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The Supreme Court onMonday asked the Centreto put on hold the
three con-troversial farm laws or thecourt itself will do so on
therecommendation of a court-appointed committee which isto be
constituted. Now all eyeswill be on the court’s Tuesdayorder in the
matter.
Criticising theGovernment’s handling of thefarmers’ protest, the
court ques-tioned the Centre’s oppositionto its suggestion that
theimplementation of three newfarm laws be held back for thetime
being so as to help find anamicable solution to the ongo-ing
farmers’ protest at Delhiborders.
The Bench said that tilldate the Centre has not told itanything
on its proposal tokeep the implementation of
these laws in abeyance forsome time.
“We are still thinking it isequally important that we staythe
implementation of lawwithout staying the laws,” theBench said.
On December 17, the SChad asked the Centre to con-sider putting
on hold theimplementation of the threelaws.
Disagreeing with theCentre’s contention that courtcannot put on
hold laws passedby Parliament, the courtreferred to its last year
orderstaying the implementation of2018 Maharashtra law granti-ng
reservation to Marathas ineducation and jobs.
“We don’t see why there isan insistence on implementa-tion of
the law,” a Bench head-ed by Chief Justice SA Bobdesaid, adding,
“We are notexperts on economy and you
(Centre) tell us whether you aregoing to hold on these laws orwe
will do this”.
Attorney General KKVenugopal told the Bench, alsocomprising
Justices ASBopanna and VRamasubramanian, that a lawcannot be stayed
unless thecourt finds it violates funda-mental rights or
constitution-al schemes.
“A law cannot be stayed bythe Supreme Court unless theLordships
find that it violatesthe fundamental rights or con-stitutional
schemes. Law has tobe without the power to legis-late, only then it
can be stayed.No petitioners have raised anysuch issues,” Venugopal
said.
The Bench refuted his con-tention and said, “We are doingthis
because you have failed tosolve the problem. The Unionof India has
to take the respon-sibility. The laws have resultedinto a strike
and now you haveto solve the strike”.
The top court said it maystay the implementation ofthese laws as
talks between theGovernment and farmers are“breaking down” because
the
Centre wants to discuss theselegislations point by point,while
the farmers want them tobe repealed.
The SC said it will consti-tute a committee headed by aformer
Chief Justice of India toresolve the impasse. It sug-gested that
stay on implemen-tation of these laws will help the committee
infinding solution.
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Farmer leaders sitting alongthe national Capital’s
bordermounting pressure on theCentre to repeal new farmlaws on
Monday said theywould continue their agitationeven if the
Government or theSupreme Court stays theimplementation of the
newagriculture laws.
The reaction came after theSC indicated that it may staythe
implementation of the con-tentious farm laws and refusedto grant
more time to theCentre to explore the possibil-ity of an amicable
solution
saying it has already grantedthe Government a “long rope”.
While sharing this onlineon Facebook, Gurnam SinghChaduni,
Bharatiya KisanUnion (Haryana) leader, saidthey welcome the
SupremeCourt observation, but endingthe protest is not an
option.
“Any stay is only for afixed period of time... Till theissue is
taken up by the courtagain,” he said.
“The farmers want the lawsto be repealed completely. Theprotest
will continue even if theGovernment or the SupremeCourt stays their
implementa-tion,” he said.
Bhog Singh Mansa, presi-dent of Indian Farmers Union(Mansa),
said a stay on the lawsis “no big deal”.
“A stay is not a solution. Weare here to get these lawsscrapped
completely...theGovernment has in a wayalready agreed to scrap the
lawswhen it said it is willing toincorporate as many amend-ments as
farmers want,” he said.
“We appeal to the SupremeCourt to terminate these lawsas these
are not valid constitu-tionally,” Mansa said, addingthe protest
will continue till the“the laws are repealed”.
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Prime Minister NarendraModi on Monday said theCentral Government
will bearthe expenses of vaccinatingnearly three crore
healthcareand frontline workers in thefirst round and asked
politicalrepresentatives and VIPs not tojump the queue for getting
thefirst dose of vaccine.
Interacting with ChiefMinisters, Modi announcedthat over 30
crore citizens willget the jabs in the next fewmonths in India
against only2.5 crore people who havereceived them in over 50
coun-tries in around a month so far.The countrywide
vaccinationdrive will start from January 16.
In the second phase, thoseabove 50 years and those under50 years
with co-morbiditywill be vaccinated, said Modi.
The Prime Minister did notspecify who will bear the vac-cination
cost for subsequentrounds.
The Prime Ministerinformed Chief Ministers thatplans were afoot
to vaccinate“30 crore people in next fewmonths.”
“We should be proud thatboth the vaccines are made inIndia
...four more vaccines arein progress so that we can plan
for the future,” he told ChiefMinisters through
video-con-ferencing.
West Bengal Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee sought in themeeting
that the States shouldhave greater role and involve-ment in the
first phase of thevaccine rollout when theCentre would send
vaccines tothe States.
The Jammu & KashmirGovernment requested foroffline
registration of the ben-eficiaries in the State.
States across the countryhave designated thousands ofcollection,
storage and distrib-ution centres for the January 16vaccination
exercise, the largestin the world. Two dry runshave already been
conducted.
During the virtual meet,Modi told Chief Ministers,“I’m satisfied
that we workedtogether by standing united inCovid crisis, quick
decisionswere taken with full sensitivi-ty. As a result, Covid has
notspread in India on the scale, onwhich it spread anywhere elsein
the world.”
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The Indian Army onMonday handed back tothe Chinese army one of
theirsoldiers who was apprehend-ed on Friday for transgressingLAC.
He was returned to theChinese army at 10.10 am theChushul-Moldo
meetingpoint.
This was the second suchincident since October lastyear when a
Chinese soldierwas nabbed after straying intoIndia in Ladakh.
In the latest incident, theChinese soldier crossed theLAC in the
south of PangongTso (lake) near Gurung Hill inChushul sector. The
twoarmies are in a stand-off in thisregion for the past
ninemonths.
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After announcing January 16as the day for launchingcountrywide
Covid-19 vacci-nation drive, the Governmenton Monday placed a
purchaseorder with Pune-based SerumInstitute of India (SII) for
11million doses of Covishield —anti-Covid vaccine developedby
AstraZeneca and OxfordUniversity — each costing�210, including GST
of �10.
The HLL Lifecare Limited,a public sector undertakingissued the
supply order onbehalf of the Union HealthMinistry in the name
ofPrakash Kumar Singh,Additional Director,Government and
RegulatoryAffairs at Pune-based pharmacompany.
The Covishield vaccinedoses would be initially
shipped to 60 consignmentpoints from where they wouldbe
distributed further.
The Ministry is also likelyto soon sign a purchase orderfor
another anti-coronavirusvaccine, Covaxin, which hasbeen
indigenously developedby Bharat Biotech. India topdrug regulator
DCGI hadrecently granted emergencyuse authorisation (EUA) totwo
vaccines, Oxford’sCovishield, and BharatBiotech’s Covaxin. Both
vac-cines, according to a state-ment from the Health Ministry,have
established safety andimmunogenicity.
