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S uspended Jammu & Kashmir DSP Davinder Singh, arrested while ferrying two Hizb-ul-Mujahideen ter- rorists in a vehicle on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway ear- lier this year, was granted bail on Friday by a court here in another terror case filed by Delhi Police after it failed to file a charge sheet within the pre- scribed time period. Singh, however, will remain in jail since he has yet not secured bail in the case filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in relation to his arrest on January 10 this year while ferrying two HuM ter- rorists in a vehicle on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway. Continued on Page 10 F ormer Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia, who recently joined BJP, former Union Ministers Mallikarjun Kharge and Shibu Soren are among 19 members who were elected to the Rajya Sabha after the day-long polls at var- ious State Assemblies were conducted under stringent norms laid by Election Commission of India on Friday. In Andhra Pradesh, the ruling YSRCP of Jagan Mohan Reddy won all the four Rajya Sabha seats. Against 61 vacancies in 20 States, 42 members were already elected unopposed including 28 first timers. Of the remaining 19 vacan- cies for which results were declared on Friday, 15 first timers are likely to enter the Rajya Sabha. Elections were held in the State Assemblies of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Meghalaya and Manipur. While MP had already seen an upheaval before the lockdown after Scindia switched sides to BJP leading to fall of Kamal Nath Government, Gujarat and Rajasthan too witnessed a bat- tle of resorts politics. Continued on Page 10 Beijing: Even as it has come under fire from across the world for the unprovoked fatal attacks on Indian soldiers in Ladakh’s Galwan valley on Monday, China continued to blame India for the crisis. On Friday, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian said “responsibil- ity entirely lies entirely with the Indian side” for the face-off. Speaking to the media, he said, “Regarding the serious sit- uation in Galwan Valley, right and wrong are very clear and the responsibility entirely lies with the Indian side. India and China are in talks to ease the situation.” A top US diplomat on Friday said China is opening multiple fronts like the one on “LAC with India” because of Beijings assessment that the world is “distracted” due to the Covid-19 and it could take advantage of it. Agencies D ays after 20 Indian jawans were killed by the Chinese soldiers in an ambush at Galwan valley in eastern Ladakh on the intervening night of June 15-16, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday told an all-party meet- ing that Chinese army neither entered the Indian territory nor any of “our posts has been taken over by them on the Indian side.” The meeting was called to discuss India-China stand-off on the line of Actual Control (LAC), “Neither have they intrud- ed into our border, nor has any post been taken over by them (China). Twenty of our jawans were martyred, but those who dared Bharat Mata, they were taught a lesson,” said the PM in the virtual meet with around 20 political parties. Modi said no one can take even an “inch of the land”. “Today, we possess the capability that no one can eye even one inch of our land. India’s Armed forces have the capability to move into multi- ple sectors at one go,” announced the Prime Minister. The important interaction was an attempt by the PM to evolve a national consensus on political, economic and mili- tary response by India after the violent incident at Galwan val- ley in eastern Ladakh. Modi said Indian Armed forces are doing what they have to do to protect the coun- try, whether it is deployment, action or counter-action. Incidentally, while the PM said no intrusion took place inside the India territory, External Affair Minister S Jaishankar said on June 17 that, “Ground commanders were meeting regularly to implement this consensus throughout the last week. While there was some progress, the Chinese side sought to erect a structure in Galwan Valley on our side of the LAC. While this became a source of dispute, the Chinese side took pre-meditated and planned action that was directly respon- sible for the resulting violence and casualties. It reflected an intent to change the facts on the ground in violation of all our agreements to not change the status quo.” It was obvious that Chinese jawans had entered the Indian side of the LAC and tried to raise a structure. It’s also not clear if there was no intrusion by the Chinese why the two armies were face-to-face for nearly two months. After the PM spoke, several military experts have asked if “everything was so smooth and no incursion took place, then why did we lose 20 of our jawans.” Modi was chairing an all- party meet to discuss the volatile India-China border situation as the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh earlier denied intelligence failure in the border face-off as Opposition raised the question while extending full-support to the Modi Government in its response to the Chinse intru- sions on the border. The virtual meeting began with participants standing in two-minute silence to pay trib- utes to the Indian soldiers who fell in the border face-off. All party leaders said they were one with the Government and should speak in one voice. Continued on Page 10 D espite the chorus to shun Chinese goods grows across India, Chinese smart- phones — OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro — went out-of- stock within minutes after its sale began via Amazon India on June 18. At the same time, #BoycottChineseProducts was among the top Twitter trends in India for the past two days, after 20 Army personnel, including an officer, were blud- geoned to death by Chinese in Galwan Valley, Ladakh. Another Chinese firm Xiaomi, the number one smartphone brand in the coun- try, recently sold its first laptop series in India on 17 June. Meanwhile, China’s Oppo can- celled the live online launch of its flagship smartphone in India due to growing anti-China sentiments. The popular electronics brand recently hosted the sale of its flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 8 Pro in India, the sale ran out within minutes after it went on sale. The pace of sales shows that how Indians are crazy on cheap priced Chinese products. The first consign- ment of OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro was sold out within minutes on June 15. The second sale which took place on June 18 also sold out with- in minutes. The phone was unveiled in April, but sales in India have only begun from this month onwards due to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. OnePlus 8 is priced in India at 41,999 for the exclusive Amazon base model while the OnePlus 8 Pro is priced in India between 54,999 and 59,999. Continued on Page 10 T hree days after they were detained following the bloody brawl in the Galwan valley, ten Indian Army per- sonnel, including two officers, were released by the Chinese on Thursday. The breakthrough came following several rounds of Major General level meetings between the two Armies at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) since Monday when 20 Indian jawans, including commanding officer Colonel B Santosh Babu, attained martyrdom in clashes. The released personnel including a Lt Colonel and three Majors were back on the Indian side of the LAC late Thursday, sources said here on Friday. They also clarified that the soldiers were unharmed. Immediately after their return, the personnel went through a medical check-up followed by debriefing session, sources said. However, the Army on Thursday had denied reports about their captivity and said no Indian soldier was missing in action. Interestingly, the Chinese on Friday also denied that there was any Indian soldier in their custody. Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian made the claim at a daily press briefing in response to questions about the border sit- uation after the release of the ten Indian soldiers. Though the Army on Friday did not confirm the release of its personnel, sources said negotiations at the diplo- matic and military level were kept a closely guarded secret to prevent any harm coming to those in captivity. The release of the 10 sol- diers figured in three rounds of talks between Indian and Chinese delegations of Major General level near Patrol Point 14 in Galway Valley between Tuesday and Thursday. Major General Abhijit Bapat, com- mander of Karu-based head- quarters 3 Infantry Division, and his Chinese counterpart, met for the third time on Thursday. These regular parleys were focused on the early and safe release of the Indian personnel and early de-escalation of the situation and to disengage on the disputed border. The two senior military officers have met seven times since the stand-off began in early May. The last time Indian sol- diers were captured by the Chinese was during the 1962 war. Incidentally, the Galwan valley also saw battles then between the Indian and Chinese armies. W ith tension unabated at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh and China moving its troops for- ward, India has also strength- ened its overall military strength. IAF Chief RKS Bhadauria visited the region on Wednesday and Thursday to review operational prepared- ness. His visit came after 20 Indian Army personnel, including the commanding officer, were killed in a fracas with the Chinese. Bhadauria visited the Leh airbase on Wednesday and the Srinagar airbase on Thursday. He took stock of the overall operational preparedness to meet any challenge all along the LAC, sources said here on Friday. Incidentally, Army Chief General MM Naravane had visited Leh last month to review the situation in the wake of the ongoing stand-off in eastern Ladakh. Over the last month, China has increased its troop strength to nearly 10,000 in the eastern Ladakh region where the stand-off is continue. They also moved up their heavy weapons besides increasing helicopter flying along the LAC on their side. India also took immedi- ate steps and enhanced its strength all along the 4,000 km long LAC from Ladakh to Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, and Arunachal Pradesh. Besides increasing troops, India’s other steps comprised moving up the fighter jets to operational bases close to the LAC and preparing the war- ships to conduct deep-sea sur- veillance. They were also cleared to take necessary action in the Malacca Straits near Andaman and Nicobar Islands as this sea lane sees more than 90 per cent of oil going to China. India has a distinct advantage there as it can choke the lane. The IAF operates several airbases in J&K, with Srinagar, Awantipora, and Leh operating either fighter squadrons or fighter detachments. On Friday, fighter jets and attack heli- copters carried out sorties in the Leh region. Continued on Page 10 T wenty-three more people tested positive for coron- avirus infection in Lucknow which witnessed three COVID-19 deaths even as Uttar Pradesh reported its highest single-day spike of 817 positive cases, taking the state’s tally to 16,602 on Friday. The previous highest sin- gle-day spike in cases was on Thursday when the state recorded 604 positive cases. Lucknow’s Chief Medical Officer Dr Narendra Agarwal said with the 23 new cases, 760 people had tested positive in the state capital so far. On Friday, 17 COVID-19 patients recovered completely and were discharged from hospitals. Among those who tested positive on Friday are five women and 18 men, including a PAC jawan. Three positive cases were found in Kamta, two each in Maulviganj, Alambagh, Virat Khand and Vivek Khand of Gomtinagar and Awadh Vihar Colony, and one each in Railway Colony, Thakurganj, Vikas Khand of Gomtinagar, Park Road, Rahimabad, Shahmeena Road, Telibagh, Vidhayakpuram, Indira Nagar and Meena Market. The CMO said that the three deaths reported in the city were under audit. He said while a man from Gorakhpur died at KGMU, another from Delhi died in a private hospi- tal in Gomtinagar and a third died at Malihabad who tested positive after death. KGMU spokesperson Dr Sudhir Singh said the 64-year- old man from Gorakhpur who died in the hospital was a dia- betic and had thyroid problem. He had tested positive for coro- navirus infection. The CMO has asked the district magistrate to declare Ajay Nagar, Kamta, Manoharnagar Thakurganj, Park Road, Virat Khand in Gomtinagar, Rapti Enclaves and Awadh Vihar as contain- ment zones. The health workers col- lected 466 swab samples in the city. In its highest single-day spike, (817) coronavirus pos- itive cases were detected in the last 24 hours across the state, Noida remained the in the firm grip of coronavirus with 151 new cases being reported from there. It was followed by Kanpur (46 cases), Ghaziabad (36), Aligarh (27), Saharanpur (26), Sultanpur (20) Budaun (18), Varanasi (17) and Shahjahanpur (14). The COVID-19 death toll mounted to 507 after 19 fresh fatalities were reported from different districts of the state, ■

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Suspended Jammu &Kashmir DSP Davinder

Singh, arrested while ferryingtwo Hizb-ul-Mujahideen ter-rorists in a vehicle on theSrinagar-Jammu Highway ear-lier this year, was granted bailon Friday by a court here inanother terror case filed byDelhi Police after it failed to filea charge sheet within the pre-scribed time period.

Singh, however, willremain in jail since he has yetnot secured bail in the case filedby the National InvestigationAgency (NIA) in relation to hisarrest on January 10 this yearwhile ferrying two HuM ter-rorists in a vehicle on theSrinagar-Jammu Highway.

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Former Congress leaderJyotiraditya Scindia, who

recently joined BJP, formerUnion Ministers MallikarjunKharge and Shibu Soren areamong 19 members who wereelected to the Rajya Sabhaafter the day-long polls at var-ious State Assemblies wereconducted under stringentnorms laid by ElectionCommission of India onFriday. In Andhra Pradesh,the ruling YSRCP of JaganMohan Reddy won all the fourRajya Sabha seats.

Against 61 vacancies in 20States, 42 members were

already elected unopposedincluding 28 first timers.

Of the remaining 19 vacan-cies for which results weredeclared on Friday, 15 firsttimers are likely to enter theRajya Sabha. Elections wereheld in the State Assemblies ofMadhya Pradesh, Rajasthan,Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh,Jharkhand, Mizoram,Meghalaya and Manipur.

While MP had alreadyseen an upheaval before thelockdown after Scindiaswitched sides to BJP leading tofall of Kamal NathGovernment, Gujarat andRajasthan too witnessed a bat-tle of resorts politics.

Continued on Page 10

Beijing: Even as it has comeunder fire from across theworld for the unprovoked fatalattacks on Indian soldiers inLadakh’s Galwan valley onMonday, China continued toblame India for the crisis.

On Friday, ChineseForeign Ministry SpokespersonZhao Lijian said “responsibil-ity entirely lies entirely with theIndian side” for the face-off.

Speaking to the media, hesaid, “Regarding the serious sit-

uation in Galwan Valley, rightand wrong are very clear andthe responsibility entirely lieswith the Indian side. Indiaand China are in talks to easethe situation.”

A top US diplomat onFriday said China is openingmultiple fronts like the one on“LAC with India” because ofBeijings assessment that theworld is “distracted” due to theCovid-19 and it could takeadvantage of it. Agencies

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Days after 20 Indian jawanswere killed by the Chinese

soldiers in an ambush atGalwan valley in easternLadakh on the interveningnight of June 15-16, PrimeMinister Narendra Modi onFriday told an all-party meet-ing that Chinese army neitherentered the Indian territorynor any of “our posts has beentaken over by them on theIndian side.” The meeting wascalled to discuss India-Chinastand-off on the line of ActualControl (LAC),

“Neither have they intrud-ed into our border, nor has anypost been taken over by them(China). Twenty of our jawanswere martyred, but those whodared Bharat Mata, they weretaught a lesson,” said the PM inthe virtual meet with around 20political parties.

Modi said no one can takeeven an “inch of the land”.

“Today, we possess thecapability that no one can eyeeven one inch of our land.India’s Armed forces have thecapability to move into multi-ple sectors at one go,”announced the Prime Minister.

The important interactionwas an attempt by the PM toevolve a national consensus onpolitical, economic and mili-tary response by India after theviolent incident at Galwan val-ley in eastern Ladakh.

Modi said Indian Armedforces are doing what theyhave to do to protect the coun-try, whether it is deployment,action or counter-action.

Incidentally, while the PMsaid no intrusion took placeinside the India territory,External Affair Minister SJaishankar said on June 17that, “Ground commanderswere meeting regularly toimplement this consensusthroughout the last week.While there was some progress,the Chinese side sought toerect a structure in GalwanValley on our side of the LAC.While this became a source ofdispute, the Chinese side tookpre-meditated and plannedaction that was directly respon-sible for the resulting violenceand casualties. It reflected anintent to change the facts on theground in violation of all ouragreements to not change thestatus quo.”

It was obvious that Chinesejawans had entered the Indianside of the LAC and tried toraise a structure.

It’s also not clear if therewas no intrusion by theChinese why the two armieswere face-to-face for nearlytwo months. After the PMspoke, several military expertshave asked if “everything wasso smooth and no incursiontook place, then why did welose 20 of our jawans.”

Modi was chairing an all-party meet to discuss thevolatile India-China bordersituation as the DefenceMinister Rajnath Singh earlierdenied intelligence failure inthe border face-off asOpposition raised the questionwhile extending full-support tothe Modi Government in itsresponse to the Chinse intru-

sions on the border.The virtual meeting began

with participants standing intwo-minute silence to pay trib-utes to the Indian soldiers who

fell in the border face-off. Allparty leaders said they were onewith the Government andshould speak in one voice.

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Despite the chorus to shunChinese goods grows

across India, Chinese smart-phones — OnePlus 8 andOnePlus 8 Pro — went out-of-stock within minutes after itssale began via Amazon Indiaon June 18.

At the same time,#BoycottChineseProducts wasamong the top Twitter trendsin India for the past two days,after 20 Army personnel,including an officer, were blud-geoned to death by Chinese inGalwan Valley, Ladakh.

Another Chinese firmXiaomi, the number onesmartphone brand in the coun-try, recently sold its first laptopseries in India on 17 June.Meanwhile, China’s Oppo can-celled the live online launch ofits flagship smartphone in Indiadue to growing anti-China

sentiments.The popular electronics

brand recently hosted the saleof its flagship smartphone, theOnePlus 8 Pro in India, the saleran out within minutes after itwent on sale. The pace of salesshows that how Indians arecrazy on cheap priced Chineseproducts. The first consign-ment of OnePlus 8 andOnePlus 8 Pro was sold outwithin minutes on June 15. Thesecond sale which took placeon June 18 also sold out with-in minutes.

The phone was unveiled inApril, but sales in India haveonly begun from this monthonwards due to the ongoingCovid-19 crisis. OnePlus 8 ispriced in India at �41,999 forthe exclusive Amazon basemodel while the OnePlus 8 Prois priced in India between�54,999 and �59,999.

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Three days after they weredetained following the

bloody brawl in the Galwanvalley, ten Indian Army per-sonnel, including two officers,were released by the Chineseon Thursday.

The breakthrough camefollowing several rounds ofMajor General level meetingsbetween the two Armies at theLine of Actual Control (LAC)since Monday when 20 Indianjawans, including commandingofficer Colonel B Santosh Babu,attained martyrdom in clashes.

The released personnelincluding a Lt Colonel andthree Majors were back on theIndian side of the LAC lateThursday, sources said here onFriday. They also clarifiedthat the soldiers wereunharmed.

Immediately after theirreturn, the personnel wentthrough a medical check-upfollowed by debriefing session,sources said. However, theArmy on Thursday had deniedreports about their captivityand said no Indian soldier wasmissing in action.

Interestingly, the Chineseon Friday also denied thatthere was any Indian soldier intheir custody. Chinese ForeignMinistry Spokesperson ZhaoLijian made the claim at a dailypress briefing in response toquestions about the border sit-uation after the release of theten Indian soldiers.

Though the Army onFriday did not confirm therelease of its personnel, sources

said negotiations at the diplo-matic and military level werekept a closely guarded secret toprevent any harm coming tothose in captivity.

The release of the 10 sol-diers figured in three rounds oftalks between Indian andChinese delegations of MajorGeneral level near Patrol Point14 in Galway Valley betweenTuesday and Thursday. MajorGeneral Abhijit Bapat, com-mander of Karu-based head-quarters 3 Infantry Division,and his Chinese counterpart,met for the third time onThursday.

These regular parleys werefocused on the early and saferelease of the Indian personneland early de-escalation of thesituation and to disengage onthe disputed border.

The two senior militaryofficers have met seven timessince the stand-off began inearly May.

The last time Indian sol-diers were captured by theChinese was during the 1962war. Incidentally, the Galwanvalley also saw battles thenbetween the Indian andChinese armies.

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With tension unabated atthe Line of Actual

Control (LAC) in Ladakh andChina moving its troops for-ward, India has also strength-ened its overall militarystrength. IAF Chief RKSBhadauria visited the region onWednesday and Thursday toreview operational prepared-ness. His visit came after 20Indian Army personnel,including the commandingofficer, were killed in a fracaswith the Chinese.

Bhadauria visited the Lehairbase on Wednesday and theSrinagar airbase on Thursday.He took stock of the overalloperational preparedness tomeet any challenge all along theLAC, sources said here onFriday. Incidentally, ArmyChief General MM Naravanehad visited Leh last month toreview the situation in thewake of the ongoing stand-offin eastern Ladakh.

Over the last month, Chinahas increased its troop strengthto nearly 10,000 in the easternLadakh region where thestand-off is continue. They alsomoved up their heavy weaponsbesides increasing helicopterflying along the LAC on theirside. India also took immedi-ate steps and enhanced itsstrength all along the 4,000 km

long LAC from Ladakh toUttarakhand, HimachalPradesh, Sikkim, andArunachal Pradesh.

Besides increasing troops,India’s other steps comprisedmoving up the fighter jets tooperational bases close to theLAC and preparing the war-ships to conduct deep-sea sur-veillance. They were alsocleared to take necessary action

in the Malacca Straits nearAndaman and Nicobar Islandsas this sea lane sees more than90 per cent of oil going toChina. India has a distinctadvantage there as it can chokethe lane.

The IAF operates severalairbases in J&K, with Srinagar,Awantipora, and Leh operatingeither fighter squadrons orfighter detachments. On Friday,fighter jets and attack heli-copters carried out sorties inthe Leh region.

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Twenty-three more peopletested positive for coron-

avirus infection in Lucknowwhich witnessed threeCOVID-19 deaths even asUttar Pradesh reported itshighest single-day spike of 817positive cases, taking the state’stally to 16,602 on Friday.

The previous highest sin-gle-day spike in cases was onThursday when the staterecorded 604 positive cases.

Lucknow’s Chief MedicalOfficer Dr Narendra Agarwalsaid with the 23 new cases, 760people had tested positive inthe state capital so far. OnFriday, 17 COVID-19 patientsrecovered completely and weredischarged from hospitals.

Among those who testedpositive on Friday are fivewomen and 18 men, includinga PAC jawan.

Three positive cases were

found in Kamta, two each inMaulviganj, Alambagh, ViratKhand and Vivek Khand ofGomtinagar and Awadh ViharColony, and one each inRailway Colony, Thakurganj,Vikas Khand of Gomtinagar,Park Road, Rahimabad,Shahmeena Road, Telibagh,Vidhayakpuram, Indira Nagarand Meena Market.

The CMO said that thethree deaths reported in thecity were under audit. He saidwhile a man from Gorakhpurdied at KGMU, another fromDelhi died in a private hospi-tal in Gomtinagar and a thirddied at Malihabad who testedpositive after death.

KGMU spokesperson DrSudhir Singh said the 64-year-old man from Gorakhpur whodied in the hospital was a dia-betic and had thyroid problem.He had tested positive for coro-navirus infection.

The CMO has asked the

district magistrate to declareAjay Nagar, Kamta,Manoharnagar Thakurganj,Park Road, Virat Khand inGomtinagar, Rapti Enclavesand Awadh Vihar as contain-ment zones.

The health workers col-lected 466 swab samples in thecity.

In its highest single-dayspike, (817) coronavirus pos-itive cases were detected inthe last 24 hours across thestate,

Noida remained the in thefirm grip of coronavirus with151 new cases being reportedfrom there. It was followed byKanpur (46 cases), Ghaziabad(36), Aligarh (27), Saharanpur(26), Sultanpur (20) Budaun(18), Varanasi (17) andShahjahanpur (14).

The COVID-19 death tollmounted to 507 after 19 freshfatalities were reported fromdifferent districts of the state,

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Uttar Pradesh ChiefMinister, Yogi Adityanath

has claimed that during theBharatiya Janata Party regime,cane farmers have been paid arecord cane price of more thanRs1,00,000 crore, during 2017-2020 period.

“Due to the tireless effortsmade in the interest of canefarmers, a record cane pricepayment of more than Rs1,00,000 crore was possiblebetween 2017-2020,” the chiefminister said.

He made these commentsafter transferring Rs 418 crorethrough Direct Bank Transfer(DBT) to cane farmers here,claiming that his governmenthas paid Rs 1,00,325 croreduring his 3-year rule to thecane growers.

This payment is Rs 46,633crore more than the combinedcane price payment of Rs53,367 crore of the previousthree years of 2014-17.

He also said that the caneprice payment during 2017-20was Rs 4,785 crore more thanthe cumulative cane price pay-ment of Rs 95,215 crore paidduring 2012-17 period.

It is noteworthy that theoutstanding cane price pay-ment of Rs 4,466 crore of theyear 2012-2017 period wasalso paid during 2017-2020 tothe farmers of the state.

The chief minister saidthat the state government wascommitted to protecting theeconomic interests of canefarmers. “Even during the coro-navirus pandemic when all theindustries were closed, thesugar mills of the state contin-ued crushing operations. Itwas the commitment of thegovernment to safeguardingthe interest of farmers, that thesupply of their sugar caneremained uninterrupted duringthe lockdown period,” he said.

“Though the sugar saleremained negligible duringlockdown, cane price paymentof Rs 5,953 crore was made tofarmers in this period,” he

said. In the current crushingseason 2019-20, the sugar millsof the state crushed 1,116 lakhtons of sugarcane and pro-duced 126.5 lakh tons of sugar.This crushing season and sugarproduction was recorded as thehighest in the history of UP.

There are 48 lakh sugar-cane farmers in the state. In theinterest of farmers, 119 sugar

mills continued to operate inthe state during the lockdown.Around 25,000-40,000 sugar-cane farmers are associatedwith each mill. Each millemploys 8,000-10,000 people.

“As these mills were func-tional during the lockdown,farmers faced no difficulty inearning their livelihood. As aresult of it, Uttar Pradesh ranks

first in the country in sugarcaneand sugar production, StateDevelopment Cane MinisterSuresh Rana said.

He said along with this, themills and distilleries achievedthe capacity to manufacture5,00,000 litres of sanitiser on adaily basis.

“Today, the situation isthat sanitiser is being supplied

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Lucknow (PNS): ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath onFriday stressed that all effortsshould be made to make bet-ter health services available tothe people in this disastroustime of COVID-19 pandemicand to maximise the use of allresources, ambulances of ‘108’,‘102’, ALS and private nursinghomes be pressed into service.

He said all ambulancesshould compulsorily have sani-tiser, PPE kits, N-95 masks andgloves and their response timeshould be below 10 minutes.

