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Chronicle Reporter, BhopalJeetu Soni, an accused in the honeytrap case of Madhya Pradesh, hasbeen arrested by the Indore CrimeBranch from Gujarat. This has beenconfirmed by DIG Hari-narayanachari Mishra. However, hedeclined to provide much informa-tion. Four days ago, the police arrest-ed Jeetu’s brother Mahendra Sonifrom Amreli, Gujarat. After Jeetuwent absconding, the police hadplaced a reward of 1.25 lakh rupeeson him.

Police registered more than 56FIRs on Jeetu Soni after the honeytrap case was revealed. At the sametime, family members have been ac-cused along with him in about 40cases. Police were also looking forMahendra in two other cases includ-ing human trafficking. The police ar-rested Jeetu’s son Amit Soni on 6 De-cember. However, he later got bail.

It is said that Jeetu Soni ran awayfrom a farmhouse located in Rajkot,soon after getting the information of

the police raid 4 days ago. The loca-tion was again taken out on Fridayand six teams raided at differentplaces. This time did he not get achance to escape and cops arrestedJeetu from the borders of Gujarat andMadhya Pradesh. The crime branchteam reached Indore at 11 am onSunday. He is being questionedthere.

Jeetu Soni arrested fromGujarat in honey trap case

Agencies, SrinagarTwo separate government orders onstocking up of LPG cylinders for twomonths in the Kashmir valley and onvacating of school buildings for thesecurity forces in Ganderbal, adjoin-ing Kargil, has triggered a fresh waveof anxiety among the locals, in thewake of India-China face-off.

In the midst of tensions betweenIndia and China in Ladakh, the Jam-mu and Kashmir government hasnow issued two separate orders. Dueto which there is increasing concernamong the people there. In one ofthese orders, people in Kashmir havebeen asked to stock LPG cylinders forat least two months.

LPG stockIn a meeting, the Advisor to the

Lieutenant Governor of Jammu andKashmir has given guidelines to en-sure adequate stock of LPG in thevalley. The order said that due to thelandslide, the supply of the nationalhighway may be affected. This orderhas been described as the ‘most ur-gent matter’.

In the order passed through the

Director of Food, Civil Supplies andConsumers, the oil companies havebeen explicitly asked to provide suf-ficient stocks of LPG which can lastfor two months. Such orders are usu-ally given during extreme winterconditions, when there is a seriousrisk of road blockage due to snow orheavy rain. However, many ques-tions arise when such an ordercomes in the summer time.

School evacuation orderIn another order, Superintendent

of Police Ganderbal has requested 16schools, educational institutions inthe district to vacate the buildings.The order said that in view of theAmarnath Yatra-2020, these educa-tional centers should be made avail-able for the accommodation of Cen-tral Armed Police Forces (CAPF)companies. Please tell that Gander-bal is a district adjoining Kargil andthe road route of Ladakh goesthrough this area. However, this or-der is also being questioned becausedue to the threat of corona virus, theAmarnath Yatra is likely to be lesscrowded this year.

LPG stock order in Kashmiramid tension from China

Chronicle Reporter, BhopalThe number of corona infected inMadhya Pradesh has now reached12,965. Of these, 550 deaths havebeen confirmed. Now to eliminateCorona completely from the state,Chief Minister Shivraj SinghChauhan has instructed to start ‘KillCorona Campaign’ in all districtsfrom July 1.

The corona recovery rate of thestate has gone up to 76.9 percent,while that of India is 58.1%. Thecorona growth rate of MadhyaPradesh is 1.44, which is less thanhalf of India’s corona growth rate of3.69.

The corona positivity rate of Mad-hya Pradesh is 3.85 percent, whilethat of India is 6.54 percent.

218 deaths have been confirmedin Indore and 94 in Bhopal so far. Atotal of 550 people in the state havelost their lives due to corona.

On Friday, 4 people died of coro-na in Indore, while no one lost their

lives in other districts of the state.There are total 12,965 infected in thestate, out of which 9971 people havebeen cured. After 167 cases late onSaturday, there are 2444 active casesin the state.

41 new cases were reported in thecapital Bhopal on Saturday. Afterthis, the number of infected hasreached 2705, while in Indore, 32new infections have occurred.

40 new cases of Coronafound in Morena in a dayOn Saturday night, 40 of the 330

Corona suspects in Morena reportedpositive. In view of the increasingnumber of patients, the district ad-ministration has started to strictlyapply masking and strict adherenceto social distancing. In Panna dis-trict, the number of corona positivepatients increased to 34, out ofwhich 26 patients have gone homehealthy.

More than 1000 positive inGwalior-Chambal

In Gwalior-Chambal region, thenumber of corona infected hascrossed 1000 to 1016. Morena has thehighest number of 46 recorded pa-tients in a single day. In Morena, 60-year-old Moolchand Goyal, a victimof Corana, died late Saturday whileundergoing treatment in Gwalior. Hehad an infection on 23 June.

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Positive cases surge close to 13000 in MP

New Delhi (UNI)Stating that India will not forget thegallant nature and valour of itsarmed forces, Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi said India knows how to befriends, but also knows how to lookat its enemies in the eye.

Prime Minister Modi during hismonthly radio programme, ‘Mann KiBaat’ said India is tackling the neigh-bour issue and the country willemerge stronger.

“In Ladakh, those who challengedus were given an adequate response.Our braves made supreme sacrificebut did not let adversary prevail. Wefeel the pain of their loss. Their val-our is India’s strength,” PM Modisaid.

“The inner sense of pride thatfamilies feel on the supreme sacrificeof their brave sons and their senti-ment for the country, constitutes thetrue power, the might of the country.India bows to our brave martyrs.They have always kept India safe.Their valour will always be remem-bered,” he added.

He also saluted the army men fortheir sacrifices in Galwan Valley andsaid that the armed personnel did

not allow anybody to tarnish the glo-ry of Mother India.

India has always overcomechallenges and emerged

strongerAmid coronavirus pandemic and

natural calamities like Cyclone Am-phan, Prime Minister Narendra Modion Sunday said India has alwaysovercome the challenges andemerged stronger.

Addressing the nation through hisradio programme 66th edition of‘Mann Ki Baat’, PM Modi said, “Therecould be any number of challenges

but our history shows that we havealways overcome them. We haveemerged stronger after challenges.Guided by our strong cultural ethos,India has turned challenges into suc-cesses.”

Modi pitches for ‘Vocal for Local’

Prime Minister Narendra Modi onSunday appealed to the citizens to be‘vocal for local’ , and said that if peo-ple do this, then they would be play-ing a role in strengthening the coun-try.

In his monthly programme ‘MannKi Baat’ on Sunday, Mr Modisaid,”Rajni ji has written to me fromAssam. She says, after watching whathappened in eastern Ladakh, she hastaken a vow…and the vow is that shewill buy only ‘local’….and for thesake of ‘local’, she will also be vocal. Iam receiving messages on these linesfrom every corner of the country.Many have expressed through theirletters that they have adopted thisvery path. Similarly, Mohan Rama-murthy from Madurai, writes that hewishes India to be self-reliant in thedefence sector.”

India knows how to look its enemies in the eye: PM

New Delhi (UNI)With nearly 20,000 fresh infectionsreported in the past 24 hours, Indianow has over 5.46 lakh COVID cases,Union Health Ministry said on Sun-day.

As many as 410 deaths were re-ported, taking the number of casual-ties to 16,458.

Meanwhile, the active infectionsstand at 2,03,051 with 3,09,713 pa-tients having recovered.

The difference between recover-ies and active cases now stands at1.06 lakh. The recovery rate is at58.56 per cent amongst COVID-19patients.

The last one lakh cases have beenadded in less than a week. Globally,nearly 10 million cases have been re-ported with 4.98 deaths. Amid thesurge, several states have reimposedfull or partial lockdown

According to the ICMR, the num-ber of cumulative tests done so far inthe country till Saturday stand at82,27,802.

Maharashtra, the worst-hit Covidstate in the country has witnessed a

sharp spike of 6,368 fresh infectionstaking its tally jump to 1,59,133 caseswith deaths reaching 7,273.

Delhi on the second spot nowhouses 80,188 confirmed cases afterregistering a single-day spike of2,948 infections, while the death tollhas reached 2,558.

Tamil Nadu, behind Delhi, nowhas 78,335 cases, while deaths in thestates due to the pandemic havereached 1025. Gujarat’s tally standsat 30709, after having added 614 cas-es and deaths mounting to 1789.

Uttar Pradesh’s Covid count isnow 21549 after 606 cases wereadded since Saturday.

India’s daily Covid-19 spikesurges close to 20,000

Khilawan Chandrakar, Bhopal The countdown to the expansion ofthe Shivraj government’s cabinet hasbegun. Chief Minister Shivraj SinghChouhan has prepared a final list ofministers to be included in it. Alongwith state BJP President VD Sharmaand Organization General SecretarySuhas Bhagat, he has reached Delhito discuss with the top leaders of theparty where he will meet the party’snational president JP Nadda, HomeMinister Amit Shah, Union MinisterNarendra Singh Tomar, National Or-ganization Secretary BL Santosh andpresent the list of ministers to them.If necessary, the top leaders may addor remove some.

A final discussion can be heldwith MP Jyotiraditya Scindia aboutthe cabinet expansion. The ChiefMinister along with both BJP leaderscan return to Bhopal by Mondaynight. After that, new ministers maybe sworn in on Tuesday or Wednes-day.

9 will get a reward for defection

Four former ministers in the Ka-mal Nath government as well as nineformer legislators who quit the Con-gress along with Scindia, may get aberth in the new cabinet. While twohave already been made ministers.These include the names of Dr. Prab-hu Ram Chaudhary, PradummanSingh Tomar, Mahendra Singh Siso-dia, Imarti Devi, Bisahulal Singh,Edal Singh Kansana, RajwardhanSingh, Hardeep Singh Dung andRanveer Singh Jatav.

5 new faces will get a chance5 new MLAs could get a chance in

the cabinet expansion. The names ofArvind Singh Bhadoria, ChetanKashyap, Mohan Yadav have beenincluded in the list, while Ramesh-war Sharma has to contend withVishwas Sarang. In Indore too, one ofRamesh Mendola or Malini Gaur

could be taken in the final list. Hard-eep Singh Dung from Mandsaur dis-trict has been made minister and soeither Yashpal Singh Sisodia orJagdish Deora could get a place inthe cabinet.

13 old ministers to get achance again

According to political sources,

there is tremendous pressure at theunion and organization level to re-appoint senior members of Shivraj’sformer cabinet. Perhaps this is thereason that the number of such min-isters has been increased from 11 to13. These include the names ofGopal Bhargava, Bhupendra Singh,Rajendra Shukla, Vijay Shah, Gauris-hankar Bisen, Rampal Singh, Yashod-hara Raje Scindia, Sanjay Pathak,Ajay Vishnoi, Nagendra Singh, Haris-hankar Khatik, Brijendra Singh.

Preparations to stop dissatisfaction

The party anticipates that discon-tent may develop among many se-nior legislators and their supportersdue to lack of a berth in the cabinet.The chief minister and the state BJPorganization have also completedpreparations to stop it. It is under-stood that soon after the expansion,the formation of the State BJP Execu-tive and political appointment in the

Corporations, Boards and Authori-ties of the Government can be start-ed in which some senior MLAs canbe accommodated. Shivraj SinghChouhan has formed a five-membercabinet before this. Now even if 27new ministers are added, then twoseats will remain vacant becausebased on the strength of the numberof assembly members, a maximumof 35 members of the cabinet includ-ing the Chief Minister in the statemay be appointed.

There is speculation of expansionon the coming June 30 or July 1 be-cause the Chief Minister had issueda statement last Wednesday sayingthat the cabinet could be expandedsoon after discussions with the cen-tral leadership. He also said that thedecision has been taken after con-sidering all the points. After this, hehad gone to South India on a three-day religious visit and travelled toDelhi on the second day of his returnto Bhopal.

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Slain militant’s motherheld in KulgamSrinagar: Mother of a slain militanthas been arrested under the Unlaw-ful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA)for helping ultras and recruiting twoyouth into militant ranks, besidesposing with an AK-17 rifle, a policespokesperson confirmed on Sunday.

Police issued a clarification hereabout the arrest of the woman, af-ter facing criticism over her deten-tion on social media, saying thatmany online posts have been gen-erated and shared, which havetwisted the facts of the matter, inorder to cause disturbance to peaceand tranquility.

Her son was killed on May 6, 2018,along with Kashmir University Assis-tant Professor Muhammad Rafi Buttand three others in Shopian.

The Spokesperson said thatNaseema Banoo, resident of Ram-pora Qaimoh in Kulgam, was ar-rested on June 20 in a criminal caseunder Sections 13B, 17, 18, 18B, 19,39 of the Unlawful Activities Pre-vention Act.

India is plotting toremove me: Nepal PMKathmandu: The threat clouds areconstantly increasing on the chair ofNepal’s Prime Minister KP SharmaOli.

PM Oli is now using militant na-tionalism to divert attention from theruckus in the ruling Nepal Commu-nist Party and the continuing angeragainst the government in the coun-try.

He accused India in a gestureabout the infighting in his party andsaid that an embassy is plottingagainst my government in a hotel.

On the occasion of the 69th birthanniversary of Madan Bhandari,Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli saidthat even if the game of removinghim from the post starts but it is im-possible.

Prime Minister Oli had claimedthat meetings were being held to re-move him at a hotel in Kathmanduand an embassy was also active in it.Please tell that Oli is pointing towardsIndia.

World Corona UpdateCountry Cases DeathsWorld 10,150,499 502,528USA 2,606,542 128,202Brazil 1,319,274 57,149Russia 634,437 9,073India 546,771 16,458UK 311,151 43,550Spain 295,549 28,341Peru 275,989 9,135Chile 267,766 5,347Italy 240,136 34,716Iran 222,669 10,508Mexico 212,802 26,381Pakistan 202,955 4,118Turkey 195,883 5,082Germany 194,705 9,026Saudi Arabia 182,493 1,551France 162,936 29,778Bangladesh 137,787 1,738South Africa 131,800 2,413

Unlock 2.0 guidelineslikely by June 30The central government is likelyto issue guidelines for Unlock 2.0around June 30.

Sources in the governmentsaid under Unlock 2.0, the gov-ernment is likely to allow air trav-el on selected internationalroutes. The sources said interna-tional flights on the New Delhi-New York, Mumbai-New Yorkroutes are likely to be allowed toresume in Unlock 2.0.

Besides this, private carrierscould also be allowed to start op-erations to the Gulf countries, thesources said.

Asked about decisions onopening up of educational insti-tutes and metro train services, thesources said the central govern-ment is unlikely to issue guide-lines to open them because thestates appear to be reluctant onstarting them.

