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S ending out a stern message in the backdrop of the ongo- ing India-China stand-off on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the eastern Ladakh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the country has given a befitting response to “those who cast an evil eye on Indian soil in Ladakh” and affirmed that India was capa- ble of answering any adversary. Addressing the nation in his monthly radio broadcast ‘Maan ki Baat’, the Prime Minister said the world after acknowledging Indian spirit of universal brotherhood in the difficult time of coronavirus pandemic, has now also noticed India’s commitment and might “when it comes to safeguarding her sovereignty and territorial integrity.” Towards this end, he said India would not “shy away” from giving a befitting response to his adversary, Modi said. “Those who cast an evil eye on Indian soil in Ladakh have got a befitting response. India honours the spirit of friend- ship…she is also capable of giv- ing an appropriate response to any adversary, without shying away. Our brave soldiers have proven that they will not let anyone cast an evil eye on the glory and honour of Mother India,” the Prime Minister said in his address which was devot- ed to the border escalation, coronavirus pandemic and theme of ‘Atmnirbharta’ (self- reliance). Without naming the ‘Galwan` in eastern Ladakh where 20 Indian soldiers were killed in skirmish with Chinese army, the Prime Minister said the entire country comes together in paying tributes to the bravery of our jawans who “attained martyrdom in Ladakh.” “The entire country bows to them in reverence, with gratitude. Just like their fami- ly members, every Indian painfully regrets the loss. The inner sense of pride that fam- ilies feel on the supreme sacri- fice of their brave sons…their sentiment for the country, con- stitutes the true power, the might of the country”, he said. Without naming India and China, Prime Minster quoted a Sanskrit saying to explain two diverse characters. “Vidya Vivadaya Dhanam Madaay, Shaktih Pareshaan Paripeednayakhalasya Sadhoh Vipareetam Etat, Gyaanaydaanaych Rakshanay. Which means, a person who is wicked by nature, uses educa- tion to foster conflict, wealth for conceit and strength to trouble others. Whereas, a gen- tleman uses education for knowledge, wealth for helping and strength for protecting. India has always used her might, echoing the same sen- timent. India’s solemn resolve is to safeguard her honour and sovereignty. India’s aim is a self- reliant India,” he said. The Prime Minister said all should strive towards enhanc- ing the country’s capabilities and capacities in safeguarding our borders. “A self-reliant India would be a tribute to our martyrs in the truest, deepest sense,” Modi said and cited messages from across the country pledging to buy only ‘swadeshi’ goods. “Rajni ji has written to me from Assam. She says, after watching what happened in eastern Ladakh, she has taken a vow…and the vow is that she will buy only ‘local’….and for the sake of ‘local’, she will also be vocal. I am receiving mes- sages on these lines from every corner of the country. Many have expressed through their letters that they have adopted this very path. “Similarly, Mohan Ramamurthy from Madurai, writes that he wishes India to be self-reliant in the defence sector,” the Prime Minister said lending a new credence to ‘boycott-China’ pitch in the country. The current trade deficit is heavily loaded in favour of China which existed in the times of Congress rule but continued to be same during the Modi Government. The current border escalation has fuelled anti-China sentiments across the country with Prime Minister asking countrymen to adopt a new ‘mantra’ of Swadeshi. Modi said in the fields of defence and technology, India is relentlessly endeavouring to advance and taking strides towards self-reliance. Continued on Page 4 F acing a BJP offensive on fund received from China by the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, the Congress on Sunday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for receiving about 50 crore as donation from Chinese com- panies in the PM Cares Fund to fight Covid-19 pandemic in India. The Congress alleged that even after the Chinese forces have transgressed into Indian territory, the Prime Minister kept receiving donations from Chinese companies. The Opposition party also sought details from BJP chief JP Nadda about certain funding of the BJP and the RSS from China and asked the ruling party to disclose its link with the “China Association for International Friendly Contact” (CAIFC) and reasons for its regular interactions with the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Senior Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi asked, “Why has PM Modi received Chinese money in the PM Cares Fund, despite the overt Chinese hostilities? Has the PM received 7 crore from the controversial compa- ny Huawei? Does Huawei have a direct connection with People’s Liberation Army of China? Has the Chinese com- pany owning TikTok facilitat- ed a donation of 30 crore to the controversial PM Cares Fund?” The Congress also sought to know whether the PM Cares Fund received donations about 100 crores from Paytm, which has 38 per cent Chinese own- ership, and from other Chinese firms like Oppo 1 crore and Xiomi 15 crore in the fund. “Has Prime Minister Modi diverted the donations received in PMNRF to the controversial PM Cares Fund and how many hundred crores is the amount diverted?” Singhvi asked at the AICC virtual Press conference. Singhvi said reports sug- gest that as on May 20, 2020, the fund received 9,678 crore. “No one knows the con- stitutional or operational framework of the PM Cares Fund and how it is controlled or money given to it utilised. The fund is not even subject to audit by any public authority including CAG. The PMO has gone to the extent of saying this fund is not a public authority.” “The fund appears to be solely run by the Prime Minister in an opaque and secret fashion with zero trans- parency and zero accountabil- ity,” claimed Singhvi. Continued on Page 4 U nion Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said there was no community transmis- sion of the novel coronavirus in Delhi, and said the Centre was coordinating with the state on managing the outbreak. In an interview to ANI, Shah also said remarks made by Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in early June about the national capital reaching 5.5 lakh Covid-19 cases by the end of July had cre- ated “fear” among people and he expressed confidence that the stage will not be reached. He said the Government had already planned in providing 30,000 Covid-19 beds by end of June in Delhi. Shah said the Centre has taken several steps to ramp up infrastructure and health facil- ities in Delhi in order to con- tain the spread of novel coro- navirus in the national Capital. In that process, the Government had already planned in providing 30,000 Covid-19 beds by end of June, Shah said. He said the rates of isola- tion beds and ICU treatment has also been reduced signifi- cantly in Delhi and a commit- tee was set up for the purpose. “By June 30, 30,000 beds will be available. Eight thou- sand beds have been made in railway coaches and 8,000 beds are being prepared. DRDO is making an exclusive Covid- hospital in which there will be 250 ICU beds and with venti- lators. A 10,000-bed facility has also been set up at the Radha Soami Beas, (Chhattarpur) keeping the rainy season in mind. The 9,937 beds arranged by Delhi Government earlier have not been occupied com- pletely. It is not that they have not made arrangements but if the situation worsens, we have Continued on Page 4 C hina reinforced its troops near the Indian border with mountain climbers and martial arts fighters shortly before a deadly clash this month, state media reported. Tensions are common between the two nuclear-armed neighbours in the mountainous border terrain, but this month’s fighting was their deadliest encounter in over 50 years. Five new militia divisions, including former members of a Mount Everest Olympic torch relay team and fighters from a mixed martial arts club, pre- sented themselves for inspection at Lhasa on June 15, official mil- itary newspaper China National Defense News reported. State broadcaster CCTV showed footage of hundreds of new troops lining up in the Tibetan capital. Tibet commander Wang Haijiang said the Enbo Fight Club recruits would “greatly raise the organisation and mobilisation strength” of troops and their “rapid response and support ability,” China National Defense News reported, although he did not explicitly confirm their deployment was linked to ongoing border ten- sions. Chinese and Indian troops clashed later that day in the most violent confrontation between the two powers in decades, in the Ladakh region 1,300 kilometres away. India says 20 of its soldiers were killed in brutal hand-to- hand combat that day, while China suffered an unknown number of casualties in the skirmish fought with rocks and batons without any shots fired. India on Thursday said it had reinforced troops in the contested Himalayan border region, saying it was matching a similar buildup by China. Chinese state media have in recent weeks highlighted military activity, including high-altitude anti-aircraft drills, in the Tibet region bordering India. The new troops were recruited with the aim of “strengthening the border and stabilising Tibet,” China National Defense News said. Continued on Page 4 T he United States Centers for Disease Control has added three new symptoms to iden- tify coronavirus infection, tak- ing the total number of symp- toms up to 12. The new symp- toms are congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, and diarrhoea. The symptoms were added on May 13, but have been reported only now. Earlier, the CDC consid- ered chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, loss of taste or smell as Covid-19 symptoms. The other symp- toms are fever, cough and shortness of breath. In its May 13 update, the CDC said the new list does not include all possible symptoms, and that it would be updated again as the organisation continues to learn more about the contagion. In April, the CDC had asserted that runny nose was rarely a symptom of the virus, and that sneezing had not yet been identified as a symptom. People with Covid-19 have had a wide range of symptoms reported, said a statement. Continued on P4 P olice brutality claimed one more life in Tamil Nadu. An autorickshaw driver who was subjected to severe assault in police custody died in a Government Hospital at Tenkasi on Sunday. The youth has been identified as Kumaresan. Navaneethakrishnan, father of Kumaresan, alleged in a complaint that his son was subjected to third degree phys- ical assault by Sub Inspector Chandrasekar and constable Kumar in connection with a land dispute. Kumareasan was taken to the police station twice and was beaten up by the sub-inspector and constable. A case has been filed against cops Chandrasekhar and Kumar under section 174 (3) of Cr.PC. for allegedly beating Kumaresan to death. Meanwhile, following mass protests across the State, the Tamil Nadu Government has decided to transfer the investi- gation into the Satankulam custodial death case from Tamil Nadu Police to the CBI. This was announced by Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami while speaking to journalists at Salem on Sunday. The decision comes a day ahead of the hearing of the suo motu petition by the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court about the custodial death of P Jeyaraaj and his son J Feniks. “The Government will explain about the decision to hand over the probe to the CBI to the Court on Monday and only after getting the court’s approval, it will be handed over to the CBI,” said the CM. “We have already instruct- ed the police to deal with gen- eral public and traders deli- cately. In case of a problem, a case should be filed before taking any action. We have also told police to not disturb the general public unnecessarily,” said Palaniswami. Jeyaraaj and Feniks were taken into custody by police on June 19 on charges of violating the lockdown rules. Both the father and son died immediately after they were sent to Kovilpatti prison following their remands and since then there has been an uproar from a cross section of society demanding action against cops responsible for the deaths. C onfirmed coronavirus infections have surpassed the 10 million mark worldwide. A tally compiled by Johns Hopkins University registered the grim milestone on Sunday, after India and Russia added thousands of new cases. The United States has confirmed more than 2.5 million infec- tions, the most in the world. Globally, the Hopkins tally has reported nearly 500,000 deaths. While Hopkins reports only confirmed coronavirus cases, experts believe the true number of people who have been infected could be as much as 10 times that figure, given that so many people can’t get tested or may have the virus without showing any symptoms. Meanwhile in India, a record single-day spike in Covid-19 cases was reported in several States like Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and West Bengal as the country-wide tally rose by nearly 20,000 on Sunday. N epal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Sunday claimed that efforts are being made to oust him after his Government redrew the coun- try’s political map by incorpo- rating three strategically key Indian territories. “Efforts are being made to remove me from power, but that will not succeed,” Oli claimed, without naming any person or country.He said nobody has openly asked him to quit. “But I have smelt undercurrent movements,” Oli said on Sunday while speaking at an event. Continued on P4 C hief Minister Yo g i Adityanath worshipped at the Ram Lalla and Hanuman Garhi temples and also dis- cussed details about the con- struction of the Ram temple during his visit to Ayodhya on Sunday while reviewing devel- opment works. On reaching Ayodhya from Gonda on Sunday afternoon, the chief minister held two sep- arate review meetings, one with the officials at the circuit house in which he discussed development and welfare works and second with Bharatiya Janata Party leaders that was attended by five MLAs and MP Lalu Singh. The chief minister also inspected the district hospital and interacted with the patients and the doctors. He directed officials that treatment of all patients be car- ried out as per guidelines of the government. “No one should be denied free treatment in the hospitals,” the chief minister said. Later, the chief minister went to the Ram Janmabhoomi premises and reviewed the construction work of the Ram temple. He offered prayers at the Ram Lalla and Hanuman Garhi temples. He also plant- ed a sapling at Ram Janmabhoomi premises. Yogi Adityanath also met Mahant Nritya Gopal Das, who is chairman of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra trust and discussed with him the progress of the construction of the Ram temple . This was the second visit of the chief minister to Ayodhya since the start of the coron- avirus pandemic. He had last visited the city on March 25 when the Ram Lalla idols were shifted to a makeshift temple. Earlier, Yogi Adityanath visited Gonda district on Sunday morning and reviewed the arrangements in the Covid hospitals and the preparations made for preventing floods. He told the officials in a meeting held at police lines that all guidelines should be fol- lowed in letter and spirit. “People should be made aware of the importance of social distancing and wearing face masks. Posters regarding this should be put up at all pub- lic places like tehsils, collec- torate, police stations, schools and hospitals,” he said. “Elderly people above 60 years of age, pregnant women Continued on Page 4

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Sending out a stern messagein the backdrop of the ongo-

ing India-China stand-off onthe Line of Actual Control(LAC) in the eastern Ladakh,Prime Minister Narendra Modion Sunday said the country hasgiven a befitting response to“those who cast an evil eye onIndian soil in Ladakh” andaffirmed that India was capa-ble of answering any adversary.

Addressing the nation inhis monthly radio broadcast‘Maan ki Baat’, the PrimeMinister said the world afteracknowledging Indian spiritof universal brotherhood in thedifficult time of coronaviruspandemic, has now alsonoticed India’s commitmentand might “when it comes tosafeguarding her sovereigntyand territorial integrity.”

Towards this end, he saidIndia would not “shy away”from giving a befitting responseto his adversary, Modi said.

“Those who cast an evil eyeon Indian soil in Ladakh havegot a befitting response. Indiahonours the spirit of friend-ship…she is also capable of giv-ing an appropriate response to

any adversary, without shyingaway. Our brave soldiers haveproven that they will not letanyone cast an evil eye on theglory and honour of MotherIndia,” the Prime Minister saidin his address which was devot-ed to the border escalation,coronavirus pandemic andtheme of ‘Atmnirbharta’ (self-reliance).

Without naming the‘Galwan` in eastern Ladakhwhere 20 Indian soldiers werekilled in skirmish with Chinesearmy, the Prime Minister saidthe entire country comestogether in paying tributes tothe bravery of our jawans who“attained martyrdom inLadakh.”

“The entire country bowsto them in reverence, with

gratitude. Just like their fami-ly members, every Indianpainfully regrets the loss. Theinner sense of pride that fam-ilies feel on the supreme sacri-fice of their brave sons…theirsentiment for the country, con-stitutes the true power, themight of the country”, he said.

Without naming India andChina, Prime Minster quoteda Sanskrit saying to explain twodiverse characters.

“Vidya Vivadaya DhanamMadaay, Shaktih PareshaanParipeednayakhalasya SadhohVipareetam Etat,Gyaanaydaanaych Rakshanay.Which means, a person who iswicked by nature, uses educa-tion to foster conflict, wealthfor conceit and strength totrouble others. Whereas, a gen-

tleman uses education forknowledge, wealth for helpingand strength for protecting.India has always used hermight, echoing the same sen-timent. India’s solemn resolveis to safeguard her honour andsovereignty. India’s aim is a self-reliant India,” he said.

The Prime Minister said allshould strive towards enhanc-ing the country’s capabilitiesand capacities in safeguardingour borders.

“A self-reliant India wouldbe a tribute to our martyrs inthe truest, deepest sense,” Modisaid and cited messages fromacross the country pledging tobuy only ‘swadeshi’ goods.

“Rajni ji has written to mefrom Assam. She says, afterwatching what happened in

eastern Ladakh, she has takena vow…and the vow is that shewill buy only ‘local’….and forthe sake of ‘local’, she will alsobe vocal. I am receiving mes-sages on these lines from everycorner of the country. Manyhave expressed through theirletters that they have adoptedthis very path.

“Similarly, MohanRamamurthy from Madurai,writes that he wishes India tobe self-reliant in the defencesector,” the Prime Ministersaid lending a new credence to‘boycott-China’ pitch in thecountry.

The current trade deficit isheavily loaded in favour ofChina which existed in thetimes of Congress rule butcontinued to be same duringthe Modi Government. Thecurrent border escalation hasfuelled anti-China sentimentsacross the country with PrimeMinister asking countrymen toadopt a new ‘mantra’ ofSwadeshi.

Modi said in the fields ofdefence and technology, Indiais relentlessly endeavouring toadvance and taking stridestowards self-reliance.

Continued on Page 4

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Facing a BJP offensive onfund received from China

by the Rajiv GandhiFoundation, the Congress onSunday hit back at PrimeMinister Narendra Modi forreceiving about �50 crore asdonation from Chinese com-panies in the PM Cares Fundto fight Covid-19 pandemic inIndia.

The Congress alleged thateven after the Chinese forceshave transgressed into Indianterritory, the Prime Ministerkept receiving donations fromChinese companies.

The Opposition party alsosought details from BJP chief JPNadda about certain funding ofthe BJP and the RSS fromChina and asked the rulingparty to disclose its link withthe “China Association forInternational Friendly Contact”(CAIFC) and reasons for itsregular interactions with theruling Chinese CommunistParty (CCP).

Senior Congressspokesperson Abhishek ManuSinghvi asked, “Why has PMModi received Chinese moneyin the PM Cares Fund, despitethe overt Chinese hostilities?

Has the PM received �7 crorefrom the controversial compa-ny Huawei? Does Huawei havea direct connection withPeople’s Liberation Army ofChina? Has the Chinese com-pany owning TikTok facilitat-ed a donation of �30 crore tothe controversial PM CaresFund?”

The Congress also soughtto know whether the PM CaresFund received donations about

�100 crores from Paytm, whichhas 38 per cent Chinese own-ership, and from other Chinesefirms like Oppo �1 crore andXiomi �15 crore in the fund.

“Has Prime Minister Modidiverted the donations receivedin PMNRF to the controversialPM Cares Fund and how manyhundred crores is the amountdiverted?” Singhvi asked at theAICC virtual Press conference.

Singhvi said reports sug-gest that as on May 20, 2020,the fund received �9,678 crore.

“No one knows the con-stitutional or operationalframework of the PM CaresFund and how it is controlledor money given to it utilised.The fund is not even subject toaudit by any public authorityincluding CAG. The PMO hasgone to the extent of sayingthis fund is not a publicauthority.”

“The fund appears to besolely run by the PrimeMinister in an opaque andsecret fashion with zero trans-parency and zero accountabil-ity,” claimed Singhvi.

Continued on Page 4

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Union Home Minister AmitShah on Sunday said there

was no community transmis-sion of the novel coronavirus inDelhi, and said the Centre wascoordinating with the state onmanaging the outbreak.

In an interview to ANI,Shah also said remarks madeby Delhi Deputy Chief MinisterManish Sisodia in early Juneabout the national capitalreaching 5.5 lakh Covid-19cases by the end of July had cre-ated “fear” among people andhe expressed confidence thatthe stage will not be reached.He said the Government hadalready planned in providing30,000 Covid-19 beds by end ofJune in Delhi.

Shah said the Centre hastaken several steps to ramp upinfrastructure and health facil-ities in Delhi in order to con-tain the spread of novel coro-navirus in the national Capital.In that process, theGovernment had already

planned in providing 30,000Covid-19 beds by end of June,Shah said.

He said the rates of isola-tion beds and ICU treatmenthas also been reduced signifi-cantly in Delhi and a commit-tee was set up for the purpose.

“By June 30, 30,000 bedswill be available. Eight thou-sand beds have been made inrailway coaches and 8,000 bedsare being prepared. DRDO ismaking an exclusive Covid-hospital in which there will be250 ICU beds and with venti-lators. A 10,000-bed facility hasalso been set up at the RadhaSoami Beas, (Chhattarpur)keeping the rainy season inmind. The 9,937 beds arrangedby Delhi Government earlierhave not been occupied com-pletely. It is not that they havenot made arrangements but ifthe situation worsens, we have

Continued on Page 4

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China reinforced its troopsnear the Indian border

with mountain climbers andmartial arts fighters shortlybefore a deadly clash thismonth, state media reported.

Tensions are commonbetween the two nuclear-armedneighbours in the mountainousborder terrain, but this month’sfighting was their deadliestencounter in over 50 years.

Five new militia divisions,including former members of aMount Everest Olympic torchrelay team and fighters from amixed martial arts club, pre-sented themselves for inspectionat Lhasa on June 15, official mil-itary newspaper China NationalDefense News reported.

State broadcaster CCTVshowed footage of hundreds ofnew troops lining up in theTibetan capital.

Tibet commander WangHaijiang said the Enbo Fight

Club recruits would “greatlyraise the organisation andmobilisation strength” of troopsand their “rapid response andsupport ability,” China NationalDefense News reported,although he did not explicitlyconfirm their deployment waslinked to ongoing border ten-sions.

Chinese and Indian troopsclashed later that day in themost violent confrontationbetween the two powers indecades, in the Ladakh region1,300 kilometres away.

India says 20 of its soldierswere killed in brutal hand-to-hand combat that day, whileChina suffered an unknown

number of casualties in theskirmish fought with rocksand batons without any shotsfired. India on Thursday said ithad reinforced troops in thecontested Himalayan borderregion, saying it was matchinga similar buildup by China.

Chinese state media havein recent weeks highlightedmilitary activity, includinghigh-altitude anti-aircraft drills,in the Tibet region borderingIndia.

The new troops wererecruited with the aim of“strengthening the border andstabilising Tibet,” ChinaNational Defense News said.

Continued on Page 4

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The United States Centers forDisease Control has added

three new symptoms to iden-tify coronavirus infection, tak-ing the total number of symp-toms up to 12. The new symp-toms are congestion or runnynose, nausea or vomiting, anddiarrhoea. The symptoms wereadded on May 13, but havebeen reported only now.

Earlier, the CDC consid-ered chills, muscle pain,headache, sore throat, loss oftaste or smell as Covid-19symptoms. The other symp-toms are fever, cough andshortness of breath. In its May13 update, the CDC said thenew list does not include allpossible symptoms, and that itwould be updated again as theorganisation continues to learnmore about the contagion.

In April, the CDC hadasserted that runny nose wasrarely a symptom of the virus,and that sneezing had not yetbeen identified as a symptom.People with Covid-19 havehad a wide range of symptomsreported, said a statement.

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Police brutality claimed onemore life in Tamil Nadu. An

autorickshaw driver who wassubjected to severe assault inpolice custody died in aGovernment Hospital atTenkasi on Sunday. The youthhas been identified asKumaresan.

Navaneethakr ishnan,father of Kumaresan, alleged ina complaint that his son wassubjected to third degree phys-ical assault by Sub InspectorChandrasekar and constableKumar in connection with aland dispute.

Kumareasan was taken tothe police station twice and wasbeaten up by the sub-inspectorand constable. A case has beenfiled against copsChandrasekhar and Kumarunder section 174 (3) of Cr.PC.for allegedly beatingKumaresan to death.

Meanwhile, following massprotests across the State, theTamil Nadu Government hasdecided to transfer the investi-

gation into the Satankulamcustodial death case from TamilNadu Police to the CBI. Thiswas announced by ChiefMinister EdappadiPalaniswami while speakingto journalists at Salem onSunday.

The decision comes a dayahead of the hearing of the suomotu petition by the MaduraiBench of the Madras HighCourt about the custodial deathof P Jeyaraaj and his son JFeniks.

“The Government willexplain about the decision tohand over the probe to the CBIto the Court on Monday andonly after getting the court’sapproval, it will be handedover to the CBI,” said the CM.

“We have already instruct-ed the police to deal with gen-eral public and traders deli-cately. In case of a problem, acase should be filed beforetaking any action. We have alsotold police to not disturb thegeneral public unnecessarily,”said Palaniswami.

Jeyaraaj and Feniks weretaken into custody by police onJune 19 on charges of violatingthe lockdown rules.

Both the father and sondied immediately after theywere sent to Kovilpatti prisonfollowing their remands andsince then there has been anuproar from a cross section ofsociety demanding actionagainst cops responsible for thedeaths.

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Confirmed coronavirusinfections have surpassed

the 10 million mark worldwide.A tally compiled by JohnsHopkins University registeredthe grim milestone on Sunday,after India and Russia addedthousands of new cases. TheUnited States has confirmedmore than 2.5 million infec-tions, the most in the world.

Globally, the Hopkins tallyhas reported nearly 500,000deaths. While Hopkins reports

only confirmed coronaviruscases, experts believe the truenumber of people who havebeen infected could be as muchas 10 times that figure, given thatso many people can’t get testedor may have the virus withoutshowing any symptoms.

Meanwhile in India, arecord single-day spike inCovid-19 cases was reported inseveral States like Maharashtra,Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh,Karnataka and West Bengal asthe country-wide tally rose bynearly 20,000 on Sunday.

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Nepal’s Prime Minister KPSharma Oli on Sunday

claimed that efforts are beingmade to oust him after hisGovernment redrew the coun-try’s political map by incorpo-rating three strategically keyIndian territories.

“Efforts are being made toremove me from power, butthat will not succeed,” Oliclaimed, without naming anyperson or country.He saidnobody has openly asked himto quit. “But I have smeltundercurrent movements,” Olisaid on Sunday while speakingat an event.

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Chief Minister YogiAdityanath worshipped at

the Ram Lalla and HanumanGarhi temples and also dis-cussed details about the con-struction of the Ram templeduring his visit to Ayodhya onSunday while reviewing devel-opment works.

On reaching Ayodhya fromGonda on Sunday afternoon,the chief minister held two sep-arate review meetings, onewith the officials at the circuithouse in which he discusseddevelopment and welfare worksand second with BharatiyaJanata Party leaders that wasattended by five MLAs and MPLalu Singh.

The chief minister alsoinspected the district hospitaland interacted with the patientsand the doctors.

He directed officials thattreatment of all patients be car-ried out as per guidelines of thegovernment.

“No one should be deniedfree treatment in the hospitals,”the chief minister said.

Later, the chief ministerwent to the Ram Janmabhoomipremises and reviewed theconstruction work of the Ram

temple. He offered prayers atthe Ram Lalla and HanumanGarhi temples. He also plant-ed a sapling at RamJanmabhoomi premises.

Yogi Adityanath also metMahant Nritya Gopal Das,who is chairman of Shri RamJanmabhoomi Teerth Kshetratrust and discussed with himthe progress of the constructionof the Ram temple .

This was the second visit ofthe chief minister to Ayodhyasince the start of the coron-avirus pandemic. He had lastvisited the city on March 25when the Ram Lalla idols wereshifted to a makeshift temple.

Earlier, Yogi Adityanath

visited Gonda district onSunday morning and reviewedthe arrangements in the Covidhospitals and the preparationsmade for preventing floods.

He told the officials in ameeting held at police lines thatall guidelines should be fol-lowed in letter and spirit.

“People should be madeaware of the importance ofsocial distancing and wearingface masks. Posters regardingthis should be put up at all pub-lic places like tehsils, collec-torate, police stations, schoolsand hospitals,” he said.

“Elderly people above 60years of age, pregnant women

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Deputy Chief MinisterKeshav Prasad Maurya on

Sunday inspected the on-goingconstruction site of CircuitHouse and Railway OverBridge (RoB) in Kaushambiand directed officials to expe-dite the work and complete itwithin time.

Maurya also planted fivesaplings on the occasion at cir-cuit house campus.

Soon after inspecting theon-going construction workof circuit house and railwayover bridge at MeethaypurSyara in Kaushambi, Maurya,while interacting with the offi-cers of Uttar Pradesh RajkiyaNirman Nigam (UPRNN) andUttar Pradesh State BridgeCorporation (UPSBC), direct-ed them to complete both theprojects within time whileensuring quality.

The UPRNN general man-ager informed the deputy chiefminister that 75 per cent ofwork had been already com-pleted and very soon the circuithouse would be ready for inau-guration.

The circuit house com-prising 15 suites is being con-structed at an estimated cost ofRs 1152.18 crore.

Maurya, while inspectingthe RoB, directed the officialsto build extra one meter highgrill over the railing already

constructed on the bridge forsafety of people. He also askedthe officials to complete thework of roads connecting therailway over bridge within a

week.Maurya also directed offi-

cials that movement of four-wheelers be restricted on theRoB by putting up hurdle toprevent vehicles from passingthrough the bridge.

He said the RoB wouldfacilitate easy travel for peoplegoing from Chitrakoot andKaushambi to Pratapgarh.

