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India is all set to roll out the
second phase of the vaccina-
tion drive from Monday to vac-
cinate people aged above 60
years and 45 years with co-
morbidities in private and
Government hospitals in the
backdrop of worrying upward
trends shown by Covid-19.
The country reported a
single-day rise of 16,752 cases
in the last 24 hours, the high-
est in the last 30 days, taking
the overall tally to 1,10,96,731
on Sunday, said the Union
Health Ministry, hoping that
the accelerated vaccination
drive will help make people safe
from the infection.
The Covid-19 vaccine will
be given free of cost at
Government hospitals, while
people will need to pay for it at
private facilities. The private
hospitals can charge up to
C250 per dose for the jab.
Citizens will be able to
register and book an appoint-
ment for vaccination, anytime
and anywhere, using the
COWIN 2.0 portal or through
other IT applications such as
Aarogya Setu etc, said a state-
ment from the Ministry.
It further said there will be
only one live appointment for
a beneficiary at any point of
time for each dose.
Appointments for any date for
a Covid Vaccination Center
will be closed at 3 pm on that
day for which the slots were
opened. For example, for
March 1 the slots will be open
from 9 am till 3 pm on the
same day, and the appoint-
ments can be booked any time
before that, subject to avail-
ability. However, on March 1 an
appointment can also be
booked for any future date for
which vaccination slots are
available.
It also stated, “The number
of doses planned to be admin-
istered decided by respective
State/UT Government for a
Vaccination Cycle. Total vac-
cination slots for a vaccination
cycle should not exceed the tar-
get number of doses.”
A User Guide for the
Citizen Registration and
Appointment for Vaccination
has also been uploaded on the
websites of the Ministry and
National Health Authority
(NHA).
The Ministry has also spec-
ified 20 comorbidities among
people aged between 45 and 59
years who will get the vaccine
— heart failure with hospital
admission in past year, mod-
erate or severe valvular heart
disease, coronary artery dis-
ease, CT/ MRI-documented
stroke, diabetes of over 10
years or with complications,
hypertension, end-stage kidney
disease on haemodialysis, diag-
nosis of any solid cancer on or
after 2000 or currently on any
cancer therapy.
About the surge in cases,
the Ministry said six States —
Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab,
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A25-year-old woman, who
was carrying her two-year-
old daughter, was stabbed to
death for resisting a chain-
snatching bid in Northwest
Delhi’s Adarsh Nagar, police
said on Sunday, adding that
they have arrested the accused
involved in the Saturday (9:30
pm) incident.
A CCTV footage of the
incident went viral on social
media. In the video, two
women can be seen walking
when a man chases them and
tries to snatch the victim’s
chain from behind. The
woman — identified as Simran
Kaur — chases him, following
which he falls on the road.
Thereafter, he stands up and
stabs the woman.
The accused stabbed the
victim and fled the spot, police
said, adding that she was taken
to a hospital where she was
declared brought dead.
Anil Jindal, Simran’s
neighbour, said three years
ago, an incident of snatching
took place at the same spot
where Simran was stabbed.
The locals are in shock.
The incident took place
hardly 20 metres from the vic-
tim’s house and there is a police
postaround100metresfromthe
spot. Police teams have arrested
two accused persons identified
asFardeen(19)and Aqibul(22),
both residents of Jahangir Puri.
The weapon of offence and
scootyusedincrimewererecov-
ered. Simran’s aunt said she had
gone to the market to buy med-
icines for her
daughter.
“She was wearing a chain
and holding her daughter. The
accused was chasing them
and tried to snatch the chain
but Simran caught hold of it
and did not lose her grip.
When she resisted, the accused
fell on the road.
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Senior Congress leader
Ghulam Nabi Azad on
Sunday showered praises on
Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Speaking at an event organised
by the Gurjar Desh Charitable
Trust, former Leader of
Opposition in the Rajya Sabha
said he has serious political dif-
ferences with Modi but he
“appreciates that the Prime
Minister does not try to hide his
background from the
world”.
“I like a lot of things about
many leaders. I am from the
village and feel proud… Even
our Prime Minister (Narendra
Modi) hails from the village
and used to sell tea. We are
political rivals but I appreciate
that he does not hide his true
self. I have travelled the whole
world. I have stayed in 5-star
and 7-star hotels.
“But the scent of the peo-
ple who belong to my village is
unmatched,” the Congress
leader said after he was felici-
tated with the “Sher-e-Gurjar
award” by Gurjar Desh
Charitable Trust. Interestingly,
the platform from where Azad
spoke eloquently in favour of
the PM was inaugurated by
Sonia Gandhi, 11 years ago on
May 29, 2010.
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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)
national convener and
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal lashed out at the
BJP-ruled Centre accusing it
over its “indifference” towards
the farmers who have been
protesting for the last three
months at Delhi’s borders —
Singhu, Tikri and Ghaziabad
against the three farm laws.
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After the ruling Shiv Sena
took the wind out of its
sails by seeking the resigna-
tion of its Tik Tok star Pooja
Chavan’s alleged suicide-
linked Minister Sanjay
Rathod, the Opposition BJP
on Sunday re-calibrated its
strategy to target the rape-
accused NCP Minister
Dhananjay Munde, ahead of
the 10-day Budget session
beginning here from Monday.
Maharashtra Chief
Minister Uddhav Thackeray
said, “Rathod has resigned
from the State Cabinet of his
own free will. I have ordered an
impartial probe into the cir-
cumstances leading to the
alleged suicide by Pooja
Chavan.”
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With farmers’ agitation
holding centrestage,
unrecognised political parties
are clamouring for farm-relat-
ed symbols to contest the
upcoming Assembly polls.
Sugarcane farmers (ganna
kisan), farmers driving tractors
(tractor chalata kisan) and
jackfruit and coconut farms are
among the symbols issued by
the poll body to registered
unrecognised political parties
ahead of the Assembly polls in
five States. According to the
Election Commission (EC),
60-70 political parties have
approached the poll body seek-
ing registration in the past
two three months.
These symbols assume sig-
nificance in the current sce-
nario amid farmers protests in
several States over the new
farm laws. Apple, capsicum,
cauliflower, ginger, grapes,
green chilli, lady finger,
peanuts, pears, peas, pineapple,
water melon, tiller and walnut
are also available for symbols.
“Apple as a symbol is avail-
able for all States and union
territories except in the States
of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam,
Manipur, Meghalaya,
Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim,
Tripura, Puducherry, Tamil
Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka,”
the EC said. It maintains a
pool of hundreds of symbols
which represent aspects of
everyday life in India.
The Bharatiya Janaseve
Congress has been given ganna
kisan symbol for Kerala, Assam
and Puducherry. The poll body
has allotted tractor chalata
kisan to the All India Kisan
Janatha Party which is gearing
up to contest from West
Bengal. The Makkal Neethi
Katchi-India has been allotted
the symbol of “man blowing
turha” for Tamil Nadu, Kerala,
Puducherry and West
|Bengal.
The Anna Puratchi
Thalaivar Amma Dravida
Munnetra Kazhagam has been
allotted Jackfruit to contest in
Tamil Nadu.
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The North Delhi Municipal
Corporation (NMC) and
Bisleri have come together to
educate citizens about the
importance of plastic recycling
and segregation of plastic at
source under ‘Swachha
Sarvekshan Abhiyan’.
North Delhi Mayor Jai
Prakash informed that the civic
body along with Bisleri will
implement “Bottles for Change’
program to create awareness
among the resident.
“Plastic is thought to be a
threat to the environment but in
reality it is not If recycled after
its use,” he added.
Deputy Commissioner of
Karol Bagh Zone Himanshu
Gupta handed over the permis-
sion letter to Santosh Darne, a
representative of Bisleri for
implementing the program in
corporation’sgeographicalareas.
Anjana Ghosh, director
(Marketing) of Bisleri
International said, “People hate
plastic because they are not
aware about the feats of recy-
cling. It is a widespread under-
standing that, plastic adds to the
environmental pollution. But,
everypieceofplasticisrecyclable
for several times. All we need to
do is change our habits and stop
treating plastic as a
waste.
This program is already
implemented in Mumbai,
Chennai, Bengaluru and now
Delhi will be its new
destination.
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As the Switch Delhi cam-
paign enters its fourth
week, Delhi Transport Minister
Kailash Gahlot has appealed to
all “Residents Welfare
Associations” (RWAs) to make
the campaign a mass move-
ment.
Gahlot said, “RWAs are
instrumental in encouraging
citizen’s participation in ensur-
ing better living environments
and have played an important
role in the development of
Delhi.”
As the campaign enters the
fourth week, our focus is to
connect with each RWA in
Delhi and urge them to under-
take the mass awareness activ-
ity in their area to make the
campaign a Jan Andolan.
The MLAs, RWAs and cit-
izens of adjoining neighbour-
hoods need to work together to
plan and engage local author-
ities to ensure a smooth tran-
sition to electric vehicles.
“RWAs and MLAs can play
a major role in making the cit-
izens aware of the environ-
mental benefits of switching to
an EV and incentives that can
be availed under Delhi
Government’s EV policy by
organizing a door-to-door sen-
sitization drive.
The minister further said,
“We encourage RWAs to take
the Switch Delhi Pledge to
install charging points in at
least five per cent of parking
spots in your area. This will
assure residents of proper
charging infrastructure on
their premises and ensure an
effortless transition for
Delhiites.”
The Delhi Government is
taking all measures to help cit-
izens overcome the apprehen-
sions regarding the charging of
EV vehicles and enable a
smooth transition in the city.
Over 70 public charging
stations are already opera-
tional in Delhi. Additionally,
500 charging points are com-
ing up on 100 locations soon.
Subsidies up to Rs. 1.5 lakhs,
scrapping benefits up to Rs.
7,500 and over 100 models for
two, three and four wheelers
are covered under EV policy
making it easy for the citizens
to making the switch.
Switch Delhi is an eight-
week mass awareness cam-
paign by the Delhi
Government to sensitize each
Delhiite about the benefits of
switching to EVs to the envi-
ronment as well as to make
them aware of the incentives
and infrastructure being devel-
oped under Delhi’s EV policy.
The campaign aims at
informing, encouraging, and
motivating every person in
Delhi to switch from polluting
vehicles to zero-emission elec-
tric vehicles.
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The Transport Department
of the Delhi Government is
all set to conduct one-month
final phase of trial of the con-
tactless e-ticketing app ‘Chartr’
in all 2,990 buses of ‘Delhi
Integrated Multi-Modal Transit
System’ (DIMTS) Ltd from
Monday.
The service was launched
in August 2020 and scaled up
in the wake of the Covid pan-
demic. The trial would cover all
the routes of DIMTS buses. In
the last week of February, the
trial of this app was extended
to all 3,760 DTC buses till
March 31st.
The trial is being conduct-
ed by a special task force con-
stituted for this purpose by the
minister which consist of
expert members from the
transport department, Delhi
Transport Corporation (DTC),
Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal
Transit System Ltd. (DIMTS),
Indraprastha Institute of
Information Technology (IIIT-
D) and World Resources
Institute (WRI). The mobile e-
ticketing App has been devel-
oped with the technical support
of IIIT-Delhi, a senior Delhi
government official said.
E-ticketing in DIMTS was
started in August last year on
route number 473. The total
number of buses increased to
550 thereafter in a phased
manner. In DTC, the trial of
this online ticketing app was
started in September last year
on route 534 in Gazipur and
Hasanpur depots. It started in
a total of 35 buses from both
depots.
After the success in these
depots, e-ticketing was scaled
in all depots of DTC in a
phased manner. Currently, e-
ticketing is live on a trial basis
in all buses and routes of DTC.
The trials also included exhaus-
tive passenger surveys, to
ensure maximum commuter-
friendliness of the App.
The total daily ticket book-
ing through ‘Chartr’ app is
around 10,000 per day. In the
last 10 days, the ticket count
through this app has witnessed
a 10 per cent day on day
increase.
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Aturnoutofabout42percent
was recorded in the first
eight hours of voting for the
bypolls to five municipal wards
inDelhionSunday,thefirstelec-
toralexercisebeingconductedin
the national capital amid the
coronavirus pandemic.
The results of these bye-
elections are likely to have an
impact on the big-ticket 2022
Delhi civic polls.
Polling began at 7:30 AM
amid tight security arrange-
ments,anditisscheduledtoend
at 5:30 PM.
By 3:30 PM, the overall
turnoutacrossthefivewardswas
42.91 per cent, with Kalyanpuri
ward recording the maximum
50.56 per cent, as per the data
shared by a senior official of the
State Election Commission in
Delhi.
In Kalyanpui ward in east
Delhi, two of the seven polling
locations are in “critical” cate-
gory. A total of 16 polling loca-
tions out of the total 44 have
been kept in this category, as per
official data.
