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Malaika Aroratests coronapositive MUMBAI: Actor-host MalaikaArora on Tuesday announcedthat she has tested positive forCOVID-19 and is quarantiningat her home.The Bollywood diva said she

is asympto-matic and fol-lowing all therequired pro-tocols.Today I havetested positivefor coron-avirus but I

want to inform you all that Iam feeling fine, Malaika wrotein a statement posted on In-stagram.I am asymptomatic and follow-ing all the required protocolsand will be quarantined athome as instructed by mydoctor and authorities. I re-quest you all to stay calm andsafe.

2 members ofBabbar Khalsaheld in DelhiNEW DELHI: Two suspectedmembers of banned terroristgroup Babbar Khalsa Interna-tional have been arrested fol-lowing a brief exchange of firein northwest Delhi, police saidon Monday.The accused have been iden-tified as Bhupender alias Di-lawar Singh and KulwantSingh, both residents of Ludhi-ana, the police said, addingthat they were also wanted insome cases in Punjab.The special cell of Delhi Policenabbed the two on Saturdaynight, they said.Six pistols and 40 cartridgeshave been recovered fromthem, Deputy Commissionerof Police (Special Cell) San-jeev Kumar Yadav said.

HC reservesorders on ex-DGPSaini's pleasCHANDIGARH: The Punjaband Haryana High court onMonday reserved its verdicton an anticipatory bail plea ofPunjab's former police chiefSumedh Singh Saini, facingarrest in a case of alleged ab-duction and murder of an en-gineer during Khalistani insur-gency in the state in 1991.A bench of Justice FatehdeepSingh also reserved its verdicton Saini's plea for eitherquashing the 1991 case of en-gineer Balwant Singh Mul-tani's disappearance or trans-ferring it to the CBI. Saini wasbooked in May in connectionwith the disappearance ofMultani in 1991 when he wasworking as a junior engineerwith Chandigarh Industrial andTourism Corporation.

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IPL 13: Meand ABDhave neverfelt this calm,says Kohli

UT Administratorand Punjab GuvBadnore launchesPoshan Maah 2020for Chandigarh

AGENCYCHANDIGARH, SEP 7

Haryana government once again convertedCOVID-19 pandemic crisis into an oppor-tunity after Chief MinisterManohar Lal Khattar on Mon-day virtually launched an onlineadmission platform for admis-sion in Undergraduate Coursesin government aided and self fi-nance colleges for the new aca-demic session.

With this platform, now thestudents will be able to com-plete their entire admissionprocess while sitting at home.

Besides this, Mr Khattar also launchedfirst of its kind educational whatsapp chat-bot ‘Apka Mitra’ to resolve any admissionrelated queries of the students. Students arerequired to send a message on whatsappchatbot number 7419444449 to get any in-formation regarding admissions, scholar-

ships.A new web portal of Higher Education

Department, website of 158 governmentcolleges and online international journals -Journal of Humanities and Social Science -

prepared by the department topromote research in the state wasalso launched by the Chief Min-ister.

While giving relief to a largenumber of students taking ad-mission in various graduatecourses amid COVID-19 pan-demic, the registration andprospectus fee of all undergrad-uate courses has also beenwaived off.

A grievance redressal helpdesk number18001373735 has been started to help thestudents to fill their admission forms. Per-sons with disabilities can get assistance forfilling the admission forms by giving amissed call on mobile number7419444449.

India joins hypersonic missile clubDRDO Chairman describes it as a

'major technological breakthrough'AGENCYNEW DELHI, SEPT 7

In a landmark achievement, theDRDO on Monday successfullyflight tested the Hypersonic Tech-nology Demonstrator Vehicle(HSTDV) from Dr APJ AbdulKalam Launch Complex atWheeler Island, off the coast ofOdisha.

DRDO Chairman Dr GSatheesh Reddy described it as a'major technological break-through' and said it puts India in aselected club of nations who havedemonstrated this technology.

"It's a major technologicalbreakthrough in country. This test-ing paves the way for develop-ment of more critical technologies,materials & hypersonic vehicles.This puts India in a selected clubof nations who have demonstratedthis technology," said G SatheeshReddy. Defence Minister Rajnath

Singh too congratulated theDRDO for successfully flight test-ing the indigenously developedHSTDV. "The @DRDO_Indiahas today successfully flight test-ed the Hypersonic TechnologyDemonstrator Vehicle using theindigenously developed scramjetpropulsion system. With this suc-cess, all critical technologies arenow established to progress to the

next phase," he tweeted. "I con-gratulate to DRDO on this land-mark achievement towards realis-ing the Prime Minister's vision ofAtmanirbhar Bharat. I spoke to thescientists associated with the proj-ect and congratulated them on thisgreat achievement. India is proudof them," the Defence Minister

said in another tweet. A DefenceMinistry release said Defence Re-search and Development Organi-sation (DRDO) has successfullydemonstrated the hypersonic air-breathing scramjet technologywith the flight test of HypersonicTechnology Demonstration Vehi-cle (HSTDV) at 1103 hours.

Rajnath congratulates teamfor successfully testingNEW DELHI: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Mon-day congratulated the Defence Research and Develop-ment Organisation (DRDO) for successfully testing the in-digenously developed Hypersonic Technology Demon-strator Vehicle (HSTDV), saying it is a landmark achieve-ment towards realising the vision of 'Atmanirbhar Bharat'(self-reliant India)."The @DRDO_India has today successfully flight testedthe Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle usingthe indigenously developed scramjet propulsion system. With this success,all critical technologies are now established to progress to the next phase,"he tweeted.

MLA Simarjit SinghBains booked over

propaganda on CovidSP JAINCHANDIGARH, SEPT 7

The Punjab Police on Monday reg-istered an FIR against LIP leaderand MLA Simarjit Singh Bains forallegedly spreading false propagan-da to mislead the peopleon the Covid pandemic.

The FIR has beenregistered under Section54 of Disaster Manage-ment Act, Epidemics Act,2005, Section 3 of Epi-demic Disease Act, 1897and under Section 188,505 IPC in PS DivisionNo.8 Ludhiana, on thebasis of a complaint byCivil Surgeon, Ludhiana,and the legal opinion sought on theissue by the Ludhiana Police, ac-cording to a police spokesperson.

In his complaint to LudhianaPolice, the Civil Surgeon Ludhianahad requested legal action againstSimarjit Singh Bains, MLA fromAtam Nagar constituency, Ludhi-

ana, for misguiding people througha video clip regarding Covid-19.The Civil Surgeon said that thisvideo clip is being played on vari-ous social media platforms, thusleading to the creation of an atmos-phere of confusion among the pub-

lic, regarding Covid-19.Bains was also incitingpeople not to wearMasks, said the com-plaint.

In his legal opinion,as sought by the Ludhi-ana Police, District At-torney Ludhiana notedthat Simarjit Singh Bainsis giving statements withregard to severity andmagnitude of Covid-19

pandemic caused by Novel Coron-avirus. Bains is making the claimthat Coronavirus is a bogey createdby the Government to perpetuate their power by mislead-ing people and asking them not towear masks, the District Attorneyfurther opined.

Khattar launches online mode foradmissions in Haryana colleges

AGENCYNEW DELHI, SEPT 7

Days after Bollywood actor KanganaRanaut said she felt unsafe in Mumbaiafter the death of Sushant Singh Rajput,the Central government has approved"Y" level security for the actor, sourcessaid on Monday.

Responding to the reports, Ranauttook to Twitter expressing gratitude toHome Minister Amit Shah for extendingsecurity to her.

"This is proof that no fascist will beable to crush a patriot voice. I am thank-ful to Amit Shah ji. If he wanted, hecould've asked me to postpone my visitto Mumbai in view of the circum-stances. But he respected the work of a

daughter of India," she tweeted in Hin-di.

The development comes amid anongoing war of words between ShivSena MP Sanjay Raut and Ranaut fol-lowing her remarks.

BUREAU CHANDIGARH, SEPTEMBER 7:

Taking cognisance of the sugges-tions of several Congress MLAsand the advice of medical experts,Punjab Chief Minister CaptainAmarinder Singh on Monday an-nounced some relaxations inlockdown in urban areas, includ-ing opening of non-essentialshops on Saturdays and relaxationin their timing from Monday toSaturday till 9 p.m. Night curfew will be inplace in all cities/towns now from 9.30p.m. to 5 a.m., as per the revised decision.

Hotels and restaurants will be allowedto remain open on all days, including Sun-days, till 9 p.m., after which home delivery

of food will be allowed, as perthe revised guidelines.

It has also been decided toalign opening of non-essentialshops in Mohali with the rest ofthe tri-city (namely Chandigarhand Panchkula), said the ChiefMinister.

The decisions were an-nounced by the Chief Minister

during his second round of virtual meet-ing with Punjab Congress MLAs to dis-cuss the Covid situation.

Kangana Ranaut gets Y level securityRhea files complaintagainst Sushant'ssister, doctorMUMBAI: Actress Rhea Chakraborty, whois accused of abetting the suicide of actorSushant Singh Rajput, has filed a com-plaint with Mumbai Police, accusing Ra-jput's sister Priyanka Singh and a Delhi-based doctor of forgery and preparing a"fake" prescription of medicines for anxiety.In her complaint sent to the Bandra policehere on Sunday, Chakraborty sought thatPriyanka Singh and Dr Tarun Kumar, work-ing with Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital inDelhi, be booked under relevant sectionsof the Indian Penal Code for forgery, theNDPS Act .

Timings relaxed for non essentialshops, hotels in Punjab

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900020 Singh. All Concerned May Please 63372 63372 Kaur Dhaliwal.900020 Note I Arasdeep Singh S/O I, Arash Deep Kaur D/o 63372

I, Hitherto Known As 72737 Ranjit Singh R/O Chuhar Bhupinder Singh R/o Vpo. I Baljeet Kaur Sidhu W/O F a i r y L u b a n a D / o I, No. Jc-247744a Nb/ris Patti, Ward No-04, Cheema Rasulpur (Moga) changed Harjinder Singh R/O Vpo Kamalj i t Singh R/o Kartar Singh 29 Sonkh (Sangrur) Have Changed my name to Arshdeep Fathehgarh Sivian Tehsil H.no.89, Preet Vihar, Road Chetanya Lok My Name To Arshdeep Kaur. Jagraon Distt Ludhiana P.o.rayon And Silk Mills, C o l o n y P a l i K h e r a Singh. 63372 Have Changed My Name Amritsar Punjab Have Mathura-281004 (up) 63372 I Anju Devi W/O Sushil To Baljeet Kaur.Changed My Name And Now At Hq Sqn 23 (i) I, Dr. Maninder Bawa W/o Kumar R/O Subhash 63372Shall Hereafter Be Known Armd Bde C/o.56 Apo Dr. Gagandeep Singh R/o Nagar, Gidderbaha (Distt. I, Harpreet Singh S/O As Fairy Lubana. Declare That I Have S a n t N a g a r ( M o g a ) Sri Muktsar Sahib) Have Resham Singh R/O Mallu

900020 Changed My Mother changed my name to Dr. Changed My Name To Walia Wala (Ferozepur) I, Harmanjeet Singh S/o Name Dropti To Dropadi Maninder Sidhu. Anju Rani. Changed Name Harpreet Dalwinder Singh R/o Devi. Vide Affidavit 63372 63372 Singh Waraich.Village Bhojian, Tehsil & No.an 628861 Dated On 7 I, Balbir Singh S/o Jagir I Jaspreet Singh S/O Atma 63372Distt. Tarn Taran Have Sep 2020 Singh R/o Vpo. Kang Singh R/O Village Kotli I, Uma W/o Sandeep Changed My Name To 72737 S a h b u Te h - N a k o d a r Ablu (Distt. Sri Muktsar Kumar R/o H.No. 34/17 Harmanjit Singh. I, No. 15498196m Rank (Jalandhar) Pb, India, Sahib) Have Changed My Anand Nagar Near Ved

900020 Ald Beant Singh Unit 46 changed my name to Balbir Name To Jaspreet Singh Tirath Ram Wali Gali I, No.4485534m Rank Armd Regd R/o Village Singh Kang. Grewal. (Moga) Pb, changed my Lnk Gurmit Singh S/o Bhatoli Samiyana Po 63372 63372 name to Ranju Gupta.Balkar Singh R/o Village Off ice Diana Tehsi l I, Subeg Singh S/o Balbir I, Rajinder Kaur D/o 63372Dhadde, Tehsil & Distt. F a t e h p u r , D i y a b a Singh R/o Vpo. Kang J a s m e r S i n g h W / o I Gurtaj Singh Brar S/o Amritsar Have Changed Khas(141) Kangra Rey, S a h b u Te h - N a k o d a r Parminder Singh Saran Mukhtiar Singh R/o House My Son’s Name From H.p-146058 Dec la re (Jalandhar) Pb, India, R/o H.No. 622 W.No. 6 No.15982,St No.8 Guru Asmit Singh To Ashmit That I Have Changed My changed my name to Subeg St.No. 4 Dosanj Road G o b i n d S i n g h Singh. Mother Name From Singh Kang. ( M o g a ) - 1 4 2 0 0 1 , Nagar,Bathinda have

900020 Bachino Devi To Vachno 63372 Punjab, have changed changed my name to I, Ravinder Kaur W/o Devi. Vide Affidavit I, Manjeet Kaur W/o Balbir my name to Rajinder Gurtaj Singh.Gurpreet Singh Gill R/o No.an 691215 Dated On Singh R/o Vpo. Kang Kaur Saran. 6337262 Block C, Gali No.3, 7 Sep 2020 S a h b u Te h - N a k o d a r 63372 I, Surinder Loomba S/O A m a r d a s s A v e n u e , 72737 (Jalandhar) Pb, India, I Satveer D/O Jaskaran Des Raj R/O Bagha A m r i t s a r H a v e I, Niraj Spouse Of changed my name to Singh Vil l . Gurusar Purana (Moga) Declares Changed My Name No.jc-247744a Nb/ris Manjeet Kaur Kang. (Sri Muktsar Sahib) That I Am Also Known As From Ravinder Kaur To Kartar Singh 29 Sonkh 63372 H a v e C h a n g e d M y Surinderpal. Both The Ravinder Kaur Gill. Road Chetanya Lok I, Sandeep Kaur W/o Name To Satveer Kaur Names I .E Sur inder

900020 C o l o n y P a l i K h e r a Harpreet Singh Saran R/o Dhaliwal. Loomba And Surinderpal I, Hitherto Known As Mathura-281004 Now At Todarpur (Ludhiana) have 63372 Are Belongs To Me And Karuna Wife Of Pawan Hq Sqn 23(1) Armd Bde changed my name ino I Kamaljit Kaur (D/O Of One And The Same K u m a r S h a r m a C/o 56apo Declare That I Sandeep Kaur Saran. Banta Singh) Wife Of Person. Residing At H.no.81/3, Have Changed My Name 63372 Rajinder Singh R/O 44- 63372Gokul Vihar, Batala From Niraj To Neeraj. I, Nirbhai Singh Samra S/o A, Ajnala Road, Police I, Priya Singh D/o Dr. O.P. Road, Amritsar Punjab Vide Affidavit No.an Gurcharan Singh R/o Colony, Amritsar, Teh. Singh R/o H.No. 530 Vaid H a v e C h a n g e d M y 628863 Dated On 3 Sep Wazidke Kalan (Barnala) Amri t sa r (Amri t sa r ) Tirath Rajwali Gali Main N a m e A n d S h a l l 2020 changed my name to H a v e C h a n g e d M y Bazar (Moga) changed my Hereafter Be Known As 72737 Nirbhai Singh. N a m e To A m a n j o t name to Priya Singh Karuna Sharma. I, No.jc-247744a Nb/ris 63372 Kaur. Goyal.

900020 Kartar Singh S/o Roshan I Amardeep Singh S/O 63372 63372I, Hitherto Known As Singh 29 Sonkh Road Jagseer Singh R/O Koir I, inform Jagdev Singh I Rekha Vanti W/O Ashok Pawan Kumar Son Of Chetanya Lok Colony Singh Wala (Bathinda) S/o Balvir Singh R/o Kumar Gupta R/O St. Hari Chand Residing At Pali Khera Mathura- Have The Changed My Deharka Teh-Jagaraon No.4, Partap Nagar, Opp. H . n o . 8 1 / 3 , G o k u l 281004 (u.p)now At Hq Name Amardeep Singh To (Ludhiana) that I am Dashmesh Public School, Vihar, Batala Road, Sqn 23(1) Armd Bde C/o Amardeep Singh Sidhu. known by both the Kotkapura (Faridkot) Amritsar Punjab Have 56apo Declare That I 63372 names Jagdev Singh Have Changed My Name Changed My Name And Have Changed My Minor I, Hitherto Known As Baby a n d J a g d e v S i n g h To Rekha Gupta.S h a l l H e r eaf ter Be Daughter Name From W/O Kuldip Singh R/O D h a l i w a l . To m a k e 63372Known As Pawan Kumar Alka Kumari To Alka Village Hyatpur Post related notes. I Gurvinder Singh S/O Sharma. C h a u d h a r y . V i d e Office Kukran Tehsil 63372 G u r j a n g S i n g h R / O

900020 Affidavit No.an 628859 Garhshankar Distr ict I Amandeep Kaur D/O Pal Village Duareana, Teh: I, Angrez Ghotra S/o Jagir Dated On 3 Sep 2020 Hoshiarpur (Punjab) 144528 Singh R/O Vpo Akalgarh Kotkapura (Faridkot) Singh R/o Guru Nanak 72737 Have Changed My Name Distt Ludhiana Have Have Changed My Name C o l o n y , P e h o w a , I Jodh Singh S/o Chanan And Shall Hereafter Be Changed My Name To To Gurvinder Singh Kurukshetra Changed Singh R/o Bishnandi Known As Kirandeepkaur. Amandeep Kaur Sidher. Sandhu.Name Angrez Singh. (Faridkot) have declare 63372 63372 63372

84661 that I have known in the I, Manjit Kaur W/o Ex L name of Ranjodh Singh . Nk Suresh Singh R/o Vpo. Both names are related to N a i n w a n , T e h s i l me and I am the one and G a r h s h a n k a r, D i s t t . same person.H o s h i a r p u r H a v e 98723Changed The Name Of I, Yashdeep Kapil W/O My Minor Daughter Sh. Rahul Agnihotri R/O Neetika Rani To Nikita H.No. 326, W.No. 7, Rani Chandigarh Road Kurali

72778 (Mohali) Have Changed I, Tarsem Kaur Dhir W/o. My Name As Yashdeep.Nazar Singhv. Rawal 63372Pindi Teh.garhshankar I Javaidan Alias Sado Distt. Hoshiarpur ( Pb. W/O Mohd Fakiria R/O )have Changed My Name Village Dalelgarh, Teh. From Tarsem Kaur Dhir Malerkotla (Sangrur) Totarsem Kaur Declared That Both

72778 Names Are Mine.I, Narinder Kumar S/o 63372Laxmi Parshad R/o 657, I, Aneta Rani W/o Ram S a n t o s h i N a g a r Pal Bhardwaj R/o H.No. (jalandhar), Changed My 135 W.No. 20 St.No. 6 Name To Vivaan Soni. B e a n t N a g a r M o g a

72778 (Moga) changed my I, Dilbagh Singh S/o name to Anita Bhardwaj.Sohan Singh R/o Vpo 63372Vanchari Patti Fattu Ki I, Manpreet Kaur W/o Amritsar.have Changed Amandeep Singh Gill My Name To Dilbag R/o Vpo. Gholia Khurd Singh Teh-Nihal Singh Wala

72737 (Moga) changed my I, Ramanpreet Kaur D/o name to Manpreet Kaur Harpal Singh R/o Vill Gill.Lalka Nagar Amritsar 63372Have Changed My Name I , Har j i t Singh S/O From Ramanpreet Kaur B a l d e v S i n g h R / O To Kaur Ramanpreet All Dh i lwan (Ludh iana ) Concerned May Please C h a n g e d M y N a m e Note Harjeet Singh.

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I, Rameshawar Dass S/o Kidu Ram And Sarla Devi W/o Rameshwar Dass R/o Vill Teukar Tehsil Pehowa D i s t t ( k u r u k s h e t r a ) Declares That Our Son Balwinder Singh And His Wife Pooja Are Out Of Our Control.we Disown T h e m F r o m O u r Moveable/immoveable Properties.we And Our Family Wil l Not Be Responsible For Their Act And Conduct, If Anybody Deal With Them.

