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7 Maoists killedRAJNANDGAON: Seven Maoists were killed on Saturday in an encounter by the security forces in Chhattis-garh’s Rajnandgaon region, near Maharashtra border, police said. The encounter began at about 8 a.m. and continued till around 5 p.m. Police have recovered an AK 47, one 303 rifle and four muzzle loading guns, Maoist literature and ammunition from the en-counter site. Chhattisgarh Police chief, D M Awasthi, said seven Maoists were killed while three police personnel were also injured in the encounter. Following intel-ligence inputs, the District Reserve Guard and Chhattisgarh Armed Force personnel were dispatched near hills between Sherpar and Sitagota area. IANS

Ex-Maldivian VP sent back TUTICORIN (TN)/ NEW DELHI: For-mer Vice President of Maldives Ahmed Adheeb Abdul Ghafoor, who had sought political asylum in India after arriving on a cargo vessel on Thursday, has been sent back to the island nation, with authorities not allowing him to deboard as he did not possess the required documents. “The Maldivian leader left Tuticorin coast by midnight Friday,” a po-lice official told PTI in Tuticorin. Adheeb arrived in the cargo vessel along with nine crew members but was not allowed to disem-bark from the ship. He left for his home country in the same ship, police said. Coast Guard personnel oversaw the vessel leaving Indian waters. PTI

US wants to quickly deploy new missiles SYDNEY: Washington wants to quickly deploy new interme-diate-range missiles in Asia, to counter the rise of China in the region, new US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Sat-urday. “Yes I would like to,” Esper said when asked if the US was considering deploying new medium-range conventional weapons in Asia now Washing-ton is no longer bound by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty. “We would like to deploy a capability sooner rather than later,” Esper told reporters on a plane to Sydney at the start of a week-long tour of Asia. “I would prefer months ... But these things tend to take longer than you expect.” PTI

Kuldeep Sengar’s three arms licences cancelledLUCKNOW: The Unnao district ad-ministration has cancelled three arms licences of MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, accused in the Un-nao rape case. Sengar had a gun, a rifle and a revolver registered in his name. District Magistrate Devendra Kumar Pandey ordered the cancellation of Sengar’s arms licences following a plea from the rape survivor’s family in this regard. Sengar was accused in the gang rape case in April 2018 and was arrested and sent to jail thereafter. At present, the case is being heard by the CBI court. Another case was filed against him after a car carrying the rape survivor met an ac-cident on Sunday in Rae Bareli district. PTI

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AURANGABAD GIRL GANG-RAPED AT 19TH BIRTHDAY PARTY

US AND RUSSIA END MISSILE TREATY AS NEW THREATS EMERGE

SRINAGAR: Four militants, including a commander of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), were killed in two separate encounters with security forces in Baram-ulla and Shopian districts of Jammu and Kashmir in the last 36 hours, police said on Saturday. While two mili-tants were killed in Sopore township of Baramulla district of north Kashmir,

two others were killed in Shopian district of south Kashmir in an operation which began on Friday, a police official said.

Security forces launched a cordon and search opera-tion in Warpora area of So-pore on Saturday and two JeM militants were killed in an encounter, he said. One

of the two was identified as Umer Shahbaz Wani, a resident of Kharpora Bandipora, while another was not yet identified, the official added. Both of them were involved in a series of terror activities, he said, adding that Wani had joined the militant ranks in June and was ac-

tive within Sopore with other terror operatives of the JeM. Incriminating material, including arms and ammunition, were recovered from the en-counter site, he said.

In another operation which began in Pandushan area of Shopian on Friday, the official said security forces killed Manzoor Bhat. He was associated with Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) outfit.

On Friday, JeM militant Zeenat ul Islam Naikoo, a resident of Memandar area of Shopian, was killed in the gunfight, the official said. He said Naikoo, a Pakistani national, was the JeM’s district com-mander in Shopian. Both the militants were involved in terror crimes, including atrocities on civilians. PTI

JAMMU: An unexpected fall-out of the Jammu and Kash-mir government’s decision to call off the Amarnath Yatra due to security reasons has been the suspension of the annual Machail Mata Yatra in the Kishtwar district of Jammu region. The Yatra to the temple of Chandi Mata deity has been going on for the last 10 days, but Kishtwar District Magistrate Angrez

Singh Rana announced its suspension on Friday.

The district magistrate has cited security rea-sons for the suspension of the Yatra saying that the pilgrimage would be resumed during the next two to three days. Scores of pilgrims have already visited the temple shrine situated 28 kms from Kishtwar town. Each year, over 5,000 pilgrims visit the temple who, according to the belief of the devotees, had her original abode in the neighbouring Himachal Pradesh. This is the reason that in addition to ‘yatris’ from the Jammu region,

the pilgrimage draws a lot of pilgrims from Himachal Pradesh as well. IANS

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Punjab police has sought “further probe” by the CBI into three sacrilege incidents at Faridkot in 2015, days after the central investigation agency filed a closure report in a Mohali court in this regard. In a letter to the CBI, the Special DGP-cum-Director Bureau of Investigation, Punjab, Prabodh Ku-mar, sought “further investigations” into “certain aspects” highlighted by Punjab Police Deputy Inspector General R S Khatra led special inves-tigation team which had probed other such incidents. In the communication

dated July 29, Kumar enclosed a letter written by SIT chief Khatra which pointed out the need to examine cer-tain key witnesses and suspects and to analyse “technical evidence” by seeking information from authorities concerned abroad. “The enclosed letter from Chairman of SIT reveals that certain key witnesses/suspects, whose examination could have thrown light upon these cases have not been identified or examined so far.

“In addition, technical evidence mentioned in the enclosed letter would also need proper considerations and analysis and required information may have to be sought from authorities

concerned abroad,” Kumar wrote to the CBI Director.

The request for further probe came after the CBI filed its closure report in a special CBI court in Mohali last month, giving a clean chit to the accused in the three incidents of desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib in 2015 in Faridkot. The agency had rejected the findings of a Punjab Police SIT in these cases. In the letter, Khatra said that Mohinder Pal Bittu, who was ar-rested in June last year in connection with sacrilege incidents in Gursar and Malke probed by the SIT headed by the officer, had confessed to his role in the Faridkot incidents.

CHANDIGARH: Senior IAS of-ficer Anurag Agarwal was appointed as chief elec-toral officer and principal secretary of the elections department of Haryana, officials said on Saturday. He replaced IAS officer Rajeev Ranjan, an official said. Agarwal was currently holding the charge of man-aging director of Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam and secretary of Haryana Power department. DP

Machail Mata Yatra suspended over security reasons in J&K

HighLIGHTSl Scores of pilgrims have already visited

the temple shrine situated 28 kms from Kishtwar town.

l A helicopter service is also available for devotees from Gul Gulabgarh.

l UK issues advisory, warns citizens against travelling to J&K

SRINAGAR: Tourists and Amarnath Yatra pilgrims started to leave the Kashmir Valley on Saturday in the wake of J&K authorities issuing an advisory, asking them to cut short their stay citing security threats. An of-ficial at Srinagar Airport said Indian Air Force flights have been pressed into service “as per requirement”. Jammu and Kashmir Tourism Department sent buses on Friday, immediately after the advisory was issued, to different tourist destinations to bring the tourists back to Srinagar, director, Tourism Kashmir, Nissar Wani, said here. PTI

TOURISTS, PILGRIMS LEAVE VALLEY IN WAKE OF J&K ADVISORY

NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR: Air fares to and from Sri-nagar have increased 20-25 per cent following the state government’s security advisory on Fri-day to tourists and pil-grims visiting the state. “Air fares for flights to and from Srinagar have increased by 20-25 per cent,” Rajnish Kumar, Co-founder, ixigo. IANS

Airfares on Srinagar route spike 25 pc

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kash-mir Governor Satya Pal Ma-lik on Saturday conveyed to a National Conference del-egation that the state has no knowledge of any changes to the constitutional provi-sions and assured that the deployment of additional paramilitary forces was purely for security reasons.

A statement released by the Raj Bhavan here said that the Governor informed the delegation, led by for-mer chief minister Omar Abdullah, that the security situation has developed in a manner which required immediate action. “There were credible inputs which were available to the secu-rity agencies regarding ter-rorist attacks on the Amar-nath Yatra. There has been intensified shelling on the

LoC by Pakistan which was responded to effectively by the Army,” the Governor told the delegation.

He said that a press con-ference was addressed by the Army and the state po-lice in which they briefed the media about how they foiled terror groups’ sinis-ter plans and also displayed weapons and ammunition they seized. PTI

WASHINGTON: Indian and American officials on Friday agreed to pursue a policy environment conducive to collaboration between the defence industry and start-ups in both coun-tries. An understanding

in this regard was reached during the 15th meeting of the India-US Defence Policy Group (DPG) here on Friday.

The Indian side was led by Defence Secretary Sanjay Mitra. The US was led by the

Undersecretary of Defence for Policy, John Rood. The DPG is the apex official-level meeting mechanism

between India and the US on defence issues, which comprehensively reviews and guides all aspects of

bilateral cooperation be-tween the two countries.

“The meeting took stock of the progress made in

various fields of defence cooperation in recent years, including in defence trade, technology, procurement, industry and R&D,” a me-dia release said on Friday. During the meeting, the two countries recognised the benefit of enabling defence agreements con-cluded by the two sides and appreciated India’s desig-nation as a Major Defence Partner of the US. “They underlined the importance of collaboration between the defence industry and start-ups in the two coun-tries and agreed to pur-sue a policy environment conducive to this,” said a statement issued by the Indian Embassy here. PTI

State has no knowledge of changes to constitutional provisions, says Satya Pal

The security to its citizens has to be provided by the state even at some inconvenience, which is being done.

The Governor requested the political leaders to ask their supporters to maintain calm and not believe exaggerated and unfounded rumours being circulated all around.

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Four militants killedHighLIGHTSl Both the militants were involved in terror

crimes, including atrocities on civilians.

l While two militants were killed in Sopore township of Baramulla district of north Kashmir, two others were killed in Shopian district of south Kashmir in an operation which began on Friday, a police official said.

Punjab Police wants CBI to ‘further probe’ 2015 sacrilege incidents

HighLIGHTSl The Police cites chief’s

findings in this regar.

l The request for further probe came after the CBI filed its closure report in a special CBI court in Mohali last month, giving a clean chit to the accused in the three incidents of desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib in 2015 in Faridkot.

India, US agree on collaboration in defence sectorAnurag Agarwal

appointed Haryana’s CEO

Tourists and passengers wait for their trains as they prepare to leave from Jammu Railway Station, in Jammu on Saturday. PT I

HighLIGHTSl The two countries recognised the benefit of

enabling defence agreements concluded by the two sides and appreciated India’s designation as a Major Defence Partner of the US

l The two sides reaffirmed the role of the DPG as an important part of the ministerial 2+2 mechanism, helping translate the shared strategic vision of cooperation into reality.

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punjab The issues were too many to be transacted during the limited session sittings.HARPAL SINGH CHEEMA, Senior leader of the Aam Aadmi Party

‘Pakistan completes 90 per cent work on Kartarpur Corridor’

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has com-pleted 90 per cent work on the Kartarpur Corridor from the zero line to Gurdwara Sa-hib and plans to inaugurate it on the 550 birth celebrations of Guru Nanak in Novem-ber this year, according to a media report. The corridor will connect Darbar Sahib in Pakistan’s Kartarpur with Dera Baba Nanak shrine in Gurdaspur district and fa-cilitate visa-free movement of Indian Sikh pilgrims, who will have to just obtain a per-mit to visit Kartarpur Sahib, which was established in 1522 by Sikh faith founder Guru Nanak Dev.

The first batch of pilgrims from India will arrive in Paki-stan on November 9, how-ever, the number has not yet been specified, the Express Tribune reported.Accord-ing to the report, 90 per cent work on the Kartarpur Corri-dor, including the construc-tion of the main road, bridge and buildings from zero line to Gurdwara Sahib has been completed by Pakistan.“From the Pakistani side of the bor-der, Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief of the Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa are likely to inaugurate the corridor on the occasion of Baba Guru Nanak’s anni-

versary in November,” the report said.

Both sides have agreed to maintain a channel of

communication and work towards finalisation of the agreement. The technical teams will meet again to en-sure seamless connectivity for the corridor is operational in time so that the pilgrimage can begin on the 550 birth celebrations of Guru Nanak this year, the report added.In November 2018, India and Pakistan agreed to set up a border crossing linking Gurd-wara Darbar Sahib in Paki-stan’s Kartarpur - the final resting place of Guru Nanak - to Dera Baba Nanak in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district. The shrine is visible from the Indian side of the border and every day a larger number of Sikh devotees gather to perform Darshan or sacred

viewings of the site. The Kar-tarpur corridor is expected to provide visa-free access to Indian Sikh pilgrims to the gurdwara in Kartarpur Sahib — a small town in Narowal, four kilometres from the Pakistan-India border, where Guru Nanak spent the last 18 years of his life.

