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JOURNALISM OF COURAGE
MONDAY, JULY 27, 2020, AHMEDABAD, LATE CITY, 12 PAGES SINCE 1932 `4.00, WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM

J&K
ONEYEARAFTER
Gehlot sends
another note
Khattar: Weekend
AUGUST5 for session on lockdowns serve
July 31; Cong
no purpose, must
AN EXPRESS SERIES

attacks Gov
HAMZA KHAN
isolate for 14 days
& MANOJ C G
JAIPUR, NEW DELHI, JULY 26 EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
CHANDIGARH, JULY 26
THE ASHOK Gehlot government
‘AS LONG AS has sent a fresh recommenda- A WEEKEND lockdown serves
J&K REMAINS tion to Governor Kalraj Mishra
asking for a session of the
no purpose in the fight against
the novel coronavirus, Haryana
UT, I WILL NOT Rajasthan Assembly on July 31. Chief Minister Manohar Lal
CONTEST The Governor had returned an Khattar said on Sunday. His gov-
earlier recommendation by the ernment was making continu-
ASSEMBLY government,askingforclarifica- ous efforts to rebuild confidence
ELECTIONS’ tions on six specific points. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Minister of State for Defence Shripad Yesso Naik, Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, in the people, and there were no
The fresh recommendation Army Chief General M M Naravane, Navy Chief Admiral Karambir Singh and Air Chief Marshal R K S Bhadauria paid tribute at plans to impose any more lock-
For first time since J&K was sent late on Saturday night, the National War Memorial, on the occasion of Kargil Vijay Diwas, in New Delhi on Sunday. PTI REPORT,PAGE9 downs, the Chief Minister said.
was split, Omar Abdullah after the cabinet met for a sec- The Covid-19 situation in
breaks his silence ond time earlier in the evening. Haryanawasundercontrol,case
“Allquerieshavebeenanswered MANN KI BAAT numberswerebetterthanmany

PMonKargilDiwas:Tothewicked,
THE IDEAS PAGE in the latest recommendation, other states, and near normalcy CM Manohar Lal Khattar at
PAGE 7 through which we have sought had returned across the state, the Idea Exchange, Sunday
an Assembly session from July Khattar said at an online Idea
31,” a Congress leader said. Exchange with The Indian

needlessenmitycomesnaturally
Until late on Sunday night, Express. then yes, of course a weekend
RajBhavanhadnotrespondedto “A lockdown will not serve lockdown can be imposed. But if
EXPERT the fresh recommendation. In a anypurposeunlessitisimposed we actually want to achieve re-
EXPLAINS video released in the evening as for a 14-day period. Imposing a sults, then a weekend lockdown
Rukmini part of the Congress's 'Speak Up lockdown over the weekend or serves no purpose,” he said.
Banerji For Democracy' campaign, Chief fortwodaysmerelygivestheim- Several states have imposed
From The Indian Express panel
of specialists, exclusive insight
Minister Gehlot said he hoped
the Governor would act soon.
‘Ourconduct,speechmustalwaysseek Army displayed deeds of valour,
when India demonstrated her
pressionthatsomethingisbeing
done,” the Chief Minister said.
short-duration or localised lock-
downs as the country as a whole
“Until now, we have not re- toboostmorale,honourof oursoldiers’ ‘Hazards of might, the whole world “Unless we isolate an in- wentintoaphased'Unlock'from

GETTING
ceived a reply,” Gehlot said. “The Corona are watched... It was the victory of fected person for a continuous June 8. In BJP-ruled Uttar
Governorisalong-timepolitician, main locked in conflict with the far from high morale and bravery of our 14-day period, they will con- Pradesh, a range of restrictions
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
KIDS BACK
sociable and vyavahar-kushal PLA in Ladakh, with the disen- being over’ armed forces in the truest sense tinue to infect others. If we want come into effect every weekend.
(well mannered), so I hope that NEW DELHI, JULY 26 gagement process stalled by the of the term.” to work only on perceptions, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

TO SCHOOL
hegivesustheordersoon,andwe Chinese reluctance to step back However,“thesedays,battles
will call the Assembly.” The gov- NEEDLESS ENMITY with every- from several places in the high- — which means, to the wicked, are fought not just on borders;
ernmentwouldliketheHouseto one comes naturally to the altitude border area. enmitywithoneandallfornorea- theyarefoughtwithinthecoun-
How is the prolonged discuss the Covid-19 crisis, the wicked, Prime Minister Back in 1999, Modi said, son comes naturally. People with try too, on many fronts simulta- TRACKING INDIA’S COVID CURVE
closure of schools affecting “ruined economy” due to the Narendra Modi said in his Mann Pakistan had embarked upon its such a disposition keep thinking neously,”thePrimeMinistersaid.

146 CASES: RECOVERED: 8,85,576

children? What are they lockdown, and have some politi- ki Baat radio address on Sunday, Kargil misadventure, “nursing ofharmingeventheirwell-wish- “And every countryman has to
cal discussions as well, the chief as the nation observed Kargil delusions of encroaching upon ers…,” the Prime Minister said. decide his or her role in that.”
losing out on, and how can it
be made up? What should minister said. Vijay Diwas, the anniversary of Indian soil” at a time when India India, he said, had extended There are occasions when DAYS SINCE
PANDEMIC
13,85,521 DEATHS: 32,063
In New Delhi, the Congress the Indian Army's victory over was making efforts to foster a hand of friendship to Pakistan “without paying heed to the TESTS: 1,62,91,331| DOUBLING RATE: 19.70**
schools do when they are accused the Governor of acting Pakistan 21 years ago. goodrelationswiththatcountry. at that time, but had instead essence, we encourage certain
BEGAN
able to finally open? in a partisan and “motivated” The Prime Minister's mes- “As it is said, 'Bairu akaran sab been stabbed in the back. “But things on social media that are
EXPLAINED manner.ThequeriesthatMishra sage came as Indian soldiers re- kahu son, jo kar hit anhit tahu son' after that, when our gallant CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
PAGE 8 hadraised“reflectedasorrystate
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

Ex-CBI chief Two months into MSME

E
EXPLAINED

Sharp rise in KEYSTATES TOTAL SURGEIN 7-DAYAVG DOUBLING

says Maulana sanctions, TOWATCH CASES 24HOURS GROWTH* RATE**

Azad, Leftists
credit scheme, 43% of ● disbursals ■ Maharashtra
■ Tamil Nadu
3,66,368
2,06,737
9,251
6,988
2.85%
3.21%
25.26
22.43

‘whitewashed Rs 3 lakh cr sanctioned SANCTIONS AND dis-

bursements under collat-
■ Delhi
■ Karnataka
1,29,531
90,942
1,142
5,072
0.91%
6.21%
79.22
11.60

Islamic rule’ SUNNY VERMA

sanctions have risen to Rs 1.30
lakhcrorefromRs1.10lakhcrore
eral-free MSME loans
scheme have picked up
■ Andhra 88,671
* Compounded Daily Growth Rate over last 7 days
7,813 10.31% 6.98
** Calculated over 7-day growth
NEW DELHI, JULY 26 on July 1, with both private and pace with private banks
DEEPTIMAN TIWARY state-owned banks stepping up joining state-owned CASE FATALITY RATIO POSITIVITY RATE DAILY IN, DAILY OUT
NEW DELHI, JULY 26 BANKSHAVEsanctioned43.5per credit deployment, according to lenders in expanding
7 DAYS EARLIER: 7 DAYS EARLIER: DETECTED TODAY
centofthetargetedRs3lakhcrore most recent data. credit deployment. Along
RAISINGQUESTIONSofpropriety under the Emergency Credit Line Disbursements as a propor- with other measures 2.49 7.81 48,661
andservicerules,formerinterim People crowd to buy goats at a makeshift market near the Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) for tionofthetotalamountwas27.35 aimed at timely clear- NOW: NOW: RECOVERED TODAY:
CBI director and serving IPS offi-
cer,MNageswaraRao,claimedon
Sabarmati riverfront in Ahmedabad. Javed Raja stressedMicro,SmallandMedium
Enterprises(MSMEs)asonJuly23,
per cent at Rs 82,065 crore as on
July 23, up from 17.41 per cent or
ance of dues, the scheme
seems to be helping in
2.31 8.50 36,145
Deaths as a ratio of Positives against Becoming sick vs
Twitter Saturday that Indian his- withsanctionsanddisbursements Rs 52,255 crore as on July 1. improving the liquidity positive cases (in %); number tested recovering; more
tory had been “distorted” with rising sharply over the last few Under the ECLGS scheme, position of MSMEs, en- indicator of progress (in %); indicator of recoveries for 14 days
the “whitewashing” of “bloody AHMEDABAD POLICE ORDER weeks,officialdatashow. banksareofferinguptoRs3lakh abling them to survive in averting deaths the spread of disease may signal the peak

Animal sacrifice in public

Islamic invasions/rule” and Two months after the launch croreof government-guaranteed the economic downturn. DataasonJuly25,releasedbyUnionMinistryofHealth,ICMRandstates.Oftendailynumbersinclude
datafrompreviousdays.Assuch,trendsbasedondailynumbersareindicative,notdefinitive
named previous Education of the scheme, cumulative loan CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
Ministerswho“wereinchargeof
Indianmindspace”for20“outof
30 years (1947-77)”. places and private places ‘Left on a truck to see family, but WORLD
After naming “Maulana Abul BUSINESS AS USUAL
Kalam Azad — 11 years (1947-
visible to public banned
58)”;“HumayunKabir,MCChagla
&FakruddinAliAhmed—4years
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
would be “visible to the public”,
as it could “disrupt communal
BY UNNY
now I am returning to save them’
AHMEDABAD, JULY 26 harmony”.
On Sunday morning, a ASADISTRICT withmaintainingsocialdistance
at the Patna airport. And his
again. The cities are slowly re-
opening, and the companies, in

VOCAL FOR LOCAL

THE AHMEDABAD city police on
Sunday evacuated a makeshift
makeshift animal market was
set up at the Ellis Bridge near
UNLOCKS voiceisgentle:“Areyougoingfor
work? Is the situation bad at
real estate for instance, are des-
peratefortheirworkerstoreturn.
animal market held at the Sabarmati riverfront in home?” Then, to make them ManishKumarisfromBihpur
A RED initiative appears Ravivaribazaar(Sundaymarket) Ahmedabadwhereahugenum- AN EXPRESS SERIES smile, he confides: “I haven’t in Bhagalpur, a district that has
in today’s edition of The on the Sabarmati Riverfront ber of customers showed up, been inside an aircraft, either.” been the focus of a series by The
Indian Express. The page ahead of Bakri Eid even as thereby violating social distanc- DIPANKAR GHOSE Beginning May, a huge influx IndianExpresstounderstandhow
PROTESTS WIDEN
is an initiative of the Ahmedabadcitypolicecommis- ing norms, leading to police and PATNA, JULY 26 of returning migrants, unable to the fight against Covid, and the ACROSS U.S.:
marketing solutions team sioner Ashish Bhatia passed an authoritiesremovingthemarket sustain themselves in locked- unlockdown,playsoutinasmall CLASHES IN SEATTLE
of The Indian Express order under Section 144 pro- from the spot by afternoon. THEY STAND close to each other, downcities,walkingkilometres, town. AND PORTLAND
Group and contains hibiting animal sacrifice in pub- Aseniorpoliceofficerof ‘C’di- THE EDITORIAL PAGE bagsslungovershoulders,noses starving in trains, reached the Kumarsayshespentfourdays
content paid for by lic places or animal processions vision in Ahmedabad city, told pressed against the glass. They succour of home in Bihar. But inMayonatrainfromDelhi.Now, STAFF LEAVE U.S.
advertisers. The page in Ahmedabad city. this paper, “The Ahmedabad GONE TO THE DOGS watch flights land and take off, then,withnowork,andthelock- he will spend two hours on a CONSULATE IN
should be read as an Thenotificationnotonlypro- MunicipalCorporation(AMC)of- BY COOMI KAPOOR passengers in PPEs being ferried down affecting the rural econ- plane back, the ticket paid for by CHENGDU
advertisement hibited sacrifice in public but ficials informed the police about PAGE 6 inbuses.“Bhai,”anairportstaffer omy as well with falling agricul- a real estate company. “I don't PAGE 10
also in private places where it CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 breaks in. He has been tasked tural prices, they are leaving CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

PAGE 1
ANCHOR With cardboard partitions, Surat’s diamond hub reinvents the wheel
Katargam and Varachha turning masks and sanitisers. “Working in mind the risk factor for work- Data collated from Gujarat's tainingpolishedstonesthatpass
KAMAAL SAIYED hotspots. on the wheels is an intricate job ers, who are like our family Covid bulletin showed 11,672 through several hands before
SURAT, JULY 26 The outbreak has prompted and each usually has four dia- members, we have fixed card- cases and 359 deaths in Surat till reaching the market have come
theSuratMunicipalCorporation mond polishers. One of them board from cartons as partitions Sunday. However, The Indian under the scanner for making
FROM PUTTING up makeshift (SMC) to register cases and pe- works on the table (the top) of on each wheel to enable at least Express had reported on July 21 handlersvulnerabletoinfection.
cardboard partitions at emery nalise around 100 factories for the diamond, the second on the two polishers to work,” he says. aboutanunexplainedmismatch The way out: ultraviolet light as
wheelswherediamondsarepol- not maintaining social distanc- crown, the third on the girdle Today, Virani’s factory has between the death toll provided disinfectant, although there are
ished to using UV light as disin- ingnorms.Amongthecurbs,the and the fourth on the pavilion over 150 emery wheels engag- by the district and the state. Till safety concerns over direct skin
fectant for paper sachets that SMC has directed companies to (the bottom),” says Virani. ing 600 workers in two batches July 24, the gap was 186 with the exposure.
passthroughmultiplehands,the deploy only 50 per cent of their All of these are parts that of 300 each on alternate days, districtreporting521deathsand Ravi Ghelani, a trader in
diamond hub of Surat is finding workforce at a time. needtobepolishedtoadd value, who cut rough diamonds thestate'sofficialdashboardlog- Varachha, is among those who
new solutions in a desperate bid Butownerssaythishasledto he says. bought from the bigger players ging only 335. hasstartedusingUVlightstodis-
to revive business in a labour- multiple choke points in facto- “We were ready to abide by intosmallerstonesof lowercarat InVarachha,meanwhile,dia- infect the sachets. “Since the sa-
intensive industry amid strin- ries—attheemerywheel,forex- the SOPs but maintaining social value, and polish them. mond factories in Hirabaug and chets are made of paper, the reg-
gent Covid curbs. ample, says Bhupat Virani, who distancing was a problem. It be- “We are surviving somehow Sneh Mudra Estate have also ular use of sanitiser can damage
According to industry esti- owns the B Virani Diamond comes hard for a single polisher in this tough situation,” says started using cardboard parti- them. Many traders have pur-
mates, over 1,700 workers in the Estate in Varachha. to work alone... it takes more Workers at the emery wheel inside a diamond factory in Virani, adding that his unit em- tions to optimise the number of chased the UV lights,” says
diamond business have tested The SMC has allowed only time and labour cost, and pro- Surat. Hanif Malek ployed 1,000 polishers before polishers at the wheels. Ghelani.
positive, with the hubs of one worker at each wheel, with duction goes down. So keeping the virus struck. Similarly, paper sachets con- CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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MSME scheme Guarantee Trustee Company. PM Modi celebrations, Modi said, “will be Express, Mujahid Nafees, a city- Abrahamise Education, 4. Abra- They are paying for the tickets, posed. A 21-day notice is nor-
Of the total sanctioned inverydifferentcircumstances— basedactivistandconvenorofthe hamise Media & Entertainment, and it is the first flight for these mally required to call a session,
loans — an extra 20 per cent of amountofRs1.30lakhcroreason detrimentaltothecountry,”Modi in the midst of the coronavirus MinorityCoordinationComm-it- 5. Shame Hindus about their workers.” Mishra said, and also sought de-
outstandingloanstotheirMSME July23,privatesectorbankshave said. “There are times when we pandemic”. He said: “I urge the tee of Gujarat (MCCG), the con- identity, 6. Bereft of glue of “Havetomeettargets”isaline tailsonlogisticsofholdingtheses-
borrowers that are non-NPA. sanctionedloansworthRs58,673 keep forwarding things out of youth, the people of my country cept of ‘Hisse wali Qurbani’ is an Hinduism Hindu society dies.” the workers are familiar with. It sion in the middle of the pan-
Withthreemonthsstilltogo,the crore; the remaining Rs 71,818 sheer curiosity. Despite knowing to take a pledge of freedom from old Islamic practice, which has Rao, who is Director-General means long hours of backbreak- demic.TheGovernoralsosought
scheme is on course to meet the crore has been sanctioned by thatitiswrong,wekeepdoingit.” thepandemic...Takearesolvefor gained popularity this year. Home Guards, Fire Services and ingwork,perhapsonemealaday clarificationonthereasonforcall-
Rs3lakhcroretarget,atopsource public sector banks. Private sec- The Prime Minister recalled a self-reliant India, a resolve to “As per the Islamic traditions, Civil Defence, and is due to retire atnight,rotianddal,maybepickle. ingthesessionifthegovernment
in the banking industry said. tor lenders have focussed on thatAtalBihariVajpayeehadsaid learn and teach something new every qurbani animal has seven onJuly31,didnotprovideanyfur- Theyhavebeentoldthatarrange- indeed has a majority.
Launched on May 23, the larger accounts. that the Kargil war had given the and a resolve to earnestly carry parts (hissa) wherein if a family therexplanation.Servicerulesfor ments will be made “on site.” Singhvi countered each of
scheme is open until October 31 Disbursementbyprivatesec- nation a mantra — “and the out our duties.” memberdoesqurbani,thenthey IPS officers specify that they can “This usually means mats on the these queries.
oruntilRs3lakhcrorehasbeenis tor banks stood at Rs 34,433 mantra was — before taking any The PM reminded the people also include six other members’ writearticlesinpublicationsonly floor, and at the most, a fan and a He rejected as absurd the
sanctioned, whichever is earlier. crore; for public sector banks at important decision, we should that despite the successes in en- names in the act who have the forscientific,culturalandliterary bulb where we sleep. We know Governor's reference to the fact
All MSME borrower accounts Rs 47,631 crore. Average dis- think whether our step, our en- suring a recovery rate and mor- duty to perform qurbani as per purposes and must have a dis- thatevenpaymentswillnotbeon that cases related to disqualifica-
withcombinedoutstandingloans bursement per borrower by pri- deavourisbefittingtothehonour talityratethatisbetterthanmany the customs. However, this year claimer that the opinions ex- time, and not until the work is tionofsomeMLAswerepending
ofuptoRs25croreasonFebruary vate banks was Rs 14.95 lakh, of the soldier who laid down his other countries, “the hazards of we are seeing that a number of pressed are their personal views. over. But we have been told that in the Supreme Court and the
29, and annual turnover of up to while PSU banks disbursed an life in those remote mountains”. Corona are far from being over”. Masjids in old city Ahmedabad Subsequently, Rao posted the company will give Rs 300 a Rajasthan High Court. “Whether
Rs100croreinFY2019-20,areel- average of Rs 2.66 lakh per bor- Itwastimetounderstandandac- have set up counters where they Sunday: “Are we true to our day,” says Murari Lal, from the Assembly Speaker disquali-
igible under the scheme. rower. cept this mantra, Modi said. Animal sacrifice havegiventheoptiontopublicto National Motto Satyamev Jayate Kishanganj. fies or does not do so, cannot, per
For banks and financial insti- State Bank of India has dis- “Friends”, the Prime Minister the crowd at the Ravivari/Gujari claim their part in the qurbani. = Truth alone Triumphs? Mostly Before March, Lal lived in a se, affect the holding of a session
tutions,theinterestratehasbeen bursed the highest amount of Rs said, “in times of war, whatever marketatEllisBridgeandthatso- Thereasonisthatanimalmarkets NO.Contrarily,wetellblatantlies shanty in Gurgaon, working on a or a numbers test on the floor of
cappedat9.25percent,whilefor 15,112 crore, followed by Canara we say or do has immense bear- cial distancing guidelines are be- are shut and people are appre- in the name of political correct- constructionsite.Whenthelock- the House. Whether the apex
NBFCs it is 14 per cent. 100 per Bank (Rs 5,796 crore), Punjab ing on the morale of the soldier, ing violated. As per orders of the hensiveaboutgettingincrowded ness, which we learn early in our down was announced, his in- court or the High Court decides
cent guarantee coverage will be National Bank (Rs 5,295 crore), evervigilantattheborder,aswell AMCofficials,themarketwasva- spaces because of coronavirus,” educationthatteachesusbundles comedriedup.Theshantywason one way or another, it cannot af-
provided by National Credit Bank of Baroda (Rs 4,947 crore). as the morale of his family. We catedtoday.Nocasehasbeenreg- Nafees said. oflies.NowonderweareaNation rent,andfoodformoneywasrun- fect the calling of a session or the
should never forget this… and istered.” This year because of “Also,therearecertainguide- of Hypocrites, not Triumphers.” ning out. Every time he stepped exerciseofpowerofGovernorun-
that is why our conduct, our de- Covid-19, the two biggest bakra lines by the government which WhencontactedbyTheIndian out to find work, he had to evade der Article 174, which, obviously,
PROGRESS REPORT meanour, our speech, our state- mandis (goat markets) in prohibits the act of slaughtering Express, Rao said he was “busy” the police, and count himself does not arise before either the
ments, our limits, our aims… Ahmedabad and Surat were not in public places. In the recent and would “get back” but did not lucky if he received a food packet Speaker or the two courts,” he
MSMELoans ■ Sanctions ■ Disbursals whatever we do and say, must heldaheadofthefestivaltobecel- years, due to incidents of mob despite repeated reminders. from an NGO distributing relief. said.
1,10,343 52,255 distinctly be conducive to en- ebrated on August 1 this year, lynching related to bovine trans- Rao was appointed CBI in- “Such flimsy clutching at
July1
hancing the morale and honour whichcompelledgoatandsheep portation, many people are ap- terim director on October 23, Surat straws”underlinesthe“trueulte-
July15 1,23,345 68,311 of our soldiers. Countrymen traders to go online. prehensive about transporting 2018, following a turf war be- These makeshift measures, rior motives of persons holding
July23 1,30,491 82,065 bound by a thread of unity, with Amid the ongoing pandemic, animals in the city on their own tween then director Alok Verma however, have only barely man- highconstitutionalpostsandtheir
the Mantra that the Nation is Ahmedabad is also witnessing a as they are unsure of their own and his deputy Rakesh Asthana. agedtokeepbusinessafloat.“The so-calledadvisers”,hesaid.Onthe
Loans under Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme aboveeverythingelsebolsterthe risingtrendof‘HissewaliQurbani’ safety and whether they will be Shortly after taking charge, Rao industry is facing a tough time issues of the date, agenda, and
All figures in ` crore Source: Finance Ministry strength of our soldiers much where people pool in money to givenpermissionornotbythepo- orderedmorethan100transfers, due to the curbs and hardly any reason for calling the session at
more than thousand fold.” buy an animal to sacrifice. lice. In these circumstances, includingthatoftheinvestigating demandintheinternationalmar- short notice, Singhvi said: “If the
Thisyear’sIndependenceDay Speaking to The Indian mosque committees and other officer of the high-profile ICICI ket,” says Babubhai Katheriya, Governor’s office is unaware of
philanthropistorganisationshave BankloanscaseadayaftertheFIR whoheadsSurat’sdiamondasso- the elementary fact that an
become safe, trustworthy and was registered. He was given his ciation. agendaissentafterthedateofthe
centralised spaces where people current posting in July last year. “We have spent all our sav- Assemblysessionisnotified,then
can pool in money to ensure that Raohashadacontroversialca- ings. Now, with work only on al- anextremelysorrystateofaffairs
their duty of Qurbani is com- reer with questions over his per- ternate days, our salary has gone exists, where ignorance of basic
pletedinasafeandhygienicplace. ceivedproximitytoHindutvaide- down. I was earning around Rs proceduresisblissincausingun-
Peoplearealsogivenoptiontoei- ology,andabouthiswife’salleged 25,000 every month, now it's Rs constitutional delay.”
ther claim their share of animal financial transactions with a 12,000.Wecannotforceourown- Laterintheevening,Congress
meat or donate it to the poor af- Kolkata-based company. He has ers either, as they have saved our state president Govind Singh
ter the sacrifice,” he added. denied charges of “unaccounted jobs.Howcanwerunourhomes Dotasraannouncedthattheparty
As per an order released on money” being held by his family. with such limited income?” asks will not protest at the Jaipur Raj
Saturday, the directives of the The first slide Rao posted Sat- Hitesh Patel, a polisher who has Bhavan on Monday. Gehlot had
Ahmedabadcitypolicewillbeen- urdayhadtheheading,“1stphase been working in Virani's factory earlier warned that “it won't be
forced from July 27 to August 5. of Deracinationof Hindus”,anda for 15 years. our responsibility if the entire
“It is prohibited to kill any an- timeline of Education Ministers. Lalji Patel, the owner of populationofthestategheraosthe
imal in public as well as private Incidentally, Humayun Kabir Dharmanandan diamonds, Raj Bhavan.”
places where it can be visible to became Education Minister in whichisamongtheleadingplay-
the public. It is prohibited to take 1958soonafterAzad'sdeath.MC ers in Surat with branches in the Khattar
out any ‘decked-up’ animal as Chaglaheldthepositionbetween US, UAE and China, says his fac- Khattarruledoutthepossibil-
partofprocessioninpublicplaces. 1963 and 1966, and was suc- tory was sealed for 14 days and ity of re-imposing a lockdown in
After the qurbani act of Bakri Eid, ceeded by Fakruddin Ali Ahmed, the premises disinfected after 18 anypartofHaryana.“Thereareno
it is prohibited to throw any whileSaiyidNurulHassanwasin workers tested positive. such plans,” he said.
bones,meatoranimalremainsin charge between 1971 and 1977. “We reopened 10 days ago. “It does not appear that the
publicplaces.Itiscompulsoryfor VKRVRaowasanotedecon- Since then, not a single case has cases will abruptly stop coming
everyone to wear masks and fol- omist from Tamil Nadu who been reported. We are following in,”theChiefMinistersaid—“but
low social distancing in public played a key role in establishing theSOPsandevenstartedcollect- we are continuously making ef-
placesanditisprohibitedtospitin the Indian Council of Social ing a penalty of Rs 100 each from fortstobuildpeople'sconfidence.
public places. The guidelines is- ScienceResearch,andwentonto polisherswhoarefoundwithout Thepanicthatwasearlierprevail-
sued by the state and Union gov- become Vice Chancellor of Delhi masks,” says Patel, who employs ing in people is no longer there”.
ernments for the Coronavirus University,PlanningCommission about 6,000 polishers in batches The Haryana government re-
pandemicmustbefollowed(sic),” memberandEducationMinister of 3,000 each on alternate days. views the projections on Covid-
read the notification. between 1969 and 1971. (WITHSOHINIGHOSHIN 19 cases every 15 days, Khattar
“As part of celebrations, qur- In his post, Rao alleged that AHMEDABAD) said. “The number we had pro-
baniof differenttypesof animals they were among those who en- jected on June 1 was quite high,
is done. If the killing is visible to gaged in “industrial scale distor- Gehlot sowemadepreparationsaccord-
public, the belief of people from tion of history, negation and of affairs of obfuscation, obstruc- ingly. But the reality is that even
other communities can be hurt whitewashing of bloody Islamic tionanddilatorytacticsonflimsy, today beds in several hospitals
leading to disruption of commu- invasions/rule”. His post claimed frivolous, and non-jurisdictional across the state are vacant,” he
nalharmony(sic),”readtheorder. that roads and public places in grounds”,Congressspokesperson said.“Werecentlyreviewedthese
On July 15, Shamsher Singh, Delhiarenamedafter“invaders”, Abhishek Singhvi said at a press projections and aimed at 15,000
Additional Director General of and that there is “No mention conference. active Covid-19 cases. Currently
Police (ADGP), CID Crime and aboutKrishna/Pandavas,theorig- The Gehlot government, the number of active cases is far
Railways, had issued an order to inal builders of Delhi.” whichfacesachallengefromfor- less.Weanalysedthesituationon
all police commissioners of Rao'spostallegedthissystem merdeputychiefministerSachin July15,andwewilldosoagainon
Ahmedabad,Surat,Vadodaraand patronised pro-Left academics Pilot and 18 MLAs loyal to him, August 1 and act accordingly.”
Rajkotaskingthemtoensurethat and sidelined pro-Hindu nation- wants a floor test so that it can The pandemic posed a major
anti-social elements in the name alist scholars. It went on to claim prove its majority, and be spared economicchallenge,Khattarsaid.
of ‘gaurakshaks’(cowvigilantes) that in the 1980s, the opening of ofanothercountintheAssembly “IntheApril-Juneperiod,ourrev-
do not harass those transporting “Ramjanmabhumi gates” and for the next six months. enuereceiptswereindeficitbyRs
legal livestock on the highway telecast of TV serials such as Asuccessfulfloortestwillalso 5,000 crore, while we incurred
ahead of Bakri Eid. “Ramayan and Lav Kush... re- allow the Congress to let its min- extra expenditure of around Rs
“In the coming days ahead of awakened Hindu spirit”. isters and MLAs out of Jaipur's 4,000crore.”However,thesitua-
the festival, many anti-social ele- Fairmonthotelandresort,where tionhasbeguntoimproveinJuly.
mentsintheguiseofgaurakshaks ‘Left on a truck’ they have been kept for two Around50,000entrepreneurs
may try to assault or threaten knowthecompany'sname,andI weeks now. While seeking a ses- and permitted industries had re-
those transporting sheep, goat don'twanttogo.Butthechildren sion of the Assembly, the second sumedfunctioning,andsome40
and livestock on the national are hungry at home,” he says. recommendation of the cabinet lakhpeoplehadreturnedtowork,
highway.Kindlyensurethatthey Early last week, Kumar got a didnot,however,makeaspecific Khattarsaid,whiledescribingthe
donotharassthosedrivingtrucks call from a contractor, Yogendra mention of a floor test. initiatives taken by the govern-
andtakestrictactionagainstthem Singh.Singhtoldhimthatagroup AftertheGovernordidnotact menttoproviderelieftoindustry.
(sic),” read the circular. of 10 men were being flown to on the cabinet’s original recom- “Haryanahasover77percent
Delhi, from where they will be mendation on Thursday, Gehlot recovery, which is a good recov-
Ex-CBI chief taken to a construction site in had accused him of acting under eryrate.Barringtwo-threestates,
(1963-67)”;and,“NurulHassan— Haryana’s Manesar. He was call- “pressure from above”, and had Haryanahasaverygoodrecovery
5 years (1972-77)”, Rao posted: ing“asafavour”,becauseKumar’s led a protest of his MLAs at Raj rate.ThemortalityrateinHaryana
“Remaining10yearsotherLeftists wife was his cousin, and she had Bhavan.Theprotestwascalledoff is1.32.Wearetryingtofurtherin-
like VKRV Rao.” dialledhim,desperateforherhus- after an “assurance” by the crease our testing. Currently, we
These lines were part of a se- bandtofindwork.Theothernine Governor who, however, asked are testing 12,000-13,000 sam-
riesof fourslidesthatRaoposted are from Kishanganj. forthegovernment'sresponseon ples daily. We feel that more and
along with a tweet that started “This has started for the past six points. moretestingwillhelpidentifyin-
with the line, “Story of Project two weeks,” says Singh. “For Mishra said the cabinet note fections and will result in more
Abrahamisation of Hindu years, I get calls when people hadnotmentionedthedatefrom people recovering. We have also
Civilization”. He listed six points wanttoarrangeforlabourinDelhi which the session was to be startedplasmatherapy,”theChief
below: “1. Deny Hindus their andHaryana.Thistime,theysaid called. No reason had been given Minister said.
knowledge, 2.Vilify Hinduism as work needs to start quickly be- forcallingthesessionatshortno- FULLREPORTSON
collection of superstitions, 3. cause they have to meet targets. tice,andnoagendahadbeenpro- www.indianexpress.com
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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, MONDAY, JULY 27, 2020

