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E xtremely severe cyclonic storm “Amphan” made a landfall at Digha in West Bengal on Wednesday, leaving a trail of destruction which led to the death of three persons in the State. The cyclone claimed three lives in Odisha also. The cyclone with wind speed of 160-170 kmph, gust- ing to 190 kmph coupled with heavy rain hit the Digha coast in East Medinipur district around 2.30 pm, officials said. The cyclone barreled through coastal districts of West Bengal, unleashing copi- ous rain and windstorm, blow- ing away thatched houses, uprooting trees, electric poles and swamping low lying towns and villages, officials said. High velocity wind speed up to 120 km per hour uproot- ed hundreds of tree, electric poles and telecom infrastruc- ture and flattening fragile struc- ture. Amphan reached Kolkata with wind speed up to 120 km per hour at 7 pm on Wednesday evening, damaging several buildings. As per reports, three deaths have been reported from Balasore, Bhadrak and Kendrapara districts while three person, including two women were killed in Howrah district and Minakhan area of North 24 Parganas district due to uprooting of trees. Reports arriving in Kolkata from North and South 24 Parganas and East Midnapore said roofs of thatched houses were blown away, and twisted electric poles and broken and uprooted trees bore testimony to the devastation. Streets and homes in low lying areas of Kolkata were swamped with rainwater. A wall collapsed in Howrah near Union Minister Babul Supriyo’s residence and damaged several vehicle parked there. The muddy Hooghly river was rising under dark skies, while in the coastal resort of Digha, large waves were pounding the shore. Three coastal districts — South and North 24 Parganas and East Midnapore — will be the worst affected, besides, vast swathes of South Bengal districts such as Kolkata, Howrah, Hooghly, West Midnapore were the worst affected. Areas such as Sagar Island, Kakdwip and Diamond Harbour in South 24 Parganas and Digha and Haldia in East Midnapore were bat- tered by the storm, uprooting trees and electric poles and destroying many shacks. Despite losing its force a bit since Tuesday, the storm, which was categorised as super cyclone at one point of time, has left the two States on edge as it hollered on its destructive path over the Bay of Bengal. India Meteorological Department (IMD) Director General Mrityunjay Mohapatra, who jointly addressed the media with NDRF director general SN Pradhan, said the eye of Amphan, which is 30 km in diameter, has made landfall at around 2.30 pm between Digha in West Bengal and Hatiya Island in Bangladesh. I n further relaxation of lock- down rules, the Ministry of Civil Aviation is all set to start domestic flight operations from May 25 in a calibrated manner. Currently, only cargo and evacuation flight services are allowed. The Ministry will soon be announcing the stan- dard operating procedures (SOPs) for domestic air travel. In a tweet, Union Minister for Civil Aviation Hardeep Puri said all airports and air carriers are being informed to be ready for operations from May 25. The standard operat- ing procedures for passenger movement will be separately issued by the Ministry, Puri said. The Minister said only a small percentage of the total number of domestic flights will be operated at first and the number of flights will be increased later, depending on the initial experience. He said the option of keeping the mid- dle seats on flights vacant is not a viable one. “Even if you keep the mid- dle seat vacant, you’ll still have a situation where the pre- scribed distance for social dis- tancing isn’t followed. If you were to do it then you’d have to hike up the price of airline tick- ets by 33 per cent,” Puri said. The announcement came amid the fourth phase of the lockdown which was imposed by the Government on March 25 in order to combat the novel coronavirus outbreak in the country. The AAI on Sunday had also issued guidelines for pas- sengers once the flight services resume that include making mandatorily downloading of Aarogya Setu app on mobile phones for travelling by air, do a web-check in and carry a print out of their boarding pass before heading to the air- port to catch a flight. It also stated that air trav- elers must maintain a distance of four feet from co-passengers, wear a mask and other protec- tive gear, wash or sanitise their hands frequently and carry a 350 ml bottle of sanitiser all the time. The aviation sector has been hit hard by the pandem- ic as various countries, includ- ing India, decided to suspend commercial flights completely to curb the spread of the virus. Since March 25, Indian airlines have taken steps like fir- ing expat pilots, announcing pay cuts and leave without pay for employees to conserve cash. The first, second and third phase of lockdown were between March 25-April 14, April 15-May 3 and May 4-May 17, respectively. The fourth phase started from May 18 and would end on May 31. Cargo flights, medical evacuation flights, offshore helicopter operations and spe- cial flights approved by the avi- ation regulator DGCA have been allowed to operate as usual during the lockdown period. W ith Maharashtra witness- ing 2,250 new Covid-19 cases and 65 deaths on Wednesday, the country regis- tered total of 5,249 new cases 128 deaths. The total cases in India stood at 1,11,730 and 3,430 death with Uttar Pradesh yet to report till 11 pm on Wednesday night. Mumbai city alone witnessed 1,372 more cases with 41 deaths. Meanwhile coronavirus has infected more than 5 mil- lion people across the world. After Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu witnessed 743 cases, fol- lowed by Delhi 534 new cases and Gujarat 398 confirmed cases. Gujarat and Delhi had 30 and 10 deaths respectively. This was the biggest single day spike for Delhi. Apart from these States, out of the total around 5,249 new Covid-cases, 270 new cases were reported from Madhya Pradesh, 142 cases from West Bengal, 107 from Rajasthan. Andhra Pradesh witnessed 71 new cases. After registering low numbers for the last few days Kerala saw 24 new cases on Wednesday while Bihar reported 60 new cases. As per the latest data out of a total of 1,11,730 confirmed cases, 62,871 are active cases and 45,422 people have recov- ered till date. Out of the total 3,426 deaths in India, more than 40 per cent deaths (1,390) are from Maharashtra alone. After Maharashtra, Gujarat has witnessed the maximum num- ber of deaths with a total of 749. Madhya Pradesh has reported 267 deaths with 9 on Wednesday. West Bengal has seen total of 253 deaths, followed by Delhi 176 deaths and Rajasthan 143 deaths and Uttar Pradesh 143 deaths. Among the double digit deaths, Tamil Nadu’s tally reached 88 with three more deaths on Wednesday. Andhra Pradesh has a total death count of 53 and Telangana 38 and neighbouring Karnataka 41. Meanwhile situation is North Eastern region is in control with new 13 cases in Assam and 11 new patients in Manipur. Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand have 12 and 11 new patients on Wednesday. Jammu & Kashmir also have 73 new patients tested as positive with one death, taking the total death tally to 18. T aking into consideration the academic interest of large number of students, the Centre has decided to grant lockdown exemption to con- duct Board Examinations for Classes 10th and 12th. Home Minister Amit Shah said that the pending CBSE Class 10 and Class 12 board exams can be conducted dur- ing the nationwide lockdown in place to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Two days ago, the HRD Ministry announced the sched- ule of pending examination of the CBSE board exams for Class 10 and 12. The exami- nations will be conducted between July 1 to July 15 for 29 major subjects - including six exams for Class 10 students for North-East Delhi and 12 sub- jects for students of Class 12 to be held across the country. While wearing of face masks by teachers, staff and students will be mandatory, there shall be provision of thermal screening and sanitiz- er at the centres and social dis- tancing in all the examination centres. Taking to Twitter, Shah also said that the examination process has been exempted from the lockdown measures with few conditions like social distancing, wearing of face mask among others for the safety of the students and teachers. N epal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said the coronavirus coming from India is “more lethal” than those from China and Italy and blamed the rising number of Covid-19 cases in the Himalayan nation on those sneaking into the country from India, as the total number of Covid-19 cases jumped to 427 on Wednesday. Speaking about the pan- demic in Parliament on Tuesday, Oli said it has become very difficult for Nepal to con- tain the spread of the deadly virus due to the flow of people from outside. “Many coronavirus infect- ed patients have entered Nepal. The virus came from outside, as we did not have here before. We could not stop infiltration of people from outside the border,” he said. Oli said that the biggest challenge facing the country today is the rising number of coronavirus cases and blamed the rising number of coron- avirus cases on individuals breaking the nationwide lock- down, especially those sneak- ing into Nepal from India. “The coronavirus coming from India are more lethal than those from China and Italy,” he said. “Those who are coming from India through illegal channels are spreading the virus in the country and some local representatives and party leaders are responsible for bringing in people from India without proper testing,” Oli was quoted as saying by the Kathmandu Post. L ocal commanders of Indian and Chinese Armies are holding talks to defuse sim- mering tension in some pock- ets of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh. While the face-off on the “Finger Five” area of Pangong lake in eastern Ladakh on May 5 and 6 leading to a brawl between troops of both sides has more or less ended with personnel moving back, the Chinese have now started bringing in more troops in an area near Galwan river. The Chinese have pitched tents some distance away from the Indian positions leading to tension. This region in Ladakh has seen stand-offs in the past besides the two armies fighting the 1962 war there too. Not willing to take any chances and getting caught off-guard, the Indian side too has bolstered its troops and is maintaining a close vigil on the Chinese activities. However, the Chinese, so far, have not tried to transgress into the Indian territory, sources said here on Wednesday. Sources here said the Chinese enhanced their activ- ities by bringing in more troops and pitching tents almost ten days back in the strategically important Galwan valley. This build up leading to more con- struction activities, including roads and permanent structure, may also start in the disputed region, sources said. However, the Chinese claim the Indians entered its territory and built fortifications. Continued on Page 2 L ocked in bitter war of words with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath Yogi on the issue of running buses to ferry migrants home, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday recalled the buses she had arranged for migrants after the Congress waited till 4 pm for Uttar Pradesh to allow them in. The Congress said it had lined up hundreds of buses at Delhi’s border since morning. However, the UP Government found fault in the list of buses as many were found to be autos and ambulances. “If you want to use it then please do so and use the BJP flags, otherwise, they will be sent back but the Congress and its workers will continue to help the migrants with food and all possible help,” she said, speak- ing shortly before the “4 pm deadline”. Terming as “shameless” the politics of the BJP and Yogi Adityanath over the issue of providing buses for ferrying migrants to the State, Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi alleged the “Ajay Bisht Government” is creating hur- dles in the Congress help reach- ing migrants in terms of buses for ferrying them home as they walk on the roads without food and water in the summer heat of May. Ajay Bisht is the real name of Yogi Adityanath. Noida: The Noida-Delhi bor- der will remain sealed except for movement of people asso- ciated with exempted services, the Gautam Buddh Nagar administration said on Wednesday in new guideline- sissued for the lockdown till May 31. More details for move- ment between Noida and Delhi have been sought from the UP Government and till then the status quo shall be in place,” the guidelines stated. New Delhi: The date for this year’s civil services prelimi- nary examination is likely to be decided on June 5, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has said. The test, which was scheduled to be held on May 31, has been deferred due to the Covid-19 lockdown. New Delhi: The US on Tuesday said border disputes with China — be it in Ladakh or in the South China Sea — are a “reminder of the threat by China”. The strong statement by Alice Wells, outgoing Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia, came days after several instances of Chinese incur- sion by land and air, one of which led to a face-off between Indian and Chinese troops. T he political tussle on open- ing of liquor outlets is far from over in Madhya Pradesh as former Chief Minister Kamal Nath here on Wednesday alleged that the Shivraj Government was hell-bent on re-opening liquor shops despite the liquor traders are not willing. Nath’s tweet came shortly after Sangam Liquor Traders’ Association’s decision of not opening liquor vends in the city on Wednesday in which the liquor body representing 90 liquor shops in Bhopal declined to re-open shops citing safety reasons amid corona scare. President of the association Hamid Khan told that a decision of not opening the liquor outlet has been taken in view to ensure safety of the public and employ- ees of liquor vends as well amid novel coronavirus outbreak. "We are of the view that these shops will re-open once things normalise and Covid19 scare subsides," Khan added. The association members had met Home Minister Narottam Mishra on Tuesday over their demands but could not get any assurance. We demanded licence duty on the basis of existing sales but the Minister did not offer any con- vincing reply, added Khan. The traders are demanding that licence fee should be low- ered as shops were closed for well over one month and half and also fear that sales could be dismal amid lockdown prohi- bitions and they could end up paying heavy licence fee. Meanwhile, former Chief Minister Kamal Nath also tweeted that the Shivraj Government was forcefully making liquor traders to re- open shops despite the fact the public and even traders were against this decision. “School colleges might be closed, people might not be get- ting medicines and milk, reli- gious places are shut down but liquor shops are being opened. These are same person who while in Opposition used to raise opposition on liquor and used to term liquor a threat to women,” Nath said in another tweet. After coming to power, these people have turned into biggest advocates of liquor, added Nath, claiming the State might be gripped by novel coronavirus but they (BJP Government) want unhindered flow of liquor. Amid lockdown 4.0, the Government has declared urban areas of Bhopal as red zone while rural areas now fall under green zone and are to witness opening of liquor shops. RNI Regn. No. MPENG/2004/13703, Regd. No. L-2/BPLON/41/2006-2008

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Page 1: ˇ * + , +˘ ˘ ˘ - . ˘ ’ ˛!˛˙#ˆ$˛ ˙˜ˆ$ · 2020-05-20 · ˘ ˇˆ˙˝ ˛ ˚ ˛˜ ! ˜"˜" 4 oxygen support, about 3 perthe Covid dedicated healthlockdown, it was 11.42

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Extremely severe cyclonicstorm “Amphan” made a

landfall at Digha in WestBengal on Wednesday, leavinga trail of destruction which ledto the death of three persons inthe State. The cyclone claimedthree lives in Odisha also.

The cyclone with windspeed of 160-170 kmph, gust-ing to 190 kmph coupled withheavy rain hit the Digha coastin East Medinipur districtaround 2.30 pm, officials said.

The cyclone barreledthrough coastal districts ofWest Bengal, unleashing copi-ous rain and windstorm, blow-ing away thatched houses,uprooting trees, electric polesand swamping low lying townsand villages, officials said.

High velocity wind speedup to 120 km per hour uproot-ed hundreds of tree, electricpoles and telecom infrastruc-ture and flattening fragile struc-ture. Amphan reached Kolkatawith wind speed up to 120 kmper hour at 7 pm onWednesday evening, damagingseveral buildings.

As per reports, three deathshave been reported fromBalasore, Bhadrak andKendrapara districts whilethree person, including twowomen were killed in Howrahdistrict and Minakhan area ofNorth 24 Parganas district dueto uprooting of trees.

Reports arriving in Kolkatafrom North and South 24Parganas and East Midnapore

said roofs of thatched houseswere blown away, and twistedelectric poles and broken anduprooted trees bore testimonyto the devastation. Streets andhomes in low lying areas ofKolkata were swamped withrainwater. A wall collapsed inHowrah near Union MinisterBabul Supriyo’s residence anddamaged several vehicle parkedthere.

The muddy Hooghly river

was rising under dark skies,while in the coastal resort ofDigha, large waves werepounding the shore. Threecoastal districts — South andNorth 24 Parganas and EastMidnapore — will be the worstaffected, besides, vast swathesof South Bengal districts suchas Kolkata, Howrah, Hooghly,West Midnapore were theworst affected. Areas such asSagar Island, Kakdwip and

Diamond Harbour in South 24Parganas and Digha and Haldiain East Midnapore were bat-tered by the storm, uprootingtrees and electric poles anddestroying many shacks.

Despite losing its force abit since Tuesday, the storm,which was categorised assuper cyclone at one point oftime, has left the two States onedge as it hollered on itsdestructive path over the Bay

of Bengal.India Meteorological

Department (IMD) DirectorGeneral MrityunjayMohapatra, who jointlyaddressed the media withNDRF director general SNPradhan, said the eye ofAmphan, which is 30 km indiameter, has made landfall ataround 2.30 pm between Dighain West Bengal and HatiyaIsland in Bangladesh.

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In further relaxation of lock-down rules, the Ministry of

Civil Aviation is all set to startdomestic flight operations fromMay 25 in a calibrated manner.

Currently, only cargo andevacuation flight services areallowed. The Ministry willsoon be announcing the stan-dard operating procedures(SOPs) for domestic air travel.

In a tweet, Union Ministerfor Civil Aviation HardeepPuri said all airports and aircarriers are being informed tobe ready for operations fromMay 25. The standard operat-ing procedures for passengermovement will be separatelyissued by the Ministry, Puri said.

The Minister said only asmall percentage of the totalnumber of domestic flightswill be operated at first and thenumber of flights will beincreased later, depending onthe initial experience. He saidthe option of keeping the mid-dle seats on flights vacant is nota viable one.

“Even if you keep the mid-dle seat vacant, you’ll still havea situation where the pre-scribed distance for social dis-

tancing isn’t followed. If youwere to do it then you’d have tohike up the price of airline tick-ets by 33 per cent,” Puri said.

The announcement cameamid the fourth phase of thelockdown which was imposedby the Government on March25 in order to combat thenovel coronavirus outbreak inthe country.

The AAI on Sunday hadalso issued guidelines for pas-sengers once the flight servicesresume that include makingmandatorily downloading ofAarogya Setu app on mobilephones for travelling by air, doa web-check in and carry aprint out of their boardingpass before heading to the air-port to catch a flight.

It also stated that air trav-elers must maintain a distanceof four feet from co-passengers,wear a mask and other protec-tive gear, wash or sanitise theirhands frequently and carry a

350 ml bottle of sanitiser all thetime.

The aviation sector hasbeen hit hard by the pandem-ic as various countries, includ-ing India, decided to suspendcommercial flights completelyto curb the spread of the virus.

Since March 25, Indianairlines have taken steps like fir-ing expat pilots, announcingpay cuts and leave without payfor employees to conserve cash.

The first, second and thirdphase of lockdown werebetween March 25-April 14,April 15-May 3 and May 4-May17, respectively. The fourthphase started from May 18 andwould end on May 31.

Cargo flights, medicalevacuation flights, offshorehelicopter operations and spe-cial flights approved by the avi-ation regulator DGCA havebeen allowed to operate asusual during the lockdownperiod.

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With Maharashtra witness-ing 2,250 new Covid-19

cases and 65 deaths onWednesday, the country regis-tered total of 5,249 new cases128 deaths. The total cases inIndia stood at 1,11,730 and3,430 death with Uttar Pradeshyet to report till 11 pm onWednesday night. Mumbai cityalone witnessed 1,372 morecases with 41 deaths.

Meanwhile coronavirushas infected more than 5 mil-lion people across the world.

After Maharashtra, TamilNadu witnessed 743 cases, fol-lowed by Delhi 534 new casesand Gujarat 398 confirmedcases. Gujarat and Delhi had 30and 10 deaths respectively.This was the biggest singleday spike for Delhi.

Apart from these States,out of the total around 5,249new Covid-cases, 270 newcases were reported fromMadhya Pradesh, 142 casesfrom West Bengal, 107 fromRajasthan. Andhra Pradeshwitnessed 71 new cases. Afterregistering low numbers for thelast few days Kerala saw 24 new

cases on Wednesday whileBihar reported 60 new cases.

As per the latest data out ofa total of 1,11,730 confirmedcases, 62,871 are active casesand 45,422 people have recov-ered till date. Out of the total3,426 deaths in India, morethan 40 per cent deaths (1,390)are from Maharashtra alone.After Maharashtra, Gujarat haswitnessed the maximum num-ber of deaths with a total of 749.Madhya Pradesh has reported267 deaths with 9 onWednesday.

West Bengal has seen totalof 253 deaths, followed byDelhi 176 deaths and Rajasthan

143 deaths and Uttar Pradesh143 deaths. Among the doubledigit deaths, Tamil Nadu’s tallyreached 88 with three moredeaths on Wednesday. AndhraPradesh has a total death countof 53 and Telangana 38 andneighbouring Karnataka 41.

Meanwhile situation isNorth Eastern region is incontrol with new 13 cases inAssam and 11 new patients inManipur. Himachal Pradeshand Uttarakhand have 12 and11 new patients on Wednesday.Jammu & Kashmir also have 73new patients tested as positivewith one death, taking thetotal death tally to 18.

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Taking into considerationthe academic interest of

large number of students, theCentre has decided to grantlockdown exemption to con-duct Board Examinations forClasses 10th and 12th.

Home Minister Amit Shahsaid that the pending CBSEClass 10 and Class 12 boardexams can be conducted dur-ing the nationwide lockdown inplace to contain the spread ofthe coronavirus.

Two days ago, the HRDMinistry announced the sched-ule of pending examination ofthe CBSE board exams forClass 10 and 12. The exami-nations will be conductedbetween July 1 to July 15 for 29major subjects - including sixexams for Class 10 students forNorth-East Delhi and 12 sub-jects for students of Class 12 tobe held across the country.

While wearing of facemasks by teachers, staff andstudents will be mandatory,there shall be provision of

thermal screening and sanitiz-er at the centres and social dis-tancing in all the examinationcentres.

Taking to Twitter, Shahalso said that the examinationprocess has been exemptedfrom the lockdown measureswith few conditions like socialdistancing, wearing of facemask among others for thesafety of the students andteachers.

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Nepal Prime Minister KPSharma Oli has said the

coronavirus coming from Indiais “more lethal” than thosefrom China and Italy andblamed the rising number ofCovid-19 cases in theHimalayan nation on thosesneaking into the country fromIndia, as the total number ofCovid-19 cases jumped to 427on Wednesday.

Speaking about the pan-demic in Parliament onTuesday, Oli said it has becomevery difficult for Nepal to con-tain the spread of the deadlyvirus due to the flow of peoplefrom outside.

“Many coronavirus infect-ed patients have entered Nepal.The virus came from outside,as we did not have here before.We could not stop infiltrationof people from outside theborder,” he said.

Oli said that the biggestchallenge facing the countrytoday is the rising number ofcoronavirus cases and blamedthe rising number of coron-

avirus cases on individualsbreaking the nationwide lock-down, especially those sneak-ing into Nepal from India.

“The coronavirus comingfrom India are more lethalthan those from China andItaly,” he said.

“Those who are comingfrom India through illegalchannels are spreading thevirus in the country and somelocal representatives and partyleaders are responsible forbringing in people from Indiawithout proper testing,” Oliwas quoted as saying by theKathmandu Post.

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Local commanders of Indianand Chinese Armies are

holding talks to defuse sim-mering tension in some pock-ets of the Line of ActualControl (LAC) in Ladakh.While the face-off on the“Finger Five” area of Pangonglake in eastern Ladakh on May5 and 6 leading to a brawlbetween troops of both sideshas more or less ended withpersonnel moving back, theChinese have now startedbringing in more troops in anarea near Galwan river.

The Chinese have pitchedtents some distance away fromthe Indian positions leading totension. This region in Ladakhhas seen stand-offs in the pastbesides the two armies fightingthe 1962 war there too.

Not willing to take anychances and getting caughtoff-guard, the Indian side toohas bolstered its troops and ismaintaining a close vigil on theChinese activities. However,the Chinese, so far, have nottried to transgress into theIndian territory, sources saidhere on Wednesday.