Later, Maurya said thatthe road in Pratapgarh,between Lalganj and Sujatpur,Manjhanpur, Karari, SaraiAakil, Beniram Katra, MahilaGhat and going to Mau inChitrakoot, which was about111 km long, would be convert-ed to state highway with anexpenditure of Rs 346 crore. Hesaid that a bridge would beconstructed at Mahila Ghatover the Yamuna river, a RoBwould be constructed on rail-way track passing through it, anunder railway bridge would beconstructed in Sujatpur, SyedSarawa, and Kanwar railwaytracks, and a RoB on railwaytrack at Ajuha.

Maurya also alerted theofficials that strict protocol befollowed for prevention ofspread of coronavirus at con-struction site and work betaken from labourers in shiftsto maintain social distancing.

He also directed officials toconduct regular checks of theworkers staying at the con-struction sites.

tional killing in Meerut, a girland her father were shot deadwhile her brother was critical-ly injured and is battling for hislife.

The murderous attacktook place two days before thegirl’s marriage was to besolemnised on Monday whena jilted lover opened indis-criminate fire so that she didnot marry another youth.

Senior police officersreached the spot and con-ducted raids to arrest theyouth but found him to beabsconding along with hisfamily members.

Reports said that the mar-riage on Anchal, a resident ofShivpuram Colony in TPNagar police station area ofMeerut, is to be solemnised on

June 29. However, one of her

neighbour, Sagar, was againsther marriage and he also want-ed to marry her to which shehad refused. Sagar had thenthreatened her with dire con-sequences.

Late Saturday night, Sagarcalled his cousin, Ankit, andthey struck at Anchal’s houseand opened indiscriminatefire, killing the girl along withher father, Raj Kumar, andcritically injuring her brother,Raman.

Sagar and his cousin laterfired a few more rounds in theair to terrorise the neighboursand escaped.

The critically injuredRaman was admitted to hos-pital.

Meanwhile inShahjahanpur, a girl lost herbrother in an accident a daybefore her marriage.According to reports fromShahjahanpur, Deepak, a res-ident of Qanongoyan locality,was knocked down by a speed-ing pickup van at Pipraula onKanth-Shahjahanpur road onFriday night.

His friend on the pillionwas seriously injured.

The marriage of Deepak’ssister was to be solemnised onSaturday an upset family firstcremated him on Saturdayafternoon and later in theevening the marriage wassolemnised in a simple man-ner at Ganga Mandir.

In yet another incidentwhere celebration turned into

sorrow, a bride turned uncon-scious during marriage cere-mony and later died.

Reports said that mar-riage of Vineeta, a resident ofBhahwatpurwa hamlet ofThathiya, was being held withSanjay on Friday night. Herfather, Kishore Botham,claimed that during ‘phere’,Vineeta turned unconsciousand they took her to a hospi-tal but the doctors refused totreat her, asking them to firstbring a coronavirus testreport. He said that they triedto take the bride to govern-ment hospital but she died onthe way. The incident wasreported to Kannauj policewho conducted post-mortemafter which the girl was cre-mated.

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Taking a jibe at Congress,Union Minister for

Minority Affairs, MukhtarAbbas Naqvi, said that whenthe entire country was workingfor turning “disaster intoopportunity”, the Congress wastrying to turn “disaster intoanarchy”.

“In the time of a calamity,there is torment of locusts andlosers, both should be dealtwith a strong hand. Whilelocusts are dangerous for crops,losers bring shame to the coun-try,” he said on Sunday.

Addressing the BharatiyaJanata Party workers virtuallythrough Facebook after gar-landing the statue of PanditDeen Dayal Upadhyaya atDeen Dayal Chowk in Rampur,Naqvi said that the dream ofantyodaya would be achievedwith the commitment for anAatma Nirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India).

“Today, the country hasbeen speedily moving forwardon the path of self-reliant Indiaunder the strong and effectiveleadership of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi,” he said andadded, “The present crisis willbring a new dawn of inclusiveempowerment.”

The Union minister said

that it was very unfortunatethat while on one hand, oursecurity forces ware workingwith nationalistic commitmentto protect our borders andwere giving a befitting reply toour enemies to ensure safetyand dignity of the country, onthe other hand, some politicalparties were trying to demor-alise the security forces.

“This is the same politicalparty which had raised ques-tions on the valour of oursecurity forces during Pulwamaand Balakot (incidents) in acriminal conspiracy to dis-grace India,” he said.

Naqvi said that such irre-sponsible political behaviourhad never been seen before onthe sensitive issue of the coun-try’s safety and dignity as wasbeing displayed by theCongress and its leaders. Hesaid the country had completetrust on Prime MinisterNarendra Modi who was work-ing with strong nationalisticwill.

“The country is in safehands. The Modi governmentis leaving no stone unturned toensure country’s safety anddignity,” he said.

Naqvi said that statementsof the Congress leaders weresupplying oxygen to anti-Indiaforces.

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Uttar Pradesh ExciseMinister Ram Naresh

Agnihotri said that it would bedifficult to recover the loss ofrevenue due to closure of liquorshops during the lockdownperiod from April to May. He,however, said the state govern-ment was making all efforts toachieve its excise target of Rs37,500 crore during the currentfiscal 2020-21.

The minister said lock-down was not the sole factorfor drop in revenue during thefirst two months of the currentfiscal. He said many sectors ofthe economy were under lockand many people lost their jobsdue to the lockdown.

“It is difficult to recover thelosses incurred due to closureof liquor shops during lock-down. But, we increased the

excise duty on all categories ofthe potable alcohol, whichresulted in increase in rev-enue to some extent. Initially,the sales were good, but theyare a bit down now. The reasonis that most of the workers andmigrants have returned to theirrespective homes and they donot have work/job. Withoutmoney, there cannot be anypurchase, hence, there is a bitof slump,” the minister said.

“However, we are hopefulthat we will recover this lossand there will be good sales inthe state, and also an increasein revenue,” Agnihotri said.He said efforts were on toreach the revenue target of Rs37,500 crore.

The minister also saidenforcement had beenstrengthened to combat themenace of illicit liquor. Hesaid the police and district

administrations had been toldto clamp down on productionof illicit liquor and as of now,the complaints were “negligi-ble”.

On the strident criticism ofthe Yogi Adityanath govern-ment by the Samajwadi Party,Agnihotri, said, “SamajwadiParty is in opposition and it isquite natural that they willoppose us. They will certainlynot praise us. But the people ofthe state have faith in the YogiAdityanath government.”

Agnihotri is a first-timeMLA from Bhongaon assemblyconstituency of Mainpuri dis-trict, the pocket borough of theSamajwadi Party. Agnihotrifurther said, “The SP has beenruined and confined to 47seats in 2017 UP assemblypolls, while the BSP is finished.The BSP voters are with us.There is no challenger for us.”

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Uttar Pradesh Congress targeted thestate government for its claim of

providing more than one crore jobsrecently, with party state presidentAjay Kumar Lallu saying that the YogiAdityanath regime’s claim was “false”and it was deceiving the people for vest-ed political interest.

“No job was given to the workersand it was just a publicity stunt of theBharatiya Janata Party,” he said.

Addressing a press conference hereon Sunday, the UPCC president saidthe government promise of providing1.25 crore jobs “is false, and cheating(thagi)”.

He said the unemployment rate wasthe highest in the last 45 years.

“We are not saying this, but it hasbeen revealed by the government fig-ures. The unemployed youth are beingcane-charged for demanding jobs,” hesaid.

The UPCC chief alleged that norecruitment process had been complet-

ed in a time bound manner in the state. He said the state government was

even taking credit of providing jobs tosuch people, who have been engaged intraditional professions for generationsnow.

Ajay Kumar Lallu said the coron-

avirus pandemic had brought abouteconomic disaster.

“All the major indigenous industriesin the state, including glassware, brass-ware, carpet, weaving, furniture, leather,hosiery, dairy, pottery, fishery-hatcheryetc. have been impacted. Millions of

weavers are in a pitiable condition, yetthere is no government support tothem,” he said.

The UPCC chief said that thoughthe state government was making tallclaims, yet the ground situation wasentirely different.

“People are forced to take theextreme step of committing suicideevery day in the state due to their finan-cial misery,” he said.

Citing an incident, Lallu said amigrant labourer, who had returnedfrom Surat to village Amlohra inBisanda area of Banda district, commit-ted suicide on Friday by hanging him-self.

The UPCC chief said the deceasedlived in Surat, Gujarat with his wife andworked in a sari printing company. Hehad returned to his village 20 days back.

Lallu said reports suggested that 20persons had committed suicide inBanda district alone during lockdown.

“Who is responsible for thesedeaths? If jobs are being provided thenwhy are people committing suicide?’ heasked.

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Uttar Pradesh AssemblySpeaker Hriday Naryan

Dikshit has said the monsoonsession of the state Assemblycould be held in Augustthrough video conferencing.He, however, ruled out thepossibility of holding ‘hybridsession’ on the lines of theBritish parliament.

In hybrid session half of themembers attend the Housewhile the rest join the proceed-ings through video conferenc-ing.

Dikshit said a final decisionon the issue would be taken bythe state government and ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath.

“At present, we are mullingall the possibilities for holdingthe monsoon session of the UPLegislature. One possibility isholding the session throughvideo conferencing,” Dikshitsaid.

“Another option availablewith us is to hold the session atLok Bhawan. There is also thepossibility that a section of seatsin the upper area of the VidhanSabha can be vacated as it canaccommodate 100-125 people(MLAs),” he said. adding thatthe Lok Bhawan had sufficientspace for seating all MLAs.

However, the final decisionis yet to be arrived at and willbe taken by the state govern-ment and the chief minister, hesaid.

On the hybrid session, theDikshit said, “There is no suchidea before us.”

In April, the UK parlia-ment achieved a historic first asthe House of Commons heldthe weekly Prime Minister’sQuestions (PMQs) in a ‘hybrid’form, with around a dozen law-makers physically present inthe chamber and others tuningin online through giant screensset up to adhere to the social

distancing norms in place tocheck the spread of coron-avirus.

A number of MPs loggedin through the Zoom applica-tion to address their questionsin relation to their specificconstituencies. House ofCommons Speaker Sir LindsayHoyle had granted an extra 15minutes to the usual half-hourPMQs session to allow fortechnical challenges but thehybrid form of the sessionwent ahead without major hur-

dles.Dikshit had earlier in May

said, “At present, the House isnot in session. The monsoonsession of the UP LegislativeAssembly should be held some-time in August and I am opti-mistic that by then the situationwould have changed.”

He had further said, “If weadhere to social distancing andleave one seat vacant, we willnot have enough seats. Thereare 403 MLAs. Already thereare not enough seats for every-

one. There is a shortage of 10-12 seats. The work goes on as(generally) 10-12 (members)are absent. In these circum-stances, if one seat is left vacantthen not more than 200 MLAswill be able to sit.”

It is the constitutionalobligation of the government toconvene the session of the UPAssembly by the last week ofAugust, as there cannot be agap of more than six monthsbetween two sessions of theHouse. The last session hadconcluded on February 26.

At present, there are 307BJP MLAs in the UP LegislativeAssembly. The SamajwadiParty has 48 MLAs, BahujanSamaj Party 18, Congressseven, Apna Dal (Sonelal) nine,and Suheldev Bharatiya SamajParty four and Rashtriya LokDal and Nirbal Indian ShoshitHamara Apna Dal one each.There are three IndependentMLAs.

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A70-year-old man allegedlyhacked to death his 65-

year-old brother over sellingvegetables in Mohanlalganj onSunday morning. Police arrest-ed the accused and alsoclaimed to have recovered themurder weapon. The victimwas identified as BhabhutiMaurya of Dehva village in thearea. As per reports, theaccused identified as RamaShanker Maurya of the samevillage had an enmity with hisyounger brother Bhabhuti fora long time. He also was not ongood terms with the villagersbecause of his ill temper.

Ram Shanker fell fromgrace after one his sons wassent to jail for killing a girl ofthe same village. The villagersdistanced themselves from himafter the incident and sincethen Ram Shanker and hisfamily were living in virtual

isolation. Bhabhuti also dis-tanced himself from RamShanker and it filled RamShanker’s mind with hate forBhabhuti.

A couple of days back, thebrother duo had a verbal spatover selling vegetables thatthey grow in their respectivefields located adjacent to eachother. On Sunday morning,Ram Shanker and Bhabhutiagain had a verbal spat whenboth were in their fields. Bothused to stay in their fieldsovernight and sleep on elevat-ed platforms.

As per Ram Shanker, heattacked Bhabhuti with an axeand did not remember howmany times. He said hestopped only after he gotexhausted and moved towardsthe village. The accused thenreached a temple in the villageholding the blood-stained axe.He called villagers and toldthem about his act with com-

posure. The villagers called thepolice and a team nabbed RamShanker.

Meanwhile, a 35-year-oldtractor driver was killed in aroad mishap in Chinhat lateSaturday night. Reports saidAshish Kumar of Sitapurworked with a company deal-ing in autorickshaws/tractorsin Sarojininagar.

Around 10:30 pm onSaturday, Ashish left forBalrampur district driving anew tractor which he had todeliver to a customer there.When he reached a hotel inChinhat, a speeding unidenti-fied vehicle hit the tractor.Due to heavy impact, Ashishsuffered injuries and passers-by rushed him to RamManohar Lohia Hospital wherehe was declared brought dead.Police said they were scanningCCTV footages to identify thevehicle which hit the tractorwhich Ashish was driving.

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Thieves made off with cashand ornaments worth sev-

eral lakh from the house of ascientist at Remote SensingApplication Centre inJankipuram. The incident cameto light after house owner DrShashank Tripathi of Sita ViharColony returned home onSaturday. In his complaint,Tripathi stated that he, alongwith his family, had gone to hisnative house in Chitrakoot(Madhya Pradesh) on June 20.

He said he returned homeon Saturday and found the

locks open. “The thieves madeoff with Rs 12,000 in cash andornaments worth lakhs ofrupees,” he said.

In another incident, awoman thanked senior policeofficers for getting her case oftheft registered after he accusedJankipuram police of usingdilly-dallying tactics. VeenuSingh of Jankipuram GardenColony, who is a nurse in a pri-vate hospital, said her mobilephone went missing onSaturday morning. “I thoughtmy pooch misplaced it after Ifailed to find it in the morning.Later, I also found Rs 30,000

missing from my wallet. WhileI was planning to file a com-plaint, two labourers, who areworking at a house in the areaand stay there, told me thattheir mobile phones were alsomissing. I checked a CCTVfootage in which I found anunidentified man entering myhouse. I then contacted thepolice but they said mere appre-hension could not be groundsfor registering a case of theft. Itwas only when I tweeted mycomplaint tagging UP Policeand DCP (North) that thepolice registered a case in thisconnection,” she said.

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Central Institute forSubtropical Horticulture

(CISH) and India Post areentering into an agreement formaking mango delivery fromLucknow to different cities.CISH director Shailendra Rajansaid not only mangoes butother technologies like nutri-ents, harvesters, insect trapsand several other thingsrequired by the farmers will beincluded in this arrangement.He said that the Department ofPosts came forward to collab-orate with CISH for trans-porting mangoes fromLucknow to different cities.

He said pilot studies formaking mangoes availablefrom CISH to different citieshave been found successful.“Motivated with such results,we will be entering into anMoU shortly. It will not onlyprovide mangoes but alsomany of the institute tech-nologies to farmers in remotevillages where sending items isvery difficult and farmers haveto travel a long distance for col-lecting the items. With thepresence of post offices inlakhs of villages, it will becomeeasy and dependable,” theCISH director said.

“Making mango harvestersavailable to the farmers ofAndhra Pradesh or Bihar was

not so easy but it will not bedifficult after the agreement issigned,” he added. Rajan saidthat Yuvi Singh, one of theincubates of AgribusinessIncubation Centre of CISH,started an online mango sup-ply chain through ‘MangoBaba’app but it was difficult to carryfruits to different cities.

“Many of the customersinterested in the MalihabadiDussehri are from Delhi,Bengaluru and Mumbai butdue to corona pandemic anddisrupted local transport sys-tem, the fruit supply was dif-ficult. The Department ofPosts has a very strong net-work. It made special efforts totransport the mangoes to thedoorstep within a day. Atsome places, the delivery wasmade within 24 hours. Forquick and safe delivery, theDepartment of Post uses var-ious means,” he said.

56�07 ����������������������������������Lucknow (PNS): As many as26 students from LucknowUniversity’s Sociology depart-ment have been selected asassistant professors in theexamination conducted by UPHigher Education ServiceCommission. LU mediaspokesperson said the candi-dates were selected from apool of 1,278 invited for thefinal interview to fill 273 postsacross the state. The successfulstudents are Anshul Singh,Ghanshyam Gupta, NeetuSingh, Suryakant Bharti,Shambhu Dayal Kushwaha,Sandeep Verma, MukeshMohan, Dayal Saran, Suraj,Ram Rajan, Deepshikha Paul,Anish Kumar, Shalini Yadav,Vivekanand, Mridul Patel,Subhash, Amrita Singh, Sushil,Manoj, Pankaj, Rajesh, Vikas,Monica, Ruchi, Avnish andAnupam. Some of them havealready completed PhD.

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The 1-km flyover connectingShaheed Path to

Chaudhary Charan SinghInternational Airport will becompleted by the end of thisyear, chief project manager,Lucknow Setu Nigam, SandeepGupta said. He said 35 per centof the construction work hasbeen completed.

People can go directly fromShaheed Path to the airportthrough this flyover to savetheir time and avoid trafficjams. “The load of the trafficmoving in front of the airportwill also be reduced with thetraffic going towards the air-port being diverted fromShaheed Path, and the regulartraffic will get some breather,much to the relief of generalpublic,” he said.

He added that the flyoveris being lifted straight from onepoint at Shaheed Path, whichhas been widened for this pur-pose. Gupta said that the totalcost of the project is Rs 134crore, which has been fundedby the state government.

However, he admitted thatthere is an issue in land acqui-sition in the construction of theflyover for which efforts arebeing made by the government.

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Sainik School has begunpreparations for its dia-

mond jubilee celebrations.Divisional CommissionerMukesh Meshram said prepa-rations are being carried outunder the directives of thestate government and pro-grammes have been plannedthroughout the year startingfrom July 15.

Divisional CommissionerMukesh Meshram said ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath hadconvened a meeting a few daysback to give directions in thisregard. “The government wantsgrand celebrations. It was theUP government in 1960 that setup an independent school. Itwas started by former CM DrSampurnanand. Later, theGovernment of India also setup Sainik schools in differentstates,” he said.

He said alumni will beinvited for the function andefforts will be made to get somefunding also from some ofthem who are financially soundand can contribute towardsinfrastructural development.He said that in view of the cur-rent pandemic, programmeswill be organised online tobegin with. “If and when thingsimprove, some programmeswill be organised at the school.

Activities will be held through-out the year and people will beinvolved in quiz contests,debates as well as brainstorm-ing on patriotism,” he said.

He said saplings will alsobe planted because it has anarea of 236 acres and plantationis necessary for environmentprotection.

Registrar, UP SainikSchool, Col UP Singh said thecelebrations will be held underthe guidance of Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath. “We willbegin with a plantation driveon July 15. Since schools areclosed, the plantation drive willbe conducted by teachers aswell as the staff, and 501saplings will be planted in thename of each student,” he said.

He further said that certainnew constructions had beenplanned by the CM for whichhe has given directions toexpedite the work. Theseinclude an auditorium, spa-cious enough to accommodate1,000 persons at a time, in thename of Captain ManojPandey. “There is also a girls’hostel and a girls’ playgroundannounced last year.Formalities have been com-pleted and the day the fundsare released, the work will bestarted,” he said. He added thatother things will be plannedonce the school reopens.

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Antibody surveillance willbe started shortly in

Lucknow to check the immu-nity levels of residents. Givingthis information, CMO DrNarendra Agarwal said kitswill be given to KGMU for car-rying out the testing. Accordingto the CMO, antibody surveil-lance is different from the anti-gen test which is being current-ly carried out. It tests the anti-bodies present in blood.

Elaborating on the differ-ence, he said: “In antibodytesting, it is checked whether aperson has antibodies in bloodwhich indicates an infectionwhich existed earlier, whileantigen testing is essentially thetesting of virus itself and it indi-cates the infection already pre-sent in a person.”

The CMO said antibodytesting is being done to knowwhether antibodies are devel-oping in the body of an indi-vidual. “It has been often stat-ed that people may have con-tracted the infection but theyshow no symptoms get curedby themselves. This test isbeing done to check thesecases,” he pointed out. He saidit will also check the commu-nity spread and immunity lev-els of the residents.

Meanwhile, with a 3-year-old child testing positive forcoronavirus on Sunday, theCMO said: “Not many childrenhave tested positive. Only thosechildren are testing positivewho have been touch withpatients,” he said.

Meanwhile, AdditionalCMO MK Singh said that inthe 260 samples which theyhave collected in the antigentesting being carried out in thedistrict, results of over 150 areawaited while others have comeout negative. “All the sampleswhich came out negative inantigen tests had been con-firmed as negative through the

tests conducted by KGMU. Weare apparently doing doubleverification through thesetests,” he said.

On Sunday, the contain-ment activity was carried out in13 areas of Chandernagar. Asenior official from the CMOoffice said that contact surveil-lance has gained strength in thepast few days.

“We have been able to getthe coronavirus cases throughcontacts. The difficult part isthat some persons do not takeit seriously and when their con-tacts start testing positive, theyapproach the CMO office. It is

a great wastage of time on onefamily when teams have tocover other areas due toincrease in the number ofcases,” he added.

Meanwhile, mediaspokesperson of Ram ManoharLohia Hospital Dr SrikeshSingh said they have hadalmost 100 per cent recoveryrate for Covid-19 patient.

“Nearly 170 patients havealready recovered and therewere only two deaths. One ofthe deceased later tested neg-ative and he had died due toother complications. There arecurrently 74 patients in the hos-

pital,” he said. He said that postUnlock 1.0, they have restart-ed several activities, includingrenal transplant and testing atthe Nuclear Medicine depart-ment. “Only two institutes arecarrying out renal transplantsin the state and the other oneis SGPGI. We have done fiverenal transplants after the lock-down curbs were relaxed,” hepointed out.

Regarding the NuclearMedicine department, he saidthey had stopped certain testsbecause of the lack of isotopeswhich they used to get fromabroad, and now the tests have

resumed. The departmentcaters to cancer patients.

He further pointed outthat they have increased thecoronavirus testing capacity toa large extent. “Earlier, we weredoing only 300 tests, but nowwe are doing close to 1,000samples per day through pool-ing,” he said.

Meanwhile, Amita Jainfrom KGMU’s Microbiologydepartment said they havecompleted almost one lakhtests since February. “We aretesting almost 2,000 samplesday every day, which is a goodfigure,” she added.

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As Uttar Pradesh recordedover 20,000 coronavirus

tests for the second day in arow, the COVID-19 recoverypercentage went up to over 66points, sending the signalsloud and clear that the dread-ed disease was under control inthe state.

Additional Chief Secretary(Health) Amit Mohan Prasadsaid here on Sunday that thestate went for highest evercoronavirus testing in a day onSaturday when it tested 20,782samples. He said the testingwould reach 25,000 per day inthe next three days.

“The recovery rate of thepatients has touched a record66.82 per cent,” he said. Thenational average is over 58 percent. Prasad said that a record20,782 samples were tested inwhich 1,723 were 5-samplepool tests and 176 10-samplepool tests. He said 176 5-sam-ple pool tests and 32 10-sam-ple pool tests turned out to bepositive. The total COVID-19tests in the state has reached6,84,296.

As many as 6,681 COVID-19 patients are admitted inCovid hospital while 5,634infected persons are in institu-tional quarantine.

The additional chief secre-

tary said that ASHA workersscreened 19,01,712 migrantworkers in home quarantineout of which 1,664 were foundwith coronavirus symptoms.

Prasad said the govern-ment would go for the nextphase of surveillance from July1 from Meerut division whenthe medical teams will conducthouse-to-house survey to checkthe people and get details of thepeople who had diseases likecancer, diabetes, hypertension,other serious ailments.

At present around1,49,840 health teams havecovered 1,09,93,288 houses inthe state and screened5,60,53,424 people.

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Twenty-three more testedpositive for coronavirus in

Lucknow on Sunday, includingfive women. CMO DrNarendra Agarwal said thosewho tested positive includedthree from LDA Colony, twofrom Meerabai Marg and oneeach from Chaupatiyan,Zafarkheda, Chowk, RDSO,Indira Nagar, Madiaon,Sarojininagar, Alambagh,Krishnanagar, Kamla NehruMarg, Hussainabad, GomtiNagar, Niralanagar,Thakurganj, Rajendranagar,IIM Road and Ruchi Khand.

Meanwhile, 25 patientsrecovered in the city, including12 at LBRN Hospital, six atRSM Hospitals, three each atKGMU and SGPGI, and one atRML Hospital. A drive wascarried out by 36 CMO teamscomprising 12 supervisors inLDA Colony, Premnagar,Snehnagar and Sarojininagar,covering 15,849 people in

3,809 houses. The CMO said482 samples were collectedand sent to KGMU for testing.

Meanwhile, in the state,606 people tested positive forcoronavirus, including 82 fromNoida, 60 from Ghaziabad , 29from Kanpur, 23 from Etawah,24 from Kasganj and 23 fromSiddharthnagar, taking the

total count to 22,300 cases.There were 11 deaths in thestate, including two in Jhansiand one each in Meerut, Noida,Kanpur, Moradabad, Ghazipur,Sambhal, Gorakhpur, Bareillyand Etawah, taking the toll to660. Besides, 593 patientsrecovered, taking the figure to14,808.

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A12-year-old boy wasaccused of sodomising a

10-year-old in Kakori onSunday. Police sat on thecase till the family of the vic-tim called some newsmen forhelp. As the news went viral,senior officers had a wordwith the Kakori police.

The police swung intoaction and detained theaccused. They also sent thevictim for a medical test. Acase was registered in thisconnection. Reports said theaccused took the boy to amango grove while playing

and forced himself upon him.He also threatened the victimwith dire consequences if hereported the matter to hisfamily or police.

However, the v ic t imreturned home and narratedthe ordeal to his family. Hisfamily then reached thepolice station where theyhad to run from pillar topost. A spokesman claimedthat the police heard thecomplaint sympatheticallyand denied reports that thefamily had to make a hecticefforts.

Meanwhile, a man, iden-tified as Bhullan Soni (35) of

R ajnikhand local ity inAshiyana, was found hangingat his house on Sunday afternoon.

He was found hangingfrom the ceiling with adupatta tied around his neck.The police said Bhullan wasa liquor addict and he com-mitted suicide. The policesaid Bhullan was a labourerand unmarried. Since no sui-cide note was recovered fromthe place, the police couldnot explain why the mancommitted suicide. However,neighbours said Bhullan wasundergoing a f inancia l crisis.

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Villagers, mostly migrantworkers, in Mausingh Ka

Purwa have picked up shovelsto revive a canal in Banda dis-trict so that water reaches theirvillages, putting up a posterwhich reads: ‘This is notMNREGA work but shram-daan”. This is the second initia-tive of migrant workers, whodid not wait for gram pradhanto assign them work underMNREGA scheme but starteda process to revive a canalwhich was earlier on paper andhad dried up with the passageof time.

“This is not a governmentproject but voluntary work thevillagers have decided to do,”said Jeet Ram, one of the vil-lagers. “Hum shramdaan karrahe hain taaki paani gaon takpahunchey aur hume shahar na

jaan padey (We are doing vol-untary work so that waterreaches our villages and we donot have to go to cities forwork), he said.

There are around 40 fam-ilies which have returned fromMaharashtra, Gujarat andPunjab during lockdown tosurvive. Initially they tried toget work under MNREGA butas the gram pradhan askedthem to wait, they decided topick up the shovel to dig acanal.

“We waited for two monthsand ultimately decided to givelife to a dry canal so that we canstay back in our villages and dofarming rather than returningto cities in search of work,” JeetRam said.

As per governmentrecords, there is a Guda canalwhich connects Likha, Bilaki,Joginpurwa, Bijupurwa and

Mausingh Ka Purwa but inreality the canal is only up toJoginpurwa and after that it isnon-existent.

