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MAHENDERSINGHMANRALNEWDELHI, AUGUST3

THIS INDEPENDENCE Day, theskylineoverRedFortwillbefreeof kites.Atleast,that'swhattheDelhi

PoliceisaimingforonAugust15,which is also the national capi-tal'sunofficial kite-flyingday.In a first-of-its-kind security

outreach to prevent stray kitesfrom falling insideRed Fort dur-ing thePrimeMinister's address

tothenationandtheflag-hoistingceremony,thepolicehavesoughtthe cooperation of 231 regularkite-flyers from thewalled cityareatoensureaclearskyforaboutthreehoursthatmorning.That'snotall.The police in Delhi's north

district,whereRedFortislocated,have also identified around 350rooftop locations where theirpersonnelwill carry long bam-boo sticks to snag stray kites. Atonepoint,theyhadevenplannedto rope in skilled kite-flyers tosnap the strings of others' kitesbutthatmovewaslatershelved.According to a senior police

officer, the new Delhi PoliceCommissioner, Sanjay Arora,

was briefed about the initiativewhen he sought a presentationabout the force's preparationsfor IndependenceDayhours af-ter takingchargeonMonday.“Immediately, thenorthand

central district DCPs, and DCP(securitydivision),wereaskedtocomewith their presentations.They informed the police chiefthat they have identified allskilled kite-flyers of their area,andthattheywillkeepthemen-gaged from 6 am to 9 am onAugust15,” theofficer said.“Theyalsoinformedhimthat

some skilled kite-flyers offeredtostopotherflyersalsotill9am,”theofficer said.

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Centrehopes to introducenewlegislation inwintersessionof Parliament

National Herald case: ED seals YoungIndian office; Cong says ‘under siege’

TheEDnoticeoutsidetheofficeofYoungIndian inNewDelhionWednesday.Express

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICENEWDELHI, AUGUST3

A DAY after the EnforcementDirectorate (ED) initiated asearch operation at HeraldHouse in Delhi in connectionwithamoneylaunderingprobe,the agency on WednesdaysealedanofficeinthebuildingofYoung Indian—a firm linked to

theGandhifamily,whichhadac-quired Associated JournalsLimited, the publisher ofNationalHeraldnewspaper.SourcesintheEDsaidtheof-

ficewas sealed temporarily be-cause the search could not takeplaceonTuesdayintheabsenceof a representativeof the firm.“The principal officer

Mallikarjun Kharge (Congressleader) came yesterday but left

thepremiseswithoutgettingthesearches conducted. Summonshave been sent to the principalofficer(Kharge)togetthesearchconcluded.Asandwhentheau-thorised person presents him-self for concluding the search,the sealwill be lifted,” anEDof-ficer toldThe IndianExpress.TheDelhiPolice,meanwhile,

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Need committee tolook at freebies issue,suggest measures: SCCJIbenchseekssuggestions inaweekfromall stakeholders—Govt toOpp

ANANTHAKRISHNANGNEWDELHI, AUGUST3

WITHTHECentre infavourofanendtofreebiesbypoliticalpartiesusing publicmoney to lure vot-ers, the Supreme CourtWednesday sought suggestionsfrom petitioners and respon-dents,inapleaseekingdirectionsagainstfreebies,onthecomposi-tionofacommitteewhichcangointo the issue "dispassionately"andmakerecommendations.

The bench of Chief Justice ofIndia N V Ramana and JusticesKrishnaMurari andHimaKohlisaid, “After hearing the counsel,the considered opinion of thecourt is that... all the stakehold-ers,thebeneficiariesandthepeo-plewhoareopposingthesefree-bies, and in addition to that thegovernmentaswellasorganisa-tions like Niti Aayog, FinanceCommission,RBIandOppositionparties... have to be involved inthe process of making some

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PVAIDYANATHANIYERNEWDELHI, AUGUST3

WHOWILL bell the cat? This isthequestionandtherefraininthehighest echelons of the bureau-cracyas it looksatdirestateeco-nomicdata andplansonhowtorespond to the SupremeCourt’sprodforsuggestions inthewakeof the PrimeMinister’s flaggingthepoliticsof freebies(revadi).The Indian Express spoke to

key officials in the UnionMinistry of Finance; stateFinance Ministers; ElectionCommission of India, FifteenthFinanceCommission,NitiAayog,

the Reserve Bank of India, andthe Comptroller and AuditorGeneral and found a consensusonthreekey issues.One,boththeCentreandthe

states have been liberal withhandouts—supporttopoorbyastateiscalledafreebiebyCentre,andviceversa.Two,existinglawsandmandates do not allowECI,CAG,NitiAayog,andtheFinanceCommissiontostep in.And,three,theCentreiswary

that any unilateral curbs onstateswillallowpoliticalleadersthere to blame PrimeMinisterNarendra Modi for not lettingthem“dogood” for thepeople.

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SC collegium decides:Freeze on new postingsuntil next CJI takes over

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APURVAVISHWANATHNEWDELHI, AUGUST3

THESUPREMECourtcollegium,headed by Chief Justice of IndiaN V Ramana, metWednesdayanddecidedtonotmakeanyrec-ommendation for the appoint-mentof judgesuntilthenextCJI,JusticeUULalit, takesover laterthismonth.Hours after themeeting, the

Secretariat of the CJI said that ithas received a communicationat9.30pm,datedAugust3,fromtheUnionLawMinisterrequest-ing the CJI to “recommend thenameofhis successor”.At the collegiummeeting, it

islearntthatsomemembersex-pressed their opinion that itwould bemore prudent towait

until the next CJI takes over forthe appointments to be recom-mended forhighcourts and theSupremeCourt.CJIRamanaissetto retireonAugust26.According to established

convention, the collegiumdoesnotmakeany fresh recommen-dation for such appointmentsonce the incumbent CJI

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Uttarakhand plans ‘Modi Circuit’ inCorbett, map is Man vs Wild episodeAVANEESHMISHRADEHRADUN,AUGUST3

THE UTTARAKHAND govern-mentisworkingontouristcircuitsforMaaBhagwati, Shiva,Vishnu,Nav-grah, Golju Maharaj,Nagdevta,Hanuman,andViveka-nand.Nextupisa'ModiCircuit'.The state Tourism Depart-

ment isworking out a trail thatwill cover theplacesvisitedandactivitiesdonebyPrimeMinisterNarendraModiduringaspecialepisode of the survival realityshow ‘Man vsWild’, with BearGrylls, shot inside the JimCorbett National Park inUttarakhand.Seniorofficialssaidtheyhave

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Concern in Delhiover not being partof US-led criticalminerals allianceGiven India’sEVandelectronicspush,rareearthmineralsvital togrowth

MIHIRMISHRA&AANCHALMAGAZINENEWDELHI, AUGUST3

THEREISgrowingconcernintheGovernmentoverIndianotfind-ing a place in the MineralsSecurity Partnership, an ambi-tiousnewUS-ledpartnershiptosecure supply chains of criticalminerals,aimedatreducingde-pendencyonChina.The Union FinanceMinistry

is learnt tohave communicatedwith the Ministry of ExternalAffairs toexplore thepossibilityof howNewDelhi can join the11-membergroup,asenioroffi-cial toldThe IndianExpress.This assumes significance

given that one of the key ele-mentsof India’sgrowthstrategyispoweredbyanambitiousshiftin the mobility space throughthe conversionof a large part ofpublic and private transport toelectricvehicles.This, alongsidea concerted electronicsmanu-facturing push, underlines theneedtosecurethesupplyofcrit-icalminerals.

Besides the US, theMSP in-cludes Australia, Canada,Finland,France,Germany,Japan,the Republic of Korea, Sweden,United Kingdom, and theEuropeanCommission.The new grouping, industry

insiders say, could focus on thesupply chains of minerals suchas Cobalt, Nickel, Lithium andalsothe17“rareearth”minerals.While Cobalt, Nickel and

Lithiumare required for batter-iesused inelectricvehicles, rareearth minerals are critical, intrace amounts, in the semicon-ductors and high-end electron-icsmanufacturing.This new alliance is seen as

beingprimarilyfocusedonevolv-inganalternativetoChina,whichhascreatedprocessinginfrastruc-ture in rare earthminerals andhas acquiredmines in Africa forelementssuchascobalt.India's exclusion from the

MSP comes when there is re-newed cooperation withWashington DC on multipleotherfronts,includingthe'Quad'informal grouping that brings

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BIGTECHfirmshadques-tionedthedatalocalisationprovision,underwhichtheyneededtostoreacopyof sensitivepersonaldatawithinIndiaandexportofundefined“critical”per-sonaldatawasprohibited.

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Who will bell revadicat? EC to Niti, Financeto RBI, why hands tied

Govtwithdraws data protection Bill tobring revamped, refreshed regulationSOUMYARENDRABARIKNEWDELHI, AUGUST3

THE GOVERNMENT has with-drawn the Personal DataProtection Bill from Parliamentas it looks to come up with a“comprehensive legal frame-work”forregulatingonlinespaceincludingseparatelegislationondataprivacy, theoverall internetecosystem, cybersecurity, tele-

comregulations,andharnessingnon-personal data for boostinginnovation inthecountry.This comes after nearly four

years of the Bill being in theworks, where it went throughmultiple iterations including areview by a Joint Committee ofParliament (JCP), and facedpushbackfromarangeof stake-holders including tech compa-niesandprivacyactivists.According to IT Ministry

sources, the government is tar-geting the winter session ofParliamenttointroducethenewlegislation.Aseniorofficialsaidthenew

Billwill incorporatethebroaderideas of data protection as rec-ommended by the JCP andwillbe in line with the SupremeCourt’s landmark judgment of2017inwhichitheldprivacyasafundamental right.Giventhesignificantnumber

of amendments suggested bytheJCP,theneedtocomprehen-sivelyredrawthecontoursofthelegislationwasnecessitated,theofficial said.The data protection Bill has

been in the works since 2018when a panel, led by retiredSupremeCourtjudgeJusticeBNSrikrishna,hadpreparedadraftversion of the Bill. After that, itwas reviewed by a JCP which

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PMLA rulingdangerous,hope it will beshort-lived:16 Opp parties

MANOJCGNEWDELHI, AUGUST3

THESUPREMECourt’sjudgmentupholdingtheconstitutionalva-lidity of provisions of thePrevention of Money Laun-dering Act relating to theEnforcement Directorate’s po-werofarrest,attachment,searchand seizure has united theOpposition,with16partiesissu-ing a joint statement Wed-nesday, calling it a “dangerousverdict” which they hopedwillbe “short-lived”.Signatories to the statement

include the TMC and AAP, twoparties which had beenmain-taining distance from theCongress-led Opposition bloc,andindependentMPKapilSibal.Sourcessaidconsiderableef-

fort bymany leaderswent intogetting several Opposition par-tiestosignthejointletter.Asen-ior Opposition leader called itoneofthe“rareinstances”whenmost Opposition parties haveshown unity of purpose.WhiletheTMCreachedouttotheAAP,

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Mineral alliancetogether theUS, Japan, Australiaand India. As part of this group-ing, aQuadVaccine Partnershipwasannouncedlastyear.SubsequenttotheQuad,India

was included as amember of aneweconomic grouping along-side Israel, theUAEandtheUS--theI2U2--thatfocusesonsixkeyareasofcooperation:health,wa-ter, transportation, foodsecurity,space andenergy. ThenewMSPgroupingisaimedatcatalysingin-vestmentfromgovernmentsandtheprivatesectorforstrategicop-portunities."Demandforcriticalminerals,

whichare essential for cleanen-ergy and other technologies, isprojectedtoexpandsignificantlyin the comingdecades. TheMSPwill help catalyse investmentfromgovernments and the pri-vatesectorforstrategicopportu-nities—acrossthefullvaluechain— that adhere to thehighest en-vironmental, social, and gover-nancestandards,”theUSStatede-partment said in a June 14statement.Indiaisseenasalatemoverin

attempts to enter the lithiumvalue chain, coming at a timewhen EVs are predicted to be asectorripefordisruption.Theyear2022 is likely to be an inflectionpoint for battery technology –with several potential improve-ments to the Li-ion technology,andalternativestothistried-and-tested formulation in advancedstagesofcommercialisation.Inmid-2020,India,througha

newlyfloatedstate-ownedcom-pany, had signed an agreementwithanArgentinianfirmtojointlyprospect lithium in the SouthAmerican country that has thethirdlargestreservesofthemetalintheworld.Thecompany,KhanijBidesh India Ltd, was incorpo-rated in August 2019 by threestate-ownedcompanies,NALCO,HindustanCopper, andMineralExplorationLtd,withthespecificmandatetoacquirestrategicmin-eral assets such as lithium andcobalt abroad. The company isalsoexploringoptionsinChileandBolivia,andinAustralia.Rare earth comprises seven-

teenelements andare classifiedas light RE elements (LREE) andheavyREelements(HREE).SomeRE are available in India such asLanthanum, Cerium,Neodymium,PraseodymiumandSamarium,while others such asDysprosium,Terbium,EuropiumthatareclassifiedasHREEarenotavailableinIndiandepositsinex-tractablequantity.Hence,thereisadependence

on countries such as China forHREE,whichisoneoftheleadingproducers of RE with an esti-mated 70per cent of the globalproduction. Industrywatcherssay that one reason Indiawouldnot have found a place in thegrouping is because the countrydoesnotbringmuchexpertisetothe table. In thegroup, countries

likeAustraliaandCanadahavere-servesandalsotechnologytoex-tract them and countries likeJapan have the technology toprocess.

PMLA rulingTRSandSibal,theCongressspoketotheotherpartiesincludingtheLeft,DMK,NCPandRJD.SeveralOppositionpartiesin-

cluding theCongress, TMC,NCP,ShivSenaandCPMarefacingEDheat and sources said the judg-ment has become a matter ofcommonconcern.“Weplaceonrecordourdeep

apprehension on the long-termimplications of the recentSupreme Court judgment up-holding, in entirety, the amend-ments to the PMLAwithout ex-aminingwhether someof theseamendments could have beenenactedbywayoftheFinanceAct.If tomorrow the SupremeCourtupholds that the challengedamendments through theFinanceActisbadinlaw,thentheentireexercisewouldbecomefu-tileandalossofjudicialtime,”thestatement said. Asserting thatthey hold the SC in highest re-spect, thepartiessaid“yet,wearecompelled to point out that thejudgment should have awaitedthe verdict of a larger Bench forexamining theConstitutionalityof the FinanceAct route to carryoutamendments.”“These far-reaching amend-

mentsstrengthenedthehandsofagovernment,indulginginpolit-icalvendettaoftheworstkind,byusing these very amended lawsrelatingtomoneylaunderingandinvestigation agencies, to targetits political opponents in amis-chievousandmaliciousmanner,”thestatementsaid.The parties said they were

“verydisappointedthatthehigh-est judicial authority, invited togive an independent verdict onthelackofchecksandbalancesintheAct,hasvirtually reproducedargumentsgivenbytheexecutivein support of draconian amend-ments.Wehopethatthedanger-ousverdictwillbeshort-livedandconstitutionalprovisionswillpre-vailsoon,”thepartiessaid.Among signatories to the

statement are leaders of theCongress, TMC,DMK, CPM, CPI,RJD,ShivSena,NCP,RLD,SP,JMM,AAP, IUML, RSP, Kerala Congress(M)andtheMDMK.

SC on freebiesbrainstormingandcometosomeconclusions on these issues. So,wedirect all theparties tomaketheirsuggestionsaboutthecom-positionofsuchabodyandmakerecommendations.”It askedthetwosides tosub-

mittheirsuggestionsinaweek.During the hearing, the CJI

said the reality is that “nopoliti-cal partywill allow to take outthesefreebies.Allwantthis.That'sthe reality”. Appearing for theCentre, SolicitorGeneral TusharMehta told the bench that such

“populist announcements... dis-torttheinformeddecision-mak-ingof thevoter.Theydon'tknowwhat'sgoingtofallonthem.Thisis the way we are heading to-wardseconomicdisaster”.At theoutset, theCJI said it is

notonly therichwhoshouldgetbenefitsbutthepoortooandsaidthequestionistowhatextentcanit be checked. Senior AdvocateVikas Singh, appearing forAdvocateAshwiniUpadhyaywhoisthepetitioner,responded“fromwhosepocketitwillcometogotowhose pocket” will have to beconsidered so that thevoterwillknow.“(Givento)myleftpocket,andaftera fewyears, takenfrommy right pocket. That’s the longand short... I amapoorperson. Iam the beneficiary. I would behappy that I am getting some-thinginmyleftpocket,notknow-ing that itwill be takenout frommyrightpocketafterafewyears,”Mehtaweighedin.The CJI said various aspects

willhavetobelookedintobeforetaking any final decision on thematter. Singh said the ElectionCommissioncouldlookathavingamodelelectionmanifestowhichsays"thereisnoharminwhatyouare offering, butwhere you aregettingitfrom...Ifitdeclaresthisisthedebtofthestate,thisdebtIwilltakecare.Andthis isthemoneyIamgettingfromthissourceandIwillpaytothesepeople”.CJI Ramana, however, ex-

presseddoubts on the effective-ness of such amodelmanifestoandsaidthereweresuchpropos-als in the past formodelmani-festoes against criminal an-tecedents of candidates etc.“Theseareallemptyformalities,”hesaid.MehtasaidtherecanbeamodelcodeandtheECIcandefi-nitely apply itsmind. But theCJIdidnotseemtoagreeandsaidthemodel codewill only come intoeffect during elections: “MrMehta,whenwillthemodelcodecomeintoplay?Itwillcomeintoplay just before elections.All thefour years youdo certain thingsand(inthe)lastyear,modelcodeofconduct!”Mehta said it can be a time-

bound thing and can come intoforceimmediately.ToSingh’scon-tentionthatallsuchpromisesareelection related, the CJI said thecourt is not viewing it only fromthatangle,but“otherissues”willalso have to be looked into. Hesaid the courtwas looking at itfromtheperspectiveofthecoun-try’s economy. “Weareheadingtowardsadisaster,”Mehtasaid.TheCJIsaid,“Iamalittlecon-

cerned about these issues... TheECIandgovernmentcan’tsaywedon’twanttodo.Letsomepeoplewho are concernedwith thesematters, who can look into thepros and cons dispassionately,make a suggestion and thenwecantakeacall...Wecanaskthemto give a report within a time-boundmanner.TheECIcancallallstakeholdersandtakeacall.”Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal,

however,opposedleavingittotheECI, saying it had become the“MostFavouredInstitution”inthecountry. "Please keep the ECIaway from this. This is an eco-nomicissue...Thesearealsoissuesofmid-daymealschemes.Thesearealsofreebies.Thereisfreeelec-tricity for the poor. All kinds ofveryimportantschemeswillpassmuster. But there are someschemes which cannot passmuster.Soitisapoliticalissueandaneconomicissue.Don'tmakeitan election issue, because thenyoupoliticisethewholething,”hesaid.MehtacounteredSibal’scon-tentionandsaid“IwouldnotliketounderminethesanctityofECI.”Sibal said, "First there should

be a debate in Parliament andParliament shouldevolve some-thing... And the FinanceCommission shouldmake sug-gestions which have to be ac-ceptedbythegovernment.”TheCJI,however,said,“Doyou

thinkParliamentwilldebatethisissueatall?...Whichpoliticalpartywill agree?... Nopolitical party...will allow to takeout these free-bies. The reason is everybodywants these freebies... I amnotcommenting (on) the politicalparties’wisdom. But ultimately,what the taxpayer or commonmanthinksisimportant."Hesaidthese are all policymatters andthere are limits to the extentcourts cango to. “That’swhywesay... let everyoneparticipate inthedebate.”He said various au-thoritiescaninteractwithdiffer-ent stakeholders,make recom-mendations to the governmentand ECI which can be imple-mentedandacompliancereportgiventothecourt.Mehta said the “suggestion

given”bySibal“isarecipefornotsolvingtheproblem”.TheCJIsaid“wearenotgoing

to have a lengthy debate in thiscourt to put guidelines... It is amatterof importancewheredif-ferentstakeholdershavetobein-volvedandtheiropinionshavetobe consideredbefore taking anydecision.Ultimately, it is the ECI

andthegovernmentwhichhavetoimplementthesesuggestions.”Heasked theparties to comeupwiththeproposalonthecompo-sitionofacommitteethatcangointotheissue.

Why hands tiedECI officials said itwould be an“overreach”oflawsgoverningthepollbodytoregulatedecisionsofwinningpolitical parties. For theFinanceCommissionwhosemainresponsibilityistodecideonshar-ing of resources between theCentreandstates,itstermsofref-erencewillneedasubstantiveex-pansion. Thiswill be seenas im-pinging on the federal structureofthepolity.RBI’sdominantfocusaswell as itsmandate is control-ling inflation, andNiti Aayog ismoreofathinktanknow.“Under Article 293 of the

Constitution, statesneed to takethe Centre’s consent for freshloans if they are indebted to theCentre. This is apowerful tool inthe hands of the Centre or theUnionFinanceMinistry.Butusingitwill expose the rulingparty inthe Centre to the risk of beingbrandedanti-poorbystate lead-ers,”saidaformerUnionFinanceSecretary,explainingtheCentre’sdilemma.“Thebiggest of all freebies is

electricity – free power to hugesectionsofthesocietyiscripplingthe states,” said a senior Centralofficial. As onMay31, 2022, at aconsolidated level, dues of statedistributioncompaniestogener-ating companies is Rs 1.01 lakhcrore; that of the state govern-ment todistribution companiesisRs62,931crore;andthesubsidyreceivable by the distributioncompany from the state is Rs76,337crore.A few freebies by states here

andthereisneveraproblem–buttoomanyhandoutsontopofelec-tricity subsidies precludeordis-placeotherproductivespending.“This is problematic because

certainstatesareleftwithlittletospend…Forexample,86percentof Punjab’s expenditure is com-mitted,accountingforpaymentstowardssalaries,pensionsandin-terestonpastborrowings.Itscap-italoutlay (spending forcreatingproductive assets like roads,schools, hospitals, etc) is just 7.5percent,”saidanofficial.Some states, however, view

the PrimeMinister’s views onfreebies asmorepolitical ratherthan economic. Acknowledgingthatrecklesshandoutscouldleadtoproblems,TamilNaduFinanceMinister Palanivel Thiaga Rajantold The Indian Express: “ItwasPrimeMinisterModihimselfwhoin February 2018 launched theschemegivingRs25,000towork-ingwomen,covering50percentofatwo-wheelercost.Isthisnotarevadi? Does it not reek ofhypocrisy?” The schemelaunchedby theADMKgovern-mentinTamilNaduwas,inciden-tally, scrappedbyMKStalin-ledDMKgovernmentinAugust2021.The Centre’s concerns over

statefinancesarenotunfounded.In a meeting with ChiefSecretaries of various states inJune this year, Union FinanceSecretaryTVSomanathan is un-derstoodtohaveraisedaredflagover huge borrowing by somestates by mortgaging assets –evenCollectors’ offices anddis-trictcourtpremises,andescrow-ing future revenues (giving thefirst charge on revenue receiptstowardsdebtraised).Similarly,veryhighoff-budget

borrowings,excessiveguaranteesandcontingentliabilitiesofsomestates towards fundingpopulistschemeshavedeepenedconcernattheCentre.Someeconomistspushback.

“When the rich really rip off thebankingsystem,withhugeNPAsandwrite-offs,andarent-seekingbureaucratic culture, canwe saythepoor are toopamperedwiththese freebies?” saidMaitreeshGhatak of the London School ofEconomics. “Inbehavioural eco-nomics, we call it the ‘endow-menteffect’.Itisimpossibletodoawaywithbenefitsoncegiven, italways results in loss aversion.Hence, the concern is a real one.Nothingisfree,someonepaysforit–taxpayers,”hesaid.Accordingtodatasharedwith

states by the Union FinanceMinistry, between2019-20 and2021-22, Andhra Pradesh bor-rowed Rs 23,899 crore, UttarPradeshRs 17,750 crore, PunjabRs 2,879 crore and MadhyaPradeshRs2,698crore,bymort-gaging assets andescrowing fu-turerevenues.Withlimitsplacedonmarket

borrowing(3.5percentonGSDP),stateshaveresortedtooff-budgetborrowings. State PSUs or otheragenciesraisedebt,andthisdoesnot reflect in the books of thestate. In the period 2019-20 to2021-22, the top five states intermsof off-budget borrowingswere:TelanganaRs56,767crore,AndhraPradeshRs28,837crore,Uttar Pradesh Rs 24,891 crore,Kerala Rs 10,130 crore and

KarnatakaRs9,981crore.Similarly,guaranteesandcon-

tingent liabilities of states havealso jumped. For Telangana, itstandsataboutRs1.35lakhcrore(11 per cent of GSDP), AndhraPradeshRs1.24lakhcrore(10percent of GSDP), Uttar PradeshRs1.73 lakh crore (8 per cent ofGSDP) andRajasthanRs 90,000crore (7 per cent of GSDP). TheCentre’s guarantees, in contrast,arelessthan0.5percentofGDP.“Somestatesareinaperilous

position,” said Fifteenth FinanceCommissionChairmanNKSingh.“They are entering a fiscal trap,andwill find it difficult tomeettheir debt obligations.Macroeconomic stability is ahard-wonbattle of this govern-ment. Butunbridledpopulism–anewphenomenon–puts suchstabilityatrisk.”Whilefiscalconservatives,in-

cludingthoseinthegovernment,donotdistinguishbetweenAamAadmiParty’selectricitysubsidyto the poor and PM Kisan (Rs6,000 a year to every farmer),Singh said there is aneed todis-tinguishmerit subsidies fromfreebies. “Support to educationandfarmsaremeritorioussubsi-diesandhavelargerexternalities.Freeelectricityisenvironmentallyunfriendly,anddistortscroppingpatterns,”hesaid.EvenGhatakadmitstheneed

forarethink.“(ThePM)won2019despite economic headwinds,andthen thereare the recentUPelectionresults.So,whenthePMtalks about freebies/ ‘revadi’ cul-ture, there is sometruth to itbuthe canafford to say that, like theneed for sportsmanship comingfromthewinningteam'scaptain.But there is a chance of shiftingequilibriumonthisandfromthatpoint of view, his argumentshouldbetakenseriously.”

Young Indianpersonnel outside theCongressheadquarters at 24, AkbarRoad.TheCongress, however, claimedthat police had surrounded theresidence of Congress presidentSoniaGandhi at 10, Janpath, andthatofformerCongresspresidentRahulGandhiat12,TughlaqLane--bothincentralDelhi.The Congress hit out at the

Governmentandlinkedtheseal-ing of Young Indian's office andtheincreaseddeploymentofpo-lice outside theAICCheadquar-ters to protests planned by thepartyonFridayonprice rise,un-employment and hike in GSTratesonessentialcommodities.“TheCongress isunder siege.

DelhiPolicehavesurroundedourheadquarters and homes ofCongresspresidentandex-presi-dent. This is theworst form of

vendettapolitics.Wewillnotsub-mit.Wewill notbe silenced.Wewill continue to raise our voiceagainst injustices and failures oftheModi Sarkar,” AICC generalsecretaryinchargeof communi-cation, JairamRamesh,said.Addressing a press confer-

ence, along with Ramesh andAbhishek Singhvi at the AICCheadquarters, Congress generalsecretary AjayMaken said theparty has received a letter fromtheDelhiPolicedenyingpermis-sion for a demonstration andmarchtothePrimeMinister’sres-idenceandRashtrapatiBhavanonFriday.“TheAICChadissuedacir-cular lastweek announcing ourplantoholdanationwidedemon-strationonAugust5onthe issueofpricerise,unemploymentandhike inGST rates on food items.Accordingtotheplan...MPsweretomarch toRashtrapati Bhavanand Congress leaders were tostageademonstrationoutsidetheresidenceof thePrimeMinister...Today,we received a letter fromtheDCP sayingwe cannot stageanydemonstrationonAugust5,”Makensaid.

‘Modi Circuit’startedidentifyingtheplacesandfiguring out arrangements fortouriststovisitandstay.IntheepisodeairedinAugust

2019, Grylls hadmetModi at arendezvouspointandproceededonaseriesofadventures, includ-ing fashioning an improvisedspearfromastickinanareaofthepark said to be dominated bytigers,withthehelpofaknifeandrope.Thetwohadwalkedalong-side theKosiRiverandcrossed itusingamakeshift raft amid rain.The PM had also consumed adrinkmadeofneemleaves.Uttarakhand Minister of

TourismSatpalMaharaj said theidea for a 'Modi Circuit' came tohimwhen he heard about theGameofThronestourduringavisittoCroatia,aspartofwhichtouristsare taken to the locationswherethe famous TV serieswas shot.“Wehavealreadycreatedseveralcircuits, forMaaBhagwati,Shiva,Vishnu,Nav-grah,GoljuMaharaj,Nagdevta, Hanuman, andVivekanand.Thereisanotherma-jor ideawe areworking on. PMModiwent to Jim Corbett ParkwithBearGrylls.WearemakingaModi trail for that.Wewill taketourists to places visited by PMModi,”hetoldTheIndianExpress.The Additional CEO of the

AdventureSportsDivisionof theUttarakhand TourismDevelopment Board, ColonelAshwini Pundir, said he hadwatched the episode ofMan vsWild featuringModi, anda teamfrom the TourismDepartment

wasalreadyworkingontheproj-ect,particularlyonwheretomakearrangements for tourists tostayalonga30-40kmdistance.“I have asked our people to

makealistofplaceswhereGryllstookthePM.Wearebrainstorm-ingonwheretomakethestayingarrangements,howtopopularisethecircuit,andwhatcouldbeoursocialmedia plan.Wewant thetouriststohavetheexperiencethePM had. We will also put upwrite-upsat importantpoints toinformyou that this is theplacewherePMModi did aparticularactivity,”saidPundir.CallingModi “thebiggest in-

fluencer in the country”, Pundirgave the example of the Rudracavewherehewasphotographedwhile inmeditation. Since then,Pundir said, caves like it arepre-booked,oftenseveralyearsinad-vance. “Soonas theplan (for theModiCircuit)iscomplete,wewillworkondevelopingtheareawiththehelpoftheDistrictMagistrateanddistricttourismdevelopmentcommittees.Wewilltakethehelpof locals,”hesaid.Officialssaidthatbecausecov-

ering the entire circuitwill nottakealotoftime,theplanistoat-tract tourists fromneighbouringstateslikeDelhi,Punjab,HaryanaandUttarPradesh,whocanvisitovertheweekend.BJP spokesperson Shadab

Shamswelcomedthemove,call-ingModi“thebiggestbrandinthestate”. The Congress noted thattheManvsWildepisodewasshotonthedayanattack left40CRPFpersonnel dead in Pulwama,Kashmir,andaskediftheBJPgov-ernment planned to celebratethis. "We do not have problemwithtourismcircuits,butIdonotunderstandwhat is themajorachievement in that episodeweare celebrating.WhenPMModiwas shooting that episode, thePulwamaattacktookplace...Ifweare creating a trail of somethingthathappenedonablackday,itisnot right," Congress state presi-dentKaranMaharasaid.

Collegiumrecommends his successor andthemost senior judge is namedtheCJI-designate.As per theMemorandumof

Procedure (MoP), which is thedocumentgoverningtheprocessofappointmentofjudgesandap-pointmentofthenextCJI,theLawMinister asks theoutgoingChiefJusticeofIndiatorecommendthenextCJI. TheMoPstates that theChief Justice of India should be“the senior-most judge of theSupremeCourt considered fit toholdtheoffice”.TheMoP states that theCJI’s

viewsmustbesought“attheap-

propriatetime”butdoesnotspec-ify a timeline for the process --conventionally,theprocesstakesplace amonthbefore the retire-mentof theincumbentCJI.When Justice Ramana took

over as CJI onApril 24, 2021, theLawMinisterhadwrittentothenCJISABobdeonMarch20,2021.Justice Bobde is learnt to havewritten back recommendingJustice Ramana on March 24,2021. If appointed, Justice U ULalit,whoisthemostseniorjudgeoftheSupremeCourt,willhaveatenureofthreemonthsbeforere-tiringonNovember8,2022.

Kite flyingAnother officer said prohibitoryordersunderIPCsection144havebeenimposedonflyingkitesnearRed Fort during theIndependenceDayfunction,withviolatorsfacingactionundersec-tion188(disobedienceof officialorders). In 2018, a stray kite fellnear PMNarendraModi duringhis speechand last year, anotherkite fell on a tree insideRedFortduringtheceremony--bothwereconsideredsecuritylapses.Whencontacted,DCP (north

district) Sagar Singh Kalsi saidthey are engagingwith kite-fly-ers,andtakingthehelpofresidentwelfare associations andmarketwelfaregroupstopreventsuchin-stances.“Wehavemetwiththesekite-flyersandtheyhaveassuredtheir support. Alongwith them,we will also raise awarenessaboutnot flying kites onAugust15from6amto9am,”Kalsisaid.According topolicedata, 231

skilledkite-flyershavebeeniden-tified in the north district. Thecentraldistrictpolice,meanwhile,arewrappingupsurveys in theirjurisdiction.Mohammad Sharique (37),

whostaysintheSadarBazararea,told The Indian Express: “Myyoungerbrotherisaregularkite-flyerbutbothofushavedecidedto help the police.We attendedmeetings at the Sadar Bazar po-licestation...Wediscussedseveralstrategies to stop others in ourareafromflyingkitestill11amonAugust15.Initially,wewereplan-ningtouseourkitestocutdownother kites, but the idea wasdropped by senior officers,” hesaid.Another regular,

Mohammmad Salauddin (45),whoworks as electrician in thewalled city area, said, “Wehavestartedmaking announcementsin our localities tonot engage inkite-flyingonAugust15.Ihaveat-tendedanall-India kite-flying inBhopal...butwearenowsupport-ingthepolice.”

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submitted its recommenda-tions and a draft Bill inNovember2021.The JCP proposed 81

amendmentstotheBillfinalisedby the Srikrishnapanel and12recommendationsincludingex-pandingitsmandatetoincludediscussions on non-personaldata, thereby changing themandate of the Bill fromper-sonaldataprotectiontobroaderdata protection, alongsidechanges on issues such as theregulationofsocialmediacom-panies andusingonly “trustedhardware” in smartphones,amongotherthings.In a note circulated to all

members of Parliament ex-plaining the reason behindwithdrawalof theBill,UnionITMinister Ashwini Vaishnawsaid, “The Personal DataProtectionBill, 2019wasdelib-eratedingreatdetailbytheJointCommittee of Parliament. 81amendmentswere proposedand12recommendationsweremadetowardsacomprehensivelegal frameworkon thedigitalecosystem.Considering the re-portoftheJCP,acomprehensivelegal framework is beingworkedupon.Hence,inthecir-cumstances, it is proposed towithdraw 'The Personal DataProtectionBill, 2019' andpres-ent a newBill that fits into the

comprehensive legal frame-work.”MinisterofStateforITRajeev

Chandrasekharsaidthegovern-mentwilltablethenewlegisla-tion inParliament “very soon”.“The government has todaywithdrawn the Personal DataProtectionBill thatwas formu-lated in2018andre-writtenbythe JCP in2021.After consider-abledeliberationandexamina-tion of the JCP’s report, it wasfound that there is aneed for acomprehensive redrawing oflaws and rules taking into ac-count some of the JCP’s com-ments and the emerging chal-lenges and opportunities thatarisefromthere.Acomprehen-siveapproachtothelawswillbeundertakenbythegovernmentand we will come back toParliamentveryquicklyafterfol-lowingtheprocessofconsulta-tion,”Chandrasekharsaid.Accordingtoseniorgovern-

ment officials, thedataprotec-tionBillwilldoawaywithsomerecommendations by the JCPsuchasincluding“trustedhard-ware”andlocalstorageofsomekinds of personal datawithintheboundariesofIndia.Instead,it will add these ideas in thelarger framework for the inter-

net ecosystemwhichwill re-place the InformationTechnology Act, 2000. Theseseparate legislation, it is learnt,will be presented at the sametime.“TheMinistrytriedseveralpermutations and combina-tionstosomehowtryandpres-entthedataprotectionBillasanamendmenttotheBillproposedby the JCP. But therewere sev-eral ideas in their report thatwere better suited elsewherethan inprivacy legislation, andthenewBillwill take that intoconsideration,”anofficialsaid.After78sittingsspreadover

184hoursand20minutes, andhalfadozenextensions,theJCPhad tabled its report inParliament inDecember 2021.Apart from recommendationsrelatedtodataprivacy,theJCP’sreportalsoproposedthatsocialmedia companies that do notact as intermediaries are to betreated as content publishers,meaningtheybecomeliableforthe content theyhost. The JCPhadalsorecommendedinclud-ingnon-personaldataintheBill.Initsmostbasicform,non-per-sonal data is any set of datawhichdoesnotcontainperson-allyidentifiableinformation.Aseniorofficialsaidthatspe-

cifictodatalocalisation,thegov-ernment ismullingaddingit tothe new InformationTechnologyActandwhethertoallow cross border data flowsonlyto“trustedgeographies”.“Thethinkingisthatthedata

shouldbestoredinaregionthatistrustedbytheIndiangovern-ment, and that data should beaccessible in the event of acrime,”theofficialsaid.The newBill could also do

awaywithclassificationofper-sonaldatafromtheperspectiveofdatalocalisationandonlyuseclassificationforawardingdam-ages topeoplewhosepersonaldatamay have been compro-misedbyanentity.TheIndianExpresshadear-

lier reported that the govern-mentwaslookingtodilutedatalocalisation requirements asstartupshadcomplainedaboutthe norms for being “compli-anceintensive”.Regardingnon-personal data, theMinistry ofElectronics and IT has alreadyfloatedadraftthatlooksathar-nessingsuchdataforaidingthecountry’sstartups.BJPMPPPChaudhary,who

was chairperson of the JCPwhen it submitted its report toParliament, told The IndianExpress that itwas “necessary”forthegovernmenttowithdrawtheBill.