Presiding over a high-levelreview meeting of Unlockarrangements at his 5, KalidasMarg official residence here onFriday the Chief Minister saidthat the testing facilities shouldbe ramped up and the processto set up testing labs in everydistrict should be expedited.

He directed the officials toset up a level-2 lab in all divi-sional hospitals and medicalcolleges by the end of June,2020. He asked the MedicalEducation and Health depart-ments to ensure follow-upaction in this regard. He alsoasked the officials to deployAYUSH doctors in Level-1and Level-2 Covid hospitals.

“All medical equipmentshould be functional in Covidhospitals. At least 10 per centbeds in the Covid hospitalsshould have oxygen facilityand some beds in Level-2 hos-

pitals should have ventilators,”he said.

The chief minister alsoasked the officials to createmore holding areas in hospi-tals with adequate number ofstretchers and wheelchairs.

“Beside this, there shouldbe more counters for registra-tion in hospitals,” he added.

Yogi stressed the need forcreating awareness aboutCOVID-19 through properpublicity, including publicaddress system.

“Hoardings should be putup in gram panchayats andurban bodies areas givinginformation about coron-avirus. Government rationshops and mandis should alsohave similar banners. Everyinstitution should have aCovid help desk with availabil-ity of sanitiser, infra-red ther-mometer and pulse oximeter,”he said.

The chief minister alsoasked officials to deployhuman resources to strength-en the surveillance system.He lauded the role of surveil-lance committees and saidthey should also be providedsanitiser, infra-red thermome-ter and pulse oximeter.

He directed continuedintensive police patrolling andfoot patrolling in crowdedplaces and markets andpatrolling by PRV-112 vans athighways and expressways.

“The social distancingnorms have to be followed tocontain the spread of coron-avirus,” he said.

The chief minister point-ed out that there was a com-petition for investments inthe country hence simplifica-tion of rules was necessary toattract investment in UP.

He said that his govern-ment had been working seri-ously towards this and direct-ed officials to speed up theprocess of simplifying rulesand procedures to attract moreand more investment.

In order to provideemployment to labourers, theindustrial investment develop-ment commissioner (IIDC)should conduct a survey ofindustrial units, Yogi said.

Mentioning the immensepossibilities of employmentin industry, MSME, ruraldevelopment, panchayati raj,agriculture and irrigation, thechief minister described howthe labourers of Banda districtrevived a river by their efforts.“It provided employment forsome and new life to the river,”he said, adding that suchendeavours should be encour-aged.

The chief minister alsodirected officials to ensureproper doorstep delivery sys-tem in the containment zonesand maintain adequate sanita-tion and cleanliness all around.

Lucknow (PNS): Cane farmers of the statehailed Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for hiscommitment to end ‘goonda raj’ and his con-cern for farmers that helped Uttar Pradeshtouch new heights.

“You have liberated western UP from‘goonda raj’. Criminals have faced stern actionin your rule. I thank you for cane payments andsugarcane e-app. Take care of your health, thiscountry needs you for a long time,” a canefarmer from Muzaffarnagar, Arvind Malik, toldthe chief minister while interacting with himthrough video-conferencing on Friday.

Malik said that there was a considerable dipin “kidnapping trade” in the region and for thefirst time, sugar mills made record cane pur-chases and mills continued to operate duringlockdown.

“For the first time in 40 years, cane yieldincreased by 20 per cent. Paperless slips areavailable to farmers with transparency throughe-sugarcane app,” he said.

Similarly, Vinod Saini from Meerut saidthat when all industrial units were shut due tothe pandemic, sugar mills continued operations.“The sugarcane department imparted trainingof new technology to cane farmers during lock-down,” he said.

Sudhir Tyagi of Sambhal said that the chiefminister had fulfilled all needs of the farmers.“Crushing of cane has been done on time dur-ing your regime. I am very thankful to you,” hesaid.

Cane farmer from Lakhimpur Kheri,Parvinder Singh, thanked the chief minister forthe respect given to the Sikh community. Hesaid that cane farmers were getting slips at homeeasily and the produce was reaching sugar millsat the right time.

Cane farmers from Ambedkar Nagar,Pilibhit, Gorakhpur, Gonda, Kushinagar alsopraised the e-slip system and said that farm-ers benefited due to the introduction of e-sug-arcane app and toll-free number.

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from Uttar Pradesh to 28 statesand also other countries duringthe coronavirus crisis,” he said.

Rana said that ensuringcane price payments to farm-ers was the top priority of thegovernment. He said the stategovernment was determined topromote the economic interestand the all-around develop-ment of sugarcane farmers.

Principal Secretary (CaneDevelopment) Sanjay RBhoosreddy said that on Friday,the chief minister interactedwith sugarcane farmers of dif-ferent districts of the statethrough video conferencing.

He said feedback was takenfrom farmers about cane pricepayment and other issues relat-ed to sugarcane.

Lucknow (PNS): The UttarPradesh government will sign amemorandum of understanding(MoU) with THDC IndiaLimited (formerly Tehri HydroDevelopment CorporationLimited) for setting up of a 600megawatt solar power plant.

The UP government has seta target of renewable energycapacity of 10,700 megawatt(MW) by 2022. The solar powerproject would entail an invest-ment of about Rs 2,400 crore. Itwill come up under the UP SolarEnergy Policy, 2017 and the con-tours of the Ultra Mega

Renewable Energy PowerPark (UMREPP) scheme ofthe Union New andRenewable Energy Ministry.THDC India Limited willsign an agreement with statenodal agency — UP Newand Renewable EnergyDevelopment Agency(UPNEDA) — for creating ajoint venture for the solar pro-ject. The joint venture willhave an authorised share cap-ital of Rs 50 crore, which willbe contributed by the THDCand UPNEDA in the ratio of74 per cent and 26 per centrespectively. Recently, the UPcabinet had given its nod forsigning an agreement with theTHDC India Limited for set-ting up the solar park, whichwill comprise a 600 MWsolar power plant in the firstphase. The solar power plantis estimated to cost Rs 4 croreper MW, thus totalling Rs2,400 crore of investment.Under the plan, the develop-er will offer competitive tar-iffs even before the solarpower plant is completed andthe solar energy is available forevacuation by the nearbytransmission lines for subse-quent distribution by the grid.According to MSME MinisterSidharth Nath Singh, the solarpower project will be readywithin a shorter period oftime and it would supplycheaper energy to the powerconsumers, including indus-try and farmers.

Meanwhile, the UPNE-DA plans to contribute itsshare equity of Rs 13 crore ina lump sum through its cor-pus built by way of 3 per centlevy it has been charging onthe services rendered by itover the previous years.Additionally, the Central gov-ernment will provide a fund-ing of 30 per cent of the pro-ject cost or Rs 20 lakh perMW, whichever is lower,under the Central UMREPPscheme. According to theSolar Energy Corporation ofIndia (SECI), a solar powerplant typically generates per-manent employment for twopeople per MW during the 25years of the project life.Besides, it creates temporaryjob opportunities for 10 per-sons per MW. This way, the600 MW proposed solarpower project in UP is esti-mated to create permanentand temporary job opportu-nities for 1,200 and 6,000people respectively.

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Four persons were arrestedfor allegedly conspiring to

frame a dairy owner in a fakecase of keeping a country-made pistol and ganja. Policealso launched a manhunt forthe masterminds. As perreports, Ranjeet Kashyap ofthe locality called the policeon Thursday night, informingthem that a dairy owner hadcountry-made pistol and ganjaat his shop. A team of policereached the scene and recov-ered a country-made pistoland a ganja kept in the rearportion of the shop.

The dairy owner deniedhis complicity and told thepolice that someone was try-ing to frame him up andmight have gained accessthrough the ventilator in therear portion. The policescanned a CCTV footage toverify the claims made by thedairy owner. In a frame,Ranjeet Kashyap and threeothers were seen loitering nearthe dairy carrying a bag.

On the revelation, thepolice quizzed Ranjeet and heconfessed to his nefariousdesign. On the information,the police arrested three oth-ers, identified as Raj KumarKashyap, Abhishek Mishra(both of Gomti Nagar) andVivek Shukla of Chinhat. Theydisclosed that dairy owner’srivals Ashok Yadav andRanjeet Yadav (owners of asweet shop) had given themthe contract to frame him up.

It surfaced during interro-

gation that Ashok and Ranjeetnursed a grudge against thedairy owner as they held himresponsible for their dull busi-ness. Both planned to send thedairy owner to jail for betterbusiness prospects. Theyattempted to frame up theirrival by keeping a country-made pistol and ganja at latter’sdairy. However, a quick probeinto the case saved the day forthe dairy owner.

Meanwhile, a team ofChowk police claimed to havearrested two persons for steal-ing bikes from different placesin the city on Friday. Theaccused arrested were identi-fied as Sandeep Kumar Rastogiand Mohammed Javed (bothof Thakurganj). They werearrested near a hospital in the

locality. Chowk SHOVishwajeet Singh said the teamrecovered two stolen motorcy-cles from the possession of theaccused. Singh said Sandeepwas a habitual offender andwas sent to jail on the chargesof autolifting by Mahanagar,Bazaarkhala and Thakurganjpolice.

Meanwhile, a youth wasarrested for embezzling Rs 40lakh form a private financialinstitute in Ashiyana where heworked. The accused wasidentified as Kapil Chauhan ofSarojininagar. The police saidKapil worked as an assistantmanager/banking incharge inRadiant Cash ManagementServices Private Limited, acompany dealing in cash collection.

*�������� ������������5�5������ ������+�Lucknow (PNS): The depart-ment of Nephrology, Urology andRenal Transplantation at SanjayGandhi Post-Graduate Institute ofMedical Sciences has successful-ly performed the first kidneytransplantation in lockdown. Thepatient was a 24-year-old womanand the donor her 36-year-oldhusband male from Patna, Bihar.Both were medically fit to gounder the knife.

“SGPGIMS used to do 130-140 transplantations every yearbut the current pandemic disrupt-ed the services since March afterlockdown was imposed,” mediaspokesperson of SGPGI said.Director Dr RK Dhiman wantedto restore this service as soon aspossible because SGPGI is theonly centre in UP which performskidney transplantation regularly,she said. “It was the first kidneytransplantation at SGPGIMS sincethe declaration of lockdown. Boththe donor and recipient weretested for Covid-19 and thereports turned out to be negative,”she said. The nephrologist teamwas led by Amit Gupta, NarayanPrasad and other faculty members. The transplant sur-geons’ team was led by AneeshSrivastava and other faculty mem-bers while anaesthesia team leadby Anil Agarwal.

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Lucknow MunicipalCorporation has managed

to collect a total of Rs 30 croreas house tax in Covid-19times, chief tax assessmentofficer Ashok Singh said,adding that they have set a tar-get of Rs 23 crore in comingmonths and in view the coro-navirus pandemic, there willbe a gentle approach in recov-ery. He said targets had notbeen set earlier because of thelockdown but with things set-tling down, they revised thetargets after a review meeting.

“We have collected a sumof Rs 30 crore from April 1 toJune 17 and this is still Rs 39crore less than the amountwhich we had received lastyear,” he said. Out of the Rs 23-crore target set for the district,it is Rs 4 crore for zone-1, Rs1.5 crore for zone-2, Rs 3crore for zone-3, Rs 4 crore forzone-4, Rs 1.5 crore for zone-5, Rs 2 crore for zone-6, Rs 3crore for zone-7 and Rs 4 crorefor zone-8.

He said 1,31,000 people

have already paid the taxes —90 lakh deposited the amountonline while the rest visitedthe LMC office for the pur-pose.

Singh said that to pace upthe activity, they are also send-ing bills from door to door.“We are not taking any sternaction or attaching of proper-ties since people are facingproblems in in Covid-19times. It is still the lockdownperiod and people do nothave any food to eat, andhence it is not possible to bestrict with them,” he added.

Regarding the project ofaerial survey which was start-ed from zone-4 to identify thehouses which were not payingthe taxes, Singh said the activ-ity was halted because of lock-down. “The survey was to becarried out in the entire cityand will be started at a conve-nient time later,” he said.

He added that 3.44 lakhpeople have been sent thelink for online deposit of taxesbut since 2.17 people were notin the database, messagescould not be sent to them.

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Amaximum of those testingpositive for coronavirus in

Lucknow are in the age group of21-40 years, Chief MedicalOfficer Dr Narendra Agarwalsaid on Friday. Currently, mostof the cases in the district arethose who came in contactwith their kin already havingbeen infected with the virus, hesaid, adding that the recoveryrate has been good due to thepatients being young withstrong immunity.

“We have a good recoveryrate because the patients havebeen young. Senior citizens inthe age group of 60-70 years areless in numbers as compared toyoungsters,” the CMO pointedout. As per the new guidelines,if a person is not having fever forthree days, testing can be carriedout on the fourth day or even onthe seventh day. Also, thepatients can be discharged afterone negative test. The CMOsaid they are also testing the effi-cacy of Ayurveda in the treat-ment of Covid-19 at LokBandhu Hospital. On whetherthose stepping out of theirhomes were catching the infec-tion more in comparison tothose confined indoors, he saidmost of the patients came incontact with affected personsand it could happen only whenone stepped out.

Meanwhile, a senior officialfrom the Health departmentsaid as far as spread of virus wasconcerned, there was still no

cause for worry in Lucknoweven though there has been aspurt in cases of late. He insist-ed that the strategy for controlof virus spread is rigorous con-tact tracing and quarantine,which can only work at thispoint of time. He said thatalthough the cases were rising,they would not be running outof beds. “We are confidentabout this because we haveonly 5,500 active cases in thestate and more than one lakhbeds, hence we are way ahead.We are monitoring the situationclosely,” he added. The officialsaid that there were huge num-ber of cases in the NCR region

and the spillover effect of Delhiis showing its impact in UP. Hesaid there is so much of com-muting between Noida &Ghaziabad and Meerut & Delhi,the cases are bound to increase.

“People are coming fromand going to Delhi and there arevarious modes of virus transfer.There are a large number ofpeople infected in Delhi, and itwill reflect in the neighbouringdistricts,” he said. He added thatall kinds of experiments arebeing done as far a pooling ofsamples is concerned and by theend of this month, 25,000 sam-ples are likely to be tested in thestate per day. Meanwhile, dis-

trict urban heath coordinatorSanjay Mishra said most of thepeople coming to the districtfrom outside are those frommetropolitan cities such asDelhi, Mumbai, Ghaziabad andNoida which are places knownfor the job opportunities thatthey provide. He said most ofthe migrants coming toLucknow spread out in Sadar,Kasaibada, Cantonment,Nakkhas and Tudiaganj, whichis the reason for the spread ofinfection in these areas. Headded that the random sam-pling was carried out in the vil-lages and rural parts of the district.

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which Sandeep consumed.The body was sent for autop-sy.

Meanwhile, a 60-year-old truck driver died afteranother speeding truck hit hisvehicle in Junabganj localityunder Banthra police stationaround 1:30 am on Friday.The police impounded thetruck and started furtherinvestigation. The deceasedwas identified as Phool Singhof Farrukhabad. His sonRahul lodged a case againstthe unidentified driver. Hetold the police that his fatherwas coming from Silchar andgoing to Kanpur.

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“Two solar telescopes will beinstalled at the Indira GandhiPlanetarium. The first telescopewill focus on the solar eclipse andits live feed will be telecastthrough YouTube,” he said.

The solar eclipse will beginat 9.15 am. The sun will comeunder the penumbra of the moonfrom this time. At 10:17 am, thesun will come behind the umbraof the moon. At 2:02 pm, the sunwill start moving out of theumbra of the moon. In this man-ner, the solar eclipse will last forthree hours and 45 minutes inLucknow. This annular solareclipse can be viewed as a partialsolar eclipse from Lucknow andnearby areas,” he said.

He said that in Lucknow,84.24 percent of the sun will behidden by the shadow of themoon from 12:11 for 47 secondsin this solar eclipse.

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Aworker at SwarupChemicals factory on

Faizabad road in Chinhat diedwhile some his colleagues wereinjured after a boiler explod-ed on Friday night. Thedeceased was identified asSheru Singh of Fatehpur.ADCP Amit said more thaneight ambulances weredeployed at the scene to rushthe injured to hospital.

The police said the inci-dent occurred when workerswere busy in manufacturingwork. The explosion scaredpeople in the locality and theyflocked to the scene later. Twowomen of the Utardhauna vil-lage, in which the factory islocated, fell unconscious due tothe deafening sound. Five vil-lagers also suffered injuries asthe heavy metal pieces of boil-er and iron sheets fell on them.They were identified as Sabira(23), Subi (27), Sakina (23),Asif Ali and a minor, identifiedas Amna. Heavy police forcewas deployed at the scene.Earlier, police teams fromChinhat, Vibhuti Khand andneighbouring police stationswere despatched to the scene.The rescue operation was car-ried out under the supervisionof senior officers. Districtadministration officials werealso present at the scene.

The blast occurred around8 PM near BBD outpost ofChinhat police station. Threefire tenders were also pressedinto service. The police deniedreports of gas leak.

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Ceremony was held at the Memaura AirForce Station on June 18 to mark theculmination of 161st FighterControllers’ Course (FCC). The coursecomprising 15 officers from IAF and sixofficers from friendly foreign countriescommenced in January earlier thisyear. The function marks the culmina-tion of FCC and donning of the covet-ed controllers’ badge for the graduat-ing officers. The valedictory functionwas presided over by Air Marshal IPVipin, Senior Air Staff Officer, CentralAir Command Headquarters. GroupCaptain AK Pandey, CommandingOfficer, Air Defence College, present-ed the report on course highlightingsalient training activities undertaken.The meritorious trainees were award-ed trophies and medallions by the

Reviewing Officer. Flying Officer KartikDhar Dwivedi was awarded AOC-in-C, Central Air Command (CAC),Trophy for ‘Best in OverallPerformance’. The ceremony wasattended by Group Captain AS Minhas,Vishisht Seva Medal, StationCommander, Air Force StationMemaura, and other important func-tionaries of the station.

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Aarav Agarwal, a class III studentof City MontessoriSchool, KanpurRoad Campus, hassecured 100 per centmarks in reasoningcompetition in theI n t e r n a t i o n a lBenchmark Test(IBT), getting thetop rank globally.IBT is organised by the AustralianCouncil for Educational Research(ACER) once a year in many countries.In India, thousands of students fromseveral noted schools took IBT, where-in Aarav secured 100 per cent marks inreasoning amidst a tough competition.CMS will honour him with a cash prizeof Rs. 50,000.

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Prime Minister NarendraModi on Friday chaired a

review meeting through videoconferencing on variousdevelopment projects under-taken in his parliamentaryconstituency. The prime min-ister also saw the presentationhighlighting the progressmade in Kashi VishwanathDham Project by a dronevideo of the layout. He alsodiscussed efforts undertakenon effective management ofCOVID-19.

During his talks, Modifocused on enhancing thepace of development and wel-fare works for providing qual-ity services to citizens andimproving their standard ofliving. Reviewing the progressof Kashi Vishwanath Dham

Project, the prime ministerdirected that all such old tem-ples that were unearthed dur-ing the development shouldbe protected and preserved.He said help of experts shouldbe taken to maintain suchtemple’s historical and archi-tectural legacy.

“Carbon dating should bedone so that these temples andtheir importance is highlight-ed to the tourists and the pil-grims who visit the temple,” hesaid, adding that the KashiVishwanath Trust should pre-pare a route map with appro-priate tourist guides to facil-itate the pilgrims who make avisit in this complex.

The prime minister alsoreviewed projects which arebeing undertaken in the city.He was apprised that morethan 100 major projects with-

in the financial outflow ofaround Rs 8,000 crore werecurrently being undertakenin Varanasi for creating socialand physical infrastructurelike hospital buildings, nation-al waterways, ring roads, by-pass, International ConventionCentre ‘Rudraksh’ being builtwith Indo-Japan collabora-tion etc. Modi asked the offi-cials to complete the develop-ment works within the time-lines while maintaining thehighest standards of quality.

He directed the officialsthat optimum utilisation ofnon-renewable energy bemade for creation of nextgeneration infrastructure.

“Saturation of householdsand streetlights with LEDbulbs should be taken onmission mode in the entireVaranasi district,” he suggest-

ed. For increasing the tourismand travel footprint in Kashi,he directed officials that worksof cruise tourism, light andsound show, rejuvenation ofKhidkiya and DashaswamedhGhats, display of Ganga aartithrough audio-video screensbe fast-tracked.

He said all efforts shouldbe made to promote and prop-agate the role of Kashi as oneof the key repositories ofworld heritage. He directed theofficials to organise week-long festivals of countries likeJapan, Thailand etc. whereBuddhism is practised to cel-ebrate their art and cultureheritage. He also directed theofficials to identify a modelroad which, with a suitabletheme reflecting the heritageof Kashi, could be developedas ‘Gaurav Path’ with active

participation of local citizens.He further directed the offi-cials to ensure that Kashibeing a tourist destinationexcelled in all parameters ofsanitation and cleanliness. “Allefforts should be made toachieve the desired levels ofODF plus, use of mechanisedsweeping and cleaning, ensur-ing 100 per cent door-to-doorwaste collection and makingthe entire environment verypositive and healthy,” he said.

The presentation alsodwelled on development ofworld class communicationand connectivity infrastruc-ture in Varanasi. Modi saidthat the city should become ahub of the National Waterwayconnecting Varanasi toHaldia. “Planning should bedone for development ofentire eco-system, cargo ship-

ping and freight movement,”he said, and asked the officialsto complete the expansionand modernisation works ofLal Bahadur ShastriInternational Airport on pri-ority so that Varanasi becameone of the leading cities withstate-of-art rail, road, waterand air connectivity. Themeeting was attended by peo-ple’s representative of the dis-trict including UP ministersNeelakanth Tiwari andRavindra Jaiswal, MLAsSurendra Narayan Singh,Saurabh Shrivastava, NeelRatan Neelu, MLCs AshokDhawan, Laxman Acharya,Divisional CommissionerDeepak Agarwal, DistrictMagistrate Kaushal RajSharma, MunicipalCommissioner Gaurang Rathiand some others.

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The Uttar Pradesh govern-ment has amended the Uttar

Pradesh Self-FinancedIndependent Schools (FeeRegulation) Act to regulate feesof private schools in extraordi-nary conditions such as pandem-ic, natural calamity etc.

An ordinance amending theAct for regulating school fees wasbeen promulgated by UPGovernor Anandiben Patel onWednesday. The amended lawempowers the state governmentto regulate fees charged by pri-vate schools from existing andnew students for each academicyear. The new law states, “Inextraordinary conditions oremergent circumstances like butnot limited to acts of god, epi-demic, natural calamities, wars orrevolutions, civil commotions,floods etc, the state governmentmay by order regulate the fees tobe charged by recognisedschools, from existing studentsand newly admitted studentsfor each academic year till such

time the aforesaid eventualitiesexist, or till such time as itappears necessary in publicinterest.” Under the amendedlaw, there will be a ‘Self-FinancedIndependent School Authority’at the divisional level, headed bythe divisional commissioner,with additional director, trea-sury, as member and divisionaljoint director of education asmember-secretary.

Moreover, the appellateauthority formed under theUttar Pradesh PrivateProfessional Education Institutes(Regulation of Admission andFixation of Fees) Act, 2006would work as ‘Self-FinanceIndependent School AppellateAuthority’ till divisional self-financed independent schoolappellate authorities are consti-tuted in each division of thestate. As per the law, the appel-late authority will have the pow-ers of the civil court as well asappellate court while hearingappeal. The law states, “Thedecision passed by the division-al self-financed independentschool authority shall be final.”

Deputy Chief MinisterDinesh Sharma who holds thecharge of Secondary Educationdepartment, said, “Some privateschools had moved the court cit-ing that the state governmentdoes not have right to regulatetheir fees. Considering the Covidpandemic, we had to come outwith the ordinance in this regard,and it was cleared by the Cabineton Tuesday and by the Governoron Wednesday.”

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ADalit woman was hacked to deathin Ayodhya while two youths were

allegedly killed by their beau’s familiesto save ‘family honour' in Basti andMuzaffarnagar respectively. In Ayodhya,Manju (45) of Dhamdhuwa hamlet ofKumarganj went to work in fields onFriday afternoon. While she was busyworking, a local, Shiv Kumar Upadhyayapproached her with an axe and brutal-ly hacked her to death. Even as severalworkers were present there, none ofthem dared to rescue the victim.

Later the police was informed andsent the body was autopsy. A case wasregistered and a hunt was lunched to nabthe killer. The motive behind the killingis yet to be ascertained.

Elsewhere in Basti, Arun Kumar ofBhanpur hamlet of Pakuliya was havingaffair with his neighbor. On Thursday,Arun’s body was found in a nearby canefield while his lover was also foundunconscious nearby. The girl was shift-ed to a hospital where she later revealedthat Arun called her to the fields and asthey were going inside, he came in con-

tact with a live wire and got electrocut-ed. She claimed that she tried to savehim, got electrocuted in the process andfainted. However, Arun’s family accusedthe girl’s family for trying to kill both forsaving ‘family honour’. In Muzaffarnagar,Rajan (22) of Sisauna hamlet of Chaparwas called by his neighbor Ishwar andhis sons and allegedly beaten to deathon Friday morning and his body wasthrown on the terrace of a neighbour.