According to the State
Election Commission, around
2.42 lakh people are eligible to
cast their votes in two wards
under the North Delhi
Municipal Corporation
(NDMC)andthreewardsunder
the East Delhi Municipal
Corporation (EDMC).
The main contenders are
the ruling Aam Aadmi Party
(AAP), the BJP and the
Congress. All of them have
expressed confidence that they
will emerge victorious in the
bypolls, being held under strict
COVID protocols.
The municipal wards where
polling is underway are Rohini-
C, Shalimar Bagh (North),
Trilokpuri, Kalyanpuri and
Chauhan Banger.
While Shalimar Bagh
(North) is reserved for women,
Trilokpuri and Kalyanpuri are
reservedfortheScheduledCaste
(SC) category, according to the
poll body.
The turnout at other wards
are Trilokpuri (46.62 per cent);
Rohini-C (38.42 per cent);
Shalimar Bagh-North (35.67
per cent) and Chauhan Banger
(46.40percent),theofficialsaid.
The bypolls are being seen
as the semifinal before the elec-
tions to all 272 MCD wards in
early 2022.
The results for the bypolls
will be announced on March 3,
officials said, adding that there
are 327 polling stations and 26
candidates in the fray.
The officials said COVID-
19 patients can vote during the
last hour of polling as per the
government guidelines.
Thermal guns are being
used to measure temperature of
all voters, and masks and sani-
tiser bottles are being provided
at the polling stations, another
official said.
Of Delhi’s 272 wards, North
Delhi Municipal Corporation
and South Delhi Municipal
Corporation have 104 each and
East Delhi Municipal
Corporation has 64.
The Bharatiya Janata Party
has been controlling all three
corporations since 2012, when
the erstwhile Municipal
Corporation of Delhi was tri-
furcated into North, South and
East corporations.
The main candidates in the
Kalyanpuri ward bye-elections
are Dhirendra from the AAP,
Siyaram Kanojia from the BJP
and Dharampal Maurya from
the Congress.
Vijay Kumar from the AAP,
OmPrakashGugarwalfromthe
BJP and Bal Kishan from the
Congress are contesting from
Trilokpuri ward.
In Chauhan Banger, former
AAP MLA Haji Ishraq Khan is
pitted against Congress’
Chaudhary Zubair Ahmad and
BJP’s Nazir Ansari.
Thesethreewardsareunder
the East Delhi Municipal
Corporation. The AAP held
these wards. The bypolls were
necessitated after sitting coun-
cillors contested the assembly
polls last year and became
MLAs. In Shalimar Bagh North
ward, which fell vacant after the
death of the BJP councillor, the
contest is between the saffron
party’s Surbhi Jaju, AAP’s Sunita
Mishra and Congress’ Mamata.
The BJP had retained all
three corporations in the 2017
civic polls with the AAP fin-
ishing a distant second. While
the BJP had swept the polls by
winning 181 seats, AAP had
won 48 and Congress was on
third spot in the tally with 30
seats to its kitty.
In May 2016, bypolls were
held for 13 municipal wards,
with the AAP picking up five
seats, follows by Congress with
fourandtheBJPwiththreeseats,
one ward picked up by an inde-
pendent candidate.The voters’
turnout in 2016 bypolls was
45.90 per cent, as per data
shared by the State Election
Commission.
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Cybersecurity has become a
major concern for India.
During the ongoing Covid-19
pandemic, the citizens of India
are more dependent on online
transaction platforms in their
effort to avoid direct contact
and chances of infections.
But in this scenario, data
privacy and cyber security
measures have become
extremely critical. On the other
hand, digital platforms can
help us to curb the spread of
Covid infections but it helps a
lot to cyber hackers to siphon
their hard earned money from
accounts.
But whenever we talk
about cybersecurity, the mind
instantly visualizes represen-
tatives and ethical hackers
from countries like the US,
Russia, Sweden, Israel, Pakistan
and more. India is often over-
looked as a rising cybersecurity
superpower. However, this
notion is being rewritten by
our very own cybersecurity
veteran, Khushhal Kaushik,
the Founder-CEO of
Lisianthus Tech, a cyber secu-
rity firm who has bagged the
super-prestigious Glory of
India Award 2020 recently by
Indian achiever forum.
The award is given to pro-
fessionals and veterans across
diverse fields and streams to
recognize their excellence,
merit, and the propelling of a
nation’s growth through their
achievements.
Khushhal also joins the
bandwagon of awardees of the
award that Kiran Bedi, former
IPS officer and Lt. Governor of
Puducherry, and Sushil Kumar,
the Olympian, besides many
others.
With this recognition,
Khushhal wants India’s pres-
ence on the global cybersecu-
rity map, who was also a key
player in putting it on a glob-
al pedestal in the first place.
Besides, Khushhal has made
the entire nation proud and
turned a few heads towards us
to be seen as a rising cyberse-
curity superpower.
Besides this, Khushhal is
the first Indian cyber security
expert to be featured by
UNESCO back in 2018. And
for his achievement, the
Andhra Pradesh government
had honored him at a special
function held at the iconic
Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi.
But Khushhal hasn’t
stopped.
The same UNESCO fea-
tured a second expert research
paper by Khushhal in feb-
2021. And that is not all.
Khushhal has been recognized
and profiled as the future of
cyber security in India in
prominent media publications
by a former US Department of
Defense veteran and navy ana-
lyst with over 30 years’ expe-
rience in cyber security.
Why Cyber Security is
Crucial In 2021?
Kaushhal informed that
with the definitive Make in
India initiatives announced by
the Indian government and
estimates reporting that over 5
billion devices would connect
to the internet in the coming
months and years, India needs
to lay down solid cybersecuri-
ty plans and policies.
This is where veterans like
him would come in and deliv-
er game-changing recommen-
dations for implementation.
Khushhal, who has already
been raising awareness of data
and smartphone security to the
general public, and he has
been also featured by
UNESCO’s annual magazine
two times.
For the publication
process, he also demanded
that his nationality be pub-
lished along with his work to
ensure the world takes a note
of the phenomenal progress
happening in the country and
how independent cyber secu-
rity professionals are driving
the change.
Besides, Khushhal is also a
believer of collaboration
between government and pri-
vate entities to efficiently han-
dle cybersecurity threats. He
firmly believes that authorities
should prefer home-grown
cyber security experts than
bringing in foreign experts to
strategize cybersecurity plans
and policies.
Khushhal’s winning of the
award arrives right on time as
people are gradually waking up
to the importance of their
data, how it is accessed, stored
and used by market players
across the world.
As the world realizes the
importance of privacy and the
implications of instances like
phishing attacks, identity thefts
and more, the need is more
than ever to have stronger
and more scalable cybersecu-
rity policies.
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A62-year-old man has been
arrested by the Economic
Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi
Police for allegedly cheating an
Afghan national by inducing
him for selling his emerald
stone on at higher price.
The accused has been iden-
tified as Gulam Hasan alias, a
resident of Mustafabad in
Kashmir who was arrested by
the EOW team on February 25.
According to Dr O P
Mishra, the Joint
Commissioner of Police, EOW,
a case was registered on a
complaint of Syed Shah Agha
who is a resident of
Afghanistan.
“In his complaint he stat-
ed that he has a business of
emerald stone in Afghanistan
and on July 26, he came to
India for selling emerald on
invitation of a person. Due to
some reason, he couldn’t sell
the same to that person, who
had given him advance amount
in Afghanistan and invited
him to India with emerald,”
said the Joint CP.
“During his stay in Jama
Masjid area in Delhi, he came
in contact with the accused
person. Gulam Hasan assured
that he will sell the Emerald on
a higher price. On believing
the words of Gulam, he hand-
ed over 1940 caret small
Emerald to Gulam for selling it
at the price of C6,000-8,000 per
caret,” said the Joint CP.
“After three days, Gulam
came back and told that he has
sold small Emerald for C5,000
per caret and gave only 7 lakh
rupees to him and assured to
give remaining amount very
soon. He again took 2,210
caret emerald for C15,000-
16,000 per caret. After 2-3
days, Gulam came and stated
that he has sold all Emerald for
C8,000 per caret and gave only
C10 lakh for emerald and
assured to give remaining
amount in 15 days,” said the
Joint CP.
“Gulam was contacted var-
ious times to return either
Emerald or amount but he
never did so. He came to know
that Gulam was telling a lie.
During investigation, it was
revealed that after selling the
emerald worth of C2.73 Crores,
accused gave only C21 lakh and
remaining amount was not
paid till date. He knows that the
complainant belongs to
Afghanistan and he will not
remain in India for a long time.
Hence, he deliberately started
delaying the matter,” said the
Joint CP.
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pad dis-
penser for
p o l i c e
w o m e n
a n d
w o m e n
employees
was inau-
gurated at
the police
line here by Uttarakhand Police
Wives Welfare Association
(UPWWA) chairperson
Alaknanda Ashok on Sunday.
Women police personnel and
employees will now be able to
get a sanitary pad for Rs five.
Speaking on the occasion,
the UPWWA chairperson said
that the sanitary pad dispens-
ing machine had been placed
for the convenience of women
police personnel. It will be
helpful in mitigating their phys-
ical and mental issues during
work. In the future, such dis-
pensers will be installed in all
police stations in the state and
all women’s barracks of PAC
and IRB, she added.
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The Muni Ki Reti-Dhalwala
municipality organised a
home composting event on
Sunday. As part of this initia-
tive, the citizens were informed
about how to use their domes-
tic wet waste to prepare com-
post at home. The people were
told that composting is an
effective method to treat wet
waste at home. Exhorting the
people to use such methods,
the municipal employ-
ees said that such steps
would help the munic-
ipality reach the top
position once again in
the Swachchh
Survekshan in 2021.
Municipal councilors
Manoj Bisht, sanita-
tion inspector
Bhupendra Kumar and
others were also pre-
sent on the
occasion.
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NCC cadets organised a
two day community develop-
ment programme. On the first
day, Vice Chancellor Prof (Dr)
Narendra Sharma and
Registrar R Kasturi flagged off
a rally. The rally was meant to
make people aware about
Covid. Masks were also dis-
tributed during the rally. The
cadets also carried out cleani-
less campaign near Sonali
river.
On the second day, cadets
visited Kisanpur village and
informed the villagers about
Beti Padao Beti Bachao. Masks
were also distributed on the
occasion. Motherhood
University’s NCC incharge and
caretaker Dr Santosh Kumar
Sharma, Deputy Registrar
Vipul Sharma and Dean
Student Welfare Dr Anil Kapil
were present on the occasion.