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INAbid to encourage the use ofpublictransportsystem,theAamAadmi Party government hasplanned to introduce app-basedpremium inter-city bus servicesforpeople travelling toand fromneighbouringcitieslikeGurgaon,GhaziabadandNoidaforwork.Itis also working on a schemecalledtheDelhimotorvehicleag-gregatorlicencing(premiumbus)scheme.“Wewishtoprovidethispre-

miumbusservicesothatpeopleleave their private vehicles be-hind and use public transport.TheDelhi governmentwill col-laboratewith aggregators to op-erate premiumbuses in the city.All citizenswhomake inter-citytrips every day should opt for acleaner,comfortableandequallyefficientmode of public trans-port,” Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal said, adding that allbuses under this schemewill befullyelectric.Holding a meeting

Wednesday,theCMdirectedthetransport department to draft apolicy on the scheme. Aimed tocut down private cars from theroads, the schemewill likely re-ducevehicularpollution.KejriwaladdedthatallthesebuseswillbeBS-VIcompliantACCNGorelec-tricbusesinthebeginning,butallbuses inducted after January 1,2024,willonlybeelectric. Itwillbe a seating-only bus facility,equipped with app support,CCTVs andpanic buttons, and itwill be integratedwith theOneDelhiApp for booking rides andmakingdigitalpayments.The buses will pick up and

drop passengers from the noti-fiedbusqueuesheltersandpay-mentwill bemade through e-mode, displayed on the app.Stagecarriagepermitswillbeis-

suedforindividualbusesthroughlicences.Eachaggregatorlicensedunder the schemewill operateandmaintain a fleet of amini-mumof50premiumbusestobeoperationalisedwithin90days.Officials added that once the

policyischalkedout,thegovern-mentwill invitepublic feedbackand itwill be notified for imple-mentation. The schemewas an-nouncedlastyearbutitcouldnottakeoffduetothepandemic,saidan official, adding that now thetransport department has spedup thework and the policywillsoonbeoutinthepublicdomaintoseek feedback."The aggregator will deter-

mine routes onwhich the vehi-cleswillply. Suchroutes shall benotified on themobile orweb-based app. The transport de-

partmentwillbeinformedbeforestarting ormodifying/terminat-inganynewroute.Apriornoticeofsevendaysshallbeprovidedtothetransportdepartmentandtothe general public before anychangesaremadetotheexistingroutes,"saidtheofficials.OfficialssaidCNGbusesoper-

ated by aggregatorswill not beolder than three years. All buseswill follow a uniform colourschemewiththeGNCTDandag-gregator's logo.Kejriwal also reviewed the

transportdepartment'sroutera-tionalisationproject thataimstoenhance the bus and last-mileconnectivity,andimprovethefre-quencyofbusservices.“Howtousetheexistingfleet

ofbusesinDelhimostefficiently?Howmanymore buses do weneed?Howtointegrateallmodesof transport? Today, I had a dis-cussionwithseniorofficialsofthetransport department on the“route rationalisation” proposal.Wewill soon seek public feed-backon the same," saidKejriwalinatweetafterthemeeting.Accordingtoofficials,thede-

partment has completed thestudy and prepared a roadmapunderwhichdifferent locationsof the citywill be provided busconnectivityandpassengerscanavail of buseswithin a radius of500metres. Ithasalsoproposednewroutesandthesamewillbe

putouttogetfeedbackfromthepublic.Currently, the coverage of

buses inDelhi is 49%, accordingtothestandardof15minutesand500metres accessible, itwill beincreasedto90-95%,saidofficials.Officials said that presently

around 7,200 buses are operat-ingon625routes inDelhi. "Thenumber of standard buses willrise from 7,200 to 8,494 in thenearfuture.Mini-midibuseswillalso be operated on 120 routes,totalling roughly 2,000, provid-ing last-mile connectivity.Similar to that, 480 buses willoperate on 44 routes as part oftheMetro feeder service." saidofficials. Following the study,buseswillnowrunevery5to10minuteson274of the625regu-lar routes. The buses will con-tinue to run on the remaining351 routes in the samemanneras theydonow.Officials said that under this

proposal, bus routes have beendividedintoseveralgroups."Thetrunknetwork,whichconsistsof27super trunk routesand threecentralbusinessdistrictcircula-torroutes,willhavebusservicesevery 5-10minutes. Therewillbe a primary network withbusesrunningevery10-15min-utes,andfeedernetworkwherebuses will run every 15 to 20minutes, will be the secondarynetwork," saidanofficial.

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ANONNADUTTNEWDELHI,AUGUST3

THECAPITALreported2,073freshcases of Covid-19Wednesday,with the incidence crossing the2,000-mark for the first time in71 days since February 4whentherewere2,272 cases recordedas the omicron variant-drivenwavewasrecedinginthecapital.Thepositivity rate—thepropor-tionofsamplestestedthatreturnpositive — stood at 11.64% onWednesday, according to thedaily health bulletin released bytheDelhigovernment.The average positivity rate

overthelastthreedaysis11.23%,which is also the highest sincethethirdwavewanedinthecity.Five deaths in Covid patients

were also recorded onWednesday, taking thismonth’stollto10inthreedays.Therewere50deaths recorded in July, 50 inJune, and 35 inMay. This is thehighest single-day toll reportedin the city since July 3when fivedeathswere reported. “Most of

thedeathsreportedareinelderlypeople and those suffering fromcomorbid conditions,” said DrSuranjit Chatterjee, senior con-sultant of internalmedicine atIndraprasthaApollohospital.Withtheincreaseincases,the

number of active cases, or thosewithcurrent infection,aswellashospitalisations have gone up.The number of active casesTuesdaycrossedthe5,000-mark

to stand at 5,006. Similar levelswerealsoseenattheendof Junewhentherewasaslightuptickinthenumberofcases.Thenumberof people hospitalised alsocrossed the 300-mark onTuesday,with341peopleadmit-tedtocityhospitalswiththeviralinfection."There has been a sharp in-

crease in Covid-19 cases in thecity.We used to see, say two to

threeadmissionsaday,thenum-bers havemore thandoubled inthe last fewdays to six to sevenadmissions a day," said Dr AtulGogia,seniorconsultantof inter-nalmedicine at Sir Ganga Ramhospital.Hesaid thegovernment's re-

port no longer reflected the trueburden of cases in the city,withmanyeithernotgettingtestedatallorusinghomekits for testing.The total number of tests in thecity went down after the thirdwaveashomekitsbecameread-ilyavailable."It cannot capture all cases

becausemanypeoplearenotget-ting tested at all or using homekits.Thesearenotreflectedinthereport.Somepatientscometouswithsymptomsandtheir familymemberorfriendhastestedpos-itive thenwe can assume thatthey also have the infection," DrGogiasaid,addingthatitwasim-portant for those at high risk forsevere diseases, such as the eld-erly and thosewith comorbidi-ties,must get tested if they de-velopsymptoms.

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ANIGERIANwoman in her 30s,living inDelhi for over amonth,tested positive formonkeypoxWednesday, taking the capital’stally to four. This is the country’sninth case, and the first case in awoman,withmost cases beingdetectedinyoungmensofar.Globally too, the cases of

monkeypox have been dispro-portionately reported amongmen.“We'reseeingcasesthatarelargely focused onmen... Therehavebeensomecasesreportedinwomen and children, but thesehave been very limited,” saidAndy Seale, an advisor on sexu-ally transmitted infections atWorldHealthOrganisation, in avideofromtheorganisation.Thewomanhadnohistoryof

international travel in the last21days. None of the four persons

whotestedpositivefortheinfec-tioninDelhihadanyhistoryofin-ternational travel. In contrast, sofar, all five cases reported fromKerala have a history of travelfromUAE.This is the thirdNigerianna-

tional to test positive for the in-fection inDelhi, with onemoresuspected to have the infectionadmitted to Delhi’s nodal LokNayakhospital.There isnohistoryof contact

between the fourNigerians, ac-cordingtopeople in theknowofthematter.All fourpersonshavebeen living in different areas inDelhi for amonth to a year. Thethree confirmed and the fourthsuspected case appears to havesimilar symptoms. “All fourper-sons have fever, typical rashes(similar to the ones seen in thefirst case fromthecity), ulcers inthemouthandthighs,”accordingto a doctor fromLokNayakhos-pital,whichwas the only hospi-

tal designated for isolating con-firmedandsuspectedcasesoftheinfectiontillTuesday.Delhi’s first case of the infec-

tionwasdischarged Tuesday af-ter testing negative on two sub-sequent tests one day apart andall lesions healing. Another per-sonfromGhaziabadsuspectedtohavetheinfectionwasdischargedfromthehospital lastweekafterhetestednegativeandwasdiag-nosedwithchickenpox.With four cases of monkey-

pox reported in Delhi, surveil-lanceteamsanddoctorshavere-ported an increase in peoplechecking in about their lesions.“Wearegettingcallsfromhealth-care facilities about peoplewithlesions,inalmost90%ofthecasesit is chickenpox,” said a surveil-lance officer. A city doctor alsosaid that they were gettingqueriesfrompatients.As part of the government’s

preparednessmeasures,isolation

roomswere also readied in twootherDelhigovernmenthospitalsandthreeprivatehospitals.Monkeypox is a self-limiting

viralinfectionthatistransmittedbyclose skin-to-skin,mouth-to-mouth or sexual contactwith apersonhavingpox-likelesions.Itcan be transmitted through in-fectedmaterials like linens. Bigrespiratory droplets are alsoknown to affect if a person hasprolonged close contactwith aninfectedperson.The most common symp-

toms include fever, headache,muscleaches,backpain,lowen-ergy and swollen lymph nodes,alongwith pox-like rashes thatlast for two to threeweeks. It isa self-limiting disease but canlead to death, especially amongchildren and those with weakimmunesystems.Complicationsinclude pneumonia, secondaryskin infections, confusion andeyeproblems.

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AS THEdeadline for demolitionof the Supertech twin towersnears, police in Noida Tuesdaygrantedano-objectioncertificate(NOC)toEdificeEngineering,thefirmresponsible forcarryingoutthedemolition.DCP (headquarters)

Rambadan Singh said, “EdificeEngineering, which has beengiven the responsibility for thedemolition of Supertech twintowers, had filed a letter beforetheNoida Police for granting anNOC.IthasbeenissuedundertheExplosivesRulesalongwithreq-uisitetermsandconditions.”Thetwintowers—Apexand

Ceyane — are scheduled to bedemolishedonAugust21withacushion period of oneweek tillAugust 28, as per the directionsof theSupremeCourtonMay17,for violating regulations on thedistance between buildings.SourcessaidtheCentralBuildingResearch Institute (CBRI) hassentalistofrequirements,whichhas been forwarded toSupertech and EdificeEngineering, who will submittherequireddetails toCBRIoffi-cials by Thursday. A meetingshallbeheldbetweenthestake-holders on August 6 to discusscomments filedbyCBRI.Once CBRI submits its com-

ments, the Authority shall file astatus report, they added. Thesesteps are being taken in light ofthe July29orderof theSupremeCourtinamiscellaneousapplica-tion filed by Supertech,whereinthe CBRI submitted that it hadsought relevant information re-garding theblast design, groundvibration,post-demolitiondebrisassessment, test blast, vibrationmonitoring report, dust cloudalongwiththestructuralauditre-port in respect to the nearbybuildings.Sources said Edifice

Engineering has to ensure cer-tain steps for demolishing the32-floor twin towers, located inNoida Sector 93A— such as nocolumn of the buildings shallhavemore than five holes andnone of the holes will be filledwith explosivesweighingmorethan 1.375kg. Additionally, notwo columns shall be explodedtogetherandEdificeEngineeringwill have to remove all explo-sives safely after the blastwhether it is successful or un-successful. Anareaofaround40metresfromtheboundaryofthetwintowerswillremainvacated.The vehicle carrying the explo-

sives shall bring the requiredquantityimmediatelypriortothechargingofthebuilding,andonceexplosives are unloaded it willleave thedemolitionsite leavingnoexplosivesthere,sourcessaid.Sources have said themate-

rial required for the demolitionwill be carried in two vehicles,whichwillincludetheexplosivesand detonators. Thematerialsusedarespecificallymadeforcar-rying out demolitions of build-ings,sourcessaid.Theexplosiveswill be brought from Palwal,Haryana, covering a distance of100km,sourcessaid,addingthatthewrappingofbuildingshadal-readybeendoneinthelastweekof July using a geotextilewrap-pingmaterial.Sourcesfurthersaidthatmore

than 60 peoplewill be involvedinthedemolitionprocess,whichincludes seven engineers fromSouth Africa-based JetDemolition, the company thatEdificeEngineeringhaspartneredwith. Therewill be sixengineersfromEdificeEngineering,and10local Indianblasters and the restwill be helpers, sources said. Noonewill be allowedwithin theboundary of the building.According to sources, EdificeEngineeringandSupertechhavesubmitted most of the docu-mentssoughtbytheCBRI.Meanwhile, DCP (Traffic)

GaneshPrasadsaid,“Theroadop-positeSupertechTwinTowers-93ATS Road will be shut downwithinthenexttwodaysandwillbeshutuntil thedayof thedem-olition.Additionally,onthedem-olition date, the two ends ofNoida-GreaterNoidaexpresswaywillbeshutfor15minutesbeforethe demolition and 15minutesafteruntilthedustanddebrisset-tledown.”“This precaution has been

takentoavoidanyuntowardacci-dent in theareaandtoavoidanycrowdwhichmaygather on thedemolitionday,”headded.A local traffic inspector has

beenappointedwhowilllookaf-ter traffic issues thatmay arisefromWednesday onwards. Theinspector, Dushyant Rana, hasbeenpositionedontheroadrightoutside Supertech twin towers,thepolicesaid.“We do not want to create

panic among the public at thispointorcauseanyinconvenience.Theadvisoriesregardingroaddi-versionswill be issued twodaysbeforetheblast,”Prasadsaid.Additionally, a 250-metre

areawithin the demolition sitewill be completely cordoned offfor entry of people on thedayofthedemolition.

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICENEWDELHI, AUGUST3

DELHI UNIVERSITY aspirantswill need to indicate their pref-erencesforcollegesandcourses,basedonpriority,onaCommonSeat Allocation System (CSAS)foradmission thisyear.Delhi University’s Academic

Council Wednesday approvedthe admission process, whichwas formulated by a StandingCommittee for admissions thisyear. Admissions will be basedon results of the CommonUniversityEntranceTest(CUET).Theadmissionprocesswillbe

done in threephases. In the firstphase,aspirantswillhavetofillap-plicationforminCSAS.Inthesec-

ondphase,theywillselectcourseand colleges and indicate theirpreferences, andthirdphasewillinclude seat allocation and finaladmissionbasedonamerit list.If two students are tied for a

seatwiththesamescore,classXIIboardexamresultswillbeconsid-eredatie-breaker. If studentsarestill tied, theolder candidatewillbe given preference. This is thefirst timethatCUET isbeingheldforadmissioninCentraluniversi-ties. Earlier,admissionwasbasedonly on class XIImarks. DUhadbeen contemplating admissionbasedonentrancetestsforalongtime,asmanycollegesendupad-mittingmore students than thenumberofseatssincetheuniver-sity is obligated to admit allwhomeetthecut-off.

Last-minuterush forRWAs

DU admissionsvia common seatallocation system

PAVNEETSINGHCHADHAGURGAON,AUGUST3

A DAY after four constructionworkersdiedandanotherwasin-juredafterfallingoffthe17thfloorofPalmHillssocietyinGurgaon’sSector 77while dismantling atowercrane,thefamilyofthevic-timssaid the tragedycouldhavebeen averted had safety equip-mentbeeninplace.Mohammad Tahmid (27),

KumodKumar(32),NabinTiwari(27), andParmeshwar (35)weremigrantworkersfromBihar,whohadbeenworkingatconstructionsitesinGurgaonaswelders,scaf-foldersandcranefitters.Nabin Tiwari, a native of

Sonauli,ChhapradistrictinBihar,came toGurgaon five years ago

aftercompletinganITIcourseandhad beenworking as awelder,earningRs 24,000 amonth, saidrelatives. At the mortuary onWednesday, they said he wasplanning to get married. “Hisyounger sister gotmarried twomonths ago. He would sendmoneyhome.Afortnightago,hevisited our village to attend afunctionandwewerelookingforamatch forhim.Hewouldoftencomplainabouttherisksinvolvedinhis job,”saidhisuncle.Pramod Kumar, Kumod’s

elder brother,whoalsoworks inconstruction, said that Kumodworked as a crane operator andfitter.“Weareallawareoftherisksinvolved in the job, but contrac-tors andbuilders need to ensuresafetyofthestaff.Theirnegligencecaused this incident.Whenever

my brother complained aboutsafety,hewastold‘kaamkarnahaitohkaro,nahitohchalejao’(quit ifyou don’t want towork),” saidPramod. Kumod gotmarried inNovember2020andusedtosendmoneyeachmonth for their sis-ter’snursingcourse.

MohammadTahmid,who isfrom Araria district in Bihar,workedinscaffoldingandissur-vivedbyhiswife and three chil-dren aged2, 4 and6. “HewouldearnaboutRs700aday.Whowillprovide for his family now?Hewantedtoleavethislineofwork.Iftherewasaharnessandasafetynet,hecouldhavebeensaved.Wewant justice,” said his brother,MohammadSanowarAlam.One of theworkers, Gufran

Ahmed,allegedthattheincidenttook place due to the allegedhaste in dismantling the towercrane. “All safety precautionswere ignored. When workerswereontheplatform,asanetwasremoved, the girder broke andoneendof scaffoldinggaveway,due to inadequate safetymeas-ures,”healleged.

Police said an FIRwas regis-teredagainsttheprojectmanager,tower in-charge,mechanic fore-man,safetyengineer,siteengineerand themain contractor. TheFIRwas registeredon the complaintofaninjuredworkerwhoallegedthat “heandhis colleagues com-plainedaboutensuringadequatesafetymeasuresatthesiteseveraltimes, but no actionwas taken”.TheFIRstatedthecontractoranddeveloper put pressure on themtodojoborquit,andtheincidenttookplaceduetonegligence.Meanwhile,Gurgaondeputy

commissioner Nishant Yadavformedafour-membercommit-teetoprobethemishapandsub-mit a report. He said that com-pensationwouldbegiven to thefamilies of the deceased and in-juredasperthelawsintwodays.

Day after four died at Gurgaon condo, kin rue:‘Safety gear could have saved their lives’

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICEGURGAON,AUGUST3

FOURMASKEDmenbargedintoahouseintheupscaleFlorenceElitesociety insector57,SushantLok-3,andallegedlyrobbeda64-year-old woman after holding herhostage andgagginghermouth.Policesaidtheaccused,whostoletwo gold bangles and amobilephone,areyettobearrested.Police said the incident took

placearound3.30amonTuesdaywhen the woman and her 67-year-oldhusbandwereasleep.

In the police complaint, thecomplainant,RamaSharma,saidthat between 3.30 amand 4.30am, fourmenentered thehousefrom the rear door, whichwasopenduetorenovationwork.“Theyhadcoveredtheir faces

withcloth.Twoofthempouncedon me and started asking mewhere the money was. Theythreatenedtokillme.Theysuffo-catedmewith their hands. Theytoldmethattheyhadtiedmyhus-band upstairs. I tried to makenoisebuttheytiedmyface,handsandmouth using clothes. Theyforciblytookmygoldbanglesand

myphoneandpushedmeto thebathroom. After a fewminutes,they tookmeupstairs forcefullyandsearched theupper room. Inthemeantime, theyheard somenoiseandranaway,”shestatedintheFIR.The couple's son anddaugh-

ter-in-law live in Canada. Thewoman’s husband, AshokSharma, 67, themanagingdirec-tor of a shipping firm, told TheIndianExpress, “Theentireordeallastedover 90minutes.Mywifesuffered injuries and was intraumaandhad to be taken to ahospital.Shehasbeendischarged

today.Iwasasleeponthefirstfloorat the timeof the incident and Iamfortunatethatmylifehasbeensaved. The intention of the ac-cusedwastolootthemoneyfromthesafeandmurderme.Theyleftbehindan iron rod.Mywifewason theground floor. Theaccusedheldherhostageandgaggedherand lockedher in thebathroom.They toldher, ‘humne buddhe kobaand diya hai (Wehave tieduptheoldman)’.”Headded,“Mywifetoldthem

to takewhatever theywanted.They dragged her to the bed-rooms upstairs looking forme.

Intelligently, my wife showedthemto twoother roomswhichwere empty and she pretendednottoknowwhereIwas.Therob-bers got spooked and assumedthatImayhavegoneoutsideandwould raise an alarm and theyfled.Aftertheyleft,mywifewokemeupandwelockedourselvesinand called the police.Wewerescared.Initiallywewereunabletoconnecttothepolice,sowecalledafriend,whocalledaPCR.Thepo-licethenarrivedandofferedhelp.”PolicesaidanFIRhasbeenreg-

isteredagainsttheaccusedunderIPCsections458,392,34.

Elderly couple targeted at Gurgaon home, 4 maskedmen gag woman, flee with bangles and phone

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICENEWDELHI, AUGUST3

DIRECTING THE DelhiDevelopment Authority to goahead with the demolition ofunauthorised jhuggis on theYamunafloodplainsonlyincon-sultationwith the Delhi UrbanShelter Improvement Board(DUSIB), the Delhi High Courthas said people cannot beevicted“withabulldozerattheirdoorstepearlyinthemorningorlate in theevening,without anynotice, rendering them com-pletely shelterless”.JusticeSubramoniumPrasad

said theactionof theDDA in re-moving a person, whom theyclaim to be an encroacher,overnight from his residence,cannot be accepted. “A reason-able period has to be given tosuchpersonsandtemporary lo-cation has to be provided tothembefore embarking on anydemolition activities,” said thecourt,whiledirectingtheDDAtogive sufficient time to dwellerstomakealternatearrangements.The court said that alterna-

tively, steps should be taken toaccommodate the dwellers in

shelters provided by the DUSIBforthreemonthssothatpersons,whosejhuggisarebeingdemol-ished, are able to find alternateaccommodations.TheorderhasbeenpassedinapetitionfiledbyShakarpur SlumUnion allegingthat DDA officials, on June 25,without any notice arrived anddemolishedabout300 jhuggis.In the petition filed through

advocateKawalpreetKaur,itwasarguedthatJJBasti inShakarpurhasbeeninexistencesince1980,andmostof itsresidentsaremi-grantsfromBihar,UttarPradeshand Bengal who are labourers,ragpickers, rickshaw-pullers,autodriversanddomesticwork-ers.The DDA told the court that

demolitionwas carried out at adistance from thosementionedin the list of clusters publishedby the DUSIB for rehabilitation,and in compliancewith the or-ders of the National GreenTribunal.Thecourtsaidencroachment

on government land cannot besaidtobeafundamentalrightofanypersonandpeopleencroach-ingcannotclaimtobeentitledtorehabilitationasamatterofrightinabsenceof anypolicy.

MOHANASARKAR&SARASIDDIQUINOIDA,AUGUST3

AHEAD OF the demolition ofSupertech twin towers, residentwelfare associations of nearbybuildings have been workingwithauthorities tospeaktoresi-dentsandformulateguidelines.“Residentshavebeentoldfor

the past sixmonths to evacuatethe premises on the day of thedemolition,” said PoonamMukhreja from ATS Village,adding that her house is around35metresaway.“We wish to return to our

homes as soon as possible butsince the post-demolition sce-nario is uncertain, there is con-cern. If therewill be a lot of dustand particulatematter, whichmaybeharmfultoinhale,wewillwaitandseeif it issafetogobackintheevening,”sheadded.RWAs have spoken to resi-

dentsandgiventhemguidelinesto followon that day. They haverecommended “leaving thepremises in themorning, secur-ingwindows in case the dust orother particles are spread, andswitchingoffthegaspipelineandelectricitymains”,saidaresidentoftheadjacentbuilding,EmeraldCourt. “It isbeingdone ina fairlyorganisedway.WearegratefultoRWAsforplanningitwell.”TheEmeraldCourtRWAhad

brought in an engineer to carryoutastructuralauditofthebuild-ing,who recommended certainrepairsinthebuilding.Thereportwas submitted to the NoidaAuthority.Residents of nearby colonies

are also a worried lot. SwatiAgrawal, a resident of GrandOmaxe, which is more than akilometre away from thedemo-litionsite,said,“Weareapprehen-sive about the consequences ofthe demolition, particularly airpollution”.OnJuly19,EdificeEngineering

submittedavibrationpredictionreport to the Noida Authority,whichsaid themaximumvibra-tioncausedduetothedemolitionisexpectedtobe34mmpersec-ond,whilethestructuresinzone-5 are designed according to thenorms of 300mmper second,andtherewasnoneedforastruc-turalaudit.

Theyfelloff the17thfloorofPalmHillssociety

The ProcessThe entire admission process will be done online.DUwill start a Common Seat Allocation System,a centralised portal for undergraduate admissionsto all DU colleges

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■Aspirantswillbeaskedtoselectacourseandcollegecombination,multipleoptionscanbeselected

■Additionofprogrammescannotbedoneafter thedeadlineforapplication

■TheorderofselectionoftheProgram+Collegecombinationwillalsodeterminethepreferenceorderforallocationofseats

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A. OrderofpreferenceofProgram+Collegecombinationselectedbythecandidate intheapplicationformB. Positionof thecandidate intheProgram-Specificmerit listC.Thecategory(unreserved/reserved)of

thecandidateD. Availabilityof seats indifferentcategories forwhichthecandidate iseligible

HOW COURSE AND COLLEGEWILL BE ALLOTTED:

FREEZING OR UPGRADING SEATS

■ Onceaseathasbeenallocated inaparticularround,thecandidatewillhaveto“Accept” theseatofferedbeforethe lastdate/timespecifiedfor thegivenround

■ Afterverification, thecollegewill “Approve”or“Reject”theprovisionallyallocatedseatof thecandidate,afterwhichfeehastobepaidwithinstipulatedtime

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Noida-GreaterNoidaExpressway

SUPERTECHAPEXTOWER

Mega project: The preparationINTHEVICINITY:SupertechEmeraldCourtandATSVillageApartments

BEINGCARRIEDOUTBY:Mumbai-basedfirmEdificeEngineeringpartneringwithSouthAfrica-based JetDemolition

MAXIMUMVIBRATIONEXPECTED:34mm/second

BLASTSCHEDULEDFOR:2.30pmonAugust21,withone-weekcushion

periodendingAugust28asdirectedbySupremeCourt

PREPARATION:Routesneardemolitionsite tobediverted;Noidapolice

to issuetrafficadvisorytwodaysbeforeblast;Expresswaytobeshut foraround30minutes–15minutesprior,15minutesafter

APEXFloor:32

Height:103m

EXPERTSINVOLVED:Over60,including7engineers

fromJet,6 fromEdifice

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7.5 lakh sq ft

Noida prepares for twin tower demolition

4 dead whilecleaningwaste tankin JhajjarGurgaon: Fourworkers died andtwowere injured after allegedlyinhalingtoxicfumeswhileclean-ingsludgefromawastagetankata factory in Bahadurgarh, JhajjarWednesday.According to police, the inci-

dent took place around1.30 pmin Rohad industrial area inBahadurgarh.Policeidentifiedthevictims as Rajbir, Ajay Kumar,Jagatpal and Prakash, all hailingfromUttarPradesh.MayankPatelandVikaswere

rushed to a private hospital andare currently admitted to an in-tensivecareunit,wheretheircon-ditioniscritical, saidpolice.Sohanpal, an associate of

Vikas, said, “Theworkerswerenot given any safety equipment.Thetankhadnotbeencleanedforover a year and it hadwaste andresidue. No gloves ormaskwasgivenandworkerswereaskedtogo inside the tankwith a shoveldespite protestations. Vikas en-tered the tank using a ladder.Somewaterwas pumped fromthetank.Suddenlygasspreadandhefellunconscious.Whenhedidnot respond to calls, anotherworkerwentintorescuehim,buthealsodidnotreturn.Allsixwhowentinsidesuffocated.”A police officer said, “The

workers were asked to cleansludgeandwastematerialfromafive-footdeeptankatthefactory.Somesludgehadaccumulatedatthebottom.”WaseemAkram,SPJhajjar, said, “Legal actionwill betaken against the factory ownerandthosefoundculpableforvio-lationsof safetynorms.”ENS

CEYANEFloor:32

Height:97m

Cannot land atsomeone’s doorstepwith bulldozer: HC

Total VacantHOSPITAL BEDS 9,406 9,033ICU BEDS 2,119 2,021

CORONAVIRUSIN THECAPITAL

VACCINATIONS INLAST24HOURS16,382

NOIDAAug2 Aug3

Cases N/A 165Deaths N/A 0GURGAONCases 213 361Deaths 1 0

PATIENTS INHOSPITAL: 376OXYGENSUPPORT 77VENTILATORSUPPORT 14

DELHI TOTALCASES19,60,172

Cases Recoveries Deaths TestsAug2 1,506 771 3 14,165Aug3 2,073 1,437 5 17,815Total 5,637* 19,28,214 26,321 3,95,47,997*Total active cases inDelhi

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5QUESTIONS

THE CPI’S RAJYA SABHA MP, PSANDOSH KUMAR, TELLS ESHA ROYABOUT THE DEMAND FOR THE REPEALOF THE UNLAWFUL ACTIVITIES(PREVENTION) ACT IN THE 75TH YEAROF INDIA’S INDEPENDENCE

Whydid you raise the issueofrepealing theUAPA?From the very beginning, the CPIhas opposed, first theintroduction and then theenforcement of theUAPA. Thishas been thepolitical convictionnot only of theCPI, but of the Left.

What is themost problematicpart of theUAPA?Under Section43(d) of theAct,authorities are allowed toimprison an individualwithouttrial for up to 180days. So,without police filing achargesheet, an individual canbekept in jail for a period of sixmonthswith the reason that theyare involved in terrorismactivities. Also, UAPA cases areoften flimsy.

Youalso raised the issueof thedefinitionof terrorism...The government has not definedwhat terrorism is. Presently it isvery vague. So, anything canbeterrorism. Fromactual terroristevents like the attack on the TajHotel (the 2008Mumbai terrorattack) to evenkeeping certainliterature or reading certainbooklets, such asMaoistpamphlets, can bedeemedterrorism. This is problematic.Recently,while dismissing a caseunderUAPA filed by theNIA, theSupremeCourt observed thateven aperson reading anewspaper canbe aproblem.

Whatkindof lawdoyou thinkthegovernmentneeds tobringin todealwith terrorism?Civil society, political parties andthe government need tocollectively re-think laws as far asterrorism in concerned.Most ofthe cases that are now filed canbedealtwith using the strong IPCsections thatwehave currently.Some states also have their ownlaws to dealwith such activities.

What aboutpreventivemeasures?Right now,most people beingpickedupunderUAPAare in theage range of 18-30 years, and thenthe secondhighest are the 30-45year category. The convictionrates underUAPAhavenot beenvery high.Moreover, evenwithout conviction you are sittingin jail for longperiods of time.This affects the lives of thoseaccusedunder theAct and theirfamilies too.

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LIZMATHEWNEWDELHI, AUGUST3

LOK SABHA witnessed noisy scenes andabruptadjournmentsamidprotestsbyoppo-sitionmembers over the raid at NationalHerald newspaper premises in connectionwithamoneylaunderingprobe.Inarareges-ture of protest, Congress president SoniaGandhi also came to thewell of the HousebrieflytojoinherpartyMPswhowereprotest-ing against the “misuse of central investiga-tiveagencies”againstoppositionleaders.While members belonging to the

Congress and the Dravida MunnetraKazhagam (DMK) stood in the well of theHouse, raising slogans like “ED,Modi downdown” and “Narendra Modi jawab do”,Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)membersand a few from Trinamool Congress (TMC)stoodnear their seats in solidarity.Two CongressMPs, Kodikkunnil Suresh

andManickam Tagore, gave notices of ad-journment motion to discuss the issue.Tagore's notice said the party wanted theHouse todiscuss immediately the “attitudeof the Central government misusing theEnforcement Directorate to suppress theOpposition party and its leaders, especiallytheactivitiesof theEDtodefamethevaluesof theNationalHeraldnewspaper,andtodi-rectthegovernmenttorefrainfromsuchac-tivities”.Sureshsaidhewantedtodiscussthe“raidsattheNationalHeraldofficeinDelhibytheEnforcementDirectorate”asit is“yetan-other instanceof thevengefulpoliticisationof Central agenciesby theBJP-ledNDAgov-ernmentinitsattempttothrottledissentandopposition voices by acting upon fake andtrumped-upcharges”.When the House met, the Opposition

wanted that its leaders be allowed to raisethis issue.When Speaker Om Birla startedtheQuestionHour,MPs from the Congressstormed thewell shouting slogans againstthe government. “ED, Modi down down”and “NarendraModi jawab do” were theirmain slogans.The Lok Sabha was adjourned first at

11.10amtillnoon,andthenagainat12.15pmtill 2pm.When theHousemet at noon, Congress

MPs insisted that their leader Adhir RanjanChowdhurybeallowedtoraisetheissueintheHouse.WithRajendraAgrawal(BJP),whowasintheChair,notgrantingpermissiontospeak,theMPsbegansloganeering.SoniaGandhiwasseenaskingpartyleaderChowdhurytospeakon certain issues. Congressmembers, andDMKleaderTRBaalualsourgedSpeakerOmBirlatoallowChowdhurytospeakbuttheper-missionwasnotgranted.Amid the ruckus, DMKMP Dayanidhi

MaranwasseenpersuadingseniorCongressleaders, includingShashiTharoorandKartiPChidambaram, to come to the well of the

House. At this, Sonia Gandhi stood up andjoined the protesters in the well and alsoaskedChidambaramtomove to the front.RajendraAgrawal,whowasintheChair,al-

lowed the layingof parliamentarypapers onthetableoftheHouseandtheintroductionoftheEnergyConservation(Amendment)BillbyPowerMinisterRKSingh.TrinamoolCongressMPSougataRayopposed the introductionoftheBill, contending that theprovisionswerenotsufficienttofindalternativesourcesofen-ergyandtheBill seeks tomake theBureauofEnergyEfficiency(BEE)atop-heavystructure.“ThisBillhasnothingtoimprovetheintroduc-tionof greenhydrogen, greenammonia andothernon-fossilfuels,”Raysaidandurgedthegovernment tobring amore comprehensivedraft legislation.Singh, however, introduced the Bill that

alsohasprovisionstoestablishcarbonmar-kets and empower state electricity regula-tory commissions tomake regulations for asmoothdischargeof itsfunctions.Singhtriedto address the concerns raised by Ray, say-ing the Bill did not seek to turn BEE into alarge body, but only increase themembersinthegoverningcounciltoensureparticipa-tionofotherdepartmentsinitsfunctioning.“Wearealso introducingcarbonmarkets.Aperson embracing renewable energy willearncreditswhichcanbepurchasedbyoth-ers. Thiswillmake financing the renewableenergyprojectseasier,” Singhsaid.According to theminister, the big resi-

dential buildings consume 24 per cent ofelectricityandtheBillhasprovisionstomakesuch buildings more energy efficient andsustainable. The Bill has provisions to slappenaltiesfornon-complianceof therulesbyindustrialunitsorvessels, andonmanufac-turersifavehiclefailstocomplywiththefuelconsumptionnorms.“Withthepassageoftime,andinthecon-

textof theenergytransitionwithspecial fo-cusonthepromotionofnewandrenewableenergy and National Green HydrogenMission,aneedhasarisentofurtheramendthe saidAct to facilitate the achievement of'Panchamrit' – as five nectar elements pre-sentedbyIndiainConferenceofParties-26inGlasgow last year,” Singh said in theStatementofObjectsandReasonsof theBill.

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICENEWDELHI, AUGUST3

EDUCATION MINISTER DharmendraPradhan said on Wednesday that Indiawould become self-reliant in the field oftechnology by the end of 2022. Replying toadebate inLokSabha,healsosaid thatpeo-pleshouldletgoof theideathatuniversitiesmustonlybe fundedbythegovernment.TheLokSabhaonWednesdaypassedaBill

that seeks to convert the National Rail andTransport University in Gujarat into an au-tonomous central university.While the de-bate over the Central Universities(Amendment)Bill,2022wascarriedoutamidsloganeeringfromOppositionmembersovertheissueofmisuseofcentralagencies,allpar-tiesthatparticipatedinthedebatesupportedthe Bill. The newuniversitywill be rechris-tenedGatiShaktiUniversityafterthegovern-ment’sprogrammeforintegratedinfrastruc-turedevelopmentinthecountry.“By theendof 2022, this countrywill be

self-reliantinthefieldoftechnology.Notjustinfrastructure, but big industries, socialschemes…Where will farming happen?Wherewill a schoolbebuilt?…All of these

needamasterplan. It istheneedof thehourthat there is a knowledge repository of alltheseindustrialinitiativesandinfrastructurevision. In this background, the Gati ShaktiUniversity has been imagined,” EducationMinisterDharmendraPradhansaid inreplyto thedebateover theBill.Elaborating onwhat the universitywill

teach, Pradhan said, “Today, aviation hasreachedremotelocationsinthecountry.Wearetalkingaboutdriverlesstrainengines.Allthesearebasedontechnologyandneedspe-cificskillsets.AndtheywillbetaughtinGatiShaktiUniversity. There is aneed for capac-

itybuildingofallemployeesof thetransportsector.By2025,therewillbeasmanythingsdone by machines as are being done byhandstoday.Thosemachineswillneedpeo-ple behind their operation. This is a futuris-tic university. Thiswill be the first research,entrepreneurship andmulti-disciplinaryuniversityinthecountry.Thisuniversitywillalsoteachissuesrelatedtodisplacedpeopleandhowtheyshouldberehabilitated.”Regarding the financial implications of

the new university, theminister said, “Wehavetoletgoof theideathatcentraluniver-sities must be run only with governmentfunds. Our society is becoming prosperousandtheNEP(NationalEducationPolicy)saysthatweneedtoalsousepublicdonations.”RailwaysMinisterAshwiniVaishnaw,who

participated in thedebate, said, “Thisuniver-sitywillhavefivemainobjectives.Thefirstob-jectivewillbetransport-focusedcourses.Thentherewillbeskill-developmentcoursesundertheframeworkoftheSkillIndiacampaign.Thethirdobjectiveisappliedresearchsuchasthoseneeded forbridge, tunnel andport construc-tion.Thefourthwillbetechnologicaldevelop-ment.Thefifthwillbetransporteconomicsandinfrastructurefinance.” FULLREPORTON

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House panel criticises govt for absenceof ‘clear-cut’ policy on Indian diasporaEXPRESSNEWSSERVICENEWDELHI, AUGUST3

A PARLIAMENTARY panel onWednesdaycriticised the government over the absenceof a “clear-cut” policy onengagingwith theIndiandiasporaandrecommendedbringingoutadocumenttoserveasaguidingprinci-ple for adeeper andwider connectionwiththecommunity.The committee onMinistry of External

Affairsalsoexpresseditsdispleasureoverthegovernment not yet having an authenticdatabase of the Indian diaspora, and saidIndianmissions abroad should play amoreproactive role in developing closer contact

with thecommunity.In its 15th report that was tabled in

Parliament onWednesday, the panel notedthat the Indiandiasporacomprisingover18million PIOs (persons of Indian origin) and13millionNRIsisoneof thelargestoverseascommunities globally and the governmentmustengagewith it effectively.ThepanelheadedbyPPChaudhary said

it is surprised that a "clear-cut policy" onIndia'sdiasporaisyettobedraftedbythegov-ernmentdespitehavingahugediasporaplay-ing a very important role in the socio-eco-nomicdevelopmentof theirhomecountry.“Thecommitteedesiresthatthe(External

Affairs) Ministry should bring out a policydocumentonitsdiasporatoserveasaguid-

ing principle for deeper andwider engage-mentwiththediasporacommunity,” itsaid.Thecommitteealsonotedthatitis“deeply

concerned” about theplight of thousandsofIndian students pursuingmedical andothercourses inUkraineandChinaas theyarenotbeingabletoreturntothesecountries.“These students have been left in a

quandary as they could not re-join theircoursesphysicallyorcomplete their intern-shipor training in India,” the report said.“The committee has been told thatMEA

had recommended to theMinistry of HealthandFamilyWelfaretoconsiderallowingIndianprivatemedical institutionstoenrol returneestudentsfromUkraineintheirinstitutionsonaone-timeexemptionbasis,” itsaid.

