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CITY EDITION Regd. DL(ND)-11/6110/2006-07-08
20 Pages ₹ 12.00 RNI No. UPENG/2012/49940
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DELHI
CITY EDITION Regd. DL(ND)-11/6110/2006-07-08
20 Pages ₹ 12.00 RNI No. UPENG/2012/49940
Printed at » Chennai » Coimbatore » Bengaluru » Hyderabad » Madurai » Noida » Visakhapatnam » Thiruvananthapuram » Kochi » Vijayawada » Mangaluru » Tiruchirapalli » Kolkata » Hubballi » Mohali » Malappuram » Mumbai » Tirupati » Lucknow » Cuttack » Patna
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DIPLOMACY NEW DELHI
court’s decision
‘Big brother’ to hief Justice of India
Constitution Benches,” the Bills. » PAGE 13 Associated Press ideological motive led con-
EDITORIAL » PAGE 8 Chief Justice addressed se- Reuters spiracy theories to
nior advocate Kapil Sibal, WASHINGTON/MILWAUKEE flourish.
who made an oral men- amendments could be propriation of money from forcement Directorate al- Crooks first came to law
tioning on behalf of the pe- passed as a Money Bill, cir- the Consolidated Fund of most blanket powers of ar- Investigators were hunting enforcement’s attention at
titioners, including Rajya cumventing the Rajya Sab- India and taxation. In oth- rest, raids, etc. Though the for any clues about what Saturday’s rally when spec-
Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh. ha, in violation of Article er words, a Money Bill is court had upheld the legal- may have driven Thomas tators noticed him acting
The Money Bill question 110 of the Constitution. restricted only to the spec- ity of the PMLA amend- Matthew Crooks, the 20- strangely outside the cam-
was referred to a seven- ified financial matters. ments, it left the question year-old man who tried to paign event.
judge Bench in November The provisions The reference includes of whether the amend- assassinate former Presi-
IN SEVENTH HEAVEN 2019 by a five-judge Bench A Money Bill is deemed to legal questions concerning ments could have been dent Donald Trump, to car- CONTINUED ON
headed by Chief Justice contain only provisions amendments made from passed as Money Bills to ry out Saturday’s attack. » PAGE 12
Spain caps fantastic Ranjan Gogoi in the case of dealing with all or any of 2015 onwards in the Pre- the seven-judge Bench. The FBI said they were in- DODGING BULLETS
run with Euro crown Rojer Mathew vs. South In- the matters under clauses vention of Money Launder- vestigating it as a potential » PAGE 8
dian Bank Ltd. The cardi- (a) to (g) of Article 110(1), ing Act (PMLA) through CONTINUED ON act of domestic terrorism, MORE REPORTS
SPORT » PAGE 17
nal issue is whether such largely including the ap- Money Bills, giving the En- » PAGE 12 but the absence of a clear » PAGE 16
IN BRIEF
쑽 Stalin condemns Karnataka for The pilgrims’ progress
Trade deficit widens 9.4% from a year Existing structure at M.P.’s Bhojshala
ago as imports outpace exports complex built using temple remains: ASI
Vikas Dhoot lion mark, but as officials Ishita Mishra ological remains studied the ASI said. “The ASI has only sub-
NEW DELHI acknowledged, there are Mehul Malpani during the investigation, The ASI report also said mitted a written report of
“many ifs and buts” in the NEW DELHI/ BHOPAL the pre-existing structure that inscriptions in San- 2,000 pages. Our demand
India’s merchandise ex- mix, including festering ge- “can be dated to the Pa- skrit and Prakrit were is that they should also
ports grew for the third opolitical risks. This June’s The existing structure at ramara [dynasty] period”. found at the site. submit the video evidence
straight month in June, ris- goods exports and imports the Bhojshala complex in “Art and architecture of The report quoted an in- recorded during the sur-
ing 2.55% to $35.2 billion, were the second highest in Dhar district of Madhya the pillars and pilasters in scription on the gateway to vey. That will show that
but the import bill climbed 10 years, next only to the Pradesh was constructed colonnades suggest that the tomb of Abdullah Shah they have violated the Su-
by a faster 5% to $56.2 bil- $42.3 billion of exports and using the remains of a tem- they were originally part of Changal at Dhar which had preme Court guidelines
lion, widening the trade $64.35 billion of imports ple that existed earlier at a temple. For their reuse in said that the temple “was and damaged things relat-
deficit by 9.4% from a year recorded in June 2022. the site, said the Archaeo- the existing structure, fi- violently converted” into a ed to the Muslim commun-
ago, as per quick trade esti- The major growth driv- logical Survey of India gures of deities and hu- mosque. ity,” Mr. Samad told The
mates released by the ers were engineering and (ASI) in its scientific survey mans carved on them were Hindu.
Commerce Ministry on electronics goods, up report, which was submit- mutilated,” the ASI report, Petitioners’ reactions Meanwhile, Ashish
Monday. 10.3% and 16.9%, respec- ted to the Indore Bench of a copy of which is with The Reacting to the ASI’s re- Goyal of the Hindu Front
Commerce Secretary pegged the number at gives us optimism,” the Se- tively, as well as drugs and the Madhya Pradesh High Hindu, stated. port, the Hindu petitioners for Justice, a petitioner
Sunil Barthwal said that to- $30.3 billion, 8.9% higher cretary said. He added that pharmaceuticals (9.9%), Court on Monday. The survey found imag- expressed confidence in from the Hindu side, said
tal merchandise and ser- than a year ago. the government is focusing chemicals (3.3%), and cof- The court had in March es of Hindu deities such as their case while the Muslim he was confident that
vices exports have hit a re- Noting that global on six key sectors and 20 fee (up 70%), the Secretary asked the ASI to undertake Ganesha, Brahma with his petitioners alleged viola- based on the ASI survey,
cord high of $200.3 billion growth is looking up and countries to boost exports. said. a scientific survey of the consorts, Narasimha, Bhai- tions by the surveying the site would be declared
in the first quarter of 2024- inflation is trending down, Worryingly, petroleum Bhojshala Temple-Kamal rava and other human and team. a temple and the Hindu
25, surpassing the previous Mr. Barthwal said that if Total exports exports slumped 18.3% in Maula Mosque complex. animal figures in the exist- Abdul Samad, president community would be given
high of $197.1 billion re- growth impulses sustain, Total exports stood at a re- June to $5.5 billion, while The ASI said that based ing structure. of the Kamal Maula Wel- the right to worship there
corded in 2022-23. While India could well cross cord high of $778.2 billion imports rose 19.6% to on the survey, conducted “As human and animal fare Society and the peti- on all days. “We are very
Services exports numbers $800 billion of total ex- in 2023-24, 0.42% over the $15.05 billion. over a period of three figures are not permitted tioner from the Muslim happy about it,” said Mr.
for the last month will be ports this year. “So that is a previous year. Exports will months using technologies in mosque, at many places, side, alleged various viola- Goyal.
released by the Central good takeaway from the have to rise 2.8% through CONTINUED ON such as ground-penetrat- such images have been chi- tions during the survey on The High Court will hear
bank, the Ministry has quarterly figures, which this year to hit the $800 bil- » PAGE 12 ing radar and from archae- selled out or defaced... ,” the part of the ASI team. the case again on July 22.
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2 Tuesday, July 16, 2024
City Delhi
Plea to rescue
1,000 trafficked
BJP protests outside discom Two held in GTB Hospital
minors: govt. offices over power charges;
told to respond
stop spreading ‘lies’, says AAP murder case; shooter yet
The Hindu Bureau
NEW DELHI
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Rohtas, said he had sent In response, the ruling he police here on crime. tectors and CCTV cameras
multiple complaints to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva (centre) staging a protest outside Monday arrested Both claimed that Ba- will be installed in all Delhi
authorities to conduct asked the BJP to “stop mis- a power discom office in Karkardooma. SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP two persons and burpur resident Faheem, government-run hospitals.
raids and rescue children. leading people and focus identified five more sus- alias Badshah Khan, was “Two armed guards will be
However, no action was ta- on constructive politics”. mers. The BJP should stop vernment has been contin- pected to be behind the the mastermind of the at- deployed at each emergen-
ken. The Delhi government “It is to be noted that spreading lies,” it said in a uously deceiving people in killing of a 32-year-old pa- tack, the planning for cy entry of major Delhi go-
counsel said Mr. Rohtas power is purchased from statement. the name of electricity sur- tient inside a ward at Delhi which had been going on vernment hospitals,” he
had not given proper ad- the electricity exchange The PPAC is a surcharge charge. He said as long as government-run Guru Teg for over a month. said in a statement.
dresses of the properties during summers to meet to cover fluctuations in this “loot” continues, the Bahadur Hospital. The DCP said Badshah
where child labourers are increased demand to pro- power purchase costs in- BJP will continue to protest The police, however, Police personnel carrying out Khan is a member of the ‘Guards untrained’
suspected to be working, vide round the clock sup- curred by discoms. and would go door to door said they are yet to identify investigation at the Delhi Hashim Baba gang. Faiz Meanwhile, hospital OPD
making it difficult for the ply. Therefore, the PPAC Delhi BJP chief Virendra to inform people about the shooter among them hospital. FILE PHOTO and his brothers Faujaan services were hit as resi-
authorities to take action. might be greater in sum- Sachdeva said the AAP go- this. even as efforts are on to and Moin Khan used to dent doctors went on an
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identify the eighth ac- 12 as well. The accused had meet him at his residence. indefinite strike over secur-
cused, who could be a come to kill him but ended He said the attack was ity concerns.
minor. up murdering Riyazuddin, carried out by Faujaan Rajat Sharma, acting
Investigation also con- who was lying on a bed op- along with three other per- president of the Resident
firmed the suspicion that posite him,” DCP (Shahda- sons, two of whom were Doctors’ Association
the accused ended up kill- ra) Surendra Choudhary identified as Saif and Shah- (RDA), called for a multi-
ing a wrong person on Sun- said. bez. The police said on layered security. “At GTB
day evening as the real tar- The police said those ar- Sunday, all accused met at Hospital that sees a daily
get was Nasir gang rested were identified as Badshah Khan’s flat, where footfall of 7,000 patients,
member Wasim, a rival of Faiz and Farhan, who ar- he instructed them to kill no frisking takes place at
the Hashim Baba gang. Wa- ranged a motorcycle for Wasim. the entrance,” Mr. Sharma
sim has 17 criminal cases the four of the accused said, adding that the 120
registered against him. who went to the hospital to ‘Will review SOP’ guards at the hospital are
“Wasim had been shot carry out the murder. Delhi Health Minister Sau- not trained to handle such
at by some persons on June According to sources, rabh Bharadwaj said his scenarios.
Timings
DELHI
TUESDAY, JUL. 16
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RISE 05:35 SET 19:21
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4 Tuesday, July 16, 2024
States Delhi
INBRIEF
쑽
How can CCTV visuals of Stalemate on over
resignation of
Armstrong’s murder be Rajasthan Minister
played on TV, asks judge The Hindu Bureau
JAIPUR
CCTV footage is the most crucial electronic evidence in the murder case of the T.N. BSP unit chief, The stalemate over the re-
but every inch of it was played on TV channels just to justify the killing of a suspect, says judge signation of Rajasthan Mi-
Trial run of Delhi’s mohalla nister Kirodi Lal Meena
from the State Cabinet is
buses begins on two routes Mohamed Imranullah S. judiciary was anticipating continuing with the BJP’s
CHENNAI was the requirement to re- central leadership yet to
The trial run of Delhi’s government’s mohalla cord on video the state- take a decision on the ac-
buses started on two routes on Monday, over a Justice N. Anand Venka- ments of witnesses as well ceptance of his papers. KIrodi Lal Meena
year after the project was announced in a budget tesh of the Madras High as victims, as per the provi- Despite the efforts of se-
speech. Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot said Court on Monday ex- sions of the Bharatiya Na- nior party leaders to con- dership selected Mr. Shar-
the two routes being covered for now are from pressed shock over CCTV garik Suraksha Sanhita, vince him, Mr. Meena has ma, a first-time MLA, for
Pradhan Enclave Pushta to Majlis Park metro camera footage related to which had replaced the so far refused to withdraw the position. The septuage-
station, and Akshardham metro station to Mayur the murder of Bahujan Sa- Code of Criminal Proce- his resignation, and has narian BJP leader said he
Vihar Phase-III Paper Market. He said the maj Party Tamil Nadu pre- dure from July 1. stopped attending his of- had opted to step down as
introduction of the bus service marks a sident K. Armstrong hav- “When the statements fice and using his official a Minister because of his
significant step towards improving the last-mile ing been telecast widely in are given by a victim, what car. public vow to resign.
connectivity. “Each of these nine-metre-long almost all Tamil television is the guarantee that these Chief Minister Bhajan
buses have 23 passenger seats and a standing channels on Sunday. videos will not get leaked? Lal Sharma, who reached Absent from Assembly
capacity for 13 people,” Mr. Gahlot added. Presiding over a special If all important information collected during the probe is leaked and A girl victim, as such, will New Delhi on Monday Mr. Meena holds Agricul-
Division Bench along with the identity of the suspects is revealed, it will become very tough for be terrified. Yet, now, it is evening, is likely to discuss ture, Rural Development,
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Justice Sunder Mohan to the courts to convict them after a full-fledged trial, the judge said. mandated that her state- the matter in his meeting Disaster Management and
hear a case against reveal- ment should be video- with BJP national president Relief, and Public Grie-
Poisoned food was given to ing of the identity of minor
victims of sexual assault,
opaque that nothing re-
mained a secret.
nection with the murder of
Armstrong, was killed in
graphed,” he said. J.P. Nadda. A veteran tribal
leader, Mr. Meena had ten-
vances portfolios as the Ca-
binet Minister. His request
Ansari, says son before SC Justice Venkatesh said the “What is it that the pol- an ‘encounter’ in Chennai ‘Encounter’ inquiry dered his resignation ear- to Assembly Speaker Vasu-
CCTV visuals were a cru- ice are attempting to on Sunday. Meanwhile, a Judicial Ma- lier this month, taking res- dev Devnani seeking per-
Late gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari’s cial piece of electronic evi- prove? People will keep on The judge said that if all gistrate conducted an in- ponsibility for the BJP’s mission to remain absent
son on Monday alleged before the Supreme dence in the murder case, criticising and saying so- the important information quiry into the alleged en- disappointing perfor- during the ongoing Budget
Court that the food given to his father was and hence, it was “unfortu- mething. That does not collected during the counter death of mance in the 2024 Lok Session was approved with
“poisoned” and he was denied the requisite nate” that they were mean that you will show course of the investigation Thiruvengadam. Judicial Sabha election in the State a voice vote in the House
medical treatment due to which he died in played on television. every aspect of the murder of a criminal case gets Magistrate at Madhavaram, and the defeat at four of on July 12.
custody. On March 28, Ansari, a five-time MLA When the judge was told inch by inch on television leaked like this, and the Deepa, conducted the in- the seven seats put under In an apparent bid to
from Mau Sadar constituency, died of cardiac about the right to privacy just to justify the killing of identity of the suspects is quiry at the scene of occur- his charge. placate Mr. Meena, the
arrest at a hospital in Banda in Uttar Pradesh. A of minor victims of sexual one of the suspects in an revealed by the media, it rence and with the kin of Mr. Meena, 72, was in State budget presented by
Bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and S.V.N. Bhatti assault being violated time encounter,” Justice Venka- will become very tough for the deceased on Sunday the reckoning for the Chief Deputy CM Diya Kumari on
was hearing a plea filed in 2023 by Umar Ansari, and again due to the reve- tesh said. the courts to convict them and Monday. Following the Minister’s post after the July 10 has made the high-
son of Mukhtar Ansari, raising the issue of safety lation of their identity and History-sheeter K. Thi- after a full-fledged trial. post-mortem, his body was BJP’s victory in the 2023 est allocation of ₹96,000
and security of his father within the Banda jail private details, he lament- ruvengadam, among the 11 Justice Venkatesh said handed over to the family State Assembly election, crore to the Agriculture
premises where he was lodged. PTI ed that the system was so persons arrested in con- that the next danger the on Monday. but the party central lea- Department held by him.