This will also be the first visa-free corridor between the two nuclear-armed neighbours since their in-dependence in 1947.Paki-stan will build the corridor from the Indian border to the Gurdwara Darbar Sa-hib in Kartarpur, while the other part from Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur up to the border will be constructed by India. PTI

HighLIGHTSl From the Pakistani side of the border,

Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief of the Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa are likely to inaugurate the corridor on the occasion of Baba Guru Nanak’s anniversary in November.

lPakistan will build the corridor from the Indian border to the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur, while the other part from Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur up to the border will be constructed by India.

TEEJ’ CELEBRATION

Teachers and students participated in various colourful activities on the occasion of ‘Teej’, in Mohali on Saturday. DP

FEROZEPUR: A 38-year-old Pakistani national was arrested near the India-Pakistan border in Punjab’s Ferozepur district, an official said Saturday.

Yakub, a resident of Kamalia village

in Tobha Tek Singh district in Pakistan, was found to be roaming under suspi-cious circumstances on Friday night near Border Out Post (BOP) Donald Rai Dina Nath and was arrested by Border Security Force (BSF) personnel, the official said.

A few papers have been seized from him and the matter is being investigated, they said. PTI

Pakistani held near Indo-Pak border

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Jagraon

Railway Department, Jagraon, kick started a tree plantation drive to celebrate van mahotsav. Firozepur division engi-neer Lovepreet Singh, VK Dheengra and Station Su-perintendent Kulwinder Singh Grewal kick started the campaign by planta-tion saplings.

Superintendent Gre-wal said that the Railway Department will plant nearly 10,000 saplings at Chownkiman to Nanaksar route with the support of Forest Department.

The superintendent talked about the impor-tant of tree plantation and how important it is for us to protect the for-est cover to save human survival.

Railway Dept kick starts plantation drive

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Chandigarh

The maximum tem-peratures in most parts of Punjab and Haryana hovered close to normal levels on Saturday, a

Meteorological De-partment official said. Chandigarh, the com-mon capital of the two states, received traces of rain and recorded a maximum of 32.9 de-grees Celsius, the MeT department said.

Punjab’s Amritsar recorded a maximum of 33.6 degrees Celsius while Patiala settled at a high of 33.2 and Ludhiana at 33 degrees Celsius, it said.

The MeT depart-ment has forecast light to moderate rains at some places in Punjab and Haryana over the weekend.

JAMMU: Five alleged drug peddlers including a resident of Punjab were arrested on Saturday in separate inci-dents in Udhampur, Ram-ban and Rajouri districts of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. Ravinder Singh from Punjab was arrested after 95 kg of poppy straw was

seized from his truck during a vehicle checking near the Udhampur Railway Station, a police spokesman said.

In nearby Jakhani chowk, the spokesman said police arrested one Shabir Ahmad and seized 12 grams of heroin from his possession.

Fazan Ahmad Dar of Wa-tergam village was arrested along with 1.2 kg of charas (cannabis) during frisking at

T-Chowk in Ram-ban’s Banihal, the spokesman said.

He said a minibus owner Ajay Sharma and driver Sat Dev, both residents of Bagnoti village, were arrested after 300 intoxi-

cant capsules were recovered from their vehicle during checking in Nowshera area in Rajouri.

All the five arrested per-sons were booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psycho-tropic Substances (NDPS) Act and are being questioned, the spokesman said. PTI

Max temp hovers close to normal

Punjab resident among five drug

peddlers heldALL THE FIVE ARRESTED PERSONS WERE BOOKED UNDER THE NARCOTIC DRUGS AND PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES (NDPS) ACT AND ARE BEING QUESTIONED

BOTH SIDES HAVE AGREED TO MAINTAIN A CHANNEL OF COMMUNICATION AND WORK TOWARDS FINALISATION OF THE AGREEMENT.

NEW DELHI:Manjot Singh Reen, a student of Sharda University in Greater Noida, who saved the life of a girl who was about to commit suicide, has been honoured by the Sikh Community in the national capital.

Manjit Singh GK, former president of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) has as-sured to bear all the expenses for Manjot’s preparation for civil examination.Manjot

took the risk of saving the girl jumping from the edge of the parapet. He showed great courage by not caring about his own life. Manjot said he saw that girl was about to commit suicide, and tried to convince her against it.

Manjot who hails from Jammu is studying in B.Tech. His father is a government officer in Jammu and mother is the principal of a school run by herself. AGENCIES

Sikh boy saves life of girl in nick of time

HighLIGHTl Manjot said he

saw that girl was about to commit suicide, and tried to convince her against it

A beautiful view of golden temple on Saturday . AGE INC IES

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punjabWe need the greatest role models to attract our youth to sports.”PREM SINGH CHANDUMAJRA, senior SAD leader

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Chandigarh

The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Friday de-manded the renaming of the Maharaja Bhupinder Singh Punjab Sports University as Chotte Sahibzade Baba Zoravar Singh and Baba Fateh Singh Punjab Sports Uni-versity, saying this would be a befitting homage to the supreme sacrifice of the youngest known mar-tyrs in world history, who laid their lives for their faith as well as core hu-man values.

In a statement here, senior SAD leader Prof. Prem Singh Chanduma-jra said the upcoming Sports University in Pa-tiala district should be renamed after the Chotte Sahibzade, the younger sons of the tenth Sikh Guru, Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji, as every inch

of the land of this region was indebted to them for the manner in which they stood up to tyranny as well as their faith estab-lishing a unique example

in world history. Stating that Congress ministers should not have fallen prey to sycophancy by suggesting that the uni-versity be named after

the grandfather of Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, the Akali leader said dedicating it to hon-our the unparalleled sac-rifice of the Chotte Sa-hibzade would be most appropriate. “This will not only raise the esteem of the new institution but would also be in keeping with the sentiments of Punjabis to have a prestigious insti-tution named by the Sa-hibzade”.

Asking the Congress government to revoke its earlier decision, Prof Chandumajra said the com-memoration would be most befitting as the Sahibzade

attained their martyrdom at Fatehgarh Sahib, just 30 km away from Patiala. He said dedicating the big-gest sports University of the Region to the Sahibzade would also go a long way in attracting Punjabi youth to sports as well as wean-ing them away from bad influences.

“The Sahibzade and their life teach us about the core values of Sikh religion which have the answer to all our problems originating from the so-called modern lifestyle,” he said, add-ing “we need the greatest role models to attract our youth to sports.”

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Chandigarh

Senior leaders of the Aam Aad-mi Party (AAP) and Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Assem-bly Harpal Singh Cheema has expressed his utter dismay over the way the Shagun Scheme benefits, meant for labourer and workers in the state, were being usurped by middlemen in connivance with departmental officials, while the government was acting as a lame duck. He also seek probe into the matter.

In a statement issued from party headquarters here on Sat-urday, Cheema said that if datas were to be believed, the state labour department extended financial assistance worth lakhs to as many as 28 underage girls for their marriages under the Punjab Government’s flagship Shagun Scheme which reflected the manner how the scheme for the rural poor was being mis-managed, adding that the de-partment concerned disbursed a hefty amount worth Rs 8.58 crore to wrong beneficiaries between the years 2013 and 2018.Harpal Cheema further added that the genuine ben-eficiaries were being deprived of the due benefits available to

them under the scheme ow-ing to a well-organised racket being run by middlemen in connivance with officials of the department under the protec-

tive patronage of their political godfathers, which, he said, was worrisome.The AAP has de-manded that the deaf and dumb dispensation should order a high-level probe into the mat-ter of usurping of the Shagun Scheme benefits by middlemen and initiate stringent action against those found guilty of pocketing the benefits meant for the economically weaker strata of the society so that genuine beneficiaries were not deprived of the benefits under the scheme.

FAZILKA: District Magistrate, Fazilka, Manpreet Singh Chhatwal exercising the power under Section 144 of Criminal Procedure Code 1973, has issued the orders banning the use of drone camera and these orders will remain in force till September 20.

In these orders, it is said that the use of done camera is seen near the Military Station and during the marriage par-ties and other functions which puts a danger to the law and order and nation security in the district.

The District Magistrate has made it clear that flying of drone camera is in violation of the policy of Director General of Civil Aviation and Opera-

tion of Civil Remotely Piloted Aircraft System. Keeping this in view and to maintain law and order and keep intact the national security, these orders have been issued, said the District Magis-trate. Agency

DP CORRESPONDENT

Ferozepur

After a 38 years old drug-addict had been chained by his family with bed who had attempted to commit suicide, it had disclosed that the gov-ernment had badly failed to not only to control over drug suppliers and peddlers. Be-sides, also failed to rehabili-tate the addicts who had gone to such a worse condition that they had been planning to commit suicide due to the un-affordability to purchase the drugs as well as due to their deteriorated and most miserable condition of health and wealth.

The District Administra-tion had come forward after getting the information of chaining an addict by his fam-ily. Showing a very generous gesture the Deputy Commis-sioner not only get him free from chains, but also got him admitted to a government run de-addiction Centre at Fero-zepur for his rehabilitation. The drug addict and his family tell the tale of their foe and

number of drug peddlers in the villages, who had gone to a very alarming side. Despite knowing all about the rising number of addicts and drug peddlers, the government has become mere spectator.

It is said that a drug-ad-dicted of Kada Borha village had been chained by his fam-ily last week after he had at-tempted to commit suicide and had later been rescued by the Deputy Commissioner Chander Gaind who himself visited the residence of the

victim and brought him in ambulance and got him ad-mitted to de-addiction centre at the Civil Hospital, Feroz-

epur.But the situation can be adjudged from a statement of the villagers that there are more than 40 addicts in this small village and many of them also been involved in supplying drugs and to purchase the drugs for their own use.

After this episode, a sar-panch of a nearby village told Daily Post on condition of anonymity that, it was not this guy who had attempted suicide, but the number of such cases is very high. He told that he had seen many cases in which the family and the police knew that the de-ceased had knowingly admin-istered high dose of drug only to commit suicides.

He told that many drug ad-dicts had been choosing to commit suicides by taking over dose knowingly than to get rid of intolerable pain due to unavailability and un-affordability of the drugs, be-cause they had not left any-thing to sell to buy the drugs.

He urged the government to locate the addicts and ped-dlers and take bold step to rehabilitate the addicts as well as put the peddlers and suppliers behind bars. He said that it would be better to save the new generation from such suppliers beside rehabilitating the addicts.

Prof Chandumajra says it will be befitting homage to the supreme sacrifice of the youngest known martyrs in world history

SAD seeks renaming of Sports varsity in the memory of Chotte Sahibzade

HIGHLIGHTl “This will not only raise the esteem of

the new institution but would also be in keeping with the sentiments of Punjabis to have a prestigious institution named by the Sahibzade”.

Harpal Singh Cheema seeks probe into Shagun Scheme

He alleged that middlemen are usurping of the Shagun Scheme benefits

KEY POINT

DP CORRESPONDENT

Moga

A 27-year-old man alleg-edly killed five members of his family here before ending his life, apparently because they were pres-suring him to tie the knot which he was opposed to as he believed he cannot father a child, police said on Saturday. Among those who Sandeep Singh alleg-edly shot dead Friday night at his Nathuwal Garbi vil-lage are his grandmother, parents, sister and her three-year-old daughter,

they said. Sandeep used a revolver stolen from one of his relatives to kill the five people at his palatial home in the village that falls under Baghapurana Police Station, police said. He also shot himself dead using the weapon, they said.

His elderly grandfather has also received bullet injuries in the incident and has been admitted to a government hospital in Faridkot, police said. They said that initial investiga-tions revealed that Sandeep felt he cannot father a child

and therefore did not want to get married. However, his family members were

pressing for his marriage and had fixed a date for his wedding in December.

Sandeep left a 19-page note which was being examined by the police. The deceased are: Sandeep’s 70-year-old grandmother Gurdeep Kaur, father Manjit Singh (55), mother Binder Kaur (50), sister Amanjot Kaur (33) and her daughter Avneet Kaur, police said. His grandfather Gurcharan Singh called up some of the villagers and informed them about the incident. The bodies were sent to the civil hospital for postmor-tem, police said, adding that a case has been reg-istered.