The drought-proneBundelkhand region is one ofsuch regions which saw a largenumber of migrant populationcoming back to their nativeplaces. Every year, almost 90per cent of population of thisregion migrates to cities insearch of employment. Thosemigrants who returned duringthe coronavirus pandemic haveexpressed no intention of goingback to the cities. They arerather determined to do farm-ing in their village. However,being in the drought-proneregion, irrigating fields is theirbiggest hurdle.

This is the second incidentwhen migrant workers haveworked to revive a water bodywithout government support.

Earlier, the migrant workers, allof them of Bhanwarpur villagein Banda district, had revivedriver Dharar. The perennialriver flowing through the vil-lage had dried up and was filledwith silt. Many check damsconstructed on the river alsoaffected the water flow. Themigrant families revived theriver so that water would beavailable for them to startfarming in the coming seasons.They were without any work orany employment and were fac-ing food crisis.

This inspirational storywon headlines across the coun-try following which ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanathdeclared that this revival planshould be included in theMNREGA work and the peo-ple who worked in revival ofthe river should be paid as pergovernment norms.

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constructive way, the Lucknow divi-sion of Northern Railways carried outa drive called ‘Operation Kayakalp’(face-lifting) which concluded onJune 26. The drive had kicked off onJune 18. Giving details of the worksdone, a spokesman said the drive wascarried out under the guidance ofDRM (NER) Monica Agnihotri andit was aimed at utilising the time inconstructive works. He said in theCovid-19 times, trains are beingoperated but not as they used to beearlier. “We carried out track clean-ing work at Lucknow Junction, CityStation, Daliganj, Aishbagh andBadshahnagar railways stations in thecity. “The drive was carried out atother railway stations like Gorakhpur,Gonda and Sitapur during the lastweek,” he said. The officials inspect-ed facilities at all the railway hospi-tals, health wings and toilets at rail-way stations and all the places werecleaned and sanitised. “To clean therailway tracks and station premises,the employees pruned the thicketsand grass and removed garbage. Wealso carr ied out plantat ion work in the space freed and cleaned,”he said.

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by Viram Khand-5, Jankalyan Samitiand School of Management Sciencesin Vasanti Park. Veterans and mem-bers of Jankalyan Samiti RS Mishra,

secretary Bharat Raj Singh, advisor-environment Gorakh Prasad Nisad,former minister Umesh Chand Tiwariand SBL Mehrotra were present onthe occasion. They also raised the slo-gan ‘Save nature, save life’. The citi-zens also took an oath to increasetheir immunity levels and ensure pre-cautionary measures like wearingmasks and maintaining social dis-tancing to break the chain of coronavirus.

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DeepanshVerma, a stu-dent of CityM o n t e s s o r iSchool, GomtiN a g a rCampus II ,has beenoffered admis-sion by thethree noteduniversities of Australia for pursuinghigher education. He has been offeredadmission by Macquarie University,Adelaide University and MonashUniversity. Deepansh has achievedthis feat due to his academic excel-lence and diligence. He has givencredit for his success to the robustacademic atmosphere of CMS.

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Association (LSWA) on Saturdayasked the state government to waive

licence fee and quota of sale fixed forthe sellers. General secretary of theassociation KL Maurya said the stategovernment should waive licencefee for the month of May and exemptthem from the quota for the monthof June. He said the sellers faced hugelosses due to lockdown and they werestill not doing good business. Mauryasaid under the present conditions, itwas difficult for the sellers to do busi-ness while they had already paidlicence fees. “We are passing throughan adverse phase and suffering loss-es every day. We are also finding itdifficult to take the quota of liquor inthe absence of customers. There wasuncertainty over withdrawal oflicence fee and exemption from quotathough they had represented theircase to senior officials in Excisedepartment,” Maurya said whileaddressing a meeting of LSWA mem-bers in the city.

.�3���A webinar on role and responsi-

bilities of Indian health industriesduring Covid-19 pandemic wasorganised jointly by the departmentof Trauma Surgery (KGMU), depart-ment of Public Administration(Lucknow University), Association ofResearch Professionals, department ofHospital Administration (SGPGI)and SRS Publication and Distribution.A number of speakers from nationalorganisations participated in thewebinar, including Dr Surya Kantfrom KGMU, Dr R ajesh

Harshvardhan from SGPGI, Dr RBSingh from HIMS, Dr Barnali Dasfrom Kokilaben Dhirubhai AmbaniHospital (Mumbai), Dr Somasekharfrom Bhaikaka University (Gujarat)and Dr Harendra Srivastava fromSGPGI. Dr Rajeev Misra discussedthe role and responsibility of govern-ment and private hospitals to managethe current situation and promote thebest of health services.

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problems in the midst of the coron-avirus pandemic, the Department ofPosts, Lucknow HQ Region, hasdecided to organise a special cam-paign on Monday, for openingaccounts of India Post PaymentsBank and on July 4, opening ofaccounts of Post Office Savings Bankand Sukanya Samriddhi Accounts.These campaigns will be organised insix districts of Lucknow HQ Region— Lucknow, Barabanki, Sitapur, RaeBareli, Ayodhya and Ambedkarnagar.The accounts will be opened on thebasis of Aadhaar as well as mobilenumbers and to promote digitalbanking, paperless accounts will beopened. Director of Postal Services,Lucknow HQ Region, Krishna KumarYadav said the campaigns are beingorganised keeping in mind themigrant labourers who have comeback from different states so that theydo not have any inconvenience inwithdrawing their money and DBTamount.

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Plucking some jamun (Indianblueberry) led to communal

tension in Deoria when mem-bers of a particular communi-ty attacked a family leavingone dead and four othersinjured. Agitated with thekilling, the villagers gheraoedthe house of local pradhan andalso assaulted him on Sundaymorning after which a heavypolice force was deployed thereto avert fresh clash. Police alsoregistered case and were mak-ing efforts to arrest the accused.

Reports said that some boyswere plucking jamun atJhamman Tola in IthauwaChandauli locality of Salempurin Deoria on Saturday evening.They were throwing stoneswhich injured a buffalo.Subsequently, the owner,Kanhaiya Kushwaha, objectedand abused the boys for injur-ing his cattle. The situationtook an ugly turn when the boysbelonging to a particular com-munity left but returned withtheir family members and theyattacked Kanhaiya along withhis family members, injuringhim, Kushwaha, Manish, OmPrakash and Susheela Devi.

The victims were taken to thecommunity health centre(CHC).

Surprisingly, the local policewere informed about the attackbut they took no action.

The situation took a com-munal angle when Kanhaiyasuccumbed to his injuries onSunday morning. The news ofhis death spread like a wildfireand soon hundreds of villagersgheraoed the pradhan’s house,and demanded action againsthim. They also assaulted thepradhan before the local policereached the spot.

A heavy police force wascamping in the area to avert fur-ther clash. A case has been alsoregistered and efforts are on tonab the accused. In Lalitpur, aman ended his life as he failedto give Rs 100 demanded by hiswife. Reports said that the bodyof a youth was found lying onJeron-Lalitpur railway tracksin Bamkhauri in Jakhlaun onSunday morning. The deceasedwas identified as Jaihind Singh(30). His father Balbode saidthat Jaihind went with his wifeto attend a marriage ceremonyat his in-laws’ house inBamkhauri where the incidenttook place. He said his son was

facing financial crisis and wasvery depressed after he failed togive Rs 100 that his wifedemanded and ended his life.

In Hamirpur, a middle-aged man ended his life. Reportssaid that Pyarelal (45), a residentof Aundera hamlet of Rath,was missing since a fortnight.The cops registered a case of cul-pable homicide against himafter which he disappeared. Hisbody was found hanging froma tree on Sunday morning.Pyarelal’s daughter Manisha saidhe was murdered. She said thatBali Ahirwar and RampalAhirwar, both residents of thesame area, clashed with eachother and Rampal was killed. Inthat case, Rampal’s family,besides naming Bali, had alsonamed his father. The police sentthe body for post-mortem andwere waiting for report beforeproceeding with the investiga-tion. Meanwhile, one personwas arrested for raping an 80-year-old woman in Etawah.

Sonu aka Surjeet, a residentof Budailla in Civil Lines, wasarrested for raping the oldwoman. He claimed to haveconsumed liquor and under itsinfluence he raped the woman.

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The Congress spokesperson questioned that “ifthe Prime Minister of India will compromise his posi-tion by accepting donations of hundreds of crores fromChinese companies in the controversial and opaquefund, then how will he defend the country againstChinese aggression?”

The Congress alleged that the Modi Governmentcontinues to sidestep the brazen Chinese transgres-sions and occupation of Indian territory by Chineseforces in Galwan Valley, Pangong Tso lake area, HotSprings and Depsang plains up to Y-Junction.

“Prime Minister Narendra Modi unashamedlymisleads the nation and serves the sinister agenda ofthe Chinese by claiming that China has neverintruded into the Indian territory, nor is it in occu-pation of any territory,” alleged Singhvi.

The Congress leader said that the party will keepasking these questions in the national interest.

Two days ago BJP president JP Nadda had allegedthat the RGF, which is headed by Sonia Gandhi, con-tinuously received donations from the ChineseEmbassy between 2005-09, from the “tax haven” ofLuxemburg between 2006-09 and NGOs with com-mercial interests.

Congress clarified on this issue on late Saturdaynight that grant RGF accounts were duly audited andstatutory returns were filed under ForeignContributions Regulation Act (FCRA) to theGovernment of India.

“This grant has been duly reflected in all filingsto the income tax and the Home Ministry and noauthority has ever found any wrongdoing of anynature. Pursuant to the unprecedented Tsunami in thelast week of 2004, RGF received a modest amount ofRs 20 lakh from the Prime Minister’s National ReliefFund in the Financial Year 2005 which was dulyutilised to undertake relief activities in the Andamanand Nicobar Islands,” the Congress said in a statement.

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India says Chinese troops ambushed Indian sol-diers and forced them down a ridge where they hadgone to remove a Chinese “encroachment”. A bilat-eral accord prevents the use of guns, but the fightingwas still fierce, with rudimentary weapons.

China has in turn accused Indian soldiers of twicecrossing the Line of Actual Control, the unofficialboundary, provoking its troops.

The two countries fought a war over the borderin 1962. There is an understanding between thenuclear-armed neighbours that their troops in the dis-puted and inhospitable region will not use firearms.

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On the coronavirus crisis, Modi said the coun-try has moved out of the lockdown phase to the unlockphase and will have to focus deeply on two points -- defeating corona and strengthening the economy andbolstering it.

“Only your alertness can save you from corona.Always, remember, if you do not wear a mask, do notobserve the two-yard social distancing norms or donot take other precautions, you are putting others atrisk besides yourselves, especially the elderly and chil-

dren at home”, he said and requested countrymen tonot be negligent.

In another reference, the Prime Minister quotedan inspiring story of Mandavali, Karnataka, where,he said, an 80-85 year-old elder Kamegowda.Kamegowdaji, an ordinary farmer, who takes out hisanimals for grazing but at the same time has taken itupon himself to build new ponds and, so far, dug out16 ponds in his area, Modi said.

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It was held to commemorate the 69th birthanniversary of the popular leader of the NepalCommunist Party late Madan Bhandari at the PrimeMinister’s residence.”There have been various kindsof activities in the embassies and hotels,” heclaimed. “If you listen to the news media from Delhi,you will get the gesture.” He said some Nepaleseleaders were also involved in the game to removehim immediately.The differences between PrimeMinister Oli and his opponents including the rul-ing party’s executive chairman Pushpa KamalDahal “Prachanda” have surfaced during the ongo-ing Standing Committee meeting of the party. Oli,who faced criticism within his party for skippingthe first and the second day of the StandingCommittee meetings, attended the third meeting onSaturday, but briefly. He, however, did not speak atthe meeting.

“In the past when I signed trade agreements withBeijing, my minority government collapsed. But thistime we have a government with a full-fledgedmajority, so no one can remove me now,” Oli saidon Sunday. “I did not commit any mistakeby claiming our land, which has been snatched fromus for the past 58 years after Nepal enjoyed the rightsover these areas for 146 years,” Oli said.

Nepal this month completed the process ofredrawing the country’s political map through aConstitutional amendment, incorporating threestrategically important Indian areas. India hastermed as “untenable” the “artificial enlargement”of the territorial claims by Nepal after its Parliamentunanimously approved the new political map of thecountry featuring Lipulekh, Kalapani andLimpiyadhura areas which India maintains belongto it. The India-Nepal bilateral ties came under strainafter Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurateda 80-km-long strategically crucial road connectingthe Lipulekh pass with Dharchula in Uttarakhandon May 8.

Nepal reacted sharply to the inauguration of theroad claiming that it passed through Nepalese ter-ritory. India rejected the claim asserting that the roadlies completely within its territory.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, a seniorleader of the ruling NCP told PTI that Oli’s indi-cation was his opponents within the ruling party,not from outside.

“There has been growing differences within theruling party and the Prime Minister is being cor-nered within his own party and his own colleaguesare criticising the government’s performance,” hesaid.

Another NCP leader said that Oli’s absence inthe first two days of the meetings showed the grow-ing differences between him and Prachanda.Prachanda has time and again spoken about the lackof coordination between the government and theparty and he was pressing for a one-man one posi-tion system to be followed by the NCP.

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He said it was the concern of people of Delhi thatprivate hospitals are charging arbitrary rates. “In mymeeting, a decision was taken that a committee of doc-tors would be set up that would listen to private hos-pitals, consider best practices and extra cost in treat-ing Covid-19 patients,” he said.

“The rates for ICU without ventilators werebetween �34,000 to �43,000. Now it is �13,000 to�15,000. ICUs with ventilators previously use to cost�44,000 to �54,000. It has now been brought downto �15,000 to �18,000. It includes tests for Covid-19,medicines. And in case of a diabetic patient, the nexttreatment is also included. It is a sealed package,” headded.

He said teams were constituted comprising doc-tors from the Delhi Government, AIIMS and ICMRto help reduce shortcomings.

Speaking about his visit to the Lok Nayak JaiPrakash Narayan Hospital (LNJP), Shah said not onlydid it bring issues being faced on the ground to thefront, but also boosted the morale of the health work-ers. He said the Delhi Government conveyed that thenumber of ambulances, oxygen cylinders and venti-lators needed to increase.

“We immediately provided 500 oxygen cylinders,around 10,000 oximeters and 440 ventilators and willprovide more as and when needed.

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The symptom ranged from mild symptoms tosevere illnesses,” the CDC said in a statement in April,adding these symptoms may appear 2-14 days afterexposure to the virus.

The health body also laid out a set of emergencywarning signs for Covid-19 that require immediatemedical attention – including persistent pain or pres-sure in the chest, trouble breathing, new confusion,and bluish lips or face.

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and small children should be protected. Helpdesks should be set up where information aboutCOVID-19 can be given to the people. Surveillanceteams should be set up to go from home to home tocheck people randomly,” the chief minister said andadded that as the monsoon had set in, the districtadministration should take effective steps to protectpeople from water-borne diseases.

The chief minister also said that the migrant work-ers coming from other states should be givenemployment as per the guidelines.

He said people who wanted to start a businessshould be given loan and those who did not haveration cards should be given ration cards so that theycould get food grains.

When the people’s representatives told Yogiabout the delay in getting no objection certificate(NOC) from the forest department for constructionof Uttraula-Faizabad road, he asked the divisionalcommissioner to submit a report within two days.

Yogi also visited the district hospital in Gonda andenquired about facilities available there.

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Security forces in KashmirValley are in the habit of

escorting parents, especiallymother of a terrorist, near anencounter site to make a lastminute 'emotional' appeal tohim to lay down his arms andsurrender before them but inone of the rare cases, Jammu &Kashmir police has now arrest-ed Naseema Bano, mother of aslain Hizbul Mujahideen ter-rorist under the UnlawfulActivities Prevention Act(UAPA) from one of the SouthKashmir districts of Kulgam.

Her son Tausif Sheikh wasearlier gunned down by thesecurity forces along with oneof the top Hizbul Mujahideencommander Saddam Padderand Mohammad Rafi Bhat, anassistant professor in KashmirUniversity in Badigam area of

Shopian on 6th May 2018.According to official

sources, Naseema Bano wasevading arrest since then.According to police, she wasarrested last week on June 20from her residence in Ramporavillage of Qaimoh in Kulgam.

Quoting Inspector Generalof Police, Kashmir range, thetwitter handle of Kashmir zonepolice Sunday afternoon post-ed a tweet stating, “Jammu &

Kashmir Police does not targetfamily of terrorists withoutevidence. Sister of active terror-ist Abbas Sheikh & mother ofneutralised terrorist Tausif,Naseema Banoo was arrestedon 20 June 2020 in FIR30/2018. Besides, recentinvolvement in recruitingyouth into terrorist ranks”.

According to police,Naseema Bano has beencharged by police for her recentinvolvement in recruitingyouth in to terrorist ranks.Images of Naseema Bano,holding an automatic weapon,were also circulated on the var-ious social media platforms.

Taking note of fewprovocative posts, aimed atinstigating emotions of localresidents, the police authoritieshave warned netizens againstsuch acts aimed at disturbingpeace.

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Smarting under the discom-fiture over Sharad Pawar’s

suggestion to Rahul Gandhinot to politicise India-Chinaviolent stand-off, theMaharashtra Congress onSunday said that using one ofNCP chief ’s comments themedia “should not draw anyconclusions” and “rush to givea clean chit to Modi” andquestion Gandhi’s stand onChina.

A day after the media quot-ed Pawar as saying that “mat-ters of national security shouldnot be politicised” and “onecannot forget China had cap-tured about 45,000 sq km ofIndian land after the 1962war” in the context of Rahul’scriticism of Modi, MaharashtraCongress president BalasahebThorat said: “It is still notcompletely clear what Shri.Sharad Pawar Saheb hassaid”. “And by using just one ofhis comments the mediashould not draw any conclu-sions and rush to give a cleanchit to the Prime Minister andraise questions on the standtaken by Shri. Rahul ji Gandhi.I am sure that Pawar Saheb isworried by Chinese incursiontoo,” Thorat said.

Talking to media persons

at Satara in westernMaharashtra, Pawar had said:“We can’t forget what had hap-pened in 1962 when Chinaoccupied 45,000 square kilo-metres of India’s territory.While making these allega-tions, one should also look atwhat had happened in thepast. This is an issue of nation-al interest and once should notbring in politics here”.

Pawar, who is the supremeleader of the NCP that hasformed a three-party govern-ment in alliance with the ShivSena and Congress inMaharashtra, had made theseremarks when his attentionwas drawn to Gandhi’s allega-tion that Prime MinisterNarendra Modi had surren-dered Indian Territory to theChinese aggression.

Among other things, theNCP chief had also said thatthe Centre could not be blamedfor the standoff at GalwanValley. “Our soldiers tried topush back Chinese army menwhen they tried to encroachupon Indian soil. To say this isthe failure of anyone or of thedefence minister isn’t correct.Had our army not been onalert, we wouldn’t have knownChinese assertion,” Pawar said.

In response, the StateCongress president said in a

statement issued here: “TheCongress is with the govern-ment on the China issue, butthat doesn't mean that ques-tions shouldn't be asked on theissues of national interest”.

“The questions raised byShri. Rahul ji Gandhi on bor-der security is not politics, buta responsibility given by thepeople. We cannot compare thesituation in 1962 with what ishappening today,” Thorat said.

“Not a single soldier haslost his life on the India-Chinaborder in 45 years. Our 20 sol-diers were martyred at GalwanValley due to China's aggres-sion. Even then the PrimeMinister says no-one intrudedon our territory. Using thesestatements of his, China iscalling our martyrs as intrud-ers. Just like the CongressParty, Sharad Pawar Saheb toomust have been saddened bythis,” Thorat said.

Maintaining that Gandhihad raised questions that are onthe minds of the general pub-lic, Thorat said: “The con-cerns raised by Rahul ji areregarding the integrity of ourCountry. Even today the PMdidn't utter a single wordregarding the Chinese aggres-sion in his Maan Ki Baat pro-gram. This is not the time tokeep quiet”.

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Unlock 1.0 saw Bengalreturning to its known

ways of political clashes withthe BJP giving the rulingTrinamool Congress a taste ofits own medicine at Nandigramwhere the cadres of the twoparties engaged in a bloodyclash on Sunday leaving sever-al persons including a BJP dis-trict secretary injured, sourcessaid.

Khejuri block adjoiningNandigram in West Midnaporedistrict witnessed indiscrimi-nate firing, bombing andhousebreaking while maraud-ing members from two sidesfought with each other whilethe police looked the other way.

While the police refusedreports of firing, Bengal BJPpresident Dilip Ghosh saidPabitra Das the district BJP sec-retary and “a very active work-er was targeted by theTrinamool Congress goonswith guns… he received gun-shot injuries and has beenadmitted in a local hospital.”Some other party men toowere injured in the clash, hecomplained.

Khejuri has been a tradi-tional Left bastion that hadrecently turned saffron. Das aformer CPI(M) local commit-tee secretary who joined the BJPahead of the panchayat electionswas protesting against theTMC-run panchayat’s allegeddecision to sell off trees uproot-

ed in super cyclone Amphanwithout floating tenders.

“Tension ran high in thevillage with both sides mount-ing attacks and counterattacksthroughout the last week thatsaw many houses being lootedand ransacked and many peo-ple getting injured in intermit-tent clashes,” a local districtofficer said requestinganonymity.

“This is a governmentwhich has literally sold out theentire State to the syndicatewallahs and when our men areprotesting they are beingattacked with guns and bombs,”Ghosh said in Kolkata adding.

Post lockdown Bengal hadwitnessed clashes breaking outbetween the two parties at

various places of North andSouth 24 Parganas, Hooghly,Burdwan and Howrah overissues that were mostly relatedto corruption.

Khejuri is adjacent toNandigram that hit nationalheadlines following bloodyclashes during a massive landmovement led by ChiefMinister Mamata Banerjee (thethen opposition leader) and herMidnapore points-man andpresent Minister SubhenduAdhikary in 2007. The move-ment eventually catapultedBanerjee to power.

With lockdown goneBengal has started witnessingsporadic sporadic clashesbetween the BJP and TMCwith the former launching

rallies protesting againstalleged corruption in provid-ing relief to the people hit byAmphan.

Refuting BJP’s allegationsformer Union Minister andlocal Trinamool MP SisirAdhikary said his party hadnothing to do with the clashadding the fight was betweenBJP and CPI(M) as many Leftmembers were leaving thatparty to join the saffron group.

“We have our MP, MLAand the panchayat so whyshould we soil our party’sname in the area by engagingin such fights. I have heard thatthe clash took place betweenthe CPI(M) and BJP as manyLeft workers are leaving thatparty,” Adhikary said.

Jaipur: The Bhilwara districtadministration has slapped�6.26 lakh fine on a family fororganising a lavish wedding,attended by 250 guests floutingall Covid-19 norms and restric-tions, on June 13.

While the number ofguests was much above the per-mitted 50, one person died and15 attendees, including thegroom, had tested coronavirus

positive by June 27.Officials said the groom's

grand-father died from Covid-19, and his aunt and uncle alsotested coronavirus positive.However, the bride and 17others tested negative.

All the 15 Covid-19patients have been admitted tohospital and over 100 quaran-tined.

The State Government

slapped a notice on the groom'sfather ordering him to foot thebill of the quarantine facilityand treatment of infected peo-ple by paying �6,26,600 fine.

Bhilwara DistrictMagistrate Rajendra Bhatt hasasked the Tehsildar to recoverthe fine from the groom'sfather within 3 days, anddeposit that in the ChiefMinister Relief Fund. IANS

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Banaras Beads Limited(BBL), India’s leading

exporter of glass beads, hand-icrafts and its related items andhaving biggest market in US forits products has increased itsrevenue in 4th quarter by 15per cent to � 555 lakh as com-pared to � 481 lakh in the cor-responding period of the pre-vious year. The growth for theQ4 is also affected due toCOVID-19 and world/ nation-wide lockdown.

Stating about auditedfinancial results for the quar-ter & year ended 31st March,2020, the Chairman &Managing Director of BBL

Ashok Kumar, in a pressrelease, informed that the rev-enue of company increased in4th Quarter by 15 per cent to� 555 lakh as compared to �481 lakh in the correspondingperiod of the previous year.The growth for the Q4 is alsoaffected due to Covid-19 andworld/nationwide lockdown,he added.

The company registeredprofit after tax at � 69 lakh ascompared to �40 lakh in thecorresponding period of theprevious year and the revenueincreased up by 49 per cent at�2578 lakh as compared to �1731 lakh in the correspond-ing period of the previousyear. It registered profit after

tax up by 103 per cent at �234lakh as compared to �115lakh in the correspondingperiod of the previous year.

Commenting on theresults and performance,Ashok Kumar stated that thecompany has delivered a bet-ter performance for the year,despite the sharp slowdown inthe Q4 due to COVID-19pandemic and added that thecompany achieved a 103 percent growth in profitability inFY20, due to continued sup-port by US based bigCustomer (Chain Store) anddue to quality & punctuality inexecution of orders by thecompany.

During the ongoing crisis,

we are undertaking all neces-sary measures to ensure safe-ty and well-being of ouremployees and all associated.The company is strictly adher-ing to Government guidelineslike that maintaining socialdistance, mandatory to wearface mask, proper sanitisa-tions, stated Ashoik Kumar.

Shipment of goods hasalso been started. Presentlybusiness operation is goingwith more than 90 per centmanpower and otherresources. The companyexpect that its profitabilitywill not be affected badlykeeping in view of continuessupport of foreign buyers, hestated.

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The Union Ministry ofHousing and Urban Affairs

is in the process of improvingmajor cities across the countryunder the Smart City Mission.In order to transform Varanasiinto a smart city under thismission, a Memorandum ofUnderstanding (MoU) betweenIndian Institute of Technology,Banaras Hindu University (IIT-BHU) and Varanasi Smart CityLimited (VSCL) has beensigned. In order to give accel-eration to the mission, ProfPramod Kumar Jain, DirectorIIT-BHU has launched theSmart City Cell, a virtual cen-tre at IIT-BHU where a team ofthe institute’s academics andprofessionals will work in closecoordination with the VSCLofficials to address diverseneeds of the Smart City pro-jects. CEO, VSCL andMunicipal CommissionerGaurang Rathi welcomed thisidea and it was agreed by bothto proceed with the modalitiesto ensure timely attainment ofthe goals.

IIT-BHU Director ProfPramod Kumar Jain said thatthe objective of this agree-ment is to further leverage the

involvement of faculty and stu-dents of the institute in theoverall development of the city.The association of the twoorganisations will be very muchfruitful for both and prove tobe a major step towards the bet-terment of the living conditionsfor citizens of Varanasi. Thescope of the collaborationincludes verification and eval-uation of all VSCL designs(especially the structuraldesigns) and drawings byexperts from the institute lead-ing to the strategic transforma-tion of the city.

Prof Jain added that VSCL

has also agreed to associateitself with students of IIT-BHU for project related works.UG/PG students from IIT-BHU will do their summerinternship in VSCL in projectsrelated to IoT, InformationTechnology, StructuralEngineering, Architecture,Urban Planning, SmartMobility, Environment, WasteManagement, Energy, GIS,Ponds Restoration, GangaRejuvenation, SensorDeployment and many otherfields. Furthermore, profes-sionals from IIT-BHU will beinvited to be part of the keytechnical discussions andstrategic meetings being held atVSCL, to share their expertopinion, and to provide appro-priate solutions.

He further added that theIIT-BHU team will involve inthe proper water managementof the both groundwater andsurface water resources includ-ing the accurate water budget-ing of the city corresponding todomestic, industrial demand ofVaranasi city. 3D cityModelling combined with IoT,AI Cloud, and Big DataAnalytics is playing a crucialrole in development of sustain-able cities. IIT-BHU has recent-

ly established a Centre ofExcellence in TechnologyInnovation Hub (TIH) withsupport from DST in the fieldof Data Analytics andPredictive Technologies(DAPT). VSCL has shown hiskeen interest to apply IoT andDAPT in the field of trafficmanagement and PedestrianManagement in the city areas.

