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Name of Equipment Qty
No. Number (In Rs.) Closing Date Opening Date
Oocyte & Embryo Conjugated
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Conveyor (Bovine)
GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB 2. 5-16/2020-21/P&S Incubator with Peltier cooling ONE (01) 12,000/- 24.12.2020 26.12.2020
DEPARTMENT OF WATER SUPPLY & SANITATION PUNJAB Franz Diffusion Cell Apparatus
3. 5-17/2020-21/P&S ONE (01) 7,500/- 24.12.2020 26.12.2020
TENDER NOTICE INVITING ONLINE BIDS with 5-6 Cell
No. E-TENDER-07/WSSD/DIV. NO. 1 PATIALA/EE/2020-21 DATED: 11.12.2020 4. 5-69/2019-20/P&S Laparoscope with Accessories ONE (01) 73,500/- 29.12.2020 30.12.2020
THE DEPARTMENT OF WATER SUPPLY & SANITATION DEPARTMENT 5. 5-24/2020-21/P&S Cell Density Meter ONE (01) 3,600/- 30.12.2020 31.12.2020
PUNJAB INVITES ONLINE BID FOR THE FOLLOWING WORKS:
1. Providing & Installing Tubewell of 200mm straight mm i/d upto 200
mtr. depth, Construction of Brick Masonry Pump Chamber, 50000 Interested bidders can download and participate in the aforesaid tenders through
Itr. capacity OHSR having height 20.00 mtr upto FSL, Plinth e-procurement/CPP Portal https://eprocure.gov.in/eprocure/app. For any information or
Protection & Providing and Fixing Automatic Water Level Control
Device, Providing & Installing Pumping Machinery, C.I. Pipes corrigendum please visit Institute website: www.ivri.nic.in
Inside Pump Chamber, Disinfection Unit, Supplying & Laying of FOR DIRECTOR
PVC Pipes 6 Kg/Cm2 for Distribution System, Development of
Water Works etc. complete and Operation & Maintenance for the
period of 3 months after Commissioning and completion and all
other works contingent there to etc. for Rural Water Supply
Scheme at Village Achal, Bifurcated from Existing Water Supply
Scheme Tunga, Block-Nabha District Patiala (Under Punjab Rural
Water & Sanitation Sector Improvement Project).
Closing Date and Time: As per Website
For Details Log on to: https//eproc.punjab.gov.in
NOTE:
1. Any corrigendum to the Tender/RFP Notice shall be published on
the above website only.
Sd/-
Executive Engineer,
117323/PB Water Supply & Sanitation Division No. 1, Patiala.
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deposit document
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of award of contract shape of
e-challan SONAMARG DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
2. M.G Shalimar --do-- 1,00,53,786/- 1005379/- 3000/- Tel/Fax: 0194-2416100 (Ganderbal) E-mail: Sdaofficial@yahoo.com
3. M.G Cheshmashahi --do-- 1,10,11,000/- 1101100/- 3000/-
TENDER NOTICE
4. Green Park Harwan --do-- 27,02,000/- 270200/- 3000/-
(TWO COVER SYSTEM)
The bidding document (s) consisting of qualifying information, eligibility criteria, terms and con- e- NIT No. 17 of 2020 DATED: 10.12.2020
ditions and other details can be seen/downloaded through the Departmental website For and on behalf of the Lieutenant Governor, UT, J&K, tenders are invited by Executive Engineer, Sonamarg
Development Authority through e-tendering mode on TURN KEY basis from approved and eligible Contractors/FIRMS
www.dirflorikmr.in / www.jktenders.gov.in as per schedule of date given below:- potential assessment system as envelop 01 technical and qualification bid and envelop two financial bid from experienced
technically and financially sound and reputed contractors/ Firms registered with J&K UT Govt. CPWD, Railways and other
1. Period of downloading of bidding document 15.12.2020 to 06.01.2021 up to 02:00 PM State/Central Governments for the following works:
2. Bid submission Start Date 16.12.2020 from 10:00 AM Sr. Name of Work Adv. Cost of Earnest Date of Class of Major
3. Bid submission End date 06.01.2021 up to 02:00 PM No. Cost T/Doc. Money Completion Contractor Head of
(In Lacs) (In Rs.) (In Rs.) Account
4. Date and time of Opening of Tenders (Online) 11.01.2021 at 02:00 PM 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
The security deposit money exceeding 2% shall be adjustable towards approved bid 1. DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, ERRECTION, 690.00 15000/- 13,80,000/- Two FIRM/AAY Capex
COMMISSIONING AND BUILD SEWAGE Working Budget
amount in favour of the successful bidders. The CDR’s of the bidders who offer below the TREATMENT PLANT OF INSTALLED CAPACI- Seasons 2020-21
reserve bid shall be forfeited. TY 1 MLD AND ALL APPURTENANT STRUC-
TURES AND ALLIED WORKS; REVIEW THE
In case of any eventuality, the date of opening will be considered on any other convenient DESIGNS, REDESIGN WHERE NECESSARY,
working day. AND BUILD NEW UNDERGROUND SEWER-
AGE NETWORK OF ABOUT 1.825 KM
Sd/- LENGTH INCLUDING SURVEY, DESIGN, LAY-
Accounts Officer, OUT CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO INTERMEDI-
ATE PUMPING STATION/S AND ALL APPUR-
Member Secretary TENANT STRUCTURES AND ALLIED WORKS
DIPK-10400/20
OF SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT, SEWER-
AGE NETWORK , PUMPING STATIONS & RIS-
ING MAIN AT SONAMARG with MAINTE-
Govt of Jammu & Kashmir NANCE & OPERATION FOR THREE YEARS.
OFFICE OF MATERIALS MANAGEMENT OFFICER (PURCHASE-I) Position of AAA/TS: Accorded.
Position of Funds: Available.
SHER-I-KASHMIR INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES 1. The Bidding documents Consisting of qualifying information, eligibility criteria, specifications, bill of quantities
SOURA, SRINAGAR-190011 Tele/FAX NO.: 0194-2403929 (B.O.Q), Set of terms and conditions of contract and other details can be seen/downloaded from
www.jktenders.gov.in as per schedule of dates given below:
Email ID: ammopurchase1@skims.ac.in 2. a) The bidder should have successfully completed and commissioned during past five years atleast 01 STP along with
the certificate issued by Government of India, State Government, UT, Government undertakings and autonomous
H.P. BOARD OF SCHOOL EDUCATION, E-NIT No.: SIMS 325 (P1st) Cylinders Tender 07 of 2020 bodies and public sector undertakings/ Public Limited Companies.
DHARAMSALA-176213 b) The bidder should have executed work to the tune of 35% of the advertised cost for same nature of work (STP/WTP)
DATED: 12.12.2020 in the last three years and a certificate in this regard from the competent authority maybe be appended in the tech-
Hi.Shi.Bo./STORE(7)/2020-867-868 DATED: 14.12.2020 nical bid.
Sub: Notice inviting e-tenders for Purchase of Drugs/Medicines on two c) The bidder should produce/upload undertaking that the Machinery & sewers installed will function in Sub-Zero tem-
“LIMITED TENDER NOTICE” year Rate Contract basis. perature as shall be in Sonamarg area.
Sealed tenders are invited by the undersigned for printing E-tenders are invited for and on behalf of Lt. Governor UT of Jammu & Kashmir, through 3. The Bidder’s should have financial Avg. turnover of Rs. 8 Cr. in the same name and style atleast for the last 3 years
ending 31st March, 2020 in business of supply and erection/commissioning of effluent treatment plant on turnkey
and supply of Envelops from reputed and experienced firms Director, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar, from Manufacturers (self basis.
having experience of handling such jobs. Manufacturers) having valid Drug License/ GST registration and all other pre-qualification doc- 4. The bidder should enclose certificate of turn over from charted accountant from last three financial years and audit-
ed balance sheet of the year which is considered by the bidder in criteria.
Tender document can be obtained from the Office of the uments as per tender requirement) for supply of Drugs/Medicines to SKIMS Soura and SKIMS 5. Joint Venture in the contract may be considered only with atleast one party having minimum qualification of not less
Secretary, H.P. Board of School Education, Dharamshala on Medical College-Hospital Bemina Srinagar, on two year Rate Contract basis to be submitted than 40% of the eligible criteria i.e.
cash payment of Rs. 500/- or by Post by remitting Rs. 550/- under Two Bid Cover System- Cover I “Technical Bid” & Cover II “Price Bid.” The tender docu- i) Not less than 40% of the eligible criteria of condition No. 2.b (i.e.) Work of same nature (STP/WPT) not less than
ments/ detailed specification are available at www.jktenders.gov.in. & www.skims.ac.in 0.966 crore.
through Bank Draft in favour of the Secretary payable at ii) Not less than 40% of the eligible criteria of condition No. 3 (i.e.) Average turnover of Rs. 3.20 crore for last 03 years
Dharamshala on any working day on or before 28.12.2020 Sr. No. Description Tender Fee Earnest Money in the same name and style.
6. The bidding documents including the following volumes, together with any amendment/ addendum thereto:
upto 11.00 A.M. The Tender Document can also be down- 1. Supply of Drugs/Medicines Rs. 2,000/- Rs. 1,00,000/- Volume:- I Schedule of prices.
loaded from the Board website: www.hpbose.org. For down- Volume:- II Technical Bid.
Sr. No. Nomenclature Schedule Volume:- III General Specifications.
loaded form, the tenderer shall have to submit a Bank
1. Date of publish 12.12.2020 1. Date of Issue of Tender Notice 10.12.2020
Draft/Board Receipt of Rs. 500/- in favour of the undersigned
2. Tender Download Start Date 12.12.2020 (at 3 PM) 2. Period of Downloading of Bidding Documents From. 11.12.2020 10. A.M to 05.01.2021 3.00 P.M
along with the Tender Form. Offers complete in all respect
3 Last Date for Submission of Tender Document 05.01.2021 up to 4.00 P.M
along with Earnest Money Rs. 5000/- (Five Thousand 3. Clarification Start Date 12.12.2020 (at 3 PM)
4 Date of Opening of Technical Bid 06.01.2021 at 1.00 P.M
Rupees) in the form of F.D.R./T.D.R. valid for at least 6 4. Last date of clarification if any 19.12.2020 (upto 2 pm)
5 Date & Time of Opening of Financial Bids (Online) 11.01.2021 at 11.00 A.M. in the Office of Chief Executive
months in favour of the Secretary, H.P. Board of School 5. Bid Submission Start Date 23.12.2020 (at 2 am) Officer Sonamarg Development Authority at Mini Secretariat,
Ganderbal
Education, Dharamshala should reach in the office of the 6. Bid Submission End Date 11.01.2021 (upto 2 pm)
NOTE: The financial bid would be opened only of those bidders who fulfill all the pre-qualification criteria.
Secretary, H.P. Board of School Education, Dharamshala- 7. Technical Bid Open Date 14.01.2021 (at 11.30 am)
176213 on or before 28.12.2020 by 1.00 PM. The tenders will 8. Financial Bid Open Date To be notified separately
7. Bids must be accompanied with cost of Tender document in shape of Demand Draft (non refundable) in favour of
Executive Engineer SDA (Tender Inviting Authority) and Earnest money / Bid security in shape of CDR / FDR
be opened on the same day at 3.00 P.M. The tenders pledged to, Executive Engineer SDA (Tender Receiving Authority).
received without tender document cost (in case of down- The tenders should be submitted strictly in accordance with the provisions of 8. The date and time of opening of Bids shall be notified on Web Site www.jktenders.gov.in and conveyed to the bid-
loaded forms), Earnest Money and tenders received after the detailed e-NIT. ders automatically through an e-mail message on their e-mail address. The bids of Responsive bidders shall be
opened online on same Web Site in the office of Executive Engineer, SDA.
due date shall be summarily rejected. Sd/- 9. The bids for the work shall remain valid for a period of 120 days from the date of opening of Bids.
10. All other terms conditions are as per PWD Form 25 (Double agreement Form)
Sd/- Materials Management Officer, 11. The CDRs in respect of un-successful bidders shall be released only after depositing of demand draft in original (as
Secretary Purchase-I, SKIMS. cost of tender document) in the office Executive Engineer SDA.
H.P. Board of School Education No.: SIMS-325 (P1st) Drugs Tender 07 OF 2020-9900-06 Sd/-
NIT No: EE/SDA/ 663-74 Dated: 10.12.2020 Executive Engineer,
Dharamshala-176213 Dated:12.12.2020.
DIPK-NB-4572/20 Sonamarg Development Authority
New Delhi
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to examine
of the three laws based on From the Government'sside, It said that Soren has also or- out a bid. tion of debt. But this time, it
farmerconcerns,”saidatopgov- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh deredallDeputyCommissioners “Multiple expressions of in- plans to divest 100 per cent of its
THE EXPRESS ernment source who is in the CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 to submit a report following terest have been received for equity share capital in Air India
validity of INTERVIEW physical verification of all appli-
cants and schools for the aca-
strategic disinvestment of Air
India. The transaction will now
Ltd, which includes Air India’s
shareholding interest of 100 per
tells court she is major, ASSAMSCHOOLS TO will begin the PE into the scam,” Department of Investment and Services.
BETWEEN DDC, sources in the ACB told The Public Asset Management, Accordingtosources,theTata
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE ASSEMBLY POLLS?’ REOPENWITHOUT Indian Express. posted in a tweet. Group has submitted an official
RESTRICTIONS
NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 14
THESUPREMECourtonMonday
MANOJ SINHA
L-G, JAMMU & KASHMIR goes with man’s family PAGE 14
On Saturday, speaking at The
Indian Express Idea Exchange
CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
Earlier, the Government had
put up 76 per cent stake in Air
India for sale along with a por-
expression of interest for the air-
line although the bid has not
CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
agreed to consider whether it is was 22 and wanted to go with
“feasible or desirable” to exam- INSIDE MANISH SAHU his family.
ine the validity of the proclama- LUCKNOW, DECEMBER 14 Speaking to reporters after
tion of Emergency by the gov- the arrest of Rashid, on Saturday
ernment of Prime Minister THE WOMAN who was taken to morning, Pinki, who is three
Indira Gandhi 45 years ago in a shelter home in Moradabad by months pregnant, had said the
1975. the Uttar Pradesh Police on two of them were going to get
A Bench headed by Justice S Saturdayafterarrestingtheman their marriage registered when
K Kaul issued notice to the she was with under the anti- the police caught them. Rashid's
Centreonapleabya94-year-old conversion law passed last elder brother Saleem, 25, who
woman who submitted that she LE CARRE, SPY WHO month, returned to his home on waswiththemwasalsoarrested.
andherfamilywerehoundedby CAME IN FROM COLD Monday. Pinki was allowed to ThepolicesaidPinkihadnoproof
the authorities during the TO WRITE THRILLERS, leave after she told a magistrate of the marriage, and that they
Emergency, forcing them to DIES AT 89 PAGES 12, 16 that she and Rashid Ali, 22, got were acting on a complaint by
leave India. marriedbackinJuly,andthatshe CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
The petitioner, Dehradun-
basedVeraSarin,urgedthecourt
to declare the proclamation
“wholly unconstitutional”.
“This plea arises from the
passage of time. It is (counsel for
petitioner) Mr Harish Salve’s
submission that...wrongs of his-
tory must be corrected...We
would be disinclined to reopen
CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
104-yr-old in
Assam dies
a ‘foreigner’,
hoping ‘CAA
will solve all’
TORA AGARWALA
GUWAHATI, DECEMBER 14
New Delhi
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Total Vacant
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2020 TOTAL CASES HOSPITAL BEDS 18,807 14,638
6,08,830 VENTILATORS 1,525 654
CORONAVIRUS Dec 13
Dec 14
1,984
1,376
2,539
2,854
33
60
72,335
63,944
IN THE CAPITAL Total 15,247* 5,83,509 10,074 72,86,847
DOCTORSATSirGangaRamhos-
pital have witnessed more than
cines that lower the body's abil-
ity to fight germs and sickness.
DrManishMunjal,SeniorENT
surgeonatthehospital,said,“The
frequencywithwhichwearewit-
nessing the occurrence of Covid
Risk
factors
periencedanaggingleftsidenose
obstruction, which rapidly be-
cameaneyeswellingwithintwo
days, after which he reached out
to the doctors. The left side of his
face had become completely
Anextensivesurgicaldebride-
ment was undertaken by a team
of ENTandeyesurgeons,andthe
patient had to be subsequently
putonlifesavingantifungalmed-
icationandvitalcriticalcaresup-
12 cases of Covid-19 triggered triggered mucormycosis with BLACK FUNGUS or numb and he was brought to the port for more than two weeks.
