DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2020, NEW DELHI, LATE CITY, 18 PAGES `6.00 (`8 BIHAR & RAIPUR, `12 SRINAGAR) WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 MODI, SHAH HOLD SECURITY MEET Day after Jammu firing, PM says plot to derail grassroots democracy Jharkhand changes process, physical checks must for all schools, applicants DespitePakbid, DDCpollsasper schedule:official THE SCHOLARSHIP COVID CURFEW BACK, AHMEDABAD ABHISHEK ANGAD NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 20 DAYS AFTER it registered FIRs to probe the illegal diversion of the Centre's pre-Matric scholarship for poor minority students, based on the findings of an investigationbyTheIndianExpress, the Jharkhand government has ordereditsofficersto“physically verify”allschoolsandapplicants seeking to avail scholarships under the Union Ministry of Minority Affairs for 2020-21. In a letter dated November 19, and sent to all Deputy Commissioners, Welfare Secretary Amitabh Kaushal also directed that necessary steps be taken to recover the scholarship Letter refers to The Indian Express reports disbursedtofakebeneficiariesin "previous years". The letter referred to The Indian Express investigation, which found that the scholarship was being siphoned off by a nexus of middlemen, school staff and district officials that either set up fake beneficiaries or dupedstudentsintolettingthem apply on their behalf and pocket a share of the money. Itsaidthatphysicalverification CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 Electoral bonds of Rs 282 cr sold ahead of Bihar elections Only Rs 80 lakh from Patna; funding to parties via bonds in 3 yrs is Rs 6,493 cr GEORGE MATHEW MUMBAI, NOVEMBER 20 THE STATE Bank of India (SBI) sold Electoral Bonds worth Rs282croretofundpoliticalparties in October ahead of the Assembly elections in Bihar. With this, total donations to political parties through Electoral Bonds have touched Rs 6,493 crore from the time the scheme was introduced in 2018. The bank sold 279 bonds worth Rs 1 crore each, 32 bonds worth Rs 10 lakh each to donors in the 14th tranche, which was open from October 19 to 28, the SBI said in its reply to a Right to Information application filed by The Indian Express. THE EDITORIAL PAGE WAYTOGROW: LEARN FROMPAST, NEIGHBOUR BY AMARTYA LAHIRI PAGE 10 WORLD DOUGLAS STUART WINSBOOKERPRIZE FOR SHUGGIE BAIN PAGE 18 YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW DEEPTIMAN TIWARY Amid rising Covid-19 cases, the Gujarat government has imposed a weekend curfew in Ahmedabad, and night curfew in Surat, Vadodara and Rajkot. Nirmal Harindran REPORT,PAGE 9 A DAY after four terrorists were killedandacacheofarmsandexplosives recovered in Jammu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday pointed to cross-border terrorfromPakistanwhilethanking the security forces for having “defeatedanefariousplot”totarget grassroots democracy in J&K. With the District DevelopmentCouncil(DDC)elections scheduled to take place in the Union Territory from November 28, Modi posted on Twitter:“Oursecurityforceshave onceagaindisplayedutmostbravery and professionalism. Thanks to their alertness, they have defeated a nefarious plot to target grassrootsleveldemocratic exercises in Jammu and Kashmir.” The Prime Minister wrote: “Neutralising of 4 terrorists belongingtoPakistan-basedterrorist UP govt on Kappan: Had India’s daughter pamphlet, riot plan KAUNAIN SHERIFF M NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 20 ■ The “pamphlets so recovered i.e. AM I NOT INDIA’S DAUGHTER...etchaveaneffectof amplifying social hostility and public revolt”. ■ Accused have revealed they “gathered funds” to “instigate rioting on basis of caste” in connection with the Hathras case, “as they have done on the basis of religion in protest of CAA”. ■ Accused created a website us- GOVT & POLITICS FAVOURITISM AND MANIPULATION: INQUIRY REPORT ON BIHAR MINISTER WHO RESIGNED PAGE 5 According to the data, the bank’s main branch Mumbai issued bonds worth Rs 130 crore in the 14th tranche while the New DelhibranchissuedRs11.99crore bonds.TheSBIbranchinPatnasold onlyRs80lakhworthofbonds.Its Bengalurubranch did not sellany bonds. Encashment of bonds worth Rs 237 crore were done in threecities—Bhubaneswar(Rs67 crore), Chennai (Rs 80 crore) and Hyderabad(Rs90crore). ing web platform ‘Carrd’; “Many kinds of anti-national propaganda are being spread in India UP to bring ordinance, non-BJP state govts slam ‘love jihad’ law BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 LUCKNOW, NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 20 NEARLY A year after the amendment in the citizenship Act and talk of an all-India National Register of Citizens provoked severalChief Ministerstodeclare they would not implement the CAA and NRC in their states, moves by three BJP-ruled states tobringalawtocheckwhatthey sayis“lovejihad”,hasonceagain splitthenationdownthemiddle. AtleastfiveOpposition-ruled states on Friday condemned the announcements by Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and MUMBAI, NOVEMBER 20 SINCE EARLY last month, when he visited Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General (LTMG) Hospital to treat a leg injury, Shakti Kumar has made a bench at the facility his home. Vishal Pawar and his mother have been living in a shed nearby for the last three months. Vijay Boite and his daughter stayed under a tree in KEM Hospital for three weeks. Meet Mumbai's new home- ON THE BRINK IN THE CITY AN EXPRESS SERIES MUMBAI less. They lost their livelihoods during the Covid lockdown and now seek shelter in the city's hospitals, arriving for treatment and then quietly claiming corners in corridors and waiting areas, clinging on for survival, nowhere else to go. That's how the green bench becamehishome, saysKumar.