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T he most hyped manhunt carried out by the cops of Uttar Pradesh police in last six days finally culminated in a dramatic climax when gangster Vikas Dubey surrendered in the Mahakal Temple in Ujjain on Thursday morning. According to reports, the gangster told the police that he wanted to burn the bodies of the slain cops to destroy evi- dence. However, he did not have enough time to do so. His arrest in Mahakaal temple premises sparked debate whether he surrendered for fear of being killed. Dubey travelled 1,500 kilo- meters from Faridabad to Ujjan within 24 hours for a tryst with the Mahakal and his des- tiny.”Main Vikas Dubey hun, Kanpur wala (I am Vikas Dubey from Kanpur),” screamed the Uttar Pradesh gangster. This reportedly alerted security guards at the Ujjain temple who informed the police. As policemen walked him towards a police car, Vikas Dubey shouted again, “Main Vikas Dubey hun, Kanpur wala”. ADG Law and Order, Prashant Kumar confirmed the development and claimed that the STF team was immediate- ly dispatched to Ujjain to take custody of Dubey.”Vikas Dubey was going to Ujjain Mahakal temple when he was identified by security personnel. Police were informed, he confessed his identity after being pushed for it. He has been apprehended by the police and interrogation is underway,” Ashish Singh, Ujjain Collector told mediapersons. Singh said Vikas Dubey ini- tially refused to reveal his iden- tity. He also showed a PAN card carrying the name of one Shubham. He produced more Identity Cards, as per which he was 28 years of age. An argu- ment followed, but by then the police arrived and took him into custody. There were two more people with Dubey, who have also been arrested. Security cameras installed inside the temple premises caught Dubey making an appearance at the Mahakal temple at around 8.50 am. Dubey then went to a shop located outside the temple and asked how a ticket could be purchased and enquired about darshan at the temple. The owner of the shop identified Dubey. The man claimed that when Dubey approached him, he was not wearing a mask and was calling for a person named Bunty. The temple shop owner then informed a guard at the Mahakal temple. By then, Dubey had already purchased a darshan ticket and entered the temple. Dubey has been on the run for almost a week, ever since the ambush and killing of eight police per- sonnel in Kanpur. As police searched for him in Haryana, Delhi, a close watch was kept on the Indo-Nepal border. A photograph that has gone viral, shows Dubey sitting com- fortably on a sofa inside the temple complex in Ujjain soon after his arrest. Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra first confirmed the development. He told reporters that Dubey is in the State police’s custody in Ujjain. The Minister, however, did not confirm if the dreaded gangster, who was car- rying a reward of Rs 5 lakh on information leading to his arrest, was nabbed from with- in or outside the Mahakal tem- ple premises. Later, Dubey was whisked away to an unidentified location for medical examina- tion and questioning. Meanwhile, two more aides of Dubey were gunned down in separate encounters in Uttar Pradesh. While Kartikeya alias Prabhat was killed in Kanpur when he tried to flee from police custody, Praveen alias Bauwa Dubey was shot dead in an encounter in Etawah, the police said. Kartikeya, who was arrested from Faridabad on Wednesday, was being brought to Kanpur on transit remand when he snatched the pistol of a policeman and tried to flee, ADG, Law and Order Prashant Kumar said. “The encounter took place in the Panki area of Kanpur when a police team was bringing Kartikeya alias Prabhat from Faridabad to Kanpur on transit remand. W ith withdrawal by both the Armies at the border in Ladakh proceeding without a hitch for the fourth day, India on Thursday reaffirmed its stand that the Line of Actual Control (LAC) must be “strict- ly respected” and neither side should take any unilateral action to alter it. It also stressed the need for continuing the dia- logue process and China also echoed similar sentiments. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said both the coun- tries will hold a new round of commander level dialogue and border issue consultation and co-ordination mechanism meetings. It also said in Beijing that the overall border situation is stable and the border ten- sions have eased, according to the Global Times, the govern- ment mouthpiece of China. As both the Armies, more or less, completed the pull back from all the four face-off sites in Eastern Ladakh which were on for the past eight weeks besides the bloody skir- mish in the Galwan valley on June15, New Delhi also said, “We remain convinced of the need for maintenance of peace and tranquility in the border areas and the resolution of differences through dialogue, at the same time, we are also strongly committed to ensuring India’s sovereignty and territo- rial integrity.” Enunciating the country’s position, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said here the diplo- matic and military officials of both sides will continue their meetings to take forward the process of disengagement and de-escalation as agreed to by the Special Representatives National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval and Foreign Minister Wang Yi. The next meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India- China border affairs (WMCC) is expected to take place soon. He also said, “We have also noted that there have been some inaccurate and unin- formed comments about the disengagement process and its implications. Let me remind you that in the last few weeks, we have made several state- ments spelling out categorical- ly the position of the Government on different aspects of the current situation in the Western Sector of India- China border areas.” “They include our position that recent Chinese claims to the Galwan Valley area are exaggerated and untenable; that the LAC must be strictly respected and observed as this is the basis for peace and tran- quility in the border areas; and that neither side should take any unilateral action to alter it. We remain convinced of the need for maintenance of peace and tranquility in the border areas and the resolution of dif- ferences through dialogue, at the same time, we are also strongly committed to ensuring India’s sovereignty and territo- rial integrity,” he said. Giving the sequence of events in the last five days, he said the Special Representatives (SRs) of India and China had a telephone conversation on July 5. T he killing of a BJP leader Sheikh Wasim Bari and two of his close relatives on Wednesday coincided with the fourth death anniversary of Hizbul Mujahideen’s poster boy Burhan Wani, raised serious questions about the role of the police, and stoked fears of return of the militancy in the valley. After the abrogation of Article 370 and the reorgani- sation of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir last year on August 5, it is one of the major incident of targeted killing of a political leader. Earlier on June 8, a Kashmiri pandit sarpanch from Anantnag was killed by the ter- rorist. The J&K police have launched a manhunt to nab the killers though 10 of their own cops have been arrested for negligence. These cops were assigned to protect Bari, but at the time of attack no one was present with him. According to the prelimi- nary investigation reports a local Lashkar-e- Toiba (LeT) terrorist along with a foreign terrorist from Pakistan, came on foot and targeted the BJP leader and two others late Wednesday night from a very close range and shot them in their heads. Bari along with his father and brother was sitting inside their shop-cum-office, located steps away from the Bandipora police station. O ut of 56 new coronavirus cases reported in Khordha district on Thursday, 32 cases were detected in State capital Bhubaneswar. Of the fresh cases, 18 were local contacts and 14 from quarantine centres, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. With this, the total cases in the city surged to 557 with 247 active ones. The quarantine cases included a 36-year-old male employee of a Central Government Hospital linked with an earlier positive case, a 47-year-old security guard of a Central Government Hospital linked with an earli- er case, three cases of a same family of Kalinganagar near SUM Hospital, a 30-year-old man of Bapuji Nagar linked with an earlier case, a 31-year- old woman of Rasulgarh Sabar Sahi linked with an earlier case. A 32-year-old man of Patrapada, a 52-year-old man at a quarantine centre with travel history to a hotspot district, a15-year-old girl at a quarantine centre linked with an earlier case , a 31-year-old man of Dumduma Phase-IV, a 27-year-old man of Unit-2, a 29-year-old man of Mancheswar, an RPF staff with travel history to West Bengal and a 39-year-old man of Bapuji Nagar were also found positive. The local contact cases included a 60-year-old man of Nayapalli IRC Village, a 52- year-old man of Nayapalli Brit Colony, a 19-year-old girl of Bhimatangi People’s Basti, a 23-year-old male service provider of railway at Chandrasekharpur, a 47-year- old male employee of a Central Government hospital, a 47- year-old woman and a 21- year-old-woman of Unit-2, a 38-year-old man of Baramunda, a 35-year-old man of Ganganagar, a 79- year-old man of Nayapalli Nua Sahi, a 72-year-old man and a 70-year-old woman of Nuagaon . Besides, a 30-year-old woman of Bapuji Nagar, a 32- year-old woman of Nakhara, a 30-year-old man of Bharatpur, a 48-year-old man of Jayadev Vihar, a 24 year-old man of Rasulgarh and a 48-year-old male employee of a private hospital of Sampur with trav- el history to a hotspot district were detected positive. However, seven more patients recovered from the virus in the city on Thursday, following which the number of recovered cases stood at 302. Meanwhile, 11 including a four-year-old boy, tested pos- itive on the day in the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) area. With this, the total tally in Cuttack city surged to 213. Of the new cases, three were local contacts and four under quarantine. T he State Government on Thursday requested the Centre to reconsider its deci- sion for compulsory conduct of undergraduate and post- graduate final term examina- tions in view of the Covid-19 situation. In a letter, the State Government urged the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) to reconsider the revised guide- lines of the University Grants Commission (UGC) and not to make UG and PG final term examinations mandatory. Besides, the State Government requested the MHRD to allow it to adhere to its own decision on cancella- tion of the UG and PG exam- inations. The UGC in its new rec- ommendation proposes to protect the academic interests of the terminal semester and final year students globally by conducting examinations in offline mode (by pen and paper) or online by the end of September. According to the UGC, the special examinations can be conducted by a university whenever possible so that stu- dents do not face any incon- venience or loss. This provision will only be applicable as a one- time measure for the current academic session 2019-20. Earlier on June 11, the Odisha Government cancelled the pending UG and PG exam- inations of all universities. Both the pending theory and practical examinations of Final Year or Final Semester of undergraduate and post grad- uate courses were cancelled. T he much-awaited Haridashpur-Paradip rail line would begin operation within 10 to 15 days, informed former Kendrapada MP BJP national vice-president Baijayant Panda on Thursday. In a video on the social media, Panda said, “Decades’ dream of Kendrapara people is going to be fulfilled very soon.” He said goods trains would run on the rail route first and subsequently passenger trains would be introduced. The 82.5-km-long rail line project, though sanctioned in 1996, was not started so far. While land acquisition for the Rs 2083.9-crore project was a problem, environment clear- ance was availed in October 2014 and finance provision made in Railway Budge in 2015. F our more persons suc- cumbed to Covid-19 in the State on Thursday, increasing the total death toll to 52. While three persons died in Ganjam district, Bhadrak reported the fourth death. Out of the three deaths in Ganjam, one was a 65-year-old woman suffering from dia- betes and hypertension; the second one was a 58-year-old man suffering from tubercular meningitis; and the third one was a 63-year-old man suffer- ing from diabetes. The fourth death was of a 58-year-old man in Bhadrak district, who was suffering from diabetes and chronic kid- ney disease. Besides, two other persons who were tested positive for the virus died while undergoing treatment at the hospital due to other causes. One among them was a 42-year-old man of Keonjhar district who suc- cumbed to cancer. The other was an 88-year-old man of Bhadrak district who died due to pyrexia with acute kidney injury and metabolic acidosis. On the day, the State recorded its highest single-day jump of 577 positive cases. With this, the total cases rose to 11,201 which included 4,128 active ones. Ganjam district reported the day’s maximum 260 cases, followed by Sundargarh 83, Khordha 56, Keonjhar 48, Baleswar 30, Gajapati 17, Mayurbhanj 14, Cuttack 14. Jajpur nine, Angul seven, Jagatsinghpur seven, Koraput six, Boudh five, Puri five, Dhenkanal four, Kendrapada three, Sambalpur three, Bhadrak two and Jharsuguda, Kandhamal, Malkangiri and Nayagarh one each. However, a record number of 401 patients recovered on the day, taking the total recoveries to 7,407 in the State. The high- est 100 patients recovered in Ganjam, 67 Gajapati, 42 Cuttack, 32 Jajpur, 19 Deogarh, 18 Koraput, 15 Khordha, 14 Bargarh, 14 Bhadrak, 12 Baleswar, 10 Keonjhar and 10 Malkangiri, nine Jagatsinghpur, seven each Jharsuguda and Mayurbhanj, six Kandhamal, five each Nayagarh and Sambalpur, four Nabarangpur, three Kendrapada and two Dhenkanal. BHUBANESWAR: All eco- nomic activities and ongoing schemes would continue in the State amid execution of Covid norms. A decision to this effect was taken at an all Secretaries’ meeting held though digitgal mode under the chairmanship of Chief Secretry Asit Tripathy here on Thursday. It was decided to enhance the diet allowance per patient in Covid Care Centres to Rs 240 per day. Te Chief Secretary direct- ed the concerned departments and collectors to ensure con- tinuance of industrial, agri- cultural, horticultural, mining activities. Transport of goods must be continued to ensure supply of essential commodi- ties. Reviewing the cases trans- ferred from the Odisha Administrative Tribunal to the High Court, Tripathy directed the departments to categorise the cases like regu- larisation, pension, promo- tion, transfer, etc., and take clear-cut in-principle deci- sions for early disposal of the cases. The total Programme Expenditure (PE) up to June 2020 was reduced by around 5.06% compared to the last fis- cal. However, the expenditure in social and other sectors increased considerably. The TPE up to June was around Rs 8,923 crore against the last year’s around Rs 9,399 crore. But the expenditure in social sectors, including health and family welfare programmes, was around Rs.5,281 crore up to June against the last year’s Rs 4,225 crore. Total revenue collection from both own-tax and non- tax sources up to June came down by around 22.94% com- pared to the corresponding period of last year. The total revenue collection up to June of current fiscal year was Rs 8,204 crore against the last year’s Rs 10,645 crore. PNS