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State-wise detailsStates Cases DeathsMaharashtra 1,59,133 7,273Delhi 80,188 2,558Tamil Nadu 78,335 1,025Gujarat 30,709 1,789Uttar Pradesh 21,549 649Rajasthan 16,944 391West Bengal 16,711 629Telangana 13,436 243Haryana 13,427 218Madhya Pradesh 12,965 550Andhra Pradesh 12,285 157Karnataka 11,923 191Bihar 8,931 59J and K 6,966 93Assam 6,816 9Odisha 6,350 18Punjab 5,056 128Kerala 4,071 22Uttarakhand 2,791 37Chhattisgarh 2,545 13Jharkhand 2,339 12Tripura 1,334 1Goa 1,128 2Manipur 1,092 0Ladakh 960 1Himachal Pradesh 894 9Puducherry 619 10Nagaland 387 0Arunachal Pradesh 177 1Mizoram 148 0Sikkim 87 0A and N Islands 72 0Meghalaya 47 1

No hope of operatingregular trains: IRNew Delhi: The Indian Railways onSunday clarified that it is not possi-ble to run regular trains under thecurrent circumstances, and if nec-essary, the number of special trainsbeing run at the present time willbe increased. ‘It is not possible torun the regular trains under the oldtime table in the current situationdue to COVID-19. Therefore, theamount is being returned by can-celling all the tickets booked tillApril 14 in these regular trains,’ theRailways Ministry said in a state-ment here.

150 Maharashtra policepersonnel test COVID-19positive in 48 hoursMumbai: A total of 150 new per-sonnel tested positive for COVID-19 among the Maharashtra Policein the last 48 hours, taking the totalnumber of positive cases to 4,666.Besides, one death of police per-sonnel was also reported in thestate, as per the Maharashtra Po-lice. “In the last 48 hours, 1 deathand 150 new COVID-19 positivecases have been reported in Maha-rashtra Police. The total number ofpositive cases rises to 4,666 and thedeath toll is at 57,” said Maharash-tra Police. With 1,59,133 COVID-19cases under its belt, Maharashtracontinues to be the worst-affectedstate in the country with 67,615 ac-tive cases while 84,245 patientshave been cured and discharged.

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Order to evacuate Ganderbal school buildings

Bhopal, Monday, June 29, 2020 2Nation

Bhubaneswar (UNI)Three more covid patients died in

Odisha during the last 24 hours taking thetotal covid deaths to 21 while covid tallysurged to 6614 with 264 fresh cases.

Health and Family Welfare Depart-ment sources tweeted, “Regret to informthe demise of three #COVID19 positivepatients while under treatment in hospi-tal.”

A 65 year old male of Cuttack district,suffering from Diabetes, Hypertensionand Chronic Kidney Disease, a 73 year oldmale of Bhubaneswar, suffering from Di-abetes, Hypertension and Chronic Kid-ney Disease and a 75 year old male ofGanjam district, suffering from Diabetesand Hypertension died during the last 24hours. With the three fresh covid deaths,the total covid toll in the state went up to21. Ganjam district alone accounted formaximum 10 deaths, followed by Khord-ha (5), Cuttack (4) and one each in Puriand Bargarh district.

Apart from 21 covid deaths, sevenmore covid patients have also died in thestate but the authority claimed theirdeaths due to reasons other than covid.

Official sources said out of 264 newcases,234 were reported from Quarantinecentres and the rest 30 are local contactcases. Ganjam district has reported themaximum 76 covid positive cases fol-lowed by Jajpur (41),Keonjhar (25), 18each in Jharsuguda and Bargarh,Mayurbhanj (15) and 12 each in Balasoreand Cuttack. Ganjam district continuedto be in the top with 1271 covid positivecases, 859 recoveries and 402 active cases.

Khordha district has reported 786 pos-itive cases followed by Cuttack(549), Ja-jpur (446), Gajapati (428), Balasore (344)and Jagatsinghpur (272).

Odisha has witnessed an unprecedent-ed rise in covid positive cases during the

June as out of total 6614 cases, as many as4659 positive cases have been reportedduring the June till date including 519 lo-cal contact cases.

The rise in the local cases has forcedthe authority at many places to declareseveral areas as containment zones andimposed complete shutdown to preventthe spread of the coronavirus andlaunched active surveillance in the coro-na affected areas. The state governmenthad imposed complete shut down for Sat-urday and Sunday in June in eleven dis-tricts which have reported maximumcovid positive cases. These eleven dis-tricts have together accounted for 80 percent of the total covid cases in the state.

All the 30 districts in Odisha are underthe grip of coronavirus infection but 16districts have reported 5610 positive cas-es,about 84.82 per cent of the total casesreported so far in the state.

Meanwhile, the Ganjam Collector hasrequested the people in the rural areasnot to visit the urban areas at least for afortnight.

On the other hand, the BhubaneswarMunicipal Corporation ( BMC) in view oflarger public interest, to contain thespread of #COVID19, decided that peoplereturning to slum areas of #Bhubaneswarfrom hotspot districts Ganjam, Cuttack,Balasore, Gajapati & Jajpur will be kept in14 days institutional quarantine.

Covid toll rises to 21 in Odisha

Sangli (UNI)Maharashtra Home Minister Anil

Deshmukh on Sunday made a re-mark over the previous DevendraFadnavis-led BJP government, say-ing that Nagpur turned out a “crimecapital” during reign of the formerdispensation.

Minister Deshmukh has come totake a stock of the prevailingCOVID-19 situation here and adja-cent Kolhapur district.

Talking to mediapersons at thedistrict collectorate here, he assert-ed, “The Maha Vikas Aghadi gov-ernment, led by the Shiv Sena, NCPand Congress, has reinvented theimage of the State’s second capitalNagpur, which was earlier seen ascrime capital not only of Maharash-tra but also India.”

“During the previous govern-ment, in which Fadnavis was alsothe Home Minister, the crime ratewas soaring in Nagpur,” he spoke insame breath. Referring to the recentattack on the Anganwadi workers inNagpur, he affirmed that the as-sailants will not be spared. Com-menting on the ban on advertisingPatanjali’s Coronil, he told, “Thecompany has applied for a licenseto manufacture immunity boosterdrug against cough and fever.”

“But, the medicine was adver-tised as cure for the COVID-19

whereas no permission was soughtfor such claim from the Ministry ofAYUSH and ICMR,” he added. Min-ister Deshmukh assured that thePolice Department and Centre arelooking into the rising cyber crimesin Maharashtra. “Around 40,300 of-fenses were booked for hackingduring the lockdown,” he added.

Lauding the services of policeduring these trying times, he reiter-ated, “A compensation of Rs 65lakhs will be awarded to the police-men, who have succumbed to theCOVID-19 in line of duty.”

“Till now, 58 personnel havepassed away while combating thepandemic. The goverment has de-cided to give Rs 65 lakhs to their kin;Rs 50 lakhs from the State, Rs 10lakhs from police welfare funds andRs five lakhs from the Police De-partment,” he mentioned.

Nagpur was India’s crimecapital during Fadnavisrule: Anil Deshmukh

Chennai (UNI)A bandh-like situation

prevailed as normal lifecame to a grinding halt androads wore a deserted lookafter a complete shutdown,without any relaxations,was observed on Sunday aspart of the 12-day intenselockdown to prevent thespread of the novel coron-avirus in Chennai and oth-er districts, where there hasbeen a rapid rise in thecoronavirus cases. Thelockdown, with strict re-strictions, began in Chen-nai, Tiruvallur, Kancheepu-ram, Chengalpet, Maduraiand Theni districts, wherethere has been a significantincrease in the number ofpositive cases, would be inforce till June 30.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minis-ter Edappadi K Palaniswa-mi, while announcing thecomplete lockdown for 12days, said it would be ‘totaland complete’ without anyrelaxations on Sundays —June 21 and 28, to ensurethat people stay indoors.

In line with the ChiefMinister’s announcement,a total and complete shut-down was observed lastSunday and today as lifecame to a grinding halt.

Except for milk, med-ical, pharmacies and hos-

pitals, all other 20 relax-ations announced duringthe 12-day lockdown werenot in force.

All groceries, vegetableshops, hotels and restau-rants, which were allowedto function with restrictedtimings during the 12-daylockdown, were shut.

Mr Palaniswami willhold a meeting with expertmedical team members to-morrow and based on theirrecommendations, a deci-sion would be taken on ex-tending the lockdown afterJune 30.

As the coronavirus casescrossed the 78,000-mark inthe State, including Chen-nai alone topped with51,699, and other districtslike Chengalpet, Thiruval-lur, Madurai andKancheepuram etc, TamilNadu government mightextend the lockdown bytwo weeks or one monthwith more restricts inplace.

Chennai City PoliceCommissioner AKViswanathan said nearly50,000 vehicles, includingtwo-wheelers, cars andother vehicles were seizedduring the last one weekfor violating the lockdownguidelines and said thecurbs would be evenstricter today.

Tamil Nadu witnessesbandh like situationpost total lockdown 2.0

Srinagar (UNI)The death toll due to COVID-19

has risen to 94 in the Union Territo-ry of J&K with a 76-year-old manfrom Kulgam dying due to the infec-tion at a hospital in this summercapital, official sources said, here onSunday.

With this death, 58 people havelost their lives due to infection in 23days, and 79 people in 39 day inJ&K, where the COVID-19 positivecases have surpassed 7000-mark.

They said a patient from Kulgamwas shifted from SHMS hospital toChest Disease hospital in Srinagarafter he tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday. “The patient, whohad multiple underlying condi-tions, died at CD hospital late onSaturday evening,” they added.

With this, the death toll in Kul-gam due to the infection has risento 13. Srinagar is the worst affecteddistrict in terms of causalities with22 deaths due to SARS-CoV-2. Bara-mulla stands at number two with 15deaths, following by Kulgam. Shopi-an with 10 deaths is at number four.Seven people have lost their livesdue to the infection in Budgam, fivein Kupwara, four in Pulwama andone in Bandipora.

Ten districts of Jammu have re-ported 11 fatalities while 83 peoplehave lost their lives due to COVID-19 in ten districts of Kashmir.

Two women, including a 70-year-old woman from Sopore and45-year-old woman from Anantnag,died due to the virus in Kashmir val-

ley on Saturday. A 48-year-oldwoman from Srinagar died due toCOVID-19 in the valley on Wednes-day. Four persons — including a 58-year-old woman from Srinagar, 85-year-old man from Kulgam 58-year-old man from Anantnag and a 65-year-old man from Pulwama – dieddue to COVID-19 on Monday andTuesday. Seven persons — 40-year-old woman from Srinagar, 80-year-old woman from Kulgam, anotherwoman from Pulwama, 65-year-oldman from Budgam, a 51-year-oldpatient from Kupwara and a Jammuresident — died due to COVID-19on June 20 and June 21.

Three persons, including 75-year-old man from Srinagar and 57-

year-old man from Jammu, dieddue to COVID-19 on Thursday. A 48-year-old woman from Srinagar dieddue to COVID-19 in the valley onWednesday. Four persons — includ-ing a 58-year-old woman from Sri-nagar, 85-year-old man from Kul-gam 58-year-old man from Anant-nag and a 65-year-old man fromPulwama – died due to the samedisease on Monday and Tuesday.Seven persons — 40-year-oldwoman from Srinagar, 80-year-oldwoman from Kulgam, anotherwoman from Pulwama, 65-year-oldman from Budgam, a 51-year-oldpatient from Kupwara and a Jammuresident — died due to COVID-19on June 20 and June 21.

COVID-19: Death toll rises to 94 in J&K

Imphal (UNI)Chief Minister N. Biren Singh an-

nounced that the government has decid-ed to extend the lockdown for another 15days, from 1st July- 15th July next in Ma-nipur.

Addressing the media at Chief Minis-ter’s Secretariat ,Chief Minister said thatthe government has also decided to openinter-district bus service from 1st July,2020 by maintaining SOPs and guidelinesissued by the government.

No other public transport system willbe allowed during this period, he added.He appealed the people to strictly adhereto the SOPs and guidelines issued by thegovernment to overcome the COVID-19pandemic.

The Chief Minister informed that thetotal number of positive cases is 1094,432 cases have been discharged and atpresent, there 660 active cases. The re-covery rate is 39.56 %, he added.

He further said that the testing capac-ity has been increased to nearly 2600tests per day by getting new machinesand engaging more persons. More than50,000 samples have been taken, includ-ing for re-test and for testing frontlineworkers till now. Almost all test resultshave been declared, he added.

N. Biren Singh mentioned that in or-der to supplement testing capacity, TRU-ENAT machines have been procured. Atpresent there are 2 machines in RIMS, 1machine at JNIMS, 2 machines at IRL Im-phal, 2 machines at Senapati,1 machineat Tamenglong and 1 being installed inUkhrul. He added, TRUENAT machinecan give about 20 – 35 results per day de-pending on the capacity and can supple-ment PCR machines for urgent or vulner-able cases immediately as the result is

declared within an hour. Informing thatthere is no case of community transmis-sion of the disease in the State, ChiefMinister said that almost all positive cas-es are from returnees except 7 frontlineworkers who were in direct contact withpositive cases. Till date, around 43,000persons have been sent to institutionaland community quarantine centres andaround 7200 inmates are at present inquarantine centres.

Mentioning about the present capaci-ty of beds in the State to treat the COVID-19 patients, Chief Minister informed thatat present, 150 beds in JNIMS, 100 bedsin RIMS, 350 beds in Covid Care CenterMeitram, 100 beds in Ukhrul are func-tional as COVID Care Facility, in additionto isolation wards and COVID beds ineach district hospital. He maintained

that work is going on for adding another750 beds in various facilities, namely inSenapati Trauma Centre-50 beds, ImphalWest Family Welfare Training Centre - 100beds, Thoubal GNM School – 100 beds,Lamboikhongnangkhong Trade Centre–300 beds, Kangpokpi BIET- 50 beds, Chu-rachandpur NIELIT – 100 beds andTamenglong- 50 beds.

The Chief Minister stated that a sumof Rs. 10 crores from State Corpus Fundand donations amount of Rs. 14.41 croresreceived in Chief Minister’s COVID-19Relief Fund are being used in the fightagainst the disease. Total expenditure ofRs. 18.22 crores have been made fortransportation of returnees, purchase ofrice, financial assistance to stranded per-sons and awareness activities by Com-mittee of CSOs, he added.

Lockdown extended by another 15 days

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Coronavirus claimsanother cop’s life inBengaluruBengaluru: Novel coronavirushas claimed another police of-ficer’s life here, official sourcessaid on Sunday. According toofficial sources, the deceasedpolice officer attached to sta-tion in Whitefield division hadcollapsed in his home on Sat-urday. The 57-year-old Policeofficer, working as an AssistantSub-Inspector (ASI) who wasdiagnosed with COVID-19 in-fection, also reportedly suf-fered from breathing relatedproblems, the sources said.Earlier, three other ASIs hadsuccumbed to the virus in thestate.