Govt badly fails to control the drug abuse

Not able to afford the drugs, the drug addicts choosing to commit suicide to get rid of pain and drugs

KEY POINT

Students of Govt Dental College raise slogans against the state government for their various demand including hike in the stipend during an indefinite strike, in Amritsar, on Saturday. PT I

Man kills 5 kin who insisted on his marriage, shoots himself

HIGHLIGHTSl Sandeep used a revolver stolen from one

of his relatives to kill the five people at his palatial home in the village that falls under Baghapurana Police Station, police said

l Sandeep’s 70-year-old grandmother Gurdeep Kaur, father Manjit Singh (55), mother Binder Kaur (50), sister Amanjot Kaur (33) and her daughter Avneet Kaur

Flying of drone camera banned near military stations

FAZILKA: Exercising his power under Section 44 of the Cr PC 1973, the District Magistrate-cum-Deputy Commission-er, Fazilka Manpreet Singh Chhatwal has issued prohibi-tory orders not to cultivate BT cotton, corn, ghawra, jawar, sugarcane, sarro, toria, sun-flower and other high rise crops between international border and border security fence and also on a stretch of 70 to 100 metres of land on the home side of the border security fence. This order will

remain in force till September 30, 2019.

The order reads that the BSF authorities have brought to the notice that some farm-ers are sowing BT cotton, corn, ghawra, jawar, sugar-cane, sarro, toria, sunflower and high rise crops of height 3 to 4 feet between inter-national border and border fence. “There is every pos-sibility of infiltrators crossing the Indo-Pak border in the shadow of these high rise crops.

Cultivation of high rise crops between international border

and security fence banned

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punjab The common man has no fear and under the leadership of Modi, every common citizen is safe in the country.RAVINDER RAINA, party’s state unit president

NAME CHANGEI, No. 15167053M L/NK Ashok Kumar s/o Dharam Chand, Village Bhadiar, P.O. Kot Maira, Tehsil Garhshankar Distt. Hoshiarpur, Punjab declare that in my Army Record my father’s name wrongly written as Dharm Chand while his correct name is Dharam Chand.

I, Shelika W/O Sumit Singla R/O BV4-227, Singla Ashiana,Purani Nabhi,Nabha,Patiala changed my name as Shelika Singla.

I, Vishal Kumar S/o Koshal kumar Nagpal R/o # 43H/25, 1st Floor, Guru Teg bahadur Nagar, Ward No. 10, Sector 14, Kharar, Mohali have changed my name from Vishal Kumar to Vishal (Nagpal) as a surname.

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Sports Dept invites objections from players for cash prizes till August 12

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Chandigarh

The Sports Department of Punjab has invited the objections from the in-eligible players till 12th August 12 thus complet-ing the process of giving cash prizes to the players winning medals during 2017-18 at the state, na-tional and international level. Similarly, the ob-jections from the eligible players regarding the cash prize amount have also been invited till this very date.

The list of the ineligible players stating reasons and that of the eligible players with cash prize amount against their name has been put up on the Sports Department

website www.pbsports.gov.in. The players can thus submit their objec-tions to the department after going through the list.Disclosing this here on Saturday, a spokes-

person of the Sports De-partment said that the department had invited applications from the players winning medals at the state, national and international level during

2017-18 session. After scrutinising the

received applications, the list of the eligible players along with the cash prize to be given to them has been put up on the web-site of the department as is the list of the ineligible players clearly stating the reasons.

Divulging further, the spokesperson said that apart from the ineligible players if even the ones found eligible have any objections with regard to the cash prize amount mentioned against their name then they too can submit their objections till August 12 in the office of the Director, Sports. No objection received after August 12 would be considered.

HighLIGHTl The department uploads list of ineligible players

stating reasons and eligible players with cash prize amount on the departmental website

lPlayers winning medals at state, national and international level during 2017-18 to be honoured with cash prize

lApart from the ineligible players if even the ones found eligible have any objections with regard to the cash prize amount mentioned against their name then they too can submit their objections till August 12 in the office of the Director, Sports.

lThe players can thus submit their objections to the department after going through the list.

Science exhibition organised

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The students of BBSB Con-vent School participated in a science exhibition conducted in the school campus. The students from classes IX to VII made creative science re-lated projects and learned

various new things from the models prepared by them.

Principal of the school Anita Kumari said that the students worked hard for the programme and showcased their creativity through their models. She further mentioned that all the models were prepared

from the waste material. The students learned to recycle unused things and create something new from them.

The school manage-ment appreciated the students and motivated them to keep work-ing hard and make the school proud.

People click selfies near a statue of Shaheed Udham Singh at Jallianwala Bagh, in Amritsar. DP

NC, PDP, Cong deliberately trying to create fear among people of Kashmir: BJP

JAMMU:The BJP’s Jammu and Kashmir unit on Satur-day accused leaders of the NC, PDP and the Congress of deliberately trying to trigger panic among the people as they themselves were frightened, and as-serted that the common man has no fear.

The party’s state unit president, Ravinder Raina, said every common citizen of the country is safe un-der the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is applying balm on the wounds of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. “Some politicians in the valley are knocking the door of the Governor (Satya Pal Malik) in the dead of night because they are frightened...The gover-nor had also made it clear that those who are corrupt cannot save themselves. Those who have ill inten-tions, involved in betrayal and looted the money of poor people and filled their

coffers are a worried lot,” Raina told reporters af-ter chairing a core group meeting of the BJP here.A delegation of PDP presi-dent Mehbooba Mufti, J&K Peoples Movement chief Shah Faesal and Peoples Conference leaders Sajjad Lone and Imran Reza Ansa-ri met the Governor Friday night as speculations grew in Kashmir Valley about some possible major deci-sions regarding the state’s special status.

The BJP leader, how-ever, asserted that Article 370 and Article 35A of the Constitution, that give special status to the state,

were the main cause for separatism and terrorism. “These provisos are also discriminatory against women and under the garb of these articles, blood of ordinary citizens was suck, Jammu and Kashmir Bank and central funds were looted by a few dynas-ties,” he claimed. He said political parties such as the National Conference, Peo-ples Democratic Party and the Congress are spreading rumours and creating fear among the people in the valley with vested interest.

“The common man has no fear and under the leadership of Modi, every common citizen is safe in the country,” he said. He said Modi visited Jammu and Kashmir a number of times in the past to share the grief of the people of the state.

“After A B Vajpayee, he is the only prime minister who is applying balm on the wounds of the people

and we should have full faith in him and his gov-ernment. Every decision this government takes with regard to Jammu and Kash-mir will be in the interest of the people of all the three regions of Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir and the coun-try,” he said.

Raina also appealed to the people to observe the upcoming Independence Day with enthusiasm by unfurling the tricolour on their house across the state.Allaying concerns over ad-ditional troop deployments in the state, he said the step was taken in view of the se-curity concerns as “suicide squads” of terrorists have infiltrated into the state to carry out a major strike at the behest of Pakistan. “Irrespective of caste, creed and religion, we need to stand up to the chal-lenge and help our security forces to frustrate the evil designs of the enemy,” he said. PTI

Man held for raping woman in J&K’s Rajouri

JAMMU: A man was arrested in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ra-jouri district on Saturday for allegedly raping a woman and posting her objectionable pic-tures on the social media, po-lice said. The accused, Zulfqar Ahmed of Paran village, was arrested on the complaint of

the victim’s father, a police officer said.

He said an FIR under rel-evant sections of the Ranbir Penal Code including those related to rape and the Information Technol-ogy Act was registered against the accused.

Bigbasket announces ‘Freedom47’ sale CHANDIGARH: Bigbasket, In-dia’s largest online super-market, is all set to kick off its ‘Freedom 47’ sale ahead of Independence Day. Start-ing 5thAugust 2019, Bigbas-keteers can avail minimum 47percent off on 500+ top products under categories such as fruits, vegetables, organic staples, branded snacks, breads, cosmetics, cleaning and kitchen items for a period of ten days. Products from 50+ leading brands in-cluding HUL, Dabur & P&G are on offer and the company expects a 30 per cent rise in customer visits during the sale, said Mr KB Nagaraju, Chief Customer Experience Officer, Bigbasket. He said, First-time customers can redeem100 per cent cashback of up to INR 1000 on a minimum purchase of INR 1,000. The offers are live in the 26 Indian cities Bigbasket is op-erational in. He said, “Bigbas-ket is back again with exciting discounts and offers as part of its‘Freedom 47’ sale. DP

Bajaj Finance offers interest rates up to 8.95 pc on fixed deposits CALIFORNIA: Fixed Deposits have established themselves as one of the safest invest-ment instruments as com-pared to ever so volatile stock markets, mutual funds and gold. It is one of the best ways to grow your funds while ensuring the safety of your principal amount. It is one of the most popular investment choices, especially for inves-tors who have absolutely zero risk-taking capacity. Interest rate and FD ratings are two of the most important factors to consider while choosing a Fixed Deposit offering. Bajaj Finance Fixed Deposit will offers one of the highest in-terest rates of up to 8.60 pc for new customers, up to 8.85 pc for existing customers and up to 8.95 pc for senior citi-zens with effect from May 8, 2019. DP

JAMMU: The Vishva Hindu Parishad on Saturday an-nounced cancellation of the upcoming annual Budha Amarnath yatra, citing threat posed by Pakistan-sponsored terrorists to the pilgrimage. The 10-day yatra in Poonch district of Jammu region, organised by the VHP, was scheduled to begin on August 6.

“In view of the emerging security situation following the recovery of US made sniper rifle and landmine along the Amarnath yatra track in Kashmir, we have decided to cancel the yatra to Budha Amarnath for the safety of the pilgrims,” State VHP president Leela Karan Sharma told report-ers here. The annual Amar-nath yatra has already been suspended due to security reasons.

Sharma, who was flanked by several other senior leaders, including Bajrang Dal national convenor So-han Singh Solanki, said the

decision to suspend the yatra was taken at a general meeting which was con-vened here to take stock of the situation. Besides Budha Amarnath, the VHP has also decided to suspend the Kousar Nag yatra in Kulgam district of south Kashmir and the Machail yatra in Kishtwar district, Sharma said.

“We will not go for any confrontation with the gov-ernment over its decision to suspend the Amarnath and Machail yatra... The safety of the pilgrims is our primary concern and in case anything bad hap-pens here, it has serious repercussions across the country,” Sharma said.

Solanki termed the sus-pension of the pilgrimages as “unfortunate” and said he had come here to take stock of the arrangements for the Budha Amarnath yatra which is being un-dertaken by the VHP with a special prayer on August 5 before the first darshan at the shrine next day. “Over 25,000 pilgrims from across the country had reg-istered themselves for the yatra and have been told to cancel their plan,” he said. PTI

VHP cancels upcoming Budha Amarnath pilgrimage in J&K

l The 10-day yatra in Poonch district of Jammu region, organised by the VHP, was scheduled to begin on August 6.

l ‘ Every decision this government takes with regard to Jammu and Kashmir will be in the interest of the people of all the three regions of Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir and the country’

SRINAGAR: National Insti-tute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar has suspended its classes till further orders in view of the uncertain situation in Kashmir. “This is for the information of all the students of the insti-

tute that the class work for all courses stands suspended till further orders,” an order is-

sued by the Registrar of NIT on Friday read. “The above notice stands issued in accordance with the instructions received from the District Administra-tion Srinagar,” it added. PTI

NIT Srinagar suspends classes indefinitely

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haryanaCongress is committed to steer Haryana towards a good future.”

