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The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
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Of a total over 1 lakh break-
through Covid-19 cases
reported in India so far, Kerala
tops the list with over 40,000
such infections, according to
the Indian Council of Medical
Research (ICMR).
Breakthrough cases are
those cases in which recovered
people contract the disease for
a second time or those fully
vaccinated contract infection.
While this has raised con-
cerns whether a new variant
which is much more transmis-
sible than the Delta variant is
responsible for spike in Kerala,
the Centre has dismissed this
theory and has now stressed on
genomic sequencing of all the
breakthrough cases in the State.
“Now the ICMR has decid-
ed to carry out genomic
sequencing for all break-
through infections to under-
stand the nature of the variant
causing the spread of the infec-
tion,” said sources in the Union
Health Ministry. They said
they have communicated the
same to the Kerala
Government.
Sequencing of break-
through samples will tell the
researchers if there is a differ-
ent coronavirus variant that is
escaping the immunity gener-
ated by vaccination, leading to
infection among fully vacci-
nated.
Breakthrough Covid-19
cases were high in
Pathanamthitta district and a
similar situation was seen in
other districts as well. A team
of the Union Health Ministry
is now expected to visit Kerala
after August 15.
A Central team that visit-
ed eight districts of Kerala had
on Tuesday at a Press confer-
ence said the State may witness
around 4.6 lakh cases of coro-
navirus from August 1 to
August 20.
The six-member team of
the National Centre for Disease
Control (NCDC) was sent to
Kerala by the Centre to take
stock of the pandemic situation
in the State.
Meanwhile, the number of
new Covid-19 cases increased
to 38,353 in the last 24 hours,
a rise of over 10,000 from
Monday when India reported
28,204 infections.
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The Government is all set to
acquire 50 million doses of
vaccine produced by Pfizer Inc
and BioNTech SE, with an
aim to boost vaccination drive
and ease the pressure on the
production of vaccines in the
country.
More than 40 lakh vac-
cine doses have been admin-
istered across India on
Wednesday, taking total
cumulative Covid vaccina-
tion coverage to 52,32 crore,
as per the Union Health
Mnistry.
“It is also expecting to
receive about seven million
doses of a vaccine made by
Moderna Inc from the US
through Covax, a programme
to supply Covid-19 vaccines
to poorer nations,” a report in
WSJ said.
Recently, US-based phar-
ma giant Johnson Johnson’s
single-dose Covid-19 vaccine
were given Emergency Use
Authorisation (EUA) in India.
The five vaccines granted
EUA in India are Covishield,
Covaxin, Sputnik V, Moderna
and janssen.
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Even as vaccine-starved India
has decided to adopt a wait-
and-watch policy on the need
of giving a booster dose, a team
of scientists at the University of
Nottingham have said the third
jab will be an effective way to
protect people from existing,
and potentially future, variants
of concern.
The scientists said they
found that neutralising anti-
bodies generated by a single
dose of the Pfizer vaccine were
less effective at neutralising
key variants of concern, for
example the beta (first identi-
fied in South Africa) variant.
The findings are published
in the journal Science
Translational Medicine.
However, the second dose,
especially in those volunteers
who had previously been
infected with SARS-CoV-2,
dramatically increased virus
variant neutralising antibody
responses (and therefore poten-
tial protection) to a level com-
parable to those seen for the
original strain of SARS-CoV-2.
This suggests that an addi-
tional boost, even using vac-
cines containing the original
strain of coronavirus, will
increase protection against
variants of concern, revealed
the findings.
“We showed that the indi-
viduals with past infection pro-
duced more antibodies follow-
ing each dose of vaccine than
those who hadn’t been exposed.
We also showed that this
increased antibody response
was more effective against
some of the variants of concern,
such as the Beta and Gamma
variants,” said Professor
Jonathan Ball, School of Life
Sciences at the university.
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At least 10 people died and
13 others sustained injuries
while several others are still
missing after a massive land-
slide near Nigul Sari in
Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur
district on Wednesday after-
noon.
Several vehicles, including
an ill-fated Himachal Road
Transport Corporation
(HRTC) bus carrying passen-
gers, were buried under boul-
ders and debris. The HRTC bus
was on its way from Reckong
Peo in Kinnaur to Haridwar.
The driver of the bus who
survived the tragedy informed
district authorities at Kinnaur
about the tragedy which took
place around 12:30 pm.
“10 residents of Himachal,
including one child and five
women, have died in the inci-
dent while 13 injured have
been rescued (till now) during
the rescue operations,” said a
Government official.
The HRTC bus and three
light vehicles were buried
under the debris, while a truck
hit by a shooting boulder
plunged into the Sutlej river.
Till the filing of this report,
the rescue operations were
going on as no traces of pas-
sengers and the bus, which was
suspected to be trapped in the
debris, were found at the acci-
dent site.
“The driver and conductor
of the bus were rescued while
the HRTC bus, which was
believed to be carrying over 30
passengers, seemed to have
fallen into the Sutlej river.
The rescue teams are gone
searching the riverbed to find
the bus,” the official said.
He said that rescue oper-
ations by teams of the ITBP,
the National Disaster
Response Force, the CISF and
local police were earlier hin-
dered at the site as the shoot-
ing boulders continued to roll
down, posing grave risk to the
teams.
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Deploring pandemonium in
the Rajya Sabha a day ear-
lier, Chairman M Venkaiah
Naidu on Wednesday broke
into tears and termed the
behaviour of some Elders as
“sacrilege.” Expressing
“anguish” over members climb-
ing on the table, Naidu said he
spent a “sleepless night.”
Naidu made these remarks
after the House witnessed
unruly scenes with some
Opposition members stand-
ing on the table of the Rajya
Sabha secretariat and throwing
a file at the Chairperson’s seat.
However, there was no one pre-
sent in the chair.
These actions took place
when a discussion on farmers’
agitation against the farm Bills
was initiated in the Rajya Sabha
on Tuesday.
Expressing distress over
the ruckus created by the
Opposition MPs, Naidu said he
struggled to find a provocation
or reason for such a low in the
“august House”.
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With the approval of the
Rajya Sabha, Parliament
on Wednesday passed the
Constitution (One Hundred
and Twenty-Seventh
Amendment) Bill, 2021, to
restore the powers of States to
have their own lists of OBCs
for reservation in jobs and
educational institutions, after
a “healthy” almost seven
hours of non-stop discussion.
There was no vote polled
against the Bill. However, the
Opposition created a ruckus
just as the Bill was passed, in
the similar fashion they have
been doing since the
Monsoon Session started on
July 19. Moving the Bill, Social
Justice and Empowerment
Minister Virendra Kumar said
the Bill will help restore the
powers of States to have their
own lists of OBCs which was
negated by the Supreme
Court.
He thanked the Prime
Minister and various parties
and their members for evolv-
ing a consensus to take up the
important Bill that seeks to
create history by providing
reservation to other backward
classes in the country.
The Lok Sabha had on
Tuesday passed the Bill ending
the logjam by Opposition par-
ties, who backed the legislation
but demanded the removal of
the 50 per cent cap on reser-
vation and many of them also
called for a caste-based census.
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Both Houses of Parliament
were adjourned sine die on
Wednesday, bringing an end
to an almost washout
Monsoon Session two days
ahead of the scheduled date of
August 13.
Noisy Opposition protests
over the Pegasus snooping
row, three controversial farm
laws and other issues com-
pletely derailed the proceed-
ings of both Houses since the
start of the session on July 19
with the Congress-led-
Opposition regularly trooping
into the Well of the House and
not allowing Question and
Zero Hour to go smoothly and
the Chair adjourning the
House repeatedly before call-
ing it a day.
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full advantage of the
atmosphere of trust for India’s
development and capabilities,
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
exhorted the domestic indus-
try to enhance its risk-taking
appetite as “the country’s eco-
nomic growth is picking up
pace again”.
Assuring all support to the
industry, Modi said that India
is receiving record foreign
direct investment (FDI)
because of reforms done in the
last few years.
He mentioned that the
maze of labour laws has been
rationalised into four labour
codes; and agriculture, which
was treated as a mere means of
livelihood, is being connected
with the markets through
reforms. As a result, he said,
India is getting record FDI and
FPI and forex reserves are
also at an all time high level.
“There was a time when
foreign was synonymous with
better. Industry big-wigs
understand the consequences
of such a psychology. Situation
was so bad that even indige-
nous brands developed with
great hard work were adver-
tised with foreign names,” he
said, while addressing the
CII’s annual meeting, and
added that the trust of the
countrymen is with the prod-
ucts made in India and they
want to adopt made in India
goods. The PM said Indian
start-ups have the same level
of self-confidence as displayed
by Indian athletes and
sportspersons at Tokyo
Olympics. “When today’s
youth of India come out on
the field, they don’t have any
hesitancy in their minds. They
want to work hard and take
risks. They want to yield
results. Yes, we belong to this
place — we see this emotion
in our youth today,” he said.
He added that investor
response has been tremen-
dous for startups and this
signals that India has extra-
ordinary opportunities for
growth. India now has 60
unicorns, 21 of them reaching
that status in the last few
months, he noted.