Sources here said theChinese enhanced their activ-ities by bringing in more troopsand pitching tents almost tendays back in the strategicallyimportant Galwan valley. Thisbuild up leading to more con-struction activities, includingroads and permanent structure,

may also start in the disputedregion, sources said. However,the Chinese claim the Indiansentered its territory and builtfortifications.

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Locked in bitter war of wordswith Uttar Pradesh Chief

Minister Adityanath Yogi onthe issue of running buses toferry migrants home, Congressgeneral secretary PriyankaGandhi Vadra on Wednesdayrecalled the buses she hadarranged for migrants afterthe Congress waited till 4 pmfor Uttar Pradesh to allowthem in.

The Congress said it hadlined up hundreds of buses atDelhi’s border since morning.However, the UP Governmentfound fault in the list of busesas many were found to beautos and ambulances.

“If you want to use it thenplease do so and use the BJPflags, otherwise, they will besent back but the Congress andits workers will continue to helpthe migrants with food and allpossible help,” she said, speak-

ing shortly before the “4 pmdeadline”.

Terming as “shameless” thepolitics of the BJP and YogiAdityanath over the issue ofproviding buses for ferryingmigrants to the State, Congressspokesperson Abhishek Singhvialleged the “Ajay BishtGovernment” is creating hur-dles in the Congress help reach-ing migrants in terms of busesfor ferrying them home asthey walk on the roads withoutfood and water in the summerheat of May. Ajay Bisht is thereal name of Yogi Adityanath.

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Noida: The Noida-Delhi bor-der will remain sealed exceptfor movement of people asso-ciated with exempted services,the Gautam Buddh Nagaradministration said onWednesday in new guideline-sissued for the lockdown tillMay 31. More details for move-ment between Noida and Delhihave been sought from the UPGovernment and till then thestatus quo shall be in place,” theguidelines stated.

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The political tussle on open-ing of liquor outlets is far

from over in Madhya Pradesh asformer Chief Minister KamalNath here on Wednesday allegedthat the Shivraj Government washell-bent on re-opening liquorshops despite the liquor tradersare not willing.

Nath’s tweet came shortlyafter Sangam Liquor Traders’Association’s decision of notopening liquor vends in the cityon Wednesday in which theliquor body representing 90liquor shops in Bhopal declinedto re-open shops citing safetyreasons amid corona scare.

President of the associationHamid Khan told that a decisionof not opening the liquor outlethas been taken in view to ensuresafety of the public and employ-ees of liquor vends as well amidnovel coronavirus outbreak.

"We are of the view thatthese shops will re-open oncethings normalise and Covid19scare subsides," Khan added.

The association membershad met Home MinisterNarottam Mishra on Tuesdayover their demands but couldnot get any assurance. Wedemanded licence duty on thebasis of existing sales but theMinister did not offer any con-vincing reply, added Khan.

The traders are demandingthat licence fee should be low-ered as shops were closed forwell over one month and halfand also fear that sales could bedismal amid lockdown prohi-bitions and they could end uppaying heavy licence fee.

Meanwhile, former ChiefMinister Kamal Nath alsotweeted that the ShivrajGovernment was forcefullymaking liquor traders to re-open shops despite the fact the

public and even traders wereagainst this decision.

“School colleges might beclosed, people might not be get-ting medicines and milk, reli-gious places are shut down butliquor shops are being opened.These are same person whowhile in Opposition used to raiseopposition on liquor and used toterm liquor a threat to women,”Nath said in another tweet.

After coming to power,these people have turned intobiggest advocates of liquor,added Nath, claiming the Statemight be gripped by novelcoronavirus but they (BJPGovernment) want unhinderedflow of liquor.

Amid lockdown 4.0, theGovernment has declaredurban areas of Bhopal as redzone while rural areas nowfall under green zone and areto witness opening of liquorshops.

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Yoga guru Baba Ramdevhas said that under the

leadership of Chief MinisterShivraj Singh Chouhan,Madhya Pradesh has donecommendable work towardsef fect ively checking thespread of Corona virus byincreasing the immunity ofpeople through Ayurvedicmedicines. The Ayurvdeicdecoction used in the statehas yielded very encouragingresults.

The successful experi-ment in Madhya Pradesh willbenef it entire world.Pranayam and Ayurvedicmedicines are very useful incurbing and treating Coronainfection, he added.

Baba held discussionswith Chief Minister ShivrajSingh Chouhan and all ChiefMedical and Health Officers

of Madhya Pradesh throughvideo conferencing onWednesday. At MantralayaHealth Minister NarottamMishra, CS Iqbal Singh Bains,DGP Vivek Johari, ACSHealth Mohammad Sulemanand Secretary, Ayush MKAgrawal were also partici-pated.

Chief Minister Chouhansaid that best possiblearrangements have beenmade in the state to checkspread of coronavirus and itstreatment. Ayurvedic medi-cines are being used to boostimmunity of people.

With the cooperation ofAyush department TrikutKadha (decoction) has beendistributed to about 2 crorepeople in the State. Healthpersonnel and police person-nel engaged in f ightingCorona are also being given it.

The Chief Minister

thanked Baba Ramdev forguiding the health officersabout use of Ayurvedic med-icines and hoped that use ofthese medicines andPrayanam will go a long wayin winning the war againstCorona.Baba Ramdev saidthat Corona can do no harmto those who have strongimmunity.

Pranayam and Ayurvedicmedicines significantly boostimmunity.Baba said thatAshvgandha and Giloy arevery effective in breaking thechain of infection. Use ofthese medicines on Coronapatients has given very goodresults.

Baba Ramdev advisedthat 6 Pranayams namelyBhastr ika, Kapalbhati ,Anulom-Vilom, Bhrmari andUjjayani should be practicedregularly. Corona patients canalso practice them. It gives

quick results. Baba said thatdecoction of Giloy, Tulsi,Black Pepper, Turmeric andGinger should be used dailyto improve immunity.

Giloy, Ashvaghadha andAnu Oil are also very useful.Secretary, Ayush MK Agrawalinformed that 4,000 peoplekept in quarantine centresand 532 Corona patients have

got considerable relief fromAryogya Kasayan-20 of these,504 patients have returned totheir homes after recovery.Teams of experts are con-ducting research in 07Ayurvedic hospitals in thestate as which medicines areuseful in fighting Corona. Aresearch paper has also beenprepared on this.

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Alarmed with over 200 cases ofcorona infections in red zone

Jehangirabad area, the PoliceHeadquarters (PHQ) has issuedorders barring entry of policemenwho reside in Jehangirabad areaand has asked them to work fromhome.

The order is also includesthose residing in other red zonesin Bhopal. Ironically, the PHQwhich has issued the order, too issituated in Jehangirabad area alongwith several other police estab-lishments including ControlRoom,

Home Guards HQ, 7thBattalion HQ, Special Task ForceHQ, Jehangirabad police station,Police Training and ResearchInstitute (PTRI), Police Officers’

Mess and others. Among cases ofinfections reported fromJehangirabad, there are a largenumbers of policemen and theirkin. The area also houses severalresidential complexes of MP Police.

The order however issued byPHQ on Tuesday evening barredentry of drivers who hail to redzones in the city.

Those officer /employees whoreside in red zones includingJehangirabad, are ordered to WorkFrom Home and avoid registeringtheir physical presence in theheadquarters until further orders.

The headquarters has alsoordered for arrangements for shift-ing police staffers elsewhere fromJaehangirabad area.

Those staffers who don’t shiftto safer places and remain in redzones and get infected later, will be

responsible for their status, theorder warned the staff.The admin-istration is shifting residents ofJehangirabad, a densely populatedold town area, to safer places tobreak the corona spread. Couple ofweeks ago, the PHQ was closedafter one of the constables postedhere was tested positive for novelcoronavirus.

Afterwards, the PHQ hadinstructed staffers to visit head-quarters only in case of emergen-cies or pending work and dischargework from home through emailsand whatsapp.

After covid19 outbreak in thecity policemen of at least tenpolice stations have contractedinfection and police residentialcolonies in Nehru Nagar, TT Nagarand Jehangirabad too are notspared with the outbreak.

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Habibganj police havenabbed a 32-year-old man

involved in selling fake tokenfor travelling by train to Biharby victims at Habibganj railwaystation on Tuesday; accusedtook Rs 1000 for providing atoken.

According to the police,victim Avinash Kumar lodgeda complaint after he foundthat he along with his twofriends were duped by theaccused Rajesh Rai in the nameof travelling in train to Bihar.A complaint was filed regard-ing the fraud and accused wastraced and nabbed.

The victim is resident ofBihar and completed B.E fromBITS College and as he wasbroke and college and coachingcenters were closed he wantedto return home.In his com-plaint victim stated at around9 in the morning on Tuesday helong with his friends VishalKumar and Ashutosh Kumarreached Habibganj railway sta-tion where they meet RajeshRai who was in PPE kit andintroduced himself as senior

officer in railways and hadtoken worth Rs 1000 eachwhich could provide easy entryin the train to Bihar and afterthey got assured they providedthe money.

Later the accused was spot-ted at the station till 2.30pm butwhen the train came they werenot allowed to board and theyfound that no senior officer waspresent by the name of RajeshRai.

The victims tried to contacton the mobile number8085732409 which was foundswitched off and later lodgedcomplaint with police.Afterthe confirmation the policehave registered a case undersection 420 of the IPC andnabbed the accused. Theaccused hailed from Betul andlives in Rachna Nagar. Victimshave revealed that the accusedhad also sold the fake token toother passengers as well.

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To observe the WorldCulture Day, the third

Pandit Deendayal UpadhyayMemorial InternationalOration will be held online onThursday.

The Pandit DeendayalUpadhyay MemorialInternational Oration will beconducted by Dr AntonioMorandi, Ayurveda Expertfrom Italy. The event is beingorganised by Indian Councilfor Cultural Relations (ICCR)headquaters.

In this regards, the live-streaming of the event isscheduled on May 21 at 3 pmon ICCR’s FB live, Twitterlive, YouTube live andInstagram live. Hence, ICCRBhopal office is wishing tohave the extensive publicity tothe above event through social

media platforms so as to reachout this to wide audience.Antonio Morandi is MedicalDoctor, Specialist inNeurology and graduated inAyurveda (AyurvedaAcademy, Pune, India andJoytinat International Collegeof Ayurveda), since 2001 isFounder and Director of“Ayurvedic Point”, Milan, Italyand President of the ItalianScientif ic Society forAyurvedic Medicine (SSIMA).

The World Day forCultural Diversity forDialogue and Development isa United Nations–sanctionedinternational holiday for thepromotion of diversity issues.It is currently held on May 21.

Diversity Day, officiallyknown as "The World Day forCultural Diversity forDialogue and Development", isan opportunity to help com-munities understand the valueof cultural diversity and learnhow to live together in har-mony. This day was created asa result of the destruction ofthe Buddha statues of Bamiyanin Afghanistan in 2001.

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A59-year-old woman whoattempted suicide by set-

ting herself ablaze atAnandpur Trust Ashramunder Habibganj police stationdied on Tuesday, reason ofattempting suicide remainedunknown.

The woman identified asAsha who hails fromGurudaspur Punjab was serv-ing at the Anandpur TrustAshram voluntarily and onMay 13 he after ghee over thebody set herself ablaze. Shewas rushed to hospital whereher condition deteriorated onTuesday and she died late inthe night at Bansal hospital.

The woman was staying atthe Ashram for the past oneyear. The other serving peopleat the Ashram have told thepolice that Asha was sufferingfrom multiple disorders.

Police said that womansustained over 70 percent ofburns and her statements werenot recorded by the police dueto her critical condition andreason behind the suicide

remained unclear. During theinvestigation police found thatfor the past two months hersuffering were augmented butin her family and other serv-ing at the ashram failed toaccept that she have takenextreme step due to illness.Further investigation has beenstarted.

Meanwhile Berasia policehave a 35-year-old man on thecharges of abetment to commitsuicide of his wife who com-mitted by hanging with theceiling at her house in BirahaShyamkhedi village on May 3;man was also charged withattempt to murder after he sethis wife on fire around amonth ago.

The accused husbandRambabu was booked forabetment to commit suicide ofhis wife Roshni who hangedherself on May at her house.

Rambabu was jailed afterhe set ablaze Roshni when thetwo used to live in Bhopal. Hewas released on bail and againstarted to harass his wifewhich forced her to take theextreme step.

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Ahead of 24 assemblybypolls, the tussle is on the

rise between the ruling BJP andopposition Congress. The StateGovernment notices to formerCongress Ministers for vacatingthe official bungalows added tothe sourness between the two.

After serving notices toseveral former ministers, theDirectorate of Estate officerssealed the Government bunga-low of former Finance ministerTarun Bhanot on Wednesdayoffering him time till evening tomove his belongings.Sourcesclaimed that newly appointedBJP state president VD Sharmawill be allotted this bungalow.

The officers claimed thatnotices were served to Bhanottwice but he did not vacate thispremises prompting to initiate

G o v e r n m e n tproceedings.Bhanot who ispresently in his home townJabalpur called it an action ofpolitical vendetta.

He claimed that he and hisfamily is stuck in Jabalpur dueto lockdown and in theirabsence, vacating the bungalowis not proper.

He even claimed that heshould be given Governmentaccommodation in MLA’scapacity and without offeringhim alternate accommodation,was it justified to get his bun-galow vacated.

The notices to vacateGovernment bungalows havebeen issued to other formerCongress ministers includingSajjan Singh Verma, BrijendraSingh Rathore, Hukum SinghKarada, Om Prakash Markam,Priyavrat Singh, Sukhdev Panse,

PC Sharma, Umang Singhar,Kamleshwar Patel, LakahnGhanghoria, Sachin Yadav andSurendra Singh Baghel.All theseministers continue to occupytheir Government accommo-dations despite theirGovernment being toppled onMarch 20.

Former ParliamentaryAffairs minister Govind Singhtoo flayed the action saying thesenior MLAs should be givenaccommodation in accordancewith their designations. If thisdoes not happen, we canremain on roads as well to servethe public, added the seniorCongress leader.

BJP spokesperson RajneeshAgrawal rejected reports ofpolitical vendetta saying theGovernment bungalows arebeing vacated in accordancewith laid down procedures.

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Awebinar Cyber Securityand Information Security

Management System was heldon Wednesday at RabindranathTagore University.

The webinar was organisedby the faculty of Engineeringand Technology in associationwith IQAC on “Cyber securi-ty and Information SecurityManagement System”.

The speaker of the webinarwas Himanshu Varshney whois working in Indian Council ofAgricultural Research as asenior scientist having experi-ence of over 22 years.

At present he is the ChiefSecurity Information Officer ofthe Council and handling var-ious cyber security issues of the

o r g a n i s a t i o n . Va r s h n e yexplained various aspects ofcyber security issues, theirsolutions and various new gov-ernment policies related to thetopic of the webinar.

He showed students how toexplain many technicalnuances such as passwordcracking, fake calls, fake mes-sages, forensic softwares, secretmessages, mobile phone secu-rity, security for social net-working sites, and practical it.

The webinar hosted bySanjeev Kumar Gupta, Dean(Engg), and S Veenadhari,Professor, CSE Rajendra Gupta,HOD,(CSA) and Prof MukeshKumar HOD CSE and largenumber of participants fromdifferent institutes, Industriestook part in this webinar.

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said that a l l migrantlabourers should be regis-tered so that their job cardscan be made and they canbe given work underMNREGA.

It should be clearlymentioned in the registra-tion that the worker isskilled, unskilled, or semi-skilled. Based on theirski l ls , they wil l beemployed in various indus-tries and other activities.Every labourer will begiven work according tohis ability.

Chief MinisterChouhan was reviewingthe situation and arrange-ments of Corona in thestate today through videoconferencing. Health

Minister Narottam Mishra,Chief Secretary Iqbal SinghBains, DGP Vivek Johri,ACS Health MohammadSuleman and others werepresent on the occasion.Number of infected areasdecline Additional ChiefSecretary Health Sulemansaid that the number ofcorona infected areas hascome down in the State.

Now these areas havebecome 701. Total 10 dis-tricts of the state are infec-tion free, in which no casesof Corona have beenreported in Katni,Narsinghpur and Balaghat.

In the remaining sevendistricts including Agar-Malwa, Alirajpur,Anuppur, Chhindwara,Harda, Shahdol andShajapur there wereCorona cases earlier, butnow they have becomeinfection free. During the

review of Khargone dis-trict, it was told that earli-er Khargone district was inthe Red Zone, but now ithas come into the GreenZone. There were 114Corona patients in the dis-trict, of whom 87 havebeen discharged andreturned home. Chouhan

directed that total careshould continue to betaken, so that infectiondoes not spread. No farmershould be deprived, otherpeople should not beallowed to sell wheat

During the review ofwheat procurement, Hedirected that it should beensured that in every dis-trict, no eligible farmer isdeprived of selling hiswheat on support price,and no random person cansell wheat. Strict actionshould be taken againstwrongdoers.

Principal SecretarySheo Shekhar Shuklainformed that so far 98.14lakh metric tonnes ofwheat has been procuredfrom 13.60 lakh farmers inthe state. Out of the wheatprocured, around 85 per-cent that is 83.32 lakh met-ric tonnes have been trans-

ported and stored. Besides,Rs 11,500 crore have alsobeen paid to 10.08 lakhfarmers.On the return ofmigrant labourers to thestate, Additional ChiefSecretary ICP Keshari saidthat so far a total of 4.63lakh labourers havereturned to MadhyaPradesh by trains andbuses.

Currently, the return ofabout 50 thousand labour-ers is likely. Out of these,1.35 lakh labourers havecome by trains and 3.28lakh labourers have comein buses.

Till date, a total of 107trains have brought labour-ers and so far the demandfor 125 trains has beensent to the Railways. Asmany as 850 buses havebeen deployed to bringlabourers of other states tothe state’s border.

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The Central Board ofSecondary Education

(CBSE) has relessed thedatesheet of Class 10 and 12board examinations. The exam-inations will be held from July1 to July 15. It is to be noted thatthe exams of remaining subjectswill be held during this period.The board examinations werepostponed due to the seriousoutbreak of COVID 19 andnationwide lockdown.

Now the exams will be heldfrom July 1 to 15 at 10:30 am.The students and parents werereally worried about the remain-ing examinations. Accordingto the CBSE officials, studentswill appear at their individualschools for the exams and notexternal test centres.The firstexam of class 10 will be SocialScience which will be held onJuly 1. On July 2 exam ofScience , on July 10 exam ofHindi and on July 15 exam ofEnglish Communicative willbe held. For Class 12, subjectwise date sheet has beenreleased. The students and par-ents can check the date sheet onthe official website of CBSE.

In the previous noticeissued by CBSE and announce-ment by HRD Minister Ramesh

Pokhriyal, it said that the exam-inations will be held after look-ing into the current situation.From May 18 lockdown 4 hasbeen imposed across the coun-try and the remaining boardexams will now be held. It isnoteworthy that along with thedatesheet, CBSE has also issueda list of precautions to be takenby the students and the parents.

The student must carryhis/her own hand sanitiser in atransparent bottle, the candidatemust cover his nose and mouthwith the mask, parents mustassure that their child is not sickand must guide their childabout precautions to be takenagainst COVID 19. Besides,students must maintain socialdistancing while appearing forthe exam.

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The Indore registry officelocated at the Indore col-

lector office premises includingall the 23 registry offices locat-ed at all the tehsils of theIndore district have startedfunctioning from Wednesdayfor the financial year 2020 –2021.

The total revenue collect-ed as registry tax in the previ-ous year in Indore district wasRs 1176 crore though the tar-get of the previous year for theIndore district was Rs 13.75crore.

Indore District RegisgrarBalkrishna Mourya told ThePioneer that the Rs 2 croreshortage in collection is due tothe beginning of the lockdownfrom March 23, 2020.

In this current year also wehave lost around 50 days as atthe first day of the registry onWednesday we received only 4registries in entire Indore dis-trict. As the ongoing coronapandemic the registry depart-ment has taken some precau-tionary measures to keep the

people and employees safe andmade circles all over the reg-istry offices as the people com-ing to the office can stand farfrom each other in circle.

Face mask is compulsory inregistrar offices for everybody.The moment the customer willenter into the registrar office wewill have his thermal screening.The registrar office will providehim hand wash and sanitiserfacility before and after the reg-istry.

Initially only 10 registriesper registrar have been fixed sothat the crowd at the registryoffice don’t increase suddenlyand we will inform the peoplein advance for visiting to reg-istrar office so that there is nocrowd.

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Under the super cyclonicstorm system moisture has

been absorbed and tempera-tures have soared and for thenext 3-4 days state is likely towitness heat wave conditions,said Met official on Wednesday.

The Met officials said thatthere is a possibility of dryweather in most parts ofNorthwest, Central and WestIndia due to possible northwestwinds at low levels and supercyclonic storm over NorthWest Bengal.

As a result in MadhyaPradesh heat wave is likely tobe witnessed during May 21 to24.The state witnessed humid,hot and dry weather conditionin the past 24 hours. In the past24 hours across all the divisionsrainfall and thundery activitieshave faded. Except Shahdoland Jabalpur divisions otherdivsions witnessed temperatureabove normal temperature.

State recorded the highestday temperature at 45 degreeCelsius in Khargone onWednesday.Within next 3-4days in the state day tempera-tures are going to rise by 3-4degree Celsius. State capital

recorded day temperature at41.3 degree Celsius while nighttemperature at 26 degreeCelsius. The weather condi-tions are likely to remain dryand clear sky would be visiblethroughout the day. The daytemperature is likely to be wit-nessed at 42 degree Celsiuswhile night temperature wouldbe recorded around same level.

Among the nearby areas ofthe state capital Raisen andHoshangabad recorded daytemperature at 43.2 degreeCelsius each on Wednesday.Khandwa recorded day tem-perature at 43.5 degree Celsiusand Nowgong recorded daytemperature at 43 degreeCelsius on Wednesday.

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Continuing its disturbingupward trend in the num-

ber of the novel Coronavirus(Covid-19) cases, the healthdepartment of Uttarakhandreported 11 new cases of thedisease in the state onWednesday.

With them the tally of thedisease in the state hasmounted to 122. On the day,four cases of the disease sur-faced from Udham SinghNagar district while two cases

each were reported fromUttarkashi and Nainital dis-tricts. One case each wasdetected from Almora,Haridwar and Tehri dis-tricts.In Udham Singh Nagar,two 31 years old male patientswere reported from Jaspurwhile a 35 year old malepatient was found in Kichha.In Rudrapur, a 29 year oldmale was found positive.