84661I Naresh Dev s/o Late Vishu Dev R/O # 5 Sector 3 Chandigarh hereby affirm and declare that my father ‘s name wrongly m e n t i o n e d i n s o m e Documents as Vishu Dev Verma instead of Basu Dev Verma . my Father’s correct name is Basu Dev Verma

10004I, Sucha Singh S/o Late Makhan SinghR/o Vill Jalluwal Teh. Baba Bakala Distt Amritsar declare that my Son Gurpreet Singh & his wife Manpreet kaur is out of my control. I disinherit them from my o w n a l l m o v a b l e I m m o v a b l e P r o p e r t y Anybody will deal them at their own risk. (R)

72778I, Jc-510393x Subedar Chamkaur Singh R/o 10 Sikh Li Regt C/o 56 Apo And Home Adress Vpo Jangirana Teh & Distt Bathinda Have Changed My Wife Smt Ekta Rani's Of Dob 15 August 1983 To 25 August 1987 Vide Affidevit No Ap081011 Dt 07-09-2020 Before Notary Public Gidderbaha

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PUBLIC NOTICEIt is informed every general and special body that, M/s Pt. Shekhar Chand Kuldeep Kumar through its sole proprietor Rama Rani wife of Kuldeep Kumar of Zira has applied for a loan from H.D.F.C. Bank on the property measuring 0-1 Marla 7 sarsai i.e. 0-0-8 Sarsai being 8/1242 share of 6 Kanals 18 Marlas, Khewat No. 3249 Khasra No. 109M//18(6-18) and 0-0-8 sarsai being 8/1440 share of 8-0 kanals Khewat No. 3251 Khasra No. 109M//19(8-0) vide Jamabandi for the year 2010-11 of Zira Tehsil Zira District Ferozepur. That Rama Rani purchased the above mentioned property from Abhi Mogla son of Prem Kumar vide sale deed dated 30-10-2019.That regarding the above mentioned land, Kulwant Kaur wife of Gulwinder Singh and Darshan Kaur wife of Lakhvir Singh executed the sale deed in favour of Abhi Mogla son of Prem Kumar vide sale deed dated 28-11-2018 registered vide vasika No. 2018-19/117/1/897 in the office of Sub Registrar Zira is lost.That if there is any loan pending on the above said property which is taken from any government or semi government department or any other person than he/she can meet Mr. Vijay Kumar Bansal, Advocate, Legal Advisor, H.D.F.C. Bank Ltd. Moga within 14 days. His Mobile No. Is 9814143225. That no objection is accepted after the above given period.

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LOST NOTICEI, Dinesh Kumar S/o Jagdish Parshad R/o Anaj Mandi Teh-Kharar (SAS Nagar) declare that my original Sale deed Vasika No. 1968 dated 21-12-1998, and original Transfer of ownership letter No. 3616 dated 09-04-2013 and Original/Certified Copy of Sale Deed Vasika No. 25 dated 02-04-1985 and original Transfer of ownership Letter No. 2643 dated 26-03-2013 and Original/Certified copy of Conveyance Deed Vasika No. 10 dated 01-04-1985 and Original Allotment Letter No. 2287 dated 05-02-1975, and copy of GPA Pralekh No. 57 Book No. 4 Dated 18-12-1998 has been lost in Kharar dated 10-07-2019. If anybody found then contact at my above address.

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We Gurdip Singh Kahlon And Harbans Kaur Kahlon W/O Gurdip Singh Kahlon R/O Village Baharali, Tehsil Zira (Ferozpur) Declare That Our Son Jagjit Singh Kahlon Is Out Of Our Control . We Disown Our All Moveable A n d I m m o v e a b l e Properties Punjab And Anywhere Else In India.

63372I, Amar Kaur W/O Late Jagjit Singh R/O Village Baranhara Distt Ludhiana Informed That My Son Gurmeet Singh Sekhon And His Wife Sukhwinder Kau r And Grandson Gurpreet Singh Sekhon And Grand Daughter Navpreet Kaur Is Out Of Our Control . So We Dis inher i t F rom My Moveable Immoveable Properties We Shall Be Not Be Responsoble If Any Body Dealing With Him.

63372We Charan Singh S/O Bach i t a r S ingh And J a s w a n t K a u r W / O Charan Singh All R/O VPO Bhappal Tehsi l Rajpura Distt. Patiala Declare That Our Son Rajinder Singh And His Wife Harvinder Kaur Are Beyond Our Control. We Evict Them Both From O u r M o v a b l e A n d Immovable Property.

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Hafed owes Rs 3cr to arhtiyasRohit LamserTARAORI: HAFED has more than threeRs 3 crore arrears of the arhtiyas buteven after four months, it has not paidany money which disturbs the jabbersand labourers. DC and labourers areconstantly working on this problem nut tilldate, the money has not been given. Thearhtiyas have alleged that the govern-ment is harassing them by applying vari-ous decrees every day, which will not betolerated at all. Hafed had arrears andwith Hafed notices of cutting of Rs and62 paise per quintal in the name of clus-ter loss, all the factions have decided tocomplain against the government.Taraori Mandi Arhati Association is veryupset with Hafeed's notice of cuttingmoney for cluster loss in the account ofthe agents. The arhtiyas handed over amemorandum to Hafed DM Suresh. Giv-ing information, Tarawadi Mandi Associa-tion President Lala Nathiram Gupta andSecretary Rakesh Hans said that noticesof cutting of Rs 9.62 paise per quintal inthe name of cluster loss have been re-ceived by all the factions of the arhtiyasbut it is wrong.

257 infected, 2 deadin KarnalSHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL: Corona's furore continues inKarnal. On Monday, once again 257 co-rona infected patients were found afterwhich the number of positive patientsfound so far crossed 4200. At the sametime, two positive patients died. The dis-trict administration has advised people totake precautions. Deputy CommissionerNishant Kumar Yadav said that a total of56,371 persons suspected of Coron-avirus infection have been taken so far inthe district, while of these 50,613 reportshave been negative and 4237 cases arepositive, out of which 51 patients havedied, 1609 Is active and 2577 patientshave recovered and gone home. 257case positives have been found in thedistrict on Monday. These include 46 cas-es from antigen test and 211 cases fromRTPCR.The DC said that on Monday, 103 pa-tients recovered and went home. The DCasked the villagers to go out only for nec-essary work, use masks, take care of so-cial distancing and keep sanitising them-selves constantly. He clarified that in viewof the increasing cases of corona virus,the administration is strict. A person whogoes out of the house without a mask willbe challaned for Rs 500. He has ap-pealed to the citizens to find any personwhose travel history is outside and informthe administration so that his health canbe checked and Covid-19 can be testedif symptoms are found.

Follow instructionsof Covid-19: DCKARNAL: Deputy Commissioner NishantKumar Yadav said that citizens should se-riously follow the instructions of Covid-19to prevent infection and do not go to themarket unnecessarily. Along with increas-ing traffic, cases of corona infection arealso increasing in the district. Therefore,the common man will have to take respon-sibility to prevent corona and motivate oth-ers. He said that the negligence we havedone in view of the corona spread mayprove dangerous. The Deputy Commis-sioner said that citizens must wear maskswhile leaving the house and keep at leasttwo yards away from each other. Apartfrom this, keep washing hands frequentlyduring the day, do not touch hands onyour mouth and eyes. He said that the cit-izens should not be negligent towards thesafety measures related to corona. Hesaid that every person has equal participa-tion in the fight against the corona epi-demic, for this we have to take specialcare of ourselves and our surroundings.

Valmiki Mahasabhaholds meetGURMEET KASHYAPKARNAL: A meeting of the State Execu-tive was held at the local Karna Lake onbehalf of the Haryana Valmiki Mahasab-ha, in which detailed information aboutthe case going on in the Court relating toreservation was discussed and deliberat-ed closely for the further lobbying of thecase. State President ML Sarwan, Spe-cial Guest Advocate of Supreme CourtOP Shukla, Retired IRS Jagat SinghTank, Former Judge Pawan Kumar,Ashok Birla Sonipat, Dr. Kashmiri Singhfrom Punjab, Principal Secretary GeneralSatyavan Dhilod, Finance SecretarySuresh Kaloda, Rishipal Bedi, RameshPuhal, Prof. Sushil Kumar, Dr. Dharmen-dra, Media Advisor Raghubir Gagat,Jagdish Lohtra, Ranbir Singh Engineerdiscussed. On this occasion, DistrictPresident Rajesh Bohat, Rohtak, BalbirTank Jind, Mahesh Gurugram, Ranbirand Kirpal Faridabad, Vice PresidentPawan Nissing, Block Head Amit Nising,Balwinder Indri, Rohtash Pehalwan Gha-raunda, Krishna Neelokheri, Urban HeadSukhdev Kagra, Rajendra Chandali,Vishnu Dutt, Jaisingh Vaid, Mange RamHaldana, Shiv Kumar Kiramach, Raghu-bir Hathira, Jeevan Ram, Jindal Contrac-tor Yamunanagar, Dr. Mukesh Kandarawere present.

Swachhh BharatMission meetMAIN PAL KASHYAPINDRI: As per the instructions of AdditionalDeputy Commissioner Ashok KumarBansal, a meeting of able youth was organ-ised in the Block Development and Audito-rium of Panchayat Office, Indri. In the meet-ing, the technical coordinator of SwachhBharat Mission Gramin, Technical Rajiv Ku-mar Sharma, while giving information to thecompetent youth, informed that from April1, 2020, Phase-II of Swachh Bharat Mis-sion Gramin has been implementedthroughout India. Under which cleanlinesswill be implemented more effectively in ruralareas.Assistant Coordinator of TechnologyRajiv Kumar Sharma said that in Phase-2,a survey of cleanliness is being done in allthe villages. Youth are going from house tohouse and preparing complete data of thevillage by taking information related tocleanliness.

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3HARYANAChallans issued for not wearing maskGoldy ChughSHAHABAD: Several people came out of the house today without wearing masks. Their chal-lans were issued. Tehsildar TR Gautham took to the streets with the team and challaned thosewho violated the administrative rules related to Corona. Tehsildar TR Gautam said that around27 such challans were issued to people not wearing mask on roads or sitting in their shops.The tehsildar said that the administration has repeatedly warned people not to leave the housewithout a mask but even then people are being negligent. He said that the benefit of the maskwill be given only to the person applying it, but the public does not understand this. He saidthat Corona continues to wreak havoc, but in spite of this the negligence of the people is visi-ble. He said that whoever is found negligent in following Corona rules will be fined.YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Haryana first state to implementNEP in country: Kanwar Pal

Says, 97 colleges opened in last five years BUREAU CHANDIGARH, SEPTEMBER 7

Haryana Education Minister, Mr.Kanwar Pal on Monday welcomed theinitiative of President Mr. Ram NathKovind and Prime Minister Mr.Narendra Modi to formally start theNational Education Policy 2020through video conferencing. He saidthat Haryana will be the first state inthe country to implement the new Ed-ucation Policy.

Coincidentally, the Higher Educa-tion Department has also started theprocess of online admission for thefirst year of graduation today, which isone of the main features of this Poli-cy. As per the new Education Policythe Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) inhigher education has to be increasedto 50 per cent by the year 2030 whilethe GER is currently 26 in the country.However, it is already up to 32 percent in Haryana.

The Education Minister wasspeaking on the occasion of launch ofthe admission portal http://dheadmis-sion.nic.in through video conferenc-ing by Chief Minister Mr. ManoharLal today.

He said that to implement theNew Education Policy, Haryana hasalready organized a four-day digitalconclave of academicians in Chandi-

garh. More than 250 schools, col-leges, vice-chancellors of various uni-versities, principals, head teachers andother academicians gave their sugges-tions in it, which will be incorporatedduring the implementing of the newNational Education Policy.

Kanwar Pal said that PresidentMr. Ram Nath Kovind is also serioustowards implementation of the newEducation Policy and probably afterobserving the initiative of DigitalConclave organised in Haryana, asimilar conclave was called in NewDelhi in which Governors of all statesparticipated. While the inaugural ad-dress in this conclave was given byPrime Minister Mr. Narendra Modiwhich will surely be inspiring for us.

He said that the National Educa-tion Policy is going to lay the founda-tion of a new 21st century India. Thispolicy has been announced after 34years.

The specialty of this policy is alsoto bring about fundamental changes inschool education, where the focus willbe on three aspects firstly, schooldropout by students due to some reason, secondly to ensure con-tinuity of education of students whodropout, thirdly emphasis on pre-school education and level of educa-tion so as to take it to the internation-al level.

He said that the education infra-structure is already sturdy in the stateand Haryana has become the first statein the country where a college hasbeen opened within a radius of 15 km.

The Education Minister said that97 new colleges were opened in thelast 5 years in the state, whereas only75 colleges were opened in 48 yearsafter the formation of Haryana. Hesaid that the change that people werelooking for in the education systemfor years will be seen in this Policyand under this, now every student,whether in nursery or college, will beimparted education scientificallywhich will nurture them to contributetowards nation building in a creativemanner.

AGENCYCHANDIGARH, SEP 7

Haryana Deputy Chief Minis-ter Dushyant Chautala has di-rected the officers to make allnecessary preparations for theprocurement of kharif cropsstarting from October 1, 2020so that the farmers do not faceany difficulty.

He directed that a lettershould be written to CentralGovernment for seeking per-mission for allowing the pro-curement of paddy which isprocured for the Public FoodDistribution System to startfrom September 25, 2020 in-stead of October 1, 2020.

The Deputy Chief Minis-ter on Monday held a review

meeting regarding thearrangements made for pro-curement of kharif crops withthe officers of Food, Suppliesand Consumer Affairs Depart-

ment, Agriculture and Farm-ers’ Welfare Department,Haryana State AgriculturalMarketing Board, Hafed,Haryana Warehousing Corpo-ration, Food Corporation ofIndia and other agencies. Itwas informed in this meetingthat this time 200 additionalprocurement centres will beset up for procurement of pad-dy which will bring the totalprocurement centres to 400.These procurement centreswill be set up in eight districtswhich have high paddy pro-duction. Besides this, informa-tion about the preparations ofbags, weighing machines etc.for packaging after paddy pur-chase was also shared by thedepartment officers.

Dushyant directs to makenecessary preparations for

procurement of Kharif crops

68 fresh corona cases, two deathsreported in Panchkula

SD SHARMAPANCHKULA: 68 fresh Corona positive cases and two deaths were reported fromPanchkula district today which excludes 20 more positive cases pertaining to other citiesbut detected by health authorities of Panchkula . Civil Surgeon Dr Jasjeet Kaur maintainedthat today’s figure of 68 infected compared to yesterday’s 137 may not be attributed to anyreceding trend. Two death cases, with co morbidities for today include a 86 years old fe-male from Sector 4 Panchkula and 55 years old female from Pinjore taking the total deathtoll to 34 in the district. While 1898 Corona positive cases had been cured and discharged1214 active cases are under treatment.

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAROHTAK, SEPT 7

The plantation ceremony of AmbedkarMission 2020 of Unnat Bharat Organiza-tion Trust took place in village Baniyanitoday. On this oc-casion, HaryanaState Superinten-dent Engineer Irri-gation RajeshTank thanked thepeople of Haryanaand talked aboutthe importance ofplants. He saidthat if we want tosee our childrenhappy in future,then saving wateris very important. Trees play an importantrole in this work. In view of this, 51Ayurvedic, fruitful trees were planted inthe premises of Baba Mansa Ram Templein Baniyani today under the leadershipof National President Bharat Prem. Onthis occasion, former Vice ChancellorVijayakayat, President of NationalAmbedkar Mission 2020, addressed

everyone. He gave details of AmbedkarMission 2020 in detail. He speciallycongratulated the District HorticultureOfficer Dr. Hawa Singh and acknowl-edged that his department in Rohtak isdoing a fine job in the rural area, espe-

cially. Village sarpanch Bansi Lal andMandal president Gulshan Dua werepresent who started a new initiative inHaryana. On this occasion, K.S. Poonia,Bijender Nigana, Eng. Karmaveer, Om-prakash Bagdi, Ram Singh Valid, andmany villagers took part. On this occa-sion, everyone planted guava andayurvedic plants.

Unnat Bharat holdstree plantation

MAIN PAL KASHYAPINDRI, SEPTEMBER 7

BJP convenor Dhuman Singh Kira-mach, while addressing a farmersseminar in Shergarh today, said thatthe Modi government has opened aninternational market for farmers.The three ordinances of the BJPgovernment will work towards this"one nation one market" policy to-wards farmers, and this plan as thebiggest reform in the three ways ofbuying and selling agriculturalproducts that have been going onsince the last 60s. He said that inthese 3 ordinances "Farmer Agree-ment on Price Assurance and FarmService Ordinance" Farmer Em-

powerment and Security Agreementon Price Assurance and Agricultur-al Services, will be possible. Now afarmer can base the value of hiscrop and in the big market Can sellits crop. The second largest ordi-nance is Farmer Produce TradeTrade Promotion and Facilitation

Ordinance. Through this ordinance,the entire country will be ready forthe farmer as a market.

First, the farmer crop purchasewas limited to only the government.The farmer had to sell his crop inthe state, but through these ordi-nances, the farmer can sell his cropanywhere outside the state and any-where in the country and he will nothave to pay any tax or any tax, thisis the biggest change in this ordi-nance. has been done . BJP DistrictKisan Morcha President MasterNarendra Gorsi said that farmerscan decide the price of his crop him-self. Due to the fact that the marketis not tied to the wadhi, you can goanywhere and send your crop in a

higher price. He said that withoutdisturbing the old mandi system, thenew system has been given but theold mandi system will also run. Aperson can also sell his crop accord-ing to the old mandi system. DistrictPresident Yogendra Rana, DistrictGeneral Minister Kisan MorchaMaster Narendra Gaurasi, RanbirGoyat, Ramprasad Danda, Kamal-jeet Madan, Rinku Sharma, Vijay-pal, Rampal, Vipin Kumar, SanjeevKumar, Rajveer, Sardar GurjitSingh, Rinku Goyat, Neelam SinghMarket Committee on the occasion.Chairman, Charanjit Madan, AnilKumar, Pankaj, Budhu Sharma,Gaje Singh etc. were also present onthe occasion.

One Nation One Market to help farmers

Karnal's Avro Indiagets certification

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, SEPT 7

Avro India has again received certification as a Great Place toWork. This initiative accepts the best places to work in morethan sixty countries around the world. It is a considerableachievement, especially since its inception, Avro India has de-veloped all good systems and policies to create a great culturein the company. Thenotable point is that thecompany has beengaining recognition invarious categoriessince 2018 as GreatPlace to Work Insti-tute. It has been certi-fied in 2018 andranked 11th among mid-size organizations and recognized asIndia's best in 2019. Every year, more than 10,000 organisa-tions from 60 different countries have analysed and evaluatedthe Great Place to Work Institute to achieve workplace certifi-cation in manufacturing.

The Great Place Institute for Work Place is a global re-search, advisory, and training unit that helps organisationsidentify, create and maintain excellent places to work throughthe development of high trust cultures. This information wasgiven by the company's management officer Yashpal Singh. Hepointed out that the list of certified institutions has been pre-pared based on the assumption that employees have HR prac-tices and policies implemented in their respective companiesand organisations through a survey that conducts in the mostdesirable workplaces, Fixes behavior and environment.

Initiative towardsgreen revolution

AKHIL NATHSONEPAT, SEPT 7

The Agrasen Samaj welcomed Bharat Prem, the national pres-ident of the Unnat Bharat Organisation Trust. Suresh Jain, Na-tional President of Minority Cell was also present with him. Onthe occasion in GT Karnal Road Kundli, Bharat Prem informedthat about one lakh fifty one thousand vegetable plants will beplanted in district Sonepat. These vegetables will be natural andorganic. Concerning na-tional health, the Truststarted the big cam-paign with an interna-tional foothold. Nation-al President BharatPrem, Suresh Jain andRajinder Ji of Agrad-ham planted trees ofBur, Peepal and Neem.

The governing teamof International Agrad-ham thanked the UnnatBharat OrganisationTrust for awardingSevashri Award to thosewho have done remark-able work in adminis-tration, police and na-tional interest. AgrasenDham Award for Policeand Administration from Unnat Bharat was also placed beforethe National President. National President Bharat Prem assuredRajinder and the operators of Agradham that soon the decisionwill be taken on the Unnat Bharat Sawashree Award. The Na-tional President said that we are indebted to the police, admin-istration and the society at large for the service rendered duringthe Corona period. It has been decided to award those who havedone remarkable work in all these areas in the end of Septem-ber or first week of October. If the national executive grantspermission, the event will be held at Agrasen InternationalDham. On this occasion, Bharat Prem described the works ofChief Secretary and Chief Minister of Haryana as commend-able. He also described the work of the Ministry of Health andHome Affairs, Haryana as of high quality. On this occasionShyam Batra, Suresh Jain, Rajinder Agarwal etc. attended theprogramme.

GOLDY CHUGHSHAHABAD, SEPT 7

MLA Ramkaran Kala visited the parks of Sha-habad and gave instructions forbeautification and cleanliness ofthe parks. Kala said that waterrechargers will be installed inRanbir Singh Hooda Park toovercome the water problem onLadwa Road. Rain water will berecharged in them and the prob-lem of water from the road willbe solved. The MLA has in-structed the municipal secretarySurendra Malik to start theprocess of water recharge. At thesame time, he told the NAPA administrationthat special care should be taken for beautifi-cation and cleanliness of all the parks in thecity. He said that new tenders should not be al-lowed to the contractors who did not completethe work on the first tenders and are hanging

the work in balance. The MLA also asked toarrange for light under Shahabad Ladwa andBarara bridge. On the other hand, NPA Secre-tary Surendra Malik said that a tender of Rs 18

lakhs will be given for the beautification andmaintenance of all the parks under NAPA forone year. Jagbir Mohadi, Happy Anand,Ramesh Kashyap, Raju Anand, HarvinderSandhu, Rinku Kathwa were present on theoccasion.