Noting the recent reforms
taken by the Government,
the Prime Minister said that
bringing reforms is a matter of
conviction for his govern-
ment, which is ready to take
all risks in the national inter-
est. “We have taken bold deci-
sions. Reforms continued even
during pandemic. The gov-
ernment is doing reforms not
out of compulsion but out of
conviction,” he said. The PM
said that the major responsi-
bility for the success of the self-
reliant India campaign lies
with the Indian industry.
Highlighting the changes
in the approach of the current
government and changes in the
ways of working of the current
setup, he stressed that the new
India of today is ready to
march with the new world.
“India, which was apprehen-
sive of foreign investment at
one point of time, is welcom-
ing investments of all types
today. Similarly, tax policies
used to induce despondency
among the investors, the same
India can boast of the world’s
most competitive corporate
tax and faceless tax system,”
he said.
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more provincial capitals in
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headquarters in a blitz across
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Katariya who was part of
the Indian team in the Tokyo
Olympics received a rousing
welcome on her return to
Haridwar on Wednesday. She
was also felicitated at a func-
tion held in a private univer-
sity in Dehradun later during
the day.
On reaching Haridwar, she
was taken in a procession
wherein she was garlanded
and welcomed by the locals.
Various MLAs from the district
and senior public officials also
welcomed and felicitated her
on the occasion at a function
held in the Roshanabad stadi-
um. She had an emotional
reunion with her mother and
other family members.
Thanking all for the welcome,
Katariya said that the hockey
team will soon start preparing
for the Asian Games,
Commonwealth Games and
the world cup. In Dehradun, at
the Graphic Era university she
was welcomed and presented a
cheque for Rs 11 lakh. The uni-
versity also named her its
brand ambassador. Graphic
Era Educational Group presi-
dent Kamal Ghanshala and
senior office bearer Rakhee
Ghanshala welcomed the
Olympian to the function.
Ghanshala said that the
women of Uttarakhand are
physically and mentally very
capable, and have a major role
in the state’s development.
If Katariya requires any
training in the future, the uni-
versity will support her. Other
players who have performed
well in international sports
will also be encouraged, he
said.
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The Chief Minister Manohar
Lal Khattar on Wednesday
said that after making Haryana
as a leading agrarian and indus-
trial state, the government is
now focused on moving
towards a high ease of living
index for the people of the state.
Khattar was speaking dur-
ing the plenary session titled
‘Haryana at India @75 and
Going India@100 organized
as a part of the annual meeting
of the Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII)- 2021 held
through video conferencing.
The Chief Minister said,
“After steadily ushering in a
new era of corruption-free
governance, we are now
focused to chalk out such plans
wherein Haryana can rapidly
move towards ensuring ease of
living for the economic uplift-
ment of the people of the state
along with improving the rank-
ings on happiness index.
The state has already made
its mark on ease of doing busi-
ness graph, he said.
The Chief Minister said
that in the year 1966 when
Haryana was separated from
Punjab then it was said that
Haryana would not even be
able to pay its employees.
Today, 55 years since its incep-
tion, Haryana has proved itself
successful on many parameters
like education, health, sports,
agriculture, etc.
Describing the role played
by Haryana in realizing the
vision of Atamnirbhar Bharat,
the Chief Minister, said that the
main objective of the State
Government is to build
Haryana as the most suitable
investment destination on the
world map.
“As Haryana has emerged
as one of the preferred invest-
ment destinations for domes-
tic and international investors,
we will ensure that all potential
investors coming to Haryana
do not face any difficulty. Every
possible cooperation will be
ensured to the investors,” he
added.
The Chief Minister further
said that every possible effort
is being made by the State
Government to provide a
dynamic and innovative culture
to promote sports and ensure
maximum participation of state
youth in sports.
He said that while pro-
moting sports facilities in the
state, Haryana would be made
a sports hub. Despite having
only 2 percent of the country's
population, out of the 126
members in Olympic 2020
squad, about 30 players from
Haryana have not only partic-
ipated in the world’s biggest
tournament, but five players of
the state won medals, he added.
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Aday after about two-dozen
government school stu-
dents tested COVID-19 positive
from just three schools, Punjab
Chief Secretary Vini Mahajan
on Wednesday directed the
departments concerned to step
up RT-PCR testing and to con-
duct at least 10,000 RT-PCR
tests related to schools daily to
ensure that COVID situation
remains under control and the
deadly virus could not spread
again in the State.
At the same time, the
Deputy Commissioners have
been directed to ensure that
only fully vaccinated teaching
and non-teaching staff was
allowed to attend the schools.
The Chief Secretary direct-
ed that target of 40,000 samples
per day must be achieved and
testing shall be further
increased if the COVID cases
rise.
Mahajan, chairing a meet-
ing to review the COVID sit-
uation in the State with the
senior officials of the Health,
Medical Education, School
Education departments, and all
Deputy Commissioners,
expressed concern over the
movement of people to Punjab
fromneighbouringstates,where
the virus cases were once again
on the rise.
She asked the officials con-
cerned to keep a close watch on
the positivity rate ahead of the
festival season when extra vigil
was required to prevent the
surge of virus.
Instructingallthedistrictsto
continue aggressive testing and
contact tracing and testing to
check the spread of the pan-
demic, Mahajan said that epi-
demiologistshavebeenappoint-
ed in all the districts and all-out
effortsshouldbemadetothwart
thepossiblethirdCOVIDwave.
Quoting the forecast from
the University of Cambridge,
Mahajansaidthatgoingwiththe
forecast, new cases can be
expected to double in about 64
days(undertheassumptionthat
the growth rate remains con-
stant).Sheexpressedsatisfaction
over the fact that 2,45,823 sam-
ples have been taken in the past
week from August 3 to 9, and
only 352 had tested positive,
which accounted for a positivi-
ty rate of 0.1 percent.
Stressingtheneedtofurther
ramp up the
existing health
infrastructurein
the state, the
Chief Secretary
desired that
each district
should aim to
augment bed
capacity by 25
percent from
second wave’s
peak demand.
She was
apprised that at
present, 4,307
Level-II beds
were available
in the govern-
ment hospitals,
whichwouldbe
increased to
5,387 after
adding 25 per-
cent capacity,
while 6,565
level-II beds
were existing in
theprivatefacil-
ities, where
1,644 more
beds would be
added.
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Punjab Chief Minister Capt
Amarinder Singh on
Wednesday urged Prime
Minister Narendra Modi to
immediately initiate steps for
the repeal of the controversial
farm laws, and an amendment
to the relevant law for includ-
ing farmers in the free legal aid
category. The Chief Minister,
who called on the Prime
Minister late Wednesday
evening, submitted two separate
letters calling for immediate
review and revocation of the
three farm laws that had “trig-
gered widespread resentment
among farmers of Punjab and
other states, who have been
protesting at the Delhi borders
since November 26 last year”.
Pointing to the prolonged
agitation which had cost the
lives of more than 400 farmers
and farmworkers, the Chief
Minister said that the stir had
the potential of posing securi-
ty threats for Punjab and the
country with Pak-backed anti-
India forces looking to exploit
the farmers’ disgruntlement
with the Government.
Urging the Prime Minister’s
intervention for expeditious
redressal of the farmers’ legiti-
mate concerns by the Central
Government to explore an
enduring solution, the Chief
Minister said that the continued
agitation was not only impact-
ing economic activities in
Punjab but also had the poten-
tial to affect the social fabric,
especially when political parties
and groups take strong posi-
tions.
Capt Amarinder noted that
he had earlier too, sought the
Prime Minister’s appointment
for a meeting with an all-party
delegation from Punjab.
The Chief Minister further
underlined the need to com-
pensate farmers for the man-
agement of paddy straw at the
rate of Rs 100 per quintal and
also to address the fears of
DAP shortage, which could
aggravate the farmers’ problems
and the crisis triggered by the
farm laws.
In another letter, the Chief
Minister stressed that due to the
fragmentation of landholdings,
and persistent disputes with
lessees and various market oper-
ators and agents, the farmers are
also facing heightened litigation
these days, causing stress on
their meagre financial resources.
Stressing the need to reduce
the farmers’ financial burden as
a result of such litigation, he
noted that the Central Legal
Services Authorities Act, 1987,
provides free legal aid to certain
categories of persons, who are
perceived to be the vulnerable
sections of the society. Pointing
out that the country’s farmers
are also very vulnerable, he
said that they are, at times, com-
pelled to commit suicide due to
financial problems, even though
they remain proud and prefer to
till their land even at the cost of
their lives. “It is, thus, the need
of the hour to amend Section 12
of the Legal Services Authorities
Act, 1987, to include farmers
and farmworkers in the cate-
gory of persons entitled to free
legal services to pursue and
defend themselves in the courts
to secure their livelihood,” said
Capt Amarinder.
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On the occasion of Hariyali
Teej, Haryana Chief
Minister Manohar Lal Khattar
on Wednesday virtually inau-
gurated 'Lado ki Bagiya' Oxyvan
built on five acres of land at vil-
lage Khanpur Khurd in Jhajjar
district.
The initiative is a part of the
campaign launched by the State
Government for setting up
Oxyvans across Haryana.