RS unanimously passes anti-doping BillEXPRESSNEWSSERVICENEWDELHI, AUGUST3

PARLIAMENTONWednesday passed a Billthat seeks to create a statutory frameworkfortheNationalAnti-DopingAgency(NADA)andNationalDope testing laboratory.After a detailed discussion, Rajya Sabha

onWednesday unanimously passed theNationalAnti-dopingBill.Thelegislationwascleared lastweek inLokSabha.SportsandYouthAffairsMinisterAnurag

Thakursaidthelawwillregulateanti-dopingactivities in sports, specifically highlightingthatitwill“accomplishbuildinginstitutionalcapabilities inanti-dopingandenablingthehostingofmajor sportingevents”.“(Itwill enable)... protecting rights of all

sportspersons,ensuringtime-boundjusticeto

athletes,enhancingco-operationamongagen-cies in fighting doping in sports, reinforcingIndia's commitment to international obliga-tionforcleansports,independentmechanismforanti-dopingadjudication,”Thakursaid.Hesaid that the lawwill result in thees-

tablishment ofmoredope testing labs. Thiswill help create job opportunities, both di-rectly and indirectly, and create opportuni-tiesforacademicresearch,science,andman-ufacturing relating to anti-doping, theminister said.During the debate, nominatedmember

and legendary athlete P T Usha, deliveringhermaiden speech, expressed her concernoverdoping-relatedactivitiesbeingreportedatgrassroots levels.“Weareyet toopenoureyestotheabuse

of doping in our countrywhichwas earlierconfinedonlytotheseniornationallevelsbut

it has now reached the juniors, college andschool levels,which isaseriousconcernthatneeds tobe addressed.When talented sportindividualsareabusingperformance-enhanc-ing drugs, they are not only sacrificing theircareerandlifeforshort-termbenefitsbuttheyare also spoiling the talents of upcomingsportsindividualswhoworkveryhardtoim-provetheirperformancelevels,”Ushasaid.Shesaid thenewlawcancontroldoping

activitiestoacertainextent.However,more“effectivemeasures”needtobeundertakentocurb thesepractices, shesaid.“To control this alarming situation,with

thespecialinterestofourSportsMinister,theLok Sabha passed the Anti-Doping Bill lastweek.While this phenomenon can be con-trolled to some extent through legislation,yet stillmoreeffectivemeasuresare imper-ativeandneedtobe taken,”Ushasaid.

Smriti Iraniat therally.Anil Sharma BJPMPManojTiwari.AnilSharma

UnionministerJitendraSinghandotherMPsduringthebikerallyinNewDelhi,Wednesday.PTI

SeveralMPs, includinganumberofministers, tookpart in the ‘HarGharTiranga’bikerally fromRedFortaspartofAzadikaAmritMahotsav

TRICOLOUR RALLY

MinistersAnuragThakurandGKishanReddy.AnilSharma

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EXPRESSNEWSSERVICENEWDELHI, AUGUST3

THEGOVERNMENTwill construct26greenexpress highways by 2024 and bring downtravel time between key cities across thecountry, Union Road Transport andHighwaysMinisterNitinGadkari toldRajyaSabhaonWednesday.Oncethehighwaysarecompleted,travel

timefromDelhitoDehradun,HaridwarandJaipurwillbereducedtotwohours,Gadkarisaid.Citingmoreexamples,hetoldthemem-bers,“DelhitoChandigarhwilltaketwo-and-a-half hours, Delhi to Amritsar four hours,

andyouwill beable todoDelhi-Mumbai in12hours. By 2024, I guarantee that roads inIndiawillbe likethose intheUnitedStates.”He said the Transport Ministry is also

looking at several new technologies to re-place toll plazas in order to reduce trafficsnarls at thesepoints.Starting that the government is looking

attwonewoptionsfortollcollection,Gadkarisaid the first is a satellite-based system,throughwhichGPSinavehiclewillhelptollto be directly deducted from the vehicleowner's bank account. “The other option isthe numberplate,” he said. “From2019, westarted the new numberplate with a newtechnology.…Therewillbeacomputerised

system bywhichwe can use the software,andwewill collect toll.”He said the systemwill register thepoint

where a vehicle enters a toll highway, andthereafter register thepointwhere it exits it;tollwillbedeductedfromtheowner'saccountforthekilometresthecarisdrivenonthehigh-way.He said theministry is yet to zero in onthetechnologytobeusedbutitwillbeselected“asearlyaspossible—withinamonth”.Specifying that FASTag — an electronic

tollcollectionsystem—hascontributed“im-mensely”totollcollection,Gadkarisaid5.56croreFASTagshavebeenissuedtilldate,andaveragedaily toll collection throughFASTagisRs120crore.

SoniaGandhi joinedprotestingMPsattheWellof theHouse. File

Noisy protests overNational Herald raid,‘misuse’ of agencies

Education Minister: Let go of idea thatuniversities must only be funded by govt

UnionEducationMinisterDharmendraPradhaninLokSabhaonWednesday.PTI

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IITSWITHTHEMOSTVACANCIES

2,258 9,881 2,043 15,322 1,836 399

Kharagpur 798Bombay 517Madras 482IIT (ISM)Dhanbad 446Roorkee 419

Kanpur 382Guwahati 307IITBHU 271Jodhpur 138Bhubaneswar 114

Hyderabad 113Patna 97Indore 77Mandi 71Ropar 66

■Thereare4,596vacanciesinIITs, thegovttoldtheRajyaSabhainresponsetoaquestionbyBJPMPCMRamesh■RespondingtoCPMMPAARahim,thegovtsaidsinceSept2021,18 IITsrecruited286teachers.

InBhubaneswar,BhilaiandRoorkee IITs, recruitment is in ‘abeyance’,whileonMandi,PatnaandTirupaticampuses, it is ‘underprocess’, thegovt toldRajyaSabha

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UnionministerMinisterNitinGadkariatParliamentonWednesday.PraveenKhanna

Gadkari ‘guarantees’ US-like roads in India by 2024

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DELHICONFIDENTIAL

PAST & PRESENTINHERmaidenspeechintheRajyaSabha,nominatedmemberPTUsha,whilerecountingherdreamtopursueathletics,men-tionedtwoPrimeMinisters—IndiraGandhiandNarendraModi.“...myselfbeingagirlfromremotePayyoliinKerala,avillagewith-outanyfacilitiestopursuemysportingdreams,metandspokefor the first time to the then Prime Minister late IndiraPriyadarshiniji,whichwasoneofthemostpreciousmomentsofmylife,”Ushasaid.“...Runninguptotheyear2000andtrainingmyyoungergeneration till yesterday, thisdevotee [referring toherself]hasdedicatedherselftothebettermentofIndiansportsand, once again, had the rare privilege tomeetHon’ble ShriNarendraModiji,themostadmiredPrimeMinister...,”Ushasaid.

POET’S POPULARITYAFTERA tiringday in theHouse, someof theOppositionMPsgotachancetospendtheeveninginarefreshingambiance.TheoccasionwasadiscussionontheEnglishtranslationofDMKMPTSumathyThamizhachi Thangapandian’s Tamil short storiesat theConstitutionClub. Beinga leadingTamil poet, Sumathycertainlyhashordesof fansinherhomestatebutthecrowdatthevenuewasaclearevidencetoherpopularityinParliament,too.MorethanadozenMPsfromvariouspartiesattendedtheevent.MKanimozhi(DMK),SupriyaSule(NCP),ShashiTharoor(Congress),andSougataRay(TMC)spokeabouthowSumathy’sisapleasantpresenceduringthe“boring”sessionsinParliament.RaywentontosaythatevenifLokSabhaSpeakerOmBirlacallsforameeting,somanyMPswouldn’tbepresent.

PROTEST SINGINGWITHLOKSabhaSpeakerOmBirla givinga stringentwarn-ingthatnoMPshouldexhibitplacards inside theHouse, theOpposition had to innovate to protest in the House. OnWednesday,whentheHousemetinthesecondhalf,CongressMPs stormed the well of the House and started singingRaghupati RaghavRajaRam and Saare Jahan SeAchha to reg-ister their protest. CongressMP fromKerala RamyaHaridaswas leading the band and others repeated the lines she re-cited.ManyBJPmemberswere amused to see that theMPssangboth thesongsalmost to the last line.

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ONHISfirstvisittoNepalasPrimeMinister in2014,NarendraModitoldNepal Parliament that therewas nowar India had fought inwhichNepalibloodhadnotbeensacrificed. Praising thecontribu-tion and bravery of Gorkha sol-diers in IndianArmy,Modi said,“Isalutethebraveheartswholaidtheir livesfor India.”Sevenyearslater,astheArmy

prepares to unroll the Agnipathrecruitment scheme, there arequestionsaboutitssocialandeco-nomic impact on Nepal, fromwhere India has so far recruitedapproximately1,400soldiersintothe Gorkha regiment annually(pre-Covid),andhowitmightaf-fectIndia'srelationswiththegov-ernment and people of Nepal,where its strategic interests arepittedagainstChina.The first recruitments in

Nepal under Agnipath schemeare scheduled to begin lateAugust,andsomewebsitesareal-ready showingdates for recruit-ment rallies, but theNepal gov-ernment's confirmation to holdtherallies,whichispartofthere-cruitment procedure, is stillawaited.ItisalsounclearwhethertheannualrecruitmentnumberswillholdgoodunderAgnipath.InIndia,theArmywillrecruit

only25,000Agniveers thisyear.The Army's intake of Nepal

soldiers takes place under a tri-partitetreatysignedin1947be-tweenNepal, India and Britain.Some32,000-35,000Nepalsol-diersserveintheIndianArmyatanygiventime.TheIndianArmyex-servicemen community inNepal is about1.32 lakh-strong.While thenumbers to be re-

cruited fromNepal this year areunclear,what added to the con-cern is that only 25per centwillbere-employedby IndianArmy;therestwillhavetogohome.According to information

available in public domain, an-nual pensions for Nepal-domi-ciledGorkhas(IndianArmyalsohires India-domiciled Gorkhas)total about Rs 4,000 crore.Servingsoldiersalsosendremit-tances home to the tune of Rs1,000croreeveryyear.

“That is a huge injection ofmoney into Nepal's economy,”saidRanjitRae,India'sformeram-bassadortoNepal,whohaswrit-ten extensively about India’sGorkhaconnectwithNepalinhisbook Kathmandu Dilemma:Resetting India-Nepal Ties. “Thereis massive unemployment inNepal, andmost young peopleleavetoworkinothercountries....Itwouldbeverydifficulttoassessthe impact [of the new recruit-ment scheme] immediately. Butaswesaw in India, the first reac-tioninNepal, too,wasdismay.”Major-GeneralGopalGurung

(retd) of 5Gorkha said that as inIndia,salaries,pensionsandotherbenefitsareahugedrawinNepalfor recruitment into the IndianArmy.Thesocioeconomicimpactof Agnipathmay take 10 or 15yearstobecomeapparent,hesaid,butwhatwasatstakewasalsothehistoricGorkhaconnection.Gurungalsoflaggedconcerns

articulated inNepalmedia thatKathmanduwas not consultedabouttheAgnipathscheme.“Itisnot binding on India to consultNepalas longas it isapplieduni-formly andwithout discrimina-tion.At thesametime,consider-ing good relations between thetwo countries, and to augmentour ties, theNepal governmentcould have been consulted,” hetoldTheIndianExpress.Nepal'sownstandonthere-

cruitmentof itscitizens intotheIndian Army has been a bit of a

mixed bag. Over the last twodecades, sections of the polityhavequestioned recruitmentofNepal citizens into anothercountry's army where theymightbedeployedagainstcoun-tries friendly to Nepal. Gorkhasin Indian Army are deployed atboth the Line of Control withPakistanandattheLineofActualControlwithChina.Nepal has friendly ties with

Pakistan,andChinaishugelyin-fluential inNepal.In 2020, thenNepal foreign

ministerPradeepGyawalishockedmanyby callingGorkha recruit-mentintoforeignarmiesa“legacyofthepast”andthe1947tripartiteagreementas“redundant”.Despite the rhetoric, Nepal

understands that the economicaspect is too important forKathmandutodismissaltogether,butwantstobeinvolvedinthere-cruitment process. The suddenannouncement of the schemecaughtNepalbysurprise.Officials in Kathmandu told

The Indian Express that theyhadnoinformationfromDelhiaboutAgnipath.EvenchairmanofNepalex-servicemen's association,Major General Keshar BahadurBhandari, was in the dark. Heseemed to believe that theAgnipath schemewas separatefromGorkharecruitmentandex-pressedhopethatrecruitmentofGorkhaswouldcontinue.

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Mamata rejigs Cabinet; Babulamong 8 new faces, 4 droppedATRIMITRAKOLKATA,AUGUST3

INHERfirstCabinetreshufflesincecoming to power for the thirdterm,WestBengalChiefMinisterMamataBanerjeeonWednesdayinductedeightnewfaces,includ-ing former BJP MP and Unionminister Babul Supriyo, anddroppedfourfromherCouncilofMinisters. Those dropped fromtheCouncilofMinistersincludedParesh Adhikari, SoumenMahapatra, Ratna De Nag andHumayunKabir.The reshuffle came days af-

ter Trinamool Congress (TMC)chief sacked senior ministerPartha Chatterjee and sus-pended him from the party fol-lowinghis arrest by theEDovertheschool jobs scam.At a simple ceremony in Raj

Bhavan, Governor La Ganesan

administered the oath to fiveCabinet-rank ministers, twoMinisters of State withIndependent Charge and twoMinistersof State.WhileBabulSupriyo,Udayan

Guha, Partha Bhowmick,Snehasis Chakraborty andPradipMazumdarwere swornin as Cabinetministers, TajmulHossain and Satyajit Barmanwere sworn in as Ministers ofState (MoS). TMCMLA BiplabRayChowdhurywassworninasMoS (Independent Charge)along with Birbhaha Hansda,whohasbeenelevatedfromtheMinisterof State rank.Afterattendingtheoath-taking

ceremony, CM Banerjee an-nouncedtheportfolios.Babul Supriyo, 51, who had

quittheBJPtojointheTMCafterbeing dropped from the UnionCabinet last year, has got the ITandTourismDepartment.

ESHAROYNEWDELHI, AUGUST3

INCORPORATING TWO of thepromisesmadebyPrimeMinisterNarendraModi at the Glasgowconference last year, India onWednesdayenhanceditsclimatechangetargetsfor2030.Indiahassaiditwasnowcommittingitselftoatleast45percentreductioninemissionsintensityofGDP(emis-sionsperunitofGDP)from2005levels.Theexistingtargetwasa33to35percentreduction.Atthesametime,Indiaisalso

promisingtoensurethatatleast50per cent of installedelectric-ity generation capacity in 2030would be based on non-fossilfuel-basedsources.Thisisanin-crease from the existing 40 percent target.Boththeseenhancedtargets

havebeenincludedinIndia’sup-dated NDC, or nationally deter-minedcontributions, thateverycountry has to periodically fi-nalise and submit to theUNcli-mate body. The updated NDCwasapprovedbytheunioncab-inet onWednesday. India’s firstNDCwas submitted in October2015, just ahead of the finalisa-tion of the Paris Agreement,which formalised thisprocess.“TheupdatedNDCsseektoen-

hance India’s contributions to-wards the achievement of thestrengtheningof global responsetothethreatofclimatechange,asagreedundertheParisAgreement.Such actionwill also help Indiausher in lowemissions growthpathways,’’saidastatementfromtheEnvironmentMinistry.India’s first NDC had eight

goals, but only three had quan-tifiedtargets.Apartfromthetwomentionedabove-- thoserelat-ing to emissions intensity, andproportionofnon-fossilsourcesin electricity generation – Indiahad set a forestry target, prom-isingtocreateanadditionalcar-bonsinkof2.5to3billiontonnesof CO2equivalentby2030.In Glasgow last year, Prime

MinisterModihadmadeaseriesof new promises to strengthenclimate action from India. Onlytwoof them,mentioned above,have been converted to officialtargets,buttheothersarealsoin-

ter-linked, and progress on onewould lead to correspondingprogressonothers.Government sources said

Indiawasalreadyonthepathofachieving its two existing non-forestry targets, and, therefore,anenhancementwasexpected.Officialssaidtheachievementofthe newNDC targetswas “con-tingent upon the receipt of cli-mate finance and technology”fromdevelopedcountries.“While these are achievable

targets, theywill be difficult tomeet without resources,’’ saidsources.Pointing out that the new

NDCdemonstratedIndia’scom-mitment at thehighest level fordecouplingofeconomicgrowthfromgreenhousegasemissions,the EnvironmentMinistry saidthe enhanced target was alsostep toward achieving net zerostatusby2070.Netzeroisasitu-ationinwhichacountry’semis-sionsarebalancedbyabsorptionor removal of carbon dioxidefromtheatmosphere.“As a result of the aforesaid

measures, theNet Zero target by2030 by Indian Railways alonewill lead to a reduction of emis-sionsby60milliontonnesannu-ally.Similarly,India’smassiveLEDbulbcampaign is reducingemis-sionsby40milliontonnesannu-ally,’’theministrystatementsaid.

Govt hikes sugarcaneFRP by Rs 15/quintalEXPRESSNEWSSERVICENEWDELHI, AUGUST3

THEGOVERNMENTannouncedon Wednesday the Fair andRemunerativePrice(FRP)ofsug-arcaneforsugarseason2022-23(October-September).TheFRPofsugarcane has been fixed atRs305/quintal forabasic recov-ery rateof 10.25%.Thedecisionoffixingthesug-

arcaneFRPwastakeninthemeet-ingof theCabinetCommitteeonEconomicAffairs (CCEA) chairedbyPrimeMinisterNarendraModi.Detailing the CCEAdecision,

anofficialstatementsaidthatFRPof sugarcane for sugar season2022-23 (October-September)has been fixed at Rs 305/quintalforabasicrecoveryrateof10.25%.Besides, a premium of Rs

3.05/quintalwillbeprovidedforeach 0.1% increase in recoveryoverandabove10.25%.However,

forevery0.1%decreaseinrecov-ery, the FRPwill be reduced byRs3.05perquintal.“However, the government

withaviewtoprotect interest ofsugarcane farmers has also de-cided that there shall not be anydeduction in case of sugarmillswhere recovery is below 9.5%.Such farmers will get Rs282.125/qtlforsugarcaneinensu-ingsugarseason2022-23inplaceof Rs 275.50/qtl in current sugarseason2021-22,” the statementsaid. The FRP for sugar season2022-23 is 5.1% higher than Rs290perquintalfixedforthesugarseason2021-22.Forthesugarsea-son2021-22,thegovernmenthadfixedtheFRPatRs290perquintallinked to abasic recovery of 10%subject to a premiumof Rs 2.90perquintal foreach0.1%increaseof recovery over and above 10%andreductioninFRPatthesamerate foreach0.1%decrease in therecoveryratetill9.5%.

BSP set to backNDA nominee

AAP, JMM saywill support AlvaNewDelhi:TheOppositioncamponWednesday got a boostwiththeAamAadmiParty (AAP) andthe Jharkhand Mukti Morcha(JMM) announcing support totheir joint vice presidential can-didateMargaret Alva, but num-ber are still firmly in favour ofNDAnomineeJagdeepDhankhar.The vice-presidential poll to

electthesuccessortoMVenkaiahNaiduwill be held onAugust 6.Theresultswilloutthesameday.As per the electoral college

arithmetic, Dhankhar has two-thirds of votes in his favour asthe BJP by itself has 303mem-bers in the Lok Sabha and91 intheRajya Sabha.With the support of some

regional parties like the JantaDal (United), YSRCP, BSP,AIADMK and Shiv Sena, theNDA nominee is likely to getover 515 votes, enough for acomfortablewin for him.Alva is likely to get around

190-200votes,goingbythesup-port announced by parties forhercandidatureso far. PTI

Lucknow:After backing theNDAcandidateinthePresidentialelec-tion, the Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP)willonceagainlendsupportto the NDA nominee, JagdeepDhankhar, in theAugust 6 vice-presidentialelection.TheBSPhas10membersinLokSabhaandonemember in Rajya Sabha.Announcing it on Twitter onWednesday, BSP chiefMayawatisaid thedecision toback the rul-ingNDAnomineewasmade “inviewof largerpublic interestandparty’sownmovement”. ENS

AddressingtheNepalParliamentin2014,PMModihadsalutedGorkhaswholaid livesfor IndianArmy

THEUPDATEDframe-work for India’s transi-tion tocleanerenergybetween2021-2030willinclude taxconcessionsand incentives suchasproduction linked incen-tive schemeforpromo-tionofmanufacturingandadoptionof renew-ableenergy. Itwill pro-videanopportunity forenhancing India’smanu-facturingcapabilitiesandexports, andwill lead toan increase ingreen jobsin renewableenergy,cleanenergy industries.

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Govt gives nod tostronger climatetargets for 2030

WestBengalCMMamataBanerjeeandGovernorLaGanesanwiththenewministers.ParthaPaul

ED gets custodyof Partha, Arpitatill tomorrowKolkata:ASpecial Prevention ofMoney Laundering Act (PMLA)court onWednesday extendedthe Enforcement Directorate(ED) custody of former stateminister Partha Chatterjee andhis aide Arpita Mukherjee tillAugust5, inconnectionwiththeSchool Service Commission re-cruitment (SSC) scam.TheEDhadsought fourdays

of custody for Chatterjee andthree days forMukherjee fromwhoseapartments croresof ru-peesincashandothervaluableswererecoveredlastmonth.Theyare facing charges under thePrevention of MoneyLaunderingAct (PMLA).

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India set for Agnipath,worryin Nepal over Gorkha recruits

V-PELECTION

Govt to give groundnutoil at discounted rate ofRs 100/litre in GujaratEXPRESSNEWSSERVICEGANDHINAGAR,AUGUST3

AHEADOFtheJanmashtamiandDiwali festivals, theGujarat gov-ernmentWednesdaydecided toprovide double-filtered ground-nutoiltothoseholdingcardsun-der National Food Security Act(NFSA) at discounted rate of Rs100 per litre which is likely tocovernearlyhalftheGujaratpop-ulation. Adecision in this regardwastakenbythestateCabinetinits weeklymeeting chaired byChiefMinisterBhupendraPatel.Spokespersonof thegovern-

ment and senior minister JituVaghaniannouncedthedecisionwhileadding that thestategov-ernmentwill bear the financialburden of Rs 124 crore becauseofthesubsidy. Headdedthatthedecision will benefit 70 lakhNFSA card holders in the state,and thus cover 3.5 crore of thepopulation.Gujarathasapopu-lationof nearly6.6crore.Everycardholderwillgetone

litre of oil, an official releasequotedVaghaniassaying.Acco-rding to Vaghani, the state gov-ernmentgetsonelitreofgroun-dnutoilatthecostofRs197.The

release added that last year, thegovernmenthaddistributedcot-tonseedoiltoNFSAcardholdersat the rateof Rs93per litre.In another announcement,

Vaghani said that the NationalMedicalCouncil(NMC)hasissuedaletterofintenttoGujaratgovern-menttoestablishmedicalcollegesinGodhraandPorbandar.Vaghanisaidthataspertheexistingpolicyof the state government, the ex-istingdistricthospitalinthesetwodistrictswill be converted intomedicalcolleges.Anofficialreleasestatedthat

theNMChadvirtuallyheldanin-spectionofthetwohospitalslastmonthafterwhichletterofintenthasbeenprovidedtothem.Subsequently, after getting

letter of permission, the twomedical collegeswith100 seatseachwillbe functional fromthenextacademicyear.Thetwocol-leges will be developed at thecostofRs660crore, inwhich60perentwillbebornebythecen-tralgovernmentandtheremain-ingby thestategovernment.The release said there are 31

medicalcollegesinthestatewith5,700 seats.With these two col-leges,itadded,totalmedicalseatsinGujaratwillgoupto5,900.

Rahul targets RSS overhoisting of TricolourEXPRESSNEWSSERVICENEWDELHI, AUGUST3

A DAY after Prime MinisterNarendraModi and BJP leaderschanged theirprofilepictureonsocial media platforms to theTricolour,seniorCongressleaderRahul Gandhi onWednesdaytargeted the RSS, saying it hadnot hoisted the national flag atitsheadquarters for52years af-ter Independence.Rahul’sattackcameonaday

BJP leaders andministers ques-tionedtheabsenceofoppositionMPs at a Tirangabike rally fromRedForttoParliamentorganisedby theMinistryof Culture.Rahul and senior Congress

leaders too changed their social

mediadisplaypicturestoanim-ageof India’sfirstPMJawaharlalNehruholdingthenational flag.In a Facebook post later, he

said:“Lakhsofpeoplelaiddowntheir lives to keep the Tricolourflyinghigh.Butoneorganisationalways refused to adopt theTricolour... it did not hoist theTricolour at itsheadquarters for52years... insultedtheTricolourand today thosewho emergedfrom that organisation are talk-ingaboutthehistoryofTricolour,organising a 'har ghar tiranga'campaign.”“I want to ask...why did the

RSSnotthehoisttheTricolouratits headquarters for 52 years,whythelivelihoodsofthosewhomake national flag being de-stroyed,”hesaid.

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICEBENGALURU,AUGUST3

INAsignificantmoment for theCongressand itsefforts tocometopoweragaininKarnataka,twoseniorleadersof theparty—for-merchiefministerSiddaramaiahand state party president D KShivakumar— put up a displayof bonhomie in the presence ofCongress vice-president RahulGandhi. The occasion was the75th birthday celebrations ofSiddaramaiah in Davangere onWednesday.With Rahul watching, the

twoCongressleaders—whoareseentobe in therace for theCMpost should the Congress winthepolls in2023—huggedeachother and dismissed talk of dif-ferences between them. The

power tussle in the party is ex-pectedtobeadecisive factor forthe Congress’s prospects in theAssemblyelections.Speaking at Siddaramaiah's

birthday rally in Davangere incentralKarnataka that sawoverfive lakh people in attendance,Rahul said, “I am very happy tosee Siddaramaiahji and D KShivakumarhuggingeachother.Afterhebecamepartypresident,Shivakumarhasworkedhardtobuild theorganisation.''“The Congress has united to

defeattheBJPandRSS.Theytakewealth away from the peopleandgiveittoafewwealthypeo-ple.Wegivethewealthofthena-tion to thepeople,'' he said.During Rahul’s visit to

KarnatakainApril,hehadcalledfor unity among leaders andworkersfollowingreportsofse-

vere differences between partychief Shivakumar and Leader ofOppositionSiddaramaiah.

Therelationshipbetweenthetwo sparring leaders hadwors-ened following the announce-

mentofSiddaramaiah’sbirthdaybeingcelebratedinagrandman-nerbyhissupporters.Shivakumarhadsaidthepartydoesnotbelievein worshiping individuals butchangedhispositionaftercentralleaders,suchasRahulandgeneralsecretaryKCVenugopal backedthebirthdaycelebrations.Speaking at the event on

Wednesday, Shivakumar saidSiddaramaiah was not just aleaderofthebackwardclassesbutfor all communities. “Iwishhimthestrengthtoservethestateformanymoreyears. In2013,whenthe Congress came to power,SoniaGandhi andRahulGandhiappointed Siddaramaiah as theCM.He took oath on the day ofBasava Jayanthi. ThephilosophyofBasavannaisthephilosophyoftheCongress,”Shivakumarsaid.The state Congress chief also

saidhewasmovedwhentheideaof celebrating Siddaramaiah'sbirthday was proposed.“Siddaramaiah and I, and theleaderspresentherecannotbringthe Congress to power on ourown.Weneed the support of allthepeopletoremovethiscorrupt(BJP) government and install aCongressgovernment,''hesaid.Whenitwashisturntospeak,

Siddaramaiah rubbished reportsof differences betweenhimandShivakumar.“Foralongtime,theOpposition and themedia havebeen saying that SiddaramaiahandDKShivakumarareopposedtoeachother.Thisisfalseinforma-tion.Wearetogether.Therearenodifferences,'' Siddaramaiah saidwhile thankingRahul and SoniaGandhifortheirsupport.

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RahulGandhiwithstateCongresschiefDKShivakumarandex-CM Siddaramaiah inDavangere,Karnataka,ontheoccasionof Siddaramaiah’s75thbirthdaycelebrations. PTI

Rahul watching, rival Karnataka Cong leaders display bonhomie

New Delhi

NewDelhi: Entry to all monu-mentsandsitesprotectedby theArchaeological Survey of India(ASI)will be free for the next 10days fromSaturday. Thegovern-ment announced this onWednesday as part of 'Azadi ka

Amrit Mahotsav' and 75thIndependenceDay celebrations.Officials said free entryhasbeenfacilitated forall Indiannationalsaswellasforeignervisitorstothemonuments under the aegis oftheASI."Aspartof'AzadikaAmritMahotsav' and75th I-Day cele-brations,@ASIGoIhasmadeen-try free for visitors/ tourists to allits protectedmonuments/sitesacrossthecountry,from5th-15thAugust, 2022," Union CultureMinisterGKishanReddysaidinatweet. There are over 3,600ASI-protected monuments in thecountry.ENS

JIGNASASINHANEWDELHI,AUGUST3

HUGGING HIS elder brother,Jagjeet,whohad just arrived atthe Delhi airport fromAfghanistan, an emotionalAmarjeetsaid,“Ihavebeenwait-ing for him for a year now.Wehavealwaysbeen togetherand Iwon’tleavemybrotheragain.Hehassufferedalotthere.Iwillhelphim and his children get jobshere.” Jagjeet,whoownedade-partment store inAfghanistan’sJalalabad, and his sons wereamong at least 28Afghan Sikhswhowereevacuated to IndiaonWednesday.Theevacuationwasfacilitated

by the Shiromani GurdwaraPrabandakCommittee(SGPC)incoordinationwith IndiaWorldForum and the Government.Concerns about the security ofSikhs inAfghanistanhave risensincetheattackonagurdwarainKabul in June,which killed twopeople.SGPCofficialssaidaround

65-70people have been evacu-ated recently, and that morewouldbebroughttoIndiaassoonas their visa applications areclearedandplanesarearranged.A tearful Amarjeet said,

“Jagjeetwasseverelyinjuredtwoyearsagoduringthegrenadeat-tackinAfghanistan.Hecan’thearor speak now. I was also in

Afghanistan,butImanagedtoes-capewhile hewas stuck. I havebeenfeelinghelplesssincethen.ItaggravatedaftertheTalibantookover. I tried a lot but could notbringmybrotherback.Heisherenow, and I amveryhappy.” Thebrothers left the airport holdingeachother’shands.NewlymarriedManjeetand

Gurmeet said they had to leaveeverything overnight to savetheir lives.Kamaljeet,whoranaherbal

medicine shop in Afghanistan,said, “Everything seems blurrynow.Ithasbeendifficultstayingin Afghanistan. My familywould stop me from going toour shop because they wereafraid that someonewould at-tackme.We left our shop. Thepastfewdayshavebeenhectic.”Many of the families were

welcomed by their relativeswho either left Afghanistan afewyearsearlier,orcamealltheway fromPunjab.Taranjeet Singh, amedical

storeowner,saidheonlyhadtimetopackclothesandessentialdoc-umentsforhiswifeandtwosons.“My shopwasdamagedduringtheGurudwaraattack.Ihavelostall mymoney and don’t knowwhatwill happen, but I do feelsafernow.Wewerehopingtogeton a plane and leave as soon aspossible.Itisscarytothinkaboutwhathappened,”hesaid.

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GUJARAT

SuratrecordsfirstswinefludeathoftheyearSurat: Surat reported firstSwine flu death this yearWednesday.Accordingtothe Surat MunicipalCorporation,a49-year-oldwomanwhohadbeenad-mitted in aprivatehospi-tal,diedduringtreatment.SMC Deputy HealthCommissionerDr. AshishNaik said,“As of today,there are eight activeSwine flupatients inhos-pitalsoutofwhichonepa-tient is on a high oxygensupport andanotherisonventilatorsupport.”ENS

UTTARAKHAND

Soldierkilled inlandslideUttarkashi: An Armyjawanwas killed and an-other was injured afterbeing hit by a boulderwhich fell from ahill fol-lowing a landslide neartheIndia-Chinaborder inUttarakhand'sUttarkashidistrict, anofficial saidonWednesday. SoldierSukhjinder Singh (23)waskilledashe fell intoadeep gorge, and the in-juredjawanhasbeenhos-pitalised,saiddistrictdis-astermanagementofficerDevendraPatwal.PTI

UTTARPRADESH

Manarrestedforrapeafter28yrsShahjahanpur:Amanwasarrested28years after heallegedly raped aminorgirl, when his DNAmatched with the boyborn as a result of thecrime, police said onWednesday. SP (City)SanjayKumar said that a12-year-old girl was al-legedly raped by twobrothersin1994.Afterthegirl’s complaint, the ac-cusedbrotherswereaskedto undergo a DNA test,whichconfirmedthat theboyhad the sameDNAasthe accused, followingwhichonebrotherwasar-rested,whiletheotheroneisabsconding.PTI

WESTBENGAL

TMCleaders’homeraidedKolkata: The CentralBureau of Investigation(CBI) onWednesday con-ductedraidsatresidencesof local TrinamoolCongress leaders, includ-ing Kerim Khan and hisclose associate ZiaulHaque, at Illambazar andNanoor,inconnectionwithits probe into an allegedcattlesmugglingscamof-ficials said. CBI also con-ducted raids at thehouseofTuduMondal, anaideofTMC'sBirbhumpresidentAnubrataMondal.PTI

BRIEFLY

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICENEWDELHI,AUGUST3

THE EKNATH Shinde faction ofShivSenaWednesdaytoldSupre-meCourt that the anti-defectionlaw is “not aweapon for a leaderwho has lost confidence of hisownparty,tolockhismembersin,andsomehowhangontopower”.AppearingfortheShindefac-

tion,senioradvocateHarishSalvesaid thiswhile responding to ar-guments by senior advocatesKapilSibalandAMSinghvi,whoappeared for theUddhavThack-eray faction and argued that ac-tions of the rebels amounted tovoluntarilygivingupmembershipof the party. The only defenceavailable to the rebels to escapetheanti-defection lawis toclaimmerger with another party, orfloatanewparty,Sibalsaid.Sibaltoldthebench,presided

by CJI N V Ramana, that in theKarnatakaAssemblymatter, theSChadheld that givingupparty

membershipcanbeinferredfromconduct. In this case, the rebelMLAs were called for a partymeeting but theywent to SuratandthenGuwahati,hesaid. “TheywrotetotheDeputySpeaker,ap-pointed their whip. They havegivenuptheirmembershipofthepartybytheirconduct.Theycan'tclaim to be the original politicalpartyasdefinedinTenthScheduleof theConstitution.... Everyactoftheirs...amountstovoluntarygiv-inguppartymembership.”Sibal said therebelsareargu-

ingtheyaretheoriginalSena.But,hesubmitted,“Thatisnotpermis-sible. They admit before the

Election Commission of India(ECI)thatthereisasplit....Evento-day they recognised UddhavThackerayaspresidentoftheoffi-cialparty....Theyarelinkedtothepartyandthat link isnotseveredmerelybecausetheysaytheyarethemajorityinthelegislature.”Heargued that “what is beingdoneistousetheTenthscheduletoen-couragedefection”and, “if this ispermitted, themajority can beusedtotoppleanygovernment”.Singhvi argued that the anti-

defection law is being turnedonitshead.Thelawsaysitisaconsti-tutionalsinevenif amajorityde-fects,hesaid, “sotheycan'tclaimlegitimacyonmajorityalone”.Salvedisputed the argument

that the rebels’ conduct amoun-ted tovoluntarily givingupSenamembership and said someonewill have to decide that. He saidthat in the original draft of theanti-defection law, therewas aprovisionwhichsaidifamemberisexpelledfromaparty,heisdis-qualified.“Therewasconcernthat

thiswouldgiveabsolutepowertothepartybosses,andgivecontrolonintra-partydissent,whichwasnotwhat the anti-defection lawwassupposedfor,”Salvesaid.He said the “basic premiseof

the anti-defection law iswhenyouleaveyourpoliticalparty”andthat it has not been found untilnowthat “anybody (in the Sena)hasbeendisqualified”.Thebenchaskedifhewastry-

ing to say thatmembers, onceelected,canforgetabouttheparty.Salve said he is only saying thatthere is “no relevance fordissentaslongasIdonotleavemyparty”.Hesaid“in India,wetendtocon-fusesomepoliticalpartieswithin-dividuals...Originalpoliticalpartyisdefinedasthepartytowhichamember belongs...Now I belongto Shiv Sena...MyChiefMinisterrefusestomeetme...Therearealotof MLAs who say we want achangeinthepoliticalparty.Thatis not anti-party, but intra-party[act]”. FULLREPORTONwww.indianexpress.com

Mumbai:Theexpansionof ChiefMinister Eknath Shinde-ledMaharashtra cabinet is likely tohappen before Sunday, saidDeepakKesarkar,chiefspokesper-son of the Shinde-led faction ofShivSena,onWednesday.Withexpansionawaited, CM

ShindeanddeputyCMDevendraFadnavishavebeen theonly twomembersinthecabinetsincetheformationofthenewgovernmentonJune30.Overthelastcoupleofweeks,

Opposition leaders inMaharashtra, includingNationalistCongressPartyleaderAjit Pawar and Shiv SenaMLAAaditya Thackeray, have beenquestioning thedelay in cabinetexpansionandtheallegedlapsesasaresult inthegovernance.A coalitionparty leader said,

“The SupremeCourt verdict (onpleaondisqualificationofMLAs)is expected Thursday. The deci-siononexpansionwill followthecourtorder.”ENS

IRAMSIDDIQUEBHOPAL,AUGUST3

ONEPERSONdied and twooth-erswere injured after theywereattackedbyvillagers for ferryingcattle in a truck at Barakhadi vil-lage of Madhya Pradesh'sNarmadapuramdistrict around12:30amonWednesday.The deceased person was

identifiedasNazeerAhmed, andinjured as ShaikhHassuAjmeriandSayyedMushtak,allresidentsofMaharashtra's Amravati dis-trict.Thetruckwascarrying28cat-

tleofwhichtwowerefounddead,policesaid.Speaking to The Indian

Express, NarmadapuramSuperintendent of PoliceGurkaranSinghsaid,“Atruckwiththree residents ofMaharashtra'sAmravati district on boardwastransporting bovines illegally.Theywerestoppedby10-12peo-pleandbeatenup.Afterthepolicereached the spot, the threewererushed to a hospitalwhere onepersondiedduringtreatment.”Singh added that amurder

case (IPC, Section302) has beenregisteredand investigations areon.Thoseon-boardthetruckhave

been booked under the MPGovansh Vadh PratishedhAdhiniyamAct.Truck driver Shaikh Hassu

Ajmeriwhiletalkingtothemediasaid “the villagers atNarmadapuram's Nandanwarfilled the truckwith cattle andthey were ferrying them toAmravatiwhen stopped by vil-lagersandbeatenup”.TheSPsaidaspertheprelim-

inary investigation, the threeon-board the truck had arrived inMP's SeoniMalwa a day or twobefore the incident. “Weare try-ing to figure out if theyhadpro-vided thevehicle for transporta-tion purpose or were theysmugglingthecattle,”hesaid.On the identity of thepeople

who attacked the truck, Singhsaid: “Most of them are localsfromnearbyBarakhadivillageandGotiyapuri area. It has come tolightthatonepersongottheinfor-mationaboutthetruckandhein-formedhis accomplices.Wearetrying to gather details on howthey received this information,”addedSingh.The SP, however, denied the

involvement of any vigilantegroup, saying allwere local vil-lagerswith no affiliation to anygroup.

