18 July 2022

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Govt invokes ESMA; NIDA suspends stir

DIMAPUR, JUL 17 (NPN): A three-day strike from Monday to Wednesday (July 18 to 20) called by government doctors under Nagaland In-Service Doctors’ Association (NIDA), that could have led to confrontation with the government was averted when NIDA decided to keep its stir in abeyance even as the government had on July 17 (Sunday) invoked Section 3 (1) of the Nagaland Essential Services (Maintenance) Act, 1978 (ESMA).

Under Section 4 of Nagaland Essential Services (Maintenance) Act, 1978, any doctor going on cessation of work or strike would be punished on conviction with imprisonment for a term that might extend up to one year, or with fine that could extend up to Rs 1,000 or with both.

In the order, state

chief secretary J. Alam IAS also informed that the governor had been satisfied that the call given by NIDA for ceasing of work by doctors employed/deployed in government health units/ facilities from Monday would seriously impact the delivery of essential health services, thereby putting in grave jeopardy the life and well-being of the people of the State.

As per the order, no doctor employed/ deployed in any government health unit/facility should go for agitation or cessation of work and any such act would be considered illegal.

Such doctors against whom action was taken would also be liable to disciplinary action under the relevant service/conduct rules or contractual conditions as applicable.

Notwithstanding

India achieves historic 200cr vax milestone NEW DELHI, JUL 17 (IANS): India on Sunday reached the historic milestone of 200 crore mark in Covid-19 vaccination. The milestone has been achieved after 18 months when the nation began the mass vaccination on January 16, 2021.

According to the CoWin Portal, with a total 1.91 lakhs of vaccine being administered so far on Sunday, the number crossed the milestone mark of 200 crore. A total of 199.97 crore Covid vaccine doses were administered across the country until Saturday night, which includes 5.48 crore doses of the precaution dose.

The nation completed 200 crore mark again after nine months on July 17, 2022. It took 277 days to reach the earlier milestone of 100 crore doses. On September 17 last year, the highest 2.5 crore vaccine doses were administered in a single day.

Congratulating the nation on this historic mark, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said that India has made a new record.

“India has set a new record by completing the target of 200 crore vaccinations in just 18 months. Hearty congratulations to all the countrymen on this achievement”, said Mandaviya in a tweet. He said that this day is to be remembered forever.

Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director WHO South-East Asia, also congratulated India on administering 2 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses.

This is it!

“I see here, how Make In India is making us overtake China as number 1 in world population.”

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anything contained in CrPC, any police officer could arrest without warrant any such doctor, who was reasonably suspected of having committed the illegal act of ceasing work/going on strike under section 8 of the Nagaland Essential Services (Maintenance) Act, 1978, the order ruled.

NIDA has been demanding raising of superannuation from 60 to 62 for government in-service doctors and the decision to go on a 3-day strike was reportedly approved at a joint meeting with senior doctors from all districts and directorates on June 23.

The 3-day strike would have been followed by an indefinite strike in all government health centres and hospitals from July 21 if government failed to accede to NIDA’s demand.

NIDA stir under ‘suspended animation’ Nagaland In-Service Doctors Association (NIDA) Sunday night decided to suspend the proposed three-day agitation which was scheduled to be held form July 18-20.

“The Core Committee will keep the agitation in suspended animation and meet on July 18 to discuss further course of action,” a circular issued

by Core Committee coconvenor Dr. Kheshito Zhimo stated.

Dr. Zhimo said the committee also decided to suspend the agitation in view of the withdrawal of Tuensang, Noklak and Shamator NIDA units from the proposed agitation and also based on the request of the Health & Family Welfare minister to not disturb the Presidential Election slated to be held on July 18.

It may be mentioned that NIDA on July 11 announced a three-day agitation in the form of delivering only emergency services followed by total shutdown of all health centres through cease work for an indefinite period from July 21, if they failed to receive any positive response from the State government.

NIDA said it had written to principal secretary health & family welfare on April 26 and chief minister on June 10, with a request to review the cabinet decision on the superannuation issue. In the letter, NIDA expressed its opposition and inability to accept the decision of the cabinet to raise the superannuation age of all the doctors from 60 to 62 years, through “re-employment”.

ASU, NMDA support NIDA demand DIMAPUR, JUL 17 (NPN): Angami Students’ Union (ASU) and Nagaland Medicine Dealers’ Association (NMDA) have come out in support to Nagaland In-Service Doctors’ Association (NIDA) proposed threeday agitation programme scheduled from Monday over the issue of increasing superannuation age of government doctors.

ASU: Angami Students’ Union said it supported NIDA for outrightly rejecting the State government’s decision for re-employment of retired doctors for two years, insisting the service extension of doctors from 60 to 62 years and its agitation programme as a mark of

resentment. ASU in a press release implored the State government to concede to the genuine demands of NIDA vis-à-vis other States regarding enhancement of superannuation age of doctors.

It wondered and questioned why the government was still adamant on requisitioning the required doctors’ posts and failing to conduct timely examination, which was depriving the unemployed doctors.

According to ASU, acute shortage of doctors in government health institutions was adversely affecting public healthcare system, particularly affecting the poor and needy people. It also expressed concern over the

snail pace of development of the two proposed medical colleges, both in terms of infrastructure as well as outsourcing human resources and urged the government to expedite the projects on a war footing to make the dream of medical colleges in Nagaland a reality as assured in the recently-concluded session of Nagaland Legislative Assembly.

To mitigate the shortage of doctors and ensure timely commencement of the medical colleges, ASU cautioned that besides its support to the agitation, it could also come out against the State government if the genuine demands of NIDA were not met at the earliest.

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State logs 5 fresh Covid cases, 1 death DIMAPUR, JUL 17 (NPN): Nagaland on Sunday recorded five fresh Covid-19 positive cases, while one more patient succumbed to the viral infection. The five fresh cases were from Kohima, taking the total caseload to 35,603.

One patient ,in Mokokchung, succumbed to Covid-19, pushing the death toll to 764 (including 5 nonCovid deaths but with positivity). The State currently has 59 active cases out of which seven are admitted to Covid hospitals and 52 under home isolation.

According to the health bulletin report, one patient has been admitted to the ICU (with ventilator), two

in ICU without ventilator, two patients on oxygen with moderate symptoms, 30 with mild symptoms and 24 asymptomatic cases. The sample positivity rate as on July 17 stood at 15.63%.

Though Nagaland has been witnessing a steady rise in Covid-19 cases, health professionals were of the opinion that at-home tests go unreported to local health officials, so case counts are undercounted.

As on July 17, Kohima has 30 Covid cases (all under home isolation) and one patient admitted to Covid hospital. In Dimapur, out of 19 cases, 13 are under home isolation and six admitted to

Covid hospital. Peren has six active cases (all under home isolation) while Longleng, Mokokchung and Zunheboto have one case each under home isolation.

Violation of mask mandate: Even as the Dimapur district administration has notified wearing of face masks mandatory in public places and markets, many continue to flout the safety rules.

In an advisory, DC Dimapur Sachin Jaiswal also advised organizers of social, religious, sports, political and public gatherings etc. to observe Covid-19 appropriate behaviour-- wearing of face mask, sanitizing of hands, ensure social distancing etc.

India beat Eng by 5 wkts; win ODI series 2-1 SPORTS, PAGE 12

Margaret Alva is Oppn’s Presidential poll: MPs, pick for Vice President MLAs to vote today NEW DELHI, after the two-hour JUL 17 (PTI): Opmeeting. position parties on “Our collecSunday decided to tive thinking is field former RajasAlva will file VP than governor Marnomination on garet Alva as their Tuesday,” he addjoint candidate for ed. He said a total the Vice presidenof 17 parties have tial election. unanimously taken Margaret Alva Alva (80) the decision to field would file her nomination her and with the support of papers on Tuesday, July 19 Trinamool Congress and which is the last date for Aam Aadmi Party, she will filing nominations for the be the joint candidate of a August 6 election. total of 19 parties.

The NDA has fielded Among the attendees West Bengal Governor Jag- were Congress’ Mallikarjun deep Dhankar as its joint Kharge and Jairam Ramesh, candidate for the post of CPI(M) leader Sitaram YeVice President. The deci- chury, CPI’s D Raja and sion to field Alva was taken Binoy Viswam, Shiv Sena’s at a meeting of opposition Sanjay Raut, DMK’s T R leaders of 17 parties at the Baalu and Tiruchi Siva, residence of NCP supremo SP’s Ram Gopal Yadav, Sharad Pawar.

MDMK’s Vaiko and TRS’ “We have unanimously K Keshava Rao. The RJD’s decided to field Margaret A D Singh, IMUL’s E T MoAlva as our joint candidate hammed Basheer and Kerala for the post of Vice Presi- Congress (M)’s Jose K. Mani dent,” Pawar announced were also present.

Heavy rainfall expected over NE NEW DELHI, JUL 17 (AGENCIES): Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted heavy rainfall at isolated places over Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura, SubHimalayan West Bengal and other parts of the country.

IMD said that the depression over Northeast Arabian Sea off Saurashtra and Kutch coast is moving in the northwest direction away from India. IMD has also added that rainfall activity is likely to increase over the North Eastern states & Sub-Himalayan West Bengal from July 18 and northwest India from July 19 for the next 3-4 days.

NEW DELHI, JUL 17 (PTI): Nearly 4,800 elected MPs and MLAs will vote on Monday to elect the 15th President of India, with NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu having a clear edge over Opposition’s Yashwant Sinha as over 60 per cent votes are expected to be cast in her favour. The polling will take place in Parliament House and state legislative assemblies for which ballot boxes have already reached their destinations.

The counting of votes will take place at Parliament House on July 21 and the next President will take oath on July 25. With the support of regional parties such as BJD, YSRCP, BSP, AIADMK, TDP, JD(S), Shiromani Akali Dal, Shiv Sena and now JMM, Murmu’s vote share is likely to reach nearly two-thirds and she is set to become the first woman from the tribal community to occupy the top constitutional post. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) nominee now has over 6.67 lakh votes after the support of various regional parties, out of a total of 10,86,431 votes. The value of the vote of a member of Parliament has gone down to 700 from 708 in this presidential poll due to the absence of a legislative assembly in Jammu and Kashmir.

NPCC welcomes CCoNPI resolutions on Naga issue DIMAPUR, JUL 17 (NPN): Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has welcomed the resolutions adopted at the Parliamentary Committee on Naga Political Issue meeting on July 16 which “had finally given recognition” to the two official agreements between Government of India and Naga national workers – the Framework Agreement with NSCN (I-M) and the Agreed Position with Working Committee of NNPGs. NPCC president K Therie said this was also a reaffirmation of the October 31, 2019 announcement of talks having been officially concluded. He congratulated all

the 60 legislators for finally realising and being able to assert their position.

With the “people’s government” finally endorsing the two official agreements and the official conclusion of talks, he stressed that there was no longer any reason for the Centre to delay implementation of the solution. Therie said the ball was now in the Centre’s court for implementing solution for the already-concluded talks. He said it now only required political will on the part of the BJP-led Central government which was committed by BJP national general secretary (NE) Ram Madhav in 2018 “Election for Solution”.

President accepts West Bengal Gov’s resignation Spl. Correspondent

NEW DELHI, JUL 17 (NPN): President of India Ram Nath Kovind has accepted the resignation of Jagdeep Dhankhar as Governor of West Bengal.

According to President’s press secretary AK Singh, Manipur Governor La. Ganesan has been asked to discharge the functions of the Governor of West Bengal, in addition to his own duties from the date he assumes charge of the office of the Governor of West Bengal, until regular arrangements are made.

Over 100 crore people to hoist Tricolour at homes Spl. Correspondent

NEW DELHI, JUL 17 (NPN): As part of the Central government’s ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign, over 100 crore people will hoist the Tricolour at their homes for three days next month.

According to a statement issue by the Home ministry, the tricolor will be hoisted atop more than 20 crore houses across the country from August 13 to 15 through public participation, while government and private establishments will also be involved, the statement said.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah reviewed the prep-

Amit Shah during the video conference on Sunday. (Via Twitter)

arations of the campaign, to be carried out under the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’, with chief ministers of states and lieutenant governors, and administrators of Union Territories on Sunday, it said.

Further, Shah said that from July 22, the national

flag should appear on the homepage of all state government websites while citizens should also be encouraged to display the tricolor on their Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other social media accounts. Shah said that this unique world record will be

created when more than 100 crore people of the country will directly join the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign and show their nationalist spirit towards the nation’s freedom and martyrs and patriots.

He called upon all the states to do publicity through various mediums under of the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign so that more and more people are connected to this patriotic programme.

Meanwhile, Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio also attended the video conference chaired by Amit Shah and attended by union minister for tourism, culture and DoNER. K Y M C

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Kma DPDB approves societies for registration

D I M A P U R : Ko h i m a District Planning and Development Board (DPDB) on July 15, recommended various societies for registration to the state government.

According to a DIPR report, the DPDB at its monthly meeting in the DPDB conference hall, Kohima decided to recommend—Life Connect Nagaland, Nagaland State Social Audit Agency, CUE Academy E d u c a t i o n a l S o c i e t y, Spartan Gym Societyand Nagaland Yogasana Sports Association.

The meeting also decided to recommend Kohima College Alumni Association, which was taken up in the last meeting to the gover nment for necessary action.

At the meeting, deputy commissioner (DC) and DPDB vice chairman Ko h i m a , S h a n ava s C reminded the departments of Single Use Plastic (SUP) ban, from July 1, as notified by the state government.

Kohima DPDB meeting, charied by DC & Vice Chairman Shanavas C at DPDB’s conference hall Kohima. (DPRO, Kohima)

He requested the departments not to use water bottles less than 20 liters in offices or during office meetings.

Shanavas also infor med that various activities including surprise checking would be conducted soon and defaulters will be penalised.

Presenting the activities of District Health Society (DHS), chief

medical officer (CMO) Kohima, Dr. Vezokholu Theyo highlighted the obser vation of World Population Day & Fortnight from June 27July 24.

O n C O V I D vaccination, Dr. Vezokholu informed that under the age group of 18+ beneficiaries, a total of 73.14% have been covered while from 15 to 18 years—55.64%,

ABAM YM ‘lead like Jesus’ programme concludes

Facilitators along with leaders of youth ministries at Impur.

DIMAPUR: ABAM youth ministry concluded its seventh “Lead like Jesus” prog ramme organised for all leaders of youth ministries under the aegis of ABAM on July 16 at Impur, Mokokchung.

In a press release, e x e c u t i v e s e c r e t a r y, ABAM, Rev. Dr. Mar Pongener informed that

during his keynote address, he stated that “the first and foremost duty for leaders was to lead themselves” and that only in leading oneself, there would be influences and change. He then called upon the gathering to lead themselves first.