During the ‘Lado ki Bagiya'
programme, about 500 saplings
were planted by 500 daughters,
who have decided to take care
of these trees.
Extending his best wishes,
the Chief Minister said that the
festival of Teej brings greenery
and prosperity. On the occasion
of Teej, he encouraged the
daughters to shine bright in
every field.
Every daughter should be
given a chance to shine, he said.
Khattar said that trees are
'Paranvayu Devta'. At present,
trees cover about 7 percent
area in the state and now, the
target has been set to increase
this to 10 percent. For this,
three crore saplings will be
planted in Haryana during the
monsoon season, he added.
The Chief Minister said
that in order to promote the
conservation of trees in
Haryana, a provision has been
made for giving a pension
amount of Rs 2500 for the trees
above the age of 75 years. Along
with this, the farmers who plant
trees in their fields will be given
Rs. 10,000 for a period of three
years, he said.
He further said that 134 vil-
lages come under the 48-kos
parikrama route ofKurukshetra,
on which the State Government
will plant Panchavati having five
different types of trees. Their
protection and care has been
entrusted to the Van Mitras.
The government has creat-
ed 'Haryana Forest
Management Information
System App' for sharing infor-
mation related to the availabil-
ity of plants. On this app, peo-
ple can get information about
the places where different types
of plants are available, he added.
Khattar said that the State
Government has also set up 60
herbal parks in Haryana and
soon four more will be set up at
different places.
He informed that medicinal
forest is being developed on
about 5000 acres of land in
Morni area. Flower cultivation
is also being done in Gurugram
and Rewari, and the same is
being promoted on 116 acres of
land in Murthal and 11 acres in
Yamunanagar.
About the concept of
Oxyvan, the Chief Minister
saidthatthisconcept,whichwas
started from Panchkula and
Karnal, is now being adopted
across the state. Students,
youth, voluntary organizations
and social organizations are
actively participating in this
and their efforts deserve
applause, he said.
In our scriptures, trees are
considered auspicious and are
symbolic of creation and that is
why they are worshipped, he
added. Speaking on the occa-
sion, Forest and Education
Minister Kanwar Pal Gujjar
while congratulating the people
of the state on Teej festival said
that 'Lado ki Bagiya' is one of its
kind initiative.
He said that Oxyvan is
being developed on govern-
ment and private land in the
state and efforts are being made
to make the irrigated land as
green area with the cooperation
of the common people.
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Ahigh-powered land bank
committee under the
chairmanship of Haryana Chief
Minister Manohar Lal Khattar
will now take the decisions
about transferring unutilized
acquired land of various gov-
ernment departments, auc-
tions of such land and to pur-
chase land of private people in
the state.
For, the State Government
notified its new land bank pol-
icy which was approved by the
Cabinet last week. Three dif-
ferent committees have been
constituted under the policy.
The policy will serve the
twin objectives of preventing
the land owners from resorting
to distress sale of land, and
making land available to dif-
ferent departments of the State
Government for setting up
essential public services.
According to the policy, the
Revenue Department will con-
solidate such chunks of surplus
land as had been acquired by
the departments under the
Land Acquisition Act, 1894
(Central Act 1 of 1894) but not
needed now, and provide it to
the departments that need
them most. It will also make
things easy for the State
Government which has been
experiencing a lot of difficulty
in making land available to the
departments.
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The Municipal Corporation
of Dehradun (MCD) has
postponed the Geographic
Information System (GIS)
based survey due to the rains
in the city. Earlier, the corpo-
ration had planned to com-
mence the GIS based survey in
Kaulagarh ward as a pilot pro-
ject under the Urban
Development Directorate
(UDD) from this month
through drones to get the com-
plete details of all residential
and commercial properties. At
present, all the property tax-
payers submit the property tax
on the basis of the self-assess-
ment of their properties most
of which are not verified by the
corporation.
According to the officials,
this survey will help the cor-
poration to maximise the prop-
erty tax as all the actual details
of each establishment in the
city along with their owners'
information will be available at
one click after this survey. The
collected data through the sur-
vey will also be used to gener-
ate a unique property identifi-
cation number which can be
used by the government to pro-
vide required facilities to the
locals of a certain area.
However, the GIS based survey
has been delayed by one month
in Dehradun due to rains in the
city. Ashish Kataith who is
managing this project in
Dehradun informed the cor-
poration had planned to com-
mence the survey from August
using drones and door to door
survey but it has been post-
poned due to frequent rainfall
in the city. We have not start-
ed the process considering the
ongoing rainfall here because
once we start the process of the
survey through drones and
door to door survey, we want
it to be regular and consistent
for our pilot project. The MCD
will start the survey by the end
of this month or at the begin-
ning of September, said
Kathait.
It is pertinent to mention
here that UDD has planned to
commence GIS based survey in
the urban local bodies of
Dehradun, Haridwar,
Rudrapur and Rishikesh as the
pilot project in the State after
which, the plan will be execut-
ed in other ULBs too.
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On second day of his Delhi
visit Uttarakhand chief
minister Pushkar Singh Dhami
met Union ministers Amit
Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin
Gadkari and Gajendra Singh
Shekhawat on Wednesday.
Dhami also visited
Maharashtra Bhawan in New
Delhi on the day where he met
Maharashtra governor Bhagat
Singh Koshyari.
In his meeting with Home
Minister Amit Shah, the CM
requested setting up of an All
India Institute of Medical
Sciences (AIIMS) in Kumaon
region of the state. He told Shah
that the people of remote areas
of Kumaon region are bereft of
super speciality health facility
and if centre approves AIIMS
in the region the state govern-
ment would provide land for it.
He also requested that the
Indian Science Education and
Research institute should be
established in Dehradun.
In his meeting with the
Union Defence Minister
Rajnath Singh, the CM said
that a broad gauge rail link
between Tanakpur and
Bageshwar should be approved
in view of its strategic impor-
tance. He said that railway
ministry has ordered survey for
a narrow gauge rail link
between Tanakpur and
Bageshwar. He said that the
construction of the narrow
gauge is impractical as it would
neither serve solve transporta-
tion neither purpose nor it
would be of strategic impor-
tance. Dhami said that since the
area is close to China and
Nepal borders, a broad gauge
rail line should be constructed.
The CM also told Singh that
the Union Government had
given its approval for setting up
of a Sainik School in Jakholi in
Rudraprayag and the state gov-
ernment was to set up infra-
structure facilities in the
schools but in view of the lim-
ited resources of the state, the
centre should provide financial
assistance to the state for set-
ting up infrastructure in the
school. He said that the
Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) should
be amended for the same.
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Accusing the State
Government of selling
lands to outsiders for profits,
the leader of the Bharatiya
Kisan Union (BKU), Rakesh
Tikait supported the demand
for stringent land laws in
Uttarakhand. Addressing
media persons on Wednesday
at the Press Club in Dehradun,
Tikait gave suggestions to the
State government to improve
the conditions of farmers and
labourers.
He said that the people of
the plain areas are given many
benefits for serving in the
mountains so people living in
mountainous areas should be
given more facilities too under
the hill policy to prevent
migration. He also demanded
the implementation of a vil-
lage tourism policy in
Uttarakhand like in Himachal
Pradesh and the provision of
subsidies to people involved in
the transport business under
the transport policy. Tikait
also asked the state govern-
ment to make a separate zone
for the villages located near
the border with China and
making of a policy for the pro-
tection of villagers.
He further said that many
educational institutes are
charging exorbitant fees from
farmers and labourers and
nothing is being done by the
government here.
Talking about land laws,
Tikait said the government is
selling lands to the industri-
alists and entrepreneurs of
other states for their own
profits while neglecting the
public of Uttarakhand. He
said lands nearby main roads
in the villages must be pro-
tected by locals and appealed
to the farmers to not sell their
lands to outsiders. Tikait said
the farmers will also protest
against the Uttarakhand gov-
ernment if nothing will be
done to improve the situation
of farmers here.
He said it will not take
much time to reform the State
government here. We only
need to close the borders of
Uttarakhand for eight days
and ask the authorities at bor-
ders to improve the gover-
nance here, averred Kathait. He
also asserted that farmers will
continue to protest against the
Central government till it with-
draws the farm laws.
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The convenor of the Social
Media cell of Uttarakhand
Congress Amarjeet Singh has
accused the BJP for trying to
stifle the voice of opposition.
He said that the former presi-
dent of Congress party Rahul
Gandhi condemned the rape
and murder of a nine year old
girl in Delhi after which his
twitter account was locked on
the insistence of the govern-
ment. He said that Pradesh
Congress Committee (PCC)
president Ganesh Godiyal sup-
ported Rahul Gandhi by using
'#I am also Rahul' and demand-
ed justice for the victim after
which the account of Godiyal
too was locked. Amarjeet Singh
said that he also tweeted in sup-
port of Rahul Gandhi and
Godiyal and raised questions
on the Delhi incident following
which his Twitter account was
also suspended.
“The accounts of many
workers of Congress who are
part of the social media team
are also locked. It is all hap-
pening at the behest of BJP. The
government is trying to silence
the voice of the Congress work-
ers but we will not get bogged
down.
