≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ Lucknow (UNI) A special CBI court in Lucknow, fol- lowing the Supreme Court order, will deliver its verdict on the Babri Masjid demolition case by August 31. The trial court has almost com- pleted its day-to-day hearing and now the accused have been asked to furnish explanations or evidences in written document through their lawyers latest by August 10. With Ramjanambhoomi verdict delivered on November 9, 2019, now the focus has shifted to the trial case of demolition, which began after De- cember 6, 1992. The Supreme Court in its title suit judgement had also observed that the demolition of the mosque was a criminal act. However, all the 31 accused in- cluding deputy PM Lal Krishna Ad- vani, Dr Murli Manohar Joshi, former UP CM Kalyan Singh and Uma Bharati have pleaded not guilty in the case and alleged that there were framed in a political conspiracy. Babri Masjid Case: Trial verdict to be delivered by August 31 Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the Ram Temple in Ayodhya will become the modern symbol of our traditions and will depict the Indian culture of mankind and in- spiration. Though maintaining that Ram Janmabhoomi has got freedom to- day, PM said like August 15 is Inde- pendence Day for the country, to- day holds a similar significance for crores of those who devoted their lives for the cause of Ram temple.” I bow to these people and their family members for their sacrifice,” he said. Prime Minister said the en- tire world is witnessing history be- ing made with the foundation of Ram temple and called for chants of Jai Shri Ram. “History is also is being repeat- ed. The way boatmen of tribals helped Lord Ram, the way children helped Lord Krishna lift Govardhan mountain, similarly, with every- one’s efforts temple construction will be completed,” he said. Lord Ram does not teach dis- crimination and the blessings of Lord Ram are always there with the poor and the helpless. This grand Ram Temple to be built in Ayodhya, like the name of Lord Rama, will re- flect the rich heritage of Indian cul- ture. I believe it will inspire the en- tire humanity till eternity,he claimed. Addressing the gathering of se- lect dignitaries mostly seers after laying the foundation stone for the grand 161 feet tall Ram temple, Mr Modi ,” this Ram temple will be- come a symbol of our devotion, our national sentiment. This temple will also symbolise the power of collective resolution of crores of people. It will keep inspiring future generations.” Prime Minister said the process of Ram temple’s construction is an attempt to connect the nation. It will be a modern symbol of our cul- ture, eternal faith and national spirit, he added. He said Ram Mandir will become the modern symbol of our traditions. our devo- tion and our national sentiment. This temple will also symbolise the power of collective resolution of crores of people. It will keep in- spiring the future generations. Every heart is illuminated, it is an emotional moment for the entire country. “A long wait ends today.” Ram Temple will be modern symbol of our traditions and culture: PM New Delhi (UNI) With the world reeling under Corona impact, India could see a ray of hope with it recording the highest ever single day recoveries in the past 24 hours with 51,706 Covid-19 patients being discharged, according to Union Health ministry sources. But the gloomy side was the total number of infections touching 19,26,642. Nevertheless, the recover- ies till now total up to 12,82,215, more than twice the active cases. The recovery rate has reached a new high of 67.19 per cent and con- tinues to improve each day. Accord- ing to the Union Health Ministry, 1282215 people have so far defeated the virus across the country. With such consistent increase in recoveries, the gap between recov- ered patients and active Covid-19 cases has reached nearly 7 lakh. Due to the record highest daily recover- ies, the active cases have reduced to 5,86,244 (less than 5,86,298 recorded Tuesday) and all are under medical supervision. However, the active cases of the contagion at present stand at 586244, as per government data. Fatalities in India due to the COVID contagion have also in- creased after 857 people died due to the virus in the past one day, taking the death toll till date to 40,081. The death, however, has further reduced and presently stands at 2.09 per cent in the country. Overall contagion tally across the nation has now crossed the 19 lakh mark, with the figure standing at 1908255. On the brighter side , the recov- ered cases have exceeded the active cases by 695972. A total of 2,14,84,402 samples have been tested for COVID as per the Indian Council of Medical Re- search till Tuesday. The aggressive testing along with ramped up hospital infrastructure by collective efforts of the public and private sectors has ensured the in- creasing Recovery Rate which has improved from 63 per cent to 67 per cent in the past 14 days. Highest one-day recovery of 51K patients Agencies, Patna The Central Bureau of In- vestigation (CBI) took over the investigation into the death case of actor Sushant Singh Rajput on Wednesday. According to information received from sources in Bihar Police Headquarters, the investi- gation into the alleged suicide case of Sushant Singh Rajput has been for- mally taken over by the CBI today. In this regard, notification was issued by the training department and cen- tral government personnel. The Pat- na Police team will soon return to Bi- har from Mumbai after the CBI takes over the investigation of the case. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that the state government had recommended a CBI in- quiry on Tuesday in the case of Sushant Singh Ra- jput’s death. Nitish tweet- ed, “The state govern- ment has sent its recom- mendation for a CBI in- quiry into the case regis- tered by KK Singh, father of the late Sushant Singh Rajput.” Nitish Ku- mar said that his government has de- cided to hand over to the CBI after the consent of Sushant’s father. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has opposed the IPS Vinay Tiwari in Quarantine. Even after this, the Ma- harashtra government and the police are not ready to back down from their decision. Bihar DGP Guptesh- war Pandey told that Patna IG had written a letter to the Chief of BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corpora- tion), requesting the release of IPS Vinay Tiwari opposing the quaran- tine, which has been turned down. CBI takes over investigation, Bihar Police team will return from Mumbai! Ayodhya (UNI) Amid chants of Vedic hymns, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednes- day laid the foundation for Ram mandir here and declaring that to- day is a “golden day’’ when Ram Jan- mabhoomi “stands liberated’’. Clad in a golden coloured dhoti- kurta, the Prime Minister performed ‘bhoomi pujan’’ and laid the first brick for a magnificent temple at 1244 hrs and 08 seconds amid chant- ing of vedic hyms and blowing of conch shells. He said “like August 15, today’s day holds a similar signifi- cance for crores of people who de- voted their lives for the cause of Ram temple’’… August 5 is a ‘’golden day’’ and Ram Janmabhoomi ‘’stands lib- erated today’’, he added. “Nine shilas (bricks) with gold, sil- ver and precious stones embedded on them were worshipped and laid as foundation,” Mahant Kamal Narain Das said. A 40 kilograms silver plaque with details of the Ram temple movement and construction inscribed on it was worshipped and would be fixed at the main wall of the temple. Champat Rai, general secretary of the Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, announced that in 1989, Ram Bhakts had donated 2.75 lakh bricks for the construction of the temple. “We chose nine from the lot and used them to lay the founda- tion today,” he said. Before the groundbreaking Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered prayers at the make-shift Ram Lalla temple, thus becoming the first prime minister of the country to of- fer prayers at the temple. The bhoomi pujan ceremony was attended by select people which in- cluded UP Governor Anandiben Pa- tel, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat be- sides Shree Ram Janmabhoomi Thi- rath Khetra Trust members. LK Advani, 92, and Murli Manohar Joshi, 86, the two BJP stal- warts who had led the campaign to build the temple in its early days, are said to have watched the live telecast of the event because of the coron- avirus pandemic. Home Minister Amit Shah, watched the event from his bed in a Gurugram hospital where the 55- year-old top BJP leader was admitted last week due to the virus. After the ritual was over, the PM also put “Tika’’ on his forehead and recited the mantras after the priests praying to all the God and Goddess for the completion of the Ram tem- ple and well being of the universe. Over 2000 temples in Ayodhya have also joined in the celebrations by lighting lamps and chanting reli- gious hymns. President Ram Nath Kovid said in his tweet, “Felicitations to all for the foundation laying of Ram Temple in Ayodhya. Being built in tune with law, it de- fines India’s spirit of social harmony and people’s zeal. It will be a testimo- ny to ideals of Ram Rajya and a sym- bol of modern India.” The construction of the temple will be completed within 3 and half years. Chandrakant Sompura, the main architect of the temple said that as per new design Ram temple will be 235 feet wide, 360 feet long and 161 feet high. Modi lays foundation for Ram Temple Year 64 No. 306 City Edition Pages 8 Rs. 3/- 7 Defending Champion Nadal to skip US Open over COVID-19 concerns while Djokovic leads men’s field Sports Thursday 6 August, 2020, Bhopal www.centralchronicle.com SC refers to 5-judge bench pleas against 10 pc EWS quota New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday referred to a five-judge Constitution Bench pleas challeng- ing the central government’s decision to grant 10 per cent quota to Eco- nomically Weaker Sections (EWSs) in jobs and admissions in the general category. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Justice (CJI) Sharad Arvind Bobde said that a larger bench will decide the pleas filed by 35 peti- tioners challenging Centre’s decision. The petitions filed by NGOs ‘Janhit Abhiyan’ and ‘Youth For Equality’ along with 33 others sought direc- tions to quash the Constitution (103 Amendment) Act, 2019, saying that the economic criterion cannot be the sole basis for reservation. Bus-tanker collision; 12 killed in UP's Jaunpur Jaunpur: Twelve people, including a woman constable, were injured in a head-on collision between a road- ways bus and tanker at the Jaunpur- Prayagraj road in the Sikrara area of this Uttar Pradesh district on Wednesday. Police sources here said that the Jaunpur depot bus set out for Prayagraj from the Gorakhpur bus stop at around 2300 hrs on Tuesday night. 26 people were on board the bus. Meanwhile, a speeding, oncoming tanker lost control and rammed into the bus near the Anapur village turn at around 0730 hrs, this morning. The injured have been sent to CHC, Machhlishahr. Following the accident, the tanker driver fled from the spot. Police have taken the tanker into custody. Modi declaring that today is a “golden day’’ when Ram Jan- mabhoomi “stands liberated’’ He said “like August 15, today’s day holds a similar significance for crores of people who devoted their lives for the cause of Ram temple’’ “Nine shilas (bricks) with gold, silver and precious stones em- bedded on them were wor- shipped and laid as foundation” A 40 kilograms silver plaque with details of the Ram temple move- ment and construction in- scribed on it was worshipped and would be fixed at the main wall of the temple Ram Bhakts had donated 2.75 lakh bricks for the construction of the temple. fb.me/CentralChronicle.Social twitter.com/Chronicle_1957 Central_Chronicle State-wise details States Cases Deaths Maharashtra 4,57,956 16,142 Tamil Nadu 2,68,285 4,349 Andhra Pradesh 1,76,333 1,604 Karnataka 1,45,830 2,704 Delhi 1,39,156 4,033 Uttar Pradesh 1,00,310 1,817 West Bengal 80,984 1,785 Telangana 70,958 576 Gujarat 65,599 2,533 Bihar 61,788 347 Assam 48,161 115 Rajasthan 46,679 732 Haryana 37,796 448 Odisha 37,681 216 Madhya Pradesh 35,082 912 Kerala 27,956 87 J and K 22,396 417 Punjab 19,015 462 Jharkhand 13,940 128 Chhattisgarh 10,202 69 Uttarakhand 8,008 95 Goa 7,075 60 Tripura 5,628 30 Puducherry 4,147 58 Manipur 3,018 7 Himachal Pradesh 2,879 14 Nagaland 2,405 5 Arunachal Pradesh 1,790 3 Ladakh 1,534 7 A and N Islands 928 12 Meghalaya 917 5 Sikkim 783 1 Solicitor General Tushar Mehta states before Supreme Court that Centre has accepted Bihar govt's request recommending CBI en- quiry into Sushant Singh Rajput death case. 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Lucknow (UNI)A special CBI court in Lucknow, fol-lowing the Supreme Court order, willdeliver its verdict on the Babri Masjiddemolition case by August 31.
The trial court has almost com-pleted its day-to-day hearing and
now the accused have been asked tofurnish explanations or evidences inwritten document through theirlawyers latest by August 10.
With Ramjanambhoomi verdictdelivered on November 9, 2019, nowthe focus has shifted to the trial caseof demolition, which began after De-cember 6, 1992.
The Supreme Court in its title suitjudgement had also observed thatthe demolition of the mosque was acriminal act.
However, all the 31 accused in-cluding deputy PM Lal Krishna Ad-vani, Dr Murli Manohar Joshi, formerUP CM Kalyan Singh and UmaBharati have pleaded not guilty inthe case and alleged that there wereframed in a political conspiracy.
Babri Masjid Case: Trial verdictto be delivered by August 31
Prime Minister Narendra Modi hassaid the Ram Temple in Ayodhyawill become the modern symbol ofour traditions and will depict theIndian culture of mankind and in-spiration.
Though maintaining that RamJanmabhoomi has got freedom to-day, PM said like August 15 is Inde-pendence Day for the country, to-day holds a similar significance forcrores of those who devoted theirlives for the cause of Ram temple.”I bow to these people and theirfamily members for their sacrifice,”he said. Prime Minister said the en-tire world is witnessing history be-ing made with the foundation ofRam temple and called for chantsof Jai Shri Ram.
“History is also is being repeat-ed. The way boatmen of tribalshelped Lord Ram, the way childrenhelped Lord Krishna lift Govardhanmountain, similarly, with every-one’s efforts temple constructionwill be completed,” he said.
Lord Ram does not teach dis-crimination and the blessings ofLord Ram are always there with thepoor and the helpless. This grandRam Temple to be built in Ayodhya,
like the name of Lord Rama, will re-flect the rich heritage of Indian cul-ture. I believe it will inspire the en-tire humanity till eternity,heclaimed.
Addressing the gathering of se-lect dignitaries mostly seers afterlaying the foundation stone for thegrand 161 feet tall Ram temple, MrModi ,” this Ram temple will be-come a symbol of our devotion, ournational sentiment. This templewill also symbolise the power ofcollective resolution of crores ofpeople. It will keep inspiring futuregenerations.”
Prime Minister said the processof Ram temple’s construction is anattempt to connect the nation. Itwill be a modern symbol of our cul-ture, eternal faith and nationalspirit, he added. He said RamMandir will become the modernsymbol of our traditions. our devo-tion and our national sentiment.
This temple will also symbolisethe power of collective resolutionof crores of people. It will keep in-spiring the future generations.Every heart is illuminated, it is anemotional moment for the entirecountry. “A long wait ends today.”
Ram Temple will be modern symbolof our traditions and culture: PM
New Delhi (UNI)With the world reeling under Coronaimpact, India could see a ray of hopewith it recording the highest eversingle day recoveries in the past 24hours with 51,706 Covid-19 patientsbeing discharged, according toUnion Health ministry sources.
But the gloomy side was the totalnumber of infections touching19,26,642. Nevertheless, the recover-ies till now total up to 12,82,215,more than twice the active cases.
The recovery rate has reached anew high of 67.19 per cent and con-tinues to improve each day. Accord-ing to the Union Health Ministry,1282215 people have so far defeatedthe virus across the country.
