I n a shocking tragedy, as many as 16 migrant workers were mowed down by an empty freight train while they were sleeping on railway tracks near Aurangabad in the early hours of Friday. The workers were on their way to home State of Madhya Pradesh. The deceased were among 19 migrant workers who had gone off to sleep on railway tracks while they were walking from Jalna to Bhusawal to board a “Shramik Special” train to return to Madhya Pradesh, when the incident took place at around 5.20 am. The 19 workers had slept off on railway tracks as they were apparently exhausted. Of them, 14 workers died on the spot, while two others suc- cumbed to injuries at the Aurangabad district civil hos- pital. Three others are under- going treatment. The workers apparently thought there would not be any movement of trains during the lockdown and the track was secured. The migrant workers used to work in a steel manufactur- ing company at Jalna. On Thursday evening, the workers had set out on foot from Jalna to Bhusawal to board a “Shramik Special” train to return to their home towns in twin districts of Shahdol and Umaria in Madhya Pradesh on Friday. The incident took place between Badnapur and Karmad stations of Parbhani- Manmad section of the Nanded division of South-Central Railway (SRC). “During early hours today after seeing some labourers on track, loco pilot of goods train tried to stop the train but eventually hit them between Badnapur and Karmad sta- tions in Parbhani-Manmad section. Injured have been taken to Aurangabad Civil Hospital. Inquiry has been ordered,” the Railway Ministry tweeted. “The incident took place even as loco pilot of the goods train honked as soon as he noticed a group of people sleeping on the railway tracks and also made all efforts to stop the train,” a SRC spokesperson said. Voicing anguish over the incident, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, “Extremely anguished by the loss of lives due to the rail acci- dent. Have spoken to Railway Minister Piyush Goyal and he is closely monitoring the situ- ation. All possible assistance required is being provided.” President Ram Nath Kovind and Vice-President M Venkaih Naidu mourned death of the migrant workers. Former Congress presi- dent Rahul Gandhi expressed anguish at the tragedy. “I am shocked at the news of migrant labourers being crushed to death by a goods train. We should be ashamed at the treatment meted out to the builders of our nation. My condolences to the families of those killed and I pray for the early recovery of the injured,” Rahul Gandhi tweeted. Continued on Page 6 W ith the number of coro- navirus cases in the country witnessing a sudden spurt in the past few days and tally heading towards 60,000 marks on Friday, the Union Health Ministry said, “We have to learn to live with the virus.” The death tally is all set to touch 2,000 marks. There was nearly 3,000 new cases and 94 deaths during Friday. Some reports said at the current rate of daily growth, the number of cases would rise to 75,000 in five days. If this tra- jectory continues beyond that period, it could overwhelm India’s hospital capacity and strain an already overburdened health system. In view of no let-up in cases and new infection being reported from several pockets, the Union Health Ministry is now in the process of revising the list of Red, Orange and Green Zones. Addressing mediapersons, Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary at the Health Ministry, said, “We have to learn to live with the virus. We need to introduce certain behavioural changes to implement these (social dis- tancing) practices.” According to the Health Ministry, 16,540 Covid-19 patients, which are about 29.36 per cent of the total cases, have recovered so far, while in the past 24 hours, 1,273 people have been cured. “So far, in 216 districts, no positive case has been detect- ed. In 42 districts no new case has been detected in the last 28 days, while 29 districts have not reported any case in the last 21 days,” the official said. He said 3.2 per cent of the total active cases are on oxygen support, 4.2 per cent in ICUs and 1.1 per cent on ventilator. Although India’s coron- avirus trajectory has tapered, it continues to be steeper com- pared to Asian peers such as Japan and Singapore. The rise of infections in India is now faster than in neighbours Bangladesh and Pakistan. At 19,063, Maharashtra leads in terms of the number of cases, Gujarat has the second most number (7,403), followed by Tamil Nadu (6,009) and Delhi (5,980) followed by Rajasthan (3,419) and Madhya Pradesh (3,341). West Bengal reported 1,678 cases. Continued on Page 6 A s Indians stranded abroad start returning to India, the Centre on Friday allowed con- version of hotels, service apart- ments, guest houses and lodges across the country into paid quarantine/isolation facilities with mandatory medical amenities, including wi-fi for such evacuees. “There are a large number of facilities such as hotels, ser- vice apartments, lodges which remain unoccupied due to impact of Covid-19 on travel and tourism. “There are also instances where people who don’t have requisite space at home may opt for such facilities. This is likely to reduce the pressure on the family, give comfort to the person, and protect the family members and immediate neighbourhood,” said the guidelines issued by the Union Health Ministry on Friday. It said that the owners of these facilities can host patients who do not have requisite facilities at home or want to avoid homes to ensure that their family members do not get infected with the virus. However, the tariff for the accommodation and services will be fixed in consultation with the State Governments/ UTs, say the guidelines. Though the move is also expected to boost revenue scope to the battered hotel industry amid Covid-scare, it comes with lots of responsibil- ities on the owners of such facilities. It will be their respon- sibility to provide doctor, fresh foods and nurses, and trained staff as per medical require- ments, said an official from the Ministry. As per the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) the