NEW DELHI 25 february 2024 SUNDAY `12 PAGES 24 facebook/TheMorningStandard X.com/TheMornStandard https://epaper.morningstandard.in Art of the Daily PLUS: 12 PAGES Sit, Pray, Love MAGAZINE Exclusive Voices As You Life It Sting Operation Pushpesh Pant Ravi Shankar Utkarsh Amitabh Anu Aggarwal Shashank Mani Prabhu Chawla Harvir Singh Geetha Ravichandran Japan’s Culture Kare ‘I Never Read About Myself Online’ amma speaks The Ascent of Man Rise to the Level of Pure Love Wayanad to WPL hero, Sajana’s incredible journey Mumbai. She promptly deposited the ball into the stand beEVERY now and then, sport hind long on. It has turned her throws up incredible stories. into an overnight star. Before the final ball of the Not long ago, she was strugmatch between Mumbai gling to even travel beIndians and Delhi Capitween places to play First . tals on Friday Sajeevan , Sunday year of WPL she was igSajana was just another Special nored. This year Mumplayer trying her craft bai Indian drafted her in a relatively new enterfor `15 lakh. The journey prise: Women’s Premier started in school, on paddy League. fields around her home at a vilShe needed to score five off lage (Mananthavady) in Wayathe last ball to steal the win for nad. Her romance with cricket K a lyani m an g a l e @ CHennai Haldwani mastermind, two others held in Delhi N A R E N D R A S E T H I @ Dehradun The Nainital Police arrested Abdul Malik, the mastermind behind the Banbhoonpura incident in Haldwani of Uttarakhand, in Delhi. “Malik has been brought to Haldwani for questioning, and will be presented in court afterwards. Two more suspects have been arrested, namely Mohammed Furkan and Mohammed Salim, who were accused of setting fire to the Banbhoonpura police station. So far, 81 rioters have been arrested in connection with this incident,” said Prahlad Narayan Meena, Senior Police Superintendent, Nainital. The incident in Banbhoonpura took place on the February 8. The administration and police team had gone to remove a madrasa and prayer site built on government land (Nazul). Local people attacked the team with stones and petrol bombs, resulting in more than 250 people getting injured and six people losing their lives. Police said the place where the municipal corporation and administration had gone to remove encroachments was under the control of Abdul Malik. During the stone pelting and arson that took place at that time, municipal property worth `2.44 crore was damaged, they said. While the authorities were preparing to tighten the noose around Abdul Malik, his lawyers filed a bail plea in court. This was due for hearing on February 27. However, the police traced his location and arrested him before the hearing. State police spokesperson Nilesh Anand Bharane said, “A reward of `50,000 will be given to the police team for this commendable feat.” L46 per person consumption a day by poorest Latest Household Consumption Expenditure Survey shows wide gap between rich & poor Average spends M o nika Yada v @ New Delhi The poorest 5% of the country survive on a daily consumption of just `46 per person in rural areas and `67 in urban areas, the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 2022-23 shows. The survey which took place after over a decade, , also shows the large gap in consumption between the bottom 5% and the top 5%. The per capita daily consumption for the richest 5% of the population is `350 in rural areas and `700 in urban areas. According to the survey, the average monthly per capita consumption (in current prices) in rural and urban areas was `3,773 and `6,459 respectively - 2.5 times the monthly consumption recorded in 2011-12. However, much of the growth in monthly consumption over the previous decade is because of inflation. In real term, monthly per capita consumption has grown by only 1.3 times in urban areas and 1.4 times in rural areas. At 2011-12 prices, the same expenditure stood at The bottom 5% of India’s rural `2,008 in rural India and `3,510 in urban India in 2022-23. This analysis, excludes the imputed valpopulation, ranked by MPCE, ues of items received free of cost through social has an average welfare programmes. The bottom 5% of India’s rural population has PCE of `1,373 while it is `2,001 an average monthly per capita consumption exfor the same penditure (MPCE) of `1,373 while it is `2,001 for category of the same category of population in the urban arpopulation in the eas. The top 5% of India’s rural and urban populaurban areas tion has an average MPCE of `10,501 and `20,824, respectively . Among the states, MPCE is the highest in SikAmong UTs, MPCE is highest kim for both rural and urban areas (`7,731 for ruin Chandigarh ral and `12,105 for urban). It is the lowest in Chhat(rural `7,467 and tisgarh (`2,466 for rural and `4,483 for urban). The urban `12,575), rural-urban difference in average MPCE among whereas it is the the states is the highest in Meghalaya (83%) followest in Ladakh lowed by Chhattisgarh (82%). The last time such a survey was conducted by the National Sample (`4,035) and Survey Office was in 2017-18, but the report was Lakshadweep (`5,475) for rural junked by the government after the findings