Mucormycosis fungus — which high morbidity and mortality is Mucormycosis is caused hospitalemergencyinapartially Early detection can prevent
causeslossofeyesight,removalof alarming.Earlyclinicalsuspicion byagroupof moldscalled disoriented and obtunded state. loss of eyesight, nose or jaw
thenoseandjawbone,and50per on symptoms such as nose ob- mucormycetes. Mucor- “His tests revealed the pres- through clinical intervention,
centmortalityincaseswhereitaf- struction, swelling in the eye or mycosis mainly affects enceofsteeplyelevatedsugarand doctors said. Dr Shaloo Bageja, a
fects the brain — within 15 days. cheeks,andblackdrycrustsinthe people who have health infection levels, but even more senior eye surgeon at the hospi-
Black Fungus or noseshouldimmediatelyprompt problems or take medi- deadlier, the presence of a killer tal,said,“Orbitalinvolvement(the
Mucormycosis,previouslycalled a biopsy and start of the antifun- cinesthatlowerthebody's rare fungus called Mucor, which bonycavitythatcontainstheeye-
zygomycosis,isaseriousbutrare gal therapy as early as possible.” ability to fight germs and wassampledfromhisnosedebris. ball)isagravedevelopmentinthe
fungal infection caused by a The symptoms are face sickness. AnMRIrevealedthattheinfection course of this disease, and points
group of molds called mu- numbness, one-side nose ob- had already destroyed a signifi- not only towards the possibility
cormyceteswhichexistintheen- structions or swelling of eyes, or cant part of his left side sinuses, ofpermanentlossofeyesightbut
vironment. Mucormycosis pain.TheENTsurgeonstakesam- might prevent medical loss. eye,upperjawboneandmuscles, lifeaswellbecausebraininvolve-
mainly affects people who have ples for culture and start defini- Inonecase,a32-year-oldwho and even had made passage into mentistheleadingcauseofdeath
health problems or take medi- tive medical treatment which hadrecoveredfromCovid-19ex- the brain,” said Dr Munjal. in mucormycosis.”
Police said the Pinjra Tod member is trying to create a narrative and make it viral. Express Year after Jamia violence, university’s plea
ANAND MOHAN J
NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 14
counsel Adit Pujari had argued
thatthe riots were notstartedby
the anti-CAA protesters, but
tentionthattheprosecution had
selectively placed messages
from WhatsApp chats to prove
for action against police personnel in limbo
rather by pro-CAA protesters led their case against Kalita, Prasad SouthEastdistrictfordutyrosters ted a bill of Rs 2.66 crore to the and in support of her students.
THE DELHI Police, while oppos- by Mishra. said that "every bit and pieces of MAHENDERSINGH of that day. “The SIT later recom- MHRDfordamagetopropertyin Asked what she expected in this
ing the bail application of Pinjra The public prosecutor, how- investigation cannot be part of MANRAL& mendedtothepolicechiefanen- itslibraryseekingcompensation, one year in terms of justice for
Tod member Devangana Kalita ever, told the court: “First the ac- the chargesheet". ARANYASHANKAR quiry… to probe the conduct of and demanded that a high level her students, Akhtar said she
in connection with a Northeast cusedcreateanarrativeandthen HesaidKalitacannotsaythat NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 14 police personnel. Later, the committee or a judicial commit- would prefer to "focus on the
Delhi riots case, has told a Delhi make the larger masses believe her case is different from that of Additional CP (Cyber Cell) was tee be set up to probe the matter. positives" and let the "nega-
courtthat shewascreating“nar- that the narrative that you are the co-accused Sharjeel Imam INTHEpastoneyear,theenquiry askedtoconducttheenquiry,and Therehasbeennomovementon tives" slide, since it was not un-
ratives” to show that BJP leader giving out is correct, so that the and that they were following to probe the role of its own per- investigations are still on,” said a both matters. der her control.
Kapil Mishra was behind the ri- massesbelievethattheprosecu- separate paths. sonnel in connection with the police source. "We had written to them, we "In this one year, we got rank
ots, and making this viral to tion is targetedagainstonecom- “I have demonstrated from December 15 violence at Jamia The December 15, 2019 even pursued it further but we 10intheNIRFuniversityrankings,
make people believe it was the munity... Will these media re- the tweet of Pinjra Tod that Millia Islamia has been trans- protests had spiralled into vio- cannot force anyone. When our makingitthefirstMuslimminor-
truth. ports decide the fate of Pinjra Tod was supporting ferred by the Delhi Police Crime lenceafterasectionof protesters, police complaint was not turned ityuniversitytodoso.Inasurvey
The submissions were made prosecution? The accused is try- Sharjeel Imam. From the Branch to the Cyber Cell, but no including students and local res- into an FIR, we went to the court. by MHRD, we got the top rank
beforeAdditionalSessionsJudge ing to show that Kapil Mishra speeches of Imam, it is clear personnel have been identified idents, tried to march to Ithasbeenoneyear,thecourthas amongcentraluniversities...Even
AmitabhRawatbySpecialPublic wasbehindalltheseandthatthe what was the intent. When I inconnectionwiththeassaulton Parliament against the Students being brought out notgivenitsdecision,"JamiaVice- despite what happened, our stu-
ProsecutorAmitPrasad,whoap- policewasinvestigatingonlyone want to connect the two, the ac- students. Citizenship Amendment Act but of Jamia with their hands in ChancellorNajmaAkhtartoldThe dents sat for exams. We are very
peared for the police. Kalita is side… Why has the accused re- cused says they were travelling Anenquirywasinitiatedafter were stopped by police at the air last year. Reuters Indian Express. proud of this," she said.
facing trial in a case where the lied on media reports? Because in separate paths and nottocon- severalvideosemergedpurport- Mathura Road. As a section of The library was opened in Butforstudentsinjuredinthe
stringent Unlawful Activities the accused also need to take nect them. All that the accused edly showing police assaulting protesters started pelting stones Marchwith800seatingcapacity, attack,movingonhasnotbeenas
Prevention Act (UAPA) has been shelter under something.” wastryingtodoiscreateanarra- people inside the Jamia library andsetbusesandprivatevehicles chargesheeted JNU PhD student 150 computers and new LED easy. Minhajuddin (27), who lost
invokedagainstherovercharges "If theinvestigation,thepros- tive and not go beyond that,” andbreakingaCCTVcameraand on fire, police retaliated with SharjeelImamand Jamiastudent lights. "It took around two hislefteyeintheviolence,said:"I
that she was part of a conspiracy ecution and this country is to Prasad said. furniture. Police maintain they lathi-charge and eventually Asif Iqbal Tanha. months for the renovation to be wasworkingataprivatelawfirm
that led to the riots. continue on the foundation of He further said from the entered the varsity in pursuit of stormed the campus. Jamia had meanwhile filed a complete," said librarian Tariq inDelhi,butlonghoursinfrontof
The court put up the matter what is being reported in the statements of witnesses, it was rioters. Seven persons, including for- policecomplaintagainstthe"bru- Ashraf. the laptop started causing strain.
forfurtherhearingonDecember media, then that is the end of seen that the narrative that pro- Sources said a Crime Branch mer Congress MLA of Okhla Asif talaction"of "unrulypolicemen" At the time of the violence, Threemonthsago,Ileft.”Henow
16. rule of law,” Prasad said. CAA protesters started the riots special investigation team had Khan,havebeennamedbyDelhi and the matter is now in court. Akhtar had publicly come out worksatacivilcourtinhishome-
Citingamediareport,Kalita’s Regarding Pujari’s con- was false. asked SHOs of police stations in Police in their FIRs. Police also The university had also submit- strongly against the police entry town Samastipur.
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New farm laws give licence Delhi BJP gets message from
come and pass by our tractors about one’s political party,” said
and we can pick up what we Pragat Singh, BKU Rajewal state
need from them — vegetables, secretary, Punjab.
milk, toothpaste, soap, bottled Atthefootof thestagealsosit
water,” said Gurjand Singh from
Punjab’s Bathinda district.
Jogendra Ghasi Ram Nain,
members of the ‘Fund
Committee’, who are coordinat-
ing donations coming in. From
to capitalists to up prices: CM top: Use social media, restart
outreach to counter protest
president of the Bharatiya Kisan time to time, people walk up to
Union, Haryana, said his union is them and make donations —
in touch with stakeholders in somegivingRs1,200,somemore ASHNA BUTANI
various districts to transport than Rs 5,000 — and they note NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 14
supplies to Tikri border. down information about them. According to Ramvir Bidhuri,
“We are in touch with prad- “Every morning at 9, we SPEAKING TO a gathering of ABHINAV RAJPUT A four-day campaign 16majorconferences,whichwill
hans of mandis, gurdwaras and bring together all the funds from party workers who observed a NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 14 on agricultural reform be addressed by the state unit
people in villages, and those the previous day and distribute day-long fast in support of farm- and national leaders, will be or-
bringing in the supplies have them to where they are re- ers, Chief Minister Arvind FACING BACKLASH over the will be started by ganised in Delhi under this
been told they have to go to the quired. On Sunday, we had re- Kejriwal said the new farm laws three farm bills, the Central BJP the Delhi BJP from special campaign, while the
very last point of the blockade to ceived Rs 35,000. Around not only go against the interests has once again instructed the message will also be communi-
reach everyone. Last week, Rs 20,000 is the amount being of farmers,butalsoagainstthose Delhi unit to launch its farmer
Najafgarh on Tuesday cated tofarmers through several
Uklana Mandi sent 25 sacks of required for the daily expendi- of the common man, and that outreachprogrammeinthecap- chaupals.
sugar and 1,500 litres of milk, ture and coordination,” said they give capitalists the “license CM Kejriwal, AAP MLAs during the fast. Amit Mehra ital’s villages and outskirts. MP Verma said, “The leaders
along with toiletries like tooth- Sukhjinder Singh, a member of to increase prices”. It has also told the Delhi BJP, would be cleared.” will convince farmers of the
paste and soap. Dhamtan Sahib the fund committee. Citing the example of onion as well its units in other states,to Inanofficialcommunication, benefits like one country-one
prices, he elaborated, “Inflation out an AAP symbol. I have also observed a fast from 9 am to 5 use social media, hoardings, the state units have been told market, which will help farmers
takes place because some peo- been to the border as a sewadar.” pm.AnilGautam, anAAPworker leaflets in newspapers and dis- that “some political parties have get the correct price for their
ple buy and hoard it in large He further said the BJP was from Gokalpur, said, “I am origi- tribute separate booklets that it been trying to misguide and product and wipe out interme-
quantities.Thereislowsupplyin rattled to see his support: “Last nally from Bulandshahr and I has published for the Sikh com- mislead the farmers”. diaries. We will also show that
the market and then onions be- week, when the farmers called a come from a line of farmers... we munity to clear misconceptions As the party’s social media is there are many farmers in sup-
come expensive. The law per- Bharat bandh, I wanted to visit are all in solidarity with them.” regarding the laws. a “strong medium of communi- port of the bill.”
mits hoarding.” He also said themandparticipate.ButtheBJP SourabhGupta,aworkerfrom To this end, a four-day cam- cation”, “all states to utilise the MLA Bidhuri added:
farmers are doing the country a governmentlockedmydoorsand ShalimarBagh,saidtherewasno paignonagriculturalreformwill forum proactively and and pub- “Agriculture Reforms Laws will
favour by protesting at the bor- didnotallowmetogoout.”Delhi teaservedatthepartyoffice:“We be started by the Delhi BJP on licisethetrendandhashtagtobe actually bring prosperity to the
ders. “Farmers are protesting Police has denied claims of the have not eaten anything since Tuesday from Najafgarh. given by Centre”. livesof farmers.Ithasbeenmade
non-violently.Leadershavebeen CMbeingputunderhousearrest. morning. Besides party workers, Delhi BJP chief Adesh Gupta, “The leaflet prepared by the clear by the government that
callingthemagentsof Chinaand As Monday’s fast began, many are observing a fast from MPs Parvesh Sahib Singh and Central government to be in- MSP will continue, mandis will
Pakistan...anti-nationalsandter- Kejriwal tweeted at 10 am, home.”AAP worker Anil Sharma Ramesh Bidhuri, and Leader of sertedinnewspapers...andmax- be expanded, and in case of any
rorists,” he said, urging politi- “Fasting is sacred.Wherever you from Greater Kailash added: Opposition in the Delhi imum publicity to be done dispute with the contractor, the
cians not to defame farmers. are, fast for our farmer brothers. “Wegetfoodbecauseof farmers. Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri throughoutdooradvertisingand option of going to the courts will
Reiterating his party’s stance Pray for their success. In the end, So it is unfair they should strug- will visit Najafgarhand other vil- hoardings... Also, a separate also be open. So we urge farm-
on the farm laws, he said, “When they will emerge victorious.” gle at the borders while we live lages in Outer Delhi. booklet has been published for ers to withdraw their agitation
A group of farmers at the Tikri protest site, who cook for we were asked to convert stadi- As farmers held a day-long ourlivesnormally.Thisiswhyso Gupta said, “Farmers will be Sikh brothers and sisters which and return home once the gov-
around 50-70 people. Jignasa Sinha ums to jails, we refused. Many of fastattheprotestsites,attheAAP many of us decided to apprised of the features of the has to be circulated,” the com- ernment has resolved all their
ourMLAsareattheprotestswith- office too, over 1,000 volunteers fast today.” newlawsandthemisconception munication reads. doubts.”
Haryana cops say over 60,000 at Woman set on fire 3,000 AIIMS nurses
borders, situation unsustainable by husband after on indefinite strike
SUKHBIR SIWACH
CHANDIGARH, DECEMBER 14
Manyof themfeelcorporates
willgrabtheirlandif thelawsare
introduced. “Introduction of
argument, dies EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 14
these laws have given us pain,” son and two-year-old daughter OVER 3,000 nurses at AIIMS be-
WITH THE number of protesters saidMalkiyatSingh,aresidentof MAHENDER SINGH — were sleeping in the other gan an indefinite strike Monday
atDelhi’sbordersgrowingbythe village Kalan (Tarn Taran). MANRAL room. Ayaz told police that his afternoon demanding clarity on
day, senior officers in Haryana Another farmer from the same NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 14 wife was cooking when the inci- salary structure. In a letter to AI-
Policesaid theborders can’ttake area, Sucha Singh, added, “Our dent tookplace. Doctorssaid she IMSdirectorDrRandeepGuleria,
more people as “the situation is ancestors made many sacrifices A 32-YEAR-OLD woman died af- sustained over 85 per cent burn the nursing union raised con-
increasingly turning unsustain- for the freedom of our country. ter she was set on fire, allegedly injuries,” a senior officer said. cerns over the 6th CPC anomaly.
able”. Haryana Police said more Now, we are ready for any sacri- by her husband in Southeast The victim’s brother, Imran “The callous attitude of AIIMS The strike began Monday
than 60,000 protesters are fice to save our land. If needed, Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, following Khan, told police that his sister administration towards nurses afternoon. Express
camping at the borders while the next generation will also an argument over the latter’s re- and Ayaz got married around 13 has forced us to go on an indefi-
the farmer leaders said the fig- make sacrifices for the cause.” lationship withanother woman. yearsago.HeallegedAyazbegan nite strike from Monday after-
ureishigher.Apartfromfarflung At Singhu border. Sukhbir Siwach Jamhoori Kisan Sabha leader Initial investigation revealed seeing another woman within noon onwards,” said the letter. government. There is one de-
areas of Punjab, farmers have Pargat Singh Jamarai told The that the woman had called her months of the marriage. Later at night, Union Health mand which they have insisted
been arriving from Haryana, MP, Indian Express that the agitation parents hours before the inci- “She used to stop him, but SecretaryRajeshBhushanissued upon... a perceived anomaly in
UPandotherpartsof thecountry to enter Delhi has to travel sev- talised due to different illnesses.” will be intensified if the “anti- dent. By the time they reached, he constantly beat her up. On anorder,citingaDelhiHighCourt fixation of pay, as far as the 6th
to join the protest. eral kilometres via link roads On the other hand, farmers at farmer” laws are not repealed she was taken to a hospital December 9, annoyed with his judgment, and directed the AI- CPC is concerned. It, however,
To curb further movement, through villages. Singhu border said they won’t soon.Healsourgedauthoritiesto where she succumbed to in- wife’s interference, he assaulted IMSadministrationtoensurethe seems inappropriate that when
police have installed nakas An officer, requesting budgeunlessthefarmlawsarere- arrangeformoremobiletoiletsat juries during treatment. her. Afterwards, he also threat- directions are strictly followed. the country is fighting a pan-
(check posts) at the Punjab and anonymity, further said: “We are pealed. “Fateh karke hi jayenge theborders,sayingshortageoffa- DCP (Southeast) R P Meena ened her with dire conse- “There shouldbe no cessation or demic... unfortunately... the
Haryana borders. “The idea is in contact with farmer leaders, (Wewillreturnonlyafterwinning cilitieshasbecomeamajorprob- said the accused, identified as quences,” alleged Khan. disruption of nursing functions nurses’unionhasgoneon strike.”
that people feel there is police urging them to not increase the thebattle),”saidPuranSingh,who lem: “Mobile toilets arranged by Mohd Ayaz Chaudhary (44), a Neighbours informed police inAIIMSnorsuchanactionaided The administration has also
presence at the borders to min- numberofprotestersatDelhibor- travelled 520 km from Bachivind Haryana and Delhi authorities builder, is in police custody. “We that the couple was fighting orabetted.Non-compliancewill made arrangements to ensure
imise movement of protesters,” ders. If any major development villageonPunjab’sAtariborderto have turned dysfunctional in the have arrested him on charge of through the night. “Around 5 be treated as offence under there is no disruption inservices.
said a Haryana police officer. takesplace,wewillreasonandne- Singhu. His tractor was part of a absence of regular cleaning.” The murder. Further investigation is am, Mehjabeen called her Disaster Management Act read Emergency services, OPDs, OTs
When contacted, Haryana gotiate with them and try to stop cavalcade of 100 tractor trolleys Indian Express found dysfunc- on,” he said. mother, but did not say any- with Indian Penal Code and ac- willbecurtailedandonlylimited
DGPManojYadavasaid,“Wehave them, if necessary. We have ap- that arrivedfromPunjabvillages. tionaltoiletsneartheprotestsite. Policesaidtheincident came thing. Her mother called her tion will be taken accordingly procedureswillbecarriedoutde-
madepreparationsthatifweneed pealedtothePunjabgovernment “If these laws are introduced, A senior officer in the to light on December 10 back at 8 am, but she did not an- against defaulting authorities/ pendingonavailabilityofresident
to seal the borders, we should be that more people should not be we will turn into labourers on Haryana government said more after they received a call at 9 am swer the call. Around 9 am, the employees,” he said. doctors and faculty members.
able to do it. As of now, borders sent to the borders... With winter our own fields. Till now, we have than 300 toilets have been that a woman, identified as victim’s neighbours called her Inavideomessage,DrGuleria Dr DK Sharma, medical su-
have not been sealed to avoid in- settingin,wewouldtrytoensure beenleadingalifeof ourchoice... arranged at the borders, apart Mehjabeen, was set on fire and parents and informed them that appealedtoallnursestonotgoon perintendent, said: “We are try-
convenience to commuters.” the numbers don’t go up further. We have brought ration for six fromdeploymentof safaikaram- screaming for help from her she was set on fire and trapped strikeduringthepandemic:“The ing to manage provision of ade-
Two national highways, The situation is increasingly be- months to continue our agita- charisthere.However,theofficer house. inside the house. Ayaz was ar- nurses’ union has put in 23 de- quate patient-care services with
Delhi-Ambala and Delhi-Hisar, comingunsustainable;morethan tion, we won’t return empty admittedthatsanitationandwa- “Ayaz was also present and rested based on circumstantial mands and almost all have been helpfromavailablenursingstaff,
areblockedandanyone wanting 30-40 people have been hospi- handed,” added Singh. ter supply shortage is an issue. their children — a 10-year-old evidence,” an officer said. metbyAIIMSadministrationand resident doctors, faculty .”