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICENEWDELHI,AUGUST3

THEENFORCEMENTDirectorate(ED) has attached assetsworthmore than Rs 400 crore of twobuilders in connectionwith theYesBank-DHFLcase.While assets worth Rs 251

crore belonging to SanjayChhabriahavebeenattachedpro-visionally, similar orders havebeen issued forproperties to thetuneofRs164crorebelongingtoAvinashBhosale.AccordingtoED,theattached

assetsofChhabriaareintheformof a land parcel in Santacruz,Mumbai, worth Rs 116.5 crore;25% equity shares of Chhabria’scompanyheld in a landparcel inBengaluru,worthRs115crore; aflatatMumbai’sSantacruzworthRs3crore;profitreceivablefromahotel belonging to Chhabria atDelhiairportworthRs13.67crore;and three luxury cars belongingtohimandworthRs3.10crore.Bhosale’s attached assets in-

clude a duplex flat inMumbaiworth Rs 102.8 crore; two landparcels in Puneworth Rs 14.65croreandRs29.24crore;andtwolandparcels inNagpurworthRs15.52croreandRs1.45crore.The agency is probing Rana

Kapoor of Yes Bank and Kapil

Wadhawan and DheerajWadhawanofDHFLon thebasisof a CBI FIR. It is alleged thatKapoor entered into a criminalconspiracywithKapilWadhawanandothers for allegedly extend-ingfinancialassistancetoDHFLbyYesBankLtdinlieuofsubstantialunduebenefit tohimself andhisfamilymembersthroughcompa-niesheldbythem.“RanaKapoorthroughYesBankLtdgotinvestedRs3,700croreinshort-termnon-convertible debentures of DHFLandRs283croreinMasalaBondsof DHFL,” the ED said in a state-ment. “Simultaneous to this in-vestmentmade by Yes Bank inDHFL, KapilWadhawan throughDHFL paid a kickback of Rs 600crore,inthegarbofloan,tooneofRanaKapoor’sbeneficiallyownedcompanies —M/s DOIT UrbanVentures(India)PvtLtd.”According to the agency, in-

vestigation revealed that imme-diately after alleged transfer offundsamountingtoRs3,983crorebyYesBanktoDHFL,thelatterap-praised and sanctioned loans toRadiusGroupofSanjayChhabria,which receivedRs2,317 crore asloanfromDHFLinthenameofde-velopmentofhisproject“Avenue54” at Santacruz, Mumbai.Chhabria subsequently divertedthemoneywithoutusingitforthedeclaredpurpose,theEDalleged.

NEW CVC TAKES CHARGENewlysworn-inCentralVigilanceCommissioner (CVC)SureshN.PatelwithPresidentDroupadiMurmu,VicePresidentMVenkaiahNaiduandPrimeMinisterNarendraModiattheRashtrapatiBhavanonWednesday PTI

ANANDMOHANJNEWDELHI,AUGUST3

FORMERMUMBAI Police com-missionerSanjayPandey,injudi-cialcustodyforhisallegedrole intappingofphonesofNSEemploy-ees, told a Delhi court onWednesday that he is awhistle-blowerwhohad, in fact, pointedout criminal activities such as“bettinginIPL”thatwerepurport-edly takingplace in thestockex-change.Pandey's lawyersmade the

submissionsbeforeSpecialJudgeSunena Sharma,whowill pro-nounce theorderonhisbailpleaonThursday.Appearing for Pandey, advo-

cate Tanvir AhmedMir told thecourt thatPandeywasawhistle-blowerwho flagged suspiciousactivities in the National StockExchange(NSE).

ThecourtaskedMirwhetherhis clientwas engaged as a spy.Mir replied, “Spywouldnot be agoodwordcomingfromthecourt.Myjobistoflagsuspiciouscalls.”Mir told the court that NSE

gave Pandey a record, and heflaggedcallsthatindicatedillegalactivities.“NSEemployeesarebet-tinginIPLandIamflaggingthoseactivities....WhatwrongdidIcom-mit,” he asked. “Was I running(away) from India? Proceeds ofcrime in total amount toRs 4.54crore.Itisnotcamouflagedorlay-ered. Who is dissipating evi-dence?TheEDarrested for ulte-riorreasons[motive]. I toldthem

(NSE) about system operationbreach,accesscontrolbreach,IPLbetting.”Mir submitted that theNSE

engagedhisclient'sservicestoen-surethat"tradesecretsdonotgoout(and)insidertradingdoesnothappen", and for that the NSErecordedcalls andgavehis com-panytranscripts.TheNSE, the courtwas told,

has been "recording calls since1997tosaveitself.Toensurethereis no illegal activity...it is beingdone all over, including govern-mentcompaniesandbanks.Ifitisnot anoffence there, how is it anoffencehere?Call it snoopingorwhatever, this is being doneeverywhere. TheWest BengalStateDistribution companyhasthis. Why is no one being ar-rested?SEBIsaysrecordallcalls...”Mirarguedthathisclientwas

arrestedfirstandtheEnforcementDirectorate(ED)begantheinves-

tigation later, inviolationof safe-guardsstipulatedbylaw.Thus,hesubmitted, the court is empow-eredtogranthimbail.AdditionalSolicitorGeneralS

VRaju,whoappearedforED,be-ganhisargumentsbyaddressingMir'scontentionthatnopredicateoffencewasmadeout.“Hehasnotchallenged this FIR, nor gone forquashing. He cannot nowarguenopredicateoffenceismadeout,”Rajucontended.“Whetherpred-icateoffenceismadeoutornotisintheexclusivedomainofCBI.”OnSEBI'sdirectivesregarding

recordingphonecalls,whichMircited,Rajusaid, "SEBIdoesn't sayyourecordprivateconversations.TheyhavenobusinesstamperingwithMTNLlines.”Mir rebutted this by stating

thateventhoughtheASGsubmit-ted that split-second decisionsweretaken,"iSecwasgettingdatatwoweekslater”.

New Delhi: Sports in India isstymiedbyfederationsthatdonotcomeundergovernmentcontrol,BJP member Nishikant Dubeysaid inLokSabhaonWednesdayduringadiscussiononpromotionof sports in India. “The problemwiththesportsecosysteminIndiaisthatfederationsareoutsidegov-ernment'scontrol.Richstatescanspendmoney and do that, butwhat do poor states such asJharkhanddo?”Dubeysaid.BSP’sDanishAli alsoraisedthe

issue of federations controllingsports.“Ifnepotisminfederationsisneutralisedandyouthsfromvil-lages get the sameopportunityandfacilitiesasothers,India’stallywillriseexponentially,”hesaid.BJP’s Satypal Singh said al-

thoughmanyshootershaveoverthe years come from his con-stituency,Baghpat,ithasnofacil-itiesforsportspersons.“TheyhavetogotoHaryanatotrainandprac-tice. I havebeendemanding thatBaghpat be given a NationalSportsInstitute,”hesaid.ENS

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICENEWDELHI,AUGUST3

THE NATIONAL InvestigationAgency has arrested twomorepeople in connectionwith themurder of Umesh Kolhe inAmravati,Maharashtra, in June.The accused,whowere arrestedon Tuesday, were identified asAbdul Arbaz and MaulaviMushfique Ahmed. Earlier, theNIAhadarrestedsevenpeople.“The arrested accused viz.

Abdul Arbaz and MaulaviMushfiqueAhmed are criminalassociates of earlier arrested ac-cused persons, namely IrfanShaikh, Shoaib Khan,Mudassir

Ahmed,AatifRashid,YusufKhan,Abdul Toufiq and ShahrukhPathanandonewantedaccusednamely Shamim Ahmed FirojAhmed,”theNIAsaid.TheMinistryofHomeAffairs

had lastmonthhandedover thechemist’smurdercasetotheNIAafter itwas found ithadsimilari-tieswiththeJune28murderof atailorinUdaipur.Exactly aweek before tailor

Kanhaiyalal Teli was killed inUdaipur, 54-year-oldKolhe waskilledonJune21.Investigatorsbe-lieveKolhewaskilledallegedlyinretaliationforasocialmediapostsupporting BJP’s Nupur Sharmawho had made controversialcommentsontheProphet.

MP: Truck ferryingcattle attacked, onekilled, two injured

MaharashtraCabinetexpansion likelybefore Sunday:Shinde camp

NSEPHONE-TAPPINGCASE

I am a whistleblower, pointed outcriminal acts: Mumbai ex-top cop

SanjayPandey

‘Don’t know what will happen, but I feelsafer’: More Afghan Sikhs arrive in India

AfghanSikhsafterlandingatIGIairport,NewDelhi,fromKabul,onWednesday.PremNathPandey

YESBANK-DHFLCASE

ED attaches Rs 400 crassets of two builders

Voluntarilyquittingvshangingontopower:Senacampsfaceoff inSC

EknathShinde(left) ;UddhavThackeray

NIA arrests two more forAmravati chemist’s murder

In Lok Sabha,MPs bat topromote sports

Free entry to ASI monumentsfor 10 days from August 6

New Delhi

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SADAFMODAKMUMBAI, AUGUST3

THECIDhastoldasessionscourtthat itwants towithdrawapleafiledby its formerprosecutor tomakefourpolicemenstandtrialfortheallegedcustodialdeathofKhwaja Yunus. Dhiraj Mirajkar,theformerspecialpublicprose-cutor of the case, was sacked in2018afterhehadmovedanap-plication to make four police-men accused in the case basedonthetestimonyofaprimewit-ness, who had claimed that thefour had brutally assaultedYunus in2003.Special public prosecutor

Pradip Gharat, who replacedMirajkar, told the court onWednesday that there was nosanction to prosecute the fourpolicemensoughttobeaddedasaccusedandhencethepleacan-notbesustained.Hefurthersub-mittedthattheHChadheldthatthecompetentauthority’sdeci-sion to not grant sanction toprosecute the fourpolicemen isproper. The four are retiredACPPraful Bhosale, RajaramVhanmane, Ashok Khot, andHemantDesai.SPPGharattoldthecourtthat

hewillbemakingawrittensub-missions on thewithdrawal oftheapplication.Readingoutthe2012 HC order, Gharat submit-ted that the court hadobservedthat the sanctioning authority'sdecision was based on state-ments of witnesses and otherevidence. The four policemenwere notmembers of the teaminvestigating the case andwereonly providing assistance to ar-rest theaccused.Yunus,a27-yearoldsoftware

engineerfromParbhani,wasar-rested by theMumbai Police inDecember 2002 for his allegedroleintheGhatkoparbombblastearlier thatmonth.

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EXPRESSNEWSSERVICELUCKNOW,AUGUST3

ALL THE organisational units ofHindu Yuva Vahini (HYV), ayouth outfit launched by ChiefMinisterYogiAdityanathin2002,were dissolved onWednesday,sources said, adding that it islikelytoberestructuredaheadofthe2024LokSabhaelections.On the condition of

anonymity, a functionary of theHYV inGorakhpur said that the

organisation in-charge and for-mer MLA Raghvendra Pratapsent amessage to all the office-bearers informing them aboutthedissolution.The decision to dissolve the

HYV’sstate,regionalanddistrictunits was taken a day afterAdityanath met senior func-tionaries of the outfit inGorakhpuronTuesday,thefunc-tionarysaid.Adityanathfoundedtheoutfit toworkforHinducul-ture,cowprotection,andagainstuntouchability.

PANSAREMURDERCASE

OMKARGOKHALEMUMBAI, AUGUST3

THE BOMBAY High Court onWednesday said itwill transfertheinvestigationintothedeathofactivist and CPI leader GovindPansarefromSpecialInvestigationTeam (SIT) of the state CriminalInvestigationDepartment(CID)totheAnti-TerrorismSquad(ATS).Allowing a plea filed by

Pansare’s kin seeking transfer oftheprobe fromtheSIT, the courtsaidtheATSwouldbeassistedbya few officers of state CID, theagency thathadbeen investigat-ing the case till date, forcontinuity.Pansare was shot at on

February16,2015nearhishousein Kolhapur. He died four dayslater.OnMonday,theMaharashtra

government had told the highcourt that it hadnoobjection intransferringtheprobefromSITtoATS. However, the bench hadaskedthestategovernmenttore-spondastowhethersomeofficersfromATScanbemadepartoftheSIT instead of starting the probeintothekillingfrom“pointzero.”A division bench of Justice

RevatiMohite-Dere and JusticeSharmila Deshmukhpassed anorder in an application filed byPansare’s daughter Smita anddaughter-in-lawMegha,whereinadvocateAbhayNevagi told thecourtthatthestatepolicewasyettomakeanybreakthroughinthecaseevenaftersevenyears.Nevagi had told theHC that

therewas a larger conspiracy inthemurdersofPansareandotheractivists, includingDrNarendraDabholkar, M M Kalburgi andGauriLankesh,asallthecasesare“linked.” He added that sinceDabholkar case trial has com-menced,theinvestigationcannotbe transferred, but a probe into

Pansare’sdeath can bemoved to theATS. Nevagisaid thatLankesh andKalburgicasesprobed byKarnatakaPoliceSITwillsoon reachtheir logical

conclusion.NevagialsosaidthatATSisan

appropriate agencywhich cantake thePansare case to a logicalenddueto itsrole intheprobeofthe 2018Nalasopara arms haulcase inwhich it found that thesame accusedwere involved inthemurders of Pansare and theotherthreepersons.He added that therewas no

dedicated team of officers toprobethePansarecaseasfiveIPSofficers investigating thematterwere changedduring the courseof theprobe.Nevagitoldthebenchthatthe

masterminds behind the killingandthe twoshootersare still ab-sconding.Headdedthataspertheprobeagency,nearly40moreper-sons, including Pansare andDabholkar'sfamilymembers,ac-tivistMedhaPatkarandotherin-tellectuals,authorsandpoliticianswereonthehit-listandtherefore,the masterminds should benabbedand the casebe taken tologicalconclusion.Submitting the recent probe

progress report, senior advocateAshokMundargi, a special coun-sel for state, had said that SarangAkolkarandVinayPawarweretheonly two accused specificallynamed in the Pansare case asshooters, adding theywere notnamedasaccusedinothercases.Thecourtsaidthatitwilltrans-

fer the probe to ATS andwouldpass a detailed order in duecourse.

HCto transferinvestigationfromSIT toATS

GovindPansare

MORADABAD

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICELUCKNOW,AUGUST3

MORETHANafortnightaftertheBilari Sub-divisionalMagistrate(SDM) was removed from hispost following a complaint of alocal businessman for allegedlythreatening him by getting aportion of his building demol-ishedwhenasked tocleardues,the state government has sus-pendedtheofficer.The action was taken after

theMoradabad district admin-istration found the then SDMGhanshyamVerma guilty in itsinitial inquiry report.“The administration submit-

tedaninquiryreportthatindictedthe officer. Noone guilty ofmis-deedwouldbespared.Themoveis in accordancewith the stategovernment'szerotolerancepol-icy against corruption,” saidAdditional Chief Secretary

(Home)AwanishKumarAwasthi.Lastmonth, the administra-

tionhadorderedaprobeintotheallegationsof ZahidAhmed, thebusinessman,whoclaimedthatthe SDM threatened to send abulldozer andget demolishedaportion of a building onhis plotwhen he asked Verma to cleardues for the furniture boughtfrom his shop. Verma, on theother hand, had claimed thatZahid levelled false allegationsagainsthimafter anoticeof en-croachmentwasservedonhim.After the incident surfaced

on social media and an inquirywasordered,GhanshyamVermawas attached to the district col-lectorateoffice.Moradabad Additional

District Magistrate (Executive)Surendra Singh, who also con-ducted the inquiry, said thedis-trictadministrationhasreceivedthegovernment'ssuspensionor-ders.

Removed over ‘bulldozerthreat’ to businessman,Bilari SDM suspended

IN THE WORKSMembersof aself-helpgroupprepare flags for ‘HarGharTiranga’ campaignunder ‘AzadikaAmritMahotsav’ tocelebrate the75thyearof Independence, inDhanbadonWednesday.PTI

KHWAJAYUNUSCUSTODIALDEATH

Cong’s KuldeepBishnoi resignsas legislator, setto join BJP today

Hindu Yuva Vahini units dissolved

VARINDERBHATIACHANDIGARH,AUGUST3

CONGRESS REBEL KuldeepBishnoifinallyresignedfromthemembership of HaryanaAssemblyandisallsettojoinBJPonThursdayendinghissixyearsbonhomiewiththepartythathehad earlier quit in 2007 andjoinedback in2016.During the last six years,

Kuldeeptriedhisbest togetoutof the shadow of veteranCongress leader BhupinderSingh Hooda, but miserablyfailed to secureanysubstantialrank within the party’s stateunit.After being dumped by the

party high command, Kuldeepdecided toget intoBJP and tookfourmonthstoeventuallyresignonWednesdayandannouncingthathewouldjoinBJP,Thursday.Bishnoi, 53, is the younger

son of former Haryana CMBhajanLal.

CID tells courtit wants towithdraw pleato make fourcops stand trial

TRANSGENDER’SREMOVAL

BSF ILLEGALMININGREPORT

CUET-UG second phasegets underway from todayEXPRESSNEWSSERVICENEWDELHI, AUGUST3

WITH THE second phase of theCUET-UG set to begin onThursday,manycandidateshaveapproachedtheNationalTestingAgency (NTA) to get dates andcentres changed as other en-trances are also scheduled overthenext fewdays.In some cases, candidates,

who have already appeared infirst phaseof CUET-UGheldbe-tween July 15 and July 20, havebeen assigned slots even in thesecondphase, triggering confu-sionanduncertainty.On Wednesday, Union

Minister of State for Scienceand Technology (independentcharge) Jitendra Singh alsoraised the issue of candidatesfrom Jammu's Udhampur be-ing assigned centres at

Srinagar's Goripora withEducation MinisterDharmendra Pradhan.The matter was brought to

Singh's attention by BJP J&Kpresident Ravinder Raina. Theexamcentre for aspirants fromUdhampur has “surprisinglybeen established at Gouripora,Srinagar, which is in the vicin-ityofHyderpora, anutterlyun-safe place for young students,especially inviewof forthcom-ing Independence Day”, Rainawrote in a letter to Singh.“A big group of Jammuites

maybe,God forbid, aneasy tar-get for miscreants,” the lettershared by Singh on Twitteradded.Later,SinghtweetedthatPradhanhas issuedinstructionsto get the centre changed forUdhampurcandidates.But in several other cases,

candidatesareyettoreceiveanyresponse fromtheNTA.

SOFIAHSANNEWDELHI, AUGUST3

SLAMMING THE Uttar PradeshPolice for “unlawfully” takingawaya22-year-oldtransgenderfrom a Delhi shelter home lastmonth, and Delhi Police for as-sisting them, the Delhi HighCourt on Wednesday askedwhether it was a “procedure”thattheUPPolicedecidestovisitanybody in the middle of thenight. The court also askedwhethertheDelhiPolicewasap-plying itself at all when “thereare somany strictures” passedby it against the law enforce-mentagency.Issuing notice to the Delhi

Police, Uttar Pradesh govern-ment,UPPoliceandCentreonapleathatalsosoughtcompensa-tion for violation of the funda-mentalrights,anddirectionsforappropriate protocol for safetyand security of the residents ofshelter homes, the court partic-ularly asked the Delhi Police toinformit about its actionsonanaffidavitwithin fourweeks.Hearing thepetition filedby

Mitr Trust,which runs the shel-ter, forprobingtheroleofpoliceofficers in thematter, the divi-sionbenchof JusticesSiddharthMridul andAmit Sharma askedwhether an adult, who is re-portedtohavebeenmissing,canbe takenagainst theirwill.“There is a judgment.

Nobody seems to be readingthem. Even the parents cannotdoit.Thiscourthasalreadyheldthey cannot take away an adultchild against theirwill.Wecan-not permit this,” said the court,when itwas told that thepolice

were acting on amissing-per-sonscomplaint filedby thepar-entsof the22-year-old inUP.Thecourtaddedthatthelaw

drawsadistinctionbetweenmi-nors and adults in such cases.“Somebody ismissing and yougo and pick him up in themid-dle of the night? You say a per-son is missing and you locatehim [but] he says I am fine, youhave to take him to the policestation because somebody hasreported him missing? Is hewanted in relation to commis-sion of any cognisable offence?So, why have youwhisked himaway?”asked thecourt.Whenthepolicesaidthatthe

person inquestionwillingly ac-companiedthepolice, thecourtobserved that it was “rich” forpolice to say that “he accompa-nied”willinglyfromDelhitoUP.“Doyouthink ithappenses-

peciallywhen he is notmissingandheisnotbeingheldatthein-stitution against his will. Whywould he go in the middle ofnight? 'Tonight Iwill go toUttarPradeshwiththeUPPolice.Let’shavesomefun’...is itpossible? isit tenable…this argument?”asked JusticeMridul.Whenthecourtaskedwhere

wasthestatementthat22-year-old went with police willingly,the counsel representing theDelhi Police submitted that itwaswiththeUPPoliceandtheycanbeissuednotice forproduc-ing itbefore thecourt.Takingexception to the sub-

mission, the court said, “Willbringit?WhenitcomestoDelhiPolice,youareresponsible. [Theperson] was taken away fromyour jurisdiction...You cannotjustkeeponpassing thebuck.”

Delhi HC pulls up UPPolice for whisking away22-year-old from shelter

Workers with unprovencredentials along border asecurity hazard, HC told

JAGPREETSINGHSANDHUCHANDIGARH,AUGUST3

WHILEMINING/EXCAVATIONintheborderareasofPunjab“startsbefore sunrise and goes on tilllate night (sometimes evenwhole night)”, the “presence ofhundreds of labourers –whoseantecedents have not been ver-ifiedbythelocalpolice–socloseto the International Border (IB)is perceived to be a big securityhazard”, the Border SecurityForce (BSF) has told the PunjabandHaryanaHighCourt.The BSF authorities submit-

tedareportinthisregardbeforethe bench of Chief Justice RaviShanker Jha and Justice ArunPalli.TheHCwashearingapub-lic interest litigation (PIL)– filedbyGurbirSinghPannuin2012–on illegalmining inPunjab.Pannuandothershadprevi-

ously told theHC that in the ar-easofPathankotandGurdaspuradjacent toPakistanborder andrightacrosstheRaviRiver,theil-legalmininghasresultedincre-ation of gorges and ditcheswhich seriously jeopardise thesecurity of the country and infact has practically become anentry point for infiltrators andterrorists.TheHCintheprevioushear-

ing had thus called for reportsfrom the BSF, Army,Ministry ofEnvironment,ForestandClimateChange as well as NationalInstitute of Hydrology,

DepartmentofWaterResources,River Development and GangaRejuvenation, Ministry of JalShakti, Government of India inrespect of the illegal mining, ifany, being carried out inPathankot and Gurdaspur dis-trictswhich is allegedly causinghugethreattothenationalsecu-rity at the International Borderbetween IndiaandPakistan.As the matter came up for

hearingbeforetheHConAugust2, theStateofPunjabfiledanaf-fidavit sworn by the PrincipalSecretary to Government ofPunjab, Department of WaterResources,Mining,andGeology,before thedivisionbench.ThePunjabgovernmentinits

report to curb illegal mining inthe state mentioned that the‘Enforcement Directorate ofMining’–createdinMarch2021–hadreceived151complaintsofillegal mining in Punjab fromApril 1, 2021, to July 26, 2022.FromJanuary1,2022, to July26,2022, a total of 42 complaintswerereceivedbytheDirectoratewhich have been further for-wardedto thepolice foraction.ThePunjabgovernment’sre-

port furtherstatedthat603FIRshadbeenregisteredagainst958individuals from January 1 toJuly26thisyear.Asmanyas690people had been arrested, ofwhich663werereleasedonbailbythelowercourts.Nolessthan536 vehicles, out of 777 im-pounded by police during theperiod, were released by thelowercourts.

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PELOSI QUEERS PITCHHervisitmarksaninflexionpointnotonlyforTaiwan’s futurebutalsoforUS-ChinarelationsandAsia’sgeopolitical trajectory

ALTHOUGHCHINACOULDnotdissuadeNancyPelosi, the speakerof theUSHouse of Representatives and second in line to succeed the US President,Beijing is turning up significantmilitary and commercial heat on Taiwan.ThiswillonlyincreasethepressureonWashingtontoraiseitslevelofstrate-

gic support for Taiwan. The broad political understanding betweenWashington andBeijingonmanagingtheproblemofTaiwanhasbeenunderstrainforawhile.ButPelosi’svisitmarksaninflexionpointnotonlyforTaiwan’sfuturebutalsoforUS-ChinarelationsandAsia’sgeopolitical trajectory.ThenormalisationofrelationsbetweentheUSandChinainthe1970sinvolvedfiness-

ingtheChineseclaimthatTaiwanisaninalienablepartofChina.Onitspart,theUSswitcheditsdiplomaticrecognitionfromTaiwantothePeople’sRepublicofChina,announcedsup-port for the “OneChina”policy, andagreed to limit its engagementwithTaiwan.Beijing,inturn,promiseditwouldnotforciblyintegrateTaiwanintothemainlandandrespecttheprincipleofone“countrytwosystems”.ThiscompromisehelpedWashingtonandBeijingto significantly improve bilateral relations and develop amassive commercial partner-ship. Amidst the deterioration of US-China relations in the last few years, China has ac-cused theUS of undermining theOne China principle by elevating American tieswithTaiwan.WashingtonsaysitisPresidentXiJinping’smuscularpoliciesthatareoverturningthestatusquoonTaiwan.Xi’sabsorptionofHongKonginviolationof thepromisesmadeto the international community and his ambition to integrate Taiwan, forcibly if neces-sary,havechangedthetermsofUSdebateonTaiwan.SpeakerPelosiisnotbackingthein-dependence of Taiwan. But, for a long time, she has been a champion of the democraticrights of thepeople inChina— including in Taiwan, Tibet andXinjiang.Withher visit toTaiwan,shehascertainlyqueeredthepitch forWashington's tieswithBeijing.Delhican’taffordtotreatthedevelopmentsinTaiwanasadistantcrisis.Thegreaterthe

ChineseoppressionofitsminoritiesandthemoreassertiveitistowardsitsterritorialclaimsonTaiwanandSouthChinaSea,themoresubstantivetheUSresistancewillbecome.Awarover Taiwanmaynot be imminent. But the conflict over Taiwan is deepening. Unlike inUkraine,where theUS is not directly fightingRussia, US commitment to defend Taiwanwouldpit American armed forces against the PLA in the event of an escalation. US allies,JapanandAustralia, arealsocommitted to join it in securingTaiwanagainst aChinese in-vasion.Ranked21st,Taiwanisamongthetopeconomicentitiesintheworld. It isaleadingproducerofsemiconductorchipsandstraddlesthevitalmaritimetraderoutesintheIndo-Pacific. The global disruption froma conflict over Taiwan could bemuch larger than thatunfoldingduetoUkraine.Equallysignificantisthepossibilitythatthedeepeningconflictbe-tweenUSandChinacouldalsodrawIndiaintoit.WhileBeijingmightthinktwicebeforerisk-ingadirect conflictwithWashingtonoverTaiwan, it couldhitoutat itsotherneighbours,includingIndia, tocompensateforthevisibleweaknessvisavistheUnitedStates.

CROPS OF LAST RESORTThatpulsesarenotprioritisedspeaksofperversepolicies thatencouragecropsrequiringmorewaterandchemical fertilisers

PULSES ARE REFERRED to as “orphan crops”. This is not only because of theirbeingmostly grown inmarginal lands prone tomoisture stress, but also be-cause farmers often switch tomore high-yielding cropswhen they have ac-cesstoirrigation--orevenif therainsaregood.Takethecurrentkharif season

fromJune,wheresurplusrainfall inmuchof theSouthPeninsula,CentralandNorthwestIndia has led to the overall pulses area sown till July 29 increasing by 2.9 per cent overthe sameperiodof last year. But areaunder themainkharif pulses crop, arhar (pigeon-pea), has fallen by 13.5 per cent, while rising formoong (green gram) and urad (blackgram).Thelatterpulsesareofshorterduration(60-90days),unlikearharthattakes160-180days.Farmers,especiallyinthetwomajorpulses-growingstatesofMaharashtraandKarnataka,havebasicallydivertedarhararea tosoyabeanandcotton.Theprimarydriverinthisis,however,prices.Soyabeanistradingroughly50percent

aboveitsminimumsupportprice(MSP).Also, itsyieldsaremoreorlessthesameasarharwithhardly90-100days'maturitytime.CottonpricessoaredtorecordRs12,000-13,000perquintal levels inMarch-April andareevennowrulingatRs9,000-10,000, asagainsttheMSP of Rs 6,080 formedium-staple varieties. Bountiful rains have given an addedboosttocottonandfurthertiltedthescalesagainstpulses.Tocutthestoryshort, thelackofpricecertaintyandabetterthannormalmonsoonhaveresultedinpulsesacreagego-ingupmainly inRajasthanandMP.Eventhere, farmershaveoptedformoong,uradandother short-duration pulses, which can be harvested early to enable planting of theirmainrabiwinter-springcropofwheatormustard.Suchtreatmenttopulsesisunfortunate.Apartfrombeingavaluableproteinsourcefor

many in Indiawhose diets are vegetarian and cereal-based, pulses harbour bacteria thatnaturally“fix”atmosphericnitrogenandtheirextensiverootsystemskeepthesoilporousandwell-aerated. Pulses should becomea commercial crop rather than a cropof last re-sort.ThatrequiresassuredMSP,astable importpolicyandbreedingofvarietiesthatareofshorter duration and amenable tomechanical harvesting.MSPprocurement of pulses isbotherraticandinadequatetoday.Importsofarhar,uradandmasur(redlentil)areallowedatzeroduty.There isnothingmoreperversethanpoliciesthatencouragefarmerstogrowmorerice,wheatandsugarcanethancropsrequiringlesswaterandchemical fertilisers.

STARS TO EARTHTalkaboutcorrection in inflatedshowbizsalaries isgrowing

louder.Avaluableconversationhasbegun

AT THERECENT Express Adda,when actor Alia Bhatt, who recently turnedproducer,wasaskedif itwastimeforacorrectioninactors’remuneration,inlightof theboxofficehavocwreakedbytheCovid-19pandemic,shesaid“itshouldhappen”. Thinkingalongsimilar lines is theTeluguProducersGuild

which stopped the shooting of all films starting August 1 to seek a post-pandemic “re-structuring”of the filmindustry, includingtheremunerationdemandedbyactors.Theusualexcuseforthehugesalariespaidtoactors,especiallythetopstars—thatthey

deserve their fat paychecks as they are the ones drawing crowds to the theatres on themake-or-breakopeningweekend—seemstohave fewer takersnow.Calls for changearegrowing louder in film industries. Lastyear, filmmakerKaran Johar spokeabouthow“fedup”hewasof actorsdemandinghigher feesevenwhen the film industrywasexperienc-ingoneof itsworstphases,whilehiscolleagueZoyaAkhtarsaid that thegapbetweenac-tors’andtechnicians’ feeswas“offensive”.The filmbusiness has always been risky. But showbiz has unarguably grown riskier

over the last couple of decades, with actors taking up an ever-growing proportion of afilm’sbudget—upto50percent, insomecases. It isworthwonderinghowmuchbetterthe excessmoney could be used. Could it, for example, be used to paywriters better orplugthegapthatAkhtarmentions?Perhapsitcouldbeusedtoproperlydevelopandre-search a project before shooting begins.Whichever direction the current conversationaboutthefilmbusiness’swoestakes, itseemsthatinthematterofastronomicalsalaries,itmaybe timethestars camedownto terra firma.

Jan Thompson

Beingaproxy ina fightbetweenbigpowers is themostuncomfortableposition foranystate tobe in

A COMMON WEALTHWhyBirmingham2022will feel likea ‘homegame’ foreverynationcompeting

THEDAILYGAMEover the past 10 days hasbeenaboutpredictingwhethertheUSHouseof Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’stravel itineraryinAsiawouldincludeTaiwan.TheformalannouncementoftheitinerarydidnotincludeTaiwanandsinceshefinallymadeittoTaipeionTuesday,theomissionisinexpli-cable.SurelytheintentionwasnottocatchtheChinese by surprise. Yes, it did adddrama tothevisitwhichsuitsthepublicity-savvyPelosi.Remember how in 1992, as part of a USCongressionaldelegationvisitingChina,PelosihadunfurledabanneratBeijing’sTiananmenSquare, expressing support for the youngdemonstratorswhohaddied in the violentsuppressionofthepro-democracymovementin 1989. That got her a lot of eyeballs backhome. PokingChina in the eyemayhelp theDemocrats in the forthcomingcongressionalelections.Thedomesticimperativeisvisible.What ismore telling than the fact of the

visit itself is the long and circuitous routewhich Pelosi’s special aircraft took, avoidingthemore direct route over the South ChinaSea,andtheislandsclaimedandoccupiedbyChina.Someof these islandsareheavilymil-itarised,withanti-aircraftbatteries.TheUSre-jectsChineseclaimsovertheseislandsandre-gards the South China Sea and the TaiwanStrait as internationalwaterways, but in thiscase,chosenottopressthepoint.ThedetourtakenbyPelosireflectsthechangeinthebal-ance of powerwhich has taken place in theregion over the past decade adding a newwariness to American calculations. TheChinesewouldhavetakennote.Nowthat thevisithas takenplace, atten-

tionhasshiftedtowhatChinawilldoinretal-iation.Havingthreateneddireconsequencesif thevisitwentahead,Beijing's reactionwillneedtobeseenassubstantialandvisible.Theinitialmoveshavebeenpredictable.MilitaryexercisesaroundTaiwanhavebeenexpanded,with Chinese aircraft intrudingmore fre-quentlyacrosstheinformalmedianlinewhichdefines the zone of operations on each side.Chinese naval ships are cruisingwithin theTaiwan Straits and around the island itself.

During the period the exercises continue,therewill be a virtual blockade of Taiwan asforeignvessels andaircraftwill beobliged tostayclear.Economicsanctionshavebeenan-nounced,prohibitingimportsofawholerangeoffoodstuffsfromTaiwan.Theremaybemoreto come. One itemwhichwill be left out issemi-conductors,acriticalimportforarangeof Chinese high-tech industries. Taiwanesefirms like the Taiwan Semi-ConductorManufacturing Company (TSMC) areworldleaders in themost sophisticated brands ofchips imported by a large number of coun-tries. This isanareaof acutevulnerability forChina. Thismay either hastenChinese plansto invadeandoccupyTaiwaninordertogainaccess to this critical capability or to denyChina’s adversaries— inparticular, theUS—access to it. Taiwansits right in themiddleofUS-Chinahigh-techcompetition.Pelosi’s visit toTaiwan isprovocativeand

the angry reaction fromChina should havebeenexpected.Beyondtheimmediateseriesof threateningmilitary activities directedagainst the island and punitive commercialmeasures,whatmoremaybeexpected?Thismerits analysis because in severalweeks, ei-ther inOctober orNovember, the20thPartyCongresswillbeconvened,wherePresidentXiJinpingmay seek a further unprecedentedfive-year term as China’s top state andCommunistpartyleaderandalsoappointper-sonnelpersonallyloyaltohiminkeypositionswhichwillfallvacantasaresultofretirements.AnyhintthatXihasbeenweakinconfrontingtheUSonan issue that isdescribedbyChinaasits“coreinterest”couldweakenhisauthor-ityandemboldenrivalswaitinginthewings.He has to be seen as acting decisively but atthesametimeavoidingadirectandpossiblydangerous confrontationwith the US. Butthereisalwaystheriskofanaccidentormis-calculation triggering awidermilitary clash.ThemaintargetofChina’sescalatingresponsewill be Taiwan and it is not surprising thatmany serious analysts in Taiwan have criti-cised thePelosi visit asmakingTaiwanmorevulnerablewithoutanyassurancethattheUS

will commit to defending the island againsttheChinesemilitarythreat.Taiwanis indeedcaughtinthecrossfirebetweenChinaandtheUSandbeingaproxyinafightbetweengiantsis themost uncomfortable position for anystatetobein. JustaskUkraine.TheUShas carried out a precision drone

attack in Kabul, eliminating the al Qaedaleader,Aymanal-Zawahiri.Thiswasdesignedto refurbish the US's credibilitywhich hadbeen severely damaged by its chaoticwith-drawal fromAfghanistan.But its timingmaynothavebeencoincidental.Itwasatimelyad-vertisementofUScapabilitiesinprecisionandhigh-techwarfare.Just as Taiwan is caught in a crossfire be-

tweentheUSandChina,soaretheEastAsianandSouthEastAsian countries.Most donotwish tobe forced intomakinga choice. TheyfeelreassuredbytheconsiderableUSmilitarypresence deployed in the region and tacitlysupportitsIndo-Pacificstrategy.However,theireconomicandcommercialinterestsareboundever tighterwith theChinese economy. Thishaving it bothways strategy is beginning tofrayat theedgeswith theescalating tensionsbetweentheUSandChina.ThelongperiodofrelativepeaceinAsiamaybenearingitsend.What about India? Prudence demands

that India hew closely to its consistent oneChinapolicyevenwhilemaintainingandevenexpandingnon-officialrelationswithTaiwan.For theUS, Japan andAustralia,members oftheQuad, Taiwan is a key component of theIndo-Pacificstrategy. It isnotfor India.Inonesense,China'spreoccupationwith

its easternocean flankof theYellowSea, theTaiwanStraitandtheSouthChinaSeaisgoodfor India. It diminishes Chinese attention to-wardtheIndianOcean,India’sprimarysecu-ritytheatre.OneshouldusetheopportunitytoexpandIndia’snavalcapabilitiesandmaritimeprofileinthistheatrebeforetheChinesebegintolooktoourextendedneighbourhoodwithrenewedinterestandenergy.

