Name: No more govt funds for Air India, says Centre
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Description: Reiterating its stand on privatising Air India, the Centre on Tuesday said that selling the cash-strapped carrier is the the only way out. Union minister for civil aviation announced that there will be no more govt funds for the national carrier and it will be sold.

Reiterating its stand on privatising Air India, the Centre on Tuesday said that selling the cash-strapped carrier is the the only way out. Union minister for civil aviation&nbsp; announced that there will be no more govt funds for the national carrier and it will be sold.

Reiterating its stand on privatising Air India, the Centre on Tuesday said that selling the cash-strapped carrier is the the only way out. Union minister for civil aviation announced that there will be no more govt funds for the national carrier and it will be sold.

PTI,&nbsp;Srinagar/New Delhi: Shah Faesal, the first resident of Jammu and Kashmir who topped the civil services exam in 2009, on Tuesday said his decision to join politics last year had done more harm than benefit as his "innocuous act" of dissent was seen as an "act of treason".
A day after announcing that he was quitting politics, the 37-year-old defended his decision saying "we evolve with time" and abrogation of the special status on August 5 last year brought forth a new political reality in Kashmir.
Faesal had brought glory to the erstwhile state by standing first in the civil services exam and was seen as a role model for youths. He, however, resigned from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in January last year.
"While in detention I thought a lot about it. And I realised that I am not the person who can promise to people that I can undo these decisions," Faesal, who was released after being kept under preventive detention and later booked under the draconian Public Safety Act (PSA), told PTI from Srinagar.
Faesal said he was clear that the 1949 national consensus kept Article 370 in the Constitution and the 2019 consensus abrogated it.
"I told myself that I can't do politics by selling false dreams of undoing these decisions and it's better to quit and tell the truth to the people," he said in written replies.
The doctor-turned-bureaucrat's political career ended suddenly with the Jammu and Kashmir People's Movement (JKPM), a party launched by him in February last year, announcing on Monday that he had stepped aside from its leadership and quit politics. The party's vice-president Feroze Peerzada was nominated as its interim president till formal elections can be held for the post.
About his decision of forming a political party, Faesal said he wanted to revive democratic politics in Jammu and Kashmir.
"But soon after quitting (IAS), I realised that my innocuous act of dissent was being seen as an act of treason. It had done more harm than the benefit," he said, adding that his act had discouraged a lot of civil services aspirants and his colleagues felt betrayed by him. "It upset me a lot," Faesal said.
Unsure about what the future has in store for him, Faesal said he always dreamt of a peaceful Jammu and Kashmir where there are best opportunities for education, health and employment.
"But I don't know how that is going to happen now. As of now, I am not sure about my next steps in life," he said.
Faesal had resigned from IAS before joining politics but his resignation has not yet been accepted, pending disposal of a show cause notice given to him by the government in 2018 for his controversial tweets. His name still figures in the list of 'serving' IAS officers on the official website of the Department of Personnel.
His decision to quit politics has prompted speculation that he may want to go back to government service if permitted.
The officials in the Home and Personnel ministry had said Fesal needs to first submit his explanation on the charges levelled against him after which the decision of accepting or rejecting his resignation would be taken.
Asked whether he was keen on re-joining the service, Faesal said, "It is a prerogative of the government... I have always said that I want to work within the system. Let's see what is in store for me... fingers crossed." Faesal, a 2010 batch officer, was critical of the scrapping of Article 370 of the Constitution on August 5 last year and was arrested from Delhi airport days later while he was boarding a flight to Turkey. He was subsequently taken into preventive detention and later booked under the draconian PSA, from which he was released in June.

