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New Delhi: Fourteen children
allegedly trafficked from dif-
ferent districts of Bihar to
Delhi were rescued and 10
people were arrested by the
Railway unit of Delhi Police,
officials said on Wednesday.
As per protocol, the res-
cued children in the age group
of 12-14 years have been taken
to a quarantine centre in south
Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar, they said.
The matter came to notice
after an information was
received from an NGO on
September 7 about 14 minors
being brought to Delhi by
Mahananda Express Train
from different districts of Bihar.
A joint operation was
launched at the Old Delhi
Railway Station by police along
with NGO Bachpan Bacho
Andolan, Salam Balak Trust
and RPF personnel.
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Aday after her arrest in a
drug case related to the
Sushant Singh Rajput death,
actress Rhea Chakraborty on
Wednesday moved a bail plea
before a sessions court.
“The bail pleas of Rhea and
her brother Showik
Chakraborty will come up for
hearing in the Mumbai
Sessions Court on Thursday,
their lawyer Satish Maneshinde
said on Wednesday.
Rhea and Showik face sim-
ilar charges of sourcing and
procuring drugs for Sushant,
who was found dead under
mysterious circumstances in a
closed room of his rented
duplex flat in Mount Blanc at
Bandra’s Carter Road in north-
west Mumbai on June 14.
In his application seeking
bail for Rhea, Maneshinde said
his client was “innocent”, “has
not committed any crime what-
soever” and that “she has been
falsely implicated in the
case”.
In one of the several
grounds cited by for bail to
Rhea, Maneshinde said: “The
application has been arraigned
for an offence punishable under
Section 8 (c) read with 20 (b)
(ii)22, 27A,28, 29 and 30 of the
NDPS Act, 1985. Given that no
drug and psychotropic sub-
stances have been seized from
the applicant and the allega-
tions. If any, would pertain
strictly to small quantities, and
given that though Section 27 A
has been applied, the ingredi-
ents have thereof not been
made out, the bar under
Section 37(1) of the NDPS
would not apply in the present
circumstances. Thus the
offence, if any, is bailable in
nature, the Applicant ought to
be enlarged on bail”.
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The human trials of one of
the most promising Covid-
19 vaccine candidates, being
developed by the University of
Oxford, has been put on hold
after a UK participant had an
adverse reaction to it.
AstraZeneca, the biophar-
maceutical giant in tie-up with
the university to produce the
vaccine, described the pause as
a “routine” one following what
was “an unexplained
illness”.
The trials had moved into
Phase III after successful Phase
I and II testing had raised
worldwide hopes of it being
ready by early next year as
results showed that it pro-
duced a positive immune
response.
The vaccine moved to
Phase III testing in recent
weeks, involving around 30,000
participants in the US as well
as in the UK, Brazil and South
Africa.
“As part of the ongoing
randomised, controlled global
trials of the Oxford coron-
avirus vaccine, our standard
review process was triggered
and we voluntarily paused vac-
cination to allow a review of
safety data by an independent
committee,” said a spokesper-
son for AstraZeneca on
Tuesday evening.
“This is a routine action
which has to happen whenev-
er there is a potentially unex-
plained illness in one of the tri-
als, while it is investigated,
ensuring we maintain the
integrity of the trials.
In large trials illnesses will
happen by chance but must be
independently reviewed to
check this carefully,” the
spokesperson said.
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The Supreme Court
Wednesday stayed the
implementation of the 2018
Maharashtra law granting
reservation to Marathas in
education and jobs but made it
clear that the status of those
who have availed of the bene-
fits will not be disturbed.
A three-judge bench head-
ed by Justice LN Rao referred
to a larger constitution bench,
to be set up by Chief Justice of
India SA Bobde, the batch of
pleas challenging the validity of
the law granting reservation to
Marathas in education and
jobs.
The apex court said that
status of those who have
already taken benefits of the
2018 law shall not be dis-
turbed.
Meanwhile, the
Maharashtra BJP said on
Wednesday it is a “black day”
for Marathas as it attacked the
Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA)
Government for not ensuring
that the quota held its ground
before the apex court.
The Socially and
Educationally Backward
Classes (SEBC) Act, 2018 was
enacted to grant reservation to
people of Maratha communi-
ty in Maharashtra in jobs and
admissions.
The Bombay High Court,
while upholding the law in June
last year, had held that 16 per
cent reservation was not justi-
fiable and said that quota
should not exceed 12 per cent
in employment and 13 per
cent in admissions.
The apex court passed the
order on a batch of pleas chal-
lenging the HC order and the
2018 law.
On July 27, the
Maharashtra Government had
assured the top court that it
would not proceed with the
recruitment process to fill up
the vacancies on the basis of 12
per cent Maratha reservation
till September 15, except for
departments, Public Health
and Medical Education and
Research.
Advocates Amit Anand
Tiwari and Vivek Singh,
appearing for one of the peti-
tioners, had earlier told the
apex court that the last date for
admission to PG medical
courses should be deferred.
The high court, in its June
27 last year order, had said that
50-per cent cap on total reser-
vations imposed by the
Supreme Court could be
exceeded in exceptional cir-
cumstances. It had also accept-
ed Maharashtra Government’s
argument that the Maratha
community was socially and
educationally backward and it
was duty-bound to take steps
for its progress.
The high court had said
though the quota was valid, its
quantum — 16 per cent — was
not justifiable and it should be
reduced to 12 per cent and 13
per cent, as recommended by
the State Backward Classes
Commission.
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In a day of high drama wit-
nessed in Mumbai’s upmar-
ket Pal Hill area, the demolition
squad of the Shiv Sena-run
Brihanmumbai Municipal
Corporation (BMC) pulled
down Kangana Raut’s office at
Bandra (illegal portions) by the
time the Bombay High Court
ordered a stay on the process,
even as an aggrieved actress
ranted and raved, came up
with a “..... tujhe kya lagta
hai?” dare for Maharashtra
Chief Minister Uddhav
Thackeray, whom she threat-
ened to expose.
After her air journey from
Himachal Pradesh to Mumbai
during which an angry actress
took to twitter to reiterate
“...Mumbai is PoK now
# d e a t h o f d e m o c r a c y ”,
“Pakistan” and termed the civic
employees as “Babar and his
army”, Kangana arrived at her
Bungalow 5, Chetak Row
House located along Pali Hill’s
Nargis Dutt Road at Bandra
(west) in north-west Mumbai
to a virtual trial of destruction
caused by a swift and elaborate
demolition carried out by the
BMC workers at her bungalow,
which houses the office of her
film production company,
Manikarnika Films Pvt
Ltd.
Kangana has come under
fire from various quarters for
controversial statements com-
paring Mumbai to “Pak-
Occupied Kashmir” and saying
“it seems Mumbai is addicted
to blood” and dubbing
Bollywood as an “Islam-dom-
inated” film industry. Protests
erupted in Mumbai and other
cities against the actress. Shiv
Sena activists burnt her effigy
and pictures in Mumbai, Pune,
Aurangabad, Thane, Palghar,
Nashik. On its part, the BJP too
has distanced from Kangana’s
“anti-Mumbai” comments.
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Delhi registered a record
4,000 plus new cases on
Wednesday as India’s death
toll crossed the 75,000 counts.
The country recorded 89,706
positive cases of coronavirus
disease (Covid-19), pushing
the country’s cumulative tally
past 4.3 million-mark.
The country also saw 1,115
deaths in the last 24 hours,
which logged the cumulative
death toll at 73,890 due to the
disease outbreak.
The national Capital had
added just around 650 cases on
August 16, but on Wednesday
the figure stood at 4,039. With
more than 2 lakh cases, Delhi
is very close to replacing Pune
as the worst affected Indian
city.
On Wednesday, Delhi
recorded as many as 20 deaths
which took its fatality count to
4,630. The national Capital
has increased the number of
tests per day and also come out
with the provision of “testing
on demand”. Now no medical
prescription is required for
testing.
Despite a sharp surge in
Covid-19 cases in the nation-
al Capital over the last fort-
night, the Delhi Government
has ruled out the possibility of
another lockdown, with Health
Minister Satyendar Jain assert-
ing that the economy “cannot
be kept shut for eternity” as
livelihoods of millions depend
on it.
The Minister also asserted
that “extreme caution and not
panic” should be the response
of the city, and people should
exhibit greater alertness and
responsibility in public places
to deal with this health crisis.
In the first eight days of the
month, Delhi registered 22,378
fresh coronavirus cases, includ-
ing 3,609 fresh coronavirus
cases on Tuesday, the highest
single-day spike in 76 days, as
the city moved towards two
lakh-mark with over 4,618
deaths due to Covid-19 so far.
India’s overall mortality
rate has remained below two
per cent of the total cases, but
the total count is increasing
with the country recording
around 90,000 cases for the last
several days. Such a huge daily
caseload has also pushed up the
death count to around 1,000
plus on a daily basis. On
Wednesday, India’s death count
went past the 75,000 marks.
