendingpropensity among urbanIndians this festive season withnearly 50 per cent respondentsagreeing of being careful abouttheir finances.

The survey, conducted bymarket research firm YouGov,factored into weighted impactof 10 factors including increasein gross household income,increase or decrease in house-hold expenses, their intent tospend this Diwali season. Itfound only 15 per cent of therespondents with an increase intheir gross household incomes.

On the other hand, close to50 per cent of the respondentsagreed that they are more care-ful with their finances todaythan they used to be in the past.

Highlighting a strong “neg-ative” relationship with spend-ing intent (80.96 per cent), it isthis factor that is likely pullingdown the overall sentiment tospend more this Diwali thanlast year.

This survey was conduct-ed among 2,500 respondents

on YouGov India’s online panelbetween September 21 and 25.

Further, the survey alsoshowed that 54 per centrespondents said they werelikely to spend less than lastyear during this Diwali, com-pared to 23 per cent who saidthis in 2019.

One in five (20 per cent)were planning to spend thesame amount as last year, whileonly 17 per cent said theywould splurge more this time.

Talking about the festiveshopping fervour this Diwali,YouGov India GeneralManager Deepa Bhatia said,“After an economic slowdowncaused due to the pandemic,businesses are looking forwardto the festive season for revival.Even though enthusiasmamong consumers is low thisyear, certain categories are like-ly to witness a demand fromconsumers.”

She added that there alsoseems to be an inclinationtowards products that ensureautonomy and fill the gap in theabsence of domestic help. “It is,therefore, important to under-stand the requirements of thesebuyers and extend offers thatlift the buying sentiment.”

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The Government has bannednatural gas and coal-bed

methane (CBM) producersfrom buying their own producein the newly notified gas mar-keting freedom guidelines.

The government onOctober 15 notified the NaturalGas Marketing Reforms thatgive producers the freedom todiscover the market price of gasthrough a standard e-biddingprocess. The notification,which follows the CabinetCommittee on EconomicAffairs approving gas reforms,also gives them the liberty tomarket or sell the gas producedto anyone including affiliates.

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Equity benchmarks Sensexand Nifty notched up gains

for the third straight session onTuesday, led by IT stocks andHDFC Bank amid a rebound inthe global markets.

The 30-share BSE Sensexsettled 112.77 points or 0.28 percent higher at 40,544.37. Thebroader NSE Nifty rose 23.75points or 0.20 per cent to11,896.80.

HCL Tech was the topgainer in the Sensex pack, ral-lying 4.19 per cent, followed byTech Mahindra, Asian Paints,Bharti Airtel, HDFC Bank,L&T, Infosys, TCS, M&M andNestle India.

On the other hand,ONGC, PowerGrid, NTPC,Reliance Industries, HDFC,Tata Steel, ICICI Bank andKotak Bank were among themajor laggards, tumbling up to2.67 per cent.

HUL ended 0.31 per centlower after the FMCG majorreported an 8.58 per centincrease in consolidated netprofit to Rs 1,974 crore for theSeptember quarter.

Global markets staged a

modest recovery afterovernight fall on Wall Street,even as sentiment remainedrisk-averse ahead of the USelections.

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The retail inflation for farmworkers and rural labour-

ers eased only marginally to6.25 per cent and 6.1 per cent,respectively in September asfood prices remained high.

The retail inflation for farmworkers and rural labourers ismeasured in terms ofConsumer Price Index-Agricultural Labourers (CPI-AL) and Consumer PriceIndex-Rural Labourers (CPI-RL).

Point-to-point rate ofinflation based on CPI-AL andCPI-RL decreased to 6.25 percent and 6.10 per cent inSeptember from 6.32 per centand 6.28 per cent, respectivelyin August, a labour ministrystatement said.

The rise in index variedfrom state to state. In case ofagricultural labourers, itrecorded an increase of 1-23points in 20 states, it said.

Tamil Nadu with 1,234

points topped the index tablewhereas Himachal Pradeshwith 816 points stood at thebottom.

In case of rural workers, itrecorded an increase of 2-20points in 20 states. Tamil Naduwith 1,218 points topped theindex table whereas HimachalPradesh with 863 points was atthe bottom.

The maximum increase inCPI numbers for agriculturallabourers was experienced byHimachal Pradesh (+23 points)and in case of rural labourers,it was Jammu & Kashmir (+20points) mainly due to rise inprices of wheat-atta, pulses,mustard-oil, milk, onion, chill-ies-dry, garlic, ginger, barbercharges, bus fare, vegetablesand fruits etc. The All-IndiaCPI Numbers for AgriculturalLabourers and Rural Labourersfor September 2020 increasedby 11 points and 10 points tostand at 1,037 and 1,043 point,respectively, the statementadded.

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In a bid to resurrect Air Indiaprivatisation, the govern-

ment is planning to give flexi-bility to potential investors todecide on the humongous debtwith the national carrier, a topofficial has said.

The flexibility to potentialinvestors on the quantum of theRs 60,074 crore debt that theywant to absorb will replace thecurrent condition of the buyertaking over more than a thirdof the debt and transferring therest to a special purpose vehi-cle, Department of Investmentand Public Asset Management(DIPAM) Secretary TuhinKanta Pandey said.

The potential investors inAir India have given feedbackthat due to the uncertainty cre-ated by COVID-19 in the avi-ation sector the debt should notbe fixed at the Expression ofInterest (EoI) stage, he added.

As per the Air India EoIfloated by DIPAM in January,of the airline’s total debt of Rs60,074 crore as of March 31,2019, the buyer would berequired to absorb Rs 23,286.5

crore, while the rest would betransferred to Air India AssetsHolding Ltd (AIAHL), a specialpurpose vehicle.

The government is seekingto sell 100 per cent of its stakein the state-owned nationalairline, including Air India’s 100per cent shareholding in AIExpress Ltd and 50 per cent inAir India SATS AirportServices Private Ltd.