Rajan was having an affair withIshwar’s daughter, which the latteropposed. It is suspected that Ishwarorchestrated the killing to save ‘familyhonour’. Meanwhile two inmates of tem-porary jail escaped after breaking thewindow of the detention centre inJaunpur early Friday morning. As perreports, a temporary jail was set up inPachatiya to lodge inmates till theirCorona test report was confirmed. RajuChauhan, a resident of Badlapur inKatheri, arrested on charges of murderand Monu Kumar Gautam, held forforgery were lodged in the same centre.In the wee hours, broke the grill of a win-dow of the jail and escaped. A case wasregistered and a hunt was launched.

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In a relief to power consumers, thestate government intends to keep

consumers with connections of 2 kWand commercial connections of 5 HPload away from penal action in case ofpower pilferage. With the amendmentin law, FIRs will not be lodged againstconsumers under this category andcases of power theft will be decided onthe basis of assessment and actual con-sumption and fine.

Under the Section 135 of theIndian Electricity Act, 2003, the offenceof power theft is punishable withimprisonment that can extend up tothree years or with fine or with both.This category of consumers will also befreed from the hassle of harassmentbesides reducing the load on the judi-

cial system. However, repeat offenderswill not get the exemption and FIRs willbe lodged against them as per the pro-visions of the Indian Electricity Act.

The proposed amendment in lawwill go a long way in ending exploita-tion of the power consumers. “It will bea big relief for farmers and domesticand commercial category with low con-nected load’’, said an official of theUPPCL. UP Energy Minister ShrikantSharma said here on Thursday that thestate government had sent the propos-al to Union Energy Minister RK Singhfor amendment in the relevant sectionsof the Indian Electricity Act, 2003.Since Indian Electricity Act is a CentralAct and power is in Concurrent list ofthe Constitution, the consent of theCentre is needed for the amendment.

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���������������� !"�#$%���&�#��!�Lucknow (PNS): Taking suomotu cognizance of mediareports of the rape of a youngwoman by the driver on amoving bus in Uttar Pradesh,National Commission forWomen (NCW) chief RekhaSharma told DGP, HCAwasthi to take stringentaction against the rapists onFriday.

“Considering the gravityof the matter, it is requestedthat investigation shall bedone immediately and actionbe taken against the culprit.An action taken report besend to the Commission bye-mail / Fax,” the NCW let-ter read. Sharma alsoexpressed concern overincreasing number of crimesagainst women despite theenactment of stringent lawsin the country.

In a tweet, the commis-sion posted:”NCW con-demns this brutality and hasdemanded strict actionagainst the culprits.”

A woman passengertravelling with her minorchildren from Pratapgarh toNoida alleged that she wasraped by the driver inside thebus between Lucknow andMathura on Wednesday. Theaccused later absconded.However, the other driverwas nabbed for intimidatingthe victim. The police saidthat the incident took placein an overnight sleeper bus,in the presence of 12-13other passengers, sometimeduring the night. The victimregistered her complaint at apolice station after reachingNoida on Tuesday morning.

“An FIR was immediate-ly registered. The bus wasseized and one person wasidentified and arrested. Amedical board was set up toexamine the victim. All co-passengers are being tracedand will be questioned.Forensic team will inspect thebus,” DCP (Women Cell) ofNoidda, Vrinda Shukla said.

Meanwhile in anothermove, NCW chief RekhaSharma also took cognizanceof demeaning tweets madeon women by Bhim Armychief Chandrashekhar Azadand wrote to the DGP forstrict action against Azad. Shealso requested the UP Policechief to end cyber crimesagainst women. Meanwhile,Azad refuted the chargesstating that he was in jailwhen the tweets were posted.

Azad clarified that hisTwitter account was initiatedin February, 2008, and he wasreleased from jail inSeptember, 2008. He addedthat a field worker had givenhim this account. Apart fromthis, Azad also said that he isa soldier of Babasaheb(Ambedkar) and respectedwomen.

Lucknow (PNS): Amid anti-Chinasentiments rising high due to therecent face-off in Galwan valley ofLadakh that left 20 Indian soldiers dead,the Special Task Force (STF) brassordered its personnel to uninstall 52dubious Chinese apps from theirphones, citing threat to their personaldata and contents.

“All personnel of the STF (UP) havebeen directed to immediately removethe following android apps from theirphones as well as that of their familymembers,” IG (STF), Amitabh Yash saidin an order on Friday.

The order said that the HomeMinistry suggested not to use theseapplications as these were of Chineseorigin and could pose threat of possi-ble data theft.

The list of 52 dubious’ apps include

Tik Tok, Vault Hide, Vigo Video, BigoLive, Weibo, We Chat, SHARE It, UCNews, UC Browser, Beauty Plus,Xender, Club Factory, Helo, LIKE,Kwai, ROMWE, SHEIN, News Dog,Photo Wonder, APUS Browser, VivaVideo – QU Video Inc, Perfect Corp,CM Browser, Virus Cleaner (HiSecurity Lab), MI Community, DURecorder, You Cam Makeup, MI Store,DU Battery Saver, 360 Security, DUBrowser, DU Cleaner, DU Privacy,Clean Master – Cheetah, Cache CleanerDU apps studio, Baidu Translate, BaiduMap, Wonder Camera, ES File Explorer,QQ International. QQ Launcher, QQSecurity Centre, QQ Player, QQ Music,QQ Mall, QQ News Feed, We Sync,Selfie City, Clash of Kings, Mail Master,MI Video call – Xiomi and ParallelSpace.

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Lucknow (PNS): A couplegoing for shopping was shot atand robbed of valuables andcash in Etawah on Friday after-noon, while in Sitapur, a bankmitra was shot at and deprivedof a cash bag by bike borne mis-creants on Friday.

In Etawah, Dayashankar ofAlampur Bilauli hamlet ofBharthana visited his in-lawsplace at Surajpur hamlet ofAuraiyya to attend a kin’’s mar-riage. On Friday morning, hetook his wife Devki and a kinNeeraj to Bharthana to pur-chase ornaments and othergoods for the bride-to-be forengagement ceremony. While

they were returning in theafternoon, three bikers accost-ed them near expressway con-struction site near Thaka Margin Usrahar police station area.Taking the trio at gun point, therobbers looted the ornamentsbought and those worn by thewomen along with otherbelongings and cash. AsDayashankar resisted, the mis-creants opened fire at him andescaped with the booty.

Elsewhere in Sitapur,armed miscreants shot at aBank Mitra and robbed him ofhis cash bag. As per reports,Sanjay Kumar Verma workedas a Bank Mitra with Maholi

branch of Allahabad Bank andran a customer help center atUrdauli village. On Friday after-noon, he was returning on hisbike from the bank with Rs72000 for handing it over tocustomers. As he passed byKusaila crossing in Maholipolice station area, unidentifiedbikers fired several shots, oneof which hit him on the stom-ach. After he lost balance andcrashed to the road, the robberslooted the cash bag. Meanwhile,some youths at a nearby tem-ple heard gunshots and rushedto help the victim. However themiscreants fired at them andmade good their escape.

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The parliamentary con-stituency of the Prime

Minister Narendra Modi wit-nessed protest against the mar-tyrdom of Indian soldiers onthird consecutive day on Fridaywith the activists of AkhilBharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad(ABVP), student wing of theBharatiya Janata Party (BJP),who torched the poster ofChinese president and flag atMaidagin crossing here. It maybe noted here that as many as20 Indian soldiers were stonedand bludgeoned to death in aviolent face-off with theChinese troops in the lateevening on June 15 in theGalwan Valley.

The activists of ABVP gath-ered at Maidagin crossing and

burnt the posters of Chinesepresident and flag to raise theirprotest against the China inwhich troops stoned and blud-geoned as many as 20 Indiansoldiers to death by deceptionin Galwan Valley. They laudedthe bravery of Indian soldierswho caused a major causality onChinese side in counter attack.

They said that the timewas not to show differences andrather we should show unityand stand by government andarmy as well in present situation.They blamed some politicalparties for playing politics in thepresent critical situation. Lateron, they reached Bharat MataMandir in Maldahia and paidtheir tributes to martyrs whogave their supreme sacrificewhile protecting the border.The complete boycott of

Chinese products would be realtribute to Indian soldiers, theysaid further.

Prominent among thosepresent on the occasion wereShubham Kumar Seth, AnkitSingh, Gayasuddin, SaurabhSonkar and Sandeep Sonkar.

Meanwhile, a condolencemeeting was held atParamanandpur branch ofShree Agrasen PG College inwhich the college staff paidtheir tributes to Indian soldierswho gave their supreme sacri-fice in the face-off with Chinesetroops. They observed a two-minute silence in the honour ofbrave soldiers. They recalled thebravery of Indian soldiers howthey caused a huge loss toenemy’s army in counter attackand said that their sacrificewould not go in vain. The

entire nation is with Indian sol-diers in the present situation,they added.

The head of physics depart-ment of college Dr Sunil Mishrasaid that the Galwan Valley,place where the violent face-offtook place between Indian andChinese soldiers, is situated onborder between Aksai Chinand Ladakh and added thatChina had already made mili-tary build-up and wants tomaintain the present situation.On the other hand, India alsowants to strengthen its strategicposition and this is contentiousmatter between two neighbour-ing countries. Prominentamong those present were thecollege manager Anil KumarJain, Dr OP Chaudhary, DrSeema Asthana, Dr UshaChaudhary and Ram Naresh.

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Rain continued hitting thecity for the fifth day in a

row here on Friday. As theintensity of rain was high, it leftmany localities water-logged,paralysing the normal lifebadly. The continuous rainindicates that monsoon hasalready arrived in this belt ofPurvanchal (eastern UP) a fewdays earlier than the expecta-tions due to low pressure cre-ated in the Bay of Bengal andit is expected that there wouldbe more rains in 2-3 more daysto come. Rain has also exposedall the tall claims of NagarNigam and Jalkal department,because due to their failure tostudy the weather conditions,these departments have delayedin starting de-silting work ofnullahs and drains.

In some lanes of NiralaNagar, Jaiprakash Nagar andmany others just beneath thenose of Nagar Nigam office, thede-silting work was started injust a couple of days. Two daysago, as soon as the employeesbrought out silt from thechoked nullah in a lane inNirala Nagar, there was rainfollowed by water-logging

resulting in flowing down allthe wastes into the drains again.It caused all the efforts in vain.The most shocking aspect wasleaving the site by the employ-ees without covering the man-holes, which caused injuries tomany. The same scene wasseen in a nearby lane of JaiPrakash Nagar on Friday. Inwater-logged roads, manypassers-by could not realisethat there was no coverage onthe manholes.

Many areas including

Godowlia, Dashaswamedh, NaiSarak, Luxa, Andhrapul,Teliabagh, Maidagin,Mehmoorganj, Sigra, Khojwa,Nagwa and others saw thewater-logging in which dozensof two-wheelers and three-wheelers were seen stranded.At Andhrapul and some otherplaces, many sustained injurieswhen the bikers fell down.Rain not only disrupted con-struction work started duringUnlock 1.0 at many places, butalso incurred losses to the con-

struction agencies. The beau-tification work is being donethese days at the heritage sitebetween Godowlia andDashaswamedh and these low-lying busy markets generallysee heavy water-logging duringthe rains. Meanwhile, as perthe reports of Middle GangaDivision-III of Central WaterCommission (CWC), thoughtill 8 am on Friday, the city hadreceived just eight mm rain,there was good rain during theafternoon hours causing hugewater-logging. Not onlyVaranasi, but many parts ofPurvanchal have received goodquantities of rain during thelast 24 hours. Ballia received68.2 mm rains, while Ghazipur40.6 mm, Mirzapur 29.6 mm,Lalganj in Azamgarh 20.6 mm,Chopan in Sonbhadra 17.8mm and Azamgarh 15 mm.Besides, though the water levelof river Ganga remained steadyat most of the places, it hasrecorded rising in Varanasiand upstream Mirzapur. InVaranasi, the level was at 59.85metres, far below the warninglevel of 70.26 metres, whichshowed that during the last 24hours the water level hasincreased slightly by 16 cen-timetres.

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Astudent’s health at theInternational Hostel of

Allahabad Central Universitylocated at Chatham Line dete-riorated after midnight onThursday. The inmates of thehostel intimated the AUauthorities that his colleagueshowed the symptoms of coro-na. Immediately, RegistrarProfessor NK Shukla and DSWProfessor KP Singh reached the

hostel and admitted him to thehospital.

This Afghanistan-basedstudent is a BCom third-yearstudent at the central universi-ty. He lives in room number 34of the International Hostel.After midnight on Thursday, hestarted having trouble inbreathing.

A panic triggered the hos-tel after his condition deterio-rated. The students immediate-ly informed the AU adminis-

tration. Students also said thathis colleague showed signs ofcorona.

On the information, theRegistrar and DSW reachedSwarooprani Nehru Hospital(SRN). Doctors also consideredhim a corona suspect andadmitted him to the non-COVID ward. In the morning,the student’s sample was takenand sent to the medical collegelab for testing. Now the reportis awaited.

Prior to the report, the AUadministration has advised theinmates of the InternationalHostel to remain isolated andmaintain physical distance.DSW Prof KP Singh said thatthe student’s health living in theinternational hostel deterio-rated in the night. He wasadmitted to the non-Covidward of SRN at two o’clock ascorona suspected. His samplewas sent for testing and hisreport is awaited.

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Rich tributes were paid to NkDeepak Singh, who opted

for the supreme sacrifice for thenation on June 15/16 nightwhile braving the Chineseattack for entering Indian ter-ritory in Ladakh region.

Mortal remains of the mar-tyr Nk Deepak Singh of the 16Bihar Regiment arrived here inAir Force plane on Thursday inlate evening hours on way tothis native district Rewa inMadhya Pradesh. On Fridaymorning the wreath laying cer-emony took place at MilitaryHospital here.

The wreath laying ceremo-ny was carried out by GOC HqPurva UP & MP Sub Area MajGen IM Lamba, GOC 4 InfRapid Div Maj Gen Atul Rawat,GOC-in-C Central CommandLt Gen IS Ghuman, PVSM,AVSM, Commandant MHPrayagraj Brig SundeepBhandari, Dy GOC HQ Sub

Area Brig RP SinghCommandant OD Fort ColVivek Dabas and staff of Sub

Area besides senior officials ofthe district administration andthe police. The mortal remains

of the martyr were later takento his native village Faranda inRewa MP by road.

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All the 98 level crossingsfalling under the Prayagraj

division of North CentralRailways have been interlockedand an automatic signal hasbeen installed to alert thegateman and commuters whena train is around four kilome-tres away from a particulargate.

All the level crossing gateshave been interlocked so thatthe trains could be stopped incase of an open level crossing.The trains will get a green sig-

nal only if the level crossing isclosed.

Apart from this, an auto-matic alarm has been set up atall the interlocked level cross-ing gates of the route. When atrain from either direction isfour kilometres from the levelcrossing gate, the automaticalarm starts ringing and alertsthe commuters on the road,informed Prayagraj divisionPRO, SK Gupta.

The wheels of the passingtrain will affect a circuitinstalled on the track. If thelevel crossing gate is open, the

alarm in the cabin of the gate-man will start beeping, elabo-rated Gupta.

Signals have also beeninstalled on roads to display theopening and closing of thelevel crossing gate.

The hooter rings continu-ously to warn the people on theroad during the process.

Through this system, thegateman gets enough time toclose the gate and help avoidany untoward accidents.

This facility is available atall gates of Kanpur-Ghaziabadauto-section. In addition to

this, arrangements are beingmade to continuouslymonitor the AT (auto trans-former) supplies providedfor the signalling gear at thestation from the division’sCentral Data LoggerCentre (CDLC). This arrange-ment is now available at all 49stations of the division, addedGupta.

An anti-theft alarm hasalso been installed on sig-nalling devices and connectedto the CDLC. With this, thepower supply fault can be iden-tified promptly and corrected

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The men-in-khaki in theneighbouring district

Pratapgarh are now going fromone lane to another while mak-ing announcements aboutcriminals who are on the runand requesting local residentsto inform the police if they haveany information about thecrooks.

Decades ago, it was acommon practice for police toannounce the names of crim-inals and seek the public helpin catching them.

Deputy SP Atul AnjanTripathi said Pratapgarhpolice have again launched anexercise, where cops wouldexhort villagers to informthem in case they know aboutanything about abscondingcriminals.

The DSP also said that thePolice department is trying towin the confidence of thepublic. We are assuring themthat their names and address-es would be kept confidential,he added. They have beenlooking for a wanted criminal,Ranjeet Singh, who is wanted

in connection with cases ofcyberfraud and other crimes.they made the announcementin his native village, Tripathisaid. While making such anannouncement, a policemansaid residents of Makoiya,under Mandhata police sta-tion of Pratapgarh district,please listen. Police have beensearching for one RanjeetSingh, who has been declaredan absconder by the localcourt. We appeal to residentsto inform the police if anyoneof you spot him. Those whowill be giving accurate infor-

mation would be rewardedand their names would also bekept secret.

A band of musicianswould also accompany thepolice teams to beat drumswhile the announcement isbeing made. Pratapgarh policehave been making suchannouncements in Mandhata,Raniganj and Kotwali areas ofthe district. The exercise waslaunched two days ago. Thepolice have also been puttingup notices at the houses ofthese absconders apart fromconducting a munadi.

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UP Minister of State(Independent Charge)

Ravindra Jaiswal inspected theprogress made in the ongoingproject of Integrated PowerDevelopment Scheme (IPDS)on Mahavir Mandir road inOrderly Bazar area here onFriday. During his inspection,the local residents complainedthat the construction workunder the project was notgoing on as per the norms. Theminister has instructed thesuperintending and executiveengineers of IPDS and con-cerned Tata Company officersto change their work cultureand complete the work soon.

During inspection, the

minister found that norms arenot being followed in laying ofcable and asked the concernedofficers to correct the same bylaying cables to the same depthas per the norms within aweek. He also said that theboxes should also be installedcorrectly at proper places. Hesaid that work on MahavirMandir road should be com-pleted soon on priority basis.He also asked the Electricitydepartment engineers to installheritage poles under the SmartCity project.

Earlier, the minister lis-tened to the grievances of peo-ple at the parliamentary officeof Prime Minister NarendraModi here a day ago. Themembers of Dashaswamedh

Vyapar Mandal apprised theminister of the problems theywould face if a hydraulic gateis installed on the roadapproaching DashaswamedhGhat. They said that by thesame road, the residents go toAugustya Kund andJanghambadi and with theinstallation of the same gate,they would face a lot of incon-veniences. Jaisal assured thetraders of looking after theirdemands. He also asked thetraders to talk to the DistrictMagistrate (DM) on the issuewith his recommended letter.

Besides, the members ofNishad Kalyan Samiti also metthe minister and urged the lat-ter to ask the district adminis-tration to withdraw the ban on

the movement of boats in theriver Ganga. After listening tothe matter, the minister alsoasked the members to meet theDM.

A resident of under-con-struction Kashi VishanathCorridor area also submitted aletter about the problems hewas facing to go to his housedue to police intervention.Jaiswal asked the DM to issuea pass to the resident so that hecan go to his home easily. Amatter of illegal grabbing of theoffice of a social organisationin Jagatganj area was alsoraised and after listening to thesame, the minister hasinstructed Chetganj police sta-tion incharge to look into thesame.

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As many as 18 healthy babieswere born in Shramik

trains run by the North CentralRailway. All the three divisionsof North Central Railway,Prayagraj, Jhansi and Agradivisions performed excellent-ly in the operation of Shramiktrains under the guidance ofGeneral Manager NorthCentral and Northern RailwayRajiv Chaudhry. North CentralRailway to conduct boardingand de-boarding of workerscoming from Shramik trainsfollowing all the protocols ofCOVID-19, NCR also provid-ed food and water bottles to allworkers in special trains at var-ious stations of North CentralRailway with the help ofIRCTC. Besides providing foodand water bottles, medicalassistance and other emer-gency assistance has also beenprovided to the migrants andother persons travelling bythese trains.

Today, a healthy baby was

born at platform No. 5 ofPrayagraj Jn.

Pooja Devi F-22 was trav-elling with her husbandSadanand Kumar in Coach NoS-2 on Berth No 79, 80 fromDelhi to Bhagalpur in specialtrain no 05956.

On prior information ladytraveller and newborn wereattended by Dr Parvez Ahmadand his team at platform No. 5.After first aid, the mother andnewborn were sent to DistrictHospital Prayagraj.

So far North CentralRailway doctors with help otherofficials have provided requisitemedical help to pregnant trav-ellers in Shramik specials insafe delivery of 18 babies. (10in Prayagraj Division, 4 inAgra Division and 4 in JhansiDivision.)

TWO COMMIT SUI-CIDE: Two people committedsuicide in the Shahganj andRajrooppur areas of thePrayagraj city here on Friday. InShahganj, a young man hasended his life, while a woman

committed suicide by hangingherself in Rajrooppur.

Pramil Gupta has a sweetshop called Raskunj SweetHouse near the railway stationintersection in Shahganj policestation. Uttam KumarChatterjee (28)son ofShantiram Chatterjee used towork at the sweets shop. He wasa resident of Gauspur Chagramvillage, under the inKhandagos police station ofVardhman district of WestBengal. It is being said thatUttam was present in Servant'sQuarter on Thursday night.

On Friday morning, whenUttam did not come to theshop, owner Pramil reached hisroom and found him hangingfrom a fan with a rope tiedaround his neck. Police reachedthe spot and investigated thematter.

SHO Shahganj BrijeshSingh said that Uttam hadbeen working here for 12 years.His family was informed by thepolice. The situation will beclear when the post-mortem

report arrives, the SHO.On the other hand,

Purnima, wife of PramodYadav, living in Rajrooppurlocality of Dhumanganj policestation area, hanged herself.When the family came to knowabout Purnima's suicide, thepolice was immediatelyinformed. Police arrived andtook the body into its custodyand sent it for postmortem.The cause of suicide is not clearat the moment. Police areinvestigating the case.

Meanwhile, the body of ayoung man was found onFriday morning in the Sayairiver at Ghuisarnathdhamunder the Sangipur police sta-tion in Pratapgarh district.Police reached the spot on get-ting information and took thebody into its custody. At thesame time, the police alsofound a Bolero parked on thebridge.

The youth was identifiedas Amar Bahadur Yadav (40)son of Ram Saran, a resident ofKhalsa Sadat, Lalganj Kotwali

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As many as 10 new COVID-19 patients have been

detected in the district onFriday, increasing the totalnumber of patients to 314.The district also saw one moredeath. Out of the total 314patients, 220 have been recov-ered while 11 have died, leav-ing 83 active patients. ChiefMedical Officer (CMO) DrVB Singh has informed thatreports of 125 samples havebeen received fromMicrobiology department,Banaras Hindu University(BHU) and out of them, sixwere positive while other fourpositive patients were found onThursday night in which threewere of a family including awoman (33) and boys aged 12and 14. They belong to Shivalaslum area (Bhelupur). Theother patient (17) is also fromthe same slum locality. Amongthe negative reports, there werefollow-up reports of twopatients admitted to Pt DeenDayal Upadhyay Hospital.Later on, the patient has beendischarged.

Among the new patentsfound during the day, one boy(19) is from Chitaipur (Lanka)

who works at a private hospi-tal. The second (23) is fromHukulganj. He is a photograph-er. The third (66) is a womanhails from Dhanganj(Cholapur) who is a neighbourof earlier found patient. Thefourth (33) is from Sagynaha(Phulpur), posted at LBSAirport. The fifth (68) is fromTadhia (Sarnath) who has beensuffering from diabetes for thelast six years and his samplewas taken when he was oper-ated for hernia. The sixthpatient (56) is from JanakpurColony (Shivpur) and related toa former positive patient (49)

who died on Thursday due tokidney failure. He was fromGauriganj (Bhelupur).

With the finding of newpatients, the number ofhotspots has increased to 163with new ones are Shivala slumarea (Bhelupur), Chitaipur(Lanka), Janakpuri Colony(Shivpur) Sagunaha (Phulpur)and Amanpuri Colony(Sarnath). Out of total them, 86have become green zones withnew one Vaishnav ViharColony (Rohania) while among77 active hotspots, 26 are inorange zones while 51 are inred zones. As many as 155 sam-

ples have been collected andsent for testing during the day.Till date 8,659 samples havebeen collected and results of8,424 have been received whileresults of 235 are awaited. Outof all received reports, 8110were negative and 314 positive.