1,110newcases;Covid
tallyoneshortof56k
Death toll at 2,345
with 21 more
CASE TRACKER
succumbing to the PLACES CONFIRMED DEATHS NEW CASES
Ahmedabad 25,692 1,575 163
virus in a day
Surat 11,672 359 299
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE Vadodara 4,194 76 92
AHMEDABAD, JULY 26 Bhavnagar 1,191 21 31
Gandhinagar 1,278 39 19
AS MANY as 1,110 fresh cases of
Covid-19 were reported in Rajkot 1,408 24 72
GujaratonSunday,takingtheto- Chhota Udepur 156 3 22
tal tally to one short of 56,000. Patan 499 23 22
The death toll reached 2,345
with21moresuccumbingtothe Valsad 540 5 15
virus in a day. Porbandar 41 2 2
OnSunday,Suratreported12 Mehsana 725 17 18
deaths and a total of 299 cases —
201 from the municipal corpo- Morbi 190 6 10
ration and 98 from the district Kutch 448 16 20
areas.AmongCovid-19fatalities, Gir Somnath 307 2 18
city areas reported 7.
Vadodara reported a total of Junagadh 744 9 20
92 new Covid-19 cases — 79 Sabarkantha 382 8 14
fromcityand13fromruralareas Anand 417 13 11
— and 2 deaths, one each from Panchmahal 415 18 18
city and rural.
Bharuch 745 11 19
Tribal districts of Chhota

RUSH AND AFTERMATH Udepur,NarmadaandDahodre- Banaskantha 613 17 35

portedcomparativelyhighnum- Jamnagar 581 13 14
ber of cases on Sunday with 22, Kheda 528 14 9
Ahead of Bakri Eid, people were seen crowding at a makeshift marketplace on Ellis Bridge near Sabarmati riverfront in Ahmedabad on Sunday morning to 26and30peopletestingpositive Narmada 258 26
buy goats; (below) Police and authorities removed the marketplace after social distancing guidelines were flouted. Javed Raja respectively.
Aravalli 294 24 3
Ahmedabad city reported
Mahisagar 285 8 3
152casesandthreedeathswhile
another 11 cases were reported Botad 197 5 5
from Ahmedabad district areas. Amreli 337 9 39
The Ahmedabad Municipal
Tapi 131 1 9
Corporation (AMC) added 16
Dang 16 6
more areas under micro con-
tainment zones, taking the total Dahod 425 5 30
number of areas under contain- Devbhoomi
ment to 237 across the city. Dwarka 43 3 Cumulative 2 4
Thecaseloadcontinuestobe discharge:
Surendranagar 613 10 29 24
in the western areas under the Navsari 466 6 40,384 18
new micro containment zones.
The areas include Usman- From other states 87 1
pura, Sabarmati, Narapura and
Chandkheda.BopalandVejalpur Totalcases: 55,999 Deaths: 2,345 Newcases: 1,110
from the South West zone and
Bodakdev and Ghatlodiya from
the North West zone were also and Indrapuri in the South zone, Paldi and Jivrajpark from micro
put under containment. Saijpur Bogha in North zone and containment list.
Shital Kunj in Sabarmati Nikol and Odhav both from the The state conducted 21,708
ward has the highest number of East zone. tests on a single day on Sunday,
population put under contain- The Ahmedabad Municipal recording 333.96 tests per day
ment — 302 occupants of 52 Corporation also removed per million population.
houses. Remaining six areas Lambha, Amraiwadi, Bhaipura, So far, 6,42,370 tests were
were from Maninagar, Lambha Shahibaug,Girdharnagar,Vasna, conducted in the state.

14-year-old boy
among 4 booked
Fee order kept in 13 arrested for
not allowing Securities and Exchange Board of India
LOSS OF SHARE CERTIFICATE
Notice is hereby given that the share Certificates as mentioned below
for 500 shares bearing distinctive No(s) standing in the name(s) M/S

for ‘assault, abeyance, claim ambulance PUBLIC NOTICE

SEBI Final Order No. WTM/MPB/EFD-1/DRA-
ANANT RAJ Limited, has/have been lost/misplaced/distroyed and the
and the advertiser has/have applied to the Company for issue of duplicate
share certificate(s) in lieu thereof. Any person(s) who has/have claim(s)
verbal abuse’ pass through
on Dalit youth schools; govt denies residential area
IV/49/2019 dated 23.05.2019 in respect of Imtsons
Investments Limited and its Directors Imitiyazhusain
on the said shares should lodge such claim(s) with the Company's
Registrars and Transfer Agents viz Alankit assignments, Alankit house
4E/2, Jhandewalan Extention, New elhi-110055 within 15 days from
Saiyed, Mrs. Riyazunnisa Imtiyazhusaln and the the date of this notice failing which the Company will proceed to
fiednotificationfromthegovern- Faiyahusain Imtiyazhusain Saiyed was passed in the issue duplicate share Certificate(s) in respect of the said shares.
EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE mentregardingthevalidityofon- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE matter of Imtsons Investments Limited. Folio Cert no. Shares Dist from Dist to
AHMEDABAD,JULY26 AHMEDABAD,JULY26 lineclasses,academicandadmin- VADODARA, JULY 26
istrative activities were Copy of the orders sent to the above Noticees remained 20129 1447 500 722011 722510
FOUR PERSONS, including a mi- EVENASprivateandgrant-in-aid suspended from last Thursday. THIRTEENRESIDENTSof ahous- undelivered. The said Order is available on SEBI website Total Shares 500
nor boy, were booked for al- schoolsinthestatearetoresume During these three days, the fed- ingcolonyintheAlkapuriareaof www.sebi.gov.in under the heading "Enforcement - Date: 23/07/2020 Name of the Shareholder(s)
legedly assaulting and verbally online classes from Monday, a erationofschoolswasworkingon thecitywerearrestedonSunday Orders - Orders of Chairman / members". The above Place: Khambhat Jignesh N. Shah
abusing a Dalit youth in Baldana messagepurportedlybeingcircu- a fruitful and legal solution to re- for allegedly blocking an ambu-
village of Ahmedabad rural. lated by various private schools solvethematterinfavourofedu- lance carrying a patient from an orders can also be obtained by sending e-mail at
Police said the incident oc- amongparentsonSundaystated cation... We are extremely con- imaging centre near the colony, [email protected]. The said order may also be collected
curredonSaturdaywhenPrakash that the state government ‘circu- cernedaboutouractionsandwill citing fear of Covid-19. personally or by deputing authorized representative to
Vegda (23), a resident of Baldana lar’ asking private schools not to always try to protect the interest The incident occurred on SEBI's office at SEBI Bhavan II, Plot No. C 7, "G"
village, was heading towards his charge fee till they reopen “has ofourstudentsandstaff.Wehave Saturday night, when an ambu- Block, Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra (E), Mumbai-
relative’s place around 6 pm. beenkeptinabeyance”.Thestate decided to resume online classes lance carrying a heart patient
According to him, a 14-year-old government, however, denied from July 27 with regular time- arrived for a regular appoint- 400051.
boyfromthevillageallegedlycon- such a move. table, in the interest of students.” ment at a popular imaging facil- Date: 14.07.2020 Ashutosh Arun
fronted him and hurled casteist The message received by Manan Choksi, executive di- ity located on the premises Place: Mumbai Deputy General Manager
abuses at him near a shop.. some of parents from schools rector of Udgam School for of Sangitaapartments.Residents
davp 15204/11/0048/2021
“When the boy started hurl- states, “The honourable high Childrenandformerpresidentof of the colony blocked the gates
ingabusesatme,Iconfrontedhim court has accepted the petition AssociationofProgressiveSchools anddidnotallowtheambulance
andleft.Around7pm,threefam- and the matter is subjudice now. (AOPS), said, “This is what we to enter.
ily members of the boy, came to TheAttorneyGeneraltoldtheHC have been informed by the Inspector Smitesh Solanki of
my house and started hurling yesterday (Saturday) that till HC lawyersandassociationmembers Sayajigunj police station said,
casteistabusesatme.WhenIpro- approval, the said circular will be whowerepresentinthelasthear- “Police reached the spot when
tested,theystartedbeatingmeup keptinabeyance.Wearesurethat ing (July 24). Between all these the imagining centre called for
withwoodensticks,”saidVedain justice will prevail.” days, there has been no commu- help. I also went to the spot and
his complaint to the police. However, Education Minister nication with the state govern- triedtoreasonwiththeresidents
Police booked Pravin Koli BhupendrasinhChudasamasaid, mentandschoolrepresentatives.” who cited Covid-19 concerns.
Patel, Jabhu Koli Patel, Induben “Thereisnosuchabeyanceorder TheAOPSlaunchedthesocial Weaskedthemtoopenthegates
Koli Patel and the boy under IPC fromthestategovernment.Itwill media campaign ‘SaveOurScho- but they resisted and got into a
sections323(assault),506(crim- be decided only after high court ols’ opposing the government’s verbal confrontation... they also
inalintimidation)andsectionsof hearing on July 29.” order, to collect no fees from the physicallytriedtooverpowerthe
the Scheduled Caste and Sched- Themessagefurtheradds,“As parents till the schools open reg- officers on duty.”
uled Tribe (Prevention of you are aware, as a sign of our ularly,whichclaimedtohaveover Basedonacomplaintfiledby
Atrocities) act. symbolicprotestagainstunjusti- one lakh tweets in four hours. Dr V Shah of the Baroda Imaging
Centre, police arrested 13 resi-

‘Witchcraft’: 3 held for assaulting woman

dents from the colony. Solanki
said, “Inside the ambulance was
a heart patient who needed ur-
As per an FIR lodged at Valod refutedtheirclaims,theystarted gent test. The imaging center
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE police station on Sunday, the beating me up with wooden does not even conduct any
AHMEDABAD, JULY 26 three accused women went to sticks,draggedmetoanelectric- Covid-19 tests but such fear
the house of Ranjanben and ac- ity pole and tied my hands to it. mongering was a result of un-
THREE WOMEN were arrested cused her of practising witch- Later my sons rescued me,” said sympathetic mentality.”
from a village in Valod Taluka of craft. Then they allegedly Ranjanben in her complaint to The residents were booked
Tapi on Sunday, two days after thrashed her with wooden the police. under IPC sections 336 (endan-
they assaulted a 38-year-old sticks and tied her to an electric- According to the police, gering life of someone), 342
woman and tied her to an elec- ity pole in the village and she Ranjanben suffered fracture in (wrongful confinement), 141
tricity pole on suspicion of her was finally rescued by her sons. her hand due to the alleged as- (criminal force to prevent some-
being a “witch”. “On Friday around 8.30 am, sault. “After the FIR was lodged one from doing what they are
According to police, the ac- Ratanben, Manuben and on Sunday morning, a police legally bound to do) and Section
cused — Ratanben Rathod, Teenabencametomyhouseand team went to the village and de- 51Aof theDisasterManagement
Manuben Rathod and Teenaben accused me of practising witch- tained the three accused. Their Act, 2005 (obstructing govern-
Rathod — all from Buhari village craft. They said that since I am a Covid test will be conducted be- ment officer from the discharge
in Valod of Tapi, allegedly as- witch and due to my activities, foretheofficialarrest,”saidapo- of his functions under the Act
saulted Ranjanben Rathod (38) the son of Ratanben met with lice officer at Valod Police sta- without reasonable cause),
of the village on July 24. motorcylce accidents. When I tion. Solanki said.
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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, MONDAY, JULY 27, 2020

4 months after Kabul attack, Afghan

Sikhs in Delhi: ‘Feels like home’
care of,” said a member of the
AMIL BHATNAGAR gurdwara committee.
NEW DELHI, JULY 26 Among those who reached
the gurdwara was 70-year-old
“THIS FEELS like home,” said Balwant Kaur, who lost her two
Gurjeet Singh after he reached sons and six other family mem-
DelhionSundayfromKabul.The bers in the attack. Last week, the
30-year-old was among the 11 daughter of one of her slain sons
persons who were granted was “rescued” by other family
short-term visas after repeated members following the alleged
appeals following an Islamic attempt at forced conversion
State-backed attack at the Guru and marriage.
Har Rai Sahib gurdwara in Thementaltollhasmadeher
Kabul’s Shor Bazar on March 25. apprehensive of public interac-
Singh had arrived with his Nidan Singh Sachdeva, who was released last week after tion but she expressed her relief
eight-year-old daughter who being abducted from a gurdwara in Afghanistan, was among with a small smile. “Her sons
was injured during the attack in those who arrived in New Delhi on Sunday. ANI were offering ardas on the sec-
which 25 people were killed. “I ond floor of the gurdwara when
lost two cousins. For the past and marriage. The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara the terrorists entered. She lost
three months, my daughter has In a statement, the Ministry Management Committee had sons, cousins in the attack. Then,
been undergoing treatment af- of External Affairs said those arranged tickets and accommo- the girl was kidnapped. We are
ter shrapnel hit her eye. I hope I who were granted visas include dation for the Afghan Sikhs. On gladwecantakecareof her,”said
cangethertreatedhere,”hesaid. membersof the“SikhandHindu Sunday, they were taken to a Delhi-based relative who had
Theotherswhoweregranted minority community of Gurdwara Rakab Ganj to com- come to meet her.
visas include Nidan Singh Afghanistan”. “India has plete the mandatory 14-day Manjinder Singh Sirsa, pres-
Sachdeva, 55, who was released granted appropriate visa and fa- Covidquarantine.Manywillcon- ident, Delhi Sikh Gurdwara
last week after being abducted cilitated their travel to India. We tinue to stay there, said officials. Management Committee, said

BLUE AND WHITE fromanothergurdwarainPaktia

province, and a 15-year old girl
who is the daughter of a victim
appreciate the efforts of the
Government of the Islamic
Republic of Afghanistan in ex-
“The returnees had an emo-
tional reunion with their family
members at the airport follow-
theyhavebeenassuredbyHome
Minister Amit Shah that most of
the Sikhs in Kabul “will be
Clouds over the Vadodara Halol highway on Sunday. Bhupendra Rana of the Kabul attack and was re- tending necessary support for ingwhichtheyweretakentothe broughtbackinthecoming days
cently “rescued” from an alleged thesafereturnof thesefamilies,” gurdwara. They were given lan- and the process for giving them

Damsinstate50percentfull
attempt at forced conversion it said. gar and their needs will be taken citizenship will begin soon”.