CEO VSCL Gaurang Rathisuggested that a series of webi-nars in collaboration be organ-ised so that the experience,expertise, and lessons learntfrom projects reach a largeraudience, organisationsinvolved in similar activities,and other Smart City Projects.A team of experts comprisingDr Anurag Ohri, Dr AnkitGupta and Dr Shishir Gaurfrom IIT-BHU and Dr DVasudevan from VSCL hasbeen formed to organise thewebinar series.

Reiterating the institute’scommitment to nation buildingthrough its contribution to theSmart City Mission and theSwachh Bharat Mission, ProfJain said that as a premier tech-nical institute of the country,IIT-BHU will continue toadapt, innovate, and engage toensure quality life to everyone.

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Sarnath, a tourist place,would be developed with an

estimated cost of � 100 croreunder Pro-Poor TourismDevelopment Project fundedby the World Bank. TheTourism department has beendirected to chalk out thedetailed project report (DPR)regarding this.

Chairing a meeting atauditorium in the office ofDivisional Commissioner hereon Saturday last, the UPMinister of State for Tourism,Culture, Religious Affairs andProtocol (IndependentCharge) Dr Neelkanth Tiwaridirected the Tourism depart-ment to draft out the DPRregarding the project andinformed that three entrancegates would be constructedbesides pathway betweenChaukhandi and Sarnath rail-way station under it. An

entrance gate would also beconstructed on the entranceroute between Ring Road andrailway station on which thetourists could have a glimpseof subjects related to LordBuddha and Varanasi City.An entrance gate had alreadybeen constructed at Ashapur,the minister added.

The minister informedthat the route betweenChuakhandi and Sarnath rail-way station, on which a totalof 26 temples are situated,would be of international leveland the route between muse-um and Sarnath would also bebeautified. Dr Tiwari informedthat the Sarnath Park wouldalso be beautified by makingits extension under the project.The nullah constructed duringthe regime of Samrat Ashokawould be covered, informedthe minister adding that alibrary based on Boudh andJain Dharmas would also be

constructed, informed theminister further.

A Skill DevelopmentCentre would be constructedwhere the artists could evalu-ate their artworks and alsoexport their creations usingthe international level technol-ogy, informed the ministeradding that the entire place tobe developed, would be underclose vigil of CCTV cameras.The LED screens would beinstalled in the place to bedeveloped and this placewould also be facilitated withWi-Fi service to facilitate thetourists, informed the minis-ter.

There is also a proposal ofattaching physically challengedpersons (Divyangs) withtourism by making golf cartsavailable to them, informedthe minister adding that thetourist police station wouldalso be made ultra-modern tofacilitate tourists. The tourist

bungalow would also beupgraded with the latest facil-ities under the proposed pro-ject, informed the minister.

Dr Tiwari informed thatthe development ofShoolkanteshwar Mahadev,Jwar Hareshwar MahadevSankuldhara Mutt andOnkareshwar MahadevMandirs is being carried out inview of tourism and directedthe officers concerned to com-plete the construction work ofSangam Ghat and VartmanGhat situated at MarkandeyMahadev Mandir in Kaithiwithin stipulated time. Theminister made it clear thatthere is no proposal to devel-op Kalbhairav Mandir area inview of tourism.

The DivisionalCommissioner DeepakAgrawal and Joint Director,Tourism Avinash ChandraMishra were also present inthe meeting.

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Prayagraj district has clockeda recovery rate of more

than 70 per cent while treatingpatients of COVID-19 as perthe data released by the districtHealth department here.

Till June 25, 234 patientshad been diagnosed with thedisease in the district, of which159 have recovered and dis-charged from hospitals.Currently, there are 61 activecases in the district and thesepatients are undergoing treat-ment at COVID-19 L1 andCOVID-19 L3 Hospitals,according to the data releasedby district health officials here.

It may be pointed out herethat the first COVID-19 case inPrayagraj was recorded in Aprilfirst week, when a 35-year-oldIndonesian, who had attendedthe Tablighi Jamaat event inNew Delhi tested COVID-19positive. He tested positive fornovel coronavirus on April 5.The foreign national hadattended the congregation inDelhi on March 12-13 andarrived in the city on March 22.

A few days later, the rate ofincrease in COVID-19 casesdecreased and Prayagraj waseven declared a green zone onApril 23, until two days laterthree new cases were reportedfrom the city. On April 25, twoyouths who had returned fromMumbai for a family member’sfuneral and another man whohad come in contact with aCOVID-19 patient while on atrain journey were found

COVID-19 positive.The number of Prayagraj

residents getting infected withthe disease started increasingtowards April-end and crossedthe 200-mark on June 23. Alarge number of these caseswere migrants native to UPwho started returning home viaspecial trains and state busesafter being stranded in othercities during the lockdown.

Nodal officer andAdditional Chief MedicalOfficer Dr Rishi Sahai said therecovery rate of patients has

been increasing day by day andover 150 patients have beenrecovered and discharged fromCOVID Hospitals so far.Prayagraj’s recovery rate isaround 70 per cent.

The oldest patient to haverecovered from the virus is a85-year-old woman, whose sonwas the first COVID-19 casu-alty to be reported from thestate. She was among the sixmembers of a family who test-ed positive for the infection. Onthe other hand, the youngestnovel coronavirus patient from

Prayagraj was a 10-day-oldinfant. Health department offi-cials said that more than 10children aged from one to 14years have won the battleagainst COVID-19 so far in thecity. Of the 63 patients to bediagnosed with COVID-19 inKaushambi district, 55 haverecovered and discharged fromhospitals. Only eight patientsare currently undergoing treat-ment in Kaushambi. The dis-trict has not reported anydeaths due to COVID-19 tillnow.

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Indian Railway StationsDevelopment Corporation

Ltd. (IRSDC) is a joint venturecompany of RLDA and IRCONwith 50:50 ownership present-ly. RITES is also likely to joinshortly as another promoterwith 24 per cent equity so thatRITES and IRCON shall joint-ly hold 50 per cent equity.

IRSDC is at the core ofIndian Railway’s mission oftransforming country’s railwaystations into world-class 24x7hubs. These redeveloped hubswill be called as ‘Railopolis’, asit will attract huge investmentand business opportunities.With application of FormBased codes developed byIRSDC, the availability of pub-lic area in Railopolis shall

increase thus making suchredeveloped railway stations astrue city centres.

With a view to redevelopthe four railway stations i.e.Gwalior, Nagpur, Amritsar &Sabarmati and transform theminto iconic city centres, IndianRailway Stations DevelopmentCorporation Ltd. (IRSDC)invited RFQs (Request forQualification) in December2019.

On 26th June, 2020IRSDC opened the RFQ appli-cations of these four railwaystations. IRSDC is happy toshare that overwhelmingresponse has been receivedfrom developers and fundhouses despite the currentCOVID-19 scenario. In total,IRSDC has received 32 suc-cessful applications. JKB,

GMR, ISQ Capital, Kalpataru,FairFax/Anchorage, MonteCarlo, GR Infrastructure,Kalyan Toll, CubeConstruction are some of thenames from whom applica-tions have been received. Outof the 32 applications, 9 appli-cations have been receivedfor Sabarmati station(Ahmedabad).

The applicants include two‘Funds’ also apart from reput-ed developers. The totalIndicative cost for redevelop-ment of the above four stationsis about � 1300 crore. The totalbuilt up area (BUA) allowedfor commercial development is54 lakh sq. ft. No land usechange and prior environ-mental clearance is requiredfor these projects as these areRailway projects under

Railway Act 1989. IRSDC isthe nodal agency for redevel-opment of stations.

The above four projectshold distinction of being thefirst railway projects to have inprinciple approval of PublicPrivate Partnership AppraisalCommittee (PPPAC), formedby GOI for PPP projects.These four stations are also thefirst ones to have provision ofpre-determined user chargeson passengers and visitors asone of the main revenuestream for the concessionaireof the redeveloped stations.

After shortlisting theapplicants, Request forProposal will be called inwhich bids will be submittedby the bidders. It is likely thatthe work will start soon in allthe four projects.

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Construction work of a newbridge over Tons River at

trans-Yamuna will be startedsoon. This bridge will be builton the State Highway leadingfrom Naribari to Koraon andManda Road. This was said bythe Deputy Chief MinisterKeshav Prasad Maurya.

He further said that thisbridge will be built at the esti-

mated cost of �61 crore. Thebudget will be released fromthe government for construc-tion soon.

It may be pointed out herethat about 65 years ago, thethen Chief MinisterSampurnanand had built abridge at Gaughat nearNaribari at this state highway.This bridge was built with spe-cial technology. The engineer-ing skills of bridge construc-

tion can be gauged from thefact that the Belan canal hasbeen drawn under the bridgeroad, under which the riverflows. This means that there isa canal over the river and aroad over it.

This is considered anexample of engineering. Thebridge is now dilapidated andheavy vehicular traffic hasbeen stopped on it. DeputyCM Keshav Prasad Maurya

said that the DPR of thisbridge has already beenapproved. A budget will alsobe released soon for its con-struction.

The new bridge will be 718meters long. It will have a 200-200 metre approach road oneither side. RK Singh, ProjectManager of Uttar PradeshSetu Nigam, said that a newbridge is also proposed nearthe old bridge.

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:;��������������������������!��?��$���� ��� ��� ���������� �%��� ���������������������ALLAHABAD (PNS): Three corona-infectedpregnant women gave birth to babies at theSwaroop Rani Nehru Hospital L3 COVIDHospital in the last 20 hours. The trio had a suc-cessful operation in which they gave birth to twobaby boys and a baby girl.

All these three women were pregnant andwhen all three were tested, they were reportedto be corona positive. Of them, a woman wasreferred to SRN Hospital from a private hospi-tal. The team of the Department of Gynecologyhas delivered a total of seven corona-positivepregnant women so far and all of them are per-fectly healthy.

The first delivery took place at 12:10 pm onSaturday. She was a resident of Mauaima. Shewas in critical condition so she was deliveredthrough operation at night. The woman gavebirth to a baby boy weighing around 3.25 kg whois perfectly healthy. The other woman is a res-ident of Rani Mandi. She was delivered at 12:59minutes on Saturday weighing 3.5 kg. She hasgiven birth to a baby girl.

Similarly, a corona-infected pregnantwoman is a resident of Chakia Phaphamau. Shewent to a private hospital in the city for deliv-ery, but the report came positive when sheunderwent a COVID test before the operation.She was referred to the L3 COVID Hospital SRN.Where Dr Amrita Chaurasia and her team per-formed the operation and delivered. Both thenewborn and mother are quite healthy.

Dr Amrita Chaurasia, head of theDepartment of Gynecology of Motilal NehruMedical College, said that three pregnantwomen who are corona positive were delivered.Our entire team attributed the contribution tothis.

She further said that our team has per-formed the caesarian of seven corona positivepregnant so far which was successful. The entireteam was involved in this operation followingthe protocol of COVID-19. Now these threenewborns have been kept separate from theirmothers, they will also be tested for coronavirus,added Dr Chaurasia.

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The district saw the biggestspike in finding new

COVID-19 cases as 28 newcases have been detected hereon Sunday. The last highestnumber was 21 seen on June23. During the last few days thenumber has increased alarm-ingly, especially when all theauthorities are more serioustowards development issuessince the beginning of Unlock1.0 than that of the coronaviruspandemic. With this, the dis-trict has crossed 450-mark asthe total number of patients hasincreased to 451. Out of them,274 have been recovered while161 are active patients. The dis-trict has also seen one moredeath, increasing the toll to 16.

Meanwhile, it was not onlya sad day for Varanasi but alsoin many other districts ofPurvanchal (eastern UP) com-prising 10 districts of threedivisions. New cases weredetected in several districtsincluding Sonbhadra,Azamgarh and Jaunpur apartfrom one death in Ghazipur.In Sonbhadra, where so far thelowest cases were seen, sawfour new corona cases and

with this the number hasincreased to 39 with 10 activeas 29 have been recovered.Two more cases have beenfound in Jaunpur, where thebiggest number of patientswas found so far. With this, thenumber of cases in the districthas increased to 509.Azamgarh also saw a spike inCOVID-19 cases as sevencases were found, increasingthe number of cases to 226with 52 active patients, As

many as 167 have been recov-ered, while seven have died. InGhazipur, the district saw thethird death. In the districtthere are 321 cases with 48active patients, while 275 havebeen discharged from the hos-pital.

Earlier, as many as 20 per-sons have been arrested underSection 151 CrPC on Saturdaywhile action was taken against29 under Section 51 ofDisaster Management Act.

During checking at 14 borderpoints and 49 police barriers,1,695 vehicles were challanedand six seized. Since theimposing of lockdown, 295FIRs have been lodged against683 persons; 3,290 were arrest-ed under Section 151 of CrPC, while action was takenagainst 4,218 under Section188 or Section 51 of DisasterManagement Act. Besides, sofar 11,2591 vehicles were chal-laned and 1,078 were seized.

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A32-year-old man was mur-dered in DC Road-situat-

ed Kanshiram Colony in thecity. His blood-stained bodywas recovered from his room.Marks of injuries were foundon the right side of his nose. Itseemed that the victim wasmurdered around 48 hoursago. Arvind Lal Gautam, aresident of Deoria, said that hewas an electrician and livedalong with his wife and chil-dren in a rented house inSikarida locality. He said thathis brother, Ajit Pratap Lalalias Dabbu (32) lived alone inroom No 45 of block three in

Kanshiram Colony on DCRoad and gave tuition to chil-dren. When the door of hisbrother's room did not open hisneighbours called him but didnot get any response.

On being informed by theneighbours Arvind Lal Gautamreached the spot, knocked atthe door. On getting no replyhe became suspicious he wenttowards the balcony and foundits door open. When he wentinside the room he was shell-shocked to find his body lyingthere adjacent to the wall. Theblood which had spread on thefloor had turned black and wascompletely frozen. On gettinginformation ASP Arun KumarSingh, CO (City) Vijay Anand

and inspector in-charge SadarAjay Mishra reached the spot.The police opened the doorwhich was closed from inside.Marks of injuries were foundon the right portion of the noseof the victim. Police took hisbody into custody and sent itfor the post-mortem examina-tion and was investigating thematter.

ASP Arun Kumar Singhsaid that the body of thedeceased was recovered fromhis house and the door waslocked from inside. He said thatpost- mortem examination ofthe body was being done andthe cause of the death would beascertained after getting itsreport.

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A26-year-old woman,Sushila, wife of Ashok

Kumar, consumed a poisonoussubstance and died in Tara vil-lage under the Chilla police sta-tion here. The police had senther body for the post-mortemexamination. Chilla sub-inspector Kanhaiya Lal saidthat dispute between the cou-ple was the cause of suicide. Headded that Sushila’s husband,Ashok, was addicted to liquor

and thrashed her frequently. S-I Kanhaiya Lal said that thefather of the deceased, Sushila,had given an application inwhich he alleged that hisdaughter was killed. S-I saidthat an FIR would be lodgedafter investigating the case.

On the other hand, Savita(18), daughter of VimalVishwakarma, committed sui-cide by hanging with the helpof a dupatta from the ceiling ofher house in Chhote Badokharvillage under City Kotwali.

The police had sent her bodyfor the post-mortem examina-tion. The Station House Officer(SHO) City Kotwali DineshSingh said that the cause of sui-cide was a family dispute.

In yet another incidentPan Kumari (30), wife of JaiChandra, was electrocuted aftershe touched the iron door ofher house in Mungus villageunder Tindwari police station.The police said her body hadbeen sent for the post-mortemexamination.

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Acattle smuggler Jay KumarKol carrying a reward of

�25,000 was arrested byAdalhat police on Saturday.

According to the police, a casewas registered against the cul-prit at Chunar police station inMay 2018 for smuggling 13head of cattle. In the case all themembers of the gang, includ-ing its leader, Shamsuddin,had been jailed. The Adalhatpolice registered a case againstthe smugglers under GangsterAct. Since the case under theGangster Act was registered theculprit was remaining at large.On Saturday the Adalhat policeraided the house of the culpritat Barahi Toria Ahraura andarrested him.

I N S P E C T E D :Superintendent of Police (SP)Dr Dharmveer Singh inspect-ed the cowshed located atTurkaha under Lalganj police

station. The SP found 490 headof cattle there, sufficient stockof essential things and properfacility for disposing of thedung. The cowshed is beingrun by Mirzapur Nagar PalikaParishad and it has deployed 10employees for looking afterthe cattle.

WOMAN RUN OVER BYTRAIN: A woman was runover by a train in Hurua villageunder the Padari police station.The police took her body forcompleting legal formalities.The woman was identified asParvati Devi, wife of Kanhaiya,a resident of Kurkuthiya villageunder the Dehat Kotwali policestation.

BOY DIES: A boy died inDevpura village under Padaripolice station. According tofamily members, Shiva (12),son of Shashi, found in anunconscious state in a room inhis house. He was taken to aprivate clinic in the city but hedied. Padari police reachedthe clinic and took his body foran post-mortem examination.In another incident Kamlavati(45) and her daughter Neelam(16) were found unconscious intheir house in Nikarika villageunder the Madihan police sta-tion. They were taken to a hos-pital at Rajgarh where Kamlavtiwas declared as brought deadwhile Neelam died duringtreatment. Police said that theirfamily members claimed thatthey were bitten by a snake sotheir bodies were handed overto them after panchnama.

ONE HURT: One person

was injured in a road accidentnear Sewati river under theHalia police station. As perreports, the Bolero collidedwith the car after its driver lostcontrol over it and it fell into aditch in Galara village onDramondganj-Halia Road. Asa result driver Sandeep wasinjured. The car driver man-aged to escape from the spot.

RATION CARDS: DistrictSupply Officer Umesh Chandsaid that on the initiative of thegovernment verification ofration cards was to be doneshortly. Giving details, he saidthat the drive was aimed tobenefit the eligible persons.He said that it was observedthat adult members of jointfamilies had managed to getcards separately which was aviolation of the norms.Moreover well-off people wereenjoying the facility ofAntyodaya cards, he added. Hesaid that keeping such anom-alies in mind theCommissioner, Food and CivilSupplies, ordered their verifi-cation throughout the stateand in order to comply with itMirzapur DM had directedthe SDMs, BDOs and EOsNagar Palika to conduct theverification. The DSO statedthat after deletion of names ofbogus beneficiaries the facilitywould be provided to eligiblepersons.

INVOKED: Gangster Actwas invoked against five crim-inals who were accused of gan-graping a minor girl in an areaunder the Halia police station.

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In the development of anyinstitution human resources

working there play a veryimportant role. The HumanResource Management System(HRMS) is being implementedon the North Eastern Railwaywhich is in line with the guide-lines of Centre for RailwayInformation Systems (CRIS).

Moving towards digital-ization under HRMS data of allemployees working on NER isbeing made online. Under itafter making the service bookand personal files of employeesonline the details of theirappointment, promotion, train-ing, leave, full salary-related

details, personal details likenominee, mobile number etc.are being uploaded. After theimplementation of this systemthe employees will require onlythe login ID and password forseeing their details. If there wasany discrepancy in them itwill be easy to contact theemployee concerned and get itcorrected.

In this system eachemployee was alloted a six-digit HRMS code. Through itany employee can view his orher personal details. With theintroduction of this system100 transparency is ensured.This is an important initiativein the direction of employeesatisfaction which benefits both

the employee and the admin-istration.

The Personnel departmentof headquarters, Gorakhpur,has created HRMS code oftotal 5,381 employees deployedthere, Chief Public RelationsOfficer (CPRO) Pankaj KumarSingh said.

The work for implement-ing HRMS in divisions, otherunits and workshops is beingdone at a fast pace and it isexpected to be completed innext few days. The CRIS hasdeveloped an HRMS mobileapplication for railway employ-ees on which by enteringHRMS ID and password theemployees concerned can seetheir details.

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The Khorabar police on Saturday arrested anaccused, Sachin Paswan, a resident of

Motiram Adda, in connection with the incidentin which a couple was deprived of their bag.However, another accused managed to abscondfrom the spot and police was searching for him.SP (City) Dr Kaustubh and CO Cantt SumitShukla said that Khorabar inspector Sunil Rai waspatrolling along with villagers when they weretipped off by an informer that the two accusedinvolved in the loot were going on a motorbike.When the police stopped them one of theyouths escaped from the spot but his accomplicewas apprehended. He was identified as SachinPaswan, a resident of Motiram Adda, who saidthat the businessman was deprived of the bagwhen he going on a motorbike with his wife to hisrelative’s place on February 2. In another incidenta 12-year-old child, Ayush, son of Vishwanath, diedin a collision between an auto and a motorcyclenear Bandhwa village under the Gagaha police sta-tion on Saturday. His grandmother and two youthson the motorbike were injured.

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One person was killed and two others seri-ously injured when an uncontrolled trac-

tor hit a motorcycle in Maudaha area. According to the police, Kamta Prasad, a

resident of Tihar village under the Bewar policestation, was returning from a wedding alongwith his wife, Rajkumari, and nephew Vinod,on a motorcycle. When they reached nearSilauli village under Maudaha police stationan uncontrolled tractor coming from the oppo-site direction hit their motorbike as a result ofwhich all three of them fell on the road. WhileKamta died on the spot Rajkumari and Vinodwho were seriously injured had been admit-ted to the government hospital in Maudaha.After the incident the tractor driver escapedfrom the spot along with the vehicle. On get-ting information about the matter policerushed to the spot, took the body of the vic-tim into custody and sent it for the post-mortem examination.

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Upset at being teased byneighbouring youths and

beaten up by them, a teenagedgirl committed suicide byhanging herself in Vidhnupolice station area on Saturdaynight.

On the complaint of herfather, police have registeredan FIR against the guiltyyouths.

According to reports, the14-year-old daughter of alabourer in New Azad Chowkiarea in Vidhnu, was a studentof class VIII. On Saturdayevening, she had gone to amedical store to buy medicinesfor her mother. When shewas returning home, threeneighbouring youths caughthold of her. When she protest-ed, the youths beat her up.

The girl somehow escapedfrom their clutches and rantowards her house, but theyouths chased her. When hermother standing at the doorsof the house protested, theyouths also beat her up. As thelocal residents rushed to thespot, all the three youthsescaped issuing threats of direconsequences to the girl andher mother.

With tears in her eyes, thegirl went to her room andhanged herself. After sometime, when her mother peepedthrough the ventilator, shefound her daughter hangingfrom the ceiling fan.

The neighbours brokeopen the doors and broughtdown the body and called thepolice and informed the girl’sfather about the tragedy.

According to the girl’sfather, the youths frequentlystalked his daughter on way toher school. He had scoldedthem. On Saturday, when hewent to his workplace, theyouths beat up his daughter.

Station House OfficerPushpraj Singh said after reg-istering the FIR, raids werebeing conducted to nab thealleged youths.

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A lovesick youth hangedhimself to death from a babooltree on the outskirt of Hathehivillage in Nandana area ofGhatampur Kotwali circle onSaturday night.

In the suicide note writtenon his arms and palms, theyouth mentioned about hisone-sided love for a local mar-ried woman.

The deceased youth wasidentified as Vipin (25), theyoungest son of late MohanLal Sankhwar of Hathehi vil-lage. He was still a bachelor.He fell in love with a marriedwoman of the village andwould often loiter near herhouse to get a glimpse of herand find a chance to chatwith her.

On Saturday night, he hadgone out of the house and wasfound hanged from the treeabout 500 metres away fromthe village on Sunday morn-ing. Investigations are on.

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District Magistrate BRTiwari has directed the

health officials to gird them-selves for combating commu-nicable diseases. He said a spe-cial month-long drive wasbeing launched from July 1 to31 and directed the officials tochalk out a micro-plan for it ona war footing.

He said as per ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath’sdirective, JapaneseEncephalitis (JE) and othercommunicable diseases werelikely to pose a big challengeto the people who were alreadyreeling under the impact ofCOVID-19 and thus everyefforts had to be made tohandle the situation, if theneed arose.

Dr Tiwari said in thisdirection, the health depart-ment had been made the nodalcentre and the onus of pre-vention and cure were laid onit. He said there was a need topromote awareness and aboveall there was need to strictlymaintain social distancing.

The district magistratesaid the government hadworked out a comprehensive

plan and it would be publi-cised through media so thatcommunicable diseases couldbe controlled effectively.

He said special commit-tees need to be set up in urbanand rural areas for surveillanceand they should be moni-tored at regular intervals.

Dr Tiwari said in view ofthe approaching health prob-lems along with the coron-

avirus pandemic, the govern-ment was not taking chancesand thus regular meetingswere being summoned to notonly issue guidelines but alsoto monitor the progress madein taking preventive measures.

He said special focusshould be on frequent clean-liness drives, spraying of insec-ticides, clearing stagnant waterso that mosquito breeding

could be prevented.He said special training

should be imparted toAnganwadi workers, especial-ly on prevention of commu-nicable diseases and JE.

Prominent among thosewho took part in themeeting included CDOSunil Singh, CMO Dr AshokShukla, Dr Subodh and sever-al others.

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Urmila Gupta has beenappointed the new super-

intendent of Swarup Nagarshelter home for girls in placeof Mithilesh Pal, who was sus-pended on charges of negli-gence.

Gupta was superintendentof this shelter home in 2016and is presently posted at Agrain same capacity. She will takeover the charge in a couple ofdays.

Meanwhile, the districtpolice chief has suspended aconstable and issued warningto a sub-inspector for their neg-ligence in allowing the twoshelter home inmates whoescapes from the quarantinecentre at KDA Greens. Bothgirls were recovered fromChamanganj.

Apart form the suspen-sion of the constable, the homeguards deployed at the quar-antine centre have also beenremoved.

President of AkhilBharatiya Janwadi MahilaSamiti Neelam Tiwari haspraised the district adminis-tration for its quick action intothe escape of the two shelterhome girls and their recovery.She said the reasons for theescape of the two girls shouldalso be found out.

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JK Cement Head of CorporateAffairs, Abhishek Singhania,

while presiding over the 24thConvocation of Dr Gaur HariSinghania Institute ofManagement and Research(GHSIMR), congratulated themedal winners and students ofthe 2020 batch who were con-ferred diploma by the con-troller of examination.

He also congratulatedeveryone on GHSIMR com-pleting 25 years of its exis-tence, saying he was sure thatthe institute would flourishwith leaps and bound infuture with its alumni basenow approaching two thou-

sand. He wished everyonebest of luck in their futureendeavours.

In the present COVID-19times, it was the first time thata convocation was held ononline platform.

GHSIMR Director RakeshPremi, in his annual report,said that a total of 39 studentsof 2-year full-time programmehad qualified to receive thediploma and out of these, 32(82 per cent) students hadsecured first division andamong the first divisioners, 18were females and 14 males.

He said the placementswere very good for the 24thbatch as 44 offers were madeby 35 companies to 37 eligible

students and five of them hadjoined the league of entrepre-neurs.

The director said thehighest package offered was �7.50 lakh per annum, and theaverage package was � 4.25lakh per annum. The promi-nent recruiting companieswere Berger Paints, ITC Ltd.,FinEdge Consulting, AcxiomConsulting, Decathlon Sportsto name a few.

Dr Premi said along withother activities underCorporate SocialResponsibility (CSR), visit toDivyang (a school for handi-cap) and Birsa MundaVanwasi Chhatrawas wereconducted, along with blood

donation camp. He said thisyear the students had suc-cessfully completed theirinternational industrial tourfor seven days in Dubai.

The Chairman’s GoldMedal was awarded to SonalSadhwani, Chairman’s SilverMedal to Aditi Kukreja,Director’s Medal toDeepansha Kohli, HarshitaChhattani and Ayush Tripathifor securing third, fourth andfifth positions.

PGP Chair ShekharTrivedi proposed the vote ofthanks.

Other prominent personspresent on the occasionincluded AK Saraogi, AAgarwal and Rohit Joshi.

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Eight more persons have tested positive forcoronavirus infection in Kanpur Nagar.Chief Medical Officer Dr AK Shukla said

eight more coronavirus positive caseswere detected between Saturday evening andSunday evening taking the total of such casesto 1,107.

He said the new cases were reported fromPanki, Naubasta, Nawabganj, Patkapur, AcharyaNagar, Jawahar Nagar, Kachchia Mohal.

Dr Shukla said with the discharge of 18COVID-19 patients, the number of cured

infected persons had reached 745 and now 315active cases were undergoing treatment at var-ious Covid hospitals.

The CMO said with two more deaths in thecity, the death toll stood at 47.