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    The most hyped manhuntcarried out by the cops ofUttar Pradesh police in last sixdays finally culminated in adramatic climax when gangsterVikas Dubey surrendered inthe Mahakal Temple in Ujjainon Thursday morning.

    According to reports, thegangster told the police that hewanted to burn the bodies ofthe slain cops to destroy evi-dence. However, he did nothave enough time to do so.

    His arrest in Mahakaaltemple premises sparkeddebate whether he surrenderedfor fear of being killed.

    Dubey travelled 1,500 kilo-meters from Faridabad to Ujjanwithin 24 hours for a tryst withthe Mahakal and his des-tiny.”Main Vikas Dubey hun,Kanpur wala (I am Vikas Dubeyfrom Kanpur),” screamed theUttar Pradesh gangster. Thisreportedly alerted securityguards at the Ujjain templewho informed the police.

    As policemen walked himtowards a police car, VikasDubey shouted again, “MainVikas Dubey hun, Kanpurwala”. ADG Law and Order,Prashant Kumar confirmed thedevelopment and claimed thatthe STF team was immediate-ly dispatched to Ujjain to takecustody of Dubey.”Vikas Dubeywas going to Ujjain Mahakaltemple when he was identifiedby security personnel. Policewere informed, he confessed his

    identity after being pushed forit. He has been apprehended bythe police and interrogation isunderway,” Ashish Singh, UjjainCollector told mediapersons.

    Singh said Vikas Dubey ini-tially refused to reveal his iden-tity. He also showed a PAN cardcarrying the name of oneShubham. He produced moreIdentity Cards, as per which hewas 28 years of age. An argu-ment followed, but by then thepolice arrived and took him

    into custody. There were twomore people with Dubey, whohave also been arrested.

    Security cameras installedinside the temple premisescaught Dubey making anappearance at the Mahakaltemple at around 8.50 am.Dubey then went to a shoplocated outside the temple andasked how a ticket could bepurchased and enquired aboutdarshan at the temple. Theowner of the shop identified

    Dubey. The man claimed thatwhen Dubey approached him,he was not wearing a mask andwas calling for a person namedBunty. The temple shop ownerthen informed a guard at theMahakal temple.

    By then, Dubey had alreadypurchased a darshan ticket andentered the temple. Dubey hasbeen on the run for almost aweek, ever since the ambushand killing of eight police per-sonnel in Kanpur. As police

    searched for him in Haryana,Delhi, a close watch was kept onthe Indo-Nepal border.

    A photograph that has goneviral, shows Dubey sitting com-fortably on a sofa inside thetemple complex in Ujjain soonafter his arrest. Madhya PradeshHome Minister NarottamMishra first confirmed thedevelopment. He told reportersthat Dubey is in the State police’scustody in Ujjain. The Minister,however, did not confirm if thedreaded gangster, who was car-rying a reward of Rs 5 lakh oninformation leading to hisarrest, was nabbed from with-in or outside the Mahakal tem-ple premises. Later, Dubey waswhisked away to an unidentifiedlocation for medical examina-tion and questioning.

    Meanwhile, two more aidesof Dubey were gunned down inseparate encounters in UttarPradesh. While Kartikeya aliasPrabhat was killed in Kanpurwhen he tried to flee frompolice custody, Praveen aliasBauwa Dubey was shot dead inan encounter in Etawah, thepolice said. Kartikeya, whowas arrested from Faridabad onWednesday, was being broughtto Kanpur on transit remandwhen he snatched the pistol ofa policeman and tried to flee,ADG, Law and Order PrashantKumar said. “The encountertook place in the Panki area ofKanpur when a police teamwas bringing Kartikeya aliasPrabhat from Faridabad toKanpur on transit remand.

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    With withdrawal by boththe Armies at the borderin Ladakh proceeding withouta hitch for the fourth day,India on Thursday reaffirmedits stand that the Line of ActualControl (LAC) must be “strict-ly respected” and neither sideshould take any unilateralaction to alter it. It also stressedthe need for continuing the dia-logue process and China alsoechoed similar sentiments.

    The Chinese ForeignMinistry said both the coun-tries will hold a new round ofcommander level dialogue andborder issue consultation andco-ordination mechanismmeetings. It also said in Beijingthat the overall border situationis stable and the border ten-sions have eased, according tothe Global Times, the govern-ment mouthpiece of China.

    As both the Armies, moreor less, completed the pullback from all the four face-offsites in Eastern Ladakh whichwere on for the past eightweeks besides the bloody skir-mish in the Galwan valley onJune15, New Delhi also said,“We remain convinced of theneed for maintenance of peaceand tranquility in the borderareas and the resolution ofdifferences through dialogue, atthe same time, we are alsostrongly committed to ensuringIndia’s sovereignty and territo-rial integrity.”

    Enunciating the country’sposition, External AffairsMinistry spokesperson AnuragSrivastava said here the diplo-

    matic and military officials ofboth sides will continue theirmeetings to take forward theprocess of disengagement andde-escalation as agreed to bythe Special RepresentativesNational Security Advisor(NSA) Ajit Doval and ForeignMinister Wang Yi. The nextmeeting of the WorkingMechanism for Consultationand Coordination on India-China border affairs (WMCC)is expected to take place soon.

    He also said, “We havealso noted that there have beensome inaccurate and unin-formed comments about thedisengagement process and itsimplications. Let me remindyou that in the last few weeks,we have made several state-ments spelling out categorical-ly the position of theGovernment on differentaspects of the current situationin the Western Sector of India-

    China border areas.”“They include our position

    that recent Chinese claims tothe Galwan Valley area areexaggerated and untenable; thatthe LAC must be strictlyrespected and observed as thisis the basis for peace and tran-quility in the border areas; andthat neither side should takeany unilateral action to alter it.We remain convinced of theneed for maintenance of peaceand tranquility in the borderareas and the resolution of dif-ferences through dialogue, atthe same time, we are alsostrongly committed to ensuringIndia’s sovereignty and territo-rial integrity,” he said.