In Ranikhet (Almora), a19 year old male was foundpositive while in Nainital a 29year old female and 21 yearold male were found positivefor the disease. In Haridwardistrict -which from last manydays had not reported anycase- one 32 year old malewas found positive on the day.This patient has travel histo-r y from Mumbai. InUttarkashi, a 38 year old male

who had recently travelledfrom Delhi and a 29 year oldmale having travel historyfrom Mumbai were foundaffected with the disease. A 25year old male who hasreturned from Mumbai wasalso found positive in Tehridistrict on the day.Incidentally Tehri district wasfree from the disease tillWednesday.

The spurt in the cases ofthe disease has furtherbrought down the recoveryrate of the disease to 43.44percent. Incidentally this ratewas about 67 percent fewdays ago.

The additional secretary,state health department, YugalKishore Pant said reports of719 samples were found neg-ative for the disease onWednesday while 11 were

found positive. He added thatreports of 1538 samples arestill awaited by the depart-ment. On Wednesday, a totalof 719 samples were collect-ed for COVID -19 testing.The authorities have so fartaken swab samples of 15503suspected patients forCOVID-19 test.The state nowhas 68 active cases in the statewith Udham Singh Nagar dis-trict at top of the table with 22active cases.

With discharge of onepatient on Wednesday,Dehradun now has 17 activecases while Nainital has 15active cases. Uttarkashi dis-trict has four active caseswhile Pauri has three activecases. Almora and Bageshwardistricts have two active caseswhile Tehri and Chamoli haveone active case each.

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The tuition culture hasgrown considerably in

recent years with even pri-mary school students attent-ing private tuitions. Tuition issupposed to help a studentlearn more efficiently but dur-ing the lockdown this mythappears to be busted.

Before the lockdown mostschool students could be seenattending private tuitions butsince the imposition of lock-down from March, the num-ber of such students hasdropped considerably.

Talking to this corre-spondent many parents statedthat their children are not tak-ing any tuition classes cur-rently as there is no majorpressure from schools yet tofinish the course.

“These days teachers solveone question and give a bunchof chapters for homework tofinish their course fast.

We cannot help with eachand every subject of our chil-dren all the time so we have tohire a tutor. But since the lock-down, teachers are teachingthrough videos, giving home-work through mails and havebecome easily approachablethrough Whatsapp so my chil-dren did not feel the need ofa tutor. Of course, we also helpthem but they are studyinghappily. I guess if teachers

could always be this muchapproachable and teach with-out putting the pressure of fin-ishing the course, children willfeel more involved in learn-ing," said homemakerSuhasini Upadhyay.

"The children are doingreally well in every subject ontheir own during the lock-down.

Sometimes we help themand sometimes they help eachother. We asked them to taketuition classes from theirtuition teacher as she lives justfew blocks away but theyrefused.

I understood one thingduring the lockdown thatschool makes education aburden for children ratherthan a happy learning processand that is why children donot want to make efforts tostudy at home on their ownduring regular classes," saidlocal businessman JagatPrasad Sharma.

However, some parentsstated that after the lock-down, the study of their chil-dren will depend once againon their tutors because theyare necessary to guide theirchildren during school.

According to a local pro-fessional Gurpreet Kaur,"There are about 50 studentsin my daughter's class andobviously teacher cannot payattention to every student

daily. Yes, currently childrenare doing fine without tuitionbecause teachers are not press-ing them to complete thecourse, revise it and pres-surising them to get bettergrades rather than encourag-ing them to do better nexttime and ask for teacher'shelp.

We spend half of oursalaries for our kid's schooleducation and still we have tohire a private tutor to makethem study the same thingthey probably learned inschool the same day. Tuitionis part of education nowbecause we have a very dis-turbed education systemhere."

Talking about decreasingnumber of tuitions classesduring lockdown, CBSE telecounsellor Dr Sona KaushalGupta said that one of thebenefits of Covid-19 disease isthat it showed that tuitionclasses are not really necessaryfor children when they canstudy on their own with littleguidance from their parentsand teachers.

Parents need to reconsid-er sending their kids totuitions even after this lock-down ends because it willreduce superfluous stress ofchildren which will help themto be more productive and lesstired physically and mentally,suggested Gupta.

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Public bus services resumedin Punjab on Wednesday

almost two months after theirsuspension in the wake of theCovid-19 outbreak.Buses ofthe state-owned PunjabRoadways and Pepsu RoadTransport Corporation (PRTC)plied on select routes in non-containment zones within thestate.

Punjab Transport MinisterRazia Sultana had on May 18announced resumption ofpoint-to-point bus servicesbetween major cities and dis-trict headquarters from May 20with 50 per cent occupancy.The state government has saidinter-state bus services will notresume till May 31.The centralgovernment has allowed busesto be plied in the fourth phaseof the countrywide lockdown

(from May 18 to May 31) tocombat the spread of the novelcoronavirus. Before the start ofoperations, all buses were sani-tised. Passengers had to under-go temperature screening at busstands before being allowed toboard buses, officials said.Social distancing norms werefollowed and it was ensuredthat passengers wore masksand their hands sanitised, theysaid.

There was no rush of pas-sengers at most bus stands inthe morning hours, but manypeople expressed relief at theresumption of bus services. Ata few places, includingJalandhar and Amritsar, pas-sengers came to bus stands asearly as 5 am and complainedof not getting buses despitewaiting for long. Many pas-sengers complained that theywere made to wait till the bus

had 50 per cent occupancy andstarted running. At Hoshiarpurbus stand, Punjab Roadwaysduty inspector Madan Lal saidthe bus services on five routes-- Hoshiarpur to Mohali,Jalandhar, Ludhiana; Tanda-Batala; and Mukerian-Pathankot-Gurdaspur -- wereresumed. Officials said thebuses will not stop midway.

At Amritsar, the bus ser-vices resumed on three routes-- Amritsar to Dera BabaNanak, Amritsar to Pathankot,and Amritsar to Jalandhar. AtPatiala, the PRTC plied itsbuses on 10 routes whichincluded Patiala, Samana,Patran, Nabha, Malerkotla andJalandhar.

HARYANA TAKES BACKDECISION TO PLY INTER-STATE BUSES

Haryana Government onWednesday took back its deci-sion of plying inter-state buses,but said its buses will contin-ue to run within the state.Thedecision came after state HomeMinister Anil Vij apprisedChief Minister Manohar LalKhattar that it would be diffi-cult to prevent the spread ofCovid-19 once people starttravelling freely from one stateto the other.

"I met the chief ministerhere and I also wrote to him onTuesday stating that we are notprepared for running inter-state buses," Vij, who is also theHealth Minister, said.He toldthe CM that it would not bepossible to conduct tests of somany people and also cited thehigh number of Covid-19 casesin some neighbouring states."In Delhi alone, there are somany cases. How can we man-

age and prevent infection? Heagreed to my suggestion andnow Haryana will not runinter-state buses. The chiefminister also gave necessaryinstructions to the state'sTransport Department in thisregard," Vij said.

However, HaryanaRoadways buses will continueto run within the state, he said.The move to resume bus trav-el to various states came afterKhattar's announcement onMonday. After this, theHaryana Government hadwritten to the transport depart-ments of at least six states andtwo Union territories, seekingtheir consent to start interstatebus services on 12 select routes.The majority of Haryana's 970coronavirus cases come fromfour districts bordering Delhi.These are Gurgaon, Faridabad,Sonipat and Jhajjar.

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Haryana Chief Minister,Manohar Lal Khatar on

Wednesday announced sever-al new initiatives like payingthree months’ interest on stu-dent loans by the StateGovernment.

Addressing the people ofthe state today during the'Haryana Aaj' programme,Khattar said there are manystudents who have taken loanfor their education. "HaryanaGovernment will pay the inter-est of three months of all thosestudents who are completingtheir education this year or whohave already completed theireducation in the previous year,but have not been able to starttheir jobs or business due tothis epidemic," he said, addingthat 36,000 students will bebenefitted with an amount ofabout Rs 40 crore.

Similarly, HaryanaGovernment will bear two per-cent of the total interest onloans of up to �50,000 under'Shishu Yojana' of Mudra LoanScheme of the CentralGovernment. They will not berequired to give any type of col-lateral for this loan. Under thisscheme, loan will be providedto 5 lakh persons of the state.

The Chief Minister saidthat Haryana Government willprovide loans of up to � 15,000to 3 lakh poor people for start-ing their own small business atonly two percent interest.These loans will be providedunder the Differential Rate ofInterest (DRI) scheme, inwhich banks charge four per-cent interest. Of this, two per-cent interest will be borne by

the State Government.Khattar said due to the

Covid-19 pandemic, econom-ic activity has been limited forthe last three months. As aresult, not only the familyincome has been affected butthe Government's revenue hasalso come down drastically. Hesaid that, the Government wasdetermined that in this crisis,not even a single person shouldsleep hungry. "Daily need offamilies will not suffer due tolack of family income. Withthis resolve in mind, financialassistance of �636 crore hasbeen provided to 15,09,108families in the last three

months in Haryana," he said,adding that this amount hasbeen directly transferred tothe bank account of the bene-ficiaries.

The Chief Minister saidfree ration is also being madeavailable to more than 27 lakhfamilies by the StateGovernment. Apart from this,3,70,925 families, who do nothave any ration card, are alsobeing provided free rationthrough Distress RationTokens. In addition, so far 2.62crore food packets and morethan 12,22,000 dry ration pack-ets have also been distributed.

Khattar said for lakhs ofmigrant labourers who areworking in Haryana, who wantto return to their native statesdue to lockdown, free of costarrangement of buses andtrains have been made forthem. "So far, we have trans-ported more than 2 lakhlabourers to their destinationfrom Haryana through a totalof 53 trains and 4257 buses," hesaid.

The CM said many relax-ations have been given duringlockdown since May 18 andmajority of economic activitieshave been allowed. However,many businesses need govern-ment assistance to resume theirwork.

He said banks will play aprominent role for restartingbusinesses. "Keeping this inmind, a portal is being devel-oped on which one can applyfor any kind of loan to start anew venture. The state gov-ernment will ensure that allsuch loan applications areapproved by banks withoutany delay," he added.

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Intensifying its frontline bat-t le against Covid-19,

Punjab Government onWednesday notif ied anOrdinance to bring privateclinical establishments intothe ambit of its fight againstthe pandemic.The notifica-tion, under sub section (3) ofsection 1 of the PunjabClinical Establishments(Registration and Regulation)Ordinance, 2020, will bring allclinical establishments havingcapacity of more than 50 bedsunder the provisions of thesaid ordinance.

This is in line with thedecision taken by the Councilof Ministers at its meeting onApril 10.“The Ordinancewould provide a mechanismfor registration and regulationof clinical establishments in aprofessional manner, toensure compliance of mini-

mum standards of facilitiesand services, as well as trans-parency in the functioning ofthese establishments for fairand proper delivery of healthservices to the common man,”said a spokesperson of theChief Minister’s Office.

To implement the provi-sions of the Ordinance, aPunjab State Council forClinical Establishments willbe set up under the chair-manship of AdministrativeSecretary (Health and FamilyWelfare) with Director(Health and Family Welfare)as member secretary.

Members will includeDirector, Health Service(Family Welfare); Director,Health Ser vice (SocialInsurance), a long withDirectors of various recog-nized systems of medicine ofthe State Government, includ-ing but not limited to theDirector Ayurveda, Head of

Homeopathic Department;President of Punjab MedicalCouncil; President of PunjabDental Council; Registrar ofPunjab Nurses RegistrationCouncil; and Registrar PunjabState Pharmacy Council.

Other members of theCouncil will include one rep-resentative each elected by theexecutive of the Board ofAyurvedic and Unani Systemsof Medicine, one representa-tive from State Branch ofIndian Medical Association,one from field of paramedicalsystems to be nominated bythe State Government, tworepresentatives from amongstthe state level consumergroups or reputed Non-Government Organisationsworking in the field of health-care, to be nominated by thestate government, and oneLaw Officer to be nominatedby the State Government as its members. As per the

Ordinance, the Punjab StateCouncil for ClinicalEstablishments has beenmandated to maintain thePunjab State Master Register,besides sending monthlyreturns for updating theNational Register and repre-senting Punjab in theNational Council, as requiredby the Central Government orNational Council establishedunder Clinical Establishments(Registration and Regulation)Act, 2010.

In addition, a StateRegistration Authority hasalso been constituted, withDirector (Health and FamilyWelfare) as chairperson, alongwith a Deputy Director(Health and Family Welfare),Law Officer, to be nominatedby the State Government, andNodal Officer of DirectorHealth and Family Welfare asmembers, for registration ofclinical establishments with

100 or more beds.Similarly, Distr ict

Registration Authority inevery district would consist ofthe concerned Civil Surgeonas chairperson while DistrictFamily Welfare Officer, onerepresentative of the DistrictAttorney and District NodalOfficer of the respective dis-trict as its Members to dis-charge functions namely; reg-istration of all clinical estab-lishments of the respectivedistrict, except the clinicalestablishments having 100 ormore beds.

The Ordinance also pro-vides for Punjab StateAppellate Authority headedby the AdministrativeSecretary (Health and FamilyWelfare) as chairpersonbesides Director HealthServices (Family Welfare) andone Law Officer to be nomi-nated by the state governmentas members.

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In a bizarre incident a petdog was hanged to death by

three persons in Balaji NagarNeelbad after dog bit one ofthe accused; Ratibad policehave registered a case againstthe three on Tuesday.

Unusual scenes were wit-nessed at Balaji Nagar afterthe accused Ram Kumar andhis two friends hanged a petdog to death after dog had bit-ten Ran Kumar in the after-noon.

The victim Sunny Pendrelodged a complaint with theRatibad police after RamKumar and his two friendskilled his pet dog in the after-noon. In his complaint victimstated at in the afternoon hisdog had bitten Ram Kumarwho left the spot only to

arrive with two of his friendsand forcefully took his dogand tied his neck with ropeand hanged him to death and

when he opposed the accusedthreatened him of life andescaped the spot. Police haveregistered a case under sec-tion 289 (negligent conductwith respect to animal) and506 of the IPC.

The incident took placelate on Monday afternoonwhen RamKumar has gone tobring some goods in the areawhere he was bitten by thedog. Details of the accused isunder investigation. Thecrime record of the threewould be checked.

During the investigationpolice have not found any olddispute between the victimand the accused. The act wasdone in fit of rage, said police.The victim is a student andclaimed that the accused arelocals he failed to rescue hispet dog.

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Five Special Shramik Trainsdeparted from Haryana

with 7,000 migrant labourerswith their family members forKatihar and Bhagalpur inBihar and Damoh, Sagar andTikamgarh in MadhyaPradesh on Wednesday.

A governmentspokesman said that onWednesday special train fromAmbala Railway Station took1247 migrant workers forKatihar of Bihar while 1400workers from Faridabad forBhagalpur of Bihar, 1500

labourers from Gurugram forDamoh of Madhya Pradesh;1400 workers from Panipatfor Sagar of Madhya Pradeshand 1440 labourers forTikamgarh of MadhyaPradesh from Rohtak RailwayStation.

He said that around 6 000migrant labourers were alsosent to their native places inUttar Pradesh through 200buses.

The spokesman furthersaid that 1247 migrantlabourers were sent to Katiharin Bihar by special train fromAmbala railway station.

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With over 1,08,000 Covid-19 cases, India is the

11th worst-affected country inthe world. But since more than39.6 per cent of the confirmedinfection cases have recovered,the Union Health Ministry onWednesday said it shows that clinical management pro-tocols adopted by the countryare effective.

Compared to the globalscale, where there are 62.3 casesper one lakh population, Indiastill has only 7.9 cases/lakhpopulation. Similarly, for mor-tality rate per lakh population,while the global average is 4.2,India’’s figure is pegged at 0.2,said the Ministry.

Union Health MinisterHarsh Vardhan addressing theNon-Aligned MovementHealth Ministers’ meeting onWednesday, said India’s

response of “micro-identifica-tion, mass isolation and quicktreatment” prevented “largescale deaths and spread ofCovid-19.”

Lav Agarwal, JointSecretary at the HealthMinistry at a Press conference

here, said Covid-19 recoveryrate has been on continuousupwards climb and is morethan 39.62 per cent.

“When the first phase oflockdown started, the recoveryrate was around 7.1 per cent.During the second phase of

lockdown, it was 11.42 per centand rose to 26.59 per cent.Today, the recovery rate is39.62 per cent.”

The efforts for early iden-tification of Covid-19 caseshad helped in having a betterrecovery rate, he said.

“The focus on clinicalmanagement and recovery hasresulted in the improvement inthe recovery rate. More than39.6 per cent of the confirmedcases have recovered, bringing the total to 42,298recoveries as of today. This is areminder that the disease iscurable and the clinical man-agement protocols adopted byIndia are effective.”

Only 6.39 per cent Covid-19 cases need hospitalisation,which includes oxygen, venti-lator or ICU support, he said.

Giving a breakup, he saidthat 2.9 per cent of all the activecases under treatment require

oxygen support, about 3 percent of the active cases requireICU support and 0.45 per centof the active cases require ven-tilator support.

India has been concur-rently focusing on upgrading

the Covid dedicated healthinfrastructure.

Agarwal stated that Indiahas been relatively able todecelerate the pace of Covid-19spread and the impact can beseen in the data of cases.

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In a ‘Make-in-India’ initiative, Kerala-based Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute

for Medical Sciences and Technology(SCTIMST), an institute of nationalimportance under the Union Scienceand Technology Ministry, has devel-oped an innovative technology to iso-late RNA from swab samples andenhance the chances of identifyingCovid-19 positive cases.

Presently, a majority of RNA iso-lation kits is being imported.

The Thiruvananthapuram basedinstitute has filed for patent for thistechnology which is simpler thanimported ones. Developed by DrAnoop Thekkuveettil and his team, thekit Known as “Chitra Magna”, usesmagnetic nano-particle to captureand concentrate the ribo-nucleic acid(RNA) from the patient’s swab sampleand can be deployed for both PCR andChitra Gene LAMP-N, the muchcheaper and faster diagnostic kit devel-oped by the institute recently, for teststo detect the virus.

The same team had developedChitra Gene LAMP-N, said a scientistin a statement here.

The SARS-COV-2, the causativevirus of coronavirus pandemic, is avirus that uses RNA, a long singlestranded polymeric substance presentin all living cells and carries the genet-ic information of the organism neces-sary for life, explained the scientist.

One of the critical steps in detect-ing this virus is by confirming the pres-ence of the RNA of the virus in thesample taken from the throat or nose.

In the lab, the RNA of Covid-19 isextracted, converted into DNA andamplified using the PCR technique orLAMP technique.

“Chitra Magna” would give a sig-nificant advantage in the extraction aseven if some viral RNA disintegrates

during storage and transportation ofthe samples, all of it is captured by themagnetic bead-based extraction tech-nology, said the scientist.

The magnetic nano-particle beadsbind to the viral RNA and whenexposed to a magnetic field gives ahighly purified and concentrated levelof RNA. As the yield of PCR or LAMPtest is dependent on getting adequatequantity of viral RNA, this innovationenhances the chances of identifyingpositive cases, the scientist added.

‘Chitra Magna’ can be used toextract high purity RNA from patientsamples not only for LAMP testing, butalso for RT-PCR test, he said.

The technology of ‘Chitra Magna’has already been transferred to a pri-vate firm, Agappe Diagnostics Ltd atKochi. The company has already takenthe Chitra GeneLamp for identificationof the N gene of SARS-COV-2, apotential confirmatory test with accu-racy matching RT-PCR in its initialvalidation at National Institute ofVirology by the Indian Council ofMedical Research (ICMR).

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Ascientist from TripuraUniversity has developed a

robot from locally available andscrap materials to take care of theCovid-19 infected patients from adistant place, an innovation whichwould come handy for the frontlinehealthcare professionals working inthe highly contagious environment.

The remote-controlled robot‘Covid-19 Warbot’ can carry 10-15kilograms of materials, has anoperational range of 15-20 metres,and can deliver food, medicinesand other essential items to theviral infected patients.

The robot, regulated by a trans-mitter and a receiver, can work foraround 90 minutes after the leadacid rechargeable battery is givenfive hour’s charge.

“I have just spent Rs 25,000 andtook a week’s time to make therobot. Due to the ongoing lock-down, I could not collect the latestand modern devices and tools fromoutside Tripura, hence I have todepend on the local and scrapmaterials. I used the vital receiver of

the robot from an old toy of the sonof my relative,” said scientist HarjeetNath, holder of the prestigiousyoung scientist award in 2018.

He said that the robot can beof enormous help to the doctors,nurses and other health workers todeal with the patients of the high-ly contagious novel coronavirus.

In the robot, Nath has installeda two-way communication deviceof a Wi-Fi-controlled camera withinbuilt microphone and speaker tohelp both the doctors or nurses andpatients to communicate directly

with each other maintaining asafest distance.

Presently, frontline healthworkers including the doctors andnurses are at the risk of gettinginfected with the highly infectiousvirus as they have to closely takecare of the Covid-19 patients.

Nath palns to add many moreskills including thermal screeningof suspected patients, sanitising thehospital floors to the existing robotto make the machine many moreother health related jobs besidespurposeful.

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Noting that the initiativehas had a positive impact

on several lives, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on Wednesdaysaid the number of people whohave benefited from the“Ayushman Bharat” scheme hascrossed the one crore-mark.

In September 2018, PMModi had launched thePradhan Mantri Jan ArogyaYojana-Ayushman Bharat. Ithas been termed as the biggestG ov e r n m e nt - s p on s o re dhealthcare scheme in the world.

“It would make everyIndian proud that the numberof Ayushman Bharat benefi-ciaries has crossed 1 crore. Inless than two years, this initia-tive has had a positive impacton so many lives,” the PrimeMinister wrote on Twitter.

He said during his officialtours, he would interact with Ayushman Bharat bene-ficiaries. “Sadly, that is notpossible these days but I didhave a great telephone interac-tion with Pooja Thapa fromMeghalaya, the 1 croreth ben-eficiary,” he said.

The Prime Minister sharedthe audio clip of the conversa-tion in which Ms Thapa, a sol-dier’s wife, explains about thesurgery she underwent inShillong using the AyushmanBharat facility.

Her husband is posted inManipur and could not bewith her due to the coronaviruslockdown. Her two small chil-dren are being taken care of bythe neighbours.

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Aplea has been filed in the SupremeCourt seeking a mechanism to check

Twitter content and advertisementsspreading hatred through fake news andinstigative messages via bogus accounts.

The petition, filed by BJP leader VinitGoenka, also a member of the GoverningCouncil (CRIS), said that there are hun-dreds of fake Twitter handles and bogusFacebook accounts in the name of emi-nent people and high dignitaries.

