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India end 11-year title drought, lift T20 World Cup in Barbados RAINFALL: 92.4 mm RELATIVE HUMIDITY Men In Blue hold their nerve to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, beat South Africa by 7 runs in final Max. 98% TRIDIB BAPARNASH TEMPERATURE Max: 31.6 °C (-1.3) SUN RISES 04:52 hrs MOON RISES 12:28 hrs Min.85% Min: 27.2°C (+0.4) SUN SETS 18:22 hrs MOON SETS 00:6 hrs New Moon on 06 July THUMBNAILS Pedestrians wade through a waterlogged street in Kolkata on Saturday.  MOUL MONDOL EPF amended to provide withdrawal benefit to members having less than 6 months service: The government has amended the Employees’ Pension Scheme (EPS), 1995 to ensure that EPS members with less than 6 months of contributory service also receive withdrawal benefits.This amendment will benefit more than 7 lakh EPS members every year who leave the scheme with less than 6 (Page 5) months of contributory service. This was my last T20 World Cup: Virat Kohli NEW DELHI, 29 JUNE ixteen needed off the final six balls, and Hardik Pandya gets rid of South Africa’s last recognised batter, David Miller, off the first ball of the final over ~ SKY seizing the moment with a sensational catch! There was no dearth of emotions and drama in the title clash for the ICC men’s T20 World Cup but Rohit Sharma & Co held their nerves to finally end the title drought after 11 long years. Tears of joy rolled down the cheeks of the Indian players as the celebrations sparked off with hugs from the teammates. India snatched victory from the jaws of defeat with a change of strategy in the 16th over of the chase, before Pandya kept his nerves to help the team to a seven-run triumph in a befitting sendoff to outgoing head coach Rahul Dravid. Chasing the highest World Cup final target of 177, SA were jolted with two early blows with just 12 on the board before Quinton de Kock and Tristan Stubbs S NEW DELHI, 29 JUNE (L) Virat Kohli on the way to a 56-ball 76 during the ICC Mens T20 World Cup final against South Africa, at Kensington Oval in Barbados on Saturday; (R) Indian players celebrate the dismissal of South Africa's Reeza Hendricks. ANI stabilised the innings with a 58-run stand. Axar Patel gave India a breather by crashing through Stubbs’ legs after he fired a 21-ball 31. Heinrich Klaasen then joined the party to keep the Proteas in the hunt. He took Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja and KuldeepYadav to the cleaners before de Kock (39 off 31 balls) tried to do an encore against Arshdeep Singh, but perished, holing out to Kuldeep at the fine leg fence. Klaasen and David Miller kept the tempo alive and the turnaround came in the 15th over when Klaasen hit Axar for two sixes and as many fours to fetch 24 runs and bring the equation do- wn to 31 off 30 balls. In the process, Klaasen brought up his 50 off 23 deliveries and almost threatened to take the cup from India’s grasp. But Rohit got back in his faster men, and with SA needing 30 off 30 from the final five, Bumrah almost had set it up in the 16th over for Pandya to pack back Klaasen after the latter nicked one behind to walk back after scoring a 27-ball 52. Bumrah then sent back new man Marco Jansen (2) to raise India’s hopes, even as SA pinned their hopes on their last recognised batter in David Miller. But it was simply not their day in the end. Earlier, India’s talismanic Arvind Kejriwal sent to 14-day judicial custody STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, 29 JUNE A special court in Delhi on Saturday sent Chief Minister and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal to 14-day judicial custody in the excise policy case. Mr Kejriwal was brought before the court at the Rouse Avenue complex by the CBI upon the expiry of the 3-day remand in connection with the corruption case linked to the liquor policy case. Vacation Judge Sunena Sharma sent the AAP chief to judicial custody till 12 July. Advocate DP Singh, appearing for the CBI, while seeking direction to send Mr Kejriwal into judicial custody, alleged that during the police remand, Mr Kejriwal was questioned but he did not cooperate with the investigation and deliberately gave evasive replies. The counsel said he did not give a proper explanation regarding the enhancement of the prof- it margin for wholesalers from 5 to 12 per cent under the new Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22, without any study or justification. He also could not explain why during the peak of 2nd wave of Covid, the Cabinet approval for a revised Excise