    Giving the sequence ofevents in the last five days, hesaid the Special Representatives(SRs) of India and China hada telephone conversation onJuly 5.

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    The killing of a BJP leaderSheikh Wasim Bari and twoof his close relatives onWednesday coincided with thefourth death anniversary ofHizbul Mujahideen’s poster boyBurhan Wani, raised seriousquestions about the role of thepolice, and stoked fears of returnof the militancy in the valley.

    After the abrogation ofArticle 370 and the reorgani-sation of the erstwhile state ofJammu and Kashmir last yearon August 5, it is one of themajor incident of targetedkilling of a political leader.

    Earlier on June 8, aKashmiri pandit sarpanch fromAnantnag was killed by the ter-rorist. The J&K police havelaunched a manhunt to nab thekillers though 10 of their owncops have been arrested fornegligence. These cops wereassigned to protect Bari, but atthe time of attack no one waspresent with him.

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    local Lashkar-e- Toiba (LeT)terrorist along with a foreignterrorist from Pakistan, cameon foot and targeted the BJPleader and two others lateWednesday night from a veryclose range and shot them intheir heads. Bari along with hisfather and brother was sittinginside their shop-cum-office,located steps away from theBandipora police station.

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    Out of 56 new coronaviruscases reported inKhordha district on Thursday,32 cases were detected in Statecapital Bhubaneswar.

    Of the fresh cases, 18 werelocal contacts and 14 fromquarantine centres, theBhubaneswar MunicipalCorporation (BMC) said. Withthis, the total cases in the citysurged to 557 with 247 activeones.

    The quarantine casesincluded a 36-year-old maleemployee of a CentralGovernment Hospital linkedwith an earlier positive case, a47-year-old security guard ofa Central GovernmentHospital linked with an earli-er case, three cases of a samefamily of Kalinganagar nearSUM Hospital, a 30-year-oldman of Bapuji Nagar linkedwith an earlier case, a 31-year-old woman of Rasulgarh SabarSahi linked with an earliercase.

    A 32-year-old man ofPatrapada, a 52-year-old man

    at a quarantine centre withtravel history to a hotspotdistrict, a15-year-old girl at aquarantine centre linked withan earlier case , a 31-year-oldman of Dumduma Phase-IV, a27-year-old man of Unit-2, a29-year-old man ofMancheswar, an RPF staffwith travel history to WestBengal and a 39-year-old manof Bapuji Nagar were alsofound positive.

    The local contact casesincluded a 60-year-old man ofNayapalli IRC Village, a 52-year-old man of Nayapalli BritColony, a 19-year-old girl ofBhimatangi People’s Basti, a23-year-old male serviceprovider of railway atChandrasekharpur, a 47-year-old male employee of a CentralGovernment hospital, a 47-year-old woman and a 21-year-old-woman of Unit-2, a38-year-old man ofBaramunda, a 35-year-oldman of Ganganagar, a 79-year-old man of NayapalliNua Sahi, a 72-year-old manand a 70-year-old woman ofNuagaon .

    Besides, a 30-year-oldwoman of Bapuji Nagar, a 32-year-old woman of Nakhara, a30-year-old man of Bharatpur,a 48-year-old man of JayadevVihar, a 24 year-old man ofRasulgarh and a 48-year-oldmale employee of a privatehospital of Sampur with trav-el history to a hotspot districtwere detected positive.

    However, seven morepatients recovered from the

    virus in the city on Thursday,following which the number ofrecovered cases stood at 302.

    Meanwhile, 11 including afour-year-old boy, tested pos-itive on the day in the CuttackMunicipal Corporation(CMC) area. With this, thetotal tally in Cuttack citysurged to 213.

    Of the new cases, threewere local contacts and fourunder quarantine.

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    The State Government onThursday requested theCentre to reconsider its deci-sion for compulsory conductof undergraduate and post-graduate final term examina-tions in view of the Covid-19situation.

    In a letter, the StateGovernment urged theMinistry of Human ResourceDevelopment (MHRD) toreconsider the revised guide-lines of the University GrantsCommission (UGC) and notto make UG and PG final termexaminations mandatory.

    Besides, the StateGovernment requested theMHRD to allow it to adhere toits own decision on cancella-tion of the UG and PG exam-inations.

    The UGC in its new rec-

    ommendation proposes toprotect the academic interestsof the terminal semester andfinal year students globally byconducting examinations inoffline mode (by pen andpaper) or online by the end ofSeptember.

    According to the UGC, thespecial examinations can beconducted by a universitywhenever possible so that stu-dents do not face any incon-venience or loss. This provisionwill only be applicable as a one-time measure for the currentacademic session 2019-20.

    Earlier on June 11, theOdisha Government cancelledthe pending UG and PG exam-inations of all universities.

    Both the pending theoryand practical examinations ofFinal Year or Final Semester ofundergraduate and post grad-uate courses were cancelled.

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    The much-awaitedHaridashpur-Paradip railline would begin operationwithin 10 to 15 days, informedformer Kendrapada MP BJPnational vice-presidentBaijayant Panda on Thursday.

    In a video on the socialmedia, Panda said, “Decades’dream of Kendrapara people isgoing to be fulfilled very soon.”

    He said goods trains wouldrun on the rail route first andsubsequently passenger trainswould be introduced.

    The 82.5-km-long rail lineproject, though sanctioned in1996, was not started so far.While land acquisition for theRs 2083.9-crore project was aproblem, environment clear-ance was availed in October2014 and finance provisionmade in Railway Budge in2015.

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    Four more persons suc-cumbed to Covid-19 in theState on Thursday, increasingthe total death toll to 52. Whilethree persons died in Ganjamdistrict, Bhadrak reported thefourth death.

    Out of the three deaths inGanjam, one was a 65-year-oldwoman suffering from dia-betes and hypertension; thesecond one was a 58-year-old

    man suffering from tubercularmeningitis; and the third onewas a 63-year-old man suffer-ing from diabetes.

    The fourth death was of a58-year-old man in Bhadrakdistrict, who was sufferingfrom diabetes and chronic kid-ney disease.

    Besides, two other personswho were tested positive for thevirus died while undergoingtreatment at the hospital due toother causes. One among themwas a 42-year-old man ofKeonjhar district who suc-cumbed to cancer. The otherwas an 88-year-old man ofBhadrak district who died dueto pyrexia with acute kidneyinjury and metabolic acidosis.

    On the day, the Staterecorded its highest single-dayjump of 577 positive cases.With this, the total cases roseto 11,201 which included 4,128active ones.

    Ganjam district reportedthe day’s maximum 260 cases,

    followed by Sundargarh 83,Khordha 56, Keonjhar 48,Baleswar 30, Gajapati 17,Mayurbhanj 14, Cuttack 14.Jajpur nine, Angul seven,Jagatsinghpur seven, Koraputsix, Boudh five, Puri five,Dhenkanal four, Kendrapadathree, Sambalpur three,Bhadrak two and Jharsuguda,Kandhamal, Malkangiri andNayagarh one each.

    However, a record numberof 401 patients recovered on theday, taking the total recoveriesto 7,407 in the State. The high-est 100 patients recovered inGanjam, 67 Gajapati, 42Cuttack, 32 Jajpur, 19 Deogarh,18 Koraput, 15 Khordha, 14Bargarh, 14 Bhadrak, 12Baleswar, 10 Keonjhar and 10Malkangiri, nine Jagatsinghpur,seven each Jharsuguda andMayurbhanj, six Kandhamal,five each Nayagarh andSambalpur, four Nabarangpur,three Kendrapada and twoDhenkanal.

    BHUBANESWAR: All eco-nomic activities and ongoingschemes would continue in theState amid execution of Covidnorms.

    A decision to this effectwas taken at an all Secretaries’meeting held though digitgalmode under the chairmanshipof Chief Secretry Asit Tripathyhere on Thursday.

    It was decided to enhancethe diet allowance per patientin Covid Care Centres to Rs240 per day.

    Te Chief Secretary direct-ed the concerned departmentsand collectors to ensure con-tinuance of industrial, agri-cultural, horticultural, miningactivities. Transport of goodsmust be continued to ensuresupply of essential commodi-ties.

    Reviewing the cases trans-ferred from the OdishaAdministrative Tribunal tothe High Court, Tripathy

    directed the departments tocategorise the cases like regu-larisation, pension, promo-tion, transfer, etc., and takeclear-cut in-principle deci-sions for early disposal of thecases.

    The total ProgrammeExpenditure (PE) up to June2020 was reduced by around5.06% compared to the last fis-cal. However, the expenditurein social and other sectorsincreased considerably. TheTPE up to June was around Rs8,923 crore against the lastyear’s around Rs 9,399 crore.But the expenditure in socialsectors, including health andfamily welfare programmes,was around Rs.5,281 crore upto June against the last year’sRs 4,225 crore.

    Total revenue collectionfrom both own-tax and non-tax sources up to June camedown by around 22.94% com-pared to the correspondingperiod of last year. The totalrevenue collection up to Juneof current fiscal year was Rs8,204 crore against the lastyear’s Rs 10,645 crore. PNS

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    Afive-day shutdown fromJuly 9 to 13 was onThursday imposed in all urbanareas and five block headquar-ters of Ganjam district for thepurpose of door-to-door healthscreening in view of the rapid-ly rising Covid-19 cases.