“These fake Twitter handles andFacebook accounts use real photo of con-stitutional authorities and eminent citi-zens. “Therefore, common man reliesupon the messages published from theseTwitter handles and Facebook accounts,”said the plea filed through advocateAshwani Kumar Dubey.

The PIL said that fake news is theroot cause of many riots, including theone in Delhi earlier this year, and bogusaccounts are used to promote casteismand communalism which endangers

fraternity and unity of the country.“It is submitted that presently total

number of twitter handles in India arearound 35 million and total number ofFacebook accounts are 350 million andexperts says that around 10 per cent twit-ter handles (3.5 million) and 10 per centFacebook accounts (35 million) areduplicate/bogus/fake,” the plea said.

Political parties use fake social mediaaccounts for self-promotion and imagebuilding and to tarnish the image ofopponents and contesting candidates,especially during the elections, the pleasaid. The plea has also sought directionsto make a law as per which an action canbe initiated against Twitter and their rep-resentatives in India for willfully abettingand promoting anti India tweets andpenalize them.

The petition further said that a rep-resentation to the concerned authority toact in accordance with the law of thecountry against social media giant Twitterwas filed but no action has been takenso far by the concerned authorities.

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The NIA has arrested the key con-spirator Rustam Ali of Kishtwar,

Jammu & Kashmir in the case relat-ing to murder of BJP State SecretaryAnil Parihar and his brother Ajeet.

Ali, 56, is an accused in theParihar brothers killing case. Pariharbrothers were killed at Kishtwar onNovember 1, 2018, by HizbulMujahideen terorrists.

“Accused Rustam Ali was alsowanted in another terror case ofKishtwar registered by NIA whichrelated to robbery of Insas rifle fromPSO of Advocate Nasir Hussain.

The Parihars murder cases wastaken over by NIA ON November 28,2018. The agency chargesheeted sevenaccused persons including three killedterrorists Osama bin Javid, Haroon

Abbas Wani and Zahid Hussain besides three arrested accused–Nisar AhmedSheikh, Nishad hmed Butt and AzadHussain. Ali wasalso named in the chargehseet filed ata designated court at Jammu on May15 this year

“Investigation of both the casesunearthed the larger conspiracy ofthese terrorists and thre over groundworkers (OGWs) of HizbulMujahideen who attempting to reviveterrorism in the region of Chenab val-ley i.e. districts of Doda, Kishtwr andRamban,” the NIA said in a statement

Accused Rustam Ali had beenabsconding since long and investiga-tion revealed that Rustam Ali had con-structed a hideout in the house ofaccused Nishad Ahmed Buttfor safehiding of accused pesons, the agencyadded.

New Delhi: All due transfers inthe 1.62 lakh personnel-strongCentral Industrial SecurityForce (CISF) have been can-celled till March next year inview of the Covid-19 outbreak,an order issued by the para-military force said onWednesday.

The measure will affectabout 12,000-13,000 personneland is aimed at “minimising”

their “hardship” and savingtransfer allowance worth a fewcrore of rupees that is given tothe under-transfer staffers tojoin the new place of their post-ing. An order issued by theforce has been accessed byPTI. It said, “Director GeneralCISF has issued the direction inorder to minimise the hardhipof personnel and to control thefinancial commitment on

account of transfer allowance.”It added that all transfers

due this year have been“deferred till March 31 nextyear”. The force had earlierpostponed all transfer ordersand movements for its per-sonnel, issued till March thisyear, in view of the ongoingnationwide lockdown and thecoronavirus pandemic.

A final decision has now

been taken.CISF chief Rajesh Ranjan

confirmed the move, saying thedecision has been taken “keep-ing in mind all administrative,operational and personnel wel-fare requirements in the timesof coronavirus outbreak”.

The order said the onlyexception to the latest directivewill be a transfer done on thegrounds of “genuine individual

grievance, medical, operationaland administrative require-ment with clear recommenda-tion and specific justification”by the supervisory authorities.

A senior official explainedthat going on transfer entails alot of human and administra-tive work and it was decided bythe DG that it was important tokeep the troops safe from theCovid-19 point of view. PTI

New Delhi: The SupremeCourt on Wednesday issued anotice to the Central govern-ment on five fresh pleas chal-lenging the constitutional valid-ity of the Citizenship(Amendment) Act, 2019 onvarious grounds including thatthe “specific exclusion” ofMuslims was against the rightto equality and secularismunder the Constitution.

The CAA, which was noti-fied on January 10, grantsIndian citizenship to non-Muslim minorities — Hindu,Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi andChristian — who migrated toIndia from Afghanistan,Pakistan and Bangladesh tillDecember 31, 2014, followingpersecution over their faith.

The top court, on December18 last year, had decided toexamine the constitutional valid-ity of the CAA while refusing tostay its operation. A Bench

comprising Chief Justice SABobde and Justices AS Bopannaand Hrishiksh Roy, in the pro-ceedings held through video-conferencing, issued the noticeon the pleas filed by TamilNadu Thoweed Jamath, Shalim,All Assam Law Students Union,Muslim Students Federation(Assam) and Sachin Yadav andordered their tagging with theearlier batch of PILs filed on theissue.

Indian Union MuslimLeague is the lead petitioner inthe case. Tamil Nadu ThoweedJamath, in its PIL, said it was rais-ing a “seminal important ques-tions related to the promulgationof CAA, wherein first time reli-gion is introduced as a referencepoint/condition for acquisition ofIndian Citizenship forillegal/undocumented migrantsfrom Afghanistan, Bangladeshand Pakistan.”

Citizenship is being extend-

ed to certain a class of migrantsbelonging to religion of Hindus,Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsisand Christians and such classi-fication violates Article 14 (rightto equality) and 21 (right toequality) of the Constitution.

“Moreover, the classifica-tion based on the religiousidentity of the individualoffends the fundamental prin-ciple of ‘Secularism’, which isenshrined as basic structure ofthe Constitution,” it said,adding that the benefit wasspecifically denied to “Muslimsby specific exclusion”. Otherfresh PILs also raised similarobjections to the CAA.

Prior to this, Centre onMarch 17 had filed its responseto the over 100 PILs against theCAA and had asserted that thelaw does not violate any funda-mental right or affect the legal,democratic and secular rights ofany Indian citizens. PTI

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The Union Cabinet onWednesday approved a

series of financial measuresand policy decisions, includingthe changes in coal allocationmethods, announced in thePrime Minister’s 20-lakh-crorepackage for the revival of economy hit by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Cabinet meetingchaired by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi gave post-factoapproval to ‘Atma NirbharBharat’ package on allocation offood grains to the migrant andstranded migrants, special liq-uidity schemes to non-bankingfinancial and housing finance,packages on fisheries sector,additional funding of threelakh crore through emergencycredit line guarantee scheme,which were recentlyannounced by the FinanceMinister in connection with theRs 20 lakh crore package.

The Cabinet meeting alsoapproved the second set oflaws in tune with Jammu &Kashmir Re-Organization Actin relation to the recruitmentrules for various services.

“The Cabinet Committeeon Economic Affairs (CCEA),

chaired by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi, has given its ex-post facto approval for waiver ofinterest of Rs 7.59 crore onGovernment of India loans ofHindustan Organic ChemicalsLimited (HOCL), as on March31, 2005 in addition to the‘Waiver of penal interest andinterest on interest up to March31, 2005’ that was earlierapproved by the CCEA inMarch, 2006 under the rehabil-itation package for HOCL,” saidGovernment in a statement.

The CCEA also approvedthe methodology for auction of

coal and lignite mines/blocks forsale of coal/lignite on revenuesharing basis and increasing thetenure of coking coal linkage.

This methodology pro-vides that bid parameter will berevenue share. The bidderswould be required to bid for apercentage share of revenuepayable to the Government.

“The floor price shall be 4per cent of the revenue share.Bids would be accepted in mul-tiples of 0.5 per cent of the rev-enue share till the percentage ofrevenue share is up to 10 percent and thereafter bids wouldbe accepted in multiples of0.25 per cent of the revenueshare. There shall be no restric-tion on the sale and/or utilisa-tion of coal from the coal mine.

“The methodology is ori-ented to make maximum coalavailable in the market at theearliest and it also enables ade-quate competition which willallow discovery of marketprices for the blocks and fasterdevelopment of coal blocks.Higher investment will createdirect and indirect employmentin coal bearing areas especial-ly in mining sector and willhave an impact on economicdevelopment of these regions,”Government said.

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New Delhi: Union HealthMinister Harsh Vardhan is setto take charge as the chair-man of the World HealthOrganization (WHO)Executive Board on May 22.He would succeed Dr HirokiNakatani of Japan, currentlythe Chairman. The proposalto appoint India’s nominee tothe 34-member ExecutiveBoard was signed by the 194-nation World HealthAssembly on Tuesday. PNS

New Delhi: A coronaviruspositive case was onWednesday detected in theDirectorate General ofHealth Services (DGHS) inthe medical education divi-sion at the Union HealthMinistry, Nirman Bhawan.“Proper protocol for saniti-sation of entire area willtake place, contact tracinginitiated,” the Ministry saidin a statement here. PNS

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At the time of Covid -19 pan-demic fear migrants are

returning to their native villagesby. A major humanitarian situ-ation India is facing. In this sit-uation the Railways have dis-tributed toys to children ofmigrant labourers to make themhappy and memorable.

In a novel gesture BengaluruDivision of South WesternRailway distributed over 700world famous Channapatna toysto children who have boardedShramik Special trains sinceMonday.

This initiative is the brain-child of Bengaluru DivisionalRailway Manager Ashok KumarVerma and is to bring smiles onthe face of these hassled chil-dren.

Lakhs of migrants are goingback to their native places andrailway has arranged specialtrains from InformationTechnology city Bengaluru.

A press release issued by theSouth Western Railways saidmany Kids Toy Store and other

agencies have sponsored thisinitiative and joined hands withRailways in making the trainjourney of migrant labourers andtheir families happy and mem-orable during Covid-19 crisis.

Channapatna lacquerwaretoys are GI (geographical indi-cations, approved by the gov-ernment) tagged and worldfamouse.

These toys are safe and goodfor children as they are made ofwood and natural colours. Thesetoys are atarctive and safe for thechildren.

Channapatna toys are a par-ticular form of wooden toysthat are manufactured in thetown of Channapatna nearBengaluru .

The origin of these toys canbe traced to the reign of TipuSultan, the erstwhile ruler ofMysuru province, who invitedartisans from Persia to train thelocal artisans in the making ofwooden toys. The initiative ofthe railways is also to supportlocal art and craft of Karnatakaand encourages business of localartisans and artists.

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In a major operation, theKarnataka forest department

officials have captured a maletiger outside the boundaries ofBandipur Tiger Reserve (BRT)in the Niligiri bio sphere.According to T Balachandra,Conservator of Forests andField Director, Project TigerBandipur a cattle eating injuredmale tiger has been capturedoutside Bandipur Tiger Reserveon Tuesday.

The four year old Tiger sup-posedly killed many cattle in thevillages of the vicinity of the for-est. “The tiger killed and ate 20domestic cattle. It made its ter-ritory outside the forest near ahuman habitation,” saidBalachandra.

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As the persons tested positive for coronavirus onWednesday shot up to 24 and the number of Covid-

19 patients in the State increased to 666, Chief MinisterPinarayi Vijayan blamed the expatriates who returnedto Kerala for the spike in pandemic.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Vijayan saidthat Kerala was facing a serious situation as the num-ber of coronavirus afflicted persons were on the rise.The State saw 12 persons testing positive for the pan-demic on Tuesday while the numbers doubled byWednesday evening.

“Out of the 24 persons tested positive on Wednesday,12 were expatriates who returned to the State while 11were those who returned from Maharashtra (eight) andTamil Nadu (three),” said the Chief minister. He saidthough the situation in the State is precarious becauseof the increase in the number of persons tested posi-tive, the Government has decided to conduct theSecondary School Leaving Certificate Examination fromMay 26. The Vocational Higher Secondary CertificateExamination too will be held simultaneously, he said.

The Government is tightening the rules in the back-drop of the hike in the number of persons tested posi-tive for covid-19, said the Chief Minister.

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The first Rajdhani Super-Fast SpecialTrain between New Delhi and

Chennai post-national lockdown willbegin its service on Thursday. TheTrain No: 02434 New Delhi-Dr MGRChennai Central Rajdhani SuperfastSpecial Train will leave New Delhi at4 pm on Mondays and Thursdays andreach Chennai at 8.40 pm on Tuesdaysand Fridays respectively, according toa release by B Guganesan, chief pub-lic relations officer, Southern Railway.

The release said that No: 02433 DrMGR Chennai Central-New DelhiRajdhani Superfast Special Train wouldleave Chennai Central at 6.35 am onWednesdays and Saturdays startingfrom May 23 and reach New Delhi at10.30 am on Thursdays and Sundays.

The trains will have stoppages atAgra Cantt, Jhansi, Bhopal, Nagpur,Warangal and Vijayawada in the jour-ney which takes 28 hours. Ticketscould be booked only through the web-site of the IRCTC or through MobileApp. The release by the Railways hasasked the passengers to carry their ownfood and drinking water. “Dry, ready-to-eat food and bottled water shall beprovided on demand, inside the trainson payment basis,” said the release.

IRCTC shall make provision for

limited eatables and packaged drink-ing water on payment basis.Information to this effect shall be madeavailable to passengers during time ofbooking ticket.

Indian Railways has made thepost-corona journeys stricter byenforcing stringent conditions. Allpassengers would be compulsorilyscreened and only asymptomatic pas-sengers would be allowed to enter/board the train.

The release further stated thatPassengers traveling by these specialservices should observe the followingprecautions : (a) Only passengers withConfirmed tickets will be allowed toenter the Railway station.

(b) All passengers should wear facecovers/masks at the entry and duringtravel.

(c) Passengers should reach the sta-tion at-least 90 minutes in advance tofacilitate thermal screening at the sta-tion. Only passengers found asymp-tomatic will be permitted to travel.

(d) Passengers should observesocial distancing both at the station andon trains.

(e) On arrival at their destination,the travelling passengers would have toadhere to such health protocols as areprescribed by the destination State/UT,said the release.

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Total number of coronaviruscases in Tamil Nadu

jumped from Tuesday’s 12,448to 13,191 on Wednesday, asteep hike.

On Wednesday 743 per-sons which includes 83 whoreturned from Maharashtratested positive for coronavirusin Tamil Nadu. This took thetotal number of persons testedpositive till date in the State to13,191. The number of personstested positive in the State onTuesday were 688 which meansthat there is no let up in thenumber of afflicted persons inTamil Nadu.

Number of persons whosuccumbed to the pandemicreached 87 in the State withthree more breathing their laston Wednesday. The only newswhich offered some solace wasthe number of persons dis-charged from hospitals onWednesday. The day saw 987

fully cured persons getting dis-charged from hospitals, thehighest ever figure till date.This means that 5,882 personshave been discharged fromhospitals till date.

The media release issuedby the directorate of publichealth and preventive medicinesaid that 3, 43, 793 personshave been tested till date. Outof the 743 persons tested pos-itive on Wednesday, 557 werefrom Chennai. The metropolishas 8,228 coronavirus patientsas on Wednesday, the highestin Tamil Nadu.

Dharmapuri (5),Krishnagiri (21), Nilgiris (14),Pudukottai (13) Sivagangai(26) continued to be less prob-lematic compared to other dis-tricts.

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The eastern suburbs of thecity -- Iblur, Bellandur,

Kaikondrahalli and Kodathi -- continue to show the signs oflockdown with very little traf-fic and shut shops, despiterelaxations.

“Only 30-40 per cent of mycolleagues are attending officedespite easing of lockdown.Many people are scared ofCovid-19 and are not comingout,” said Prabhas Chandra, 33,an employee at Reliance Jio,waiting for a bus near hisoffice at Bellandur bus station.

The private companyemployee from Paradip,Odisha, said the BengaluruMetropolitan TransportCorporation (BMTC) buseswere minimally occupied as itresumed services on Tuesdayafter nearly two months.

Empty buses with 3-4 pas-sengers were seen plying on theroads.

The scene was similar atAgara, Bellandur,Kaikondrahalli and Kodathibus stations, which used toteem with people awaiting

buses.Similar was the story with

autorickshaws, allowed to plywith limited passengers fromTuesday.

Feroze, 33, an autorickshawdriver from Dharwad, waitingopposite Wipro headquarterson the Sarjapura Road, didn'tfind many takers for his ser-vices on the first day. “I couldearn only �300. Only a fewpeople are asking for the ser-vice. I took out my autorick-shaw at 7 a.m,” said Feroze.

Even if a lot of people askfor services, Feroze couldn'ttake more than two in histhree-wheeler to maintainphysical distancing amid thepandemic. CorroboratingFeroze's views, not manyautorickshaws were plying, a farcry from the pre-lockdowntimes.

The Wipro headquartersentrance and the series ofshops opposite its main gatealways buzzed with activitywith many people buying foodand other necessities. Theentire complex is shuttered.There's no sign of the dosa sell-ers who cooked them on

embers.Near the Iblur flyover by

Agara lake, Harish, a Swiggydelivery boy, said orders in thatpart of the city had reduced to8-9 a day. “In the pre-lockdowntime, I could deliver more than15 orders a day. Everything ischanged now,” he told IANS.

Meanwhile, even as amicrobrewery on one of themain roads in the arearemained shut, an employeewas seen seeking buyers out-side for freshly brewed beer at� 500 a litre.

Similarly, a handful of peo-ple lined up maintaining phys-ical distance at the liquor shopon the Sarjapura Road to buysome bottles.

Further towards Sarjapura,a Maruti Suzuki Nexa show-room had opened a couple ofdays ago after nearly twomonths. The showroom, openonly till 6 p.m, is hoping to sellat least one car a day unlikefour earlier. “We had 24-personsales team. Currently, we haveonly 6-7,” said Jagdish Dihar,41, who manages the show-room.

At the entry point of

Carmelaram, opposite Siemensand Accenture office complex,Guntur Mess that served tra-ditional Andhra cuisine wasempty. “We are serving food to10-12 people a day. The lock-down effect is profound,” saidRayappa, a partner of the hotel.

Despite the lack of busi-ness, Rayappa said his mess wasarranging free food for peoplewalking on the road.

Across the 10-12 kmstretch from Kodathi to Iblur,a number of shops -- gro-ceries and others -- were open,and an equal number shut.People didn't venture out toresume pre-lockdown kind oflife.

The signature Bengalurutraffic was missing in this partof the city. Despite fewer vehi-cles, almost 90 per cent lessthan normal days, the trafficpolice were manning the junc-tions, regulating vehicle move-ment and traffic lights.

However, a few cars andtwo-wheelers were seen vio-lating the physical distancingrules, with some of them run-ning on full capacity with peo-ple without masks.

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A40-year-old farm labourer was found dead mid-way while walking from Pune to his native vil-

lage around 400 km away in Parbhani district inMaharashtra, police said here on Wednesday.

According to Ambhora Police Station inchargeDnyaneshwar Kuklare, Pintu Pawar's body wasfound on Monday near Dhanora village in Beed dis-trict.

“The body was highly decomposed, indicatinghe may have succumbed much earlier. We alsofound some packets of biscuits and snacks in hisbag. The body has been sent for autopsy to ascer-tain the cause of death,” Kulkare told IANS.

According to preliminary investigations, Pawarhailed from a village in Manwath tehsil of Parbhaniand worked as a seasonal sugarcane cutter in Pune.

After the lockdown was enforced on March 25,he stayed with his brother in Pune, but decided onMay 8 to return to his village on foot.

He reached Ahmednagar after four days andcontacted his family to inform them of his locationbefore starting for Beed.

Pawar continued walking till he reachedDhanora in Beed and took a break to rest near atin hut there, with over 200 km yet to be covered.

On Monday, locals complained to the policeabout stench in the shed's vicinity. Later, policefound Pawar's body.

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In yet another case of 'hit andrun' three motorbike borne

terrorists on Wednesday killedtwo jawans of Border SecurityForce (BSF) near Pandach areaof Central Kashmir'sGanderbal district.

The BSF jawans were tar-geted less than 24 hours afterthe elimination of youngest sonof Hurriyat Chairman and topcommander of HizbulMujahideen, Junaid AshrafSehrai in Nawakadal area ofSrinagar.

According to police, theBSF jawans were deployed onduty to assist CRPF jawans inthe area.

This is the second majorincident of 'hit and run' onparamilitary forces in Kashmirvalley this month.

On May 4, three CRPF

jawans were killed nearWangam stop in Qaziabadarea of Handwara by Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists.

Inspector General of PoliceKashmir range, Vijay Kumar,told reporters, “two BSF jawanson deployment duty on 90-FtSoura Road had gone to anearby shop to purchase some-thing when three motorbikeborne terrorists opened indis-criminate firing, killing one ofthe BSF jawans on the spotwhile another was shifted to anearby hospital where he toosuccumbed due to fatalinjuries”.

IG, Kashmir said, the ter-rorists decamped with the ser-vice weapons of both the BSFjawans from the spot. He said,we have cordoned off the entirearea to track down the foot-prints of terrorists behind theattack.

Meanwhile, situation alongthe line of control in Poonchremained tense as Pakistaniarmy resorted to unprovokedceasefire violation at differentintervals in Kirni,Qasba andDeegwar sectors of Poonch.

According to Lt-ColDevender Anand, DefencePRO in Jammu, “the first inci-dent of ceasefire violation wasreported in Kirni and Deegwarsectors of Poonch at around9.30 a.m and after few hoursthe Pakistani Army trainedtheir guns towards Kirni andQasba sectors around 1.50p.m”. At both the locations,Indian army gave befittingreply to Pakistan army. Groundreports claimed, heavy shellingwas going on in the area sincemorning and it was intensifiedduring day time forcing thelocal residents to stay indoorsto secure their lives.

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Areconciled NCP chief SharadPawar said here on

Wednesday that the Covid-19would not be eradicated com-pletely in the near future and itwas necessary for policy makersto accept the corona as a part oflife and create awareness amongthe masses about healthcare.

In a series of tweets put outafter he held a discussion withMaharashtra Chief MinisterUddhav Thackeray on theCovid-19 situation in the state,Pawar said that he had deliber-ated with Uddhav on theCoronavirus situation in thestate, the challenges faced by theadministration and the preven-tive measures that needed to betaken to provide relief to varioussections of people.

“Corona disease will not becompletely eradicated shortly. Itis necessary to accept the coro-na as a part of life, beware of it

and create awareness among themasses about health care. InJapan, people wear masks, lookafter personal hygiene as part oftheir routine social life,” Pawarsaid.

