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C autioning Beijing to refrain from attempts to unilater- ally change the Line of Actual Control (LAC), Defence Minister Rajnath Singh asked his Chinese counterpart Wei Fenghe to withdraw his forces from all friction points. Indicating vastly different perception about the border tension, Wei said China will not surrender even “an inch” of its land and blamed India for the current situation. Both the leaders, however, agreed to continue the dialogue process at all levels to defuse tension at the volatile border. These takeaways came from the two-hour-and-20 minute long meeting between Rajnath and Wei in Moscow on Friday on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defence Ministers’ conclave. This was the first interaction between the two Ministers since the face- offs began more than four months back. Giving details of the meet- ing, officials said here on Saturday that Rajnath clearly conveyed to his Chinese coun- terpart that China must respect the LAC and not make any attempt to “unilaterally” change its status quo. He also asserted that India is determined to pro- tect its sovereignty and terri- torial integrity. Stating that ramping up troop levels and adopting an aggressive behavior were in violation of the bilateral pacts, Rajnath told Wei the current situation should be handled responsibly, and that neither side should take any further action that could either com- plicate the situation or escalate matters in the border areas. He also stressed that the two sides should continue their discussions, including through diplomatic and military chan- nels, to ensure “complete dis- engagement and de-escalation” along the LAC at the earliest. This view was endorsed by the Chinese Defence Minister also. Officials said the Defence Minister pointed out the Indian troops had always taken a very responsible approach towards the border management, but there should be no doubt about India’s determination to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity. China tried to transgress into Indian territory on August 29 and 30 in the south bank of the Pangong Tso (lake) in Ladakh. The Indian Army foiled these attempts and man- aged to dominate crucial hill- tops in the region, thus gaining an advantage in the region. The Chinese Defence Minister, however, said India was “entirely” responsible for the border tensions and China would not give up “an inch of its territory.” This was report- ed by the official media after the talks between the two Ministers. The Chinese state-run Xinhua news agency quoted Wei saying, “Recently the rela- tions between the two countries and the two militaries have been seriously affected by the border issue” and it was “very important for the two Defence Ministers to have a face-to-face and candid exchange of views on relevant issues.” Wei reiterated China’s stand in the talks, echoing sev- eral statements last week where Beijing blamed India for the latest tensions. China on Wednesday said “the responsi- bility lies entirely with the Indian side” and had “kept maximum restraint to prevent potential escalation”, calling on India to “immediately with- draw its troops”. T he Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has revised its Covid-19 testing strategy, allowing on-demand testing without a prescription across the country. However, it has given the flexibility to the States the right to modify the module accordingly. “A totally new section has been added in the advisory on “Testing on Demand” which for all practical purposes does away with prescription by a registered medical practition- er though State Governments have the freedom to decide on simplified modalities,” the ICMR said in a statement here. The ICMR also highlight- ed the frequency of Covid-19 testing. It stated that a single RT-PCR/TrueNat/ CBNAAT/ RAT positive test is to be considered confirmatory, without any repeat testing. The on-demand testing facility can be availed by all individuals undertaking travel to countries/Indian States such as Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand mandating a neg- ative Covid-19 test at the point of entry. Tracking and contact trac- ing mechanisms should be ensured by the testing labora- tories by notifying public health authorities. E ighty new special trains will be operational from September 12, reservations for which will begin from next Thursday, Railway Board Chairman VK Yadav said on Saturday, while asserting the real timeframe for the completion of the bullet train project will be clear in three to six months. Yadav, who was recently appointed the first CEO of the Railway Board, said within the next three to six months the status of land acquisition, delayed due to Covid-19 pan- demic, for the high-speed Mumbai-Ahmedabad rail pro- ject will be ascertained. Eighty-two per cent of the land has been acquired in Gujarat, while in Maharashtra land acquisition is only at 23 per cent, he said. At a media briefing, the railway board chairman said, “Eighty new special trains or 40 pair of trains will start operat- ing from September 12. Reservations will begin from September 10. These will run in addition to the 230 trains already in operation.” Yadav said the railways will monitor all the trains that are currently in operation to determine which trains have a long waiting list. “Wherever there is a demand for a particular train, wherever the waiting list is long, we will run a clone train ahead of the actual train, so that passengers can travel,” he said. The key factor in deciding the 80 new trains was the fact that there were many stations from where the migrant work- ers are going back to their workplace, Yadav said. “Many of these trains are running in the reverse direction of the Shramik Special trains. So, people are leaving their homes and going to their workplace.” I n their effort to wind up the crime reconstruction process, the CBI on Saturday re-visited the residence of late Sushant Singh Rajput — this time along with a team of doc- tors from AIIMS for a forensic examination, even as the actress Rhea Chakraborty’s brother Showik and Sushant’s house manager Samuel Miranda were remanded in the NCB’s custody till September 9 in the Sushant death-related drug case. Continuing with its inves- tigations in the drug case, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Saturday evening arrested Suahant’s domestic help Deepak Sawant. “He (Sawant) was subjected to interrogation and confronta- tion with Showik, Samuel Miranda, Zaid and Kaizan. His statement under Section 67 of the NDPS Act was recorded and on the basis of enough cor- roborative evidence, he has been placed under arrest,” a statement by the NCB said. While seeking the custody of Showik and Samuel, the NCB made a startling claim before a metropolitan court and said the “drug angle” in the Sushant death case “is highly substantive” and “needs to be investigated thoroughly so as to uproot the drug citadel in Mumbai especially in Bollywood”. A ndhra Pradesh for the third time in a row has topped in the ease of doing annual busi- ness ranking of States and Union Territories by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT). The ranking is based on the implementation of the busi- ness reform action plan 2019 by states and UTs, according to a report released by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday. The exercise is aimed at promoting competition among states with a view to improving the business climate to attract domestic as well as foreign investments. Registering a jump of 10 places in the rankings, Uttar Pradesh occupied the second position in 2019 as against 12th in 2018. Telangana slipped to the third position from second in 2018. It was followed by Madhya Pradesh (4th), Jharkhand (5th), Chhattisgarh (6th), Himachal Pradesh (7th), Rajasthan (8th), West Bengal (9th) and Gujarat (10th). Delhi’s position improved to 12th from 23rd in the last edition, while Gujarat slipped from 5th place in 2018. Among the laggard states and UTs in the ranking, Assam was at 20th, J&K at 21st, Goa at 24th, Bihar at 26th and Kerala 28th place. Tripura was ranked at the bottom 36th. Releasing the report, Sitharaman said that states have taken the exercise in its true sense and it would help states and UTs to become bet- ter place to do business. “Some states have shown extraordinary energy in putting together action plans and mak- ing sure that reforms happen. States have embraced the true spirit behind the State Business Reforms Action Plan,” she said. A mid the ongoing border tension between India and China in eastern Ladakh, five persons from Arunachal Pradesh’s Upper Subansiri dis- trict have reportedly been “abducted” by China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Upper Subansiri district police have sent a team to ver- ify the media reports about the alleged abduction. The five persons belonged to the Tagin community and were abducted from the jungle near Nacho while they were out hunting, according to a report in the Arunachal Times pub- lished on Saturday. The report quoted kin of the abducted per- sons about the episode. The villagers who have reportedly been abducted are Toch Singkam, Prasat Ringling, Dongtu Ebiya, Tanu Baker and Ngaru Diri. Two other vil- lagers who managed to escape narrated the incident before the public. However, the relatives have not yet made any communica- tion with the Indian Army regarding the incident, the report said. The incident has created panic among the villagers of Nacho. The family members have appealed to the authori- ties to initiate steps to bring the five back to the country, it said. E ven as the two armies are engaged in the eyeball-to- eyeball confrontation at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh, the Indian Army displayed its humanitarian side by helping out some Chinese citizens in distress in Sikkim. This action earlier this week took place after three Chinese citizens lost their way in the plateau area of North Sikkim at an altitude of 17,500 feet, the Army said here on Saturday. “Realising danger to the lives of the Chinese citizens which included two men and one woman in sub-zero tem- peratures, the soldiers of Indian Army immediately reached out and provided medical assistance including oxygen, food and warm clothes to protect them from the vagaries of extreme alti- tude and harsh climatic con- ditions,” the Army said. The incident occurred on September 3. The Indian troops also gave them appro- priate guidance to reach their destination after which they moved back, it added. Visuals show a soldier carrying an oxygen cylinder helping the three. Another picture shows security per- sonnel offering food to one of the men. The soldiers also helped people fix their cars.

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Page 1: English News Paper | Breaking News | Latest Today News in ...€¦ · ed by the official media after the talks between the two Ministers. The Chinese state-run Xinhua news agency

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Cautioning Beijing to refrainfrom attempts to unilater-

ally change the Line of ActualControl (LAC), DefenceMinister Rajnath Singh askedhis Chinese counterpart WeiFenghe to withdraw his forcesfrom all friction points.

Indicating vastly differentperception about the bordertension, Wei said China will notsurrender even “an inch” of itsland and blamed India for thecurrent situation. Both theleaders, however, agreed tocontinue the dialogue processat all levels to defuse tension atthe volatile border.

These takeaways camefrom the two-hour-and-20minute long meeting betweenRajnath and Wei in Moscow onFriday on the sidelines of theShanghai CooperationOrganisation (SCO) DefenceMinisters’ conclave. This wasthe first interaction between thetwo Ministers since the face-offs began more than fourmonths back.

Giving details of the meet-ing, officials said here onSaturday that Rajnath clearlyconveyed to his Chinese coun-terpart that China must respectthe LAC and not make anyattempt to “unilaterally” changeits status quo. He also assertedthat India is determined to pro-tect its sovereignty and terri-torial integrity.

Stating that ramping uptroop levels and adopting anaggressive behavior were inviolation of the bilateral pacts,Rajnath told Wei the current

situation should be handledresponsibly, and that neitherside should take any furtheraction that could either com-plicate the situation or escalatematters in the border areas.

He also stressed that thetwo sides should continue theirdiscussions, including throughdiplomatic and military chan-nels, to ensure “complete dis-engagement and de-escalation”along the LAC at the earliest.This view was endorsed by theChinese Defence Minister also.

Officials said the DefenceMinister pointed out the Indiantroops had always taken a veryresponsible approach towardsthe border management, butthere should be no doubt aboutIndia’s determination to protectits sovereignty and territorialintegrity.

China tried to transgressinto Indian territory on August29 and 30 in the south bank ofthe Pangong Tso (lake) inLadakh. The Indian Armyfoiled these attempts and man-aged to dominate crucial hill-tops in the region, thus gainingan advantage in the region.

The Chinese DefenceMinister, however, said Indiawas “entirely” responsible forthe border tensions and Chinawould not give up “an inch ofits territory.” This was report-ed by the official media afterthe talks between the twoMinisters.

The Chinese state-runXinhua news agency quotedWei saying, “Recently the rela-tions between the two countriesand the two militaries have

been seriously affected by theborder issue” and it was “veryimportant for the two DefenceMinisters to have a face-to-faceand candid exchange of viewson relevant issues.”

Wei reiterated China’sstand in the talks, echoing sev-eral statements last week whereBeijing blamed India for thelatest tensions. China onWednesday said “the responsi-bility lies entirely with theIndian side” and had “keptmaximum restraint to preventpotential escalation”, calling onIndia to “immediately with-draw its troops”.

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The Indian Council ofMedical Research (ICMR)

has revised its Covid-19 testingstrategy, allowing on-demandtesting without a prescriptionacross the country. However,it has given the flexibility to theStates the right to modify themodule accordingly.

“A totally new section hasbeen added in the advisory on“Testing on Demand” whichfor all practical purposes doesaway with prescription by aregistered medical practition-er though State Governmentshave the freedom to decide onsimplified modalities,” theICMR said in a statement here.

The ICMR also highlight-ed the frequency of Covid-19testing. It stated that a singleR T - P C R / T r u e N a t / CBNAAT/ RAT positive test isto be considered confirmatory,without any repeat testing.

The on-demand testingfacility can be availed by allindividuals undertaking travelto countries/Indian States suchas Himachal Pradesh andUttarakhand mandating a neg-ative Covid-19 test at the pointof entry.

Tracking and contact trac-ing mechanisms should beensured by the testing labora-tories by notifying public healthauthorities.

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Eighty new special trains willbe operational from

September 12, reservations forwhich will begin from nextThursday, Railway BoardChairman VK Yadav said onSaturday, while asserting the realtimeframe for the completion ofthe bullet train project will beclear in three to six months.

Yadav, who was recentlyappointed the first CEO of theRailway Board, said within thenext three to six months thestatus of land acquisition,

delayed due to Covid-19 pan-demic, for the high-speedMumbai-Ahmedabad rail pro-ject will be ascertained.

Eighty-two per cent of theland has been acquired inGujarat, while in Maharashtraland acquisition is only at 23per cent, he said.

At a media briefing, therailway board chairman said,“Eighty new special trains or 40pair of trains will start operat-ing from September 12.Reservations will begin fromSeptember 10. These will run

in addition to the 230 trainsalready in operation.”

Yadav said the railwayswill monitor all the trains thatare currently in operation todetermine which trains have along waiting list.

“Wherever there is ademand for a particular train,wherever the waiting list islong, we will run a clone trainahead of the actual train, so thatpassengers can travel,” he said.

The key factor in decidingthe 80 new trains was the factthat there were many stationsfrom where the migrant work-ers are going back to theirworkplace, Yadav said. “Manyof these trains are running inthe reverse direction of theShramik Special trains. So,people are leaving their homesand going to their workplace.”

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In their effort to wind up thecrime reconstruction

process, the CBI on Saturdayre-visited the residence of lateSushant Singh Rajput — thistime along with a team of doc-tors from AIIMS for a forensicexamination, even as theactress Rhea Chakraborty’sbrother Showik and Sushant’shouse manager Samuel

Miranda were remanded inthe NCB’s custody tillSeptember 9 in the Sushantdeath-related drug case.

Continuing with its inves-tigations in the drug case, theNarcotics Control Bureau(NCB) on Saturday eveningarrested Suahant’s domestichelp Deepak Sawant. “He(Sawant) was subjected to

interrogation and confronta-tion with Showik, SamuelMiranda, Zaid and Kaizan. Hisstatement under Section 67 ofthe NDPS Act was recordedand on the basis of enough cor-roborative evidence, he hasbeen placed under arrest,” astatement by the NCB said.

While seeking the custodyof Showik and Samuel, theNCB made a startling claimbefore a metropolitan courtand said the “drug angle” in theSushant death case “is highlysubstantive” and “needs to beinvestigated thoroughly so as touproot the drug citadel inMumbai especially inBollywood”.

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Andhra Pradesh for the thirdtime in a row has topped in

the ease of doing annual busi-ness ranking of States andUnion Territories by theDepartment for Promotion ofIndustry and Internal Trade(DPIIT).

The ranking is based onthe implementation of the busi-ness reform action plan 2019 bystates and UTs, according to areport released by Finance

Minister Nirmala Sitharamanon Saturday.

The exercise is aimed atpromoting competition amongstates with a view to improvingthe business climate to attractdomestic as well as foreigninvestments.

Registering a jump of 10places in the rankings, UttarPradesh occupied the secondposition in 2019 as against12th in 2018.

Telangana slipped to thethird position from second in

2018. It was followed byMadhya Pradesh (4th),Jharkhand (5th), Chhattisgarh(6th), Himachal Pradesh (7th),Rajasthan (8th), West Bengal(9th) and Gujarat (10th).

Delhi’s position improvedto 12th from 23rd in the lastedition, while Gujarat slippedfrom 5th place in 2018.