    The shutdown has beenimposed in BerhampurMunicipal Corporation(BeMC), Hinjili Municipalityand 16 Notified Area Councils(NACs). The block headquar-ters include Sheragada,Sanakhemundi, Patrapur,Dharkote and JagannathPrasad.

    The screening is being con-ducted by 200 teams of doctors.More than seven lakh peoplewould be screened during thedrive, the district administra-tion said and urged the peoplenot to hide any symptoms

    relating to their health.All Government offices

    and banks in the urban areas ofthe district are closed for pub-lic during the shutdown, itsaid.

    “Door-to-door healthscreening will be carried out ina campaign mode in theseareas during the complete shut-down period,” said GanjamCollector Vijay AmrutaKulange. Apart from checkingsymptoms for Covid-19, thehealth teams would also collectdata on diseases like tubercu-losis and malaria, he said.

    However, during the shut-down period, essential ser-vices like medical facilities,agriculture works would con-tinue without any restriction,he said.

    After the urban areas, suchscreening would be conductedin rural areas in the secondphase, the Collector added.

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    Due to the rising Covid-19cases, the Rayagada districtadministration on Thursdaysuspended all public transportbus services, including that ofthe OSRTC, to Ganjam districtand Twin City of Cuttack andBhubaneswar.

    Besides, entry of travellersfrom the Ganjam has beenprohibited except for thor-oughfares to other districtsand essential services. Anyperson visiting Rayagada fromGanjam would take priorapproval of the Sub-DivisionalMagistrate, Gunupur,Rayagada.

    Any person found contra-vening this provision would beput into institutional quaran-tine in Rayagada district for aminimum of seven days with

    food at own cost.The order further said

    Tehsildars as ‘IncidentCommanders’ would ensureits implementation by gettinginformation from the CovidManagement Committee orfrom any other sources.

    Government officialincluding contractual employ-ees in Rayagada district shallnot leave for Ganjam on privateor official ground without priorapproval of the RayagadaCollector processed throughPD, DRDA-cum-Covid NodalOfficer in e-mail only.

    Vehicles related to medical,goods, agricultural, industrialoperations as well as thor-oughfares thorough Rayagadawould be exempted from therestrictions, the order men-tioned.

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    An inmate of an institu-tional quarantine centrein Boudh district died onThursday. The incident wasreported from the Gaudadeiquarantine centre.

    Official sources said swabsample of the concerned per-son had been sent for Covid-19tests. But the quarantine cen-tre inmate died before testresults received.

    The inmate’s body wastaken to the Boudh CovidCare Centre for postmortem.

    So far, a total of 50 personshave tested positive for thevirus in the district. The num-ber of active cases stands atnine and 41 patients haverecovered.

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    The Bharatiya BikashParishad led by its Statepresident Surendra Panigrahihas submitted a memorandumto the Governor and the ChiefMinister expressing its seriousconcern over delay in conductof serological and antigen testof the suspected coronaviruspatients in Ganjam district.

    Even though nearly 30% ofthe Covid-19 patients identifiedin the State are from Ganjam,the Government is going tostart both serological and anti-gen test first in Cuttack andBhubaneswar ignoringBrahmapur, which is the epi-centre of Covid-19 patients inthe State, the Parishad alleged.

    The Government shouldhave given priority in intro-ducing new and advancedtechnologies for testing moreCovid-19 patients in those dis-tricts where the number of

    patients is high, Panigrahi said.This is a clear indicator of theState Government’s apathy andstep motherly attitude towardsGanjam district, he alleged.

    Panigrahi pointed out thatout of 10,097 total covid-19patients identified in the Stateso far, Ganjam district alonehas 2,621 patients.

    Similarly, the total deathtoll of Covid-19 patients in theState is 42 out of which Ganjamaccounts for 22 which is morethan 50% of the total, thememorandum pointed out.

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    SAMBALPUR: As many as15 corona warriors of the VeerSurendra Sai Institute ofMedical Science And Research(VIMSAR), Burla, have beensent on quarantine after apatient undergoing treatmentat the hospital tested positivefor Covid-19.

    Of these Covid warriors,five are doctors and 10 nurses.They had reportedly come incontact with the patient beforehis test report came out posi-tive. Out of them, two doctors,who are said to be at high riskof contracting infection fromthe patient, have been asked toremain under quarantine for aperiod of 14 days. The remain-ing 13 Covid warriors, includ-ing three doctors, have beensent to the quarantine centrestill their test results come out.

    The concerned patientfrom Kuchinda in Sambalpurdistrict with co-morbid condi-tions was undergoing treatmentduring which he developedCovid symptoms and was thenshifted to a Covid Hospital inBhubaneswar. Later, he testedpositive for the virus. PNS

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    Several political leaders andprominent persons of thedistrict have gone self homequarantine after BJP MLA ofNilgiri Sukanta Nayak wasdetected as Corona positive .

    The leaders who havegone self quarantine includ-ed the Union minister PratapChandra Sarangi, former MPRK Jena , former MinisterRaghunath Mohanty , MLARemuna Sudhansu SekharParida, former MLA GobindaDas, former MLA JP Dashand many others.

    In fact , these leaders hadattended the condolence meet-ing of MLA MM Dutta whichwas held recently. It is sus-pected that they had come incontact with Nayak .

    Nayak , with no certaintravel history, although he wentto Bhubaneswar , has beenadmitted in the Covid hospitalhere following detection.

    Nayak admitted that heattended several meetings andgatherings in his constituencyand had come in contact withscores of people during dis-tribution of masks, sanitizersand other materials .

    Nayak had visited theoffice of the district Collectoras well as District EducationOfficer. These buildings weresanitized by the district admin-istration.

    In the meanwhile as perlatest report as many as 28 newpositive cases including fourlocal cases , 15 home quaran-tine and nine from TMC havebeen detected in the district.

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    The Eastern India OilRefinery Workers’ Unionheld a condolence meeting inmemory of senior politicianBishnu Charan Das, whopassed away three days back,here on Thursday.

    Union president SantoshKumar Pattnaik presided overthe meeting. He along withgeneral secretary RanjanKumar Palei, joint secretaryNiranjan Nayak, PPLLFU pres-ident Chinmay Das, secretaryMihirkant Sahoo, RatnakarJena, Eastern India ContractLabour Cooperative Societypresident Abhiram Samal, EastCoast Beverage Employees’Union secretary Babuli CharanDas, Ashok Kumar Nath,Siddheshwar Swain, Trinath

    Biswal and Amulya Tarai paidrich tributes to Das. They tooobserved a two-minute silencefor his soul to rest in peace. All

    participants wore facemaskand maintained social distanc-ing.

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    The Mahanadi CoalfieldsLimited (MCL) is partner-ing with the Sambalpur districtadministration and R and Bengineering department on theambitious Rs 2.37-crore projectof renovation, beautification,landscaping, depicting art andculture and installation of giantbell at the famous GhanteswariTemple on the outskirts of thecity. The company has sanc-tioned Rs 2.37 crore for theproject under the CSR scheme,which envisages creatingopportunities of self-employ-ment for local people by boost-

    ing tourism in the circuit.A revered place of natural

    green habitat with riverMahanadi flowing by the side,Ghanteswari is an abode ofancient sculpture and spiritu-ality and a favoured tourist des-tination.

    The project manifestsMCL’s intensive engagementtowards promotion of art, cul-ture and tradition. Besides,this cultural intervention willopen up tourism driven self-employment avenues andmicro-entrepreneurial avenuesleading to creation of livelihoodopportunities for the sur-rounding rural folk.

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    The Mahakalapada police inKendrapada district onThursday arrested a youthPintu Behera of Oliha villageon the charges on raping a mar-ried Dalit woman on June 30 atOrta village in the district.

    Mahakapada PS IICManoranjan Chaudhury onthe fateful day barged into thevictim’s house when her hus-band had gone to the marketand raped her by brandishinga sharp weapon.

    When the victim’s hus-band came back home Pintuattacked him and tried toescape from the spot. However,hearing the commotion, localscame to the couple’s rescue andnabbed Pintu and thrashedhim.

    6������������ ���"���� SAMBALPUR: To contain thespread of Covid-19, theSambalpur administration on

    Thursday decided to impose atwo-day shutdown in the dis-trict on July 11 and 12.

    District CollectorShubham Saxena advised thepeople to stay home during theshutdown.

    Barring emergency ser-vices, public transport and pri-vate vehicles movement wouldbe stopped. All shops andother business establishmentsexpect medicine shops wouldalso remain closed.

    The district administra-tion said stringent action wouldbe taken against those whowould violate the shutdownguidelines.

    A total of 108 persons inthe district have contractedthe virus so far. While 58patients have recovered, thenumber of active cases standsat 50. PNS

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    The Keonjhar AbhivavakMahasangha has submitteda memorandum to the ChiefMinister through the districtCollector on July 6 demandingwaver of tuition fees of privateEnglish medium schools dur-ing the ongoing Covid-19 pan-demic and reservation 25 percent seats for the local poor stu-dents in Government schools.

    They have also appealed tothe CM to take a cue from theJharkhand Government whichhas declared that students tak-ing admission in theGovernment school are onlyeligible for Government ser-vices. They have threatened to

    go on strike if their demand isnot fulfilled. Mana RanjanRout ,Kiran balaNaik,Rabindranath Sethy ,Narayan Sethy among otherssubmitted the memorendum.

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    BHUBANESWAR: FremontHindu Temple, the first abodeof Lord Jagannath in Bay Area,California, USA, hosted theannual Ratha and BahudaYatra. The holy festival usual-ly attracts thousands of devo-tees. This year, however, owingto the coronavirus pandemic,the Ratha Yatra was held in arestricted manner with 20devotees with the heightenedprecaution of maintainingsocial distancing and wearingmasks.