Maratha vs OBC quota row: Bhujbal reaches Police arrest 21 people day Akal Takht
Jathedar
out to Sharad Pawar to resolve deadlock after anti-encroachment drive summons
Ateeq Shaikh
MUMBAI
ter that he was unaware of
the discussions between
Minister Devendra Fadnavis
saved him from getting im-
turns violent at Vishalgad Fort Sukhbir Badal
the government representa- prisoned and gave him Ca- Press Trust of India
Senior OBC leader and Na- tives and activists, especial- binet post, yet he has spo- Snehal Mutha the Mahayuti government mode-Patil. However, pol- AMRITSAR
tionalist Congress Party ly Manoj Jarange-Patil from ken badly of him. He has MUMBAI and ask whether “Jungle ice have refrained from
(NCP) Minister in Maharash- the pro-Maratha reserva- also criticised Prime Minis- Raj” is prevailing in the commenting on charges Akal Takht Jathedar Giani
tra Cabinet Chhagan Bhuj- tion group and Laxman ter Narendra Modi,” the qu- A day after violence broke State. related to the former MP. Raghbir Singh on Monday
bal on Monday met his Hake from the OBC com- ota activist said. out during a ‘Chalo Vishal- Hundreds of supporters For more than a year asked Shiromani Akali Dal
former boss and Nationalist munity. gad’ campaign by some had joined Mr. Sambhaji- now, right-wing organisa- (SAD) chief Sukhbir Singh
Congress Party (Sharad- “Therefore, he cannot ‘Switching sides’ right-wing organisations raje, the descendant of tions have been demand- Badal to appear in person
chandra Pawar) chief Sha- Chhagan Bhujbal addressing a intervene in the matter im- The meeting between the that were protesting Chhatrapati Shivaji Maha- ing the removal of en- before the Akal Takht to
rad Pawar at the latter’s Sil- press meet on Monday. PTI mediately. However, he has two raised speculation in against the alleged en- raj, on his way to the fort croachments and a ban on submit a written explana-
ver Oak residence in promised to reach out to political circles if an “un- croachment at Vishalgad on July 14 to demand the animal slaughter in the tion on accusations over
Mumbai to seek his inter- tegory, OBC leaders are Chief Minister Eknath happy” Mr. Bhujbal was Fort in Maharashtra’s Kol- removal of nearly 150 fort, with Mr. Chhatrapati the 2015 firing on people
vention to help resolve the demanding assurance that Shinde to get a better un- contemplating switching hapur, the police on Tues- structures which, he spearheading it. A week protesting against the de-
stalemate between the Ma- their quota will remain derstanding of the ongoing over to one of the Opposi- day arrested 21 suspects claimed, were illegally en- ago, a ‘Maha Aarti’ was secration of the Guru
rathas and Other Backward unaffected. dialogue and explore possi- tion parties. In the recent and filed cases, including croached. However, before held at the fort with thou- Granth Sahib.
Classes (OBC) over After the meeting, Mr. ble solutions,” Mr. Bhujbal past, Mr. Bhujbal has on against ex-Rajya Sabha MP he reached, violence broke sands in attendance. The rebel SAD leaders
reservation. Bhujbal told reporters that said, adding that during the multiple occasions ex- Sambhajiraje Chhatrapati. out in Gajapur village, five had appeared before the
The meeting, which last- he met Mr. Pawar to seek discussion Mr. Pawar sug- pressed his displeasure ov- Chief Minister Eknath km from the base of the State govt. slammed Jathedar on July 1 and apol-
ed for 90 minutes, came a his support to “calm down gested holding a meeting li- er denial of ticket to contest Shinde visited Vishalgad fort, with supporters van- Slamming the State go- ogised for the “mistakes”
day after Mr. Bhujbal’s the situation that has arisen mited to two-three other the Lok Sabha poll from around 1 a.m. on Tuesday dalising the local shops vernment, Mr. Sambhaji- committed when their par-
veiled remark, saying that in Maharashtra due to the political leaders to initiate a Nashik. and instructed authorities and houses and pelting raje on Monday said, “Hin- ty was in power in the
the Opposition Maha Vikas Maratha versus OBC reser- dialogue on the stalemate. Clarifying why the visit to ensure that no untoward stones at on-duty police- dus, Muslims and even the State, between 2007 and
Aghadi (MVA) alliance boy- vation issue”. “I didn't meet Reacting to the develop- was kept under wraps, Mr. incident occurs. He as- men. Videos have emerged state has encroached upon 2017.
cotted an all-party meeting him as a Minister or for pol- ment, Mr. Jarange-Patil Bhujbal told reporters that sured that encroachments showing miscreants vanda- the fort. It comes under Besides, a clarification
on Maratha reservation is- itics... The situation is be- blamed the Minister for the he had informed his NCP would be removed. The ad- lising a local mosque with the Department of Archae- has also been sought from
sue after a call from Bara- coming volatile to the ex- “explosive situation”. “It colleague and MP Praful Pa- ministration issued prohib- hammers. ology... without their per- the Shiromani Gurdwara
mati, a stronghold of Mr. tent that both the was Mr. Bhujbal who first tel, and apprised him of the itory orders from July 15 to “The video footage has mission, not a single stone Parbandhak Committee re-
Pawar. communities are boycotting used provocative language. meeting’s agenda. “I am 29 to keep the situation un- been used to identify the can be moved. How was a garding the allegations le-
While the Maratha com- each other’s establish- It all started from there. He ready to go to anybody’s der control. suspects,” said Kolhapur bridge constructed and lo- velled by some Akali lead-
munity has been demand- ments,” Mr. Bhujbal added. spits in the same plate that doorstep to resolve the sta- The violence prompted Additional Superintendent cals permitted to build ers on ₹90 lakh spent on
ing quota under the OBC ca- Mr. Pawar told the Minis- he eats from. Deputy Chief lemate,” Mr. Bhujbal added. the Opposition to target of Police Nikesh Khat- houses?” advertisements.
SC extends stay on LS panel Haryana Congress Rebel Akali Dal leaders launch
hearing of top W.B. bureaucrats kicks off campaign to campaign to ‘rejuvenate’ party
The Hindu Bureau
‘expose BJP misrule’ pearing for the officials, Press Trust of India The rebels targeted Punjabis and ‘pro-panth’
NEW DELHI questioned the very juris- CHANDIGARH Sukhbir Badal for people to support us in this
diction of the Privilege The Hindu Bureau the city’s congested areas bringing ‘corporate movement,” said Mr. Wa-
The Supreme Court on Committee to summon GURUGRAM including old vegetable Rebel Akali leaders on dala while addressing the
culture’ into the SAD
Monday extended till July them. market, Karna Gate mar- Monday launched a ‘Shiro- media here after the
19 its stay of proceedings Rohtak Lok Sabha MP Dee- ket, Balmiki Chowk and mani Akali Dal Sudhar Le- meeting.
before a Lok Sabha Privi- ‘Political activity’ pender Hooda on Monday Ambedkar Chowk, and the har’ campaign aimed to “We want to uplift and
lege Committee which has In an earlier hearing, Mr. kicked off the party’s State- suggestions of the people “strengthen and uplift” the former SGPC chief Bibi Ja- strengthen the Akali Dal.
summoned the West Ben- Sibal raised the point that wide “Haryana Mange Hi- standing on both sides of 103-year-old outfit while gir Kaur, former MLA Gur- We want to see the party
gal Chief Secretary, the the BJP MP had been en- saab“ campaign in Karnal. the road were collected as asserting that the party’s partap Singh Wadala, strong. It seems that the ex-
State Director General of gaged in “political activity” As part of the “account-tak- feedback to prepare par- present situation under former Ministers Sikandar istence of the Akali Dal is in
Police and other senior of- not associated with his ing” campaign, the party ty’s manifesto for the As- the current leadership in- Maluka, Parminder Singh danger with the kind of
ficers on a complaint filed vernment, was travelling work as a parliamentarian. seeks to expose the 10-year sembly poll. dicates that its “existence Dhindsa, Sarwan Singh present situation the party
by BJP MP Sukanta Majum- abroad. He had violated a prohibi- “misrule” of the BJP on va- Earlier, Mr. Hooda, ad- was in danger”. Phillaur and Surjit Singh is in today,” he asserted.
dar alleging “misconduct, The Chief Secretary, the tion order against “unlaw- rious fronts, and has posed dressing the gathering, A section of the senior Rakhra, and party leader Targeting Mr. Badal for
brutality and life-threaten- DGP and other bureaucrats ful assembly” under Sec- questions to it in form of a said the BJP, which had led party leaders last month Sucha Singh Chhotepur. bringing “corporate cul-
ing injuries to him”. were summoned on a com- tion 144 of the Code of 15-point “chargesheet”. Haryana to ‘ruin’, would had revolted against SAD ture” into SAD, Mr. Wadala
plaint by Mr. Majumdar Criminal Procedure. He Launching the cam- be wiped off in the As- chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, Platform convener said people rejected the
S-G Mehta abroad that he was injured in a had climbed onto the bon- paign at the old grain mar- sembly poll. demanding that he should The rebel Akali leaders on same and drifted away
A three-judge Bench head- clash between party work- net of a police car and was ket, Mr. Hooda went on a Posing questions at the step down as the party Monday appointed former from the party.
ed by Chief Justice of India ers and police personnel, pushed by fellow party padyatra through the city, BJP, Mr. Hooda sought to chief following its debacle MLA Gurpartap Singh Wa- Asked whether the rebel
D.Y. Chandrachud extend- who had stopped him from workers. It was the police followed by a large number know why Haryana has the in the recently held Lok dala as the platform’s leaders will go to the SAD
ed the interim relief after it entering violence-hit which had taken him to the of party leaders and work- highest unemployment in Sabha elections in Punjab. convener. office in Chandigarh for
was informed that Solicitor Sandeshkhali. hospital. Mr. Sibal said the ers carrying Congress flags the country and why it is Among the prominent “We are going to start holding any meeting, Mr.
General Tushar Mehta, ap- Senior advocates Kapil State had video evidence to and raising slogans. The called “the most unsafe leaders who raised a ban- ‘Shiromani Akali Dal Sud- Wadala said the party of-
pearing for the Union go- Sibal and A.M. Singhvi, ap- back its submissions. foot march passed through State”. ner of revolt included har Lehar’. We request all fice is for everyone.
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“We can save our faces if they are convinced about for Mr. Shivakumar, said into any offence alleged to The Income Tax Depart- of the Amayizhanjan Canal Students’ Union (DUSU)
at least a lakh people apply their Indian citizenship as the CBI’s case was “com- have been committed by a ment had raided Mr. Shiva- which passes through its were vandalised, the un- president is held by ABVP’s
for citizenship under CAA. they entered the country pletely illegal”. public servant under the kumar in 2017. Subse- property near the Thiruva- iversity constituted a four- Tushar Dedha while Abhi
So can those who protested before 1971 and that they Justice Trivedi remind- PC Act without prior ap- quently, the ED had nanthapuram Central rail- member committee to Dahiya of the NSUI is its
against this Act and insti- do not want to apply for ci- ed Mr. Rohatgi that the proval from appropriate started its own probe. way station. probe the incident. The pa- vice-president.
gated people claiming 40- tizenship under CAA. They charges were serious and authority”. Later, the CBI had After it was recovered, nel has been asked to sub- The committee is com-
50 lakh people would get said they would prove their involved offences under sought a sanction from the the body was taken to the mit its report within a week. prised of four administra-
citizenship,” he added. citizenship in a court of the Prevention of Corrup- I-T raids State government to regis- Government Medical Col- The Congress-affiliated tive officials, including the
In March, the Centre law,” Mr. Sarma said. tion Act. “Section 17A puts an em- ter an FIR against him. lege Hospital (MCH), NSUI and the Rashtriya DU Proctor who heads it.
Mr. Rohatgi argued that bargo on enquiry or inves- In 2020, Mr. Shivaku- where it was identified by Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)- DCP (North) Manoj Ku-
Section 17A of the Act was tigation into an FIR unless mar was booked by the relatives and fellow work- linked ABVP had blamed mar said a case was regis-
not complied with by the the required sanction is ta- CBI for the alleged posses- ers. The body was then ta- each other for the violence, tered on Sunday based on
Central agency. ken,” Mr. Rohatgi sion of disproportionate ken to his house in Maraya- which reportedly happened Mr. Dedha’s complaint and
The provision mandat- submitted. assets to the tune of ₹74.93 muttom, where it was on Sunday. The post of the that the investigation is un-
ed that “no inquiry or in- Justice Trivedi said the crore. cremated. university students’ union der way.
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T.N. CM takes a dig at the BJP for persistently discussing Emergency imposed during the Congress rule at the Centre, asks if Union govt. will come Gig Workers’ Bill in
forward to shift education from Concurrent List by revoking the decision taken during Emergency; launches expansion of flagship breakfast scheme
Assembly next week
The Hindu Bureau Emergency”. Stalin reiterated his Minister K. Kamaraj by As far as the Dravidian Court on the exam. “Even
CHENNAI Mr. Stalin was speaking govt.’s position on launching the expansion model of governance is the entire country is oppos- Shilpa Elizabeth he stated that once the new
at the launch of the expan- of the CM’s breakfast concerned, there should ing NEET on the path led by BENGALURU draft is in place, there
NEET for medical
aking a dig at the sion of the Tamil Nadu go- scheme on the occasion of be no obstacles for chil- Tamil Nadu,” he said. would be legal proceedings
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ormer United States President Donald the Founding Editor
Trump has narrowly survived an assassi- between his CPN-UML and the Nepali Congress. of the Himal largest remittance-sending country to India, airports and airlines even as China emerges as
nation attempt by a gunman who fired at The bilateral turbulence started with adoption Southasian magazine helping provide for livelihoods in its poorest India’s largest trading partner.
him during a political rally in Butler, Pennsylva- of the new Constitution by Nepal’s Constituent and lives in parts, from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, all the way It was Mr. Modi and Mr. Oli who together
nia, hitting his ear before the 78-year-old was Assembly in 2015, which New Delhi had wanted Kathmandu to Odisha. Seen in this light, New Delhi’s nominated the eight-member India-Nepal
rushed off the podium by Secret Service agents. reworked. Some politicians seem to have made overbearing attitude seems based on power, not Eminent Persons’ Group back in 2017. The team
The shooter, identified as Thomas Crooks, a re- promises to Mr. Modi in their New Delhi visits, prowess. finalised its consensus report the following year,
gistered Republican who also made a small dona- but in the end they promulgated the draft whose implementation is expected to lift bilateral
tion to a pro-Democratic group, died when law unamended. Playing the system relations towards a transparent, confident and
enforcement officers at the scene returned fire. While perfunctorily pointing the finger at Amidst unrelenting political chaos, the ability of equal partnership. If Mr. Modi and his team
The dramatic events have unfolded at a fraught Madhesi activists of the Tarai plains, New Delhi Kathmandu’s political class, civil society, the continue to stall on the release of the report, as is
time in American politics — not only is the 2024 slapped a devastating blockade on Nepal that bureaucracy and even security forces to speak on the case, informal means have to be sought to
presidential election a little over three months lasted nearly six months and generated enough equal terms with Indian counterparts stands access its content.
away, but, ironically, the attack comes after bad blood to last a generation. Mr. Oli reacted severely eroded. Over the decades, Nepal’s Up ahead, the Nepal-India relationship must be
months of Mr. Trump and his supporters period- sharply and on the rebound signed 10 political leadership has had its share of weaklings calibrated outside the two poles of imperious
ically indulging in rhetoric that condoned or sym- agreements with Beijing, extending from trade, and quislings, but the worst dip came in the New Delhi and subservient, obsequious
pathised with violence or violent intentions in transit to power and transport. just-ended prime ministerial run of Pushpa Kathmandu. The latter must find its voice, and
the political sphere. The most notable among The two Prime Ministers did meet after the Kamal Dahal (‘Prachanda’), the Maoist chieftain, New Delhi must reflect on how the failed policy of
these instances was when he said that he be- blockade was lifted, but the effervescent Mr. Oli who early on had disclosed his wish to be interference in politics and governance has left
lieved that the mob that breached the gates of Ca- would not hold back from suggesting that the “comfortable” for New Delhi. Nepal flailing.
pitol Hill on January 6, 2021, was comprised of true historical Ayodhya was within present-day Returning from an official visit to New Delhi in
“unbelievable patriots”. To a certain extent, the Nepal, or that India’s aggressive bent called for June 2023, Mr. Dahal conceded that he had A South Asia at peace
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seriousness of the latest incident, rare but not un- replacing the national motto ‘Satyameva Jayate’ refrained from bringing up issues that would spoil The ‘default setting’ of the Nepali state and
precedented in U.S. political history, engendered with ‘Singhameva Jayate’. Following an updated Mr. Modi’s mood and “ruin the atmosphere”. people is cordiality towards India and Indians,
sympathy bridging the partisan divide. President political map published by India in October 2019, During the trip, he failed to raise each and every but New Delhi seems unconvinced. A continuing
Joe Biden unequivocally and immediately con- Nepal’s Constitution was amended to add the pending bilateral matter, including air routes for ‘Himalayan paranoia’, with its origins in the 1962
demned the attack on Mr. Trump, saying that Limpiyadhura-Kalapani triangle to its own map Nepal’s stillborn international airports at debacle with China, fuels geo-strategic insecurity
there was no place in America for this. “We must on the northwest. Bhairahawa and Pokhara, the festering territorial in New Delhi think-tanks. Hence, they are far
unite as one nation to condemn it. It’s sick.” Simi- Even as relations soured, New Delhi became dispute over Limpiyadhura-Kalapani, and a from considering Nepal as the future connectivity
lar sentiments were expressed by other political more involved in Nepali governance and politics. report of the Eminent Persons’ Group (EPG) gateway to the Chinese mainland via railways and
figures. Beyond politico-diplomatic pressures and collecting dust. To please the RSS, he and his roadways breaching the Himalayan rampart.