LNJP doctor dies fromnCoVNew Delhi: A doctor from LokNayak Jayaprakash NarayanHospital (LNJP), who managedto save the lives of many peo-ple from Novel Coronavirus, onSunday lost his own battleagainst the lethal virus. TheHospital sources said here thatthe deceased was posted as anAnesthesia specialist in theICU ward of COVID-19 man-agement. On June 9, after beinginfected with the deadly dis-ease, the doctor was admittedfor treatment at Saket MaxHospital in South Delhi, wherehe died this morning. Delhi ison second position in thecountry after Maharashtra, inthe number of Corona cases.There have been total 80188 in-fections and 2568 deaths, sofar. There were 2948 new casesin the capital, while 66 freshdeaths were recorded due tothe contagion. Meanwhile,2210 people have recovered.

Bride tests positive forCOVID-19Bengaluru: An unusual case ofNovel Coronavirus came tolight in Karnataka, when abride, instead of attending herwedding rituals on Sunday, gotherself admitted to a hospital,after testing positive forCOVID-19. According to offi-cial sources, the girl, who wasscheduled to marry a boy fromTamil Nadu, had given samplesof her throat swab on Thursdayand was all set to go for mar-riage, with all arrangements inplace. However, everythingwent haywire when BBMP offi-cials arrived at the scene andinformed her about the test re-ports. They also advised thebride to get admitted to a hos-pital. Further, the BBMP offi-cials sent several others, whohad come in contact with thebride to quarantine, and putthem under observation, toprevent the spread of the virus.

Aurangabad reports 208new cases, tally drawsclose to 5kAurangabad: As many as 208new COVID-19 cases were de-tected here on Sunday, inchingthis district’s pandemic tallyclose to 5,000-mark. Amongthe new patients, 115 are fromthe municipal limits while 93others cases have come fromrural areas. Out of 208, 122 aremales and 86 females, appriseddistrict administration. So far,Aurangabad has tallied 4,974cases, out of which, 2,446 arecured while 238 have died ofthe contagion.

2 Covid-19 patientsdied in MangaluruMangaluru: Mangaluru wit-nessed two more deaths due toCovid-19 on Sunday taking thedeath toll in the Dakshina Kan-nada district to 12. Officialsources on Sunday said thatthe deceased included a 57-year-old woman from Bantwaland a 31-year-old man of Idyain Surathkal. As many as 49people tested positive for coro-navirus cases including 16members of a single family onSaturday taking the total tallyin Dakshina Kannada to 566.Out of 17 tests, 16 memberstested positive, including 7men 4 children, 4 women andan elderly woman.

Pondy: 29 new COVID casesreported in past 24 hrsPuducherry: As many as 29new Coronavirus (COVID-19)cases and one death was re-ported in the last 24 hours inthe union territory. Accordingto the COVID-19 status re-leased by the Health Depart-ment of Puducherry, 28 newcases were reported inPuducherry region and one inYanam. Of the new cases, 20were admitted to the govern-ment medical college, six inJipmer, one in Yanam govern-ment hospital and two outsidePuducherry (one each in Cud-dalore and Chidambaram ofTamil Nadu).

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Haryana reports 94 fresh COVID-19 cases,tally at 13,507Chandigarh (UNI): Haryana registered94 fresh COVID-19 cases on Sunday, tak-ing the infection tally to 13,507 in thestate.

According to an official health bul-letin, 54 fresh cases have been reportedfrom Gurugram district, nine fromCharkhi Dadri, seven from Kaithal, fiveeach from Palwal, Jhajjar, Panipat andNuh, two from Yamunanagar and onenew case each from Kurukshetra and Re-wari districts.

Of the 218 fatalities till now, 83 deathshave been reported from Gurugram dis-trict, 71 from Faridabad, 16 fromSonepat, seven each from Rohtak and Pa-nipat, six each from Hisar and Karnal,five from Rewari, four each from Jhajjarand Jind, three each from Bhiwani andAmbala, two from Palwal, while onedeath was reported from Charkhi Dadridistrict.

Till now, Gurugram has reported thehighest number of infections in the statewith 5,124 confirmed cases, followed byFaridabad 3,325, Sonepat 1157, Rohtak527, Bhiwani 407, Ambala 309, Palwal303, Karnal 273, Jhajjar 240, Mahender-garh 237, Rewari 236, Hisar 214, Nuh 182,Panipat 171, Kurukshetra 114, Panchkula108, Jind and Yamunanagar 100 each,Fatehabad 99, Sirsa 97, Kaithal 85,Charkhi Dadri 78 and 21 US-returneeHaryana citizens.

Of the 2,49,744 samples, 13,507 havetested positive and 2,31,023 negative,while results of 5,200 samples are await-ed. There are 4,497 active cases in thestate. Among them, 54 are on the oxygen support system and 19 others onventilators.

Inter district passenger service from July 1: CM BirenAddressing the media at ChiefMinister’s Secretariat ,ChiefMinister said that the governmenthas also decided to open inter-dis-trict bus service from 1st July, 2020by maintaining SOPs and guidelinesissued by the government.

The Chief Minister informed thatthe total number of positive cases is1094, 432 cases have been dis-charged and at present, there 660active cases. The recovery rate is39.56 %, he added.

No other public transport systemwill be allowed during this period,he added. He appealed the peopleto strictly adhere to the SOPs andguidelines issued by the govern-ment to overcome the COVID-19pandemic.

Bhopal, Monday, June 29, 2020 3City

Chronicle reporter, BhopalA Class-12 student who went at ahukka lounge was asked to pay Rs 1lakh by some miscreants at the pointof pistol. The student agreed to payRs 40,000. The accused took Rs15,000 from him and asked him topay balance Rs 25,000 afterwards.The police have registered a case ona complaint made by the student.

Koh-e-Fiza police informed thatChirar Manvani, 17, lives in IdgahHills. He is a Class-12 student atCambridge School. He went to Shee-sha Lounge at Airport Road on Sat-urday. Three youths Ayan, Abdullahand Arham, residents of Idgah Hills,were already there. Two youthsSharik and Aasim, residents of NewMarket, also arrived there. They as-saulted Chirar and demanded mon-ey from him. Sharik took out a pistoland threatened to kill Chirar if hedidn’t pay the money. They demand-ed Rs 1 lakh from Chirar. Chiraragreed to pay Rs 40,000. He gave Rs15,000 to the accused which he hadwith him at that time.

After the accused fled from thespot, Chirar lodged a complaint atthe police station. A case has beenregistered and investigations are on.

Youth’s found dead inflat in Piplani

The dead body of a youth was

found in a flat in Bhopal’s Piplaniarea on Saturday afternoon. It is sus-pected that he had died two daysback. His phone was also comingswitched off for two days. For a fewdays, he used to buy a small bottle ofsanitizer daily. In such a situation,the police are now suspecting theyouth used sanitizer for addiction.

TI Piplani Chan Singh Raghuvan-shi said that 33-year-old Rajawat,originally a Jalaun (UP) resident,was living in a flat in a Goyal apart-ment on JK Road. He used to work asa gas servicing.

One of his friends had informedthe police that the door of the flatwas locked from inside. He went tomeet him as the phone he did notanswer his call for two days. Whenthe police broke in and reached in-side, Rajawat was found lying deadon the bed.

People around said that he livedhere alone. The doors of his flat werenot even open for two days. Mean-while, a shopkeeper told that Ra-jawat used to take a small sanitizerbottle from him every day for pastfew days. He may have started usingsanitizer for intoxication. The bodyhas been sent for post-mortem. On-ly after this, the causes of death willbe known. Family members have al-so been informed about this.

Extortionists demand Rs 1 lakhfrom student at gunpoint

Chronicle Reporter, BhopalCoronavirus infection is continu-ously increasing in the capital. Ac-cording to experts, the highest riskof coronavirus is to patients suffer-ing from respiratory ailments. AWHO report has also revealed thatpeople with severe lung-relateddiseases, including asthma, are athigher risk of corona.

The special thing is that themost effect of asthma occurs in therainy months. And the months ofrain have started in the city, thetension of asthma patients has in-creased in this way. Doctors saythat in the Corona period, theasthmatic patients are also avoid-ing coming to the hospital.

The World Health Organizationhas also said that coronavirus in-fection causes damage to the res-piratory center along with nose,ear, throat or lungs. This maycause asthma patients with pneu-monia. There can be severe respi-ratory disease.

Patient did not go to hospital for 3 months

Kamal Patel, a resident of KotraSultanabad, told that I am suffer-ing from asthma disease. Eversince the coronavirus infectionhas come, I have not gone to the

hospital for routine checkup. Nowthe trouble has increased in therain. But I am not going to see thedoctor for fear of Corona.

Asthma patients need special precautions

Pathologist Dr. PN Agrawal saysthat due to excessive moisture inthe rain, asthma patients are moreprone to infection. And at thistime, due to Coronavirus infec-tion, such patients need to takespecial care.

Do not be afraid if there is anytype of problem, but immediatelyconsult a doctor so that the prob-lem can be treated in the initialstage, he said.

What do you say expertLokendra Dave, head of the pul-

monary department at GandhiMedical College, says that the pa-tient has to keep the diagnostic ina different way if there is breath-lessness, fever or any other prob-lem. But the asthma patient is pro-vided with medicines immediate-ly. However, there is no harm inconducting the investigation. Iftreated as a corona suspect, thenthe treatment will not stop. Asth-ma patients should continue treat-ment and take regular medicines.

Rain increases worriesof asthma patients

Chronicle reporter, BhopalAfter the death due to coronavirusdisease, the last rites of the deadbodies are being done free ofcharge in the graveyard and cre-matorium.

Regarding the expenses for thefuneral, the administration haddecided not to take money fromthe relatives of the deceased in thecommissioner’s meeting. It wassaid by the commissioner that thegovernment and district adminis-tration will bear the amount of ex-penses incurred in the last rites.But the reality is that the moneyhas not been given by the govern-ment to the cremation ghats andthe cemetery’s committees andcommittee members crematedthe bodies, risking their lives inthis cemetery and the cremationgrounds. Masood further said thatin this regard, we have written aletter to the Principal Secretary,Government of Madhya Pradeshand have demanded a sum of Rs5000 for those involved in the lastrites.

Arif Masood said that fundsshould be given to the personsperforming the last rites at the

identified cemeteries and crema-tion grounds. He further said thatthe Shivraj government is not giv-ing the amount earmarked for thelast rites of the people dying ofCovid-19. It has been said by the

government that for the crema-tion of the identified cemeteriesand cremation ghats, whateverexpenses will be incurred whileperforming the last rites of thecorona dead, such as an amount

of 5000 rupees for the funeral ofthe deceased was fixed by the gov-ernment instead.

Provide funds for performing last rites

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Corona has increased to 3 in thedistrict.

Reader of Tehsildar officein Morena tests positive

16 new patients were found inGwalior. Among them, 5 patientsincluding four members of thesame family are from Virpur Damarea. Here, five of the 9 new pa-tients in Bhind district are womenfrom Mehgaon. All of them havebecome victims of corona afterbeing exposed to the corona in-fected obstetrician.

The report of 330 samplesfound in Morena on Saturdayfound 40 positive patients. Theseinclude Tehsildar Office Reader,Private Coaching Operator, ACService Engineer. With this, thenumber of positive patients hasincreased to 325 in the district. Af-ter getting 171 new patients in 9days, the recovery rate of the dis-trict has also come down from 90percent to 47. There are currently169 active cases in the district. It isa matter of concern that as the pa-tient continues to grow in differ-ent areas of the city, the danger isincreasing.

9 corona patients found in Sagar

According to the report fromthe biology lab of BundelkhandMedical College, 9 new patientshave been found. It also includesthe clerk of the court. The ages ofthe infected range from 20 yearsto 60 years.

The total number of corona-in-fected patients has reached 336 inSagar district, while two patientshave recovered and arrived home.The number of patients recover-

ing has reached 235.

2 more were infected in Harda

2 more corona positive pa-tients have been found at Hardadistrict headquarters. A total of 49samples were reported on Satur-day. Of these, 47 samples were re-ported negative, while 2 positive.A total of 16 samples have beensent for investigation. So far, 657samples out of a total of 675 havebeen reported. 18 reports are yetto come. The number of active pa-tients is 6.

Indore continues to meet newcorona patients. Saturday night’sreport revealed 40 new patients,while 4 died. In 1434 samples test-ed, 1484 negatives came up. Sofar, 81624 samples have been ex-amined, out of which 4615 sam-ples have come positive. So far222 people have died due to thisdisease in Indore. Presently 978patients are being treated at vari-ous Covid hospitals in the city.

100% staff approval ingovt offices in Indore

Government offices, corpora-tions, mandals, semi-governmentoffices in Indore will now have100 percent staffing. CollectorManish Singh has issued orders inthis regard. It said that in the ear-lier order, maximum 50 percentstaff was approved, which is nowbeing cleared to work with 100percent staff.

24 containment area,no new area

With the reduction in the num-ber of corona infected patients,now new containment areas havealso reduced. In the list releasedon Friday, a patient was found in

village Padalya in new areas.There are now 24 containment ar-eas left. A new containment areawas not created on Saturday.

Death of 80-year-oldwoman from Corona, 23patients returned healthy

An 80-year-old woman livingin Hawa Bungalow died on Fridayfrom Corona. Blood pressure andsugar was there for years, but sev-en days ago, the health went badand she had trouble in breathing.The family took her to the hospi-tal. Took the sample on the firstday and found out on the secondday that the mother had becomeinfected. The family was quaran-tined from the hospital itself.Here, the mother’s health deterio-rated rather than recovered. Threeto four times in five days, themother talked to the family, somother kept saying that take mehome. She said she will recover athome and was choking in the hos-pital. She wanted to meet thegrandson, daughter-in-law, sonbut her wish could not be fulfilled.The family and relatives all want-ed to go for the last rites, but onlyfour people got permission at thefuneral.

800 patients dischargedfrom two hospitals

The process of returning homedefeating Corona continues. OnSaturday, 23 more patients weredischarged from two hospitals inIndore. 18 patients were dis-charged from Aurobindo Hospitaland 5 from Index Medical College.Additional director of the indexRC Yadav said that about 800 pa-tients have been recovered fromthe hospital so far. Treatment of60 patients continues.

Positive cases surge close to 13000 in MP

78 cremated atBhadbhadaVishram Ghat

Since March, 78 bodies havebeen cremated at BhadbhadaVishram Ghat, which were sus-pected to be Corona positive. Inthis, 10 bodies were from Raisen,Hoshangabad, Rajgarh district.Among the dead bodies comingfrom Bhopal were fromHamidia, Chirayu and AIIMS.On June 12, we sent a list of 60people to the district adminis-tration. So far, 40 thousand ru-pees have been received, whileabout 3 lakh rupees have beenspent from the Vishram Ghat.Separately, two men have beenkept by the committee for thecremation of dead bodies fromCorona, which are being givenRs 500 per day.

Ajay Dubey, TreasurerBhadbhada Vishram Ghat

14 corona dead have been cremated in Subhash Nagar14 people dying of corona have been cremated at Subhash Nagar

crematorium since March, nothing has yet been received from thegovernment, while it was decided in the commissioner’s meeting thatthe expenses of the funeral will be given by the administration.

