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WINDOWS
J&K statehood only after
■ CEOs say his leadership key force in jab drive

After billion milestone, PM

delimitation, polls: Shah meets 7 vaccine producers
AGE CORRESPONDENT
Home minister: Abrogation of 370 saved state, reduced terror NEW DELHI, OCT. 23 FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19
YUSUF JAMEEL In the backdrop of the
SRINAGAR, OCT. 23 country achieving the
milestone of administer-
Union home minister ing 100 crore doses, Prime
Amit Shah said on Minister Narendra Modi
Saturday that the state- on Saturday held a meet-
hood of Jammu and ing with the seven Indian
Actress Menna Shalabi poses Kashmir would be Covid-19 vaccine manu-
on the red carpet during the restored only after the facturers. It is learnt that
closing session of the 5th edi- delimitation and holding while lauding the efforts
of Assembly elections in of the vaccine manufac-
tion of the Gouna Film Festival
the Union Territory. turers, he urged the com-
in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of “They (opposition) are panies to speed up the
el-Gouna on Friday. — AFP asking for stopping the production of more doses

Bodies of 2 more
delimitation (process). in order to cover more
That is because their poli- population by December Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union health minister
tics suffers. Why should end. Mansukh Mandaviya and Union minister of state for
trekkers found we stop delimitation?
Nothing of the sort is
The PM also talked
about increasing innova-
health Bharati Pravin Pawar meet major Indian Covid
manufacturers in New Delhi on Saturday. — PTI
near Himachal going to happen in
Kashmir now,” he said
Union home minister Amit Shah visits the residence of martyr J&K police inspector
Parvez Ahmed who was killed by terrorists last month and met his wife Fatima
tion in the pharmaceuti-
cal sector to make India health Bharati Pravin Prime Minister Modi
Dehradun/Uttarkashi: Bodies while speaking at a func- Akhter in Nowgam on Saturday. — PTI a drug and vaccine Pawar were also present received congratulatory
of two more members of an tion here. the roadmap”. Commission for J&K set March 2022. Though vari- m a n u f a c t u r i n g in the [Link] messages from several
11-member trekking team He added, “The youth of Mr Shah who is on a 3- up by the Centre and head- ous regional mainstream [Link] from Thursday, India crossed a global leaders on this
which had gone missing on Kashmir get good opportu- day visit of J&K, his first ed by former Supreme political parties and the seven vaccine makers — major milestone in the national feat.
way to Chitkul via Harsil in nities…therefore delimita- since the abrogation of Court judge Ranjana Congress and national Left Serum Institute of India, global vaccination pro- “The vaccine industry
Uttarkashi district were tion will happen after Article 370 and bifurcation Prakash Desai to redraw parties are not averse to Bharat Biotech, Dr gramme against Covid-19 and I, thank you Shri
recovered on Saturday by which elections will take of the state in August 2019, Lok Sabha and Assembly participating in elections Reddy's Laboratories, as its cumulative vaccine @narendramodi Ji, for an
ITBP personnel from near place and then the state- said, “I have come here to constituencies of the UT under the new composi- Zydus Cadila, Biological doses administered excellent interaction. We
Himachal Pradesh border. hood will be restored. I make friends with the has been asked to acceler- tion of constituencies, E, Gennova Biopharma crossed 100 crore doses. feel energised and encour-
The bodies found near have said it in the coun- youth of Kashmir.” ate its work as its extended they have demanded that and Panacea Biotech — India’s cumulative Covid- aged by the vision you
Lamkhaga pass are being try’s Parliament. This is The Delimitation one-year term is ending in ■ Turn to Page 4 attended the meeting with 19 vaccination coverage have laid out for the
brought to Sangla from PM Modi. Union health on Saturday exceeded industry,” Serum
where they will be taken to
Uttarkashi, Uttarkashi District
Magistrate Mayur Dikshit said. UP polls: Cong promises 20L Mamata to minister Mansukh
Mandaviya and Union
minister of state for
101.30 crore. In the last 24
hours more than 68 lakh
doses were administered.
Institute of India CEO Mr
Adar Poonawalla tweeted
■ Turn to Page 4
Full report on Page 3 go on ‘defeat
Yogi govt to rename jobs, loan waiver for farmers BJP’ tour to Daily Covid deaths rise Singaore removes India
Faizabad rly station
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh
Priyanka Gandhi flags off 2022 poll campaign Goa Oct. 28 to 666, 16K new cases from list of travel curbs AGE CORRESPONDENT Singapore: Singapore on Saturday, 23
government has decided to Lucknow, Oct. 23: Panaji, Oct. 23: NEW DELHI, OCT. 23 October, removed India and five other
rename the Faizabad railway Congress leader Priyanka Trinamul South Asian nations from its travel
station, a tweet by the office of Gandhi Vadra on Congress India saw a single-day rise of 16,326 new restriction list.
chief minister Yogi Adityanath Saturday flagged off her supremo Covid-19 cases, taking the tally to The country's health ministry said that
said on Saturday. It will be party's "Pratigya Yatras" M a m a t a 3,41,59,562, while the active cases have Wednesday onwards, all travellers with
called the Ayodhya Cantt rail- from Uttar Pradesh's Banerjee on Mamata declined to 1,73,728, the lowest in 233 a "14-day travel history to Bangladesh,
way station, the tweet said, Barabanki with seven Saturday said Banerjee days, according to the Union health min- India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri
adding that the decision was promises, including loan she would be istry's data updated on Saturday. The Lanka will be allowed to enter or transit
taken by the chief minister. waiver for farmers and on a maiden visit to Goa death toll has climbed to 4,53,708 with 666 through Singapore."
Earlier in 2018, Faizabad was jobs to 20 lakh people if on October 28, and daily fatalities, according to the data In a release, the ministry said it had
renamed as Ayodhya. voted to power in next appealed to political par- updated at 8 am. reviewed the Covid-19 situation in the
Full report on Page 4 year's Assembly polls. ties and individuals to join Kerala has reconciled 292 fatalities on six South Asian countries.
This prompted state par- her party in defeating the Saturday from the previous period. Health minister Ong Ye Kung said
Koozhangal India’s liamentary affairs minis-
ter Suresh Khanna to say
ruling BJP in the state,
where Assembly polls are
Hence, the death toll is higher, officials
said, adding that 99 deaths have been
that since the situation in these coun-
tries had become stable, "There is no
official Oscars entry that the Congress leader's
name should be changed to
due early next year. The
West Bengal chief minis-
reported from Kerala in the last 24 hours.
The daily rise in new coronavirus infec-
longer a need for strict rules that pre-
vent travellers from these countries
New Delhi: Tamil film Priyanka “Ghoshna” and ter’s party has already tions has been below 30,000 for 29 straight from landing here," the Straits Times
Koozhangal is India’s official said the party's promises announced its decision to days and less than 50,000 daily new cases quoted Kung as saying during a virtual
entry for the 2022 Academy are mere poll gimmicks. contest the Assembly elec- have been reported for 118 days now. press conference. — PTI
Awards. The film will only During the launch of the tions in Goa. ■ More on Page 4 ■ More on Page 6
be eligible for the award if yatras, the Congress “As I prepare for my
it finds a place on the nomi- promised purchase of maiden visit to Goa on
nation list. It has been pro-
duced by Nayanthara and
wheat and paddy at `2,500
per quintal and `400 per
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra flags
off Pratigya Yatra in Barabanki on Saturday. — PTI
28th, I call upon all indi-
viduals, organizations
First Snow-fall in Valley, apple crop damaged
Vignesh Shivan. quintal for sugarcane. and political parties to
Full report on Page 4 Besides jobs to 20 lakh She also said her party The party also reiterated join forces to defeat the
people, the Congress will bring a separate mani- that it will give smart- BJP and their divisive
COUNTERPOINT leader said if voted to
power in the state, her
festo for women, reiterat-
ing that the Congress will
phones to Class 12 pass
girls and e-scooters to
agenda. The people of
Goa have suffered
party will "halve the elec- give 40 per cent tickets to graduate girls if voted to enough over the last 10
tricity bill of all". women in the elections. ■ Turn to Page 4 years,” Ms Banerjee said.
“Together, we will usher

Travel blogger Effective judiciary

in a new dawn for Goa by
forming a new govt that

from HP killed
will truly be a govt of the
people of Goa and

in shootout in can ensure robust committed to realising

their aspirations!
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Mexico eatery
she added. The party had

Los Angeles, Oct. 23: A

25-year-old California-
economic rise: CJI earlier announced that
Banerjee would be visit-
ing the state by the end of
this month.
based Indian-origin PARMOD KUMAR On Friday, the TMC
woman techie, who trav- NEW DELHI, OCT. 23 appointed Goa’s former
elled to Mexico to cele- chief minister Luizinho
brate her birthday, was The Chief Justice of India, Faleiro as its vice-presi-
one of the two foreign Justice N.V. Ramana on dent less than a month of Tourists during the seasons first snowfall at a ski resort at Gulmarg in Baramulla
tourists killed in a Saturday said that the peo- his joining the party. district, Jammu and Kashmir, on Saturday. Untimely snowfall has damaged the
shootout between two ple’s faith in judiciary is — PTI apple orchards in the Valley. — PTI
WEATHER drug gangs in the
Caribbean coast resort
the biggest strength of
democracy and rule of law
Max: 28OC of Tulum, according to and an effective judiciary ■ Captain Virat weighs opponents as ‘very strong’ team
Min: 18OC media reports. can contribute to the effec-
RH: 69% The incident happened tive growth of the econo-
Rain: 50%
Forecast: Thunderstorm
on Wednesday night.
Anjali Ryot was killed
along with another
my and flow of foreign
investment.
Having focused on the
N.V. Ramana
Urging the people to
shed the notion that
India face Pak in action-packed T20 tie today
German tourist in the importance of a robust courts are only for the Dubai, Oct. 23: India skip- World Cup jinx against
c r o s s f i r e , judiciary in a democratic criminals and the victims per Virat Kohli on CRICKET ON TV India, who have won all
ASTROGUIDE [Link]
m news portal reported.
country governed by rule
of law, Chief Justice
of crime, Chief Justice
Ramana said that it is
Saturday said they will
take on a “very strong” India vs Pakistan
five clashes in T20’s show-
piece event.
Plava: Dakshinayana Ryot arrived in Tulum Ramana also focused on high time to make efforts Pakistan team in their T-20 WC match: Babar, Mohammad
Tithi: Ashwayuja Bahula on Monday prior to her the state of judicial infra- to remove the taboo asso- Twenty20 World Cup Dubai, UAE Rizwan and Fakhar
Chaviti till 5.43 am (Monday) birthday on October 22, structure which is far ciated with approaching opener and downplayed 7.30pm IST Zaman hold the team’s bat-
it said. short of desired standards. courts and people start their unbeaten record ting key while quicks
Star: Rohini till 1.01 am Her Instagram account He said he has asked the looking at the courts for against their opponents. STAR Sports & HD2 Shaheen Shah Afridi and
(Monday) listed her as a travel government to set-up the affirmation of their rights. India have beaten Hasan Ali lead a potent
Varjyam: 3.58 pm to 5.47 pm blogger from Himachal National Judicial Underlining that the Pakistan in all of their 12 players. bowling attack.
Durmuhurtam: 4.13 pm to Pradesh, living in San Infrastructure Authority courts are a guarantee matches at the T20 and 50- “Pakistan, according to Kohli backed his team’s
Jose, California. and hoped that the govern- against the excesses of over World Cups. me is a very strong team match winners including
4.59 pm Ryot has been working ment will enact a law for it executive and might of the “We never discussed
Virat Kohli
and always has been a Hardik Pandya to come
Rahukalam: 4.30 pm to 6 as a Senior Site in the coming winter ses- state, CJI Ramana said, these things, about our how we prepare and exe- strong side,” he said. good in the tournament
pm Reliability Engineer on sion of parliament. “Court buildings are not record and past perfor- cute on that particular “You have to play your despite the all-rounder
LinkedIn since July. She Chief Justice said this in merely structures made of mance,” Kohli told day, regardless of the best cricket against them, struggling with his bowl-
was previously his address at the inaugu- mortar and bricks. reporters on the eve of the opposition.” because they have lots of ing. “He is getting better in
SUNSET TODAY 5.42 PM employed by Yahoo, the ration of B and C annexe Rather, they actively much-anticipated clash in Kohli said regardless of talent and players who can terms of getting prepared to
SUNRISE TOMORROW 6.28 AM [Link] building of the assure the constitutional Dubai on Sunday. their past dominance change the game.” bowl two overs for us,” said
MOONRISE TOMORROW 8.51 PM m report said. Aurangabad bench of guarantee of Right to “These things create dis- Pakistan is and always has Babar Azam’s Pakistan Kohli. — AFP
MOONSET TODAY 9.34 AM — Agencies Bombay high court. ■ Turn to Page 4 tractions. What matters is been packed with talented will look to break their ■ More on Page 8
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■ ‘10 Hafte, 10 Baje, 10 Minute’ campaign today to combat dengue

SHORT TAKES
51-yr-old man’s
body found at
Delhi now close to winning
Yamuna ghat
New Delhi: The Delhi Police
have recovered the body of a
battle against dengue: CM
BHASKAR HARI SHARMA
51-year-old man from a ghat
on Yamuna river in southeast
Delhi’s Kalindi Kunj.
NEW DELHI, OCT. 23 Providing best education to children
According to a senior police
official, after receiving infor-
mation on Friday, a police
Amid a spike in the num-
ber of dengue cases in the
national capital, chief
is greatest act of patriotism: Kejriwal
team arrived at the spot and minister Arvind Kejriwal New Delhi, Oct. 23: B.R.
met Manish Tiwari, a relative on Saturday claimed that Ambedkar’s dream that
of the deceased, who said his Delhi was now “close to every dalit child should
uncle and Burari resident winning the battle” get the best education was
Sanjay Kumar Rai had been against the vector-borne not fulfilled in 70 years,
missing since October 18. “A Security personnel stand guard as NSUI members stage a protest at a petrol pump disease. Delhi chief minister
missing person’s report was over hike in petrol and diesel prices in New Delhi on Saturday. — PTI He encouraged all city Arvind Kejriwal said on
filed at the Naraina police residents to participate Saturday, asserting he has
station. During the search for actively in the ‘10 Hafte, 10 vowed to fulfil it. He
the man, a CCTV footage of
the deceased jumping into
the Yamuna from the
Signature Bridge was
7-yr-old girl raped in Delhi Baje, 10 Minute’ campaign
on Sunday to combat
dengue.
“The people of Delhi
appealed to people to
ensure the best education
for their children, saying
it is the greatest act of
obtained,” said the senior
police official. “The family
DCW issues notice to police seeking immediate action have decided that they
would only rest after driv-
patriotism and will go a
long way in making the
members of the deceased New Delhi, Oct. 23: A CCTV cameras in the area mission has asked the ing away dengue from the country great.
identified him in the footage. seven-year-old girl was was analysed and the police to take immediate city,” he said. “Babasaheb Ambedkar
On Friday, they were allegedly raped by a man accused has been identi- action in the matter and “Delhi is now very close had a dream that every Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal presents a certificate to a stu-
informed through a disaster in central Delhi’s Ranjeet fied. Several teams are con- also sought the details of to winning the battle dalit child should get the dent during 'Pratibha Samman Samaroh' on the ocas-
helpline number that a body Nagar area, police said on ducting raids to nab him, the FIR, it said. against dengue. Like pre- best education but that sion of Maharishi Valmiki Jayanti at Tyagraj Stadium in
had been found at the ghat, Saturday. The incident the officer added. DCW chairperson Swati vious weeks, this Sunday dream was not fulfilled in New Delhi on Saturday. — PTI
police said. Tiwari reached took place on Friday when Meanwhile, the Delhi Maliwal said: “I am very too, at 10.00 am, let us all 70 years. I have vowed that
there and called the police. It the victim was going to a Commission for Women anguished over the inci- spend 10 minutes inspect- I will fulfil Babasaheb’s from private schools them in any other work,”
was shifted to the AIIMS. place near her residence (DCW) issued a notice to dent. It is a matter of great ing our homes and sur- dream,” he said. moved there this year. he told the gathering.
Autopsy was conducted on where food was being dis- the Delhi Police on concern and shame that rounding areas for any Paying tribute to “Maharshi Valmiki and The chief minister also
Saturday and the body was tributed for free, police Saturday seeking immedi- we have to go through with sign of stagnant water. If Maharshi Valmiki at an Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar, presented certificates and
handed over to family mem- said. ate action in the matter. such matters of sexual you do find such water, event hosted by Delhi two great icons of the shields to 22 students of
bers, police added. It is suspected that the According to a statement assault with children on drain it, replace it, or Sanskrit Academy at Valmiki community, Delhi government schools
accused lured the minor released by DCW, the com- frequent basis. Only strin- cover with a layer of oil. Thyagaraj Stadium, Mr emphasised on learning who scored over 90 per
Yellow Line Metro and raped her, police said,
adding that the girl is sta-
mission was informed that
a seven-year-old girl was
gent measures can stop
incidents of rapes with
Together, let us all make
Delhi dengue-free,” he was
Kejriwal said government
schools are much better
and education. I ask you to
send your children to
cent marks in board
exams.