The release also informed that facilitators for the programme

were; youth secretar y, ABAM, Toshi Sanglir, coordinator, ABAM YM, Teka Imchen, Sunday s c h o o l c o - o r d i n a t o r, ABAM, Chubatemjen, and Imatoshi from DABA. Altogether, 96 youth leaders headed by associate pastor youth from 16 churches attended the programme.

12 to 14 years—10.46% and precaution dose was 36.61%.

She informed that free COVID precaution dose for 18 to 59 age group who have crossed six months from the date of their 2nd dose can avail the facility from government CVCs from July 15 onwards, which will continue for 75 days.

F u r t h e r, C M O

WSMV seize liquor: Women’s Society Meriema Village seized a carton of liquor on July 11, at Phezou, Meriema Village w h e r e o n e d e f a u l t e r, Akhum Yimkhing was caught selling liquor within the village jurisdiction for the third time. The society destroyed the seized liquor and as per the law of the village, the defaulter was expelled from village jurisdiction. WSMV informed that the defaulter was ordered to vacate before July 31.

RPOD Ngada festival committee meet: Rengma Public Organisation Dimapur formed “Ngada Fe s t i va l O r g a n i s i n g Committee” with Akhu K a t h a s c o nve n o r, Te n y e b i n l o H i m b a s secretary, Jonah Tep as treasurer, RPOD office b e a r e r s a s ex o f f i c i o and re presentatives from units, presidents

Officers and staff of the state commissioner for PwDs office with participants and others.

Day one of the workshop included sessions on understanding disability a n d i n t e r s e c t i o n a l i t y, barriers faced by persons with disabilities, diverse requirements of different disability g roups, and legislative mandates for disability-inclusive disaster

risk reduction (DIDRR).

O n d a y t w o, t h e wo r k s h o p f o c u s e d o n community mapping and strength and weakness a n a ly s e s, s t a k e h o l d e r a n a ly s e s, d eve l o p i n g a d i s a b i l i t y - i n c l u s i ve disaster management plan, feedback of groups, and

DIMAPUR: Tetso College held its commencement ceremony for outgoing class of 2022 on July 15 with Dr. Kethoser (Aniu) Kevichusa as commencement speaker.

In a press release issued by college media cell, it informed that Dr. Kethoser Kevichusa during his address stressed on the word ‘commencement’ and how the ceremony was seen as a conclusion but actually meant ‘to begin something’. He also spoke of King David from the Bible and the importance of servanthood and service after which, he encouraged s t u d e n t s t o c o n t i nu e witnessing their faith whether in the religious or secular sphere.

Dr. Hewasa Lorin in the principal’s address, expressed joy and gratitude to class of 2022 for their commendable efforts and encouraged them to take the “Tetso Advantage” to continue achieving success in their future pursuits.

She exhorted students to take the sum of all the experiences they’ve had at

Commencement speaker Dr. Kethoser (Aniu) Kevichusa with class valedictorian Akhumla Sangtam.

the college to keep striving for excellence, to keep being “committed and relentless” towards their aspirations, and to keep “dreaming”, “thinking”, and especially “doing”.

Akhumla Sangtam, w h o t o p p e d i n N U, bachelors of business administration (BBA) delivered the valedictorian speech.

Later, commencement took place with 351 students from various disciplines receiving their baccalaureate degrees from heads of departments, various Tetso faculty, and special guests.

Earlier, invocation was said by Rev. Candid Sareo and a special number was presented by Tetso Music Club.

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Workshop on disability-inclusive DRM DIMAPUR: A two-day workshop on “DisabilityInclusive Disaster Risk Management (DIDRM)” was organised by the office of the state commissioner for persons with disabilities (PwDs) on July 14 and 15, with technical advisor inclusion (Community Based Inclusive Development Initiative), CBM, Dr. Shivani Gupta as resource person.

A press release from the office of the state commissioner for persons with disabilities informed that participants for the workshop included NSDMA and SDRF team, NGOs and organisations working with children, women and elderly and organisations of PwDs.

informed that one confirmed dengue positive c a s e wa s r e p o r t e d i n Kohima town on July 13.

She also highlighted Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Kar yakaram (RBSK) and National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) activities.

On NOC for Kohima District Construction Workers Union, the house decided to keep the matter for now as the assistant l a b o u r c o m m i s s i o n e r, Zaremo Kikon informed the house that the department was not taking up such an issue at the moment as per government’s order.

Updates on the progress of Village Adoption Committees were highlighted by conveners where DC requested the committees to initiate the activities in their respective adopted wards/villages at the earliest.

Other highlights included a presentation

by National Helpline for Senior Citizens and various societies for registration.

Tetso College holds 4th Graduation Day

data collection and inclusive budgeting.

The two-day workshop was part of the project being carried out by the office of the state disability commissioner to “strengthen disability inclusion in disaster management in Nagaland.”

o f Re n g m a M o t h e r s ’ Association Dimapur, Dimapur Rengma Youth Organisation, Dimapur Rengma Students’ Union as members. The committee informed that its first meeting will be held on July 23, 10 am in the conference hall, 5th Floor, Hotel Seb Tower, Purana Bazar. All the members have been asked to attend the meeting.

Aw a r e n e s s / t r a i n i n g at Nerhima village: Awareness and training programme on “making of paper and cloth bags” was conducted by self help groups on July 15 at Nerhema village. Objective of the event was to sensitise people on the need to replace plastic bags with cloth and paper bags. It has been informed that the cloth bags and paper bags would be distributed to all households and shops respectively, in the village.

140 members from 30 SHGs

attended the programme.

CNWA holds executive meeting: In its first executive meeting held on May 14 at Wokha, Central Naga Women Association (CNWA) has affirmed its suppor t to Central Nagaland Tribes Council (CNTC) for resumption of petroleum and natural gas exploration and to boycott the solidarity walk organised by the Global N a g a Fo r u m ( G N F ) .

CNWA also decided in the meeting to the three respective districts.

Social work at DC’s office complex Peren: Staff of the deputy commissioner’s (DC) office Peren along with other departments attached to the DC office complex conducted a social work on July 15.Apart from cleaning common toilets, participants also cleaned weeds and drainages at the office premises.The

MCK conducts career guidance on ‘academic career options’

DIMAPUR: Career guidance, training and placement cell of Modern College Kohima (MCK) organised career guidance on “Academic Career Options” for B.A and B.Voc students on July 16.

In a press release, MCK stated that resource person, assistant professor, department of History, Phek Government College, Dr. Nutazo Lohe stressed on academic career after graduation and other various options for further studies. He also highlighted on CUET exams and opportunities for various areas in the field of research.

Earlier, programme was chaired by Nukchala Jamir, while principal,

MCK, Dr. Vitsou Yano delivered welcome address, and vote of thanks was pronounced by Reena of B.A V semester.

drive was held under the supervision of the district administration led by SDO (C), Kemciyile.

KBC holds revival crusade: Koinonia Baptist Church (KBC) held its 10th phase of revival crusade on July 14 and 15 at Lower PR

hill, Mizo Church and Midland Colony, Mezhür Higher Secondary School respectively. Speaker for the service on July 14 was Khriezovolie Suokhrie while speaker for the service on July 15 was evangelist, KBC, H Rokopra Mekro.

ACKnowLedgement

Late Kivipu Chophi

Born: 30.10.2018 We express our immense gratitude and appreciation to each one who stood by us during our son’s prolonged illness and till his heavenly departure on 14th July 2022.

Our heartfelt thanks to all the churches, doctors, nurses, friends, relatives, neighbours and individuals who helped us in prayers, presence in cash and kind.

Your compassionate acts will never be forgotten, and our prayerful confidence is that God, our Father will repay each one of you abundantly. dP-3444/22

Mother, Father & Family Members

Dimapur excise ST seize IMFL; arrest 1 1 DEATH ANNIVERSARY

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A year have passed but the mark you left on this world will never fade. Today we commemorate your first death anniversary and celebrate the love and memories you gave us. You are the biggest inspiration and support we ever had, we can’t touch you anymore, we can’t hear you, can’t see you but we can feel you all the time because you are alive in our hearts. We miss you so much, dad.

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Loving children, relatives and well-wishers.

Late Y. Noklen Jamir

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DIMAPUR: Dimapur excise narcotic cell (NC) enforcement duty party on Friday arrested one Manoj on charges of possessing Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL) and beer.

According to deputy commissioner of excise (NC), Katoho Sumi, the duty party around 6:40 am seized 1710 bottles of assorted IMFL and beer from the possession of the accused.

Katoho informed that the seized items were deposited in the office Malkhana and the case is presently under investigation as per relevant provisions of the NLTP Act, 1989.

The duty party was led

by AIE Chuba Yim.

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WEATHER FORECAST JULY 18

(Temperature in ºC)

Max Min

Agartala A stray morning thunderstorm 33 27 Aizawl

Partly sunny with a t-storm

27 21

Guwahati Warm; a stray morning shower 35 27 Imphal

A t-storm around in the a.m.

Itanagar A thunderstorm in spots

29 22 33 26

Shillong

Cloudy

25 20

Kohima

Cloudy and a stray t-storm

27 20

Dimapur Some rain and a thunderstorm 35 25 Mkg

Cloudy with a stray t-storm

Tuensang Cloudy with a stray t-shower

29 22 23 18

A t-storm around in the p.m

28 23

Zunheboto Cloudy with a thunderstorm

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DIMAPUR: The department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resource (F&AR) released fingerlings at Tizu River under Zunheboto district and Doyang Reservoir under Wokha district.

It may be mentioned that the initiative is part of the river ranching programme, introduced as a special activity under Pradhan Mantri MatsyaSampada Yojana (PMMSY) to augment and enhance fish production and productivity through expansion, intensification, diversification, and productive utilisation of land and water.

ADC Zunheboto asks public to protect aquatic species: FOCUS-IFAD

Nagaland in collaboration with F&AR department held a Tizu river ranching with Indian Major Carps (IMC) and Grass Carp at Tizu River where two trucks of fingerlings were released into Tizu River under Zunheboto district.

According to a DIPR report, ADC Zunheboto, Moakumzuk Tzudir, while speaking during the programme, lauded agriculture production commissioner (APC), Y. Kikheto Sema, under whose initiative the project was materialised.

He said in Zunheboto, there were less chances of fish production and the only alternate option was riverine fisheries.

Wokha In this regard, he urged upon the public of Zunheboto to do away with using of bleaching powders, generators or batteries which would lead to extinction of aquatic species.

In his address, Sumi Kukami Hoho president, Kashito Yepthomi said all these developmental activities were being possible because there were people behind it.

H e a c k n ow l e d ge d the efforts of minister for Agriculture, Kaito Aye and APC Kikheto Sema.

Kashito further called on GBs of surrounding villages to enforce strict laws to curb the malpractices.

Sumi Hoho president, I Nikheto Jimomi asserted that no matter how much efforts someone made, if the public did not look after such initiatives well, it was as useless as putting precious ornaments on pig’s neck.

He recalled how in the early days, people could catch fishes bare hand because they were available but the aquatic species diminished because they have become enemy to them.

The programme was chaired by NDPP Zunheboto region president, Khehoshe H. Yepthomi, who also read the opening remarks, deputy DAO Zun-

NCVBDCP Wokha observes ‘anti dengue month’

DIMAPUR: With an aim to bring awareness to citizens on sporadic cases of dengue fever migrating from other districts and states in recent times, national centre for vector borne disease control programme (NCVBDCP) under Wokha district observed “Anti Dengue Month” in the month of July.

In a press release, district vector borne officer (DVBO), NCVBDCP Wokha, Dr. K. William Humtsoe said with the trend of increase of dengue fever in the state, district hospital have alerted vector borne disease control programme to be active in case and vector surveillance during peak season

Poster awareness campaign being carried out in Wokha town. of transmission.

It informed that the programme started taking measures to mitigate dengue disease by control of

source reduction and regular usage of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs).

During this ‘control period’ of anti dengue

month, the district carried out awareness campaigns through posters, miking, and inter-personal communication (IPC) throughout

Health camp on ‘ligation and IUCD service’ in Longleng DIMAPUR: In commemoration of “World Population Fortnight”, District Hospital (DH) Longleng conducted a health camp on July 13 on “Ligation and IUCD service”.

In a press release, district media officer Longleng, K Mongsen Phom informed that the team was led by SMO (Obst/Gynae), DH Longleng, Dr. Ademla Tinu along with staff nurse.

The health camp was conducted with an aim to encourage “planned family” and “birth spacing”.

It may be mentioned that “World Population Fortnight”, which commenced on July 11 would continue till July 24 on the theme “adopt family planMS Dr. Kibangkumba, SMO (Obts/Gynae) Dr. Ademla Tinu with nurses ning measures and write a new and beneficiaries. chapter of progress”.

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Wokha town and adjacent villages as part of IEC/ BCC activity.

In an awareness programme held at district vector borne office with district stakeholders, DVBO stressed on importance of source reduction and regular usage of LLINs and urged community leaders to carry out cleanliness drives.

Further, orientation training for urban ASHAs was also conducted where they were intimated on preventive control of breeding grounds in their vicinities, measures of eradicating vectors by cleaning and removal of breeding sites, and monitor usage of LLINs in their respective jurisdiction.

heboto briefed on FOCUSIFAD project and vote of thanks was proposed by ZCCI president and ZAPO advisor Kikheto Muru.

‘Doyang requires regular stocking programme’: F&AR department on July 8, released fingerlings in Doyang Reservoir under Wokha.

According to a DIPR report, district fishery officer (DFO) Wokha, Rulanthung Ezung said with the initiative of director F&AR, Rongsennungba, about four lakh fingerlings consisting of fish species rohu, mrigal, silver carp, grass carp, and common carp were stocked in the reservoir under the cen-

trally sponsored scheme (CSS) PMMSY. Stocking of fingerlings is the mainstay of reservoir fisheries development which will facilitate fish production on a sustainable basis, the DFO informed.

He also said that Doyang Reservoir fell under the medium reservoir, therefore, auto stocking was not possible and required a regular stocking programme to use the productive potential of the water body.

The programme was chaired by fishery inspector, Mhonthung while vote of thanks was proposed by fishery inspector Chumthungo Ovung.

SDPDB Pughoboto discusses funds, drainage

DIMAPUR: Sub divisional planning and development board (SDPDB) Pughoboto held a meeting on July 13 under chairmanship of SDPDB chairman, Y. Vikheho Swu, MLA at DB’s court hall.

According to a DIPR report, the house discussed criteria for registration of society during which Swu-Chilimi, Ghokimi village were asked to submit related documents such as experience certificate, etc.