The BJP’s anxiety is clear-
ly visible and it would be
reflected in the upcoming elec-
tions in five states,’’ he said.
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Replying to his critics who
are asking questions on his
last elections in his unique
style former Chief Minister
and general secretary of All
India Congress Committee
(AICC) Harish Rawat has said
that he would rise from his
ashes whenever
Uttarakhandiyat is under threat.
In his facebook page Rawat
said that some turncoats are
asking him that which would be
his last elections. “I want to
make it clear that Harish Rawat
would rise even from his ashes
whenever Uttarakhandiyat is
under threat, whenever the
interests of farmers and Dalits
are affected and whenever
employment is snatched away,’’
he said.
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The State Health depart-
ment reported 40 new cases
of the novel Coronavirus
(Covid-19) and 48 recoveries
from the disease in
Uttarakhand on Wednesday.
Death of one patient from the
disease was reported on the
day.
The cumulative count of
Covid-19 patients in the state
is now at 3,42,502 while a total
of 3,28,658 patients have recov-
ered from the disease so far. In
the state 7369 people have lost
their lives to Covid -19 till date.
The recovery percentage from
the disease is at 95.96 while the
sample positivity rate on
Wednesday was 0.20 per cent.
The state health depart-
ment reported eight new
patients of Covid -19 each
from Bageshwar, seven from
Dehradun, six from
Pithoragarh, four from
Chamoli, three from Haridwar,
two each from Almora,
Champawat, Nainital,
Rudraprayag and Udham Singh
Nagar and one each from
Uttarkashi and Pauri districts
on Wednesday.
No new patient was found
in Tehri district on the day.
Death of one patient was
reported from Government
Doon Medical College
(GDMC) on Wednesday.
The State now has 435
active cases of Covid 19.
Dehradun with 171 cases is at
top of the table of active cases
while Pithoragarh is at second
spot with 58 active cases.
Chamoli has 53, Champawat
34, Udham Singh Nagar and
Rudraprayag 23 each,
Uttarkashi 19, Bageshwar 16,
Pauri 10, Nainital seven, Tehri
and Almora six active patients
each of the disease.
The State reported no
new case of Mucormycosis
(Black fungus) on Wednesday.
A total of 570 patients of the
disease have so far been report-
ed. In the ongoing vaccination
drive 99,348 people were vac-
cinated in 701 sessions in dif-
ferent parts of the state on
Wednesday.
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The Union Government
would soon provide
approval of Rs 4673 crore for
the Lakhwad multipurpose pro-
ject in Uttarakhand. This assur-
ance was given by the Union Jal
Shakti minister Gajendra Singh
Shekhawat to the Uttarakhand
Chief Minister Pushkar Singh
Dhami on Wednesday. In the
meeting Dhami also requested
that the MoU of the Kisau pro-
ject should be amended. The
Union minister assured Dhami
that a meeting of states con-
cerned would soon convened to
discuss the Kisau project. The
duo also decided to conduct
joint review of the ‘ Jal Jivan
Mission’ in Uttarakhand.
Dhami told Shekhawat that the
norms for the ‘ PMKSY-Har
Khet ko Pani’ scheme should be
relaxed for the mountainous
states and requested that 422
micro irrigation projects in the
state should be approved under
the scheme.
The CM said that all nec-
essary clearances for 300 MW
Lakhwad multipurpose pro-
ject have been obtained and
work on the ambitious project
having strategic importance
would start when the financial
approval from the cabinet sub-
committee is received.
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The Union surfaced
Transport Minister Nitin
Gadkari has said that
Uttarakhand would receive a
sum of Rs 1000 crore for con-
struction of new national high-
ways. He added that the cen-
tre would provide an addi-
tional sum of Rs 300 crore
under central roads infra-
structure fund. Gadkari told
Uttarakhand Chief Minister
Pushkar Singh Dhami on
Wednesday that every require-
ment of Uttarakhand would be
addressed.
He also assured that cen-
tre would help the state in con-
struction of ropeways and
cable cars. Dhami thanked
Gadkari for these announce-
ments and said that historic
work in the increasing con-
nectivity has taken place in
Uttarakhand in last your years.
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Hearing on a public interest
litigation against the state
government’s denotification of
the Shivalik elephant reserve
the division bench of the
Uttarakhand High Court
stressed on the need to achieve
balance between environmen-
tal conservation and develop-
ment. The court asked the
National Highways Authority
of India (NHAI) about the
steps being taken to save the
trees along the Delhi-
Dehradun national highway.
The bench also asked the peti-
tioner about how cutting 2,500
Sal trees will cause irreparable
environmental damage and
whether this damage cannot be
compensated by planting even
more trees. Stating this, the
division bench comprising
chief justice RS Chauhan and
justice Alok Kumar Verma set
the next date of hearing on the
PIL for August 25.
Dehradun resident Reenu
Paul had filed the PIL stating
that the state wildlife board had
decided to denotify the Shivalk
elephant reserve in November
2020 for the proposed expan-
sion of the Dehradun airport.
The petitioner has challenged
the denotification in the high
court. The court had earlier
ordered a stay on the denotifi-
cation. The petitioner had fur-
ther questioned how the state
wildlife board could approve
the denotification of the
Shivalik elephant reserve,
spread across about 5,404
square kilometre area citing
factors including the fact that
this area is used by the pachy-
derms to travel between here
and Nepal.
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The enforcement team of
the Dehradun regional
transport office (RTO) has
started impounding mobile
phones of traffic rules violators
besides imposing penalties.
The regional transport officer
(enforcement), Sandeep Saini
said that distraction caused
due to using mobile phones
while driving or riding a vehi-
cle has resulted in many major
accidents and fatalities in the
district in the past few days.
The enforcement team on
Wednesday took strict action
against such traffic rules vio-
lations and seized 13 mobile
phones of drivers and two-
wheeler riders, stated Saini.
Besides this, the team also
penalised 63 drivers and rid-
ers for traffic rules violations
like overspeeding, invalid
permits, no driving licence
and for not wearing helmets
among others, informed Saini.
He said, “Traffic rules vio-
lations put the life of the dri-
ver as well as other people on
the road at risk. We hope
people will be more careful
while driving and follow traf-
fic rules after observing strict
actions taken by the authori-
ties.”
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The history of tea cultivation
in Uttarakhand is about
150 years old. In 1824, the
British writer Bishop Heber,
while expressing the possibili-
ty of cultivating tea in the
Kumaon region, said that tea
plants grow naturally on the
land here but are not used.
Heber had said that Kumaon's
soil, temperature and other
weather conditions closely
match those of China's tea gar-
dens. Tea cultivation has a
come a long way in
Uttarakhand since it was
encouraged by the British.
Today, there are some tea gar-
dens which not only produce
good quality tea but also pro-
vide locals with a source of
employment. The Simgadi tea
garden located along the bor-
der of Bageshwar and
Pithoragarh districts is one
such example.
About three dozen women
here have become self-suffi-
cient from this plantation.
They get 18 to 20 days of work
every month, but only a few
days in the three rainy months.
They get remuneration at the
rate of Rs 316 per day. Along
with their farming, these
women are augmenting their
income with their work in the
tea garden which is also moti-
vating the women of other vil-
lages to do the same.
The Uttarakhand Tea
Development Board estab-
lished the tea garden at
Simgadi in 1994. The former
Uttarakhand chief secretary
RS Tolia and statehood activist
Ganga Singh Pangti also
played a role in establishment
of this tea garden. At a time
when lack of employment
opportunities remains one of
the major factors for migration
from the mountainous
regions, the tea garden is pro-
viding a reason for villagers to
remain here. Pangti said that
most of the people living in
Simgadi are associated with
this work. A woman earns
upto Rs 7,000 per month from
her work in the tea garden. He
further said that there was a
time when the tea from
Uttarakhand was exported to
all over the world with the tea
from Berinag, Chaukori and
Kausani leaving its mark.
Today this has come down due
to factors including govern-
mental apathy. He demanded
that the government should set
up a tea factory here.
The Bageshwar chief
development officer DD Pant
said, “Tea plantation is pro-
viding employment to women
while the mountain soil and
climate are also better for tea
cultivation. A letter will be sent
to the government for setting
up a tea factory here and
other measures. A tea factory
is being operated in
Harinagari.”
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The Uttarakhand transport
department received a total
of 1,889 applications from the
public transport operators, con-
ductors and cleaners on the first
day to register as the benefi-
ciaries for the monetary aid
provided by the State
Government. The transport
department recently invited
applications from public trans-
port operators, conductors and
cleaners of the State from
Wednesday as potential bene-
ficiaries for the monetary aid of
Rs 2,000 to each eligible bene-
ficiary whose livelihood was
affected due to Covid-curfew.
The department will send Rs
2,000 for the next six months to
the bank accounts of the eligi-
ble beneficiaries as per the
recent orders.
The deputy transport
commissioner of the depart-
ment Sanat Kumar Singh
informed that the department
received a total of 1,889 appli-
cations on Wednesday through
the portal http://uk.gov.in out of
which only 185 were approved,
16 were kept on hold, two
were rejected while the remain-
ing 1,686 applications are pend-
ing for approval. “It was the first
day of registering at the portal
due to which numbers of appli-
cants were less but this number
will surely rise in the next few
days,” said Singh.