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The country reported a single-day rise of 16,752 cases in the last 24 hours, the high- est in the last 30 days, taking the overall tally to 1,10,96,731 on Sunday, said the Union Health Ministry, hoping that the accelerated vaccination drive will help make people safe from the infection. The Covid-19 vaccine will be given free of cost at Government hospitals, while people will need to pay for it at private facilities. The private hospitals can charge up to C250 per dose for the jab. Citizens will be able to register and book an appoint- ment for vaccination, anytime and anywhere, using the COWIN 2.0 portal or through other IT applications such as Aarogya Setu etc, said a state- ment from the Ministry. It further said there will be only one live appointment for a beneficiary at any point of time for each dose. Appointments for any date for a Covid Vaccination Center will be closed at 3 pm on that day for which the slots were opened. For example, for March 1 the slots will be open from 9 am till 3 pm on the same day, and the appoint- ments can be booked any time before that, subject to avail- ability. However, on March 1 an appointment can also be booked for any future date for which vaccination slots are available. It also stated, “The number of doses planned to be admin- istered decided by respective State/UT Government for a Vaccination Cycle. Total vac- cination slots for a vaccination cycle should not exceed the tar- get number of doses.” A User Guide for the Citizen Registration and Appointment for Vaccination has also been uploaded on the websites of the Ministry and National Health Authority (NHA). The Ministry has also spec- ified 20 comorbidities among people aged between 45 and 59 years who will get the vaccine — heart failure with hospital admission in past year, mod- erate or severe valvular heart disease, coronary artery dis- ease, CT/ MRI-documented stroke, diabetes of over 10 years or with complications, hypertension, end-stage kidney disease on haemodialysis, diag- nosis of any solid cancer on or after 2000 or currently on any cancer therapy. About the surge in cases, the Ministry said six States — Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab, BC055A4?AC4AQ =4F34;78 A25-year-old woman, who was carrying her two-year- old daughter, was stabbed to death for resisting a chain- snatching bid in Northwest Delhi’s Adarsh Nagar, police said on Sunday, adding that they have arrested the accused involved in the Saturday (9:30 pm) incident. A CCTV footage of the incident went viral on social media. In the video, two women can be seen walking when a man chases them and tries to snatch the victim’s chain from behind. The woman — identified as Simran Kaur — chases him, following which he falls on the road. Thereafter, he stands up and stabs the woman. The accused stabbed the victim and fled the spot, police said, adding that she was taken to a hospital where she was declared brought dead. Anil Jindal, Simran’s neighbour, said three years ago, an incident of snatching took place at the same spot where Simran was stabbed. The locals are in shock. The incident took place hardly 20 metres from the vic- tim’s house and there is a police postaround100metresfromthe spot. Police teams have arrested two accused persons identified asFardeen(19)and Aqibul(22), both residents of Jahangir Puri. The weapon of offence and scootyusedincrimewererecov- ered. Simran’s aunt said she had gone to the market to buy med- icines for her daughter. “She was wearing a chain and holding her daughter. The accused was chasing them and tried to snatch the chain but Simran caught hold of it and did not lose her grip. When she resisted, the accused fell on the road. 78C:0=370A8Q 90D Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday showered praises on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Speaking at an event organised by the Gurjar Desh Charitable Trust, former Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha said he has serious political dif- ferences with Modi but he “appreciates that the Prime Minister does not try to hide his background from the world”. “I like a lot of things about many leaders. I am from the village and feel proud… Even our Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) hails from the village and used to sell tea. We are political rivals but I appreciate that he does not hide his true self. I have travelled the whole world. I have stayed in 5-star and 7-star hotels. “But the scent of the peo- ple who belong to my village is unmatched,” the Congress leader said after he was felici- tated with the “Sher-e-Gurjar award” by Gurjar Desh Charitable Trust. Interestingly, the platform from where Azad spoke eloquently in favour of the PM was inaugurated by Sonia Gandhi, 11 years ago on May 29, 2010. BC055A4?AC4AQ 44ADC Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal lashed out at the BJP-ruled Centre accusing it over its “indifference” towards the farmers who have been protesting for the last three months at Delhi’s borders — Singhu, Tikri and Ghaziabad against the three farm laws. C=A067D=0C70Q D108 After the ruling Shiv Sena took the wind out of its sails by seeking the resigna- tion of its Tik Tok star Pooja Chavan’s alleged suicide- linked Minister Sanjay Rathod, the Opposition BJP on Sunday re-calibrated its strategy to target the rape- accused NCP Minister Dhananjay Munde, ahead of the 10-day Budget session beginning here from Monday. Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said, “Rathod has resigned from the State Cabinet of his own free will. I have ordered an impartial probe into the cir- cumstances leading to the alleged suicide by Pooja Chavan.” Detailed report on P5 A094B7:D0AQ =4F34;78 With farmers’ agitation holding centrestage, unrecognised political parties are clamouring for farm-relat- ed symbols to contest the upcoming Assembly polls. Sugarcane farmers (ganna kisan), farmers driving tractors (tractor chalata kisan) and jackfruit and coconut farms are among the symbols issued by the poll body to registered unrecognised political parties ahead of the Assembly polls in five States. According to the Election Commission (EC), 60-70 political parties have approached the poll body seek- ing registration in the past two three months. These symbols assume sig- nificance in the current sce- nario amid farmers protests in several States over the new farm laws. Apple, capsicum, cauliflower, ginger, grapes, green chilli, lady finger, peanuts, pears, peas, pineapple, water melon, tiller and walnut are also available for symbols. “Apple as a symbol is avail- able for all States and union territories except in the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka,” the EC said. It maintains a pool of hundreds of symbols which represent aspects of everyday life in India. The Bharatiya Janaseve Congress has been given ganna kisan symbol for Kerala, Assam and Puducherry. The poll body has allotted tractor chalata kisan to the All India Kisan Janatha Party which is gearing up to contest from West Bengal. The Makkal Neethi Katchi-India has been allotted the symbol of “man blowing turha” for Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry and West |Bengal. 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- 2. ]PcX^]! 347A03D=k=30H k0A27 !! $OWKRXJKHYHUSRVVLEOHFDUHDQGFDXWLRQKDVEHHQWDNHQWRDYRLGHUURUVRURPLVVLRQVWKLVSXEOLFDWLRQLVEHLQJVROGRQWKHFRQGLWLRQDQGXQGHUVWDQGLQJWKDWLQIRUPDWLRQJLYHQLQWKLVSXEOLFDWLRQLVPHUHOIRUUHIHUHQFHDQGPXVWQRWEHWDNHQDVKDYLQJDXWKRULWRIRUELQGLQJLQDQZDRQWKHZULWHUVHGLWRUVSXEOLVKHUVDQGSULQWHUVDQGVHOOHUVZKRGRQRWRZHDQUHVSRQVLELOLWIRUDQ GDPDJHRUORVVWRDQSHUVRQDSXUFKDVHURIWKLVSXEOLFDWLRQRUQRWIRUWKHUHVXOWRIDQDFWLRQWDNHQRQWKHEDVLVRIWKLVZRUN$OOGLVSXWHVDUHVXEMHFWWRWKHH[FOXVLYHMXULVGLFWLRQRIFRPSHWHQWFRXUWDQGIRUXPVLQ'HOKL1HZ'HOKLRQO5HDGHUVDUHDGYLVHGDQGUHTXHVWHGWRYHULIDQGVHHNDSSURSULDWHDGYLFHWRVDWLVIWKHPVHOYHVDERXWWKHYHUDFLWRIDQNLQGRIDGYHUWLVHPHQWEHIRUH UHVSRQGLQJWRDQFRQWHQWVSXEOLVKHGLQWKLVQHZVSDSHU7KHSULQWHUSXEOLVKHUHGLWRUDQGDQHPSORHHRIWKH3LRQHHU*URXS·VZLOOQRWEHKHOGUHVSRQVLEOHIRUDQNLQGRIFODLPPDGHEWKHDGYHUWLVHUVRIWKHSURGXFWV VHUYLFHVDQGVKDOOQRWEHPDGHUHVSRQVLEOHIRUDQNLQGRIORVVFRQVHTXHQFHVDQGIXUWKHUSURGXFWUHODWHGGDPDJHVRQVXFKDGYHUWLVHPHQWV BC055A4?AC4AQ =4F34;78 The North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NMC) and Bisleri have come together to educate citizens about the importance of plastic recycling and segregation of plastic at source under ‘Swachha Sarvekshan Abhiyan’. North Delhi Mayor Jai Prakash informed that the civic body along with Bisleri will implement “Bottles for Change’ program to create awareness among the resident. “Plastic is thought to be a threat to the environment but in reality it is not If recycled after its use,” he added. Deputy Commissioner of Karol Bagh Zone Himanshu Gupta handed over the permis- sion letter to Santosh Darne, a representative of Bisleri for implementing the program in corporation’sgeographicalareas. Anjana Ghosh, director (Marketing) of Bisleri International said, “People hate plastic because they are not aware about the feats of recy- cling. It is a widespread under- standing that, plastic adds to the environmental pollution. But, everypieceofplasticisrecyclable for several times. All we need to do is change our habits and stop treating plastic as a waste. This program is already implemented in Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru and now Delhi will be its new destination. BC055A4?AC4AQ =4F34;78 As the Switch Delhi cam- paign enters its fourth week, Delhi Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot has appealed to all “Residents Welfare Associations” (RWAs) to make the campaign a mass move- ment. Gahlot said, “RWAs are instrumental in encouraging citizen’s participation in ensur- ing better living environments and have played an important role in the development of Delhi.” As the campaign enters the fourth week, our focus is to connect with each RWA in Delhi and urge them to under- take the mass awareness activ- ity in their area to make the campaign a Jan Andolan. The MLAs, RWAs and cit- izens of adjoining neighbour- hoods need to work together to plan and engage local author- ities to ensure a smooth tran- sition to electric vehicles. “RWAs and MLAs can play a major role in making the cit- izens aware of the environ- mental benefits of switching to an EV and incentives that can be availed under Delhi Government’s EV policy by organizing a door-to-door sen- sitization drive. The minister further said, “We encourage RWAs to take the Switch Delhi Pledge to install charging points in at least five per cent of parking spots in your area. This will assure residents of proper charging infrastructure on their premises and ensure an effortless transition for Delhiites.” The Delhi Government is taking all measures to help cit- izens overcome the apprehen- sions regarding the charging of EV vehicles and enable a smooth transition in the city. Over 70 public charging stations are already opera- tional in Delhi. Additionally, 500 charging points are com- ing up on 100 locations soon. Subsidies up to Rs. 1.5 lakhs, scrapping benefits up to Rs. 7,500 and over 100 models for two, three and four wheelers are covered under EV policy making it easy for the citizens to making the switch. Switch Delhi is an eight- week mass awareness cam- paign by the Delhi Government to sensitize each Delhiite about the benefits of switching to EVs to the envi- ronment as well as to make them aware of the incentives and infrastructure being devel- oped under Delhi’s EV policy. The campaign aims at informing, encouraging, and motivating every person in Delhi to switch from polluting vehicles to zero-emission elec- tric vehicles. BC055A4?AC4AQ =4F34;78 The Transport Department of the Delhi Government is all set to conduct one-month final phase of trial of the con- tactless e-ticketing app ‘Chartr’ in all 2,990 buses of ‘Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal Transit System’ (DIMTS) Ltd from Monday. The service was launched in August 2020 and scaled up in the wake of the Covid pan- demic. The trial would cover all the routes of DIMTS buses. In the last week of February, the trial of this app was extended to all 3,760 DTC buses till March 31st. The trial is being conduct- ed by a special task force con- stituted for this purpose by the minister which consist of expert members from the transport department, Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal Transit System Ltd. (DIMTS), Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT- D) and World Resources Institute (WRI). The mobile e- ticketing App has been devel- oped with the technical support of IIIT-Delhi, a senior Delhi government official said. E-ticketing in DIMTS was started in August last year on route number 473. The total number of buses increased to 550 thereafter in a phased manner. In DTC, the trial of this online ticketing app was started in September last year on route 534 in Gazipur and Hasanpur depots. It started in a total of 35 buses from both depots. After the success in these depots, e-ticketing was scaled in all depots of DTC in a phased manner. Currently, e- ticketing is live on a trial basis in all buses and routes of DTC. The trials also included exhaus- tive passenger surveys, to ensure maximum commuter- friendliness of the App. The total daily ticket book- ing through ‘Chartr’ app is around 10,000 per day. In the last 10 days, the ticket count through this app has witnessed a 10 per cent day on day increase. BC055A4?AC4AQ =4F34;78 Aturnoutofabout42percent was recorded in the first eight hours of voting for the bypolls to five municipal wards inDelhionSunday,thefirstelec- toralexercisebeingconductedin the national capital amid the coronavirus pandemic. The results of these bye- elections are likely to have an impact on the big-ticket 2022 Delhi civic polls. Polling began at 7:30 AM amid tight security arrange- ments,anditisscheduledtoend at 5:30 PM. By 3:30 PM, the overall turnoutacrossthefivewardswas 42.91 per cent, with Kalyanpuri ward recording the maximum 50.56 per cent, as per the data shared by a senior official of the State Election Commission in Delhi. In Kalyanpui ward in east Delhi, two of the seven polling locations are in “critical” cate- gory. A total of 16 polling loca- tions out of the total 44 have been kept in this category, as per official data. According to the State Election Commission, around 2.42 lakh people are eligible to cast their votes in two wards under the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC)andthreewardsunder the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC). The main contenders are the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the BJP and the Congress. All of them have expressed