In his first reactions after the Congress high command brokered a truce between rebel Congress MLAs and the party, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday struck a reconciliatory note and said that it is his responsibility to win back the hearts of the rebel MLAs of the party.&nbsp;Gehlot told reporters in Jaipur on Tuesday&nbsp;that&nbsp;he is&nbsp;the&nbsp;Chief Minister and if MLAs of&nbsp;his&nbsp;party are angry with&nbsp;him, then it is&nbsp;his&nbsp;responsibility how&nbsp;he&nbsp;manages&nbsp;to satisfy them and win back their&nbsp;hearts.&nbsp;Gehlot&rsquo;s statement came a day after the&nbsp;Congress high command met with former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot&nbsp;and announced that a three-member committee will be constituted to address the grievances of Pilot and his loyalist MLAs, a move that signals a breakthrough in the month-long political crisis in Rajasthan, ever since Pilot took off with 18 of his loyalist legislators.&nbsp;

India needs to work on the 72-hour formula, Prime Minister Modi said while addressing the Chief Ministers of 10 states most affected by Covid-19. He said that experts on the pandemic have argued that if within 72 hours of finding a person Covid-19 positive, all the people who have come in touch with them are traced and tested and positive among them quarantined, it could greatly help fight against the pandemic. He also called out the CMs of the ten states, including Bihar, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Telangana, for low testing rates. PM said, the role of each and every state is very significant in overall control of the spread of the disease.

Responding to Rajasthan&nbsp;CHief&nbsp;Minister Ashok&nbsp;Gehlot's&nbsp;'nikamma' remark, Sachin&nbsp;Pilot on Tuesday said, he was hurt by them. Pilot said, he imbibed certain values from his family, and no matter how much he opposes anyone, he has never used such language.&nbsp;
He added,&nbsp;Ashok&nbsp;Gehlot&nbsp;is elder to him and he respects him personally, but at the same time, he has the right to raise work-related concerns.
Pilot went on to say, he harbours no wish to have a post, these things come and go. His focus was to strengthen&nbsp;public&nbsp;confidence and trust in the govt
&nbsp;

A policeman in Tamil Nadu, accused in the custodial deaths of a father and son in Tuticorin district in June, died of Covid-19 on Monday. Sub-inspector Pauldurai was one of the 10 policemen arrested in connection with death of traders Jeyaraj and his son Beniks after alleged police torture. The incident sparked massive protest over their deaths. The 56-year-old cop, who was jailed at the central prison in Madurai, was hospitalised after he tested positive for coronavirus last month.

In an significant judgement, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that&nbsp;a daughter is entitled to equal property rights under the amended Hindu Succession Act even if father died before September 9 2005 when the law was amended. The three-judge bench held that rights under the amended law are applicable to living daughters irrespective of when they are born. Pronouncing the judgement, Justice Arun Mishra said: "Daughters must be given equal rights as sons, daughter remains a loving daughter throughout life. The daughter shall have equal rights throughout life, irrespective of whether her father is alive or not."

This is a story that will surely warm your hearts. An industrialist in Karnataka's Hubballi couldn't imagine a house warming without his late wife. So, to utter surprise of his guests, Srinivas Gupta brought her life-size statue to the ceremony. Created by a Bengaluru-based artist, the silicon statue to a year to be completed. Gupta said that his wife always wanted a house in Bhagyanagar and was there at the ground breaking ceremony before she died in a road accident in 2017. So he decided to get a statue decked up in all the fineries to the house warming.

Single-day Covid-19 cases in India dipped below 55,000 on Tuesday after the country recorded over 60,000 cases daily for four straight days, according to the Union Health Ministry data. With the fresh cases, India's Covid-19 tally has risen to 22.68 lakh, while the recoveries have surged pass 15.83 lakh, pushing the recovery rate to 69.80 per cent. With 871 deaths in the last 24 hours, the number of Covid fatalities has crossed 45,000. The Covid fatality rate in India has come down to less than 2%.

