Good morning, The Big Story In its first full year as the newest Union Territory of the country, Jammu and Kashmir witnessed a 22 per cent rise in recruitment to militant ranks. The number of law and order incidents, however, plunged 75 per cent in comparison to the previous year. Only in the Express For 30 years INS Viraat guarded Indian coasts. Now, it lies anchored 300 feet away from the beach. We traveled to Alang shipbreaking yard in Gujarat to see how India's iconic aircraft carrier is being broken down, piece by piece, with the help of gas cutters and a 30-tonne crane. In the latest edition of Idea Exchange, CSIR chief Dr Shekhar Mande spoke about “guarded optimism” over drop in Covid-19 cases, the effectiveness of vaccines, and explained hygiene hypothesis and why he believes our immune system can deal with new strains. From The Front Page Partho Dasgupta, former BARC India CEO, has claimed in a handwritten statement to Mumbai Police that he received US$12,000 from Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami for two separate holidays and a total of Rs 40 lakh over three years, in return for manipulating ratings in favour of the news channel, according to the supplementary chargesheet filed in the TRP scam case. As many as 61 teachers at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, are locked in an unprecedented standoff with the institute’s director, who is also an alumnus of the institute, alleging that she has centralised powers in her hands and usurped their role in administration and decision-making.
An Oxfam report, titled ‘The Inequality Virus’, has found that as the pandemic stalled the economy, forcing millions of poor Indians out of jobs, the richest billionaires in India increased their wealth by 35 per cent.
Must Read A village in Maharashtra's Latur district picked an all-woman panchayat in the recently held polls. Home to 635 people, mostly farmers, Gaur has in the past five years taken strides in social welfare. One of the changes the village takes great pride in is the normalisation of the conversation around menstruation. Taking cue from the Bollywood film Nayak, 19-year-old Shristi Goswami was made the symbolic Chief Minister of Uttarakhand for a day. She sat through review meetings of government works, detailed presentations on crime and also defended the government against remarks made by the Leader of the Opposition. The pall of the pandemic sat heavy on this year’s edition of IFFI. It was visible in the absence of any large crowds near any of the seven venues where the movies were screened. Officials, however, said the objective this year wasn’t to get the crowds, but to ensure that “people who matter” were present. ICYMI And Finally... Two men were detained and questioned for eight hours through Saturday-Sunday night and three women for at least three hours Sunday morning by the Delhi Police — all because they were heard saying “Pakistan Zindabad” as part of a cycling game near a metro station in New Delhi late Saturday night. Their ordeal ended only by noon with the police admitting that “Pakistan Zindabad” was said in a “lighter vein”, and no case was made out. Until tomorrow, Leela Prasad G 
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