confidence that they will emerge victorious in the bypolls, being held under strict COVID protocols. The municipal wards where polling is underway are Rohini- C, Shalimar Bagh (North), Trilokpuri, Kalyanpuri and Chauhan Banger. While Shalimar Bagh (North) is reserved for women, Trilokpuri and Kalyanpuri are reservedfortheScheduledCaste (SC) category, according to the poll body. The turnout at other wards are Trilokpuri (46.62 per cent); Rohini-C (38.42 per cent); Shalimar Bagh-North (35.67 per cent) and Chauhan Banger (46.40percent),theofficialsaid. The bypolls are being seen as the semifinal before the elec- tions to all 272 MCD wards in early 2022. The results for the bypolls will be announced on March 3, officials said, adding that there are 327 polling stations and 26 candidates in the fray. The officials said COVID- 19 patients can vote during the last hour of polling as per the government guidelines. Thermal guns are being used to measure temperature of all voters, and masks and sani- tiser bottles are being provided at the polling stations, another official said. Of Delhi’s 272 wards, North Delhi Municipal Corporation and South Delhi Municipal Corporation have 104 each and East Delhi Municipal Corporation has 64. The Bharatiya Janata Party has been controlling all three corporations since 2012, when the erstwhile Municipal Corporation of Delhi was tri- furcated into North, South and East corporations. The main candidates in the Kalyanpuri ward bye-elections are Dhirendra from the AAP, Siyaram Kanojia from the BJP and Dharampal Maurya from the Congress. Vijay Kumar from the AAP, OmPrakashGugarwalfromthe BJP and Bal Kishan from the Congress are contesting from Trilokpuri ward. In Chauhan Banger, former AAP MLA Haji Ishraq Khan is pitted against Congress’ Chaudhary Zubair Ahmad and BJP’s Nazir Ansari. Thesethreewardsareunder the East Delhi Municipal Corporation. The AAP held these wards. The bypolls were necessitated after sitting coun- cillors contested the assembly polls last year and became MLAs. In Shalimar Bagh North ward, which fell vacant after the death of the BJP councillor, the contest is between the saffron party’s Surbhi Jaju, AAP’s Sunita Mishra and Congress’ Mamata. The BJP had retained all three corporations in the 2017 civic polls with the AAP fin- ishing a distant second. While the BJP had swept the polls by winning 181 seats, AAP had won 48 and Congress was on third spot in the tally with 30 seats to its kitty. In May 2016, bypolls were held for 13 municipal wards, with the AAP picking up five seats, follows by Congress with fourandtheBJPwiththreeseats, one ward picked up by an inde- pendent candidate.The voters’ turnout in 2016 bypolls was 45.90 per cent, as per data shared by the State Election Commission. ?0AE4B7B70A0Q 6DAD6A0 Cybersecurity has become a major concern for India. During the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the citizens of India are more dependent on online transaction platforms in their effort to avoid direct contact and chances of infections. But in this scenario, data privacy and cyber security measures have become extremely critical. On the other hand, digital platforms can help us to curb the spread of Covid infections but it helps a lot to cyber hackers to siphon their hard earned money from accounts. But whenever we talk about cybersecurity, the mind instantly visualizes represen- tatives and ethical hackers from countries like the US, Russia, Sweden, Israel, Pakistan and more. India is often over- looked as a rising cybersecurity superpower. However, this notion is being rewritten by our very own cybersecurity veteran, Khushhal Kaushik, the Founder-CEO of Lisianthus Tech, a cyber secu- rity firm who has bagged the super-prestigious Glory of India Award 2020 recently by Indian achiever forum. The award is given to pro- fessionals and veterans across diverse fields and streams to recognize their excellence, merit, and the propelling of a nation’s growth through their achievements. Khushhal also joins the bandwagon of awardees of the award that Kiran Bedi, former IPS officer and Lt. Governor of Puducherry, and Sushil Kumar, the Olympian, besides many others. With this recognition, Khushhal wants India’s pres- ence on the global cybersecu- rity map, who was also a key player in putting it on a glob- al pedestal in the first place. Besides, Khushhal has made the entire nation proud and turned a few heads towards us to be seen as a rising cyberse- curity superpower. Besides this, Khushhal is the first Indian cyber security expert to be featured by UNESCO back in 2018. And for his achievement, the Andhra Pradesh government had honored him at a special function held at the iconic Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi. But Khushhal hasn’t stopped. The same UNESCO fea- tured a second expert research paper by Khushhal in feb- 2021. And that is not all. Khushhal has been recognized and profiled as the future of cyber security in India in prominent media publications by a former US Department of Defense veteran and navy ana- lyst with over 30 years’ expe- rience in cyber security. Why Cyber Security is Crucial In 2021? Kaushhal informed that with the definitive Make in India initiatives announced by the Indian government and estimates reporting that over 5 billion devices would connect to the internet in the coming months and years, India needs to lay down solid cybersecuri- ty plans and policies. This is where veterans like him would come in and deliv- er game-changing recommen- dations for implementation. Khushhal, who has already been raising awareness of data and smartphone security to the general public, and he has been also featured by UNESCO’s annual magazine two times. For the publication process, he also demanded that his nationality be pub- lished along with his work to ensure the world takes a note of the phenomenal progress happening in the country and how independent cyber secu- rity professionals are driving the change. Besides, Khushhal is also a believer of collaboration between government and pri- vate entities to efficiently han- dle cybersecurity threats. He firmly believes that authorities should prefer home-grown cyber security experts than bringing in foreign experts to strategize cybersecurity plans and policies. Khushhal’s winning of the award arrives right on time as people are gradually waking up to the importance of their data, how it is accessed, stored and used by market players across the world. As the world realizes the importance of privacy and the implications of instances like phishing attacks, identity thefts and more, the need is more than ever to have stronger and more scalable cybersecu- rity policies. BC055A4?AC4AQ =4F34;78 A62-year-old man has been arrested by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police for allegedly cheating an Afghan national by inducing him for selling his emerald stone on at higher price. The accused has been iden- tified as Gulam Hasan alias, a resident of Mustafabad in Kashmir who was arrested by the EOW team on February 25. According to Dr O P Mishra, the Joint Commissioner of Police, EOW, a case was registered on a complaint of Syed Shah Agha who is a resident of Afghanistan. “In his complaint he stat- ed that he has a business of emerald stone in Afghanistan and on July 26, he came to India for selling emerald on invitation of a person. Due to some reason, he couldn’t sell the same to that person, who had given him advance amount in Afghanistan and invited him to India with emerald,” said the Joint CP. “During his stay in Jama Masjid area in Delhi, he came in contact with the accused person. Gulam Hasan assured that he will sell the Emerald on a higher price. On believing the words of Gulam, he hand- ed over 1940 caret small Emerald to Gulam for selling it at the price of C6,000-8,000 per caret,” said the Joint CP. “After three days, Gulam came back and told that he has sold small Emerald for C5,000 per caret and gave only 7 lakh rupees to him and assured to give remaining amount very soon. He again took 2,210 caret emerald for C15,000- 16,000 per caret. After 2-3 days, Gulam came and stated that he has sold all Emerald for C8,000 per caret and gave only C10 lakh for emerald and assured to give remaining amount in 15 days,” said the Joint CP. “Gulam was contacted var- ious times to return either Emerald or amount but he never did so. He came to know that Gulam was telling a lie. During investigation, it was revealed that after selling the emerald worth of C2.73 Crores, accused gave only C21 lakh and remaining amount was not paid till date. He knows that the complainant belongs to Afghanistan and he will not remain in India for a long time. Hence, he deliberately started delaying the matter,” said the Joint CP. 0DNHµ6ZLWFK'HOKL¶D PDVVPRYHPHQW0LQ TTc:WdbWWP[:PdbWXZfW^WPX[b8]SXP´b_aTbT]RT^]cWTV[^QP[RhQTabTRdaXchP_ 1HDUOYRWHUVWXUQRXWWLOOSPRYHUDW.DODQSXUL ?43Zd]VcZ[`Z_ YR_Ude`RhRcV TZeZkV_dRS`fe a]RdeZTcVTjT]Z_X R_YV]UW`cTYVReZ_X2WXYR__Re¶] 5X]P[_WPbTcaXP[^UTcXRZTcX]VbhbcT c^QTVX]X]:R[dbcTaQdbTbUa^c^SPh E^cTabcPZT_aTRPdcX^]PVPX]bccWTR^a^]PeXadbPbcWThbcP]SX]P`dTdTc^RPbccWTXa e^cTSdaX]VQh_^[[bX]UXeTfPaSb^U23PcBWP[XPa1PVWPaTPX]=Tf3T[WX Bd]SPh AP]YP]3XaXk?X^]TTa ?=BQ 347A03D= Asanit- a r y pad dis- penser for p o l i c e w o m e n a n d w o m e n employees was inau- gurated at the police line here by Uttarakhand Police Wives Welfare Association (UPWWA) chairperson Alaknanda Ashok on Sunday. Women police personnel and employees will now be able to get a sanitary pad for Rs five. Speaking on the occasion, the UPWWA chairperson said that the sanitary pad dispens- ing machine had been placed for the convenience of women police personnel. It will be helpful in mitigating their phys- ical and mental issues during work. In the future, such dis- pensers will be installed in all police stations in the state and all women’s barracks of PAC and IRB, she added. DR_ZeRcjaRUUZdaV_dVc a]RTVUZ_a`]ZTV]Z_V ?=BQ 347A03D= The Muni Ki Reti-Dhalwala municipality organised a home composting event on Sunday. As part of this initia- tive, the citizens were informed about how to use their domes- tic wet waste to prepare com- post at home. The people were told that composting is an effective method to treat wet waste at home. Exhorting the people to use such methods, the municipal employ- ees said that such steps would help the munic- ipality reach the top position once again in the Swachchh Survekshan in 2021. 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- 3. RP_XcP[ 347A03D=k=30H k0A27 !! ?=BQ 170A038B08= The budget session of Uttarakhand assembly would start at Bharadisain, Gairsain on Monday. The ten day session would commence with the address of the Governor Baby Rani Maurya. On March 4, the Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat who also holds the finance portfo- lio would present a budget for the financial year 2021-22 in the assembly. Incidentally this would be the first budget of the Uttarakhand government in the summer capital of Uttarakhand. The CM Rawat announced his government’s intention to grant the status of summer capital to Gairsain in Chamoli district on March 4, 2020. After the consent of the Governor the official notifica- tion of the summer capital status was done in June 2020. This year the budget is expected to be to the tune of Rs 56900 Crores. On Sunday the CM Trivendra Singh Rawat, , Cabinet ministers Satpal Maharaj, Madan Kaushik, Harak Singh Rawat and Arivid Pandey arrived in Bharadisain. The meeting of the business advisory committee headed by Deputy speaker Raghunath Singh Chauhan was held in Bharadisain on Sunday. In the meeting the agenda of the first day and the address of the Governor were dis- cussed. Cabinet minister Madan Kaushik, leader of opposition Indira Hridayesh, Govind Singh Kunjwal and Khajan Das were also present in this meeting. Later the meetings of the BJP and Congress legislature parties were organised in which the party leaders discussed their respective strategies for the session. The opposition Congress has decided to target the government on the issues of unemployment, nonpayment of farmers’ dues, price rise and failure of government to tack- le the pandemic of Covid-19. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat too reached Bharadisain on Sunday. He took road route from Ranikhet via Dwarahaat to reach Gairsain. ?=BQ AA:84 Naresh Kumar has been elected as President of Prem Vidhyalaya Sabha, Gurukul, Narsan. He was elect- ed unanimously in an election that took place on Feb 27. Surendra Kumar was elect- ed as vice president, Satendra Kumar was elected as secretary, Amit Kumar as deputy secre- tary and Rakesh Kumar was elected as treasurer. Amit Kumar, Ayush Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, Naveen Rathi, Dharmendra, Dheer Singh and Shailendra Singh were elected as special lifelong invitees. Among five lifelong general members elected included Rahul Kumar, Sukhpal Singh, Chandveer, Shakti Singh and Rajdev Singh Arya. Election Officer Ujagar Singh announced the results. ?=BQ 347A03D= The tally of novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) patients in Uttarakhand mounted to 96992 on Sunday with the state health depart- ment reporting 43 new cases of the pandemic. The authorities discharged 11 patients of the disease from different hospitals on Sunday following their recovery from the disease. A total of 93453 patients have so far recovered from the disease in the state. The recovery per- centage from the disease now stands at 96.5 and the sample positivity rate is 4.03 percent. No patient of the disease was reported dead by the health department on the day. A total of 1692 people have so far reported dead in the state. The health department reported 18 new patients of the disease in Dehradun district on the day. Here 2380 samples were tested in different labs on Sunday. In Haridwar 10 patients were reported, seven from Nainital, five from Udham Singh Nagar and one each from Almora, Champawat and Tehri on the day. No new patients were reported from Bageshwar, Chamoli, Champawat, Pauri, Pithoragarh, Rudraprayag and Uttarkashi districts on Sunday. The state now has 451 active patients of Covid-19. Haridwar district is at the top of the table of active cases of the disease with 140 patients. Dehradun with 109 active patients is at second position; Nainital has 66, Pauri 30, Udham Singh Nagar 25, Almora 24, Tehri 19, Champawat 15, Chamoli and Uttarkashi nine each, Bageshwar four and Rudraprayag one active cases of the disease. Pithoragarh district has no active cases of the dis- trict. ?