BHUPINDER SINGH HOODA, Former Haryana Chief Minister

366 housing societies asked to install STPsGURUGRAM: Gurugram Metro-politan Development Authority (GMDA) has issued notices to 366 residential societies to install Sewerage Treatment Plants (STP) in their respective premises oth-erwise sewerage connection will be cut by the civic agency. The decision was taken after National Green Tribunal (NGT) recently slammed GMDA for Gurugram city’s contribution to pollut-ing Yamuna river. The sewerage of Gurugram city is falling into Najafgarh drain and it further culminates in the Yamuna river. The major cause of concern is the untreated sewerage water going into Yamuna river. V. Uma Shankar, the CEO of GMDA, said that the notices have been served to those private developers who promised to install separate STPs in their respective premises while taking construction licenses from the town and country planning department. IANS

Railway provides free wifi facility in 2,000 stations NEW DELHI: Free wifi facility is now available to passengers at around 2,000 railway stations across the country, officials said on Saturday. Rana Pratap Nagar railway station of Ajmer divi-sion in Rajasthan became the 2000th station in the country to have free internet facility, Puneet Chawla, the CMD of RailTel, said. “Our team is working round the clock and with each passing day execution pace is only increasing. Yesterday we made 74 stations live and while we speak some more stations are being made live with free wifi which is an incredible feat for us,” he said in an official statement. RailTel, a railway PSU, started providing free wifi services at Indian railway stations with a vision of turning them into a platform for digital inclusion. PTI

Haryana man booked CHANDIGARH: A 23-year-old man was booked for allegedly pro-nouncing triple talaq on his wife over phone in Haryana’s Nuh district, police said on Friday, the first such case in the state since the enactment of a law punishing the practice. Salauddin was on Thursday booked under Section 4 of the Muslim Women (Protec-tion of Rights on Marriage) Act, Station House Officer of Nagina police station, Nuh, Ajay Veer told PTI over phone. “He has also been booked under Section 506 IPC (punishment for criminal in-timidation). The complainant has alleged that she was threatened by him,” he said. “A case had also been registered against Salaud-din last month under the Dowry Prohibition Act on the complaint of his wife,” Veer added. DP

3 arrested under NDPS ActCHANDIGARH: UT Police arrested Shibhu Shankar R/o #1475, Churiya Wala Mohalla, Manimajra, Chandigarh from Railway colony to Kalagram Road, Chandigarh and recovered 2.10 kg ganja from his possession on 02.08.2019. A case FIR No. 140 U/S 20 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-Mauli Jagran, Chandigarh. Investiga-tion of the case is in progress. Chandigarh Police arrested Shiva Thakur R/o # 1194, village- Burail, Chandigarh from near Sector- 45, C/D Turn, Chandigarh and recovered 30 injections of drugs from his possession on 02.08.2019. A case FIR No. 198 U/S 22 NDPS Act has been registered in PS-34, Chandigarh. Investigation of the case is in progress. Chandigarh Police arrested Sahil R/o # 2167, Sector- 25, Chandigarh from near Sector- 25/38 light point, Chan-digarh and recovered 08 gram heroin from his possession on 02.08.2019. DP

Minor boy found dead NEW DELHI: The body of a Class 6 student, who went missing after school a day ago, was found in a pond behind the Air Force Station in Aya Nagar on Saturday, police said. Shubham Kumar, 12, was a resident of Aya Nagar, they said. According to the police, Madan Lal Gothwal (30), the father of Shubham, filed a complaint late Friday night after his son did not return home from school. During investigation, the body was re-covered from a pond in the jungle behind the Air Force Station in Aya Nagar around 8.30 am on Saturday morning, Deputy Commissioner of Police Vijay Kumar said. PTI

Gandhi clan missing from Haryana Congress posters on social media

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Rohtak

The Gandhi clan, per-ceived as indispensable to the Congress party, is purportedly missing from Haryana Congress posters, which have cropped up on social media, ahead of the mega rally by former Chief Minister Bhupin-der Singh Hooda on Au-gust 18 to kick-start his election campaign.

The posters about a “workers conference” meeting scheduled for August 4 in Rohtak only portray photographs of B S Hooda and his son Deepender Singh Hooda. However, when contacted Deepender Hooda declined to com-ment on the matter saying it would not be appropriate for him to comment.

“I don’t think it’s appropriate for me to comment on the matter. I think that the question is not worth answering.

What can be done about someone putting some-thing on social media,” he said. He, however,

slammed the BJP govern-ment in the state and gave a call to oust the party BJP from power in the forth-coming Assembly elections. “Congress is committed to

steer Haryana towards a good future.

In the Assembly elec-tions, we must give people an alternative.

There is a need for

change and keeping this in view we are organis-ing ‘Parivartan Karyakarta Samallan’ on August 4 and mega rally on August 18 to carry forward our cam-paign,” said Hooda.

HIGHLIGHTSl The posters

about a “workers conference” meeting scheduled for August 4 in Rohtak only portray photographs of BS Hooda and his son Deepender Singh Hooda.

lCongress is committed to steer Haryana towards a good future. In the Assembly elections, we must give people an alternative.

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A 70-year-old woman was found strangulated in her home in the upscale DLF phase 1 area of Haryana’s Gurugram, a police official said on Friday. Some valu-ables, including bangles and a gold chain, were missing from her body.

The deceased, Indira was unmarried and lived alone in E-block of the locality. She was found dead in her bedroom, said Subhash Bokan, PRO of Gurugram Police. Her sis-ter, who lives in Sushant Lok phase 1, said: “I call her daily to know what

she is doing. When I called her on Friday morning, there was no reply from the other side. I repeatedly called her over the phone. But to no avail.

“So I went to her home and found that the door was open and she was ly-ing unconscious on the bed. She was also not breathing. I immediately raised an alarm.” Bokan said: “We have brought in the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) team to collect samples from the house. We are also scanning the CCTV cam-eras of the neighbourhood to get any clue on the at-tackers.”

Senior citizen killed

HISAR: Three men were detained after they were found suspiciously roaming in the cantonment area here, police said on Saturday. A video clip of inside the cantonment area was found in their mobile phones, they said.

Preliminary investigations revealed that a What-sApp call was also made to Pakistan by one of the suspects in July, police said The suspects have been identified as Khalid, 22, Mehtab, 28, and Ragib, 34, they said. All the three are residents of Uttar Pradesh, they added. Further investigations are underway, police said. DP

3 SUSPECTS HELD NEAR HISAR CANTONMENT

A portion of a road caved in following monsoon rain in Gurugram on Saturday. PT I

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A delegation of 17 IAS of-ficers from different states led by Jairam, senior IAS visited Chandigarh today. The delegation was on its induction programme to different states and UTs of the country. The team met with K KYadav, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh in the office.

Sanjay Arora, S E (B&R), MCC welcomed the del-egation and gave detailed presentation to the del-egation regarding various developmental projects of MC including water supply system, sewerage disposal system, roads, solid waste

management, sanitation system and beautification of the city.

The team was on its study tour to study lo-cal administration, vari-ous reforms undertaken in Chandigarh and ma-jor projects of Municipal Corporation Chandigarh. The delegation also took round of city roads and big parks including Rose Garden, Sector 16, Japa-nese Garden, Sector 31, Fragrance Garden, Sector 36, Terraced Garden, Sec-tor 33 etc.

The team took round of city parks including con-struction & demolition waste plant at industrial area, Ph-I and appreci-ated the projects under the

management of Municipal Corporation Chandigarh and lauded the mainte-nance of roundabouts, Green parks, green belts and neat and clean roads of city.

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In a letter addressed to the Chief Minister, Haryana, se-nior Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) leader Abhay Singh Chautala has told him that it was advisable that in view of a Court proclamation from Bhopal, B K Kuthiala, Chair-man Haryana Higher Educa-tion Council be immediately removed from office and made to surrender before the court in Bhopal.

He wrote this letter in view of the media reports that B K Kuthiala has been charged under Section 409, 420, 120-B of IPC and Sec-tion 6 and 7 of M P Public Service Reservation Act (SC, ST and OBC) 1994 for his acts as Vice Chancellor of Makhan Lal Chaturvedi University, Bhopal. He fur-ther said that according to newspaper reports he not only did not appear before the Economic Offences Wing of Madhya Pradesh but has also defied the proclama-tion dated 23-7-2019. The

said proclamation has also said that if he fails to ap-pear for the inquiry before 31-8-2019, his movable and unmovable properties will be attached.

The INLD leader also told the Chief Minister that ac-cording to media reports the Chief Secretary of Madhya Pradesh has also written a letter to the Haryana Chief Secretary to help the law to take its course by prevail-ing upon Kuthiala to pres-ent himself for the inquiry. He also reminded the Chief Minister that he and his Gov-ernment were duty-bound to exert pressure on one of its important appointee to cooperate with the law en-forcing agencies.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal presiding over a meeting of the 2019-20 batch of Chief Minister’s Good Governance Associates (CMGGA) in Chandigarh on Saturday. DP

Bhopal Court asks govt to remove HEC chairman

Delegation of IAS officers from different states visits

HighLIGHTl If he fails to appear

for the inquiry before 31-8-2019, his movable and unmovable properties will be attached.

HighLIGHTl The team was

on its study tour to study local administration, various reforms undertaken in Chandigarh and major projects of Municipal Corporation Chandigarh.

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nation “The PM should make statements in both houses of Parliament on current situation in J&K. It’s his duty.” GHULAM NABI AZAD , Senior Congress leader

Rahul hits out at Centre on economy ‘slowdown’NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday hit out at the Centre on alleged slowdown in the Indian econ-omy, saying the government can only “destroy” what was built over decades. “The BJP Government can’t build any-thing. It can only destroy what was built over decades with passion and hard work,” he said on Twitter.Gandhi tagged some media reports on a noted businessman warning of of an economic slowdown, BSNL, MTNL failing to pay July sala-ries, the railways planning to hive off employees and auto sector witnessing lowest ever sales in July in over two de-cades. PTI

22 convicted RANCHI: A district court in Jharkhand on Saturday con-victed 22 people after they were found guilty of burning three members of a family alive in 2016 in Lohardagga district.Additional District Judge Gopal Pandey delivered the judgment and the quantum of sentence will be delivered on August 8.On April 17, 2016, three members of a family were burnt to death in their house at Chipo Thekatoli village. While one managed to escape, three were charred to death. The victims are Govardhan Or-aon, his wife Mado and daugh-ter Sukhmania. The villagers had alleged that Oraon was involved in black magic. IANS

4 college girls drown WASHINGTON: At least four college girls, who bunked classes for an impromptu picnic, drowned in the raging Pandavkada waterfall in the Kharghar town of Maha-rashtra on Saturday, a police of-ficer said.The incident occurred around 11 a.m. when the girls skipped their classes to go to the picturesque waterfall along with six other friends. Three of the girls were studying in the SIES College of Arts, Science and Commerce.The three girls have been identified by the college authorities as Aarti Nair, Neha Dama and Shwe-ta Nand. The fourth victim, Sneha Jain, is not from the same college. She has been identi-fied by some of her friends who were part of the picnic group. All the drowned stu-dents are in the 18-19 years age group. IANS

‘Maha CM’s poll yatra will be futile, BJP will lose’

MUMBAI :The NCP on Satur-day attacked ChiefMinister Devendra Fadnavis on his ‘Mahajanadesh Yatra’ (mega mandate march), saying he will stand “exposed” during the campaign and predicted Madhya Pradesh and Chhattis-garh-like defeat for the BJP in Maharashtra.The BJP had lost Madhya Pradesh and Chhat-tisgarh Assembly polls held late last year.Drawing a parallel, Maharashtra NCP chief Jayant Patil noted that former Mad-hya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh chief ministers, Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Raman Singh respectively, had under-taken similar outreach pro-grammes ahead of the polls but had to face defeat. PTI

Delhi BJP says enrolled 9 lakh new members NEW DELHI:The Delhi BJP has enrolled over nine lakh new members even before the official month-long mem-bership campaign con-cludes on August 11, party leaders said on Saturday. The nationwide drive has received great success and Delhi BJP is a frontrun-ner, said Kuljeet Chahal, Delhi BJP general secre-tary and in-charge of the campaign in the city.“We have enlisted over nine lakh new members so far and we will easily achieve the tar-get of making 10 lakh new members in view of assem-bly polls in Delhi,” Chahal said.The membership cam-paign was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi on the birth anni-versary of party ideologue Syama Prasad Mookerjee, on June 6. PTI

Cong wants PM to make statement in Parliament

on J-K situation

NEW DELHI: Condemning the government’s decision to curtail the Amarnath Yatra, the Congress on Saturday said the entire country is worried and Prime Minister Narendra Modi should make a state-ment in Parliament on the current situation in Jammu and Kashmir.

Addressing a press con-ference at the Congress office here, senior party leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said the Amarnath Yatra

has never been curtailed, even when the pilgrim-age was targeted by terrorists.“The Prime Min-ister should make state-ments in both houses of Parliament on current situation in Jammu and Kashmir. It’s his duty,” Azad said.

He also said that the government should clarify why additional paramili-tary forces were sent to the state though it has been a lean year in terms of ter-

rorist activities, barring the Pulwama attack.

Speaking at the same conference, senior par-ty leader Karan Singh said everybody is in a state of shock after the government’s ad-visory curtailing the Amarnath Yatra and asking the pilgrims and tourists to leave the state.An atmosphere of fear and apprehen-sion has gripped the state, he said. PTI

Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad addresses the media as party leaders (L-R) Anand Sharma, Karan Singh, Ambika Soni and P Chidambaram look on, in New Delhi, on Saturday. PT I

Rahul’s letter for a bridge in Wayanad upsets local MLA

WAYANAD (KERALA): A letter by Wayanad Lok Sabha member Rahul Gandhi to district collector A.R. Ajayakumar requesting a permanent bridge on the Kalindhi river has not gone down well with lo-cal CPI-M legislator O.R. Kelu.Kelu represents the Mananthavady Assem-bly constituency, part of the parliamentary con-stituency represented by Gandhi.Gandhi wrote the letter to the collector on Wednesday requesting construction of a bridge for over 150 residents of the Nettara tribal colony. “With all due respects to Gandhi, I would like to tell him what he should be doing is to ensure the full support of the Centre for the overall develop-ment of Wayanad.

“Gandhi should leave things like bridges to the legislator, who has been working hard for this bridge for the past two years. Since he has raised the issue, my humble submission to Gandhi is to ask what his party col-league, who represented Wayanad in the Lok Sabha since this constituency was formed in 2009, was doing for this bridge,”

kelu told IANS.M.I. Shanawaz was the Con-gress Lok Sabha member for almost two terms from here. He passed away in 2018.