Sobhraj Sukhwani, Subhash Nagar Vishram Ghat

Bodies of 83 Corona dead buried since MarchSince March, the bodies of 83 corona dead have been buried in Jha-

da Cemetery Jahangirabad, all of them came from Hamidia, Chirayuand AIIMS Hospital. The maximum bodies came from Hamidia. Noth-ing has been received from the government yet.

Rehan Golden Cemetery Committee Jahangirabad

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Khilawan Chandrakar, Bhopal The BJP has to decide the name ofthe Speaker before the Assemblysession which is going to start onJuly 20, but now the names of half adozen MLAs who are emerging ascontenders for this post, want aplace in the Cabinet more than be-coming the Speaker. So it seemsclear that the cabinet will be ex-panded first and only then thename for the Speaker will be decid-ed.

All the claimants have madetheir stand clear that they wouldprefer to become ministers. When,for some reason, any of them couldnot find a place in the expansion ofthe portfolio, and then only hewould seek Speaker’s post. On thesecond day of the session, nomina-tion and voting can be done for theSpeaker if necessary.

Gopal Bhargava, elected MLAfrom Rahli in Sagar district for the8th consecutive time, has emergedas the most powerful contender forthe post. If he had to be deprived ofthe post of minister due to any rea-son, amidst the controversy overthe ministerial post in Sagar dis-trict, he can accept speaker’s post.Bhargava has a good knowledge ofparliamentary traditions and legis-lation, so it is believed that he can

conduct the assembly in a betterway. Nagendra Singh, MLA fromNagaud in Satna district, has alsobeen a minister and MP in thepast. Due to his seniority, he is alsoclaiming the post of speaker. Sid-hi’s senior MLA Kedarnath Shuklais also said to be the contender forthe post of speaker. Last time hefell behind in political manipula-

tion and his place was taken by Dr.Sitasharan Sharma. He does notwant to make any kind of lapse thistime. Yashpal Singh Sisodia, athree-time MLA from Mandsaur,also wants to make a place in thecabinet and is trying to get thechair of the assembly speaker if it isnot possible for some reason to be-come a minister.

All these BJP MLAs are engagedin their own political power at theirown level and in their quest forcontact with the top leaders toachieve the big statutory post ofthe Speaker. The picture is notclear yet when the cabinet isformed and a pomegranate can al-so create many sick conditions byreaching the manipulative peakamong the remaining contenders.

Every claimant wants a ministerialpost instead of speaker

Chronicle Reporter, BhopalPolitics has heated up before as-sembly by-elections in MadhyaPradesh. On Sunday, BJP burnt ef-figy of former Chief Minister KamalNath in entire state includingBhopal. BJP workers starteddemonstrations here from Num-ber Seven Stop. A large number ofactivists, including state presidentVD Sharma and former MLASurendranath Singh burnt the effi-gy of Kamal Nath. The effigy was litsimultaneously in all mandals ofBJP at 12 noon.

VD Sharma said that KamalNath colluded with China to bene-fit the Gandhi family and the Con-

gress. In order to benefit Chinesecompanies, he took away the liveli-hood of small artisans and tradersof the country and the state. Thisact of former Chief Minister KamalNath is a crime and betrayal to-wards the country.

Kamal Nath says - BJP ismisleading people

Congress state president KamalNath said that BJP always resorts tolies to divert attention from real is-sues. Has been misleading andconfusing the public by raisingfalse cases from the beginning.Cases that are false, which have nobasis, no proof, which are years

old, which have nothing to do withtoday. The BJP specializes in givingit false air.

Former minister PC Sharmasaid on burning the effigies of Ka-mal Nath that the BJP is doing thisto divert attention. After China,Nepal is also showing eyes to India.Petrol and diesel prices are in-creasing continuously. Kamal Nathalso imposed a tax on dumping.Shivraj wrote in a tweet - China’sCommunist Party and BJP arebrothers. BJP is scared of KamalNath. Hence performing before theby-election. We have given a mem-orandum to register a case againstit at TT Nagar police station.

BJP torches effigy of Nath,Cong hits back

There are too many aspirants in BJP

Gopal Bhargava Jagdish Deora

Protem speakerDeora also in queue

Dr. Sitasharan Sharma, a five-time MLA from HoshangabadItarsi and former AssemblySpeaker, is also a natural con-tender for the assembly speakerpost this time, but he is trying toensure a place in the cabinetanyway. The current ProtemSpeaker of the Legislative As-sembly Jagdish Deora is also inthe line to become the full-timeSpeaker and is engaged in ma-nipulation for this. He is the on-ly one among the half-dozencontenders who want the chairof the speaker, not the minister.

Avoiding going to hospital due to fear of corona

Govt giving PPE kits of China: Masood

EDITORIAL

Founder : Late Shri Ramgopal MaheshwariInspiration: Late Shri Prafulla Kumar Maheshwari

Chief Minister ShivrajSingh Chouhan often saysabout his national leaderand Prime MinisterNarendra Modi that he isthe man of ideas. That is,Modi is the leader whohas the yearning to makeIndia develop and whokeeps bringing innovativeideas in this matter.Construction of toilets inevery household for thecountry’s mother power issuch a scheme born ofsimilar ideas. This hasgiven significant contri-bution in relation toimproving the conditionof women in rural India.PM Ujjwala Yojana canalso be considered assome kind of scheme. Hislatest edict to his minis-ters is also part of thislink. It has been for yearsthat the policy makingwork remains in the gymsof the PlanningCommission and theFinance Commission.The government has beenforming a committee offormer senior bureau-crats and experts fromvarious fields and takesideas regarding policies.Modi is such a groundleader who has fought thestruggle of a commonman. It is evident that heexpects his cabinet col-leagues to submit practi-cal suggestions based onexperience that can beimplemented on theground of reality as well.

In fact, amid the ongo-ing border dispute withChina, Modi has asked hisCouncil of Ministers forrealistic ideas to trans-form the country into aglobal manufacturinghub. The PM has askedthe ministers to presentsuch original and realisticideas, which can beturned into a policy topromote industrial devel-opment and generateemployment. In therecent virtual (video con-ference) talks, the PrimeMinister asked the minis-

ters to give momentum tothe economy. During this,Modi held talks withChina about manufactur-ing challenges. Someministers, including thedefense minister and theforeign minister, were notpresent in the talks fordifferent reasons.Ministers were alreadytold about the agenda ofthe talks. During thattime, the PM asked theministers to give theirpresentations on worthysuggestions, but exceptone minister no one wasready. According to mediareports, the PM alsopulled some ministers inthis regard. He went on tosay that ministers are notkings or queens, nor arethey in any royal dynasty.He said that all (minis-ters) have struggled at thegrassroots level for yearsto reach this position andno new ideas are comingout yet. It is being toldthat the PM expressedanger that he does notwant views from depart-ments, ministries orbureaucrats. He has nextasked his ministers tocome up with their ownoriginal and realisticideas which can beimplemented. Later someministers went to thePrime Minister’s resi-dence and presentedtheir views and presenta-tions.

Union ministers pre-sented suggestions andideas on how India canbecome a manufacturinghub. Actually, there isincreasing distrust in thecountry against China, insuch a situation the cen-tral government wants toreduce dependence onChina for trade.Apparently, Modi haspledged to make Indiaself-sufficient to make thecountry a manufacturinghub and he announcedthis resolution in hisaddress to the nation lastmonth.

Prime Minister’s advice

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Measles infections in childrencan destroy the immune system’smemory of prior exposure toother pathogens.

The finding — from a teamthat included scientists atGenentech, a Roche subsidiary —helps explain why youngstersrecovering from measles are moresusceptible to other infectiousdiseases. It also underscores theimportance of vaccinating againstthe measles virus.

The researchers analysed blood samples from 77 unvaccinated Dutchchildren taken before and after a measles outbreak.

They found that the infection erased 11–73% of antibodies against otherbacteria and viruses that were present before the children fell ill. Kids whowere vaccinated against measles showed no such deficits in their antibodyrepertoires.

The researchers confirmed that measles induces a kind of immune amne-sia by experimentally infecting monkeys with the virus and observing thesame loss of pre-existing antibodies.

I applaud our courageous @ITBP_official person-nel, who would be operating this Covid Care facilityduring these trying times. Their commitment toserve nation and people of Delhi is unparalleled.Modi govt at the centre is committed to provide allpossible help to its citizens.

Amit Shah

In the current time, beinggrateful is one of the mostimportant human quality.nowadays many people takesthings for granted. we don’trealize how many people workbehind the scene so that weget to live a comfortable life.when we are ungrateful thenwe don’t value the sacrifice ofthose people who have sacri-ficed their life so that there isend to wars, slavery, famineand there is peace and free-dom in the world.

Gratitude is one qualitywhich keeps us away from ego

and grounded in reality. a grateful person is rich from within. he knows godhas showered him with more wealth than what he deserve. truly speaking weown nothing, because we come to this earth empty handed and will go backempty handed. in this journey of life, we must appreciate and share the rich-ness which god has showered on all of us.

Gratitude is the way to thank god for all his blessings. when you show yourgratitude in life then it helps the other person but it also gives you a lot inreturn. as when you are grateful then you are humble, content and happy.you open your heart and become a instrument of god to bring blessing inothers life.Managing Editor- Sumeet Maheshwari, Group Editor- Kranti ChaturvediEditorial Board Send article on email - chroniclebpl@gmail.com

Tributes to former Prime Minister, PVNarsimharao ji on his birth anniversary. He willalways be remembered for his remarkable contribu-tion to India’s progress.

Rajnath Singh

I sought all the help to save Delhi from taxing inthis hour of trouble. And everyone cooperated withthe climb. With the support of the central govern-ment and Radha Swami Beas, it has become such abig karona center for its Delhiites.

Arvind KejriwalThe neighbour told us:

Mango, the king of fruits,has gained royal or royalpride in Dubai. A supermarket there deliveredhome delivery of mangoesto customers in a luxuriouscar like Lamborghini. Notonly this, the customer wasalso given a small ride inLamborghini. He also ful-filled his desire to ride inthis precious car.

We said: It is one to onegreat ways of marketing.The common man whobought mangoes alsoenjoyed ride onLamborghini. He will neverforget this experience.

The neighbour said to us:You should also know thatthe Dubai super marketdelivers parcel of mangoesfrom Lamborghini to thehouse only after placing anorder of at least 100dirhams i.e. about 2100rupees.

We said: If theLamborghini is standing infront of the house and itsdriver makes you spin inthat luxurious car and take

a round, then what bigthing is 2100 rupees!

We said: There is noshortage of mangoes.Mangoes of many varietieslike Dussehri, Chausa,Kalmi, Saffron, Totapari,Baganpally, Neelam,Langra, Hapus, Nagin areavailable in their country.Not only this, we also havethe Aam Aadmi Party. A lotof literature has been writ-ten about the problems andlife struggles of the com-mon man.

All the literature ofMunshi Premchand focuseson common people likefarmers and labourers.

The neighbor said:Whenever the election timecomes, the leaders startholding public meetings. Inthese meetings, a crowd isbrought in trucks and busesso that the ground can befilled. Common people livemore in this crowd. Whenleaders debate amongthemselves, one saysmango and the other saystamarind! Their differencesnever end.

With increasing use of drones amidthe coronavirus crisis, Irdai noted thatthe unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)are assisting various authorities inseveral activities and formed a work-ing group to study and make recom-mendations on how they can beinsured.

The insurance regulator onWednesday appointed a nine-mem-ber committee chaired by New IndiaAssurance GM Anjan Dey to recom-mend covers. The terms of referencefor the committee include under-standing the insurance needs of remotely piloted aircraft system owners andoperators. Based on this, the committee will make recommendations relat-ing to design and development of products. They will also make recommen-dations relating to underwriting of such risks including the reinsurance per-spective.

Just this month, HDFC Ergo General Insurance launched a cover fordrones. Tata AIG was among the first to offer covers for drones few years ago.Incidentally, the insurance industry has been one of the early users of dronesglobally. It has been used for claim assessments after natural disasters and inidentifying sowed area in agriculture insurance.

Practice gratitude in life becoming a grateful person Irdai panel to look at drone insurance

By Madhu AgrawalReserve Bank of India RBI and

central government hadannounced various liberalisationfor banking norms like Minimum-Balance-Requirements etc. etc. till30.06.2020. But normal chargesand norms are to be revived nowfrom 01.07.2020.

But to encourage banking-transactions and reduce cash-transactions, RBI and central gov-ernment should impose a restric-tion on cash-withdrawal by anindividual to rupees 48000 permonth. All RTGS and NEFTcharges should be abolished. Limitfor maximum cash-withdrawal in aday from ATMs should be fixed.

Best is to encourage paymentsthrough debit and credit cardswith transaction-charges reduced

to half-percent that too be borneby central government with all

incentives for payments presentlythrough credit-cards abolished.

This will be ultimately beneficialfor exchequer because drastic cut

anticipated in tax-evasion.All charges and norms in differ-

ent public-sector banks should beuniform with abolition of require-ment of Minimum-Balance.Interest-rates for deposits shouldalso be uniform.

Recently subsequent to mergerof Corporation Bank with UnionBank of India, norms of FDR-linked savings-accounts wereunfairly changed with minimumbalance in such premium accountsraised from rupees 15000 to 50000which will deprive small investorsfrom taking benefits of suchaccounts. All public-sector banksshould have FDR-linked savingsaccounts with uniform Minimum-Balance-Requirement of rupees20000 with every next multiple inrupees 10000 to be auto-convertedin FDR with single maturity of one year.

Banking rules being restored from 01.07.2020 should be uniform for all PSU banks

India gives thumbs up to the telecom services during COVID-19A joint Webinar conducted by

COAI-IMC and Ericsson highlightedthat Indian consumers see telcos astrusted entities in using mobilitydata for the “common good”. Thereport also revealed that of thoseaged 60+ and highly impacted bythe COVID-19 outbreak in India,89% agree reliable video callinghelped them stay in touch with fam-ily and friends during the crisis.

The report findings states that inIndia, ICT resilience helped con-sumers navigate the crisis andproved that despite the traffic surge,telecom network stayed strong. Asper the findings of the report:

77% of parents in India saythat ICT is helping to continue chil-dren’s education from home

In India, the average timespent connected to fixed broadbandincreased by 2.0 hours per day andfor those connected to 4G networkstoo there was an average increase of2 hour a day

71% in India were very satis-fied with the fixed broadband per-formance, while 66% say mobilebroadband networks performed thesame or better compared to beforethe crisis

Despite fixed networks seeingmost of the traffic increase, 65% inIndia consider mobile broadband tobe as crucial as Wi-Fi.

In India, on daily life activitiesduring Covid 19 pandemic, follow-ing activities received the highestpercentage of response:

80% agreed that connectivity anddevices helped them in stayingtouch with their family and friends,77% % believed it helped havingtheir children access to educationand also same percentage said ithelped them fulfilling their jobresponsibility while working from

home. Whereas 75% agreed ithelped in keeping their childrenentertained and engaged and 64%also believed telecom services werea support in improving mentalhealth and well being as well.