quarantine and isolation facility will not co-exist and the facility owner will have a choice to offer the facility for either of the two. Continued on Page 6 T he Centre on Friday announced that the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will hold the remaining board exami- nations for 29 subjects for Class X (only for North-East Delhi candidates) and XII students between July 1 and July 15. The announcement was made by HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank. The results of the board exams are expected in August. “The students have been impatiently waiting for the schedule for pending exams. It has been decided today that the exams will be conducted from July 1 to 15,” Nishank said on Twitter. CBSE will announce a detailed schedule of the exams shortly. The CBSE board exams in India and abroad were held till March 18 after which the nationwide lockdown was announced on March 25. The exams for over 80 sub- jects were still pending. The CBSE has now decid- ed that exams will be held only for 29 main subjects, in order to speed up the evalu- ation process and complete the examination formalities to enable students to apply for admission to colleges and universities. “The examinations to be held will include 12 subjects pending for class XII students across the country while the tests will be sched- uled for class X only in North-East Delhi where the papers got postponed due to wide-spread violence in February,” said a HRD Ministry official. The CBSE’s board exam schedule will be a factor in the entrance exam dates in order to make it convenient for class XII students to appear for them. T he Supreme Court on Friday asked States to con- sider non-direct contact or online sales and home delivery of liquor during the lockdown period to prevent the spread of coronavirus on account of crowding at the shops. A Bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, Sanjay Kishan Kaul and BR Gavai, hearing the matter through video confer- encing, disposed of the plea challenging the guidelines issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on May 1, allowing sales of liquor through direct contact during the lock- down period. “We are not inclined to entertain this petition filed under Article 32 of the Constitution of India. The peti- tion is dismissed. However, it shall be open for the con- cerned State Government to consider non-direct sale including on-line sale/home delivery of liquor to facilitate social distancing,” the Bench said. Continued on Page 6 T he Supreme Court on Friday extended by three months the time for comple- tion of trial in the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition case involv- ing BJP veterans LK Advani, MM Joshi and Uma Bharti and said that judgment should be delivered by August 31. The SC asked special judge SK Yadav to control the pro- ceedings in accordance with law so that the time-frame is no longer breached. It indicated to the special judge to avail the facilities of video conferencing to complete recording of evi- dences and hearing of applica- tions that are filed during the course of trial proceedings. Continued on Page 6 I n a major boon to the Kailash-Mansarovar pilgrims and border areas of Uttrakhand, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday inau- gurated an 80-km road link there by flagging off a convoy of vehicles. The new road con- structed by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) will reduce the time of the holy yatra by at least ten to 12 days apart from giving a boost to development in the region. The important road link is from Dharcula (Uttrakhand) to Lipulekh (China border) in Pithoragarh region. Opening the road through video-conferencing, Rajnath said here the Centre and the PM have a special vision for the development of remote areas. Continued on Page 6 I n what came as a big disap- pointment for two of its dis- gruntled leaders, the BJP on Friday denied party tickets to its former Ministers Eknath Khadse and Pankaja Munde to contest the Maharashtra Legislative Council polls sched- uled for May 21. In a clear indication of the fact that the party leadership is in no mood to rehabilitate the two side-lined leaders, the BJP ignored the claims of Khadse and Pankaja, two other ticket hopefuls Ram Kadam and Harshvardhan Patil, and nom- inated Praveen Dhatke, Ranjitsinh Mohite-Patiol, Dr Ajit Gopchade and Gopichand Paralkar as its candidates for the State Council polls. Continued on Page 6 T he Supreme Court on Friday stayed an interim order of the Orissa High Court which had asked the State Government to ensure that all migrants, who are in queue to enter Odisha, should be tested negative of Covid-19 before boarding the conveyance. The HC, in its interim order on Thursday, had sug- gested the State should ensure only those tested negative for Covid-19 are allowed to return. A bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan stayed the high court order, which was chal- lenged by the Centre, and issued notice to the concerned parties on the appeal. Continued on Page 6 T he Central paramilitary forces on Friday reported nearly 50 new cases of Covid infection with the BSF clocking 30 fresh cases, followed by 12 in the ITBP and 3 in CISF. The total number of infect- ed personnel in the 10-lakh strong paramilitary forces crossed the 500 mark even as 5 — 2 in BSF and CISF and one CRPF — died of the virus. With the latest additions of the Covid-19 cases in its ranks, the BSF now has a total of 223 infected personnel and is by far the worst affected paramilitary force in terms of highest num- ber of Covid-19 positive cases. Continued on Page 6 O ver 900 stranded Indians, including medical stu- dents, were brought back home in five Air India flights from Singapore, Bangladesh, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and some West Asian nations on Friday under the Vande Bharat Mission. Several more are expected to arrive late on Friday and Saturday morning. According to Ministry of Civil Aviation, the first flight from Singapore landed at the Delhi airport around 11.45 am with 234 passengers. Within