Among the laggard statesand UTs in the ranking, Assamwas at 20th, J&K at 21st, Goaat 24th, Bihar at 26th andKerala 28th place. Tripura was

ranked at the bottom 36th.Releasing the report,

Sitharaman said that stateshave taken the exercise in itstrue sense and it would helpstates and UTs to become bet-ter place to do business.

“Some states have shownextraordinary energy in puttingtogether action plans and mak-ing sure that reforms happen.States have embraced the truespirit behind the State BusinessReforms Action Plan,” she said.

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Amid the ongoing bordertension between India and

China in eastern Ladakh, fivepersons from ArunachalPradesh’s Upper Subansiri dis-trict have reportedly been“abducted” by China’s People’sLiberation Army (PLA).

Upper Subansiri districtpolice have sent a team to ver-ify the media reports about thealleged abduction.

The five persons belongedto the Tagin community andwere abducted from the junglenear Nacho while they were outhunting, according to a reportin the Arunachal Times pub-lished on Saturday. The report

quoted kin of the abducted per-sons about the episode.

The villagers who havereportedly been abducted areToch Singkam, Prasat Ringling,Dongtu Ebiya, Tanu Baker andNgaru Diri. Two other vil-lagers who managed to escapenarrated the incident before thepublic.

However, the relatives havenot yet made any communica-tion with the Indian Armyregarding the incident, thereport said.

The incident has createdpanic among the villagers ofNacho. The family membershave appealed to the authori-ties to initiate steps to bring thefive back to the country, it said.

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Even as the two armies areengaged in the eyeball-to-

eyeball confrontation at theLine of Actual Control (LAC)in Ladakh, the Indian Armydisplayed its humanitarianside by helping out someChinese citizens in distress inSikkim.

This action earlier thisweek took place after threeChinese citizens lost theirway in the plateau area ofNorth Sikkim at an altitude of17,500 feet, the Army saidhere on Saturday.

“Realising danger to thelives of the Chinese citizenswhich included two men andone woman in sub-zero tem-

peratures, the soldiers ofIndian Army immediatelyreached out and providedmedical assistance includingoxygen, food and warmclothes to protect them fromthe vagaries of extreme alti-tude and harsh climatic con-ditions,” the Army said.

The incident occurred onSeptember 3. The Indiantroops also gave them appro-priate guidance to reach theirdestination after which theymoved back, it added.

Visuals show a soldiercarrying an oxygen cylinderhelping the three. Anotherpicture shows security per-sonnel offering food to one ofthe men. The soldiers alsohelped people fix their cars.

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� What is your role in Tera Yaar HoonMain?

I play Jhaanvi Bansal, a doting wife,a caring mother and an obedientdaughter-in-law. It is a very positive andsweet character. She is loving. She sharesa healthy relationship with his husbandand they both are romantic even today.Above all, she is a cool mother whounderstands her children and theirneeds, which generally a father doesn’t.� What made you take up the project?

The reason why I chose to be a partof this show is that it has a unique andsweet story. There has never been a showon TV where a father wants to befriends with his son. Also, I have a longassociation with Sony Network and havedone a lot of shows on Sony Sab sothere was no chance of turning downsuch a good show. And not to mention,that I am playing such a sweet andpositive character.� From Shagun to Tera Yaar HoonMain, how has the journey been?

The journey has been beautiful. Ihope the journey ahead remains asbeautiful as it has been till date. Theaudience has loved me in every role thatI have played. I hope they will showertheir love on Tera Yaar Hoon Main aswell.� Was acting always on cards?

No. I didn’t want to be an actor. Inever had acting ka keeda in me. Myfather always told me that this is not agood industry and that I will never getmarried if I will be an actor. But once Istarted working, my father was proud ofme and my work. It was then when I feltthat this is not only my work but mypassion too. I am glad that I came intothis industry by chance.� A best and worst moment in theindustry?

All the time that I have spent in theindustry is the best of all things. The bestmoment is when I get the love,appreciation and support from theaudience. And why talk about bad thingsright now, already there is a lot of stressand negativity around us, hence weshould focus only on the good things inlife.� What kind of roles attract you?

The roles that challenge me as anactor are the ones that attract me. Thatis why I chose to play Jhaanvi Bansal,because I haven’t played a mother before.It was more challenging because I am nota mother in real life. Hence, to connectwith that emotion and to bring in thosefeelings, was a task. Also, theatre rolesattract me. Anything which is live and onstage is my favourite and theatre will

always be my first love.� Apart from acting, what keeps youbusy?

Before the lockdown, my work outsand meal preps used to keep me superbusy. I am into fitness a lot but duringthe lockdown it got sidelined a bit. Andnow, we are continuously shooting so itis hard to make time for anything else.Fitness has merely become a word, butI will surely start making time for it again.

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Short and sweet, this four-episode mini series gives outmixed feelings. There is an

ambitious premise, that of timetravel, physics codes, murderousoutfits trying to hive off Bengal anda crazy physicist and his attendantat the centre of it all.

Sounds interesting but as theseries progresses after the impactfulfirst scene of a plane shadow over anuntouched North-eastern hillproceeds to crash into a beautifulgorge down below, the plot becomesa bit mumble jumble of sci-fi,investigation and familial issues.

However, for most part, till thesecret of this plane which has crashed35 years after take-off, is hatched, theseries is interesting. One would loveto see more of Abhay Deol whodespite being the central character, is

wasted in the role of a CBI officerwith a troubling secret that getsrevealed at the end, but not beforeyou guess it right.

So, the plane took off in 1984 andcrashes 35 years later with only twosurvivors — one, a pilot who has notaged at all, the other a passenger,possible hijacker, who too has notaged a single day!

It is a creative plot which takesflight in the beginning, soars for sometime and then, well, crashes intoconfusion and memory loss withmany questions unanswered andends hanging loosely. Talking aboutthat would be a spoiler here so dotune in. You may or may not bedisappointed depending on yourlevel of involvement in the series.

Overall watchable and laudablefor at least trying a somewhat viablescience fiction narrative.

Pankaj Kapur is captivating in hisBengali babu role as is Rajesh Sharmaas Deol’s co-officer. He has the talentto slip into any amount of characterswith equal conviction.

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Any movie that has animals is sweet and makes one’sheart thump loudly. More so, when the film is inspiredfrom true events. The One and Only Ivan is one such

film directed by Thea Sharrock. The real life of Ivan, thesilverback gorilla, is heart-wrenching — he was born in 1962in the now Democratic Republic of the Congo andcaptured from the wild as a baby and brought to live withhumans. He performed at a circus in a mall till the age of27. It was after community protest that he finally found hisway into a zoo with acres of land instead of a cage. He diedat age 50, the oldest gorilla to have died in human captivity.

The film chronicles Ivan’s story which is sappy, sweet,cute and heart-wrenching. The last time one felt like thiswas for Born Free (1966), a brilliant movie about a truestory of a British couple who teach their pet lioness howto survive in the wilds of the African jungles.

While in The One and Only Ivan, the makers have usedCGI for animals, it doesn’t take away the life of these wildanimals who should be out in the jungle rather than incages. The artists behind the look of the animals have

captured the expressions and emotions so beautifullyespecially of Ivan — from wistful to forlorn to completedisbelief that he is no long the headliner. His belief is thathe is the best and can bring back the glorious days toentertain the human and yet he feels that the whole ideato showcase that he has to scream and thump his chestto show his anger doesn’t sit well with him because hisfather told him that anger is supposed to reserved forcertain situations and not used to entertain.

Even though there is nothing new here that has notbeen shown and done in previous films, The One and OnlyIvan manages to pull the heartstrings but not in adepressing manner. A movie that every child and adultalike must see.

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If the present pandemic is making you feel blue there isonly one cure for it — watch a movie that guaranteeshappily ever after even though the concept and idea of

finding love via a dating app may sound and appear to bestrange. No to be cynical, but in India, we do know the real

reason why people join the dating app to begin with. Despitehow alien the concept may sound like Love, Guaranteedmakes you tick off all the boxes when it comes to a rom-com and definitely ends up with a kiss in the middle of acourtroom to boot with everyone clapping — definitely anaww moment.

However, we know that things in real life don’t worklike this and those who are looking for a more meaningfullove story, stay away from this one since all one is goingto get to watch is a Hallmark movie that has found its wayon Netflix.

For the uninitiated to the world of Hallmark films, themovies shown here are sappy that join the dots that comewith a rom-com. For those who are familiar with thechannel, would know that Rachael Leigh Cook is apermanent fixture here.

Sadly, the movie has nothing new or fresh to offer evenif the idea of a movie on love may make you want to settledown with popcorn. The upside is that one gets to see someof the picture-perfect locations of Seattle, US. Also, whodoesn’t like a happy ending however unrealistic it mayappear to be.

Watching this one is a good diversion for theweekend.

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them; to have their power, bethe good Samaritan and havethe world at our feet. WhileFreaks: You’re One of Us maynot be a Marvel or DCsuperhero movie, it is aGerman film directed by FelixBinder and written by MarcO, it doesn’t take away the factthat it is a superhero film —more like Spider Man whogets bitten by a radioactivespider.

Here though they areborn with extraordinarypowers — powers that makethem different from thenormal people and it makesthem uncomfortable. Nocrazy gadgets or gizmos, justpure and simple super powers.

Hence, they are locked awayand treated like they arementally unstable. For others,they are put in medication tosuppress their power so thatthey can live among thenormal.

The good is that thewriter has the concept patdown but there are a fewbumps along the way. First,the movie is very child-likeand gives a very narrow andbird’s eye perspective to thestor yline that has greatpotential. Second, it fails tobuild on the protagonist’sincreasing awareness of herpowers which are trulyamazing. Take an example: Akick to a football makes it flyright out of the city and stillflying or a punch to the gutmakes the man fall 50 feetaway and land on a car.Awesome powers of strengthespecially if you are a woman.

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To counter the vicious pro-paganda launched in sev-

eral villages against the StateGovernment’s Covid contain-ment and management strate-gy, Punjab Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh on Saturdayasked Congress Ministers andMLAs of the constituenciesconcerned to liaise with the vil-lages on the ground to combatthe negative campaign on test-ing and organ harvesting,which was actively being prop-agated by the Aam AadmiParty (AAP). The ChiefMinister said AAP was spread-ing senseless fear in the mindsof the villagers, thus deterringthem from getting themselvestested for coronavirus andendangering their lives.

He also said hisGovernment would seek advicefrom the Government of Indiaabout the web channels thathad mushroomed recently andwere actively involved inspreading misinformationabout the pandemic. Actionwill be taken against them, headded.

The Chief Minister waspresiding over a high-level vir-tual meeting attended by sev-eral Cabinet Ministers andMLAs representing some of the

constituencies where GramPanchayats had purportedlypassed resolutions against theState Government’s Covidmanagement programme. Heshall be holding more roundsof similar meetings next week.

Capt Amarinder said AAPhad been promoting `no test-ing’ and an activist of theirparty had also been arrested forspreading false information onCovid testing/treatment. LIPleader Simrajit Singh Bainshad also joined in creating anatmosphere of fear among thepeople by himself refusing to betested and calling for no test-ing and no masks, he said.

Terming AAP’s announce-ment of distributing Oxymetersa political stunt, he saidOxymeters had no connectionwith testing, and delay in thelatter was the main reason forthe state’s growing fatality rate.Given the pathetic Covid situ-ation in Delhi, where AAPwas in power, their pretensionof being concerned about thepeople of Punjab was ridicu-lous, he said.

Stressing that theOxymeters were no substitutefor testing, the Chief Ministersaid blood Oxygen levels canfall very fast, so the only key tosaving lives is early testing anddiagnosis. He pointed out that85% of all the infected patientsrecover, as long as they getthemselves tested in time. Ofthe remaining 15% who havecomplications, only 5% needICU or Oxygen support, hesaid, adding that the Oxymeters

were being unnecessarily andwrongly hyped by AAP, in a bidto mislead the people.

AAP and people like Bainsare not bothered about the livesof the people and are only con-cerned about taking politicalmileage from the crisis, said theChief Minister, urging theelected representatives tomobilise and liaison withPanchayats to counter the falseand mischievous propaganda.Sarpanches, Panches and localopinion makers should beasked to take the lead in gettingthemselves tested, he said.

Besides Health & FamilyWelfare Minister Balbir SinghSidhu and Rural Development& Panchayats Minister TriptSingh Bajwa, MedicalEducation & Minister OP Soni,other Cabinet ministers whoattended the virtual meetingwere Razia Sultana, RanaGurmeet Singh Sodhi, GurpeetSingh Kangar, SukhbinderSingh Sarkaria, and Vijay InderSingla.

Tript Singh Bajwa told themeeting that there were, in fact,no formal resolutions passed bythe Panchayats and there washence nothing on record. Somemiscreants had gathered andissued statements on behalf ofthe Panchayats in 42 villages, ofwhich 22 were later withdrawn.

Balbir Singh Sidhu saidthe miscreants got signaturesfrom unsuspecting villagersand termed the statements asresolutions as part of a con-certed campaign by some vest-ed interests to spread misin-

formation. He stressed theneed for the Cyber Crime Cellto actively trace the peoplespreading rumours on socialmedia.

Vijay Inder Singla said webchannels had been formed invarious districts in support ofthe AAP propaganda and theCyber Crime Cell needs to reinthese in.

Vidhan Sabha SpeakerRana KP Singh said the viciouscampaign orchestrated by anti-social elements was misleadingthe people, with AAP leadingthe misinformation campaign.The campaign needed to befought politically and admin-istratively, he added.

Rana Gurmit Sodhi andTript Bajwa underlined theneed for educating the peopleand ensuring the best of care athospitals for Covid patients toencourage them to come for-ward for testing and treat-ment. Health Minister BalbirSidhu said CCTV cameraswere being put at variousplaces, including outside toilets,in hospitals to check for clean-liness as well as attendance ofdoctors and nurses in charge ofpatient care.

Rana Gurjit suggestedincreased connection of min-isters and senior officials withthe frontline workers and oth-ers on the ground to counterthe AAP and SAD propagan-da machinery that was workingovertime to mislead the people.He suggested that the Health,Local Government and RuralDevelopment Ministers should

form joint teams to educatepeople.

Underlining the need toactivate Congress workers toaggressively counter the AAPmisinformation campaign,Fateh Bajwa also called forpolitical leaders to step in toconnect the Government withthe people more effectively.While OP Soni said partyworkers had to be encouragedto combat the Opposition dis-information campaign,Sukhbinder Sarkaria suggestedencouraging proper homequarantine for infected peoplein the villages itself to alleviatetheir fear of hospitalisation.

Chief Secretary ViniMahajan too felt that with thepolitical leadership coming outin support of the administra-tion, the state government’sefforts to battle the pandemicwould get a boost and it wouldalso help dispel rumours. Sheapprised the meeting that bothRapid Antigen Tests and RT-PCR testing had been boostedand home isolation was beingencouraged. Citing data, shesaid a total of 948 healthcareworkers in the state had testedpositive so far, with two deathsand one seriously ill. Around700 had recovered while 245were still in isolation, she said,adding that these healthcareworkers needed to be encour-aged through public apprecia-tion of their good work.

PPCC chief Sunil Jakharsaid whether or not a formalresolution had been passed byvillages, the role of miscreants

was definitely evident and aclose watch should be kept onsuch elements. He underscoredthe coincidence between thedeadly campaign and the AAPdecision to distributeOxymeters, saying this clearlyindicated AAP role in the falsepropaganda.

Panchayats should beencouraged to propagate earlytesting and home quarantine,Jakhar said. The PunjabCongress president also laud-ed the excellent work done bythe concerned departmentsand teams at hospitals in bat-tling the pandemic and calledfor recognising the contribu-tion of doctors and other healthstaff.