Brandishing VOLUNTEERS FILL FAMILY VOID IN BENGALURU COVID DEATHS

pistol, 3 prisoners ‘We do it for free, only thing
asmonsoonenterssecondhalf northGujaratregionisatthebot-
including ex-cop
break out of
Maharashtra jail
we ask people is to pray for us’
GOPAL KATESHIYA & tom with 27.27 per cent. Kutch JOHNSONTA
RITU SHARMA (38.81%) and central Gujarat BENGALURU,JULY26
RAJKOT, AHMEDABAD, (43%) are slightly better off. SAGAR RAJPUT
JULY 26 Within Saurashtra, the bulk MUMBAI, JULY 26 ONE OF the times in the past few
of the storage, in terms of per- months when volunteers from
WITHTHEsouth-westmonsoon centage, has happened in THREE PRISONERS, including a MercyAngels,agroupfacilitating
set to enter its second half in Jamangar (89.78%), Gir Somnath policeman dismissed from serv- Covid-19 funerals in Bengaluru,
Gujarat, dams in the state had (83.78%), Porbandar (82.58%) ice, escaped from Jalgaon prison brokedownwasatthecremation
cumulative storage of 50 per and Devbhumi Dwarka (70.65%) in Maharashtra around early on of a 17-day-old.
cent on Sunday, due to the rain- districts. But the designed gross Saturdayafterthreateningaguard The parents of the newborn
fall pattern of this season. storage capacity of dams in with a pistol, police said. were in quarantine after testing
As of Sunday, the 206 major these four districts is just 682 The Jilhapeth police station, positiveforcoronavirusandtheir
dams of Gujarat were cumula- mcm, which is less than five per under whose jurisdiction the relativeswerebackhomeinnorth
tively 50.25 per cent full, having As of Sunday, the 206 major dams of Gujarat were cent of total designed gross stor- prison falls, has registered a case India.“Thebabywashandedover
total gross storage of 12,676 mil- cumulatively 50.25 per cent full. File age capacity of 15,766 mcm of against Suresh Magare, Gaurav in a bag. Nobody was with that The volunteers of Mercy Angels come from diverse
lion cubic metre (mcm), data all the dams of Saurashtra. PatilandSagarPatil.Afourthman, child so we were the family and backgrounds—there are doctors, social workers, IT
available with Narmada and Storage in districts like anaccomplicewaitingoutsidethe weperformedthelastrites.Alotof professionals, students and businessmen. Express
Water Resources, Water Supply Bhavnagar (34.52%) Rajkot jail with a bike, has been identi- us cried,” says Dr Taha Mateen,
and Kalpasar department of the
state government shows.
REGION-WISE BREAK-UP (61.47 %) and Junagadh (61.72)
which have major dams like
fied as Jagdish Patil, police said.
Police said Magare, a consta-
founder trustee of HBS Hospital
which started the Mercy Angels stigma. Also, authorities have Julysofar.“Therearearoundeight
The Sardar Sarovar across Shetrunji, Bhadar and Ozat-II re- ble at Jalgaon district, was dis- programme in March. mandated 12-feet graves instead to nine Covid-19 burials daily,
Narmada River in Narmada dis- REGION RAINFALL STORAGEINDAMS spectively, is comparatively low. missed after being arrested in With Bengaluru witnessing a ofconventionalgravesfourtofive apart from five or six regular
trict of south Gujarat region ac- Kutch 87.78% 38.81% Shetrunji, the largest dam of December from Baroda for al- Covid-19 surge, social service ini- feet in depth. ones,” says Wasim Zubair, a vol-
counted for almost half of that Saurashtra with designed gross legedly stealing a bike and later tiatives like Mercy Angels are at Afewdaysago,Ahmedandhis unteer with Helping Hands, a
with a gross storage of 4913.72 North Gujarat 26.98% 26.27% storage of 308.68 mcm, is just robbing a goldsmith in Pune. theforefrontofensuringdignified team were not allowed to enter a groupfacilitatingMuslimburials.
mcm. South Gujarat region, Saurashtra 64.48% 57.27% 38.77 per cent full. Bhadar, the Gaurav and Sagar, lodged in funerals for the victims. burialgroundwiththebodyofan WhilevolunteersfromMercy
which holds 69 per cent of wa- East-central Gujarat 26.66% 43% second largest reservoir of the JalgaonjailsinceNovember2019, On Friday, Mercy Angels 86-year-oldmanduetoresistance AngelsbringbodiestotheKhudus
ter resources though it accounts region with designed gross stor- were arrested in two cases of da- member Tanveer Ahmed waited from local residents. Ahmed says Sahebburialground,theyarethen
for only 25 per cent of state's ge- South Gujarat 27.26% 54.08% age capacity of 188.14 mcm, is coity and attempt to murder. in a PPE kit beside a freshly dug many Christians have opted for taken to the site of the burial by
ographical area, usually leads State average 39.66% 50.25% just36.42percentfull.Botda(25 Magare is from Pahur village graveattheChristiancemeteryin cremations. the Helping Hands volunteers—
the chart of storage in dams %), Surendranagar (29.87%), while Gaurav and Sagar are from Kalpalliforthearrivalofa65-year- “What is happening is that if 22 of them are stationed at the
every year. But this year, it is Morbi (41.66%) and Amreli Amalner in Jalgaon. old man’s body. Five others, in- you dig too deep, many are wary grounds through the day.
trailing Saurashtra in terms of rainfall at this stage. North Porbandar (111.78 %) and (57.39%) too have storage lower According to the police, cluding a priest, waited with that some graves will collapse. In One of the volunteers is 70-
percentage of gross storage in Gujarat (26.98%), east-central Jamnagar (104.26%). Except than the region’s average. Gaurav and Sagar had left their Ahmed in PPE kits. When the many Christian burial grounds, year-old Abdul Majeed.
dams. While 16 dams in south Gujarat (26.66%) and south Surendranagar (43.72%) and The skewed storage in reser- barracks early on Saturday for body arrived in an ambulance you cannot bring in a JCB. The “We do it for free. The only
Gujarat's six districts, excluding Gujarat (27.26%) have so far Bhavnagar (44.66%), the re- voirs is due to the skewed spa- the jail office, which they were arranged by Mercy Angels, graves are close and it has to be thing we ask people to do is to
the Narmada dam, are 54 per recorded only around one- maining nine districts of tial distribution of rainfall this assigned to clean. “Magare Ahmed and his associate Naveed manually done,” says Ahmed. pray for us,” said Zubair. “By the
cent full—having cumulative fourth of their average rainfall. Saurashtra have received more season. joined the two men. Together, Iqbal, who recently recovered “A youngster from the mercy of God, none of us has
storage of 4664 mcm, 140 dams The state as a whole has logged than 50 of season's rainfall. Among the southern dis- they ran towards the gate. They fromCovid-19,lowereditintothe Lingayat community died re- testedpositive.Wetakeallprecau-
of Saurashtra are 57.27 per cent 39.66 per cent rainfall. But the higher-than-normal tricts,Danghasreceivedthelow- threatened the guard with a pis- grave with help from others. cently. Lingayats generally bury, tions.” “What we are doing is
full, the highest for any region The higher percentage of rainfall in these three districts est rainfall of 18.70 per cent. The tol, snatched the keys from his The man died at St but he was cremated,” he says. about humanity,” says Sarfaraz,
in terms of percentage storage rainfall in Saurashtra has trans- has not led to commensurate other six districts -- Bharuch, pocket, opened the gate and es- Philomenas Hospital and al- “When there is a Covid-19 another volunteer.
in the state. However, in ab- lated into a very little overall storage in dams of the region as Narmada, Tapi, Surat, Navsari caped on the bike,” inspector though local authorities insisted death,weinformthefamilyofthe At the crematoriums where
solute terms, the cumulative storage in dams of the region as they do not have dams with and Valsad – received 22-42 per Babu Roham said. onacremation,thefamilywanted serviceofMercyAngelsandother the last rites for Covid-19 victims
gross storage of these 140 dams the districts which have experi- huge storage capacity and much cent of their average rainfall. The jail staff have told police a burial. “The family reached out groupsandprovidethemcontact are being carried out, volunteers
is only 1454 mcm or less a third enced more than 100 per cent of of the floodwaters of rivers have In north Gujarat, thatinmateswereearliercaught to us. I told them that if they can numbers,” said Dr Asima Bhanu, often have to wait for long, says
of south Gujarat’s. their average rainfall are the drained into the sea. The region Banaskantha has recorded the tryingtoprocurethingsfromthe get permission for a grave to be nodalofficerattheCovid-19facil- Ahmed.
KutchandSaurashtraregions ones which do not have big irri- accounts for 33 per cent of geo- lowest of 20.54 per cent rainfall rear side of the jail. “Relatives or dug at Kalpally, we can facilitate ity in Victoria Hospital. “There is unimaginable pres-
which received 87.78 per cent gation schemes. Devbhoomi graphical area of the state but while Gandhinagar the highest friends throw things from out- the burial,” says Ahmed. The Khudus Sab Muslim bur- sure. The Mercy Angels alone are
and 64.48 percent rainfall of Dwarka has recorded the high- hasonly17percentof state'swa- of 40.98, and the remaining dis- side. These three inmates may There has been resistance to ialground,oneofthebiggestbur- notabletomeetthedemand.We
their long-term average respec- est of 162.20 per cent rainfall as ter resources. tricts received below 30 per cent have procured the pistol simi- burial of Covid-19 victims at ial grounds in the city, has seen needmorevolunteers.Thisisjust
tively, are leading the chart of of July 26, followed by Intermsof percentagefilling, of their average rainfall. larly,” said Roham. Christian burial grounds due to burialsof 140Covid-19victimsin the beginning,” says Dr Mateen.

RISE IN COVID CASES

40 questioned so far
Rajkot jewellery showrooms to remain shut for a week over Sushant suicide
remain open only if absolutely and they are not willing to come ellery market in the country
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE necessary, that too, between 10 outof theirhomesamidthepan- would have jewellery manufac-
RAJKOT, JULY 26 am and 2 pm for a week from demic,” said Saholiya. tured in Rajkot. EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE AMONG THOSE
WITH AT least six jewellers suc-
Monday,” GJAR president,
Divyesh Patadiya, said.
The RGDA president said that
soaring gold prices, which have
The association leader said
that Soni Bazzar, the main jew-
MUMBAI, JULY 26
QUESTIONED
cumbing to Covid-19 and more The number of Covid-19 crossed Rs 50,000 per 10 grams ellerymarket,isacongestedplace MUMBAI POLICE have recorded
than a dozen jewellers and cases in Rajkot, among the were also a factor of slackness in marked by narrow lanes and statements of 40 people so far in JUNE 14: Sushant Singh
workers testing positive for the biggest gold and silver jewellery the jewellery market. “It is true smaller shops where maintain- connection with the alleged sui- Rajput found dead
disease over the past two days, manufacturing hubs in Gujarat, that gold is emerging as a prefer- ingsocialdistancebecomesabig cideofactorSushantSinghRajput. JUNE 20: Statements of 14
Rajkot Gold Dealers Association have been steadily increasing. ableassetforinvestorsintheenvi- challenge.“Jewellersareallowing Police have issued summons individuals, including his
(RGDA) has appealed to its On Saturday, the number of new ronment of uncertainties caused entry into their shops to only to several actors in this connec- family members, recorded
members to keep their units cases crossed 50 for the first by the pandemic. But investors those customers wearing masks tion, including Kangana Ranaut.
shut for a week from Monday. time. The disease has claimed don’t purchase jewellery much andaftertheysanitisetheirhands On Sunday, Maharashtra JUNE 27: Two former
“There is panic among jew- lives of jewellers like Paresh andinsteadgoforgoldcoins,bars at the door. But business means Home Minister Anil Deshmukh employees of Yash Raj
ellers, workers and salesmen af- Zaveri, Suresh Adesara and his and biscuits,” said Saholiya. interactionofworkers,customers said Bandra police summoned Films questioned about
tersixjewellersdiedof Covid-19. elderbrotherKantiandMukund Patadiya said that around andshop-owners...hencethere’s filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt and the the actor’s contract with
Also, at least a dozen jewellers Adesara. Suresh’s wife also two lakh people, including theriskcontractingtheinfection,” manageroffilmmakerKaranJohar the production company
and workers have contracted Workers make gold ornaments at an outlet in Rajkot. Express tested positive and is in hospital. around 50,000 workers from said Patadiya. to record their statements in this JULY 8: Sanjay Leela
the virus in the past two days. At Saholiya and Patadiya said West Bengal, directly or indi- The GJAR president said that connection. Deshmukh said if Bhansali’s statement
a teleconference held on that the pandemic-related lock- rectly are employed in the jew- his organisation was not using needed,Johartoowillbecalledin. recorded
Saturday, the executive commit- Road of the city are members of itsmembersonSaturdaytokeep down and subsequent disrup- ellery market of Rajkot. “On nor- the term “shutdown” to ensure Police have earlier recorded JULY 9: Director Shekhar
tee of the RGDA unanimously the RGDA and Saholiya said that their outlets open for the mini- tionineconomyhasreducedthe mal days, Rajkot jewellers that wages and salaries of work- statements of top executives of Kapur e-mails his
decided to appeal to our mem- all of them have agreed to sup- mal time. jewellery business in the city to convert around 50 kilograms of ers and salesmen are not af- Yash Raj Films (YRF), including statement to the police
bers to keep their units shut for port the voluntary lockdown. “We appealed to our mem- just 10 per cent of its normal av- bullion into gold ornaments and fected. “We are appealing mini- AdityaChopra.Sushanthadsigned
JULY 18: YRF chairman
a week,” RGDA president, Another 550 smaller retail bersonJuly9tokeeptheirshops erage. “Rajkot is a hub of jew- much more into silver jewellery. mal working hours. If we appeal athree-filmcontractwithYRF,but
Aditya Chopra’s statement
Bhayabhai Saholiya, told The outlets, wholesale outlets and open only between 10 and 4 pm ellery manufacturing and But 80 per cent of the workers for a shutdown, shop-owners parted ways in 2015 and did not
recorded
Indian Express on Sunday. manufacturers are members of till July 19. As many of the fellow whole-sale trade with a daily from West Bengal left for their andjewellerstendnottopaythe completethethirdfilminthecon-
Around 200 large jewellery Gems and Jewellery Association jewellers and workers have con- turnover of around Rs 25 crore. nativestateduringthelockdown workers. These are tough times tract.Policehavealsorecordedthe JULY 22: Film critic Rajeev
showrooms located on Palace (GJAR),anotherindustrybodyin tracted the infection, we have Butpeople’sfinancialcapacityto that began in March,” Patadiya andworkersneedsupportof the statementsofSushant’sdomestic Masand questioned
Road,UniversityRoadandMavdi the city, which also appealed to appealed our members again to purchase jewellery has reduced said, claiming any sizeable jew- industry,” Patadiya said. helpandhisfriends.
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The balance between being ambitious and being competitive will be a critical factor
in determining our success towards becoming a self-reliant nation

S
ince independence, we haven't really trust- petitiveness is determined by the two holy grails of
ed our people or their expertise, our price and quality. What will be worth seeing in come
resources, our home-grown industries or years is whether this 'idea' will be applicable to all
even our brilliant entrepreneurs. In short, we didn't the sectors or only a select few, depending upon the
trust ourselves. In the early years since independ- availability of resources and expertise in the country.
ence, we entrusted public sector units to oversee 'Vocal for Local' strategy should be aimed towards
many of our development works in various fields, but protecting industries without leading to 'protection-
when that failed, we took to globalisation in 1991. ism'.
Globalisation opened us to foreign direct invest- Though the idea and ambition to create India as
ments (FDI), MNCs and foreigners, in turn leading to a promising manufacturing centre compared with
a capital-based growth system which was jobless, China is worth the appreciation, Indian Inc. won't be
faceless and ruthless. Thereafter, we allowed the in a condition to provide any benefit unless price
imports of subsidised Chinese goods thereby invit- competitiveness can be created and sustained -
ing job losses and economic inequalities within our only then can we attract investment from domestic
country. This put several industries out of business and foreign players. Thus, the key consideration for
as the Chinese imports reduced the demand for a self-reliant India should be to build and create
indigenous products. This made people subsist on businesses that are competitive and able to forge a
government doles rather than being valuable con- strong value chain via brand, package, price and
tributors to the country. channels.
Our long dependence on imports, even for basic If implemented correctly,
necessities, has cast a shadow on our commitment
towards local industries. Why to import at all when 'Vocal for Local' strategy will not just
we can produce and manufacture on our own? Don't create job opportunities but will also
we trust our capabilities and expertise? Don't we generate a lot of confidence among our
have the resources to make at least the necessary local industries.
products on our own? The lesser the imports, the
lesser is our dependence on a country like China,
which cannot be trusted anymore. Think of the pos-
sibilities that this attitude towards going 'swadeshi'
might open for us - not just increased job opportuni-
ties but our assertion on being self-reliant will also
generate a lot of confidence among our local indus-
tries.
The world is currently faced with the existential
threat from COVID-19 as economies continue tum-
bling down. In such a scenario, it is very essential to
spread awareness regarding the benefits of going
'swadeshi' or self-reliant. Seeing the plight of our
industries and emerging business opportunities due
to COVID-19, the Indian Prime Minister announced
last month to go 'Vocal for Local', signalling a strong
push for self-reliance to revive those local industries
that were taken for granted. On May 12, announcing
the Rs 20 lakh crore AtmaNirbhar package in an
address to the nation, Prime Minister Modi had said,
"Friends, the Corona crisis has also explained to us
the importance of Local manufacturing, Local mar-
ket and Local supply chain. In times of crisis, this
Local has fulfilled our demand, this Local has saved
us. Local is not just the need, it is our responsibility
also."
While the 'Vocal for Local' is a brilliant idea, we
have to realise that over the past 70 years, the world
has changed radically. To create a globally competi-
tive product, we need to have access to globally
competitive resources coupled with globally com-
petitive synergies, only then the resolution of 'Vocal
for Local' will truly succeed in its true essence. The
global market today is an intricate web of tightly
interdependent value chains, wherein market com-

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THE EDITORIAL PAGE An army of principles can penetrate where

an army of soldiers cannot.
— THOMAS PAINE

FOUNDED BY
Gone to the dogs
§

§
RAMNATH GOENKA
A bizarre and unscientific policy is behind the
BECAUSE THE TRUTH INVOLVES US ALL
menace of stray dogs all over India

HOUSE VS COURT Coomi Kapoor

The court’s 13 questions could prise open spaces in a political BEING LOCKED IN during a pandemic has Programme Implementation. After Gandhi tion of funds by some animal welfare organ-
made me more conscious of the hazards of was left out of the cabinet in Modi 2.0, the isations patronised by the AWBI. Experts es-
party — and also risk judicial over-reach

T
my environment, most notably the menac- AWBIhasfinally beenreturnedtoitsrightful timate that barely 10 per cent of India’s dogs
ing stray dogs. A month back, I was mauled home, Animal Husbandry, which is under have been sterilised and immunised out of a
HE POLITICAL, LEGAL and constitutional issues raised by the unfolding by a rabid dog in a park. The canine also bit a Giriraj Singh, who is more concerned about possible60million.SincetheABCruleswere
Rajasthan drama will requirecarefuldisentangling. But a few things areal- three-year-old child, two pet dogs and three cows and Hindutva. actually passed by the Ministry of Culture, it
ready clear: There is evident bad faith on all sides, a shadow over the cred- security guards. On my neighbourhood Gandhi’sirongripoverherfiefdomisstill isamootpointwhethertheministryhadthe
ibility of every player. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot tried to stamp out the WhatsAppgroup,thereareseveralhorrorsto- evident.EventhefieryGirirajSinghconfesses authority in the first place to pass laws on a
rebellion within by bizarre acts of heavyhandedness like the sedition no- riesof elderlypersonsandchildrenbeingbit- his ministry has really no effective powers. subject which it lacked domain knowledge.
tenbystraydogs,apparentlyunusuallyfrisky His private secretary wonders why I should TheABCoffersnoscientificmethodforasys-
tice served by his government to his own deputy, which became the trigger for the cur-
because their usual biscuit feeders were ab- be apprehensive about retaliation from the tematic vaccination drive and stabilising the
rentunravelling.TheSachinPilotcampof dissentingMLAshastakenrecoursetoanuned- sent during the lockdown. ferocious dog lobby — after all, even he had country’s canine population. ABC rules con-
ifying cloak-and-dagger resort politics. Governor Kalraj Mishra, by sitting on the chief But in the eyes of the Animal Welfare an FIR filed against him by these vigilantes. traveneallIndianstatemunicipalActs,which
minister’s demand forafloor test—the mosttransparentway of settlingdoubtsabout the Board of India (AWBI), the victims are really Myvisitwasintheaftermathof arecentnear- mandate removal of straying animals from
government’s continuing viability — is inviting accusations of partisanship. The Courts — the dogs. An AWBI circular actually com- unanimous proposal from the residents of streetsandpublicplaces,bothfortheprotec-
both the high court, which has stayed disqualification proceedings against the 19 MLAs ments that a person getting in the way of a EastNizamuddintotheirwelfareassociation tion of people and animals.
dog “can be perceived as an example of to ensure that the number of feeding spots Unsurprisingly, India has by far the high-
by the assembly Speaker and framed 13 questions that recast the matter as one that in-
provocation”. A dog which bites human be- for stray dogs be cut down from a staggering est number of rabies cases in the world
volves larger questions of freedom of expression and basic structure of the Constitution, ingsrepeatedlycannotnecessarilybetermed 33 — in a community of some 270 houses — (around 33 per cent), followed by Congo. In
and the Supreme Court which has so far played along — have scarred their own record a nuisance and a vet is liable to be sued if he to a reasonable 10. (Ironically, the dogs are contrast, our neighbouring countries have
when it comes to protecting and seen to be protecting dissent. putsthebitingdogtosleepathismaster’sre- largely fed by paid employees of a woman performed fairly well by adopting scientific
And yet, the 13 questions framed by the Rajasthan High Court strike a chord. This is so quest. The consequence of such a perverse wholivesinafarmhousemilesawayfromthe principles. Our “humanistic” ABC rules miss
because of a political culture defined by an anti-defection law which, in its zeal to prevent law is that some time back, the owner of a colonyandseldomvisits.Likemanydogfeed- the rabies component entirely and do not
rabid Great Dane simply threw his dog over ers, who shoulder none of the responsibility even mention re-immunisation. According
“aaya ram, gaya ram” politics or horse trading, has shrunk the open spaces within parties,
the Sunder Nagar nursery wall, where it bit whichgoesalongwithfeedingananimal,she to a conservative WHO estimate, there are
excessively empowering the party high command at the cost of the freedoms of legisla- and infected many other canines and hu- perhapsassumesshehasearnedherplacein 20,000annualrabiesdeathsinIndia.Butun-
tors. In the backdrop is also the trend of brute electoral majorities, which makes dissent mans. Citing AWBI rules, stray dog feeders heaven by her presumed charity.) like COVID-19 mortalities, there is little con-
within thepoliticalbehemothasimportantas,if notmorevitalthan,theoppositionwith- frequently threaten residents who object to The proposal to cut down the feeding cern over these recurring deaths, mostly of
out. In this context, the high court’s prodding could open up space for a wider delibera- dog bowls at their doorsteps with an FIR The AWBI, despite all its spots evoked an angry and threatening children. According to government records,
tion on some vital issues — on what “defection” means, and where the line is to be drawn charging“criminalintimidation’’.Smallwon- phone call from Maneka Gandhi’s sister, there were six million dog bites in 2017.
lofty claims, has not
between “crossing over” and intra-party dissent. Can the “expression of dissatisfaction or der that most Resident Welfare Associations Ambika Shukla, who even complained that The AWBI alone cannot be blamed.
are reluctant to tanglewiththe vocal andag- compiled data on the dog theelderlyinourcolonyweredemonstrating Judicial overreach and judicial procrastina-
disillusionment and the strongly worded opinion against the party leadership”, be seen
gressivedogmindersintheirneighbourhood. population and vaccinations aggressive behaviour by walking around tion are also at fault. In 2010, Justice V K Jain
asconductfallingundertheambitof Para2(1)(a)of theTenthScheduleof theConstitution, Maneka Gandhi, the formidable animal with sticks.(Theobvious reason, self-protec- of the Delhi High Court overturned the com-
in the last two decades. Two
which deals with an MP or MLA who “has voluntarily given up his membership of such rights activist, has almost single-handedly tion, eluded her.) My repeated efforts over binedwisdomof thecountry’sciviclawsand
political party”? After all, the 19 rebel MLAs insist that they remainwith the Congress, de- framedandstilloverseesthecountry’sbizarre
internal reviews by the the last two years to get an idea from those disregarded the recommendation of the
spite their grievanceswith Gehlot’sleadership.Thehighcourt’squestionsalsoproblema- policy for dogs for some two decades. Environment Ministry have who have appointed themselves the apostle of ahimsa, Mahatma Gandhi, whose
tise the party whip and its applicability. Officialdom and her political superiors have acknowledged the failure of guardians of the colony’s stray dogs of the well-consideredopinionontheadvisabilityof
discreetly distanced themselves, despite the the Animal Birth Control actualpopulationandthenumberwhowere the elimination of stray dogs is a matter of
In 1992, a five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court in Kihoto Hollohan up-
impracticalityandunscientificnatureof pro- sterilised and vaccinated proved futile. record. Justice Jain’s order on feeding stray
held the constitutional validity of the Tenth Schedule and cast a specific prohibition on grammeswithacavalierdisregardforhealth
(ABC) (dogs) rules, and Gandhi’s formidable army of dog feeders, dogs and forbiddingthe municipality to pick
courts intervening in disqualification matters ahead of the Speaker’s ruling. As the mat- issues and human suffering. pointed out fashioning themselves in her mould, are ac- themupopenedaPandora’sbox.In2012,the
ter comes up again before the Supreme Court today, therefore, there is existing jurispru- When she was first appointed MoS misappropriation of funds countable to no one. Karnataka High Court decreed that the au-
dence and law, and uncharted territory ahead. The process that has begun with the Environment in 1989, Gandhi persuaded by some animal welfare I recount my neighbourhood’s tale be- thorities did, in fact, have a right to remove
Rajasthan HC’s 13 questions could lead to less opacity and greater openness in the build- then Prime Minister V P Singh to hand to her cause it is a microcosm of what is happening stray dogs or practice euthanasia in cases
theAnimalWelfareBoardof India(AWBI)and organisations patronised by inthecountrytoday.TheAWBI,despiteallits where human lives needed protection. But
ing blocks of parliamentary democracy. But treading into the inner lives of parties could
detach it from its real home, the Animal the AWBI. Experts estimate loftyclaims,hasnotcompileddataonthedog after eight years, the Supreme Court is in no
also be fraught with risks — it is a slippery slope from reform to imperilling autonomy. Husbandry and Dairying portfolio. This pe- that barely 10 per cent of population and vaccinations in the last two hurry to pass an order, which could greatly
culiarpracticecontinuedandsheretainedthe India’s dogs have been decades. Two internal reviews by the envi- benefit our unprotected street children.
control of the board as minister of ronment ministry have acknowledged the
sterilised and immunised
PROTECT THE PEACE
Environment, Social Justice and failure of the Animal Birth Control (ABC ) The writer is consulting editor,
Empowerment, Culture, and Statistics and out of a possible 60 million. (dogs) rules, and pointed out misappropria- The Indian Express