At the meeting, board agreed to conduct monthly cleanliness drive at Pughoboto town; proposed writing to concerned department for setting up subdivisional board for social welfare, and suggested for dept. to set up a board in Pughoboto instead of filling up vacancy post from Zunheboto hq.

Vikheho urged PWD officials to utilise road maintenance fund judiciously and be accountable when the govt. sanctions the fund. He also expressed concern over the need to clear drainage during rainy seasons.

Later, CDPO, ChirotshuNyusou and EE PWD,Er. Chengato Kath highlighted departments’ activities.

JD (U) appoints Senchumo Lotha as national secretary DIMAPUR, JUL 17 (NPN): Janta Dal - United has announced the appointment of Senchumo Lotha as national secretary of the party in recognition of his valuable contribution to the party.

According to JD (U) general secretary Afaque

Ahmad Khan, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and party’s national president and Lok Sabha member Rajiv Ranjan Singh were very happy with the “stunning achievement” of the party in the just-concluded Manipur Assembly election under the “dynamic” chairmanship of

Lotha. He said all existing responsibilities entrusted upon him by the party prior to the new appointment would continue.

Khan also wished Lotha all success in his endeavour to further expand JD (U) in different parts of the North-eastern States.

District level prog on ‘Udyamita Vikas Pakhwara’ DIMAPUR: A district level programme on “UdyamitaVikas Pakhwara: Enterprise Promotion for Naga Women through bank financing” was held on July 11 in Dimapur.

In a press release, NSRLM informed that regional manager, RBO SBI Dimapur & convener SLBC Nagaland, Haokholen Hangsing informed SHG members on process and criteria of credit linkage. Earlier, NSTCB NSA branch chief manager, V. K. Disong briefed on credit management and how to avail credit linkage while state programme manager (FI) NSRLM, Rajuselie Lhousa briefed on financial inclusion.

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NEW DELHI, JUL 17 (PTI): The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has created its first mountainwarfare training centre in northeast India, its second overall, to skill its troops in high-altitude combat and survival tactics as part of their mandate to guard the Line of Actual Control with China.

The facility has come almost after five decades of the establishment of its first such school called mountaineering and skiing institute (M&SI) during 1973-74 at Auli near Joshimath.

The M&SI is located at a height of more than 9,000 ft in the Himalayan ranges of Uttarakhand and has trained thousands of ITBP, army, Air Force and other security personnel in this domain and that for adventure sports.

The new centre has been established in remote Dombang, abutting the LAC, and is located at a height of 10,040 ft in Sikkim that shares a 220 km front of the India-China LAC. A senior ITBP officer told PTI that the training centre at Sikkim was conceptualised in order to enhance the capacity to train newly recruited and serving

Opening Ceremony of the 2nd Basic Mountaineering Course held at Dombang, 11th Battalion ITBP, Sikkim. troops in mountain-warfare, rock climbing, high-altitude survival and patrol even as the need to have one more facility than Auli was being felt for long, given the increasing engagement of its troops with the Chinese PLA over the last few years.

“The new training centre is vital for the force given the current backdrop of military standoff with China and frequent confrontation with Chinese personnel owing to the

AIUDF to support Yashwant Sinha in presidential election GUWAHATI, JUL 17 (PTI): The All India United Democratic Front on Sunday announced that it will vote for Yashwant Sinha, the joint opposition nominee, in the presidential election.

AIUDF legislator Aminul Islam, however, said his party will support the opposition candidate in the July 18 presidential poll even though they were “sidelined” during Sinha’s recent visit to Assam.

He said the AIUDF’s name was not mentioned in the invitation card that was sent to political leaders for a meeting with Sinha.

“Our legislators were not invited to the programme organised at Srimanta Sankardev Kalakshetra for the opposition nominee in the presidential poll,” he said.

Sinha visited Assam on July 13 to seek support from the opposition MPs and MLAs from the state for the election. Major nonBJP parties of the country,

including the Congress and the TMC, have named Sinha, the former union minister, as the joint nominee for the presidential poll.

“Our party will vote for Yashwant Sinha in tomorrow’s election for the next president of the country,” AIUDF legislative party leader Hafiz Bashir Ahmed said. Islam stated that the party is supporting Sinha as he is the opposition candidate.

“The non-democratic and communal forces must be kept at bay. Hence, we are supporting him,” the AIUDF MLA said.

The Congress and the AIUDF had fought the 2021 state polls as part of a ‘grand alliance’ of opposition parties, but had parted ways later.

The AIUDF has 15 legislators in the Assam Assembly and one MP from the state.

Sinha is pitted against Droupadi Murmu, the BJPled NDA nominee, in the race to the top post.

border dispute.”

“It (Sikkim centre) was inaugurated by ITBP director general Sanjay Arora last year in September and the feedback has been good as two batches comprising 80 trainees have already passed out from there,” an another officer said.

The centre is being commanded by ITBP Commandant and ace mountaineer Ratan Singh Sonal, who has led numerous

expeditions and rescue missions in the hills, the second officer said.

The Dombang centre has an ideal mountainous and rocky terrain and its glacier training area spreads across a height of 14,000-17,000 feet, he said.

The facility, at present, has a categorisation of being an “ad-hoc” centre but, as per officials, it is soon expected that the ministry of home affairs (MHA) will sanction it formally

so that more equipments, manpower and facilities can be added.

Mountain, winter and high-altitude battle craft has been aptly described in a blueprint prepared by the force after it was tasked to guard the 3,488 kms LAC post the India-China war of 1962.

“ITBP, by virtue of its role, functions, is deployed as a Himalayan force. Its field of activity is the inaccessible snow-bound Himalayan regions. If it had to serve its purpose, each of its personnel had to be a veritable mountaineer with intimate knowledge of the terrain, weather and snow conditions, etc.”

“They had to not only climb high altitudes to acclimatise and familiarise themselves with the terrain and high altitude living and to perform certain tasks but in the process they have to trek long distances by foot slogging...,” the blueprint, followed by ITBP trainers, states. The LAC on India’s eastern flank runs from Jammu and Kashmir (1,597 kms), Himachal Pradesh (200 kms), Uttarakhand (345 kms), Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh (1,126 kms).

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Meghalaya CM expects ‘crossvoting’ in presidential polls Correspondent SHILLONG, JUL 17: Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Sunday said he expects cross-voting from opposition Trinamool Congress (TMC) legislators in the State in favour of National Democratic Alliance (NDA) presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu.

“All legislators of the MDA (ruling Meghalaya Democratic Alliance) are going vote in favour of Murmu. However, two legislators from the alliance won’t be taking part in the election process due to their prior engagement outside the state,” Sangma said.

“We do expect crossvoting from the opposition in favour of the NDA presidential candidate,” Sangma, who is also president of the National People’s Party (NPP), which is a constituent of the NDA, said.

The other alliance partners include United Democratic Party, Hill State People’s Democratic Party, People’ Democratic Party, BJP and independents.

There are five suspended Congress legislators who have remained undecided

Conrad K Sangma about their choice of candidate.

TMC state president and veteran legislator Charles Pyngrope said there was no chance of any cross voting.

“We have made our stand very clear and there will be no cross-voting from our side,” he asserted as his party has announced its decision to vote for opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha, who, however, has not visited the state.

Political circles, however, were abuzz with TMC legislator Himalaya Muktan Shangpliang attending the meeting convened by the BJP for interaction with Murmu at the Umiam Lake Resort recently.

“We don’t know, it is up to him. The voting is go-

ing to be a secret ballot and you don’t have to show your papers to anybody and in that process our party stand is very clear,”Pyngrope told UNI. The vote value of the 60 MLAs in Meghalaya is 17 each, while that of three parliamentarians from the state, including two members of the Lok Sabha and one of the Rajya Sabha have 700 each, as per the Election Commission norms for the presidential elections.

Meanwhile, the election department has made all preparations for the smooth conduct of the Presidential elections to be held at the Meghalaya Assembly Annexe hall.

As part of the preparations, Election Commission of India Observer, Kanta Rao undertook inspection of the Assembly Annexe hall and reviewed the poll preparations.

Rao during his inspection was accompanied by state Chief Election Officer, Fredrick Kharkongor.

“Although the elections would be conducted by the Assembly staff, we would be coordinating with them and supervising the elections,” Kharkongor said.

Over 30K Myanmar refugees residing in Mizoram Assam CM launches plantation AIZAWL, JULY 17 (PTI): As many as 30,316 Myanmar nationals, including 11,798 children and 10,047 women, have taken refuge in various parts of Mizoram since the military seized power in the neighbouring country in February last year, a senior official said on Sunday.

Fourteen lawmakers are also among those who fled the trouble-torn country and moved to Mizoram, the official said, citing data compiled by the state home department earlier in the month.

Of the 30,316 people, profiling of 30,299 has been completed, he said.

Also, identity cards, certifying the holder as a refugee, have been issued to over 30,000 refugees.

The card, being issued by the state government, could only be used for identification purposes in Mizoram and would not be a valid document for availing government schemes.

“Identity cards are being issued for proper documentation of Myan-

prog to conserve native species

Myanmar refugees at Zokhawthar mar nationals. It will also keep at bay individuals who might want to grant them Indian citizenship for vested political interests,” the official told PTI on condition of anonymity.

Each identity card stated that the bearer was a Myanmar national residing in Mizoram.

“This is just for identification and shall serve no other purpose, official or otherwise. It isn’t transferable,” specified the ID card,

one of which was accessed

by PTI. According to the official, at least 156 makeshift relief camps have been set up by the government, NGOs, village authorities and Myanmar nationals in different parts of the state, with Siaha district housing the maximum number of shelter homes at 41, followed by Lawngtlai at 36 and Champhai 33.

He said that the state has so far sanctioned Rs 80

lakh as relief.

The official added that no Myanmar refugee had so far been involved in any law and order problem.

Six Mizoram districts -- Champhai, Siaha, Lawngtlai, Serchhip, Hnahthial and Saitual -- share a 510-km-long international border with Myanmar’s Chin state.

Most Myanmar nationals are from Chin state, and share ancestry with the Mizos.

GUWAHATI, JUL 17 (PTI): A plantation drive aimed at conservation of native plant species, beautification of government office premises and collective participation for climate action was launched by the Assam government on Sunday.

Christened ‘Chief Minister’s Institutional Plantation Programme’ (CMIPP), the drive will cover over 80,000 campuses of government offices, urban local bodies, corporations, autonomous councils, registered societies and educational institutions in the state, before its conclusion on August 15, a release here said.

Sarma kicked off the programme by planting a sapling at Janata Bhawan premises and then took part in a meeting to mark the launching ceremony.

The CMIPP is an initiative of Science, Technology and Climate Change Department, according to the release.

During the month-long programme, saplings of na-

tive species will be planted in various places, which will be followed by proper upkeep by officials.

The growth of saplings will be monitored through a dedicated web-portal, where geo-tagged photographs of the plants would be uploaded, the release said.

Speaking on the occasion, Sarma asked the education, health and home departments, which have maximum number of field offices, to ensure proper implementation of the programme.

He urged all state government departments to register on the web-portal.

Underlining factors responsible for the scourge of floods, Sarma pointed to the loss of forest cover as one of the major reasons for such natural calamities.

He highlighted the larger role that can be played by the forest department in reclaiming green cover through plantation, clearance of encroachment among other measures.

Experts raise red flags, pinpoint multiple causes for Mnp landslides Assam govt to provide textbook grants to over 1.1 lakh students (1600 mm) in Manipur, which is one of the triggering factors for most of the frequent landslide hazards with existing geological formations and typically rugged topography.

The interbedded shale,

mudstone, siltstone and sandstone exhibit weak lithology and existing discontinuities in the forms of joints, cracks, faults along the moderate to steep slopes are the main triggering factors for the landslides.

Manipur landslide: Body of local woman found; death toll rises to 56 File photo of resuce operation after a landslide in Noney district of Manipur.

IMPHAL, JUL 17 ( IANS): Experts have identified non-resistant soil condition, prevalence of microseismicity, besides changing land use patterns on the top of hills such as deforestation as the cause for the recent catastrophic landslides in Manipur.

At least 55 people, including Territorial Army soldiers,railway workers and local villagers were killed in the landslides, while search operations were still underway in inclement weather to locate six missing.

The disastrous landslides at a railway construction site at Tupul in western Manipur’s Noney district on June 29-30 buried alive over 60 people mostly of the Territorial Army soldiers.

After the unprecedented tragedy, Manipur’s Direc-

torate of Environment and Climate Change has formed an expert group to identify the causes of the enormous landslides.

The seven-member expert group headed by Prof. Arun Kumar of the Manipur University, has identified non-resistant soil condition, prevalence of micro-seismicity, besides changing land use patterns on the top of hills such as deforestation and unscientific “Jhum” (shifting and burn method of farming) cultivation as some of the factors which triggered the landslides.

The experts, which along with Union Minister of State for External Affairs Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, who hails from Manipur, visited the site on a number of occasions stated:

“Geologically, non-resistant lithology (shale interbedded with mudstone, siltstone and sandstone) of Barail Group exposed in the study area after the modification of the slope geometry that impedes the mountain’s ability to resist the existing gravitational force may become one of the causes of mass wasting and landsliding.”

According to the expert committee report, geologically, western Manipur consists of tertiary strata (rock formations), which are most vulnerable to the landslide hazards due to the seismically active tectonic terrain. The rock formations are highly jointed, fractured, faulted and display the neo-tectonic movements.

The climate is subhumid with high rainfall

One more body of a local woman was retrieved from the landslide debris on Sunday by the search and rescue operation team in Manipur’s Noney district, said official sources.

According to sources, the recovered body has been identified as Thuisinliu Gondaimei, 27. She was among the 79 confirmed victims, including her husband Lungpuilan Gondaimei and three other locals, of the tragic landslide which struck at Makhuam railway construction camp on June 30.

However, her husband and four other persons remain untraceable even after 18 days since the search and rescue operations launched following the catastrophe, sources said. So far, the search and rescue team has recovered 56 bodies trapped under the landslide debris, while 18 injured persons were rescued safely from the disaster-hit site. Over 700 personnel from NDRF, SDRF, Police, Fire services, Territorial Army, Assam Rifles, CRPF and local volunteers are engaged in the ongoing rescue work. The team continued its operation till the 18th day to search for the five missing persons from the site with the help of over 30 heavy machinery.

The five missing persons include one Territorial Army personnel, one railway worker and three locals.

A review meeting on the ongoing search and rescue operations by Disaster and Relief Management minister Awangbow Newmai was scheduled to be held on Saturday. However, the meeting has been postponed till Monday. Until then, the search and rescue team will continue its operation to trace the remaining missing victims, added the official sources.

