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A s part of their strategy to keep the heat on the Government over the farm sector Bills, Opposition parties on Wednesday requested President Ram Nath Kovind not to give his assent to the contentious legislations and conveyed to him that their passage in the Rajya Sabha was “unconstitutional”. The Opposition leaders represented by Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad met the President to submit a memo- randum on behalf of MPs who boycotted the last three days of the Monsoon Session. The Government should have consulted all parties, farmer leaders before bringing the farm Bills, Azad said after meeting the President. The Bills are now pending for the President’s approval. It was earlier decided that leaders of five Opposition par- ties — Congress, TMC, Samajwadi Party, TRS and DMK — will meet the President to raise the issue but due to Covid-19 safety proto- cols the parties decided to sub- mit the memorandum through Azad. “The Constitution was undermined ...We have given a representation to the President that the farm Bills have been passed unconstitutionally and he should return these Bills,” Azad said briefing the media. W ithout the participation of Opposition members, the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed three crucial labour sector Bills which will influence lives and livelihood of millions of “blue collar “workers. The new legislations will, among other things, allow a corporate to hire and fire “blue collared” workers at will. The protesting MPs had written to Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu that the con- tentious Bills should not be passed “unilaterally. It will be a blot on democracy.” The labour Bills form part of the labour reforms move. The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, the Industrial Relations Code 2020 and the Code on Social Security, 2020 were earlier passed by the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. These Bills will now be sent for President Ram Nath Kovind’s assent and then they will become law. Introducing the Bills in the Upper House, Labour Minister Santosh Gangwar said they will provide a “safe envi- ronment” for workers. “Social security benefits have also been added. This will be in sync with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s resolve for a universal social security,” he added. “The Congress and like- minded parties held a march from the Gandhi statue to the Ambedkar statue on the Parliament premises protesting the “anti-farmers, anti-workers Bills that have been rubber- stamped in Parliament in the most undemocratic manner by the Modi Government,” tweeted Jairam Ramesh. W idening the scope of its ongoing investigations into the Sushant Singh Rajput death-related drug case, the Narcotic Control Bureau (NCB) on Wednesday sum- moned Bollywood actresses Deepika Padukone, Sara Ali Khan, Shraddha Kapoor and Rakul Preeet Singh and fashion designer Simone Khambatta. On a day when its officials questioned the late actor’s tal- ent manager Jaya Saha for the third consecutive day and also Udta Punjab and Ghajini pro- ducer Madhu Mantena Varma, the NCB issued summons to five Bollywood personalities in connection with the probe in the Sushant death-related drug probe and the larger Bollywood-drug mafia nexus. NCBs Deputy Director (Operations) KPS Malhotra confirmed that his organisation had sent out summons to Deepika, Sara, Shraddha and Rakul. Official sources said that the NCB had also called Simone, Deepika’s manager Karishma Prakash and Sushant’s former Manager and Shruti Modi for questioning. In what is being seen as an apparent deviation from the very objective behind the Sushant’s death-related drug case, the NCB appeared to be going whole hog against the Bollywood-drug mafia nexus. As per the information that trickled out of its office, the NCB has summoned Simone, Rakul, Shruti Modi on September 24, while Deepika and her manager Karishma had been called for questioning on September 25. Sara and Shradhha have been sum- moned for questioning on September 26. Deepika’s questioning by the NCB, which has aroused considerable interest among the people across the country, should be seen in the context of the information that sur- faced during the questioning of actress-accused Rhea Chakraborty in the drug case. Karishma works with Jaya Saha, with whom Rhea Chakraborty had chatted about CBD oil, as a manager in Kwan talent management agency. During the questioning, the NCB had reportedly quizzed Jaya if she had any knowledge about Karishma procuring drugs for Deepika Padukone. The NCB had retrieved Deepika’s WhatsApp chats with Karishma in which the two were seen discussing drugs. Earlier, Jaya’s chats with Rhea Chakraborty about CBD oil were also retrieved by NCB. After being summoned for questioning, Karishma did not turn up at the NCB office on Tuesday for questioning, saying that she needed some more time, while her talent manage- ment agency’s CEO Dhruv Chitgopekar offered to coop- erate with the agency in the investigations. According to sources, the NCB investigations have thrown up a WhatsApp chat of 2017 between D (Deepika Padukone) and K (Karishma). In the chat, Deepika reported- ly asks Karishna: “You have Maal?, Karishma responds say- ing: “Yes, but at home. I am at Bandra. Later Krishma tells Deepika that one Amit is bring- ing it to a high-end restaurant “koko” at Lower Parel. Deepika seeks to confirm if it is hash not weed. S audi Arabia on Wednesday suspended all flights travel to and from India in the wake of the increasing number of Covid-19 cases. In a circular issued, Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said it was “suspending travel to and from the following countries (India, Brazil and Argentina) including any person who has been in any of the mentioned countries above in the last 14 days prior to their arrival to the Kingdom”. India and Brazil are among the worst affected countries due to coronavirus pandemic. India stood at second place, followed by Brazil in the case of coron- avirus cases. However, passengers who have official Government invi- tations have been excluded from this suspension. The GACA circular — titled “Suspension of travel to coun- tries where the Covid-19 virus has outbreak” was marked to all the airlines and chartered flight companies operating at the Saudi Arabia’s airports. In March this year, Saudi Arabia had suspended all flights from and to India due to spread in coronavirus cases. Saudi Arabia and the UAE host a significant Indian migrant population. Five days back, Air India Express had said the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority (DCAA) suspended its flights for 24 hours for bringing two passengers with Covid-positive certificates on August 28 and September 4. Hong Kong also banned Air India flights from Sunday till October 3 after a few pas- sengers on its flight on Friday tested positive for Covid-19 post arrival According to rules of the UAE Government, every pas- senger travelling from India is required to bring an original Covid-negative certificate. A s expected for the last sev- eral weeks, Bihar Director General of Police (DGP) Gupteshwar Pandey has final- ly taken voluntary retirement from service and is all set to plunge into politics. There are speculation that Pandey will join the Janata Dal(U) and contest either the Assembly elections or Lok Sabha bypoll from Valmikinagar in north Bihar. Pandey’s request seeking voluntary retirement was approved by Governor Phagu Chauhan, a notification issued by the State Home Department said. Speaking to mediapersons on Wednesday, Pandey said, “I have not joined any political party as of now. If I do, I will tell you about it. As far as social work is concerned, I can do it without entering politics as well.” He added, “I have worked for 34 years with honesty and without bias, and now people are questioning me. I want to tell them that I was devoted to my duty.” The Shiv Sena has slammed Pandey for “running a political agenda” over the Sushant Singh Rajput case. T he Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday clari- fied that it has not given any direction to the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to issue a notice to the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar over his poll affidavits. The EC’s statement came a day after Pawar said the Income Tax department has served him a notice in connection with his poll affidavits submit- ted to the poll panel. “... It is stated that Election Commission of India has not issued any such direction to CBDT to issue notice to Pawar,” the EC said in its statement. While expressing solidari- ty with eight Rajya Sabha mem- bers suspended over chaos during a vote on controversial farm Bills, Pawar, 79, accused the Centre of pursuing an agenda against political oppo- nents as he referred to tax notices. New Delhi: Doctors and environment experts believe that extreme levels of air pollution in the national cap- ital during winter is likely to aggravate the COVID-19 situation in the city and pose a serious challenge to the government. Every winter, Delhi’s air quality dips to a dangerous low due to many reasons, including the city’s geographic location, unfavourable weather, stubble burn- ing and local sources of pollution. New Delhi : Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia was hospi- talised on Wednesday due to coron- avirus infection, sources said. The 48- year-old Aam Aadmi Party leader was admitted to the state-run LNJP Hospital here at around 4 PM following com- plaints of low oxygen levels and fever. He has been kept under observation, they said. T he Centre informed the Supreme Court on Wednesday that it has prima facie found violation of the pro- gramme code by Sudarshan TV’s Bindas Bol show and has issued a notice to the channel. The SC said the steps taken by the Government in pur- suance to the show cause notice against the channel will be subject to the orders of the court. Since the notice has been issued on Wednesday, the hearing is deferred to October 5, the court said. T he Supreme Court on Wednesday directed a Delhi Legislative Assembly panel not to take coercive action against Facebook India VP and MD Ajit Mohan till October 15 in connection with a summon asking him to depose before it with regard to North-East Delhi riots. Delhi Assembly’s peace and harmony committee had issued a notice to Facebook India vice president and man- aging director in connection with complaints accusing the social media giant of deliber- ately not taking action to curb hateful content on its plat- form. New Delhi: Minister of State for Railways and Karnataka BJP MP Suresh Angadi passed away on Wednesday, days after he tested positive for Covid-19. The 65-year-old passed away around 8 pm at the AIIMS trauma centre which has been converted into a ded- icated Covid-19 facility, sources at the hospital said. A fourth-term MP from Belagavi, Angadi is the first Union Minister to have died of coronavirus. At least six MLAs and three MPs have earlier suc- cumbed to it. Angadi had on September 11 himself announced on microblogging site Twitter that he had contracted the disease. The MP from Belagavi had requested all those who came in close contact with him over the last few days to monitor their health and get tested in case of any symptoms. T he much-awaited report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India into the 60,000 crore Rafale fight- er jet deal has said the French manufacturer Dassault and MBDA are yet to honour their commitment about offset clause to the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). The offset clause stipulates the foreign vendor has to plough back 30 per cent of the contract price into the Indian defence and aerospace indus- try. In the Rafale deal, the limit was raised to 50 per cent to enable the Indian industry to tie up with world class foreign companies and gain first world technology. The Government watch- dog said on Wednesday it stud- ied 17 deals inked in the last one decade to analyse the effi- cacy of the offsets clause intro- duced in 2005. It said the Defence Ministry has to over- haul the policy as the offset pol- icy has not yielded the desired results. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has repeatedly alleged that the Government favoured a private Indian company for granting the offsets in the Rafale deal. The main Opposition party also claimed that company was given the offsets contract worth over 30,000 crore. The CAG report said in many cases it was found that the foreign vendors made var- ious offset commitments to qualify for the main supply contract but later were not earnest about fulfilling these commitments. “For instance in the offset contract relating to 36 Medium Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA), the vendors M/s Dassault Aviation and M/s MBDA initially proposed (September 2015) to discharge 30 per cent of their offset obligation by offering high technology to the DRDO. The DRDO wanted to obtain tech- nical assistance for the indige- nous development of engine (Kaveri) for the light combat aircraft. Till date the vendor has not confirmed the transfer of this technology,” the CAG then noted. Giving background of the offset policy adopted in 2005, the CAG said it was applicable for all capital purchases above 300 crore. The foreign ven- dor was required to invest at least 30 per cent of the value of the purchase, in India. This investment could be made avenues like foreign direct investment, offering of free transfer of technology to Indian firms, purchase of eligible products manufactured by Indian firms (exports). For the discharge of these offsets the foreign vendor had to select an Indian firm as a partner (Indian Offsets Partner or IOPs). From 2005 till March 2018, 46 offset contracts had been signed with foreign vendors, valuing 66,427 crore. Under these contracts, by December 2018, 19,223 crore worth of offsets should have been dis- charged by the vendors. However, the offsets claimed to have been dis- charged by them was only 11,396 crore, which was only 59 per cent of the commitment. Further, only 48 per cent (5,457 crore) of these offset claims submitted by the ven- dors were accepted by the ministry.