The report findings were releasedin a Webinar jointly organized bythe COAI-IMC and Ericsson, whichwitnessed participation of digni-

taries like Mr. Patrik Cerwall, Headof Strategic Marketing & ExecutiveEditor of the Ericsson MobilityReport, Mr. Nitin Bansal, MDEricsson India & Head of NetworkSolutions for Market Area SouthEast Asia, Oceania and India, Dr. Ir.Ng Thiaw Seng, Head of NetworkSolutions – Strategic NetworkEvolution Market Area South EastAsia, Oceania & India. The sessionwas moderated by Mr. Rajan S.Mathews, Director General, COAI.

While sharing his views duringthe Webinar, Mr. Rajan Mathews,DG, COAI, said, “We are delightedthat critical role played by the tele-com sector during the pandemic isnoted and highlighted globally andso in the Internationally reputedEricsson Consumer Labs’ report.The telecom sector ensured to keepthe vast sections of the population

connected and the country runningduring these challenging times. Wewould also like to highlight that,India is on the verge of a big 5G rev-olution in the coming years. Thelearnings and consumer insightsfrom Ericsson on 5G will be invalu-able for the industry as we gear upfor 5G roll out in India.”

Mr. Nitin Bansal, MD EricssonIndia & Head of Network Solutionsfor Market Area South East Asia,Oceania and India, said “ The role of

the Telecom industry during thispandemic has been truly com-mendable and this is true not onlyfor India but across other marketslike Europe, Asia and Americas.Similar trends of traffic and dataincrease, traffic movement towardssuburban areas have also been wit-nessed elsewhere. CurrentlyEricsson has 40 live 5G networksacross the world and we foresee thatby 2025, nearly half of the world’smobile data traffic will be on 5Gnetworks. India is poised to play akey role in the 5G revolution and weexpect 18% of India’s mobile sub-scriptions to be constituted by 5Gby 2025.”

India remains the region with thehighest usage per smartphone permonth. Total traffic is projected totriple, reaching 21EB per month in2025. In the India region, the aver-age monthly mobile data usage persmartphone continues to showrobust growth, boosted by the rapidadoption of 4G. Additional 410 mil-lion smartphones users are expect-ed in India in 2025, according to theEricsson Mobility Report.

The combination of 5G and digi-talization creates new opportunitiesfor service providers to build andextend their businesses beyondconnectivity. Ericsson’s 5G forBusiness : a 2030 market compassanticipates that by 2030 up to USD700 billion of 5G-enabled, business-to-business value could beaddressed by service providers . InIndia, the projected value of the 5G-enabled digitalization revenues willbe approximately USD 17 billion by2030 from sectors likeManufacturing, Automotive,Enterprise Networking, Education,Healthcare, Public Safety amongstothers.

India remains the region with the highest usage persmartphone per month. Total traffic is projected totriple, reaching 21EB per month in 2025. In the India

region, the average monthly mobile data usage per smart-phone continues to show robust growth, boosted by therapid adoption of 4G. Additional 410 million smartphonesusers are expected in India in 2025, according to theEricsson Mobility Report. The combination of 5G and dig-italization creates new opportunities for service providersto build and extend their businesses beyond connectivity.Ericsson’s 5G for Business : a 2030 market compass antici-pates that by 2030 up to USD 700 billion of 5G-enabled,business-to-business value could be addressed by serviceproviders . In India, the projected value of the 5G-enableddigitalization revenues will be approximately USD 17 bil-lion by 2030 from sectors like Manufacturing, Automotive,Enterprise Networking, Education, Healthcare, PublicSafety amongst others.

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Recently subsequent to merger of CorporationBank with Union Bank of India, norms of FDR-linked savings-accounts were unfairly changed

with minimum balance in such premium accountsraised from rupees 15000 to 50000 which will deprivesmall investors from taking benefits of such accounts.All public-sector banks should have FDR-linked sav-ings accounts with uniform Minimum-Balance-Requirement of rupees 20000 with every next multiplein rupees 10000 to be auto-converted in FDR with sin-gle maturity of one year.

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Lamborghini joy ride with mangoes

King’s ride

Measles wipes out immune memory

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Agencies, JerusalemA Jerusalem court early on Sun-

day ordered the release of a formerAir Force general and leading ac-tivist opposed to Israeli PrimeMinister Benjamin Netanyahu’srule and whose arrest promptedhundreds to protest outside the Is-raeli leader’s residence.

Retired Brig. Gen. Amir Haskelhas been a leader of the protestmovement against Netanyahu, de-manding that the long-time leaderstep down while facing charges offraud, breach of trust and accept-ing bribes. Haskel and several oth-ers were detained on Friday inwhat police said was an ``illegal’’demonstration because the pro-testers blocked roads.

Haskel, a former top Israeli AirForce general, has become a sym-bol of the protest movement thatopposes Netanyahu’s continuedrule. Demonstrations have beenheld regularly around the country,with protesters waving signs read-ing ``crime minister`` and callingfor Netanyahu to resign.

``No one will prevent us fromprotesting anywhere,’’ Haskel saidupon his release, adding a barb to-ward Netanyahu about his own

brief experience in jail. ``We werein Hadarim prison for 15 hours. Itwasn’t pleasant, but it wasn’t terri-ble.’’

The arrests drew angry denun-ciations from prominent Israelisand sent hundreds out to protestoutside Netanyahu’s residence onSaturday, with many slamming thepolice for making what theyviewed as politically-motivated ar-rests.

Police said they offered to re-lease Haskel and others if theyagreed to refrain from returning to

the scene of the protests. Haskeland two others refused.

Gabi Lasky, the lawyer repre-senting Haskel, told Israeli ArmyRadio that the court eventually re-leased him without conditions,saying protesting was the founda-tion of democracy.

The country’s acting policechief said the force would learn alesson from the incident.

``The role of the police is to al-low freedom of expression anddemonstration to every personand to keep the public peace andsecurity, this regardless of theprotest’s subject, the identity of theprotesters or their opinions,`` act-ing commissioner Motti Cohensaid.

Netanyahu is on trial for a seriesof scandals in which he allegedlyreceived lavish gifts from billion-aire friends and traded regulatoryfavors with media moguls for morepalatable coverage of himself andhis family. The trial is set to resumenext month.

Netanyahu has denied wrong-doing, calling the charges a witch-hunt against him by a hostile me-dia and a biased law enforcementsystem.

Israeli court releases anti-Netanyahu activist after arrest

Agencies, BrasiliaBrazil’s COVID-19 death toll

surpassed 57,000 on Sunday asthe total number of coronaviruscases in the country stood at over1.3 million, according to HealthMinistry data.

In the past 24 hours, Brazil reg-istered 38,693 new coronaviruscases and 1,109 new deaths fromCOVID-19. Overall, Brazil has1,313,667 confirmed coronaviruscases and 57,070 COVID-19 fatali-ties.

According to the country’shealth ministry, more than715,000 people have recoveredfrom COVID-19 in Brazil.

A week ago, Brazil’s coron-avirus death toll stood at around50,000, thus the country has seena weekly rise of 7,000 COVID-19fatalities, which the same as thatof the previous seven-day period.

Brazil has the second-highestcoronavirus death toll, it is sur-passed only by the United States,which has registered over 125,000COVID-19 fatalities. Brazil andthe United States are also the toptwo countries in terms of the totalnumber of registered coronaviruscases (the United States has thehighest total of over 2.5 millionCOVID-19 cases).Russia reports almost 6,800new COVID-19 cases as totalbears 635,000Moscow: The number of peoplewho have contracted the coron-avirus infection in Russia has in-creased by 6,791, consistent withthe daily increase dynamics of thepast three days, the country’sCOVID-19 Response Center saidin a daily update on Sunday.

“Over the past day, 6,791 newCOVID-19 cases were confirmedin 83 regions of Russia, including2,198 cases — or 32.4 percent —with no clinical symptoms,” theresponse center said, specifyingthat Russia’s cumulative toll has

now reached 634,437 cases in 85regions.

Of newly detected cases, 717have been confirmed in Moscow,325 in Moscow Region and 285 inthe Khanty-Mansi AutonomousArea, according to the report.

The reported daily dynamicsshowed there were 104 new fatali-ties, including 24 in Moscow, 21 inSt.Peterburg and six in theMoscow Region. This brought thecumulative death toll to 9,073.

Total recoveries now count399,087, an increase of 5,735 overthe past day, including 1,319 inMoscow Region, 1,052 in Moscowand 598 in St. Petersburg.Peru reports 3,625 newCOVID-19 casesLima: The Peruvian Health Min-istry reported Saturday 3,625 newCOVID-19 cases, bringing the na-tional tally to 275,989 with a totalof 9,135 deaths.

A total of 10,762 people are stillhospitalized, including 1,169 inintensive care units, according tothe ministry.

The government announcedon Friday that restrictive sanitarymeasures in Peru will be lifted onJune 30, but Peruvian PresidentMartin Vizcarra said that the mea-sures will remain in effect in sev-

en regions where outbreaks havebeen registered.

Health Minister Victor Zamorasaid although the number of cas-es in the country is still high,there has been a decrease in in-fections in recent weeks.

Peru imposed a compulsoryquarantine and a curfew onMarch 16, which included thesuspension of economic activi-ties.Chile reports 267,766 cases ofCOVID-19, with 5,347 deathsSantiago: The Chilean Ministry ofHealth on Sunday raised thenumber of confirmed cases of thenovel coronavirus in the countryto 267,766, with 5,347 deaths.

Of the number of new cases,3,481 presented symptoms and426 were asymptomatic, while thesituation of the other 499 cases isstill unknown.

The report from the healthministry showed that the north-ern region of Antofagasta is lead-ing the country in the number ofcases per 100,000 inhabitants, fol-lowed by the Santiago Metropoli-tan Region.

Chile is currently under a stateof emergency and a curfew. Theborders remain closed, classeshave been suspended, and non-

essential trade has been prohibit-ed.Pakistan nCoV cases top200,000Islamabad: The total number ofnovel coronavirus cases in Pak-istan has increased to 201,414,while the death toll stood at4,098, its Federal Health Ministryreported on Sunday.

The new tallies were reachedafter the country reported 3,709cases and 94 deaths over the last24 hours, Dawn reported.

A National Command and Op-eration Center (NCOC) meetingon Saturday compared the tally oftests conducted on June 21 and 26and found that the number ofnew cases across the countrydropped by around 40 per centfrom 7,000 to 4,000 a day.

They discussed different fac-tors such as testing, smart lock-down and awareness campaignsregarding precautionary mea-sures that could have contributedto drop in the number of new cas-es.

It was observed that the num-ber of tests declined by 64 percent in Sindh, the worst affectedin the country where 78,267 caseshave been registered so far.

The participants of the meet-

ing also noted that there was a de-cline in the number of patientswith COVID-19 symptoms, while542 lockdowns implemented in20 cities reduced movement ofpeople across Pakistan.China registers 17 COVID-19casesBeijing: China detected 17 newcoronavirus cases and sevenasymptomatic carriers in the past24 hours, the National HealthCommission said on Sunday,adding that seven patients had re-covered in the given period.

Out of the 17 new cases, 14 arelocal, most of them registered inBeijing, where a hike in new in-fections started earlier thismonth.

The country’s total number ofconfirmed coronavirus cases nowstands at 83,500, the death toll is4,634. The total number of recov-ered individuals in China standsat 78,451.

A new cluster of coronaviruscases was detected in Beijing ear-lier this month. On June 13, Bei-jing authorities announced theyhad shut down the city’s majorwholesale food market, Xinfadi,after several dozen people linkedto the market tested positive forthe coronavirus. Restrictive mea-sures have been re-imposed inthe Chinese capital.Saudi Arabia registers 3,927new coronavirus casesRiyadh: Saudi Arabia registered3,927 new coronavirus cases, in-creasing the the number of infec-tions in the country to 178,504.

The health ministry an-nounced that the recoveries roseto 122,128 with the reporting of1,657 newly recovered cases, ac-cording to the Saudi Press Agency.

There are 54,865 active cases,of whom 2,283 are at the intensivecare facilities.

The death toll reached 1,511with the registration of 37 fatali-ties in the last 24 hours.

Brazil’s coronavirus death toll surpasses 57,00013 Afghan militants killedGardez, Afghanistan: Talibanattacks on Dandpatan andSayed Karam districts of east-ern Afghanistan’s Paktiaprovince have been repulsedand the militants fled away af-ter losing 13 men on the battlegrounds, army spokesman inthe restive province AmalMohmand said Sunday. Thearmed insurgents, accordingto the official, launched offen-sives on Dandpatan andneighbor Sayed Karam in thewee hours of Sunday, trigger-ing fighting which lasted forhours. Mohmand said thatnine militants were killed andfive others wounded in Dand-patan, while four more werekilled and another injured inSayed Karam in the clashes.Without revealing the casual-ties of security forces, the offi-cial said that the securityforces would continue tochase the insurgents in Paktiaand its vicinity.

Japan voices objections toUS over inviting SouthKorea to G7 summitMoscow: Japan has communi-cated to the United States itsobjections to holding theGroup of Seven (G7) summitwith participation of SouthKorea, pointing out Seoul’s di-verging stance on issues per-taining to China and North Ko-rea, Japanese news agency Ky-odo reported on Sunday, citingdiplomatic sources. On May30, US President DonaldTrump proposed inviting Rus-sia, South Korea, Australia andIndia to attend the G7 summitwhere he is going to preside,calling the group “very outdat-ed” and saying that it nolonger “properly representswhat’s going on in the world.”

China mulls newamendment to criminal lawBeijing: Chinese lawmakersSunday started deliberating anew draft amendment to thecountry’s Criminal Law. Thedraft Amendment XI to theCriminal Law, which involvessix major areas of updates, wassubmitted to an ongoing ses-sion of the Standing Committeeof the National People’s Con-gress, China’s top legislature.The updates include some 30 re-vised or newly added provisions,mainly focusing on stepping upthe prevention of and penaltiesfor workplace safety crimes, im-proving stipulations for penaliz-ing food and drug safety crimesand stipulations for financialcrimes, strengthening legal pro-tection of corporate propertyrights and strengthening legalsafeguards for public health, ac-cording to the draft.

Japan might let Warshipsuse Force to protect cargovessels in Mideast watersTokyo: The government ofJapan is inclined to authorizeuse of force by patrol vessels ofits Self-Defense Forces to pro-tect Japanese commercial ves-sels in the Middle Eastern wa-ters, national media reportedon Sunday. According to theYomiuri Shimbun daily, thegovernment’s opinion is thatshould a Japanese commercialvessel be attacked by a thirdparty vessel while there is aJapanese patrol ship in imme-diate vicinity, the latter’s use offorce would not be in violationof the constitution’s Article 9,dubbed “peaceful” and pro-hibiting Tokyo from usingforce for settling internationalconflicts.

Presidential electionto take Place inPoland on June 28Warsaw: Polish citizens willcast their votes on Sunday inthe first round of the presiden-tial vote in the country. A totalof 11 candidate are in a run forPresdential election. The votefollows an election silenceduring the preceding day. Ac-cording to the Sputnik newsagency ‘an opinion poll pub-lished by the Warsaw-basedInstitute for Social and MarketResearch (IBRiS), about 41.1percent of Polish respondentssaid they would cast their bal-lots for the incumbent head ofstate, Andrzej Duda, in the firstround of elections.