=BQ 347A03D= The Dehradun district dairy department has com- menced the production of dairy products in the second Dairy Growth Centre of the district in Atal village of Tiuni after the first successful Dairy Growth Centre in Lakhamandal. The construc- tion work of the centre was recently concluded and cur- rently, the installation work of various machinery is still under process. Moreover, the depart- ment is also working on the plans of branding and market- ing of the Ghee prepared from the milk of Badri Cows to sell the products on other parts of the country. This was informed by the Assistant director of the Dairy development department, Anurag Mishra. He said that many farmers received loans under the gov- ernment schemes to buy Badri cows while many are still awaiting for their loans to be sanctioned soon. At present, we are only making churpi cheese in the Atal Dairy Growth Centre. When all the equipment will be installed in the centre and all the remaining farm- ers will get Badri cows through their pending loans, we will start the full production of dairy products here like the Lakhamandal Growth Centre said Mishra. He further informed that considering the high demand of the Ghee of Badri Cows due to their specific taste and med- icinal value in various States, the district administration is also currently working on its marketing and branding so that a proper platform can be provided to the local dairy products of Dehradun district. Moreover, he added that the administration will soon start another Dairy Growth Centre in Sahiya village of Kalsi which will promote the dairy products of Badri Cows while providing more employment opportuni- ties to the local farmers. Dehradun: The UPNL employees would be forced to further intensify their protest if the State Government would continue to ignore their gen- uine demands. This was stated by the president of the Uttarakhand Purva Sainik Nigam Limited Employees Union, Kushagra Joshi on the seventh day of the protest of contractual UPNL employees. He said that the employees are currently protesting peacefully at the protesting site near Ekta Vihar in Sahastradhara Road but the government has still not initi- ated any dialogue with them. He said the protestors are mainly demanding for the reg- ularisation of the employees in the government departments besides equal pay for equal work for every employee. He said the association will con- tinue the protest till the gov- ernment approves all the demands, said Joshi. PNS ?=BQ 347A03D= The Ram Dutt Joshi hospital in Ramnagar has been granted entry level certificate by the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH). This is the first government hospital of Uttarakhand to receive the NABH certification. The Ram Dutt Joshi hospital is operated in the public private partnership mode under the World Bank funded Uttarakhand health system development project. Various criteria are ascer- tained for the NABH certifica- tion. The patient-centric stan- dards include consistency and regular evaluation of patient care, medicine management, patient rights and education, and hospital infection man- agement. The organisation cen- ?=BQ 347A03D= Accusing the Uttarakhand government of failing to fulfill the promise made to the Anganwadi workers last year after their 60 day protest, the State Anganwadi Workers Association has decided to gherao Vidhan Sabha in Gairsain on March 4. The asso- ciation took this decision on the state level meeting of the Anganwadi workers on Sunday in Dehradun which was attend- ed by the workers from various districts of Uttarakhand. President of the association, Rekha Negi asserted that the chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat had assured them last year that the government would increase the allowances of the Anganwadi workers. He also promised us to make a committee through which we would be able to present our issues before the administration but nobody has approached us so year. She further added that the Anganwadi workers are already underpaid and yet, the allowances of several workers are still pending in several dis- tricts. Negi said that the asso- ciation recently sent a letter to the CM stating all the issues and if the government will not resolve them soon as promised, more than 40,000 Anganwadi workers would gherao Vidhan Sabha in Gairsain on March 4. ?=BQ 347A03D= The state government will complete four years in office on March 18 and during this period it has made various efforts when it comes to roads, health, education and tourism sectors. Stating this while addressing a public gathering in Dwarahat on Sunday, chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat said that important steps have also been taken for the welfare of women. The Mukhyamantri Ghasyari Yojana will also be imple- mented soon to facilitate improvement in the economic and social level of women. Further, the important step of granting co-ownership right to women on the ancestral property of their husbands will also bring about major changes in the coming times. Rawat fur- ther informed that the gov- ernment had appointed more than 2,200 doctors while the process of appointing 765 doc- tors and 2,500 nurses is under- way. He exhorted all the peo- ple to plant trees on the occa- sion of Harela festival. The plantation undertaken throughout the year will be conducted extensively across the state on the occasion of Harela. Referring to the tradi- tional art of Aipan, he said that efforts are being made to pub- licise it across the nation and abroad. A budgetary provi- sion of Rs five crore will be made this year for people who made Aipan and handicrafts so as to preserve such arts. Regarding education, Rawat said that while 500 schools have been linked with virtual class- es the procedure to facilitate the same is underway in 600 schools. Thanking the state gov- ernment, Dwarahat MLA Mahesh Negi said that work on more than 90 per cent of the announcements made in the constituency had been com- pleted. Development works amounting to about Rs 1,000 crore had been executed in the constituency, he added. ?=BQ 347A03D= Uttarakhand Tourism department officials inter- acted with major travel agents and tour operators of various north eastern states during the travel and tourism fair 2021 which concluded in Kolkata on Sunday. The people of West Bengal were also invited to Uttarakhand for the Char Dham Yatra and summer tourism. The Tourism secretary Dilip Jawalkar informed that the state government is com- mitted to reviving the state’s tourism industry after the Covid pandemic. To achieve this, the tourism department is participating in the major trav- el marts and exhibitions across the nation. The state govern- ment participates in such events along with stakeholders in the tourism sector. At the event in Kolkata, Uttarakhand Tourism public relations officer Kamal Kishore Joshi repre- sented the state. He said that Uttarakhand is a favoured des- tination for tourists from West Bengal. There is considerable enthusiasm among Bengalis to visit Uttarakhand after the Covid period. ?=BQ 347A03D= Gearing up to restrict the use of single-use plastics in the city once again, the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) will start imposing penalties on those violating the ban on single-use plastics from today. The cor- poration initially started rais- ing awareness against single- use plastic earlier this month through sanitation supervisors and by playing an audio mes- sage in garbage collection vehicles. 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- 4. ]PcX^]# 347A03D=k=30H k0A27 !! ,QGLDPXVWIRFXVRQ ZDWHUFRQVHUYDWLRQ30 ?=BQ =4F34;78 Asking the country to think ahead, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday highlighted the need for water conservation saying the Government would “in a few days” launch a campaign ‘Catch the Rain’ “where it falls when it falls.” In his monthly radio-talk ‘mann ki baat’, Modi called for a 100-day campaign to clean up water bodies and harvest rain- water. “This is the best time to think about water conservation in the summer months ahead. Water has been crucial for the development of humankind for centuries,” he said. In his 74th edition, second for 2021, radio address Prime Minister touched on various issues concerning the nation, including water conservation, coronavirus and self-reliance. “Many people from across the country are contributing to Atmanirbhar Bharat… Aatmanirbhar Bharat is not merely a Government efforts.It is the national spirit of India,” said Modi. Modi stressed the impor- tance of water conservation during his address and announced that the Jal Shakti Ministry would soon launch a water conservation campaign called ‘Catch the Rain’ “On March 22, World Water Day will be celebrated. We must understand our responsibility towards water conservation. In a few days, the Jal Shakti Ministry will launch a campaign Catch the Rain. Its slogan is Catch the Rain, where it falls when it falls. This is the best time to think about water conservation in the summer months ahead. Water has been crucial for the development of humankind for centuries,” he said. To motivate people towards nature conservation Modi gave an example of Jadev Payeng of Assam. “He has actively contributed towards 300 hectares plantations in Majuli island in Assam. He has been working for forest con- servation and has been inspir- ing people on plantation and conservation of biodiversity”, he said. Wishing students ahead of their examinations, Modi said, ‘Be a warrior, not wor- rier.’ He also invited parents, teachers for their suggestion for “Pariksha pe Charcha.” In his address ,Modi urged sports ministry to pro- mote sports commentary in regional culture “We need to think about promoting commentary of Indian sports in regional lan- guages,’ Prime Minister said. “We must think about promoting it. I would urge the sports ministry and private institutions to think about it,” he said. Do you ever feel that something is still missing? asked a listener to which he mentioned his “insufficient efforts” to pick-up Tamil language. “You have been PM and CM for so many years. Do you ever feel that something is still missing? asked a lis- tener,” the listener had asked. “I could not make suffi- cient efforts to learn world’s most ancient language Tamil. I could not learn Tamil,” said Modi in his response. Extending greetings to the people on ‘National Science Day’, Prime Minister noted the immense role that, he said, played by Science in making the country self- reliant. “Today is National Science Day. It is dedicated to the discovery of the ‘Raman Effect’ by scientist Dr CV Raman. Our youth should read a lot about Indian sci- entists and understand the history of Indian science,” said Modi. “In self-reliant India, there is immense contribution of science. We will have to take science forward with the mantra of “lab to land,” he added. Modi began his address by invoking saint-poet Sant Ravidas, a day after the nation remembered him on his anniversary. “Sant Ravidas Ji taught us- keep working, do not expect anything…when this is done there will be satisfaction. He taught people to go beyond conventional thinking. Sant Ravidas Ji spoke directly and honestly about various issues. He was fearless. We bow to Sant Ravidas Ji on his Jayanti. His thoughts inspire us,” said the Prime Minister. 43:?43$ `eYVcdhZeY`fe cVXf]RcTYZVWd ?=BQ =4F34;78 The Ministry of Consumer Affairs on Sunday said that data collection of wholesale and retail prices of 22 essential com- modities on a daily basis has improved following the launch of a mobile app from January thisyear.Theministrymonitors prices of rice, wheat, wheat flour, gram dal, tur/arhar Dal, urad dal, moong Dal, masoor Dal, sugar, milk, groundnut oil, mustard oil, vanaspati, soya oil, sunflower oil, palm oil, gur, tea, salt, potato, onion and tomato. The price data is being collect- ed from 127 centres across the country through food and civil supplies departments of state Governments. “To improve the quality of prices data for reporting daily pricesbythepricereportingcen- tres, the Department of Consumer Affairs launched a Mobile App on 1st January, 2021,” the ministry said in a statement. The monitoring and pre- dictive analysis of prices of essentialcommoditieshastaken a giant step forward, it said. The mobile app for price monitoring for 22 essential commodities has started pro- viding effective real time infor- mation about retail and whole- sale prices from 127 locations acrossthecountry,thestatement said. Thedailyreportofretailand wholesale prices are obtained from 127 centres located across the country. The daily report of pricesandindicativepricetrends are analysed for taking appro- priate decisions such as release of stocks from the buffer and export-import policy etc. “Price reporting through Mobile App ensures reporting from the market location as data are geo- tagged thereby displaying the location from where price data arereported,”itsaid.Thereport- ing of static data from office desktop is ruled out through the application of Mobile App. “Therefore,theconditionto operationalise Mobile App is thateachPriceReportingCentre has to furnish market details such as names and addresses of the shops and markets from where prices are being collect- ed daily,” it said. As per the guidelinesforretailpricereport- ing, the prices of the same vari- etyofacommodityaretobecol- lected from three markets — high income market, middle income market and low income market, and the average of the three prices is to be reported. The ministry said that the mobile App has inbuilt feature to calculate and report the average price. This helps in avoiding human errors in calculation. Market information from Agmarknet, Agriwatch, NAFED and trade associations also constitute inputs for price analysis. The ministry is also utilis- ing the services of Agriwatch for providing market intelli- gence, predictive analysis of prices and to develop price forecasting model. The ministry said it had proposed to DEA (department of economic affairs) for tech- nical assistance fund under CARES Progamme of Asian Development Bank (ADB) for improving price monitoring and analysis. The activity components under the technical assistance are upgradation of price mon- itoring portal, capacity building for price reporting centres and price monitoring cell, identifi- cation of long-term improve- ments for food commodity supply chain market effi- ciency. ?