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    As part of their strategy tokeep the heat on theGovernment over the farmsector Bills, Opposition partieson Wednesday requestedPresident Ram Nath Kovindnot to give his assent to thecontentious legislations andconveyed to him that theirpassage in the Rajya Sabha was“unconstitutional”.

    The Opposition leadersrepresented by Congress leaderGhulam Nabi Azad met thePresident to submit a memo-randum on behalf of MPs whoboycotted the last three days ofthe Monsoon Session.

    The Government shouldhave consulted all parties,farmer leaders before bringingthe farm Bills, Azad said aftermeeting the President. TheBills are now pending for thePresident’s approval.

    It was earlier decided thatleaders of five Opposition par-ties — Congress, TMC,Samajwadi Party, TRS andDMK — will meet thePresident to raise the issue butdue to Covid-19 safety proto-cols the parties decided to sub-mit the memorandum throughAzad.

    “The Constitution wasundermined ...We have given arepresentation to the Presidentthat the farm Bills have beenpassed unconstitutionally andhe should return these Bills,”Azad said briefing the media.

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    Without the participationof Opposition members,the Rajya Sabha on Wednesdaypassed three crucial laboursector Bills which will influencelives and livelihood of millionsof “blue collar “workers.

    The new legislations will,among other things, allow acorporate to hire and fire “bluecollared” workers at will.

    The protesting MPs hadwritten to Chairman MVenkaiah Naidu that the con-tentious Bills should not bepassed “unilaterally. It will be a

    blot on democracy.” The labourBills form part of the labourreforms move.

    The Occupational Safety,Health and WorkingConditions Code, 2020, theIndustrial Relations Code 2020and the Code on SocialSecurity, 2020 were earlierpassed by the Lok Sabha onTuesday. These Bills will nowbe sent for President RamNath Kovind’s assent and thenthey will become law.

    Introducing the Bills inthe Upper House, LabourMinister Santosh Gangwar saidthey will provide a “safe envi-

    ronment” for workers. “Socialsecurity benefits have also beenadded. This will be in sync withPrime Minister NarendraModi’s resolve for a universalsocial security,” he added.

    “The Congress and like-minded parties held a marchfrom the Gandhi statue to theAmbedkar statue on theParliament premises protestingthe “anti-farmers, anti-workersBills that have been rubber-stamped in Parliament in themost undemocratic mannerby the Modi Government,”tweeted Jairam Ramesh.

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    Widening the scope of itsongoing investigationsinto the Sushant Singh Rajputdeath-related drug case, theNarcotic Control Bureau(NCB) on Wednesday sum-moned Bollywood actressesDeepika Padukone, Sara AliKhan, Shraddha Kapoor andRakul Preeet Singh and fashiondesigner Simone Khambatta.

    On a day when its officialsquestioned the late actor’s tal-ent manager Jaya Saha for thethird consecutive day and alsoUdta Punjab and Ghajini pro-ducer Madhu Mantena Varma,the NCB issued summons tofive Bollywood personalities inconnection with the probe inthe Sushant death-related drugprobe and the largerBollywood-drug mafia nexus.

    NCBs Deputy Director(Operations) KPS Malhotraconfirmed that his organisationhad sent out summons toDeepika, Sara, Shraddha andRakul. Official sources saidthat the NCB had also calledSimone, Deepika’s managerKarishma Prakash andSushant’s former Manager andShruti Modi for questioning.

    In what is being seen as anapparent deviation from thevery objective behind theSushant’s death-related drugcase, the NCB appeared to begoing whole hog against theBollywood-drug mafia nexus.

    As per the informationthat trickled out of its office, theNCB has summoned Simone,

    Rakul, Shruti Modi onSeptember 24, while Deepikaand her manager Karishmahad been called for questioningon September 25. Sara andShradhha have been sum-moned for questioning onSeptember 26.

    Deepika’s questioning bythe NCB, which has arousedconsiderable interest amongthe people across the country,should be seen in the contextof the information that sur-faced during the questioning ofactress-accused RheaChakraborty in the drug case.

    Karishma works with JayaSaha, with whom RheaChakraborty had chatted aboutCBD oil, as a manager in Kwantalent management agency.During the questioning, theNCB had reportedly quizzedJaya if she had any knowledgeabout Karishma procuringdrugs for Deepika Padukone.

    The NCB had retrievedDeepika’s WhatsApp chats with

    Karishma in which the twowere seen discussing drugs.Earlier, Jaya’s chats with RheaChakraborty about CBD oilwere also retrieved by NCB.

    After being summoned forquestioning, Karishma did notturn up at the NCB office onTuesday for questioning, sayingthat she needed some moretime, while her talent manage-ment agency’s CEO DhruvChitgopekar offered to coop-erate with the agency in theinvestigations.