MLA visits parks, instructs beautification

Saplings planted in nameof 24 Tirthankaras

SUSHIL PANDITYAMUNANAGAR, SEPT 7

In view of the corona epidemic, tree plantation was organisedin Nehru Park by Shri Mahavir Digambar Jain Temple, JainCharitable Group and Senior Citizen Society. While the templeorganises religious programmes, it does not back down fromthe social work doneby the temple tokeep the environ-ment clean. Keepingthis in mind, 24plants were plantedin the name of Jain-ism 24 Tirthankaras,making a conflu-ence of religious andsocial programmess.The programme waspresided over by Patron Giriraj Jain and Pradhan Ajay Jain andthe Operations General Ministers Punit Goldie and MukeshJain also presided.

The event was attended by Vijay Marwah of the Senior Cit-izen Society. Mukesh Jain said that planting saplings in thename of 24 Tirthankaras of Jainism is undoubtedly a very goodwork. He said that by planting in the name of Lord Adinath, thefirst Tirthankara of Jainism, he got it in the name of Lord Ma-havir, the 24th Tirthankara. The devotees present planted onesapling each. Members of Senior Citizen Society, ManjeetBindra, Ashi Garg, Sant Quatra, Ashok Gujjar, Atul Garg, In-drajit Gulati and Avi Jain, Puru Jain, Ankur Jain, Vivek Jain,Himanshu Jain etc. participated.

Farmers are the life, pride of IndiaSUSHIL PANDITYAMUNANAGAR: Shyam Sundar Batra, Coordinator DistrictCongress Committee Yamunanagar and former chairman ZillaParishad District Yamunanagar said in a press conference thatthe BJP at the centre and the state is engaged in plunderingand selling the country by bringing 3 anti-national ordinances

against farmers. It has been proved thattheir mentality is anti-farmer and labourer,that is why the country's economy hasgone into a tough time. Rahul Gandhi andState President Kumari Selja are engagedin awakening them and appeal to the gov-ernment to withdraw these three ordi-nances which are anti-farmer and anti-na-tional or bring a new ordinance. The gov-

ernment should decide the minimum support price and theright to give bonus on it.Batra said that the BJP people are very smart. The farmersneed to be cautious. The BJP will force them to sell privatelyby getting a higher rate for some time, then try to make an ex-cuse to end the minimum support price and mandi system.There is an appeal to the farmers that all the peasants, apartfrom politics, should take part in the protests to be held in Piplion September 10. We are always with farmers and jobbers,said Batra.

Abohar hospital gets two specialist doctorsABOHAR (RAJ SADOSH): The Health Department has filled two important va-cancies of specialist doctors in the 100-bedded Civil Hospital here. Dr Sanmaan Mid-dha “Mazi”, an orthopedician, had recently taken over here; with this it will now beconvenient to give relief to patients suffering from bone related problems. The ap-pointment rekindles hopes among “divyang” who had been facing problems in get-ting physical disability certificates issued. Dr Sanjoli Thatai has been appointed to fillthe vacancy of anesthesia specialist. She had got DNB degree from Dr Ram ManoharLohia Institute of Medical Science, Lucknow. Her appointment will resolve the ma-jor problem that the doctors had been going through in surgeries. Many a time womenin the maternity ward had also to be referred to other towns as an anesthesia special-ist was not available in the hospital. District Youth Congress ex-president SandeepJakhar has thanked the Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu for new appointments.

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BUREAUCHANDIGARH, SEPT 7

Punjab School EducationMinister Vijay Inder Singlafelicitated winners of ‘Am-bassadors of Hope’ belong-ing to five districts of thestate with Apple iPads, Lap-tops and Android Tabletsduring a brief ceremony inview of COVID-19 pandem-ic, here at Punjab BhawanChandigarh.

Exhorting the first, secondand third prize winners ofdistrict Hoshiarpur, Fate-hgarh Sahib, SBS Nagar,Rupnagar and SAS Nagar toachieve further heights in fu-ture, Singla said that oneshould always have intent oflearning and students shouldnot be afraid of mistakes andtake them in a positive man-ner in life to meet the aim. Hesaid that the primary objec-tive of ‘Ambassadors ofHope’ engaging the studentsin a constructive activity inan atmosphere of abject neg-

ativity due to COVID-19, hasbeen achieved. The CabinetMinister informed that as thethreat of COVID-19 pan-demic is growing day by day,thus we have decided to hon-our the winners in a phasedmanner. As the ‘Ambas-sadors of Hope’ winners of 7districts Barnala, Bathinda,Faridkot, Mansa, Patiala,Sangrur and Sri MuktsarSahib have been bestowedwith Apple iPads, Laptopsand Android Tablets duringthe Independence Day func-tion at Sangrur, the winnersof five more districts were fe-licitated today. He said thatsoon such brief ceremonieswould be held to honour thewinners of the remaining 10districts with attractiveprizes.

The Cabinet Minister saidthat apart from a total 66main prizes, as many as 1000consolation prizes are beinggiven to the winners in all 22districts under the ‘Ambas-sadors of Hope’.

Singla felicitates winnersof ‘Ambassadors of Hope’

with iPads, Laptops

DC Rupnagar set-up virtualsupport groups for peopleliving in isolationHARISH KALRARUPNAGAR :In a bid to tackle thephysical and psychologicalimplications of isolation, the deputycommissioner Sonali Giri launched anew initiative in the Rupnagar districtto mobilize people living underquarantine into virtual support groups.Disclosing this an officialspokesperson of the districadmnistration said that DeputyCommissioner having recovered fromCovid-19 herself was well acquaintedwith the repercussions of isolation.He said that in order to assist peoplein keeping themselves mentally andphysically fit amidst the pandemic,now the district will organize diversesessions on meditation, yoga, andbasics of martial arts at 5 PM daily.He said that the weekly schedule andlive sessions can be availed on theYouTube channel created for thispurpose by the name of ‘SupportGroup Rupnagar’. The spokesoersonfurther said that the district alsointends to counter the spread ofmisinformation by utilizing thesesupport groups and disburse reliableinformation. He said that asensitization campaign will also becarried out virtually and positivestories of recovered patients will beshared with the citizens.

GAURAV GOELCHANDIGARH, SEPT 7

With both cases and fatalities due toCovid going up, Punjab Chief Min-ister Captain Amarinder Singh onMonday announced three-monthextension for all retiring doctorsand specialists under 60, and alsoasked the Chief Secretary to expe-dite the process of recruitment oftechnicians and lab assistants forcoping with the exponential de-mand in view of the increasingnumber of Covid cases.

As per a Cabinet decision, thesedoctors were earlier given exten-sion till September 30, which hasnow been extended till December31, 2020, said the Chief Minister.

During a virtual review of theCovid situation with top officialsand medical/health experts, theChief Minister pointed out that theHealth Department is already sup-porting the GMCs with specialistmanpower pending recruitment bythe Medical Education Department.Special relaxation has been givenby the Finance Department to en-able Colleges to hire other man-power, he said. The Chief Minister

also directed formation of commit-tees, under the respective DCs, fordistribution of food packets to poorfamilies under home isolation/quar-antine, in order to encourage test-ing, as such families generally re-frained from getting themselvestested for Covid for fear of losingtheir meager earnings.

A series of measures have beenfurther announced by CaptainAmarinder to ease the stress ofCovid patients in hospitals and athomes. It has been decided thatgovernment hospitals will now per-mit serious Covid patients with spe-

cial dietary requirements to be pro-vided home food if they wish. Toalleviate the psychological stress ofserious patients in isolation inhospoitals, and of their familymembers, the government will pro-vide some equipment in thesewards to enable video calls betweenpatients and their attendants.

Further, the Chief Minister hasdirected all government labs to startproviding the Cycle Threshhold(CT) value of an RT-PCR test as itcan give useful information to thedoctors treating a Covid patient.

To ensure regular monitoringthe Covid patients in home isola-tion, especially above 40 years ofage, Captain Amarinder asked theHealth Department to put in place asystem of ensuring their clinicalprogress to check sudden deteriora-tion.

Covid Patient Tracking Offi-cers have been appointed in eachdistrict to ensure such patients re-ceive due care, he said. Expressingconcern over the delayed testing,that was leading to increase in fa-talities, the Chief Minister urgedthe departments to aggressivelyreach out to people to go for testing

at the first sign of symptoms andnot indulge in false bravado.

The directions came as activecases in the state stood at 16,156 ason September 6, with a cumulativefatality rate of 2.9% and deaths permillion at 62. The average positivi-ty for the week from August 26 toSeptember 3 was 9.42%, HealthSecretary Hussan Lal informed themeeting. Tracing of contacts per in-fected person had been increased to4.4 per case during the August 27 –September 3 period, he disclosed.

Chief Secretary Vini Mahajansaid both cases and fatalities hadwitnessed a steady increase in thepast few days, with 89% deaths re-ported from Level 3 cases. The sit-uation was being monitored on aday to day basis, she said, addingthat the Expert Group headed by DrKK Talwar was meeting every.

Medical Education SecretaryDK Tiwari apprised the Virtualmeeting of the tertiary care status atvarious government medical col-leges, and also gave an update onthe Plasma Banks and the testingcarried out at the VRDL labs underMission Fateh of the state govern-ment.

Capt announces 3-month extension of under-60 retiring doctors amid Covid crisis

State khet mazdoorprotest against centreand state govt

KULJIT SINGHJANDIALA GURU: A warning protestwas organized by Punjab KhetMazdoor Sabha in front of Majithaoffice of Amritsar district today. Theprotesters chanted slogans againstthe Punjab and the centralgovernment. The warning dharna wasaddressed by the State AssistantSecretary Joginder Gopalpur, DistrictPresident Parkash SinghKaironangal, Seva Singh Majhwind.The above leaders warned that thelaws passed through the ordinanceagainst the farmers and laborers ofPunjab should be withdrawnimmediately. Fascist policies must bestopped. Illegal pamphlets onintellectuals and people fighting forpublic interest should be canceled.He warned that if the anti-peopleblack laws were not repealedimmediately, there would be a hugestruggle by the people of Punjab.Apart from the above leaders,Kalwant Kaur Kaironangal, SatnamSingh Sarhala, Mangal SinghKhajala, Sulakhan Singh Dhade,Lakha Chavindadevi, Puran SinghKotla Sada, Hardeep Mangansar etc.were present on the occasion.

Three deaths, 57 newCorona positive casesreported in FerozepurRAMESH KASHYAPFEROZEPUR: With reporting of 57news Corona positive cases today,the positive cases tally in the districtsince the outbreak of the virus hasgone to 2382, with 690 active cases.As of today, 34045 samples had beentaken including 168 of today, out ofwhich 31178 were reported negative,1639 recovered and 690 active casesbesides the reports of 485 samplesstill awaited. However, there had beenthree deaths in the district in RikhiColony, Partap Nagar and BhagatSingh Colony, and till date 53 deathshave taken place due to Corona.

Kamal Gandhi wife of KCGroup Chairman and city'siconic Prem Gandhi cremated CHET RAM RATTAN NAWANSHAHR : Kamal Gandhi (65),wife of KC Group Chairman Prem PalGandhi and mother of KC Group ViceChairman Hitesh Gandhi wascremated in Nawanshahar today.Religious rites were performed at thecrematorium by Pandit Amba Dutt,Karthik Kaushal and Pandit Ashwani

Kumar. Duringthe cremation ofKamal Gandhi,his only sonHitesh Gandhi litthe pyre.Employees ofKC group,former citycouncilors,religious

organizations, politicians, social andbusiness organizations attended theceremony along with other eminentpersonalities, as per the rules ofCorona epidemic to pay tribute toKamal Gandhi.

Orders DCs to ensure food packets to poor families in home isolation

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Master Cadre Union Pres-ident Master Naresh kohlidiscussed in meeting withthe teachers about theproblem related to midday meal.

In his address, Kohlisaid that the Departmentof Education has asked forthe amount of mid-daymeal to be deposited in thebank accounts of the chil-dren, which is a very diffi-cult and headache-riddentask during the Coronaepidemic. Union leaderspresent on the occasionwere Bakhshish SinghJabbowal, Gurmeet SinghPanchi, Harish Sharma,Mandeep Kumar, GopalKrishan Sharma, SurjitSingh Mothanwal, Davin-

der Kumar, Sandeep Dur-gapur, Harpreet SinghKhunda DharminderMalli, Ranjit Virk,Sukhwinder Dalla. Gur-dev Singh, SukhwinderBusowal, Baljinder Singh,and others have demandedfrom the Punjab Govern-ment that the bank ac-counts of many poor stu-dents are not in workingcondition and the ac-counts of many parentsare not open due to which

the parents have to go tothe bank due to Coronaepidemic.

And very difficult forteachers. The organizationhas demanded that a letterbe issued as soon as possi-ble regarding the distribu-tion of cash for the mid-day meal of the studentsso that the money of thestudents can be given totheir parents so that noone is endangered duringthe epidemic.

Teachers discuss problems relatedto mid day meal distribution

AMRITPAL/DEEPAKSAMRALA, SEPT 7

Corona terror continues inPunjab and especially in Lud-hiana district. Patients injuredin road accidents includingother ailments in the districthospitals are losing their livesdue to lack of blood thesedays. Only blood donors canmake up for the lack of bloodin the blood banks, but thenumber of blood donors isnegligible these days due tofear of corona. Disclosing thishere today the young Sarpanchof village BarmalipurKuldeep

Singh said that in view of thissevere shortage of blood ameeting was held with theGram Panchayat, Sports Cluband the residents of the town.In which it was decided that ahuge blood donation campwith the great efforts of Mach-hiwara Sahib Social WelfareSociety would be organized inthe memory of Baba MaingalSingh Ji at Gurdwara SinghSabha village Barmalipur onSaturday 12th September. Heappealed to the young heroesof the area to join this charita-ble work for the betterment ofhumanity with courage and

fortitude. The blood bankteam of Civil Hospital Ludhi-ana is arriving to collect theblood of the donors and theblood donors would be offi-cially honored by the healthdepartment with a certificate.He said that this camp hadnothing to do with corona andno blood donor would havecorona test. Kashmir Singh,GaganjitVerma, KuldeepSingh, Jaspreet Singh, Ka-maljitKaur, SarabjitKaur, Bas-ant Singh (all Panches),Harpreet Singh Toor, JasvirSingh Bhola and others werepresent on the occasion.

Young heroes to donate blood inservice of humanity: Barmalipur

Single person candrive non-commercialfour wheeler without

wearing mask: DCDALJEET AJNOHAHOSHIARPUR: DeputyCommissioner Apneet Riyaiton Monday directed con-cerned SDMs and DSPs toensure the efficacious sealingof containment and microcontainment zones to keepthe further spread of coron-avirus under check.

In pursuance of directionsissued by the State Govern-ment, the Deputy Commis-sioner also stated that therewould be no penalty for notwearing mask, if single per-son was driving the non-com-mercial four wheelers. Shesaid that for not wearingmask in public places thepenalty was Rs. 500/ but ac-cording to the recent direc-tions the single person driv-ing non commercial vehicle(four wheeler) need not towear mask inside the vehicle.

Bajwa starts campaign forbeautification of city:

Harish Bhardwaj

SARWAN QADIAN, SEPT 7

Despite the corona epidemic in the governmentheaded by Chief Minister Captain Amrinder Singh,the Congress party is committed to development.Under this series, efforts are going on for the devel-opment of the city under the leadership of MLAFatehjung Singh Bajwa. Youth Congress GeneralSecretary Harish Bhardwaj expressed above words.Giving information on the occasion, he said thatFatehjang Singh Bajwa has started the process of in-stalling interlocking tiles in various areas of the cityfor beautification of the city, under which White Av-enue falls. On footpaths along the edges of the cityroads, tiles are being installed. He told that the Con-gress Party is the party of the poor, laborers andfarmers and their development is always given pri-ority. He said that the MLA Fatehjung Singh Bajwahas mobilized workers for development in all the vil-lages under the Qadian constituency.

KULBHUSHAN GARGGIDDARBAHA, SEPT 7

Checks of encouragement sentby the Punjab Government tothe brightest students of BabaFarid Public Senior SecondarySchool Village Chhatyana,headed by the Principal Har-jeet Kaur and Vice PrincipalParamjit Kaur Brar were pre-sented to the promising stu-dents. The school staff hon-ored the students by givingthem these checks of Rs. 5100each in a simple function or-ganized here. Giving informa-tion in this regard, the schoolManaging Director HarjitSingh Brar said that the checksreceived from the Punjab gov-ernment for the students, whosecured more than 98 percentmarks, were given to the stu-dents. Girl students of theschool Manveer Kaur daughterof Gursewak Singh, Harman-preet Kaur daughter of

Jaskaran Singh, GaganpreetKaur daughter of RajinderSingh and Harveer Kaurdaughter of Pal Singh havebeen honored by giving outthese checks. Out of these,Manveer Kaur daughter ofGursawek Singh secured thefirst position across Punjab byscoring 450/450 marks. Onthis occasion, Harjeet Singhappealed to the parents to en-courage the daughters and sup-port them just like their sons.He wished for the golden fu-ture of the girls, and urged theparents to give every kind of

support to the daughters togrow, so that our society canbecome healthy and our coun-try can make progress. He alsomotivated the students to workhard with dedication to moveforward, to serve the society, tocome forward to serve thecountry, to be self-confident, tobe self-reliant and to fulfilltheir responsibility with hon-esty. Tarsem Kumar, KuldeepSingh Bhaliana, Gurjot Singh,Balkaran Singh Gurmel SinghDPI, Beant Kaur, SharanjitKaur and Ramandeep Kaurwere present on the occasion.

Promising girls of village Chhatyana honouredby presenting checks of Rs.5100 each

RAJIV JAINCHANDIGARH, SEPT 7

Satya Pal Jain, Ex MP anda Member of the NationalExecutive Committee ofthe BJP has urged theChandigarh Administrationto accept the demands ofthe Housing Board Resi-dents Federation and regu-larise the need basechanges made by the allot-tees in their houses. In aletter to V.P. Singh Bad-nore, Governor of Punjab,

Jain has requested him toconstitute a high levelcommittee on Delhi patternto examineand acceptthe demandof regularis-ing the needbase changesmade by thepeople intheir housesbecause of the increase inthe members of the family,by the flux of time. It maybe recalled that Jain had

addressed a virtual rally ofthe Housing Board Federa-tion a few days back and

later a delegation ofthe federation hadmet him at his resi-dence and submit-ted him a memoran-dum of their de-mands. Jain has senta copy of the mem-orandum alongwith

his letter to the Governorof Punjab. Jain said thatthousands of allottees ofthe houses by the Housing

Board are facing lot ofproblems because theirneed base changes carriedby them in their houses arenot being regularised bythe Administration. Someof the allottees are facingeven cancellation and dem-olition notices. Jain saidthat the policy of the PrimeMinister Narendra Modi,led Central Government isto provide houses to eachand every citizen of Indiaand not to demolish theirhouse.

Satya Pal Jain supports demands ofHousing Board residents federation

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YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Delegation of HP Olympic Association calls onYouth Services and Sports MinisterSHIMLA: A delegation of HP Olympic Association led by Secretary General of the associa-tion Rajesh Bhandari here today called on Youth Services and Sports Minister RakeshPathania. It was a courtesy call. Rakesh Pathania said that there was no dearth of sports tal-ent in the state and players were performing well at the international level but efforts shouldbe made to facilitate them and provide them the right platform to grow. He said the sports in-frastructures should be strengthened and developed for sports like skiing, boxing, kabaddiand volleyball in the state. Delegation briefed him the activities being done by the associa-tion for the promotion and development of sports in the state. They also discussed the de-mands that are necessary to strengthen sports infrastructure and for making HimachalPradesh suitable destination for conducting International Sports events and to provide betterfacilities for organizing skiing events in Shimla.

HIMACHAL/JKBJP Mandal meetingheld virtuallyANWAR HUSSAINNALAGARH: Virtual meeting wasorganized by BJP Mandal Nalagarhthrough WebEx App, which was chairedby the Board President Baldev Thakurand the virtual meeting was hosted bythe Board General Secretary ManoharThakur.Former legislator L Thakur ofNalagarh was specially present in themeeting.The meeting was to explain therole decided by the Center and theState for each BJP worker and tointroduce the expectations of theorganization to the presidents and theiroffice-bearers of the newly electedboard fronts. BJP Mandal PresidentBaldev Thakur and former MLA KLThakur gave detailed information. Theformer MLA told that in the coming timewe all have to start preparations fromtoday in view of elections. Thinking ofhow the party can be strengthenedfurther and how to increase the BJP'sclout, all these aspects have to go onfrom today, along with all the work givenby the state for the upcoming expansionplan. Apprised and informed how toprepare to the level of the organization.While giving detailed information on allthe above subjects to the BoardPresident, making the present definitionof the organization and the expectationsof the organization, appealed everyoneto play an active role on all fronts in theupcoming state level programs. Duringthis time state executive member TekChand Chandel, state law cell Shimlaparliamentary constituency in-chargeRavindra Thakur, minority head districtpresident Gaffar Mohammad, districtexecutive member, Gurnam Singh,divisional general secretary PraveenSaini, divisional vice president MeenaKumari, secretary Dev Raj Chandel,secretary Ravindra Thakur , TreasurerOnkar Gupta, along with board officialsand executive members, Yuva Morchapresident Amit Chandel, Mahila Morchapresident Archana Kaundinya, O.K. B.C.Front President Rajindra Saini, S.K. T.Morcha President Daulat RamChaudhary, S.K. C. Morcha presidentBaldev Singh, Kisan Morcha presidentDaata Ram, Minority Morcha presidentSalim Mohammed and generalministers of all the seven fronts andvillage presidents were present.