Coronavirus vaccine devel-oped by AstraZeneca and theUniversity
of Oxford will bepriced around �1,000 in privatemarket once such
sales openup, said Adar Poonawala, CEOof its Indian manufacturer
onMonday.
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People living in Jharkhandhave struggled. There was alack of
education in the earlydays of the conflict. This is thereason why
many people’s sagahas not been preserved. But,there were many
people in thesociety who saw this struggleclosely, understood it
and triedto cherish it.
Some people leave such animpression of their struggle inthe
hearts of the people that it isa matter of pride to put them
onpaper,” said Chief Hemant Sorenon the occasion of unveiling
ofthree books on the birthday ofRajya Sabha MP and his fatherShibu
Soren here on Monday.
The CM said indeed todayis the day of Guru ji and theauthor of
the book. The authorhas tried to explain the histo-ry of this
heroic land to theyouth as well as children.
He said that there hasalways been a tradition ofstruggle in
Jharkhand. A voicewas always raised againstexploitation, when the
countrydid not dream of indepen-dence. From that time the peo-ple
here started writing a his-tory of struggle. The style ofstruggle
varied among the peo-ple here, in which they havewon the battle by
demonstrat-
ing their skills.The CM said the State
government is closely moni-toring the internal and
externalpotential of Jharkhand.
“It is being tried that the pur-pose, with which our
ancestorsfought for a separate JharkhandState and created history,
couldbe fulfilled. There is no lack ofcapacity in the State, but
there islack of consciousness. If we canawaken that consciousness,
thensurely the State can move aheadof the country’s leading
stateswith internal and external poten-tial in the coming times.
Thingsthat cause pain can be eliminat-
ed by themselves. Jharkhand isa small State, but there is a
verystrong proud power in everycommunity and every classresiding
here,” he said.
On this occasion, RajyaSabha MP and former CMShibu Soren said
that the bookhas been written in relation tothe Mahajani
movement.
“This practice also came toan end. Jharkhand agitated fora
separate state. Today we areall in separate Jharkhand State,but
till now tribals, farmers andlabourers have not been bene-fited
more or less,” he said giv-ing detailed information about
the movement againstMahajani system. He told thathundreds of
cases were fought.For years, efforts were made forthe rights of the
cultivators.
“Then one day paddy camefrom the field of labourers to thebarn
and then from the barn tohome. Many programmes relat-ed to
education awareness werealso organized. People werealso made aware
against alcohol.Work should also be done in thedirection of forest
conservation.Environmental protection isextremely important.
JungleBachao Andolan is necessary,”he added.
Books based on the biog-raphy of Rajya Sabha MP ShibuSoren
include “Dishom Guru:Shibu Sareen” (Hindi) “TribalHero: Shibu
Sareen” (English)and “Suno Bachcho, AadiwasiSangharsh ke Nayak
ShibuSaren (Guruji) Ki Gatha.
On this occasion, MinisterChampai Soren, Minister Dr.Rameshwar
Oraon, MinisterMithilesh Kumar Thakur,Minister Banna Gupta,Minister
Badal, MinisterSatyanand Bhokta, MLAMathura Mahato, MLA
BasantSoren, MLA Mangal Kalindi,MLA Irfan Ansari, author ofthe
book, Anuj Kumar Sinha,Dr. Piyush Kumar, and otherswere
present.
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The National Health Mission(NHM) on Mondayreleased weekly trends
onCovid-19, which revealed thatRanchi reported 50.2 per centof the
total Covid cases thatsurfaced in Jharkhand fromDecember 14 to
January 10.Dhanbad accounted for 10 percent of cases during this
peri-od, while East Singhbhumreported 9.9 per cent of cases,the NHM
stated in its report.Bokaro reported 5.9 per cent ofcases during
these four weeks,while Palamu reported 4.9 percent of cases.
However, despite reportingthe highest number of casesamong all
the districts inJharkhand on Monday, Ranchireported a fall in the
count ofactive cases on the day. At least71 people were found
infectedin Ranchi during the past 24hours, while 124
patientsrecovered here, bringing thenumber of patients down to6 7 8
,a bulletin released by the NHM stated.
At least 229 Covid recov-eries against 144 fresh casesbrought
the number of activecases of Covid-19 infection
below 1400 in Jharkhand onMonday, figures compiled bythe state
health departmenthighlighted.
As per Government data,as many as 1382 people werebattling the
viral infectionacross Jharkhand by the end ofMonday, and close to
50 percent of them were residents ofRanchi. At least 157 peoplewere
infected in East
Singhbhum, while all theremaining 22 districts had lessthan 100
active cases byMonday evening.
At least nine of 24 districtsin Jharkhand did not report evena
single case of Covid-19 infec-tion on the day, Palamu, Bokaro,East
Singhbhum, Dhanbad andRanchi reported a double-digit-spike. East
Singhbhum report-ed 15 cases against 24 recover-
ies, while Dhanbad reported 14cases against 19 recoveries.
Atleast 12 people were foundinfected in Bokaro and 10 inPalamu in
24 hours.
A Covid patient fromBokaro died during treatmenton Monday,
taking the Covidtoll in the state up at 1048, theNHM bulletin
highlighted. TheCovid mortality rate in the statewas 0.89 per cent
against thenational average of 1.40 percent.
The Government onMonday tested swab samples of13058 people and
more than 1per cent of them were foundinfected. So far, health
workershave collected swab samples of49.70 lakh people and
tested49.62 lakh of them. As many as116961 people have beeninfected
by the virus inJharkhand so far, and 97.92 percent of them have
recovered,states government data.
As per Government fig-ures, the growth rate of thevirus in
Jharkhand was 0.14 percent against the national aver-age of 0.15
per cent. It wouldtake 503 days for the cases todouble in Jharkhand
and459.86 days for the cases todouble across India, the NHMstated
in its bulletin.
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East Singhbhum deputycommissioner Suraj Kumarconducted an
inspection ofMGM Medical College andHospital in Sakchi and
moni-tored the functioning of dif-ferent departments.
After inspection of MGMMedical College and Hospitalby the Deputy
Commissioner,it was informed that on January16, vaccination of
Covid-19 willtake place at present at 7 placesbesides MGM Medical
Collegein the district including TMH,Urban CHC Birsnagar,
SadarHospital Khasmahal, CHCPotka, CHC Bahragowda, CHCPatmada and
CHC Ghatshila.
On this occasion, CivilSurgeon Dr. R. N. Jha, DirectorDRDA
Saurav Kumar Sinha,Additional Chief MedicalOfficer Dr. Sahir Pal,
DistrictTransport Officer Mr. DineshRanjan, Executive Officer
ofMango Municipal Corporation,Mr. Deepak Sahai and otherofficials
were present.
The deputy commissionertook a serious note of ambu-lances lying
defunct. Heordered hospital superinten-
dent Dr Sanjay Kumar toreturn those ambulances thatare not
working to the districtheadquarters.He instructed thehospital
authorities to ensurethat all doctors attending dutiesat OPD and in
emergencyshould attend patients on thescheduled time.