    According to sources, theNCB investigations havethrown up a WhatsApp chat of2017 between D (DeepikaPadukone) and K (Karishma).In the chat, Deepika reported-ly asks Karishna: “You haveMaal?, Karishma responds say-ing: “Yes, but at home. I am atBandra. Later Krishma tellsDeepika that one Amit is bring-ing it to a high-end restaurant“koko” at Lower Parel. Deepikaseeks to confirm if it is hash notweed.

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    Saudi Arabia on Wednesdaysuspended all flights travelto and from India in the wakeof the increasing number ofCovid-19 cases.

    In a circular issued, SaudiArabia’s General Authority ofCivil Aviation (GACA) said itwas “suspending travel to andfrom the following countries(India, Brazil and Argentina)including any person who hasbeen in any of the mentionedcountries above in the last 14days prior to their arrival to theKingdom”.

    India and Brazil are amongthe worst affected countries dueto coronavirus pandemic. Indiastood at second place, followedby Brazil in the case of coron-avirus cases.

    However, passengers whohave official Government invi-tations have been excludedfrom this suspension. TheGACA circular — titled“Suspension of travel to coun-

    tries where the Covid-19 virushas outbreak” was marked to allthe airlines and chartered flightcompanies operating at theSaudi Arabia’s airports. InMarch this year, Saudi Arabiahad suspended all flights fromand to India due to spread incoronavirus cases.

    Saudi Arabia and the UAEhost a significant Indianmigrant population. Five daysback, Air India Express hadsaid the Dubai Civil AviationAuthority (DCAA) suspendedits flights for 24 hours forbringing two passengers withCovid-positive certificates onAugust 28 and September 4.

    Hong Kong also bannedAir India flights from Sundaytill October 3 after a few pas-sengers on its flight on Fridaytested positive for Covid-19post arrival

    According to rules of theUAE Government, every pas-senger travelling from India isrequired to bring an originalCovid-negative certificate.

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    As expected for the last sev-eral weeks, Bihar DirectorGeneral of Police (DGP)Gupteshwar Pandey has final-ly taken voluntary retirementfrom service and is all set toplunge into politics.

    There are speculation thatPandey will join the JanataDal(U) and contest either theAssembly elections or LokSabha bypoll fromValmikinagar in north Bihar.

    Pandey’s request seekingvoluntary retirement wasapproved by Governor PhaguChauhan, a notification issuedby the State Home Department

    said.Speaking to mediapersons

    on Wednesday, Pandey said, “Ihave not joined any politicalparty as of now. If I do, I willtell you about it. As far as socialwork is concerned, I can do itwithout entering politics aswell.”

    He added, “I have workedfor 34 years with honesty andwithout bias, and now peopleare questioning me. I want totell them that I was devoted tomy duty.”

    The Shiv Sena hasslammed Pandey for “runninga political agenda” over theSushant Singh Rajput case.

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    The Election Commission(EC) on Wednesday clari-fied that it has not given anydirection to the Central Boardof Direct Taxes (CBDT) toissue a notice to the NationalistCongress Party (NCP) chiefSharad Pawar over his pollaffidavits.

    The EC’s statement came aday after Pawar said the IncomeTax department has servedhim a notice in connectionwith his poll affidavits submit-ted to the poll panel.

    “... It is stated that ElectionCommission of India has notissued any such direction toCBDT to issue notice to Pawar,”the EC said in itsstatement.

    While expressing solidari-ty with eight Rajya Sabha mem-bers suspended over chaosduring a vote on controversialfarm Bills, Pawar, 79, accusedthe Centre of pursuing anagenda against political oppo-nents as he referred to taxnotices.

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    New Delhi: Doctors and environment experts believethat extreme levels of air pollution in the national cap-ital during winter is likely to aggravate the COVID-19situation in the city and pose a serious challenge to thegovernment. Every winter, Delhi’s air quality dips to adangerous low due to many reasons, including the city’sgeographic location, unfavourable weather, stubble burn-ing and local sources of pollution.

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    The Centre informed theSupreme Court onWednesday that it has primafacie found violation of the pro-gramme code by SudarshanTV’s Bindas Bol show and hasissued a notice to the channel.

    The SC said the steps takenby the Government in pur-suance to the show cause noticeagainst the channel will besubject to the orders of thecourt. Since the notice hasbeen issued on Wednesday,the hearing is deferred toOctober 5, the court said.

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    New Delhi: Minister of Statefor Railways and Karnataka BJPMP Suresh Angadi passed awayon Wednesday, days after hetested positive for Covid-19.

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    A fourth-term MP fromBelagavi, Angadi is the firstUnion Minister to have died ofcoronavirus. At least six MLAsand three MPs have earlier suc-cumbed to it.

    Angadi had on September11 himself announced onmicroblogging site Twitter thathe had contracted the disease.

    The MP from Belagavi hadrequested all those who camein close contact with him overthe last few days to monitortheir health and get tested incase of any symptoms.

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    The offset clause stipulatesthe foreign vendor has toplough back 30 per cent of thecontract price into the Indiandefence and aerospace indus-try. In the Rafale deal, thelimit was raised to 50 per centto enable the Indian industry totie up with world class foreigncompanies and gain first worldtechnology.

    The Government watch-dog said on Wednesday it stud-ied 17 deals inked in the lastone decade to analyse the effi-cacy of the offsets clause intro-duced in 2005. It said theDefence Ministry has to over-haul the policy as the offset pol-icy has not yielded the desiredresults.

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    technology to the DRDO. TheDRDO wanted to obtain tech-nical assistance for the indige-nous development of engine(Kaveri) for the light combataircraft. Till date the vendor hasnot confirmed the transfer ofthis technology,” the CAG thennoted.

    Giving background of theoffset policy adopted in 2005,the CAG said it was applicablefor all capital purchases above

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    From 2005 till March 2018,46 offset contracts had beensigned with foreign vendors,valuing �66,427 crore. Underthese contracts, by December2018, �19,223 crore worth ofoffsets should have been dis-charged by the vendors.

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    Atotal of 19 Bills were passed in theone day monsoon session of theVidhan Sabha on Wednesday. The ses-sion during which the proceedingslasted a little more than three hours wasattended by 42 MLAs in the Housewhile 14 MLAs attended it virtually.

    Chief minister Trivendra SinghRawat, cabinet ministers MadanKaushik, Satpal Maharaj, SubodhUniyal, Arvind Pandey, State ministerRekha Arya, MLAs Munna SinghChauhan, Mukesh Koli and other mem-

    bers were present in the House. Amongthe opposition members, Pritam Singh,Qazi Nizamuddin, Manoj Rawat,Mamta Rakesh and independent mem-ber Pritam Singh Panwar were presentin the House.

    Addressing the media later, cabinetminister and State governmentspokesman Madan Kaushik said thatearlier during the meeting of the busi-ness advisory committee, Karan Mahraand Govind Singh Kunjwal of theCongress had stated that they wouldbring a work adjournment motion todiscuss four issues- the Covid-19 pan-demic as a disaster, law and order sit-uation, unemployment and price rise.“However, as soon as the proceedingsbegan, the Congress MLAs from theother group raised ruckus.

    They even questioned how Mahraand Kunjwal decided the issues to bediscussed. The government wanted toreply on the four important issues in theHouse so that the public would also getto know what had been done by the

    government to addressthese issues.

    Sadly, the CongressMLAs present in the Housewent to the extent of dis-respecting their own mem-bers and prevented theHouse from functioningsmoothly. All the Billstabled by the governmentwere passed after discus-sion by the Treasurybenches members as theopposition members hadleft the House,” saidKaushik.

    Total 18 bills passed.Vidhan Sabha members,

    The Uttarakhand {The UttarPradesh State Legislature (OfficersSalaries and Allowances)}(Amendment) Bill 2020, The EpidemicDiseases (Amendment) Bill,2020, TheUttarakhand (Jaunsar-Bawar ZamindariAbolition and Land Reforms Act, 1956)(Amendment) Bill, 2020, Uttarakhand

    GST (Amendment) Bill, IndustrialDisputes (Uttarakhand Amendment)Bill, Factories (UttarakhandAmendment) Bill and UttarakhandState University Bill were among theBills passed during the one-day session.The session was adjourned sine-die laterin the evening.