“I urge people to wear gloves,use masks, sanitizers, wash theirhands with soap from time totime to prevent corona infection.It is my appeal to the InformationDepartment to spread socialawareness among the massesabout the preventive measures for#Corona,” the NCP chief said.

“The situation in the statewill have to be restored by relax-ing some of the conditions oflockdown. Arrangements shouldbe made to convey the informa-tion about the level of relaxationto the public at a fixed time everyday by the State Government,” theNCP chief said.

“Shops, offices, establish-ments in the private sector shouldbe opened in a staggered manner

with complete caution,” he said.Advising the State

Government to restore the dis-rupted transported services grad-ually, Pawar said: “The lock-down has disrupted transportservices. We need to take theright steps to gradually restoreroad transport within the stateand plan for the resumption of airand rail services”

“The pace of work in publicand private ports seems to haveslowed down. To increaseimports, exports and inland ship-ping, consultations should beheld with industrialist, entre-preneurs and expert officials inthe field,” he said.

“Earlier several incentiveschemes were operational forindustries in backward andunderdeveloped areas. In thesame vein, new policies forencouraging industrial growthshould be released to attract newinvestment in the state,” the NCPchief said.

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The ruling Congress andNCP on Wednesday casti-

gated the State BJP leaders forits “lack of commitment” toMaharashtra and said that the“black flag” agitation resortedto by it was an “insult” to coro-na warriors and people of theState.

Slamming the BJP forpoliticising the Coronavirussituation in the state,Maharashtra Pradesh CongressCommittee (MPCC) presidentand senior State MinisterBalasaheb Thorat said: “TheState BJP leaders are not com-mitted to Maharashtra, theircommitment lies with theirleaders in Delhi. The protestcalled by Maharashtra BJP isnot a save Maharahstra protestbut a save the party in the State”.

Deputy chief minister andsenior NCP leader Ajit Pawardid not also mince words whenit came to criticising the BJPleaders. “At a time when doc-

tors, nurses, para-medical staff,sanitary workers, police andcitizens of the state are fightingagainst Covid-19, the State BJPleaders – instead of being a partof the war against the pandemic– have resorted ot black flagagitation which is an insult toboth the Corona warriors andthe people of the state”.

“The black flag agitationcalled by the State BJP isuntimely and it will not do anygood for the Opposition partyin the state. I am surprised asto how anyone in the BJP canthink of a black flag agitationat this juncture,” Pawar said.

Singling out former chiefminister and current leader ofthe Opposition in the AssemblyDevendra Fadnavis, Thoratsaid: “Fadanvis had said recent-ly that during these difficulttimes we shouldn't engage inpolitics and rather work unit-edly. But, his actions are notmatching his words.....Ratherthan donating to the chiefminister’s relief fund, he donat-

ed to the PM's relief fund. Heshould have actually foughtwith his leaders in Delhi for thebenefit of Maharashtra”.

Alluding to the BJP leaders’meeting with MaharashtraGovernor Governor BhagatSingh Koshyari on Tuesday atwhich they complained againstthe Uddhav Thackeray aboutthe “ineffective handling” of theCovid-19 situation in the state,Throat said: “We would haveappreciated him immensely ifhe had got an economic pack-age approved from Delhi forMaharashtra. But, Fadnavisand his colleagues in the stateBJP are not interested in speak-ing to the government but aremore interested in going to theRaj Bhavan and talking to theGovernor”.

“We are ready to listen tothem, if they point out any flawwe are willing to rectify it, butrather than that, they are moreinterested in creating confusionin the state,” the Congressleader said.

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Aday after Jammu district was classified asOrange zone, the highest number of 20 cases

of coronavirus were detected on Wednesday. However, a total number of 73 cases, 36 from

Jammu division and 37 from Kashmir divisionwere detected taking the total tally in the UnionTerritory of Jammu & Kashmir to 1,390 cases.One more patient died in Srinagar, taking thedeath toll due to covid-19 to 18.

In Jammu, nine members belonging to a sin-gle family tested positive while a retired doctor,undergoing kidney treatment, and a lady policeconstable,posted in Chest disease hospital, alsotested positive.

The family members were close relatives of apatient, who died last week after he too tested pos-itive posthumously in Preet Nagar area of Jammu.

In Kashmir valley, out of 37 fresh cases,Kupwara recorded 17 cases, Baramulla 8 whileAnantnag and Kulgam reported five cases each.The police lines in Anantnag is turning out to thehot spot as 78 police personnel have tested pos-itive so far in the district.

In Jammu, the district administrationreviewed the ground situation after the marketswere reopened for the first time on day one offourth phase of lock down period. The shopsremained open till 5.00 p.m and markets witnessedrush of local residents in many pockets. Thepolicemen were seen making regular announce-ments and patrolling in the area to ensure proper social distancing in market places.

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The bus drivers deployed byCongress workers at the UP-

Rajasthan border to bring backmigrants to their native places, havealleged that they have not been givenfood and water since Tuesday.

BJP state president Satish Pooniashared a video on his Twitter handlein which a bus driver is seen com-plaining that “There is no arrange-ment for food and water and the storyremains same for all drivers standingbesides the parked buses. Amidscorching sun, we have been sittinginside our buses which seem to havebecome a furnace,” he said.

This driver further said that he isa BP patient and has not taken hismedicine since morning.

“The RTO officials gave me wrongjob description. Initially, I was askedto go Alwar then officials told me totake the bus to Bharatpur. Now, I amstuck here since yesterday for 36hours with no food and water, hesaid.

“Since morning, have not taken my BP medicine too,” he com-

plained.Poonia, in another tweet, accused

the Congress of playing politics bymisusing its resources.

“Migrants are absconding fromscene but bus drivers have beenbrought under pressure and those whoare standing here are starving whilecursing the state government,” hetweeted tagging Congress generalsecretary Priyanka Gandhi.

Poonia further shared a picture ofa fleet of buses parked at the borderin his tweet and said that “these buseswaiting for migrants expose lies ofPriyanka Gandhi. The migrants havewalked off on foot waiting for buseswhile Rajasthanis stuck in differentparts are still waiting for 4,000 busesto be run by chief minster AshokGehlot,” he said.

On the other hand, Chief MinisterAshok Gehlot in his tweet said, “Thestate government understood thepain of the workers returning homeon foot and sent them through trainsand buses, as well as arranged campsand food etc for them. Due to this, thenumber of workers walking home hascome down considerably.”

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Maharashtra Chief MinisterUddhav Thackeray with

assets worth �143.26 crore is therichest among the nine MLCselected unopposed to the UpperHouse of the MaharashtraLegislature last week.

According to an analysis bythe Association for DemocraticReforms (ADR) released here onWednesday, Uddhav has movableassets worth �61,89,57,443 andimmovable assets worth�81,37,17,320 which amountsto a total of �1,43,26,74,763.Uddhav has declared highest lia-bilities worth �15.50 Crore.

Among the 9 MLCs electedlast week, the Opposition BJP’sGopichand Padalkar has the low-est assets amounting to �87.63lakh. her part, Shiv Sena’sNeelam Gorhe, who is current-ly the deputy chairperson of the

State Legislative Council, hasdeclared assets worth �7.70 crore,while the NCP’s Amol Mitkari(�1.17 crore), and Congress’Rajesh Rathod (�6.42 crore) havemodest assets of 1.17 crore and�6.42 crore respectively.

Another NCP’s newly elect-ed member Shashikant Shindehas declared an asset of �39.88crore.

From among the OppositionBJP MLCs, the richest isRanjitsinh V. Mohite-Patil (�50.21 crore), followed by RameshKarad (�8.17 crore) and PravinDatake (�2.56 crore), whilePadalkar is the only a lakh-patiin the BJP.

Only one among the ninenew MLCs possesses a post-graduate qualification, while twoare professional graduates, threeare graduates and two havepassed out High SecondarySchool.

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For the fourth consecutiveday, the pandemic toll

remained above 50 inMaharashtra, as 65 more per-sons succumbed to Covid-19and 2,250 others tested posi-tive for coronavirus in theState. A day after Maharashtranotched a day’s highest-everdeath tally of 76 persons,Covid-19 claimed 65 lives andleft 2250 others infected in various parts of the State.

There were as many as 63deaths on May 18, while thestate recorded 51 deaths onMay 18. With the fresh fatal-ities and infections, the totalnumber of deaths rose to 1390and infected cases mounted to39297 in the State onWednesday

Of the 65 deaths reportedon Wednesday, Mumbaiaccounted for Mumbaiaccounted for 41 deaths, whilethere 13 deaths in Pune, threein Navi Mumbai, two each inPimpri-Chinchwad, Solapur,

Ulhanagar and Aurangabad. Of the dead today, 46

were men while 19 werewomen. Thirty two of themwere aged over 60 years, 31were from the age group 40 to59 years and 2 were agedbelow 40 years. “Forty eightout of 65 patients (74%) hadhigh-risk co-morbidities suchas diabetes, hypertension,heart disease,” a state healthbulletin said.

Out of 3,07,072 laborato-ry samples, 2,67,775 testednegative while 39,297 samplestested positive for COVID-19until Wednesday. There are1849 active containment zonesin the state currently. Total15,495 surveillance squadsworked across the state onWednesday and surveillance of65.11 lakh population wasdone. As many as 10,318patients have been dischargedtill date after full recovery.Currently, 4,04,692 people arein home quarantine and26,752 people are in institu-tional quarantine.

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The Prime Minister’s announce-ment on May 12 of a monetarypackage of �20 lakh crore torevive the Indian economy pre-saged a roadmap for the many

reforms the Finance Minister would unleashduring the five consecutive days. The dom-inant theme emanating from Prime MinisterNarendra Modi’s communication was ofSankalp (oath) to shake off the pandemic —the paralysis of fear that had immobilised thenation since February — to think of a lifebeyond COVID, roll up our sleeves and getgoing. Undertones of cautious optimism weremuch needed as feel-good terms often usedby the Prime Minister had receded from hislexicon since the past few months. Take, forexample, the creation of “New India”, therecurrent goal-setting reminder of “achiev-ing a $5 trillion economy” or the virtues ofharnessing India’s “demographic dividend.”Seasoned economists read Modi’s zest fortransformational reforms as his “1991moment of economic inflection”, aimed atenthusing business sentiment locally and asan aggressive pitch for inbound ForeignDirect Investment (FDI).

Of course, the exigencies that triggeredthe 1991 reforms were different from the onewitnessed this year. Cut to the present, thecompulsion for announcing these reforms isentirely different. They have been necessitat-ed due to the pre-COVID overhang of a con-tracting global and national economy; de-globalisation; the much-anticipated pan-demic-led revenue losses to the exchequer;and a pressing need to implement political-ly sensitive reforms in “land, labour, laws andliquidity” to woo Global Value Chains(GVCs) exiting China. Certainly, this is afinite now-or-never window of opportuni-ty.

Looking at the breakdown of the pack-age, the liquidity support and credit guaran-tee measures accounted for nearly three-fourths of the economic support package,which was followed by monetary measuresat 15 per cent and fiscal support at 10 per cent.Hence, the upfront direct fiscal costannounced remained limited to 1.2 per centof the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).Exceeding fiscal deficit runs the obvious riskof downgrade by rating agencies becausewhen debt-to-GDP ratio breaches the 60 percent mark, sovereign borrowing costs esca-late.

When provisioning for higher borrow-ing, the Government would have to factor inpre-existing high debt-to-GDP ratio and lowtax-to-GDP ratio. It will also have to factorin negative economic growth forecasts for2020-21 due to stagnant growth and fallingrevenue estimates. However, as India is notthe only country which had to resort toexceed the budget fiscal deficit, rating agen-cies will be compelled to revise their assess-ment criteria by gauging each nation’smacro-economic fundamentals and how pru-dently the money is spent.

The biggest learning fromthe Corona pandemic for Indiais to stop looking for leadershipor overly rely on the “big two,”China for imports and the US forpatronage. It is in this contextthat the central theme of thePrime Minister’s prescriptionfor “atmanirbharta” or self-resilience and self-reliance isrelevant. It falls back on the time-tested Gandhian economics ofsupporting and buildingswadeshi brands. With India’sglobalisation index as high as 62per cent, the need is for a para-digm shift. We must lower ourdependence on global supplychains.

World over, economicnationalism, which is a self-preservation strategy to build andbuy local goods to foster localemployment, is being practised.With growing mistrust betweennations due to the spread of thepandemic as also the weakeningwrit of multilateral institutions,globalisation has been in retreatsince the past five years.

Modi’s 21st century reinter-pretation of “self-reliance” mustbe viewed as a “hybrid model” ofeconomic nationalism, one thatis not overly protectionist orinsular to inbound FDI. Nordoes “self-sufficiency” here implya regressive return to theNehruvian era of import substi-tution, which mollycoddled thelocal industry into mediocrityand complacency. Instead, re-packaging “brand” India is asvital as building strong brands.

For “brand” India to attractrelocating GVCs, we need to re-position and undertake an imagemakeover to promote India as abusiness destination that has an

investor-friendly Governmentwith no policy volatilities and hasrid itself of a menacing bureau-cracy. Because industries exitingChina are in the process of duediligence. They are evaluating therisk-rewards of relocation to anAsian country or are ready tocede to US President DonaldTrump’s admonition. The likes ofApple are contemplating to relo-cate to India.

For Indian brands tobecome a natural “first-choice”for domestic consumers as alsoto increase our export potential,indigenous products will have tobe benchmarked to meet globalstandards. We also need to main-tain a competitive edge in price,quality and delivery. This ishighly do-able. Think of tradi-tional brands like KhadiGramodyog, Amul, Patanjali,Dabur and Bajaj among others,which have become householdnames today.

The first tranche of theFinance Minister’s relief packagewas the most pertinent as itsought to infuse �50,000 croreequity into viable Micro, Smalland Medium Enterprises(MSMEs) and disallowed glob-al tenders in Government pro-curement up to �200 crore. Thiswill increase participation ofSmall and Medium-sizedEnterprises (SMEs) in infra-structure projects, which have anoutlay of �100 lakh crore over thenext five years. At stake are notjust 11 crore jobs but the futureof what makes up 45 per cent ofthe country’s total manufactur-ing output, 40 per cent of exports,and 30 per cent of the nationalGDP. However, the above onlystimulates the supply side.

To spur demand there existspent-up demand for non-essen-tials but potential buyers remainin cash conservation mode.Retail borrowers’ ability to ser-vice pre-existing loans remainschallenging despite extendedmoratoriums due to uncertainearning capacity. So even if theindustry resumes production atfull capacity, there is the risk ofinventory build-up, which maylead to dual defaults from bothretail borrowers and manufactur-ers. It may put pressure on thealready risk-averse banks despitea 20 per cent Government guar-antee to fund MSMEs.

Therefore, initially, onlyessential-spend services andproducts defined as catering tothe needs of a post-COVIDsociety will be resilient to bounceback. They constitute sunrise sec-tors, those which will have ahigher multiplier effect in creat-ing employment. Hence, fundingof these sectors will have a bet-ter risk-reward ratio and lowerinsolvencies. Other gainers willbe companies with strong bal-ance sheets. They will be at a van-tage to look at distressed assetsfor acquisitions.

The fastest rebound wouldcome from sectors like IT andtelecom, which became indis-pensable for virtual communica-tions during the lockdown; new-age sectors like fintech and dig-ital payments services thatbecame the contactless methodof financial transactions; pharmaand FMCG sectors, which sup-ply essential services; e-com-merce because it’s the most effi-cient form of contactless delivery;ed-tech platforms and telemed-icine to administer learning and

medical consultation; gadgetsthat are essentials for work fromhome like air conditioners, iPads,computers and smartphonesamong others.

The other propeller of eco-nomic activity is expectedthrough the Government-fund-ed affordable housing for bothrentals and purchase. India’s$180 billion real estate industryemploys 52 million people andcontributes six per cent to theGDP. Under PMAY, the afford-able housing segment has got anadditional fund infusion of�70,000 crore. Also, there are bigopportunities for labour-export-ing States such as Uttar Pradesh,Bihar, Bengal and Jharkhand tobecome low-cost manufacturinghubs should they seize themoment by offering lucrativeincentives to industries that canhelp absorb the 14 crore reversemigrants into their own homeStates.

I end on a reflective note andit is this: When confronted withan existential crisis, we eitheradapt or perish. Speedy recalibra-tion is needed at multiple levelsto adjust to the new normal,whether it’s about shiftingtowards faceless e-governancemodels, restructuring previous-ly lucrative business models ofthe “sharing economy” or evenairlines catering to cargo insteadof passengers. The crisis is aboutpersonal and economic survival.This should compel us to regen-erate like the proverbial phoenixby discovering creative solu-tions for revival and recovery.

(The writer is author, colum-nist and Chairperson for theNational Committee of FinancialInclusion at Niti Aayog)

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Sir — While worldwide medicalexperts are busy tackling a surgein the COVID-19 pandemic, theworld’s leading non-medicalexpert, US President DonaldTrump, has been rather slow andineffective in his response to thevirus. Now, he has stated that theanti-malaria drug hydroxychloro-quine can ward off theCoronavirus even though warn-ings of serious, even fatal sideeffects, are already there.

Any treatment has to be well-researched, tested, checked for itsside effects and approved by theFood and Drug Administration(FDA) before it is made availableon the shelves.Hydroxychloroquine effectivelytreats malaria but at this moment,there is no proof that it works forCOVID-19. Some initial testingis being undertaken though.

Worse, Trump’s son, EricTrump, has attracted fierce criti-cism for attacking Joe Biden andthe Democrats by describing theepidemic as a “political smoke-screen.” This, to prevent his fatherfrom campaigning in the mannerhe considers the best approachwith large crowds and enthusias-

tic supporters. None of the 90,000people, who have died due to thepandemic will get to vote forTrump or anyone else. In times ofcrisis we must pay heed to med-ical experts and not the politicians.For, we do not know when the vac-cination will be available.

Dennis FitzgeraldMelbourne

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Sir — The Government’s alloca-tion of �40,000 crore to India’sjobs scheme under the MahatmaGandhi National RuralEmployment Guarantee Act(MGNREGA) is inadequate con-sidering the fact that lakhs of

migrants are still trudging theirpath away from urban sprawls onhighways and trains to reachtheir home States.

An increase in wage fromfrom �182 to �202 per person lastmonth, too, is a small raise.Besides, a scheme at the urbanspace is much-needed. The urbanlabour shortage will not be easy

to fix. Workers will not be will-ing to get back to the very citiesthat left them to their fate in timesof crisis. Their plight calls uponthe Government as well as theemployers to introspect and maketheir lives more secure.

Ayush DarukaVia email

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Sir — Only an independent andimpartial probe can unmask thetruth behind the spread of thevirus which has shaken the world.Allegations against China are notunfounded. Under the wilfulpatronage of the World HealthOrganisation (WHO), it kept onbefooling the world regarding thegenesis and dissemination ofCOVID-19. Nations must standunited to take on China.Imposition of tough economicsanctions and severing of interna-tional relations will break its back.The role of the WHO, too, mustbe probed. If found guilty, stric-tures should be passed against it.

ShambhaviVia email

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Life had never been easy for Savitri of Gujarat’sRadhanpur village. Running the householdsolely on her income as a daily wage worker

was slowly becoming impossible. Demands madeby her alcoholic husband to finance his addictionwere eating into her paltry income and increasingdebts. Yet, the 40-year-old was reluctant to leave herhusband despite the frequent beatings and verbalabuse. Even her three children were not spared theonslaught. But in early March, the stress becametoo much to handle and Savitri decided to end herlife by ingesting poison. Fortunately, timely actionby her neighbour, who rushed her to RadhanpurHospital, saved Savitri’s life. She was also fortunatethat doctors recognised the signs of domestic vio-lence and referred her to the Mahila SahaytaKendra, a crisis intervention and support cell. Runby the Society for Women’s Action and TrainingInitiatives (SWATI), an Ahmedabad-based not-for-profit, this cell is embedded in the hospital. Aftercounselling by the Mahila Sahayta Kendra, Savitrifiled a police complaint against her husband. Butthe police let him off after summoning him to thestation. Soon after, the country was placed underlockdown to combat the Corona pandemic. Sincethen, Savitri has been stuck at home with her abuser.There has been little change in her husband’s behav-iour. With the alcohol de-addiction centre closingdown because of the lockdown, even the small rayof hope that Savitri had of a violence-free life is fad-ing fast. However, Savitri is not the only one liv-ing in fear amid the lockdown. There has been aspike in complaints related to domestic violencesince the shut down began in late March.

According to the National Commission forWomen (NCW), complaints received by them tillmid-April suggested an almost 100 per centincrease in domestic violence during the lockdown.

Gender-based violence tends to increase dur-ing a crisis as unequal gender power structures fueldissension. In a lockdown situation, women in anabusive relationship and their children are likely tobe exposed to a dramatic increase in violence asfamily members spend more time in close contactand families cope with additional stress andpotential economic or job loss, says the WorldHealth Organisation. Intimate partner violenceaffects the mental health of women, too, with pro-longed stress leading to chronic health problems.

Last month, the NCW announced a specialWhatsApp helpline number (7217735372) inaddition to the existing 181 helpline number, tomake it easier for women in distress to seek sup-port. While this is a step in the right direction, only38 per cent women in India own a mobile phone.

Data also show that a large number of womendon’t seek help when they face abuse because theythink that violence against them is warranted.According to the National Family Health Survey-4 (NFHS), over 26 per cent of girls and women(aged 15-49) think that the husband is justified inbeating a woman for going out of the house with-out permission. While 37 per cent women said athrashing was acceptable if a woman showed dis-respect towards her in–laws, 32.7 per cent citedneglect of household chores and children as a jus-tifiable reason and 11 per cent cited bad cookingas reasonable grounds for violence.

Since the prevalence of such social and cultur-al norms and lack of mobility are more pronouncedamong rural women, a good way to get around this

has been to leverage the power ofAccredited Social Health Activists(ASHAs). An integral part of the publichealth system, these women volunteers,usually between 24 and 45 years of age,interface between the community and thepublic health system. In fact, healthcareproviders are often the first point of con-tact for women experiencing violence asthey may access health services for treat-ment of physical and/or psychologicaltrauma, according to research on the roleof the health sector in addressing intimatepartner violence by the InternationalCentre for Research on Women (ICRW).

Thus, ASHAs are ideally placed toscreen, counsel, refer and support womenin their communities who experience vio-lence. A study by the Population Council,examining the feasibility of screening andreferring women experiencing maritalviolence by engaging frontline workersin rural Bihar, concluded that oncetrained, ASHAs played a vital role inbringing change. So SWATI’s decision, tomake ASHAs the pivot of the responsesystem to help identify domestic violenceand prevent it at the local level, was a goodone. Not only are ASHAs a part of thecommunity but they also visit everyhousehold in their jurisdiction (oneASHA for every 1,000 people in a village)at least once a month and can reach outto vulnerable women.