“On Air India, we wouldtry and sort out the investorissues with respect to debt... Wewill see whether we can giveflexibility at least at the EoIstage and let the debt be deter-mined through the marketrather than freezing it upfront.This is what we are examining,”

Pandey told PTI in an

interview.He said a decision on this

would be soon taken by AirIndia Specific AlternativeMechanism (AISAM) and ifthere is a change in thePreliminary InformationMemorandum (PIM), thepotential investors would begiven time to raise queries.

“There is a lot of uncer-tainty in the aviation sector dueto COVID and accordingly weshould structure the transac-tion. We should not fix every-thing at the EoI stage. That’s thefeedback we are getting. Thepoint is what debt is sustain-able. There is a point of viewthat it can be decided by themarket rather than we upfrontdeciding,” he noted.

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India’s economic recovery has“broadened and strength-

ened” in September from thepandemic-induced lows seen inApril 2020, ratings agencyICRA said on Tuesday.

ICRA said that as many asnine of the tracked 15 non-financial high frequency indi-cators recorded growth inSeptember 2020, while fiveposted a narrower year-on-year (YoY) contraction in thatmonth.

However, the agency cau-tioned that the sustainability ofthe upturn is unlikely to be uni-versal, and that while fatiguemay drive festive season sales,the momentum may subse-quently subside.

Aditi Nayar, PrincipalEconomist, ICRA, said: “Therecovery in GST e-way bills,electricity, petrol and diesel inSeptember 2020 provides ameaningful signal of a broad-er economic revival. Theimprovement in some of the

other indicators, such as autooutput, reflects a combinationof pent-up demand, healthyrural sentiment, and invento-ry build-up, ahead of theupcoming festive season.”

“This trend may persist inthe coming one-to-twomonths, before settling at moresedate levels after the festiveseason is over. Sharp favourablebase effects have contributed tothe high performance of someoutliers, such as the output ofCoal India Ltd (CIL), which arelikely to be unsustainable.”

Moreover, she cautionedabout the sustainability of the

trend especially regarding theimprovement in non-oil mer-chandise exports, in the lightof a fresh wave of Covid-19infections in many tradingpartners.

“Overall, we await signalsof the durability of the nascentupturn that emerged inSeptember 2020,” Nayar said.

“The healthy 9.6 per centincrease in the generation ofGST e-way bills on a YoY basisin September 2020, in contrastto the contraction of 3.5 percent in August 2020, signals awider revival in economicactivity.”

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Postponement of electivesurgeries, revenue loss from

the highly profitable medicaltourism segment, and increas-ing safety and sanitisation costsamid Covid-19 will lead to a35-40 per cent reduction in theoperating profits of privatehospitals this fiscal, domesticrating agency Crisil said onTuesday.

The findings are based onan analysis of 40 hospital-com-panies, including 36 rated byCrisil, which account for overRs 36,000 crore of the sector’srevenue.

Footfalls at private hospi-tals fell significantly in thefirst quarter of fiscal 2021,with the onset of the pandem-ic, as elective surgeries and pre-

ventive healthcare, whichaccount for approximately 60per cent of revenue, were large-ly postponed.

Trauma and emergencytreatments - approximately 28-30 per cent of revenue -- con-tinued, but at a lower level,given fewer accidents duringthe lockdown.

Added to this, medicaltourism, which accounts for10-12 per cent of revenue,especially for large hospitalchains, came to a completestandstill, due to travel restric-tions imposed as part of thelockdowns, said the report.

Treatment of Covid-19patients is expected to providean additional revenue streamand contribute approximately15-20 per cent to revenuesthis fiscal.

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Seventy-eight per centMSMEs and startups in

India have reduced workforcein the last 8 months since theCovid-19 pandemic broke out.

As per a survey byLocalCircles, only 22 per centstartups and MSMEs have thesame or increased workforce ascompared to the pre-Covidlevels.

India’s startups andMSMEs ecosystem wentthrough a torrid time due to theCovid-19 pandemic and thefollowing lockdown. With rev-enues and operations gettingimpacted for most businesses,many end up cutting costs andsome even shut down tem-porarily or permanently. PerCMIE, 6 million Indians hadalready lost white collar jobs inthe March - August period.

LocalCircles conducted asurvey to understand the start-up and MSME pulse on theirworkforce adjustments due toCovid. The survey receivedover 7,000 responses from star-tups, MSMEs and entrepre-neurs spread across 104 topbusiness districts of the country.

In the survey, startups andMSMEs were asked about howhave workforce adjustmentstaken place in their business

during the Covid-19 pandem-ic. In response, 25% said theirbusiness has shut down and allworkforce has been let go,while 15% said their workforcehas reduced by 50% or more.

A 19 per cent said theirworkforce has reduced by 25-50%, and another 19 per centsaid their workforce hasreduced by up to 25 per cent.A 6 per cent said their work-force has increased and 16 percent said they have same work-force as pre Covid-19 time.

This shows that 78 percent MSMEs and startups inIndia have reduced workforcein the last 8 months since theCovid-19 pandemic broke outand only 22 per cent startupsand MSMEs have the same orincreased workforce as com-pared to the pre-Covid levels.

The Govt also took steps tohelp these small businessesthrough the AtmanirbharBharat scheme, but its advan-tages per feedback from busi-nesses in July this year has beenquite limited, the survey said.

In 2017, the IndianGovernment passed theMaternity (Amendment) Billthat increased the right to paidmaternity leave for workingwomen from 3 months to 6months - the third highest inthe world.

On Sonia Gandhi's state-ment 'Democracy is going

through the most difficult time', The Union Minister of Statefor Water Resources and SocialJustice and Empowerment Mr.Ratnalal Kataria reacted that'Not democracy but theCongress party is in its lastphase of declining. Kataria saidthat the attitude and reaction ofthe Congress related to agri-cultural reforms bills, economy,Kovid-19 and Hathras incidentclearly indicate that Congressparty is now only doing base-less and irrational politics.Misleading the public has nowbecome the thinking of theCongress, he said.