Maintaining peace along the disputed boundary and deepening strategic trust with India is one of China&rsquo;s diplomatic priorities, the Chinese foreign ministry has said. Spokesperson Zhao Lijian added that Beijing will try to expand &ldquo;shared interests&rdquo; with neighbours in the future. Zhao was responding to a question from the official Xinhua news agency on China&rsquo;s current diplomatic work and its diplomatic priorities looking ahead The Chinese official did not make any reference to the ongoing tension between India and China along the line of actual control in eastern

4G internet services will be allowed on a trial basis in one district each in Jammu and the Kashmir valley after August 15, the centre told the Supreme Court on Tuesday. In its latest submission to the Supreme Court in the ongoing 4G in Kashmir contempt matter, the Centre has said it will implement a &ldquo;carefully calibrated easing&rdquo; of the restrictions on high-speed mobile internet services in the Union Territory after August 15. Internet services were snapped in J&amp;K last year in August after Centre revoked the special status. While 2G and broadband services have slowly been brought back, in stages, 4G mobile internet continues to be restricted in the Valley.

Srinagar, PTI: The army has initiated an inquiry into an "encounter" carried out by its troops in a South Kashmir village, in which three alleged militants were killed, after families in Jammu region's Rajouri lodged written complaints saying as many of their members involved in labour work were missing from the same area.
On July 18, the army claimed three militants were killed in the higher reaches of Shopian in South Kashmir. However, no further details were shared.
On Monday, Srinagar-based Defence spokesperson Colonel Rajesh Kalia issued a brief statement saying the army has noted social media inputs linked to the operations at Shopian on July 18, 2020.
"The three terrorists killed during the operation have not been identified and the bodies were buried based on established protocols. The army is investigating the matter," Kalia said.
This has sparked a controversy with political parties demanding an impartial probe into the alleged encounter to ensure speedy justice.
The controversy started after some families filed a complaint with a police station in Rajouri stating that their three members are missing since July 17 from Ashimpora area of Shopian where they were working as labourers in apple and walnut orchards.
The families, who filed the police complaint jointly, gave pictures of their kin -- Mohammed Ibrar (21), Ibrar Ahmad (18) and Imtiaz Ahmad (26) -- which were subsequently shared with the Kashmir police for investigation.

Chennai, PTI: Tamil Nadu with yet another daily score of 5,000 plus cases on Monday crossed the three lakh Covid-19 infection mark, while states like Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka saw dip in their infections.
Tamil Nadu, behind Maharashtra in terms of the total positive cases, on Monday touched 3,02,815 infections while the death toll crossed the 5,000 mark with the addition of 114 fatalities.
The state saw 100 plus deaths for the eighth consecutive day as the toll was 5,041, a government Covid bulletin said.
The state took just 16 days to reach the three lakh mark compared to the 22 days it had taken for the two lakh milestone on July 25. The one lakh tally was recorded on July 3.
With 6,037 recoveries on Monday, cumulatively 2,44,675 people have got cured so far and only 53,099 were the active cases.
In the state's tally of total cases, capital city Chennai accounted for 1,10,121.
Karnataka saw a dip in daily cases, with the numbers dropping from the consistent 5,000 plus infections for the past few days to over 4,000 on Monday.
The state on Monday reported 4,267 new cases of Covid-19 and 114 related fatalities, taking the total number of infections to 1,82,354 and the death toll to 3,312, the health department said.
Andhra Pradesh saw a sharp fall from the over 10,000 cases on Sunday to 7,665 fresh cases today on the back of slimmer testing numbers.
The state had reported over 10,000 each for five consecutive days.