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    Demanding work adjourn-ment under rule 310 forCovid-19 and unemployment,the Congress members createdruckus in the house during oneday monsoon session. TheCongress MLAs were not sat-isfied by the decision to holddiscussion on the subject underrule 58. Due to the pandemo-nium the deputy speakerRaghunath Singh Chauhanadjourned the house twicebefore lunch. The protest of theCongress legislatures continued

    in the post lunch session. In theruckus a plastic chair and glassshield was broken and thework schedule was torn apart.Later the Congress membersstaged a walkout from thehouse.

    Talking to the media per-sons outside the house, theCongress MLA QaziNizamuddin said that theCongress wanted a healthy dis-cussion on Covid-19 but thegovernment which cameunprepared on the subject wasnot interested in discussion. Hesaid that the situation of Covid-19 pandemic is very bad in thestate as more than 500 personshave lost their lives due to thedisease in the state. Thepatients are not getting beds inthe hospitals and prices of lifesaving oxygen have increased.Qazi said that it is unfortunatethat the government doesn'thave data of the people who

    became unemployed duringthe Covid-19 period.

    Kedarnath MLA the gov-ernment on the basis of major-ity enjoyed in the house stifledthe democracy. He said that thestate government has failedmiserably in controlling themenace of Covid-19 in thestate. Rawat said that fearingexposure the governmentblocked discussion over Covid-19 and unemployment in thehouse. He added that the seniorCongress MLA Govind SinghKunjwal was not even consult-ed by the government for sup-plementary work schedule eventhough he is a member of thecommittee.

    A delegation of Congresswould meet the Governor BabyRani Maurya on Thursday andcomplain that the state gov-ernment is not prepared to lis-ten to the voice of opposition.

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    To express solidarity with thefarmers and register protestagainst the three farm Bills inparliament, the Congress leg-islatures boarded a tractor tocome to the Vidhan Sabha toattend the monsoon session.The tractor was driven byManglaur MLA QaziNizamuddin while PradeshCongress Committee (PCC)President Pritam Singh, JaspurMLA Adesh Singh Chauhanand Kedarnath MLA ManojRawat sat on it.

    The Congress tractor how-ever was stopped by the policeat Rispana Bridge. A heatedexchange took place betweenthe Congress leaders andadministration. The CongressMLAs demanded that they beallowed to take a tractor which

    is associated withthe farmers nearVidhan Sabha.They squatted onthe road andraised slogansagainst the farmbill which theyreferred to as antifarmer.

    Later at theintervention ofdeputy speakerRaghunath SinghChauhan theywere allowed bythe administrationto proceed aheadwith the tractor.The entire episoderesulted in delay inentry of theCongress mem-bers into the house.

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    Even as a few protest demon-strations led to road blocks,locals expressed their disap-pointment and anger towardsthe chaos caused due to thetraffic diversions on variousroads of Dehradun onWednesday due to VidhanSabha session. According tosome locals, diverting trafficduring Vidhan Sabha sessionwas the State Government'sattempt to stop people fromprotesting against the ques-tionable policies and pooradministration of the govern-ment during Covid-19 pan-demic. Many also opined thatthe management of the trafficdiversions was poor and ill-managed by the police whichwasted time and fuel of the

    people. "I was stuck for at least20 minutes near FountainChowk in Nehru Colony andwhen I tried to go across theroad, police told me to returnto the same route. I noticed thatsome people were passing rightthrough the small lanes that goto the same path where I want-ed to go so I went through itand reached my destination butit took me 45 minutes to reachwhere it generally reach in15minutes. I understand if theadministration wanted to stopany group of people whichcould start a protest or causechaos but shutting down themain roads completely withoutany proper planning is absurd,"stated Manilal Vishwakarma, aresident of Curzon Road. Somepeople also accused the gov-ernment of being insensitive

    towards the major inconve-nience caused to the public.

    According to RajeevFartiyal from Inder Road, thegovernment was insensitive incausing such inconvenience inthe lives of the locals in thearrangements it had made forthe assembly session. "The traf-fic diversions planned by police

    were also absurd because theybarricaded even those routeswhich did not even lead toVidhan Sabha causing majorinconvenience to the locals. Atleast, the administration shouldplan their moves after consid-ering how it might affect thecitizens the whole day," addedFartiyal.

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    Even as the Opposition con-tinued to boycottParliament, Rajya SabhaChairman M Venkaiah Naiduon Wednesday said he wasduty bound to take disciplinaryaction against the eight MPsalthough their suspension wasan “unpleasant” thing to do.Justifying his action, he alsosaid the opposition has theright to protest but the questionis how it should be done.

    Addressing the housebefore adjourning the housesine die, Naidu also appreciat-ed the role of Parliament staffand said holding a sessionduring this pandemic requiredsome innovative thinking andelaborate planning, well inadvance.

    Secretary-General, RajyaSabha and his team in theSecretariat as also theParliament Security Serviceand other agencies includingthe Central Public WorksDepartment (CPWD) whoworked behind the scenes, “didnot fail me in this regard. Iwould like to put on record myappreciation for the effortsmade by them.” The Memberspresent in the House lauded thecontribution by thumping thedesk.

    As regards the events in thelast three days, Naidu said hewas duty bound to uphold thedignity of the rules, standardsand values of the Upper House.He also said the Rules do pro-vide for such suspension whenit becomes inevitable.

    In his concluding remarksbefore the Rajya Sabha wasadjourned eight days ahead ofthe schedule, the Chairmansaid the floor of the augustHouse was the most effectiveplatform for contestation ofideas.

    However, if boycott is donefor a longer period, it amountsto leaving the very platformthat enables members to effec-tively convey their ideas,besides contesting those ofothers.

    Referring to the letter hehad received from Leader ofOpposition Ghulam NabiAzad and others urging theHouse not to pass the threelabour codes, the Chairman

    said there have been a numberof precedents when the busi-ness was taken up as perschedule and bills wereapproved in the wake of boy-cott or walkout by some mem-bers.

    In this context, he cited thepassage of the Finance Bill andAppropriation Bill in 2013.

    Naidu said had the lettersuggested the postponement ofbill by stating that they wouldattend the House, he wouldhave discussed the issue withthe government. He said there

    was no such assurance. On theother hand some of the mem-bers justified what they haddone. Therefore, he decided togo ahead with the bills, he said.

    The Chairman said forthe first time in this history ofthis House, a notice of motionwas given for the removal ofthe Deputy Chairman and itwas rejected. He pointed outthat the mandatory 14 daysadvance notice was not given.

    Referring to the develop-ments surrounding thisunprecedented move, he said

    they have been deeply painfulfor all those who hold thestature and the dignity of thisHouse dear to their hearts. Heappealed to the members toensure that such unseemlybehaviour was not repeated.

    Though it was not thefirst time that some memberswere suspended and Billspassed when some sections ofthe House boycotted the pro-ceedings, Naidu said “I find itextremely unpalatable. Thiskind of a situation needs to beavoided by all means.”

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    Cutting short its scheduled18 sittings amidst risingCovid-19 scare, the Lok Sabhawas adjourned sine die onWednesday after passing theMajor Ports Bill, 2020, and 24others previously, includingthe contentious farmers bills.Speaker Om Birla describedthe session as “historic” andcongratulated members forattending the Parliament in“difficult situation” and fullyobserving the “health protocol”.

    Prime Minister NarendraModi walked into the house asthe house was in the process ofpassing the Major Ports bill ,2020. The opposition had boy-cotted the session.

    On the concluding dayduring the zero hour majorityof the issues were raised by theBJP members though a fewTDP and YSR Congress Partymembers and AIADMK alsospoke on the subjects relatingto their States andConstituencies.

    BJP MP Uday PratapSingh(BJP) said the Modi-Government which broughtmilestone legislations onTriple-talaq, article 370, farm-ers bills and ‘resolved’ Ramtemple issue, should bring alaw for the control of popula-tion which, he said is the oneof the main causes of unem-ployment, exploitation andcorruption. He said law tocontrol population was theneed of the time.