=BQ =4F34;78 On World Rare Disease Day, observed on every last day of February, experts on Sunday stressed on mandatory new- born screening and adequate financial support for control and management of the dis- ease. There are more than 7,000 diagnosed rare diseases in the world and over 350 million individuals suffer from them, with nearly one-fifth in India. “But, many patients go without being diagnosed accurately or treated on time,” activists in the sector said while calling for a comprehensive policy. Around 50 percent of the rare diseases are by birth, and the rest are late onset. Only seven of the 450 are treatable diseases, the rest need to be managed. “We are literally sitting on a ticking time bomb,” Prasanna Shirol, co-founder of the Organisation of Rare Diseases in India (ORDI) said, lament- ing that there is no official list of identified rare diseases issued by the Government. In fact, the national registry announced by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in 2017, which aimed to cover a set of rare and ultra-rare dis- orders that are prevalent in India has remained a non- starter till date. Lack of awareness is the biggest challenge in diagnosing rare diseases, said Shirol, explaining that the average time to identify a rare disease in a patient is seven years. “What the government believes is utterly contradicto- ry. They ask why should they initiate anything massive for a group which does not have a massive patient burden unlike non-communicable diseases like cancers, but what I say is that to know the real burden it has to make newborn screen- ing mandatory,” he slammed the Government. Vikas Bhatia from Merd (Metabolic Errors and Rare Diseases) India Foundation echoed similar views saying that in India, the health care priorities are still limited to reducing the Infant Mortality Rate(IMR) and meeting basic infrastructure requirements. “The Government is yet to have a mandatory screening pro- gram for newborn babies.” Though, some States like Kerala and Goa and hospitals like such as SGPGI Lucknow, JK Loan Hospital, Jaipur, have made it mandatory screening for some disorders in the state government health care facili- ties, it should be uniformly adopted by all the States, said Bhatia. “Otherwise also, even if it is mandatory or not mandato- ry, the health of their baby is of utmost important concern of the parents and they do not want to go through any trau- ma,” he said. “Lastly, screening should be simple, specific, sen- sitive, cost effective and easy for collection and transport,” he suggested. Unhappy at the delay in diagnosis, Vijay sappani, chair- man of Sappani Foundation for rare disease research and board member of Canadian organi- zation of rare disorders In India, Parvathy Krishnan from Foundation Alliance Manager for Global Genes felt that “this journey is significantly more prolonged due to the unavail- ability of testing, limited access to specialists, and a lack of understanding of the impact of rare diseases on the patient’s quality of life. “Early diagnosis can improve avenues for life-saving interventions and therapies in patients with rare disease,” added Oommen C Kurian, head of Health Initiative at ORF, a thinktank. Though the Union Ministry of Health has issued draft National Policy for Rare Diseases 2020 for stake- holder inputs, the activists are not very enthusiastic about it. They rued that the policy embraces a minimalist approach and maintains that healthcare is a State subject. Early this year, the Delhi High Court had directed the Centre to finalise and opera- tionalise the Policy by March 31, 2021. A0:4B7:B8=67Q =4F34;78 At least three Central Police Organisations (CPOs), including CBI and NCB, besides two Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) or para- military, CRPF and NSG, are headless in the face of absence of appointments of regular chiefs. These agencies are working with ad hoc chiefs. While the post of Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is vacant since February 3 when the then incumbent RK Shukla retired from service after com- pletion of the fixed two-year tenure, 1984-batch Gujarat cadre IPS officer Rakesh Asthana is holding additional charge of the chief of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) after his appointment as Director General of the Border Security Force (BSF) on August 17 last year. The CBI is currently head- ed by 1988-batch Gujarat cadre IPS officer Praveen Sinha, presently additional director in the investigating agency, as an interim chief till a regular appointment. The CBI chief is appoint- ed by a high-level panel head- ed by the Prime Minister that also includes the Chief Justice of India and the Leader of the largest Opposition party in the Lok Sabha and a meeting of the committee is yet to be called, sources said. Likewise, the post of the chief of Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD), also a CPO, is vacant after the incumbent Director General and 1986-batch IPS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre was moved to the Union Home Ministry has Special Secretary (Internal Security) from August 19 last year for tenure till November 30, 2022. The elite counter-terror CAPF or paramilitary National Security Guard (NSG) is head- less since October 1 last year as the then Director General AK Singh retired from service on September 30 and ITBP Chief SS Deswal is holding additional charge of the top post in the Force. While the Centre on Friday appointed the outgoing CRPF DG AP Maheshwari as an advisor to Puducherry’s Lieutenant Governor, two days before his superannuation from the Indian Police Service (IPS) on Sunday, the appointment of the chief of the paramilitary is yet to be made. The CPRF is the world’s biggest paramilitary with a strength of over 3.25 lakh personnel. While the CBI comes under the administrative con- trol of the Department of Personnel and Training, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), National Security Guard (NSG), Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD) report to the Union Home Ministry that is also the cadre control- ling authority for the IPS offi- cers in the country. =_RYUQ``XU`c TQdQS_USdY_^_V V__TYdU]`bYSUc ?=BQ =4F34;78 Normal bilateral ties between India and China depends on lasting peace and tranquility on the border, Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla said on Sunday. His comments came days after both the countries completed the first phase of disengage- ment of troops from the stand off sites at the Pangong Tso(lake) in Eastern Ladakh. India has always stressed in interactions with Chinese interlocutors that a normal bilateral relationship is con- tingent on peace and tran- quility in the border areas, the Foreign Secretary said. Underlining that China is the second-largest economy in the world and India has a large trade profile with it, Shringla said India has to continue to work on the economic rela- tionship with the neighbour- ing country, but it has to be calibrated based on the progress on important issues that are critical to both coun- tries politically. Talking about the “recent disturbances” on the India- China border areas in Eastern Ladakh, Shringla, while speak- ing at a session of the Asia Economic Dialogue, said, “We in our interactions with our Chinese interlocutors have always made the point that a normal bilateral relationship is contingent upon peace and tranquility in the border areas.” This is a sine qua non (absolutely necessary) and this is something both sides have accepted as part of their treaty obligations, he said at an online session of the Dialogue organised by the Pune International Centre. “Now as we disengage and as there is some forward movement in the resolution of some of the recent border friction points...obviously we have to see what else is required,” he said. “It is a very long border that we have with China and we are only talking about one small point on the border. “We are trying to now see whether we can apply similar principles in sorting out some of the other areas which are in the Ladakh sector, some other sectors that we are talking about, and to see how else we can move forward on the issue of managing our long but contentious border with China in a manner that allows both countries to sort of maintain a level of semblance of nor- malcy,” the foreign secretary said. Shringla said the resolu- tion of the outstanding issues was a “work in progress” and has had an impact on the economic ties, he said. On the economic aspect of the ties, he said the important point is that whatever one does, China is the second-largest economy in the world and India has a large trade profile with it. “Clearly, we have to con- tinue to work on the eco- nomic relationship but it has to be calibrated based on peace and tranquillity and progress on important issues that are critical to both coun- tries politically,” he said. Noting that China is India’s largest trading partner in terms of goods, the foreign secretary said the balance of trade is very much skewed in favour of China. “We have carried quite a heavy trade imbalance for over a number of years. Over time this has increasingly seemed as being unsustain- able,” he said. 5^aTXV]BTRhSfT[[b ^]³[PbcX]V_TPRT´cXTb fXcW2WX]P ?C8Q =4F34;78 The CBI has identified 10 more victims of alleged child sexual abuse by now-sus- pended Uttar Pradesh Irrigation department junior engineer Ram Bhuwan, the alleged pae- dophile also accused of selling the illicit acts with kids on the dark web, officials said. Further expanding its exhaustive probe, the central probeagencyrecorded thestate- ment of these 10 male victims to buttress its charges against Bhuwan who was arrested along with his wife and a suspected accomplice, they said. 218XST]cXUXTb ^aTeXRcXb^U RWX[SbTgdP[PQdbT QhYd]X^aT]VX]TTa CW^dVWcWTD]X^] X]Xbcah^U7TP[cWWPb XbbdTSSaPUc=PcX^]P[ ?^[XRhU^aAPaT 3XbTPbTb!!U^a bcPZTW^[STaX]_dcbcWT PRcXeXbcbPaT]^ceTah T]cWdbXPbcXRPQ^dcXc 4g_TacbRP[[U^aP]SPc^ah]TfQ^a]bRaTT]X]VUd]SPXSU^aQTccTaVc New Delhi: In a boost for the country’s surveillance capabil- ities to monitor activities of both military warships and merchant shipping in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), the ‘Sindhu Netra’ satellite developed by a team of young scientists from Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) was successfully deployed in space on Sunday. The satellite was launched using the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) PSLV-C51 which took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh at 10:30 am today. The Sindhu Netra satellite has been developed by the young scientists of the DRDO and is capable of automatical- ly identifying the warships and merchant ships operating in the IOR. The satellite has also started communicating with the ground systems, govern- ment sources told ANI. The satellite, if required, can also help in carrying out surveillance in specific areas such as the South China Sea or the pirate-infested areas near the Gulf of Aden and the African coast, the sources said. They added that the Sindhu Netra is one of the first in the series of satellites that would help the nation in enhancing its surveillance capabilities on land in areas such as the Ladakh region with China and the border areas with Pakistan. Seeking to keep a closer eye on the activities of the Chinese military both near the Indian territory as well as in its depth areas all along the 4,000 kilo- metre Line of Actual Control (LAC), the Indian security agencies feel there is a require- ment of four to six dedicated satellites which can help them keep a check on the adversary’s moves. Along with the setting up of the Defence Space Agency, the Government also created a defence space research organ- isation to look after the ability to protect space assets from being attacked by adversaries there. The space arm of the defence forces would also be bolstered significantly in near future. ANI ³BX]SWd=TcaP´[Pd]RWTSc^Q^^bc R^d]cah´bSTUT]RTRXeX[XP]bdaeTX[[P]RT ?C8Q BA870A8:C0 India’s Polar rocket on Sunday successfully launched Amazonia-1 of Brazil and 18 other satellites from the space- port here, in the first mission of the year for space agency ISRO. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C51 lifted off at around 10.24 am from the first launch pad of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SHAR) and first injected into orbit pri- mary payload Amazonia-1 about 17 minutes later. After a gap of over one- and-half hours, the co-passen- ger satellites, including one from Chennai- based Space Kidz India (SKI), which is engraved with a picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, were launched subse- quently one after another in the space of ten minutes in a text- book launch. SKI’s Satish Dhawan Satellite (SD-SAT) also car- ried Bhagavad Gita in a Secured Digital card format. According to SKI, the picture of Modi has been engraved on the top panel of the spacecraft to solidarity and gratitude for his Atma Nirbhar initiative and space sector privatisation. A beaming Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K Sivan announced the mission was successful and all 19 satellites were launched in precise orbits. “Today is a very great day for the entire ISRO teamandthePSLV-C51isaspe- cial mission for India. Let me congratulate and compliment the team ISRO for achieving the precise injection of AMAZO- NIA-1and18othersatellites,”he said. PSLV-C51 is the first dedi- cated commercial mission of NewSpaceIndiaLimited(NSIL), ISRO’’scommercialarm,andthe launchwaswatchedamongoth- ers by Brazilian Government officials at the mission control centre here, over 100 kms from Chennai. The 18 co-passenger satellites placed in the orbit are —four from ISRO’’s Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (three UNITYSatsfromconsortiumof three Indian academic insti- tutes and the SD-SAT from SKI) and 14 from NSIL. The 637-kg Amazonia-1 which became the first Brazilian satellite to be launched from India is an optical earth obser- vation satellite of National Institute for Space Research (INPE). 0Pi^]XP ^U1aPiX[ '^cWTabPcT[[XcTb [Pd]RWTSUa^8BA ?C8Q =4F34;78 The National Green Tribunal has formed a six-member committee and directed it to submit a report in connection with a gelatin explosion at a quarry site in Chikkaballapur in Karnataka that left six peo- ple dead. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice A K Goel took note of a media report and issued notices to the Central Pollution Control Board, state pollution control board, Director Mines Karnataka and the District Magistrate Chikkaballapur. “We constitute a six-mem- ber joint committee compris- ing the CPCB, State PCB, District Magistrate, Chikkaballapur, nominee of Director General, Mines, Chief Controller of Explosives, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Nagpur, and the Director, Mines, Karnataka to give a report to this tribunal,” the bench said. The nodal agency for coordination and compliance will be the CPCB and the State PCB, the NGT said while adding that the committee may visit the site preferably within next one week and give its report about the cause of the incident. “Except for visit to the site at least once, the Committee will be free to conduct its pro- ceedings online. It will be free to take the assistance from any other expert/orga- nization. “The Committee may suitably interact with the stakeholders and, apart from considering the present inci- dent, also consider remedial measures for preventing such incidents in the area or by other establishments even beyond the said area,” the bench said. The tribunal took cogni- sance of media report dated February 23, 2021 which reported that six people were killed in quarry blast in Hirenagavalli, Chikkaballapur on February 22. The blast occurred in a stone quarry unit situated in Hirenagavalli village. According to the prelim- inary information shared by the police, the quarrying work was stopped at the site on February 7 after local resi- dents complained of rampant use of gelatin sticks. The work continued despite the ban, and another raid was conducted by the police, during which the con- tractor was warned not to use gelatin. The explosives went off when the men were trying to dispose them off, the NGT noted. 4g_[^bX^]Pc`dPaahbXcT X]:Pa]PcPZP)=6CSXaTRcb R^XccTTc^bdQXcaT_^ac