not to run for ble. A case under relevant

sections of the Indian
lured by a man who offered
her a `10 note and raped
girls. I seek immediate
action by the Delhi Police
quoted as saying in a state-
ment issued by the Chief
now and 2.5 lakh students schools and not engage — PTI

few hours today

Penal Code and POCSO her. in the matter, accused Minister’s Office.
Act has been registered The DCW chairperson must be immediately The chief minister’s first death due to it was diseases released on recorded this season till
and an investigation is took cognizance of the arrested and punished assertion comes amid a reported on Monday. Monday, one death due to October 16, which is the
New Delhi: Services on a underway, a senior police matter and issued notice to with capital punishment.” surge in dengue cases in According to a civic dengue and a total of 723 highest case count since
section of Delhi Metro’s officer said. Footage from the Delhi Police. The com- — PTI the last two weeks and the report on vector-borne dengue cases have been 2018 for the same period.
Yellow Line between the

Sextortion racket busted, kingpin arrested from Rajasthan Delhi records no Covid-19
Vishwavidyalaya and the
Model Town stations will not
be available for a few hours

death, 40 cases in 24 hrs

on Sunday morning due to
maintenance work, the AGE CORRESPONDENT ing them with their received a complaint from Concerned over his repu- information leading to the
DMRC said. The Yellow Line NEW DELHI, OCT. 23 obscene pictures and a girl that he was exploit- tation, the man trans- accused.
connects Samaypur Badli in videos. ing her. They claimed to ferred Rs 4,00,000 to the It was found that the
Delhi to HUDA City Centre The Crime Branch of On October 2, police have the video clippings as accounts provided by the extortionists were using AGE CORRESPONDENT were reported last month
in Gurgaon. “There will be Delhi Police on Saturday received a complaint from well. extortionist. more than 100 mobile NEW DELHI, OCT. 23 — one each on September
no service between Model claimed to have arrested an elderly person regard- The fake officials Based on the complaint, phones and over 1,000 SIM 7, September 16 and
Town & Vishwavidyalaya on the mastermind of an ing extortion calls from demanded money from police filed an FIR and Cards issued on fake IDs of Delhi on Saturday record- September 17, and two on
Yellow Line tomorrow inter-state sextortion gang different numbers. The him for not uploading his launched an investigation, various telecom sectors ed 40 cases and no death September 28, according
(Sunday) till 7:30 am due to from Rajasthan’s callers were introducing video. during which they came like Assam, Bihar, due to Covid-19 and with to official figures.
pre-planned maintenance Bharatpur. themselves as YouTube They threatened to across similar modus Rajasthan, Delhi. a positivity rate of 0.07 Four fatalities due to the
work. GTB Nagar Station According to police, the ‘officials’. implicate him in a rape operandi and prime sus- During technical investi- per cent, according to infection have been
will remain closed during gang led by Nasir (25) has The callers, the com- case and upload his video pects’ mobile numbers. gation, it was learnt that data shared by the city recorded so far this month
this period. Services will be been indulging in extort- plainant said, were on various social media The team then mounted the persons were operat- health department. in Delhi — on October 2,
normal on rest of the net- ing money from reputed demanding a huge amount platforms if he failed to technical surveillance and ing from Mewat region in Only five fatalities due October 10, October 19 and
work,” the DMRC tweeted. persons after blackmail- of money saying they have pay. collected various crucial Bharatpur. to coronavirus infection October 22.

42-yr-old man stabbed

to death at Patel Nagar
AGE CORRESPONDENT persons, they said.
NEW DELHI, OCT. 23 Younger brother of the
deceased, Bablu said that his
A 42-year-old man was brother was returning home
stabbed to death allegedly by from work when the incident
some unknown persons in happened.
west Delhi’s Patel Nagar “He was returning home
area, police said on Saturday. while talking to his wife over
The deceased has been phone. Manoj told her that
identified as Chhotu Ram he is coming home in five
alias Manoj, a resident of minutes. He also asked her to
Faridpuri in West Patel get ready to go to the Friday
Nagar, they said. market for ‘karwa chauth’
Deputy Commissioner of shopping,” Bablu said.
Police (central) Shweta Thereafter, he cut the call
Chauhan said that victim and after 20 to 25 minutes,
Manoj received one stab his wife received a call and
injury on left side of his was asked to reach hospital,
abdomen and declared he said.
brought dead in RML hospi- Manoj, who was a native of
tal on Friday. Rajasthan, is survived by
A case has been registered. wife, a 13-year-old son and a
Police received some vital five-year-old daughter. He
leads and investigation is was the sole breadwinner of
underway to nab the accused the house, Bablu said.

Doc among 5 held for

pilfering medicines
bearing ESIC stamps
AGE CORRESPONDENT while most of the card hold-
NEW DELHI, OCT. 23 ers had never visited the
said dispensaries, some of
Five persons, including them who did, had pur-
Employees’ State Insurance chased medicines different
Corporation (ESIC) officials from the cache recovered
and a doctor, were arrested from the accused.
on Saturday by the Crime During the initial investi-
Branch for allegedly pilfer- gation, it was also revealed
ing medicines meant for that Chandra Prakash was
public health facilities in the in touch with Saini on
national capital, police said. WhatsApp, and suggested
The accused have been rare and expensive drugs to
identified as Chandra prescribe on patient cards.
Prakash, (33), Ankit Mishra, A Medicine Stock Report
(23), Praveen Mangla,(40), was obtained from ESI dis-
Sumesh Rathi, (52) and Dr pensaries in Okhla and
Avinash Saini. Tigri, and the batch num-
While Chandra Prakash bers of the seized medicines
and Mishra hail from were matched with it.
Haryana’s Faridabad, The same medicines were
Mangla is from Badarpur, also prescribed by Saini on
Sumesh from Kalkaji the ESIC beneficiary cards,
Extension (both Delhi) and thus establishing the duo
Saini from Greater Noida in conspired and sold life-sav-
UP. ing drugs in the market for
According to police, two monetary gain. Saini was
persons were caught red- subsequently arrested from
handed with a large amount ESIC in Kalkaji.
of medicines bearing ESIC He had got a job at ESIC
stamps. One of them was Hospital after completing
identified as Chandra MBBS from Karnataka.
Prakash, a pharmacist in When he came in contact
ESIC in Okhla. with co-accused Chandra
The recovered medicines Prakash, he started prescrib-
were issued for ESIC card ing life-saving drugs for
holders. However, during a financial gains. Further
probe, it was found that investigation is underway.
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SHORT
Army jawan held
TAKES
Heavy rains, snowfall lash
for links with ISI
Amritsar; The Punjab Police
on Saturday claimed to have
busted an espionage net-
J&K; 3 Gujjar nomads killed
work with the arrest of an
Army [Link] State
One injured in Pulwama after soil bund collapse over marquee
Special Operation Cell, YUSUF JAMEEL
Amritsar arrested Army
jawan Krunal Kumar Baria, a
SRINAGAR, OCT. 23 Bodies of 2
resident of Gujarat, police
said. He was presently serv-
Three members of a
nomad Gujjar family,
more trekkers
ing at Ferozepur Cantt, they
said. Police claimed that the
including two women,
were killed and another missing from
jawan was in touch with vari-
ous Pakistan-based ISI
man was critically
injured in Jammu and U’khand found
agents through social media Kashmir’s southern
applications. Taking advan- Pulwama district when Uttarkashi (U’khand), Maharashtra cabinet minister Aaditya Thackeray with foreign secretary of UK Liz
tage of his deployment in the marquee they were Oct. 23: Bodies of two Truss during her visit at HMS Defender, a type 45 air-defence destroyer ship, during
the IT cell, he had allegedly living under was swept by more members of an 11- the Royal Navy and Indian Navy meet at the Mumbai International Cruise Terminal on
been passing highly sensi- the debris of a soil bund member trekking team Saturday. — PTI
tive and classified informa- that collapsed under the which had gone missing
tion about the Army to his impact of incessant rain on way to Chitkul via
Pakistan-based handlers. He
was paid money for the
same, they said. During pre-
liminary investigations, it
on Saturday.
Elsewhere in Kashmir,
orchards and apple and
paddy crops suffered
Harsil in Uttarkashi dis-
trict were recovered on
Saturday by ITBP person-
nel from near Himachal
U’khand poll: Sikhs can tilt
was found that the accused
came in touch with a woman
Pakistan Intelligence Officer
(PIO) Sidra Khan through
extensive damage follow-
ing moderate to heavy
snowfall and incessant
rain whereas the high-
Pradesh border.
The bodies found near
Lamkhaga pass are being
brought to Sangla from
the scales in Terai region
Facebook in 2020. Later, ways connecting the where they will be taken YOJNA GUSAI ◗ AROUND 3% of the from among the communi-
they started communicating Valley with Jammu and to Uttarkashi, Uttarkashi NEW DELHI, OCT. 23 state's total population, ty. Most opinion polls have
through WhatsApp and Ladakh were shut mainly district magistrate Mayur suggested the BJP retain-
other private messaging and due to landslides and Dikshit said. In Uttarakhand’s Terai
Sikhs are mainly concen- ing power in Uttarakhand
calling apps. — PTI accumulation of snow. The bodies were spotted region, Sikhs are one of trated in Udham Singh and breaking the trend of
The vehicular traffic on on Friday, but could be the main focal points of Nagar. Couple of assem- BJP and Congress coming
3 children die of several inter-district
roads was also disrupted.
Policemen with people from nomadic community who
were stuck in heavy winds and snowfall at higher
recovered on the resump-
tion of rescue operations
election strategies of the
ruling BJP and the opposi-
bly seats in the Nainital
and Haridwar districts
to power alternately.
Around three per cent of
dengue in UP village The locals and police
sources said that four
reaches of Nagbal Yousmarg. Police rescued 4 families
comprising of 16 members. — PTI
on Saturday, he said.
They were identified as
tion parties.
Considered as a strong
also have sizable number
of Sikh population
the state’s total population,
Sikhs are mainly concen-
Shamli (UP): Three children Gujjars came under the those of Upendra Singh vote-bank of the BJP in the trated in Udham Singh
of a family died of dengue debris after a retaining trict of Jammu region. control department to (37) from Purola in hill state, the community is vote like their brethren in Nagar. A couple of
and several others fell ill fol- wall gave way under the Various political parties mobilise their men and Uttarkashi and Richard being aggressively wooed Punjab, where the BJP is Assembly seats in the
lowing a breakout of the impact of heavy rain at have urged the govern- machinery to meet the Mandal (30) from Kolkata, by the Congress and the facing a tough challenge Nainital and Haridwar dis-
fever in the district Kanji Nag in Noorpora ment to provide compen- urgency. district disaster manage- AAP, keeping in mind the because of the ongoing tricts also have a sizable
[Link] (9), Saifullah (4), Tral area of Pulwama, sation to orchardists who IGP Vijay Kumar said, ment officer Devendra likely impact of the ongo- protests. number of Sikh popula-
and Nargis (6) of Odri vil- knocking down their suffered damages due to “The helpline numbers Patwal said. ing protests by farmers’ While the BJP poll man- tion. While the saffron poll
lage in Jhinjhana police sta- makeshift marquee. Soon, untimely snowfall imme- have been established at The bodies of five unions against the three agers are busy formulating managers are keeping a
tion area succumbed to the the locals, joined by the diately. The Kashmir district levels in the trekkers were brought farm laws. While the com- strategies to contain the close watch on the strate-
fever. They were shifted to a police, launched a rescue police has established Kashmir Valley as well as down on Friday. Two are munity is represented by likely impact of the farm- gies of political opponents,
hospital in Rohtak district in operation and took the helpline services to facili- at the police control room, still missing while two four-time MLA from ers unions’ protests and both the BJP and the RSS
Haryana. All these deaths victims—all of them criti- tate the general public Srinagar. People may con- surviving members of the Kashipur seat Harbhajan reaching out to the com- have roped in their Sikh
occurred within a span of cally injured—to the hos- seeking help during any tact their respective dis- team are under treatment Singh Cheema from the munity through its Sikh cadre to reach out to the
last three days. According to pital where three of them emergency arising due to trict or police station in Harsil and Uttarkashi. BJP in the state Assembly, cadre, the party leadership Sikh vote-bank to counter
Novjit Bedi, Jhinjhna com- succumbed and the fourth inclement weather. helplines in case of any Search operation for the the Congress is likely to is also receiving com- the “opposition camp’s
munity health centre in- was battling for life as Several areas in emergency or exigency.” missing trekkers has field at least three candi- plaints that some of its propaganda” against the
charge, a medical team has reports last came in. Srinagar were water- These helplines will been halted due to bad dates this time, mainly in leaders are indulging in three laws and persuading
been sent to the village for The deceased have been logged, giving a tough function round the clock weather at a height of the Udham Singh Nagar “Hindu Vs Sikh” during them “not to become a vic-
treatment of the affected. identified as Irshad time to residents and and render all the 12,000 ft, the DM said, district. Chief minister their campaigning to lobby tim of opposition parties’
More than a dozen people Ahmed Bargud, Mehnaz prompting the municipal- required assistance and adding that it will be Pushkar Singh Dhami’s for the party ticket. vote-bank politics.”
were reported sick with the Akhter, and Wahab Jan, ity and public health and help to the needy, he resumed as soon as the constituency, Khatima, Even the RSS, it was One of the main reasons
dengue in the village. all residents of Reasi dis- engineering and flood added. weather permits. — PTI also falls in Udham Singh learnt, has flagged the behind former minister
Former Block Pramukh Nagar district, which has issue after receiving feed- Yashpal Arya quitting the
Aslam said he has informed nine Assembly seats. back from the sangh’s Sikh BJP and joining Congress
the district chief medical
officer about the spreading
Mufti slams August 5, 2019 will be written The protests have their
origin in Sikh dominated
cadre.
Amid reports that the
was the likely impact of
farmers unions’ protests in
of the fever in the village.
Centre over Punjab, another poll-going
state, and the opposition
Congress could field at
least three Sikh candidates
his constituency Bajpur in
the region, which has one

in ‘golden letters’: Amit Shah

— PTI
parties are hoping that the in the coming Assembly of the highest concentra-

Jharkhand: 2 get life Amit Shah’s “aggrieved” Sikh commu-

nity in Uttarakhand will
polls, the BJP is painstak-
ingly vetting its candidates
tions of
population.
the Sikh