With such consistent increase inrecoveries, the gap between recov-ered patients and active Covid-19cases has reached nearly 7 lakh. Due
to the record highest daily recover-ies, the active cases have reduced to5,86,244 (less than 5,86,298 recordedTuesday) and all are under medicalsupervision.
However, the active cases of thecontagion at present stand at586244, as per government data.
Fatalities in India due to theCOVID contagion have also in-creased after 857 people died due to
the virus in the past one day, takingthe death toll till date to 40,081.
The death, however, has furtherreduced and presently stands at 2.09per cent in the country.
Overall contagion tally across thenation has now crossed the 19 lakhmark, with the figure standing at1908255.
On the brighter side , the recov-ered cases have exceeded the activecases by 695972.
A total of 2,14,84,402 sampleshave been tested for COVID as perthe Indian Council of Medical Re-search till Tuesday.
The aggressive testing along withramped up hospital infrastructure bycollective efforts of the public andprivate sectors has ensured the in-creasing Recovery Rate which hasimproved from 63 per cent to 67 percent in the past 14 days.
Highest one-day recovery of 51K patients
Agencies, PatnaThe Central Bureau of In-vestigation (CBI) tookover the investigation intothe death case of actorSushant Singh Rajput onWednesday. According toinformation received fromsources in Bihar PoliceHeadquarters, the investi-gation into the allegedsuicide case of SushantSingh Rajput has been for-mally taken over by the CBI today. Inthis regard, notification was issuedby the training department and cen-tral government personnel. The Pat-na Police team will soon return to Bi-har from Mumbai after the CBI takes
over the investigation ofthe case.
Bihar Chief MinisterNitish Kumar said thatthe state government hadrecommended a CBI in-quiry on Tuesday in thecase of Sushant Singh Ra-jput’s death. Nitish tweet-ed, “The state govern-ment has sent its recom-mendation for a CBI in-quiry into the case regis-
tered by KK Singh, father of the lateSushant Singh Rajput.” Nitish Ku-mar said that his government has de-cided to hand over to the CBI afterthe consent of Sushant’s father.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has
opposed the IPS Vinay Tiwari inQuarantine. Even after this, the Ma-harashtra government and the policeare not ready to back down fromtheir decision. Bihar DGP Guptesh-
war Pandey told that Patna IG hadwritten a letter to the Chief of BMC(Brihanmumbai Municipal Corpora-tion), requesting the release of IPSVinay Tiwari opposing the quaran-tine, which has been turned down.
CBI takes over investigation, BiharPolice team will return from Mumbai!
Ayodhya (UNI)Amid chants of Vedic hymns, PrimeMinister Narendra Modi on Wednes-day laid the foundation for Rammandir here and declaring that to-day is a “golden day’’ when Ram Jan-mabhoomi “stands liberated’’.
Clad in a golden coloured dhoti-kurta, the Prime Minister performed‘bhoomi pujan’’ and laid the firstbrick for a magnificent temple at1244 hrs and 08 seconds amid chant-ing of vedic hyms and blowing ofconch shells. He said “like August 15,today’s day holds a similar signifi-cance for crores of people who de-voted their lives for the cause of Ramtemple’’… August 5 is a ‘’golden day’’and Ram Janmabhoomi ‘’stands lib-erated today’’, he added.
“Nine shilas (bricks) with gold, sil-ver and precious stones embeddedon them were worshipped and laidas foundation,” Mahant KamalNarain Das said.
A 40 kilograms silver plaque withdetails of the Ram temple movementand construction inscribed on it wasworshipped and would be fixed atthe main wall of the temple.
Champat Rai, general secretary ofthe Ram Janmabhoomi TeerthKshetra Trust, announced that in1989, Ram Bhakts had donated 2.75lakh bricks for the construction ofthe temple. “We chose nine from thelot and used them to lay the founda-tion today,” he said.
Before the groundbreaking PrimeMinister Narendra Modi offeredprayers at the make-shift Ram Lallatemple, thus becoming the firstprime minister of the country to of-fer prayers at the temple.
The bhoomi pujan ceremony wasattended by select people which in-cluded UP Governor Anandiben Pa-tel, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanathand RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat be-sides Shree Ram Janmabhoomi Thi-rath Khetra Trust members.
LK Advani, 92, and MurliManohar Joshi, 86, the two BJP stal-warts who had led the campaign tobuild the temple in its early days, aresaid to have watched the live telecastof the event because of the coron-avirus pandemic.
Home Minister Amit Shah,watched the event from his bed in aGurugram hospital where the 55-year-old top BJP leader was admittedlast week due to the virus.
After the ritual was over, the PMalso put “Tika’’ on his forehead andrecited the mantras after the priestspraying to all the God and Goddessfor the completion of the Ram tem-ple and well being of the universe.
Over 2000 temples in Ayodhyahave also joined in the celebrationsby lighting lamps and chanting reli-gious hymns.
President Ram Nath Kovid said inhis tweet, “Felicitations to all for thefoundation laying of Ram Temple inAyodhya.
Being built in tune with law, it de-fines India’s spirit of social harmonyand people’s zeal. It will be a testimo-ny to ideals of Ram Rajya and a sym-bol of modern India.”
The construction of the templewill be completed within 3 and halfyears. Chandrakant Sompura, themain architect of the temple saidthat as per new design Ram templewill be 235 feet wide, 360 feet longand 161 feet high.
Modi lays foundation for Ram Temple
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SC refers to 5-judgebench pleas against10 pc EWS quotaNew Delhi: The Supreme Court onWednesday referred to a five-judgeConstitution Bench pleas challeng-ing the central government’s decisionto grant 10 per cent quota to Eco-nomically Weaker Sections (EWSs) injobs and admissions in the generalcategory.
A three-judge bench headed byChief Justice Justice (CJI) SharadArvind Bobde said that a larger benchwill decide the pleas filed by 35 peti-tioners challenging Centre’s decision.
The petitions filed by NGOs ‘JanhitAbhiyan’ and ‘Youth For Equality’along with 33 others sought direc-tions to quash the Constitution (103Amendment) Act, 2019, saying thatthe economic criterion cannot be thesole basis for reservation.
Bus-tanker collision; 12killed in UP's JaunpurJaunpur: Twelve people, including awoman constable, were injured in ahead-on collision between a road-ways bus and tanker at the Jaunpur-Prayagraj road in the Sikrara area ofthis Uttar Pradesh district onWednesday.
Police sources here said that theJaunpur depot bus set out forPrayagraj from the Gorakhpur busstop at around 2300 hrs on Tuesdaynight. 26 people were on board thebus.
Meanwhile, a speeding, oncomingtanker lost control and rammed intothe bus near the Anapur village turnat around 0730 hrs, this morning.
The injured have been sent toCHC, Machhlishahr. Following theaccident, the tanker driver fled fromthe spot.
Police have taken the tanker intocustody.
Modi declaring that today is a“golden day’’ when Ram Jan-mabhoomi “stands liberated’’
He said “like August 15, today’sday holds a similar significancefor crores of people who devotedtheir lives for the cause of Ramtemple’’
“Nine shilas (bricks) with gold,silver and precious stones em-bedded on them were wor-shipped and laid as foundation”
A 40 kilograms silver plaque withdetails of the Ram temple move-ment and construction in-scribed on it was worshippedand would be fixed at the mainwall of the temple
Ram Bhakts had donated 2.75lakh bricks for the constructionof the temple.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehtastates before Supreme Court thatCentre has accepted Bihar govt'srequest recommending CBI en-quiry into Sushant Singh Rajputdeath case.
Chennai: Leg-endary playbacksinger S P Bala-s u b r a m a n i a m ,popularly calledas ‘SPB’, has test-ed positive forcoronavirus andwas admitted to a
private hospital here on Wednes-day. In a video released in socialmedia from the hospital, SPB saidhe had mild symptoms of fever andhis swab samples sent for laborato-ry tests, returned positive. The 74-year-old singer, who had sung closeto 50,00 songs in all south indianlanguages and also in bollywood.
Militants attack securityforce party in ShopianSrinagar: Militants attacked a se-curity force party in south Kashmirdistrict of Shopian on Wednesday,official sources said. They said mil-itants hurled a grenade and fire fewrounds towards a joint securityforce party of police and CRPF atBonbazar in Shopian on Wednes-day morning. “The security forcesalso retaliated with few gunshots,”they said, adding no one was in-jured in the attack. They said mili-tants managed to escape duringthe chaos created due to the blastand gunshots. “Additional securityforces have been rushed to the areaand a search operation has beenlaunched to nab the attackers,”they added.
the construction of Ram tem-ple has been realised in apeaceful way due to PrimeMinister Narendra Modi, Ut-tar Pradesh Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath said regard-ing the ‘bhoomi pujan’ forRam temple here on Wednes-day.
“A 500-year-long wait forthis historical day has cometo a culmination today be-cause of Prime Minister Mo-di. The wishes of India’s 135crore people and the well-wishers of Sanatan Dharmafollowers have been fulfilled,”the UP CM said.
“India’s democratic valueshave enabled the solution ofproblems with peace. The ju-diciary and executive playeda vital role in a peaceful reso-lution of the (Ram Janma-boomi) matter,” he added.
The Uttar Pradesh ChiefMinister further said in the500-year-long struggle for theconstruction of Ram temple,many people lost their lives.
“In this 500-year-longstruggle, many brave menand women laid down theirlives. The struggle went on forthis goal. Prime Minister Mo-di showed that the resolutionof the problem throughpeaceful means was possible.We could fulfil the dream ofRam temple because we hadabide by the constitution,” hesaid.
“It started 3 years ago withthe program of Deepotsav.The Prime Minister conduct-ed the ‘bhoomi pujan’ forRam temple. I also welcomethe RSS chief on the land ofAyodhya,” he added.
He also said a limitednumber of guests are presentfor the occasion due to theCOVID-19 crisis.
“With the slogan of ‘SabkaSaath, Sabka Vikas’, LordRam’s temple will increasethe pride of India in theworld,” he added.
He said that the UP gov-
ernment had already com-pleted several developmentalprojects in Ayodhya whilehundreds are underway.
‘Some people could not behere due to Covid-19 pan-demic. They will be called forfuture events in Ayodhya’,said Yogi.
“PM Modi’s guidance hasalways been helpful to us. Onbehalf of the citizen andcountrymen, I am thankful tohim for his presence in Ayod-hya for the foundation layingceremony. There will be agrand temple in Ayodhya.This temple will be a symbolof peace and friendship tothe world,” he added.
Nine bricks were laiddown as part of the ‘bhoomipujan’ at the site for Ram Jan-mabhoomi temple in Ayod-hya on Wednesday.
Ram temple constructionto be completed withinstipulated time: MahantNritya Gopal Das
The wishes of devoteeswill soon be fulfilled with theconstruction of the Ram Jan-mabhoomi temple in Ayod-hya, said the president of ShriRam Janmabhoomi TeerthKshetra Trust Mahant NrityaGopal Das on Wednesday.
Speaking after the ‘bhoo-mi pujan’ ceremony whichwas attended by Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi, thepresident of the trust saidthat countless devotees willfinally be content after the
construction gets over withinthe stipulated time.
“I have been asked manytimes when will the Ramtemple be constructed. I hadstarted saying one side Modi(Prime Minister NarendraModi), one side Yogi (UttarPradesh Chief Minister YogiAdityanath), if not now, thenwhen will Ram mandir beconstructed? Now, it will beconstructed soon. The wishesof devotees will be fulfilled,”Das said.
“The wishes of Ram bhak-ts living across the globe hasbeen fulfilled today with theShree Ganesha (beginning) ofthe construction of the Ramtemple. People will get to seethat the Ram temple is built,”he added.
PM unveils plaque, postagestamp to commemorateRam Temple ‘bhoomi pujan’
To mark the foundationstone-laying occasion of RamTemple at Ayodhya, PrimeMinister Narendra Modi onWednesday unveiled theplaque of the temple and acommemorative postagestamp on ‘Shri Ram Janmab-hoomi Mandir’.
President of Ram MandirTrust Mahant Nitya GopalDas, Uttar Pradesh ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath,Governor Anandiben Pateland Rashtriya SwayamsevakSangh Chief Mohan Bhagwatwere also present with him.
PM Modi, who arrived inAyodhya earlier today, tookpart in the ‘bhoomi pujan’ atRam Janmabhoomi site.
All in attendance sataround the havan fire main-taining social distancingnorms while wearing masks,in the wake of COVID-19pandemic.
Earlier today, PM Modiplanted a ‘parijat’ sapling inthe temple premises, consid-ered a divine plant, ahead ofthe foundation stone-layingof Ram Temple.
In Ayodhya, PM Modi’sfirst halt was at HanumanGarhi temple, marking thefirst-ever visit by any Prime
Minister to this temple. Hewas the first Prime Ministerto visit the Ram Janmabhoo-mi site.
Today is new beginningof new India: MohanBhagwat in Ayodhya
Soon after the ‘bhoomipujan’ ceremony of Ram tem-ple in Ayodhya, RashtriyaSwayamsevak Sangh (RSS)chief Mohan Bhagwat onWednesday said that today isthe beginning of a new India.
Speaking on the occasion,Bhagwat said, “Our countrybelieves in ‘Vasudev Ku-tubhkam’ i.e. World is OneFamily. We believe in takingeveryone along. Today is anew beginning of a new In-dia.” “So many people hadsacrificed, they couldn’t behere physically. There aresome who couldn’t comehere, Advani ji must be at hishome watching this. Thereare some who should havecome but could not be invit-ed because of the situation(COVID-19),” he added.
There is a wave of joy inthe whole country today andit is a pleasure to have cen-turies of fulfilment, Bhagwatsaid. “The kind of self-confi-dence we need to be self-re-liant has been establishednow. The foundation of prac-tice to take everyone along isbeing laid here today,” saidBhagwat.
“We had taken a resolu-tion. I remember the thenRSS chief Balasaheb Deorastelling us that we’ll have tostruggle for 20-30 years, onlythen will this be fulfilled. Westruggled for 30 years and inthe 30th year, we’ve attainedthe joy of fulfilling our resolu-tion,” he added.
Present on the occasion,Chief Minister YogiAdityanath said that the 500-year-long wait for the con-struction of Ram temple hasbeen realised in a peacefulway due to Prime MinisterNarendra Modi.
Earlier today, Prime Minis-ter Modi conducted ‘bhoomipujan’ for the construction ofRam temple.
Ram Temple dream fulfilled through peacefulmeans due to PM Modi:Yogi Adityanath
Latur (UNI)Former Maharashtra
chief minister and seniorcongressman ShivajiraoPatil-Nilangekar passedaway here in a Pune hospi-tal in the wee hours ofWednesday, family mem-bers said.