He said the 66-year-old woman fromFaithfulganj who died has hypertension andbreathing problem while a 3.5-month-old coro-navirus infected infant suffering from lung relat-ed problem also died.

Dr Shukla said 255 samples were taken onSunday out of which 117 were from areasreferred by the district administration.

He said 75 team fanned out in several areaand scanned 4,320 houses.

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Gynaecological endoscopicprocedures potentially put

all involved at a risk of inhala-tion and conjunctival exposurefrom bio aerosol and thus it isimportant for one to review thecurrent role by evaluating andmitigating risk to self, col-leagues, staff and above all thepatient. Several gynaecologicalemergencies like ectopic preg-nancy, complicated ovariancyst, acute pelvic inflammato-ry disease, menstrual disorderinvolving heavy and prolongedbleeding, pelvic endometriosis,gynaecological malignanciesand a few more need more

intervention in thepreferred route due to severalbenefits.

This was stated by con-sultant, Department ofObstetrics and Gynaecology,Dr Archana Trivedi whileaddressing a webinar on‘Gynae Endoscopic surgeriesduring Covid-19’ at RegencyHealth on Sunday.

She said such interven-tions reduced the hospitalstay, lowered morbidity andmortality and ensured fastreturn to the day-to-day activ-ity.

She also discussed how tominimise the risk ofendocscopy by ways such a

triaging the patients, endo-scopic procedural technicalchanges and safety precau-tions to be taken by OT staffand the doctors involved.

The second session wason ‘Management of gynaeco-logical malignancies: ARadiation OncologyPerspective’ delivered by DrAshish Kulshreshta.

He said gynaecologicalmalignancies, especially uter-ine cervical malignancies wasa major health problem infemales of low socio-eco-nomic status.

He said this cancer waspotentially curable with radio-therapy, even in advanced

stages. He said the radiother-apy in cervix cancer includedboth external beam radio-therapy and brachytherapy.He added that at Regencyexternal beam radiotherapywas given by Varian’s TrueBeam-Stx Linear AcceleratorMachine, through whichpatient was treated byradioactive sources placeddirectly inside the bodythrough applications.

He said the hospital hadfacilities of image basedbrachytherapy, which willcause lesser side effects andadded that the team is sup-ported by experienced doc-tors.

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The gap between cured coro-navirus patients and active

cases of Covid-19 has crossed1,00,000 on Sunday, accordingto Union Health Ministry evenas total coronavirus cases in thecountry has surged to 5,28,859while the death toll increasedto 16,095.

Presently, there are2,03,051 active cases while atotal of 3,09,712 patients havebeen cured of COVID-19 sofar. 13,832 patients recoveredin the last 24 hours. The recov-ered cases have exceeded theactive cases by 1,06,661 as onSaturday, the ministry said.

The recovery rate is58.56% amongst COVID-19patients.

India now has 1,036 diag-nostic labs dedicated toCOVID-19. This includes 749in the government sector and287 private labs.

“Daily more than 2,00,000

samples are being tested. Thesamples tested in the last 24hours have further increased to2,31,095. The total number ofsamples tested, as on date, is82,27,802,” the Governmentsaid.

As on June 28, the COVIDrelated health infrastructurehas been strengthened with theavailability of 1,055 dedicatedCOVID Hospitals with1,77,529 isolation beds, 23,168

ICU beds and 78,060 oxygensupported beds, it said.

Also, 2,400 dedicatedCOVID Health Centres with1,40,099 isolation beds, 11,508ICU beds and 51,371 oxygensupported beds have also beenoperationalised.

Besides, 9,519 COVIDCare Centres with 8,34,128beds are now available to com-bat Covid-19 in the country,the Ministry said.

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The Congress on Sundaysought details from BJP

chief J P Nadda about certainfunding sources to the BJPand the RSS from China anddemanded disclosure of itslink to the “China Associationfor International FriendlyContact” (CAIFC) and itspersistent interactions withthe ruling ChineseCommunist Party (CCP).

The attack comes twodays after BJP President J PNadda had alleged that theRajiv Gandhi Foundation,which is headed by SoniaGandhi, continuouslyreceived donations from theChinese embassy between2005 and 2009, from the “taxhaven” of Luxemburg between2006 and 2009 and NGOswith commercial interests.

TheCongress sought toclarify the issue late onSaturday saying the grants toRGF accounts were dulyaudited and statutory returnswere filed under ForeignContributions Regulation Act(FCRA) to the Government ofIndia/

In turn, it attacked theBJP and RSS for receivingfunds from China and underthe leadership of three partychiefs at different times-Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari,Amit Shah.

“This (RGF) grant hasbeen duly reflected in all fil-ings to the income tax and theHome Ministr y and noauthority has ever found anywrongdoing of any nature.Pursuant to the unprecedent-ed Tsunami in the last week of2004, RGF received a modestamount of Rs. 20 lakh fromthe Prime Minister’s NationalRelief Fund in the FinancialYear 2005 which was dulyutilised to undertake reliefactivities in the Andamanand Nicobar Islands,”Congress said in a statement.

Congress, in anotherstatement on Sunday, also

said that the allegations byNadda were his f lai l ingattempts at distraction anddiversion from the issues ofnational security and territo-rial integrity.

Congress spokespersonRandeep Surjewala said theBJP chief has made it his“favourite pastime to mis-lead the country by makingsensational claims”.

Surjewala accused the BJPof receiving foreign funding.Surjewala also said the BJPleadership was scared of thequestions being asked on its“deep-rooted” Chinese con-nections.

Surjewala posed 10counter questions to Nadda inresponse to the questionsposed by the latter to attackthe Congress. “What is thehistorical relat ionshipbetween BJP and CCP spokenabout by the then BJPPresident, Rajnath Singh during the visit of a CCP del-egation on January 30th, 2007and reiterated by him duringthe meeting with members ofPolitburo of the CCP onOctober 17th, 2008,”Surjewala asked.

Congress also soughtexplanation as to why theRSS) go to China in January2009 on an invite from theCCP? Why was a delegation

of RSS invited by the CCPdespite it not being a politicalparty and what discussionswere held on our sensitiveState of Arunachal Pradesh asalso Tibet?

It further asked why didthe then BJP President, NitinGadkari go to China on a five-day visit on January 19th,2011 at the invitation of theCommunist Party of China(CCP)?

Why did the then BJPPresident, Amit Shah send adelegation of MP's/MLA's inNovember 2014 to China fora week-long study in “TheParty School” of the ChineseCommunist Party (CCP)?.

Besides questioning theseveral visits by PrimeMinister Narendra Modi toChina, Congress asked BJP tomake public the list of all itsdonors and the amountsreceived including from allforeign sources includingindividuals, entities, organi-sations, and governments.

Surjewala also questionedfunding to VivekanandaFoundation and the IndiaFoundation and demandedthat the ruling side declarethe name of donors fromwhom it has received thou-sands of crores in donations through electoralbonds.

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The Ministry ofCivil Aviation

on Sunday saidthat Air India willbe conducting 114flights to and from17 countries between July 3 and15 under the fourth phase ofthe Vande Bharat Mission tobring back stranded Indianabroad.

Under the fourth phase ofthe mission, Air India will beconducting 114 flights con-necting India with Canada,the US, the UK, Kenya, SriLanka, Philippines, Kyrgyzstan,Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh,Thailand, South Africa, Russia,Australia, Myanmar, Japan,Ukraine and Vietnam. TheMinistry also stated that privateairlines have volunteered tocontribute significantly to thenew phase. operating around498 flights.

The Government startedthe mission on May 6 to helpstranded people reach theirdestinations using specialrepatriation flights. Scheduledinternational passenger flightshave been suspended in Indiasince March 23 due to thecoronavirus pandemic.

Under the fourth phase,31 flights will be operated toUSA, 19 to UK, nine toCanada and eight to Australia.The national carrier will oper-ate 26 flights between Indiaand Saudi Arabia, it added.

Air India Express isscheduled to operate 300 char-tered flights to and from var-ious countries in July. Ofthem, 136 flights is scheduledto be by July 14 while 164f lights wil l be operatedbetween July 15 and 31. Thefirst phase was from May 7 to

16, following which the sec-ond phase began.

The US Department ofTransportation announced onJune 22 that it has barred AirIndia from operating char-tered flights between Indiaand the United States fromJuly 22 without its priorapproval, in an apparent retal-iat ion for the IndianGovernment not allowingAmerican carriers to operatebetween the two countries.Therefore, on June 23, theAviation Ministry had saidthat it was considering estab-lishing “individual bilateralbubbles” with the US, theUK, Germany and Franceallowing airlines of each coun-try in the pact to operateinternational passengerflights.

The Directorate General ofCivil Aviation (DGCA) said lastFriday it is extending the sus-pension of scheduled interna-tional passenger flights in thecountry till July 15 but added thatsome international scheduledservices on selected routes maybe permitted on a case-to-casebasis.

According to Civil AviationMinister Hardeep Puri, morethan 1,47,000 Indians havereturned and more than 52,000have flown out to different coun-tries so far under the mission.

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In a move to cover up lock-down losses, farmers across

India have sown in around31.56 million hectares so far,which was 104.25 per centmore than the same period lastyear. In just one week, the areaunder cultivation has gone upfrom 13.13 million hectares to31.56 million hectares.According to Ministry ofAgriculture’s data, acreage ofalmost all crops was higherthan last year.

The biggest increase is inoilseeds, under which area hasgone up by more than sixtimes. The area under pulseshas increased by up to threetimes. Central India, whichhas received the heaviest rain-fall in the country this season,is a major area for these crops.In just one week, the areaunder cultivation has gone upfrom 13.13 million hectares to31.56 million hectares.

The data showed that areaunder rice the main kharifcrop, has increased to about37.71 lakh hectare (ha) this yearas compared to 32.05 lakhhectare during the corresponding period of lastyear, an increase of 34 percent.Higher acreage of rice report-ed from Punjab (3.99 lakhhectare), Uttar Pradesh ( 2.63lakh ha), Madhya Pradesh (2.15lakh ha), Arunachal Pradesh (0.98 lakh ha) while less areasunder rice cultivation are

reported from Chhattisgarh,Haryana, Odisha, West Bengaland Karnataka.

Similarly Pulses were sownin around 1.94 million hectares, as against 0.60 millionhectares last year. The higherpulses cultivation reportedfrom Maharashtra, MP,Telangana, Karnataka, UttarPradesh, Jharkhand andGujarat while sugarcane sownhigher from UP, Karnatakaand Maharashtra.

The data showed thatabout 49.69 lakh ha area cov-erage under sugarcane as com-pared to 47.77 lakh ha duringthe corresponding period oflast year.

Oilseeds were sown inaround 8.33 million hectarestill Friday, compared to 1.33million hectares in the corre-sponding period last year.Cotton was sown in around7.16 million hectares, com-

pared to just 2.70 millionhectares last year.

Coarse cereals were plant-ed in around 4.79 millionhectares, as opposed to 2.44million hectares last year.

The Government has set atarget of 149.92 million tonnesof food grain production inthe current kharif season and148.4 million tonnes in therabi (winter sown) season,taking total food grains targetto a record 298.3 milliontonnes in the 2020-21 cropyear.

The Met Department hadpredicted above normal mon-soon this year.

India has received 174.6mm rainfall, an increase of 22percent so far as against thenormal of 143.3 mm.

Till date, the southwestmonsoon has covered theentire country, 12 days aheadof its normal onset.

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Union Home Minister AmitShah on Sunday spoke to

Bihar Chief Minister NitishKumar and enquired about therising water level of Mahanandariver and assured him of all helpfrom the central Government forthe protection of the people ofthe State.

Separately, the home min-ister also spoke to Assam ChiefMinister Sarbananda Sonowaland Minister Himanta BiswaSarma and took stock of thealarming situation developing

due to the rising water of theBrahmaputra.

“I spoke to Chief MinisterShri @nitishkumar ji about therising water level of MahanandaRiver in Bihar and assured himof all possible help from the cen-tral government for the protec-tion of the people of Bihar,” Shahtweeted in Hindi.

The home minister alsotweeted: “Spoke to Assam ChiefMinister Shri @sarbanandson-wal and Shri @himantabiswa totake stock of the alarming situ-ation in Brahmaputra river andlandslides near Guwahati. All

possible help has been assuredto the State. Modi governmentstands firmly with the people ofAssam”.

Water level of theMahananda river is expected togo up due to heavy rains inNepal and areas between theMahananda and Bagmati riverbasins.

The flood situation inAssam worsened on Saturdaywith two more people losingtheir lives due to the deluge,which has affected over 4.6 lakhpeople across 21 districts, offi-cials said.

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The Supreme Court onSunday in an urgent hear-

ing dismissed a plea seekingcancellation of the remainingtwo Class 10 examinationsscheduled to be held on June29-30, to be conducted by theboard of secondary educationof Rajasthan, said a lawyerappearing for the StateGovernment.

The bench of Justices A MKhanwilkar, DineshMaheshwari and SanjivKhanna, in an urgent hearingconducted on Sunday eveningthrough video conferencing,dismissed the plea filed by oneMaghi Devi.

Senior advocate ManishSinghvi who appeared for thestate government said thebench after hearing the peti-

tioner and the state dismissedthe plea.

The apex court was hear-ing an appeal filed by Devi,mother of an examinee of theClass 10 board, against the May29 order of the Rajasthan highcourt which had dismissed aplea seeking cancellation ofthe remaining examinationsconducted by the State’s boardof secondary education.

The appeal said that theboard of secondary educationof Rajasthan had passed adirection for conducting theremaining two papers of Class10 on June 29 and June 30 and11,86,418 students are likely toappear.

It said the board had con-ducted the last exam on March18 and thereafter the examinations were deferreddue to the COVID-19 pan-

demic and the nationwidelockdown.

The appeal further con-tended that around 120schools, which have been ear-marked as examination centres, had been used toquarantine migrant workersduring transit to their nativeplaces.

The appeal also referred tothe June 26 order of the topcourt with regard to remain-ing examinations of Class 10and Class 12 of CBSE board aswell as of ICSE board.

The appeal had sought aninterim stay on the remainingexaminations to be conductedon Monday and Tuesday.

The petitioner before theHigh Court had also soughtcancellation of remainingexaminations to be conductedby CBSE due to COVID-19.

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The Court of ChiefCommissioner for

Persons with Disabilities(CCPD), which operatesunder the Union Ministryof Social Justice andEmpowerment’s Personswith DisabilitiesDepartment has directedthe IDBI Bank to providedetails of the marks ofgroup discussion andinterviews of all the can-didates appeared for itsDGM post during 2011 to2019.

The move followed acomplaint by one AnujBhardwaj with 80 percent of the locomotordisabil ity who hadalleged that despite hiseligibility for the saidpost, he was ignored byhis organisation wherehe had been working forthe past 28 years.

Bhardwaj hadapproached the CCPD inAugust last year butbecause of the Covid-19pandemic, his case couldnot be taken up. Butnow the CCPD whichhas started taking griev-ances through videoconferencing held the

enquiry in his case onJune 24.

Bhardwaj submittedthat he had joined IDBIBank as Hindi-cum-English typist way backin 1991 under PwD cat-egory and rose up to therank of AssistantGeneral Manager due tohis hard work.

In 2011, he hadapplied for the post ofDGM but was not select-ed. Ditto in 2014, 2015,2016, 2018 and 2019when while his juniorswere promoted he wasdenied the same for allthese years.

He was told by theIDBI that as there was noreservation in promo-tion within the Officer’scadre.

However, not readyto give in, Bhardwajapproached the CCPDalleging that the IDBIwas taking pretext of‘Selection Method’ of theorganization whichchanges as per the con-venience of the manage-ment.

He said that while heachieved all the parame-ters prescribed in variouscategories, but that hisi n t e r v i e w / G r o u p

Discussion was lacking isdebatable.

He also alleged thatnever a list of total markof all the officers calledfor group discussion waspublished nor the detailsof marks were displayed,which could suggesttransparency in theselection process.

During hearing, theIDBI also admitted thatonly four officers withdisabilities were pro-moted during 2011-2019.

After hearing thecomplainant and goingthrough the written sub-missions of the respon-dent and other docu-ments avai lable onrecord, the CCPD ChiefC o m m i s s i o n e rShakuntala DoleyGamlin) has nowinstructed the IBDIBank to submit detailswhich could provetransparency in theselection process.

The CCPD has alsosought details of the cutof marks of all the can-didates as well minutesof the selection commit-tee appeared from 2011to 2019 within the nexttwo weeks.

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A10-year-old girl waskilled and three per-

sons were injured whenthey were struck bylightning in a remotearea in Poonch districtof Jammu and Kashmiron Sunday, police said.

The lightning hit amud-house in Manaivillage in Behram Galaarea around 5.30 pm,resulting in on the spotdeath of a minor girl andinjuries to three otherpersons, a police officialsaid.

He identified thedeceased girl as UfaqIman and said her body

was handed over to herfamily for last rites aftercompletion of legal formalities.

The injured wereevacuated to a hospital,the of f icial said.

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Awoman student waskilled in a landslide

near Raj Bhawan here onSunday, prompting theadministration to askpeople living in vulner-able areas to move tosafer places, officials said.

The administrationalso closed down a hos-pital temporarily nearRaj Bhawan, a guard wallof which has becomevulnerable due to grad-ual sliding of land, theyadded.

The governor's resi-dence located inKharghuli area of thecity, however, is safe.

Another incident oflandslide took place atGita Nagar locality.

A road and a housewere damaged but nocasualty was reportedfrom there.

Union HomeMinister Amit Shahcalled up Assam ChiefMinister SarbanandaSonowal and assuredhim of all help.

Officials said the col-lege student PriyankaBoro was outside herhome when a hugechunk of landmass fromthe hill above came downand buried her, killingher instantly.

Boro was a student

of Guwahati College andalso an accomplisheddancer who performed atvarious events across thecountry.

“Due to incessantrainfall for the last fewdays in Guwahati city,several incidents of land-slides have occurred,leading to loss of livesand property. Moreover,there is every possibilityof occurrence of moresuch landslide incidentsin the coming days,” anofficial said.

The authorities ofKamrup Metropolitandistrict, which primarilycomprises Guwahati city,ordered the closure ofBorthakur Clinic andHospital at Kharghuliand asked for shifting ofits patients to nearbyfacilities immediately.

The hospital is locat-ed just below the back-side of Raj Bhawan, aguard wall of which isvulnerable due to erosionof land.

“The guard wall mayfall at any time and maycause damage to the livesand properties ofpatients, doctors, para-medical staff of the hos-pital,” KamrupMetropolitan DeputyCommissioner BiswajitPegu said.

He also appealed tothe people residing in

landslide- prone areas tovacate their houses andshift to safer places till themonsoon season is over.

Following the land-slides, the Union homeminister talked toSonowal and HealthMinister Himanta BiswaSarma to enquire aboutthe incident and theflood situation in thestate.

“Spoke to AssamChief Minister Shri @sar-banandsonwal and Shri@himantabiswa to takestock of the alarming sit-uation in Brahmaputrariver and landslides nearGuwahati. All possiblehelp has been assured tothe State. Modi govern-ment stands firmly withthe people of Assam,” hetweeted. Altogether 18people have died in theflood which affectednearly 9.3 lakh people in23 districts of the state.

“Thank you Shri@AmitShah ji on behalfof the people of Assam.With your support andguidance, we will surelyovercome every chal-lenge that we are facingat this moment,” Sonowalsaid on Twitter:

Sarma too tweetedabout Shah's call and hisassurance about all sup-port from the NationalDisaster Response Force(NDRF).

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The Chinese management of itsnarrative has been exceptional-ly crafted and has seen unprece-dented levels of intra-coordina-tion within different layers of

governance. This was possible because itis a one-party State. The seemingly seam-less integration of its economic, diplomat-ic, military, strategic and psychologicalimperatives into the making of the Chinesejuggernaut has fructified the patience allud-ed to by Deng Xiaoping when he said,“Hide your strengths, bide your time.”China’s transformation from being a pre-dominantly agrarian nation with a bloat-ed and antiquated People’s LiberationArmy (PLA) to that of the world’s second-largest economy with ocean-roamingnuclear submarines, intercontinental bal-listic missiles, stealth bombers and cyber-capabilities has been astonishing.

With a slew of geo-strategic initiatives(for example, the Belt and Road Initiativeand the China-Pakistan EconomicCorridor among others), Beijing is easingits purse-strings to debt-trap other nations.It is also carefully calibrating limited mil-itary engagements (for example, challeng-ing US Navy capability in the South ChinaSea or the recent Galwan Valley face-offwith India). China has been asserting itsexpansionist and hegemonic instincts.Behind this ruthless clarity of thought andaction are “cultural” and “political” reflex-ivities that define its nonlinearity ofaction. China can simultaneously charm,buy out, intimidate or coerce otherstowards its end. Such behaviour is extreme-ly difficult to read as it deploys and pos-tures asymmetric stances that are predi-cated on deceit.

Between 2014 and 2018, over 70 percent of Beijing’s arms imports came fromRussia, which sold its state-of-the-art SU-35 fighter jets and S-400 anti-aircraft sys-tems, only to see its technology brazenlyripped and reverse engineered, in line withChina’s patented theft of technology. TheRussian state-owned conglomerate Rostec’schief of intellectual property was leftfuming: “China alone has copied aircraftengines, Sukhoi planes, deck jets, airdefence systems, portable air defencemissiles and analogues of the Pantsir medi-um-range surface-to-air systems.” Butnothing came out as cash-strappedRussians recognised the price of doingbusiness with China.

Further, the US military and its sup-pliers have been “under cyber siege” forlong as Beijing relentlessly seeks to buildits military capabilities by stealing andhacking into critical military information,all this without having to fire a single shot.Besides espionage, this Chinese cyberwar-fare infrastructure and capability are usedfor intimidation, and cause deadly disrup-tions that can create havoc in civic andpolitical realms. Recently, when Australian

Prime Minister Scott Morisonlamented that a “sophisticatedState-based cyber actor” wastrying to hack all levels ofGovernment, personal, businessand infrastructure-related infor-mation, the finger was unmistak-ably pointed towards China. It isowing to such fears that the US,Australia and NATO countriesare putting barriers and blockingthe Chinese conglomerate,Huawei, from developing the 5Gnetwork. The intermingling andcross-ownership of industrymakes them suspect all Chineseconglomerates in order to realisethe goal of “Chinese century”through any means possible.

However, it is China’sunapologetic and amoralrealpolitik in international diplo-macy that stuns and shocks theopponents, who consistently failto understand the deceit levelsborn of Chinese ambitions. Be itthe Nehruvian naivety of HindiChini Bhai Bhai (India and Chinaare brothers) or the brazenbailout afforded to an interna-tional terrorist like MasoodAzhar on “technical” grounds atthe UN or the most recent back-stabbing in the Galwan Valley —the Chinese have always renegedon their word. Chairman Maohad once explained the Chineseaphorism “to seize someone’spigtail” and then added that inthe Sino-India dimension they“do not seize each other’s pigtail.We are not on the alert againsteach other.” This was said justbefore 1962. China patronisesroguish nations like Pakistan

and North Korea and turns theminto vassal States. In the Chinesemanual of practicality, there is nocontradiction in being the “all-weather friend” of Pakistan, anavowedly “Islamic” country, whileit is a “communist” country aslong as the ends justify themeans. Even domestically, it is thedeceitful commitment towards its“one country, two systems” prin-ciple that defines Hong Kong’sconcerns as China goes aboutsurreptitiously dissolving thepolitical-social-cultural bound-aries with its project of“Mainlandisation”, akin to Tibetearlier and one that hauntsTaiwan always.

It is said that unlike theWestern notions of war anddiplomacy, which are essential-ly based on overwhelming forceand technology, the Chinese aremasters of strategy and strata-gems. It has produced militaryclassics like Sun Tzu’s Art of Warand has institutionalised strate-gic tenets like ingyizha li (war isdeception), sheng-dong ji-xi(point to the east but attack thewest), shang-bing fa-mou (criti-cal to attack enemy’s strategy),chu-qi zhi-sheng (win by doingthe abnormal), bishi ji-xu (attackthe enemy’s weakest point andstay clear of its strengths), yi-yuwei-zhi (take the most deviousroute to surprise and overcome),yin-di zhi-sheng (emerge victori-ous by changing the tacticsaccording to the situation, don’tbe fixated), yi-rouke-gang (againstthe hard, be soft and gentle towin), hou-fa zhi-ren (retaliate and

go up on the enemy after it hasstarted the fracas) and suchdialectics that underline andreflect Chinese actions.

Unlike the US or India, notonly does China have a “strate-gic culture” but it also incorpo-rates the same in its State func-tioning with the additionaladvantage of being able to deploydiplomacy, commerce, militaryand psychological wherewithal inperfect unison. It remains impos-sible to decipher and it exploitsthe “strategic configuration ofpower” unabashedly and confi-dently.

Therefore, for all its militaris-tic posturing, China has nottaken on any resource-drainingcommitments in the global con-flict, for example, the MiddleEast, and bides its time as theWest slowly burns and exhaustsits resources and enthusiasm. Therise and assertion of China isundeniable but it is also losing itscrucial “soft power” in the bar-gain as the COVID-19 worldlicks its wounds at the utterlydeceitful Chinese ways of “man-aging” the same. The littoralStates surrounding the SouthChina Sea, Japan, Taiwan, India,Australia and the Western worldare realising that they have beentruly outsmarted through deceit,more than once by a hawkishChina. Only in this honest real-isation lies the future recourse ofcalling and mitigating all futurebluffs of Chinese deceit.

(The writer, a military veter-an, is a former Lt Governor ofAndaman & Nicobar Islands)

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Sir — The death of a father-sonduo in Tamil Nadu’s Tuticorin,while they were in judicial cus-tody, is distressing. The TamilNadu police acted in the mostinhuman manner. There can beno justification for the allegedpolice brutality. While it is truethat the accused had violatedlockdown rules, the police offi-cials have exceeded their brief.Their offence definitely didn’twarrant such a treatment. Thepolice should have filed an FIRand sealed the shop. The way inwhich they manhandled theaccused suggests that they had apersonal score to settle. It wassheer abuse of power.

Following the brutal attack,the two officials were trans-ferred. But would that bring anychange in the mindset? Therehave been several calls for stricterpunishment. The police are vest-ed with the authority to maintainthe law and order but that does-n’t mean that they can take thelaw into their own hands.

With the matter up with theHigh Court, an independentagency must ensure a fair inves-tigation. The case will remain a

black mark in the annals ofpolice history. This incidentmust lead to the issuance ofnorms for policemen to handlelockdown violations.

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Sir — Hindustan Unilever’sannouncement that it would dropterms such as “fair/fairness”,“white/whitening” and

“light/lightening” from its iconicskin-care brand Fair & Lovely iswelcome. Ironically though, thechange came only when the firmwas threatened with punitiveaction, possible lawsuits and aglobal movement. As a matter of

fact, such creams are popularacross South Asia where complex-ionism is rampant. The renamingof a face cream may not uproot thedeep-seated prejudices, whichhave been entrenched by suchcompanies who sell fairnesscreams.

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Sir — It is unfortunate that overone hundred people died whenstruck by lightning in north andNortheast India. During mon-soon, lightning strikes are com-mon. People need to be madeaware of this aspect and to adoptsafety measures to prevent loss oflife. We should not rush for shel-ter below trees, where lightningstrike is severe. If caught in an openarea, one should sit crouchingdown with feet together and headtucked in over the knees. Such tipsshould be passed on to all by thelocal administration, especially inrural, isolated and remote areas.

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Warora is a small township in theChandrapur district of Maharashtra.It is best known for the small village

republic the great humanist Baba Amte set upfor disabled people alienated by mainstreamsociety. The most vulnerable among these areleprosy patients who still suffer from social stig-ma but find love and dignity in this wonderfulvillage named Anandwan, a forest of bliss.

One of the closest villages to the town isWanoja, a hamlet of 300 families. Twenty fiveyears ago, it was a bootlegger’s paradise withunruly men stumbling about in a drunken stu-por. Today, as we battle COVID-19, this villagestands out as a model of resilience. The spiritbehind this collective determination is sarpanchNirmala Geghate, who symbolises the multipleroles women play in a crisis like a pandemic.Primarily as caregivers, women are not just sus-taining families but also serving as front-lineresponders, mainly in the health and service sec-tor of the country, even in rural India.