a couple of hours, the second special flight with 167 students arrived at the Srinagar airport from Dhaka. The third flight with 177 passengers from Manama, Bahrain landed in Kochi. The fourth flight with 153 passengers, from Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, landed in Kerala’s Kozhikode at around 8.10 pm. Another flight with around 200 Indians from Sharjah is expected to arrive in Lucknow on Saturday. After the returnees reached IGI airport, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said all arrangements have been made for the Indians coming from other countries. “The Delhi Govt has made all arrangements for the Indians arriving from abroad,” Kejriwal tweeted. All the arriving passen- gers were put through screen- ing and triaging to find out any infection of coronavirus. After immigration and cus- toms formalities, they headed towards paid quarantine facil- ities where they will spend 14 days, before going home. Nearly 20 buses, including of DTC and neighbouring States of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab, were deployed at IGI airport for car- rying people to quarantine facilities. Srinagar Deputy Commissioner Shahid Iqbal Chaudhary also expressed his gratitude to the Indian High Commission in Dhaka for the “tremendous efforts” in getting these students home. “Profound gratitude to Indian High Commission @ihcdhaka for tremendous efforts. More to follow. For convenience of students — bulk tickets next,” Chaudhary said in a tweet. Sources said 27 flights will take off from the Gulf region next week with 11 from UAE (including the two that have already landed), five from Saudi Arabia, five from Kuwait, two from Bahrain, two from Qatar and two from Oman. T hree persons, including a pregnant woman, tested positive for coronavirus infec- tion in the state capital on Friday. Tufail Ahmad Marg in Narhi, where the woman test- ed positive for coronavirus, was sealed by the administra- tion and she was admitted to King George’s Medical University hospital. The other two cases were found in Aminabad and Kaiserbagh. Meanwhile, with the death of four more COVID-19 patients, the toll of the pan- demic in UP rose to 66. According to Health department, one person each died in Jhansi, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Meerut and Firozabad on Friday.
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In a shocking tragedy, asmany as 16 migrant workers
were mowed down by anempty freight train while theywere sleeping on railway tracksnear Aurangabad in the earlyhours of Friday. The workerswere on their way to homeState of Madhya Pradesh.
The deceased were among19 migrant workers who hadgone off to sleep on railwaytracks while they were walkingfrom Jalna to Bhusawal toboard a “Shramik Special” trainto return to Madhya Pradesh,when the incident took place ataround 5.20 am.
The 19 workers had sleptoff on railway tracks as theywere apparently exhausted. Ofthem, 14 workers died on thespot, while two others suc-cumbed to injuries at theAurangabad district civil hos-pital. Three others are under-going treatment. The workersapparently thought there wouldnot be any movement of trainsduring the lockdown and thetrack was secured.
The migrant workers usedto work in a steel manufactur-ing company at Jalna. OnThursday evening, the workershad set out on foot from Jalnato Bhusawal to board a“Shramik Special” train toreturn to their home towns intwin districts of Shahdol andUmaria in Madhya Pradesh on
Friday. The incident took placebetween Badnapur andKarmad stations of Parbhani-Manmad section of the Nandeddivision of South-CentralRailway (SRC).
“During early hours todayafter seeing some labourers ontrack, loco pilot of goods traintried to stop the train buteventually hit them betweenBadnapur and Karmad sta-tions in Parbhani-Manmadsection. Injured have beentaken to Aurangabad CivilHospital. Inquiry has beenordered,” the Railway Ministrytweeted.
“The incident took placeeven as loco pilot of the goodstrain honked as soon as henoticed a group of peoplesleeping on the railway tracksand also made all efforts to stopthe train,” a SRC spokespersonsaid.
Voicing anguish over theincident, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi tweeted,“Extremely anguished by theloss of lives due to the rail acci-dent. Have spoken to RailwayMinister Piyush Goyal and heis closely monitoring the situ-ation. All possible assistancerequired is being provided.”
President Ram NathKovind and Vice-President MVenkaih Naidu mourned deathof the migrant workers.
Former Congress presi-dent Rahul Gandhi expressedanguish at the tragedy.
“I am shocked at the newsof migrant labourers beingcrushed to death by a goodstrain. We should be ashamed atthe treatment meted out to thebuilders of our nation. Mycondolences to the families ofthose killed and I pray for theearly recovery of the injured,”Rahul Gandhi tweeted.
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With the number of coro-navirus cases in the
country witnessing a suddenspurt in the past few days andtally heading towards 60,000marks on Friday, the UnionHealth Ministry said, “We haveto learn to live with the virus.”
The death tally is all set totouch 2,000 marks. There wasnearly 3,000 new cases and 94deaths during Friday.
Some reports said at thecurrent rate of daily growth, thenumber of cases would rise to75,000 in five days. If this tra-jectory continues beyond thatperiod, it could overwhelmIndia’s hospital capacity andstrain an already overburdenedhealth system.
In view of no let-up incases and new infection beingreported from several pockets,the Union Health Ministry isnow in the process of revisingthe list of Red, Orange andGreen Zones.
Addressing mediapersons,Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary atthe Health Ministry, said, “Wehave to learn to live with thevirus. We need to introducecertain behavioural changes toimplement these (social dis-
tancing) practices.”According to the Health
Ministry, 16,540 Covid-19patients, which are about 29.36per cent of the total cases, haverecovered so far, while in thepast 24 hours, 1,273 peoplehave been cured.