In a brief presentation,Health Secretary Hussan Lalsaid the vicious campaign todiscredit the government’sefforts had impacted testing,which had gone down. Withpatients reporting late in ter-tiary care institutions, the num-ber of deaths there had goneup, he said. The Secretary saidthe department was being lib-eral on home isolation to mit-igate the fear of the patients andencourage people to get them-selves tested.

Speaker Rana KP Singh,Punjab Congress presidentSunil Jakhar and MLAs NazarSingh Mansahia, Kulbir SinghZira, Hardial Singh Kamboj,Dalvir Singh Goldy, Surjit SinghDhiman, Rana Gurjit Singh,Angad Saini and Fateh SinghBajwa also participated, alongwith several senior officials.

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To encourage testing forCovid, Punjab Chief

Minister Capt Amarinder Singhon Saturday announced distrib-ution of free food packets to poorfamilies who do not want to getthemselves tested for fear ofisolation impacting their meagerearnings.

He said the distribution offree food packets would helpencourage poor families to go forearly testing, which was imper-ative to check the spread of thepandemic and control theincreasing fatality rate in Punjab.

The programme will startfrom Patiala, one of the worstaffected districts with wide-spread false propaganda, he said.The Chief Minister directedother districts to make similararrangements for distribution offree food packets to poor Covidpatients in home isolation so thatthey get motivated to come outfor testing and do not live in fearof losing their earnings duringisolation.

Accepting the suggestion ofPunjab Congress president SunilJakhar the Chief Minister saidthat District CongressCommittees (DCCs) and localMLAs will help the districtadministration in the distribu-

tion of these packets. The ChiefMinister stated this while chair-ing a virtual meeting with elect-ed representatives, includingministers and MLAs, as well assenior officials. This was the firstof such meetings the ChiefMinisters plans to hold to fightthe malicious propaganda beingspread over Covid in villages.

Noting that people werealso scared of hospitalisation,Capt Amarinder said his gov-ernment was encouraging homeisolation to combat this fearand had also decided to removeposters/stickers from homes ofpatients to end the stigmaattached to their isolation.

He asked the Ministers tovisit hospitals in the districts rep-resented by them, and urgedthem to encourage party leadersand workers to be more active incombatting the pandemic. Hehimself would soon be visiting ahospital to assess the situation onthe ground, he said.

Pointing out that nobodyknew how long the pandemicwould last, Capt Amarinderstressed the need to be preparedfor a tough and long-drawnbattle. He assured that despite thefinancial crunch, all necessaryfunds would be made availableby his government to fight theCovid pandemic in the State.

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Haryana Deputy ChiefMinister Dushyant

Chautala on Saturday said thatthe State will be the first in thecountry to focus on aerospaceand aviation as a thrust-sectorin its new industry policy.

Talking to Reporters aftera meeting with officers of var-ious departments here regard-ing Haryana EnterprisesPromotion Policy-2020,Chautala informed that thestate government is finalisingthe draft of industrial policy topromote industries in the State.

He added that the newindustrial policy is being for-mulated so that it is beneficialnot only for industrialists butalso increases investment in thestate and youths get more jobopportunities.

He said that a series of

meetings is underway tofinalise this HaryanaEnterprises Promotion Policy-2020. In the meeting held onSaturday, detailed discussionswere held with senior officersof various departments so as toimplement the new industrialpolicy.

Chautala said to providefavourable environment forthe industries in the state, anew industrial policy is beingformulated by the state gov-ernment for the year 2020 to

2025, which will be imple-mented by next month. He saidthat the government hasrequested MLA, MPs and allindustrial associations of thestate as well as national levelindustrial associations likeFICCI, ASSOCHAM to givetheir suggestions by September8.

The Deputy Chief Ministersaid that it is the priority of thestate government to establishmaximum units to import-export, especially in the thrust-sector in the state and the gov-ernment is fully focussing onthis while formulating the newindustrial policy.

Referring to the bulkdrugs-park associated withmedical technology, he saidthat Haryana would be one ofthe leading states which willpromote industrial units bydividing all its 22 districts intoseveral clusters.

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Union Minister for Financeand Corporate Affairs

Nirmala Sitharaman releasedthe State rankings for theimplementation of ‘Ease ofDoing Business ReformsAction Plan’ for the year 2019brought out by Department forPromotion of Industry andInternal Trade (DPIIT),Ministry of Commerce andIndustry, at New Delhi onSaturday in which HimachalPradesh has registered a leap of

nine positions by securing 7thposition amongst all States/Union Territories in the coun-try from previous year ranking.

Expressing happiness overthis achievement of the State,Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakursaid that this was possible dueto reforms brought by the StateGovernment such as accordingonline approval for Section118 cases, reforms in labourlaws, strengthening the singlewindow system, effective use ofCM Helpline 1100, easy avail-ability of land for potentialentrepreneurs etc. He said thatindustrialists willing to investin the State were being pro-vided all approvals at the ear-liest without any hindrance.

The Chief Minister con-gratulated all officers of the linedepartments for making it pos-sible for the State and hopedthat now the State would makemore efforts in this direction in

future to be amongst top threeranking States in the nextassessment. Thakur said thatwith this achievementHimachal can make its claim ofgetting the Bulk Drug Park forthe State more strongly withGovernment of India

Industries Minister BikramSingh said that, due to imple-mentation of Ease of DoingBusiness in Himachal Pradesh,there was reduction of footfallin the Government Offices,besides making the systemmore transparent and saved thetime and money of theInvestors by making the entiresystem online right from appli-cation submission to down-loading of the final approval.

The Industries Ministersaid that with this achievementHimachal can make its claim ofgetting the Bulk Drug Park forthe State more strongly with theGovernment of India.

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Shiromani Akali DalPresident Sukhbir Singh

Badal on Saturday urged theLieutenant Governor of Jammuand Kashmir to immediatelyrestore to the Punjabi languageits due status as an official lan-guage in the State.

The Union Cabinet hasapproved a bill, under whichKashmiri, Dogri and Hindi,apart from the existing Urduand English, will be the officiallanguages in the union territo-ry.

Drawing the attention ofthe Lt Governor to “reports ofthe discriminatory exclusion ofthe Punjabi language as one ofthe official languages of theJammu and Kashmir,” in a let-ter released here this afternoon,Badal pointed out that “Punjabiis not only the mother tongue

of a very significant part of thepeople of the state but it wasalso a recognised languageduly certified in theConstitution of Jammu andKashmir.”

Stating that the SAD hadalways been in the forefront inthe fight for justice for themother tongue of crores ofPunjabis, Badal declared thatthe party “would not hesitateto do so in future also.”

The SAD president point-ed out that the Punjabi lan-guage had profound religious,cultural and emotional impli-cations for the Sikh communi-ty. “As such, the exclusion ofPunjabi as an official languagein Jammu and Kashmir isbound to be seen as an anti-minority and is certain to beseen as an anti-Sikh step of theJ and K administration”. MrBadal also cautioned that “deci-

sions such as these providedangerous propaganda ammu-nition to those who are alwayslooking for such opportunitiesto disturb peace and commu-nal harmony in the country,especially in the sensitive bor-der states of Punjab and J andK. “

The Akali leader describedthe move as “violative of thespirit that runs through everyword of the Constitution ofIndia which stands for unity indiversity”. He said the movewould deliver “a severe blow tothe idea of cooperative cultur-al and political federalism inthe country.” He said theFounding Fathers of the IndianConstitution were inspired bya vision of India as a multi reli-gious, multicultural and mul-tilingual nation. “Respect forregional languages was seenas a significant tool for pre-

serving and promoting thisideal.”

Pointing out that Punjabilanguage featured prominent-ly among the officially recog-nised languages in theConstitution and was also themother tongue of all Punjabisacross the globe,” Mr Badalemphasized the special status ofthe language in Punjab and itsneighbouring states such asHaryana, Himachal Pradesh,Rajasthan , Delhi and J and K.

EXCLUSION OF PUNJABIAN ATTACK ON FEDERALSTRUCTURE, SAYS PB MIN-ISTER CHANNI

Punjab Cabinet MinisterCharanjit Singh Channi hasalso flayed the Centre over theexclusion of Punjabi languagefrom the Jammu and KashmirOfficial Languages Bill, termingit as an attack on the federal

structure of the country. Channi, while dubbing the

decision "anti-minority", saidthe BJP-led Union governmentand the Shiromani Akali Dal,which is part of it, are “equal-ly responsible” for this moveagainst the regional languages.In a statement, Channi saidPunjabi was a part and parcelof the constitution of Jammuand Kashmir before the abro-gation of its special status. Theminister said Punjabi was pop-ular among a large populationof Jammu and Kashmir and themove has hurt sentiments oflakhs of Punjabi-speaking peo-ple there.

By excluding the Punjabilanguage, the Government ofIndia has taken an extreme stepwhich has caused resentmentamong minorities not only inJammu and Kashmir, butamongst all Punjabi-speaking

population of the country, saidthe minister. It is another attackon the federal structure of thecountry, he said. ChanniPunjabi is not only one of themain languages in Punjab butalso in all adjoining states likeJammu and Kashmir, Haryana,Rajasthan, Himachal Pradeshand Delhi.

The minister said evencountries like Canada and theUK have given due recognitionto Punjabi language at inter-national level but in its owncountry, the BJP-led govern-ment has done this “shamefulact”. Channi said the Uniongovernment has to face conse-quences of the “dictatorial”steps against the minorities. Heappealed to the Centre toreview this “discriminatorymove” and demanded that anamendment should be made inthe bill to include Punjabi.

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Punjab Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh on

Saturday tested negative for thecoronavirus infection. This wasthe third time that the chiefminister had got himself test-ed for Covid-19 since the out-break of the pandemic.

He also ended his week-long self-isolation after testingnegative for the contagion.

The CM had gone intoseven-day self-quarantine onAugust 28 after he came in con-tact with two Congress legisla-

tors, Kulbir Singh Zira andNirmal Singh, who had testedpositive after the one-dayPunjab Assembly session.

Capt Amarinder, whopresided over a virtual meetingof ministers, Congress MLAsand senior officials, disclosedduring the interaction that hehad got himself tested onSaturday and was found nega-tive, according to a governmentrelease here.

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Bollywood actor and BJPMP Sunny Deol on

Saturday hoped that the fami-ly of former India cricketerSuresh Raina would get justicein a case of brutal attack onthem allegedly by robbers lastmonth. Deol met PathankotSenior Superintendent of PoliceGulneet Singh Khurana hereand discussed the law andorder situation.

The Gurdaspur MP alsoenquired about the attack onthe relatives of Raina here. “Apositive discussion was heldwith Pathankot SSP Gulneet

Singh Khurana regarding thesafety of Pathankot districtwhich is under my Lok Sabhaconstituency. Got detailedinformation about the issue ofPathankot’s law and order andalso the attack on the family ofthe world’s famous playerSuresh Raina. Hoping that thefamily will get justice as soonas possible”, the MP tweetedwhile condoling the death oftwo persons in the incident.

According to police, somerobbers attacked Raina’s rela-tives at their house with anintention of loot at Pathankot'sTharyal village on the inter-vening night of August 19 and

20. While Raina’s uncle AshokKumar, 58, died on the spot, his32-year-old cousin Kaushalsuccumbed to injuries onAugust 31 at a private hospital.Raina had described the attackon his relatives as “beyondhorrible” and sought from thePunjab police to look into theincident.

Thereafter, the Punjabpolice announced the forma-tion of a four-member specialinvestigation team to investi-gate the incident. Deol had onFriday visited his constituencyand held discussions withsenior officials over the coro-navirus pandemic situationand other issues.

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of Covid-19 positive cases in asingle day with 2289 personsbeing found positive for theinfection. The deaths of 22Covid-19 positive patients werealso reported in the State on theday. According to informationprovided by the State Healthdepartment, 1409 patientsrecovered from the disease inthe State on Saturday.

The total number of Covid-19 cases in the State is now74,272 out of which 58,580 haverecovered leaving the totalnumber of active cases at

14,911. Earlier, the highest single

day tally was 1884, 1881, 1792and 1694 cases on September 4,September 3, September 2 andSeptember 1 respectively. With22 deaths reported on Saturday,the total number of deathsreported so far in the state hasreached 781. Meanwhile, thedoubling rate in the State is now33 days. The recovery rate forCovid-19 patients in the Statestands at 78.87 percent while5.89 per cent of the total sam-ples tested have come out pos-itive.

Of the positive cases report-ed on Saturday, Faridabad dis-trict recorded the highest num-

ber at 284. Similarly, the posi-tive cases reported from theother districts were 265 inGurugram, 238 in Karnal, 226in Panipat, 160 in Ambala, 142in Panchkula, 132 in Rohtak,125 in Sonepat, 112 in Hisar,100 in Kurukshetra and others.

On Saturday, 22 fatalitieswere reported which includethree each from Kurukshetraand Panchkula while two eachfrom Gurugram, Ambala,Karnal, Hisar, Yamunanagarand one each in Kaithal,Fatehabad, Sirsa, Bhiwani,Palwal and Rohtak. As ofSaturday, the fatality rate hov-ered around 1.05 per cent,according to the bulletin.

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Urging them not to be mis-led by the false propagan-

da being spread by Aam AadmiParty (AAP) or indulge in falsebravado, Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh on Saturdayappealed to the people ofPunjab to get themselves test-ed for Covid at the earliest asdelay could prove fatal forthem.

In an address to the State,the Chief Minister said theOxymeters that AAP was offer-ing to give to the people ofPunjab were no substitute fortesting. “These Oxymeters willnot tell you if you have Covidor not, they just measure theOxygen saturation level in the

body and low Oxygen is notnecessarily an indication ofcoronavirus,” he warned thepeople, exhorting them not tobe misguided by the viciouspropaganda of AAP.

He also categorically reject-ed allegations of organ har-vesting of Covid victims, as

claimed on some videos thatare viral on social media, say-ing “these rumours are totallybaseless.” “Don’t fall prey tosuch false propaganda, whichis being spread only to misleadyou,” he appealed to the people,adding that the only reasonbodies of Covid victims aretouched and cremated by peo-ple wearing PPE suits etc is toavoid infection. “Our formerPresident (Pranab Mukherjee)was also cremated in a similarmanner because he was suf-fering from Corona,” he point-ed out.

“Some ‘pakhandis’ (hyp-ocrites/fakes) are trying to mis-lead you on social media withfalse information,” he said,urging the people not to ignoresymptoms or self-medicate anddelay testing as that all deathsare taking place in Level 2 & 3patients (advanced stage). TheChief Minister appealed to thepeople to follow the instruc-tions of the Government andthe advice of the doctors to savethemselves and Punjab.

Capt Amarinder assuredthe people that Punjab has noshortage of beds, medicines,ventilators or doctors to tack-le the spike, which has beenprojected for September-October.

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The death toll from COVID-19 rose to 1,808 with 69

more fatalities in Punjab whilethe infection tally jumped to61,527 with 1,515 new cases onSaturday, according to a medicalbulletin.

Twelve new deaths werereported from Ludhiana; 10from Ferozepur; eight each fromAmritsar and Jalandhar; fourfrom Patiala; three each fromBathinda, Gurdaspur, Mohali,Pathankot and Rupnagar; twoeach from Faridkot, Sangrur,Moga, Barnala and Hoshiarpurand one each from Kapurthalaand SBS Nagar, the bulletinsaid.

Among places whichreported new cases includedJalandhar (254), Ludhiana (208),Mohali (146), Patiala (138),Amritsar (132), Gurdaspur(113), Hoshiarpur (105),

Bathinda (100) and Mansa (49).A total of 1,306 novel coro-

navirus patients were dischargedafter recovering from the infec-tion. So far, 43,849 people havebeen cured of the infection,according to the bulletin. Punjabhas 15,870 active COVID-19cases now, it said.

