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E-Procurement Notice
BÊX-´fiû¢¹fûSX¸fZ³MX d³fd½fQf Àfc¨f³ff (Ad°f A»´fIYf»fe³f) Invitation for Bids
´fÂffaI : 2353/BÊ -d³fd½fQf/22-23 dQ³ffaI :- 07.10.2022 The Executive Engineer Jal Shakti Division Bharmour invites tenders on behalf of Government of Himachal Pradesh from
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izkr% 10 cts ls 28-10-2022 dks 5-00 cts rd vkeaf=r dh tkrh gSA fufonk dh izh&DokfyfQds”ku@VSDuhdy fcM fnuakd No cost money tender the tender through Date
29-10-2022 dks 12-00 cts v/kksgLrk{kjh ds dk;kZy; d{k es mifLFkr@vf/kd`r jftLVMZ QeZ ds izfrfuf/k;ksa ds le{k xfBr form e-tendering
lfefr ds lnL;ksa }kjk vkWuykbu [kksyh tk;sxhA VsfDudy fcM esa DokfyQkbZ ik;s x;s Bsdsnkjksa dh QkbZusaf”k;y fcM [kksys
tkus ds fnuakd o le; gsrq i`Fkd ls lwpuk bl dk;kZy; }kjk tkjh dh tk;sxhA dk;kZy; cUn gksus vFkok NqV~Vh gksus dh 1 Providing resilient and sustainable service delivery in water Rs. 447834113/- Rs. 4478400/- Rs. 2500/- 27-10-2022 28-10-2022
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fuEuor gS& Block Bharmour & Mehla in Distt. Chamba H.P (Under- JJM)
2& The tender form and other detailed conditions can be obtain from the web site www.hpiph.org.
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approved eligible contractors for the following work(s) through e-tendering process.
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Sr. Description Estimated Earnest Time Cost of Start and Last
No Cost Money Limit Form date for uploading
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the tender through
e-tendering
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fo”ks’k ejEer dk dk;Z 1. Improvement of Catchment area at Ahala (Natural Rs. Rs. Six Rs. 14.10.2022
5 lEHky eÅ “kelksbZ ekxZ ls jkeds”koiqj jlSVk efUnj 27-00 2-70 2 ekg 854-00 &rnSo& Sources) of Dalhousie town in Tehsil Dalhousie Distt 81,59,846/- 81598/- Month 800/- to
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ekxZ dh fo”ks’k ejEer dk dk;Z The bidders are advised to note other details of tender from the departmental website https://hptenders.gov.in. The Executive
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Engineer, reserves the right to reject/cancel any or all the bids without assigning any reason(s).
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rd ekxZ dh fo”ks’k ejEer dk dk;Z Executive Engineer,
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Jal Shakti Division, Dalhousie.
5052/HP Distt. Chamba (HP)-176304
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11 lEHky /keZiqj ls Hkheiqj]nksLriqj ekxZ ls dySFkk ekxZ 13-00 1-30 1 ekg 766-00 &rnSo& PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
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e-Procurement Notice
12 lEHky lwjiqj ls irsbZ dk;LFk ekxZ dh fo”ks’k ejEer dk 22-00 2-20 2 ekg 854-00 &rnSo&
dk;Z INVITATION FOR BIDS (IFB)
13 lEHky Hkhduiqj tSuh lqUnjiqj ekxZ dk fo”ks’k ejEer dk 9-00 0-90 1ekg 766-00 &rnSo& The Executive Engineer HPPWD Bangana Division Distt Una H.P on behalf of Governor of H.P invites the online bids for item
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registered with HPPWD Department.
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18 lEHky fcykjh Mkjuh ekxZ ls dq</kweiqj ekxZ dk fo”ks’k 22-00 2-20 2ekg 854-00 &rnSo& Availability of Bid Document and mode of submission: The Bid document is available online and bid should be submitted in online
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bid document and (b) original bid security/Earnest Money Deposit (EMD) and other Technical Documents in O/o Executive
Engineer HPPWD Division Bangana H.P as specified in Key dates Sr. No. 5 on Tender Opening Date, failing which the bids will be
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4. BID OPENING DETAILS: The bids shall be opened on 16.11.2022 at 11:00 HRS in the office Executive Engineer, Bangana
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PAGE 14
Gyanvapi: Citing SC order to
secure area, court rejects plea
for ‘Shivling’ carbon dating
MANISH SAHU
LUCKNOW, OCTOBER 14
A VARANASI court Friday re-
jected a plea for carbon dating of
what is said to be a Shivling,
found during a survey of the
Gyanvapi mosque complex ear-
lier this year.
DistrictGovernmentCounsel
(Civil)MahendraPrasadtoldThe
Indian Express, “The court today
rejected the petition seeking di-
rection for carbon dating of the
‘Shivling’.”
Advocate Akhlaq Ahmed,
representing the Anjuman
Intezamia Masjid Committee
which had objected to the car-
bon dating plea of the Hindu pe-
titioners, said, “District Judge Dr
Ajaya Krishna Vishvesha re-
jected the petition in view of the
order passed by the Supreme
Court on May 17, directing the
Varanasi District Magistrate to
Rate hike: One RBI panel member says
time to pause, another wants to go slow
HITESH VYAS
MUMBAI, OCTOBER 14
AS POLICY makers discuss the
growthversusinflationtrade-off
with many developed countries
staring at a recession, two mem-
bers of the Reserve Bank of
India's six-member Monetary
PolicyCommittee(MPC)–Jayant
VarmaandAshimaGoyal--have
argued for going slow on Repo
ratehikes,takingadifferentview
from the other four members.
The MPC should stop focus-
ing on further tightening of repo
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ANCHOR ‘I am with BJP, our govts in both states...if I can’t get justice, who then?’
PAVNEET SINGH CHADHA
BHARATPUR (UTTARAKHAND),
OCTOBER 14
POLICEMEN IN plainclothes in
an inebriated condition, no
search warrant, and vehicles
with no registration plates –
Jaspur BJP leader Gurtaj Singh
Bhullar, whose wife Gurpreet
(32) was shot dead during a raid
twodaysagobyanUttarPradesh
police team at their residence in
Bharatpur in Uttarakhand’s
Udham Singh Nagar district, has
levelledgraveallegationsagainst
IN FIR, WOMAN ASKS FOR CCTV FOOTAGE OF CHIEF SECY’S HOUSE, QUESTIONING OF HIS STAFF
21-year-old alleges gangrape by ex-Andaman
Chief Secretary, Labour officer; SIT is set up
Woman says was looking for a job; ex-Chief Secy Jitendra Narain writes to PMO denying allegations
RITU SARIN
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14
TWO SERVING bureaucrats, one
of whom is an IAS officer of the
1990 batch and was Chief
Secretary, Andaman & Nicobar
(A&N)Islands,havebeenaccused
ofsexualassaultandgangrapeby
a21-year-oldwomaninPortBlair.
Respondingtohercomplaint
on August 22 to the Director
Generalof Police,A&NIslands,an
FIR was lodged at the Aberdeen
Outside the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi, Friday. Anand Singh
secure the area where a Shivling
was claimed to have been found
during a videographic survey of
the mosque area.”
“The court stated that this
would be a violation of the
Supreme Court order. The court
rate and take a pause for now,
one of the committee members
Jayant R Varma said, according
to the minutes of the MPC,
which meton September 28-30.
The rate-setting panel hiked the
reporateby50basispoints(bps)
to 5.90 per cent. This was the
fourth hike since May this year
by the RBI to tame inflation
which has been above its upper
threshold of 6 per cent for three
quarters in a trot.
As per the MPC minutes,
Varma voted against the second
resolution on withdrawal of ac-
commodationandsaid,“…inmy
IITs Madras, Delhi, INS Arihant successfully fires
KGP on fast-track for SLBM; very high accuracy: Govt
expansion overseas
SOURAV ROY BARMAN
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14
THE PLAN to set up Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT)
campuses in Abu Dhabi,
Tanzania and Malaysia has been
put on the fast track with a year
as the time frame envisaged,key
officials said.
IIT Madras director Prof V
Kamakoti said a team led by the
institute's Dean of Global
Engagementhas been entrusted
the policemen.
Even as the UP Police main-
tain that the woman was killed
in cross-firing between their
team and Jaffar, a man accused
of illegal sand mining who they
were chasing, Bhullar insists the
police have concocted a story to
justify the killing.
A day earlier, the Kumaon
DIG, Nilesh Anand Bharne, had
also said that the UP personnel
did not inform local police and
were not in uniform. And, a
forensicdepartmentofficialwho
inspected the site had said they
didnotfindevidenceof cross-fir-
DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA
police station in Port Blair on
October 1 and police have set up
aSpecialInvestigationTeam(SIT)
to probe her allegations, The
Indian Express has learnt.
The SIT is headed by a Senior
Superintendentof Policeandthe
woman has been provided
police protection.
The two officers the victim
hasaccusedof rape,andwhoare
named in the FIR, are: Jitendra
Narain, who was Chief Secretary
of A&N Islands until three
monthsagowhentheallegedin-
also mentioned that if such a
thing is done, then religioussen-
timents of people will get hurt,”
Ahmed said.
Sudhir Tripathi, representing
the petitioners, said, “We will
CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
viewtheMPCshouldnowpause
rather than focus on further
tightening.” The committee had
decided to remain focused on
withdrawal of accommodation
to ensure that inflation remains
within the target going forward,
while supporting growth.
For the first resolution on the
quantum of the rate hike, Varma
had said he considered three al-
ternative choices - 35, 50, and 60
bps corresponding to repo rates
of 5.75, 5.90 and 6 per cent.
According to him, 5.75 per
cent would be well below the
CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
with the coordination work to
set up the institute's proposed
campus in Tanzania which will
primarily offer courses in
Mining, Metallurgy and Ddata
science.
An official in IIT Delhi, which
willhaveacampusinAbuDhabi,
said teams from the United Arab
Emirates (UAE) were in New
Delhi recently to study the
model followed by IIT-D while
also holding talks with teachers
and students here. "A dedicated
CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
The house in Bharatpur where Gurpreet (right) was killed.
JOURNALISM OF COURAGE
SINCE 1932
The FIR naming the two officers was filed at this station on
October 1. The complainant has got security. @AndamanPolice
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SUSHANT KULKARNI
PUNE, OCTOBER 14
STRATEGIC STRIKE Nuclear
Submarine INS Arihant carried
out a successful launch of a
Submarine Launched Ballistic
Missile (SLBM) Friday.
The Ministry of Defence said
thetestissignificantfortheSSBN
programme,acrucialelementof
India’s nuclear deterrence capa-
bility.
“The missile was tested to a
predetermined range and im-
pacted the target area in the Bay
of Bengal with very high accu-
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cident occurred and R L Rishi,
posted as Labour Commissioner
in A&N Islands.
Narain is currently Chairman
&ManagingDirectorof theDelhi
FinancialCorporation.Whencon-
tacted in New Delhi, Narain said
hewouldnotliketocommenton
the“absurd”allegations.Sources
close to him said he has sent a
“detailed representation” to the
Prime Minister’s Office and the
Union Home Secretary, among
others, denying the charges.
CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
E
racy.Alloperationalandtechno-
logicalparametersof theweapon
systemhavebeenvalidated,”the
The n-triad Ministry said in a statement.
● quest “The successful user training
launch of the SLBM by INS
THE CAPABILITY to Arihant is significant to prove
launch nuclear missiles crew competency and validate
from submarines has the SSBN programme, a key ele-
great strategic ment of India’s nuclear deter-
importance and is in rence capability. A robust, sur-
line with the target of vivable and assured retaliatory
achieving a nuclear capability is in keeping with
triad – of weapon India’s policy to have ‘Credible
delivery from land, air Minimum Deterrence’ that un-
and sea – given India’s derpinsits‘NoFirstUse’commit-
no-first-use policy. ment,” it said.
CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
ing as suggested by UP Police.
Speaking to The Indian
Express, Bhullar, BJP’s district
block chief (pramukh) in Jaspur
tehsil, recalled the series of
events on Wednesday, when he
had gone to Noida for a party
meeting and returned around 4
pm.
“My wife had also returned
from work in the evening. I was
asleep when I heard that 10-12
men, claiming to be policemen
from UP, had barged into our
house for a raid in pursuit of one
RELATEDREPORT,PAGE10 Jaffar, who they thought had
taken shelter here,” he said.
New Delhi
‘LACKED UAPA SANCTION’
HCacquitsjailed
Saibaba,says
trialvoid;appeal
beforeSC today
Nagpur bench orders release of ex-DU
professor, 5 others held for Naxal links
SADAF MODAK
& ANANTHAKRISHNAN G
MUMBAI, NEW DELHI,
OCTOBER 14
CITING ABSENCE of valid sanc-
tion under the Unlawful
Activities (Prevention) Act and
declaring the trial proceedings
in a Gadchiroli court “null and
void”, the Nagpur bench of the
Bombay High Court Friday ac-
quitted sacked Delhi University
professor G N Saibaba who had
been sentenced to life imprison-
mentin2017overallegedMaoist
links. It also acquitted five others
sentenced by the lower court.
Within hours, the
Maharashtra government
movedtheSupremeCourtwhich Saibaba was handed life
declined to stay the acquittal or- term in 2017. File
der.Laterintheday,theSupreme
Court listed Maharashtra’s ap- EXPLAINED
peal for 11 am Saturday before
the bench of Justices M R Shah THE QUESTION OF
and Bela M Trivedi. SANCTION PAGE 15
Earlier,thebenchofJusticesD
Y Chandrachud and Hima Kohli
haddeclinedtostaytheacquittal derofacquittalinhisfavour…We
order.Allowingthestatetofilean cannot stay the order.”
applicationbeforetheRegistryfor Mentionings are usually
early listing of its appeal, the done before the Chief Justice of
bench told Solicitor General IndiabutCJIUULalit’sbenchhad
TusharMehta:“Hehasgotanor- CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
Himachal elections on
November 12, EC holds
back dates for Gujarat
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE DECISION
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14
ELECTIONS TO the Himachal
Pradesh Assembly will take
2022
HIMACHAL PRADESH
place on November 12 in single-
phase polling for all 68 con- VOTERS
55,07,261
stituencies, followed by count-
ing of votes on December 8, the
Election Commission of India
announced Friday.
The Model Code of Conduct
will be in effect in the state from
Monday after the official notifi- MALE FEMALE
cation for the election is pub-
lished. The filing of nomination 27,80,208 27,27,016
forcandidateswillbeginOctober
17andcontinueuntilOctober25.
“To the festive month of
October, we are going to add the
TOTAL CONSTITUENCIES
68
festival of democracy,” Chief CURRENT STRENGTH
Election Commissioner Rajiv
BJP 44
Kumar told reporters while an-
nouncing the election schedule. Congress 21
Dates for the much antici- Independents 2
pated Gujarat elections were,
however, not announced. The
CPI(M) 1
state Assembly’s term ends on
February 18, 2023. Himachal Pradesh. Polls were
“We are following past conducted simultaneously in
precedent in keeping the an- Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh
nouncementof datesforGujarat in1998,2007and2012,butwere
in abeyance for now,” the CEC heldseparatelyin2002-03,after
said.Announcementof multiple the Gujarat Assembly was pre-
statepollstogether,hesaid,leads maturely dissolved soon after
to longer wait-time for the dec- the Godhra riots.
laration of results for some. In 2017, the EC decided to
This is the third time since separatethetwotoavoidimpos-
1998 that the announcement of ingtheMCCforanunreasonably
Gujarat Assembly elections has long time. This year too, it used
been de-linked from that of CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
Bhullar said the men had ar- the Uttarakhand police at the lo-
rived in two cars – a Scorpio and cal police station (Kunda). But
a Sumo – and were armed. they were drunk and started
"Everything happened be- abusing.Onlyafewfamilymem-
tween 6 pm and 6.30 pm. The bers and some cousins were
cars did not have number plates home at the time. I tried to rea-
and the windows were tinted. son with them and brought six-
They were in plainclothes, did sevenof them downstairstodis-
not have any search warrantand cussthematter.SuddenlyIheard
produced no identity proof. No someone shout, ‘Didi has been
ladypoliceofficerwasaccompa- shot’," he said.
nying them. The policemen Bhullar said when he went
headed to the first floor and upstairs,hesawthathiswifehad
bargedintotheroomswheremy been shot in the chest. "One of
wife, sister-in-law and children thepolicemenhadshotherdead
were. I stopped them and told near the stairs on the first floor.
them that they must first inform CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
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CHHATTISGARH: AFTER IAS OFFICER ARREST
Rs 2-3 crore was
daily collection as
illegal levy on coal
transportation: ED
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14
THEENFORCEMENTDirectorate,
which arrested Chhattisgarh IAS
officer Sameer Vishnoi along
with two others in connection
with a money laundering case,
has claimed that officials and
politicians in the state were in-
volved in an illegal levy on coal
transportation which was gen-
erating Rs 2-3 crore per day.
The agency has arrested one
Laxmikant Tiwari and Sunil
Kumar Agarwal of Indramani
Group in connection with the
case, along with Vishnoi. It has
claimed that Raigadh Collector
Ranu Sahu and kingpin of the al-
leged scam SuryakantTiwari are
missing.
“During the course of search
and investigation, cash of Rs 1.5
crore, which was found with
LaxmikantTiwariwasseized.He
has admitted that he handled
[Rs] 1-2 crore of the extorted
money on daily basis. Sunil
Kumar Agrawal of Indramani
Group, a big coal businessman
was found to be involved in this
racketand...abusinesspartner of
Suryakant Tiwari. Sameer
Vishnoi and his wife were found
to be in possession of Rs 47 lakh
of unaccounted cash and gold
jewellery (4kg),” the ED said in a
statement on Friday.
According to the ED, the ac-
Wholesale fodder inflation remains
high: Over 25% WPI for September
HARIKISHAN SHARMA
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14
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families dependent on cattle
rearing as wholesale fodder in-
flationcontinuestoremainhigh.
The annual rate of fodder infla-
tion based on the All India
WholesalePriceIndex(WPI)was
recorded at 25.23 per cent in
September2022,whichishigher
than the figure recorded in the
same month of the last year.
The fodder inflation was
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cused are part of a scam in which
illegallevyofRs25pertonnewas
beingallegedlyextorted.Thepro-
ceeds of the crime, the ED has al-
leged,werebeingusedfor“invest-
ing in benami assets, bribing
officials to influence senior offi-
cersandalsousedbyoronbehalf
ofpoliticalexecutivesofthestate”.
The ED initiated the money
laundering investigation based
on an FIR lodged by Income Tax
Department. The agency has
seized Rs 4.5 crore unaccounted
cash, gold jewellery, bullion and
othervaluableswortharoundRs
2 crore (approx) in its searches
in the case.
According to the ED, extor-
tion of illegal coal levy became
rampant when the Director of
Geology and Mining
Department, issued a notifica-
tion on July 15, 2020, which
modified the earlier online
process of e-permit for trans-
porting the coal from mines to
users to manual NOC. No SOP or
procedure was circulated in this
regard, the ED has claimed.
OnWednesday,Chhattisgarh
CM Bhupesh Baghel had hit out
at the Centre over the ED
searches at several locations in
the state, saying “the probe
agencies should not be misused
for political mileage”. Talking to
reporters in Raipur, Baghel
sought to know why the agency
hasnotrevealeddetailsof recov-
ery made during its action.
year. In August, this year, it stood
at 25.54 per cent, which was the
highest in the past nine years.
While fodder inflation has
seen a slight dip in September as
comparedtoAugust,itisstillmore
thandoubletheoverallWPIinfla-
tion. The overall WPI inflation
has “eased” to 10.70 per cent in
September2022ascomparedto
12.41 per cent in August 2022.
While the fodder inflation has
been rising since December
2021, the overall WPI inflation
has softened in recent months.
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High Court acquits jailed Saibaba
risen for the day, so Mehta
rushed to the court of Justice
Chandrachud, the second most
senior judge.
Mehta sought a stay, saying
the acquittal was not on merits
but due to lack of sanction to
prosecute. Stating that the of-
fence charged “is very very seri-
ous” and“against the nation”,he
sought its listing Monday.
The Nagpur bench of Justices
Rohit Deo and Anil Pansare, ob-
serving that every safeguard,
howeverminuscule,legislatively
providedtotheaccused,mustbe
“zealously protected”, set aside
the Gadchiroli court’s order
against Saibaba and five others.
Itsaidproceedingsinthetrial
were “null and void” in the ab-
sence of a valid sanction under
the UAPA. It said it was refrain-
ing from dealing with the mer-
its of the case.
● 21-yr-old alleges gangrape by ex-Andaman Chief Secy, Labour officer
Rishi was unavailable for
comment and his office told The
Indian Express that he was on
“medical leave.” The Indian
Express has confirmed that the
licence plate of the car men-
tioned by the woman – in which
she was taken to Narain’s house
— is registered in Rishi’s name.
In theFIR (No. 165/2022),the
complainant has asked that
CCTV footage from Narain’s
house should be collected and
that she would identify his staff
who should also be questioned.
The woman’s complaint
givesadetailedaccountof thevi-
olentsexualattackonherontwo
occasions at night in April and
MayatNarain’sofficialresidence
● IITs Madras, Delhi, KGP on fast-track for expansion overseas
team stationed in Abu Dhabi is
working on it," the official said.
Two faculty members from
IIT-D will also visit Abu Dhabi
soon.ApartfromIIT-DandIIT-M,
IITKharagpurisgoingtolauncha
campus in Malaysia.
Kamakoti said that the pro-
posal was at a "nebulous stage".
When asked if the institute had
set a deadline for the project, he
said, "We are looking at a year".
● Himachal elections on Nov 12
a similar line to justify the
delinking.
Rajiv Kumar told reporters
that since the terms of the two
Assemblies were expiring 40
days apart, the Commission de-
cided to follow the example set
in 2017. The EC normally holds
elections together in states
where incumbent governments
are completing their five-year
terms within six months, and
announces the poll dates for
these states simultaneously.
In Himachal Pradesh, there
are 1.86 lakh first-time voters,
1.22 lakh who are aged 80-plus
and 1,184 voters who are above
100 years of age, the EC said.
Kumar said the Commission
has been consulting political
parties about poll manifestos.
“The feasibility of any election
promise must be explained,” he
said on the ‘freebies’ promised
by parties.
In order to keep the election
free from such inducement, the
CEC said banks have been asked
not to carry any cash between 5
pm and 10 am during the elec-
tion period. “It has been noticed
that using the same cash vans,
some people might try to move
cash illegally,” he said.
Similarly, airports and e-way
bills will be monitored in poll-
bound states to check for any
spurt in the movement of con-
sumer goods that could be used
to induce voters, he said.
The MCC period has also
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“The Siren Song that the end
justifies the means, the proce-
duralsafeguards aresubservient
totheoverwhelmingneedtoen-
sure that the accused is prose-
cuted and punished, must be
muzzled by the voice of rule of
law,” the bench said.
It cleared the charges against
Saibaba, the wheelchair-bound
former professor who was ar-
rested in 2014, and five others –
Mahesh Tirki, Pandu Narote,
Vijay Tikri, Hem Mishra and
Prashant Rahi, all arrested in
2013. Narotediedinjudicialcus-
tody in August due to swine flu.
Vijay, who was the only one sen-
tenced to 10 years in jail, is out
on bail – the others were
awarded life imprisonment. The
High Court directed the release
of all accused, if not required in
any other case.
Thedivisionbench,inits101-
in Port Blair.
Inhercomplaint,thewoman
has said that in search of a job,
she was was introduced to the
LabourCommissionerthrougha
hotel owner and the
Commissioner took her to the
residence of the Chief Secretary.
There, she said, she was offered
liquor which she refused and
was assured government em-
ployment.Subsequently, sheal-
leged, she was brutally and sex-
ually abused by the two men.
Two weeks later, she alleged
in the complaint, she was again
called at 9 pm by them to the
Chief Secretary’s residence and
theassaultwasrepeated.Instead
of thepromisedgovernmentjob,
The IIT overseas expansion
project has been a refrain of
EducationMinisterDharmendra
Pradhan.
On Friday, speaking at the
launch of a two-day event at IIT
Delhiwhereall23IITshavecome
together to showcase their re-
searchanddevelopmentprojects
to mark the 75th year of India's
independence, he said: "Our IITs
have to move beyond being just
been reduced from 70 days to 57
as, the EC said, it does not want
the code to be in force over too
long a period.
Along with convention, the
EC has also taken into account
weather conditions in the hill
state while zeroing in on the
dates. “There are parts of
Himachal, especially the upper
reaches, which are covered in
snow during peak winter,” the
CEC said.
Meanwhile, the Congress
questionedwhytheschedulefor
Assembly elections in Gujarat
had not been announced with
that of Himachal Pradesh.
“Obviously this has been
donetogivemoretimetothePM
to make some mega promises
and carry out more inaugura-
tions. Not at all surprising,”
Jairam Ramesh, AICC general
secretary in charge of
Communication, said in a
Twitter post.
Gujarat Congress party
spokesperson Manish Doshi
said, “Shouldn’t the Prime
Ministershowlargeheartedness
and stop spending government
money in organising events in
Gujarat?”.
AAP national joint general
secretary Isudan Gadhvi said,
“They (BJP) have some recruit-
ment remaining, some damage
control, some rallies and meet-
ings, they want time. They are
badly scared of AAP.”
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page judgement, dealt in detail
over the two sanctions granted
bytheMaharashtragovernment
inthecase.Thefirstsanctionwas
received on February 15, 2014
against the five accused arrested
in 2013. The second sanction, for
prosecution of Saibaba, was re-
ceived on April 6, 2015.
“Whilethewaragainstterror
must be wagedbythe State with
unwavering resolve, and every
legitimate weapon in the ar-
moury must be deployed in the
fight against terror, a civil dem-
ocratic society can ill afford sac-
rificing the procedural safe-
guards legislatively provided,
and which is an integral facet of
the due process of law, at the al-
tar of perceived peril to national
security,” the bench said.
Under UAPA provisions, a
court cannot take cognizance of
an offence until sanction is re-
she alleged, she was threatened
with dire consequences if she
spoke about the matter to any-
one. Sources said the SIT team
have got a new office and will
handle the probe in a “fair and
time-bound” manner. A Section
164 CrPC (confessional state-
ment) of the woman has been
recorded by the SIT as well as by
the Chief Metropolitan
Magistrate in Port Blair where
she filed a second complaint. A
relative of the woman said that
they will appeal for the Section
164 statement to be recorded
again via video-conferencing as
a “precaution.”
The scope of the probe has
alsobeenwidenedtoincludethe
engineeringcolleges. Wehaveto
stopbenchmarkingIITsontheba-
sis of placement packages. IITs
should redefine parameters and
benchmarkonthenumberof in-
novationsbroughtinthemarket,
innovations monetised, and
number of job creators created."
For the proposed offshore
campuses, the model being ex-
plored is that of fully residential
campuses withstudentsandfac-
● ‘If I cannot get justice, what hope?’
They fired 3-4 gunshots and
one hit her. We rushed my wife
to a hospital, where she was de-
clared dead on arrival," he said.
AccordingtoBhullar,someof
the policemen escaped in one of
the cars after hearing the gun-
shots. "Later, I heard that the vil-
lagerscaught holdof four UP po-
licemen and handed them over
to the custody of SHO Kunda po-
lice station here. Their car (the
Sumo), which was parked out-
side the house, is at the police
station," he said.
Bhullar said that the four po-
lice personnel were taken to
Kashipur civil hospital by
Uttarakhand police, but they
“managedtoescape”fromthere.
He denied the UP police
claim of cross-firing in which
two policemen allegedly suf-
fered gunshot wounds. "In the
CCTVfootagefromKashipurcivil
hospital, theycan be seen climb-
ing stairs and running to escape.
If they were injured, why did
they not seek treatment and get
a medical exam conducted?
There was no cross-firing at the
house," he said.
On the family's allegation
that four policemen managed to
escape from the hospital, the
Kumaon DIG said, "It was a de-
veloping situation… At that
time, the circumstances of the
case were not clear. It was not as
if they were running from cus-
tody. The focus was to get treat-
ment to the injured and one
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ceived from the Central or state
government. The sanction is to
be given within a prescribed
time only after considering the
report by an independent au-
thority which is expected to re-
view the evidence and give its
recommendation.
“Sanction serves the salutary
object of providing safeguard to
the accused from unwarranted
prosecution and the agony and
trauma of trial, and in the con-
text of the stringent provisions
of the UAPA, is an integral facet
of dueprocessof law,” thebench
said. It agreed with the con-
tentionof Saibaba’s lawyers that
the court had taken cognizance
of the case, framed charges
against him in February 2015
and also examined the first wit-
ness before the sanction for
prosecution was submitted in
April 2015.
alleged role of alocalnewschan-
nel reporter, who is alleged to
have broadcast hints about the
woman’sidentityaswellasapo-
lice inspectorwho“leakedinfor-
mation” of the case to her. This
follows a separate police com-
plaintfiledbythewomanonhow
her identity was being disclosed
via members of the local media.
Narain has reportedly
claimed, in his written denials,
that the accusations were at the
behest of local officers against
whom he had taken action as
ChiefSecretaryandtheywerebe-
hind a “malicious” campaign
againsthim.Hehassaidhewould
fully cooperate with the police
and was willing to face trial.
ultyfromIndiaaswellasthehost
nations.Inthisregard,theIITsare
followingguidelinespreparedby
the Ministry of Education com-
mittee,ledbyIITCouncilstanding
committee chairperson Dr K
Radhakrishnan."Butwearegoing
beyondtheguidelines,"saidanof-
ficial. Both undergraduate and
postgraduatecoursesarelikelyto
beoffered,particularlyinemerg-
ing areas.
(Uttarakhand) policeman had
taken them to the hospital and
he was overpowered." he said.
Bhullar said the UP police
had concocted a story to deflect
blame and filed an FIR in
Moradabad to frame them. "I
do not have any association
with Jaffar. His brother-in-law
works with me as a block de-
velopment committee mem-
ber. On his request, I had met
Jaffar a fortnight ago and he had
sought some assistance claim-
ing that UP police were fram-
ing him in a case of illegal min-
ing in Thakurdwara. He was not
present at the house when the
incident took place… I have no
involvement in mining. I have
been working with the BJP for
a decade and we have over 30
acres of land for farming. My
cousin, who stays with us, runs
a stone crusher in Ajitpur but
that is legal and as per norms."
Appealing for a CBI probe
into the incident, Bhullar said: "I
have two young children – a 5
year old daughter and a 4-
month-oldson.Ihavelostevery-
thing… Ek toh parivar ujad gaya,
upar se ab humare upar
mukadme lag rahe hein (I lost my
family and now we’re facing le-
gal action). Ye kahan ka insaaf
hai? I am a block pramukh of the
BJP. The BJP government is rul-
ing in both the states… If a per-
son like me cannot get justice,
what hope remains for a com-
mon man?"
New Delhi
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● Carbon dating plea rejected
move the Supreme Court and
challenge today’s order.”
Earlier, five Hindu women
had filed petitions seeking the
right to worship Maa Shringar
Gauri on the outer wall of the
mosquecomplexlocatednextto
the Kashi Vishwanath temple.
WhiletheHindusidesaidthe
mosque was built on the site of a
temple, the Muslim side argued
that the mosque was built on
Wakf premises,andthePlacesof
WorshipActbarredchangingthe
character of the mosque.
In April this year, the Civil
Judge(SeniorDivision)alloweda
video survey of the mosque
complex.
A Shivling was said to have
● RBI panel member says pause
terminal reporate,leavethetask
of monetary tightening unfin-
ished, and make it necessary to
hike rates again in the next
meeting.
“My preference is clearly for
a front-loaded hike to the 6 per
cent level that I have argued for
in the above paragraphs. The
majority of the MPC has chosen
5.90 per cent which is only
slightly below my preferred rate
of 6 per cent,” Varma said.
The data on retail inflation
which hit the 7.4 per cent mark
in September, came after the
MPC meeting.
Except independent mem-
ber Ashima Goyal, all other MPC
members voted for a 50 bps rate
hike in the September policy
meeting. Goyal had voted for a
35 bps increase. “Large hikes
were required in India to reverse
steeppandemic-timecuts.Since
that is completed, going slow
now will allow policy to be agile
anddata-based.Extremesareal-
ways dangerous; 100 per cent
front loading can easily over-
shoot. Moderation is better,”
Goyal had said.
“As I have explained in past
statements,10basispointsisnot
material and I am happy to go
along with the majority of the
MPC on this issue. Therefore, I
vote in favour of increasing the
policy repo rate by 50 basis
points to 5.90 percent,” Varma
had said.
The MPC comprises the RBI
Governor, two officials of the
central bank and three govern-
ment- nominated independent
members.
Voting for a 35 bps rise in the
repo rate, Goyal said both RBI
and Survey of Professional
Forecasters (SPF) headline fore-
casts for Q1 of FY 2023-24 are
around 5 per cent, implying the
real rate will be approximately
0.75 per cent with the repo rate
at 5.75 per cent.
“This is almost one, and can
exceed unity if the fall in infla-
tion is larger. This could be dan-
gerous if growth slows. The MPC
has to focus on the 6 month to
● INS Arihant fires SLBM
Commissioned in 2016, INS
Arihant is India’s nuclear pow-
ered ballistic missile capable
submarine, classified under the
SSBN programme. The SSBN is a
hullclassificationsymbolfornu-
clear powered ballistic missile
carrying submarines. The SSBN
are under the purview of India’s
Strategic Forces Command.
Officialssaidthatthecapabil-
ity of being able to launch nu-
clear weapons from submarines
has a great strategic importance
in the context of achieving a nu-
clear triad, especially in the light
of the‘nofirstuse’policyof India.
The family of indigenously
developedSubmarineLaunched
BallisticMissiles (SLBMs),some-
timesreferredtoasKfamilymis-
siles,arecodenamedafterDrAPJ
Abdul Kalam, a key figure in
India’s missile and space pro-
grammeswhoalsoservedasthe
been found in the wazu khana.
But the mosque management
said it was part of the fountain
system of the wazu khana.
On May 20, the Supreme
Court, underlining the “com-
plexity of the issues involved in
the civil suit”, transferred the
Gyanvapidisputethatwaspend-
ing before the Civil Judge (Senior
Division) to the District Judge
OnSeptember12,theDistrict
Court dismissed the Anjuman
Intezamia Masjid Committee’s
challengetothecivilsuits,saying
thatHindugroupsarenotbarred
bythePlacesof WorshipActand
thesuitsseekingtherighttowor-
shipinsidetheGyanvapimosque
are maintainable.
oneyearaheadrealrate,asthisis
the horizon where monetary
policy will have its greatest im-
pact,” Goyal had noted.
While voting for a 50-bps
rate hike, RBI Governor
Shaktikanta Das said, “the need
of the hour is calibrated mone-
tary policy action, with a clear
understanding that it is required
forsustainingourmedium-term
growth prospects.”
Going forward, monetary
policy needs to remain watchful
and nimble, based on incoming
data and evolving conditions, he
said.“We shouldremainvigilant
on the inflation front while
strengthening our macroeco-
nomic fundamentals,” Das had
said.
According to the RBI's
Deputy Governor Michael Patra,
front-loading of monetary pol-
icyactionscankeep inflationex-
pectations firmly anchored and
balance demand against supply
so that core inflation pressures
ease.
This,henotedintheminutes,
will also reduce the medium-
termgrowthsacrifice associated
with steering inflation back to
target because it is being timed
into the strengthening of the re-
coveryof thedomesticeconomy
that is underway and likely to
gather further momentum as
the year progresses.
Patravotedforincreasing the
policyreporateby50bpsandfor
maintaining the stance of with-
drawal of accommodation, the
minutes showed.
RBI's ExecutiveDirectorRajiv
Ranjansaidthatwhilearatehike
in the September meeting was
imminent, the choice between
35 to 50 bps was a close call.
“Given the growth-inflation
dynamics, my vote is for an in-
crease in repo rate by 50 bps and
continue with the policy stance
of withdrawal of accommoda-
tion to ensure that inflation re-
mains within the target going
forward, while supporting
growth,” he had said in the min-
utes. The next MPC is scheduled
to meet on December 5-7.
11th President of India.
Under the SLBM family, mis-
siles of various ranges have been
developed including K-15 also
called Sagarika, which has a
range of at least 750 km.
India has also developed and
tested the K-4 missiles from the
same family which has a range
of 3500 km. It is said that more
members of the K-family with
higher ranges are also on the
cards.
Launched in 2009, INS
Arihant was commissioned in
2016. The next in the class, INS
Arighat was said to have been
launched in 2017. It is reportedly
undergoing sea trials. Last
December, the Janes Defence
Weekly, citing satellite imagery
sources, reported that India had
launched its third Arihant class
submarine sometime in
November.