Meanwhile, there is no let-up in finding new corona pos-itive patients in this belt ofPurvanchal (eastern UP) com-prising 10 districts of threedivisions. In Azamgarh, fournew patients have been detect-ed from Azmatgarh, Mehnagar,Haraiyya and Atlauliya areas,increasing the total number ofCOVID-19 cases to 175 withjust 15 active patients as 154have been recovered while sixhave died. Earlier, in Ghazipur,20 new cases were found,increasing the number to 247with 85 active patients. Allpatients are migrants. As manyas 60 patients have increasedwith 24 hours by Thursday.Despite such increase, therecovery rate has improvedfurther as it was 68.18 as out oftotal 1562 patients, 1,065 havebeen discharged. Though themortality rate is still 1.73 percent in the region, with the twomore deaths it has increased to3.28 per cent in Varanasi.

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During the nationwide lock-down in view of Covid-19

several effective steps weretaken by the North EasternRailway (NER) for protectionfrom it and its prevention.From March 24 to June 16 inview of Covid-19 the NERhad changed coaches into iso-lation wards, produced facemasks, sanitisers and personalprotective equipment (PPE)kits, automatic thermal scan-ner, shoes covers, gowns, faceshields etc besides download-ing of Aarogya Setu App.

Under the in-house pro-duction 1,02,848 face masks,1,982 litres of sanitiser and14,385 PPE kits had been madetill June 16 this year atLucknow, Izzatnagar, Varanasi,besides at the mechanicalworkshops situated atIzzatnagar and Gorakhpur,

CPRO, Pankaj Kumar Singh,said. Besides the Aarogya SetuApp has been downloaded on19,036 mobiles by railwayemployees and their familymembers. Apart from it 85,995food packets were distributedamong the needy and helplesstill June 15.

On the other hand, atmechanical workshops situat-ed in Gorakhpur andIzzatnagar as many as 11 otherpedal-operated sanitiser equip-ment had been made so thatthere was no need to repeatedlytouch hands for sanitisationpurposes. The pedal-operatedsanitiser dispenser equipmentwhich was being used in work-shops and offices has now alsobeen installed at the Syed ModiRailway Stadium and RailwayGolf Course so that railwayemployees and their familiescould sanitise their hands.Adequate equipment and mate-

rials have been provided on theNER till June 16 for the treat-ment of corona infectedpatients. Through in-houseproduction and shopping frommarkets at NER’s hospitals,health centres and variousplaces of need in Izzatnagar,Lucknow, Varanasi and head-quarters, Gorakhpur, as manyas 73,658 surgical masks, 9,625N-95 masks, 3,519 sanitiserbottles, 11,697 PPE kits, 18 ven-tilators, eight mechanised ven-tilators, 16,081 hand gloves, 325oxygen cylinder etc was avail-able.

For the treatment of Covid-19 patients arrangement for 12additional doctors had beenmade. In this way, the NERadministration was fully alertfor protection from Covid-19pandemic, its prevention andtreatment of infection and wascontinuously engaged in prepa-rations.

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Vice-Chairman GorakhpurDevelopment Authority

(GDA) Anuj Singh along withassistant engineer SP Arvind,deputy OC/Maintenance,Yashwant Singh and JE RanjitSingh inspected the drains atGautam Vihar Extension,Gautam Vihar, SiddharthPuram and Siddharth Enclaveon Thursday and directed theauthorities concerned to starttheir cleaning work immedi-ately. The authorities concernedwere also directed get ensurethat the main drain of GautamVihar Extension which passesthrough Vasundhara andreached Rail Vihar via Lakeviewand Siddharth Enclave wascleaned. From the Budh

Vihar Commercial Scheme viaSiddharth Enclave, SiddharthEnclave Extension to Parasiyya,the under construction drainwas also inspected and assistantengineer SP Arvind was direct-ed to get the drain cleaned andthe incomplete work done assoon as possible. The excavationof drain from the Water Sports

Club to the Deoria bypass viathe Buddhist Museum was alsoinspected and instructions wereissued to the officials con-cerned and get the soil takenout from it removed immedi-ately so that there was noobstruction in the movementof vehicles on the road andexpedite the drain work.

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Keeping the review meetingof the CM in mind which

is likely to be held at the divi-sion level the DM held a meet-ing of the departments relatedwith the development at themeeting hall of the collec-torate. He asked the PWD offi-cials to ensure that the roadsremained pothole free andexpedite works related towidening and renovation ofroads on priority. He asked theofficials to complete the worksbeing accorded priority by theChief Minister. About theongoing projects underAMRUT scheme he made itclear that transparency andquality should be maintained atany cost. He directed the offi-cials related to National RuralPotable Water Mission to com-plete the works with qualityotherwise face the music.During the meeting he wasinformed that the works inconnection with four bridgeswas to be completed within thestipulated time. In anothermeeting held at same place tak-ing a stringent view over themisleading attitude of the offi-

cials regarding the complianceof applications posted on CM’shelpline as well as CM’s portalhe made it clear that no any lax-ity would be tolerated at all.The meeting was mainlyattended by the CDO, ADM,EEs of PWD and Jal Nigam.

CLAIMED: District pres-ident of SP Devi PrasadChaudhary claimed that theparty was capable of formingthe government in the state inthe year 2022. He alleged thatthe state government had failedon all fronts, including devel-opment, law and order, prop-er governance etc and onlytheir government was capableof providing good governancein the state. He declared histeam of the district in which henominated six vice-presidents,one general secretary, one trea-surer and five chiefs of assem-bly constituency units.

RAPE CASE: A rape casewas registered against a youthat Chilh police station. As perthe received reports, father ofthe five-year-old minor girllodged an FIR with the police inwhich he stated his daughterwas raped by a youth of samevillage. The police took the

accused into custody and legalformalities were in process.

SUICIDE: A home guardcommitted suicide in Rajpurvillage under the Halia policestation. As per the reportsreceived here, Kapoor Chand(40), a home guard who wasdeployed at Halia police stationbut was not attending his dutyat present. On the said day hetold his wife that he was goingto bathe at the well. When hedid not return a search waslaunched for him. His familymembers were shocked whenthey found him hanging in hisold house. His body wasbrought out after breakingopen the door. On gettinginformation the police reachedthe spot and took his body intocustody for completing legalformalities. His kin of thedeceased said that he was suf-fering from depression andwas undergoing treatment atPrayagraj.

THREE INJURED: Threepersons were seriously injuredwhen a car collided with a pick-up at Madarpur on AhrauraChakia road. The police sentthe injured to a hospital fortreatment.

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The office-bearers ofUttar Pradesh Udyog

Vyapar Mandal (UPUVM)under the leadership ofyouth state organising sec-retary Swadesh GauravShivhare burnt Chinesegoods and the symbolic effi-gy of Chinese president atBalkhandi Naka chaurahaon Thursday. BJP youthleader Shivhare made anappeal to the office-bearersto boycott Chinese goods. He and all other office-bearers took an oath not to purchase Chinese goods.He said that there was resentment against the

killing of 20 Indian soldiersduring a face-off with theChinese troops and addedthat we all should resolve toboycott Chinese articles com-pletely. Shivhare said thatVyapar Mandal would makethe people aware not to pur-chase and sell Chinese goods.Shivhare said that all tradersshould decide not to purchaseand sell Chinese goods in thedistrict. Among those presenton the occasion were SantoshGupta Anshankari, Charu

Chandra Khare, Sushil Singh, Kmlesh Gupta, AnilChaurasiya, Ram Sufal Sahu, Naresh Shukla,Sharda Pradhan and Ramakant Tiwari.

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The advanced system ofdrawing approval (e-DAS)

drawing approval system hasbeen implemented on NorthEastern Railway (NER).

CPRO Pankaj KumarSingh said that various types ofdrawings were made in therailways, including foot over-bridge, engineering scale plan(yard plan), signal index plan,limited height subway, stationbuilding and bridge etc. Whilemaking these drawings evensmall things also have to bementioned so that there was nodilemma in completing thework. The demands of variousdepartments concerned arealso included. After the draw-ing was made signature had tobe obtained from the officers of

all the departments concerned,including the ones of the divi-sion and headquarters.

Earlier for getting approvalon any drawing one had to goto different places and incor-

porating the modifications ofthose departments was a longprocess. This process took toomuch time and in view ofCovid-19 it was a tough task.

In order to overcome thisproblem an advanced system ofdrawing approval e-DAS has

been adopted on the NER inwhich the drawing is sent elec-tronically to the departmentsconcerned. The officials con-cerned signed it through digi-tal signature. This advancedsystem has many advantages. Ittakes much less time thanmanual system and there is alsoa significant increase in effi-ciency. This system was alsovery effective in terms of trans-parency. It may be pointed outhere that e-DAS system is veryuseful in the context of Covid-19. Sending the drawing to var-ious departments in the man-ual system would have createda high probability of infection,but there was no such fear inthe e-DAS system. It may bementioned here that the e-office system has also beenstarted on NER.

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The house of a retiredteacher was burgled in

Baraigarh village under Sadhpolice station of Ghatampur onThursday night.

At the time of the incident,all the family members werefast asleep. The burglary cameto light after the family mem-bers woke up on Friday morn-ing.

The burglars took awaycash and jewellery worth lakhsof rupees.

According to reports,Indrajit Singh, a retired teacher,lives with his wife, sons, daugh-ters and grandsons in the vil-lage. His son, Sunil, said around1 am, when he woke up todrink water, everything wasnormal. But around 4 am,when Indrajit Singh woke up toease himself, he found thedoors of another room openand lights on.

On entering the room, hefound the almirah open andhousehold goods ransackedand cash and jewellery worthlakhs of rupees missing.

The villagers found a bro-ken box lying in a field near theteacher’s residence.

Local police also reachedthe spot and carried out inves-tigation.

Indrajit’s wife Shiva said thburglars took away around fivetola gold and 500 gm silver jew-ellery and Rs 8,000 in cashfrom the house.

Sadh Station OfficerDevendra Rawat said the casewould be worked out soon.

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The IIT-Kanpur has startedmass production of N95

and N99 masks on its campusfrom Thursday. The institutehas set a target to manufacture25,000 masks per day.

This is a joint initiative ofIIT-Kanpur and its Start-upInnovation and IncubationCentre (SIIC) in wake of thecoronavirus pandemic.

The masks are being man-ufactured on the premises ofthe business incubator of IIT-Kanpur by E-Spin Nanotech incollaboration with one of theincubator’s current companyIndeema Fibres as well as IIT-Kanpur faculty members whoinclude Prof Sri Sivakumar,Prof Ram Kumar, Prof RajaAngamuthu, Prof Gopa Kumarand senior scientific officers DrManish Kulkarni and DrPrabhat Dwivedi.

IIT-K Director Prof AbhayKarandikar said this was afirst-of-its-kind initiative byan IIT or a technology businessincubator of an academic insti-tution of India.

The production line iscompletely automated to pre-vent contamination during themanufacturing process.

The masks would be avail-able at very affordable prices onthe company’s website as wellas other prominent e-com-merce platforms, said DrSandip Patil, director of E-Spin Nanotech Pvt Ltd.

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The World HealthOrganisation representa-

tive while chairing a meetingwith Kanpur DivisionalCommissioner Sudhir MBobde, said 16 per cent of thetotal population of Kanpurwas affected by coronaviruspositive cases and the deathrate had shot up drastically ina short span of time.

The divisional commis-sioner said that in view of thesharp increase in coronaviruspositive cases from the timelockdown was withdrawn, itwas evident that people werenot following social distancingand moving in public placeswithout masks.

He said 70 per cent of thepeople affected by coronaviruswere in the age group of below40 years and this was becauseof their apathy.

Dr Bobde said the districtadministration had decidedto increase the number ofCovid hospitals and expandmedical facilities as well. Hesaid the district administrationwas considering to allow pri-vate hospital to run Covidhospitals with a capacity of 100beds but the treatment therewould be on payment basisand not free. He said hopeful-ly after surveying the arrange-ments by Monday, sanctionmay be granted.

The divisional commis-sioner said the strength of theLevel-1 hospitals would beincreased.

He directed the officials tostrictly monitor the Level-1,Level-2 and Level-3 hospitalsand ensure that no criticalpatient was admitted to Level-1 hospital.

He said although 84 percent of the citizens were unaf-fected from coronavirus infec-

tion, it would become difficultto conatain the pandemicunless precautionary measureswere taken.

He agreed that the two fac-tors which triggered the spreadof coronavirus infection werereturn of migratory labourersand lifting of lockdown. He

said it was mandatory to wearmask and helmet for two-wheeler riders and if they werefound without it they would beheavily fined and action couldalso be taken against them forviolation of Covid and trafficguidelines.

He said every day samples

were being taken in all theareas along with random sam-ples and they showed thatthere was still no signs of thecoronavirus spread slowingdown.

Police and health officialswere also present in the meet-ing.

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Kanpur City reported 43 new coronaviruspositive cases even as one more COVID-19

patient died in the last 24 hours.Chief Medical Officer Dr AK Shukla said

43 new coronavirus positive cases were detect-ed on Friday, taking the count of such cases inthe city to 873.

He said with the death of one more COVID-19 patient, the deadly coronavirus had so fartaken 33 lives in the district.

He said the new cases were from Barra,Yashoda Nagar, Kidwai Nagar, Birhana Road,Vijay Nagar, Patkapur, Kalyanpur, Lal Bangla,Bedalipur, Katra Bhaisore, Shuklaganj Unnao,

GIC Campus, Govind Nagar, Babupurwa,Generalganj and a few more places.

The CMO said 493 COVID-19 patients hadso far been cured and 347 active cases wereundergoing treatment in the city.

He said the patient who died was a 90-year-old man with chest ailments.

Dr Shukla said on Friday, 419 samples werecollected out of which 167 were pooled sam-ples, 49 of frontline workers and 38 from Covidhospital.

He said 125 teams scanned 8,654 houses incontainment areas like Manglavihar, KalyanpurKalan, Gwaltoli Rail Patri, Ambedkar Nagar,Gujaini, Nehru Nagar, Dev Nagar, Krishna Nagarand few more areas.

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District Magistrate BRTiwari on Friday inspect-

ed the Rama Hospital atMandhana. He said in view ofthe increasing number of coro-navirus positive cases in thecity, Rama Hospital needs to berun at its optimal capacity tohandle non-COVID-19 cases.

Dr Tiwari said a wing ofthe hospital need to be set upfor Level-1 facilities. The hos-pital authorities informed thedistrict magistrate that they hadfacility of 400 beds and as perprotocol it was prepared tohandle Level-1 COVID-19cases.

The district magistratetook note of the various facil-ities needed by the hospital.

He was accompanied byChief Medicla Officer Dr AK

Shukla. Meanwhile, the district

magistrate advised the KanpurNursing Homes Associationmembers to shoulder theresponsibility of extendingmedical facitlities for treat-ment of COVID-19 patients atthe private hospitals.

KNHA president Dr MKSaraogi has volunteered to setup New Leelamani Hospital asthe first Covid hospital in theprivate sector here and hasstarted making modificationsto start admitting patients andrun the hospital full fledgedly.

A member of the KNHA,pleading anonymity, said theassociation was not willing toset any price limit for treatmentof COVID-19 patients. He saidwith special care with diag-nostics and PPE kits and sani-tisation charges, ventilators etc,

the cost would certainly shootup.

It remains to be seen if thedistrict administration will fixthe price of hospitalisation inthe private sector or give thema free hand. Currently, if anyperson is admitted to the pri-vate hospital, a sum of Rs50,000 is to be deposited on thefirst day.

With majority of the coro-navirus positive cases fromthe lower strata of society andfailure of the government hos-pitals to accommodate all theCOVID-19 cases, it remains tobe seen what would be thestrategy of the district admin-istration.

Dr Tiwari said that cur-rently the district administra-tion had Covid bed capacity ofslightly over 600 at five places— LLR Hospital, Kanshiram

Hospital, ESI Hospital, Jajmau,Rama Medical College andNaraina Medical College.

He said there were only 31ventilators in Covid hospitalsand this number was inade-quate in view of the number ofCOVID-19 patients enteringcoming to hospitals in criticalconditions.

Ironically, not only is thereshortage of diagnostics buteven man power, includingdoctors, residents and juniorresidents. The CMO has onseveral occasions admitted thatthe senior doctors of theGSVM Medical College arenot cooperating in the desiredmanner. Similarly, the districtmagistrate has pointed anaccusing finger at the IMA-Kanpur for making tall claimsand then withdrawing at theeleventh hour.

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This year too the WorldYoga Day will be observed

on June 21 but keeping inmind the coronavirus pan-demic and the social distanc-ing norms it would be virtual.

The theme of the WorldYoga Day for 2020 is ‘GharGhar Mein Yoga’, to beobserved with family.

Yoga strengthens immuni-ty which as highly essential tofight coronavirus. This yeareach one can participate in theTYogs Day from home to makeit a very big event.

This was stated by head ofdepartment of UniversityInstitute of Health Sciences, DrPravin Katiyar, who was pres-ident of IMA-Kanpur andcoordinator of the programme,while informing about the pro-gramme of virtual yoga to beheld on Sunday.

He said as per the guide-lines issued by the districtadministration, the 45-minuteroutine included exercises forthe entire body and italso detailed the techniques,benefits and caution for eachasan.

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Hundreds of Congressmencelebrated the birthday of

former party president RahulGandhi but paid respects andcondolences to the Armyjawans brutally killed byChinese troops in GalwanValley in Ladakh on formerparty president Rahul Gandhi’sbirthday on Friday.

They observed a two-minute silence in the memoryof the martyred Army jawans.

Congress city presidentHar Prakash Agnihotri said itwas a matter of shame and con-cern that China had the audac-ity to kill Indian Army jawans.He said the Congress wasextenging unconditional sup-port to the Bharatiya JanataParty government in this time

of crisis so that a befitting replycould be given to China.

He said Rahul Gandhi hadbeen cautioning the govern-ment on the issue but theCentre remained apathetic to it.

Former parliamentarianRaja Ram Pal said had theIndian government taken heedto Rahul Gandhi’s statements,the situation would not havereached to this point.

He said it was a matter ofgreat concern that neighbourslike Pakistan, China and Nepalwere threatening India andsomething concrete needed tobe done at this critical juncture.

Prominent among thosepresent were NizamuddinKhan, Iqbal Ahmed, AshokDhanvik, RK Shukla, NaushadAlam, Samuel Lucky Singh,Tufail Ahmed and BR Rai.

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The unique life story of Goa'sillustrious son former

Union Defence Minister lateManohar Parrikar is beingrecounted by two senior jour-nalists who had a special rela-tion with the former and it hasresulted in the first ever bookon the life and times of India’spolitician with a difference.

An Extraordinary Life-ABiography of Manohar Parrikar

authored by Sadguru Patil andMayabhushan Nagvenkar, isbeing published by PenguinRandom House and would hitbook shelves across the coun-try in July. Pegged as a ‘Zero-to Hero’ story, this is the storyof the man who changed theway mainstream India lookedat Goa and the political goings-on in India’s smallest state, saythe authors.

Manohar Parrikar camefrom a humble background

and rose to become one of themost sought after leaders ofGoa, where he undertook therole of chief minister fourtimes and was the defenceminister of India for two yearsbefore the call of his home Statemade him return to Panaji.

Nobody did expectParrikar leaving this world at arather young age of 63. Had helived longer, Indian politicswould not have been the sameas his face brought in a refresh-

ing change to the way people inthe country viewed politics.Parrikar was the embodimentof simplicity, honesty andintegrity.

He brought in stability topolitics in Goa, a State famousfor horse trading and shadowboxing. But what adds to hischarisma is his success inattracting the minority com-munity members to hisHindutwa brand of politicsand this itself serves as a model

case study for political scientistsas well as leaders.

“Manohar Parrikar was atowering personality, whodefined an era in Goa’s politics,after the turbulent 1990s whichproduced 13 chief ministers ina decade” says co-authorSadguru Patil.

He adds, ‘A four-time ChiefMinister and Defence Minister,he had the talent, intellect andthe drive to achieve, perhapseven more’. Patil had inter-

viewed Parrikar at least 20times at different occasionswhen the latter was leader ofthe opposition, chief ministerand union minister.

“The biography is in part,a lively scrapbook of his TomSawyer-like childhood andyouth, as well as a no-holds-barred report card of his sub-sequent political journey,through the voices of peoplewho knew him, many of themintimately,” said Nagvenkar.

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Coronavirus battering Indiaand Russia has not deterred

the determination of both thecountries in completing theworks of units 3 and 4 ofKudankulam Nuclear PowerPlant near Tirunelveli in TamilNadu. Though there is an emer-gency situation prevailing inboth the countries because ofCovid-19, a shipload of com-ponents to be installed in theseunits were shipped by RosatomState Corporation EngineeringDivision on Thursday fromSaint-Petersburg , said a releaseby the company.

Rosatom is the companyhelping the public sector NuclearPower Corporation of India Ltd(NPCIL) in setting up thenuclear energy power plants atKudankulam. Units 1 and 2(each of 1000 MW) are fullyoperational while the works ofUnits 3 and 4 (each of 1000

MW) are in full swing.“In the context of the restric-

tions imposed in Russia andIndia, Rosatom StateCorporation EngineeringDivision, the Indian customer,Russian manufacturers, the portof Saint-Petersburg have kept onworking, meeting all the mea-sures prescribed, on the con-struction of the second phase ofKudankulam NPP”, - theDirector for projects in India,Vladimir Angelov, informed.

“It is necessary to make aspecific mention on the well-coordinated work of the employ-ees responsible for the cargohandling and execution. Thedeadline for shipment wasreduced by 37%”, he added.

According to Rosatom, thisis the 17th shipload during theproject implementation and thefirst one after the restrictive mea-sures related to prevent furtherspread of Covid-19. The ship isexpected to reach the Indianshores in the third week of July.

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More than fifty per cent ofthe newly recruited cadre

of different terrorist outfitsthis year has been neutralisedby the joint teams of securityforces during Operation 'Allout' in the Union territory ofJammu & Kashmir.

Meanwhile, on Friday thesecurity forces neutralised sixmore terrorists, two inside themosque in Meez area ofPampore and four others inShopian district without suf-fering any collateral damageduring the ongoing operations.Two terrorists were killed intwo separate encounters whichwere launched on the basis ofspecific intelligence inputsabout the presence of terroristsin the area on Thursday.

So far, a total number of109 terrorists have been elim-inated since January 2020 thisyear. Out of these, more than50 plus belong to HizbulMujahideen, 20 each fromLashkar-e- Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad and others fromAl Badr and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind outfits.

Addressing a joint pressconference with DGP, Jammuand Kashmir police, Lt-Gen BSRaju ,GOC 15 Corps inSrinagar said, "out of 49 localrecruits who had joined ranksof different terror outfits thisyear, 27 of them have been neu-tralised in different opera-tions". He appealed to the par-ents to convince their childrento shun the path of violenceand surrender before the secu-rity forces.

Referring to the anti ter-rorist operations conducted inthe Meez area of Pampore, Lt-Gen BS Raju said, "the securi-ty forces exercised maximumrestraint while neutralisinghiding terrorists to ensure safe-ty of a local mosque".

Complimenting the jointteams of security forces Lt GenBS Raju told media persons inSrinagar, "one terrorist wasneutralised in the area onThursday while two others

took refuge inside a localmosque in Meez area ofPampore". Lt-Gen Raju said,"the forces exercised maxi-mum restraint and neutralisedboth the terrorists withoutcausing any damage to thereligious structure". He saidwith every successful operationwe are moving on the path ofpeace. "I can feel it on theground, there is a palpabledifference". He also compli-mented the local residents forensuring success of the anti ter-rorist operations in the recentweeks.

Significantly, the conductof the forces was also appreci-ated by the local people andclerics in the area.

Jammu and Kashmir policealso released a video of a localImam of Jamia Mosque FayazAhmad where he was seenspeaking on behalf of locals ofMeej,Pampore thanking andappreciating the police & secu-rity forces for their patientrole in ensuring zero damage tothe mosque where theencounter took place.

Director General of Jammuand Kashmir police, DilbaghSingh who also attended thepress briefing along with IG,Kashmir Vijay Kumar and IGCRPF, Rajesh Kumar, toldreporters, "more than 100 plusterrorists have been neutralisedthis year during anti terroristoperations".

He also complimented thejoint teams of security forcesfor exercising maximumrestraint during the operationsand prevented collateral dam-age inside the mosque.Heexpressed satisfaction that thenew recruitment has comedown drastically compared toprevious years.

Singh said, "several districtsof Jammu division, such asDoda and Kishtwar are on theverge of getting militancy free"."Only four terrorists, one inDoda and three in Kishtwardistrict are active at present andthe security forces are trackingtheir movements in order toneutralise them at the earliest.

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The BJP is breathing downMamata Banerjee’s neck.

So much so that the Bengal rul-ing outfit may just scrapethrough in a photo finish ofsorts if Assembly elections areheld today, a quick survey by aleading Bengali channel says.

According to the televisionchannel a study done factoringin the corona crisis shows thatthe TMC may win anywherebetween 155 and 163 seats ---which is about 60 seats lessthan what it got in 2016 ---clearing the half-way mark bya wafer-thin margin of about 8-15 seats.