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The Enforcement
Directorate (ED) on
Wednesday said the Special
(PMLA) Court, Mohali, has
allowed the confiscation of
assets worth around C10 crore
in the Bhola Drug case on its
request.
The ED had earlier
attached these assets including
immovable properties, Indian
currency, foreign currencies,
fixed deposits. Subsequently,
the agency filed applications
under Prevention of Money
Laundering Act against four
accused persons, Roy Bahadur
Nirwal, Mahesh Gaba, Anoop
Singh Kahlon and Varinder
Singh Raja, who were abscond-
ing during the course of trial.
“In this case, the Court
while passing the confiscation
order categorically observed
that no objection regarding
confiscation of the properties
has come from any quarter in
spite of publication in the
newspaper to the general pub-
lic. The Court held that since
the properties attached by ED
have been confirmed by the
Adjudicating Authority and
the accused persons have been
declared as Proclaimed
Offenders by the Court for
evading the process of law
subsequent to the Prosecution
Complaints filed against them,
said properties are confiscated
to the Central Government,”
the agency said in a statement.
In the Bhola Drug case,
multiple FIRs under Narcotic
Drug and Psychotropic
Substances (NDPS) Act, Indian
Penal Code (IPC) and Arms
Act were registered by the
Punjab Police in 2013 and
2014. Consequent to that, the
ED initiated investigation in
this case of multi-crore syn-
thetic drug racket that was
operated by wrestler-turned-
cop-turned-drug Mafia Jagdish
Singh alias Bhola.
During the course of the
money laundering investiga-
tion, statements of accused
persons and witnesses were
recorded and numerous docu-
ments from different agencies/
authorities have also been
obtained.
So far, a total of five
Provisional Attachment Orders
have been issued in this case
wherein total ‘proceeds of
crime worth C95 crore has
been attached, it said.
Jagdish Singh alias Bhola,
who was the kingpin of the
syndicate, was arrested under
the relevant Section of
Prevention of Money
Laundering Act (PMLA) in
January 2014 by the ED, and
since then he has been in judi-
cial custody.
Singh had filed three bail
applications on various dates to
secure his bail, however, all
were dismissed by the Special
PMLA Court.
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Expressing displeasure over
the disruptions in Lok
Sabha proceedings during the
Monsoon Session, Speaker Om
Birla on Wednesday said he
was “extremely hurt” and
voiced hope that parties will,
through consensus, ensure that
members follow the rules
strictly and maintain the dig-
nity of the House.
The Lok Sabha was
adjourned sine die on
Wednesday, two days before
schedule, after Opposition
protests over the Pegasus
snooping row, farm laws and
other issues.
Addressing a press confer-
ence, Birla said out of the total
96 hours, the House func-
tioned for only 21 hours and its
productivity reduced to 22
percent due to the ruckus. He
disapproved of the members
coming into the Well and
shouting slogans, saying pre-
siding officers have maintained
that such conduct was unac-
ceptable. “I am pained at con-
tinuous disruptions of the
House. I don’t have words to
express my anguish over the
ruckus in the House... I am
extremely hurt,” Birla said.
The Speaker said he will
call a meeting of leaders of all
parties to build consensus on
ways to ensure that rules are
strictly followed and to discuss
stringent action against habit-
ual offenders. Birla said the
people of the country expect
Parliament, which is the tem-
ple of democracy, to function
so that elected representatives
can raise matters of public
concern and feel saddened
when it does not happen.
Asserting that the House can
only run through dialogue and
consensus, the Speaker said he
also held several meetings with
leaders from both treasury and
opposition sides to end the log-
jam but it could not happen
due to several factors.
“Members should maintain
the dignity of Parliament and
help run the House according
to traditions... It is a collective
responsibility,” he said while
replying to questions, and
expressed confidence that the
next session will be more pro-
ductive. His remarks came on
a day Rajya Sabha Chairman M
Venkaiah Naidu broke down in
the Upper House while
expressing anguish over the
unruly conduct of MPs, who
had climbed on the officers’
table in the Well and hurled
files on Tuesday, and said that
they had committed sacrilege.
On possible action to check
unruly behaviour of members,
Birla said it is not necessary that
action would yield the desired
result, but added that he will
call a meeting of leaders from
all parties to discuss “stringent
action against habitual offend-
ers”. Birla also informed that the
construction of the new
Parliament building is expect-
ed to be completed before
August 15 next year.
After the Lok Sabha was
adjourned sine die, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi,
Home Minister Amit Shah,
Congress President Sonia
Gandhi and floor leaders of
various other parties met the
Speaker in his chamber over
tea.
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Twitter on Wednesday
informed Delhi High Court
that Congress leader Rahul
Gandhi’s Twitter account is
locked due to violating their
policy by uploading the photos
of recently raped and murdered
nine year old Dalit girl’s par-
ents. Twitter was responding to
a petition seeking FIR against
Rahul Gandhi for allegedly
revealing the identity of the
Dalit girl.
Senior advocate Sajan
Poovayya, representing Twitter,
told the court that the tweet by
Rahul Gandhi has been
removed as it was found to be
in violation of the platform’s
own policy. “The account has
been locked and the tweet is
not available,” Poovayya said.
Counsel for Mhadlekar, advo-
cate Gautam Jha, however,
responded that he disputed
Twitter’s stand and urged the
court to call for an affidavit. “If
this is the attitude, we are not
issuing notice,” the court
remarked as it proceeded to
adjourn hearing. Senior advo-
cate R S Cheema appeared for
Rahul Gandhi.
A bench of Chief Justice D
N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh
refused to issue notice on the
public interest litigation (PIL)
by Makarand Suresh
Mhadlekar at this stage and
asked the parties to “keep 1-2
pages of submissions ready on
next date”. The case was post-
ed for hearing on September 27
in which was the petitioner has
made Twitter as party.
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Taking note of a new type of
cyber-attack on banking cus-
tomers, the Indian Computer
Emergency Response Team (CERT-
IN) under the Ministry of
Electronics and Information
Technology issued a warning saying
attackers are using ‘ngrok’ platform
to host phishing websites that look
like internet banking websites of
popular banks in India to collect
sensitive information such as inter-
net banking credentials, mobile
number and one-time password
(OTP) to carry out fraudulent
transactions.
“It has been observed that
Indian banking customers are being
targeted by a new type of phishing
attack using ngrok platform. The
malicious actors have abused the
ngrok platform to host phishing
websites impersonating internet
banking portals of Indian banks.
Using these phishing websites,
malicious actors are collecting sen-
sitive information such as internet
banking credentials, mobile num-
ber and one time password (OTP)
to carry out fraudulent transac-
tions,” the advisory said.
In a warning, the CERT-In
said the scammers are sending
SMS to customers with embedded
phishing links ending with
ngrok.io/xxxbank.
According to officials, you may
get a message like “Dear customer,
your xxx bank account will be sus-
pended! Please Re KYC Verification
Update click here link
http://446bdf227fc4.ngrok.io/xxxba
nk” The moment you click on this
link to login to your internet bank-
ing account, your online banking
login details and mobile number
may be stolen to carry out fraud
money transfers.
Once stolen, the scammer gen-
erates OTP by entering your details
on the actual online banking web-
site which gets delivered to your
phone number.
Now, the victim unknowingly
enters the same OTP on the phish-
ing website, thus giving away the real
OTP to the scammer. For stealing
money, the SMS text may be
changed to fetch OTPs in a similar
way.
CERT has also released some
best practices which users should
follow in order to stay safe from
malicious actors which include do
not browse un-trusted websites or
follow un-trusted links and exercise
caution while clicking on the link
provided in any unsolicited emails
and SMS. “Look for suspicious
numbers that don’t look like real
mobile phone numbers. Scammers
often mask their identity by using
email-to-text services to avoid
revealing their actual phone num-
ber. Genuine SMS messages
received from banks usually contain
sender ID (consisting of bank’s
short name) instead of a phone
number in sender information
field,” it said. It further suggested
internet banking users to “only
click on URLs that clearly indicate
the website domain.” “When in
doubt, users can search for the
organisation’s website directly using
search engines to ensure that the
websites they visited are legiti-
mate,” it said.
“Users are advised to hover
their cursors over the shortened
URLs (if possible) to see the full
website domain which they are vis-
iting or use a URL checker that will
allow the user to enter a short URL
and view the full URL,” it said. Users
can also use the shortening service
preview feature to see a preview of
the full URL, the advisory stated.
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The India Meteorological
Department (IMD) said
on Wednesday the monsoon
over the country has entered
a break mode and is likely to
continue for the next five
days.
However, the intense
rainfall spell over the north-
east and adjoining east India,
northern parts of Uttar
Pradesh and Bihar, is expect-
ed to last till August 14 and
reduce thereafter. Crisil
Research in its report on
Kharif sowing forecasts that
uneven distribution of mon-
soon rainfall is likely to
impact the kharif sowing,
which is expected to fall one per cent
as compared to last year.