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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2022
Mob had clear-cut objective to kill Hindus:
Court frames charges against Tahir Hussain
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14
A DELHI court has charged for-
mer AAP councillor Tahir
Hussain, his brother Shah Alam,
and four other men in a
Northeast Delhi riots case, stat-
ingthatthemobhada"clear-cut
objective in mind, to kill and
harm Hindus".
Additional Sessions Judge
Pulastya Pramachala on
Thursdayframedchargesagainst
Tahir, Alam, Gulfam, Tanveer
Malik, Nazim and Kasim under
Chhath Puja
to be held at
1,100 sites,
budget Rs
25 cr: CM
EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14
CHIEFMINISTERArvindKejriwal
Friday announced that the AAP
government has allocated Rs 25
croreforChhathPujacelebrations
andmadearrangementsat1,100
sites across the capital.
"People could not celebrate
any festivities for the last two
yearsduetoCovidandlockdown.
Butthisyear,thegovernmenthas
planned Chhath Puja on a big
scaleasthingsaregettingbackto
normal. Before our government
wasformed,ChhathPujacelebra-
tionswereheldonasmallscale,"
said Kejriwal.
The CM said before the AAP
came to power in 2014, the festi-
valwascelebratedat69placeson
a budget of Rs 2.5 crore allocated
by the then government. “Before
we came to power, Chhath was a
mere formality for the govern-
ment. But now, we will celebrate
Chhath on a bigger scale across
1,100 sites in Delhi and we have
allocated Rs 25 crore,” he said.
"People were caged inside
their houses for the past two
years. The entire cost of the cele-
brationswillbebornebythegov-
ernment," he added.
Chhath Puja will be cele-
brated on October 30-31 this
year. Kejriwal said the govern-
mentwillmakeallarrangements
frompolicesecuritytowaterand
power backup arrangements.
"TheDelhiPolicewillprovidese-
curity. Other arrangements like
ambulance services, power
backup etc will be made. CCTVs
andLEDscreenswillbeinstalled
at all sites,” he added. Kejriwal
appealed to the public to follow
Covidappropriatebehaviour,in-
cluding wearing masks.
As colleagues welcome First time we’ve
Saibaba’s acquittal, question been separated for
lingers on his future in DU so long, says his wife
SUKRITA BARUAH
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14
FOR G N Saibaba's colleagues at
Delhi University who supported
him through the duration of his
incarceration,hisacquittalbythe
Bombay High Court on Friday
came as a relief, but the question
of his position in the university
remains.
SaibabahadjoinedDU'sRam
Lal Anand College in 2003 and
worked there as Assistant
Professor in the English depart-
ment.In2014,hewassuspended
fromhispositionafterhewasar-
restedbytheMaharashtrapolice
for suspected Maoist links. Ever
since the suspension, his family
received only half the salary for
his position. On March 31, 2021,
theprincipalof thecollegesigned
amemorandumterminatinghis
services"withimmediateeffect".
For the last eight years, some
of his colleagues at Delhi
University have stoodinsupport
of him and his family, trying to
arrange monetary support, ad-
vocating for his release, and
protesting against his suspen-
sion and termination.
"It's such a great relief, I can't
tell you. We had practically lost
hope and thought that we'll only
beabletogetsomerelieffromthe
Supreme Court," said Nandita
sections of attempt to murder,
punishment for criminal con-
spiracy, and several sections re-
lated to the offence of rioting.
TheFIRinthiscasewasregis-
tered at Dayalpur police station
in connection with a gunshotin-
jurysustainedbyoneAjayJhaon
February 25, 2020.
While framing charges, the
court said that the "facts and ev-
idence of this case show that a
numberof personsassembledat
the house of Tahir Hussain".
"Some of them were
equipped with firing weapons.
Petrolbombswerealsoarranged,
Locals said there are over 1,700 jhuggis in the area, and people have been living there for 15 to 20 years. Praveen Khanna
At Shakur Basti, over 70 jhuggis are To help his sister land a job, IP
demolished in Rlys clearing operation varsity prof ‘impersonates L-G’
EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14
ASMANYas70to80homeswere
demolishedinNorthwestDelhi’s
Shakur Basti by the Indian
RailwaysonFriday,withresidents
claimingtheywerenotintimated
of the action.
VirendraKohli,pradhanofthe
settlementthatisclosetotherail-
way tracks, said, “They did not
give us any intimation and they
brought the bulldozer today.
Around70to80jhuggiswerede-
molished. These jhuggis would
have housed around 300 to 350
people.Thewallswereallbroken
down. The officials from the
Railways, Delhi Police and
Railway Protection Force came
around10amandthedemolition
lasted till around 5 pm.”
However, a spokesperson for
the Northern Railways said,
“Demolition was carried out by
the Railways in the presence of
G N Saibaba. Archive
Narain, teacher at St Stephen's
College. She had been the presi-
dent of the Delhi University
Teachers' Association when
Saibabahadbeenarrestedin2014,
and was one of the 17 academics
and activists who had formed a
'Committee for the Defence and
ReleaseofGNSaibaba'atthetime.
"He was terminated in the
mosthigh-handedmannerfrom
hisservices.Wewillwanthimto
be reinstated now. There were
no grounds for his arrest, and his
acquittalshowswhyyoushould-
n't terminate services while the
case was ongoing. In the case of
ourothercolleague,SARGeelani,
he was not terminated, which is
why he was able to join his col-
lege again," she said.
When Ram Lal Anand
College advertised recruitment
forteachingpositionsagainstva-
cant posts in its various depart-
ments last month, a vacancy for
by accumulating the required
materials, in the house of Tahir
Hussain. All these things were
done to target Hindus. Every
member of the mob assembled
there, participated in achieving
andencouragingothers,totarget
Hindus. Such conduct of the
members of this mob show that
they were acting out of meeting
of theirmindandwithaclear-cut
objective in mind, to kill and
harm Hindus," the order reads.
The court said the mob acted
out of a criminal conspiracy and,
hence, "all accused are liable to
be tried for hatching criminal
After officials left, residents
were left staring at remains
of their homes. Praveen Khanna
the civil police and RPF after giv-
ing notices to encroachers, and
around 22,000 sqm land has
been cleared in view of upcom-
ing projects.”
After the officials left, resi-
dents were left staring at the re-
mains of their homes.
Radha Rani (40) said, “They
came in the morning and asked
the post of Assistant Professor in
the English department was
starred. The advertisement
stated, "Recruitment of this post
is subject to the decision of the
Hon'ble High Court." At the time
of Saibaba's termination, a col-
lege official had told The Indian
Express that if Saibaba's convic-
tion is overturnedatsome point,
the college would abide by the
court's decision. On Friday,
Principal Rakesh Kumar Gupta
didnotrespondtorepeatedcalls
and messages. DU Registrar
Vikas Gupta said "this is a call
that the college will take".
"While we uphold the fair
judgement, we also know that
thelegalprocessisnotcomplete,
we know that authorities will go
for an appeal. There is another
aspect about the abysmal stan-
dards of ourtrialcourts and how
flimsily and mechanically they
are dispensing with matters of
life and death. There is also the
matterof howvindictivetheuni-
versity mechanism has been in
this case. They have shown un-
due haste and lack of care in
pushing him out. We had
pleadedwiththecollegeandthe
universitytonotshortcircuitthe
process of law. The rights that
have been wrongly denied will
have to be restored," said N
Sachin, who teaches English at
Dyal Singh College.
CORONAVIRUS
IN THE CAPITAL
conspiracy to indulge into riot
and kill Hindus and harm prop-
erties of Hindus".
The accused were repre-
sented by their defence counsel
— advocate Rizwan, Salim Malik
and Abdul Gaffar. They had
raised the issue of a lack of test
identification parade (TIP), ab-
sence of video, and non-recov-
ery of weapons in this case.
The court said there was no
need for a TIP as the witnesses
had named the accused in their
statements."Absenceof videoof
the incident in question or ab-
sence of name of accused in the
us to take our things and vacate.
The little that we could save, we
did.Therestofourthingswereall
destroyed… our bed was de-
stroyed. This has left us in a bad
shape.Thereweresevenofusliv-
ing in the jhuggi. I have two
daughtersandadaughter-in-law.
Where will we go now? How do
we pay rent?”
She said she had a pucca
house with brick walls that was
completely cleared: “Poora saaf
kiya… nothing is left after they
brought the machine. The floor
was also dug up,” said Rani, who
works as a domestic worker,
while her sons are daily wagers.
“Doadmiaayethe,ek-dojagah
bol ke gaye the ki jhuggi tootenge
(twopeoplehadcomeandsaidin
a few places that the jhuggis will
be demolished). They would
come and say this whenever
somebodywouldcomplain.They
came around three days ago. We
didn’t think that they would
break everything down. I had
SUKRITABARUAH
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14
ASNEWScameinof theBombay
Highcourt’sjudgmentacquitting
former Delhi University teacher
GNSaibaba,hiswifeASVasantha
Kumarisaiditistheoutcomeof a
“long wait for the truth”.
“Thecourt’sjudgmentisvery
happy news and it’s very wel-
come. G N Saibaba is a professor
and an intellectual. This case has
been a wait for the truth to come
forwardonthisfalsecaseagainst
him. I’m thankful to everyone
who supported my struggle. I’m
thankful to the judiciary and the
advocates.”
The Nagpur bench of the
Bombay High Court Friday ac-
quitted Saibaba and five others,
allowingtheirappealsandsetting
aside the life imprisonment sen-
tenceawardedtothemin2017by
asessionscourtinMaharashtra’s
Gadchiroli, which had convicted
them for alleged Maoist links.
Thewaitforthejudgmenthas
been long for Vasantha – she has
beenstrugglingforhisreleaseand
against DU’s Ram Lal Anand
College’sterminationof hisserv-
ices in 2021. He had first been ar-
restedbytheMaharashtraPolice
in2014andsuspendedbythecol-
lege soon after.
“Ithasbeenaverydifficultpe-
riodforourfamilyfinanciallyand
VACCINATIONS IN
LAST 24 HOURS
2,118
PATIENTSINHOSPITAL:
OXYGEN SUPPORT
VENTILATOR SUPPORT
FIR or absence of recovery of ac-
tualweaponof theoffencedonot
makethecaseof prosecutionun-
believable. Significance of such
omissionsdependsuponfactsof
eachcaseandthattooatthefinal
stage of the case. Actual weapon
used for firing in this case could
notberecovered,"thecourtsaid.
The court said that this "can-
not wash away the evidence of
witnesses, who stated about fir-
ing of gunshots by Gulfam and
Tanveer. Hence, non-recovery of
actual weapon cannot be a
ground to discard the case of
prosecution".
gone for work today when my
daughter-in-lawcalledtosaythe
machine has come to demolish
thejhuggi,”sheadded.Kohlisaid
thereareover1,700jhuggisinthe
area and people have been living
there for 15 to 20 years.
Anotherresident,Guddi(35),
said,“WhenIheardof thedemo-
lition, I tried to look for some no-
tice. I couldn’t find anything. I
thought that like always, they
wouldsaysomethingaboutdem-
olition and not do it. Then they
cametodemolishitinthemorn-
ing, and we managed to remove
some of our things in time. The
rest we lost. What can we do
now?”
Four people lived in their
home, said Guddi, who also
works as a domestic worker.
This is not the first time the
area has seen demolitions. In
2015, homes of around 5,000
people in Shakur Basti were de-
molished from land held by the
Indian Railways.
Vasantha has been
struggling for his
release and against DU
college’s termination
of his services in 2021
emotionally. I have known him
sincetheageof15.Thisisthefirst
time we have been separated for
so long, without seeing each
otherandwithoutanytouch,”she
said.
Duringthecourseofhisincar-
ceration and particularly during
the pandemic, the family had
raised an alarm over Saibaba’s
health condition. He is wheel-
chairboundbecauseof polioand
hastestedpositiveforCovidtwice
while being incarcerated in
Nagpur Central Jail.
“His health deteriorated rap-
idly because of his incarceration.
Earlier, he used to do all his work
with his hands, but he has now
loststrengthinbothhishands.He
has developed 19 health prob-
lems after his incarceration,” she
said. Amongthese,shehaslisted
“hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
withleftventriculardysfunction,
hypertension, kidney stones, a
cystinhisbrain,pancreaticprob-
lems,attenuationoftheshoulder
and arm muscles, and nerves re-
sulting in partial paralysis of his
upper limbs”.
DELHI TOTAL
CASES
20,04,652
41
6
Oct 13
Oct 14
2 Cases
Total
*Total active cases in Delhi
NADDA SEEKS EXPLANATION
BJP leadership ticks
off MP Parvesh over
‘boycott’ remarks
LIZ MATHEW
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14
TAKING EXCEPTION to its West
Delhi MP Parvesh Verma’s “boy-
cott” comment, the BJP leader-
ship has sought an explanation
fromhim,sourcesintheBJPsaid.
Addressing a ‘Virat Hindu
Sabha’ organised by the Vishwa
Hindu Parishad’s local unit and
other Hinduorganisationsinthe
capital last week, Verma had
called for a “total boycott” of
“these people”. Party sources
saidtheBJP’snationalleadership
did not appreciate his remarks.
Although Verma did not name
any community, the “message
that went off was wrong”,
sources said. “Party president
(JP) Nadda ji has asked for an ex-
planation,” said a party leader.
Verma, when contacted, told
The Indian Express that he had
not been asked for an explana-
tion over the incident. “No one
asked me anything,” he said.
BJPsources,however,saidthe
leadershiphadsentstrictinstruc-
tions to all its leaders as well as
talking heads to refrain from
making any “Hindu-Muslim”
comments.“Thereisastrictdirec-
tive from the party that no
EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14
Police have registered an FIR
against an assistant professor of
GuruGobindSinghIndraprastha
University(GGSIPU)forallegedly
impersonating L-G Vinai Kumar
Saxena and asking the univer-
sity’s V-C to appoint his sister in
the English department.
According to the L-G office,
themanis anassistantprofessor
in the Economics department.
Call detail records of the vice-
chancellor'slandlinenumberre-
vealed the call was made from a
New Delhi
Total Vacant
HOSPITAL BEDS 8,837 8,795
ICU BEDS 2,086 2,070
Cases Recoveries Deaths
130
112
154
106
0
0
434* 19,77,712 26,506
MP Parvesh Verma
spokesperson or leader should
makeanycommentthatcouldbe
interpretedasdivisive.NoHindu-
Muslim remark, that is the mes-
sage. In fact, the party does not
even send its spokespersons for
aggressive Hindu-Muslim de-
bates,” said a party leader.
Post the Nupur Sharma con-
troversy, the BJP had asked its
leaders not to make public re-
marksagainstanyreligionasitcan
“damage the narrative on devel-
opment that Prime Minister
Narendra Modi wants to create”.
ThepartyhadsuspendedSharma,
its national spokesperson, and
Delhi leader Naveen Jindal for
theirremarksagainsttheProphet.
A party leader from Delhi
said it was felt that the timing of
Verma’s comments was wrong
as it came at a time when RSS
chief Mohan Bhagwat is inter-
acting with Muslim leaders and
United Kingdom number on
October 2. “To ascertain the ve-
racity of the call, the V-C con-
tacted the L-G's secretariat,
which denied having made any
suchcallandaskedforthematter
to be reported to the police im-
mediately,” said an official.
Police registered a case
against the professor under IPC
section 419 (impersonation).
Duringquestioning,policefound
he had gone to the UK on
September 27 and they issued a
lookout circular against him. An
anticipatory bail petition moved
bytheprofessor,whoisstillinthe
UK, was dismissed by a Dwarka
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the PM has directed party mem-
bers to focus on weaker sections
of Muslims, like Pasmandas.
“You need to understandthe na-
tureof Delhi...therewassomuch
of Hindu-Muslim done in 2020
beforeassemblypolls,whathap-
pened, we lost all the seats in
West Delhi too,” the leader said.
Earlier,BJP’syouthwingchief
and Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi
Suryawasaskedtowithdrawhis
remarks calling for Hindus to
“dream big” and “re-convert” to
Hinduismallthosewhohadcon-
verted to Islam and Christianity,
including Pakistanis.
In an interview with The
Indian Express earlier this year,
Nadda had said that his job was
to stop those who make contro-
versial statements at the initial
stageitself.“Idothisinthemorn-
ings, today too. We make them
understand. Ninety percent say
it was emotional...But I tell them
not to (say such things). So the
intention of the party is very
clear.Therearestillsome,butwe
strictly monitor them. We are a
cadre-based party, but it’s also a
mass party and there are people
from different backgrounds, and
they speak when they get ap-
plauded. Containing them is my
responsibility,” he has said.
court Thursday.
Aninternalinquirybytheuni-
versity also found the alleged in-
volvementofsomeotherofficials
inthecaseanditinitiatedsuitable
action against them for violation
of conduct and service rules. It
alsoissuedashowcausenoticeto
the professor for travelling to the
UK without informing it.
Meanwhile, the L-G has also
taken the matter seriously and
said it has never been his style of
functioning to make calls or en-
tertain any request whatsoever,
thatinvolvedout-of-turnfavours,
benefits or unethical practices,
said officials from the L-G office.
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ONLY 1.75 LAKH PAY REGISTRATION FEE, 1.54 LAKH HAVE FILLED PREFERENCES

DU admissions: Fewer than 2 lakh students are in fray

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14 Simulated lists out: Some candidates say info
WHILE AROUND 2.17 lakh can-
didates had registered on Delhi
University’s admissions portal, a
on ‘tentative ranks’ helpful, others confused
smaller number — 1,75,149 — SimulatedRanksbeconstruedas Economics, 172.376400/200 in rankings are not provided in a
willactuallybeinthefrayforun- SUKRITA BARUAH awarranty,expressorimplied,or Simulated Psychology and 192.8082100/ clear cut and crisp manner. I do
dergraduate admissions as the & TUSHAR VERMA creation of a legitimate expecta-
list 200 in Sociology. In their simu- not know what the (programme
restdidnotcompletetheprocess NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14 tion, for admission or final ranks lated list, their tentative ranks for and college) preferences are of
with the payment of the regis- and/or allocations of program of BA(Hons)AppliedPsychology,BA students ranked above me, so I
tration fees. ASPARTofitseffortstoassistcan- studyorcollegewhatsoever.The THE SIMULATED list has (Hons)PsychologyandBA(Hons) don’t clearly know what a rank
This means candidates who didates with their admission Universityof Delhiisnotliableto been shared with each reg- HumanitiesandSocialScienceare means,” he said.
havecompletedtheirregistration process, Delhi University Friday any person for any loss or dam- isteredcandidateontheba- 1,033,1,551and445respectively. Another student, Vivan
andwillbecompetingforadmis- There are around 70,000 undergraduate seats open for gave candidates simulated lists age, pecuniary or otherwise, sis of their CUET scores and “There’s not a lot of informa- Mukherjee, with 100 percentile
sions in DU’s colleges are nearly admissions across colleges and courses. Archive withtheir‘tentativeranks’intheir caused to him/her/it arising out selectedpreferences,show- tion to process. For a given pro- in four subjects and 99.81 per-
99,000lowerthanlastyear—the selected programmes. While of anyactiontakenorinactionon ing their tentative ranks for gramme, I just have a three- or centile in one, is also trying to
numberof registeredcandidates some candidates said they found the basis of the information pro- eachprogrammetheyhave four-digitnumber,butthereisn’t understand if his scores will get
who had paid their registration ties and colleges as a safety net. preferences, based on which al- the information helpful, many vided or the belief /opinion selectedasapreference.Itis anyinformationonsay,whatcol- him his top preference college-
fees in 2021 had been 2,74,144. TheregistrationsfortheCUEThad location of seats will be done. werelefttryingtomakesenseofit. formed or the inference/conclu- not centralised. leges the other candidates may course combination. “I want to
The number had been 3,53,717 begun more than seven months However, candidates can use As per the university, these sion drawn for such informa- have listed in what preference. study Political Science and the
in 2020, 2,58,388 in 2019, and ago in April. The examination it- thetwo-day‘correctionwindow’ listshavebeensharedwithcandi- tion,”readastatementissuedby I’mnotsurehowtousetheinfor- best college for boys is Hindu.
2,78,544 in 2018. There are self had taken place over the fromFridaytoSundayeveningto datestoenablethemtoassessthe Registrar Vikas Gupta Friday. ranks for their preference pro- mation given,” said a candidate. But I have got a tentative rank of
around 70,000 undergraduate months of July and August and addprogrammesandcollegesto probabilityofallocationsinapar- The simulated list has been grammes BA (Hons) Political Jatin Verma, who had a 100 52 and the number of unre-
seatsopenforadmissionsacross registrations for DU admissions their preference list. “Upon ticular programme and college. sharedwitheachregisteredcan- Science,BA(Hons)EnglishandBA percentile in four of his CUET pa- served seats there is 20. So even
colleges and courses. had begun on September 12. reaching the deadline of the After this, candidates will have didate on the basis of their CUET (Hons) History are 7,746, 7,762 pers and 83 percentile in one, is with the rank, it is very difficult
The Indian Express had re- An even smaller number at ‘preference-change’ window at two days till 4.59 pm on October scores and selected preferences. and6,522respectivelybutthatin also trying to understand what to get into, especially if the sim-
ported that one possible reason 1,67,574haveactuallylistedinthe 4.59 pm Sunday, the last saved 16 to change, add or delete their For instance, one candidate’s scienceprogrammessuchasB.Sc his tentative rank means. “For ulated rankings are any sugges-
for the dip in registration num- admission portal the subjects in preferenceswillbeautomatically preferences if they wish to. CUET scores were 184.3512400/ (Hons) Electronics, B.Sc (Hons) History,myrankis54.Thismeans tion. These ranks have, however,
bers this year might be the long whichtheywouldliketobecon- lockedandthesewillbecomethe However, the university has 200inEnglish,176.8269700/200 Physics and B.Sc (Hons) 53 students are above me. But not clearly stated if the ranks are
and delayed admission process, sidered for the admission. A fur- basis for determining the alloca- also been careful to ask candi- inChemistry,117.4892700/200in Chemistry, their tentative ranks there will be some girl students combined or of a particular cat-
during which many students ther smaller number — 1,54,136 tion lists,” read a statement is- dates not to read too much into Mathematics, 175.4927700 in are 55, 160 and 112 respectively. aswellandif theychoosetogoto egory. But I do think there is
tookadmissionatotheruniversi- —havefilledtheircollege-course sued by the Registrar Friday. the ‘simulated ranks’. Physics,and239.8068400/300in Another example is of a can- top colleges such as LSR and someclarityaftertheserankings.
“It also must be noted that theGeneralTest.Inthesimulated didate with 192.4085400/200 in MirandaHouse,thenmaybeIwill People know what is in their
that in no way should the list, they found their tentative English, 150.9789600/200 in get a seat in Hindu college... The grasp and what is not,” he said.
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Sr. Name of Work. Estimated Earnest Time of
The undersigned on behalf of the Government of Jharkhand invites bids for the work mentioned No. Cost. Money completion.
In table below through e-Procurement from eligible and approved Contractors, registered in with Drinking 1 1,09,73,993/- 142240/- 18 Months
Providing Lift Supply Scheme Ratocha Phagu in Tehsil Bhuntar Distt. Kullu (H.P) (SH:-
Water & Sanitation Department. Government of Jharkhand, Central Government, State Government any C/O RCC Sump well 15000 ltr. Capacity 1 No. Sump well cum main storage tank
PSU or any Agency of International or National repute may participate in the bid the bid but registration 30000 ltr. Capacity RCC storage tank 10000 ltr. Capacity 2 Nos. Pump House , 2 Nos.
Toilet and Septic Tanks Anchor Block=25 Nos. crate work, Rising main, Pumping
with Drinking Water & Sanitation Department, Government of Jharkhand will be essential within a period Machinery for Booster Stage and Stage I and II and distribution system) Job-I
of two months from date of award after issue of Letter of Acceptance. The bid shall be submitted online in
Last date of submission of tender:- 21.10.2022 upto 5.00 PM.
the Website http://jharkhandtenders.gov.in. The bidder(s) should have necessary portal enrolment with
their own Digital Signature Certificate. The tender forms and other detailed conditions can be obtained from the website https://hptenders.gov.in or from office of JSV Division, Kullu
upto date specified above.
Detailed survey, Designing and Drawing, Construction of Executive Engineer
JSV Division Kullu
7.25 MLDcapacity Water Treatment Plant, ESR, Zone - 01 HIM SUCHNA AVAM JANSAMPARK
5032/HP
2.70 Lakh Litre capacity with 18 M staging, ESR, Zone - 02
3.70 Lakh Litre capacity with 22 M staging,ESR Zone-03-
1.90 Lakh Litre capacity with 16 M staging,ESR Zone - 04- HIMACHAL PRADESH
4.70 Lakh Litre capacity with 10 M staging,ESR Zone - 05- PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
4.10 Lakh Litre capacity with 12 M staging,ESR Zone-06- E-PROCUREMENT NOTICE
1.90 Lakh Litre capacity with 18 M staging, Staff Quarter, INVITATION FOR BIDS (IFB)
1 dk;Z dk uke Compound wall, Supplying and laying Raw, Clear Water 1. The Executive Engineer HP.PWD Rohru Distt. Shimla H.P on behalf of Governor of H.P invites the online bids on item rates, in electronic
tendering system, in 2 cover system for the under mentioned work from the eligible and approved contractors/firms registered with HP.PWD
rising main and Distribution Network, House Connection, Department.
Intake well, Gangway, Infiltration Gallery, Approach Road, Sr. Name of work Estimated Starling Date for E/Money Deadline for
Supplying and No cost downloading BID submission of
Installation of Vertical Turbine & Centrifugal pump motor BID

and Five years operation & maintenance with allied works 1 C/O PHC Building at Sheelgaht (SH:- C/O Kharanja Stone 15.12.2022 Rs.101145/- 21.12.2022
soling ,PCC 1:4:8 approach road , P/L block in Ground and
etc. all complete job for Ichagarh Block, Situ, Tikar & fencing around the PHC building at Sheelghat Rs. 50,57,295/-
Lepatand Adjoining Villages Rural Water Supply Scheme, 2 C/O link road from Kundralu Bawri to HB Shounthru Banoti HB 15.12.2022 Rs.46901/- 21.12.2022
Under D. W. &S. Division Saraikela on turnkey basis in Km. 0/0 to 4/0(SH:- C/O R/Wall at Rd. 0/110 to 0/130 and
B/Wall at Rd. 0/800 to 0/825) Rs. 2345050/-
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4 ifjek.k foi= dh jkf'k :0 10]000-00 Deorighat Tikkar road Km. 22/0 to 24/0 (SH:- P/L Grade -3 in
various patches Rs. 780825/-
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The bidders are advised to note other details of tenders and letter No.PWD (B)A(3) 1/2020 dated 22-07-2020 issued by deputy secretary PW) to
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fnukad 02-11-2022] 12%30 cts vijkg~uA department from the department website www.hptenders.gov.in. and any corrigendum will be uploaded on the website only.
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10 fufonk [kksyus dh frfFk ,oa le; fnukad 14-11-2022] 04-00 cts rdA The Executive Engineer, Mechanical Division, H.P PWD. Kullu on behalf of Governor Himachal Pradesh
invites the items rate bids in electronic tendering system for construction /Launching of following work from the
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PR 279958 Drinking Water and Sanitation(22-23).D is;ty ,oa LoPNrk izeaMy]ljk;dsyk
Himachal Pradesh
Public Works Department
e-Procurement Notice
The Superintending Engineer, 7th Circle, HPPWD, Dalhousie on behalf of Governor of Himachal Pradesh
invites the item rate bids in electronic tendering system for following works under National Bank for Agriculture
and Rural Development (NABARD WORK) in the District Chamba for five number of package(s) with estimat-
ed cost totaling to Rs. 1965.89 Lakh including maintenance for five years from the eligible contractors regis-
tered with HPPWD and HP Jal Shakti Vibhag (Contractors of HP Jal Shakti Vibhag are eligible to participate Bidders documents can be downloaded from the Website Http:/ hp tenders govt. in. The document down-
for the works having amount put to tender above Rs. 100.00 Lakh). Non registered contractors may submit the load from the site should not be tempered, and if any such tempering is detected before or after the opening
bids; however successful bidder has to register himself in appropriate class before signing the contract with of bids, the bidders shall be penalized and blacklisted.
appropriate authority in HPPWD. Other terms & condition shall remain unchanged same as given in the bid document which can be seen on the
Division RIDF Name of Work Estimated Cost Total Period of Bid Security website.
(Rs. Lacs) Cost Completion (Rs Lacs) 3. Terms and conditions:-
Constr Mainte (Rs. (Months) 1. Scanned copy of Registration / Enlistment with HP PWD Department and contractor having experience
uction nance Lacs) in similar work or the work awarded and is being executed.
Cost Cost 2. Scanned copy of PAN /GST No. & Income Tax clearance certificate.
(Rs) (Rs) 3. Scanned copy of work done certificate of similar nature work.
4. Scanned copy of Earnest Money and Cost of Form.
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 5. Scanned copy of Affidavit regarding genuineness and correctness of document attached.
Chowari XXVIII Construction of Jolna Bhated Kotla road 232.17 24.04 256.21 18 Months 5.12 6. As per new guidelines issued by Special Secretary (PW) to the Govt. of H.P Shimla vide order No. PBW
Km 0/0 to 3/810 in District Chamba (SH:- (B)A (3)1/2020-1 dated-7-10-2021 negotiation for above & below will be applicable.
Improvement of curve, Passing Places, 7. Class of contractor as per H.P.P.W.D. Norms.
C/o R-wall, C.D. works, GSB, WBM-II, 8. The contractor will design the sub structure with all formalities and submit the vetted drawing from the
WBM-III, M/T, Side drain, Parapets and
Sign Board) under RIDF-XXVIII. competent authority such as Executive Engineer HPPWD/ IPH or recognized Government Engineering
Chowari XXVIII 226.04 21.46 247.50 18 Months 4.95
college professor.
Construction of Link road from Dadaman
to Bhated Bassa Km 0/0 to 3/400 (SH:- 4. Tender details:- The tender documents shall be uploaded online in 2 cover.
Formation cutting, C/o R-wall, and B-
wall, C.D. works, Road Sign Board, C/o Cover 1: Shall contain scanned copies of all Technical Documents/ Eligibility Criteria.
Drain and Parapets) under RIDF-XXVIII. Cover 2: Shall contain “BOQ/Financial Bid” where contractor will quote his rates for each item.
Chowari XXVIII Metalling/Tarring on Hobar to Khareda 247.16 31.55 278.71 18 Months 5.57 5. Submission of original documents:- The bidders are required to submit bids in two separate covers.
road Km 0/0 to 5/0 (SH:- C/o R-wall, C.D.
work, Crash Barrier, M/T, Drain,
Cover 1 (A) Original demand draft towards the cost of bid documents.
Parapets and Road Sign Board) under (B) Original bid security/Earnest Money (EMD) and other technical requirement documents.
RIDF-XXVIII. Cover 2 Financial bid in the office of Executive Engineer, Mechanical Division, HP.PWD. Kullu as speci-
Chowari XXVIII Construction of Link road from Kiyod to 330.23 20.25 350.48 18 Months 7.01 fied in key dates at Sr. No. 4 on tender opening date, failing which the bids will be declared non respon-
Malwan road Km 0/0 to 3/210 in District sive.
Chamba (SH:- Formation cutting, C/o R- Bidders should attach the scanned copies of cost of documents, EMD (The earnest money in shape of
wall, C.D. works, GSB, WBM-II, WBM-III, call deposit of post office or fixed deposits/demand draft of schedule bank duly pledged in favour of under-
M/T, Side drain, Parapets) under RIDF-
XXVIII. signed payable at Kullu) and other documents as specified in the tender documents in the online bid. The
original instruments in respect of cost of documents and EMD are required to be submitted to the tender
Construction of Chhatrari Ghura via
Bharmour XXVIII
Marour road Km 0/0 to 7/650 in District
784.72 48.27 832.99 18 Months 16.66 inviting authority on or before the time of opening of bids, falling which the bid will be declared non respon-
Chamba (SH:- Improvement of curve, sive. The details of cost of documents, EMD specified in the tender documents should be the same as
Passing Places, C/o R-wall, C.D. works submitted online (Scanned copies) otherwise tender will summarily be rejected.
GSB, WBM-II, WBM-III, M/T side drain, 6. Bid Opening Details: - The bids shall be open on 22-10-2022 at 11.00AM in the office of Executive
parapets and sign board) under RIDF-
XXVIII. Engineer Mechanical Division H.P.PWD Kullu by the authorized officers in their interest the Tenders
advised to be present along-with original documents at the time of opening of tenders. If the office hap-
pens to be closed on the date of opening of the bids as specified, the bids will be opened on the next
Total:- 1965.89
working day at the same time and venue.
Other details can be seen in the bidding document. The Employer shall not be held liable for any delays due to system 7. The bids for the above work shall remain valid for acceptance for a period not less than 90/120 days after
failure beyond its control. Even though the system will attempt to notify the bidders of any bid updates, the Employer the deadline date of bid submission.
shall not be liable for any information not received by the bidder. It is the bidders’ responsibility to verify the website for
the latest information related to the tender. 8. Other details can be seen in the bidding documents. The officer inviting tender shall not be held liable for
Submission of all physical documents will be accepted only up to or before the time and date of submission of bids. No any delays due to system failure or beyond its control Even though the system will attempt to notice the
physical documents will be accepted after the closing date and time of submission of bids. bidders of any updates, the Employer shall not be liable for any information not received by the bidder. It
Last Date/ Time and place for receipt of bids through e-procurement:- is the bidder responsibility to verify the website for the latest information related to the tender and the
Bids can be submitted online from Date 21 Month 11 Year 2022 to Date 05 Month 12 Year 2022 upto 1100 Hours undersigned has the right to accept /reject the tenders without assigning any reasons.
and will be opened on Date 06 Month 12 Year 2022 at 1130 Hours in the office of Superintending Engineer, 7th
Circle, HPPWD, Dalhousie. (Er. G. L. Thakur)
For further details please log on to https://hptenders.gov.in Executive Engineer,
The undersigned has right to extend or cancel the bids without declaring any reasons thereof. Mechanical Division,
Superintending Engineer, HP PWD Kullu-175101.
7th Circle, HPPWD, Dalhousie-176304. Ph:-01902-222052.
5110/HP Fax:01899-242177 Tel: 01899-240606 5018/HP E-mail: eems-kul-hp@nic.in