Policy was obtained through circulation in a hurried manner. Five soldiers killed after T-72 tank swept away near LAC STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE JAMMU, 29 JUNE A junior commissioned officer (JCO) was among five Army personnel killed early morning on Saturday when a T-72 tank was swept away in the Shyok river near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China in the Eastern Ladakh region. Confirming the mishap, a defence spokesperson said in a statement: “On 28 June night, while deinducting from a military training activity, an army tank got struck in the Shyok River, near Saser Brangsa, Eastern Ladakh due to sudden increase in the water level. Rescue teams rushed to the location, however, due to high current and water levels, the rescue mission didn't succeed and the tank crew lost their lives. Indian Army regrets loss of five brave personnel while being operationally deployed in Eastern Ladakh. Rescue operations are underway.” Army sources said that the tank belonged to the 52 Armoured Regiment . The tank was moving towards Tangste in the Leh district and the mishap occured some distance away from the Galwan valley. The tank turned turtle in the river at about 3 am and the strong current of water swept it away. The bodies of the killed soldiers have been recovered, reports said.The killed JCO has been identified as MRK Reddy. The four jawans have been identified as: Bhupender Negi, Akdum Taibam, Havaldar A Khan and Nagraj P . right-hander Virat Kohli came up with a calculative half century to propel India to a competitive 176 for 7. Kohli, who had come to the final with just 75 runs from seven innings, finally got into his groove when it mattered the most for the team. Despite India losing Rohit Sharma for a 5-ball 9, and then Rishabh Pant for a duck in the same over, it hardly mattered to Kohli. Suryakumar Yadav (3) also perished cheaply. Axar Patel, was promoted up the order after the mini collapse saw India struggling at 34 for 3 inside the powerplay, grabbed the opportunity with both hands, putting together a 72-run partnership for the fourth wicket with Kohli. With India comfortably getting past the three-figure mark, and the two batters set to change gears, Axar departed to a mix-up after slamming a 31-ball 47, laced with a boundary and four massive sixes. Shivam Dube continued from where Axar left off and kept swinging at 150+ strike rate, to ensure the Indian innings never stalled. Kohli got to his fifty off 48 balls, and switched gears, depositing Kagiso Rabada over long on and then getting a boundary to help India cross the 150-run mark. He eventually departed for Moments after India clinched the ICC T20 World Cup, batting maestro Virat Kohli announced that the T20 World Cup was his last appearance in the shortest format. “This was my last T20 World Cup, and this is what we wanted to achieve. One day you feel you can't get a run, then things happen. God is great, and I got the job done for the team on the day it mattered,” SNS Kohli said. a 59-ball 76, laced with six fours and two sixes. Modi hails India’s feat Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed India’s historic feat, immediately after India beat the Proteas in the title clash. “CHAMPIONS! Our team brings the T20 World Cup home in STYLE! We are proud of the Indian CricketTeam.This match was HISTORIC,” PM Modi tweeted. Judiciary should be unbiased: CM STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE KOLKATA, 29 JUNE West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday stressed that the judiciary should be sacred, honest and free from political bias and judges also should refrain from allowing personal beliefs to influence their rulings. The sentiments were echoed by the Chief Justice of India (CJI), DY Chandrachud. Speaking at the inaugural programme of the East Zone II regional conference of the National Judicial Academy in the city on Saturday, Miss Banerjee called for a judiciary free from any political bias, maintaining that it should be ‘absolutely pure’ and ‘honest’. “Please see to it that no political bias should be there in the judiciary. It must be absolutely pure, honest and sacred. Let people worship it,” she said. The CJI in his address focused on how judgments should be based on constitutional morality and not a judge’s concept of morality. Calling judges ‘servants and not masters of the constitution’, he warned the judiciary of the pitfalls of personal values and beliefs of judges interfering with judgments that are opposed to values enshrined in the Constitution.