“During the inspectiondeputy commissioner severalinstructions
were given and wehave already started working onthe directive,”
said Dr Kumar.
The deputy commissionerduring the hour-long inspec-tion also
visited medicine andorthopaedic wards and inter-acted with patients
and tookfeedback about the treatmentand foods served at the
wards.
The deputy commissioneralso held a meeting with thehospital
administration aboutshortcomings in the hospital
and steps taken to overcome it.“We presented our action
plan for improving the func-tioning of the hospital and
thedeputy commissioner was sat-isfied with it. We will be actingon
his directives and those doc-tors found absent have beenasked to
explain their position,”said an official. The MGMCHis a government
hospital witha facility of 540 beds. Everydayaround 1000 patients
comehere for treatment. Severaltimes parts of the ceiling
andwindows have collapsed fourtimes in the government hos-pital.
Due to lack of repair workand attention of the
authoritiesconcerned, the condition of thehospital has deteriorated
to agreat extent.tion of the author-ities concerned, the
conditionof the hospital has deteriorat-ed to a great extent.
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In an endeavour to promotefitness among youths, aCyclocity tour
was conductedby FastStep organisation led bySushanto, Aparajita,
DeepakChaudhary, Ajay Agarwal andMohit Jha. The cycle tour
wasdesigned in a way to promotehealth awareness activity
andwelcoming the New Year for ahealthier life and fitter living.The
idea was also to promotecycling as a means of fitness .
A total of 60 participantsparticipated in the tour.Peoplefrom
all age groups participat-ed and the Covid 19 protocolswere also
followed. The tourstarted from Dorabji Tata Parkto move to Link
Road and con-cluded at the Absolute Gym.National championship
cyclistAwtar Singh flagged off thecycle tour.
Sushanto Singha, a fitnessfreak said with growing passionabout
fitness in the Steel City,cycling has brought togetherthe young and
old to pedal long
and wide across the city.“We wanted to remind
people and raise awarenessabout the perks of cycling intheir
weekly schedule . Notonly does it keep you fit phys-ically it also
rejuvenates andkeeps you agile mentally. Onthe other hand we spread
themessage on to save water andreduce pollution,” saidAparajita
Apra, a young par-ticipant from Faststep.The peo-ple were also
excited to interactwith cyclists as they spoke about
their responsibilities in protect-ing the environment and
main-taining green protocol.
“We should adopt suchhealthy practices. It will be bet-ter not
only for our environ-ment, but for our future healthas well.
Environment protec-tion is not something to beobserved only for
programmesand functions. It is somethingthat we should imbibe in
ourlives. It can easily be done if wehave the conviction and
will,”said another participant.
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The district animal hus-bandry department ismulling to open new
ArtificialInsemination (AI) centersacross Bokaro in a bid to
boostmilk production as well as therural economy.
Department has accordedpermission to start 101 moresuch centers
in the district. “Weare at work; in association withan agency— BAIF
new artifi-cial insemination centers wouldbe opened,” informed Dr M
KMani District AnimalHusbandry officer.
To open centers spots havebeen identified and the list hasbeen
submitted to the depart-ment for approval. After thespot
verification and approvalby the agency, centers will beopened, he
said.
Facilities for injecting arti-ficial insemination for cattleand
semen storage facilitieswill be available at centers. Inaddition to
it, the centers willhave a small pharmacy in orderto provide first
aid to animalsand cattle. Each centre will bemanaged by a
LivestockInspector.
These centers will helpconserve and develop indige-nous breeds
to increase milk
productivity, said Mani.Artificial Insemination is
the technique in which semenwith living sperms is collectedfrom
the male and introducedinto the female reproductivetract at proper
time with thehelp of instruments, he said.
There are several advan-tages by artificial inseminationover
natural mating or servic-ing as there is no need of main-tenance of
breeding bull for aherd; hence the cost of mainte-nance of breeding
bull is saved.
It prevents the spread ofcertain diseases and sterilitydue to
genital diseases likecontagious abortion, vibriosisand others, he
said.
The progeny testing canbe done at an early age; thesemen of the
desired sire canbe used even after the death ofthat particular
sire; the semencollected can be taken to theurban areas or rural
areas forinsemination; it makes possi-ble the mating of animalswith
great differences in sizewithout injury to either of theanimal; it
is helpful to insem-inate the animals that arerefuse to stands or
accept themale at the time of oestrumand it increases the rate
ofconception, he said.
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Afive-member committee ofprofessors has been con-stituted to
hold inquiry into thealleged physical misbehaviourby HOD and
another doctorwith two senior residents ofSNMMCH here. The
commit-tee has been constituted fol-lowing complaints of twosenior
residents of the depart-ment of Skin and VD.
Incidentally, the seniordoctors are posted as medicalofficers
(MO) in the depart-ment since long and one ofthem has been
designated asHead of the department inabsence of any regular
doctoron teaching posts like profes-sor, Associate/Assistant
pro-fessor for holding day to dayadministrative works of
thedepartment.
Yet another interestingfact has come to fore that allteaching
cadre posts of thisdepartment remain vacant as
the government has failed tofill them since the retirementof the
lone professor of thedepartment a few months ago.
The Senior Residents, oneof the two happens to be a res-ident of
Bihar and another ofChhatisgarh have levelled alle-gations that two
senior doctorsused to stare at them, whenthey came for duty. One
ofthem also has levelled misbe-haviour charges on HOD andother MO
while on duty.
However, the HOD claimsthat since he has issued show-case
notices to both of them fortheir regular absence fromduty the two
doctors have lev-elled such allegations.
SNMMCH superintendentDr AK Choudhary said a com-mittee of five
senior professors,out of which three would befemales, has been
constitutedfor probe. The committee hasbeen asked to submit a
reportwithin a week’s time .
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In the history of mankind,there have been rareinstances where
the introduc-tory words spoken by a personhave electrified the
whole audi-ence as much as SwamiVivekananda’s groundbreak-ing
speech to the 1893 World’sParliament of Religions.Beginning with
the words“Sisters and Brothers ofAmerica”, the speech managedto not
only eliminate the dif-ference between Swamiji’s sta-tus as a
person belonging to adifferent nation and religionbut also made the
audiencerealise that they were in theaudience of someone whocould
really show them thepath of universal brotherhood.The speech by
Swamiji hasbeen oft referred by leadersfrom across the globe in
pre-sent times to remind the audi-ence of the values whichSwamiji’s
speech stood for andare the most critical in today’stimes –
compassion, brother-hood, tolerance, acceptance.While we see the
globe beingin the throes of sectarianism,fanaticism and
persecution;
never has been a better time toturn towards Swamiji’s speechand
really focus on the key val-ues highlighted therein to makethis
world a better place.