So far as the impact on the election is con- above-ground activities of undercover personnel, entourage shed their official attire to don saffron Nor do New Delhi economists care to note the
cerned, Mr. Trump was already projected to be New Delhi began fielding Hindutva advocates in robes at the Mahakaleshwar Temple in Ujjain, enormous savings in military expenditure
leading Mr. Biden narrowly in swing States — crit- the plains and hills. The Rashtraiya Swayamsevak Madhya Pradesh. represented by the very presence of Nepal as a
ical to the election result — in a range of polls. Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Mr. Dahal concluded a power trade agreement benign buffer along the central stretch of the
Now, that lead may widen, although whether it wanted to convert Nepal into their own image of that allows New Delhi to refuse import from hydel Himalaya — even more relevant amidst the
will be unassailable by election day remains to be India. plants built with Chinese loans or Chinese ongoing concern over the Indian exchequer’s
seen. The ratings of former President Ronald Rea- contractors under international bidding. He has inability to bear military costs and pensions.
gan jumped dramatically after he was shot by a Power and prowess allowed the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu to The open Nepal-India border is the prototype
man on March 30, 1981, 69 days after assuming Conjecture is rife in Kathmandu on what Mr. independently disburse grants of up to Nepal for a future South Asia at peace, even though New
office, yet that boost disappeared within several Modi’s third innings portends, given the legacy of rupees 20 crore, a facility not available to any Delhi analysts constantly harp on the insecurity it
weeks. The more complex and troubling ques- the blockade, Hindutva activism, economic other embassy. Meanwhile, New Delhi is on a represents for India.
tion is the extent to which the Trump campaign, stifling and geopolitical coercion. With his foreign campaign in Kathmandu to persuade delinking In fact, it is Nepal which has suffered, with the
in its bid to capitalise on the near martyrdom of policy and national security teams unchanged, Nepal’s hydropower from its water resource, so Maoists using shelters across the unregulated
its candidate, will adopt the language of hate pol- will he mellow or become more adventurous to that bilateral agreements do not require frontier during their decade of insurrection
itics, building on vicious comments that have al- make up for the BJP’s domestic deceleration? two-thirds ratification by Parliament. against the Nepali state. Every summer, the
ready been circulating on social media since the The two Prime Ministers must use the In June 2024, Mr. Dahal exuded confidence Indian media goes to town about Nepal
attack, many of them blaming Democrats for the opportunity of their elevation in Delhi and The Prime after attending Mr. Modi’s swearing-in, believing ‘releasing’ monsoon waters into the Ganga plain,
violence and deliberately conflating political op- Kathmandu to clear the logjam. With his that his meagre 32 seats in the Lower House but there are no significant storage dams in Nepal
‘Neighbourhood First’ initiative battered on all
Ministers of combined with New Delhi’s backing gave him the and the two barrages on the Gandaki and Kosi are
position with personal animus. If the two presi- India and
dential candidates, their campaign teams, and quadrants, Mr. Modi may want to start with “magic formula” to remain in power. This was not controlled by New Delhi.
policy corrections on Nepal as the nearest and Nepal, who to be, and New Delhi may now see the limits to its ‘Nepal studies’ does not exist as an academic
their party leaders abandon common civility in
what should ideally be a structured partisan con- closest neighbour. Indian exceptionalism having were in power ability to play the system in Kathmandu. discipline in India, which is one reason Indian
test and allow baser populist instincts to domi- long preceded Mr. Modi, going back to Jawaharlal when bilateral As Mr. Oli takes over the reins in Kathmandu, citizens think of Nepal as a poor, ungrateful and
nate their speeches in the months ahead, it will Nehru’s diktats to Kathmandu’s bickering ties collapsed, he must discard the lethal diffidence of his even malevolent neighbour. It is Kathmandu’s job
politicians, New Delhi should have known by now predecessor, standing up for Nepal and speaking to reach out, erase misconceptions and suggest
inevitably exacerbate the already bitter state of must rebuild
polarisation in the public discourse. Whoever that manufacturing consent in Nepal is a lost for South Asia. All bilateral matters that are possibilities. Exasperated Nepalis would like to
cause. trust as they hanging fire must be brought confidently to the see India convert from the ‘big brother’ avatar to
wins on November 5 would then stand on the are back in
brink of a deeply troubled polity, hardly the ideal India’s relentless engagement with Nepal’s table for airing and resolution. He must also simply being ‘brother’. New Delhi’s policymakers
politics and governance goes against the principle power convince Mr. Modi of the importance of reviving can do their part by accepting that Nepal is, after
scenario to build bipartisan bridges, so essential
to ensure that the U.S. can tackle the many chal- of non-interference that is part of the Panchsheel once again the South Asian Association for Regional all, a separate country.
lenges it faces, foreign and domestic.
Back to the future The Union Budget as litmus test of a rethink or stasis
Alcaraz and Sinner confirm
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the rise of a new generation nion Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment demonetisation, Goods and Services Tax (GST)
is to present the Union Budget next week, Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) programme as well as and the COVID-19 lockdown. This sector requires
on July 23. This time the government is a the demands for a similar programme for the special attention in this Budget and the sector
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Nadal started fading away, tennis fans Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led coalition urban unemployed. needs a nuanced understanding. Earlier Budgets
have had their eyes set on the future. On government. The Budget is not just a revenue and One has to understand that the MGNREGA is have focused on infrastructure (CAPEX),
Sunday, at the Centre Court in Wimbledon, came expenditure statement of the government. It has an outcome of the failure of the neoliberal skill-based programmes, credit for start-ups and
the clearest evidence that there was a fresh dy- to be understood as representing the policy and G. Vijay development policy in terms of generating fiscal prudence to generate employment. Most of
nasty taking shape with a new king in place. Car- the politics of the incumbent government. faculty member, employment through the private sector or the these interventions have had supply-side policy
los Alcaraz’s straight sets demolition of Novak Unlike in 2019, when the BJP had 303 seats in School of Economics, market. Recent reports on employment, by the bias as well as served high-value end activities. In
Djokovic will likely be the watershed that herald- the Lok Sabha, it now has 240 seats. Coalition University of Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy Pvt. Ltd. the MSME segment as well, the government’s
ed the change. Djokovic, a 24-time Major winner, politics and the aspirations of the regional Hyderabad (CMIE) and the International Labour emphasis has been on those MSMEs which are
may have entered the tournament just weeks af- coalition partners cannot be ignored. The Organization and the Institute for Human export oriented, given that high-value production
ter a knee surgery and without a final appearance reduced seat tally for the BJP could suggest a Development, have highlighted concerns with the and the infrastructure sector together with
since the ATP Finals last November. But the 37- resentment with and dissent against the problem of employment in India. The reports enterprises having foreign direct investments and
year-old was a seven-time Wimbledon champion economic policies adopted by the government point out, with varying levels of intensity (on export-oriented sectors have had high
who had lost just nine completed matches at during its second term in 2019-24. The general account of different methodologies), to the very value-added but very low employment elasticity.
SW19 since his debut in 2005, and no two to the election this time was termed as ‘normal’, high levels of underemployment; unemployment The focus, therefore, has to change from
same opponent. That Alcaraz, 21, managed to implying that the focus of the election campaign among youth (15-29 years); and especially among prioritising growth for growth’s sake towards
beat the legendary Serb twice in a row might be was around ‘bread and butter’ issues, unlike in the educated youth (above secondary school avenues generating employment and inclusive
his greatest achievement. If the 2023 triumph es- 2014 and 2019, where it was said to be education). In addition, the real incomes of the growth.
tablished the Spaniard as a serious contender, aspirational and emotive issues. regular employed have seen a contraction,
the latest victory is sure to upend the hierarchy. The electorate seems to have very effectively perhaps on account of high levels of Where the focus should be
For the first time since Federer won his first in conveyed its disappointment with the informalisation and poor quality employment. Social and economic justice should not be
2003 on these hallowed lawns, three consecutive government in being able to address its concerns On the other hand, while the incomes of casual reduced to hollow cliché. This Budget has to
Majors have gone by without a winner from the and anxieties. Therefore, this Budget is being labour have increased, this could be on account focus on MSMEs which cater to the domestic
Big Three. Alcaraz, with four Grand Slam titles in keenly watched. of MGNREGA and other social programmes of the consumption of low-income groups, which are
a short span of two years, has already zoomed government. also socially marginalised groups. Further, given
past Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka, who Employment issue as a poll plank While the participation of women in the labour the poor performance of India on the Human
toiled long and hard for three Slams each. One of the major campaign planks in the 2024 market has increased, it is more as unpaid family Development Index and Multi-Dimensional
It is not that Alcaraz is the only prodigiously ta- general election was unemployment, concern labour and odd service activities to supplement Poverty Index (MDPI), education, health, and
lented player to emerge in recent years. Jannik about inflation and questions around social and household incomes. These challenges are being housing for the deprived sections ought to find
economic justice. Employment, especially, can be It remains to be faced alongside structural retrogression in terms higher allocations combined with
Sinner, the reigning World No.1 and the 2024 Aus-
tralian Open champion, has shown sufficient seen as directly or indirectly holding centrality in seen whether of employment, implying that contrary to the employment-generation objectives in this Budget.
mettle to prove that he will be the generational addressing other questions from an economic the Union orthodox imagination, there has been an increase The rhetoric in the recent past, of India having
rival to Alcaraz. On his day, Daniil Medvedev, es- vantage point. So, what might the Budget do in Budget will in primary sector employment and a contraction become the fifth largest economy and on the path
pecially on hard courts, can be an equal. But no addressing this objective? Economists who hold address the in secondary sector employment. This is on to develop into the third largest economy, has
player has looked as complete as Alcaraz, who allegiance to the Chicago School of thought and bread and account of the significant contraction of the coexisted with the nagging problem of
has all the shots in the book and a mental make- its mezzanine version reiterated by those in unorganised sector, especially the micro, small joblessness and poor quality employment growth
butter issues
up to match. Of his 15 titles, eight have come on Columbia University have already expressed and medium enterprises (MSMEs). — witnessed right from the mid-1990s. While
aggressive opposition to the thought of the that were political machinations show no mood towards a
clay, four on hard and three on grass. And he has
won his debut finals at both Roland-Garros and government attempting to generate employment prominent in MSME sector contraction rethink, perhaps wanting to project the optics of
Wimbledon, a feat even Federer, Nadal and Djo- opportunities. By implication, this targets the the 2024 The MSME sector has significantly contracted on continuity, let us hope that such misplaced
kovic have not managed. Among women, it was potential allocations for the already neglected general election account of at least three shocks — confidence does not carry into the Budget as well.
the turn of Barbora Krejcikova to master the
sport’s natural surfaces as she added the grass-
court Major to the French Open singles trophy LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
that she won in 2021. The Czech may have been
the seventh first-time winner at the All England Encounter in Chennai (Page 1, July 15). The The version of events put lesson or two in putting out crucial evidence? the high stakes involved in
Club in as many editions, but her success is more It appears that the Chennai accused should have been out by the Chennai police is a credible version of events A.P. Thiruvadi, the re-election of the former
a sign of the depth in the ladies’ game than of per- city police commissioner is, left alive so that the case of unbelievable. The new city and also about ‘common Chennai President. It shows how
petual flux. And Wimbledon is where this is likely as he said when assuming why the BSP leader was commissioner did say that sense’. polarised the electoral
to be most pronounced until the women’s Tour’s charge, beginning to “speak murdered is solved. he would ‘talk to rowdies in With the death of the Assassination bid battle is in America.
leading players, Iga Swiatek and Aryna Sabalen- to history sheeters in the A. Jainulabdeen, their language’ but he must ‘accused’, how does the The abortive bid on the life Prabhu Raj R.,
ka, crack the code on the lush green lawns. language they understand” Chennai teach his own officers a police propose to gather of Donald Trump exposes Bengaluru
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The toll that extreme heat takes on women From ghost city to model city
Naidu faces technical, financial, and political challenges in building Amaravati
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xtreme heat is our loss from heat strain occurs in the MGNREGA, for example, it is
planet’s norm for now domain of unpaid labour in India. under the scorching sun.
and perhaps for years to The loss also reflects opportunity Additionally, prolonged exposure fidence. The development
come. The warmest year costs associated with heat stress — to heatwaves adversely affects STATE OF PLAY of Amaravati was marred by
on record was 2023. Temperatures that women could have earned crop yields; for poor rural women, uncertainties and delays,
in several parts of India during extra income, acquired skills, or heat may decide whether they live Sambasiva Rao M. creating scepticism among po-
May-June 2024 were reported to Pradeep Kumar rested enough. in hunger and poverty or not. tential investors. To tackle
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be record-breaking. Women are ara Chandrababu Nai- these two challenges, Mr. Nai-
disproportionately harmed by Assistant Professor at Worryingly pervasive Unequal health strain du’s return as Chief Mi- du will have to adopt a multi-
extreme heat, largely because of Zakir Husain Centre Urban female informal labourers The incidence of heat-related nister of Andhra Pra- faceted approach. His admi-
unequal power dynamics, gender for Educational face harsh weather, whether diseases is also on the rise with desh has given new life to his nistration will need to clearly
norms, and unequal access to Studies, School of working in marketplaces, streets, increasing temperature. Heat dream project, Amaravati. state the project’s road map,
resources, as reflected in the Social Sciences, construction sites, landfills, or stress puts the body under a great The city, which had been timelines, and benefits. En-
Jawaharlal Nehru
Global Gender Gap Index that even their employers’ homes. Due deal of strain, making it harder for abandoned after he lost the gaging with stakeholders and
University, New Delhi
places India at 18th rank from the to their occupational settings, it to regulate its temperature, 2019 Assembly elections, is ed land and foster community demonstrating tangible pro-
bottom. Perhaps we should be these casual-wage workers — street leading to several illnesses, poised to reclaim its status as support for the project. gress in the development of
alarmed by the numbers — India is vendors, paid domestic helpers, including heat cramps, severe heat the capital. However, the progress of the city’s core areas will be vi-
home to more than one-in-six construction workers, and stroke, and hyperthermia. Women As Chief Minister in 2014, the project was disrupted in tal in restoring faith among
women in the world — and sanitation workers — are are at greater risk because of their Mr. Naidu had planned to 2019 when Y.S. Jagan Mohan investors.
extreme heat is now their reality. vulnerable to climatic extremes, physiological makeup — their body build a modern, sustainable Reddy of the YSR Congress The third challenge is to
reports the International Labour fat percentage and water content city along the banks of the Party came to power and in- complete the core infrastruc-
Hidden toll Steny Rapheal Organization (‘Work in a Changing levels affect heat tolerance and Krishna river. His government troduced his controversial ture of Amaravati. The core
A recent report by the ADB (Rising Climate’). The situation worsens hydration, while hormonal drafted plans and enlisted the ‘three capitals’ plan — Visak- area, which houses govern-
Above the Heat) highlights the PhD student at Zakir with energy poverty — living changes associated with menstrual help of Singapore-based com- hapatnam as the administra- ment buildings, residential
Husain Centre for
unequal impact of extreme heat without cooling facilities such as cycles and pregnancy affect body panies. Mr. Naidu, who has al- tive capital, Amaravati as the zones, and commercial spac-
Educational Studies,
on women in Asia and the Pacific. School of Social
ventilated spaces, fans, air temperature regulation. Women ways expressed his admira- legislative capital, and Kur- es, need to be prioritised to
For instance, women living in Sciences, Jawaharlal conditioners, or coolers. Greenery have a dual burden from tion for Singapore, was keen nool as the judicial capital. Mr. showcase the potential of the
informal settlements in cities (also Nehru University, and other natural forms of cooling heat-related health issues since to build a similar city that ba- Reddy halted construction in new capital. Creating a condu-
at the margins and in slums) face New Delhi are also becoming increasingly they are more susceptible to its lanced economic growth, en- Amaravati; this undermined cive environment for resi-
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multiple challenges due to rising unavailable for public effects and also shoulder majority vironmental sustainability, investor confidence. His dents and industries will drive
temperatures. Their homes could consumption in dense urban of the care-giving responsibility and high living standards. The ‘three capitals’ plan sparked the city’s growth. This in-
turn into heat chambers since the areas. Furthermore, water scarcity that follows. Additionally, heat State Assembly passed a reso- protests among farmers. volves developing residential,
material used in informal, urban and power fluctuations raise the stress has a pronounced impact lution to locate the capital in The cessation of develop- healthcare, education, and re-
neighbourhoods, such as tin, challenge of being hydrated and on maternal and child health. The the centre of the State. ment work had significant creational facilities. Promot-
asbestos, and plastic, trap heat. staying comfortable. data on heat strain’s effects The initial vision docu- economic and social conse- ing industrial sectors and
Women also toil in poorly The situation in rural India is translating to a rise in preterm ments aimed to make Amara- quences. Unfinished and dam- creating job opportunities will
ventilated kitchens, experiencing equally severe. Consider the daily delivery, miscarriage, and vati one of the top three livea- aged infrastructure increased be key to making Amaravati
scorching temperatures while routine of a woman in a stillbirths is especially worrying in ble cities in the world with completion costs and Amara- economically viable.
cooking. Rising temperatures are heatwave-affected rural area: she India, given its higher maternal more than 50% green cover. vati’s credit ratings took a hit, Mr. Naidu’s legacy will also
compounded by extreme time begins her morning cooking using mortality rates. With a capital area of 217 sq as per a white paper recently depend on his ability to ba-
poverty and care burden for them. biomass over a hot stove, bearing The burden on women km, Amaravati was to house a released by Mr. Naidu. The lance development with sus-
Due to lower productivity the brunt of ensuing disease becomes evident as India grapples government city, justice city, economic fallout included job tainability. The original plans
stemming from heat stress, burden. Since 56.8% of rural with soaring temperatures. finance city, knowledge city, migration, decreased proper- for Amaravati included the
women work considerably longer Indian families cook on biomass Millions continue to face worse health city, sports city, media/ ty values, and lost revenue construction of extensive
hours to complete their share of (NFHS-5), acknowledging the heat-related losses, with no respite culture city, electronics city, opportunities. green spaces, efficient public
unpaid work at home. According extent of this public health hazard in sight. Strengthening their and tourism city. With Mr. Naidu’s return, transport, and smart city tech-
to Arsht-Rock’s ‘Scorching Divide’ is essential. Women’s days also resilience to heat strain is the need The cornerstone of the ci- there is now optimism in Ama- nologies. If these elements are
report, the productivity loss due involve longer working hours of the hour — climate-friendly ty’s development was the land ravati. His primary focus will integrated into the develop-
to heatwaves translates to 90 under heat stress. If she does urban planning, development of pooling scheme under which be on mobilising resources, ment process, Amaravati will
more minutes of care work per Women are home-based work inside the living and access to sustainable cooling 29,966 farmers contributed restoring investor confidence, become a model city.
day in India. This adds to the disproportionately area with asbestos or tin roofing, technologies, fair division of care approximately 34,400 acres of and completing core infras- Mr. Naidu also faces a polit-
pre-existing gender differences in harmed by temperatures could become work, and public provisioning of land to the Naidu government. tructure within five years. ical challenge. To regain the
time-use pattern; in doing unpaid extreme heat, unbearable, making labour essential services should be our In return, they were promised However, there are several trust of the people, he will
work like cooking, cleaning, and largely because of increasingly unsafe. Also, if she immediate concerns. And we annuity payments, residential challenges. The first is the task have to demonstrate his capa-
fetching water and fuel, women unequal power faces restrictive gender norms on cannot talk about adaptation and and commercial plots, and so- of mobilising funds in a bility to deliver on his poll pro-
spend two and a half times mobility and clothing, she could resilience without addressing the cial benefits such as loan waiv- strained economic environ- mises within the next five
minutes more per day than men
dynamics, gender be forced to stay indoors and social power gradient that ers and pensions. The govern- ment. Mr. Naidu will have to years. The next few years will
(National Statistical Office 2019 norms, and follow dressing styles that are not determines women’s capacity to ment envisaged an inclusive secure investments and go- be crucial in determining
data). Intriguingly, more than unequal access to heat friendly. Conversely, if she face the crisis we are development which would be- vernment support. The se- whether his ambitious vision
two-third of women’s productivity resources works outdoors in the field, experiencing. nefit those who had contribut- cond is building investor con- can finally be realised.