New York, PTI: A leading diaspora group in the US will hoist India&rsquo;s National Flag at the Times Square this week, the first time the Indian tricolour will be unfurled at the iconic New York City destination.
The Federation of Indian Associations (FIA) of the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut said in a statement that it &ldquo;will be creating history&rdquo; on August 15, 2020 by &ldquo;hosting the first ever flag hoisting ceremony at Times Square&rdquo; to commemorate India&rsquo;s Independence Day.
&ldquo;It will be the first time ever that India&rsquo;s tricolour will be unfurled at the iconic venue in all its glory,&rdquo; the organisation said, adding that Consul General of India in New York Randhir Jaiswal will be the Guest of Honour at the event.
The FIA said this year&rsquo;s Independence Day celebrations will include the flag-hoisting ceremony at Times Square and the annual tradition of illuminating the Empire State Building in hues of the tricolour - orange, white and green.
The Empire State lighting ceremony will be held on August 14.
&ldquo;The Times Square flag hoisting ceremony is a testament to the Indian-American community&rsquo;s growing patriotism and is a fitting tribute to the FIA which is celebrating its golden jubilee year,&rdquo; the organisation said.
Established in 1970, the FIA is among the largest umbrella diaspora organisations. The FIA annually organises its flagship event - the India Day Parade to mark India&rsquo;s Independence Day in August.
Top US political leaders, lawmakers as well as prominent members of the Indian-American community and celebrities from India have participated in the annual parade that draws a crowd of thousands in the heart of Manhattan each year.

US President Donald Trump on Monday said that India stands second in terms of coronavirus testing while no other country comes close to the United States. According to Donald Trump, while the US has tested close to 65 million people for coronavirus, India would be second with 11 million tests. "We have the number one testing in the world by far and also the highest quality tests," Trump told reporters.

New Delhi,&nbsp;PTI: Former President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday underwent a brain surgery at a military hospital here, and he tested positive for Covid-19 prior to the procedure, sources at the hospital said.
The surgery was carried out at the Army's Research and Referral (R&amp;R) hospital for removal of a clot in his brain, they told PTI.
Mukherjee is critical and is on ventilator support, the sources said.
At the same time, they said his vital parameters are stable and that the surgery was successful. A multidisciplinary team doctors is constantly monitoring the health of 84-year-old Mukherjee.
In the afternoon, the former President had tweeted: "On a visit to the hospital for a separate procedure, I have tested positive for Covid-19 today. I request the people who came in contact with me in the last week, to please self isolate and get tested for Covid-19." Following his tweet, wishes for an early recovery poured in on Twitter from a large number of people including leaders from across the political spectrum.
President Ram Nath Kovind spoke to Mukherjee's daughter Sharmistha and inquired about his health, the Rashtrapati Bhavan tweeted.
A powerful orator and scholar, he had been a Congress stalwart before he was elected as India's 13th President and served from July 2012 to 2017 in the top post.
"We wish former President Pranab Mukherjee a speedy recovery from Covid," the Congress said on its official Twitter handle.

New Delhi, PTI: Soon after his patch-up talks with senior Congress leaders, former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot on Monday night said he has never hankered after posts and his was a fight for principles.
Pilot, who made his first public appearance since he revolted against Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot a month ago, told reporters that he and the other MLAs raised organisational issues, the case of sedition filed by the SOG and the style of governance in the state, and expressed the hope that these will be addressed soon.
He was speaking after the rebel Congress MLAs met party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and K C Venugopal and aired their grievances.
The MLAs said the issues raised were in the party's interests.
"We raised issues of principles before the Congress leadership and welcome their assurance of time-bound redressal of our grievances," Pilot told reporters.
"I don't crave for any post or hanker after any position. The party has given a position and can take it back. I wanted that the respect be maintained and those who have worked hard in the formation of Congress government in Rajasthan be rewarded accordingly," the former deputy chief minister said.
Pilot said he has worked hard for bringing the Congress to power in Rajasthan and hoped the party would fulfil its promises made to the people.
Late Monday night, he tweeted, "I thank Smt Sonia Ji, @RahulGandhi Ji, @priyankagandhi Ji &amp; @INCIndia leaders for noting &amp; addressing our grievances.I stand firm in my belief &amp; will continue working for a better India, to deliver on promises made to the people of Rajasthan &amp; protect democratic values we cherish." After the meeting, AICC general secretary K C Venugopal said, "The Congress will go forward unitedly by mutually respecting each other and resolving concerns raised".
Pilot said some personal remarks have been made against him, but he has never used such language that hurts anyone.
"I feel there is no place for personal mudslinging in politics," he said.
The young Congress leader said all this while he did not respond to any personal remarks made against him and maintained dignity.
"We raised organisational issues, the case of sedition filed by the state SOG, the style of functioning and governance in Rajasthan," Pilot said.
"I raised my experiences of 1.5 years to the party leadership and said whatever was in the party's interest," he said.
Prior to the meeting, a three-member Committee was formed by Congress president Sonia Gandhi to address the grievances.
Sources said Priyanka Gandhi, Ahmed Patel and K C Venugopal will be part of this Committee.