Swamiji’s speech serves as abeacon light in the moderntimes and
can be a ‘source oftruth’ for entire nations and theirleadership to
help them imple-ment strategies, formulate poli-cies and take
corrective steps tobring their citizenry togetherand help build
bridges withother nations. Across the conti-nents, we have nations
fightingeach other (externally) and theirpeople divided over the
notionof caste, colour, creed (internal-ly). Swamiji, in his
speech,
emphasised on two vital require-ments for world peace -
broth-erhood and universal accep-tance; and it would not be
anexaggeration to state that theseare what the world needs themost.
If only people start imbib-ing the values which Swamijistood for,
if only nations startfocusing on compassion and tol-erance can this
world become abetter place for everyone.
It would also be fair to saythat Swamiji’s whole life
andteachings have been a call to thepeople to rise and become
abetter version of them. Thespeech in 1893 was a smallsummary of
the core valueswhich Swamiji sought toimpart. The Chicago speech
isa glimpse of what Swamijitruly stood for and the onus ison all of
us to ensure we ben-efit from the teachings of oneof the most
revered sons ofIndia. It’s India which hasalways believed in
‘VasudhaivaKutumbakam’ (The world isone family) and can lead
theworld towards universal broth-erhood and truly become a‘Vishwa
Guru,’ in its true sense.
The writer is a ResearchFellow, ICWA.
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On September 5, 1893 theDaily Gazette (USA)reported that Rajah
Swami ViviRananda of India spoke at theEast church on the religion
ofIndia. It said that “a good audi-ence assembled but it was not
solarge as the importance of thesubject or the interesting speak-er
deserved. SwamiVivekananda said that the westshould send
missionaries toeducate the people industriallyand socially and not
religiously.The Hindus have all the religionthey want, and the
Hindus reli-gion is the most ancient in theworld. This was the
actual mes-sage of Vivekananda to the west,and that was the stage
of Historywhen Indian needed it. It was asort of psychological war
whichthe west had waged by insistingon the vainglorious message
ofcivilizing the uncivilized as theholy burden of the white men.The
various newspapers report-ed with such a high esteemabout this
learned and exoticsaint from India which includ-ed Dubuque lowa,
Times(December 29, 1893), BostonEvening Transcript (September30,
1893), Wisconsin StateJournel (November 21, 1893),Minneapolis Star
Tribune
(November 25, 1893), TheAppeal-Avalanche (January 16,1894) the
list is exhaustive. Allthe reports regardingVivekananda invariably
hadcommon characteristics, whichwas respect and praise for
hisspiritual States, deep reverencefor his knowledge. He was
notspawned free for even a momentas Americans invited him
inChurches, in their houses, fordinner and discourse, asWisconsin
State Journel as men-tioned earlier, stated that “Thelecture as the
CongregationalChurch of Madison last night bythe celebrated Hindu
Monk,Vivekananda was an extremelyinteresting one and confinedmuch
of sound of philosophyand religion.”
Pagan though he beChristianity may well followmany of his
teachings. HisCreed is as wide as the universe,
taking in all religions andaccepting truth whatever itmay be
found. Bigotry andsuperstition and idle ceremonyhe declined, have
no place inthe religions of India. TheDetroit Tribune on February
15,1894 published Vivekananda’sviews on India as a nationbased on
the common ancestrallanguage Sanskrit which con-nected North India
and SouthIndia. The paper was fantasti-cally reviewed and discussed
bythe readers due to his eye open-ing coverage regarding theground
tradition and culture ofIndia. This was the historicalstage when
the basis of theirentire civilization, mainspringof their social,
economic andpolitical life was the greatestachievement of the
Indians.
I believe that like theAdiguru Shankaracharya whounited Hinduism
and Indiathrough organisational strengthand majnverated India in
themiddle ages. The second great-est genius was Vivekananda
ofmodern age. They both passedat very early age but have doneWonder
for the uplift and selfesteem for the whole mankind.
The writer is State president,BJP OBC Morcha, Jharkhandand the
views expressed in thearticle are his own.
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The recent development inAmerica is really alarmingfor the
future of democracy.America is the mother of mod-ern democracy with
a republi-can form of Government thatcame into operation in
1789.Last year’s Presidential electionin America was marred
byallegations and counter allega-tions that hit the rivals belowthe
belt. There never was sucha low level campaigning in
thePresidential election before.Trump accused that the acad-emia,
media and other businessbarons who he collectivelytermed as ‘Deep
State’ hadplayed a very sinister and neg-ative role in the
election.
The democratic behaviourtouched its nadir in Americaon Thursday
when Trump sup-porters barged in U.S. Capitolbreaking the steel
barricadingthat was in place to prevent anyunlawful entry. The
AmericanParliament was deliberatingupon the certification of
thevictory of President designateJoe Biden. The Parliamentfinally
certified the victory ofJoe Biden.
The shameless incidentsent shockwaves not only inAmerica but
across the wholeworld as the democratic citadelwas crumbling at the
hands ofthe Trump supporters whowere nothing but a bunch oflumpens
and thugs almost to
the level of criminality. Theincident was so shocking thatthe
hardest of Trump support-ers decided to call it a day.Lindsey
Graham, the SouthCarolina senator, a confidant ofTrump for a long
time con-demned this behaviour andlamented that he had a hell ofa
journey with Trump. Herightly said ‘Enough is enough’.
The reaction was swift andsharp. The Twitter handle andthe
Facebook account of Trumpwere immediately blocked andcondemnation
started pouringin from all over the world.Trump, who was basking in
theglory of supporters early in themorning, looked like a buffoonin
the second half of the day. Allhis loyalists were running forcover.
Nobody wanted to beidentified with Trump.Whatever legitimacy was
left forTrump and his possible engi-neered defeat at the hands of
theso called ‘Deep State’ went in a
smoke. Unprecedented crimeshad been committed in thename of
democracy.
America, which used tolaugh at the hooliganism of
StateAssemblies and Parliament inIndia, was itself cutting a
verysorry figure. Trump supportershave dealt such a powerfulblow to
the system of democ-racy that is very difficult torecover from.
Democracy, forthat matter, will never be thesame again in
America.
The incidents of Americagives a stern message to thedemocratic
nations of theworld as to what damage can bedone in the absence of
toler-ance and a healthy regard forelectoral outcomes.
Democracy cannot sur-vive with such intolerance. Wesee unruly
behaviour by theopposition members in StateAssemblies and in
theParliament of India. The
opposition benches are some-times hellbent upon
denyinglegitimacy to the winningparty and accepting
defeatgracefully. The defeated par-ties always cry foul play inEVMs
when they are defeat-ed, but the winner never chal-lenges the
functioning of theseEVMs. The electronic andprint media play to the
galleryand highlight these unfound-ed allegations and
therebyundermine the legality of thevictory of the winner as wellas
denting the credibility ofthe Indian democratic system.The
opposition keeps on alleg-ing even after all sorts ofjudicial
enquiry.
It is high time that thedemocratic world should intro-spect
itself and find out why allthis is happening. The DeepState, as
referred to by Trump isnot imaginary. The emergenceof China as an
economic power
has very much to do with it. TheChinese influence has
infiltrat-ed the American universitieslike Harvard and Princeton
aswell as the American media.The business barons have beenheavily
funded by the Chinesecapital. The allegation that someclose
relatives of Biden havebeen funded by China is a casein point. Such
a Deep State playsa very important role in elec-tions in the
democratic worldincluding America.