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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2022

Electoral bond scheme

DELHI CONFIDENTIAL
transparent: Govt to SC ical parties come under the RTI; due at the time.
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE and about retrospective Thetopcourthadquestioned
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14 amendments to Foreign claims regarding “complete
Contribution Regulation Act anonymity” of the purchasers of
THE CENTRE on Friday told the which says that subsidiaries of the bonds and said “it is not as
Supreme Court that the proce- foreign companies will not be thoughtheoperationsunderthe
dure for funding political parties treated as foreign source scheme are behind iron curtains
under the Electoral Bond thereby allowing donations to incapable of being pierced”.
Scheme-2018 is “absolutely political parties, public servants, Dismissing the prayer not to
transparent” and that it is now etc. “And the question in all allow any new window for their
“impossible to get any money in these cases is whether amend- sale till its main petition chal-
Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann and Haryana CM M L Khattar in Chandigarh, Friday. Kamleshwar Singh blackoranyunaccountedform”. ments can be made through a lenging the scheme is decided,
FACILITATING THE CALL “The methodology of receiv-
ing the money has been so
money Bill which don’t even go
to the Rajya Sabha for approval,”
the court pointed out that the
bonds had already been issued
IN KEEPING with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for a SYL ROW: MANN, KHATTAR FAIL TO REACH CONSENSUS transparent. We will take the he pointed out. in the past without any impedi-
‘TB Mukt Bharat’ by 2025, MoS Science and Technology court through it step by step. Justice Gavai said the matter ment and that it had ordered
Jitendra Singh, himself a doctor, has decided to make a per-
sonal contribution. The minister will be adopting 60 tuber-
culosis patients from his Lok Sabha constituency — 10 each
Stalemate continues as Punjab CM Now it’s impossible to get any
money in black or any unac-
counted form...It is the most
would need a detailed hearing.
Sibalsaidthematterinvolves
questions that would require in-
“certain safeguards”.
“Therefore, in the light of the
fact that the scheme was intro-
from Udhampur, Kathua, Doda, Ramban, Reasi and Kishtwar
districts. Close aides of the minister say Singh's intention has
been conveyed to the district collectors concerned who will
says not a drop of water to share transparent system,” Solicitor
General Tushar Mehta told a
bench of Justices B R Gavai and
terpretation of the Constitution
and hence it may have to be re-
ferred to a larger bench.
duced on 2.1.2018; that the
bonds are released at periodical
intervals in January, April, July
now facilitate the process on Singh’s behalf. ing, it can do so. As far as we are the question of constructing the B V Nagarathna. Attorney General R and October every year; that
KANCHAN VASDEV & concerned, there is no reason in canal does not arise as Punjab Mehta said this as Senior Venkataramani and the SG said they had been so released in the
SUKHBIR SIWACH taking any more initiative,” doesnothaveanywatertoshare. Advocate Kapil Sibal contended the court should first look into years 2018, 2019 and 2020
EMERGENCE PROGRAMME CHANDIGARH, OCTOBER 14 Khattar said after the meeting .
“For Haryana, the construc-
“Haryana sought construc-
tion on incomplete SYL canal.
thatfree-and-fairelectionswasa
basic feature of the Constitution
the matter and only then take a
call on whether it should be re-
without any impediment; and
that certain safeguards have al-
THE BJP leadership may now be focusing on Telangana for the THE PUNJAB and Haryana chief tionof SYLcanalisamatterof life We told them that when we do but under the scheme, it is not ferred [to larger Bench] or not. ready been provided by this
electoralgains,butthepartywantstoensurethatits expansion ministersfailedtoreachaconsen- and death. The Supreme Court not have any water, why should known who is funding parties With both sides agreeing, the Court in its interim order dated
plansremainuninterruptedintheneighbouringAndhraPradesh. sus over the Sutlej Yamuna Link has pressed for it. The meeting the canal be constructed. If and that “this is destructive of court fixed the hearing on 12.4.2019, we do not see any
AccordingtoShivPrakash,nationaljointgeneralsecretary(organ- canalissueFriday,withBhagwant was held in a very manohar ma- Haryana needs water then both free-and-fair elections”. December 6. justification for the grant of stay
isation), in the four zones of the state — Rayalseema, coastal Mann saying his state does not hol (pleasant atmosphere), but the states should go to Prime Mehtaadded:“Sotosay,itaf- The matter last came up in at this stage. Hence, both the ap-
Andhra, Godavari and North Andhra — the BJP has organised have “a single drop of water to Mann Sahib did not agree,” said Minister Narendra Modi. If PM fects democracy, etc. does not the court on March 26, 2021, plications for stay are dis-
6,792 meetings to protest against the “anti-people policies” of share” and his counterpart Khattar, adding that he will now wants to give anything to hold water”. when a bench headed by the missed,” the SC had said.
the Jagan Mohan Reddy government. In these programmes, ManoharLalKhattarlaterstating brief Union Jal Shakti Minister Haryana, then he should make Advocate Prashant Bhushan then Chief Justice of India S A The court’s reference was to
1,88,238womenand3,90,450menparticipated.Withtheparty that it was his “final meeting” Gajendra Singh Shekhawat arrangement from Yamuna or said petitions touch three im- Bobde dismissed an application its April 12, 2019, interim order
having no representation from the state in the Lok Sabha or an over the issue. about the meeting”. elsewhere. We do not have a portant interconnected issues filed by the petitioners seeking bywhichitdirectedpoliticalpar-
MLAintheAssembly,partyleadershopethatsuchprogrammes “From our side, this was our Earlier, in the nearly two- drop. We cannot call Satluj and which go to the very root of stay on any fresh sale of elec- tiesto“forthwith”submitdetails
willhelptheBJPtoemergeasaforcetoreckonwith. final meeting (with Punjab). If hour long meeting at Haryana Beas as rivers. Now, they are just democracy — the question of toral bonds ahead of the of donations received through
the Centre wants another meet- Niwas in Chandigarh, Mann said drains,” said Mann. electoral bonds; whether polit- Assembly elections that were electoral bonds to the EC.
GUEST APPEARANCE
ON FRIDAY, IIT Delhi hosted an event that was attended by
directors of all the 23 IITs in the country. At the event, which
Maharashtra govt
scraps projects
No govt benefits, jobs for those India, China agree to resolve
willcontinueonSaturday,theIITsshowcasedvariousresearch
remaining LAC issues soon
and development projects. Apart from members of the aca-
demia, among those in attendance was DRDO Chairman
Samir V Kamat. IIT Delhi Director Rangan Banerjee could be
worth Rs 850 cr, with more than 4 kids: Manipur Sector of India-China border ar-
seen taking Kamat, who was appointed to the post in August, says work allotted Fridaysaidthedecisionwastaken of the family”. EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE eas. Recalling the developments
JIMMY LEIVON NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14
around the sprawling venue of the programme where the
projects were put on display. to favour NCP IMPHAL, OCTOBER 14
taking into account limited re-
sourcesof thestate.“Considering
The Manipur Assembly had
unanimously adopted a private
since the last meeting of WMCC
inMay2022,theywelcomedthe
the economy and available re- member’s resolution to establish A MONTH after the disengage- disengagement in the area of
ALOK DESHPANDE MANIPURCABINETonThursday sources,wehavetocomeupwith thepopulationcommissioninthe ment at the Gogra-Hot Springs Gogra-Hot Springs (PP-15) that
BHARAT JODO YATRA: DAY 37 MUMBAI, OCTOBER 14 gaveitsnodtotheestablishment ourownplanning.Thedecisionis recently concluded budget ses- (PP-15),IndiaandChinaheldtheir wascarriedoutinaphased,coor-
of Manipur State Population alsorelatedtotheupcomingState sion.ThenJD(U)MLAKhJoykisan 25th meeting of the Working dinated and verified manner be-

Child artistes say will THE MAHARASHTRA govern-

menthascancelleddevelopment
projectsworthRs850croreinru-
Commission as an ordinance,
whichwillbringinthefour-child
norm as eligibility for families to
PopulationCommission,”hesaid.
Government spokesperson
Dr Sapam Ranjan said under the
now BJP) had raised the issue of
alleged infiltration of outsiders
into the state.
Mechanism for Consultation &
Coordination on India-China
BorderAffairs(WMCC)onFriday.
tween 8-12 September 2022...”
It said the two sides agreed to
continue discussions through

‘get Rs 500 each’, Cong ralpartsof thestate.Theprojects,

mostly related to basic facilities,
avail benefits of government
schemes, including jobs.
Manipur State Population
Commission, “If a man fathers
The MLA had claimed there
wasapopulationgrowthof153.3%
An official statement by the
Ministry of External Affairs said:
diplomaticandmilitarychannels
to resolve the remaining issues

denies making promise

the march for the day near
KIRAN PARASHAR Halakundi village where a large
HALAKUNDI (BALLARI), number of people, including
OCTOBER 14 troupes of dancers and percus-
sionists, welcomed him.
DAYS AFTER the Election “We are happy to perform
Commission summoned the here and a villager promised to
Congress for “using children as a payusRs500eachforthis,”aboy
tool”duringtheBharatJodoYatra, told The Indian Express.
agroupofsixprimaryschoolboys JS Anjaneyalu, general secre-
performed‘tamate’(apercussion tary of Karnataka Pradesh
instrument) allegedly on the Congress Committee, said it was
promisethateachwillgetRs500. impossible that the party will
The Karnataka unit of the ask children to perform in lieu of
Congressparty,however,denied money. “We have never asked
that there was any promise of any child to perform or paid
money, saying their participa- money...Manychildrenandtheir
tion was voluntary. parents have voluntarily joined
On Friday, on his 37th day of us. I do not know which villager
the yatra, Rahul Gandhi ended promised them money.”
PHOTO WITH MINOR RAPE VICTIM’S PARENTS
were sanctioned after April 1, The decision was taken in a more than four children from in the hill districts from 1971 to “Thetwosidesreviewedthesitu- along the LAC at the earliest so as
2021 but work order is yet to be cabinet meeting chaired by Chief now on, no government benefit 2001, which went up to 250% be- ation along the Line of Actual tocreateconditionsforrestoration
issued or work is yet to start. Minister N Biren Singh, who on will be provided to any member tween2001and2011,Ranjansaid. Control (LAC) in the Western of normalcy in bilateral relations.
The government claimed the
projectswerecancelledtocorrect
a “wrong” of the Maha Vikas
Aghadi(MVA)government,which
itsaidovertwoandhalfyearsofits
rulesawunequalfunddistribution
with areas where NCP MLAs had
wonbeingfavoured.
Aftertheformationofthenew
governmentledbyChiefMinister
Eknath Shinde, all schemes had
been stayed and information of
worksawardedhadbeensought.
“Afterthereview,Irealisedthat
thepreviousgovernment’sfinance
minister and rural development
ministerunequallydistributedthe
funds for works under 2515 col-
umn head. I was the former min-
ister, but I did not get a single ru-
peeintheseyears.Onlyoneparty
received funds and even those
withintheShivSenaandCongress
were unhappy,” Maharashtra’s

NCPCR to HC: Joining

Rural Development Department
Minister Girish Mahajan told The
IndianExpress.

hands with petitioner Bypoll candidates file

seeking FIR against Rahul
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14
THE NATIONAL Commission for
the Protection of Child Rights
(NCPCR)toldtheDelhiHighCourt
Friday that it would be “joining
hands” with a public interest liti-
gant’spleaseekingregistrationof
an FIR against Congress leader
Rahul Gandhi for posting on
Twitter a photograph of the par-
ents of a minor girl who was al-
legedly raped and killed in Delhi
last August.
The NCPCR, respondent no. 2,
submittedbeforeadivisionbench
of Chief Justice Satish Chandra
Sharma and Justice
Subramonium Prasad that even
though the tweet has been re-
moved,the“offencestillsurvives”.
The petitioner, activist
MakarandSureshMhadlekar,has
argued that Rahul violated
Section 74 of the Juvenile Justice
Act,2015andSection23(2)ofthe
POCSO Act, “both of which man-
date that the identity of a child
victimof acrimeshallnotbedis-
closed”.Thepetitioneralsoasked
theHCtodirectNCPCRtotakeap-
propriate action against Rahul.
nominations
Meanwhile, Rutuja Latke of
theShivSena-UddhavBalasaheb
Thackeray and Murji Patel from
the BJP and Balasahebanchi Shiv
Sena alliance filedtheir nomina-
tions for the Andheri (E)
Assembly bypoll on Friday amid
a massive show of strength by
both sides.
Besides Latke’s nomination,
theThackeray-ledSenaalsofiled
a second nomination as a back-
up if Latke's nomination is re-
jected due to some reason. The
Thackeray-ledSenafiledthesec-
ond nomination for Sandeep
Naik,anoffice-bearerof theYuva
Sena and considered a close as-
sociate of Latke.

PM Modi to chair CSIR meeting today

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14
PRIME MINISTER Narendra
Modi will chair a meeting of the
Council of Scientific and
Industrial Research (CSIR)
Society on Saturday, Minister of
Science and Technology
Dr.Jitendra Singh announced.
The meeting will also be at-
tended by Finance Minister
Nirmala Sitaraman and
PM
Narendra
Modi
CommerceandIndustryminister
Piyush Goyal, apart from scien-
tists, industrialists, and senior of-
ficialsofthesciencedepartments.
Briefing the media about the
agendaof theCSIRSocietymeet-
ing, Singh said that CSIR’s re-
searcheffortsarenowmainlyfo-
cussed on green energy tech-
nologies, STI interventions to
generate employment and raise
income levels in rural India.
“Strengthening self-reliance
acrossindustrialsectors,facilitat-
ing infrastructure developments,
and developing critical S&T hu-
manresourcesisalsothemandate
of CSIR and the R&D conglomer-
ate is adopting Artificial
Intelligence and Machine
Learning platforms for its scien-
tific pursuits...,” said the minister.

New Delhi

8 EXPRESS NETWORK
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2022
Man ends life after 20-year-old daughter SC rejects plea to restrain
is murdered by her stalker in Chennai
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, OCTOBER 14
HOURSAFTERa20-year-oldcol-
lege girl Sathya was killed after
being pushed by a stalker before
a train at a suburban railway sta-
tion in Chennai on Thursday, her
father – unable to bear the grief
– consumed poison and died,
police officers said.
The Government Railway
Police detained the suspect,
Sathish, 32, from a hideaway
BRIEFLY
UTTAR PRADESH
VehiclesinDy
CM’sconvoy
collide,5injured
Sitapur: Three policemen,
a doctor and a health
workerwereinjuredafter
twovehicles,includingan
ambulance, which were
partofDeputyCMBrajesh
Pathak's convoy, collided
in Sitapur district on
Friday. The incident took
place at Nankari village
under the Dehat Kotwali
police station when
Pathak was on his way to
Gola Gokarannath in
Lakhimpur Kheri district.
ShashankTrivedi,BJPMLA
from Maholi, said the ve-
hicles collided while try-
ing to save a cyclist. PTI
PUNJAB
Beautycontest
adoffersNRI
groomasprize
Amritsar: Two men were
booked Friday for an-
nouncingabeautycontest
in Bathinda, promising
thatthewinnerwouldget
to marry a non-resident
Indian settled in Canada.
Theorganisersputupsev-
eral posters in the city ad-
vertising the contest that
wastobeheldatahotelon
October23.Theadvertise-
ment mentioned that the
contest was only for
women from ‘general
caste’. The accused have
beenidentifiedasSurinder
SinghandRamDyalSingh
Jaura. “Preliminary inves-
tigation suggests they
werelookingforabridefor
anNRIrelative.ANFIRhas
been registered,” a police
officer said. ENS
MAHARASHTRA
FromNov1,seat
beltsmustforall
caroccupants
Mumbai:TheMumbaitraf-
fic police on Friday said
wearingof seatbelts by all
passengers, including
thosesittingin rearseatsof
cars, will be compulsory
from November 1. Action
willbetakenagainstthose
found violating the order.
“AspertheMotorVehicles
(Amendment) Act, 2019,
whoever drives without a
safety belt or carries pas-
sengers not wearing seat
belts shall be punishable.
Accordingly,allcommuters
are being given time till
November 1 to install seat
belts,”theordersaid. ENS
KERALA
Wildelephant
killedafterbeing
hitbytrain
Palakkad:Awildelephant
was killed after being hit
by a train near Kanjikode
here early Friday, Forest
department officials said.
The mishap took place
when the 20-year-old
jumbo,whichhadstrayed
from nearby Walayar for-
est, tried to cross the rail
track around 3.15 am. A
Guwahati-bound train
was passing through the
areaduringthetime,they
said.Anelephantcalf was
also suspected to have
sustained injuries but it
could not be found any-
where, officials said. PTI
CCI from investigating
near Thoraipakkam on Friday.
A third year Bachelor of
Business Administration (BBA)
student,Sathyawasonherwayto
college with her friends and was
awaiting a train at the St. Thomas
Mountrailwaystation.Sathishap-
proachedherandfollowinganal-
tercation,pushedherinfrontof a
suburbantrainapproachingfrom
Tambaram and proceeding to-
wards Chennai Beach station.
“After arguing with Sathya
there,Sathishabruptlyshovedher
into the track as the train ap-
Student from Agra stabbed in
Sydney; India demands action
ENS & PTI
NEW DELHI, SYDNEY, OCT 14
INDIA ON Friday said that the
Indian High Commission in
Australia is in touch with local
authorities over the stabbing of
an Indian student in Sydney, and
addedthatitexpectsactiontobe
taken against the perpetrators.
ShubhamGarg,a28-year-old
from Agra who is pursuing PhD
in Australia, was stabbed multi-
ple times by a man as he was
walking along Sydney's Pacific
Highway, around 10.30 pm on
October 6, New South Wales
Police Force said in a statement.
Police have arrested 27-year-
old suspect Daniel Norwood,
who allegedly demanded cash
from Garg before stabbing him,
accordingtolocalmediareports.
The Ministry of External
Affairs (MEA) said on Friday that
the Indian High Commission in
Australia is in touch with the lo-
cal authorities over the stabbing
of Garg, and added that it ex-
pects action to be taken against
the perpetrators.
TheMEA’sofficialspokesper-
son, Arindam Bagchi, said a sus-
pect was taken into custody in
connectionwiththeincident.He
said the Indian High
CommissioninCanberraandthe
consulate in Sydney are in close
touch with the local authorities.
“It is a sad incident. We are
aware of it. He (Garg) is in a hos-
pital and treatment is going on,”
Bagchi said. An official of the
Indian mission met Garg at the
hospital and offered consular
services,he added. “We have got
to know that one person has
beentakenintocustody...Weex-
pectthatthematterisdealtwith
seriously,” Bagchi said.
He said the Indian mission is
alsointouchwithGarg'sfamilyin
Agra and providing help in expe-
diting their travel to Australia.
Askedifitwasaracially-motivated
attack, he said, “I do not want to
speculate,ourfocusisonhistreat-
UP minister’s nephew held for trying to In Amritsar, Pak drone
run over restaurant staff in Bareilly: cops shot down along border
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
LUCKNOW, OCTOBER 14
THE NEPHEW of a minister has
been arrested in Bareilly after he
allegedly tried to run over em-
ployeesof arestaurantafterthey
refusedtoserve himfood late on
Tuesday night.
A case was lodged after the
restaurant owner's son lodged a
complaintatthePremNagarpo-
licestationallegingthatthemin-
ister’s nephew, Amit Kumar
Saxena (32), and four unidenti-
fied men tried to run over their
OSCAR-NOMINATED MOVIE SCREENED IN AHMEDABAD
When you have nothing, nothing can stop you: Chhello Show maker
RASHI MISHRA
AHMEDABAD, OCTOBER 14
“VROOM, VROOM, teen... toon,
teen, toon”... Manu held on to a
brokenbicyclehandletiedtoatorn
sari, the other end of which was
held by his friend as they pre-
tendedtorideamotorbike.Theau-
diencelaughedandapplauded,as
RahulKolicamealiveonthescreen
as Manu and the theatres in
Gujarat opened to Chhello Show,
Followinganaltercation,
Sathish,sonof aretd
sub-inspector,had
pushedSathyabeforea
trainonThursday
proached,”apoliceofficersaid.The
incident happened around 1.15
pm,thepolicesaid.Aftercommit-
ting the crime, Sathish immedi-
atelyfledthespot,thepolicesaid.
Unable to bear the pain, her
Family members of Shubham Garg at their residence in Agra on Friday. PTI
Shubham
Garg was
stabbed
multiple
times on
October 6
mentandtheculpritisnabbed.”
Garg suffered multiple stab
wounds to his face, chest, and ab-
domen.Hesoughtassistancefrom
anearbyhousebeforebeingtaken
to Royal North Shore Hospital. He
underwent surgery and is in a se-
rious but stable condition, the
NSWPoliceForcestatementsaid.
Followinginquiriesbydetec-
tives, a search warrant was exe-
cuted on a home on the Pacific
Highway at Greenwich on
Sunday. Norwood was arrested
at the scene and taken to
ChatswoodPoliceStation,where
he was charged with one count
of attempted murder after the
alleged stabbing, the statement
said. A number of items were
seized from the home and have
been taken for forensic exami-
nation, it said.
Amit
Kumar
Saxena
staff and demanded Rs 1 lakh as
extortion money. The case was
lodged against Saxena, and his
four unidentified accomplices
under sections 147 (rioting), 384
(extortion), 504 (intentional in-
sult with intent to provoke
breach of the peace) and 506
(criminal intimidation) of IPC.
India’sonlyOscarentry,onFriday.
Rahul Koli, the 10-year-old
child actor who plays the char-
acter of Manu, passed away due
tocanceraroundtwoweeksago.
Director of the film, Nalin
Pandya aka Pan Nalin, watched
the first show of the semi-auto-
biographicalfilm in Ahmedabad
along with the child actors —
BhavinRabariwhoplaysthelead
role of Samay, Kishan Parmar,
whoplays“ST”andVijayMer(as
Tiku) as well as producer Dheer
47-year-old father, Manickam,
wholivesinAdambakkaminthe
city, consumed poison, and col-
lapsed. Police said he died late
Thursday night. While the au-
topsyreportisawaited,policeof-
ficers said Manickam had con-
sumed poison and had failed to
respond to treatment.
Sathya’s mother is a head
constableatAdambakkampolice
station.“SathyawasManickam’s
singlechild.Hewasshockedand
took the step in extreme grief,”
the police officer said.
Victim’s father urges
govt for swift visa
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
AGRA, OCTOBER 14
THEFATHERoftheIndianstudent
stabbed in Sydney has urged the
government to expedite his re-
quest for visa so that someone
from their family can fly to
Australia and tend to his son.
Shubham Garg, 28, a student
from Agra district's Kiraoli block
was stabbed 11 times with a
knife by an unidentified man on
October 6. His father Ramniwas
Garghasexpressedconcernover
the attack and has demanded
strictpunishmentfortheculprit.
Shubham is pursuing PhD in
mechanical engineering from
the University of New South
Wales in Sydney. He had re-
ceived his BTech and MSc de-
grees from IIT Chennai.
According to family mem-
bers, he is out of danger and is
Amitisnephewof three-time
MLA from Bareilly Arun Kumar
Saxena, who is Minister of State
(Independent Charge) for Forest
and Environment, Zoological
Garden and Climate Change.
Prem Nagar SHO Nehar
Singh said Amit was arrested on
Thursday and was sent to judi-
cial custody. “On the night of
October 11, Amit along with oth-
ers had gone to a restaurant.
Sinceitwasaround10.45pm,the
restaurant was shutting down
and they were told that food
won’tbeserved.Then,therewas
an argument between the
Momaya. The family of Rahul
Koliwasnotpresentattheevent.
Speaking to The Indian
Express, Nalin said, “I personally
miss Rahul a lot. Tomorrow we
will meet his family in Rajkot.”
Minister of state for home
Harsh Sanghavi who watched
the premiere, said, “A Gujarati
film going to places and being
dubbed in differentlanguages,is
such a great achievement.”
“Ireallyenjoyedseeingmyself
in the film. This is the first time I
Theaccused,Sathish,istheson
of a retired sub-inspector of po-
lice, and stayed with his parents.
Thetwofamilieswereneighbours
earlier.“They(SathyaandSathish)
knew each other. Sathya had ear-
lier complained tothe police that
Sathishwastroublingher;hewas
summoned at a local police sta-
tion and was warned,” a police
source said. Chennai Police
CommissionerShankarJiwaland
Joint Commissioner of Police
(South) Narrendiran Nair visited
the family on Friday.
able to talk now. “We are in con-
stant touch with the local ad-
ministration. We are trying to
send Rohit, Shubham's younger
brother, to Australia so that he
cantakecareof him.Theapplica-
tion for the visa is under process
and we hope to get it within
two-three days. We are getting
full support of the local admin-
istration," said Ramniwas Garg.
Ramniwas Garg said he was
“shocked” when he heard about
the attack because the assailant
neither knew his son, nor did he
make any attempt to loot him.
Theattackermayhavebeenmo-
tivated by race-related reasons,
he said.
Shubham's cousin Kavya
Garg said, "As soon as we got to
know about the incident, I
tweetedtaggingthePMO,UPCM
Yogi Adityanath, and Minister of
ExternalAffairsSJaiShankarand
sought immediate help.”
restaurant staff and Amit, who
threatenedandtriedtorunthem
over with his car. No one was in-
jured as the restaurant workers
moved away. He also allegedly
demandedRs1lakhasextortion.
The complainant says there
were three-four people with
Amit who said he was with one
other person. We are investigat-
ing all aspects,” said Singh.
When contacted on
Thursday, minister Arun Kumar
SaxenatoldPTI,“Thepolicemust
act as per the law, and there
should be no laxity on this.”
WITHPTIINPUTS
saw the whole film,” said Bhavin
RabariwhoisfromJamnagardis-
trict. Bhavna Parmar, mother of
Kishan Parmar who plays “ST”,
hadcomeallthewayfromRajkot
to watch their son on celluloid. “I
felt great seeing my son on the
screen,” said Bhavna.
“When you have nothing,
nothing can stop you...,” Nalin
said, addressing a press confer-
ence in Ahmedabad Friday.
AccordingtoNalin,thisishisfirst
Gujarati feature film.
WhatsApp privacy policy
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14
THE SUPREME Court on Friday
refused to restrain the
Competition Commission of
India(CCI)fromprobingthe2021
privacy policy of WhatsApp.
Dismissingtheappealfiledby
its parent company Meta, which
challenged the Delhi High Court
judgment refusing to stay the
probe, a two-judge bench
presidedbyJusticeMRShahsaid
the Commission is an independ-
entauthoritytolookintoviolation
ofTheCompetitionAct,2002and
thatitsproceedingscannotbesaid
as being without jurisdiction.
The bench added that pro-
ceedingsbeforetheCommission
have to be required to be com-
pleted at the earliest. Appearing
for Meta, Senior Advocate Kapil
Sibal pointed out that a constitu-
tionbenchofthecourtwasseized
of petitions challenging the
WhatsApppolicy.Thematterwas
last heard on September 29 and
the court has fixed it for hearing
next in January 2023, he said.
Sibal contended that the CCI
ordersaysthepolicy“primafacie
‘Keeping close eye’:
MEA on 2 Indians
missing in Kenya
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14
TWO INDIAN nationals, Zulfiqar
Ahmad Khan and Zaid Sami
Kidwai, have been missing in
Kenya since July and Indian au-
thorities are “keeping a close
watch” on this, according to
Arindam Bagchi, spokesman,
MinistryofExternalAffairs(MEA).
Khan’s friends had recently
raised an alarm on social media,
requesting help from authorities
hereandinKenya.Friendssaythat
Khan, 48, was visiting Kenya as a
touristwhenhisfamilyandfriends
suddenly stopped hearing from
him on July 21, a few days before
he was set to return on July 24.
According to his friends, he was a
media professional who last
worked as the COO of Balaji
Telefilms, and has worked with
StarIndiaandErosNowinthepast.
“Asfarasweunderstand,there
weretwoIndiannationals,Zulfiqar
Ahmad Khan and Zaid Sami
Kidwai. They’ve been missing in
KenyasinceJuly23.Apolicecom-
plaint was filed there soon after
that. Subsequently a habeas cor-
pus petition was filed in the
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
AMRITSAR, OCTOBER 14
THE BORDER Security Force
Friday shot down a drone along
the International border in
Amritsarafteritsneakedintothe
Indian territory from Pakistan,
an official said.
TheBSFtroopsattheShahpur
borderoutpostfired17roundsaf-
tertheynoticedthedronecoming
from the Pakistani side around
4:30 am, the official said.
Illuminating bombs were used to
increase visibility as it was still
dark, the official said, adding that
“TheideaofChhelloShowwas
born out of one of my visits to my
father, 10 years ago in Amreli. We
went to visit his friend,
Mohammedbhai, who was ill at
that time. He used to work as a
projectoroperatorinacinemahall,
andhadlosthisjobasthecinemas
wentdigital.Iwantedtoknowthe
lifeofamanwhohadspenthislife
with projectors and cinema. And
there were ideas from my own
childhood as well, when I used to
bunkschoolandwatchfilms.”
New Delhi
appears to be unfair to users”
and added that the Commission
cannot decide on the policy.
However, Additional Solicitor
General N Venkataraman, repre-
senting the CCI, said it was only
lookingintoconcernsaboutabuse
ofdominantpositionandwasnot
examininganyconstitutionalpro-
vision. “We are a market regula-
tor. We are examining if there is
abuse of dominance by their pri-
vacy policy. Data is being shared
byWhatsApp.Threafter,theyad-
vertiseonthebasisofthat,”hesaid
addingthat“concentrationofdata
may result in abuse”.
Sibal said the Commission
should defer taking a final deci-
sion during the pendency of the
matter before the SC constitu-
tion bench but the court said the
CCI is an independent body and
the pendency or proceedings
will not affect its work.
On August 25, the Delhi High
Court had dismissed petitions
againsttheprobe,sayingthatthe
policy update placed the mes-
saging app users in a “take-it-or-
leave-it” situation, virtually forc-
ing them into agreement by
providing a mirage of choice.
The court had said that
Kenyancourt.Weunderstandthat
the issue is now sub judice in the
High Court of Kenya, a number of
hearings have taken place. This
week, there was a hearing. Our
HighCommissionhasbeenincon-
tinuoustouchwiththeKenyanau-
thorities.Wearealsointouchwith
some family members. We have
attachedthehighestconsideration
to the safety and well-being of
these Indian nationals,” Bagchi
said when asked about the situa-
tionatamediabriefingonFriday.
“I don’t have any update. The
police and judicial authorities in
Kenya are involved in this. We
arekeepingaclosewatchonthis.
At this point, I am afraid they are
still missing,” he added.
Khan,whoisfromMumbai,is
an alumnus of Hansraj College,
DelhiUniversity.Afriend,whodid
not wish to be identified, said he
was between jobs while he was
visitingKenya.“Histravelstylewas
different. He would go to a place
andspendamonththeretosoakit
in. He has been doing this for a
while. His disappearance was a
shock and we thought he would
comebackeventually.Wearehop-
ing that somebody will be able to
lookforhim,”thefriendsaid.
thedronewasshotdownimmedi-
ately after it entered Indian terri-
toryintheareafallingnearVillage
BhainiGillvillageinAmritsar.
“This area is close to BP 67/3
and under the jurisdiction of
Ramdass police station,” the offi-
cialadded.Thedronewasnotcar-
rying any weapons or drugs.
However, BSF and police officials
launched a search operation to
check if it had dropped any con-
signmentbeforebeingshotdown.
The troops recovered a quad-
copter(DJIMatrice)weighingfour
kg.Itsaidawing-rodof thequad-
copterwasbrokenandtherewas
a hold-and-release mechanism.
Filmcrew,actorswatchingthe premiereinAhmedabad. Express
WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM
WhatsApp occupies a dominant
position in the market and has a
strong lock-in effect, which ren-
dersitsusersincapableofshifting
to another platform despite dis-
satisfaction.Itsaidthesameisex-
emplified by the fact that despite
an increase in the downloads of
Telegram and Signal when the
2021 policy was announced, the
number of WhatsApp users has
remained unchanged.
It had said that to ensure re-
tentionofitsuserbaseandtopre-
ventanyotherdisruptivetechnol-
ogy from entering the market,
dataisutilisedbytechcompanies
to customise and personalise
their own platforms so that its
user base remains hooked.
While ordering an investiga-
tion,theCCIlastyearhadcometo
a prima facie conclusion that the
conductofWhatsAppin“sharing
of users' personalised data with
other Facebook companies, in a
mannerthatisneitherfullytrans-
parent nor based on voluntary
and specific user consent” ap-
pears unfair to the users. A single
bench of the Delhi High Court on
April 22, 2021 had dismissed the
petitions filed by WhatsApp and
Facebook against the CCI order.
Gurmeet
Ram
Rahim
As polls near,
Dera chief gets
40-day parole
VARINDER BHATIA
CHANDIGARH, OCTOBER 14
DERA SACHA Sauda chief
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was
Friday granted a 40-day parole,
for the third time this year and
just weeks ahead of the crucial
bypoll to Adampur Assembly
constituency andthetwo-phase
panchayat elections in Haryana.
After his release from Rohtak's
Sunaria jail, Ram Rahim went
straighttohisderabasedinUttar
Pradesh's Baghpat under tight
police cover.
The filing of nomination for
panchayat polls in Haryana be-
gan Friday even as the same
ended for the Adampur bypoll
scheduled for November 3.
Amid questions being raised on
the timing of the Dera chief's pa-
role, Haryana Jails Minister
Ranjit Singh said that nothing
much should be read into the
move as “it is the entitlement of
a convict to get parole”.
Asperlaw,aconvictisentitled
tobereleasedfromprisononpa-
role after he/she has completed
oneyearofhis/herconvictionpe-
riod. Ram Rahim, first convicted
in August 2017 by a Special CBI
court at Panchkula, is currently
servinga20-yearjailtermforrap-
ing two of his women disciples.
In2019,heandthreeotherswere
awarded life term for murder of
journalist Ram Chander
Chhatrapatiin2002.Lastyear,he
received a third conviction along
with four others, for hatching a
conspiracy to kill the Dera's for-
mer manager Ranjit Singh, who
was shot dead, also in 2002.
The Dera chief had been ear-
liergrantedparolethricein2021
andtwicein2022—for21daysin
FebruaryandforamonthinJune.
According to the prison authori-
ties, a convict is entitled for a pa-
roleof 90dayseveryyear,subject
to clearances on his conduct.
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UP cops seek details NGTslapsRs500-crfineonKarnataka