Eighty-five critical patientsare on ventilator support while507 are on oxygen support, thebulletin said. With a collectionof 24,098 more samples forCOVID testing, the figure oftotal samples taken so far fortesting has reached 11,68,106 inthe state, it said.

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Chandigarh on Saturday regis-tered 234 fresh cases. With this,the Covid-19 toll stood at 69while the total case tallyjumped to 5,502 in the UnionTerritory. A total of 185 patientshave been discharged includingpersons from home isolationwho have completed 10 daysand are asymptomatic as percentre government guidelines.

As per bulletin, a 27- year

old male, resident of Sector 14who was a case of type-II dia-betes mellitus and intravenousdrug abuser, tested Covid-19positive, died at GMCH onSeptember 4.

According to officials, therewere 2140 active cases in thecity. With 185 fresh recoveriesin the last 24 hours the num-ber of recovered patientsreached 3290. According to theChandigarh HealthDepartment’s evening bulletin,With 69 deaths till now, thefatality rate in the city stood ataround 1.29 per cent. A max-imum of 41 Covid-19 relateddeaths were reported in themonth of August. 13 fatalitieshave so far been reported in themonth of September, the bul-letin stated.

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What should serve as acaution to all not to let

their guard down, All IndiaInstitute of Medical Sciences(AIIMS) Director DrRandeep Guleria on Saturdaysaid that the country is wit-nessing a second wave ofvirus infection in some of theregions and as a result thedaily Covid-19 cases will con-tinue to rise for some moremonths.

He said that the pandem-ic will continue till next yearthough the curve will be flat-ter instead of steep as beingwitnessed presently.

His comments come amida sharp surge in the Covid-19cases with India's Covid-19tally crossing the 4 lakh mark

and deaths standing at near-ly 70,000 due to the infection.

India is the third worst-affected country globally bycoronavirus withMaharashtra, AndhraPradesh, Karnataka, TamilNadu and Uttar Pradeshaccounting for over 62 percent of the active cases in thecountry.

Even as Union HealthMinister Dr Harshvardhanhad recently said that Covid-19 cases will come down bymid-November, Guleria saidthat pandemic is likely tocontinue till 2021. “We can’tsay that the pandemic will notspillover to 2021 but what wecan say is that the curve willbe flatter instead of rising verysteeply. We should be able tosay the pandemic is ending

early next year,” Dr Guleriasaid. On being asked whenCovid-19 vaccine will bedeveloped, he said that ifeverything goes well, it will beready by the end of this year.

Meanwhile, a senior

Heath Ministry official saidthat the recovery rate in thecountry has touched a recordhigh of more than 70,000patients being discharged in asingle day.

“ With this high number

of Covid-19 patients recover-ing and being dischargedfrom the hospitals and homeisolation, the recovery ratenow is 77.23 per cent. Thishas also led to the decliningcase fatality rate, which stands

at a new low of 1.73 per centtoday.

The daily testing capaci-ties is on increase in thecountry. For two successive

days more than 11.70 lakhtests have been conductedper day.

A total of 4 crore and 77lakh tests have been done so

far across the country. There are now 1,647 test-

ing laboratories operationalwhich cover all States/UTs,said the official.

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To fight against Covid-19,scientists have identified a

small neutralising antibody, aso-called nanobody, that hasthe capacity to block SARS-CoV-2 from entering humancells.

The study, published in thejournal, NatureCommunications, suggests thatthis nanobody has the poten-tial to be developed as anantiviral treatment againstCovid-19. According to theresearchers, nanobodies offerseveral advantages over con-ventional antibodies as candi-dates for specific therapies.

“We hope our findingscan contribute to the amelio-ration of the Covid-19 pan-demic by encouraging further

examination of this nanobodyas a therapeutic candidateagainst this viral infection,” saidstudy co-author GeraldMcInerney from theKarolinska Institute in Sweden.

The search for effectivenanobodies--which are frag-ments of antibodies that occurnaturally in camelids and canbe adapted for humans--beganin February when an alpaca(animal) was injected with thenew coronavirus` spike pro-tein, which is used to enter ourcells.

After 60 days, blood sam-ples from the alpaca showed astrong immune responseagainst the spike protein.

Next, the researcherscloned, enriched and analysednanobody sequences from thealpaca`s B cells, a type of white

blood cell, to determine whichnanobodies were best suited forfurther evaluation.

They identified one, Ty1(named after the alpaca Tyson),that efficiently neutralizes thevirus by attaching itself to thepart of the spike protein thatbinds to the receptor ACE2,which is used by SARS-CoV-2 to infect cells.

This blocks the virus fromslipping into the cells and thusprevents infection.

“Using cryo-electronmicroscopy, we were able to seehow the nanobody binds to theviral spike at an epitope whichoverlaps with the cellularreceptor ACE2-binding site,providing a structural under-standing for the potent neu-tralisation activity,” said studyresearcher Leo Hanke.

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Those with vitamin D defi-ciency are vulnerable to

coronavirus infection,researchers have said in theirstudy published in journalJAMA Network Open.

“Vitamin D is importantto the function of the immunesystem and vitamin D sup-plements have previously beenshown to lower the risk ofviral respiratory tract infec-tions,” said David Meltzer,MD, PhD, Chief of HospitalMedicine at UChicagoMedicine and lead author ofthe study. “Our statisticalanalysis suggests this may betrue for the Covid-19 infec-tion.”

The research team lookedat 489 UChicago Medicinepatients whose vitamin D

level was measured within ayear before being tested forCovid-19. Patients who hadvitamin D deficiency (lessthan 20ng/ml) that was nottreated were almost twice aslikely to test positive for theCovid-19 coronavirus com-pared to patients who had suf-ficient levels of the vitamin.

“Understanding whethertreating Vitamin D deficiencychanges COVID-19 risk couldbe of great importance local-ly, nationally and globally,”Meltzer said. “Vitamin D isinexpensive, generally verysafe to take, and can be wide-ly scaled.”

Meltzer and his teamemphasize the importance ofexperimental studies to deter-mine whether vitamin D sup-plementation can reduce therisk, and potentially severity,

of COVID-19.Doctors from the Delhi-

based All Indian Institute ofMedical Sciences (AIIMS) DrP Aparna, Dr S Muthathal, DrBaridalyne Nongkynrih, Drand Dr Sanjeev Kumar Guptatoo in their study in 2018 pub-lished in journal PubMedpointed out that the preva-lence of Vitamin D deficien-cy in India ranged from 40 percent to 99 per cent.

“We need to create aware-ness among the public andhealthcare providers aboutthe importance of Vitamin D.Our Indian diet generally failsto satisfy the daily require-ment of Vitamin D for a nor-mal adult.

“This stresses on the needfor fortifying various foodwith Vitamin D, through thenational programmes.”

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Researchers at Sree ChitraTirunal Institute for Medical

Sciences and Technology(SCTIMST), an autonomousinstitute under the DST, havedeveloped a canister bag linedwith super-absorbent materialfor safe handling and disposalof respiratory secretions in hos-pitals for ICU patients of Covid-19 and TB or those with copi-ous respiratory secretions treat-ed in the wards.

The super-absorbent mate-rial containing an effective dis-infectant is named“AcryloSorb”.

“When the patient is admit-ted to the hospital, secretionsare sucked into bottles or can-isters using a vacuum line anddiscarded through the wastefluid disposal system after sub-jecting to the decontamina-tion process.

“There is a high risk of con-tamination during the han-dling, and the disposal needswell-equipped sluice roomswith disinfection facilities. Thesafety threat and manpowerissues will be manifold in lessequipped hospitals or tempo-rary isolation wards set upduring pandemics,” said a sci-entist from the institute.

The canister bags can

absorb 500 ml of secretions andsolidify it immediately. In addi-tion to that, the whole systemwill be decontaminated withinno time because of the presenceof disinfectant, he said.

The SCTIMST teambehind the technology are bio-material scientists and cliniciansDr. Manju, S, Dr. ManojKomath, Dr. Asha Kishore, Dr.Ajay Prasad Hrishi. The know-how of the AcryloSorb suctioncanister liner (CL Series) bagshas been transferred toRomsons Scientific and SurgicalPvt. Ltd for manufacture andimmediate marketing. Theapproximate cost will be �100/- for each canister liner bag.

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Emphasising on the impor-tance of digital technology

in the challenging times ofCOVID pandemic, PresidentRam Nath Kovind on Saturdaysaid that our teachers are tak-ing the help of this technologyto reach out to the children.

Applauding the skills ofteachers in shifting to this newtechnology driven teaching,the President said that it isimportant for all teachers “toupgrade and update” their skillsin the field of digital technol-ogy so as to make educationmore effective and also makethe students conversant withthe new techniques.

Kovind was addressing the

Teacher's Day National Awardfunction which was held virtualattended by many teachersacross the country andEducation Minister RameshPokhriyal Nishank. A total of47 teachers from across thecountry, including women,were conferred the NationalAward by President Ram NathKovind.

The President in his speechcongratulated the winners ofthe award and appreciated thesteps taken by the teachers inorder to improve school edu-cation qualitatively.Heobserved that about 40 per centof the winners of the NationalAwards were women andappreciated the role womenhave played as educators.

Prime Minister Narendra

Modi also wished the Teacher'son the occasion and congratu-lated the awardees.

The national awards aregiven on Teachers’ Day to cel-ebrate the unique contributionof teachers for infusing inno-vative methods of teachingand adopting best practices toteach students. Some of thefinest teachers in the countryare honoured annually onTeacher’s Day for their com-mitment in not only improvingthe quality of school educationbut also enriching the lives oftheir students.

Paying obeisance and trib-utes to Dr S. Radhakrishnan onthe occasion, President Kovindsaid the event gives an oppor-tunity to pay respect to ourteachers for their commitment

and supreme contribution inthe lives of pupils. Describingteachers as true nation builders,the President opined that theyare instrumental in building thecharacter and knowledge of thechildren.

Kovind said the onlineeducation system has made itobligatory for the parents tojoin hands with the teachersand encourage children toevoke interest in new fields oflearning. Pointing out at thedigital divide, he also empha-

sised that steps should be takenso that children from tribal andfar-flung areas are also bene-fitted.

Talking about the NationalEducation Policy, PresidentKovind said that the newly-introduced policy is an endeav-our to prepare our children forfuture needs and has beendesigned after considering theopinion of various stakehold-ers. It is now the teachers whowould be at the centre stage formaking the policy successfuland productive, he added. Allefforts are being made to makethe teachers competent toimplement the new NationalEducation Policy and only thebest would be chosen for thefield of education, the Presidentsaid.

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Claiming that BJP has madesteady inroads into

Scheduled castes and areasinhabited by tribals in Odisha,BJP president JP Nadda onSaturday said the party wouldform Government in the State“very soon”.

Assembly polls in Odisha,though, are still far off in2024.

Nadda said in 2014Vidhan Sabha, BJP hadrecieved 18 per cent votes,while in 2019, it rose to 32Percent.

“The day is not far whenwe will come there in the gov-ernment very soon,” said BJPPresident J.P. Nadda whileaddressing Odisha's stateexecutive meeting throughvideo conference.

“We need to aim for over50 per cent votes in the state,”he told the executive atten-dees.

BJP president saidpatients from Odisha neednot come to Delhi for treat-ment as they can get treatedat Bhubaneswar AIIMS, forwhich credit goes to formerPM Atal Bihari Vajpayee andPM Narendra Modi, he said.

Detai l ing his party 'sprogress in Odisha, he said,“We are happy that in the LokSabha elections we got aroundone crore votes here. In thesame manner, today we haveincreased our sphere of influ-ence in the Scheduled Castesand Scheduled Tribes wherethere are 33 seats,” he said.

Nadda claimed that BJPworkers in Odisha have dis-tributed nearly 7 lakh rationkits, 60,000 sanitizers, 5.5lakh masks and food packetsduring the past few months.

Attacking the BJDGovernment in the state, healleged, “I'm saddened thatwe've not been allowed toimplement the AyushmanBharat in Odisha.

There are 2.4 crore peoplewho could've benefited fromthe Rs 5 lakh medical cover-age.” He said said.

“I call upon CM ShriNaveen Patnaik to allow PMModi's scheme to reach thepoor and needy,” Nadda said.

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The Congress on Saturdayhit out at the Centre over

the issue of recruitment toGovernment posts, allegingthat the Modi dispensation'sthinking is “minimumGovernment, maximum pri-vatisation”.

With his tweet attackingthe government, party leaderRahul Gandhi and otherCongress leaders tagged mediareports and a Finance Ministryorder which said there wouldbe a freeze on creation of newposts except with the approvalof the expenditure department.

“Modi government's think-ing -- 'Minimum GovtMaximum Privatisation',”Rahul said in a tweet.

The COVID-19 pandemicis just an excuse and the inten-tion is to make governmentoffices “free” of permanentstaff, he alleged.

“(Intention is to) Rob thefuture of the youth and pro-mote (his) friends,” RahulGandhi said in a tweet inHindi targeting the prime min-ister, and urged people to speakup.

Rahul also took a dig onModi for regulating the like anddislikes comments on certainsocial media sites and said hewould continue talking about

the government failures.Congress also slammed

the Central government over itslatest circular on stopping cre-ation of jobs in the govern-ment. The party said “it is avery alarming situation as thecountry's economy is already indoldrums”.

Addressing a virtual pressconference, senior Congressleader Rajeev Shukla said: “TheCentre came out with the cir-cular yesterday, in which thecreation of new jobs within thegovernment has been com-pletely stopped.”

He said that the circularissued by the Finance Ministrysuggests that new jobs “cannot”be created at all, the vacancieswhich are already existingshould not be filled.

“This is a very alarming sit-uation, since country's econo-my is already in doldrums. OurGDP has gone down - 23.9 percent. International LabourOrganisation (ILO) report sug-gests that 40 crore people aregoing to be below povertyline,” he said.

He said that the private sec-tor is already into retrenchmentbecause their financial situationis very bad and the governmentis not helping them as well interms of loan waivers etc. TheSupreme Court is already hear-ing the matter.

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The Enforcement Directorate(ED) has arrested former

member of Indian NursingCouncil Mahesh Chand Sharmaand his son Mohit Sharma, bothresidents of Jaipur, in a moneylaundering case relating to pos-session of disproportionate assetsby a public servant.

A designated PMLA Courtat Jaipur on Friday granted 10-day custody of both the accusedto the ED.

The ED had initiated inves-tigation on the basis of FIR andcharge sheet filed by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB),Jaipur against Sharma, his sonsMohit, Ankit Sharma, his wifeMeena Devi and others.

Mahesh Chand Sharma hadworked in Health and Medicaldepartment of RajasthanGovernment as Nursing tutor,College of Nursing, SMS MedicalCollege and was also a Memberof India Nursing Council (INC),

New Delhi. He along with his associate

was trapped by officers of ACBfor accepting a bribe of � 5 lakhsfrom a nursing institute foradding the name of the instituteon the website of INC.Investigation conducted by theState ACB established that theaccused had amassed illicit earn-ings worth �10.60 crore whichwas 372 percent more than hisknown/legal source of income,the ED said in a statement.

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Except Bihar, Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh, the

Election Commission has askedchief electoral officers of allStates to rationalise polling sta-tions to ensure that there are notmore than 1,500 voters per sta-tion.

“As one of the precautionarymeasures of COVID-19 pan-demic, the limit of number ofelectors assigned to a polling sta-tion has been restricted to 1,000in the state of Bihar and certainconstituencies of other stateswhere general and by-electionsare due in the near future,” theEC letter addressed to chiefelectoral officers of all statesexcept Bihar and UTs of Jammuand Kashmir, and Ladakh, said.