The lesson of these unsa-vory developments is very clear.Either
adhere to the basicdemocratic principles or let thewhole edifice of
democracycrumble like a pack of cards.America has lost its
moralleadership of the democraticworld and its soft power hasbeen
dented beyond redemp-tion in near future. It will godown in the
history of Americaas one of the darkest days.
The democratic nationsshould strive hard to find amechanism
which could savethem from this ignominy. Thesolution lies in the
cardinaldemocratic principle, whichsays, ‘Though I disagree
withyou, I am ready to lay down mylife to safeguard your right
todisagree with me.’ Trump willbe remembered in history forall bad
reasons.
The author is the Registrarof Vinoba Bhave University
inHazaribag. The views expressedby the author are his own.
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Ministry of Coal (MoC) onMonday launched SingleWindow Clearance
Portal, aunified platform that facili-tates grant of clearances
andapprovals required for startinga coal mine in India.UnionHome
Minister Amit Shahlaunched the portal in presenceof Union Minister
of Coal &Mines Pralhad Joshi in anevent organised in New
Delhito execute agreements withsuccessful bidders of India’s
firstever commercial mining auc-tions.
Joshi announced that thenext tranche of commercialmines auction
would belaunched in January 2021. “Wehave reformed the coal, andnow
coal will transform thenation,” Joshi said.
“Coal sector has witnessedmassive transformation underthe
dynamic and decisive lead-ership of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi Ji. SingleWindow Clearance Portal is inthe spirit
of MinimumGovernment and MaximumGovernance.It would be a mile-stone
for Ease of DoingBusiness in the Indian CoalSector,” Joshi
added.
Presently, about 19 majorapproval or clearances arerequired to
be obtained beforestarting a coal mine in thecountry. Some of them
includeapproval of Mining Plan andMine Closure Plan, Grant ofMining
Lease, Environmentand Forest Clearances, WildLife Clearance,
Clearancesrelated to Safety, Environment,Rehabilitation of project
affect-ed families, welfare of workersetc. These approvals or
clear-ances are granted either by cen-tral or state governments. In
theabsence of a unified platformfor grant ofclearances/approvals
for start-ing of a coal mine, the projectproponents are required
toapproach different adminis-trative ministries andGovernment
departments sep-arately to apply for the requi-site clearances
leading to delayin operationalization of coalmines.
Now, the complete processshall be facilitated throughSingle
Window ClearancePortal, which will map notonly the relevant
application
formats, but also process flowfor grant of approval or
clear-ances. The Mining Plan mod-ule of the portal was launchedon
Monday and the modulesrelated to other clearances willbe added in
phases.
The Coal Ministry alsoexecuted agreements with the19 successful
bidders of India’sfirst ever commercial miningauctions that
includes VedantaLtd, Adani Enterprises Ltd,Jindal Power Ltd,
HindalcoIndustries Ltd along with othersuccessful bidders. The
successof India’s first ever commercialmining auctions will pave
theway for the AatmanirbharBharat as it will help reduceIndia’s
coal import by about 20per cent. SBI Capital MarketsLimited, sole
TransactionAdvisor to Ministry of Coal forthe Commercial coal
mineauction, had devised themethodology and assisted theMinistry in
conducting theauction.
“I appeal to all states tofacilitate the opening of allthese
mines so that India couldmake use of its abundant coalresources. It
will help ournation become Aatmanirbharin Coal,” Joshi said.
Notably, States will garnera total revenue of Rs 6,656crores
annually from thesesuccessfully auctioned 19mines.
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The Government has identi-fied as many as 129 loca-tions across
the 24 districts inJharkhand for day 1 of vacci-nation drive
against Covid-19wherein around 13,000 healthworkers will be
administeredthe vaccine shots on January16, officials from the
healthdepartment said on Monday.
“We are prepared with allthe infrastructure and logisticsfor day
1 of the vaccinationprogramme on January 16. Onday 1, a certain
number ofhealth workers will get theshots in all the 24 districts,”
saidDirector, National HealthMission (NHM) Ravi ShankarShukla.
Around 100 people will bevaccinated at each of the 129locations
identified by theGovernment on day 1 of thevaccination programme,
high-ly placed sources in the healthdepartment said. Each
vacci-nation centre will be equippedwith a proper waiting
area,washrooms, a logistics storagesection, seamless internet
con-nectivity, power and other util-ities to prevent any
breakdownof the established vaccinationprotocol.
The NHM had earlier stat-
ed that a photo identity proofwill be a must for any personto
get Covid-19 vaccine shots.Voter ID cards, school certifi-cates,
MGNREGA job cards,PAN cards and passports aresome of the identity
proofs thatcan be used to register for thevaccination. Also, the
persongetting vaccinated has to pro-duce his photo identity proof
atthe vaccination centre, failingwhich he will not be adminis-tered
the vaccine shot.
The vaccine, health offi-cials said, will generate protec-tive
levels of antibodies in thebody in two weeks after takingthe second
dose. NHM furtherstated that people would haveto continue taking
precaution-ary measures against the viruseven after getting the
vaccineshots.
For storage of the vaccine,Jharkhand already has 275Cold Chain
Points and has pro-posed additional 30 ColdChain Points to enhance
thestorage capacity in the state,officials from NHM said.
Figures shared by a source inthe health department high-lighted
that Jharkhand has fivewalk in coolers and four moreare being
procured. The statealso has three walk in freezersand two more will
be procuredsoon. Besides, there are 5505cold boxes and 41,979
vaccinecarriers available in Jharkhand.
As per figures with theNHM, the state already has1666 electrical
equipment forrunning vaccination pro-grammes. These include ILRsand
DFs. ILRs, officials said,maintain a temperaturebetween 2 degree
Celsius and8 degree Celsius, while DFshelp maintain a
temperaturebelow 0 degrees for vaccinestorage. Deep freezers are
alsoused for maintaining temper-ature during transportation
ofvaccine.
The Centre has authorisedtwo vaccines – Bharat Biotec’sCovaxin
and Oxford-AstraZeneca & Serum Instituteof India’s Covishield –
foremergency use in India.
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As Covid-19 vaccinationdrive is slated to beginacross the
country fromJanuary 16, Ranchi DeputyCommissioner (DC) ChhaviRanjan
conducted a reviewmeeting with the nodal officersof the various
cells formed forthe same in the State capital onMonday.
Taking informationregarding the availability ofmaterials at the
vaccinationcentres from the officer incharge of the material cell,
theDC directed to ensure theavailability of materials as perthe
checklist. Ranjan also tookstock of the preparationsregarding the
update of bene-ficiary database and portal forthe first phase.
The DC also took infor-mation regarding the trainingof doctors,
nurses, ANMs andfurther directed the nodal offi-cer to ensure that
only trainedpersonnel are sent to the vac-cination centres.