Many defectors not only won in subsequent elections, but also got ministerial berths
FIFTY YEARS AGO JULY 16, 1974
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his year, five Bharat Rash- my government in Karnataka. The Forces overthrew Archbishop Makarios in a
tra Samithi (BRS) MLAs, BJP then came to power and B.S coup to-day and appointed a newspaper
who won the Telangana Yediyurappa became Chief Minis- publisher as President, Cyprus Radio said in a
Assembly elections in 2023, de- ter. Fifteen of these MLAs were broadcast monitored here. The broadcast
fected to the Congress. fielded again as BJP candidates in identified the new President as Mr. Nicholas
Telangana is the latest State the by-polls, and 80% of them Sampson.
where such defections have taken were re-elected (Chart 4). The radio earlier reported Archbishop
place. As defections have become Twelve of the defectors who Makarios had been killed, but did not repeat this
common, questions have been joined the BJP and won the by- report in announcing the appointment of Mr.
raised about the effectiveness of polls were given ministerial Sampson.
the anti-defection law. Data show berths. Seven of them were minis- A Turkish-language broadcast from the
that many politicians who were ters in the previous Kumaraswamy Cypriot city of Paphos monitored in Tel Aviv
disqualified under the anti-defec- ministry. said that President Makarios was alive and had
tion law in the past 10 years were In 2020, 22 MLAs defected in sought refuge in the area of United Nations
re-elected from the party they Madhya Pradesh, reducing the offices in Cyprus.
jumped to, in subsequent by-polls. Congress to a minority govern- A Greek-language radio station reported that
Many also managed to secure mi- ment after Jyotiraditya Scindia “the forces of President Makarios are in control
nisterial berths. joined the BJP. With the resigna- of the Limassol sector.”
This is an analysis of 66 MLAs tions bringing down the halfway Speaking in English, the announcer called the
who defected in six States — And- mark, the BJP had the numbers to “new President” a traitor and warned that he
hra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, form the government. Later, three would not remain in power very long.
Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Madhya more Congress MLAs resigned and Israel Radio reported that Makarios said in a
Pradesh, and Manipur. Of them, 59 joined the BJP. The BJP fielded all live radio broadcast to-night that as long as he
(89%) were fielded again in subse- 25 of them in the subsequent by- lived, the newly claimed military regime would
quent polls by the parties they polls. Of them, 72% were re-elect- not rule Cyprus.
jumped to. Among the 59, the re- ed (Chart 5). Of the defectors who The Israeli broadcast claimed that it was the
election rate, or the share who were re-elected, 13 were later in- first positive proof that Archbishop Makarios
won again after jumping ship, was ducted into the Shivraj Singh survived the coup against his Government.
considerably high (70%). Chouhan ministry. Seven of them (In Stockholm, Sweden’s Defence Staff said
Chart 1 shows the status of the were ministers before defection. Makarios was still alive and had sought United
defectors. It is important to note This year, the Speaker of the Nations protection. A cable from the Swedish
that, except in Andhra Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh Assembly dis- U.N. battalion at Famagusta said Makarios had
where most politicians defected qualified eight MLAs — four each sought refuge in a British Cyprus base and had
from the Telugu Desam Party from the TDP and YSRCP — for cabled U.N. headquarters in New York for U.N.
(TDP) to the YSR Congress Party changing allegiance. Among them, intervention, a staff spokesman said).
(YSRCP) and vice-versa, in other two were fielded again from each
States, a majority of the defections party. The defectors contesting on
were from the Congress to the the YSRCP ticket lost, whereas
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). those contesting on the TDP ticket
In Himachal Pradesh, six Con- won the election, making the win A HUNDRED YEARS AGO JULY 16, 1924
gress MLAs cross-voted in the Ra- ratio 50% (Chart 6).
jya Sabha elections and were dis- In Manipur, Thounaojam New German Gold Bank
qualified. They were all fielded by Shyamkumar was elected in 2017
the BJP in the subsequent polls. on a Congress ticket but switched Berlin, July 15: The German Bill for the
Four of them lost (Chart 2). to the BJP even before the oath-tak- establishment of a new Gold Note Bank has been
In 2016, nine Congress MLAs ing ceremony. He was later made a submitted to the Reparations Commission. The
shifted to the BJP in Uttarakhand. minister in the government led by Bank will be conducted in similar lines to the
This led to a political crisis in the N. Biren Singh and was only dis- Reichsbank. The directorate will be exclusively
State. These MLAs were disquali- qualified in 2020. He won the sub- German, but it will be supervised by a general
fied in April 2016. Seven of them sequent bye-election. council of fourteen members comprising seven
were fielded again in the Assembly German and seven appointed by America,
elections in 2017 and six of them The writer is an undergraduate student in Britain, Italy, France, Belgium, Switzerland, and
won (Chart 3). Among the defec- Chemical Engineering at IIT Bombay Holland as creditors of the new bank.
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Have the votes of the Nishad community, a group under the Extremely Backward Castes, shifted from the National Democratic Alliance to the INDIA alliance? How
does their political consolidation differ in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh?
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n his thanksgiving speech after the for their rights in sand mining, fishing, Commission report, they
2024 Lok Sabha elections, Congress and plying boats. These three activities started introducing themselves
leader Rahul Gandhi said that Uttar are the main source of the Nishad as ‘Nishad’, a singular political
Pradesh had shown the way to the communities’ income. and social entity.
nation while referring to the success of The Nishads also increasingly assert
the INDIA-alliance in the State. The themselves while negotiating with a 쑽
INDIA-alliance was able to get more of the confrontational state. For example, in The Nishads of U.P. aspire for
Extremely Backward Caste (EBC) votes as Banswar village, Prayagraj, clashes two things. One is rights over
compared to the National Democratic between local Nishads and the Prayagraj rivers and river produce, and
Alliance (NDA)-led by the Bharatiya Janata administration around the issue of sand the other is representation. The
Party (BJP). mining in the Yamuna river, resulted in Nishads in Bihar have also
the mobilisation of Nishads across eastern been involved in similar
How dominant are EBCs? U.P. This incident resulted in all major struggles. The key demand of
In Bihar, the recently held caste survey political parties pursuing the community the community is their
inclusion in the list of
puts the total population of the EBCs at with their specific assurances. Sanjay
Scheduled Castes (SC) in the
36%. When combined with the Other Nishad of the Nishad Party assured
State.
Backward Classes (OBC), backward castes action, while Priyanka Gandhi of the
make up 63% of the total population of Congress pledged ₹10 lakh in assistance 쑽
the State. As the CSDS-Lokniti data and supported the formation of a According to an estimate, the
suggests, in 2024 the grip of the NDA ‘Nishadraj Cooperative Society’ for sand Nishad community influences
parties over EBC votes has dwindled as mining. Akhilesh Yadav promised boats to the outcome of more than 20
compared to previous elections and this Nishads if SP won in 2022. parliamentary constituencies
includes the Janata Dal (United) or JD(U), The Nishads in Bihar have also been in U.P., especially in the
the party of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish involved in similar struggles. The key Poorvanchal region and about
Kumar, who has till now enjoyed staunch demand of the community is their 10 constituencies of Bihar,
support from EBC voters. On the other inclusion in the list of Scheduled Castes particularly in the north Bihar
hand, the INDIA alliance has been able to (SC) in the State. After mounting pressure and Mithilanchal region.
make substantial inroads into the EBC on the Nitish Kumar government since
vote bank. Among the EBC communities, 2014 via several caste-based
the Nishad community which consists of organisations, the Bihar Government got
almost 20 jatis, make up about 9% of the a socio-economic assessment done
population of the State. through ethnographic accounts of the
In U.P, unlike in Bihar, there is no community by the A.N. Sinha Institute to
separate category for EBCs that assess its claims of backwardness. The
distinguishes them from OBCs. Castes caste survey data in 2023 reinforces the
such as Yadav, Kurmi, and Patel, who are socio-economic backwardness of the
landowners and politically strong, were community, which has made their
visible during past elections. And despite demand for reservations under the SC
not owning land, castes like Maurya and category more vocal.
Kushwaha were also prominent in A strong force: VIP president Mukesh Sahani and his supporters block a railway track during a protest
elections. Now, the Bhar and Nishad against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, in Patna, in 2019. PTI What happened in the elections?
communities have also established a According to an estimate, the Nishad
significant presence in U.P. According to Who did they support in U.P.? missed opportunity by the Nishad community influences the outcome of
data from the 2001 Hukum Singh It was found that the Nishads were community as its loyalty was fragmented more than 20 parliamentary
committee, OBCs make up over 50% of drifting away from the BJP and had been across different parties in the absence of a constituencies in U.P., especially in the
U.P’s population, with Yadavs being the mobilising for the INDIA block. In strong political formation from within the Poorvanchal region and about 10
largest group at 19.4%. Among the Varanasi, the female voters of the Nishad community. Mukesh Sahani and his constituencies of Bihar, particularly in the
non-Yadav castes which make up the rest community were more comfortable with Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP), since 2014, north Bihar and Mithilanchal region.
of the OBCs in the State, Kurmis and Narendra Modi in comparison to their claim to be working towards the Every national and regional party active
Patels represent 7.4%, Nishads, Mallahs, male counterparts, but in other areas, consolidation of the Nishad community as in U.P. wants the support of the
and Kevats 4.3%, Bhar and Rajbhars 2.4%, they were more affiliated to the an important political force. With the community. The emergence of the Nishad
Lodhs 4.8%, and Jats 3.6%. However, Samajwadi Party (SP) and Congress. The caste survey of Bihar placing the Party — Nirbal Indian Shoshit Hamara
there is no concrete caste-wise support for Congress among Nishads is a community’s 22 sub-caste’s total Aam Dal — in 2016 hugely mobilised the
breakdown of the OBC population. new phenomenon in the last two decades population to be almost 10% of the State’s community towards a single party, which
of U.P.’s politics. As far as the SP is population, its numerical strength has has been an ally of the NDA since 2019.
Who are the Nishads? concerned, it was Mulayam Singh Yadav assumed a new political significance. The While it played a role in BJP’s social
Nishad is an umbrella term for dozens of who brought this community to the 2024 elections saw the BJP winning the engineering in the 2019 Lok Sabha
riverine castes in north India. After the political forefront. Phoolan Devi was trust of the Nishad voters in Muzaffarpur, elections, in the 2024 elections it failed. It
Mandal Commission report, they started given a Lok Sabha ticket from the SP in a constituency where Nishads have was not given the party symbol and
introducing themselves as ‘Nishad’, a 1996. She won the seat from the Mirzapur emerged as a ‘dominant caste’. The BJP Praveen Nishad, the son of Sanjay Nishad,
singular political and social entity. The constituency in U.P. and was also later has acknowledged this victory as a had to contest the election as a BJP
Nishad community, one of the politically re-elected in 1999. Thus, the Congress was window of opportunity for further candidate. He lost the Sant Kabir Nagar
visible but less represented groups in the absent among the Nishads in these areas consolidation, evident from its inclusion seat to Pappu Nishad of SP. In Bihar,
electoral landscape of U.P. in the past, is from 1989. But this time, one could see a of Muzaffarpur’s MP and first time although Sahani’s VIP party failed to win
now being noticed. Although there is no formidable political faith among Nishads parliamentarian, Raj Bhushan Choudhury any of its three seats in Gopalganj,
clear demarcation between OBC and for Congress, especially in Banda, in the Modi 3.0 Cabinet. Incidentally Mr. Jhanjharpur and Purvi Champaran, it was
EBCs, they are considered EBCs and have Chitrakoot, and Prayagraj. This was partly Choudhury contested on the same seat able to successfully transfer Nishad votes
rallied behind the Akhilesh Yadav-Rahul due to the SP-Congress alliance and partly unsuccessfully in the 2019 parliamentary to the INDIA alliance in Patliputra, Arrah
Gandhi duo. In adjoining Bihar too, the to Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Constitution speeches’. elections, but on a VIP ticket. This is also and Buxar. Between 1952 and 2004 in
Nishad community rallied strongly Elders and youngsters of the community the pressing challenge faced by the VIP Bihar, there was only one MP from the
behind Mukesh Sahani, also known as were discussing the ‘samvidhan’. This is a party in Bihar, that despite having built a Mallah sub-caste, two from the Noniya
‘son of mallah’, who is a member of the new takeaway from this election where decent party organisation and a good sub-caste and two from the Nishad
INDIA-alliance and was seen campaigning the Indian Constitution is finding a social ground presence within the community, sub-caste. The political mobilisation of
along with Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) life in marginal spaces. the party is unable to attract or put the Nishad community aims to change
leader Tejaswi Yadav. forward strong winnable candidates on its this. Thus, by assessing the politics of the
The politics of the Nishad community What about Bihar? ticket, which reflects the paucity of Nishad community in two States of the
has rarely seen any comparative analysis In Bihar, the Nishad community’s foray leadership within the community. Hindi heartland, we get a sense of how
between the States of U.P. and Bihar. The into electoral politics had been restricted different communities’ politics are playing
fieldwork done by the authors on the to limited cases of representatives being What are core issues of the Nishads? out within the EBCs on the ground.
Nishads took place across several districts promoted by different political parties The Nishads of U.P. aspire for two things. Sarthak Bagchi teaches at Ahmedabad
of U.P. and Bihar such as Banda, such as Jai Narain Nishad in the One is rights over rivers and river University. Rama Shanker Singh is
Chitrakoot, Kaushambi, Prayagraj, 1990s-2000s who switched between JD(U) produce, and the other is representation. Academic Fellow at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
Bhadohi, Chandauli etc, and Banaras, and BJP and Ramkaran Sahni, in the 1970s They demand representation through the University, Delhi and is author of Nadi
Mirzapur, Prayagraj, Vaishali, Hajipur, and 80s. The post-Mandal politicisation of Constitution and rights by cultural means. Putra: Uttar Bhart mein Nishad aur Nadi,
Madhubani, Muzaffarpur. different caste groups in Bihar was a They are fighting for rights over rivers IIAS, 2022.
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News Delhi
From Page One ‘India and Russia have doubled Police file
chargesheet
in security
SC to hear pleas against
passing laws as Money Bills
rupee-rouble payments in 2024’ breach case
According to figures shared by Russia’s state-controlled Sberbank, the number of transactions has also increased; despite Press Trust of India
Similarly, the case also raises questions about the NEW DELHI
passage of the Finance Act of 2017 as a Money Bill Western sanctions, businessmen push for Indian manufacturers to look towards Moscow and counter China’s inroads
to alter the appointments to 19 key judicial tribu- The Delhi Police on Mon-
nals, including the National Green Tribunal and day filed a supplementary
Central Administrative Tribunal. Suhasini Haidar Union in July 2022. the space vacated by near- chargesheet before a court
Mr. Ramesh, a petitioner in this case, had ar- NEW DELHI/MOSCOW The surge may rise ly all Western brands, and here in connection with
gued that the 2017 Act was deliberately categor- further after Prime Minis- already has bilateral trade the Parliament security
ised as a Money Bill to “extend executive control ndia and Russia have ter Narendra Modi’s visit to of $240 billion, which is breach last year on the an-
over these institutions (tribunals) by altering the
composition of the selection committees and vast-
ly downgrading the qualifications and experience
I doubled their pay-
ments in national cur-
rencies (rupee-rouble)
Moscow last week, econo-
mists and Indian business-
men working in Russia
more evenly balanced. At
present, even Indian com-
panies are being forced to
niversary of the 2001 ter-
ror attack.