Awareness camp held on climate change and human healthPANKAJ KATNAUNA, SEP 7

Awareness camp was organized bythe Information Education andCommunication Division of theDepartment of Health and FamilyWelfare Una under the NationalProgram on Climate Change andHuman Health for the firstinternational blue sky on theoccasion of Clean EnvironmentDay. It was headed by Chief MedicalOfficer Una Dr. Raman KumarSharma. On this occasion, Dr.Raman Kumar Sharma said that airpollution has harmful effects on

health, which can cause manydiseases like asthma, TB, heartdisease and lung infection. He saidthat children, elderly and pregnantwomen are affected more by it. He

said that pollution from homes,vehicles and factories causes moreeye, nose, throat diseases like cough,cold, pneumonia.District ProgrammeOfficer Dr. Richa Kalia said that this

programme was being celebratedwith the courtesy of the NationalHealth Mission. The aim of which isto make them aware about cleanenvironment, clean air and preventthe effects of pollution. Publiceducation and information officerSharda Saraswat gave detailedinformation through a power pointpresentation.On this occasion,District Health Officer Dr. Nikhil,Medical Superintendent Dr. NarayanAngra, District Health TeacherGopal Krishna, B.C.C. CoordinatorKanchan, BPM Neeraj and allAnganwadi workers of Una urbanarea and Asha Worker were present.

JOGINDER DEV ARYABANGANA, SEP 7

The Indian government hasbanned 118 apps, includinganother digital strike, PUBGmobile game. Even beforethis, the government hasbanned many apps. A fewdays ago, the ban on PUBGmobile app was revealed,but the confirmation fromthe government has nowbeen proved truth. There is along-standing dispute inIndia about PUBG. Manychildren have committedburglaries in the house dueto Pubg, while many haveeven killed their families.There was a long-standingdemand to ban PUBG inIndia, which has now been

fulfilled. Surprisingly,despite the ban on pubg, thepubi game is working asbefore in the mobile phoneand nowadays children areenjoying the benefits ofliving in their homes. Evenafter the ban has been

installed on the PUBGgame, an incident has comeout under the subdivisionBangana in which a childspent a sum of Rs 10,000from his mother's purse in afew days while playing apubg game. Mother had kept

this money to pay forhousehold expenses andchildren's school fees. Thechild's mother told that thechild used to play pubggames on the phone on thepretext of online study andthe friend with whom he

used to play demandedmoney. Gradually, my songave an amount of Rs10,000 to his friend in anaffair to play PUBG game.But the big thing is that for along time the familymembers did not even knowabout it. After a long time,when mother saw the moneyin purse, her senses flewaway. When he inquiredabout the money from hisson, after much effort, theboy said that I have givenmoney to my friend forplaying PUBG game. It isbelieved to have a tendencyto continue playing until thegame is won. This is aprocess of addiction andwaste of time. It justdevelops a criminal mindset.

Let parents use phone undertheir supervision: Rajit Kumar

Psychiatrist Dr. RajitKumar says that addictionto PUBG is dangerous. Thecraze of this online gamehas increased amongchildren and youth so muchthat the players get addictedto this game that their

mental and physicaldevelopment starts to getaffected. Parents arerequested to give mobilephones to children to useunder their supervision andalso inform them about theill effects of online games.

CM refutes allegation of oppositionover handling of corona pandemic

HIMACHAL MONSOON SESSION BEGINS

UNISHIMLA, SEP 7

Himachal Pradesh Chief MinisterJai Ram Thakur said on Monday thatno member of his Cabinet wouldtender resignation as thegovernment's efforts to handle theCovid situation was appreciated atthe national level.

Intervening in the discussion onOpposition motion under rule 67 inthe monsoon session of theAssembly that got underway onMonday, Mr Thakur said that whilehis government was fighting thepandemic, the opposition was busypoliticising the issue to derivepolitical advantage.

The CM said that he as greatrespect Mr Rajiv Bindal who set thetradition by quitting the BJP top poston high moral grounds after the PPEkit controversy. He said thatOpposition which had no issues withMr Bindal quitting the party posts,started the demand his CMresignation.

Mr Thakur said that the Leaderof Opposition was trying to blow theCovid situation out of proportion toget political gain.

He said that the stateGovernment is taking measures tocontain the Covid infections.

Guv apprises President about statusof HP in implementation of NEP

SHIMLA, SEP 7

Governor BandaruDattatraya expressed hisviews during videoconference of PresidentRamnath Kovind withGovernors, LieutenantGovernor and Vicechancellors on NationalEducation Policy. ThePresident gave thePresidential address. PrimeMinister Narendra Modiaddressed the meeting anddetailed about the variousaspects of NationalEducation Policy-2020.Union Education MinisterRamesh Pokhriyal Nishankwas also present in themeeting. Governor,Lieutenant Governor andEducation Ministersparticipated in the discussionsession and expressed theirviews. While expressing hisviews on National EducationPolicy-2020, Shri Dattatrayasaid that State has pledged tomake Himachal Pradesh thefirst state in implementationof the Policy. He said that allaspects have been consideredof the policy and it was afuturistic and progressivedocument, which would

prepare the country forupcoming challenges. Hesaid that soon afternotification, of this policy, heinitiated discussions withconcerned institutes, groupsand experts. In last few days,discussions were held withVice Chancellors, teachers,academics, parents, studentsand officers and employeesof the Education department.He said that in order toimplement the policydocument in the state, he hasalso consulted with the ChiefMinister and EducationMinister. He said that thestate Cabinet has decided toconstitute a task force in thisregard.

Dattatraya said that theVice-Chancellors of all

universities have beeninstructed to set up a high-level committee under hischairmanship, which willsoon prepare a visiondocument for theirinstitutions, to build amultidisciplinary educationand research university. Hesaid that he himself wouldreview it from time to time.He urged the CentralGovernment to continueproviding financial supportfor institutional andinfrastructural changes thatare needed to implement thispolicy.

He said that onlineeducation has increased dueto corona pandemic, but forthis, teachers and studentsneed to be trained.

Residents express gratitude to VirendraKanwar for forming separate panchayat

PANKAJ KATNAUNA, SEP 7

Dhundla Panchayatrepresentatives and villagersthanked Panchayati RajMinister Virendra Kanwarfor the setting up of the newPanchayat Nannavi fromDhundla, the largest of the40 panchayats under thedevelopment blockBangana. On Sunday, adelegation led by Panchayathead Sanjeev Kumar ofDhundla met Panchayati RajMinister Virendra Kanwar atThanakalan Rest House andthanked him by offeringflowers and sweetened himwith laddus DhundlaPanchayat had 9 wards and3500 voters. Due to this, theresidents of Dhundla had

sent a proposal to createseparate Panchayat for along time to the PanchayatiRaj Department. Whiledoing this, Panchayati RajMinister Virendra Kanwarhas issued a notification ofseparate PanchayatNanavani to fulfill the longpending demand of thepeople of Dhundla. Theformation of a separatepanchayat will undoubtedlygive further impetus to thedevelopment of thevillages. The delegationwas attended by VidhiChand, BDC Deep Kumar,Kamal Sangar, JyotiPrakash, Jagat Ram,Deshraj, Hansraj, Tarasem,Balwinder, Jagdev, RoopSingh, Subhash, amongothers.

Admn gears up to fightcorona, screening process

outside every office begins

JYOTI SYALUNA, SEP 7

Regarding the increasing cases in thedistrict, where the district administrationand the healthy department are constantlyworking day and night to overcome thecrona, the Una Power Department of Unais also making efforts in the same link thatno person can get the temperature checkedwithout checking the department office.Could not enter in, so that there can be asmuch defense as possible. As the numberof crona positive in district Una isincreasing, people have also become morealert, whether Una's court premises orexcise In the department office, or othergovernment offices, this type of processwill now have to come out by tampering,centering the officers, employees and allthe people who come there. Of which 393have been recovered and the figure of 209is currently running for active cases.Screening of every person before enteringoffice is being done.

Online national session of NUJ (I)to be held on September 11

BANGANA (JOGINDER DEVARYA), SEP 7

The online national session of NUJ India will be held on 11September. Giving information, NUJ state president RaneshRana said that 2000 journalists from 100 cities of the country willparticipate in this session. During the session, journalists willshare the problems encountered during the Corona epidemic.Ranesh Rana said that many journalists have sacrificedthemselves during the Corona epidemic. The NUJ has alwaysstruggled for the interests and demands of journalists. Rana saidthat even when the whole world is afraid of Corona, theorganization is raising the voice for journalists in front ofParliament. The issue of killings of journalists or layoffs, financialassistance to the families of fellow victims of Corona or the issueof health insurance, opposition to fake lawsuits or the demand forthe implementation of journalist safety, Majithia Wageboard.

Tributes paid to ex-Prez, ex-MLAs,Gulwan martyr, Covid victims

SHIMLA: Himachal PradeshAssembly on Monday paidtributes to former President PranabMukherjee, Former Member ofVidhan Sabha Chandra worker,Rakesh Verma, a Gulwan and 11Indian martyr and 53 covidvictims who died during the lastAssembly and present Monsoonsession. The obituary referenceswere presented in the House byChief Minister Jai Ram Thakurhere as it assembled here for thefirst day of Monsoon session.

Thakur said tributes were paid toformer President PranabMukherjee, who died on August31 at the age of 84 yrs and wasappointed as finance Minister in1982. He remained member ofRajya Sabha 1969 and remainedCabinet Minister in the Uniongovernment in CongressGovernment. Mukherjee waselected 13th president of India on25 April 2012. The Chief Ministeralso recalled that he addressed thishouse on May 24, 2013.

PUBG addiction makes son thief

People seek big round circlechowk at Mubarikpur

KISHORI LAL BAINSAMB, SEP 7

There is a demand of big round circle Chowk atMubarikpur-Amlehar and Gagret link road. People areseeking big round circle chowk here at Mubarikpurchowk for many last decades but the situation remainsthe same. The people told YUGMARG that people areafraid of accidents near these link roads at Mubarikpur-Amlehar and Gagret link road. All the light and heavyvehicles crossed in an unlimited speed there. Manyroad accidents have been occurred so far. It is alsoworth mentioning that thousands of small and bigvehicles pass through this Mubarikpur Chowkeveryday. Nothing has been done so far to constructa convenient round circle chowk at the Mubarikpur-Amlehar link road. Therefore,the people ofMubarikpur-Amlehar demanded the round circlechowk near to avoid accidents. The bridge nearAmlehar-Mubarikpur road is still in a very roughtough position. The people also demanded that thebridge near Mubarikpur-Amlehar road should alsobe renovated as earliest so that the people did notsuffer more.

Nangal's containment area watched with drawncamera: DC Sonali GiriNANGAL (KULWINDER BHATIA): DC Rupnagar Sonali Giri Surveyed Nangal and de-velopment works of Nangal and issued guidelines to the concerned officials to quickly solve

the problems of the people. During this, DC Sonali Giri went to Shiv-alik Avenue and sector-2, where she surveyed the containment zone.She issued guidelines to the officials of administration and police de-partment to strictly prohibit the people to come out in the contain-ment zone. She said that they have to strictly look after the contain-ment area and rule breakers should be fined. DC also took survey ofthe flyover and instructed the officials to solve the problems, whichcame into the way of making of flyover. She says that the work ofthis flyover will be completed till June 2021.

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YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

OUR CORRESPONDENTKHARAR/MOHALI,SEPT 7

The government health infra-structure supported by pri-vate heath institutions is suc-cessfully tackling theCOVID-19 challenge in thedistrict, said Deputy Com-missioner Girish Dayalan.

He said that private hos-pitals are playing a stellarrole in COVID care by dedi-cating major part of their fa-cilities to critical COVID pa-tients. The hospitals have in-creased the isolation wardstrength, ventilators and ICUcapacity and are renderingfull support to the adminis-tration in these trying times.While inaugurating the up-graded existing level 3Neonatal Intensive Care Unit(NICU) at Max Hospital Mo-hali to the state of the art fa-cility, he hoped that the stateof the art NICU would be an-other milestone in healthcarebeing extended to the people.On the occasion, the Maxhospital authorities, Mohali

informed that the hospital hasupgraded its Neonatal Inten-sive Care Unit. It has beendivided into septic (infective)and aseptic (non-infective)zones with proper negativepressure rooms for babieswith culture proven infec-tion. The unit now has thir-teen level 3 neonatal inten-sive care beds, followed bystep down or the intermediatecare nursery. They informedthat already Max hospital hasbeen providing highest levelof care which includes ultra-modern incubators, ventila-tors and open care systems.The unit has been managingextremely premature and lowbirth weight babies , withsmallest baby of birth weight450 grams with normal neu-rological examination at 1year follow up . The new set-up further adds to ourstrengths, we have taken spe-cial care for KMC (Kangroomother care), ambient soundand light specifications fordevelopmentally supportivecare, especially extremelylow birth weight babies.

DC inaugurates upgradedNeonatal intensive care

unit at Max HospitalKulwinder Singhhonoured with 'NationBuilder Award'

DHARAM PAL PUNNIJAITU: Rotary Club Faridkot, BlockPrimary Education Officer DalbirSingh Rattan and Gram PanchayatSedha Singh Wala honored hardworker teacher Kulwinder Singhteacher of Govt Primary SchoolSedha Singh wala with 'NationBuilder Award' on the occasion of theTeachers' Day. Sedha Singh walaGovt Primary School is known asexcellent performer in education fieldand it can be seen the hard workingof the teachers that at least 5 to 8students of this school have beenpassing examination of 'JawaharNavodaya School' every year.

48 fresh casesreported in PhagwaraASHOK KAURAPHAGWARA: 42 people todaydischared in the district kapurthala astheir test report found negative. Withdischarge of these 42 positive theactive case remains at 438 in thedistrict. The district also witnessed 48new positive cases including 8 fromPhagwara today . Besides that 2 newdeaths also reported as the personsbelongs to the district died at varioushospitals in Jalandhar . The deathsincludes 74 years male fromPhagwara and 62 years male ofkapurthala . both died at two differenthospitals of jalandhar today.DeputyCommissioner Kapurthala DeeptiUppal,said that 1108 persons out oftotal 1734 have been cured fromcorona and discharged til now.

Police may implicate BhaiRamandeep Singh Sunny Khalsain fake case of Referendum 2020:Sukhpreet Kaur

ANIL VERMABATHINDA : Captain's police havenow cracked down on Sikh youth infalse cases under the guise ofReferendum 2020? This wasrevealed today in Patiala Jail bySukhpreet Kaur, wife of Bad BhaiRamandeep Singh Sunny Khalsa, inthe name of IG Bathinda Zonethrough her lawyer Harpal SinghKhara. Sukhpreet Kaur in herapplication said that yesterday twoemployees of Kotwali Police StationBathinda came in civil clothes andshowed the list and said thatRamandeep Singh Sunny's name hascome up in Referendum 2020 and heis in touch with them. He also talkedabout Ramandeep Singh Sunny andmy Amrit Chakhan and also made in-depth inquiries about the in-laws,which raises the suspicion thatRamandeep Singh Sunny may beimplicated in the fake Referendum2020 case.

Punjab govt in pursue tosuppress voice of people inguise of Corona : RanaSHARANJEET PATHANKOT: Due to Corona, thegovernment wants to suppress thevoice of the people and is givingprotection to the corrupt, which theyouth Akali Dal and the people ofPunjab will never tolerate. Thesewords wereexpressed by theDistrict President ofYouth Akali DalPathankot, JaspreetSingh Rana,condemning thepamphlets made bythe police on 77 Akali workers. Hesaid that the Akali Dal does nottolerate corruption. He used tooppose such corrupt people earlierand will continue to do so. He saidthat the matter of giving protection tothe corrupt people on behalf of thePunjab government raises doubtsthat the government is also playing arole in some form in the scam of Rs64 crore for the scholarship of theDalit students. District head JaspreetSingh Rana said that the Punjabgovernment is strangling the voice ofthe people in the guise of the CoronaAct to save their minister. He saidthat the Congress government ofPunjab is standing with the corruptpeople by giving protection to theminister who is digging money forscholarship of poor Dalit students.

SP JAINKHARAR/MOHALI,SEPT 7

Intensifying its battleagainst the pandemic,District AdministrationSAS Nagar has increasedthe Covid-19 samplingtwo-fold, informedDeputy CommissionerGirish Dayalan.

Sharing the detailsDeputy Commissionerapprised that the sam-pling for novel coronavirus which was around350 per day has now beenaccelerated and about 850to 1100 samples are beingcollected daily. He saidthat the move is aimed atearly detection of corona

virus in patients so thatthe treatment could bestarted well in time be-sides preventing othersfrom the virus contrac-tion. “To match the sam-pling pace, the correspon-ding testing has also beendoubled. As against theearlier 400 tests per daynow on an average about850 tests are being done,”

said Dayalan. Pointingout further, the DeputyCommissioner said thaton September 4, a total of946 samples were collect-ed in the district that in-cludes 669 RTPCR tests,19 TruNat and 258 Anti-gen tests.

Similarly, On Septem-ber 5, the health teamscollected 855 samplesthat include 554 RTPCRtests, 23 TruNat, and 278Antigen samples. No-tably, the number of sam-pling teams has beenraised to 26 from the ear-lier 20 to cover the high-risk population of peoplewith co-morbidity, said the Deputy Commis-sioner.

COVID-19 sampling increasedtwo-fold in Mohali: DC

CHANDIGARH, SEPT 7

V.P. Singh Badnore, Governor ofPunjab and Administrator of U.T.Chandigarh, launched the PoshanMaah 2020, for UT Chandigarh on-line by sharing a video message, to-day.

Poshan Abhiyaan “PM’s Overar-ching Scheme for Holistic Nourish-ment” was formally launched bythe Hon’ble Prime Minister of In-dia, from Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan on08th March 2018. Prime Minsterhad desired the Mission to be con-verted into a jan andolan for effec-tive implementation and widereach. Since then, Poshan Maah isbeing celebrated with enormouszeal & enthusiasm with a numberof activities in the community atgrass root level. In his message, theGovernor reiterated Chandigarh’scommitment to wipe out malnutri-tion from the city and the countryand called on the people to partici-pate in the Jan Andolan.

To maintain the momentum andto capitalize on the gains of theseevents, this year the third RashtriyaPoshan Maah is going to be cele-brated during the month of Septem-ber, 2020in convergence with allstakeholders. Rashtriya PoshanMaah 2020 will have two major ac-tivities to be carried out at grassroot level namely:- Identificationand tracking of children with Se-vere Acute Malnutrition (SAM)Plantation drives for promotion ofKitchen gardens. Manoj KumarParida IAS, Advisor to the Admin-istrator, U.T. Chandigarh, along

with Shri Yash Pal Garg, IAS Sec-retary Social Welfare, UT Chandi-garh, and Smt. Navjot Kaur, PCSDirector, Department of SocialWelfare Women and Child Devel-opment, Chandigarh, launched theInformation Education and Com-munication (IEC) material on Su-poshan Diwas, Growth Monitoring,Complementary Feeding for An-ganwadi Centers, which will be cir-culated for raising awareness onhealth and nutrition. On the sameevent, the officers also launched the“Poshan Sanhita”. Poshan Sanhita,a voluntary model code on nutri-tion, is a set of 10 simple and easyto follow principles for ensuringholistic nutrition of the self and the

family. By committing to observethese principles, citizens can pleadtheir support and full-fledgedly par-ticipate in the Poshan Maah Jan An-dolan from the safety and comfortof their homes.

Due to COVID-19 pandemic,Rashtriya POSHAN Maah, 2020was repositioned from convention-al to digital mode of Jan Andolan,wherever required. For conductingRashtriya POSHAN Maah, 2020,successfully, the Department of So-cial Welfare of Women & Child De-velopment shall play a vital role asper the guidelines of the Govern-ment of India, in convergence withall the line Departments, i.e. De-partment of Health & Family Wel-

fare, Department of Education, Mu-nicipal Corporation, and Depart-ment of Public Health. In the ensu-ing days, a gamut of activities havebeen planned to push for the causeof holistic nutrition, such as launchof CBE Pamphlets and IncrementalLearning Approach TakeawaysBooklet, identification and trackingof Children with Severe to AcuteMalnutrition (SAM) children de-velopment of Kitchen Gardens inAnganwadi Centre and launch ofLow-Cost Recipe Booklet duringthe POSHAN Maah, 2020. VariousWebinars shall be organised on thetopics like Nutrition Rich Food,Anaemia, Diarrhoea and Preven-tion of Malnutrition.

CHET RAM RATTAN NAWANSHAHAR, SEPT 7

Encouraging the women'swing of the party to formCongress government againin Punjab Assembly electionsof 2022, is the need of thehour.