indi& urban areas cated a fall in consumer spendings. The survey shows that the rural population spends an average of 46% on food items while the same is 39% for urban population Sajana S in MI colours | MI M U K E S H R A N J A N @ New Delhi The three criminal law codes — Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA) — would come into force from July 1, the Centre announced on Saturday . However, the provision related to cases of hit-and-run accidents — sub-section (2) of Section 106 — will be on hold. “In exercise of the powers con- Express read UP police recruitment exams off Post allegations of paper leak, the Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday cancelled the police constable recruitment examination which, it said, would be held in next six months. P8 Farmer stir to go beyond poll code Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee on Saturday said the Dilli-Chalo march will persist until their demands are met, potentially continuing beyond the implementation of code of conduct for the LS polls. P8 Speed kills Rescue operations on at a pond in UP’s Kasganj district on Saturday after an overloaded tractor trolley driven at high speed overturned and fell into it. As many as 22 people, including eight children, were killed | PTI Close on the heels of the SPCongress pact in UP the Oppo, sition’s INDIA bloc received another shot in the arm on Saturday with the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) announcing their seat-sharing deal in five states, including Delhi for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Apart from Delhi, they reached agreements for Haryana, Chandigarh, Gujarat and Goa. However, there will be no alliance in Punjab. The AAP will contest four out of the seven seats — West Delhi, South Delhi, East Delhi and New Delhi. The Congress will contest from three seats North East Delhi, North West Delhi and Chandni Chowk. Addressing a joint press conference here, Congress leader Mukul Wasnik said the AAP will contest two of the 26 seats in Gujarat, and one of the 10 seats in Haryana, while Congress will contest the rest of the seats in these states. The two seats allotted to the AAP in Gujarat are Bharuch and Bhavnagar. In Haryana, the AAP will contest from Kurukshetra. The AAP was represented by ministers Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj. posted by MI after the match. Away from the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Suman Sharma, the head coach of the Kerela women’s cricket team, was nervously watching the game. She also recollected the struggles Sajana had to go through. Apart from the humble background she has come from, the 2018 Kerala floods too wrecked havoc. “I think Sajana and I were going through the same emotions (laughs),” Suman told this daily “The 2018 floods . were particularly hard for her family,” said Suman, who had coached her for more than a decade. “The water covered all of the first floor where she was staying. I cannot even imagine how she and her family survived those difficult times.” Suman also said that the family supported her throughout. “To travel for cricket every day from the area she comes from was a challenge in itself,” Suman said. Rollout of new criminal justice laws on July 1; hit-and-run provision on hold Cong, AAP formalise deal for five states P reetha N air @ New Delhi took off in humble environs with her parents — her father Sajeevan is an auto driver and mother a panchayat councilor — struggling to meet her sporting ambitions. Sajana described her early struggles after the match where she recollected how she did not have funds to travel. “I didn’t have money to travel. When I got selected for the district, I started earning money, `150 per day and it was a big amount , for me,” Sajana said in a video Bharuch rumble With Bharuch and Bhavnagar going to AAP, late Congress leader Ahmed Patel’s son Faisal Patel and daughter Mumtaz Patel were upset as Bharuch was Patel’s seat ferred by sub-section (2) of section 1 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023), the central government hereby appoints the 1st day of July, 2024 as the date on which the provisions of the said Sanhita, except the provision of sub-section (2) of section 106, shall come into force.” The three codes were enacted to overhaul the criminal justice system by replacing the British era Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) and the Indian Evidence Act of 1872. Passed by Parliament on December 21, the codes got President Draupadi Murmu’s assent on December 25 last year. The Centre decided not to roll out the hit-and-run provisions in view of the promise it made to truckers. Truckers had staged a strike against stringent punishment for the accident — jail term up to 10 years and fine. Following talks, the government said Section 106 (2) will be implemented only after consulting the All India Motor Transport Congress. byju’s ceo says egm violative of rules Byju Raveendran said the EGM on Friday violated Articles of Association and shareholder agreement rules, and resolution to remove him isn’t binding P10
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