In the meeting necessaryguidelines were also issued bythe DC
regarding the deploy-ment of magistrate and force ateach centre.
Ranjan alsoinformed that a senior in-charge has been appointed
ineach block, who will also havethe preferred charge of five tosix
vaccination centres.
Directions regarding thewebcasting arrangement fromfive
vaccination centres inRanchi were also issued by theDC. Ranjan also
issued direc-tives to the Civil Surgeon andDIO about the provision
oftwo-way connectivity from thevaccination centre at
SadarHospital.
Ranjan also issued direc-tives to the concerned officialsto make
arrangements forone-way connectivity at fivevaccination centres on
January16.
Meanwhile, the DC alongwith the Civil Surgeon RanchiBB Prasad
took stock of thepreparations for two- wayconnectivity and live
stream-ing from the Sadar Hospitalvaccination centre onMonday.
The DC selected the venuefor two- way connectivity,
livestreaming and also issued nec-essary guidelines to the
officials
regarding tents and broadcast-ing.
The DC informed that inthe first phase, the vaccinewill be given
to the healthworkers and frontline workers.For this a database of
25,000health workers has been pre-pared and registered on theCowin
app. As many as 100patients will be vaccinatedeveryday at each
centre.
Civil Surgeon informedthat from the launching site ofCovid-19
vaccination PrimeMinister Narendra Modi willbe able to talk to the
benefi-ciaries through two- way con-nectivity. All communityhealth
centres have been madeinto vaccination centres andapart from the
urban areaabout 10 centres have beenmade in rural areas as
well.Availability of vaccinationofficers, vaccinators and
nec-essary manpower has alsobeen ensured at each site.
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Along with social service theDoctor’s Wives’Association has
always tried tomaintain the rich Indian cul-ture and heritage. The
Lohriand Sankranti celebrations tookoff in style on Monday as
theDWA, Ranchi got togetheronline on Zoom. The pro-ceedings began
with a heartywelcome to the new DWAexecutive and a warm
gratitude
to the outgoing one by theDWA Chairperson VinitaSharan and the
co- chairpersonJhooma Sarkar.
A pause was taken to paytributes to the departed soulsDr. D. P.
Arya and Dr. RanjitSingh. The somber mood thengave way to a zingy
season’sgreetings by the DWA president,Kamlesh Middha, who
alsospelled out the festive theme.
Then the typical kite-flyingwas so beautifully put up on a
strategically made video bythe members. This was fol-lowed by
the Secretary ArtiSingh’s heart-warming speechon the constant
support andencouragement by the seniormembers.
And, this was beautifullycomplimented by the blissfulmessages
from the glitteringgalaxy of our veteran memberssuch as Dr
ShobhaChakraborty, Dr. USHA Rani,Dr. Renuka Sinha, Dr. Sushma
Priya, Dr. K Vasundhara,Pratibha Kumar. Towards theend the Lohri
theme wasbrought on with the meticulousCrossword game which
com-prised words associated withthe festival only. The grandeurand
excitement had to be wit-nessed to be believed.
The new DWA executivesinclude Kamlesh Middha aspresident, Arti
Singh asSecretary and Arti Sinha asTreasurer.
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The JMM has reacted strong-ly to the Supreme Court’soral
observation on three farmlaws and ongoing farmers’protest in Delhi.
JMM generalsecretary and party spokesper-son, Supriyo Bhattacharya
said,“The Supreme Court’s oralobservation on three farm lawsis a
clear message to the Centrethat it is high time for theNarendra
Modi Government torepeal and revoke the threefarm laws. The farmers
areprotesting against the farm lawsince November but the Centrehas
ignored their demands.”
Hearing the clutch of peti-tions challenging the new farmlaws,
the Supreme Courtobserved that it was disap-pointed with the way
negotia-tions between the Governmentand the farmers have
pro-gressed and said it will pass anorder on the matter on
Tuesday.
The Supreme Court alsodirected the Centre to stay thelaws till a
committee consti-tuted by it discusses the sameand submits a
report.
The SC observation on
three farm laws has givenweapons to non-NDA partiesto sharpen
their attack againstCentre and farm laws.Bhattacharya said, “We
havebeen opposing the farm laws asit is against the interest
offarmers. Now, the SupremeCourt too has raised its doubtson farm
laws; it has vindicatedour stand.” He further saidthat farm laws
aim at protect-ing the rights of corporatehouses. He said, “The
Centrehas privatized banks, insurance,aviation, railways and
other
public sector units and nowthey are targeting agriculturetoo.
The three farm laws areagainst the interest of farmersas the
corporate houses willstanch agriculture land fromfarmers.”
Meanwhile, the BJP hastaken a wait and watch stand.State BJP
spokesperson, PratulShahdeo said, “It is too early toreact to the
oral observation ofSC. We will make a commentonce there is final
order of SCon three farm laws.”
The bench comprising CJIBobde Bobde and Justices A SBopanna and
VRamasubramanian also sug-gested names of former CJIsincluding RM
Lodha to headthe panel for exploring thepossibility of a solution
overfarm laws protests. The benchsaid it will pass orders on
theissue in parts.
Talks between the Centreand farmer unions on the newagriculture
laws failed to makeany headway even after theeighth round of talks.
TheCentre and the farmer leadersare scheduled to hold their
nextmeeting on January 15.
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This year on Republic Daycultural programmes and‘Prabhat Ferry’
will not beorganised in Jharkhand. Onlya parade and display of
tableauwill be organised on the occa-sion.
It was decided in a meetingheld on Monday at the
DeputyCommissioner (DC) Office inthe State Capital. Ranchi DCcalled
the meeting to discussthe preparation of the mainfunction of
Republic Day cel-ebration which will be organ-ised at Morhabadi
Ground ofthe State Capital on January, 26.In the meeting chaired
byRanchi DC Chavi Ranjan, theconcerned officials were
givennecessary guidelines related tothe preparation.
Ranjan said that prepara-tions for the Republic Day
cel-ebrations will be made this timein view of Covid infection.
He
informed that this year only aparade and a tableau
demon-stration will be organized. He
instructed to prepare the pro-gramme keeping Corona infec-tion
in mind by following
physical distance. In the meeting, the
Executive Engineer, DrinkingWater and SanitationDepartment was
directed bythe DC to make arrangements
for drinking water supply, VIPtoilets and others.
Ranjan told the RoadConstruction Division toensure the repair
and cleanli-ness of the roads leading toMorhabadi. He
instructedExecutive Engineer BuildingDivision-1 to ensure
arrange-ments for gallery constructionfor visitors, barricading at
thevenue, construction of towersfor stage and sound box. TheDC
instructed Ranchi,Superintendent of Police toensure the arrangement
ofparking of vehicles atMoharabadi ground, appoint-ment of traffic
policemen in theconnecting routes and trafficroutes by ensuring
publica-tion in newspapers.