Addressing a special meet-ing of women in Nawanshahr,Guriqbal Kaur said that theCongress government hascalled upon people to adopt apolicy of public interest. For-mer MLA Babli said thatwomen workers of BJP inPunjab are actively workingfor their party.

She also demanded theCongress leadership to revivethe women's wing and give

representation to capable ac-tive women. Active womenleaders Gurdev Kaur, RachnaChhabra, Kulwant Kaur for-mer MC, Bibi Baljit KaurRatan, Madam Sudesh Dhel-pal, Jaswinder Kaur PinkyMember Panchayat Soita,

Madam KaranDhari andHarmesh KaurC h a i r p e r s o nZilla Parishadappealed to theCongress HighCommand thatfamilies withpolitical back-ground havedemanded therepresentationof Madam

Babli in the women's wingPunjab. Manju Bagga, Kul-winder Kaur, Gurbaksh KaurRahon, Bibi Bhajan Kaur,Sunita Rani, Surinder Kaur,Manjot Jethu Majra, KamleshRani etc. presented theirviews on the occasion.

Promoting women's wing of Congressparty need of hour : Guriqbal Kaur

ANIL VERMABATHINDA, SEPT 7

Bhartiya Kisan Union EktaSidhupur today joined the in-definite dharna for 6 consecu-tive days from September 2and thousands of farmers ofBathinda district chanted slo-gans in front of the office ofDeputy CommissionerBathinda against the Punjabgovernment.

Farmer Leader Kaka SinghKotra, State General Secre-tary, District Leader BaldevSingh Sadoha, Resam SinghYatri while addressing thedharna said that the dharnawould be held in 6 days and ifthe promises were not ful-filled then the meeting wouldbe repeated. The dharna willbe ended only if the adminis-tration accepts the manga and

if the promises are not ful-filled, the struggle will be-come a bone of contention forthe administration.

The leader asked whetherthe case of burning of paddystraw should be dismissed,the promise of giving govern-ment job to the family of mar-tyred farmer Jagsir Singh Ko-

tra Koda should be fulfilled,this promise to breakMandikala village from Na-gar Panchayat to Gram Pan-chayat should be fulfilled. Ifthe demands are not met, thestruggle will be intensified.The district administration it-self will be responsible for thefinancial loss.

Farmers continue to lodge protestagainst government in Bathinda

Sand mafia knocks inriver as night falls,

Administration silentDEEPAK, AMRITPALMACHHIWARA, SEPT 7

The illegal mining of sand in the Sutlej Darya con-tinues to make headlines in the newspapers and thistime again, the illegal mining of sand has started inthe Sutlej Darya. The sand mafia starts knocking inthe night in Satluj river near village Isapur and then

the trolleys are illegallyfilled all night. Eventhough the new Head ofMachhiwara police sta-tion claimed that hewould not allow any ille-gal mining to take placeas soon as he took office,the introduction of ille-

gal mining in the river again after two days of calmis putting a big question mark on the administration.The question is, that under whose umbrella is thissand mafia working, which the administration is alsofailing stop. Due to the rainy season, flood controlroom has also been created by the administration onthe Tehsil level to keep a check on the flood situationin Sutlej Darya, under which government officialsalso visit the dam from time to time.

Badnore launches Poshan Maah 2020 for Chandigarh

REKHA VERMAGURDASPUR, SEPT 7

Some of the agents misleadthe Punjab youth by assuringthem good employment inabroad , leaving themabroad in a deteriorat-ed condition, a recentexample of which isthe life of GurdeepSingh Goraya, son ofSavarn Singh of thenearby village ofThikriwal Goraya.

Few days ago , A Pakistaniyouth Rais Valmiki had re-leased a video on social me-dia from United Arab Emi-rates. In the video released onthe social media, he had ex-plained that Gurdip SinghGoraya resident of ThikriwalGoraya and Charanjeet Singhresident of Gopalpur district

Kapurthala were in criticalcircumstances. When it wasfound out in Gurdeep Singh'shouse in this regard, GurdeepSingh's mother LakhwinderKaur told that Gurdeep had

gone back after staying in hisvillage in 2019 and since thenshe was not getting any newsabout him but after the Pak-istani youth Rais made thevideo viral, she came to knowhow his only son is in worsecondition. She further toldthat Gurdeep went to Dubaiin 2016– 2017 in search of abetter future.

Youth in poor condition in UAE, arrived insafe hands, hope to return to India soon

Fever check-ups, samplingcamps begin in Ludhiana

LUDHIANA: The Punjab Government has decid-ed to hold free fever check-up and sampling campsat various places in the district Ludhiana to ensurea maximum number of people tested. This specialcampaign will last for 21 days ie three weeks, dur-ing which the treatment of the affected patients willbe started by testing as many people as possible.The first camp was inaugurated by Deputy Com-missioner Mr Varinder Kumar Sharma at the localESI Hospital today.

Disclosing this here today Mr Sharma said that atpresent Ludhiana district was going through peakperiod. Today, there is a need to test as many peo-ple as possible to identify the affected patients. Inorder to control this disease more than five thou-sand samples were being taken in Ludhiana districtso that the treatment of patients could be started assoon as possible. He said that in such camps peopleover 30 years of age who have any disease wouldbe examined. In addition, anyone over the age of 40can get tested. He said that this camp would be re-located on a daily basis. So barley can cover maxi-mum population in these 21 days.

NEWS AT AGLANCE

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Photojournalist succumbs to Covid-19 in BalasoreBALASORE: A photojournalist, who was working during the COVID inducedlockdown, has died due to the virus in Balasore district of Odisha on Monday.Solman Sahu, a photojournalist of EPA, Balasore who passed away on Mondaydied due to coronavirus has been declared as a Corona warrior for his restlessservice during the lockdown. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had said thatall journalist working during lockdown period were Corona warriors. Patnaik hadalso announced a compensation of Rs 15 lakhs to be given to their dependants ifthey died of death due to the virus. Previously, two reporters from Gajapati andGanjam Districts were declared as corona warriors after their death and acompensation of Rs 15 lakhs was given to their family members. According to theUnion Health Ministry, Odisha has 27,121 active cases, 96,364 recoveries and546 fatalities as of September 7.

7Two top Italian DesignUniversities sign MoU withLPU’s School of Fashion

HARPREET SINGH LEHALJALANDHAR: Continuously enhancingglobal academic strengths, LPU hassigned two MoUs with world-renownedItalian art & design Universities- NABA(Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti) and‘Domus Academy‘of Milano for itsSchool of Fashion Design. NABA is theonly design school in Italy accreditedby the Italian Ministry of Education,University and Research (MIUR). MoUsigning authority from Italy, ManagingDirector of NABA Donato Medicishares: “We are very proud to beassociated with LPU School of Design(Fashion)- a leader in the educationsector. Both the institutions worktowards a shared vision of providingstudents with rich academic experienceand a global outlook. We look forwardto empowering young minds at both ofthe universities for fulfilling theiracademic ambitions”. Registrar at LPU,Dr Monica Gulati represented LPUduring the signing ceremony.Head ofthe Fashion School Bhaskar Mitrashares, “we had devised out the MoUssigning after 11 LPU students ofFashion School visited Italy for threeweek summer school, in the mid of2019, at NABA. Domus Academy wasalso visited for future collaboration.There, LPU students also gotinternational credits transfer along witha certificate on Fashion Design andstyling.”

NSS unit of DAV Collegecelebrates Teachers’ Day

JALANDHAR: On the occasion ofNational Teacher's Day, the studentsgreeted their teachers by declamation,poster making and slogan writing.National Teachers' Day was celebratedby the NSS Unit of DAV College, inwhich the students greeted their teachersby declamation, poster making andslogan writing.On this occasion, PrincipalDr. S. K. Arora thanked the students ofNSS Unit and College for organizingTeacher's Day. On this occasion, NSSCoordinator Prof. S. K. Middha said thatthe NSS unit organizes Teachers' Dayevery year in the college, but this yeardue to Covid 19, we organized it online.During this program, Dr. Sahib Singh, Dr.Komal Arora, Dr. Gurjit Kaur, Prof.Monika Arora praised the students forthis event and thanked them.

One held for fraudRAMAN WADHWABARARA: In a case of fraud registered atThana Barara, the police arrested theaccused Ravinder Kumar alias Nankuresident of village Talhedi Rangran andreleased him on bail. In connection withthis case, the complainant Gurdeep Singhof village Talheri Rangran lodged acomplaint at Thana Barara on 4 March2020 that after the death of a woman inher village on 18 January 2019, theaccused Ravinder Kumar alias Nanku hascommitted the fraud of taking Pensionfrom the Postal Department in the nameof the deceased woman with the help ofanother accused Harish Kumar Sarpanch,from the month of January 2019 to themonth of August 2019. On this complaint,the police registered a case and startedproceedings.

One arrested withillicit liquorBARARA: Saha police have succeededin apprehending a person with illicitliquor. According to the informationreceived, Saha police was checking thevehicles crossing from Saha chowk,when the accused Gaurav resident ofSaha was caught carrying 12 bottles ofcountry liquor bearing mark 'RaseelaSantra' in a plastic bag. He did not haveany license or permit. The police haveregistered a case against the accusedand started investigation.

Apeejay College getsNational BuilderAward 2020JALANDHAR: Dr. Sunit Kaur, Head ofDepartment of English at ApeejayCollege of Fine Arts, Jalandhar has beenbestowed with Nation Builder Award2020 by Rotary Club, Jalandhar West.She has been presented with thiscovetous honour for her services inDepartment of Teaching from the past 32years. Principal Dr. Sucharita Sharmacongratulated her for this achievementand expressed that she believes infuture too Dr. Sunit Kaur will keepextending her best services and keepenlightening students. Dr. Sunit Kaur putforth that current time is challenging andin this era we cannot stick to thetraditional methods of teaching.

India's Covid-19 infection tally crosses42 lakh, over 32.5 lakh recovered so far AGENCYNEW DELHI, SEP 7

India's COVID-19 tally of caseswent past 42 lakh with a record90,802 people being infected ina day, while 32,50,429 peoplehave recuperated so far, pushingthe national recovery rate to77.30 per cent on Monday,according to the Union HealthMinistry data.

The total number ofcoronavirus cases mounted to42,04,613, while the death tollclimbed to 71,642 with 1,016fatalities being reported in aspan of 24 hours, the dataupdated at 8 am showed.

The COVID-19 case fatalityrate has further declined to 1.70per cent. There are 8,82,542active cases of the infection inthe country which comprises20.99 per cent of the totalcaseload, the data stated.

India's COVID-19 tally hadcrossed the 20-lakh mark onAugust 7, 30 lakh on August 23and it went past 40 lakh onSeptember 5.

According to the ICMR, acumulative total of 4,95,51,507samples have been tested up toSeptember 6 with 7,20,362samples being tested on Sunday.

Of the 1,016 fresh deaths,328 are from Maharashtra, 95from Karnataka, 88 from Tamil

Nadu, 77 from Uttar Pradesh,70 from Andhra Pradesh, 54from Punjab, 52 from WestBengal, 29 each from Delhi andMadhya Pradesh, 25 fromHaryana, 24 from Chhattisgarhand 16 from Puducherry.

Fifteen fatalities have beenreported each from Bihar andRajasthan, 14 each from Gujarat

and Jammu and Kashmir, 10from Kerala, 11 fromUttarakhand, nine fromTelangana, eight each fromAssam and Odisha, seven eachfrom Jharkhand and Goa, fivefrom Tripura, two each fromChandigarh and Manipur, oneeach from Himachal Pradeshand Meghalaya.

Of the total 71,642 deaths,Maharashtra has reported themaximum at 26,604 followedby 7,836 in Tamil Nadu, 6,393in Karnataka, 4,567 in Delhi,4,417 in Andhra Pradesh, 3,920in Uttar Pradesh, 3,562 in WestBengal, 3,105 in Gujarat and1,862 in Punjab.

So far, 1,572 people havedied of COVID-19 in MadhyaPradesh, 1,137 in Rajasthan,895 in Telangana, 806 inHaryana, 784 in Jammu andKashmir, 750 in Bihar, 546 inOdisha, 469 in Jharkhand, 380in Chhattisgarh, 360 in Assam,347 in Kerala and 341 inUttarakhand. Puducherry hasregistered 314 fatalities, Goa236, Tripura 149, Chandigarh71, Himachal Pradesh 55,Andaman and Nicobar Islands50, Manipur 38, Ladakh 35,Meghalaya 16, Nagaland 10,Arunachal Pradesh eight,Sikkim five and Dadra andNagar Haveli and Daman andDiu two. The health ministrystressed that more than 70 percent of the deaths occurred dueto comorbidities. "Our figuresare being reconciled with theIndian Council of MedicalResearch," the ministry said onits website, adding that state-wise distribution of figures issubject to further verificationand reconciliation.

Rajasthan reports 722 new casesJAIPUR: A total of 722 new COVID-19 cases were reported inRajasthan today till 10:30 am. "The total number of positivecases in the state is now 91,678 including 74,821 recoveries,15,562 active cases and 1,147 deaths," Rajasthan HealthDepartment said. India's COVID-19 case tally crossed the 42lakh-mark with a spike of 90,802 new cases in the last 24 hours."A total of 1,016 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours. Thetotal case tally stands at 42,04,614 including 8,82,542 activecases, 32,50,429 cured/discharged/migrated and 71,642 deaths,"the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said.

Delhi Metro resumes serviceswith strict safety measures

NEW DELHI, SEP 7

The Delhi Metro resumed serviceswith curtailed operations on theYellow Line on Monday afterbeing closed for over five monthsdue to the COVID-19 pandemic,as both the DMRC and thecommuters trod with caution amidthe new normal in the rapidtransport system.

The trains will operate inbatches of four-hour each from 7-11 am in the morning and 4-8 pmin the evening, officials said.

The services resumed at 7 amwith strict safety and socialdistancing measures in place. Thefirst trains left from SamaypurBadli station to HUDA CityCentre station and simultaneouslyfrom HUDA City Centre toSamaypur Badli, a senior officialof DMRC said.

"We are on our way. It's been169 days since we've seen you!Travel responsibly and commuteif it's only necessary.

#MetroBackOnTrack," theDMRC tweeted and posted avideo clip of the first train leavingHUDA City Centre

No stations on the YellowLine were closed as none is inproximity to any containmentzone, the official said.

As the day began, some riderswearing protective masks wereseen entering the premises of keystations like Kashmere Gate andHauz Khas on the Yellow Line,which connects Samyapur Badliin Delhi to HUDA City Centre inGurgaon.

"A few happy faces from ourfirst journey after more than 5months. #MetroBackOnTrack,"the DMRC said in another tweetand posted pictures of somecommuters wearing masks insidetrain coaches.

On the station premises,passengers were permitted toenter the concourse only aftertemperature checks with thermalguns and sanitisation of hands.

Yogi inaugurates new COVID-19hospital in Gorakhpur

GORAKHPUR, SEP 7

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanathon Monday inaugurated a 300-bed COVID-19hospital at BRD Medical College here. Thestate government-run medical college alreadyhas 200 beds at the super-speciality blockdedicated to COVID-19 patients. Adityanathtold reporters that there was "no dearth of bedsfor coronavirus patients" and said that the stategovernment was determined to defeat thevirus. The chief minister also inaugurated a

bio-safety 'level -3' lab (BSL -3), 100 beds PGhostel and a guest house on the occasion. Heinspected the help desk, the isolation ward andthe ICU at the new COVID hospital and heldmeetings with MP Ravi Kishan, mayor SitaramJaiswal and the medical college principalGanesh Kumar. "The new hospital has thefacility of 50 high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC)machines and 65 ventilators. HFNC machineshave given good results all over the world andwe'll provide more HFNC machines as perrequirement, he said.

AGENCYNEW DELHI, SEP 7

The Centre and State governmentswill have to increase investment inresearch and innovation, saidPresident Ram Nath Kovind onMonday. "It is seen that investment inresearch and innovation in America is2.8 per cent of the GDP, in SouthKorea, it is 4.2 per cent, and 4.3 percent in Israel, while in India it is just0.7 per cent. To speed up a bigeconomy like India, it is important toensure knowledge creation andencourage research. The Centre andState governments will have toincrease the percentage of investmentin research and innovation," thePresident said.

President Kovind along withPrime Minister Narendra Modi,Education Minister RameshPokhriyal among others participated

in the Governor's Conference onNational Education Policy via videoconference. The President also saidthat establishing higher-educationinstitutes in "aspirational districtsand special education zones" will bea big step in providing access toeducation to the underprivilegedsections of the society. "The target isto set up a multi-disciplinary highereducation institution by 2030 in eachdistrict or near them in the deprivedareas. Many steps will be needed tobe taken at the State governmentlevel for this," the President said.

Centre, States will have to increaseinvestment in innovation: Kovind

Sushant case: NCB arrests one moreperson for alleged drug peddling

MUMBAI, SEP 7

The Narcotics ControlBureau (NCB) has arrestedone more person AnujKeswani for alleged drugpeddling in connectionwith the probe into thedeath of actor SushantSingh Rajput. Keswani wasarrested after theinterrogation of KaizenIbrahim, also an allegeddrug peddler who wasarrested last week.Keswani is set to beproduced in the courttoday. Ibrahim haddisclosed that Keshwaniwas his supplier for thecontrabands. The MumbaiZonal Unit, NCB hadyesterday conducted a raidin which drugs including590 grams of hashish, 0.64grams of LSD sheets, 304grams of marijuana, alongwith foreign currency wereseized. Keshwani wasunder examination by the

NCB during the raid.Meanwhile, RheaChakraborty, Sushant'sgirlfriend appeared beforethe NCB here again a dayafter she was grilled by theagency for over six hoursin connection with theactor's death case. Earlierthis month the EsplanadeCourt had sent actor RheaChakraborty's brotherShowik and her associateSamuel Miranda, who werearrested under the NarcoticDrugs and PsychotropicSubstances (NDPS) Act ina case related to actorSushant Singh Rajput'sdeath, to the NCB custodytill September 9.

Join 'Poshan Maah 2020' topromote nutrition among

children, women: JP NaddaNEW DELHI, SEP 7

Centre is moving towards nurturing children andpregnant women through a nutrition campaign, saidBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President JP Nadda,urging everyone to join "Poshan Maah 2020"starting from Monday. Nadda in a tweet wrote,(roughly translated from Hindi), "Yatha AnnamTatha Mannam--By making PM Modi Ji's Mann KiBaat the basic mantra, the government is moving

towards nurturing children andpregnant women through anutrition campaign. Join#POSHANMaah2020 startingtoday and get a healthy life byadopting a nutritious diet." "Myappeal to all citizens duringnutrition month 2020 is to sharethe recipe of nutritious Indian

cuisine of their region or family athttps://innovate.mygov.in/poshanrecipe. Entriessent by you will be linked to the database of theIndian Nutrition Agricultural Fund," he added.According to the Government of India, The PrimeMinister's Overarching Scheme for HolisticNutrition or POSHAN Abhiyaan or NationalNutrition Mission is the Government of India'sflagship programme to improve nutritionaloutcomes for children.

Health teams to protect against corona, samplesof food items taken from various shops

RENU AGGARWALAMBALA, SEP 7

Acting on the orders of the Food andDrug Administration Department,Food safety Officer Dr. GauravSharma and his team located inAmbala today took samples fromplaces like cold stores, foodprocessing factories, Dairy farms,Sweet Shops, Departmental stores,Grocery shops, Fruit & Vegetableshops etc. Many such places werechecked randomly. During inspection,samples of food items were taken andsent to the Food Laboratory, Karnalfor examination under the Food Safetyand Standards Act, 2006. Duringinspection, the food items which were

not edible, were destroyed and all theshopkeepers were instructed to keepall food items covered and not to sellthe chopped fruits, to keep the sweetscovered, to keep the vegetables andfruits away from mud, dust and flies.If any shopkeeper is found sellingfoods kept in the open, chopped fruits,rotten and contaminated foods, thenall those food items will be destroyed.During the inspection, all the foodtraders were informed in the publicinterest that food safety and standards(prohibition and prohibition on sale)rules made under the Food Safety andStandards Act-2006 under theDepartment of Food and Medicinemust be follwed strictly keeping theCovid-19 epidemic in view.

8YOU'RE ONLY HERE FOR A SHORT VISIT. DON'T

HURRY, DON'T WORRY. AND BE SURE TO SMELLTHE FLOWERS ALONG THE WAY.

WALTER HAGEN

A FAMILY CAN DEVELOP ONLY WITH A LOVINGWOMAN AS ITS CENTER.

KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

The war on Coronavirus, which Prime MinisterNarendra Modi had promised to win for us in 21days, gets more hopeless by the day with the dai-

ly increase in caseload crossing 90,000, a figure higherthan all other nations. India added the last million to thenumber of infected people in 13 days, a record of sortsin pandemic history the world over. With 41 lakh infec-tions, India is set to become the nation with the secondlargest number of Covid-19 patients, overtaking Brazilsoon. The nature of the pandemic has also been shifting.Those states which fared better in early stages are nowbecoming increasingly vulnerable. The southern statesof Telangana state, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu andKarnataka see no let-up in new cases; even Kerala hasstarted reporting cases upwards of 2,500 every day. Del-hi is reported to be witnessing a relapse with the num-bers increasing. Telangana state’s finance minister is thelatest high-profile person to contract the virus.The saving grace till now has been the case fatality ratewhich has been quite low but experts fear that the situa-tion could change as the pandemic moves towards thevillages from cities and towns where the health infra-structure is in better shape. It is in this context that thecriticism of Congress leader and former finance minis-ter P. Chidambaram must be looked at. He has pointedout that India is the only country that has not benefitedfrom the lockdown. When lockdown was declared, Indiahad less than 500 cases but the number rose to 5.6 lakhwhen it ended on June 30. The economic cost the nationis made to pay is going to be humongous if it cannot ar-rest the spread of the pandemic. The nation’s GDP ex-perienced a historic contraction by 23.9 per cent in thefirst quarter. It will be cold comfort to think that the pe-riod was spent mostly in lockdown. This quarter, whichstarted with half-a-million infections, will see the num-ber multiplied several times when it ends. It is time thegovernment explained to the people what its game planwas when it declared the lockdown and set a deadline towin the war, and how it all went awry. The lockdown hadnot only shut down the economy completely, it had alsoput people to untold miseries. Millions of guest workerswere made to trek their way back home in villages fromthe towns and cities and several of them fell and died bythe wayside. There was little help coming from the gov-ernment; even the courts refused to see the unfoldinghuman catastrophe in the earlier days. It will be suicidalfor the nation to return to lockdown; instead, it mustlaunch a massive awareness campaign on the pandemicand educate the people on the need of social distancing.

No more slogans please,we need hard measures

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Editorial

Literature & HealthCellular roadmaps project body'scoronavirus vulnerability: Study

Arecent research from Cornell Uni-versity developed potentialroadmaps for how the coronavirus

infects organs and identifies what molec-ular factors could help to facilitate or re-strict infection. "The data suggest thatCOVID-19 is not just a respiratory dis-ease," said lead author Cedric Feschotte,a molecular biology professor. "It's muchbroader than that and has the potential toaffect many other organs. Our analysessuggest that there is a widerange of cellular vulnerabili-ties."

The study maps the ex-pression of 28 human genesdubbed 'SCARFs' - SARS-Cov-2 and Coronavirus-Asso-ciated Receptors and Factors.By looking at the single-cellRNA expression of thesegenes, they can predict whichtissues and cell types are mostvulnerable to coronavirus in-fection - in both adults andembryos.

The team analysed the RNA expres-sion of healthy human tissues to developa comprehensive profile of the molecularfactors that both facilitate and restrictSARS-CoV2 infection.

Without the immune system's abilityto respond quickly, Feschotte said, natu-rally occurring restriction factors alreadypresent in the tissues represent the body'smain line of defense against SARS-CoV-2. Mapping the different entry points for

the virus also is essential for trying to pre-dict where the virus will go after it entersthe body. Moreover, by pinpointing themolecular routes of infection, other re-searchers can use those areas as targetsfor developing drugs to overcome the in-fection. The study indicates alternate en-try paths for how the virus could enter thelungs, central nervous system, and heart.Their research also supports emergingclinical data that shows SARS-CoV-2

also infects the intestines, kidney, andplacenta. They noted that specific groupsof cells within the prostate and testes arelikely to be permissive for SARS-CoV-2and may help explain male-specific vul-nerabilities. As part of this project, theteam also developed an open-access,user-friendly web interface where anyonecan look up the single-cell RNA expres-sions of SCARFs. This will facilitate easyaccess to data that will help scientistsaround the world.

COVID-19 patients cansuffer long-term lungand heart damage but,

for many, this tends to im-prove over time, according tothe first, prospective follow-up of patients infected withthe coronavirus, presented atthe European Respiratory So-ciety International Congress.

Researchers in theCOVID-19 'hot spot' in theTyrolean region of Austria re-cruited consecutive coron-avirus patients to their study,who were hospitalised at theUniversity Clinic of InternalMedicine in Innsbruck, the StVinzenz Hospital in Zams orthe cardio-pulmonary reha-bilitation centre in Munster,Austria. In their presentationto the virtual congress, theyreported on the first 86 pa-tients enrolled between 29April and 9 June, althoughnow they have over 150 pa-tients participating.

The patients were sched-uled to return for evaluationsix, 12 and 24 weeks aftertheir discharge from hospital.During these visits, clinicalexaminations, laboratorytests, analysis of the amountsof oxygen and carbon dioxidein arterial blood, lung func-tion tests, computed tomogra-phy (CT) scans and echocar-diograms were carried out.

At the time of their firstvisit, more than half of the pa-tients had at least one persist-ent symptom, predominantlybreathlessness and coughing,

and CT scans still showedlung damage in 88% of pa-tients. However, by the timeof their next visit 12 weeksafter discharge, the symptomshad improved and lung dam-age was reduced to 56%. Atthis stage, it is too early tohave resulted from the evalu-ations at 24 weeks.

"The bad news is thatpeople show lung impairmentfrom COVID-19 weeks afterdischarge; the good news isthat the impairment tends toameliorate over time, whichsuggests the lungs have amechanism for repairingthemselves," said Dr SabinaSahanic, who is a clinicalPhD student at the UniversityClinic in Innsbruck and part

of the team that carried outthe study, which includes As-sociate Professor IvanTancevski, Professor JudithLoffler-Ragg and Dr ThomasSonnweber in Innsbruck.

The average age of the 86patients included in this pres-entation was 61 and 65% ofthem were male. Nearly halfof them were current or for-mer smokers and 65% of hos-pitalised COVID-19 patientswere overweight or obese.Eighteen (21%) had been inan intensive care unit (ICU),16 (19%) had had invasivemechanical ventilation, andthe average length of stay inhospital was 13 days.

A total of 56 patients(65%) showed persistent

symptoms at the time of theirsix-week visit; breathlessness(dyspnoea) was the mostcommon symptom (40 pa-tients, 47%), followed bycoughing (13 patients, 15%).By the 12-week visit, breath-lessness had improved andwas present in 31 patients(39%); however, 13 patients(15%) were still coughing

Tests of lung function in-cluded FEV1 (the amount ofair that can be expelledforcibly in one second), FVC(the total volume of air ex-pelled forcibly), and DLCO(a test to measure how welloxygen passes from the lungsinto the blood). These meas-urements also improved be-tween the visits at six and 12

weeks. At six weeks, 20 pa-tients (23%) showed FEV1 asless than 80% of normal, im-proving to 18 patients (21%)at 12 weeks, 24 patients(28%) showed FVC as lessthan 80% of normal, improv-ing to 16 patients (19%) at 12weeks, and 28 patients (33%)showed DLCO as less than80% of normal, improving to19 patients (22%) at 12weeks.

The CT scans showedthat the score that defines theseverity of overall lung dam-age decreased from eightpoints at six weeks to fourpoints at twelve weeks. Dam-age from inflammation andfluid in the lungs caused bythe coronavirus, which showsup on CT scans as whitepatches known as 'ground-glass', also improved; it waspresent in 74 patients (88%)at six weeks and 48 patients(56%) at 12 weeks.

At the six-week visit, theechocardiograms showed that48 patients (58.5%) had dys-function of the left ventricleof the heart at the point whenit is relaxing and dilating (di-astole). Biological indicatorsof heart damage, blood clotsand inflammation were allsignificantly elevated.

Dr Sahanic said: "We donot believe left ventricular di-astolic dysfunction is specificto COVID-19, but more asign of the severity of the dis-ease in general. Fortunately,in the Innsbruck cohort, we

did not observe any severecoronavirus-associated heartdysfunction in the post-acutephase. The diastolic dysfunc-tion that we observed alsotended to improve with time."

She concluded: "Thefindings from this study showthe importance of implement-ing structured follow-up carefor patients with severeCOVID-19 infection. Impor-tantly, CT unveiled lung dam-age in this patient group thatwas not identified by lungfunction tests. Knowing howpatients have been affectedlong-term by the coronavirusmight enable symptoms andlung damage to be treatedmuch earlier and might havea significant impact on fur-ther medical recommenda-tions and advice."

In a second poster presen-tation to the Congress, MsYara Al Chikhanie, a PhDstudent at the Dieulefit Santeclinic for pulmonary rehabili-tation and the Hp2 Lab at theGrenoble Alps University,France, said that the soonerCOVID-19 patients started apulmonary rehabilitation pro-gramme after coming off ven-tilators, the better and fastertheir recovery.

Patients with severeCOVID-19 can spend weeksin intensive care on ventila-tors. The lack of physicalmovement, on top of the se-vere infection and inflamma-tion, leads to severe muscleloss.

Covid patients can improvelungs, heart with time

While a potential linkbetween blood pres-sure drugs and can-

cer has been debated for morethan 40 years, the findings ofa breakthrough study re-vealed that there is no evi-dence that blood pressure-lowering drugs increase therisk of cancer.

The late-breaking re-search is presented at ESCCongress 2020. "Our resultsshould reassure the publicabout the safety of antihyper-tensive drugs with respect tocancer, which is of para-mount importance given theirproven benefit for protectingagainst heart attacks andstrokes," said study author

Emma Copland, an epidemi-ologist at the University ofOxford, UK.

The evidence for an in-creased or decreased risk ofcancer with the use of antihy-pertensive medication hasbeen inconsistent and con-

flicting. This was the largeststudy on cancer outcomes inparticipants of randomisedtrials investigating antihyper-tensive medication - around260,000 people in 31 trials.Investigators of all trials wereasked for information on

which participants developedcancer. Much of this informa-tion has not been publishedbefore, making the currentanalysis the most detailedyet. Five antihypertensivedrug classes were investigat-ed separately: angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) in-hibitors, angiotensin II recep-tor blockers (ARBs), beta-blockers, calcium channelblockers (CCBs), and diuret-ics. The investigators esti-mated the effect of each drugclass on the risk of develop-ing any type of cancer, of dy-ing from cancer, and of de-veloping breast, colorectal,lung, prostate and skin cancers.

No link between blood pressuremedication and cancer

Alot has been deliberatedon the transformativepotential of the recent-

ly issued National EducationPolicy (NEP). The policy thathas stood out for introducingsweeping changes in schooland higher education is a boonfor Telangana where it willimprove learning outcomes,especially for socially andeconomically vulnerable stu-dents. It is important to under-stand the performance ofTelangana in education. Theperformance grading indexused by the ministry of educa-tion ranks Telangana at 17 outof the 37 states and Union ter-ritories in 2018-19. The broad-based metrics included learn-

ing outcomes and quality, ac-cess, equity, infrastructure andfacilities, and governanceprocesses. Telangana wasranked 30th in infrastructureand facilities and 20th in ac-cess. It also performed below-par in two other parameters —learning outcomes and quality,and access to education. The

National AchievementSurvey, conducted byNCERT, too, revealedthat the performance ofTelangana students fromclasses five to eight aspoorer in comparison tostudents from othersouthern states. Even theComptroller and AuditorGeneral in its audit re-

port in 2018 pulled up Telan-gana, where 14-26 per cent ofprimary school students and21-47 per cent of upper pri-mary school students scoredless than 40 per cent between2014 and 2017. It is thus im-perative for Telangana, whichis financially well endowed, toimplement the NEP. The NEP

understands the critical impor-tance of good quality child-hood care and education(ECCE).

Experts believe that over 85per cent of a child’s cumula-tive brain development occursprior to the age of six.Bybringing ECCE to the centreof education with an explicitfocus on building foundation-al and numerical skills forevery child by end of Grade 3,a quantum improvement inlearning outcomes is expected.The NEP also aims for a holis-tic, comprehensive educationas it breaks down prevailinginsularity by introducing the5+3+4+4 system of school ed-ucation.

NEP presents Telangana withopportunity to course-correct

Let Me Not ForgetIf it is not my portion to meetthee in this life

then let me ever feel that I havemissed thy sight

---let me not forget for amoment,

let me carry the pangs of thissorrow in my dreams

and in my wakeful hours.

As my days pass in the crowded market of this world

and my hands grow full with the daily profits,

let me ever feel that I have gained nothing

---let me not forget for a moment,

let me carry the pangs of this sorrow in my dreams

and in my wakeful hours.

When I sit by the roadside, tired and panting,

when I spread my bed low in the dust,

let me ever feel that the long journey is still beforeme

---let me not forget a moment,

let me carry the pangs of this sorrow in my dreams

and in my wakeful hours.

When my rooms have been decked out and theflutes sound

and the laughter there is loud,

let me ever feel that I have not invited thee to myhouse

---let me not forget for a moment,

let me carry the pangs of this sorrow in my dreams

and in my wakeful hours

POEMS

(By: Rabindranath Tagore)

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Researchers have foundthat Keto diets and in-termittent fasting may

affect cardiovascular health.But Mediterranean diets andwhole food plant-based dietswhich include fruits, vegeta-bles, legumes, nuts, and wholegrains may prevent cardiovas-cular problems, they suggest-ed. "With diets like keto andintermittent fasting, social andpopular media has been flood-ed with claims, promises andwarnings that are at best un-verified and at worst harmfulto your health," said.

Andrew Freeman, MD,director of cardiovascular pre-vention and wellness at Na-tional Jewish Health and co-author of the study said, "Di-ets recommended by healthexperts, such as plant-basedand Mediterranean diets, havebeen extensively studied forsafety and efficacy, anddemonstrated conclusively toimprove cardiovascularhealth." Keto is a very lowcarbohydrate dietary approachthat sends the body into keto-sis, a metabolic state in whichit has reduced access to glu-cose and is instead mostly fu-elled by fat. While the limitedstudy of the keto diet showsthose who follow it initiallylose weight, it tends not to be

sustainable according to 12-month data. It is also unclearwhether the weight loss iscaused by ketosis or simply bycalorie restriction. Re-searchers also have concernsabout the type and amount offat consumed by those follow-ing a keto diet. While existingstudies strictly controlled thetype of fat and foods partici-pants consumed, many whotry keto consume highamounts of unhealthy saturat-ed fat, which is associatedwith an increased risk of heartdisease and high lipid levels inthe blood. There is also evi-dence that eating a keto dietfor an extended period of time

may lead to stiffening of thearteries, and several studiesfound that those who eat aketo diet have a greater risk ofdeath. Keto does, however,show promise as a potentialtreatment for diabetes, withstudies showing improvedglucose levels, as well as low-er fasting glucose and insulinlevels in mice fed a keto diet.Further research is needed toconfirm these benefits and as-sess risk before keto is clini-cally recommended. Re-searchers are also optimisticabout the potential health ben-efits of intermittent fasting butare concerned about possiblepitfalls.

Keto diets, intermittent fasting

HANDIGARH:Tata Motors proudly joins the global #WorldEVDay movement to celebrate the shift to sustainable Croad transport and a zero-emissions future. Scheduled to be

inaugurated on September 9th, the #WorldEVDay will be celebrated every year to encourage current and prospective drivers of electric vehicles, local transport authorities and fleet operators to recognize the vital role they play in enabling a truly sustainable transport ecosystem. Launched in conjunction with the Swedish-Swiss firm ABB and sustainability media company Green.TV, Tata Motors is one of the founding partners for the #WorldEVDay.Commenting on the partnership, Mr. Shailesh Chandra, President, Passenger Vehicle Business Unit, Tata Motors said“India has seen a significant rise in the momentum towards EVs in the past several months and we at Tata Motors are proud to be one of the frontrunners in driving EVs adoption here. We are not only offering aspirational and accessible electric vehicles, but are also creating a holistic e-Mobility ecosystem that addresses barriers to EV adoption. We are delighted to join this global #WorldEVDay movementto propagate the dynamic role e-mobility plays in a sustainable and zero emission future” Commenting on the partnership Ade Thomas, Founder of Green.

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MOHALI: “Even as headache is a very common problem, the people usually seek medical attention when their headaches become recurrent and present as an acute catastrophic event.”Dr. Swati Garg, consultant-Neurology at Ivy Hospital, Mohali while addressing a virtual health session on ‘Headache- dos and don'ts’ said that headache is classified into primary and secondary headaches. The primary headaches are much more common than secondary headaches. Secondary headaches contain certain red flags that should be investigated as it’s always has a hidden cause, she pointed out.The common primary headaches are migraine, tension-type headache, cluster headache.

Secondary headaches contain red flags, need investigation: Expert

handigarh: Remember the first time you got to add Piri Piri seasoning into a bag full of fries or Chicken McNuggets and shake it? The first Ctime you tried a spiced-up version of your favourite fries and it left you

craving for more? Well! To shake things up a little, the country’s most loved restaurant brand McDonald’s India - North & East has brought back Piri Piri seasoning with its World Famous French Fries and Chicken McNuggets at an

add-on price of just Rs. 20*, al-a-carte or EVM. Customers can upgrade their Fries or Chicken McNuggets with Piri Piri seasoning that comes in a separate pack along with a Shake Shake paper bag. Customers can

simply pour the seasoning in the Shake Shake bag of fries or McNuggets; shake up the mix to enjoy a lip smacking play of spices. “We are excited to bring back one of the most popular and irresistible menu items for our customers and give them a sense of familiarity as well as excitement. By spicing up our menu with Piri Piri Fries and Chicken McNuggets, we hope to offer customers a sense of comfort as well as satisfy their cravings with a new variant of a much loved product,” says, Robert Hunghanfoo, Head, CPRL (Connaught Plaza Restaurants Pvt. Ltd. operates McDonald’s restaurants in North and East India).

The Pesticides Management Bill 2020needs review before clearance

HDFC Bank adopts single team approach to drive innovations

McDonald’s adds Piri Piri seasoning to spice up its World Famous Fries

CHANDIGARH : The Pesticides Management Bill 2020 (PMB) was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on 23 March 2020 to replace The Insecticides Act 1968, which currently governs the registration, manufacturing, export, sale and use of pesticides in India. While PMB is noble in intent, its many lacunae could end up hurting the interests of farmers and Indian agriculture. In 2019-20, for the first time, Punjab was no longer the largest wheat contributor to the central pool as MP delivered the highest quantity for a single season by any state. The production of food grains have also decreased in the last year from 31.69 Million Tons in 2017-18 to 31.52 Million Tons in 2018-19 (Source: Directorate of Economics & Statistics, DAC&FW). The incidence of indebtedness of marginal agricultural farmers in the state stands at 46.2% as per the Agricultural Statistics 2019 released by Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare. As it is, depleting groundwater levels is a major concern for the state, certain provisions of the The Pesticides Management Bill 2020 (PMB) shall exert a far-reaching impact not just on Indian agriculture but on farmers' livelihoods.

odafone Idea has revealed its new integrated brand identity – Vi (read as ‘We'), using just the Vinitials of both Vodafone and Idea. It is now

shorter, simpler, and references both brands. The development was shared during a virtual conference that was livestreamed, revealing the new brand that has been designed for the digital era. After two years of the Vodafone and Idea merger that took place on August 31, 2018, and the new Vi brand emphasises the final stage of the integration. The new branding has been updated on the website and app, and will make its way to all products including SIM cards, bills, billboards, and more.Ravinder Takkar, MD and CEO at Vodafone Idea Limited, said, “Vodafone Idea came together as a merged entity two years ago. We have since then focusses on integrating two large networks, our people, and processes. And today I am delighted to present Vi, an brand that will bring important meaning to lives of our customers. Indians are optimistic and want to get ahead in life. They would love a credible partner to help them on this journey. Vi's positioning is built around this promise and will focus on meeting the customer needs to help them thrive.”

HANDIGARH: With an aim to speed up product innovation, the largest private sector lender HDFC BANK Chas started creating dedicated teams by taking executives

from various business functions to execute different projects. There are nearly a dozen such 'agile pod teams' having up to 40 members each drawn from across the hierarchy and various relevant business functions or departments to drive a project, sources said. This approach has so far delivered three projects - instant account opening, biometric know your customer (KYC) and fixed deposit renewals over a call, adding over 10 other projects are already in the works. Earlier, innovation proposals used to move from one department to another which was a time-consuming process, they said, adding under the new approach adopted as part of the 'One Bank' vision, the teams sit together. Strategic areas where innovative interventions need to be adopted are already outlined in broader areas like digital banking, customer relationship management, instant loans etc, and these teams sit together to conceptualise and execute the specifics. Decision making becomes quicker because the team sits together for a project and the ongoing pandemic has necessitated a need to look at more solutions. "The pandemic and the lockdown has hastened the need to evaluate and execute with agility," said one of the sources, citing the experience with the insta-account opening feature, where it was able to add 3 lakh customers despite the lockdowns. The pod team consists of executives from branch banking, information technology and digital banking functions, and the bank was able to launch the feature within 12 days from concept to execution.

on’ble Dy. CM Haryana Sh. Dushyant Chautala Ji released/ launched Surahi, A book containing Shayris Hwritten by Sh. Gulab Singh Narwal, Member

Irrigation, BBMB on 5 September Teachers day at Haryana Niwas Chandigarh . Also present madam keshni Anand Arora chief secretary Haryana. Thanks

handigarh:Luminous Power Technologies, a powerful and trustworthy brand with a wide range of innovative Cproducts in the power backup, home electrical and

residential solar space marks successful 10 years of brilliant association with cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar. The brand has released 2 digital films to celebrate this partnership with a promise of more prosperous years to come. In one of the digital films, Sachin talks about his philosophy that victory or success does not belong to an individual but instead belongs to the whole team and this same philosophy played a role in the success of his decade long journey with brand Luminous. The video showcases the journey that Sachin and Luminous have embarked upon together while also highlighting the milestones they have ach ieved toge ther as the brand evolved f rom ‘JispeDeshkareBharosa’ to ‘KhushiyonkaGhar’.Another short film unveiled on the occasion shows a mutual respect and gratitude for the long lasting and solid partnership between Sachin Tendulkar and the brand Luminous as the Luminous team thanks the legend holding hand written 'Thank you’ placards for Sachin and his continued support helping the brand enhance its credibility, for encouraging thousands to trust the brand, and for always believing in the brand’s values.

