bhubaneswar l tuesday l november 22, 2022 l `9.00 l PAGES 12 l jeypore EDITION New norms to curb fake, paid reviews on Amazon, Flipkart E-commerce platforms will now have to disclose all paid consumer reviews of products and services on their sites Compliance will be VOLUNTARY INITIALLY New Standards to protect consumers The Department of Consumer Affairs on Monday launched a framework titled ‘Indian Standard (IS) 19000:2022 ‘Online Consumer Reviews — Principles and Requirements for their Collection, Moderation and Publication’. Initially, the standards will be voluntary for compliance by e-commerce firms but may be made mandatory if the menace continues ■ Online reviews play a vital role in making purchase decisions on e-commerce platforms and, therefore, reviews should be legitimate, accurate and not misleading, said Consumer Affairs Secretary Rohit Kumar Singh. “We are probably the first country in the world to formulate standards for online reviews,” he added IS 19000:2022 WILL BE applicable to EVERY platform THAT publishES consumer reviews 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 Goods train crashes at Korai, 3 dead 14 wagons of the freight train derailed, ramming into the foot over bridge, reaching up to its roof Mother’s last act of bravery & a miracle child Train derailments in 2022 February 9, 2022 - Wagon of an iron-ore laden goods train from Nayagarh to Hubli in Karnataka derails August 23, 2022 - Five coaches of a goods express read Hospitals struggle to care for wounded after Indonesia quake Cianjur: Surrounded by chaos, panicked residents still filled the streets and hospitals of a West Javan town on Monday hours after a quake killed at least 162 people and injured hundreds. The shallow tremor, with a magnitude of 5.6, brought down the roofs and walls of homes built on the town’s hilly landscape. Many were made more vulnerable by the use of wood, mud and concrete in their construction. Emergency workers raced to treat victims in any outdoor space possible | P9 Meta tools to protect minors on FB, Insta Meta, the company that owns social media platforms Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, said on Monday that teens’ privacy settings will be ‘private’ when they join. Plus, the Message button will be deactivated when their profiles are viewed by ‘suspicious’ adults | P10 train derails near Bhubaneswar railway station affecting traffic on the Bhubaneswar-Kolkata route As i s h M e h ta /Am u lya Pat i @Bhubaneswar/Jajpur September 12, 2022 - Four coaches of Visakhapanam-Kirandul passenger special train derails between Jeypore and Chatriput stations in Koraput September 17, 2022 - Howrah-Bhubaneswar Jan Shatabdi Express derails at level crossing near Bhadrak Station Yard after hitting a bull October 22, 2022 - Three coaches of the Puri- Howrah express derails near Malatipatapur station near Puri S u d a r s a n M a h a r a n a /Am u lya Pat i @ Bhubaneswar/Jajpur A GOODS train crashed into Korai railway station in Jajpur district killing three persons all of them women - in the early hours of Monday. The mishap crippled train traffic movement along the busy Howrah-Chennai route before one line could be reopened for operation about 12 hours later. So intense was the mishap that 14 wagons of the freight train derailed, ramming into the foot over bridge, almost reaching up to its roof. Eight of the wagons hurtled into the waiting area of the station and then headed into the ticket counter, damaging the railway station building in the process. A small crowd of passengers, heating up First Rahul-Modi sparring match on Gujarat poll turf Derailed wagons in a pile up at Korai railway station in Jajpur dist | DEBADATTA MALLICK waiting to catch a morning train, watched with horror as the speeding goods train jumped the tracks and headed right into them. The three who lost their lives were identified as 55-year-old Parbati Bindhani, her daughter Kandhei Bindhani and Abujan Bibi (47). Four others who suffered injuries were hospitalized and are receiving treatment. Even as reasons behind the derailment were being ascertained, the Railways ordered an independent probe by Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) working under the Ministry of Civil Aviation. The freight train was heading from Dongoaposi to Chhatrapur when it derailed at around 6.44 am at Korai which falls in Bhadrak-Kapilash railway sec- Record-breaker Jagadeesan lights up Chinnaswamy BENGALURU: Less than a week after being released by Chennai Super Kings, TN batterN Jagadeesan has stacked up record after record in the ongoing Vijay Hazare Trophy. Monday was the highlight of all as Jagadeesan smashed a record-breaking 277 against Arunchal Pradesh at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, registering