G U WA H AT I , J U LY 17 (IANS): The Assam government has started providing textbook grants to more than 1.1 lakh flood-affected students and Rs 10.15 crore has been earmarked for the purpose, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has announced.

Sarma on Saturday tweeted: “In our humble effort to provide relief to students affected during recent floods in the state, we have provided an assistance of Rs 1,000 each to more than one lakh student beneficiaries, from Chief Minister’s Relief Fund. It’s our sincere commitment to stand by the students during this tough time.”

Assam witnessed two waves of floods between April 6 to June 15 which affected 90 lakh people in 34 districts and killed 195 men, women and children.

Due to the flood and landslides in different districts, 37 people are still missing. More than 2.4 lakh hectare of crop land was also damaged.

While talking to the media, the Chief Minister said that more than 7.42 lakh people were sheltered in relief camps and relief materials were provided

to them. In southern Assam and hilly districts, the Indian Air Force (IAF) made 77 sorties and relief material were air dropped among the marooned people.

More than one lakh flood-hit people were evacuated by the IAF, Army, Disaster Management forces and volunteers.

Sarma added that more than 1.89 lakh families were provided with assistance of Rs 3,800 and Rs 76 crore was spent for this purpose.

“Many people and organisations have contributed to the Chief Ministers’ Relief Fund. Those who lost their lives are provided with a financial compensation of Rs 4 lakh.

There are nearly 25,670 houses which are fully

damaged and more than 2.78 lakh houses partially damaged. We would also extend support to those whose houses were completely washed away,” the Chief Minister said.

Sarma added that Rs 1,000 crore would be spent on restoration of bridges, embankment, schools and other infrastructure.

“Centre is providing 90 per cent financial support and the state is spending 10 per cent. Union Home Minister Amit Shah during a recent meeting has assured that the Centre would pay and asked the state government not to worry about it,” he said.

The Chief Minister added that Assam floods are termed as “severe calamity” and accordingly money is pumped in.

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Mallikarjun Kharge and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury hug each other after the end of an all-party meeting. (PTI)

Arrests will be made for seeking rights in New India, says Rahul

Rahul Gandhi

NEW DELHI, JUL 17 (PTI): Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Sunday hit out at the government over the issue of unemployment and action against protesting youths, saying “arrests will be made for seeking rights in New India”.

Gandhi launched his latest tirade against the government over jobs by sharing a video on Twitter which shows some students being taken away by the police in a Uttar Pradesh Roadways bus.

“Don’t ask questions.

Don’t raise your voice.

Don’t protest peacefully.

Arrests will be made for seeking rights in New India. By making the youth unemployed, by shattering the hopes of crores of

families, this dictatorial government is destroying the future of the country,” Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi.

The video carries a caption: “What is the offence of SSCGD 2018 aspirants, seeking justice.”

One of the female aspirants in the video says they have not eaten anything since morning. “Not even a drop of water.”

“We have been forcibly made to sit in four buses and are being taken to separate places. We don’t know where,” she says.

“The daughters of the country are being treated in such a way as if we don’t belong to the country. The gover nment says ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’, but if that happened then our daughters would not been dying here.

“We had started from Nagpur and reached Agra in the last 45 days, facing a lot of difficulties. The government has sent us to the same place where we started. We urge the gover nment not to do injustice with us,” she said.

it was devoid of any issues against the government. ‘ To o m a n y b i l l s, too short time’: The government said 32 bills have been indicated by various departments for presentation in two houses, of which 14 are ready.

“Thirty-two bills have been indicated by various de par tments for being presented in this session of Parliament, of which 14 bills are ready, but we will not pass the bills without discussion,” Pralhad Joshi told reporters after an allparty meeting.

Bills listed by the government for the session include the Multi-State C o o p e r a t ive S o c i e t i e s (Amendment) Bill, which

SRINAGAR, JUL 17 (PTI): A CRPF officer was killed in a militant attack in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, police said.

A police spokesman said at about 2:15 pm, terrorists fired at a checkpoint jointly manned by police and CRPF at Gangoo crossing area of Pulwama.

In the terror incident, assistant subinspector (ASI) of CRPF Vinod Kumar was critically injured and was immediately shifted to a hospital, where he succumbed to injuries and attained martyrdom, he said.

Senior police officers, along with reinforcement, reached the spot and the preliminary investigation revealed that terrorists t a k i n g a d va n t a g e o f nearby apple orchards fired indiscriminately upon the security forces near Gangoo crossing area of Pulwama in south Kashmir, the spokesman said.

He said a case has been registered and investigation initiated. Meanwhile, the officers continued to work to establish the full circumstances of the incident.

“The whole area, including orchards, has been cordoned off and a search operation is in progress,” the spokesman said.

HYDERABAD, JUL 17 (AGENCIES): Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao Sunday said the floods in the state’s Godavari region were the result of a cloudburst -- suspected to be a “conspiracy planned by other countries”.

While on a tour to flood-hit Bhadrachalam, Rao told reporters: “There is this new phenomenon called cloudburst. People say there is some conspiracy, we don’t know how far that is true, that people from other countries are deliberately doing cloudburst in

doing it in the Godavari region.’’

A cloudburst usually means an extreme amount of rain over a very short period that can lead to flood.

The met office defines it as unexpected precipitation exceeding 100mm (or 10 cm) per hour over a geographical region of approximately 20

NV Ramana

judicial vacancies was the main reason for the huge pendency of cases after Union law minister Kiren Rijiju flagged the backlog of five crore such cases.

At the event of the Rajasthan assembly, the CJI raised concerns over the quality of legislative performance. “There used to be mutual respect between the gover nment and opposition. Unfortunately, space for opposition is diminishing,” he said “Sadly, the country is witnessing a decline in the quality of legislative performance,” he said, adding laws are being passed without detailed deliberations and scrutiny.

He said that if every wing of the state functions with efficiency and responsibility, the burden on others would reduce considerably. If the general administration is carried out efficiently by the officers, a lawmaker need not toil for ensuring basic facilities for his electorate.

He said that the Constitution does not s p e c i f y t h e m i n i mu m number of days for which the state assembly must meet every year. However, there is no doubt that the citizens

will definitely benefit from longer engagements.

Highlighting the significance of parliamentar y debates and parliamentary c o m m i t t e e s, t h e C J I said that strengthening parliamentary democracy demands strengthening the opposition as well.

“The leaders in the Opposition used to play a stellar role. There used to be a lot of mutual respect between the government and the opposition.

Unfortunately, the space for opposition is diminishing.

We are witnessing laws being passed without detailed deliberation and scrutiny,” he said. He said that the increasing state intervention in the lives of the population, dissatisfaction among the public about the other two wings and the rising awareness of rights have increased the public expectations from the judiciary.

In a modern democracy, the people expect the court to stand as a counterweight to legislative and executive excess. This gains gravity, particularly whenever the opposition is missing in action, he said.

Ramana said that as a judge at times he wonders as to how does one trace the legislative intent behind the enactments. Instead of engaging in meaningful debates for fur thering democracy, politics has become acrimonious, he added.

to 30 square km.

Telangana chief secretary Somesh Kumar who accompanied the chief minister on the tour and Palla Rajeshwar, chairman of the government’s farmer direct benefit transfer programme, Rythu Bandhu, and others, were seated on the dais when the comment was

made. Incessant rains for nearly a week had caused inundation in several areas of Telangana. At the temple town of Bhadrachalam, the water level was 70 feet, way above the third and final flood warning that was given at 53 feet. Today the levels have come down considerably -- to 60 feet.

Telangana CM K. Chandrashekar Rao during aerial survey of areas affected by Godavari flood.

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The additional flight was sent from Ahmedabad, and it returned to Hyderabad during Sunday afternoon with all stranded passengers, sources said.

IndiGo’s competitor SpiceJet is presently under regulator y scanner. On July 6, the DGCA issued a show-cause notice to SpiceJet following at least eight incidents of technical malfunction in its aircraft since June 19.

One of the incidents happened on July 5 when SpiceJet’s Delhi-Dubai flight was diverted to Karachi as the fuel indicator started malfunctioning.

The aviation regulator had on July 6 said SpiceJet had “failed” to establish safe, efficient and reliable air services, and gave it three weeks to send a response to the notice.

JAIPUR, JUL 17 (AGENCIES): Chief Justice of India NV Ramana on Saturday said political opposition is translating into hostility which is not a sign of a healthy democracy and asserted that strong parliamentary democracy demands “strengthening the Opposition as well”.

There used to be mutual respect between the government and the Opposition, but the space for opposition is diminishing and laws are being passed without detailed deliberation and scrutiny, he lamented at an event here.

The CJI said the people expect the court to stand as a counterweight to legislative and executive excess and this gains gravity, particularly whenever the Opposition is missing in action.

Instead of engaging in meaningful debates for f u r t h e r i n g d e m o c r a c y, politics has become acrimonious, he said. “ T h e d ive r s i t y o f opinion enriches polity and society. Political opposition should not translate into hostility, which we are sadly witnessing these days. These are not signs of a healthy democracy,” CJI Ramana said.

He was speaking at an event organised at the Rajasthan Assembly by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) on ’75 years of Parliamentary Democracy’.

Ramana, at an earlier event, said non-filling up of

‘Cloudburst a foreign conspiracy’: KCR in flood-hit area

IndiGo’s Sharjah-Hyderabad flight makes landing at Karachi

NEW DELHI/KARACHI, JUL 17 (PTI): IndiGo’s Sharjah-Hyderabad flight was diverted to Karachi as a precaution on Sunday after pilots observed defect in one of the engines, officials of aviation regulator DGCA said.

On July 14, IndiGo’s Delhi-Vadodara flight was diverted to Jaipur out of precaution as vibrations were observed in the engines of the aircraft for a second.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is investigating both the incidents, officials noted. In a statement about Sunday’s incident, IndiGo said its flight 6E-1406, operating from Sharjah to Hyderabad, was diverted to Karachi.

“The pilot observed a technical defect. Necessary procedures were followed and as a precaution, the aircraft was diverted to Karachi. An additional

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L i s t o f ‘unparliamentary’ words: S o m e wo r d s l i s t e d i n a Lok Sabha booklet as ‘unparliamentary’ is also likely to be taken up by the opposition during the session.

“Some of the issues that were raised included about the words that have been declared as ‘unparliamentary’ and it has been clarified that the compilation of unparliamentary phrases is being done every year for a long time,” parliamentary affairs minister Pralhad Joshi said.

He said such a practice is being carried on since 1954, and the opposition was making it an issue so as

seeks to rationalise the g o ve r n m e n t ’s r o l e i n cooperatives and increase participation in the working of multi-state cooperative societies.

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Bill seeks to strengthen the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code by introducing provisions on cross-border insolvency.

Two separate bills for Constitution amendment to revise the list of Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) for Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu are also listed for introduction.

The ‘Press and Registration of Periodicals Bill’ seeks to replace the 155-year-old ‘Press and Registration of Books Act’ with a simplified version that decriminalises various provisions and brings digital media under its ambit.

However, the opposition felt that the 14day session is too short to discuss all the issues raised by the opposition.

Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge wondered how 32 bills will get passed in 14 days.

“We raised 13 issues i n c l u d i n g p r i c e r i s e, Agnipath, attack on the federal structure of the countr y and misuse of investigative agencies such as ED and CBI,” Kharge said.

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NEW DELHI, JUL 17 (AGENCIES): The Monsoon session of parliament, commencing from Monday, is likely to see the opposition trying to corner the government on the Agnipath scheme and issues like price rise and list of ‘unparliamentary’ words, TOI report stated.

Sunday saw leaders from various parties attend an all-party meeting convened by the government.

Separately, leaders from several opposition parties met at NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s residence in Delhi on Sunday to chalk out a strategy for the session.

Agnipath: Sources said the opposition leaders were unanimous in their demand for the immediate withdrawal of the Agnipath scheme for recruitment in the armed forces.

When asked about the opposition demand for withdrawal of the Agnipath scheme, Joshi said “We are open to discussion on all issues under the rules and procedures of parliament.”

Economy, price rise: The opposition wants to cor ner the gover nment by demanding discussion on inflation, falling value of rupee against dollar, farmers’ problems, MSP, unemployment.

Price rise too is likely to figure prominently in the opposition’s agenda for debate during the discussion.

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Practical protection

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ith rising fresh COVID cases in India, the Union Ministry of health and family welfare has cautioned against complacency and reminded people that the pandemic is not over and advised that it was ‘important to be alert’. As of Saturday, India recorded a total of 20,528 fresh COVID cases which has alarmed health authorities that COVID is still around and believed to be undergoing mutation. The union minister further stressed on the five-fold strategy of Test, Track, Treat, Vaccination and necessity for Adherence to CAB. The spread of coronavirus is facilitated by a number of factors. While some of these factors are driven by the nature of viruses like mutation and creation of variants, there are several human-mediated factors as well, that are very much within our control.

Development of vaccines against the coronavirus raised high hopes that the spread of the virus will be greatly contained. The other belief was that a person cured of COVID will not be re-infected with the virus. Both these are misplaced beliefs and may have led to complacency. According to health authorities, COVID-19 vaccines are effective at preventing severe disease, hospitalization, and death.

However, since vaccines are not 100% effective at preventing infection, some people who are up to date with the recommended vaccines will still get COVID-19. When people who are vaccinated develop symptoms of COVID-19, they tend to experience less severe symptoms than people who are unvaccinated. Those who have been cured of COVID-19 are still vulnerable since the virus has various mutants. During the height of the pandemic in 2020-21 the virus spread like a wildfire. When the virus was novel to medical science, it went on affecting chunks of the population at a time. During that period, government bodies and health agencies could only think of the most practical and simplest way of advising people to remain indoor and avoid travel. To cut down the transmission of the virus, several governments restricted human and goods movements within and outside of the country. Drawing attention on the current spurt in number of fresh COVID cases, Dr Ambrish Mithal, Chairman, Endocrinology and Diabetes, Max Health Care stated that the reasons why COVID cases are popping up all around is mostly because of the large meetings, as most of the cases are coming to fore after mass gatherings; and people who had escaped COVID earlier are getting it now; many people are getting re-infected. All these points stated by the expert point out to one common observation, the virus has decided to stay among us. With a virus in the close vicinity, it is expected that the frequency of infections ought to rise further if people do not take precautions against it.In states like Nagaland where testing has more or less stopped, it would be advisable if authorities urge on more testing. After lockdown measures were lifted, except for COVID protocols, there has been the advise going around, that anyone with COVID symptoms should self-isolate and in case of severity, then get admitted to hospital. More than two years into the pandemic, health leaders have to pass the message down that there is need to ramp up testing. Since cases are rising and since the virus will be around, and despite people being COVID-fatigued, COVID appropriate behaviours will never be outdated in their effectiveness.