The EC said to restrict thenumber of voters per polling sta-tion to 1,000,states where pollsand bypolls are due have beenasked to create auxiliary pollingstations of all the main pollingstations having more than 1,000electors as rationalization ofpolling station could not beundertaken in such constituen-cies owing to completion ofsummary revision 2020 in theseStates, where general elec-tion/bye elections are to be con-ducted on the basis of electoralroll finalized with reference to O1.01.2020 as the qualifying date.

Bihar is going to the pollslater this year. While J-K has a

provision for a legislature, theLadakh UT had no provision foran assembly. At present, Jammuand Kashmir has no assemblyand the UT is under Centralrule.

The EC had earlier said thenumber of voters per polling sta-tion should not be more than1,000 as one of the measures toprevent the spread of coron-avirus.

Bihar is the first state whereassembly elections are beingheld amid the COVID-19 pan-demic.

But for other states whereelections or by-elections are notdue, the number of voters perpolling station would now be1,500, an EC functionary saidwhile explaining the letter.

“The Commission, takingall aspects into consideration,has decided that rationaliza-tion/re-organization of pollingstations, as the case may be,would be carried out in allstates/UTs on the basis of1,500electors as maximum numberfor a polling station, “ the lettersaid.

In a statement issued onFriday, the EC said it would holdbypolls to one Lok Sabha seatand 64 assembly seats “around

the same time” as the Biharassembly polls.

While the dates have notbeen announced, the Bihar pollscould take place in October-November.

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the Rajya Sabha Secretariat oncontract basis up to August 31,2020. On being offered anextension for another year asOSD in the status ofAdditional Secretary, Raoexpressed his inability toaccept the offer owing to per-sonal reasons. Accordinglythe contract of Rao conclud-ed on August 31, 2020 and herelinquished the charge ofoffice of Additional Secretaryin the afternoon of the 31August, 2020, as per the offi-cial statement from RajyaSabha Secretariat.

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Democratic presidentialcandidate and former vice

president Joe Biden has saidthat under his watch, Americais going to stand up for the dis-sidents and defenders ofhuman rights in China.

“Under my watch Americais going to stand up for the dis-sidents and defenders ofhuman rights in China,” Bidensaid. “We have to lead not justby the example of our power,but (by) the power of ourexample,” Biden said inresponse to a question duringa virtual fundraiser.

“Look at the example we’resetting around the world. Thisguy has embraced every autocratin the world. And he’s poked histhumb in the eye of our allies andfriends. And look at all the peo-ple who know better. And theyremain silent,” Biden said as heslammed the policies ofPresident Donald Trump whomhe is challenging in theNovember presidential elections.

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Being a working Americanduring the Covid-19 pan-

demic has become a matter of lifeor death due to the poor eco-nomic policies of PresidentDonald Trump, Democraticpresidential candidate and for-mer vice president Joe Biden hassaid. “Ladies and gentlemen, nomatter what he (Trump) says orwhat he claims, you are not safein Donald Trump’s Americawhere people are dying at a ratelast seen when Americans werefighting in World War II. DonaldTrump’s malpractice during thispandemic has made being aworking American life or deathwork,” Biden said in his remarkson economy in Wilmington.“While there’s a disproportion-ate impact on Black, Latino,Asian American, and NativeAmerican working class com-munities — white working classcommunities are being hit hard,too,” Biden alleged while speak-ing in front of a dark blue cur-tain with a ‘Build Back Better’poster hanging behind him.

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The First Family of theUnited States is in love

with India, US PresidentDonald Trump indicated as henoted that both his daughterIvanka and son Donald TrumpJr along with KimberlyGuilfoyle think a lot aboutIndia and so does he.

“I know India and I under-stood those young people(Kimberly, Donald Trump Jrand Ivanka) that you men-tioned. They’re very goodyoung people. And I knowtheir relationship to India isvery good and so is mine,”Trump told reporters at theWhite House.

The President, whodescribes himself as the bestfriend ever of India and IndianAmericans in the White House,was responding to a questionabout the role the three impor-tant members of his family aregoing to play this election cyclealong with respect to the IndianAmerican community.

“Would Kimberly, DonaldTrump Jr., and Ivanka Trump,who are very popular amongIndian Americans, would becampaigning on your behalfamong the Indian Americanswith your views on India-USrelationship?” the presidentwas asked.

“I appreciate the nice sen-timents. They think (Kimberley,Don Jr and Ivanka) a lot ofIndia and so do I. And think alot of your prime minister(Narendra Modi),” Trump saidin response to the question.

In the 2016 elections, theTrump family had reached outto the Indian American com-munity, particularly in the bat-tleground states of Virginia,Pennsylvania and Floridawhere both Ivanka, and DonaldTrump Jr along with his otherson Eric and daughter-in-lawLara Trump held meetingswith the community membersand visited Hindu temples.

Ivanka, was the first mem-ber of the Trump family tomake a trip to India afterTrump came to power. She led

a high-powered US delegationto the Global EntrepreneurshipSummit in India in 2017.

Ivanka, frequently tweetsabout issues related to India.Having a star appeal in India,Ivanka is also special advisor tothe president.

Donald Trump Jr, who isheading the re-election campaign, has also made tripsto India.

Last December he held aspecial book-launch event forIndian American communityin Long Island.

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oped with Indian Americansand Prime Minister NarendraModi, US President DonaldTrump said that he would think that IndianAmericans would vote for himin the November 3 presidentialelection.

We have great supportfrom India. We have great support from Prime MinisterModi. I would think that theIndian (American) people would be voting forTrump,� the President toldreporters at a White House

news conference.Trump was responding to

a question on a video titled,“Four more years” released bythe Trump Campaign duringthe Republican NationalConvention last month.

Tweeted by KimberlyGuilfoyle, national chair ofTrump Victory FinanceCommittee and retweeted byhis son Donald Trump Jr, thevideo conceptualised by AlMason, co-chair of the TrumpVictory Indian AmericanFinance Committee, has shortclips from the Modi-Trumpjoint address in Houston lastyear and Ahmedabad inFebruary this year.

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The tensions coursingthrough the United States

over racism and policing arelikely targets for adversariesseeking to influence theNovember election, lawmakersand experts warn — and thereare signs that Russia is againseeking to exploit the divide.

Earlier this year, Facebook,Instagram and Twitter pulleddown dozens of accounts withnames like “Blacks FactsUntold” that had been fol-lowed or liked by hundreds ofthousands of people. Theaccounts were fake, created byan organization in Africa withlinks to Russia’s InternetResearch Agency.

Similarly, this past weekFacebook announced it hadremoved a network of accountslinked to that “troll factory”that had pushed out storiesabout race and other issues.The network had trickedunwitting American writers to

post content to the pages. It’s a troubling but familiar

pattern from Russia, as theInternet Research Agencyoverwhelmingly focused onrace and the Black Lives MatterMovement when targeting theU.S. in 2016. The goal, part ofthe Russian playbook fordecades, was to sow chaos byposting content on both sidesof the racial divide. Indeed, “nosingle group of Americans wastargeted by IRA informationoperatives more than African-Americans,” concluded a reportfrom the Senate IntelligenceCommittee.

With the election just twomonths away, some lawmakersare worried that the Russianefforts, now evolved and moresophisticated than four yearsago, could again take hold.They fear the Trump adminis-tration’s decision to limit whatit tells Congress — and byextension the American people— about election threats willallow the propaganda to spread.

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Peter Strzok spent his FBIcareer hunting Russian and

Chinese spies, but after newsbroke of derogatory text mes-sages he had sent aboutPresident Donald Trump, hecame to feel like he was the onebeing hunted.

There were menacingphone calls and messages fromstrangers, and anxious peeksout window shades before hisfamily would leave the house.FBI security experts advisedhim of best practices — walkaround your car before enter-ing, watch for unfamiliar vehi-cles in your neighborhood —

more commonly associatedwith mob targets looking toelude detection.

“Being subjected to outra-geous attacks up to and includ-ing by the president himself,which are full of lies and mis-characterizations and just crudeand cruel, is horrible,” Strzoktold The Associated Press in aninterview. “There’s no wayaround it.”

A new book by Strzoktraces his arc from veterancounterintelligence agent tothe man who came to embodyTrump’s public scorn of FBIand his characterization of its Russia investigation as a“witch hunt.”

Dhaka: A gas leak in an under-ground pipeline caused six airconditioners to explode almostsimultaneously in a mosqueduring Friday evening prayerson the outskirts of Bangladesh’scapital Dhaka, killing 17 peo-ple, including a child, andinjuring 20 others.

Worshippers were at Fridayevening prayers when the blastsent a ball of flames throughthe Baitul Salat mosque in thecentral district of Narayanganj,officials said. At least 17 peo-ple including a seven-year oldboy, succumbed to theirinjuries at Sheikh HasinaNational Institute of Burn andPlastic Surgeryhere, the DhakaTribune reported.

About 20 victims areundergoing treatment at thehospital and are stated to be incritical condition. Fire offi-cials suspect accumulated gasfrom a leaked pipeline trig-gered a spark and all six airconditioners on the groundfloor of the mosque exploded.

“A gas pipeline passesbeneath the mosque. We aresuspecting that gas leaked fromthe pipeline and accumulatedinside as the windows wereclosed. The explosion wasprobably triggered due to

sparks when someone tried toswitch on or off the ACs orfans,” Narayanganj Fire Service’sDeputy Assistant DirectorAbdullah Al Arefin was quot-ed as saying by the newspaper.

According to reports, themosque committee had recent-ly filed a complaint over leak-age of the gas pipeline of TitasGas Transmission andDistribution Company Limited.Narayanganj Fire Service andpolice have already initiatedinvestigation into the blastwhile the company formedanother probe body to lookinto the incident. NarayanganjSuperintendent of Police (SP)Md Zayedul Alam visited thevictims at the institute and saidaction will be taken if theyfound evidence of negligenceagainst anyone in its inquiry.

Prime Minister SheikhHasina expressed concern overthe incident and issued direc-tions to ensure all possiblemedical care for the victims.

Witnesses said they foundfive to six people coming out ofthe mosque as soon as the blastoccurred. Worshipers, most ofthem severely burnt, werefound lying on the floor,according to them, the reportsaid. PTI

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Commerce and IndustryMinister Piyush Goyal on

Saturday asked the auto com-ponents industry to improveproductivity and look atsmarter solutions for becomingpreferred suppliers to cus-tomers.

While addressing theAutomotive ComponentManufacturers Association’s(ACMA) 60th annual session,the minister said that there isa huge demand for trustedpartners in resilient global sup-ply chains.

“We should start takingmeasures to tighten the belt,improve productivity, startlooking at every element of costand smarter solutions tobecome the preferred suppliersto customers,” he added.

With perseverancetowards quality and bringing inscale, the industry will certainlybecome more export compet-itive, he said.

He also called for innov-ative financing for the autoindustry.

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Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman on Saturday

said India’s commitment toreform is being taken serious-ly by foreign investors, whichis evident from the good inflowof FDI even during the time ofCovid-19. B6etween April-July, the Foreign Direct invest-ment (FDI) into India stood atUSD 20 billion.

“India’s commitment toreform is taken seriously byinvestors abroad and they takeIndia to be a very desirable des-tination, otherwise we would-n’t be seeing good amount ofFDI coming even during thepandemic time when India, asmany of our critics would say,had the strictest lockdown,”Sitharaman said.

Releasing the state rank-

ings based on the implemen-tation of State Business ReformAction Plan 2019, Sitharamansaid Aatmanirbhar Bharatwould help India build on itsstrengths and become self-reliant. “Aatmanirbhar Bharatwill lead to greater exportcompetitiveness, better pricingand quality of exports, whichshow the Indian skill of mak-ing things to perfection,” shesaid. Sitharaman saidAatmanirbhar Bharat is not formaking India inward-looking,but to build on its strengths,one of the ways in which thecountry can become morecompetitive. In the states’ easeof doing business rankingsreleased on Saturday, AndhraPradesh retained the top posi-tion followed by UP andTelangana at the second andthird spots, respectively.

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Union Minister NitinGadkari on Saturday asked

Indian automobile and com-ponents industry not to dependon imports and develop localsubstitutes for products boughtfrom overseas, saying the coun-try’s auto sector has the poten-tial to be the top global man-ufacturing hub. The Govt hasalso taken several steps toencourage Indian companies toexport more, and the compo-nents sector has an opportuni-ty to take advantage of mea-sures like changing the defin-ition of MSMEs, the RoadTransport and Highways min-ister said while addressing theannual session of AutoComponents ManufacturersAssociation of India .

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The Covid-19 pandemic pre-sents an opportunity for the

Indian automobile and com-ponents sector to become aglobal hub, thereby helpingthe country become self-reliantand such a chance must not bewasted, Hero MotoCorp CMDand CEO Pawan Munjal saidon Saturday.

Speaking at the annual ses-sion of Auto ComponentsManufacturers Association ofIndia (ACMA), Munjal said theauto sector can also lead theway for other industries inIndia in responding to PrimeMinister Narendra Modi’s“clarion call” for AatmanirbharBharat.

Bengaluru: Reeling underhuge losses due to heavy rains,flash floods, landslides andCovid-induced lockdown, theKarnataka coffee growerssought a bailout from theCentre, including interest waiv-er and rescheduling of bankloans to recover from the nat-ural disasters, an official said onSaturday.

“Even as we were grapplingfrom Covid-induced extendedlockdown from April to June,our estates have been badly hitby excess rains, floods andlandslides in July and August,causing huge damage to ourplantations,a leading growerand state-run Coffee BoardChairman M.S. Boje Gowdatold IANS here.

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Even before bids for the firstset of coal mines for com-

mercial extraction get under-way, the Government has fur-ther revised the list of mines tobe offered under the new route.

Now a lower number of 38coal blocks would go under thehammer to the private sectorinstead of 41 mines identifiedearlier for the first round ofauctions.

The coal ministry has with-drawn five mines: Morga SouthCoal Mine, Fatehpur East,Madanpur (North), Morga-II,and Sayang Coal Mines fromthe list of mines that were pro-posed to be offered for com-mercial mining.

It has, however added two

mines: Dolesara, Jarekela andJharpalam-Tangarghat (inChhattisgarh).

“Therefore, 38 coal minesare offered for auction forcommercial mining under 11thTranche of Auction underCM(SP) Act, 2015 and 1stTranche of Auction underMMDR Act, 1957,” a statementfrom the coal ministry said.

Though no reason hasbeen provided for changes inthe list of commercial coalmines, it is largely on technicalgrounds.

As part of the initiative ofopening up of the coal sectorand allowing the private sectorto commercially extract coal,the government launched theauction process for 41 coalmines on June 18, 2020.

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The ambitious 508 km-longAhmedabad-Mumbai High

Speed Rail Project, popularlyknown as the Bullet Train pro-ject, will be impacted by theongoing Covid-19 pandemic,officials said on Saturday.

Prime Minister NarendraModi and his former Japanesecounterpart Shinzo Abe onSeptember 14, 2017 had laidthe foundation stone of theambitious Rs 1.08 lakh crore($17 billion) project.

Speaking to IANS,National High Speed RailCorporation Limited (NHSR-CL) Achal Khare said, “Due tothe ongoing Covid-19 pan-demic there is an impact on theproject as we are unable to domany things.”

He said, “We cannot assesshow much impact this pan-demic will have on the projectas this pandemic is continuing.”

He was responding to aquestion if the Bullet trainproject will be delayed ormiss its deadline of December2023.