The police filed the
required to staff these bodies”. since last year despite hope, warning that in the consider payments in the chargesheet before Addi-
The question of passage of laws after dressing sanctions by the U.S. and absence of the Indian ru- Chinese yuan, they say. tional Sessions Judge Har-
them up as Money Bills had come up in the Aad- European Union, says Rus- pee, Chinese businesses “I think sanctions have deep Kaur after obtaining
haar case too. However, the top court had, in a sia’s state-controlled and and the yuan would conti- created new opportuni- the requisite sanctions to
majority verdict in 2021, refused to review its 2018 largest bank, Sberbank, nue to benefit from the ties, and China has gained prosecute all the accused
judgment (K. Puttaswamy case) upholding the va- that handles a majority of “vacuum” created by the a lot compared to India. Of under the stringent Unlaw-
lidity of the Aadhaar Act and its certification as a payments for Indian ex- exit of Western companies. course, the Indian govern- ful Activates (Prevention)
Money Bill. ports to Russi. Rupee de- “We are witnessing an Boost to trade: Sberbank says it is witnessing an increase in trust ment has been very posi- Act (UAPA).
Justice Chandrachud (as he was then) had deli- posits by Indian corporates increase in trust towards towards the Indian rupee from its clients. REUTERS tive about [trade with Rus- The judge noted the
vered a dissenting opinion on the Review Bench have also increased multi- the rupee from our clients. sia], but somehow it has submission and listed the
in 2021. fold in 2024. Today, not only have ru- $100 billion trade target by rance and logistics are not been achieved on the matter for arguments on
The two questions before the Review Bench According to figures pee-denominated current 2030 set by Mr. Modi and among the most important same scale as China,” ex- cognisance for August 2.
had been whether the Lok Sabha Speaker’s deci- shared by Sberbank, in Ja- accounts become a reality, Russian President Vladimir areas to focus on,” she ad- plained Sukrit Sharan, a St. The court also extended
sion to declare the proposed Aadhaar law as a Mo- nuary-June 2024, the vol- but also rupee deposits, Putin during talks. ded, listing auto and avia- Petersburg-based board the judicial custody of all
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ney Bill was “final”. ume of payments pro- which businesses are “Prime Minister Modi’s tion components, chemi- member of a joint venture accused persons till the
The second, whether the Aadhaar (Targeted cessed doubled from the showing great interest in. journey to Moscow was ve- cals, microelectronics, between International In- same date.
Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Bene- January-June 2023 Since the beginning of the ry important because it consumer electronics, ma- stitute for Advanced Aeros- Special Public Prosecu-
fits and Services) Act, 2016 was correctly certified amount, and the number year, the volume of corpo- was the first visit at a time chinery, medical devices pace Technologies (IIAAT) tor Akhand Pratap Singh
as a ‘Money Bill’ under Article 110(1) of the of transactions Sberbank rate deposits in rupees has when economic coopera- and agricultural products and Indian firm Millenni- apprised the court that cer-
Constitution. handled increased by 80% increased sixfold,” a Sber- tion between the two as sectors in which Indian um Aerodynamics that tain forensic reports are
Justice Chandrachud, in his dissent, had said in the first half of 2024. bank spokesperson told countries has come to a companies should consid- produces “hybrid aero- awaited, and will be sub-
the Review Bench ought to wait till the seven- While Sberbank has op- The Hindu in response to qualitatively new level,” er exporting to Russia. boats”. “Indian businesses mitted very soon.
judge Bench decided the larger questions on the erated branches in India queries about potential said Lydia Kulik, Head of According to a growing should come and venture Earlier on June 7, the
Money Bill in the Rojer Mathew reference. But the since 2010, sanctions were growth areas, adding that India Studies at the SKOL- number of Indian busi- into the market, they police filed a chargesheet
majority, led by Justice (retired) A.M. Khanwilkar, imposed by the U.S. in the the rupee is now “easily KOVO Institute for Emerg- nessmen now based in should fill up the Russian against all six arrested per-
had disagreed with him. immediate aftermath of convertible” in Russia, and ing Market Studies, at Mos- Russia, the government market with Indian pro- sons: Manoranjan D., Lalit
Russia’s invasion of Uk- that Sberbank hopes to cow School of must move quickly as Chi- ducts for which there is a Jha, Amol Shinde, Mahesh
raine in February 2022, serve as a “Sherpa” for Management. “Secure pay- na has taken more advan- vacuum in the region,” he Kumawat, Sagar Sharma,
and then by the European more businesses given the ment mechanisms, insu- tage of the sanctions to fill said. and Neelam Azad.
Probe under way to find
motive behind attack
The tip sparked a frantic search but officers were
Two stealth frigates being built in Vikram Misri takes
unable to find him before he managed to get on a
roof, where he opened fire.
Russia set to be delivered soon over as India’s 35th
Biden’s address
“I urge everyone — everyone, please, don’t make
Foreign Secretary
assumptions about his motives or his affiliations,” Dinakar Peri soboronexport of Russia
President Joe Biden said in remarks on Sunday NEW DELHI for material, design and Kallol Bhattacherjee
from the White House. specialist assistance to lo- NEW DELHI
“Let the FBI do their job, and their partner After a series of delays, two cally manufacture the two
agencies do their job. I’ve instructed that this in- stealth frigates under con- frigates, and in January Vikram Misri, a 1989-batch
vestigation be thorough and swift.” struction in Russia for the 2019, the contract was officer of the Indian Fo-
The FBI said it believes Crooks, who had bomb- Indian Navy are set to be signed between the Indian reign Service, took charge
making materials in the car he drove to the rally, delivered from September. Defence Ministry and the as the 35th Foreign Secre-
acted alone. Construction and deliver- GSL. All the ships are po- tary on Monday.
Investigators have found no threatening com- ies were delayed due to wered by engines from Zo- Mr. Misri, who served as
ments on social media accounts or ideological po- COVID-19, the war in Uk- rya-Mashproekt of a Deputy National Security
sitions that could help explain what led him to tar- raine and Western Ukraine. Adviser before the current Vikram Misri
get Mr. Trump before the Secret Service rushed sanctions. assignment, served in Chi-
the presumptive Republican presidential nomi- “First ship Tushil is rea- Schedule to be followed na during the 2020 Galwan In the current circum-
nee off the stage, his face smeared with blood. dy for acceptance by the As per schedule, the GSL is conflict and is also known stances, Mr. Misri will be
Mr. Trump said on social media the upper part Indian Navy and is sche- scheduled to deliver the to have extensive contacts expected to provide policy
of his right ear was pierced in the shooting, but duled to be delivered by first ship in 2026 and the in conflict-torn Myanmar directives to the Govern-
advisers said he was in “great spirits” ahead of his September. The commis- second one six months la- where he served as India’s ment of India in dealing
arrival on Sunday in Milwaukee for the Republi- sioning crew reached Rus- ter. “Construction at GSL is Ambassador from 2016 to with the dynamics generat-
can National Convention. sia earlier this month,” a progressing and the launch 2018. He has taken over ed by the Israel-Palestine
Two spectators were critically injured, while a defence official in the of the first ship would take from Vinay Mohan Kwatra. crisis, the continuing war
former fire chief from the area, Corey Compera- know said. “The second place in the next couple of The 1964-born diplomat in Ukraine and the upcom-
tore was killed. ship Tamal is expected to months,” a defence source has served in multiple In- ing U.S. election.
At the Republican Party convention that began be delivered by February said. The basic structures dian missions in locations “Congratulate Foreign
in Milwaukee on Monday, Mr. Trump will an- 2025.” of two frigates in Russia such as Brussels, Tunis, Is- Secretary Vikram Misri as
nounce his choice for a running mate, having cit- Naval advances: The basic structures of two frigates in Russia were were lying at the Yantar lamabad, Washington DC, he assumes his new res-
ed as frontrunners Ohio U.S. Senator J.D. Vance, Agreement for frigates lying at the Yantar shipyard in Russia. PIB shipyard in Russia which Munich and the Sri Lankan ponsibility today. Wish
Florida U.S. Senator Marco Rubio and North Da- In October 2016, India and are now being finished. capital Colombo where he him a productive and suc-
kota Governor Doug Burgum. Russia signed an inter-go- two to be manufactured by the two frigates under di- The Indian Navy already was Deputy High Commis- cessful tenure,” External
“This is a chance to bring the whole country, vernmental agreement for Goa Shipyard Ltd. (GSL). rect purchase. In Novem- operates six of these fri- sioner of India. He served Affairs Minister S. Jaishan-
even the whole world, together. The speech will the four stealth frigates, A $1-billion deal was ber 2018, the GSL signed a gates weighing around as Indian envoy to Spain in kar said in a social media
be a lot different, a lot different than it would have two directly imported and subsequently signed for $500-million deal with Ro- 4,000 tonnes each. 2014. post.
been two days ago,” Mr. Trump told the Washing-
ton Examiner, about the Republican Party
convention.
President Biden, too, in a televised address
from the White House on Sunday, said: “There is
no place in America for this kind of violence, for
BJP protests in Karnataka Priests in Uttarakhand
House over ‘irregularities’ miffed over construction of
any violence ever. Period. No exceptions. We can’t
allow this violence to be normalised.”
He said: “The political rhetoric in this country
in Valmiki Corporation
Trade deficit widens 9.4%, The Hindu Bureau access to the kitchen in the Ishita Mishra confusion among devo-
imports outpace exports BENGALURU residence of No. 1 in the go-
vernment. He also flew in a
NEW DELHI tees,” Mr. Sati said, adding
that priests across the four
The alleged financial irreg- private aircraft along with The Bharatiya Janata Party temples in the State were
However, this marked an improvement in the oil ularities in the Karnataka No. 2 in the government. (BJP) government in Utta- protesting, and they would
deficit which peaked at $13.2 billion in May, Quan- Maharshi Valmiki Sche- The then Minister gave oral rakhand is caught in the take their agitation to the
tEco Research economists said in a research note. duled Tribes Development instructions at a hotel in eye of a political storm as State capital if the temple
Another 10 of India’s top 30 export items Corporation Ltd. echoed in Bengaluru,” said BJP MLC the priest community in project in Delhi was not
clocked a decline in shipment values, including the Legislative Assembly C.T. Ravi. the State, which is also shelved.
the labour-intensive sectors of handicrafts and Council on the first day known as ‘Devbhoomi’ “Jyotirling ka sthaan ek
(-16.6%), jute (-11.1%), marine products (-7.7%) of the Monsoon session, ‘Acted immediately’ (land of the gods), is up in hee hai... mandir anek
leather (-2.2%) and gems and jewellery (-1.4%). and the BJP also held a Ministers Dinesh Gundu arms against the construc- Devotees during pilgrimage to sthaano par bane hai (a
protest outside the BJP State chief B.Y. Vijayendra Rao and Priyank Kharge tion of a temple in Delhi the Kedarnath temple. Jyotirlinga cannot be repli-
Gold imports legislature. protesting against the alleged took objection and accused symbolically in the name cated ... temples can be
On the imports front, the value of gold shipped in In the Assembly, Leader scam in Bengaluru on Monday. Mr. Ravi of making politi- of the Kedarnath temple, Brijesh Sati, the spokes- built at other place),” Mr.
fell 38.7% year-on-year to $3.06 billion, but silver of the Opposition R. Ashok SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT cally motivated statements the foundation stone of person of the Uttarakhand Dhami said in a statement
imports jumped 377.4% to $210.7 million. Electron- pointed fingers at the Fi- while Home Minister G. Pa- which was laid by Chief Mi- Char Dham Teerth Purohit on Monday.
ics goods imports rose 16% to $7.6 billion, while nance Department, which employees and others. rameshwara said that the nister Pushkar Singh Dha- Maha Panchayat, told The Ajayendra Ajay, presi-
pulses imports were up 69.1%. For the first quar- comes under Chief Minis- The funds meant for the government had acted im- mi last week. Hindu that the priest com- dent of the Badri-Kedar
ter, the merchandise trade deficit has expanded to ter Siddaramaiah, for fail- welfare of the oppressed mediately on the allegation At a time when the State munity is angry that the Temple Committee, said
$62.3 billion from $56.2 billion a year ago. ing to prevent irregularities and poor ST communities by forming a SIT and taking is gearing for an Assembly name of Kedarnath is being that legal advice was being
ICRA chief economist Aditi Nayar said this is in the corporation and de- has been siphoned off for the Minister’s resignation. byelection in Kedarnath, misused for monetary sought. He also said that
likely to push up India’s current account deficit to manded a CBI probe. spending on the Lok Sabha Earlier, the ruling party the ire of the priests, who gains. “We don’t have a action would be taken
about 1.4% of GDP from 1% in the same quarter a “The irregularities in- polls,” he charged. opposed allowing the ad- are at the heart of the problem in making Shiva against those who “mis-
year ago, marking a turnaround of the transient volve an organised net- “The kingpin is the busi- journment motion as the is- State’s religious tourism temples. But they cannot used” the name or photo
0.6% of GDP surplus recorded between January work that includes politi- ness partner of a former sue was being investigated economy, may prove costly replicate Kedarnath. If this of the Badrinath and Ke-
and March 2024. cians, officials, bank Minister. The kingpin had currently. for the BJP. is allowed, it will create darnath temples.
CM M ND-NDE
YK
THE HINDU
Tuesday, July 16, 2024 13
Delhi
News
AAP is misleading
people: jail officials decision on Money Bills
Party says it hopes for a final verdict before CJI’s retirement; citing Aadhaar Act as an example, it
The Hindu Bureau
NEW DELHI says many Bills have been bulldozed through Parliament by having them declared Money Bills
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She also alleged that the 63.5 kg and then on July 14, and Manoj Misra was Bills have been bulldozed “The verdict of the CJI legislation which can be in-
BJP had endangered Mr.
Kejriwal’s life.
his weight was 61.5 kg, the
jail authorities said.
urged by senior advocate
Kapil Sibal, who also heads
through Parliament by hav-
ing them declared ‘Money
today to set up a separate
Constitutional Bench to
troduced only in the Lok
Sabha, and the Rajya Sab-
violence against PM’ remark
They alleged that if he the Supreme Court Bar As- Bills’ under Article 110 of hear pleas on the gross ha cannot amend or reject The Congress on Monday slammed the BJP for its
Report from prison had lost any weight, it was sociation, that the plead- the Constitution. A good misuse of Article 110 since it. The Upper House can allegation that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi
In a report sent to the a deliberate move as he ings are complete and the example of this is the Aad- 2014 is a welcome step. make recommendations encouraged violence against Prime Minister
Home Department of the regularly returned por- petitions needed to be list- har Act of 2016.” Hopefully a final and defin- which may or may not be Narendra Modi, saying “cheap politics” should
Delhi government, the Ti- tions of meals despite re- ed for hearing. “I will take “I had challenged its de- itive pronouncement will accepted by the Lower not be played on the issue of security of leaders.
har Jail administration ceiving home-cooked food. the call when I form the claration as a Money Bill in come before he retires in House. Hitting back at the BJP, Congress leader Pawan
Khera said, “Cheap politics should not be played
on the issue of security of leaders. The Congress
party lost Mahatmaji to right-wing terrorists. We
Remark on Raj
Bhavan not
Officials loyal to Opposition parties Days after
taking charge,
lost two Prime Ministers at the hands of
terrorists. We lost our entire Chhattisgarh
leadership to left-wing terrorists, under the
News Delhi
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Maoist leader
becomes ICAR to release 323 new NEET-UG row:
top court
Ph.D. scholar
in Bengal varieties of 56 crops today issues notice
on NTA plea
The Hindu Bureau Council to launch ‘one scientist, one product’ programme for its 5,500 scientists to come up with a The Hindu Bureau
KOLKATA NEW DELHI
product, technology, model or publication every year; plan afoot for 100 seed varieties in 100 days
Arnab Dam, a convicted The Supreme Court on
Maoist, is set to take admis- The Hindu Bureau Monday sought responses
Amit Shah assures Assam, sion at the University of
Burdwan in West Bengal as
NEW DELHI from student-petitioners to
a request made by the Na-
Gujarat and U.P. of flood aid a Ph.D. scholar in the De- he Indian Council tional Testing Agency
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same,” department head climate-resilient varieties of the Chief Justice and Jus-
Gorakhpur-bound train Syed Tanveer Nasreen told
The Hindu. She said anybo-
and 27
varieties.