At least 2 killed inCalifornia shootingLos Angeles: At least two peo-ple were killed and four othersinjured Saturday afternoon ina shooting in Red Bluff, a cityin Tehama County in Califor-nia, according to local media.The shooting happened at aWalmart distribution centerright when a new group ofworkers started their shift.There was also a fire at the lo-cation, and the suspect ap-peared to have rammed a ve-hicle into the building, report-ed the Record Searchlight, a lo-cal news outlet in nearby cityof Redding, citing emergencydispatchers.

MUSTREADIn the past 24 hours, Brazilregistered 38,693 new coro-navirus cases and 1,109new deaths from COVID-19. Overall, Brazil has1,313,667 confirmed coro-navirus cases and 57,070COVID-19 fatalities.A week ago, Brazil’s coron-avirus death toll stood ataround 50,000, thus thecountry has seen a weeklyrise of 7,000 COVID-19 fa-talities, which the same asthat of the previous seven-day period.

Agencies, BeijingChina National Biotec Group

(CNBG) said on Sunday that earlyhuman test results for a coron-avirus vaccine candidate suggest-ed it could be safe and effective,the second vaccine candidate fromthe firm to show encouraging re-sults in a clinical trial.

The experimental shot, devel-oped by a Beijing-based unit ofCNBG, has induced high-level an-tibodies in all the inoculated par-ticipants in a Phase 1/2 clinical tri-al involving 1,120 healthy people,according to preliminary data ofthe trial, CNBG said in a posting onthe social media platform WeChat,without disclosing specific read-ings.

Chinese companies and re-searchers have been allowed totest eight vaccine candidates inhumans at home and abroad,making China a major front-run-ner in the race to develop a shotagainst the virus that has killednearly 500,000 people globally.

CNBG, affiliated to the state-owned China National Pharma-ceutical Group (Sinopharm), saidearlier this month that anothervaccine candidate produced by itsWuhan-based unit also triggeredhigh-level antibodies safely in clin-ical trial participants based on pre-liminary results.

A vaccine has to prove its effec-tiveness in “Phase 3” human testwhere thousands of participantsare recruited in order to be clearedfor sale.

CNBG said on Tuesday it willrun a Phase 3 for its vaccine candi-date in the United Arab Emirates,without specifying which shot willbe tested.

Meanwhile, despite sufferingmultiple casualties in a violentfaceoff with India in Galway Valleyarea, China has still not disclosed

how many of its soldiers werekilled in the incident.

This decision of the ChineseCommunist Party has upset Chi-nese families who lost their lovedones in the incident, US-basedBreitbart News has reported.

According to Breitbart, the Chi-nese government is struggling tosilence the families of soldiers whoare using Weibo and other plat-forms to vent their anger and frus-tration.

Following the June 15 incident,the Indian government had ac-knowledged that 20 of its soldierswere killed in the brawl with theChinese troops.

The Chinese government hasacknowledged the deaths of only afew officers so far. Indian inter-cepts have revealed that the Chi-nese side suffered 43 casualties in-cluding the dead and seriously in-jured.

Although the Chinese govern-ment is mum regarding the casual-ties, its state-media editor-in-chiefhad revealed that the Chinese sidehas also suffered casualties duringthe June 15 face-off with Indiantroops in Ladakh.

“Based on what I know, the Chi-nese side also suffered casualtiesin the Galwan Valley physicalclash,” Hu Xijin, Editor-in-Chief ofChinese state-run media said in atweet.

According to multiple reports,Chinese families are using Weiboto express their frustration overthe secrecy of their government

The June 15 violent face-off oc-curred after China attempted tounilaterally change the status quoduring de-escalation in easternLadakh. India has said that the sit-uation could have been avoided ifthe agreement at the higher levelbeen scrupulously followed by theChinese side.

Chinese firm says coronavirusvaccine candidate showspromise in human test

Agencies, DublinFianna Fail party leader Micheal

Martin was elected as the newprime minister of Ireland in a voteheld here on Saturday at a specialmeeting of the lower house of theIrish parliament, local media re-ported on Sunday.

Announcing the voting results,Sean O Fearghail, speaker of thelower house of the Irish parlia-ment, declared that Martin haswon the election by receiving 93votes in favor, 63 votes against andthree votes in abstention.

There are altogether 160 seats inthe current lower house of the Irishparliament with one seat going tothe speaker of the house who wasnot involved in the vote. OFearghail is a member of FiannaFail.

All the 84 parliamentarians ofFianna Fail, Fine Gael and GreenParty, the three parties which willform a coalition government ledby Martin, have voted for his nom-ination as the new prime ministerwhile nine independents also sup-ported his nomination in the vote,reported Irish national radio andtelevision broadcaster RTE.

Following the announcement ofhis win in the vote, Martin deliv-ered a short speech to the deputiessitting sparsely in the 2,000-seatauditorium of the ConventionCenter Dublin, a venue deliberate-ly chosen to ensure social distanc-ing during the COVID-19 pandem-ic.

In his speech, Martin said thatthere is no question of what this

government’s most importantwork will be and there is no part ofhis country that has escaped un-touched from the COVID-19 pan-demic.

There are nearly 900,000 peoplerelying on special pandemic pay-ments, in what is the fastest mov-ing recession ever to hit the coun-try, he said.

But “Our country has showntime and time again that we canovercome the toughest of chal-lenges — and we will do so again,”Martin said.

He also said that the three par-ties involved in the coalition comefrom very different traditions, and

do not and could not be expectedto agree on everything.

It is the first time in Ireland’shistory that two rival political par-ties in the country — Fianna Failand Fine Gael — have agreed toenter a coalition government.

Following his speech, Martinheaded to the official residence ofthe Irish president where he re-ceived the seal of office of primeminister from President Michael DHiggins.

After his meeting with Higgins,Martin traveled to GovernmentBuildings, where his office is locat-ed.

On Saturday evening, Martin re-vealed the make-up of his newgovernment at a renewed meetingof the lower house at the Conven-tion Center Dublin.

The new government consistsof 15 cabinet members in additionto three ministers of state attend-ing the cabinet and one attorneygeneral.

Of the 15 cabinet members, sixgo to Fianna Fail, six to Fine Gaeland three to Green Party.

The three newly appointedministers of state are also equallydistributed among the three par-ties.

Fine Gael leader and formerIrish prime minister Leo Varadkarhas been appointed as the newdeputy prime minister of Irelandand minister for enterprise, tradeand employment while Green Par-ty leader Eamon Ryan has beenappointed as the minister for cli-mate action, communication net-works and transport.

Micheal Martin elected as new PM of Ireland

Announcing the voting re-sults, Sean O Fearghail,speaker of the lower houseof the Irish parliament, de-

clared that Martin has won theelection by receiving 93 votes infavor, 63 votes against and threevotes in abstention.

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Bhopal, Monday, June 29, 2020 6Leisure

We know that sugar leads to weightgain and that’s why many weightwatchers stop or at least cut downon it. Many are replacing high-calorie foods and beverages withlower-calorie or no-calorie sweettreats as it can help to lose andmaintain a healthy weight. For ex-ample, switching from high-caloriesodas to diet sodas with no caloriesare actually helpful. Even manyfoods and drink manufacturershave and have been replacing sug-ar with artificial sweeteners consid-ering the obesity crisis and demandfor such products.

But one should not totally relyon it as many observational studieshave revealed that artificial sweet-eners can lead to weight gain ratherthan weight loss. The study, whichwas published in the Canadian

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gain and increased risk of obesity.Some scientists believe that be-cause artificial sweeteners are somuch sweeter than sugar (For ex-ample, Aspartame 180 x sweeterthan sugar), they train our brains tocrave more sweet foods.

As they do not provide calories,they confuse the brain signals thattell us to stop eating when we’vehad enough food. Also, eating arti-ficially sweetened food gives us anexcuse to eat more food overall.

They may not only disrupt yourweight loss dreams but also in-crease the risk of diabetes, highblood pressure and heart disease.This is not all, they may also havenegative effects on metabolism, gutbacteria and appetite.

As per one 2017 study, daily dietdrink consumption was linked to

an increased risk of stroke or de-mentia. So, cut down on not onlysugar but also artificial sweetenersfrom your weight loss plan and youwill soon see the results. What are artificial sweeteners?

The NHS said, “Artificial sweet-eners are low-calorie or calorie-freechemical substances that are usedinstead of sugar to sweeten foodsand drinks. They are found in thou-sands of products, from drinks,desserts and ready meals, to cakes,chewing gum and toothpaste.”There are many artificial sweeten-ers to choose from such as aspar-tame, neotame, saccharin, and su-cralose among others. Many every-day items such as ketchup, whole-wheat bread, greek yogurt, cerealand sugar-free chewing gum haveartificial sweeteners.

Weight Loss: Cut down THIS food item for best results

Perfumes are more than justthings that make you smellgreat. They help in setting themood, evoking fond memories,lifting spirits, calming peopledown, and so much more. Theperfume industry is worthmore than a thousand milliondollars thanks to the market-ing, brands and designers in-volved. This also means thatpicking a scent for yourselfcomes with its own challenges,that mainly involves pickingfrom a large variety. But how topick the right scent for your-self? Read on to find out!

Most great smelling and lux-ury perfumes are expensiveand make for a huge invest-ment. Many times, we tend tobuy products based on howthey smell on others and aredisappointed when we pur-chase it, making for a loss.Here’s how to avoid that.

Stick with what you arefamiliar

Take a whiff of all your per-

fumes once. Chances are, theyhave a similarity in them. Theyall either have a fruity scent, anoriental or citrus, base note,etc.

Locate which is the mostcommon and make a note of it.

This only means that you arefond of that particular basenote, so it is best to stick to this.

Get to work early in themorning

The sense of smell is said to

be the most heightened in themorning before you are reallyexposed to all the differentscents during the day. It is bestto shop for fragrances as earlyas possible to make the rightchoice.

Don’t test on yourselfWhen you narrow down on

fragrances you like, spray it ona blotting paper or inside thelid of the perfume.

Take a sniff and then leavethe store - run a few errands orgrab something to it. Let thefragrance dry and then smell itagain.

Make your decision basedon how it smells once the per-fume dries up. Sample your scent

Once you have made a deci-sion, ask for a sample of thescent you have finalised on. Tryit out at home.

The fragrance sits differentlyon different people and reactsdifferently based on the body’snatural oil, creams applied, etc.After testing the same for a day,make a decision to invest in theproduct finally.

Upgrading your signature scent

Sonal Chauhan has been keepingbusy this lockdown, the pretty ac-tress has made the most of her timeat home by taking up various hob-bies and activities; includingsketching, baking and doing homephotoshoots with her sister, toname a few. She has surprised herfans by collaborating once againwith singer Arjun Kanungo for alovely single, which has been shotentirely at home.

After receiving lots of love fromthe audience, Arjun and Sonalcome together once again andreprise their chemistry in the mu-sic video of ‘Fursat Hai Aaj Bhi’. Thevisuals of this video are shot entire-ly at home, on an iPhone, whichhas been remotely directed byKeyur Shah. The video showcases acomplex journey of a couple andstruggles that every relationshipgoes through. Arjun and Sonal inthe video are seen reminiscingabout beautiful moments spent to-gether after they’ve gone through abreakup and realizing that beingwith each other means the world tothem.

Shooting this music video wasan entirely unique experience forSonal as it was shot entirely duringthe lockdown. Sonal shot her partsalone, with just the help of her sis-

ter Himani, who handled the direc-tion of the video. Sonal quotes, ‘Forthis video, everything was done byjust me and my sister.

Of course, we had the directorand DOP on a video call. But mysister and I managed all the rest onour own. I did my hair, makeup,and styling, my sister did all thecamera work, she helped witheverything else too. It was a verydifferent experience, one I will al-ways cherish because we shot thissong when the whole world wasunder lockdown.’ Their hard workpaid off and the final music video isa visual treat, in which Sonal looksabsolutely stunning, and her

chemistry with Arjun is alwaysan added bonus.

Sonal has always been apowerhouse, a talented ac-tress with a voice of her own,

who has been a great guideduring these tough times;

she’s been encouragingher fans to stay home

and keeping themaware of Covid-19 and

our current situation.Sonal has been makingsure to keep her fanshappy with her cheer-

ful and interactiveposts.

Sonal Chauhan collaborates with Arjun Kanungo again,stars in the music video titled ‘Fursat Hai Aaj Bhi’

The Bollywood artists have decidednot to be affected by the lockdownconditions and are utilising theirtime in work and trying new hob-bies. Recently, Superstar ShahrukhKhan was spotted while shooting fora project at his home in Bandra.

The actor was shooting on his bal-cony and waved to media and hisfans as he never disappoints thecamera and his loved ones.

SRK was last seen in Aanand LRai’s Zero and his upcoming projectswere postponed due to the lock-down. There have been several ru-mours that King Khan can be seen inRajkumar Hirani’s film which is set togo on floors this October.

Shahrukh Khan spottedshooting at his home!

Shraddha Kapoor has delivered a wide vari-ety of character on screen which have al-ways been loved by the audiences. Todaymarks the sixth anniversary of her film EkVillain and the actress shared heartfeltwords expressing gratitude for all the loveshe received for ‘Aisha’.

The actress took to her socialmedia and said, “Thankyou allfor giving so much love toAisha ?? I was fortunateenough to get to playsuch a soulful characterwho spread lobe andhappiness around.Thanks for trustingme with it @mohit-suri ??” Shraddhafurther added, “Forall the beautiful dia-logues of Aisha, @mi-lapzaveri, the screen-play and story by@tusharhiranan-dani Thankyou forthe magic ???”

Aisha’s char-acter was avery free spirit-ed, loving one

who would find hope and positivity in thetoughest situations and brighten up theotherwise dull days. The way the characterstill evokes emotions of hope and positivityeven now is just proof of how Aisha hasmade an irreplaceable place in the hearts ofthe audiences.

Fans have also poured in lots oflove for Aisha by making collages,

and song edits which is justproof of how the film is stillfresh even after 6 years sinceits release. Ek Villain hasstayed one of the must watchfilms for Shraddha’s portray-al of Aisha and the soulfultracks which stay, the

memorable ones.The film starred

Shraddha Kapoor, Sid-dharth Malhotra,Riteish Deshmukh and

was directed by MohitSuri. The actress will

be seen next in aLuv Ranjan

directoriala l o n g s i d eR a n b i rKapoor.

Shraddha expresses gratitude markingthe sixth anniversary of ‘Ek Villain’

Being an actress KanganaRanaut is also known as awoman who constantlyshares her opinions on on-going circumstances in thecountry. Recently, KanganaRanaut’s team has sharedher video on Instagram, inwhich the actress is de-manding a complete banon Chinese goods. Herstatement comes out at thetime when there is an in-tense tension going be-tween India and China overLadakh issue.