DailyDevotion The Miracle of Belief

My speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom… —1 Corinthians 2:4

Paul was a scholar and an orator of the highest degree; he was not speaking here out of a deep sense of humility, but was saying that when he preached the gospel, he would veil the power of God if he impressed people with the excellency of his speech. Belief in Jesus is a miracle produced only by the effectiveness of redemption, not by impressive speech, nor by wooing and persuading, but only by the sheer unaided power of God. The creative power of redemption comes through the preaching of the gospel, but never because of the personality of the preacher.

Real and effective fasting by a preacher is not fasting from food, but fasting from eloquence, from impressive diction, and from everything else that might hinder the gospel of God being presented. The preacher is there as the representative of God— “…as though God were pleading through us…” (2 Corinthians 5:20). He is there to present the gospel of God. If it is only because of my preaching that people desire to be better, they will never get close to Jesus Christ. Anything that flatters me in my preaching of the gospel will result in making me a traitor to Jesus, and I prevent the creative power of His redemption from doing its work.

“And I, if I am lifted up…, will draw all peoples to Myself” (John 12:32).

Quotes

“Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” ~ Roald Dahl

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Rupee squirms for global leap; neighbours key to the dream

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he Rupee is on at least an 11-year-journey in its quest for quasi international status even as it slides below record 80 to a dollar. The Reserve Bank of India circular is testimony of an anxiety for raving up the economy by endorsing a bid that began in 2011. Since India has taken many baby steps to keep dollar at bay.

A dream of former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee may come true if the neighbours do not envy and rupee and economy remain stable. Would Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and ASEAN accept it despite RBI paving the way for currency swapping?

These are good dreams for enabling having an international currency status though RBI circular does not make it convertible. The goals are not easy to achieve when rupee continues to slip rapidly slowing down growth to 4.7 percent as per Nomura. It stresses on policy changes, softer taxes to strengthen the purchasing capacity of individual citizens and protect their wealth to contend with the mighty dollar.

Soviet Union had a rupee-rouble trade arrangement but reincarnated Rus-

sia scrapped it in 1990s. Recently too Russia was given the offer to go back to the old arrangement. It has not expressed interest in accepting rupee though it wants payments in rouble, postUkrainian war. It does not help India as only through a dollar conversion it can pay in rouble. Iran till recently having a close relationship accepted rupee payment amid US sanctions. This was undone by India due to the US pressure. Iran still may work it out provided the sanctions do not deter.

But neither Bangladesh nor Sri Lanka despite high trading ever accepted the swap. Would Indians accept Bangladesh ‘taka’? Rupee is accepted unofficially, in, legal or not, border trades but taka still is not a preference.

The enabling provisions apart, Sri Lanka through its worst crisis takes $ 3 billion loan from India in foreign exchange. The country feels that it would have ready acceptance to its offer from smaller neighbours. Sri Lanka got into the trap of China and today in turmoil.

Bangladesh with over dozen large projects with Chinese assistance is witnessing discontent within. Despite a favourable Awami League

rule under Sheikh Hasina, sentiments are less pro-India. Myanmar has recently agreed to accept Thai baht in border trade dealings and reportedly plans a similar arrangement for Indian rupee seeking to limit reliance on the US dollar.

The Russia-Ukraine war has led to shortage, protectionism and a wave of defaults. It has led to weakening of world growth, high inflation and uncertainty for India with myriad issues like consistent trade deficits of $ 20 billion a month for Shivaji almost a year. The currency reserves now reduced to $ 588 billion as 50 percent of imports have seen price surge. Trade deficits may touch $ 250 billion this year.

India’s trade with Gulf countries crosses $ 175 billion in 2021-22, for much of its oil imports and has investments of $ 16 billion.

The Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement sealed by India and the United Arab Emirates on February 2022 is expected to facilitate Indian exporters gain access to the Arab and African markets besides increasing the two-way trade to USD 100 billion in the

next five years from current USD 60 billion. But the region does not want rupee trading. The latest RBI move is not a new deal. The UPA government in 2013 had finalized a list of 23 countries with which India could have swap trade in local currencies to save precious foreign exchange. The list included Angola, Algeria, Nigeria, Oman, Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, Qatar, Yemen and Saudi Arabia and a task force was set up under the then special secretary Rajiv Kher, which in 2014 endorsed the Sarkar traditional swap model.

In 2011, India and Japan agreed to $ 15 billion currency swap as Japan’s then prime minister Yoshihiko Noda agreed to support the troubled Indian rupee, Asia’s worst performing currency then at Rs 55.39 to a dollar. It was proposed to be increased to $ 75 billion in 2018 by the NDA government. For this a conversion rate is decided and later both the countries repay the amount at the same exchange rate. These are linked to London inter-bank rate, called Libor. Japan has done this with a number of countries like China,

Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand. Madan Sabnavis, chief economist CARE ratings observed that such arrangements were there but never used nor it impacted the market but gives some leverage to RBI. India’s three free trade agreements with the ASEAN, Japan and South Korea have not turned out to be favourable for the country as these resulted in growing deficits in merchandise trade, according to a study published by think-tank Third World Network. It means the FTAs need a review as the perceived benefits elude.

It is erroneous to believe that rupee is losing only because of the present Ukrainian war. There are many other reasons and details have to be listed.

The inherent conditions in the country, the 7.1 percent retail and 15.18 percent (down from 15.88 percent) wholesale price rises, 32 percent hike, in a year, of commodity prices and flight of foreign manufacturers significantly contributed to the crisis. One may wonder why despite 9.1 percent US inflation the dollar values increase.

It is attributed to the US

Fed Reserve decision to increase real interest rates.

It assures higher returns to the investor. India has yet to develop that intrinsic strength. Some peculiar policies also affect India’s economic performances.

High taxes on fuels, and the quixotic idea of junking two crore Euro IV and VI cars by 2025 does not add to the value of the rupee.

It hits below the belt on its march to atmanirbhar Bharat. It adds to severe plastic pollution Blasting of Himalayas and forests has become fad for development. It hurts every citizen, the image of the country, great wealth loss and impoverishes the country. It overlooks that each new car have components that have to be imported and cause further erosion in foreign exchange. Each new car production also hits air quality. The silly UPA rule brought in through the National Green Tribunal has destablised the market.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi should personally intervene to scrap it.

A mix of policy changes and push to the real growth would make the rupee more acceptable and not a mere official circular.

Post-mortem Is a heavy school bag just Agnipath is a new path to meritocracy another face of child labour?

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few days ago, I came across a primary school boy leaning under the weight of his school bag while going to school. It was visibly much bigger than himself. It looked very enormous for a tiny little boy of that age to be carrying that much weight upon his shoulders!

I offered him a helping hand. As I got hold of his bag, one could only imagine how a kid who hardly would weigh 20kgs or so was carrying that 8-10kg (perhaps heavier) school bag! If I may, can I ask, “Are the children carrying bags of books or burdens?”

Indeed, it is nothing out of the ordinary for many of us because we are used to such sights. As a result, it neither bothers us nor gets our attention, which in reality is not only bothersome but disturbing. Many studies show that carrying a heavy school bag can have severe effects on a child’s back, shoulders and spine. It hampers their physical growth. As such, experts suggest that the weight of the school bag should be below 10 per cent of the body mass of the child. For instance, a child who weighs 20kgs should carry a school bag of less than 2kg (empty bag plus books).

This culture of heavy loads (bags) merits our attention and awareness. Some of the strategies which we can adopt to address this problem are:1. Provisions for Locker Shelves.

Schools may, in consultation and coordination with the parents, develop the necessary infrastructure and formulate policies and guidelines to provide locker shelves for students at school, where they can keep their books/belongings which aren’t required back at home on that particular day. Minimum service and maintenance fees may be exacted from the students for the same. It may not be made mandatory but voluntary.

2. Students be Informed of the Books to be Brought.

The contribution of the respective subject teachers in dealing with this problem would be immense. They can achieve this by keeping the students informed in advance about the books to be brought to

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s the day is near, the terrified political parties across the country scrambled for backing candidates, while the President of India is elected indirectly through the proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote from electors comprising MPs and MLAs. The nation is eagerly waiting to elect incumbent Ram Nath Kovind’s successor, while ECI is gearing up for the upcoming event by arranging ballot box / papers, special pens and other sealed materials for dispatch to states / UTs for the successful conduct of the 16th Presidential Election.

Now, who will occupy the splendour of the vast mansion at Rashtrapati Bhavan, which is sited at the top of the Raisina Hill, an area of Lutyen’s Delhi that housing India’s most impor-

the school on a particular day (because the teachers know on which days the students would be needing textbooks/notebooks).

3. Discourage the Use of Bulky Notebooks.

This can be done by the parents.

They may buy notebooks keeping in mind the maximum weight of the bag their children can carry, without adding in excess load. In short, buy notebooks which are thinner and have fewer pages, not bulky/thick ones. If one gets over they can always get another one.

4. Get the Kids the Right Kind of School Bag. Experts recommend the use of a school bag with two straps for the shoulders (e.g. backpack). This way the burden is evenly distributed on both shoulders and hence lessening the effects of carrying heavy bags.

5. Strategy of One Subject One Notebook.

Maintaining different notebooks for classwork, homework, class tests, etc. for a single subject appears novel and trendy but it is not only adding extra weight on the shoulders of the children but also an additional hole in the parents’ wallets. As far as feasible, the strategy of a notebook per subject may be encouraged.

6. Formulate and Implement Policies and Strategies to Resolve the Problem.

This can be done by the State Government or the mechanisms/agencies that look after the affairs of school education and the rights of children. In India, states like Odisha and Delhi have already started enforcing such policies of fixing the weight of school bags and the like to address the burden.

Those few actions on the part of the schools, teachers and parents along with the State government can address, unpack and remove much of the weight that is crushing our children. So, let’s recognize, acknowledge and address this burden that is being carried by the school children to and from their school every day.

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tant government Bhawan (buildings) that epitomizes India’s strength, thriving democracy and heritage. The iconic Rajpath is renowned for having a plush green cover with complete access to all citizens and I walked along the path way back in 21st April, 1997 without any hindrance, when Mr IK Gujral joined his good office on that day as India’s 12th Prime Minister.

I wonder who made such colossal structure. The Mughal made Red Fort, the residence of the emperors of their dynasty for nearly 200 years until 1856. Although East India Company rule began in 1757, following unsuccessful uprising of 1857, the Crown rule took direct control of the Indian subcontinent in 1858, shifted their capital from Calcutta to Delhi during Emperor George V and

s we advance in the coming decade, a new approach to nation building has to emerge. India needs to base its ecosystem on meritocracy as against continuing on the path of mediocrity. This is needed in all echelons of the government, be it at the Central or the State level.

To ensure that the new approach of meritocracy emerges and becomes a national norm, we will have to revamp our educational system, our skill development and skill enhancement system and also the way we look towards jobs. While private sector has some mechanisms in place to weed out non-performers, the Governments have not entered this domain, despite there being existence of enabling mechanisms. It has resulted in a situation wherein a Government-run establishment or PSU-run establishment fails, while the same shines once it enters the private sector.

The defence forces are our last bastion of hope as well as our saviour on multiple counts, whether it is fighting the external aggressors or insurgency or extending a helping hand to the civil administration during calamities. To ensure that the defence forces are able to execute the assigned tasks in sync with the rising challenges, human resources of the defence forces have to be given a new look altogether. A human resource based on absolute merit from each and every part of the nation is the need of the hour for an empowered soldier to join the defence forces.

While the current method of recruitment does allow the entry of the best youth out of the available lot of youth who volunteer to join the defence forces, however, once they join, there is a tendency to get comfortable with the surety of a permanent job followed by a handsome pension. Of course, he/she is willing to lay down his/ her life and gives the best and performs to the best of the ability.

Despite being emotionally involved with the organisation and the nation, not all of them are able to enhance their qualitative edge while in the service, more so, at a time when technical growth in warfare is substantial. Knowingly or unknowingly, a state of mediocrity sets in the organisation, resulting in repetitive training, but still leaving large gaps in the desired capability.

Run for Raisina Hill

made India’s new imperial capital in 1930.

I was stepping into the Cabinet Secretariat that set high on a sunny plateau.

There are two symmetrical buildings - North and South Block on opposite. The narrative about the olden days that many farmers from Raisina and Malcha village turned down the compensation by the British government offered for land.

History looked back Land Acquisition Act 1894 that permitted to acquire from 300 families for the construction of the Viceroy’s House for Lord Hardinge.

The planning of the capital began in 1911 under British Indian Empire.

Architects Sir Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker designed all infrastructures for the entire New Delhi such as President’s House, Secretariat, Parliament, War

memorial India Gate, National Museum, Rajpath (King’s way), Janpath, Teen Murti, Safdarjung, National Stadium, Connaught Place, Lodhi Garden and extensive residential areas. The area become the proud moment for every Indian. Probably it’s India’s Rome. After British left India, Lutyens’ Delhi are now being occupied by bureaucrats and politicians.

I walked fast over the red sandstone towards South Block for a visit at PMO (Prime Minister’s Office).

It was originally called the Prime Minister’s Secretariat until 1977, when renamed during Morarji Desai ministry. There was no stopping me until the Gate No.5 at Defence HQ. Since I was from IAF, the security officer had instantly arranged a visitor pass and took me through a tunnel, which was probably a security alarm

This state results in heavy burden on officers and compromises our ability to lead small team operations both during peace and war when these recruits become NonCommissioned Officers (NCOs), whereas this should not be the case as these recruits need to form the backbone of a future-ready defence force.

Not only that, a majority of the soldiers find it pretty difficult to handle and operate technologically advanced equipment as well as lack the ability to function in a networked environment, an emerging need wherein future wars are transiting from the kinetic domain to the hybrid domain of warfare.

Agnipath scheme is an excellent initiative which conceptually strikes at mediocrity in the defence forces, wherein the best of the available in the country are recruited as Agniveers initially and then trained for four years, including on the job training with units posted.

An objective and transparent criteria thereafter will select only the very best 25% to be retained and thus a major boost is given to meritocracy which is the crying need of the hour. While meritocracy is needed everywhere, it is of the most critical need in the defence forces as in war there are no runner-ups and only those who are at the ace game must be its part.

While the current selection system for officers looks at this issue, albeit only to some extent and requires further refinement, it is almost negligible amongst personnel below officers rank (PBOR).

It is the first time that merit has been given due attention both at the entry level as Agniveer and thereafter a major merit surge, wherein only 25% top performing recruits are taken ahead making transformational changes in the defence forces.

While the scheme may have certain challenges in other domains and hopefully all those will get addressed in due course of time, but on the front of meritocracy, it is a master stroke and a much-needed reform.