A letter from Governor evokes a sharp response from Naga

rebels. Care must be taken to keep conversation going

R THE PROPAGANDA FRONT

ECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN Nagaland suggest that a tenuous peace is
increasingly coming under strain. A government directive earlier this
month that all its officials must declare if any relative was working for
undergroundorganisationshasevokeda strong reactionfromtheNSCN
(I-M). The state government has since clarified that the directive was is- Pakistan's information war campaign against India needs attention
sued on the order of the governor, R N Ravi. The NSCN (I-M), the most powerful rebel
groupinthestateandasignatorytothe2015frameworkagreement,suspectsthatthegov-
ernment wants to reduce the Naga political cause to a law and order problem.
Tilak Devasher
The framework agreement that promised a resolution of the Naga issue was hailed as THERE HAS BEEN a sharp increase in ocratic polity, decisive government, a devel- theIndianArmyisviolatingthehumanrights
“historic” by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but the differences that persisted between Pakistan’sviciousinformationwarcampaign oping economic powerhouse and strong for- of Kashmiris. Recently, they are propagating
the Centre and the rebels could not be resolved in the past five years. An indication of the against India. An analysis would reveal three eign policy. This has been done by trying to that India is preparing a false flag operation
stress in the peace talks was a June 16 letter from Governor Ravi to Chief Minister Neiphiu triggers:TheBalakotattackof February2019, polarise society and disrupt social cohesion. and genocide of Muslims in Kashmir.
Rio, in which he spoke about rampant “extortions and violence” and “armed gangs” run- the return of the BJP government in the May Theexpectationisthatsuchastrategywould Whatisnoteworthyisthatthesameanti-
ning “parallel governments” in the state. While the state government said the assess- 2019 elections and the August 2019 revision have a cascading effect, adversely impacting India narrative is repeated ad nauseam from
of Article 370. India’s secular and democratic credentials, every medium and platform — whether it is
ment was not “factual”, the NSCN (I-M) described the government directive as “despica-
BalakotdemolishedPakistan’slongstand- scareforeigninvestmentandleadtoquestions politicianslikeImranKhanorShahMehmood
ble”, “insulting” and “demeaning” and “incompatible with the spirit of Indo-Naga peace ing assumption that the nuclear equivalence about its international image. Qureshi, the ISPR, or print, electronic and so-
process”. The situation has turned worse after an anti-extortion squad of Nagaland Police guaranteed that India would not retaliate The key platforms for this strategy are cial media.
shot an alleged member of NSCN (Khaplang) on June 23 in Kohima. against terrorist attacks. The return of the BJP Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube and Facebook. OneindicatorofPakistan’sstrategyisavail-
At the root of the present trouble is the perception regarding the status of rebel groups government signalled that India would con- Alargenumberof fakesocialmediaaccounts, able in the Pakistan Army’s Green Book 2020.
such as the NSCN (I-M) in Naga society. The rebels portray themselves as freedom fighters tinue to follow a muscular policy for the next especiallyonTwitter,havebeencreated.Even An article by Lt. General Raza Muhammad
fiveyears.TheArticle370decisiondemolished though Twitter is not the most popular plat- Khan(Retd.)states:“Withtheproliferationof
and believe that, as political workers, they have the right to “tax” people. Governor Ravi,
the centrepiece of Pakistan’s nationalism — form in terms of numbers in either India or the internet, nowadays nothing can escape
whohasworkedtirelesslyastheCentre’sinterlocutortobringpeacetothestate,hassought “Kashmir banega Pakistan” — and raised ap- Pakistan,itisperhapsthemosteffectiveform exaggeration,distortionandfabricationtoma-
todiminishthisclaimandprivilegetheauthorityoftheelectedgovernmentovertherebels. prehensions about India’s plans for Pakistan of instant communication. Pakistan has de- nipulateperceptionsoncrucialissuesofpeace
Thishasthepotentialtodelegitimisetheclaimsof rebels,includingtheNSCN(I-M),inrep- Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (POJK). veloped malicious narratives embellished and security.” Another article by one Farzana
resenting the Nagas in talks with the Centre. The 2015 framework agreement, which built Thesedevelopmentshaveforcedittoshift with fake audio and video clips. The use of Shahstates:“Asinglevideocliporpicturecan
on the 1997 ceasefire between the Centre and the NSCN (I-M), has given rise to hope that the emphasis of its anti-India strategy from handles with phoney Middle Eastern identi- change the perception of India, which it has
fomenting terrorism supported by an infor- ties is the latest addition to its bag of tricks. built so painstakingly over the years.”
thecountry’slongestsurvivinginsurgencycanbesettledpeacefullytothesatisfactionof all
mationwarcomponenttoaninformationwar InternaldevelopmentsanddissentinIndia For India, there has to be a relentless vigil
thestakeholders.Peacehasa largeconstituencyinNagaland,of course.However, thiscon- supported by terrorism. have been manipulated, packaged and used andbattleagainstthiscampaignjustasthere
stituency may have also invested in the NSCN (I-M) to represent what they believe is the Pakistanhastwomaininstrumentswork- What is noteworthy is that todevelopanarrativedamagingIndia’ssocial has been against terrorism fomented by
“unique history, culture and position of the Nagas and their sentiments and aspirations”. ing in tandem for the furtherance of this pol- the same anti-India narrative fabric. Key themes include India disenfran- Pakistan. Even though the Indian polity is
icy — the ISI and the Inter-Services Public chising Muslims, and the “fascist Indian gov- strong,suchpersistentvenomousattackscan
Relations (ISPR). The ISPR is a one-stop-shop
is repeated ad nauseam from ernment’s” Hindutva supremacist ideology. temporarily damage our social fabric. We
every medium and platform
Freeze Frame E P Unny for the info war against India. It has, over the
years, recruited thousands of youth, trained — whether it is politicians
On J&K, the key themes are: Kashmir is a
"disputed territory" awaiting solution under
mustnotallowourselves,wittinglyorunwit-
tingly,tofallpreytosuchmachinationstopo-
them in the mechanics of social media and like Imran Khan or Shah the UN resolutions; India needs to talk to larise society, even temporarily.
used them to project anti-India themes. Pakistan to resolve the issue and since India
The core Pakistani objective is to demol-
Mehmood Qureshi, the refusestotalk,theremustbeinternationalin- Devasher is Member, National Security
ish “Brand India” by attacking its key compo- ISPR, or print, electronic tervention; Kashmiris want “azaadi”; Advisory Board and author of three books on
nents—aninclusiveandsecularsociety,dem- and social media. Kashmiris are waging a jihad against India; Pakistan. Views are personal

JULY 27, 1980, FORTY YEARS AGO

ASSAM DETENTE SIXTH PLAN DRAFT has constituted 26 working groups and
THE ASSAM GOVERNMENT released 15 of THE DRAFT SIXTH plan document will be three task forces to work out details of the
the 114 detents held under preventive cus- ready by the end of December this year and plan. It is also planning to solicit the views
tody as a first step to implement the accord will be placed before the National of experts to build a national consensus on
for the resumption of negotiations on the Development Council for consideration the objectives and modalities of the new
foreigners’ issue. K Ramamurthy, senior ad- and approval early in 1981. The Planning plan.
visor to the Governor, told reporters at Commission is currently engaged in
Dispur that an important announcement preparing a draft “plan framework”, which INDIA BEATS USSR
would be made on July 25. He said the block- will be discussed by the NDC towards the INDIA BEAT THE Soviet Union 4 -2 in their
ade on jute, plywood and bamboo had not end of next month. The purpose of this con- crucial last league match in the Olympic
yet been lifted by the sponsors of the move- sultation will be to elicit the views of the Hockey Tournament in Moscow today. India
ment. The agreement envisages unilateral NDC members on the broad outlines of the now meets Spain on July 29 to decide the
but simultaneous actions by the govern- plan and the major policies and directions first and second positions. India led 2-0 at
ment and the agitators in implementing the necessary for its effective implementation half time. For India, the goal scorers were:
accord. The agitators had agreed to end their before the details of the programmes and Surinder Sodhi (2), Davinder Singh and M
struggle, barring the blockade on oil. policies are worked out. The Commission K Kaushik.

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THE IDEAS PAGE

WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
“The US must be told that while Pakistan values its relationship with America,
Islamabad cannot isolate itself regionally by alienating neighbours with whom
Washington does not get on..” — DAWN

An Indian first
Dadabhai Naoroji strove to be inclusive. Today’s
majoritarian nationalism represents a betrayal of
the principles he bequeathed to India
representallofIndia.InBombay,Naorojiwas
welcomedbyaround5,00,000people—half
of the city at the time —and honoured by
Hindupriestsandthecity’sMuslimqazi.He
was received by millhands in Ahmedabad.
HindusandMuslimsinDelhiplacedNaoroji
at the head of a roaring procession down
Chandni Chowk. In Amritsar, Sikh granthis
ledaspecialservicefortheIndianMPatthe
Dinyar Patel Golden Temple.
InLahore,Naorojiwasparadedpasttem-
ples,mosques,andgurudwaras.Tomarkthe
DADABHAINAOROJIWASanIndianfirst.He Congresssessionandwelcomeitspresident,
was the first modern Indian economic Muslim poets recited Urdu couplets and
thinker,thefirstIndianelectedtotheBritish Hinduwomensungbhajans.Anditwashere
Parliament, and the first leader to establish in Lahore that Naoroji declared to Congress
swaraj as the goal of the Congress. But delegatesthattheywereIndiansfirst—that
Naoroji was an Indian first in another im- theywere“aboveall”Indiansinspiteoftheir
portant way. Throughout his career, he differing backgrounds.
stressed on an Indian national identity The Indian press issued a fairly unani-
whichoverrodereligious,caste,classoreth- mous verdict: These demonstrations re-
nic differences. “Whether I am a Hindu, a vealed the power of inclusive politics. A
Muhammadan,aParsi,aChristian,orofany Bengalipaperdeclared,“thistimetheHindu,
othercreed,IamaboveallanIndian,”hetold the Musalman, the Sikh, the Bengali, the
the Congress in 1893. Hindustani, the Mahratti, the Parsi, the
Overacenturyafterhisdeath,Indiaisin Panjabi and the Madrasi have spoken with
critical need of remembering Naoroji’s one voice.” Newspapers also offered a stark
brandofnationalism.Inallhispoliticalactiv- repudiation to the charge that a minority
ities, the Grand Old Man of India, as he was member could not represent the country.
known, strove to be inclusive. Today’s stark “The fact can no longer be denied by the
C R Sasikumar
majoritarianism,underthebannerof avery mostprejudicedAnglo-Indian…[who]will
different form of nationalism, represents a find it difficult in future to forget that Mr.
striking betrayal of the principles that Dadabhai is the real representative of the
Naoroji bequeathed to India. whole of India.” Those words were written
AsaParsi,amemberofasmallbuthighly in the columns of the Mahratta, Bal
influential community, Naoroji was espe- Gangadhar Tilak’s paper. Some cartoons

While J&K remains a Union Territory,

ciallyattunedtominorityconcerns.Ithelped fromtheearly1900sdepictedtheGrandOld
that he grew up in Bombay, where, in the Man, a Zoroastrian, as a Hindu sadhu med-
19thcentury,allpoliticalventureshadtobe itating under the banner of swaraj.
cross-communalinordertosucceed.Helis- TheIndiannationalismof Naoroji’sgen-

I will not contest Assembly elections...

tened to Maharashtrian assessments of erationwasfarmorepopularandpervasive
colonial exploitation, compiled economic than is commonly believed. But it did have
data with a Konkani Muslim, and ran a notablelimitations.Naorojiwasblindtothe
newspaper with a Kapol Bania. His first po- issue of untouchability, a glaring omission
liticalventuredrewinpeoplefromallacross given his close study of Indian poverty. He
India.Thiscosmopolitanismplayedadefin- endorsedswadeshibuthesitatedabouttac-
Having been a member of the most empowered Assembly in the land and that, too, as leader of that Assembly for ing role in launching Indian nationalism, tics he saw as unconstitutional, such as
which would have been impossible with- mass boycotts and strikes. Many early na-
six years, I simply cannot and will not be a member of a House that has been disempowered the way ours has: outdeeppersonalnetworksacrosscommu- tionalists, however, were open-minded,
Vice president of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference breaks his silence nal divides.
After the Congress was established in
progressive, and welcomed criticism. It is
likelythatif Naorojihadlivedforoneortwo
1885, he laboured to make it reflective of moredecades,hewouldhaveseenthelim-
states but this was the first time a state was
downgraded to a Union Territory.
To this day, I fail to understand the need
J&K to accede and then fight alongside Indian
forces to push back Pakistani invaders in
1947 was without parallel. It allowed India
India’sdiversity.Naorojiexpendedgreatef-
forttoreachouttoMuslims,particularlyaf-
ter the educationalist Sayyid Ahmad Khan
itations of his earlier views and embraced
some of the ideas propagated by Gandhi’s
generation.
ONEYEARAFTER
AUGUST5
for this move, except to punish and humil- to proudly stamp its secular credentials for repudiatedtheorganisationin1887,andaf- What would Dadabhai Naoroji make of
iate the people of the state. If the reason for all to see. All that J&K asked for was to have ter a wave of communal violence wracked India today? He would be troubled by the
carving out a separate Union Territory for certain safeguards built in the Constitution northern India and Bombay in 1893. He chauvinism and anti-intellectualism that
Ladakh was the public demand among the to protect this unique status. There was no mentored Joseph Baptista, an East Indian animates the current leadership. These run
Buddhist population of the area, then the AN EXPRESS SERIES time stamp on these safeguards. Christian who later became an associate of countertothetraditionsof Indiannational-
Omar Abdullah demand for a separate state for the people
of Jammu is a much older demand. If the
It was understood that so long as J&K re-
mained a part of India, the special status en-
Bal Gangadhar Tilak. And he overcame an
anti-Congressreactioninstigatedbyhisfel-
ism.Withthehorrorof19thcenturyfamine
victimsinmind,hewouldbefuriouslycam-
demand was conceded on religious joyed by it would remain. This is what low Parsis. paigningforreliefofmigrantworkerscaught
IT’S ALMOST A year since the tectonic grounds, then it ignored the fact that Leh makes it all the more distressing to see what After he was elected to the British amidstlockdownrestrictions.Hewould,un-
changes of August 5, 2019, were forced on and Kargil districts, which together make was done last year. J&K has kept its side of Parliament in 1892, Naoroji declared him- fortunately,seeaparallelbetweencontempt
the people of Jammu and Kashmir without up the Union Territory of Ladakh, are the promise by remaining a part of the selftobeanIndianrepresentative,someone for the poor in his day and ours.
so much as a by your leave. It’s still impos- Muslim majority and the people of Kargil Union, the last 30 years of militancy whowouldfightonbehalfof allofhiscoun- Above all, he would be saddened by the
sible to come to terms with what I saw be- are vehemently opposed to the idea of be- notwithstanding. It has participated in the trymen and countrywomen. This was im- atmosphere of overt majoritarianism, as
ing rolled out on my television set that ing separated from J&K. democratic processes and tried to share in mediately challenged by several British well as the cynical deployment of commu-
morning. Hours earlier, at the stroke of mid- Many reasons were given to justify the the nation’s development, but the promise ConservativeMPs.HowcouldaParsirepre- nalismeveninthefaceof acalamitylikethe
night, I had been placed under house arrest, complete dilution of Article 370 when it was made with it was not kept. This is one of sent a country with a Hindu majority and a COVID-19epidemic.Suchobservationsand
and would be shifted to a government guest being rammed through Parliament, none those moments when it’s important to ask sizeableMuslimminority?Howcouldany- reactions might cause Dadabhai Naoroji,
house by the end of the day. The nominated stands the test of basic scrutiny. It was al- whether it is better to be popular or to be one represent India when, these Britons India’s first nationalist, to be branded as an
representative of the Union government leged that Article 370 has fuelled sepa- right. Removing J&K’s special status may claimed,Indiawasnotanationbutacollec- “anti-national.” And that is a tragic irony
usurped powers, that should have been ratism and allowed militant violence to have been the popular thing to do but go- tion of squabbling communities? which we must be left to ponder over.
vested with the legislature and a popularly thrive in Kashmir, an end was supposed to ing back on a nation’s sovereign commit- In December 1893, Naoroji returned to
elected government, to rewrite J&K’s con- herald the end of terrorism. If that be the ments is never going to be the right thing India in order to preside over the annual Patel is Assistant Professor of History at
stitutional relationship with the rest of case, then why is it that almost a year later to do. CongresssessioninLahore.Hisjourneyfrom the University of South Carolina and the
India. The Parliament of India spent less the same Union government is forced to tell We, in the J&K National Conference, do Bombay to Lahore was an affirmation that author of Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian
than a day each in the Lok Sabha and the the Supreme Court that violence in J&K is not agree with what has been done to J&K someonefromaminoritycommunitycould Nationalism
Rajya Sabha to change more than 70 years increasing? Article 370 has kept the people Some of us, senior nor do we accept what has been done. We
of history, to undo the sovereign commit- of J&K in poverty was another claim. Even a office-bearers of the shall oppose this, our opposition will con-
ments made to the people of J&K and to dis- cursory glance at poverty figures would tinue in the highest court in the land in the
J&K National Conference,
member the state.
After the re-election of Prime Minister
show that J&K has some of the lowest lev-
els of poverty in the country. Article 370 was had a meeting with the
form of the legal challenge filed in the
Supreme Court last year. We have always LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Narendra Modi, rumours started to float alleged to have denied J&K investment. PM just days before the believed in democracy and peaceful oppo-
about the intentions of the BJP to use its ab- Prior to the outbreak of militancy in the August 5 developments. sition. Sadly these very democratic rights
solute majority in the Lok Sabha to imple- state, J&K was amongst the most progres- were trampled on a year ago. Dozens of BENGAL’S WOES
ment its poll promise of abrogating Article
370 and Article 35A of the Constitution.
sive states with a growing industrial base
and impressive investment in manufactur-
It’s not a meeting I will
forget in a hurry. One day I
mainstream politicians were placed in “pre-
ventive arrest” and many more under ille- THIS REFERS TO the editorial, ‘Bengal
IDEAS
Fears reached a fever pitch when plane
loads of central para-military forces where
ing. Tourism was a sector that was coming
in to its own as far as investments were con-
may write about it but gal house arrest. In fact, a number of these
leaders are still under illegal detention a
pitch’ (IE, July 23). West Bengal Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee is guilty of
ONLINE
propriety precludes me from
flown in to Srinagar and dispatched all over cerned. What has stopped J&K from attract-
saying more than that we left
year later. The National Conference has lost the same crimes she accuses the BJP of. ONLY IN THE EXPRESS
the state. ing investment is the security environment thousands of workers and office-bearers to Freedom of speech has been a casualty
The people were treated to categorical and that’s why a year after the momentous the meeting with a militant violence because of our choice to under her government. The state’s ● A SYMBOL OF INJUSTICE:
denials by the occupant of the highest of- changes there has been no investment completely different remain a mainstream political party while healthcaresystemhastotallycollapsed, DHRUV JADHAV AND
fice in the state, the Governor, that J&K’s worth the mention. impression about what was opposing the separatist politics that grew thelawandordersituationisextremely ADITYA WAKHLU
special status faced no threat. He debunked It was also claimed that J&K has re- in the late 1980s. Given the orchestrated poorandherpartyworkersareguiltyof
the rumours, explained away the additional mained backward because of Article 370. In going to unfold in campaign against mainstream political par- rampant corruption. ● ECONOMICS OF DATA:
forces suggesting they were required for fact, a comparison with a “developed” state the next 72 hours. ties in most of the national media, particu- S S Paul, Nadia
PARMINDERJEET SINGH
Assembly elections later in the year. So like Gujarat would show that we compare larly at the hands of the ruling dispensation,
what does one conclude from this? That the
occupant of such a high office deliberately
far more favourably in a number of human
development indices. Finally, it was sug-
it’s easy to find oneself asking whether the
sacrifices were worth it.
WRONG DEBATE
lied to the people or that he wasn’t kept in- gested that Article 370 was always meant As for me, I am very clear that while J&K THIS REFERS TO the editorial, ‘ www.indianexpress.com
formed? I know what I believe but you can to be a temporary provision. What they for- remains a Union Territory I will not be con- Eclipsing Sushant ’ ( IE, July 23). The
draw your own conclusions. Some of us, get to add to this sentence is that it was tem- testing any Assembly elections. Having unfortunate death of Sushant Singh
senior office-bearers of the J&K National porary because of the little matter of the been a member of the most empowered Rajput has resulted in a mud-slinging pression that he or she is perfect in all
Conference, had a meeting with the PM just United Nations Security Council resolution Assembly in the land and that, too, as the exercise on Twitter. Rather than focus the parameters used to evaluate an an-
days before the August 5 developments. It’s 1947 of 1948, but that’s an entirely differ- The National Conference leader of that Assembly for six years, I sim- on mental health problems and cor- swer. This could foster a dangerous
not a meeting I will forget in a hurry. One ent op-ed in itself. has lost thousands of ply cannot and will not be a member of a rective measures to set right the power complacency amongst students. They
day I may write about it but propriety pre- Even the Supreme Court, as recently as workers and office-bearers to House that has been disempowered the play in the film industry, the debate are not likely to always get high grades.
cludes me from saying more than that we 2018, has held that Article 370 “had ac- way ours has. has degenerated into name-calling The purpose of the education system
left the meeting with a completely differ- quired a permanent status by virtue of its
militant violence because of With almost all of my senior colleagues over nepotism, favouritism and poli- should always be to draw the best out
ent impression about what was going to un- years of existence making its abrogation im- our choice to remain a still detained in their homes, the NC is yet tics in the industry. of students as well as leave room for
fold in the next 72 hours. possible”. Anyway you wish to look at it, mainstream political party to meet to decide its next political course R D Singh, Ambala improvement.
In one fell swoop, everything we had other than the political justification of an while opposing the of action and I will work diligently to Anushyuta Basu, Delhi
feared came to pass. election promise being fulfilled, there is no
separatist politics that grew
strengthen the party, carry forward its
HIGH ON MARKS
J&K’s special status, an important, per-
haps even indispensable, part of the state’s
constitutional, legal, economic or security
justification for what was done to J&K on in the late 1980s. Given the
agenda and continue to represent the as-
pirations of the people while we fight THIS REFERS TO the article, ‘A race to
RIGHT TO DISAGREE
accession to the Union, was revoked. With August 5, 2019. This is what forms the basis orchestrated campaign against the injustices heaped on J&K in the the bottom’ (IE, July 23). Without un- THIS REFERS TO the editorial, Two
it, went the framework that determined of the National Conference’s case in the against mainstream political last one year. dermining the hard work that a highly tweets (IE, 23 July). It is dangerous for
who a bonafide resident of J&K was. Truth Supreme Court. ranked student puts in his or her stud- democracy when criticism of the
be told, the BJP pushing this wasn’t a com- The special constitutional status en- parties in most of the Omar Abdullah, former Chief Minister of ies, the marking system followed by Supreme Court is seen as a contempt
plete surprise — it was part of its poll agenda joyed by J&K was not a favour done to the national media, particularly Jammu and Kashmir, Union Minister in the the Central Board of Secondary of court. This is based on the assump-
for decades. What came as a shock was the state. It formed the basis of the state’s ac- at the hands of the ruling Vajpayee Government and vice president of Education. The topper, for example, tion that the courts can never be
humiliation heaped on the state by down- cession to India. At a time when states were JKNC, was detained by the J&K scores 100 per cent marks in Class XII wrong.
dispensation, it’s easy to find
grading it and splitting it into two Union asked to choose between acceding to India administration on August 4-5, 2019, and, in the Humanities, which gives an im- Robert D Abreo, Vasai
Territories. Over the last seven decades, or to Pakistan, religion was the overwhelm- oneself asking whether the subsequently, under the Public Safety Act. He
Union Territories have been upgraded to ing determinant. For Muslim-majority J&K sacrifices were worth it. was released, after 232 days, on March 24.