KILLING OF BJP LEADER’S WIFE IN RAID TAMIL NADU
Man kills friend

from counterparts govtforfailingtoprotectBengalurulake

in Uttarakhand
MANISH SAHU
LUCKNOW, OCTOBER 14
A DAY after police in
Uttarakhand's Udham Singh
Nagar district lodged an FIR
against“unidentified”copsfrom
Moradabad in connection with
the death of a woman during an
operation to arrest a wanted
gangster, the UP Police on Friday
wrotetotheircounterpartsinthe
neighbouring state seeking de-
tails of the case.
The UP Police also informed
them that a case was lodged at
Moradabad's Thakurdwara po-
lice station in connection with
theattackontheirteamthathad
gone to arrest the gangster
named Jaffar (40). The case was
lodged on charges of attempt to
murder and others against Jaffar
and 35 unidentified persons.
On Wednesday, the
Moradabad police reached
Bharatpur village in Udham
Singh Nagar while chasing Jaffar
who is accused of illegal sand
mining. A clash took place when
the Moradabad police entered a
house in which Jaffar allegedly
took shelter.
The UP Police claimed that
Jaffar and his associates attacked
them and opened fire. They al-
leged that the assailants
snatched their service weapons
and fired from them.
In the clash, Gurpreet, wife of
BJPblockchiefGurtejBhullar,was
shotdeadandsixpersonnelofthe
Moradabad police were injured,
including two with bullet
wounds. They also claimed that
three service weapons of their
constables were recovered by
their Uttarakhand counterparts
from the spot.
OnThursday,theMoradabad
police claimed that Gurtej
Bhullar and his three relatives
wereallegedlyinvolvedintheat-
tack on the police personnel.
“On Friday, we sent a letter to
police in Udham Singh Nagar
seeking details of the FIR lodged
by them in connection with the
woman's death. We requested
them to provide report of the
post-mortemofthebodyandthat
oftheforensicsciencelaboratory,”
said a senior police officer.
They have also requested the
Udham Singh Nagar police to
provide details of the weapons
recovered by them, he added.
Deputy Inspector General
(DIG, Saharanpur range) Shalabh
Mathur confirmed that
Moradabad SSP Hemant Kutiyal
has written to his Udham Singh
Nagar counterpart seeking infor-
mationaboutthecase.Additional
DirectorGeneralofPolice(Bareilly
zone)RajKumarhasincreasedthe
reward on Jaffar to Rs 1 lakh, the
DIGsaid.Anativeof KakarKheda
village in Moradabad, Jaffar ear-
lier had a bounty of Rs 50,000.
The Moradabad police have
also decided to send a team to
Udham Singh Nagar to recon-
struct the crime scene.
Theinjuredpolicemenarebe-
ing treated at a hospital. Doctors
said their condition was stable.
Tribunal takes suo motu cognizance of The Indian Express report on Chandapura lake in 2021
AKSHEEV THAKUR
BENGALURU, OCTOBER 14
THE NATIONAL Green Tribunal
(NGT)onOctober10imposedan
environmentalcompensationof
Rs 500 crore on Karnataka for its
failure in maintaining and tak-
ing steps to restore Chandapura
lake. The NGT directed the state
government to collect the com-
pensation amount from en-
croachers, erring officials andvi-
olators of the environmental
norms.
The NGT took suo motu cog-
nisance of The Indian Express re-
port- ‘Lakes of Bengaluru:
Industrial effluents, raw sewage;
stinky tale of Chandapura lake’
published on November 21,
2021. The tribunal then consti-
tuted a seven-member joint
committee of officials from the
Central Pollution Control Board
(CPCB), Karnataka State
Pollution Control Board
(KSPCB), Indian Institute of
Science (IISc), State
Environment Impact
Assessment Authority (SEIAA),
National Wetland Authority,
State Wetland Authority and the
District Magistrate, Bengaluru,
to ascertain the facts with regard
to the violation of buffer zone,
solid waste management guide-
lines at Chandapura lake in
Anekal taluk.
“The amount may be de-
posited within one month and
kept in a ring-fenced account
Thegreentribunalsaidthemoneywill beusedforrestorationof theChandapuralake. File
with the State PCB (pollution
control board) which will be the
responsibility of the Chief
Secretary, Karnataka. The
amount may be utilised for
restoration measures preferably
within six months, as per direc-
tions and supervision of a
Monitoring Committee. The
same will be headed by
Chairman, State Wetland
Authority,” NGT order read.
“There are illegal encroach-
ments and construction activi-
ties, unchecked violations of en-
vironmental norms by the
industries, failure to protect and
regulate buffer zones and catch-
ment areas of the lake and to
control pollution. Water quality
of the lake has deteriorated.
Though the Chief Secretary has
issued directions, there is no
meaningful compliance in the
form of restoration of the dam-
age already caused. No account-
ability has been fixed for the vi-
olations which have already
taken place...,” the tribunal ob-
served.
The NGT in its order stated
that the state has not furnished
data on the quantum of sewage
discharge into the lakes. “With
availabledata,bestjudgmentas-
sessment is being made about
the estimated cost of restoration
measuresevenonaconservative
approach. However, if the
amount is not found to be ade-
quate, the state will be liable to
provide extra funds. If the
amount is found to be surplus,
the same may be utilised by the
state for restoration measures as
per the District Environment
Plans of the concerned Districts.
It is a matter of common knowl-
edge that there is general degra-
dation of the environment and a
much more proactive approach
is expected from the State,” the
NGT said.
The NGT joint committee
formed to ascertain the facts
with regards to the violation of
the buffer zone, solid waste
management guidelines at
Chandapura lake has stated that
all the upstream lakes connect-
ing to Chandapura lake are pol-
luted. The committee in its re-
port also stated that sewage
generated in the municipal lim-
its of Chandapura is being dis-
charged into the lake since there
is no common Sewage
Treatment Plant (STP).
Bengaluru Urban deputy
commissioner K Srinivas in-
formed The Indian Express that
four urban local bodies —city
municipal councils of Jigani and
Hebbagodi;andtownmunicipal
councils of Chandapura and
Bommasandra — will get solid
wastemanagementplantsoper-
ational by 2023.
Social activist Captain
Santhosh Kumar (retd) who has
been fighting for the restoration
of Chandapura lake said, “This is
a welcome decision by the NGT
anditgivesushope thatnotonly
this lake but the condition of
other lakes in Anekal will also
improve. There was asystematic
encroachment of water bodies
and storm water drains (SWD).
These are ancient lakes which
need to be protected.”
after drunken
quarrel over
Kohli, RCB
JANARDHAN KOUSHIK
CHENNAI, OCTOBER 14
A 21-YEAR-OLD man has been
arrested for allegedly killing his
friendfollowingadrunkenquar-
rel over thebest Indian cricketer.
Thedeceased,PVignesh(24),
and the accused, S Dharmaraj,
belong to Poyyur village in Tamil
Nadu’sAriyalurdistrict.Vignesh,
who had completed ITI, was
awaiting visa to fly to Singapore
for a job. Both of them were avid
cricket fans.
According to the Keelapalur
police, the incident happened on
Tuesday night when the duo met
at an open land near SIDCO
IndustrialEstate,Mallur.“Bothhad
consumedliquorandwereappar-
entlydiscussingcricket.Asperini-
tialinvestigation,VigneshisaRohit
Sharmafanandhadbeensupport-
ing Mumbai Indians in Indian
Premier League (IPL), whereas
DharmarajisaViratKohlifanand
has been a Royal Challengers
Bangalore(RCB)supporter.
"During their discussion on
Tuesday, Vignesh had allegedly
mocked RCB and Virat Kohli.
Vignesh had a habit of body
shaming Dharmaraj and on that
day he had passed some re-
marks comparing the RCB team
and the speaking difficulty of
Dharmaraj, who is a stammerer.
This had agitated Dharmaraj,
who attacked Vignesh with a
bottle and later hit him with a
cricket bat on his head and fled
the spot,” the officer said.
Vignesh has been remanded
in judicial custody.

People should feel responsible, not like free

riders in India journey of progress: Rajnath
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14
URGING PEOPLE to play their
part in the country’s journey of
progress, Defence Minister
RajnathSinghonFridaysaid“we
are not free riders but a respon-
sible rider in this journey”.
Addressingagatheringatthe
National War Memorial
Complex after launching “Maa
Bharati Ke Sapoot” website for
contribution to Armed Forces
Battle Casualties Welfare Fund
(AFBCWF), Singh said it is our
moral responsibility to help
thosewhokeepthecountrysafe.
“Wehavetoworkforthewel-
fare of our country, our society
and our soldiers by rising above
the spirit of personal or institu-
tionalfame,prestigeandhonour.
This nation has given us a lot.
Now it is our turn to offer some-
thing to the nation,” he said.
“In the development journey
of our country, whether anyone
feelsornot,weshouldfeelthatwe
arenotfreeridersinthisjourney...
Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Army Chief,
General Manoj Pande, at the National War Memorial in
New Delhi on Friday. PTI
but we are responsible riders,”
Singh said, adding: “It is our duty
to ensure that we have an active
participation in nation building.”
Singh appealedtothe people
to donate “generously” to hon-
our the sacrifice of soldiers and
their families.
In a statement, the Ministry
of Defence said: “The AFBCWF is
a Tri-Service fund, which is
utilised for grant of immediate
financial assistance to the fami-
lies of soldiers/sailors/airmen
who lay down their lives or get
grievously injured in active mil-
itary operations.”
“While the Government has
initiated a large number of wel-
fare schemes for the soldiers
killed or disabled during active
combat operations, there has
been a strong public sentiment
and requests from citizens, cor-
porate heads, banks and indus-
try captains to contribute to the
cause of welfare of the soldiers
and their families. The website
will enable people to contribute
online directly into the fund. A
certificateof online contribution
can also be downloaded,” the
statement said.
Actor Amitabh Bachchan is
the “goodwill ambassador” of
the new initiative.
On the occasion, Chief of
Defence Staff General Anil
Chauhan,Chief of theAirStaff Air
Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari,
Chief of the Army Staff General
Manoj Pande, Secretary (Ex-
Servicemen Welfare) Vijoy
Kumar Singh, Vice Chief of the
Naval Staff Vice Admiral SN
Ghormade,otherseniorciviland
military officials and Olympics
gold medallist Neeraj Chopra
were also present.

Def exports to cross `13,000 cr, Gujarat to get 5th airbase

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
GANDHINAGAR, OCTOBER 14
DEFENCE MINISTER Rajnath
SinghwillchairthesecondIndia-
Africadefencedialogueandacon-
claveof defenceministersof over
25 countries during the DefExpo
2022, scheduled to begin in
Gandhinagar on October 18.
The event, which will be for-
mally inaugurated by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi on
October 19, will also see the vir-
tual opening of a new Indian Air
Force(IAF)basebuiltatDeesanear
theIndo-Pakistanborder,Defence
secretary Ajay Kumar told media
persons Friday.
At present, Gujarat has air
basesinVadodara,Jamnagar,Bhuj
and Naliya in Kutch district.
On October 18, Rajnath Singh
will chair the second India-Africa
defence dialogue at a hotel near
Mahatma Mandir, while on
October19,heisexpectedtochair
the IOR+ Defence Ministers con-
clave at the same venue. Over 25
defence ministers from Indian
Ocean Region (IOR) and other
countieswillbepresent.Atame-
diabriefingonFriday,SanjayJaju,
Additional Secretary (Defence
production),MoD,said,“Wehave
addedcountrieswithexportpos-
sibilities in this conclave.”
Last year, Singh had stated
that India was ready to supply
military equipment to countries
in IOR where China is asserting
its presence.
Kumar on Friday said that
India’s defence exports is ex-
pected to exceed the Rs 13,000-
crore mark it touched last year,
adding that United States is the
biggest importer of the country’s
defence products.
Kumar, who was in
Gandhinagartoreviewtheprepa-
rationsforDefExpo2020—sched-
uled to be held between October
18-22, said, “In the past four-five
years, there has been a eight-fold
increase in defence exports from
India. Last year, our defence ex-
ports touched a record Rs 13,000
crore and we hope to exceed this
duringcomingyears.Today,what
our industry is manufacturing, is
not a copy-paste. We are making
our original technologies.”
“Ourhighestdefenceexports
are to the United States, where
wesupplyanumberof partsand
components and sub-assem-
bliesforvariousplatforms.Apart
from this, Philippines, Armenia,
Israel and south-east Asian
countries. In the coming days,
we will be exporting to South
America,” Jaju added.

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KOLKATA CLASH
Web portal GSLV MkIII to make commercial foray Judge’s role is not to
please people: Justice
by launching 36 satellites on Oct 23
editor arrested
for sharing Gupta at farewell
‘provocative’

E
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE Justice
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14
content: Police The vehicle has established itself Hemant

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
KOLKATA, OCTOBER 12
THEKOLKATApoliceonThursday
arrested Manab Guha, who runs
anonlineBengalinewsportal,for
allegedly sharing “provocative
content” in the wake of clashes
between two communities in
Ekbalpur area of the city on
October 9.
“Guha was arrested for up-
loading communally inflamma-
toryvideosonsocialmedia,”said
aseniorpoliceofficer.Addingthat
Guhawasbookedundersections
120B(criminalconspiracy),153A
(Promoting enmity between dif-
ferent groups on grounds of reli-
gion, race, place of birth), 295A
(Deliberateandmaliciousacts,in-
tended to outrage religious feel-
ingsofanyclassbyinsultingitsre-
ligion or religious beliefs), 500
(Defamation),504(Intentionalin-
sultwithintenttoprovokebreach
of the peace), 505 (Statements
conducing to public mischief) of
theIPCandsection67oftheITAct.
He was remanded in police cus-
tody till October 24.
BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari
tweeted, “I am the leader of the
opposition in the state, making
my stand clear that social media
journalists like Manav Guha or
others like Polumi Nag are doing
honest journalism... my support
will always remain with them.”
According to the police, since
Sunday – the day of the incident
–GuhaallegedlywroteFacebook
posts thatwere"provocative"and
he did not heed their requests to
remove such content.
ANONNA DUTT
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14
INDIAN SPACE Research
Organisation's heaviest rocket,
GSLV MkIII, is set to launch 36
satellites of the OneWeb com-
munication constellation from
the country’s only space port at
Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, at
7 am on October 23. With this
the GSLV MkIII will enter the
global commercial launch serv-
ice market.
In a tweet, the ISRO said:
“LVM3 - M2/OneWeb India-1
Mission: Launch scheduled at
0007hrs.ISTonOctober23,2022.
Cryo stage, equipment bay (EB)
assemblycompleted.Satellitesare
encapsulated and assembled in
the vehicle. Final vehicle checks
are in progress.”
The space agency has also
thrownopenaviewinggalleryfor
the people to witness the launch,
which has been done for the first
Union Health Ministry sends team to
take stock of dengue situation in UP
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14
THE UNION health ministry has
rushed a high-level, multi-disci-
plinary team to take stock of the
dengue situation in three dis-
tricts of Uttar Pradesh —
Firozabad, Agra and Etawah —
and to recommend the public
health interventions necessary
to manage the increasing num-
ThisisthefirsttimethatIndia’sheaviestrocket isbeingused
foracommerciallaunch. Photo: ISRO
time since the pandemic started.
The launch aboard India’s
heaviestrocketwaspurchasedby
the United Kingdom-based
Network Access Associated
Limited through the New Space
IndiaLimited,oneofthecommer-
cial arms of the space agency.
Bharti group-backed OneWeb is
ber of cases in the state. The six-
member team will work closely
withstatehealthauthorities.The
team is headed by Dr V K
Chaudhary from the regional of-
ficeof HealthandFamilyWelfare
in Lucknow, and includes ex-
perts from the National Centre
for Disease Control, National
Centre for Vector Borne Disease
Control, and Dr RML Hospital.
The number of dengue cases
has been rising recently in UP,
a constellation of satellites in low
earth orbit to provide broadband
services. This is the first time that
India’s heaviest rocket is being
used for a commercial launch.
Also,thiswillthefirsttimearocket
other than India’s workhorse –
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
(PSLV)–isbeingusedtocarryout
particularly after recent spells of
rain. According to the latest data
released by the National Vector
Borne Disease Control
Programme, UP reported 416
cases of dengue and one
dengue-related death until
August.Aftertherecentspike,of-
ficials said number of reported
cases so far has gone up to
around 3,000. The total number
of cases, however, still remains
lower than last year.
E X P L A I NE D
Marking a
● shift in policy
THE GOVERNMENT
openedupthespacesector
for private players in 2020,
promoting new activities
by existing ISRO collabora-
torsand encouragingstart-
ups that offer full gamut of
activitiesfromlaunchserv-
ices,satellitedevelopment,
to down-stream applica-
tions. There are over 100
start-ups in India. The aim
was to allow private play-
ers to offer routine space
serviceswhileISROfocuses
on scientific missions.
commercial launch.
Sinceitsfirstoperationalflight,
the PSLV has conducted at least
eight commercial-only launches.
SCO-RATS to counter terror
groups operating from Afghanistan
New Delhi: The Regional Anti-
TerrorismStructure(RATS)of the
ShanghaiCooperationOrganisati
Fridaydecidedonjointmeasures
by member countries to counter
threatsposedbyinternationalter-
rorist groups operating from
Afghanistan. The decision was
taken at a meeting of the council
of RATS that was hosted by India
in the national capital.
in the global market, having Gupta
launched at least 345 foreign SUPREME COURT judge Justice
satellites from 36 countries, with Hemant Gupta on Friday, his last
its most notable flight being the day in office, said that making not stake any claim to perfection.
2017 PSLV-C37 mission that put people happy is not the role as- Inmyshortcomings,whenIerred,
104 satellites in orbits (of which signed to a judge. it's been unintentional,” he said.
101 were foreign commercial “A judge cannot make people He was appointed as Judge of
satellites).Thiswillbethesecond happy,that'snottheroleassigned Punjab and Haryana HC in July
flight of the GSLV Mk III — after it to him. That role is assigned to 2002 and took over as Judge of
joinedtheISROfleethavingcom- other people in public life. One Patna HC in February 2016 and
pletedtwodevelopmentflights— cannotdischargethisrolewithin- wentontobeappointedasActing
since it carried India’s second lu- tentionofpleasingpeople,”Justice ChiefJustice.InMarch2017,hebe-
nar mission Chandrayaan-2. Guptasaidatafarewellhostedby came Chief Justice of Madhya
The other heavier launch ve- the Supreme Court Bar Pradesh High Court and was ele-
hicle, GSLV, has a spottier record Association. vated to Supreme Court in 2018.
with fourteen launches so far, in- “Most important is my inner OnThursday,JusticeGuptaas
cluding the development flights. satisfaction that I have given the part of a two-judge bench had
However, only eight of the mis- best to the institution…I have upheld Karnataka HC order vali-
sions were a complete success. triedmybesttodischargemydu- dating the ban on wearing of hi-
None of these missions were tieswithutmosthumilityandsin- jabinsideclassroomsinpre-uni-
commercial ones. cerity, though sometimes I lose versity colleges while the other
India currently has three op- my cool. No one is perfect. I can- judge dissented
erational launch vehicles –PSLV,
GSLV, GSLV Mk III. ISRO has also
developedasmallsatellitelaunch
vehicle,whosefirstdevelopment
flight was partially successful.
India's Deputy NSA Dattatray
Padsalgikarsaiditwasdecidedto
hold militaryexercise,‘Solidarity-
2023’ next year in China.
“TheCouncilof theSCO-RATS
decidedtoorganiseandconducta
joint border operation with the
forces and means of the border
servicesofthecompetentauthor-
ities of the SCO member states,"
the Deputy NSA said. PTI

Centre: Foreign NAVODAYA VIDYALAYA SAMITI

varsities setting up
campuses in GIFT City
can repatriate profits
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14
TO ENCOURAGE foreign univer-
sities to set up campuses in
Gujarat'sGIFTCity,theCentrehas
notified regulations saying such
entities will be free to repatriate
profit to their parent campuses.
The regulations of the
International Financial Services
Authority (IFSCA), which is GIFT
City's regulatory body, come at a
timewhentheUniversityGrants
Commission (UGC) is drafting
rules that govern foreign educa-
tional institutions that want to
set up campuses in India.
The UGC rules will be appli-
cable to all such potential proj-
ects, except those in GIFT City,
where only the IFSCA guidelines
will be applicable.
“The Parent Entity shall be
permitted to repatriate profit, if
any,withoutanyrestriction,”the
IFSCA guidelines, published in
the Gazette of India on October
12, stated.
Notably, an Education
Ministrycommitteethatrecently
framedguidelinesfortheexpan-
sion of IITs in foreign countries
had recommended that the par-
ent institutes in India should ex-
pectareasonableamountof roy-
alty from such offshore
campuses — around 10 to 15 per
centof theoverallexpenditureof
Actor Nayanthara surrogacy
probe to clear air: TN official
An Autonomous Organization Under
Ministry of Education
Department of School Education & Literacy
Govt. of India
ADMISSION NOTIFICATION
It is to bring to the notice of all concerned that last date of (A) Date of demand Notice A) Reserve Details
the offshore campus. submission of online application for admission to Class-IX u/s 13 (2) of SARFAESI Act Price of
2002 B) EMD the
In a similar vein, the IFSCA through Lateral Entry Selection Test in Jawahar Navodaya (B.1) O/S amount as on date C) last date of encumb
regulationswillallowforeignin- Vidyalayas for the session 2023-24 is extended up to 25th of 13 (2) notice deposit of EMD rances
stitutestorepatriateprofitsfrom (B.2) O/S amount as on given D) Bid Increase known
campuses they set up in GIFT
October 2022. Candidates may apply free of cost by visiting date to the
Amount
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opt for surrogacy, a senior health official said the Proprietor Shri Circle Office Kudra, Thana No. 657, Vill- Due from 01-10-2018 & C) 14/11/2022 to
probe is being conducted to “clear Santosh Kumar Gupta Jahanabad, PO- Kudra, Dist- Kaimur, Khata Other Bank’s Charges. D) 10,000/- 01:00 PM
the air” and clarified that no com- S/O Shri Bhagwan No. 42, Khesra No. 1328, Area:- 04 Decimal, C) 25-01-2019
plaints have been received in this Das Gupta Boundary:North- Nij, South- Dharmawati D) Symbolic A) 4.50 Lakh
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surrogacy. The committee, announced by Health 4316/2009.
Minister Ma Subramanian, will look into whether
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Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021 last December,
commercial surrogacy was outlawed in India. Only
“altruistic surrogacy” is now permitted.
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RuralHealthServices,whoheadsthecommitteesaid
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WORDLY WISE
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is
well to stop when you get down to the skin.
— Austin O'Malley

FOUNDED BY
Like a tightrope walker
§

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RAMNATH GOENKA
Asworldwatches,20thpartycongresswillsignalhow
BECAUSE THE TRUTH INVOLVES US ALL
Chinabalancesdevelopment,stability,epidemiccontrol

XI JINPING’S PARTY Vijay Gokhale

The question next week is really about the form and extent of
ON OCTOBER 12, the final plenary session of the west. The latest communique issued on ThereisafiercedebateoverwhetherXiistak-
his dominance over the Chinese Communist Party the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Wednesdayisdarkerandhighlightsthechal- ing China back to Mao-ism. Yuen Yuen Ang,

F
Communist Party concluded, as it usually
OR A CONGREGATION that is long on ceremony, short on debate, and one that does, with the outgoing committee giving its
rubber stamps decisions made by a small group of leaders, the quinquennial approval for the work report that Xi Jinping
congress of the Chinese Communist Party next week is drawing much global at- will present at the 20th Party Congress, as
tention. The reasons are easy to see. One, the more opaque a system, the greater well as for unspecified amendments to the
the mystique around it. The closed-door nature of China’s elite politics means that the rest party’s constitution. What is more remark-
able is the near absence of informed leaks
of theworldtendstorelyon“experts”toreadthetealeavestofigureoutwhoisupandwho
about the personnel changes and policy di-
is down in the CCP leadership. But you don’t need to be steeped in Chinese studies to get rection that will come forth when the 20th
a sense of what is going on in Beijing. What you see is what you get in China. The broad po- Party Congress opens in Beijing on October
litical and policy trends in Beijing under Xi Jinping have been clear and there will be few 16.Thissilenceunderscorestheextentof per-
surprises at the 20th Congress of the CCP. Two, the growing international interest in the sonalistic rule and authoritarian control that
CCP stems from the fact that China, a rich country with a powerful army, has begun to re- Xihasdeveloped.Aoncepredictablepolitical
shape the regional and global order. India, which has been at the receiving end of Beijing’s system with norm-bound succession rules
has been replaced by the uncertainties that
military stick in the last few years and increasingly reliant on the import of Chinese goods,
inevitably arise when individuals dominate.
would want to see if the CCP Congress points to any variations in the trajectory. The joint communique issued by the
Delhi should not hold its breath. The main outcome of the Congress is foretold — the plenumgavenoclues onwhat constitutional
extension of Xi Jinping’s tenure and the legitimisation of his status as the exalted leader changes might be in the offing. In 2017, it in-
volved the incorporation of Xi Jinping
of China in the manner of the party-state’s founder, Mao Zedong. Xi has overturned the
established convention of a two-term limit that was designed to prevent the concentra- Thoughtintothepartyconstitution.Onemay
tion of power and the personality cult as well as ensure a steady turnover in leadership.
expect that the changes will be directly re-
lated to Xi. The question is whether they will
Instead, Xi has crowned himself as the “chairman of everything”. The question next week be titular in nature such as elevating Xi to a
is really about the form and extent of his dominance over the party. Will he stuff the top newly re-created position of Party Chairman
decision-making body — the seven-member Politburo Standing committee — with his or more substantive such as by enshrining
loyalists or accommodate other factions? Beyond the personnel changes, reporters and the idea of Xi as both China’s Thought Leader
experts will pore over the turgid communist prose of the “work report” that Xi will pres- andChief Executive.Thecommuniqueissued
by the just-concluded plenum declares Xi’s
ent to the Congress. Here, again, don’t expect any major changes in the CCP’s orientation
role to have a “decisive bearing” on China’s
under Xi over the last decade.He moved left on the economic front by turningagainst pri- development,whichmakesithighlyunlikely
vatecapital andmarkets, disappointing theexpertswho betthat China will becomemore that he is going away anytime soon.
capitalist while dressed in communist clothes. Whatisnoteworthyisthecontextualcon-
On the external front, Xi has unleashed muscular policies on territorial disputes with trast between the message that the final
Asian neighbours. He has also sought to undermine America’s Asian alliances in order to plenum of the 18th Central Committee put
establish Chinese primacy in the region, and make a bid to change the global order in out in 2017 and the one put out by the cur-
rentone.The2017communiquewasimbued
Beijing’sfavour.WiththeUSnowpushingback,Xiisexpectedtodoubledownonthecon-
with positivity and hope about the “compre-
frontation with the US and the West and deepen the partnership with Russia. One of the hensiveandground-breaking”achievements
many unintended consequences of Xi’s policies has been the shattering of persistent illu- that Xi had made in his first five-year term,
sionsinDelhiaboutbefriendingChinainthenameof Asiansolidarityandglobalmultipo- when China still enjoyed a positive image in
larity. Events next week in Beijing will only make India’s challenge that much harder in
developing purposeful policies to cope with China's economic and military power.
On the national security
front, there is a general
feeling that Xi will move
China further down the road
to becoming a national-
security state. And in foreign
policy there should be no
expectation that China will
reset its frameworks like the
Global Security and
Development Initiatives for
the restructuring of the
international order. For
India there will be direct and
indirect implications on
many fronts and, for that
reason, we need to read the
outcomes of the 20th Party
Congress correctly and not
allow the west to interpret its
meaning for us.
lengesof a“complexandsevereinternational
environment” and the difficulties of balanc-
ing the triad of economic development, so-
cial stability and epidemic control.
The party wants the Chinese public to
weighXi’sachievementsagainstthisnewcir-
cumstance in which China finds itself. This
time Xi is portrayed as someone who can
“carry out our great struggle, develop our
great cause and pursue our great dream”. He
is now the leader who can face the difficul-
ties and challenges of steering China “closer
to the centre of the world stage” by 2049.
His report to the 20th Congress that be-
gins on Sunday will, hopefully, outline his
plans for the next decade. How he will bal-
ance his harsh policy of pandemic control
with the necessity of more economic open-
ing-up but without either policy affecting
overall stability, is what we should be on the
lookout for. Whether the world likes it or not,
an USD 18 trillion economy and a formidable
militarystill makeChina, despiteproblems,a
formidable engine of growth and a signifi-
cant influencer of global happenings. The
leadership is aware that double-digit growth
may never return, and is grappling with the
headwinds that Covid has created as well as
the technology war that the Americans have
launched to deny China the edge. The
question is whether the rising unemploy-
ment, rolling lock-downs and falling growth
might lead to further reform or to further se-
curitisation of the economy and hardening
of domestic supply chains in preparation for
the coming contest with America. Xi has
previously surprised everybody and may do
so again. What happens in Beijing next week
will, therefore, be critically important for
the world.
Comparisons with Mao are inevitable.
an astute observer of contemporary China,
has pointed out earlier this year in her essay
titled ‘How Resilient is the Chinese
Communist Party?’, that whereas Mao in-
cited chaos, Xi fears it. Mao was willing to
break state institutions. Xi may have drasti-
cally weakened them but the civilian and se-
curity bureaucracies still remain the back-
bone of Xi’s power. His efforts in the previous
10 years have been to reinstate the party’s
grip upon them through political campaigns
and not, like Mao, to eliminate these bureau-
cracies. Xi is essentially a man of order.
What should we look for in the coming
week? Personnel changes are on the cards.
Appointments to the Politburo Standing
Committee are one indicator of how domi-
nant Xi is and whether others have the abil-
ity to check his authority. More significant
will be the broad direction of economic pol-
icy,especiallyhowhewillhandlethehousing
bubble,whetherhewillallowtheprivatesec-
tortoreplacestate-driveninvestmentincore
technologiesandwhenandhowhewilldraw
down Covid restrictions.
On the national security front, there is a
general feeling that he will move China fur-
ther down the road to becoming a national-
security state. And in foreign policy there
should be no expectation that China will re-
set its frameworks like the Global Security
and Development Initiatives for the restruc-
turing of the international order. For India
there will be direct and indirect implications
on many fronts and, for that reason, we need
to read the outcomes of the 20th Party
Congress correctly and not allow the west to
interpret its meaning for us.
Gokhale is author of After Tiananmen: The
Rise of China and former Foreign Secretary

SHIMLA AUGURY
Outcome of Himachal election will be an important test for
DHAK DHAK WITH A TWIST
Congress and BJP, lay the ground for the contests to follow That Madhuri Dixit plays the lead in ‘Maja Ma’ marks progress for LGTBQ+ stories

W
ITHONLY68seats,HimachalPradesh,whereassemblyelectionshave
been announced for November 12, is a small state. But the outcome Sukhmani Malik
is likely to resonate beyond the state's borders. The Himachal elec-
tion marks the beginning of a crowded poll calender that will culmi- THE NEW MADHURI Dixit-starrer Maja Ma
nate in the 2024 general election. Elections are due in Gujarat next, which will be fol- exploressexualitythroughthecentraltheme
lowed by assembly polls to at least nine states, among them Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, of contrast. The story about an unassuming
Chhattisgarh,RajasthanandTelangana,over ayear.Inmostof thesestates,asinHimachal, woman, Maja Ma is about the “quintessen-
the main contenders are the BJP and Congress, and the results in the hill state may have tial”Indianwoman’sidentityanditsrelation-
ship with her life, family and society.
a bearing on electoral fortunes elsewhere.
Pallavi Patel is the proud mother of two,
Himachal Pradesh has been, more or less, a two-party state since its formation in 1971: a “good” wife to her husband of 25 years and
Since the 1990s, the Congress and BJP have alternated in office. The entry of the AAP car- a master chef and dancer from a “re-
riedthepromiseof makingthecontesttriangularbut,afterseveral defections,thepartyap- spectable” family. She labours all day, never
pears to have retreated. Party chief Arvind Kejriwal's travel schedule suggests that the AAP complains, and seems to want one thing
is more invested in Gujarat than in Himachal Pradesh. As for Congress, it desperately needs alone — happiness for her family. Her virtue
to win Himachal, having lost both Punjab and Uttarakhand earlier this year. The party may is in her lack of rebellion.
Hersubservienceispivotaltotheplot.It’s
be enthused by the fact that it has won four bypolls — three to the assembly and one to
whatmakesherqueernesstheonlyanomaly
Parliament—ayearago.However,ithasbeenunabletoprojectaleaderasitsfaceinthestate in an otherwise squeaky-clean life.
since the demise of Virbhadra Singh, who was chief minister for 21 years. Congress seems Through the vehicle of the family unit,
tobebankingonanti-incumbency,economicturmoilthatgotexacerbatedduringtheCovid the stressors of a Hindu, upper-caste
pandemic when the tourism industry, a major job and revenue provider, was badly hit. It woman are laid bare. Her identity as a les-
isalsoattemptingtowinovergovernmentemployeesbypromisingareturntotheoldpen- bian is a topic that her environment makes
impossible to talk about. This is because her
sionscheme,a populistproposalthatcanhurtstatefinances. TheBJP,ontheotherhand, ap-
identity as a person remains unrealised. She
pears to be falling back on the charisma of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his slogan is a wife, a mother — never someone with a
of “double-engine ki sarkar” rather than on its local leadership, a strategy that paid it div- personal identity.
idends in Uttarakhand. Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur, who was pitchforked into office be- Mostly,the treatmentof queernessis nu-
cause Prem Kumar Dhumal lost his seat, has been non-controversial but low-profile. anced. The reason why a character is dealing
The Himachal election will be an important test for both the BJP and Congress ahead with her sexuality in a certain way makes
of the parliamentary face-off in 2024. The result will be keenly watched and will lay the
sense and captures different biases. For her
husband, it creates doubts about his own
ground for the political competition to follow. masculinity, apart from the grief of finding
out that he has been living in an unrecipro-
cated relationship. Pallavi’s NRI in-laws-to-
Pallavi’s sexuality is revealed
to her daughter in a moment
of invasive interrogation and
to the world, through a
similar transgression. Her
life because of my own selfish reasons”).
There are visibly trans characters in the
story (though not nearly enough, it is strides
aheadof the Hindicommercial scenetoday);
important conversations are layered into the
narrative, offeringinsights into the queer ex-
perience.Pallavi’sconversationwiththehead
of a LGBTQ+ organisation — a moment in
which she is afforded some dignity — comes
as a breath of relief for a violated Pallavi and
of comprehension of the struggle for view-
ers. Concepts like community living are also
brought to the fore. The absurdity of “com-
ing out” within Pallavi’s context comes
through distinctly.
ThefactthatMadhuriDixit—theepitome
of the male fantasy, the “choli ke peeche kya
hai” girl — has been cast in the role of a les-
bian marks the progress Maja Ma makes for
queer stories in India. It is a movie made for
Bollywood — it has the typical themes of
dance, song and family. Through the casting
choice,themovielegitimisesthesubjectmat-
ter at hand as part of the mainstream.
Anothercommendableaspectof thestory
is the conversation around agency. Pallavi’s
sexuality is revealedtoherdaughter in a mo-
ment of invasive interrogation and to the
world, through a similar transgression. Her
lackof agencyiscriticaltohoweventsunfolds.
At no point is she given the choice — to come
outortostayinthecloset.Thesceneinwhich
helping Pallavi andeverythingto dowiththe
children’sobsessionwith“appearingmoral”.
To have a conversation around agency in
an enmeshed Indian household notorious
for struggling with the very idea of agencyis
aboldchoice.Thefactthatitcomesupinthe
conversation around sexuality makes it
even richer.
Maja Ma, however, is a movie geared to-
ward a specific audience. What makes
Pallavi the ideal woman? Why is her les-
bianism a fall from “grace”? Pallavi had to
be an upper-caste Hindu, subservient to
structures that only suffocate her. The movie
seeks to normalise the existence of queer-
ness within the fold of identities that already
hold social sanction today.
The film fails to address the structures of
caste and gender that hold the three critical
aspects of this movie together — the state,
marriageandthewoman.Pallavi’sreasonsfor
stayingcloseted aremany.Butthefear of los-
ing social sanction is front and centre. Uma
Chakravarti, in her book, Gendering Caste:
ThroughaFeministLens,says,“Womenarere-
garded as upholding the traditions by con-
forming to them.” This is what becomes
Pallavi’s Kryptonite. What makes the movie
relatable as a queer tale to the targeted audi-
ences is also what limits liberation for both
women and queer persons, then.
The movie offers multiple moments of