Maharashtra has so far
recorded around 28,000 deaths,
followed by Tamil Nadu 8,000
and Karnataka 6,800. On
Tuesday, Maharashtra record-
ed 320 deaths, Tamil Nadu 78
and Karnataka 128.
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After their unsuccessful bids
to breach the Line of
Actual Control (LAC) in the
last few days, China has start-
ed deploying more troops on
the Pangong Tso (lake) indi-
cating that it was not ready for
immediate disengagement.
The Chinese have also
added muscle to their air power
by deploying more than 150
aircraft and helicopters on their
side of the LAC in Ladakh. Not
willing to take any chances the
IAF has also deployed its front
line fighter jets including the
SU-30, MIG-29, and Jaguars at
forward bases all along the
4,000 km long LAC stretching
from Ladakh in the west to
Arunachal Pradesh in the east.
This ramping up of troops
by China comes days after
India, in a defensive move on
August 29-30, occupied heights
in the north bank of the lake
near ‘Finger 4’. This was a
befitting reply to China, which
dominates the area between
Finger 4 and 8. The Indian
Army also thwarted bid by the
Chinese to gain a foothold on
the south bank of the lake.
The deployment of addi-
tional troops by the Chinese in
the north bank of the Pangong
Tso has increased tension and
may also cast a shadow on the
meeting between External
Affairs Minister S Jaishankar
and his Chinese counterpart
Wang Yi in Moscow on
Thursday.
The luncheon meeting will
take place on the sidelines of
the conclave of foreign minis-
ters of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organisation.
Elaborating upon the latest
developments, sources said
India will retaliate if the
Chinese try to breach the
Indian positions. In a swift
proactive move, the Indian
forces on August 29-30 night
occupied the hilltops higher
than the ‘Finger 4’ area on the
Indian side of the LAC.
Sources said India will not
tolerate any transgression and,
if the Chinese cross the “red
line, retaliation will be swift.
Defining the “red lines,” sources
said barbed wires are now
erected around all the Indian
positions and, if the Chinese try
to breach it, the local Army
commander are free to take
suitable action, they said. The
Indian troops may also open
fire if the Chinese try to come
close to the Indian positions.
These rules of engagement
to fire were implemented in the
wake of the June 15 incident
when 20 Indian personnel
including the commanding
officer were beaten and stabbed
to death a bloody brawl with
the Chinese troops in the
Galwan valley. Earlier, in a
pact in the 1990s, the two
sides decided not use firearms
and conduct blasts for training
and infrastructure develop-
ments with 2 kms of the LAC.
Mandarin-speaking Indian sol-
diers are now part of frontline
troops on the LAC. In the past
few days they have repeatedly
warned the Chinese soldiers on
the loudhailer, they said.
As regards present troops
strength, more than 5,000 to
7,000 Chinese troops are now
present in the Eastern Ladakh
region and more than 50,000 all
over the 1,600 km long LAC in
the entire region of
Ladakh.
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The Himalaya Day was
observed at the Forest
Research Institute (FRI) and
the ICAR-Indian Institute of
Soil and Water Conservation
(IISWC) here on Wednesday.
At FRI, the Indian Council
of Forestry Research and
Education director general and
FRI director, Arun Singh Rawat
presided over the online event.
He spoke about the importance
of Himalaya and their role in
conservation and sustenance of
nature and the challenges being
faced due to climate change.
Delivering the guest lec-
ture, professor of environmen-
tal studies at Delhi University,
Maharaj K Pandit spoke of the
geophysical, geo-biological,
biological and cultural aspects
and their inter-relationship
within the Himalayan ecosys-
tem. He stressed the fact the
Himalaya is a global heritage
and should not be thought of
belonging to any one nation.
He also pointed at the chal-
lenges being faced by the
mountain range- the most
prominent being climate
change.
At IISWC, considering
precautions in view of Covid-
19, the event was marked divi-
sion/section wise under the
directions of the institute direc-
tor RS Yadav. Speaking on the
occasion, Yadav assured that
the institute will continue to
strive for the sustainable man-
agement of Himalayas. Heads
of various divisions spoke on
services provided by Himalaya
and emphasised on the need
for the conservation of
Himalayan ecosystem in their
respective divisions. All the
staff members also took an oath
regarding conservation of soil
and water to save the Himalaya
and life.
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Chandigarh Amid easing of
restrictions, Punjab Chief
Minister Capt Amarinder
Singh on Wednesday
announced that those flying
in from abroad with COVID-
19 negative certificates up to
96 hours old can now go for
home quarantine.
“International travelers, who
get themselves tested on
arrival at the airport as part of
the Government of India’s
new directives, can also go
home for quarantine if found
negative,” he said, adding that
Punjab was currently at the
17th position in the country
in terms of COVID-19 cases.
The Chief Minister said that
after the decline in testing due
to rumour mongering and
fake propaganda, the number
of COVID tests had again
touched around 28,000 per
day as the police had cracked
down heavily on miscreants
spreading misinformation in
the State. Pointing out that
28,688 tests were conducted a
day before, he said that the
figures would be raised to
30,000 soon. The focus of the
State Government is on sav-
ing lives, for which early test-
ing is essential, he added. He
pointed that the anti-social
elements are defaming
Punjab.
“The claims of organ har-
vesting of deceased COVID
patients are totally incorrect
and illogical,” said the Chief
Minister, warning of strict
action against such miscre-
ants. “We have to effectively
counter such campaigns,” he
told the third group of
Congress MLAs as part of his
series of video conferences
with party legislators and
ministers to discuss the
COVID-19 situation.
CAPT ASKS CONG
MLAs, MINISTERS TO
VISIT CONSTITUENCIES,
DISTRICTS OVER NEXT 3
DAYS
The Chief Minister asked
the Ministers and MLAs to
visit their districts and con-
stituencies to take stock of the
ground situation over the
next three days. With the
peak expected in the State in
the next two weeks, it was
important for the elected rep-
resentatives and officials to
work together to tackle the
crisis, he said. Capt
Amarinder asked the MLAs
to work with Panchayats to
identify the rumour mongers
and to activate party workers
to check the spread of nega-
tive propaganda on COVID.
Slamming the Aam Aadmi
Party (AAP) for its concerted
campaign to spread misin-
formation in Punjab on
COVID, the Chief Minister
said that despite its lower
population, Delhi, which is
ruled by AAP, has reported
worse data on the pandemic.
They (AAP) have made it a
subject of competition, he
said, adding that this was
shocking.
“Nowhere has such a
thing happened, and, in fact,
the Congress has been sup-
porting State Governments
across the country in their
fight against COVID, in sharp
contrast to AAP and the
Akalis who are trying to derail
the Punjab government’s
efforts,” he added. The MLAs
demanded strict police action
against vicious social media
campaigns that were clearly
aimed at discrediting the State
Government. All the MLAs
wanted the Chief Minister to
order a strict crackdown on
fake IDs on social media
defaming Punjab and
indulging in character assas-
sination of MLAs and the
State Government. Capt
Amarinder told the members
that he had already directed
the DGP to ensure strict
action against web channels
spreading misinformation
and would speak to the cen-
tral government as well as the
US ambassador over foreign
web channels reportedly
engaged in such negative pro-
paganda.
The MLAs came out with
various suggestions to counter
the false propaganda against
the State Government and to
better manage the crisis.
These included involvement
of Panchayats for manage-
ment of COVID positive
patients in villages and setting
up of district level anti-
rumour squads of police and
civic officials to check the
spread of rumours. The Chief
Minister expressed concern
over the fact that people con-
tinued to violate guidelines by
not wearing masks and not
maintaining social distance
even in the seventh month of
the pandemic.
“They are risking not just
their own lives but those of
their families too,” he said,
adding that it was the duty of
all, not just as politicians but
as citizens, to spread the mes-
sage among the people. Free
distribution of food packets
for poor patients in isolation
had started in Patiala, with
other districts to follow, said
Capt Amarinder, adding that
the process of distribution of
free COVID kits to 50,000
COVID patients at homes
and in hospitals will begin in
a couple of days. Members
also suggested stringent mea-
sures to check violation of
restrictions on number of
people allowed to attend
bhogs etc, especially in vil-
lages. A suggestion was made
to involve religious organisa-
tions to disseminate the mes-
sage of Covid precautions
and prevention. Some MLAs
asked for CCTVs to be
installed in isolation wards to
allow the patients to commu-
nicate with their families and
friends and permission to
relatives of COVID patients to
visit isolation wards in PPE
kits purchased at own cost,
etc. Overcharging by private
hospitals was another concern
raised by MLAs, some of
whom said many of these
hospitals were also refusing to
attend to COVID patients
and needed to be controlled.
They also sought increase in
Level III beds amid the spike
in cases, as well as strict
implementation of mandato-
ry masks and other Covid
protocols. Health Secretary
Hussan Lala apprised the
meeting of the latest data on
COVID in Punjab, pointing
out that 90 percent of the
deaths had been reported
among Level III patients, 7.6
percent among Level II and
the remaining of patients in
home isolation.