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CORONAVIRUS DASHBOARD EXPLAINED EDUCATION

4,197,184
US
301,020
THE WORLD
United Kingdom
291,172
Iran
811,073
Russia
How Covid has hit learning
What has the prolonged absence from school meant for children? A look at how learning loss happens,
how it’s different this time, and what is the way forward when schools do reopen
385,036
Mexico
EXPERT
375,961
Peru EXPLAINS
2,394,513 1,385,685 Rukmini Banerji
Brazil
India
343,592 434,200 From The Indian Express panel
Chile South Africa of specialists, exclusive insight

TOTAL CONFIRMED: 16,100,905 DEATH COUNT: 645,482

What will this prolonged absence from
Source: Johns Hopkins University, updated at 11 pm on July 26 . JHU’s India tally and Health school mean for children in a country
Ministry’s tally (below) may not match if these are accounted at different times. like India?
The Covid-19 crisis is unprecedented.
Time will tell what the implications of pro-
How coronavirus tricks immune longedschoolclosurewillbe. However,once
schools open, based on past trends, it will be

system with camouflage critical to track school enrolment, daily at-

tendance and basic learning.
Fromthefirst AnnualStatusof Education
LIKE AN intruder deacti- worksites that produce Report(ASER)in2005toASER2018,datapro-
vating an alarm before proteins. The modifica- videestimatesof children’sbasiclearninglev-
entering a building, the tions by the virus serve as elsforalmostallruraldistrictsof India.These
coronavirusSARS-CoV-2 a camouflage, the re- data show that while overall school enrol-
has been found to have searchers explained. mentlevelshavebeenwellabove95%nation-
the same advantage en- “Becauseof themodifica- ally for more than a decade, the proportion
tering cells. A study in
Nature Communications
PAPER tions, which fool the cell,
the resulting viral mes-
of girls (age group 15 to 16) still out of school
has declined slowly 22.6% to 13.5% between
describes how the coro-
navirus achieves this.
CLIP sengerRNAisnowconsid-
ered as part of the cell’s
2006 and 2018. These hard-won gains of en-
rolmentandschoolcompletionmustnotget
Thevirusproducesan own code and not for- erodedduetothecombinationof schoolsbe-
enzyme called nsp16,
NEW RESEARCH eign,” lead author Yogesh ing closed and economic hardships in the
which it then uses to Guptaof theUniversityof family related to Covid-19. Books for the new session lie unclaimed at a municipal school in East Delhi. Amit Mehra
modify its messenger RNA cap. In lay Texas Health Science Center at San As far as attendance is concerned, in pre-
terms, messenger RNA can be de- Antonio said in a statement. Covid times, there was wide variation across
scribedasadelivererofgeneticcodeto Source: UT Health San Antonio the country, ranging from less than 60% of Thisdatafrom2019inUttarPradeshsug- We should remember that the year-on- level of reading and arithmetic rather than
enrolled children present in school on any gests that the “summer loss” in reading abil- year calculations are based on ASER meas- by their grade.
randomdayinstateslikeUttarPradesh,Bihar ity is less than 10 percentage points for chil- urements that are done each year around Data from the programme show gains in
INDIA COUNT: 13,85,522 (32,063 DEATHS) and Jharkhand to well over 85% attendance
in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka and
drenwhohavecompletedStdIIIorStdIVand
are already reading at Std II level. The level at
October.Hencethesefiguresincludenotonly
some gain during the school year but also
reading of 14 percentage points in Std III and
15.9 percentage points for Std IV. This oc-
Tamil Nadu. As schools reopen, bringing whichreadingisbeingmeasuredmaybeim- somelossduringthesummervacations.Also curred in a three-month period when a fo-
TOP 10 STATES REST OF INDIA
AndamanandNicobarIslands290 every child back to school on a regular basis portant in this context. Children who are al- given the sudden and prolonged school clo- cusedinterventionforacquiringfoundational
ArunachalPradesh 1126 will be a big challenge, especially in states readyabletoreadasimplestoryfluently(Std sure,thereisastronglikelihoodthatlearning skills was implemented in a determined
Assam 31086 where normal attendance patterns are rela- II level text) may be less likely to slip back as loss will be deeper than the usual summer mannerbythestategovernment. Thismeans
63,742 UP Chandigarh 852
1,29,531 Chhattisgarh 7087 tively low and variable. compared to children whose reading skills loss.Hence,theoveralllearningforthe2020- that an outcome typically seen after a year’s
Delhi 36,604 DadraandNagarHaveli 860 It is well known that basic learning lev- are not yet as developed. 21 school year will depend very much on ac- worthof “businessasusual”schoolingispos-
Bihar Goa 4686 els of primary school children in India are tivities that are started and sustained after sible to achieve in three months. If the same
Haryana 30538
HimachalPradesh 2049 worryingly low. Using a large-scale nation- In terms of learning, schools reopen. high-priority push had started at the begin-
JammuandKashmir 17305 ally representative sample of rural children, how much do children ning of the school year and been continued
Jharkhand 7836 ASER 2018 shows that in Std V after more gain year on year? How What are the long- for a longer period, a more substantial rise
56,377
West Bengal
Kerala
Ladakh
18098
1276
than four years of schooling, only half of all
children can read a Std II level text fluently.
different will it be this
year?
TODAY’SEXPERT term implications of
this accumulated
may have been visible.
54,626 MadhyaPradesh 26926 RUKMINI BANERJI is the
Gujarat Manipur 2176 Close to 18% still cannot decode simple In the last ten years, in learning loss? What evidence can guide the way
52,466 Meghalaya 646 words,13%canreadwordsbutnotsentences government primary
CEO of Pratham Education
An recently released forward for governments?
Telangana Mizoram 361 Foundation, an NGO
3,66,368 Nagaland 1289 and 19% can read a simple set of four sen- schools in India, how study by Jishnu Das et al Thispromisingpossibilityof“learninggain”
Maharashtra working to provide quality
88,671 Odisha 24013 tences (at Std I level) but as yet cannot flu- much do children gain in
education to youth and
about Pakistan shows must be considered as plans are made for the
Andhra Pradesh Puducherry 2654 ently read a story or a chapter from a Std II reading ability between that even four years after wayforwardbeyondtheCovid-19crisis.What
Punjab 12684 children of India. With
90,942 Rajasthan 35298
textbook.EvenbeforeCovidhitusearlierthis one school year and the the earthquake of 2005, can we anticipate when schools reopen?
Pratham since 1996, she
2,06,737 Karnataka Sikkim 499 year,thiswidediversityof learninglevelshas next? As an example, we
has led the effort behind
children in the area were The data from UP suggests that once
Tamil Nadu Tripura 3862 been a chronic problem of our classrooms can use ASER data for ba- far behind expected lev- schools open, we must definitely not go back
Uttarakhand 5961 the internationally
for years. Themajority of children, especially sic reading in Uttar els of learning. to “business as usual”. Children must be
acknowledged Annual
in government schools, are several years be- Pradesh for the past Interestingly, the authors “met at their own level” when schools open.
UnionHealthMinistryupdateasof 11pm,July26.Somestatesmayhave Status of Education Report
hind grade level. When schools reopen it is decade to answer the attributeonlyasmallper- A simple, oral one-on-one assessment of ba-
reportedhighernumbers.Onlystates/UTswithatleastonecaselistedabove. (ASER) from 2005 to 2015.
likely that this variation of learning levels in question. The year-on- centage of the learning sic capabilities like arithmetic and reading
8,85,577 PATIENTS DISCHARGED IN 35 STATES AND UNION TERRITORIES Her perspective is based
each grade will have widened further; the year learning gain analy- deficit to school closures. should be done by each teacher with each
on a combination of
lower end of the distribution will have be- sis using ASER data for Most of the difference is child. This will not only help reconnect
extensive field experience
come thicker. the period 2012 to 2018 due to what happened teachers with individual children, but also
Have a question on the COVID-19 outbreak and what you should/should not do? and research practice.
shows two broad trends. when children returned give the teacher a sense of the current spread
Write to [email protected] There is a lot of talk these days of First, the gains for this to school. of learning levels in her group. A strong con-
“learning loss”. What does this mean, reading level are lower in certed effort on foundational skills — basic
and why does it happen? earlygradesascomparedtotheyear-on-year Is “catch-up” ever possible? reading and arithmetic is needed as soon as
In education literature, “learning loss” gains in reading in higher grades. For exam- Let me go back to the recent example schools open and attendance stabilises. For
usually refers to loss in children’s learning ple, for children moving from Std II to Std III from Uttar Pradesh. In 2019, the UP govern- at least a few hours during each school day,
during the long summer vacations in west- to Std IV, at least in the period up to 2016, we ment’sfocused learningimprovementeffort this campaign should be continued from the
ern countries, especially in the US. can seelearninggainsbetween 5and 10per- (Graded Learning Programme) was imple- time of school reopening till the next sum-
There is not much research on “learning centage points. Whereas for children mov- mented for roughly 3 months towards the mer vacations.
loss” in India. One possible recent source of ing from Std VI to Std VII to Std VIII, the pro- end of the 2018-19 school year. Instructional Helping children who have fallen behind
data is available from Uttar Pradesh. In the portion of children reading fluently (at least time at school level ranged from a minimum to“catchup”isthesinglemostimportantact
2018-19 school year, the UP government in at Std II level) increases by 10 to 15 percent- of 45 days to 70 days of at least 2-3 hours per foreffectivelyaddressingconcernsabouteq-
partnershipwithPrathamconductedafoun- age points in a year. Secondly, in more recent day devoted to building foundational learn- uity. The announcement of the National
dationallearningimprovementintervention years, particularly between 2016 and 2018, ing skills of reading and arithmetic.Based on Foundational Literacy and Numeracy
calledGradedLearningProgramme(GLP). As year-on-year gains have been higher for all keyelementsof Pratham’s“Teaching-at-the- Mission provides the right moment for the
partof this,childrenwereassessedinJanuary, grades as compared to similar grades in pre- Right-Level” approach, children in Std III, IV country to take building foundations seri-
in late April and then again in August 2019. vious years. and V were grouped for instruction by their ously once schools reopen.

Afghanistan’sSikhs&Hindus:howmanyremain,whytheywanttoleave
When did Sikhism reach Afghanistan? AfghanSikhs and Hindus started the exodus got citizenship and the rest are living as
DIVYA GOYAL Sikhism founder Guru Nanak visited and left the country,” Inderjeet Singh writes. refugees or on long-term visas. Most are liv-
LUDHIANA, JULY 26 Afghanistan in the early 16th century and UndertheMujahideen,therewerewide- inginDelhifollowedbyPunjabandHaryana.”
laid the foundations. As per the history of spreadkidnappings,extortion,propertygrab-
SINCEAterrorattackbyanISgunmankilled his travels recorded in the earliest janam- bing incidents, religious persecution, which How many are left in Afghanistan?
25SikhsatGurdwaraHarRaiSahibinKabul sakhis, it was during his fourth udaasi (trav- becamethetriggerpointforexodus.Afterthe Not more than 700. Chhabol Singh,
on March 25, the small Sikh and Hindu els) during 1519-21, with his companion Taliban took over, persecution continued. member, managing committee, Gurdwara
communities in Afghanistan have made Bhai Mardana, that Guru Nanak reached Dashmesh Pita Sri Guru Gobind Singh ji
multiple appeals to the Indian government Afghanistan and visited present-day Kabul, Where did those who moved out settle? Singh Sabha Karte Parwan, Kabul, said,
for “immediate evacuation”. A look at these Kandahar, Jalalabad, Sultanpur. All these “TheAfghangovernment(inthemonths “There are around 650 Sikhs (90-100 fam-
communities’ history in Afghanistan: places now have gurdwaras. The seventh before the Mujahideen took over entire ilies) and nearly 50 Hindus left here... No
Sikh Guru Har Rai too played a pivotal role Kabul) issued speedy passports under a one wants to live here now after the gurd-
When did Hinduism reach in sending Sikh missionaries to Kabul . scheme called Aab Gang pilgrimage pass- wara attack in Kabul on March 25.”
Afghanistan? “Several documents record the thriving port. The Indian Embassy set up an on-the- “The attack was the final nail in the cof-
AccordingtohistorianInderjeetSingh,au- trade of Hindus and Sikhs in Afghan society go visa department... Some 50,000 people fin... Gurdwaras are also homes for Sikhs in
thorofAfghanHindusandSikhs:AHistoryofA but today 99 per cent of them have left the left Afghanistan under this scheme and Afghanistanasmostofthemdon’thavetheir
Thousand Years, Hindu rulers once reigned country. Afghanistan now refuses to ac- came to India,” said Inderjeet Singh. ownhouses.Also,SikhsinAfghanistantook
over Eastern Afghanistan including Kabul. knowledge them as their natives but they From India, many moved to other coun- heartfromtheCitizenshipAmendmentAct
“Islam entered Afghanistan in the 7th cen- have made contribution to their mother- tries.“ThemajorityofAfghanHindusarenow inIndia,knowingthatgettingIndiancitizen-
tury.TheZunbildynastyisbelievedtobethe land despite a turbulent journey. Can an settled in Germany and Sikhs in the UK. shipwouldbeeasier,”saidKhajinderSingh.
earliest Hindus who ruled over Kandahar to Afghan be a Hindu or a Sikh? History says, Others live in Austria, Belgium, Holland,
Ghazni of Afghanistan, from 600 to 780 AD. YES,” Singh writes in his book. A gurdwara at Karte Parwan in Kabul. Pritpal Singh France,CanadaandtheUS,”saidPritpalSingh, Will the CAA help them?
Later the Hindu Shahi dynasty ruled. They an Afghan Sikh settled in London and direc- TheCAA,2019,whichreducestheperiod
werereplacedonlybytheendofthe10thcen- When did they leave, and why? tor of the documentary Mission Afghanistan. of mandatory stay in India from 11 years to
tury by Ghaznavids, who maintained Hindu Singhsaidtherewereatleast3lakhSikhs Jalalabad was hit by rockets fired by the theColdWar.TheUSanditsalliesstartedpro- five years for minorities from three coun-
forces,” Singh said. “It was only in 1504 that and Hindus in Afghanistan until the 1970s. Mujahideen and 17 Sikhs were killed. viding weapons to Mujahideen to fight a How many Afghan Sikhs are in India? tries including Afghanistan, will help those
Mughal Emperor Babur captured Kabul… In 1988, a man with an AK-47 stormed a An exodus started in 1992 when the proxywaragainsttheSovietoccupation.The Khajinder Singh, head of the Afghan Afghan Sikhs and Hindus who moved to
Babur used to refer to Kabul as ‘Hindustan’s gurdwarainJalalabadandgunneddown13 Mujahideentookover.“TheSovietinterven- Sovietswithdrewin1989…TheMujahideen Hindu Sikh Welfare Society in Delhi, said, Indiabeforethecutoff dateof December31,
own market’ and the province of Kabul re- Sikhs and four Afghan soldiers. In 1989, tion,whichstartedin1979,lastedforadecade captured Kabul in 1992 and deposed “Approximately, there are 18,000 Afghan 2014. The rules for CAA, however, are yet to
mained with Hindustan until 1738.” Gurdwara Guru Teg Bahadur Singh in and Afghanistan became a battleground for President Najibullah… A large number of Sikhs living in India, of whom 50-60% have be framed by the Home Ministry.

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If enemy state attacks, will give PM praises Covid

contribution of

befitting reply like in Kargil: Rajnath

J&K sarpanches,
DELHI CONFIDENTIAL civic body chief
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
JAMMU, JULY 26
proud, that because of this com- obeisance and salutation to the
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE mitmentof ourarmedforcesour brave soldiers of the Indian PRIMEMINISTERNarendraModi
NEW DELHI, JULY 26 country lives a secure and proud Armed Forces who sacrificed Sunday lauded the contribution
life,” he said. theirlives toprotectthemother- of two women sarpanches and a
PAYING HOMAGE tothesoldiers Comparingthedutiesof each land from the enemy. municipal committee chief in
who laid down their livesduring citizen to that of a soldier, Singh “The country will always re- tacklingCovidintheirrespective
the 1999 Kargil War, Defence said, “If the soldiers are working member the courage, valour, re- areas in Jammu and Kashmir.
Minister Rajnath Singh on to protecting the country on the straint and determination of our In his Mann Ki Baat pro-
SundaysaidthatIndiaisapeace- borders, then it is our responsi- fallen heroes and will march gramme, the PM mentioned the
loving nation “but is ready to bility to maintain the unity, in- ahead taking inspiration from SarpanchofJammu’sTrewaGram
take any measures to defend its tegrity and fraternity of the their supreme sacrifice.” Panchayat,BalbirKour,whosetup
unity and sovereignty during nation.” At the War Memorial, Singh a30-bedquarantinecentreonthe
TEA INVITE a crisis”.
Releasingavideomessageon
Saluting the soldiers who
had died during the war, Singh
was accompanied by Minister of
State for Defence Shripad Naik,
panchayatpremises.ThePM also
mentioned Zatoona Begum,
SET TO vacate the government bungalow in Lodhi Estate, Twitter on Kargil Vijay Diwas, said he bowed to their families, Chief of Defence Staff General Sarpanch of Chontliwar
CongressgeneralsecretaryPriyankaGandhiVadrahasinvited theanniversaryof India’svictory “who despite losing their loved BipinRawat,andthe Army,Navy PanchayatinGanderbal.“Shedis-
the next occupant of the house to tea. Congress sources said over Pakistan in the Kargil War, ones,remainedsteadfastintheir and Air Force chiefs. tributed free masks and ration in
shehaswrittentoAnilBaluniandhisfamily,invitingthemover Singh said, “Whatever we do for Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Chief of Defence Staff support of the national resolve Meanwhile, BJP president J P theentireareaandprovidedseeds
before she moves out. A Rajya Sabha MP and head of the BJP’s nationalsecurity,wedoitinself- General Bipin Rawat, Army Chief General M M Naravane, to drive out the enemies from Nadda tweeted on the occasion, and apple saplings to help the lo-
media department, Baluni has been allocated the 35 Lodhi defence, and not to attack... Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh and Air Marshal our territory”. saying, “We exist because you cal farmers,” the PM said.
Estate bungalow where Priyanka had been living for over two (However) if any enemy state RKS Bhadauria at the War Memorial in Delhi. PTI Theministeralso saidthat he are there. The country will never The PM also talked about the
decades. Sources in the BJP said Baluni had received the letter. has attacked us, then we have was grateful to those who “de- forget your valour, bravery and control measures taken by the
proven that like Kargil, we will spite becoming disabled in bat- sacrifice.” Municipal Committee president
give a befitting reply.” the nation’s self-respect, but it bend in front of any external tle, continue to serve the coun- Also paying his tribute on of Anantnag, Mohammad Iqbal.
Singh’s statement comes was and will remain a symbol of pressure, and also that we are a try in their own ways and have the day, senior Congress leader Iqbal, he said, required a sprayer
LETTER EXCHANGE even as India is involved in a ma-
jor military standoff with China
a big step towards the injustice.”
Quoting then Prime Minister
responsible nation.”
A soldier does not belong to
set examples worthy of emula-
tion by the nation”.
Rahul Gandhi tweeted: “On the
Kargil Vijay Diwas I pay tribute
for sanitisation of his area. “And
whenhecametoknowthatitcan
IN A letter to Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar in eastern Ladakh. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Singh said any religion, class or caste, Singh Later writing in the visitor’s to the brave who sacrifice beprocuredfromanothercityfor
on Saturday, former Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh The Defence Minister said, that the action of the armed said, but has the sole duty of book at the War Memorial in everything to defend the Rs 6 lakh, he made his own ma-
strongly objected to the draft Environmental Impact “Kargil was not just a symbol of forces“provedthatIndiawillnot servicetowardsthenation.“Ifeel New Delhi, Singh said, “I pay my country.” chine for just Rs 50,000.”
Assessment, saying that the draft has provisions to “routinely
legitimise illegalities” and that it seems to have “a mindset
that sees environmental regulation as an unnecessary regu- Mid-day meals TEHELKA STING
latory burden”. Javadekar Sunday responded with a letter,
stating that Ramesh’s “suggestions are unfounded and based
on misinterpretation”. Javadekar also observed that Ramesh
discontinued:
Patna HC seeks
Jaya Jaitly among
three convicted of
sent his letter while simultaneously releasing it to the media.