When asked about theimpact of the Covid-19 pan-demic of the tenders, theNHSRCL floated last year formany works, Khare said, lastyear we opened the tender forthe undersea tunnel project tothe Japanese bidders.

“Had there been normaltimes things could have beendifferent, now the perception iscompletely different. Now theJapanese have opened this ten-der for Indians, so this will havean impact,” Khare said.

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Croat Borna Coric saved sixmatch points as he ralliedfrom 5-1 down in the

fourth set to stun Stefanos Tsitsipas6-7 (2-7), 6-4, 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7-4)and send the fourth seed tumblingout of US Open in the third roundon Friday.

In the sort of late drama thatwould on any other yearhave had the FlushingMeadows crowd baying formore, Coric staged aremarkable comeback at anempty Louis ArmstrongStadium to reach the fourthround after the fifth set tiebreak.

The gritty 27th seed hadlooked down for the count whenTsitsipas twice served for the matchin the fourth set but the 22-year-old Greek faltered with victory inhis grasp.

Coric again had to come froma break down in the fifth but lookedindefatigable even after 4 and 1/2hours on court and secured afamous victory on his second

match point.“I just have to be hon-

est and have to say that Iwas real lucky,” said Coric,who will face AustralianJordan Thompson onSunday for a spot in his firstGrand Slam quarter-final.

Earlier, AlexanderZverev feared his tiewith Adrian

M a n n a r i n omight not goahead due tocoronavirusprotocols butthe Germansecured a 6-7

(4-7), 6-4, 6-2, 6-2win in a matchdelayed almostthree hours dueto talks betweenthe organisersand New Yorkhealth officials.

The third-round clash wasoriginally scheduledto start at 2.30pm local

time at Louis Armstrong Stadiumbut was pushed back while theUnited States Tennis Associationengaged in “collaborative dialogue”with health officials.

“I was told there is very littlechance that we were going to play,”Zverev said courtside after thematch. “The New York State calledand said he (Mannarino) should-n’t play.

Zverev next faces Spain’sAlejandro Davidovich Fokina,

who defeated Britain’sCameron Norrie 7-6 (7-2),

4-6, 6-2, 6-1.Top seed Novak

Djokovic continued hisdominance of Jan-

Lennard Struff witha 6-3, 6-3, 6-1 win toadvance to thefourth round. Thethree-time cham-pion at FlushingMeadows and17-time GrandSlam winnerwas neverreally pushedby the German,

who has takenjust one set off

the Serb in theirfive career meet-

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Lewis Hamiltonclaimed pole posi-

tion with a new lap record at Monza for Sunday’sItalian Grand Prix with Valtteri Bottas taking sec-ond in Saturday qualifying for another Mercedesfront row lock-out.

McLaren’s Carlos Sainz posted the third fastesttime and is joined on the second row by Sergio Perezfor Racing Point.

The session proved another humbling experi-ence for out-of-sorts Ferrari with Sebastian Vettelgoing out in Q1 and Charles Leclerc, who won atthe circuit last year, in Q2.

This means no Ferrari inside the top 10 atMonza for the first time since 1984.

The championship leader and six-time cham-pion clocked a fastest lap in one minute and 18.887seconds to beat the Finn by 0.069 seconds. In purespeed, Hamilton’s track lap record performance pro-duced an unconfirmed fastest lap in F1 history.

It was Hamilton’s record-increasing 94th careerpole position, his sixth in seven races and his sev-enth in Italy.

“It wasn’t too bad,” said Hamilton, with a hintof a smile.

“It was a fantastic performance from the team— in terms of timing, when they put us out on thetrack,” said Hamilton, referring to Mercedes’ avoid-ance of the jostling mass of cars seeking a slip-streaming tow from each other.

“It was not the easiest as you saw how close itis between us all so it demanded a really clean lap— and I felt I got that, so I am very happy.”

Max Verstappen was fifth for Red Bull, LandoNorris qualified sixth in the second McLaren aheadof Daniel Ricciardo of Renault, Lance Stroll in thesecond Racing Point, AlexAlbon in the second Red Bulland Pierre Gasly of AlphaTauri.

Bottas also broke the trackrecord twice and said: “Itwas really close as Iexpected. I am notsure about the tow —I didn’t have anyuntil the end and Ikind of felt the ben-efit, but then onthe final lap I wason my ownagain.

“It was agood place tobe, but obvi-ously we did-n’t get any gainsin a straight line.”

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Two-time Grand Slam winnerNaomi Osaka battled into the

last 16 of the US Open on Friday,requiring three sets to defeat 18-year-old Ukrainian MartaKostyuk.

Osaka, the 2018 US Openchampion, needed 2 hours and 33minutes to beat the unseededworld No 137 6-3, 6-7 (4/7), 6-2inside an empty Arthur AsheStadium.

“She was very good. I’m kindof scared of how she is going to bein the future,” Osaka said of hervanquished opponent.

Frustration got the better ofthe Japanese fourth seed in the sec-ond set. After recovering from 5-3 to force a tie-break she threw herracquet when Kostyuk tied thematch 1-1.

But Osaka’s experience camethrough in the deciding set as sheheld her serve and broke Kostyuktwice to set up a match against14th seed Anett Kontaveit.

Kontaveit progressed by beat-ing 24th seed Magda Linetter 6-3,6-2.

Osaka, of Haitian andJapanese heritage, walked onto thecourt wearing a facemask embla-zoned with the name of AhmaudArbery, an unarmed black manwho was shot dead in broad day-light while jogging in the town ofBrunswick, in southern Georgia,in February.

Osaka is wearing differentmasks honoring victims of racialinjustice and police brutalitythroughout the tournament.

Germany’s 17th seed

Angelique Kerber also progressedto the fourth round, making lightwork of American Ann Li 6-3, 6-4.

Kerber, the 2016 US Open,will go up against Jennifer Bradyfor a quarter-final spot after theAmerican 28th seed knocked outCaroline Garcia 6-3, 6-3.

Petra Kvitova struggled withunforced errors but still hadenough weapons to defeatAmerican Jessica Pegula 6-4, 6-3to advance to the fourth round.

The two-time Wimbledonchampion had 28 unforced errorsand five double faults but movedup a gear when it mattered to winher first career meeting with base-line battler Pegula.

Next up for her will be anoth-er American in Shelby Rogers,who earlier advanced with a 6-2,6-4 win against compatriotMadison Brengle.

In other games, eighth seedPetra Martic swept aside unseed-ed Varvara Gracheva 6-3, 6-3.

Martic will play YuliaPutintseva in the last 16 after the23rd seed powered past VeraLapko 6-3, 6-3.

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Bopanna andShapovalov hardly brokea sweat to get past theirAmerican rivals ErnestoEscobedo and NoahRubin 6-2, 6-4 in theirtournament opener thatlasted one hour and 22

minutes on Friday.The Indo-Canadian

pair will next play sixthseeds Kevin Krawietz andAndreas Mies.

Bopanna is the lonesurviving Indian in thetournament after the exitsof Sumit Nagal and DivijSharan.

While Sumit Nagalbowed out in the secondround after losing instraight sets to world No3 Dominic Thiem,Sharan and his Serbianpartner Nikola Cacicwere knocked out in theopening round of themen’s doubles event.

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Chelsea took their summerspending spree to nearly

£200 million with the signingof German international KaiHavertz from BayerLeverkusen on a five-year deal

on Friday.Havertz’s arrival at

Stamford Bridge for a report-ed £71 million ($94 million) isthe Blues’ latest statement ofintent as they seek to cut thegap on Liverpool andManchester City at the top ofthe Premier League.

The 21-year-old, who canplay as an attacking midfield-er or as a forward, joins inter-national teammate TimoWerner, Hakim Ziyech, BenChilwell and Thiago Silva injoining the club for FrankLampard’s second season incharge.

“I am very happy andproud to be here. For me it isa dream come true to play in abig club like Chelsea and I can’twait to meet all the players andthe trainers,” Havertz told theChelsea website.

Havertz’s move eclipsesWerner’s short-lived record asGermany’s most expensivefootballer after he joinedChelsea for 53 million euros inJune.

That is not the only record

Havertz has taken fromWerner.

He succeeded the formerRB Leipzig striker as theyoungest player to make 50 andthen 100 Bundesliga appear-ances since becomingLeverkusen’s youngest everplayer when he made his debutat 17.

He scored 46 goals in 150competitive games forLeverkusen, including 18 lastseason.

“Kai is one of the bestplayers of his age in world foot-ball, so we are very happy thathis future lies at Chelsea,” saidChelsea director MarinaGranovskaia.

“He has proven pedigree inone of the best leagues inEurope, he plays for theGerman national side and he isan exciting, dynamic talent.

We are delighted to beable to add his versatility andquality to the squad before theseason begins.”

ALLAN JOINS EVERTONLiverpool: Brazil midfielderAllan reunited with CarloAncelotti on Saturday aftermoving from Napoli toEverton.

The transfer fee was notdisclosed by the two clubs butmedia reports estimated it at 21million pounds.

The 29-year-old Allanplayed 61 games underAncelotti when the Evertoncoach was in charge at Napoli.

“It is a real pleasure to signfor Everton,” he said afteragreeing a three-year contractat Goodison Park.

“It is a club with a rich his-tory in the Premier League, hasreal ambition and then there isprofessor Ancelotti.

“He has done everythingpossible to bring me here. It isthe size of the club and thename of the coach whichmeans you don’t think twiceabout coming to Everton.”

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In every adversity lies the seed ofan equal or greater opportunity.So goes the age-old maxim byauthor and propagator of themodern genre of personal-suc-

cess, Napoleon Hill. This adage alsodefines my perspective towards life, anadage I respect and abide by to delin-eate the forthcoming future, a futurethat today stands altered dynamically.

Now, for a minute, let’s cast asidethe current Covid-19 pandemic situa-tion and think otherwise. Irrefutably,we combat adversities in life from timeto time. There are two discrete ways inwhich the human mind acts in responseto such contexts. Some flourish andunearth avenues to combat the chal-lenge, even as, for some, merely gettingup in the morning becomes a dreadfulchore. To the pessimist, adversity canmean despair, hopelessness and theunnerving feeling that things will neverget better. The optimist always sees theglass half full realising that every hard-ship has a silver lining and looks intothe future for the long-term conse-quences of their choices.

Now, let’s talk about the situationwe are confronted with. The pandemicis deepening economic, political andsocial stress in 213 countries and terri-tories globally. 24 million cases and ris-ing even as I write this article. At least8,30,000 people have lost their lives andthe virus is wreaking havoc in everynation with flattening the curve a dis-tant target to realise and no respite insight.

Financial markets are plummeting,employment has taken a drastic hit,businesses across the globe are grap-pling to device viable strategies andstructural shifts in the very way theyfunction. Our healthcare workers andfacilities are being so overburdened thatdoors are being closed to new patients.

In short, conditions are appalling.On its face, when presented with

the intensifying set of challenges, everycountry, every leader, every organisa-tion had two options. To give into thecrisis and be vanquished or rise like aphoenix from the ashes and knuckledown. While the former was not anoption, it never has been for any for us,we knew while the road was going to berough, we had to drive through andconquer the unconquerable.

Agreed, while people are losingtheir jobs at a rampant rate, there also

are vivid evidences that show howemployers, companies and businesses,both conglomerates and small enter-prises are standing shoulder to shoulderwith their workforces to ensure they aresafe and sheltered from the tempest.They are ensuring and safeguardingthat their teams and their families areprotected. Survival is a basic humaninstinct, then why fear failure when youcan embrace the learnings?

Clearly, once the screeches of thepandemic dwindle, the scale ofwhat needs to be achieved is

going to be truly staggering. So, here’stip number 1.

There are undeniable lessons wecould draw from our neighbour andmanufacturing giant China. China’ssuccess in building a globally competi-tive skilled workforce and transformingitself as the world’s manufacturing hubcan be attributed to its technical andvocational education system.

Another country that India coulddraw inspiration from is Brazil. Despitetackling a difficult fiscal and economicsituation, Brazil has developed rapidlyover the last decade and a half in termsof employment and revenue. Strategicinvestments that prepared young peoplefor jobs and entrepreneurship played asignificant role in this growth.

This brings me to my next tip. By2022, whilst India aims to create aresource pool of 500 million skilledworkers, it will likely also surpassGermany to become the fourth largesteconomy trailing only the UnitedStates, China and Japan. Currently,India stands at a historical juncture,with enormous potential to procurerich economic benefits in the forthcom-ing decades. The rapid growth in thecountry’s population would be accom-panied by an unprecedented demo-graphic transition, with far-reachingconsequences on economic growth.

We live in a world that’s technicallymutating and quickly transitioning into aknowledge-based economy that demandsa new generation of educated and skilledindividuals. With half of India’s popula-tion under the age of 25, 2/3rd less than35, (2) there’s a critical need for scalingup concerted efforts to enhance skilldevelopment in India. Despite having theworld’s largest youth population, we arenot fully capturing this potential demo-graphic dividend — over 30% of India’s

youth are NEETs — not in employment,education or training.

The next indicator I am going totalk about is crucial. India’s competitiveedge will be determined by its citizens’ability to create, share and use knowl-edge effectively in a global economywhich is experiencing a broad-basedcyclical upturn. An increasing propor-tion of skill developed population willprovide a window of opportunity toimprove labour productivity, increasedomestic production, enhance revenuefrom services, increase savings andreduce the burden of old residents onthe working population. This is highlysignificant because the two largest con-tributors to India’s economy, the ser-vices and manufacturing sectors needhighly trained workers.

The above tip certainly needs to bebacked with the next tip which is to ele-vate and strengthen the agriculturalsector, the very backbone of India’seconomy. We still are an agriculturaleconomy, which ensures food securityfor the entire country. Over the years,the sector comprising a workforce of220 million has been in enormous dis-tress with productivity dwindling at arapid rate and marred by farmer sui-cides. Training interventions in agricul-ture call for creating awareness aboutthe need for skilling and upskillingrural youth and productivity enhance-ment that produce growth and sustain-ability. Additionally, the Food &Agriculture Organisation of the UnitedNations has declared if women had thesame access to productive resources asmen, they could raise total agriculturaloutput in developing countries by 20%to 30% and reduce the number of hun-gry persons in the world by 12-17%.

Empowering and investing inwomen farmers is a pre-requisite to ful-fill India’s vision of the SustainableDevelopment Goals that aims to endpoverty and hunger, protect the envi-ronment, improve health parametersand empower all women. Their voicesneed to be heard at both policy andimplementation levels if we are torealise the dream of a progressivenation. Women farmers in India per-form most of the big farming jobs, fromsowing to harvesting, yet their access toresources is less than their male coun-terparts. Closing this gender gap isessential in order to accelerate the paceof growth in the agriculture sector.

But, skill development alone is notgoing to matter unless it is comple-mented with employment generation,particularly when around 12.8 millionpeople are entering the job market yearon year. In order to accomplish this,and this is my next word of advice —there has to be an intensive focus onindustries that are labour intensive andnot merely capital-intensive, or technol-ogy driven. Instead of adopting a top-down approach, change should startfrom the grassroots preventing peoplefrom lurking in the dark when agendasare initiated.

Automation and advances in arti-ficial intelligence is already alter-ing the manufacturing and engi-

neering sectors which promises to bethe mainstay of the economy with moreand more people coming out of farms.This brings to my next opinion. Ouryouth need to be imparted skills forjobs where humans will not be replacedby robots or algorithms like creativeendeavours, healthcare, teachers, coun-selors, lawyers, analysts and skilledtrained workers like plumbers, carpen-ters and electricians. We have to createan economy led by design, innovation,creativity and entrepreneurship to bringabout a transformation. Strengtheningthe mid-market segment in India tocreate more jobs and re-skilling theworkforce to take up the new jobswhich will be emerging.