“I have never been homeless before. I used to work and stay at a restaurant in Virar, earning Rs 15,000 a month, sending most of it to my family in UP. Covid forced the restaurant owner to shut in March, leaving meandfiveotherstaffersjobless and homeless,” he says. “I met with an accident and was admitted for a week here. CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 Gehlot: Word manufactured by BJP Haryana as an encroachment on personal liberty, and an attempt to create a communal divide in the country. Late in the evening, the Uttar Pradeshgovernmentannounced it had initiated the process to bring an Ordinance to check unlawful conversions in the state. The UP State Law Commission had submitted a ESHA ROY NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 20 LESS THAN two months from now,theMahaKumbhwillreturn toHaridwar,bringingwithitasea of pilgrims and enormous logisticschallengesinthemiddleofthe novel coronavirus pandemic. The last Maha Kumbh in Haridwar in 2010 was attended by 1.62 crore pilgrims according to estimates by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Officials have ruled out the possibility of the mega-event — which will begin on January 14 and continue until the end of April — being cancelled on account of the Covid-19 outbreak. “The Kumbh Mela in Haridwartakes place once every 12 years. In 2021 it’ll be taking place after 11 years, a phenomenon that is happening after 80 years. Of course, with the Covid19 pandemic, the management of the Kumbh Mela is tricky, and weareplanningaccordingtothe guidelines issued by the government,’’ Kumbh Mela Adhikari Deepak Rawat said. AccordingtoRawat,manage- Besides Indianartists,street artpractitioners fromMalaysia, Japan,Australia,Switzerland, France,Nepalhavebeenropedin “Kaha Phnche Kia Sorate Hal Hai Koi Mushkil To Nahi, 2 Baje, Phir Bta Dan Gy (Where have you reached? What’s the situation? Is there any problem?, 2 O’clock, Will let you know)." These were some of the text messages received by the four Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists, who were gunned down by security forces in an encounter in Nagrota,inJammu,Thursday,on a Digital Mobile Radio manufactured by Pakistani company Micro Electronics. The terrorists had been in touch with their handlers in Pakistan over smartphones manufactured by Q Mobile, a Pakistani company. They were carrying medicines manufactured inKarachi,andworeshoes A text message received by the JeM terrorists made in Pakistan. J&K Police investigations have revealed that the Jaish terrorists had been sent with the specific task of carrying out a large attack ahead of the District Development Council (DDC) CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 SANDEEP SINGH FOREIGN PORTFOLIO investors havestaged a remarkable comeback after pulling out a record Rs 61,973 crore from Indian equities in March 2020 dragging down the benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty by 23 per cent. In just eight months of the currentfinancialyear,netforeign portfolio investment (FPI) into equities jumped by Rs 1,40,295 crore, the highest-ever in any fi- nancial year. In 2012-13, net FPIs stood at Rs 1,40,033 crore (the second highest now). Foreign portfolio investors include both foreign individuals and foreign institutional investors (FIIs). In the first 20 days of November,netinflowsaddedup to Rs 44,378 crore, which has led to a 4,267 point or 10.8 per cent surge in Sensex. Inflows started picking up in August with more liberal unlock guidelines, and a faster and CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 E FPIs see value in ● recovery AFTER A 23.9 per cent contraction in GDP growth rate in April-June 2020, the reopening of the economy in the following months has led to a sharper than expected recovery. This has attracted FPIs to see value and re-enter. Since 2001 CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 ONLINE OFFLINE www.ambitionlawinstitute.com COURSE Y our Key to Success Requires Ambition LAW IS NOTHING B COMMON SENSE BUT AND LOGIC – Alok Kr. Ranjan JUDICIARY FOUNDATION : 25 NOV WEEKEND : 20 DEC Laxmi Gangadhar Parate, 60, is a familiar face at BYL Nair Hospital. Tabassum Barnagarwala With distancing, ghat art, pollution measures, Haridwar prepares for Covid Maha Kumbh PAGE 1 ANCHOR NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 20 FPI inflows highest ever, over Rs 1.4 lakh cr in eight months NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 20 On a bench, under a tree... jobs gone in time of Covid, Mumbai hospitals their new home TABASSUM BARNAGARWALA CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 DEEPTIMAN TIWARY CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE E AN XPRESS RTI APPLICATION Siddique Kappan was arrested on Oct 5. PTI file through such kind of websites viz. propaganda relating to incidents of mob lynching, migration of labours in recent times” These submissions of the Uttar Pradesh Police in official records — the FIR, remand applicationsseekingcustody—regarding the case registered against Delhi-based journalist Siddique Kappanandthreeothers,arepart ofthestategovernment’saffidavit before the Supreme Court in response to a petition seeking release of Kappan from custody. 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