    For the thousands of devo-tees who could not join, a livetelecast of the Ratha Yatra wasorganised which gave 7,000plus devotees the glimpses ofthe Holy Trinity on their TV,mobile phones and laptop.

    Ratha Yatra rituals startedby offering pooja to deities,"pahandi" followed by "chherapahara" starting the prepara-tory rituals for readying thechariot for pulling. RadhikaSaini from Nataraj School ofDance performed traditionalOdishi dance in front of thechariot before the chariot waspulled by the devotees withKirtan and Bhajan and thechants of "Jai Jagannath" led byKirtan Mellows of SiliconValley Iskcon temple. PNS

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    The Drug Controller Generalof India (DCGI) has askedthe pharma companies sellinganti-viral injection Remdesivirto set up helpline and makeavailable their drug distributionnetwork to the people lookingout for the life saving drugsused for treatment of theCovid-19 patients.

    The move followed com-plaints from various quartersthat the drug whose MRP isbetween Rs 4,800 to Rs 5,400per vial is in acute short supplyand being sold in black marketat as high as upto Rs 80,000 per

    vial.Union Health Ministry

    OSD Rajesh Bhsuhan said thatthey have received reports ofshortage of drug in the market.“In this connection, the topdrug regulator has asked theconcerned companies to set uphelplines and make availabletheir drug distribution net-work to help the people accessthe injection easily and at MRP,”he said at a presser here.

    Doctors have been blamingincreased demand and limitedsupply of the medicine for itsshortage. On June 13, theMinistry had allowed its emer-gency use for treating Covid-19patients with moderate symp-

    toms. An increase in casesaround the country has seenmore doctors prescribing thedrug , but supply hasn’tincreased proportionately.Patients prescribed the drug aretypically given five vials.

    The DCGI on June 1 hadallowed Gilead Sciences, whichholds the patent for Remdesivir,to start importing the medicine.Three Indian manufacturers –Hetero, Cipla, and Mylan--have since been allowed tomanufacture the drug in India.

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    Covid-19 may have beenassociated mostly withproblems like difficulty breath-ing, fever and cough, but casesof brain complications linked todeadly virus are being report-ed from across the countries.

    These include confusion,stroke, inflammation of thebrain, spinal cord, and otherkinds of nerve disease, said astudy published in the journalThe Lancet Neurology.

    "It is really important thatdoctors around the worldrecognise that COVID-19 cancause encephalitis and otherbrain problems, which oftenhave potentially devastating,life-changing consequences forpatients," said study co-authorAva Easton, CEO of theEncephalitis Society in the UK.

    A recent Liverpool-ledstudy of Covid-19 patients hos-pitalised in the UK found arange of neurological and psy-chiatric complications that maybe linked to the disease.

    To get a sense of the wider

    picture, the researchers broughttogether and analysed findingsfrom Covid-19 studies acrossthe globe that reported onneurological complications.

    The review, which includ-ed studies from China, Italyand the US among others,found almost 1,000 patientswith Covid-19-associatedbrain, spinal cord and nervedisease.

    The study found thatstrokes, delirium and otherneurological complications arereported from most countrieswhere there have been largeoutbreaks of the disease.

    "Whilst these complica-tions are relatively uncom-mon, the huge numbers ofCovid-19 cases globally meanthe overall number of patientswith neurological problems is

    likely to be quite large," saidstudy researcher SuzannahLant. According to theresearchers, one of the com-plications found to be linked toCovid-19 is encephalitis, whichis inflammation and swelling ofthe brain.

    "We are currently poolingdata from individual patientsall around the world, so that wecan get a more complete pic-ture. Doctors who would like tocontribute patients to thisanalysis can contact us via theGlobal Covid-Neuro Networkwebsite," the study authorswrote.

    Recently another study, pub-lished this week in the journalBrain, showed that Covid-19 cancause severe neurological com-plications, including delirium,brain inflammation, stroke andnerve damage.

    The research team had iden-tified one rare and sometimesfatal inflammatory condition,known as ADEM, which appearsto be increasing in prevalencedue to the pandemic.

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    Even as cases are fast spread-ing like wildfire in India totouch to 8 lakh mark, making itthe third-worst hit nation in theworld , the Centre on Thursdaysaid India has not yet reachedthe community transmissionstage of Covid and asserted thatthere have been localised out-breaks in some geographicalareas.

    The Government pointedout that eight states, includingMaharashtra, Tamil Nadu,Delhi, Karnataka and Telangana,account for around 90 per cent

    of the active Covid-19 cases inthe country and 80 per cent ofthe active cases have beenreported from 49 districts.

    Similarly, six states —Maharashtra, Delhi, Gujarat,Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh andWest Bengal — account for 86per cent of the deaths caused byCOVID-19 and 32 districtsaccount for 80 per cent of suchfatalities, the Union HealthMinistry said. The death toll inIndia has climbed to 21,129.

    Union Health Minister DrHarsh Vardhan said that there isno community transmission inIndia. “During our discussionstoday, experts again stated that

    there is no community trans-mission in India. There may besome localised pockets wheretransmission is high but as acountry, there’s no communitytransmission,” the Minister saidwhile addressing a press con-ference after chairing a Group ofMinisters’ meeting to review,monitor and evaluate the evolv-ing situation on Covid-19 in thecountry.

    Noting that though Indiahas become the third mostaffected country by the Covid-19 pandemic, he asserted it wasimportant to understand this inthe correct perspective.

    “We are a country with the

    second highest population in theworld. Our cases per million are538, while world average is1,453,” Vardhan said.

    Later in the day at a press-er here, Health Ministry’s OSDRajesh Bhushan too asserted thatthere was no need to worry forIndia which has managed welland healthcare is not undulyburdened.

    “When we talk of caseloadof Covid-19 in India, it is2,69,000 people. This tells us thatat the end of the day we've man-aged a situation where ourhealth care infrastructure is notunduly burdened and is notcreaking due to the pressure,” he

    said. Today, we have 538 casesper million population, it's as perWHO situation report. Caseper million population in somecountries are at least 16-17times more than what it is inIndia. We have 15 deaths permillion population whereas wehave countries where it is 40times as much, the officialadded.

    ICMR on its parts said thatthe number of tests hasincreased, on an average, we aretesting more than 2.6 Lakhs ofsamples per day. We hope to seea further rise by the use of theantigen test, said an officialfrom the ICMR.

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    The Enforcement Directoratehas provisionally attachedassets worth Rs 2,203 crore ofYes Bank promoter RanaKapoor and others in connec-tion with a money launderingcase.

    The present market value ofthe attached assets is morethan Rs 2,800 crore and includeimmovable properties in Indiaand abroad, bank accounts,investments and luxury vehi-cles, the ED said in a statement.

    Besides Lapoor, these assetsbelong to DHFL’s KapilWadhawan and DheerajWadhawan and the entitiescontrolled by them.

    The attached assets ofKapoor and related entities areworth Rs 792 crore ( presentmarket value Rs 1,400 crore)which include an independentresidential building“Khursidabad” at Cumbala Hill,three duplex flats at Napean SeaRoad, Mumbai, residential flatin NCPA, Nariman Point; eightflats in India Bulls Blue, Worli,Mumbai.

    Besides a bungalow belong-ing to Kapoor at 40 AmritaShergill Marg in New Delhihaving market value of Rs 685crore has also been attached.

    The attached assets belong-ing to Wadhawans and relatedentities are worth Rs 1,411.9crore which include 12 flats inKhar (West), Mumbai; one flatin New York and two flats inLondon, two land parcels inPune and Mulshi, one com-mercial property in Australia;five luxury vehicles and 344bank accounts.

    The ED had initiated inves-tigations against Rana Kapoor,Kapil Wadhawan and DheerajWadhawan besides othersunder Prevention of MoneyLaundering Act (PMLA) on thebasis of FIR registered by CBIunder IPC Sections relating tocriminal conspiracy and cheat-ing besides provisions ofPrevention of Corruption Act.

    The ED had earlierattached bank deposits to thetune of Rs 115 crore of variouscompanies of Rana Kapoorand seized jewellery worth Rs22.87 crore and seven highend luxury cars worth Rs 12.58crore belonging to theWadhawan family.

    Kapoor and Wadhawanswere arrested by ED for theirrole in the money launderingcase and all of them are in judi-cial custody.

    It was alleged that, duringApril to June, 2018, Yes BankLimited had invested Rs 3,700

    crore in the short term deben-tures of DHFL, a companybelonging to Wadhawans forwhich kickback of Rs 600 crorewas paid to Rana Kapoor andhis family members in the garbof loan.

    In addition, Yes Bank Ltd.had also sanctioned a loan of Rs750 crore to one of the RKWDevelopers Group company,beneficially owned by KapilWadhawan, DheerajWadhawan and their familymembers, for their BandraReclamation Project inMumbai. But the whole amountwas siphoned off by KapilWadhawan and DheerajWadhawan through their shellcompanies and was never usedfor the declared purpose, theED said.

    Further, a separate casewas recorded against RanaKapoor, Gautam Thapar andothers under PMLA on thebasis of another FIR registeredby CBI on similar chargesunder IPC and Prevention ofCorruption Act.

    This CBI FIR alleged thatRana Kapoor obtained illegalgratification in the form of aproperty in a prime location inNew Delhi at much less thanthe realizable market value,belonging to Avantha RealityLtd. (ARL).

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    Days after opening up theASI monuments for gen-eral public, the Union CultureMinistry has decided to allowthe film industry to shoot at theprotected sites.

