BHUBANESWAR l wednesday l july 06, 2022 l `9.00 l PAGES 12 l JEYPORE EDITION England ride on twin centuries, retain Pataudi series 2-2 Jonny Bairstow Hosts hunt down 378 thanks to unbeaten tons from Jonny Bairstow and Joe Root. Draw five-match series that began almost 11 months ago. It’s their highest successful run chase ever in Test cricket Perfect execution of Bazball Playing aggressive, positive cricket is essentially what the new regime of Brendon McCulum and Ben Stokes have empowered the team to do. At the toss, Stokes said they like chasing and the team showed why 3 India has lost their last three Tests More questions for India While Rahul Dravid has enjoyed remarkable white-ball success since taking over, Test returns have disappointed. They have now lost 3 ties defending scores in excess of 200 thrice in last six months overseas England skipper Ben Stokes and Jasprit Bumrah share the Pataudi Trophy after the 5-match Test series ended in 2-2 draw | BCCI | P11 Bairstow liberated This time last year, Bairstow had lacked belief & was unsure of himself. His Test scores reflected that. A new style of play has benefited him the most and now has 4 tons in last 5 innings 4.89 England’s run rate in the fourth innings 614 number of runs Bairstow has scored in eight innings under the captainship of Stokes CHENNAI ■ MADURAI ■ VIJAYAWADA ■ BENGALURU ■ KOCHI ■ HYDERABAD ■ VISAKHAPATNAM ■ COIMBATORE ■ KOZHIKODE ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ■ BELAGAVI ■ BHUBANESWAR ■ SHIVAMOgGA ■ MANGALURU ■ TIRUPATI ■ TIRUCHY ■ TIRUNELVELI ■ SAMBALPUR ■ HUBBALLI ■ DHARMAPURI ■ KOTTAYAM ■ KANNUR ■ VILLUPURAM ■ KOLLAM ■ TADEPALLIGUDEM ■ NAGAPATTINAM ■ THRISSUR ■ KALABURAGI Twitter drags Odisha tops country in ensuring food security govt to HC over take-down fiat E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Bhubaneswar Describes it as abuse of power by officials E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e ers’ protest, blocked. On June 26, acting on the government’s request, Twitter blocked over Social media platform Twit- 80 accounts. ter on Tuesday moved the KarTwitter has been subjected to nataka High Court against the police investigation. Last year, Centre’s order last week to take some Central government mindown content under Section isters moved to Koo, a social 69A of the Information Tech- media platform, holding Twitnology Act, alleging abuse of ter responsible for not complypower by the officials. ing with domestic Indian laws. Twitter’s response comes in While news agency Reuters the wake of a government reported that MeitY did not warning that it had failed comment on Twitter’s deto comply with two take cision to move court, ofdown orders from the ficials told PTI that the Ministry of Electronsocial media platform ics and Information has complied with the Technology (MeitY), isJune 27 notice as it did sued on June 6 and 9. not want to lose liabilIn its warning of ‘No advance ity exemptions availalast week, the governble as a content host. notice’ ment pointed out that In its plea, Twitter In its plea before argued that some reTwitter could lose its protection as an inter- the court, Twitter moval orders were not argued that mediary under the in accordance with the some of the new IT regulations if procedural requiregovernment it continued to be in ments of the IT Act. orders did not violation of the rules. The ministry has give advance It had set a deadline of been considering some July 4 for Twitter to notice to authors amendments to the IT of the content comply with its order. law, including setting said to be The IT Act empowers up a government-run objectionable. the gover nment to appeals panel that Twitter has an block public access to would have the power content in the interest estimated 24 mn to reverse the content users in India of national security, moderation decisions. besides other reasons. These measures, it arThe confrontation came to a gued, were needed because the head last year when the govern- firms violated the rights of ment wanted several Twitter many Indians. handles, including internationFor the record, industry al advocacy group Freedom transparency reports have House, politicians, journalists pointed out that Indian governand many individuals who ment requests for content take were supportive of the farm- downs are among the highest. @ New Delhi ODISHA has been ranked number one state in the country by the Centre in the state ranking index NFSA-2022 for creating resilient food systems to optimise the delivery of benefits. This was announced by Union Food Minister Piyush Goyal at New Delhi on Tuesday in the conference of Food ministers on food and nutrition security . Odisha which got an index score of 0.836 is followed by Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh in the second and third place respectively While UP got . index score of 0.797, Andhra was close behind with score of 0.794. The assessment framework for ranking the States and Union Territories is built on three key pillars, which covers endto-end implementation of National Food Security Act (NFSA) through Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS). The three pillars are - coverage, targeting and provisions of the Act, delivery platform and nutrition initiatives. In the first pillar of NFSA coverage, targeting and provisions of the Act, Odisha is at fourth position with a score of 0.870. The State is behind Jharkhand, UP, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman Diu. In the second pillar, Odisha is also at fourth position with a score of 0.790 behind Bihar, Andhra Pradesh and Telengana. The first pillar has 