According to the IMD data,
from June 1 to August 10, the
country received 5 per cent less rain-
fall than normal. The east and
northeast India meteorological divi-
sion of the IMD has recorded 12 per
cent less rainfall, while the northwest
India and central India meteoro-
logical divisions have recorded
minus 2 and 7 per cent rainfall
respectively.
The south peninsula meteoro-
logical division has 8 per cent more
rainfall than normal so far. The cur-
rent spell of fairly widespread to wide-
spread rainfall activity with isolated
heavy to very heavy falls are very like-
ly to continue over northeast and sub-
Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim
during August 11-14 and reduce
thereafter.
“Subdued rainfall is very likely
over north Indian plains (Punjab,
Haryana, Rajasthan), adjoining cen-
tral India and most parts of penin-
sular India (outside Tamil Nadu and
Kerala), including Maharashtra and
Gujarat till August 15, the IMD said.
Rainfall activity will increase over
peninsular India from August 16
onwards, it said.
Scattered to widespread rainfall
is very likely over Tamilnadu and
Kerala during next five days with iso-
lated heavy falls over Tamil Nadu dur-
ing August 11-14 and over Kerala
during August 11-12. “The current
spell of weak monsoon conditions
over the country is likely to contin-
ue till next 5 days (August 11-15),
outside northeast and adjoining east
India, northern parts of Uttar Pradesh
and Bihar where current activities of
intense rainfall spell likely to contin-
ue till August 14 with reduction there-
after,” the IMD said.
In its report, Crisil said that
overall kharif sowing is expected to
remain one per cent lower year-on-
year. “Cumulative sowing till August
8 was two per cent lower year-on-
year, attributable to the advancement
in sowing last year, and three per cent
higher than the average of the past
five years”.
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Over 2.45 lakh urban home-
less people have so far been
identified in the country via sur-
veys conducted by the respec-
tive States and Union
Territories, the Centre told
Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
In a written reply, Minister
of State for Housing and Urban
Affairs Kaushal Kishore said the
central government is adminis-
tering ‘Shelter for Urban
Homeless (SUH)’ scheme under
the Deendayal Antyodaya
Yojana National Urban
Livelihoods Mission (DAY-
NULM) through states and
UTs. The guidelines of SUH
provide for conducting system-
atic third party surveys in cities
and towns by urban local bod-
ies to identify the number of
urban homeless in order to
assess the need for shelters.
“So far, 2,45,945 urban
homelesshave beenidentifiedin
surveys conducted by respective
states/Union territories (UTs),”
the minister said. The Union
government is augmenting
efforts of state and Union terri-
tory governments through the
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-
Urban (PMAY-U) to meet the
housing demand through finan-
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On a day the Monsoon Session
of Parliament ended prema-
turely there was a bitter clash
between the Opposition and the
Government over use of security
personnel in the Rajya Sabha dur-
ing the passage of the insurance
amendment Bill to privatise general
insurance companies.
The Opposition MPs walked
out of the Rajya Sabha alleging
heavy deployment of marshals to
prevent their protests.
While the Opposition alleged
that marshals manhandled two
women MPs, the treasury bench-
es accused the Opposition to attack
the marshals and pushed in the
Rajya Sabha.
The incident comes a day later
when two Opposition MPs had
jumped on the table of the
Secretary General in the House.
Before staging a walkout in the
upper house, Leader of Opposition
Mallikarjun Kharge conveyed to
the presiding officer that women
MPs were manhandled and this
should be condemned and
demanded that sufficient number
of female Marshals should be
deployed so that our female col-
leagues are safe.
Condemning the allegations
of attack on women MPs, NCP
supremo Sharad Pawar said that
never in his Parliamentary career
has heard or seen such a nasty inci-
dent guided by the government.
Trinamool Congress leader in
the Rajya Sabha Derek O Brien
alleged that there were more secu-
rity guards in the Rajya Sabha than
MPs as the government bulldozed
the insurance Bill.
“RSTV will not show you that.
This is censorship, the Modi-Shah
Gujarat model at work in
Parliament,” he said.
The TMC also alleged that the
government used “gender shields”
to foil MPs’ protests inside Rajya
Sabha. “Male marshals were sent
after women MPs and female mar-
shals were posted in front of male
MPs,” Brien said as some women
MPs, including TMC’s Dola Sen
and Congress’ Ami Yagnik, alleged
manhandling by marshals.
Congress Chief Whip in Rajya
Sabha Jairam Ramesh termed the
day as “worse than atrocious” amid
indications that Opposition leaders
and MPs would assemble in
Parliament on Thursday to protest.
Congress has convened all its
Parliamentarians in the Parliament
on Thursday.
“The insurance amendment
Bill to privatise general insurance
companies was passed in the Rajya
Sabha with a large force of securi-
ty personnel present. The govern-
ment refused to send it to a select
committee as demanded by all
Opposition parties, including those
close to the BJP. What happened
this evening was worse than atro-
cious,” Congress chief whip Jairam
Ramesh said.
Before the Deputy Chairman
Harivansh announced sine die,
Rajya Sabha passed The
Constitution (One Hundred and
Twenty-Seventh Amendment) Bill,
2021 that restores the states’ right
to create their OBC list, General
Insurance Business
(Nationalisation) Amendment Bill,
2021, the National Commission for
Homoeopathy (Amendment) Bill,
2021, and the National
Commission for Indian System of
Medicine (Amendment) Bill, 2021.
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To promote the Ayush industry
nationally and globally, the
Government is infusing young pro-
fessionals in the sector to help
them start their own small-scale
Start-ups.
In this direction, the Union
Ayush Ministry has also launched a
web-based e-learning programme of
all the pharmaceutical processing
involved in preparation of
Ayurvedic drugs in line with the
New Education Policy.
The web-based e-learning pro-
gramme for Rasa Shastra Bhaishajya
Kalpana (RSBK) education has been
launched by the Rashtriya Ayurveda
Vidyapeeth (RAV), an autonomous
organisation under the Union
Ministry of Ayush.
This programme will give the
participants a practical feel of con-
ceptual learning of the principles
and knowledge of RSBK.
According to Director of RAV,
Dr Anupam Srivastava, “In the cur-
rent scenario, there is a great
demand in Ayurveda system of
medicine globally. For this purpose,
there is also a need for quality. This
course will help meet the cus-
tomers’ desire for quality, safe and
effective medicines.
“Since there are less Start-ups in
the Ayush sector and to infuse
young professionals of Ayush system
to start their own small-scale Start-
ups, this course will give them
great scope.
This programme will help in
achieving the Prime Minister’s goal
of Atmanirbhar Bharat”.
Dr Srivastava further said, “This
programme will not only help in the
setting up Start-up of the sector but
will also be helpful to students in
acquiring credit points to enrich
their credit bank for their future
endeavor in line with the New
Education Policy.”
This e-learning programme
will be conducted through a series
of tutorials, which will run all along
the course.
This programme is designed to
provide students, practitioners,
pharmacists an in-depth under-
standing and detailed knowledge of
core-concepts of Ayurvedic phar-
maceutical science, techniques and
principles involved in the prepara-
tion of classical Ayurvedic and
Ayurvedic patent and proprietary
formulations, said an official.
A total of 50 students will be
allowed to enroll on first come-first
serve basis and a student has to
complete the whole course within 6
to 8 months of enrollment, the offi-
cial said.
It will also provide an opportu-
nity to get exposure through live
demonstration and working expe-
rience in the manufacturing units of
Pharma industries to learn the con-
cept of the operations involved in
the manufacturing of classical and
PP Ayurvedic preparations among
others.
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The Kerala High Court on
Wednesday stayed till fur-
ther orders the probe by judi-
cial commission constituted
by Government of Kerala into
the functioning of the
Enforcement Directorate in
the State in connection with
the infamous gold smuggling
case in which many senior
Government Staff attached
to the Chief Minister’s Office
allegedly played crucial
roles.
A single Bench headed by
Justice P B Suresh Kumar grant-
ed interim stay to a plea by the
Enforcement Directorate which
challenged the Kerala
Government Order dated 7th
May, 2021 constituting a com-
mission of inquiry headed by
retired Judge V K Mohanan
under the Commission of
Inquiry Act 1952 to probe the
agency’s role in the alleged gold
smuggling through the green
channelofThiruvananthapuram
International Airport in the
year 2020.
M Sivasankaran, the then
principal secretary to Chief
Minister Pinarayi Vijayan,
Swapna Suresh, a former
employee of the UAE Consulate
in the capital city, Sarath and
Sandeep Nair were arrested in
connection with the scam.
Sivasankaran was released on
bail after 90 days in jail while
the other three who reported-
ly played major role in getting
the gold smuggled in with the
connivance of people in power
continue to languish in
jail.
The Kerala Government
constituted the commission of
inquiry following the ED’s
probe extending to other
areas like the LIFE Mission
pay off, a flagship programme
of the LDF Government to
provide houses and liveli-
hood to those without a roof
over their head. The judicial
probe was ordered to examine
if the ED and the Customs
Department had made an
alleged attempt to falsely
implicate Chief Minister
Vijayan in the gold smuggling
case. There were allegations
by the State Government that
the ED and the Customs were
coercing Swapna Suresh and
her kingpins to falsely impli-
cate the Chief Minister in the
case.