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way on land, sea and air: Rawat etc — has been achieved...
We have institutionalised a
‘grievance redressal mecha-
have illegal occupation of gov-
ernmentlandwillbegivenown-
ership by paying an appropriate
essary assistance. But we have
requested that the UT govern-
mentbeallowedtoconstitutean
objection to restore 4G
services. Why is it still not
being restored?
Minister is also a leader of a
party. As a leader of a party, he
haseveryrighttoissueapolitical
tion in Ladakh and based on that nism’, the first such anywhere price. In 2001, 2004 and 2007, SIT(Special InvestigationTeam); The issue is with the statement. If leaders in a politi-
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE there is some development ac- which is synchronised with the this was extended. For owner- and let it be monitored by the Supreme Court. It has been re- cal party can give certain state-
KOLKATA, DECEMBER 14 tivity which has been ongoing in Government of India. shipof landin 2001,the ratepre- High Court. What’s wrong with stored in two districts. The gov- ments, then others also have the
Tibet Autonomous Region of Complaints made by people vailing in 1990 was taken; in this? ernment has also assured that it freedom to speak their mind.
CHIEF OF Defence Staff (CDS) China. Every nation will con- withtheCentreareimmediately 2004 too, the rate of 1991 was will be restored gradually in Constitutional post hum hold
General Bipin Rawat on Monday tinue to prepare for ensuring its directed to us... fixed. The doctrine or theory be- The government wants ACB other districts. Given the sensi- kar rahein hain, humko iss say
said that “high levels of prepara- security based on their strategic hind natural resources, be it air, to continue with cases which tivity of the region, and the mat- matlab nahi (I hold a
tion are underway on land, sea interest.Iwishtoassureyouthat What was your impression water, forests, and government name many government ter pending in the Supreme Constitutional post, and I am not
and air” as “China attempts to we are fully prepared for any when you first took charge? land, is these cannot be anyone’s officials. Unwillingness to Court, I do not think I need to concerned about it). I need not
change the status quo on Line of eventuality,” he said. I was a bit disappointed. For personal property at whatever hand these cases over to CBI give an opinion on this issue. We comment on this.
Actual Control (LAC) along the “P17A ships will be the most example, the number of govern- price. But these can be used for has raised questions whether will move as per the govern-
northern border”. GRSE chairman and MD advanced state-of-the-art ment employees here more or public purposes, or for the gen- the government wants to ment’s affidavit in the Supreme With the change in land laws,
The CDS was speaking at the Rear Admiral (retd) VK Guided Missile Frigates, 149-m- less matches that in Bihar. But if eral public. shield these officials. Court. there is concern that people
launch of the first Project 17A Saxena with CDS Bipin long, with a displacement of ap- you lookat the population of the The High Court has given its There are just19 caseswhere from outside will come and
stealth frigate ‘Himgiri’, an ad- Rawat at the launch in proximately 6670 T and having two, there is a huge difference judgement based on this theory. the Anti Corruption Bureau has There are fears here settle here?
dition to the might of the Kolkata Monday. Partha Paul anadvancedCODOGpropulsion (J&K: 1.25 crore, Bihar 9.9 crore). I welcome it, and its orders are already filed a chargesheet or is Assembly elections will be There is no treatment for
Indian Navy, built by the system enabling speed of over If you look at the Budget too, J&K being implemented despite dif- in the process of doing so. put on the back burner after imagined fears. Give me a single
Garden Reach Shipbuilders and 28 knots. These complex has a budget of about Rs 1 lakh ficulties. Ibelieve this is the tip of Transferring these to CBI will DDC polls. example of any outsider having
Engineers Limited (GRSE), in General Rawat said the weapon platforms are equipped crore, and is comparable with the iceberg. only lead to delays. And justice In his August 15 speech from boughtlandhere.SinceAugust5,
Kolkata. Indianarmedforceswillleaveno with a powerful weapon and many other states. Given these delayed is justice denied. And as the Red Fort, the Prime Minister 2019, tell me a single name. I
The PSU was awarded a con- stone unturned to safeguard the sensor package capable of neu- statistics, I feel resources have But how do you differentiate far as the integrity of the ACB is had talked about it. And every- challenge anyone to name one
tract, amounting to over Rs nation against any eventuality tralising threats in all three di- not been put to good use. between the rich and concerned, I will say it with ut- one knows the fact that the person from outside who has
19,293 crore, for construction of and Himgiri will be a major mensions, air, surface and sub- influential, and poor and most responsibility... that none Delimitation Commission is at boughtlandhere.Thisisbaseless.
three stealth frigates under boost to naval prowess. surface,” read a statement Have you met leaders of landless? should doubt its credibility. work, not just in J&K, but four FULLINTERVIEWON
Project 17A. “We are in a standoff situa- by GRSE. mainstream political parties Should we treat those who Northeasternstatesaswell.Once www.indianexpress.com
Lone Congress
BTC member Assam’s madrasas to become regular schools 2 chariots to trace Ram’s route
in Chhattisgarh during exile
Education Council (AHSEC); and Hadith,UsulAlFiqh,Aqua,Tafsir, labus…”
to join BJP ABHISHEK SAHA 542 Pre-Senior, Senior and Title Hadith and Fariad will be re- As far as Sanskrit tolls are
GUWAHATI, DECEMBER 14 Madrasa and Arabic College run moved — although Arabic will concerned, the Cabinet has de- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
Guwahati:Thenewly-electedsole by the State Madrasa Education continue as a language. cided that the 97 provincialised RAIPUR, DECEMBER 14
Congress member of the THEASSAMgovernmenthasap- Board. The staff will continue to get tolls will be converted to “Study
BodolandTerritorialCouncil(BTC) proved the dropping of Islamic An official note on the points salaries and allowances as be- Centres, research Centres and TWO CHARIOTS, carrying sym-
announced on Monday that he subjects from the curriculum of approvedbythecabinetshowed fore; however, the account head Institutions to study the bolicimagesofRam,Laxmanand
would join the BJP and will be a all state-run madrasas and the that the government has de- will change from ‘Madrasa edu- Certificate/ Diploma/ Degree Sita, were flagged off from
partoftheBJP-UPPL-GSPcoalition institutions are to be turned into cided to dissolve the State cation’ to ‘Secondary education’. courses to be started by Kumar Chhattisgarh’sKoriyaandSukma The chariot being flagged
in the new Council. regularschools.Also,thegovern- Madrassa Education Board after “The posts of teachers who are Bhaskar Varma Sanskrit and districtsonMonday--thedaythe off in Sukma district.
Sajal Sinha, who was elected ment has approved converting Himanta Biswa Sarma results of the examination of the teaching theological subjects in Ancient Studies University, Congressgovernmentinthestate
from Srirampur on a Congress Sanskrit tolls into centres for 2021-22 academic year are an- the provincialised madrasa in- Nalbari with effect from completed two years.
ticket, announced his decision to learning of Indian heritage and nounced. stitutions will teach other sub- 1/4/2022”. ThechariotswilltracetheRam Chhattisgarh state was at
switchovertothesaffronpartyin civilisation. functioningandtheywillbecon- Thereafter, all records, bank jects available in their schools as “There will not be any fresh VanGamanPath,ortheroutethat RamaramareaofSukmadistrict,”
the presence of North East “In 1934, when Assam was verted into institutions of gen- accounts andstaff shallbetrans- pertheiraptitude,”thenotesaid. admission in the provincialised Ramtookduringhisexile,andwill an official statement said.
DemocraticAlliance(NEDA)con- run by Muslim League govern- eral education,” Education ferred to SEBA. The High and Higher Sanskrit tolls from 1/4/2021. cover a collective 1,575 km. They Thechariots,termedParyatan
venor and Assam Minister ment under Sir Syed Sadullah, Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma These institutions will admit Secondary Madrasas run by Students have to take admission will meet on December 17 at Raths,willcarrythesoilfromeach
Himanta Biswa Sarma here. madrasa education was intro- told reporters on Monday. students from April next year SEBA will have ‘madrasa’ in high schools,” the note said. Chandkhuri – considered the district they cross, according to
Sinhasaidthathehasdecided duced in the Assam education Assam currently has two against “relevant courses of dropped from their names and “Wearebasicallygoingtorun birthplace of Ram’s mother state government officials. The
tojointheBJPintheinterestofthe curriculum..Yesterday our state kinds of state-run madrasas — SCERT, SEBA and AHSEC as ap- function as regular schools. The courses on Indian civilisation [in Kaushalyaandthesiteoftheonly chariot in Koriya was flagged off
developmentofhisconstituency, government in our Cabinet 189 High Madrasa and Madrasa plicable for their institutions”. note said, “The Fiqh and Aquaid the Sanskrit tolls]…It will be dif- Kaushalya temple in the world. at Harchauka. Simultaneously, in
which borders West Bengal. The meeting has finally decided to Higher Secondary Schools run From the Pre-Senior, Senior and subjects shall be withdrawn ferent from history. The curricu- “During the exile period, Lord Sukma's Ramaram, Municipal
coalitionstrengthwillgoupto23 reform the education system under the Board of Secondary Title Madrasas and Arabic from these schools. However, lum will be prepared from a RamhadenteredChhattisgarhvia Council chairman and District
in the 40- member council with and make it secular. As a result Education, Assam (SEBA) and Colleges, subjects like Holy Arabic language subject shall civilisational point of view,” Sitamadi-Harchauka area in Collector flagged off a second
the Sinha’s crossing. PTI all [state-run] madrasa will stop the Assam Higher Secondary Quran, Islamic Studies, Fiqh, continue to be part of syl- Sarma said. Koriya district and his last visit in chariot.
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Impersonation case
14.12.2020 at 10.00 A.M. 22.12.2020 at 10.00 A.M. INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH PUNE
(An Autonomous Institution of the Ministry of Education, Govt. of India) ing the plea by Congress leader
Last date/Time for receipt of bids in the portal: 23.12.2020 up Last date/Time for receipt of bids in the portal: 29.12.2020 up
to 5.00 P.M. to 5.00 P.M. Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune - 411 008 l www.iiserpune.ac.in Gaurav Pandya, who has chal-
lengedtheGujaratHighCourtor-
filed by Hrithik
Date of Opening of bid: 24.12.2020 at 11.00 A.M. Date of Opening of bid: 30.12.2020 at 11.00 A.M.
NOTICE INVITING TENDER (E-Procurement Mode)
der dismissing his election peti-
Sd/- Executive Engineer, IISER Pune invites bids through e-Procurement system of Central
tion. The minister said this in an
RWSS Division, Nuapada Public Procurement (CPP) portal for the following:
affidavit filed before a bench
transferred to CIU
OIPR-25043/11/0004/2021 1) Superconducting Magnet system with liquid helium cryostat
2) Multimode Plate Reader headed by Chief Justice of India S
GOVT. OF ODISHA Tender document is published on A Bobde, which adjourned the
OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDING ENGINEER https://eprocure.gov.in/eprocure/app and case for detailed hearing in the
RURAL WORKS, CIRCLE, BHAWANIPATNA http://www.iiserpune.ac.in/links/tender-notices-and-eoi The letter read, “We write to third week of January next year.
O-712 Bid identification No.:- BPT/Online-05/2020-21 Date:10.12.2020
NOTICE INVITING TENDERS FOR ROAD WORKS IN ODISHA
Advt. No: IISER/S&P/06/20-21 Dated 11/12/2020 Director EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE youonbehalfofourclientHrithik Pandya had assailed Jaisha-
NATIONAL COMPETITIVE BIDDING THROUGH e-Procurement MUMBAI, DECEMBER 14 Roshan. Our client lodged a FIR nkar'selection,contendingthatin
1. Name of the work : Construction of incomplete Road and Bridges works under State Plan in the District of Nuapada.
2. No.of work : 1 No.
bearing C.R.No.78/ 2016 dated violation of the law, the Election
3. Location details : Nuapada District FOUR YEARS after Bollywood ac- 23.05.2016, with the cyber crime Commission of India (ECI) issued
4. Estimated Cost : As per NIT.
torHrithikRoshanlodgedacom- policestationagainstunidentified two separate notifications for
5. Period of completion. : As per NIT.
6. Cost of tender paper : Rs.10,000/- per set. plaint of impersonation with individuals for offenses punish- holding by-polls for casual and
7. Other details. : Mumbai Crime Branch’s Cyber able under sections 419 IPC r/w. regularvacanciesforRajyaSabha.
Availability of tender for online bidding Last date & time for seeking tender clarification Date and time of opening of technical bid unit, senior officials on Monday sections 66(c) and 66 (d) of the IT ThematterrelatestoECI'sde-
From To
17.12.2020 11.00 A.M. 30.12.2020 5.00 P.M. 29.12.2020 31.12.2020 at 11.00 A.M.
transferred the case from Cyber Act. A copy of the FIR is attached cisiontoholdseparatepollsforthe
Further details can be seen from the web site "www.tendersorissa.gov.in" unit to Crime Intelligence Unit. herewithforeaseofreference.Our twoRajyaSabha seatsvacatedby
Sd/-
Superintending Engineer TheCIUisalsoconductingaprobe clientco-operatedwiththeinves- Union ministers Amit Shah and
Rural Works, Circle, Bhawanipatna
OIPR-25102/11/0005/2021 into the TRP rigging scam. tigationandhandedoverhiselec- SmritiIrani.Jaishankarsaidthatit
On May 23, 2016, the police tronic devices. It is pertinent to iswrongtosaythattheprocedure
had registered a case against uni- statethatinspiteofanorderdated adopted by the ECI to notify elec-
dentified persons under sections 30.11.2016, passed by the Ld. Ma- tions separately for the vacancies
419(impersonation)oftheIPCand gistrate, Esplanade Court, direct- arisingontwodifferentdateswas
66 (C) and 66 (D) of IT Act. In his ing the return of our client’s lapt- notcorrect.HereferredtotheECI
complaint, he had alleged that opandphonehehasnotcollected stand in a 2019 case in which the
mailswerebeingsentoutfroman the same as he wanted to assist pollpanelsaidthatjointelectionis
email id which doesn’t belong to the police reach the real culprits not mandatory if more than one
him.Themailswereallegedlybe- who had impersonated him.” casual vacancy occurred at about
ing sent to Kangana Ranaut. The letter stated that till date the same time.