During my early career in the State Bank ofIndia (SBI), I was posted as manager of the localbranch. I also happened to be piloting the self-help group (SHG) movement. One of the firstvillages that we chose for our pilot project wasWanoja.

Nirmala was a shy woman and there wasnothing outstanding about her that could qual-ify her for a leadership role. But I was impressedby her simplicity and honesty and offered herthe role of SBI’s ambassador for the SHG move-ment in her village. Nirmala was taken abackand asked me why I chose her. I told her thateverybody in the village had vouched for her.Nirmala hesitated for several days but finallyyielded to our gentle and persuasive prodding.What tipped the scales in our favour was thather mother-in-law was quite supportive andpromised to relieve her of a number of house-hold chores. Nirmala convinced neighbouringwomen to band together and the first SHG wasborn in the village. It was christened SavitribaiPhule Bachat Gat, appropriately named afterrural India’s pioneering woman reformer. Allwomen in the SHG, barring Nirmala, wereunlettered. Nirmala persevered hard to teach hergroup members the nuts and bolts of manag-ing the group. Every time she visited the bank,she made one woman accompany her by rota-tion so that they could observe how a bankworked. In the end, these women started trans-acting business at the bank independently.

Nirmala’s hard work paid off and the groupprospered. This had a multiplier effect in theentire village as several more SHGs emerged. Asthe SHGs’ focus was more on collective enter-prise, the number of businesses the women haveset up in this long journey include a retail agencyfor farm inputs. The most recent success storyis the Government support that has enabled eachSHG member to set up an independent poul-try unit. There are now around 300 poultry unitswith the chicks, poultry feed and shed, all fund-ed by the Government.

In the process of mapping out her SHG’s tra-jectory and navigating murky village politics,Nirmala was drawn into electoral politics.Panchayat Raj was already beckoning womento join governance and she couldn’t remain insu-lated from political currents, much as she triedto avoid them. She represented her ward for twoterms and finally became the village sarpanch,

a post she has been holding for the lastfive years. As the elected village head,she oversees the administration of pub-lic services. There is 100 per cent lit-eracy in the village now and all boysand girls attend college. No men drinknow and there is total prohibition. Thevillage has a very good recreation parkfor the children.

All houses have indoor toilets andpiped water supply. They get filtereddrinking water from a plant installedby a power generation company underits CSR initiative. The firm has also setup a medical centre manned by a qual-ified medical team. The village isperiodically disinfected by the compa-ny. The sarpanch has made sure thatthe donors get enough value from theirinvestment and has provided promi-nent visibility and branding to theirwork so that they are able to enhancetheir social bottom line.

Women’s leadership in agricul-ture is increasingly being recognised asa key to tackling climate change. Theyare playing a strong role in adaptingnew technology, spreading informationand urging action. They have takenadvantage of a slew of agricultural ini-tiatives in the last few years that havefocussed on aiding marginalised com-munities and women farmers.

The COVID-19 and the lockdownhave made little difference to life inWanoja village. The village headensured that social distancing andother mandatory lockdown instruc-tions were meticulously practised andall the entry and exit points to the vil-lage were sealed. As the sarpanch,Nirmala formed teams to protect hervillage from COVID-19. She is ensur-ing access to accurate information tokeep the SHGs, the women, theirfamilies and their communities safe.These efforts include essential guidance

on preventive measures such as socialdistancing, hand washing as well ashow to identify symptoms of the dis-ease. She has also made sure that all thepromised Government relief reachesevery family.

Reflecting on the success of theSHGs in the village as also the progressmade by the gram panchayat, Nirmalasays the women of her village neverthought they would pull the “cart” sofar. She is happy in her role as the “cartpuller” and envisions a prosperousfuture for her village. The first SHG,which began with a monthly contribu-tion of �20 from each member, hasnow increased the amount to �200, anindication of the increased income andsaving capacity of the women.

Changes at the individual, house-hold and community level have accom-panied the economic impact of theSHGs. Participating in group meetingshas provided women with new oppor-tunities and experiences. They havealso become confident in dealing withpublic officials and authority figures.

The most perceptible change forthe women at the household level is themen’s attitudes towards housework. Inthe past, women had few income-earn-ing opportunities and were mainlyengaged in housework. Their husbandsgave them little or no assistance in thiswork. Now, because of the success ofthe SHGs, the tension between remu-nerative work and housework hasbeen resolved by men sharing somehousehold responsibilities.

Women of the village are gettingincreased recognition as the breadwin-ners and this is substantially alteringthe family relationships at the grass-roots level. To the women, theirinvolvement in SHGs results in fewer“problems” with their husbands.Women, as they say, are now granted

more respect and authority within thefamily unit, reflecting positively onintra-household relationships betweenthe sexes. Aware of the benefits derivedfrom their exposure, village women areincreasingly articulating their interestin broadening their knowledge bytravelling outside the immediate villageenvironment.

The success story of Wanoja’sSHGs and its women underscores theimportance of giving poor peopleaccess to loans, savings accounts andother financial services that can sup-port their precarious lives and busi-nesses and enable them to reach theirfull potential. It can also alter thesocially-constructed roles and identi-ties of these women who live in someof the most challenging and fragile con-texts. For the resilient women ofWanoja, every disaster is an opportu-nity to move forward. Recurrentdroughts have given the women achance to show their families that theycan be leaders too.

Women have a unique vantagepoint for identifying trends at the locallevel that might signal the start of anoutbreak. They are the eyes and ears ofnot only the medical establishment butalso the administrative apparatus.

When she looks back at her ownevolution, Nirmala is grateful for hav-ing achieved a satisfactory level of well-being for her family and the commu-nity. The women of the SHGs say theyare now able to assert their right to beheard and to have their opinions takenseriously. Over the years, some gainswill undoubtedly be reversed; otherswill be resilient to reversals. Womenlike the ones in Wanoja provide usshiny silver glimmers of hope as webattle COVID-19.

(The writer is a well-known devel-opment professional)

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While watching TV footage ofthe recent race riots in theUS, I recognised one of the

many African American protestersbeing arrested in Washington DC. Theprotester was Ahmad Farooq, whomI had met in 2018 when he approachedme after a talk I had delivered at theInternational Forum for DemocraticStudies, where I was stationed as aResearch Fellow.

After the talk, Ahmad invited mefor coffee. All I knew about him wasthat he lived in Virginia and was aretired college professor. A week later,while visiting the area for something

entirely different, I decided to visitAhmad. We met at a bar just behindhis office and had lunch there. Ahmadtold me that his ancestors were someof the first Muslims to come to the US,over 500 years ago. This wasn’t somefancy talk. In her 1998 book, Servantsof Allah, American historian SylvianeDiouf writes that among the firstbatches of African slaves brought to theUS by Europeans in the early 17th cen-tury, were many Muslims. But accord-ing to historian Sam Haselby, a formerfaculty member of the AmericanUniversity of Beirut, there was, in fact,a Muslim presence in the US evenbefore European Puritans set up theirfirst colony in the region in 1607. In anessay for the May 2019 issue of Aeon,Haselby writes that Muslims regular-ly arrived in the Americas with Spanishexpeditions in the 15th and 16th cen-turies, sometimes as slaves and some-times even as advisers.

A majority of them were fromGranada, a Muslim stronghold inEurope before it was overthrown by the

Spanish in the 15th century.According to Diouf, the majority

of African slaves brought to the US,especially during the cotton boom inthe 18th and 19th centuries, followedtraditional African religions and manywere also Muslim. Both Diouf andHaselby write that a large number ofthem converted to Christianity andthose who didn’t, managed to remainMuslim. According to the Encyclopediaof American Religious History, therewere no mosques in the US until 1921.

Ahmad told me that his ancestorsbelonged to Senegal in Africa andarrived in South America as slaves inthe late 16th century on a Spanish ship.They escaped and reached Mexico,from where they moved to whatbecame Arizona in the US.

The history of South-AsianMuslims in the US is equally interest-ing. Professor of Religious StudiesKathleen Moore writes that the firstMuslims from South Asia arrived in theUS in the late 19th century. They wereall from areas constituting present-day

Pakistani and Indian Punjabs.According to Moore, these early

immigrants from South Asia weremostly Sikhs, but some among themwere also Muslims and Hindus.However, Moore adds that they wereall clubbed as Hindus by the Americanswho believed they followed the samefaith. They largely worked as hiredhands in agriculture and factories.Around 6,000 such South Asiansmigrated to the US between the late19th century and 1917, when the USCongress placed restrictions on migra-tions from India. In 1923, the USSupreme Court declared that Indianmigrants were not eligible for US cit-izenship because they were not White.Moore writes that since they continuedbeing called Hindu and faced racialattacks, some moved the courts toplead that they were descendants ofancient Aryans, and therefore shouldbe treated as Whites. The ploy did notwork. Restrictions on immigrationfrom South Asia were lifted in 1946.From 1947 onward, a majority of

South-Asian Muslims in the US arrivedfrom Pakistan. According to Moore,approximately 1,800 Pakistanis migrat-ed to the US between 1947 and 1965.Almost all of them were men. Andsince they were unable to bring wivesand children with them, many marriedLatin-American women in the US.When US immigration laws were fur-ther relaxed in 1965, the number ofPakistanis migrating there increasedmanifold. These also included youngPakistani men and women interestedin higher education in American uni-versities and colleges. According toMoore, these first groups of Pakistanimigrants did not exhibit any outwarddisplays of their faith and quicklyadopted “the American way of life.”

However, things in this contextbegan to gradually change from theearly 1980s. Palestinian ProfessorBishara Khader writes that one of thefactors that instilled a greater role ofreligion in the lives of Muslims inEurope was the fact that more andmore Muslim migrants began to

acquire wives from home. When thewives arrived in Europe and had chil-dren there, both parents began to adoptreligiosity, especially when their chil-dren entered their teens. They felt thiswould help them keep a check on theirchildren growing up in “permissive”societies. A similar thing happened inthe US.

Moore writes that even though thefirst groups of Pakistani migrantswere not very demonstrative abouttheir faith and had either becomeentirely Westernised or placed moreemphasis on their ethnic customs andcultures, the last batch of this genera-tion of migrants became conservativewhen their children reached school-going age. Impacted by the growth ofthe “politics of identity” in the US, thechildren grew up looking for theirroots. But instead of finding these rootsin Pakistan, as such, the children wereactually handed explanations in thiscontext by Islamist evangelical outfitsthat mushroomed in the US, especial-ly from the 1980s onwards.

Another factor behind the trans-formation was when the AmericanGovernment adopted the idea of mul-ticulturalism in the 1990s. This meantthat a group could exist with its owncultural ethos within a larger meta-cul-ture, without fully integrating. So thequestion of identity, Islamic evangelismand multiculturalism combined, espe-cially in the post-9/11 scenario, for sec-ond generation Pakistani migrants,who began to signal their identitythrough Islamic symbols.

This actually played out during mylunch with Ahmad. Later he informedme that the bar we were in was start-ed by a Pakistani named Humayun. Hehad migrated to the US in the 1960s,and started the bar in the early 1970s.In the mid-1980s, he suddenly sold thebar because of “community pressure.”So what happened to Humayun? “No,he didn’t end up in Afghanistan. He’sstill here in Virginia. But I don’t thinkhis children know that daddy onceowned a bar”, Ahmad smiled.

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New Delhi: The Country’slargest power generator- NTPCLtd. with a group installedcapacity of 62110 MW, declaredthe financial results for FY20along with the unaudited finan-cial results for Q4 FY20 on 27June 2020.

In FY20, NTPC hasrecorded the highest ever com-mercial capacity addition of8260 MW which includesacquisition of 2970 MW capac-ity of THDC and NEEPCO.The gross generation of NTPCGroup for FY20 was 290.19Billion units as against 305.90Billion units during the previ-ous year.

In addition, the gross gen-eration of THDC & NEEPCOwas 10.91 Billion Units. OnStandalone basis, the grossgeneration of NTPC for FY20was 259.62 Billion units asagainst 274.45 Billion units inthe previous year.

Coal stations achieved a

Plant Load Factor of 68.20% asagainst National Average of55.89% with an availabilityfactor of 89.67%.

For FY20, the total incomecrossed the one lakh croremark and was �100,478.41crore as against �92,179.56crore in FY19, registering anincrease of 9%.

For Q4 FY20, total incomewas �28,278.75 crore as against�22,545.61 crore in Q4 FY19,registering an increase of25.43%.

Profit before tax was �14,465.92 crore in FY20 asagainst �12,672.52 crore inFY19 registering an increase of14.15%. For Q4 FY20, PBTwas �4,383.77 crore, as againstRs 3,537.17 crore in Q4 FY19registering an increase of23.93%.

Profit after tax was ?10,112.81 crore in FY20 asagainst �11,749.89 crore inFY19.

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India will block the requestsof Japan and Chinese Taipei

for setting up of a dispute set-tlement panel at the WorldTrade Organization (WTO)against New Delhi’s customsduties on imports of certaininformation and communica-tions technology (ICT) prod-ucts, an official said.

The requests of both thecountries are scheduled tocome up on Monday in the dis-pute settlement body meetingin Geneva and “we will blockit”, the official added.

According to the trade dis-pute norms of the WTO, ifthese countries would comewith their requests for secondtime, the panel will be set up inthe case.

In May last year, both thecountries filed a case againstIndia in the WTO over theimport duties imposed on cer-tain electronic goods, includingtelephones for cellular net-works; machines for recep-tion, conversion and transmis-sion or regeneration of voice,images or other data; and partsof telephone sets.

They have alleged thatimposition of import duties onthese products by Indiainfringes WTO norms as Indiahas committed zero per centbound tariffs on these prod-ucts. India has stronglyopposed these allegations.

While bound tariffs or

duties refer to the ceiling overwhich a WTO member coun-try cannot impose import duty,the applied tariff is the dutywhich is currently in place.

India has stated that theseICT products are part ofWTO’s InformationTechnology Products (ITA-2)agreement, and New Delhi isnot part of this pact. India is apart of ITA-1, signed in 1997,in which it did not contain anyobligation to eliminate cus-toms duties on these products.

According to the minutesof the meeting of the disputesettlement body, which washeld in February and March,India had stated that it was fullycommitted to its ITA-1 com-mitment and had been abidingby it over the years.

India wished to reiteratethat it had not intended tocommit, and would not com-mit, to any obligations beyondthe scope of India’s ITA-1 com-mitment and it has maintainedthat the products arising out oftechnological progressioncould not be covered by ITA-1, the minutes had said.

“It was evident from aWTO document...That India

had made it very clear at thetime of undertaking commit-ments under ITA-1 that Indiareserved the right to maketechnical changes to its sched-ule and to correct any errors,omissions or inaccuracies,” ithad added.

Citing examples, they havestated that India applies a 20per cent duty on products liketelephones for cellular net-works, which clearly “exceeds”the applicable bound rate ofzero per cent set forth in India’sschedule.

A WTO member countrycan file a dispute if it perceivesthat another country’s tradepolicies or actions are violatingglobal trade norms and impact-ing their localindustry.According to the glob-al trade rules, seeking consul-tation is the first step of disputesettlement process.

If the bilateral consulta-tions do not result in a satis-factory solution, the com-plainant can request the WTOto set up a dispute panel to passa ruling on the matter.

In this case, as the con-sultations have not yieldedpositive results, Japan andChinese Taipei haveapproached the WTO to set upthe panel. Even after establish-ment of a panel, it would takeabout 1-1.5 years to come withthe ruling.

Due to the COVID-19pandemic, the passing of theruling may take more time.

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The World Bank on Sundaysaid its Board of Executive

Directors has approved $ 500million (about �3,700 crore)loan to improve quality andgovernance of school educationin six Indian states. The boardapproved a loan forStrengthening Teaching-Learning and Results for StatesProgram (STARS) on June 24,2020, the World Bank said ina statement.”Some 250 millionstudents (between the age of 6and 17) in 1.5 million schools,and over 10 million teacherswill benefit from the program.The STARS program builds onthe long partnership betweenIndia and the World Bank(since 1994), for strengtheningpublic school education and tosupport the country’s goal ofproviding Education for All,” itsaid.

Prior to STARS, the bankhad provided a total assistanceof more than �3 billion towardsthis goal.At the national level,through the Samagra Shiksha,and in partnership with thestates of Himachal Pradesh,Kerala, Madhya Pradesh,Maharashtra, Odisha, andRajasthan, it said.

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Power producers’ total out-standing dues owed by dis-

tribution firms rose nearly 63per cent to �1.23 lakh crore inApril 2020 over the samemonth previous year, reflectingstress in the sector.

Distribution companies(discoms) owed a total of �75,642 crore to power genera-tion firms in April 2019,according to portal PRAAPTI(Payment Ratification AndAnalysis in Power procure-ment for bringingTransparency in Invoicing ofgenerators).

The portal was launched inMay 2018 to bring in trans-parency in power purchasetransactions between the gen-erators and discoms.

In April 2020, the totaloverdue amount, which wasnot cleared even after 60 daysof grace period offered by gen-erators, stood at �1,08,487crore as against �58,200 crorein the same month of the pre-ceding year.

According to the latest dataon the portal, total outstandingdues in April has increased overthe preceding month. In March2020, the total dues of discomsstood at �1,13,048 crore.

The overdue amount inApril 2020 also increased from�1,01,181 crore in March2020.

Power producers give 60days to discoms for paying billsfor the supply of electricity.After that, outstanding duesbecome overdue and genera-

tors charge penal interest onthat in most cases.

In order to give relief topower generation companies(gencos), the Centre enforceda payment security mecha-nism from August 1, 2019.

Under this mechanism,discoms are required to openletters of credit for gettingpower supply.

The central Governmenthad given moratorium to dis-coms for paying dues to powergenerating companies (gen-cos) in view of COVID-19-induced lockdown.

The Government had alsowaived the penal charges forlate payment of dues in thedirective.

Last month, theGovernment announced �90,000 crore liquidity infusionfor discoms under which theseutilities would get loan at eco-nomical rates from PowerFinance Corporation and RECLtd. This was an initiative of theGovernment to help gencos toremain afloat.

Discoms in Rajasthan,Uttar Pradesh, Jammu &Kashmir, Telangana, AndhraPradesh, Karnataka andTamil Nadu account for themajor portion of dues topower gencos, the datashowed.

Overdues of independentpower producers amount to 37per cent of the total overdue of�1,08,387 crore of discoms inJanuary.

The proportion of centralPSU gencos in the overdue was35.47 per cent.

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The answer to calls for boy-cotting Chinese imports

lies in making Indian manu-facturing much more competitive, deeper and wide-spread, but people shouldremember that shunning prod-ucts from the neighbouringcountry may lead to them pay-ing more for goods, Maruti Suzuki Chairman RCBhargava said.

While stating that import-ing continuously for long peri-od “is not really in anybody’scommercial interest”, Bhargavaalso asserted that certain prod-ucts continue to be imported asthere is “little choice in the mat-ter” due to their non-availabil-ity in India, or because ofquality and pricing issues.

“Everybody knows thatimporting products over timeactually becomes more andmore expensive as the rupeegets weaker. If you wereimporting something 10 yearsago, the same product todaywill cost 60-70% higher...

“So it is not really in any-body’s commercial interest tocontinue to import, you importbecause you really have littlechoice in the matter,” Bhargavatold PTI in an interview.

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Tightening import norms,India will check all power

equipment bought from Chinafor malware and Trojan hors-es that can be potentially usedto trigger electricity grid fail-ures to cripple economic activ-ity in the country, PowerMinister RK Singh said.

India has in the recentdays taken steps to imposestringent quality control mea-sures and higher tariffs ongoods from China as it looks toboost domestic manufacturingto cut reliance on imports.

In an interview to PTI,Singh said his renewable ener-gy ministry has proposedimposing customs duties onsome solar power equipmentstarting August 1 as part of thecountry’s goal of becomingself-sufficient.

“Power is a very sensitiveand strategic sector for anycountry.

Electricity runs all indus-tries, communication systemsand all databases includingstrategic ones and so we haveto guard it against any sabotageby countries which are adver-saries or possible adversaries,”he said. “We want to build afirewall.”

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Industry body COAI hasurged the Government for

urgent rationalisation of “highburden” of regulatory levies ontelecom service providers(TSPs), including a cut in spec-trum charges and licence fee, asit cited adverse impact of theCOVID-19 pandemic on thesector. In a letter to FinanceMinister Nirmala Sitharaman,the Cellular Operators’Association of India (COAI)also made a plea for refund ofthe unutilised input tax creditimmediately.

“Else, we request that softloan at MCLR rate (marginalcost of funding-based lendingrate) should be given to com-panies, using the GST inputcredit as collateral,” COAIDirector General RajanMathews said in the letterdated June 26.

The association has alsourged the Government to ratio-nalise the “high burden of theregulatory levies on the TSPswith immediate effect” citing“the adverse impact on theeconomy and operations ofthe digital communication

industry due to the COVID-19pandemic”.

“The effective rate of thespectrum usage charge (SUC)should be reduced by 3 per centfor all the telecom serviceproviders...Licence fee contri-bution should be immediatelybrought down from 8 per centto 3 per cent,” Mathews said.

On the issue of good andservice tax (GST) or service tax,COAI said levy of GST shouldbe exempted on licence fees,SUC and payment of spectrumacquired in auctions.

“Exempt service tax onamount of licence fee/spec-trum usage charges payable bytelecom operators in compli-ance with...Supreme Courtorder,” COAI said. COAI high-lighted that it represents allleading telecom serviceproviders, network equipmentmanufacturers, e-commerce,digital content providers, infra-structure providers and tech-nology partners.All leadingplayers in these sectors, includ-ing Reliance Jio, Vodafone Idea,Bharti Airtel, Nokia, Ericsson,Sterlite, Indus, Cisco, Facebook,Google, Amazon, are membersof COAI.

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Regulator Irdai has invitedthe public to come up with

names for three insurance poli-cies keeping in view the needsand aspirations of the targetgroup.

The Insurance Regulatoryand Development Authorityof India (Irdai) has soughtnames for standard productsfor dwellings and small busi-nesses in the segment of‘Standard Fire and SpecialPerils’.

It has announced an awardof �10,000 each and a citationfor suggesting appropriatenames. The names shouldconvey the objective of the pol-

icy which is to provide a pro-tective shield to dwelling unitsand small businesses from cat-astrophic events, largely floods.

“Recognising the impor-tance of having appropriatenames for the proposed stan-dard products that wouldappeal to the targeted individ-uals/entities, theAuthority...Invites suggestionsfrom the public for suitablenames for the products.

“While suggesting names,relevance, simplicity and easeof recall may be kept in mindin addition to the Pan-Indiausage,” it said.

The three policies forwhich names are being soughtare - policy covering dwellingsfor any sum insured; policycovering micro commercialentities having value at risk atany one location not exceeding�5 crore; and policy coveringsmall commercial entities thathave value at risk not exceed-ing �50 crore across all insur-able asset classes at any onelocation. Participants arerequired to send their entries toIrdai by July 10. Earlier thisweek, it named the policy relat-

ing to the treatment ofCOVID-19 as ‘Corona KavachPolicy’. Meanwhile, Irdai hasissued an advisory on COVID19-related phishing attack cam-paigns.

Phishing refers to datatheft by internet attackers pos-ing as accredited entities.

The Indian ComputerEmergency Response Team(CERT-In) had recently issuedan advisory to guard againstlarge-scale phishing attacksagainst Indian individuals andbusinesses. All insurers andregulated entities are advised toalert their staff to exerciseextreme caution to preventany such malicious activities,Irdai said.

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The Government hasallowed individuals under

new lower tax regime to claimI-T exemption on conveyanceallowance received fromemployers.

The Central Board ofDirect Taxes (CBDT) has nowamended Income Tax rules toprescribe certain exemptionswhich can be availed by theemployees.These include anyallowance granted to meet thecost of travel on tour or on

transfer, any allowance,whether, granted on tour or forthe period of journey in con-nection with transfer, to meetthe ordinary daily chargesincurred by an employee onaccount of absence from hisnormal place of duty.

It also includes exemptionfor any allowance granted tomeet the expenditure incurredon conveyance in performanceof duties of an office or employ-ment of profit, provided thatfree conveyance is not provid-ed by the employer.

The CBDT has furtherclarified that while determin-ing value of perquisites, noexemption will be available inrespect of free food and non-alcoholic beverage providedby employer through paidvoucher.

Further, blind, deaf anddumb or orthopedically hand-icap employees can also claimad-hoc exemption of trans-port allowance of �3,200 permonth while computingsalaried income.

Offering an optional lower

rate of income tax to individ-uals, Finance MinisterNirmala Sitharaman in herBudget for 2020-21 proposednew optional tax regimeunder section 115BAC of I-TAct for individuals willing toforego certain specif ieddeductions or exemptionswhile computing total incomefor tax purpose.

Under this, annual incomeup to �2.5 lakh is exempt fromtax. Those individuals earningbetween � 2.5 lakh and � 5 lakhwill pay 5 per cent tax.

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Reversing the three-monthselling streak in June, for-

eign portfolio investors (FPIs)pumped in a net �21,235 crorein domestic markets amidincreasing liquidity and grad-ual opening up of economy.

According to data fromdepositories, FPIs invested �22,893 crore into equities butpulled out � 1,658 crore fromthe debt segment, taking thetotal net investment to � 21,235crore between June 1 and June26. Prior to this, foreigninvestors remained net sellersfor three consecutive months.They pulled out a net �7,366crore in May, �15,403 crore inApril and a record �1.1 lakhcrore in March.

“FPIs are increasing theirinvestments in small- and mid-cap stocks that they werealready investing in for over ayear now,” said Harsh Jain, co-founder and chief operatingofficer at Groww, said.

India has emerged as thebest-performing equity marketin the past three months andthis is certainly adding toIndia’s appeal as an invest-ment destination, he added.

He further said India hasdone well in contact-tracing ofpatients, which is helping openup the economy.

“Currently, the valuationsare still compressed and equi-ties are attractively priced,which is a good buying oppor-

tunity. With a relatively long-term

investment horizon, Indianequities could be a good invest-ment option for FPIs especial-ly once the COVID-19 crisis isresolved and the current mar-ket trend reverses,” HimanshuSrivastava, associate director-manager research atMorningstar India, said.

In addition to that,increased liquidity in the glob-al markets will also pave its wayinto the emerging markets,with India also benefiting,Srivastava added.

The Indian financial mar-kets will continue to witnessrotational trend with respect toforeign flows. One can expectbouts of sharp net inflows andoutflows by FPIs in the Indianfinancial markets, dependingon their changing opinion andglobal trends, he said.

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The profits of China’s majorindustrial companies

dropped by 19.3 per cent yearon year between January andMay this year due to the impactof the COVID-19 pandemic,the National Bureau ofStatistics (NBS) said.Accordingto the NBS, industrial profitsstood at 1.84 trillion yuan($260 billion) for the first fivemonths of the year, reports Efenews.The figure is less than theprojections offered by analysts,who had predicted a 22 percent fall in profits during thisperiod.

The indicator is based onthe results of industrial firmswith annual revenues above 20million yuan. Of the 41 indus-trial sectors surveyed by theNBS, 30 registered a drop inprofits between January andMay, one managed to retain thesame profit while 10 witnessedtheir earnings rise.

New Delhi: NHPC Limited,India’s premier hydropowercompany and a ‘Mini Ratna’Category-I Enterprise of theGovernment of India hasdeclared its Audited FinancialResults for the Financial Year2019-20. The Board ofDirectors approved the AuditedFinancial Results for FY 19-20in the e-meeting held on June27, 2020 at Faridabad.

NHPC has reported netprofit after tax of �3,007.17Crore on standalone basis inthe FY 2019-20 compared to �2,630.55 crore for the last fis-cal year. Sales for the FY 2019-20 stood at �8,735.41 crore to� 8,161.18 crore in the last fis-cal year. Consolidated profit for2019-20 stood at �3,324.72crore before non-controllinginterest compared to �2,835.79crore in 2018-19. Consolidatedtotal income of the company in2019-20 is �10,776.64 crore asagainst �9,846.81 crore in 2018-19.

NHPC Power Stationsachieved highest ever genera-tion of 26121 Million Units

(MU) in FY 2019-20 as com-pared to 24193 MUS in FY2018-19.