The District Nazrat DeputyCollector got responsibility toensure
preparations related tominute-to-minute programs,seating
arrangements of guestsand others. Ranjan told the civil
surgeon to provide the neces-sary medical camp, and theDistrict
Fire Officer to makearrangements for firefighting inMorhabadi and
other officialsalso got necessary instructions.He instructed the
municipalofficer to ensure cleanlinessaround Mohababadi
grounds.
During the meeting,Ranjan and SeniorSuperintendent of
Police,Surendra Kumar Jha gavedirections to the officialsregarding
the preparation ofthe Republic Day celebration ina peaceful
environment.
Jha said that for theRepublic Day to be concludedin a better
environment, secu-rity arrangements will be madefor it. Also,
special attentionwill be paid to ensure that thereis no traffic
problem. He hopedthat the program would beorganized on Republic
Daywith protection from Kovidinfection.
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The Hemant Soren-led JharkhandGovernment recently
announcedfinancial aid to State archers in anattempt to help them
participate in theinternational competitions. The step isin
direction of fulfilling the dreams ofthree economically poor
archers offer-ing them recurve archery bow.
The archers include Komalika,Krishna and Ashrita from
Chaibasawho would get an opportunity togroom their talent aiming
them toclinch medals at international eventsincluding Olympics.
Recurve bows are used in theOlympic, Paralympic Games, at
WorldArchery Championships and on theHyundai Archery World Cup
circuit.Recurve bows consist of a riser and twolimbs that curve
back away from thearcher, linked by a bowstring that isdrawn with
the fingers.
Ashrita Biruli thanked the StateGovernment for encouragement
claim-ing that she will try her best to makeJharkhand proud.
According to Ashrita,the bow made of bamboo in the Indianround
could only play archery in India.But now with recurve archery bow
theywill also get a chance to play abroad.
Krishna is also waiting for a new
bow. He said that with the timely helpof the Government, the
dream of par-ticipating in the Olympics will be ful-filled. “I will
be able to participate ininternational level competition,”
saidKrishna.
All three archers come from poorfamily background, but
specialize inpiercing the target with the bow andarrow. Komalika is
the emerging inter-national archer of the state, who raised
the country’s pride by receiving the 2018Gold Medal at World
Youth ArcheryChampionship held in Sweden. She hasalso been selected
for the upcomingOlympics and she is undergoing train-ing at the
Olympic camp in Pune.
In order to encourage them, theState Government provided Rs
2.7lakh to Komalika and Rs 2.5 lakh eachto Krishna and Ashrita for
purchasingrecurve bow under the Sportsmen’sWelfare Fund.
In addition to the above archersJagarnath Gagarai received Rs
2.5 lakhfor recurve bow, Gunaram Purtireceived Rs 1 lakh and Rs 1
lakh wasprovided to paralyze hockey coachPratima Barwa.
For the purpose of promotingsports at the district level, the
postingof appointments of 24 district sportsofficers in all the 24
districts has beendone. For the first time in the historyof
Jharkhand, the appointment of sportsofficers in the districts was
carried out.The government is working towardsimplementing sports
policy soon.Under the Khel Kalyan Kosh SportsScholarship Samman
Rashi, Rs69,70000 as cash prize money was dis-tributed among 260
players and Rs85,72,800 was distributed among 250players as sports
scholarship.
An official from the sports depart-ment said, “The ‘National
Camp’ of 35players selected for the Women’sFootball World Cup is
going to be heldin Jharkhand. Eight players fromJharkhand selected
for the U-17Women’s Football World Cup were pro-vided training
facilities at the BirsaMunda Football Stadium, Morhabadi.In this
way, the state government is con-stantly making efforts to
promotesports and sportspersons in Jharkhand.”
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Republic Day parade in 2022 will be at the newCentral Vista
Avenue,” UnionHousing and Urban AffairsMinister Hardeep Singh
Purion Monday said as he outlinedthat the development
/rede-velopment of Central Vista isbeing undertaken with
theobjective of upgradingParliament’s space, facilitiesand
equipping it better.
Work on redevelopmentof Rajpath will start soon afterthis year’s
Republic Day parade.The work is expected to becompleted in the next
10months.
As things stand, days afterthe Supreme Court’s go ahead,the
Heritage ConservationCommittee (HCC) under theMinistry of Housing
and UrbanAffairs, has cleared the pro-posal for the new
Parliamentbuilding under the CentralVista Redevelopment
Project.
Responding to a queryduring a press conference,Ministry of
Housing and UrbanAffairs’ Secretary DurgaShankar Mishra on
Mondaysaid the committee discussedthe proposal of new
parliamentbuilding and gave its approvaltoday (Monday). “The
pro-
posal was sent a few days ago,discussed and cleared after
adetailed discussion,” he said.
Additional secretary of theUnion Housing and UrbanAffairs
Ministry is the chair-man of the 14-memberHeritage
ConservationCommittee. The panel has ninegovernment officials and
fouracademics from School ofPlanning and Architecture andDelhi
University. “The com-mittee’s members are the oneswho look into
what is provid-ed under unified buildingbylaws for preserving the
her-itage based on which theyaccept, reject or suggest
certainmodifications,” Mishra added.Notably, the HCC does nothold a
public hearing. Askedwhether public hearing wasmandatory before
granting
approval, he answered, “No”.Last month, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi hadlaid the foundation stone of thenew
Parliament building wherethe Lok Sabha chamber willhave a seating
capacity for 888members, while the RajyaSabha will have 384 seats
formembers. The NationalEmblem will crown the newParliament
building.
The Central Vista revamp,announced in September, 2019envisages a
new triangularParliament building, with aseating capacity for 900
to1,200 MPs, that is to be con-structed by August, 2022 whenthe
country will be celebratingits 75th Independence Day.The common
CentralSecretariat is likely to be builtby 2024 under the
project.
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Adeclining number of freshCovid-19 cases and a highrate of
recovery have resultedin a continuous fall in thecountry’s active
caseload, whichaccounts for only 2.13 per centof the total
infections, theUnion Health Ministry said onMonday.
The number of daily newfatalities has also declined
sub-stantially in the country. OnMonday, less than 170 suchdeaths
were recorded after 229days, the Ministry said. In fact,in the last
24 hours, Indiareported 16,311 new cases.
India’s total active case-load has fallen to 2.25 lakh(2,22,526)
on Monday with16,959 infected people recov-ered and discharged.
This hasled to a net decline of 809 fromthe total active
caseload.
The total recovered casesstand at 10,092,909. The gapbetween
recovered cases andactive cases, that is steadilyincreasing, is
nearing 99 lakhsand presently stands at98,70,383.
The recovery rate has alsoimproved to 96.43 per cent on
Monday. This is amongst thehighest the world over. TheMinistry
said that 78.56 percent of the new recovered casesare observed to
be concentrat-ed in 10 States/UTs.
Kerala has reported themaximum number of singleday recoveries
with 4,659 newlyrecovered cases. 2,302 peoplerecovered in
Maharashtra fol-lowed by 962 in Chhattisgarh.Similarly, 80.25 per
cent of thenew cases are concentrated in9 States and UTs.