“So far, in 216 districts, nopositive case has been detect-ed. In 42 districts no new casehas been detected in the last 28days, while 29 districts have notreported any case in the last 21days,” the official said.
He said 3.2 per cent of thetotal active cases are on oxygensupport, 4.2 per cent in ICUsand 1.1 per cent on ventilator.
Although India’s coron-avirus trajectory has tapered, itcontinues to be steeper com-pared to Asian peers such asJapan and Singapore. The riseof infections in India is nowfaster than in neighboursBangladesh and Pakistan.
At 19,063, Maharashtraleads in terms of the number ofcases, Gujarat has the secondmost number (7,403), followedby Tamil Nadu (6,009) andDelhi (5,980) followed byRajasthan (3,419) and MadhyaPradesh (3,341). West Bengalreported 1,678 cases.
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As Indians stranded abroadstart returning to India, the
Centre on Friday allowed con-version of hotels, service apart-ments, guest houses and lodgesacross the country into paidquarantine/isolation facilitieswith mandatory medicalamenities, including wi-fi forsuch evacuees.
“There are a large numberof facilities such as hotels, ser-vice apartments, lodges whichremain unoccupied due toimpact of Covid-19 on traveland tourism.
“There are also instanceswhere people who don’t haverequisite space at home mayopt for such facilities. This islikely to reduce the pressure onthe family, give comfort to theperson, and protect the familymembers and immediateneighbourhood,” said the
guidelines issued by the UnionHealth Ministry on Friday.
It said that the owners ofthese facilities can host patientswho do not have requisitefacilities at home or want toavoid homes to ensure thattheir family members do notget infected with the virus.
However, the tariff for theaccommodation and serviceswill be fixed in consultationwith the State Governments/UTs, say the guidelines.
Though the move is alsoexpected to boost revenuescope to the battered hotel
industry amid Covid-scare, itcomes with lots of responsibil-ities on the owners of suchfacilities. It will be their respon-sibility to provide doctor, freshfoods and nurses, and trainedstaff as per medical require-ments, said an official from theMinistry.
As per the StandardOperating Procedure (SOP)the quarantine and isolationfacility will not co-exist and thefacility owner will have a choiceto offer the facility for either ofthe two.
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The Centre on Fridayannounced that the
Central Board of SecondaryEducation (CBSE) will holdthe remaining board exami-nations for 29 subjects forClass X (only for North-EastDelhi candidates) and XIIstudents between July 1 andJuly 15. The announcementwas made by HRD MinisterRamesh Pokhriyal Nishank.The results of the boardexams are expected inAugust.
“The students have beenimpatiently waiting for theschedule for pending exams.
It has been decided today thatthe exams will be conductedfrom July 1 to 15,” Nishanksaid on Twitter.
CBSE will announce adetailed schedule of theexams shortly.
The CBSE board examsin India and abroad wereheld till March 18 after whichthe nationwide lockdown wasannounced on March 25.The exams for over 80 sub-jects were still pending.
The CBSE has now decid-ed that exams will be heldonly for 29 main subjects, inorder to speed up the evalu-ation process and completethe examination formalities
to enable students to apply foradmission to colleges anduniversities.
“The examinations to beheld will include 12 subjectspending for c lass XII students across the countrywhile the tests will be sched-uled for class X only inNorth-East Delhi where thepapers got postponed due towide-spread violence inFebruar y,” said a HRDMinistry official.
The CBSE’s board examschedule will be a factor inthe entrance exam dates inorder to make it convenientfor class XII students toappear for them.
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The Supreme Court onFriday asked States to con-
sider non-direct contact oronline sales and home deliveryof liquor during the lockdownperiod to prevent the spread ofcoronavirus on account ofcrowding at the shops.
A Bench of Justices AshokBhushan, Sanjay Kishan Kauland BR Gavai, hearing thematter through video confer-encing, disposed of the pleachallenging the guidelinesissued by the Ministry of HomeAffairs (MHA) on May 1,allowing sales of liquor throughdirect contact during the lock-down period.
“We are not inclined toentertain this petition filedunder Article 32 of theConstitution of India. The peti-tion is dismissed. However, itshall be open for the con-cerned State Government toconsider non-direct saleincluding on-line sale/homedelivery of liquor to facilitatesocial distancing,” the Benchsaid.
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The Supreme Court onFriday extended by three
months the time for comple-tion of trial in the 1992 BabriMasjid demolition case involv-ing BJP veterans LK Advani,MM Joshi and Uma Bharti andsaid that judgment should bedelivered by August 31.
The SC asked special judgeSK Yadav to control the pro-ceedings in accordance withlaw so that the time-frame is nolonger breached. It indicated tothe special judge to avail thefacilities of video conferencingto complete recording of evi-dences and hearing of applica-tions that are filed during thecourse of trial proceedings.