He was 91.Mr Nilangekar had tested posi-
tive for the novel coronavirus andhad been discharged two days agoafter a steady recovery, they said.
Other than that, he was suffer-ing from diabetes, high BloodPressure and a kidney ailment.
Being elected as a first timeMLA in 1962, Nilangekar served as
Maharashtra chief ministerbetween 1885-1986.
He had also served dif-ferent portfolios in thestate cabinet and was ac-tively involved in the free-dom movement of Indiaagainst British Colonisa-tion.
He is survived by his wife, threesons, one daughter and grand-sons, including former State Min-ister and Nilanga BJP MLA Samb-hajirao Patil-Nilangekar.
His body will be taken to Nilan-ga — his native in Latur districtand funeral ceremony will takeplace there, family membersadded.
Former M’rashtra CM passes awayBhubaneswar (UNI)
Covid 19 has claimed ninemore lives while 1337 peoplewere infected with coron-avirus in Odisha during thelast 24 hours.
Health and Family Welfaredepartment sources here said the covidtoll jumped to 225 while the covid tallysurged to 39,018 in the state today.Among the nine covid deaths reportedin the state, Ganjam district alone ac-counted for five casualties while oneeach died from Sundargarh,Keonjhar,Khordha and Gajapati district.
At the same time two more covid pa-tients, one each from Malkangir and
Cuttack districtalso died butdue to reasons other thanCovid raising the non coviddeaths in the state to 44..
Sources said a 54 year oldmale of Malkangiri districtdied due to Acute on ChronicKidney Disease with Uremic
Encephalopathy while one year oldmale child of Cuttack district passedaway due to Gastrointestinal Hemor-rhage, Hemolytic Anemia & sepsis.
During the last 24 hours 1337 covidpositive cases were detected from 28districts.They included 815 from thequarantine centres and rest 522 as localcontact cases.
Odisha reports nine covid deaths and1337 new cases in last 24 hours
286 Coronavirus positivecases, 7 deaths reportedin UT since last 24 hrsPuducherry: As many as 286Coronavirus positive casesand 7 deaths were reported inthe Union Territory since thelast 24 hours taking the totalactive cases to 1721. Accord-ing to the COVID 19 status re-leased by the Health Depart-ment here on Wednesday, 182new cases were reported inPuducherry region, 21 inKaraikal region, 80 in Yanamregion and three in Mahe re-gion. About 114 persons test-ed positive for COVID-19 wereadmitted to the governmentmedical college, 54 to Jipmer,two to Covid Care Center(CCC), 12 to be admitted, 21 toKaraikal Government Hospi-tal, 80 to Yanam GovernmentHospital and three to MaheGovernment Hospital. 109persons were treated and dis-charged in the last 24 hours.40 were discharged from thegovernment medical college,16 from Jipmer, 31 from CCC,2 from Karaikal, and 20 fromYanam Government Hospital.
2,012 COVID-19 positivecases ,13 deaths in TelanganaHyderabad: Telangana saw arecord jump of 2,012 Coron-avirus positive cases till 2000hours on Tuesday night push-ing the tally of cumulative cas-es to 70,958. With 13 more fa-talities reported during thelast 24 hours, the COVID-19deaths rose to 576 during thelast 24 hours, according to astate health department bul-letin issued on Wednesday. Inall,1,139 patients recuperatedtaking the overall number ofrecoveries from the conta-gious virus to 50,814. The ac-tive cases in the state stood at19,568.
Aurangabad’s Coronatally jumps to 15,208Aurangabad: Aurangabad dis-trict’s coronavirus tally spikedto 15,208 after 58 fresh cases ofinfections were reported hereon Wednesday morning. Ofthe fresh cases, 33 are fromrural areas and 25 from urban,district administrationsources said. Meanwhile,11,368 patients have recov-ered here and 493 lost theirlives to the disease. The dis-trict has 3,347 active cases inthe present. As many as 256infections and six deaths werereported here on Tuesday.
Rajasthan reports 593new COVID-19 casesJaipur: A total of 593 newCOVID-19 cases and 10 deathswere reported in Rajasthan inthe last 24 hours, taking thestate’s total count of positivecoronavirus cases to 47,272,the state government said onWednesday. The total figureincludes 13,630 active casesand 32,900 recovered cases. Sofar, 742 deaths have been re-ported from the state. With thesingle-day spike of 52,509 cas-es, India’s COVID-19 tallycrossed the 19-lakh mark onWednesday, according to theUnion Ministry of Health andFamily Welfare.
Rains disruptMumbai’s normal lifeMumbai: Normal life was dis-rupted in Mumbai on Wednes-day after the city receivedheavy rainfall at isolatedplaces for the last 12 hours.The India Meteorology De-partment (IMD) predictedheavy downpour for the day.“Widespread rainfall withscattered heavy to very heavyfalls and isolated extremelyheavy falls most likely to con-tinue over Konkan and Goa(including Mumbai) till Au-gust 6 and over Madhya Ma-harashtra (ghat areas) till Au-gust 5 and reduce thereafter,”the IMD tweeted.
TMC CouncillorSubhash Bose dies ofCovid-19Kolkata: West Bengal rulingTrinamool Congress Council-lor in Bidhannagar Municipal-ity, Subhash Bose, died ofCovid-19 pandemic at a cityhospital today with the Coron-avirus continuing its upwardleap in this metropolis for thepast weeks. “Saddened at thedemise of our colleague andCouncillor of Ward 6, Bidhan-nagar Municipal Corporation,Subhash Bose,” Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee said whilecondoling the death of herparty leader in the pandemic.“One of the many brave soulswho risked his life while work-ing in the frontline. My condo-lences to his family, well wish-ers and friends,” added MsBanerjee. Bose died early to-day at a private hospital in thecity after about 12 days of fightagainst the deadly virus.
case tally has risen to 1790 withdetection of 32 new infections.
Of the 32 new cases, eight re-ported from Lohit, seven fromLower Siang, four from East Siang,three each from West Kameng andCapital Complex, two each fromChanglang, Tirap and Yupia , andone from East Kameng, as per the bulletin issued by the stateDirectorate of Health Services(DHS).
Out of the eight cases reportedfrom Lohit, seven are Central Para-Military Forces (CPMF) personneland one is a returnee, it said.
All the seven cases from LowerSiang were reported from LikabaliTown while among the four casesfrom East Siang, two are primarycontacts of positive case detectedearlier and two are truck driversdetected at checkgate, it added.
The cases reported from WestKameng and Yupia are also CPMFpersonnel while cases of
Changlang are returnees from As-sam and Nagaland, the bulletinsaid. Of the 32 cases , 26 areasymptomatic and six are sympto-matic , it said.
According to the bulletin issuedby the DHS last night, 42 COVID-19 patients were also dischargedfollowing their recovery from thevirus.
Of the 42 discharged, nine eachfrom Tawang and Tirap, seveneach from East Siang and ItanagarCapital Complex, five from Yupia,two each from Lohit and Namsai,and one from East Kameng.
Arunachal’s COVID-19case tally rises to 1790
Srinagar (UNI)Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
march on Wednesday against scrap-ping of Article 370 and 35A in Srina-gar was foiled by the administrationby closing all roads leading to partyheadquarter and detaining seniorleaders on Tuesday.
However, a group of four PDPleaders managed to hold a briefprotest at press enclave alleging thatmajority party leaders and workerswere detained or put under housearrest since last evening to preventthem from participating in themarch.
We had planned to march partyheadquarter at Municipal park topress enclave today against thescrapping of the special status of thestate, the leaders told reporters. De-spite announcing that there will beno curfew today in Srinagar, morestrict restrictions were witnessedsince early this morning.
They said they reached press en-clave through lanes and bylanes asall main roads were sealed. PDPpresident and former Chief MinisterMehbooba Mufti is already underdetention from August 5. However,her detention under Public Safety
Act (PSA) was recently extended foranother three months.
They said immediately after holda press conference yesterday, policesealed all roads leading to partyheadquarter.
Security forces have closed boththe roads leading to PDP headquar-ter with barbed wire and by parkingbulletproof vehicles. Nobody, eventhe media persons were not beingallowed to enter the area.
For the first time main Residencyroad near Regal chowk, also leading
to PDP headquarter, was closedwith barbed wire. Security force andpolice personnel remained de-ployed there and people were di-rected to take Moulana Azad road.
Meanwhile, former Jammu andKashmir chief minister MehboobaMufti’s daughter Iltija Mufti onWednesday alleged that withdrawalof curfew from Srinagar was a hog-wash and ‘J&K administration andpolice prefer to cage the people inKashmir without leaving a papertrail’.
PDP march against scrapping of Article 370, 35A foiled
Chennai (UNI)A day after he met two key BJP lead-
ers including its National President J PNadda at New Delhi, prominent MLA ofthe opposition DMK Ku Ka Selvam wassuspended from the party and relievedfrom the post of headquarters secre-tary, today. A DMK release here said ashow cause was also issued to him as towhy he should not be expelled from theprimary membership of the party forbringing disrepute to DMK.
While one statement from the party said Mr Selvamwas stripped of all the party posts, another said he wastemporarily suspended from the party for acting in amanner that brought disrepute to the party and for vio-lating party discipline and also issued a notice to showcause as to why he should not be removed from the pri-mary membership of the party. Amid rising specula-tions that he would join the BJP, Mr Selvam last eveningflew to the National Capital and first met Railway Minis-ter Piyush Goyal and later Mr Nadda at his residence.
However, after meeting Mr Nadda, Selvam, who rep-resent Thousand Lights in the State Assembly, said hemet Mr Goyal to sanction lifts at the NungambakkamRailway Station in Chennai and also issues relating tohis constituency, and that he was not joining the BJP—seen as a strategy to avoid disqualification from theState Assembly under the anti-defection law.
Day after meeting BJP leaders, Ku KaSelvam suspended from DMK
I-Day: Militarybands performacross countryNew Delhi (UNI): In afirst, the Military Bandsare celebrating Indepen-dence Day by displayingtheir performancesacross the country, dur-ing the fortnight begin-ning August 1.
“The performancesare intended as gesturesof gratitude and appreci-ation of the nation to-wards the Corona war-riors who have beensteadfastly fighting to stopthe spread of the Coron-avirus in the country evenat the risk of their lives,”the defence ministry saidin a statement.
MANIT conducts onlineshort-term courseBhopal: Energy Centre, MANIT, Bhopal is conductinga two week online short-term course on “Program-mable Logic Controller: Basics, Selection and Pro-gramming”. This training program is in associationwith M/s. Delta Electronics which is a multinationaland AME Consultants, Bhopal.
The course is intended to cover all the traditional aswell as advanced topics of PLC programming andtheir control including modeling and simulations.
The Programmable Logic Controller, PLC is basi-cally a programmed interface in between the field in-put elements and the final control element.
In the most basic terms, a PLC is a computer with amicroprocessor but has no keyboard, mouse or mon-itor.
The training program will be conducted by expertsboth from Delta Electronics & AME Consultants whoare having a very large experience in ProgrammableLogic Controllers, Human Machine Interface, SCADA,Drives and servo systems & Robotics.
Dr. Narendra Singh Raghuwansi, Director, MANIT,Bhopal inaugurated the program on 03rd August andemphasized on conducting programs in associationwith Industry frequently, so that our students get theupdated technology and know the current state of art.Dr. Arvind Mittal, Dean (R&C) and coordinator of theprogram briefed about the program.
He told that program got a very good response and48 participants are from MANIT (students and facul-ty), and 21 participants are from other Institutes allacross the country including NIT’s, BITS, MIT, Mani-pal etc.
It is a distinctive form of computer device designedfor use in industrial control systems. He described thatPLC has a robust construction and unique functionalfeatures such as sequential control, ease of program-ming, timers and counters, easy-to-use hardware andreliable controlling capabilities.
Dr. Amit Ojha and Dr. Shailendra Kumar are the co-ordinators of the course.
Chronicle Reporter, BhopalAfter the drought during sawan,
the capital received heavy rainfallon Tuesday night and the next day.About five cm of rain was recordedin Bhopal. According to senior sci-entist AK Shukla, the low pressurearea in the Bay of Bengal will nowbe transformed into very low pres-sure. It is expected to reach Mad-hya Pradesh shortly. Due to this,heavy rains are expected in Sagar,Rewa and Jabalpur includingBhopal. About half a dozen places,including the state capital Bhopal,received light rain this morning.
With this, light to moderate rainis expected in most places of thestate during the next 24 hoursamid light rains in many places ofMadhya Pradesh. Rain activitieswill increase in some other placesincluding the capital Bhopal. Hesaid that such a mood of theweather is expected to continue onAugust 10. The capital of Bhopalhas a mild cloud. It is expected thatthere may be light rain with thun-der glow in the evening time.
Light rain in these districts
Moderate rainfall was recordedat these places in Ujjain, Seoni,Umaria, Indore, Mandla, Chhind-wara, Guna, Damoh, while Pach-marhi, Rewa, Raisen, Malajkhand,Sagar, Khajuraho, Shajapur, Rat-lam, Narsinghpur, Hoshangabad,Jabalpur and Tikamgarh. Light rainhas occurred in the district.
The low pressure area lies overthe northwestern parts of the Bayof Bengal. Along with this, a cy-clonic circulation is also present.The axis of Monsoon trough ispassing through Ferozepur, Ro-
htak, Aligarh, Lucknow, Varanasi,Daltonganj, Bankura and reachingthe low pressure area over Bay ofBengal.
A cyclonic circulation is seenover South Pakistan and adjoiningareas. Apart from this, another cy-clonic system is seen over south-ern parts of Gujarat.
Light to moderate rains oc-curred over Gangetic West Bengal,interior Odisha, Chhattisgarh,parts of Madhya Pradesh as well assouthern Gujarat. In the southernand central parts of Uttar Pradesh,there has been heavy rainfall atone or two places with light tomoderate rainfall.
Moderate to heavy rains mayoccur over Gujarat, Konkan Goa,Coastal Karnataka, Kerala,Gangetic West Bengal and Odishaduring the next 24 hours. Torren-tial rains are also expected to con-tinue at some places in these parts.
Light to moderate rains are ex-pected over Jharkhand, Chhattis-garh, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha,Marathwada, Madhya Maharash-tra, Telangana, northern coastalparts of Odisha, Andaman andNicobar Islands as well as parts ofUttar Pradesh.
Light to moderate rains may oc-cur over Bihar, Sub-HimalayanWest Bengal, Sikkim, Northeast In-dia, Lakshadweep, Tamil Nadu,Southeast Rajasthan, Uttarakhand,Himachal Pradesh, parts of Jammuand Kashmir, Delhi-NCR, Haryanaand Punjab. are supposed to.