Out of a total of 294 seatsa party or a coalition needs atleast 148 to cross the half-waymarks.

While the TMC is likely toget about 38 per cent votes,down about 4.8 per cent fromwhat it got in 2019 general elec-tions the BJP is likely to poll

32.74 per cent votes which isagain far below than what itpolled in a thoroughly polar-ized atmosphere last year. Inthe Parliamentary elections thesaffron outfit polled just about40 percent votes. The sameopinion polls provide about 97-105 seats to the BJP which isagain far below than its May2019 tally when it won 19 MPseats --- equivalent 121Assembly constituencies.

The Left-Congress alliancethough trains far behind man-ages to inch up its position withabout 22-30 seats polling justabout 13.8 percent votes whichis one percent more than whatit got in 2019, the survey says.Translated to MLA seats thealliance could manage only 7Assembly wins in 2019.

The survey also finds amild “homecoming” of theminority voters towards the LF-Congress which in 2019 hadshed a large percent of it in acommunalized atmosphere.

About 10 percent voters arestill undecided and could playan important role in the nextyear’s Assembly elections,experts associated with thesurvey said.

Against the backdrop ofthe present reading and takinginto account the massiveadvantage of a thoroughlybuilt propaganda machineryand overwhelming moneypower as also the charisma ofPrime Minister NarendraModi the saffron outfit couldcreate for itself a winning sit-uation by pulling the 10 per-cent undecided voters, expertssay.

Apart from the other para-meters the pollsters took intoaccount the performance ofhow the central and State gov-ernments handled the coronaand Amphan crises. In thisregard both the sides pollalmost equal number of voteswith about 49.28 percent say-ing that Mamata Banerjee

could have managed the situ-ation better and 51 percent feel-ing that the Centre could havehandled the situation in a moreplanned manner. About 45percent of people disapprovedof imposing a lockdown in fourhours’ notice.

Besides, about 61 percentof the voters felt that themigrant workers deserved abetter treatment.

Speaking about the situa-tion State BJP Sayantan Basusaid elections were still quitesome time away adding thingswill start changing quickly as itwould approach relying on thecharisma of Modi and sacrificesmade by his party men. “Wewill win by a very, very com-fortable margin,” he said.

TMC’s Firhad Hakim toosaid things would change whenthe elections drew neareradding “people of Bengal knowthe difference between Modiand Mamata Banerjee” andthey will choose the latter.

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Tamil Nadu’s woes due tocoronavirus pandemic con-

tinued unabated on Fridayeven as the four problematicdistricts including the capitalcity of Chennai went into atotal lock-down mode for 12days since midnight. As allarterial roads in Chennairemained out of bounds for allvehicles and most part of thecity wearing a deserted look,the Tamil Nadu Governmentannounced that 2,115 personstested positive in the State onFriday. Out of the 2,115 posi-tive cases, 1,322 were fromChennai.

The day also saw 41 per-sons losing their lives in theState taking the death toll tilldate to 666. Out of the 666deaths recorded in the State tilldate, Chennai accounted for529 deaths, Chengalpet (41)

and Thiruvallur (33) comingsecond and third respectively.

Meanwhile, K PAnbazhagan, Higher EducationMinister has been tested posi-tive for covid-19 and wasadmitted to a corporate hospi-tal in Chennai. K Palani, anAIADMK MLA too has beenhospitalised after testing posi-tive for the pandemic.

The Government is notleaving any stones unturned asit has made aggressive testinga moto. With two more privatelaboratories designated asequipped to test coronavirus,there are 83 laboratories func-tioning 24X7 in Tamil Nadu.Till date7.89 lakh persons have

been tested and on Friday atotal of 25,902 persons weretested.

The districts Chengalpet(95), Kancheepuram(39) andThiruvallur (85) wore the lookof well guarded fortresses aspolicemen stood guard andmade these districts out ofbound for all from other places.Vellore where 103 districtstested positive on Friday isbecoming a matter of concernfor health officials.

“We will be able to tellwhether the lock-down wouldbe of any help after June 30.Last lock-down ordered by theTamil Nadu Government(April 26-30) turned every-thing upside down as the Statesaw the number of cases shoot-ing up,” said Dr C VKrishnaswamy, eminent physi-cian.

The Tamil NaduGovernment has complainedthat persons coming back tothe State from Kerala havebecome a threat as most ofthem have been tested to bepositive.

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Adapting to change andcracking the conundrum

of new work culture in theGovernment, the BiharGovernment Department ofCooperative (DoC) has becomethe first department in theState to digitise amidst theCovid-19 pandemic.

“To turn our Departmentinto digital was indispensableas the spread of Covid 19 isincreasing at a faster rate.Recent news from the office ofPrincipal Seceratry, MP aboutvirus spread among 22 officialsthrough suspecting the trans-fer of same file they were act-ing upon created a fear amongthe employees and staff sincefiles are inevitable in anyGovernment office. TheDepartment took cognizance oftheir employees safety first andthought of de-shackling it withinfusion of technology to it,"said Bandana Preyashi,Secretary, DoC, Bihar.

The Department ofCooperative, successfullyturned into an e-office sinceJune 16, 2020. The officialsconducted a need gap assess-ment programme to identify allthe hard and soft infrastructurerequired for making thedepartment paperless. Therewere around more than 9,000files having around 10 lakhdocuments to be scanned.

“We see this step of thedepartment aligning to the Jal-Jeevan-Hariyali Mission bymaking it a paperless system for

conserving the forest and nat-ural resources. The e-filingmanagement system is sup-posed to bring in speedy, accu-racy and accountability by cut-ting down the unwanted delayscaused due to physical move-ment of file from one table tothe other. Now the officers willhave flexibility to work fromhome with ease and withoutany worry of physical transferof documents," said AnandSharma, Joint Secretary, DoC,Bihar Government.

In the long run the depart-ment will reduce the cost ofoperation due to minimizationof papers, printers and multi-ple volume and copies of thedocument.

To speedup transforma-tion process, the departmentcalled for a tender for migrat-ing all the files to electronicmode. The work order wasgiven to a competent agencyand the electronic conversionwas completed in a recordtime amidst lockdown withlimited infrastructure.

The Department alsoorganised hands on training attheir computer laboratory to allthe officers of the Department.A series of training programmewas conducted for electronicdocument management as aprobable solution to managethe procedure of importing,storing, and managing docu-ments and images as comput-er files. The officers adapted tothe change with great enthusi-asm and embraced technologyfor brining efficiency and effec-tiveness in the system.

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Aday after Chief MinisterPinarayi Vijayan cautioned

the people of the State againstviolation of guidelines andnorms prescribed by theGovernment for checking thespread of coronavirus pan-demic, 118 persons tested pos-itive for Covid-19 on Friday.

This is the highest evernumber of patients tested pos-itive for the pandemic on a sin-gle day since the State regis-tered the first case in January2020.

On Thursday, Vijayan hadlisted violations of laws andguidelines by the people whichhe said would lead to a situa-tion where the pandemicwould rear its ugly head againin the State which had flattenedthe corona early May itself.

While the maximum num-ber of covid-19 patients werefrom Malappuram district (18),Kollam district came a close

second with 17 patients. Thenumber of hotspots in theState stood at 112 with sevenplaces from Kannur, the homedistrict of Chief MinisterVijayan getting designated asthe new hotspots.

Out of the 118 cases test-ed positive on Friday, 67 wereexpatriates who returned to theState while 45 were from otherparts of the country.

There were six cases of thepersons getting infectedthrough community transmis-sion. Vijayan had blamed WestAsian countries on Thursdayfor their lackadaisical approachin testing the persons leavingtheir shores to their nativeplaces. He had even offered thatKerala would make availablefacilities in these countries totest those returning home.

A release issued by theKerala Government said therewere 1.32 lakh persons underobservation in the State.Samples collected from 1.73

lakh persons have been sent fortesting till date. As on date,1,380 persons were under treat-ment in various hospitals inKerala. On Friday, 197 personswho were tested positive havebeen admitted to hospitals.

Meanwhile, the KeralaGovernment made a relax-ation in the requirement that allthose returning to the Stateshould bring with them “no-covid certificate” issued by theauthorities where they stay.This requirement would comeinto practice only after June 26,said the release.

There was widespreadopposition to the move byKerala Government making“No-Covid Certificate” manda-tory for all those returning tothe State.

The only factor whichbrough relief to the State onFriday was the news that 96persons were cured of thecoronavirus pandemic andwere discharged from hospitals.

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Ahead of Bihar Assemblypolls to boost employment

and infrastructure in rural sec-tor, the Narendra ModiGovernment will launch a mas-sive rural public works scheme—Garib Kalyan RojgarAbhiyaan — on Saturday to pro-vide livelihood to migrant work-ers amid nationwide lockdowndue to coronavirus pandemic.The scheme will be launched viavideo conference in the presenceof Bihar Chief Minister NitishKumar in Telihar village inKhagaria district. The cam-paign also aims to create infra-structure worth Rs 50,000 crorein the rural regions across 116districts in six states. Lastmonth, the Modi governmenthad announced an additional Rs

40,000 crore for the rural jobsprogramme. This is in additionto the Rs 61,500 croreannounced in the budget onFebruary 1.

“PM @narendramodi tolaunch Garib Kalyan RojgarAbhiyaan on 20th June to boostlivelihood opportunities inRural India," a Twitter postfrom the Prime Minister’s officehandle said. The programmewill be launched via video con-ference in the presence of Biharchief minister Nitish Kumar, theTwitter post added. As per thestatement, the campaigninvolves 125 days of work andwill have “intensified andfocused implementation of 25different types of works to pro-vide employment to the migrantworkers on one hand and cre-ate infrastructure in the rural

regions of the country on theother hand, with a resourceenvelope of Rs 50,000 crore.

Political experts opined thatthe scheme will certainly helpthe Nitish Kumar governmentin Bihar to woo more 30-35 lakhmigrants workers who returnedto the state since May 3. Nearly32 districts in Bihar, which wit-nessed the highest number ofmigrant returnees from acrossthe country during the nation-wide ockdown, have beenincluded in the scheme. Kumarhas been facing flak on the issueof migrants as the oppositiontarnished his image as antimigrant workers. Kumar hadinitially opposed the migrantsmovement and banned theirentry in the state but agreedafter alround criticism.

The highest number of

1,53,022 migrants have offi-cially returned to EastChamparan followed by1,41,944 in Katihar, 1,24,572 inMadhubani, 1,17,294 in Gaya,1,17,200 in West Champaran,1,03,007 in Darbhanga,1,00,973in Araria,1,00,672 inMuzaffarpur,96,948 in Purniaand other districts. The stategovernment has conducted theskill mapping of more than 17lakhs of migrant-labourers andmore than 6 to 7 lakhs of themhave already been engaged indifferent schemes employmentschemes including MNREGA.As per information, 25 typeworks can be allotted under thescheme including constructionof gram panchayat bhawan,construction of national high-way works, water conservationand harvesting works, planata-

tion, horticulture, rural con-nectivity works, rural housingworks, construction of com-munity toilets and railway works

The finance ministry state-ment on the scheme did notmake it clear but the newscheme may run in tandem withthe Mahatma Gandhi NationalRural Employment GuaranteeScheme that allows for 100days of work for members ofrural households. The rural jobguarantee scheme has seenrecord enrolments in rural areasfollowing the large scale migra-tion of lakhs of workers fromtheir places of employment incities and towns to the ruralareas after the lockdown wasimposed from 25 March.

The villages across 116 dis-tricts in the six states will jointhe campaign through the com-

mon service centres and krishivigyan kendras. As per thestatement, these 116 districtscomprise more than 25,000returnee migrant workers acrosssix states, which are Bihar, UttarPradesh, Madhya Pradesh,Rajasthan, Jharkhand andOdisha, and are estimated tocover about two-thirds ofmigrant workers.

The government added thatthe scheme will be carried outin a mission mode and will bea coordinated effort between 12different ministries and depart-ments. These include ruraldevelopment, panchayati raj,road transport & highways,mines, drinking water & sani-tation, environment, railways,petroleum & natural gas, new &renewable energy, border roads,telecom, and agriculture.

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Addressing a joint pressconference with J&K Policechief Dilbag Singh and othersenior officers of police andparamilitary forces at theBadami Bagh headquartersof 15 Corps, Lt General Rajusaid, "Over 100 militants havebeen killed so far this year. 50belonged to Hizbul and 20each from JeM and LeT andothers belonged to Ansar-Ghazwatul Hind and othersmall groups like Al-Badr".

Lt General Raju said that

over the past 24 hours, secu-rity forces on the ground dida great job by killing eight mil-itants in two separate encoun-ters in south Kashmir'sPulwama and Shopian dis-tricts.

"In one of the encounters,where militants had goneinside a mosque, the forces onground exercised extreme restraint and nodamage was caused to the reli-gious place. With every oper-ation we are moving on thepath of peace. I can feel it onground that there is a palpa-ble difference in the situation",he said.

He said that this year, sofar, 102 militants have beenkilled in various operations.

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The Ministry of Housing andUrban Affairs (MoHUA) and

Small Industries DevelopmentBank of India (SIDBI), on Friday,signed an MoU to engage SIDBIas the implementation agency forthe PM Street Vendor’sAatmaNirbhar Nidhi (PMSVANidhi), a special micro-credit facility for street vendors.

“As per the MoU terms,SIDBI will implement the PMSVANidhi Scheme under the

guidance of the MoHUA. It willalso manage the credit guaranteeto the lending institutionsthrough Credit Guarantee FundTrust for Micro and SmallEnterprises (CGTMSE),” said anofficial release. The MoU wassigned by Sanjay Kumar, JointSecretary on behalf of Ministryof Housing and Urban Affairs(MoHUA) and V Satya VenkataRao, Deputy Managing Director,SIDBI, in the presence ofHardeep Puri, Minister of State(Independent Charge) MoHUA

SIDBI will also develop and

maintain a customised and inte-grated IT platform that providesend-to-end solutions, includingdocumentation of the processesand workflows, through a portaland a mobile app, to ensureengagement and informationflow between urban local bodies,lending institutions, digital pay-ment aggregators and otherstakeholders, it added.

PM SVANidhi was launchedby the MoHUA on June 1 to pro-vide affordable working capitalloan to street vendors who havebeen adversely affected by the

Covid-19 lockdown. This schemetargets to benefit over 50 lakhstreet vendors. Under thescheme, vendors can avail aworking capital loan of up to�10,000, which is repayable inmonthly instalments in thetenure of one year.

The MoU was signed bySanjay Kumar, Joint Secretary, onbehalf of MoHUA, and VSatyaVenkata Rao, Deputy ManagingDirector, SIDBI, in the presenceof Hardeep SPuri, Minister ofState (independent charge),MoHUA.

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One of the most serious concernscaused by the spread ofCoronavirus, one that is beingdebated all across the globe, iswhen and how should schools

reopen after the pandemic? Talk to any par-ent, their first reaction would be: We shall waitand watch. Some are not willing to send theirchildren to schools even if they reopen inAugust/September. Mothers are more clear-er. It is acceptable to them if their childrenlose an academic year. They don’t want to takethe dreaded risk. In an article, published onMay 13 by Stefania Giannini, AssistantDirector-General of UNESCO, the magni-tude of the problem has been estimated.

“It has been around two months sinceschools closed in more than 190 countries,affecting 1.57 billion children and youth —90 per cent of the world’s student population.Closures happened in quick succession as ameasure to contain the COVID-19 virus. Justas speedily, governments deployed measuresfor learning to continue through platforms,television and radio in what has been the mostfar-reaching experiment in the history of edu-cation. But when it comes to reopeningschools, the tempo is far more uncertain.According to UNESCO data, 100 countrieshave not yet announced a date for schools toreopen, 65 have plans for partial or fullreopening, while 32 will end the academicyear online. For 890 million students, how-ever, the school calendar has never been soundefined.”

There are around 250 million school-going students in India. It is but natural forthem and their parents to be worried, espe-cially when Coronavirus cases are risingevery day. The level of anxiety and uncer-tainty was evident in a recent study, conduct-ed in 224 districts. According to the survey,nearly 37 per cent of the 18,000 parents cov-ered in the survey felt that schools shouldreopen only if there are no new cases in thedistrict and within its 20 km radius for 21days. However, more than 20 per cent par-ents said schools should reopen only afterthe country has no new cases for three weeks,while 13 per cent felt that schools shouldremain shut till a vaccine is developed.

The Human Resource DevelopmentMinistry has made it clear that StateGovernments must decide upon the date ofreopening schools and has asked them totake their own decisions. The UnionMinistry will issue guidelines on sanitation,quarantine and physical distancing and othersuch relevant aspects. To sum this up,uncertainty looms large over the educationsector. Yet, creative minds are working to findpossible solutions to help combat disruptionsin teaching-learning scenario.

The way digital learning has beenadopted in a large number of schools indi-cates how swiftly the system has realised thecomplex nature of the problem at hand andis, hence, testing alternatives. However,making the switch to digital learning is not

an easy task. There are manyschools that are well-equippedon all counts. But there are alsoothers that are perpetually defi-cient — even deprived — bothin terms of infrastructure andprofessional support. In the lastthree decades, teacher vacancieshave been a cause of consider-able concern and have directlyimpacted the quality of learning.Owing to this, the credibility ofthe school, too, is impacted.

There’s yet another phe-nomenon that has been affect-ing schools, both in metro citiesand small towns. The migrationof labourers from the cities totheir home States has posed sev-eral questions both to the work-ers and the system. This promi-nently includes children’s educa-tion. That school educationwould be affected was verymuch anticipated. It has beenconfirmed from various sourcesin different parts of the countrythat Government schools arebeing approached by parents ofthose children presently enrolledin high-fee-charging privateschools, the English mediumones. With the Corona pandem-ic triggering an economic crisis,the lower and lower-middlerungs of the society have beenbadly affected. Even highly-educated people, who hadadmitted their children in pri-vate schools, have found them-selves at the crossroads. Parents,who have been forced to meettheir regular monetary demandsby cutting on genuine familyexpenses, are in two minds.Many of them are no more in a

position to pay the school feeseven though it will not be hikedthis year.

As a result, there would bea considerable exodus fromthese high-end schools to eitherprivate ones that target econom-ically weaker sections or toGovernment ones. At present,there seems to be no way out toprevent this exodus. All of thisis bound to create considerableripples in the education indus-try, which is mostly run by pri-vate entrepreneurs. Schools inour country are broadly divid-ed into two categories: First,those that are run on publicfunds — the sarkari schools.Second, those that are run byprivate entrepreneurs.

It is indeed intriguing thatmost parents are not happywith the way school educationsystem functions. Those sendingtheir wards to privately managed“public” schools are unhappy asthey are persistently under pres-sure from the management toloosen their purse strings underone pretext or the other. Parentsof children in sarkari schoolslament their inability to put theirwards in English medium “pub-lic” schools.

Managements in privateschools, too, are a worried lot.They fear they may not get per-mission to implement theirannual quota of fee raise. Theirapprehensions, restlessness andanxiety are understandable.Recently, I was informed that aninnovative entrepreneur decid-ed to charge extra fee for “inter-net teaching and learning.” This

tussle shall take varied dimen-sions in the months to come.

Instead of concentrating onhow to deal with the tough sit-uation thrust upon the educa-tion system, the focus must beon evolving a new pedagogy andteacher training strategies.

Private schools are moreworried about the economics ofhow to sustain their incomes.Everyone knows the real situa-tion but formally, India stillinsists that education enterpriseis not for profit-making. Severalschool managements haveinformed me that they wouldlike to earn an honest income ontheir investment, keep therecords clean and pay taxes.They have a very strong case. Aserious attitudinal transforma-tion in policy formulation is nec-essary at this juncture.

The emerging school sce-nario and reference to the plightof workers returning to their vil-lages remind me of what SwamiVivekananda had said in his let-ter to the Maharaja of Mysore onJune 23, 1894: “The one thingthat is at the root of all evils inIndia is the condition of thepoor... The only service to bedone for our lower classes is togive them education, developtheir lost individuality.”

Whatever plans and pro-grammes the Governments,Union and State, unfold hence-forth, they must ensure goodquality education to childrenfrom the weaker sections of soci-ety. Give them an opportunityand they will wade throughevery impediment and rediscov-

er their individuality. The ideol-ogy of progress, growth anddevelopment must be wovenaround these two sectors.

India has realised just howimportant it is to not ignore itsfarmers, artisans and workerswho make village life worth liv-ing. Now, we have to reach thestage that Gandhiji dreamt of inhis autobiography after he readJohn Ruskin’s book, Unto ThisLast: “That the good of the indi-vidual is contained in the goodof all. That a lawyer work has thesame value as the barber’s, inas-much as all have the same rightof earning their livelihood fromtheir work. That a life of labour,ie, the life of the tiller of the soiland the handicraftsman, is thelife worth living.”

These lines were precededby the reaffirmation of the age-old dictum, “The good of indi-vidual is contained in the goodof all!” Gandhiji transformed hisown life and wanted the last manin the line to be omnipresent inevery new initiative by the stat-ues and also by every individual.

Swami Vivekananda hadsaid: “Material civilisation, nay,even luxury, is necessary to cre-ate work for the poor. Bread!Bread! I do not believe in a God,who cannot give me bread here,giving me eternal bliss in heav-en!” The path of progress is cutout and well lit before us. It hasto be comprehended in thecontext envisioned for the daysahead and put to practice withcompetence and commitment.

(The writer works in the edu-cation and social cohesion sector)

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Sir — Researchers in England saythey have the first evidence of adrug that can improve thechances of surviving COVID-19.A cheap, widely available steroidcalled dexamethasone reduceddeaths by up to a third in severe-ly ill patients. This is good newsfor India. One saved life forevery eight to 25 people treatedmay not seem like much but thereare thousands of people hospi-talised around the world rightnow who could benefit from thismedicine. Thousands more arelikely to join them if currenttrends continue. This drug has abetter chance than most to reachpatients worldwide and couldlead to many better outcomes inthe months to come.

Dexamethasone reduced the28-day mortality rate by 17 percent with a highly significanttrend showing the greatest ben-efit among those patients whorequire ventilation. Even thoughthe drug helps in severe cases,countless lives will be saved. It ishighly affordable, easy to make,can be scaled up quickly and oneonly needs a small dose. There arecurrently no approved treatment

or vaccine. If a decades-oldsteroid can prevent deaths, thereare more benefits to reap fromother anti-inflammatory drugs orcombination therapies.

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Sir — While it is appreciable thatthe Supreme Court has stayed theannual Rath Yatra and associat-ed activities at the Jagannath

Temple in Odisha’s Puri in thewake of the Coronavirus pan-demic, its observation is overar-ching to say the least. The apexcourt is supposed to issue judg-ments in accordance with the pre-scribed law, scientific truths and

overall interest of the nation andits populace. Lord Jagannath isnot just the presiding deity of theState but signifies the collectiveconsciousness of the people. Theyatra is a symbol of resilience andunity of the people. Agreed, in thewake of the pandemic, socialdistancing needs to be main-tained. That can be done withnecessary restrictions in place.People can watch it live on TV,too.

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Sir — This refers to the editori-al, “China provokes, again” (June17). Beijing is in a race to estab-lish itself as the undisputed leaderof Asia through a display ofbrute power. In this situation,New Delhi must take stock of thisnew reality and frame a responseaccordingly. Nations across theworld would be watching India.It must not lose sight of the long-term consequences.

ShashankVia email

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Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s allegedsuicide has once again sparked off a country-wide debate on nepotism, favouritism and

dynasticism. Since time immemorial, nepotism andits offshoot, political dynasticism, have posedgrave threats to the rise of an egalitarian society. Theact of prioritising birth over worth and family con-nections over merit has wiped out several talentedindividuals, thriving empires, civilisations, dynas-ties and nations off the face of the Earth. In the sec-ond century AD, the Roman emperor and stoicphilosopher, Marcus Aurelius, committed theaforementioned mistake, which gradually broughtthe mighty Roman Empire to its knees. Blinded bypaternal love, he went against the tradition ofappointing a capable and efficient man as his suc-cessor and chose instead his incompetent sonCommodus as the next emperor. Prior to this, noRoman emperor had chosen his son as the heir. Therest, as they say is history and ironically Rome itselfbecame history.

Unfortunately, the story of our civilisation is nodifferent. Everyone is familiar with the epic tale ofthe moral blindness of King Dhritarashtra thatcaused the great Mahabharata. In The Great IndianNovel (1989), which is an allegorical retelling of Vyas’epic, Shashi Tharoor satirises India’s first PrimeMinister Jawaharlal Nehru as the Dhritarashtra ofmodern India. His daughter and late PrimeMinister Indira Gandhi, on the other hand, is recastas Priya Duryodhani, a fictional representation ofthe eldest son of King Dhritarashtra, the antagonistDuryodhana. While writing this magnificent polit-ical satire, Shashi Tharoor would never havethought in his wildest dreams that one day he wouldjoin the Congress Party. But then, writers do enjoypoetic licence. The heart of the matter, neverthe-less, is that the names of Dhritarashtra, Aurelius andNehru will continue to be taken in the same breath.