bio-fortified tion. At the beginning of
every year, the scientist or
lop 100 new seed varieties
and 100 farm technologies
mha), pearl millet (1.5
mha), lentil (0.5 mha) and
tices J.B. Pardiwala and Ma-
noj Misra are hearing over
catches fire near Mumbai dy who had “deviated from The “one scientist, one a group of scientists will in 100 days as part of the mustard (1 mha) during 40 separate petitions seek-
society and wants to get product” programme will have to identify the pro- Centre’s 100-day action 2023-24. “Deployment of ing various reliefs from
Brake binding caused a small fire around the back should be given an be inaugurated by Union duct, and the ICAR will plan. He said the council climate-resilient technolo- fresh NEET to abolishment
wheels of a coach of the Lokmanya Tilak opportunity”. Agriculture Minister Shiv- map the work. “We will would request Prime Mi- gies led to enhanced pro- of the NTA. The Supreme
Terminus-Gorakhpur Express in Thane district, Dam, 46, is serving a life raj Singh Chouhan. monitor it at the institute nister Narendra Modi’s duction even during the Court is scheduled to hear
neighbouring Mumbai, on Monday morning, sentence for his involve- level every three months time to launch these pro- abnormal years,” the ICAR the NEET case on Thurs-
railway officials said. The blaze was doused ment in the 2010 attack on Five-year plan and at the headquarters le- grammes by said. day.
immediately and all passengers are safe, an an Eastern Frontier Rifles Explaining the pro- vel every six months. This mid-September. It said that from 2014-15 The primary question
official said. The Gorakhpur-bound train was camp at Silda in Jhargram gramme, ICAR Director- is a long plan,” he said. The to 2023-24, a total of 2,593 before the Supreme Court
detained near Thakurli station (in Thane) due to district. Twenty-four sol- General Himanshu Pathak scheme will work for five Production boost high-yielding varieties is whether or not to order a
the brakes on the S-8 coach binding up at around diers were killed in the am- told presspersons here on years. The ICAR said in a release were released. re-test. The court has indi-
6.30 a.m., a Central Railway (CR) spokesperson bush. Monday that the ICAR had “This year, we are prior- that with the help of breed- These include 2,177 cli- cated that its first priority
said. The train continued its journey in 20 An IIT-Kharagpur alum- given a target to all 5,521 itising seed hubs for high- er seeds, about 16 million mate-resilient (83% of to- is to examine whether the
minutes after the blaze was doused with two fire nus, Dam completed his scientists under the institu- yielding oilseeds and puls- hectares (mha) are under tal) varieties with biotic wrongdoers among the
extinguishers, he added. When brakes bind, they undergraduate and post- tion to come up with a pro- es varieties,” he said. bio-fortified varieties of dif- and abiotic stress resis- candidates could be segre-
obstruct the wheels, producing heat that causes graduate degrees from a duct, technology, model, Dr. Pathak said the ICAR ferent crops, including tance, and 150 bio-fortified gated from the innocent
smoke and may lead to fire. PTI correctional home. concept or good publica- was also working to deve- wheat (13 mha), rice (0.5 crop varieties. students.
CJI agrees
to consider
Panel reprimands Odisha govt. for Pune police book parents
listing plea by building violation in forest land of controversial IAS officer
Vodafone-Idea
Jacob Koshy status of work and efforts
in a land dispute case
The Hindu Bureau NEW DELHI made by officers in the
NEW DELHI State government to stop The Hindu Bureau Ms. Manorama came to the
The Forest Advisory Com- the work; details of the PUNE fore after allegations were
Chief Justice of India D.Y. mittee (FAC) of the Union authority/agency issuing raised that Ms. Puja had
Chandrachud on Monday Environment Ministry has work order for construc- The Pune Police have regis- faked disability and OBC
agreed to consider listing a reprimanded the Odisha tion of boundary wall; and tered a first information re- status for the IAS recruit-
plea by Vodafone-Idea to government for building the entity bearing the ex- port against the mother of ment, and had been de-
correct alleged errors in walls, without approval, in penditure incurred on the the controversial IAS pro- manding perks not given to
the computation of adjust- forest land that will be part said alleged construction. bationer Puja Khedkar in a trainee officers. Earlier,
ed gross revenue (AGR) of the proposed Shree Ja- Following this, the com- land dispute case after a vi- when farmers tried to
dues. gannath International Air- mittee said it would take a deo showed her allegedly lodge a complaint over Ms.
Senior advocate Harish port in Puri. The commit- decision on according for- threatening a farmer with a Manorama’s behaviour,
Salve, appearing for the te- tee has also asked the est clearance to the pro- gun over a land dispute. the police had refused to
lecom service provider State’s Wildlife Warden to The government was pulled up for building walls in forest land that ject. The Puri airport is The officer’s father, Dilip file a complaint. However,
(TSP), orally mentioned evaluate the impact of the will be part of the proposed airport in Puri. REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE likely to use 27.887 hec- Khedkar, and five others The police put a notice outside with Ms. Puja (currently
the plea before the Chief proposed airport on the tares of forest land, and the have also been charged un- Puja’s residence on Sunday. PTI undergoing training in
Justice. A curative petition breeding of Olive Ridley est land for their activities. FAC and the Union Envi- project will involve the fell- der Sections of the Bharati- Washim district) under the
against the dismissal of turtles, which are routinely The committee may or ronment Ministry. ing of 13,504 trees in the ya (Second) Nyay Sanhita family’s residence on Sun- scanner, the Pune Rural
earlier pleas seeking cor- found in the vicinity of the may not approve a project In its meeting on June forest. at the Paud police station. day and Monday. “We have police have finally swung
rection of alleged errors in coast. and can give an approval 24, the FAC has asked the The Airports Authority Among the charges is dis- not been able to enter the into action.
AGR-related dues is yet to The FAC, under provi- for forest land to be divert- government to furnish the of India identified the site honest or fraudulent remo- premises. Manorama It has also been alleged
be listed before a Bench, sions of the Van (Sanraksh- ed, after imposing certain names of the “erring offic- in 2021. The Ministry of Ci- val or concealment of pro- Khedkar’s mobile phone is that Mr. Dilip, who contest-
the TSP said. an Evam Samvardhan) Ad- conditions. In this case, sa- ers” responsible for allow- vil Aviation issued the site perty under Section 323 of also switched off. We plan ed the Ahmednagar Lok
In July 2021, the court hiniyam, 1980, the tellite pictures showed that ing or not stopping the un- clearance certificate in the Act. to set up an inquiry and Sabha seat this year as a
had said what TSPs really legislation that protects the agency tasked with the authorised construction; a September 2023. The total Ms. Manorama is facing take legal action against candidate of the Prakash
wanted, under the guise of forests from wanton raz- project — it is not clear detailed violation report projected cost of the air- a case under the Arms Act her once she is found,” a Ambedkar-led Vanchit Ba-
correcting “arithmetical ing, is an expert committee which agency — had alrea- indicating the date and port is ₹2,023 crore, and it as well. Authorities said police official from the hujan Aghadi, amassed
errors”, was a recalcula- that evaluates industrial dy built a wall without time of the commence- is expected to built by a pu- she was “untraceable” des- Paud station said. property worth crores of
tion of their AGR. projects which require for- waiting for approval by the ment of construction; the blic-private consortium. pite the police visiting the The complaint against rupees.
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to 38.8% as onion prices almost double; price gains in the crude oil and natural gas category hit a nine-month high of 12.5% Gold dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd 75,150 dddddddddddddddddddddd -0.26
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Vikas Dhoot than fourfold the 0.6% and natural gas prices, the
NEW DELHI pace recorded in May. highest in nine months, NIFTY 50
were also a major cause for PRICE CHANGE
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nflation in wholesale Manufactured products concern over upward pres- Adani Enter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 3090.40. . . . . . . . . . 24.95
Adani Ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1495.05. . . . . . . . . . . . 8.35
prices accelerated to a By contrast, manufactured sure on input costs. Apollo Hosp. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 6437.25. . . . . . . . . . 83.35
16-month high of 3.4% product prices rose 0.14% Asian Paints. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 2956.50. . . . . . . . -42.65
Axis Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1307.45. . . . . . . . . . -9.85
Bank of Maharashtra Q1 net in June, from May’s 2.6%,
led by a spike in food infla-
sequentially, the slowest in
four months, while fuel
‘Indian basket’
“The average price of the
Bajaj Auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 9673.35. . . . . . . . 242.60
Bajaj Finserv . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1602.20. . . . . . . . . . . . 4.95
profit surges 47% to ₹1,293 cr. tion to a 22-month high of and power prices re- Indian basket of crude oil Bajaj Finance . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 7063.75. . . . . . . . . . 59.45
Bharti Airtel . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1437.60. . . . . . . . . . . . 4.35
8.7% and a near-doubling mained in sequential defla- has been quite volatile in BPCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 307.75. . . . . . . . . . . . 3.20
Bank of Maharashtra reported first quarter net in manufactured products’ tion for a fourth straight July so far, on the back of Britannia Ind . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 5809.70. . . . . . . . . . 22.65
Cipla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1517.20. . . . . . . . . . . . 5.15
profit rose 46.64% to ₹1,293 crore from ₹882 price gains to 1.43%. month. supply-demand mismatch- Coal India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 497.75. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.55
crore in the year-earlier period. Operating profit Inflation in wholesale On a tear: Inflation in wholesale vegetable prices surged to a The rise in the Whole- es, witnessing a month-on- Divis Lab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 4575.40. . . . . . . . . . 36.10
for the period ended June 30, 2024 improved to vegetable prices surged to 10-month high, with onion prices rising YoY by 93.4%. PTI sale Price Index suggests month rise (at $86.6 a bar- Dr Reddys Lab . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 6794.75. . . . . . . . . . 75.30
Eicher Motors . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 4881.35. . . . . . . . . . 20.65
₹2,294 crore as against ₹1,863 crore in the same a 10-month high of 38.8%, that retail prices may face rel up to July 11),” said Aditi Grasim Ind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 2803.75. . . . . . . . -40.00
period last year. Net interest income grew 19.63% from May’s 32.4% pace, (21.6%), paddy (12.1%), tion to 10.9%. further upward pressures. Nayar, chief economist at HCL Tech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1569.60. . . . . . . . . . . . 9.40
HDFC Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1622.10. . . . . . . . . . -0.60
YoY to ₹2,799 crore. Gross advances during the with onion and potato fruits (10.1%) and cereals On a month-on-month For producers beyond rating firm ICRA. “Higher HDFC Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 638.05. . . . . . . . . . . . 2.50
quarter grew 18.99% YoY to ₹2,09,031 crore, the prices rising year-on-year (9.3%) were other contrib- basis, wholesale prices food items, a five-month crude oil prices might ex- Hero MotoCorp . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 5606.35. . . . . . . . . . 59.45
Hindalco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 700.10. . . . . . . . . . . . 8.05
bank said in a filing. Total business grew by by 93.4% and 66.4%, utors to the wholesale in- rose 0.4%, with the Food peak of 9.6% inflation in ert an upward pressure to Hind Unilever . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 2620.30. . . . . . . . . . -1.95
13.43% to ₹4,76,447 crore. respectively. flation print that lifted Index rising 2.5%, the fas- minerals, and a 12.6% up- the headline WPI inflation ICICI Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1229.95. . . . . . . . . . -2.95
Inflation in pulses primary food articles infla- test since August and more tick in crude petroleum this month,” she added. IndusInd Bank. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1444.05. . . . . . . . . . . . 9.50
Infosys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1707.05. . . . . . . . . . -4.70
ITC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 463.40. . . . . . . . . . . . 4.35
JSW Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 931.70. . . . . . . . . . -2.70
Kotak Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1843.55. . . . . . . . . . 10.70
A.O. Smith to buy HUL’s water L&T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 3651.60. . . . . . . . . . . . 2.25
purifier business for ₹601 cr. RBI revises rules on ‘Uniform IGST Ashok Leyland bags LTIMindtree Ltd. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 5478.15. . . . . . . . -94.50
M&M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 2731.05. . . . . . . . . . 27.10
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Maruti Suzuki . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 12643.95. . . . . . . . . . 81.45
on Monday in the wake of the drugmaker on ing finance companies. Supreme Court judgment uniform 5% tax on imports built buses would be fully rear air suspension, among CURRENCY TT BUY TT SELL
Sunday hinting at an impending buyback. The “These master direc- on State Bank of India ver- of parts, components, test- compliant with the latest other significant features,” US Dollar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 83.39. . . . . . . . . . 83.71
Euro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 91.02. . . . . . . . . . 91.37
shares closed at ₹1,373.85 apiece on the BSE. In a tions have been prepared sus Rajesh Agarwal. ing equipment, tools and CMVR standards and fea- ALL added. British Pound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 108.25. . . . . . . . 108.67
filing, the pharmaceutical company had based on a comprehensive The RBI withdrew 36 ex- toolkits of aircraft, irres- ture an AIS 153 compliant Company officials said Japanese Yen (100) . . . . . . .. . . . . 52.81. . . . . . . . . . 53.01
Chinese Yuan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 11.48. . . . . . . . . . 11.53
announced that its board would meet on July 18 review of the earlier mas- isting circulars on the sub- pective of their HSN code body, the leading manufac- that the buses would be Swiss Franc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 93.33. . . . . . . . . . 93.69
to consider, among others, a proposal for ter directions, circular and ject following these revi- with the aim to reduce op- turer of commercial vehi- manufactured at ALL’s Singapore Dollar . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 62.15. . . . . . . . . . 62.40
Canadian Dollar . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 61.13. . . . . . . . . . 61.37
buyback of the fully paid-up equity shares of the emerging issues. These sions, to rationalise rules erational costs, resolve tax cles said in a statement. plants in Alwar and Ennore Malaysian Ringitt . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 17.85. . . . . . . . . . 17.93
company and the matters necessary and master directions are prin- and to reduce compliance credit issues, and attract “The buses would have and deliveries would com- Australian Dollar . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 56.57. . . . . . . . . . 56.79
incidental thereto. ciple-based and strengthen burden, the regulator said. investment. the proven iGEN6 BS VI mence from August 2024. Source:Indian Bank
brace for fleet doubling in 5-6 years’ day said it has received ₹2,000 crore through is- approval on June 14. ZEE informed in a filing.
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A Russian-American journalist who has accused the Russian Army of At least 35 people were killed and 230 injured on Monday after The Kenyan police said on Monday they arrested a suspected serial The embassy of Azerbaijan in Tehran resumed its work on Monday
carrying out crimes in Ukraine was sentenced in absentia to eight heavy rain in eastern Afghanistan. “On Monday evening, rain caused killer named Collins Jumaisi Khalusha who confessed to murdering after more than a year of talks to ease tensions. Relations between
years jail by a Moscow court on Monday. Masha Gessen, a regular by thunderstorms killed 35 and injured 230 others in Jalalabad and 42 women including his wife before dumping their dismembered the nations, which have been tense for a long time, soured further
contributor to the New Yorker who now lives in the U.S., is an districts of Nangarhar,” an official said. The tragedy comes after bodies in a Nairobi rubbish tip. Since Friday, nine butchered bodies after a gunman in 2023 stormed Azerbaijan’s embassy in Iran’s
LGBTQ activist and long-time critic of President Vladimir Putin. AFP flash floods killed hundreds of people in the country in May. AFP trussed up in plastic bags have been pulled out. AFP capital, killing its security chief and wounding two guards. AP
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faith and hard work. He “America is not an idea popular candidate.
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was once an atheist but as Democrats say. Seven From being a strong
gradually moved towards generations of my family, critic of Mr. Trump, Mr.
Varghese K. George faith and in 2019, he be- from the Civil War to the Vance transformed himself
came a Catholic. 21st century are connected into an ardent supporter
J
.D. Vance appeared to this land. We are not just and moved to the centre
on the scene of Defining politics an idea, this is our home. stage of U.S. politics as a
American public life Speaking at a conservative That is the single principle highly visible lawmaker.
with his 2016 best-seller conference in Detroit, Mi- at stake in this election.” “When Donald Trump was
memoir, Hillbilly Elegy: A chigan, on June 16, he In an interview with President, there was peace
Memoir of a Family and called for defining politics Steve Bannon, a fellow tra- around the world. Now,
Culture in Crisis. President in terms of what it stands veller, during his Senate there is a conflict in every
Barack Obama cited it for, not merely what it campaign in 2022, he said: corner of the world,” he
while explaining the cultu- stands against. “We stand ‘I don’t really care what told the Detroit gathering. Pay off: The judge appointed by Donald Trump ruled that Special
ral and economic reasons for an American nation happens to Ukraine one Mr. Vance presents himself Counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed to his role. AP
that made the disruptive Rally cry: As a strong votary of America first politics, J.D. Vance is built by American people, way or another.’ as someone who is more
politics championed by preferred by the nationalist base of the Republican Party. AP American workers,” he As a strong votary of structured, coherent and Reuters case, which once posed se-
Donald Trump appealing said. “We have to see the America first politics Mr. methodical than his leader. WASHINGTON rious legal peril for Mr.
to the white working class. publican National Conven- America First politics. problem and find the solu- Vance is preferred by the Mr. Vance is married to Trump, into doubt. Mr.