YUSUF JAMEEL
term for raping minor J&K visit SRINAGAR, OCT. 23
of
are now
J&K said, “As many as 2,081
civilians were killed
5 Myanmar
Ramgarh: A court in
Jharkhand’s Ramgarh district
on Saturday sentenced two
Srinagar, Oct. 23: PDP
president Mehbooba
Mufti on Saturday said
Home minister, Amit
Shah, asserted
Saturday that August 5,
on
talking
about the
develop-
m e n t ,
between 2004 and 2014
which is 208 every year
while between 2014 to
2021 only 30 civilians a
nationals held PM: ‘Double engine’
persons to life imprisonment
for raping a minor girl in
Union Home Minister
Amit Shah inaugurating
2019, when Article 370
was abrogated and
skill up-
g r a d a -
year have died which
tells you militancy has without valid govt must to make
2019. Radha Krishna, international flights Jammu and Kashmir was tion, and reduced”. He said that
docus in Assam
Additional District Judge-1,
Ramgarh, awarded the pun-
ishment to the two men
under the Protection of
and medical colleges
were cosmetic steps that
will not address the
actual problem in
split up into two Union
Territories, will be writ-
ten with “golden letters”
in history books.
employ-
m e n t
besides
scholar-
Amit Shah
likewise, stone-pelting
incidents
declined.
have also

He said that Kashmir is

MANOJ ANAND
GUWAHATI, OCT. 23
Goa self-sufficient
Children from Sexual Jammu and Kashmir. “It was the end of mili- ships for education.” He the heart of the country Panaji, Oct. 23: Prime
Offences (POCSO) Act. The She said ideally the tancy and terrorism, cor- asked to compare it with and every Indian wants Assam police on Minister Narendra Modi
court also slapped a fine of home minister’s visit ruption, nepotism, and what used to be happen- peace, development, and Saturday apprehended on Saturday virtually
`80,000 on each of them, should have been pre- dynasty rule and the ing on the ground prior prosperity in the Valley. five Myanmar nationals sounded the bugle for the
and in default of payment, ceded by a follow up on dawn of a new era of to August 5, 2019- ‘vio- “We have to continue who entered India with- next year’s Goa Assembly
they will undergo three assurances given to peace, development, and lence, stone-pelting, and with the same,” he said out valid documents in elections and expressed
years of additional imprison- leaders of the union ter- prosperity for which the terrorism-related activi- adding “Youth are Cachar district along the the need for the continua-
ment. Manish Kumar Mahto ritory during the all- youth of Jammu and ties.’ responsible for the better Assam-Mizoram border. tion of a “double engine”
and Basu Bedia were arrest- party meeting convened Kashmir have to con- He said that there were tomorrow of J&K…We Cachar SP Ramandeep government to realise the
ed in February 2019 on the by the Prime Minister in tribute”, he said while apprehensions that mili- will make J&K an ideal Kaur told reporters, vision of making Goa
charge of raping the girl. June this year. speaking at a function tancy will increase after state and no one can stop “They had entered into self-sufficient. Modi inter-
Altogether 10 witnesses “HM inaugurating here. the abrogation of Article that. I’m glad the youth of India without valid docu- acted with the beneficiar-
were examined in the case. international flights He asserted, “We have 370 but the level of vio- the Valley is now on the ments. All are hailing ies and stakeholders of Narendra Modi
— PTI from Srinagar & laying given a fresh start to a lence has only come right path of develop- from Chin state in the ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat
foundation of new med- new Kashmir. The youth down considerably. He ment and prosperity”. Myanmar.” Swayampurna Goa pro- Assembly elections in

RELATIONS WITH
ical colleges isn’t new. Pointing out that appre- gramme’ via video confer- Goa.
Half a dozen medical hended Myanmar nation- encing. “Goa can become
colleges were sanc- als confessed that they His ‘double engine’ ref- 'swayampurna' (self-suffi-

B’DESH A ROLE tioned by UPA govern-

ment & are functional
are entered India through
Mizoram and were mov-
erence was to the BJP
governments at the
cient) only when it makes
cent per cent use of the

MODEL: SHRINGLA
now. Post Article 370 ing towards New Delhi, Centre as well as in the developmental avenues
abrogation & an engi- police said that detainees BJP-ruled Goa, where and possibilities,” PM
neered crisis, J&K has have been identified as Assembly polls are due in Modi said, adding that
New Delhi: India-Bangladesh been thrown into Thang Khawm Pau (21), February next year. ‘Swayampurna Goa’ is a
relations today are deeper chaos,” Mehbooba said Khen Khan Kham (19), The poll scene in Goa means to fulfil the aspira-
than any other strategic in a series of tweets. Pau Hawmliam Mung has started hotting up tions of common people.
partnership and a “role She said the Union (23), Cin Aih Mang (23) ahead of the elections. “Swayampurna Goa is
model” for ties between two government should and Pau Biak Muang (19). Incidentally, Trinamul an assurance of well-
neighbouring countries, dor- address the real prob- They all are residents of Congress (TMC) supremo being and health of our
eign secretary Harsh lems to provide a sense Tiddin village under Mamata Banerjee on mothers and sisters.
Vardhan Shringla said on of relief to people. Sezang police station of Saturday said she would Swayampurna Goa will
Saturday. In his remarks at “This crisis is of GOIs Myanmar’s Chin district. be on a maiden visit to provide employment and
the ‘Swarnim Vijay Varsh making & instead of It is significant that Goa on October 28, and self-employment opportu-
Conclave: 2021’ on reaching out they opted over 12,000 people from appealed to political par- nities to youths and
‘Humanitarian, Political and for cosmetic steps that Myanmar have crossed ties and individuals to unemployed people,” he
Diplomatic Facets of the don’t address the actual over to Mizoram since join her party in defeat- added.
1971 War’, Shringla also laud- problem. Ideally, HM’s February this year fol- ing the ruling BJP in the The PM said it was not
ed the role of the Indian Air visit should have been lowing military action in state. just a programme of five
Force in the war, saying it preceded by following the bordering villages in The West Bengal chief months or five years, but
played a crucial role in sup- up on PM’s assurances ISKCON followers participate in a peaceful prayer vigil to protest against the alleged Myanmar’s Chin state minister’s party has it is the first phase of the
porting the valiant struggle post the all-party meet- attack on the ISKCON temple in Bangladesh and demanding justice for Hindus and along the international already announced its vision for the next 25
of the Mukti Bahini. Having ing,” she said. — PTI minorities outside ISKCON temple in Kolkata on Saturday. — PRITAM BANDYOPADHYAY border. decision to contest the years. — PTI
served in Bangladesh,
Shringla said he has heard
many brave accounts of the
dogfights that IAF pilots
engaged in over Dhaka,
which greatly inspired the
Bangladeshi people watch-
‘Govt has taken various steps for better judicial infra’
ing this from their rooftops. Mumbai, Oct. 23: Stating to justice, but it is baffling of the infrastructure of made a provision for 1,450
He asserted that 1971 was as that a robust judiciary is to note that its improve- the lower judiciary, Rijiju lawyers’ halls. The gov-
much a moral and political of “utmost importance” to ment and maintenance said. ernment will construct
victory as it was a decisive make democracy success- was being carried out in This budget has been 1,450 toilet complexes.
military victory for India. ful, Union law and justice an ad-hoc and unplanned sanctioned for the con- There will be 3,800 digital
“We stood on a high moral minister Kiren Rijiju on manner in the country. struction of 3,800 court computer rooms,” the Law
and ethical ground and his- Saturday underlined vari- The Law minister said it halls and 4,000 residential minister said.
tory proved us right as the ous decisions taken by the was the responsibility of units for all the judicial Rijiju said a provision
people of Bangladesh vindi- Centre to improve the the Union government to officers in the district and has also been made for the
cated their self-respect and judicial infrastructure. ensure that the judiciary subordinate courts among betterment of gram nyay-
honour and won their fight Mr Rijiju was speaking at is not only extended full others, he added. alayas (courts in villages).
for freedom and human the inauguration of two support but is also made He said the Central gov- As part of the ‘E-Court
rights,” the foreign secretary wings of the annexe build- robust. He also called for a Kiren Rijiju ernment will “pool togeth- Mission Mode Project,
said. Never before in the ing at the Aurangabad “harmonious relation- support to (judicial) infra- er” the money (`9,000 18,735 courts have been
recent history of our region, bench of the Bombay ship” between the judici- structure, which is core,” crore) with state govern- computerised so far, the
has humanity ever witnessed High Court. ary, executive and legisla- he said. ments for developing the Law minister said.
an act of “calculated geno- Notably, speaking after ture. In the last Cabinet meet- judicial infrastructure. He said litigants can
cide”, Mr Shringla said, Rijiju at this event, Chief “A robust judiciary is of ing, the Centre has taken “The Centre will provide access the information of
pointing to the atrocities Justice of India N.V. utmost importance to various decisions. One of `5,357 crore for construct- 19.43 crore cases and
committed by Pakistan on Ramana said judicial make our democracy suc- the important decisions ing 3,800 court halls and about more than 15.50
the people of the then East infrastructure is impor- cessful. We have taken was to sanction `9,000 4,000 residential units for crore orders and judg-
Pakistan. — PTI tant for improving access many decisions to provide crore for the development judicial officers. We have ments. — PTI
 NATION
THE ASIAN AGE | SUNDAY | 24 OCTOBER 2021 | NEW DELHI
pg 4

■ CM accuses Opp. of shielding terrorists, embracing rioters

SHORT TAKES Aryan victimised because
UP: Teen abducted,
raped for 9 mths he is SRK’s son: Digvijaya Maintain distance from
‘Ram-drohis’, says Yogi
Ballia, UP: A 17-year-old girl
from Narhi village here was Bhopal, Oct. 23: Senior Congress leader has deliv-
allegedly kidnapped to Congress leader from ered a verdict without
Varanasi and raped for over Madhya Pradesh waiting for the court.
nine months by a youth, Digvijaya Singh on “Finally, Digvijay Singh
police said on Saturday. The Saturday alleged Aryan came to the rescue of
youth has been arrested and Khan, arrested by the Aryan Khan. The matter Lucknow, Oct. 23: were trying to harm Ram
the girl rescued from captivi- NCB in connection with a is right now sub-judice, Accusing opposition par- Setu, while the BJP pro-
ty on Friday, the police said. drugs case in Mumbai, is the investigating agency ties of being against Lord tected it.
The teenage girl belonging being victimised because is checking the facts but Ram, Uttar Pradesh Chief Had it not been for the
to a village under Narhi he is the son of Bollywood he (Singh) has given his Minister Yogi Adityanath sons of Lord
police station area in the dis- superstar Shah Rukh verdict! After all, for how on Saturday said that such Vishwakarma, Nal and
trict was allegedly abducted Khan. Taking a swipe, long will you continue to “Ram-drohis” not only Neel, it would not have
on January 16 by a youth BJP said Singh was play- Digvijaya Singh mislead people by doing harmed the faith but also been possible to build the
from the neighbouring vil- ing the politics of politics of appeasement?” disturbed the social fab- Ram Setu, which Hindus
lage and a case of kidnap- “appeasement”. the BJP asked. ric, impeded development believe was built for Lord
ping was registered on the Aryan Khan (23) was Who is Kuldeep Singh? Talking to PTI, BJP leg- and threw the state in the Rama to reach then Lanka
complaint of the victim’s arrested by the Narcotics Would NCB and now NIA islator Rameshwar “fire of riots” during their to rescue his wife Sita, as
father, SHO of Narhi police Control Bureau (NCB) on investigating this case Sharma said Singh should rule. depicted in the epic
station Praveen Singh said. October 3 following a raid please tell us’,” Digvijaya have faith in the country’s “Those who are not the Ramayana.
The accused was arrested on a cruise ship off the Singh said in a tweet in judiciary. well-wisher of Lord Ram Chief minister Yogi Adityanath inspects preparations He was referring to the
near Bharauli bridge in the Mumbai coast. Currently English on Saturday “Congress and Digvijay can never be your well- for the public meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sethusamudram shipping
same police station area on in jail, Aryan on morning. Singh misused the law wisher,” Mr Adityanath canal project controversy
at Mehndi Ganj, Varanasi, on Saturday. — PTI
Friday. The teenager has Wednesday moved the Nearly 3,000 kg of heroin and always believed in said while addressing the where the previous UPA
given a statement that the Bombay High Court after was seized from two con- such acts. But the law members of the present and also for the unable to celebrate and government had contend-
accused had kidnapped her a special court rejected tainers at the Mundra doesn’t distinguish people Vishwakarma community bright future of your com- would live in fear in the ed before the Supreme
to Varanasi where she was his bail application. The Port in Gujarat by the DRI based on faith. This is not at a meeting organised by ing generations,” he said. shadow of curfew. And Court that the Rama Setu
raped by him several times. HC will hear his bail plea last month. The drug haul a Hindu-Muslim issue and the BJP Backward Classes The firebrand BJP these people (opposition bridge is not an “essen-
The girl has been sent to the on October 26. is considered to be one of Digvijay Singh should Front in the run-up to the leader, who has often been leaders) would shameless- tial” and “integral” part of
district hospital for a med- “It is sad Shah Rukh’s the biggest in the world change his mindset now,” Uttar Pradesh Assembly accused by the opposition ly don skull caps and the Hindu religion.
ical examination. — PTI son is being victimised for with the value of the he said. election. of making statements insult the people of the The chief minister said
being his son. What is his seized heroin estimated to Mr Sharma said nobody “Maintaining distance with communal over- state,” Mr Adityanath that when the Congress-
3 more arrested in crime? Someone accompa-
nying him had 5 grams of
be `21,000 crore in the
international markets.
had a personal enmity
with Shah Rukh Khan or
from Ram-drohis (who are
anti-Ram), who shield ter-
tones, alleged that under
the previous govern-
said, asserting that all this
has stopped under his gov-
led UPA government was
formed in 2004, there was
Lakhimpur case drugs with him!! What
about Tonnes of Heroin
Hitting back
Digvijaya, the Madhya
at his son as the people have
made him star by watch-
rorists, embrace rioters,
tear the social fabric
ments, there were riots
before Hindu festivals.
ernment.
He alleged that the
a competition between
the SP and BSP to extend
Lakhimpur Kheri, UP: Three seized at Mundra Port? Pradesh BJP said the ing his movies. — PTI would be better for your “The masses were Congress, SP and BSP support to it. — PTI
more arrests were made on