Kangana’s team sharedher video message and cap-tioned it, “We have to standtogether, unite, and collec-tively fight this war againstChina!’ In the video, the ac-tor said, “Agar Koi HumareHath Se Humari Un-galiyaan Kaatne Ki KoshishKare Ya Humari BhujaaonSe Humari Hatheli KaatneKi Koshish Kare, To KisTarah Ka Kasht Hoga Aap-ko? Vahi Kasht PahunchayaHai China Ne Hume Lad-hakh Par Apni LaalchiNazrein Gada Ke. Aur VahaHumari Seema Ka Ek-EkInch Bachate Hue Humare 20Jawan Shaheed Ho Gaye Hain. KyaYe Humara Kartavya Nahi Hai Ki

Hum Apni Sena Ka Aur Apni SarkarKa Sath De? Hum Pratigya LeteHain Ki Hum Atmanirbhar Ba-

nenge Aur Chinese Goods KoBilkul Boycott Karenge Aur IsYuddh Me Hissa Leke BharatKo Jitayenge,” Check out herInstagram video here-

In the video, Kangana Ra-naut is seen urging everyoneto stand up for the nation andnot to forget the sacrifice ofour martyrs & treat this as anattack on the nation. CallingLadakh ‘India’s palm’, Kanganaurged people to put a com-plete ban on Chinese prod-ucts. She called it our duty toban the goods as a homage tothe martyrs. According to theIndian media reports, “Earlierthis month, a violent face-offbetween India and China hap-pened in Galway Valley, east-ern Ladakh in which 20 Indiansoldiers were martyred andseveral got injured.

Well, Kangana Ranautspeaks from her heart and al-ways shared her strong opin-ions on every controversy. Ear-lier also she bashed big pro-duction houses and Bolly-wood biggies and slammedthem for ignoring the out-siders. In 2020, Ranaut wasawarded Padma Shri, thefourth highest civilian award,

by the Government of India, for hercontribution to arts.

Kangana Ranaut’s patriotic message to the nation!

29 June, 2020

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Bhopal, Monday, June 29, 2020 7Sports/ Business

Agencies, MumbaiThe board of directors at ID-

BI Bank has approved a plan tooffload 27 per cent stake in ID-BI Federal Life Insurance (IFLI)at a combined value of Rs 595crore, the public sector lendersaid on Saturday.

IDBI Bank has 48 per cent stake in IFLIwhich started operations in 2008. FederalBank and its Dutch partner Ageas InsuranceInternational NV have 26 per cent stake each.IDBI Bank will now divest 23 per cent of itsstake to Ageas and 4 per cent to Federal Bank.By selling 27 per cent stake in the venture, ID-BI Bank will get its holding down to 21 percent.

“The decision is subject to all regulatoryapprovals to be taken by all related parties andagreements which are yet to be finalised,” itsaid in a statement.

Federal Bank’s holding willnow go up to 30 per cent andAgeas’ to 49 per cent, the maxi-mum permissible for a foreignpartner in a life insurance ven-ture.

During 2018-19, Life Insur-ance Corporation (LIC) ac-quired 51 per cent controlling

stake in IDBI Bank. The process of acquisitionwas completed on January 21, 2019 with LICbeing re-classified as promoter of the bankwith management control and the govern-ment continuing to be the co-promoter with-out management control.

As per insurance regulations, an insurercannot own more than 10 per cent stake in an-other insurer. Since LIC owns 51 per cent stakein IDBI Bank and the latter owns 48 per centstake in IDBI Federal Life Insurance Company,the bank has to divest its stake in its insurancejoint venture.

IDBI Bank to fetch Rs 595 croreby divesting 27 pc stake in IFLI

New Delhi (UNI)India’s first rental solution

provider for electric scooterseBikeGo has announced completemobility solution to these deliverycompanies for the first time in thecountry.

This platform will create em-ployment and synergy amongstthe company, drivers and AI andIoT enabled e-scooters for timelyand safe delivery to customers.

eBikeGo is the first electric vehi-cle company in India to provideentire mobility solution alongwiththeir vehicles. The maximum us-age of electric scooters reduces theemission of carbon dioxide in theatmosphere and can play a vitalrole to sustain the air pollution allacross the cities.

Simultaneously, usage of latesttechnology ie Telematics device fortracking & monitoring vehiclemovement will enable smooth andtimely delivery of goods to the cus-tomers. India’s unemployment ratehas spiked up from 8.7 per cent in

March 2020 to 27.1 per cent in May2020.

Out of the 122 million who havelost their jobs, 91.3 million aresmall traders and labourers.Among them, a fairly significantnumber of 17.8 million are salariedworkers and 18.2 million are self-employed people who have losttheir work during this lockdown,according to Centre for MonitoringIndian Economy and CMIE.

Most of the migrant workershave moved to their hometownsand villages. Due to scarcity of mi-grant labourers, all delivery com-panies are facing problem of man-power which is creating long waitfor delivering goods to their endcustomers.

Due to this comprehensive so-lution, the delivery executives willbe recruited and provided with e-scooters by the company. So, afixed salary with benefits can beenjoyed by the drivers without anyhassles of booking and buyingscooters of their own.

eBikeGo to provide completemobility solution to deliverycompanies

Agencies, BerlinBayern Munich’s eighth consec-

utive national title is well deserved.The hidden message behind it,nevertheless, is a painful reminderfor the Bavarians’ domestic rivals;it takes more than ambitious an-nouncements to end the 2013 tre-ble winners’ dominance.

Christian Seifert praised theGerman league’s efforts as foot-ball’s pioneers during the challenging times of the COVID-19 pandemic,having set up a suitable hygiene concept other European leagues followed.

Although some of the 18 German first-tier sides have a reason to com-plain about their failures, the 57th season has produced several losers andwinners aside from record-setting Bayern.

Bayern’s achievements are clear for all to see. They not only scored 100season goals, but Robert Lewandowski won the golden boot with 34 goals.Thomas Mueller finished with 22 assists, tying the season record. CoachHansi Flick won his first title and managed to create a successful turnaroundfor a team struggling in the season’s first half. Leipzig coach Julian Nagels-mann established the East-German side among the top 3, outmaneuveringestablished rivals, Moenchengladbach and Leverkusen. Timo Werner scoredremarkable 28 goals before leaving for Premier League side Chelsea.

A painful lesson for Bayern’s league rivals

Mumbai (UNI)Mumbai’s rising racing star Aashi

Hanspal has been shortlisted forFIA’s ambitious Girls on Track - Ris-ing Stars Project, FMSCI announcedhere on Sunday.

Thirteen-year-old Aashi has beenselected along with 19 others in theage group of 12-16 out of 70 entriesfrom five continents; as the firststep, she will take part in the ‘ShootOut’ at the Paul Ricard Circuit inFrance on October 12 and 13.

“Should you be successful, youwill join our training camps and po-tentially have the opportunity to be-come (Team Ferrari’s) first ever fe-male driver obtaining a partnership

agreement with the Ferrari DriverAcademy, including participation inan FIA Formula 4 racing season,”Michele Mouton, president of theFIA Women in Motorsport commis-sion, said in her letter to Aashi. The

Federation Internationale de L’Au-tomobile (FIA), the world body formotor sports, said that the training-cum-selection process would entailfour legs:

Shoot Out – October 12-13, 2020,Paul Ricard, France, Training Camp1 (Karting) – Oct 14-15, Paul Ricard,France, Training Camp 2 (F4) – No-vember 3-4, Paul Ricard, France,Ferrari Driver Academy TrainingCamp (F4) – November 9-13 (TBC),Maranello, Italy

“This is a great moment forwomen in Indian Motorsport,” SitaRaina, Chairperson of FMSCI’s ownWomen in Motorsports Commis-sion, said.

Mumbai’s Aashi selected for Shoot Out ofFIA Girls on Track – Rising Stars project

Mumbai (UNI)Former In-

dia all-rounder IrfanPathan com-p a r i n gDhoni’s atti-tude as a cap-tain in 2007and 2013 sayshe was muchmore calmerin 2013 as hewas letting thebowler con-trol themself rather hec o n t r o l l i n gthem.

S p e a k i n gon Star Sportsshow CricketC o n n e c t e d ,Pathan said,“He was muchmore calmerin 2013. Lookin 2007 it was the first time and you understand that when you’re given abig responsibility of leading the country you always get excited about cer-tain things.”

“Obviously, the meeting were always smaller even in 2007 and in 2013Champions trophy as well, there were no differences in term of 5 minutemeetings.”

“But one thing that has really changed and that happens with experi-ences, when young Mahendra Singh Dhoni became a captain in 2007 heused to run from the wicket-keeping end to the bowler in excitement andtry to control the bowler as well.

“By 2013 came he was letting the bowler control themself rather hecontrolling them so he understood that and he was very calm and in con-trol in 2013 Champions Trophy,” Pathan said.

“When Dhoni became the captain for the first time and then obvious-ly talking about 2013 Champions Trophy he gave the experiences in be-tween of trusting his slow bowlers, he used to always trust his slowbowlers he used to always trust his spinners and I think by the timeChampions Trophy came he was very clear that in a crucial moment of thetime he needs to get his spinner into play to win the games.”

Dhoni’s attitude as a captain in 2013was much more calmer: Irfan

Agencies, New DelhiWomen’s cricket needs better

marketing and investment togrow, and not “dubious” innova-tions like a shorter pitch or small-er boundaries, said India pace bowler Shikha Pandey onTwitter.

Her comments were a responseto New Zealand captain SophieDevine recommending a smallerball and Pandey’s India teammate Jemimah Rodrigues sug-gesting a shorter pitch to packmore action into women’s cricket.

Devine and Rodrigues spoke inan innovation webinar organisedby the governing InternationalCricket Council earlier thismonth, but Pandey found most oftheir suggestions “superfluous”.

“In Olympic 100m femalesprinter doesn’t run 80m to winfirst place medal ... So the whole‘decreasing the length of thepitch’ for whatever reasons seemsdubious,” the 31-year-old said ina series of tweets on Saturday.

Pandey saw some merit in us-ing a smaller ball but said it must

weigh the same because a lighterball would be tougher to grip and

travel more slowly.She resented, though, the idea

of having smaller boundaries toencourage power-hitting.

“We have surprised you withour power-hitting in recent times,so remember, this is only the be-ginning; we will get better. Pleasehave patience.”

The game would grow ifwomen’s international matcheswere broadcast live along with theDecision Review System (DRS)component, she said.

“Growth can also be achievedby marketing the sport well. Wedon’t have to tinker with rules orthe very fabric of the game to at-tract an audience,” she said.

A record crowd attended theMarch 8 final of the Women’sTwenty20 World Cup when Aus-tralia beat India at the MelbourneCricket Ground.

“They saw something specialin us, and here’s hoping you dotoo!” Pandey tweeted.

Women’s game needs investment, not ‘dubious’ innovations: Pandey

Bengaluru (UNI)Asserting the need to boost the economy, Kar-

nataka’s new industrial policy would have a spe-cial focus on the MSME sector, Chief Minister B SYediyurappa said Saturday. The Chief Ministerwas speaking at the virtual launch of a report ti-tled ‘Improving Economic Dynamism and Accel-erating MSME Growth’ by Global Alliance forMass Entrepreneurship (GAME), which works asan industry body for micro, small and mediumenterprises.

‘’The State will soon have its new industrialpolicy. The policy has special focus on encourag-ing the MSMEs to become more competitive atthe global stage,’’ Mr Yediyurappa further said.

‘’My team has been tirelessly working to pro-vide support to MSMEs. We’ve helped industrieswith their labour requirements, facilitated themovement of goods, ensured adequate safety andfast tracked government approvals for resumingoperations,’’ he stated.

He hailed the proposed amendments to theKarnataka Land Reforms Act and the Karnataka

Industries (Facilitation) Act.‘’We’re also working on the policy front to pro-

vide a supportive business environment.We’ve re-cently announced land and labour reforms thatwill help industry set up faster and operate moreefficiently,’’ he further stated.

‘’We’re also amending the Industries Facilita-

tion Act to create an MSME-friendly investmentclimate,” the CM said. ‘’Through these amend-ments, industries can start operations withoutobtaining approvals from different departmentslike trade licences, building plan approval andothers.’’

He further said that the state governmentwould introduce ‘’self-certification’’ provisions inthe approval process for new investments.

‘’The requirements to start a new business inthe state will be simplified,” he pointed out.

The Centre and the state governments havebeen working to improve the business environ-ment for MSMEs through ‘’targeted schemes andpolicies’’, Mr Yediyurappa stated.

‘’During these unprecedented times, thePrime Minister has given the ‘vocal for local’ call.Strengthening the MSME sector is the primarystep to achieve this,’’ he added.

Union MSME Minister Nitin Gadkari, formerBank of Baroda and Microsoft India chairpersonRavi Venkatesan, the founder of GAME, were alsopresent.

Special focus on MSME sector in new Industrial Policy: K’taka CMBUSINESS

Second test clears 6 Pakistancricketers of COVIDIslamabad: Six of the 10 Pak-istan cricketers who had earli-er tested positive for COVID-19have tested negative for thesame after they all underwenta second test, the PakistanCricket Board (PCB) said onSunday. Mohammad Hasnain,Shadab Khan, Fakhar Zaman,Mohammad Rizwan, Moham-mad Hafeez and Wahab Riaz,however, must return a secondnegative result before they canjoin the main squad of 20 play-ers who will leave for Englandon Sunday. “These playerswere asymptomatic, whichmeans their chances of regain-ing complete fitness are higherand brighter than most,” PCBchief executive Wasim Khansaid in a statement. “As soon asthese players test negativetwice through the PCB testingprocess they will be flown toEngland to join the squad.”

Former Serbia andMontenegro footballcoach diesShanghai: Former Serbia andMontenegro head coach IlijaPetkovic has passed away, al-legedly from COVID-19. Hisformer club, Shanghai Shen-hua, confirmed on Sunday, thedeath of the 74-year-old Ser-bian football coach. “We willcherish those amazing thingsyou brought to us. RIP,” theclub wrote on social media.Petkovic was hospitalized forfever and duodenum ulcer andlater found to have contractedthe COVID-19 in the hospital, areport from news outletNetease said. He spent oneyear with Shanhai Shenhua in2001, coaching them to secondplace in China’s top league.Petkovic coached Serbia andMontenegro at the 2006 WorldCup finals, where his sidefailed to qualify for the knock-out stage.

World champion GongLijiao adjusts to lack ofcompetitionBeijing: Two-time world shotput champion Gong Lijiao toldWorld Athletics that she hadfound her way to cope with thelack of competition amid thecoronavirus outbreak that hasparalysed global sport. “Dur-ing this time without competi-tion, I’ve had a competitive firein my heart that I’ve been un-able to let out,” says Gong, whohas been training at the na-tional team base at BeijingSports University. “So duringmy training sessions, I’ve beenshouting loudly to vent myfeelings.” Over the pastmonths, the 2012 Olympic sil-ver medalist also spent timelearning English and has beencreating videos to post onDouyin, the Chinese version ofTik Tok.