Manipur CM N Biren Singh won the confidence motion via voice vote in the Assembly on Monday, retaining the coalition government led by the&nbsp;BJP&nbsp;in the northeastern state. Eight Congress legislators were absent during the voting.&nbsp;Singh had moved the trust motion on Friday in the wake of a no-confidence motion by the Opposition Congress. The Congress moved the no-confidence motion on July 28 after the state government did not act on the Opposition&rsquo;s demand to&nbsp;hand over to the CBI the high-profile drug seizure&nbsp;case involving former&nbsp;BJP&nbsp;leader Lukhosei Zou.

Congress leader&nbsp;Rahul Gandhi on Monday called out the BJP&nbsp;government for betraying the&nbsp;Covid-19 frontline&nbsp;workers. Rahul&nbsp;blamed the government for not providing the corona warriors with adequate protective equipment. Tagging a news report that described the poor working conditions of the health workers, Rahul&nbsp;tweeted that the public expressed confidence in Modi&nbsp;government by clapping for Corona Warriors, but as always the government backed out from helping them out. The Indian Medical Association has recently written a letter to the the Prime Minister&nbsp;seeking&nbsp;insurance for the health workers across the country. Over&nbsp;196 doctors have died so far due to Covid-19 in 18 states.&nbsp;

Jharkhand&nbsp;Human Resource Development&nbsp;Minister Jagarnath&nbsp;Mahto&nbsp;has decided to resume his studies after a gap of 25 years. The 53-year-old had passed his matriculation in 1995 and has now applied for admission in class 11th in Bokaro's&nbsp;government-affiliated&nbsp;inter-college.&nbsp;Mahto&nbsp;whose HRD&nbsp;minister berth was questioned over his qualifications said that constant criticism inspired him to restart his formal education. While the state minister is planning for further studies in the Arts stream, he said that his first target was clearing the intermediate examinations as a regular student.&nbsp;

PTI,&nbsp;Jaipur:&nbsp;
&nbsp;Rebel Congress MLA Bhanwar Lal Sharma here on Monday met Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, indicating a patch-up between rival party factions.
After the meeting at Gehlot&rsquo;s official residence, Sharma said the "government was safe" and things will get clear by Tuesday. He said other rebel MLAs should also return to Jaipur. The meeting took place hours after dissident Congress leader Sachin Pilot met party leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in New Delhi.
Sharma is one of the 18 legislators who backed Pilot in the power tussle with CM Gehlot.
Earlier, the Rajasthan Police had lodged an FIR against him for the &ldquo;plot&rdquo; to topple the state government.
After meeting the CM, he told reporters, "It was an internal matter, which has now been resolved. There was no resentment against the party or the chief minister. The issue was related to the work of my areas. I have been assured that all work will be done." Sharma is said have been camping along with other rebel legislators in Haryana&rsquo;s Manesar since July 13.
Earlier, Sharma had said he will not join the BJP, but wants a change in the leadership.
He had said that situation will get clear once the floor test takes place. The seven-time MLA had then blamed Congress national general secretary Avinash Pande for the crisis.&nbsp;

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