The legislators appreciat-
ed the lockdown relaxations
recently announced by the
Chief Minister, and also the
decision on electricity bills to
be raised on actuals instead of
last year’s average. Chief
Secretary Vini Mahajan said
that the state was passing
through a critical time, neces-
sitating a joint fight by all
stakeholders. She urged
MLAs to bring any problems
to the notice of the con-
cerned officials. The issue of
cases of dengue being report-
ed from some areas was also
raised and the Chief Minister
directed the Health
Department to deploy special
teams to launch precautionary
measures across the state to
prevent the spread of dengue.
The Chief Minister assured
the MLAs that the procure-
ment of paddy would be done
as smoothly as it had been
done for wheat amid the pan-
demic. The process will be as
smooth as the previous seven
seasons of Kharif, he added.
In response to a concern
about migrant labourers who
many want to return after the
season, he also assured that
those who come to Punjab for
paddy harvesting will not get
stranded here.
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As part of crackdown against
miscreants inciting the
public with malicious hate con-
tent on organ harvesting,
Punjab Police has got 38
Facebook, 49 Twitter and 21
YouTube accounts or links
blocked by competent author-
ities for spread of “vicious pro-
paganda” on COVID-19. A
total of 151 accounts or links of
Facebook, 100 of Twitter, four
of Instagram and 37 of
YouTube have been reported to
the concerned Facebook,
Twitter and Google authorities,
with 121 FIRs registered so far
at various police stations across
Punjab.
“Punjab police’s Bureau of
Investigations (BoI) has taken
up the matter of blocking the
spiteful accounts or links of
anti-national and anti-social
elements with the Cyber Law
Division of Union Ministry of
Electronics and Information
Technology following which
108 accounts or links have
been blocked so far. Further
action on the remaining
accounts is awaited,” said the
state Director General of Police
Dinkar Gupta. Gupta said that
the competent authorities of
the concerned social media
platforms had also been
requested to provide informa-
tion of users.
“Suitable legal action will
be initiated against the mis-
creants under the relevant pro-
visions of the Information
Technology Act, 2000, and
Indian Penal Code as soon as
the user information is
received,” he added. Punjab’s
BoI’s State Cyber Crime Cell
director Arpit Shukla has also
appealed to the people not to
share any kind of unverified or
unauthentic posts, news, videos
or stories regarding COVID on
social media platforms, in the
interest of the safety, security
and maintenance of public
order in the State of Punjab.
The Chief Minister had
ordered the crackdown amid
widespread rumour mongering
and spread of fake news or
spiteful videos by anti-social
elements on social media plat-
forms, intentionally to spread
hatred, misinformation and
disaffection. Videos are being
uploaded by them to incite
public in the name of “human
organ trade during COVID-
19”. A wave of misinformation
is being spread through various
social media platforms that
doctors and paramedics are
falsely declaring people
COVID positive and then they
are taking out their organs for
monetary benefits.
These obnoxious posts or
videos on social media are not
only defamatory to the state
government and doctors but is
also seen discouraging the peo-
ple from testing and treatment
for COVID from various health
facilities. The Chief Minister
has repeatedly expressed con-
cern over the loss of lives
resulting from delayed testing
as people misled by these fake
posts or videos are not going
for testing and treatment to
hospitals, an official spokesper-
son pointed out.
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Haryana legislators, who
recently recovered from
Covid-19 infection, on
Wednesday said that one must
not take the virus lightly and
people having Covid-19 symp-
toms need to be tested imme-
diately apart from this, social
distancing norms, wearing
masks must be followed strict-
ly.Around a dozen of Haryana
legislators including State Chief
Minister Manohar Lal Khattar
were infected to Covid-19
ahead of the monsoon session
of Haryana Assembly last
month and they could not
attend the session.However,
most of the State legislators
have now tested Covid-19 neg-
ative and discharged after
undergoing treatment. The
State Chief Minister who was
tested positive has been under-
going treatment in Medanta
and, according to doctors, his
health condition is improving
satisfactorily.Talking to The
Pioneer over the phone,
Assembly Speaker Gian Chand
Gupta, Transport Minister
Mool Chand Sharma and State
Power Minister Ranjit Singh
Chautala shared their experi-
ences regarding Covid-
19.Assembly Speaker Gupta
said that he would continue to
be in home isolation for the
next one week after being dis-
charged from Medanta
Hospital. “Ahead of the
Assembly session, I got myself
tested for Covid-19 and the
report came positive. I had
throat infection and later fever
that never went down. Cold,
lack of smell, body aches,
headache etc troubled me. I got
admitted in a local government
hospital in Panchkula and later
in Gurugram’s Medanta. I had
read about the symptoms, but
had never imagined that I
would undergo all this.”He fur-
ther said, ““I was discharged
but now I know how much
weakness it causes to the body
even after I tested negative. I
could not even walk properly.
Now health has improved. I am
experiencing little weakness
but would soon recover.”The
Speaker said that now his fam-
ily members have tested nega-
tive. “I do regular exercise and
eat desi food all the time. One
should follow Covid-19 guide-
lines as it can attack anyone,” he
added. He said that social dis-
tancing norms, wearing masks
must be followed. We all need
to take the rising numbers
seriously, he added.Transport
Minister Moolchand Sharma
who recovered from the virus
after nine days of home isola-
tion has started his public
work. “I had mild fever and a
sore throat when my report
came positive for Covid-19. I
recovered in home isolation as
I continued taking immunity
boosters and had strong will
power. I fully recovered in
around nine days,” he said. The
Minister said, “To attend the
monsoon session of the
Haryana Assembly, I had
undergone Covid-19 test and
reported positive. No family
members were tested positive.
I was in self quarantine after the
doctor's consultation. I was
not told to get admitted in hos-
pital. I continued to be in
touch with the doctors during
home quarantine and recov-
ered after nine days of home
treatment.” Sharma said, “I did
not know exactly how I was
infected to Covid-19 but being
in public life I meet a large
number of people on a routine
basis for redressal of their con-
cerns.“ Sharing his experience,
Sharma said that one should
get tested at the earliest. No one
should take the disease lightly
but social distancing norms,
wearing masks must be fol-
lowed.State Power Minister
Ranjeet Singh Chautala who
tested positive on August 29
said that he tested negative two
days ago. I am thankful to the
healthcare staff as they moni-
tored my health to ensure that
there are no health complica-
tions.” Without having any
symptom, I tested Covid-19-
positive. I was admitted to
Medanta hospital and now I
have been tested negative.
Fortunately, I did not suffer any
long-term health effects, he
said.Chautala said that people
need to understand that these
are not normal circumstances
and they should not defy safe-
ty norms of social distancing
and wearing a mask. As a part
of precaution, people should
use herbal karha and immuni-
ty boosters as the health
department is distributing it
free of cost so that people can
be benefited.
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Deputy Chief Minister of
Delhi Manish Sisodia
announced to provide stalls at
a very discounted rate to artists
and artisans at all the campus-
es of the tourism department
including Delhi Haat.
The announcement came
in a meeting chaired by Deputy
CM with the Board of Delhi
Tourism and Transport
Development Corporation
(DTTDC) at the Delhi
Secretariat.
Sisodia said, “Due to the
Corona epidemic and lock-
down, artists and artisans who
cannot buy expensive stalls at
Delhi Haat and other places
will be provided stalls at a very
economical rate.”
He said that a person had
to spend thousands to take a
stall on usual day but now these
will be available for only 500 to
600 rupees.
It has also been decided to
give huge concessions to ven-
dors who have food stalls inside
Delhi Haat and other places. It
has been decided to waive off
the rent for these vendors for
the entire duration of the
lockdown. In many cases, it
has also been decided to
give considerable concession
in the normal fare till
October 31, he said.
Sisodia said, “At present,
the economic situation is fac-
ing a huge challenge due to
the Pandemic all over the
Globe and the markets espe-
cially the tourism and hospi-
tality industry are badly
affected. DTTDC is of the
view this at this point, it is
necessary to retain those ven-
dors/operators who have
been associated with DTTDC
for a long time by giving rela-
tion to them.
This will not only enable
these operators to consoli-
date their business activity in
the given time but also for
DTTDC in getting regular rev-
enue for a longer period, he
added.
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The Municipal Corporation of
Dehradun (MCD) is facing flak
from the locals on social media plat-
forms as well as from the heritage
experts of the city after they observed
the installation of blue mosaic tiles com-
mon in bathrooms and swimming
pools placed on a wall around the Clock
Tower. The MCD is planning to set up
an illuminated fountain for the beauti-
fication of the Clock Tower for which
these tiles were recently put but the
locals did not admire the changes and
opined that such changes are killing the
aura and charm of the Clock Tower.