Pursuant to filing of the case, the the case was pending and re-
two actors had sent legal notices quested for completion of inves-
toeachother,seekinganapology. tigation. “Till date there has been Mumbai Police to
The transfer of investigation no progress in the investigation
from one unit to another comes andtheaforementionedcasesare court: Won’t
five days after a lawyer from sen-
ioradvocateMaheshJethmalani’s
still pending. We thus request to
kindlylookintothematterandis-
arrest Republic TV
officewrotetotheMumbaipolice sue appropriate orders to kindly CFO till Tuesday
commissioner, seeking develop- directcompletionofinvestigation
ment in the FIR registered by his at the earliest since the same is
client Hrithik Roshan. pending since 2016,” it said. EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
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The prospects for recovery
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RAMNATH GOENKA
Government cites lack of fiscal space for reluctance
BECAUSE THE TRUTH INVOLVES US ALL
to provide adequate support to economy. This is odd
I
and at other times the trees themselves be- than in manufacturing. the lockdown, the employment rate has
comethestory.Thatseemstobethecasewith Whilenotavoidable,muchof theincome plateaued since July, consistent with almost
T MAY WELL be that the BJP-led government at the Centre is following a blow hot India’s 3Q20 GDP print. loss could have been mitigated by budgetary 10 million more rural households seeking
andcoldstrategyontheongoingfarmers’protestsonthecapital’soutskirts.While Somehaveexultedoverheadlinegrowth income support. But the government chose MGNREGA employment per month since
Union Minister of State for Agriculture Kailash Choudhary reiterates that the gov- printing a “better-than-expected” -7.5 per not to provide this. And this shows up clearly August compared to a year ago. And herein
ernment is keeping its door open for a sixth round of talks with farmers, his boss, centrateonayear-agobasis,whileothers,in- in the 3Q GDP numbers. Government con- lies the “fallacy of composition” or the
UnionAgricultureMinisterNarendraSinghTomarmakesasweepingdenunciation cludingtheRBI,havelamentedthatthisputs sumptiondeclined22percentonaquarterly “tragedyof commons”problem.Itmaybera-
Indiainitsfirstever“technicalrecession”.But basis in 3Q. The government’s unusual reluc- tionalforeachfirmtocutbackemploymentor
—thethreefarmbillsarebeingopposedbythesamecastofcharacters,hesays,thatprotested
neither inference is meaningful. After clock- tance in providing adequate support to the wages, but if all firms do the same, they are
against the abrogation of Article 370, the amended citizenship law and the construction in ing-24percentthepreviousquarter,printing economyhaspurportedlybeenbecauseofthe simplyhurtingfutureconsumptionand,thus,
Ayodhya of the Ram temple. Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad talks about the pri- a growth rate that is one percentage point lack of fiscal space. This seems quite odd. The their own future demand and profits.
macyof dialogueandtheninvokesthe“tukdetukdegang”andhiscolleague,PiyushGoyal, higher than expected is nothing to write privatesector’sexcesssavings(savingslessin- There is an obvious solution to the prob-
who sat at the table in the government-farmer negotiations, alleges the protests are being home about and, no, India is not in a techni- vestment) is so large that instead of borrow- lem, but it is not spending on infrastructure
“infiltratedbyLeftistsandMaoistelements”.Itmaybethatthelabellingispartof thesame cal recession. ing from abroad (running current account projects or reforms as is widely believed. As
game-plan as the professed openness to talk. But the government must know that as it is The National Bureau of Economic deficits) as it usually does, India has been in- long as the pandemic persists, mobility will
Research(NBER)intheUSdefinesatechnical Over the last five years, India’s vesting abroad, that is, running current ac- remainlimited.Sowhileinfrastructurespend-
seentodipintoitswell-wornplaybookfordealingwithdissent,itisshrinkingitsownroom current account deficit
recession to be one where the growth rate is count surpluses. ing and reforms are critical to sustain
for manoeuvre vis-a-vis a protester who is different from those it has faced before. negativefortwoconsecutivequarters.Butthe Overthelastfiveyears,India’scurrentac- medium-term growth, neither can boost
averaged 1.6 per cent of GDP
The farmer, the annadata, is an intimate and resonant figure who will not be easily growth rate is measured on a quarter-over- countdeficitaveraged1.6percentof GDPan- near-term demand. The pandemic is still not
quarter, not year-ago, basis. Almost all large
annually. This turned into a nually.Thisturnedintoasurplusof 4percent behindusandfornowIndiawillneedtohun-
Othered. And so far, the protest led by the Punjab farmer, is making itself heard in a way
that is restrained and carefully calibrated. While the demand may be all-or-nothing — economies, including China, publish official surplus of 4 per cent of GDP of GDP in 2Q20 and JP Morgan projects it to kerdownaslongasittakesforthevaccinesto
protesting farmers want a repeal of the laws and say they will settle for nothing less — the quarterlygrowthnumbers.India’sCSOdoes- in 2Q20 and JP Morgan average 1.6 per cent of GDP this fiscal year. create herd immunity. Once immunity has
n’t. This leaves us to our own devices. JP projects it to average 1.6 per Consequently,despitetheapparentlackoffis- been achieved, mobility will normalise and
manner in which it is being made is sober. The protesters have kept the peace, and con-
Morgan’s estimates suggest that on a quar- cal space at home, the RBI has been funding therecoverycanbegininearnest.Whatneeds
sciously resisted extraneous or extremist agendas. The joint resolution passed by 32 terlybasis,India’sGDPplunged25percentin
cent of GDP this fiscal year. othercountries’fiscaldeficits.SinceAprilthis to be ensured is that the recovery is not ham-
farmer unions on Saturday, reiterating that their only issue is the repeal of farm laws and 2Q20 and recovered by 21 per cent in 3Q20. Consequently, despite the year, the RBI has bought $70 billionof foreign strung by damaged household and SME bal-
nothing else, distancing themselves from the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan), India did not suffer two consecutive quarters apparent lack of fiscal space at assets, presumably mostly US government ance sheets because of the extended loss of
whosememberswavedpostersdemandingthereleaseof activistsintheBhimaKoregaon of negative growth, and, therefore, it is not in home, the RBI has been bonds.That’sroughly2.7percentof GDP.Put wages and incomes. This requires extensive
case on Human Rights Day on December 10, is an illustration of this. For the BJP-led gov- a recession. differently,whilethegovernmenthaslimited income support now. It is not so much that it
But the astonishing 21 per cent 3Q quar- funding other countries’ fiscal its support to the domestic economy, it has, willhelpsupportdemandthisyear,butthatit
ernment to attempt to taint and tar this protest, for it to see it through its adversarial and deficits. Since April this year,
terlygrowthisalsonotsomethingoneshould viatheRBI,investedalmost3percentof GDP willprotectbalancesheetsfromtheextensive
fetishistic you-are-with-us-or-with-anti-nationals/Leftists lens, is ill-judged. take much comfort in. If the level of GDP was the RBI has bought $70 inforeignassetsjustinthefirsthalf of thisfis- damage the pandemic has already signalled
What is at stake here is not just the BJP government’s ability to push through a policy. 100 in 1Q, then it fell to 75 in 2Q and recov- cal year! it will likely leave in its wake.
billion of foreign assets,
Howthegovernmenthandlesthisagitationwillhaveconsequencesforreformandchange ered to about 92 last quarter, it is still about 8 Separately, the RBI reported last month Unlike typical EM crises, the pandemic is
in agriculture and in other sectors as well. A government that has shown formidable skills per cent lower than the level in 1Q20. In fact, presumably mostly US thatprofitsofnon-financiallistedfirmssurged notaninstanceofafinancialcrisisturninginto
and machineries of communication must find the message and the medium to engage weexpectGDPgrowthinFY22torecoverto12 government bonds. That’s (35percentinnominalandabout30percent aneconomicshock.Instead,itisaneconomic
the anxieties and concerns of farmers. More name-calling is not an option, nor is blam- per cent from -9 per cent in FY21, which im- roughly 2.7 per cent of GDP. in real terms) in 3Q20. We know that wages shockbroughtonbyaweakpublichealthsys-
plies that six quarters from now it will still be andprofitsmakeupthebulkofGDP.SoifGDP tem that can turn into a financial crisis if the
ing it on “too much democracy”. It is time the BJP listened to its own Prime Minister, who Put differently, while the
about 7 per cent below the pre-pandemic fell by 7.5 per cent and profits of listed com- damagetobalancesheetsisnotlimitedbypol-
only days ago, reminded the nation that democracy is, most of all, about “kuch kehna, path, or roughly $300-billion-a-year of in- government has limited its panies increased by 30 per cent, it stands to icy.Thegovernment,however,haseschewed
kuch sunnana”, talking and listening. That’s the only way to expand the table and give comelossesacrosstwoyears,comparedtothe support to the domestic reason that wages, employment, and earn- going down this path. And it must have good
both sides the space needed for an agreement. pre-pandemic path. Imagine the havoc this economy, it has, via the RBI, ings of SMEs plummeted. The Centre for reasons for doing so. But, as discussed earlier,
can wreak to household and SME balance Monitoring the Indian Economy’s surveys the lack of fiscal space isn’t one of them.
sheets, to income inequality, to poverty, and
invested almost 3 per cent of suggesttheemploymentrateisstillmorethan
E SURGICAL MIS-STRIKE
ARLYDATAFROMthefirstphaseoftheNationalFamilyHealthSurvey(NFHS)
(2015-2019)tellsagrimstory.Theproportionof stuntedchildrenhasrisenin
several of the 17 states and five Union territories surveyed, putting India at
riskofreversingpreciousgainsinchildnutritionmadeoverpreviousdecades.
Worryingly,thatincludesricherstateslikeKerala,Gujarat,Maharashtra,Goa Standards must not be lowered to certify Ayurveda postgraduates surgeons
and Himachal Pradesh. The share of underweight and wasted children has also gone up in
the majority of the states. Between 2005-6 (NFHS-3) and 2015-16 (NFHS-4), India had re-
markable success in reducing stunting from 48 per cent to 38.4 per cent. Not only is it ex- Shailaja Chandra
ceptionally rare to see a major economy and democracy undoing such gains, but these fig-
ures come after massive government programmes that sought to address issues crucial to A THREE-DECADE-OLD wrangle between the than question a surgeon’s qualifications. geriesundersupervision.Inover400Ayurvedic
allopathicandAYUSHfraternitieshasbeenres- The statutory regulatory body for AYUSH hospitals,itisreportedthat,perhaps,only10have
healthandnutrition,fromthebigpushtoendopendefecationbytheSwachhBharatAbhiyan
urrected following a recent clarification on a education is the Central Council of Indian attachedallopathichospitals.Surgicalskillsareby
to access to clean cooking fuel and drinking water. 2016 notification. This time, the clash is not Medicine (CCIM). Over the last 20 years, it has nomeansimpossibletolearnbuttheybecome
Thoughmoregranulardataisneededtoparsethereasonsforthisunexpectedsetback, abouttheAYUSHpractitioners’righttotreatus- become a clone of the erstwhile Medical difficulttomasterwithoutcontinuoustraining
there have beenseveral indicatorsof theslowingdownof economic growth andemploy- ingallopathicdrugs,buttheir“right”toconduct Council of India. For decades, stalwarts of andsupervision.Duetothepaucityof patients,
ment distress, which are bound to have an effect on hunger and nutrition. The 2017-18 surgeries. Ayurveda have lamented that CCIM has only limitedscopefortrainingandaccesstogaining
NSSO report, for instance, showed a dip in consumption expenditure for the first time in Threeimportantgroupsaffectedbythisor- promoted what private college managements hands-on practice, it is hazardous to allow all
decades, but the government eventually decided to withhold it. But the problem of child der have this to say: The Ayurvedic fraternity demand, propelled, in turn, by students’ need Shalya and Shalakya postgraduates to under-
maintainspostgraduatesinShalyaandShalakya to earn a stable income as medical profession- takesurgicalprocedures.
malnourishmentisahardonepreciselybecauseitistangledinseveraldeep-rootedprob-
(twosurgicalstreamsamong14post-graduate als. In this misplaced zeal to give better earn- Ironically, even an MS Surgery (allopathy)
lems,andisnotjustafunctionof growth.ThegenderskewinIndiansocieties,whichleads courses)aretaughtprocedureslistedinthecur- ings to the Ayurvedic vaidyas, CCIM has side- orasurgeonwhohaspassedoneoftheworld’s
to poor education, lack of reproductive choice and inadequate nutrition from childhood, riculum; that the oldest-known surgical spe- lined many skills that Ayurveda could have toughest examinations to become a fellow of
perpetuatesaviciouslegacyof under-nutrition.Inrecentyears,theculturewarsovernon- cialist was, in fact, an Ayurvedic surgeon/sage included, which are relevant even today. theRoyalCollegeofSurgeons(FRCS)isnotper-
vegetarian food habits have also led several states to knock off eggs — one of the cheapest Sushrut (600 BC) who wrote the Sushrut EventheAyurvedicfraternitylamentsthat mitted to conduct even comparatively simple
sources of protein for children — off mid-day meal and anganwadi menus. Samhita—aprofoundexpositiononconducting the statutory body that sets standards for operations like tonsillitis. In the last three
human surgery which continues to receive Ayurvedic education has subjugated the cur- decades, specialisation has excluded general
Thatthesearepre-pandemicfiguresgivesmorereasonfordisquiet.TheCOVID-19out-
worldwide acclaim. Surgery was practised by riculum to nurture more and more replicas of surgeonsfromperformingwhatwasoncecon-
break — and the lockdown to contain its spread which left millions stranded and hungry Ayurvedic surgeons long before the advent of Two facts make the case for doctors of modern medicine. Thereby, an an- sidered routine. For example, only an ENT sur-
—hassentincomesintoatailspin,withtheeconomyyettorecoverfromtheshock.Thepan- western medicine. cient, time-honoured system and its wealth of geoncanperformatonsillectomy.Therefore,to
Ayurvedic surgeon-vaidyas
demichasalsosharpenedtheedgeof allinequalities,andrippedapartfragilewelfarenets. Allopaths question the logic of this claim. empirical knowledge has been substituted by notifythatAyurvedicpostgraduatesinsurgery
So, the real-time deprivations of hunger are bound to be far more acute, with serious im- CanSushrut’smillennia-oldpre-eminencebe- weak. When it comes to teachingstudentstoimbibeasmuchallopathy canperformomnibusoperationsrunscounter
plications for generations to come — as well as for national aspirations of prosperity. The stow the right to practise modern surgery? Do surgery, it is not knowledge as possible. This has killed the knowledge, pu- to the norm in India and in other countries.
governmentmustundertakeurgentassessmentsof nutritionstatusduringthepandemic
these Ayurvedic surgeons know the hidden but rigorous training and rityandgoodnessof classicalAyurveda,which Inperformingsurgery,theonlybenchmark
risks of every surgical procedure and how to continuous practice which ironically is the Ayurveda in high demand in shouldbethedurationofhands-ontrainingre-
and go back to the drawing board to plug the holes. surmount sudden mishaps? Europe, Russia and America. ceived — counted by surgeries under supervi-
TheMinistryofAYUSHjustifiesitsnotifica- makes for perfection. Until now, the debate was riveted on sion, and being judged through external eval-
Allopathic students of
LE CARRE’S PEOPLE
tiononthegroundthatnotallvaidyasbutonly Ayurvedicvaidyasusingallopathicdrugstotreat uation. Every surgeon’s skills and competence
postgraduates qualifying from two surgical surgery learn first by symptoms.Butnowithasexpandedtoencom- must be tested by applying exactly the same
streams have been authorised to perform se- pass surgery. And two facts make the case for standards before she/he can operate. This co-
watching and then
lected surgeries. And none of this is new. But Ayurvedicsurgeon-vaidyasweak.Whenitcomes nundrum of different standards for surgical
performing scores of
He elevated the espionage novel to literature. His protagonists the moot point is who decides whether tosurgery,itisnotknowledgebutrigoroustrain- trainingmustbesolvedbecausepatientsafety
Ayurvedic surgeons possess sufficient profi- surgeries under supervision. ingandcontinuouspracticewhichmakesforper- is far more important than the career progres-
were all too human, and bore cost of ideologically-driven battles
I
ciency to conduct these surgeries safely? By Most Ayurvedic hospitals do fection. Both require clinical material and most sion of Ayurvedic postgraduates.
what standard are their skills judged? Surgical Ayurvedichospitalsdonothaveafractionofthe
N 2011, WHEN John Le Carre (born David Cornwell), who died on Monday at 89,
proficiencycannotbejudgedbydifferentstan-
not have a fraction of the surgicalpatientsfoundinallopathicgeneralhos- Thewriterisformersecretary,AYUSH
was nominated for the Booker Prize, it took just 45 minutes for him to issue a dardsinonecountry—particularlywhenless- surgical patients found in pitals. Allopathic students of surgery learn first Government of India,andhealth secretary,
statement saying, “I do not compete for literary prizes and have therefore asked educated patients would rather save money allopathic general hospitals. bywatchingandthenperformingscoresofsur- Delhigovernment
for my name to be withdrawn”. Le Carre’s withdrawal was a snub to the English
literary world, which had long enforced a caste system between literary fiction
and genre fiction. Yes, he wrote about espionage, but he was no Ian Fleming, and George
Smiley is no James Bond.