Tata Motors joins the Global #WorldEVDay Movement to celebrate e-Mobility

Celebrating Teachers Pioneering Online EducationCHANDIGARH: Harappa Education, India’s pioneering online learning institution, has launched the second phase of their digital initiative Habit Heroes to celebrate Teachers’ Day. Through this initiative, Harappa will recognize and honor pioneering educators who have embraced change and made a spirited shift to teaching online. Shreyasi Singh, Founder & CEO, Harappa Education said, “At Harappa, we’re so grateful to our expert faculty; and teachers across schools and colleges, who help students learn, grow and realize their potential. This Teachers’ Day is even more special, given how much teachers have had to take on. The intensity with which they have had to adapt and embrace change has awed and humbled us. With this initiative, we want to thank teachers across the country for their contribution to our lives, today and always.” Few things have been as disrupted as schools and colleges due to the pandemic.

espite the ongoing difficult times a small function to honour the teachers was held at St. Soldier 's Mohali. DIt started with a speech by Principal Ms. Anjli Sharma

complimenting the teachers of the school for their efforts in providing the right education to their students. She also applauded them for their promptness in learning to use technology and various video conferencing apps for successfully conducting their Online Classes . Chairman S. Karnail Singh Brar honoured the teachers with awards for their outstanding and meticulous work during the last session. 7 teachers were also felicitated for the completion of their 10 years meritorious service in the school.

tate Bank of India, Stressed Assets Management Branch, Sector 8-C, Chandigarh Branch has taken an initiative for a social cause by organizing a campaign "JOY OF SGIVING- DAAN UTSAV" for the month of September 2020. Sh. Bharat Bhushan

Kakkar (Dy. General Manager) alongwith Sh. Surjeet Kaushal (AGM) & Sh. Rajeev Madaan Chief Manager (Admin), Sh. Ravinder Siddhu (Dy. Manager), Sh. V.K. Karwal

(AGM), Sh. Yashpal (AGM), Sh. Mohit Kapoor (Chief Manager) and Sh. Rajesh Malik (CM Law) and other staff members donated generously their reusable clothes, utensils, bed sheets, shawls, blankets, footwears, old papers etc. which will be further distributed to needy persons affected by COVID-19 and other natural calamities. NGO "Goonj"

Foundation is collaborating with SBI to channelize the distribution. Launching the campaign, Sh. Bharat Bhushan Kakkar Dy. General Manager told that this initiative is primarily conceptualized by Stressed Assets Resolution Group of SBI at Corporate Centre Mumbai. He also added that besides focusing on theirs main agenda of recovery, this time they have decided to venture out of this genuine social cause in the wake of this ongoing Pandemic situation. All staff members of SBI have always supported the country by helping the needy people in every natural calamity and this time whole world is under COVID-19 and he further added that it was an honour to stand with the country by helping the needy ones and thanked for all the support of the staff to make it possible.

SBI launches "Joy of utsav"

handigarh : Samsung, India’s biggest and most trusted Cconsumer electronics brand,

today launched four new models of its extremely popular Curd Maestro Refrigeratorsin larger capacities as consumers look to upsize and buyrefrigerators with higher storage capacity.Curd Maestro, the world’s first refrigerators that can make curd,will now be available in 386litre and 407litrecapacities, and come with Samsung’s proprietary innovations such as Convertible 5-in-1 Technology, Twin Cooling Plus, Digital Inverter Technology and Stabilizer Free Operation making them energy efficient.The new models of Double Door Frost Free Curd Maestro Refrigerators alsocome with a stainlesssteel curd container. The Curd Maestro range of refrigerators are part of Samsung’s ‘Make for India’ innovations, and are a result of the company’s deep understanding of Indian consumers’ needs over the years.

Samsung Expands its Range of Curd Maestro Refrigerators with

New Higher Capacity Models

Luminous Power Technologies celebrates a decade long association with the cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar

Tandon continues monthly ration kits distribution to needy widows

handigarh, The ninth Monthly Ration Distribution program was organized Cby Balramji Dass Tandon Charitable

Foundation wherein 1 month ration kits were distributed to 45 Widows at their doorsteps. This scheme was started by Sanjay Tandon, President, Balramji Dass Tandon Charitable Foundation in which rations to needy widows is provided on first Sunday of every month. The program continues even during the lockdown period and Immunity Booster Homeopathic Medicines were also provided to keep them safe and healthy from COVID19. The one month Ration Kit includes 10kg Flour, 1.5kg Rice, 1.5kg Sugar, 2kg Pulses, one bottle Mustard Oil, Tea, Sugar, vivid forms of spices, toiletries, confectionaries and vegetables. Foundations kept adding beneficiaries of this program from 26 in the month of January 2020.

Vodafone Idea Is Now 'Vi', New Branding Revealed as Vodafone Idea Merger Integrates Completely

ealme 6 and Reame 6i have received price cuts in India. Both the Realme 6 and the Realme 6i have received a Rprice drop of Rs. 1,000, however, only one variant of the

Realme 6i has seen this reduction. The Realme 6 comes in four RAM and storage configurations while the Realme 6i comes in

two configurations. The Realme 6 was launched in India alongside the Realme 6 Pro in March this year and has already been succeeded with the Realme 7 series. The Realme 6i, on the other hand, was launched in

July this year. Realme 6 has seen a couple of price hikes since launch. It launched at Rs. 12,999 for the 4GB RAM + 64GB storage model, Rs. 14,999 for the 6GB RAM + 128GB model, and Rs. 15,999 for the 8GB RAM + 128GB model. Later, a 6GB + 64GB variant was also added for Rs. 15,999. With the GST price hike in April, the three models that were originally launched went up to Rs. 13,999, Rs. 15,999, and Rs. 16,999 respectively.

JBM Enviro is committed to cleanliness of the cityPANIPAT : JBM Enviro, through its efforts has achieved a significant improvement in cleanliness of Panipat City. This has also helped it's progress in the Swachch Sarvekshan 2019 rankings. Two years since JBM Enviro started work in Panipat, the city's ranking has jumped from 255 (in 2018) to 160 (2020). So almost 100 (95 exact) points jump in the years’ time. JBM Enviro, along with the civic authorities has stood up to challenges posed by the Covid-19, and ensured its regular and effective services at all times. This helped the city and its people fight the pandemic more efficiently. JBM Enviro has been regularly servicing over 1 lakh households in Panipat on a daily basis through its 200 vehicles deployed for the purpose.JBM Enviro, with the support of the Authorities’, and through its public awareness programs, propagated campaigns on cleanliness and dry and wet waste segregation which has contributed a lot to improving the city. JBM Enviro has always been going out of its way to perform its duties – irrespective of the monetary gains or losses.

Teachers felicitated at St. Soldier 's Mohali

Oppo F17 Pro Tipped to Launch Outside India as Oppo A93

ppo F17 Pro, launched in India last week, may release in other markets Ooutside the country as Oppo A93.

Known tipster Evan Blass shared a couple of images of the recently launched phone with the caption, “Oppo A93.” While the post doesn't share any further details, Oppo has been known to launch the same smartphone in different variants and names in different markets. Featuring a quad rear camera setup, the Oppo F17 pro is powered by an octa-core MediaTek Helio P95 SoC.Tipster Evan Blass took to Twitter on September 5 to share images of the Oppo F17 Pro. His caption simply read, “Oppo A93.” This lead to speculations that the smartphone may launch in global markets outside India under the Oppo A93 branding. Blass didn't share any information on Oppo A93's pricing, availability, or key specifications on his post. Twitter user Pranav (@PranavHegdeHere) commented on the post, “Oh wait! That looks like the F17 Pro here in India.” To this Blass simply replied, “Mmm, good call.” Blass didn't share any additional details anywhere else.

Realme 6, Realme 6i Price in India Cut by Up to Rs. 1,000

BCCI clears UTCA’s part payment of Rs 2.17 crore

handigarh: The BCCI has paid the part payment for the first season played by Cthe UT Cricket Association (UTCA).

UTCA President Sanjay Tandon carried out this task in constant contact with BCCI officials during the lockdown period. The BCCI paid Rs 2.17 crore out of a total outstanding of Rs 4.33 crore to UTCA, which has been further allocated for Ranji Trophy, Women's Senior T20 and Vijay Hazare format players, officials and other management expenses. Sanjay Tandon said that from the last week of March to the recent days of lockdown, the entire functioning of the BCCI has been affected due to Covid 19, which has led to the pending payment process of state associations. Out of the total payment amount of Rs 2.17 crore, Rs 1.64 crore was distributed in Ranji format while around Rs 39 lakh was distributed for Vijay Hazare Trophy. The remaining Rs 14 lakh was paid to Women's Seniors T20. However, Rs 2.16 crore is yet to be paid by the BCCI.

pesticides, it needs to be cleaned. Add a bit of vigear to warm water and soak/dip your produce in it. Rinse thoroughly to ensure any mud, or even the possibility of creepy crawlies has been eliminated before use.Organic meats, veggies, and fruit don’t last very long. So the minute they’re purchased fresh, unless you intend to cook them that very day, they should go straight into the freezer in individual ziplock bags. Use your common sense though—for instance, organic bananas, tomatoes, onions, and potatoes won’t last very long even in a freezer so but in smaller quantities and use them soon. Remove and thaw the frozen produce just before use. For dry rations like legumes, nuts, seeds, whole grains, and spices, invest in airtight glass containers. This prevents spoilage, and also prevents ants and other insects from entering the containers. If you have room, you can stick these in the freezer as well, for lesser

he virtues of organic over foods that have been shipped from spoilage. If you feel your organic fruits or

conventional foods have been elsewhere, because you’re not losing out vegetables are not going to last too long,

spoken about for a while, but other on precious storage time, which would be Tand you can’t use them all quickly,

than the higher cost of procuring organic used for procurement and travel. Whether increase their shelf-life with age-old

produce, the other factor one needs to it’s fruits, veggies, dairy, or even dry preservation processes endorsed by

consider is storage. Not only does organic organic produce like pulses, grains, and grandma! You can make jams out of fresh

food have a lesser shelf life, it also tends to spices, think local, and opt for products fruits, and pickles out of both, fruits and

need more TLC as far as storage options that are as close to you as possible—these veggies. You can also dehydrate certain

go. Here’s what you need to keep in mind also tend to be cheaper, and reduce the foods like organic mushrooms, and use

while storing organic foods. carbon footprint.them in cooking over a period of time.

Pick up local produce, rather than organic Even if you feel your produce has no

How to store your organic rations properlyQuick and easy exercises

using resistance bandWe don’t know when we’ll be able to hit use dumbbells for a bicep curl, use the gym even after the lockdown will be resistance tube the same way.lifted. If you’ve been a gym rat too, you Stand on the tube, placing it at the might understand there’s no other pain centre of your feet. Stand with legs apart greater than missing on your workout. holding the ends in each hand. Now Thankfully, a home workout is the new using your arm strength pull the band up trend right now, and if you are looking to curling your biceps.make your session more effective, grab 3. Side Bend As you look to cut those your resistance band and get started. love handles, make use of the If you are a fitness enthusiast, it’s resistance band. This will make you impossible for you not to own a apply a little extra strength and stretch resistance band. If not, you can easily those side muscles burning the fat.find this inexpensive workout tool, online Step on the tube with legs apart; had the or even at a drugstore. You can work ends in each of your hands. Pulling the your whole body with the band with band up bend to the opposite side. these five simple exercises. Get your Repeat ten times each side and do three mat and get started. Good luck! sets.Squats: While regular squats help you 4. Core Exercisework on your leg muscles, doing them Core exercises with resistance band with a resistance tube will help help put pressure and focus on abs strengthen your muscles focussing on strengthening the core muscles and quads and hamstring. Doing squats with burning belly fat Lie down on the mat a resistance band also ensure better and fix the tube in the centre of your posture. feet. Hold the ends of the tube in your Fix the tube at the centre of your feet hand and left your upper body up off the and stand on it with your legs apart. floor. Stay in that position and start Hold the end in each hand and do the bending your knees. Your face and squats as usual. Do three sets of 15, knees should be in one straight line. and you’re good! Straighten them again and repeat.2. Bicep Curl Doing bicep curl with 5. Kickback Work on your glute with this resistance tube provides more exercise. It will help tone your hips and momentum; it helps in strengthening arm legs. You have to be on your palms and muscles, building muscles and kickback with resistance tube between increasing energy and stamina. Like you your hands and working leg.

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ormer Miss Alongside one picture, the star wrote: "Sky we eat and we have to be very cognizant about World and actor above, Earth below, Peace within", while in what we intake. Proper nutrition has manifold FManushi Chhillar another photograph she wrote: "Less stressing, health benefits and through my social media, I

on Sunday performed more stretching!" She captioned the third intend to tell as many people as possible, about Yoga on the National picture as "Finding my Balance".On September the positives one can unlock by eating right,"

Nutrition Week and inspired her fans to follow 1, as to mark the occasion of National Nutrition she had said.the same to reduce stress and balance their Week, Manushi, had started a social media Chhillar, who comes from a medical lives. Taking to the photo-sharing platform campaign aimed at raising awareness about background, further credits her doctor parents

Instagram, the 23-year-old actor, in a row eating right and shared her journey with health for inculcating the knowledge of proper nutrition shared three pictures where she is seen and nutrition. within her.

stretching her body and doing yoga In a video that she shared on Instagram, The stunner further revealed that she is a big asanas alongside the beach. Chhillar is seen sharing how she started fitness and nutrition enthusiast.

Sported in black-on-black workout consuming healthy food to stay fit while she The ethereal beauty, who will be seen soon attire, the actor has added the was preparing for the 'Miss India' beauty opposite actor Akshay Kumar in the big-budget

hashtag of 'National Nutrition Week' pageant while studying in college. period-drama 'Prithviraj,' is known for her in all the three pictures. "I have been told repeatedly that we are what fitness and her well-built physique.

Kartik waiting for vaccine to combat

COVID-19ollywood actor Kartik Aaryan's has again won the hearts of netizens with his latest quirky post on social media as he posed Bwith a cute kitten. The 29-year-old actor took to Twitter to post a

photograph where he is seen sitting next to a cute kitten. Sported in a pink hoodie and ripped jeans, 'Pati, Patni Aur Woh' actor gave a candid shot and in the caption, he wrote: "Tom and Jerry waiting for vaccine", adding a hashtag of 'social distancing' as the country is fighting against COVID-19. Lately, the 'Pyaar Ka Punchnama' star has been updating fans of his activities by posting pictures and videos. Recently, the actor gave a twist to the viral 'Rasode mein kaun tha' rap video and hilariously asked the question with folded hands to his fans. "Please bata do. Rasode mein kaun tha?, (Please tell me, who was in the kitchen)?" noted the 'Love Aaj Kal' actor as he posted to Instagram a glamorous picture while striking a pose with folded hands. In the snap, Aaryan is seen sporting a beige sweater with a chequered lower. While on Independence Day, Aaryan posted a video on Instagram as he proudly hoisted the national flag while flashing a smile amid a crowd of school children cheering for the star.

Please bata do. Rasode mein kaun tha?, (Please tell me,

who was in the kitchen)?" noted the 'Love Aaj Kal' actor as he posted to Instagram a

glamorous picture while striking a pose with folded

hands.

Manushi Chhillar performs yoga, says 'less stressing, more stretching'

Kristin jokes about her 'longest relationship' amid split with Cutler

merican TV personality Kristin Cavallari who split Afrom husband Jay Cutler

earlier this year, posted a bikini-clad photo of herself with hairstylist pal Justin Anderson, offering a cheeky comment about the longevity of their friendship. The 33-year-old star put out a stunning picture to her Instagram, and the Uncommon James founder captioned the post as, "Longest relationship of my life." As per Page Six, Anderson, who is engaged to boyfriend Austin 'Scoot' Rhodes, also shared a snap of the duo. Anderson posted to his page, "She tried to say she wasn't in the mood for a picture... Cavallari, calm down. @kristincavallari #bff."According to per page Six, Cavallari's post was shared the same day Cutler addressed dating rumours after he was linked to Fox Nation's Tomi Lahren.

Tiger Shroff to debut as singer with track

'UNBELIEVABLE'ctor Tiger Shroff on Monday announced that he is making his singing debut with upcoming track A"Unbelievable".

The 30-year-old actor shared the news on Instagram, while posting the motion poster for the track."Always wanted to sing and dance to my own song, but never really had the courage to take it forward. Spent a lot of time exploring and working this lockdown and discovered something new," Tiger said."Its been an unbelievable' experience, and i'm excited to share this humble effort with you soon #YouAreUnbelievable #TeaserOutSoon" he added.Produced by Big Bang Music, the track has been penned by DG Mayne and Avitesh, with Tiger lending the vocals. Filmmaker Punit Malhotra, who worked with Tiger in "Student of the Year 2", has directed the music video with choreography by Paresh.On the acting front, Tiger was most recently seen in "Baaghi 3", which released countrywide in March this year.

COVID-19: Anupam Kher urges people to be extra cautious as facilities reopen

tressing on the need to be vigilant and extra cautious as facilitates are being re-opened post the coronavirus induced lockdown, Sveteran actor Anupam Kher on Monday sent a message to his

fans to 'not to get drawn into the fact that everything is normal around us' amid the coronavirus pandemic. "Friends facilities have been opened so that life can be seen coming back on track. But the #COVID-19 epidemic is in the air..." wrote the 'Hotel Mumbai' actor as he posted a video message on Twitter. In the video, Kher said, "Friends, we have been taught since childhood to be optimistic, and not to lose hope in any situation... and that is exactly the same we are doing in this fight against COVID-19. We are slowly trying to go out and gradually our lives are moving ahead, we are noticing more people on roads, shops, parlours

are opening, even there are talks about opening some hotels, and we even notice crowds of people which ingest in our minds that our life is

coming back to normal. But this isn't the case." Pointing on the inclined graph of COVID-19 cases, the 'Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge' actor added,

"Albeit, the numbers are increasing, number of deaths are on the rise. So on one hand, where life has to follow its normal course, while on the other hand,

our precautions, our efforts should be more strict... Let's not get drawn into the fact that everything is normal around us." Urging people to be extra cautious, Kher said, "I request all of you, just like we took precautions in a principled manner at the beginning of the lockdown...of wearing masks, washing hands and maintain social distancing... let's bring back that time..." The 'Saaransh' actor added that apart from his family, he noticed friends, relatives and known ones who have been infected with COVID-19 and it's penetrating.

NEWS AT AGLANCE

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Choice InternationalQ1 net profit at Rs1110.60 lakhsMUMBAI: BSE-listed ChoiceInternational Limited, a diversifiedconglomerate in the personal financeservices spectrum has reported 1338per cent growth in April-June net profitto Rs 1110.60 lakhs compared to a netloss of Rs 89.67 lakhs in thecorresponding quarter last year. Totalincome of the hybrid fintech companyduring the first quarter grew by 58 percent as compared to correspondingprevious quarter to Rs 4,394.91 lakhslargely driven through its stockbrokerage income. It includes Rs908.06 lakhs on account of gain on fairvalue of one traded security classifiedas fair value through profit and lossstatement. Sequentially, net profit andtotal income grew by 161 per cent and13 per cent over the preceding quarterof Jan-Mar, respectively. EBITDAmargin for the quarter under reviewgrew to 47 per cent, up 29 basispoints over the same quarter last year."Having achieved momentum in ourstock brokerage operations, we wouldnow explore and diversify our revenuesegments through insurance brokingand loan against shares in the nextquarter. The two segments wouldexpedite the momentum in our top-lineto ensure 100 percent growth in FY21revenues with our war chest of fundsfor inorganic growth and therebycreated value for our stakeholders,"said Kamal Poddar, ManagingDirector, Choice International, whilecommenting on the first-quarterperformance. "Choice would also forayinto digital lending against shares andintends to leverage its strong-hold instock brokerage business and scalethis segment up rapidly as part ofdriving revenue growth," Poddar said.

Q Cage Fit levels upthe fitness gameMUMBAI: This is a well aware factthat quality is better than quantity.Mumbai based Creative fitness facilityis avowed for putting this statementinto action. Q Cage Fit has beenencouraging young personalities andrevolutionizing the fitness set-up for allwith their innovative ideas and theirworking pattern. They made a gloriousimpact on the idea of fitness inMumbai and aim to leave a significantmark on the national fitness industry.Q Cage Fit has caught attentionamong zillions of people in no timebecause of their unique technique ofguiding people through aninspirational, meditative fitnessexperience that's designed to benefitthe body, mind, and soul. This createda huge client base for the fitnessstudio, which includes RajneeshDuggal, Saloni Chopra, SiddharthChopra, Eshaan Sood, GabrielDsouza, Azaan Khan, FaizaanBazmee and Evaan Kapoor. A normalfitness routine is tedious to the peopleof Bombay who are well aware of thisnew way of acquiring fitness whichengages in varied movements throughboxing, punching, kicking and jumpingwithout one even realising the processof achieving a wholly fit body. Aerobicand Anaerobic exercises here arepractised through boxing whichengages muscle groups throughoutthe entirety of the body.