Showers expected at most places in MP
Chronicle Reporter, BhopalTwo sisters, aged 9 and 12,
drowned in the mine water inthe Kolar area of ??the capital.On receipt of the information,two teams of the 11th CorpsNDRF arrived. The search oper-ation for the children continuedtill late Tuesday night. The deadbodies of both the girls werefound in the same place underwater. Earlier clothes werefound on the bank.
Two siblings, 12-year-oldManshu Meena and 9-year-oldSuman were reported drownedin a mine near Sohagpur villagein Kolar. The villagers informedthe police late at night. Afterthis, two teams of the 11thCorps were formed under theleadership of Deputy InspectorGeneral of Bhopal National Dis-aster Response Force (NDRF)Alok Kumar Singh. The team
started a search operation at 10pm. With no fixed place, teamsfrom two sides searched the en-tire mine. After two hours ofhard work, at about 2 o’clock inthe night, the bodies of both thegirls were found at the same
place under water. Police sentboth the bodies for post-mortem.
TI Kolar Sudhir Arjaria toldthat the father of two girls doesfarming. By late evening, whenboth did not return home, thefamily started searching for them.As soon as the incident was re-ported, teams were set up to tracethem. A villager reported that theclothes of the girls were lying onthe banks of the water in themine. The bodies of both are
found at the same place underwater. No one saw the accidenttaking place. The situation will berevealed only after the postmortem.
Accident victim succumbs
A 48-year-old man, who wasinjured after he met accident onJuly 24 died while undergoingtreatment on Monday. Accord-ing to the police, the deceasedVijay Maskole died while under-going treatment. He was a resi-dent of Karond and met acci-dent near RGPV College.
After the preliminary investi-gation the body was sent for thepost mortem and a case undersection 174 of the CrPC. The er-rant driver escaped the spot andwould be searched during thefurther investigation.
2 sisters, aged 9 and 12, drownin mine water in Kolar
Chronicle Reporter, BhopalCelebration of the foundation
stone programme of constructionof Shri Ram temple in Ayodhya isalso taking place in MadhyaPradesh. Besides the Mahakal tem-ple of Ujjain, the Ram Durbar hasbeen decorated in every housewith special worship and Archanaof Shri Ram. Special preparationswere also made at the Gufa Mandirand the Barwale Mahadev templein the city. In the state, people wereseen dancing to the beating ofdrums and playing fireworks towelcome Shri Ram.
Home Minister NarottamMishra took the blessings of theLord by praying at the Shiva Tem-ple Ashram in Char Imli. He alsojoined in Sunderkand recital. Apartfrom this, Minister BhupendraSingh also decorated the Ram Dur-bar at home. During this there wasalso a Bhajan troupe. Vinay Jaiswal,MLA of Manendragarh Assembly,along with his wife Kanchan Jaisw-al, will light up around 10 thou-sand earthen lamps in Ram tem-ples.
Celebration in JabalpurThe celebrations started in Ja-
balpur even before the Bhoomi Pu-jan of Ram temple construction.
People celebrated the reception ofShriram by applying gulal and withfireworks. People are excited aboutthe Bhoomi Pujan of the construc-tion of Ram temple.
Usha Thakur recitesSundarkand
Spirituality Minister Ms. UshaThakur today hoisted the saffronflag symbolizing Sanatan Dharmawith a shankhanad at Indore onShri Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pujan.Sundarkand recitation was con-ducted at his residence after theRamnam Dhun. All the guidelinesissued for the rescue of Kovid-19were followed during the lesson.
Earlier, Hanuman Chalisa wasmade available by Ms. Thakur to 25thousand families in Mhow con-stituency. Hanuman Chalisa wasrecited from 11 am to 1 am.
Devotional atmosphere atSarang’s atmosphere
After the foundation stone ofthe Ram Janmabhoomi temple inAyodhya, there was a devotionalatmosphere at the residence ofCabinet Minister Shri VishwasSarang. Fireworks, rangoli, drumsand drums were accompanied byslogans of Ramdhun and Jai ShriRam. In this devotional atmos-
phere, the name of Ram, alongwith the name of Ram, could notlive without the footsteps of theMinister Shri Sarang and hedanced fiercely.
Shri Sarang performed the Aartiby lighting the lamp along with thefamily and also recited HanumanChalisa. On this occasion, Mr.Sarang said that we were all com-
mitted to build a temple in RamJanmabhoomi Ayodhya. Today is afortunate day that Bhoomi Poojanprogram took place. He said thatMaryada Purushottam Ram hastaught all of us to live life in ourdignity. Every person should imi-tate the name of Ram and everyperson should follow their foot-prints.
Shri Sarang said that Rama livesin our hearts and minds. He saidthat the wish was to go to Ayodhya,but it was not possible in view ofCorona.
24-hour online ShriramCharit Manas recitation
A professor from Bhopal, alongwith his colleagues, recited ShriRamcharit Manas online for 24hours continuously on Ramotsav.It started from Ayodhya at 7 am inthe morning on 4 August, afterwhich Rambhaktas from about 10countries got involved in onlinerecitation. It ended with the fa-mous missing Ajay Yagnik musicalperformance between 7 am and 8pm on 5 August. For this, a pagecalled Ramotsav was created onFacebook. It was broadcast onlinethrough the app. Apart from Amer-ica, devotees from Canada, Ger-many, Mauritius, Hungary, Buda-post, Holland, UK, Germany andNepal etc. attended.
Security in BhopalIn view of the Bhumipujan pro-
gramme of Ram temple in Ayod-hya, special security arrangementshave been made in Bhopal, thecapital of Madhya Pradesh. In thelast 24 hours, the flag was removed
from the checking point till March.All types of rallies have beenbanned, with people advisingthem to stay home.
The 10-day total lockdown end-ed on Tuesday in Bhopal. In such alate evening, the police have is-sued a flag march advising peopleto maintain peace.
In view of the programme, morethan three thousand policemenand other agencies have beenplaced on high alert in the city. Be-sides ST Police, Traffic Police, STF,QRF, SAF and RAF have been de-ployed in the field. There are about150 checking points in the city.
Particular attention is beingpaid to the city limits and sensitiveplaces. Flag marches were also car-ried out late in the morning andmorning in the areas. People arebeing advised to stay home by an-nouncing. It is being asked to leavethe house only when it is needed.All types of rallies have beenbanned in the city.
With this, the social mediamonitoring team of Bhopal Policehas become active for the last 24hours. They are monitoring sensi-tive comments and photos on so-cial media. Immediate action willbe taken against any group or any-one for posting any objectionablematerial.
Saffron flags hoisted, city reverberates with Jai Sri Ram
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15 lakh people to get drinking waterof Chambal riverBhopal: Drinking water will be supplied in 727 villages ofMorena district by the water of Chambal river. Under theWater Life Mission, this massive drinking water schemecosting Rs.1090 crore will benefit about 15 lakh rural pop-ulation. On the instructions of Public Health EngineeringMinister Shri Aindal Singh Kanshana, a detailed projectreport (DPR) has been prepared by surveying the schemeby the corporation. In the first phase of the scheme, it isbeing provisioned that adequate drinking water can besupplied to the institutions for the next 30 years due topopulation growth and institutions. Under Jal JeevanMission, every family of villages benefiting from the im-plementation of this project will be provided drinkingwater through domestic tap connection.
Campaign to attract more touriststo the state wildlife sanctuariesBhopal: MP Tourism Board Launched #BufferMeinSafar cam-paign to attract more tourists to the National Parks and wildlifesanctuaries of the state. Madhya Pradesh has numerouswildlife destinations with 6 Tiger reserves- Bandhavgarh, Kan-ha, Pench, Panna, Satpura and Sanjay Dubri, 11 National parks& 24 Wildlife sanctuaries such as Ratapani Wildlife Sanctuaryand Chambal Ghadiyal Sanctuary. Madhya Pradesh has re-gained the tag of being “The Tiger State of the Country” by hav-ing maximum Tiger count (526) in the State. The roar of Tigershas increased in the dense and beautiful forests of MadhyaPradesh. During the monsoon months from July to Septemberthe core area of the forests are closed but the buffer areas of theforest remains open for exploration. The campaign title#BufferMeinSafar itself highlights that the wildlife of MadhyaPradesh will offer activities in its buffer areas including WildlifeSafaris, Bird Watching etc. Besides the thrill of spotting variousspecies in the buffer zones, the different hues of green cover isa feast to the eyes.
These activities enthrall the tourist towards the beautifulwildlife of Madhya Pradesh. MP Tourism looks forward toboost morale and bring back the confidence in the tourismsector by offering tour packages to the tourists that are special-ly designed keeping in mind safe travel, stay, and excursion forprevention during pandemic. In order to facilitate smoothtravel, the board has come up with short road itineraries main-ly for 2 -3 nights and solves the boredom of a weekend from theneighbouring States with all safety measures that are requiredat the destination.
EDITORIAL
Founder : Late Shri Ramgopal MaheshwariInspiration: Late Shri Prafulla Kumar Maheshwari
Today in Ayodhya,Prime Minister NarendraModi laid the foundationstone for the constructionof a grand Ram temple.Sarsanghchalak ofRashtriya SwayamsevakSangh Dr MohanBhagwat, Uttar PradeshGovernor AnandibenPatel, Chief Minister YogiAdityanath and RamJanmabhoomi NirmanSamiti President MahantNritya Gopal Das werepresent on this occasion.A wave of excitementamong Indians settled allover the world today. Itwas natural to happenbecause the centuries olddream of the countrymenis coming true. In such asituation, there was a lotof curiosity about thisprogramme. Modi gave avery scholarly speech onthis occasion. The mes-sage hidden in his speechis widely appreciated. ThePrime Minister said thatduring the movement forthe independence of thecountry, many genera-tions had dedicatedeverything. He saidAugust 15 is a symbol ofmillions of sacrifices, asymbol of freedom. In thesame way, many genera-tions continuously triedfor the Ram temple formany centuries andtoday this day is a symbolof the same tenacity, sac-rifice and determination.Modi said that the Ramtemple to be built inAyodhya will give aglimpse of Indian culture,will inspire humanity foreternity. He said thatMahatma Gandhi haddreamed of Ram Rajya. Inour country’s philosophy,Ram is the only one. LordBuddha-Jainism is alsoassociated with Rama. InTamil there is KambhaRamayana, there are dif-ferent forms of under-standing Rama in everydifferent part includingTelugu, Kannada, and
Kashmir. Modi said thatRam is everywhere, Ramis in everyone. Indonesiahas the largest Muslimpopulation in the world,Ramayana is also recitedthere. PM said that Ram’sname is taken in manycountries of the worldincluding Cambodia, SriLanka, China, Iran, andNepal.
Today, the construc-tion of the Ram templehas started with the coop-eration of the people ofthe country, just as RamSethu was built by writingSri Ram on the stone,similarly the stones fromhouse to house havebecome a source of rever-ence. This is neither pastnor future. PM Modi saidthat this power of India isa matter of study for thewhole world. On thisoccasion, RashtriyaSwayamsevak Sanghchief Mohan Bhagwatsaid in his address thatmany people associatedwith Ram Mandir move-ment could not attendthe programme due toCorona infection andother reasons. He saidAdvani ji could not comehere but he could sit fromhome Must be watchingall these programs. Todaythe whole country isimmersed in joy. Thestruggle of RamJanmabhoomi and thedecision of its SupremeCourt as a result hasbecome an example inthe democratic history ofthe world. The way thedecision of the SupremeCourt was widely wel-comed and the way it wasaccepted by all the classesis also a unique examplein itself. However, today isauspicious day after wait-ing for centuries. There isan atmosphere of joy. Inthis auspicious moment,we have to take thisresolve to imbibe theideals of Rama and try tofollow him.
Centuries old dream fulfilled
By Pranay ShomeContrary to the
claims of the Chinesepresident and proChina elements, thepandemic has accel-erated the decline ofChina as a possiblenew superpower
Co m m e n t a t o r shave called the 21st century the“Chinese century” where China willsurpass the United States as the preem-inent power in the globe with Chinashaping the global order in accordancewith his own whims and fancies.However the reality seems far fromwhat the Chinese regime has envis-aged, with China having to manage anumber of pesky issues.
Hong KongThe first point of decline for China is
the extremely adverse internationalopinion to the change in the politicalstatus quo in Hong Kong which Beijingchanged through the passage of therepressive and controversial nationalsecurity law which criminalizes ‘sub-version, foreign interference and ter-rorism’. China regards the law as a nec-essary step to bolster the security of thespecial administrative region(SAR),however the law in reality has effective-ly diluted the civil and political libertieswhich was guaranteed to Hong Kongduring its handover to China by Britainin 1997 under the ‘one country two sys-tems’ policy.
The West has already taken punitivesteps to punish China for its intransi-gence in Hong Kong with the US sus-
pending the preferential trade statuswith Hong Kong and UK, Canada andAustralia suspending extraditiontreaties with Hong Kong. The publicopinion in the city state has made itclear through demonstrations and dig-ital campaigns that they will not backdown and will fight for the restorationof their civil liberties.
South China SeaChina has through its famed but
vague “nine dash line” claimed theentire South China Sea region, it hasover the years not only militarized theseas but has built artificial islands andhas stationed potent naval assets inthese islands most notably in the
Spratly and Paracel islands. Robert DKaplan in his book ‘Asia Cauldron’mentioned the reasons the for China’sbelligerent behavior- nearly $3 trillionof trade passes through this region,over 70% of Japan’s oil and nearly 80%of South Korea and other South EastAsian countries conventional sourcesof energy come from this region.
However by disregarding the verdictof the UNCLOS’s Permanent Court of
Arbitration in 2016 which declaredChina’s claims as “null and void”, Chinahas earned the wrath of its south EastAsian neighbors. Vietnam has made itclear that the claims and counterclaimsin the strategic region must be on thebasis of the UNCLOS decision. The factthat Philippines one of the most vocalpro-China countries decided to contin-ue a key military pact-Visiting ForcesAgreement(VFA) with the United statespoints to the extent China has succeed-ed in alienating its neighbors. On top ofthat the US has made it clear that theywill vigorously contest China’s claimsby conducting ‘freedom of naviga-tion’exercises.
The American migraineAmerica is perhaps the most potent
elephant in the room for China, since2018 relations had already been on thedecline ostensibly manifested in theform of a bruising trade war, recentevents such as the US closing down theChinese consulate in Houston, theCongress passing a non partisan lawwhich has imposed punitive sanctionson certain powerful members of the
communist party and the US presi-dent’s tirade against China holding itresponsible for the outbreak of the pan-demic has adversely affected the repu-tation of the Chinese economicmachine.
The recent skirmish between Indianand Chinese troops at the Line ofActual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakhwhere 20 Indian soldiers were killed inan apparent ambush has also providedAmerica the leverage needed to causemore countries bandwagon with theaim of blunting the onslaught of Chinaon the American led world order. It willbe interesting to see as to how to futureevents pan out.