Thewriter isa formerForeignSecretaryandaSeniorFellow,CPR

THESPORTINGEVENTof theyearhasbeguninstyle,withBirminghamrollingouttheredcarpet for the 2022CommonwealthGames.Itcomes20yearsaftertheUKlasthostedtheGamesinManchester,andonthe10thanniv-ersaryofthe2012LondonOlympics.Wehavealready seen someof thebest athletes in ac-tion,andwillseethousandsmoreinthecom-ingdays.Anestimatedaudienceof1.5billionisexpectedtotuneinfromaroundtheworld.Theopeningceremonywasatributetothe

cityofBirmingham,showcasingitsdiversity,unityandculture.Ithadsomethingforevery-one, from William Shakespeare to BlackSabbath.Notmanycitiescanclaimtobehometosuchadiversegroupofcultural icons.Sadlywe shallmiss out on seeing Indian

icon andOlympic championNeeraj Chopra,out of actionwith an injury, but the IndiancontingentisnotshortofstarpowerwiththelikesofshuttlerPVSindhu,starwrestlerBajr-ang Punia, boxer Lovlina Borgohain and theHarmanpreetKaur-ledwomen’scricketteam.WeightlifterMirabai Chanumade new

friends afterwinningher goldmedal, as im-agesof herperforminga full splitwith a six-year old English fanwent viral— all helpingtoshowwhytheCommonwealthGamesarealso called the “friendlygames”. The storyofSanket Sargar, India’s firstmedallist at theGames,willinspirethenextgenerationofath-letes fromaround the country. And the his-toric goldmedalwonby thewomen’s lawnbowls teamcouldwell lead tomore peoplepickingupbowlsratherthanbats.Off the field too, these Gameswill be a

benchmark for futuresportingevents. Theyare thegreenest gamesever—the first ever

carbon-neutral Commonwealth Games —andalso themost inclusive,witheight fullyintegrated para events, more than at anyother Commonwealth Games. It is also thefirst major multi-sport event with moremedals on offer for women than for men.And in terms of its development, it is thefastestmodernCommonwealthGamesever,having been put together in four and halfyearsratherthantheusualseven,despitethechallengesof thepandemic.TheWestMidlands region is one of the

mostdiverseregionsintheUK,hometoover190nationalities. SoBirmingham2022willfeel like a “home game” for every nationcompeting.Some6,500athletesandofficialsare attending the event, including a 322-strongcontingentfromIndia.Birmingham’slargeIndian-originpopulationwillundoubt-edly ensure that the Indian visitors feel athome. And, of course, the Queen’s BatonRelay has travelled around theCommonwealth, via NewDelhi, BengaluruandBhubaneswar, before finally arriving inBirminghamfor theopeningceremony.TheUKispartneringwithIndiatodevelop

world-classinfrastructureandsportingfacil-ities. Lastmonth, amemorandumof under-standingwas signed betweenDelhi SportsUniversity (DSU) and theUniversity of EastLondon (UEL) to exchange knowledge, re-search, teachersandstudents.AsDelhiChiefMinister ArvindKejriwal said, thiswill pro-videapathwayforbothcountriestoworkto-gether in advancing sport and providing anenvironmentofexcellencetosupportsports-peopleintheir journeys.TheGamesareaccompaniedbyacultural

festivalandasignificantbusinessandtourismprogramme.TheUKgovernmentisalsohost-ingadelegationofIndiansportsindustrylead-ers,whoaremeetingtheircounterpartsintheUKtodiscussthelatest innovationsinthein-dustry. The UKhas expertise in the design,reuseandadaptationof venues, aswell as inwideningaccesstosportandsupportingsocialandeconomiclegacy.Thiscapabilityhasbeenused on major projects such as the 2012LondonOlympics, the PanAmericanGamesin2019andthe2022WorldCupinQatar.ExcitementfortheGamesispalpable,with

1.2millionticketssoldbymid-July.Theorgan-ising committee has created 41,000Games-timeroles,includingsome14,000volunteers,to deliver a smooth experience for athletes,officialsandspectators.FromtheiconicEdgbastoncricketground

to the newly built Sandwell aquatics centre,theactionistakingplaceincutting-edgeven-ues,whichwill leave a lasting legacy for thelocal population. The aquatics centre, builtfromscratch,willbetransformedintoastate-of-the-artsportsandwellbeingcentreforlo-calresidentstouseforyearstocome.TheGames are a celebration of sporting

success aswell asourCommonwealth con-nections,allowingustocometogethertocel-ebrate our shared commitment to democ-racy, peace and prosperity. It is indeed anhonour towelcome athletes and fans fromIndiaandacross theCommonwealth.Butatthe British High Commission wewill cer-tainlybecheering for India!

Thewriter is theDeputyBritishHighCommissionertoIndia

Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan isprovocative and the angryreaction from China shouldhave been expected. Beyondthe immediate series ofthreatening militaryactivities directed against theisland and punitivecommercial measures, whatmore may be expected? Thismerits analysis because inseveral weeks from now,either in October orNovember, the 20th PartyCongress will be convened,where Chinese President XiJinping may seek a furtherunprecedented five-yearterm as China’s top state andparty leader and also appointpersonnel personally loyal tohim in key positions whichwill fall vacant as a result ofretirements.

They are the greenest gamesever — the first ever carbon-neutral CommonwealthGames — and also the mostinclusive, with eight fullyintegrated para events, morethan at any otherCommonwealth Games. It isalso the first major multi-sport event with moremedals on offer for womenthan for men.

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Wedon’t makemovies tomakemoney, wemakemoney tomakemoremovies.

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PRESS BILL PASSEDTHE CONTROVERSIAL BIHAR Press Bill,which amends provisions of the IndianPenal Code and the Code of CriminalProcedure to deal with “indecent or scur-rilous” reports, was adopted in the BiharCouncilamiduproar.ThebillwaspassedbytheAssemblyonJuly31inthemidstof loudprotests from the Opposition. But the tac-tics of oppositionmembers in the Councilwere different. They opposed it at everystage, raisingproceduralandconstitutionalobjections. The opposition members de-scribed the Chief Minister as the “mur-derer” of democracy.

ISRAEL IN BEIRUTISRAELI FORCES CONTINUED to strengthentheirpositionaroundwestBeirutandbannedciviliansfromusingthemuseumcrossingthatlinks the eastern andwestern sectors of thecapital. Twohundred Israeli tanks and troopcarriershavebeendeployedineastBeirutandinside the port. The cease-fire continued toholdthroughoutthecitydespiteanumberofexplosionsreportedinsouthernsuburbs.

INDO-PAK RELATIONSINDIAANDPAKISTANexpressed a keende-sire to live in an atmosphere of peace and

friendship. The occasionwas provided by aceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan whenPakistan'snewambassador,RiazPiracha,pre-sentedhiscredentialstoPresidentZailSingh.

KENYA REBELSREBELAIR FORCE troops, defying a govern-mentultimatumtosurrenderbynoon,seizedhouses in aNairobi slumarea and told resi-dents theywerepreparedto“fight todeath”.Scattered firingwas reported in the Kiberashantytown,locatedinNairobi'swesternsub-urbs, andother areas around the capital. ButmostsourcessaidtheforcebehindtheabortedcoupbytheAirForcehadbeencrushed.

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Taiwan between giants

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WHATTHEOTHERSSAY“While violent militants cannot be allowed to operate freely, many of theunderlying issues that fuel terrorism have not been addressed. Until they are,many more Zawahiris will continue to emerge.” —DAWN,PAKISTANTHE IDEASPAGE

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The problem withcorruption, like disease, orthe coronavirus by which wewere recently struck, is that itinfects society as a whole.India is placed at 85 out of180 countries in the globalcorruption perceptions indexreported by TransparencyInternational. Most of usexperience corrupt practicesdaily, often in helplessacquiescence. The buyingand selling of jobs in theeducation sector in WestBengal is just anotherinstance of the breakdown ofthe civil contract, with thosein power assuming the rightto monetise and profitfrom what is actuallyfunded by taxpayers.

ANANECDOTENARRATEDbyacolleagueinParliamentabouthowaparticularpresidentperceivedhis roleasSupremeCommanderof theArmedForces provoked aquestion:Whydid the founding fathers not vest thissupremecommandinthecouncilofminis-tersheadedbytheprimeminister,giventhattheymade a conscious choice that Indiawouldbeaparliamentarydemocracy,notanexecutivepresidency?Article53of theConstitutionstates that

the executive power of theUnion shall bevestedinthePresidentofIndia.Article53(2)has a rather interesting formulation:“Withoutprejudice to thegenerality of theforegoingprovision,thesupremecommandof theDefence Forces of theUnion shall bevested in the President and the exercisethereofshallberegulatedbylaw”.Thepow-ersof thepresidencyare,of course,circum-scribedbyArticle 74which states that thepresidentshallexercisehisfunctionsonlyontheaidandadviceofthecouncilofministersheadedbytheprimeminister.Interestingly,ifoneperusesthedebatesof

theConstituentAssemblyondraftArticle42that corresponds to Article 53 of theConstitution, there is absolutelynodiscus-sion on vesting the supreme commandofthedefenceforcesinthepresident.Italmostseems that the Constitution framers hadtaken it as a given that the supreme com-mandofthearmedforceswouldbevestedinthepresidency. It is incredible that suchanimportantaspect,eventhoughthepresidentof India is only a titular head,wasnot evendebatedbytheConstituentAssembly.However, any and every constitutional

schemehas enoughplay in the joints tobeinterpretedinvariousways,especiallywhenaconstitutionalcrisiscomestoaheadoranexternalemergencymanifests.Theterm“de-fenceforcesoftheUnion”isnowheredefinedintheConstitution.Aclueastowhythesupremecommand

cametobevestedinthepresidencycanpos-sibly be found in the articulation of KMMunshiintheConstituentAssemblydebates.While speakingonanamendmentmovedby Professor KT Shah on draft Article 42,Munshiarguedthat“Thestrongestgovern-mentandthemostelasticexecutivehasbeenfound tobe in Englandand that is becausetheexecutivepowersvestintheCabinetsup-ported by amajority of the lower housewhichhas financial powersunder the con-stitution.Asaresultitistheruleofthemajor-ityinthelegislatureforitsupportsitsleadersinthecabinetwhichadvisestheheadofthestatenamely thekingor thePresident. TheKingorthePresidentisthusplacedabovetheparty.Heismadereallythesymboloftheim-partialdignityof theConstitution.”However, neither doesDrAmbedkar’s

opening speech introducing thedraft con-stitutionorclosingspeechontheconclusionofitsdeliberationsmentiontheaspectofthe

president being the SupremeCommanderof theDefenceForces.Was it, therefore, theun-verbalisedde-

sireofthefoundingfathersthatthesupremecommandof thearmedforcesmustvest inaconstitutionalentitythatisperceivedtobeabovepartisanpolitics, therebyunderscor-ing the apolitical character of the armedforces— that is, that theybelong to thena-tion andnot to anydispensation thatmayconcurrentlyatagivenpointintimeholdthereignsofexecutivepower?Orwere they just being guided by the

British practicewhere the supreme com-mand of the armed forces is vested in themonarch?WhiledesigningtheConstitution,the framerswere both following certainBritishtraditionswhilesimultaneouslytry-ingtobreakwiththem.TheBritishconstitutionalinterpretations

writtenbyMichel deMontaigneandotherscholarswere not the only ones that thefoundingfatherstookonboardintheirgrandstudyof constitutional jurisprudence. Thefirst French Constitution created by theFrenchNationalassemblyin1791embody-ingtheprinciplescontainedintheRightsofMan and of the Citizen equally animatedthem.ItisanothermatterthatFrancehashad15 constitutions between then and 1958.Equally,theywereinspiredbytheAmericanConstitution, andmoreso, theBill of RightsratifiedonDecember15,1791.InboththeAmericanandFrenchconsti-

tutionalschemes,thesupremecommandofthe armed forces vests in the president.However, both these countries have anex-ecutivepresidency.Nearerhome,therewasanothercountrythatwasborn—thePeople'sRepublicofChinaonOctober1,1949—justas the Indian constitutional deliberationswerewindingdown.Chinahadaninterestinginstitutiondat-

ingback to1925called theCentralMilitaryCommission and, fascinatingly, after Chinaassumeditspresentavatar, thegeneralsec-retaryof theChineseCommunistPartyhasbeeninvariablytriple-hattedwherebyheisalsothepresidentof therepublicandchair-personof theCentralMilitaryCommission,exceptforabriefwhilewhenDengXiaopingand JiangZemin in the late1980sandearly2000sheldthispositionsingularly.Interestingly,inPakistan,Article243-1A,

asamendedbytheConstitutionEighteenthAmendmentAct2010,states:“Withoutprej-udicetothegeneralityof theforegoingpro-visions, the Supreme Command of theArmed Forces shall vest in the President”However,thathasnotstoppedPakistanfrombeing convulsedby a series of coupd’etatsgoingbackto1958.It is, therefore, quite evident that rather

thananydeliberateplanordesigntoimposeciviliancontroloverthearmedforces,ascon-ventionalwisdomorsubsequentmythmak-ingmake it out tobe, thePresidentof Indiaended up becoming the SupremeCommanderoftheIndianArmedForcesforthe simple reason that themembers of theConstituent Assembly decided to followBritishprecedent. A studyof themakingoftheConstitution can throwup some inter-estingrevelations.

Thewriterisalawyer,MP,formerI&Bminister.Viewsarepersonal

IN SEPTEMBER 2021, K VMohandas, chair-man of the Eleventh Kerala Pay RevisionCommission (PRC), took official note of thepractice of collectingmoney from teachersfor appointment in state-aided schools andcolleges by comparing it to dowry. “Likedowry,demandingmoneyforappointmentsin aided schools and colleges is consideredevil by everyone and still the practice is al-lowed to continue,” he said.While the PRCReportrecommendedsomemeasurestoendthisevil,giventhatteachers’salariesinaidedinstitutionswere paid by the governmentfromthepublicexchequer,therewasalsoanundercurrent of hopelessness about the sit-uation,evensympathyformanagementsthatneededfundsforinfrastructureandmainte-nance.Nevertheless,thepracticewascorruptand illegal, and itwas suggested that hand-ing over recruitment to the Public ServiceCommission(PSC)orconstitutingastatutoryKeralaRecruitmentBoardforPrivateSchoolsandCollegesmighthelptoendit.Soon after the publication of the Kerala

PRCreport, Iattendedameetingwithmem-bers of the Commission for Reforms in theHigherEducationSystemofKerala,whowerelookingforpointersfromourownexperienceinWestBengalwith special reference to theresearchandteachingexcellenceofJadavpurUniversity, where I taught for most of myworking life.When the discussion touchedupon payment for teaching posts in highereducationinWestBengal,Isaidthatwhilein-fluenceandpoliticsobviouslyplayedapart, Iwasnotawareofmoneychanginghandsforappointments under either the state PSC orthe College Service Commission (CSC). Forschool teachers, I admitted, it had longbeena different story, despite the existence of astateSchoolServiceCommission(SSC).Asitturnsout,Icouldnothavebeenmore

wrongonthefirsthead.ThediscoveryofoverRs50crore incashandgold jewellery in flatsbelongingtoanassociateofWestBengal’sfor-mer industriesminister (and former educa-tionminister), Partha Chatterjee, aswell asnumberless properties allegedly jointlyowned by them or their families, has un-plugged a floodof disclosures at every level,from the serious to the salacious. TheEnforcementDirectorate's(ED)investigationofChatterjeeandhisassociatesfollowedsuc-cessive high court judgments regarding re-cruitmentscamsduringhistenureaseduca-tionminister.From2016,theappointmentofschoolteachersqualifyingtheSSC’sStateLevelSelection Test (SLST) had flagrantly violatedthemeritlist,forreasonsofnepotism,moneyor political clout. Second, therewere irregu-larities in the recruitmentbySSCofGroupDstaff instate-aidedschools,afterthetenureofthe original panel of appointees for 13,000postshadexpired.Third,atleast269primaryschoolteachersingovernment-aidedschoolswereineligibleforappointment.Theclearim-plicationwasthatduringChatterjee’stermaseducationminister,asystemhadbeenputinplace such that all school posts, of teachingandnon-teachingstaff,weresold formoney.Additional SolicitorGeneral SuryaprakashVRaju,appearingfortheED,declaredthattheywere looking for at least Rs 120 crore in theSSC recruitment scam,more than twice the

sumtheyhadfoundincash.Moreover, despite the Trinamool

Congress Party (TMC)’s panic-stricken dis-tancingof itself fromtheirtaintedex-cabinetminister and former secretary-general, it isobvious that thismassive exercise inmon-etisingpostsintheeducationsystem(andinother services too)was carried out by a vastnumberof functionarieswhosetprices andcollectedtheloot.Chatterjeehasalreadysaidthat themoney is not his, and this is true inmorethanonesense—hewasallegedlyacol-lectoraswellasanindividualprofiteer.Infact,for all the shock and horror about the SSCscambeing expressed by the left parties inBengal, itwas theywho started theprocess.Thoseofuswhowereintheteachingprofes-sionduringtheLeftFrontruleinBengalknowhowmanyofourownstudentswereaskedtopaysubstantialsumsbeforetheycouldjoinasteachers in schools towhich they had beenappointed through the SSC (set up in 1997).Thesamewastrueof lower-leveljobsingov-ernmentandpublic-sectorindustries.Allonemightsayisthatthescaleofdemandwasnotashigh,andsofaras Iknew,collegeanduni-versity posts, or those of vice-chancellors,were not sold, thoughmost appointmentswerepolitically influenced.Under the TMC, this system appears to

havebeendevelopedtoapointwhereitcouldservetofill,notjustpartycoffers,butthepock-etsofeverygreedyprofiteer. Itwasextendedinto the higher education system,with theminister, as soon as he assumed office, dis-missing out of hand a proposal for a cen-tralised online undergraduate admissionprocess. Soon after this, I recall a young sec-ond-yearstudentsittingnexttomeinthebus,busy on his phoneworking out the rates atwhich seats in several of Kolkata’s collegeswere to be sold.When I expressed amaze-ment,hesaidthatwiththeexceptionofsomeleadinginstitutionsand“first-listcandidates,”thelowerhalfof theadmissiontablewasde-cidedbypayment,withpoliticalparties, stu-dents’unions,teachers’associationsandotherfunctionaries either raking in a handsomeprofit, or looking the other way.Unsurprisingly, it is now alleged that lakhswereextortedforcollegeappointmentsand,sotherumourgoes,forvice-chancellorships.

Asonecommentatorputit,education,liketheconstructionindustry,wasrapidlypassingintothehandsofpowerful“syndicates”function-ingattherulingparty’sbehest.Should one be surprised? After all, such

practices, togetherwith the “leaking” of ex-aminationpapersandforgingofmarksheets,arecommonalloverIndia.Storiesofthehugesumspaid for vice-chancellorships in statesfromPunjab to TamilNadu circulated freelywhen,manyyearsago, Iwasanactivemem-ber of the National Assessment andAccreditationCouncil'sexercises.Whatisre-markable, instead, is theshockexpressedbymany as the scale of Chatterjee’s allegeddepredationsunfolds.Afterall,suchasystemrequired collaborators and participants atevery level. On TV today, reporters have noproblemsfinding,andinterviewing,ordinarypeoplewhopaidmoneyforjobstolocalfunc-tionaries, and operatorswhose taskwas tocollectit.Mostappallingly,thepublichaswit-nessedwithapparentindifferencetheeight-year-longstruggleof thecheatedSSCcandi-dates who had qualified in themerit list,protestingillegalappointmentstopoststhatwererightfullytheirs.Noone—leastofallthestategovernment—cansaythattheydidnotknowwhatwasgoingon.Theproblemwithcorruption,likedisease,

orthecoronavirusbywhichwewererecentlystruck, is that it infects society as awhole.India is placed at 85 out of 180 countries inthe global corruption perceptions index re-portedbyTransparencyInternational.Mostofus experience corrupt practices daily, ofteninhelplessacquiescence.Thebuyingandsell-ing of jobs in the education sector inWestBengal is just another instanceof thebreak-down of the civil contract, with those inpower assuming the right tomonetise andprofit fromwhat is actually funded by tax-payers.Forastatethatpridesitselfonthehighrankingsofitseducationalinstitutions,aswellasthepublicbenefitsofwelfareprogrammeslikeKanyashreeandSwasthyaSathi,thathavedrawn somuch popular support, this is anuncomfortable admission.Whether the rotcanbecheckedisanotherquestion.

SupriyaChaudhuri isProfessorEmerita,JadavpurUniversity,Kolkata

Presidency’sfoundingmoment

CAUSE FOR CONCERNTHIS REFERS TO the editorial, ‘AfterZawahiri’ (IE, August 3).The operationconducted by the CIA to kill Ayman al-Zawahiri, isamajorachievementinthefightagainstglobalterrorism.TheroleofZawahiri in the planning of 9/11 hasbeen well-documented in the 9/11Commission Report. Though he kept alowprofile, his activities in the last fewyearswereaimedatrevivingAl-Qaeda.However,inthelargercontext,thechainofeventsisconcerning.Zawahiri'sdeathprovesthattheTalibanisgivingrefugetoAl-Qaedaleadersagainsttheprovisionsof the Doha Accords. This also shows,though, that even if theUSandTalibanarecooperatingwitheachotheragainstISIS, theUSwillnotspareAl-Qaedaandother threats toglobalsecurity.

DewangGaneshThosar,Raigad

THIS REFERS TO the editorial, ‘AfterZawahiri’ (IE,August3).TheTalibanhasviolated the Doha Agreement signedwiththeUSbyprovidingasafehaventotheAl-QaedaChief,Aymanal-Zawahiriin Afghanistan, underlining the differ-ences between its sayings and doings.ZawahiriwasOsamaBinLaden'sdeputyandwas deeply involved in one of themostaudaciousterroristattacks.Hehadalso played a key role in the bombingsofUSEmbassiesinKenyaandTanzania.Joe Biden's address to the nation, au-thenticating the killing of Zawahiri bythe CIA provides some relief. AlthoughseveralotherterroroutfitshavestartedtogainholdinAfghanistanafterthepull-out of the US, the killing of the desig-

nated terrorist sends a clearmessagethatAmerica'sintelligencepresenceonAfghanistan'ssoilhasstillnotwaned.

TusharAnand,Patna

FAIR JUDGMENTTHIS REFERS TO the article, ‘PMLA anditsdiscontents’(IE,August3).Oneofthebasic purposes of enacting a law likePMLAwastoinstillgenuinefearofcon-sequencesinthemindsoftheperpetra-tors.Conventionalconceptsof fair trial,humanrights,innocenttillprovenguilty,constitutional balance etcwere regu-larlyexploitedbyunscrupulouslawyersto ensure that the cases lingeredon fordecades.Thisisactuallygroundsforcel-ebrationfor thecommonman.

HNBhagwat,Chiplun

INSTANT PUBLICITYTHIS REFERS TO the editorial, ‘No,minister’ (IE,August2). Publichumil-iation of Raj Bahadur, the V-C of BabaFarid University of Health andSciences, by the Punjab ministerChetan Singh Jouramajra is a highlycondemnable act. Even though theministersought toensure thatadmin-istrators of hospitals across the stateprovidebetter facilities topatients,hismistreatmentof adistinguishedmed-ical professor is unjustified. Themin-ister is often in the news because ofhis antics, and by misbehaving withtheV-C, he, in all likelihood, aimed toget instant but cheap publicity.

SamiulHassanQuadri,Bikaner

LETTERS TO THEEDITOR

ALQAEDA(AQ)chiefAymanal-Zawahiri’spre-cision-killingwithaHellfiremissileonJuly31was a clear demonstrationof top-line, over-the-horizonUScounter-terrorismcapability.Zawahiri'spresenceinaguesthouseinKabul,reportedly owned by interior ministerSirajuddinHaqqani’scloseaide,hasbecomeasubjectof intensecuriosity,givenSirajuddin’schief patron — the Pakistan deep state.Announcingthekilling,USPresidentJoeBidendescribedZawahiriasoneofthemastermindsbehind the 9/11 attacks, the bombing ofAmericanembassiesinKenyaandTanzaniain1998andtheUSSColein2000.PresidentBidenalso stressed that Zawahiriwas coordinatingAQbranchesworldwideanddirectingattacksagainstAmericaninterests.Not as charismatic as Osama bin Laden

(OBL), Zawahiri remained in his shadows.AfterOBL’skillinginaUSNavySealoperationinPakistanin2011,fewexpertsbelievedthatZawahiri could hold the network together.However, since 2011, the AQ network hasgrown across theworld, especially in Syria,Mali, Somalia, Southeast Asia, Afghanistanand Pakistan, disseminating its puritanicalideology,moneyandexpertise to localmili-tant groups. This has happened despite thehuge popularity of the Islamic State in IraqandSyriaamongstradicalMuslimyouth.TheISIS had also set up a physical Caliphate— along-cherishedgoalof internationaljihades-

pousedbytheAQ.UnderZawahiri,theAQnetworkseemsto

have changed its strategic direction and itsbranches currently operatemore like inde-pendent insurgencies—suchas through theTalibaninAfghanistan,HayatTahriral-ShaminSyria andAl-Shabab in Somalia. The crucialquestioniswhethertheAQ,post-Zawahiri,willlosemomentumorwhetherthecollectivecoreleadership that seems to have been quietlyworkingpost-OBL could provide a leader aswellasoffercontinuity.Themost obviousnamebeingdiscussed

tosucceedZawahiriisthatofanotherEgyptian,Saifal-Adel,whowasbelievedtobeinchargeof external operations.However, given regu-larreportsofhisconnections“within”Iran,hemaynotbethe“idealface”tosucceedZawahiri.Someregionalleaders,suchasfromAlShabab,maybeacceptable, given the recent series of“successes”of thisbranch.Theoldestbranch,thealQaedaintheArabianPeninsula,whichisthekeysourceofchiefideologuesofjihad,maybeusedtopropupaclericasthenextAQAmirin order to lower the profile for some timewhile keeping the propaganda around the“martyrdom”ofZawahirigoing.Successive reports of the UN Security

CouncilhavedocumentedZawahiri’spresencein the Af-Pak region and shown that theTaliban-AQlinksareintact.ThedronestrikeinKabul,lessthanayearaftertheTalibantakeover,

demonstrates how theAQ core leadershipneverlefttheAf-Pakregion,contrarytotheas-surance given in theDohaAgreement. TheTalibanand theUSareaccusingeachotherofviolatingtheagreement.Buttherealquestionis:WastheTalibaninvolvedinprovidingintelonZawahiriforsomebenefitthatwouldshowupinthefuture,ordidintra-TalibanrivalryleadtocooperationagainsttheHaqqaniNetwork?Thereisathirdscenario—ofthePakistandeepstate having provided the intel to show theTalibaninabadlightandcurryfavourwiththeUS,especiallyinordertodealwiththeTehreekTalibanPakistan(TTP),whichhascausedmuchviolenceagainstPakistanforces.SincetheHaqqaniNetworkhasbeenme-

diatingtalksbetweentheTTPandthePakistanarmy, the strikehas surely cast doubts aboutthe safety of theTTP leaderswhovisit Kabulformeetings. Given the links between theHaqqanisandthePakistanideepstate,itisun-likelythattheTTPwouldcontinuetalks,whichinanycasehavenotpreventedattacksonthePakistani forces. TheTTPhas already startedaccusingthePakistanarmyofprovidingabasetotheUSforthedronestrike.Thus,muchmoreviolenceisexpectedintheAf-Pakregioninthecomingweeksandmonths.TheTalibanwouldnowfinditmuchmore

difficulttocallontheUStounfreezeitsforexre-serves.Inaddition,thehithertofreneticdiplo-macybytheoutfitwithothernationsisbound

to slowdown. Pakistan is likely tomount adiplomaticoffensivetoshowhowtheTalibanharbours terrorists and is anunreliable part-nerfortheWest.PakistanhasbeenprojectingtheTTPasapartnerof theAQforalongtime.In2014, theAQlaunchedtheAlQaedaIn

IndianSubcontinent(AQIS),theoutfit'sSouthAsia branch. The inaugural video carried anoldclipofOBLandamessageofZawahiriap-pointingarelativelyunknownIndianradicalAsimUmar,whohadfledtoPakistandecadesago. In recent times, the group has postedmanyvideos focusedon India, especially onKashmir. Some of these clips have featuredZawahiri.Withhiselimination,aswellasthatof Umar and a few “known” Pakistani facesof the AQIS earlier, the propaganda againstIndia is likely to losemomentum for now.However, since the AQIS is anAf-Pak-basedgroup,itmayrebuilditselfwithsupportfromthePakistandeepstate.Withmoreclarityaboutthesourceofintel

fortheKabulstrikeandmoredetailsabouttheoperationemerging,therecouldbeacounter-terrorismrealignmentamongstregionalstatesandglobalpowers.Butit'sclearthatthedronestrikeannouncesthe“return”of theUStotheregion,lessthanayearaftertherather“chaotic”withdrawalof itstroops.

ThewriterisanIPSofficer.Viewsarepersonal

US returns to Af-Pak

Who failed Bengal’s students?WhythePresidentof India isalsoSupremeCommanderof theArmedForces

EducationscamuncoveredbyEDraidsisaresultofyearsofpubliccorruptionnurturedbypublicindifference,withthoseinpowerassumingtherighttoprofitfromwhatisfundedbytaxpayers

AnjuGupta

CR Sasikumar

KillingofZawahiricouldbeapreludetoarealignmentofforcesintheregion

Supriya Chaudhuri

Manish Tewari

New Delhi

14THEINDIANEXPRESS,THURSDAY,AUGUST4,2022

THEWORLDWWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM

MEANWHILE

VOLCANOERUPTSNEAR ICELAND’SCAPITALA volcano has erupted on a mountain near Iceland's capital Reykjavik, where an erup-tion also took place last year, the Icelandic Meteorological Office said on Wednesday. A"code red" was declared to prohibit airplanes from flying over the immediate site al-though helicopters would be sent in to survey the situation.

MYANMAR

Lavrovtomeetjuntaleader inofficialvisitBangkok:Russian ForeignMinisterSergeyLavrovar-rived on Wednesday inMyanmar for an officialvisitthatMoscowsaidwillinclude discussionswiththemilitary governmenton security andeconomicissues, Russian newsagency TASS said. Lavrovmet his counterpart,WunnaMaung Lwin, andothertopofficials afterhisarrival in Naypyitaw,Russia’s ForeignMinistrytweeted. He showed nosigns of change toMoscow’s stance, sayingthecountries“havea solidfoundationforbuildingupcooperation in a widerangeofareas.”“Weappre-ciatethefriendlynatureofour partnership,which isunaffectedby opportunis-ticprocesses,”hesaid.AP

RussianForeignMinisterLavrov inNaypyitaw,Myanmar

TOPOFTHEWORLD

PAKISTAN

Seminaryteacherheldforraping10boysLahore: A seminaryteacher in Pakistan'sPunjab provincewas onWednesday arrested forallegedlyrapingatleast10ofhisminorstudents,po-lice said.Qari Bashir,whoconfessed to raping theboys during the last twomonths inBhuttaWahanarea of SadiqabadRahimYarKhan,nearLahore,wasincustody.Policearrestedtheteacherafterparentsoffive seminary studentsfiled an FIR alleging thattheir childrenwere force-fullytakenbyBashirtohisresidentialquarters in theseminary where theywereraped. PTI

AUSTRIA

Iran,US,EUtosendenvoysfornucleartalksTehran:Iran,theUSandtheEU said on Wednesdaytheywould send seniorrepresentatives toViennaamidwhatappearstobealast-ditcheffortatrevivingtalksoverTehran’stattered2015nucleardeal. TheEUofficial who chairs thetalks, EnriqueMora, saidthenegotiationswouldfo-cus on the most recentdraft to restore the agree-ment, while Iran’s chiefnuclear negotiator, AliBagheri Kani, saidhewasheading to the Austriancapital“toadvancethene-gotiations.” US SpecialRepresentativeforIranRobMalley tweeted that hewaspreparing to travel toViennafortalks. AP

JOHNLEICESTER&NICOLASGARRIGAPARIS,AUGUST3

FANNINGOUT like urban guer-rillas through Paris’ darkenedstreets well aftermidnight, theanti-waste activists shinny upwalls and drain pipes, reachingfor switches to turn off thelights.Click.Click.Click.One by one, the outdoor

lights that stores had left on areextinguished. It’s one small butsymbolic step in a giant leap ofenergysavingthatEuropeistry-ing tomakeas it rushes towean

itselfoffnaturalgasandoilfromRussia so factories aren’t forcedto close and homes stay heatedandpowered.Engineer Kevin Ha and his

equallynimblefriendshadbeenacting against wasteful busi-nessesinParislongbeforeRussiastarted cutting energy suppliestoEuropeinabattleofwillsoverMoscow’sinvasionofUkraine.Assuch,thecampaignerswerepre-cursors of the energy economydrive becoming all the rage inFrance,Germanyandelsewhere.Theirmessage— that everyonecancontribute—isalmostword-for-word what public officials

from cabinetministers tomay-orsaresayingnow, too.“Everyonecanhaveapositive

impact at their own level, byadoptinggoodpractices,bydoingthe right things to reduce theiroverallenergyfootprint,”the30-year-oldHasaidonarecentnightof light-extinguishing on theChamps-Élyséesboulevard.The stakes are high. If Russia

seversthesuppliesofgasithasal-readydrasticallyreduced,author-ities fear Europe risks becomingacolder,darkerandless-produc-tiveplacethiswinter.It’simpera-tive to economize gas now so itcanbesquirreledawayforburn-

ing later in homes, factories andpowerplants,officialssay.“Europe needs to be ready,”

said European CommissionPresidentUrsula vonder Leyen.“Tomake it through thewinter,

assumingthat there isa fulldis-ruptionof Russiangas,weneedtosavegastofillourgasstoragesfaster. And to do so, we have toreduce our gas consumption. Iknowthatthisisabigaskforthewhole of the European Union,but it isnecessarytoprotectus.”And although Europe is

scrambling to get energy fromelsewhere, any difficulties thiswinter could be a harbinger ofworse to come if Russian gassuppliesarecompletelyseveredand stay off through 2023, saidFrance’sministeroverseeingen-ergy,AgnèsPannier-Runacher.Hencethemountingappeals

— already familiar to exasper-ated parents of wastefulteenagers everywhere — forEuropeanstotakeshortershow-ers,switchoffpowersocketsandotherwisedowhat theycan.Germany had been getting

about a third of its gas fromRussia,making theEU’sbiggesteconomy and most populousnationconspicuouslyvulnera-ble. The glass dome of theReichstag, the parliamentbuilding inBerlin, is goingdarkafter it closes tovisitorsatmid-night, and two facades will nolonger be lit. Legislators’ officetemperatures will drop by 2

degrees to 20 Celsius (68Fahrenheit) this winter. BerlinCity Hall, the JewishMuseum,two opera houses and thelandmarkVictoryColumnwithpanoramic views are amongabout 200 sites in the Germancapital thatwill no longerbe litat night.Under a lawpassedMonday

inoften-swelteringSpain,offices,storesandhospitalityvenueswillno longerbeallowedtoset theirthermostats below 27 degreesCelsius in summer. The Italiangovernmentalsoisrecommend-inglimitsonheatingandcoolinginpublicbuildings. AP

GOVTS ARE RECOMMENDING LIMITS ON HEATING, COOLING IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS

Cold showers, no lights: Europe saves for winter as Russian gas wanes

Amanclimbstoturnoff the lightsof astore inParis.AP

REUTERSWASHINGTON, AUGUST3

PRESIDENT JOE Biden plans tosign a second executive orderon Wednesday that asks hishealth department to considerpermitting theuseofMedicaidfunds for patients who travelout-of-state for abortions. Theorder, likehis firstsignedinJuly,is meant to address the recentSupremeCourt decision to endthe nationwide constitutionalright to abortion.It isexpectedtohavelimited

impact, as Republicans in USstates push a wave of laws re-strictingabortion,accesstomed-ication and funding for suchservices. Thepresidentwill signthe order at the firstmeeting oftheinteragencytaskforceonre-productive healthcare access,whichwas formed in July.Last month, Biden said the

Supreme Court, which isweighted6-3withconservativejudges,was"outofcontrol"afterruling in June to overturn Roe vWade, ending a half-century ofprotections forwomen's repro-ductive rights.

WEWILLNOTABANDONTAIWAN:U.S.HOUSESPEAKER

AGENCIESTAIPEI, AUGUST3

US HOUSE of RepresentativesSpeakerNancyPelosileftTaiwanonWednesday after pledgingsolidarityandhailingitsdemoc-racy, leaving a trail of Chineseanger over her brief visit to theself-ruled island that Beijingclaimsas itsown.Chinademonstrated its out-

rage over the highest-level USvisittotheislandin25yearswithaburstofmilitaryactivityinsur-rounding waters, summoningthe US ambassador in Beijingand halting several agriculturalimports fromTaiwan.China’smilitaryhasplanneda

seriesoflive-firedrills,startingonThursday, thatwouldmark adi-rectchallengetowhatTaiwande-finesas its coastline.Coordinatesfor the drills indicated that theycould take place as close as 10miles fromTaiwan’s coast,wellwithin the area that Taiwan saysisapartofitsterritorialwatersandcloserthanprevioustestsduringastandoff26yearsago.“Our delegation came to

Taiwan tomake unequivocallyclear that wewill not abandonTaiwan,” Pelosi told TaiwanPresident Tsai Ing-wen, whoBeijing suspects of pushing forformalindependence-aredlineforChina“Now,morethanever,America’ssolidaritywithTaiwan

iscrucial,andthat’sthemessagewearebringing today,"shesaidduringherroughly19-hourvisit.She added that Chinese

angercannotstopworldleadersfrom travelling to the self-ruledislandclaimedbyBeijing.Along-time China critic, especially onhumanrights, Pelosimetwithaformer Tiananmen activist, aHongKongbooksellerwhohadbeendetainedbyChina.Taiwanese President Tsai re-

sponded firmlyWednesday toBeijing’smilitary intimidation.“Facing deliberately heightenedmilitary threats, Taiwanwill notback down,” Tsai said at hermeeting with Pelosi. “Wewillfirmlyupholdournation’ssover-eignty and continue to hold thelineofdefense fordemocracy.”

Taiwanwillnotbackdown, saysPresidentonBeijing threats

USHouseSpeakerNancyPelosiandothermembersofherdelegationleavingTaipei.AP

Beijing:FuriousovertheUSHouseSpeakerNancyPelosi'shigh-pro-file visit to Taipei, China onWednesdayannouncedpunitivemeasures on outfits seeking“Taiwanindependence”,bannedimportsof someTaiwanesefoodproducts andsuspended theex-port of natural sand. Themain-landwill also punish, in accor-dancewiththelaw,organisations,enterprisesorindividualsthatof-fer fundsor services to the foun-dations,andtakeothernecessarymeasures, anofficial said. Chinawill suspend the entry of citrusfruitsandtwotypesof fishprod-ucts from the Taiwan regionstarting Wednesday, said aspokesperson. PTI

As Pelosi’s Taiwan visit ends, Chinagets ready for burst ofmilitary drills

Beijing bansimports of Taiwanfood products

Abortionrightssupporterscelebrate inOverlandPark,Kansas.Reuters

ASSOCIATEDPRESSTOPEKA,AUGUST3

KANSAS VOTERS on Tuesdaysentaresoundingmessageabouttheir desire to protect abortionrights,rejectingaballotmeasureinaconservativestatewithdeepties to the anti-abortionmove-ment that would have allowedthe Republican-controlledLegislaturetotightenrestrictionsorbantheprocedureoutright.It was the first test of voter

sentimentaftertheUSSupremeCourt’s decision in June thatoverturned the constitutionalright to abortion, providing anunexpected result with poten-

tial implications for the comingmidtermelections.While it was just one state,

theheavy turnout for anAugustprimary that typically favorsRepublicanswasamajorvictoryfor abortion rights advocates.Withmost of the vote counted,theywereprevailingby roughly20 percentage points, with theturnoutapproachingwhat’styp-icalforafallelectionforgovernor.Thevotealsoprovidedadash

of hope for Democrats nation-wide grasping for a game-changerduringanelectionyear.“This votemakes clearwhatweknow:themajorityofAmericansagree thatwomen should haveaccess to abortion and shouldhavetherighttomaketheirownhealthcaredecisions,”PresidentJoeBidensaid inastatement.

Kansas voters resoundingly protect theiraccess to abortion in a surprising victory

PRESSTRUST OFINDIAWASHINGTON,AUGUST3

THEUShas issued aworldwidealert asking its citizens tomain-tain a high-level of vigilancewhen travelling abroad as al-Qaeda supporters may targetAmericanfacilities,personnelornationals in thewake of killingof the terror network’s emirAymanal-Zawahiri.“Following al-Zawahiri’s

death, supportersof al-Qaeda,orits affiliated terrorist organisa-tions,mayseektoattackUSfacil-ities, personnel, or citizens,” thealertissuedbytheDepartmentofStatesaid.Asterroristattacksof-

ten occurwithout warning, UScitizensarestronglyencouragedtomaintainahigh- levelof vigi-lance and practice good situa-tional awareness when travel-lingabroad, it added.Worldwidecautionsprovide

US citizens with general infor-mationregardingterroristactiv-ities,politicalviolence,andcrim-inalactivitythatoccurabroad,aswell as specific recommenda-tionsonhowtoprepareforpos-sible contingencies. TheDepartment of State remainsconcerned about the continuedthreat of terrorist attacks,demonstrations, and other vio-lent actions against US citizensand interestsoverseas, it said.