the highest-ever individual score List-A cricket D i l i p S i n g h K s h at r i ya agar, saying those who have been thrown out of power by the people are now taking out a Campaigning for the Decem- padyatra to return to power. ber 1 first phase of Gujarat As“Some people are doing a padsembly elections beyatra to get back to came spicy on Monday power. They are also with Congress leader taking along those who Rahul Gandhi addresshad stalled the Narmaing his first poll rally da dam project for 40 in the state, and Prime years through litigaMinister Narendra tion and kept Gujarat Modi mocking him thirsty In this election, . over his Bharat Jodo people of Gujarat will Yatra. punish those who were At a rally Rahul adagainst the Narmada There was a time dressed in Mahuva in project,” he said, alludwhen there was Surat district after taking to anti-dam activacute water ing a break from the shortage. I had said ist Medha Patkar joinSurendranagar yatra, he sought to ing Rahul’s yatra in strengthen his party’s district will be the Maharashtra a few traditional bond with biggest beneficiary days ago. of the Narmada tribals in Gujarat, sayHe went on to attack project. Today, I ing they have the first the Congress claiming stand validated right to land and forest it does not talk about resources across the development during country . elections any longer. Criticising the term “Instead, Congress Vanavasi used by the leaders are saying they BJP to describe the triwill show Modi his aubals, Rahul alleged kat (status). Just look that the real intention at their arrogance. behind using this term They do belong to a is to keep the tribal royal family, while I population in the foram merely a servant ests, far away from having no aukat,” They want you to modern education and live in the jungles. Modi quipped. health facilities. PointAt Rahul’s rally, After that, they ing out that the Adiva- start taking away Bharatsinh, son of the jungles from sis are real owners of former Congress heavthe land and forests in you. If it continues, yweight Madhavsinh India, he went on to al- in another 5-10 yrs, Solanki, attempted a lege that the current all the jungles will live translation of his be in the hands of 2 dispensation at the to 3 industrialists speech in Hindi into Centre wants strip the Gujarati but made a tribals off their land hash of it. The crowd and give them away to a few cheered as Bharatsinh was takindustrialists. en off midway by candidate As for Modi, he took pot shots Anant Patel. Rahul went on at Rahul without naming him at speaking in Hindi much to the a public meeting in Surendranrelief of the gathering. @ Ahmedabad Full Coverage: Page 12 Saka, Rashford shine for England Bukayo Saka and Marcus Rashford put last year’s European Championships loss behind them, combining to score three goals in England’s 6-2 rout of Iran on Monday. Both players missed penalties in the shootout loss to Italy in the Euro 2020 final and were then subjected to racist abuse. A year later, Saka scored twice at Khalifa International Stadium and Rashford came off the bench to add another with his first move tion of Khurda Road Division. The train, according to ECoR sources, was moving at a speed of 60 km to 70 km per hour. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced an ex gratia of `2 lakh to each of the next of kin of the deceased and sent Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Pramila Mallik to the spot to take stock of the situation. Railways Minister Ashwani Vaishnaw announced an ex gratia of `5 lakh to the next of kin of those who lost their lives in the accident. The Minister also announced `1 lakh will be given towards grievous injury and `25,000 for simple injury. Union Minister for Education and Skill Development Dharmendra Pradhan expressed condolences for the deContinued on P5 ceased.  DESTINY is a strange beast. Balaram Bindhani knows why He lost his wife . and mother-in-law but his two-andhalf month old child survived the mishap in what was nothing short of a miracle on Monday morning. Balaram, on his part, had a providential escape too. But as much as he wants to celebrate the fresh lease of life for him and the child, he mourns the loss of his wife. Police investigation basing on eyewitness account said, Balaram’s wife Kandhei was waiting with her son and mother Parbati to board a train when the derailed wagons came crashing into Korai railway station’s waiting hall. Locals claimed Kandhei possibly pushed her infant baby away on spotting the goods train hurtling into the platform. The 26-year-old mother perished, but not before saving her baby . Her mother Parbati too succumbed. Incidentally Balaram had just gone , to fetch tea and biscuits when the mishap took place. When he heard a deafening