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In a major boon to theKailash-Mansarovar pilgrims
and border areas ofUttrakhand, Defence MinisterRajnath Singh on Friday inau-gurated an 80-km road linkthere by flagging off a convoyof vehicles. The new road con-structed by the Border RoadsOrganisation (BRO) willreduce the time of the holyyatra by at least ten to 12 daysapart from giving a boost todevelopment in the region.The important road link isfrom Dharcula (Uttrakhand) toLipulekh (China border) inPithoragarh region.
Opening the road throughvideo-conferencing, Rajnathsaid here the Centre and thePM have a special vision for thedevelopment of remote areas.
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In what came as a big disap-pointment for two of its dis-
gruntled leaders, the BJP onFriday denied party tickets toits former Ministers EknathKhadse and Pankaja Munde tocontest the MaharashtraLegislative Council polls sched-uled for May 21.
In a clear indication of thefact that the party leadership isin no mood to rehabilitate thetwo side-lined leaders, the BJPignored the claims of Khadseand Pankaja, two other tickethopefuls Ram Kadam andHarshvardhan Patil, and nom-inated Praveen Dhatke,Ranjitsinh Mohite-Patiol, DrAjit Gopchade and GopichandParalkar as its candidates forthe State Council polls.
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The Supreme Court onFriday stayed an interim
order of the Orissa High Courtwhich had asked the StateGovernment to ensure that allmigrants, who are in queue toenter Odisha, should be testednegative of Covid-19 beforeboarding the conveyance.
The HC, in its interimorder on Thursday, had sug-gested the State should ensureonly those tested negative forCovid-19 are allowed to return.
A bench headed by JusticeAshok Bhushan stayed the highcourt order, which was chal-lenged by the Centre, andissued notice to the concernedparties on the appeal.
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crossed the 500 mark even as5 — 2 in BSF and CISF and oneCRPF — died of the virus.
With the latest additions ofthe Covid-19 cases in its ranks,the BSF now has a total of 223infected personnel and is by farthe worst affected paramilitaryforce in terms of highest num-ber of Covid-19 positive cases.
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dents, were brought backhome in five Air India flightsfrom Singapore, Bangladesh,Abu Dhabi, Dubai and someWest Asian nations on Fridayunder the Vande BharatMission. Several more areexpected to arrive late onFriday and Saturday morning.
According to Ministry ofCivil Aviation, the first flightfrom Singapore landed at theDelhi airport around 11.45 amwith 234 passengers. Within acouple of hours, the secondspecial flight with 167 studentsarrived at the Srinagar airportfrom Dhaka. The third flightwith 177 passengers fromManama, Bahrain landed inKochi. The fourth flight with153 passengers, from Riyadhin Saudi Arabia, landed inKerala’s Kozhikode at around8.10 pm.
Another f light witharound 200 Indians fromSharjah is expected to arrive inLucknow on Saturday.
After the returneesreached IGI airport, DelhiChief Minister ArvindKejriwal said all arrangementshave been made for theIndians coming from othercountries.
“The Delhi Govt has made
all arrangements for theIndians arriving from abroad,”Kejriwal tweeted.
All the arriving passen-gers were put through screen-ing and triaging to find outany infection of coronavirus.After immigration and cus-toms formalities, they headedtowards paid quarantine facil-ities where they will spend 14days, before going home.
Nearly 20 buses, includingof DTC and neighbouringStates of Uttar Pradesh,Haryana and Punjab, weredeployed at IGI airport for car-rying people to quarantinefacilities.
Srinagar DeputyCommissioner Shahid IqbalChaudhary also expressed hisgratitude to the Indian HighCommission in Dhaka for the“tremendous efforts” in gettingthese students home.“Profound gratitude to IndianHigh Commission @ihcdhakafor tremendous efforts. Moreto follow. For convenience ofstudents — bulk tickets next,”Chaudhary said in a tweet.
Sources said 27 flightswill take off from the Gulfregion next week with 11from UAE (including the twothat have already landed), fivefrom Saudi Arabia, five fromKuwait, two from Bahrain,two from Qatar and two fromOman.
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Three persons, including apregnant woman, tested
positive for coronavirus infec-tion in the state capital onFriday.
Tufail Ahmad Marg inNarhi, where the woman test-ed positive for coronavirus,was sealed by the administra-tion and she was admitted toKing George’s MedicalUniversity hospital.
The other two cases werefound in Aminabad andKaiserbagh.
Meanwhile, with the deathof four more COVID-19patients, the toll of the pan-demic in UP rose to 66.
According to Healthdepartment, one person eachdied in Jhansi, Gautam BuddhaNagar, Meerut and Firozabadon Friday.
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Lucknow (PNS):Condoling the death of 16migrant labourers who werecrushed by a train inMaharashtra’s Aurangabad,
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Terming the suspension ofmost provisions of
labour laws for three years as“inhuman”, Samajwadi Partychief Akhilesh Yadav said thatthe Bharatiya Janata Partyregime should step down forthis.
On Friday, Akhilesh tweet-
ed, “The BJP government inUP has suspended most ofthe labour laws protectinglabourers through an ordi-nance for three years. Thisis extremely objectionableand inhuman. Theanti-poor BJP government,which could not protectworkers, should immediatelyresign.”
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Despite the lockdown, Pratapgarh witnessed abloody clash between two rival groups that
left a property dealer dead and seven others crit-ically injured in Marootnagar on Friday.