The contention of the ED
was that the Kerala
Government did not have the
authority to order an inquiry
into its functioning. “The
Central Government is the
only authority which can con-
stitute a judicial commission
to probe the functioning of the
ED,” the agency told the
Court.
Solicitor General Tushar
Mehta, appearing for the ED,
had argued that constitution of
the Commission by the State
Government was ultra vires
Section 3 read with Section 2A
of Commission of Inquiry Act
(COI Act) wherein the Central
Government is the competent
authority for matters related to
an entry in Central list/ list 1 of
the 7th Schedule of the
Constitution
Section 3 of the COI Act
states that a COI can be
appointed for the purpose of
making an inquiry into any
definite matter of public impor-
tance.
However, Mehta submitted
that the notification in this case
was issued to impede an ongo-
ing investigation against the
same executive functionaries
who have issued said notifica-
tion and therefore it serves per-
sonal interests
Judge Suresh Kumar, while
accepting the argument of the
ED, ordered notice to the
Kerala Government (except
the chief minister) and ordered
interim stay to the functioning
of the said judicial
commission.
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Kerala on Wednesday diag-
nosed 23,500 new Covid-
19 cases from 1.63 lakh samples
tested while the Test Positivity
Rate remained on the higher
side with 14.49 per cent. A
release issued by Health
Minister Veena George said
116 persons succumbed to the
pandemic on Wednesday and
this took the death toll to
18,120.
Thrissur replaced
Malappuram as the district
with the highest number of
new Covid-19 patients on
Wednesday. Thrissur tested
3,124 new Covid-19 cases while
Malappuram was relegated to
the second spot with 3,109 new
patients.
Till Wednesday evening,
the State had 1.75 lakh patients
undergoing treatment for
Covid-19. The weekly Infection
Population Ratio (WIPR) in 52
local self-government bodies
spread across 266regions stood
at 10 which means that the
entire regions would be shut
down as per the revised safety
regulations.
On Tuesday, Kerala had
diagnosed 21,119 new Covid
cases across the State, Veena
George had told media persons
last week that the coming days
would see the Covid-19 cases
shooting up further in the
State before it plateaus and
come down.
Meanwhile the Kerala
High Court lambasted the State
administration for the second
day in succession for the latter’s
indifference towards the court
directive to ensure that the pan-
demic does not spread through
the outlets of the liquor outlets.
Justice Devan
Ramachandran, hearing a peti-
tion against the Kerala
Government for its vacilla-
tions towards court directive to
provide safe and clean envi-
ronment to tipplers queuing up
in front of the watering holes
in the State, told the Beverages
Corporation that just because
the State gets revenue out of
liquor sale, it cannot compro-
mise on safety norms to expose
customers to Covid.
The justice told the
Government that it should not
have an indifferent attitude
towards people who line up in
front of the Bevco outlets. “We
must save the lives of every cus-
tomer who goes there because
it doesn't affect just them, they
will carry the disease to their
house and give it to their wives
and children,” the judge said.
Panaji: A day after a video
showing three rape accused
being forced to do sit-ups in the
nude at the Aguada central jail
in North Goa, prison authori-
ties on Wednesday directed a
probe into the incident.
Speaking to reporters,
Inspector General of Prisons,
Goa, Venancio Furtado, said
that that the central jail super-
intendent has been directed to
submit a report within 24 hours.
I have asked the jail super-
intendent to submit the inquiry
report within 24 hours. If other
inmates are found to be
involved, we will take action as
per the prison rules, Furtado
told reporters.Terming the inci-
dentasdeplorable,Furtadosaid,
Amessageneedstogothatsuch
incidents will not be tolerated,
adding that the enquiry would
also probe whether such rag-
ging rituals are common in the
prison complex.
The three accused were
arrested last month in connec-
tion with the alleged rape of
three persons at Colva beach in
South Goa.
In the video, the three
naked inmates can be seen
made to do sit-ups, while other
other inmates can be heard
cheering in the backdrop.
In all, four persons, name-
ly Asif Hateli, 21, Rajesh Mane,
33, Gajanand Chinchankar, 31,
and Nitin Yabbal, 19, have
been arrested in connection
with the alleged rape incident.
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Bruhat Bengaluru
Mahanagara Palike
(BBMP) has collected Rs 12.58
crore as fine for Covid guide-
lines violations in the past 16
months in Bengaluru.
According to data given
by BBMP, from May 2020 to
August 7, 2021, Rs 11.86 crore
fine amount has been collect-
ed from 4.93 lakh plus persons
for not wearing masks.A total
of 31,339 cases were lodged
and Rs 71.35 lakh fine has
been collected from those
who did not ensure social
distancing. As many as
5,25,196 cases have been
lodged in connection with
Covid guidelines violations.
About 150 industries were
shut down by the BBMP in the
same period for Covid proto-
col violations.
BBMP has deputed mar-
shals to ensure the implemen-
tation of Covid guidelines
across the city. The fines were
collected from apartments,
markets, hotels, bars, restau-
rants, bus stops and other
places.
Meanwhile, Minister for
Health, Family Welfare and
Medical Education Dr K.
Sudhakar said on Wednesday
that Karnataka has crossed 4
crore Covid tests marking yet
another milestone in the battle
against the pandemic. More
than 80 per cent of the tests
conducted in state are RT-
PCR.
Karnataka has tested the
third-highest number of sam-
ples in the country. The tests
were conducted in 3,338 swab
collection centres, 252 Covid-
19 testing labs and 81.45 per
cent of total tests conducted
are RT-PCR tests, he
stated.
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In what could spell further
trouble for Kerala Chief
Minister Pinarayi Vijayan,
gold smuggling case prime
accused Swapna Suresh has
alleged that a packet of foreign
currency was sent to him
while he was on a visit to the
UAE in 2017, through a diplo-
mat of its Consul General's
office here.
Her allegation came in
response to a show cause notice
issued by the Customs to her
on the issue of illegal export of
dollars abroad.
The show cause notice,
dated July 29 and surfacing in
the media on Wednesday, has
statements of Swapna Suresh
and others. According to it,
Swapna, asked who were all
these senior politicians she
has accused, replied that pre-
sent Chief Minister Pinarayi
Vijayan and then Assembly
Speaker P. Sreeramakrishnan
had sent foreign currency to
the UAE through Ahmed Al
Doukhi, a diplomat of the
Consul General Office, and
Consul General, Jamal Al
Zaabi, respectively.
When Swapna was asked
how these politicians sent
foreign currency through
diplomats, she replied that in
the beginning of 2017, she got
instructions from the Consul
General to call (Vijayan's then
Principal Secretary) M.
Sivasankar and to ask whether
any arrangements could be
made for Chief Minister's
arrival at UAE, that she had
called Sivasankar and he told
her to try to make necessary
arrangements, if possible, but
they were also trying to make
arrangements through the
Indian Embassy in the UAE,
that she agreed and did the
necessary things.
Next day, Sivasankar
called her and said there was
a very important packet that
had to be sent to the UAE to
Chief Minister, who had
reached the UAE on the pre-
vious day, without any hin-
drance and delay. She spoke to
the Consul General and told
him about the requirement
and the CG told her that
Ahmed Doukhi could be sent
to the UAE for that purpose.
She asked Sarith (PRO) to
contact Sivasankar and to col-
lect the packet and deliver to
the diplomat Ahmed Al
Doukhi, for carrying it to the
UAE.
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Ajournalist associated with a
private news channel and
son of a leading State vernac-
ular newspaper editor was
killed in Bihar's East
Champaran district, an official
said.
The decomposed body of
Manish Kumar Singh was
found on Tuesday from
Mathlohiar Gaddi Tola — three
days after his disappearance.
The killers have removed both
of his eyes.
Singh is a native of
Paharpur village in the same
district and his father Sanjay
Kumar Singh is an editor of a
Hindi news paper (Areraj
Darshan).
In a statement to the
Harshidhi police, Sanjay Singh
said that his son went to
Mathlohar Gaddi Tola three
days ago.
He had posted a photo-
graph of a get-together party of
himself and two other jour-
nalist friends Amrendra Kumar
and Ashlaj Alam at 8.42 p.m.
Since then, he was missing and
we lost contact with him.
We searched for him for
the entire night and the next
two days but he has not been
traced, Sanjay Singh said.
Santosh Kumar, the DSP of
Areraj sub-division in east
Champaran district earlier said:
As the family members of the
deceased are worried about
him. They were suspecting
some untoward incident might
have happened with him.
Hence, they have lodged FIR
against 12 persons including
those two alleged journalists.
The father suspects that he
has property dispute with his
cousin brothers and they may
be involved in his murder.
Besides, he also suspects that
his son, who had done many
investigative stories and
exposed wrongdoings in the
district, could have been tar-
getted by criminals he exposed.
He was receiving threatening
calls for the past few days, the
officer said.
The villagers on Tuesday,
spotted a pair of shoes in the
farm land. When they searched
further, the dead body was
found from a Sareh village. The
dead body was in a semi-
decomposed state, the officer
said.