HP govt school
Saturday in connection with
the Tikonia violence here
which had left eight people,
including four farmers, dead
India logs 16,326 shut as 15 kids Woman ‘kills’ baby girl by UP govt to
during a protest by farmers
test Covid +ve rename
on October 3, officials said
Saturday. This takes to 13 the
total number of arrests
made so far, also including
new Covid-19 Shimla: A government
school in Himachal
getting tips on Internet Faizabad
Union minister Ajay Mishra’s
son Ashish, in connection
with the violence. A senior
police officer identified
cases, 666 deaths Pradesh’s Hamirpur dis-
trict was closed after its
15 students tested posi-
tive for Covid-19 on
RABINDRA NATH
CHOUDHURY
BHOPAL, OCT. 23
involvement in
killing,” local additional
superintendent of police
Akash Bhuria said.
the caught by police, what is
the easiest way of killing,
how to kill a child without
leaving a sign in the body,
rail station
Lucknow, Oct. 23:
those arrested Saturday as
Mohit Trivedi of Singahi
AGE CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI, OCT. 23
Raj Thackeray, his Saturday, officials said.
Overall 258 fresh cases
A woman in Ujjain in
Madhya Pradesh allegedly
Body of the infant was
found inside the water
how to kill a child by
drowning in water, police
The Uttar Pradesh
government has
town, Ranku Rana of Barsola
Kalan and Dharmendra of India saw a single-day
mom test Covid +ve were reported in the
state in the past 24 hours.
killed her three-month-old
baby girl by learning the
tank of her house three
days after the toddler
quoting the searches in
Hindi said.
decided to rename the
Faizabad railway sta-
Chimma Tanda both under rise of 16,326 new Covid- Mumbai: Maharashtra Government senior art of murdering on the went missing on October According to the police, tion, a tweet by the
Tikonia kotwali limits. The 19 cases, taking the tally Navnirman Sena chief secondary school at Internet, the police said 12, the police said. the husband of the office of chief minis-
arrests were made after their to 3,41,59,562, while the Raj Thackeray, his moth- Bara in Nadaun town of on Saturday. According to the police, accused gifted her mobile ter Yogi Adityanath
names emerged during the active cases have declined er Kunda Thackeray and Hamirpur has been The accused Swati the case was cracked after phone on October seven. said on Saturday. It
interrogation of other to 1,73,728, the lowest in sister Jaywanti closed till further orders Bhatebara was arrested police went through the The Google searches will be called the
accused in police custody. 233 days, according to the Thackeray have tested after 15 students and one on charges of killing her Google searches in the were found to be done in Ayodhya Cantt rail-
Ashish was arrested on Union health ministry’s positive for coronavirus staff member were infant daughter and later mobile seized from the October 7-10. way station, the tweet
October 9 and is presently in data updated on Saturday. despite having taken both found Covid positive. produced before a local accused. “We cannot reveal much said, adding that the
police custody. An FIR was The death toll has the doses of Covid vac- Besides, seven jawans court on Saturday. The searches done over in the case in the interest decision was taken by
lodged at the Tikonia police climbed to 4,53,708 with cine. Mr Thackeray is of the Indian Reserve The court remanded her three days sought to know of the investigation”, the the chief minister.
station on October 3. — PTI 666 daily fatalities, known for not wearing a Battalion, Jangel Beri to 24-hour police custody. how to kill a child, how to police officer said. In another tweet, the

NBW issues against

according to the data mask in public. (Sujanpur Tira) have “We have enough evi- kill children easily, how to The motive of the killing CM’s office said the
updated at 8 am. According to party tested positive. — PTI dence to establish her kill a child so as not to get was yet to be ascertained. Centre too has grant-

poet Varavara Rao

Kerala has reconciled sources, Mr Thackery ed its consent to the
292 fatalities on Saturday and Jaywanti were admit- decision and the CM
from the previous period. ted to the Lilawati ■ Movie earlier won Tiger Award at Rotterdam film fest has given green signal
Bengaluru: A court in Hence, the death toll is Hospital in the afternoon. to issue a notification
Madhugiri in Tumakuru dis- higher, officials said, However, both had mild in this regard.
trict, Karnataka, has issued a
non-bailable warrant (NBW)
against activist and poet
adding that 99 deaths
have been reported from
Kerala in the last 24
symptoms and after treat-
ment, they were given a
discharge. Kunda
Tamil film Koozhangal is India’s Oscar entry Earlier in 2018, the
Yogi government had
renamed Faizabad as
Varavara Rao. He is out on hours. Thackeray was given New Delhi, Oct. 23: Tamil by a 15-member jury, head- news that the film will he tweeted. Ayodhya. The BJP
bail on medical grounds in a The daily rise in new treatment on Friday and drama Koozhangal ed by filmmaker Shaji N represent India at the “Koozhangal” had won government had also
different case with a condi- coronavirus infections sent home. (Pebbles), directed by film- Karun, in a unanimous Oscar’s best international the top honour, the Tiger changed the name of
tion not to move out of has been below 30,000 for maker Vinothraj P.S., has decision,” Supran Sen, feature category. Award for best film, at the Allahabad to
Mumbai, his lawyer said. “It’s 29 straight days and less cases has been recorded been selected as India’s secretary general, Film “There’s a chance to 50th International Film Prayagraj and Mugha-
a case pertaining to an than 50,000 daily new in the total active number official entry for the 94th Federation of India, told hear this! And the Oscars Festival Rotterdam lsarai railway junc-
attack on policemen in cases have been reported of Covid-19 cases in a Academy Awards. The PTI. goes to... Two steps away (IFFR), earlier this year. tion as Pt. Deen Dayal
Tumakuru in 2005 in which for 118 consecutive days span of 24 hours. movie follows an alcoholic A total of 14 films, from a dream come true Following the announce- Upadhyay junction.
Varavara Rao and Gaddar now. Also, 13,64,681 tests were abusive husband who, including Malayalam fea- moment in our lives... ment, filmmaker Hansal The Opposition
(another activist-poet) are The active cases have conducted on Friday, tak- after his long-suffering ture Nayattu, Tamil film #Pebbles #Nayanthara Mehta sent his best wishes dubbed the move as an
among the accused,” advo- decreased to 1,73,728 com- ing the total cumulative wife runs off, sets out with Mandela, filmmaker @PsVinothraj @thisisysr to the team behind attempt to “play with
cate S. Balan said. The case prising 0.51 per cent of tests conducted so far for his young son to find her Shoojit Sircar’s Sardar @AmudhavanKar “Koozhangal”. Hindu sentiments” for
in which Rao has been made the total infections, the detection of Covid-19 in and bring her back. Udham, Vidya Balan-star- @Rowdy_Pictures Can’t “All the best to this little political benefits. The
an accused is related to an lowest since March 2020, the country to It stars newcomers — rer Sherni, Farhan be prouder , happier & gem! What is important is CM, however, justified
attack by the Naxalites on a while the national Covid- 59,84,31,162. The daily Chellapandi and Akhtar’s Toofan, Captain content,” he posted on the that this film’s onward renaming, saying it is
police team killing six of 19 recovery rate was positivity rate was Karuththadaiyaan — and Vikram Batra biopic microblogging site. journey gets solid support part of efforts to
them and a civilian at recorded at 98.16 per cent, recorded at 1.20 per cent is produced by Vignesh Shershaah and Marathi Vinothraj said he was both strategic and finan- “restore the rich his-
Venkatammanahalli in the highest since March and the weekly positivity Shivan and Nayanthara. film Godavari, were in the grateful for all the love cial or else these selec- torical and cultural
Pavagada Taluk in Tumakuru 2020, the health ministry rate was also recorded at “India’s official entry for race. and support. tions only remain a local identity” of the place.
district on February 10, said. 1.24 per cent, according to Oscars this year is Shivan also took to “Could not be more hap- cause for celebration,” he — PTI
2005. — PTI A decrease of 2,017 the health ministry. Koozhangal. It was picked Twitter and shared the pier to receive this news,” tweeted. — PTI

J&K statehood only after delimitation, polls: Shah Cong promises 20L jobs
■ Continued from Page 1 Jitendra Singh, also attended which some foreign powers in large numbers in Srinagar grounds to slain police offi- ■ Continued from Page 1 seen how farmers were ing paddy at `2,500 per
the statehood of J&K must the crucial meeting. were also involved.” and other districts and given cer’s wife Fatima Akhtar. power. The party said it killed brutally by the son quintal, here too wheat
be restored before the demo- Mr Shah claimed that ter- He said that they had the fact that a record number Later in a tweet, the home will give `25,000 to fami- of a minister in the Modi and paddy will be pur-
cratic exercise takes place. rorism in J&K has reduced thought “if the curfew is lift- of militants have been elimi- minister said, “Today visit- lies who faced financial government. This in itself chased at the same price if
The home minister earlier and the stone pelting has ed, then terrorism will nated in counterinsurgency ed the family of martyr crunch due to the Covid proves how much impor- her party is voted to
reviewed the security situa- become invisible. At the surge. There will be clashes operations since 2019, the Parvaiz Ahmad Dar and crisis. tance is being given to power. Farmers will get
tion prevailing in J&K in the same time, he warned that between people and the sources said. paid tributes to him. I and Ms Priyanka promised a farmers,” she said refer- `400 per quintal for sugar-
backdrop of recent spate of stern action will be taken police in which people will He also sought details on the nation are proud of his separate manifesto for ring to the Lakhimpur cane, she added. On elec-
target killings in and out- against those who try to dis- die and we will bake the “active terrorists, local mili- bravery. Jammu and women in a week's time Kheri violence. tricity bills, she said dur-
side Srinagar and a major rupt peace and tranquility loaves of politics.” He said tant recruitment graphs and Kashmir Police is making and stressed that their “How long it took to ing the coronavirus crisis,
clash in which nine Army in the UT. had it happened, he does not the radicalisation propagan- all efforts to realise the participation in politics is arrest the accused and his small traders were worst
soldiers were killed by mili- The home minister refer- know how many fathers da being used to lure youth vision of PM Modi for a new necessary. “Till they do father, who is saving him, affected and yet had to pay
tants in frontier Poonch dis- ring to the post-August 5, would have to shoulder the into militancy. He asked for JK.” not move forward and par- is still in the Modi govern- their power bill.
trict in a meeting of top 2019 situation in J&K said coffins of their children. “So taking all possible measures The home minister also ticipate in politics, they ment and not dismissed,” “So, it has been decided
hierarchy J&K police, vari- that some people had made we saved lives… Kashmir to plug the infiltration from flagged off the inaugural will not be able to fight she said. to waive the pending bills
ous Central armed police noises over the imposition of youth has been saved due to across the LoC and IB com- Srinagar-Sharjah interna- their battles,” she said. “Farmers know what all of the coronavirus period
and paramilitary forces, the curfews and snapping the curfew,” he asserted. pletely. tional flight. He said that air Ms Priyanka said pro- they have been facing besides halving the bills of
Army, intelligence agencies Internet. Justifying the The official sources said Soon after his arrival at connectivity between viding smartphones and since the past few years. It all,” she said.
and the civil administration. curbs, he said that had there that at the main agenda of the Srinagar airport earlier Srinagar and the Gulf “will scooters to girls is a way is because of this that we She said `25,000 will be
During the meeting, held at been no curfew many, lives the security review meeting during the day, Mr Shah help in boosting tourism and to make them empowered. have decided to waive given to poor families to
the Raj Bhavan here, the would have been lost. was the recent civilian drove straight to meet the bring more investment in “Smartphones can help their loans. Earlier too, help them overcome their
home minister was briefed He said, “Three families killings and “radicalisation” family of J&K police inspec- the UT.” in their safety and scoot- the Congress had waived financial losses during
on steps taken to eliminate ruled Kashmir for 70 years. in the Valley, the prolonged tor Parvaiz Ahmad Dar who His other engagements in ers will facilitate their loans worth `72,000 the coronavirus crisis.
militancy and terrorism from Forty thousand people died encounter in Poonch and was shot dead by militants J&K include laying the foun- movement,” she said. crore,” she said. Ms Priyanka said they
J&K and counter-infiltration (between 1990 and 2019). reported successful infiltra- on June 22 near his home in dation stones of two new Referring to farmers, the Ms Priyanka said on the will also regularise servic-
measures in place along the Why? We’re there (at the tion bids from across the City’s Nowgam area while government medical col- AICC general secretary lines of Congress-led es of teachers, health
Line of Control (LoC) and helm) only for two or two LoC. going to the locality mosque leges in Udhampur (Jammu said that they were help- Chhattisgarh govern- workers and others if
International Border (IB) and half years. They (oppo- The home minister sought to offer magrib or evening region) and Handwara less in the state. “All have ment, which is purchas- voted to power. — PTI
with Pakistan, an official sition) tried to see curfew is the details from the officers prayers. He offered his con- (Kashmir Valley) and inau-
spokesman said, adding that lifted by inciting (people), as to how the militants were dolences to the family and gurating an IIT block in
J&K lieutenant governor,
Manoj Sinha, and Union min-
ister of state in the PMO,
mounting pressure on and
slandering (government).
This was a conspiracy in
able to carry out these
killings despite deployment
of security forces personnel
handed over documents of
appointment to a govern-
ment job on compassionate
Jammu where he is also
scheduled to address a pub-
lic meeting on October 24. Effective judiciary....
■ Continued from Page 1 tive growth of economy, these circumstances and

After billion milestone, PM meets 7 vaccine producers Justice. The Courts in

India have repeatedly
upheld the rights and free-
CJI Ramana said, “failure
to deliver timely justice
cost the country as much
an integral aspect, in this
regard, is the financial
autonomy of the judiciary.
■ Continued from Page 1 #100CroreVaccinations and retaries and mission direc- secretary urged the states wide Covid-19 vaccination doms of individuals. They as 9% of annual GDP. CJI urged the minister
after the meeting.“Thanks to taking Brand India to the tors of National health mis- and UTs to focus on those drive. stood up whenever the Moreover, the impact of of law and justice Kiren
PMO for the invitation , world through India-made sion (NHM) of the states and beneficiaries who are wait- So far 71.24 crore first individuals or society are an under-supported judi- Rijiju who was also pres-
thought provoking interac- vaccines. Making #Vaccines UTs. The focus of the meet- ing for their second dose doses covering 76% of the at the receiving end of the ciary is also seen on the ent at the function to expe-
tion and insights to make a foundational pillar of a ing was to urge the states after their interval period eligible population and 30.06 executive excesses. It is an foreign investments.” dite the process and
Indian Bio-Pharma compa- #NewIndia,” tweeted Dr and UTs to increase the pace has been [Link]/UTs crore second doses covering assurance that the seeker “Without adequate infra- ensure that the proposal
nies prepare ahead for lead- Rajesh and Harshet Jain of of the countrywide vaccina- were also urged to improve 32% of the eligible popula- of justice, howsoever structure we cannot to create National
ership in global innovation Panacea Biotech. tion and coverage of the sec- the momentum of vaccina- tion have been administered weak, need not worry aspire to fill this gap,” he Judicial Infrastructure
and manufacturing,” tweeted Meanwhile, on Saturday, ond dose. Highlighting the tion and accelerate the cov- the Covid-19 vaccines. States about the might of the said. Authority of India
Bharat Biotech co-founder Union health secretary sizable number of eligible erage as the country moves and UTs were also advised to state.” If we want a different (NJIAI) with statutory
Suchitra Ella.“Delighted to Rajesh Bhushan reviewed beneficiaries who have not forward to vaccinate all the identify and prioritise dis- Referring to 2018 inter- outcome from the judicial backing is taken up in the
meet the Honorable PM the progress of Covid-19 vac- received their 2nd dose of eligible population by end of tricts having low coverage national research on effec- system, CJI said that we upcoming Winter Session
@narendramodi to celebrate cination with the health sec- vaccine, the Union health the year under the nation- for focused action. tive judiciary and effec- cannot continue to work in of the Parliament.
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Subhani

24 OCTOBER 2021

Ranjona Banerji
Off the beaten track

It’s like 1980s redux as

UK feels Brexit pain
T
o travel during Covid times is in a sense an act of insanity. The strug-
gle to stay safe and celebrate freedom. But let’s ditch the faux philos-
ophy for now. Wearing a mask on a long intercontinental journey
contained within a kernel of freedom. While feeling sorry for the
cabin crew in their full PPE kit. It was another matter that once we landed at
Heathrow, whaaat? No masks?
I cannot tell a lie, dear reader, we pulled off our masks for at least 10 min-
utes, with the excuse that you can’t drink coffee with a mask on.
The sense of freedom was palpable in the UK in mid-September. Let’s not
blame them. The stranglehold of the pandemic was such that all societies now
strain at the leash for freedom. Try and think of our various festivals and
events and election rallies before we point. Okay lecture over. The phenome-
non of Brits yearning for nightclubs and pubs was tied to the weirdness of
Brexit and fears of shortages. For us though, it was fear of the UK’s National
After China-Bhutan deal, LETTERS
A CURIOUS SILENCE