Moreover, ASHAs are part of anextensive network of health workersand play an important role as part of anupward referral system. At the villagelevel, ASHAs are supported byAnganwadi workers (AWWs), auxiliarynurse midwives (ANMs), medical offi-cers and village health and sanitationcommittees. While it is the ASHA super-visors who provide the requisite supportat the cluster level, it is the community

mobilisers who do so at the block and dis-trict level. Another advantage is the rap-port between ASHAs and block-levelCommunity Health Centres/tertiary carehospitals. Since they bring women forantenatal check-ups, ASHAs are knownat these faculties. So, if a violence preven-tion and support cell were to be locatedin a public health facility/hospital, therewould be greater chances of women inneed being able to get the necessary sup-port services related to their physical andmental health.

This is what prompted SWATI toinstitute the Mahila Sahayta Kendra inRadhanpur Hospital, to tackle domesticviolence in Patan, a predominantly ruraldistrict in Gujarat. This cell, a collabora-tive effort between the health departmentof the Gujarat Government and SWATI,is the first-of-its-kind in the State.Although it took SWATI almost threeyears after its institution in 2012 to get itgoing, recognition of the importance ofhealth workers in addressing violenceagainst women and including it in theGovernment training module for ASHAsin 2015 gave the initiative a big boost.

The initiative has incorporated sev-eral components common to the DilaasaCrisis Centre for Women, the first hos-pital-based crisis centre in India, designedto respond to the needs of women fac-ing violence within their homes and fam-ilies. This is a joint initiative of theBrihanmumbai Municipal Corporation(BMC) and Centre for Enquiry intoHealth and Allied Themes (CEHAT) andis located at Bhabha Hospital, in Mumbai,Maharashtra. SWATI has adapted fromthis model and added additional featuresthat specifically respond to the needs ofrural areas. Besides training ASHAs, thecapacity of medical staff at the hospital(where the cell is located) has been

improved to respond to thehealthcare/first aid needs of the victimsand survivors of domestic violence, sen-sitively and appropriately. This is howSavitri was referred to the cell when shewas brought to Radhanpur Hospitalafter her attempted suicide.

Even during the lockdown, theircounsellors are constantly in touch withabused women through phone, accord-ing to Neeti Singhal, Research andTraining Coordinator, SWATI.Depending on the case, SWATI alsoworks through ASHA workers to reachassistance required to the women, shesays. So far, over 550 ASHA workers infive blocks in Patan have been trained andthe Mahila Sahayta Kendra has now beenestablished in two more referral hospi-tals — General Hospital, Siddhpur andthe Medical College and Hospital atDharpur.

Clearly, ASHAs can make the differ-ence between life and death for womenwho cannot seek help because they haveno access to mobile phones or are tooscared to use one for fear of being caughtby the abusive partner. However, it isimportant to remember that ASHAs arevoluntary workers. They receive perfor-mance-based incentives for deliveringvarious healthcare services. But moreoften than not, these honorariums are notpaid in time. Sometimes, just a part pay-ment is made. The fact that they contin-ue to work despite being underpaidshould not be an excuse to undervaluethem.

The work of ASHAs is more criticalduring these unprecedented times. If pre-venting violence against women is a pri-ority, then those who are at the forefrontof such initiatives, like the ASHAs, mustbe respected and protected.

(The writer is a senior journalist)

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With the worldwide outbreakof COVID-19 resulting in acomplete lockdown in most

countries, it has resulted in hospitalsshutting down routine outpatientdepartments (OPD) and plannedsurgeries. While it was hoped that afew weeks into the lockdown, the sit-uation would improve in India, in real-ity the disease has only grown expo-nentially due to various underlyingreasons.

As of now, the number of positivecases in the country has swelled to1,06,886 and the number of casualties

has touched the 3,303 mark. This hasresulted in the delayed opening up ofregular healthcare facilities for non-COVID diseases, dealing an addition-al blow to a set of population alreadyreeling under economic hardshipbrought on by the extended lockdownand the resultant salary cuts and joblosses.

At present, most hospitals areopen for emergency services only.Government and private sector hos-pitals are reluctant to start regular OPDservices fearing the spread of theCoronavirus, as patients and their fam-ilies would crowd into the treatmentfacility, making social distancing dif-ficult to manage.

However, one has to be cognisantof the fact that many people sufferingfrom cataract, cancer, physically dis-abling spine problems, pain due to kid-ney or gall bladder stones and manyother illnesses have been denied treat-ment for far too long as these diseasesdo not need immediate and urgentattention under normal circumstances.

However, if one has a potentially life-threatening, disabling disease or pain,one always looks for early treatmentand relief. For the patient, it is anurgent need even if it doesn’t classifyas an emergency.

COVID-19 is here to stay and wewill have to live with it. Hospitals willhave to gear up to have a separate wingwith exclusive entry and exits or stand-alone buildings for treatment ofCoronavirus patients, since it is notadvisable to have non-COVID patientsunder the same roof due to high infec-tivity.

The treating healthcare staff willalso have to be exclusive to thesepatients while maintaining strict infec-tion-control protocols. All hospitaladmissions for planned surgery andtreatment will have to be done onlyafter COVID-19 testing to safeguardits healthcare staff, while those patientsneeding urgent care will need to beplaced in isolation wings of the hos-pital until their test results comeback. Unfortunately, all this is going to

escalate the cost of healthcare in thecountry. Another social impact thatthis virus has brought about is the lossof domestic help in most households,leading to further health and safetyissues for people suffering from ail-ments and senior citizens. With manyResident Welfare Associations prevent-ing the entry of domestic help withinthe colonies, the elderly have been leftto fend for themselves.

Many of these senior citizens livealone and have been dependent on thedomestic help for their day-to-day liv-ing. People with ailments and pregnantwomen and young mothers, too, aresuffering from the lack of domestichelp as traditionally the burden of car-ing for the family falls on the womenof the house.

Even with the lockdown, thenumber of cases was going up and itwasn’t the poor domestic help whobrought the disease to our borders. Butthe fact of the matter is that the poorare facing the brunt of the impact ofthe disease on our society.

However good a plan theGovernment comes up with, there willalways be a number of people who willoppose it with scientific reasoning andstatistical data. This is an unprecedent-ed crisis wherein everyone presumablyis trying to do his/her best under theprevailing circumstances and there isnever going to be a single “best solu-tion.”

One also needs to understand thatalthough COVID-19 is a highly infec-tious disease, close to 90 per cent peo-ple only have minor symptoms likefever, sore throat, body ache and onlyabout five to 10 per cent of the infect-ed patients actually need hospitalisa-tion. With a mortality rate of about 3.2per cent in India as per the data on theAarogya Setu app, it must be said thata road crash is 10 times more likely tokill than COVID-19.

According to data compiled bySaveLife Foundation, the fatality rateper 100 road accidents was around 30during 2019 and 381 patients had diedin 1,200 road accidents in the last two

months, translating to a fatality rate ofalmost 32 per cent.

As the Government may not be ina position to feed the poor for long, itis imperative to begin economic activ-ity soon as suggested by industryexperts. Although it is easy to keep thedisease at bay through social distanc-ing, maintaining simple social and per-sonal hygiene and practising it reli-giously without dropping guard, it isindeed worrying to see people lettinggo of social distancing norms with theeasing of the lockdown and puttingeverybody’s lives at risk.

We better learn to stick to all theguidelines issued by the Governmentto prevent the spread of theCoronavirus quickly, else we, as anation, would have to pay a heavyprice. The choice is ours. All we needto do is maintain distance from fellowbeings to keep ourselves safe. How dif-ficult can that be when your life is atstake.

(The writer is a consultantNeurosurgeon at Apollo Hospital)

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Beijing: China on Wednesdaycredited its socialist politicalsystem for quickly bringingthe coronavirus outbreak undercontrol, ahead of its annualParliament session fromThursday.

China, which came underpressure at the just-concludedWorld Health Assembly(WHA) session for a probe intothe origins of the coronavirus,welcomed the unanimous res-olution passed by the worldbody, calling for an indepen-dent “comprehensive evalua-tion” of the internationalresponse to the COVID-virus.

China claimed the major-ity of the countries believe thefocus should be on the con-tainment of the pandemic,rather than investigating theorigin of the virus.

During a media interac-

tion, Spokesperson of adviso-ry body Chinese People’sPolitical ConsultativeConference Guo Weimin saidChina brought the COVID-19pandemic under control in ashort period.

China’s annual Parliament,comprising the CPPCC and theNational People’s Congress(NPC), was put off in March thisyear due to the virus outbreak.A truncated programme willheld from Thursday for a week.

During the session, over6,000 deputies would attend thesessions.

The NPC, often describedas the rubber stamp Parliamentwith over 3,000 members,would pass a host of new leg-islations, including approvalof Premier Li Keqiang’s annu-al work report and the annualdefence budget. PTI

London: British PrimeMinister Boris Johnson onWednesday dismissed any hopeof a review into what has beenbranded an “unfair” surchargeon foreign doctors, including Indians, working inthe UK’s state-funded NationalHealth Service.

A number of professionalassociations for doctors inBritain have been campaigningagainst the annual ImmigrationHealth Surcharge (IHS),imposed of foreign workers toraise additional funds for theNHS, as an additional burdenwhile they directly contributeto the health service.TheOpposition Labour PartyLeader, Keir Starmer, backedtheir campaign in the House ofCommons during the weeklyPrime Minister’s Questions onWednesday, when he askedJohnson if he thinks the sur-charge on NHS doctors and

nurses is “fair”.“I have thought a great deal

about this and I do accept andunderstand the difficultiesfaced by our amazing NHSstaff. I have been a personalbeneficiary of people and car-ers who have come fromabroad and, frankly, saved mylife,” replied Johnson, makinga reference to his COVID-19hospitalisation last month dur-ing which he was cared for byforeign medics.

“I know exactly theirimportance. On the other hand,we must look at the realities thatthis is a great national service,a national institution whichneeds funding and those con-tributions actually help us toraise about 900 million pounds.It is very difficult in the currentcircumstances to find alterna-tive sources, so I do think thatis the right way forward,” hesaid. PTI

Dhaka: Bangladesh has shiftedover two million people tostorm shelters and deployed themilitary to deal with the pow-erful cyclone ‘Amphan’ which isset to make a landfall on thecostal districts, Prime MinisterSheikh Hasina said onWednesday.

Authorities have alreadyraised the alert level to ‘greatdanger’ for some districts in thecountry as the cyclone, themost powerful storm sincecyclone ‘Sidr’ killed nearly 3,500people in 2007, was approach-ing the coastline.

“We have the preparations(to face cyclone Amphan). Weare taking all possible measuresthat we should adopt for pro-tecting the lives and propertiesof the people from the cyclone,”Prime Minister Hasina told ameeting of the NationalDisaster Management Council(NDMC) formed to review thepreparations in facing the pos-

sible assault of the supercyclone.

“Twenty lakh people haveso far been evacuated to thecyclone centres as part of theprior preparation,” Hasina wasquoted as saying by The DailyStar newspaper.

The Bangladesh Army,Navy and Air Force have madepreparations to tackle the supercyclone, Bdnews24.Comreported.

A Bangladesh Red CrescentSociety (BDRC) volunteerdrowned on Wednesday whena boat capsized while evacuat-ing villagers to safety in south-western Patuakhali, becomingthe first victim of Amphan. “Hewas on a boat along with fourothers when a sudden stormunder advancing Amphan’sinfluence overturned it. Threeothers managed to escape,”BDRC’s cyclone preparednessprogramme Nurul Islam Khantold PTI. PTI

Sidon: Twenty years afterHezbollah guerrillas pushedIsrael’s last troops from south-ern Lebanon, both sides aregearing up for a possible warthat neither seems to want.

Israeli troops are strikingHezbollah targets in neigh-boring Syria and drilling forwhat could be an invasion ofLebanon. Hezbollah is beefingup its own forces and threat-ening to invade Israel. Thebitter enemies routinelyexchange warnings and threats.

“We are preparing seri-ously for the next war. We’renot taking any shortcutsbecause we understand wehave to be extremely strong todefeat the enemy,” said Col.Israel Friedler, an Israeli com-mander who has been over-seeing a weeks-long exercisesimulating war with Hezbollahat a base in northern Israel.

Hezbollah emerged as aragtag guerrilla group in the1980s, funded by Iran to battle

Israeli troops occupying south-ern Lebanon. A protractedguerrilla war, characterized byroadside bombs and sniperattacks, eventually forced Israelto withdraw in May 2000. Withthe exception of an inconclu-sive, monthlong war in 2006,the volatile frontier has large-ly remained calm.

Since then, Hezbollah hasevolved into the most power-ful military and political enti-ty in Lebanon. The party andits allies dominate Lebanon’sparliament and are the mainpower behind Prime MinisterHassan Diab’s government.

“Domestically, Hezbollahhas emerged to become the pre-ponderant force in Lebanon,”said Hilal Khashan, a politicalscience professor at theAmerican University in Beirut.But regionally, he said, “theposition of Hezbollah is pre-carious” due to Israeli pressure,domestic turmoil and problemsfor its Iranian benefactors.

The group can ill affordanother massive clash withIsrael. The Lebanese economyis in shambles, around half thepopulation is now estimated tolive in poverty — including inHezbollah strongholds — andthe group’s finances are suffer-ing because of US sanctionsimposed on it and Iran.

The group also sufferedheavy losses in the Syrian civilwar, losing some 2,000 fighterswhile battling alongside theforces of Syria’s PresidentBashar Assad. Once seen as aliberation movement,Hezbollah is now seen by manyin Lebanon and the region asan Iranian pawn.

Qassim Qassir, an experton Hezbollah, says the grouphas no interest in going to warbut has been preparing for bat-tle for a long time. “The battlewill not be a battle of missilesonly,” he said, a reference thatHezbollah might try to invadeparts of northern Israel. AP

Seoul: South Korean studentsbegan returning to schoolsWednesday as their countryprepares for a new normal amidthe coronavirus pandemic.

In a reminder that returningto normalcy won’t be easy, stu-dents in some schools nearSeoul were quickly asked to leaveand return home after two stu-dents were found to have con-tracted the virus.

Health authorities onWednesday reported 32 newcases over a 24-hour period, thefirst time the daily jump hasbeen above 30 in more than aweek. Hundreds of thousands ofhigh school seniors enteredtheir schools after having theirtemperatures checked and rub-bing their hands with sanitizerson Wednesday morning. AP

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Tehreek-e-Insaf party inPunjab province died ofCOVID-19 on Wednesday,making her the first lawmak-er in the country to succumbto the virus that has killed over900 others in Pakistan.

Shaheen Raza, 60, wasadmitted to the Mayo hospitalin Lahore a few days ago aftershe was tested positive for thecoronavirus.

Her health deterioratedover the weekend followingwhich she was put on ventila-tor, Gujranwala DeputyCommissioner Sohail Ashrafsaid.

However, Raza succumbedto the viral infection in the hospital on Wednesday, he said.

She was also sufferingfrom other diseases like highblood pressure and diabetesand her situation deterioratedfast, officials said.

Prior to developing coro-navirus symptoms, Raza hadbeen inspecting various quar-antine centres.

Raza was the only PTImember from Gujranwala dis-trict in the Punjab Assembly.She was elected on a specialseat in 2018.

President Arif Alvi andPrime Minister Imran Khanexpressed deep grief and sor-row at her demise.

Washington: President DonaldTrump has said it is a “badge ofhonour” for America to “lead”the world with 1.5 millionconfirmed coronavirus casessince it means the US is testingmore people for the disease thathas killed over 300,000 peopleacross the world.

The US has 1.5 millionconfirmed coronavirus casesand over 91,000 deaths, boththe world’s highest.

“I look at that as, in a cer-tain respect, as being a goodthing because it means our test-ing is much better,” he said onTuesday at the White House ashe hosted his first Cabinetmeeting since the COVID-19outbreak began.

“By the way,” he toldreporters, “you know whenyou say that we lead in cases,that’s because we have moretesting than anybody else.”

“So when we have a lot of

cases,” he continued, “I don’tlook at that as a bad thing, Ilook at that as, in a certainrespect, as being a good thingbecause it means our testing ismuch better.” He added: “So Iview it as a badge of honour.Really, it’s a badge of honour.

Trump was responding toa question about whether hewas considering a travel ban onLatin America, Brazil in par-ticular. “It’s a great tribute tothe testing and all of the workthat a lot of professionals havedone,” the president said.

According to the Centersfor Disease Control, a federalagency, the US had conducted12.6 million coronavirus testsby Tuesday. PTI

London: Cambridge hasbecome the first university inBritain to cancel all face-to-facelectures for the 2020-21 acad-emic year because of the coro-navirus pandemic.

The university says all lec-tures will be held virtually andstreamed online until summer2021. Cambridge says it may bepossible to hold tutorials andother teaching in small groups- a key part of the university’ssystem - when the new acade-mic year starts in October, aslong as social distancing can befollowed. The pandemic hasalready upended student life.Cambridge moved all its teach-ing online in March, and examsare being held remotely.

British universities arewarning they will face a finan-cial crisis if students decidethey don’t want to pay tuitionfees - currently 9,250 a year(USD 11,300) in England - fora virtual experience. AP

Kabul: Gunmen killed 14 peo-ple in two separate attacks inAfghanistan while the Talibantargeted pro-government check-points in the northeast, killingnine militiamen, officials said onWednesday, the latest in relent-less violence that continues toplague the war-torn nation.

The attacks came against thebackdrop of renewed UN callsfor an end to violence and asWashington’s special peaceenvoy, Zalmay Khalilzad,embarked on another round oftalks with the Taliban to pressthem to start negotiating withthe newly reconciled Afghanpolitical leadership in Kabul.

In Parwan province, northof the capital, Kabul, anunknown number of gunmen

stormed a mosque late onTuesday, killing 11 worshipersand wounding several others,said Wahida Shahkar, spokes-woman for the provincial gov-ernor. Reports earlier in the dayhad eight killed.

Also late on Tuesday, gun-men in eastern Khost provinceattacked a family returninghome from a nearby mosque,killing three brothers, accordingto Adil Haidari, spokesman forthe provincial police chief. Inboth attacks, the gunmen fledthe scene. No one claimedresponsibility for either attackbut the Taliban promptly deniedinvolvement. The Islamic Stategroup, which has been increas-ingly active in Afghanistan aftersuffering battlefield losses togovernment and US forces, aswell as its Taliban rivals, has car-ried out similar attacks in thepast. Washington blamed the ISfor last week’s horrific attack ona maternity hospital in Kabulthat killed 24 people, includingtwo infants. In a third attack, theTaliban targeted checkpointsbelonging to a local pro-gov-ernment militia in northeasternTakhar province, killing ninemilitiamen, said Khalil Aser,spokesman for the provincialpolice chief. AP

Manila: Philippine police raid-ed a clandestine hospital anddrugstore that was secretlytreating Chinese nationals sus-pected of being infected withthe coronavirus, police officialssaid Wednesday.

Two people were arrestedand one patient was foundduring Tuesday’s raid at the res-idential villa that had been ille-gally turned into a seven-bedhospital and drug store, PoliceBrig. Gen. RhoderickArmamento said.

More than 200 suspectedcoronavirus rapid test kits andsyringes were recovered in trashcans at the villa, which has asmall canteen with stacks of beercases at the lobby entrancewhere a red sign welcomed vis-itors with well wishes in Chinese.

The hospital and drug-store are in a large room by theswimming pool at the back ofthe compound, according toArmamento and a police video.

The Chinese male patientwas moved to a Philippinehospital. Those arrested werethe Chinese administrator ofthe hospital, which may havebeen operating secretly forabout three months, and acompatriot who manned thedrugstore, he said. AP

Washington: Republican polit-ical operatives are recruiting“extremely pro-Trump” doc-tors to go on television to pre-scribe reviving the US economyas quickly as possible, withoutwaiting to meet safety bench-marks proposed by the federalCenters for Disease Controland Prevention to slow thespread of the new coronavirus.

The plan was discussed ina May 11 conference call witha senior staffer for the Trumpreelection campaign organisedby CNP Action, an affiliate ofthe GOP-aligned Council forNational Policy.

A leaked recording of thehourlong call was provided toThe Associated Press by theCenter for Media andDemocracy, a progressivewatchdog group.

CNP Action is part of theSave Our Country Coalition, analliance of conservative thinktanks and political committeesformed in late April to end statelockdowns implemented inresponse to the pandemic.

Other members of thecoalition include the

FreedomWorks Foundation,the American LegislativeExchange Council and TeaParty Patriots.

A resurgent economy isseen as critical to boostingPresident Donald Trump’sreelection hopes and hasbecome a growing focus of theWhite House coronavirus taskforce led by Vice PresidentMike Pence.

Tim Murtaugh, the Trumpcampaign communicationsdirector, confirmed to AP thatan effort to recruit doctors topublicly support the presi-dent is underway, but declinedto say when the initiativewould be rolled out.

“Anybody who joins one ofour coalitions is vetted,”Murtaugh said Monday.

“And so quite obviously, allof our coalitions espouse poli-cies and say things that are, ofcourse, exactly simpatico withwhat the president believes. ...The president has been out-spoken about the fact that hewants to get the country backopen as soon as possible.”

During an emergency such

as the current pandemic, it’simportant that the governmentprovide consistent science-based information to the pub-lic, said Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, anepidemiology professor atColumbia University’s MailmanSchool of Public Health.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, thenation’s top infectious diseaseexpert and a member of theWhite House’s coronavirus taskforce, has been among themost visible governmentexperts warning that liftinglockdowns too quickly couldlead to a spike in deaths.

El-Sadr said having doctorsrelay contradictory informationon behalf of the president is“quite alarming.” “I find it total-ly irresponsible to have physi-cians who are touting someinformation that’s not anchoredin evidence and not anchoredin science,” El-Sadr said.

“What often creates con-fusion is the many voices thatare out there, and many ofthose voices do have a politi-cal interest, which is the huge-ly dangerous situation we areat now.” PTI

United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterreswarned Wednesday that thecoronavirus pandemic threat-ens Africa’s progress and couldpush millions into extremepoverty.

The UN chief said in avideo message launching a pol-icy report on “The Impact ofCOVID-19 in Africa” thatcountries on the continenthave responded swiftly to thecrisis, and as of now reportedcases are lower than feared withmore than 2,500 deaths.

The virus is present in allAfrican countries with mostrecording fewer than 1,000cases, the 28-page UN reportsaid.

The relatively low numbersof COVID-19 cases confirmed

thus far “have raised hopes thatAfrican countries may bespared the worst of the pan-demic,” the report said.