Though some people were hopeful
that these tiles will probably not be vis-
ible in the completed look of the site but
municipal commissioner Vinay Shankar
Pandey informed that the installed
tiles will be there in the finished look
as they have been installed with this
purpose.
Furthermore, some
MCD officials also stat-
ed that the construction
at the site is not com-
pleted yet, so judging it
amid the ongoing con-
struction would not be
right. Talking about this
matter, heritage expert
and independent direc-
tor of Dehradun Smart
City Limited, Lokesh
Ohri said that Clock
Tower is a 100 years old
heritage structure and
first iconic structure in
Dehradun which was
constructed after India's
independence. Besides
its phenomenal archi-
tectural style, it is also
associated with many
famous Indian person-
alities like Sarojini Naidu
who laid the foundation
of the Clock Tower and Lal Bahadur
Shastri who inaugurated it, stated Ohri.
According to him, this rareness is
the character of the Clock Tower which
makes it an integral part of Dehradun
that separates this city from others and
hence, we need to preserve the heritage
of Dehradun that represents our city. As
per Ohri, the blue mosaic tiles installed
by MCD do not complement the build-
ing structure of the Clock Tower but
rather makes it unsightly. The govern-
ment bodies should consider all the
aspects before working on or nearby a
historical site because it is important to
preserve the essence of a historic struc-
ture while one tries to renovate or beau-
tify it, he added. The experts also opined
that the officials should take advice and
opinions of heritage consultants and
experts before making any changes on
or around the heritage structures so that
the structures like Clock Tower con-
tinue to retain their spirit and beauty
for years.
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In the highest single day
surge so far, the State health
department reported 1061
fresh cases of Covid-19 in
Uttarakhand on Wednesday.
The spike caused the patient
tally to mount to 27211 in the
state. Deaths of 12 patients
were also reported on the day
which increased the death
toll to 372 in Uttarakhand. A
total of 789 patients of the dis-
ease were discharged from
different hospitals of the day
after their recovery from the
disease. Out of total con-
firmed cases, 18236 patients
have so far recovered from the
disease. The percentage recov-
ery for the Covid-19 patients
in the state is 67.11 percent
and out of the total samples
tested 5.93 percent samples
have tested positive for the
disease.
Six patients of the disease
were reported dead at the All
India Institute of Medical
Sciences (AIIMS) Rishikesh
on Wednesday. Similarly four
patients succumbed at Sushila
Tiwari government hospital
Haldwani and two patients
died at Government Doon
Medical College (GDMC)
hospital on the day.
The state health depart-
ment reported 265 fresh cases
of Covid-19 in Udham Singh
Nagar district while 251
patients were reported in
Dehradun. Similarly 142
patients surfaced in Haridwar,
82 in Tehri, 68 in Pauri, 51 in
Champawat, 49 in
Rudraprayag, 35 in Almora
and 32 patients were report-
ed in Chamoli district on
Wednesday. In Pithoragarh
27 patients came up while 23
patients were reported in
Uttarkashi.
Out of the 789 patients
cured, 300 are from Udham
Singh Nagar while 100 belong
to Haridwar district. In Tehri
98 patients were discharged
while 70 in Dehradun and 62
patients in Nainital were cured
from Covid-19. Similarly 55
patients in Pithoragarh, 33 in
Rudraprayag, 20 in Chamoli,
18 in Uttarkashi, 16 in Pauri,
four in Almora and one in
Bageshwar were discharged.
The record breaking count
of Covid-19 patients in a sin-
gle day also increased the
number of active patients in
the state to 8500.
Dehradun leads the table
of active cases of the disease
with 2169 patients. Haridwar
has 1372 active cases and is on
second spot while with 1310
active cases Udham Singh
Nagar is in third position.
Tehri Garhwal has 491, Pauri
474, Uttarkashi 329, Almora
284, Champawat 256,
Pithoragarh 212, Rudraprayag
201, Chamoli 137 and
Bageshwar 105 active cases of
the disease.
The authorities have set
up 262 containment zones in
different parts of the state to
prevent spread of the disease.
Haridwar has 200 such zones
while Dehradun has 20,
Udham Singh Nagar 11, Pauri
9 and Uttarkashi and Tehri
seven such zones each.
Nainital and Rudraprayag
have four containment zones
each.
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In a move which would hin-
der the pace of sample test-
ing in provisional state capital
Dehradun, the district health
department cancelled the per-
mission of six private labs to
conduct Covid-19 tests. The
department has taken this step
after it was found that these
labs were not maintaining
proper records of the testing
persons.
The lack of record keeping
was creating problems for the
health department to keep
track of the patients.
The Chief Medical Officer
(CMO) of Dehradun, Dr
Anup Dimri cancelled the
permission of Dr Sanjana
Nautiyal lab, Sikand
Diagnostic centre, Goyal
pathology lab, Aarna diag-
nostic centre, Velmed hospital
and Kaniska hospital with
immediate effect.
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After one more employee of the
Municipal Corporation of
Dehradun (MCD) tested positive for
Covid-19 on Wednesday, the munic-
ipal commissioner Vinay Shankar
Pandey extended the restriction on
public entry for two more days.
According to Pandey, the campus will
be sanitised on Thursday and to curb
the risk of Covid-19 contagion among
locals and the employees of the cor-
poration, the public will not be allowed
in MCD premises till Friday. Pandey
said that the employees and officials are
allowed in the MCD as their absence
will cause hindrance in the working of
the corporation.
It is pertinent to mention here that
this is the fourth patient who was
found Covid-19 positive in the cor-
poration in the last twelve days. In
view of the increasing cases of Covid-
19 contagion in the corporation in the
last few days, Pandey also advised peo-
ple to avoid visiting the corporation
unnecessarily and if possible, use
online mode for the purpose of prop-
erty tax submission instead of waiting
to visit the MCD premises to deposit
the tax.
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Considering the incon-
venience being caused
to the public due to the fre-
quent closing of the MCD
premises to the public
because of Covid-19 cases
in the corporation, the
MCD issued names and
contact numbers of the offi-
cials of all the major sec-
tions of MCD in order to
make them accessible for
public during the current
crisis. In the last ten days,
the MCD restricted entry of
public in their premises for
six days to curb the Covid-
19 contagion due to which
people are facing problems
in approaching the corpo-
ration for various issues
regarding sanitation, prop-
erty tax and other tasks.
Therefore, MCD issued
contact numbers of the offi-
cials so that the locals can
approach officials with their
issues without visiting the
premises. People can also
mail MCD at nagar-
nigam.ddn@gmail.com for
any complaints. They can
also contact disaster control
room number 18001804153
for any waterlogging issues
during rain. Moreover, the
locals can also directly call
the municipal officials
including chief municipal
health officer, tax superin-
tendent and senior veteri-
nary officer among other
officials to register their
complaint. The contact
numbers of some officials
can also be found on the
official website of
MCD.
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Prime Minister Narendra
Modi has directed that spe-
cial focus should be laid in the
Badrinath master plan to main-
tain its ancient and spiritual
value. The form of the master
plan for Badrinath should be
based entirely on spiritual
aspects and not on tourism.
The PM said this during a
video conference in which the
master plan for Badrinath was
presented on Wednesday. He
was also informed about the
progress in the Kedarnath
reconstruction during the
meeting.
PM Modi said that
Badrinath should be devel-
oped as a mini-smart and spir-
itual city where homestays can
also be developed. Other spir-
itual sites nearby should also be
linked to it. He further said that
special lighting should be put
up at the entrance of Badrinath
Dham in accordance with a
spiritual ambiance.
Chief minister Trivendra
Singh Rawat said that the coop-
eration of the locals is being
received in development works
in Badrinath and
Kedarnath. Work on
homestays is also
being undertaken in
nearby villages. He
said that the conflu-
ence of the Saraswati
and Alaknanda rivers-
Keshavprayag can also
be developed.
Considering the
importance of the
Vyas Gufa, devotees
should also get to
know about its signif-
icance. Rawat further
said that land will not
be an issue while exe-
cuting the Badrinath
master plan. As in
Kedarnath, work will
be carried out round
the year in Badrinath,
he added.
The State’s Tourism and
Culture minister Satpal
Maharaj said that work is
underway at a brisk pace on the
Rishikesh-Karnprayag rail pro-
ject and the Char Dham
national highway project. The
completion of these projects
will make the Char Dham
Yatra much more convenient
for the devotees, he added.
Officials stated in the pre-
sentation of the Badrinath mas-
ter plan that an 85 hectare area
has been taken for this purpose.
The Devdarshini spot will be
developed while a museum
and art gallery will also be built.
Information will be provided
about the Dashavatar- 10 incar-
nations of lord Vishnu through
audio visual means. The dead-
line for completing work on
this master plan is 2025. Chief
secretary Om Prakash
informed the PM about the
progress in the Kedarnath
reconstruction project. The
work on Adi Shankaracharya’s
Samadhi is underway at a brisk
pace. The work of constructing
Astha Path has been complet-
ed on the Saraswati Ghat while
work on two meditation caves
will be completed by the end of
this month. The site for
Brahmakamal nursery has
been marked and now seeds
are being collected for the
nursery, he informed.