WHAT IS VALUE? be see Indian culture as Hindu culture and

Hinducultureasasacrosanctinstitutionwith
concepts like homosexuality being simply
The question that has flummoxed academics for generations is unacceptable. Despite Pallavi's love being
inches away from her, any moves to seek out
answered by the taxman herownhappinessareeclipsedbythefearof
lack of agency is critical to
how events unfolds. At no
point is she given the choice
— to come out or to stay in
the closet. The scene in which
Tara,Pallavi’sdaughter,shoveshermotherout
of the closet is literal and effective. Pallavi is
backed up against a closet — she is folding
laundry,naturally—inthemomentof there-
veal,andassoonastherealityof whatshehas
saidsetsin,sheshrinksinshameandfallsback
connection. Pallavi’s interactions with her
family as she finally comes into her own are
sobering.Theresolution,however,iscutshort
bytheframeworkitexistsin.Ultimately,Maja
Ma is an important work because of what it
talks about, but it is critical in what it doesn’t

S
harm to her family. She tells Kanchan, her into the closet. Tara’s “woke” posturing is in- talkabout.Asviewers,itgivesusanopportu-
O MUCH OF modern academic attention has been drawn to a fundamental
childhood sweetheart, “Apne swarth ke liye,
Tara, Pallavi’s daughter, trusive, unkind. It stands at the opposite end nity to introspect.
question: What is value? There are values in the sense of moral values that un- mai doosro ki zindagi barbaad nahi karna shoves her mother out of the of her brother’s resolution — a conversion
derpin an individual's ethical outlook; norms and rules determined by what a chahtithi”(“Ididnotwanttoruineveryone’s closet is literal and effective. camp.Bothpositionshavenothingtodowith sukhmani.malik@expressindia.com
society holds dear; and, of course, how value attaches itself to commodities.
But away from the academic to-and-fro, the “value question” which has flummoxed
deans and doyens has been answered by the Government of India, via the inscrutable

OCTOBER 15, 1982, FORTY YEARS AGO

logic of the tax man.
Which has more value — a roti or a paratha? A roti is healthier, a paratha more stuffed
— with ingredients and flavour. Most ordinary people would say, it's a matter of taste.
Perhaps, following this line of thought, the good people at Vadilal asked that their frozen BENGAL FAMINE a decision to this effect was taken at a re-
cent national security council meeting
TN’S CAUVERY PLEA
paratha be taxed at 5 per cent (as rotis are) instead of 18 per cent. According to the GST
appellate authority in Gujarat, however, the paratha is more valuable. For ontological WESTBENGALCHIEFMinisterJyotiBasuhas presided over by the President J R VIRTUALLYABANDONINGALLbilateraltalks
questions, too, the GST Council has an answer: Is form more important or matter; is the askedcentralleaderstoallowhisgovernment Jayawardene, to forestall post-election vio- with Karnataka on the Cauvery issue, the
to purchase foodgrain from other states to lence. Post-election violence has been a reg- Tamil Nadu government has demanded that
superstructure more valuable than the base? If you go by pizzas, Karl Marx was wrong.
staveoff near-famineconditionsarisingfrom ular feature in this country. The emergency, the Centre discard its present indifferent at-
According to GST rates: If you buy a pizza base separately, you'll have to pay 12 per cent acalamitousdrought.“Wehavegotonlytwo when declared, would be the third in the titude to the issue and find a solution to the
GST but since pizza toppings are not actual pizza, they will be taxed at 18 per cent. Then weeks’ rations in our godowns”, he said. past 14 months. sharing of the Cauvery waters.
there was the question of whether Parachute coconut oil is an edible oil or beauty prod-
uct because it's used both for hair care and cooking. LANKAN EMERGENCY AKALI PRISONERS POLISH PROTESTS
Examples abound. With the stroke of a pen, some things are made more valuable in
SRI LANKA IS likely to be put under a state LOKSABHASPEAKERBalramJakharadmon- A 40-YEAR-OLD MAN died in hospital
terms of economic cost — as with the paratha — and others are made available because
of emergency soon after polling ends on ished a Democratic Socialist Party member, after being shot when the police opened
they ostensibly uphold the values of a society (most items of religious worship are taxed October 20. Quoting “informed sources”, a Neelalhoita Dasan Nadar, when the latter fire on rioters near the southern city
at zero per cent). If only the best minds in universities could figure out how these deci- Colombo English daily, sympathetic to the “tabled”inediblerotiswhichhesaidwerebe- of Krakow in Poland, the official news
sions are arrived at, those feeling the pain of their arbitrariness might find some succour. ruling United National Party, reported that ing supplied to Akali prisoners in Punjab. agency reported.

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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2022
A court for our times
Supreme Court’s decision on abortion provides a firm foundation for the autonomy of all women,
enabling the full exercise of their reproductive choice, irrespective of relationship status
OPENING ARGUMENT
By Menaka Guruswamy
ON SEPTEMBER 29, 2022, in X v the Principal
Secretary, Health and Family Welfare
Department, Government of NCT, three judges
of the Supreme Court, Justice D Y
Chandrachud, Justice A S Bopanna and
Justice J B Pardiwala, in a unanimous deci-
sion, allowed an unmarried woman to ter-
minate her pregnancy. The senior-most
judge of the panel, Justice Chandrachud, au-
thored the judgment.
Now, readers might be unsurprised to
knowthattheyoung,unmarried,andcoura-
geousappellantMsX,whowaspregnantbe-
cause of a consensual relationship, faced
statutory obstacles in accessing an abortion.
The statutory obstacles were in terms of
Section 3(2) (b) of the Medical Termination
of Pregnancy Act 1971 (MTP Act) and Rule 3
B(c)of theMedicalTerminationof Pregnancy
Rules 2003 (MTP Rules). And the law treated
her unmarried status as an impediment in
enabling her to access an abortion.
First, let us wade into the legal provisions
— Section 3(2) (B) of the MTP Act enables
pregnancies to be terminated by registered
medical practitioners if the length of the
pregnancy is within 20 weeks. Further, if the
pregnancyisbetween20and24weeks,then
two registered medical practitioners must
form an opinion that the continuation of the
pregnancy would involve a risk to the life of
the pregnant woman or will cause grave in-
juryto herphysicalandmentalhealth.Italso
allows termination if there is a substantial
risk that the child, if born, would suffer from
a serious physical or mental abnormality.
Importantly,MTPRule3Bestablishescat-
egories of women who can terminate preg-
nancy between 20 and 24 weeks. The cate-
goriesthattheruleallowsaccesstoabortions
are — survivors of sexual assault, those un-
dergoing a “change in status of relationship”
(for instance, divorce or death of spouse),
thosewhoarephysicallychallengedormen-
tally ill and where the foetus is malformed
ormaysufferfrommentalorphysicalabnor-
malities. Clearly, on a plain reading, “unmar-
ried women” were not included among
women who can access abortions when the
pregnancy is between 20 and 24 weeks.
When the 25-year-old Ms X reached the
Supreme Court, after her plea was rejected
by the Delhi High Court, she was a little un-
der the legally significant 24-week deadline.
The Delhi High Court had ruled that Section
3 (2) (b) of the MTP Act was inapplicable to
unmarried women, and hence Ms X could
not access an abortion.
As the hearings got underway, the Union
of India, through the Additional Solicitor
GeneralAishwaryaBhati,madeconstitution-
ally compelling arguments — including that
modern legislation must be read in view of
the evolution of society and that the termi-
nology “change of marital status” must be
read to include unmarried or single women.
The Supreme Court responded in a
deeply thoughtful manner, by first laying a
Shah Rukh Alam
MAHSAAMINIWASayoungKurdish-Iranian
woman, who was detained by the police for
wearingherheadscarfimproperly.Shewasre-
portedly hit on the head with a baton. Amini
died later in police custody. Her death has
caused widespread protests in Iran, and gar-
nered international solidarity for the
protestors.
InIndia,atfirst,the incidentof the hijabin
Iran was juxtaposed awkwardly with that of
headscarvesinKarnataka,“theywanttowear,
they don’t want to wear or they just want to
createtrouble?”Itwasthenthatwecollectively
realised that the hijab was only a trope — the
women were really claiming for themselves
the right to choose.
At birth, Mahsa Amini was named Zhina,
her name in her native Kurdish language. Her
familyandfriendscalledherZhina,butshewas
forcedtoalsocarryaPersiannameforthepur-
posesofofficialdocumentation,fortheIslamic
statedoesnotrecognisecertainethnicnames
thatpromote“separatism”.AsJusticeHemant
Gupta held in his judgment on the hijab case
“thestudentsshouldlookalike,feelalike,think
alike... for a cohesive cordial atmosphere”.
ZhinaAminiwasamemberoftheKurdish
minority.DopoliceinIranexertmoreforceon
the marginalised, as they do elsewhere too?
I have a memory of two evenings in
Colombo many years ago. They were army
pickets in the city and people were routinely
stopped and their papers checked. The first
eveningIhappenedtobewalkingwithaTamil
friend, who immediately became alert as we
context for the constitutional rights of un-
married women to be grounded in. Single or
unmarried women who are pregnant, the
court notes, are confronted by “social stigma
that women face for engaging in pre-mari-
tal sexual relations and this prevents them
from realising their right to reproductive
health in a variety of ways”.
What does a thoughtful constitutional
courtdo,whenconfrontedwiththedemands
of atransformativeconstitutioninasituation
such as this? It steps up to the challenge by
looking at changed societal realities and ap-
plies techniques of interpretation of the law
that enable a statute to transform with time
in a manner constitutionally warranted.
The question the court framed was
whether Rule 3B includes unmarried
women, single women or women without a
partner under its ambit. This simple ques-
tion brought clarity to the adjudicative task
ahead. The court felt the answer to their
question could be arrived at by “imparting a
purposive interpretation to Rule 3B”. This
means that one should avoid a literal inter-
pretationandlookattheintentionof theleg-
islature. In doing so, the court notes that
changing social mores must be borne in
mind when interpreting the provisions of an
enactment to further its object and purpose.
What sets our Supreme Court apart from
many other constitutional courts is its will-
ingness to examine changing social realities.
Thisisacourtthatunderstandsthattheirad-
judicative obligation is to be able to discern
changing mores — in this case, the varied
contexts of relationships and families. This
constitutional gaze, along with the mandate
of our “transformative constitution”, has re-
sulted in some of the most dynamic deci-
sions by our court.
For instance, the Court in this case of Ms
X writes that the transformative nature of
the constitution has been emphasised in
Navtej Singh Johar where Section 377 of the
IndianPenalCode,1862,wasdecriminalised.
The Supreme Court also cites it previous de-
cisions that recognised “modern and atypi-
Personal liberty, public space
In Iran and India, narrative on hijab frames our attitudes to minorities
approached the picket, took out her papers,
stretched her hand out and waited patiently
as the soldier took his time scrutinising her
documents. Another evening I was walking
withaSinhalesefriend,whorealisedthat“she
had forgotten her ID card at home”. First, she
sighed, then she giggled, and then she ban-
teredwiththesoldier.Wewerepastthepicket
within seconds.
The Iranian leader, Ali Khameini, recently
said on his official Twitter handle “many
Iranian women who don’t observe the hijab
perfectlyareamongthesteadfastsupportersof
the Islamic Republic”.
Amini belonged to a community that is
politicallysuspectamongsttheestablishment
— there is an ongoing Kurdish separatist
movement. The Iranian security forces fre-
quently perform surgical strikes on the
Kurdish opposition hiding in the mountain-
ous borders with Iraq.
Coulditbesaidthatthe“establishmentof
nationalconsciousnessandunity”ispractised
mostly qua minorities and dissidents, not so
much on those who “steadfastly support the
establishment”, even when they are not fol-
lowing its everyday rules for disciplining?
The “hijab case” is only a trope to think
about so many other issues. When we think
about the deployment of state power on cer-
tain communities to make them uniform, or
even when the courts consider arbitrary ap-
plicationofUAPAoncertaindissenters,weare
really discussing the same primary question:
How do we deal with difference and dissent?
What sets our Supreme
Court apart from many
other constitutional courts
is its willingness to examine
changing social realities.
This is a court that
understands that their
adjudicative obligation is to
be able to discern changing
mores — in this case, the
varied contexts of
relationships and families.
This constitutional gaze,
along with the mandate of
our ‘transformative
constitution’, has resulted in
some of the most dynamic
decisions by our court.
Do we police the margins and bring into line
thosewhoinsistonlookingandbeingdifferent
as per Justice Gupta? Or do we warmly smile
at, and engage with difference in the manner
shown by Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia?
The hijab case is also a good place to ask
howindividualmembersofapoliticalminor-
ity negotiate their freedoms vis-à-vis their
community,whichmightbeclosinginonitself
inthefaceofpersecution?Politicalminorities
organisearoundtheirprimaryidentity,andall
otherinequalitiesandbigotrieswithinremain
suspended in the moment, especially when
facedwitha“discipliningstate”.JusticeDhulia
providesawaybymakingavailabletoallsuch
individual spaces for critical thinking, and on
their own terms. He cites approvingly two
judgments from South Africa and the UK to
make the point: “The school argued that if
Sunali did not like the Code, she could simply
go to another school that would allow her to
wear the nose stud. I cannot agree... the effect
of this would be to marginalise religions and
cultures,somethingthatiscompletelyincon-
sistent with.. our Constitution.” And: “Young
girls from ethnic, cultural or religious minori-
tiesgrowingupherefacedifficultchoices:How
fartoadoptortodistancethemselvesfromthe
dominant culture. A good school will enable
and support them.”
Such an attitude makes for confident mi-
noritiesandmakesinternalreformeminently
more possible.
But onthe question of policing difference,
the two judgments present two diverse un-
C R Sasikumar
cal”formsof familialrelations,includinglive-
in relationships, single parent households,
households formed by remarriages with
children from earlier relationships, or same-
sex families as being deserving of constitu-
tional protections.
Finally, the court in Ms X reasons that the
legislature has always intended for married
or unmarried or single women to be on par
and have equal status through consistent re-
form of laws pertainingto adoption and suc-
cession, amongst others. Such reforms were
intended to benefit women. This the court
linked to other beneficial legislation includ-
ing the one impugned in the present case,
and concludes that “whole tenor of the MTP
Actistoprovideaccesstosafeandlegalmed-
icalabortionstowomen.”Remarkably,while
the court reviews the various categories of
women who are prima facie enabled to ac-
cessabortions,italsodiscussesthatawoman
may become pregnant because of non-con-
sensualsexualintercoursewithherhusband
and may become pregnant. As the court ob-
serves “the nature of sexual violence and the
contours of consent do not undergo a trans-
formation when one decides to marry.”
The court memorably concludes that to
give Rule 3B a restrictive and narrow inter-
pretation would render it perilously close to
holdingitunconstitutional.For,toirrationally
discriminate between married and unmar-
ried women in the context of access to abor-
tions would violate the right to equality, to
reproductive autonomy, privacy, and dignity
of the latter. By its decision in Ms X, the
Supreme Court speaks to an equal citizen-
ship of all women in their varied person-
hoods and forms — as unmarried or married
or single or in live-in relationships or cis or
otherwise. This decision is a firm constitu-
tional foundation for the autonomy of all
women by enabling the full exercise of their
reproductive choice, irrespective of relation-
ship status.
The writer is a Senior Advocate at
the Supreme Court
derstandings of education and citizenship.
Justice Dhulia states, “This is the time when
theyshouldlearnnottobealarmedbyourdi-
versity,buttorejoiceandcelebrate(it)...Allthe
Petitioners want is to wear a hijab! Is it too
much to askin ademocracy?” He envisages it
as a time to explore and experiment, while
JusticeGuptahasasternerview:“Disciplineis
oneof theattributeswhichthestudentslearn
in schools. ... They should grow in an atmos-
phere of brotherhood and fraternity and not
in the environment of rebel or defiance.”
Gupta's imagination of the public space is
counterfactual. It is devoid of any political, so-
cial or economic contexts. But for lack of uni-
forms,allstudentsaretrulyequalinallrespects
—therearenoconflictsoverDalitcooksserving
mid-daymeals,nodifferenceinresourcesand
opportunities between students, no discrimi-
nationaroundgenderandsexuality.Itislikethe
received story of Mahsa Amini, devoid of her
contextsinIran—asitwascelebratedinIndia.
Dhulia,incontrast,notes:“Historyteaches
usthattherehavebeenbutfewinfringements
ofpersonallibertybythestatewhichhavenot
beenjustified,astheyarehere,inthenameof
righteousness and the public good, and few
whichhavenotbeendictated,astheyarenow,
at politically helpless minorities.” I believe he
understands the struggle of Zhina Amini.
The writer is a Supreme Court lawyer. She
assisted with research on the case
for the Petitioner’s side.
The views expressed here are her own
WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
“Considering that the exchequer does not have much in it, recovery can be expected
to take a long time if aid remains this slow to materialise. Yet that has not stirred the
lawmakers occupying the lower House of parliament.”
Big Brother
vs Big Tech
Fromdrafttelecombilltodataprotectionbill,
government’sintentionappears tobetocontrol
everyaspectof thedigitalecosystem
Ishan Bakshi
THERE HAS BEEN a concerted attempt by
the ruling dispensation to usher in far
reachingexpansiveregulatoryframeworks
to govern each and every aspect of India’s
digital ecosystem.
From the draft telecom bill to the pro-
posede-commercerulestothepersonaldata
protection bill and others, these new policy
frameworksseektoregulatethephysicalin-
frastructure that forms the backbone of
DigitalIndia,theplatformsthatdominateall
formsofdigitalinteractionsfromcommuni-
cation to retail, the underlying payments
channels that facilitate these transactions,
andthemanagementofthedatagenerated.
While the precise nature of the provi-
sions proposed in each of these policies
varies, when seen as part of a larger mosaic,
theunderlyingphilosophythatdrivesormo-
tivatesthemorecontentiousaspectsofthese
policies seems to be the same. This appears
to be a strategic choice, driven by the desire
toexercisemorecontrolovereveryaspectof
the digital ecosystem, a preference for do-
mesticfirmsandadesiretopromotenational
championswhilelimitingtheinfluenceand
dominance of Big Tech.
Take the case of the draft telecom bill.
ThebillproposestobringOTTcommunica-
tion platforms under its ambit, subjecting
themtorulessimilartothosegoverningtele-
com operators, including licencing. The ex-
planations offered for favouring such a reg-
ulatoryarchitecturerangefromthosebased
oneconomicargumentssuchastheneedto
“create a level playing field” to the state as-
serting its sovereign right in matters con-
cerning “national security”.
However, neither of these explanations
holds water. The former assumes a false
equivalence between telcos and OTT plat-
forms, while there are better ways of tack-
ling concerns over the latter. But, the insis-
tence on licencing, not regulation, seems to
indicate a desire to bring Big Tech platforms
such as WhatsApp to heel. Considering the
wide-rangingramifications,itisconceivable
that this may simply be a negotiating tactic.
It is possible that these onerous provisions
areeventuallywatereddown,butonlyafter
extracting concessions from Big Tech.
Thesameintention —curbing the dom-
inance of Big Tech — rather than any sound
economiclogicappearstobebehindthede-
cision to impose caps on market shares of
payment platforms. UPI is, after all, interop-
erable. Barriers to entry are low. And there
are no charges for payments made through
theplatform.How,then,willconsumersben-
efitfromanotherplayerincreasingitsmarket
share?If atallcompetitionisbeingaffected,
itisaconsequenceoftheflawedMDR(mer-
chantdiscountrate)policyregime.Moreover,
market concentration, which is a conse-
quenceofnetworkeffects,isprevalentacross
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
DISAPPOINTING SPLIT
THIS REFERS TO the editorial, ‘She, the
student’ (IE, October 14). It’s disappoint-
ing that the bench couldn’t arrive at a
clear verdict. The split verdict shows the
division in the mentality of society on
subjects related to minority communi-
tiesandsecularism.Theissuehereis,why
can’tahead-scarf beamatterof individ-
ual choice? The split verdict has raised
anotherquestion:Shouldmatterswhich
could have divided opinions and major
politicaleffects,bereferredtoevennum-
bered benches? A verdict that legalises
this approach to education and a ruling
thatmayleadtothedenialofopportuni-
ties to Muslim women, isn’t at all in the
country’s interest.
Sanjay Chopra, Mohali
CURRENCY IMPACT
THISREFERSTOtheeditorial,‘Virtualex-
change’ (IE, October 14). The impact of
CBDC will be felt by the entire financial
system. Digital currencies challenge the
roleoffinancialintermediariesandbank-
ing channels. CBDC, being its legal alter-
native,hastoprovideasimilarexperience
toitsusers.Theroleofthefinancialinter-
mediaries has to be reimagined.
Traditionalbankingfacilitieslikelending
and investment will have to make way
forpeer-to-peerlendingandinvestment.
Sudip Kumar Dey, Barasat
RIGHT MOTIVATIONS
THIS REFERS TO the report, ‘Hijab:
New Delhi
WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM
— DAWN,PAKISTAN
most tech markets.
And surely, if market concentration re-
strictscompetitionthenthesameargument
should be extended to telecom operators.
Why not usher in competition there? The
policy framework could have facilitated a
dramatic expansion in the ownership of
spectrum,perhapseventoplayersotherthan
telcossuchaspensionfunds—thespectrum
ownedbythesefirmscouldthenbeleasedby
telecomoperatorsaspertheirrequirement.
Oristhepolicyframeworkguidedbytheno-
tion that competition will now be ushered
in only by the entry, perhaps inorganically,
of another Indian conglomerate?
The same motives seem to inspire the
morecontentiousprovisionsofthepersonal
dataprotectionbill.Theproposeddatalocal-
isationnormsareguidedbythedesiretoex-
ercisegreatercontrolovercross-borderdata
flows.Increasingdatastoragerequirements
(acopyofsensitivepersonaldataneedstobe
stored within India), and imposing strict re-
strictions (critical personal data needs to be
processedonlyinIndia)wouldonlyincrease
the compliance burden of Big Tech.
In a similar vein, the provisions of the e-
commercebillseemtohavebeendraftedto
shielddomesticplayers,whilehandicapping
foreign-ownede-commerceplatforms.The
fall-back liability clause for instance or the
imposition of restrictions on flash sales are
allmeanttorestricttheoperationsofforeign-
owned platforms.
By imposing such onerous regulations,
introducing licencing requirements, erect-
inghighentrybarriersandinterveningwhen
there is no market failure, these bills seek to
tilt the balance of power rather than create
a level playing field. And in all of this, a few
domestic players stand to benefit the most.
Thispolicyapproachtowardsthedigital
ecosystem,andperhapsthelargereconomy,
indicates that the ruling dispensation is
moreateasewithamarketstructurethatis
dominatedbyIndianfirms,evenif itisadu-
opoly,ratherthanonewhereforeignplayers
hold considerable sway. Though, one must
ask, who is considered to be an Indian firm
in this ecosystem?
Is a company of Indian origin where the
majority ownership rests with foreign in-
vestorsconsideredtobeIndian?Whatabout
a company of Indian origin that is acquired
by a foreign player or one that receives sig-
nificantfundingfromBigTechbutwherethe
Indian promoters retain majority owner-
ship?And what aboutafully-ownedIndian
subsidiary of a foreign company?
Thepolicyapparatusseekstodifferenti-
ate between them. But shouldn't the same
rulesapplytoall?Whydrawsuchlinesofde-
marcation? And why is such demarcation
limited only to the digital realm and not ex-
tended to other sectors such as banking?
This form of industrial policy which
favoursafewchosendomesticplayerswhile
constrainingforeigncompetitioncouldwell
lead to an era of inefficient, uncompetitive
goodsandservices.Thiswouldgoagainstthe
government'sstateddesiretobuildandnur-
ture a vibrant digital economy. Continuing
with this approach would be a mistake. It is
the consumers that will ultimately suffer.
ishan.bakshi@expressindia.com
Where the judges differed’ (IE, October
14). The question is: Is the current de-
bate seeking to ensure the education of
young women, especially from minor-
ity backgrounds with a relative lack of
access to education or seeking to disal-
lowreligious identity in educational in-
stitutions? A well-meaning decision
would be the one which facilitates the
education of girls, period.
Rahul Gaur, Gurgaon
SAME LEADERS
THISREFERSTOthereport,‘Withoutthe
Gandhis,can't(operate),musttakeguid-
ance: Kharge’ (IE, October 14).
MallikarjunKharge’svictoryisaforegone
conclusion with him having the unspo-
kenbackingoftheGandhis.Hiswordsare
aclearindicationofwhowillcalltheshots
afterhisvictory.Thepredictabilityof the
whole process is disappointing and
makes the entire exercise redundant.
Bal Govind, Noida
BIGGER QUESTION
THISREFERSTOthereport,‘Toxicsolvent,
dodgytests,gapsindata:BehindMaiden
Pharma ban’ ( IE, October 14). The
Haryanadrugcontroldepartmenthasis-
sued a show cause notice to Maiden
Pharmaceuticals after finding 12 faults
related to the manufacture of the four
coughsyrups.Butthebiggerquestionis:
How did the company get the licence to
market this product, and export 5 lakh
bottles?
Sushimta Murmu, Delhi

14 THE WORLD
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2022
TOPOFTHE
WORLD
Robbie Coltrane was
part of all Potter films.
HarryPotter’s
‘Hagrid’diesin
Scotlandat72
ROBBIE COLTRANE, the
baby-faced comedian and
character actor whose
hundredsofrolesincluded
a crime-solving psycholo-
gist on the TV series
“Cracker” and the gentle
half-giant Hagrid in the
“HarryPotter”movies,has
died.Hewas72.Coltrane’s
agent Belinda Wright said
hediedFridayatahospital
in his native Scotland, and
but did not immediately
other details. “Harry
Potter”authorJKRowling,
who decades ago had said
Coltrane was her first
choice to play Hagrid,
tweetedFridaythathewas
“an incredible talent, a
complete one off.” Born
AnthonyRobertMcMillan
in Rutherglen, Scotland,
Coltranehadawidevariety
of other parts, including a
Russian crime boss in the
James Bond thrillers
“GoldenEye” and “The
WorldisNotEnough”. AP
CAMBODIA
10students
drownafter
ferrycapsizes
AT LEAST 10 students in
southern Cambodia who
were crossing a river died
aftertheboattheywereon
capsized, officials said.
Four people — two stu-
dentsandtwooftheboat's
crew — were rescued fol-
lowing the accident on
Thursday night on the
MekongRiversoutheastof
PhnomPenh,andonestu-
dent was still missing on
Friday,policesaid.Thestu-
dents,whowerebetween
12 and 14 years old, were
returning from an English
class on Thursday. They
lived on an island in the
riverandusedtheferryfor
transportalmosteveryday
in the rainy season, as did
others from their village.
UNITED STATES
SuspectinSikh
familykilling
pleadsnotguilty
THE MAIN suspect who
kidnapped and killed four
membersofanIndian-ori-
ginSikhfamily,includinga
baby girl, in California has
enteredanotguiltypleain
court,authoritiessaid.The
Sikh family of four, 8-
month-old Aroohi Dheri,
her 27-year-old mother
Jasleen Kaur, her 36-year-
old father Jasdeep Singh,
and her 39-year-old uncle
Amandeep Singh were
kidnapped at gunpoint
and killed allegedly by
JesusSalgado,aformerdis-
gruntledemployeeoftheir
trucking company. AP
TURKEY
Manyworkers
trappedafter
coalmineblast
AN EXPLOSION inside a
coal mine in northern
Turkey on Friday has
trappedanumberof min-
ers, Turkish media re-
ported. The cause of the
blast in the Black Sea
coastal province of Bartin
was not immediately
known. Private NTV news
channel said at least two
workerswerebroughtout
of the mine alive. There
wasnoinformationonthe
number still trapped. In
2014, a total of 301 people
diedin2014inafireinside
a coal mine in Soma,
western Turkey. AP
JEREMY HUNT APPOINTED NEW FINANCE MINISTER
Truss sacks Kwarteng, scraps
tax cuts in bid to survive crisis
Move, however, fails to lift British pound or advance gains made by govt bonds
STEPHEN CASTLE
& ESHE NELSON
LONDON, OCTOBER 14
INASTARKretreat,theUKPrime
Minister Liz Truss on Friday fired
her finance minister, Kwasi
Kwarteng, and partly reversed a
tax plan that had rattled global
financial markets and set off a
spiraling crisis that still threat-
ens her political survival.
In a news conference from
Downing Street, Truss vowed to
raise the country’s corporate tax
rate after promising last month
not to do so. The increased taxes
will help pay for other tax cuts
she had initiated and are meant
to calm investors, who worried
that the cuts were unfunded.
“It is clear that parts of our
mini budget went further and
fasterthanmarketswereexpect-
ing,” Truss said, adding, “We
need to act now to reassure the
markets.”
Truss said that corporate
taxes would rise by £18 billion,
or $20 billion, which would act
as a “down payment” and help
restore confidence. But she de-
clined to apologise for the tur-
moil of recent weeks, and in-
CAPITOL RIOT PROBE
Panel subpoenas
Trump, shows
startling video
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 14
THE HOUSE January 6 commit-
tee voted unanimously on
Thursday to subpoena former
President Donald Trump, de-
mandinghis personaltestimony
as it unveiled a startling new
video of close aides describing
his multi-part plan to overturn
his 2020 election loss that led to
his supporters' fierce assault on
the US Capitol.
With alarming messages
from the US
Secret Service
warning of vio-
lence and vivid
new video of
House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi
and other con-
gressionallead-
Donald
Trump
ers pleading for
help, the panel
showedtheraw
desperation at
the Capitol.
Using language frequently
seenincriminalindictments,the
panel said that Trump had acted
ina“premeditated”wayaheadof
January6,2021,despitecountless
aides and officials telling him he
had lost.
Trump is almost certain to
fight the subpoena and decline
to testify. On his social media
outlet he blasted members for
not asking him earlier — though
he didn't say he would have
complied —and called the panel
“a total BUST”.
While the effort to subpoena
Trump may languish, more a
nod to history than an effective
summons, the committee has
made clear it is considering
whether to send its findings in a
criminal referral to the Justice
Department.
THIS YEAR’S EVENT DREW PARTICIPANTS FROM AS FAR AWAY AS FRANCE
‘Blessing from God’: Nigeria city with twins in almost every family celebrates
SUNDAY ALAMBA
& CHINEDU ASADU
IGBO-ORA, NIGERIA, OCT 14
TWINS APPEAR to be unusually
abundant in Nigeria’s south-
western city of Igbo-Ora.
Nearly every family here has
twins or other multiple births,
says local chief Jimoh Titiloye.
For the past 12 years, the
community has organised an
annual festival to celebrate
twins.
This year’s event, held earlier
this month, included more than
1,000 pairs of twins and drew
participants from as far away as
UK’s ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, leaves
11 Downing Street after being sacked on Friday. AP
sisted that she remained com-
mitted to her objective of
spurring economic growth.
Asked on Friday afternoon
aboutwhy she was staying in of-
ficewhenKwartengwasleaving,
she said, “My priority is making
sure we deliver the economic
stabilitythatourcountryneeds.”
Downing Street announced
that the new chancellor of the
Exchequer was Jeremy Hunt,
a former health and foreign
secretary.
Initial reaction to Truss’s me-
dia conference suggested that
she may not have done enough
FLOOD RESCUE
A woman is rescued from floodwater at Maribyrnong, a suburb in Australia’s Melbourne, on
Friday. Rivers across the country’s most populous states, New South Wales and Victoria, have
been rising dangerously with catchments soaked by months of above-average rainfall. AP
Calls for evacuation in annexed
area as Ukraine troops advance
REUTERS
KYIV, KUPIANSK, OCTOBER 14
RUSSIAN-BACKED forces have
made some advances in eastern
Ukraine, Britain said on Friday,
even as Moscow's hold weakens
inthesouth,whereaRussian-in-
stalledofficialhasofferedtohelp
residents flee a region Russia
claims to have annexed.
A British intelligence update
said forces led by the private
Russian military company
WagnerGroup hadcaptured the
villages of Optyine and Ivangrad
south of the fiercely-contested
town of Bakhmut, the first such
advance in more than three
months.
Kyiv's main focus now is
Kherson - one of four partially
occupied Ukrainian provinces
that Russia claims to have an-
France, organisers said.
There is no proven scientific
explanation for the high rate of
twins in Igbo-Ora, a city of at
least 200,000 people 135 kilo-
meters (83 miles) south of
Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos.
But many in Igbo-Ora be-
lieve it can be traced to
women’s diets. Alake
Olawunmi, a mother of twins,
attributes it to a local delicacy
called amala which is made
from yam flour.
John Ofem, a gynecologist
basedinthecapital,Abuja,saysit
verywellcouldbe“thatthereare
things they eat there that have a
high level of certain hormones
to calm a crisis that has threat-
ened her leadership, however.
On Twitter, one former
Conservative cabinet minister,
David Gauke, wrote simply:
“That won’t do.”
Her firing of Mr. Kwarteng
also failed to lift the British
poundoradvancegainsmadeby
government bonds.
The course change amounts
to a humiliating decision for
Kwarteng and Truss, whose
promise to cut taxes helped her
win the leadership of the
Conservative Party in the battle
to succeed Boris Johnson. NYT
In Velyka Oleksandrivka
village, which was recently
retaken by Ukraine. AP
nexed in recent weeks, and ar-
guablythemoststrategicallyim-
portant.
Russia's TASS news agency
said evacuees from the Kherson
Obasekore Damilade and Obasekore Damitola, and Oladapo Taiwo and Oladapo Kehinde, at the annual twins festival in
Igbo-Ora South west Nigeria. Many in Igbo-Ora believe the high rate of twins can be traced to women’s diets. AP
Conservative
rebels plot to
make Sunak PM
ADITI KHANNA
LONDON, OCTOBER 14
REBELS ON the backbenches of
the UK’s ruling Conservative
Party are on Friday said to be
plotting to replace Liz Truss as
party leader and PM with a so-
called “unity” joint ticket team
involving former leadership ri-
val Rishi Sunak.
It comes as a YouGov poll for
the ‘The Times’ found that al-
most half of Tory party support-
ers believe the party chose the
wrong candidate in the leader-
ship election.
However, former PM Boris
Johnson loyalists have con-
demned such plotting as anti-
democratic by disgruntled
Sunak backers. “No offence to
Sunak or Mordaunt but govern-
ment is not a game of spin the
bottle, where if you don't like
the result you can just keep
spinning again,” tweeted Tory
MP Nadine Dorries. PTI
region were expected to begin
arrivinginRussiaonFriday,aday
after a Russian-installed official
suggested people could flee to
Russia, especially those around
Kherson city.
While some people in
Russian-occupied areas of
Ukraine have fled to Russia as
Ukrainianforcesadvance,others
have reported being forced to-
wards Russia and others still
have fled westward to
Ukrainian-controlled parts of
their country.
A flight of civilians from
Kherson would be a blow to
Russia'sclaimlastmonthtohave
annexedaround15%of Ukraine's
territory and incorporated an
area the size of Portugal into
Russia.
Three quarters of UN mem-
bers condemned the move as il-
legal on Wednesday.
PROFANITIES EXCHANGED
PAK FOREIGN MINISTER HECKLED IN US
Ishaq Dar was heckled by unidentified persons at the airport when he arrived in
Washington for meetings with the global lending institutions to seek aid for the
flood-hit country. In one of the videos, a man can be heard shouting: “You’re a liar.”
An alley festooned with Chinese flags ahead of the Communist Party event in Beijing. Reuters
AHEAD OF COMMUNIST PARTY CONGRESS
In Beijing, security up, mills
to cut down ops for clean air
TONY MUNROE
BEIJING, OCTOBER 14
CHINESE PRESIDENT Xi Jinping
will take the stage on Sunday to
kick off a historic congress of the
rulingCommunistParty,wherehe
is poised to win a third term that
solidifieshisplaceasChina’smost
powerfulrulersinceMaoZedong.
The congress comes at a tu-
multuous time, with Xi's adher-
encetohiszero-Covidpolicybat-
tering the economy, while his
support for Russia's Vladimir
PutinhasfurtheralienatedChina
from the West. Still, diplomats,
economists and analysts spoken
to by Reuters say Xi is set to con-
solidate his grip on power.
The roughly week-long con-
gresswilltakeplacewitharound
2,300 delegates, mostly behind
closed doors, in the vast Great
Hallof thePeopleonTiananmen
Square. The Chinese capital has
ramped up security and intensi-
Europol says
biggest ‘narco
bank’ cracked
by cops in Spain
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MADRID, OCTOBER 14
THE EUROPEAN Union police
agency Europol said Friday that
Spanish police have dismantled
an organised crime group be-
lieved to have been running
Europe’s biggest “narco-bank,”
used to launder proceeds from
international drug trafficking.
Europol said thegroup, com-
posed mainly of Syrians, oper-
ated out of a restaurant in an in-
dustrial park in the central
Spanish town of Fuenlabrada.
There, customers could deposit
or collect bulk cash and have
their earnings laundered by the
internationallystructuredfinan-
cial network, Europol said.
Europol said the group pro-
vided financial services to crime
gangslinkedtodrugtraffickingin
more than twenty countries
across the world. Spanish police
sayitisbelievedtohavelaundered
over300millioneuros($290mil-
lion) each year since 2020.
The group used the so-called
“hawala” system popular with
criminal gangs and others to
move large amounts of money
without wire or other records.
Europol said 32 people were
arrested in raids that took place
September 27. Spanish police
said 11 people have been jailed,
including the alleged ring leader
and the group's lawyer.
New Delhi
E
E X P L A I NE D
Careful
● andalert
WITH PREPARATIONS for
the CPC underway,
China’s internet censors
are also going to great
lengths to shut down any
discussion of a rare pub-
lic protest condemning
President Xi Jinping and
denouncing the coun-
try’s Covid-19 policies.
fied Covid screening. In nearby
Hebei province, steel mills were
instructed to cut back on opera-
tions to improve air quality, an
industry source said.
The opacity of Chinese poli-
tics, which has been heightened
since Xi assumed power a
decade ago, means party watch-
ersarelefttospeculateoverwho
Anti-Iranian government protesters in Germany, Friday. The
protests in Iran have drawn solidarity in many countries. AP
As protests continue,
Khamenei: Iran mighty
tree, can’t be uprooted
PARISA HAFEZI
DUBAI, OCTOBER 14
IRAN'S SUPREME Leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on
Friday that no one should dare
thinktheycanuproottheIslamic
Republic, in his toughest warn-
ing to protesters since Mahsa
Amini's death in police custody
ignited nationwide unrest now
in its fourth week.
Demonstrations by people
from all walks of life, after the
Iranian Kurdish woman's death
following her arrest for "inap-
propriate attire", have evolved
into widespread calls for the
downfall of Khamenei and
"Death to the Islamic Republic".
The protests mark one of the
boldestchallengestoclericalrule
since the 1979 revolution, even
if the unrest does not seem close
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will be named to key posts and
whatthoseappointmentsmean.
Still,fewexpectsignificantde-
viationindirectionduringathird
Xi term, with continued focus on
policiesthatprioritisesecurityand
self-reliance, state control of the
economy, more assertive diplo-
macyandastrongermilitary,and
growingpressuretoseizeTaiwan.
The congress will conclude
with the introduction of the next
Politburo Standing Committee
(PSC), the elite body that now
numbers seven and that Xi has
cometodominate.“Thelikelihood
isthatthenewline-upwillbeun-
compromisingly'Xi-ist',”saidfor-
mer British diplomat Charles
Parton, a fellow at the London-
basedCouncilonGeostrategy.
China-watchers are most in-
terested to know who will be
tappedasthenextpremier-ajob
charged with the task of manag-
ing the world’s second-largest
economy-whenLiKeqiangsteps
REUTERS
downinMarch.
to toppling the system.
Khamenei compared the
Islamic Republic to an unshake-
able tree. "That seedling is a
mighty tree now and no one
should dare think they can up-
root it," he said in remarks
shown on state TV.
Some of the deadliest unrest
has been in areas home to eth-
nic minorities with long-stand-
ing grievances against the state,
includingKurdsinthenorthwest
and Baluchis in the southeast.
Rights groups say more than
200 people have been killed in
thecrackdown,includingteenage
girls. Amnesty International said
at least 23 children have died.
Iran has blamed the violence
onenemiesathomeandabroad,
including armed separatists and
Western powers, accusing them
of conspiring against the Islamic
Republic. REUTERS
that now result in what we call
multiple ovulation.”
While that could explain the
higher-than-normal rate of fra-
ternal twins in Igbo-Ora, the city
also has a significant number of
identical twins. Those result in-
stead from a single fertilized egg
that divides into two — not be-
cause of hyperovulation.
TaiwoOjeniyi,aNigerianstu-
dent, said he attended the festi-
val with his twin brother “to cel-
ebrate the uniqueness” of
multiple births.
“We cherish twins while in
some parts of the world, they
condemn twins,” he said. “It is a
blessing from God.” AP
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In Saibaba acquittal, key question of sanction under UAPA