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The rupee on Tuesdaydepreciated by 12 paise

to close at 73.49 against theUS currency due to dollarbuying by state-run banksamid increased forex infol-ws.

Capital inflows andstrong domestic equities,however, limited the localcurrency’s losses.

The Indian currencyopened at 73.36 at the inter-bank forex market andmoved in the range of 73.29to 73.53 in a volatile tradeduring the day.

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New Delhi: Sany India, amanufacturer of constructionequipment and heavy machin-ery, has set an example by help-ing all its 35 dealers sailthrough the challenging phaseof Covid-19 by implementinginitiatives to sustain andimprove the cash flow for thepartners. The initiatives includ-ed the extension of credit peri-od on all receivables againstsupply of goods and its spareparts, extending warranty sup-port and helping the dealerswith salary support for 1,100plus employees of dealers.

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New Delhi: FDI in India hasincreased by 16% year-on-yearto USD 27.1 billion duringApril-August this year, theCommerce and IndustryMinistry said on Tuesday.During April-August last year,India had received FDI worthUSD 23.35 billion. The min-istry said that the total FDI,which includes reinvested earn-ings, grew by 13% to USD35.73 billion. "It is the high-est ever for the first 5 monthsof a financial year and 13 percent higher as compared to thefirst five months of 2019-20(USD 31.60 billion)," it added.

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In order to hear out the expert opinions anddiscuss regarding the various issues and

opportunities available in the education sec-tor in India, Pratham Test prep, has organ-ised Education Leaders Confluence-2020(ELC-20).

ELC-20 being a platform to bring thoughtleadership to the fore for the future ofIndian education systems. Among the threemajor events scheduled, the inaugural sessionof the event ‘The Principal Round Table’ wassuccessfully commenced on October 19.

The discussion was graced by a set of emi-nent panelists — principals from variousschools, who with their immense knowledge

and knowhow made this session a fruitful andenriching event.

The live session was conducted swiftly bySaurabh Nanda, an international educator,who carries a vast experience in studentcounselling and mentoring. The sessionmajorly focused on discussions on the topic“Future of Blended Learning in IndianSchools”.

“While India is the third largest educa-tion system in the world and on the verge ofbecoming the second largest, yet it suffersfrom a void in thought leadership especial-ly in school level education. Pertaining to thegaps between the policy making, customi-sation and implementation, it is our endeav-or to provide a platform to highlight the real

issues and perspectives of the IndianEducation,” Ankit Kapoor, ManagingDirector, Pratham Test Prep, says.

The learning process in India is chang-ing. It is making headway in digitising thelearning process, and it is not only in Indiabut also the world over where we can see suchchanges being incorporated.

“The blend of the traditional and themodern will equip our students to take onnew challenges and conquer the world!"Therefore, it is of utmost importance weshould understand and strike out a balancebetween the two which safeguards the inter-est of the children and allows being future-ready,” said Vanita Sehgal, Executive Director,The Delhi Public School Society, HRDC.

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The JK Business School(JKBS) is inviting applica-

tions for its BBA programmefor the batch of 2020. JKBS isaffiliated to GurugramUniversity, a State Universityof Haryana; the course com-pletion will provide a degree ofBachelor in BusinessAdministration.

The interested candidatesare requested to fill the appli-cation form in online formatlatest by October 31, 2020.

The three-year degree pro-gram with contemporary and

exhaustive course curriculumimparts requisite knowledge,skills, and expertise along withthe ability to lead and managemultiple business functions.The programme focuses onindustry specialisations likeMarketing, Finance, HumanResources, InternationalBusiness and others.

Eligibility: Admissionsare given on the basis of meritat Class XII level (with mini-mum 50% in any stream).

How to apply: Log on tohttps://admission.nopaper-f o r m s . c o m / j k - b u s i n e s s -school/ug.

Anew concept, sustainable careershas been a part of various dis-

cussions since 2015. With so muchupheaval recently, everyone is con-cerned about the employee-employ-er relationship and the role ofGovernment to ensure the safety ofemployment. If we talk about the2000s, then these years have wit-nessed the dotcom bubble burst,2008 global recession, coronavirus,etc. Ups and downs are inevitable,but these developments affectedmillions and left the world to deviseways to minimise the emotional andfinancial loss to people.

If we look at the current sce-nario, around 41 lakh people lostjobs in India according to a reportby the International LabourOrganisation (ILO) and the AsianDevelopment Bank (ADB).However, there were not many joblosses from the IT sector, which ina way has taken up the role of pro-viding a sustainable career to theemployees. With work from homeoption extended to the employees,the sector fared well by capturing theincreased demand for digital.

First, look at the way theemployment practices and the waypeople work has changed over theyears. Many people complain about

the intensification of work andemployment becoming precarious;this leads to a vicious cycle whereuncertainty in jobs can lead todestabilisation of the economy aspeople uncertain of future holdback from taking financial decisionsand it also affects their productivi-ty. The technological changes takingplace require workforce to keepthemselves updated, which meanscontinuous learning like neverbefore. It does require commit-ment from the workforce but it isnot completely possible unless

employers assure security in return.A recent The7thFold’s Employee

Wellbeing Survey 2020 says 50 percent employees in India are worriedabout an uncertain future due to theCovid-19 pandemic, and 36 per centemployees are suffering from men-tal health issues. The survey furthersaid that 40 per cent are stressed bypersonal finances and 40 per cent bycareer growth. In the light of thesefacts, the idea of sustainable careersgains urgency. So, how do you pro-vide sustainable careers?

The road to sustainable careers

has to be traversed by Governments,employers, and employees together.Employees have to work on theemployability through constantlearning and showing flexibility,improve job performance throughup-to-date skills and psychologicalresources, and be able to maintainwork-life balance by being able toaccommodate personal needs effec-tively. The Government, along withthe employers, has to invest inupskilling and development oppor-tunities; come up with legislationand support systems that provide asense of security for employees.Employers also have to pitch in withdevelopment opportunities, securi-ty in employment, and support sys-tem for non-work issues of theemployees. Individuals also have tobe responsible and understand that,apart from the employer and thegovernment, it is their responsibil-ity to invest in employability.