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The State administration has
made more additions to
provisions enabling home iso-
lation for Covid-19 patients.
According to the communica-
tion issued by the health sec-
retary Amit Singh Negi to all
the district magistrates and
chief medical officers, pregnant
women without any comor-
bidities and Covid positive
women who have given birth to
a healthy child, are complete-
ly healthy and have been dis-
charged normally from the
hospital can also be kept in
home isolation.
Earlier, the state had
allowed home isolation for
children aged below 10 years
and senior citizens aged above
60 years, who are not suffering
from any other illness.
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The chief minister Trivendra
Singh Rawat has approved
a sum of Rs 193.24 crore for
clearing the remaining dues of
sugarcane farmers. With this
amount being approved, the
farmers will be paid the
remaining value of their sug-
arcane produce.
It should be mentioned
here that with sugar mills not
clearing the remaining dues of
the sugarcane farmers, the
farmers, their representatives
and farmers’ organisations had
been requesting the chief min-
ister consistently to do the
needful to resolve the issue.
Considering this, Rawat has
approved the sum
in the larger inter-
ests of the farmers.
The chief
minister said that
the timely pay-
ment to sugarcane
farmers for their
produce must be
ensured. He also
issued directions for effective
measures towards improve-
ment of sugar mills and swift
redressal of issues faced by sug-
arcane farmers. Rawat said,
“Out aim is to protect the
interests of farmers. For this,
plans should be executed con-
sidering the interest of farmers.
Focus should also be laid on
how to increase the income of
farmers through sugarcane cul-
tivation.”
The chief minister further
said that the sugar mills will
also have to focus on strength-
ening their financial condi-
tion so that in the future such
mills in the cooperative and
public sector can clear the
dues of farmers at their own
level.
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Amid the speculations over
the fate of the upcoming
monsoon session of
Uttarakhand assembly, the
chief minister Trivendra Singh
Rawat and speaker Premchand
Agarwal inspected the assem-
bly building in Dehradun on
Wednesday. The duo explored
the possibilities of holding the
session while following the
social distancing norms for
the prevailing pandemic of
Covid-19.They also inspected
the arrangements for the mem-
bers who can opt to attend the
session by virtual means. After
the inspection, the
speaker said that
given the space
constraint, the gal-
leries for media,
guests and others
would be used in
the seating plan for
the members. He
said that the
assembly hall can
accommodate 47
members while
others would be
seated in the gal-
leries. The speaker
further said that
the members
above 65 years of age would be
requested to attend the session
virtually. Incidentally there are
12 such members who are
above 65 years of age. He said
that in fact all the members of
the house would be given an
option to attend the session vir-
tually. He claimed that
arrangements for making the
members attend the session vir-
tually have been set in place.
The speaker added that all the
members would have to get
them tested for Covid-19
before entering the session.
“Arrangements for testing
would be made for the mem-
bers at MLA hostel or some
other place. Similarly all the
employees and officers too
would be tested before the ses-
sion,’’ he said.
The speaker expressed
confidence that the monsoon
session would be held suc-
cessfully while following the
norms of pandemic. He made
it clear that the question hour
would be held during the ses-
sion days. The assembly secre-
tariat has so far received more
than 1000 questions for the ses-
sion.
The three day monsoon
session of the Uttarakhand
assembly is slated to start from
September 23. Considering the
fact that the parliamentary
affairs minister Madan Kaushik
and some of the MLAs are suf-
fering from Covid-19, the
organisation of the session is a
challenge for the authorities
concerned.
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Along with plantation of
trees for forest develop-
ment, it is also essential to
ensure the protection of the
plantations. Monitoring should
be undertaken consistently to
raise the survival rate of the
saplings. The responsibility of
officials should be fixed for this
purpose. Chief minister
Trivendra Singh Rawat said this
while chairing a meeting of the
Uttarakhand Compensatory
Afforestation Fund
Management and Planning
Authority (CAMPA) at the
secretariat on Wednesday.
Rawat said that the forest
department can play an impor-
tant role in employment gen-
eration. Employment can be
generated through works relat-
ed to water conservation, tree
plantation, nursery develop-
ment and protection of forest
wealth for those who have
returned to their villages due to
the Covid-19 pandemic. The
State government has facilitat-
ed employment for about
10,000 persons with 25 Watt
solar power plants through the
power department. The forest
department should also
attempt to provide employ-
ment to at least 10,000 people,
said the CM.
Rawat further said that for
the enrichment of Bugyals,
focus should also be laid on the
use of choir net, Pirul check
dam and Bhimal. He said that
solar fencing is very effective
for protection from wildlife but
the people also need to be
made aware for protection of
the solar fencing. He also
stressed on the need for special
efforts to prevent human-
wildlife conflict.
The Forest and Wildlife
minister Harak Singh Rawat
said that while the Forest
department is undertaking
consistent effort for protecting
and enriching forests, the
Labour department had trained
about 10,000 people in the use
of Bhimal. These trained per-
sons can also be used for mak-
ing choir nets and Pirul check
dams for enrichment of
Bugyals, he said.
The principal chief con-
servator of forests Jai Raj, prin-
cipal secretary Anand Bardhan
and secretary Amit Singh Negi
were also among those present
in the meeting.
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Considering the work done
by Swajal for ODF + and
maintenance of cleanliness
under the Swachchh Bharat
mission (Gramin), the depart-
ment of Drinking Water and
Sanitation under the ministry
of Jal Shakti has released Rs
26.1782 crore as performance
based incentive grant to the
State for the financial year
2020-21. This performance
based incentive grant is fully
funded by the
centre.
According to information
provided by officials, the grant
released for the state will be
used for enhancing the sanita-
tion works in the state. The
department of Drinking Water
and Sanitation had directed the
undertaking of the National
Annual Rural Sanitation Survey
(NARSS) to evaluate the level
of cleanliness in the rural areas
of the states. This survey was
conducted by an independent
agency. Based on the results of
this survey and the results of
the third stage, the perfor-
mance based incentive grant
was provided for works done
by Swajal to maintain the con-
tinuance level of ODF under
the Swachchh Bharat mission
(Gramin).
It is pertinent to mention
here that on the basis of the
survey conducted by an inde-
pendent agency, under the
Swachchh Bharat mission
Swajal received performance
based incentive grant amount-
ing to Rs 14.66 in 2018-19, Rs
50.23 crore in 2019-20 and Rs
26.17 crore in 2020-21, totalling
to about Rs 91.07 crore.
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Prime Minister Narendra
Modi on Wednesday said
efforts are being made to pro-
vide an online delivery plat-
form to street food vendors on
the lines of big restaurants
while interacting with benefi-
ciaries of PM SVANidhi
scheme. Modi also urged the
street vendors to adopt the dig-
ital payment system on a large
scale. Meanwhile, several
Bollywood actors and celebri-
ties including Ajay Devgan,
Varun Dhawan, Sonu Sood,
Kailash Kher, Gobind Namdev,
Mary Kom and cricket com-
mentator Sushil Doshi have
appreciated PM Modi’s initia-
tive under the scheme to make
street vendors self-reliant.
Interacting virtually with
beneficiaries of PM Street
Vendors’ Aatmanirbhar Nidhi
(PM SVANidhi) scheme, PM
Modi lauded vegetable vendor
Dalchand from Sanchi in
Raisen district of Madhya
Pradesh for using the QR
code digital platform for
receiving payments. He also
suggested him ways to
improve his vegetable busi-
ness.
After his interaction with
the street vendors, PM Modi
in a televised address said, “A
scheme has been prepared to
provide an online platform to
street food vendors by using
technology. This means, the
street food vendors will be
able to make online delivery
like big restaurants. Efforts are
being made to provide this
kind of facility.” He told the
street vendors that if they
come forward, the govern-
ment will take this effort fur-
ther.
“The use of digital pay-
ment has increased during
the past three-four years. Its
importance was realised dur-
ing the corona (Covid-19 out-
break) period. Now customers
avoid making payment in cash
and pay directly through
mobile phone,” he said.
In a tweet, Bollywood
actor Ajay Devgan said “PM
SVANidhi is a special initiative
for empowering India’s
#AatmaNirbharVendor”. The
initiative is likely to benefit
over 50 lakh street vendors.
Power to our Honourable PM
and Ministry of Housing
Urban Affairs”. In his tweet,
actor Sonu Sood said ‘PM
SVANidhi, a special initiative
by our Honourable @naren-
dramodi for empowering
street Vendors for Self Reliant
India. As per the Housing and
Urban Affairs ministry data,
over 10 lakh applications from
street vendors have been
received across the country
and loan amounts have been
disbursed to over 1.5 lakhs.