report from
NEW HANDBOOK Bihar Chief Secy
A GROUP of doctors in Homoeopathic medical colleges un-
der the Ayush Ministry have come out with a handbook on
corruption, arguments
Homoeopathicmanagement of Covid-19.The book,prepared
by a team headed by Amar Bodhi, Associate Professor in Dr B
R Sur Homoeopathic Medical College and Research Centre in
SANTOSH SINGH
PATNA, JULY 26 on sentence to begin
Delhi, has the working model for managing an epidemic, THEPATNAHighCourthasasked fluence with public servant) of
guidelines for selection of potency and dose of medicine, and the Bihar Chief Secretary to file EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE thePreventionof CorruptionAct.
details of 15 Covid patients treated and cured by byAugust13adetailedreporton NEW DELHI, JULY 26 The court is scheduled to
Homoeopathic medicine, including their symptoms, proce- the status of the distribution of hearargumentsonthequantum
dures and method of treatment. The doctors have submitted grains after the mid-day meal A DELHI court has convicted for- of sentence on July 29.
a project before the Central government seeking permission schemewasdiscontinueddueto merSamataPartypresident Jaya The court has mentioned in
for clinical tests of the medicines even for critical patients. schools being shut as per lock- Jaitlyand twoothersinacorrup- theJuly21orderameetingatthe
down protocols. The order came tion case filed in 2001 in the officialresidenceofthenthende-

BIRTH ON RESCUE BOAT on July 24 after Bihar Advocate

General Lalit Kishore had earlier
wake of a sting operation by
Tehelka.com.
fenceministerGeorgeFernandes,
whereSamuel,aprosecutionwit-
BSP whip to 6 party MLAs A 25-year-old woman, rescued from Gobari village of East Champaran district, gave birth to a
requested an adjournment.
The High Court on July 7 had
Special Judge Virender Bhat
held Jaitly along with former
ness,wasintroducedtoJaitlyand
he “sought her blessings” for his

who joined Congress: girl on board an NDRF rescue boat plying on the swollen Burhi Gandak river in flood-affected
Bihar on Sunday. Nearly 15 lakh people have been affected by floods in 11 districts of Bihar,
and at least 10 have lost their lives, the disaster management department said. ANI
taken suo motu cognizance of a
report in The Indian Express,
which had highlighted that chil-
Samata Party leader Gopal
Pacherwal and Major General
(retd) S P Murugai guilty of cor-
“company and his product” and
“offered a sum of Rs 2 lakh” to
Jaitlywhoinstructedhimto“han-
Vote against Gehlot govt dren in Bhagalpur district had
takentoragpickingafterthedis-
ruption andcriminalconspiracy.
They were chargesheeted af-
dover the money to accused
GopalPacherwalknowingthatit
The party said it will inter- continuance of the mid-day ter Tehelka.com aired the sting was bribe money”.
DEEPMUKHERJEE vene in a BJP leader’s plea in the ‘LONG LEGAL PROCESS… WILL BE TRAUMATIC FOR COMPLAINANT’ meal scheme as schools were operation,whichshowedtheac- The court found that it was

Harassment complaint against

JAIPUR,JULY26 high court, seeking the MLAs’ closed due to the lockdown. cused purportedly accepting agreed that Samuel would pay a
disqualification,orwillfileasep- A division bench of Chief bribes from reporters of the por- sum of Rs 1 lakh each to Surekha
THEBSPSundayissuedawhipto arate writ petition. Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice S tal — who posed as representa- and Murgai and a sum of Rs 2

ABVP chief to be withdrawn

six party MLAs who joined the The petition has been filed by Kumar, on the basis of the July 6 tives of a fictitious company — lakh to Jaitly, the order said.
Congress last year, directing BJP MLA Madan Dilawar, chal- newsreporttitled“Schoolshut,no for supply orders for hand-held Thereafter, Surekha con-
them to vote against the Ashok lengingthemergeroftheBSPleg- mid-daymeal,childreninBiharvil- thermal imagers from the tactedPacherwaland roped him
Gehlot government in any no- islators with the Congress last lage back to work selling scrap”, Ministry of Defence. in the conspiracy, it said.
confidence motion or other pro- year. Dilawar’s plea is to be heard process and traumatic for the said,“Thenewsarticlehighlights According to the CBI, Jaitly “Therefore, both the accused
ceedings held during the on Monday. EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE complainant. She has made it anissueofpublicimportanceand entered a criminal conspiracy Pacherwal and Jaitly, having
Assembly session in Rajasthan. MLAs Deepchand, Sandeep CHENNAI, JULY 26 clear that she cannot undergo relevance...Adequatenutritionis with Murugai, Pacherwal and joined the conspiracy at a later
In a press note issued from Kumar, Joginder Singh Awana, such troubles. I also had a con- essential for school children’s SurenderKumarSurekha—who pointoftimewiththeknowledge
Delhi and signed by BSP national Wajib Ali, Rajendra Singh Gudha A HARASSMENT case against Dr Subbiah versation with the accused and health and well being. Children eventually turned approver — in about the object and having
general secretary Satish Chandra and Lakhan Singh met Speaker C ABVP national president Dr Shanmugam hetoldmethathewantstobuild are kept away from schools and 2000-01 and obtained Rs 2 lakh agreed to perform the task as-
Misra, the party said that if the PJoshiinSeptemberandsubmit- Subbiah Shanmugam may not a healthy relationship with my Anganwadicentrestorestrictthe as illegal gratification for herself signed to them towards its fulfil-
MLAsviolatethepartywhip,they tedanapplicationformergerinto be probed further as the victim’s aunt and her family as a correc- spread of Covid-19.” from Mathew Samuel, a repre- ment,arealsoguiltyoftheoffence
will face disqualification under the Congress. Thereafter, they family has decided to withdraw complaint had been withdrawn tive step. So I made up my mind The court directed the gov- sentative from Tehelka.com who of conspiracy,” the court said.
para2(1)(b)of theXthSchedule. were inducted. the complaint. Chennai Police on Saturday night, a compro- tostepback,andgetthisissuere- ernment to submit a detailed re- posed as representative of a fic- “Jaitly received a sum of Rs 2
ThenotesaidallsixBSPMLAs At present, without the 19 had filed a case 14 days after the mise letter purportedly by the solved.Iwillformallysubmitmy ply within two weeks. titious firm “to get the supply of lakhs through Pacherwal from
have been informed that since rebelMLAsincludingSachinPilot, complaint was lodged. apartment association had not letter to the police tomorrow to On July 14, the court asked Hand Held Thermal Cameras Samuel as a motive/reward for
BSPisarecognisedNationalParty, the Congress has 88 MLAs — in- As per the complaint, the ac- been signed by Balaji withdraw the complaint,” he the state government to submit (HHTC) from the Ministry of agreeing to accomplish the task
there cannot be any merger un- cluding the six from BSP and the cused had urinated, and Vijayaraghavan,thecomplainant said. a detailed compliance report re- Defence for the fictitious firm”. given to her i.e. to exert personal
derpara(4)oftheXthScheduleat Speaker.Thepartyisbackedby10 dumped garbage, muck and and nephew of the 62-year-old. Dr Shanmugam was booked gardingthedistributionof grains The three accused, along influence upon the concerned
the state level unless there is a Independents, one RLD MLA and used surgical masks at the Talking to The Indian Express, under IPC Sections 271 amongchildren.Afteradirector- withSurekha,wereapartytothe Ministers/ Officers in pushing
merger of the entire BSP. two BTP legislators. doorstepof a62-year-oldwidow Vijayaraghavan said he has de- (Whoever knowingly disobeys level officialsubmitted thecom- criminal conspiracy, the court the product of the company of
The statement cited two OneofthetwoCPMMLAshas living alone at her apartment in cided to withdraw the com- any rule made and promulgated pliance report, the court said, held. Samuel into the Indian Army,”
Supreme Court judgments to say pledged support to the govern- a Chennai city suburb for de- plaint. “An FIR has been filed. Let by the government) and 427 “Considering the importance of Jaitly, Pacherwal and Murgai the order read.
amergercannotbeclaimedinthe ment,butthepartyisyettotakea manding a minimal rent to use that take its due course. (mischief causing damage to the the issue, we are of the view and were convicted of conspiracy The court also held that
present case under any “illegal or stand. If the Congress secures the her parking slot. However,ourentirefamilyisun- amount of fifty rupee) and un- direct that let a comprehensive under Section 120-B of the IPC Murgai received Rs 20,000 from
unconstitutional order of the supportofbothCPMMLAs,itwill While the ABVP’s national derstress.If wetakeitforward,it der the Tamil Nadu Women affidavit be filed by the Chief with Section 9 (Taking gratifica- SamuelonJanuary4,2000forthe
Speaker”. have the backing of 103 MLAs. leadership had claimed that the is really going to be a long Harassment (Prevention) Act. Secretary,Governmentof Bihar.” tion, for exercise of personal in- “assistance rendered by him”.

Pandemic claims colonial vestige: Centre plans to table first draft

Rlys to end dak messenger system of fifth science policy by October
prove savings on Establishment tail the use of messengers, grad- had to communicate with differ- process to develop it beginning technology and to have focused It is thisgapthatthe new STIP
IRAM SIDDIQUE related expenditure, Board has ually moving to setting up e-of- ent railway bodies, which were ESHAROY earlierthisyear,andthepolicyset streamsof nationalprioritiesand istryingtoclose,whilebeingable
MUMBAI, JULY 26 desiredthatalldiscussionamong fices to review files. then working independently. NEWDELHI,JULY26 to be tabled by October. With the societal needs like health, water, tomeettheneedofscientificsolu-
official of Railways, PUs and rail- A dak messenger is entitled Despite a postal service and Covid-19 pandemic highlighting energy etc,” DST Secretary tions for national problems
THE COVID-19 pandemic has way board should be invariably to a daily travelling allowance of the Railways’ own internal THE MINISTRY of Science and theurgencyforapushtowardsci- Professor Ashutosh Sharma said. and crises.
dealt a fatal blow to the age-old held over Video Conferencing, Rs 500, while a personal mes- postal network called the Free Technologyissettocomeoutwith entificsolutionsofcrises,thegov- “Problem-solving is usually “Oneoftheproblemswiththe
Indian Railways tradition of per- accordingly booking of personal sengergetsaboutRs800perday. Service, officials continued to the first draft of India’s fifth ernment is keen to begin the im- multi-dimensional and inter-in- 2003 and 2013 STIPs is that nei-
sonal and dak messengers. messenger/Dak messenger As they go up and down the rely heavily on dak messengers. Science, Technology and plementationofthenewpolicyby stitutional -- no one scientist can ther was really properly imple-
In the latest move to trim ex- shouldbestoppedimmediately." country, they are compensated “During wars or a war-like Innovation Policy (STIP) next year. solveasingleproblem,whichhas mented. And this is because the
penditure,theRailwayBoardhas Dak messenger and personal for any other transportationthat situation, important movement this month. To this end, the ministry has many dimensions to it. That is policies were made by one gov-
urged officials to stop the use of messengerarepickedfromoffice they may have to hire other than of manpower, arms and ammu- The policy, in which the gov- setupasecretariatwithin-house why our focus is to make the pol- ernment but during the imple-
thesemessengers,apracticedat- peons to play what was consid- trains in 3-Tier AC coaches, often nition (by the Railways) was ernmentforthefirsttimehasde- expertsundertheDepartmentof icy more inclusive. For instance, mentation process, another gov-
ing back to the colonial era, and eredacrucialroleupuntilrecently on Rajdhani trains. communicated through these cided to take a “bottom-up” ap- Science and Technology (DST) in receiving inputs from farmers, ernmenthadcometopower.Our
instead use video conferencing –ferrying“secret”and“confiden- With roughly over 5,000 dak channelsof trustedmessengers,” proach in order to address the order to reach this target. who will have specific problems, idea is that the policy should be
for any communication. tial” messages within the messengers and nearly as many said a retired official. everyday concerns of Indians, “The STIP itself should be dy- and maybe even solutions to formulated and implemented
With train operations sus- Railways, between departments personal messengers, the The method remained intact comes after the ministry has un- namic and therefore reviewed those problems,” he said. withinthetenureofthesamegov-
pended,theRailwayssawitsrev- and up and down the hierarchy. Railway is estimated to be even as the era of faxes and dertakenoneofitsbiggesteverex- every year to keep pace with the AspertheGlobalCompetitive ernment so that the policy is ac-
enueslidebynearly58percentin Officials saidwiththeadvent spending about Rs 10 crore on emails dawned. “There was lit- ercises, in consultation with sci- changesintechnology,sincetech- Index, India was ranked 56th in tually implemented,” said
May.Theallowancesofthehand- of technology, the system was their allowances annually. tle acceptance to the use of fax entific agencies, institutes, civil nologyitself isdevelopingsorap- 2003 against China at 44. ProfessorAkhileshGupta,headof
pickedpersonalanddakmessen- little more than a colonial era The system is said to be as old and emails and a letter with a society organisations, industry, idly. It should not be static, like it However, India slipped to 71st the STIP 2020 Secretariat at DST.
gers, apart from their salaries, vestige, and was being ram- as the 160-year-old organisation signature in ink remained heav- studentsandteachers,andinvolv- hasbeensofar,wherethepolicyis place in 2014, while China im- There have been four science
wereamajorburdenonestablish- pantly misused, with messen- – the word ‘dak’ finding its earli- ily relied on,” said an official. ing as many as 15,000 visited once every decade. Our proved to the 28th rank. policies in the country so far. The
ment cost, an official said. gersbeingusedbyofficialstorun est mention in the Manual of The dire financial condition stakeholders. thrust areas are how to achieve Meanwhile,theGlobalInnovation first was developed by Homi
In a letter on July 26, the personal errands. OfficeProcedures,andgrewinrel- of the Railways has proved to be TheSTIPwillalsobeoneofthe sustainabledevelopment,intelli- Index (GII) ranked India at 76th JehangirBhabaandwastabledin
Railway Board stated, “As a Over the last decade, the evance with the formulation of a the final nail in the coffin for the fastest to be both formulated as gentmachinesandAI,tobefuture place in 2014, while China was at Parliament by then Prime
measure to reduce cost and im- Railways has been trying to cur- RailwayBoardin1905.TheBoard system. well as implemented, with the ready with areas like quantum the 29th position. Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, MONDAY, JULY 27, 2020 MEANWHILE
BOOK CLAIMS RIFT BETWEEN ROYALS
Prince William infuriated Prince Harry when he told his younger brother he should move
slowly in his relationship with Meghan Markle, fearing that he was being “blindsided by lust,”
Finding Freedom, a new book on the Windsors, says. Harry was angered by what he perceived
as William’s snobby tone in the about the actress when they were dating, the book claims.

TOPOFTHE ONE MAN KILLED, SEVERAL INJURED Migration to Australia

WORLD
Protests widen across US: Clashes in set to reduce by over
2 lakh due to Covid-19
Seattle & Portland, shooting in Austin
Deployment of Feds triggers resurgence of nationwide protests that had waned in recent weeks
Indians likely among worst affected
NATASHA CHAKU Govt report says while
MELBOURNE, JULY 26 international borders
Rishi Sunak
AUSTRALIA’SMIGRATIONintake are expected to reopen
MIKE BAKER & NICHOLAS will drop significantly to 31,000 in January, a two-week
BRITAIN BOGEL-BURROUGHS in2020-21from232,000in2018-
quarantine period will
UKconsiders SEATTLE, JULY 26 19duetotheeffectsof thecoron-
avirus pandemic, according to a remain in place for
ethnicminority WEEKS OF violent clashes be-
Protests go government report. The drop is arrivals to Australia
figuresoncoins tween federal agents and pro-
testers in Portland, Oregon, gal- national again
likely to impact thousands from
India, which is one of the largest
London: UK Chancellor of vanised thousands of people to sourcesof migrationtoAustralia. The report further said that
theExchequerRishiSunak march through the streets of While the effects of the pan- the international borders were
isreportedlyconsideringa AmericancitiesSaturday,inject- THE CUSTODIAL death of demicontheAustralianeconomy expected to reopen in January
proposal for influential ingnewlifeintoproteststhathad George Floyd in Minneapolis arestillevolving,migration,which next year, but a two-week quar-
ethnic minority figures to largely waned in recent weeks. in May triggered massive isakeydriveroftheeconomy,has antine period would remain in
be featured on a set of UK One of the most intense global protests and a na- beenhitfollowingtravelbansand place for arrivals to Australia.
coinstocelebrateBritain's protests was in Seattle, where a tional movement in the US border closures imposed to stop “Future migration levels re-
diversity.AccordingtoThe dayofdemonstrationsfocusedon against racial injustice and the spread of Covid-19. main highly uncertain, due to
Sunday Telegraph, plans police violence left a trail of bro- police brutality. It resulted in The Australian Economic and the path of the pandemic and
have been submitted to kenwindowsandpeopleflushing sustained, widely-supported Fiscal Update report, released on thenatureanddurationof meas-
theRoyalMinttoworkout pepper spray from their eyes. At demonstrations across the Thursdaybythetreasurydepart- ures taken to contain its spread
some proposals as the least 45 protesters had been ar- US and, along with the pan- ment, said that the Net Overseas at home and abroad.
Indian-originfinancemin- rested, and both protesters and demic, contributed to rising Migration (NOM) is significantly “The government imple-
ister reflects upon a cam- police officers suffered injuries. disapproval of President affectedbytheinternationaltravel mented international travel
paign to put influential Carrying signs such as “Feds Trump in an election year. restrictionsandconstraintsonthe bans in March 2020. This pre-
black, Asian and minority Go Home”, some among the However, the protests had ability of applicants to meet visa vented all arrivals on visitor and
ethnic (BAME) figures crowd of about 5,000 protesters waned in recent weeks, ex- application requirements. temporary migration visas and
from history on a set of stopped at the site of a future cept in certain pockets such “The NOM is assumed to fall prevented Australian citizens
coins titled “Service to the youth detention centre and lit as Portland. Then, Trump from 232,000 in 2018-19 to be and permanent residents from
Nation”.Thecandidatesin buildings there on fire. Some Law enforcement officers sent in federal agents to 154,000 in 2019-20 and 31,000 departing Australia,” the docu-
the running include Noor smashed windows of nearby face off with protesters in Portland against the wishes in 2020-21,” it said. ment said.
Inayat Khan, who was the businesses, ignited a fire in a cof- Seattle (above), Washington, of local authorities. The Feds The Indian community in According to the treasurer,
first Indian-origin World feeshopandblewan8-inchhole and Portland (left), Oregon, were involved in some vio- Australia is comprised of nearly Josh Frydenberg, no decision
War II spy for Britain, and through the wall of the Seattle as protests against racism lent clashes with protesters, seven lakh people, and India is was taken yet on when
Khudadad Khan, the first PoliceDepartment’sEastPrecinct and police brutality spread and that has now resulted in one of the top sources of skilled Australia's travel ban will
soldieroftheBritishIndian building, the police said. “At this across major US cities on a resurgence of nation-wide immigrants to Australia. be lifted.
Army to become a recipi- point,wedeclaredtheeventtobe Saturday. AP, Reuters protests in the US. Approximately 90,000 stu- In Australia, Covid-19 has
ent of the Victoria Cross. a riot, and several orders to dis- dents are studying in Australian infected over 13,900 people
perse were given,” Seattle police universities. and killed 155 others. PTI
chief Carmen Best said. areseenmarchingthroughanin- frominsidethevehicle.Thatper- Earlier, a group of nurses in hadbecomeariotandorderedthe
The police responded by fir- tersection when a car blares its son was detained and is cooper- scrubs had joined an organised crowd to leave. Federal agents
MALAYSIA
24Rohingya
ing flash grenades, showering
protesterswithpeppersprayand
abruptly rushing into crowds,
horn.Secondslater,fiveshotsring
out,followedshortlyafterbysev-
eral more loud bangs.
ating with officers, she said.
The federal courthouse in
Portland has been the scene of
groupof mothersinhelmetsand
fathers in hard hats, all assem-
bledagainstthefenceof afederal
fired teargas and left the court-
housetodriveprotestersfromthe
streets, continuing to stretch the
North Korea declares
feareddrowned
offresortisland
knocking people to the ground.
InAustin,Texas,thepolicesaid
Themanwhowaskilledmay
have approached a vehicle with
nightly, chaotic demonstrations
for weeks, which continued
courthousewherefederalagents
— a deployment that has been a
boundaries of their authority.
Protestersinseveralcitiessaid emergency over first
suspected Covid case
one man was shot and killed just a rifle before he was shot and again into Sunday morning, as key focus of the recent demon- videosoffederalagentsfiringtear-
MALAYSIAN AUTHORI- before 10 pm. during a protest in killed, Officer Katrina Ratcliff thousands participated in strations—havebeenassembled. gas and shoving protesters in
TIES launched a search on the city’s downtown. In a live said.Ratcliff saidthepersonwho marchesaroundthecity,the59th Shortly after 1 am, the Portlandhadbroughtthemtothe
Sunday for 24 Rohingya video from the scene, protesters shotandkilledthemanhadfired consecutivedayof proteststhere. Portland police said the protest streets Saturday. NYT
refugees who went miss-
ing while trying to swim REUTERS
to shore from a boat off
the resort island of
Langkawi. Muslim-ma-
Staff leave American SEOUL, JULY 26