SADAF MODAK
MUMBAI, OCTOBER 14
THE NAGPUR Bench of Bombay High Court
on Friday set aside the conviction of former
Delhi University professor G N Saibaba, who
was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2017
by the sessions court in Gadchiroli,
Maharashtra, for alleged links with the
banned Communist Party of India (Maoist).
The High Court ruled that the trial of
Saibaba and five others were “null and
void” in the absence of a valid sanction un-
der the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act
(UAPA), 1967.
UAPA case against Saibaba and
others, accused of Maoist links
In 2013, police in Gadchiroli claimed to
have received secret information about ac-
tive members of the CPI (Maoist) and its
front, the Revolutionary Democratic Front.
Police arrested Mahesh Tirki, Pandu Narote,
Hem Mishra, Vijay Tirki, and journalist
Prashant Rahi that year. On May 9, 2014,
Saibaba was arrested.
All six accused were charged with crim-
inal conspiracy to wage war against the
Government of India through unlawful ac-
tivities by use of violence. The accused, in-
cluding Saibaba, were alleged to have been
found in possession of documents and elec-
tronic gadgets containing Maoist literature,
letters, correspondence, pamphlets, and au-
dio-video clips of meetings of the CPI
(Maoist).
On March 7, 2017, the Gadchiroli sessions
court pronounced the accused guilty of
charges including unlawful activities, con-
spiracy, membership and support of terror-
ist gang under the UAPA, and criminal con-
spiracy under the Indian Penal Code.
Five of the accused, including Saibaba,
were sentenced to life in prison, the maxi-
mum punishment under these sections.
Vijay Tirki was sentenced to 10 years.
Twenty-three witnesses were examined,
and heavy reliance was placed on the
seizures made from the accused.
The procedure for sanction to
prosecute under UAPA
Section 45(1) of the UAPA says no court
shall take cognizance of any offence under
the Act without the previous sanction of the
centralorstategovernmentoranyofficerau-
thorised by them.
Convicted by sessions court in 2017. File
Under Section 45(2), the sanction for
prosecution has to be given within a pre-
scribed time only after considering the re-
port by the competent authority. The au-
thority is expected to make an independent
review of the evidence gathered by the in-
vestigation agency before making a recom-
mendation to the government for the sanc-
tion.
In this case, the investigators sent the ev-
idence to the Directorate of Prosecution for
an independent review. The Directorate
throughitsdirectorrecommendedthatthere
was a prima facie case against the accused,
andhencesanctioncouldbeaccorded.Based
onthisrecommendation,theadditionalchief
secretaries of the Home Department of
Maharashtra granted sanction.
The first sanction was received on
February 15, 2014, against the five accused
whowerearrestedin2013.Thesecondsanc-
tion, to prosecute Saibaba, was received on
April 6, 2015.
What the High Court said on
the grant of sanction
In their 101-page judgment, the Division
Bench of Justices Rohit Deo and Anil Pansare
refrained from dealing with the merits of
the case, and instead considered the point
of invalidity and absence of sanction under
UAPA. The court dealt with the legislative
intent of the makers of the law in inserting
the requirement of a sanction to prosecute
accused under UAPA.
The court noted that UAPA did not origi-
nally coverterroristactivities. Other laws,in-
cludingtheTerroristandDisruptiveActivities
(Prevention) Act (TADA), 1987, and the
Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA), 2002,
dealtwithterrorismuntiltheywererepealed
or allowed to lapse. Both these laws were
criticised for being draconian, and the cen-
tral government was sensitive and open to
this criticism. The UAPA has been amended
from time to time to cover various facets of
terrorism while also responding to concerns
about its misuse.
The 2008 amendment to Section 45 of
the UAPA specified that sanction to prose-
cute would be given “only” after considering
the independent review of an authority ap-
pointed by the government. This ensured an
“additional safeguard or filter”, the High
Court said. The legislative intent was to en-
sure that the sanctioning authority is aided,
assisted, and guided by the independent re-
view of the evidence gathered in the course
of investigation, it said.
The court also referred to then Home
Minister P Chidambaram’s statement in Lok
SabhawhentheamendmentBillwasmoved
in 2008. Chidambaram said that while the
executive arm investigates, the evidence
must be reviewed by an independent au-
thority with a “legally trained mind”, which
would act as a “clean sanction filter” for any
case where the evidence did not warrant
prosecution. The law was being strength-
ened,butsafeguardsagainstmisusetoowere
being provided, Chidambaram had argued.
According sanction for prosecution is not
a “ritualistic formality”, the court said.
“Sanction serves the salutary object of pro-
vidingsafeguardtotheaccusedfromunwar-
ranted prosecution and the agony and
traumaof trial,andinthecontextof thestrin-
gent provisions of the UAPA, is an integral
facet of due process of law.”
The report by the Directorate “was noth-
ing more than a communication conveying
theconclusionintheformof arecommenda-
tion”, and stood on the same footing as the
absence of a report, the High Court said.
The order noted that the sessions court
had taken cognizance of the offence, framed
charges,andexaminedthefirstwitnesseven
before the sanction in Saibaba’s case. The
court rejected the prosecution’s argument
that the invalidity or absence of a sanction
was a “curable” defect that should not lead
to an acquittal or discharge — every legisla-
tively provided safeguard, however minus-
cule, must be “zealously protected”, it said.

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world stage. In its competition with the How did Xi build control over the Party?
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new growth trajectory in the ical interference and China. How has China fared at home and is why he desires to com- ment to achieve this. ing the Middle Kingdom to which all others
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withoutrelyingonthediscretionarypowers the notion that a democratic government legacy that CCP general secretaries would fact that Xi has undone Ambassador to China, Simultaneously, Xi and the US. All other nations will have to ad-
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A Kwasi U-turn in Britain: question is, will markets have Truss in PM?
Inanunexpectedlybriefpressconference
UDIT MISRA onFridayafternoon,Trussansweredjustfour
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14 questions from a room full of journalists —
all asking why she deserved to stay when
EXACTLY THREE weeks to the date Kwasi Kwartenghadbeensackedforessentiallyan-
Kwarteng presented the “mini-Budget” as nouncing a path that she rolled out in the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, lead-up to winning the
Britain’s Prime Minister Liz Conservative leadership con-
Truss has sacked him. He was test against Sunak. In re-
replacedbyJeremyHunt—the sponse,Trussgavenorealan-
fourthchancellorjustthisyear. swers.
The slide started with Rishi But before taking the
SunakresigningfromtheBoris
Johnson cabinet in July.
N I F ACT questions, she announced
that she would be reverting
to Sunak’s plan of raising the
This lady is for turning corporatetaxfrom19%to25%,aimedatrais-
In 1979, with an economy in recession ingrevenuefortheadditionalspending.This
and widespread unemployment, then PM is expected to dent the UK’s attractiveness
Margaret Thatcher, under attack from all for companies — a key metric in the post-
sides,gaveaniconicspeech,memorablefor Brexit world — as its tax rates will be one of
herstatement,“Thisladyisnotforturning”, the highest among developed nations, and
as she refused to budge from her agenda to the highest in Europe.
liberalise the economy. Truss,whoisyettocompletesixweeksin
Insharpcontrast,Truss,whohastriedto office, said that she wants to deliver “a low
present herself as a modern-day Thatcher, tax, high wage, high growth economy” and
announced an almost complete abdication while “that mission remains”, it is clear that
of her agenda. “people acrossthis country rightlywant sta-
Prime Minister Liz Truss had no answer on Friday as to why she should stay in
office if Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng had been sacked. AP File
bility”, and that “parts of the mini-Budget
went further and faster than markets were
expecting”.
The gathering storm
It all started on September 23 when
Kwasi Kwarteng, a long-time associate of
Truss’s, presented the new government’s
mini-Budget. The idea was to act on Truss’s
bold new vision to make a “fresh start” and
put the UK on a high growth trajectory — a
set of policy choices that Sunak had repeat-
edly warned against. In essence, Kwarteng
increased spending — placing price caps on
energy bills — while also cutting tax rates,
especially for the richest income earners.
The completely unfunded and sharp in-
crease in spending spooked the markets
(read investors). That’s because the UK was
already struggling with historic inflation.
More spending by the government made
things worse in two main ways.
One, it left people with more money to
spend at a time when inflation was already
high and the Bank of England was trying to
contain it by raising interest rates and curb-
ingspending.Two,itmeantthatthegovern-
ment’s total borrowing would rise sharply
atatimewhengrowthprospectshavebeen
iffy at best and Britain’s past record, at least
since the 2008 financial crisis, has been of
economic stagnation.
Lightning strikes
As investors lost confidence in the gov-
ernment’s ability to repay, they started
dumpingtheirUKassets,especiallygovern-
mentbonds(gilts),whichareessentiallythe
way a government borrows money from
the market, and the pound sterling.
Thesaleofgiltspusheddowntheirprices
and, as a consequence, raised their yields
(whichistheinterestrateagovernmentpays
toitslenders).Risinggilt(whichisthesafest
asset in any economy) yields signalled a
sharpincreaseinallkindsof mortgagerates,
including for millions of home loans.
It also caught pension fund managers,
whohadhedgedagainstsuchasharprisein
interest rates, asleep at the wheel. Pension
funds found that the prices of gilts in which
they had invested were falling sharply.
Panickymarketplayerscreatedanot-so-
mini financial crisis that required the Bank
of Englandtoabandonitsplanof curbingin-
flation and step in to buy gilts (which raises
theirpricesandpullsdowntheiryields).But
this help was set to end on Friday.
More turbulence ahead
Truss is facing extreme pressure from
herpoliticalopponentsbothinsideandout-
side the Conservative party, and the mar-
kets.
The latter’s reaction is always more
readily available, and it suggests more tur-
bulence ahead. The yields of 10-year, 20-
year, and 30-year gilts all shot up while the
pound wobbled even as the PM tried to ex-
tricate herself from the press conference.
Not having a convincing answer to why
Kwarteng had to go for voicing her plan
while she deserves to stay may prove criti-
cal to Truss’s political future.

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ALAKA SAHANI

Such is Life counting down his days after a diagnosis of

AYEZINDAGI
★★
Director:Anirban Bose
Cast:Revathi, Satyajeet Dubey,Mrinmayee
Godbole, Srikant Verma
THE REAL-LIFE story that Aye Zindagi is
based on, is the kind which leads one to re-
peat the saying that truth can sometimes
be stranger than fiction.
Ayoungmanwhohasonlyafewmonths
to live manages to get a liver transplant, and
goesontoflourish.Thefilmdoesn’thidethe
identityofthedonorfromus,butbythetime
the recipient stumbles upon it, it becomes a
matterofgreatstrain.Loomingdeathisater-
rible thing; can the burden of gratitude be-
come too much to bear, especially if the
donor is someone you know?
Aye Zindagi asks these inter-connected
questions,whoseprofoundweighthastobe
born by 26-year-old Vinay (Dubey), who is
cirhossis of the liver. The counselling by
Revathi Rajan (Revathi), attached to the
Hyderabad hospital he is admitted to, is a
mixedblessing,leavinghimhopefulandde-
spairingatthesametime.Backathiswork-
place,hiscolleaguesarebeingultra-support- THERINGSOFPOWER
ive, as are his superiors (Verma). And then PRIMEVIDEO
comes the news of a donor, the greatest for The sixth episode of The Lord of the
him, and the worst for someone else. Rings: The Rings of Power witnessed
The connection between a therapist Isildur and Galadriel’s much-
who counsels thelovedones of brain-dead awaited encounter. The seventh
patients, the ones who can be potential episode and season finale showcases
donors and save many lives, is tricky. more twists and turns in the tale set
Battling shock and grief is bad enough. For in middle-earth Second Age. The
a stranger, however empathetic they may survivors of a cataclysm will try to
appeartobe,toaskfortheorganscanresult find safety, while the Harfoots will fi-
in anger and point-blank refusal. We see nally confront the evil. Moreover,
this playing out in the film. Durin will be seen torn between
But for an origin story which is so ex- friendship and duty and Adar will
traordinary, the treatment of Aye Zindagi is consider a new name. Created by JD
bafflingly ordinary. The actors do their job, Payne and Patrick McKay, the series
and Godbole as the nurse who hand-holds is set thousands of years before the
her ‘impatient patient’ and wills him to be events of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit
better, does leave a mark. The rest, includ- and The Lord of the Rings.
ing the wonderful Revathi, make you wish
they were in a better film. SG

Many Shades of White DOCTORG

★★★■
SHALINI LANGER Director:AnubhutiKashyapCast:AyushmannKhurrana,RakulPreetSingh,ShefaliShah,SheebaChaddha,IndraneilSengupta

No Learning Curve This

A 900-PLUS-page bestseller that many
might have started but struggled to finish
(especially in this part of the world), EARWIG
Shantaram recounts the kind of adventure MUBI
that appears to happen to only white peo- Earwig by French director Lucile
ple who find themselves among their less- Had ihalilovic, adapted from the
fortunatebrowncounterparts.Theyreturn only so he can improve. His superior (Shah) ning joke; fortunately, by the time Dr G re- novel by Brian Catling, is a haunting
betterhumanbeings,havingeaten,prayed, SHUBHRA GUPTA lectures him non-stop with the same inten- alises his true yin-yang potential, it settles film about Mia, a girl with teeth of
loved, more or less. tion. His best friend, who floats through the down. The second half is an uneasy tonal ice. Albert is employed to look after
Not many of us would probably be so BHOPAL IS really having a moment in moviewithhisskinnytorsocuriouslyunclad, switch, featuring the problems around an Mia, who never leaves the apart-
lucky as to escape an Australian prison as Bollywood. It’s back again as the backdrop of sticks around long enough to teach him self- underage pregnancy, which feels like it was ment, where the shutters are always
the writer Gregory David Roberts did, fly a movie which is so busy earning its feminist awareness. And his mother (Chaddha), the created to tell us just how far the hero has closed. The Master rings regularly to
over to Bombay (as it was known then), cred that it forgets the show-more-than-tell only one who makes a stab at a life of her travelled from where he began. enquire after Mia’s wellbeing until
and land right in the heart of all the ac- dictum.Andthat’sthecrucialelementwhich own, is lectured at. Khurrana is also back to being the con- the day Albert is instructed that he
tion. Which in the 1980s Bombay, appears renders Doctor G serviceable, overall, rather Sure, all those things are valid in this fused, yet good-hearted Indian male who must prepare the child to leave. This
to mean all shades of white men and than the cracker it should rightly have been. comedy of vaginal-vestigial manners, a de- learns to navigate noisome bodily fluids and is the first English language film by
women running all kinds of deals and Dr Uday Gupta (Khurrana) desperately but feature from Anubhuti Kashyap, who reproductive systems in full flow with re- Had ihalilovic, known for her origi-
businesses. Their underlings or hangers- wants to specialise in orthopedics, but happens to be Anurag’s sister. Because the spect and sensitivity. As Dr Uday Gupta, he nality in creating suspenseful work.
on are only one shade less white, played fetches up in the gynecology department at focus of the film is the male hero, who starts earns his spurs well enough. Shah, as the
by actors with some native lineage who thetown’sgovernmentmedical college.And off as an unthinking boor, and whose job is finger-wagging senior doctor, comes off fa-
have not bothered or not had time to work there’swherehistrueeducation—tolosehis to unhook himself from a lifetime’s preju- miliar. Chaddha has a few nice moments,
on their accents. ‘male’ touch’ while learning to ‘listen’ to dices by the end, everything else necessar- but I do wish Bollywood would give her a
And in the middle of all the grime — women—starts.Theentirefilm,anditschar- ily revolves around him. And Kashyap does break from being mum to these coming-of-
sometimes of a Bombay seedy hotel room, very peculiar series of events. However, acters,areinservicetotheherotransforming show the ability to create a lived-in universe. age young men. Both these ladies deserve
often of a leisurely decaying haveli, and even then, the film finds more interesting from brash boy to sensitive man. His girl- But after a point, the situations created as more to themselves. It is Rakul Preet Singh
lastly of a slum — stands Charlie Hunnam narrativesinthepeoplewhodwellinhavelis friend, who shows up briefly to dump him, learning moments for Uday on his journey who makes the most of a role which could
himself, playing Shantaram in shirts that or brothels called the Palace, and who kill disappears entirely from view after her job to being Dr G, the man comfortable being have turned out to be cliched, but doesn’t
are perfectly creased linen, and body that forrealestate,whocouldbelonganywhere, is done. His new classmates, including the around female-dominated maternity-and- because she makes so light of it. Learning
doesn’t lose one pack of mus- to any film. They are more in- perky Fatima Siddiqui (Singh) and a bunch labour wards, become just one more thing. to wear a stethoscope naturally, like an ex-
cle earned doing hard time in SHANTARAM teresting, frankly, for the sim- of other confident women (he is the solo, ex- And I’m not sure just how tasteful it is to tension of themselves, is also a feature of all
prison (which the film is only ple reason that the series has tremely reluctant male in the class), rag him make a ‘stree-rog vibhaag’ the butt of a run- good doctors.
too eager to show off).
★★ more interest in them. THEWATCHER

Between Disbelief and Boredom

While Hunnam, who has Createdby:David The most attention is paid NETFLIX
adopted the name Lindsey Manson,EricWarren to Khader Khan, who is a Based on a true story, the mini-series
Ford or just ‘Lin’, protests that Singer and Steve mafiadonwithmorals,three- follows the ordeals of a family that
he has had his share of ‘en- Lightfoot piece suits, killer instincts, a moves into their dream home in
lightenment’ and ‘self-con- Cast:CharlieHunnam, kind of rudraksh hanging New Jersey in 2014, only to be
templation’ in prison, ShubhamSaraf, down his neck, and spends CODENAMETIRANGA And Shishir Sharma as a Pakistani agent, try- plagued by ominous letters, strange
Shantaram, the film, is all AntoniaDesplat, valuable and voluble time ex- ing to be very smart. neighbours and sinister threats.
aboutthethingshelearnsand ElektraKilbey,Alyy pounding on life as illusion, ★ Skilled female operatives are not new: The family starts getting letters
tells us in a self-narration, or Khan,Alexander Siddig loyalty as salient. Siddig, born Director:RibhuDasgupta only a few months ago, we had Kangana signed by a stalker named The
has others tell them to him. Streamingon:Apple in Sudan, raised in Britain, is Cast:ParineetiChopra,HarrdySandhu, Ranaut as Agent Agni in Dhaakad. But even Watcher, whose identity was never
Such as “Every day on the run TV+ the choice for this crucial role. RajitKapur,SharadKelkar, Shishir Sharma, that film, which died for allthe right reasons, established. The series, created by
is a new day”, the meaning of Meanwhile, three Dibyendu Bhattacharya had a few moments of interest. Here, every- Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, fea-
freedom, “Run towards, not away from episodes in — there are 12 in all, to be re- thing looks as if it has been plucked out of tures Naomi Watts and Bobby
something”, “I don’t want to find myself, leased, staggered, by Apple TV — there is THE ONLY way you can wade through Code similar spy flicks both in Hollywood and Cannavale, Jennifer Coolidge and
but lose myself”, “You can compel people no clarity about why Lin is in Bombay, ex- Name Tiranga is to swing between disbelief Bollywood. Middle-eastern locations. Locals Luke David Blumm in the cast.
to be bad, but not to be good”, even cept maybe cheap heroin (which he insists and boredom. But first, a question. Can you involved with the bad guys. A fortress-like
Shakespeare. he has given up), and why is he a guy we swallow Parineeti Chopra being the kind of hideout which has many rooms only for bad
The person doing much of the good to shouldberootingforexceptavaguenotion deadly Indian agent who is able to handle a guys to tumble out of.
Lin is that essential brown sidekick whose of him being essentially good, which is not dozen and more gun-laden terrorists and in Afghanistan. Sharad Kelkar as the enemy The only time you watch is when Durga
hustle always hides a ‘pure heart’: Prabhu, really visible. Hunnam is good on the eyes their dangerous mastermindall on herown- number one, the dastard responsible for the and Mirza murmur sweet-nothings to
played by Saraf. The actor has bettered his though,leavingothers,particularlyDesplat some? Like single-handedly? In that case, attack on Indian parliament, now hiding out each other. The rest is nothing but a rinse-
accent since A Suitable Boy, but the effort it and Siddig, to do the heavy lifting. this film is for you. in Turkey. Dibyendu Bhattacharya as Durga’s and-repeat expanse. Not one moment of
has taken shows. Several names came and left, and a If not, this is what you have to face. handler, speaking urgently into walky- excitement. Not even when Chopra goes on
Thereisasmatteringof othersuchpeo- lockdown slowed down things, in an at- Chopra as Durga, valiant undercover spy, talkies, and sneaking his way out of am- a solo rampage, knocking off one terrorist
ple around, especially once Lin is forced to tempttobringShantaramtoscreen.Maybe cosying up to handsome half-Indian half- bushes. Rajit Kapur as a canny operative, div- after another in pursuit of the biggest of
move in with Saraf in his slum following a that was a sign. Turkish doctor Mirza (Hardy), somewhere ing into save brave ‘desis’ in foreign lands. them all. Nope. SG

JERUSALEM
LIONSGATEPLAY

The Show Must Go On forexample,thelittlekitcheninSamay’shut,

CHHELLOSHOW
★★★■
Director:PanNalin
Cast:BhavinRabari,RichaMeena,DeepenRaval,BhaveshShrimali
CHHELLO SHOW offers us a steeped-in-nos- that used to be part of our travelling history,
talgia story of a young boy in rural Gujarat when trains stopped for a few minutes at
who is enraptured and captured by the nameless outposts for passengers to disem-
power of cinema. It will remind you in- bark, and for vendors to sell their wares.
stantly of the 1988 Italian classic, Cinema Samay and his pals roam around the
Paradiso, which featured the relationship be- tracks, looking for things to do, and they find
tween a young boy and a middle-aged pro- anearbycinemahallwhichquicklybecomes
jectionist, cemented in a small, dark room a source of constant joy. Movies are not for
from where the movies played. Chhello us, unless they are about deities, thunders
Show, or The Last Film Show, is also meant to Samay’s father, bound by the privilege of
be a semi-autobiographical tale of the direc- caste which doesn’t cushion him from
tor Pan Nalin, whose journey from a remote poverty. But Samay, played by the very ex-
Saurashtra village to a creator of images , is pressive Rabari, is not to be deterred. He has
reflected in the movie. found cinema, and cinema has found him,
Samay (Rabari), bright-eyed and inquis- and it is for keeps.
itive,wantsmorethanjustbeinganassistant The film does best when we see Samay
to his father, who runs a tea stall at the vil- surrounded by the paraphernalia of cinema
lage railway station. It’s the kind of cosy stop in its celluloid age: the projectors, the metal
cans which house the reels, the distinctive
whirr of the sprockets, the cone of light that
streams out of the box to land on the screen,
there to become the sights and sounds of a
film, and the audience which shows up to
savour the experience day after day.
In return for being able to spend his day
at the cinema, the time he is meant to be at
school,home-cookedfoodbecomesbarter—
Fazal,theprojectionist(Shrimali)lickshisfin-
gers, as his ‘upper-caste’ pupil learns to be at
home with the movies — the former being
Muslim and a mentor is both incidental, yet
powerful,because it showsthe art of cinema
being home to all communities and castes.
But Chhello Show has a familiar problem,
and that is the gaze through which some el-
ements are turned exotic or too-pretty. Take,
open to the elements, but enough for his
mother (Meena) to rustle up dishes that
would be more at home at a masterchef’s
studio. At one place, the dubbed line calls a
dish ‘ravioli’.
Then there is the patina of warm light on
every frame, making village life less severe:
the bare-minimum village school, the
teacher, the station master, the officials who
turn up to pronounce a death-knell for the
tiny station, as well marking the end of the
rundown theatre which plays 35-mm films.
A makeshift one conjured up by Samay and
his friends in an abandoned building where
they ‘make’ movies out of scrap reel, is both
romantic and romanticised.
But the film, India’s official entry to the
Oscars, does manage to focus on change as
aninexorablepartof life.Justasthespanking
new broad gauge trains will not stop at the
station anymore, the theatre and its projec-
tionbooth,Samay’splaceof refugeandlearn-
ing, is stripped of its accoutrements. A small
digitalboxtakestheplaceof themassivepro-
jectors. But cinema carries on, taking the
changes in its sweep, telling us stories.
SG
Jerusalem is a story of conflicting
beliefs, power struggles, love and
crime. This thriller marks the first
time that such a large-scale TV
project has been filmed in
Jerusalem’s Old City. The series
explores the tension as the officers
of the David District prepare for
two holy days in the Muslim and
Jewish calendars — which by rare
circumstances are falling on the
same day.
PALTHUJANWAR
DISNEY+HOTSTAR
Palthu Janwar, a feel-good comedy
in Malayalam, features Basil Joseph
as a livestock inspector in a hilly
village. As he navigates the job that
he took up grudgingly after failing
to open an animation firm and
adjusts to his new life, the film
offers good laughs as well as
introduces a bunch of interesting
characters. The film has been
produced by Fahadh Faasil, Dileesh
Pothan and Syam Pushkaran.