We have arrested journal-
ists Amrendra and Ashlaj
Alam. A bag belonging to
Manish was also found in the
house of Amrendra, he
said.
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The Karnataka High Court
has ordered the manage-
ment of 16 mosques in
Bengaluru to submit affidavit
in connection with sound pol-
lution on Tuesday.
The divisional bench head-
edbyChiefJusticeA.S.Okaand
JusticeSanjayGowdagavedirec-
tions in this regard. The Public
InterestLitigation(PIL)wasfiled
by32residentsofIconapartment
on Thanisandra Road.
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management of masjids has to
submit an affidavit before the
court on whether they are fol-
lowing the guidelines pre-
scribed by the government to
avoid sound pollution.
They also have to mention
in the affidavit that, they have
obtained a license as per the
Pollution Control Board (PCB)
guidelines and if a license is not
obtained they will not use
loudspeakers.
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Days after Trinamool
Congress youth leaders
were attacked by alleged saffron
workers in Tripura in the wake
of the Bengal ruling outfit’s bid
to gate-crash into Tripura pol-
itics the Biplab Deb
Government has registered
FIRs against TMC national
general secretary Abhishek
Banerjee and a couple of senior
Bengal leaders including a state
minister and an MP.
Apart from Banerjee who
is also the nephew of Bengal
Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee the Bengal Education
Minister Bratya Basu, TMC
MP Dola Sen and State
Trinamool spokesperson and
former MP Kunal Ghosh,
senior leaders Subal Bhowmick
and Sri Prakash Das also have
been named in the FIR.
The Bengal politicians have
been booked for misbehaving
with Additional SP and SDPO
of Khowai and obstructing pub-
lic servants from discharging
their official duty, sources said.
Bengal TMC leadership
condemned the legal process
saying “this only proves the fas-
cist nature of the BJP
Government.” Senior
Trinamool leader Firhad
Hakim said “today the Tripura
Police is framing us but tomor-
row when we will capture
power the same police will
salute us … and power we will
capture in that state definitely
… the process has begun.”
The opposition Left Front
is however seeing the latest
development as a part of
Tripura BJP’s “diabolic designs
to afford political relevance to
TMC, a non-existent entity
which enjoys no more than 2
percent vote” in that State.
The latest controversy
started after Banerjee’s convoy
was black-flagged and alleged-
ly attacked in Tripura.
Subsequently three Bengal
youth TMC leaders were also
attacked in that State by alleged
BJP men. In the attack their
vehicles were smashed and they
sustained injuries for which
they were flown in to Kolkata
and were being treated at the
Government-run SSKM
Hospital.
Incidentally Mamata
Banerjee had earlier blamed
Union Home Minister Amit
Shah for the attacks saying
“Biplab Deb does not have the
courage to do such works … it
all have been done on the
instructions Amit Shah.” She
said the BJP was running anar-
chic governments wherever
they were in power.
“I have information that
Abhishek’slifeisindangerasthe
BJP’sgoonsarefollowinghim…
when he went to Tripura five
suspicious people followed him
and were seated around him in
the flight,” Banerjee who enjoys
a reputation for making similar
“life-threatening” claims
throughout political career said.
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Bengal Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee has been
invited to Rome to attend an
international peace summit
which is likely to be attended
by Pope Francis and German
Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Theconferencebeingorgan-
ised by a religious Community
ofSantEdigioAitwillbeheldin
the first week of October.
In the invitation written to
Banerjee the President of the
Community Marco Impagliazzo
has, apart from congratulating
the Chief Minister for her recent
electoral victory in Bengal, said
“in the framework of this
human, social and spiritual
dimension I would like to invite
You, Excellency, to honour us
with Your relevant presence
and your meaningful and
enriching contribution to the
international event in Rome:
The World Meeting for Peace
Peoples as Brothers, Future
Earth, on the next 6 and 7
October 2021.”
Congratulating for her
electoral victory Impagliazzo
wrote “I would like to express
my personal congratulations on
your significant election and for
the important work for social
justice, for the development of
your country and, therefore, for
peace, which you have been
doing for over ten years now.”
When contacted the
Bengal BJP leadership would
not give a public reaction but
privately a senior leader sar-
castically said “good! Finally
Mamata Banerjee has received
an international invitation for
promoting peace and social jus-
tice regardless of the unre-
strained post-poll violence in
Bengal, and the damning
National Human Rights
Commission report.”
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Meanwhile former Bengal
Minister and senior CPI(M)
leader Ashok Bhattacharyya
said “the BJP knows that the
TMC is not a threat in that State
… they are doing so to provide
them unnecessary publicity in
order to divide the opposition
votes … the very same thing
was done in Bengal by Mamata
Banerjee who provided that
political relevance to the BJP
using similar tactic … again in
the Centre the BJP is using the
same tactic to use Mamata
Banerjee to break the opposi-
tion vote… these two parties are
complementary to each other.
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Congress leader Priyanka
Gandhi Vadra attacked the
ruling Bharatiya Janata Party
Government over the issue of
high prices of cooking gas and
said that if the government was
indeed honest about its Ujjwala
Scheme, it should provide sub-
sidy to the poor and reduce the
galloping inflation in the coun-
try.
Priyanka’s attack on the
government came a day after
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
launched Ujjwala 2.0, the sec-
ond phase of Pradhan Mantri
Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), by
virtually presenting free LPG
connections to some benefi-
ciaries in Mahoba district of
Uttar Pradesh which goes to
polls early next year.
Ninety per cent of the
cylinders provided under
Ujjwala Scheme are lying in
disuse and women are forced to
cook using firewood because
the BJP government has dou-
bled the rates of a cooking gas
cylinder in the last seven years
and reduced subsidy to a neg-
ligible amount, Priyanka
tweeted in Hindi on
Wednesday.
In another tweet, the
Congress top leader tagged a
media report on the problems
being faced by the poor due to
rising prices of cooking gas and
posted, If the government is
honest about Ujjwala then it
should give subsidies to the
poor and reduce inflation.”
Earlier on Tuesday, the UP
Congress had said that Ujjwala
Scheme had proved to be a
“hollow gimmick” of the gov-
ernment as a domestic cooking
gas cylinder was costing C 888.
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To fight the growing dissent
between senior and young
leaders in Uttar Pradesh
Congress, the party brass con-
stituted Uttar Pradesh Congress
Election Committee (UPCEC)
including almost all senior lead-
ers and present office bearers of
UPCC in it on Wednesday.
Congress president Sonia
Gandhi approved a proposal for
the setting up of the Pradesh
election committee which was
confirmed by a statement issued
by AICC general secretary
(organisation) KC Venugopal
on Wednesday.
Apart from the 38 members
named in the panel, national
presidents or chairpersons of
AICC organisations or depart-
ments from Uttar Pradesh, the
state heads of frontal organisa-
tions, vice-presidents and gen-
eral secretaries of UPCC will be
its ex-officio members.
The poll committee
includes UP Congress chief
Ajay Kumar Lallu, CLP leader
AradhanaMishra`Mona’,senior
leaders Mohsina Kidwai,
Salman Khurshid, Rajeev
Shukla, Nirmal Khatri, Pramod
Tiwari, PL Punia, RPN Singh
and Vivek Bansal.
Lallu said that the
Congress would fight the 2022
UP Assembly polls under the
leadership of party general sec-
retary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra
and stage a comeback in the
state after three decades.
Former MPs Rajesh
Mishra, Rajaram Pal, Rakesh
Sachan, Begum Noor Bano,
Zafar Ali Naqvi, Harendra
Malik, Rashid Alvi,
Mohammad Muqeem,
Naseemuddin Siddiqui and the
party's Lok Sabha candidate
from Lucknow in 2019,
Acharya Pramod Krishnam
are also part of the panel.
All India Congress
Committee (AICC) secretaries
Imran Masood, Brijlal Khabri,
Sudhanshu Tripathi, BP Singh
and Jitendra Baghel are also
among those included in the
committee.
Congress functionaries said
that the party was prioritising
organisation building and con-
tinuing with the battle against
the Bharatiya Janata party gov-
ernment on the streets in the
run-up to the crucial polls.
UP Congress leaders have
already organised ‘BJP Gaddi
Chhodo’ marches in all assem-
bly constituencies across the
state to expose the wrongdo-
ings of the Yogi Adityanath
government as well as to high-
light how the prices of all
essential commodities, includ-
ing petroleum, have gone
through the roof in the BJP rule
at the Centre in 2014 and in
Uttar Pradesh in 2017.
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Avideo clip of four men
thrashing a youth and
administering electric shocks
after tying his hands went
viral in Ballia on Tuesday, after
which a case was registered at
the local police station and a
probe was initiated. While
the reason for the heinous act
was still not known to the
police, efforts were under-
way to locate the accused so
that stern action could be
initiated.
As per reports, four resi-
dents of Surahia village in
Sahatwar police station area
tied the hands and legs of
Pintu Rajbhar of Rajbharbasti
of the same village and beat
him up brutally in the early
hours on August 7. What is
more, the assaulters were also
seen giving the victim electric
shocks while another local
shot a video of the incident.
After Pintu's condition dete-
riorated, he was admitted to
Ballia district hospital by his
family.
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