Appealing street vendors
to come forward to adopt the
digital system, Modi said, “A
new beginning has been made
by the banks and digital pay-
ment system providers.” Modi
told the street vendors that
representatives of banks and
such organisations will reach
out to them, provide the QR
code and inform them about
its use.
“Whenever there is a pan-
demic, it hits the poor broth-
ers and sisters hard. They
always suffer whether it is
excessive heat, rainfall or cold
and these create problems for
their employment and food,
Modi said. “They (the poor)
faced it the most during the
pandemic and were even were
forced to return to their native
places.
During the interaction
with Chaganlal and his wife
from Sanver in Indore district,
PM Modi advised him how to
enhance his business by ask-
ing customers to return the
pipe used in making broom-
sticks to reduce the cost of
making a broomstick.
Chaganlal also told PM Modi
that he wanted to enhance his
business. The PM advised
him to use an earthen pitch-
er instead of a single-use plas-
tic bottle for drinking water to
save the environment.
Interacting with Gwalior’s
Archana Sharma, PM Modi
asked whether she would
serve him “tikki” (patties)
that she sells at her joint. He
also asked her about the
SVANidhi scheme and how it
benefitted her. PM SVANidhi
is a scheme for street vendors
to provide affordable working
capital loans to them.
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The first five Rafale fighter
jets will be formally
inducted into the IAF on
Thursday at the Ambala air
force station. Defence
Minister Rajnath Singh and
his French counterpart
Florence Parly are the chief
guests. These jets arrived in
Ambala from France on July
27.
Besides Rajnath and
Florence, Chief of Defence
Staff(CDS) General Bipin
Rawat, Chief of the Air Staff
Air Chief Marshal RKS
Bhadauria, Defence Secretary
Ajay Kumar, Dr G Satheesh
Reddy, Secretary Department
of Defence RD and
Chairman Defence Research
and Development
Organisation(DRDO) along
with other senior officers of
Ministry of Defence and
Armed Forces will be present
to mark a very important
milestone in the history of the
IAF.
The French delegation
will be represented by French
ambassador Emmanuel
Lenain, Air General Eric
Autellet, Vice Chief of the Air
Staff of the French Air Force
and other senior officials.
A large delegation of
senior functionaries of French
Defence Industries which
includes Eric Trappier
Chairman and Chief
Executive of Dassault Aviation
and Eric Beranger, CEO,
MBDA will be present during
the ceremony.
The French minister will
be given a ceremonial Guard
of Honour on arrival at Delhi.
At Ambala, the programme
will include ceremonial
unveiling of the Rafale air-
craft, a traditional ‘Sarva
Dharma Puja’, air display by
Rafale and Tejas aircraft as
well as by ‘Sarang Aerobatic
Team’. Afterwards, a tradi-
tional water cannon salute
will be given to the Rafale air-
craft.
The programme will cul-
minate with the ceremonial
induction of Rafale aircraft to
17 Squadron. After the cere-
monial events the Indian and
French delegation will have a
bilateral meeting, the IAF said
here on Wednesday.
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Despite higher recoveries
from Covid-infection in
the past few days with as many
as 74,000 cases on Wednesday
itself, deaths due to the deadly
pathogen have been more than
1,000foreightstraightdays.This
is ahead of the US which added
801 deaths, and Brazil which
reported 797 deaths on an aver-
age in the last one week. India
reported 1,115 deaths linked to
the virus, taking the total num-
ber of fatalities to 73,890.
The country has registered
89,706 coronavirus infections in
24hours,takingtallypastthe43-
lakh mark, as per the Union
Health Ministry data.
Rising number of cases in
the Northeastern States too are
becoming a matter of concern
for the Government. In view of
the worsening Covid-19 situa-
tion in Tripura, a two-member
Central experts’ team has been
rushed to the northeastern State
on a 10-day visit to take stock of
the situation and suggest mea-
sures to curb the spread of the
virus.
Till Tuesday night, Tripura
reported 16,157 Covid-19 cases,
of which 9,653 persons have
recoveredwhile160peoplehave
succumbed to the dreaded dis-
ease since June 9, when the first
death was reported.
Tripura’s mortality and
recovery rates are 0.99 per cent
and 59.83 per cent, respective-
ly, worst among the eight north-
eastern states.
The team members are
Daisy Panna, Consultant
Epidemiologist,NationalCentre
for Disease Control (NCDC),
and PK Verma, Assistant
Professor,RespiratoryMedicine,
Lady Hardinge Memorial
College (LHMC).
The number of cases in the
country now stand at 43,70,128.
In the 24-hour period, India,
which is now the second worst-
hit country.
About 33 lakh patients have
recovered from the infection in
the country, pushing the recov-
ery rate to 77.32 per cent, said a
seniorofficialfromtheMinistry.
On the day when India has
registered the highest single day
recoveries of nearly 75,000, it
continues to set a record in test-
ing too. More than 11.5 lakh
COVID samples have been test-
ed in the last 24 hours.
The daily testing capacity
has already crossed 11 lakh.
With 11,54,549 tests conduct-
ed in the last 24 hours, India has
furtherstrengthenedthenation-
al diagnostic capacity, said the
official.
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Use of convalescent plasma
therapy in coronavirus-
infected patients does not help
in cutting down mortality or
progression to severe Covid-19,
a multi-centric study funded by
the Indian Council of Medical
Research (ICMR) has found.
The study has not yet been
peer-reviewed and has now
appeared on medRxiv, a
preprint server.
There was however some
minor benefit in terms of alle-
viation of some symptoms
though for those received the
therapy.
The trial, called PLACID,
which was carried out from
April 22 to July 14 this year in
39 hospitals across 14 states and
Union Territories involved 464
moderately ill patients with
breathing difficulties and oxy-
gen saturation level of less than
93 per cent, of whom 235 were
given convalescent plasma with
antibodies against SARS CoV2
received from donors who had
recovered from the virus, while
229 received only standard care.
The trial was registered with the
Clinical Trial Registry of India
(CTRI) for the purpose, it said.
Those in the intervention
group were transfused with two
doses of 200 ml plasma 24
hours apart. Both the interven-
tion and control groups were
compared after 28 days.
The findings, released now
on a preprint server of health
research, have shown that 34
patients or 13.6 per cent who
received plasma therapy died
while 31 patients or 14.6 per
cent who did not receive it, suc-
cumbed to the infection. Also,
17 patients in each group pro-
gressed to have severe disease.
“CP was not associated with
a reduction in mortality or pro-
gression to severe COVID-19,”
noted the authors led by ICMR
scientist Dr Aparna Mukherjee
who led the trial.
The findings have come at
the time when various State
Governments have been push-
ing the therapy and have set up
plasma banks after the nation-
al Covid-19 clinical manage-
ment protocol allowed it as an
investigational therapy.
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Former Congress chief Rahul
Gandhi who has been con-
tinuously attacking the Centre
and Prime Minister Narendra
Modi in particular, on
Wednesday said the BJP led
NDA Government has com-
pletely “destroyed the unorgan-
ised sector” which is the back-
bone of the Indian economy.
Rahul blamed the “sudden”
nationwide lockdown imposed
to check the spread of the coro-
navirus has devastated the peo-
ple and economy of the country
and hence emphasised that the
government must introduce a
“NYAY-like scheme” - the min-
imum wage social welfare
scheme proposed by the
Congress in its 2019 election
manifesto.
“The poor, those in small
and medium businesses, are
dailywageearners.Theyeatwith
what they earn each day. When
you (PM Modi) announced a
lockdown without a notice, you
attacked them. The Prime
Ministersaidthefightwillbefor
21 days, the backbone of the
unorganised sector broke in 21
days,” Rahul Gandhi said in his
latest series of video.
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Ahead of the Bihar Assembly
polls, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi will launch
the Fish Brood Bank at
Sitamarhi, and of Aquatic
Disease Referral Laboratory at
Kishanganj, for which assis-
tance has been provided under
Pradhan Mantri Matsya
Sampada Yojana (PMMSY) on
Thursday, PM will also launch
several schemes which include
the e-Gopala app, Semen
Station with state of the art
facilities, in Purnea, IVF lab
established at Animal Sciences
University in Patna and use of
sex sorted semen in artificial
insemination by Baroni Milk
Union in Begusarai and fish
feed mill at Madhepura.
According to the Ministry
of Fisheries, Fish Brood Bank
at Sitamarhi, and of Aquatic
Disease Referral Laboratory at
Kishanganj will help in enhanc-
ing production and productiv-
ity of fish by ensuring timely
availability of quality and
affordable fish seed for the
fish farmers and address the
need for disease diagnosis as
well as water and soil testing
facilities.
PMMSY in Bihar envisages
an investment of C1,390 crore
with Central Share of C535
crore and the additional fish
production target pegged at 3
lakh tons.