45 per cent weightage while the second pillar has 50 per cent weightage. The third is an evolving pillar and accordingly, a minimalistic weightage has been assigned to it. The first pillar has been divided into three aspects of beneficiary coverage and rightful targeting, other provisions of NFSA and grievance resolution with 15 per cent weightage each. Lucknow/ Kolkata: Amid widespread outrage over a poster of the documentary film, Kaali, which portrays a woman dressed as Goddess Kali smoking a cigarette, the Uttar Pradesh Police registered an FIR against the filmmaker, the associate producer and the editor on Tuesday. The Delhi Police too registered a case against Leena Manimekalai | P7 ment on the attack on his Wayanad office was intentionally or otherwise mixed up with the IN what could be called a case Udaipur killing in the telecast. of one-upmanship in khaki, a The TV channel has since apolChhattisgarh police team that ogized and attributed it to “huhad arrived with an arman error”. rest warrant at the The day’s drama bedoorstep of a TV jourgan around 5.30 am nalist at Indirapuram when Zee TV anchor Roin Ghaziabad had to hit Ranjan spotted the hang around emptyChhattisg arh police handed as its UP counteam outside his resiterparts took the jourdence. He reportedly Rohit Ranjan n a l i s t aw a y. T h e went to the bathroom attempt to arrest was and tweeted, “Chhattisbased on an FIR against him for garh police are standing outairing a doctored video clip of side my house to arrest me Congress leader Rahul Gan- without informing the local podhi’s comments. Rahul’s state- lice, is it legal?” He also tagged E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Lucknow/Raipur Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, Ghaziabad SSP and ADG zone Luckow. Shortly thereafter, a Ghaziabad police team arrived at the spot and did not let the visiting police to arrest him. Later, the Noida police came in and took Ranjan away saying he is wanted in a case in Noida. In response to Ranjan’s tweet, Chhattisgarh police said: “There is no such rule to inform. Police team has shown you the court’s warrant of arrest. You should cooperate, join in the investigation and put your defence in court.” The Chhattisgarh Police are now exploring legal avenues. Naqvi, Capt, Arif, Najma in list of V-P probables New Delhi: From the ruling NDA, three names from the Muslim community and one from the Sikhs are doing the rounds for the post of the second highest constitutional position, the Vice President. The Election Commission on Tuesday issued a notification for the August 6 polls to elect the 16th Vice President, setting in motion the process of filing nominations by candidates | P7 Mumbai mess A school girl with her guardian wades through a flooded street following heavy monsoon rains, in Mumbai on Tuesday | PTI Jab-o-meter July 4 10,09,757 doses Take July 5 8,80,841 doses your shot Total: 1,98,19,70,798 NATIONWIDE July 4 July 5 odisha july 4 july 5 Fresh cases 16,135 13,086 Fresh cases Recoveries 13,958 12,456 Recoveries Deaths 24 19 Deaths 245 129 0 334 139 0 ‘Alarming’ Covid rise in India: WHO India has reported a 25 percent rise in new Covid-19 cases and a 53 percent rise in coronavirus-related deaths in the last week of June, shows the epidemiological update on Covid-19 issued by the World Health Organisation (WHO) | P7 IAF record Dad, daughter fly fighter planes in formation M AYA N K SI N G H @ New Delhi The Indian Air Force has just broken new ground with a father and his daughter flying in formation on a combat proficiency mission. Air Commodore Sanjay Sharma and Flying Officer Ananya Sharma created the record on May 30, when they flew in the same formation of Hawk-132s at the Air Force Station in Bidar, where Ananya is undergoing training. IAF spokesperson Wing Commander Ashish Moghe said, “There has not been any previous instance in the IAF where a father and his daughter were part of the same fighter formation for a mis- Flying Officer Ananya Sharma (L) and Air Commodore Sanjay Sharma | IAF Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik meets Independent MLA from Rayagada Makaranda Muduli at Naveen Nivas on Tuesday | Express Naveen reaches out to MLAs for Murmu support the BJD Pranab Prakash Das also met leader of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) NarasCHIEF Minister Naveen Pat- ingh Mishra at his chamber in naik on Tuesday started his the Assembly during which the campaign for the NDA Presi- Chief Minister had a telephondential candidate Droupadi ic discussion with Mishra seekMurmu by seeking the support ing his support for the NDA of Congress MLAs as well as Presidential candidate. “Spoke the only Independent legislator to Odisha Congress Legislature in the Assembly ahead Party Leader Narasof her visit to the State ingh Mishra seeking on July 8. support for Smt DrouIndependent MLA padi Murmu. It is a from Rayagada Makamatter of great pride Spoke to Odisha Congress randa Muduli met the for Odisha. Appealed Chief Minister at Legislature Party him to ensure the vicNaveen Nivas in the Leader Narasingh tory of the daughter Mishra seeking evening. Describing of Odisha to the highsupport for Smt Murmu as the daughest office of the counDroupadi Murmu. ter of Odisha and try he tweeted. ,” Appealed him to pride of the State, A three-member ensure victory of Naveen sought his team of BJD leaders the daughter of support to which he including Das, Food Odisha to the highest office of agreed. Naveen reiterSupplies and Consumthe country ated his appeal to all er Welfare Minister the members of the Atanu Sabyasachi Naveen Patnaik, CM Assembly to