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several dishes which are plant based, dairy free and as celebrat- alising Vision India 2047”, said Dr S Radhakrishnan in his
ing Navratri was garlic and onion free too. Convocation Address, appreciating the Class of 2022.
K.R. MANGALAM UNIVERSITY IQAC K.R. Mangalam Univer-
sity conducted an Orientation session "Role of IQAC and
Good Documentation Practices". The Resource Person for
this program was Dr. Prashant R Nair, Vice Chairman, Internal
Quality Assurance Cell, Amrita Vishwa Vidhyapeetham,
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. Dr. Prashant R Nair emphasized
on the collection, collation, curation, consolidation and sub-
mission of data with evidences. Analysis of data is very im-
portant to find out the quality of the process and further mea-
sures can be adopted for upgrading the process. It is
EVENT-HINDUSTAN INST OF TECH & SCIENCE
necessary to maintain data at department, school, and univer-
Hindustan Inst. of Tech.& Science, Chennai, a pioneer institu- sity level. IQAC role is to ensure quality sustenance and qual-
tion in Aeronautical and Aerospace education, hosts a three-day ity enhancement. He also explained the criteria for identifica-
World Space Week celebration in association with ISRO – Sa- tion of best practice, challenges associated with it. The
tish Dhawan Space Center, SHAR, Sriharikota recently. World impact of that identified best practice needs to be measured
Space Week Association has chosen the theme “Space & in multi dimensions. NAAC team of K.R. Mangalam University
Sustainability”, focusing on achieving sustainability in space. attended the session. The session was effective and impact-
The event was inaugurated by Chief Guest Thiru. Anbil Mahesh ful. Few glimpses of the session are attached herewith.
Poyyamazhi, Min. for School Education, Govt. of Tamil Nadu.
NO.CHE/ 7822 / Bridges, Dated 14.10.2022
OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, Bid No. 7200037432
WEBSITE OF NODAL OFFICER/ KORBA (C.G.) Notice of Intimation to E-TENDER/E-TENDER NOTICE
THE BOARD CONTACT No. Kosabadi Zone/2022 File, No.1284 Dated 13/10/2022
CORP./AUTH. DETAILS/EMAIL Subject: Construction of 45m wide Elevated Road from Link Road at Dahisar
RFP NOTICE (West) in BMC limit to Bhayander (West) in MBMC limit (Coastal Road Last Leg).
http://etenders.hry. 9671627548
nic. in coemunimpur@ Selection of Agency for Supply, Installation, Commissioning of Integrated 1. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) invites e-tender to appoint Contractor for the
gmail.com Smart Learning Centre at Korba with 3 Years of Operation and Maintenance
above mentioned work from contractors of repute, multidisciplinary engineering organizations
using Revenue from Subscription through Establishing In-Campus Smart i.e. eminent firm, Private Limited Companies/ Public Limited Companies / Companies registered
Digital Libraries at Educational Institutions/Organizations/PSUs at Korba City under the Companies Act 2013, the contractors registered with the Brihanmumbai Municipal
Corporation (BMC) in Class I (A) and above as per new registration and equivalent category as
Through this notice Municipal Corporation, Korba Executive Engineer herein
invites proposal through online Electronice Chhattisgarh Government per old registration (Excluding those should not have, in last two years as on date of tender
13287/HRY
Procurement System (eGPS) https://eoroc.cestate.gov.in for Selection of submission been debarred / blacklisted or FIR registered against) or those having equal or more
Agency for Supply, Installation, Commissioning of Integrated Smart Learning work experience from Central or State Government/Semi Govt. Organization/ Urban Local Bodies
Centre at Korba with 3 Years of Operation and Maintenance using Revenue Central or State Public Sector Undertakings, will be allowed subject to condition that, the
from Subscription through Establishing in-Campus Smart Digital Libraries at contractors/ sub-contractors who are not registered with BMC will have to apply for registering
Educational Institutions/Organizations/PSUs at Korba City. Bidder may also their firm within three months' time period from the award of contract, otherwise their Bid
download the Bid enquiry documents ( a complete set of document is available Security i.e. E.M.D (Earnest Money Deposit) will be forfeited/ recovered and a penalty of 0.1% of
on website) from the web site (https://eproc.cgstate.gov.in) or https://uad. contract cost or Rs. 10,000/- whichever is more will be recovered deducted from the contractor's
cg.gov.in or www.korbamunicipal.in payment/bill by the executing department. The contractor, who fails to get registered with BMC
System RFP No. - 111804 (1st Call) in Civil / Mechanical and Electrical disciplines, shall not be considered for BMC work in future in
Tender Cost - Rs. 378.23 Lacs that discipline. The assessment of actual costs for designing, engineering, procurement and
Last Date of online Bid Submission - 04.11.2022 construction of the Project (the "Project Cost") inclusive of all taxes, duties, GST will have to be
Last Date of Physical Submission - 09.11.2022 made by the Tenderers at this E-TENDER stage.
Pre Bid Meeting - 21.10.2022 Time 12.00 PM 2. Prior to making an Application, the Applicant ("the tenderer") shall pay online through payment
to 1.00 PM gateway from e-wallet to the Employer a non-refundable sum of INR. 10,400 + 18% GST as the
sd/- cost of the E-TENDER Documents and process downloading. The Employer shall not entertain
Excutive Engineer any query or clarification from Applicants who fail to qualify.
40359 Municipal Corporation, Korba (C.G.)
3. The scope of work will broadly include earth improvement in intertidal zones, construction of
suitable protection works, road building with construction of new pavement, construction of
bridges, obligatory span bridge, culverts, road intersections, interchanges, drains, etc. with all
allied works (wherever applicable) as per the alignment suggested by BMC from time to time. The
successful bidder will be responsible for obtaining all required NOCs from various government
authorities such as but not limited to MCZMA, MMB, MMRDA, MBMC, Salt Pan Commissioner,
Forest clearance from Forest Department/ MoEF & CC etc. BMC authorities will assist only for the
applications as and when required.
Sr. Particulars Schedule
1 Request for Proposal for Design & Built 45-meter-wide roads and bridges
the Mumbai Link Road Project from
Dahisar (West) to Bhayander (West)
2 Tender Security Amount (EMD) 1. Rs. 2,50,00,000/- through Online Gateway.
(Refundable) 2. Rs. 22,50,00,000/- In the form of Bank Guarantee
from Approved List of Banks by BMC.
3 Cost of Tender (Tender Fee) Rs. 10,400 + 18% GST
(Non-Refundable)
4 Contract Period 42 months (Inclusive of monsoon)
5 Sale of E-Tender starts from From 17.10.2022 1600 hrs. onwards
6 Pre-Bid conference At 03.11.2022 1400 hrs.
7 Venue of Pre-Bid conference Office of the Additional Municipal Commissioner
(Project), 2nd floor Conference Hall, Brihanmumbai
Municipal Corporation Head Office Annex Building,
Mahapalika Marg, Mumbai-400 001, Maharashtra,
India
Phone:+91-022-24919252, Fax:+91-022-24919262.
8 Clarifications of queries : The interested
tenderers have to download E-Tender
documents and raise all the queries
including technical, design etc. by e- Up to 1100 hrs. on 03.11.2022
mail to the Engineer within stipulated
time. Email Id : che.br@mcgm.gov.in
9 Last Date & Time of e-Tender Sale Up to 1600 hrs. on 18.11.2022
10 Date & Time of uploading document in
e- Packet 'A' and Technical submission Up to 1800 hrs. on 18.11.2022
in e- Packet 'B'
11 End Date & Time of entire submission
uploading with Commercial Proposal, Up to 1800 hrs. on 18.11.2022
e-Packet 'C'
12 Date & Time of Opening of e-Packet 'A, In the office of Chief Engineer (Bridges)
Physical packet 'A' & Technical From 1600 hrs. on 21.11.2022
e-Packet 'B'
13 Date & Time of opening of e-Tender, In the office of Chief Engineer (Bridges)
e-Packet 'C' (Commercial Bid) From 1500 hrs. on 02.12.2022
4. All bids shall be submitted online in e-tendering module only, unless instructed specifically.
5. The Municipal Commissioner reserves the right to reject/modify all or any of the e-tender(s)
without assigning any reasons at any stage.
6. The dates and time for submission and opening the bids are as shown in the Header Data. If there
are any changes in the dates the same will be displayed on the BMC Portal.
(http://portal.mcgm.gov.in)
sd/- 14.10.2022
PRO/1593/ADV/2022-23 Chief Engineer (Bridges)
New Delhi
 18 CLASSIFIEDS & TENDERS WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2022

I,Bisheswari Devi I Pushpa Majhi alias Pushpa D/o

PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE

Classifieds
PERSONAL
I Himanshi Gupta W/O, Rajeev
Jyoti Pradhan R/o 4385, Pocket
B 5&6, Vasant Kunj have
changed my name to
Himanshi Pradhan for all
purposes.
0040636537-1
I,AMITA DUA,ADD-B/14-
15,KRISHNA PARK
KHANPUR,SOUTH,DELHI-
W/o,No.4052821H NK Surender
Singh Negi R/o, 108C,Pocket-D,
Mayur Vihar, Phase-III,Delhi-
96,have changed my,name to
Visheshwari Devi vide
affidavit
dt.14.10.22,before.Delhi.
0040636561-1
I,Bindu D/O-Edakatil Madhavan
Ram Das,R/O-150 D,Pocket
Phase-1,Mayur Vihar,Delhi-
110091,Have Changed
My,Name To “Sky Bellona Dot
Bindu Fernandes’’For
All.Purposes.
0040636571-3
Mr. Jugal Majhi R/o House
No.9, Road No.19, East Punjabi
Bagh, New Delhi-110026 have
changed my name to Pushpa
Majhi for all purposes.
0040636477-7
I Darshna Devi W/O, Ajit Singh
R/o 34, Paschim Enclave, Main
Rohtak Road, Paschim Vihar,
Delhi-110087 have changed my
name to Darshana Devi for all
purposes.
0040636535-1
I Chandrawati W/o Sh. Sandeep
Kumar D/o Sh. Hari Om
Be it known to public at large that my
clients Sh. Lalit Gupta S/o, C.R. Gupta
and Ms. Chetna Gupta w/o Sh. Lalit
Gupta both r/o WZ-459, A/3, F-Floor, MS
Block, Gali No. 4, near Shiv Mandir, Hari
Nagar, South West Delhi, Delhi- 110064,
have severed all relations with their son
namely Sh. Sahil Gupta and also
debarred/ disinherited him from movable/
immovable properties because of his
acts which are harmful to my clients. Any
one deal with them shall do entirely at
their own risks, costs, consequences,
responsibilities. My client shall not be
responsible in any manner for the same.
Sd/- DINESH ROHILLA
Advocate
Office:- K-134, Lawyer’s Chamber,
Tis Hazari Court, Delhi-110054
PUBLIC NOTICE
This is to inform to General
Public that my clientess i.e.
Be It Known that my client SMT.
IT IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT MY CLIENT,
RAVI GUPTA S/O SH. RAJINDER PARSHAD R/O
SHASHI KAUR W/o SH. NIRMAL H-504 EMAAR PALM DRIVE NEAR VATIKA CITY
SINGH ARORA R/o A-293 Majlis SECTOR-66 ISLAMPUR (97) GURGAON
HARYANA-122018 have LOST MISPLACED
Park Delhi-110033 have disowned
and severed all her relation with her
ORIGINAL DDA POSSESSION LETTER,
ALLOTMENT LETTER, BANK CHALLAN AND
son namely SANJAY and daughter
REENA W/o Sandeep Bedi and
SITE POSSESSION etc. IN RESPECT OF
PROPERTY NO.SU-165 PITAMPURA DELHI-
110034 HAVE LODGED A FIR VIDE LR
debarred both of them from her NO.885557/2022 DATED.13/10/2022 WITH
movable and immovable properties/ POLICE STATION, DELHI, IF ANY BODY FIND
assets due to their mis-behaviour. THE SAID DOCUMENTS, INFORM ME AT THE
Any body dealing with both of them
ABOVE SAID ADDRESS AND MOB.
NO.9902788887.IF ANY OTHER CLAIMENT HAS
in civil and criminal matter shall be ANY RIGHTS IN THE AFORESAID PROPERTY,
doing at his/her/their Own risk, Cost HE/ SHE SHOULD FILE AN FIR & GIVE
INTIMATION TO DY/ASST. DIRECTOR, DDA VIKAS
and responsibility. SADAN, INA, NEW DELHI WITH IN 10 DAYS FROM
S.C. DIXIT (Advocate) THE DATE OF ISSUE OF THIS NOTICE.
Sd/-
Shop No. 17, Ru-Block
Pitampura, Delhi-88
ANKUSH KUMAR (Advocate)
RU-368 Pitampura Delhi-34
PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE
Be it known to all that my clients Sh. Ram Surat
Be it known to all through this Public Notice It is for general information that I,
that my Clientess Mrs. Kamal Suri W/o Late
S/o Late Bhagelu and Smt. Saraswati W/o Sh.

110062,changed my Minor
daughter name SHEEN to
SHEEN BATRA,for all,future
Purposes.
0040636561-6
I,hitherto Known as Bhateri,D/o
Rishi Raj,R/o-V.P.O- Bolni, Bolni
(164),Rewari, Haryana-
123401,have changed my
name and shall hereafter be
known as Bhumi.
0040636520-10
I,Yusuf Khan,S/o-Shokeen
Khan,R/o-B-4/226,Sector-
20,Rohini,Delhi-110086,inform
that Yusuf Khan and Yusub
Khan are the names of same
and one-person.
0040636520-8
I,Ved Parkash,S/O-Shri
Krishan,R/O-A-1/157 A,Keshav
Puram,Delhi-110035,have
Changed my name to Ved
Prakash Khemka for all
Purposes.
0040636563-1
I,TANISHQ,S/O SUMAN KUMAR
SHARMA,R/o D-
90A,STREET.NO.8, JYOTI
COLONY,SHAHDARA,DELHI-
110032, Changed my name to
TANISHQ SHARMA.
0040636571-1
I,Sourabh S/o Mukesh
Kumar,R/o Chhainsa,Chhainsa
(211),Palwal (Haryana)-
121103,have changed my
name to Sourabh Singh,for all
Purposes.
0040636520-1
I,Shilpi D/o.Sh.Harkishan Lal
Gaba R/o.E-128,2nd Floor,Near
Sehgal Market-1, Greater
Kailash-2,New Delhi-48 have
changed myname to Shilpi
Arora for allPurposes.
0040636489-1
I,Sakhi,S/o-Ranjit kumar,R/O-
flat no-89,KG-1,Near shankar
chowk,Vikas puri,New Delhi-
110018,I have Changed my
name from Sakshi to Sakshi
Kumar for all future purpose.
0040636563-2
I,Rawail Siwgh,S/O Rasila Ram
Resident 135,Sawan Ashram,T-
Huts,Rana Pratap Bagh,Delhi-
07,have changed my name to
Rawail Singh.
0040636520-3
I,Rajesh S/o-Ganga Sahay R/o-
B-708, Gali No-11, Qutub Vihar
Phase-2, New Delhi-110071
have changed my name to
Rajesh Kumar for all purposes.
0040636479-1
I,Raj Rani W/O-Rawail Singh
Resident 135,Sawan Ashram,T-
Huts,Rana Pratap Bagh,Delhi-
07,have changed my name to
Kamla Rani.
0040636520-2
I,Charan Jeet Singh,S/o-
Gurbachan Singh
Verma,R/o.2nd-
Floor,1329,Sector-4,
Gurgaon(Haryana)-
122001,have changed my
Minor’s Son’s name Hartansh
to Hartansh Singh.
0040636561-2
I,Prince Hritz,S/o-Jitendra
Mishra,R/o.E-31,SF-
2,Keshavkunj-Colony
Sehnai,Farm Govindpuram-
Ghaziabad U.P.201013,Inform
That Prince Hritz and Prince is
one and the same-person.
0040636520-5
I,Pragya Richa Bajpai W/o-
Neeraj Kumar Mishra R/o-
Plot.No.23,R-Extn,Gagan
Bharti School,Mohan-
Garden,Uttam Nagar,Delhi-
110059,have changed my
name to Pragya Richa Rajesh
Bajpai.
0040636520-4
I,Piyush Ujjainwaal alias
Piyush,S/o Sh.Durga
Prasad,R/o.E-20,D-1,Dilshad
Colony,Delhi-110095,Have
added my sur name
i.e.Ujjainwaal hence I shall be
Known as Piyush
Ujjainwaal,for,future
purposes.
0040636520-6
I,POOJA,D/O.GULSHAN KUMAR,
ADD-11/8 OLD-RAJINDER
NAGAR ,CENTRAL,DELHI-
110060,Changed my name to
POOJA KASHYAP,for all,future
Purposes.
0040636561-5
I,Mustafeez Mehdi,S/o
Shabihul Hasan,R/o-E-116,2nd
Floor,Hari Kothi,Abul Fazal-
Enclave,Jamia-Nagar,South
Delhi,Delhi-110025,have
changed my-minor son
name,from Arsalan Mehdi
aged-13-years to Mohammad
Maier,for all purposes.
0040636561-8
I,Mohd Nisar S/o-Mohd Iqbal
R/o,Z-59C, Z-Block, DDA-
Flats,New Ranjit-Nagar, Patel-
Nagar,New Delhi-110008,have
changed my name to Nisar
Mohd.
0040636571-2
I,Lachhi Ram Dhanker S/o
Raghuveer Singh R/o N-114,
Sector-25, Noida(U.P.) 201301
have changed my name to
Lachhiram for all future
purposes. 0040636480-1
I,Bharat S/o Ram Chand,R/o A-
3/256, 1st Floor, Sector-
17,Rohini,Delhi-110089,have
changed my name to Bharat
Kumar.
0040636520-9
I,BHAGWAT DAYAL
SHARMA,S/O MAHENDER
SINGH RESIDENT 1834,SECTOR-
15,HOUSING BOARD
COLONY,SONIPAT,
HARYANA,HAVE CHANGED MY
NAME TO BHAGWAT DAYAL.
0040636520-7
I,AMIT SINGHAL,S/O SHRI.JEEYA
RAM
SINGHAL,R/.F.218/BB,MANGAL
BAZAR CHOWK,LAXMI-NAGAR
DELHI-110092,DECLARE THAT
OF MY-DAUGHTER NAME IN
BIRTH-CERTIFICATE
NO.MCDOLIR-0115-
006582291,MENTIONED IS
MISHIKA ALIAS AAVYA HAS
CHANGED NAME TO AAVYA
SINGHAL,FOR ALL
PURPOSES,IN FUTURE.
0040636571-11
I, Virendra Kumar s/o Madan
Lal Sharma r/o F-174/C, Gali
No.-25, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi-
110092 have changed my name
to Virender Sharma.
0040636529-1
I, Varun Anil Taneja S/o. Sh. Anil
Kumar Taneja R/o. Flat No.241,
Surya Appartment, Plot No.14,
Sector-6, Dwarka, New Delhi-
110075 have changed my name
to Varun Taneja for all future
purposes.
0040636492-1
I, Shahrukh Malik S/o Saleem
Malik R/o A-416, Old
Seemapuri, Shahdara, East
Delhi, Delhi-110095 do hereby
solemnly inform that
Shahrukh and Shahrukh Malik
both are one and same person,
and my father name is written
in my 10th class certificate as
Saleem instead of Saleem
Malik both are one and same
person.
0040636530-1
I, Vivek Chandra Chitravanshi
S/O Sri B C Chitravanshi,
resident of 92A, Pocket C,
Express View Apartment
Sector 105, Noida, 201304
certify that Vivek Chitravanshi
and Vivek Chandra
Chitravanshi are one and
same person i.e. me. The
above statement is true and
correct.
0040636488-1
I, Sachin Taraiya, S/o Sunil
Taraiya, R/o E-205, Grand
Ajnara Heritage, Sec-74,
Noida, Gautam Budh Nagar,
U.P., have changed my name to
Sachin Kumar Taraiya
permanently.
0070808302-1
I, Mujeebul Islam Chaudhary,
S/o Riyasat Ali, R/o C-232, 3rd
Floor, Abul Fazal Enclave Part-
2, Shaheen Bagh, Jamia Nagar,
New Delhi-110025, have
changed my name to Mujeebul
Islam.
0070808215-1
I, Kranti Devi, W/o Lt. Satya
Prakash Tyagi, R/o 104,
Mansarovar, PO- Kutchery,
Meerut, have changed my
name to Kanti Devi.
0070808279-1
I, Komalta Shankaran, W/o
Ramachandran Shankaran,
R/o SF-61, Hapur Road, Shastri
Nagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar
Pradesh-201001, have
changed my name and shall
hereafter be known as
Komalta Rani.
0070808231-1
I, Dinesh Chandra Lohani, S/o
Shri Krishan Lohani, R/o
Panchayat Ghar Wali Gali,
Shakti Nagar Purani Lal Singh
Gali Talli Bamori, Haldwani,
Nainital, Uttarakhand-263141,
that name of mine has been
wrongly written as Dinesh
Chander Lohani in my Pension
Payment Order (PPO) N0-
S/037457/97 (ARMY). The
actual name of mine is Dinesh
Chandra Lohani.
0070808285-1
I, Avinash Kumar Verma, S/o
Ravi Prakash Verma, R/o
Tower-B17, Flat No-1401,
Supertech Ecovillage-1, Noida
Extension, Bisrakh, UP, 201306,
have changed my name to
Avinash Verma. 0070808304-1
I, Atharva Chaudhary, S/o
Preeti Jakhar Chaudhary, R/o
C-103, Ground Floor, Mayfield
Garden, Near Baani Square,
Sector 50, South City-II,
Gurgaon, Haryana- 122018,
have changed my name and
shall hereafter be known as
Agrbir Singh Jakhar.
0070808233-1
I, Anuj Bairathi, S/o Late RC
Bairathi Resident of 606,
Mahagun Morpheus, E4,
Sector 50, Noida-201301, have
changed the name of my
minor Son aged 11 years from
Arnay Bairathi to Aryan
Bairathi. 0070808214-1
I, Anju Mohan, S/o Radhey
Mohan, R/o W-76, Greater
Kailash-1, S.O, South Delhi-
110048, have changed my
name to Anuj Mohan.
0070808283-1
Chandra R/o House No.649, Sh. Motilal Suri R/o H, No. B-2/36, Phase-2,
Ram Surat both R/o A-3/345, Sultan Puri, Delhi- Tanushree Roy Chowdhury, Ex-
Balesh Devi W/o Sh. Devender Ashok Vihar, Delhi, have severed all kind of
110086 have severed all their relations with their
wife of Sh. Sukhpreet Singh D/o
Block No.D-1, Street No.18, Singh R/o RZ-26P/34E, Indira her relationship & disowned and disinherited
son Sh. Raj Kumar, daughter-in-law Smt.Guddi
W/o Sh. Raj Kumar and grand children Ruby, Sh. Shiv Prasad Roy Chowdhury
her son Pradeep Suri and his wife Smt.
Near MCD School, Harsh Vihar, Park Extn. II, Mangal Bazar
Rupali Suri and their son Yajat Suri (grand
Ranjana, Vikram & Vinay all children of Sh.Raj R/o B-116, Third Floor, Block-B,
Road, Palam Colony, New Delhi Kumar all R/o Vill. Jaddou Patti, Bhitariya, Post
Mandoli, North East Delhi- son of my clientess) from her hard earned Chitranjan Park, Kalkaji, South
that the correct spelling of the movable and immovable properties due to
Sikri Ganj, Teh. Khajni, Distt.Gorakhpur, U.P.
and daughter Smt. Pushpa W/o Sh. Vijay Delhi, Delhi-110019, declare that
110093 have changed my name name of my clientess is Balesh their misconduct, misbehaviour and Shankar, R/ Vill.Rewta, Distt. Sant Kabir Nagar I have divorced from my husband
to Chanchal Chandra for all Devi instead of Balash Devi as
disrespectful behaviour. Anybody dealing Basti, U.P. and debarred & disowned them from
with them in any manner, shall do the same all their movable and immovable, self acquired/ Sh. Sukhpreet Singh vide court
purposes. given in the family details/ service on his own risk and my clientess shall not be decree No. HMA No. 43/2020
record of her husband. responsible for any act, deed and omission of
inherited properties and social relationship of the
society with immediate effects, due to their
dated 18.01.2020. Further I have
0040636477-6 Sd/- NARESH GAMBHIR
her son and his wife i.e. Pradeep Suri and his
wife Rupali Suri and their son Yajat Suri.
misbehavior, misconduct disobedience & cruel
changed the name of my minor
ADVOCATE
nature. Any persons/s dealing with them will do
Sd/- at his/her/their own risk and costs and my clients daughter namely Ananya Singh
I,SANJIV KUMAR JAIN, Enrl. No. D/1177/2000 G.S. AHUJA shall not be responsible for any kind of his/their
aged about 10 years and shall
Advocate acts & deeds in future in any circumstances.
S/O.KAILASH CHAND JAIN, Ch. No. 39, WESTERN WING, henceforth be known as Ananya
TIS HAZARI COURT, DELHI-54.
Ch. No. 151-A, 1st Floor, ASHOK KUMAR (Advocate)
ADD-G-314,THIRD-FLOOR Western Wing, Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi-54 M.9899571008 (D/4195/10) Roy Chowdhury.
,PREET-VIHAR
SHAKARPUR,EAST-DELHI-
110092,changed my name to
SANJEEV JAIN,for all,future
Purposes.
0040636561-3
I,BALJEET JUNEJA, S/O.HARISH
CHAND JUNEJA, ADD-A2/703,
PARAM-PUNEET, APARTMENT,
PLOT.NO-27,SECTOR-6,
DWARKA,NEW DELHI-
110075,Changed my name to
BALJEET SINGH JUNEJA,for
all,future Purposes.
0040636561-4
I, RACHNA KHANDELWAL , W/O
SANDEEP GUPTA R/o A-116,
PHASE-1, NEAR JIVODAYA
HOSPITAL, ASHOK VIHAR,
DELHI-110052 After marrige
have changed my name to
RACHNA GUPTA for all future
purposes. 0040636544-1
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ONLINE STREAMING
Netflix’s new
ad-supported plan
to start at $6.99 a
month in the US
To roll-out service in more countries
SOUMYARENDRABARIK
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14
NETFLIX WILL roll out a
subscription option sub-
sidised by advertisements
in November in a dozen
countries as it looks to boost
revenues and acquire more
users. Called ‘basic with ads’
the subscription will be
priced at $6.99 in the United
States, three dollars less
than a basic option without
ads in the country.
The move comes as the
streaming giant battles a
subscriber churn after it lost
nearly a million subscribers
during the three-month pe-
riod ending June 30, mark-
ing the biggest ever quar-
terly fall in subscribers.
The ad-supported sub-
scription, a first for Netflix,
will roll out in Australia,
Brazil, Britain,
Canada, France,
Germany, Italy,
Japan, South Korea,
Mexico, Spain and
the United States. It
is a big change for
the company,
which pioneered the idea of
ad-free subscription-based
streaming.
What would be
different in the
ad-discounted
version?
Apart from having, for the
first time, third-party ads on
its platform, the subscrip-
tion plan will have its video
quality capped to 720p
while having an average of
four to five minutes of ads
per hour. Netflix said that a
“limited” number of shows
will not be available in this
particular tier due to licenc-
ing restrictions which the
company is “working on” to
sort out. Users will also not
be able to download titles.
At launch, ads will be 15 or
30 seconds in length, which
will play before and during
shows and films.
When will it come
to India?
India headed for
recovery, aided by
digitisation, says FM Sitharaman calls for
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 14
FINANCE MINISTER Nirmala
Sitharaman has exuded confi-
dencethatIndiawillcomeoutof
the current global turmoil and
move on the path of sustained
recovery on the back of rapid
digitisation and steps taken by
the government.
She said India has been able
to set up a global benchmark in
digitisation in areas of payment,
healthcare, education and regu-
latory compliances, and this is a
confidence booster for the econ-
omy.
Theeconomyandbusinesses
are doing well because of steps
taken by the government in the
last two years, Sitharaman told
students of the Johns Hopkins
School of Advanced
International Studies during an
interactive session on India’s
Unique Digital Public Goods on
Thursday.
“I would think that the econ-
omy’s revival is on a sustained
path,” she said, adding that the
government has taken on board
the impact of the global turmoil
on demand, exports, and the ru-
pee vis-a-vis the US dollar.
“There is a sense of confi-
dence in India that we will go
through this and we will be able
to still perform. It’s because of
thewayinwhichtechnologyhas
The move comes as
the streaming giant
battles a subscriber
churn after it lost
nearly a million
subscribers during
the three-month
period ending
June 30
India is not one of the 12
countries where Netflix is
first launching the ad-sup-
ported plan, although the
company has said that it ex-
pects to roll-out the service
in more countries over time.
“While it’s still very early
days, we’re pleased with the
interest from both con-
sumers and the advertising
community — and couldn’t
be more excited
about what’s
ahead. As we learn
from and improve
the experience,
we expect to
launch in more
countries over
time,” it said in a statement.
However, it is worth not-
ing that Netflix has some of
the cheapest subscription
plans compared to its serv-
ices in other geographies
and the impact on the exist-
ing subscription prices as
and when it launches the
ad-version plan in the coun-
try is yet to be clear, espe-
cially given the price-sensi-
tive nature of the Indian
market.
In India, Netflix plans
start from Rs 149, or about
two dollars a month, albeit
that is a mobile-only plan.
For other devices like smart
televisions, the cheapest
Netflix plan in India starts
from Rs 199 per month
which converts to around
$2.6 a month. The stream-
ing platform’s ‘standard’
plan in India costs Rs 499
per month and supports si-
multaneous streaming of
high-definition content on
two devices and has no
ads.
been used for the public good,”
she said.
She further said the credit
availability is no longer an issue
asevensmallbusinessesareget-
ting loans sitting at home.
Theseareactuallygreatlubri-
cantswhentheeconomyislook-
ing to find ways in which it can
come out of the lockdown or the
difficulties of a largely extrane-
ous problem, she said.
Addressing students and
scholars,SitharamansaidIndia’s
public goods are available for
countrieswhichneedthem.“For
example, because of CoWIN,
Indians travelling abroad don’t
need any paper to show they’re
vaccinated. They can show it on
the phone. Now, CoWIN app is
available for any country which
wants to use it.”
Responding to a question,
Sitharaman said the push for
digitisation between 2014 and
2019 helped fight the economic
crisis during COVID-19 and
thereafter as well.
“The push that was given be-
tween 2014 and 2019 actually
has helped us. And helped us in
many unbelievable ways. We
were able to provide relief im-
mediately during the long lock-
down,” she said.
Similarly,the publicdistribu-
tion system was digitised and
during this period, India also
brought in the ‘One Nation One
Ration Card’ scheme.
IRDAI proposes conditions for private
equity funds in insurance companies
GEORGE MATHEW
MUMBAI, OCTOBER 14
THEINSURANCERegulatoryand
Development Authority of India
(IRDAI) has proposed terms and
conditionsforinvestmentbypri-
vate equity funds as promoters
in insurance companies.
A private equity fund will be
allowed to invest in any insurer
in the capacity of “promoter” if
it has completed 10 years of op-
eration and the funds raised by
the PE fund, including its group
entities, is US $ 500 million or
more (or its equivalent in rupee,
IRDAI said. “The investible funds
available with the PE fund
should not be less than $ 100
million,” the regulator said in its
exposuredraftonRegistrationof
Indian Insurance companies
(Regulations) 2022.
Everstone seeks
stake sale in Fiscal space for capital
India, Indonesia's spending
Burger King
franchisee
As many as 13 major
states, including
West Bengal, Tamil
REUTERS
SINGAPORE, OCTOBER 14
PRIVATE EQUITY firm Everstone
Capital is considering selling its
stake worth $314 million in
Restaurant Brands Asia Ltd, the
master franchisee of Burger King
inIndiaandIndonesia,twosources
withknowledgeofthemattertold
Reuters.TheSingapore-headquar-
tered buyout firm is in talks with
oneadvisertoexplorethesale,the
sourcessaid,decliningtobeiden-
tifiedasthematterisprivate.
Everstone Capital, through its
investment vehicle QSR Asia Pte
Ltd holds a 40.9% stake in
Restaurant Brands, according to
Refinitivdata.EverstoneCapitalde-
clinedtocommentandRestaurant
Brands Asia did not respond to
Reutersqueriesseekingcomment.
Restaurant Brands Asia had a
market value of $768 million
based on Friday's price of 129
Indian rupees. Its shares have
jumped 49% from a record low
struckinmid-May.
The potential sale comes at a
timewhenconsumerspendingis
rebounding following the easing
ofcoronavirusrestrictionsinIndia
andIndonesia,whichhavehelped
boost their second quarter eco-
nomicgrowthtotheirfastestpace
inayear.India’seconomygrewat
13.5%on-yearinApril-June,while
Indonesia’sexpandedby5.44%.
Restaurant Brands Asia, for-
merlyknownasBurgerKingIndia
Ltd, was incorporated in 2013 fol-
lowing a partnership formed be-
tweenEverstoneandBurgerKing
WorldwideInctodevelopthefast-
foodchain'spresenceinIndia.
collective responsibility
to prevent macro risks
from aggravating
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 14
UNION FINANCE Minister
NirmalaSitharamanonThursday
calledforcollectiveresponsibility
to prevent the risks from aggra-
vating.SitharamansaidIndia’sef-
fortswillbetoencourageconver-
sations that recognise “our
inter-dependencies, our shared
wisdom, and our collective aspi-
ration” for a safe, peaceful and
prosperous world.
Today’s global economy faces
aconfluenceof challengesand“it
is our collective responsibility” to
prevent the risks from aggravat-
ing, the finance minister said in
herspeechduringtheclosingses-
sionoftheG-20financeministers
and central bank governors here
being held on the sidelines of the
annual meetings of the
InternationalMonetaryFundand
the World Bank.
India will head the annual ro-
tating presidency of G-20 next
year.
In her remarks, the finance
ministersaidthatIndiaviewsthe
hosting of the G20 Presidency as
InvestmentbyPEfundsisex-
pected to bring in more foreign
investment to the country. In
2020, the government had in-
creasedtheforeigndirectinvest-
ment limit in insurance firms
from 49 per cent to 74 per cent
under the automatic route. IR-
DAI had given in principle ap-
proval to PE funds to invest in in-
surers in 2017. While private
investment in insurance is big
business in the US and Europe,
it'syettotakeoff inIndia.In2021,
private investors announced
dealstoacquireorreinsuremore
than $200 billion of liabilities in
the US.
IRDAI said the equity contri-
bution of promoters and other
investors will have a lock-in pe-
riod of five years at the time of
granting the final approval or
even before that. The lock-in for
investment after five years but
Nadu and Gujarat,
have fiscal space of
Rs 7.4 lakh crore for
85%
capital spending in
the current fiscal,
ratings agency Icra 2020-21.Theyhadmadeacapital
noted. expenditureofRs4.1lakhcrorelastfiscal
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Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh
and West Bengal will have adequate resources to fully fund
or exceed their budgeted capex for FY2023,"
ADITI NAYAR, ICRA CHIEF ECONOMIST
WPI inflation eases to 18-month
low of 10.7% in September
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14
THE WHOLESALE price-based
inflation declined to a 18-month
low of 10.7 per cent in
September,aspricesof food,fuel
and manufactured items soft-
ened. Although the wholesale
priceindex(WPI)basedinflation
declined for the fourth consecu-
tive month, it continued to re-
main in double digit for the 18th
month since April 2021.
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an opportunity as well as a re-
sponsibility.
“Rebuilding trust in multilat-
eralism is at the core of India's
thinking,” she told her G-20 col-
leagues.SitharamansaidthatG20
finance ministers have always
come together in the harshest
global situations, set aside their
differences, and worked towards
a common goal of prosperity for
our people.
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years or 12 years from the date
stakeinthe insurer below50 per
cent but not below 26 per cent
third of its board should com-
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ofgoldholdings,theReserve
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of grant of registration,
whichever is earlier, and after 10
years, the lock-in will be two
of the paid-up equity capital if
the insurer has a track record of
solvency ratio above control
regulator said.
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an Indian insurer should be less foreigninvestment,amajorityof should be retained in general the tribunal said till the ap-
than 25 per cent of the paid-up its directors, key management reserve, IRDAI said. peal is heard finally, the rat-
equity capital of the insurer. persons, and at least one among Earlier, in 2016, IRDAI had ing agency should not take
Investment in the capacity of in- the chairperson of its board, its proposedthattheboardof direc- up new assignments. ENS
vestors should be restricted to managing director and its Chief tors was required to have a min-
not more than two life, two gen-
eral,twohealthandtworeinsur-
Executive Officer should be res-
ident Indian citizens, it said.
imum of three “independent di-
rectors”. However, this BajajQ2netprofit
ers, it said. Further, in an Indian Insurer requirement is relaxed to ‘two’ New Delhi: Bajaj Auto on
The regulator has proposed having foreign investment ex- independent directors, for the Friday reported a 16% de-
thattheminimumshareholding ceeding49percent,notlessthan initial five years from grant of clinein netprofittoRs1,719
of promoters should be main- 50percentof itsdirectorsshould certificate of registration to in- crore for the September
tainedatabove50percentof the be independent directors. If the surers. “This rule is going to be quarter, hit by a 25% dip in
paid-up equity capital of the in- chairperson of its board is an in- tightened in the new scheme of overseas shipments. The
surer.Promotersmaydilutetheir dependent director, at least one- things,” said an official. company had posted a net
profitofRs2,040croreinthe
last fiscal. PTI
Exports rise just
4.8% in September, 20 pc petrol
blended with
import growth slows ethanol may be
thecomingmonths.Thiswilladd available from
ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14
to the woes of a demand slow-
down in the US, EU, China and Dec or Jan: Puri
the UK. The country hasn’t quite
isthecombinedshareof13 MERCHANDISE EXPORTS rose gainedfromtherupeedeprecia- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
statesinIndia'sGDPin just 4.8% in September from a tion,asthecurrenciesof someof JAIPUR, OCTOBER 14
year before to $35.5 billion, as its competitors have weakened
easingglobalcommodityprices, against the greenback at a faster TWENTY PER CENT ethanol-
ontopof aslowdownindemand pace. blendedpetrolislikelytobeavail-
`58 lakhcroreThe
budgetestimatefor
these13statesforcapex
from key markets, continued to
hurtorderflowforathirdstraight
month.
However,domesticexporters
and policy makers are pinning
hopes on the diversion of a por-
able in the country from
DecemberorJanuary,aheadofthe
April 2023 target, Union
spendingthisfiscal,therating Trade deficit, however, mod- tionof westernordersawayfrom Petroleum and Natural Gas
agencyadded. erated a bit to $25.7 billion in China, whose ability to ship out Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said
Septemberfromarecord$28bil- has been somewhat under- on Friday. “We are constantly re-
lioninthepreviousmonth,asim- mined by the fresh Covid out- viewing the ethanol production
portgrowthslowed,possiblyre- break there. and I believe 20 per cent blended
flecting a softening of pent-up Dataforhigh-valuesegments fuelwouldcomeinthemarketin
domestic demand and a high showed exports of electronics December or January, ahead of
base effect. grewasmuchas72%to$2billion April 2023 (target),” he told re-
Source: ICRA
Stilltherecordquarterlytrade inSeptember,followedbypetro- porters in Jaipur on Friday.
deficitof almost$84billioninthe leum products (43% to $7.4 bil- Citing the example of Brazil
three months through lion),gemsandjewellery(17%to whereflex-fuelvehiclesareavail-
September will further pressure $3.8 billion). However, exports able and the consumer can take
thecurrentaccount,thedeficitin
which had hit a 15-quarter high
fromlabour-intensivesectorslike
textiles & garments and carpets
ethanolorpetrolasperchoice,he
said this will be the ultimate goal
in the June quarter.
According to the provisional
dropped. Engineering goods ex-
ports contracted almost 11% to
of the government.
However, to reach that stage,
gas, chemicals & chemical prod- data released by the commerce $8.4 billion. As for imports, the certaintechnicalaspectsarethere
ucts,basicmetals,electricity,tex- ministry on Friday, imports rose purchases of coal continued to andworkisgoingon.“Wearego-
tiles etc. as compared to the cor- just 8.7% in September to $61.2 rise sharply. In September, coal ing to hold a major meeting with
responding month of the billion.Importshadgrown43.6% imports jumped 61% to $3.5 bil- automobile manufacturers on
previous year,” an official state- in July and 37.3% in August. lion,eventhoughoilandoilprod- ethanol blending,” he said.
ment said. The wholesale infla- Importantly,coreexports(ex- uctimportsshoweda5%decline India has advanced the target
tionwas12.41percentinAugust cludingthepetroleum,gemsand to$15.9billion.Interestingly,im- date for achieving 20 per cent
and 11.80 per cent in September jewellery segments) contracted ports of iron & steel jumped 39% ethanol-blendinginpetrolbyfive
last year. This year, WPI touched 4.6% in September from a year to $1.9 billion. years to 2025. The minister also
a record high of 15.88 per cent in before to $24.2 billion, the worst Aditi Nayar, chief economist said that for the targeted 20 per
May. monthly slide since May 2020. at ICRA, said the non-petroleum centblendingofethanolinpetrol,
Economists say the gradual Overallexportsinthefirsthalf and non-gems & jewellery ex- thecountrywillneeda1,000core
month-on-monthdeclineinWPI ofFY23touched$231.9billion,up ports have displayed a contrac- litre capacity. He added that 450
is mainly due to moderation in 17% from a year before, mainly tion, suggesting a “sombre out- crore litre is being produced and
commodity prices and pegged duetodecentperformanceinthe look for exports” in the tenders for 400 crore litre have
inflation to come down further
with overall recovery momen-
tum and weaker outlook on
first two months of this fiscal.
With global commodity
pricesmoderating,exportvalue
near term. FE been issued.
commodity prices. will remain under pressure in
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the same date at 03.00 PM in the presence of the authorized intending tenders. Tender not
submitted on the prescribed form, not accompanied with valid Earnest Money and tender cost
shall be summarily rejected straightway. The undersigned reserves the right to accept or
reject any or all the tenders received without assigning any reason thereof. For more details
contract: 0172-2756469 at Procurement Branch (Import).
NOTE: If any of the tender opening date happens to be a holiday in PGIMER, Chandigarh,
then the same shall be opened on next full working day. SXfªfÀ±ff³f ÀfSXIYfSX
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1. UBN WRD2223WSOB01326 value of the procurements is Rs. 696.57 Lacs. (3 Package Works).
2. UBN WRD2223WSOB01327 UBN No.: PWD2223WSOB09112
1. www.eproc.rajasthan.gov.in
PWD2223WSOB09090
2. www.sppp.rajasthan.gov.in
PWD2223WSOB09084
3. www.water resources.rajasthan.gov.in
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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2022