Here is my next tip. Evidently, apartfrom meeting its own demand, Indiahas the potential to become the world-wide hub for outsourcing skilled man-power. India once poised as the globaloutsourcing hub is now viewed as aprospective supplier of world-classlabour. As the global labour forceapproaches 3.5 billion in 2030, inequal-ities will continue to grow as lower skillworkers face unemployment, underem-ployment and stagnating wages.Increasing globalisation and digitalpresence is resulting in greater cross-border outsourcing. There is massiveneed for global efforts to ensure asteady influx of high-skilled labour tomeet increasing industry demands andavoid a global unemployment crisis.

Nonetheless, achieving this is amammoth task that will require infra-structure, capital and changes to govern-ment policy. 600 million people will jointhe global workforce by 2030 with 60%

of this populace emerging from Chinaand India. This underlines the impor-tance China and India, with the latterbeing touted as a forerunner in this race,in providing the global labour marketwith skilled, employable workers.

We have only 30 years to reap thebenefits of the world’s largest youthworkforce and in a globalised economy,a large pool of skilled workers is indis-pensable for attracting industrial invest-ment including FDI. In light of this,here comes my subsequent purpose. Aknowledge economy requires us todevelop workers-knowledge workersand knowledge technologists-flexible,analytical — and become the drivingforce for innovation and growth. Toachieve this, we need a flexible educa-tion system: basic education to providethe foundation for learning; secondaryand tertiary education to develop corecapabilities and core technical skills.

To my final thoughts: A youngnation with a large digitally enabledmiddle class, India is breaking newground across all segments. But, weneed more solutions that are rapid,solutions that will make us self-sustain-able and resource-efficient.Opportunities, both at home and over-seas are boundless, but we need to buildon our capacities in order to achievemacroeconomic stability. The math issimple. If we forgo building our skillsand capabilities that will drive innova-tion, India will stagnate. GDP is merelya number, a synonym for the economicresources available for people to con-sume, for the standard of living andthus choices that are available. A north-bound GDP is not enough to ensuresustainable economic well-being of anation or the health of its businesses.

We have to start thinking beyondsheer numbers. We have to think abouttransforming the way our economy trulycreates value, address key societal needsand support a vibrant entrepreneurialsector thereby creating jobs. As the worldincreasingly confronts technologicalchanges and sustainability challenges, Itruly believe that India can offer anexemplar for other growth markets withthe intellect, energy and creativity of ayoung nation that it possesses. With con-certed effort rapid, equitable and sustain-able growth is achievable.

The writer is CEO and Founder,Assiduus, an e-commerce brand and dis-

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For our nation and for thedemocracies across theworld, it is about time to

reflect upon and evaluate ourprogress not just in the areas ofeconomy but also and increasing-ly so, in the areas of civil liberties,equality and inclusion that involvewomen’s rights and equality, equalopportunities regardless of casteor religion, promotion of freeenterprise and entrepreneurship,impartial law enforcement andjustice system, among many oth-ers. This sort of periodic evalua-tion of the health of the nationshould be conducted by peopleand the people representatives ofa young and progressive nation,especially one like ours.

We cannot become complacentand assume that national stability isassured despite the presence ofinternal conflicts. Our current dayworld is filled with examples offailed states where the governmentand its citizens did not properlyaddress internal conflicts in theirearly stages. Be it Somalia, Sudan,Zimbabwe, or Venezuela (there areclose to 30 states based on WorldBank data), the reason for the fail-ure is inevitably unaddressed inter-nal conflict(s).

According to World Bank,one of the leading indicators ofsuch failure is the breakdown ofpublic debate and disenchantmentof its citizens in that nation’s pub-lic policy. Conversely, nationswhere healthy public debate isalive and citizens are engaged inpublic policy, those nations havecontinued to perform well acrosscenturies (for example, USA, UK,our own nation for the past sevendecades)

Daron Acemoglu (of MIT)and James Robinson (ofUniversity of Chicago) make acompelling case in their book,Why Nations Fail, for the four keyingredients that create nationsthat endure for the really longterm. Those key ingredients are— freedom to move across socialclasses, freedom to choose anytype of work, fair and transparentjustice system, and freedom ofpress.

As a nation, we may havedone reasonably well thus far, inthe last three of the four ingredi-ents but not so well on the free-dom or ability to move acrosssocial classes thereby enablingpoorer citizens to move to getricher. If one were to look at the

income inequality as measuredby Gini Index, India had a GiniIndex of 32.1 in 1983 versus 37.8as of 2011 (based on latest figuresfrom World Bank). A highervalue for Gini Index indicatesthat the income disparitybetween the richest and thepoorest is greater for that societyvs a lower value. By that mea-sure, in the last 30 years, Indiahas progressively gone down thepath of ever-increasing incomedisparity (Gini Index is up byalmost 20%) with our countrydoing only marginally betterthan USA (at 41.4) while doingworse than UK (at 34.8). Apartfrom that, top 10% of the popula-tion in India has an income levelthat is 9.6 times that of the bot-tom 10% of the population.Another way to think about thatmetric (R/P 10%) is that the top10% earn as much in 10 years asthe bottom 10% earn in 100years. The R/P 10%is even worsefor other free market capitalisticdemocracies including UK (at13.8 times) and USA (at 18.5times).

For the leaders of democraticnations, such income disparityshould be sending an alarming

red signal (as a sign of internalconflict), as such state of affairswill become untenable in duecourse. Over the past century, ithas been clearly established (withper capita productivity andincomes have multiplied 4-6 timesof what they were in 1900s —GDP per capita has gone up by440% for India, by 480% for UK,and by 580% for USA) that thecurrent day capitalistic democra-cies function well for a single gen-eration but that design breaksdown when applied across multi-ple generations. If we look acrossgenerations, there is very littlesocial mobility as the rich getricher while the poor get poorer,

and this leads to an ever-wideningwealth and income gap. In thepast, these widening gaps werereset by violent and bloody revo-lutions including the French revo-lution in the 18th century, theBolshevik revolution in the 19thcentury Russia, or the KhmerRouge in Cambodia in the lastcentury.

One potential long-term solu-tion to address that ever-wideningeconomic inequality between therich and the poor, is a new form ofgovernment known as Paracracy.Paracracy that also forms the cor-nerstone on which my new novel,Pokhran is based and forms thefoundation for establishing a pro-

gressive society within the barrendesert land near Pokhran village,represents a form of governmentwhere almost everything is main-tained “as-is” in the current dayfree market capitalistic democra-cies, with one big exception beingthat none of the citizens will bebequeathing their inheritance tothe next generation.

As the etymology suggests,par which means equal (Latin)and kratia which means rule(Greek), proposes a new form ofgovernance in which every citizenwill start their life at the age oftwenty-one, with no wealth inher-ited from their parents or any rel-atives and friends. From that

point on, each of the 21-year-oldswill be free to amass as muchwealth as they legally can, withoutany constraints, so no commu-nism and at the time of theirdeath (or their spouse’s death),that wealth will be passed on tothe State. The State would investthe property and wealth thusaccumulated from its citizens intoeducation, infrastructure projects,defence, law enforcement andsocial services to take care of thesick and the disabled. Such gover-nance will ensure that there is ano generational build-up ofwealth and no ever-wideningincome inequality, as every gener-ation starts out with a clean slate.

It is a bold new way of nationbuilding, where the citizens emi-grate on an individual basis afterthey have explicitly agreed to thefirst principle of no inheritance.While a governance model withno inheritance might seem toofar-fetched in the current timesbut then it was no easy journeyfor even democracy to become astrong contender to monarchy. Ittook close to 500 years, afterCleisthenes first establishedAthenian constitution on ademocratic footing in 508 BC,for democracy to stabilise inGreece. And for that we shouldall forever be thankful toCleisthenes.

It is our collective responsibil-ity to upgrade the 2,500 year-oldinstitution to strengthen the partsthat have worked really well suchas the right to life and the right toliberty and improve the parts thathaven’t worked so well such as theright to a level playing field,regardless of whose womb you areborn in. Paracracy could be thatone bold step towards an attemptto reduce the economic disparitybetween the rich and the poor,creating equal opportunities toone and all enabling wealth gen-eration purely on capabilities.

The writer is an economist andan engineer with keen interest in

philosophy. He is also the author ofnewly released book, Pokhran

We met our neighbours forthe first time yesterday,after two and a half yearsof moving in to our pas-toral suburban villa in

Goa. It is not because we have beensocially distancing ourselves all thiswhile. The neighbours were a lovely cou-ple and during our brief meeting we gotalong well too! However, until now, ourneighbouring villa had been lying vacantas it serves as a holiday home for its own-ers who come by for about five days ayear. In fact, of the total seven villas inour compound, ours is the only one thatdoes not serve as a holiday home for itsowners. Further more, in all of Goa,21.8% of homes are similarly lyingvacant.

Goa leads amongst states with themaximum number of vacant houses inIndia. The beaches and the remnants ofits once hippie culture still draw people

from India and abroad to have a foothere. Gujarat with 13.7% of its homesvacant is second in place. HimachalPradesh has 11.8% homes vacant, whileMaharashtra has 11.2%, NCT of Delhihas 11.1% vacant homes as per the lastcensus.

The fact that 7.4% of India’s homesare lying vacant is not a problem in itself.However, the fact that these completedhomes with electricity and water connec-tions are vacant despite the country’s esti-mated housing shortage of close to 20million, is what makes this an abom-inable paradox.

To make matters worse, the vacanthomes in India are heavily skewedtowards the country’s poorest socio-eco-nomic group. Also going by the last cen-sus, 56.18% of the shortage too pertainsto households with annual incomes of�1,00,000, and 39.44% is for those withannual incomes of less than �2,00,000. It

is indeed the poorest in India who haveinadequate shelter.

The situation is even more dismalwhen one considers the tragic case of 11-18 million children in India who live onthe streets everyday with or without theirfamilies. It was equally unfortunatewhen we witnessed the fate of approxi-mately 26 lakh migrants who upon theoutbreak of Covid-19 were recentlystranded across the country where theirmass exodus out of cities was primarilydue to lack of livelihood and inadequateshelter.

Homelessness in India is grave in mag-nitude, and also diverse in the socio-eco-nomic factors causing it, as much as it iscomplex to solve. However, I believe thatone solution is to tap on the large num-bers of vacant houses in India, especiallyin the affordable housing segment.

To do so, data and informationabout vacant homes is a pre-requisite.

However, gathering data on numbers andreasons for vacant houses in India is anexcruciating and complex task, essential-ly because the individuals who need tobe questioned are the missing homeown-ers of those vacant houses. At the startof every decade, the Census of India takesnote of homes which were found vacantduring the census survey. However thisdata is part of its methodology based onwhich the census taker will either returnor not to the particular home, and thereasons for the homes found vacant arenot revealed in the census. There hasbeen no further primary data collectionon this. So, besides anecdotal evidenceand neighbourhood gossip, we do notquite know the reasons for which theabundant numbers of houses in India arelying vacant.

The Anant Centre for Sustainability,a think-teach-do tank that I establishedtwo years ago is now investigating the

paradox of vacant houses in India, byundertaking large scale surveys acrosscities. The first report in this series ofreports that was released last week,focused on Ahmedabad. Despite thehousing shortage in Ahmedabad, thereport found that more than 14% ofhomes — nearly 1,70,000 — lie vacant.Nearly 20% of EWS government homesare vacant and a further 30% are rented.In the LIG segment, majority of thehomes were found to be either vacant orrented. This seems to indicate thatthough the government has tried hardover the last few years to create housingstock for the EWS and LIG segment,nearly half or more of that stock mightnot have reached intended beneficiariesand is instead in the hands of investors.

These alarming f indings inAhmedabad are a reflection of a systemicproblem across the country. The govern-ment that is the leading housing providerin the affordable housing segment needsto clearly take a relook at its deliverymechanism of affordable houses. Further,reducing the numbers of vacant homesin India via revised rental policies,improving location, infrastructure, anddesign of affordable houses, reducingsome of the social constraints in afford-able housing development projects, aswell as by offering financial solutions, willgo a long way in shrinking the housinggap. If we can occupy the vacant homesin India, we could perhaps reduce theapproximately 50 crore slum house-holds in India by 50%.

These vacant homes can even berepurposed. During the on-going pan-demic when the nation is scrambling togive a decent roof to our children livingon the streets and migrant labour havelost livelihood and shelter, the vacantinfrastructure are not just a colossal wasteof resources but it is one of the greatesthumanitarian opportunity lost. Thevacant homes can be leveraged to makehomes and hospitals for the needy.

The past few months I have been inch-ing towards collecting data to supportimplementable solutions to provide board-ing and education facilities to the childrenon the streets of India. While children areout of school, vast numbers of schools arelying vacant for want of students.

Over the years India has mastered theart of making progressive policies that arepoorly implemented. Now there is anoth-er emerging trend — the lack of skills inmatching supply and demand for roti,kapda, and makaan.

The writer is CEO of Sustain Labsand Adjunct Professor at SciencesPo

Paris. She is also a columnist andauthor of the 2019 bestseller IndianInstincts — essays on freedom and

equality in India

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Why do you waste your lifein hatred, vengeance and

conflict?” Today’s youth aremuch less likely to acceptNehruvian shibboleths unques-tioningly, preferring nuancednarratives that discern fealty tothe civilisation beneath a super-ficial civic nationalism.

The Sikh youths are alsoharking back to traditionalism,free from reformist reduction-ism, procrustean interpreta-tions, and shrill, hypocriticalrhetoric. It is a good time toconsider alternative narrativesaround Operation Blue Star andthe century that lead up to it.Operation Blue Star was not thefirst time the Golden TempleComplex was assaulted post-Independence. In 1955, pro-testers gathered there demand-ing a Punjabi-language Statewere assaulted by the police.

The Khalsa has tradition-ally been an independent enti-ty, like any Akhada in theIndian spiritual tradition. Evenin Maharaja Ranjit Singh’sempire, it remained outside hisauthority and interference. Thiswas a typical model of socialtrusteeship between differentorgans of civilisation, but itappears to have been a conceptforeign to Indira Gandhi’smindset. She sought to harnessreligious figures and institu-tions of all hues in the serviceof political power, attackingthose who did not oblige.

State media ran propagan-da about implacable Sikh sep-aratism. The pogrom of Sikhson Rajiv Gandhi’s watch fol-lowed, fuelling an insurgencythat shook the foundations ofthe State. In parallel, decades ofeconomic mismanagement hadcome to a head, pushing Indiato the brink of becoming afailed state — a precipice thatthe Narasimha Rao adminis-tration held at bay. From thenon, challenges to the hold of theNehru-Gandhi coterie on Indiagrew stronger.

Inexplicably, Rajiv-era pro-paganda absolving Indira ofany decisive role was regurgi-tated on Indian TV this year.But her actions immediately

after the operation continued,calculated aggression. Lt GenKS Brar mentions Indira’s let-ter of appreciation for theoperation. More importantly,while remaining in occupationof the temple complex, shechallenged the Akali Dal’s holdover the Shiromani GurdwaraParbandhak Committee and itspower to elect head priests.Like the British in earlier times,she sought to insert herself intothe organisation of Sikhism.The subsequent burning ofthe Sikh Reference Library andconfiscation of its historic arte-facts, many still unaccountedfor, indicate that Indira’s targetwas not Jarnail SinghBhindranwale, but the back-bone of the Sikh traditionitself, holding nothing sacred.