NORTHKOREANleaderKimJong
jority Malaysia has long
been a favoured destina-
tion for Rohingya
consulate in Chengdu Undeclaredanemergencyanda
lockdown in a border town after
a person suspected of being in-
Muslims seeking a better
life after escaping a 2017
military crackdown in
as deadline nears fectedwiththenovelcoronavirus
returned from South Korea after
illegallycrossingtheborder,state
Kim Jong Un held an
emergency meeting of the
ruling party last week
Myanmar and, more re- media said on Sunday.
cently, refugee camps in If confirmed, it would be the
Bangladesh. Malaysia’s firstcaseofficiallyacknowledged with the vicious virus returned
coastguard said 25 peo- by North Korean authorities. on July 19 after illegally crossing
ple had tried to swim to Kimconvenedanemergency thedemarcationline,”KCNAsaid.
shore late on Saturday politburomeetinginresponseto KCNAdidnotsayiftheperson
when their boat was near whathecalleda“criticalsituation had been tested, but said an “un-
the west coast of the is- in which the vicious virus could certainresultwasmadefromsev-
land but only one besaidtohaveenteredthecoun- eral medical check-ups of the se-
reached land. try”, state-run KCNA reported. cretion of that person’s upper
A person who defected to respiratory organ and blood”,
FRANCE A removal van stands inside the US consulate as security South Korea three years ago re- promptingofficialstoquarantine
Churchvolunteer personnel guards the front gate in Chengdu, Sichuan turned across the fortified bor- thepersonandinvestigateanyone

admitstoarson
province, China, on Sunday. Reuters
HURRICANE HANNA BATTERS TEXAS COAST der to the town of Kaesong this
monthwithsymptomsof Covid-
19, KCNA reported.
hemayhavebeenincontactwith.
One analyst said the an-
nouncementwasimportant,not
incathedral already their worst in decades A flooded street in Corpus Christi, Texas, Saturday. Hurricane Hanna battered the south Texas “An emergency event hap- only because North Korea was
FRENCH AUTHORITIES MARTIN QUIN POLLARD amid disputes over trade and coast with blistering winds and crashing waves into the early hours of Sunday, leaving a pened in Kaesong City where a for the first time reporting a sus-
detained and charged a CHENGDU, JULY 26 technology, the Covid-19 pan- large area already badly hit by Covid-19 bracing for torrential downpours and potential flash runaway who went to the south pected coronavirus case but also
repentant church volun- demic, China’s territorial claims floods. A disaster declaration was issued for 32 counties in Texas. AP three years ago, a person who is because it suggested it was ap-
teer Sunday after he told STAFF OF the US consulate in in the South China Sea and its suspected to have been infected pealing for help.
investigators that he was Chengdu made final efforts to clampdown on Hong Kong.
clear the premises on Sunday as Police asked people to move
‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’ host Regis Philbin dies
responsible for an arson
attack that badly dam- security remained tight outside,
ahead of a Monday closure or-
on when crowds formed out-
side the consulate, as onlook-
Kabul writes
aged a 15th-century
Gothic cathedral. The dered by Beijing as China-US re-
lations continue to worsen.
ers took photos and videos of
what they expected would be DAVID BAUDER
by Philbin’s eponymous syndi-
catedmorningshow,butitsheart
He was host of the prime-
time game show, “Who Wants
to UN over
man was earlier ques-
tioned and then released A mini tourist atmosphere
prevailed outside the facility on
the last time to see the com-
pound in US hands. The street
NEW YORK, JULY 26 was in the first 15 minutes, when
heandco-hostKathieLeeGifford
to Be a Millionaire,” briefly tele-
vision’s most popular show at
‘violation’ of
after the July 18 blaze
that destroyed the or- a tree-lined street on a hot
Sunday, as onlookers shared
was closed to traffic, except for
consular or police vehicles let
REGIS PHILBIN, the genial host
whosharedhislifewithtelevision
—on“Live!withRegisandKathie
Lee” from 1985-2000 — or Kelly
the turn of the century. It gener-
atedaround$1billioninrevenue
territory by Pak
gan, shattered stained-
glass windows, and sidewalk space with dozens of through by police. viewers over morning coffee for Ripa — on “Live! with Regis and in its first two years — ABC had
blackened the insides of uniformed and plainclothes po- China on Friday ordered the decades and helped himself and Kelly”from2001untilhis2011re- said it was the most profitable YOSHITA SINGH
the Cathedral of St. Peter lice opposite the entrance. closure of the Chengdu con- some fans strike it rich with the He was 88 years old tirement — bantered about the showinTVhistory—andhelped UNITED NATIONS, JULY 26
and St. Paul of the west- Consulate closures in sulate in the southwestern pro- game show “Who Wants to Be a eventsoftheday.Viewerslaughed make Philbin himself a million-
ern French city of Houston and Chengdu have es- vide of Sichuan. That means an Millionaire”, has died at 88. atPhilbin’smockindignationover aire many times over. It also AFGHANISTAN HAS written to
Nantes. His motive re- calated a sharp deterioration in evacuation deadline of 10 am on Philbin died of natural causes toastatementfromhisfamilypro- not getting the best seat at a made his question to contest- the UN Security Council over
mained unclear. ties between the world’s two Monday, according to the editor Fridaynight,justoveramonthbe- videdbyspokesmanLewisKay. restaurantthenightbefore,orbe- ants, “Is that your final answer?” continued “violations” of its ter-
biggest economies, which were of a state-run tabloid. REUTERS fore his 89th birthday, according Celebrities routinely stopped ing henpecked by his partner. a national catchphrase. AP ritorybyPakistanimilitaryforces
and said it will ask the 15-nation
UN body to take necessary
measures and actions to end
them if the situation is not de-
SHE BUILT AN ILLUSTRIOUS FILM CAREER, PUNCTUATED BY A SUCCESSFUL FIGHT TO LOOSEN STUDIOS’ GRIP ON ACTORS escalated bilaterally.

Olivia de Havilland, a star of ‘Gone With the Wind’, dies at 104

Afghanistan’s Permanent
Representative to the UN Adela
Raz wrote to the President of the
SecurityCouncil,Germany,tore-
port on the most recent viola-
sicHollywoodbeautyandanhon- the modern era. supporting actress, though the in1935onthestrengthofherper- expired,insistingthatbecauseof tions of the Afghan territory by
ROBERT BERKVIST ored screen actress whose very She had shown similar grit a award went to another member formancethatyearasHermia,the the suspensions she was still the Pakistan’s military forces and
JULY 26 name and bearing suggested decade earlier, in her break- of the cast, Hattie McDaniel, who defiant daughter who resists an studio’s property for six more said the “incursion” represents a
membership in a kind of aristoc- through role, when she held her played Mammy. arranged marriage, in Max months. De Havilland sued. The reiteration of violations as Kabul
OLIVIA DE Havilland, an actress racy of moviedom. Though she own against her formidable co- De Havilland was under con- Reinhardt’s film adaptation of A case dragged on for a year and a had previously expressed its
who gained movie immortality wastypecastearlyinhercareeras stars — Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh tract to Warner Bros. when the Midsummer Night’s Dream. half but the California Supreme concerns to the Security Council
in Gone With the Wind, then built thedemureingénue,shewenton and Leslie Howard — in Gone film’s original director, George After her success in Gone Courtruledinherfavourin1945. in February and August 2019.
anillustriousfilmcareer,punctu- to earn meatier roles that led to With the Wind. Cukor, working for MGM, invited With the Wind, de Havilland re- What became known as the de Raz said in the letter that on
ated by a successful fight to five Academy Award nomina- AsMelanieHamiltonWilkes, her to audition for the role of turned to Warner with the ex- Havilland decision established July 15, Pakistan military forces
loosen the studios’ grip on con- tions, two of which brought her the beau and then wife of OliviadeHavillandina Melanie.(Hewaslaterreplacedby pectation of more challenging that a studio could not arbitrar- began “unprovoked artillery at-
tractactors,diedonSundayather the Oscar, for To Each His Own Howard’s Ashley Wilkes, she promotionalphotoforGone Victor Fleming.) After getting the roles. For the most part, they did ily extend the duration of an ac- tacks” against Afghan border
home in Paris. She was 104 and (1946) and The Heiress (1949). brought intelligence and grace Withthe Wind(1939). Reuters part,shehadtopleadwithherstu- not materialise. tor’s contract. posts and civilian residential ar-
one of the last surviving stars of Those roles came to her in no to her portrait of a woman dioboss,JackWarner,tolendherto She began to refuse roles she In the 1950s, she startled eas in the Sarakano and Asad
Hollywood’s fabled Golden Age. small part because of the resolve whose shy, forgiving, almost too the MGM production, which was considered inferior. Warner re- Hollywood when she aban- Abad districts of KunarProvince.
Her death was confirmed by she showed when she stood up kindlynaturestoodinsharpcon- in-law, Scarlett O’Hara (Leigh). beingoverseenbyDavidSelznick. taliated by suspending her sev- doned it to live in Paris with a Kabul was “currently work-
her publicist Lisa Goldberg. to the studios and won a battle trast to the often venomous jeal- De Havilland’s performance Warner had signed De eral times, for a total of six new husband, though she kept ing to de-escalate the situation
De Havilland was both a clas- thathelpedpushHollywoodinto ousy of her high-spirited sister- ledtoanOscarnominationasbest Havillandtoaseven-yearcontract months, and, after her contract her American citizenship. NYT bilaterally”, he added. PTI

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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, MONDAY, JULY 27, 2020 Market Watch
FPIS PULL OUT `86 CR IN JUL SO FAR
New Delhi: Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) investors invested
Rs 2,336 crore in equities but pulled out Rs 2,422 crore from the
debt segment, leading to net outflows of Rs 86 crore from Indian
markets between July 1-24, according to depositories data. PTI

‘PRIVATE TRANSFERS EXPECTED TO SLOW TO $55-60 BILLION IN FY21’ Non-personal data governance:
‘RemittancestoIndialikelytodecline25%; Why draft framework by govt
fallinoilpricestohitflowfromGulfregion’ incomes of migrant workers and on education, and reduce child
panel has no penal provisions
AASHISHARYAN
NEWDELHI,JULY26
shouldpromotecross-borderdata
flows and increase data-sharing
opportunities”, Venkatesh
India decided to adopt the final
laws on the same, Gopalakrish-
nan, the chairperson of the com-
ENSECONOMICBUREAU
MUMBAI,JULY26
‘INDIA LARGEST RECIPIENT OF REMITTANCES’ hence remittance flows to India.
India’s forex reserves have
labour in disadvantaged house-
holds. A fall in remittances affect A GOVERNMENT committee on
Krishnamoorthy, country man-
ager for BSA, a Microsoft-estab-
mittee said during the webinar.
Thecurrentdraftonnon-per-
■AUBSreportsaidIndiais ■India’sCAD,excluding risen to the fifth largest in the families’abilitytospendonthese non-personal data, headed by lishedtradegroupofcommercial sonal data governance frame-
REMITTANCES TO India are esti- thelargestrecipientof remittances,wouldhave world ($516 billion), and seem in areasasmoreoftheirfinanceswill Infosys co-founder Kris Gopala- software makers, said. work,therefore,hasnopenalpro-
matedtodeclinesharplybyabout remittances(invalueterms) beenahigh$101billion(3.5% reasonable shape, based on a re- bedirectedtosolvefoodshortages krishnan, last Thursday said that In cases of dispute between visionsmentionedsofar.Though
25 per cent in FY2021 amid the intheworIdandreceived of GDP)asagainst$25billion serve adequacy metric to with- andimmediatelivelihoodsneeds. all non-personal raw two entities on it does say that there should be a
economic crisis induced by the nearly$76billionof flows (0.9%of GDP)withtransfers stand volatility due to global risk “For the first time since FY04, data must be shared whether a non-per- “minimumthresholdofanonym-
COVID-19 pandemic and shut- (2.7%of GDP)inFY20 inFY20,itadded aversion. Forex reserves cover 86 we estimate the economy to reg- between companies sonal data set should ity”basedon“acceptablestanda-
down,accordingtoaglobalbank- per cent of external debt as of ister a small surplus in the CAB of for a healthy innova- be shared or not, the rds”,thestandardshavenotbeen
ing group. “Based on an analysis, FY20,upfrom68percentinFY14 0.4 per cent of GDP in FY21. The tionecosystemtode- non-personal data defined in the draft suggestions.
we expect private transfers to as lockdown and the decline in would have been a high $101 bil- butbelow138percentasofFY08 surplusshouldbeledbyweakdo- velop. In a webinar, authority will be the “Webelievethatthenon-per-
slow to $55-60 billion in FY21 on globaltradearesettohittheglobal lion (3.5 per cent of GDP) as (the year before the credit crisis). mestic demand and lower oil the committee ex- adjudicating author- sonal data should be freely avail-
ayear-on-yearbasis,”Swissbank- economicgrowth.Kerala—which against$25billion(0.9percentof Import cover for reserves is 15 prices leading to a collapse in im- plained various as- ity.Dependingonthe ableforinnovation.Thoughsecur-
ing group UBS said. is one of the largest recipients of GDP) with transfers in FY20, the months,muchbetterthan7mon- ports rather than a strong export pects of non-per- sourceofthedataand ityofalldatawillbetheobligation
Indiaisthelargestrecipientof remittancesinIndia—isexpected report said. “Going forward, the thsinFY13&14.4monthsinFY08. recovery.Wedon’texpectthesur- sonal data, such as the various whetheritisanonymisedinaway of the non-personal data author-
remittances(invalueterms)inthe to witness a decline in remit- recentsharpfallinglobalcrudeoil AsperarecentWorldBankre- plusCABtrendtobesustainedfor kindsofdatawhichcanbeshared thatnoindividualcanbere-iden- ity, other standards and rules on
worIdandreceivednearly$76bil- tances. The projected fall, which priceswillaffectGulfCooperation port,remittancestolowandmid- long,” the report said. betweencompaniesandwhythe tified from the data set, the three securitywillcomeintoplacewith
lionof flows(2.7percentof GDP) would be the sharpest decline in Council(GCC)growth(62percent dle-incomecountries(LMICs)are Risingcrudeprices,gradualre- draft suggestion does not make a categories have been divided. practice, and will evolve over
in FY20. These flows help boost recent history, is largely due to a share in remittance inflows).” projected to decline by 19.7 per covery in domestic demand and mentionoftheexactpenalprovi- time,” Parminder Jeet Singh, a
household income, support pri- fallinthewagesandemployment AccordingtotheUBSanalysis, cent to $445 billion, representing onlyamodestrecoveryinexports sions. The nine-member panel Whatarepublic,community,& member of the committee said.
vateconsumptionandaddstabil- of migrant workers, who tend to every 10 per cent decrease in oil alossofacrucialfinancinglifeline couldreversethetrend.“Weesti- had, while releasing the draft re- privatenon-personaldatasets?
ity to current account balance bemorevulnerabletolossof em- prices reduces remittances to for many vulnerable households. mate CAB to swing to a deficit of port, kept time till August 13 for All data collected by govern- Whataretheglobalstandards
(CAB), UBS said in a report. ployment and wages during an Indiaby7percentinthelongrun. Studiesshowthatremittances 0.3 per cent of GDP in FY22, the public to send suggestions. mentanditsagenciessuchascen- onnon-personaldata?
Many Indians working in the economic crisis in a host country. Similarly,weakeconomicoutlook alleviate poverty in LMICs, im- though still lower than the sus- sus, data collected by municipal In May 2019, the European
Gulf region had recently lost jobs India’scurrentaccountdeficit of the United States would ad- prove nutritional outcomes, are tainable range on below trend Whatisnon-personaldata? corporations on the total tax re- Union (EU) came out with a reg-
and more layoffs are in the offing (CAD), excluding remittances, verselyaffectemploymentand/or associated with higher spending GDP growth,” it added In its most basic form, non- ceiptsinaparticularperiodorany ulation framework for the free
personal data is any set of data informationcollectedduringexe- flow of non-personal data in the
which does not contain person- cutionofallpubliclyfundedwor- EU, in which it suggested that
Puri sells HDFC
Bank stake worth
GAIL officials opposing unbundling of marketing, allyidentifiableinformation.This
inessencemeansthatnoindivid-
ks has been kept under the um-
brellaofpublicnon-personaldata.
member states of the Union
wouldcooperatewitheachother

transmission businesses say no response from govt

ualorlivingpersoncanbeidenti- Anydataidentifiersaboutaset when it came to data sharing.

around `840 cr fied by looking at such data.

For example, while order de-
of people who have either the
same geographic location, reli-
Such data, the EU had then
ruled, would be shared by mem-
turegasmarket,”saidarepresen- iftheypurchasegasfromitasthey tails collected by a food delivery gion,job,orothercommonsocial berstateswithoutanyhindrances,
ENSECONOMICBUREAU KARUNJITSINGH TheGAILOfficers tative of GOA, noting that the gas arenotabletonegotiatetransmis- service will have the name, age, interests will form the commu- and that they must inform the
MUMBAI,JULY26 NEWDELHI,JULY26 Association had,in2018, marketingandtransmissionbusi- sion agreements with GAIL for gender, and other contact infor- nitynon-personaldata.Forexam- “commission any draft act which
nesses were able to add stability shorter durations and relatively mationofanindividual,itwillbe- ple, metadata collected by ride- introducesanewdatalocalisation
HDFC BANK managing director OFFICERSATGAILLtd—thestate- writtentothePMand to GAIL’s overall financial health smallvolumes.InFY19,thetrans- come non-personal data if the hailingapps,telecomcompanies, requirementormakeschangesto
andCEOAdityaPurihassoldover owned gas marketing and trans- thePetroleumMinistry inscenarioswheretheprofitabil- mission of natural gas marketed identifierssuchasnameandcon- electricitydistributioncompanies an existing data localisation re-
74 lakh shares of the bank esti- mission company — continue to ity of the gas marketing business by GAIL accounted for around 86 tact information are taken out. among others have been put un- quirement”.Theregulation,how-
matedtobewortharoundRs840 opposethegovernment’splansto
opposingthemove may be hit by fluctuations in in- MMSCMD (million metric stan- The government committee, derthecommunitynon-personal ever, had not defined what non-
crore at the current market price. unbundle its gas transmission ternational natural gas prices. dard cubic metres per day) or 80 which submitted its report, has data category by the committee. personal data constituted of, and
The stake sale, executed be- businessandgasmarketingbusi- which the government hopes to Another GAIL officer noted per cent of the total transmission classified non-personal data into Privatenon-personaldatacan had simply said all data which is
tween July 21 and 23, brought nesses, and claim that the Centre addresswiththeproposalistoas- that profits from the gas market- of 107 MMSCMD total gas trans- three main categories, namely bedefinedasthatwhichisprodu- not personal would be under the
down Puri’s holding in the bank has not replied to or approached sure natural gas consumers of ingbusinesshadhelpedthecom- portedbythestate-runcompany. public non-personal data, com- ced by individuals, which can be non-personal data category.
tojust0.01percentfromtheear- the GAIL Officers Association equalaccesstoGAIL’s12,200-km panyinvestinfurtherbuildinggas In January, then GAIL chair- munity non-personal data and derived from application of pro- Inmanyothercountriesacross
lier0.14percent.Histermissetto (GOA) on their concerns regard- gas pipeline network which ac- infrastructure,andthattherewas manAshutoshKarnatakhadsaid private non-personal data. prietary software or knowledge. the world, there are no nationw-
end in October when he attains ing the proposed unbundling. counts for around 70 per cent of concern about viability of these it was in the process of executing idedataprotectionlaws,whether
the age of 70. GOA had, in 2018, written to thegaspipelinenetworkinIndia. businesses as separate entities. 5,500-kmofnaturalgaspipelines Can non-personal data sets Howsensitivecan forpersonalornon-personaldata.
Hesold74.20lakhofthe77.96 the Prime Minister and the Representatives of GOA said “The businesses supplement toboosttheshareof gasinIndia’s be shared? non-personaldatabe?
lakhsharesinthebankandPuri’s PetroleumMinistrytoexpressits thattherewasunderutilisationof andcomplementeach.Whatever energyconsumptionbasketto15 In its virtual press conference Unlike personal data, which WhatareasdoesIndia’s
remaining holding of the bank is opposition to the move, citing GAIL’s pipeline network and that we earn from production plants, percentby2030formthecurrent on July 23, the nine-member contains explicit information non-personaldatadraftmiss?
now 3.76 lakh shares, valued at concernsabouttheviabilityofthe they had received information, it goes into infrastructure proj- 6.2 per cent. Former GAIL chair- committee clarified that all raw about a person’s name, age, gen- Thoughthenon-personaldata
overRs42croreasofthelastclose. two businesses as separate enti- based on an RTI plea, from the ects,” said a GOA representative, manBCTripathihasalsosaidthat non-personal data collected by der,sexualorientation,biometrics draftisapioneerinidentifyingthe
According to a bank ties and the impact of the move Petroleum and Natural Gas who did not wish to be quoted. theCentreshouldwaitforthenat- any company or companies can and other genetic details, non- power,role,andusageofanonym-
spokesperson,theshareswereal- onthecompany’splanstoexpand Regulatory Board (PNGRB) that An industry analyst, who ural gas market to mature before and must be shared for a better personal data is more likely to be iseddata,therearecertainaspects
lottedtoPurioveraperiodoftime its pipeline network. Recently, there had been no complaints al- askedtoremainanonymous,said unbundlingGAIL’sgasmarketing ecosystem to develop. However, in an anonymised form. suchascommunitynon-personal
atdifferentpricepointsand"notat PetroleumMinisterDharmendra legingmisuseofmarketpowerby unbundlingofthetwobusinesses and transmission businesses. if acompanydevelopsitsownal- However,incertaincategories data, where the draft could have
par". "Therefore, the net amount Pradhan had reaffirmed the GAIL made to the regulator. may impact GAIL’s plans to ex- AGOArepresentativesaidun- gorithm to process raw non-per- suchasdatarelatedtonationalse- been clearer, experts said. “Non-
realisedbyPuriisnotRs840crore. Centre’splanstounbundleGAIL’s Capacity utilisation for GAIL’s panditspipelinenetwork.Thean- bundling would lead to lower ef- sonaldata,theycanrefusetoshare curity or strategic interests such personal data often constitutes
Theacquisitioncostofsharesand gas marketing and transmission transmission business stood at alystdid,however,notethatthere ficiency. The Ministry of Petro- such processed data with other as locations of government labo- protected trade secrets and often
thetaxpayableonthetransaction businesses to make it more com- around 52 per cent in FY19. was a concern, especially among leum and Natural Gas did not companies, the panel explained. ratoriesorresearchfacilities,even raisessignificantprivacyconcerns.
has to be accounted for as well," petitiveand“increasecredibility.” “Suchamovemaybesuitable smallerbuyersofnaturalgas,that respond to emailed requests for Data can be requested by the ifprovidedinanonymisedformit Thepaperproposesthenebulous
he said. One of the major concerns when Indiabecomesa morema- theycanonlyuseGAIL’spipelines commentfromTheIndianExpress. sovereign for purposes such as canbedangerous.Similarly,even conceptofcommunitydatawhile
crime and pandemic mapping, if the data is about the health of a failing to adequately provide for
cyber-securityortokeepupwith communityoragroupofcommu- community rights,” Udbhav
Oxford vaccine: CDSCO may take up SII request for human trials this week changes in a sector for appropri-
ate regulatory interventions. The
nities,thoughitmaybeinanony-
misedform,itcanstillbedangeo-
Tiwari, public policy advisor at
Mozilla, said.
plicationtoconductlatestageclin- opment. SII has a tie up with He had also told The Indian trials, we are hoping to have the non-personal data must be us,thepanelopined.“Possibilities Othersalsobelievethatthefi-
PRABHARAGHAVAN icaltrialsforthevaccinecandidate, Swedish-British pharmaceutical Express earlier that the firm in- vaccine by the end of this year. sharedincasesinvolvingnational of suchharmareobviouslymuch naldraftofthenon-personaldata
NEWDELHI,JULY26 said a senior government official company AstraZeneca to manu- tended to conduct these phase III However,itwillstartreachingout security or if demanded by the higheriftheoriginalpersonaldata governance framework must
in the know. The Subject Expert facture at least a billion doses of trials on around 5,000 participa- to masses properly by the first state or requested by the right is of asensitive nature. Therefore, clearlydefinetherolesforallpar-
INDIA’S APEX drug regulator is Committee(SEC)forCOVID-19re- this vaccine for low- and middle- nts in hotspot cities like Mumbai quarter of the next year,” Poona- agencies in a legal case. the non-personal data arising ticipants, such as data principal,
likely to take up Serum Institute lated proposals may meet on the income countries. andPune,asitwouldgivethefirm wallasaid.SIIintendstomanufac- Some experts, however, be- fromsuchsensitivepersonaldata datacustodian,anddatatrustees.
of India’s (SII) request to start hu- matter Tuesday or Wednesday, Last Monday, encouraging a better idea of the effectiveness ture around 60-70 million doses lievethatproposedrestrictionson may be considered as sensitive “Regulation must be clear and
mantrialsforAstraZenecaandthe the official added. If the SEC ap- preliminarydatafromearlystage of the vaccine candidate. amonthofthevaccine,whichitis international data transfers and non-personal data,” it said. concise to provide certainty to its
University of Oxford’s COVID-19 proves the application, SII will be trialsofthevaccinecandidate,de- “With the government fast calling Covishield, and plans to requirementsoflocaldatastorage marketparticipants,andmustde-
vaccine candidate in India in the able to conduct trials on thou- velopedbyUniversityofOxfordin tracking everything, we are hop- manufacture around 300-400 could disrupt companies’ opera- Aretherepenalprovisionsfor marcaterolesandresponsibilities
first half of the week, The Indian sands of Indian participants in collaboration with AstraZeneca, ing to get approvals soon, post million doses by the year’s end. tions,aswellasincreasethecosts misuseof non-personaldata? of participants in the regulatory
Express has learnt. Augusttotestthesafetyandeffec- waspublishedintheLancetmed- which we will begin Phase III hu- Based on Serum’s agreement of providing services in India. Unlike the Personal Data framework. The report is unclear
On Saturday, the Pune-head- tivenessof thevaccinecandidate. ical journal. Poonawalla said at mantrialsinIndiaaroundAugust. withAstraZeneca,thefirmwillbe “Cross-border data transfers Protection Bill draft, the current onthesecounts,andrequirespub-
quartered firm approached the When contacted, the insti- thattimethatSIIwouldapproach For the phase III trials, we plan to distributing50percentofthevac- have become essential to secure frameworkonnon-personaldata licconsultationandmoredeliber-
Central Drugs Standard Control tute’s CEO Adar Poonawalla de- CDSCOforapprovaltoconductli- have4,000-5,000peopleinIndia. cinetoIndia,whiletheremaining thebenefitsofavibrantglobaldig- is just a suggestive draft on the ation,” said Kazim Rizvi, founder
Organisation(CDSCO)withitsap- clined to comment on the devel- censuretrialsthefollowingweek. “Based on the success of the will be given to GAVI countries. ital economy. The framework things that could be included if ofpolicythink-tankTheDialogue.