All stakeholders have to worktogether to ensure that careers aresustainable. In the current scenario,it is crucial to work towards it tokeep companies and the economycompetitive and build a healthy soci-ety.

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Cybersecurity is a domain that ismaturingand expandingin leapsand bounds. Cyber security

has gained a lot of attention,from por-trayals in series and movies to jobopportunities, crash courses and aca-demic courses everywhere. One mightwonder why this happened but theanswer is not all that difficult. As weall know, the technological industryhas taken huge strides in the 21st cen-tury with inventions that brought thewhole world to our fingertips. Butwhile it has made our life undeniablyeasier, it also opened up a world ofpossibilities for criminals who couldmake use of the information theworld put up online for the wrong rea-sons. And that is where cyber securi-ty comes in.

Cyber security can be looselydefined as the protection of data thatexists online and that is a very vaguedefinition of a huge term that encom-passes techniques and tools that arevery hard to master. The enticing partis that if a person is able to master thetechniques and tools or even have amoderate understanding of how tomake use of it, the cyber industry willwelcome you with open arms. Withthe pandemic, there is an increasedrisk of data breaches, leaks, andcybercrime, which can prove detri-mental to organisations, across sectors.The need for skilled cyber securityprofessionals is dire as with every pass-ing day, new attacks are being coinedthat are more harmful than the pre-vious. These rising threats requireskilled cybersecurity professionals tohelp ensure safety for individuals aswell as organisations.

There are numerous prospects tobegin and progressas a career incybersecurity. After all, cyber securi-ty is no longer a matter of ‘if ’, but amatter of ‘when’. Let us now take alook at some of the career optionsavailable for someone who is reallypassionate and interested in cybersecurity:

IT Security ConsultantThis is a position that can be

referred to as a stepping stone with-in the industry, security consultantsare usually hired by small businessesthat cannot yet afford to handle theirsecurity issues or even by large MNC'sto act as an unbiased perspective fortheir security issues. They meet upwith clients and on being provided alayout of their security structure,advises them on how to protect theirassets in the most cost-efficient way.

To be hired as a security consultant,the applicant requires a Bachelor’sdegree in CS, cyber security or relat-ed fields and few professional certifi-cations may be a plus point.

Security Systems AdministratorA security systems’ administrator

usually takes care of the security infra-structure in companies; installation,maintenance, troubleshooting differ-ent security systems including dataand network. They are also usuallyinvolved in drawing up organisa-tional security procedures. To work asa security systems administrator, theapplicant needs to hold an Associatedegree in a CS field at the minimum.

IT Security EngineerSecurity engineering gives a par-

ticular way of designing to deal withnetwork protection, explicitly inregards to the plan of security frame-works to counter possibly cataclysmicissues. They are usually associatedwith maintaining the systems, per-forming security checks to distinguishpossible weaknesses along with cre-ating logs to keep track of anymishaps. Employers usually require aBachelor's degree in engineering or CSwhile they are looking to hire a secu-

rity engineer. A few years of experi-ence is preferred.

Ethical Hacker/PenetrationTester

Ethical Hacker/Penetration Testerlooks out for loopholes andweaknessesin IT systems. Penetration testing isa method deployed by security pro-fessionals on systems to proactivelyfind any vulnerabilities. The testershack (with authorisation) into the sys-tem's infrastructure to weed out anysystem vulnerabilities, issues withany of the application software's,configuration issues, zero-day vul-nerabilities and more. The aim behindpenetration testing is to look at a sys-tem from an intruder’s perspective anddiscover all the issues before theattacker can cause any real damage. Abachelor’s degree in cyber security orclosely related subjects along withother professional certifications areusually possessed by an aspiring pen-etration tester.

Compliance and AuditingTo step into this domain of cyber

security, zero programming skillsarerequired. Learn about underlyingtechnology and business models. Onemust understand how businesses

operate so they can protect them andensure new regulations don’t hindercompany innovation. Gain some realtime exposure by working with com-pany officials and managers by grab-bing some internships. Study indus-try best practices, like those from theNIST, SANS or Center for InternetSecurity, as well as regulated standardslike HIPAA, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001,SOX, etc. to understand how tomakeyour organisation compliant withoutnegatively impacting productivity.

Forensics Analyst/InvestigatorForensics analysts focus on cyber-

crime, an ever-growing phenomenon.They work with law enforcementpersonnel and agencies in both pub-lic and private sector organisations.Computer forensic analysts must keepa well detailed records of their inves-tigations, and often provide evidencein court.This role needs you to bemeticulous with how you handle evi-dence and even requires training thefirst responders on how to deal withelectronic evidences such as comput-ers, hard drives or portable drives.

Incident Analyst/ResponderIncident analysts/responders are

an asset to an organisation and are

mostly professionals who have under-gone Cyber Security incident responsetraining. Their responsibility entailsquickly resolving threat issues and tak-ing necessary steps to prevent any fur-ther such attacks.

Chief Information SecurityOfficer

One of the higher positions thatis up for grabs within the cyber field,a CISO typically supervises an organ-isation’s IT security division. They aredirectly accountable for organisingand directing all the security relatedissues and needs of the company. Theyinteract with upper management tocome up with detailed plans to ensurethe cyber security of the company.CISO’s typically hold a bachelor’s incyber security along with a few yearsof experience and large companiesprefer that they hold a master's degreein cyber security.

These are just a few titles amonghundreds that are available within theInfoSec industry. If you have the pas-sion, with the accurate training andpractice, even you can become askilled cyber security professional.