    Many of the issues raisedwere relating to Bihar as MPRajiv Pratap Rudy said thedevelopment work undertak-

    en by the State Governmentwould ensure its victory in theOctober-November poll. Oneof the members from Mizoramsought speeding up of theshifting of Assam Rifles head-quarters outside Aizawl whichhe said would solve the prob-lem conflict between AssamRifles and civilians.

    Expressing happiness overthe high 167 per cent produc-tivity in the monsoon session,the Speaker said during zerohour 370 issues were raisedand in particular mentionedSeptember 20 when, he said,the house sat for late nightwith 88 MPs raising theirissues. He said 855 paperswere also laid by the ministersduring the session.

    Birla also mentioned thelong and comprehensive dis-cussion undertaken by thehouse on the Covid19 situa-tion.

    Before passing the MajorPort bill, 2020, Union Minister

    for Shipping (Ind) MansukhMandaviya said the last portact was 1963,when the portsused to run in service model.“ Now in 2020 we need tobring technology to the ports.The PPE model can bringtechnology”, he said.

    He stated that in the lastfive years things in ports hasimproved and Calcutta portwhich was running losses isnow earning profit and work-ers receiving regular salariesand pension.

    BJD MP AnubhavMohanty while supporting thebill requested the governmentto rename Paradip port afterformer Odisha Chief MinisterBiju Patnaik.

    YSRCP MP sought thegovernment that States shouldalso be taken into considera-tion in the development ofports as he said “port boardcannot decide alone on thedevelopment of the port”, hesaid.

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    Delhi Legislative Assemblypanel not to take coerciveaction against Facebook IndiaVP and MD Ajit Mohan tillOctober 15 in connection witha summon asking him todepose before it with regard tonorth east Delhi riots.

    Delhi Assembly’’s peaceand harmony committee hadissued a notice to FacebookIndia vice president and man-aging director in connectionwith complaints accusing thesocial media giant of deliber-ately not taking action to curbhateful content on its platform.

    A bench of Justices SanjayKishan Kaul, Aniruddha Boseand Krishna Murari issuednotices to the secretary of theLegislative Assembly, the min-istries of Law and Justice,Home Affairs, Electronics andIT, Lok Sabha and RajyaSabha, represented by theSecretary General, and DelhiPolice, asking them to respondto the plea.

    The apex court’’s ordercame on the plea filed byMohan, Facebook IndiaOnline Services Pvt. Ltd andFacebook, Inc, which con-tended that the committeelacks the power to summon orhold petitioners in breach of itsprivileges for failing to appearand it was exceeding its con-stitutional limits.

    They challenged theSeptember 10 and 18 noticesissued by the committee thatsought Mohan’’s presencebefore the panel which isprobing the Delhi riots inFebruary and FB’’s role inspread of alleged hate speech-es.

    Senior advocate HarishSalve, appearing for Mohan,submitted that committee cannot decide the breach ofprivilege of the house andadministrative control oversocial media is with theCentral Government.

    “Privilege is something tobe decided by the Assembly. Acommittee cannot decidewhether action on privilegecan be taken or not,” Salve saidadding that the DelhiGovernment could not putMohan “in the pain of pun-ishment” by asking him toappear before the Committee.

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    The Supreme Court onWednesday asked theCentre to clarify by Friday themodalities of refund of airtickets to be made to the pas-sengers and travel agents inview of cancellation of flightsduring the COVID-19induced lockdown period.

    The top court asked theCentre to file a fresh affidavitby September 25, with regardto issues relating to modalitiesof ticket refunds on whichSolicitor General TusharMehta conceded that theinstant affidavit is poorlydrafted.

    A bench of Justices AshokBhushan, R Subhash Reddyand M R Shah said that it isonly concerned with refundand non-refund of money fortickets booked during thelockdown period.

    It was hearing a plea whichhas raised the issue of airtickets refund owing to can-cellation of flights due toCOVID-19 induced lockdownwhich had commenced fromMarch 25.

    Senior advocate SanjayHegde, appearing for NGO‘Pravasi Legal Cell’, said that ifone books tickets in airlineslike Air India, Indigo etc andfly out of India then the affi-davit filed by Director GeneralCivil Aviation (DGCA) isapplicable.

    He said that the DGCAshould also cover people forrefund, who have bookedflights on these carriers tocome back to India like in theGulf Countries and thereforethe issue needs to be sorted.

    Solicitor General TusharMehta, appearing for Ministryof Civil Aviation and DGCA,said that the Government hastaken a decision of refundkeeping in mind the welfare ofall and an appropriate solutionhas been worked out.

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    The India MeteorologicalDepartment (IMD) onWednesday predicted veryheavy rainfall over WestBengal, Sikkim, Assam,Meghalaya, Uttar Pradesh andBihar over the next few days.According to the IMD, a low-

    pressure area lies over centralparts of west Madhya Pradeshand neighbourhood with asso-ciated cyclonic circulationextending up to mid-tropos-pheric levels. It is likely tobecome less marked bySeptember 24. However, it’sassociated cyclonic circulationlikely to recurve northeast-

    wards during the next 3-4days. India received 918.3 mmrainfall as against the normal of849.2 mm, an increase of 8 per-cent so far. Uttar Pradesh,Himachal Pradesh, Jammu andKashmir, Nagaland, Manipurand Mizoram are among thosestates which received less rain-fall this monsoon.

    “High convergence overthe northeast and adjoiningeast India very likely due tostrong moist southerly/south-westerly winds from Bay ofBengal at lower troposphericlevels till September 26. Atrough runs from northeastUttar Pradesh to northMaharashtra at lower & middle

    tropospheric levels. It is verylikely to persist until September24,” IMD said.

    Under the influence of theabove systems, fairly wide-spread to widespread rainfallwith isolated heavy to veryheavy falls are very likelyover Assam and Meghalayaon September 24; Sub-

    Himalayan West Bengal &Sikkim; East Uttar Pradesh tillSeptember 25 and Bihar onSeptember 26.

    Thunderstorm with light-ning at isolated places verylikely over Uttarakhand, UttarPradesh, Vidarbha,Chhattisgarh, Bihar, GangeticWest Bengal, Gujarat state,

    Madhya Maharashtra,Marathwada, Coastal AndhraPradesh & Yanam, Telanganaand Tamilnadu, Puducherry& Karaikal. Strong Wind(speed reaching 45-55 kmph)very likely over SouthwestArabian Sea. Fishermen areadvised not to venture intothese areas.

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    Contrary to the expecta-tions, while coronavirus-induced lockdown did not helpimprove Ganga’s water quality,experts have asserted sayingthat, in fact, it deteriorated.Release of sewage and no freshwater discharge from theupstream is said to be the rea-son for the deterioration.

    In fact, Ganga is not alone.The water quality of Beas,Chambal, Sutlej andSwarnarekha also did not com-ply with the primary waterquality criteria for outdoorbathing during the lockdownperiod since March, this year,as per a new report by theCentral Pollution ControlBoard.

    In contrast, seven out of 19major rivers in India recordedan improvement in water qual-ity in April during the nation-wide lockdown period, said thereport released on Wednesday.

    The report titled,“Assessment of Impact ofLockdown on Water Quality ofMajor Rivers”, attributed theworsening report card of theGanges to the discharge ofuntreated or partially treatedsewage, negligible or dry sea-sonal flow that increases con-centration of pollution and nofresh water discharges from theupstream.

    The river’s water qualityhad worsened in many stretch-es, the analysis suggested not-

    ing that the Ganges’ compli-ance with primary water qual-ity reduced from 64.6 per centto 46.2 per cent during thelockdown period.

    The report said that sevenout of 19 major rivers in Indiarecorded an improvement inwater quality in April duringthe nationwide lockdown peri-od, which was enforced for 68days from March 25 in a bid tocontain the viral outbreak.

    The seven rivers thatshowed an improvement inwater quality include Brahmani.The primary water quality cri-teria such as taking outdoor

    baths in Brahmani improvedfrom 85 % during the pre-lock-down period to 100% when therestrictions were in place.