“Gandhi should make efforts to see that the long-standing dream of a railway line pass-ing through Wayanad is achieved, get a complete farm package and steps are taken to remove bot-tlenecks in smooth inter-state traffic to Bangalore.

He should also find a permanent solution to the man-animal con-flict, a routine affair in the Wayanad district. He should spend more time

on these issues and leave the issues, like building bridges, to legislators,” said Kelu.

Over a decade now, the tribals in Nettara colony have been using a wooden bridge, which gets washed away every monsoon, leaving them stranded till a new bridge is built.“I have got a Rs 10 crore allocation made in the annual budget for a per-manent 150-metre-long bridge and a 1.5 km long approach road.

I have been working for it for almost two years. We are expecting admin-istrative sanction for the

bridge and work to be-gin in six months,” Kelu said.The Wayanad dis-trict collector told IANS he had forwarded Gan-dhi’s letter to the engi-neering officer. “I have asked him to submit a report. Once I get that, I will follow it up and take it forward,” said Ajayakumar. IANS

HIGHLIGHTSl “I have asked

him to submit a report. Once I get that, I will follow it up and take it forward,” said Ajayakumar.

l‘With all due respects to Gandhi, I would like to tell him what he should be doing is to ensure the full support of the Centre for the overall development of Wayanad’

A view of waterlogged street following heavy monsoon rain, in Thane, on Saturday, PT I

Campaigning ends for Vellore LS poll

CHENNAI: The campaigning for the August 5 Vellore Lok Sabha elections came to an end on Saturday evening.Though there are 28 contes-tants in the fray, the main fight is between the ruling AIADMK’s A.C. Shanmu-gam and DMK’s D.M. Kathir Anand.The NMK led by See-

man has also fielded its can-didate with Deepalakshmi in the fray while the Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM), floated by actor-turned politician Kamal Haasan, decided to stay away from the polls.The election to the seat, originally scheduled for April 18, was postponed after Rs 10 crore cash was seized from DMK leaders in Vellore district. Three months later, this became the central talking point of the AIADMK’s campaign targeting the DMK.

The absence of prog-ress in these cases has in-creased the voters’ apathy in the elections as well as

the Election Commission (EC). While rescinding the poll, the EC had said that it was “fully satisfied” that the electoral process in Vellore had been vitiated on ac-count of unlawful activities on behalf of DMK candidate Kathir Anand and some of its workers.

“In the Commission’s considered opinion, al-lowing the current electoral process to conduct the poll in the constituency on April 18, 2019, as scheduled, in such a vitiated atmosphere would have severely jeop-ardised the conduct of free and fair elections,” the EC had said. IANS

THREE MONTHS LATER, THIS BECAME THE CENTRAL TALKING POINT OF THE AIADMK’S CAMPAIGN TARGETING THE DMK.

Aurangabad girl gang-raped at

19th birthday partyAURANGABAD: In a shock-ing incident, a 19-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by four of her friends after she had celebrated her birthday party in a Mumbai suburb last month, police said here on Saturday.

The incident came to light after the victim suf-fered severe pain in her private parts and was admitted to a hospital in Begumpura in her home-town of Aurangabad for

treatment.The doctors suspected it could be a case of rape and informed the police.The girl, who had kept the matter secret from her family, finally revealed the details of the incident.

It was on July 7, when the victim had come to Mumbai and her four male friends, whose iden-tities are not yet clear, in-sisted on celebrating her birthday at the home of one of them. IANS

7 Maoists killed in Chhattisgarh

RAJNANDGAON: Seven Mao-ists were killed on Saturday in an encounter by the se-curity forces in Chhattis-garh’s Rajnandgaon region, near Maharashtra border, police said.

The encounter began at about 8 a.m. and continued till around 5 p.m. Police have recovered an AK 47, one 303 rifle and four muz-zle loading guns, Maoist literature and ammunition from the encounter site.Chhattisgarh Police chief, D.M. Awasthi, said seven Maoists were killed while

three police personnel were also injured in the encounter.

Following intelligence inputs, the District Reserve Guard and Chhattisgarh Armed Force personnel were dispatched near hills between Sherpar and Si-tagota area. Maoists were taken by surprise and they launched an attack on the police, which made the security forces fire in re-taliation.Earlier this week, seven Maoists, including three women, were killed in Bastar district. IANS

Govt priority is to modernise armed

forces: Rajnath Singh

RAJNANDGAON: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh-said on Saturday that the government’s priority is to modernise the armed forces and meet all their needs only through indi-genisation.

“I would like to reiter-ate that the modernisa-tion of the armed forces is our priority. We would like to fulfil every re-quirement of the army through indigenization only,” he said. Singh said

that equipment would be imported only if the situ-ation demanded that it was important and was not being manufactured in the country.Otherwise, the government wanted all weapons to be made in the country, he said.

The defence Minister was speaking at the gold-en jubilee celebrationsof defence PSU Bharat Dy-namics Limited (BDL).He also said the defence sector would play a key role in making the coun-try a $5 trillion economy through Foreign Direct Investment and offset investment in manufac-turing. Singh appreciated the role played by BDL in the country’s defence production capabilities and assured the PSU full support from the govern-ment. PTI

THE DEFENCE MINISTER WAS SPEAKING AT THE GOLDEN JUBILEE CELEBRATIONSOF DEFENCE PSU BHARAT DYNAMICS LIMITED (BDL).

Priyanka thanks young girls for supporting signature campaign for Unnao rape victim

LUCKNOW: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday thanked young girls for participat-ing in the party’s signature campaign in support of the Unnao rape victim, and

said unity can force “those who empower rapists” to change.

Priyanka Gandhi had given a call for a state-wide three-day signature campaign starting Satur-

day as part of a Congress strategy to build pres-sure to ensure justice to the rape victim.“Thank you to all the girls from Lucknow for coming out so strongly in support of #UnnaoKiBeti, if all of us stand together, we can force those who empower rapists and criminals into consciousness and change. #EnoughIsEnough,” she said on Twitter.

Priyanka Gandhi also tweeted photographs of girls signing boards

placed outside universi-ties and colleges in Uttar Pradesh.Congress Legis-lature Party leader Ajay Kumar Lallu said his party will also carry out a signa-ture campaign seeking the president’s intervention for transfer of the rape-accused MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar to Tihar jail, his disqualification as a leg-islator and Rs 1 crore as compensation to the vic-tim’s family and monetary help to the injured lawyer among others. PTI

“THANK YOU TO ALL THE GIRLS FROM LUCKNOW FOR COMING OUT SO STRONGLY IN SUPPORT OF #UNNAOKIBETI, IF ALL OF US STAND TOGETHER, WE CAN FORCE THOSE WHO EMPOWER RAPISTS AND CRIMINALS INTO CONSCIOUSNESS AND CHANGE. #ENOUGHISENOUGH,”

Alcoholic kills his toddler daughter for crying ‘too much’

MUMBAI Irked by frequent crying of hisone-year-old daughter, an alcoholic allegedly strangulated her to death in Latur district of Maharashtra, police said on Saturday.The accused Shivaji Lale strangulated the tod-dler to death inside a room in his house in Nilanga taluka of the district, about 475 kms from Mumbai, on Thursday night, an of-ficial said.Lale, who used to run a hotel in the area, has been ad-

dicted to alcohol since the past few years, he said.Based on the complaint filed by his wife, police

have registered a case against Lale under vari-ous sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). PTI

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India (Bharat) needs indigenous style of change through Indianis-ing of the systems and approaches. This was stated by Prafulla Ketkar, the editor of Organiser (weekly) at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS) here on Friday during the panel discussion on “Media and the Nation: The Chang-ing Landscape.” Other panellists included Arun Anand, CEO of Delhi based media think tank IVSK, while the discus-sion was moderated by renowned writer and editor Sandipan Deb.

Ketkar said that Bharat as a society has a great appetite for the change in the form of continuity by Indianising things in our own way and creating a self-notion of our nation. The upcoming reading class are aspirational English speaking individ-uals who are still rooted to the Indian parameters of linguistics and ethos.

Arun Anand said that media should be run as

business enterprise with ethics like a social en-terprise. Business model of the media also helped in the proliferation of the media. The role/duty of media can be ac-complished only if it has revenue to provide its employees a good liveli-hood.

During the discussion Sandipan Deb said that after the emergence of social media and mobile phones now the perim-eter or scope of report-ing has been increased hugely, but it has also de-generated the value of the discourse.Prof Makarand R. Paranjape, Director, IIAS, in his inaugural address and

he welcomed the august gathering. During the introductory remark he also said that these days there is a plethora of in-formation and prolifera-tion of sources, but there is an acute lack of the reliability of content.

Col (Dr.) Vijay K. Tiwari, Secretary, IIAS has summarised the topics discussed by the panellists during the discussion and proposed the vote of thanks on behalf of the Institute.On this occasion Fel-lows, Associates, Staff of the Institute, Professors of Himachal Pradesh University and eminent citizens of Shimla were also present.

SHIMLA: : Various students’ organisations have start-ed their crusade through rallies and charter of de-mands for the restoration of direct elections to the Students Central Associa-tions (SCAs) of Himachal Pradesh University (HPU) and affiliated colleges with the start of academic session 2019-20. How-ever, college principals are not inclined to accept the demand.

The principals and the state authorities fear that eruption of violence can be a consequence of restoration of direct election, vitiating the academic atmosphere at a meeting which was convened at the HPU recently. Most of the principals were of the

opinion that the direct elections should not be held as it could trigger violence and observed that in fact there had been a sharp decline in violent incidents in the past four years.

The recommendations of the meeting were for-warded to the high power committee for consider-ation. According to Vice-Chancellor of HPU Prof Sikander Kumar the final decision will be taken by the government.

After the clashes be-tween the students groups, the direct elec-tions in the state univer-sities and their affiliated colleges were scrapped in 2014.Contrary to the view point of the princi-pals, the organisations of

the students are in favour of the direct elections to the Students Central As-sociations.

The Akhil Bharati-ya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) is trying to in-fluence the government to accept the demand, whereas the Students Federation of India (SFI) and the National Students Union of India (NSUI) have recently submit-ted separate memoranda to the Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur and the Edu-cation Minister Suresh Bharajdwaj demanding restoration of direct elec-tions to the SCAs.

The ABVP has been pressurising the BJP government on the is-sue saying that it had promised to restore the

SCA elections in its vi-sion document before the 2007 general election of the Legislative Assem-bly. The ABVP has also said that in a democratic set-up, students have the right to elect their rep-resentatives, who could raise their issues and when Class IV employees, teachers, non-teaching staff, university court and executive council can have elected bodies, why should the students be deprived of the same. The ABVP has launched an agitation to press for restoration of direct elec-tions to the SCAs.

According to the SFI, the absence of elected SCAs has led to anarchy in the university as the nominated SCAs have

failed to effectively raise the issues. The SCAs are the representative bodies and platforms for raising the demands of students. The SFI has claimed that its signature campaign for restoration of the direct elections to the SCAs has so far been supported by over 16,000 university and college students.

The NSUI after having raised the demand for di-rect elections has warned the government to start a statewide agitation in case the demand would not be fulfilled. Both the SFI and the NSUI have further observed that the directly elected student bodies are the only way to oppose commercialisa-tion and privatisation of education. DP

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himachalThe present govt is bent upon selling out the state and has started auctions on the pretext of inviting nearly Rs 1 lakh cr investments.”MUKESH AGNIHOTRI, Leader of Opposition

Various student bodies seek direct polls to HPU’s SCAsHowever, the principals of different government and private colleges affiliated to the Himachal

Pradesh University reject direct polls to the Students Central Associations

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Prof Sikandar Kumar, Vice-Chancellor of Him-achal Pradesh University (HPU) called on Governor Kalraj Mishra at Raj Bhavan on Saturday and apprised him of various activities and future plans related to the university.

The Governor said that Himachal Pradesh Uni-versity has achieved many milestones in the field of higher education, and a number of students passed out from the university are serving at various top levels throughout the country.

He advised him that new construction should be done in the campus and other places in a systematic manner. He said that the possibilities of construct-ing more hostels, educa-tional blocks and teacher and non-teacher residential premises in the university should be explored.Kalraj Mishra said that to maintain the image of the university, work should be done for improving the ranking in the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAC) and National Insti-tutional Framework (NIRF). Concrete steps should be taken to keep the campus

clean so that the message of cleanliness could be per-colating from the university and suggested that new aca-demic departments should be opened from the next academic session, with spe-cial emphasis on qualitative and employment-oriented education, he added. He directed to provide Wi-Fi facilities in the campus. He stressed on promoting sports activities in a big

way at the university level and directed that emphasis should be laid on proper in-frastructure development to encourage students to sports.