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The B-Schools have been usingtechnology to impart education

and the covid pandemic has madethem use it in an extensive manner.Right from teaching, learning tofeedback and assessment, many B-Schools now use the tools infor-mation technology to automateprocesses. Going for full-fledgedautomation in education has beencriticised by many, but automationbrings a lot of flexibility, efficien-cy and also helps in understandingthe student’s requirement better.Many Indian B-Schools havealmost accepted that blended (amix of online and off-line) is goingto be the future. Some importantinfluences of technology in B-School’s processes are noteworthy.

Use of Big data to gaininsights: Some B-Schools are usingbig data analytics to draw insightson patterns of students who arehighly successful in creating start-ups or even getting great offersfrom corporate. Some B-Schoolsare using the past data to create pre-dictive models which are helpingthem to select the right candidatesfor the management programoffered by the B-School. There areothers who are using the insightsto understand the area of academ-ic strength and weakness of stu-dents, so that it can be addressed

effectively.Use of Artificial Intelligence

in assessment: As assessmentshave gone fully online, some B-Schools are using tools of ArtificialIntelligence (AI) to understandthe behavioural aspects of studentswhich is helping in making assess-ment intelligent and also person-alised. Thanks to AI — aspectsrelated to which student spenthow much time on a question andits relation to the difficulty levelgives immense insights to makeassessment intelligent and alsohelps in fine tuning the questionpaper to become better. Thesetools also give options to make thequestions and the question papercustomised to the individual basedon his/her ability to answer aquestion.

Gamification of education:Gamification of education is adeveloping approach for increasinglearners’ motivation and engage-ment by incorporating game designelements in educational environ-ments. With the growing popular-ity of gamification some Indian B-Schools have started using gamifi-cation in teaching learning and alsoin assessing the students. B-Schoolshave started using gamification forlearning as this educationalapproach to motivate students to

learn by using video game designand game elements in learningenvironments. The objective is tomaximise enjoyment and engage-ment through capturing the inter-est of students and inspiring themto learn with zeal.

Learning ManagementSystems: While there are some B-schools which are using the videoconferring tools like zoom, webexetc , many Indian B-Schools haveadopted Learning ManagementSystems (LMS) and have automat-ed their academic processes.Presently many B-School are usingLMSs to focus on online learningdelivery, the fact is that LMS sup-ports a range of uses like- acting asa platform for online content shar-ing (both asynchronous based andsynchronous), helping in class-room management for instructor-led training or a flipped classroom,helps in administration, docu-mentation, tracking, reporting andin a plethora of academic process-es. In short B-Schools are usingtechnology to identify the needs ofindividuals, track student devel-opment. Technology is helping B-Schools to simplify access to edu-cational resources and improvingthe learning experience.

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The IIM Udaipur InvitesApplications for one-

year MBA in Global SupplyChain Management forexperienced professionalsonly. The CAT Scores of2018 onward are beingadditionally considered forthis year admissions.

The online applicationcycle will end on October31, 2020.

The announcement ofresults will be on November18, 2020.

The registration atIIMU will be on May 5,2021.

The eligibility is a min-imum of Class XII of schooleducation and three years ofuniversity education with aBachelor’s degree or equiv-alent in any discipline; ValidGMAT/GRE score; andthree years of full-time workexperience as of March 31,2021.

For more informationand updates, visit ,https://www.iimu.ac.in/one-year-mba-gscm/.

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After extensive discussionswith a large number of peo-ple from different sectors,

teachers, educationists, policy mak-ers, institutions and voluntaryorganisations, the Government ofIndia approved the NationalEducation Policy 2020, drafted bya committee headed by DrKasturirangan. The NEP-2020 is asignificant milestone in the histo-ry of Indian Education. The NEPis complete, comprehensive, far-sighted, visionary and plays a vitalrole in shaping the future of India.

The National Education Policy(NEP) laid the foundation for a'New India' of the 21st century, thePrime Minister, Narendra Modi said during his inaugural speechof a conclave on “Transformational Reforms in Higher Educationunder the NEP”.

The New Education policy places a welcome emphasis on aholistic, student-centric, flexible system that aims to transform Indiainto a vibrant knowledge and Science & Technology - based soci-ety. The NEP is an appropriate balance of Indian ethos, Indian cul-ture, pride and acceptance of the best ideas and learning practicesfrom across the globe. The vision of NEP-2020 is truly global andat the same time Indian.

The policy gives a fillip to holistic education by envisioningthe much needed and long awaited convergence of science and artsstreams. NEP's sharp focus is on research, multi-disciplinaryapproaches and use of technology, and professional upgradationof teachers' competence to transform the landscape of Indian edu-cation. Undoubtedly, the NEP is poised to yield outstanding resultsin the fields of higher education, research and innovations, Science& Technology development in the country.

Many of you are aware that there had been no changes in theeducation system for many years, resulting in the promotion of a‘herd mentality’ in the Indian society instead of the values of thecuriosity and the imagination.

Higher Education is a critical contributor to sustainable liveli-hood and economic development of the nation. Higher educationalso plays a large and equally important role in developing India.Higher education aims to serve as a hub for developing ideas andinnovations that enlighten individuals and help propel the coun-try forward socially, scientifically, technologically and economically.

It is a fact that science and technology is the established cur-rency in the geo-political world. Any country that has madeadvances in prosperity has invariably depended on Science andTechnology. England became a world power; it was because of theindustrial revolution. U.S became a superpower, it was primarilybecause of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agricul-ture, high-tech industry, medicine etc. I am very optimistic andconfident that implementation of the NEP-2020 definitely con-tributes to technology development and quality education and willlay the foundation for New India of the 21st century.

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In our new normal, volatile andunpredictable world, LiberalArts is trending; there is an

exponential digitisation of jobspost-COVID-19; and industriesare increasingly relying on humanempathy-driven AI interventionsand creativity.

Today, there’s such a widevariety of subject combinations,specialisations and careers onoffer that it is confusing not justfor students but sometimes also foreducators.