India requires fresh eyes

Health Service. Years of colonial subjugation and its intractable rules appar- While the NCB is investi-
ently get transmitted genetically. (I joke, I joke, at least I think I do.) gating the Aryan Khan
Those “test and trace” rules, fears of 10,000 GBP fines, the anxiety of not drugs consumption case
knowing where or when someone will check up on you, the misery of being
fleeced royally by private labs for RT-PCR tests… it all weighed up. Sit in one
with single minded dedi-
room, only go out for 20 minutes of exercise, keep a couple of metres between If negotiations it would mean that, to the cation, it is rather surpris-
you and other residents of the house. between China and exclusive exclusion of ing that we hear nothing
Manish Tewari
Well. The three tests we paid for — two mandatory tests on Days 2 and 8, India, China would have
and one in the “test to release” scheme for Day 5 — arrived on Day 4 of the 10-
Bhutan fructify it resolved all its other land
of the 3,000 kilo heroin
day quarantine period. The same day as we had the one and only visit from would mean that, to boundary disputes. Of its haul from Mundra.
the NHS person. Who met us at the gate with our passports, and disappoint- the exclusive 23 ongoing territorial dis- Nobody can blame the
exclusion of India,
State of the Union
ingly asked nothing about how many metres we had ensured between us and putes from 1949, China owners of the port, but is
how many minutes of exercise in the outdoors and so on from the strict impe- China would have offered substantial mark-
the investigation going
rial-style rules. resolved all its other downs in as many as 17 of
The Day 5 test results arrived on Day 7, which meant that our “test to
land boundary
them. It has frequently set- anywhere? Instead the

O
release” was a strength test in patience and a cause of frustration. Small pen- n October 14, This is one of India’s two tled for half the land it ini- port has refused to
nies compared to massive disasters. I hear you. 2021, China and chicken neck dilemmas. disputes tially claimed.
We squeezed out of the rules and into “freedom” after we tested negative for Bhutan entered The other one being in A classical example is the accept any loads from
the third time in 10 days, having scraped our epiglottises and noses. into a memo- Akhnoor just north of Sino-Tajik border dispute certain countries sus-
Only to find some supermarket shelves empty and a massive uproar over randum of Jammu christened chick- It was subsequently substi- that was settled by an pected of dealing in
fuel shortages. Huge queues at petrol pumps were matched by panic. Almost understanding crystallis- en neck by India and bap- tuted by the India-Bhutan agreement between the heroin. This is like throw-
as bad as the toilet paper pandemonium reported in the early days of the pan- ing a three-step roadmap tised as the Akhnoor dag- Friendship Treaty in 2007. two countries in January
demic. Between the news and social media and the queues one saw for one- for intensifying parleys to ger by Pakistan. Article Two of the 2007 2011. The agreement that ing the baby out with the
self, it was hard to know where the truth lived. resolve their outstanding Historically, Sino-Bhuta- covenant states that both resolved a 130-year-old ter- bathwater. With politi-
A few miles out of Nottingham where we were border disputes. The MoU nese border disagreements nations acquiesce to “coop- ritorial dispute required cians jumping into the
when the shortage struck, there were no encapsulates the under- involved territory in the erate closely with each Tajikistan to cede around
queues, no signs saying “no fule” and no crisis.
Walking through the standing reached between western and central parts other on issues relating to 1,000 square kilometres of fray, the waters are fur-
On TV, they blamed social media, the people, Bridgewater the two countries at the of the latter only. Beijing their national interests”. land in the Pamir ther muddied. The elec-
the shortage of lorry drivers but almost no one Gardens in Salford, 10th meeting of the expert argued that 495 square They are further pro- Mountains to China. It tronic media is obsessed
discussed why there were no lorry drivers. Manchester, a new group held in Kunming in kilometres in the scribed from permitting mandates that China will
with Bollywood. And for
I mislead you here. No one actually said project by the Royal the April of 2021. The sign- Jakurlung and Pasamlung their territorial spaces to receive only 3.5 per cent of
“lorry drivers”. As a sign of how much lan- ing of this MoU comes 48 valleys, respectively, situ- be used “for activities the 28,000 square kilome- all their patriotic grand-
Horticultural
guages change in usage and geography and
Society, you had to months after a 73-day Sino- ated in north-central harmful to the national tres of land it had asked for standings are silent in
colonial times, TV kept saying no “HGV dri- Indian military confronta- Bhutan and another 269 security and interest of the by declaring them as his- really important matters!
vers”. I asked Google and realised that TV peo- marvel at the mas- tion at the Doklam trijunc- square kilometres in west- other”. This would require torical Chinese lands.
ple in the UK only follow technical driving sive love for nature, tion. China endeavored to ern Bhutan belonged to it. Bhutan, in its border nego- Under its boundary settle- Anthony Henriques
licence rules when they speak so “heavy goods for preservation, for extend a road in an area However, in the June of tiations with China, not to ments with Kazakhstan Mumbai
vehicle” drivers which in India would be restoration that Bhutan asserted 2020, China also staked negotiate in a manner that and Kyrgyzstan, China set-
“heavy commercial vehicle”. belonged to it. claim to the Sakteng hands over any strategic tled for just 22 and 32 per
Why no lorry drivers? Because Brexit. But no
one really wanted to say that. So embarrassing for the Boris Johnson
Bhutan and China share
an over 400-kilometre long
Wildlife Sanctuary, cover-
ing an area of 650 square
advantage to China to the
detriment of India’s nat-
cent, respectively, of the
land it had initially DON’T RELAX YET
Government. Come back, come back, said the Boris Johnson government to border. Beijing lays claim kilometres. The sanctuary ional security imperatives. claimed. This goes to ALTHOUGH India has every right
the people they turned away with their no more immigrants we don’t like to around 765 square kilo- is situated in Bhutan's Both the 1947 and the 2007 demonstrate that the to blow its own trumpet on the
idea. Come back and work for us on temporary visas but please leave on metres of Bhutanese terri- eastern district of pacts are preceded by a his- Chinese really do not care administering of 100 crore doses of
December 24 because we don’t really want to celebrate Christmas with you. tory dispersed across the Trashigang. The claim has torical legacy of covenants much about territory. the Covid vaccine, the destination
How very odd that HGV drivers across Europe didn’t drop whatever they northwest and central its genesis in the purport- between British India and In sharp divergence, is far away. Only 30 per cent of our
were doing and swim English the channel faster than Tarzan. regions of the Himalayan ed Indian proposal to con- the Kingdom of Bhutan, China has resolved none of population is fully vaccinated and
If the crux of a developed economy is overdone capitalism, money and kingdom. Incidentally, struct a road link between namely, the Treaty of its maritime border dis- the threat of the third wave is still
spending capacity then the pain at empty pumps, empty shelves and empty Bhutan is the only neigh- Guwahati and Tawang Sinchula in 1865 and the putes, with the exception looming. Moreover, till now our
pockets thanks to the government withdrawing its pandemic alleviation bour of China with which that would ostensibly tra- Treaty of Punakha in 1910. of the Gulf of Tonkin dis- vaccination campaign didn't run
allowance (there’s some other colonial-style name for it) made you question it does not have a formal verse the Sakteng Wildlife What India would need to pute with Vietnam that exactly smoothly. Various states at
Brexit. And the pandemic. Signs of shops closing down everywhere. I saw diplomatic relationship. Sanctuary. The planned be very hawk-eyed in the was partially resolved various times complained of acute
this last in the UK of the 1980s. Direct bilateral talks to motorway would curtail Sino-Bhutanese negotia- after protracted negotia- shortage. The dipping Covid graph
How unfair I’m being. Life is not always a comparison. The people were resolve the contested travel time between tions about is how the play tions spanning three does not mean that the pandemic is
friendly. Never met any racists. At least not openly. The taxi drivers, the boundary question com- Guwahati in Assam and develops in the region rounds, i.e., in 1974, 1978- over. New variants are emerging
bulwark of all travel observations, were a delight as ever. The only differ- menced in 1984. Over the Tawang in Arunachal around and abounding 1979, and 1992-2000, spread in the world. By speaking loudly
ence from a couple of years before is that younger subcontinentals appear to past three-and-a-half Pradesh by five hours China’s Chumbi Valley well over 60 years. about our so-called accomplish-
identity as British rather than wherever their grandparents came from. The decades, 24 rounds of allowing India to mobilise that lies north of the This situation then begs ment, let us not make the public
state of Afghanistan was blamed on Pakistan by those of Pakistani origin as boundary negotiations and overland its troops for Doklam plateau. Both the the obvious question: Why complacent ahead of Diwali so that
well as the one delightful Afghan we met. Who regaled us with his Hindi, his 10 rounds of confabula- deployment on the Line of Chumbi valley and the have the Sino-Indian bor- they throw caution to the winds.
Bengali and his old Hindi songs. “If my country was like your country,” he tions at the level of an Actual Control in sectors Siliguri Corridor in West der talks not made Sunil Chopra
said, “I would have left here long ago.” His joie de vivre in spite of his fear expert group have been bestriding Tawang. Bengal that is situated to progress despite myriad Ludhiana
for his Afghanistan was matched by the pain of the Syrian who mourned for held between the two The Sino-Bhutanese bor- the south of Doklam, are rounds of talks between
his home left 20 years ago and his family left behind he may never meet
again.
countries.
In the year 1997, China
der dispute is intricate
given that it is enmeshed
key tactical chokepoints.
They constitute both a crit-
the special representatives
of both sides and why are SAY NO TO DOWRY
The countryside was beautiful, as autumn colours burst forth. That a dying proposed that it would in the geopolitics of South icality and vulnerability the border talks currently WEDDINGS have become a very
leaf can cause such joy. Walking through the Bridgewater Gardens in forgo the claims it had laid Asia and intractably for both the nations. It is stalemated? Is it a lack of costly affair and a mere business
Salford, Manchester, a new project by the Royal Horticultural Society, you to expanses of territory in linked to the Sino-Indian towards this end that the flexibility and cussedness deal among many families today.
had to marvel at the massive love for nature, for preservation, for restora- central Bhutan. In exch- border dispute, given the Tibetan-populated Chumbi on both sides or does Some men even claim that they
tion. A 5 km walk in the freezing rain passed in the blink of an eye as you took ange it demanded that the special relationship Valley has often been China consider it a conve- never wanted dowry but were
in walled gardens, old woodland paths, Chinese planting and plans for wild terrain on its western between Bhutan and India. delineated as the most tac- nient lever to keep India forced to accept it by their parents.
meadows. flank that included the Bhutan will be in a deli- tically significant piece of off-balance? In either case, If these men had any convictions,
A visit from the fire department to check the smoke alarms at a relation’s contested trijunction of cate situation in its border real estate in the Himalaya India should revisit its they would have not allowed their
home underlined how systems can work. Without complications, without Doklam be handed over to negotiations qua China. A region. It provides Beijing China strategy with a fresh parents to get away with it. It is
dare-I-say-it bribery, and with efficiency and compassion. At the same time, it. Bhutan rebuffed the non-coastal realm, it is with the manoeuverability pair of eyes. surprising to see men who are per-
the bogey of privatising Britain’s best national assets like the NHS also offer then in deference to reliant on India for its to cut off the 24-kilometre ceived to be strong-willed turn into
raised its head. Indian sensitivities over approach to the sea. This wide Siliguri Corridor The author is a lawyer, spineless meat when it comes to
The pandemic should have taught us that health has to be public. But as we the possibility of Chinese special relationship between Nepal and Member of Parliament taking a stand against their dowry-
returned to India and compulsory RT-PCR testing by private labs at Delhi transgressions that have amongst Bhutan and India Bangladesh, that connects and former Union seeking parents. Dowry is an ill-
airport, ah well. Human nature trumps all however far you travel. the potential of lopping off is constructed upon the the rest of India with its information and ness that must be cured if we want
the narrow Siliguri Cor- base laid by the Treaty of northeast. broadcasting minister. our country to be a world power.
The writer is a senior journalist who writes on media affairs, politics and ridor that connects the rest Perpetual Peace and If negotiations between Twitter handle Jubel D’Cruz
social trends. She tweets at @ranjona. of India with the northeast. Friendship signed in 1949. China and Bhutan fructify @manishtewari. Mumbai

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SHORT

DOZENS OF INMATES
TAKES
FDA: Pfizer vax ‘effective’ for young kids
FREE IN LATEST Shots for children can begin in early November with the first youngsters fully protected by Christmas
NIGERIA JAILBREAK Washington, Oct. 23:
Lagos: Gunmen have attacked
a prison in southwest Nigeria,
freeing dozens of inmates, an
Federal health regulators
said late Friday that kid-
size doses of Pfizer’s Cov-
CORONAVIRUS
CASES ON THE
Delta AY.4.2 under
investigation in UK
official said Saturday. id-19 vaccine appear high-
The third jailbreak in Afric-
a’s most populous country this
ly effective at preventing
symptomatic infections in RISE IN CHINA
year raises more concerns elementary school childr-
about how safe detention facili- en and caused no unexpe- Beijing, Oct. 23: Authori- London, Oct. 23: A new ● WHILE EVIDENCE is
ties are in the West African cted safety issues, as the ties in the Chinese capital mutation of the Delta vari- still emerging, so far it
nation where authorities have US weighs beginning vac- are ramping up measures ant of Covid-19 which was does not appear the new
struggled to stem rising vio- cinations in youngsters. like testing and restricting being monitored and asse- VUI causes more severe
lence. A handful of security The Food and Drug Adm- hotel bookings as the total ssed in the UK has now disease or renders the
facilities, especially police sta- inistration posted its anal- number of Coronavirus been classed as a Variant
tions, have been attacked. ysis of Pfizer’s data ahead cases climbed to nine on Under Investigation (VUI) vaccines currently deplo-
of a public meeting next Saturday, while other pa- amid concerns of its inc- yed any less effective.
10 MILITANTS, 2 week to debate whether
the shots are ready for the
rts of the country report-
ed 38 locally transmitted
reased growth rate, with
experts warning it is a
SOLDIERS KILLED nation’s roughly 28 million
children ages 5 to 11. The
Covid-19 cases, according
to the National Health
reminder that the pan-
demic is not over.
India and later classed as
Variant of Concern (VOC)
IN PAK RAIDS agency will ask a panel of
outside vaccine experts to
Commission.
Five persons who tested
AY.4.2, dubbed “Delta
Plus” and now named
in the UK remains over-
whelmingly dominant in
Quetta: Counterterrorism vote on that question. positive in Beijing had VUI-21OCT-01 by the UK the UK, making up approx-
police killed nine alleged mili- In their analysis, FDA travelled to Inner Mongol- Health Security Agency imately 99.8 per cent of all
tants in a shootout during a scientists concluded that ia Autonomous Region, (UKHSA), has been under cases.
raid in southwest Pakistan in almost every scenario Ningxia Hui Autonomous closer scrutiny in recent As of October 20, there
early Saturday, they said, and the vaccine’s benefit for Region and Shanxi Provi- days after evidence indi- were 15,120 cases of the
two soldiers and a militant preventing hospitalisa- nce from Oct. 12 to Oct. 15, cated that it spread more new VUI-21OCT-01 confir-
were killed in a raid in the tions and death from and returned to Beijing on quickly than the dominant med by whole genome se-
northwest overnight. Covid-19 would outweigh Oct. 16. Delta variant. quences in England since
A raid was conducted in the any serious potential side Another person was a While evidence is still it was first detected in
Mastung area of Baluchistan effects in children. But close contact, according to emerging, so far it does July.
province, the provincial coun- agency reviewers stopped the municipal health com- not appear the new VUI In the last week, VUI-
terterrorism department said short of calling for Pfizer’s mission. causes more severe dis- 21OCT-01 accounted for
in a statement. Earlier in the shot to be authorised. This is in addition to the ease or renders the vac- approximately 6 per cent
week, a bomb attack killed a The agency will put that 32 cases reported nation- cines currently deployed of all Delta cases — con-
firmed through whole