Future Lifestyle Fashions Q1 loss at Rs 329cr on COVID-19 impactMUMBAI: Future Lifestyle Fashions on Monday reported a standalone loss of Rs329 crore in the quarter ended June as compared to a profit of Rs 39 crore in thesame period of last fiscal year. Revenue from operations in Q1 FY21 tumbled downto Rs 80 crore from Rs 1,496 crore in Q1 FY20 as the countrywide lockdown due toCOVID-19 pandemic closed stores for several weeks together. On August 29, theboard of directors approved Future Lifestyle Fashions' merger with FutureEnterprises approved the slump sale of retail and wholesale businesses whichincludes key format such as Big Bazaar, FBB, Foodhall, Central and Brand Factoryto Reliance Retail and Fashion Lifestyle Ltd (RRFLL), a step-down subsidiary ofReliance Industries Ltd (RIL). Further, the logistics business has been sold toReliance Retail Ventures Ltd (RRVL).

China's export growth quickens in August, imports edge lowerBEIJING, SEP 7

China's export growthaccelerated in August whileimports edged lower as theworld's second-largest economyextended its recovery from thecoronavirus pandemic.

Exports rose 9.5 per centover a year earlier to USD 235.2billion, up from July's 7.2 percent growth, customs datashowed on Monday. Importsdeclined 2.1 per cent to USD176.3 billion, compared withthe previous month's 1.4 percent contraction.

China's exporters havebenefited from its relativelyearly reopening from ashutdown to fight the viruswhile competitors in manyother countries still face anti-disease controls that disruptbusiness. Exports to the United

States rose 20 per cent to USD44.8 billion despite tariff hikesimposed by the Trumpadministration in a fight withBeijing over its technologyambitions and trade surplus.Imports of American goodsgained 2 per cent to USD 10.5billion. The changes were duemostly to lower prices andcomparison with last August'srelative weak exports,according to Julian Evans-Pritchard of Capital Economics.Evans-Pritchard estimated thevolume of goods exported rose9.7 per cent from a year earlier,while import volumes rose 9.5per cent.

Other exporters havebenefited from increasedChinese demand for their goodsafter growth in the world'ssecond-largest economyrebounded to 3.2 per cent over a

year earlier in the three monthsending in June. Activity the

previous quarter fell 6.8 percent, the deepest slump since at

least the mid-1960s. Exports tothe 27-nation European Union,China's biggest foreign market,fell 20.1 per cent from a yearearlier to USD 35.7 billion.Imports of European goodstumbled 29.7 per cent to USD22.5 billion. China's globaltrade surplus swelled by 72 percent over a year earlier to USD58.9 billion. That was downfrom July's USD 62.3 billiongap. Chinese importers havebenefited from a slump inglobal prices for oil and manyother goods due to weakdemand caused by virus-relatedshutdowns.

Fast-growing exportsincluded integrated circuits,smartphones, auto-dataprocessors and householdappliances. That suggests Chinastill has some trade partners thatare willing to import Chinese

technology despite tension withWashington, Iris Pang of INGsaid in a report. Still, Pangwarned Chinese exporters ofhigher-tech goods might facetrouble as Washington tightenscurbs on access to UScomponents in a feud withBeijing over technology andsecurity.

Washington has cut offsupplies of Americancomponents for companiesincluding China's mostprominent tech brand, HuaweiTechnologies Ltd. The Trumpadministration is lobbyingEuropean and other allies toavoid Chinese technology asthey upgrade to next-generationtelecom networks.

This could affect exports oftechnological products andservices in the coming months,said Pang.

Sensex ends 60 points higher,Nifty above 11,350; HUL gains

AGENCYMUMBAI, SEP 7

Domestic equity benchmark Sensexended 60 points higher after avolatile session on Monday amidmixed cues from global markets.

After swinging 459.18 pointsduring the day, the 30-share BSEindex settled 60.05 points or 0.16per cent higher at 38,417.23.

Similarly, the NSE Niftyadvanced 21.20 points or 0.19 percent to close at 11,355.05.

HUL was the top gainer in theSensex pack, rising around 2 percent, followed by TCS, ITC, AsianPaints, HDFC, HCL Tech and NestleIndia. On the other hand, M&M,Bajaj Finance, NTPC, UltraTechCement and ONGC were among thelaggards.

Narendra Solanki, Head- EquityResearch (Fundamental), AnandRathi said the markets started off theweek on a mixed note followingsluggish Asian market trends astraders took note of rising US-Chinatensions.

In the afternoon session,however, the markets attempted acomeback led by buying in index

heavyweights Reliance Industries,TCS and HDFC, but failed to holdon to the gains amid lack of directionfrom global equities due to holidayin the US market, he added.

Bourses in Shanghai, HongKong and Tokyo ended with losses,while Seoul settled with gains.

Stock exchanges in Europe weretrading a positive note in early deals.

Global oil benchmark Brentcrude was trading 1.73 per centlower at USD 41.91 per barrel.

In the forex market, the rupeedepreciated 21 paise to end at 73.35against the US dollar.

Ester Industries promoters hikestake by 4.91 pc to 64.04 pc

GURUGRAM, SEP 7

The promoters of EsterIndustries have increasedtheir holding in the companyto 64.04 per cent.

Fenton Investments,Wilemina Finance Corp andMovi Limited -- all promoterand promoter group entities -- acquired 4.9 lakh (0.59 percent) 14.4 lakh (1.73 percent) and 21.6 lakh (2.59 percent) shares respectively onAugust 11 and September 1via an off-market transaction.

"Post this transaction, thepromoters stake in thecompany has increased by4.91 per cent to 64.04 percent from 59.13 per cent,"Ester Industries said in astatement on Monday addingthe move is a reflection theirconfidence in the potentialand prospects of the business.

"The company is well-positioned to embark on itsnext growth phase on theback of improving businessfundamentals of film andspeciality polymerbusinesses."

Expanding consumptionis translating to much-improved business metricsfor polyester films. EsterIndustries is also focused on

de-commoditising its filmbusiness by nearly doublingthe share of speciality, value-added products to 30 per centover the next two years from16 per cent at present.

Besides, the companyalso proposes to scale up itscapacities with the setting upof a new facility through awholly-owned subsidiary inTelangana. The first phase ofthe project with a capitaloutlay of Rs 500 crore isscheduled to becompleted by the thirdquarter of the calendaryear 2022.

Ester Industries isone of India's leadingproducers of polyesterfilms, engineeringplastics and specialitypolymers. It has

manufacturing facilities atKhatima in Uttarakhand witha capacity of 67,000 tonnesper annum of polyester resin,57,000 TPA of polyester film,30,000 TPA of specialitypolymers and 16,500 TPA ofengineering plastics.

The company exportsabout 30 per cent of itsproduction of polyester filmswith sales and distributionnetwork in more than 56countries.

Gold rises Rs 258,silver gains Rs 837

NEW DELHI: Gold prices on Mondayrose Rs 258 to Rs 51,877 per 10grams in the national capital supportedby rupee depreciation, according toHDFC Securities. The precious metalhad closed at Rs 51,619 per 10 gramsin the previous trade. Silver alsogained Rs 837 to Rs 69,448 per kg,from Rs 68,611 per kg in the previoustrade. The rupee depreciated 21 paiseto 73.35 (provisional) against the USdollar on Monday.

SBI's VRS scheme cruel as economyhas collapsed: P Chidambaram

NEW DELHI, SEP 7

Congress leader PChidambaram on Mondayslammed the reported StateBank of India (SBI) plan toimplement a voluntaryretirement scheme (VRS) at atime when the economy hascollapsed and called it cruel.

"News reports say thatSBI plans to implement aVRS scheme as an 'economymeasure'. In normal times theplan would be debatable. Inthese abnormal times, whenthe economy has collapsedand jobs are scarce, it iscruel," Chidambaramtweeted. "If India's biggestlender has to shed jobs,imagine what other bigemployers and MSMEs aredoing. The plan is ostensiblyvoluntary but we know thatsubtle pressure will bebrought on the employeesthat the Bank wants to get ridof. If the current rulesprovide for genuine

voluntary retirement, whyannounce a new plan andgive out an exact number like30,190?" he added.According to sources, SBIhas planned a VRS schemeunder which over 30,000employees are eligible. Theemployee strength of SBIstood at about 2.49 lakh atthe end of March 2020 ascompared to 2.57 lakh a yearago. Earlier last week,Congress leader RahulGandhi had said thatdevelopment was laggingbehind in the country andhighlighted a few pointsregarding the lack ofdevelopment.

Sterling and Wilson Solar winsRs 1,600 cr project in AustraliaMUMBAI, SEP 7

Shapoorji Pallonji groupcompany Sterling and WilsonSolar Ltd has won a Rs 1,600crore project to install twolarge-scale solar projects inAustralia with an installedcapacity of over 300megawatts.

The new projects havebeen secured from globalindependent power producer(IPPs), the work for which isexpected to startimmediately.

Sterling and WilsonSolar already has threeprojects of over 800megawatts underconstruction in the region.

Director and Global CEOBikesh Ogra said thecompany's total order bookin Australia now stands atabout Rs 6,350 crore withfive projects and a portfolioof more than 1.1 gigawatts,making it the largest home-grown solar engineering,procurement andconstruction player in theregion.

"With the continent'sregulatory environmentbecoming more conducivetowards renewable energyand the prevalence of highelectricity tariff, thecommercial viability of solarprojects is improving," hesaid.

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Jwala Guttaannouncesengagement withactor Vishnu Vishal

NEW DELHI: Shuttler Jwala Guttaon Monday announced her engage-ment with boyfriend Vishnu Vishal.The Commonwealth gold medalistis celebrating her 37th birthday to-day, and she took to Twitter to letthe world know about a specialbirthday gift from boyfriend and ac-tor Vishnu Vishal and it was an "en-gagement ring"."N dis happened last nite n what abeautiful surprise it was! Todaywhen I think of my life what a jour-ney it has been n 2day I realisethere is so much more to look for-ward to! Towards our family, Aryan,friends, and work! its gonna be an-other great journey am sure (sic),"Jwala Gutta tweeted.Jwala Gutta was last seen on BWFbadminton action in 2017.In December 2019, she hadlaunched her academy in Hyder-abad and it will provide facilities forvarious sports such as cricket andbadminton.

Manchester City duoLaporte, Mahrez testpositive for Covid-19MANCHESTER: Ahead of the Pre-mier League 2020-21 season, Man-chester City on Monday announcedthat forward Riyad Mahrez and de-fender Aymeric Laporte have testedpositive for Covid-19.Both players are currently observinga self-isolation in accordance withPremier League and UK Govern-ment protocol on quarantine."Manchester City FC can confirmthat Riyad Mahrez and Aymeric La-porte have tested positive for Covid-19," the club said in a statement."Both players are currently observ-ing a period of self-isolation in ac-cordance with Premier League andUK Government protocol on quar-antine. Neither is displaying symp-toms of the virus," it added.City finished 18 points behind even-tual champions Liverpool in the Pre-mier League, lost to Arsenal in theFA Cup semi-finals and suffered anearly exit in the Champions Leagueat the hands of Lyon.City will play against Wolves in theiropening game of the season onSeptember 22.

PV Sindhu agrees to play in ThomasUber CupNEW DELHI: Shuttler PV Sindhuwould be participating in the upcom-ing Thomas Uber Cup, HimantaBiswa Sarma, the President of Bad-minton Association of India (BAI)confirmed on Monday.Earlier, Sindhu had decided to optout of the tournament due to per-sonal reasons, but now on the re-quest of Sarma, she has agreed tofeature in the Thomas Uber Cup."I have requested @Pvsindhu1 tojoin the team as we have afavourable draw and have the bestchance to take a shot at a medal atthe #ThomasUberCup. She hasagreed and will prepone her familyfunction so that she can be part ofthe Indian Team and play for thecountry @BAI_Media," Sarmatweeted.The 2020 Thomas and Uber Cup isscheduled to be held from October3 to 11 in Aarhus, Denmark.

Buttler probablyEngland's bestwhite-ball playercurrently: AgarSOUTHAMPTON : Australia spinnerAshton Agar on Monday termed JosButtler as England's current bestwhite-ball player.His remark came as Buttler playedan unbeaten knock of 77 runs offjust 54 balls to guide England to asix-wicket win in the second T20I ofthe three-match series.With this win, England wrapped upthe three-match series as the sidenow has an unassailable 2-0 lead."Buttler is an incredible player, hecan hit all around the ground, he isdifficult to bowl to, he finishes thegames off, he is often there at theend taking England over the line,hats off to him, he is an incredibleplayer. He is probably their bestwhite-ball player currently," Agarsaid in a virtual press conference onMonday.

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TALKS

Ultimate goal is to win a medal at the Olympics: Neha GoyalAGENCYBENGALURU, SEPT 7

Indian women's hockey team mid-fielder Neha Goyal has had to battlenumerous challenges to make it to thetop level. The 23-year-old faced finan-cial concerns when she took up hock-ey as her family found it hard to pro-cure sport equipment for her and later,Goyal went through a series of in-juries. The midfielder expressed thather positive attitude helped her totackle the difficulties.

"It was really tough for me when Istarted playing hockey in the fifthstandard. My mother would work dayand night to make sure that we hadenough food and therefore it was verydifficult for her to save some moneyfor my equipment. And once I made it

to the top level, I faced numerous in-juries and was out of the Indian teamfor a long time.

"However, the most important thingfor me was that I never gave up and keptpersisting to beat any obstacle in my ca-reer and I am very glad that I have fea-tured in many games for India since 2017after coming back," said the midfielder.Goyal, who has played 75 matches forthe Indian team, said that the nationalside's ultimate goal is to win a medal atthe Olympics. "Our sole focus is on theTokyo Olympics at the moment. We havebeen working hard on our fitness in thelast few months and we will do every-thing we can to keep getting better at ourgame in the next few months. We had afabulous 2019 after winning the FIHWomen's Series Finals and booking aplace in the Olympics through the FIH

Hockey Olympic Qualifiers. "We havecompeted well against top teams in therecent past and therefore we have thebelief that we can make history inTokyo next year. It's our ultimate goalto win a medal at the Olympics," the23-year-old said.

When asked about her biggest in-spiration in her career, Goyal had nohesitation in saying that former Indiacaptain Pritam Rani Siwach has had ahuge influence on her career.

"When I was in the fifth standard,I used to see Pritam didi's photographsin the local newspaper and I used to goand watch her play in a local ground.One day she asked me why I go to theground every day and it was then I toldher that I want to play the game. Sincemy parents couldn't afford hockeyequipment for me.

AGENCYDUBAIM SEP 7

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)skipper Virat Kohli feels that the up-coming edition of Indian PremierLeague (IPL) will be a level playingfield for everyone as there would beno "home and away advantage".

The IPL 2020 will be played fromSeptember 19 to November 10 in theUAE across three venues -- Dubai,Abu Dhabi, and Sharjah.

Kohli also said that there is agood feeling within the camp andeveryone is focused on doing well inthe tournament. "In the IPL, thebiggest challenge is the travel bit, so I

think it is more of a level playing fieldnow, just three grounds and everyteam would be aware of the condi-tions, it will all boil down to skill lev-el rather than having a home and awaything. Cricket would be competitive asthere are just three grounds," Kohlisaid in a video posted on the officialapp of RCB. "We definitely feel as thisis our season. Me and AB de Villiershave never felt this calm going into aseason, AB has been enjoying hisgame, he is as fit as ever, I am feelingin a better space, so yeah, it's all aboutdisconnecting with the things in thepast, we are not going to think of what-ifs, we are just keen to do the rightthing," he added.

IPL 13: Me and ABDhave never felt this

calm, says Kohli AGENCYBARCELONA, SEP 7

Lionel Messi and Barcelona forged anextraordinary winning combination formore than a decade until cracks in thefoundations of the soccer dynasty grew,leading the Argentine great to doubt hisfuture at the club.

Now that Messi is staying for onemore year, after an unseemly disputewith club executives, one clear outcomelooks like being an awkward seasonahead at Camp Nou.

The marriage between player andclub appeared perfect. Messi broughtone-of-a-kind talent for darting past de-fenders, along with brilliant passing and

scoring goal after spectacular goal.Barcelona provided the coaching

minds, world-class teammates, and aplaying style perfectly suited to helpMessi blossom into arguably the bestplayer the game has ever seen.

But the team's dominant formdipped as seasons went by andBarcelona's 8-2 loss to Bayern Munichlast month in the Champions Leaguequarterfinals extinguished Messi's flick-ering hopes that he could turn thingsaround at his boyhood club. It was theworse defeat in Messi's career.

After several days of silence, Messimade public what he called the "painfuldecision" to inform Barcelona that the time had come toleave the club, his home since he was13.

Frustration with failure ledMessi to seek Barcelona exit

AGENCYNEW DELHI, SEPT 7

Former India football team skipperGouramangi Singh believes that the BlueTigers should aim consistently to qualifyin the AFC Asian Cup as their immediateobjective. In a live chat with AIFF TV,Gouramangi, talking about the signifi-cance of the qualification after a gap of 27years mentioned "we are on the right

track." "The 2011 Asian Cup made us re-alise that we can do it -- hang with thosetop teams. The belief, the confidence --everything was at a high. The World Cupis a long-term project but I think we arenow on the right track. We have to keepfocusing, keep trying to feature at theAFC Asian Cup every four years and tryand finish among the top ten teams,"Gouramangi said. "That should be ourimmediate target which we can use to

build on. The number of teams in theWorld Cup is set to increase. So thechance is going to grow and be there. Wehave to keep working hard and be the topten in Asia," the 34-year-old added.

Since making his Blue Tigers debutin 2006, Gouramangi has won a plethoraof trophies with the national team, in-cluding multiple Nehru Cup and SAFFtitles -- along with the AFC ChallengeCup in 2008.

India need to feature in every AsianCup, says Gouramangi Singh

AGENCYNEW YORK CITY, SEP 7

Top seed Novak Djokovic of Serbia wasdisqualified from the US Open, after atennis ball he hit in anger struck a femaleline judge in the neck.

Though it was clear that Djokovic didnot intend to hit the line judge, organizerssaid Djokovic was disqualified in accor-dance with the rules.

"In accordance with the Grand Slamrulebook, following his actions of inten-tionally hitting a ball dangerously or reck-lessly within the court or hitting a ballwith negligent disregard of the conse-quences, the US Open tournament refer-ee defaulted Novak Djokovic from the2020 US Open," organizers said in astatement on Sunday.

After dropping his serve to trail 6-5behind in the first set of his fourth round

match against Pablo Carreno Busta ofSpain, Djokovic angrily smashed a ball infrustration, accidentally striking the linejudge in the neck and causing her to fallto the ground.

Djokovic immediately rushed over tocheck if she was okay and placed hishand on her back as the judge struggledfor air. After a few minutes she was ableto get up and walked off the court.

After a discussion of around 10 min-utes between tournament referees and of-ficials, Djokovic was disqualified fromthe match.

Djokovic apologized later throughsocial media.

"This whole situation has left me re-ally sad and empty. I checked on the linesperson and the tournament told me thatthank God she is feeling ok. I'm extreme-ly sorry to have caused her such stress. Sounintended. So wrong," Djokovic said.

"As for the disqualification, I need togo back within and work on my disap-pointment and turn this all into a lessonfor my growth and evolution as a playerand human being."

Djokovic's exit means there will be afirst-time Grand Slam champion in themen's draw. "There's no past Grand Slam

champions left in the draw," said fifthseed Alexander Zverev from Germany,who made light work of Spain's Alejan-dro Davidovich 6-2, 6-2, 6-1 in anotherfourth round match. "It's going to be oneof the young guys, I think, if you countDominic Thiem as a young guy, as well.He obviously has a chance to win. Now Ithink it is the time where it gets really in-teresting. We'll see where we go from

here," added the German. Elsewhere,Canadian rising star Denis Shapovalovstunned seventh seed David Goffin ofBelgium 6-7 (0), 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 to makelast eight, while Croatia's Borna Coricalso advanced. In the women's singles,fourth seed Naomi Osaka of Japan fin-ished a routine job as she eased past AnettKontaveit from Estonia 6-3, 6-4 to reachthe quarterfinals.

Djokovic disqualifiedfrom US Open

Djokovic immediatelyrushed over to check ifshe was okay andplaced his hand on herback as the judgestruggled for air. After afew minutes she wasable to get up andwalked off the court

'For how many years I would have beenbanned': Kyrgios on Djoker's US Open exitMELBOURNE: Minutes, after world number one Novak Djokovic got disqualifiedfrom the ongoing US Open, Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios, asked his Twitterfollowers for how many years he would have been banned if he had done thesame thing as the Serbian.Earlier today, Djokovic exited the US Open in the most unexpected fashion afterhe defaulted as a ball he struck had hit the line judge in the throat. While the shotwasn't intentional, the official was down for a while.