INWAKEOFZAWAHIRIKILLING

US issues global alert,asks citizens to be alertwhen travelling abroad

London: British primeministe-rial candidate Rishi Sunak onWednesday pledged a crack-downonIslamistextremism,theUK’s most “significant terrorthreat”,withawidenedgovern-ment definition of extremismand strengthening existing ter-rorismlegislation.The former Chancello also

vowed to weed out organisa-tionsthatpromoteextremismintheUK and refocus the “failing”

Prevent programme, a govern-ment tool intended to tackleIslamistextremism.“ThereisnomoreimportantdutyforaPrimeMinisterthankeepingourcoun-try and our people safe,” saidSunak.“Whetherredoublingouref-

forts to tackle Islamist extrem-ismorrootingoutthosewhoarevocalintheirhatredofourcoun-try, Iwilldowhatever it takes tofulfil thatduty.,”hesaid. PTI

UK PM candidate Sunak pledges tocrackdown on Islamist extremism

Biden’s newabortion ordercould fundinterstate trips

ASSOCIATEDPRESSUNITEDNATIONS,AUGUST3

THE UN nuclear chief warnedthat Europe’s largest nuclearpowerplant inUkraine“iscom-pletelyoutofcontrol”andissuedan urgent plea to Russia andUkrainetoquicklyallowexpertstovisitthesprawlingcomplextostabilise the situationandavoidanuclearaccident.Rafael Grossi, director gen-

eral of the International AtomicEnergyAgency, said in an inter-viewTuesday that the situationis gettingmore perilous everydayat theZaporizhzhiaplant inthe southeastern city ofEnerhodar,whichRussiantroopsseizedinearlyMarch,soonaftertheirFeb.24.invasionofUkraine.“Every principle of nuclear

safety has been violated” at theplant, he said. “What is at stakeis extremely serious and ex-tremelygraveanddangerous.”Grossicitedmanyviolationsof

theplant’ssafety,addingthatit is“inaplacewhereactivewarison-going,” near Russian-controlledterritory.Thephysicalintegrityoftheplanthasn’tbeenrespected.Thereis“aparadoxicalsitua-

tion” inwhich the plant is con-trolled by Russia, but itsUkrainianstaff continues to runitsnuclearoperations, leadingtoinevitablemoments of frictionandallegedviolence,hesaid.

Ukraine nuclearplant is ‘out ofcontrol’, warnsIAEA chief

THE2019KansasSCdeci-sionprotectingabortionrightsblockedalawthatbannedthemostcommonsecond-trimesterproce-dure,andanotherlawim-posingspecialhealthregu-lationsonabortionprovidersalsoisonhold.

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PLAINED

How Taiwan’s chips play a decisive roleTHENEWYORKTIMESAUGUST3

AHUNDREDmiles of typhoon-swept sea from China’s south-easterncoast,astringofcolossalfactories in Taiwan churns outthemost important electronicdevicesonEarth.The tiny, intricate chips that

give life to phones, computers,cars,satellitesandalmostevery-thing elsewith a power sourceareatthecentreoftheeconomiccontest between the US andChina,arivalrythatisshapingthefutureoftechnologyworldwide.The issue loomed in the

backdrop of Speaker NancyPelosi’svisittotheislanddemoc-racyonWednesday,asshespokewith the head of one of thebiggest power players in chips,Taiwan SemiconductorManufacturingCompany.Today’s cutting-edge chips

are mostly made in Taiwan,where the two powers are en-tangled in a geopolitical tug ofwar over the island’s future. InWashington, Beijing and Taipei,diplomaticandmilitarycalcula-tions are interlinkedwith con-cerns about the supply chainswithout which the modernworldmightcometoahalt.Tech companies on both

sides of the Pacific rely heavilyon Taiwan SemiconductorManufacturingCompany,theis-land’sbiggestsiliconfoundry,tocraft the high-performancechips that render graphics invideo games and give smart-phones their smarts.Taiwanese leadershavema-

neuvered for decades in thenarrow space betweenAmericanandChineseinterests.Now, they face an even moreprecarious balancing actManyTaiwanese businesses rely onChinafortheir livelihoods,evenif theysupporttheisland’spres-ident instandinguptoBeijing’spugilisticbehaviour.

SRI LANKATORESUME IMFTALKS

SriLankaPresidentRanilWickremesinghe,PMDineshGunawardenaandSpeakerMahindaYapaAbeywardenaatthe inaugurationof anewsessionofParliament.Reuters

PRESSTRUST OFINDIACOLOMBO,AUGUST3

PRESIDENT RANILWickremesingheonWednesdaythanked India and PrimeMinisterNarendraModi for giv-ingSriLanka“abreathof life”byprovidingtimelyeconomicassis-tancetohiscountryasitfacedtheworsteconomiccrisisindecades.Wickremesinghemadethere-

markswhileaddressingaceremo-nialsittingofParliamentwhichre-convenedonWednesdayafter aseven-dayadjournment.“I wish to speciallymention

theassistanceprovidedbyIndia,our closest neighbour, in our ef-fortsofeconomicrevitalisation,”hesaid.“ThegovernmentofIndiaundertheleadershipofPMModihas given us a breath of life. Onbehalf of my people and that ofmy own, I convey our gratitudetoPMModi,theGovernmentandpeopleof India,”Thecountryiscurrentlyhold-

ing talkswith the IMFandother

foreigncountriesonfinancialaidtotideoverthecurrenteconomiccrisis. Hesaiddebtrestructuringplan is in its final stagesof beingprepared and the economic re-structuring planwould be out-linedintheinterimbudgettobepresented soon. Presenting hispolicystatement,he invited par-tiestoformaunitygovernment.

Colombo: Sri Lanka’sSupreme Court onWednesdayextendeduntilAugust11theoverseastravelbanonformerPMMahindaRajapaksa andhis youngerbrother and former financeminister Basil Rajapaksa,whoarewidely blamed forthe current economic crisisin the island nation. OnAugust1,thecountry’sapexcourt had extended untilAugust4. PTI

TRAVELBANONBASILMAHINDANOWTILLAUG11

India’s timely aidgave us breath of life:Ranil thanks Modi

New Delhi

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NewDelhi: The promoter of be-leaguered carrier SpiceJet, AjaySingh,isunderstoodtobeindis-cussionswithamid-easterncar-rierandanIndianconglomeratefor a possible stake sale in thelow-cost airline, persons famil-iar with the development indi-cated. Singh, who is also theCMD,holdsafairlylargestakeofclose to 60 per cent in SpiceJet,whichhasaccumulatedlossesofanestimatedRs5,000croreandanegativenetworth.Theairlinehasbeenbleeding

andneedsheavycapitalinfusion.“The new promoters wouldneed to inject a large amountofcapital to revive thebusiness. Inthiscontext, theequityhas littlevalue,” ananalystexplained.The SpiceJet stock rallied on

Wednesdayafterthenewsofthe

prospective sale broke andendedatRs 50.05 apiece on theBSE, up 12.73 per cent over thepreviousclose.Whencontacted,a spokesperson for the airlinesaid:“Thecompanycontinuestobeindiscussionswithvariousin-vestors to secure sustainable fi-nancingandwillmakeappropri-ate disclosures in accordancewithapplicableregulations.” FE

BRIEFLYViQ1lossNewDelhi:Vodafone Idea’s(Vi) Q1 consolidated lossnarrowed to `7,296.7 crore.It also saidRavinderTakkarwill take over as chairmanfrom August 19, andHimanshuKapaniawillquitasnon-executivechairman.

Irdai,investmentNewDelhi: Irdai revisedno-rmsforinsurersandcreateda separate limit for invest-mentinREITandInvITunits.PublicholdinginInvIT/REITshouldn’t be under 30% ofthe total outstanding unitsoftheInvIT/REITatthetimeof investment, itsaid.

I-TsearchesNewDelhi: The I-T depart-ment found black incomeof over `150 crore in raidsonJuly27at44premisesofbusiness groups that runhospitals in Haryana andDelhi-NCR, theCBDTsaid.

FinMingrantNewDelhi:TheFinanceMin-istryreleasedfifthinstalme-ntofrevenuedeficitgrantof`7,183croreto14states.

Airtel5GrolloutNewDelhi:Airtel inked 5GnetworkpactswithEricsson,Nokia & Samsung to startdeploymentthismonth.PTI

ENSECONOMICBUREAUNEWDELHI, AUGUST3

INANOTHERcaseof taxevasionagainst a Chinese cellphonemaker, the FinanceMinistry onWednesday said that theDirectorate of RevenueIntelligence (DRI) has detectedcustomsdutyevasionofaroundRs 2,217 crore by Vivo India, asubsidiary of China-based VivoCommunicationTechnology.Ashowcausenoticehasbeen

issued to the company formis-declaration that resulted in al-legedwrongful availmentof in-eligibledutyexemptionbenefitsby Vivo India, amounting to Rs2,217crore.Queriessent toVivoIndiabyThe IndianExpresswereunsansweredbypress time.“Duringthecourseof investi-

gation,searcheswereconductedby DRI officers at the factorypremises of M/s Vivo India,which led to the recovery of in-criminatingevidenceindicatingwilfulmis-declarationinthede-scription of certain items im-portedbyM/sVivoIndia, forusein the manufacture of mobilephones.Thismis-declarationre-sulted inwrongful availment ofineligibledutyexemptionbene-fits byM/s Vivo India, amount-ingtoRs2,217crore,”theFinanceMinistry statement said.It added that the company

has“voluntarilydeposited”Rs60crore towardsdischargeof theirdifferentialduty liability.

VivoMobile India Pvt Ltd, orVivo India, is a subsidiary com-pany of Vivo CommunicationTechnologyCo Ltd,Guangdong,China, and is engaged in thebusiness of manufacturing, as-sembling, wholesale trading aswell as distribution of mobilehandsetsandaccessories.Lastmonth, inanothersetof

investigationsconductedbytheDRI, a showcause notice de-mandingadutyofRs4,389crorewas issued to Oppo MobilesIndiaPvtLtd.Thetaxauthoritieshadallegeddutyevasionbymis-declaration of imports by OppoIndiaalongwithallegingthatthecompany hasmade provisionsforpaymentof “royalty”and“li-cence fee” to variousmultina-tional companies, includingthose based in China, in lieu ofuse of proprietary technology/brand/IPR licenceetc.

`60CR ‘VOLUNTARILYDEPOSITED’BYCO

■TheDirectorateofRevenue Intelligenceissuedashowcausenotice toVivoMobileIndiaPvtLtd formisdeclarationthatled toallegedwrongfulavailmentof ineligibledutyexemptionbenefitsamounting to`2,217crore

DETAILS OFSHOWCAUSE

‘`2,217-cr Customsduty evasion’: DRInotice to Vivo India

FY22: Over `2.54L cr spenton Central govt pensionersMore than `2.54 lakh crore was spent on nearly 70 lakhcentral government pensioners in FY22, governmentinformed Parliament onWednesday

69,76,240:Total number of pensionersand family pensioners whoreceived pension in financialyear 2021-22, JitendraSingh, Minister of Statefor Personnel, told theLok Sabha

`2,54,284.4cr:Totalexpenditure incurredonthesepensioners inFY22Source:Governmentdata

DEPARTMENT NO.OFPENSIONERS EXPENDITURE&FAMILYPENSIONERS

Defence* 36,03,609 `1,21,983.9crRailways 14,82,223 `51,935.24crCivil 11,28,441 `64,684.44crTelecom 4,32,968 `14,895crPostal 3,28,999 `785.82cr

*includingArmedForcesPensioners, Civilian&DefenceCivilian

‘SpiceJet CMD Singhin talks to pare stake’

AJAYSINGHCMD, SpiceJet File

ENSECONOMICBUREAUNEWDELHI,AUGUST3

SERVICES SECTOR lostmomen-tum in July as demandwas cur-tailedbycompetitivepressures,el-evatedinflationandunfavourableweather,amonthlysurveysaidonWednesday.The seasonally adjusted S&P

GlobalIndiaServicesPMIBusinessActivityIndexfellfrom59.2inJuneto55.5inJuly,pointingtotheslow-estrateofgrowthinfourmonths.For the 12th straightmonth,

the services sectorwitnessedanexpansioninoutput.InPurchasingManagers’Index(PMI)parlance,aprint above50meansexpansionwhile a score below50denotescontraction.As per the survey, service

providers that reported highersalesinJulymentionedfavourabledemand conditions and fruitfuladvertising.However,growthwas

dampenedby fiercecompetitionandunfavourableweather,surveyparticipantssaid.According to Pollyanna De

Lima, economicsassociatedirec-tor at S&P Global MarketIntelligence, therewasa “notice-able loss ofmomentum for theIndian service economy as de-mandwassomewhatcurtailedbycompetitivepressures,elevatedin-flationandunfavourableweather.Bothoutputandsalesincreasedatthe weakest rates for fourmonths”.Thedomesticmarketre-mained the key source of salesgrowthas internationaldemandfor Indianservicesworsenedfur-ther,thesurveysaid.Meanwhile, business senti-

mentintheserviceeconomywassubduedinJulyasonly5percentof companies forecast output

growthintheyearahead,whileavastmajorityoffirms(94percent)predictnochange inbusinessac-tivityfrompresentlevels.On the prices front, services

companies reporteda further in-crease in their averageexpensesduringJuly,withfood, fuel,mate-rials,staff,retailandtransportationcited as the key sources of infla-tionarypressures.Inputcostsrosesharply,thoughattheslowestpaceinfivemonths.“Thesubtleeasingincostinfla-

tionarypressurestoafive-monthlowwasalsowelcomedbyserv-ices firms struggling topreservemargins and contributed to asofter rise inprices charged. Yet,surveyparticipantsagainreportedconsiderablestrainfromfood,fuel,input,labour,retailandtransporta-tioncosts,”Limasaid.WITHPTI

DEMANDPRESSURE

AANCHALMAGAZINENEWDELHI,AUGUST3

IN Amove that will ensuremore flowof data about tax-payerstoauthoritiesandhelpin higher compliance, theturnover threshold for e-in-voicinghasbeenhalved toRs10croreeffectiveOctober1thisyear under the Goods andServicesTax(GST)regime.

Whathasbeendecidedabout loweringthethresholdfore-invoice?Businesses with annual

turnoverofRs10croreormorewillhavetogener-ate e-invoices forB2B transactionsfrom October 1thisyear fromtheexistingthresholdof Rs 20 crore.Pursuant to GSTCouncil’sdecisionto introduce e-invoicing in aphasedmanner, the CentralBoard of Indirect Taxes andCustoms (CBIC) onAugust 1notifiedloweringthee-invoicethresholdtoRs10crore.TheGST Council had ap-

proved the standard of e-in-voice in its37thmeetingheldonSeptember20, 2019. E-in-voicing for business-to-busi-ness (B2B) transactionswasmademandatory for compa-nieswith turnoverof overRs500 crore from October 1,2020, which was then ex-tendedtothosewithturnoverof overRs100crore effectiveJanuary1, 2021. FromApril 1,2021, companies withturnover of over Rs 50 crorewere generating B2B e-in-voices, and the thresholdwasbroughtdown toRs20 crorebeginningApril 1, 2022. TheCBICplanstofurtherlowerthethresholdfore-invoicegener-ationtoRs5crore.

What ise-invoicegenerationunderGST?Thee-InvoiceSystemisfor

GSTregisteredpersonsforup-loadingalltheB2BinvoicestotheInvoiceRegistrationPortal(IRP). The IRP generates andreturns a unique InvoiceReferenceNumber(IRN),dig-itallysignede-invoiceandQRcodetotheuser.Afterfollow-ing the ‘e-invoicing’ process,

the invoice copy (with QRCode containing inter alia,IRN) issued by the notifiedsupplier to buyer is com-monly referred to as ‘e-in-voice’. SEZ units, insurance,banking (including NBFCs),goods transport agency

(transportinggoods by road ingoods carriage),passenger trans-port services,multiplexcinemaadmissions areexempted frome-invoicesystem.

AGST invoice is termedvalidonlywithavalidIRN.

Whatdoesthe loweringofthresholds fore-invoicesignify?Aspergovernmentauthor-

ities,thee-invoicesystemwillhelptocurbtheactionsofun-scrupulous taxpayers and re-duce the number of fraudcasesasthetaxauthoritieswillhave access to data in real-time. The basic aim behindadoptionof e-invoice systembytaxdepartmentsisabilitytopre-populatethereturnandtoreducethereconciliationprob-lems.Taxexpertssaidthislow-eringofthethresholdwillhelpcurbtaxevasion.“Themove to reduce the

turnover threshold and in-creasetheambitofe-invoicingismainly aimedat resolvingmismatcherrorsandcheckingtax evasion. Considering thetimelines, concerned busi-nesseswill have to rampuptheir IT systems to complywith thee-invoicingnorms,”EYsaid.MSMani,partner,Deloitte

Indiasaidthereductionofthee-invoicingthresholdwillfur-ther expand theGST taxbaseandprovidemoredata to thetaxauthoritiesenablingbettercompliance.

Full report onwww.indianexpress.com

SECTORWATCHTAXATION

RAJESHKURUPMUMBAI,AUGUST3

UBER TECHNOLOGIES exitedZomato throughablockdeal onWednesday, selling its entire 7.8percentstakeinthefooddeliveryaggregator for about Rs 3,087crore.ThedealwasexecutedatRs50.44ashare.Thebuyersincludedglobalin-

vestment and venture capitalfirms suchasKeysquareCapital,James Street, TempletonGlobal,FMR and Mirae Asset Global

Investments,amongothers.BritishassetmanagementfirmSchrodersandUSassetmanagerBlackRock

also took part in the block deal,sourcestoldFE.Domestic funds (investors in

rupee terms) included ICICIPrudential Mutual Fund, ICICIPrudentialLifeInsurance,NipponIndia Mutual Fund, AvendusCapital,HDFCLifeInsurance,NewHorizon and Templeton’s localarmamongothers.BofA Securitieswas the sole

bookrunnertothedeal.Theblockdealcomesafterthe

one-year lock-in-period for pre-IPOshareholdersofZomatoendedonJune23. FE

Uber exits Zomato via block deal

■Thee-InvoiceSystemis forGSTregisteredpersonsforuploadingallB2Binvoices to InvoiceRegistrationPortal

THESYSTEM

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Note:Readingbelow50suggests contractionandabove it indicatesexpansion;Source:PMIbyS&PGlobal

PMI SERVICES INDEX

Pricerisebites:Servicessectorgrowthfalls to4-mth lowinJul

Bengaluru: Confederation ofIndian Industry (CII) presidentSanjivBajajonWednesdayaskedthe Central government to con-template reducing the personalincometaxratestospureconomicactivities.Thebusiness tycoon said the

nation’sunderlyinggrowthdriv-ers are strong and the economywouldgrowintherangeof7.4-8.2percentinthenextfiscal.“Puttingmoremoney in the

pocketsoftheconsumersisofvi-tal importance to revive con-sumption demand in the econ-omy. The government shouldcontemplate a reduction in theratesofpersonalincometaxinitsnextpushforreformasthiswould

increasedisposableincomesandrevive the demand cycle,” Bajaj,whoischiefmanagingdirectorofBajaj Finserv, said in apress con-ference. Hewas speaking to re-porters aspart of theCII’s theme2022-23 ‘Beyond India @75:Growthcompetitiveness,sustain-abilityandinternationalisation’.“TheCentral and state capex

arerisingandtaxbuoyancywouldsupport growth in FY23.Hence,onbalance,CIIhasretainedIndia’sGDPforecastinarangeof7.4to8.2percentinFY23,”Bajajsaid.He also said the CII believes

thatthereisalotthatindustryandCIIcoulddothemselvesintakingIndiatoa$40trilliongoalpostby2047. PTI

CII president bats forcut in personal incometax to revive demand

STAKE SOLD

■Uberhassold itsentire7.8percentstake inZomatoforaboutRs3,087crore.ThedealwasexecutedatRs50.44ashare

7.8%

New Delhi

THESPEAKERof theUnited StatesHouse ofRepresentativesNancyPelosiarrivedinTaiwanon Tuesday for what she called a show ofAmerican solidaritywith the island, defyingrepeatedwarningsfromBeijingandfuellinganewroundofUS-Chinatensions.Thisvisittookplace at a timewhenUS-China relations arethepoorestindecades.InaphonecallwithPresidentJoeBidenlast

week,PresidentXiJinpinghadwarnedtheUSagainst any unilateral moves that wouldchangetheislandstatus.“Thosewhoplaywithfirewillperishbyit.ItishopedthattheUSwillbeclear-eyedaboutthis,”hehadsaid.ChinaviewsPelosi’s visit as a serious vio-

lationofthe“OneChina”principleandthepro-visions of the threeChina-US joint commu-niqués. This, according to Beijing, gravelyunderminespeaceandstability intheregion,and sends awrong signal to the “separatistforcesforTaiwanindependence”.

WhatisOneChinaPrincipleandOneChinaPolicy?It is importanttodistinguishbetweenthe

OneChina Principle (yige zhongguo yuanze)andtheOneChinaPolicy(yizhongzhengce)tounderstandthecross-TaiwanStraitproblems.ThePeople’s Republic of China (PRC) followstheOneChinaPrinciple,acorebeliefthatseesTaiwanasaninalienablepartofChina,withitssolelegitimategovernmentinBeijing.TheUSacknowledgesthispositionbutnotnecessar-ilyitsvalidity.The US follows the One China Policy—

meaningthatthePRCwasandistheonlyChina,withnorecognition for theRepublicof China(ROC,Taiwan)asaseparatesovereignentity.Atthesametime, theUSrefuses togive intothePRC’s demands to recognise Chinese sover-eigntyoverTaiwan—itonlyacknowledgestheChinesepositionthatTaiwanisapartofChina.“Theword‘acknowledge’isdeterminative

for theUS,”WarrenChristopher,whowasUSDeputy Secretary of State under PresidentJimmyCarter, toldaSenatehearingwhentheChineseattemptedtochangeitto“recognise”.TheUShasstucktothispositioneversince—

andusedthe“strategicambiguity”thatitcre-ates tomaintain the statusquoandpreservestabilityintheTaiwanStrait.

WhatisthegenesisoftheChina-Taiwantensions?TheROCwasfoundedin1912followingthe

collapse of the Qing dynasty and the 1911Revolution.DrSunYat-sen,whoassumedthepresidencyoftheROC,wassoonsucceededbyYuan Shikai. Taiwanwas at the time underJapanese colonial rule, havingbeencededbythe Qing following the 1895 Treaty ofShimonoseki.AfterthedefeatofJapaninWorldWarII,theROCgovernmentbeganexercisingjurisdictionoverTaiwanin1945.After the communists

won the civil war on themainland,MaoZedongpro-claimedthefoundingof thePeople’s Republic with itscapitalinBeijingonOctober1, 1949. ThatDecember, af-ter the PLA advanced intoSichuan province, ChiangKai-shek, one of Sun Yat-sen's lieutenants, retreatedtotheislandofTaiwanalongwithsome2millionnation-alistsoldiers.TheROChas exercised effective jurisdic-

tionoverthemainislandandseveraloutlyingislands ever since, leavingTaiwanandChinaunder the ruleof different governments. TheTaiwanStraitisonly130kmatitsshortestdis-tance, and themainland city of Xiamen inFujian is only2kmfromtheTaiwanese-con-trolledislandofKinmen.Until the1970s, theUSandmostWestern

governments recognised theROCas thegov-ernmentofallofChina.TheUSandPRCestab-lisheddiplomaticrelationsonJanuary1,1979,almost30yearsafterthecommunistscametopower.Therehavebeenthreeinstancesofdis-turbances in theTaiwanStrait, in1954, 1958,

and1995-96,butpeacehaslargelybeenmain-tainedduetoAmerican“strategicambiguity”.

Sowhathaschangednow?Howdidwegethere?Domesticpolicyaspectsofall threecoun-

tries—Taiwan,China,andtheUS—havecon-tributedtotoday’ssituation.CHINA: In 2015, China initiated path-

breakingmilitaryreformstoconvert thePLAinto a world-class force by 2049. One ofChina’sstatednationalsecurityobjectiveshasbeen “reunification with Taiwan”. In hisChinese Communist Party (CCP) Centenary

speech last year, PresidentXi said, “Resolving theTaiwanquestionandrealis-ingChina’scompletereuni-ficationisahistoricmissionand an unshakable com-mitmentoftheCommunistPartyofChina.”Since September 2020,

Chinahasroutinelysentair-craft into Taiwan’s air de-fence identification zone(ADIZ). Meanwhile, be-tween 2018 and 2020, Xidropped theword “peace-ful”whilereferringtoreuni-

ficationwithTaiwan, underlininghis aggres-sive approach to territorial disputeseverywhere.TAIWAN: In 2016, the Democratic

ProgressiveParty(DPP)candidateTsaiIng-wenwas elected President. OnDecember 2 thatyear, she initiated a telephonic conversationwiththenUSPresidentelectDonaldTrump—thefirsttimesince1979thatthetwocountriesspokeatthatlevel.UndertheTsaiadministration,US-Taiwan

relations warmed. In March 2018, TrumpsignedintolawtheTaiwanTravelAct,whichallowed American officials to step up ex-changeswithTaiwan.Overthelastsixyears,theUShas approvedmultiple sales of arms

to Taiwan— including 108M1A2T Abramstanks, Hercules armoured vehicles, heavyequipment transporters, rocket launchers,sensors,artilleryand,mostimportantly,66F-16Viper fighter jets.China views all of this asUS attempts to

use Taiwan to contain the PRC’s “peacefulrise”,emboldening“Taiwan’spro-independ-ence separatist activities”, and “impactingcross-straitharmony.”UNITEDSTATES:Taiwan is just one as-

pect of theworsening geopolitical checker-board between the US and China.Antagonisticstancesonsecurity,economics,technology, and ideology have crystallisedundertheBidenAdministration,withlimitedroomforadjustment.TheUShascarriedouta diplomatic boycott of the BeijingWinterOlympics,addedmoreChinesecompaniestoits trade restriction list, and Congress haspassedabilltocounterChina’shumanrightsabuses inXinjiang.The TrumpAdministration had opened

amoreconfrontationalera inrelationswithChina, and Biden has concretised this ap-proachbysigningtheAUKUStrilateralsecu-rity pactwith the UK and Australia, and in-creasing Quad coordination with Japan,India, and Australia to limit Beijing’s influ-ence in the Indo-Pacific region.FollowingtheRussianinvasionofUkraine,

therewas concern inWestern capitals overwhetherChinacouldcarryoutsimilaractioninTaiwan. Against this background, SpeakerPelosi’s trip to Taiwanhas led some securityscholarstopredictafourthTaiwanStraitCrisis.

Wheredowegofromhere?ThisisacaseofChinatryingtodeterTaiwan

byusingpunishmentandTaiwanandtheUSpushingback against Chinese aggressionus-ingdenial techniques.China is likely tomakesurethatitpunishesTaiwantotheextentthatvisitssuchasPelosi'saredeterredinthefuture.Thismight includeeconomicmeasures, lim-itedmilitarymeasures for signalling, selectdiplomaticmeasuresacrossbilateralandmul-tilateralforums,andoffensivecybercoercion.In response,TaiwanandtheUSwill likely

continuetobuilddenialdefensivecapabilitiesso that China’s aggression isnot encouraged.TheUSwillalsocontinuesignallingitsincreas-ingpresenceandresolveintheregionbycon-ducting freedomof navigation operations(FONOPs) in theTaiwanStrait and the SouthChinaSea,butat thesametime,keep linesofcommunicationopenwithBeijingtoavoidun-intendedescalations.

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How Mirabai Chanu, 49 kg, could lift 113 kg

MIHIRVASAVDAMUMBAI, AUGUST3

“YOURWINDPIPE is compressed, so youcan’t breathe. Your nervous system practi-cally stops functioning, sonosignal reachesyour brain. You start feeling dizzy. Then,there’s a completeblackout.”This is Sathish Sivalingam, a 2014 and

2018CommonwealthGamesgoldmedallist,describingwhataweightlifter’sbodyexpe-riences while lifting iron that is twice orthrice theirbodyweight.In the last fewdays, India’sweightlifters

havemade it lookeasy.OnSaturday,MirabaiChanu,whoweighsamere49kg,lifted113kgin clean and jerk en route to her goldmedal.Thenextday,JeremyLalrinnunga,whoweighs66kg,snatched140kgtosetaCommonwealthGamesrecord.Andlaterthatevening,AchintaSheuli,weighing73kg, hoistedweights thatwere almost two-and-a-half timesmore tocompleteIndia’sgoldmedalhat-trick.They did itwith incredible nonchalance

andgrace, betrayingwhat their bodieswereactuallygoingthrough.“When someone likeMirabai,who is 49

kg,holdsabarbellweighing119kg(herworldrecordliftincleanandjerk)atherthroat,how

doyoubreathe?Theentirebodygoesnumb,”said Sivalingam, a formernational andCWGrecord holder. “It’s insanely tough.” The rea-sonlifterslikeJeremyandMirabaimadeitlooksoeasy,Sivalingamsays, is the“thousandsofhours” they’ve logged behind the scenes toperfecttheir technique.

Thethreepulls—whereprecisionoftechniqueiseverythingJeremy, said Sivalingam,has a “95%”per-

fect technique in the snatch segment— thefirstpartofthecompetitionwherethebarbellhastobeliftedabovetheheadinonesmoothmotion. “The (remaining) 5% cent is not hisfault. During a competition, there are smallthingsthataren’tperfect—thepositionofyourelbow,yourheadmightpushalittleforward...thesethingsalwayshappen,”saidSivalingam,partof thenationalcampinPatiala.Mirabai, he added, has a near-perfect

clean-and-jerk, a two-part lift inwhich thebarbellfirsthastobebroughttotheshouldersandthenjerkedoverheadtoarm’s length.Sivalingambroke downa snatch lift into

three key elements to explainwhy Jeremy’stechniqueis“almostflawless”.Withthe“firstpull”,thebarbellhastobeliftedfromthefloorup to roughly themid-thigh height. At thispoint, the “secondpull” is initiated,which is

toelevatethebarbellusinglegsandhips,fromthemid-thighpositiontoafullyextendedpo-sition. And lastly, the “third pull” or “receiv-ing” phase,where the lifter requires “explo-sivespeed”togounderthebarbell.“Often,thefirstpullisdecisive.Whenyou

pullthebarbell fromthefloor, ithastobeata90° angle. If it’smore than that, say around100°, you’ll fall backward and if it’s less thanthat,70°or80°,thenyouwon’tbeabletoper-forma full extension for the secondpull, therodwill get locked and you’ll fall forward,”Sivalingamexplained.A trainedeye, like theonesof chief coach

Vijay Sharma and assistant coach SandeepKumar,headded,willsimplylookatthebody

position— “for example, the position of thespineortheglutes”—duringthefirstpullandinmicroseconds,will beable to tellwhethertheliftwillbesuccessful.Jeremy,hesays,hasmasteredthefirstpull,

largelybecauseofhislowcentreofgravity.“Hisfeetnevercomeoff theplatform,notevenforasplit-second.So,heisabletomaintainhispo-sitionandhisbalanceisalmostalwaysperfect.”

Shorterliftershavesomeadvantage—butthereareexceptionsAt5’7”, Jeremy is so far the tallest among

thefourgoldmedallistsattheCWG,withoth-ersrangingbetween5feetand5’6”.Mirabai,itmustbeunderlined, is just4’8”.Eventhose

competing in heavierweight classes usuallyareshorter fortheircategories.At a fundamental level, the argument is

thatshorterliftershaveanadvantage.Ifalifterhas long arms, the barbell has to travel thatmuchfartherfromtheflooruntil thepointoffull extension for a valid lift. Similarly, if thelegsarelong,squatsbecometougher.“I amcareful togeneralisebutduringmy

yearsofcompetingatanationallevel,theonething I have observed is that lifters from theNortheast tend todowellbecause theyhavesmallerlimbs,relativelyspeaking,”Sivalingamsaid. “At an international level, the Chinesetendtodominatebecauseof thisreason.”Heunderlined,however, that this isnota

universal truth—andpointed to the excep-tions. “In India,wehaveGurpreetSinghwhois6’5”,weighs145or150kg,butlifts incredi-blywell.Andataninternationallevel,wehaveLashaTalakhadze(ofGeorgia)whoisalmost6’6”or6’7”,weighsclose to200kg, and isanOlympicchampion.”Itcomesdowntotechnique,hesaid,espe-

ciallyincleanandjerk,thetougherof thetwosegments because “you are lifting heavierweights, inmultiplemotions,whichputs thebodyunderalotofstress”.Hecitedtheexam-pleofMirabai,aworldrecordholderinthe49-kgclean-and-jerk.Atthe2014CWG,shelifted95kgtofinishsecond.Intheeightyearssince,shehasadded24kgtothatby“improvinghertechnique, and conditioningof several smalltissues,whichcantakeuptofouryears”.

Youcan’tbeatgravitybutyoucantrickit—soyoudon’tblackoutAt thesametime,Mirabaialsodeveloped

astrongphysiqueandworkedonherbreath-ingskillstobeabletodealwiththeamountofpressureherbody comesunderwhile liftingironthat’smorethantwiceherbodyweight.Here,Sivalingamsaid, liftingandbreath-

ingtechniquesbecomecrucial.Liftingheavyweights,hesaid,canshutdownthenervoussystemand constrict thewindpipe,makingbreathingdifficult.“So,thetechniqueatthatstageis,afteryou

havecarriedthebarbellfromthefloortoyourshoulder,youletitrestforacoupleofseconds.Atthatpoint,youarestandingstraight.So,youlift the barbell slightly, before executing thejerk,andinthatfractionofasecondwhenyoulift the rod up, you consume amaximumamountofairsothebodyrefreshes.Youhavetodoall this inthreeorfourseconds.”The timing, he added, is critical. “When I

amlifting170kg,eachandeverysecondmat-ters.If Iletitrestonmyshoulderforoneextrasecond, I feel like I amholding 250 kg. Aftertwoseconds,itfeelslike250kgandafterthree,I feel like I amholding 500 kg. Your caloriesare burning, face turns red and gravity ispullingyoudown,”hesaid.Butwhileyoucan’tbeatgravity,Sivalingam

addedphilosophically,youcanindeedtrickit.“Youare crumblingunder theweight. So, in-stead of fighting back, you godownabit bybendingyourknees.Andthenstraightenthemvigorously.Whenyoudothat,youcapturethemomentumandcompletethelift,”hesaid.“WhatmakesMirabai great and Jeremy

the next big thing? It’s these little things—the ability to stick to their technique evenwhen their nervous system stops and theyareblackingout.”

Howdoweightlifters likeBirminghamheroesChanu,LalrinnungaandSheuli lift several timestheirbodyweight? It’sabout techniqueandtrickinggravity; sometimes, asmall staturehelps

MirabaiChanu’s liftof 113kgwonhergoldat theCommonwealthGames. PTI

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INDIA IS closelymonitoring themove-mentofaChinese“spyship”thatisonitsway to Sri Lanka and will dock atHambantotaport aroundAugust11. Thetrip comes at a timewhen Sri Lanka isbattling a severe economic crisis, andIndia is learnt to have lodged a verbalprotest against theship’svisit.THE SHIP: The Yuan Wang 5 is a

Chineseresearchandsurveyvessel.YuanWang-classshipsareusedtotracksatel-lite, rocket and intercontinental ballisticmissile (ICBM) launches. China hasaround seven of these, capable of oper-atingthroughoutthePacific,Atlantic,andIndian oceans. The ships supplementBeijing’s land-based trackingstations.TheYuanWang5wasbuilt atChina’s

JiangnanShipyardanditenteredserviceinSeptember2007.The222-metre-long,25.2-metre-widevesselhasstate-of-the-art tracking technology. Its lastmonitor-ing mission was the launch of China’sLongMarch5Brocket.Itwasalsorecentlyinvolved inmaritimemonitoring of thelaunchofChina’sTiangongspacestation’sfirst labmodule.WHY THE TRIP: According to the

Belt & Road Initiative Sri Lanka (BRISL),theYuanWang5will enterHambantotaport—astrategicallyimportantdeep-seaportdevelopedmostlyusing loans fromBeijing—foraweek,andwill likelyleaveonAugust17after replenishment.“TheYuanWang5will conductsatel-

litecontrolandresearchtrackingofChina’s

satellitesintheNorthWesternpartof theIndianOcean region throughAugust andSeptember,”BRISLsaidonitswebsite.INDIA’SCONCERNS:TheYuanWang

5’s significant aerial reach— reportedlyaround 750 km—raises concerns aboutthe possibility of several ports in Kerala,TamilNadu,andAndhraPradeshbeingonChina’s radar. Reports have claimed sev-eralvitalinstallationsinSouthIndiacouldbeunderthreatofbeingsnoopedupon.Lastweek,MinistryofExternalAffairs

spokespersonArindamBagchihadsaid:“We are aware of reports of a proposedvisit by this vessel to Hambantota inAugust… The government carefullymonitors any development having abearingonIndia’ssecurityandeconomicinterests and takes all necessarymeas-ures to safeguard them.”China’s foreignministry, in a state-

ment reported by Reuters, said: “Chinahopes that therelevantpartieswillviewand report on China’s marine scientificresearch activities correctly and refrainfrom interferingwithnormal and legiti-matemaritimeactivities.”India and the US have repeatedly

flaggedconcerns thatChinesecontrolofHambantotaportcouldharmtheirinter-ests in the Indian Ocean by becoming ahub for thePLANavy.

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TheChineseshipYuanWang5. Belt&Road InitiativeSri Lanka

NancyPelosi (left)withTaiwanesePresidentTsaiIng-weninTaipeionWednesday.TaiwanPresidentialOfficeviaAP/PTI

Illustration: Suvajit Dey

THE EXPERTSUYASHDESAI isaresearchscholarspecialisinginChinesesecurityandforeignpolicies.HeiscurrentlystudyingMandarinatNationalSunYat-senUniversity,Kaohsiung,Taiwan.

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II,,KKuummaarrii JyotiW/oBharatPandeyR/o 131,GaliNo.6,Jeevan,Park SiraspurDelhi-110042,inform thatmynameKumari Jyoti andKmJyoti is same,person.

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II,,KKmmSonamLalit D/oSateeshKumarR/o.RathoraKhurd,Behsuma,Meerut(UP).have changedmyname toSonamGulati.

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II,,KKaammiinnii GuptaW/o-SheikhMohdNaqi R/o-350,WhiteRoseAppt, Delhi Gate, Darya-GanjDelhi-110002have changedmyname toKamini Sheikh.

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II,,KKOOKKIILL DUA,W/OSUSHILKUMAR,R/O.D-9,SHOPPINGCENTRE,MANSAROVERGARDENNEWDELHI-110015,HAVECHANGEDMYNAME,FROMKOKILADUATOKOKILDUA. 0040625466-2

II,,KKIIRRAANNSHARMA,W/OVIJAYKUMARSHARMA,R/OHOUSE.NO.494/3,WARDNO.4,RAVIDASSNAGAR,HOSHIARPUR, PUNJAB-146001,HAVECHANGEDMYNAMETOKIRANBALA.