BRI- the final nail in the coffinAs if the mentioned above problems
were not enough. The pet project ofChinese premier Belt and RoadInitiative (BRI) is showing signs of com-plete economic collapse.
The BRI was envisaged by theChinese regime to resurrect the ancientsilk route of China which would allowthe enforcement of the “MiddleKingdom” economic order. But thanksto the debt trap diplomacy the Chineseregime has followed is coming back tohaunt it. The most visible signs of stressare coming from Sri Lanka which hasasked for a debt moratorium, Myanmarhas also turned to India for deepeningeconomic relations at a time whenChina has started piling pressure onthese countries. Further the westernworld has also started scrutinizing thecontents of the BRI. The trouble willonly mount for the Chinese economyin the coming days.
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By Nikunja BIhari SahuFive French-made Rafale fighter
aircrafts have arrived in India, the firstof the 36 jets that is expected to boostIndian airpower considerably in theregion. Rafale, a multi-role combataircraft manufactured by the DassaultAviation Company of France, is capa-ble of carrying out a wide range ofshort and long-range missions out-shining the existing aircrafts of therivals. According to sources, the air-to-air and the air-to-ground strike capa-bilities of Rafales cannot be matchedby either China or Pakistan and,hence, the aircraft would give India anedge over both the neighbours. Thelong combat range capability withmid-air refueling, deadly stock ofweapons and powerful electronicwarfare system are some of the hall-marks of the aircraft which wouldremain as point of worry for the ene-mies.
Rafale will significantly bolsterIndia’s air combat capabilities in fac-ing hostile neighbours in days tocome. According to experts, Rafalescould be game-changers for Indiawhen all the 36 jets are inducted. Thetwo formidable aircrafts in our regionare the Pakistan’s F-16 and China’s J-20. The fourth generation F-16 air-crafts, developed by the General
Dynamics Company of USA, is pri-marily feared for its potential combatrole, outstanding maneuverabilitycapability and ability to locate targetsin all weather conditions, includingnon-visual conditions and strikeaccuracy. However, Rafale can outper-form F16 in many of the combat roles.The 190-kg Meteor missile of Rafalehas a Beyond Visual Range (BVR) ofover 100 km in contrast to the 75 kmBVR of the AMRAAM missile of F-16.In a dogfight between Rafale and F-16,Rafale has an edge since it can loadmore weapons than F-16.
Similarly, China’s Chengdu J-20 air-crafts are claimed to be fifth-genera-tion combat jets compared to the 4.5generation Rafale and has additionalstealth capabilities. However, the J-20shave no actual combat experience inpast while Rafale has been combatproven on numerous occasions. It hasbeen use successfully flown by theFrench Air Force with more than30,000 flight hours in operation inAfghanistan, Libya and Mali. It hasalso been used in missions in CentralAfrican Republic, Iraq and Syria.Rafale can also carry more fuel andweapons than the J-20.
The fully versatile Rafale is able tocarry out all combat aviation mis-sions: air superiority and air defense,close air support, in-depth strikes,
reconnaissance, anti-ship strikes andnuclear deterrence. Rafale is knownprimarily for its long range strikecapability and advanced arsenal ofweapon systems. A Rafale fighter jetwith full fuel tank and fully loadedcombat weapons can travel up to3,200-3,700 km and, hence, has accessto many targets deep inside China. Onthe other hand, the METEOR beyondvisual range air-to-air missile and theSCALP air-to-ground cruise missilewhich are the mainstay of theweapons package of Rafale, wouldprove to be decisive in any aerial war-fare .
This weapons package of Rafaleoutguns weapons systems of all otheraircrafts in the region. SCALP has arange of much over 300 km, whichmeans that for a Balakot type opera-tion, Indian jets would not need tocross LoC and could simply conductthe strike from very much withinIndian airspace. The METEOR missile,on the other hand, can take on enemyaircrafts at a range of over 100 km. Ithas a No Escape Zone of over 60 kmand, hence, the missile easily out-classes any other missile of such classin the region.
However the cost factor of the dealis somewhat alarming! According tothe inter-governmental agreementsigned with France in September,
2016 the cost for the procurement ofthe fleet of 36 Rafale jets is a whoopingRs 58,000 crore which is nearly 0.4%of India’s GDP. Some argues that themoney could have been diverted toother public welfare sectors likehealth and education for a developingcountry like India. However, the secu-rity of the country can never be com-promised as echoed by our PrimeMinister while welcoming the fleetthat there could be no greater virtuethan protecting the motherland.
However, most of our presentfighter aircrafts like Mirage, Sukhoi,MIG, Jaguar etc owe their origin to for-eign sources and, India has not beenable to produce any world class com-bat aircrafts so far apart from Tejas.Tejas, a fourth generation aircraftdeveloped by HAL, is primarily meantto replace the ageing MIG-21 fleet ofRussian origin , but is handicappedby delay in production and delivery.Hence, we have to quickly revisit ouraviation technology and come upwith indigenous world class combatplatforms to make our dream cometrue for an Atmanirbhar Bharat. Thiswould eventually usher in the build-ing of a vibrant domestic aerospaceindustry capable of delivering state-of-the-art products with commercialdesigns for capturing the global mar-ket.
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Washington (UNI)The worldwide number of
COVID-19 fatalities has surpassed700,000, according to the JohnsHopkins University, which com-piles data from federal and localauthorities, media and othersources.
According to the university, theexact death toll currently stands at700,647, with the global case counttotaling 18,480,000, and the num-ber of recoveries recorded acrossthe world since the onset of thepandemic amounting to11,083,012.Brazil’s Coronavirus case tally up51,000 in past day to top 2.8 MlnMoscow: The number of con-firmed cases of the novel coron-avirus disease in Brazil has in-creased by 51,603 in the past 24hours to 2,801,921, the country’sHealth Ministry said.
The death toll rose by 1,154 to95,819, the ministry said.
The World Health Organization(WHO) declared the outbreak ofthe new coronavirus a pandemicon March 11.
According to the WHO, the glob-
al coronavirus death toll has sur-passed 691,000 people, with thenumber of cases worldwide ex-ceeding 18.1 million.Russia registers 5,204 COVID-19 casesin past 24 hours - Response CenterMoscow: Russia has registered5,204 COVID-19 cases in the past24 hours (5,159 yesterday), bring-ing the cumulative total to 866,627,the country’s coronavirus responsecenter said on Wednesday.
“Over the past 24 hours, Russiahas confirmed 5,204 COVID-19cases in 83 regions, of which 1,342
(25.8 percent) have been detectedactively, with people showing noclinical symptoms,” the responsecenter said in a statement.
This brings the total case countto 866,627, with the daily increasestanding at 0.6 percent.
Moscow has registered 687coronavirus cases in the past 24hours, which is more than any oth-er region in Russia, followed by theSverdlovsk Region with 181 casesand the Khanty-Mansi Au-tonomous Region with 169 newcases (compared to 691, 182 and177 yesterday, respectively).
No new cases have been record-ed in the Chukotka AutonomousRegion and the city of Sevastopol.Mexico’s Coronavirus tallyapproaches 450,000Mexico City: The overall number ofCOVID-19 cases in Mexico has in-creased to 449,961 after 6,148 newcases were registered in the past 24hours, the country’s Health Min-istry said on Wednesday.
The ministry stated that 857people died from the disease overthe past 24 hours with the totaldeath toll now standing at 48,869.
On Tuesday, the Mexican healthauthorities said that more than 1million people had been tested forthe disease since the start of theoutbreak.Egypt’s COVID-19 infections riseto 94,752, with 112 new casesCairo: Egypt recorded on Tuesday112 new COVID-19 cases, takingthe total infections in the countryto 94,752, the Egyptian HealthMinistry said.
Meanwhile, 24 more patientsdied from the respiratory diseasein the past 24 hours, raising thedeath toll to 4,912, the ministry’s
spokesman Khaled Megahed saidin a statement.
Also on Tuesday, 1,503 patientswere cured and discharged fromhospitals, bringing the total recov-eries in Egypt to 45,569, thespokesman added.
The Egyptian Health Ministrysaid Monday that the recovery ratefor those infected with coronavirusin quarantine hospitals rose to 44.9percent for the first time since thepandemic outbreak in February.Trump says US COVID-19pandemic under control evenas death toll risesWashington: US President DonaldTrump said the coronavirus pan-demic is as well-controlled in theUnited States as it can be, despitethe fact that over 155,000 Ameri-can people have died amid risinginfections, according to media re-ports.
In a recent interview with USnews website AXIOS, the presidentsaid his administration has donean “incredible” job handling thepandemic, and he continued urg-ing schools in the country to re-open on his Twitter account.
Global COVID-19 death toll surpasses 700,000
Beirut (UNI)Lebanese rescue workers dug
through rubble on Wednesdaylooking for survivors after a mas-sive warehouse explosion sent adevastating blast wave acrossBeirut, killing at least 100 peopleand injuring nearly 4,000.
Lebanon President Michel Aounon Wednesday declared a two-week state of emergency followinga massive explosion in Beirut thatkilled over 100 people and injurednearly 4,000.
Officials said the toll was ex-pected to rise after the blast at portwarehouses that stored highly ex-plosive material. The explosionwas the most powerful ever to ripthrough Beirut, a city still scarredby civil war three decades ago andreeling from an economic melt-down and a surge in coronavirusinfections.
President Michel Aoun said2,750 tonnes of ammonium ni-trate, used in fertilisers and bombs,had been stored for six years at theport without safety measures. Hecalled it “unacceptable”.
An official source familiar withpreliminary investigations blamedthe incident on negligence. Ordi-nary Lebanese directed anger atpoliticians who have overseendecades of state corruption andbad governance that plunged thenation into financial crisis.
“It’s like a war zone. I’m speech-less,” Beirut’s mayor, Jamal Itani,told Reuters while inspecting dam-age he estimated ran into billions
of dollars. “This is a catastrophe forBeirut and Lebanon.”
The head of Lebanon’s RedCross, George Kettani, said at least100 people had been killed. “Weare still sweeping the area. Therecould still be victims. I hope not,”he said.
The intensity of the blast threwvictims into the sea and rescueteams were still trying to recoverbodies. Many of those killed wereport and custom employees andpeople working in the area or dri-
ving through during rush hour.The Red Cross was coordinating
with the Health Ministry to set upmorgues because hospitals wereoverwhelmed, Kettani said.
Facades of central Beirut build-ings were ripped off, furniture wassucked into streets and roads werestrewn with glass and debris. Carsnear the port were flipped over.
People walked around in shock,with helicopters overhead andteams searching for the missing atsea.
“This is the killer blow forBeirut, we are a disaster zone. Mybuilding shuddered, I thought itwas an earthquake,” said Bilal, aman in his 60s, in the downtownarea.
Like others, he blamed politi-cians. “We already have a financialeconomic crisis, people are hungryand, these thieves and looters, willthey compensate for the losses?Who will compenstate for thosewho lost their loved ones,” he said.
The blast was heard as far away
as Cyprus, a Mediterranean islandabout 100 miles (160 km) acrossthe sea from Beirut.
The port district was left a tan-gled wreck, disabling the nation’smain route for imports needed tofeed a nation of more than 6 mil-lion people. Lebanon has alreadybeen struggling to house and feedhundreds of thousands of refugeesfrom Syria.
“The blast blew me metresaway. I was in a daze and was allcovered in blood. It brought backthe vision of another explosion Iwitnessed against the U.S. em-bassy in 1983,” said Huda Baroudi,a Beirut designer.
The U.S. embassy in Beirut,which moved to another part of thecity after the 1983 attack, warnedresidents about reports of toxicgases released by the blast, urgingpeople to stay indoors and wearmasks.
Footage of the explosion postedon social media showed a columnof smoke rising from the port, fol-lowed by an enormous blast, send-ing a white mushroom cloud andfireball into the sky. Those filmingthe incident from tower blocks asfar as 2 km (one mile) from the portwere thrown backwards by theshockwave.
The explosion came three daysbefore a U.N.-backed court is dueto deliver a verdict in the trial offour suspects from the Shi’ite Mus-lim group Hezbollah over a 2005bombing that killed former PrimeMinister Rafik al-Hariri and 21 oth-ers.
Beirut blast: Over 100 dead, two-week emergency declaredQueensland to close borderwith New South WalesCanberra: Authorities in theAustralian state of Queenslandannounced on Wednesdaythat they will further extendthe border closure to NewSouth Wales (NSW) and theAustralian Capital Territory(ACT) to halt the spread ofcoronavirus from south-east-ern states. Queensland has al-ready shut its border to Victo-ria which has become the cen-tre of Australia’s second waveof the pandemic, amid an un-precedented outbreak in Mel-bourne. Victoria recorded 725new cases on Wednesday, de-spite being under lockdownfor four weeks now, BBC re-ported. Sydney - the NSW cap-ital and Australia’s largest city -has been averaging about 80infections per week, prompt-ing concerns of an explosionof community transmission. Ithas so far avoided returning toa second lockdown, but re-cently advised people to beginwearing masks.
Ex-president ColombiaUribe under house arrestBogota: Supreme Court of Jus-tice has ordered house arrestfor Colombia’s former Presi-dent Alvaro Uribe on Tuesdayon charges of fraud, briberyand corruption. The warrantcame in the wake of investiga-tion against Uribe after he ac-cused Senator Ivan Cepeda in2012 of witness tamperingwhen Cepeda researchedUribe’s connections to para-military groups “The depriva-tion of my freedom causes medeep sadness because of mywife, my family and theColombians who still believethat I have done some good forthe homeland,” Uribe, the firstColombian former presidentwith an arrest warrant and anincumbent senator, wrote onTwitter.
Switzerland nears dealto get Moderna COVIDvaccineZurich: Switzerland is close tosigning a deal to secure accessfor a coronavirus vaccine be-ing developed by Moderna ofthe U.S., a government officialhas said. Switzerland will soonsign a reservation and supplydeal, Pascal Strupler, the direc-tor of the Federal Office ofPublic Health, told the SwissTV programme Club late onTuesday. “We are only a fewhours away from completing apurchase contract. With thiscontract we will get it veryquickly,” Strupler said. He de-clined to give financial detailsof any deal. If the vaccine pass-es trials and is authorised foruse, it could be produced inSwitzerland under a deal be-tween drugmaker Lonza andModerna.
Russia lifts restrictions onforeigners’ visa-free entryfor short business tripsMoscow: Russian Prime Minis-ter Mikhail Mishustin hassigned a decree lifting restric-tions on foreigners’ visa-freeRussia entry for short-termbusiness trips. “Visa-free Rus-sia entry for short-term busi-ness trips is now allowed toforeigners. This applies toholders of diplomatic or ser-vice passports from countrieswith which Russia has visa-free entry agreements,” the ex-planatory note, published onthe cabinet website, read.