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Traders in Hyderabad voluntarily shutdown all business establishments till Jul 10Hyderabad: As the COVID-19 positive cases contin-ue to surge in Hyderabad, the traders of variouscommercial clusters in the city have decided to vol-untarily down their shutters till July 10 to contain thespread of the contagious virus.

Most of the major markets in Hyderabad and itstwin Secunderabad remained closed since Friday inresponse to the call given by the traders’ bodies in-cluding gold and silver jewellery associations.

The markets including Begum Bazar, Lad Bazarnear the historic Charminar known all over thecountry for its bangle shops, Abids, Rikab gunj, PatelMarket and the General Bazar in Secunderabad weredevoid of the usual bustle following the voluntarylockdown. Leaders of the trade bodies said safety ofstaff and customers was their top priority and hencedecided to take precautions as and when needed inview of the continuing spike in COVID-19 cases par-ticularly in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corpora-tion (GHMC) limits.

State Health Minister Etela Rajender had said thatthere was no move to impose another phase of lock-down but the fight against the contagious viruswould continue for at least another year.

Chau Hoi Wah announcesretirement from badmintonBeijing: Asianb a d m i n t o nchampion ChauHoi Wah told theBadminton WorldFederation thatshe had mixedfeelings on herdecision to retirefrom the sport.

The 34-year-old handed in herretirement plan form on June 5,which was also her birthday.

“It feels complicated,” she ad-mitted, revealing that she wasflooded by mixed emotions at thatmoment.

“I knew I would retire one day,and I’d planned it too, I’d talked itover with my family and coaches,but when it came to the time that Ihanded the form, it was quitetouching. Happy, sad... not sadthat I’m retiring, but that timeflies. I’m happy with my achieve-ments. Thankfully, I’m retiringwithout regret.”

Liverpool must stayhungry, says MilnerLondon: Liver-pool cannot af-ford to get car-ried away bytheir PremierLeague tri-umph andmust remainhungry for suc-cess if they areto competewith nearest rivals ManchesterCity next season, according to ex-perienced midfielder James Mil-ner.

Liverpool’s 30-year wait fortheir 19th English top-flight titleended on Thursday when two-times defending champions Citylost to Chelsea, giving JuergenKlopp’s side an unassailable 23-point lead with seven games left.

Bhopal, Monday, June 29, 2020 8Capital

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Chronicle Reporter, BhopalSchool bells will be heard in

many houses of Madhya Pradeshfrom July 6, 2020. Children willread, do yoga, write and also listento stories and make notes onthem.

In order to maintain the acade-mic regularity of students duringthe Corona crisis, the State Educa-tion Center has prepared a “Ourhome-our school” scheme, inwhich children will be taught athome in a school environment.

The scheme was inauguratedon Saturday by the Principal Secre-tary Smt. Rashmi Arun Shamithrough the Facebook Live pro-gram in the Ministry.

Addressing more than one lakhteachers and other partners par-ticipating in the online program,Mrs. Shami said that childrenlearn something from every op-portunity.

Even if the child goes to sowwith his father in the field, he getsa new skill and in this work he getsmathematical education of dis-tance and measurement and edu-cation of the environment. Everytask gives them experience.

It is the responsibility of the de-partment to support children inevery way, even when the school isclosed. He has called upon theparents to provide environment ofstudy to the children also at home.Give them a proper place in thehouse where they can do theirstudies without any disturbance.The “Hamara Ghar-HamaraVidyalaya” scheme is one suchemotional family initiative whichwill help the children to keep theireducation at home with familysupport.

Commissioner State EducationCenter, Mr. Lokesh Kumar Jatavsaid that “Our home-our school”scheme has been made for the stu-dents of classes 1 to 8 in the state.

Students will now be able tostudy in the school environment at

their home. In the home school,school will be started by spinnerby playing bells / thali at 10 am,similarly at 1 pm, leisure will beplayed by playing bells / thali.

This will give children a sense ofschool at home. A suggestive timetable is also being made availableto parents and students by theState Education Center, accordingto which studies will be conductedon Monday to Friday from 10 amto 1 pm and recreational activitieswill be organized on Saturday un-der Masti Pathshala.

At the same time, 2 hours in theevening, students will listen to sto-ries from their family elders andmake notes on them and will orga-nize yoga and other sports activi-ties at their home. Several tradi-tional activities have also beensuggested by the State EducationCenter in this regard.

To ensure uninterrupted learn-ing of students in the event ofCorona crisis, the School Educa-tion Department has introducedseveral programs like Digilapthrough WhatsApp - Digital Learn-ing Enhancement Program, RadioSchool through Radio, Classes atDoordarshan Madhya PradeshBroadcasting of the room, distrib-ution of last year’s efficiencyupgradation workbook in thegreen zone and teachers contact-ing children on phone on a dailybasis and assisting in their studiesare important.

In this episode, “Our home ourschool” program is being startednow.

It is noteworthy that the Face-book Live conducted by the SchoolEducation Department on Satur-day reached about 2.5 lakh per-sons. At the same time it was seenby more than 1.5 lakh people andthere was participation of morethan 1.25 lakh people.

This Facebook page live eventwas also shared and liked by thou-sands.

The school bell will ring inevery house from July 6

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Chronicle Reporter, BhopalThe Chief Minister Shivraj Singh

Chouhan has said that in order tototally eradicate the infection ofCorona in the state, ‘Kill CoronaAbhiyan’ is being launched fromJuly 01. Under this campaign,Door-to Door survey will be con-ducted, in which tests related toother diseases will also be donealong with corona. We have to en-sure good health of every individ-ual of our state, he added.

The Chief Minister Chouhanwas reviewing the status of corona

and arrangements in the statethrough video conferencing atMantralaya today. The Chief Secre-tary Iqbal Singh Bains, DGP VivekJohri, Additional Chief SecretaryHealth Mohammad Suleman andother officers were present on theoccasion.2.5 to 3 lakh tests to be conducted

in 15 daysThe Chief Minister Chouhan

has informed that under the cam-paign, 2.5 to 3 lakh tests approxi-mately will be done in 15 days.About 15 to 20 thousand samples

will be taken per day. At present,our testing capacity is 4 thousandper 10 lakh, which will be in-creased to double.

Strict warning to Sagar districtIn the review of Sagar district,

the Chief Minister Chouhan whileissuing strict warning in case ofnegligence at Medical College, di-rected to take action against theguilty doctor. Sagar district had 328positive patients of corona, out ofthese 240 patients have recovered,68 are active and 20 have suc-cumbed to the disease.

Recovery rate 76.9, Growth rate 1.44

The Chief Minister Chouhanhas informed that the state’s recov-ery rate has reached 76.9 percent,whereas the recovery rate of Indiais 58.1 percent. The growth rate ofcorona in Madhya Pradesh is 1.44,which is less than half of thegrowth rate of country of 3.69. Thecorona positivity rate of MadhyaPradesh is 3.85 percent in compar-ison of country’s positivity rate of6.54 percent.

Bhopal to become example forwhole state

The Chief Minister Chouhanhas said that intensive corona sur-vey work has been started inBhopal. Survey of 52 settlements ofBhopal is being conducted on Sat-urday and Sunday. Bhopal will be-come an example for the wholestate in this work.

Madhya Pradesh stands at 9th position in total corona casesThe Chief Minister Chouhan

has informed that taking into ac-count the active cases of corona,Madhya Pradesh stands at 13th po-sition in the country. Taking intoaccount the total number of cases,now the state has come at 9th posi-tion. As of June 26, MadhyaPradesh has total 12 thousand 798cases of corona, whereas Haryanahas 12 thousand 884 cases. EarlierMadhya Pradesh was on 8th posi-tion and Haryana was on 9th posi-tion.

Door to door survey to be conducted in alldistricts under ‘Kill Corona’ from July 01

Chronicle Reporter, BhopalMore than 10 lakh 11 thousand masks

have been made till date by thewomen entrepreneurs under the Jee-van Shakti Yojana, started with anaim to provide low cost masks to thecitizens and employment to womenentrepreneurs.

An amount of over Rs. One crore 9 lakhhas also been paid to these entrepre-neurs. Masks made by the womenentrepreneurs are being sold at dis-trict level at the fixed rate of Rs. 11per mask.

From the commencement of the schemetill date, 10 thousand 12 women en-trepreneurs have registered them-selves for making masks.

As many as 827 women entrepreneurs inIndore district, 628 in Bhopal, 538 inGuna, 499 in Jabalpur, 427 in Gwalior,415 in Satna, 410 in Sagar, 172 inKhargone, 265 in Chhatarpur, 230 inNeemuch, 228 in Raisen, 225 in Se-hore, 222 in Ratlam, 223 in Tikam-garh, 214 in Vidisha, 207 in Rewa, 206in Hoshangabad, 173 in Shivpuri, 182in Khandwa, 175 in Chhindwara, 173in Mandsaur and 169 in Dhar haveregistered themselves for makingmasks.

It may be mentioned that orders ofabout 20 lakh masks costing over Rs.2 crore have placed to the women en-trepreneurs.

More than 10 lakh masks madeby Women entrepreneurs

Chronicle Reporter, BhopalThe Chief Minister Shivraj Singh

Chouhan has said that officersshould make their mindset that Iwill not let rights of poor to besnatched away.

Collectors and DFOs should lis-ten carefully, any tribal who wasdwelling on land on or before De-cember 31, 2005 should get pattasmandatorily.

No eligible tribal should be de-prived of Patta. In the event ofslightest negligence, strict actionwill be taken, he added.

The Chief Minister Chouhanhas said that rejection in largenumber of forest rights claims of 3lakh 58 thousand 339 tribal reflectsthat the task has not been taken bythe officers seriously.

The tribal community is such asection of the society which is notable to present its say in a rightmanner, in such a case it is ab-solutely improper to ask for evi-dence for pattas from them and toreject their claims on its basis.

All Collectors and DFOs are re-quired to re-examine all the casesand submit report within a week. Itis must to give patta to tribals, headded.

The Chief Minister Chouhanwas reviewing the redressal of pat-tas at Mantralaya. The Minister forTribal Welfare Sushri Meena Singh,Chief Secretary Iqbal Singh Bains,Principal Secretary Ashok Varnwal,Principal Secretary Smt. PallaviJain Govil and other officers werepresent at the meeting.

153 claims out of 160 rejectedIn the meeting, the Chief Minis-

ter Chouhan held district wise re-view of claims of pattas. It was

found in the review of Morena dis-trict that 153 claims out of 160 havebeen rejected. Expressing anguishover the same, the Chief MinisterChouhan asked that whether offi-cers wish to give pattas or not.

Strict action will be taken if theydeal with poor in such a manner.Warning was issued for poorprogress in work in Katni andSeoni district.

Give pattas if they dwellon revenue land

During the review of forestrights claims, the fact came to the

fore that there are so many cases,in which tribal are dwelling on rev-enue land.

The Chief Minister Chouhan in-structed the Chief Secretary Bainsto provide pattas of revenue landto such tribals after examining thecases.

Appreciates Barwani districtThe Chief Minister Chouhan

has found that in Barwani district,claims of pattas of 9764 tribal havebeen approved out of 10 thousand438 forest right claims. He laudedthe Collector as well as DFO of Bar-

wani district and congratulatedthem.

Indore district was also congrat-ulated for good achievement inthis task.

Adiwasi Panchayats to beorganized

The Chief Minister Chouhansaid that Adiwasi Panchayats willbe organized shortly in tribal areas,which will be attended by him andMinister for Tribal Welfare SushriMeena Singh too. Pattas will be dis-tributed among the tribals in thesepanchayats.

Do not reject claims ofnon-tribal too

The Chief Minister Chouhanhas instructed that the cases ofnon-tribal, who are also eligible,should not be rejected without anyreason. Their cases should be ex-amined and pattas should also begiven to them as per the provi-sions.

In the review of Bhopal district,it was found that 6794 forest rightclaims including 404 of tribal andremaining of non tribal have beenrejected.

Officers should make their mindset; will not let rights of poor snatched away Successful initiatives of Anganwadi workersto be compiledBhopal: The Women and Child

Development Departmentwill compile the innova-tion and success storiesdone by the Anganwadiworkers during Kovid-19 toencourage them. Underthis, supervisors of differ-ent districts and one an-ganwadi worker of theirsector are being trained byZoom app for motivationand stress management ofthese Corona warriors.

The department is organizing awebinar series to discusswith Anganwadi workers.Supervisors and anganwa-di workers are beingtrained for stress manage-ment and motivationthrough webinar series.The webinar series is being conducted over tensessions, which is being streamed live onYouTube.

During Covid-19, commend-able and exemplary workhas been done by the An-ganwadi workers of thestate. During this periodthe task of distributing ex-tra sattu to the malnour-ished children, washingthem hands, applyingmasks and social distanc-ing, distributing nutritiousfood to the child and preg-nant, lactating motherswas done during lock-down.

Principal Secretary inaugurated “HamaraGhar-Hamara Vidyalaya”

Women became self-reliant in Corona crisisThe Jeevan Shakti Yojana has fa-

cilitated women of urbanand rural areas to becomeself-reliant in corona crisis.

In order to provide employmentto women at local level andto protect the general publicfrom the corona infection,the task of making masks inlarge quantity at low cost hasbeen accomplished in thestate.

People of the state have got thedual benefit from the JeevanShakti Yojana, started duringthe corona crisis with theconcept of self-employmentin the state.

311 new SHGs formed under livelihood missionBhopal: 311 new self-help groups have been formed inBetul district under Madhya Pradesh Day-State RuralLivelihood Mission. During the lockdown, a total of 3lakh 46 thousand 708 masks were produced by self-helpgroups and a total of 3 lakh 38 thousand 510 masks weresold. Along with this, a total of 1430 liters of sanitizerswere also prepared and sold by self-help groups, whichhas helped the self-help groups to achieve financial in-dependence.

With a view to providing better self-employment re-sources to women belonging to self-help groups, newmodern sewing centers have also been established in Be-tul’s two development blocks, Multai and Betul, in whichuniform stitching will be done. Grocery and vegetablesales have also been done by self-help groups afterreaching permission from the government in the lock-down period, through the grocery store, at the appropri-ate rate.

With a view to providing better self-employment re-sources to women belonging to self-help groups, newmodern sewing centers have also been established in Be-tul’s two development blocks, Multai and Betul, in whichuniform stitching will be done. Grocery and vegetablesales have also been done by self-help groups afterreaching permission from the government in the lock-down period, through the grocery store, at the appropri-ate rate.

Construction work of 7617 houses has been startedagainst the target of 8 thousand houses received for theyear 2019-20 under the Prime Minister Housing Schemein Betul district. The first installment of the sanctionedamount for the houses has been transferred to the ac-counts of the beneficiaries through single click.

The laborers returned to their villages have startedgetting employment in their Gram Panchayat only afterregistering in the Employment Bridge App under MNRE-GA by the state government.

One lakh 91 thousand 299 works are going on in 22thousand 219 gram panchayats of the state. Of this, anamount of 1224 crore 18 lakh has been paid to 23 lakh 4thousand 588 laborers.