Once we look at our defence forces after a decade, we will be the best in the world on all counts.

The writer is a retired army veteran.

Views expressed are personal.

Maj Gen Ashok Kumar, VSM (Retd)

laser detector. I felt like entering Star Trek science fiction television series for adventure. They were no aliens but two giant commandoes from NSG escorted me towards PMO. The security arrangements at entrance disarrayed my usual schedule until I reached PMNRF. It was the office of Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund that accepts voluntary contributions. It aimed at encouraging donations, which can be used to help the needy in natural calamities. It was constituted in January 1948 to assist displaced persons from Pakistan. All contributions are exempt from Income Tax under section 80(G). I was in need of a receipt for ITR and it was a wonderful way of getting to visit PMO. Those days there were no Online Txn or QR code

to scan the receipts for donors. No sooner had I finished a cup of hot beverages, than the receipt was ready.

It really impressed me by their courteous attitude and professionalism towards visitors. I walked away feeling great from the Lutyen’s architecture that makes my heart swell with pride. I saw the panoramic view on the top of Raisina Hill zooming Rashtrapati Bhavan was truly scenic. I took some snaps from my vintage Agfa.

Come this July 18 and the 15th President of India will be elected, however my run for the PMO at Raisina Hill was recalled memorable moments of my life. The surrounding has not changed a lot over the years other than the upcoming Central Vista.

Today I think of that event as it had been a day before.

Kamal Baruah, Guwahati

Reader’s note: Articles or letters published in any of the columns do not reflect the view of this newspaper nor that of the Editor in any manner.

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SC to hear disqualification pleas Govt calls all-party meet on SL crisis Tuesday filed

by Uddhav, Eknath on July 20

NEW DELHI, JUL 17 (PTI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will brief leaders of various political parties on the Sri Lankan crisis during an all-party meeting on Tuesday, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said on Sunday.

During a meeting of all parties convened ahead of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, Tamil Nadubased DMK and AIADMK demanded that India should intervene in the crisis surrounding the neighbouring country, Sri Lanka, which is facing a debilitating economic crisis.

Both DMK and AIADMK raised the Sri Lankan issue, especially the condition of the country’s Tamil population.

Talking to reporters after the meeting, AIADMK leader M Thambidurai said India should intervene to resolve the crisis in Sri Lanka.

DMK leader T R Baalu also demanded India’s intervention in addressing the situation confronting the island nation.

Rajnath Singh (C), Union Minister for Parl Affairs, Coal and Mines Pralhad Joshi and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal in meeting with the Floor Leaders of all political parties. (PTI)

Briefing reporters after the meeting, Union minister Joshi said the government would hold an all-party meeting on the Sri Lanka situation on Tuesday which will be chaired by union ministers Sitharaman and Jaishankar.

Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis in seven decades, with a severe foreign exchange shortage hampering the import of essentials including food, fuel and medicines.

The economic crisis also sparked a political crisis in the country after a popular uprising against the government.

Citing an office memorandum dated July 16, a senior government official said that the briefing by

the finance and external affairs ministries has been scheduled for the evening of July 19, the second day of the monsoon session of Parliament.

The briefing will be attended by the floor leaders of various political parties, the official added.

The monsoon session will begin on July 18 and is scheduled to continue till August 12.

India has assured Sri Lanka that it will continue to support democracy, stability and economic recovery in the country, which is at a crucial juncture, amid the unprecedented political crisis and economic turmoil. The assurance was given to Sri Lankan Parliament Speaker Ma-

hinda Yapa Abeywardena

by India’s High Commissioner Gopal Baglay when he called on the Sri Lankan leader on Saturday.

The m eeting took place a day after Speaker Abeywardena accepted the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

Sri Lanka’s economic crisis also sparked a political upheaval in the country after a popular uprising against the government forced Rajapaksa to flee the country and resign as president.

The island nation off the tip of southeast India needs about USD 5 billion in the next six months to cover basic necessities for its 22 million people, who have been struggling with long

queues, worsening shortages and power cuts.

India has been the principal source of foreign assistance to Sri Lanka this year.

Sri Lankan protesters have vowed to continue their struggle for a complete change of the system by abolishing the presidency, as the popular uprising that ousted Gotabaya Rajapaksa as president marked the 100th day on Sunday.

The anti-government protest began on April 9 near the presidential office and has been continuing without a break.

Rajapaksa, 73, who fled to the Maldives on Wednesday and then landed in Singapore on Thursday, formally resigned on Friday, capping off a chaotic 72 hours in the crisis-hit nation that saw protesters storm many iconic buildings, including the President and the Prime Minister’s residences here.

Acting president Wickremesinghe appears to be their next target for the protesters and the campaign to oust him has already begun.

NEW DELHI, JUL 17 (AGENCIES): A Supreme Court bench led by Chief Justice of India NV Ramana will hear on July 20 the plea

by Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde and 14 other Shiv Sena MLAs challenging the disqualification proceedings initiated by the deputy Speaker.

The court will also hear the plea by Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena group challenging the decision of the newly elected Speaker recognising the whip nominated by the Shinde faction as the Chief Whip of Shiv Sena. Both the groups have sought the disqualification of legislators from the rival faction. After his rebellion led to the collapse of the Thackeray-led MVA government, Shinde took oath as the CM on June 30 along with BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis as his deputy.

In a relief to Shiv Sena MLAs of the Thackeray faction, the SC had asked the newly elected Speaker Rahul Narwekar not to proceed with the plea seeking

Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde

their disqualification which was sought by the Shinde camp on the ground of defying party whip during the trust vote and the election of the Speaker. The Thackeray camp claims that the Shinde-led government is “illegal” until the top court decides on disqualifications, while the rebels claim that they are the real Sena with an overwhelming majority of party MLAs and have the right to select the chief whip.

Raut seeks President’s Rule Meanwhile, Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday also demanded the imposition of President’s rule in Maharashtra till the constitution bench of the Supreme Court gives its verdict.

“Article 164 (1-A) of

the Constitution says that the number of ministers including CM of the state shall not be less than 12.

For the last 2 weeks, the cabinet consisting of just 2 ministers is taking decisions that are not Constitutionally valid. Honourable governor sir, what’s going on?” he questioned. Raut further slammed the Shinde-led government for not expanding the Cabinet. “It (expansion of cabinet) has not happened because there is a Constitutional problem. The 40 rebel MLAs of Sena (Shinde camp) face the threat of disqualification and the matter is being heard in the SC. If they take oath as ministers, they will be disqualified,” he said.

Cong removes Emblem row: Historians say ‘aggressive lions’ Presidential poll not about two former Goa CM candidates, but ideologies: Sinha Kamat from CWC lack basic essence of Ashokan originals

pillar of our Constitution, which is best exemplified

by India’s age-old GangaJamuni heritage of unity in diversity. My rival candidate belongs to a party that has made no secret of its resolve to destroy this pillar and establish majoritarian supremacy,” he said in the statement.

My rival is backed by a party that practices politics of confrontation and conflict. I stand for the Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms and rights of every Indian citizen, without any discrimination. My rival is chosen by those who are violating this principle with impunity.

I stand for harmonious Centre-State relations and cooperative federalism.

Digambar Kamat

NEW DELHI, JUL 17 (IANS): The Congress on Sunday announced that it had removed former Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, whom it blamed of trying to split its MLAs in the state, from the Congress Working Committee, its highest decision-making body. The Congress President has removed Digambar Kamat from his current position as Permanent Invitee to Congress Working Committee with immediate effect, a party statement said.

The Congress has moved for disqualification of him and its former CLP leader Michael Lobo from the Goa Assembly, and had requested Speaker Ramesh Tawadkar to issue notice to both. Congress had earlier removed Lobo as Leader of Opposition.

NEW DELHI, JUL 17 (PTI): Animated or aggressive? Debate over the emblem atop the new Parliament building rages with several historians dismayed that the essence of the original “protective” Ashokan lions has been effaced while others say the differences are minuscule and no two pieces of art can be identical.

India’s emblematic lions have been under a close scanner since Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week unveiled the cast of the national emblem. The discourse it evoked was immediate and polarised.

According to several historians, including Harbans Mukhia, Rajmohan Gandhi, Kunal Chakrabarti and Nayanjot Lahiri, the ‘new lions’ are “dissimilar” when compared to the Ashokan specimens and don’t exude the same calm and peace.

Fe l l ow h i s t o r i a n Paromita Das Gupta disagreed, arguing that the lions in the recent cast look bigger and more animated, true to the animal’s char-

acter. “The artists who created them are more than 2,500 years apart, hence the craftsmanship will understandably differ. It cannot be a carbon copy as no two works of art are identical,” the assistant professor at Hyderabad’s Mahindra University told PTI. The differences between the new emblem and the original Lion Capital of Ashoka at Sarnath are very much visible, said Rajmohan Gandhi, a historian currently teaching at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

“Anyone taking even a quick look at the relevant photographs can notice a difference,” Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson told PTI. “The original work has dignity and confidence. The lions there are protective lions. The current sculpture shows anger and discomfort. Here the lions are aggressive,” he said.

Noted historian Harbans Mukhia forwarded a similar view. “Lions are supposed to be aggressive but these lions (Ashokan)

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“There is no doubt about the fact that the Sarnath lions exude inner strength and calmness,” Chakrabarti said.

He said he would have to have a look at the new emblem installed at the Parliament building more closely to make a better assessment.

“I have seen the Ashokan lions closely and they exude peace, strength, calmness and protection which a new nation should have,” he said. “I could see the teeth are more visible (in the lions atop Parliament).

I also heard the maker say on TV that they are similar, but they are visibly dissimilar, there is no doubt about that,” Chakrabarti asserted.

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KODERMA/GIRIDIH (JHARKHAND), JUL 17 (PTI): Eight people, including seven children aged between six and 16, went missing after the boat they were on capsized in Panchkhero Dam in Jharkhand on Sunday, police said.

The incident took place between 11.30 AM and noon when two men and seven children, hailing from Kheto village in Rajdhanwar Police Station area in Giridih district, hired a country boat for a water ride. “Ten people, including three girls, were on board the boat when it capsized.

The boatman and one of the visitors, however, succeeded in swimming to the shore,” Koderma Deputy Commissioner Aditya Anand told PTI. The dam is located along the boundary of Giridih and Koderma districts.

“A National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team has been deployed for rescue operation, which is underway. A motorboat from the Fisheries Department has also been engaged but we haven’t found any trace of the missing people so far,” he said.

The missing people were identified as Palak Kumari (14), Shivam Kumar (12), Sejal Kumari (12), Har-

are not aggressive, they send the message of peace and protection and are benign kind of lions. The teeth are more visible in the new lions which is not so in the older ones,” Mukhia told PTI. The showing of teeth is a strong sign of “aggressiveness” which shows the “aggressive nationalism” that is being attempted to be portrayed, he said.

This has not been done unconsciously or is artistic liberty, he said. In his view, artists do have liberty but they can’t change the basic message the piece of art wants to convey.

“The teeth are particularly aggressive here. It changes the basic nature.

Modifications convey a meaning. What kind of message is this regime trying to convey? Are you transforming India from a peaceful nation to an aggressive one?”

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My rival is the nominee of an establishment that has launched multiple assaults on the federal structure of the Indian Constitution,” added Sinha in his statement.

He said further that it was never the intention or purpose of the great makers of the Constitution that the highest office of the Republic should be used for the appeasement of any section of our society.

I have re peatedly pledged that, if elected, I shall function, without fear or favour, as the custodian of the Constitution and restrain, when the need arises, institutional misuse by an authoritarian and undemocratic executive, he added.

Making appeal to MPs and MLAs to vote in his favour, he also said that there is no whip issued by the parties in these elections, and the ballot is secret. The makers of the Constitution made this arrangement so that MPs and MLAs could exercise their individual judgment, he stated.

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NEW DELHI, JUL 17 (IANS): Making his final appeal ahead of the poll scheduled on Monday, Opposition’s Presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha on Sunday said that the election is not about the identities of the two candidates but about the ideologies and ideals.

“As I have stressed in all my meetings and media interactions, this election is not about the identities of the two candidates in the fray but about the ideologies and ideals they represent,” said Sinha while sharing his statement on Twitter ahead of election.

The former Union minister said, “My ideology is the Constitution of India. My rival candidate represents those forces whose ideology and agenda, let’s make no mistake, is to change the Constitution. I stand for safeguarding India’s democratic system.”

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Rupee fall fuels inflationary pressures

NEW DELHI, JUL 17 (PTI): Rupee depreciation has impacted the current account deficit and fuelled inflationary pressures but at the same time it has made Indian exports more competitive, according to experts.

The Indian rupee has been depreciating against the USD dollar and is nearing the psychologically key mark of 80, making imports expensive.

“The depreciation of the rupee has multiple impacts on the economy. Given we have a negative trade balance, though a depreciation of the rupee makes our exports more competitive, our import bills go up significantly.

“It has an impact on the current account deficit thus further putting pressure on the rupee as well as imports inflation too as the price of imports in rupee terms is higher,” said Ranen Banerjee, Leader, Economic Advisory Services, PwC India.

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finance ministry cautioned that India’s current account deficit (CAD) is expected to deteriorate in the current fiscal on account of costlier imports and tepid merchandise exports.

Primarily driven by an increase in the trade deficit, the CAD stood at 1.2 per cent of GDP in 2021-22.

Rumki Majumdar, Economist, Deloitte India, said the US dollar has strengthened amid economic uncertainties marked by rising global inflation and commodity prices, rapidly tightening monetary policy in advanced nations, rising geopolitical tensions, fears of a global economic slowdown, and even a possible recession in the US and a few major European

nations.

However, not always does currency depreciation hurt an economy, she added.

“The opportunity to boost services exports revenue on the back of the global digitisation wave is promising. A weaker domestic currency also is an opportunity for FPIs to enter the equity market to earn handsome returns in the medium to long term,” she opined.

Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) were net sellers in the Indian equity market for the ninth consecutive month in June, with an outflow of Rs 49,469 crore -- the highest since March 2020. The sell-off has continued this month, with net outflows to the tune of Rs 7,432 crore during July 1-15.

Overall, FPIs have withdrawn Rs 1.2 lakh crore from the Indian equity market in 2022-23 so far, but the sell-off has been absorbed by domestic institutional investors (DIIs).

Aditi Nayar, Chief Economist, ICRA Limited, was of the opinion that a

weaker rupee will partly counteract the slide in commodity prices, lessening the fall in the wholesale (WPI) and retail (CPI) inflation expected over the next few months.

“Similarly, the beneficial impact of the fall in input costs on corporate margins will be tempered.

The weaker INR will help to protect some export competitiveness, given the sharper fall recorded by many emerging market (EM) currencies than the INR in the recent period,” she added.