After lawyers, PeshawarPolice squad pose forselfie with murderer ofblasphemy accusedIslamabad: An image of thePeshawar Police, Elite Forcesquad posing for a group selfiewith Faisal also known asKhalid, who last week killedAmerican citizen Tahir AhmadNaseem inside Pakistan’scourtroom has gone viral onsocial media. Taking to Twitter,Human rights activist GulalaiIsmail wrote, “After lawyerstaking selfies with the murder-er of Tahir Ahmed Naseem, Pe-shawar police (Elite Force) alsojoined the bandwagon of mak-ing a celebrity out of a criminalinvolved in a first-degree mur-der over alleged blasphemy.”
Japanese Foreign Ministerto visit UK to discusspost-Brexit trade dealMoscow: Japanese ForeignMinister Toshimitsu Motegi isset to visit the United Kingdomfor a three-day working tripstarting from Wednesday todiscuss a post-Brexit tradedeal between London andTokyo.
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Agencies, ColomboSri Lankans lined up before
polling stations opened onWednesday, wearing masks andsocial distancing, to elect a newparliament that PresidentGotabaya Rajapaksa hopes willclear the way for him to boost hispowers.
The tourism-dependent islandnation of 21 million people hasbeen struggling since deadly mili-tant attacks on hotels and church-es last year, claimed by IslamicState, followed by painful lock-downs to slow the spread of thenovel coronavirus.
Election officials wore transpar-ent face shields while medical per-sonnel were deployed to ensurevoters kept strict rules to preventthe spread of the coronavirus.
“There will be no chance of yougetting infected by the coronavirusat polling stations,” said the chair-man of the election commission,
Mahinda Deshapriya.“The polling station is safer
than the beach, the restaurant andthe marketplace, it’s totally coronafree”, he said.
Sri Lanka had reported 2,828cases of the coronavirus and 11deaths as of Tuesday, which issmall compared with other SouthAsian countries.
Rajapaksa, who was electedPresident in November, hasclaimed credit for controlling theoutbreak with strict lockdowns.
He is hoping to install his olderbrother and former president,Mahinda Rajapaksa, as Prime Min-ister. The brothers built their polit-ical careers as nationalist champi-ons of the majority Sinhalese, Bud-dhist, community.
They are best known for crush-ing ethnic minority Tamil sepa-ratist insurgents who battled fordecades for a homeland in the is-land’s north and east.
Sri Lankans wearing masks, flock to voting centres for parliament election
Agencies, TaipeiThe US says Health and Human
Services Secretary Alex Azar willvisit Taiwan in coming days in thehighest-level visit by an AmericanCabinet official since the break informal diplomatic relations be-tween Washington and Taipei in1979.
The visit will likely create newfrictions between the US and Chi-na, which claims Taiwan as itsown territory to be annexed byforce if necessary.
Taiwan is a key irritant in thetroubled relationship between theworld’s two largest economies,
who are also at odds over trade,technology, the South China Seaand China’s response to the coro-navirus pandemic.
The US maintains only unoffi-cial ties with Taiwan in deferenceto Beijing, but is the island’s mostimportant ally and provider of de-fense equipment.
The American Institute in Tai-wan, which operates as Washing-ton’s de facto embassy on the is-land, said Wednesday that Azar’s“historic visit will strengthen theUS-Taiwan partnership and en-hance US-Taiwan cooperation tocombat the global Covid-19 pan-demic.”
US sending highest representativesto Taiwan since 1979 break in ties
Agencies, WashingtonIn an abrupt reversal, President
Donald Trump is encouraging vot-ers in the critical swing state ofFlorida to vote by mail aftermonths of criticizing the practiceand while his campaign and theGOP challenge Nevada over itsnew vote-by-mail law.
Democratic requests to vote bymail have surged in Florida, a statethat Trump almost certainly mustwin to secure a second term. De-mocrats currently have about 1.9million Floridians signed up tovote by mail this November, al-most 600,000 more than the Re-publicans’ 1.3 million, accordingto the Florida Secretary of State.
In 2016, both sides had about1.3 million signed up before thegeneral election.
``Whether you call it Vote byMail or Absentee Voting, in Floridathe election system is Safe and Se-cure, Tried and True. Florida’s Vot-ing system has been cleaned up(we defeated Democrats attemptsat change), so in Florida I encour-age all to request a Ballot & Vote byMail!,’’ Trump tweeted Tuesday.
White House press secretaryKayleigh McEnany rejected the no-tion that the president haschanged his views. She said Trumpsupports absentee voting by mailfor a reason, as opposed to statesmailing out ballots to all voters re-gardless of whether they requestedthem. Most election officials say
there is little effective differencebetween absentee voting and vot-ing by mail.
Trump elaborated Tuesday onwhy he supports voting by mail inFlorida, but not elsewhere.
``They’ve been doing this overmany years and they’ve made it re-ally terrific,`` he said during anews conference.
``This took years to do,`` headded. ``This doesn’t take weeks ormonths. In the case of Nevada,they’re going to be voting in a mat-ter of weeks. And you can’t dothat.’’ Nevada officials joined sev-eral states that plan on automati-cally sending voters mail ballots.Two states, California and Ver-mont, moved earlier this summerto adopt automatic mail ballotpolicies.
With the bill passed by lawmak-ers on Sunday, Nevada Gov. SteveSisolak, a Democrat, signed it intolaw on Monday. In a tweet Trumpcalled the bill’s passage “an illegal late night coup’’ and ac-cused Sisolak of exploiting Covid-19 to ensure votes would favor De-mocrats.
Trump encourages mail voting in Florida, but sues in Nevada
Trump elaborated Tues-day on why he supportsvoting by mail in Florida,
but not elsewhere. “They’vebeen doing this over manyyears and they’ve made it reallyterrific,” he said during a newsconference.
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Chinese firm applies for corona vaccine trial in B’deshAgencies, Dhaka: A Chinese firmSynovac Biotech has applied forthe third phase clinical trials ofvaccine against COVID-19 inBangladesh, secretary of Healthand Family Welfare Ministry AbdulMannan said.
Bangladesh will get the benefitof getting the vaccine, he added.
It might take at least six monthsfor the Chinese company to ad-minister the vaccine to the gener-al population of Bangladesh, offi-cials said. The vaccine will be firstadministered to health workersaged 18-59. Sinovac Biotech Ltd, abiopharmaceutical company, hadstated on June 1, the company is99 per cent sure that its COVID-19vaccine, called CoronaVac, willwork.
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Introducing finger foods to ba-bies is an exciting moment for par-ents. There are certain risks for thelittle ones to get choked or allergiesdue to the foods. So, it is always ad-visable to talk to your paediatricianbefore giving the foods.
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Finger foods for babies.Dry cereal
Dry cereal is one of the best op-tions in finger foods. They mix wellwith the saliva that makes it easyfor the baby to chew and swallowwith choking.Bread
Small pieces of bread are great
starter finger food. And you can putmashed banana or avocado, hum-mus or peanut butter on the breadwhen your baby is around 9 or 12months old.
Scrambled eggsCut them into very small pieces
to give your little one. And avoidadding salt to it.
AvocadoAvocados are a potential source
of omega-3 fatty acids which helpto enhance your child’s brain devel-opment.Tofu
Tofu is a plant-based source ofprotein which makes a great fingerfood for your baby. It won’t be hard
for them to chew it for being soft.Cooked vegetables
Cooked veggies like sweet pota-to, carrot, broccoli, cauliflower aregood options to offer your baby asfinger foods. And as he gets older,you can start giving him steamedcarrot sticks or roasted sweet pota-toes.Cheese
As your baby gets 6 months ofage, start giving small cubes ofcheese. If he shows any sign ofdairy allergy, stop giving cheeseright then and consult your doctor.Meats
Diced chicken breasts are alsoconsidered to be good finger food.Make sure they are thoroughlycooked and cut into very smallpieces.Fish
Fish can be introduced whenyour baby gets one year old. Thisshould also be cooked properly.
9 Healthy finger foods for your baby
Taimur Ali Khan was born to Ka-reena Kapoor Khan and Saif AliKhan on 20th December 2016 andhas been the center of attractionsince then. The little munchkin isquite a charmer and manages tograb attention whenever he stepsout in the public. Right from makingfunny faces to indulging in hilariousinteractions with the paparazzi,Taimur has done it all. He surely isone of the most popular andadorable star kids of the Bollywoodfilm industry.
Tim Tim’s pictures instantly go vi-ral whenever they come up on socialmedia. Meanwhile, we have comeacross a rare throwback picture ofTaimur that is unmissable. Mom Ka-reena Kapoor Khan is lovingly star-ing at him as the little guy continuesglancing happily at something else.
The actress is wearing a black andwhite outfit while the little Pataudiprince is wearing a blue t-shirt andmatching lowers. They surely makefor the most lovable mother-sonduo in B-town.
Taimur often accompanies hismom whenever she steps out formeeting someone or for work. A fewdays back, the two of them werespotted together when they arrivedat Karisma Kapoor’s residence.Meanwhile, talking about Kareena,the actress was last seen in AngreziMedium co-starring late IrrfanKhan, Dimple Kapadia, and RadhikaMadan in the lead roles. She willthen feature alongside Aamir Khanin Laal Singh Chaddha that happensto be a remake of the 1994 Holly-wood movie titled Forrest Gumpstarring Tom Hanks.
Kareena Kapoor Khan lovingly looks atTaimur Ali Khan in a throwback photo
Music often connects twopeople in a different way andhas a way to our hearts with
its enchanting beats. Justlike the same, the most-awaited musical dramawhich has captured every-one’s hearts and minds
with its soulful tracks,‘Bandish Bandits’ has fi-nally released today onAmazon Prime Video andhas been receiving im-mense appreciation from
across the nation. Katri-na Kaif has planned herperfect end to the day
with all smiles and atub of popcorn as
she has set up herperfect moviedate with ‘Ban-dish Bandits’.
The reel hasthe actress
jumping in ex-citement with a tub
of popcorn in herhand for her date and
we surely know the rea-
son now with the musical nightshe has planned!
Bandish Bandits has been onthe must-watch list for everyoneand gives a great romantic endto the day. The layers of everycharacter have been really inter-esting as they’ve caught the at-tention of the audiences makingthem wonder which layer wouldunfold, next. Social media hasgone all gaga and now, Katrina’swatch-list is surely making it anot-to-be-missed!
The ten-part series stars ris-ing talent Ritwik Bhowmik andShreya Chaudhry alongside vet-eran actors including Naseerud-din Shah, Atul Kulkarni KunaalRoy, Kapur, Sheeba Chaddha andRajesh Tailang.
Produced and created by Am-ritpal Singh Bindra and directedby Anand Tiwari, the all-newAmazon Original Series followsthe love story of two young per-formers from very different mu-sical backgrounds. So tune intoAmazon Prime Video and bingewatch the musical drama!
Check out, what is Katrina Kaifbinge-watching tonight!
When you talkabout superstarsfrom the ‘90s,Raveena Tandon’sname will alwaysbe one that popsright up there.Carefully treadingbetween comedy,drama and actionfilms, Raveenacarved a space forherself. But she re-veals that the roadwasn’t easy for her.In fact, today as wespeak about howBollywood campstarget actors andmonopolise the in-dustry at large,Raveena takes usback to her start-ing days in the ‘90swhen she revealsvoyeuristic jour-nalism was at itspeak.
Known for her no-nonsense and unapolo-getic nature, the Tip TipBarsa Pani actor sharesincidents of how Bolly-wood cabals, malestars, contemporaryheroines and theirchamcha journal-ists. From storiesbeing writtenabout her affairsto getting her re-placed in filmsbecause shedidn’t want tocater to thehero’s ego orsleep withthem, she hasfaced it all. Infact, many eventried to end hercareer but shesurvived andhere’s here x p l o s i v estory be-hind herj o u r n e y .R a v e e n as h a r e s ,“There used
to be these cabalswhich used to havethe heroes, their girl-friends and theirjournalist chamchas.What used to shockme was that a lot ofthese female journal-ists would do some-thing like this to an-other woman. Whenthey now stand upand say, we’re femi-nists and writing ul-ta-feminist columns,I’m like really? Thattime, they never sup-ported me becausethe hero promisedthem the next cover.There was a monop-oly happening at thattime. I may not havelost movies becauseof honesty but a lot ofdirt was writtenabout me. I neverclawed on people’s
back, played cut throatpolitics and neverstepped on people’stoes either.”
I didn’t have godfa-thers, wasn’t part ofcamps and didn’t haveheroes promoting me. I
was not sleepingaround with heroesfor roles or havingaffairs. In a lot ofcases, I was con-sidered arrogantbecause I wasn’tpandering towhat the heroeswanted me to do- laughing whenthey wanted meto laugh, sittingwhen theyasked me to sit.I was doing myown thing. Sur-prisingly, fe-male journal-ists would al-ways try to be-ing me down. Ijust wanted tolive on my ownterms.”
Raveena TandonI was not part of camps, heroes didn’t promoteme; I wasn’t sleeping with heroes
Sargun Mehta, who earlier wasa well-known face of Televisionand got much recognition fromher debut Punjabi romantic-comedy film “Angrej” bySimerjit Singh, is now a fa-mous actress in Polly-wood who has given var-ious super hit movies like‘Lahoriye’, ‘Qismat’,‘Surkhi Bindi’ andmany more.
Recently, shehas completedher 5 million fol-lowers on Insta-gram for whichshe seems tobe very excit-ed and in ajovial mood.She sharedher pic-
tures with a grin like a Cheshirecat and captioned it “Hello 5
MILLION . Sargun Mehta isone of the most loved ac-
tresses in Pollywood asshe has won 6 differentawards for various
Punjabi films. Sargunwas last seen in
Amarjit Singh’s“Jhalle” and
was com-m e n d a b l e
in her role andnext she will
be seen in KsshitijChaudhary’s ro-mantic-comedyfilm “Sohreyan
Da Pind AaGaya”, oppo-site GurnamBhullar.
Punjabi superstar SargunMehta hits a new
milestone on social media
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Taimur Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan make for the most adorable mother-son duo in Bollywood.
Are you thinking to in-troduce fingers foods toyour baby? Make thesefoods both healthy andtasty. These are some ofthem that will provideyour baby with the rightamount of nutrition.
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Amrit Maan’s latesttrack ‘Asi Oh HunneAa’ is all about swag!
Finally, the wait of Amrit Maan’s fans forthe track ‘Asi Oh Hunne Aa’ is over now as ithas just released an hour ago on YouTube.This swaggy Punjabi singer started hissinging career with super hit track ‘Desi DaDrum’ and after that, gave his voice to vari-ous blockbuster songs like ‘Bamb Jatt’,’PegDi Waashna’,’Trending Nakhra’ and manymore.