    The correspondingimprovement for the other sixrivers are: Brahmaputra (87.5per cent to 100 per cent);Cauvery (90.5 per cent to 96.97per cent); Godavari (65.8 percent to 78.4 per cent); Krishna(84.6 per cent to 94.4 per cent);Tapi (77.8 per cent to 87.5 percent) and Yamuna (42.8 percent to 66.67 per cent).

    The report attributed theworsening report card of theGanges to the discharge ofuntreated or partially treatedsewage; negligible or dry sea-sonal flow that increases con-centration of pollution and nofresh water discharges fromthe upstream.

    Baitarani, Mahanadi,Narmada and Pennar riverswere 100 per cent compliant asfar as taking outdoor bathswere concerned.

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    The Government hasempowered the NationalInvestigation Agency (NIA) toprobe offences under theNarcotic Drugs andPsychotropic Substances Act inorder to make it independentin terms of investigation ofdrug trade and linkages withterror funding.

    The Revenue Departmentof Union Finance Ministry hasissued a Gazette notification inthis regard.

    Section 53 of NDPS Actallows the Centre to entrust anyofficer with “the powers of apolice station for the investiga-tion of the offences under thisAct.’’

    The NIA was established asa federal anti-terror probeagency a year after the 26/11Mumbai serial terror attacks toinvestigate terror crimes withinter-State or international ram-ifications. Through an amend-ment in the NIA Act last year,the agency was also empoweredwith the jurisdiction to probecases related to human traffick-ing, counterfeit currency notesand cyber terrorism but nar-cotics cases were still out of itspurview.

    However, the latest Gazettenotification signed by the Under

    Secretary in the RevenueDepartment of the FinanceMinistry Biswajit Sarkar enlargesthe authority of the NIA to probedrugs-related crimes.

    Officials did not rule out thepossibility of the NIA steppinginto investigating the largerissues of drug-related crimes inBollywood with suspected linksto syndicates in foreign shores.The linkages of Bollywood per-sonalities with drug consump-tion and involvement with drugsyndicates has come to the forefollowing the probe by theNarcotics Control Bureau(NCB) into the drug peddlingnetwork in connection with themysterious death of film starSushant Singh Rajput.

    The EnforcementDirectorate that is probing themoney laundering aspect in acase related to Rajput’s death firstflagged the drug connection inBollywood. The CBI is sepa-rately probing the criminalaspect of the death of Rajput.

    The empowerment of theNIA with probes into NDPScases will also help the agency insystematically busting the link-ages between terror modulesand narco-terrorism especiallythose related to syndicates inJammu and Kashmir andPunjab as also the Northeast andin Naxal-hit areas, officialsadded.

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    Even as its Covid-19 COV-AXIN enters Phase IIhuman clinical trials in India,Hyderabad-based vaccinemanufacturer Bharat Biotechon Wednesday announced ink-ing a pact with WashingtonUniversity School of Medicinein St. Louis for a novel chimp-adenovirus, single doseintranasal vaccine for the coro-navirus.

    Bharat Biotech owns therights to distribute the vaccinein all markets except USA,Japan and Europe.

    While the Phase I trialswill take place in Saint LouisUniversity’s Vaccine andTreatment Evaluation Unit,Bharat Biotech, upon obtain-ing the required regulatoryapproval, will pursue furtherstages of clinical trials inIndia and undertake largescale manufacture of the vac-cine at its GMP facility locat-ed in Genome Val ley,

    Hyderabad.“We are proud to collab-

    orate on this innovative vac-cine. We envision that wewill scale this vaccine to 1 bil-lion doses, translating to 1 bil-lion individuals vaccinatedreceiving a single-dose regi-men. An intranasal vaccinewill not only be simple toadminister but reduce theuse of medical consumablessuch as needles, syringes, etc.,significantly impacting theoverall cost of a vaccinationdrive,” said Dr. Krishna Ella,Chairman and ManagingDirector of Bharat Biotech.

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    Varanasi-born Singh wascommissioned into the IAF in2017 as part of the secondbatch of women fighter pilots.At present, she is flying Mig-21jets and her conversion trainingto fly the Rafales has com-menced, sources said here onWednesday.

    After rigorous training, shewill join the ‘Golden Arrows’squadron of the Rafales atAmbala some months later.

    Prior to this assignment,she was flying MIG-21s some-where in the Rajasthan sector.Her course-mate FlightLieutenant Pratibha is all set tofly another frontline jet SU-30shortly, sources added. It will beanother first one for womenfighter pilots. At present, thereare ten women fighter pilots inthe IAF.

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    KOCHI: 67-year old KummanamRajasekharan, former Governor ofMizoram, has alleged that people aredenied fundamental and civic rights inKerala by the Marxist Chief MinisterPinarayi Vijayan.

    “Under the Marxist rule, the police isusing violence to suppress agitations for jus-tice and democracy. What we see in Keralais the worst kind of Stalinism as the chiefminister has turned himself into a dictator.There is all round corruption and nepotismin everything associated with the KeralaGovernment,” said Rajaselkharan whileinaugurating the day-night agitation byBJYM, the BJP’s youth wing atThiruvananthapuram on Wednesday.

    Rajasekharan said that Kerala has notseen the kind of police brutality beingunleashed by the Government on activistsagitating for restoration of fundamentalrights. “Pinarayi Vijayan is exploiting reli-gious sentiments of the people by allegingthat the agitations were for banningQuran. We are not against Quran or anyholy books. But we are against misusingreligious sentiments to divert the attentionfrom real issues like gold smuggling,” hesaid. PNS

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    KOCHI: Citizens in Kasaragoddistrict in Kerala are up in armsagainst the State Governmentfor its indifference to theExclusive Covid Hospital builtby the Tata Group as part oftheir commitment to the peo-ple.

    “The 541-bedded hospitalwas built at a cost of Rs 60 croreby the Tatas in just 150 days.The Tatas handed over thefully furnished hospital build-ing to the Kerala Governmenton September 9. But till datethe State administration has notappointed even a single doctoror para-medic staff to the hos-pital though the district isseeking a surge in the numberof Covid-19 patients,”Sukumaran Periyachoor, KeralaState Secretary of SaparyaCultural Society, said in arelease on Wednesday. PNS

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    KChief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami has tak-ing strong exception to the Union Ministry ofCulture’s move to keep scholars from the State awayfrom the expert committee constituted for ‘conduct-ing a holistic study of the origin and evolution of Indianculture during the past 12 millennia and its interfacewith other cultures of the world’.

    In a letter addressed to Prime Minister NarendraModi, excerpts of which were released to the media,Palaniswami expressed his shock and surprise over thenon-inclusion of any scholars from Tamil Nadu in thecommittee. “Tamil Nadu has a glorious past and is hometo one of the oldest civilizations, viz. Dravidian civi-lization-a living and thriving culture in the South ofIndia,” said the Chief Minister in the letter.

    He also drew the attention of the Prime Ministerabout the latter’s visit to Mahabalipuram , the sea shoreheritage site of Mahabalipuram for the India-Chinasummit in October 2019. “You visited Mahabalipuramwhere you had observed the awe-inspiring timelessmonuments and glorious legacy of Tamil heritage infull splendour. You will therefore agree with me thatany chronicle of Indian history and culture would begrossly incomplete without giving its rightful place toTamil culture and language,” wrote the Chief Minister.

    Aligarh: Oxygen gas was beingsold by Kasimpur road locatedRadha Industrial Gas Plantwithout any proper testing,license, and registration. OnMonday night, the plant wassealed after a night-long inves-tigation by the team led by theCity Magistrate. They also ceasethe company’s bill book andreceipts. Supply records arebeing scrutinized for the lasttwo-month deliveries. DistrictMagistrate was directed to reg-ister a case against plant ownerArun Agarwal and has sought aresponse from the drug inspec-tor.

    The administrative teamalready confiscated all the doc-

    uments along with 300 cylindersand 4 vehicles last night. Theteam has questioned plantowner Arun Agarwal in whichit was revealed that this plant hasbeen supplying gas in Aligarh,Hathras, Kasgunj and Etah since24th August. On 7 September,the plant owner applied for alicense in the Control ofExplosives office, Agra.