Kerala has also reportedthe highest daily new cases at4,545
followed by Maharashtrawith 3,558new cases.
Six States/UTs account for69.57 per cent of the dailydeaths with
Maharashtra wit-nessing the maximum casual-ties (34). Kerala and
WestBengal followed with 23 and 19daily deaths, respectively.
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Researchers from IITMadras have found thatholding one’s breath
canincrease the chances of aCovid-19 infection. They saidthat the
process of virus-ladendroplets being transportedinto deep lung
increases withdecreasing breathing fre-quency.
The research team led byProf. Mahesh Panchagnula,Department of
AppliedMechanics, IIT Madras, withhis research scholars ArnabKumar
Mallik and SoumalyaMukherjee, IIT Madras mod-elled the breathing
frequencyin a laboratory and foundthat low breathing
frequencyincreases the time of resi-dence of the virus and
there-fore it increases chances ofdeposition and consequentlythe
infection.
Also, the multiscale lungstructure has a significanteffect on a
person’s suscepti-bility to Covid-19, said thestudy which is
published inthe journal Physics of Fluids.
Elaborating on the needfor such research, Prof.Panchagnula,
said, “Covid-19(the disease caused byCoronavirus) has opened agap
in our understanding of
deep pulmonological systemicdiseases.”
“Our study unravels themystery behind how particlesare
transported and deposit-ed in the deep lung. The studydemonstrates
the physicalprocess by which aerosol par-ticles are transported
into thedeep generations of the lung,”he added.
Prof. Panchagnula’s teamworked to gain a deeperunderstanding of
how the rateof flow of droplet laden withvirus determines the
deposi-tion of the virus in the lungs.
In their research, the teamreported that holding thebreath and
having low breath-ing rate can increase chancesof virus deposition
in thelungs.
The study was conductedto pave the way for develop-ing better
therapies and drugsfor respiratory infections.
Previous work from thegroup has also highlightedthe significant
variability inaerosol uptake from individ-ual to individual,
suggesting areason why some people aremore susceptible to
airbornediseases than others.
The IIT Madras researchteam imitated the dropletdynamics in the
lung bystudying the movement of
droplets in the small capillar-ies which were of a
diametersimilar to bronchioles.
They took water mixedwith fluorescent particles andgenerated
aerosols from thisliquid using a nebulizer.
These fluorescent aerosolswere used to track the move-ment and
deposition of parti-cles in the capillaries.
The researchers studiedthe movement of the fluores-cent aerosol
particles in cap-illaries of size ranging from0.3 to 2 millimetres
whichcovers the range of bronchiolediameters.
They found that the depo-sition is inversely propor-tional to
the aspect ratio ofcapillaries, which suggeststhat the droplets are
likely todeposit in longer bronchi-oles.
The scientists also studiedhow the ‘Reynolds Number,’ aparameter
that quantifies thenature of flow - steady or tur-bulent,
determines the depo-sition in the capillaries.
They found that when theflow of aerosol movement issteady then
the particlesdeposit via the process of dif-fusion, however, if the
flow isturbulent then the particlesdeposit via the process
ofimpaction
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With the impasse continu-ing at the Line of ActualControl (LAC)
for the last ninemonths, Chief of Defence StaffGeneral Bipin Rawat
reviewedthe operational readiness of thearmed forces on Monday
inLadakh. He is also likely to visitsome forward areas along
theborder.
Incidentally, the CDS hadan extensive tour of ArunachalPradesh
some days back tocheck readiness. He interactedwith the Army and
Indo-Tibetan BorderPolice(ITBP)troops on some ofthe posts
maintained by air. Healso reviewed some air forcebases and advanced
landinggrounds in the State facingChina in the east. The top
brassbriefed him about the situationin the eastern sector.
As regards the ongoing
Ladakh tour, officials said hereon Monday he was apprised ofthe
current situation on the1,700 km LAC in Ladakh by thecommanders of
the Leh based‘Fire and Fury Corps’.
He was also updated aboutthe army’s preparedness toremain
fighting fit during theharsh winter months. The brief-ing included
logistical situationof winter clothing and prefab-ricated heated
huts to enable thetroops to withstand temperaturedipping to minus
30 degrees.
As multiple rounds of talksat the military and diplomaticlevels
have so far failed to breakthe logjam, the Indian army was
all geared up for a long haul dur-ing the ongoing winter
season.At present, more than one lakhtroops of India and China
arefacing each other in Ladakhthereby heightening tension.
During his tour of Ladakh,Rawat was also likely to inter-act
with troops at some bases inan effort to boost their
morale,officials said. He was also like-ly to review the readiness
ofsome of the fighting formations.
His visit came at a timewith all the three Services haveramped
up their war fightingmachinery. The Army hasdeployed crack
mountaintroops in Ladakh besides gear-ing up its formations all
alongthe 4,000 km long LAC stretch-ing from Ladakh in the west
toArunachal Pradesh in the east.The IAF has also increased itsalert
on all the forwards basesfacing China and deployedmost of its
frontline fighter jetsthere.
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The NIA on Monday filedfirst supplementary charge-sheet before a
Special Court,Ranchi under various IPCSections relating to
criminalconspiracy and provisions ofUnlawful Activities(Prevention)
Act against fouraccused persons in the CPI(Maoist) case of
Jharkhand.
The four are Manoj Kumaralias Manoj Kumar Yadav(arrested),
Krishna Da aliasKrishna Hansda (Absconding),Sunil Manjhi alias
SunilMurmu (Arrested) and ManojKumar Choudhary (Arrested),all
residents of district Giridih,Jharkhand.
On January 22, 2018, aftercollection of levy amount,accused
Manoj Kumar, whilehe was en-route to deliver theextorted funds to
the cadres ofCPI (Maoist), was arrested byState Police and levy
amount of
�6 Lakh along with otherincriminating documents wereseized from
his possession.
The NIA took over theinvestigation of the case on July21, 2018
and re-registered it toprobe the case.
“Investigation has estab-lished that arrested accusedManoj Kumar
Yadav, wasworking as an associate/ OverGround Worker (OGW) ofthe
CPI (Maoist), a proscribedterrorist organization, and wasthe
conduit between the con-tractors and the banned orga-nization.
With no clue available ini-tially, break-through in
theinvestigation was achieved sub-sequently after extensive
andmeticulous examination of sev-
eral witnesses and rigoroustechnical analysis,” the NIAsaid in a
statement here.
Investigation has alsorevealed that arrested accusedSunil
Manjhi, RegionalCommittee Member of CPI(Maoist), and
abscondingaccused Krishna Da, RegionalCommittee Member
andSecretary, North ChotanagpurZone of CPI (Maoist) wereinvolved in
raising funds bycollecting levy through extor-tion for commission
of terror-ist activities by way of attack-ing security forces,
damagingpublic and private property,disrupting public peace
andkilling innocent people.
It was further establishedduring investigation that ManojKumar
Choudhary was alsoCPI (Maoist) cadre who usedto collect the levy
amounts andhand over the same to the othersenior members of the
pro-scribed organisation, it added.
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