NOTICE BOARD CORPORATE ASSOCIATE DIARY A P P O I N T M E N T S, M OV E M E N T S, C E L E B R AT I O N S, H O N O U R S

INAUGURATION -NBCC MoU-IRFC INAUGURATION-CWC HAND OVER-REC AWARD - SAMTA FOUNDATION

PM Modi recently inaugurated NBCC built AIIMS Bilaspur, HP in
the presence of Governor of Himachal Pradesh Rajinder Vish-
wanath Arlekar, CM of Himachal Pradesh Jai Ram Thakur,
Union Minister Anurag Thakur, & MP Jagat Prakash Nadda.
IRFC and IIFCL recently signed MoU to strengthen coopera-
tion in financing railway infrastructure projects. A. Banerjee,
CMD IRFC & P.R. Jaishankar, MD IIFCL, signed the MoU in the
presence of senior officials of both the organizations.
CWC's Rise Warehouse of 3.5 lakh sq.ft. situated Nr. Ben-
galuru In't Airport was inaugurated by S Pandey Secy DFPD re-
cently. In the presence of AK Shrivastava MD CWC, AKK
Meena CMD FCI, Triapthi DG, CPWD.
REC’s subsidiary – RECPDCL, handed over the project specific
SPV to M/s PGCIL. P.S. Hariharan, Addl. CEO - RECPDCL,
handed over the SPV to L.K. Khajkumar, CGM - M/s PGCIL in the
presence of sr. officials of RECPDCL, PGCIL &CTUIL.
Samta Foundation felicitated with 'Seva Bhushan Samman
2022' award for community welfare projects recently at
Ambedkar International Centre, Delhi. Uttarkhand Governer
Lt.Gen. Gurmeet Singh (Rtd.) & MoS Civil Aviation Gen.
VK Singh (Rtd.) conferred the national award to Chairman
Purushottam Agarwal & Vice Chairman Madhusudan
Agarwal for social work and social transformation & its
commendable work & remarkable achievements in educa-
tion, heath, correctional prison sectors in Maharashtra.

PUNJAB & SIND BANK has entered into a co-lending agr-

CELEBTRATION-CRPF
The RAFe of CRPF celebrated its anniversary with befitting fer-
vour and jubilation at 99 Bn RAF Campus, Rangareddy near
Hyderabad. AK Mishra, MoS Home, took salute at this splendid
parade and felicitated Gallantry Medal recipients.
AWARD-FIP
The Federation of Indian Publishers Award ceremony was or-
ganized. On this occasion, MP Vinay Sahasrabuddhe as the
chief guest, Justice Manmohan attended the program as the
special guest.
MEETING-NR
Ashutosh Gangal, GM NRs held a performance review
meeting with the departmental heads of NR & DRMs in New
Delhi. Apart from performance review, the GM also pre-
sented Safety Awards to 5 vigilant employees.
MoU-BHEL
BHEL signed MoUs with CIL & NLCIL for setting up Coal Gasi-
fication based plants, in the presence of Min. Heavy Industries,
M.N. Pandey, P. Joshi, Min. Parliamentary Affairs, Mines &
Coals & sr. officials from BHEL, CIL, NLCIL & others.
eements with IIFL Home Finance Ltd. & Capri Global Capital
Ltd. to offer financing solutions to MSMEs & Home loan bor-
rowers in line with RBI guidelines. With these tie-ups, the
Bank aims to offer credit to Retail & MSME segment bor-
rowers at an affordable rate. PSB has already entered into
Co-lending arrangement with Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd,
Indiabulls Commercial Credit Ltd & UGRO Capital Ltd.
PRASAR BHARATI The Global News Forum was organized
by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union in association with
India's public broadcaster Prasar Bharati in New Delhi. This
is the first time the forum has been held in India. The theme
of the forum was "Truth & Trust in times of Crisis". The
forum was attended by public broadcasters, journalists,
media houses etc. from across the Asia Pacific region &
other parts of the world. MK Agrawal, CEO Prasar Bharati,
in his welcome address, talked about information pan-
demic during the Covid crisis.

BLIND RELIEF ASSOCIATION’S the Blind Relief Ass-

CAMPAIGN- PFI
PFI in association with VIBHA is running a campaign to create
awareness on Agni Tattva under LiFE - Lifestyle for environ-
ment. R.K Mathur, LG of Ladakh, inaugurated the 1st conference
in Leh, which was attended by key stakeholders.
FELICITATION -JSPL
Advisor (Legal) of Jindal Steel & Power (JSP) Manish Khar-
banda has been honoured by Minister of Law & Justice,
Kiren Rijiju, in the Grand Finale of Forbes India Legal Powerlist
2021, organised by Forbes India Magazine in New Delhi.
CSR-SBI
‘Joy of Giving’ week is observed by SBI every year from 2nd to
8th October. Under this initiative, collection and donation of
essential food items, used but wearable clothes is undertaken
voluntarily by the Bank’s employees.
MoU-BIS
BIS signed an MoU with TIC Council, India, recently. Ra-
jeev Sharma, Deputy Director General Laborartories, BIS
& Shashi Bhushan Jogani, Chairman, TIC, signed the MoU
in the presence of senior delegates from BIS & TIC.
VISIT- PSB
KV Raghavendra, ED, PSB visited branches of the bank situ-
ated –Haridwar, Srinagar, Rudraprayag and Joshimath and
met the staff and customers of these branches. On the last
day of the visit he chaired a review meeting.
VISIT –DIPR
With the possibility of PM Modi soon visiting the Kedar-
nath Dham, Uttarakhand’s CM, Pushkar Singh Dhami,
reached the temple to take stock of the ongoing construc-
tion work & interacted with local traders & priests.
MoU-OIL INDIA
MoU was signed recently between OIL & 5 leading universi-
ties of the Northeast India, namely Gauhati, Dibrugarh, Ma-
nipur, Nagaland and Rajiv Gandhi Universities at OIL’s Field
Headquarters, Duliajan, Assam.
INDIAN RAILWAY FINANCE CORPORATION LIMITED
(IRFC), has mobilized Rs. 2,500 crore through issue of bonds
for tenor of 10 years through private placement at a
competitive rate of 7.69% p.a. The aforesaid issuance had
base issue of Rs. 500 crore with green shoe option of Rs.
2,000 crore IRFC’s issue of Unsecured Redeemable Non-
Convertible Bonds made on October 10, 2022 (Monday)
received an overwhelming response across all investor
segments spread across banks, pension funds, insurance
companies, mutual funds and other financial institutions. The
issue was over-subscribed with overall subscription
aggregating to around Rs. 7,000 crore. The proceeds of bond
issue shall be utilized by the Company for meeting funding
requirements of Indian Railways.
ociation’s Diwali Bazaar is one of Delhi's oldest and insanely
sought-after bazaars. Except for the interruption caused by
COVID in 2020, the Association’s Diwali Bazaar has been
organised as an annual event for 42 yrs now since 1980.
This yr, the Bazaar is a week-long event to be held from 15-21
Oct. 2022 from 10:30 am - 08:00 pm in the Association's
premises on Lal Bahadur Shastri Marg, close to the Oberoi
Hotel in ND. The Blind Relief Association’s Products In 1980,
the Diwali Bazaar started as a small event to showcase the
products made by the visually impaired trainees and workers
of the Association.
VEDANTA GROUP The arrival of international ambassador
Haile Gebrselassie, one of the greatest distance runners in
history, on Thursday to cheer and inspire the scores of
participants at the Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon race. The
highlight of the unveiled finisher’s medal was the contribution
of Vedanta Group, the title sponsor of the world’s prestigious
half marathon that provided zinc metal for the finishers’ medal
in the spirit of honouring the runner’s mettle.

E V E N T S , A N N O U N C E M E N T S , L A U N C H E S , C S R I N I T I AT I V E S , A P P O I N T M E N T S , M O V E M E N T S , C E L E B R AT I O N S

Sr. NAME OF OLD NATURE OF CORRIGENDUM WEBSITE OF NODAL OFFICER/

HIMACHAL PRADESH
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322/P&D 2022 ONLINE E-TENDER FOR SUBMISSION OF cepdc@uhbvn.
BID NO B-656 TECHNO COMMERCIAL BID AND PRICE BID ON
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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2022
Shaw sizzles
with 61-ball 134
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
RAJKOT, OCTOBER 14
REPEATEDLY OVERLOOKED for the Indian
team, Prithvi Shaw made a statement with
a blistering 61-ball 134 and powered
Mumbai to a 61-run victory over Assam at
the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy here on Friday.
The blazing knock came close on the
heels of the batter expressing his disap-
pointment at not being picked in India's ODI
squad for the recent South Africa series at
home.
In the Group A match, Mumbai put up
an imposing 230 for three after being asked
to bat first.
Shaw did the bulk of the scoring, striking
13 fours and as many as nine sixes at the
Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium.
In reply, Assam were bowled out for 169
in 19.3 overs. Tushar Deshpande was the
most successful bowler for Mumbai, pick-
ing up 3/25 while there were two wickets
apiece for Shams Mulani, Aman Hakim
Khan and Tanush Kotian. Rajjakuddin
Ahmed top-scored for Assam with 39 off 26
balls and Riyan Parag, who plays for
Rajasthan Royals in the IPL, made 28 in 10
deliveries.
While Shaw dominated the day with his
blistering innings, Yashasvi Jaiswal chipped
in with 42 off 30 balls during a third wicket
partnership of 114 runs with the in-from
Mumbai opener. Shaw's century followed
scores of 29 and an unbeaten 55 against
Madhya Pradesh and Mizoram. The 22-
year-old Shaw last played for India during
the tour of Sri Lanka in July 2021. Shaw is
captaining the Mumbai side in the absence
of Ajinkya Rahane. He has played just five
Tests, six ODIs and a single T20I for India.
Brief Score: Mumbai 230/3 in 20 overs
(Prithvi Shaw 134) bt Assam 169 all out in
20 overs (Rajjakuddin Ahmed 39; Tushar
Deshpande 3/25) by 61 runs.
Agarwal, Pandey shine
Captain Mayank Agarwal hit 47 and
Manish Pandey struck 42 as Karnataka
thrashed Meghalaya by nine wickets in a
Group C match of the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20
Trophy. Electing to bat, Meghalaya could
muster only 89 for 8 in their allotted 20
overs, thanks to double digit scores from
Larry Sangma (34) and Yogesh Tiwari (22).
Vijaykumar Vyshak was the pick of the
bowlers for Karnataka, registering figures
of 3 for 5 from his four overs. Chasing the
modest total, Devdutt Padikkal perished in
the fourth ball for a duck.
But, Agarwal and Pandey joined hands
and stitched match-winning 90 runs for the
comfortable victory.
Brief Score: Meghalaya 89 for 8 in 20
overs (Larry Sangma 34, Yogesh Tiwari 22;
Vijaykumar Vyshak 3/5) lost to Karnataka
90 for 1 in 10.1 overs (Mayank Agarwal 47
not out, Manish Pandey 42).
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World at his fingertips at 18
Thane teen becomes World Champion in air rifle 16 years after Abhinav Bindra
MIHIR VASAVDA
OCTOBER 14
RUDRANKKSHPATILhadhadenoughoftrav-
elling to shooting ranges to central and west-
ernsuburbsof Mumbai,coollycarryingarifle
case on public transport, pretending it to be a
guitar. And so, he decided it was time to go
back to school; returning to the premises
wherehe’dencounteredthesportforthefirst
time as a 13-year-old.
It’sanuninspiringbuildinginadusty,con-
gestedandfarflungcornerofThane,acitythat
boastsof itsculturalrichesandsoothinglakes
but completely devoid of any sporting scene.
Itwashere,atadimly-litshootingrangewith
manual targets in the basement of a school
that Patil began his journey that’s catapulted
him to the top of the world.
OnFriday,onhisWorldChampionshipde-
but, Patil shot an impressive total of 633.9 in
qualification round, even though the record
wasn’t formally recognised due to change in
rules.Hethenwonthegoldmedal,becoming
only the second Indian in rifle after Abhinav
Bindra to do so. And, in the process, sealed a
Paris Olympics quota. “At 18 years,” Patil is
quick to remind.
India shooting has seen its fair share of
teenagewonders.SaurabhChaudhary,Manu
Bhaker,DivyanshPanwar…thelistisexhaus-
tive. Most of them may be at a crossroads in
their careers but Patil – who was inspired by
India’s teenaged army of shooters and learnt
by watching them shatter records and win
medals – has shown he is the real deal,
coaches say.
“One way to gauge the quality of a
shooter,” national rifle coach Joydeep
Karmakar says, “is by seeing how they per-
form at a World Championship. Rudrankksh
shot a total in qualification that no India be-
forehimhas.Tocomebackfrombehindinthe
finaltowinthegoldshowshisstrongmental-
ity and the quota is icing on the cake. It’s the
best an Indian has shot in recent times.”
Not bad for someone who quit the sport
only a month after joining it. “I was bored,”
Patil laughs. “Standing for two hours in
strange positions… so boring!” Patil laughs.
This was in 2015. Thirteen back then, Patil
had accompanied his father Balasaheb, a
police officer who was posted in Thane at
the time, to the inauguration of a shooting
range at a school. The coach, Snehal Kadam,
urged Patil Senior that his son, who was
more interested in football, should try
shooting. In the young boy’s head, none of
it made sense.
“At first, I thought they meant it’d be
those military-style things, where you lie
on the floor and shoot at things… then I
thought it would be like paintball. I didn’t
know shooting existed as a sport,” he tells
The Indian Express from Cairo. “We had to
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On Friday, Patil shot an impressive total of 633.9 in qualification round.
tell him," Balasaheb adds, "‘Woh Abhinav
Bindra wala sport’.”
Patil at least had some reference now.
Reluctantly he went to the range only to quit
a month later. But on the insistence of his
mother he returned. “The coach called my
mom and said I could be good,” Patil says.
“I played different sports but this was the
first time a coach had said I could be good at
something.”
Those words of encouragement were
enough to get him back to the range. But a
clueless Patil was still stumbling his way
across – he’d not get the basics of handling
a rifle, didn’t know how to assemble lanes
and, this one time when he reached a final,
he’d simply copy whatever a friend stand-
ing next to him did.
Somehow, within months, Patil was
competing – and winning – at local and na-
tional-level school meets. It was at one of
the national school meets that he met Ajit
Patil, a Kolhapur-based coach who shaped
the careers of national team veterans such
as Tejaswini Sawant and Rahi Sarnobat.
“Rudrankksh’s parents convinced me to
move to Thane with him and coach him
full-time,” Ajit says. “At the time, I was go-
ing through a financial crisis at my academy
and was finding it difficult to keep it afloat.
So, I took up this offer.”
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Dim range to World’s spotlight
Theduo,afterspendingafewmonthsata
range in the western suburbs that were an
hourawayfromThane,movedtotherangeat
theschool.Patilhadfollowedenoughmatches
on live-streams and scoured through dozens
of pictures to get an idea of what a shooting
range should look like. The one at the school
came nowhere close. “It was a very basic fa-
cility. The targets were manual, lighting was-
n’t up the mark,” Patil says. “So, we set-up a
laneforourselvesbyfirstinstallingnewauto-
matic targets and later, with the prize money
from some tournaments, installing new
lights.”
The Patils began spending most of their
time at the range, reaching there at 5 in the
morningandstayingwellpastnoon.“Hehad
immersed himself into the sport. He was
dominatingnational-leveleventssoitshowed
he had the skills,” Balasaheb says. “But we
werekeentoseeifhehadthementalstrength
to dominate the same way outside India,
when competing alongside the best interna-
tional shooters.”
Those doubts were laid to rest on Friday.
Patil, who quit the sport once even before se-
riously pursuing it and trained at a rundown
facility in the basement of a school, is now a
world champion.
And, like he reminds, he’s just 18.
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Loss to Morocco pushes India
out of U-17 Women’s WC
ANIL DIAS
OCTOBER 14
AFTER 180 minutes of football, India’s
chances of going past the group stage of the
U-17 Women’s World Cup are over. The
hosts lost 3-0 against Morocco in the battle
of debutants on Friday at the Kalinga
Stadium in Bhubaneswar. With no points
from two games, India cannot mathemati-
cally qualify for the knockouts with one
more game to go.
While their big 8-0 loss to the USA in the
opening match was understandable, India
have only themselves to blame for the loss
to Morocco. Though they fought brilliantly, Players from Morocco celebrate after a
two mistakes, both in the second half, cost goal on Friday. PTI
them the game and their chances in the
tournament.
It was a big moment for Morocco too, no mistake with her penalty, and though
who got their first-ever win in a FIFA Melody guessed the direction correctly, the
Women’s World Cup. India coach Thomas shot was too powerful and out of her reach.
Dennerby had said ahead of this match that
his team “need to fight it out and have no Piling on pressure
other option left”. And that’s exactly what India didn’t sit back. They played with
India did. more gumption. The Moroccan defense
Against USA, India looked nervous and looked even shakier as India piled on the
lost. They were tactically and physically pressure. And just as India looked the most
overpowered. It seemed like they learnt threatening, Morocco doubled the lead,
their lesson quickly. Against Morocco, they making the most of a mistake from Melody.
stood strong, defended courageously, and The African nation thwarted an Indian
were able to trouble Morocco with their at- attack and started a counter of their own
tacks, something which they absolutely in the 61st minute. Melody fumbled while
lacked in their opening game. trying to collect an easy cross from the
Morocco, who had lost to Brazil by just right.
a solitary goal in their opening match, were Moroccan skipper Yasmine Zouhir, who
the favourites going into the game. It was plays for French side AS Saint-Etienne, was
their defensive game that troubled the fan- waiting in the center and slotted the ball
cied Brazilian attack and India knew that home with a powerful left-footer to dou-
they would have to come up with some- ble her team’s score.
thing extraordinary to score. Despite being two goals down, India
Dennerby made three changes to the didn’t give up. Striker Anita Kumari had the
starting XI, including bringing on goal- best chance to pull one back in the 83rd
keeper Melody Keisham, and it seemed to minute after she timed her run perfectly
work. With Nitu Linda and Kajol D’souza on the left flank to receive a through ball
combining well in midfield, India managed and go one-on-one with goalkeeper Wissal
to create a few moves that troubled the Tittah. Anita chose to hit it in the first post
Moroccan defense, but it was the final ball but Tittah guessed correctly and sent it out
for striker Neha that was lacking. for the corner.
India enjoyed a good 40 per cent posses- Anita’s shot was India’s only shot on tar-
sion in the first half an hour of the match get in the two games at this tournament.
and it seemed everything was going to plan With time running out, India looked
for Dennerby’s side. To keep themselves famished. All the work they put in over the
alive in the tournament, India needed at past 10 months with exposure trips to
least a point. When the first half ended goal- Norway, Italy, and Spain, and training
less, the expectations rose. Could India re- camps at Jamshedpur and Bhubaneswar
ally manage to get their first point at a FIFA was going down the drain. They tried to put
event? on a brave face, but you could see they had
Any hope of that was crushed six min- lost hope. Cherif Djennah added insult to
utes after the break. In the chaos that en- injury in the first minute of stoppage time,
sued after a Morocco corner, India defender easily going past the Indian defense and
Naketa, while trying to block a shot and slotting it past Melody.
clear the danger, touched the ball with her India face Brazil in their final group tie
outstretched hand. The referee immedi- on Monday, and while qualification is out
ately blew her whistle and pointed at the of the question, they would hope to at least
spot. get a goal against the South American gi-
Morocco striker Doha El Madani made ants.
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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2022
As another edition of the T20 World Cup knocks
on, The Indian Express tracks the trends of the
T20 milieu and traces the conditions that could
influence the tournament
Icc T20 World Cup 2022

SIX-LUST CAN WIN low-par average total. For instance, the aver-
age first-innings score in Sydney is 160 and
the second innings, it is 140. The correspon-
dingnumbersinMelbourneare139and127;

THE NIGHT BUT NOT

in Perth 157 and 154; Brisbane 165 and 161.
Only thrice in 55 games has teams crossed

BIG
200.
Incidentally, none of the current top 10
batters in T20 cricket, helmed by
QUESTION Mohammad Rizwan, are unbri-

THE TROPHY
dled six-hitters. Rather, they are
PAKISTAN a blend of all and those more

IS PAKISTAN TOO
versatile than mere six hitters.
Apart from Suryakumar Yadav, all of the
top-five are all-format batters as well.

RELIANT ON The script has not been vastly different

between 2007 and 2021 either. Some of the

BABAR-RIZWAN?
If Rizwan and Babar are not at their
best Pakistan could suffer.
The feebleness of the
middle-order could have a
knock-on effect on Rizwan
and Babar as they could think
twice before attacking
INTHEpreviouseditionof theT20World,
Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan
303 and 281 runs respectively in
Pakistan’s run to the semifinals. The next
highestcontributionwasFakharZaman’s
109. Only other batsman, Shoaib Malik,
managed 100 runs, and the under-
whelmingmiddleordercoppedcriticism
for their middling returns. A year on, the
situationremainsasgrimasitwasduring
the World Cup, so much so that Zaman
was recalled into the World Cup squad.
Both in the Asia Cup as well the seven-
game rubber against England, besides the
tri-series in New Zealand, the vulnerabili-
ties of the middle-order was exposed. In
the Asia Cup, they were over-reliant on
Rizwan, with Babar enduring a rare lean
patch (68 runs at 11).
Rizwanwasnotinhisbesttoucheither,
but had to scratch around as no one really
seized the opportunity. Consequently, his
haulof281runswerescoredatastrikerate
of 117. Spin bowlers Shadab Khan and
Mohammad Nawaz peeled out timely
The six-hitter boom has
burst as wisdom
dawned: They win you
games, but it’s the
steadier players that
win you tournaments
SANDIP G
FOR ONE night at the Eden Gardens, Carlos
Brathwaite was the Hercules of cricket. A
metaphor of the blazing power of six.
The echoes of his four sixes could be
heard far and wide. A month later, the crick-
eter who once ran a sports shop to keep his
cricketing career afloat and hopped to
Dublin so that he could at least make some
money playing cricket and coaching chil-
dren, fetched Rs 4.2 crore, 13 fold his base
price in the Indian League auction, and had
advertising giants queuing up. Other fran-
chises tried to discover or manufacture
Brathwaites of their own.
Six became the inflation-proof currency
of the game and the sultans of six the nou-
veau riches. The humbler methods of the
2016edition’shighestrun-getter,ViratKohli,
was ridiculed. Singles and twos, threes and
fours would never win games, flowed the
narrative arc. The next step in the T20 evolu-
tion seemed to a team full of specialised six-
hitters.
But the six-hitter boom, like many other
booms in the sport, soon burst as wisdom
dawned: They win you games, but it’s the
steadier players that win you tournaments.
Every team needs a power-hitter but also
need the grisly accumulators, the four-hit-
ters,theall-weathermen,andthecolossusof
consistency. The latter is an understated
virtue in this format, but behind every tour-
nament success, there has always been a
consistent batter.
Gujarat Titans, last edition’s IPL champi-
ons, had David Miller and Hardik Pandya.
Both are efficient six-strikers, but that’s not
theonlylayerof theirgame.Pandya,inciden-
tally, logged in just12sixes in 15innings, and
hoarded his runs at a not-too-formidable
Players like Andre Russell with one-dimensional batting plans look good ontheir day but don’t have a Plan B.
strike rate of 131. Among the 10 teams,
Gujarat hit the fewest maximums (79).
Rollback thepages of theT20World Cup.
It’s the more rounded players that have
dragged their teams throughout the tourna-
ment to glory. The highest run-getter of the
inaugural edition, Matthew Hayden struck
10 sixes in six games—most power-hitters
hit those in one game. The second highest
run-getter and the star of the final, Gautam
Gambhirslammedjustfiveacrosssevenout-
ings, one less than what his colleague Yuvraj
Singh managed in a single Stuart Broad over.
Yet, both Hayden and Gambhir scored their
runsatastrikerateof 144and130.Thatsame
tournament, Sri Lanka’s stylist Mahela
Jayawardene hit just four sixes but still
coaxed his runs at a strike rate of 150.
Another not-so-natural six-hitter Mishab-
ul-HaqnearlywonPakistanthetournament,
hittingjustninesixesinsevengames,butstill
strumming along at a strike rate of 139.
A legitimate line of argument knocks in.
Those were still early days of T20 cricket.The
game has evolved at a petrifying pace in the
next 15 years. To bolster the contention, the
average number of sixes per game has leapt
off.Butthegist,andparadox,is
that it’s not the specialised
six-hittersbutthestandard
batsmen who are thriving
and influencing the
games.
The case-study of
Babar and his opening part-
ner Mohammad Rizwan is il-
lustrative. Babar cleared the
ropesonlyfivetimesintheen-
tire tournament; Rizwan’s
shots sailed over the ropes 12
times. Yet, the latter’s strike rate was only
smidgeon better than that of Babar (127.72
to 126.25). Then defending champions West
Indies were packed with six-emitters, yet
they ended up winning just one of their five
games. One of the most influential batsmen
of the tournament, Kane Williamson, just
struck five sixes.
So it’s not six-hitting alone that wins
games, but a combination of
factors.Strikingsixesisjustone
of those. On slightly difficult
tracks and against imposing
bowlers, where a robust tech-
nique and capacity to locate
gaps and accumulate runs at
low-risk are valued, the gifts
that many power hitters lack,
thestockof high-classanchors
shoot up.
They would be doubtless
invaluable in Australia, where
thedimensionsof thegroundarelargerthan
those in Asia. The ropes are harder to clear
andtherewouldbelotsof twosandthreesto
be run. Some of the ground have slightly be-
game-changers in this span have not been
mere six hitters. For example, Tillakaratne
Dilshan, the chief batting force behind Sri
Lanka’s run to the final, scored 303 runs (the
highest run-getter in the tournament) at a
strike rate of 144, but heaved just three sixes.
His opening partner Sanath Jayasuriya hit
twice as many, but at his tournament strike
rate was 115. Other luminaries overs the
yearsincludedJayawardene,KevinPietersen,
Mike Hussey, Kumar
Sangakkara, Kohli, Azam and Marlon
Samuels,a bunch of batsmen whorattled up
high strike rates in spite of not looking to hit
a six every ball. Pietersen, in fact, struck one
six every 26 balls, as opposed to Chris Gayle
who has blasted every 11th ball he has faced
in T20is for a six. Yet, Pietersen’s strike rate
in T20i is 141; Gayle’s 137. The myth of six is
debunked.
Several supposedly steady players have,
interestingly, better strike rate that six-hit-
ters. Kohli, for instance, strikes at 138 runs
per 100 balls, which is better than Rovman
Powell (135), Chris Gayle (137) and Eoin
Morgan (136) among others.
Hitting six is an asset indeed, no stroke
has better value, but that should not be the
onlyfacility.Abigcriticismthatdwellsonthe
likes of Brathwaite and the ilk is their woeful
consistency. Brathwaite’s Eden Gardens-like
nightsarrivedfewandfarbetween.Hiscredit
ran too low that the last time he played for
theWestIndieswasin2019.Hisstocksplum-
meted too low that he went unsold in the
2020auctionandhasneverbeenconsidered
by any other IPL franchise since. The num-
bers justify—for all his six-hitting dazzle, he
averages 14.76 in 41 T20is and 15.91 across
238 T20s.
So have been a slew of others. Like
Australia’s Chris Lynn (19.40), Andre Russell
(19.50), though he has repurposed into a
bowling all-rounder, and Pakistan’s Asif Ali
(15.3) to name but a fewhigh-profile six-hit-
ting wonders who shine sporadically. India,
smartly,resistedthetemptationtopacktheir
squad with Rahul Tewatia, as uninhibited a
six-hitter as they come. Perhaps, inconsis-
tency is an occupational hazard.
Though,ontheirnights,theylookallpow-
erful,suchmomentscomebyrarely.Mostin-
ternational teams have realised it and are
bankingonmoremultifacetedbatters.Andas
a relic stands the imposing figure of Brathw-
aite,aone-nightHercules.Rememberedfora
night but not a career.

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cameos to gloss over the middle-order
cracks.AgainstEngland,Babarwhippedup
hisoldform,butthemiddle-ordercontin- [IN BRIEF]
ued to under-fire.
As usual, Rizwan and Babar topped
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(64 runsinfour innings), andthere again,
thesaviourswereRizwanandBabar(201
and 192).
The over-reliance is captured by an-
other stat. Whenever Babar has faced
more than 30 balls, which he has 14
times, Pakistan have won 10 of those
games. Rizwan has batted for more than
30 balls as many as 29 times. Pakistan
have ended up winning in 23 instances.
When both of them have managed it in
the same game, that is on seven occa-
sions, they have lost just one match.
As consistent as Babar and Rizwan
have been, relying on just a pair of bats-
men to deliver the World Cup is wishful
thinking. It would be more so the case in
Australia, where a team could find them-
selves two down in the blink of an eye.
It has not been a case of the openers
chewingupalotof oversthatthemiddle-
orderhandshadbeendeprivedof timeto
makeanimpact.IntheAsiaCup,Pakistan
had always lost a wicket in the first four
overs,butnonecapitalisedonopportuni-
ties extended to them. Iftikhar Ahmed
showed flashes of quality, but could not
compile a knock of substance. Khushdil
Shahisreputedforhissix-hittingprowess
in PSL, but has not yet replicated the feats
in his 22 outings for his country, striking
just 13 maximums. So has been the case
Asif Ali,whoaverages15.49in48innings,
his six-smearing brags now stuff of
meme-lore. Masood and Zaman are not
the solutions either, as both are funda-
mentally top-order batsmen. The team
management would not be foolhardy
enough to push one of Babar or Rizwan
down the order to accommodate one of
Masood or Zaman at the top. That would
only result in destabilisation.
The feebleness of the middle-order
could have a knock-on effect on Rizwan
and Babar. They would be tempted to bat
deeper, and hindered to attack, as they
know the middle-order cannot be
trusted. How they miss a Misbah-ul-
Haq—Mohammed Yousuf kind of a mid-
dle-order game-changer.
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Pakistan beat New Zealand by five wick-
ets in the final of a tri-series in
ChristchurchonFriday,givingthemselves
a timely boost ahead of the upcoming
Twenty20 World Cup in Australia.
Chasing 164 against the runners-up of
last year's World Cup, Pakistan's middle
order came good to secure victory with
three balls to spare and clinch the tri-se-
ries which also included Bangladesh.
Put into bat, New Zealand lost both
their openers in the first six powerplay
overs though they continued to score at
a healthy rate. Skipper Kane Williamson
topscoredforthemwithacrafty59while
Glenn Phillips (29) and Mark Chapman
(25) chipped in with cameos to lay the
foundation for a big total.
Pakistan, however, bowled brilliantly
in the back end of the New Zealand in-
nings, conceding only 33 runs in the last
five overstorestrict the hoststoa modest
total. The tourists lost skipper Babar
Azam (15) in the powerplay but
Zaman named in
Pakistan squad
Christchurch: Hard-hitting batter Fakhar
Zaman was on Friday included in the
Pakistan squad for the upcoming T20
World Cup in place of leg-spinner Usman
Qadir who is yet to recover from an injury.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said
Fakhar would be part of the official 15-
memberT20WorldCupsquadwhileQadir,
who is still recovering from a fractured
thumb, will join the travelling reserves.
“The change was necessary as Usman
Qadir is yet to recover from a hairline frac-
ture on his right thumb that he suffered
during the 25 September T20I against
England in Karachi. The leg-spinner will
not be available for selection before 22
October,” the PCB said in a statement.
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