    "It would be difficult for thefilm industry to go to foreigndestinations at this time whenworld is swept withCoronavirus pandemic, so wehave suggested that they couldgo to the Northeast states,"Union Tourism and CultureMinister Prahlad Patel said ata FICCI event here.

    He assured the film indus-

    try that that they will get per-mission to shoot at monu-ments within 15-20 days of fil-ing their online applications.

    "It would also fulfil thePrime Minister’s appeal topeople to visit various placesin the country. I told them wewill give permission in 15 to 20days. They just have to applyonline. I have appealed that itwould be great if other thanthe high footfall sites, theycould also shoot at less popu-lar monuments suggested byus to give them a boost aswell," he said.

    The ASI has over 3,000monuments and sites that werereopened on July 6 after

    remaining shut during thecoronavirus lockdown.

    Currently, filming at ASIsites is permitted, but it involvesa lot of paperwork and is timeconsuming, officials said.

    "Since now the film indus-try cannot shoot abroad, theministry will help in facilitat-ing permissions from the states.If necessary we will coordinatewith the Information andTechnology ministry as well,"the Minister said.

    Presently, the request forfilming/ video shoot alongwith camera crew is to bemade by the applicant at least15 days prior to the proposeddate of shoot.

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    HRD Minister RameshPokhriyal Nishank onThursday hit back at criticswho alleged a conspiracy inreducing the syllabus of theCentral Board of SecondaryEducation (CBSE) amid thecoronavirus pandemic.

    The CBSE has reduced thesyllabus up to 30 per cent fornearly 190 subjects fromClasses 9 to 12 only for boardexams of the 2020-21 ses-sion. The board has said noquestion will be asked fromthe reduced syllabus in theexams.

    "There has been a lot ofuninformed commentary onthe exclusion of some topicsfrom #CBSESyllabus. Theproblem with these commentsis that they resort to sensa-tionalism by connecting top-ics selectively to portray a falsenarrative," the Nishank sharedon twitter.

    Key chapters l ikeDemocratic Rights, Food

    Security in India, Federalism,Citizenship and Secularismhave been dropped fromschool courses. The nationaleducation board has said itseeks to reduce burden onstudents amid the pandemic.

    The move led to criticismthat the centre was tweakingthe syllabus to suit a certainnarrative. West Bengal ChiefMinister Mamata Banerjeewas among those who criti-cised the CBSE's move toremove those chapters.

    The CBSE clarified that"each of the topics that havebeen wrongly mentioned inmedia as deleted have beencovered under AlternativeAcademic Calendar ofNCERT, which is already inforce for all affiliated schoolsof the board".

    Following up on theCBSE's clarification, the HRDMinister said schools havebeen asked to follow theAlternate Academic Calendarof the National Council ofEducational Research andTraining or NCERT.

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    Of the over 21,000 deathsbeing reported in thecountry, at least more than12,000 ie around 53 per centis of those above 60 years ofage, said the Government onThursday highlighting thatthe deadly virus is more fatalto the elderly.

    In contrast, just one percent of the deaths in India areamong 14 years of age, 3 percent among people between15 to 29 years of age, while 11per cent between 30 and 44

    years of age, 32 per centamong 45-59 years of agedand 39 per cent among peo-ple who are aged between 60and 74, said an officer fromthe Union Health Ministry ata press conference here.

    Data also showed thatpersons with co-morbiditieslike diabetes and cardiovas-cular diseases are also proneto the virus which can dam-age organs in such patients.

    When asked on Unionhealth Ministry's August 15deadline for Covid-19 vac-cine and why has it beenexpedited, Bhushan clarified,

    "Please don't read somethingwhich is not there in DG-ICMR's letter. Letter's intentis only to expedite dulyapproved clinical trials with-out compromising on safetyand security concerns.”

    The Ministry also saidBharat Biotech and CadilaHealthcare are developingvaccines for the virus. Bothvaccines completed animaltoxicity studies after approval.

    "DCGI has permittedthese two vaccines to go infor phase one and two clini-cal trials. Trials are yet tobegin," he said.

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    Tamil Nadu’s seesaw battle withCovid-19 continued onThursday as 4,231 persons werediagnosed with the pandemicacross the State. There was norespite in the death toll also. Theday saw 65 persons succumbing tocoronavirus in the State.

    With 4,231 persons gettinginfected with the disease, TamilNadu has 46, 653 active Covid-19patients as on Thursday. Till date1.26 lakh persons has tested posi-tive for the pandemic.

    According to the medical bul-letin released by the State, thenumber of laboratories to test thesamples has gone up to 100, a signthat the Tamil Nadu Governmentis on an aggressive testing mode. Atotal of 41, 038 persons were test-ed on Thursday while the numberof persons tested till date across theState crossed the 1.42 million mark.

    The bulletin said 3,994 personswere discharged from hospitalsacross the State on Thursday, tak-ing the number of persons dis-charged till date to 78, 161.

    The news from southern dis-tricts continued to be grim whilethe northern districts showed someabatement in the number of cases.Chennai Metropolis registered1,216 coronavirus cases whileneighbouring districts ofChengalpet (169) andKancheepuram ( 67) too showedslight decrease in the number of

    persons tested positive. But inThiruvallur, another neighbouringdistrict of Chennai, 364 personswere diagnosed with the pandem-ic. The district had tested only 300cases on Wednesday.

    Southern districts of Madurai( 262), Kallakurichi (254),Thoothukudi ( 196) andVirudhunagar (289) continued tobe problematic spots because of theincreasing numbers. Out of the 65deaths in the State on Thursday, 58died with comorbidities.

    Chennai Corporation officialsattributed the decrease in the num-ber of Covid-29 cases in themetropolis to the fever camps heldacross the wards in the capital cityand suburbs. A senior Corporationofficial said that the total positivi-ty rate (number of positive cases forevery 100 tests) in Chennai hascome down from 24.2 per cent inJune to 18.2 per cent in July. Whilethe city has been reporting close tojust 1,200 fresh cases for the pastcouple of days, the doubling rate ofpositive cases (number of days ittakes for the count to double) in thecity has risen to 25 days, from the14-15 days in mid-June, said theofficial.

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    The miseries of thousands ofmigrant workers, farmlabourers returning from theirvillages to earn their livelihoodin Jammu & Kashmir are farfrom over.

    On Thursday, hundreds ofthese workers stranded at aquarantine centre in Vijaypurarea of Samba district createdruckus after they were deniedCovid-19 testing facility.

    In a free for all situation,the stranded passengersuprooted counters, stalls andother furniture kept there at amakeshift testing facility insidethe quarantine centre. Securitypersonnel deployed at the quar-antine centre, were outnum-bered by the rush of strandedworkers. According to officialsources, “around 2300 passen-gers were present in the area at

    the time of the incident”. Official sources said, “for

    the last five to six days an aver-age number of 500-600 pas-sengers, majority of them brickkiln workers, farm labourerswere reporting at the quaran-tine centre”.

    In the absence of adequatetesting facilities, more than2000 migrant workers werestuck there. They were blamingthe local officers for not havingadequate testing facilities toclear the rush of strandedworkers from the centre.

    Soon after the incident,video footage of the ruckuswent viral on various socialmedia platforms where securi-ty personnel were seen strug-gling to contain the situationfor a long time. Senior districtand police officers were rushedto the spot to prevent the situ-ation from taking any uglyturn.

    Incharge nodal officer ofthe administrative quarantinecentre Kamalpreet Singh toldThe Pioneer, “ruckus startedaround 1.30 p.m on Thursdayafter the testing team exhaust-ed their daily quota of 200-250tests as per the availability oftesting kits”.

    He said, “as per the guide-lines, no passenger can begranted permission to proceedfurther to their destinationwithout undergoing mandato-ry Covid 19 screening”.

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    Bengal on Thursday enteredinto its second phase of lock-down only with a stricter appli-cation while large posses policepersonnel descended on thestreets with a sense of purpose farmore intense than what was seenin the first phase.

    The lockdown started in allthe containment zones fromThursday evening in large partsof the State, Home Departmentsources said.

    While North 24 Parganashas largest number of contain-ment zones at 94 there are 25 suchzones in Kolkata. South 24Parganas has 54 and Howrah has56 containment zones, officialssaid.

    While East and WestMidnapopre have 21 and 23 suchzones respectively Coochbehar,Jhargram and West Burdwan dis-tricts have none. However thereare 25 and 21 such zones in Nadiaand East Burdwan whereasPurulia, Bankura and Birbhumhave 13, 9 and 9 extended con-tainment zones each.

    In North Bengal, Alipurduarand Kalimpong have 4 and 3 con-tainment zones respectively whilethree police stations comprisingalmost the entire Malda city havebeen put under lockdown.

    Dalkhola in North Dinajpurwhich stands at the junction ofBihar and Bengal have been putunder full lockdown.Murshidabad too has 4 such con-tainmnent zones.

    The decision to impose aseven-day second phase lock-down was taken by ChiefMinister following a sharp spikein the number of cases whenceshe went on record on Thursdaysaying the “the poorer people liv-ing in slums are following therules more seriously than the richand the middle class which is evi-dent from the data base” showingonly 13 out of 255 cases comingfrom the slums.

    The police on Thursdayevening were seen imposing thelockdown with far more intensi-ty and purpose not only puttingup barricades in designated areasbut also pulling up and sendingcommuters back home for notwearing masks. In parts of Maldathe cops were seen resorting tomild lathi-charges to disciplinethe citizens.

    All the shops, governmentoffices and other institutions saveessential services were closed inthe containment zones policesaid.

    During the lockdown localauthorities will try and arrangehome delivery of essential com-

    modities for the residents ofthese areas, a senior official said.