sound, he rushed back. “I saw two wagons crashing into the station and rushed inside. I spotted my wife and mother-in-law under the rubble,” he said. His toddler child Biswajit was rushed to a hospital and his condition is stated to be stable. Continued on P5 Congress to move SC against release of Rajiv case convicts P r e e t h a n a i r @ New Delhi DAYS after the Centre moved the Supreme Court against the premature release of six convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, the Congress on Monday said that it will file an intervention application in the review petition filed by the government. “We will file an intervention application in the review petition filed by the Centre,” AICC general secretary Jairam Ramesh told this newspaper. Intervention application means that a third party (intervener) may file a plea to ‘interrupt’ the proceedings of a case and claim a right to hearing in the interest of justice. Sources said the Congress will file the application in a few days, probably this week itself. On November 11, the Supreme Court had granted premature release of Nalini Sriharan, Robert Pais, Ravichandran, Suthenthira Raja alias Santhan, Shriharan alias Murugan and Jaikumar, who were serving life sentence in the case. Slowdown coming, warn Goldman Sachs, Crisil e X PRE S S n E W S s e R V I C E @ New Delhi WHILE India has so far managed to steer clear of the heat of the global slowdown, rating agencies feel the coming year will be different, as they continue to cut the country’s GDP growth projection for 2023. In the latest round of revisions, Goldman Sachs, Crisil and Icra have slashed India’s growth prospects. While Goldman Sachs has cut India’s growth projection to 5.9% in calendar year 2023 from 6.9% England hit Iran for six The 2020 Euro finalists have started their World Cup campaign with a massive 6-2 win over Iran. A look.. growth this year, Crisil revised down India’s FY23 growth forecast to 7% from 7.3% projected earlier. On its part, Icra halved the FY23 second quar ter growth estimate to 6.5% citing higher input costs and low external demand. “We expect growth to be a tale of two halves in 2023, with a slowdown in the first half,” Santanu Sengupta, India economist at Goldman Sachs, said in a note on Sunday. “In the second half, we expect growth to re-accelerate as global growth recovers, the net ex- FIFA says no to OneLove armbands Just hours before the first match on Monday, players wearing armbands in support of the “OneLove” campaign were set to take the field, FIFA warned they would be shown yellow cards — two of which lead to a player’s expulsion from that game and also the next. That changed the calculation for the seven European teams, which may have expected to be fined for the gesture Today’s matches England’s Bukayo Saka (L) celebrates scoring his team’s second against Iran on Monday | afp Group C: Argentina vs Saudi Arabia, 3.30 PM, Mexico vs Poland, 9.30 PM Group D: Denmark vs Tunisia, 6.30 PM, France vs Australia 12.30 AM on Wednesday Vaishnaw hits back, says state govt to be blamed for delay of railway line Ex p r e ss N e ws S e r v i c e @ Bhubaneswar AS the BJD and BJP engaged in a verbal duel over delay in execution of the Bargarh-Padampur-Nuapada railway line to gain political mileage for the forthcoming Padampur by-election, Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Monday held the state government responsible for no progress in the project. In a reply to the letter by Commerce and Transport Minister Tukuni Sahu, Vaishaw said the in-principle approval of the rail line project by the Ministry of Railways was conveyed to Odisha Rail Infrastructure Development Limited (ORIDL) way back on December 31, 2021. “As you know that ORIDL is under the administrative control of the Odisha government, Railway Board had intimated the in-principle approval to the project for taking up pre-investment activities in terms of the August 5, 2016 Continued on P5 letter of the Ministry of Finance,” Vaishnaw said.  2023 growth forecast Reserve Bank of India 7% Crisil 7% Goldman Sachs 5.9% Moody’s 4.8% port drag declines, and the investment cycle picks up,” he added. Crisil, which sees GDP growth further slowing down to 6% in fiscal 2024, cited the slowdown in global growth that has started impacting In- dia’s exports and industrial activity. “This will test the resilience of domestic demand,” said Dharmakirti Joshi, chief economist at Crisil. India’s merchandise exports dropped 17% in October 2022 to $29.73 billion from $35.78 billion in the same month a year ago, while merchandise trade deficit rose to $27 billion. According to Aditi Nayar, chief economist at Icra, Q2FY23 economic growth will slow down on account of mixed crop output and the ripple effect of global slowdown.