During the current finan-
cial year, the Centre has sanc-
tioned the proposal to the tune
of C107.00 crore which include
establishment of Re-circulato-
ry Aquaculture System (RAS),
construction of Biofloc ponds
for aquaculture, finfish hatch-
eries, construction of new
ponds for aquaculture,
Ornamental fish culture units,
installation of Cages in reser-
voirs/wetlands, Ice plants,
refrigerated vehicles, motor
cycle with ice box, three wheel-
er with ice box, cycle with ice
box, fish feed plants, extension
and support services (Matsya
Seva Kendra), establishment of
a Brood Bank.
PMMSY is a flagship
scheme for focused and sus-
tainable development of the
fisheries sector in the country.
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Indignant over the alleged
campaign by his own party
men, BJP’s senior leader and
Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian
Swamy on Wednesday sought
the party to remove its infor-
mation and technology (IT)
cell head Amit Malviya by
Thursday.
Swamy had charged the
party IT cell with running a
campaign against him using
fake tweets.
“By tomorrow if Malaviya
is not removed from BJP IT
cell (which is my five-villages
compromise proposal to
Nadda), it means the party
brass does not want to defend
me. Since there is no forum in
the party where I can ask for
cadre opinion, hence I will
have to defend myself,” Swamy
tweeted.
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Amid the lingering Indo-
China tensions along the
Line of Actual Control (LAC) in
eastern Ladakh, Beijing has
developed seven airports in
Pakistan across India’s fron-
tiers in the Western sector in
Rajasthan and Gujarat to engage
New Delhi in case of a conflict
between the two Asian giants.
China’s all weather ally,
Pakistan has been ramping up
development of fighter bases
along its frontier with India with
funding from Beijing.
One of these air bases has
been equipped with a night
landing facility and another
one is on the verge being read-
ied with the facility.
Estimates here suggest
Pakistan could undertake mis-
adventures through the Gujarat
border due to its network in the
Kutch region and through a cer-
tain NGO radicalising youth in
the garb of providing main-
stream education. After the
26/11 hit in Mumbai, Gujarat
could be a possible choice for
terror hits, sources said.
China has developed these
airports in the garb of facilitat-
ing its engineers and other per-
sonnel for undertaking oil
exploration activities in the
desert region of Pakistan.
However, China’s overseas oil
exploration firms have share-
holding of PLA and Chinese
Communist Party members.
As per its textbook tactics,
China will ultimately take con-
trol of these bases for military
use in the case of Pakistan fail-
ing to service the Chinese debts
and use these facilities in the
event of a conflict with India.
China has taken control of the
Hambantota port in Sri Lanka
after Colombo failed to repay
the Chinese investments for its
development, the sources fur-
ther said.
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The Enforcement
Directorate has issued an
attachment order under the
provisions of the Prevention of
Money Laundering Act to
attach assets worth C59.52
crore.
The attached assets are in
the form of fixed deposits
maintained and available with
State Bank of India,
Sudhamnagar Branch in the
name of Church of South
India Trust Association
(CSITA).
Investigation under the
provisions of the PMLA was
initiated on the basis of an FIR
registered at Ashoknagar
Police Station, Bengaluru
against CSITA for dishonest-
ly entering into an arrange-
ment for transfer of title of
Defence Land measuring
7426.886 square meters (which
was earlier leased to All Saints
Church) with Bangalore Metro
Rail Corporation Limited
(BMRCL), a Government of
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Seventeen patients of Covid-19
died in Jammu Kashmir while
the highest ever number of 1,617
fresh cases of coronavirus were
detected in one single day taking the
total tally of cases to 47,542 on
Wednesday.
Due to fresh surge in the total
number of active positive cases
across Jammu division the health
department authorities are facing
lot of criticism for failing to provide
assistance to asymptomatic patients
currently staying at their homes.
To highlight their grievances
several patients have started post-
ing videos on various social media
platforms.
According to the media bul-
letin, “the active positive cases on
Wednesday stood at 12839 while a
total number of 832 patients have
died so far”.
Out of all the districts, Jammu
district continues to report more
than 500 cases on a daily basis.
Out of 12839 active positive
cases, Jammu district alone
accounted for 4399 cases while
active positive cases in Srinagar
stood at 1526.
According to the media bul-
letin, out of 1617 new positive cases,
894 were reported from Jammu
division and 723 from Kashmir
division.
In addition, 17 COVID-19
deaths have been reported; 10 from
Jammu division and 07 from
Kashmir Division.
On a recovery front, 620 more
COVID-19 patients were fully
recovered and discharged from
various hospitals, 52 from Jammu
Division and 568 from Kashmir
Division.
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Twelve patients succumbed
to the pandemic while
3,402 new persons were diag-
nosed with Covid-19 in Kerala
on Wednesday. This is the
highest number of persons
diagnosed with Covid-19 on a
single day till date. What has
caused concern is the number
of patients who contracted the
pandemic through local con-
tact-3,120. Out of the total
positive cases diagnosed on
Wednesday, 235 patients could
not furnish details like from
where and when they con-
tracted the virus.
The death toll reached 384
by Wednesday evening. Except
in Wyanadu (77) and Idukki
(24) districts, all the remaining
12 districts registered high
number of Covid-19 patients.
As on Wednesday evening,
there were 24, 549 Covid-19
patients across the State.
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister
Edappadi Palaniswami lambasted the
Centre for eased guidelines that helped
ineligible farmers to avail financial succour
from the Prime Minister-Kisan samman
Nidhi Yojana (PM-KISAN). According to
department of agriculture officials in
Chennai, crores of rupees have been
swindled from PM-KISAN scheme by
ineligible persons masquerading as farm-
ers.
In Thiruvannamalai district alone
32,000 persons joined the scheme and
availed crores by furnishing fake docu-
ments. Thanks to the intervention of dis-
trict collector KS Kandasamy, this fraud
was detected and an amount of C2.25 crore
has been recovered. PNS
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Bineesh Kodiyeri, son of CPI(M)
secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan,
is being interrogated by the
Enforcement Directorate official at
Kochi in connection with the gold
smuggling scam, drug trafficking
and money laundering that rocked the
State recently.
The marathon questioning that
began at 11 hrs on Wednesday morn-
ing was continuing even at the time
of going to Press at 8 pm.
Bineesh reached the ED’s zonal
office at Kochi by 10 30 and was
immediately ushered into the recep-
tion by the sleuths.
Jammu:A joint team of the security forces on Wednesday bust-
ed a network of overground workers of a banned terror outfit
Jaish-e-Mohammad(JeM)byarrestingtheirtwoassociatesalong
with a huge consignment of arms and ammunition near Jawahar
tunnel on the 300 km long Jammu Srinagar National Highway.
According to a Jammu Kashmir police spokesman, “during
intervening night of 08/09 September Kulgam police alongwith
othersecurityagenciesarrestedtwoterroristassociatesofbanned
organization JeM and recovered live arms and ammunition from
their possession”.
The duo has been identified as Bilal Ahmad Kuttay S/O Ghulam
Mohammad Kuttay R/O Chotapora Shopain and Shahnawaz
Ahmad Mir S/O Zahoor Ahmad Mir R/O Mandujan, Shopian.
Addressing a press conference a senior police officer said,
“preliminary investigations of these two OGWs clearly revealed
they were involved in terror crimes and provided support to ter-
ror organisations”. PNS
Bengaluru: The Indian Institute of
Science (IISc) would conduct the Joint
Admission Test for Masters (JAM)
2021 on February 14, director of IISc
Govindan Rangarajan said on
Wednesday The portal for applying
for the test would be open to aspir-
ing candidates from September 10 to
October 15, 2020, a statement from
IISc said here. JAM is a qualifying
examination for candidates seeking
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and post graduate examinations in the
month of October the Bengal universities
have decided to put on hold the schedul-
ing of the examination days the vice chan-
cellors of a number of universities said.
Citing rising number of corona cases
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month declared that her Government
would not hold examinations in the
month of September as directed by the
UGC. Instead, she said that her
Government was game for holding exam-
inations in the month of October.
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sent a letter to the UGC seeking its direc-
tions on holding the examinations in the
month of October.
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ing for the UGC not to the State
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including former SDM of Kol
have been infected and 152
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infected people has now
reached 5668 in the district
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College, Pandit Deendayal
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taken cognizance of the teenager’s case who took
her life after being raped in the Harduaganj area six
months ago. In this case, the SSP was asked to appear
in person.
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rights activist who raised this issue to the Human
Rights Commission. He said that this incident
shocked society. It involved the rape of a 17-year-old
teenager in which the Panchayat sentenced the
accused to be slapped with shoes five times and then
set them free.
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er to end her life. He said that everyone has the right
to live. It is the biggest crime to make life-ending sit-
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chairmanship of CM Yogi, the CM
expressedhisdissatisfactionatthelethar-
gy of construction and development
works in all the four districts of Aligarh
division.
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work towards developing a pilgrimage
town along with the possibilities of
employment and tourism in the area and
he directed the departments to prepare
aproposalforthis.CMtookseriousnotes
on the incomplete bridge of Hathras and
asked to speak to the concerned officials.