S’pore removes India, 5 others

police officer. question to its panel of wide on Friday. any less effective.
independent advisers next The spike has prompted “The Delta variant sub- genome sequencing in all
INDO-U.S. POLICY Tuesday and weigh their
advice before making its
health officials in Beijing
and other provinces to
lineage known as Delta
AY.4.2 was designated a
nine regions of England.
“The genome of VUI-
EXPERT TANDEN
from its travel restriction list
own decision. If the FDA step up with measures like Variant Under Investigati- 21OCT-01 does not have
authorises the shots, the testing, isolation of com- on by the UK Health Se- many mutations com-
IS WH STAFF SECY Centres for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention will
munities, cancelling hotel
bookings, and the use of
curity Agency on 20 Octob-
er 2021 and has been given
pared to Delta. However, a
small change may be eno-
Washington: Indian-American make additional recom- Singapore, Oct. 23: Sin- these countries will be prevent travellers from sanitisers and masks. the official name VUI- ugh to cause a difference
policy expert Neera Tanden, a mendations on who should gapore on Saturday anno- subjected to the tightest of these countries from land- The current spike has 21OCT-01,” the UKHSA in the virus properties in
close confidant of US President receive them the first week unced the removal of border measures, which ing here,” the Straits Ti- been attributed to an elde- said. The designation was some circumstances.
Joe Biden, has been named of November. India and five other South involve a 10-day, stay-home mes quoted Ong as saying. rly couple from Shanghai made on the basis that this UKHSA is monitoring this
White House staff secretary, Children could begin Asian countries from its notice period at a dedicat- The health ministry said who flew to several cities, sub-lineage has become closely, the health agency
eight months after Republican vaccinations early next travel restriction list as ed facility, it said. changes that come into including the tourist city increasingly common in in charge of assessing
lawmakers scuttled her nomi- month with the first youn- the island-state continues The ministry said in a effect on Wednesday inclu- of Xian, and tested positi- the UK in recent months, COVID variants noted.
nation to another key post. gsters in line fully protect- to adjust border measures release that it has revie- de the loosening of meas- ve, sending officials on a and there is some early As is routine for any new
Tanden, 51, a senior adviser ed by Christmas. Full-str- in response to the global wed the Covid-19 situation ures for travellers from leather hunt to trace evidence that it may have VUI, the UKHSA said it is
to President Biden was named ength Pfizer shots already Covid-19 situation. in the six South Asian Singapore's closest neigh- scores of people who came an increased growth rate carrying out laboratory
White House staff secretary on are recommended for any- All travellers with a 14- countries it was previous- bours, Malaysia and in contact with them. in the UK compared to and epidemiological inves-
a morning staff call on Friday, one 12 or older, but pedia- day travel history to Bang- ly closed off to. Indonesia. Within three days of an Delta. More evidence is tigations to better under-
the CNN reported. tricians and many parents ladesh, India, Myanmar, Addressing a virtual As of Friday, Singapore announcement that the needed to know whether stand the properties of
The White House staff secre- are anxiously awaiting Nepal, Pakistan and Sri press conference, health has reported a total of couple had tested positive this is due to changes in this variant.
tary is a behind-the-scenes but protection for younger Lanka will be allowed to minister Ong Ye Kung said 165,663 Covid-19 cases in Xian on Saturday, hun- the virus’ behaviour or to Viruses mutate often and
critical role in the West Wing, children to stem infections enter or transit through the situation in these since the start of the pan- dreds of close contacts of epidemiological condi- at random, and it is not
responsible for managing from the extra-contagious Singapore from Wednesd- countries has stabilised demic. the couple and their five tions, it said. unexpected that new vari-
paper flow to the President Delta variant and help ay, the health ministry for some time. The disease has claimed travel companions, who According to official sta- ants will continue to arise
from other areas of the admin- keep kids in school. said. “There is no longer a 294 lives so far in the coun- later tested positive, had tistics, the original Delta as the pandemic goes on.
istration and federal govern- — AP However, travellers from need for strict rules that try. — PTI been identified. — PTI variant first identified in — PTI
ment.

2ND SUSPECT IN DELAY IN RELEASE

B’DESH ANTI-HINDU
VIOLENCE ARRESTED
Pak rejects reports of OF KENNEDY
Dhaka: Bangladesh's security
agencies on Saturday arrested
a man in his 30s, who is
believed to be the second key
US deal for Af intel ops
Islamabad, Oct. 23: Pak-
ASSASSINATION
RECORDS
suspect behind the recent slew
of violence against Hindus and
mob attacks on temples in
istan on Saturday rejected
reports about an agree-
ment with the United Sta-
Russian-Tajik drills Washington, Oct. 23: The
Biden administration
said it will release more

near Afghan border

Bangladesh during the Durga tes on the use of its airs- records related to the
Puja festivities, police officials pace for intelligence oper- assassination of
said. Shaikat Mandal, one of ations in Taliban-ruled President John F. Kenne-
the masterminds behind the Afghanistan. dy in December.
October 17 mayhem in Pirganj The Foreign Office (FO) Momirak Firing Range, lective Security Treaty Some of the informati-
sub-district of northwestern issued a statement in Oct. 23: Russian and Tajik Organisation, a Moscow- on regarding Kennedy’s
Rangpur, and his accomplice response to media queries troops conducted joint dominated security pact. death on Nov. 22, 1963,
was arrested from Gazipur, on regarding the news report drills Friday near Tajik Defence Minister remained off limits to
the outskirts of Dhaka on alluding to formalisation Tajikistan’s border with Sherali Mirzo said the “protect against an iden-
Saturday, Elite anti-crime of an agreement between Afghanistan, as part of drills were decided amid tifiable harm to the mili-
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) the two countries to con- efforts to prepare for pos- the catastrophic changes tary defence, intelligen-
officials said. duct military and intelli- sible security threats issu- after the withdrawal of ce operations, law enfor-
gence operations against ing from Afghanistan. the international coali- cement, or the conduct
INDIAN-ORIGIN Afghanistan. The FO
statement read: “No such
The exercises at the
Momirak firing range
tion from Afghanistan.
Terrorist groups operat- Supporters of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan party take part in a protest march towards
of foreign relations that
is of such gravity that it
TECHIE KILLED IN understanding was in
place.” However, it added:
about 20 kilometres (12
miles) north of the
ing in Afghanistan ... have
obtained modern weapo-
Islamabad from Lahore on Saturday, demanding the release of their leader Hafiz
Saad Hussain Rizvi, son of late Khadim Hussain Rizvi, founder of hardline religious
outweighs the public
interest in disclosure,”
MEXICO SHOOTOUT “Pakistan and the US have
long-standing cooperation
Afghan border involved
armored vehicles and hel-
ns, significantly improved
their positions and using
political party Tehreek-e-Labbaik. — AFP the White House said on
Friday in a memoran-

Toll in Islamists-cop clashes

Los Angeles: A 25-year-old on regional security and icopter gunships. the current situation to dum signed by President
California-based Indian-origin counter-terrorism and the It was part of weeklong create conditions for furt- Joe Biden.
woman techie, who travelled to two sides remain engaged war games that brought her destructive actions in Although those consid-
Mexico to celebrate her birth- in regular consultations.” together about 5,000 troo- the region, Mirzo added. erations have become

for leader’s release rises to 10

day, was one of the two foreign CNN News had reported ps and over 700 armoured Russian officials said less and less urgent with
tourists killed in a shootout quoting three sources vehicles from Russia, Taj- they trusted the Taliban’s the passage of the decad-
between two drug gangs in the familiar with the details ikistan and several other pledge that they wouldn't es, and most of the reco-
Caribbean coast resort of Tul- of a classified briefing ex-Soviet nations, which threaten neighbouring rds have been made ava-
um, according to media with members of the US are members of the Col- countries. — AP Lahore, Oct. 23: Six people party chief Saad Hussain the TLP claimed that five ilable by the National
reports. Congress that took place died on Saturday raising Rizvi and expulsion of the more workers were killed Archives and Records
The incident happened on on Friday that the US was the death toll to 10 in French Ambassador over by the police during the Administration, several
Wednesday night. Anjali Ryot nearing an agreement allowed the US military to inside Afghanistan. ongoing fierce clashes be- the issue of blasphemous protest in Lahore. government agencies
was killed along with another with Pakistan for use of use its airspace. “Absolutely not. There is tween the police and radi- caricatures. The condition of many and departments must
German tourist in the cross- its airspace to conduct Earlier, Prime Minister no way we are going to cal Islamists in Lahore, as Among the dead are injured workers was criti- determine if any of the
fire, [Link] operations in Afghanist- Imran Khan in an inter- allow any bases, any sort over 8,000 activists of the three policemen and cal. On Saturday, police remaining undisclosed
news portal reported. an. The Pakistan Opposit- view had categorically of action from Pakistani banned Tehreek-i-Labbaik seven TLP workers. along with Rangers had materials should contin-
Ryot arrived in Tulum on ion parties had also dem- said that Pakistan would territory into Afghanist- Pakistan (TLP) began a The Punjab Chief Minis- clashes with TLP workers ue to be kept from public
Monday prior to her birthday anded the government to “absolutely not” allow any an. Absolutely not,” Khan procession to Islamabad ter’s Office confirmed one at Rana Town, outskirts of view.
on October 22, it said. give an explanation on the bases and use of its terri- had said in an interview from here to stage a sit-in more death of a police- Lahore. Biden added in the
Her Instagram account listed reports that Pakistan had tory for any sort of action in June. — PTI for the release of their man on Saturday, while — PTI memo that the Archivist
her as a travel blogger from of the US had reported
Himachal Pradesh, living in that the pandemic had
San Jose, California.
GO | GREEN Jinping, Putin not to attend Oct. 31-Nov. 12 climate meet, to send delegations slowed the process.
Some of the records
U.S. DRONE will be released from

COP26 deal harder than Paris: Summit president

Dec. 15, and most, if not
STRIKE KILLS all, of the rest by the end
of 2022, according to the
AL-QAEDA LEADER memo, 59 years after the
assassination in Dallas.
Washington: The US military
says it killed a senior al-Qaeda
leader in an airstrike Friday in
London, Oct. 23: Success
at the upcoming COP26 cli-
mate summit is “definitely
1.5 degrees above pre-
industrial levels was a
daunting task.
MAJOR OIL PRODUCER SAUDI TO BE NET-ZERO BY ’60 enough, you’re going to
have to come back to the
table,” said Sharma.
“Any information that
an agency proposes for
continued postponement
northwest Syria. harder” than the 2015 “What we’re trying to do Dubai, Oct. 23: One of the first-ever Saudi Green That approach focuses He called on the world’s beyond Dec. 15, 2022,
Army Major John Rigsbee, a Paris talks which resulted here in Glasgow is actual- world’s largest oil produc- Initiative Forum, was on still unreliable carbon biggest emitter China, shall be limited to the
spokesman for US Central in a landmark accord, the ly really tough,” he said. ers, Saudi Arabia, timed to make a splash a capture and storage tech- whose fractious relation- absolute minimum und-
Command, said in a statement British minister presiding “It was brilliant what announced Saturday it little more than a week nologies over efforts to ship with the West is er the statutory standa-
that Abdul Hamid al-Matar over the gathering warned they did in Paris” but “a aims to reach net zero before the start of the actually reduce global another obstacle to agree- rd,” Biden said.
was killed by a drone strike. Saturday. lot of the detailed rules greenhouse gas emissions global COP26 climate con- reliance on fossil fuels. ment, to present its NDC. Under the President
Rigsbee said the killing of al- The October 31- were left for the future,” by 2060, joining more than ference being held in The announcement only “They signed up to the John F. Kennedy Assass-
Matar will disrupt al-Qaeda’s November 12 gathering in he added. 100 countries in a global Glasgow, Scotland. pertains to Saudi Arabia’s communique in July that ination Records Collecti-
“ability to further plot and Glasgow is the biggest cli- “It's like, we’ve got to the effort to try and curb man- Although the kingdom efforts within its national we negotiated in Naples, on Act of 1992, the Natio-
carry out global attacks threat- mate conference since the end of the exam paper and made climate change. will aim to reduce its borders, and does not that all the G20 would nal Archives took char-
ening US citizens, our part- Paris summit and is seen the most difficult ques- The announcement, emissions, Prince Moham- impact its continued come up with enhanced ge of “more than five
ners, and innocent civilians.” as crucial in setting world- tions are left and you’re made by Crown Prince med said the kingdom aggressive investment in NDCs before COP — I million pages of assassi-
He said al-Qaeda “uses Syria wide emission targets to running out of time. “This Mohammed bin Salman in would do so through a so- oil and exporting its fossil reminded them they need- nation-related records,
as a base for threats reaching slow global warming. is definitely harder than brief scripted remarks at called Carbon Circular fuels to Asia and other ed to deliver on that,” he photographs, motion pi-
into Syria, Iraq and beyond.” Alok Sharma, the British Paris on lots of levels.” the start of the kingdom’s Economy approach. regions. — AP said. UN chief Antonio ctures, sound recordings
The strike came two days after minister in charge of the The task will be made all Guterres said Thursday and artifacts (approxi-
a US military outpost in south- talks, told the Guardian the more difficult as world leaders and around degrees but their “nation- Strengthening those that the current climate mately 2,000 cubic feet of
ern Syria was hit by a coordi- newspaper that getting Chinese President Xi 25,000 delegates are ally determined contribu- plans will be a key part of situation was “a one-way records)”. Congress
nated attack that included nearly 200 countries to Jinping and Russian expected in Glasgow. tions” (NDCs) — national negotiations. ticket for disaster” as he intended that, under the
drones and rockets. US officials commit to the emission leader Vladimir Putin are The Paris accord saw 197 plans drawn up to imple- “What we’re potentially stressed the need to “avoid act, all of the records
said no American troops sta- targets to limit global tem- not attending but sending nations agree to limit glob- ment the deal — have been saying to countries is that a failure” at COP26. would eventually be dis-
tioned there were injured. perature rises to less than delegations. More than 120 al heating to below 2 deemed inadequate. if your NDC isn’t good — AFP closed. — Bloomberg
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Pandemic, and traumas past:

INDIAN TOP 10
BESTSELLERS
NON-FICTION
1
Finding a gentler way forward
MY LIFE IN FULL
Indra Nooyi
Hachette
`699

2 Manu
FALSE ALLIES
S. Pillai
Juggernaut
Being with this family
through their daily lives in
time with friends and peers,
and daily domestic incon-
The characters live
ordinary yet interesting
2020, the quality of our own veniences. How we received
`899
Vangmayi Parakala lives indoors comes back to
us: the anxieties and absurd-
the outside world also comes
back — the people-less
lives, some have
misgivings about one
3 PERIL
Bob Woodward
ities of taking care of a fam-
ily member with a non-Covid
streets, the clearer-than-ever
skies, and major cultural
other, and some still
nurse scars from family
Simon & Schuster
`899
review illness during the early days
of quarantine, the uncer-
newspoints — a section on
how every member of the trauma they’re each
tainties of remote work, the family engages with the dealing with on their
disconnectedness of online news of actor Irrfan Khan’s own... [They] also con-
4 Josy
THE SILENT COUP

H
Joseph ave we willed our- slower and softer way classes, the loss of offline death mirrors how many of tend with questions of
Westland selves to forget forward. us, with privileges similar to
2020, and a quar- Through her simple and members of Matangi-Ma’s family and of mortality.
`699
ter of 2021? And soft prose, Gokhale lets us family, had reacted.
have we done so revisit the pandemic without That the story is engaging, of mortality.
5 SPY STORIES
Adrian Levy and Cathy
Scott Clark
with an aggression we didn’t
think we had in us? Maybe
the paralysing glares of its
horrors. The world of build-
the language lucid yet lilting,
and the characters memo-
Despite this, and despite
being set in what nobody
moving on from the global ing number C100, with each rable, will be obvious praise will remember as a relaxing
Juggernaut horror and anxieties of the floor housing different sec- to offer a master storyteller year, the book’s narratorial
`699 pandemic is an act of self- tions of its joint family, is such as Gokhale. The charac- voice is utterly relaxing and
preservation, maybe it is a kept together by a strong old ters live ordinary yet inter- calm. It is sensitive without