ensure N ay a k a n d M L A every vote in Murmu’s Pranab Balabantray favour. met president of the Odisha “Independent MLA Makara- Pradesh Congress Committee nda Muduli met me today. Re- (OPCC) Sarat Pattanayak at his quested his support for the Kalinga Vihar residence here daughter of Odisha, Smt Drou- and sought the party’s support. padi Murmu in the Presiden- Murmu and Union Education tial election which he agreed to. Minister Dharmendra PradShe is the pride of Odisha. Re- han had recently sought the iterate my appeal to all mem- support of the Congress members to ensure every vote in her bers. They had separate telephonic discussions with favour,” he tweeted. CONTINUED ON: P5 Mishra. Organisational secretary of E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Bhubaneswar Another girl student ends life in Capital Bhubaneswar: Less than a week after a girl student of BJB Autonomous College allegedly took the extreme step, another girl of a city-based engineering college died by suicide on Tuesday. The 22-year-old victim was a first year Masters in Computer Science (MCA) student. A native of Tihidi in Bhadrak, she took the extreme step at her rented house at Acharya Vihar | P7 have been fully automated with provision for real-time electronic recording of doorstep delivery of 1.87 lakh MT foodgrains per month at 12,133 fair price shops across the State. One Nation One Ration Card (ONORC) programme has been implemented across the State from July 2021. PDS beneficiaries are now availing intra-state/ inter-state portability of ration cards and able to choose any fair price shops of their choice and convenience to receive their monthly entitlements. Around 1.10 lakh families are receiving ration through the intra-state facility and 533 families receiving ration through interstate facility every month. Khaki vs khaki outside TV journo’s home express read Filmmakers booked over Kali poster The second pillar has been divided into allocation and movement and last mile delivery with 25 per cent weightage each. Official sources said that since implementation of NFSA in the State in 2015, Odisha has followed it up with a robust endto-end computerization of TPDS operations. A digitized beneficiaries database of 3.25 crore has been hosted in public domain, dynamically updated in 378 ration card management system (RCMS) centres, one each in 314 block and 64 urban local bodies (ULBs). Besides, all the 152 food storage depots of Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare department sion.” Since a very early age, Ananya wanted to be a fighter pilot. But, at that time the stream was not open for women. Whenever she would bug her dad about it, he would reassure, “Don’t worry you will be one.” “Ananya after getting commissioned as fighter pilot came and saluted me. It made me really proud,” beamed Air Commodore Sharma. “It was the biggest day of my life when I flew with Ananya,” he added in a video put out by the IAF. Air Commodore Shar ma was commissioned in the fighter stream in 1989. He has had an extensive experience of fighter operations, having commanded a MiG-21 squad- ron as well as a frontline fighter station. When the first women fighter pilots of the IAF entered service in 2016, Ananya saw her lifelong dream was now achievable. Having completed her B Tech in Electronics and Communication, she was selected for training. She was commissioned as a fighter pilot in December 2021. Her mother Sonal Sharma said, “I am extremely happy and proud. The feelings I experienced when both Sanjay and Ananya had got airborne in the same formation cannot be expressed in words. It was a feeling way beyond any happiness or satisfaction that I have experienced till now.” Scare as SpiceJet plane lands in Karachi A RS H A D K H A N & Y E S H I S E L I @ New Delhi Budget carrier SpiceJet flew into rough weather on Tuesday as its Delhi-Dubai flight had to be diverted to Karachi due to mulfunctioning of the fuel indicator and another domestic flight had to request priority landing in Mumbai after cracks developed on its windshield. Following the two back-toback incidents on Tuesday, the total number of technical snags reported on SpiceJet aircraft in the past 17 days rose to seven. In both the incidents, the aircraft landed safely and passengers were safely disembarked. Sources say that the Boeing 737 MAX plane flying from Delhi to Dubai showed unusual loss in fuel quantity when it was mid- SpiceJet Boeing 737 Max aircraft at Karachi Airport on Tuesday | PTI air. However, no visual leak was noticed during an inspection in Karachi. In the second incident, the windshield of a Q400 plane flying from Kandla to Mumbai cracked at 23,000 feet altitude. “During cruise, the windshield of the outer windshield pane cracked,” a spokesperson said. Officials at DGCA said it is probing the two incidents on Tuesday, along with five incidents in the recent past. On July 2, a SpiceJet flight heading to Jabalpur returned to Delhi after crew members observed smoke in the cabin at around 5,000-feet altitude. On June 19, it experienced two incidents — of engine malfunction and cabin pressurisation. Earlier, the DGCA had slapped `10 lakh fine on the airline for the faulty stimulator and barred 90 SpiceJet pilots from flying B737 Max aircraft. However, SpiceJet claims the airline’s flights are absolutely safe. “Safety of our passengers, crew and aircraft is paramount to SpiceJet. We have been regularly audited by DGCA,” the spokersperson said. SpiceJet has been making losses for the past three years. The carrier’s auditors have repeatedly raised doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.