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Bhopal, Thursday, August 6, 2020 7Sports/ Business
Agencies, WashingtonDefending champi-
on Rafael Nadal ofSpain will skip the USOpen due to the spreadof COVID-19 whileworld number one No-vak Djokovic from Ser-bia headlines the initialmen’s singles entry list for theGrand Slam event, the organizersannounced on Tuesday.
“After many thoughts, I have de-cided not to play this year’s USOpen,” Nadal said through social
media on Tuesday. “Thesituation is very com-plicated worldwide, theCOVID-19 cases are in-creasing, it looks like westill don’t have controlof it.”
“We know that thereduced tennis calen-
dar is barbaric this year after 4months stopped with no play, I un-derstand and thank for the effortsthey are putting in to make it hap-pen,” the 19-time Grand Slamchampion added.
Defending Champion Nadal to skip US Open overCOVID-19 concerns while Djokovic leads men’s field
Mumbai (UNI)Pharma major Lupin on
Wednesday announced thelaunch of its Favipiravir in In-dia under the brand nameCovihalt for the treatment ofmild to moderate COVID-19.
Favipiravir has receivedauthorization from the DrugController General of India(DCGI) for emergency use.
Lupin’s Covihalt® dosagestrength has been developedkeeping in mind the conve-nience of administration. It isavailable as 200 mg tablets inthe form of a strip of 10tablets and priced at Rs 49per tablet.
Commenting on the devel-opment, Rajeev Sibal, Presi-dent - India Region Formula-
tions (IRF) said, “Lupin hasalways been committed tothe fight against life-threat-ening diseases. COVID-19 is aglobal pandemic and in Indiawe are seeing a surge in thenumber of cases on a dailybasis. In these tough times, itis our duty to support the na-tion in fighting this pandemicand ensuring affordable
drugs are made available foreveryone.
He said Covihalt®, Lupin’sFavipiravir drug, is a vital stepin this direction. We believethat we can leverage our ex-pertise in managing wide-spread community diseaseslike TB to proactively reachpatients across India and en-sure access to Covihalt®through our strong distribu-tion network and field force.”
According to Dr RajeshSwarnakar, National Secre-tary Indian Chest Society, “Inany pandemic, it is impera-tive to enforce rapid healthmanagement efforts whichinclude disease controlthrough effective and safemedication.
Lupin launches Favipiravir drug Covihaltto treat of mild to moderate COVID-19
Mumbai (UNI)Ampere Vehicles, a wholly-
owned electric mobility subsidiaryof Greaves Cotton Ltd., on Wednes-day announced its partnershipwith Autovert Technologies, a Fin-tech that specializes in EV sub-scriptions products.
The collaboration will lead tothe launch of a unique battery sub-scription plan through an IOTbacked platform, that will makeelectric scooters more affordable.Starting with a few select dealers inBangalore, the approach will bereplicated across the country.
The distinctive battery sub-scription plan, is one of its kind tobe made available in India whichsubstantially reduces the cost ofvehicle acquisition & provides al-ternative choices to the customersof financing options. With this cus-tomized subscription plan, a cus-tomer can now choose to ride itsrecently launched comfortablelarge e scooter Magnus Pro by pay-ing as less as Rs 49,990 (Ex-show-room price Rs 73,990), whilst opt-ing for a monthly battery subscrip-tion of Rs 1,990.
With the partnership, the com-pany is not only aiming to reducecustomer’s anxiety about the life-cycle management of the battery,but also providing a whole lot ofvehicle benefits - which includesextended warranty of 5 years alongwith full vehicle insurance, full ve-hicle service & maintenance for 24months, attractive upgrade op-tions, discounts on replacementbattery and much more. Addition-ally, full vehicle subscription plansare also available for the MagnusPro and Zeal models, starting at Rs2,777 per month.
This marks a new beginning forAmpere electric scooter, where the
buyers can now opt for easy sub-scription plans, use vehicle forcommuting, save extensively onoverall ownership cost etc. Thecustomer can also upgrade to an-other Ampere scooter very easily, aphenomenon which is very com-mon in ownership of consumerdurable gadgets.
Commenting on the partner-ship, P Sanjeev, COO, Ampere Vehi-cles said, “We are happy to partnerwith Autovert Technologies to in-troduce this unique battery sub-scription plan. With this associa-tion clubbed with special Amperefreedom offers, we are aiming tomake Ampere Vehicles more af-fordable and accessible for theconsumer.”
Speaking on this announce-ment, Vinay Sharma, Co-founderand CTO of Autovert said. “Thebattery subscription is possible,given the modular nature of the EV,which lends itself to decouplingthe battery from the vehicle andspecific services offered around itslifecycle.
The EV ecosystem demands analternative ownership model in or-der to drive faster adoptionamongst an emerging customerbase and we are happy to be in theforefront of this with our productsand partners like Ampere to take itthe market.’
Ampere Electric launches batterysubscription plan in partnershipwith Autovert Technologies
Manchester (UNI)Pacer Jofra Archer and Chris
Woakes picked one wicket eachas Pakistan reached 53/2 atLunch on Day 1 of the first Testmatch against England, here atOld Trafford on Wednesday.
At the break, opener Shan Ma-sood and Babar Azam were bat-ting on 27 and 4 respectively.
Earlier, Pakistan captain AzharAli won the toss and elected tobat first. The visitors were off to awatchful start as England bowlerskept a disciplined line andlength.
After batting beautifully in thefirst hour of the morning session,Pakistan lost Abid Ali (16) and
skipper Azhar Ali (0) in quick suc-cession.
Azhar was trapped leg beforewicket by seamer Chris Woakes,while Jofra Archer dismissed AbidAli.
Pakistan need a solid partner-ship in the next session, whileEngland will look to pick fewmore wickets.
Pakistan last won a test seriesin England in 1996, though threeof the five since have beendrawn, including their last twovisits in 2016 and 2018.
Sumit Nagal is set to competein his second Grand Slammain draw after receiving a di-rect entry into the US Open,which several top players willmiss due to the COVID-19pandemic.
The world number 127 isthe last man to receive a directentry, according to the tourna-ment website.
It will be Nagal’s second ap-pearance at the US Open,starting 31 August, and he isthe only Indian in the men’sfield with PrajneshGunneswaran, ranked 132,missing out.
“It feels good to make amain draw of a Slam againsince I have only made onemain draw yet. I understand
the situation is not the samethis year. I am looking to fly tothe USA after my challengersin the Czech Republic,” Nagaltold PTI from Germany beforea training session.
Last year, Nagal reached hismaiden Grand Slam at the US
Open after winning all hisqualifying round matches toset up a dream encounter withthe legendary Roger Federer.
In the much-anticipatedclash, the 22-year old fromJhajjar took a set off Federerbefore going down 6-4 1-6 2-6
4-6. Talking about this year,Nagal said,” I don’t have manyexpectations, I just want to goand do what I enjoy which isplaying tennis.”
Nagal said he won’t have toserve a quarantine period afterhe reaches New York.
“We are supposed to stay ina bubble area and can only goto the hotel and back to thecourts. We will have COVID-19tests every second day.”
Three-time US Open cham-pion and world No 1 NovakDjokovic headlines the fieldwith the likes of Federer andRafael Nadal giving the tour-nament a miss.
While Federer has with-drawn from all competitionsthis year owing to a knee in-jury, defending championNadal pulled out due to theCOVID-19 pandemic.
US Open 2020: India’s Sumit Nagal gets directentry into singles main draw of Grand Slam
Southampton (UNI)After twin tons from Paul Stirling
142 off 128 and skipper Andy Bal-birnie 113 off 112 helped Ireland fi-nally beat England by 7 wickets inthe deciding day and night ODImatch at The Rose Bowl on Tuesday.Balbirnie elected to field first for thefirst time in the series, and wouldhave initially pleased as Jason Roy,Jonny Bairstow and James Vincewere all dismissed before the scorehad reached 50.
But Eoin Morgan and Tom Ban-ton put together a 146-run stand toput the hosts back on top. Morganwas particularly belligerent as he hithis way to an 84-ball 106, his 14thODI ton, including 15 fours and foursixes.
Banton moved to his maidenODI fifty shortly before Morgan’sdismissal, and he swiftly followedhis captain back to the dressingroom, becoming Gareth Delany’sfirst wicket of the series. Ireland re-
claimed even more momentum asMoeen Ali and Sam Billings weresent back cheaply by Curtis Cam-pher and Craig Young respectively.
England mounted another fight-back in the form of a 73-run part-nership between Tom Curran andDavid Willey, who had scored 51from 42 balls – including three sixes– by the time Campher had him
caught at long-on. Curran shep-herded the tail to get England past300 before they were all out in the50th over for 328.
Ireland set off steadily in pursuitof what would be their biggest-everchase in ODIs, edging out their fa-mous victory over the same opposi-tion at the 2011 ICC Men’s CricketWorld Cup where they had chaseddown a target of 328 thanks to a 50-ball century from Kevin O’Brien.Stirling and Delany brought up thefirst 50-run opening stand of the se-ries from either side before the latterwas bowled behind his legs byDavid Willey to bring Balbirnie tothe crease. Stirling and Balbirniequickly settled in and began to scorefreely off England’s spinners. WithMorgan off the field having pickedup a groin strain while batting, vice-captain Moeen Ali was in charge,and he cycled through bowling op-tions as England searched for a wayto break the growing partnership.
Ireland beat England by seven wickets to fetchtheir first points in CWC Super League
HyderabadThe mining major NMDC, In-
dia’s largest iron-ore producer anda diversified Navaratna PSU,recorded a sharp rise in overallproduction and sales in July 2020as compared to the correspondingperiod in July 2019.
During this period, despitethecurrent uncertain situation due toCOVID-19, NMDC has been able toachieve excellent physical perfor-mance through its continual pushtowards higher volumes which sawproduction of 2.19 MT and sales2.57 MTthat grew by 13% and 7%over the corresponding period lastyear, respectively.
In July 2020, the ChhattisgarhProjects registered a production of1.56 milliontonnes as compared tothe total production of 1.16 mil-
liontonnes in the correspondingmonth of July last year, an increaseof 35% in production.NMDC also
achieved record sales in July 2020by selling 1.90 million tonnes ofIron ore in July 2020 against 1.60million tonnes in July 2019, whichis 20% higher than the previousyear.
Shri Sumit Deb, Chairman-cum-Managing Director of NMDC,commented that, “The last fewmonths has been quite challengingfor the entire industry due to thepandemic situation impacting theperformance of all major produc-ers. However this challenge wastreated as an opportunity by us toaccelerate our efforts towards sta-bilizing the production and con-tinuously improving our produc-tion processes. Going forwardNMDC will strive to maximize costefficiencies to improve its bottom-line.”
NMDC registers record jump in production and sales of iron ore in July 2020BUSINESS
Sprinklr included inlist of best startupfirms in worldKochi: US Company ‘Sprinklr’which has a controversial image inKerala, has been included in thelist of best startup firms in theworld.
Left Democratic Front govern-ment in Kerala had appointedSprinklr for data analysis as part ofCOVID resistance activities butlater withdrew the company fol-lowing controversies. The allega-tions regarding data privacy andleaking resulted in the exclusion ofSprinklr from the COVID resis-tance here. The startup initiatedby a Keralite has been included inthe unicorn index published bythe Human Research Institute.
The index lists the most valu-able startups in the world thathave a value of over $one billion(over Rs 7500 crore).
Marquinhos: It would bean honor to captain PSGRio De Janeiro: Paris Saint-Germain’s Brazilian defenderMarquinhos said Tuesday hewould be honored to replacecompatriot Thiago Silva as theclub captain. Silva’s contractwith PSG expires this monthand current vice-captain Mar-quinhos is the favorite to as-sume the French side’s on-fieldleadership. “It’s not somethingthat I’m looking out for. I thinkit has to happen naturally,” the26-year-old told Braziliannews outlet Globo Esporte. “Itwould be an honor. But ourcaptain is still Thiago Silva. I’mvice-captain and I try to helpout as much as possible.” Mar-quinhos added that the club’shierarchy had yet to indicatewho would be Silva’s successor.
Argentinian clubs clearedto restart trainingBuenos Aires: Argentina’s topfootball clubs will be free to re-sume training on August 10 af-ter almost five months of inac-tivity because of the coron-avirus pandemic. The permis-sion extends to all top-flightmen’s and women’s teams, Ar-gentinian Football Association(AFA) president Claudio Tapiasaid on Tuesday. “The govern-ment has authorized the re-sumption of training for firstdivision clubs and other divi-sions will gradually follow,”Tapia said following a meetingwith Argentinian President Al-berto Fernandez. He addedthat players, coaching staff andother employees of clubswould be tested over the week-end. The move followed callsfor the training ban to be liftedby Argentinian clubs partici-pating in this year’s Copa Lib-ertadores. South America’spremier football competitionwill resume on September 15,having been halted in mid-March as the health crisis in-tensified.
South Sudan refugeeathlete named UNHCRgoodwill ambassadorJuba: A South Sudaneserefugee athlete was onWednesday named by the UNrefugee agency as the UN-HCR’s newest goodwill ambas-sador in a bid to championrefugees rights. Yiech Pur Biel,who fled South Sudan’s conflictin 2005 to Kakuma refugeecamp in Kenya at the age often, was named on Tuesday asa UNHCR goodwill ambas-sador to continue to advocatefor the rights of the displacedwhilst he continues his train-ing to be on the RefugeeOlympic team in Tokyo 2021.
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House of Hiranandani announcesexclusive “Homes that Earn”Bengaluru (UNI): House of Hiranandani, a leadingreal estate conglomerate developing iconic integrat-ed living spaces in India, is pleased to announce‘Homes that Earn’, a campaign that promises as-sured and attractive rentals across its properties inBengaluru.
In a statement issued here on Wednesday saidthat With an average rental yield of 3 %, the compa-ny is offering rentals for two years on any apartmentpurchased irrespective of its stage of constructionand configuration. The offer is valid up to October2020.
Prashin Jhobalia, Vice President, Marketing Strat-egy, House of Hiranandani said, “The existing pan-demic situation has presented us with some un-precedented conditions. Home buyers are facing adual dilemma of paying rent as well as EMI at a timewhen the job market is uncertain and economicconditions are challenging. However, one cannot ig-nore the low interest rates on home loans and thesafety guaranteed by real estate investment overother instruments of investment in trying times.Our rent back scheme is to enable the homebuyer tomake the best of this opportunity.
Dani Alves rules outFlamengo moveSao Paulo: Veteran defender DaniAlves on Tuesday denied specula-tion that he could leave Sao Pauloto join their Brazilian Serie A rivalsFlamengo.