    After this raid, there is chaoswithin the departments for per-secution. District MagistrateChandra Bhushan Singh gave astrict warning to the druginspector for the action. CityMagistrate and ACM II team hasbeen instructed to do this activ-ity continuously. PNS

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    With Uttar Pradesh Panchayat elections including Aligarh inthe upcoming months , the demand for illegal weapons hasalso soared to influence voters and intimidate rivals and to scorea victory at any cost.

    In the elections for Pradhan, violence, power and money arethe backbone of most of the candidates which often turns the elec-tion into the battlefields. This resulted in rivalry affects generationsof family’s candidate. On the other hand, these elections are an ever-green market of illegal firearms and liquor which has received freshinput during this election in Aligarh. These weapons are being soldat elevated prices to the criminals in Aligarh division.

    Aligarh, Etah, Mainpuri and Bulandshaher are the biggest mar-ket of illegal arms in western U.P with Aligarh as the main man-ufacturing hub of these illegal firearms because it is an industrialepicenter of lock and hardware industries due to which cheap labor,technique and materials are readily and easily available. Most ofthe country made arms also manufactured by blacksmith here inAligarh. These weapons are being used by villagers and farmersto protect them from criminals and wild animals but during elec-tions, these arms are used to intimidate voters and maintain theirsupremacy.

    Aligarh: In the corona period,oxygen gas cylinders are playingimportant role in saving the livesof patients. Most of the hospi-tals are getting the oxygen cylin-der from unlicensed dealers.

    According to the businesssources, dealers are supplyingoxygen gases which are basicallyused in welding to various hos-pitals in the district. This weld-ing oxygen gas can be danger-ous for the patients as it containsmany harmful substances. Inthis regard, the Commissionerof Food and Drugs has alreadyordered to be vigilant, yet thesupply is continuing withoutany testing. The main reason isthat the industrial oxygen cylin-der is much cheaper than med-ical oxygen.

    The purity of medical oxy-gen must be 99% but the indus-trial oxygen contains carbondioxide and other heavy hydro-carbons which can be harmfulto the patients. PNS

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    Kerala, which had declareditself as Covid-free in May2020, faces the prospects ofequalling or even overtakingneighbouring Tamil Nadu in thenumber of Covid-19 patients inthe coming weeks. The State onWednesday diagnosed 5,376new patients, the highest num-ber of positive cases to be reg-istered on a single day.

    The State also registered 20fatalities in a single day, highestnumber to be registered in a 24hour period till date. Disclosingthe official figures to the mediaon Wednesday evening, ChiefMinister Pinarayi Vijayan saidthe situation in the State is seri-ous. “There are 42, 286 Covid-19 patients across the State onWednesday who are undertreatment. Out of the 5,376patients diagnosed with thepandemic on Wednesday, 4,424contracted the disease throughsocial contacts. There are 852patients in

    Thiruvananthapuram and thesituation in the capital city isgrievous,” said Vijayan.

    The day also saw V S SunilKumar, minister for agriculture,testing positive for coronavirus.Vijayan blamed the agitationsled by the BJP and the Congressthroughout the State for the hikein the number of patients. “It isbecause of the violation of thenorms by the opposition partiesthat the disease has spread allover the State and the numberof patients went up,” saidVijayan who also said that manyof the participants in the agi-tations had tested positive.

    The Chief Minister alsodisclosed that the day saw 99health workers and policementesting positive.

    The number of new personstested positive on Wednesdaywas higher than 5,337 patientsin Tamil Nadu as on Tuesday.On Tuesday, Tamil Nadu had46,350 Covid-19 patients whilethe tally in Kerala reached 42,286 on Wednesday evening.

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    The Central Bureau ofInvestigation on Wednesdaybusted a cattle smuggling net-work with terror links in aState-wide raid at 15 placesincluding Kolkata, sources said.Surprisingly the CBI investiga-tions reached the doors of someBorder Security Forces officerswho along with their counter-parts in the Customs depart-ment facilitated the cattle smug-gling the proceeds from whichfound its way to trans-borderterror funding and arms market.

    The CBI action comes aboutweek after the NationalInvestigation Agency busted anAl Qaeda network operatingfrom Murshidabad district bor-dering Bangladesh.

    The CBI conducted raids atsenior BSF official S Kumar’s res-idence and sealed it after six-

    hour search operations, sourcessaid adding he was in touch withone Enamul Haq who has beenidentified as the mastermind ofthe whole operations, MdGhulam Mustafa, EnamulSheikh and others. It is the sec-ond time that Haq’s nameappears in an FIR. A big fish inillegal cattle trade he paid bribesto BSF and customs officials,”said sources.

    The proceeds from the cowsmuggling were used to pur-chase arms, gold and otheritems for the JamatulMujahideen Bangladesh or JMBthe terror outfit whose networkwas busted in 2014 following theKhagragarh blasts in Burdwandistrict. JMB has been involvedin conducting subversive activ-ities in the neighbouring coun-try. A team of 110 CBI sleuthsconducted raids at various placesincluding Salt Lake, Topsia and

    other places in Kolkata for abouteight hours sources said addingthe accused had discovered aunique way of functioning with-out raising eyebrows. The CBIsources said some senior cus-toms officials were also in theirradar.

    “Suppose they would cap-ture 50 cows … they would thenhand over the seized cattle to theCustoms Department whichthen would call tenders to dis-pose the animals off…. Howeverwhile doing so they would sellaway 500 in place of 50 cattle andthose like Enamul would pur-chase them with legal docu-ments before … the proceedsfrom the sale would then go topurchase arms, gold and cur-rency of various countries for theJMB,” sources said adding inves-tigation was on to find outwhether the network had linkswith other organisations or not.

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    Two security guards of abuilding were killed onWednesday after having beentrapped in a flooded lift at ahousing society at Agripada insouth Mumbai, even asovernight rains continued to bat-ter the metropolis and its sub-urbs inundating the low-lyingareas and paralysing the roadand rail traffic in the country’scommercial capital.

    On a day whenMumbaikars woke up to heavyrains that had been lashing themetropolis and its suburbs forthe entire night, a shockingtragedy befell NathaniResidency building in Agripada,where two security guards meta watery grave when they wentto waterlogged basement ataround 8 am to start the watersupply for the society.

    However, water levels start-ed increasing when they enteredthe lift and closed the doors andtried to go to the upper floors.“The flooded lift did not startnor did the doors open… Theypressed the alarm buttons andsome residents rushed down tosave them, but could not gothere due flooding,” AgripadaPolice Station Senior Police

    Inspector Savlaram Agavanesaid.

    The two deceased securityguards were identified as JamirAhmed Sohanan and ShehzadMemon. Later in the day, thebodies of the two security weretaken out from the flooded liftby the fire brigade personnelwho arrived on the scene littlelater.

    With no let up in the rains,the railway tracks of the Centraland Western Railway’s suburbannetwork – considered Mumbai’slife line—lay under thick sheetsof water at several places. Whilethe services of the CentralRailway (CR) and WesternRailway (WR) were badly affect-ed, the CR services fromChhatrapati Shivaji MaharajTerminus to Thane and Vashihad to be suspended.

    Heavy water-logging wasreported from parts of Mumbailike Dadar, Wadala, Parel, Sion,Matunga, Worli, MumbaiCentral, Kurla, Chunabhatti,Mazagaon, Masjid Bunder,Byculla Goregaon, Malad,Dahisar, Kurla, Ghatkopar andMulund. Similarly, the subwaysat Dahisar, Malad, Santacruz andMankhurd were flooded,prompting the authorities tosuspend the traffic.

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    The death roll in Monday’s collapseof a three-storey building atNarpoli in the powerloom town ofBhiwandi in the adjoining Thane dis-trict mounted to 40 on Wednesday,as more number bodies from underthe debris on the third consecutiveday.

    A 43-year-old three-storey Jilanibuilding -- situated in the PatelCompound at Narpoli nearDhamankar Naka at Bhiwandi -- hadcrashed like a proverbial pack ofcards at 3.45 am, when the residentswere sleeping at their homes in theearly hours of Monday.