LeCarrespenthisearlycareer,tillthephenomenalsuccessof TheSpyWhoCameinfrom DECEMBER 15, 1980, FORTY YEARS AGO
the Cold (1963), as a spy. While he never broke the silence that his erstwhile profession
demanded, the air of authenticity in his work is often attributed to his days at MI6. What FRESH STIR IN ASSAM As a concession to neighbouring states, the the next day itself, December 22.
makes his work literarily significant are the themes he explored. For over 50 years, Le AGITATORS ARE SET to intensify the strug- agitators will permit the transport of ply-
Carre wrote of fathers and sons (Single & Single), of love and longing (The Night Manager) gle against foreigners in Assam from wood from those areas through Assam. CLAMOUR FOR RAJIV
December 18 after ending the 46-day-old LEADERS OF THE Youth Congress (I) made
and how those on the frontlines of ideologically-driven battles are the ones who end up
making the greatest moral compromises.
gherao of state legislators. The AASU and MAHARASHTRA TALKS fervent appeals to Rajiv Gandhi to join poli-
AAGSP leadership issued a statement firmly THEMAHARASHTRAGOVERNMENTagreed tics and “lead them” at a function held in
After the end of the ColdWar, manythought that Le Carre’s bestwas behind him. After rejecting any move by the newly-installed to negotiate with the representatives of the Delhi to mark the 34th birth anniversary of
all, part of what made the mild-mannered, portly, cuckold George Smiley, the protago- stategovernmenttoholdnegotiationsonthe Shetkari Sanghatana, including its leader, Sanjay Gandhi. PM Indira Gandhi, however,
nistof theTrilogy—Tinker,Tailor,Soldier,Spy; The HonourableSchoolboyandSmiley’sPeople foreigners’ issue. It said the present govern- SharadJoshi,ontheirdemandsfor remuner- turned down their pleas by denouncing the
— so appealing was the inevitable dissonance between the high-minded rhetoric of the menthad“neitheranyauthoritynorwasitin ative prices for agricultural produce. craze for searching a leader. “All of you are
ColdWarandthecompromisesandcostsof fightingit.ButLeCarredefinitivelyestablished a position” to settle the foreigners’ issue. The Consequently, the Shetkari leaders sus- leaders and should develop the leadership
new agitation, starting on Thursday, is ex- pended their agitation till next Sunday. The within you,” she said. The rally was organ-
with Absolute Friends, which dealt with terrorism, and The Constant Gardner (on the cor-
pected to go on till December 30, according government informed the Sanghatana lead- ised by the Delhi Pradesh Youth Congress (I).
ruptions of the global pharmaceutical industry), that the end of the Cold War was not to the two organisations. It will take on the ersthatitwaswillingtoholdtalkswiththem. It was attended by most members of Mrs
the end of history, and certainly not of his literature. Perhaps, most importantly, in the form of mass satyagraha in front of the of- Joshi said that if the negotiations “fail to con- Gandhi’s cabinet, Haryana Chief Minister
age of ultranationalistic pride, his characters established firmly that patriotism, in art and fices of the deputy commissioners and sub- cede our demands by next Sunday”, the sec- Bhajan Lal and Youth Congress (I) president
in government, is far more complex than “my country, right or wrong”. divisional and block development officers. ondphaseof theagitationwouldcommence Ghulam Nabi Azad, among others.
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‘Alarming’ trend of very high Findings of
NFHS-5 show
UP govt opposes
bail for journalist
C-section births, says survey
population of
India stabilising
Kappan in top court,
points to ‘SIMI links’
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most of these interventions. PUNE, DECEMBER 14
UDIT MISRA, NUSHAIBA Thereareseveralreasonswhy
IQBAL & ANURADHA C-section deliveries may be pre- INDIA’S POPULATION is stabilis- Kappan. “Several incriminating
Bandaru Dattatreya MASCARENHAS ferred.Thefirst,ofcourse,iswhen ing,asthetotalfertilityrate(TFR) EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE evidence have been found from
NEW DELHI, PUNE, DEC 14 doctorsbelievethereisathreatto has decreased across majority of NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 14 the house of the accused
the life of the pregnant woman. the states. Of 17 states analysed Sidhique Kappan during search
TELANGANA DATA FROM the latest National But it is also a fact that many in the fifth round of National OPPOSING A plea by the Kerala conductedon11.11.2020....These
Himachal Family Health Survey shows an
“alarming” trend of very high
women ask for it themselves.
Dr Bharati Dhorepatil, vice-
Family Health Survey (NFHS),
except for Bihar, Manipur and
Union of Working Journalists
(KUWJ), which has sought re-
documents disclosed crucial in-
formation/journey of the very
Governorunhurt “births delivered by caesarean president of the Federation of Meghalaya, all other states have lease of its member Siddique formation of PFI as a reincarna-
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that Kappan has more than 10 which were recovered by police
years of experience as a journal- from the vehicle being used by
ist and was on way to Hathras to the accused on way to Hathras
CHHATTISGARH Commission for Women’s has worked in Telangana for report on the alleged gangrape on 05.10.2020”.
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Raipur: A 36-year-old
far have experienced domestic
violence, and in three states the
● in 2020; of these, 124cases were
thatof domesticviolence.Incon-
grammesoncreatingawareness
and have been very active on
Popular Front of India (PFI)”, the
UP government stated that PFI
Rauf Sherief...who have received
crores of funds from various na-
CoBRA deputy comman- numbers reported have in- trast,NCWhadreceived52cases gender issues.” In contrast, she “has been responsible for dis- tionalandinternationalsuspicious
dant died on Monday, a creased, with Karnataka show- WHILE THE jump in Karnataka's figures appear alarming, of domestic violence in 2019. said, “In Bihar, for instance, rupting public peace of the State sources”. It said Kappan’s “State
dayaftersufferinginjuries ing a doubling of the number of experts in gender violence put the increase down to im- “We believe that the rise in where I have worked, while the by provoking class and caste BankofIndiaaccountalsoreflects
in an IED blast in Sukma cases of domestic violence over proved reporting of domestic violence cases, and therefore cases is because of the social government pushes gender em- conflictswithanintentiontode- various suspicious cash deposits
district.Hewasairliftedto the last survey, according to the “good news’’. Women rarely come out and report domestic awareness campaigns run by powerment programmes such stroy public order and tarnish on numerous occasions, and the
Raipur after the blast on National Family Health Survey violence cases, and thus an increasing trend in numbers is our state office (in Karnataka), as banking for women, gender the image of the Government by sameisunderinvestigation”.
Sunday, where he suc- (NFSH)-5.The data was released seen as a good sign. It's states where the numbers have re- as well as more avenues now norms and domestic violence is inciting hatred, contempt and The affidavit said Kappan is
cumbed at the hospital. by the Union Health Ministry on mained stagnant, or have even shown a decline, that are a open for complaints to be rarely discussed.” dishonortotheGovernment.PFI “closely associated and has been
BastarIGSundarrajPiden- Saturday. matter of some concern, since it is possible that domestic lodged, such as through social According to NFSH-5, 40.6 has been involved in anti-na- in frequent connection through
tified the deceased as Domestic violence against violence is not being reported in those states, according to media,’’ NCW chairperson per cent women in Bihar re- tional activities and keeping socialmediaandtelephoniccon-
Vikas Kumar of the 208 women include both physical Ranjana Das from Oxfam. Rekha Sharma said. ported spousal violence (up linkswithterroroutfitslikeISIS.” versations with PFI members
Battalion.Accordingtothe and sexual violence, and the In Telangana, about 36.9 per from 43.7 per cent in NFSH-4) “Severalcases”areregistered holding various portfolios across
IG, Kumar suffered in- states where more than 30 per cent women surveyed reported InAssam,32percentwomen against PFI members and ac- thecountry...mostof whomhave
juries while trying to dif- centreportedhavingsufferedvi- data is likely to be released next About 11 per cent of young facing spousal violence, with reported experiencing domestic tivists, who have also been also been executive members of
fuse an IED found in a olence by their spouses are summer. women surveyed in the state re- more rural women reporting vi- violence – up from 24.5 per cent chargesheeted in Kerala, Delhi, thebannedTerroristorganization
search operation in Karnataka, Telangana, Assam In Karnataka, over 44.4 per ported having experienced sex- olencethantheirurbancounter- in NFHS-4. Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and SIMI. Investigation has also re-
Kistaram area of Sukma and Bihar. The number of cases cent of both rural and urban ual violence by the age of 18 in parts. About 5 per cent of the A third state where the per- other parts of the country, ac- vealed that accused Sidhique
district. "He was out with reported went up in Karnataka, women surveyed as part of NFHS-5. The corresponding fig- young women surveyed re- centage of cases reported in- cording to the affidavit, filed by Kappan is not only involved in
histeam andthestate po- Telangana and Maharashtra. NFHS-5 reported having experi- ures in the 2015-16 survey was ported having experienced sex- creased was Maharashtra – Special Secretary, (Home), UP. hatchingadesigntocommitcog-
lice force near Kasaram NFHS-4 data was for 2015- enced spousalviolence– the fig- 10.3 per cent. ual violence by age 18. 25.2% as per NFSH-5, compared It stated that “as per investi- nizable offence to disrupt public
NalainKistaramwhenhe 16. The next round of NFSH-5 ure was 20.6 per cent in NFHS-4. According to the National Oxfam's Ranjana Das, who to 21.3% in 2015-16. gation till date, most members orderandpeacebutisalsoamas-
encountered a pressure of PFI who are ex-office-bearers ter mind having links with vari-
IED. He suffered injuries of “banned organization SIMI” ous unfortunate riots, disturbing
whiletryingtodiffusethe IIT-M suspends havebeenincloseintimacywith public tranquility nationwide.”
bomb," he said.. Kumar's TRACKING INDIA’S COVID CURVE
body has been sent to his academic
hometown Muzaffarna-
gar in UP. He had been activities after 287 CASES: ACTIVE CASES: 3,52,586 UP Police to seek custody
98,84,100 DEATHS: 143,355
posted in Chhattisgarh
since 2019 ENS 100 Covid cases
DAYS SINCE
PANDEMIC
BEGAN TESTS: 15,45,66,990 | RECOVERIES: 9,388,159 of CFI gen secy held by ED
TAMIL NADU in two weeks CASES DEATHS RECOVERIES TESTS “with a directive to go to Hathras
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‘Suicidepact’ EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
27,071 336 30,695 8,55,157
LUCKNOW, DECEMBER 14
(UttarPradesh)withadelegation”.
Ateequr is one of the four
leadstodeath CHENNAI, DECEMBER 14
THE UTTAR Pradesh Police will
persons, including journalist
Siddique Kappan, who was ar-
offiveoffamily IIT-MADRAS HAS temporarily seek custody of KA Rauf Sharif, rested by UP Police while they
suspended all academic opera- the national general secretary of were on their way to Hathras,
Villupuram: A couple in Covid testing in New Delhi on Monday. Praveen Khanna tions and has shut all labs and li- CampusFrontof India(CFI),who where a Dalit woman was al-
their thirties and their braries after 104 people on cam- wasarrestedbytheEnforcement legedly gangraped and mur-
threechildrenwerefound pus tested positive for Covid-19 Directorate (ED) from dered. The police had said they
dead in their house at a
village in Villupuram on
Monday, police said.
Pune-based Gennova to over the past two weeks -- the
largest cluster reported in Tamil
Nadu after campuses reopened Uttarakhand
STATESWITHRISINGACTIVECASES
ACTIVECASES
7,256
RISEINLASTWEEK
1,178
Thiruvananthapuram airport
last Saturday in a money laun-
dering case.
were going to Hathras to disrupt
social harmony.
"Sharif has been sent to judi-
Preliminary probe hint at
a 'suicide pact' and the begin human trials of for final-year college students.
IIT-M Director Bhaskar
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proach a Mathura court to issue
cial custody by a court in Kerala.
We would seek his production
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EIGHT SPECIES AND THEIR INFECTION RISK the rural economy, for livelihood,” the au-
UDITMISRA TWO ECONOMIES, SIX DECADES thors clarify.
Chicken Duck Mouse Rat Pig Dog Ferret Cat Civet NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 14
■ China ■ India So what was the key difference between
THE ONGOING farmer protests in Delhi have the two strategies?
forced the government to rethink its new Agriculture,forestry,andfishing,value GDP(constant2010US$)-China.India “The Chinese policymakers first created
farm laws by proposing amendments. added(constant2010US$) the incentives and institutions required by
11.53 tn
However, the impasse continues. For the the market economy and then, in the mid-
InferredAffinity
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most part, the protests have been led by 2.23 tn 1980s, they began to slowly open up mar-
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farmers from Punjab and Haryana — which 600 873.35 bn kets, by withdrawing central planning and
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Billion
In the context of India’s push for farm re- 300 119.274 bn 4 293.62 bn tn kets,” the authors find.
forms, China presents a study in contrast. A 200 392.24 292.24 bn “Of course, it is no one’s case that India
100 2
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HumanAffinityThreshold PoliticalWeeklyunderlineshowdifferentre- 0 0 It is crucial to note that China had more
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1995
2015
2019
Source: Centre for Genomic Regulation form routes — China, unlike India, started off favourable initial conditions — even in 1970,
withreformsintheagriculturesector—have China had a significant edge over India be it
Vulnerability to coronavirus infection, compared to humans. Based led to different economic trajectories for the World Bank national accounts data, and OECD National Accounts data files health, education, more egalitarian access to
on the binding affinity of each species’ ACE2 receptors with SARS- two countries. land,andgrowthofthepowersector.Andthat
CoV-2 spike protein. Source: Centre for Genomic Regulation explains “why, despite the private and eco-
What are the reasons for the farmer economic aspects. made it more competitive. Besides, prosper- nomic restrictions imposed on the Chinese
protests in India? ity in agriculture favoured the development rural population, the country could achieve a
REPORTS AT various stages during the elling to test this. They also compared There are two aspects to the current im- Couldthingshavebeendifferent? of adynamicruralnon-farm(RNF)sector,re- sustained growth even before the reforms”.
pandemic have shown that domestic the “codon adaptation index” - which passe.Oneiswhetherthesereformswillben- The Economic and Political Weekly pa- garded as one of the main causes for rapid
cats, as well as lions and tigers, can be isameasureofhowefficientlythevirus efit farmers or not. This is a question of eco- per of 2008 mentioned earlier — titled ‘The poverty reductionin Chinaasit provided ad- What are the takeaways for India?
infected with the novel coronavirus. replicates after entering the cell. nomics. The government’s argument is that Dragon and The Elephant: Learning from ditional sources of income outside farming,” Seen in this perspective, the whole issue
New research has provided evidence They found that the most vulnera- opening up the farm sector to market forces agricultural and rural reforms in China and the authors write. of minimum support prices (MSPs) is essen-
for what makes pet cats vulnerable, ble species next to humans are ferrets, will not only reduce the stress on its finances India’ — by Shenggen Fan and Ashok Gulati “The rapid development of the RNF sec- tially about flawed incentives.
addingtothefindingsofpreviousstud- followedbycats,civetsanddogs.These butalsohelpfarmersbymakingfarmingmore (both associated with the International Food tor also encouraged the government to ex- Notwithstanding the economic logic that
ies — and the general un- speciestickedbothboxes remunerative. Farmers argue that interaction Policy Research Institute at that time) is pand the scope of policy changes and put greaterplayof freemarketswillimproveout-
derstanding—thatfelines — binding affinity and withprivateplayerswillruinthemfinancially. quite instructive. pressure on the urban economy to reform as comes for farmers, it is unreasonable to ex-
are susceptible because colon adaptation index. The second aspect is more political and “Despite similar trends in the growth well, since non-farm enterprises in rural ar- pectfarmersofPunjabandHaryanatogiveup
their cellular structure fa- BIG CATS: Before the relates to how the concerned laws were leg- rates, the two countries have taken different eas had become more competitive than the on the safety of MSPs overnight.
cilitatescoronavirusinfec- BarcelonaZoolions,seven islated. The government says it has gone reformpaths;Chinastartedoff withreforms state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Reforms of What the government could have done
tion. The latest research tigersandlionshadtested through the required due diligence before in the agriculture sector and in rural areas, the SOEs, in turn, triggered macroeconomic is to build up the case for markets ground up
comesfromtheCentrefor positive at New York's turning its ideas into laws. Farmers, on the whileIndiastartedbyliberalisingandreform- reforms, opening up the economy further,” and then allowed farmers the time to adjust
Genomic Regulation PAPER Bronx Zoo earlier. Does other hand, stridently criticisethe lack of de- ing the manufacturing sector. These differ- they write. to market forces. It is also noteworthy that
(CRG) headquartered in
Barcelona — incidentally
the same city where four
CLIP thereasonwhydomestic
cats are vulnerable also
apply to big cats?
bate before the laws enacted.
The first one indicates a deep-seated mis-
trust in the way a market economy functions.
ences have led to different growth rates and,
more importantly, different rates of poverty
reduction,”theywriteatthestartofthepaper.