The Board of Directorshave also recommended finaldividend of �0.32 /- per sharefor Financial Year 19-20 inaddition to interim dividend of�1.18/- per share already paidby the Company in March2020. The total dividend pay-out for FY 19-20 is �1,506.76crore as compared to total div-idend payout of �1,466.58crore for FY 18-19. NHPC,today has about seven lakhshareholders.

AK Singh, CMD, NHPCsaid, “NHPC has set a target of10,000 MW installed capacityby 2022 and 13,000 MWinstalled capacity by 2024 fromits current installed capacity of7071.2 MW. In addition, wehave pan-India plans to expandNHPC’s solar and wind powerportfolio alongwith its corebusiness of hydropower devel-opment and we are striving toachieve additional solar capac-ity of 5,000 MW by 2022through these sources.”

NHPC is currently on anaggressive expansion modeand has established dialogueswith concerned authoritiesacross all levels towards explor-ing newer avenues for devel-opment of Hydropower, Solarand Wind projects. NHPCrecently held meeting withGovernment of HimachalPradesh for execution of 449MW Dugar HydroelectricProject, 260 MW Sach Khas,130 MW Rashil and 104 MWTandi in the state. A meetingwas also held with Governmentof Sikkim for execution of 500MW Teesta-VI, 120 MWRangit-IV and 520 MW Teesta-IV to be executed by NHPC.NHPC has recently signed anMOU with HydropowerInvestment and DevelopmentCompany Limited, Nepal forjointly developing hydropow-er projects in Nepal. NHPC hasalso held meetings with topofficials for development ofsolar projects in AndhraPradesh, Uttar Pradesh andUnion Territory of Ladakh andexploring in Rajasthan also.

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Ghaziabad DevelopmentAuthority has selected theHindi Bhawan at Lohia Nagarinstead of the GDA complexfor auction of properties.

In this link, industrial plotsof Madhuban Bapudham andIndraprastha Yojana were auc-tioned today, in which thehighest bid of 11 plots wasmade, in this auction the GDAhas earned �12 crore.

This information was givenby GDA Secretary SantoshKumar Rai.

He said that following thesocial disputes in the auction,complete transparency hasbeen taken under the supervi-sion of a committee. Not onlythis, the entire video graph ofthe auction process has alsobeen sung.

The Auction Committeeconsists of the Chief Engineerof GDA, Chief City Planner,Special Officer etc.

He said that earlier the auc-tion process used to take placein the auditorium room of theGDA, but keeping in view thesocial disturbance, the venue ofthe auction has been changedto a large space Hindi Bhawan.

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Dhaka: With the monsoonsetting in and waters fromIndia rushing downstream,Bangladesh is facing a seriousthreat of floods that couldcause extensive damage tofarmlands across the deltanation’s vast northern regions,officials said Sunday.

The country’s FloodForecasting and WarningCenter said water levels in many rivers were continuingto rise, posing threats to flood protection embankmentsthat could burst, potentiallyaffecting hundreds of thou-sands of people in more than20 districts. AP

Kathmandu: The coronavirusinfection has spread to all the 77districts in Nepal with the detec-tion of 463 new COVID-19cases in the country, the healthministry said on Sunday.

The deadly virus has so farclaimed 28 lives in Nepal, healthministry spokespersonJageshwar Gautam said at hisdaily press briefing.

With the detection of 463new coronavirus cases in the last24 hours, the total tally nowstands at 12,772, he said. The

coronavirus has now spread toall the 77 districts in the coun-try, the ministry said. As manyas 179 coronavirus patients,including 13 women, were dis-charged from hospitals, takingthe total number of recoveriesto 3,013. As on Sunday, 9,731COVID-19 patients wereundergoing treatment at differ-ent health facilities across Nepal.Health authorities have so farconducted 2,15,839 coronavirustests, including 4,962 in the last24 hours, the ministry said. PTI

London: Ireland’s Indian-ori-gin Prime Minister, LeoVaradkar, has stepped down tomake way for new Irish PrimeMinister Micheál Martin aspart of a historic coalition dealwhich will see him return as thePM in over two years’ time.

The office of Taoiseach, asthe Irish PM is known, is to

rotate between Ireland’s twocentrist parties — Varadkar’sFine Gael and Martin’s FiannaFail — after they agreed ambi-tious climate targets to seal apower-sharing deal with theGreen Party this week.

Martin is expected to leadIreland until December 2022,when Varadkar is expected to

take over again as Taoiseach.“My first official duties as

Tanaiste [Deputy Head] today.Commemorating theConnaught Rangers who, onehundred years ago, mutinied inIndia in support of Irish inde-pendence,” said Varadkar in hisfirst Twitter message as the newIrish deputy on Sunday. PTI

Beijing: China’s legislature onSunday began reviewing a con-troversial national security billfor Hong Kong that criticsworldwide say will severelycompromise human rights inthe semi-autonomous Chineseterritory.

The National People’sCongress Standing Committeetook up the matter at the startof a three-day session, China’sofficial Xinhua News Agencyreported. China has said it isdetermined to enact the law, andits passage is expected byTuesday.

The US says it will respondby ending favorable tradingterms granted to the formerBritish colony after it passed toChinese control in 1997. TheSenate on Thursday unani-mously approved a bill toimpose sanctions on business-es and individuals — includingthe police — that undermineHong Kong’s autonomy orrestrict freedoms promised tothe city’s residents.

The Senate bill targetspolice units that have crackeddown on Hong Kong protesters,as well as Chinese CommunistParty officials responsible forimposing the national securitylaw. The measure also wouldimpose sanctions on banks thatdo business with entities foundto violate the law.

Last week, a former UnitedNations human rights chief andeight former UN special envoysurged the body’s secretary-gen-eral to appoint a special envoyon Hong Kong over what theysaid is a pending “humanitari-an tragedy.”

Britain has said it wouldgrant passports to as many as 3million of Hong Kong’s 7.8million people.

Beijing has denounced allsuch moves as gross interferencein its internal affairs.

The law would criminalizesecession, subversion of statepower, terrorist activities andcolluding with foreign forces toendanger national security.

Critics say Hong Kong’s legalstatutes already account forsuch matters and that Beijing isdetermined to use the law topursue political opponents.

The central government inBeijing also would set up anational security office in HongKong to collect and analyzeintelligence and deal with crim-inal cases related to nationalsecurity.

Few details have beenreleased, but it appears thatBeijing will have ultimatepower over governmentappointments, further reducingthe relative independence itpromised to Hong Kong in a1984 joint declaration withBritain that is considered aninternational treaty.The mea-sures have been widely seen asthe most significant erosion todate of Hong Kong’s British-style rule of law and highdegree of autonomy that Chinapromised Hong Kong wouldhave under a “one country, twosystems” principle. AP

Dubai: An expiring UnitedNations weapons embargo onIran must remain in place to pre-vent it from “becoming thearms dealer of choice for rogueregimes and terrorist organiza-tions around the world,” the USspecial representative to Iran saidSunday.

Brian Hook told TheAssociated Press that the worldshould ignore Iran’s threats toretaliate if the arms embargoset to expire in October isextended, calling it a “mafiatactic.” Among its options, theIslamic Republic could expelinternational inspectors mon-itoring Iran’s nuclear program,deepening a crisis created byPresident Trump unilaterallywithdrawing from Tehran’s2015 atomic accord with glob-al powers.

The UN arms embargo sofar has stopped Iran from pur-chasing fighter jets, tanks, war-ships and other weaponry, buthas failed to halt its smugglingof weapons into war zones.Despite that, Hook argued bothan import and export ban onTehran must remain in place tosecure the wider Mideast.

“If we let it expire, you can

be certain that what Iran hasbeen doing in the dark, it will doin broad daylight and thensome,” Hook said. Iran’s missionto the United Nations did notimmediately respond to arequest for comment on Hook’sremarks. Hook made the com-ments while on a visit to AbuDhabi, the capital of the US-allied United Arab Emirates, aspart of a Mideast tour. Hook metSaturday with Emirati ForeignMinister Abdullah bin Zayed AlNahyan and planned Sunday tomeet with other officials. Hookdeclined to say where else hewould travel on his trip.

Hook spoke to AP journal-ists in Dubai via videoconfer-ence as Abu Dhabi’s bordersremain closed to the UAE’s sixother sheikhdoms over the coro-navirus pandemic. The UnitedNations banned Iran from buy-ing major foreign weapon sys-tems in 2010 amid tensionsover its nuclear program. Thatblocked Iran from replacing itsaging equipment, much ofwhich had been purchased bythe shah before the 1979 IslamicRevolution. An earlier embargotargeted Iranian arms exports.

AP

Jackson (US): Spectators at theMississippi Capitol broke intoapplause Saturday as lawmakerstook the first steps toward eras-ing the Confederate battleemblem from the state flag, asymbol that has come underintensifying criticism in recentweeks amid nationwide protestsagainst racial injustice.

“The eyes of the state, thenation and indeed the world areon this House,” the second-ranking office in the MississippiHouse, Jason White, told his col-leagues.

The House voted by morethan the required two-thirdsmajority to suspend legislativedeadlines and file a bill tochange the flag. The Senate wasexpect to vote on the suspensionlater Saturday. That would allowdebate on a bill as soon asSunday.

Republican Gov. TateReeves said Saturday for the firsttime that he would sign a bill tochange the flag if theR e p u b l i c a n - c o n t r o l l e d

Legislature sends him one. Hehad previously said that hewould not veto one — a morepassive stance.

“The legislature has beendeadlocked for days as it con-siders a new state flag,” Reevessaid on social media.

“The argument over the1894 flag has become as divisiveas the flag itself and it’s time toend it. If they send me a bill thisweekend, I will sign it.” A billwill only need a simple major-ity to pass the House and Senate.It will say that the current flagwill be removed from state law.

A commission woulddesign a new flag that cannotinclude the Confederate battleemblem but must include thephrase “In God We Trust.”The new design would be puton the ballot Nov. 3. If a major-ity voting that day accept thenew design, it would becomethe state flag. If a majority rejectit, the commission woulddesign a new flag using thesame guidelines. AP

Taipei: The Taiwanese capitalheld its annual LGBT prideparade on Sunday, making itone of the few places in theworld to proceed with such anevent in the face of the coro-navirus pandemic.

The parade in Taipei hasdrawn tens of thousands ofpeople in the past, but partic-ipant numbers on Sunday werereduced by both virus con-cerns and heavy rain.

Still, those who did takepart said it was a testamentboth to Taiwan’s ability to con-tain the pandemic and its com-mitment to rights for people ofall sexual orientations.

Taiwan is the only place in Asia where same-sex marriage is legal, and its liberal political system has long promoted human rights,free speech and freedom ofassembly.

American student LorenCouse, 28, said Taipei’s abilityto hold the parade was “reallyimpressive.” “I think Taiwan hasdone a really good job so far,and I am really proud of livinghere, not only because it’s soopen to people like myself, thegay community, but alsobecause I think it’s such anexample for the world andhow to handle the pandemic sofar,” Couse said. AP

Washington: The number ofCovid-19 cases in the US hassurged to over 2.5 million, asthe country witnessed a recentuptick in the number of infec-tions, prompting many states toconsider reopening theireconomies and to imposestricter restrictions to curb thevirus spread.

As of Sunday morning,the overall number of con-firmed COVID-19 cases stoodat 2,510,092, while the deathtoll increased to 125,539,according to the Johns HopkinsUniversity.

The tallies currentlyaccount for the world’s highestboth in terms of cases and fatal-ities.

More than 42,000 newcases were reported nationwideas of Saturday, the second dayin a row that the daily increasehas surged to above 40,000,Xinhua news agencyquotedThe Washington Post assaying in a report.

The states of Arizona,Arkansas, Delaware, Florida,Idaho, Louisiana, Maine,Nevada, New Mexico, NorthCarolina, Texas andWashington have either rolledback or paused their reopeningplans due to a sudden spike inthe number of cases.

On Saturday, Washingtonstate Governor Jay Insleeannounced the suspension of

counties looking to move intothe Phase 4 of reopening due toan increase in the number ofnew COVID-19 cases.

“We all want to get back todoing all the things we love inWashington during the sum-mer, and fully open our econ-omy, but we aren’t there yet,”Inslee said in a statement.

“This is an evolving situa-tion and we will continue tomake decisions based on thedata.”

Washington is taking aphased approach to reopening,allowing some counties to

reopen before others.Phase 4 would resume

recreational activities and allowfor gatherings of more than 50people, according to the state’s“Safe Start” plan.

For the third time in thefour days, Florida set a newdaily record for novel coron-avirus cases with more than9,500 confirmed on Saturday.

The 9,585 new COVID-19cases brought the state’s total to132,545, according to figuresreleased by the FloridaDepartment of Health.

The Department of Health

Services of Arizona reported3,591 new cases Saturdaymorning, pushing the tally inthe western state to 70,051.

The new lab-confirmedcases number, which jumpedby 5.4 per cent from the previ-ous 24 hours, exposed part ofthe worrisome landscape thatArizona is facing to contain thepandemic.

Texas also set a record forcoronavirus-related hospital-izations for the 16th consecu-tive day on Saturday, with5,523 patients currently beingtreated, reported The

Washington Post.Hospitalizations have risen

rapidly since Memorial Day,when there were 1,511COVID-19 patients in thestate’s hospitals.

Meanwhile, New Yorkstate, once the epicentre of thepandemic in the US, reported391,923 cases and 31,362deaths, both tallies the highest

in the state.But the state’s COVID-19

test positivity rate has droppedto around 1 per cent, the low-est among the country’s bigstates, according to New YorkGovernor Andrew Cuomo.

Other states with over100,000 cases includeCalifornia, New Jersey, Illinoisand Massachusetts. IANS

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Washington: For many statesand counties in the U.S., the darkdays of the coronavirus pan-demic in April unfolded ontheir television screens, not ontheir doorsteps. But now, someplaces that appeared to haveavoided the worst are seeingsurges of infections, as worriesshift from major cities to ruralareas.

While much of the focus ofconcerns that the United Statesis entering a dangerous newphase has been on big Sunbeltstates that are reporting thou-sands of new cases a day — likeTexas and Florida — the wor-rying trend is also happening inplaces like Kansas, where live-stock outnumber people.

In early June, Kansas looked

to be bringing its outbreakunder control, but its dailyreported case numbers havemore than doubled in recentweeks. On June 5, the seven-dayaverage for daily new cases hov-ered at around 96; by Friday, thatfigure was 211. As cases rise, theU.S. Army commander at FortRiley in the state’s northeastordered his soldiers to stay outof a popular nearby restaurantand bar district after 10 p.m.

Idaho and Oklahoma haveseen similarly large percentageincreases over the same three-week period, albeit from lowstarting points. In Oklahoma,the seven-day average for dailynew cases climbed from about81 to 376; Idaho’s jumped fromaround 40 to 160. AP

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Home Secretary Priti Patelconfirmed as “correct” thereports of the first such locallockdown for Leicester, a region

in eastern England with a largeIndian-origin population.

“We have seen flare-upsacross the country already, justin the last three or four weeksin particular. There will be sup-port going into Leicester,” saidPatel.

“With local flare-ups it isright we have a localised solu-tion in terms of infection con-trol, social distancing, testingand many of the tools actuallywithin the Public HealthEngland space that will come

together to control the virusand to stop the spread so wecan get on top of the infection,”she said.

Patel’s confirmation cameas England has seen an over-all fall in the daily death tolland prepares to substantiallylift its lockdown restrictionsfrom July 4, when bars, restau-rants and cinemas will begin toopen up to public access amidCovid-secure guidelines of safedistancing and hygienic con-ditions. PTI

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ed a curfew imposed to containthe spread of the coronavirusafter no new case of communityinfection was recorded for near-ly two months in the country.

Sri Lanka has been under acontinuous lockdown sinceMarch 20, a week after the firstlocal victim of the pandemic

was reported. Initially, a nation-wide blanket curfew wasimposed but it was later easedfor about two-thirds of thecountry and was mostly con-fined to nighttime.

The government hadordered partial opening ofoffices and businesses mid-May. From early June, therestrictions were further relaxedwith public transport beingallowed.

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The US is under a deepeconomic recession as a resultof coronavirus pandemic thatkilled more than 120,000Americans and infected over2.5 million people, the highestin the world.

The lockdown along withsocial distancing measurebrought the economy to astandstill. The country is nowgradually opening up and havegiven jobs; to a small sectionof the millions of Americanswho lost their jobs duringthis pandemic.

US President DonaldTrump’s administration hasaccused China of cover-upsand lack of transparencyregarding the pandemic, thatoriginated from the centralChinese city of Wuhan.

“We are going to have astrong rebound from thedepths of the China virusdepression. But it’s also truethat we are going to face manyyears of working our waythrough these structuraladjustments that are going tohappen in our urban areas, aswell as in key sectors likehospitality, entertainment,sports, and education,” PeterNavarro, Assistant to the USPresident for Trade andManufacturing told Fox Newsin an interview.

With a little over 120 daysleft for the November 3 pres-

idential elections, Trump istrailing by nearly 10 pointsagainst his Democratic rivalJoe Biden.

Responding to questions,Navarro said that it is essen-tial to re-elect Trump inNovember. “It’s so essential tohave a man in the WhiteHouse here who knows howto rebuild an economy,” hesaid.

“It’s very clear. We’re goingto finish what this presidentstarted. And let me just rundown the list. This is the jobspresident, the greatest jobspresident in history. This is allabout jobs. What that meansis, all those jobs and supplychains that Joe Biden off-shored during his 40 years offailure, we’re going to contin-ue to bring them home,” hesaid.

"������������������ ������� ��������������������Washington (AP): People onsix continents already are get-ting jabs in the arm as the racefor a COVID-19 vaccine entersa defining summer, with evenbigger studies poised to proveif any shot really works — andmaybe offer a reality check.

Already British andChinese researchers are chas-ing the coronavirus beyondtheir borders, testing potentialvaccines in Brazil and theUnited Arab Emirates becausethere are too few new infectionsat home to get clear answers.

The U.S. is set to open thelargest trials — 30,000 peopleto test a government-createdshot starting in July, followedabout a month later withanother 30,000 expected totest a British one.

Those likely will be divid-ed among Americans and vol-unteers in other countries suchas Brazil or South Africa, Dr.Anthony Fauci of the NationalInstitutes of Health told TheAssociated Press.

While he’s optimistic,“we’ve been burned before,”Fauci cautioned. Multiple suc-cesses, in multiple parts of theworld, are vital.

“This isn’t a race of who

gets there first. This is, get asmany approved, safe and effec-tive vaccines as you possiblycan,” Fauci said.

Vaccine experts say it’stime to set public expecta-tions. Many scientists don’texpect a coronavirus vaccine tobe nearly as protective as themeasles shot.

If the best COVID-19 vac-cine is only 50% effective,“that’s still to me a great vac-cine,” said Dr. Drew Weissmanof the University ofPennsylvania.

“We need to start havingthis conversation now,” so peo-ple won’t be surprised, headded.

And for all the governmentpromises of stockpiling doses inhopes of starting vaccinationsby year’s end, here’s the catch:Even if a shot pans out — andit’s one that your countrystockpiled — only some high-risk people, such as essentialworkers, go to the front of avery long line.

“Will you and I get vacci-nated this year? No way,” saidDuke University health econ-omist David Ridley.

Vaccines train the body torapidly recognize and fend off

an invading germ. About 15experimental COVID-19 vac-cines are in various stages ofhuman studies worldwide.

And while there’s no guar-antee any will pan out, movingthree different kinds into finaltesting offers better odds —especially since scientists don’tyet know just how strong animmune reaction the shotsmust spark to protect.

Measuring that with thefirst proven vaccine will “real-ly help us understand for all theother vaccines in development,do they also have a chance?”said Oxford University leadresearcher Sarah Gilbert.

Only China is pushing out“inactivated” vaccines, made bygrowing the new coronavirusand killing it. Vaccines bySinovac Biotech andSinoPharm use that old-fash-ioned technology, whichrequires high-security labs toproduce but is dependable, theway polio shots and some fluvaccines are made.

Most other vaccines in thepipeline target not the wholegerm but a key piece — the“spike” protein that studs thesurface of the coronavirus andhelps it invade human cells.

��K����9��4<���< �����������<�I��<� �����Blantyre (Malawi): Lazarus Chakwera has been sworn in asMalawi’s new president Sunday after the announcement the pre-vious night that he had won the southern African country’s rerunelections.

Chakwera is Malawi’s sixth president after winning the his-toric election held last week, the first time a court-overturnedvote in Africa has resulted in the defeat of an incumbent leader.

Following a hard-fought campaign, Chakwera urged nation-al reconciliation in his inaugural speech in the capital, Lilongwe,and spoke directly to supporters of defeated incumbent presi-dent Peter Mutharika.

“Perhaps the prospect of my presidency fills you with fearand grief. I want you to remember one thing, that this new Malawiis a home to you, too,” said Chakwera. “So long as I am its pres-ident it will be a home in which you, too, will prosper.”

Chakwera won with 58.57% of votes cast, beating the incum-bent president Peter Mutharika, according to official resultsannounced by the Malawi Electoral Commission Saturday night.There were night-long celebrations in the cities and towns acrossthe country.

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Imagine a frozen landscape, anabsolute white blanket with no signof life anywhere, except for an occa-

sional reindeer. After just a few weeks,the sun came out. Then it rose highereach day. The snow started melting,flowers and insects burst out bright whilebirds arrived from different parts ofEurope. And the desolate patch of landturned a vibrant green.

Set in three of the most seasonallychangeable landscapes on earth, the newseries on Sony BBC Earth, SeasonalWonderlands, reveals the stunning trans-formations that occur each year and howwildlife copes with them. In Svalbard,one can follow the transformation froma dark, frozen winter to the rich Tundra,home to birds, Arctic foxes, polar bears,walrus and reindeer. In the OkavangoDelta, the film reveals how the yearlyflood not only transforms the landscapeand impacts the lives of the animals thatlive here but also creates an extraordi-nary delta. And in New England, as thevivid greens of summer give way to theblazing reds of the fall, the final filmshows how the trees work hand in handwith the forest’s inhabitants to create thisvibrant fiesta. We talk to Paul Williams,the wildlife TV director and producer ofthe first episode:

� How did you conceptualise theseries?

We have been making a small seriesabout Nature’s changing shades acrossthe different parts of the world such asMexico and Amsterdam for quite a fewyears now. We wanted to do somethingdifferent with this three-part seriesincluding New England, Okavango andSvalbard. And the thought of seasonalchange was quite fascinating to me.There was a story to be told. Seasons indifferent parts of the world change in dif-ferent ways. We, thereafter, researchedmore about it and found the places peo-ple would love to travel. Based on ourown experience, we found these threelocations have interesting insights andmany stories to share. New England isabout forests and changes in life there,Svalbard is about a frozen landscape withbarely anything moving. This series is allabout life transformation, animal inter-action and personal connection. Wewant to connect everything, from tinylittle creatures to great changers. It isabout how life changes within seconds.

� What are some of the remarkablefinds you chanced upon while filmingthis series?

We are all naturalists and love to digdeep into the natural world. We havecome across many different things,which were stories naturally connectedto each other. One of the things Ifound most surprising is how connect-ed animals are to the changing seasons.It’s interesting how a single place couldgive remarkable stories. From the bondbetween animals to the changing nature,all were vibrating positivity. When we

were in the forests in New England, wewere starving and wanted to come outof shade, and it required a lot of patiencebut the positive vibes over there let usdo everything with our heart for the restof the world to see. I personally lovedhow people were connected to eachother and were involved in giving theirbest for the series. These were themoments where I would pinch myself,where we are enjoying the wonders ofnature closer, capturing those momentsfor the rest of the world to see. It’s aboutshowing people the wonders of our plan-et.

� The series is set in three of the mostseasonally changeable landscapes onearth. Can you explain how these sea-sonal transformations affect thewildlife there?

Fundamentally, these changes areabout animal reproduction and theyneed to fine tune with nature. So inSvalbard, for example, when changeoccurs, the entire landscape was frozen,there was no life anywhere, except foroccasional reindeer. After just a fewweeks, the sun rose higher each day andthe snow started melting, flowers andinsects came out, birds arrived from dif-ferent parts of Europe. This was thechange that we saw, a frozen land trans-forming into a green world. It wasincredibly romantic and the timing wasperfect. There is a chain reaction thathappens. In New England, when snowmelts and trees start growing leaves, awoodpecker arrives and when you hearwoodpeckers and hummingbirds, that’swhen you know that spring is on its way.That’s what we wanted to capture,everything from tiny to big landscapechanges.

� What were the challenges and dif-ficulties faced while shooting theseries?

One of the biggest challenges that wehave faced is how to make a story aboutlittle creatures, how to narrate thatstory to the audience and most impor-tantly and how to use technology. I per-sonally went back to capture changes andit was quite difficult for me because hadI missed even a single element, then thewhole shoot could go down, so timingwas very important. Apart from this, westruggled to get intimate shots and to getthat, it requires a lot of patience. We werein the wood castle and sometimes weeven climbed trees. We also made holes

in trees to set up our cameras but eachmoment was worth it. We really cher-ished all those moments and put ourheart to it. People can totally relate to theshow and feel the essence of it.

� How is this show different from theother shows you have worked on?What should the audience look for-ward to in this series?

I think the three places that werechosen are what many people would loveto visit. And what we wanted to do wasshow a very intimate portrayal of thoseseasonal changes and connections. Soit was one of those rare opportunitiesfor the viewer to completely immersethemselves and fall in love with nature.

They can escape to these magnificentplaces. Most of the series I have madehave been global, where we travel allaround the world and film different ani-mals. But here, you have a story of theseforests and how they change. Every sin-gle moment of the film is part of thebigger picture. So I feel people can sitand enjoy the changes and see it them-selves.

As there is so much happening inthe world with people facing too muchnegativity. This show is a chance toescape. It helps you to see nature andits richness. Take an hour from yourroutine, remain stress free, so that youcan enjoy nature being at home andremain positive.

The latest show, Aarya, directed byRam Madhvani, has successfully

managed to rule the hearts of the entirenation. Actor Salman Khan took tosocial media to praise the Sushmita Sen-starrer web series. He calls her Dabangg.Recently, popular television actors likeDivyanka Tripathi, Mohsin Khan, HinaKhan and Prince Narula also participat-ed in the #Aaryadialoguebaazi challenge.

The Hotstar Specials’ web series isan adaptation of Dutch drama Penoza,which revolves around Aarya Sareen(played by Sushmita Sen), who takes itupon herself to get to the bottom of thetruth and bring the culprit to justice afterher husband Tej Sareen (played byChandrachur Singh) is murdered by amasked man. But everyone in the serieshas secrets of their own. Aarya is reluc-tant to be involved in the illegal narcoticsfamily business. But her life suddenlyturns upside down as her family is beingthreatened. In the quest to protectthem, she is forced to become the veryperson she always avoided. She realisesthat to protect her family from criminals,she herself needs to become one. Theseries explores a few questions — Whohas murdered her husband and why?How far will Aarya go to survive andprotect her family?

Praising the show in the clip, Salmansaid, “What can be more fun than clas-sic filmy dialogue-baazi and a show likeAarya has got some amazing lines tothrow around. Seeing Sushmita lead theseries fills my heart with such joy, shehas been such an amazing on-screenpartner and is a gem of a human beingoutside of work too.” He added, “Ek baarjo maine pehla episode dekh lia uske baadsaare episodes dekhe bina mai nahiuthta!” The line renders a quirky twistto his popular Wanted dialogue: Ek baarjo maine commitment kar di, toh phirmain khudki bhi nahi sunta.

The star captioned the video, whichcurrently has over 1.4 million views onthe photo-sharing website: “Swagat tohkaro Aarya ka! What a comeback andwhat a show! Congratulations SushmitaSen aur dher saara pyaar.”

Actors Sushmita Sen andChandrachur Singh returned to thescreen after a long hiatus. The show alsofeatures actors Namit Das, SikandarKher, Jayant Kripalani, Sohaila Kapoor,Sugandha Garg, Maya Sareen,Vishwajeet Pradhan and ManishChaudhary in pivotal roles.