What brought Sikhism intothe Indira coterie’s crosshairs?Reasons go back to Nehru’sbetrayal of Partition-erapromises to Sikhs regarding “aterritorial area within the nationto develop its own life and cul-ture (…) with a great deal ofautonomy for its constituentunits.” (October 1945; reiterat-ed in July 1946). Sikhs had losta great deal and felt a need toculturally consolidate withinIndia. But the most immediatetrigger for Indira was the factthat Sikhs had been the mostwell-mobilised protestersagainst her Emergency rule of1975-77. She targeted the RSS,too, for the same reason. A pho-tograph of a young NarendraModi in Punjab during theEmergency, disguised as a Sikh,might have a story to tell.

Under Emergency, theIndira coterie railroaded threeculturally significant changes tothe Constitution. The first ofthese decreed India a “social-ist” country, a formalisation ofexisting ad hoc policies andpolitical expedience underwhich India lurched from oneeconomic crisis to another.

The same amendmentdecreed that India shall be “sec-ular”, abdicating any specialresponsibility towards nurturingnative Hindu, Jain, Buddhist andSikh traditions as part of world

heritage. It relativised nativetraditions on the same level aspowerful, expansionist, transna-tional religions. An analogywould be treating Indian SMEson an equal footing with multi-national, foreign government-backed corporate behemoths.

Indira’s third interventionframed rules perpetuatingEnglish in State institutionsand as the sole medium of high-er education, ending even thepretence of indigenisation —another promise Nehru pro-crastinated by playing one Indiclanguage against another, jus-tifying the English-dominantstatus quo as “compromise” —a stratagem straight from thePanchatantra tale of the mon-key and quarrelling catscrossthe north. Nevertheless, Hindiand Punjabi grew, but politicscontrived a conflict. The lin-guistic reorganisation of States

was completed by 1956, butPunjab was dragged throughreligious identity-politics andre-partitioned in 1966.

The Nehru-Indiraence ofindigenisation — anotherpromise Nehru procrastinatedby playing one Indic languageagainst another, justifying theEnglish-dominant status quo as“compromise” — a stratagemstraight from the Panchatantratale of the monkey and quar-relling catscros coterie had aninteresting cast: Pro-Sovietdiplomat TN Kaul cheekilycoined the term “Kashmirimafia” to refer to themselves.Fabian socialist PN Haksar,who strategised Indira’s rise todictatorial power in the mid-70’s, was part of the PlanningCommission and the first chan-cellor of JNU. In the last decadeof his life he went blind andexpressed regrets about “secu-

larism”. Economist PN Dharwas a key confidant.Ambassador to Moscow DPDhar served as Union Ministerfor Planning. He had marchedwith Sheikh Abdullah in 1946against Maharaja Hari Singh ofKashmir, later serving asMinister under the AbdullahGovernment. The Abdullahand Mufti families remainedclose. Stranger than fiction,Nehru’s and his first Minister ofEducation, Abul Kalam Azad’s,grandfathers both held toppositions at the last Mughalcourt. Azad’s great-grandfa-ther arrived with Abdali’s inva-sion, stayed as Qazi of Punjaband was killed by MaharajaRanjit Singh’s forces.

By 1989, with Rajiv Gandhiblundering on several fronts, VPSingh formed a Government.Immediately, Kashmir explod-ed: The drama of Union Home

Minister Mufti Sayeed’s daugh-ter’s kidnapping forced India tofree terrorists. A murderousexodus of Kashmiri Hindus fol-lowed — the seventh in a seriesof genocidal rounds of ethniccleansing since 1389. Kashmirwas the pin in the grenade of thepost-Independence power struc-ture in the Subcontinent’s poli-tics — ironically crafted by anAnglicised coterie that toutedtheir Kashmiri Hindu ancestry,but threw their country cousinsto the wolves.

An inclusive faith, tradi-tional Sikhism mobilised forcivilisational integrity earlier, inless favourable circumstances(as far back as 1858, NihangSikhs made an attempt toreclaim Ram Janmabhumi).With the entrenchment of ide-ologies antithetical to tradi-tional Indian pluralism, wavesof Sikh discontentment grew.

The proverbial canary in thecoalmine was not the source ofdanger but a reaction to it. TheAnandpur Sahib Resolution of1973 formalised a charter ofSikh demands. National inscope there isn’t a shadow of“separatism” in it. When “sec-ularisation” (read Anglicisation)of youth and the State’s socialengineering became increas-ingly apparent, it spawned agrassroots counter-movement.

The Sikh microcosm hadpresaged and reacted to ideo-logical forces that were work-ing across the Indic macro-cosm. This perspective throwsa new slant on recent historyand the vital role of the Sikhexperience in crafting the sub-continent’s future.

(The writer is an informationtechnology consultant, currentlybased in Washington DC)

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Alexei Navalny, the anti-corrup-tion crusader, is the staunchest

critic of Russian President VladimirPutin. He has painted Putin’s UnitedParty as a place of “crooks andthieves”. In his public speeches, heaccused the Putin’s system of “suck-ing the blood out of Russia”. Thus hehas committed to the Russian pop-ulace that he is all out to demolishthe “Feudal State”. However, he hasnot been able to challenge Putin inthe election so far. When in 2018, hetried to contest the presidential poll,his candidature was banned by thestate over his conviction by a Russiancourt in an embezzlement case. HisAnti-Corruption Foundation isknown for exposing cases of graftand corruption by Russian politi-cians, oligarchs and top bureau-crats. He has been jailed in the pastfor bringing out unauthoriseddemonstrations. Navalny was forcedto close down his foundation in July after it was badly crippled bya multitude of fines and charges.Before this move, the Kremlin movedto froze his bank accounts, andthose of his family members, includ-ing his children.

Last month, on August 20, hesuddenly fell unconscious aboardwhile travelling from the Siberiancity of Tomsk to the capital cityMoscow. Hence an emergency land-ing was arranged on the way in thecity of Omsk and he was admitted tohospital with suspected poisoning.As per his staff, he was poisoned inthe airport café where he had tea justbefore flying. His supporters believedthat the hospital at Omsk was underpressure to delay his transfer to aGerman facility as his wife YuliaNavalny demanded. The intentionwas to prevent a detailed investiga-tion into what caused his sudden ill-ness. Interestingly AlexanderMurakhovsky, the head of the med-ical team that attended Navalny, stat-ed that Navalny had not been poi-soned but diagnosed with a meta-bolic disease caused by low bloodsugar. And this may have caused hisimmediate collapse onboard theflight. But he failed to explain why

Navalny could not regain con-sciousness even after a day. Finally,the Russian Government allowedhim to be transferred to a Germanhealthcare centre based in Berlinknown as Charite Hospital. Thedoctors in Berlin said the test resultssuggested he had been poisoned witha “cholinesterase inhibitor”. It is agroup of chemicals that are also usedto treat diseases like Alzheimer’s.

Cholinesterase’s use ranges frompesticides and medicines to nerveagents. But when used in nerveagents and pesticides, that can bereally harmful to human beings.Further, the worst part is that thecholinesterase inhibitors block acrucial enzyme that circulates mes-sages from nerves to muscles. Andthis particular enzyme is calledacetylcholinesterase. And the inhi-bition of this enzyme interferes innerve-to-muscle messaging process.Once it happens, the muscles fail tocontract and relax. Thus this leads tothe muscles into a stage of spasm.Looking all these complexities,Navalny demands a fair treatmentand post-medical care too. Currently,he has been given an antidote called“atropine”. In fact, the same antidotewas used in the case of former KGB

spy Sergei Skirpal and his daughterYulia Skirpal by the doctors in theUK after their poisoning with thenerve agent called Novichok inSalisbury in the year 2018. But bothof them had a miraculous recoveryin the UK.

Jaka Bijilz of Cinema for PeaceFoundation, the German group thatairlifted Navalny to Berlin, revealedthat initially his condition was verycritical and worrying. But now themoot question is that whetherNavalny will survive the attack with-out lasting damage. However, theGerman doctors say that the recov-ery may take long.

The recent attack on Navalny, thesixth such attempt on a Russian dis-sident in the last five years, invitedPutin a slew of scathing criticismsfrom the international community.Meanwhile the Russian Governmentdenied the accusation that Navalnywas poisoned. And the state appa-ratus has dismissed the accusation ofthe Kremlin’s involvement simply as“empty noise”. However, what comesfrom the allies of Navalny is a secretplanning of the state to kill anotherPutin baiter. Vladimir Milov, a for-mer Russian Deputy EnergyMinister, who currently advises

Navalny, said, “It’s essentially anattempt to remove him as a threat.They consider this with a classic KGBmentality: no man, no problem.”

At the moment, the topEuropean leaders such as FrenchPresident Emmanuel Macron andGerman Chancellor Angela Merkelhave demanded Moscow to launcha full investigation to this incident.In fact, both the leaders stood sideby side at a news conference to assurethe Kremlin critic medical servicesand asylum. Finally, the Kremlinordered for a thorough and objectiveinvestigation. Around the same time,Merkel said Navalny had been poi-soned with a Soviet-style Novichoknerve agent in an attempt to murderthe critic.

Protests in authoritarian nationslike China, Russia, etc, can simply bebranded as either a brave act or fool-hardy. In reality, Putin has embarkedon a repressive path to consolidatehis power. The Opposition in Russiaworks under absolute pressure andsurveillance of Moscow. Precisely, thelaw enforcement agencies and secretagents are too cautious not to allowthe Opposition a Maidan-style rev-olution that emerged in Kyiv, the cap-ital city of Ukraine, in the last part

of the year 2013 and continued tillthe beginning of 2014. Therefore,simply to prevent such uprisings, theRussian authorities are too alert todeal with any unauthorised protestsvery swiftly and decisively.

Remarkably, unlike the Kievprotests wherein the demonstratorsdemolished the statutes of Lenin andeven started occupying some gov-ernment buildings, accompanied byclashes with the security forces,Muscovites have remained peacefulso far. These protesters at times onlyblock traffic flows and occupy pub-lic spaces. They are not even like theJilets Jaunes in Paris (who almost cre-ated a total chaos for MacronGovernment) and the pro-democ-racy young protesters of Hong Kong(who occupied government build-ings just before the coming of thedraconian National Security Law inJune this year).

Navalny’s has been a sustainedattempt to raise the banner ofprotests for long. Good that till datehe is alive. It’s not only Navalny,someone or the other in the past, hasbeen trying to topple Putin and hisallies. But then why the Oppositionis not been able to dethrone Putin sofar? The excessive forces used by the

Kremlin are continuously frighten-ing off people at times to come outin open against the Putin regime.Secondly, the hardcore Oppositiongroups are not a big worry for Putinand his administration. The reasonbehind is these forces can hardlygather some thousands only in majorcities like Moscow and St. Petersburg.Thus, radical Opposition is not animmediate threat for Putin. Theauthorities are apprehensive aboutmass protests. But so far Moscow hasnot encountered a scenario like theArab Spring.

But today, the grandiose supportfor Putin is gradually declining.One of the primary reasons for thisis years of declining real wages andfiscal tightening by the PutinGovernment. In an atmosphere likethis, radical political forces andactivists should have mustered morepublic support by now. But it is notbecoming a reality as of today.

With Putin, you don’t see anydynamism and change. Only changethat you overwhelmingly witness isdwindling grace and pace of Russiaaccompanied by a top down admin-istration full of nepotism and cor-ruption. The commoners are fast fad-ing from the public square. Kremlinreprisals of the critics are a regularaffair. Putin is quite unique in car-rying out these attacks. But, Russia’s Putin era will not come to anend so easily. Resistance to Putin inpublic may lead to bloodbath.However, the Russian people cannotjust seat idle.

What David Thomson wrote inhis “Europe Since Napoleon” onceagain reminds all of us of the agonyof the Russian people under the cur-rent Putinista. He rightly stated:“History offered no warrant foreither complacent optimism or blackdespondency. It offered no simpleanswer: only a challenge to reason-able hope and strenuous, unremittingendeavour.” If people want change, they should throw weightbehind Navalny.

(The writer is an expert on inter-national affairs)

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Life is paradoxical. It is full of contra-dictions. The living world with allits enormity and diversity, where

every being is born unique, each display-ing varying desire and mind-trends,remains a natural breeding ground forconflict of interests. In such an intriguingworld, there remains no scope for everhaving a perfect situation in life — wealways remain vulnerable to go throughunforeseen twists and turns in life. Yet,we are supposed to work out ways andmeans to succeed well in life and withease and comfort. But, in a complexworld, is it possible, and if so, how?

Well, applying reasons, it is verymuch possible, and that is the challengebefore all of us. It needs to be appreciatedhere, that unlike other species in exis-tence that are respectively bound by theirpredetermined nature, human beingsenjoy the exclusive privilege to guidetheir actions by choice. But whereverchoice option is there, the probability ofits use and misuse remains equal, withrelated ramifications. To overcome thisvulnerability, human beings are armedwith another exclusive privilege ‘Buddhi’— the faculty of discriminate intelli-gence. That empowers you to dispassion-

ately judge things in perspective and pickup the most appropriate lead. It lets youweigh between ‘what you want’ and‘what is right’ and accordingly help makeright choice. It does also help you visu-alise challenges coming your way in theright perspective due, and let you combatthem intelligently.

Buddhi, however, doesn’t play outinvoluntarily. It has to be consciouslyinvoked on every occasion, which callsfor necessary alert for the purpose.Truth, however, remains that we seldomremain conscious about keeping thisempowerment tool in active mode all thetime. Ordinarily, we flow by the run oflife driven by our inherent desire andmind-trends. Our ‘Ego’ further plays adevil in the process, as it identifies itselfwith those trends and takes them as ifthat would be its end game. It won’tallow invoking buddhi for due diligence— whether the desires pursued are worthit or not; are we equipped to pursuethem to their logical end; and whetherenvironmental conditions are conduciveor not — and with obvious conse-quences. When we fail, we either blameexternal factors or take refuse in the callof destiny, rather than looking within to

figure out our own fault lines.The other day, a gentleman came

asking: “Sir, I pick up great ideas.Pursuing them, I earn substantially. Andthen in my next move, which apparentlylooks worth pursuing, I lose everything.The net result is zero. What is there inmy destiny that doesn’t let me have myway? Please suggest some puja to over-come this vulnerability of mind.”

While looking for a puja, you needto first understand how one’s destiny ismade out. Bear in mind; our life is drivenby cause-effect chain. The choices thatwe have made in the past, have a carry-over effect in future. The imprints ofwhat we did in the past is laid down inour minds in the form of seed-potential,which given a conducive atmosphere willplay out in future. Accordingly, the bestpuja would be to first know your ownself — figure out the indwelling seedpotential. You could then, once againapplying choice option duly guided bybuddhi, make necessary amends in yourthought process through fresh educativeinputs. That alone can let you rise overyour own limitations. Any puja conduct-ed by pundits can’t invade your mind-space for necessary correction.

Now look at your inherent desire and

mind-trends. Uranus occupying thelagna, is trine to its lord Sun speaks ofyour high talent. The Sun in the 5thhouse marked with speculative tenden-cies, brings in gambling instinct. But atthe end of the day, signifying Moon putsyour ideas into action. Moon occupiesGemini sign, the one marked with vacil-lation, which is posited in the constella-tion owned by Mars in the 5th house,which further strengthens your gamblingtendencies. As would happen in anygambling, the probability of success andfailure remains equal. This vulnerabilitycould be contained by applying sense ofreasons, as it will let you make calculatedmoves and avoid playing blind games,which you often do.

The problem, however, is that intelli-gence signifying Mercury is conjunct itsnatural enemy Mars as well as headlessKetu, which makes you restless, notallowing space for due diligence.Consequently, you are tempted to rushthrough your action on instinctive judg-ment, and evidently to your detriment.The result is there to see.

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