In fact, one of Nehru’s Ministers seems to havequipped that the late Prime Minister was like abanyan tree in whose shade nothing else could grow.However, it is well-known that another banyan treecan grow and thrive under an older banyan tree.Disenchanted with the nepotism and dynasticismof the Gandhi family, the celebrated socialist poetNagarjun had foregrounded this decadent aspect ofpost-Independent India. The Hindi poet explodedin rage against Indira and wrote: “Induji, Induji, kyahua aapko? Bete ko taar diya, bor diya baap ko”,which can be roughly translated as “Indu, what hap-pened to you? You gave your sons, name and fameand brought a bad name to your father.”

If the father-daughter duo were accused of pro-moting their scions at the expense of others, in thepost-Nehruvian era, the situation exacerbated at thelevel of regional politics as well. Many of RamManohar Lohia’s acolytes in States such as Bihar andUttar Pradesh started a rat race to send family mem-bers to the Parliament and State assemblies, oftenat the expense of capable party workers. “Serviceto the family is service to the nation,” became theirmotto. Therefore, while accusing Bollywood ofnepotism, it becomes imperative to ask: Is there anysector which is or has ever remained untouched byit? Its all-pervasive influence can be felt in the fieldof arts, industry and business, the judiciary, religiouscircles, education, writing, film, politics and numer-ous other areas.

It would be apt here to adduce one instance offavouritism in the field of higher education fromcolonial times. Unlikely as it might sound, acclaimedauthors such as Munshi Premchand and Iqbal, too,became its victims. In 1918, Premchand and Iqbal

applied for lecturership at the newly-estab-lished Osmania University in Hyderabad.Iqbal had just returned with a degree fromCambridge University and was a man tobe reckoned with, while Premchand hadbecome quite famous as a short storywriter. But they had no godfather. So,despite their best efforts, neitherPremchand was appointed as a lecturer ofUrdu nor did Iqbal manage to become aphilosophy teacher. The job was eventu-ally given to one Akbar Haidari, who wasclose to British officials.

Unfortunately, the situation eitherremained the same or aggravated furtherafter India acquired Independence. Severalstalwarts would have similar stories toshare, for in academics and elsewhere, too,favouritism continued to be practisedunabated.

The Hindi satirist Harishankar Parsaihas put it succinctly in one of his satiresentitled Rani Naagfani ki Kahani (Storyof Queen Naagfani) in which the narra-tor quips that what matters most in aninterview is the column — “Kiska aadmi(whose man are you?)” While Parsai hadexcoriated the ways in which interviewswere being conducted by some StateService Commissions, such malpracticesare still extensively practised in theappointments of faculty members andadministrators across universities and col-leges in the country. In recent times, sev-eral scrupulous stakeholders have high-lighted the need to abolish interviews insuch appointments and conduct an all-India level examination to depoliticise thenation’s higher education system andcure it of the plague of nepotism. Thiscould be a watershed moment in our edu-cation sector but to persuade the high andmighty to accept such changes could beas difficult as cajoling a cat to give up abowl of cream.

The battle against favouritism, nepo-tism and dynasticism, which are the

residues of pre-modern societies, has tobe fought at several fronts. But where doesone start? A natural choice would be tolook up to the temple of Indian democ-racy — our Parliament. But what a greatdisillusionment awaits us there. As per asurvey conducted by historian and polit-ical commentator Patrick French, two-thirds of the MPs in the last Lok Sabha hada close relative in politics. Standardaccounts suggest there are very few par-liamentarians who have not inherited pol-itics as a vocation and enjoyed ancestralprivileges in politics. The words of theancient Roman satirist Juvenal — “Whowill guard the guards?” — seem to be quiteappropriate here. Who will legislateagainst the legislators? Any expectation ofa law against this malady, then, will turnout to be a wild goose chase.

However, the absence of a legal pro-vision against nepotism in public lifeshould not be so disappointing after all,for two main reasons. One, despite itsprevalence in all walks of life, there arenumerous individuals, who have a rags-to-riches story to share and who made itbig on account of perseverance, dedica-tion and integrity.

We may find such scintillating talesof success not only all around us but alsoin our epic, the Mahabharata. In the greatIndian epic, characters such as Sanjaya,Ekalavya and Karna transcended their ori-gins and went down as heroes afterbravely facing the hardships of a steep hier-archical society. And two, the biggest para-dox of the human mind is that humanconscience cannot be governed by law. Butthere are moments in history when one’sconscience is definitely shaken and socialawareness is created against certain iniq-uities.

Sushant Singh Rajput’s death is onesuch turning point, which must trigger amovement against favouritism, not onlyin Bollywood but also in all spheres of our

public life. In a modern, democraticnation, one’s identity should not be deter-mined by one’s birth, family connections,social and community ties but by actionsand virtues. In pre-modern and to someextent in early modern societies across theworld, such practices were quite commonbefore the emergence of democracy andthe rise of the middle class. Those whobelonged to a non-aristocratic class hadfew avenues to achieve socially-upwardmobility and were always in the pursuitof a patron or a godfather. Intellectuals andsensitive souls felt decentred and disori-ented in this world order. Alexander Pope,the eminent 18 century British poet, hadsummed it up in a humorous and satiri-cal couplet: “I am his highness’s dog atKew. Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?”Although Pope had written this for theprince’s pug, the aphorism, “Whose dogare you?” was often earnestly used todenounce the system of patronage. Thereis an uncanny resemblance betweenHarishankar Parsai’s aforementionedobservation — “Whose Man are you” andPope’s biting statement. But what is fate-ful and worrisome is that even in the post-enlightenment world, this system has per-sisted.

The continuation of the culture ofpatronage in contemporary times posesa serious threat to our claims of beingcalled civilised and enlightened. If we don’tprotest against this rampant nepotism,which violates the constitutional princi-ple of equality of opportunity, our societymay end up producing malcontents andwe may lose many more precocious tal-ent like Sushant Singh Rajput. We all knowthat it will be detrimental to the rise of anew India in the post-COVID world,threatened by the expansionist policies ofa hostile China.

(The writer teaches English at DeenDayal Upadhyaya College, DelhiUniversity)

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As you sow, so you reap.” Over thecenturies, human beings haveplundered mother Earth and are

now paying the price of rampant envi-ronmental degradation and its impact onour lives and health. While the origin ofthe pandemic and its transmission path-way are yet to be ascertained, we knowthat zoonotic diseases are on the risebecause of this abuse of nature. In a jointletter signed by 241 leading animal wel-fare and conservation organisations, anappeal was made to the World HealthOrganisation (WHO) on the occasion ofWorld Health Day to state the provenlink between wildlife markets and thethreat they pose to human health. It out-lined concrete measures that the WHOand member States should take to avertanother Coronavirus outbreak.

The organisations also urged theWHO to recommend that governmentsworldwide permanently ban live wildlifemarkets and the use of wildlife in tradi-tional medicine as an impactful first stepin adopting a highly-precautionaryapproach to wildlife trade that poses arisk to human health. The COVID-19

outbreak is believed to have originatedat wildlife markets in China and trans-mitted to humans as a result of closeproximity between wildlife and people.Further research suggests that bats andpangolins may have been involved in thetransmission chain of the virus tohumans. But let us not forget that it wasthe action of people that created the envi-ronment in which this transmission waspossible.

This is not the first time that infec-tious diseases have been linked to wildanimals in recent years. Between 2002and 2003, the Severe Acute RespiratorySyndrome (SARS), inflicted by aCoronavirus which is also believed tohave emerged from wildlife markets inChina, resulted in 8,000 human casesacross 29 countries and 774 deaths. Thefailure to enforce a permanent ban on allwildlife markets then allowed for a sim-ilar, but more severe, disease to emerge.Other significant zoonotic diseases, thetransmission of which has been associ-ated with wildlife, include Ebola, MERS,bovine TB, rabies and leptospirosis.

Zoonotic diseases are responsible for

over two million human deaths eachyear. How many of these cases directlyor indirectly originate from wildlife arehard to calculate, due to overlappingreservoirs in livestock and wild animalpopulations. However, considering thesignificance of wildlife as a reservoir ofemerging infectious diseases, wildlife ori-gins of zoonoses must be of primary con-cern. Over 60 per cent of emerging infec-tious diseases are zoonotic and 70 percent of these are thought to originatefrom wildlife.

The risk of zoonotic disease trans-mission is heightened by the unregulat-ed and unhygienic conditions associat-ed with wildlife markets, where closeproximity between humans and animalsprovides the perfect opportunity forpathogens to spread. This risk is furtherexacerbated by the conditions in whichanimals are typically farmed or collect-ed from the wild, transported to and heldat such markets, which inevitably resultin large numbers of animals of differentspecies being held in crowded conditionsin close proximity, causing immensestress and weakening of their immune

systems. Such conditions, coupled withclose proximity to people, provide theideal situation for pathogens to replicate,spread and potentially infect people.

Pangolins, which are consideredlikely by some researchers to be involvedin the transmission chain of COVID-19,are commonly used as ingredients fortraditional medicine, as are many otherwildlife species such as turtles, leopards,tigers, lions and bears, with bear bileinjections being officially recommend-ed as a treatment for COVID-19.

These animals are either farmed orpoached from the wild to supply thedemand — a practice that is entirelyunnecessary given the viable plant ornon-wildlife based alternatives recog-nised by traditional medicine. Risk of dis-ease transmission is prevalent across allaspects of wildlife trade, which suppliesproducts to the traditional medicineindustry. For example, bovine TB hasbeen documented among wild and cap-tive-bred lions, posing a substantial riskof zoonosis to consumers and peopleinvolved in the lion bone trade, partic-ularly those who work in breeding

farms, slaughter and processing facilitiesin South Africa. Reptiles such as snakesand geckos are a frequent sources of sal-monellosis infections in people. Whiletraditional medicine is a recognised med-icinal system in many countries and cul-tures, the vast majority of ingredients areplant or mineral- based, with hundredsof recognised alternatives to ingredientsderived from wildlife. The trade inwildlife is unnecessary and indefensibleas over 80 per cent consumers wouldconsider herbal or synthetic alternativesto wild animal products.

In China, academics recognisedthat a ban on wildlife consumption is notenough to protect public health fromwildlife-associated diseases. They calledon the Government to support transi-tioning the wildlife farming industryaway from the production of tradition-al medicine. Any practices that sustainthe wildlife trade carry a huge publichealth risk that could lead to future out-breaks of zoonotic diseases amonghumans. This must stop.

(The writer is Technical Associate,FSI, Dehradun)

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The key Indian equityindices traded in the green

amid a largely volatile trade sofar with the BSE Sensex trad-ing over 100 points higher.

High volatility was wit-nessed in the market so far.

However, shares ofReliance Industries hit a recordhigh of Rs 1,689 on Fridaymorning after the companyannounced that the recent

investments into Jio Platformsand the ‘Rights Issue’ has madeRIL a net debt-free company.

Around 10.40, a.m., RILshares on the BSE were tradingat Rs 1,685.00, higher by Rs28.75 or 1.74 per cent from theprevious close. Its market cap-italisation is currently over Rs10.67 lakh crore. The BSESensex was trading at34,320.39, higher by 112.34points or 0.33 per cent from theprevious close of 34,208.05.

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The planned merger ofBharti Infratel and Indus

Towers and additional pay-ment from Vodafone Plc mayhelp crisis-hit Vodafone Ideamake part upfront deposit forsecuring staggered payment ofbalance AGR dues, if the apexcourt permits, analysts said.

Hearing the AGR case onThursday, the Supreme Courthad said private telecom com-panies including Bharti Airteland Vodafone Idea must comeout with a “reasonable paymentplan” and make some pay-ment to “show their bonafide”.

“Bharti Airtel and TataTele have deposited 41 percent and 25 per cent of DoTdemand, and Vodafone Idea(VIL) has done only 12 percent,” ICICI Securities said ina note on Friday.

VIL can source fundsfrom Vodafone Plc’s unpaidindemnity of �67 billion (or �6,700 crore) and can receive �

36 billion (�3,600 crore) for itsIndus stake on merger betweenBharti Infratel and IndusTowers, it said.

ICICI-Sec said it expectsVodafone Idea to deposit �1,000-2,000 crore, which itbelieved given the company’sbalance sheet position couldjustify as ‘reasonable’ payment.VIL has consistently depositedits AGR dues in the past, whichshould also lend credibility.

“Bharti has already madea large payment of �180 billion(41 per cent of TelecomDepartment demand) and TataTele �42 billion (25 per cent ofDOT demand) versus �69 bil-lion (11.8 per cent) by VIL. Wedon’t foresee additional pay-ment by Bharti or Tata Tele,” itsaid. Axis Capital, in a note,said Vodafone Idea may man-age to survive if upfront pay-ments are negligible and AGRoutgo is spread over 20 years.A large upfront payment forstatutory dues spread only over10 years will be a stretch.

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Bharti Airtel is better placedto make upfront payment

for AGR dues as due to cashavailability and assets availablefor monetisation, it is betterplaced to raise funds from themarket.According to a researchby Axis Capital, Bharti Airtel isbetter placed to make pay-ments and gain marketshare.Bharti has a balance AGRdues of �260 billion. If thecourt accepts a 20-year stag-gered plan for balance AGRdues, maintaining the sameNPV with 7.5 per cent inter-est rate will result in cashoutgo of � 25.5 billion peryear.Bharti looks in a positionto make this payment fromexisting cash f low withincreased tariff in December2019. Axis Capital said Bhartiis better placed to make upfrontpayment in case of court orderfor AGR dues as it had �136 bil-lion in cash at end of Q4FY20and it has assets available formonetisation and is betterplaced to raise funds from themarket.

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ICICI Bank on Friday sold 3.6per cent stake in ICICI

Lombard General InsuranceCompany for around �2,250crore.

The development comesafter the bank, while announc-ing its January-March quarter-ly results in May, had said thatit would look at furtherstrengthening the balance sheetas opportunities arise.

Post the divestment, ICICIBank’s stake in its generalinsurance stands at around51.9 per cent.

“In line with this intent andpursuant to approval grantedby the board, the bank hasto-day divested 18,000,000 equi-ty shares of face value of �10each of ICICI LombardGeneral Insurance CompanyLimited, representing 3.96 percent of its equity share capitalat March 31, 2020, on thestock exchange for an approx-imate total consideration of Rs22.50 billion,” the bank said ina regulatory filing.

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Petrol price on Friday washiked by 56 paise per litre

and diesel by 63 paise a litre,taking the cumulative increasein rates to �7.11 and �7.67 perlitre respectively in less thantwo weeks.

Petrol price in Delhi washiked to �78.37 per litre from�77.81, while diesel rates wereincreased to �77.06 a litre from�76.43, according to a pricenotification of State oil mar-keting companies. Rates havebeen increased across the coun-try and vary from state to statedepending on the incidence oflocal sales tax or VAT.

This is the 13th dailyincrease in rates in a row sinceoil companies on June 7restarted revising prices in linewith costs, after ending an 82-day hiatus in rate revision.

In 13 hikes, petrol pricehas gone up by �7.11 per litre

and diesel by �7.67 a litre.The freeze in rates was

imposed in mid-March soonafter the Government hikedexcise duty on petrol and dieselto shore up additional finances.

Oil PSUs Indian Oil Corp(IOC), Bharat Petroleum CorpLtd (BPCL) and HindustanPetroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL)instead of passing on the exciseduty hikes to customers adjust-ed them against the fall in theretail rates that was warrantedbecause of fall in internation-al oil prices to two decade low.

International oil priceshave since rebounded and oilfirms are now adjusting retailrates in line with them.

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Billionaire Mukesh Ambanion Friday announced that

his oil-to-telecom conglomer-ate Reliance Industries is nownet-debt free months ahead ofits March 2021 target afterraising a record �1.69 lakhcrore from stake sales andrights issue in less than twomonths time.

Reliance secured over �1.15 lakh crore from global techinvestors including Facebookby selling a little less than aquarter of its digital businessand raised �53,124 crore sell-ing shares to existing investorsin the past 58 days. Taken

together with last year’s sale of49 per cent stake in fuel retail-ing venture to BP Plc of UK for�7,000 crore, the total fundraised is in excess of � 1.75 lakhcrore, the company said in astatement. Reliance had a netdebt of �1,61,035 crore as onMarch 31, 2020.

“With these investments,RIL has become net-debt free,”it said. “I have fulfilled mypromise to the shareholders bymaking Reliance net debt-freemuch before our originalschedule of March 31, 2021,”said Ambani, 63, who raisedrecord funds amid coronaviruspandemic.

After a planned USD 15

billion stake sale in his oil-to-chemical business to SaudiArabian Oil Co got delayed, heset out to prove skeptics wrongby luring partners to JioPlatforms Ltd, which housesIndia’s biggest telecoms firm bysubscribers, Reliance Jio.With more than 388 millionusers, Jio has forced out sever-al rivals and driven consolida-tion in the sector since enter-ing the market in 2016 withfree voice services and cut-pricedata. Sale of stake in JioPlatforms raised �1,15,693.95crore from leading globalinvestors including Facebook,Silver Lake, Vista EquityPartners, General Atlantic,

KKR, Mubadala, ADIA, TPG,L Catterton and PIF since April22, 2020.

Saudi Arabian sovereignwealth fund PIF buying 2.32per cent stake in the unit for Rs11,367 crore on June 18 “marksthe end of Jio Platforms’ cur-rent phase of induction offinancial partners,” the state-ment said. Alongside, Reliancehad launched India’s biggestright issue, which was sub-scribed 1.59 times.

Though the rights issuesize was �53,124 crore, thecompany has got only 25 percent of the money as theremaining is to be paid onlynext fiscal.

While only a quarter of therights issue has accrued to thecompany, banks treat residualamounts of a partially paidrights issue to release corre-sponding short-term debt, ifneeded. Also, cash profits of thelast two quarters has not beenfactored in the calculations.

Ambani had at the com-pany’s annual general meetingon August 12, 2019 announceda roadmap for Reliance tobecome a net-debt free com-pany before March 31, 2021.

“We have a very clearroadmap to becoming a zeronet debt company within thenext 18 months that is byMarch 31, 202,” he had said last

year highlighting strong inter-est from strategic and financialinvestors in consumer busi-nesses, Jio and Reliance Retail.

In the statement on Friday,he said he was both delightedand humbled to announce thefulfillment of the promise.

“Exceeding the expecta-tions of our shareholders andall other stakeholders, againand yet again, is in the veryDNA of Reliance,” he said.

“Therefore, on the proudoccasion of becoming a netdebt-free company, I wish toassure them that Reliance in itsGolden Decade will set evenmore ambitious growth goals,and achieve them,” he said.

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The Opposition leaders, however,asked the PM to allow authentic infor-mation on the border development tocome to them uninterruptedly so thatthere could be a coordination on thesensitive issue of national importance.

Congress president Sonia Gandhiwhose party had been, for last one week,throwing several questions at the ModiGovernment on the border escalationsaid the nation needs assurance ofrestoration of status quo on the India-China border.

Posing several questions, Soniaenquired whether the military intelli-gence alerted the Government about theintrusion and the build-up of Chineseforces along the Line of Actual Control.

“Did our external intelligence agen-cies not report any unusual activityalong the LAC? Did the MilitaryIntelligence not alert the Governmentabout the intrusion and the build-up ofmassive forces along the LAC? In theGovernment’s considered view, wasthere a failure of intelligence?”, Soniaasked the Government at the all-partymeeting.

She also sought to enquire from theGovernment the roadmap ahead andstressed that the entire country wouldlike an assurance that status quo antewould be restored and China will revertback to the original position on the LAC.

In the meeting NCP Chief andFormer Defence Minister Sharad Pawarsaid issues of whether soldiers carriedarms or not are decided by internationalagreements and we need to respect suchsensitive matters.

West Bengal Chief Minister andTMC chief Mamata Banerjee said,“Don’t let China enter telecom, railwayand aviation sectors. We will face someproblems but we won’t allow the Chineseto enter.”

While backing defence forces,Mamata wanted the Government to be“transparent” and maintain “flow ofinformation” on the issue to theOpposition parties.

Samajwadi Party’s Ram Gopal Yadavsaid, “Nation is one. ‘Neeyat’ of Pakistanand China is not good. India will not beChina’s dumping ground. He demand-ed imposing “300 per cent duty onChinese goods.”

Shiv Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray saidIndia wants peace but that doesn’t meanwe are weak. “China’s nature is betray-al. India is ‘Mazboot’ not ‘Majboor’. OurGovernment has the ability to -‘Aankhien Nikalkar Haath Me dedena’...We are all one. This is the feeling.We are with you, PM. We are with ourforces and their families,” he said.

It is understood that Maharashra

CM wanted clarity on the ChineseForeign Direct Investment in India fol-lowing the border row as the State hasrecently cleared a Chinese company’sinvestment in the State.

The meeting started with the pre-sentation by Rajnath Singh who detailedarmed preparedness on the India-Chinaborder and mobilisation in a presenta-tion which was followed by Jaishankarbriefing political leaders on the diplo-matic efforts in the light of the borderskirmishes.

Defence Minister Singh had saidIndian soldiers displayed exemplarycourage and valour in the line of dutyand sacrificed their lives in the highesttraditions of the Indian Army. Hedenied any intelligence failure whenOpposition parties sought him to ask onthe alleged intrusion of China on theIndian side of the Line of ActualControl.

Presidents of various political par-ties, including the BJP, Congress, TMC,AIADMK, DMK, TRS, JD(U), BJD,LJP, BSP, SP, Shiv Sena and NCP amongothers, participated in the meet.

Former Prime Minister and JDSpresident HD Dewe Gowda and DMKleader MK Stalin were also in the meet.Uddhav, Bihar Chief Minister NitishKumar, TRS leader and Telangana CMK Chandrashekhar Rao, YSR CongressParty’s leader and Andhra Pradesh CMYS Jagan Mohan Reddy and Mamatawere among other top leaders whoattended the important meet.

A row erupted as why AAP andDelhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and RJDleaders were not invited to the meetingwhile Government apparently sought toexplain that invitation was extended tothose parties having a minimum of fiveMPs in the Lok Sabha. Though Kejriwalwhose party has four MPs did notexpress his annoyance and expressedsolidarity with the Government, theRJD with five MPs said it want answerfrom Rajnath for not inviting the party.

Parties with lesser MPs in the LokSabha than RJD and AAP were given theopportunity to interact with the PM onthe border escalation with Chinaincluded TDP (four MPs), CPI (three)and JMM (1). There are 37 political par-ties in the Lok Sabha of which around20 parties were invited for the importantinteraction.

Appreciating Modi’s decision to callfor an all-party meeting, Dewe Gowdasuggested that a senior serving militaryofficer and a senior serving diplomatshould make a detailed presentation toOpposition leaders on the ground situ-ation and the progress of talks.

BJD ‘s Pinaki Misra said Odisha CMNaveen Patnaik’s appeal to all parties isnot to indulge in a blame game at this

point. We must be in lockstep with theGovernment, the entire country needsto talk in one voice.

Nitish said there was nationwideanger against China. “There should beno differences among us. We are togeth-er. Parties should not show any disuni-ty that can be explored by other nations.China’s stand on India is known. Indiawanted to give respect to China. Butwhat did China do in 1962,” he said.

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As part of its readiness, the IAF hasmoved its critical frontline assets includ-ing the Sukhoi-30MKI, Mirage 2000 andJaguar fighter aircraft fleet to advancedpositions where they can fly in at a veryshort notice to carry out operations.Moreover, the attack helicopters weredeployed in the close vicinity of the areaswhere operations by the ground troopsare taking place at the moment.

Chinese has several air force basesin the Tibetan plateau across the LAC.Also, Pakistan’s airbase of Skardu, inPakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK),could also house Chinese fighters. TheIAF is monitoring the situation closelyin Skardu but has not confirmed thepresence of Chinese fighters at thePakistan base.

Besides, maintaining round theclock preparedness of the airbases, theIAF has also added muscle to itsadvanced landing grounds (ALG) inhigh altitude in all the areas facingChina, especially in Ladakh. The ALGare capable of handling take-off andlanding of huge transport planes carry-ing troops and logistical support. Allthese ALG are now 24 hours operationaldespite weather constraints, sourcessaid.

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The Confederation of All IndiaTraders (CAIT) has released a list ofmore than 500 Chinese products to beboycotted. The list of over 500 itemsreleased by CAIT include FMCG prod-ucts, consumer durables, toys, furnish-ing fabrics, textiles, builder hardware,footwear, apparel, kitchen items, lug-gage, hand bags, cosmetics, gift items,electrical and electronics, fashion appar-el, food, watches. gems and jwellery,clothing, stationery, paper, householditems, furniture, lighting, health and,packaging products, auto parts, Yarn,

Feng Shui Items, Diwali and Holi Itemsand optical items.

The CAIT also wrote to cricket andB ollywood celebr it ies - SachinTendulkar, Virat Kohli, Mahendra SinghDhoni, Amitabh Bachchan, AamirKhan, Deepike Padukone, Katrina Kaif,Akshay Kumar, Shilpa Shetty andMadhuri Dixit, to join the campaign toboycott Chinese products.