He said that such pro-grammes and conferences should be organised at the university level, which com-municates the message of nationalism in the students and to make important con-tributions for the progress of

the country. The Vice Chan-cellor informed that efforts were being made to develop the University as Best Cen-tre of Excellence of higher education in the country and concerted efforts were also being made to make the students studying here more effective from teaching to other facilities.

Prof Sikandar said that the maximum work of the university has been started through online (ERP) and for the first time, B.Ed. counsel-ling has been done online. In addition, the task of deposit-ing fees has also been made cashless and the fees were being deposited online.

He said that three new courses in the University Institute of Information and Technology (UIIT), including Civil, Electrical, Electronic and Communica-tion Engineering were be-ing started from this session and the posts of 39 profes-sors and 16 non-teaching staff posts have also been approved. He said that the land of University Institute of LegalStudies (UILS), Uni-versity College of Business School (UCBS),Department of Evening Studies (DES) has been named after the uni-versity with the help of state government and the district administration.

VC apprises Governor of HPU activities

Over 39,200 candidates qualify PET

SHIMLA: As many as39,252 candidates have qualified the Physical Efficiency Test (PET) in connection with the recruitment of con-stables in the state. The qualified candidates in-clude males 30,950, females 7,920, males as drivers 368 and sports persons males 12 and females two.

According to the police headquarters communiqué issued by Himanshu Misra, IGP, the next stage of re-cruitment that is the writ-ten test is scheduled to be held in the state on August 11 for which admit cards are being sent district wise through email to the eli-gible candidates. In case the candidates do not receive the admit cards, they may contact their respective of-fices of the SPs on or before Aug 8 and obtain printed copy of the admit card. No candidate will be allowed to enter the examination hall without admit card and no admit card will be given at the venue of the test. Writ-ten Test carries 80 marks. Pass marks in the written test for general/OBC is 40 out of 80 and for SC/ST it is 32 out of 80 marks. DP

Bharat needs Indianising of systems, approaches: Ketkar

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The state unit of the Con-gress will launch ‘Save Hi-machal’ campaign, from Sunday onwards, the day of Dr YS Parmar’s birth anniversary. The deci-sion has been taken at the meeting of the Congress Legislature Party, which was held at Shimla on Friday night. Leader of the Congress Legislative Party Mukesh Agnihotri revealed this here on Sat-urday.

On the other hand, the HP Congress Committee has decided to to celebrate Parmar Jayanti on August 4 at Bagthan in Sirmaur district, the native village of Dr YS Parmar in which freedom fighters from Sirmaur will be honoured. This was announced by Kuldeep Rathore recently.

Leader of Opposition Mukesh Agnihotri talking to media persons here on Saturday said that as the main Opposition party in the state, the Congress has the responsibility to protect its interests. He has claimed that the present government is

bent upon selling out the state and has started auctions on the pretext of inviting nearly Rs 1 lakh crore investments. He has added that, therefore, the Congress has decided to launch the ‘Save Hi-machal’ campaign. He has further warned that wherever the govern-ment will try to take such wrong steps, these will be opposed by the Congress.

He has said that the CLP meeting will further be apprised of the moves of the government in its meetings and in the monsoon session of the Assembly, the party MLAs will certainly raise the is-sue tooth and nail.

Agnihotri has alleged that instead of invit-

ing global tenders, the government has started signing MoUs for the sell out the state. He also ridi-culed the involvement of outsiders through one or more organisations who have been engaged in promoting this sell out. He has pointed out that this is not the correct and judicious way of inviting investments and signing MoUs directly.

He has further said that at the same time, the gov-ernment is talking about providing employment to 60,000 youths, which is a gimmick, because the government itself is not clear on the investors and investments.

Agnihotri has also ques-tioned the working on

the National Highways (NHs) and said that even the smallest roads have been declared as NHs. He took up the issue of smartcities of Shimla and Dharamshala. He has also pointed out, “Industries have been migrating out from Himachal Pradesh. A Chocolate company has okayed voluntary retire-ment to 703 employees. The mafia dominates in every region of Him-achal.”

At the press conference nine Congress MLAs _ Dhani Ram Shandil, Ja-gat Singh Negi, Nand Lal, Vinay Kumar, Rajendra Rana, Inderdutt Lakhan-pal, Vikramaditya Singh, Ashish Butel and Pawan Kajal_ were present.

Cong to launch ‘Save Himachal’ campaignTHE CONGRESS TO CELEBRATE PARMAR JAYANTI AT BAGTHAN IN SIRMAUR DISTRICT, WHERE FREEDOM FIGHTERS FROM SIRMAUR WILL BE HONOURED

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Chief Electoral Officer of Himachal Devesh Ku-mar on Friday has said that the Election Com-mission Commission has directed to launch a Special Electors Verifica-tion Programme (SEVP) during the pre-revision period before the actual start of summary revision of 2020 owing to com-plaints regarding dis-crepancies and existence of dead, shifted electors in electoral roll received from citizen/electors to achieve improvement in the health of electoral roll.

He urged upon citi-zens to come forward and authenticate existing elector’s detail relating thereto, bygiving copy of one of Indian Passport, Driving License, Aad-har, Ration Card, Identity Card for governments,

semi-government offi-cials, bank, passbooks, Farmer’s identity cards between August 16 to September 30, 2019 through voter helpline mobile app, NVSP portal or by visiting Common Service Centres (CSCs) or 1950 voter helpline.

Devesh Kumar said that political parties should depute their booth level agents (BLAs) to coor-dinate with BLOs for the cleansing of electoral roll.Devesh Kumar further said that the BLOs will make house to house vis-its between the Sep-tember 1 to 30 for 100 per cent verification and collection of informa-tion on details collected from citizens, family tag-ging, enrolling all non-enrolled citizens, collect-ing prospective electors details, removalof mul-tiple entries/dead and shifted electors and or removal of logical errors, flagging of Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) and marked electors and probable polling station buildings.

In view of the im-pending SEVP, Devesh Kumar again appealed to all the citizens to come forward and avail the fa-cilities provided under the SEVP for correcting and •authenticating their demographic details and images.

During SEVP ‘n voter to be left behind’: CEO

State to launch ease overcrowding in buses campaign

HighLIGHTSl Arun Anand said that media should

be run as business enterprise with ethics like a social enterprise. Business model of the media also helped in the proliferation of the media

lThe role/duty of media can be accomplished only if it has revenue to provide its employees a good livelihood

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Taking serious note of the overcrowding in buses after Banjar bus tragedy, Trans-port Minister Govind Singh had announced to introduce 500 new buses in the state. Getting necessary approvals from the government, the Transport Department has identified 229 routes, which will be notified soon and in three months to operate 500 buses on all such routes fac-ing problem of overloading.

The department will also a state-wide road safety cam-paign to promote culture of safe driving from August 4 from the Ridge at Shimla. An attempt will be made to bring down the fatality rate on roads.

Under the campaign bus, truck and taxi drivers and the public will be educated to adopt safe driving habits. The department has worked on a multi-pronged strat-egy. Further, the depart-ment will ensure fitness of buses, repair shops will be set up to address the prob-lem of mechanical failures.A data analysis reveals that every year, on an average,

3,000 accidents take place. In these mishaps, the death toll on an average is 1,200 persons, the highest in the country. About 95.4 per cent accidents are caused by human error. For this, six factors responsible are: rash and drunken driving, over speeding, driving without seat belts and helmets and use of mobile phone while driving.

The department has set up a road safety cell in-volving transport, police, PWD and Health Depart-ment teams. In the first three months, it will focus on creating awareness, not challaning traffic violators. The coordinating agencies will involve schools, col-leges, NGOs, mahila man-dals and yuvak mandals, panchayats. In the second leg of the campaign, the po-lice and RTOs will focus on challaning offenders who over speeding or drunken driving and driving without seat belt. Commuters will be motivated through multi-media, FM radio, posters, songs and a series of lec-tures in schools and colleges. Master trainers will be in-volved for educating drivers.

HIGHLIGHTS l As many as 500 buses to be started on

229 routes

l Road safety campaign to be started from today

HIGHLIGHTl The possibilities of constructing more

hostels, educational blocks and teacher and non-teacher residential premises in the university should be explored.

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nri&world “I say that 90 per cent of Salman Shehbaz’s wealth is based on telegraphic transfer.”SALMAN SHEHBAZ, Sharif’s nephew

‘New round of US-Taliban talks opens in Doha’DOHA: Talks between the US and the Taliban seeking to end nearly 18 years of war in Afghanistan resumed in Doha on Saturday, the Taliban said.“Today the talks began,” the insurgent group’s spokesman in Doha, Suhail Sha-heen, told AFP.The US, which invaded Afghanistan and toppled the Taliban in 2001, wants to withdraw thousands of troops and is hoping for a breakthrough.However, any drawdown would be on condition the insurgent group renounces Al-Qaeda and curbs attacks. AFP

3 dead as sea cliff falls CALIFORNIA: The At least three people died when part of a cliff collapsed onto beachgoers on the California coast on Friday, authorities said.The incident took place near a staircase lead-ing to Grandview Surf Beach, north of San Diego. The San Diego County Sheriff’s Depart-ment said one person was killed and the City of Encinitas later tweeted that two of three people who were taken to hospital had also died. “Beachgoers should continue to use caution when visiting beach areas,” the City of Encinitas cautioned in the tweet. At least two people had to be rescued from the debris after being trapped, said Lieutenant Ted Greenawald of the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department. Encinitas lifeguard captain Larry Giles told local reporters that rescuers were working with dogs to search for other possible victims. AFP

‘Judge blocks Trump asylum restriction’WASHINGTON: A judge on Friday blocked a move by US President Donald Trump’s administration to stop migrants from claiming asylum unless they had en-tered the country at an official border crossing, news outlets reported.The policy, enacted by Trump last year, is among a host of measures his government has taken against the movement of hundreds of thousands of migrants from Central America and elsewhere who have re-cently tried to cross into the US from Mexico and request asylum.Federal judge Randolph Moss, sitting in Washington, ruled that the policy was “in excess of statutory... author-ity,” ABC News reported.Moss said it contradicts standing US immigration law, which al-lows undocumented people who are physically present in the country to apply for asylum even if they did not enter at an official port of entry, The Hill newspaper said. AFP

1 dead, several injuredJAKARTA :At least one person died and several were injured after a powerful undersea earthquake rocked Indonesia’s heavily populated Java island, trig-gering a brief tsunami warn-ing, officials said Saturday.The 6.9 magnitude quake on Friday evening sent residents fleeing to higher ground, while many in the capital Jakar-ta ran into the streets.Officials from Indonesia’s national di-saster agency warned the quake could generate a tsunami as high as three metres (10 feet), but it was lifted several hours later.On Saturday, authorities said a panicked 48-year-old woman had died of a heart at-tack as the strong quake rocked the region. AFP

Footage shows Bangkok bombing in mall minutes BANGKOK:Footage emerged Saturday of the moment a bomb exploded in a Bang-kok mall as the city hosted a major summit, the de-vice apparently hidden in-side a cuddly toy animal. There were nine successful or at-tempted bomb blasts on Friday throughout Bangkok which left four wounded as the city hosted a regional summit attended by top diplomats, including US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.Footage showed an explosion in a shopping mall minutes from the summit venue in the early hours of Friday morning, af-ter it was apparently planted by a man dressed in a stu-dent’s uniform about 12 hours earlier. AFP

‘Kim supervised latest rocket launcher test’

SEOUL: North Korea said Saturday its leader Kim Jong Un supervised another test-firing of a new multiple rocket launcher system that could potentially enhance the country’s ability to strike targets in South Korea and US military bases there.The report by Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency came a day after South Korea’s military said it detected North Korea firing projectiles twice into the sea off its eastern coast in its third round of weapons tests in just over a week.

Experts say the North’s increased testing activ-ity is aimed at ramping up pressure on Washing-ton and Seoul over stalled nuclear negotiations with the United States and planned U.S.-South Korea military exercises, and that

its weapons displays could intensify in the coming months if progress in talks isn’t made.

North Korea has said Kim supervised the first test of the same rocket artil-lery system on Wednesday.KCNA said Kim expressed “great satisfaction” over Friday’s tests, which it said confirmed the system’s “altitude control level flight performance, track chang-ing capability, accuracy of hitting a target and war-head explosion power of the guided ordnance rocket.”

The report didn’t in-clude any direct mention of the United States or South Korea.South Korea’s presidential office had said the U.S. and South Korean militaries shared an assess-ment that Friday’s launches were likely of short-range ballistic missiles. AP

China no longer top trading partner of US

WASHINGTON:As a result of their ongoing trade, China is no lon-ger the top trading partner of the United States and has been replaced by America’s neigh-bours Mexico and Canada, ac-cording to a media report. In the first half of the year, Mexico was the top trading partner of the United States followed by Canada, the latest official data

reveals, according to The Wall Street Journal.