“Caution is warranted,however, as these are earlydays in the life cycle of a dis-ease that is still not fully under-stood and where we have seenrepeated patterns of first slow,then exponential growth inthe number of cases.”

The UN said the lownumbers could be linked tominimal testing and report-ing, pointing to a WorldHealth Organisation warningthat the pandemic “could killbetween 83,000 and 190,000people in 47 African countriesin the first year, mostlydepending on governments’responses”.extremism”. AP

Washington: US PresidentDonald Trump on Tuesdaydefended his taking anti-malarial drug hydroxychloro-quine as a “line of defence”against the coronavirus.

“I think it’s worth it as aline of defence and I’ll stay onit for a little while longer. I’mjust very curious myself, but itseems to be very safe,” Trumptold reporters at the WhiteHouse, a day after he disclosedthat he has been taking thedrug to ward off the deadlyinfection.

The US president said thedrug has gotten a bad reputa-tion only because ‘he was pro-moting it’.

“So, I am obviously a verybad promoter. If anybody elsewere promoting it, they wouldsay this is the greatest thingever,” he said. PTI

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Nairobi: A crucial electionbegan on Wednesday in the EastAfrican nation of Burundi,where President PierreNkurunziza is stepping asideafter a divisive 15-year rule butwill remain “paramount leader”in the country that continues toreject outside scrutiny.

The vote is one of the mostimportant transfers of power inBurundi since independencein 1962.

Few face masks wereobserved, even on the rulingparty’s candidate, as voterscrammed close to each other inline. Some paused to wash theirhands.

Burundi’s government hasbeen criticized for not appear-ing to take the coronaviruspandemic seriously. Nkurunzizahimself attended crowded polit-ical rallies. The country has 42confirmed virus cases. “We are

not afraid because the organiz-ers did not require us to distance1 meter,” voter NdayishimiyeInnocent said. “They saw thatGod is with us.”

Regional observers are notpresent after being told thatarriving foreigners would face a14-day quarantine, and onWednesday citizens and jour-nalists said access to socialmedia was not possible withouta virtual private network.

“The government is cuttingsocial media so that we don’t tellthe world what is happening,”said one voter, Jean PierreBazikamwe. Ahead of the vote,government agents were accusedof harassing the main oppositionparty, the CNL, whose leaderAgathon Rwasa is believed to bein a close race with Nkurunziza’schosen successor in the rulingCNDD-FDD, EvaristeNdayishimiye. AP

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New Delhi: RaviDadhich, a dynamicand result orientedbureaucrat of DAN-ICS (1996 batch) hastaken over asDirector (HR) ofDelhi TranscoLimited.

An alumnus ofMaharaja College Jaipur —University of Rajasthan,Dadhich has done his postgraduation in Sociology.

During his illustriouscareer spanning over twentyfive years, Dadhich has heldmany challenging postings inDelhi as well as inLakshadweep.

His first posting was asSDM — Preet Vihar Delhi.Among the other few impor-tant postings Dadhich has heldin Government of NCT of

Delhi include asOfficer on SpecialDuty to Hon’bleL i e u t e n a n tG o v e r n o r ,A d d i t i o n a lSecretary toHon’ble ChiefMinister, Member(Administration)

— Delhi Urban ShelterImprovement Board, Secretaryto Minister (Transport) andAdditional Commissioner(Food and Civil Supplies). InLakshadweep, he has beenAdditional District Magistrate,Director (Tourism) and CEO,District Panchayat.

Dadhich has also workedwith Delhi DevelopmentAuthority and New DelhiMunicipal Council and hasvast experience of urban devel-opment sector.

New Delhi: IT company L&TInfotech shares rallied nearly 7per cent on Wednesday after thefirm reported a 12.9 per centgrowth in consolidated net prof-it for the January-March 2020quarter.

Stock of the companyjumped 6.86 per cent to close at�1,783.60 on the BSE. Duringthe trade, it advanced 9.75 percent to �1,832.

It zoomed 5.31 per cent toclose at �1,759 on the NSE. L&TInfotech on Tuesday reported a12.9 per cent growth in consol-idated net profit to �427.5 crorefor the January-March 2020quarter. This is against a netprofit of �378.5 crore in the sameperiod a year ago, the companysaid. Its revenue was up 21.2 percent to �3,011.9 crore in thereported quarter from �2,486crore in the year-ago period,L&T Infotech (LTI) added. PTI

Dhaka: India and Bangladeshon Wednesday added five moreports of call that would aug-ment bilateral trade and pro-vide stimulus to the econom-ic development of the newlocations and their hinterland.

The five new ports of callin Bangladesh side areRajshahi, Sultanganj, Chilmari,Daudkandi and Bahadurabad,while in Indian side areDhulian, Maia, Kolaghat,Sonamura and Jogigopha, theDaily Star reported.

Bangladesh's ShippingSecretary Mezbah UddinChowdhury and Indian HighCommissioner to BangladeshRiva Ganguly Das signed theaddendum to the Protocol onInland Water Transit and Tradehere, the report said.

Under the protocol,presently there are six ports ofcall. They are Kolkata, Haldia,Karimganj, Pandu, Shilghat

and Dhubri on Indian side andNarayanganj, Khulna, Mongla,Sirajganj, Ashuganj andPangaon on the Bangladeshside.

Further, two more extend-ed ports of call – Tribeli(Bandel) and Badarpur onIndian side and Ghorasal andMuktarpur on Bangladesh side– have been added through thisaddendum.

Now, total ports of call are11 and there are two extendedports of call in both countries.The Inclusion of Jogigopha inIndia and Bahadurabad inBangladesh as a new port of callwill provide connectivity toMeghalaya, Assam as well asBhutan.

Jogigopha also becomesimportant, since a multimodallogistics park is proposed to beestablished there, said IndianHigh Commission in a state-ment. PTI

New Delhi: The finance min-istry on Monday said it has sanc-tioned �46,038.70 crore for Mayinstalment of devolution ofstates' share in central taxesand duties.

"These releases, similar toApril releases, have been calcu-lated based on tax receipts pro-jected in Budget 2020-21 & notas per actuals," the ministry saidin a tweet.

It added that theGovernment of India's primeobjective has been protectingstates' revenues and meetingtheir liquidity requirements intheir fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Budget had projectedthe share of the states in taxes atRs 7.84 lakh crore for 2020-21.The 15th Finance Commissionhad recommended the share ofstates at 41 per cent of the divis-ible pool and 1 per cent for thenewly-created union territoriesof Jammu and Kashmir, andLadakh. The 14th FinanceCommission had recommend-ed the states be given 42 per centshare in taxes. "Finance Ministryhas issued sanction orders for�46,038.70 cr today for the Mayinstalment of Devolution ofStates' Share in Central Taxes &Duties," the ministry said inanother tweet. PTI

New Delhi: The Centre hasreleased �15,340 crore GSTcompensation to the states andUnion territories so far in thecurrent fiscal, despite aninsignificant revenue mop upfrom goods and services taxowing to the nationwide lock-down, according to sources.

For 2019-20 fiscal (up toNovember 2019), the Centrehas released Rs 1,20,498 croreGST compensation, higherthan Rs 69,275 crore releasedin full 2018-19 and Rs 41,146crore in 2017-18. GST wasrolled out on July 1, 2017.

The cess collection in2019-20, 2018-19 and 2017-18fiscal was Rs 95,000 crore, Rs95,081 crore and Rs 62,611crore, respectively.

As the compensationrequirement of the states wasless than collection in the firsttwo years (2017-18 and 2018-19) of GST rollout, Rs 47,271crore GST cess collected hadremained unutilised in thecompensation kitty.

Finance Ministry sourcessaid since the end of August2019, the central governmenthas started realising theimpending precarious posi-tion in paying GST compensa-tion to the states and UTs as thecompensation cess require-ment was being double of the

average monthly cess collec-tion.

"On an average the month-ly GST compensation cessrequirement was to the tune of�14,000 crore while the cesscollection average was only inthe range of �7,000 to �8,000crore per month," a sourcesaid.

In the current fiscal year,the central government hasreleased Rs 15,340 crore to thestates and UTs as GST com-pensation despite an almostinsignificant collection practi-cally due to relief provided interms of filing of return andpayment of taxes owing to thelockdown caused by the out-break of COVID-19 pandem-ic, the source added.

With dwindling cess kitty,the options left with the GSTCouncil were to either bringmore items under the cessbase by expanding the base ofGST cess items or to increasecess rate on the existing items.

"Any increase in compen-sation cess on few items couldonly yield about Rs 2,000-3,000 crore a year. Therefore,the other options left were toeither forego full cess com-pensation which was increasingat the rate 14 per cent perannum or to go ahead withwhatever compensation is

available. One more optionwas to raise the tax rate onitems by rationalisation of ratesby shuffling slab rates," anoth-er source said.

For 2019-20 fiscal, despitelower GST revenue collection,the Centre has cleared com-pensation till November, 2019,without any discriminationbetween states. For the periodof December 2019-March2020, GST compensation pay-out is due.

Compensation is releasedon a pro-rata basis uniformlyfor all states without discrimi-nating among them, a sourcesaid, adding the calculation ofcompensation is done in trans-parent manner and is sharedwith the states.

Under GST law, states wereguaranteed to be paid for anyloss of revenue in the first fiveyears of the GST implementa-tion from July 1, 2017. Theshortfall is calculated assuminga 14 per cent annual growth inGST collections by states overthe base year of 2015-16. Underthe GST structure, taxes arelevied under 5, 12, 18 and 28 percent slabs. On top of the high-est tax slab, a cess is levied onluxury, sin and demerit goodsand the proceeds from the sameare used to compensate states forany revenue loss. PTI

New Delhi: The Governmenton Wednesday fixed the annu-al rate of return for PradhanMantri Vaya Vandana Yojana(PMVVY), a social securityscheme for senior citizens, at7.4 per cent for 2020-21, downfrom 8 per cent in the previousfiscal, as it extended the schemeby three years.

The Union Cabinetextended the PMVVY up toMarch 31, 2023 for a furtherperiod of three years beyondMarch 31, 2020 and alsoallowed "initially an assuredrate of return of 7.40 per centper annum for the year 2020-21 per annum and thereafter tobe reset every year", an officialrelease said.

In Union Budget 2018-19,the government had extend thescheme up to March 2020 withan assured return of 8 per cent,and also doubled the invest-ment limit per senior citizen to�15 lakh.

The release further said theCabinet also approved anannual reset of assured rate ofinterest with effect from April1 of financial year, in line withrevised rate of returns of SeniorCitizens Saving Scheme (SCSS)up to a ceiling of 7.75 per cent,with fresh appraisal of thescheme on breach of thisthreshold at any point. PTI

Mumbai: The nationwide lock-down to curb the COVID-19pandemic has impacteddemand for paper and paperboards which is likely to wit-ness a 10-15 per cent year-on-year decline in 2020-21,according to Crisil Research.

The extended lockdownto stem the COVID-19 pan-demic has dealt a nasty blow tothe highly fragmented paperindustry in India, CrisilResearch said in a report.

The demand has shrunk asschools and colleges are shut-down, while majority of officeshave also crimped demand forwriting and printing (W&P)paper.

Industrial paper usage hasalso crumpled because of weak-ness in FMCG, consumerdurables and apparel segments,which account for 50-60 percent of demand, it said.

The demand for paper andboards is expected to contract10-15 per cent this financialyear compared to the previousyear, the report said, adding allcategories of products will beaffected. Around 80 per cent ofthe nation's paper capacity of 25million tonnes (750-800 mills)is clustered around six statesthat account for half of India'sgross domestic product. PTI

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The finance ministry onWednesday exempted

companies with a turnover ofover Rs 50 crore and involvedin only B2B transactions fromthe requirement of acceptingpayments only by electronicmodes like RuPay or BHIM-UPI.

"It is clarified that the pro-visions of Section 269SU of theAct shall not be applicable toa specified person having onlyB2B transactions (i.E. Notransaction with retail cus-tomer/consumer) if at least95 per cent of aggregate of allamounts received during theprevious year, includingamount received for sales,turnover or gross receipts, areby any mode other than cash,"

the CBDT said in a circular.To encourage digital trans-

actions and move towards aless-cash economy, the gov-ernment inserted a new provi-sion, Section 269SU, in theFinance Act, 2019, requiring aperson carrying on businessand havingsales/turnover/gross receiptsfrom business of more than ̀ 50crore in the immediately pre-ceding previous year to manda-torily provide facilities foraccepting payments throughprescribed electronic modes.

Subsequently, in December2019, debit card powered byRuPay; Unified PaymentsInterface (UPI) (BHIM-UPI);and Unified Payments InterfaceQuick Response Code (UPIQR Code) were notified as pre-scribed electronic modes.

Mumbai: Benchmark indicesmarched higher for the secondstraight day on Wednesday asrobust gains in market heavy-weights HDFC twins and RILoffset lacklustre global cues.

The 30-share BSE Sensexclimbed 622.44 points or 2.06per cent to settle at 30,818.61,while the broader NSE Niftyrose 187.45 points, or 2.11 cent,to 9,066.55.

Traders said encouragingcorporate results bolsteredinvestor confidence, though ris-ing COVID-19 cases in Indiacapped the gains.

Further, media reports saidFinance Minister NirmalaSitharaman has not ruled outannouncing more measures tohelp the coronavirus-hit econo-my, which added to the buyingmomentum, they added.

M&M was the top gainer inthe Sensex pack, surging 5.92per cent, followed by HDFC,L&T, Tata Steel, Bajaj Finance,HDFC Bank and Sun Pharma.

Only four Sensex con-stituents ended in the red --

IndusInd Bank, HeroMotoCorp, Bharti Airtel andAsian Paints, shedding up to2.85 per cent.

"Domestic markets openedflat but gained higher later dur-ing the day led by buying acrossall sectors. Positive statementsfrom the Finance Minister alsocould have lifted markets (andshowed) that the governmentwas with industry and would doas much as possible dependingon how the coronavirus pan-demic will pan out, implying

there could be further stimulusahead," said Paras Bothra,President of Equity Research,Ashika Stock Broking.

BSE healthcare, capitalgoods, finance, consumerdurables and oil and gas indicesrallied up to 3.16 per cent, whiletelecom ended in the red.

Broader BSE midcap andsmallcap indices spurted up to1.49 per cent. Global marketswere largely subdued after newsreports cast doubts on someCOVID-19 vaccine trials. PTI

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From an actor to a producerto an environmental

changemaker, Dia Mirza jug-gles her myriad roles with ease.But for a then 18-year-old Dia,the Hindi film industry was aworld far removed from hers.The journey actually beganwith the Miss India pageant. “Itfeels almost surreal to lookback 20 years. I was so youngwhen it all happened,” she saysas she reminisces on an expe-rience that made the innocent,young Hyderabad girl a house-hold name, popular for herendearing smile and positiv-ity. “The year 2000 marked anew millennium, bringingwith it a sense of hope,promise and excitement”,she adds.

Interestingly, Dia wasnever one who dreamt ofwinning a beauty pageant,but instead came from avery different world. “Ihappened to be spotted bya modeling agent whooffered me a part-time jobat 16. Everything hap-pened very quickly afterthat — advertising cam-paigns, fashion shows,editorial shoots. Onething led to another andI was selected fromHyderabad for the MissIndia pageant. I remem-ber my mother beingreally surprised that Iwanted to take part,”the actor recalls. Dia,who had never leftHyderabad before inher life, vividlyremembers adapting

to life in Mumbai. “Itwas a journey thatbrought love andencouragement,but was still verydaunting to be gothrough alone. Asan individual, Ihave neverbelieved in com-petition, so for meit was aboutputting my bestfoot forward,enjoying myselfand learning asmuch as Icould,” she said.Dia went on to

be crowned MissIndia - Asia Pacific

later that year, an importantstep in her dynamic journey ofbecoming an actor-producerand now an important voice ofenvironmental and wildlifeconservation.

Dia still remembers thefeeling and chaos of that win-ning moment. “We wereannounced the winners,crowned, wore our sashes, tookthat final walk, and had thou-sands of lights and camerasflashing in front of us —through all of that, I rememberthinking ‘where are my par-ents? I want to meet them’ Inthat moment I truly realisedhow happiness can be trulycherished when you have yourfamily to share it with.”

But as a winner justcrowned, she found herselfwhisked away for the iconicFemina cover photo-shoot withactor Shah Rukh Khan. “Thatwas a whole experience initself, as the camera caught melooking at him in complete aweand love,” she candidly added.

Another iconic momentwhich Dia remembers fondlywas when she got a chance toshare the stage for a big grouppicture with all the previousinternational title winners fromIndia — Aishwarya Rai,Sushmita Sen, Diana Haydenand Yukta Mookhey along withher and that year’s other twowinners — Lara and Priyanka.The three of them went on towin their respective interna-tional titles as well.

From being a regular girlfrom Hyderabad to living thedream in Mumbai, Dia cruisedalong the year 2000 gracefullyas she only aimed to stay trueto herself. Over the years hun-dreds of young women fromacross the country compete tobecome a beauty queen andforge for themselves a name inBollywood. “I recognised howlucky I was to be offered suchan opportunity and I couldn’ttake it for granted,” she says,ever grateful for her experience.Ask Dia what is the one thingthat has stayed with herthrough since then, and shesays without batting an eyelid,“Be yourself. Staying authenticand speaking my truth waswhat set me apart then andcontinues to define me evennow.”

While ringing in 2020, like everyyear, we made resolutions aboutleading a better lifestyle, creat-

ing a balanced mental canvas, visiting newholiday destinations and so on... Whowould have thought that the year wouldbe a harbinger of a phenomenon thatwould bring the world to a grinding haltleaving us wondering what had hit us?This time might be one of the toughestfor the world, but then it is human ten-dency to turn around adversity.Formulation of products that help thefrontline warriors and common peopleappears to be the perfect example of hownecessity and tough times can often leadto new inventions.

Stay home, stay safe — the mottotoday continues to be true for everyonewho can adhere to it and feel secure. Butit is not an option for those who are sta-tioned at forefront fighting the pandem-ic every day with faces buried insidemasks that make breathing cumber-some, wearing the protective clothing andtackling scary life situations day in andday out. In such a crisis, Desmania, thebrainchild of alumnus of NID, has comeup with the Full Face Mask D’Armor, aprotective face mask.

The product is primarily an amalga-mation of the mask and face shield,smartly crafted to snugly fit the face andget adjusted according to the facial con-tours. It is thoughtfully formulated toaddress issues faced by users. For instance,heavy breathing, fogging up of the shieldwhich reduces visibility, overall bulkinessof the equipment which makes quicktransitions difficult, are all taken intoaccount and resolved.

While the focus is on hygiene thesedays, the dumping of disposable maskscan eventually lead to biological hazardsin times to come. Backed up by profes-sionals at AIIMS and IIT Delhi, FaceArmor keeps this aspect in view as well.It’s washable and abides with the normsof sustainability. Much in line with thenano and N95 masks, this product can bereused without compromising safety orburning a hole in your pocket.

The brand is diligently conceptualis-ing other products for door to door ven-dors and delivery boys, who are at equalrisk. For instance, they have made a beltequipped with modular compartmentsthat can be adjusted as per the need. Ithas a place to keep a sanitiser bottle, hooktheir helmet and a cash collecting box sothat hygiene is not compromised.

Taking cognisance of the current sit-uation, Bata India Limited has launchedanti-bacterial shoes for children. MatteoLambert, chief collection officer of thebrand, feels that change in consumerbehaviour is bound to be a natural fall-out of the on-going crisis. In the post-pandemic world, health and safety wouldbe of paramount importance for every-one. He says, “Brands that employ the bestof safety measures, right from the produc-tion stage to the final delivery are goingto be in vogue. Fashion alone would notbe the deciding factor and that would bea game changer as consumers would becautious about what they are purchasingand the kind of risks they expose them-selves to. An increased receptiveness toproducts that are durable and offer moreprotection will be seen. These shoes canbe easily washed and sanitised, without

impairing their make and material.” “From what the consumers are eat-

ing to what they are wearing, everythingwill have to measure up to standardbenchmarks of safety and hygiene.Keeping these safety concerns in mind,Bata is planning to include feet sanitis-ers, wipes and face masks in the bou-quet of product offerings. Wewant to ensure that we are wellequipped in advance to meetthe evolving consumerdemands,” adds he.

To step up safe-ty standards forriders andd r i v e r s ,U b e rlauncheda compre-hensive set ofm e a s u r e s ,ramped up thedistribution ofmillions of PPEkits to drivers andintroduced safetyawareness education videocourses for them. Uber’s new in-app safe-ty feature will notify drivers to replenishtheir PPE supplies after they have com-pleted a predetermined number of trips.The notification will provide a list of con-venient pick up points and generate a QRcode once they select the preferred loca-tion. An Uber volunteer will scan the QRcode at the designated pick up locationand hand over PPE supplies to drivers.

In case drivers choose to source therequired PPE themselves, the brandpromises to reimburse the cost.

Distribution of PPE kits has been ongo-ing in Green and Orange zones since therelaxation of the lockdown. As a part ofits safety initiatives, the company has alsomade it mandatory for driver partners tocomplete ride-sharing specific education-al videos, highlighting standard operat-

ing procedures for vehicle disin-fection and other COVID-19

related safety protocols.Drivers can only take

trips, once they havewatched these videosto ensure they’re fol-lowing the safetyprotocols.

Pavan Vaish,head of Central

Operations, UberIndia, shares, “The

safety of every-one who usesour platform is apriority. Weordered mil-

lions of masksand sanitis-ers at anearly stage of

the pandem-ic. Our new distri-

bution technology ensures that driverscan get these safety supplies over a longperiod of time. As authorities lift the lock-down and millions prepare to get back towork, we will double our efforts to setindustry standards for safety.”

The pandemic has pressurised andoverburdened our healthcare systems andis challenging their preparedness to dealwith the emergency scenarios in an

unprecedented manner. Defence Instituteof Physiology and Allied Sciences(DIPAS), Institute of Nuclear Medicineand Allied Sciences (INMAS) and DRDOlaboratories have developed an UltravioletC Light-based sanitisation box. This canbe used to sanitise objects like keys andwallets. The organisations have alsodeveloped a handheld UV-C device witha wavelength of 254 nanometres.

On the same lines, nanotechnologystart-up, Log 9 Materials, has invented aneffective solution in the form of a disin-fection chamber — CoronaOven. Theproduct uses UV-C light (based upon thescientific principle of UltravioletGermicidal Irradiation) to kill the virusand other pathogens within 10 minutesafter an object is placed inside the box fordecontamination. It has been designedbased on the study done on SARS virus.It’s as easy to use as a microwave. Put yourproducts to be disinfected inside the box,turn it on for 10 minutes and they will bevirus-free.