6 Debasish
TO KILL A DEMOCRACY

Oxford
Roy Chowdhury
manifestation of a universal
impulse towards some kind
of optimism that moves
lady, Matangi-Ma, who lives
on the top floor with her
assistant, Lali. One a sepa-
esting lives, some have mis-
givings about one other, and
some still nurse scars from
trying too hard, it is socially
and politically aware with-
out screaming for someone
`995 things along. rate floor, is her eldest, family trauma they’re each to notice that it is. The real
However, reading Namita Suryaveer, a single man with dealing with on their own. At success of the book comes
Gokhale’s latest book The his adolescent son and their various points, whether it is from this very space— it
7 Hector
THE IKIGAI JOURNEY
Garcia and
Francese Miralles
Blind Matriarch is an essen-
tial, gentle remembering. It
dog, Dollar. On another, is
her other son, Satish, his
due to the pandemic or politi-
cians, the fathers or mothers,
never forgets to be kind. And
what better way to heal and
is an act of giving ourselves wife Ritika and their young THE BLIND MATRIARCH the husbands or wives, the move on, than to remember
Tuttle
a private, meditative space to son Rahul. On the ground children or careers, there is with kindness.
`499 By NAMITA GOKHALE frustration bottled up, and
feel relief for those who sur- floor is Matangi-Ma’s daugh-
vived or came out unscathed, ter, Shanta, single and living Penguin Viking frustration expressed. All of Vangmayi Parakala is a
8 Aanchal
REMNANTS OF A
SEPARATION
Malhotra
to mourn those we lost, and
to settle ourselves into a
with a cat called Trump and
her assistant Munni.
pp. 209, `599 the characters also contend
with questions of family and
culture writer based in
New Delhi

HarperCollins, `599

9 Penguin,
THE NUTMEG’S CURSE
Amitav Ghosh WE RECOMMEND
`599
DRAGON RISING: HOW INDIA CAN HELP WORLD
G
andhi and non-violence are
ubiquitous. But what was
10 INDIA THAT IS
BHARAT
J. Sai Deepak
spanning across Asia,
Europe and Africa thanks to
will be a major factor in
countering China. For this,
mensurate multi-dimen-
sional response to tackle the
the precise nature of that
definition as it played out in
its BRI programme. Its it needs to build more eco- same. The author has identi- Gandhi’s own life and politics? In
Bloomsbury, `799 Anil hurry to alter global gover- nomic heft. It will not suffice fied technology and econo- Elusive Non-Violence, Jyotirmaya
nance is driven by an ambi- to match frigates and sub- my as two clear areas where Sharma analyzes violence and non-
Bhat tion to dictate rules on marines, but the world must Chinese desire for suprema- violence as seen through the
issues like food security that defeat China’s plans to cy could play out, requiring Gandhian prism.
review affect the entire humanity.
And Beijing’s expansive
weaponise trade and infor-
mation, and lessen its global
proactive response by world
powers. Blinkers Off sug-
To wit: “Ahimsa in Gandhi
emerges as a fundamentally reli-
strategy is not just limited to clout, which has turned gests creating powerful gious ideal, with all the limitations

T
here is no compari- planting its proxies but hav- even the UN Secretary- deterrence across tradition- that intensely religious ideals
son between how ing its own version of General into one of its al and new age mediums of inevitably encounter. To name only
extensively the human rights to be nor- cheerleaders. Joe Biden does warfare like cyber and trade. one, a concept so pre-eminently cen-
Communist Party of malised by international not have the luxury of The recommendations in tred in religion demands extraordi-
China has been researching agencies. China’s hunger for Barack Obama to respond to the book, which encompass nary faith
on multiple aspects of India, mineral resources is anoth- China’s island-building all aspects of engagement and resists
which it has used to make er key driver for its ambi- activity with few public with China, also include comprom-
innumerable territorial tion to be a modern-day colo- statements and a “pivot” focus on checking the dis- ise. It dem-
claims, and what India has nial power. that yielded little by way of proportionate clout Beijing ands perfec-
been doing or not doing to With China expected to deterrence. Instead, the US now holds over global gover- tion among
protect its territorial integ- eclipse America as the President will have to act nance. WHO didn’t develop imperfect
rity. At long last, it is wel- world’s largest economy in fast and in tandem with feet of clay in one day, it humans.
come that, in the last few 2028, the latter is not as pow- Narendra Modi and reached its present mori- But despite
years, there has been a erful as it was in the 1950s Yoshihide Suga. bund state after years of its religious
remarkable increase in the and 1960s to be able to suc- The book makes a case for consistent Chinese push to characteri-
literature focused on China, cessfully address the present an all-around approach undermine what were once sation, Gan-
particularly on India-China geopolitical tensions. It is towards understanding the beacons of liberal hope. dhi’s ahim-
FICTION ties. One such book in this only the collective response China challenge and a com- Provocatively titled, the sa cannot
genre is Blinkers Off: How of the liberal world, book is a refreshing change be read

1 BEAUTIFUL WORLD,
WHERE ARE YOU
Sally Rooney
Will The World Counter
China, authored by senior
journalist Gaurie Dwivedi.
America and its allies and
partners, which will togeth-
er decide the future and
from the largely one-sided
narrative of a pathbreaking
reform-led growth story of By JYOTIRMAYA able past
back
ELUSIVE NON-VIOLENCE any avail- into

Faber & Faber The well-researched book shape of the post-pandemic China, whitewashing its SHARMA tradition,
`699 takes a bird’s eye view of the world order. After allowing efforts to create its power Westland whether
challenges that a rising and China to successfully sub- axis by relying on other pp. 271, `699 Jain or
basically belligerent China vert the rules-based world authoritarian countries like Hindu. Nei-
2 CLOUD CUCKOO LAND
Anthony Doerr
HarperCollins, `699
presents to the world. Tak-
ing the reader through
order for three decades, the
world is now in a precarious
Iran and Russia. Instead, the
author presents a com-
ther is it
entirely a modern enterprise, with
China’s growth story and phase. Multi-polar solidarity pelling argument for the strong resemblances to the thought
the geopolitical realign- is the best bet to counter the world to view China through of Tolstoy, Emerson, Ruskin and
3 OVER MY DEAD BODY
Jeffery Archer
HarperCollins, `450
ments that it has created,
this book is unapologetic in
its assessment that Beijing’s
challenge that China poses.
India and Japan, along with
America, will play a vital
the prism of its ancient mil-
itary and strategic thought
woven into CPC’s desire for
Thoreau. It is also not a purely
nationalist enterprise, though he is
often seen on the side of ‘good’
continued rise poses securi- role in checking Chinese BLINKERS OFF: HOW hegemony and upending the nationalists in the battle of nation-
ty threats to the liberal President Xi Jinping’s WILL THE WORLD present world order. alisms in India. All one can say is
4 HARLEM SHUFFLE
Colson Whitehead
Hachette, `699
world.
China’s acts to undermine
propensity to change the sta-
tus quo. India’s geo-strategic COUNTER CHINA? Anil Bhat, a retired Army
that it is a uniquely new idea.” This
doctrine laid the foundation of dem-
the world order pose a location, which allows it to By GAURIE DWIVEDI officer, is a defence and ocratic discourse as a legitimate tool
greater threat due to its eco- be a possible counter to Pentagon Press security analyst based in to drive change in the Indian con-
5 THE EARTHSPINNER
Anuradha Roy
Hachette, `599
nomic might, military capa-
bilities and vast influence
China in the Indo Pacific,
and its geo-economic clout
pp. 239, `795 New Delhi text. But did it completely deny the
relevance and historicity of the role
of force? That’s a point to ponder.

6 SONG OF DRAUPADI
IIra Mukhoty
Aleph, `699 FAST FACT: Penelope Lively did not publish her first children’s book until she was nearly
40. Lively is the only writer to have won both the Booker Prize (in 1987, for her novel Moon
7 THE ISLAND OF
MISSING TREES
Elif Shafak
Tiger) and the Carnegie Medal (in 1973, for The Ghost of Thomas Kempe). Among her
memoirs is Oleander, Jacaranda, about her childhood in Cairo before and during WW2. Her
latest, Metamorphosis: Selected Stories, spans 40 years of writing. She lives in London.
Penguin Viking, `699

8 THE MAN WHO

DIED TWICE

Cut down in their prime and living with the tag of ‘terrorist’
Richard Osman
Penguin, `699

9 David
AT NIGHT ALL BLOOD
IS BLACK
Dipo Khan, one of the writers, their intention to commit year-old unemployed terror- July 2001, Haider was work- vice-president of India,
Pushkin Press, `399 told The Asian Age. “When suicide because he engaged tainted middle-aged man. ing with a multi-national — Mohammed Hamid Ansari,
we recollect our composure them in reading and writing. Many of his family members Becton, Dickinson and was the vice-chancellor of
Mohammed Anas to gather more such sad sto- Ultimately, in 2017, Tariq was died during this period. His Company — as sales area the university. Their arrests
10 PROTECTOR
Conn Iggulden
Penguin, `699
ries, we will come up with an
additional volume.”
released, and acquitted of all
charges. He was 30 and a
toddler had grown up but
forgotten his face.
manager. Suddenly one day,
he was picked up by the
had led to a massive student
agitation in the university.
The first chapter chroni- working young man when he Similar is the story of police and soon he was the However, like Tariq, Fazli
review cles how 12 minutes in the was arrested and now a 42- Mohammed Hussain Fazli, a headline of the media — a and Haider, both faced ille-
life of Tariq Ahmed Dar, the shawl-weaver from Kashmir, purported member of Pak- gal police custody, third
Bahrisons, New Delhi Kashmir in-charge of the who was picked up by a joint based Hizbul Mujahideen. degree torture, framed ter-

A
fter the Govern- Social activist Aleemullah renowned Johnson & team of Delhi and Jammu & Later in 2004, he was found ror charges and then a long
ment of India Khan and journalist Johnson company, turned Kashmir police in 2005, guilty of murdering Kanpur spell in jail. They were
banned the now Manisha Bhalla’s book into 12 years of life behind allegedly for his involvement additional district magis- arrested in 2000 and 2001 and
infamous Student Baizzat Bari? (Acquitted bars and frequent visits to in the Delhi serial blasts. He trate (ASM), Chandra released in 2008 and 2017,
Islamic Movement of India with Honour?) does not the court. “Meanwhile, he underwent everything that Prakash Pathak. He respectively, freed of all
(SIMI) in 2001, a number of merely fill this void, it stirs a underwent all types of tor- Tariq had to go through. His appealed in the Allahabad charges.
Muslim youths were picked nation’s conscience by ture which a human mind only crime that the police high court that exonerated Every chapter of the book
up by the government agen- describing story by story can imagine at the hands of tried to establish was that him of all charges in 2009. tells an equally sordid tale of
cies from all across the coun- how not only these youths investigative agencies that the terrorists used his SIM Yet, the media, led by local a young life destroyed by
try. These stories were duly have turned into broken were hell bent to prove him a card. The story could not be Hindi dailies, continued to police and other government
reported in the media, detail- middle-aged men, but also terrorist involved in setting proven in court and he was call him a terrorist for a security agencies. All of
ing how these youths were how their families, too, are off a series of blasts in freed in 2017. When Fazli was very long time to come. these youths were accused of
indoctrinated into terror struggling to piece together India,” says the book. His job arrested, he was unmarried. Whenever any incident being terrorists, members of
and they embarked on the their lost social esteem and was terminated and his fam- His incarceration has related to terrorism took SIMI and masterminds of
mission to destroy India. tide over financial woes. ily barely managed finances ensured that he might not place, the Hindi media several blasts in India.
Fifteen to twenty years later, Overall, the book compiles required for his lawyers. He marry ever. This is only one linked it to Haider. Haider, The question that is asked
when the majority of these the ordeals of 16 such young had to face a hostile environ-
BAIZZAT BARI? of many tragedies that Fazli like many Muslims in India, of the reader, therefore, is —
youths have been acquitted men. The number of acquit- ment within the jail premis- By MANISHA BHALLA is living with daily. learnt to live with this tag. when these youths were not
of all charges against them, ted youth, according to writ- es. However, he overcame and DR ALEEMULLAH Another sad tale that the Next are stories of Gulzar perpetrators of those terror
few media outlets have both- ers, runs into hundreds. “We this by teaching jail inmates. KHAN book narrates is that of Ahmad Wani, a Kashmiri, acts, who were the actual per-
ered to tell the story of the have compiled only 16 stories Delhi’s famous gangster, Bharat Pustak Syed Wasif Ali Haider, son and Mohammed Mubeen petrators? Why did the police
devastation that was as we could travel and bear Neeraj Bawana, is one of his Bhandar, of a Sahitya Akademi awar- from UP — both research never bring them to book?
wreaked upon their lives at to listen to only these few students. Tariq recounts that pp. 296, `295 dee. He hails from Cham- scholars — were arrested Why did their lives stay
the prime of their youth. scary tales,” Aleemullah many inmates postponed anganj in Kanpur, UP. Till from AMU when former unscathed by their crimes?
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ACTION PAKED Holders Windies