    The collapsed building had in all40 flats. There were 150 residents inthe building when it collapsed.

    The rescue and relief opera-tions, which have been going on forthe past three days, have been ham-pered by heavy intermittent rains.

    A few persons are still fearedtrapped under the debris of the col-lapsed structure.

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    Amid sudden spike in Covid-19 cases, theAdministrative Council (AC) which metunder the chairmanship of LieutenantGovernor, Manoj Sinha on Wednesdayapproved the proposal of the Department ofRural Development and Panchayati Raj toissue a notification for conducting electionsto vacant Sarpanch/Panch constituencies.

    The detailed schedule will be finalised bythe election authority.

    According to a statement issued by theDepartment of Information and PublicRelations, “Filling of the vacant constitutionalposts will ensure devolution of powers andproper grass-root planning in the 3rd-tier ofthe Local Self Government”.

    “It will ensure that the non-functionalPanchayats become functional”, the statementread.

    Earlier, general elections to 39,521Sarpanch/Panch constituencies in 4,483Halqa Panchayats were conducted in 2018 ofwhich 13,257 positions are vacant due to res-ignation, removal, election of Sarpanch asBDC Chairpersons, death, and non-avail-ability of candidates at the time of election.Among them, 1,089 vacancies pertain to theoffice of Sarpanch, whereas 12,168 are Panch

    vacancies.Pertinently, the elections to the vacancies

    notified earlier were postponed due to secu-rity concerns and the onset of COVID-19.

    Meanwhile, in another landmark decisionthe Administrative council approved the re-allocation of 1997 number of unfilled super-numerary posts for recruitment of registeredKashmiri migrants and non migrantKashmiri Pandits, who are willing to serveand settle down in Kashmir under thePrime Minister’s Package.

    According to the government spokesman,“the decision of re-allocation of the unfilledposts is aimed at accelerating the recruitmentunder the PM's package and the benefits ofemployment to Kashmiri migrants and non-migrant Kashmiri Pandits”.

    The Administrative Council alsoapproved conducting the recruitment only onthe basis of written test/skill test, without viva-voce, for the selection of suitable candidatesthrough the J&K Services Selection Boardwithin six months of the referral of posts bythe Department of Disaster Management,Relief, and Rehabilitation& Reconstruction.

    The re-allocated posts include posts ofSub Inspector Commercial Taxes andAssistant Compiler in Finance Department(997), Field Assistant,

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  • The police ought to be thenatural, visible and trust-ed representative of theGovernment to immedi-ately address any con-cern or perceived danger by the cit-izenry. Personnel are expected to beaccessible, unbiased and positivelyinterventionist to address any cri-sis. Maintenance of “law and order”is their foremost function. In awounded and increasingly polarisedsociety like India, where the soci-etal faultlines and suspicions rundeep, it is only the supposedly apo-litical and “independent” institu-tions like the police that can theo-retically rein in violent tempers, pas-sion and hatred unleashed by thosewho have vested interest in keepingthe societal pot boiling. From con-trolling secessionist movements,insurgencies, civic/communal riots,vandalism, traffic, mob control,theft, crime etc — the laundry listof policing duties is unforgivinglylong. Many individuals from thepolicing forces across the countryhave distinguished themselves withsupreme courage, conduct and dig-nity to uphold the lofty motto ofSatyameva Jayate (Truth aloneTriumphs). However, collectivelythe institutional image of the policein the public consciousness is farfrom the desired levels of probity,independence and empathic moor-ings.

    Over the last few decades, thespectre of communal riots in 1984,2002 or even the latest communalriots in February in Delhi, haveraised serious questions about theinstitution’s conduct. Almost always,the standard concerns of partisanpreferences, apathetic behaviour,dilly-dallying and capitulation havedominated the post-mortem ofeach of these strifes with all rulingnational and State parties guilty ofcomplicity in the same, wheneverin power. The convenience, lure andutility of a beholden police forcemake for incalculable comfort forthose in power, who ensure that theplethora of police reform commit-tee reports over the years continuesgathering dust. Various reformcommittees, led by Prakash Singh,Soli Sorabjee, VA Malimath, KPadmanabhaiah and JF Ribeiro,have attempted to professionaliseand rescue the institution from theclutches of vested interests, but bar-ring minor changes triggered by theSupreme Court’s intervention, theessential narrative and outcomeremain the same.

    The recent 17,000-pagechargesheet by the Delhi Police,that has named 15 people underthe sections of the UnlawfulActivities (Prevention) Act, of theIndian Penal Code and ArmsAct, has re-ignited the debate ofinstitutional credibility. Thefather of the “All-IndiaAdministrative Services” (ofwhich the Indian Police Serviceis an integral part), Sardar Patel,famously said, “…these peopleare the instrument. Removethem and I see nothing, but apicture of chaos all over thecountry.” While the policinginstitution was certainly notremoved, it did not live up to theexpectations as the larger pictureof civic chaos, corruption anddeteriorating law and order isattributable, to an extent, on itsconduct.

    Already the harsher insur-gencies have been essentiallyoutsourced by the State Police tothe Indian Army or to theCentral Armed Police Forces.The frequency at which theArmy is requisitioned to conductflag-marches, control civic disor-der or handle natural disastersdoes not show the State Policeforces in a glowing light.

    The significance of Delhi inthe national imagination, owingto its status as the capital of thenation, makes Delhi Police thecynosure of administrative effi-cacy. From the offices of theCentral Government, SupremeCourt, foreign embassies, mul-tilateral organisations to thesprawling metropolis of 17 mil-lion residents — the responsibil-

    ity and privilege of maintainingShanti Sewa Nyaya (Peace,Service, Justice) is on the largestmetropolitan police service in theworld. Despite over 80,000 per-sonnel, Delhi Police is clearlyoverstretched with over 25 percent of its staff committed to VIPduties and securing large-scaleevents that are typical to any cap-ital city — leaving too few, tohandle the restive city effective-ly. It has the unwanted distinc-tion of having the maximumnumber of complaints regis-tered against its own personnel.Frequent accusations of inaction,corruption and even collusionfurther mar the perception. Theinstitutional rifts within wereapparent from a very publicand embarrassing siege of itsheadquarters by thousands ofpolice personnel revolting andcomplaining against their ownsenior officers last year. Theoddity of Delhi Police comingunder the jurisdiction of theMinistry of Home Affairs, asopposed to the elected DelhiGovernment, has been a con-stant bone of contention forsuccessive regimes. The impliedconcern is the plausible politicalinfluence exerted on the DelhiPolice by the CentralGovernment. While there aregood functional reasons for this,as is done in major metropolitanpolice forces of global capitals,the concerns of undue politicalinfluence are increasingly hard toignore.

    Irrespective of theGovernments in power, the nar-rative has been disconcerting.

    The Delhi High Court had notedabout the 1984 riots, “Thoughwe boast of being the world’slargest democracy and Delhibeing its national Capital, thesheer mention of the incidents of1984 anti-Sikh riots in generaland the role played by DelhiPolice and state machinery inparticular makes our heads hangin shame in the eyes of the worldpolity.” It is that lingering senti-ment of kowtowing to the pow-ers-that-be that has again sulliedthe optics accompanying thechargesheet pertaining to theDelhi riots. Indeed, the perpetra-tors and instigators of such vio-lence are rarely one-sided, but theposited optics of a virtual cleanchit to one side of the protestersraises extremely dangerous andpolitical portents for the policinginstitution, as also for the nation.Importantly, the Commissionerof Delhi Police has clarified thatthey, “had questioned personswithout regard to their religionand party affiliation.” Yet somehard data continues fanningconcerns. Delhi Police’s recentcampaign of Dil ki Police (Policewith Heart) — with a heartreplacing the ‘o’ in Police — hasto go beyond slick slogans anddenials as the chargesheet couldhave reflected a more nuanceddiversity of purported arsonists.Now, eyes are on Delhi Police touphold Shanti Sewa Nyaya,“without regard to religion andparty affiliation” as was con-firmed by its Commissioner.

    (The writer, a military vet-eran, is a former Lt Governor ofAndaman & Nicobar Islands)

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