The question that arises now is howmuch will such products last? Will theycontinue to be necessities even after weemerge from the pandemic? KartikHajela, co-founder and COO of thebrand, tells us that COVID-19 will defi-nitely lead to a consumer behaviour shift.“We anticipate hygiene and sanitisationbecoming one of the major categories andhence, the UV based sterilisation technol-ogy we are bringing to the market will beadopted even after the current situationstabilises,” says he.

Of course, humans will continue toshop but the whats and whys of the prod-ucts are all set to change.

The success of Paatal Lok isbecause of its content,” says

actor-producer Anushka Sharma,who has produced the series alongwith her brother, KarneshSharma under their productionhouse Clean Slate Filmz.

The show, created bySudip Sharma has got over-whelming appreciation fromcritics and audience. Peoplehave credited Anushka,who became theyoungest actor-pro-ducer at the age of 25with NH10, for giv-ing the country anamazing show.

Anushka says,“I’m overwhelmedwith the love andadulation thataudience andcritics have show-ered on our labourof love Paatal Lok.Its success isbecause of the con-tent. In today’s dayand age, superlativecontent is truly themost important yard-stick and Karnesh andI, have always looked togive audience somethingthat they might havenever seen before.”

She adds, “As a pro-ducer and an actor, Ihave only tried to entertainthrough innovative, high-ly engaging and clutter-breaking storytelling.Karnesh and I realised quiteearly that content landscapewas going to witness a mas-sive change as we getexposed to global con-tent. I have tried to bring

my learnings here.”According to the actor, the suc-

cess of the show validates the com-pany’s strategic focus on content

curation. “Despite being ayoung production house, wehave stuck our neck out andthankfully our instinctivecontent choices have stoodout. It has been a huge learn-ing experience for all of us atClean Slate Filmz as we have

taken baby steps intohaving a razor-sharpfocus on contentcuration. The suc-cess of Paatal Lok isa massive valida-tion of our beliefs,planning and cura-tion strategies,”says she and goeson to add: “We

share this incredi-ble moment with

our entire team, whohave shared our vision

and taught us manythings in the process. It is Sudip’s brilliancethat has captured the

underbelly from a lensthat’s unique, inspiring anddiscomforting.”

The actor adds that thedirectors of the show PrositRoy and Avinash ArunDhaware have starkly andbreathtakingly brought alivethe rawness of the script on

screen and the talented cast ledby Jaideep Ahlawat, NeerajKabi, Abhishek Banerjee andthe likes of Swastika Mukherjee,

Niharika, Jagjeet, Gul Panag,Ishwak, Asif Basra, among othershave poured their hearts out totranslate the magic of script toscreen.

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hildren learn by watch-ing what you do.Showing your child thebehaviour you like by

doing it yourself will help yourchild learn. For example, if youwant your child to sit down to eat,sitting down together to eat fam-ily meals can help children learnthis behaviour.

Making children learn how tobehave appropriately is disci-pline. You can use a range of dis-cipline strategies to teach yourchild the basics of good behav-iour. The strategies you choosewill depend on your child’s age.

Too much harsh, negativediscipline, and not enough praiseand rewards, might get childrenbehaving well, but out of fear.This can lead to problems withchildren’s self-esteem and anxietylater in life

Praise is when you tell yourchild what you like about him orhis behaviour. When your childgets praise for behaving well, he’slikely to want to keep behavingwell.

Children do as you do. Yourchild watches you to get clues onhow to behave in the world.You’re her role model, so use yourown behaviour to guide her.What you do is often much moreimportant than what you say. Ifyou want your child to say ‘please’,say it yourself. If you do not wantyour child to raise her voice,speak quietly and gently yourself.Show your child how you feel. Tellhim honestly how his behaviouraffects you. This will help him see

feelings in yours, like a mirror.This is called empathy. By the ageof three, children can show realempathy. So you might say, ‘I’mgetting upset because there is somuch noise I can’t talk on thephone’. When you start the sen-tence with ‘I’, it gives your childthe chance to see things fromyour perspective.

Keep promises and stick toagreements. When you followthrough on your promises, goodor bad, your child learns to trustand respect you. So when youpromise to go for a walk after shepicks up her toys, make sure youhave your walking shoes handy.When you say you will leave thelibrary if she doesn’t stop runningaround, be prepared to leavestraight away. No need to make afuss about it – the more matter offact, the better. This helps yourchild feel more secure, because itcreates a consistent and pre-dictable environment.

Reduce temptation. Yourglasses look like so much fun toplay with it’s hard for children toremember not to touch. Reducethe chance for innocent but cost-ly exploration by keeping thatstuff out of sight.

Before you get involved inanything your child is doingespecially to say ‘no’ or ‘stop’ askyourself if it really matters. Bykeeping instructions, requestsand negative feedback to a min-imum, you create less opportuni-ty for conflict and bad feelings.Rules are important, but usethem only when it’s really impor-

tant.Kids don’t want to be annoy-

ing. By giving in when they’rewhinging for something, we trainthem to do it more even if wedon’t mean to. ‘No’ means ‘no’, notmaybe, so don’t say it unless youmean it. If you say ‘no’ and thengive in, children will be whineeven more the next time, hopingto get lucky again.

Keep it simple and positive. Ifyou can give clear instructions insimple terms, your child willknow what is expected of him.Stating things in a positive waygets their heads thinking in the

right direction. For example,‘Please shut the gate’ is better than‘Don't leave the gate open’.

As children get older, you cangive them more responsibilityfor their own behaviour. You canalso give them the chance toexperience the natural conse-quences of that behaviour. Youdon’t have to be the bad guy allthe time. For example, if yourchild forgot to put her lunch boxin her bag, she will go hungry atlunch time. It is her hunger andher consequence. It won’t hurt herto go hungry just that one time.Sometimes, with the best inten-

tions, we do so much for our chil-dren that we don’t allow them tolearn for themselves. At othertimes you need to provide conse-quences for unacceptable or dan-gerous behaviour. For these times,it is best to ensure that you haveexplained the consequences andthat your children have agreed tothem in advance.

It is surprising how muchyour child is listening eventhough he might not have thesocial maturity to tell you.Nagging and criticising is boringfor you and doesn’t work. Yourchild will just end up tuning you

out and wonder why you get moreupset. If you want to give him onelast chance to cooperate, remindhim of the consequences for notcooperating. Then start countingto three.

Children love it when theycan contribute to the family. Startintroducing some simple choresor things that she can do to playher own important part in help-ing the household. This will makeher feel important and she’ll takepride in helping out. If you cangive your child lots of practicedoing a chore, she will get betterat it and will keep trying harder.Safe chores help children feelresponsible, build their self-esteem and help you out too.

Prepare for challenging situ-ations as there are times whenlooking after your child anddoing things you need to do willbe tricky. If you think aboutthese challenging situations inadvance, you can plan aroundyour child’s needs. Give him afive-minute warning before youneed him to change activities.Talk to him about why you needhis cooperation. Then he is pre-pared for what you expect.

Maintain a sense of humourwhich is another way of diffusingtension and possible conflict is touse humour and fun. You can pre-tend to become the menacingtickle monster or make animalnoises. But humour at your child’sexpense won't help. Young chil-dren are easily hurt by parental‘teasing’. Humour that has youboth laughing is great.

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Zinedine Zidane expressedadmiration at both the phys-

ical and mental form in whichhis Real Madrid players havereturned from the coron-avirus lockdown andvowed they would giveeverything to win a trophy.

“The players haveworked well from homeand that’s why they havecome back on great form,this is going to be crucial,”Zidane said of their individualtraining plans.

“This week has been greatbecause even working in smallgroups we can go further, workbetter, and next week will beeven better.”

Real are two points behind

Barcelona in La Liga and the 13-time European champions alsotrail Manchester City after thefirst-leg of their ChampionsLeague quarter-final.

Frenchman Zidane ledMadrid to threeChampions League titlesin his first tenure at thehelm and hopes to winsomething in his first fullseason back in charge.

“After almost 60 dayseveryone is happy to get

back here and catch up witheach other, and to play somefootball, which is what they alllove,” said Zidane.

“We’ll do everything to beready for the restart and witheleven games to go we want togive it absolutely everything towin something.”

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Liverpool manager JurgenKlopp is optimistic aboutthe chances of completing

the Premier League season as thechampions-elect returned totraining in small groups onWednesday.

Klopp’s side were just twovictories away from ending a 30-year wait to win the title whenthe English top-flight was shut-down more than two monthsago.

At the start of the outbreak,Klopp accepted football shouldbe suspended if it would helpsave even one life.

But the German believes itis now safe for players to returnto phase one of training.

“I always said we don’t wantto rush anything, but I don’tthink it is rushed. It is for the firststep, for this kind of social dis-tancing training,” Klopp told theLiverpool website.

“It was a long time, it is stillongoing, but the development isgoing with everything in theright direction and that helps.

“That football is closer tocoming back I think is really agood sign for people as well.”

Sheffield United managerChris Wilder is also heartenedthat just 0.8 percent of the testscarried out by the PremierLeague resulted in positive cases.

“A lot of people have beentested and the signs are encour-

aging,” said Wilder, whose sideare in contention to qualify forEuropean competition for thefirst time in their history.

The Premier League’s targetof restarting on June 12 has beencalled into question by players’concern for their welfare, bothfrom the threat of the virus andinjuries with little preparationtime after such a long layoff.

However, Wilder does notbelieve fitness should be anissue as players have been ableto maintain their conditioningduring the lockdown.

“They weren’t off to Dubaior Vegas eating and drinking

whatever they want,” Wilderadded.

“They’ve got a professional-ism about them and my playersare in absolutely brilliant condi-tion.”

‘LAB RATS’Newcastle and

England defender DannyRose though is angry atthe restart plans, arguingthat players are being treated like“guinea pigs or lab rats”.

“I could be potentially risk-ing my health for people’s enter-tainment and that’s not some-thing I want to be involved in,

if I’m honest,” said Rose on theLockdown Tactics podcast.

Watford’s Adrian Mariappaconfirmed he had tested posi-tive, with the bemused defend-

er telling the DailyTelegraph: “Ever since I gotmy positive result back onTuesday, I’ve been scratch-ing my head to try to workout how I might have gotcoronavirus.“It was a big surprise

because I haven’t really left thehouse, apart from some exerciseand the odd walk with the kids.”

Burnley had previouslyannounced that assistant man-

ager Ian Woan, who is asymp-tomatic, was another case withtwo more from one other clubyet to be revealed.

Meanwhile, Tottenham havelaunched another investigationinto one of their players afterdefender Serge Aurier appearedto flout social-distancing rulesfor a third time.

The Ivorian posted anInstagram photo on Tuesdayshowing off his new haircut andtagged the barber in his post.

Hairdressers are closed inBritain in line with theGovernment’s rules on socialdistancing.

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UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin isaiming to finish this year’s Champions

League by the end of August as football inEurope slowly starts to bounce back from thecoronavirus pandemic.

“Our plan is to finish it between now andthe end of August,” Ceferin said in an inter-view with Portuguese sports daily Record.

“I think that will work. You never knowwhat’s going to happen but things seem tobe calming down.

“Eighty percent of European leagues aregoing to restart, I don’t see why theChampions League and Europa Leagueshouldn’t take place.”

That end date for UEFA’s European tour-naments was widely reported but never offi-cially confirmed by the continent’s footballgoverning body.

Ceferin’s desired deadline gives clubs achance to finish their domestic competitionsbefore the Champions League restarts in earlyAugust.

In an interview with British daily TheGuardian, Ceferin added that he would beprepared to bet a million dollars on Euro 2020being played next year following its postpone-ment to 2021.

“Yes, I would,” he told the newspaper “Idon’t know why it (the tournament) would-n’t be (played).

“I don’t think that this virus will last for-ever. I think it will (change) sooner than manythink.

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Italy’s Serie A teams have been given thegreen light to resume group training but

will have to wait until May 28 to knowwhether the season can resume, SportsMinister Vincenzo Spadafora saidon Tuesday.

Spadafora told Italian televi-sion that Government scientistshad accepted the Italian footballfederation’s (FIGC) revised healthprotocol.

The Sports Minister also told that hehas scheduled a meeting on May 28 withFIGC president Gabriele Gravina andLega Serie A chief Paolo Dal Pino todecide on the return to competition.

“We will then decide if and when

Serie A will restart,” he said.“The important thing will be to

restart with the firm intention of complet-ing the championship, then the federa-tions will decide the modalities and for-mats to be adopted.”

The minister also said that acontroversial measure of isolatingteam members for two weeks atclub facilities to limit the risk ofcontagion has been withdrawn.

If a player tests positive he willbe quarantined for two weeks,

while the team will be placed in isolation,and monitored, but can continue to traintogether.

FIGC president Gravina welcomed a“decisive step on the path of restartingfootball in Italy”.

,*����� Germany goalkeeperManuel Neuer has signed a newdeal with Bayern Munich that tieshim to the club until 2023.

The announcement ends weeksof speculation over the Bayerncaptain’s future, with widespreadreports that talks between playerand club had hit the rocks.

“During the weeks of the shut-down for the coronavirus pan-demic, I didn’t want to make a deci-sion because nobody knew if, whenand how Bundesliga football wouldcontinue,” Neuer said in a statement.

“I look to the future with greatoptimism. I feel very comfortableand at home in Bavaria.”

A World Cup winner in 2014with Germany, Neuer joined Bayernfrom Schalke in 2011 and has wonalmost everything with the Bavariangiants, with seven Bundesliga titles,five German Cups and ChampionsLeague to his name. AFP

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Top cricketers like Rohit Sharma andAjinkya Rahane will have to wait

longer to resume individual training inthe city due to its status of being aCovid-19 red zone, which rules outopening of sports facilities here for thetime being.

The Maharashtra Government hasallowed opening of stadiums for indi-vidual training in green and orangezones without spectators. This was afterthe Home Ministry offered relaxationin regulations for the fourth phase of thelockdown till May 31.

However, Mumbai and all it’sneighbouring areas like Thane, NaviMumbai, Mira Bhayandar, Vasai Virarand Kalyan Dombivili have beendeclared red zones. “We will strictlyadhere to the norms of the stateGovernment with regard to opening ofstadiums and sports facilities,” a seniorMCA official said on Wednesday.

What this means is that top crick-eters, who are residing in the city, likeRohit and Rahane will have to wait fur-ther to hit the ground.

MCA has three facilities — theWankhede Stadium, the Bandra KurlaComplex and the Sachin TendulkarGymkhana in suburban Kandivili.However, as per the Government direc-tives, these will remain closed.

Cricket practice won’t start even atthe Braboune Stadium, which is locat-ed off the Marine Drive.

A senior Cricket Club of India(CCI) official also said that they will waitfor the Government order on restart-ing of activities. “Till then nothing willbe resumed,” the official stated.

������� England bowlers areset to report for training onThursday, leading the way ascricket chiefs step up plans tostart a season heavily delayedby the coronavirus pandemic.

The global health crisishas put matches on hold inEngland until July 1 at the ear-liest while in other countriesthe season is already over.

Despite the pandemic, theEngland and Wales CricketBoard (ECB) is still planningto stage a full home interna-tional programme, startingwith a three-Test series againstthe West Indies, which wasoriginally scheduled for June.

The ECB has announcedthat up to 18 bowlers will beinvolved from Thursday.

Edgbaston, Hove, OldTrafford, the Oval, theRiverside, Taunton and Trent

Bridge will stage at least onesession, before batsmen andwicketkeepers becomeinvolved from June 1.

The bowlers’ identitieshave yet to be made public butthe choice of venues indi-cates that James Anderson(Old Trafford) and StuartBroad (Trent Bridge) will beamong the leading Englandbowlers training at their homecounty grounds.

Bowlers will have to bringtheir own kit, including desig-nated cricket balls, wash theirhands regularly, and clean anyequipment used with disinfec-tant wipes. AFP

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International hockey willbe played only after a

vaccine is developed tocure the deadly coron-avirus, the FIH hasannounced as the worldgoverning body revealed afive-stage process, devisedfor resumption of thegame at different levels.

The InternationalHockey Federation (FIH)believes global competi-tion among its membercountries will be possible only duringthe last stage of the process, the time-line of which cannot be set.

“These are very early days whenit comes to a return to action but,within its guidance FIH has pro-duced a five stage process showing theroute back to something resemblingnormality. This starts, as has been seenin the Netherlands and Belgium, with

a return to carefullymanaged training, stillwith social distancingmeasures in place,” theFIH said in a statement.

“The next stage willbe a resumption ofregional competition, fol-lowed by local travelbetween neighbouringnations. Trans-Continental competitionwill follow and, finally,once a vaccine is in place,it is hoped there will bea return to normal com-

petition.”“There is no time scale for these

stages to be reached and it will varyfrom country to country.”

FIH said when competition doesresume, organisers will need to behugely conscious of safety measuresthat will need to be implemented, inorder to keep the hockey workforceand the fans safe.

,�)�*��� Australia’s premierfast bowler Pat Cummins whileaccepting the health risk associ-ated with the usage of salivaurged game’s custodians to comeout with an alternate option tostrike a balance between bat andball.

Cummins said applyingsweat or any external substancelike wax on the ball could be analternate option if usage of sali-va is banned.

“If we remove saliva, we haveto have another option,” the 27-year-old pacer was quoted as say-ing by cricket.Com.Au.

“Sweat is not bad, but I thinkwe need something more thanthat, ideally. Whatever that is,wax or I don’t know what.

“If that’s what that science istelling us, that it’s high risk using

saliva ... As long as we’re keepingother options open, whether that’ssweat or something artificial.”

Cummins, currently world’sNo1 Test bowler, said sweat is aviable option to keep the ballshinning.

“We have to be able to shinethe ball somehow so I’m gladthey’ve let sweat remain,” he said.

“We’ve just got to make sureat the start of the spell we’re sweat-

ing and we’re nice and warm.”Australian sports gear man-

ufacturer Kookaburra had earli-er this month claimed that it haddeveloped a wax applicatorwhich can keep the balls shin-ning without the usage of salivaor sweat.

Cummins, however, hopesthat they can return to the usageof saliva in future as it is the bestoption to shine the ball.“Hopefully we’ll get to a stagewhere saliva is deemed safe.Hopefully, we can go back tothat, to how it was,” he said. PTI

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In what could be the biggestnews for cricket fans across

the globe amid the Covid-19pandemic, the Board of Controlfor Cricket in India (BCCI) islooking at a possibility of host-ing the 13th edition of theIndian Premier League fromSeptember 25 to November 1,provided the country is able tolower the rate of coronavirusinfections.

Sources in the know ofdevelopments said that while itis still early days, the BCCI islooking to zoom in on the end-September to November periodto organise the cash-rich leagueto start India’s domestic seasonin the post-coronavirus era.

“It is still early days as a lotof other things have to fall inplace for this to materialise, butyes, the BCCI is looking ata September 25-November 1 window pro-vided the number of casesin the country come downand the government doesgive a go-ahead. As I said,a lot of things do need to fall inplace, but yes these dates arebeing talked about and contin-gency planning is on,” the sourcesaid.

An official of one of the IPLfranchises said that they wereindeed working on the road

ahead with an eye on the end-September to early-Novemberwindow as it would take at leasta month’s planning leading upto the league when it comes toadvertising and marketing.

“Yes, we have been told thatwe should plan with an eye onthese dates and in fact, we are

looking to plan ourbuild-up in such amanner. But thenagain, it all dependson the country’sposition with regardsto the pandemic.

There is no denying that we arekeeping our fingers crossed andhoping that the Governmentwill continue with the brilliantjob they have done and we willsee a drop in the number ofcases per day,” the official said.

Another IPL official said

that while the window is beingzeroed in on, a lot of clarity willneed to come as time progress-es with regards to logistics andthe on-ground preparations.

“Yes, we have been toldabout the window, but noth-ing yet on the venues or howto go about the logistics. Weneed to understand thosesides as part of the next stepof preparation as foreign play-ers will need to come in andwe have to ensure thatGovernment directives withregards to fighting the pan-demic are fully abided by. I amsure we will get more clarityas time moves forward aspreparations will start sayaround mid-August if we haveto play our first match aroundthe end of September,” theofficial explained.

�@������ The lone athlete to start out-door training after relaxation in lock-down guidelines, sprinter Dutee Chandonly has the “eerie silence” of the standsfor company as she tries “to wake” herbody up at the Kalinga Stadium inBhubaneswar.

The 24-year-old Dutee began out-door training on Monday after theOdisha Government gave permission asper relaxed guidelines for Covid-19lockdown’s fourth phase, stepping out forthe first time on a synthetic track in twomonths.

She was in Patiala to take part in theseason-opening Indian Grand Prix onMarch 20 but the event got cancelled dueto the pandemic and since then Duteehas been confined to her room at theKalinga Institute of IndustrialTechnology, though she was allowed touse the gym there.

“After two months, I am training out-

doors and it is a very nice feeling to expe-rience the air while running on the track.For a track athlete, there is no better feel-ing than this. At the same time I am alsoexperiencing an unusual feeling,” Duteesaid.

“Normally, there are a lot of traineesat the hostels inside the Kalinga Stadiumcomplex but all of them have left forhome due to this pandemic. So, I am theonly one training at such a big stadium.It is unusual, to experience this eeriesilence,” said the Asian Games Silver-medallist in 100m and 200m.

Another top athlete from the state,sprinter Amiya Kumar Mallick alsotrains at the stadium but only after Duteeends her daily stint. This has been doneto avoid simultaneous training of twoathletes.

The reigning World UniversityGames champion said as of now she isloosening up the muscles which weretightened by the confinement of the twomonths. She said it will take some timeto start full running on the 100m track.

Her aim is to maintain a certaindegree of fitness and form this season andplan some foreign training and compe-tition stints next year to qualify for theTokyo Olympics.

“I have started training but there isuncertainty all around. I will take part inthe national events planned by the AFIin September-October. These events arealso tentative. PTI

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Liverpool manager JurgenKlopp believes his runaway

leaders will cope without the“best kick in your ass” of theirAnfield crowd should thePremier League season resume.

English top-flight playersreturn training this week and ifmatches do eventually takeplace again this season, they willbe behind closed doors andpossibly at neutral venues.

And German boss Klopp,having watched his nativeBundesliga resume last week-end without spectators atmatches, is confident his

Liverpool players can motivatethemselves without a crowd.

“The competition willmake the intensity,” he toldLiverpool’s website.

“So it’s not about ‘oh,Liverpool have to win twogames’. “By the way, we have towin two games when we start— it’s not ‘only two’, it’s two. Wehave to win them.”

The former BorussiaDortmund manager Kloppadded: “We have to do it, unfor-tunately, without the best boostin the world and the best kickin your ass in the right momentin the world, from the Anfieldcrowd.

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