Between1978and2002,therateofgrowth
inagriculturenearlydoubledcomparedtothe
1966-1977period,andthis was the main rea-
several other policy choices by the govern-
ment -- providing production linked incen-
tives to the manufacturing sector, import
zoolionswerefoundpos- NEW RESEARCH “We have not looked A market economy essentially refers to a sys- son why poverty in China came down from bans, higher import duties, not joining the
itive for coronavirus last at the genome of big fe- temwherethepricingandsupplyofgoodsand How did it help that reforms in China 33% of the population in 1978 to 3% in 2001. Regional Comprehensive Economic
week. The paper is published in the lines,”CRGDirector Luis Serrano, sen- servicesarepredominantlydeterminedbythe started with the farm sector? In stark contrast, the two authors found Partnership (RCEP)trade pact, going slow on
journal PLOS Computational Biology. ior author of the study, said by email, free and voluntary interaction of people and “Bymaking agriculture thestartingpoint that in India, the most rapid poverty reduc- the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code imple-
THE MECHANISM: The coron- “but I assumed that since cats can be firms in the marketplace. of market-oriented reforms, a sector which tion occurred from the late 1960s to the late mentation — are essentially about shielding
avirusinitiatesinfectionusingthespike infected, there is a big chance that li- The second one reflects a deepening dis- gave majority of the people their livelihood, 1980s. This was, however, not because of re- constituents from market forces.
proteinonitssurface.Onthesurfaceof ons and tigers will as well, since they trustinthewaythegovernmentisfunctioning. China could ensure a widespread distribu- forms,butratherduetostrongpolicysupport Datashows thatthebulkof farm produce
thehumancellareproteinscalledACE2 will be very close in sequence.” As it turns out, both strains of suspicions tion of gains and build consensus and polit- to agriculture. was traded privately even before these laws
receptors.Thespikeproteinbindswith PREVIOUSFINDINGS: Earlierthis are intertwined and that is what makes the ical support for the continuation of reforms. “India still continues with state food pro- came into force. The key concern for India
theACE2receptor,theninvadesthecell year, a larger study had compared the currentdeadlockaquestionof politicalecon- Reform of incentives resulted in greater re- curement and distribution, mainly because shouldbethecreationof incentivesandinsti-
and goes on to replicate. The same vulnerability of over 400 studies (The omy and not just economics. That is why it turns to the farmers and in more efficient re- it is seen as affirmative action for over two- tutions for a market economy to function be-
mechanismtakesplaceincoronavirus Indian Express, September 1). It was is reasonable to expect that the eventual so- source allocation, which in turn strength- thirds of the population, including the poor- cause therein lies the only sustainable solu-
infection of other species, too. basedonananalysisof aminoacids in lution would likely have both political and ened the domestic production base and est, who are dependent on agriculture and tion to allaying deep-set suspicions.
WHAT'S NEW: The new research theACE2receptor.Thatonefoundcats
John le Carré’s legacy: spies who were human rather than glamorous
ancegiveslittlecluetohissharpintelligence Schoolboy (1977), A Perfect Spy (1986), The directed The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
PAROMITA CHAKRABARTI and emotional depth. While Smiley inves- Tailor of Panama (1996) and The Constant (1965),featuringRichardBurton;TheLooking
NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 14 tigates what appears to be a case of suicide Gardener (2001). In a career that spanned Glass War (1970), directed by Frank Pierson
and the murder of a schoolboy respectively John le nearly 50 years and 25 books, le Carré’s later and with Anthony Hopkins, Christopher
A SHORT, pudgy, unkempt spy in the lead in the first two novels, it is with le Carré’s Carré, novelsbecamemorepolitical,offeringveiled Jones and Ralph Richardson in the cast; The
might not sound like the best advertise- third and most well-known novel, The Spy author of commentaryonthefalloutsoftheuseofforce LittleDrummerGirl(1984),byGeorgeRoyHill,
ment for an espionage novel, but British who Came in from the Cold (1963), that the The Spy Who to combat insurgency and terrorism, by the and featuring Diane Keaton; Fernando
writerJohnleCarré,whorevolutionisedthe novels move into a new direction. Came in US and the UK in particular. His books were Meirelles'sTheConstantGardener(2005),fea-
genre, knew what he was signing his read- FollowingWorldWarII,uneasypeacehad from the often situated in troubled conflict zones, in- turingRalphFiennes;andTinkerTailorSoldier
ers up for when he introduced George marked relations between the US and the Cold, died on cluding in Chechnya, Rwanda and Israel- Spy (2011), directed by Tomas Alfredson.
Smileytothem—adeepdiveintothemoral thenSovietUnion,andtheirallies.Espionage Saturday. Palestine.HislastnovelwasAgentRunningin Althoughhewroteseveralsemi-autobi-
ambivalence that characterises the world and covert propaganda played a big role in AP/File the Field, published in October last year. ographical accounts in his books, le Carré
of secret service. Le Carré, 89, died on foreignaffairsuntilthefalloftheUSSRin1991. was dismissive of the idea of memoirs and
December 12 in Cornwall, UK. CornwellhadhimselfservedintheBritishfor- Resolute against awards autobiographies.“I’mhorrifiedatthenotion
eign office, in MI5 and MI6. In fact, it was the JamesBondnovels.LeCarré’sspies—Smiley, pressed their emotions to carry out the vi- Throughouthiscareer,leCarrérefusedto of autobiography, because I’m already con-
Early life & works objection of the Foreign Office to let him use Alec Leamas who fronts The Spy Who Came sionof governmentsforwhattheybelieved allowhisbookstobesentforawards.Hewas structing the lies I am going to tell,” he fa-
Born on October 19, 1931, as David John his name for his writing career, that led him infromtheCold,andtheotherswhofollowed would be for the greater good but often equally resolute about not accepting state mouslysaidinaninterview.Buthisfictional
Moore Cornwell, the writer had an unsta- to adopt the pseudonym John le Carré. — were the antithesis of Bond, a character le turned out to be not quite — that upended honours. But his contribution, especially his universe offers a glimpse of the truths that
ble childhood, especially his father’s fre- Carré termed as “an international gangster”. established hierarchies and came to be the humanisation of the espionage system, did mattered.InanessayinMarch1992,leCarré
quentrun-inswiththelaw,whichgavehim Spies minus the glamour His men spent their lives fighting loneliness, benchmark of a good espionage novel. not go unrecognised by his readers or his wrote, "All fictional characters are amal-
a unique understanding of human nature In The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, le bureaucratic red tape and moral dilemmas While a blurb from novelist Graham peers. British novelist Philip Roth declared gams; all spring from much deeper wells
and its failings. Carréfirstcreatedamurkymoraluniverseof just as any other person, but often with Greenetermedhis1963bookas“thebestspy hisautobiographicalnovel,APerfectSpy,fea- than their apparent counterparts in life. All,
He wrote his first novel Call for the Dead British secret service operations that was far deeper personal and political fallouts. story I have ever read”, The Spy Who Came in turing a double agent, Magnus Pym, as the intheend,likethepoorsuspectsinmyfiles,
in 1961, followed by A Murder of Quality fromtheprevalentnotionof spyingasanact It was this world that he created — peo- fromtheColdwasonlythestartingpointof le “bestEnglishnovelsincethewar”.Cinematic are refitted and remoulded in the writer's
(1962). Here, he introduced Smiley, an un- ofglamorousdaredevilryintheserviceofthe pledbymenwhodidnotalwaysunderstand Carré’s many successes, that include Tinker translationsof hisnovelsacquiredidentities imagination,untiltheyareprobablycloserto
prepossessing man, whose drab appear- nation—anideaestablishedbyIanFleming’s the implications of their actions, who sup- Tailor Soldier Spy (1974), The Honourable of their own. These include the Martin Ritt- his own nature than to anybody else's."
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TOPOFTHE
WORLD London to be on highest alert as new TREASURY, COMMERCE DEPTS TARGETED
Russian hackers
coronavirus variant identified in UK broke into federal
agencies: US officials
New variant found in over 1,000 Covid-19 cases, likely associated with faster spread: minister
ADITI KHANNA DAVID E SANGER
Journalist Ruhollah LONDON, DECEMBER 14 DECEMBER 14
Zam was executed by
Iran last week BRITAIN’S CAPITAL will be THE TRUMP administration ac-
placed under the highest level of knowledgedonSundaythathack-
coronavirus restrictions from ers acting on behalf of a foreign
EUROPE Wednesday amid a “very sharp” government—almostcertainlya
France,others spike in Covid-19 cases in
London and its surrounding ar- Ambrose Dlamini
Russian intelligence agency, ac-
cording to federal and private ex-
The US Commerce Dept
acknowledged that one of
withdrawfrom eas and a new variant of coron- perts — broke into a range of key its agencies had been
E
targeted, without naming it
Iranforumover avirus being identified as re-
sponsible for the “faster spread”, Eswatini PM dies
governmentnetworks,including
in the Treasury and Commerce
execution
E X P L A I NE D
the UK government announced
in Parliament on Monday.
of coronavirus departments,andhadfreeaccess
to their email systems. 2014-15
Paris:FrancesaidonSunday Health Secretary Matt Johannesburg: The govern- Officials said a hunt was on to hacklikely
its ambassador to Iran Hancock told MPs in the House ment of Eswatini has an- determine if other parts of the
wouldnotparticipateinan ● settone
of Commons that “swift and de- nouncedonTwitterthatPrime governmenthadbeenvictimised
online business forum in cisive action” was needed as the MinisterAmbroseDlaminihas by what looked to be one of the
Tehran this week, in a doubling rate of the deadly virus died after testing positive for most sophisticated, and perhaps IF THE involvement of Russia
growing row betweenIran has hit just seven days in many Covid-19. The 52-year-old amongthelargest,attacksonfed- behind the latest hacking inci-
andEuropeannationsover of these areas. Dlamini,whohadbeenprime eralsystemsinthepastfiveyears. dent is confirmed, it would be
theexecutionofIraniandis- Tier-3restrictions,thehighest minister since 2018, an- Severalsaidaseriesofnationalse- the biggest Russian theft of US
sident journalist Ruhollah level in England’s three-tier sys- nouncedinNovemberthathe curity-relatedagencies werealso government data since a
Zam. Other envoys from tem, meananear-completelock- had tested positive for the Sandra Lindsay, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the vaccine affected, though it was not clear months-long effort in 2014
Germany, Austria and Italy down, with people allowed to virusandwasbeingtreatedat in New York on Monday. Reuters whether the systems contained and 2015 during which oper-
were also cancelling their meet those they do not live with a hospital in neighbouring highly classified material. atives in Moscow gained ac-
involvement in the Dec. 14
boathitsfuelship virus moves quickly, we must cines for everyone by the third pandemic, which has killed vaccination would instill confi- the coming days. agingtherecentattackswereand
HIS COLD WAR NOVELS EXPLORED THE MORAL COMPROMISES OF AGENTS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE IRON CURTAIN
John le Carré, author who turned the spy novel into high art, is dead at 89
which Graham Greene called Led by his greatest creation, love, the lie that is a sort of truth, 19,1931,hehadaragged,destabi- In his books, the Secret
SARAH LYALL “the best spy story I have ever the plump, ill-dressed,unhappy, goodmenservingbadcausesand lizingchildhooddominatedbyhis Intelligence Service, otherwise
LONDON, DECEMBER 14 read”, the fictional model for the brilliant, relentless George bad men serving good.” father, Ronald, an amoral, flam- known as MI6, was the “Circus”,
modern British spy was Ian Smiley,leCarré’sspiesarelonely, Some critics took le Carré’s boyant, silver-tongued con man. agentswere“joes,”operationsin-
JOHN LE Carré, whose exquis- Fleming’s James Bond — suave, disillusioned men whose work message to be that the two sys- The boys’ mother, Olive (Glassey) volving seduction were “honey-
itelynuanced,intricatelyplotted urbane, devoted to queen and is driven by budget troubles, bu- tems, East andWest, were moral Cornwell, walked out of the fam- traps”andagentsdeeplyembed-
Cold War thrillers elevated the country. With his impeccable reaucratic power plays and the equivalents, both equally bad. ilyhouseandintothearmsof an- ded inside the enemy were
spy novel to high art by present- talent for getting out of trouble opaque machinations of politi- But he did not believe that. other man when David was 5. “moles”, a word he is credited
ing both Western and Soviet while getting women into bed, cians — men who are as likely to “There is a big difference in David went to Switzerland at withbringingintowideuseif not
spies as morally compromised Bond fed the myth of spying as a be betrayed by colleagues and working for the West and work- age 16 and enrolled at the inventing it.
cogs in a rotten system full of glamorous, exciting romp. lovers as by the enemy. ing for a totalitarian state,” he University of Bern to study mod- In 2011, a new movie adap-
treachery, betrayal and personal Le Carré — the pen name of Smiley has a counterpart in told an interviewer, referring to ern languages. There he was re- tation of his Tinker, Tailor,
tragedy, died on Saturday in David Cornwell — upended that the Russian master spy Karla, his John le Carre was the pen name of David Cornwell his own work as a spy in the cruited by a British spy working Soldier, Spy — the first in the
Cornwall, England. He was 89. notionwithbooksthatportrayed oppositein ideologybutequalin 1950s and early ’60s. undercoverattheembassy,andso Karla trilogy and the account of
His death was confirmed on British intelligence operations as almost all else, an opponent he Le Carré refused to allow his hislifeof spyingbegan.Exceptfor Smiley’s painstaking unmask-
Sunday by his literary agency, cesspools of ambiguity in which studies as intimately as a lover ning denouement that is as subject is not spying,” Timothy books to be entered for literary twoyearswhenhetaughtatEton, ing of a Kim Philby-esqe Soviet
the Curtis Brown Group. right and wrong are too close to studies his beloved. The end of much about human frailty and Garton Ash wrote in The New prizes.Butmanycriticsconsidered England’s premier secondary mole working at the Circus —
Before le Carré published his call and in which it is rarely obvi- Smiley’sPeople,thelastinaseries the deep loss that comes with Yorker in 1999. “It is the endlessly hisbooksliteratureofthefirstrank. school,leCarréwasaspyof some brought renewed interest in le
bestselling 1963 novel The Spy ous whether the ends, even if the known as the Karla Trilogy, winning as it is about anything. deceptive maze of human rela- Born David John Moore kindfor16years,forbothMI6and Carré’s work and sent backlist
Who Came in From the Cold, ends are clear, justify the means. brings them together in a stun- “Thematically, le Carré’s true tions:thebetrayalthatisakindof Cornwell in Poole, Dorset, on Oct. itsdomesticcounterpart,MI5. sales soaring. NYT
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International market data till 1900 IST
Wholesale inflation at 9-month high coverage rates likely for NBFCs’ timelineofwhetheritwillremain
shut for two days or one week or
Bengaluru is a new unit from
whereithadstartedassembly
tured at the unit and kept for
export were looted by work-
Hit by the coronavirus pandemic, non-banking financial whatever,” an Apple executive of the iPhone SE (2020). The ers.WhileWistronsaidthatit
of 1.55%; retail inflation eases to 6.93% companies (NBFCs) are expecting higher credit loss as well said, asking not to be named. originaliPhoneSEwasthefirst had followed all the laws and
while WPI inflation was 1.48 per Wistron, a contract manufac- iPhonetobemadeinIndiaand was supporting the authori-
as an increase in provision coverage rates, an EY study said
ENSECONOMICBUREAU centinOctober. turer for Apple, had started the nowtherearefourmodelsbe- ties in their investigation,
NEWDELHI,DECEMBER14
pricescooled,whileretailinflation however, food inflation eased to 2020, as against at FY20-end companies’ Source: EY/PTI Pegatron as major contract man- Rs7,000croreoverthenextthree Pegatron Technology India
eased to 6.93 per cent on softer 9.43percentinNovemberfrom11 ufacturers for making of flagship years to expand the existing unit. Private.PegatronCorporationwill
food prices, but remained above per cent a month ago. In WPI, in- Why is it important: NBFCs analyse co-relation of a wide range of factors with their default iPhones, iPads and other devices. Apple’s other contract manu- put in the funds raised fully
medium-termtargetof theRBI. flation in non-food articles was patterns and shortlist the factors relevant to their respective businesses to take into account Foxconn has a unit at facturer Pegatron Corporation’s through its internal resources as
Retail inflation based on the higherat8.43percentinNovem- the impact of forward-looking information. ECL estimates are then adjusted to consider the Sriperumbudur,intheoutskirtsof boardofdirectorshadlastmonth partofits“longterminvestment”,
Consumer Price Index (CPI) had ber, while in fuel and power bas- impact of these short-listed factors Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The com- approved an investment of Rs the company had said, without
stood at 7.61 per cent in October, ketitwas(-)9.87percent. pany has pledged to invest up to 1,099.8 crore in India via its arm elaborating those plans.
inMurthyfirm
Mumbai:Aonhasre-entered
Indianinsuranceintermedi-
arymarketbybuying49%in
Big Tech turns its lobbyists loose on Europe, alarming regulators
Narayana Murthy’s Anviti listing US officials against the eral and state officials accused $23 million, equal to what they capture all the spending on law Despite the lobbying, the in-
InsuranceBrokers. ENS ADAMSATARIANO& European policy, according to a Facebook of illegally crushing haddeclaredforallof2019andup firms,academicpartnershipsand dustry has had few major suc-
MATINASTEVIS-GRIDNEFF copy reviewed by The New York competition. In October, the from€6.8millionin2014,accord- activities in individual countries. cesses. European leaders like
UdayShankar NEWYORK,DECEMBER14 Times and confirmed by Google.
For many officials in Brussels,
Justice Department accused
Google of illegally protecting its
ingtoTransparencyInternational,
a group that monitors EU lobby-
While the spending is less
than in the United States, the
Margrethe Vestager, who over-
seesdigitalpolicy,havecalledthe
Ficcipresident A LEAKED document jolted the
European Union capital of
the document confirmed what
they had long suspected: Google
monopoly over search.