India relies on China for the bulk ofits imports, with purchases in the yearended March running into more than$60 billion. Beijing runs a trade surplusof about $50 billion with New Delhi.Chinese firms such as Great Wall, SAICand Bytedance have placed major betson India, where investors like Alibabaalso fund many startups. Chinese smart-phone brands, including Oppo andXiaomi, account for eight of every 10smartphones sold in India.

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case — Irfan Shafi Mir — were grantedthe relief by Special Judge DharmenderRana in the case filed by the special cellof Delhi police, who noted that it failedto file the charge sheet within 90 daysfrom their arrest, as prescribed underthe law.

In the bail applications filed onbehalf of the accused, their lawyer MSKhan said that neither the police filedcharge sheet within statutory period of90 days, nor any permission was soughtfrom the court to extend that period.

“Considering the fact that despitethe lapse of statutory time limit to com-plete investigation, charge sheet in theinstant matter is not filed till date, boththe accused persons are entitled to bereleased on bail,” the judge said, whilegranting the relief on a personal bondof �1 lakh each and two sureties of likeamount.

The case was initially lodged by J&Kpolice which was later taken over by theNIA. Singh was suspended from theJammu and Kashmir Police in Januarythis year.

In the current case, filed by the spe-cial cell of Delhi Police under section 18(conspiracy for terror acts) of stringentUAPA and section 120-B (criminalconspiracy) of IPC, Singh and Mirwere arrested on March 14 and 19respectively.

The special cell had brought Singhto Delhi from Hira Nagar Jail in Jammu& Kashmir.

The case relates to planning/ exe-cution of terror attacks in Delhi andother parts of the country. According toDelhi Police, Sayed Naveed Mushtaq, thecommander of Shopian district ofHizbul Mujahiddeen, and others wereplanning to execute terror attacks in

Delhi and other parts of the country aswell as carry out targeted killings of pro-tected persons.

The FIR said the youth of Jammuand Kashmir and Punjab are beingtrained for carrying out terrorist activ-ities.

The FIR also mentioned the mafia’sD Company and Chhota Shakeel.According to the FIR, Delhi Police’sSpecial Cell had received an input thatthe D Company, run by fugitive Indianunderworld kingpin Dawood Ibrahim,is funding pro-Khalistan terrorist organ-isations in Punjab.

Davinder Singh was taken in cus-tody under the same FIR. The specialcell had also interrogated Singh regard-ing the Khalistan angle, police said.

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Just two days ago, Manipur too sawa complete change of sides and emer-gence of Congress as the single largestparty, but interestingly in the RajyaSabha elections BJP emerged victorious.

BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia wonthe Rajya Sabha election from MadhyaPradesh. Of the three Rajya Sabha seats,the BJP has bagged two seats while theCongress one. Besides Scindia, BJPcandidate Sumer Singh Solanki andCongress’ Digvijaya Singh emerged vic-torious.

In Rajasthan, the ruling Congresswon two seats while the opposition BJPsettled with one seat. The winners were- KC Venugopal and Neeraj Dangi(both Congress) and Rajendra Gehlot(BJP).

In Andhra Pradesh, the rulingYSRCP of Jagan Mohan Reddy won allthe four Rajya Sabha seats. The fourcandidates were Pilli Subhash ChandraBose, Mopidevi Venkata Ramana Rao,A Ayodhya Rami Reddy and ParimalNathwani.

In an exciting contest in Manipur,BJP candidate Leisemba Sanajaobadefeated Congress’ T Mangi Babu.Assembly Speaker had allowed threerebel Congress MLAs to vote. The threehad pledged support to the ruling BJP.The three BJP MLAs who resigned didnot cast their votes while four NPPMinisters who had withdrawn theirsupport exercised their franchise.

In Meghalaya, National People’sParty candidate WR Kharlukhi haswon.

The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha(JMM) and the BJP have won one seateach in Jhakhand. The winning candi-dates are JMM president Shibu Sorenand BJP’s Jharkhand unit presidentDeepak Prakash. While Shibu Soren got31 votes, BJP’s Prakash secured 30

votes. Congress’ Shahzada Anwar man-aged to secure just 18 votes.

In Mizoram, the ruling MizoNational Front (MNF) leader KVanlalvena emerged victorious securing27 votes out of the 39 polled to defeatB Lalchhanzova of main oppositionZoram People’s Movement (ZPM).

Counting of votes in Gujarat beganquite late after the Congress moved theElection Commission of India urging itto cancel the votes of two BJP MLAs inthe State.

The party argued that BJP MLABhupendrasinh Chudasama’s electionwas quashed by the Gujarat High Courtand his Assembly membership no longerexisted.

It also said Kesarisinh cast his votethrough a proxy voter and therefore thevotes of the two BJP MLAs should beannulled. Congress’ Shaktisinh Gohilwon.

As many as 43 first timers are set toenter the Upper House accounting for72 per cent of vacancies being filled up,according to the research division ofRajya Sabha.

With only 12 retiring membersbeing re-elected and seven more mem-bers with past experience of the UpperHouse returning for another term, thecollective experience of the Members ofRajya Sabha will drop to only 63 terms,a senior official in the research divisionof RS secretariat said.

While 61 retiring members have atotal experience of 95 terms rangingfrom one to four terms in Rajya Sabha,the winners come with a total compos-ite experience of only 32 terms, result-ing in a decline in total experience of 63terms, the official said.

Prominent leaders to enter RajyaSabha for the f irst time includeJyotiraditya Scindia, MallikarjunKharge, M Thambidurai (former DeputySpeaker of Lok Sabha), K C Venugopaland KR Suresh Reddy (Former Speakerof Legislative Assembly of compositeAndhra Pradesh state).

The 12 sitting members being re-elected are: Bhubaneswar Kalita (for 5thterm), Premchand Gupta (5th term),Tiruchi Shiva (4th term), K KeshavaRao, Biswajit Daimary and ParimalNathwani (all for 3rd term), SharadPawar, Ramdas Athawale, Harivansh,Digvijay Singh, KTS Tulsi and RamnadThakur (all for second term), the sourcessaid.

Six members entering Rajya Sabhahaving been earlier members of theUpper House include GK Vasan, DineshTrivedi and Nabam Rabia (all for 3rdterm), Deve Gowda, Shibu Soren(expected to win from Jharkahnd) andOmkar Singh Lakhawat (expected towin from Rajasthan), both for 2ndterm, the sources add.

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London: The UK’s coronavirusalert level has been downgrad-ed from four to three on Friday,a move hailed by the govern-ment as a “big moment” in itspandemic fight.

Under level three of a five-level alert system, the virus isnow considered to be “in gen-eral circulation” and thereforeallow for a “gradual relaxationof restrictions” to ease the lock-down further.

Previously, at level four,transmission of the deadly viruswas considered “high or rising

exponentially”.“The UK moving to a lower

alert level is a big moment forthe country, and a real testamentto the British people’s determi-nation to beat this virus,” saidUK Health Secretary MattHancock.

“The government’s plan isworking. Infection rates arerapidly falling, we have pro-tected the NHS and, thanks tothe hard work of millions in ourhealth and social care services,we are getting the country backon her feet,” he said. PTI

Washington: A large study of20,000 hospitalised COVID-19patients who received trans-fusions of blood plasma fromrecovered people found thetreatment was safe.

The report, published in

Washington: Amidst a war ofwords between the Trumpadministration and John Bolton,US Secretary of State MikePompeo has accused him ofbeing a traitor, saying he dam-aged America by violating hissacred trust with the people.

On the other hand, Boltonfired back and said that a seriesof tweets by President DonaldTrump against him were unbe-coming of the office of thepresident.

Pompeo, in a statement inresponse to the excerpts from abook of Bolton who has madesome stunning allegationsagainst Trump, said that he hasnot read the book, but “from theexcerpts I’ve seen published,John Bolton is spreading anumber of lies, fully-spun, half-truths and outright falsehoods”.

“It is both sad and dan-gerous that John Bolton’s finalpublic role is that of a traitorwho damaged America byviolating his sacred trust withits people,” the Secretary ofState said.

Excerpts from the book,

‘The Room Where It Happened:A White House Memoir’, werecarried by The New York Times,The Washington Post and TheWall Street Journal onWednesday.

Published by Simon &Schuster, the book is slated to hitthe stores on June 23.

Trump had fired Boltonlast year as the National SecurityAdviser, saying he had donesome “big mistakes” and hisactions were not in line with theadministration.

In the book, Bolton claimsthat Trump virtually pleadedwith his Chinese counterpart XiJinping at a G-20 summit forhelp in his reelection.

Earlier in a series of tweets,Trump said that Bolton’s book,“which is getting terriblereviews, is a compilation of lies

and made up stories, all intend-ed to make me look bad.

“Many of the ridiculousstatements he attributes to mewere never made, pure fiction.Just trying to get even for firinghim like the sick puppy he is!”Trump said.

“When Wacko John Boltonwent on Deface the Nation andso stupidly said that he lookedat the “Libyan Model” for NorthKorea, all hell broke out. KimJong-un, who we were gettingalong with very well, went “bal-listic”, just like his missiles - andrightfully so…,” Trump said,adding that he did not wantBolton anywhere near him.

The president said thatBolton’s dumbest of all state-ments set the US back verybadly with North Korea, evennow. PTI

Washington: John Bolton’sclaim in an explosive new bookthat President Donald Trumpurged China’s Xi Jinping tohelp him win reelection couldundermine his campaign’s effortto portray Democratic rival JoeBiden as soft on Beijing.

Biden’s top aides movedquickly on Thursday to arguethat it’s Trump who has taken aweak approach to the risingsuperpower. They seized onaccusations from Bolton,Trump’s former national secu-rity adviser, that the presidentcontinually kowtowed to Xiand ignored human rights abus-es while trying to get his foreigncounterpart’s assistance withdomestic politics.

“The Bolton allegations arejust the most noxious and hate-ful cherry on top of a sundaethat already existed here,” RonKlain, a longtime Biden advis-er, said in an interview. “Wehave seen for three years thatDonald Trump has curriedfavor with authoritarian regimesthat are willing to help him per-

sonally and politically.”China already loomed large

in the contest as Trump andBiden have traded accusationsover corruption, geopoliticalpandering and the president’sshifts in tone toward the coun-try during the coronavirus pan-demic, which ignited in the cen-tral Chinese city of Wuhan. ButBolton’s accusations intensifiedthe debate with less than fivemonths remaining until theelection.

Biden’s team hopes thebook will help reinforce theirargument that the administra-tion was slow to react to thepandemic, in part because of thetone set by Trump.

Klain, who served asPresident Barack Obama’s Ebolacoordinator and Biden’s chief ofstaff when he was vice president,said he began briefing Biden onthe situation in China as earlyas Jan. 10. Biden wrote an op-ed warning about the virus onJan. 27 and began speakingabout the issue on the campaigntrail around that time. AP

Berlin: The board of theUnited Nations’ atomic watch-dog agency on Friday adopteda resolution calling for Iran toprovide inspectors access tosites where the country isthought to have stored or usedundeclared nuclear material,the Russian representative said.

Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’sambassador to internationalorganisations in Vienna, saidon Twitter that his country andChina had voted against theresolution that Germany,France and Britain proposed ata meeting of the InternationalAtomic Energy Agency board“We believe that the resolutioncan be counterproductive,”Ulyanov said, while also “stress-ing the need for Tehran andIAEA to settle this problemwithout delay.”

Earlier this week, agency

Director General MarianoGrossi reiterated concerns thatfor more than four monthsIran had denied his inspectorsaccess to two locations “ toclarify our questions related topossible undeclared nuclearmaterial and nuclear-relatedactivities.”

Activities at the sites arethought to have been from theearly 2000s, before Iran signedthe 2015 nuclear deal withworld powers. Iran maintainsthe International AtomicEnergy Agency has no legalbasis to inspect them.

The agency has said thatIran continues to provideaccess to sites covered by thenuclear deal, known as theJoint Comprehensive Plan ofAction, or JCPOA.

Iran’s representative to theIAEA, Kazem Gharibabadi,

said his country rejected theresolution.

“We do not consider thisresolution acceptable at all,” hesaid. “This resolution cannotcreate any legal obligation forthe Islamic Republic of Iran incooperation with theInternational Atomic EnergyAgency to grant the twoaccesses.”

Since the United Stateswithdrew unilaterally from thedeal in 2018, the other signa-tories — Germany, France,Britain, Russia and China —have been struggling to save it.

Meanwhile, Iran has beenviolating its restrictions, includ-ing the amount of uranium itcan enrich and the purity ofenrichment, to try to pressurethose countries to provideadditional economic relief tooffset American sanctions. AP

Rome: A study by Italy’s National Institute ofHealth has found that the new coronavirus wasin circulation in wastewater in the northerncities of Milan and Turin in December 2019,at least two months before the virus was con-firmed to have spread locally in the population.

The study, released Thursday, was based on40 water samples collected as part of regularchecks from sewage treatment plants in north-ern Italy from October 2019 to February2020. It showed the virus that causes Covid-19in Dec. 18 samples from Milan and Turin, whileearlier samples were negative.

“This research can contribute to under-standing the beginning of the circulation of thevirus in Italy,” the institute said in a statement.

The research has so far not linked any con-firmed cases to the virus’ earlier presence, butresearchers have proposed using the system tomonitor the presence of the new coronavirusin water systems in a bid to help identify anypossible new outbreaks. A pilot monitoring sys-tem will launch next month in tourist desti-nations, in preparation for wider monitoringahead of a possible new spike in contagion nextfall, the institute said. AP

London: Twitter has slappedanother label on a tweet byPresident Donald Trump, thistime warning that a video heshared was doctored and esca-lating the social media compa-ny’s crackdown on one of itsmost widely followed users.

After Trump tweeted thevideo late Thursday, Twittertook the rare step of adding awarning that it was “manipu-lated media” and linked to a pagethat said multiple journalistsconfirmed the clip was edited tomake it look like a CNN broad-cast. The video remains visiblein Trump’s timeline.

The doctored clip usedfootage from a video that wentviral last year of two toddlers,one black, one white, whichCNN used for a story it did onthe boys’ friendship. The videoTrump shared begins withfootage of the boys running setto ominous music, with a fakemisspelled CNN caption read-ing, “Terrified todler runs fromracist baby.” Then it cuts to otherfootage from the original videoof the boys excitedly running toeach other and hugging, whichformed the basis of the originalCNN story, before showing themessage, “America is not theproblem. Fake news is.” AP

Washington: The SupremeCourt on Thursday rejectedPresident Donald Trump’seffort to end legal protectionsfor 650,000 young immigrants,the second stunning election-season rebuke from the courtin a week after its ruling that it’sillegal to fire people becausethey’re gay or transgender.

Immigrants who are part ofthe 8-year-old Deferred Actionfor Childhood ArrivalsProgram will retain their pro-tection from deportation andtheir authorization to work inthe United States — safe almostcertainly at least through theNovember election, immigra-tion experts said.

The 5-4 outcome, in whichChief Justice John Roberts andthe four liberal justices were inthe majority, seems certain toelevate the issue in Trump’scampaign, given the anti-immigrant rhetoric of his firstpresidential run in 2016 andimmigration restrictions hisadministration has imposedsince then.

The justices said theadministration did not take theproper steps to end DACA,rejecting arguments that theprogram is illegal and thatcourts have no role to play in

reviewing the decision to endit. The program covers peoplewho have been in the UnitedStates since they were childrenand are in the country illegal-ly. In some cases, they have nomemory of any home otherthan the U.S.

“These horrible & politi-cally charged decisions comingout of the Supreme Court areshotgun blasts into the face ofpeople that are proud to callthemselves Republicans orConservatives. We need moreJustices or we will lose our 2ndAmendment & everything else.Vote Trump 2020!” he wrote onTwitter, apparently includingthe LGBT ruling as well.

In a second tweet, he wrote,“Do you get the impression thatthe Supreme Court doesn’t likeme?”

Later, he said the decisionshowed the need for addition-al conservative justices to jointhe two he has appointed, NeilGorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh,and pledged to release a newlist from which he wouldchoose a nominee if anotheropening occurs on his watch.Both of his appointees dis-sented on Thursday, thoughGorsuch wrote the LGBT rightsruling. AP

Karachi: Two Pakistani para-military soldiers were amongfour persons killed in separateincidents of a roadside bombexplosion targeting a securityvehicle and a hand grenadeattack on a government officein Sindh province on Friday,police said.

Two Pakistan Rangers per-sonnel and a civilian were killedwhen a roadside bomb target-ing the vehicle of the securitytroops exploded near a railwaystation in Ghotki town in Sindhprovince.

Three other persons,including a paramilitary official,were also injured in the blast.

The remote-controlledblast took place near the vehi-cle of the paramilitary PakistanRangers which was parked atthe main railway station inGhotki, police said. PTI

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New York: The MMR(measles, mumps, rubella) vac-cine could serve as a preventivemeasure to dampen septicinflammation associated withCovid-19 infection, sayresearchers.

According to the study,published in the journal mBio,vaccination with MMR inimmunocompetent individualshas no contraindications andmay be especially effective forhealth care workers who caneasily be exposed to Covid-19.

“Live attenuated vaccinesseemingly have some nonspe-cific benefits as well as immu-nity to the target pathogen. Aclinical trial with MMR inhigh-risk populations may pro-vide a low-risk-high-rewardpreventive measure in savinglives during the COVID-19pandemic,” said studyresearcher Paul Fidel from the

Louisiana State University inthe US.

“While we are conductingthe clinical trials, I don’’t thinkit’’s going to hurt anybody tohave an MMR vaccine thatwould protect against themeasles, mumps, and rubellawith this potential added ben-efit of helping against Covid-19,” Fidel added.

The researchers said thatmounting evidence demon-strates that live attenuated vac-cines provide nonspecific pro-tection against lethal infec-tions unrelated to the targetpathogen of the vaccine byinducing trained nonspecificinnate immune cells forimproved host responsesagainst subsequent infections.

Live attenuated vaccinesinduce nonspecific effects rep-resenting “trained innateimmunity” by training leuko-

cyte (immune system cells)precursors in the bone marrowto function more effectivelyagainst broader infectiousinsults.

In Mairi Noverr’’s labora-tory -- from Tulane University,in collaboration with Fidel,vaccination with a live attenu-ated fungal strain-inducedtrained innate protectionagainst lethal polymicrobialsepsis.

The protection was medi-ated by long-lived myeloid-derived suppressor cells(MDSCs) previously reportedinhibiting septic inflammationand mortality in several exper-imental models.

The researchers say that anMMR vaccine should be able toinduce MDSCs that can inhib-it or reduce the severe lunginflammation/sepsis associatedwith Covid-19. IANS

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Johannesburg: A global emer-gency delivery service thathas kept tons of humanitarianaid flowing despite coron-avirus travel restrictions couldshut down next month if fund-ing can’t be found to keep itrunning, the World FoodProgram warned Friday.

The shortfall comes “justas demand for this service isreaching its peak,” WFP said.

Of the USD 965 million tokeep the service going throughthe end of the year, USD 178million has been confirmed.

While nations that are tra-ditionally the world’s top

humanitarian donors weredistracted by the growing pan-demic earlier this year, theWFP, the United Nations’logistics leader, heaved theemergency operation intoplace with unprecedentedreach.

The emergency deliveryeffort involves almost 120countries, Amer Daoudi, WFPsenior director of operations,told The Associated Press inApril.

Travel bans imposed bynational governments closedborders and airports aroundthe world, badly wrenching

supply chains and strandinghumanitarian workers andsupplies.

The emergency deliveryservice has been key in ship-ping tons of aid for the pan-demic and other crises likeHIV and cholera that needdrugs and vaccines to keepflowing.

The U.N. And varioushealth entities have openlyworried about dangerousdelays in many countries’ vac-cination campaigns, sayingthe lives of up to 80 millionchildren under the age of 1could be at risk. AP

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Beijing: China has reported 37 newcoronavirus cases including 25 in Beijingwhere 183 patients are undergoingtreatment while the Chinese virologistssaid the strain of the new cluster of casesin the capital may have come fromEurope.

An initial epidemiological surveyshows the coronavirus strain detected atthe Xinfadi wholesale market in Beijingcame from Europe, a report in state-runGlobal Times said.

It said the strain had existed longerthan the current coronavirus straincirculating in Europe, Chinese virolo-gists inferred.

They say it is possible that the virusdid not mutate during transport as it wassealed in frozen food, stored in cold anddamp conditions, it said.

Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist atthe Chinese Centre for Disease Controland Prevention, told the media onThursday that the “findings at Beijing

reminded us of the first outbreak ofCovid-19 in Wuhan last year, which hap-pened at the Huanan Seafood WholesaleMarket”.

The focus of the Huanan investiga-tion was the wild animal stalls, eventhough the seafood sellers were rightnext to them, Wu said.

The World Health Organization(WHO) has already questioned theChinese officials’ claims that the viruswas traced to the imported salmon inXinfadi and purported origins to Europesaying that there is no evidence to backit.

It is not yet clear whether Chinashared the genome sequence with theWHO which had asked for it.

Ever since US President DonaldTrump blamed China for not contain-ing COVID-19 when it first showed upin Wuhan in December last year, thedebate over the origin of the virus hasintensified. AP

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Madrid: Spain is adding morethan 1,000 more fatalities to itscoronavirus death toll in the firstupdate in nearly two weeksafter officials revised a backlogof inconsistent data.

At least 28,313 people havedied through Friday with aCOVID-19 diagnosis, healthofficials. Authorities hadstopped updating the tally at27,136 on June 7.

The country has also con-firmed more than 244,000 infec-tions since the beginning of theoutbreak, although an officialimmunization survey estimatesthat 5 per cent of its 47 millioninhabitants are presumed ashaving contracted the virus.

Spain’s health minister saysthat 34 clusters have beendetected in the past six weeks,since Spain began to relax itsconfinement rules. AP

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the journal Mayo ClinicProceedings on Thursday,assessed the seven days fol-lowing transfusion for hospi-talised patients between April3 and June 11 who weredeemed at risk of progressingto a severe or life-threateningcondition.

Nearly 40 per cent of thepatients were women; 20 percent African Americans; 35per cent Hispanic and 5 percent Asian, the researcherssaid.

Seven-day mortality ratesdeclined to 8.6 per cent com-pared to 12 per cent in a pre-vious safety study of the first5,000 transfused patients, theresearchers said.

Serious adverse eventscontinued to be less than oneper cent, they said.

“Our efforts to under-stand convalescent plasmacontinue,” said Michael Joyner,principal investigator at MayoClinic in the US, and leadauthor of the research article.

“We’re optimistic but mustremain objective as we assessincreasing amounts of data,”Joyner said. PTI

Washington: In vowing to pullthousands of American troopsfrom Germany, President DonaldTrump is following a pattern ofdisruptive, sometimes punitive,moves against allies that have dis-mayed his fellow Republicansand cast doubt across the globeabout the future of partneringwith the United States.

Trump has consistentlypromised to bring Americantroops home, dismissing theconventional view that a far-flungUS military presence, while cost-ly, pays off in the long run byensuring stability for global trade.

“President Trump has had

America’s alliances in his sightsfor a very long time,” said MiraRapp-Hooper, a senior fellow onAsia policy at the Council onForeign Relations and author of“Shields of the Republic: TheTriumph and Peril of America’sAlliances.” She recalled newspa-per ads Trump bought in 1987 tourge Washington to stop payingto defend countries like Japanthat can afford to protect them-selves. He also has argued for afaster withdrawal of U.S. Troopsfrom Afghanistan.

Addressing newly mintedofficers graduating from WestPoint last Saturday, Trump said,

“We are ending the era of end-less wars. In its place is a renewed,clear-eyed focus on defendingAmerica’s vital interests.

It is not the duty of US troopsto solve ancient conflicts in far-away lands that many peoplehave never even heard of.”

Germany, long the center-piece of American defense strat-egy in Europe, has lately been thefocus of Trump’s ire.

His former national securi-ty adviser, John Bolton, writes inhis new book that Trump want-ed US troops out of not justGermany but also as many othercountries as possible. AP

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Singer Sona Mohapatra has concep-tualised a music video Portraits of

Quarantine as an idea to timestampthis tough period of isolation with a‘moving photo album’ of her band,crew, team members and the peoplethey have shared this lockdown with.There is also a message for many whoare battling depression and mentalhealth issues to reach out and seek sup-port. And in turn for people who knowthem to rally around and lean in.Everybody needs somebody who canremind them of their own value, beau-ty and strength.

The songstress and producer per-forms a soulful song Tori Surat -Unplugged with a chill lounge sound-scape and Ameer Khusraus poetry withher band. The video features the facesor surats that made this period an eas-ier one to navigate. A moving extend-ed family ‘photo album’ to watch backin better times and remember the quar-

antine and it’s lessons.Sona believes that despite the tough

situation of the last few months, theseare the people around her who kept hergoing and motivated as an artist andhuman being. On her worst days, shederived strength from her belovedteam and band whom she misses themost in this lockdown after travellingwith them across the world on an aver-age of 16 days in a month.