BRIEFLY Resilient India Inc weathers tumultuous June quarter

Amendments 403 infra projects show cost 1,686: Projects factories,engineeringmajorslike cent y-o-y — were reassuring, down costs; the costs per tonne
worth `150 crore and ENSECONOMICBUREAU
overruns of `4.05 lakh crore Larsen & Toubro (L&T) would be withthemanagementattributing fell 7 per cent y-o-y as the lower
toInd-AS above monitored by the
Ministry of Statistics
NEWDELHI,JULY26 aimingforhigherlevelsof execu-
tioninthecomingquarters;atL&T
it to faster increase in rural de-
mand. MD & CEO Sanjiv Mehta
freight, power and deferment of
certain flexible costs more than
New Delhi: The Centre has As many as 403 infrastructure projects have been hit by cost and Programme IN A quarter when business was the workforce has increased to has,ofcourse,cautionedthenear- offset higher fixed costs.
amended certain Indian overruns of over `4.05 lakh crore owing to delays and other Implementation impacted by a nationwide lock- within 20 per cent of the com- term outlook remains uncertain BajajAutopostedbetter-than-
Accounting Standards (Ind- reasons, according to the MoSPI’s report for March 2020 (MoSPI) down, a shortage of workers and pany’s peak requirements. and that it is difficult to estimate expected gross margins even as
AS), including the standard a broken supply chain, India Inc Britannia, of course, managed to market growth and demand. revenues fell 60 per cent y-o-y,
relatingtolease.Ind-AS103, `20,66,771.94 CRORE: REASONSFORTIME nonetheless displayed resilience. resume operations at most of its Demandforcertainfoodproducts, thanks to an expected plunge in
116 and some other stan- Total original cost of OVERRUNS,ASREPORTED From here on, restoring the sup- manufacturing facilities in the however, could remain strong. volumes. With user-industries
dardshavebeenchangedby implementation of the 1701 BYIMPLEMENTING plychain,will,however,beeasier very first week of the lockdown. Britannia, which turned in a virtually shut, steelmakers bore
Corporate Affairs Ministry. projects AGENCIES: than reviving demand. A stellar set of numbers from strongperformanceinQ1FY21as the brunt of the inactivity.
■ Delays in land acquisition, The star performers in the Infosys and a rich $7-billion deal it was able to overcome logistical JSWSteelreportedalossinthe
Dieselprice `24,71,947.66 CRORE:
Anticipated cost of
forest clearance and supply of
equipment
three months to June, among the
early birds, were the software
haul at TCS is evidence the IT sec-
tor will bounce back quickly; the
challengestomeetthesurgingde-
mand,shouldcontinuetodowell
quarter,thefirstsinceQ3FY16,on
the back of a 25 per cent fall in
nears`82/litre implementation of all projects ■ Fund constraints
■ Geological surprises
firmsbutmakersoffoodproducts
and consumer goods also exe-
TCS management is confident it
can match last December quar-
even after the unlocking.
Companies have managed to
shipmentsanda22percentdrop
in realisations. Analysts are not
NewDelhi:DieselpriceDelhi
`4,05,175.72 CRORE: cuted efficiently to cash in on de- ter’s rupee revenues in the com- reinincosts,whereverpossible,to sureifthecompanywillbeableto
Overall cost overruns, i.e. ■ Geo-mining conditions
Sunday inched towards the mand,muchofwhichsurfacedin ing winter quarter. While staples protect their margins. Despite maintainsalesvolumesfor2020-
19.66 per cent of original ■ Slow progress in civil works
Rs82perlitre-markfollow- Juneasconsumersmadepent-up businesses were not expected to slowervolumeswhichfell33per 21atthepreviousyear’slevels,as
cost ■ Shortage of labour Source: MoSPI/PTI
ing the second consecutive purchases. With migrant labour fare too badly, Hindustan Unile- cent y-o-y, ACC’s results beat ex- the management has said it
dayofpricehike,asthefuel’s making its way back to work at ver’svolumes—afallofonly7per pectations as it was able to bring would. FE
price was increased by 15
paise per litre. PTI

‘Alibaba,Jack
‘1,474 untraceable risky exporters may face stern action’ Review of Customs exemptions, laws:
Masummoned’ PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA IGST refund is suspended in all such cases where
porter in a two-stage verification
withhardly3-4documentsasper CBIC invites suggestions from stakeholders
NEWDELHI,JULY26 requirement, sources added. The CBIC has invited com- “In this context, suggestions
New Delhi: An Indian court
there is adverse report post-verification about the Data analytics by CBIC’s PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA ments on the same by August 21. are invited in respect of review of
hassummonedAlibabaand THE REVENUE department is exporter or his suppliers, as per sources Directorate General of Risk NEWDELHI,JULY26 A comprehensive review would existing Customs exemption no-
itsfounderJackMainacase planningsternactionagainst1,474 Management (DGARM) which is be undertaken by September. tifications in prescribed format
inwhichaformeremployee ‘risky exporters’ who were un- followedbyfield-levelverification KICKSTARTINGTHEprocesstore- Finance Minister Nirmala below. The suggestions may in-
in India says he was wrong- traceablebutclaimedGSTrefunds So far, IGST refunds of more is available to genuine exporters byCGSTofficershavefound1,474 view existing exemptions and Sitharaman in the FY21 Budget clude: The need for review of a
fully fired after objecting to worthRs2,029crore,sourcessaid. than Rs 1.37 lakh crore have been to resolve refund related issues, ‘risky’ exporters including 7 Star laws of Customs, the Central had announced that a review of particular notification, Amend-
what he saw as censorship Integrated GST (IGST) refund disbursedandonlyaboutRs2,026 theysaid,addingCustomsofficials ExporterswhotriedtoclaimIGST BoardofIndirectTaxes(CBIC)has existing Customs exemption no- ment in wording of the notifica-
and fake news on company is suspended in all such cases crore is pending, which is being have been sensitised to expedite refundof Rs2,029crorewereun- invited suggestions from stake- tifications would be undertaken tion for bringing clarity, Conso-
apps, documents seen by where there is adverse report processedasperlaw,sourcessaid. refunds to genuine exporters in traceable at their declared place holdersonaligningtheruleswith to identify those notifications lidation of similar entries and
Reuters showed. REUTERS post-verification about the ex- A grievance redressal mecha- these difficult COVID-19 days. ofbusinessandthereforetheirre- the needs of changing times and which may have outlived their Extent of use of the notification,”
porter or his suppliers, they said. nismwitha24x7mobilehelpline The CBIC verifies each ex- fund has been rejected. ease of doing business. utility or have become outdated. the CBIC said.

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Going ahead with England tour to help resumption of cricket: PCB

Pakistan Cricket Board came under intense pressure on whether to send its team for the England series or not
after 10 players tested positive for COVID-19 but eventually went ahead with the tour to ensure resumption
of the game amid the pandemic, a top official said. PTI

Strange bedfellows United 3rd, Chelsea 4th

Two matches, which had a bearing on each other, decided Champions League qualification
Idiosyncratic opening pair of Burns & Sibley put England in a commanding position THINK OF the greatest Premier League fi-
nal matchday and Martin Tyler screaming
SANDIPG Sergio Aguero’snamein2011-12comes to
JULY26 mind. The Argentine scored and won the
Premier League for Manchester City with
AT THE end of the third day, the outcome of probably the last kick of the season.
the match is still unknown but it would re- There was no such once-in-a-lifetime
quire an epic rescue act from the West Indies thriller as the longest Premier League sea-
to retain the Wisden Trophy. The script ran son concluded on Sunday. The end of
perfectlyforEngland—theywinkledoutWest Liverpool’s 30-year title wait had slightly
Indies for 197 runs and seized a lead of 172 diminished the excitement even as
runs, to which they added another 226 runs Manchester United beat Leicester City to
and set the tourists a target of 399. qualify for next season’s UEFA Champions
Thecornerstonewastheiropeners—Rory League and Chelsea joined them in the
BurnsandDomSibley,puttingtogethertheir continent’s elite club competition.
first100-runassociationintheir 10thouting, However, the absence of supporters in the
the first by England’s openers in the post- stands did take something away from the Manchester United’s Jesse Lingard (right) celebrates with team-mates after
Alastair Cook era. That they average 43 spectacle of the final day of the Premier scoring the decisive second goal against Leicester City on Sunday. Reuters
should make the England management League.
happyand relievedthattheyhavefinallyun-
earthed a reliable pair of openers, though BLUESDRAWFIRSTBLOOD how managed to slam the ball home de- Meanwhile,Chelseawerecruisingwith
sterner tests could await them. CHELSEA 1-0 WOLVES LEICESTER 0-0 spite the Wolves defence having the a two-goal advantage and even the intro-
England’stravailsatthetophavebeenduly UNITED chance to clear it. Four minutes of magic ductionofWolveswingerAdamaTraoredid
documented. Though the flashpoint is often Nerves were the theme of the first half and Chelsea’s pockets were looking heav- nothing to change the status quo at
pinpointed to the retirement of Cook, the rot DomSibley(right)andRoryBurnsfashionedtheirfirst100-runstandinthe10thinnings. for Chelsea. The Blues’ defence looked the ier by £50 million. Stamford Bridge.
had set in much earlier. Since Nick Compton part, but just when the half at Stamford On the other side, Manchester United
andCookpartedwaysin2012—theyaveraged
57.93 — the search for his other half has been Playing into their hands, West Indies missing an attempted whip of the leg-side.
Bridgewascomingtoanend,cameMason
Mount. One of the finds of the season for
were enjoying their best spell of the game
but couldn’t find the net. As things stood,
LINGARD WRAPS UCL SPOT UP
asendlessasitwasfutile.England’shighestrun- bowled as though they had surrendered all Almost identically, he winkled out of Frank Lampard, Mount came up with a Chelsea and United were going through CHELSEA 2-0 WOLVES
getterhadassociatedwitheightpartners. hopes. Kemar Roach seemed disillusioned, Rahkeem Cornwall two later. The planning pearler of a freekick right on the edge of but it was the Blues who had some sem- LEICESTER 0-2 UNITED
Apart from the fleeting promise Haseeb Shannon Gabriel dispirited. Together, they was not elaborate but offered a peep into the Wolves box one minute into injury blance of a guarantee with a 2-0 lead as A day that should have showcased the
Hameed showed, they averaged 67.6, none of wasted the new ball, a flurry of wickets was Broad’scleverness.Withdeliveriesoutsidethe time to edge Chelsea ahead. things at Leicester remained 0-0. anxietyofdifferentsetsofsupportersacross
hisnew-ballaccomplicesstuckonormanaged the only way West Indies would have off-stump, he encouraged batsmen to move Meanwhile,PaulPogbawaspullingthe 90minuteswasmirroredintheRedDevils’
anaverageof morethan37runs.
Even Burns, who has featured in only 18
bounced back into the match. They seemed
content in stifling the runs, against a pair
across, he didn’t bother trading a couple of
boundaries in the bargain, before he would
strings of a Manchester United midfield,
supplying two lovely lobs to Bruno
FERNANDES SAVES UNITED YET lastminutesonthepitch.Holdingontodear
life with a one-goal advantage, United put
Tests,hadopenedwithtwoothersonmorethan of openers who were disinclined to force slip in a straighter, fuller delivery. The wicket Fernandes and Marcus Rashford. AGAIN everythingontheline.VictorLindelof,Pogba,
five instances, Keaton Jennings and Joe Denly, the scoring rate. of Kemar Roach sealed his 18th five-wicket Fernandes would find the net but the goal CHELSEA 2-0 WOLVES BrandonWilliams–younameaManchester
averaging 29.33 and 21.66 respectively. Finally, They just waited for things to happen, just haulbeforeheaddedShaneDowrichtomake would be chalked off for offside, while LEICESTER 0-1 UNITED Unitedplayerandhehadayellowcard–ei-
heseemstohavefoundanidealpartnerinSibley. as England did in the morning, until Stuart it 6/31, his best since January 2016. Rashford sold his defender a dummy but A hallmark of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s therfortimewastingorforatacklethatpo-
They are an idiosyncratic pair, but their monu- Broad interfered, which has become theme Yet again, West Indies would rue losing failed to put United in front. 1-0 ahead at Manchester United is the high line of press tentially prevented a goal.
mental powers of concentration could lay the music of the series. And again he hardly wicketsinacluster—fourwicketswhileadding Stamford Bridge and 0-0 at King Power atthetop.Andityieldeddividendsyetagain Leicesterhadtheirfairshareof chances
foundationformoredaringstroke-makerslike hummedafalsenote. 19runs.ThenBroadlikestogethiswicketsina Stadium. withLeicesterlosingtheballintheirownhalf. togetbackintothegame.Butitwasallover
JoeRoot,BenStokesandOlliePopetoblossom. Considering his can’t-do-no-wrong form, rush,especiallywithaDukeballinhishandand With Anthony Martial through on goal, it whentheirgoalkeeperKasperSchmeichel
Thepossibilityofheavyspellsofdownpour
didn’t prompt a change of methods. They ap-
itwasbizarrewhyhewasleftoutofbowlingin
the first hour, a period wherein Jason Holder
cloud cover over his head. It’s Broad ability to
conjuresomethingfromnothing,inanidlemo-
GIROUD HUNTS WOLVES DOWN seemedliketheFrenchmanwouldfinishthe
move. The Leicester centre-backs, calm
failed to clear the ball. United substitute
Jesse Lingard allowed the red side of
proachedthetarget-settingprocessastheygen- andShaneDowrichstuckinandclearedoffthe ment, when the game is drifting away from CHELSEA 2-0 WOLVES throughout the evening, lunged for the ball, Manchester a sigh of relief as they made it
erally do, seeing off the new ball and accumu- runstoavoidfollowon.Oldschoolmates,they themthatmakeshisspecial. Andhehasmade LEICESTER 0-0 UNITED missedandtookdownMartial.Theonlyde- totheChampionsLeagueaftersecuringthe
lating the runs. At no point did they try to negotiated Chris Woakes and Jofra Archer allthedifferencetothisEnglishsideandtheyare Wolves,havingresignedthemselvesto cision for VAR to make was whether it was thirdspotinthePremierLeaguetablewith
manufacture runs, which did raise some eye- stoutlyandateintothedeficit,adding68runs. within the sight of laying on hands on the going in at the break a goal down, forgot to Johnny Evans or Wes Morgan who got a 66 points. On the other side, Chelsea had a
brows, what with the rain lurking around. But However, the reintroduction of the old firm, WisdenTrophybeforeitbecomestheproperty play till the whistle. It was Mount again, chunkof Martial’sleg. calmer 45 minutes and finished their sea-
theformtheirpacequartetareenjoyingatthe JamesAndersonandBroadchangedthemood of Lord’sMuseum. this time turning provider and delivering BrunoFernandes,whohadlookedfatigued son with a 2-0 win and the same points
moment coupled with the instability of West of themorning. BRIEF SCORES: England 369 and 226/2 de- a through ball to Olivier Giroud. The throughout the game, stepped up to take the tally as United. But an inferior goal differ-
Indies batsmen, they would believe they have IttookBroadonlythreeballsintohisthird clared (Rory Burns 90, Joe Root 68 not out, Frenchman took a touch that seemed to £50millionpenalty— ChampionsLeaguespot ential saw them take fourth spot, rather
enough time to bundle the visitors and claim spelltoinflictthefirstblow—JasonHolder,the Dom Sibley 56) vs West Indies 197 and 10/2 have taken him away from goal but some- isworththatamount—andscored. than the third. SHASHANKNAIR
theseries,evenif rainintervenes. West Indies skipper leg-before the wicket, (Stuart Broad 2/8). WI need 389 runs to win.

OVER THE HEDGE by Michael Fry & T Lewis

CROSSWORD 4180 DAYTODAY BY PETER VIDAL
ARIES (Mar 21 - Apr 20) LIBRA (Sep 24 - Oct 23)
Today it’s Uranus, There seems little
that most distant doubt that home and
and surprising of family affairs
celestial bodies, will dominate your
which gives you the chance thoughts and feelings today.
to skip the normal Even if you are determined to
preliminaries in putting your give the highest priority
ambitions into effect. Cash to work, it will be deep
questions will preoccupy you and fundamental issues
later on, perhaps with which demand your
unexpected results. attention, including your
domestic relationships.
TAURUS (Apr 21 - May 21)
It’s fair to say that SCORPIO (Oct 24 - Nov 23)
your planetary Some celestial
patterns are indications suggest
favourable, that you may be
CALVIN & HOBBES by Bill Watterson all the more so if your called away from
inclination is generally home, possibly on account of
inspired, visionary even. The work or a similar responsibility.
closer you come to practical In any event, the main goal is
responsibilities, the greater to communicate clearly and
the need for additional care make yourself properly
ACROSS Down and caution. understood. Someone else may
1 Throw over an open drain (5) 2 Introduced the new resident owe you an apology, but don’t
8 Players’ entrance at the (8) GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) hold your breath.
football ground? (4,4) 3 Fairytale prince gets marching Partners can’t read
9 Writing having points to order (8) your mind, so tell SAGITTARIUS (Nov 24 - Dec 22)
express (5) 4 One Nigel’s created (6) them what you Business affairs will
10 Such people want knowledge 5 Wicked impulse that makes think. If your aims occupy your
- then may not want it men do havoc (5) are professional, and if you’re attention. Your
(8) 6 Where some find rest at planning a spot of personal financial stars are
11 First to get the gun ready length? (5) promotion you could do worse looking considerably less
(5) 7 Sound harsh but also than set your sights on the next complex than this time last
12 A swimmer returning for sounding wonderful (5) few days. You may just receive a year, and today you may cut
shelter (3) 12 The French go over a meadow windfall, even if only on a across a whole series of
16 Occasion when spirits are (3) modest scale. irrelevant hangovers like the
called for (6) 13 A female you hear (3) proverbial hot knife
CANCER (June 22 - July 23)
17 What bleach will do when it
is brought in (6)
14 Two adjacent pieces in a
gradual sequence (3,2,3)
MARVIN by Tom Armstrong The Moon is
through butter.
normally such a CAPRICORN (Dec 23 - Jan 20)
18 A church expert (3) 15 Found its target upsetting the
sympathetic planet, The ball is in your
23 Possibly beat a retreat women (4,4)
but today it leaves court. Tackle private
(5) 19 One who docks a sailing ship
you in no doubt that it is affairs and deal with
24 Stops on board (6,2) (6)
other people who require your professional
25 Cleric who may have a prior 20 British novelist coming from
loving care and sympathy. activities only if you feel a deep
appointment (5) the US (5)
Reach out and offer the personal motivation. Romantic
26 Deceitful pair confronted (3- 21 Love to be involved in bamboo
hand of support to those in encounters and sentimental
5) craft (5)
need. They will pay you back journeys are desirable, if only
27 Wrest apart and scatter 22 Exclude use of foreign lawyers
in their own way, when because the results may be
(5) (5)
they can. much more delightful
than expected.
SolutionsCrossword4179:Across:1Nightnurse,6Deal,10Sweet,11Separates,12 LEO (July 24 - Aug 23)
Increase,13Firms,15Evident,17Edifice,19Unhooks,21Tripper,22Yahoo,24 There’s no escape AQUARIUS (Jan 21- Feb 19)
Lapidary,27Pizzicato,28Alibi,29Tall,30Martiallaw.Down:1Nest,2Greenwich,3 from busy planetary Any feelings of
Tutor,4Upstart,5Supreme,7Enter,8Losesheart,9Graffiti,14Beautyspot,16
Economic,18Impartial,20Sultana,21Taproot,23Hazel,25Drama,26View. pictures and hence uncertainty or
no way to avoid confusion should be
your responsibilities. The best short-lived, and by
course may be to get as much late tomorrow you could be
achieved as you possibly can, back in the driving seat. In the
JUMBLED WORDS DifficultyLevel5s
in order to give yourself more
scope for relaxation tomorrow
meantime, remember that
you’re now into a fantastically
Instructions and the day after. Have a break. productive long-term cycle. The
SOLUTION SUDOKU 4181

Givenbelowarefourjumbledwords.Solvethejumblestomakeproperwordsandmovethemto TosolveaSudokupuzzle, Put your feet up. world will judge you by your
therespectivesquaresbelow.Selectthelettersintheshadedsquaresandjumblethemtoget everydigitfrom1to9 deeds rather than your words.
VIRGO (Aug 24 - Sep 23)
SUDOKU 4182

theanswerforthegivenquip. mustappearineachofthe
Whenwalkingthroughthe’valleyofshadows’,remember,ashadowis___bya____.-Austin You may see PISCES (Feb 20 - Mar 20)
nineverticalcolumns,in creative self- Sometimes you just
O’Malley(4,.,5)
eachoftheninehorizontal expression have to pay
ENAIS AIRUCL rowsandineachofthe as a voluntary more attention to
nineboxes. activity, but the planets your own needs.
don’t agree. Today, in so many After a long period of
little ways, you may be social responsibility, you may
ITUTT NRUYGH DifficultyLevel
compelled to be an individual begin to streamline your
and be true to your own personal commitments. If
1s=Veryeasy;2s=Easy; utterly unique talents. you’re typical of your sign,
3s=Medium;4s=Hard; Employers please note. And your inclination is to
Light. - Austin O’Malley 5s=VeryHard;6s= family members please withdraw from a particular
Answer: When walking through the ’valley of shadows’, remember, a shadow is cast by a Genius take care. public arena.
SOLUTION: ANISE, TUTTI, URACIL, HUNGRY

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