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II,,JJaassmmiinn ShahPuri,D/oMohinder Pal ShahPuri,R/oA-29,Block-V,Sector-D, BhagwatiVihar,UttamNagar,Delhi-110059have changedmynameto JasmineShahpuri.

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II,,JJAAYYAANNTTAASEN,R/o-516,OSIMOTOWER,MAHAGUNMASCOT,CROSSINGREPUBLICK,GHAZIABAD,U.P-201016,inform that inmy,daughter’s school-recordsher nameKHETROISHI SENwrongly-written instead-ofcorrect-nameKHETROISHISRIJASEN,bothnameare sameperson. 0040625430-10

II Birpal S/o-Shri Ant RamSinghR/o-A-30, Block-A, RajeevNagarExtn., Phase-2, Begumpur,Delhi-110086declare-thatmy-namewrongly-written inmyDaughter-(Sanjana) 10th-ClassMarksheet as-Veer Pal Singhinsteadof Birpal. 0040625365-1

I,RipuKukreja,W/OSurenderKukreja,R/OPocket-21/194-195,First Floor,Sector-24,Rohini, Delhi-110085,havechangedmyname toRituKukreja. 0040625466-4

II,,RRaajjiinnddeerr KaurD/o Jarnail Singh&W/oDaljeet SinghR/o 828,Pocket-D, DilshadGarden,Delhi-11095 have changedmyname toRamneekKaurSandhu. 0040625456-1

II,,GGuunniikkaaRai,D/oSh.GulshanMaggu,R/o.J-4/40,Flat.NO.A-10,3rd-Floor, Khidki-Extension,Malviya-Nagar, NewDelhi-110017,That I have changedmyname,fromGunikaRai toZoyaandalso Embraced IslamReligionandRelinquishHinduReligionw.e.f. 04/06/2020,forall,futurepurposes.

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II,,GGuullaammHusanS/o-MohammadIsalam,R/oQ-25A,4th-Floor,BatalaHouse,Jamia-Nagar,NewDelhi-110025,havechangedmynameGulamHusain,for all purposes.

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II,,FFaarraahhD/oNawab JaanSaifiW/oSurender Singh,R/oA5/82BJanakpuri, Delhi-110058,havechangedmyname to JasmineFarahSaifi. 0040625471-2

II,,EExx ServiceNo-12954182M,RfnHabibullah Sheikh ,R/O-DudhiMachal, Tehsil-Machal,District- Kupwara. InmyService records thenamesandDoBofmychildren’s hasbeenwronglymentionedasdaughter’s asNazaAkhter (DoB-22-03-2010) andUlfat Akhter(DoB-24-05-2007) insteadofNazaBano(DoB-20-03-2008)andUlfata Jan (DoB-15-03-2007) andSon’sAamirAhmad(DoB-07-07-2014) insteadofAmirAhmadSheikh (DoB-09-01-2011) respectively .It needscorrection.Objectionsbe filedtoUnit 160 TA (H&H)JAKRIFwithin sevendays.

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II,,BBaabblluuKumarBiswasS/O,NirodBiswasR/o,Kh.No-126/2,AshramRoad-20, PointColonyBudhpurBijapur,Delhi-110036 have changedmynametoBabluBiswas. 0040625454-4

II,,AArrppiittaaDutta SinghD/oA.N.DuttaR/o-B2/22AgrasenApartment Sec-7 Plot-10,Dwarka, Delhi-110075havechangedmy,name toArpitaDutta. 0040625417-2

II,,AAnnnnuuW/oHarishSinghR/o-A-23/1,near Sector-18 Suraj ParkRohini Delhi-110042 inform thatmynameAnita andAnnu issameperson. 0040625462-1

II,,AAnniill KumarGiri,S/o-JanardanGiri,R/o 149,FloorNo.3,GaliNo.16,Amrit Puri-B,East ofKailash,SouthDelhi-110065,inform that inmyson’s(RaunakKumarGiri)10thClass(Roll No.14270386)& 12th-Class(Roll No.14631112)Marksheet/CertificatemynamehaswronglywrittenasAnil Kumar insteadofAnilKumarGiri. 0040625471-3

II,,AAVVIINNAASSHHCHANDERMAHAJANS/0-HANSRAJMAHAJANR/0-J-15RESERVE-BANKENCLAVE-PASCHIMVIHAR,DELHI-110063,HAVECHANGEDMYNAMETOAVINASHMAHAJAN.

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II,,AANNIILL KUMARS/o-FIRANGI LALR/o-O- 388/1,FIRST-FLOOR,SHAKTI-KHAND-1INDIRAPURAMGHAZIABAD,UP-201014,CHANGEDMYNAMETOANILKUMARSINGHAL.

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II,, ZainabD/OZakirHussain, R/oH.No- 1386 First Floor, Gali No -8GovindPuri kalka ji, Delhi-110019. have changedmynameandshall hereafter beKnownasZainaNaaz 0070797559-1

II,, TakshS/oShri GianChandMakhejaR/o E-153, GroundFloor, AshokVihar, Phase-I,Delhi-110052, have changedmyname toTakshMakheja for allfuturepurposes. 0040625377-1

II,, Sunil kumarR/o E-200newAshoknagarDelhi-110096declare thatmyminordaughter ( Khushbookumari )correct DOB is 29/06/2007insteadofDOB29/07/2007.

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II,, Shilpi Sachdeva,R/o-C-210,DefenceColony, NewDelhi,have changedmydaughter’s name fromKrishikatoKrishikaSachdeva,for allpurposes. 0040625455-1

II,, ShamaSharmaW/oLalitKumar SharmaR/oS-26, GaliNo.14, S-Block, VikasNagar,UttamNagar, NewDelhi havedeclared thatmysonnameParthamSharma iswronglymention in his School Recordbut his correct name isPrathamSharma. 0040625361-1

II,, ShamaSachdeva,W/oRameshSachdeva,R/o-C-210, DefenceColony,NewDelhi, havechangedmyname toShamaKumari Sachdeva,for allpurposes. 0040625455-2

II,, SeemaPappen,W/OShijuPappenR/o 296-A, DG-2VikasPuri Delhi- 110018. havechangedmynameandshallhereafter beKnownasSeemaShiju Pappen 0070797550-1

II,, SantoshW/oLate ShriRajbahadurBhati R/oAminabadorfNayana, Post-SalempurGurjar, Thana-Kasna, GautamBudhNagarhave changedmyname fromSATISH toSANTOSH for allfuturepurposes. 0070797622-1

II BabluChauhanS/oRajnarayanChauhanR/oMunderaMishra,MathuraChhapar, Deoria,Uttar Pradesh-274405, havechangedmyname toVisheshNathChauhan

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II Amit SharmaS/oSh. VirenderKumar SharmaR/oKadam1101, Shipra Srishti Apartment,AhinsaKhand, Indirapuram,Ghaziabad, U.P.-201014havechanged thenameofmyminorson fromVihanSharmaaliasDaksheshSharma toDaksheshSharma for all purposes.

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IIMdShafiqe S/OShokeenAliR/o,A-26/6-1B,Block-A,SurajParkColony,Delhi-110042, havechangedmyname toShafique.

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IIMauryaD/oSh. SanjeevBhardwaj R/oH.No.151, Pocket-10, Sector-20, Rohini, Delhi-110086 is also knownasMauryaMauryaandMauryaSharma.All namesareof oneand the sameperson.

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II DevendraPal S/oAmar SinghR/oKhinmini, Farrukhabad,Uttar Pradesh-207504, havechangedmyname toAbhinavKumar 0070797608-1

II Dayasankar S/oRamadharYadavR/oH.No.152-ANithariSector-31, NoidaGautamBuddhaNagarU.P-201301,HaveChangedmyname toDayashankarYadav for futurepurposes. 0070797626-1

II SanjayKumar S/oOmPrakashJoshi R/o-8596, GaushalaRoad,NewRohtakRoad, RattanNagar, Karol Bagh, Delhi-110005, have changedmynametoSanjayKumar Joshi.

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I,SAURABHKUMAR,S/oUMESHBEHARIMATHUR,R/o.Flat-125,SharonTower, GaurSaundarayan, Greater-NoidaWest-201306,G.B.Nagar(UP),havechangedmyname toSAURABHMATHUR. 0040625455-4

I,RAJNI BHAN,W/O.VIRENDERRAINAADD-RHSPLOT.NO-284,OMVIHARPHASE-1D.KMOHAN-GARDENUTTAM-NAGARWEST-DELHI.110059,Changedmyname toRAJNI,forall,futurePurposes.

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I,Baljeet SinghChowdhry, S/O.Surjit SinghChowdhryR/O.10/112,second-floor,double-storey, Tilak-Nagar,NewDelhi-110018,havechangedmyname toBaljeetSingh,for all purposes.

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IIMajorNarender Pal jointlywithMr. NavneetAhlawatR/o-1106,Sector-C, Pocket-1, VasantKunj, SouthWestDelhi-110070,Have LostOriginal ProvisionalAllotment Letter. No.JGNKD0010604Dated-10.02.2010, of unit bearingNo.JaypeeKlassic. KD. Tower-01Flat-604 Sector-134. IssuedbyJai PrakashAssociatesLimited. FinderContact:-8800556644. 0070797635-1

II,, Kamal Kapoor,R/o 5A,RingRoad,LajpatNagar-IV, ND-24have lost/misplacedmyPGDBMWave -VI,WMG”Year1997-2000Certificate&marksheets of Fore School ofManagement. If anybody findstheyare requested to contactmeat 9810000451.

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II,, SangeetaChadhaW/oShriVijayChadhaR/oB-9, ShishRamPark, UttamNagar, NewDelhi-110059, have changedmyminor son’s name fromDhruvtoDhruvChadha for all futurepurposes. 0040625376-1

II,, RameshKumarBatheja s/oHundRaj Batheja, R/oC-3/1,AshokVihar Phase-2, Delhi-110052, have changedmynametoRameshChandBatheja.

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II,, Rajat S/ORajkumarGajre, R/o674B9, NewBasti, AdarshColony, Devli Village, PushpaBhawanS.O, SouthDelhi-110062. Declare thatNameofMyFather hasbeenwronglywrittenasRajkumarGajri inmy10thClassCertificate. Theactual nameofMyFather isRajkumarGajre,whichmaybeamendedaccording

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II,, Pragati Kumari D/OAnil KumarPrasad, R/o 27C/Pocket-A-1,L.I.G Flats,MayurVihar Phase-3, Delhi-110096. Declare thatNameofMyFather hasbeenwronglywrittenasAnil Kumarinmy10thClassCertificate,12thClassCertificate. Theactual nameofMyFather isAnil KumarPrasad,whichmaybeamendedaccordingly.

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II,,MohdSaadi, S/OAbdulrahmanSaadi, R/OH.No.8/4843A Lane- 3,Madanpuricolony, Chilkana road,Saharanpur-Uttar Pradesh247001has changedmynametoMohammadSaadi for allfuturepurposes. 0070797558-1

II,,ManjuRani,W/OSubhashChandraGuptaR/oHouseNo-31, PrinceColony ,OppositeSinghMadap, ChandraNagar,Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh-244001. have changedmynameandshall hereafter beKnownasMadhuGupta 0070797557-1

II,,MAHAVIRRAWATS/OKALAMSINGHRAWAT, R/O1688,SECTOR9 FARIDABAD121006HAVECHANGEDMYNAMETOMAHAVIRSINGHRAWAT

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II,, Hemlataw/o JitendraKumarr/o 1895/7D, Sector-7D,Faridabad,Haryana-121006have changedmyname toHEMLATAPALpermanently.

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II,, GulamSarwarPaswal, Ex-ServicemanNK-No-9087851N,S/O -NayazMohdR/O-Baghballa Karnah, District-Kupwara. Inmyservice recordsthenameandDoBofmy twoSon’s hasbeenwronglymentionedasAftabAhmad (DoB- 02-04-1995) andMohammadMumtaz (DoB- 05-01-1997) insteadofMohdAftab(DoB-16-04-1992) andMohdMumtaz (DoB -12-05-1994),also thenameofmy twoson’s hasbeenmissed frommyservice recordasAyazAhmad(DoB -10-02-2000) andMubashir Ahmad (DoB- 06-03-2002).It needs corrections.Objectionsbe filled to JAKLIRecordOfficer Srinagarwithinsevendays. 0020443216-1

II,, Dinesh s/o LateRoshanLalWasan, R/oA-149, SudershanPark, NewDelhi-110015, havechangedmyname to JankeshWasan, permanently

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II,, Dinesh s/o LateRoshanLalWasan, R/oA-149, SudershanPark, NewDelhi-110015, havechangedmyname to JankeshWasan, permanently

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II,, Baljit SinghChowdhry, S/OSurjit SinghChowdhry,R/O.10/112, second-floor,double-storey,Tilak-Nagar,NewDelhi-110018, havechangedmyname toBaljeetSinghChowdhry, for allpurposes. 0040625432-3

II,, Anil KumarRai S/oHaridwarRai R/oH.No-3B5AwasVikasColony, Pandeypur, Varanasi,Uttar Pradesh-221002, thatnameofmineandmy fatherhasbeenwronglywrittenasAnil KumarRayandHaridwarRay respectively inmy10thCertificateCumMarksheet.Theactual nameofmineandmy father isAnil KumarRai andHaridwarRai respectively

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II,, AhmadAli S/oSaukatR/oRC-1035, LokPriyaVihar, KhodaColony, Ghaziabad, UP-201309have changedmyname toAHAMADALI for all futurepurposes. 0070797630-1

II,, “Nirupama”and “NirupamaNirajaNalini Das”,mother ofGouravVerma, R/oC-631,Sector-19, NOIDA,GBNagar,(UP),amoneandsamepersonbyvirtueofmyaffidavit dated3August 2022beforeNotary,MrNKYadav,GBNagarRNNo.4641. 0040625457-1

II Sukhminder SinghMatharooS/o-Kartar SinghR/o-FlatNo.I-5, I-Block, Sai Apartments,Sector-13, Rohini, Delhi-110085have changedmyname toSukhminder Singh for allpurposes. 0040625367-1

II Romel Kumar S/oMaqsudanLal Jaggi R/oA-284, NewFriendsColony, Delhi-110025,have changedmyname toRomil Jaggi 0070797610-1

II RajenderKaur /RajinderKourW/o-Sukhminder SinghR/o-FlatNo.I-5, I-Block, SaiApartments, Sector-13, Rohini,Delhi-110085have changedmyname toRajinderKaur for allpurposes.

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II Atul S/oDayashankarYadavR/oH.No.121RadhaKrishnaEnclave,OppsitePalmOlympia, Vill- Haibatpur,GautamBuddhaNagarU.P-201009, HaveChangedmyname toAtul Yadav for futurepurposes. 0070797625-1

PUBLIC NOTICEThis is to Inform the general public atlarge that my client Sh. Ram ChanderSaini S/o Mangat Ram Saini R/o H.No. 483, Hardev Puri, Gautam Nagar,South Delhi, Delhi, 110049 hassevered all his relation for all purposeswith his sons namely Sh. Mayur Sainiand Sh. Milan Saini, both Aged about27 years and has disowned &debarred them from all his movableand immovable properties and assets,due to their disrespectful behavior,insulting attitude and humiliatingnature. Any person dealing with saidSh. Mayur Saini and Sh. Milan Sainishall be doing so at his own risks andconsequences and my client shall notbe liable & responsible for any of acts& omissions done by Sh. Mayur Sainiand Sh. Milan Saini.

Sd/- PRASHANT SINGLAP/4139/2016 Advocate

Distt. Courts, Gurugram & NuhMob. 9873623781

PUBLIC NOTICEBe it known my client MEHIGYA W/O LATESH. BINDESHWAR RESIDENT OF FLATNO.14-B, BLOCK JU, PITAMPURA,DELHI-110034 has disowned and severedall her relations with her son namely SONUand debarred him from her movable andimmovable properties/assets due to hismisbehavior, unfamiliar activities,intolerable act, misconduct and goingagainst my client and my client sonDEEPAK also donot want to keep anyrelation with his brother SONU. Anybodydealing with SONU in civil and criminalmatter shall be doing at his/her/their ownrisk, cost and responsibility and my clientfamily including her son DEEPAK and hisfamily shall not be liable for his any act.

NAVEEN KHURANA(Advocate)

EN.NO. D/3290/2022

PPUUBBLLIICCNNOOTTIICCEE

PUBLIC NOTICEMy clientess Smt. Roopwati W/o LateSiyaram R/o D-276, Ganesh Nagar,Pandav Nagar Complex, Delhi-110092has disowned/debarred her son, PawanKumar, his wife Smt. Sangeeta and theirchild Tusar all R/o B-88, Gali No.14,Ganesh Nagar, Pandav Nagar Complex,Delhi-110092 from all her movable/immovable properties and severed allrelations from them, due to theirmisconduct, hostile behaviour,disobedience. My clientess has noconcern with them. Anyone dealing withthem shall do so at their own risks andresponsibility and my clientess shall not inany manner be liable for their acts".

Sd/- (SATISH KUMAR)ADVOCATE

Ch. No. 493, Western Wing,Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi-54

PUBLIC NOTICEMy client Vijay Kumar s/o Sh. Tilak Raj &Poonam Rani w/o Sh. Vijay Kumar, havedisowned their son namely Mr. RahulKakkar and his wife Geeta Verma andtheir grand daughter namely Ms.Lavanya Kakkar from their movable andimmovable properties due to theirintolerable behaviour and they havesevere their all relations with them for allinterest and purposes with immediateeffect. If any person deal with them innear future my client will not responsiblefor any act or omission of the abovedisowned person.

Sd/- NAUTIYAL GENETIC LEGAL 3.GAURAV NAUTIYAL, ANKIT

NAUTIYAL, LATA NAUTIYAL,KRISH KUMAR

CH.NO. 704 A & 730 DWARKA COURTCH.NO. 63 PATIALA HOUSE COURT

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PUBLIC NOTICEMy Client Smt. Sushma Juneja W/o Sh.Vinod Kumar/ Vinod Juneja R/o Plot No38, Flat No 101, Chardham Appartment,Sector 9, Rohini, Delhi 110085 herebysevere all relations and debar/ disownher husband Sh. Vinod Kumar/ VinodJuneja from her entire movable/immovable property, due to hisindifferent and hostile behavior and alsoanti social activity. My client shall notresponsible for any debts/ loan, in past,present and future.

Sd/-SIDHANT ANTIL

ADVOCATECH. NO. 623, CHAMBERS BLOCK

6TH FLOOR, ROHINI COURT,NEW DELHI-110085

PUBLIC NOTICEGeneral Public is hereby informed that myclient has entered into agreement to saleand purchase of Southwestern Part ofProperty Bearing No.6, Khasra No. 14/13,Main Dabri Palam Road, Dabri, Delhi-110045 admeasuring 13x38 ft, two storybuilt up, from Sh. Rishi Pal S/o Late Sh.Surat Singh R/o H.No.6, Dabri, DabriPalam Road, Delhi-45.Any body having any objection, right, title,interest or claim in the above intended saletransaction may contact the undersingnedwith documentary proof substantiating theclaim/dispute/ objection etc. within 15 daysfrom the date of the present publication,failling which my client will proceed tocomplete the sale transaction with theabovesaid owner and no claim will beentertained thereafter.

(Sharad Nagpal)Advocate

Enrl. No. D/99/2000Chamber # 558, Lawyers’ Chambers,

Dwarka Court Complex,Dwarka, New Delhi-110075

PUBLIC NOTICE

General public is hereby informedthat my client Jagdish Chandra S/oPanna Lal Agarwal R/o EC-284, G-8Area, Rajouri Garden, Maya EnclaveHari Nagar, New Delhi-110064. Myclient has disowned and debbaredhis son Anoop Agrawal R/o H.No. B-36, Street Lili Vila, Sukh SagarValley, Area Polipather, VillageGwarighat, District Jabalpur, StateMadhya Pradesh, Pin Code-482008.f r o m a l l t h e i r m o v a b l e a n dimmovable proper ty. Anybodydealing with debarred person shalldo at her their own risk andresponsibilities and my client will notbe responsible for the same.

Sd/- B.B.N. DEO, AdvocateS.R.IInd,B Coumpus, Janak Puri,ND-58

This public notice is issued uponthe instructions for and on behalfof my client Ms. Kiran Gupta W/oLate Ravi Gupta R/o C-244,Vikaspuri, New Delhi, do herebydisown his son Vikas Gupta frommy legal inheritance and his wifePreeti Gupta from all rightsaccrued or arising due to themarriage with my son VikasGupta. My client shall not beresponsible for any acts of theboth in any manner.

PUBLIC NOTICE

RATTAN KUMAR MISHRAADVOCATE

17/145, FF, Subhash Nagar,New, Delhi-110027

PUBLIC NOTICEI, ASHWANI KUMAR RAGHAV SON OF OMPRAKASH RAGHAV RESIDENT OF H.NO. D-151, GALI NO. 3, MUKUND VIHAR, KARAWALNAGAR, DELHI-110053, WANT TOPURCHASE A PROPERTY VIDE NO. BUILTUP LAND AREA MEASURING 55 SQ. YDS.,I.E. 16-1/2 FT. X 30FT., OUT OF ENTIREAREA 200 SQ. YDS., OUT OF KHASRA NO.33/11, PROPERTY BEARING NO. 0-81.ACCORDING TO OWNER NAMELY HARIKISHAN SON OF SHRI TEJ PAL SINGHRESIDENT OF C-97/6, GALI NO. 3,BHAJANPURA, DELHI-110053, BECOME THEOWNER THROUGH A GPA, AGREEMENT TOSALE, RECIEPT, POSSESSION LETTER ANDWILL DEED VIDE GPA DULY REGISTEREDAS DOCUMENT NO. 2,716, BOOK NO.4, VOL.NO. 11,338, ON PAGES 189-194, ON31.08.2019, IN THE OFFICE OF S.R. IV.THE SAID PROPERTY IS ABSOLUTELYFREE FROM ANY ENCUMBRANCESWHATSOEVER, IF ANY PERSON HAS ANYCLAIM OR INTEREST OVER THE SAIDPROPERTY, SHE/HE IS REQUESTED TOFORWARD THEIR CLAIM/S ALONG WITHTHE RELEVANT DOCUMENTS TO MEWITHIN 15 DAYS OF THIS PUBLIC NOTICE.IF NO CLAIM IS RECEIVED, IT SHALL BEPRESUMED AFTER 15 DAYS THAT IT ISFREE FROM ALL ENCUMBRANCES.

RAGHVENDRA SHUKLAE. No. 4406/2001 (Advocate)

Chamber No. B-139 B,G S Block, Tis Hazari Court Delhi

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E-TENDER PRESS NOTICEThe EXECUTIVE ENGINEER, CD-XIII, I&FC Department Govt. of Delhi, on behalf of the President ofIndia, invites Online Percentage rate tender from the approved and eligible contractors registered withIRRIGATION AND FLOOD CONTROL DEPARTMENT. The contractors who are registered with otherdepartment and now got their registrations verified from I&FC Deptt. Are eligible to participate in Tenderprocess for the work:-

1. NIT No.E.E/CD-13/Acs/2022-23/40-A (3rd Call) (ID No. 2022_IFC_227009_1) Major Head ofAccount: 2711 (Revenue) Name Providing and preparation of design and drawing including proofchecking of gates and gearing system for madanpur drain out falling at R.D. 6677m of Mungeshpurdrain, Regulator on Nangli Sakrawati drain out falling into N.G. Drain and Two Nos. Bridge-cum-Regulators on Mungeshpur drain out falling into N.G. Drain at R.D. om and into supplementary drainat its Off-take Point at RD 34500m. Estimated Cost (in Rs.) 5,39,185/- Earnest Money (In Rs.)10,784/- Time allowed 30 Days. Last date & time of receiving & opening of tender throughE-Procurement System 08-08-2022 on 03.00 Hrs & 03.05 Hrs respectively.

2. NIT No. E.E/CD-13/Acs/2022-23/11 (4th Call) (ID No. 2022_IFC_227014_1) Major Head of Account4217 (MLA LAD) Name of Work: Providing and fixing open Gym Equipment in village Kazipur inNajafgarh Constituency, AC.35. Improvement and repair of cremation ground in village Issapur nearShaheed Bhagat Singh Park in N.G. Block. (Balance amount). Estimated Cost (in Rs.) 5,53,204/-Earnest Money (in Rs.) 11,064/- Time allowed 60 Days. Last date & time of receiving & opening oftender through E-Procurement System 08-08-2022 on 03.00 Hrs & 03.05 Hrs respectively.

3. NIT No. E.E/CD-13/Acs/2022-23/53(2nd Call) (ID No. 2022_IFC_227013_1) Major Head ofAccount:4515- (Panchayat) Name of Work: Construction of boundary wall in Gram Sabha Landbearing Kh. No. 1etc./418(5-17) at village Mundella Khurd in Distt. South-West, Delhi. EstimatedCost (in Rs.) 21,35,158/- Earnest Money (in Rs.) 42,703/- Time allowed 90 Days. Last date & timeof receiving & opening of tender through E-Procurement System 08-08-2022 on 03.00 Hrs & 03.05Hrs respectively.

4. NIT No. E.E/CD-13/Acs/2022-23/19(3rd Call) (ID No. 2022_IFC_227023_1) Major Head of Account:2711- (Revenue) Name of Work: Maintenance of Solar lights along B.C. Drain. Estimated Cost (inRs.) 12,13,740/- Earnest Money (in Rs.) 24,275/- Time allowed 360 Days. Last date & time ofreceiving & opening of tender through E-Procurement System 08-08-2022 on 03.00 Hrs & 03.05 Hrsrespectively.

5. NIT No. E.E/CD-13/Acs/2022-23/18(3rd Call) (ID No. 2022_IFC_227019_1) Major Head of Account:2711- (Revenue) Name of Work: Maintenance of Solar lights along Mundella Drain. Estimated Cost(in Rs.) 12,11,300/- Earnest Money (in Rs.) 24,226/- Time allowed 360 Days. Last date & time ofreceiving & opening of tender through E-Procurement System 08-08-2022 on 03.00 Hrs & 03.05 Hrsrespectively.

6. NIT No, E.E/CD-13/Acs/2022-23/17(3rd Call) (ID No. 2022_IFC_227024_1) Major Head of Account:2711-(Revenue) Name of Work: Maintenance of Solar lights along Mungeshpur Drain. EstimatedCost (in Rs.) 20,69,690/- Earnest Money (in Rs.) 41,394/- Time allowed 360 Days. Last date & timeof receiving & opening of tender through E-Procurement System 08-08-2022 on 03.00 Hrs & 03.05Hrs respectively.

7. NIT No. E.E/CD-13/Acs/2022-23/54 (ID No. 2022_IFC_227006_1) Major Head of Account: 4217-(Plan-Development of Unauthorized Colony) Name of Work: Improvement and reconstruction ofinternal streets and side drains of Maharani Enclave Phase-I in Vikaspuri Constituency AC-31 (Regd.No. 886). Estimated Cost (in Rs.) 2,87,93,619/- Earnest Money (in Rs.) 5,75,872/- Time allowed 180Days. Last date & time of receiving & opening of tender through E-Procurement System 08-08-2022on 03.00 Hrs & 03.05 Hrs respectively.

Note:-1) Details of above mentioned works & eligibility criteria can be seen and downloaded from theweb site https://govteprocurement.delhi.gov.in2) Amendment(s)/alteration(s)/corrigendum if any, will be available at website only.3) EMD in the form of Bankers Cheque/DD/Fixed Deposit receipt in F/o EE/CD-XIII, I&FC Deptt

Shall be scanned and uploaded to the e-tender website within the perlod of bid submission.The original EMD should be deposited in the office of EE/CD-XIII, I&FC Deptt. Within theperiod of bid submission.

Sd/-DIP/SHABDARTH/0265/22-23 EXECUTIVE ENGINEER, CD.XIII

PUBLIC NOTICEGovernment of National Capital Territory of Delhi has decided to grantlicence in Form L-1 and Form L-IF for the wholesale vend of Indian Liquorand Foreign Liquor respectively in the National Capital Territory of Delhi forthe licensing year 2022-23 w.e.f. 01.09.2022.The prescribed form for the grant of L-1 and L-IF licence can be obtained onpayment of Rs. 5,000/- (Rupees Five thousand) only via online mode or byway of demand draft in favour of the Deputy Commissioner (Excise), Delhi,for each licence form during the office hours on any working day from theoffice of Commissioner of Excise, Government of National Capital Territoryof Delhi, L- Block, Vikas Bhawan, I.P. Estate, New Delhi-110002.Alternatively, the same can be downloaded from the websitehttp//excise.Delhigovt.nic.in under heading "News". However, in thatcase, a processing fee of Rs. 5000/- (Rupees five thousand) only for eachlicence form shall have to be deposited along with the application form byway of demand draft in favour of the Deputy Commissioner (Excise), Delhi.Applicants are required to apply online also at address delhiexcise.gov.in.

Application received without complete information and supportingdocuments, as required in the prescribed form, along with its annexures,shall beliable to be rejected.

Sd/-(KRISHNA MOHAN UPPU)

DIP/SHABDARTH/0271/22-23 COMMISSIONER (EXCISE)

GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL CAPITAL TERRITORY OF DELHIOFFICE OF THE EXCISE COMMISSIONER

L-BLOCK, VIKAS BHAWAN, I.P. ESTATE, NEW DELHI-110002

IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH(ORIGINAL JURISDICTION)

CP-35-2011, CA-196 & 197-2017CA-53-2020, CA-54-2021 in CP-75-2007

E-AUCTION SALE NOTICE

Offers are invited from the prospective buyers for sale of the assets/property of M/s Syal Leasing Limited (In Liqn.) sit-uated at 195, Adarsh Nagar, Chick Chick Crossing, Jalandhar by E- Auction on "as is where is and whatever there isbasis". The details of property, date of inspection and EMD for participating in e-Auction are as under:-

2. Intending buyers may take inspection of the moveable assets at the respective places on the abovementioned datebetween 11.00 A.M. to 4.00 P.M.

3. The E-auction will be conducted through the website https://olauction.enivida.com on 25.08.2022 (between 10.30am to 5.00 PM) with auto time extension of 10 minutes in exigent situation.

4. The bidders should submit their online offers through the website https://lolauction.enivida.com.5. The intending buyers should collect the detail information, terms & condition through the website Ministry at

www.mca.gov.in https://olauction.enivida.com and High Court of Punjab and Haryana at highcourtchd.gov.in. andmay also take help from the contacts given below (between 10.00 am to 6.00 pm).i. Navneet Mishra- 09355030630ii Amrendra Kumar-08448288980iii Abhishek Kumar- 09355030617

6. The EMD amount (interest free) should be deposited through the modes available on the portal. The last date of requestand participation in E-auction and online submission of EMD is 24.08.2022.The offer/Tender/sale is subject to the confirmation by the Hon'ble High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh.

Sd/- (PRASHANT BALIYAN)OFFICIAL LIQUIDATOR

Attached to Punjab and HaryanaHigh Court, Corporate Bhawan, 2nd Floor,

Plot No. 4 B, Sector 27 B, ChandigarhPhone: 0172-2659875 E-mail: oI.chandigarh@mca.gov.in

PLACE: CHANDIGARH

DATED:________

Description of Property

Land Area: 40.21 Marlas

Building: 5-Storied (Lower & Upper Basements 3-UpperFloor) Additional with Mumty (Terrace Floor).

Capital Goods: Generator Furniture & Fixtures etc.(Excluding lift and its accessories )

Date ofInspection

17.08.2022

Reserved Price

Rs.8,65,00,000/-

Rs.2,68,000/-

Earnest Money infavour of OfficialLiquidator, Chandigarh

Rs.86,50,000I-

Rs.26,800/-

ANNEXURE-APRESS NOTICE TO BE ISSUED FOR PUBLICATION IN NEWSPAPERS

The Executive Engineer Jal Shakti Division Thunag invites tender on behalf of Governor of Himachal Pradesh fromapproved eligible contractor for the following work(s) through e-tendering process: -Work No. 1 Construction of Inspection Hut at Gada Gussain in GP Thachadhar Tehsil Balichowki Distt Mandi HP.Estimated Cost: Rs. 1,48,18,203/- Only, Earnest Money: Rs. 1,80,700/- Only, Cost of Tender Form: Rs.1500/-, Time Limit:One Year.Work No. 2: - Source Strengthening of multi village pipes water supply for Balichowki and other at Tirthan Khad TehsilBalichowki District Mandi (HP) (SH: CO Source Strengthening Structure at Near Bridge Manglore, CO Retaining Wall toprotect the Sedimentation Tank and Slow Sand Filter Bed, Sedimentation Tank 21000 ltrs capacity and CO RCC SlowSand Filter Bed of 51.26 Sq. m Capacity in 3 units. Under JJM. Estimated Cost: Rs.97,19,387/-, Earnest Money: Rs.1,29,700/-, Cost Tender Document: Rs. 800/-, Time Limit: 06 MonthsSchedule of tendering:

1. Date of online Publication 02/08/2022 at 10.00 A.M.2. Downloading of e-tender documents 02/08/2022 at 10.00 A.M.3 Date of submission of e-tender 02/08/2022 at 10.00 A.M. upto 09/08/2022 at 05.00 P.M.4 Physical submission of Earnest Money Deposit, Cost

of tender form if not paid online/ other belowmentioned documents

10/08/2022 at 11.00 A.M.

5 Date of opening of bids 10/08/2022 at 11.30 A.M.6 Opening of Eligibility criteria & Technical Information

(Cover-I)10/08/2022 at 11.30 A.M.

7 Opening of Financial bid (Cover-II) Date and place to be notified separately.8 Site Visit From 02/08/2022 to 09/08/2022 between 10.00 A.M. To

5.00 P.M. except on holidays.Last date of filling/uploading the tender through e-tendering 09/08/2022 upto 5:00 P.M.The tender forms and other detailed conditions can be obtained from the website www.hpiph.org.

--HIM SUCHANA AVAM JAN SAMPARK--Executive Engineer

2901/HP Jal Shakti Division, Thunag Distt Mandi.

PRADHAN MANTRI GRAM SADAK YOJNA (PMGSY)E-Procurement Notice

The Superintending Engineer, 6th Circle HP.PWD Kullu on behalf of the Governor of Himachal Pradesh re-invites the itemrate bids, in electronic tendering system from the eligible contractors registered with HPPWD for the work as detailed in the table.

The bidders are advised to note other details of the tenders from the website www.pmgsytenders.gov.in.

The department has right to extend or cancel the bids without assigning any reasons thereof.Superintending Engineer,6th Circle, HPPWD, Kullu

PIN-175101Ph. 01902-222530, Fax:01902-222299

E-mail:hp-kul@nic.inOn behalf of Governor of Himachal Pradesh.

Sr. Name of Work Estimated Starting date Earnest Deadline for Date ofNo. Cost for downloading Money submission technical Bid

(in lacs) of bid (in Lacs) of bid opening

1. 04-08-2022 at Rs. 1.92 10-08-2022 11-08-202210:00 AM Lacs. at upto At 11:00 AM

6:00 PM

Balance work for construction of main road tovillage Salgran Km. 0/0 to 4/510 (SH:- P/L,M/T, V-shape drain, PCC Parapets, unlineddrain and routine maintenance of 5 years inKm 0/0 to 0/345, 0/435 to 2/330 and 3/700 to4/510) under PMGSY stage-II, Batch-I 2017-18 (Package No. HP-07-13)

ConstructionPart= 79.18

MaintenancePart= 16.65

Total cost=95.83/-

2924/HP

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Durg, Dated: 20.07.2022

Online tenders in form "A" percentage rate basis are invited on behalf ofGovernor of Chhattisgarh dated 10-08-2022 :-

Note :-1- NIT No 99 & 102 are under Public Works Department Durg Division Durg,

NIT No 100 is under Public Works Department Balod Division Bemetara,& NIT No 101 is under Public Works Department Rajnandgaon DivisionRajnandgaon.

2- General Conditions, detailed NIT, Tender documents & other information ofthe above construction work downloaded from the Eprocurement webportal or departmental website http://eproc.egstate.gov.in.

3- NIT No. & Name of the Work should be essentially mentioned on the enve-lope through the Registerd Post/Speed Post in this office.

Sd/-Superintending Engineer

93265 P.W.D., Durg Circle Durg (C.G.)Tel. 0788-2210876

e-Procurement Tender Notice

NIT No.

99/105255

100/105256

101/105257

102/105258

P.A.C. (Rs.In lacs.)

51.17

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70.00

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CONSTRUCTION OF 900M BOUNDARYWALL IN UTAI THANA

Strengthning & BT Work or Bhanpuri toSurra Road Length 1.475 K.M. under SubDivision No.2 Balod

Special Repair/MOW/Deposit work ofVarious Residential & Non ResidentialQuarters Under Sub Div Chowki

W.B.M./ B.T. PATCH REPAIR ONGANIYARI-KHURSUL, KHURSUL-BIHAVBOD, KHURSUL-BHENDARWANI,BORAI- KHURSUL & GANIYARI-MANGATTA ROAD UNDER SUB-DN.NO.-2, DURG

Lance Naik (GD) Rana Sharma 04th Aug 2008Sashastra Seema Bal fondly remembers and cher-ishes the valiant act of the brave heart, LNK/GDRana Sharma of 16th Bn SSB, Adabari (Assam) whomade the supreme sacrifice of his life for Nation inthe line of duty. LNK/GD Rana Sharma attained mar-tyrdom in an attack by ULFA militants near MalvitaBaghmara Market of district Chirang (Assam) on

04th August, 2008. His gallant act will continue to inspire us all.We salute the valor and supreme sacrifice of our brave soldier.

SASHASTRA SEEMA BAL

On 04 Aug 1999 TJ – 3791 Late Sub AwadeshThakur of 107 TA had made supreme sacrifice dur-ing OP Hifazat in Aug 1999

Colonel 11 GR & Sikkim Scouts and All Ranks

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Colonel 11 GR & Sikkim Scouts and All Ranks

NORTH CENTRAL RAILWAY, PRAYAGRAJE-TENDERING TENDER NOTICE

Divisional Railway manager (Works) N.C. Railway, Jhansi for and behalfof President of India invites sealed "Open Tender" through on Line (E-Tendering) for the followingwork.

EarnestMoney

ApproxCost Rs

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Date of closing Tender : 31.08.2022 at 15:00 hrs.Date of Completion/period from issue acceptance letter : 08 Months.

207500.0011495352.02

JHS-ENGG-

N-2022-75

Improvement of level crossingsurface by rubber gradecrossing system at various L-Xings in JHS-DHO sectionunder Sr. DEN/N/JHS.

• Tender online can be submitted up to 15:00 hrs on 31.08.2022.• For full details and submission of bid please see the Indian RailwaysWebsitewww.ireps.gov.in. 990/22 (AN)

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Tender No. : AGCTRDT 202210

Dated : 01.08.2022

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GOVERNMENT OF ODISHAODIA LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND CULTURE DEPARTMENT

********Manoj Das National Awards, 2022

1. The Department invites applications for Manoj Das National Awards, 2022 fromeminent litterateurs.

2. An expert committee, consisting of five members, having excellence in the field ofEnglish literature of national and international reputation will be formed under thechairmanship of the Secretary of the Department for selection of the awardee.