- 5. ]PcX^]$ 347A03D=k=30H k0A27 !! Mangaluru: Lashing out at the BJP Government in Karnataka for its failure to contain the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Karnatka Congress chief DK Shivakumar on Sunday sought details of the relief aid provided to the Covid-affected people, especially the migrants, labourers and displaced peo- ple in the State. “Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed to have allocated a Rs 20 lakh crore package to the Covid-hit peo- ple across the country, the Karnataka government has not given the details of the relief aid provided to the beneficia- ries, including the 'beedi' workers in this coastal region,” Shivakumar told the media here. Asserting that he would raise the mismanagement of the Covid relief measures during the pandemic in the ensuing state Budget session starting March 4, the Congress lawmaker lamented that the Central and state gov- ernments were indifferent to the welfare of the people. “Petrol and diesel prices have shot up 10 times in the recent days, as the Centre refuses to reduce excise duty on them and the state government's value added tax (VAT), which account for over 50 per cent of fuel retail price per litre,” said Shivakumar on the second day of his trip to the coastal region. Alarmed over the apathy of the rul- ing BJP to the plight of the people, as price of petrol crossed Rs 100 per litre and diesel Rs 90 per litre in some states due to high taxes, Shivakumar wondered if Prime Minister Modi cared about the poor and the middle class. “Taxes on petrol during the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance-2 government in 2013-14 was Rs 10.7 on petrol per litre and Rs 4.9 on diesel per litre. “In the present BJP dispensation, central taxes like excise duty have shot up to Rs 32.9 per litre of petrol and Rs 32.80 per litre of diesel, which are fuel- ing the inflation,” Shivakumar said. The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) President also accused the BJP government in the southern state of increasing the prop- erty tax amid the Covid-19 pandemic and at a time when people were in dis- tress. IANS :D0A274;;0??0=Q 274==08 The time tested DMK- Congress alliance in Tamil Nadu is on the verge of collapse as Congress scion Rahul Gandhi has not mentioned the names of his alliance partner or its supreme leader during the first two days of his three-day tour in southern districts which began on Saturday. No DMK leaders were seen sharing the stage with Rahul Gandhi in Thoothukudi or Tirunelveli districts and this is being seen as an allis not well in the ties between the two par- ties. In earlier occasions, the DMK chief M K Stalin would be seen sharing the stage and in all public appearances of the former president of the Congress party. The talks between the DMK and the Congress over the sharing of seats for the upcoming assem- bly election in the State has it a roadblock following the refusal of the former to part with more than 20 seats. The Congress is hoping to get at least 40 seats, the same number of assembly seats which it contested in the 2016 assembly election. But Stalin has reportedly told the Congress leaders that the his party should have at least 170 seats of its own for the smooth functioning of the government to be formed post-election. A senior Congress leader who shared with The Pioneer the developments said that the DMK has been threatened by the BJP not to part with more seats. “The DMK’s track record while in the UPA Government is not clean. The BJP would not hesitate to unleash the investi- gating agencies against them if the party leadership does not listen to the Central govern- ment’s orders,” said the former union minister who did not want his name to be quoted. Rahul Gandhi’s speech at Thoothukudi on Saturday and at Tirunelveli on Sunday gave enough hints about his dis- pleasure over the intransigence of the DMK. “The Narendra Modi Government is unleash- ing central agencies like Enforcement Directorate, CBI and Customs on the opposition party leaders. But I am not one to be frightened by such deeds,” said the Congress leader. Even as the DMK- Congress seat sharing talks remaining inconclusive, the AIADMK sealed a pact with the Vanniyar dominated PMK late Saturday. The PMK, one of the tough customers among the AIADMK alliance partners, was allocated 23 seats. Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami and his deputy O Panneerselvam were holding discussions with the BJP State leadership on Sunday and a for- mal announcement was expected either late evening or on Monday. The Indian Justice Katchi (Katchi is the Tamil for party) launched by T R Patchamuthu MP , an alliance partner of the DMK who came out of the front is giving shape to a Third Front with Kamal Haassan as the chief ministerial candi- date. '0.UHPDLQVLQWUDQVLJHQWRYHU RQJUHVVGHPDQGVIRUPRUHVHDWV B0D60AB4=6D?C0Q :;:0C0 In what could give a creased forehead to Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Indian Secular Front (ISF) chief Pirzada Abbas Siddiqui of Furfura Sharief — the largest Muslim religious congregation in Bengal — on Sunday open- ly asked the “people of Bengal” to “vote for the Left Front as a mark of gratitude for their humility to leave 30 seats for us” in the coming Assembly elections. “The Left Front leaders have showed humility to accept most of our demands conced- ing 30 seats to us and so the ISF will support them to throw out the communal politics of the BJP and its agent Mamata Banerjee … the ISF will sup- port the Left Front,” Pirzada who attended the Left Front- sponsored mammoth rally at the historic Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata said. “Mamata Banerjee did more harm to Muslims by cre- ating a Hindu-Muslim divide and allowing the BJP to enter the State with its agenda … she is a bigger enemy of the Muslims,” the Muslim cleric earlier said. The mega rally was also attended by senior Congress leaders like party Lok Sabha Leader Adhir Chowdhury, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Rupesh Baghel and Jitendra Prasad. Among other star speakers were CPI(M) gener- al secretary Sitaram Yechury, his politburo colleagues, Suryakanto Mishra, Md Salim and Biman Bose and JNU stu- dents’ wing leader Aishi Ghosh. Siddiqui’s support for the Left beomces significant against the backdrop of high percent- age of Muslim votes in Bengal accounting for about 28-30 percent — dominating the vot- ing pattern of about 125 seats. The role of Furfura Sharief clerics also becomes important as they have an influence over the majority of Bengali-speak- ing Muslims of the State. Reacting to the “alleged grand success” of the rally, Bengal Minister Firhad Hakim said, “The people do not want know to know who supports whom … they want to know who will stand by them … and that is Mamata Banerjee … no amount of effort to divide anti- BJP votes will work as the minorities are an intelligent lot and they have seen the fate of Bihar elections a few months ago.” In an electoral atmos- phere almost vertically divid- ed between the ruling Trinamool Congress and the BJP, the waning Left had been trying to stitch together a Third Front comprising non- BJP, non-TMC parties includ- ing the Congress. Siddiqui’s support to the Left promises to bring back the minority votes to its fold but it also threatens Chief Minister with a realistic loss of Muslim votes — her electoral mainstay for the past two decades — a factor that can eventually make the BJP’s job easier, a senior State BJP leader and a former MLA said adding “this rally was the rally not of the Left but of the Bhaijan Siddiqui) … let the thousands of Hindu refugees who were forced to leave Bangladesh take a decision.” Siddiqui who supported the Left however issued a veiled warning to the Congress saying “those who will extend a hand of friendship will get a positive reply otherwise not.” Siddiqui has been unhappy with the Congress which is reluctant to part with 10 seats from its share to the ISF. After initial rounds of talks the Marxists have left 92 seats out of 294 for the Congress and 30 seats for the ISF. The ISF has been asking for additional 10 seats from Congress’ share. In the rally Siddiqui said, “People must be thinking that why I asked you to vote for the Left and why I did not mention the Congress … I have come here to extract our genuine rights and not to appease someone … those who will extend their hands of friend- ship we will definitely back them.” In private he said, “I have heard that Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi want this alliance to be in place but some people (read Adhir Chowdhury) are acting as irri- tants,” Siddiqui said adding “we have a few days left before we will start campaigning. Now it is their job to take a decision.” When contacted Chowdhury said, “Congress is not dependant on any one. It takes its own decision. Our talks with the Left are not over yet. We do not know how much we are getting so how can we part with any seat for the ISF. First let us be clear about our own seat share…” Meanwhile the leaders lambasted Narendra Modi and Baghel attacked the Narendra Modi Government for its “anti- people approach” and selling out the national assets to a few corporate houses. “This Government has decided to squeeze the farmers and common people dry as can be seen not only from the triple anti-farmer laws passed by them but also the rising petro-prices and cooking gas,” Chowdhury said More than 8 lakh people attended the rally, Biman Bose later said. 7fcWfcRDYRcZVWTYZVWViY`cedW`]]`hVcde`g`eVW`c=VWe7c`_e 2?8f^aZTab_PacXRX_PcTX]PPaRWc^fPaSb1aXVPST?PaPST6a^d]SSdaX]VPbb;TUc5a^]cP]S2^]VaTbbY^X]caP[[hPWTPS ^UFTbc1T]VP[0bbTQ[hT[TRcX^]bX]:^[ZPcP^]Bd]SPh ?C8 78C:0=370A8Q 90D Aakash Mehra, son of a famous Krishna dhaba owner, shot at by the motorcycle borne terrorists on February 17 in a high security zone of Sonwar during the visit of a 24 member foreign delegation, lost a cru- cial battle of life in a Srinagar hospital in the wee hours of Sunday. According to close family mem- bers, “Aakash was on ventilator sup- port for the last two days in SMHS hospital Srinagar. His condition dete- riorated in the wee hours of Sunday before succumbing to his fatal injuries”. Aakash had received bullet injuries in his abdomen and chest from a very close range. The mortal remains of the young businessman were shifted to Jammu to perform his last rites. Several close relatives and fami- ly friends, who attended the last rites, criticised the union territory administration headed by Lt-Gov Manoj Sinha for not organising bet- ter treatment facilities outside Jammu and Kashmir to save the precious life of a young businessman. “The authorities wasted precious time and also misled the family dur- ing the period of the last 11 days.If Aakash was not responding to the treatment to their satisfaction they should have referred him to New Delhi or any other place”, several well wishers of the family claimed. The government should have responded swiftly. “It was a targeted killing to scare away members of the minority community”, the relatives of the family said. Ramesh Kumar Mehra, father of Aakash Mehra, has been running the food joint since 1984 in the area. He stayed there during the peak militancy and never faced any security threat. The eatery served only vegetari- an food and was frequented by a large number of tourists and local residents. Several VVIP's including former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah too visited the food joint to relish his favorite food items. Two days after the terror attack on the famous eatery Inspector General of Police, Kashmir range Vijay Kumar had claimed all three terrorists involved in the attack were arrested by the police from Pulwama and Dangerpora in Baramulla. The terror attack, according to police, was a planned strike to scare away non-locals settled in Kashmir. According to police, the terrorists had done recce of the fortified area 10 days in advance on the instructions of their handler identified as 'Ghazi'. Lt-Gov Manoj Sinha in his con- dolence message said, “Saddened to hear about the tragic loss of Akash Mehra, son of the owner of Krishna Dhaba in Srinagar. Condolences to the bereaved family. May God give strength to the family to bear this irreparable loss.Terrorists will never succeed in their nefarious designs, and those responsible for such heinous acts shall be brought to justice”. Former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah posted a tweet after learn- ing about the death of Aakash. Omar tweeted, “Very sad news about Akash, son of the owner of Krishna Dhaba in Srinagar. After a brave fight he lost the bat- tle to recover from injuries suffered in the earlier attack. May his soul rest in peace may his family find strength at this difficult time”. PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti also tweeted a condolence message saying, “Shocked saddened to know that Akash Mehra who ran Krishna Dhaba in Srinagar succumbed to his injuries after being shot at by militants. May his soul rest in peace deepest condolences to the bereaved family”. :aXbW]P3WPQP^f]Ta´bb^]bdRRdQbc^X]YdaXTb C=A067D=0C70Q D108 After the ruling Shiv Sena took the wind out of its sails by seeking the resignation of its Tik Tok star Pooja Chavan’s alleged suicide-linked Minister Sanjay Rathod, the Opposition BJP on Sunday re- calibrated its strategy to target the rape-accused NCP Minister Dhananjay Munde, ahead of the 10-day Budget session beginning here from Monday. As the Opposition BJP readied itself to the corner the Shiv Sena-led MVA govern- ment over the resignation of the Sena’s Forest Minister linked to the alleged suicide by 22-year-old Pooja , 49-year-old Rathod -- accompanied