The injured were shifted to the district hos-pital from where they were referred to SRNMedical College in Prayagraj.
Taking cognisance of the clash, the districtpolice chief of Pratapgarh suspended the in-chargeof Civil Lines police outpost, Chandra Shekhar.
Additional police force was deployed in thearea to avert any fresh clash while teams wereformed to track down the miscreants, who areabsconding.
As per reports, property dealer Ram PrasadPandey of Barachanagar in Kotwali police stationarea had a dispute with Sarvesh over a propertyat Marootnagar and the local police were awareof it.
On Friday morning, the dispute took a vio-lent turn as both parties came to a head andexchanged fire, sending shock waves in the area.After being informed, a police team rushed to thescene only to find eight injured persons writhingin pain. The rest of the miscreants had fled by thattime.
The cops rushed injured Ram Prasad Pandey,Lakshman Pandey, Subhash and Surendra fromone side and Sarvesh, Saheb, Anand and Rahulfrom the other to a hospital where Ram PrasadPandey was pronounced dead upon arrival.Assessing the condition of the seven injured as crit-ical, the doctors referred them to the medical col-lege in Prayagraj. Cross cases were registered bythe police and investigations were on.
Meanwhile in Gorakhpur, the wife of retiredsub-divisional officer (SDO) in Telecom depart-ment was brutally hacked to death and her bodywas found in front of her house in Madraha NaktaTola area of Badhalganj on Friday morning.
As per reports, retired government officerAnant Sahani lived in his native village inTewaripur area of Badhalganj while his wifeChandrawati used to live with two of her sixdaughters Geeta and Sangeeta.
The locals said that on Thursday afternoon,Chandrawati had an arguments over property dis-tribution with Sangeeta’s son Vipin. But after oth-ers in the family intervened the issue was sortedout. On Friday morning, Chandrawati went fora morning stroll and some time later she was foundmurdered near her house.
After preliminary investigation, the police saidthat since Sangeeta and her family were on the lamand also she had an argument over property withthe victim a day before, they suspected their rolein the murder and were trying to track them downfor quizzing.
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With trains carryingmigrant workers set to
reach 40 stations across thestate, Chief Minister YogiAdityanath gave an assurancethat his government will bringback every worker safely totheir homes and leave no stoneunturned to provide facilities tothem.
Yogi appealed to themigrant labourers to not headfor their homes on foot, bicy-cles or two-wheelers for thesake of their health and safety.
“Arrangements are beingmade for your safe return. Bepatient, the government willreach you soon,” he said.
Addressing media personsin Lucknow on Friday,Additional Chief SecretaryAwanish Awasthi said that thestate government had identified40 railways stations where spe-cial trains would reach.
“Already, arrangementshave been made for 169 trainsto evacuate migrant workersand their families from otherstates,” he said.
The additional chief secre-
tary added that till date, 69 spe-cial trains had arrived at 40 sta-tions in the state and 24 trainscarrying around 30,000 work-ers were expected soon.
“We are expecting 76 spe-cial trains in the next twodays. Besides, 30,000 agricul-tural labourers would bebrought from Haryana bybuses,” he said.
Awasthi also told mediapersons that the first batch offoreign migrant workers fromSharjah would reach Lucknowairport on Saturday night and20 odd persons from Noidaand Ghaziabad, working inforeign countries, would bereaching Delhi on Fridayevening .
He said that health check-up of every migrant was beingdone at quarantine centres ofrespective districts.
“Healthy people are beingsent to their homes with theinstruction to comply withhome quarantine norms.Suspects are being isolated atshelter homes for completecheck-up. Besides, workersreturning home are being givenRs 1,000 for sustenance andfood grains in fixed quantity,”
he said.Meanwhile, officials have
been directed to ask owners ofindustrial units to ensure thatworkers are given salaries orhonoraria even during lock-down. About 55,000 units havepaid Rs 633.44 crore as wagesto the workers till now.
The additional chief secre-tary said that DG, Fire Services,had been asked to deploy allfire-tenders for sanitising man-dis, markets, hotspots andother places on a war footing.
Awasthi said that the chiefminister had directed officialsto increase the number of bedsin Covid hospitals and isolationcentres across the state from
48,000 to 52,000.“Besides, ventilators have
also been added in districthospitals and 20 districts whichdid not have any ventilator willbe provided five units each,” hesaid.
The additional chief secre-tary said that 20,000 surveil-lance teams were working in452 hotspot areas of the state,keeping a tab on 47 lakh pop-ulation residing in 8.42 lakhhouses.
He also said that 2,670members of Tablighi Jamaat ortheir contacts were quarantinedat different places and 325 for-eign Jamaatis too were in quar-antine.
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Uttar Pradesh seems to beheading in the right direc-
tion in its fight againstCOVID-19 with its patientrecovery scaling the 40 percent mark, almost 11 per centmore than the national aver-age. Principal Secretary(Health) Amit Mohan Prasadtold media persons inLucknow on Friday that therecovery rate of COVID-19patients in the state stood at40.09 per cent against thenational average of 29.35 percent.