As a result of the ongoing trade war between the US and China, imports from China to the US dropped by 12 per cent and America’s export to China fell by 19 per cent, the daily said. After coming to power, Trump has imposed 25 per cent import tariff on chinese prod-

ucts worth USD 250 billion. Another 10 per cent tarrif on products worth USD 300 bil-lion will come into effect on September 1.

Trump has so far maintained that China has been unfair to the US. China has also taken several retaliatory steps. Ac-cording to a Commerce Depart-ment report, the total value of bilateral goods exchanged with China fell 14 per cent in the first half of the year to USD 271.04 billion, The Wall Street Journal said. PTI

President Ram Nath Kovind shakes hands with President of Republic of Guinea Alpha Condé after being conferred with the National Order of Merit, the Highest Award of Guinea, in Conakry, on Friday, PT I

Hong Kong police warn protests off designated route illegal

WASHINGTON:Hong Kong police on Saturday called on pro-testers to stick to designated routes and times after violent clashes marred the last eight weekends of rallies calling for greater rights and government accountability.Police held a briefing ahead of a scheduled rally in Mong Kok, a bustling shopping district with a his-tory of hosting pro-democracy protests. Any demonstrations

that are not pre-approved will be “cleared out” as unlawful assemblies, police said.Hong Kong’s summer of protests, sparked by an unpopular ex-tradition bill, has continued unabated despite the govern-ment’s decision to suspend the legislation that would have sent some suspects to mainland China for trial.

While the pro-democracy rallies have been largely peace-ful, they have increasingly de-volved into skirmishes with police after some protesters refused to disperse at as-signed times. In the past two months, protesters have van-dalized buildings and thrown bricks, while police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets. A former British colony, Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997 under the framework of

“one country, two systems.” The city’s mini-constitution promises the city certain free-doms not afforded to those in the mainland, but Hong Kongers say Beijing has chipped away at their autonomy in re-cent years.

Several thousand civil ser-vants and their supporters crowded into a public park on Friday evening to show solidar-ity with the movement, which has broadened to include de-mands for direct elections and an investigation into alleged police brutality. Hong Kong residents have accused police of negligence after 44 people were injured last month in a mob attack that appeared to target protesters. Authori-ties said their resources were stretched due to the prolonged demonstrations. AP

HONG KONG RESIDENTS HAVE ACCUSED POLICE OF NEGLIGENCE AFTER 44 PEOPLE WERE INJURED LAST MONTH IN A MOB ATTACK THAT APPEARED TO TARGET PROTESTERS.

‘Sharif made laws to launder money’

ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to Pakistan Prime Minister, Ac-countability, Shahzad Akbar has accused the family of former pre-mier Nawaz Sharif of making laws in the 1990s to help them launder ill-gotten wealth. Sharing details of alleged telegraphic transfer of Rs 17 million to Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz, Akbar said the family built an empire through corruption.

Akbar said everything worked in favour of the Sharif family till their names came up in the Panama Papers in 2016. He said the transaction of Rs 17 million in Maryam’s account was made in 2008, indicating that the family was still using flexible laws of the 1990s to bring money in Pakistan and also send abroad.

He said similar transfer of money from was made in the account of Sharif’s nephew Salman Shehbaz. “I say that 90 per cent of Salman Shehbaz’s wealth is based on TT (telegraphic transfer),” he said. He said in both cases the money trail is not established and that details of the cases would be sent to the National Accountability Bureau,

which is pursuing several cases against the Sharif family. Sharif had served Pakistan as its prime minister twice in the 1990s. He is credited with liberalising the economy when he first came to power in 1990.

Akbar has earlier too leveled serious charges against opposi-tion leaders, including Sharif who is the president of the larg-est Opposition party, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz. Mean-while, Opposition leaders alleged Akbar is on a witch-hunt at the behest of Prime Minister Imran Khan. PTI

HIGHLIGHTl The transaction of Rs

17 million in Maryam’s account was made in 2008, indicating that the family was still using flexible laws of the 1990s to bring money in Pakistan and also send abroad.

HIGHLIGHTl As a result of the

ongoing trade war between the US and China, imports from China to the US dropped by 12 per cent and America’s export to China fell by 19 per cent.

South Korean protesters shout slogans during a rally to denounce Japan’s new trade restrictions on South Korea in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul, South Korea, on Saturday, PT I

US and Russia end missile treaty as new threats emerge WASHINGTON: A landmark arms control treaty between the US and Russia expired Friday after months in which nei-ther side made serious efforts to preserve a Cold War-era agreement that did not cover an emerging China or evolving missile technology that did not exist a generation ago. The Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty came to an end with the US announcing that in the coming weeks it planned to test a new missile that would have been prohibited under the accord, which was signed in 1987.

Its demise comes amid rising doubts about whether the two countries will extend an agreement on long-range nuclear weapons scheduled

to expire in 2021.The Trump administration, which gave its six-month notice on February 2 of its pending withdrawal from the INF, had repeatedly said Russia was violating its provisions, an accusation President Barack Obama made as well.“The United States will not remain party to a treaty that is deliberately violated by Rus-sia,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in announcing the formal withdrawal, calling a Russian missile system pro-hibited under the agreement a “direct threat to the United States and our allies.”

The end of the INF, which comes as world powers seek to contain the nuclear threat from Iran and North Korea,

is another milestone in the deterioration of relations be-tween the US and Russia.“The denunciation of the INF treaty confirms that the US has em-

barked on destroying all inter-national agreements that do not suit them for one reason or another,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

“This leads to the actual dismantling of the existing arms control system.” A se-nior administration official downplayed the upcoming US weapons test, saying it was not meant to be a provocation. The central issue with the INF was that both Russia and the U.S. had long accused the other of cheating on the trea-ty, which banned land-based missiles of ranges between 500 and 5,500 kilometres.

The US said the non-compli-ant missile systems the Rus-sians fielded gave Moscow an advantage over NATO forces in Europe.The Obama admin-istration in 2014 first publicly accused Moscow of violating INF by testing a treaty-busting cruise missile. Russia denies

it has cheated and it coun-ters with a contention that America’s armed drones and missile defense system in Eu-rope are violations.

US military officials have said that 95 per cent of Chi-na’s ballistic and cruise mis-siles would have violated the treaty.“Since the strategic en-vironment has changed rapidly since the end of the Cold War, we need to find ways to use arms control to address the rise of China’s nuclear arsenal, the increase of Russia’s non-stra-tegic weapons stockpiles, and the emergence of new tech-nologies like hypersonic weap-ons,” said Texas Rep Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. AP

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sportsIt is a good opportunity for the youngsters to cement their place.”VIRAT KOHLI, skipper

LAUDERHILL: India’s prepa-ration for the next year’s T20 World Cup will begin with the three-match se-ries against the West Indies, skipper Virat Kohli said. “Yes, our preparation for the T20 World Cup begins now. We have about 25-26 games before that and we need to figure out our best 11 and best 15 based on the conditions. “It is a good opportunity for the youngsters to cement their place,” said Kohli ahead of the series-opener here on Saturday.

While the likes of Manish Pan-dey and Shreyas Iyer have made a comeback to the side, Rahul Cha-har and Navdeep Saini are in line to make their India debut. The T20 World Cup will be held in Australia from October 18 to November 15. The last edition was held in India where the hosts were defeated in the semifinals. PTI

RIO DE JANEIRO: Argentina captain Lionel Messi has been given a three-month ban from international foot-ball for his claim that the Copa America in Brazil was

influenced by corruption. The Barcelona forward was also fined 50,000 US

dollars by South American foot-

ball govern-ing body CONMEBOL on Friday. The ruling

means Messi will miss Ar-gentina’s friendlies against Chile, Mexico and Germany in September and October. Messi has seven days to ap-peal the decision, reports Xinhua news agency.

The five-time Ballon d’Or winner made the allega-

tions after being sent off for an

altercation with Gary Medel in

Argentina’s 2-1 defeat of

Chile in the Copa Amer-ica third-place playoff last month. After the match Mes-si said: “We don’t have

to be

part of this corruption. They [referees] have showed us a lack of respect throughout this tournament.” Messi also said the competition was “set up” for eventual

champions Brazil to win. The 32-year-

old had already been suspended

for one competi-tive match and fined 1,500 US

dollars for his comments and the red card. IANS

SYDNEY: Former Austra-lia captain Ricky Ponting Saturday called for cricket to ditch its requirement to have neutral umpires after a num-ber of incorrect decisions in the first Test of the Ashes series in England. Aleem Dar of Pakistan and West Indian Joel Wilson have drawn criti-cism after a number of their calls were overturned by the review system during the opening days at Edgbaston.

Ponting, who is part of the Marylebone Cricket Club’s (MCC) influential Cricket Committee, said he would ensure the matter is dis-cussed at their next meeting. “It’s already been spoken about a lot among the play-ers. If it’s not brought up (at that next MCC meeting), I’ll

make sure it’s added to the agenda,” he told the Cricket Australia website. “I would like to think the game has come far enough now for the game to not have neutral umpires. “People might say that with all the technology we’ve got now, it doesn’t matter that much. But it’s not a good spectacle when pretty obviously wrong deci-sions are made,” he added.

“There’s been a lot of neg-ativity about the DRS (Deci-sion Review System) over the years, but we’re pretty lucky that we had it (at Edg-baston).” The International Cricket Council mandated the use of neutral umpires in 2002, meaning English and Australian officials -- widely considered among the best in

the world -- cannot be part of the Ashes series. Pon-ting pointed to England’s Richard Kettleborough as a top umpire forced to miss out. “Surely Richard Kettleborough and the like would want to be umpir-ing the best series. The best umpires can end up missing out on all the big tournaments,” he said.

“It could force umpires into retirement a bit early as well when someone like (former Australian umpire) Simon Taufel is spending most of his life (overseas), which is a bit harder than spending your time in Aus-tralia.” Former Australia spinner Shane Warne, another member

of the MCC Cricket Com-mittee, also criticised the umpiring on day one of the Edgbaston Test, calling it “horrific”. “England are bowling very well. The um-piring has been horrific from

ball 1 & so has the reviews process of the right ones from Australia,” he said on Twitter. The MCC’s Cricket Committee,

guardians of the laws of the game, is an indepen-

dent body comprised of current and former players and umpires who meet twice

a year to discuss issues around the sport.

AFP

NEW DELHI: Indian spikers led by Hary-ana’s Amit Gulia will kick off their campaign in the Asian Men’s U-23 Volleyball Championship against China in Myanmar on Saturday. The tournament is an international vol-leyball competition in the Asia and Oceania region that is contested by 16 member nations of the Asian Vol-leyball Confederation (AVC). This is the third edition of the tournament which was held for the first time in 2015.

Iran, champions in 2015 and 2017, will not take part in this edition. The

nine-day event will culminate on August 11. All the matches will be held in the capital city of Nay Pyi Taw.

The 16 teams have been divided into four groups. India have been placed in Group D alongside China, Thailand and New Zea-land. After their match against China on the opening day, India will face New Zealand on August 4 and Thailand on August 5.

Coached by the experienced Pritam Singh Chauhan, the In-dia squad consists of Chirag, Ga-

gan Kumar and Shon T. John in the attacker’s position along with skipper Amit Gulia. Shikhar Singh and Sonu Kumar Jakhar will be handling the blocker’s duties for the team. Muthusamy and Saqlain Tariq are the two setters in the squad, while Hari Prasad is the sole libero in the team. The two universals in

the squad are Ash-win Raj and Himan-shu Tyagi. Ten out of the 12 players were part of the inaugu-

ral edition of Pro Volleyball League held earlier this year. This is India’s second appearance in the tournament. IANS

WASHINGTON: Three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray moved closer to a singles return six months after right hip surgery while Greece’s Ste-fanos Tsitsipas rolled into the world’s top five Friday at the ATP Washington Open.

Britain’s Murray and his brother Jamie, in their first doubles event since the 2016 Rio Olympics, lost to New Zealand’s Michael Venus and South African Raven Klaasen 6-7 (3/7), 7-6 (8/6), 10-7 in a quarter-final at the US Open tuneup event.

Murray has practiced singles this week to improve his conditioning

after the long layoff.“I feel fine,” Murray said. “Practice has been fine.

No issues physically. So progressing well.

Just keep practicing the next 10 days or so and see what hap- p e n s . ” Top seed Tsitsipas beat French 10th seed Benoit Paire 7-5, 6-0 to reach the semi-finals and ensure he will overtake Germany’s Alexander Zverev to crack the world rankings top five on Monday.

“Once you’re in a certain position

for a long time, you really crave for more,” Tsitsipas said.