by his wife Shital -- called on Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray at the lat- ter’s official residence Varsha and handed over his resigna- tion to the latter. Talking to media persons later in the evening, Uddhav said: “Rathod has resigned from the State Cabinet of his own free will. I have ordered an impartial probe into the cir- cumstances leading to the alleged suicide by Pooja Chavan” Earlier in the day, Pooja Chavan’s father Lahu Chavan, her mother Mandodari Chavan and sister Devyani called on the Chief Minister and submitted him a memorandum to the At his news conference, the chief minister asked Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anil Parab to read out the res- ignation letter of Rathod and the memorandum submitted by Pooja’s parents. In his resignation letter, Rathod urged the chief minis- ter to order a detailed probe into the death of the girl and said he would like to step aside to facilitate a comprehensive probe. On their part, Pooja’s par- ents had requested the chief minister not to accept the res- ignation of Rathod. They, how- ever, said that they wanted the state government to take action against the minister or anyone else if found responsi- ble for their daughter’s death in the probe. Talking separately to the media, Rathod -- a prominent leader of the Banjara commu- nity from eastern Maharashtra --said: I have submitted my res- ignation to the chief minister. The death of the girl who is also from Banjara community, is very unfortunate. Over the past few weeks, the Opposition has politicised the issue on social media and maligned me and my community. The Opposition has even tried to finish me politically”. Unfazed by Rathod’s resig- nation, leader of the Opposition in the State Assembly and senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis said: “The minister’s resignation is not enough. An FIR should be registered immediately against Rathod. We also demand that the police officers who have not for the past 20 days not regis- tered an FIR against the min- ister be suspended to facilitate an impartial probe”. Charging that the chief minister had tried to shield the Sena minister facing charges of abetting the suicide of Pooja, former chief minister and senior BJP leader Narayan Rane demanded that Rathod be immediately arrested to facili- tate an impartial probe. In a development that came after Rathod’s resignation, the State BJP president Chandrakant Patil shifted the goal post and asked NCP chief Sharad Pawar to act against his party’s minister Dhananjay Munde, who is facing an accu- sation of a rape made by a woman. Earlier this month, a woman lodged a complaint with the Mumbai police against Maharashtra’s Social Justice Minister Dhananjay Munde for alleged rape. Following the complaint, the BJP had upped the ante, by demanding the minister’s resignation on “moral grounds” and also seek- ing action against him from the Election Commission for allegedly suppressing informa- tion that he had two wives. Notwithstanding the res- ignation of Rathod, the BJP will not only go all out to target the MVA government over his alleged link with Pooja’s suicide, it will also try to corner the Uddhav Thackeray dispensa- tion over Munde’s resignation in the 10-day-long budget ses- sion beginning here from Monday. It may be recalled that on February 8, Pooja had alleged- ly committed suicide by jump- ing off the Heaven Park build- ing in Pune’s Wanwadi locali- ty on the intervening night of February 7 and 8. Following her death, the Opposition BJP on Saturday had upped the ante over the alleged of a 22-year-old Tik- Tok star Pooja Chavan, by rooting for the arrest of Rathod, who was reportedly in love with the deceased woman. BJP leaders Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil, Kirit Somaiya and party’s woman leader Chitra Wagh had said that the minis- ter had no moral right to con- tinue in the office. “In fact, he should be booked abetting Pooja’s alleged suicide and arrested immediately,” Wagh said. Maharashtra’s former chief minister and senior BJP Devenra Fadnavis had demanded that Pooja’s death be investigated in view of the fact that the telephonic conversa- tions between her and the minister had gone viral on society media. The Opposition leaders alleged that Pooja was pregnant at the time of death and that there were reasons to believe that the minister was responsible for her pregnancy. In the case of Muinde, Pawar had at an initial stage (on February 13) termed the charges made by a woman against his party’s minister were “serious” and said that he would take a call on the issue, after consulting his senior party’s important colleagues. “The charges are serious..The matter is with the police...it is also in court...they will decide, however, we as a party would have to decide on it. I will speak to my colleagues and decide,” Pawar had said. However, two days later, Pawar had softened his stand over the accusation of rape made by a woman against Munde after two more politi- cal leaders alleged that the woman was trying to honey trap them, and said that the police be allowed to investigate the matter. Ruling out Indirectly any possible action against Munde at the party level, Pawar said:: “Since allegations have been made against the woman who has complained against Munde, we have come to a conclusion that the police be allowed to do a comprehensive probe into the matter. We are confident that the police will do a good job. Hence we will not interfere in the probe. All we have sug- gested to the government is that an ACP-level woman officer be asked to conduct the probe”. /HIWRQJ,6) VKRZLQ%HQJDO Jammu: Jammu Kashmir reported report- ed 58 new Covid cases and one pandemic related death in the last 24 hours while 62 patients recovered from the deadly virus on Sunday. An official bulletin said out of 58 new Covid cases, 11 were from Jammu while 47 were from Kashmir. So far, 126,441 people have been infect- ed with coronavirus in JK out of which 123,661 have recovered while the death toll has reached 1,957. The number of active cases is 823, of which 207 are from Jammu division and 616 are from Kashmir division. IANS Patna: The nephew of Congress MLA Santosh Mishra has been gunned down by six unidentified bike-borne assailants in Bihar's Rohtas district. The deceased, Sanjiv Mishra (35), was the nephew of Santosh Mishra, a Congress MLA from Kargahar constituency in Rohtas district. Sanjiv sustained four gunshot injuries on Saturday evening and succumbed to his injuries on the way to the hospital in near- by Mohania. Eyewitnesses said that six unknown assailants rode three bikes to the house of Sanjiv Mishra located in Parsathua vil- lage and opened fire on him indiscriminately. The assailants fled from the spot without any resistance after committing the crime. Sanjiv Mishra was expected to contest the panchayat elec- tions and was preparing for it. He was one of the most active persons who recently campaigned for his uncle Santosh Mishra and was quite popular at the ground level. The family members of Sanjiv Mishra suspect that it could be a political killing to prevent him from contesting the upcom- ing panchayat polls. Mandeep Mishra, the brother of Sanjiv Mishra, said, “He did not have personal enmity with anybody. Investigation would reveal the actual reason behind the murder.” Vinod Kumar Rawat, Deputy Superintendent Of Police (DSP) of Kargahar range, said, “We are investigating the mat- ter from all the angles and recording the statements of the eye- witnesses. We have received some clues about the accused and raids are on to nab them.” IANS C8:C:BC0ABD82834 B4=0´B8=A4B86=B0706ECA34AB?A14 :cPZP2^]VbTTZbPRR^d]c^U aT[XTUPXSc^2^eXSWXc_T^_[T Sambhal (UP): A 26-year-old police consta- ble was found dead under mysterious cir- cumstances in the barracks of Naraura Bairaj flyover police post under Gunnaur police sta- tion in Sambhal. He had been married two months ago. The deceased, Shailendra Yadav, 26, was deputed at Sambhal Police Lines and was on duty at Naraura police picket under Gunnaur police station limits on Saturday when he was found lying unconscious in the barracks. Senior police officers said the constable died of a cardiac arrest while on duty. Sambhal Superintendent of Police, Chakresh Mishra, said: “After getting infor- mation, police teams were rushed to the spot and the constable was taken to the district hospital where doctors proclaimed him dead upon arrival.” “No visible bruises or any evidence of sui- cide were found. Besides, we have not recov- ered a suicide note. The constable suffered a cardiac arrest and died on the spot. The body was sent for a post-mortem examination to ascertain the actual reason for death,” he said. Sambhal police said that financial assis- tance will also be provided to the family of the deceased. IANS 2^]V;0b]T_WTf bW^cSTPSX]1XWPa D?)2^_U^d]S STPSX]hbcTaX^db RXaRdbcP]RTb Agra (Uttar Pradesh): A 22-year-old Dalit man, who went to meet his girlfriend from a different caste, was beaten to death by her fam- ily members in Agra, police said on Sunday. The man succumbed to injuries at a hospital. Five members of the woman's family have been arrested. According to reports, the deceased Pawan Kumar, was in a rela- tionship with the 20-year-old woman, belonging to another caste. The woman, on Friday, had called Pawan Kumar to meet her late in the night. Kumar was mercilessly thrashed at the woman's house by her family members. On hearing his screams, the locals informed the police that rescued him. Kumar's brother, Akash, said, “We came to know about the inci- dent on Saturday. We found him lying inside a police van. He was taken to district hospital where he succumbed. Before dying, he nar- rated the entire incident to the police. He was called by the woman at her home and then her family brutally beat him up.” Additional Superintendent of Police Mukesh Chandra Mishra said, “A case has been registered under IPC section 302 (murder) against seven persons, including the woman's father and five other family members. Five have been arrested. The matter is being probed further.” Rasoolpur SHO Fateh Bahadur Bhadauria, said, “The man was tied up and beaten with sticks. The body has been sent for post mortem. The woman's father and other relatives have confessed to their crime. The woman, along with four others, will be sent to jail. Two others are absconding.” Sources said that Kumar and the woman knew each other and they were in regular touch over the phone for several months. The woman's family was against their friendship and Kumar had been warned to stay away from her. IANS E@4QYd]Q^RUQdU^d_ TUQdXRig_]Q^cVQ]Yi $']Tf2^eXSRPbTb STPcWaT_^acTSX]9:
- 6. Prophet! But the Quran does not explicitly forbid images of the Prophet. Back home, Munawar Faruqui spent a few nights in the Indore Jail for allegedly cracking anti-Hindu jokes. Now, who gave these people—HindusandMuslims — the proprietary of the reli- gion they were accidentally born into? When did the gods ask you to defend them? Be offended if a priest of your shrine rapes. Be out- raged when your co-religion- istkillsinthenameofyourreli- gion. But that doesn’t happen. You prove your bravado by hecklingandharassingacomic whose words were too offend- ing for you. Religion is not someone’spersonalturfthathe ought to defend. A person has the right to get offended if he is body shamed. A guy may take offence to being called fat but it would be rather absurd thathebecomesthespokesper- son for all fat people on the planet.Aself-appointedpolice- mantoprotectallpeopleover- weight! The other group of most offended types is the politi- cians.Thesearethepeoplewho make a joke of the system but, whenridiculed,actsacrosanct. They must not be laughed at. That is the exaggerated sense of entitlement. Napoleon Bonaparte once said: “In pol- itics, absurdity is not a handi- cap.” Exactly, they are kind of necessary evil but don’t risk telling them that. You could end up in jail. Indian politicians are known for many things but humour isn’t one of them, though we have had a few exceptions. Mahatma Gandhi was never offended when Sarojini Naidu called him “Mickey Mouse”. Piloo Mody often took jibes at Indira Gandhi. Laloo’s humour is infectious. The incumbent PrimeMinister,too,hasagood senseofhumour.Hepokesfun at his opponents with élan, though how much he enjoys jokesonhimselfisnotclear.We havehadthetraditionofcourt jesters, or vidushaks. Haasya kavis kept the joke alive and roasted the politicians to their face. Today, the mantle has passed on to stand-up comics. Politicalhumourandsatire are well established in the US. At the President’s dinner, peo- pleroasttheveryPresidentwho hoststhem.Thefearlessstand- up,GeorgeCarlin,nevercom- promised his right to free speech. Today’s comedians in the US owe much to Carlin. In India, stand-up comedy start- ed rather late, but the comedi- ans have caught up with the rest. Their fearless rendering hasmademanypeopleuncom- fortable but, at the same time, won them the respect and fol- lowing they well deserve. In the US, comics can get away with a lot. It’s different here. Cases of sedition have been filed against cartoonists, satirists and artists. That is the price for calling the Government’s bluff. We live in a country where the political systemitselfisabigjoke.Inthe House,youhaveaSpeakerwho won’t let you speak. We have lawbreakersmakinglawsforus. The judiciary judges every- thingexceptitself.Itisasystem in which the Treasury bench- es become rich and the Opposition gives walkovers to the opponent by walking out. Is this not a joke worth laugh- ing at? Comic relief is what the people in power need. It is a safetyvalve.Sohereismyunso- licited advice to those politi- cians who don’t laugh at jokes. Join a laughter yoga club in yourvicinity.Itisgoodforyour health.Itlowersbloodpressure andincreasesyourlongevity.It mightalsoincreasethelongevi- ty of your political career. (The writer is a columnist and documentary film-maker. The views expressed are personal.) 7 KH86LVILUPOEDFNLQWKHVDGGOHDVWKHJOREDOFRSLIWKHKDSSHQLQJVLQWKH$VLD 3DFLILFUHJLRQDUHDQWKLQJWRJRE:KDWHOVHFDQH[SODLQWKHIDFWWKDWLQDOLWWOH RYHUDPRQWKVLQFH863UHVLGHQW-RH%LGHQWRRNRIILFHWKHWKUHHQHLJKERXUV³ ,QGLDKLQDDQG3DNLVWDQ³DUHVXGGHQOWDONLQJSHDFHDVWKHZDLWWRVHHKRZ%LGHQ ZLOOVKLIWWKH86SROLFLQWKHUHJLRQ1RWRQOGLG,QGLD·VDQGKLQD·VWRSGLSORPDWVRQ 7KXUVGDGLVFXVVSODQVWRGLVHQJDJHWURRSVIURPWKHLU +LPDODDQERUGHUZKLFKODVWHDUVDZWKHGHDGOLHVW FODVKHVVLQFHWKHVWKH([WHUQDO$IIDLUV0LQLVWHUV RIWKHWZRKRVWLOHQHLJKERXUVKDGDQKRXUORQJSKRQH FDOODQGGHFLGHGWRVHWXSDKRWOLQHWRHQVXUH´UHDO WLPHFRPPXQLFDWLRQµLQWKHZDNHRIWKHPRQWKVORQJ ERUGHUFULVLV2QWKHRWKHUKDQG,QGLDDQG3DNLVWDQ RQ)ULGDLVVXHGDMRLQWVWDWHPHQWWKDWWKHZRXOGVWULFW OREVHUYHDOOFHDVHILUHDJUHHPHQWVDORQJWKH/LQHRI RQWURO/R
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