“Even as coronavirus pos-itive cases are rising in UP, for-tunately, the number of activepatients is going down due toquick recovery. On May 4, thenumber of active patients was1,939, on May 5 it was 862, onMay 6 it was 1,831 but it slight-ly peaked to 1,868 on May 7and on May 8, it was the low-
est at 1,821,” he said.Prasad said that the num-
ber of testing was also increas-ing with each passing dayand on Thursday, 4,848 sam-ples were tested and the totalnumbers of tests done, includ-ing in private and public labs,stood more than 1.16 lakh.
“Uttar Pradesh ranks sec-ond in the country for con-ducting maximum numberof tests,” he said.
Besides on Thursday,there were 373 pool tests of1,779 samples, in which 18pools were found positive.
At present, there are 1,885patients in isolation beds atCovid hospitals of UP while9,575 people are in quarantine.
Prasad said that 60,147surveillance teams hadchecked 50.45 lakh houses inhotspots and other contain-ment zones and screened over2.52 crore people for coron-avirus infection so far.
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Four policemen were injured when someyouths violating lockdown norms attacked
them in Deoband area of Saharanpur. The cops had gone there to enforce lock-
down.Later, Saharanpur’s Senior Superintendent
of Police Dinesh Kumar P rushed to the spotwith a heavy police force and dispersed a mobthat was alleging police excesses.
Superintendent of Police (Dehat) inSaharanpur, Vidyasagar Mishra, said that twopolicemen went to Pathanpur Dogada inDeoband late Thursday night after learning thatyouths there were violating lockdown norms.He said that on being counselled, the youthsroughed up the cops after which one of themwas taken into custody.
Acting on an alert sent by the two cops, aPolice Response Van (PRV) of Dial-112 wasdespatched to the area to assist the policemen.This led to the police party being attacked inwhich constables Deepak, Kuldeep, Kamal andhome guard Vikas Chandra were injured.
The situation could be controlled after aheavy police rushed to the spot.
After the incident, Railway Road police out-post in-charge lodged a report against a local
corporator’s son and 50 other unidentified mis-creants.
Meanwhile in Kaushambi, 18 workersreturning home from Ajhuwa quarantine cen-tre on a pickup were injured when their vehi-cle overturned at Selraha in Majhanpur on
Friday morning. Later, six critically injured persons were
referred to medical college in Prayagraj. In Jhansi, 20 labourers were injured when
a truck coming from Maharashtra with 24labourers collided with a dumper on Fridaymorning. The injured were shifted to a localhospital. In Sitapur, at least five labourers weredetained and sent to quarantine centre afterthey jumped off a train on Friday.
The police said that the labourers jumpedoff Shramik Special train, ferrying workers fromAmritsar to Gonda. The train was approach-
ing Sitapur station at a slow speed around 5 amwhen five labourers from Shahjahanpur,jumped off. All of them were detained and latersent to a quarantine centre.
Meanwhile in Hapur, three persons werekilled in a truck-car collision on NationalHighway 9 in Kucheysar Chaupley in Babugarharea early Friday morning.
An occupant of the car, Sunder, was car-rying the ashes of his father to immerse it inthe Ganga at Gharmukteshwar and was trav-elling with his kin Sanjay and driver Sureshwhen the incident happened. While all threecar occupants died, truck driver Rohit andcleaner Harish were critically injured.
In another mishap in Amroha, fair priceshop owner Gajendra Singh of Ibrahimpur wasgoing on his motorcycle to deposit cash in abank branch at Dhanaura market and as he wascrossing Gajraula-Chandpur bypass, a truckloaded with cane crushed him to death.
Elsewhere in Mainpuri, one person waskilled and 11 others were injured when two carscollided on Agra-Lucknow Expressway inKarhal area. A Maruti van going from Kannaujto Ahmedabad and a Marazzo coming from theopposite direction collided head-on killing vandriver Hari Shankar of Kalyanpur (Etawah).
The injured were admitted in PGI Saifai.
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In view Covid-19 pandem-ic, general managers of IndianBank Ravinder Singh and RahulSrivastava called on ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath onThursday and handed over adraft of Rs one crore, sent by MD& CEO of Indian Bank PadmajaChunduru for CM relief fund. Inaddition to this, another draft ofRs 25 lakh was handed over tothe Chief Minister. The amountwas voluntarily contributed bythe officers and employees ofbranches of Indian Bank in UttarPradesh. Another draft of Rs
1,51,000 was handed over byIndian Bank Officers Associationas contribution to the relieffund.
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Mayawati accused boththe governments of adoptingdouble standards while deal-ing with the rich and theinfluential and the strandedmigrants.
In a statement issued inLucknow on Friday, Mayawatisaid that the death of 16workers travelling on foot toreturn home after being runover by a goods train, washeart-wrenching for whichshe expressed condolences tothe bereaved families.
Taking on both the Unionand Maharashtra govern-ments, Mayawati said thatwhile marooned migrantswere being charged for tick-
ets which was inhuman, bothgovernments were compas-sionate towards the rich peo-ple.
To buttress her claim, shepointed out how rich kidsundergoing coaching in Kotaand elsewhere were providedfree transport to reach theirhomes.