Alves is just 12 months into athree-and-a half-year deal withthe Tricolor but local media hasreported that he could be of-floaded to the Rio de Janeiro gi-ants due to his club’s financialconstraints. “I want to make onething clear so that there is neverthis debate again: The only clubthat I will play for in Brazil is SaoPaulo,” the 37-year-old said duringa virtual news conference.
MotoGP: Stefan Bradl joins Alex Marquezin Brno while Marc Marquez recoversCzech Republic (UNI):After a heroic returnjust four days aftersurgery in Jerez, MarcMarquez will miss theBrno race with StefanBradl joining the Rep-sol Honda Teamalongside Alex Mar-quez.
The Czech GPmarks the fourthround of the 2020 MotoGP World Championship andpresents the first change of circuit for the season inthe MotoGP class. 2019’s Czech GP is remembered forMarc Marquez’s incredible qualifying lap, 2.5 secondsclear of second placed Jack Miller.
Weather forecasts suggest a clear weekend in thehigh 20s – a change from the punishing heat of Jerez.
The weekend also marks the start of MotoGP’s firsttriple-header of the revised 2020 season as two racesat the Red Bull Ring succeed the weekend. After un-dergoing a second operation on his injured right arm,Marc Marquez and HRC have decided that the WorldChampion will not ride in the Czech Republic in or-der for him to recover more. In his place, HRC testrider Stefan Bradl will mount the Honda RC213V.
Production improves by 35% & Sales by 20% in Chhattisgarh
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Chronicle Reporter, BhopalASI Ansar Ahmed (49) of Shah-
jahanabad police station died onWednesday due to corona infec-tion. He was admitted to ChirayuHospital since July 24. He hadbeen serving the Police Depart-ment for 25 years. He is survivedby wife Naaz and four children in-cluding two sons Adnan and Anasand two daughters Afreen andZainab. The family lives in AshokaGarden, Dharmesh Nagar. Origi-nally hailing from Ashok Nagar,Ansar Ahmed, extremely punctualon duty, lived in a separate room inthe house for three months and af-ter coming from duty used to washhis room daily, meet family andchildren only from a distance. Heused to eat in the same room andgo on duty.
Another police officer has diedin Bhopal within 17 days due tocorona infection. Earlier on July18, DSP Prem Prakash Gautam
died of Corona infection. He wasemployed in the crime investiga-tion department. DGP Vivek Johrihas expressed grief over thedemise of ASI. He tweeted regret-fully that Ansar Ahmed has died ofa corona infection. He was holdingthe post of ASI in Shahjahanabad.He has had 25 years of outstandingservice in the police department.
Ansar’s elder brother NisarAhmed said that the news ofAnsar’s death was received fromthe doctor of Chirayu Hospital. Hetold that your brother has died at6.30 am. We could not save him.Corona infection caused 95%damage to his lungs. Ansar was onventilator for three days. The doc-tors said that we made every effortto save him, but could not. Mybrother was very punctual of duty;he would refuse to take leavewhenever asked. If we do not doduty brother then how will thecommon people be safe, he usedto say.
ASI Ansar was very punctual, livedin a separate room for 3 months
Chronicle Reporter, BhopalAfter two days of relief in
Bhopal, more than one hundredand fifty 162 corona cases werefound on Wednesday.
With this, the number of in-fected here has now increasedto 7233. At the same time, ASIAnsar Ahmed, posted at Shahja-hanabad police station, died ofinfection on Wednesday. Thedeath toll in Bhopal reached 198with the death of Corona War-rior.
On the last days of the lock-down i.e. on Monday 124 caseswere found and 108 were foundon Tuesday.
This was the effect of thelockdown, but since Tuesdaythe lockdown has been fullyopened, the number of infectedincreased on its second day. Sofar, 4500 people in the capitalhave recovered from Corona.While the active case hascrossed 2300, the highest in thestate.
1968 new corona positive pa-tients have been found in thecapital in 10 days.
While only 845 patients havebeen discharged from hospitals.Due to this, 1486 patients havebeen admitted on 2128 beds re-served for the treatment of pa-tients in 7 covid hospitals of thecity. It is a matter of relief that inthese patients, most of the pa-tients are admitted on beds withnormal and oxygen-supportsystems.
While 222 patients are admit-ted in ICU. A similar situation isin the five covid care centers,where 479 positive patients areadmitted on 729 beds. This dis-closure has been made in the
investigation of the ability ofpatients to be treated at theCovid Hospital and Covid CareCentres.
Shop sealed for not fol-lowing SOP
Shopkeepers of Number Sixand Shivaji Nagar market havebeen instructed by the adminis-tration team for not followingthe Corona Guidelines and SOP.One shop was sealed for non-compliance with SOP.
District administration isasking establishments andshopkeepers that shopkeepersand customers should applymasks and keep a distance of 6feet while selling the items. Po-lice kept the goods kept in front of the shops in numbersix market and got the rope tied.
35244 positives in state,912 succumb
In Madhya Pradesh, the totalnumber of infected peoplereached 35244.
1315 patients recovered onWednesday. So far, 25414 pa-tients have become healthy.There are currently 8918 activepatients undergoing treatment.12 people have also died. So far912 people have lost their lives.After Chief Minister ShivrajSingh’s report came negative, hehas been discharged from thehospital.
The manner in which thenumber of patients in the statehas increased during Unlock-1is worrisome. People are not fol-lowing social distancing at reli-gious events.
ASI succumbs, 162 positivesfound in Bhopal
Chronicle Reporter, BhopalA virtual educational dialogue session on major de-
partmental activities and priorities conducted by theState Education Center, School Education Depart-ment concluded recently. In this program, conductedthrough Facebook Live, Twitter and You Tube, Mr.Lokesh Kumar Jatav, Commissioner, State EducationCenter and other experts played the role. About 2.5million people including about 1,13,000 teachers andother field colleagues participated in the dialogue andunderstood the departmental activities and priorities.
Study will not stop nowOn this occasion, Mr. Jatav informed that our
home, our school programme is being conducted onthe theme ‘Now studies will not stop’. In which classesand activities are being conducted through radio, mo-bile, TV, Facebook. Instructions were also given to fin-ish the work of efficiency, distribution of upgradationworkbook etc. by the end of this week. Shri Jatav ap-preciated the work being done at district, block andteachers level in this direction.
Digilap or radio classJatav said that the basic purpose of conducting ra-
dio classes is to give the students a routine time-tableand classroom-like environment even during theCorona crisis. For the feeling of going to school evenfrom home, 10 to 1 in the morning is scheduled foracademic activities. To make the atmosphere comfort-able and entertaining, sports, arts and recreational ac-tivities have been included in the evening from 5 to5:30 pm. The time from 7 to 8 pm is to listen and tell
the story. The above activities are conducted fromMonday to Saturday, and at 5 to 5:30 pm, a school offun and radio is being organized on Saturday.
Study being done through weekly academic calendar
An eight-week calendar has also been prepared forstudents from remote areas who are deprived of theabove activities due to non-availability of radio, mo-bile, TV, Facebook. In which details of daily and week-ly activities are given. On the basis of which such stu-dents can participate in all the activities while offline.By the end of this week, a special campaign will be car-ried out to distribute calendar and course material tochildren. Its aim is to develop an understanding of thebasics of efficiency upgrading based activities likeHindi, Mathematics. The academic activities will beconducted in September after the conclusion of the 8-week programme. Various educational broadcasts arealso being heard for offline students through loudspeakers in religious places, community buildings,schools etc.
Champion teacherFor the purpose of encouraging teachers, those
teachers who promote activity based education arebeing awarded by providing certificate of championteacher.
A list of teachers who have done excellent work isalso being uploaded on the education portal. Teachersare awarded with a citation based on the success sto-ries they receive each week. In Facebook Live, theCommissioner State Education Center also specifical-ly mentioned the works of some teachers.M-Shiksha Mitra App
On this occasion, Mr. Jatav said that various activi-ties are monitored by M-Shiksha Mitra App to directlyconnect the teachers with the state level. For this, thenew module ‘Hamara Ghar, Hamara Vidyalaya’ hasbeen constructed. He also appealed to all teachers totake better advantage of this module.CM Rise Digital Teacher Training Program
Talking about the digital teacher training pro-gramme, he said that, C.M. Under Rise Digital TeacherTraining Program, more than 10 lakh teachers havecompleted the course in 6 courses so far. Digital cer-tificates are also awarded to teachers after completingthe course.
Children get school like atmosphere at home
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Chronicle Reporter, BhopalMinister of State for Horticulture
and Food Processing (IndependentCharge) and Narmada Valley Devel-opment Shri Bharat Singh Kushwa-ha said that the young farmerstrained with skill development willbe taken towards self-employment.The department will play an impor-tant role for self-reliant MadhyaPradesh by effectively conductingvarious activities of the department.
Minister of State Shri BharatSingh Kushwaha conducted a de-partmental review with senior offi-cials of the Department of Food Pro-cessing, in the office of the Ministry.
Principal Secretary Horticultureand Food Processing Smt. KalpanaShrivastava was also present in themeeting.
Minister of State Shri Kushwahasaid that an action plan should beprepared in a week by establishingcoordination with skill develop-ment.
He said that on setting up ofbusiness of production, marketingand food processing of fruits, veg-etables, there is a wide scope of giv-ing employment to large sectionsespecially youth of small, small
marginal farming families of ruralareas with their own employment.
He said that in order to enablethe trained young farmers to adoptthe business of advanced produc-tion and processing of fruits, flow-ers, vegetables, trained young farm-ers with priority developmentshould get priority in the depart-ment’s schemes. All such provisionsshould be included in the plan.
Minister of State Shri Kushwahawhile reviewing one district oneproduct said that the district, whichproduces fruits, vegetables, crops,yields in excess in the state like ba-nanas are produced in Burhanpur.
Minister of State Shri Kushwaha
said that the horticulture depart-ment should establish direct con-tact with every farmer of the statewho is connected with the produc-tion of horticulture crops. For this, adata base should be prepared byregistering such farmers.
Minister of State Shri Kushwahasaid that such knowledgeable horti-culture farmers should be madefarmers friendly, who are producinghorticulture crops, who haveenough knowledge and who can in-form other farmers about produc-tion, marketing and processing ofimproved fruits, flowers and vegeta-bles, advice Give, support and in-spire.
Have one horticulture friend onevery five gram panchayats.
He told the officials that thefarmers who are producing fruits,flowers and vegetables have to startthe wire fencing scheme from thisyear to protect their farmland fromstray cattle etc.
He said that it is very importantthat in the summer days, even afterhaving water etc., these farmers areunable to take vegetable crops dueto lack of security of the field.
With the help of the departmentin the field of these small fruits andvegetable growers, they will be ableto take three crops in a year due tochain fencing. A plan should be pre-pared and a pilot scheme should beimplemented in some of the areasidentified earlier.
As per the deliberations of microfood enterprises in the meeting,cluster-based micro food inter-prizes units have been given FSSAI.
The progress of technologicalupgradation scheme for achievingfood standards, building brand andmarketing was also reviewed.
The horticulture department isthe nodal department in thisscheme.
One horticulture friend for every five gram panchayats
Chronicle Reporter, BhopalRejuvenation camps are being
set up for the 16 elephants of Kan-ha Tiger Reserve from 6 August to12 August this year, like everyyear.
With the aim of communicat-ing new energy to elephants andgiving them mental rest, thecamp will be served in the camparea, along with the health test ofthe elephants, they will be servedadditional supplements, vita-mins, minerals, fruits etc.
All Mahavats and fodder cut-ters engaged in the service of ele-phants will also be tested.
These elephants are used bythe Reserve Management for pro-tection patrols, rescue opera-tions, tiger treatment, transloca-tion, wildlife monitoring etc.
Massage will be done with neem and castor oil
Area Director Shri L. Krishna-murthy informed that all Maha-vat and fodder cutters will do
their special service with fullcomfort to the elephants during
the camp. During this period, after
bathing the elephants everymorning in the camp, neem oil intheir feet and castor oil will bemassaged in the head.
After this, they will be fed insugarcane, banana, maize, man-go, pineapple, coconut etc.
In the afternoon, after taking abath from the forest and bringingthem to the camp, they will beserved roti, jaggery, coconut, pa-paya.
After eating, they will be left inthe forest again.
The blood of elephants will al-so be tested during the camp.Along with this, trimming of fin-gernails of elephants, cleaning ofstomach bugs by medicine andcutting of their teeth will also bedone as per requirements.
Rejuvenation camp for elephants at Kanha from Aug 6
Chronicle Reporter, BhopalCM Shivraj Singh Chouhan was
discharged from the Chirayu Hos-pital this morning after becominginfection free. He has returned tohis home.
The CM has thanked everyone,saying that you should protectyourself from the corona and becareful. After being dischargedfrom the hospital, Chouhan said inthe tweet, ‘My citizens, I requestyou to protect yourself from Coro-na, be careful.
This is the way to defeat it. Thegovernment is making betterarrangements for treatment andhealth facilities, but you also coop-erate. Our resolve is, we will fightand win.’
Chouhan has appealed to thepeople of the state to protectthemselves from Corona by adher-ing to social distancing i.e. main-taining safe distance of two yards,always using masks and washinghands frequently with soap or us-ing sanitizer.
By taking these measures, Coro-na cannot affect anyone. He urgedto be careful. Chief Minister ShriChouhan thanked all the Coronawarriors who are serving patientsday and night.
Those affected by virusmust not hide facts
After being discharged fromChirayu hospital today, Chief Min-ister Shri Chouhan said in his mes-sage to the common man that theymust undergo investigation assoon as symptoms of Corona ap-
pear. Those affected by the virusmust not hide facts.
This can put them, their fami-lies the people around them atrisk.
There is no need to get afraid ofCorona. Corona can be defeated bytimely treatment. It is not an incur-
able disease. Also, you must makeefforts not to get affected by thevirus. Chief Minister Shri Chouhansaid that he himself is a Coronawarrior. He has defeated the dis-ease. On the basis of experience itseems necessary to say that there isno need to panic. The governmenthas made all arrangements fortreatment, but efforts must bemade to ensure that the need toget treated does not come at all.
Do not crowd markets, donot organise events
Chief Minister Shri Chouhanhas appealed that no major eventsshould be organized at the mo-ment. There should not be crowd-ed weddings. Markets should notbe crowded. If a crowd gathers, itwill be like inviting trouble.
Save yourself. Chief MinisterShri Chouhan said that he was alsoreviewing the condition of Coronain the state from the hospital.
The entire state is reviewedevery day. Cooperation of commonman is necessary to eliminate thedisease. With strong determina-tion, we will fight and win, thestate will win and the country will win.
Chief Minister discharged, seeks people’ssupport in defeating Corona
Pachyderms will have special care with health tests
Dept of Horticulture will provide self-employment opportunities to young farmers