3. The award shall be conferred to an Indian writer for outstanding contribution in Englishliterature. A sum of Rs.10,00,000/- (Rupees Ten lakhs) along with a citation inscribed on abronze plaque shall be handed over to the awardee.

4. To receive the Award the writer must have at least 10 original publications/ work inEnglish language. The publication must be original work, laced with creativity and prose.Preference will be given to the writers having translation of his/her original publications toany international language(s).

5. The award for this year may be cancelled/ withheld by the Department if excellent writersare not available for the said year.

6. The name of the awardee selected by the committee will be final and binding and it isdeemed that it shall be treated as the decision of OLL&C Department.

7. This award will not be given posthumously.

8. The application must reach by 30.08.2022, addressed to the Director, Department ofOdia Language, Literature & Culture, Directorate of Culture, Sanskruti Bhawan (2nd floor),Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India Pin: 750014, Email: directorateofculture@gmail.com,Telephone No-0674-2431945. The application received after the due date shall not beentertained under any circumstances.

9. For detail information please visit to the Department website www.odishaculture.gov.in

Sd/-Director-cum-Addl. Secratary to Govt.

Deptt. of Odia Language, Literature & CultureOIPR-03001/11/0013/2223

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Chhattisgarh Rural Roads Development AgencyVIKASH BHAVAN, CIVIL LINES, RAIPUR (C.G,)

NIT No. 803/TC-T/CGRRDA/2022 Dated 02/08/2021Chief Engineer (Tender Cell), CGRRDA, Raipur on behalf of Governor of

Chhattisgarh invites package wise bids in electronic tendering system for Renewal /Maintenanceof Roads Under PMGSY Roads, sanctioned for different districts of the state as per B.O.Q. fromthe eligible contractors/Firms registered with unified registration system (e-registration) for theworks mentioned below. Date of release of Invitation for Bids through e-procurement:S.No NIT No Work Name Amount (Rs. in Lakhs) Districts Rate invited

Availability of Bid Documents and mode of submission: The bid document is available online andshould be submitted online in https://eproc.cgstate.gov.in. The bidder would be required to register inthe web-site which is free of cost. For submission of the bids, the bidder is required to have a validDigital Signature Certificate (DSC) from one of the authorized Certifying Authorities.

Detailed NIT and other details can be viewed on our website https:/eproc.cgstate.gov.infrom 05.08.2022 from 5:00 PM & onwards. In future any related corrigendum would beseen in the notice section of this website. Sd/-

Chief Engineer (Tender Cell)Chhattisgarh Rural Road Development Agency

Civil Lines, Raipur (C.G.)E-mail : pmgsyrc4@yahoo.co.in

E-Procurement Tender Notice

01 803 Renewal /Maintenance

Under PMGSYRoads

Total Cost 66417.52 Lakhs(Excluding GST) (Const.

Cost 57236.89 Lakhs,Maint. Cost 9180.56 lakhs)

All District ofChhattisgarh

Percentage Rate ofPMGSY SOR

22.02.2018 issued byCE, CGRRDA Raipur

Directorate of IndustriesDepartment of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, GoMP

ADVERTISEMENTDate: 03/ 08 /2022

Department of MSME (DoMSME), GoMP invites application from eligibleaspirants for the empanelment of independent advisers for a period of 03years, Brief job description, minimum qualification, relevant experience,application format, opening and closing dates and other details shall beavailable on the websites https://mpmsme.gov.in and https://www.mptenders.gov.in.

Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises Department, GoMP would endeavourto adhere to the following schedule during the Bidding Process:

Pre-bid queries should be mailed to adimsme@mp.gov.in andic-mp@nic.in with subject: “Pre-bid queries for Empanelment ofIndependent Adviser for GoMP for a period of 3 Years”.

Sd/-Deputy Director

G-15035/22 Directorate of Industries, GoMP

1. Date of Publication of Tender Notice : 03.08.2022

2. Last Date and time for submittingPre-Bid Queries

: 08.08.2022, 18:00 Hrs

3. Pre- Bid Meeting (in Conference Hall,4th Floor, Vindhyachal Bhawan)

: 10.08.2022. 12:00 Hrs

4. Issue of corrigendum, if any : 17.08.20225. Bid Submission Start Date : 03.08.2022 10:00 Hrs

6. Bid Submission Closing Date : 22.08.2022 17:00 Hrs7. Date of opening of the tender : 24.08.2022 17:00 Hrs

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GOVERNMENT OF ODISHAOFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE ENGINEER, PUBLIC

HEALTH DIVISION, BHAWANIPATNAParmanandpur, Railway Station Road, Bhawanipatna,

Dist: Kalahandi, PIN-766002NATIONAL COMPETITIVE BIDDING THROUGH e-ProcurementIdentification No. EEPH-BHPT- 09 of 2022-23/ Dt. 29.07.2022

e-Procurement Notice

For details can be seen from the Government websitewww.tendersorissa.gov.in

Sd/-Executive Engineer,

P.H. Division, BhawanipatnaOIPR-13059/11/0008/2223

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ProcurementOfficer

BidIdentification

No

No.of

works

Availability of tenderonline for bidding

Date & timeof opening

of BidFrom To1 2 3 4 5 6

Executive Engineer,P.H. Division,Bhawanipatna

EEPH-BHPT-09 of 2022-23/Dt. 29.07.2022

01(One)

05.08.2022 20.08.2022 22.08.2022

Name of the Work Different pipes water supply schemes under PI-DivisionBhawanipatna under Special Centra Assistance

Total No. Of works 01 (One)

Estimated Cost Approx. Rs. 248.83 lakh

Class of Contactor Manufacturer Only

Period of Completion 2 Calendar Months

GOVT. OF ODISHAOFFICE OF THE CHIEF CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER

RURAL WORKS, CIRCLE, BHAWANIPATNABid identification No.:- BPT/Online-12/2022-23 Date: 01.08.2022

NOTICE INVITING TENDERS FOR BRIDGE WORKS IN ODISHANATIONAL COMPETITIVE BIDDING THROUGH e-Procurement

Further details can be seen from the web site “www.tendersorissa.gov.in”Chief Construction Engineer

Rural Works, Circle, BhawanipatnaOIPR- 25102/11/0014/2223

1 Name of the Work : Construction of H.L. Bridge over River Golla on D.Cheptaghat to K. Cheptaghat Road” in the District ofKalahandi under Biju Setu Yojana. (Balance Work)

2 No of Works : 1 No.

3 Location details : Kalahandi District

4 Estimated Cost : As per NIT.

5 Period of Completion : As per NIT.

6 Cost of tender paper : Rs.10,000/- per set.

7 Other details :

Availability oftender for online bidding

Last date & time forseeking tender

clarification

Date and time ofopening of

technical bidFrom To

06.08.202211.00 A.M.

22.08.20225.00 P.M.

20.08.2022 23.08.2022at 11.00 A.M.

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GOVERNMENT OF ODISHAOFFICE OF THE CHIEF CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER,

NORTHERN (R&B) CIRCLE SAMBALPURe -Procurement

BID IDENTIFICATION NO CCENC (RAND B) /07/ 2022-23No. 2609 Dtd. 26.07.2022

1. The Chief Construction Engineer, Northern (R&B) Circle,Sambalpur on behalf of Governor of Odisha invites PercentageRate bids in double cover system in ONLINE MODE for theconstruction of Road and Building works as detailed in the DTCNfrom the eligible class of contractors.

2. No of works= 10 (TEN) (Road Works and Building Work).

3. Tender Cost: Rs. 10,000/

4. Class of contractor: "B" Class, “A” Class, "Special" Class and SuperClass.

5. Date & Time of available in web site & receipt of Bids From06.08.2022 to 17.00 Hours of 22.08.2022.

6. Date of opening of Technical Bid 23.08.2022 at 11.00 Hours.

7. The Bidders have to participate in ONLINE bidding only. Furtherdetails can be seen from the website www.tendersodisha.gov.in.

8. Any corrigendum / Addendum will be displayed in the websitewww.tendersodisha.gov.in.

Sd/-Chief Construction Engineer

Northern (R&B) Circle, SambalpurOIPR-34035/11/0012/2223

B-434

Government of Madhya PradeshOffice of the Engineer-in-ChiefWater Resource Department,

Jal Sansadhan Bhawan, Tulsi Nagar, Bhopal (M.P.)Email Id: ceproc.encwrd.bpl@nic.in Tel: 0755-2767635 Fax: 0755-2552406

N.I.T. No. 914/2022-23/E-in-C/e-tendering Bhopal, Dated 27.07.2022

Bids for following works are invited on website https://www.mptenders.gov.in Last Dateof purchase/download of Bid Document and submission of bid is 17.08.2022, 17:30 hrs.Any amendment/modification can be seen only on the website. Detailed N.I.T. and otherdetails can be viewed on above mentioned website.S. No. Tender No. Work District Amount (Lakhs)

1 2022_WRD_212702 Rehabilitation and Resettlement work underHanota Irrigation Project near Godkhedi village.

Sagar 1442.00

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Sd/-Chief Engineer (Procurement)

OFFICE OF THE CHIEFCONSTRUCTION ENGINEER

RURAL WORKS CIRCLE, BARIPADAOffice Order No. 2950/ Dt 01.08.2022

1st Corrigendum to National Competitive Bidding e_procurementNotice No.2742/ Bridge work Dt.23.07.2022.

The amount put to tender in the annexure of N.C,B No-240/ Bridge workis read as Rs.947.51 Lakhs instead of Rs.1011.99 Lakhs due totechnical reason.All other terms and conditions are remain unchanged.

Sd./ Er. N.V.H RaoChief Construction Engineer

R.W. CIRCLE, BARIPADA

OIPR-25181/11/0036/2223

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USUALLY, AS soon as she makes a move,Tania Sachdev swishes her curls back, getsoff thechair and takesa languid stroll alongthehallway,oftenpausingbesideherteam-mates and gazing at their board. Her face isimpassive.Outsidethegamehall,shecanbethemostexpressiveof chessplayers,but in-sidethequietambienceofthechessring,sheis economicalwith her expressions, exceptforhereyesthatholdthemirrortohermind.Her eyes talk vividly; observe those and

you realise the state of her game, almost arunning commentary. Amelange of emo-tions flickerbackandforth, fromjoytorage,andangsttodoubts.WhenthematchagainstGeorgia’sSalomeMeliabegan,hereyesweretranquil. The earlymanoeuvreswere all bythe book, too bookish—a Ruy Lopez open-ing,oneof themostclassicalopeningsinthegame named after a 16th century Spanishpriest (who did not become a bishopthough!), followedby theMorphyDefense,byfarBlack'smostpopularearlymoveintheRuyLopez line.The thread became clear—bothwanted

to trade shadowpunches at each other be-foreunleashingthefull-bloodiedhooksandpunches. Steadily, often taking an eternityformoves,theyplasteredthebaselikeanas-siduousmason, slowly fixing the gaps, theminute loopholes cracks, arranging thetroops in theperfect order. Thiswasnotgo-ing to be a game of ambush, but one ofstraight bunker to bunker firing. It was justthematter of the king firing theorders. Theorders came quite late in the game—on the14thmove, after almost two hours of care-ful positioning, into the game. Tania’s eyesfirmeduplikethoseof anArmyGeneralbe-forebeltingout theshootingorders.Buthardworkentailedforbothplayers—

whoever pursued a win had to breachthroughlayersofcarefullyplacedtroops.Youcould shoot one down; you could get shottoo. It was exactly how the game pannedout—Tania captured a rook and Salome re-turned in kind. In a fewmoments, lashes ofswords were flying around. By the 26thmove, Tania had taken out another pawn,bothbishopsandknight;heropponenthadtwo of her pawns, a bishop and knight too.Thematchhadopenedup,therewerefewerpieces on the board (though that does notmean an endgame is near), but neither had

made a considerable territorial advantage,or rather,whatever thrusts theymadewereeven. Tania had a foot on Salome’s groundandSalomehadoneonTania’stoo.Asifeachweremirroringeachother’sgames.

Warminus shootingThe exchange of firing continued—the

Orwellian warminus shooting fits a non-combat sport like chessmore thanphysicalsports, because the game in essence is awar—thoughthespoilsweremostlyshared.Both lost thequeens, andbythe35thmove,all that remainedwere pawns, a rook andking.Thekinginsightfortheboth,arousingclimaxloomed.Butallthreeresultsloomed—aTaniawin,aSalometriumphandadraw.Adraw itwas to be—as is often the casewithRuy Lopez lines, an opening with a highdrawingrate.Tania, whose unbeaten streak has ex-

tendedto6gamesnow,andIndiawouldtakethe .5points (with theblackpieces)helpingthemretaintheir topspotafter thevictoriesofKoneruHumpyandRVaishali,andHarikaDronavalli’s draw. Her eyes had a not-too-happyor sad look.A lot of India A team’s success owes to

Tania and her unstoppable form. Tania hadbeen her team's leading light aswell as thefirefighter, the rock that has held her teamfromrolling down theprecipice.Her versa-tilityisunderstated—shecanattackaswellasgrinddownopponents,holdfortorlauncharapid counterattack. All those virtues haveshonethroughhergamesthiscampaign,andher eyes have captured all the attendingemotions.Her Olympiad logbook—played: 6;won

4, drawn: 2, points: 5/6—looks exemplary.It’s instructive to revisit someof her games.AgainstRushkonaSaidova,sheclawedback,

withacalculativebutpatientgamefromthebrink of a defeat with the black pieces in amarathonmatch. Against Hungary in thefourth round, she dug deep to procure amatch-winning point. Her defiance hasblazedasmuchasher intelligence.The run of form presents the perfect

time to revisit her legacy too—she was amould-breaker in Indian chess, among thefirst to bust chess as a game of aloof, with-drawngeniusesstereotype.Shewasdiffer-ent—articulate, extroverted and fashion-able, with an ability to deconstruct thecomplicated chess language to the lay lis-tener inhercommentary. Sheshowedthatchess players should not necessarily con-form to a type outside the chess hall. Andthis Olympiad, she has reinforced that sheis incredibly difficult to beat too. A cold-eyeddefiance—ithasbeenthepredominantemotionof her eyes.

CHESSOLYMPIAD

TaniaSachdevhasplayed6,won4anddrawn2at theChessOlympiad. AICF

ANDREWAMSANAUGUST3

DUETOticketdelays,theIndianmixedrelayquarter-milers reached Cali, Colombia, forthe ongoing U20World Championships ontheeveof theirheats.Reaching the team hotel around 9 pm

andspendingthenextmorningcompletingaccreditation formalitiesmeant thequartetof Barath Sridhar, PriyaMohan, Kapil andRupalcompetedintheheatswithoutevenapractice run.“Theysteppedontothetrackfor thefirst

timestraighttocompete,”saysPriya’scoachArjunAjay.The youngsters did not let the pre-race

hurdles hamper their performance as theybroke the U20 Asian record in the heats(3:19.62s)andrewrote themark in the final(3:17.76s)forthesilvermedal.Theyfinishedjust .07 seconds behind winners USA(3:17.69s)andacomfortabletwoseconds(atleast 10m ahead) better than third-placedJamaica.Itwasalsoathree-secondimprove-ment on their bronze-winning effort at thelast edition and two seconds better thanIndia’s senior team’s effort in the TokyoOlympics. India are now second on the all-timeWorld list behind America and aheadofcountrieslikeNigeria,JamaicaandPoland.Indiawere the bronzemedallists in the

lasteditionoftheJrWorldsinNairobiwherethe squadwas the same but for Rupal’s in-clusion inplaceof Summy.The competition at this edition was

tougher as countries like the United States,Britain,Australia,JapanandGermanydidnotparticipateinNairobiduetoCovidconcerns.“Lasttime,whenwewonthebronzebuta

lot of people called it a luckymedal becauseseveral countries did not take part. But thistime,noonecanraisesuchquestions.Wehaveansweredourcritics.Wewouldhavegot thegold if not for the last-minute push by theAmerican(KennedyWade),”saysArjun.

With a fixedM-W-M-W format for thecompetition,Rupalwasstrategicallyplacedinthefinallegtoputherlonglegstouse.TheMeerutathlete,who ironicallydoesn’t evenhaveasynthetictrackinherhometown,triedher best to chase down the American butWadedidnotliftherfootoff thepedal inthelast50m.“Weweregoingforgoldandtheplanwas

thatRupalwouldpushinthe last80morso.ButWade surprised us by giving that lastpush,” saysArjun.Therewasalotofcommotionintherun-

up to theU20Worldswith the Indian teamannouncedjustdaysbeforethecompetition.The teamwas then stranded in NewDelhifor awhilewith ticket delays adding to thepressure.Arriving on the eveof their heatsmeant

virtuallynotimeforpractice,forgetacclima-tising and getting over the jet lag from the30-hour-plus flight via Amsterdam. CoachArjunknewjet lagwouldbeahugeissue,sohedialledupa skater friend fromColombiafor ideas.“WefiguredoutthattomatchColombia’s

pattern, wewould have to stay up all nighton the flight for at least 8-9 hours. Glad itworkedwell forus,”hesays.It was Priya and Rupal that anchored

India’s race inCali. Theystillhavetheir indi-vidual400meventsemifinalsandfinals leftapartfromthewomen’s4x400mrelayevent.Justhoursbeforethemixedrelaysfinals,

Rupal (52.50s) and Priya (52.56s) ran the400m heats to qualify for the semis. If theduocompetesinalltheeventslinedup,theywillenduprunningseven400mracesinthespanof sixdays.India’s run, especially Priya and Rupal’s

effort,caughttheeyeofalotofUSuniversitycoaches.“MyInstagramDMsarefullofmes-sages from coaches who want to know ifRupalandPriyawouldconsiderjoiningtheiruniversitiesonscholarship. I toldthemtheywillhavetofirstcompletetheirdegrees,”saysArjun.

The Indian4x400mjuniorrelayteamaftercomingsecondat theU20WorldChampionships. WorldAthletics/Youtube

India Jrs leave Jamaicabehind, run US close

B-UBBLEBURSTSTheIndiaBbubbleburstonthe

sixthround,as they lost toArmenia2.5-1.5.ThoughDGukeshstretchedhisdreamrunandNihalSarinekedoutatightdraw,BAdhibanandRaunakSadhwanilost theirgames.GukeshwaltzedpastArmeniatop-seededGabrielSargisantogivehis teamimpetus,buthiscolleagues faltered.Nihal, seemingly thepatchiest

in formamongthefour,heldontoadrawwithblackpiecesagainstHrantMelkyuman.But thenhitthesetbacks,oneafter theother,asAdhibanwhowas infine formstumbledagainstSamvelTer-Sahakyan.Thematchwassquaredat1.5-1.5,butSadhwani's stumbleturnedouttobecostly.Besidethemweretheir senior

team,whomanageda2-2drawagainstastrongUzbekistanwhohaddrawntheUSAtwodaysagoandareemergingasareal force inthetournament.ButPentalaHarikrishnagavethema1-0 lead,beatingthedangerousNodirbekAbdusattarov,whohadstunnedFabianoCaruana.But therestofhisteammatescouldnotbuildonthemomentum.ViditGujarathiandArjunErigasai settled fordraws,puttingtheteaminsightof avictory,butShamsiddinVokhidovconsignedKSasikarantoadefeattorestoreparity.Armenia’swinwouldmean

that they leapover IndiaBtothetopof thetable.

Alotof IndiaAteam’ssuccessowestoTaniaandherunstoppable form

Leading light and firefighter

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DifficultyLevel1sInstructionsTosolveaSudokupuzzle,everydigitfrom1to9mustappear ineachofthenineverticalcolumns, ineachoftheninehorizontalrowsandineachofthenineboxes.

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Givenbelowarefour jumbledwords.Solvethejumblestomakeproperwordsandmovethemtotherespectivesquaresbelow.Selecttheletters intheshadedsquaresandjumblethemtogettheanswerforthegivenquip.Our____oftinourselvesdolie-Shakespeare(8)

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CWG effect: Women’s T20 leading cricket’s charge for Olympic inclusion

SHIVANINAIKBIRMINGHAM,AUGUST3

ASWOMEN’Scricketgetsauditionedandob-served at the BirminghamCommonwealthGames for a possible and permanent entryintotheGamesgigs–suchasOlympics-thecityonceagainfindsitselfatanimportantin-flectionpoint inthesport’shistory.Waybackin1973,seventeamshadlined

up,mostly donning the inconvenient shortculottesskirtsinwhite,toplayintheinaugu-ralWomen’sWorld Cup in1973, the final ofwhich between England and AustraliawashostedatEdgbaston.Thiswasafulltwoyearsbeforethe inauguralMen’sWorldCup.Now,almost50yearslater,withwomen’s

T20leadingthewayintotheCommonwealthGames, cricket isagainonthecuspof some-thing big –with Los Angeles 2028 Gamesinviting presentations from the sport, and2032Brisbanenotlikelytobeaversetoasportthat is taking its first ‘Games’ strides inBirmingham.It was neighbouringWolverhampton’s

Jack Hayward, a Midlands businessman,whowasthefirst financial supporterof thewomen’s game, putting in 40,000 poundsfor theWomen’sWorld Cup to take off. AWWIIpilotwhoflewDakotaswithsuppliesfor the ‘Forgotten Army’ in Burma, or themultinationalCommonwealth FourteenthArmy largely ignored for being far awayfromEurope,Haywardwenton topourhislegacybusinesswealth intowhatwasthenyetanobscurecause–women’scricket.Heis famous for having said, “I love cricket. Ilove women. And women’s cricket com-bines both.”But it was his enduring friendshipwith

England captain Rachael Heyhoe Flint thatgottheboisterousEnglishman,whomovedtothe Bahamas later, to rally behind thewomen’sgameandensurethatthefinalwentaheadinBirmingham.“JackHayward'scontributionwashuge,”

says crickethistorianRaf Nicholson, evenaswomen’scricketundergoesanotherroundofauditions, thoughthe financialbenevolenceis not expected to come fromcricket boardsand the ICC, beyond the CWG thrust. “Hemadeitactuallypossiblepaying40thousandpounds,which in 1971was a huge amount.He paid that much worth of costs in thatamount to bring all these teams to England.Andwithout him, theywouldn’t be able tohaveall thatmoneyanddoall that.Withouthim, thatWorld Cup wouldn’t have hap-pened.So,hewasahugecontributingfactorto it.”Cricket’s inclusion in the CWG, besides

addingtheextramedalforgenderparityandfillingupEdgbastonwithfamilies, isalsobe-ingviewedasapathwayforthesport,whichcaterstoIOC’sperennialquestionof ‘HowdoyousolveaproblemlikeIndia?’withitshugepopulation,andmiserlymedals.“There'llbeplentyofpeoplewatchingthe

CommonwealthGames.AndwithinICC,beitwithin ECB,within other cricket boards likeBCCI, trying to see what cricket being in-cludedinothermulti-sporteventslookslike.How itworks, what does it feel like for theplayers?Andalso,does it actuallygenuinelyleadtomoreexposureforcricket?”Nicholson

says,adding,“Andhowwillcricketrespondtojustbeingoneamongst lotsof other sports?So, I thinktheCommonwealthGames is inaway a testing ground forOlympic inclusion.Obviously,theCommonwealthGamesisnotasbigas theOlympics, but it’s still abitof anexperimentwhether it works for cricket tobe included in a multi-sport event andwhether thebenefits are for the ICC topushonreallywithOlympic inclusion.”

Significant developmentThe thronging of crowds at Edgbaston

whichwitnessed the firstWorld Cup final

ever, is also seen as awin for thewomen’sgame, to carve an identity beyond being anappendagetothemen’sone.The1998CWGedition with men’s teams never took offthereafter.“WomenatCWGisdefinitelyverysignificant. Andwhat it showsme is thatwomen’scricketdoesn’thavetofollowwhatmen’scricketdoes.Itcanleadthewayasital-wayshasbeendoing,likeitdidinholdingthefirstWorld Cup. In that way, it shows thatwomen’s cricket can sometimes go in new,interesting directions and doesn’t alwayshave to followwhatmen’s cricket is doing.Andactually,reinforcesthefactthattheyaretwoseparatesports.So,I’dsayit’sverysignif-icant,” Nicholson says. A little like netball’sself-sufficiency.Haywardwas the first real benefactor of

women’s cricket and themoney thatheputinto it for those fewyears in the1970s reallyhelpedwomen’s cricket growmuchmorequickly than itwould have done otherwise.Because obviously, being a totally amateursport, itwaswholly reliant on those kind offinancialdonationsatthattime.Itmeantthatthey could have aWorld Cup. Itmeant theycouldhaveothertours.Beforethat,Haywardfunded for themtogoto theCaribbean.Andheactuallywithdrewhisfinancialsupportaf-ter Flintwas sacked from the England cap-taincy in 1977. In the historical scheme ofthings, his financial support didn’t last thatlong.Butitwasverysignificantinthehistoryofwomen’scricket.The MCC, which embraces women’s

cricketnow,andincludesabunchofnotable

onesasmembers,wasn’tverychuffedbackinthe1970s,andhadstatedthatwomencouldtrain at Lord’s, but not playmatches there.“TheMCCregretsnodatesareavailable,”hadbeen the curt response. Edgbaston hadstepped in happily. The folks at Lord’s hadbeenapoplecticwhenthe firstmembershiprequest had arrived, in times when thewomen’s teamwouldoftenplayagainst old– senior – English teams, with Len Huttonturningup.Seasonedjournalistsrecallcatty,luridand

sexistreportagefollowingthewomen’ssportbackthen,withlineslike“there’salovelyfineleg’”and“athighpadmightnotbenecessary.”Oneoftheleadingnamesofthosetimes,hav-ingreadreamsofsexisttripe,though,shotbackcalling the protective box, a silly ‘manholecover’.Flintthoughbeganwritingonthesportfor differentmagazines, under variouspseu-donyms,toaccuratelytellanimportantstory.Amulti-facetedwoman, itwas said theonlythingshecouldn’tdo,orbotherwith,wascook-ing.HerfriendHaywardwouldstandlikearockinsupportofher.The final of the cricket event of the

CommonwealthGames is said tobealreadysold out. Obviously, Edgbaston ‘E’ isn’t any-thing likeasbig (25,000)as theMCG‘G’ thatthe Aussies filled up for the last T20WorldCup final. “But obviously, it’s a phenomenalachievement assumingwe do get that fullhouse. It’ll be an absolutely fantastic day forwomen’s cricket,” Nicholson says. Fantasticand one that Hayward reckoned womenplayerscompletelydeserved.

MIHIRVASAVDAAUGUST3

AMRITAMAANslips intonostalgiamodeatthe mere mention of ‘sacrifice’: raising achild as a single parent, in a tiny govern-mentquarter in South-WestDelhi,wakingupearly in themorning todropherdaugh-ter Tulika to school onabike, and then rid-ing roughly 20km to a police station inRajouri Garden, the bustling West Delhineighbourhood,where shewasposted.TheendlesshoursTulikaspentinaroom

at the police station after school, becausenoonewas there athome to lookafterher,later admitting her to a judo club so shecouldspendacoupleofhourseverydaynotsurrounded by cops – or criminals – andtakingmultiple personal loans and dryingup the savings to support her career in asport that was, in the beginning, just a‘time-pass activity’.“You can’t gain anythingwithout sacri-

fice,” Amrita, an assistant sub-inspectorwith Delhi Police, says. “And I am a singleparent, so I had to go through a high levelof it.”OnWednesday, all of it – “Tulika’smis-

chief, temper, the loans…everything,” shesays, laughing–felt ‘worth it’. The23-year-old finished on the podium at theBirmingham Commonwealth Games, be-coming only the second Indian judoka af-ter ShushilaDevi Likmabamtowina silverat theGames.Afterbreezingthroughherearlyrounds

without much trouble, Tulika lost toScotland’s Sarah Adlington in the goldmedal bout of the +78kg category.Adlington, who weighed 16kg more thanthe Indian at 110kg, made themost of her

advantage by creatingmost of the scoringchances. Like boxing, in judo too, it countsif the fighter is seen tobe attacking. Tulika,who tried to counterattack, was handed acoupleofwarnings–called ‘shido’ in judo–beforeshelostbyippon, judo’sequivalentofa pin inwrestling.Tulika’ssilver,however,assumessignif-

icance because, just a fewmonths ago, shewas contemplating quitting the sport.Despite being a two-timeCommonwealthChampionshipgoldmedallist, the23-year-old did not feature in the initial squadnamedbytheJudoFederationof India, (JFI),which is run by a Committee ofAdministrators.No clear-cut explanation was given for

her exclusion by the technical committeeresponsible for selecting the team. In anemail to the JFIpresident, Tulikahadcalledthedecision ‘unfortunate’.“Kindlyaddmyweight category+78kg

in the above selection, otherwise I haveno

other option to leave judo forever due towrongmanagement and selection criteriaof JFI,” shehadwritten.Afterseveral interventions, includingby

hercoachYashpalSolanki,erstwhile feder-ation secretary Man Mohan Jaiswal andIndian Olympic Association general secre-tary Rajeev Mehta, Tulika’s name wasaddedat the lastminute.But the episode affected her mentally,

Amrita says. “It was a very difficult phase.Shewas very concerned about how thingswouldpanout.“I couldn’t showher that Iwas upset so

I tried to keepher in apositivemindset.”

Life of hardshipsIt’s something Amrita has done all her

life, especially after her husband passedaway when Tulika was still very young. “Ihad to report for duty at Rajouri PoliceStation at 9 amwhenTulikawas in school.We lived at the government quarters in

Jharoda,wherethepolice trainingcentre islocated. So, I used to drop her off at 7.20,drive to work and then, an auto-rickshawwould bring her to the police station afterschool. She spent the rest of the day there,studying andplaying,” Amrita says.Judowas justanactivity thatTulikawas

introducedtosothatshecouldspendafewhours elsewhere. Amrita admittedher to aclub run by a former national-level player,SangeetaGupta, in theneighbourhood.Amrita,eventoday,hasnointerest inthe

sport. But as her daughter started taking aserious interest in it, thefinancialpressuresbegan taking their toll. “If I earned Rs 10, Ispent Rs 40 on her training and other re-quirements. Ihavetaken3-4personal loans,and withdrawnmoney frommy pensionfunds…Ididwhatevershewanted.Zindagikikamai lagadi (put inmylife’searnings).”Roughlysixyearsago,Tulikawasadmit-

ted to the Sports Authority of India CentreinBhopal,whereshestartedtrainingunder

Solanki, a former India international andArjunaAwardee,wholefthis jobinthestateintelligence services to becomea coach.Tulika, Solanki says, is known for her

strength and long reach because of herheight – she’s almost six-foot tall. “Butwhatevershe’sachievedtodayisallbecauseof her mother,” Solanki says. “Such is thebondingthatevenother Indianteammem-bers prefer staying at her housewhenevertheyare inDelhiandtheyallcallhermom.”Amrita says it’s ‘good luck’ that the ju-

dokasconsiderheramother figure.Butshehas one complaint: the overdose of judo.“Saara din bas judo… judo lage rehte.“ I used to yell at them, ‘mera dimaag

mat kharab karo!’”Curiously,Wednesdaywasthefirst time

Amritasawherdaughtercompete live.Andshe finished on the podium. “There’s beena lot of struggle for this, andwe faced it allby ourselves. So, it does feel special,” shesays, slipping intonostalgia once again.

JudokaTulikaMaan’ssilvermedalatCWGhasa lot todowithhermother’sefforts torealiseherdream

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(Left) India’sTulikaMaanreactsafterwinninghermatchonWednesday.PTI; (Right)Tulika (L)withhersisterVanshikaandmotherAmrita.

MEDAL’STALLYRankNation Gold SilverBronze Total1. Australia 42 34 34 1102. England 35 34 24 933. NewZealand 14 8 7 294. Canada 12 17 19 485. SouthAfrica 6 5 7 186. India 5 5 5 15

SHIVANINAIKBIRMINGHAM,AUGUST3

AGOLDmedalmiss rubbed into their faceby a wildly celebrating Malaysian teammight justproveatriggerforrenewedfocusfor four of India’s Thomas Cupwinning he-roes,whowerehumbled3-1goingdownatthe National Exhibition Centre Arena inTuesday’sCWGMixedTeamfinal.SatwiksairajRankireddylatersaidhehad

never seen Kidambi Srikanth cry in his life,likewhenthelattertooktheblameforIndia’sloss,hiserror-strewnthirdsetagainstNgTzeYong, sending India 2-1 down in the finalstie.Earlier,SatwikandChiragShettytoohadlost to AaronChia –Wooi Soh 21-18, 21-15,promptingSatwiktoshareintheresponsibil-ity for Indianot being able todefend this ti-tle.“Srikanthannawassodistraught.Butit’snot just his mistake though he’s blaminghimself. Even I lost a match,” Satwik said,owninguptolapsesthatcostIndiaagoldaf-tera19-21,21-6,21-16 loss.LaterPVSindhuinformedthat Indiahad

pencilled inmen’s singlesasa likelywin forSrikanth giving them a two point cushionfromsingles.Whilethetrio’stwolosseshas-

tened the process, India were up against avery strongMalaysian doubles unit, and al-ways iffy in a 2-3 singles-doubles split ofpoints.TherewerethosewhobelievedLakshya

Sencould’veplayedinstead–andaboldcallit could have been. But Ngwas on fire andhow the younger Indian shuttler mighthaverespondedremainshypothetical,withthedoublesstill indoubtandnoguaranteesof thosepoints.ForSatwik,whatwasabun-dantly clear was that just like the Thomas

Cup was a joint success, this was a collec-tivesetback.Afailure, toput itbluntly,givenSatwikwasn’t backingaway fromcalling itthat. Perhaps the greatest takeaway fromthissilverwouldbehowIndia’shighly fan-ciedshuttlersviewedthisasa failureratherthanshruggingoff thepoorday,andaccept-ing the silver.“Gayatri and Treesa were very disap-

pointedafter their lossandTreesacriedtoo.I’m happy that the painwas there. This hasreally fired us up, especially Chirag and

SrikanthAnna.This isnot theendforusandmaybe the tough losseswill pushus to big-ger results.Maybe Srikanthwill winWorldChampionshipgold!Everydayisafirstday,”Satwikwouldavow.Satwikhasabunchof superstitions, one

amongst which is he refuses to watchSrikanthplay,because itdriveshimtoanxi-ety. “Actually any Indian athletes. Todaymorning I couldn’t watch theweightliftinggirl. It’s so easy to play your ownmatch incomparison. I walked out when Srikanthannastarted,butIcouldstillhearthescoreinbigTVsoIputloudmusic. Itwassoirritating.Then it was painful to watch him cry,” hewouldsaycandidlyadmittingtobeonerightchicken, asa fan.Assuch,the18-15leadintheopeningset

theIndianpairingbotcheddisastrously,con-cededthemomentum,andtheyneverfoundtheirwayback.TheMalaysians,hurtingfromthe 2018 CWG loss and Thomas Cup quar-tersouster,cameinwithadefiniteedgeandapointtoprove.ThoughPVSindhuwonhermatch22-20, 21-17– after a 19-all slouch–in straight sets againstGoh JinWei, the twolosses up front left littlemargins for wom-ensandmixeddoubles.“Idefinitelywantedtowingold.Wewere

going in as a strong team, andneeded to beconsistent. Ireallywantedtocontributeonepoint to India’swin. It’s been awhile since Ilost a team tie, but unfortunately i couldn’twin today,” Srikanthwouldsay later.At 9-8 in the third, after a typical slow

Srikanthstartandasubsequentrallytolevelsets, the 29-year-old hit to theMalaysian’sbackhand.Whenunder thepump,Srikanthcouldsimplynotstemhiserrors,anditmadematters worse for him that theMalaysianwasridingawaveofconfidence,drawingforthenoisy support. Indiabarelyhadany fansinthearena,andthelistlessnessmirroredonthe courts. CoachMathias Boe fronting upthemedia, was categorical that noonewashappywiththesilver. “Hopefully itcangetalittlebitof angeroutofpeople torespondinthe individual event now. And increase thethirstforgoldincomingdays,”hesaid.“Theyneed todigest this,”headded.There was unanimity that the Indians

lackedmassivelyinstayingcomposed,madeamateurish errors and theMalaysians heldtheir nerve better. “A littlemore calm,” heurged. And a lotmore anger tomake goodthe revised saying: lose some,winmany, asmany as five goldmedals come up for thetaking incomingdays.

India’sKidambiSrikanthwearsadejected lookafterhismen’s singles loss. PTI

‘Srikanth anna was so distraught. It’s not just his mistake’

TheCommonwealthGames is still anexperimenttoseewhether itworks forcricket tobe included inamulti-sportevent. PTI

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Ghosal subduesbest friendWillstrop, winshistoric bronzeSHASHANKNAIRAUGUST3

JAMESWILLSTROP had beaten long-timefriend Saurav Ghosal nine times beforeWednesday, almost always in a convincingfashion, in straight games. Both coached byWillstrop’slegendaryfather-coachMatthew,knoweachother’sgames insideout.Willstrop was the defending

Commonwealth Games champion but fin-ishedoutsidethepodiuminBirminghamaf-ter the IndianNo.1 finallybeat the38-year-old 11-6 11-1 11-4 Englishman to take thebronzemedal.Ghosal’s promising career, ever sincehe

wontheBritishJuniortitlein2004,hasseenmany ups and downs. He has won titlesacrosstheworldbutwhenitcametothebigone, he often faltered. A medal at theCommonwealth Gameswas, in his words,‘thegloss’missing fromhis trophycabinet.Three years ago, Ghosal was in a battle

with an Egyptian known as the ‘Beast’.MohamedEl-ShorbagywasthethenWorldNo.2andGhosalwasinthefightofhislifeattheWorld Championship quarter-finals.Then a 33-year-old, Ghosal had spent 15yearsonthesquashcircuitandif thingswenthisway, itwouldhavebeen thebiggest fishhehadever reeled in inhis career.He ended up taking El-Shorbagy to five

gamesand85minutesbutlostonthesoftestofbackhands.Thefinalscoreread11-5,9-11,9-11, 12-10, 10-12 but it was that last pointinthelastgamethatalwaysrankledGhosal.Ghosalhadthechancetochangehowhis

historyreadonceagainonTuesdaywhenhetook on yet another World No. 2 in NewZealand’s PeterColl. But the lankyKiwiwasoperating on a different stratosphere, com-bininghisother-worldlyreachtofishoutthetightest of angles while using his superiorathleticismtocounterwhateverGhosalhadto offer. By the third game, the Indian hademptied his tank, trying a variety of shotsagainsthisKiwiconqueror.It suggested that perhaps the effort had

taken enough out of him and the bronzematch in a day’s timewas a bridge too far.Ghosaldisagreed.Therewas the precedent of him having

lost his bronze medal match at the 2014GlasgowGames–againstWillstrop toboot.But that elusive singlesmedal that he hadbeen chasing for years finally landed inBirmingham.Ghosal went into the bronze medal

match tired and broken, but pulled out allthe stops againstWillstrop. Thiswasn’t theWillstropofoldeither.Turning39thissum-mer, the Englishman has seen better daysandhis reactions toGhosal’s shots, particu-larlyon the forehandside,were telling.

SauravGhosal finallyhasaCommonwealthGamesmedal. PTI

Silver lining in sacrifice of singlemomcop

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