Mr. Vance, then 32, was a tion in Milwaukee and Mr. Vance’s book por- tion. Make more of the nationalist base of the Re- Usha Chilukuri, his former A U.S. judge on Monday Smith is also prosecuting
strong critic of Mr. Trump, could even become the trayed the crisis of the stuff that we need in our publican Party. In a straw Yale Law School classmate. dismissed the criminal Mr. Trump in federal court
who he said was unfit to be running mate of Mr. white working class from own country. Twenty mil- poll at the Turning Point “Like Mr. Obama, he is also case accusing Donald in Washington over his at-
the President of the U.S. Trump. Whether Mr. his personal vantage point, lion people who have no convention in Detroit, 43% a writer and a story teller,” Trump of illegally holding tempts to overturn the
Two weeks shy of 40, Mr. Trump chooses him or and in the years that fol- business to be here, are preferred him as Vice Pre- a Democrat who served in onto classified documents, 2020 election, but his la-
Vance — now a U.S. Senator not, Mr. Vance has lowed, he presented him- here, because of Joe Biden. sident on Mr. Trump’s tick- the Obama administration dealing the former Presi- wyers have not made a si-
from Ohio — will be among emerged as a frontrunner self as someone who over- The solution is to deport et, which was three times said. “He’s a leader to dent another major legal milar challenge to the spe-
the star speakers at the Re- to inherit the former’s came that crisis through each one of them.” the support for the next watch.” victory as the Republican cial counsel in that case.
seeks a return to the White In the documents case,
House. Mr. Trump was indicted on
Florida-based U.S. Dis- charges that he willfully re-
Pakistan government Israel strikes Gaza from land, sea and air as trict Aileen Cannon, who
was nominated by Mr.
Trump, ruled that Special
tained sensitive national
security documents at his
Mar-a-Lago social club af-
to seek ban of ex-PM Hamas pulls out of ceasefire negotiations Counsel Jack Smith, who is
leading the prosecution,
was unlawfully appointed
ter leaving office and ob-
structed government ef-
forts to retrieve the
Imran’s PTI party Agence France-Presse
GAZA STRIP
ing and Apache helicopter
attacks in western areas of
to his role and did not have
the authority to bring the
material.
Mr. Trump’s lawyers
the southernmost city of case. challenged the legal auth-
Agence France-Presse seats — a move set to make Israel hammered the Gaza Rafah. It marked another ority for Attorney General
ISLAMABAD them the largest party in Strip from the air, sea and The Israeli military said blockbuster legal victory Merrick Garland’s 2022 de-
the National Assembly. land on Monday as the war in a statement that it was for Mr. Trump, following cision to appoint Mr. Smith
Pakistan’s government will Both cases were consi- in the Palestinian territory continuing its activity the July 1 U.S. Supreme to lead investigations into
seek to ban the political dered a major blow to the- showed no sign of abating, throughout the coastal ter- Court ruling that as a form- Mr. Trump. They argued
party of jailed former government of Prime Mi- with Hamas saying it was ritory. er President he enjoyed the appointment violated
Prime Minister Imran nister Shehbaz Sharif. pulling out of truce talks. It also said its naval forc- immunity from prosecu- the U.S. Constitution be-
Khan, the Information Mi- Information Minister At- Shells rained down on es had been firing at tar- tion for many of his actions cause his office was not
nister said on Monday, taullah Tarar told reporters the neighbourhoods of Tal gets in Gaza. in office. created by Congress and
days after twin court deci- the government would Al-Hawa, Sheikh Ajlin and The relentless bombard- Prosecutors are likely to he was not confirmed by
sions that favoured the now bring a case to ban Al-Sabra in Gaza City, while ments came as prospects appeal the ruling. Courts in the Senate.
former leader. PTI to the Supreme Court. eyewitnesses said the Is- Grim view: Displaced children play in a burnt-out vehicle in the city dwindled for a truce and other cases have repeated- Lawyers in Mr. Smith’s
Mr. Khan has been jailed “We will vigorously de- raeli Army had shelled the of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip on Monday. AFP hostage release deal being ly upheld the ability of the office disputed Mr.
for nearly a year, but last fend this case and spare no Al-Mughraqa area and the secured any time soon. U.S. Justice Department to Trump’s claims, arguing
week an Islamabad judge effort to contest it,” he northern outskirts of the said they had retrieved the the central Gaza Strip. Hamas, the Islamist appoint special counsels to there was a well-settled
overturned his illegal mar- said, citing allegations Nuseirat refugee camp in bodies of five persons, in- Meanwhile, eyewitness- group that Israel has been handle certain politically practice of using special
riage conviction while the against Mr. Khan including central Gaza. cluding three children, af- es reported Israeli gunship fighting in Gaza, said on sensitive investigations. counsels to manage politi-
Supreme Court awarded leaking state secrets and in- Paramedics from the ter Israeli air strikes in the fire east of Khan Younis, in Sunday it was withdrawing But Ms. Cannon’s ruling cally sensitive
PTI more parliamentary citing riots. Palestinian Red Crescent Al-Maghazi camp, also in southern Gaza, and shell- from ceasefire talks. throws the future of the investigations.
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You will be seeing me play Bhavtegh shoots skeet Anahat enters
quarterfinals
Gukesh finishes
silver in junior WC seventh; Caruana on
at least for a while: Rohit WORLD JUNIOR SQUASH
top at Superunited
Sports Bureau Sanjana Sood shot 114 for
Press Trust of India the 10th place and missed Sports Bureau
DALLAS (USA) Bhavtegh Singh Gill bagged the final by one point.. CHENNAI Press Trust of India $40,000 to his kitty and
the silver medal in skeet in Vanshika Tiwari (112) ZAGREB equalled the 27-points re-
India captain Rohit Shar- the junior shotgun World placed 13th in a field of 42 India’s Anahat Singh ad- cord set by Norwegian
ma said he will continue to Cup in Porpetto, Italy, on shooters. vanced to the World Junior D. Gukesh finished on se- World No. 1 Magnus Carl-
play Test and ODI cricket Monday. Going into the 60- squash championships venth spot, the best among sen in 2019. The second
The results: Trap: Men: 1.
“at least for a while” after shot final, Bhavtegh was on Riccardo Mirabile (Ita) 45 (121), 2. quarterfinals for the third Indians, while top-seeded place was shared by Alire-
ending his T20 Interna- par with the eventual gold Ramir Nikolaev (Ain) 40 (122), 3. straight year in Houston on Fabiano Caruana clinched za Firouzja and Maxime
tional career with a World medallist Benjamin Keller Eduard Salichs (Esp) 32 (119); 8. Sunday. The 16-year-old the Superunited Rapid and Vachier-Lagrave of France
Cup win last month. of USA, but eventually lost Arya Vansh Tyagi 119; 19. Shardul National women’s cham- Blitz with a dominant ef- and American Wesley So
Rohit has been on a by a four-point margin. Vihan 115; 34. Bakhtyaruddin pion, seeded 5/8, beat Ja- fort here. after all tallied 23 points
break since the title win in It was a commendable Malek 112; 57. Divyansh Singh pan’s Akari Midorikawa (9/ Gukesh logged 14 points apiece. Ian Nepomniacht-
the West Indies and is set fare as Bhavtegh pushed Thakur 108;62. Daksh Singh 106. 16) 11-6, 13-11, 11-2 in the in the event, while the oth- chi of Russia was a distant
to miss the limited-overs Jordan Sapp of the USA, Women: 1. Carey Jeana Garrison fourth round, and will take er Indian player in the fray fifth on 18.5 points ahead
tour of Sri Lanka later this who had shot a world re- 40 (114), 2. Sofia Gori (Ita) 39 on Egypt’s Nadien Elham- Vidit Gujrathi finished of American Levon Aro-
(113), 3. Sabeera Haris 29 (113); 7. mamy (3/4) next. Mean-
month, which includes cord 125 out of 125 in qual- ninth with 11 points. nian who scored 17.
Aashima Ahlawat 112; 28. Bhavya
three ODIs. Not done yet: Rohit feels he still has some years of cricket left in ification, to the bronze me- while, Shaurya Bawa (17/ It turned out to be a fine
Tripathi 102; 31. Divya Singh 100; Final results: 1. Fabiano
“I just said it. I don’t him. FILE PHOTO: K.R. DEEPAK dal. With Sabeera Haris 33. Rajkuwar Ingle 100. 32) moved to the boys’ sin- performance by Caruana
look that far ahead. So winning the junior wo- gles quarterfinals with a following his victory in the Caruana (USA, 27); 2-4. Alireza
Skeet: Men: 1. Benjamin Keller 11-9, 5-11, 11-5, 13-11 win over Firouzja, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
clearly, you will be seeing made clear after announc- confirmed that Rohit will men’s trap bronze earlier, Superbet Classic here. Ca-
(USA) 56 (124), 2. Bhavtegh Singh (both Fra), Wesley So (USA) all 23.
me play at least for a ing his T20 retirement af- captain India in the ongo- it was a healthy fare by In- Segundo Portabales (17/32) ruana scored a record 27
Gill 52 (121), 3. Jordan Sapp 5. Ian Nepomniachtchi (FID, 18.5);
while,” the 37-year-old said ter the final in the West ing World Test Champion- dia, to be third in the me- (USA) 44 (125 WR); 12. Harmehar
of Argentina. The Indian points in the tournament 6. Levon Aronian (USA, 17); 7. D
at an event here on Sun- Indies. ship cycle and the Cham- dals table behind USA and Singh Lally 119; 18. Jyotiraditya will meet Malaysia’s Low that had nine rounds in ra- Gukesh (Ind, 14); 8. Anish Giri
day. His statement was reit- Earlier this month, BCCI pions Trophy next year in Italy. Sisodiya 117; 26. Zorawar Singh Wa-Sern (17/32) in the last- pid and 18 in Blitz. The (Ned, 13.5); 9. Vidit Gujrathi (Ind,
eration of a position he secretary Jay Shah had February-March. In junior women’s skeet, Bedi 115; 33. Munek Battula 113. eight stage. American also added 11); 10. Ivan Saric (Cro, 10).
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Spain players always believed in Now is not the time to decide on Scaloni hails Argentina for a The delay to the final affected us,
me, says coach de la Fuente my England future: Southgate hat-trick of major triumphs says Colombia gaffer Lorenzo
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Spain coach Luis de la Fuente thanked his players for delivering a Gareth Southgate is leaving his future as England manager open for Argentina’s win over Colombia in the Copa America final on Sunday Colombia coach Nestor Lorenzo said his team had been impacted
record fourth European Championship, saying they always believed in now after his team’s loss to Spain in the Euro 2024 final. “I don’t meant that it became the first South American team to win three by the delayed start to the Copa America final. “We had a very good
him. de la Fuente replaced Luis Enrique, and many doubted if he had think now is a good time to make a decision like that. I’m going to straight major titles after the 2021 Copa America and 2022 World build-up to the game but then some unusual situations started to
the experience or quality to help end a decade-long trophy drought. "I talk to the right people,” Southgate told British broadcaster ITV after Cup). “I don’t know if it marks an era, but it’s true that this team happen,” he said referring to the 82-minute delay to the match
was sure my players believed in me... they have been infallible." the final. “It’s just not for now.” never ceases to surprise,” Scaloni said. caused by crowd and security problems at the stadium.
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Dominant force: Morata’s men remained unbeaten in their remarkable journey. GETTY IMAGES Champion mentality: Messi’s injury did not deter Argentina as it retained the title. AFP
hand Spain a record fourth tion, led by the brilliant Ya- to-back Euro finals. around the 2010 World ment-high fifth. offside. Nicolas Gonzalez,
EURO 2024 European Championship mal playing here a day after COPA AMERICA Cup. Making his 39th and who replaced Messi, was
The result (final): Spain 2
crown, and a third in the his 17th birthday, manage (Williams 47, Oyarzabal 86) bt Argentina also stopped possibly last Copa America stopped by Vargas in the
Agence France-Presse last five editions. to repeat the achievements England 1 (Palmer 73). Associated Press Colombia’s 28-game un- appearance at age 37, Mes- 95th minute.
BERLIN of that magnificent side re- MIAMI beaten streak dating to a si had one goal in the tour- Numerous players lost
Olmo’s vital clearance mains to be seen, but 쑽 February 2022 loss to the nament. He went down af- their footing during the se-
ubstitute Mikel Oyar- Spain then held on, alth- Spain’s was a fitting victory. Argentina won its second Albiceleste. ter an ankle was stepped
Euro final loss will hurt for a Di Maria realises dream, bids golden goodbye
long time: England’s Kane Agence France-Presse the final minutes of extra- which also hands the Ar-
MIAMI time, ensuring he received gentine a record 16th Copa,
Agence France-Presse 쑽 a huge farewell from the confirms Lionel Scaloni’s
BERLIN Top strikers, overall strikes Argentina winger Angel Di team’s fans which his eyes team’s place is among the
Georges Mikautadze (Geo), Jamal Maria said Sunday’s Copa showed he was moved by. greats of South American
England captain Harry Musiala (Ger), Cody Gakpo (Ned), America triumph over Co- football.
Kane said Sunday’s Euro Ivan Schranz (Svk), Harry Kane lombia was the perfect Beautiful feelings “It seems easy but it is
(Eng), and Dani Olmo (Esp)
2024 final loss to Spain, the ending to his career with “I have so many beautiful very difficult. I know be-
scored three goals each
Three Lions’ second-suc- There were 117 goals in the 2024 the national team. feelings... I am eternally cause I lived on the other
cessive defeat in the tour- edition at an average of 2.30 per The 36-year-old winger grateful to this generation. side too for ten, 11 years,
nament’s show-piece match had announced in Novem- They gave me everything, fighting for it,” said the
game, will “hurt for a long ber that he would retire they made me achieve Benfica winger.
time”. from international duty af- what I wanted so much.”
England lost the Euro “We’ve been coming ter the tournament. Di Maria, had been part 쑽
2020 final on penalties to Kane’s men could only walk past from behind all tourna- “I dreamt it, that’s why I of a generation with Lionel Argentina’s titles
Italy at Wembley. the Euro trophy. GETTY IMAGES ment, we’ve got it in the said it was the last Copa Messi which won the 1921, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1937,
Speaking with ITV, the locker. We didn’t take the America and it ended here. Olympics in 2008 but then 1941, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1955,
1957, 1959, 1991, 1993, 2021 and
England captain, who was “It’s hard to put into next step and win it,” Kane I dreamt that I would reach struggled for silverware,
2024
subbed off after 60 mi- words how we’re all feeling said. the final, I dreamt that I missing out in the final Two tournaments were held in
nutes, said the latest major right now... we did well to “The second half was would win it, that I would stages of tournaments to 1959. What began as the South
tournament heartbreak af- get back into the game and better and we got the goal. retire like this,” he said. the frustration of the American National teams
ter Spain’s late winner was struggled to build on that,” We got caught with a cross Argentina’s Guardian Angel: Di Maria turns emotional after Argentine coach Lionel nation. tournament was renamed Copa
“tough to take”. added Kane. and that’s the final.” playing his final game for the country. AFP Scaloni took Di Maria off in But the ‘Triple Crown’, America in 1975
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Gahlot 56.76; 800m freestyle: 1.
for the T20I series against Zimbabwe, honoured Roger Federer, and then Vansh Suhag 9:10.87, 2. Tanush Under-14: 100m freestyle: 1.
Rinku Singh with the ‘Fielder of the Series’ Rafael Nadal and Novak Jhanji 9:16.07, 3. Yuvraj Singh Saumya Sachdeva 1:07..50, 2.
9:35.71; 100 backstroke: 1. Seher Puri 1:13.30, 3. Noopur
award. The BCCI posted a video of the ceremony Djokovic, established a
Rehaan Sejwal 1:09.30, 2. Tanmay Pathak 1:15.68; 800m freestyle:
on X, with Subhadeep Ghosh announcing the two-decade long 1. Amiera Singhal 11:29.77, 2.
winner. Before the ceremony, he showed a video stranglehold. Sharma 1:10.60, 3. Yashank
Mahalwal 1:15.21; 200m Almas Arora 11:45.70, 3. Rubani
message from former fielding coach T. Dilip, who In comparison, the tran- New order: Alcaraz says that with him and Sinner winning the Slams, it is good for the game to have Chadha 12:43.88; 100m
breaststroke: 1. Bhagya Gahlot
emphasised the importance of fielding. sition to the era of Carlos fresh faces. GETTY IMAGES 2:32.98, 2. Dhruv Sejwal 2:35.54, backstroke: 1. Saumya
Alcaraz (21) and Jannik Sin- 3. Tanush Arora 2:51.57; 50m Sachdeva 1:17.81, 2. Seher Puri
ner (22) from the Big Three Djokovic in the Wimble- ner’s talent. It was always a Alcaraz].” butterfly: 1. Prateek Singh 26.48, 1:21.81, 3. Pearl Kaira 1:29.01;
has been wrinkle free. don final on Sunday, which question of their mental 2. Prakhyat Mohan 26.98, 3. Arnav 200m breaststroke: 1.
Roundglass Academy leads Djokovic had one of the ensured that all three make-up, the most crucial
This year may well be
one where Djokovic, a hab-
Tyagi 27.10; 400m medley: 1. Awesome 3:04.65, 2. Ishika
3:53.38, 3. Yashna Saini 4:05.17;
with nine points greatest years in tennis his-
tory in 2023, winning three
Slams in 2024 so far have
been won by Sinner (Aus-
aspect in winning big tour-
naments.
itual winner of all big priz-
Tanush Jhanji 5:05.78, 2. Dhruv
Sejwal 5:09.71, 3. Vansh Suhag 50m butterfly: 1. Awesome
es, turns the chaser. Alca- 5:12.09. 35.81, 2. Amiera Singhal 35.92, 3.