“This one position difference might not feel a lot for some people but for me it really means a lot because there has been a lot of hard work behind it, just a lot of suffering in general.

“I feel I deserve this posi-tion. It means a lot

for sure.” The 2 0 - y e a r - o l d Australian Open semi-finalist, who lost to Zverev in last

year’s

Washington semis, booked a semi-final against Austra-

lia’s Nick Kyrgios, who ousted Slo-vakian lucky loser Norbert Gombos

6-3, 6-3. “I’m excited to play him,” Kyrgios said of Tsitsipas. “He’s one of the best players in

the world right now.” Murray, who feared his career might be

over after the January opera-tion, hasn’t played singles since the Australian Open but says he

might return at the ATP Cincinnati Masters starting August 12.“If I feel like I’m ready, I’ll give it

a go. If not, I’ll wait probably un-til after New York. But so far it has been fine.” PTI

CELEBRATION

India’s Bhuvneshwar Kumar, right, is congratulated after taking the wicket of West Indies’ Evin Lewis during the first Twenty20 international cricket match on Saturday in Lauderhill. AP/PT I

Preparation for T20 World Cup starts now: Kohli

LAUDERHILL: The time has come for Rishabh Pant to “unleash” his rich potential in all three formats, said In-dia captain Virat Kohli ahead of the first T20 international against the West Indies here on Saturday. With little clarity over the future of vet- eran M S

Dhoni, Pant has now become the preferred choice in all three formats and that was pointed out by chief selector MSK Prasad after the selec-tion panel picked the squads for the West Indies tour.

“It’s a great opportunity for someone like Rishabh Pant to really play a lot of in-ternational cricket, show his credentials, really unleash his potential at this stage,” Kohli said here on Friday. “We know how much abil-ity he has and we all want him to become a consistent

performer for the Indian cricket team. PTI

HIGHLIGHTSl The T20 World Cup will

be held in Australia from October 18 to November 15. The last edition was held in India where the hosts were defeated in the semifinals.

l India are set to play three-match series against South Africa (September), Bangladesh (November), West Indies (December) and Zimbabwe (January 2020) at home.

‘ West Indies tour a great opportunity for Pant to unleash his potential’

Asian U-23 men’s volleyball

India take on China in openerHighLIGHTSl Iran, champions in 2015

and 2017, will not take part in this edition. The nine-day event will culminate on August 11. All the matches will be held in the capital city of Nay Pyi Taw.

l The 16 teams have been divided into four groups.

Messi given three-match int’l ban

The five-time Ballon d’Or winner made the allegations after being sent off for an altercation with Gary Medel in Argentina’s 2-1 defeat of Chile in the Copa America third-place playoff last month.

KEY POINT

Ricky Ponting calls for cricket to ditch neutral umpiresHighLIGHTSl The MCC’s Cricket Committee, guardians of

the laws of the game, is an independent body comprised of current and former players and umpires who meet twice a year to discuss issues around the sport.

l “England are bowling very well. The umpiring has been horrific from ball 1 & so has the reviews process of the right ones from Australia, said Ponting.

l Former Australia spinner Shane Warne, another member of the MCC Cricket Committee, also criticised the umpiring on day one of the Edgbaston Test, calling it “horrific”.

Murray moves nearer return while Tsitsipas moves into top five

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As per experts, the symptoms of inherited metabolic disorders like Lysosomal Storage Dis-orders (LSDs) are often treated as more common illnesses and might ap-pear to be of only minor concern.

However, the symp-toms can vary from mild to severe depending on the age of disorder and onset. The length of time from symptom onset to an accurate diagnosis is be-tween two to five years for a rare disease. They can include developmental delay, movement disor-ders, seizures, dementia, deafness and/or blind-ness. Some of the LSDs are Pompe, Gaucher, Fabry and MPS-1.

Lysosomal Storage Disorders (LSDs) mostly affect children below the age of 5. Even adults can be affected by this condi-tion in some cases. Shar-

ing more information, Dr Inusha Panigrahi, Senior Geneticist and Professor in Genetic-Metabolic unit, Department of Pedi-atrics, PGIMER, Chandi-garh, said, “Patients suf-fering from rare diseases, especially Lysosomal Storage Disorders (LSDs), often lead a very inca-pacitating life. These are primarily caused due to deficient or dysfunctional enzymes. The disorders are often chronic and se-verely hamper the quality of life of a patient.”

Thus, it is necessary and important to gen-erate awareness among medical fraternity about rare diseases as a condi-tion. Enzyme Replace-ment Therapy (ERT) is available for more than a handful of disorders now; and as a treatment modality, has proved to

be effective and has had a positive impact on the life of many patients, added Dr Panigrahi.

In this view, the State Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Mohali with support from Lyso-somal Storage Disorders Support Society (LSDSS) recently organised the first Rare Disease Up-date programme to raise awareness about rare dis-eases. It addressed one of the most important challenges – awareness about rare diseases, and simultaneously unveiled Lysosomal Storage Dis-orders (LSDs) posters, in Punjabi and English languages. These post-ers will be disseminated officially through State Health Department Pun-jab at government medi-cal colleges and District Health Centers.

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We will not hesitate to escalate by shutting down even our Emergency and ICU services.DR UTTAM THAKUR , President Association of Resident Doctors, PGI

PGI docs on indefinite strike against NCM BillMedical srvices hit as the PGI resident doctors strike work. However, emergency

and intensive care units (ICUs) were exempted from the strike

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The resident doctors of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) have clearly asserted to observe indefinite strike against the recent approval of National Medical Commission Bill 2019.

As a result, thousands of patients will be at the re-ceiving end due to the sus-pension of health services, in exception to emergency and ICU care.

According to the infor-mation, the doctors have voiced against the recent approval of the Bill in Lok Sabha, citing that the Sec-tion 32 of the NMC Bill pro-vides for the licensing of 3.5 lakhs unqualified non-medical persons to practise modern medicine.

The resident doctors

have asserted that vari-ous decisions like power of the Central government to override the decisions/recommendations of the National Medical Com-mission and Autonomous

Boards constituted there-under (Sec 45-1& 2), de-crease in the representation of elected members from 75 per cent (as was in the Medical Council of India) to 20 per cent in the NMC

and undue favour to the Pri-vate Medical Colleges and Deemed Universities by decreasing the percentage of seats under controlled fees structure from 85 per cent to 50 per cent Section

10(1)(i).“These provisions will

increase corruption and decrease autonomy in our profession. Until these concerns are addressed ap-propriately, our strike will continue indefinitely. We will not hesitate to escalate by shutting down even our Emergency and ICU services if expedited measures are not taken”, said Dr Uttam Thakur, President Associa-tion of Resident Doctors, PGIMER.

The Association of Resi-dent Doctors, PGIMER Chandigarh will continue its protest against the NMC Bill and unconditionally support IMA other RDAs all over the country, added Dr Thakur.

The PGIMER caters to pa-tients from Punjab, Hary-ana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Ut-tarakhand and Chandigarh.

PU students oppose against price hike of eatables

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Students at Panjab Uni-versity have alleged the authorities of harassing students through an in-termittent increase in the prices of different eatables. On Saturday, students staged a protest outside the Vice-Chancel-lor office against the hike of tea rates by whopping 12.5 per cent.

The students have proclaimed that PU au-thorities are favouring the Students Centre’s shop owners by burdening stu-dents in order to maximise their profits.

“This reflects the mar-

ket orientation of PU au-thorities which always resorts to anti-student policies. This must be seen in the larger design of neoliberal policies of privatisation of every facet of our life. By resorting to aggressive market poli-cies, they are eating into the pockets of every sec-tion of the society. This onslaught must be resisted tooth and nail”, said a member of Students For Society (SFS).

The students also sub-mitted a memorandum with the Dean Students Welfare on Saturday. Confirming the same, Rajwinder Singh, mem-ber of SFS said, “We have

demanded immediate withdrawal of anti-stu-dents circular of hike in tea rates.”

Some months back, the authorities were ques-tioned over the irregular-priced food items been dished up at the depart-ment canteens and hostel mess of the varsity. The students had alleged the authorities of the can-teens of charging different prices for the same food items across the various departments.

Also, the students had requested the authori-ties to review the quality of the food items being served at the department canteens and hostel mess.

More than 200 donate blood at PGI

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Students at Panjab Uni-versity have alleged the authorities of harassing students through an in-termittent increase in the prices of different eatables. On Saturday, students staged a protest outside the Vice-Chancellor office against the hike of tea rates by whopping 12.5 per cent.

The students have pro-claimed that PU authorities are favouring the Students Centre’s shop owners by burdening students in order to maximise their profits.

“This reflects the market orientation of PU authori-ties which always resorts to anti-student policies. This must be seen in the larger design of neoliberal poli-cies of privatisation of every facet of our life. By resorting to aggressive market poli-cies, they are eating into the pockets of every section of

the society. This onslaught must be resisted tooth and nail”, said a member of Students For Society (SFS).

The students also submit-ted a memorandum with the Dean Students Welfare on Saturday. Confirming the same, Rajwinder Singh, member of SFS said, “We have demanded immediate withdrawal of anti-students circular of hike in tea rates.”

Some months back, the authorities were questioned over the irregular-priced food items been dished up at the department can-teens and hostel mess of the varsity. The students had alleged the authorities of the canteens of charging different prices for the same food items across the vari-ous departments.

Also, the students had requested the authorities to review the quality of the food items being served at the department canteens and hostel mess.

UT Police celebrate World Breast Feeding Week

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World Breast Feeding Week-2019 was celebrated at Police Hospital, Sector 26, here on August 3. This initiative was taken by Dr. Pushpinder Mangat, SMO Police Hospital-26 to im-part complete knowledge about nutritional diet and importance of breast feed-ing to pregnant and lactat-ing mothers of Chandigarh Police families and nearby

areas. It was presided over by SSP Nilambari Jagdale. Tree saplings were also planted by the chief guest to provide healthy environ-ment for next generation.

Interactive lectures on benefits of breast feed-ing were delivered by Dr. Bhavneet Bhati, Professor Division of Social Paedi-atrics, Advanced Paedi-atrics Centre, PGIMER, Chandigarh and Nutrition in pregnant and lactating mothers was taken by Dr.

Kavita Chavan, MO Gynae and Dr. Jaya J. Batish, MO of Police Hospital.

The camp was attended by all Medical Officers, Para Medical Staff and approxi-mately 76 police personnel and families of nearby areas. Haemoglobin testing was also conducted. Momentos were presented to the guest speaker and chief guest. Prizes and nutritional fruits packets were distributed to all the pregnant women and lactating mothers.

50 saplings planted under ‘Greening Chandigarh’ drive

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As many as 50 saplings were planted in the area under the ‘Greening Chandigarh’ campaign undertaken by city based NGO’s on Sat-urday. The tree plantation drive was supported by the Chandigarh Administration and Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh.

As per the information, Dhanas was especially chosen for tree plantation because there are very less number of trees in this newly developed area. The area has one-room apart-ments, but has large families residing there, hence they

spend most of their spare time outdoor in these parks and there are hardly any trees there for shade.

Ram Chander Yadav, President of Seven Rays Foundation said, “Tree plantation is very impor-tant for the society and this initiative will go a long way in inculcating awareness among residents of Dhanas about environment conser-vation”.

Surinder Bahga, Chair-man, Saakaar Foundation, said, “Saakaar Foundation has always worked for con-servation of environment. We propagate sustainable ways in all our architec-tural projects. I am happy

to see the high enthusiasm exhibited by the local resi-dents who have come forth for the drive. We are taking a pledge not only to plant trees but also to nurture them”.

Various staff members of Foundations, family mem-bers and local residents ac-tively participated in the programme. Seven Rays Foundation is working for the betterment of society by organizing blood donation camps and other awareness programmes. On the other hand, Saakaar Foundation is actively engaged in Re-search and Studies of Built Environment. It is working to improve the living con-ditions of society in rural, semi urban and urban areas through the medium of ar-chitecture.

l The tree plantation drive was supported by the Chandigarh Administration and the Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh

Docs meet to discuss latest

treatmentsDP CORRESPONDENT

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More than 50 inter-national and national doctors came together to deliberate on the latest vein treatment procedure during the sixth Endovascular and Ultrasound-guided ve-nous intervention course held at a Tricity hospital on Saturday.More than 30 Live Cases were operated with Hands-on train-ing for all delegates to enhance understanding of venous diseases and their management.“The course provided detailed information on venous ultrasound physics and instrumentation, venous lower extremity ultra-sound evaluation and mapping for vein abla-tion procedures and to learn all about manage-ment of venous diseases.

‘Inherited metabolic disorders often mistook as common illnesses’

l Some of the LSDs are Pompe, Gaucher, Fabry and MPS-1.Lysosomal Storage Disorders (LSDs) mostly affect children below the age of five.