    Informing that containmentzones and buffer zones have beenamalgamated into formingextended containment zones anorder issued by Additional ChiefSecretary, Home, AlapanBandyopadhyay earlier had said,“these broader containment zonesmay be subjected to strict lock-down and all offices, governmentand private, all non-essentialactivities, congregations, trans-portations and all marketing,industrial and trading activities beclosed.”

    Any extension of the lock-down beyond seven days willdepend upon the progress madein the given areas, the ChiefMinister had earlier said.

    The Calcutta High Court toowas shut down till Monday fol-lowing an order from the ChiefJustice. Three buildings of theCourt will be sanitized duringthese four days, sources said.

    Meanwhile a second TMCMLA have been diagnosed withcorona. The MLA fromKumarganj in North Dinajpurdistrict had been sent on homequarantine, sources said. Earliera senior TMC Legislator and aclose confidante of the ChiefMinister, Tamanash Ghosh haddied of corona last month.

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    Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan issuedan alert to the people of Kerala thatcommunity transmission was staring theState and anytime from now it wouldbecome a reality. The State diagnosed onThursday 339 persons with Covid-19,the highest number to be recorded inKerala since the first citing of the pan-demic in January.

    While Chief Secretary Viswas Mehtaopted to stay in his house as part ofobservation following the diagnosis ofhis driver with Covid-19, Poonthura, oneof the coastal suburbs of the capital citysaw the Government deploying armedcommandos to prevent the spread of thepandemic. “We are experiencing superspread in Poonthura and the coastal areahas been cut off from the rest of the dis-trict,” said Vijayan. Super Spread is theterm used to denote unprecedentedrate of infection, a step closer to com-munity transmission, the chief ministerexplained.

    Thiruvananthapuram, which hasbeen described as a volcano byKadakampalli Surendran, Minister forTourism, on Thursday tested 95 personswith the pandemic. Out of the 339 per-sons diagnosed with coronavirus onThursday, 117 were expatriates, 74 were

    those who returned to the State fromother parts of the country. “What is ofconcern is that 133 persons got infect-ed through contacts and this is a warn-ing sign. It was from the fish and veg-etable market in the capital city that thepandemic spread to other parts of thedistrict which forced the administrationto declare Triple Lock Down. If we turna blind eye to this experience, we wouldbe forced to declare Triple Lock Downin more areas,” said the chief minister.

    Vijayan also said that 133 personsgetting afflicted through contacts is anindication of super spread which wouldmake life difficult for others. Withoutnaming the demonstrators and protes-tors who are taking out marches and ral-lies all over the State in violation of thesocial distancing restrictions and notwearing face masks, Vijayan said thiswould boomerang as not maintainingsocial distancing and assembling with-out any purpose are sure recipes to thespread of the pandemic.

    The Chief Minister also disclosedthat 471 persons were hospitalised onThursday after they were found to beafflicted with covid-19. “Till date we havetested more than three lakh people. OnThursday there were 181 hotspots in theState. Till date we have diagnosed 6,534persons with Covid,” said the CM.

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    Even as Opposition parties,the Congress and the BJPcontinued with their protestmarches and demonstrationsacross Kerala demanding theresignation of Chief MinisterPinarayi Vijayan whose officehas come under the scanner fol-lowing the seizure of 30 kgsmuggled gold atThiruvananthapuram airport,Swapna Suresh, the kingpinbehind the smugglingapproached the Kerala HighCourt seeking anticipatory bailon Thursday.

    Swapna filed the bail peti-tion through her lawyer and thismay be listed for Friday.Meanwhile, an audio message,purportedly belonging toSwapna was being aired by allMalayalam news channels inwhich she has claimed that shewas innocent and was beinghunted by certain people withulterior motives. Interestingly,she said in the message that itwas because of the requestmade by the UAE Consulate,her former employers, that sherang up the Customs officialsrequesting them to release theconsignment without delay.

    ‘I do not have anythingwith the Chief Minister or anyother Ministers. It is true that Ihave met them as part of my jobin the UAE Consulate to invitethem for official functions heldby the Consul General. Beyondthis I have no dealings with any-body,” said Swapna who alsoclaimed that she rang up theCustoms officials at the instanceof the UAE Consulate attache toget the consignment released.

    Swapna also claimed thatthe detractors of the ChiefMinister and other ministerswere making use of her name totarnish their image.

    “You will not win in thisbattle as the ministers are allbeyond doubt. But what youpeople are trying to do is toforce me to take my own life,”she said in the voice recording.

    Earlier in the day, Sarith,who was taken into custody onTuesday morning fromThiruvananthapuram was sentto the Customs’ custody till July15 by the Economic OffencesWing Court in response to aplea filed by the CustomsDepartment.

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    Apparently spurred by the“Dharavi” coronavirus suc-cess story, Maharashtra ChiefMinister Uddhav Thackerayon Thursday exhorted NGOsto form a link between theBrihanmumbai MunicipalCorporation (BMC) and citi-zens form ward-wise commit-tees to fight Covid-19 at theground-level.

    Addressing the BMC offi-cials and representatives ofNGOs through video-confer-encing, the Chief Minister said:“The NGO should take an ini-tiative to establish a permanent

    linking mechanism betweenthe BMC administration andcitizens. Together, BMC, NGOsand citizens can easily fightcoronavirus in the metropolis”.

    “The BMC is currentlyimplementing the “chase thevirus” strategy in some parts ofthe city. In places where theBMC is not involved in the“chase the virus” experiment,the BMC, NGOs and citizenscan come together, undertakedoor-to-door visits and carryout tests to identify peopleshowing Covid-19 systems.The State Government willprovide the necessary help,” the

    Chief Minister.Maintaining that success

    was guaranteed where therewas consensus among the peo-ple about a particular issue,Uddhav said that he had issueda direction to the officialsacross the state to set up coro-navirus vigilance committees atthe village, taluka and districtlevels to fight the pandemic.

    “If we are able to keep ourhouse and surrounding areasclean, we will be able to defeatCoronavirus and monsoon-related diseases. For keepingrain- related diseases at bayduring the monsoon, we have

    to lay stress on cleanliness. TheNGOs should take lead cre-ateawareness of hygiene, wear-ing masks, sanitizers, etc espe-cially in slums,” Uddhav said.

    The Chief Ministerappealed to NGOs to visitroad, building and bridge con-structions and take measures todisinfect water collected atthese places.

    “After visiting Dharavi inMumbai, a central team hadrecommended that public toi-lets be cleaned periodically.After that, we undertook amassive drive in Dharavi andused to clear public toilets atleast six times in a day. By dis-

    infecting the public toilets, wechecked the spread of coron-avirus in a big way in Dharavi,”he said.

    “All by itself, the BMCcannot fight Coronavirus alone.We need the cooperation of theNGOs in disinfecting publictoilets and other places. TheNGOs should also undertakedoor-to-door survey of slumsin the city, identify people withCovid-19 symptoms and sendto Coronavirus centres. If weare able to reach the people tohospitals in that ̀ golden hour’,we will be able to save the livesof the people,” the ChiefMinister said.

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    Aquick reaction team (QRT)of the Indian Army wastargeted by the terrorists lateThursday evening nearLethpora area of Awantipora.

    One Indian Army jawanalong with a civilian womanreceived injuries in the cross-fire.

    The Army jawan wasrushed to the Base hospital inSrinagar while a civilian ladywas shifted in the nearby hos-pital.

    The condition of both theinjured soldier and a civilianwoman was stated to be stable.

    According to Col RajeshKalia, a Srinagar based DefencePRO, “An ambulance with QRTmoving from Khrew was firedupon by terrorists from near aMosque at Laddoo Mor,Lethpora, Avantipora at 6 PMtoday”.

    He said, one soldierreceived injuries in the attackand was evacuated to 92 Basehospital. His condition wasstated to be stable, DefencePRO added.

    Meanwhile, one civilianlady also sustained injuries inthe crossfire and her conditionwas also stated to be stable.

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    Apparently having lost allhopes of recovery, a 20-year-old blood cancer-strickenboy committed suicide at theKing Edward Memorial (KEM)Hospital at Parel in south-cen-tral Mumbai.

    Shaji Janu Kharat com-mitted suicide at the hospital at9 pm on Wednesday, by hang-ing himself to the grill of a hugehospital window. He was

    declared dead at 9.45 pm.Coming at a time when the

    administration is coping upwith the huge inflow of Covid-19 patients, the incident causedquite a stir at the hospital.

    Shaji, who was a resident ofMahalaxmi Welfare Society atChembur’s New Bharat Nagarin north-east Mumbai, hadbeen admitted to KEM hospi-tal on June 23.

    He underwent Covid-19test on July 2. He was diag-

    nosed negative in the testreport which was received onWednesday.

    Confirming the cause ofthe suicide, DeputyCommissioner of PoliceSaurabh Tripathi said: “Heended his life, as he was unableto reconcile to the fact that hewas suffering from blood can-cer. A case of Accidental DeathReport (ADR) has been regis-tered at Bhoiwada police sta-tion”.

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    Maharashtra crossed 2.30lakh-mark in terms ofCovid-19 infections onThursday, as many as 6,875people tested positive for thecoronavirus, while 219 morepeople died of pandemic invarious parts of the State.

    With the infections goingup from Wednesdays’ count of6,603 to 6,875 on Thursday, thetotal number of infected casesclimbed up to 2,30,599.

    With fresh 219 deaths, thetotal deaths in the State went upto 9,667.

    Of the total 219 deaths,Mumbai accounted for 68deaths, taking the total numberof deaths in the metropolis to5132 now, while the total num-ber of positive patients rose by1,268 cases to touch 89,124.