Roundglass Academy was on top of the table with Majors, reaching the final tralian Open) and Alcaraz But Sinner’s victory ov- raz believes Djokovic is still Navya Advani 36.52; 400m
Under-14: 100m freestyle: 1.
nine points from three matches in the Punjab of the other, claiming the (French Open and Wimble- er the Serb in the 2024 Aus- the “Superman”, but the medley: 1. Almas Arora 6:47.13,
Pranav Chhikara 59.88, 2. Vivaan
Junior Hockey League, after the third set of ATP Tour Finals and finish- don), has provided the tralian Open semifinal and 37-year-old knows he has a Singh 1:00.32, 3. Harshit Dalal 2. Pearl Kalra 7:08.10, 3. Deeva
matches at the Prithpal Singh Stadium in ing the season as World most definitive proof yet. Alcaraz’s in the last two tough task. 1:00.91; 800m freestyle: 1. Mittal 7:21.75.
Ludhiana. Surjit Academy was also unbeaten No.1 for a record eighth “Being with Jannik, win- Wimbledon finals have Harshit Dalal 9:53.36, 2. Rakshit Under-11: 100m freestyle: 1.
after three matches, but was in the second place time. ning Grand Slams... I think shown that they have the Bounce back Tokas 10:11.07, 3. Vishu Morya Ramyra Rajeeb 119.51, 2. Mayra
with seven points as it had won two of its Yet, there has been it is good for tennis to have mettle. 10:21.15; 100m backstroke: 1. Ssingh 1:22.01, 3. Sneh Morya
space for Alcaraz and Sin- new faces,” Alcaraz said, “Both of them are the “I’m going to work on Shaurya Sejwal 1:18.15, 2. 1:24.88; 400m freestyle: 1. 1.
matches in the shootout after the matches had
ner to provide sufficient after winning his fourth best this year by far,” Djo- it,” the 24-time Major Raunak Ssharma 1:18.83, 3. Vishu Mayra Singh 6:28.56, 2. Kiarah
ended in a tie.
evidence that they are the Major. kovic said. “I’m not at that champion said. Morya 1:19.15; 200m Agarwal 6:43.55, 3. Rithvi
breaststroke: 1. Veer Chawla Bhattacharya 6:44.71; 100m
chosen two. Instead of a “I’m really glad to have level. “It’s not something I ha-
2:49.85, 2. Rakshit Tokas 3:10.43, backstroke: 1. Mayra Singh
churn, what we have wit- him [Sinner]. We have a “To really have a chance ven’t experienced before. 3. Ranbir Sachdeva 3:12.98; 50m 1:36.36, 2. Sneh Morya 1:37.39, 3.
LIVE TELECAST nessed seem like confirma- really good rivalry and it is to beat these guys in Grand In the face of adversity, butterfly: 1. Aarush Rastogi Aayra Faruqui 1:38.48; 50m
쑽 tion hearings. great for the sport.” Slam later stages or Olym- normally I rise and I learn 30.58, 2. Shaurya Sejwal 31.88, 3. butterfly: 1. Veronika Kaila
TNPL: Star Sports 1 (SD & HD) & FanCode, 7.15 p.m. Alcaraz’s stunning There was never any pics, I’ll have to play much and get stronger. That’s Kanav Khurana 33.63; 400m 42.33, 2. Kiarah Agarwal 44.22, 3.
Cycling: Tour de France, Eurosport (SD & HD), 7.30 p.m. straight sets victory over doubting Alcaraz’s and Sin- better than I did [vs. what I’m going to do.” medley: 1. Veer Chawla 5:27.81, Aradhya Kadian 54.84.
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Vighnesh P. Venkitesh Germany is a lesson on how to take what But Spain’s obsession with passes and side, he knew what he had to do. And one THE GIST
is outdated and transform it to the possession grew with the years, but that year later, Spain seniors got its first
urope rests under its new requirements of time. obsession, like all obsessions, only led to silverware in 11 years in the form of UEFA
New identity
de la Fuente spread out the game from
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success in Germany is a lesson
on how to take what is
outdated and transform it to
reverberated with the vamos and viva were not physical enough for the style of chemistry between those it managed to midfield to the flanks, and with the arrival the requirements of time
chants. The dramatic German summer play most teams adopted then and find. And its exit from 2022 World Cup, of young guns Lamine Yamal and Nico
fairytale came to its worthy nail-biting decided to bring in short passes to the bowing out to Morocco in penalty Williams to set the wings on fire, Spanish 쑽
end with the winds of change, the winds game, something a certain Pep Guardiola shoot-out, after not managing to score football is getting a new identity. The gaffer spread out the game
of a Spanish second coming. was trying out with Barcelona club then. seemed like the end of the once-feared La Runner-up England — which had a from midfield to the flanks,
Football could not make it home The first era of Spanish supremacy Roja. bumpy ride to the final circumventing the and with the arrival of young
neither could any dark horse reign as the could also be called the era of Tiki Taka as The World Cup defeat paved the way odds, depending on individual brilliance guns Yamal and Williams to set
Spanish Armada bore the winds of chings its midfield bamboozled opposition out for manager Luis Enrique, who failed and last-minute stroke of luck — gave the the wings on fire, Spanish
behind its sails to recapture part of its players with quick short passes, to replicate his success with Barcelona champion an unexpected fight in the football got a new identity
empire that it ruled over till a decade ago. controlling possession, and moving the with the national team, and the lesser final.
And it made sure no question arose over ball around with ease. The short passes known de la Fuente took over. Though arguably better teams than
its authority. brought Spain its second national title and England stumbled on the way, the fact
Spain, under Luis de la Fuente, first since the 1964 Euro Cup in the form Familiar figure that England came close to a football
dominated the tournament in every sense of the 2008 Euro championship. The Though de la Fuente was new to the homecoming for back-to-back
of the word. team followed it up with the World Cup global limelight, he was well known to the tournaments could give its coach Gareth
From finishing first in the group of two years later and went on to Spanish players, many of whom played Southgate some legitimacy.
death — which had holder Italy and World successfully defend its continental title under him at junior levels. de la Fuente
Cup semifinalists Croatia — with all wins two years later. started his shifts with Spain national First act
and no goals conceded, through the teams in 2013 when he became the As the tournament became the first act
difficult path to the final facing Reality strikes manager of the under-19 outfit. for a handful of new stars with the likes of
world-class opponents in host Germany But then came the new reality. Being at And while their seniors went farther off Lamine Yamal, the young player of the
and former world champion France to the the receiving end of Tiki Taka for six years their game, de la Fuente led the tournament, Nico Williams and Arda
final against the talent-filled golden gave other teams enough time to decipher youngsters to glory in the European Guler, some goodbyes were inevitabe.
generation of England, Spain left no it and work out counter-measures. Spain championships in 2015. He became the With players like Cristiano Ronaldo,
stones unturned. did not see the need to keep updating its manager of the under-21 side in 2018 and Pepe and Luka Modric at their sunsets
While disappointments for Spain in the gameplay and crashed out of the 2014 brought home the European title for the and Toni Kroos calling it a day, the winds
last decade was a lesson on how tactics World Cup in the group stages, spelling category a year later. of change are whistling through the whole
become outdated, Spanish success in out the beginning of the end. When de la Fuente took over the senior of Europe.
Propellers: Yamal and Williams have been at the forefront of Spain’s revival under de la Fuente. GETTY IMAGES
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A rare spade-toothed whale after it was found
n June, S. Somanath, Chairman of
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washed ashore in the second week of July on a
the Indian Space Research
beach near Otago, New Zealand. AP
Organisation (ISRO) and Secretary
of the Department of Space, said
ISRO’s launch vehicle capability was
three-times the demand. Many experts in
the spaceflight sector and beyond
World’s rarest
interpreted this to mean the space launch
market was grim. Mr. Somanath also
suggested strong demand was needed for
whale may
launch vehicles from the domestic Indian
market.
India currently has four launch
have washed
vehicles: the Small Satellite Launch
Vehicle (SSLV), the Polar Satellite Launch
Vehicle (PSLV), the Geosynchronous
up on beach in
Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), and the
New Zealand
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Launch Vehicle Mark-III (LVM-3). These
rockets can launch satellites weighing up
to four tonnes to the geosynchronous
orbit. India also relies on foreign launch Associated Press
vehicles, like Europe’s Ariane V and
SpaceX’s Falcon 9, when a satellite weighs
more than four tonnes. The spade-toothed whales are the world’s
At present, the country operates a fleet rarest, with no live sightings ever
of satellites with applications in recorded. No one knows how many there
communications, remote sensing, are, what they eat, or even where they
positioning, navigation and timing (PNT), live in the vast expanse of the southern
meteorology, disaster management, Pacific Ocean. However, scientists in New
space-based internet, scientific missions, Zealand may have finally caught a break.
and experimental missions. It also needs The country’s conservation agency said
launch vehicles for space missions like Monday a creature that washed up on a
Chandrayaan 3 and Aditya L1. South Island beach this month is believed
All this makes it look like there are to be a spade-toothed whale. The
more applications and satellites than five-meter-long creature, a type of beaked
there are launch vehicles — which is the whale, was identified after it washed
opposite of what Mr. Somanath ashore on Otago Beach by its colour
mentioned. Where then is the issue? patterns and the shape of its skull, beak,
and teeth.
Demand-driven model An LVM-3 launch vehicle lifts off from ISRO’s Sriharikota spaceport carrying the Chandrayaan-3 mission to orbit. ISRO “We know very little, practically
The Indian space programme used to nothing about the creatures,” Hannah
follow a supply-driven model: ISRO station or the moon. There could in more sources of data (like satellites), Hendriks, Marine Technical Advisor for
would build and launch satellites and future be demand for space tourism as culminating in a demand for launch the Department of Conservation said.
then look for customers who needed the well. vehicles. The richer the ecosystem, the “This is going to lead to some amazing
services provided by the satellites. When There is now a chicken and egg greater the demand. science and world-first information.”
the Indian government reformed the Launch capability limitations problem. The customer of the services The Indian government wants the If the cetacean is confirmed to be the
space sector in 2019-2020, it changed this India’s launch vehicles are also not provided by the satellite needs to be private sector to create demand among elusive spade-toothed whale, it would be
to a demand-driven model. Here, a powerful enough to undertake certain educated. The customer will then customers and to build and launch the first specimen found in a state that
satellite needs to be built and launched missions, like Chandrayaan 4. China used create a demand for a service that will satellites. It wants them to look for would permit scientists to dissect it,
only if there is already demand for it. This its Long March 5 launch vehicle to launch need a satellite to be launched services to offer customers in India and allowing them to map the relationship of
may have led to the situation Mr. its Chang’e 4 and Chang’e 5 missions in a abroad. It also wants revenue by the whale to the few others of the species
Somanath mentioned. single launch. India’s LVM-3 has less than providing launch services of its own. found, learn what it eats, and perhaps
There is now a chicken and egg one-third of Long March 5’s capability ISRO can use the smaller satellites for Finally, the government wants to upskill lead to clues about where they live.
problem. The customer of the services (28% to be more precise) and will need technology and capability demonstration. workers and give them jobs. Only six other spade-toothed whales
provided by the satellite needs to be two LVM-3 launches to launch all the However, the latter will constitute only a However, private companies don’t have ever been pinpointed, and those
educated about the need for the service. components of Chandrayaan 4. small number of launches. want the government to be in the launch found intact on New Zealand’s North
The customer will then create a demand ISRO will be upgrading the LVM-3 with Satellites have a defined mission life. As business. Instead, they want the Island beaches had been buried before
for a service that will need a satellite to be a semi-cryogenic engine to boost its they get old, they will need to be replaced government to be their customer and to DNA testing could verify their
launched. This will provide the demand payload capacity to six tonnes to the with newer satellites. This will also create provide rule of law and reliable identification, Hendriks said, thwarting
Mr. Somanath is asking for. geostationary transfer orbit (GTO). The a demand for launch vehicles. However, regulations. any chance to study them.
Consider the example of the internet. organisation will also need a new launch mission operators like their satellites to This is because private players desire a This time, the beached whale was
There needs to be a demand for vehicle — already dubbed the Next live longer and have been improving their reliable source of revenue, which the
space-based internet in a country already Generation Launch Vehicle (NGLV), a.k.a. lifetimes with software and hardware Indian government can be over a long If the cetacean is confirmed to be
filled with affordable fibre and Project Soorya — to carry 10 tonnes to upgrades. This complicates estimates of period of time. There is thus talk of the the spade-toothed whale, it
mobile-based internet services, so a GTO. But it has only submitted a funding the number and frequency of launch government being an ‘anchor customer’ would be the first specimen
company will launch a constellation of proposal thus far for this project. Other vehicles that will be needed. helping companies in their early days. found in a state that would
satellites into orbit to provide that variants of this launch vehicle are Launch vehicles are improving as well. The roadmap here is for the
permit scientists to dissect it
service. expected to raise this vehicle’s lift In a single launch, the PSLV can deliver government to exit the launch vehicle
The question arises: Who will educate capacity. multiple satellites in multiple orbits. business at some point, leaving the
the customer, ISRO or the industry? India will also need one more Rocket stages are becoming reusable, companies with sufficient demand for quickly transported to cold storage, and
Without such educated customers, successful flight of the SSLV to be which reduces the cost of building the launch vehicles. This is similar to the researchers will work with local Maori iwi
demand at the scale ISRO expects will not confident about its ability to launch rocket and increases profitability. ISRO situation in the U.S., where arms of the (tribes) to plan how it will be examined,
be created. The customers here are not smaller satellites. Smaller satellites are has been building its Reusable Launch U.S. government award contracts to the conservation agency said.
only consumers of space-based internet. usually experimental and university-built. Vehicle and vertical landing technologies SpaceX, Blue Origin, etc. to execute New Zealand’s Indigenous people
These are other companies, government More success in this domain will to make reusable landing stages. It is also launches with their payloads. consider whales a taonga — a sacred
institutions, defence enterprises, and encourage space companies to build making an effort to replace toxic fuels for Thus, the Indian government will treasure — of cultural significance. In
ordinary people including farmers, larger satellites, eventually leading to a rocket engines with green alternatives. absorb the cost of the transition from April, Pacific Indigenous leaders signed a
bankers, etc. So the ‘amount’ of demand for launch vehicles. supply-driven to demand-driven building treaty recognising whales as “legal
education required is very great. Private sector vs government of satellites and launch vehicles. But it persons,” although such a declaration is
The other area from which demand is Launch vehicle economics Mr. Somanath himself provided a solution isn’t yet educating its own Ministries and not reflected in the laws of participating
likely to arise is human spaceflight. This All these launch vehicles will need for the problem he highlighted. He creating some of the anchor demand for nations.
includes human-rated launch vehicles satellites to launch. The heavier vehicles suggested we need an ecosystem that satellites and launch vehicles. Nothing is currently known about the
that carry humans and supplies into orbit can fulfil some national goals like lunar creates demand for various services, (Pradeep Mohandas is a technical writer whales’ habitat. The creatures deep-dive
and to destinations like an orbiting space exploration and a space station while leading to a demand for data, leading to and space enthusiast in Pune.) for food and likely surface so rarely that it
has been impossible to narrow their
location further than the southern Pacific
Ocean, home to some of the world’s
Please send in your answers to deepest ocean trenches, Hendriks said.
THE SCIENCE QUIZ science@thehindu.co.in “It’s very hard to do research on
marine mammals if you don’t see them at
sea,” she said. “It’s a bit of a needle in a
370 years since the ‘problem of points …’ haystack. You don’t know where to look.”
The conservation agency said the genetic
Y (from Q1) gave his name to a testing to confirm the whale’s
Vasudevan Mukunth for modern ___________ theory. Fill famous principle that states that a identification could take months.
in the blank with the name of a field ___ of _____ takes the path to travel It took “many years and a mammoth
X considered to be the mathematical between two points that takes the amount of effort by researchers and local
foundation for statistics. last time. Fill in the blanks. people” to identify the “incredibly
QUESTION 1 X Answers to July 9 quiz: cryptic” mammals, Kirsten Young, a
Two people are playing a game of QUESTION 3 1. Russell-Einstein manifesto was the senior lecturer at the University of Exeter
chance in rounds. They have equal Name the hypothesis (in Latin) founding charter for this conference – who has studied spade-toothed whales,
chances of winning each round. attributed to Aristotle and later Ans: Pugwash said in emailed remarks.
They also contribute equally to the supported by René Descartes, among 2. This person tried to have the first The fresh discovery “makes me
pot that the winner who wins n others, that X (from Q1) overturned conference hosted in India – Ans: wonder — how many are out in the deep
number of rounds will take. If the in experiments involving liquid Jawaharlal Nehru ocean and how do they live?” Young said.
game is stopped before the nth mercury and air pressure in 1647. 3. Only scientist who quit the
round, how should the pot be split? X Manhattan Project on moral grounds
In July 1654, two French QUESTION 4 – Ans: Joseph Rotblatt
mathematicians, X and Y, provided Y (from Q1) is very famous for a 4. One of two non-Nobel laureate
the first reasoned answer to this theorem he proposed but didn’t signatories to the manifesto – Ans:
‘problem of points’ question. Name prove. The British mathematician Leopold Infeld
X and Y. Andrew Wiles finally solved it in 1994 5. Sole woman at the first Pugwash
X with what has since been called the Conference – Ans: Ruth Adams For feedback and suggestions
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