SHORT TAKES
Lankans bank on
bowlers vs Bangla
Sharjah: Sri Lanka will rely
are blown away
heavily on their bowling unit to Dubai, Oct. 23: Spinners ● It was expected to
make up for their relatively
weak batting department, while
Bangladesh would look for con-
sistency when the two teams
India face Pakistan in most-awaited T20 WC opener
Dubai, Oct. 23: The most
Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid
demolished the West Indies
batting line up to shape
England’s comfortable six-
be an exciting battle
between the West
Indies’ flair and a
clash in a Super 12 Group 1
match of the T20 World Cup
sought-after megastars of
the current generation
INDIA HAVE wicket win over the defend-
ing champions in a Super
capable England
AN EDGE attack but was
here on Sunday. are primed to show their 12 Group 1 match of the
Both Sri Lanka and Bangladesh might against a bunch of T20 World Cup here on reduced to a no-
had to go through the first enigmatic cricketers as ■ India have won six, lost Saturday. contest following a
round group stage to secure India and Pakistan one and tied one in eight It was expected to be an horrendous batting
their places in the Super 12s. engage in an ICC T20 Twenty-20 Internationals exciting battle between the
played against Pakistan. display by the
While Sri Lanka topped Group World Cup face-off, some- West Indies’ flair and a
A with three wins out of as thing that transcends the They beat Pakistan in capable England attack but defending
many games, Bangladesh fin- 22-yard strip. bowl out after match was reduced to a no-contest champions, who
ished second in Group B behind The sensitive nature of ended in a tied at following a horrendous were skittled out for
Scotland. cross-border relationship Durban on September batting display by the
14, 2007. just 55 runs in inside
Sri Lanka defeated Namibia by between the neighbours defending champions, who
seven wickets, before beating has led to minimal sport- were skittled out for an
15 overs.
■ The Men In Blue have
Ireland by 70 runs. In their last ing engagements and embarrassing 55 in inside
won four and lost one in
qualifying match against cricket has always 15 overs. balls and excellent field-
last five matches played
Netherlands, they skittled out become the vehicle of one against Pakistan. India
The West Indies batters ing.
the opposition for 44 and then upmanship for the fans have also never lost to only looked for big shots Jos Buttler (24 not out)
accumulated the runs with on both sides. Pakistan in a Twenty-20 and that became their and skipper Eoin Morgan
eight wickets in hand. In terms of numbers, World Cup and the undoing as they seemed to (7 not out) saw England
Bangladesh, on the other hand, India have an all-win scoreline is 5-0 in favour have forgotten that rotat- through and ensured there
were far from impressive. The record against their arch- of the Indian side. One ing the strike was impor- was no more drama in the
Tigers were stunned by rivals in the T20 World of their wins came in tant when boundaries were contest.
Scotland by six runs in their Cup since its inception in bowl out after match difficult to come by on the Such results do make a
opener before they scrapped 2007. ended in a tie. surface. difference if net-run-rate
past Oman by 26 runs and then Incidentally, all the England bowlers were comes into play at the later
defeated Papua New Guinea by matches were won under ■ The last meeting persistent with their line stage of the tournament.
84 runs to qualify for the Super the one and only between these two sides and length and were Earlier, Rashid gave away
12s. Mahendra Singh Dhoni, happened in the 2016 rewarded as West Indies just two runs in the 14 balls
Going forward in the tourna- who will be there on skip- World Cup at Kolkata on managed their second low- he bowled and wiped off
ment, Sri Lanka will have to per Virat Kohli’s ears Match 19 and India est T20 total after 45 they the middle and lower order,
deal with their stuttering top- with his ‘diamond crust- cruised to six wickets made against the same carrying forward the good
order. — PTI ed info-nuggets’, which victory in the game as opponents in 2019. start Moeen had provided
well to keep continuing It was also the third low- after Eoin Morgan invited
the Caribbeans to bat.
Rupinder, Lakra Live on TV their winning streak
against Pakistan in
est total in T20 World Cup
behind 39 and 44 (both by Moeen ended his spell in
World Cup. Netherlands). a splendid manner, bowl-
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ing as many as 18 dot balls
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Pakistan from 7.30 pm on TOTALS
New Delhi: Olympic bronze but not before they too lost ceding just 17 runs.
medallist hockey players Star Sports 1, HD; Sri Lanka ■ India: 192-5 in 20 overs wickets in cluster. West Indies batters kept
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Jason Roy (11), Jonny looking for boundaries and
Birendra Lakra on Saturday said 2012). Bairstow (9), Moeen Ali (3) they fell by the way side
they were overwhelmed by the ■ Pakistan: 181-7 in 20 and Liam Livingstone (1) one after another.
appreciation they received from might lead to Babar Azam overs at Ahmedabad (28- struggled to adjust to the Chris Gayle (13) was the
Prime Minister Narendra Modi tearing a hair or two in 12-2012). slowness of the wicket that only batter who got to the
on their retirements and have exasperation. LOWEST INNINGS had made stroke making double digits.
pledged to give back to the Yet, this is a match that TOTALS quite difficult. Moeen was involved in a
game after being inspired by everyone awaits in the Left-arm spinner Akeal terrific battle with the
the leader’s passion for sports. global event — the fans ■ India: 133-9 in 20 overs Hosein (2/24) made a good West Indies batters after he
“Overwhelmed to receive this because of its novelty fac- Team India mentor M. S. at Bengaluru (25-12- impression with his quick opened the attack. — PTI
letter from our Hon’ble PM tor, the ICC and the broad- 2012).
Dhoni at a training session in ■ Pakistan: 83 in 17.3
@narendramodi ji. His constant casters for filling up the
support to athletes has moti- coffers. Everyone is
Dubai on Saturday, the eve
of the T20 World Cup match
overs at Dhaka (27-02- SCORECARD
vated us to do our best at invested be it emotionally, 2016).
against Pakistan. — BCCI West Indies: Lendl Simmons c Livingstone b Moeen 3, Evin
Tokyo2020. Sir, I am inspired by like the fans, or material- HIGHEST INDIVIDUAL Lewis c Moeen b Chris Woakes 6, Chris Gayle c Malan b Tymal
your passion for sport and ly, like the other stake- SCORES Mills 13, Shimron Hetmyer c Morgan b Moeen 9, Dwayne Bravo
pledge to continue my contri- holders. Shaheen Shah Afridi not-so-great performance Rohit Sharms and the c Bairstow b Chris Jordan 5, Nicholas Pooran c Jos Buttler b
■ India: 78* Virat Kohli at
bution to Indian sports. Be it Sunil Gavaskar or could tail one into K.L. stays forever. Jasprit Bumrahs don’t Tymal Mills 1, Kieron Pollard c Bairstow b Adil Rashid 6, Andre
Colombo (30-09-2012).
@PMOIndia @ianuragthakur,” Sourav Ganguly, everyone Rahul’s pads first up to No one knows it better carry any baggage ■ Pakistan: 61 Russell b Adil Rashid 0, Akeal Hosein (not out) 6, Obed
Rupinder tweeted on Saturday. who understands the set it up for Pakistan. than current chairman of despite the blip in the Mohammed Hafeez at McCoyc Roy b Adil Rashid 0, Ravi Rampaul b Adil Rashid 3.
Lakra added: “We athletes con- game would tell you that It could be Mohammed selectors Chetan Sharma, 2017 Champions Trophy Bengaluru (25-12-2012). Extras (w-3) 3. Total (in 14.2 overs) 55.
tribute our life to sport and this is the one format Rizwan, who might just who is carrying the cross final. FoW: 8-1, 9-2, 27-3, 31-4, 37-5, 42-6, 44-7, 49-8, 49-9.
when it is acknowledged by where the margins are launch into Mohammed of a last ball six off Javed On Sunday, the BEST BOWLING Bowling: Moeen Ali 4-1-17-2, Chris Woakes 2-0-12-1, Tymal
Hon’ble PM of the country, it thinnest and qualitative Shami or it could be Miandad for the past 35 Pakistanis will have a lot PERFORMANCES Mills 4-0-17-2, Chris Jordan 2-0-7-1, Adil Rashid 2.2-0-2-4.
feels like we have really done difference matters the Suryakumar Yadav, who years. more to prove than their ■ India: 3-8 Hardik
our bit for nation building. least, as any one per- could play a reverse flick But cricket has changed Indian counterparts. England: Jason Roy c Gayle b Rampaul 11, Jos Buttler (not
Pandya at Dhaka (27-02- out) 24, Jonny Bairstow c & b Hosein 9, Moeen Ali (run out) 3,
“Heartfelt thanks to Hon’ble former can win it for his off Hasan Ali. since those heady days of For the likes of Shah, 2016)
Narendra Modi ji for his warm side on a given day. The players may say Sharjah and India, with Rizwan, Harris Rauf and Liam Livingstone c & b Hosein 1, Eoin Morgan (not out) 7.
■ Pakistan: 4-18 Extras (nb-1) 1. Total (for 4 wkts, in 8.2 overs) 56.
gesture.” — PTI It could be Kohli, who that it’s just “another its robust structure and their uber cool captain Mohammed Asif at FoW: 1-21, 2-30, 3-36, 4-39.
would love to get over his game of cricket” but even talent factory, has pro- Babar, it will not just be Durban (14 -09-2007) Bowling: Akeal Hosein 4-0-24-2, Ravi Rampaul 2-0-14-1, Obed
mediocre run of form in a they know that in this day duced world-class per- about breaking a World
Tennis Nationals match that always carries
a posterity value or
and age of retro videos
and offensive memes, a
formers by the dozens.
The Virat Kohlis, the
Cup jinx against a world-
class side. — PTI
— S. PERVEZ QAISER
McCoy 2-0-12-0, Kieron Pollard 0.2-0-6-0.

from Monday
New Delhi: Well-known names
like Nikki Poonacha, V.
M. Ranjeet, Dalwinder Singh,
Vishnu Vardhan
and Kunal Anand are in fray
12-0: Can India keep the record?
R. MOHAN
PAK SKIPPER NOT
THINKING ABOUT Aussies survive
PAST T20 RESULTS
S. Africa scare
among the men at the Fenesta CHENNAI, OCT. 23
Open National Tennis
Championship here on Monday. In the topsy-turvy world Dubai, Oct. 23: Pakistan
The finals will be played at the of instant cricket, reputa- are not losing sleep over
DLTA Complex on October 30. tions can take a beating in their poor record against
In the women’s section, there is the blink of an eye or a T- India in the World Cup Abu Dhabi, Oct. 23: Kagiso Rabada cut short
good representation with multi- 20 game. Defeats are so and are trying to stay Australia endured some his promising start when
ple national champion common in limited-overs calm and live in the pres- anxious moments before the batter sliced one in the
Prerna Bhambri, Zeel Desai, cricket that teams and ent, skipper Babar Azam edging out South Africa by air for Heinrich Klaasen to
Sharmada Balu, Sravya Shivani, players don’t let them said here on Saturday. five wickets after their complete a catch at back-
Sai Samhita take on too much mean- The two bitter foes may bowlers set it up with a ward point.
and Vaidehi Chaudhari figuring ing. It is remarkable then be sharing the fiercest of clinical display in an ICC Mitchell Marsh fell for 11
on the acceptance list. that India should have rivalries but Pakistan T20 World Cup match here as South Africa left
For a tournament which has built up a 12-0 record have never won against on Saturday. Australia struggling at 38
become an integral part of the against Pakistan in the India at the biggest stage, Needing eight runs in the for three in the eighth over.
national tennis circuit, the World Cups (50-overs and losing all of their 12 final over, Marcus Stoinis A partnership ensued
absence in 2020 was keeping in T20) that stretches back matches at the T20 and 50- (24 not out) hit Dwaine between Steve Smith (35)
mind safety reasons and Covid- nearly three decades to over World Cups. Pretorius for two vital and Glenn Maxwell (18) but
19 restrictions. Sydney and SCG where The two teams will fours and completed the their 42-run association for
This time, the Fenesta Open they first met in 1992. again lock horns on job with two balls to spare. the fourth wicket ended
National Tennis Championship Pakistan must believe it Sunday. “To be honest, we This was after Australia when the former was sen-
will have only the men’s and is a jinx, a hoodoo or don’t want to focus on the were reeling at 81 for five sationally caught in the
women’s events, with the win- some spell cast by con- past. We are looking for- in the 16th over. deep by a sprinting Aiden
ners walking away with a prize spirators. Several Indian ward to this World Cup. Defending a modest tar- Markram.
purse of `3 lakhs reach. teams in that time will We will focus on our get of 119, South Africa got Earlier, Australia’s
know that they came strength, ability and the start they were looking bowlers scythed through
through every time apply that on the day,” for when Anrich Nortje South Africa’s top and mid-
Bengaluru boys because they could keep
their collective nerve.
Babar said at the pre-
match press conference.
(2/21) dismissed opposition
skipper Aaron Finch for a
dle-order batting lineup to
restrict them to 118 for
shine in JKNRC Indian teams could see
the logic of India-
“It is important to keep
things simple and stick to
duck in the innings’ second
over.
nine. On a pitch where the
ball came on to the bat late,
Coimbatore: The rich talent Pakistan match beyond the basics. We will try to Finch went for a drive but Josh Hazlewood 2/19),
from the city of Bengaluru the emotions that they India captain Virat Kohli (right) talks with teammate Hardik Pandya during their play good cricket and try he could not middle it as Adam Zampa (2/21) and
came to the fore as Sohil Shah generate. This is not like Twenty20 World Cup warm-up match against Australia in Dubai on Wednesday. — AP to produce better results,” the ball took a top edge and Michell Starc (2/33) did
and Ruhaan Alva dominated life and death. But it took the right-handed batter, flew towards the third man most of the damage, even
proceedings in the LGB4 and cricketing greats to estab- with five bowlers from that cricketing logic wins who is on a high with two region. as Aiden Markram battled
BATTLE OF NERVES
JK Tyre Novice Cup categories lish this long unbeaten each side aiming at most often. T20 centuries this year, Dropped from his IPL his way to a 36-ball 40.
in the JK Tyre FMSCI National run beginning with unprotected stumps in Many unknown crick- Pakistan can be a bunch added. franchise Sunrisers Had it not been for Kagiso
Racing Championship. Sachin in 1992 and MS strange tie-breaker rules. eters have served India in of egomaniacs but they The cross-border ten- Hyderebad in the second Rabada’s 19, which includ-
Saturday was a day when there Dhoni in 2007. His bowlers hit the this 12-0 record but none are talented enough to sion between the neigh- leg of the league recently, ed a one-handed six off
were thrills and spills in the A young Sachin, fresh stumps with pinpoint more anonymous than have won two World Cups, bours meant that the two David Warner (14) seemed Starc in the final over,
races among cars and bikes as off one of the greatest accuracy while Pakistan Joginder Sharma who one of each limited-overs teams don’t get to play to have found his form South Africa would have
well as the brand-new Royal Test innings that he ever opting for its fast bowlers bowled that final over variety. Will they view bilateral series with their with three boundaries but got less. — PTI
Enfield Continental GT Cup was played, and that at age 18 who thought this was against Pakistan in this 12-0 as a jinx that can last meeting being the
making its debut. In what at the WACA in Perth be broken or will they 2019 ODI World Cup game
turned out to be almost a final against Australia, held
some ego contest of speed
and not accuracy. India
Johannesburg. The seam-
er justified Dhoni’s faith succumb once again as in England. SCORECARD
shoot-out, Sohil Shah turned on the Indian innings togeth- hit, Pakistan missed. and the rest seemed too they try to blast their way Asked if he’s having South Africa: Temba Bavuma b Maxwell 12, Quinton de Kock b
the heat. On Saturday, the boy er, bowled 10 overs for one India had the last laugh simple as India won three to beat India? We will sleepless nights ahead of Hazlewood 7, Rassie van der Dussen c Wade b Hazlewood 2, Aiden
used his nerves and waited for wicket but, importantly, again as Misbah-ul-Haq more games in T20 World know the answer in a few the big match, Babar said: Markram c Maxwell b Starc 40, Heinrich Klaasen c Steven Smith b
the right opportunity to step on choked the Pakistan tried to hoick it over fine Cups with Pakistan buck- hours. For who will this “We have played many Cummins 13, David Miller lbw b Zampa 16, Dwaine Pretorius c
the pedal to win the race by a chase and took the man of leg only to find Sreesanth ling under pressure each 13th encounter prove events, did well in the Wade b Zampa 1, Keshav Maharaj run out (Maxwell/Wade) 0,
difference of 0.165 seconds the match award. Four patrolling the fielding cir- time it faced India. lucky or unlucky? Champions Trophy. Kagiso Rabada (not out) 19, Anrich Nortje c Finch b Starc 2,
ahead of Arya Singh from victories in World Cup (50 cle there and Pakistan The difference between Cricketers would like to “The more we keep it Tabraiz Shamsi (not out) 0. Extras (b-2, lb-3, w-1) 6. Total (for 9
wkts, in 20 overs) 118.
Kolkata. overs) later came another and Misbah had “missed the two sides always lay believe that their sport is simple, the better it will FoW: 1-13, 2-16, 3-23, 4-46, 5-80, 6-82, 7-83, 8-98 , 9-115.
peculiar challenge. by five” as the fans were in who could keep their the most cerebral and be. It’s about sticking to Bowling: Mitchell Starc 4-0-32-2, Glenn Maxwell 4-0-24-1, Josh
Published by K. Sudhakar for and on to put it. collective nerves together that it is played more in the basics and staying Hazlewood 4-1-19-2, Pat Cummins 4-0-17-1, Adam Zampa 4-0-21-2.
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Limited at Jawaharlal Nehru National T20 cricket was an achieved without testing ly maddening challenges invariably a test of jan- In a bold decision, the Australia: David Warner c Klaasen b Rabada 14, Aaron Finch c
Youth Centre, 219 Deen Dayal Upadhyay unknown commodity for the tie-breaker rules was that are as much about gling nerves versus repro- Pakistan skipper left out Rabada b Nortje 0, Mitchell Marsh c van der Dussen b Maharaj 11,
Marg, New Delhi 110 002. and Printed by both teams as their first India’s, a record that was bat versus ball as man ducing game skills under former captain Sarfaraz Steven Smith c Markram b Nortje 35, Glenn Maxwell b Shamsi 18,
him at BFL Infotech Limited, C – 9, ever meeting ended in a stretched to five across against his own infallibil- stress. So far, India has Ahmed, who led them to a Marcus Stoinis (not out) 24, Matthew Wade (not out) 15. Extras
Sector – III, Noida – 201301. (lb-1 w-3) 4. Total (for 5 wkts, in 19.4 overs) 121.
tie. And then came the continents. And Dubai, ities in a game of great proved supreme. As jingo- Champions Trophy tri- FoW: 1-4, 2-20, 3-38, 4-80, 5-81.
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