    Apart from 68 deaths inMumbai, there were 66 deathsin Thane, 27 deaths in Pune, 17deaths in Raigad, eight deathseach in Palghar and Solapur,seven in Jalgaon, four inNashik, three in Satara, twoeach in Ahmednagar,Nandurbar and Nagpur, oneeach in Latur, Jalna, Amravati,Nanded, and one from anoth-er state.

    With 54,811 infected caseswith 1,483 deaths, Thane hasemerged as the second worsthit district in Maharashtra.

    Pune, which has emergedas the third worst affected dis-trict in terms of spread of thepandemic, has recorded 33,394infections and 989 deaths tillnow.

    Meanwhile, the total num-ber of patients dischargedfrom various hospitals after fullrecovery since the second weekof March this year touched1,27,259. The recovery rate inthe state stood at 55.19 per cent.The mortality rate in the stateis 4.19 per cent. The statehealth authorities pegged thenumber of “active cases” in thestate at 93,652.

    Out of 12,12,487 samplessent to laboratories, 2,30,599have tested positive (18.77%)for Covid-19 until Monday.Currently, 6,49,263 people arein home quarantine while48,191 people are in institu-tional quarantine.

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    Bengaluru: Alarmed over surgingCovid-19 cases, the Karnataka govern-ment has decided to divide this tech cityinto containment zones to curb thespread of the pandemic, a state minis-ter said on Thursday.

    “The city will be divided into red,orange and yellow zones in commen-surate with the number of Covid casesin them for containing the virus spreadon war footing,” Law and ParliamentaryAffairs Minister J.C. Madhuswamy toldreporters here.

    Cabinet ministers representingassembly segments in the city will be in-charge of the zones to ensure the casesare curbed with strict enforcement oflockdown guidelines, especially wearingmask and maintaining social distancingby the people in the confinement areas.

    “Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa hasconvened a meeting of ministers, MLAs,MPs and corporators of all the 198 civicwards across the city on Friday to dis-cuss and draw an action plan to containthe pandemic,” said Madhuswamy.

    With 1,148 positive cases, the city'sCovid tally rose to 12,509 and active to10,103, while 2,228 were discharged,including 418 on Wednesday, while 177succumbed to the infection since March9, with 23 in the last 24 hours.

    “The Chief Minister ordered deploy-ing more ambulances in the containment

    areas where cases have been spiking dailyto rush Covid patients to the nearest hos-pital for immediate treatment,” saidMadhuswamy.

    The city civic corporation -- BruhatBengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP)--has increased the containment zonesto 3,181 due to more cases spiking, withsouthern and western suburbs account-ing for most infections.

    “The containment zones are con-centrated more in the city's southern andwestern suburbs. Active cases doubledover the last 8 days and shot up to awhopping 12,509 from 4,555 on June 30,”an official said.

    Refuting graft charges by oppositionCongress leader Siddaramaiah in thepurchase of medical equipment fortreatment of Covid patients,Madhuswamy said the state governmenthad not spent more than Rs 600 croreso far.

    “We are running a government. Nota private office. We will give account. He(Siddaramaiah) is welcome to check theaccounts and verify the documents,”asserted the minister.

    In a related development, the cabi-net also approved an ordinance toincrease the state contingency fund toRs 500 crore from Rs 80 crore for theCovid-19 induced economic relief mea-sures announced by the chief ministerin June. IANS

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    Karnataka and Maharashtra would set up ajoint committee to manage floods in theKrishna river basin during the monsoon whenheavy rains lash both states, an official said onThursday.

    “The joint committee will monitor and con-trol floods if heavy rain water overflows in theKrishna river basin across the twin states to pro-tect lives and property,” the official told IANSafter State water resources minister RameshJarkiholi met his Maharashtra counterpartJayant Patil in Mumbai on Wednesday.

    The committee will have the state-runNeeravari Nigam chief engineer and its super-intendent as members from Karnataka and theircounterparts from Maharashtra.

    Heavy and widespread monsoon rains inAugust 2019 resulted in Krishna and Bheemarivers overflowing from Maharashtra andflooding Bagalkot, Vijapura and Belagavi dis-tricts, resulting in death and damage in the state'snorthwest region.

    “The committee will also ensure coordina-tion between the two states to avoid floodingif the rivers and their tributaries turn spate dueto heavy rains in their catchment areas,” said theofficial.

    The two ministers also discussed the shar-ing of the Krishna water during summer andnotifications of the Krishna Tribunal award forboth the states.

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  • The first response we shouldalways make to the banning ofauthors by an authoritariansystem is to read their works.As it happened, I was readingthe latest book by the young Hong Kongactivist Joshua Wong titled, UnfreeSpeech: The Threat to Global Democracyand Why We Must Act, Now, when newsemerged that his previous works werebeing seized from booksellers under thenew security law imposed by Beijing.

    If we want to understand the world-wide collision of ideas, which seemsincreasingly inevitable, events in HongKong are a good place to start. It is herethat Western values of free speech,openness to ideas and belief in the ruleof law have come into direct conflict witha fundamentally opposing idea: Thatunity and success of a major civilisationis incompatible with such dangerousnotions. If that conflict requires theChinese security officials to rummagearound in bookshops, gathering up allthe books by writers such as HoraceChin, Tanya Chan, Wong and Jason YNg, it is not a bad idea to start readingthem. We will find the world’s future bat-tlegrounds illuminated in their pages.

    What do we learn from Wong’s newbook that helps us understand why animmensely powerful State wants to sup-press the thoughts of a 23-year-oldactivist and has previously held him inprison? Why is he such a threat that hisevery word has to be hunted down,pulped or burned? The answer is part-ly that we gain inspiration from the deter-mination with which Wong has pursuedideals we know and hold dear, with anintegrity that would shame many peo-ple in the West, unwilling to make hissacrifices.

    Also, we can find in his pages a clar-ity of perception that explains what hashappened in Hong Kong and cutsthrough the baffling confusion of worldaffairs. He recounts the warming feelingstowards China among his generation atthe time of the 2008 Olympics, accom-panied by the hope that “one country,two systems” might actually work. Butthen he explains how this went sour asthe commitment to universal suffrage inHong Kong was abandoned and XiJinping, “a wolf in panda’s clothing”, cameto power. A new political identity of“unbelonging towards the motherland”was thus forged.

    My main reflection on Wong’s book,however, is that the central weaknessesof both Western democracy and Chinesetotalitarianism are exposed. In the caseof the West, that weakness is our com-placency, our indifference to growingdangers and our easy assumption that weare too smart to be undermined fromoutside. It takes a young activist from the

    other side of the world to pointout to European and Americanreaders that autocratic regimes,including Russia, are mountinga serious threat to free societies.

    There has been extensivereporting of the huge and sys-tematic effort by the RussianState under Russian PresidentVladimir Putin to sow discord inWestern countries and corrodetheir unity. That effort appears tohave included the financing ofnationalistic political parties, theuse of media outlets to spreadfalse information and, in partic-ular, the exploitation of socialmedia to foster distrust. InBritain, for instance, CardiffUniversity researchers found in2017 that fake social mediaaccounts linked to Russia set outto exacerbate hatred after terror-ist attacks.

    China’s undermining ofdemocracy is more subtle andalmost a by-product of becom-ing the world’s first or secondeconomy with centralised con-trol of huge enterprises and cut-ting-edge technology. As China’sstake in Western economiesincreases, their political leadersbecome less willing to confrontan aggressive foreign policy orhuman rights abuses. As Chinabecomes an indispensable mar-ket for Western corporations,they feel ever more bound torefrain from criticism. And now,if a student from Hong Kongwishes to speak freely at a British

    university, he/she will be underthe watchful eye of China andwill be liable to arrest when backhome. Slowly, inexorably, thefreedom to think or speak differ-ently globally is being eroded.

    Democracies are slow toperceive when they are threat-ened as the 20th century showed.Now some of them are stirring.In the UK, the Government isrightly working on a new legis-lation to block foreign takeoversaffecting key technologies andnational security. It promises aconsultation on closing loop-holes on foreign spending inelections and the establishmentof a new CounterDisinformation Cell.

    It has taken the commend-able decision to open bordersto many residents of HongKong. Far more will need to bedone — by many more coun-tries and in coordination witheach other — for these effortsto be successful. Americanleadership, paralysed by theWhite House’s refusal to acceptthe scale of Russian involve-ment in the last presidentialelection, will be vital. The ideaof a G7 working with Asiandemocracies such as Japan,South Korea and India is a rightstep. But at the moment, mostpeople in advanced democra-cies do not realise what is hap-pening and those hurling abuseat each other on social mediaare oblivious as to how they are

    manipulated from afar.Wong says he is “sending

    out a distress signal to theworld so that counter-measurescan be taken before it is too late.”We should listen to him, for infocussing on our tardiness inprotecting ourselves, he is spoton. Yet his diagnosis of the ulti-mate flaw in autocratic regimesis also correct: That they contin-ually have to double down onrepression at home and show-ing strength abroad. He arguesthat such a two-front strategy isthe only way to retain power,“however invincible and invul-nerable they appear to the out-side world.” This is indeedChina’s problem. The price ofpushing forward the borderwith India on land, clashingwith Vietnam at sea, bullyingAustralia on trade and suppress-ing dissent in Hong Kong witharbitrary law is mounting alarmaround the world.

    So from even one book ofa banned author, much can belearned. A Chinese diplomatonce tried to persuade me thatChinese people were not suit-ed to democracy as the Westknows it — “they would electa peasant as President anddeclare war on Japan.” But inthe books that have emergedfrom Hong Kong, we can seethey are just as suited to it as therest of us and can teach us whatwe urgently need to know.

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