With all that has been happeningaround the world, everybody is

going through a lot of stress these days.Anxiety levels are on the rise, too. Withan aim to analyse sleep patterns duringthe lockdown, a sleep monitoring devicecompany has studied sleep of over 382people (14,483 sleeps recorded over 10weeks) belonging to the age group of 10to 85 years.

Various parameters such as sleepduration, sleeping time, wake up timeand stress levels were monitored. DrManvir Bhatia, sleep expertshared,“During this time, I have seenmore than 100 patients (teleconsultation)of all ages and genders with sleep com-plaints. This has resulted in the heavi-ness of head during the day, increasedlethargy, poor productivity and a lowmood. These problems appeared new insome patients and some who already hadinsomnia were doing much worse dur-ing this period. As symptoms of anxiety,a few also had complaints of palpitationsand difficulty in breathing just beforefalling asleep. The advice to everyone isto make sure you follow a good day andnight routine, adequate exercise, avoidexcess use of caffeine and alcohol, andhave a relaxing pre-bedtime routine. Ifthe problems persist then please seekhelp and do not self medicate.”

Following were the parametersexplained in detail:

Sleep duration: Time period wherethe person is actually sleeping (in N1,N2, N3, REM stage of the sleep cycle).Sleep duration during lockdown didn’tdeviate much and the median sleep dura-tion continued to remain 430 minutes.For people between 35 to 45 years, medi-an sleep duration increased nearly by 60minutes and this was particularly foundamong men.

Sleep time: Sleep onset time, anoth-er parameter, especially in the age groupof 10 to 45 years had increased by almost30 minutes. There was a gender dispar-ity when it comes to sleep time. Women’ssleep time increased by nearly 90 min-utes. However, for men, it increased onlyby 20 minutes. Women in the 18 to 45age-group are staying up 90 minutesmore late than usual. Earlier, 40 per centof people used to sleep before 12 am andduring lockdown, only 36 per cent ofpeople are sleeping before 12 am.

Wake up time: Wake up time has

increased by 30 minutes across all agegroups. However, between 18 to 45 yearsof age, the wake up time has increasedby 70 minutes. While median wake uptime for women increased by more than

90 minutes (from 7.30 am to 8.45 am),for males, it increased by 60 minutes(from 7.45 am to 8.45 am). This is a bigshift in the circadian rhythm (or biolog-ical clock) that governs the hormone

cycle in our body. Once this cycle is off,we are at a higher risk of lifestyle disor-ders such as obesity, diabetes, hyperten-sion, cardiovascular diseases and men-tal disorders. Earlier, 53 per cent of peo-ple used to wake up after 8 am and dur-ing the lockdown, 49 per cent of peopleare waking up after 8 am.

Time taken to fall asleep: It’s thetime period elapsed between the persongoing to bed and falling asleep. The timetaken to fall asleep has graduallyincreased during the lockdown and hasdoubled during the first week of May. Ithas been witnessed across all age groups.Time taken to fall asleep is directly linkedto insomnia, which in turn, is highly co-morbid with depression. Growing anx-iety because of the lockdown and finan-cial insecurity might be the leading rea-sons for this increase in the time to fallasleep.

Stress levels: Autonomous nervoussystem activity measured through heartrate variability: There wasn’t any signif-icant change in the stress levels of peo-ple witnessed. Even though the lock-down has changed people’s routine, thestress levels for them have remained thesame.

Naps: Initially, the number of napsincreased, however, now a dip has beenwitnessed once the lockdown started toopen up.

(The survey is conducted by Dozee.)

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It’s a known fact that during the last two decades,the agriculture sector across the Indian sub-con-

tinent has witnessed crisis in the form of decline inrate of growth, rising numbers of farmer’s suicides,declining prices of several crops, and a widening gapbetween the agriculture and non-agriculture sectors.

It can thus be said that the indian agriculture sec-tor is experiencing unprecedented crisis with stag-nation or declining rural employment growth andas a result, food security and employment opportu-nities for the rural poor have been eroded. Variousstudies done by research scientists and scholars overa period of time reveal that poverty remains the mostcommon reason for suicides in the country.

As per a report tabled by NCRB in 2015, Indiareported 5,650 farmer suicides, whereas the high-est number of farmer suicides were recorded in 2004when 18,241 farmers committed suicide as per offi-cial figures. In view of these statistics, it becomes clearwhat havoc skyrocketing prices would have playedin the lives of not only farm-ers but all those who hadalready been strugglingeach day to make bothends meet, those who arebeing pushed to the edgeevery day because they havehardly any means to live. Inaddition to this, increase inprices of fuel, essential com-modities, and a steep hikein the cost of food grainsand vegetables, have madeliving conditions for thecommon man unbearable, making him pay throughthe nose. And still, there seems little hope that thesituation would roll back to normal. The repercus-sions of these are serious. While many are driven totake the extreme step out of despair as stated above,there are others who take to illegal means to maketheir living. In a crisis situation like the one wholeworld is facing right now, which has outlived the pub-lic’s patience span, morality is the first casualty. So,while in the offices, corruption tends to increase rob-beries and murders, incidents of chain snatchings,auto-thefts become the order of the day. This is thebitter truth of today.

Even though many NGO’s are working toimprove the lot of the destitute and create employ-ment opportunities for them so that they can earna living by honest means. But it is not completely pos-sible for these voluntary groups to wipe out pover-ty and unemployment on their own and their hardefforts will continue to be an uphill struggle as longas the government does not zealously implement pro-poor policies. Ascending prices are always comple-mented with a sharp decline in the morality levelsof the citizens and a surge in the crime graph of thecountry. As always, it is the poor, the weak and themarginalised sections, including the women andsenior citizens, who become soft targets of crime.When taxes are increased, it is fixed income groupwhich bears most of the brunt. The so-called creamylayer — those who amass most of the wealth — oftenmanage to avoid the taxes and pay the minimum theycan, by manipulations. In such a situation, the bulkof population is sandwiched between too little incomeand too many payments. And seeing the rich get awayeasy, morality to them becomes nothing more thana burden to be shed. It is another thing that therealways have been some people who want to takeshort cuts or bypass the law to make a quick buck,but many are forced into unethical practices by unaf-fordable cost of living. Hence, the policy makers andthe movers and shakers of the country’s economy,who dream of making India a global power in the21st century should very well remember that greatnations are built on the foundations of a strong char-acter.

So, if we still continue to ignore the social andethical consequences of our policies in order toachieve quick economic growth, we may end upturning the country into a moral wasteland wheresome people have more wealth but nobody has anycontentment, security, peace of mind or true andlasting happiness.

Bhilwara — one of the worstCOVID affected districts in

Rajasthan, is being lauded for itsefforts for containing the spreadof virus by employing successfuland effective strategies.

As per the health depart-ment, over 6,50,000 homes and 24lakh people were screened ensur-ing 100 per cent coverage in bothurban and rural regions of the dis-trict. The credit for the implemen-tation of the strategy is being right-fully given to “Corona Captains,”who were appointed from amongSDMs and BDOs and their teamof “Corona Fighters” that consist-ed of four to five members includ-ing the panchayat members,teachers and ASHA workers. Ofthis team, it was the group of 1,66,600 ASHA workers who havebeen fighting the deadly virussince its advent into the district.They have been working tireless-ly since March to help the govern-ment in its efforts. They have beenentrusted with the door-to door

survey to keep track of ‘High-risk’patients with Corona symptoms,especially among older persons,those with heart conditions,hypertension, respiratory prob-lems, pregnant women and chil-dren of up to 10 years. They alsomust keep track of those who havecome from outside or from con-tainment zones or highly conta-gious places.

Susheela, one of the ASHA(Accredited Social Health Activist)workers from Dadabari area intextile town in Bhilwara district,was given the task of surveying atleast 80 houses for Corona casesin a day. To achieve the target, shewould start her day at eight in themorning and work through thescorching heat till late evenings —much beyond the official workhours. “After meeting our targets,there was seldom a day when wegot to go home on time. We eitherhad to attend to emergency deliv-ery or had to trace travel historyof people returning from outside.

Then, we were required toreport if that person neededto undergo quarantine orself-isolation. Since Corona,it has become a 24-hour job,we hardly have time to relax,”shared Susheela.

If not for ASHA workerslike Susheela, the state govern-ment would have found itimpossible to do the contacttracing required to zero downa Corona positive patient.Each day these workers sur-veyed up to 100 houses,entailing a distance of at leastsix to seven kms, mostly onfoot.

According to ShakuntalaSanghi, 62, another ASHAworker in Bhilwara, they arejust given a mask and some-times gloves along with handsanitisers till date. “We too areat risk and because of it ourfamilies have to face physicalas well as mental stress.”

To compensate frontline

workers, who die in the lineof duty, the state governmenthad announced a compensa-tion package of ��50,000 yetwhen fifty-two-year-oldVimla Devi, a ASHA workerdied, she was denied the assis-tance. Before her death, shewas given the duty of watch-ing over a Corona positivepatient and she diligently per-formed the task for 22 days.

While their designatedwork hours are four, it oftenstretches for more than eighthours, especially during timeof emergency. For long, theyhave been demanding to beregularised as governmentemployees and are protestingfor an increase in salary of upto ��18,000, which currentlyis � 2500.

Although, for their ded-icated contribution in statesefforts to contain the virus,they have been honoured asCorona Fighters but at the

same time, they have onlybeen given ��1000 as incen-tive while nurses and policeworking in the frontline havebeen given an incentive of �2500. Are the lives of ASHAsany less important?

However, apart from this,ASHAs are officially cate-gorised as “volunteers”. Thekey link between rural com-munity and the public healthdelivery system under theNational Rural HealthMission, ASHAs have beenentrusted with crucial rolesand responsibilities. Theycounsel pregnant women,record every birth in the vil-lage, keep track of antenatalcheck-ups, immunisation,supplementary nutrition, san-itation, counsel couples forfamily planning and alsomake the community awareabout government’s varioushealth programmes.

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While COVID-19 has taught usmany new things, the biggestlearning has been to be with

family and your loved ones. Pandemic iso-lation has been hard on all of us, notbecause of something else, but just the factthat we are stuck at home. We are so usedto meeting people and living world out-side that being at home is hurting us.While the matured minds are struggling,think of the younger ones, who don’t evenknow much about the crisis the world isdealing with. Here, it’s important for theparents to be the protection shield and savethe kids from all sorts of frustration andloneliness that might creep in due to pan-demic.

It has been found that kids worryabout anxiety and fear due to a drastic cutdown in their social interaction. This canhave an adverse effect on their socio-cul-tural development. In order to handle thisright and keep them calm, it is importantfor parents to understand their psycholog-ical levels first and then channelise theirenergies in the right direction.

In this initiative, the foremost step thatneeds to be taken is to bring back the kid’slife to a routine and discipline. Parentsneed to understand that due to lockdownand over-burdened digital classes, kidshave lost discipline in life, which used tobe an integral part of regular schooling.

They need to prepare a routine forMonday-Friday and weekend should bedevoted to relaxation and fun activities.

To begin with, the day should startwith some workout or 10-min yoga ses-sion, followed by shower and breakfast andthen regular digital classes should be car-ried till first half of the day with regularintervals in between. Make sure that theydrink water in between and walk a bit tokeep the digestive system at ease. Post-lunch a power nap is equally advisablekeeping the humid weather in mind andevening hour should be dedicated toonline surfing.

While excessive use of digital worldis not good for mental health of kids buta balanced interaction is good. Parents

need to take care of this and should makesure that this platform is not only used forstudies but also to engage kids with theirpeer to fight with anxiety and help themconnect with them and break the monot-ony. It is also suggested that parents canco-ordinate with other parents and plansome virtual games and fun activities forkids, where they all participate. This willnot only bring them close, but will alsomake kids feel happier, especially duringevening hours, when they love to be out-door and spend time with friends.

Apart from this, the digital world canbe used to develop new skills among kidstoo. There are various online platformsoffering courses and learning opportuni-ties that will sharpen the aptitude skills of

kids. It is important for parents to takesome time out, study about such oppor-tunities and help kids utilise the oppor-tunity to sharpen new skills.

Evening hours of weekdays can alsobe used for in-house extra-curricular activ-ities like sketching, painting, writing,gardening, pottery and much more. Theseactivities are refreshing and also keep themaway from screen and phone.

You can also use this time andindulge with them in cooking activities ortake them out for grocery and veggiesshopping. Baking and cooking are consid-ered as effective de-stressing mantras. Youcan excite kids with the same and spendtime in kitchen and make them learnabout spices and other ingredients. This

might develop a sense of passion in themand they might develop cooking as ahobby. Don’t forget to teach them the pre-cautionary measures to be taken care inkitchen and also instruct them not to enterthe kitchen area alone.

Make sure that they are early to bed,so that they get good 8-10 hours of sleepand relax body and mind. To cheerthem, you may allow them for 30 -45 min-utes relaxation time by enjoying cartoonnetwork or any animated film.

An interesting way to make themutilise time is to ask them to journal thedaily routine in a notebook. This willimprove their handwriting and also helpyou understand their interest in writingand creativity in weaving stories.

All these activities need to be plannedfrom the space of mental stimulation,emotional, and social benefits. Thereneed to be a balance of virtual events toonline play dates with peers to texting tovideo calling along with social mediaengagements. They also need to beinformed that these are a part of the newnormal and also it is primary for theirmental well-being.

For children, family and friends is acohesive unit that aids in their develop-ment mentally, socially, and emotionally.As a part of existence, it is the duty of par-ents to teach them the family values andtraditions. Connecting with family, rela-tives, grandparents, and friends help chil-dren maintain connectedness and unityand this time can be used to strengthenthe same via social media platforms. Also,parents can guide kids to make family treeand cherish the same. This will make themunderstand the pictorial representation ofthe same, how important it is to be con-nected with the roots of existence.

Apart from this, parents just need tolisten to them, this will help you under-stand their feelings, thoughts, and behav-iour better; this is significant as it resultsin invalidating their feelings. While thisactivity sounds lame to many, but thishelps them easily exchange feelings. Andwe all know that how important it is toshare feelings and express what you feelinside-out.

Also, it is important for parents tomake kids understand the value of com-munication. They can do the same by keepthat channel open and let them express theplethora of experiences by them. This willhelp in controlling the trauma effect of thepandemic and will keep kids happy andcheerful. Some other activities that can beadded to the above-detailed ones are:Virtual kids party with school friends andfamily get-togethers, Quiz or competitionwith peer group, Virtual tour to a muse-um or historical monument, Art and craftworkshop and story writing and craftshow.

All these will help maintain the con-nectedness and keep them away from thenegativity of being at home. Most impor-tantly, this will help them understand thevalue of family and being with the closedones.

(The writer is the Managing Director,Cambridge Montessori Preschool andDaycare Pvt ltd.)

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He might be perceived as the weak-est link in the West Indies pace

attack but young Alzarri Josephbelieves that being relatively“unknown” entity will work to hisadvantage during the upcoming Testseries against England starting July 8.

The West Indies will be playing athree-Test series against England in abio-secure environment amid theCOVID-19 pandemic, the first of itskind in the sport.

The 23-year-old Joseph has playednine Tests so far is a part of the quar-tet led by Shannon Gabriel along withKemar Roach and Jason Holder forcompany.

“Obviously those three guys havea lot more experience than I do,”Joseph was quoted as saying by the‘Cricbuzz’.

“I’d think more often than not,teams would see me as the weaker link.I think my job is to come in and justback those bowlers (up) and keep thepressure on.

“It’s not necessarily because ofage, but because of the number ofmatches I’ve played compared to theother three bowlers,” the young rightarm fast bowler added.

But not being known has its set ofadvantages as well.

“I could use it as an advantage - Iknow my abilities and they might notknow. But once I turn up on the dayand get the job done, I know I can geton top of any opponent.

“I see this tour as an opportunityfor me to help the team to get higherup the rankings. Any opportunity I getto play, I'll take it, and whatever thecaptain and the team require me to do,I’ll put my best foot forward.”

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Former India pacer Irfan Pathan has revealedthat World Cup-winning ex-skipper

Mahendra Singh Dhoni liked to control hisbowlers when he started his captaincy stint backin 2007 but came to trust them by 2013, a phaseduring which he also became a calmer leader.

“In 2007, it was the first time and you under-stand that when you are given a big responsi-bility of leading ateam, you get excited,”Pathan said on StarSports' 'CricketConnected’ whenasked how Dhonichanged as a captainbetween 2007 and2013.

“The team meet-ings were always smallthough, both in 2007and 2013 duringChampions Trophy,just 5 minutes meet-ing,” added the bowler, who announced his retire-ment from all forms of cricket earlier this year.

Talking about the one change that henoticed in Dhoni, Pathan said, “when youngMahendra Singh Dhoni became a captain in2007, he used to run from the wicket-keepingend to the bowler in excitement and try to con-trol the bowler as well.

“By 2013, he was letting the bowler controlthemselves rather he controlling them, so heunderstood that and he was very calm and incontrol in 2013 Champions Trophy.”

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Spectators certainly add to any high octanecontest but the entertainment value of any

sport can only be determined by its quality asthe English Premier League has shown since itsresumption amid the COVID-19 pandemic, feelsfast bowling great Michael Holding.

International cricket will be resuming withthe much-awaited Test series between Englandand the West Indies at the Old Trafford from July8 in a 'bio-secure’ spectator-less environment.

Will cricket in the COVID-19 times bedevoid of fun and entertainment with fans beingkept away?

“Entertainment in any sport is determinedby the standard of play in that sport and not bywhat is happening in the stands," Holding, oneof the most respected voices in world cricket,told PTI in an exclusive interaction.

Holding, who spends most of his time in theUK, gave an example of how the quality of EPL’sgames didn't take a hit despite matches beingplayed in front of empty stands.

"Crowds are very important to add theatmosphere but like football, that has restartedin the UK, the entertainment has been the stan-dard of football played,” Holding said.

Asked if the economic implications ofCOVID-19 will hurt Test cricket in coming daysas boards might be inclined to play more white-ball bilaterals, he answered in negative.

“I dont see how that should affect the typeof cricket played,” Holding said.

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India captain Virat Kohlihas the ability to play

each format according towhat its demands are andthe best thing about him ishis commitment to thegame, according to theteam's batting coachVikram Rathour.

“For me, the best thingabout Virat Kohli is hiscommitment to the game,”Rathour told Sportskeeda."He wants to be the bestplayer in the world and heworks hard for that. Heputs in the hard yards, andhe is the hardest workingcricketer that I have seen.Other than that I believehis adaptability is hisbiggest strength.”

“He is not a onedimensional player, he canchange his game as andwhen required. He playsevery format differentlyand that has been one of hisgreatest strengths,” Rathouradded.

Rathour took theexample of the 2016 seasonof the Indian PremierLeague where with a mindnumbing 973 runs Kohlialmost single handedlytook Royal Challengers

Bangalore to the final. “One of the best exam-

ple in which I saw was inthe 2016 IPL where hescored four hundreds andhit 40 odd sixes. He wasgoing through a great patchof form and after that wehad a tour to the WestIndies. After playing likethat for two months in theIPL, he goes to the WestIndies and in the firstmatch he scores a double

hundred without hitting asingle ball in the air,” hefurther said.

“So that kind of changeto bring into your battingbecause you are playing adifferent format, not manycricketers can do that. WithVirat Kohli, I think he canplay the way he wants toplay. He can play accordingto different situations andthat I think is his biggeststrength,” Rathour said.

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England spinner Jack Leach isn’tperturbed by the competition for

places in the national team and stat-ed that he wants to bring over his bestform from club cricket to the interna-tional arena in order to become a reg-ular starter in the Test team.

“I’m thinking about trying tobring my best to the England set-up,”Leach was quoted as saying byCricbuzz. "I feel like I haven’t done thatyet and it takes a bit of working outmentally how you want to go aboutthings.”

“You’ve come from county crick-et where you feel like you are massive-ly involved and you do that throughperforming over and over. Here I feellike I haven’t done that yet and I thinkI have a better understanding of whythat is,” he said.

Leach remains in contention fora place in the England line-up that willtake on West Indies in the first Test ofthe three-match series at Ageas Bowlstarting July 8.

The series will mark the resump-tion of cricket after the sport was sus-pended in March due to coronaviruspandemic.

“My main aim (is) to bring mybest to the party and if I do that thenI won't be far away,” Leach said.“We’ve got five really good spinnershere so it feels like there’s everythingto play for, like 30 guys all are play-ing for spots.

“There’s lots of competitionthroughout the squad and spin is nodifferent. It’s about us all workingtogether to all be at our best.

“Then it’s up to the selectors andnot up to us who takes that spot. I’mso glad to see Mo (Moeen Ali) backas well. Mo at his best is an unbeliev-able player, so yes it'll be interesting tosee,” he added.

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Lazio fought back from a goal down to beatFiorentina 2-1 in Serie A and keep its fading

title hopes alive.Luis Alberto struck seven minutes from time

to cut the gap to league leader Juventus back tofour points.

Ciro Immobile converted a penalty to can-cel out Franck Ribéry's opener for Fiorentina.

Lazio's hopes of claiming a first league titlesince 2000 took a hit midweek when its 21-matchunbeaten run ended with a defeat at Atalanta inits first match back following the hiatus due tothe coronavirus pandemic.

And it seemed as if it was going to slide fur-ther when Ribéry curled in the opener following

a magnificent solo run in the 25thminute.

But Immobile, who is leading theSerie A goal-scoring chart, convert-ed a penalty in the 67th for his 28thof the season after Fiorentina goal-keeper Bartlomiej Dragowski fouled

Felipe Caicedo.Lazio snatched all three points when Luis

Alberto surged forward from midfield and anattempted pass to his teammate took a kind deflec-tion back to him and he fired in the winner.���������3�����

Genoa fought back from two goals down todraw at bottom-placed Brescia 2-2 and pick upa vital point in its bid to avoid relegation.

Brescia hadn’t won a match since Decemberbut went 2-0 up inside 13 minutes thanks to goalsfrom Alfredo Donnarumma and AlessandroSemprini.

But Genoa got back into the match sevenminutes from halftime when Iago Falque convert-ed a penalty after Andrea Papetti was adjudgedto have fouled Cristian Romero.

Genoa levelled with another spot kick, thistime by Andrea Pinamonti, after Daniele Dessenahandled in the area.

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Dani Ceballos fired Arsenal into theFA Cup semi-finals as theSpaniard's stoppage-time strike

clinched a dramatic 2-1 win at SheffieldUnited on Sunday.

Mikel Arteta's side rode their luck aftersurviving a second-half barrage from theBlades at Bramall Lane.

Nicolas Pepe put Arsenal ahead witha first-half penalty after Chris Bashamfouled Alexandre Lacazette.

David McGoldrick equalised withthree minutes left, but on-loan RealMadrid midfielder Ceballos settled ahard-fought quarter-final in the finalmoments.

Arsenal join Manchester United in thelast four, with Leicester facing Chelsea andNewcastle hosting Manchester City inSunday's other quarter-finals.

Arteta was Arsenal's captain whenthey won the FA Cup final against Hull in2014.

And the Gunners boss remains oncourse to get his hands on the silverwareagain as Arsenal look to win the compe-tition for a 14th time.

After losing their first two matches fol-lowing the restart, Arsenal, who beatSouthampton in the Premier League inmidweek, have now won two in a row.

The Blades have gone winless in theirfour matches since the English seasonrestarted, ruining their hopes of a push toqualify for the Champions League andending their FA Cup campaign.

Arteta made five changes, with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Eddie Nketiahamong those left out.

There was no place for MatteoGuendouzi again after the Arsenal mid-fielder's role in the brawl against Brighton,

while Mesut Ozil was also absentfrom the Gunners squad.

David Luiz was back inArsenal's defence after serving asuspension for the red card hepicked up during a disastrous sub-stitute appearance in the defeat atManchester City last week.

It wasn't long before Arsenal'sdefensive frailties were on display whenJohn Lundstram nodded home from OliMcBurnie's header, but the goal was ruledout by VAR for offside against the Bladesmidfielder.

Despite their unconvincing start,

Arsenal grabbed the lead in the 25thminute.

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Basham’s challenge on Lacazettelooked innocuous, but he caught theArsenal striker just inside the area

and Paul Tierney awarded a penalty.Ivory Coast winger Pepe stepped up

to beat Dean Henderson from the spot forhis eighth goal of the season.

Pepe has mostly struggled through anunderwhelming first season with Arsenal.

Invigorated by the goal, he showed a

flash of his potential when he cut in fromthe right and forced Henderson to save hislong-range drive.

Arsenal were clicking at last andKieran Tierney broke down the left,crossing for Pepe to shoot just wide.

Luiz’s difficult start to the resumed sea-son continued when the Brazilian limpedoff injured after stumbling while shepherd-ing the ball out of play early in the secondhalf.

Henderson almost scored a remark-able goal from his own penalty area, thekeeper's wind-assisted kick bouncing pastGunners stopper Emiliano Martinez and

narrowly over the bar.United were denied by another VAR

review when John Egan headed home afterMcGoldrick’s shot from an offside positionwas pushed out by Martinez.

Basham should have equalised fromJack Robinson's cross, but the defenderheaded wide from close-range.

Arsenal were undone by a terriblepiece of defending in the 87th minute.

Sead Kolasinac made a comical messof clearing Robinson’s long throw, smash-ing it into Mustafi and McGoldrickpounced to beat Martinez with a close-range finish.

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Former Australia and JamshedpurFC striker Tim Cahill believes

Indian football’s young talents canflourish with systematic exposure atthe top level.

Cahill, who brought his sterlingcareer to an end following his stintwith the Jamshedpur-based side inthe 2018-19 season of the IndianSuper League (ISL), said his expe-rience convinced him that India haswhat it takes to excel on the conti-

nental and world stages.“Indian talents just need more

games, get them playing all the timeand competing and when they gointo international fixtures, you(will) see that they can handle thepressure,” Cahill was quoted assaying by 'Star Sports FootballUnited' according to the AsianFootball Federation website.

The 40-year-old said India ismoving towards the right directionto achieve greater heights.

“The ISL and the leagues that

are being played with its infrastruc-ture are great and the only thingthat the game needs more than any-thing is unity.

“Everyone is flowing in thesame direction to get to that onegoal - which is to win an AFC AsianCup title, to reach the World Cupand help women’s football and todevelop your own leagues.”

Cahill's spell at Jamshedpurwas cut short to 11 matches due toinjury but the Australian legend hasfond memories of his time with The

Red Miners.“It was amazing, I lived and

breathed everything and was veryclose to the community as well asthe owners from the Tata Group,”said Cahill, who had also spenteight years at English PremierLeague side Everton, featuring in226 matches with 56 goals to hiscredit.

“One of the best things aboutthe club was that everything we didwas for our fans and everythingJamshedpur FC did was for players.”

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Senior India pacer Shikha Pandeyfinds suggestions such as use of

smaller balls and shorter pitches tomake women's game appealing to be“superfluous" and urged the ICC “notto tinker" with rules to attract moreaudience.

“I have been reading/ hearing a lotabout the changes being suggested tohelp grow women's cricket/ make it amore attractive product. I personallyfeel most of the suggestions to be super-fluous," 31-year-old Pandey, a servingofficer of the Indian Air Force, wrote.

Pandey, who has 113 wickets from104 international appearances, drew theanalogy of 100m sprints while describ-ing what a light weight ball and 20-yardpitch would mean for women’s cricket.

“An Olympic 100m female sprint-er doesn't run 80m to win First placemedal and clock the same timing as hermale counterpart.

“So the whole 'decreasing the lengthof the pitch' for whatever reasonsseems dubious. Also, it almost definite-ly takes the double headers out of ques-tion,” she wrote.

While she is game for reduction ofsize of the cricket ball in women’s gamebut she is completely against reducingthe weight simply because of the per-ception that they can't hit the ball long.

“Please don't bring the boundariesin! We have surprised you with ourpower-hitting in recent times, soremember, this is only the beginning;

we will get better. Please have patience.We are skilled players, who are evolv-ing,” wrote Shikha.

What she finds objectionable is try-ing to achieve growth through tinker-ing of rules rather than robust market-ing.

“Growth can also be achieved bymarketing the sport well. We don't haveto tinker with rules or the very fabricof the game to attract an audience.

“Why not have DRS, Snicko,Hotspot, all of the technical acumenand live broadcast for every game thatwe play anywhere in the world,” shequestioned, asking for more investmentat the grassroots.

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