Khalid Khan, vicechairman of exporters’ body FIEO, said while a depreciating rupee will help exporters, exporting goods which have import content in terms of raw materials will not be benefited that much.

An article published in its recent bulletin said that amid a hostile international environment, close and continuous monitoring of the widening trade deficit and portfolio outflows is warranted, strong reserve buffers notwithstanding.

As per the latest data, the country’s imports expanded by 57.55 per cent to USD 66.31 billion in June compared to the year-ago month.

The merchandise trade deficit in June 2022 was estimated at USD 26.18 billion as against USD 9.60 billion in June 2021, which is an increase of 172.72 per cent.

Crude oil imports in June almost doubled to USD 21.3 billion.

Coal and coke imports more than doubled to USD 6.76 billion in the month as against USD 1.88 billion in June 2021.

It is widely expected that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may go for the third consecutive hike in the key interest rate next month as retail inflation continues to rule above 7 per cent -- higher than its upper tolerance limit of 6 per cent.

Banerjee further said the matching rate hikes by the RBI in response to the US Federal Reserve actions will also provide support to the rupee.

ASU, NMDA support NIDA demand (From p-1) NMDA: While extending support to NIDA, Nagaland Medicine Dealers’ Association (NMDA) through its joint secretary (media cell in-charge) Arijit Sharma flagged the issue of acute shortage of doctors in the State.

NMDA pointed out that while the WHO-recommended doctor-population ratio is 1:1,000, it was 1:1,700 in India and 1:4,658 in Nagaland, which was testimony to the shortage of doctors in the State. NMDA emphasised that it was high

time to fill up the vacancies by recruiting new, young and dynamic doctors in the State as well as increase the retirement age of doctors to enable them to continue rendering service to the public.

The association regretted that even after the announcement of increasing the retirement age of Central government doctors to 65 years by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 26, 2016 at Saharanpur, UP, no step had been taken by the State government in this regard. NMDA further mentioned that for the two

upcoming medical colleges in Kohima and Mon districts, a huge number of doctors would be required.

It opined that if the medical colleges materialise by this year, there could be an acute shortage of doctors, which was a reason for panic. Also, the three newly-created districts would lead to more vacancies.

Hence, NMDA appealed to the State government to take up the matter in a proper perspective and agree to the proposal of NIDA in the interest of the public and the State.

Bills to amend competition, insolvency laws likely NEW DELHI, JUL 17 (PTI): The government is likely to propose amendments to the competition and insolvency laws as it seeks to further strengthen the regulatory regime as well as address the needs of new age markets.

The bills to amend these laws have been listed for introduction, consideration and passing in the monsoon session of Parliament that starts on Monday.

The Competition Act, 2002, and the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 are being implemented by the corporate affairs ministry. The Competition (Amend-

ment) Bill, 2022 seeks to carry out certain essential structural changes in the governing structure of the CCI and changes to substantive provisions to address the needs for new age markets, according to a Lok Sabha bulletin.

In recent times, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has ordered probes as well as passed various orders with respect to alleged unfair business practices in the growing digital markets. CCI, set up under the Competition Act, has the mandate to promote competition and curb unfair business ways across sectors.

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Diesel, the most widely used fuel in the country, saw consumption drop 13.7 per cent during July 1-15 to 3.16 million tonnes from 3.67 million tonnes demand in the same period of the previous month.

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radic net inflows by FPIs last week, the broader trend continues to be cautious, Srivastava added. FPIs withdrew a net Rs 50,203 crore from equities in June.

This was the highest net outflow since March 2020, when they had pulled out Rs 61,973 crore.

With the latest pull out, net outflow by FPIs from equities this year so far has reached around Rs 2.25 lakh crore -- a record high.

Before this, they withdrew Rs 52,987 crore in the entire 2008, data showed. According to Chouhan, Indian equities witnessed weakness as global inflation prints remained elevated, concerns of US recession increased, dollar index continued its sharp rally and Q1 results of large IT companies were weaker than expected.

IRDA and SEBI will be taxed at 18 per cent and so will be renting of a residential dwelling to business entities.

Bio-medical waste treatment facilities shall attract 12 per cent GST, while non-ICU hospital rooms exceeding Rs 5,000/day will be levied 5 per cent GST, without input tax credit, to the extent of the amount charged for the room.

Besides, individuals will only be able to claim GST exemption for training or coaching in recreational activities relating to arts or culture or sports.

Also, electric vehicles, whether or not fitted with a battery pack, would be eligible for the concessional GST rate of 5 per cent from July 18.

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“Given the uncertainty in the forex market and the sustained strengthening of the dollar, FPIs are unlikely to turn aggressive buyers in the Indian market and at higher levels they may again turn sellers,” said V K Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist at Geojit Financial Services.

Going forward, FPI flows will remain volatile in the emerging markets on account of rising geopolitical risks, rising inflation and tightening of monetary policy by central banks, Shrikant Chouhan, Head - Equity Research (Retail), Kotak Securities, said.

According to data with depositories, FPIs pulled out a net amount of Rs 7,432 crore from Indian equities during July 1-15.

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will now attract 12 per cent GST as compared to 5 per cent earlier.

Some services such as work contracts for roads, bridges, railways, metro, effluent treatment plants and crematoriums too will see tax going up to 18 per cent from the current 12 per cent.

Besides, taxes will be cut on on ostomy appliances and on transport of goods and passengers by ropeways to 5 per cent from July 18, from 12 per cent.

Renting of truck, goods carriage where the cost of fuel is included will now attract a lower 12 per cent rate as against 18 per cent.

GST exemption on the transport of passengers by air to and from northeastern states and Bagdogra will be restricted to economy class only.

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NEW DELHI, JUL 17 (PTI): Foreign investors continue to be cautious about the Indian equity market and have pulled out over Rs 7,400 crore this month so far amid sustained strengthening of the dollar and increasing concerns over a recession in the US.This comes following a net withdrawal of Rs 50,203 crore from equities in June.While foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) have slowed down their pace of selling, this does not indicate a change in trend as there has not been any significant improvement in the underlying drivers, said Himanshu Srivastava, Associate Director - Manager Research, Morningstar India. There has been an exodus of foreign funds from the Indian equity market over the last nine months.

NEW DELHI, JUL 17 (PTI): Customers will have to pay 5 per cent GST on pre-packed, labelled food items like atta, paneer and curd, besides hospital rooms with rent above Rs 5,000 from Monday with the GST Council’s decision coming into force.

In addition, hotel rooms with tariff of up to Rs 1,000/day, maps and charts, including atlases, will attract a 12 per cent Goods and Services Tax (GST), while 18 per cent GST will be levied on tetra packs and fees charged by banks for the issue of cheques (loose or in book form).

Last month, the GST Council, chaired by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and comprising her state counterparts, had pruned the exemption list and imposed tax on a host of goods and services.

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on alert for toxic fumes after SL protesters vow complete system change Authorities cargo plane crash in northern Greece

C O L O M B O, J U L 1 7 (PTI): Sri Lankan protesters have vowed to continue their struggle for a complete change of the system by abolishing the presidency, as the popular uprising that ousted Gotabaya Rajapaksa as president marked the 100th day on Sunday.

The anti-government protest began on April 9 near the presidential office and has been continuing without a break. “We will continue our fight till we achieve our goal for a complete change of the system,” Father Jeewantha Peiris, a leading activist of the movement, said. “This is a freedom struggle. We managed to send home an authoritarian President through people’s power,” Peiris said.

Rajapaksa, 73, who fled to the Maldives on Wednesday and then landed in Singapore on Thursday, formally resigned on Friday, capping off a chaotic 72 hours in the crisis-hit

Sri Lankan protesters storm Ranil Wickremesinghe’s residence.

nation that saw protesters storm many iconic buildings, including the President and the Prime Minister’s residences here.

Acting president Wickremesinghe appears to be their next target for the protesters and the campaign to

oust him has already begun.

“On July 5, we issued an action plan. Foremost of that was removing Gotabaya and defeating Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Rajapaksa regime,” he said.

“We press for the abolition of the presidency to

make it a true realisation of our action plan,” he said.

“We do not fear the government,” the protesters chanted in chorus.

After occupying the three most important administrative buildings in the capital, the protesters

vacated three of them other than the presidential office.

The protest had seen violence since it began midApril. Some elements with extremist political agendas have been blamed for arson attacks on the personal properties of Sri Lankan leaders.

Wickremesinghe’s private house suffered an arson attack the same day when Rajapaksa fled the country.

He is one of the four candidates who seek to succeed Rajapaksa in the vote in Parliament scheduled for July 20. Wickremesinghe, who is also the prime minister, on Friday pledged to maintain law and order after he was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s interim president.

He said that the armed forces have been given the powers and the freedom to deal with any acts of violence and sabotage. “I am one hundred per cent supportive of peaceful demonstrations. There is a difference between rioters and protesters,” he had said.

AT H E N S, J U LY 1 7 (IANS): Greek authorities were on alert for toxic fumes after a Ukrainian cargo airplane crashed near Kavala city in northern Greece, Greek national broadcaster ERT reported.

On Sunday, authorities advised residents of nearby communities to close their windows and doors due to toxic fumes after the crash and ensuing fire.

There is still no official information on the number of people on board and details of the plane’s cargo.

The Antonov An-12 plane was on route from Serbia to Jordan as the pilot requested permission for an emergency landing and notified Greek authorities of a failure in one of the engines, Xinhua news agency reported quoting ERT. The report added eight or 10 people were on board, citing local authorities. A rescue operation is still un-

A flame is seen amid debris of an Antonov cargo plane in Palaiochori village in northern Greece.

derway, with special units of disaster personnel approaching the site with precaution given the unconfirmed information that the plane carried 12 tons of dangerous goods, including ammunition, ERT reported.

In addition to the fumes, there is an unidentified white substance onsite, irritating the eyes and mouth of firefighters, Mari-

os Apostolidis, a fire service officer, told Greek national news agency AMNA. Two firefighters were transferred to a local hospital with respiratory problems, ERT reported.

Eyewitnesses saw the plane in flames crash into a corn field some 500 meters away from a residential area on Saturday evening, with explosions following, according to the reports.

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man posted something offensive on Facebook, triggering anger among Muslims. Police took his father to the police station after a search for the young man failed to trace him.

As tension mounted over the post after the Friday prayer, a group of Muslims demonstrated outside their home in the afternoon. They attacked the homes later. No attacker was arrested. The situation was normal at night, said the police inspector. Narail Superintendent of Police Prabir Kumar Roy said the

People move to safety on their boats in Central China.

province of Gansu, another evacuated, state broadcaster six deaths were reported CCTV said. Rainfall in 1 and 3,000 people have been 1/2 day was as much as

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Experts say such extreme weather events are becoming more likely because of climate change. Warmer air can store more water, leading to bigger cloudbursts when it’s released.

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Among all voters, the most popular policy priority was to “turn the economy around”, with addressing the National Health Service (NHS) backlog and restoring trust and integrity in public life coming second and third respectively.

Cutting taxes, which has emerged as a central focus of all the debates so far, was the fourth priority, selected by 38 per cent of voters overall and 40 per cent of Conservative voters.

The JL Partners poll, which also delved into the characteristics voters are seeking from a new leader, found that 19 per cent of Conservative supporters and 24 per cent of voters overall most wanted a leader who is “truthful”.

The survey, carried out last week, puts the Opposition Labour Party 11 points ahead of the Conservatives, on 42 points to the Tories’ 31.

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LONDON, JUL 17 (PTI): Almost half of the voters for the UK’s governing Conservative Party believe Rishi Sunak will make a good Prime Minister, according to the results of a new opinion poll on Sunday. ‘The Sunday Telegraph’ reports that the JL Partners poll of more than 4,400 people found that 48 per cent of those who backed the Tories in the 2019 general election felt the British Indian former Chancellor would be a good Prime Minister.

This is also the first poll that puts Foreign Secretary Liz Truss in second place, with 39 per cent backing her for Prime Minister and 33 per cent in favour of Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt.

The survey comes as the race to elect Boris Johnson’s successor as the next Conservative Party leader is narrowing down to these three main contenders, with former equalities minister Kemi Badenoch and Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Tom Tugendhat in fourth and fifth place, respectively.

“Among those who have heard of Mordaunt, the overwhelming view is one of neutrality,” James Johnson, co-founder of JL Partners and a former Downing Street pollster, told the newspaper. “Sunak invites strong opinions.

One-third of voters think he would be good in the top job, one third do not.

But in an unpopular field where every other candidate is in net-negative

BEIJING, JUL 17 (AP): Flash floods in southwest and northwest China have left at least a dozen dead and put thousands of others in harm’s way, state media reported Sunday. In the southwestern province of Sichuan, at least six people have died and another 12 are missing after torrential rain triggered flash floods, stateowned news outlet CGTN reported. Some 1,300 people had been evacuated as of Saturday, the report said.

Meanwhile, in Longnan city in the northwestern

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law enforcers were working to keep the situation under control.

“We’re investigating the incident. Those responsible for the violence will face action. The situation is normal for now,” Roy said.

Police forces were deployed in the area to prevent further violence, The Daily Star newspaper reported.

“A f t e r o n e g r o u p looted all our valuables, another group came and found our door open. As there was nothing left to loot, they set our home on

fire,” the paper quoted Deepali Rani Saha, a resident, as saying.

Deepali’s house was among homes and dozens of shops that were vandalised or burnt down in Sahapara village.

A former female member of the reserved seat in Dighalia Union Parishad said most of the able-bodied people have left the village after the attack.

“Almost all houses are locked. Only the elders of some families are home.

They too are scared,” she said.

“Police are on guard in the village, but we cannot trust them,” the newspaper quoted 65-year-old Shibnath Saha, president of the village’s Radha-Govinda temple, as saying.

Attacks on religious minorities in Muslim-majority Bangladesh are increasing and many of them happened after rumours or fake posts spread through social media, bdnews24. com said.

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DHAKA, JUL 17 (PTI): A temple, shops and several houses of the Hindu community have been vandalised in southwestern Bangladesh by some unidentified persons over a Facebook post allegedly belittling Islam, in the latest spate of violence targeting the religious minority in the country, according to media reports on Sunday.

Police fired warning shots to disperse a mob that vandalised several homes and torched one of them in Sahapara village in Narail district on Friday evening, bdnews24.com, an online newspaper quoted Haran Chandra Paul, an inspector at the local police station, as saying.

The attackers also threw bricks at a temple in the village during the attack around 7:30pm, he said.

They also broke the furniture inside the temple.

Several shops were also vandalised, The Daily Star newspaper reported.

Haran said a young

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Aosunep Tzüdir crowned Mr Dimapur 2022

Winners of Mister Dimapur 2022 with the organisers on Saturday.