To add to this, the NewEducation Policy (NEP) 2020,which encourages holistic multi-disciplinary education, is set forimplementation.

This is great news for studentsbecause to acquire the in-demandknowledge and skills for a suc-cessful career, interdisciplinarystudies are highly recommended.With the implementation of NEP2020, students will not only get tostudy the subjects of their choiceand excel in them but also pursuetheir dream careers thereafter.

Let’s take a look at some of thenewage specialisations.

Cognitive Science: Love tostudy both biology and psycholo-gy? This combination could yieldmany specialisations like

Cognitive Science. A scientificstudy of the human mind, thistrending field combines theknowledge of psychology, com-puter science, linguistics, philos-ophy and neuroscience. There’simmense scope in AI systemsthat aim to mimic human thoughtprocesses. Such an expert canfind job opportunities in the fieldsof education, psychology, artificialintelligence, data analysis, productdesign, marketing, research andconsulting. The average salary inIndia ranges from �4.5 lakh-�9lakh per annum and abroad it’s$72,000 per annum.

Behavioural Finance orBehavioural Economics: Theimpact of the complexities ofhuman behaviour on both globaland local market trends and thestock exchanges has led to theemergence of these fascinatingfields. By studying psychologyalong with economics, finance,accountancy or maths, one cantake informed decisions to max-imise profits. Banking, finance,investment, planning, consulting,teaching and research are somemajor areas of employment. InIndia, �9.6 lakh to �15 lakh perannum is the expected salary(One-three years experience). The

average salary abroad is approxi-mately $82,000 per annum.

Molecular Gastronomy: Areyou a gourmet who aspires tobecome a chef and has a deepinterest in understanding the sci-ence behind flavours? ThenMolecular Gastronomy could verywell be your calling. A sub-disci-pline of food science, this spe-cialisation is about the art and thescience of flavours. Its focus is ongourmet cuisine and on providinga sublime gastronomical experi-ence.

A basic understanding of thesciences along with undergradstudies in home science, food sci-ences or culinary arts is highly rec-ommended. Job opportunitiesabound in the hotel, restaurant,catering and food industry, whichis taking pride in alluring cus-tomers with new molecular gas-tronomy-oriented menus. Theaverage salary would be the sameas that of an Executive Chef of aleading hotel chain, — �9 lakh perannum. The average salary abroadis around $55,000 per annum.

Genetics Law: Today, youdon’t need to choose between acareer as a legal expert and a bio-scientist. A degree in Genetics Lawcan take you beyond the lab to the

courtroom.An LLB qualification with a

specialisation in Genetics Lawwill enable you to handle complexcases concerning disputes relatedto gene manipulation, intellectu-al property, environmental law andmore. Employment opportuni-ties are on the rise in law firms,research labs, government depart-ments, hospitals, etc. The averagesalary, in India, ranges from Rs 4.5lakh to Rs 12 lakh p.a. Averagesalary abroad is approx. US$100,000 p.a.

Cliodynamics: This is a futur-istic trans-disciplinary specialisa-tion, which combines history andother social sciences with mathe-matics and statistics for a moreaccurate prediction of futuretrends. The demand forCliodynamicists is slated to boomin our increasingly volatile andunpredictable world.

Research, teaching and con-sulting in private and governmentorganisations as well as NGOs willbe some of the major arenas ofemployment. Salaries will be in thetop 10% bracket of various pres-tigious organisations.

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In a post lockdown era, the pre-paredness for reopening of academicinstitutes will call for a substantial

rejig on multiple levels. And, qualityeducation will no longer be the onlymandate. Creating a COVID-safe envi-ronment for students, faculty, and staffwill be one of the many priorities acrossacademic establishments.

In India, overflowing classrooms isa common sight. With the pandemicshowing no sign of slowing down, cre-ating a safe educational experiencewill first require efficient strategizingand planning.

Staggered occupancy with spacedout seating needs to be accounted for.Although, scheduling parallel batchesand mapping them to the availability offaculty members will be a formidabletask. In addition to social distancingnorms, universities will also have toimplement regular sanitation, on-cam-pus testing, and decontamination pro-cedures on priority.

Moreover, outstation students, staff,faculty, and visitors traveling to andfrom COVID-19 affected areas presenta major area of concern. The potentialfor rapid transmission in a congregatesetting within campus environments isextremely high. While current predic-tions maintain that it's unlikely that allstudents, faculty members, and staff willreturn to campus simultaneously, quar-antine protocols and safe commuteoptions will have to be established forall. The scale of planning, managing,and implementing this in itself will bea mammoth undertaking.

Travel restrictions and staggeredsemesters present a plethora of ques-tions for university administrators.How will international students bypasstravel restrictions? And, should studentsprefer to continue with remote learn-ing, how are universities expected tooptimize the overhead costs of a semi-functional campus?

Seemingly viable alternatives areswiftly catapulting into challenging sit-uations for senior leadership. However,switching to virtual, off-campus modesof teaching has created a multitude ofspeculations regarding the necessity ofcharging full fees for services students

cannot use on campus. Demandsaround refunds for residential fees arealso on the rise. Forcing many univer-sities to deliberate on revised fee struc-tures that are more aligned to the neweducation model.

The sudden onset of a worldwidelockdown has left students, particular-ly those aspiring to begin higher edu-cation, in an unapprehend situation.Most companies have canceled theirinternship-programmes. Universitieswill need to come up with viable,online, or offline alternatives to reducethe risk of students losing out on real-world learning, hands-on training, andfield projects.

With recruiters rescinding offersand deferring joining dates owing to thecrisis, universities will struggle withfinal-year student placements. Due tothe rapid decline in the global econo-my, organisations will be functioning ata cost-saving mode for the next coupleof years, which means fewer jobs.Therefore, most academic institutes willhave to level up to remain agile and flex-ible in the face of unforeseen hurdles.Universities, faculty, and students willhave to work in tandem to successful-ly ride over this crisis.