In Europe, the companies are
ing.Thespendingishelpingtode-
liver access; the companies and
growing influence industry is
alarmingEuropeanUnionofficials
companies threats to democracy
and anticompetitive and have
New Delhi: Media executive Brussels in October, laying out in and other American tech giants spending more than ever, hiring their allies reported hundreds of who believe that Big Tech is con- taken several steps to rein them
UdayShankarhastakenover painstakingdetailplansbyGoogle are engaged in a broad lobbying formergovernmentofficials,well- meetings with officials at the tributing to a Washingtonization in. Amazon, Apple, Google and
asFiccipresidentfor2020-21. tounderminenewlegislationthat campaign to stop stronger regu- connectedlawfirmsandconsult- European Commission and the of Brussels, giving money and Facebook either are under an-
could severely damage its digital lation against them. ing firms. They funded dozens of European Parliament. connections an upper hand over titrust investigation or have al-
GSTNlaunches advertising business.
“Academicallies”wouldraise
AstheEuropeanUnionhasbe-
comethegloballeaderintechreg-
thinktanksandtradeassociations,
endowed academic positions at
“The budgets are really unri-
valed—we’veneverseenthiskind
the public interest.
Google, Amazon, Apple and
ready been penalized billions of
dollars.Inrecentyears,theEUhas
taxpayerfacility questions about the new rules.
Google would attempt to erode
ulation,thesecompanieshavein-
creasingly focused on Brussels in
top universities across the conti-
nentandhelpedpublishindustry-
of money being spent by compa-
niesdirectly,”saidMargaridaSilva,
Facebook declined to comment.
In public statements, all have ex-
adopted industry-opposed laws
on issues including privacy and
NewDelhi:GSTNetworksaid support within the European hopes of choking off even stiffer Techgiantsarefocusedonthe friendly research by other firms. a researcher at Corporate Europe pressed a desire to work with online copyright.
it has launched “communi- Commission to complicate the rules before they spread. EuropeanUnioninhopesof Inthefirsthalfof2020,Google, Observatory, a group that tracks European officials, while voicing But the industry does not
cation between taxpayer” policymaking process. And the Americanlawmakersandregula- chokingoff evenstifferrules Facebook, Amazon, Apple and lobbyinginBrussels.Thetotalsare concerns that the proposed laws seem deterred, even as it faces
featureonitsportal. PTI company would try to seed a tors have already become much beforetheyspread. Reuters Microsoft declared spending a probablymuchhigher,shenoted, could harm innovation and the what many believe will be its
trans-Atlantictradedisputebyen- more aggressive. Last week, fed- combined €19 million, or about because disclosure rules do not European economy. toughest fight yet. NYT
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d/o of S M Yadav or Surya Mani
TAMILNADUNo.417,
MEDIcAL SERVIcES coRPoRATIoN LTD.
Delhi 110092 have changed my
I, Sushila Devi Pathania,W/o Yadav who is the same person,
name to Vinod Jain for all
Raghubir Singh Pathania, R/o- for all future purpose.
purposes. 0040557667-1
895, Sector-29,Noida,(U.P.)- Pantheon Road, Egmore, Chennai-600 008.
0040557688-1
I, Sandeep Kaur W/o Vikas 201303have changed my name Phone : 28191890 / 28190259; Fax: 044 –28190636 E-Mail: equipment.tnmsc@tn.gov.in
Kumar Goel R/o Regent-B-101 from Sushila Devi Pathania to
Grand omaxe sector-93B Sushila Pathania,for all INTERNATIoNAL coMPETITIVE BIDDINg – TENDER EXTENSIoN NoTIcE
Noida have changed my name purposes. 0040557703-1
to Saniya Goel 0040557691-1
LOST & FOUND 1. The Tender due dates are extended as follows:
I, SHANTI BALODI,W/O 1) Tender No.PKG3/ICB/TNUHP/JICA/C2/USG/TNMSC/ENGG/2020, dt.04.02.2020 -
I Gopesh Gupta s/o Radhe CHANDER SHEKHAR, R/O-D- Lost DDA Site Possession Slip Ultrasound Machine (5), Ultrasonogram Colour Doppler with 3 probes (18) & Portable Ultrasound
Shyam Gupta resident of A/3- 364, DELTA-1ST, GREATER- against my MIG Flat No.82,
509, Tower-10, Silver City-2, NOIDA, GAUTAMBUDH-NAGAR Machine (6)
Pocket-B-6, Sector-4, Rohini,
Sector-PI-2, Greater Noida has -201308, U.P, HAVE CHANGED Delhi-85 (File PUBLIC NOTICE 2) Tender No.PKG6/ICB/TNUHP/JICA/C2/OPE-I/TNMSC/ENGG/2020, dt.04.02.2020 -
changed my name to Gopesh MY NAME TO SHANTI. No.M24(229)1985/NP/Rohini). Under the instruction and on behalf of my Multipara Monitor (4), Multipara monitor with IBP (4), Multipara monitor with ETCO2 (18),
Chandra for all purposes. 0040557703-2 Finder may Contact-Anjali client be it known to general public at
Defibrillator (15), Anesthesia Work Station with monitor (18), Anesthesia Workstation (20),
large that my clients Sh. Dharmender
0040557679-1 Sethi W/o-Dilip Chand Ranjan S/o Sh. Man Mohan Ranjan, Operation Theatre fracture Table (with ortho attachment, C-arm compatible) (17) & Operation
I, Rudal Yadav S/o Ramkishun Sachdeva at above noted Hindu, adult aged about 51 years and
I HARJEET KAUR W/O SHRI Yadav R/o 161,Paraskhand, Smt. Monika Ranjan W/o Sh. Theatre Table (with General Surgery attachment) (10)
address. 0040557666-1 Dharmender Ranjan, Hindu, adult aged
BRIJESH DIMRI R/O GH 9/604, Tarkulwa,Deoria,U.P- about 45 years both presently residing Sl. No. Sale period Submission of Bids opening of Bids
PASCHIM VIHAR, NEW DELHI- 274408,have changed my It is notified for the information address at 944, First Floor, Dr Mukherjee
1 Upto 21.12.2020 22.12.2020, 03.00 PM 22.12.2020, 04.00 PM
Nagar, Near Batra Cinema, Delhi-110009,
110087, INFORM THAT IN MY name to Ramlagan Yadav and that my Original Marksheet, have disowned and debarred their son
my DOB-05-01-1977. Mob:- Passing Certificate, namely Mr. Kartik Ranjan hindu adult age 2 Upto 22.12.2020 23.12.2020, 03.00 PM 23.12.2020, 04.00 PM
DAUGHTER SIMRAN DIMRI 23, from their all movable and immovable
SCHOOL RECORD MY NAME IS 7503965073. 0040557710-1 Provisional properties and assets and severed all For details visit www.tenders.tn.gov.in and TNMSC website www.tnmsc.tn.gov.in
WRONGLY MENTIONED HARJIT Certificate,Migration relations, social with them because of his
I, Resham Verma, D/o,Vipul Certificate and Transfer
Acts, conducts and behavior towards DIPR/ 4647 /Tender/2020 general Manager (Equipment)
KAUR BUT MY ACTUAL NAME IS my clients. Thus, my clients don't want
Verma W/o,Utkarsh Certificate of Senior to have any relationship with him and
HARJEET KAUR, WHICH
Ahuja,R/o,I-1101, Caitriona, Secondary Examination of
all their relationships stand severed
SHOULD BE AMENDED and hereby also withdraw all his rights
Ambience Island, NH-8, Year 2019 and Roll No.9159008 even to perform my clients' last rituals.
ACCORDINGLY. 0040557686-1
Nathupur(67)Gurgaon,HR- issues by CBSE has been
Anybody dealing with them shall do so at
her/his/their own risk and cost my clients
I,Varsha Gola W/o Nand Kishore 122002, have changed my actually lost. Name of the shall not be responsible for any social and
R/o C-104,IFCI Colony,Jwala name to Resham Ahuja for,all candidate- Kajol, Flat No.B-37C
economic relations.
Sd/- LOKESH KUMAR AGGARWAL
Heri Paschim Vihar, N.Delhi- purposes. 0040557704-3 Shivangi Kunj, Paschim Vihar (D/275/03) ADVOCATE FOR ACE
110063,changed my name to New Delhi-110063 (Mob.- CONSILIUM B-101, B.G.S. Block,
I, Ramlal,S/O Shri Ram Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi-110 054
Varsha Devi. 0040557710-8 9560611847)
Kumar,R/O G-22/195, Sector-7,
I,Siddharth Sikka,S/o Shri Rohini,Delhi-110085, have 0040557688-2 ''IMPORTANT''
Satinder Nath Sikka R/o- changed my name to Ram Lal Whilst care is taken prior to
Garg. 0040557710-9 I, Swati Verma,W/o Prasun
H.No.2,B-3,Vasant-Vihar, New acceptance of advertising
Kumar Verma R/o Flat no.-47, copy, it is not possible to verify
Delhi-110057,have changed
I, Rafat Fatima Tatreen,W/o Pkt-1,Sector-23,Rohini, Delhi- its contents. The Indian
my name to Sidharth Sikka.
Tarique Akhtar Tareen,R/o-B-1, 110085,have lost original Express (P) Limited cannot be
0040557710-2 held responsible for such
202,Lotus-Pond Society, Mutation Letter issued by MCD contents, nor for any loss or
Vaibhav-Khand-1, of above given address. Finder damage incurred as a result of
I,Ranjeet Kumar S/o Praveen
Indirapuram, Ghaziabad, have contact: 9520481754. transactions with companies,
Kumar R/o-511, Sector-7, R.K- associations or individuals
changed my name to Rafat
Puram Delhi-110022,have 0040557704-10 advertising in its newspapers
Fatima Tareen. 0040557707-3
Change My Name from or Publications. We therefore
I, Bhanu pratap,S/o Lalasa recommend that readers
Ranjeet Kumar to Ranjit I, RITA SRIWASTAW D/O UMESH
prasad, R/o- 25A janta-flats make necessary inquiries
Kumar,for all future purposes PRASAD SRIWASTAW,R/o before sending any monies or
Rampart Delhi-35,have lost my
0040557684-1 Diulia Pipra, Shikarpur, West entering into any agreements
original-certificate class-10th with advertisers or otherwise
Champaran,Bihar-845455 have
I,Pawan Joshi S/oLate Om year-2017 Rollno-8324814 acting on an advertisement in
changed my name and shall any manner whatsoever.
Prakash Joshi R/o 42-B, Block- CBSE-DELHI. 0040557704-9
hereafter be Known as NANCY PRESS NOTICE INVITING
R, Dilshad Garden, Delhi- SRIVASTAVA. 0070723954-1 I, Samakshi Sharma,D/o Girish
Paschimanchal Vidhyut Vitaran Nigam Ltd. COMPOSITE PERCENTAGE
110095, have informed that
Pawan Joshi & Pawan Kumar I, PARDEEP KUMAR MAHAJAN
Kumar Sharma R/o-WS-
45,Sudamapuri, Muzaffarnagar TAMILNADU NEWSPRINT AND PAPERS LIMITED RATE e-TENDER
s/o BAL KISHAN MAHAJAN r/o Mondipatti, Manapparai Tk, Trichy Dist. - 621306,
Joshi both are one and same Babarpur,Shahdara,Delhi-32 E-Tender Notice E-Tenders are invited from eligible bidders. Please visit E-tender Ph: 04332-265102; Email: purchaserm.u2@tnpl.co.in Executive Engineer (C), Postal Civil
person. 0040557675-1 A-387-388, JJ Colony, Khayala,
have lost my original- portal www.etender.up.nic.in for details/download and for any other corrections/ Division, New Delhi., invites for and
New Delhi-110018 have coRRIgENDUM
I,MURALA NAVEEN KUMAR S/O certificate Class-Xth Year- amendments/ extensions till the date of submission of bids. Sl. No.: 1 Tender on behalf of the President of India,
changed my name to PRADEEP Tender Existing Revised
MURALA KRISHNA, R/o 42- 2017,Rollno-8159436 CBSE- Specification No.: E-Tender No. 49/2020-21 EUDC MZN Name of Works: Description online percentage rate composite
MAHAJAN. 0040557673-1 No. Due Date Due Date
620/B SHIVA NAGAR, ALLWYN DELHI. 0040557704-8
Repairing work of 11 KV VCB at 33/11 KV S/s Barla in the area of EUDSD-Purkaji, tenders for the following work:
COLONY, KUKATPALLY, I, Om Prakash S/O Chhgana 202123 Oxidizing Biocide Programme for
Muzaffarnagar Earnest Money (Rs.): 2000 Tender Fee (Rs.): 1180.00 (18% ªfe.EÀf.Me. 16.12.2020 28.12.2020 N.I.T. No. NIT/ EEPCND/ 2020-21/
HYDERABAD, TELANGANA Ram, R/o 7/61-2, Viswanatha 001668 TNPL Unit-II on Package cost basis
ÀfdW°f) Last Date for online submission of tender document: 16.01.2021 12:00:00 86 (2ND CALL) Dated 14.12.2020
500072, have changed the Puram, St. Thomas Mount, Detailed Terms & Conditions, Quantity, Tender Fee, EMD, etc. are
name of my minor Son Chennai 16, Kancheepuram, PROPERTY FOR SALE Hrs. Date for opening of tender part-I 16.01.2021 14:00:00 Hrs. Sl. No.: 2 Tender
available in the tender document at our websites: www.tnpl.com /
Name of Work: Vertical extension
Tamil Nadu-600016,, have Specification No.: E-Tender No. 50/2020-21 EUDC MZN Name of Works: of AMPC building for Integral
MURALA KARTHIKEYAA aged www.tenders.tn.gov.in
changed my name and shall COMMERCIAL PLOT for sale, Repairing work of 11 KV VCB at 33/11 KV S/s Kutubpur in the area of EUDSD-
about 1 Year and He shall DIPR/4655/Tender/2020 TNPL - Maker of bagasse based eco-friendly Paper Parcel Hub at Airport, New Delhi.
hereafter be Known as suitable for showroom, good Jansath, Muzaffarnagar Earnest Money (Rs.): 2000 Tender Fee (Rs.): 1180.00
hereafter be known as Estimated Cost: Rs.4,88,14,133/-
MURALA DHRUVAN Prakash 0070723953-1 location, urgent basis, Lal (18% ªfe.EÀf.Me. ÀfdW°f) Last Date for online submission of tender document:
{Rs4,48,43,923/- (Civil Portion) &
KARTIKEYA 0070723955-1 I, Neelam Kumari Sharma D/o
quater Krishna Nagar, main 16.01.2021 12:00:00 Hrs. Date for opening of tender part-I 16.01.2021 14:00:00 ANDHRA PRADESH INTEGRATED IRRIGATION AND Rs.39,70.210/- (Electrical Portion)}
market, contact: 9871959666 Hrs. Sl. No.: 3 Tender Specification No.: E-Tender No. 51/2020-21 EUDC MZN
I,Gazala Banday,D/o Gulam Charan Das Sharma R/o B-68 AGRICULTURE TRANSFORMATION PROJECT Earnest Money: Rs. 0/-
Asha Park Hari Nagar Tilak 0040557608-3 Name of Works: Repairing work of 11 KV VCB at 33/11 KV S/s Kamhera Dhansari
Mohamad Dar,W/o Mr.Aamir
in the area of EUDSD-Jansath, Muzaffarnagar Earnest Money (Rs.): 2000 Tender
(World Bank Aided Project) Period of completion: 12 Months.
Mushtaq Banday,R/o- Nagar ND-18 Have Changed
Fee (Rs.): 1180.00 (18% ªfe.EÀf.Me. ÀfdW°f) Last Date for online submission of tender Request for Bids (National Competitive Bidding) Last time and date of
Flat.No.202, Tower-A1,Tulip My Name To Neelam Sharma
For All Purposes. 0040557704-5 document: 16.01.2021 12:00:00 Hrs. Date for opening of tender part-I Tender Notice Nos.25/2020-21 and 26/2020-21, Dt: 08.12.2020 submission of bid: 28.12.2020
White,Sector-
69,Gurugram,(Haryana),have
PUBLIC NOTICE 16.01.2021 14:00:00 Hrs. Sd/- (R.D. Singh) SUPERINTENDING ENGINEER The Superintending Engineer, Irrigation Circle, Ongole, Prakasam Upto 15:00 PM.
I, Nand Kishore Gola S/o Tirkha
changed my name to Gazala Ram R/o C-104, IFCI,
“Save Electricity in the interest of Nation” ´fÂffaI 4116/d½f.³f.d½f.¸f.¸fb. ³f¦fS dQ³ffaI 14/12/2020 District, Pin Code: 523001, Andhra Pradesh invites Bids from the The bid forms and other details can
Mehmood. 0040557710-4 Colony,Jwala Heri Paschim intending Bidders for various works of 1) Rehabilitation of Mondi Katta be obtained from the website
PUBLIC NOTICE Tank - Gadikota Cascade No.32 in Gadikota Village in Giddaluru Mandal
I,GUMIDELLY LAVANYA W/O Vihar, N.Delhi-110063 changed Be it known to public at large that my clients S.
https://dopcivil.euniwizarde.com
GUMIDELLY BALARAJU ,R/o 1- my name to Nand Kishore. Bhupinder Singh S/o Late S. Saroop Singh and
Kawaljeet Kaur W/O S. Bhupinder Singh both R/o
in Prakasam District. Rs.217.90 Iakhs, 2) Rehabilitation of Ralla Vagu
4,1 Wada 0040557710-7
House No.30, First floor, Gopal Nagar, New
Delhi-110018 have debarred and disowned their
(Independent) in Burjapalli Village in Giddaluru Mandal in Prakasam
Kummariwada,Bollepally,
I, NEERU (Aadhar. No.
son S. Amandeep Singh and his family
comprising of his wife i.e. Harbind and one
District - Rs.195.93 lakhs, under “Andhra Pradesh Integrated
Bhongir, Nalgonda Telangana-
881152617661),W/O Sh.Anurag
daughter Harsheen Kaour from all their
immovable and movable properties because of
Irrigation and Agriculture Transformation Project (APIIATP) - World
508285, have changed the their continuous disrespect, misbehavior with my
Bank aided Project” from 14.12.2020 to Dt. 27.01.2021 upto 3.00 PM.