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osunep Tzüdir was crowned Mister Dimapur 2022 during the Mister Dimapur season II held Nagaland Bamboo Resource Centre

on July 16 organised by Meraki Entertainment.

The event was a charity event for the Ebenezer Orphanage Home.

The first runner-up

was bagged by Vitoka Kathy while Kethosilie Kuotsu was adjudged as the second runner-up.

Other subtitle winners are Mr Popularity & Best

Ethnic wear by Aosunep Tzüdir; Mr Talent by Vitoka Assumi; Best Ramp Walk by Zanben Y Kikon and Mr Multimedia by K Qhevika Sumi.

The judges for Mister Dimapur season II were Opang Jamir as the chief judge, Zeneinuo Awomi and Watila Subba. The event was hosted by Mengu Suokhrie while Imnasenla Rachel was the announcer.

The event was choreographed by Toshizen Longkumer, show director was Thejakhrienuo Nakhro, official photographer was Litsong Sangtam and official videographer was Sk Film. The event was sponsored by LISU CARE pure & Natural and BN sound.

Earlier, the programme was graced

by Deputy Commissioner Dimapur, Sachin Jaiswal as the special guest and CMO Police Referral Hospital, Chumoukedima, Dr. N Adaho as the guest of honour.

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How long do Covid antibodies last?

dults who get COVID-19 could have antibodies circulating in their blood for nearly 500 days after infection, new research suggests. “ We n ow h ave a good estimate of how long antibodies last after a COVID-19 infection,” said study author Michael S wa r t z , a n a s s o c i a t e professor and vice chair of biostatistics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

“Our research shows that the level of antibodies in those previously infected increases for the first 100 days post-infection and then gradually declines over the next 500 days and beyond.”

For the new study, S wa r t z a n d h i s t e a m analyzed data from more than 57,000 volunteers older than 20 enrolled in the Texas CARES survey.

It was launched in October 2020 to track COVID-19 antibody status over time.

Most of the volunteers self-reported a COVID-19

infection before October 2020. The researchers examined blood samples collected from participants between Oct. 1, 2020, and Sept. 17, 2021.

While individual results varied based on age, weight, smoking or vaping, and severity of infection, all of the volunteers had a similar decrease in antibodies, according to the report published recently in The Journal of Infectious

Diseases.

Even though antibodies can last for nearly 1.5 years after C OV I D - 1 9 i n f e c t i o n , Swartz emphasized that vaccination provides the best protection against infection, reinfection and hospitalization.

“We know that the rates of reinfection or hospitalization after being vaccinated are a lot lower than not being vaccinated,

especially against other variants like we saw with Delta and Omicron,” he said in a university news release. “So, if you haven’t been vaccinated, now is the time to do it.”

Previous research f r o m Te x a s C A R E S showed that children had circulating antibodies for at least seven months after a COVID-19 infection.

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ISSF WC: India clinch silver, bronze

C H A N G W O N, J U L 17 (PTI): India’s Anjum Moudgil won a bronze medal in the women’s 50m rifle 3 positions event at the ISSF Shooting World Cup on Sunday.

Anjum shot 402.9 in the final round to finish third behind Germany’s Anna Janssen (407.7) and Italy’s Barbara Gambaro (403.4), who won the gold and silver medals respectively. Sanjeev Rajput, Chain Singh, and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar clinched the silver medal in the men’s 3P team event.

The Indian trio, which had finished second in the qualification stage, faced a strong Czech Republic team in the gold medal match.

But despite putting up a good fight, the Indians went down 12-16 to the trio of Petr Nymbursky, Filip Nepejchal, and Jiri Privratsky. Anjum, a world championship silver medallist, had qualified for the finals after finishing sixth in the ranking round

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Lanka Premier League postponed due to current crisis

C O L O M B O, J U L 1 7 (IANS): Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) announced on Sunday that the Lanka Premier League 2022 has been post-

poned with immediate effect because of the current economic condition of the island nation. The tournament, which would have

been the third edition of the league, was scheduled to happen from August 1-21.

“Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) wishes to announce that the

Lanka Premier League 2022, which was scheduled to be held from 1st to 21st August 2022 will be postponed, with immediate effect.”

Indian sports shooters Sanjeev Rajput, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar and Chain Singh with their medals after winning the silver medal in Men’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions Team event. (PTI)

on Saturday. This is the 28-year-old shooter’s second individual medal in consecutive World Cup stages. She had won silver in the same event at the Baku World Cup held last month.

While Anjum was off the radar and slipped to sixth position after the second prone series, she re-

covered steadily in the final standing position.

By the time the fifth and sixth place shooters were eliminated after the 15th standing position shot, Anjum was 0.2 points ahead of 4th placed Rebecca Koeck of Austria.

However, a slip up in the initial stages meant, she was 1.5 points behind

Gambaro, and despite gaining a full point in the fourth and final five-shot standing position series, Anjum had to remain contented with a bronze.

With one bronze and silver apiece, India consolidated its position at the top of medal tally with a total of 11 medals (four gold, five silver and two bronze).

Team India bags 11 medals in Para-Badminton

Team India at the Para-Badminton International.

21-18 to take the gold.

Kaur also claimed a silver in the mixed doubles SL3-SU5 event along with Chirag Baretha, after losing to French top seed Lucas Mazur and Faustine Noel 14-21, 18-21 in the final.

Meanwhile, Sre overcame a second-game scare from’England’s Rachel Choong to win 21-14, 1821, 21-7 in 32 minutes, for the women’s singles SH6 gold medal.

However, Tokyo 2020

Pa r a ly m p i c c h a m p i o n Pramod Bhagat had to settle for the silver going down to his arch-rival Daniel Bethell of England 17-9, 9-21 in the men’s singles SL3 final.

Among other medallists were: Abu Hubaida (mixed doubles WH1WH2) and Baretha & Hardik Makkar (men’s doubles SU5) claimed the silver medals, while Nilesh Balu Gaikwad (MS SL4), Deep Ranjan Bisoyee (2. MS SL4), Nitesh Kumar (MS SL3), Charanjeet Kaur (WS SL3) and Nilesh Gaikwad & Manoj Sarkar (MD SL3SL4) took bronze.

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DUBLIN, JUL 17 (IANS): Mandeep Kaur and Nithya Sre clinched gold medals as the Indian para-badminton contingent signed off its campaign at the 4 Nations Para-Badminton International 2022 with 11 medals here on Sunday.

Overall, the Indian team will return home with two gold, four silver and five bronze medals. Kaur, who has had a great season with gold and three silver before the Ireland event, defeated a fighting Oksana Kozyna from Ukraine in her final women’s singles SL3 game with a scoreline of 21-18,

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India beat Eng by 5 wkts; win ODI series 2-1

MANCHESTER, JUL 17 (PTI): Rishabh Pant’s maiden ODI century and Hardik Pandya’s all-round heroics fired India to an emphatic five-wicket win over England in the seriesdeciding third match here on Sunday.

The visitors claimed the three-match rubber 2-1.

After India were in a spot of bother at 72 for four in a chase of 260, the crack team of Pant (125 not out off 113 balls) and Hardik (71 off 55 and 4/24) engaged in a battle to outdo each other, as the tourists completed the task with 47 balls to spare.

Hardik g rabbed a career-best 4/24 as a disciplined India bowled out England for 259 with more than four overs left in the innings.

Skipper Jos Buttler top-scored for England with an 80-ball 60.

In the company of Hardik, Pant then showed his extraordinary skills with the bat as he smashed 16 fours and two sixes in his sublime knock at Old Trafford.

This was after lanky s e a m e r Re e c e To p l e y India’s Rishabh Pant celebrates after reaching a century (3/35) again proved to be Sunday. (AP/PTI)

the wrecker-in-chief by removing the trio of Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli in quick succession.

England were on top, as India were struggling at 38 for three in the ninth over.

Suryakumar Yadav made 16 before a Craig Overton ball took off awkwardly for him to nick it to Buttler. India could have been in a bigger hole had Buttler not missed a stumping off Moeen Ali to give Pant a life on 17.

Pant and Hardik then stabilised the innings by mixing caution with aggression.

Hardik got out to a magnificent catch by Ben Stokes, but a flurry of boundaries by Pant meant India had it easy in the end.

Earlier, playing in place of injured Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj got a massive confidence boost early on, when he dismissed Jonny Bairstow with his third ball of the day.

Siraj then ran in to bowl to the prolific Root, got the ball to move away, and the outside edge was nicely taken by skipper

Arsenal beat Everton; Chelsea begin pre-season with win

LO N D O N, J U L 1 7 (AGENCIES): Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta said new signing Gabriel Jesus “creates chaos” after the Brazil forward scored in a 2-0 friendly win over Everton.

The £45m signing continued his impressive pre-season form by firing home from a 33rd-minute corner at the M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore.

Jesus, who scored twice against Nuremberg this month, helped set up Bukayo Saka for Arsenal’s second.

“He creates uncertainty and he’s always on your shoulder,” said Arteta.

“He’s a real threat and this is what we need. He’s very versatile, but obviously the way we would like to develop him is in that [number nine] position.”

Arsenal face Orlando City and Chelsea in Orlando next week.

Chelsea began their pre-season campaign with a 2-1 win over Mexican side Club America at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.

(L-R) William Saliba in action during Arsenal’s preseason friendly against Everton. (Getty Images). Mason Mount, left, celebrates after scoring the winner against Club América.

Chelsea took the lead in the 55th minute when Timo Werner converted the rebound after his initial effort was blocked by teammate Michy Batshuayi.

Club America drew level in bizarre fashion as Reece James played a blind backpass that evaded keeper Marcus Bettinelli.

Mason Mount scored a superb winner with seven minutes remaining, shifting the ball away from a defender before curling in from 20 yards. Chelsea face Charlotte FC in North Car-

olina on Wednesday before meeting Arsenal on Saturday, while Club America face Premier League champions Manchester City in Houston on Wednesday.

Aston Villa beat Leeds United 1-0 in Brisbane courtesy of a second-half penalty from substitute Danny Ings.

Illan Meslier saved a Philippe Coutinho penalty and blocked the rebound after new Leeds signing Tyler Adams was penalised for handball in the first half, but Ings made no mis-

take following Leif Davis’ handball.

Leeds forward Archie Gray was carried off on a stretcher only 11 minutes after coming on as a substitute.

The 16-year-old, son of former Leeds striker Andy Gray and greatnephew of Leeds legend Eddie Gray, was injured in a challenge for which John McGinn was booked.

“It seems like an ankle sprain,” said Leeds coach Jesse Marsch. “We hope he’s OK.”

Rohit at second slip.

With two of their infrom batters back in the hut for ducks, England were in trouble at 12 for two.

Roy and Stokes steadied the innings but when their counterattacking partnership reached 54 runs, Hardik had the former caught behind after tying him down by bowling to a tight line and length.

The ball was on the shorter side but there was hardly any room for Roy to free his arms, and the result was England losing their third wicket with 66 runs on the board.

In the middle of a fine spell, Hardik sustained the pressure from his end and soon he had the English Test captain caught and bowled. India’s bowling was tight, so much so that England could score just 16 runs in seven overs since Roy’s departure.

BRIEF SCORES: England 259 all out in 45.5 overs (Jos Buttler 60, Jason Roy 41; Hardik Pandya 4/24, Yuzvendra Chahal 3/60). India: 261 for 5 in 42.1 overs (Rishabh Pant 125 not out, Hardik Pandya 71; Reece Topley 3/35).

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Sindhu wins Singapore Open title

SINGAPORE/NEW DELHI, JUL 17 (IANS): Star India shuttler PV Sindhu clinched the women’s singles title at the Singapore Open 2022 BWF Super 500 tournament after beating China’s Wang Zhi Yi in the final, here on Sunday.

World No 7 Sindhu took 58 minutes to defeat world No 11 Zhi Yi 21-9, 1121, 21-15 and win her third title of the year.

Sindhu, a former world champion and seeded third in the tournament, started the final at the Singapore Indoor Stadium with purpose.

After Zhi Yi scored the first two points of the game courtesy lucky deflections off the top of the net, Sindhu came roaring back to take the next 13 points on the trot before pocketing the opening game with ease to take the lead.

With the change of ends for the second game placing Sindhu against the drift, the momentum of the match seemed to turn as Wang Zhi Yi raced to a 6-0 lead before the Indian could get on the scoreboard. Despite Sindhu trying her best, Wang Zhi Yi easily took the second game to force a decider. The third game saw a thrilling start with both players exchanging intense rallies. Sindhu did manage to take a five-point lead into the break but with the Chi-

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nese shuttler poised to end the decider playing from the favourable end, there was still work to be done.

Sindhu fought tooth and nail to keep her nose ahead. The thinnest of margins decided each rally but eventually it was Sindhu who stood tall once the dust settled and won her first BWF Super 500 title.

President, PM, Sports Minister laud President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Sunday congratulated ace Indian shuttler P.V. Sindhu on winning her first-ever Singapore Open title.

“Heartiest congratulations to P.V. Sindhu for winning the Singapore Open 2022 tournament for the first time. Your resilience and enthusiasm are inspiring. May you continue to

bring glory and pride to our country,” said the President of India in a tweet. According to Prime Minister Modi, Sindhu’s win is a proud moment for the country and her victory will inspire upcoming players. “I congratulate P.V. Sindhu on winning her first ever Singapore Open title. She has yet again demonstrated her exceptional sporting talent and achieved success. It is a proud moment for the country and will also give inspiration to upcoming players,” Modi tweeted. The Sports Minister felt that the star Indian badminton player is looking in great form with her third title of the year.

“A stunning performance by @Pvsindhu1 to clinch her first-ever #SingaporeOpen title with a 21-9, 11-21, 21-15 defeat of #WangZhi. With her third title of 2022, @PvSindhu1 is looking in great form!” said Thakur in a tweet.

Babar Azam surpasses Kohli

GALLE, JUL 17 (AGENCIES): Babar Azam, the captain of Pakistan, crossed the 10,000 run milestone in international cricket on Sunday, becoming the fastest batsman from Asia and the twelfth overall from his country.

At the Galle International Stadium during the first Test match between Pakistan and Sri Lanka, Babar scored an undefeated 34 from 72 balls to reach the milestone.

He has broken the previous record held by talismanic Indian batsman Virat Kohli, who scored 10,000 runs in 232 innings, to become the fastest Asian player to do so in international cricket.

Babar is the fastest Pakistani hitter to achieve the 10,000-run milestone in international cricket, needing just 228 innings as opposed to the previous mark of 248 innings held by great batter Javed Miandad.

Legendary West Indies cricketer Vivian Richards tops the chart in this regard after scoring 10,000 runs in just 206 innings during his brilliant career.

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