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degree in the US andCanada. The mission is toassist women from developingcountries to improve the livesof women and children intheir countries. Indians canapply.

Eligibility: Be at least 25years old; Be a national of acountry listed on the MMEGCountry Eligibility List; Beenrolled (not just accepted) atan accredited academic insti-tution when submitting theapplication; Not be related toa World Bank Group,International Monetary Fundor Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank staffmember or spouse;.

Supporting documents:Brief paragraphs of your per-sonal story, and a descriptionof how your studies, experi-ences and future plans arelinked to your commitment towomen and children in devel-oping countries.

An estimate of your finan-cial situation for the comingacademic year, and plannedstrategies to cover fundingneeds.

A summary of your the-sis (if applicable), including itsobjective, methodology andfindings, and relationship tocareer goals.

Two reference letters arerequired. Referee 1 must be

a professor from your currentuniversity. Referee 2 may befrom a person (non-familymember) who can vouch foryour character. At least one ofthe individuals must haveknown you for the equivalentof at least two semesters.

English languagerequirements: Applicantswhose first language is notEnglish are usually required toprovide evidence of profi-ciency in English at the high-er level required by the uni-versity.

How to apply: The modeof applying is online. Pleasescan the following documentsin digital form (pdf preferred,jpeg or png): Identification(ID) card with photo: Nationalpassport page with photo anddate of birth, if studying out-side your home country, orGovernment/university-issued identity card withphoto and birth date;

Most recent proof of offi-cial registration from univer-sity (not their acceptance let-ter).

Most recent official uni-versity transcripts and/orreports.

Visa page or study permitpage within the current pass-port (if studying outside homecountry).

Second passport pagewith a clear photo (in case ofdual citizenship).

Application deadline: It isJanuary 15, 2021.

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ShikharDhawan’s his-

toric hundredwent in vainas Kings XIPunjab out-played table

leaders DelhiCapitals by five

wickets for theirthird straight win tokeep their play-offhopes alive in the IPLon Tuesday.

Dhawan becamethe first batsman to hitback-to-back IPL hun-

dreds with his unbeaten106 off 61 balls being thesole bright spot in Delhi’s164 for five.

For a change, it endedup being a straightforward

chase for KXIP despite a rarefailure from their opening

pair of K L Rahul (15) andMayank Agarwal (5), whohad done the bulk of the scor-ing for the team in earlier

games.Nicholas Pooran (53 off

28) came up with another blind-er of a knock and Glenn

Maxwell (32 off 24) finally foundsome form to set up the win.

Jimmy Neesham (10 not out off8) hit the winning six as KXIP gothome in 19 overs.

With KXIP’s in-form top threegone cheaply, it was a stiff test fortheir shaky middle-order whichcame good on the night.

Rahul miss-hit one tomid-on while Agarwal gotrun out after a big mix-up withPooran.

Gayle once again looked

in ominous touch but departedsoon after hammering TusharDeshpande in his opening over thatwent for 26 runs. R Ashwin foundthe Jamaican’s stumps with a slid-er.

With KXIP at 63 for 3 insidethe powerplay, it was left to Pooranand Maxwell to bail the team out.

Pooran eased the pressure withanother display of clean hitting. Hisblitzkrieg propelled KXIP to 101 forthree in first 10 overs with only 64to get from the last 60 balls.

The West Indian was not ableto see the team through butMaxwell finally got some runsunder his belt to take the team closeto victory.

Earlier, Shikhar Dhawan’s sen-sational effort took Delhi Capitalsto 164 for five after his team optedto bat. His memorable inningsincluded 12 fours and three sixes.

It seemed he was batting on adifferent surface with the secondhighest score of the innings com-ing from skipper Shreyas Iyer andRishabh Pant, who made 14 each.

KXIP bowled well at the backend of the innings to restrict DC tobelow 180 with lead pacerMohammed Shami (2/28) being thestand out performer.

Fresh off a hundred in the lastgame, Dhawan crossed the 5000-run mark in the IPL by sweepingleggie Ravi Bishnoi for a six overdeep square-leg, becoming the fifthbatsmen to do so in the tourna-ment’s history.

He got to his century, anotherlandmark, with a double off left-arm pacer Arshdeep Singh.

However, he did not get therequired support from the otherend as Delhi ended with a below-par total.

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Hyderabad’s MohammedSiraj will fight it out with

Mumbai’s Shardul Thakur toclaim the fifth bowler’s spot inthe Test format for the upcom-ing Australia tour while Gujaratleft-arm spinner Axar Patel isalso likely to be in contention fora place in India’s consolidatedsquad.

With the two white ballseries (T20Is and ODIs) slatedbefore the marquee four-Testrubber, the selection committeeunder Sunil Joshi’s chairmanshipis expected to pick a jumbosquad for all three formats whenit meets later this week.

With two senior pacersBhuvneshwar Kumar (thighinjury) and Ishant Sharma (sidestrain) all but ruled out, NavdeepSaini will certainly be the fourthpacer after Mohd Shami, JaspritBumrah and Umesh Yadav.

The fifth pacer’s slot in Testmatches may go to Siraj, who hasdone well in longer version forIndia A and his Ranji side.

Shardul Thakur, who canswing the new ball, will also jos-

tle for that place. He had a night-marish Test debut againstWindies when he suffered amuscle pull while bowling hisvery first over.

“Siraj has really done well forIndia A over the past few sea-sons. I think he is a better redball bowler and could be veryhandy in Australian conditions,”former chairman of selectorsMSK Prasad told PTI.

According to Prasad, thenew selection committee couldlook at Shivam Mavi who hethinks has it in him to becomean all-format bowler in nearfuture. “Mavi could be givenexposure as an extra pacer atleast in white ball and may begroomed later for red ball,”Prasad opined.

Shardul and his CSK team-mate Deepak Chahar will cer-tainly be a part of the white ballformat side where Umesh Yadavis unlikely to find a place.

As far as wicketkeepers areconcerned, there will be four inthe squad.