Sona says, “We don’t have to havemental illness to experience psycholog-ical issues during COVID-19’s stress-ful impact on humanity. To cope,everyone needs connection and com-passion. We are lucky if we haveshared this quarantine period withsomeone who provides that support, beit by being physically around or evenavailable virtually. This music video isan ode to that. World Music Day isaround the corner and is a wonderfuloccasion that lets my whole teamcome together virtually to do what wedo best — perform music that not onlyentertains people but also uplifts theirsoul.”

Crehyl Periera is a talented youngmusic arranger and he produced a jazz-lounge track for Ram Sampath’s com-position that she knows will be loved.“The music video has been shot indi-vidually by each team member butedited in the Himachal Pradesh byNitesh Bisht. The piano, melodica,flutes, electric and acoustic guitars, thepercussion including cajon, theHindustani and Konnakol bols per-formed in this track make Tori Surat -Unplugged a truly world music gem. Aperfect blend of the music of the Westand the East too. The last few monthshaven’t been easy on any of us. Todaywhen I look back, I feel it is importantfor us to cherish and celebrate our sup-port systems — the ones we share ourlife with. Portraits of Quarantine cele-brates that thought. Tori Surat is time-less poetry by a Sufi master and I hopemy relationship with my band andteam also endures similarly,” adds she.

In response to the contin-uing civil unrest in

America following the trag-ic murder of George Floyd,OWN: Oprah WinfreyNetwork announced a twohour special — OwnSpotlight: Where Do We GoFrom Here? It featuresWinfrey as she speaks direct-ly with a range of Blackthought leaders, activists andartists about systematicracism and the current stateof America.

The in-depth conversa-tions offer insight and tangi-ble plans to answer the ques-tions ‘What matters now?’‘What matters next?’ and‘Where do we go from here?’.Featured guests includepolitician Stacey Abrams;journalist Charles M Blow;Atlanta Mayor Keisha LanceBottoms, Academy award-nominated filmmaker Ava

DuVernay (When They SeeUs, 13th, Queen Sugar);author of Biased and profes-sor Jennifer Eberhardt; jour-nalist and Pulitzer prize-winning founder of the 1619Project Nikole Hannah-Jones; historian and authorIbram Kendi (How to be anAnti-Racist); award-winningactor David Oyelowo(Selma); Color of ChangePresident Rashad Robinson;and National Association forthe Advancement of ColoredPeople (NAACP) nationalboard member Rev DrWilliam J Barber II.

Winfrey said, “I’ve beenhaving private conversationswith friends and thoughtleaders about what’s nextand where we go from here.I thought it would be both ofinterest and service to bringtheir ideas, concerns andcomments into a national

spotlight.”“As a network dedicated

to supporting and upliftingBlack lives, OWN is commit-ted to providing our commu-nity with important dialogueand helpful resources in thischallenging time as wemourn the murder of GeorgeFloyd and ask ourselves howcan we come together tocreate meaningful change. Iam proud that our Discoveryfamily has joined us toamplify this message in sol-idarity,” said Tina Perry,President, OWN.

“There is no one likeOprah to bring us all togeth-er at this critical moment inour history to offer insights,perspective and action,” saidDavid Zaslav, President andCEO of Discovery, Inc.

(The two hour specialwill broadcast today onDiscovery Plus.)

When we called up actor NamitDas, he shared that he wasenjoying the rain and trying to

absorb nature’s rhythms — pure andpeaceful. Trying to spot patterns andshapes in the clouds and watch themshift, he said, “What else do I need?How does it get better?” Certainly, likemany of us trying to make sense ofunprecedented times, he is a man whohas learnt to find joy in the little things

of life. But then hometown does thatto you. Takes you back to where

you began. And for Namit, ithas got him to write poemsagain.

But he got back to cam-era mode the moment wementioned his latest offering,Aarya, a dark crime thriller.He plays Jawahar, who hedescribed as a “fearless,unpredictable and dark”character, unlike any otherrole he has essayed before.It’s hard to imagine some-one who loves the rainand is the loveable boy-next-door in a negativerole. That, too, one whois into guns and the nar-cotics business. “Jawaharis just the opposite ofwhat I have played sofar. His values andpolitics are complete-ly different from howI am in real life andhow I behave. He is

an outsider whowants to be insidethe game andeventually rule

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pursuit of that, he ends up being in sit-uations where he creates an arc for him-self. And that is probably the biggest arcin the show. That’s very interesting. It’sa multi-layered and unpredictable char-acter. Till the end you won’t understandhis motive behind doing things. That iswhat keeps one hooked till the end,” saidthe actor.

The web series is an adaptation ofDutch drama Penoza, which revolvesaround Aarya Sareen (played bySushmita Sen), who takes it upon her-self to get to the bottom of the truth andbring the culprit to justice after her hus-band Tej Sareen (played byChandrachur Singh) is murdered by amasked man. But, everyone in theseries has secrets of their own. Theseries explores a few questions — Whohas murdered her husband and why?How far will Aarya go to survive and

protect her family?It was a challenge disguised as an

opportunity for Namit as he wanted toplay something different and lookunusual. “When director Ram(Madhvani) showed me how Jawaharwould look and his character board, Iwas thoroughly excited because I havebeen waiting to break out for a longtime,” said Namit. “The audience does-n’t want to see you in usual or similarroles. Therefore, it’s very important tobreak our moulds constantly andbecome other people (characters)because that’s what actors are supposedto do. Versatility is the game changer,”he added.

Though Jawahar is a cocaine-sniff-ing business partner, the actor doesn’twant to label the character as a nega-tive one. He said, “I wouldn’t call thisa negative character because defining

roles with a term dilutes its essence.These are judgemental statements. Heis that grey character whom you would-n’t understand and that’s what makeshim interesting as you watch the storyunfold through his eyes.”

Namit doesn’t believe in defining acharacter as he feels every actor buildsa role and plays it in his own uniqueway. And in every role you can see aglimpse of the person the actor is.“Which is why it’s important to haverich life experiences so that you can usethem while playing someone,” he toldus.

His biggest takeaway from his rolewas the amount of responsibility he cantake for his actions in life. In the show,his character only wants to be entitledto the profits and not losses. So thatmoral debate has got him thinking.

Since it is an adaptation, the mak-ers of the show have kept in mindIndian sensibilities. Namit said that thenuances had been changed according tothe context and scenario. “If you aretalking about a semi-metropolitan cityin Rajasthan, how would it be? Thekind of business they do, their style,way of talking, personality, and theirability to handle people and situationsare all situational. All these things wereexplored and various new elementswere added to cater to the Indian audi-ence.”

Namit credited his director fordeveloping a new facet. “On his sets,there is no action or cut, there’s only ‘go’.We don’t discuss the kind of shot wehave to give. You live that scene andthat is the closest you can get to reali-ty by doing things your way. It was alsoeasy because you live closest to thecharacter when you are constantly liv-ing his/her life,” said he. However,Namit didn’t watch the original seriesas he didn’t want to get influenced andplay the character as he understood it.He said, “You decide what your graphis going to be. You create that. The showhas multiple layers but you have to findhow you fit into them.”

So where does Jawahar fit? “One ofmy co-actors said Jawahar is Aarya’shost,” he quickly responded. And postthis, he would like to explore espionage(spy thriller) and horror genres.

Since he has now performed on allmedia — TV, web and films — whichis his favourite? We heard a laugh as hesaid, “This is like asking a mother whois the favourite of her two kids! Everymedia has its own charm, challengesand level of satisfaction that comes withit. At the end of the day, you expressyourself as an artiste, that’s it!” For now,he is enjoying the dark alleys as his nextventure is called Mafia.

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Karim Benzema’s volley couldwell be La Liga’s goal of the sea-son and Marco Asensio’s was his

first touch in over a year as RealMadrid stormed past Valencia 3-0 onThursday.

Two brilliant strikes helped Madridto a convincing win at the emptyAlfredo di Stefano Stadium, whereBenzema continued his excellent formwith a brace after putting his team infront thanks to another combinationwith Eden Hazard.

Valencia had been the better sidein the first half when Rodrigo Morenohit the post and then had agoal controversially ruledout after referee Jose Sanchezconsulted VAR.

Yet Madrid found a dif-ferent gear after the break tocarve out an impressive vic-tory that reduces their deficitto two points behindBarcelona, who play away at Sevilla onFriday.

Benzema’s stunning second goalthat saw him take the ball out of theair with one foot and then volley homewith the other was a breathtakingmoment that came shortly after a dra-matic one for Asensio too.

“We know all these matches arefinals so this was very important for usand for me personally as well,” saidBenzema.

“It was a beautiful goal, I think Ican say it was beautiful, it went in andthat was great. Sometimes I do that inpractice and today I did it in thematch.”

Asensio has not played since June

10 last year after suffering ananterior cruciate ligamentinjury but the 24-year-oldannounced his return in style,volleying in with his first touch,31 seconds after coming on.

“It’s been many monthsof hard work and I’mvery happy to playagain and to score,”he said afterwards.

“I feel a lot ofemotion, satisfac-tion. A lot ofwork has goneinto this.”

“It means a lotto him,” saidc o a c hZ i n e d i n eZidane. “We’rejust happy tosee him onthe pitchagain.”

But withnine games to go in thetitle race, Benzemaappears key, particularlyas his partnership with theresurgent Hazard contin-ues to flourish.

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goal for Real Madrid in allcompetitions, putting himabove Ferenc Puskas intofifth in the club’s all-time list.

“His performance wasmagnificent, like the wholeteam, but his goal was extra-ordinary,” said Zidane.

“We know that he is comfort-

able with his left foot but wow, to liftthe ball in that way and to swing likethat with his left foot, without the balltouching the ground, truly it’s a verycomplicated piece of skill.

“It’s beautiful to see it and I’mhappy for him.

“Often we see Karimas the number nine of

Madrid and he mustscore goals, buthe doesn’t onlydo that. So whenhe does score,I’m happy

because he shuts people up a bit,and the work, he always does that

no matter what."

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to regain fourth place after a 2-0loss at Alavés in which it could-n’t get a single shot on target.

Borja Sainz opened the scor-ing with a goal awarded followingvideo review in the 56th, andMartín Aguirregabiria sealed the

victory deep in stoppage time at theMendizorroza Stadium.

A victory would have sentSociedad past fourth-place AtléticoMadrid, which won 5-0 at Osasunaon Wednesday. It stayed in sixthinstead, two points from the final

Champions League spot.“We didn’t play our best today, and

we hadn’t played our best in the pre-vious match either,” Sociedad midfield-er Igor Zubeldia said.

“We need to improve for our nextmatch.” Sociedad will next host RealMadrid, while Alavés visits Celta Vigo.

Alavés, which hadn’t won in threestraight league matches, moved to11th place.

����� ���Confined to the SAICentre in Bengaluru for nearabout three months because ofthe Covid-19 lockdown, “home-sick” Indian hockey players wereon Friday allowed to leave thefacility after being granted amonth’s break.

Both the men’s and women’snational teams were stuck at theSports Authority of India SouthCentre in Bengaluru sinceMarch 25 when theGovernment announced thenationwide lockdown.

On Friday, barring a few,most of the team membersreturned to their native placesafter being granted the break.

“Having consulted with theChief Coaches of both the teams,Hockey India decided that it wasimportant to give the players amuch-needed break,” MohdMushtaque Ahmad, President,Hockey India said in a state-ment.

“The players have beenspecifically briefed that theyneed to adhere to Governmentguidelines during this breakand continue to follow social dis-tancing.

“We are very proud of howour players have handled this sit-uation over the last 3-4 monthsand have stayed strong as a unit.It is important they continue to

act responsibly during thisbreak,” he added.

Barring men’s team goal-

keeper Suraj Karkera, whobelongs to Mumbai, and thewomen’s team trio of VandanaKatariya, Sushila Chanu andLalremsiami, all other playersleft the SAI Centre for theirrespective homes on Fridaymorning.

“Suraj didn’t go because ofthe grave situation in Mumbaiwhile Sushila, Vandana andLalremsiami stayed backbecause of the Covid-19 proto-cols in their respective states,” asource said.

While Sushila is fromManipur, Vandana andLalremsiami hails fromUttarakhand and Mizoram

respectively.The support staff of the

men’s team, including chiefcoach Graham Reid had to stayput in Bengaluru because of therestrictions on Internationaltravel.

However, women’s teamchief coach Sjoerd Marijne andanalytical coach JannekeSchopman, both from theNetherlands, are currently ontheir way back home viaMumbai.

Both the teams will nowreassemble at the SAI SouthCentre in Bengaluru on July 19as part of their preparations forthe Tokyo Olympics. PNS

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Former England captainNasser Hussain has

backed the supremely giftedRohit Sharma to come goodas a Test opener on India’stour of Australia later thisyear, provided he sees outthe first 30 minutes of theday.

Rohit, who had scoredthree hundreds including adouble ton against SouthAfrica at home in his debutseries as Test opener lastOctober, had missed on twogames in New Zealand dueto a calf injury.

The Australia tour willbe his first big test as anopener in the longest format.

“If Rohit Sharma is nota Test match opener, I’vebeen watching a differentgame... If you go and ask fel-low cricketers who yourfavourite players, a lot ofthem will say Rohit Sharma,”

Hussain said in chat show onSony Ten’s Pit Stop.

“Fellow cricketers watchRohit Sharma and say thisbloke seems to have so muchtime to bat.”

Rohit, who has becomean ODI great, has onlyplayed 32 Tests. Hussainadvised caution to Rohit atthe start of the innings.

“Test match cricket at

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Mohammed Shami has anuncanny ability to up the

ante late in the game when every-one else is tired and the Indianpacer feels this is what makes himmore successful in the secondinnings when it comes to Test crick-et.

Shami has enjoyed stupendoussuccess in the second innings offive-day games. Out of his 180 Testwickets, 92 have come in the firstinnings at 32.50 but there are 88 inthe second innings that have comeat an impressive average of 21.98.

“I use the game very smartly inthe second innings. Like in therecent match we played in Vizag(against South Africa) where I gota five-for, the pitch was pretty deadand wasn’t offering any bounce,” the29-year-old told former India play-er Deep Dasgupta on ESPNCricinfotalk show Cricketbaazi.

During the 2017-18 tour ofSouth Africa, 12 of his 15 wicketscame in the second innings.

“...You need to use the available

conditions smartly. I am usuallypumped up in the second inningswhen everyone else is tired.

“Everyone has spent three dayson the field. Diesel engines taketime to pick up compared to petrolones. I wait patiently for everyoneto tire out. You have five days in aTest match. Once everyone is tired,I step up,” he said.

�$ ��� Thousands of Napolifans who poured into the streetsto celebrate their team’s ItalianCup title without social distanc-ing amid the coronavirus pan-demic were criticized by healthofficials as being “reckless.”

WHO assistant directorgeneral Ranieri Guerra said thescenes reminded him ofAtalanta’s Champions Leaguegame with Valencia in February.

That match, which has beenlabeled Game Zero by localmedia, is believed to have beena key factor in why the virus has

been so deadly in the northerncity of Bergamo.

“Reckless,” Guerra said.“Right now we can’t permitthese things.” Deputy HealthMinister Sandra Zampa addedthat it amounted to “dangerousbehavior.”

Shortly after Napoli beatJuventus in final, supporters inNaples flooded into centralpiazzas and set off fireworks asthey celebrated into the earlyhours of Thursday morning.Hardly any of them were seenwearing masks. AFP

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The Badminton Associationof India (BAI) on Friday rec-

ommended Kidambi Srikanthfor the Khel Ratna award afterthe top Indian shuttler apolo-gised for pulling out of a tour-nament midway and show-caused his teammate H SPrannoy for slamming the fed-eration after not being nominat-ed for the Arjuna honour.

Both Srikanth and Prannoyhad not played the semifinal ofthe Asian Team Championshipat Manila in February. Instead,they left for Barcelona to play inanother event. India ended uplosing the semifinal but finishedthird in the competition.

On disciplinary grounds,the BAI did not nominate worldnumber 14 Srikanth and 28thranked Prannoy for the RajivGandhi Khel Ratna and Arjuna

Award respectively.Though Srikanth’s applica-

tion has been forwarded to theSports Ministry, Prannoy hasbeen ignored and instead beenasked to respond for his outburst

against BAI within 15 days.“.....Srikanth and Prannoy

had left the squad at the AsianBadminton Championship inManila in February, despiteadvice not to leave, which putIndia’s chances of winning thehistoric medal at the champi-onship in lurch,” read a BAIstatement.

“We have received an e-mailfrom Srikanth in which he hasaccepted the mistake and he hasalso promised to not indulge insuch activities in the future,” itadded.

“Considering the talent ofSrikanth and the accomplish-ments, we have decided to rec-ommend his name for RajivGandhi Khel Ratna Award,”BAI General Secretary AjaySinghania said.

Prannoy had launched ascathing attack on BAI afterbeing overlooked for the Arjuna

nomination for the second suc-cessive year.

“Same old story. Guy whohas Medals in Cwg and AsianChampionships not even rec-ommended by Association. Andguy who was not there on anyof these major events recom-mended, #waah #thiscountry-isajoke, “ Prannoy had writtenon Twitter.

On Prannoy, Singhaniaadded: “There are severalinstances of disciplinary issueswith Prannoy. The Federationhad been very tolerant all thiswhile but in the recent past hisattitude has forced BAI to takeaction and also relook at the dis-ciplinary policies.

“A show-cause letter hasbeen issued for the remarksmade. If the player fails torespond in the allotted time, BAIwill be taking stern action,”Singhania said.

�&��$�� � Liverpool bossJurgen Klopp is delighted his sidehave the chance to win a firstPremier League title in 30 yearson the field after the uncertain-ty of a three-month halt to theseason due to coronavirus.

The Reds hold a command-ing 22-point lead at the topof the table and will seal themuch-awaited title with vic-tories over Everton onSunday and when CrystalPalace visit Anfield onWednesday.

Had the Premier League notbeen able to resume, variousproposals were discussed as tohow the campaign would bedecided. The idea of declaringthe season null and void gainedlittle support and Klopp wasrelieved when that was taken offthe table with Liverpool oncourse to smash a series ofrecords after 29 games.

“I became worried in themoment when people startedtalking about null and void theseason because I was like like‘wow’, I felt it physically becausethat would have been really, real-ly, really hard,” Klopp said in a

pre-match conference ahead ofLiverpool’s return to action.

Had the Premier League fol-lowed the example of someother leagues around Europe byending the season on a points-per-game basis, Liverpool wouldalready be champions. But

Klopp is glad to have theopportunity to win it on thepitch, even if no fans will bein the stadium to witnessthe historic moment.

“We don’t expect to getit as a present so we did not wantit to happen on points-per-game (PPG). We were reallyhappy when it was decided wecould play again,” he added.

“There were moments, peo-ple brought it up (null andvoid) from time to time for dif-ferent reasons. When that wasoff the table I felt quite relieved.

“Now we are here. If theyhad done PPG and we could nothave played we would probablybe champions. Now we aren’t,we have to play for it.

“That is great, that is how itshould be in sports. Now we gofor it. We do not think in ourmind we are already there.”

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Leroy Sane appears to be onhis way out of Manchester

City after rejecting a new deal,manager Pep Guardiola said onFriday.

The Germany internation-al has 12 months left on his dealand has been heavily linked withBayern Munich, with the Cityboss saying he would be able toleave if the club could find abuyer.

“Leroy has rejected toextend his contract,” Guardiolatold reporters on Friday.

“Everyone knows. If at theend of the season two clubsagree, he can leave. If not, he willleave at the end of his contract.

“The club offered two orthree times and he rejected it.”

Winger Sane, 24, has wonthe Premier League title twiceat City since joining fromSchalke in 2016.

However, he has not playedfor the first team since sufferinga torn knee ligament in theCommunity Shield matchagainst Liverpool in August.

��� ��� Ajinkya Rahane maynot be the batsman he used tobe during his first two years inTest cricket but is still goodenough to be India’s numberfive in the traditional format,feels Sanjay Manjrekar.

The former Test batsmanbelieves that even though KLRahul has done well in white-ball cricket, that can’t be a para-meter for replacing Rahane infive-day format as the stylishKarnataka batsman needs toscore heavily in domestic first-class games.

“KL Rahul has been bril-liant at number five. Yes grant-ed, Rahane doesn’t look thesame player he was in the firsttwo years of his Test career andI would like to see that kind ofform coming back,” Manjrekarsaid in his YouTube channelanswering fans questions.

Manjrekar said althoughRahane has been getting some

Test runs of late but the playerhimself would ideally like to bemore consistent.

“It comes in little sparse,sometimes, but not as consis-

tently as he would like. Butbased on his runs that he hasgot, I don’t think it is right tothink of Rahul at number fivein Test matches,” addedManjrekar, who played 37 tests.

As far as Rahul was con-cerned, Manjrekar remindedhis fans that the batsman was-n’t exactly successful when helast played Test matches in theWest Indies.

“The last time he (Rahul)played Test cricket, he wasn’tthat impressive and let’s not gettoo carried away with a bats-man getting runs in T20 and 50overs cricket and push into Testmatch cricket.

“So, (for) KL Rahul tonudge the Indian batsman atthe Test level in the middle-order, he will have to get atruckload of runs at the domes-tic level, just like (Mayank)Agarwal did to get in theIndian team,” he explained.

��� �� ���� Country’s topsporting stars like cricketersRohit Sharma and BajrangPunia along with OlympiansSakshi Malik and DipaKarmakar are supporting#PlayforIndia initiative, whichaims to help distressed peopleassociated with sports whoselivelihoods have been affectedby the Covid-19 pandemic.

Besides Rohit and Yuvraj,other cricketers involved withthe initiative are women’s teamopener Smriti Mandhana andMayank Aggarwal.

Ace wrestler Bajrang, ten-nis star Sania Mirza andBollywood celebrities AbhishekBachchan and Sunil Shetty are

also part of the initiative.According to a statement,

#PlayforIndia initiative aimsto bring together India’s sport-ing community, fans and ath-letes and channel their effortsinto giving back to peoplebelonging to the often invisiblesupport system without whomsports activities would not bepossible.

“These include cleaners,gardeners, coaches, umpires,referees, caddies and othersupport staff who are notreceiving a regular income dueto the lack of work,” it added.

Former India all-rounderYuvraj emphasised on theimportant role played by these

workers.“The happiness that sports

gives us is made possible onlybecause of the efforts of manyunknown, unrecognized fig-ures who support India’s sport-ing structures. The#PlayforIndia initiative aimsto provide monetary and non-monetary support to the peo-ple who form the very back-bone of sports in India,” he said.

Meanwhile, actor AbhishekBachchan, who also ownsteams in the Pro KabaddiLeague and the Indian SuperLeague, added, “Today, theseworkers need all of our support.So, let’s come together andtruly ‘play for India’.”

!� �� �� Sri Lanka’s sportsministry on Friday ordered aninvestigation into former sports ministerMahindananda Aluthgamage’sallegation that the nationalcricket team’s loss to India inthe 2011 World Cup final wasfixed by “certain parties”.

The sports ministerDullas Alahapperuma hasordered the investigation andasked for a report on itsprogress every two weeks.

The sports secretary, KADSRuwanchandra, onAlahapperuma’s directive, hadcomplained to the ministry’sinvestigation unit on Friday.

Aluthgamage has allegedthat his country “sold” the gameto India, a claim that wasridiculed by former captainsKumar Sangakkara and MahelaJayawardene who demandedevidence from him.

He said that in his opinionno players were involved infixing the result, “but certainparties were.” PTI

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the top of the order is abouthaving time, it’s about havinga technique as well. You haveto cover your off stump, likeVirat did in England againstAnderson, the way he lefthim outside after all hisproblems of the previoustour, that is a Test matchcricketer.

“And that’s the only thingRohit has to do when he goesaway from home and whenis moving around. He has tojust spend half an hour andsay to the bowler you canhave this half hour I’m goingto leave you, I’m going to takethe slip cordon out of play.”

India are scheduled toplay four Tests in Australia.

The cricketer-turned-commentator rememberedthe 2018 Edgbaston Testwhere India had droppedtheir premier No 3 Pujaraand went on to lose thematch by 31 runs, sayingKohli and Co will need to bespot on on team selectionDown Under.

“I think India need toselect well because they haveso many great batsmen so it’svery easy that when Rohitdoesn’t do anything for twogames, Prithvi will get in,and when he doesn’t do well,someone else will get in...”

“Select, stick by themand give them a long run.They are very fine playersand eventually if you don'tget runs in Australia thenyou’ve got a problem becauselike I say it is a good place tobat you will find out whoyour Test match players inAustralia.”

India will also play aDay-Night Test on the tour,at the Adelaide Oval fromDecember 11-15.

“Australia in general is avery good place to bat andthe one game where it mightdo a little bit is the Day-Night Test. So if you get anopportunity of it movingaround, you better makesure you use it.

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