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technology for locks included in One
District One Product (ODOP).
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one in the two-and-a-half-hour-long
video conferencing, and expressed his
dissatisfaction over the delay in the
construction of 100 Bed Maternity Wing
at the District Women's Hospital in Etah
and warn to recover the loss from the
salary and property of the executive staff
of the working organization if the pro-
ject will not be completed within the
deadline.Hesaidthattheworkofasmart
city in Aligarh is not commendable and
it needs improvement. On completion of
80% construction work, the administra-
tion must submit his consumption cer-
tificate to the government so that the
quality can be checked. He further sug-
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complains to SSP about a
sexual harassment and physical
assault by her husband’s friend
after intoxicating her.
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with former mayor Shakuntala
Bharti and narrated her case of
molestation on which SSP has
directed to file a case against the
accused. Former mayor,
Shakuntala Bharti, in a written
complaint to the SSP informed
that the husband of the woman,
wholivedintheDelhiGatearea,
was an employee of the
Municipal Corporation who
had died in 2016. One of his
friends frequently visited home.
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35 per cent emission reduction
by 2030, India has reached 21
per cent and hope to achieve its
goal within the stipulated peri-
od.
Similarly aiming 220 GW
renewable power targets, a total
of 87 GW including solar and
wind has been achieved, Union
Environment Minister Prakash
Javadekar said here addressing
the special session on Action
Agenda for Sustainable and Self
Reliant India during the 15th
Sustainability Summit 2020
organised by the Confederation
of Indian Industry (CII) here.
He expressed hope that
India will achieve the target of
reducingcarbonemissionsby35
percent in the next ten years.
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reduction, we have reached 21
per cent and in 10 years we will
achieve the required 220 GW
renewable power targets, of
which a total of 87 GW includ-
ing solar and wind has already
been achieved”, he said. PNS
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Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday took
stock of the special arrangements made
for the monsoon session of Parliament
from September 14 and conducted a
mock session with him in the chair.
During the exercise, the chamber and
the four galleries were occupied by the
staff of the Rajya Sabha Secretariat
according to the new seating arrangement
to ensure physical distance.
Staff members were also made to sit
and participate from the Lok Sabha
Chamber, which becomes a part of the
upper house for the entire session. Due
to social-distancing norms, members
will be seated in the chambers of both the
houses and their galleries. While audio
and video signal transmission from one
chamber of the house to the other was
thoroughly checked, the interpretation
signals were also found to be working
well.
People who sat in the Lok Sabha
Chamber were asked to participate in the
discussion and a sample voting process
was also conducted by distribution of slips
in all three places. Chairman Naidu
expressed satisfaction over the arrange-
ments, an official release said.
Naidu advised senior officials of the
Secretariat to ensure that all guidelines
issued by the Ministries of Home and
Health Family Welfare are followed
scrupulously. He also directed the officials
to remind members through an adviso-
ry about the health protocols to be
observed by them before and during the
session. PNS
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6. T
he recent deployment of
the mostly Tibetan Special
Frontier Force along the
Line of Actual Control
(LAC), to counter manoeuvres
from China’s People’s Liberation
Army (PLA), has renewed atten-
tion towards the Free Tibet move-
ment. On most social media plat-
forms and in multiple columns,
many commentators had a sudden
resurgence of conscience towards
the aspirations of the Tibetan
community and an equal surge in
respect for its place in Indian poli-
ty. This was accentuated when
news broke out about the death of
SFF Company Leader Nyima
Tenzin, who stepped on a stray
landmine while patrolling the
LAC. Images of Tenzin’s body,
draped in the Indian and Tibetan
flags, only accentuated solidarity
with the Tibetan community. Yet
for all this show of sentiment,
India’s ambivalence towards the
Tibetan cause greatly weakens its
legitimacy on the issue. Such ret-
rospective reawakening can only
be seen as highly superficial.
After its illegal annexation by
China in 1950, a series of aggres-
sive and iconoclastic policies exe-
cuted in Tibet led to the Dalai
Lama taking refuge in India in
1959. Ever since, more than one
lakh Tibetans have come to call
India their home. While the
Cultural Revolution in China
attempted at eradicating Tibetan
identity, India not only became a
physical refuge for its people, but
a sanctuary for its rich cultural and
religious traditions. During a peri-
od when the Communist Party
imposed assimilation, India
allowed for the integration of the
Tibetan community into Indian
society at large while aiding it in
maintaining its distinct identity.
The support provided to Tibetan
schools, libraries, cultural institu-
tions and many monasteries are
examples of this.
On the political front, howev-
er, India has vacillated between
occasionally lukewarm to out-
right apathetic. The fact of the
matter is that India has never con-
sidered the autonomy of Tibet as
a significant objective. Its proxim-
ity to the Dalai Lama, and to the
Central Tibetan Administration
(the Tibetan Government in Exile)
based out of Dharamshala, is
dependent exclusively on its rela-
tions with China. This is the
harsh truth. The most recent
demonstration of this was in
2018. At a time when India was
trying its best at mending
frayed relations with China, the
60th anniversary celebrations of
the arrival of the Dalai Lama in
India were rather coldly shift-
ed from Delhi to Dharamshala.
An internal memo circulated
within the Government prohib-
ited senior functionaries and
ministers from attending any of
the events. Such unreceptive
behaviour is just one example
out of many, spanning multiple
governments in power, when
India postures itself according
to what is satisfactory to China
with regard to Tibet.
Although realpolitik does
have its time and place, it is
imperative to give permanent
credence to the Tibetan com-
munity and its aspirations.
While one can debate about the
exact legitimacy of Tibet being
a separate State (a highly con-
voluted historical question),
what cannot be questioned is
the existence of a national iden-
tity, which most certainly mer-
its a certain degree of autono-
my. India’s support for this
notion is integral at a time when
China is not only flexing its
ambitions across the border but
also redoubling its efforts in
Tibet. During the 7th Central
Symposium on Tibet held on
August 29 — the highest work-
ing body for Tibet — Chinese
President Xi Jinping called for
“sinicizing” Tibetan Buddhism
and the building of a “new
modern socialist” Tibet. He
also stated that Tibet must
eventually develop into an
“impregnable fortress” of stabil-
ity. Responding to Xi’s remarks,
Lobsang Sangay, the president
of the Tibetan government-in-
exile, said: “China has been
quietly militarising the Tibetan
plateau for over 60 years under
the pretext of development and
modernisation. For Tibet, this
has only led to an influx of sol-
diers, Han (Chinese) settlers,
and weapons. For its neigh-
bours, this militarisation of the
Tibetan plateau has led to a mil-
itary build-up on its borders,
jeopardising the already con-
tentious border regions as evi-
denced by the recent Galwan
incident.”
Keeping in mind the recent
events along the LAC and the
timing of this symposium, such
a policy outline for Tibet must
not be seen independently.
China’s renewed attempt in
crushing any form of Tibetan
dissent is complementary to its
advances along the Indo-
Tibetan border. Combined,
these thrusts aim to validate
Chinese rule in Tibet and fur-
ther encroach upon Indian ter-
ritory. Both efforts have very lit-
tle legitimacy. China’s control
over Tibet is not only highly
questionable, the vast number
of cultural, socio-political, and
humanitarian atrocities it has
carried out has made it consti-
tutionally immoral. To counter
China, India must not only
strengthen its own borders,
but also reinvigorate its support
for the Dalai Lama and the
Central Tibetan
Administration.
Historically, Indo-Tibetan
relations date back nearly 2,000
years. Deeper ties can be found
in religious texts such as the
Mahabharata, which mentions
the existence of a realm beyond
the Himalayas. Buddhism in
Tibet originated from India,
and places such as the Kailash
Parbat and Manasarovar have a
mutual place in the national
imaginings of India and Tibet.
Shared religious traditions, a
common heritage and cultures
that are heavily intertwined
are just some aspects that have
led to historically close relations
with the two peoples.
The 60-odd years of
Chinese imposition pale in
comparison to the shared Indo-
Tibetan traditions that have
lasted through millennia. This
relationship only furthers India’s
prerogative to aid the Tibetan
people in reclaiming their
homeland.
The past few months have
demonstrated China’s inten-
tions and have rather graphical-
ly illustrated its perception of
the border issue. In response,
India must adopt a two-
pronged approach, one that
involves the strengthening of its
borders for tactical superiority
whilst furthering the aspirations
of the Tibetan people; those that
are represented by the Dalai
Lama and the democratically
elected Central Tibetan
Administration. What exactly
this might entail will have to
depend on what is conceivable
in the present strategic situa-
tion, but this posturing has to
be for the long haul. If India
wants to hold moral high
ground along the LAC, it must
aim to be a reliable partner to
the people of Tibet. And do so
not out of geo-political conve-
nience but because it is the right
thing to do.
(The author is currently at
the Department of War Studies,
KCL)
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