KL Rahul will be the firstchoice in white ball cricket withRishabh Pant (all formats) and

Sanju Samson (only T20s) alsojoining him. WriddhimanSaha, as usual, will be Pant’sunderstudy in the Tests.

Similarly, India have achock-a-bloc opening slot withRohit Sharma, MayankAgarwal, Prithvi Shaw,Shubman Gill available for allformats. With Rahul andShikhar Dhawan therefor limited oversmatches, India havesix players capableof facing the newball.

The middleorder will large-ly depend onskipper ViratKohli, ShreyasIyer, ManishPandey andHardik Pandya(all white ball).

W i t hHardik notb o w l i n g ,Shivam Dubecould be theback-up all-rounder inwhite ball. The spinnersin limited overs could be

WashingtonSundar (only

T20s), Yuzvendra Chahal,Kuldeep Yadav and RavindraJadeja. Axar Patel’s perfor-

mance may not go unno-ticed. He is doing well in the

ongoing IPL for the Delhi

Capitals. In Tests, it will be RAshwin, Jadeja and if requiredKuldeep Yadav.

Hanuma Vihari, Pujara andAjinkya Rahane are Test special-ists in the line-up.

��!� ������ Windies legendBrian Lara was full of praises forKings XI Punjab skipper KLRahul, saying he is reallyimpressed by him and love theway he bats. Lara said he wouldwant KL Rahul on his Test, ODIand T20 teams. Rahul continuesto be in excellent formand remains in front inthe race for the OrangeCap with 540 runs from10 games.

In fact, since April2018, KL Rahul (1792)has accumulated themost number ofruns, including arecord 19 fifties, inthe IPL. The second inthis list, veteran Indiaopener Shikhar Dhawan

(465 runs this ongoing season),is 309 runs away with 1483 runs.

“He’s my test batsman, he’smy 50-over batsman and he’s myT20 batsman,” Brian Lara saidon Star Sports.

“As a captain, he has donevery well. I love the way he bats,love the way he puts them

together. Yes he struggled tofinish off matches towards thebeginning but now he’s look-ing to improve that too,” Lara

said.This is not the first

time Lara has heapedpraise on KL Rahul. Theformer West Indies bats-man had earlier termedRahul as his favourite

batsman and hailedhis technique. PNS

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Kolkata Knight Riders havefinally found their mojo with

the late inclusion of tearaway pacerLockie Ferguson and they wouldlook to avenge their first leg routby the star-studded RoyalChallengers Bangalore when thetwo sides clash in the IPL here onWednesday.

It needed KKR ninegames, and a change ofcaptaincy, to realise thetrue potential of theWorld Cup star pacer forrunners-up NewZealand, and when the EoinMorgan-led side finally broughthim in, he blew away SunrisersHyderabad with his relentless paceand variations.

Ferguson made all the differ-ence to KKR’s yet another ordinaryshow, returning with sensationalfigures of 3/15 (four overs) and 2/2from three balls in Super-Over.

The imposing bowler, who

returned with just two wickets fromfive games for KKR last season, wason the go from his first ball whenhe claimed his Kiwi skipper KaneWilliamson, brilliantly mixing uphis raw pace with slow deliveries tonail the opposition.

It’s a welcome inclusion forthe Morgan-led KKR (10 points)who are placed fourth with five

matches left andFerguson will be theirkey man to takethem to theplayoffs ata timew h e n

their star Aussierecruit PatC u m m i n s(three wicketsfrom ninematches) is not makingmuch of an impact of late.

AB de Villiers’ incred-ible assault of 73 not outfrom 33 balls, which hadled to an 82-run defeat not

many days ago, will be still fresh intheir minds.

It will be interesting to see howMorgan uses Ferguson against thelikes of De Villiers, RCB skipperVirat Kohli and opener Aaron

Finch.Ferguson’s inclusion

gave the much-neededimpetus to the side, butKKR are still strugglingwith their star all-rounder

Andre Russell whocapped yet anotherflop show with thebat.

Their go-toman in the lastedition, Russellhas just 92runs fromnine matchesat an averageof 11.50. The

o p p o s i t i o nbowlers seem tohave found out his

weakness for short

deliveries.If his abysmal form was not

enough, the Jamaican has alsopicked up some niggles on the fieldand it would not be a bad ploy togive him a breather.

In spin, it remains to be seenwhether they bring in Sunil Narine,whose action has been cleared.

Kuldeep Yadav, who too wasincluded against SRH after beingbenched for eight matches, lookeddecent along with their regularspinner Varun Chakravarthy.

RCB, on the other hand, areahead of KKR by two points andoccupy the third place in the tableafter their seven-wicket win overRajasthan Royals.

De Villiers has been in omi-nous form for them and single-handedly won the game with anunbeaten 55 from 22 balls in their178-run chase against the Royals.

Skipper Virat Kohli will alsolook to convert his starts as theylook to brighten their playoff hopeswith a double against KKR.

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day-night pink ball Test duringEngland’s big-ticket tour of

India early next year, BCCIpresident Sourav Gangulysaid on Tuesday.

England are slatedto visit India fromJanuary-March for fiveTests and a limitedovers series.

“Ahmedabadwill hold the day-night Test,”Ganguly said.

Owing to asurge in Covid-19 case load inIndia in the

recent past, there had been speculations thatthe series could be shifted to the UAE, wherethe IPL 2020 is currently underway. But theBCCI is determined to host England in thecountry and is already exploring all possibleoptions, including creating bio-secure bubbles.

Ahmedabad, Dharamsala and Kolkata arelikely to be the three venues for the Test series,but Ganguly said they are yet to take a finalcall.

“We have made some tentative plans butnothing has been decided as of now. We stillhave four months’ time,” said Ganguly.

The BCCI president said their priority isthe upcoming Australia tour, the team selec-tion for which will happen in a few days.

“Before England, we have Australia seriescoming up. There will be team selection hap-pening in a few days.” PTI

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