Yadav,D/O Sh.Rakesh,R/O clients and for the fact that they are out of control
name of my minor Daughter
GUMIDELLY HISHITA aged
Village-Hasanpur, P.O.Ujwa, of my clients. Public is further informed that from
today onwards neither my son Amandeep Singh For complete details visit us at: www.apeprocurement.gov.in For queries
about 5Years and She shall
New Delhi-110073, have nor his family neither shall have any relation what
so ever with my clients nor they shall have any Contact No.8247500435.
changed my name,from right in movable and immovable property(ies) of
Sd/- Superintending Engineer, Irrigation Circle, Ongole.
hereafter be known as my clients. Public is further informed that S.
NEERU to BHARTI YADAV Amandeep Singh and his wife is residing in the
DIPR No.499PP/CL/ADVT/1/1/2020-21, Dt.14/12/2020
GUMIDELLY ANANYA same premises with my clients unlawfully,
0040557707-7 forcefully & against the wishes of my clients, if any
0070723952-1 person deals with them shall do so at his own risk,
cost and consequences and my clients shall not
I, MILLI KATHURIA d/o SHYAM be responsible to any one in any manner for the
I,Anil Kumar F/o-Abhiuday same. My clients shall not be responsible for any
SUNDER KATHURIA r/o 13/36,
Ravish R/o-602,Amar Nagar, act, conduct of Amandeep Singh and his family.
Subhash Nagar, Delhi-110027 Sd/- K.S. TANEJA (Advocate)
55,Amarnagar,Faridabad- Ch. T-57, Near Tehsil Building Tis Hazari
have changed my name to Courts, Delhi-54
121003 have changed my
MILLIE KATHURIA.0040557672-1
Minor Son’s name from
Abhiuday to Abhiuday Ravish I, Suresh Kumar S/o Kewal PUBLIC NOTICE
for,all purposes 0040557717-1 Kumar R/o-B-2/7, Third-Floor, Be it known that my client Sh. Mahinder
Paschim Vihar, N.Delhi- Singh S/o. Pritam singh and Smt. Nisha
I, Vikram Singh Chandela S/o Yadav W/O. Sh. Mahinder Singh both R/O
63,have changed my name to 225, Pradhan Gali, Shivalaya Mandir,
Ransingh R/o-114/10,
Suresh Kumar Madaan. Chaudhar Wala Mohalla, Badli, Samai
Girdharpur, Chhapraula, Pur, North West Delhi, Delhi-110042 has
debarred and disinherited his son from all
Gautam Budh Nagar-201009, 0040557707-5 his movable and immovable properties.
UP have changed my name to My client has no control over his son as
I, Ikram S/o Abdul Rahim R/o- he is in bad habits. My client will not be
Vikram Singh. 0040557707-1
1105, Kazivada Mohalla, responsible and not liable for any act
done by his son. If anybody deal with
I, Vikas Kumar Verma S/o- Hapur-245101, UP have them in any manner then he/she will be
Virender Kumar Verma R/o-G- changed my name to responsible for his/her own act at their
own cost and risk.
56,Om Vihar Phase-5,Uttam Ikramuddin. 0040557707-2 Sd/- SANJEEV KUMAR RAWAT
(Advocate)
Nagar,DELHI-110059, declare
I, Irashad Ahmed,S/O Faiz Chamber No 556, Dwarka Court
that name of my father has complex, Sector-10, N.D-110075
Mohammed R/O-350, Shahzad
been wrongly written as
-Bagh Phase-1,Inder Lok, New
Virendra Kumar in my 10th &
Delhi-110035, changed my
12th Class Certificate. The
name to Irshad Ahmed.
actual name of my father is
Virender Kumar Verma. 0040557703-4
0040557710-5 I, Gurleen Kaur Makkar,D/o-
Jaspal Singh,Sarabjeet
I, Lakshmi Sharma W/o Arun
Kumar Sharma R/o C-28/1, 2nd
Kaur,R/o-25-B,Gali.No.11, Old-
Tezab Mill Bhola Nath Nagar,
U. P. RURAL ROAD DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
floor, Paryavaran Complex,
Shahdara, Delhi-110032,have Department of Rural Development, Government of Uttar Pradesh
Saidulajab, New Delhi-110030,
changed my name to Gurleen 4th & 5th oor, Ganna Kisan Sansthan Building, New Berry Road, Lucknow
do hereby solemnly affirm Janasanyog No. cF/ 3232 /20
Kaur,for all purposes. Ph. No. 0522-2209450, Mob.: 7311189228, E-mail : up-cexo@pmgsy.nic.in
declare That Lakshmi Sharma
& Anju Sharma both are one 0040557704-2 Letter No. : 2161 / T-252(FDR) / UPRRDA/2020 Date : 14.12.2020
and the same person I, Gurdeep Singh Satija
0040557677-1 S/o,Gurbachan Singh Satija E-Procurement Notice
R/o-G-54A, Nandram Park, Request For Proposal
I, Mitalee Chandra D/o Shri
Uttam-Nagar,Delhi-110059,
Prakash Chandra R/o HNo. 24-
have changed my name to NOTICE INVITING ON-LINE OFFERS FOR SETTING UP OF A
B, Street No.2, 2nd Floor, East
Gurdeep Singh S/o Gurbachan PMU FOR PREPARATION OF DETAILED PROJECT REPORTS,
Guru Angad Nagar, Delhi-92 Central Board of Film Certification
Singh. 0040557707-6
have Changed My Name From TENDER DOCUMENT (BOQ), CARRYING OUT THE E-TENDER (Ministry of Information and Broadcasting), Govt. of India
I, Devender Gupta S/O Ram Films Division Complex, 9th Floor, Phase-I Building, Mumbai - 400 026.
Mitalee to Mitalee Chandra. PROCESS, QUALITY CHECK OF ROADS PROPOSED TO BE Tel No. : 022 23510477, Email : ceo.cbfc@nic.in
Mitalee and Mitalee Chandra Narayan Gupta R/O-B-136,
both are same Person. Rameshwar Nagar Gali.No-2, TAKEN UP FOR UPGRADATION WITH NEW TECHNOLOGIES LIKE NOTICE INVITING TENDER
0040557685-1
Azadpur,Delhi-110033, FULL DEPTH RECLAMATION AND STABILIZATION UNDER
changed my name to PMGSY-III. Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) invites proposals for
I, Km Irram Batul,W/o Tehzeeb Devender Kumar Gupta. ''Takeover, Hosting and Maintenance of E-CINEPRAMAAN
Haider,R/o Flat.No.913, Uttar Pradesh Rural Roads Development Agency (UPRRDA), Online Certification Application and Website, Provisioning and
0040557703-3
Gomukh Appartment, a premier agency of Government of Uttar Pradesh, intends to set up a Maintenance of Cloud Management System, Revamping of
Kaushambi,Ghaziabad,have I, Danesh S/O Ashraf Ali R/O-C- PMU for assisting UPRRDA in preparation of detailed project report, Website, Design, Development and Maintenance of Mobile App,
changed my name to Iram 26, Sector-1, Avantika Rohini Providing Different Utility Tools".
Batool. 0040557707-4 Delhi-110085 changed my
tender document including BOQ, carrying out the process of e-Tender
and quality checks especially for roads to be taken up for up-gradation The Request for Proposal (RFP) document (in three volumes) can
name to Danish. 0040557703-5
I, Kanta D/o Late Mohan Lal, R/o be downloaded from http://cbfcindia.gov.in/ and can also be
F-15A, Nepali Mandir, Punjabi I, Cheranjeet Kaur W/o Jagat using new technologies like full depth reclamation and stabilization or obtained from the office of Chief Executive Officer, Central Board of
Basti, Baljeet Nagar, New Singh R/o WZ-49/C, Gali No.23, other such technologies under PMGSY-III. The estimated length of Film Certification, Films Division Complex, Phase-I Building, 24,
PUBLIC NOTICE
Delhi-110008 have changed my Sant Nagar, Tilak Nagar, New
My clients Rajkumar S/o Sh. roads to be constructed on above technology is 5000 kilometers. On Dr. G. Deshmukh Marg, Mumbai - 400 026 during working days
name to Kumkum, Delhi-110018 changed my (10.00 AM to 6.00 PM) against non-refundable RFP Documents fees
Harprasad and his wife Usha Devi R/o behalf of the Chief Executive Officer, UPRRDA, Lucknow, invited
permanently. 0040557694-1 name to Charanjeet Kaur. C-2/245, Sector-17, Rohini, Delhi have
of ` 10,000/- in the form of Demand Draft in favor of "Pay and
disowned and debarred their son online tenders from the reputed consulting firm/agency/company for the
I, Kumar Abhishek S/O Late 0040557710-3 Himanshu Sharma and daughter in law Accounts Officer, Films Division, Ministry of Information and
Ram Kumar Singhal, R/o H.No.-
Shanu Sharma, #36, Keerti Nagar, said work. The criteria of selection will be Quality cum Cost Based Broadcasting, Mumbai" payable at Mumbai.
I, Bernadethe A M,W/O Anthony Sector-15/1, Gurgaon from their
148, Sector-21C, Nit, Faridabad, movable and immovable property and Selection (QCBS) with 70% weightage to Technical Score and 30% The sealed bids in physical form should be submitted to the same
Manickam R/O.H.NO-208,
Haryana-121001, have Munirka Village,New-Delhi-
also have severed all connections with
them and my clients shall not be
weightage to Financial Score. The bid is invited on e-procurement address as mentioned above. The Last Date and Time for
changed my name and shall 110067.Have Changed my responsible for any acts of them. portal https://www.pmgsytendersup.gov.in as per details provided in Submission of Bids is 27th January, 2021, 17:00 Hrs.
hereafter be Known as Sd/-
Name to Bernandethe SANJEEV PANDA the document. The last date for submission of bid will be 10.01.2021. CBFC reserves the right to accept or reject any bid without assigning
Kummar Abhisshek. Anthony Manickam. ADVOCATE
Date of release of Invitation for RFP through e-procurement: any reason. Sd/-
0070723947-1 Ch. No. 232,
0040557704-4 Chief Executive Officer
Lawyer's Chamber Block
16.12.2020.
Rohinl Courts Complex, Delhi Chief Executive Of cer Central Board of Film Certification
New Delhi
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BritonhasbeenreceivinglettersfromBahraini issue in so many of the places that we go to is ningsat244-6,trailingNewZealandby85runs stead of total points. Australia tops
citizensseekinghishelpandinfluence. a consistent and a massive problem. We are after being forced to follow-on 329 behind. with 82.2 per cent, followed by India
However, one particular letter - from 11- probably one of the only ones that (go) to so Wicketkeeper Joshua da Silva (57) provided 75 per cent and then New Zealand
year-old Ahmed Ramadhan asking him to many different countries and I do think as a some late resistance, achieving a half century 62.5 per cent. New Zealand plays
help save his father from a death sentence - sport we need to do more.” inhisdebuttest,beforethetouristswereallout Pakistan in a two-Test series at home,
Hamilton claimed, “really (hit) home.” for317,theirhighestinningstotalof theseries. starting with a Boxing Day Test. If
Formula One’s stance The series win lifted New Zealand level they sweep that series, the percent-
An appeal for help Inastatement,theF1claimedithadbeen withAustraliaonaratingof 116pointsinfirst age points table could look very dif-
BahrainInstituteforRightsandDemocracy vigilantregarding social injustice around the placeontheICCworldteststandings,thefirst ferent. At the same time, India will be
(BIRD),anadvocacygroupinLondon,saidthat world. “We have always been clear with all timeinitshistoryithasachievedthatranking. playing Australia away from home.
the letter, accompanied by a drawn picture of race promoters and Governments with New Zealand also moved past England into Australia are to play South Africa
Hamilton’s race car, said: “Lewis, please save which we deal worldwide that we take vio- third place in the world test championship sometime in February after the India
my father. When I was drawing the car, I felt lence, abuse of human rights and repression standings, a more pressing objective as it at- series. Kohli's side will host England
hope that it might save my father's life.” very seriously.” However, there have been tempts to claim a place in next year's final at in a four-Test match series on return.
“IreallyhopeLewisHamiltondeliversmy constant protests by activists ahead of the Lord's.Acleansweepof Pakistaninatwo-test Which way these results go will de-
message so my dad can come back home,” annual Bahrain Grand Prix, seeking the race seriesstartinglaterthismonthwillgiveNew termine which two teams make the
Agence France-Presse reported. Ahmed Mohammed Ramadhan holds his drawing of Lewis Hamilton's racing car to be cancelled in light of the government’s Zealandachanceof competingwithAustralia final at Lord's next year. ENS
Ramadhan’s father Mohammed, a secu- with his appeal for help in saving his father from execution. AP/Reuters alleged human rights violations. and India for a place in the June final.
rity guard, was allegedly arrested in 2014 for The ICC test championship started last
the death of a policeman, and subsequently Bahrain government’s take year and involves nine teams each playing effort these guys have put in time and time
sentenced to death. Human rights groups, The Bahrain Grand Prix has been a regu- Hamilton’s activism Ever since Bahraini citizens – both cur- sixseriesforpointsonahome-and-awayba- again over the last couple of years," Latham
however, have claimed that confessions that larontheF1circuitsincethefirstracein2004. TheMercedesdriverhasbeenvocalinhis rent and former political prisoners - started sis, with the top two meeting in the final. said. "We've got another test series starting
led to the conviction were forced through It’s also the country’s biggest sporting event. supportfortheBlackLivesMattermovement to appeal to Hamilton to support their cause, Australia and India are meeting in a four-test (soon)andsothefocusnowwillturntothat."
torture. Ahead of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that gained steam in May after the death of the government of the country has claimed seriesstartingThursday.NewZealandisnow The secret of New Zealand's success is an
last weekend, Hamilton addressed the letter Covid interrupts meeting African-American GeorgeFloydat thehands that it respects freedom of expression and unbeaten in its last 15 test matches at home, open one. It has an extremely solid batting
at a press conference. Hamilton claimed that he had hoped to of the police. In fact, Hamilton has also been the right to protest. “No person is arrested or giving it one of the most formidable home lineup,especiallywithWilliamsoninhisreg-
“I think the saddest thing for me was meet Bahrain’s Crown Prince and Prime critical of the F1’s apparent lack of respon- prosecuted for the peaceful expression of advantages in world cricket. "Looking at the ular place in the top order. But it is the work
that there is a young man on death row and Minister Salman binHamadAlKhalifato ad- siveness when it comes to addressing hu- their opinion, and all persons arrested (re- world test championship, it's nice to get the of the bowlers which is the key ingredient:
it’s not clear… when his son writes me a dresstheissueof socialinjusticeprevalentin man rights issues, especially in countries gardless of the charge) benefit from full due full points from this series," New Zealand NewZealand'sfour-prongedseamattack,led
letter, that really hits home. All lives matter. the kingdom. where races take place. process safeguards, including the right to captain Tom Latham said. by Tim Southee and Trent Boult and with
I think there’s definitely work to be done Hehadhopedtoattendthemeetingwhile “Werealisewe’vegottofaceandnotignore representation and the right to fair trial be- Latham took over the captaincy for the Kyle Jamieson now a key member, is relent-
in the background,” he said. in the Middle-Eastern country that hosted the human rights issues in the countries that fore Bahrain’s independent judiciary,” read second test from Kane Williamson, who less and gives batsmen very little respite
“I definitely won’t let it go unnoticed. back-to-backGrandPrixonNovember29and wegoto,notjust20years,30yearsfromnow, a statement reported by The Guardian. missed the test because his wife is expecting from pressure.
When I get some time now, I will definitely December 6. but now,” he had said after securing his sev- The statement also addressed the claim their first child, and New Zealand showed BRIEF SCORES: New Zealand 460 beat
try and speak to those (people) and see However,Hamiltontestedpositiveforthe enth world title after winning the Turkish about the use of torture in Ramadhan’s case. depth in its ability to win in Williamson's ab- West Indies 131 & (f/0) 317 (Campbell 68,
how I can positively impact that (race) coronavirus at the time, and was forced to Grand Prix in November. In Abu Dhabi, “Further, the claims of torture and/or retri- sence. "As far as the world rankings go, it's Holder 61, da Silva 57, Wagner 3-54, Boult 3-
weekend (in future).” miss the second race. Hamiltonadded:“Naturally,thehumanrights bution are categorically denied.” nice togo there but that's a by-product of the 96) by an innings and 11 runs
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