“Besides, aircraft werearranged to ferry thosestranded abroad but formigrant labourers, the gov-ernments have not shownany mercy,” she alleged.
Hitting out at the Delhiand UP governments,Mayawati said that they weredoing everything for public-ity and nothing at the groundlevel. “These chief ministersare claiming that they provid-ed food and other facilities tonumerous labourers and if it
is true than why are theyforced to walk hundreds ofmiles without food and waterto somehow reach theirhomes?” the BSP chiefasked
“In my opinion, beforeimplementing lockdown, theUnion government shouldhave given four to five days’time to everyone to reachtheir homes and get settled,”she said.
Mayawati further saidthat the Centre and state gov-ernments should take suchpainful incidents seriouslyand the families of the victimsshould be given adequatefinancial aid, job to at leastone member of the family andarrangements be made tosend each migrant labourerhome safely in trains, buses orflights without any charge.
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Over a dozen SUV-bornearmed youths thrashed a
milk vendor and his brother,laying siege to Sector-G cross-ing in Ashiyana on Fridayafternoon. Police reached thescene hours after they wereinformed about the incident,but the attackers had fled thescene by then.
The police initially tried tohush up the case but a videoshowing the attackers on therampage forced them to regis-ter a case for rioting whilearmed with weapons and onother counts. However, thepolice did not book the accusedfor violation of lockdown.
As per reports, NoorMohammed of Alambagh,along with his younger broth-er Wali Mohammed, had goneto supply milk to a dairy ownerat Sector-G crossing in the area.Another milk vendor, Yunus ofKrishna Nagar, was also presentthere. It was alleged that Yunuspicked up a fight with NoorMohammed over milk supplyand later, Yunus called hisfriends who reached the scenein an SUV carrying sticks andfirearms.
Noor Mohammed’s fatheralleged that Yunus and hismen started beating NoorMohammed and Wali. “Theyhit them with bricks and sticks.Wali fell unconscious due to
the attack,” Noor Mohammed’sfather said.
A video which went viralshowed youths dragging thevictims and attacking themwith bricks and sticks. The cus-tomers present at the dairy fledthe scene while the dairy ownerdowned the shutter to avoidbeing attacked.
A police spokesman said acase under sections147/148/149/307/504/323 wasregistered against the attackers,some of whom were identifiedas Yunus, Khanna, Azad,Bhallu and Zakir.
Meanwhile, a youth threwacid on his friend following afight caught a booze session ata secluded place in Madiaon onFriday afternoon. The accusedwas arrested while the victim isunder treatment at KGMUTrauma Centre.
As per reports, SatyaPrakash of Duggaur village,along with his friend Mandeep,was consuming alcohol whenboth started shouting overeach other. Satya Prakashtaunted Mandeep over somepersonal issue and irked overthis, Mandeep threw acid onhim before fleeing the scene.
As Satya Prakash startedwrithing in pain, some villagersrushed him to a hospital. Policesaid the victim suffered minorburns and no harm was causedto his eyes.
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Birbal Sahni Institute ofPalaeosciences (BSIP) is
undertaking research on therevival of the ecosystem inGomti river and the waterbody in Nawabganj Sanctuaryduring lockdown. BSIP direc-tor Vandana Prasad said thebest assessment of the impactof human population on cli-mate change can be madewhen there is a baseline data.
“The lockdown has givenus the opportunity to derivethis baseline data from theareas of Gomti river and thelake at Nawabganj Sanctuary asthere are parts which are notfrequently reached out byhuman population. These areaswill provide uninterruptedsampling,” she said.
The BSIP director said thatsoil and water samples wouldbe collected from both theareas. However, She added thatlockdown was a short periodfor studying changes in envi-ronment but a baseline datacould still be extracted.
“In water the micro-organ-isms respond very fast to thechanges in environment and ifthe pollution levels are low,suddenly the colonies of thesemicro-organisms will increase.These are very important indi-cators in terms of research. Wecan monitor as to how much
biodiversity came in the waterbodies at this time and wasthere any change indicated inthe species. There are manymicro-organisms which main-tain the ecosystem and henceit could be made out howmuch of the ecosystem in thewater bodies was revived,” shesaid. She pointed out that theywere also planning to changethe profile of their research atBSIP. “We are planning as tohow we can modify ourresearch if the lockdown isextended and how will wecarry it out if it opens. We areplanning to make our researchmore public-centric,” she said.
She added that she hadgiven instructions to the scien-tists to statistically evaluatethe research which they hadbeen carrying out till now andmake it more useful for people.
She said a lot of publishingagencies had opened their por-tals for the study of papers andthe scientist could make theirresearch creative by down-loading these papers.
“The scientists who areworking from home can use tothe opportunity to do a high-ly creative work and reach outto general public,” she said. Sheadded that they had also begunCovid-19 testing and were reg-ularly receiving samples from KGMU and from otherdistricts.
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A40-year-old woman waskilled allegedly over her
extra-marital affair in Madiaonon Friday morning. Deceased’slover, his wife and son are onpolice radar and manhunt hasbeen launched for them. Thetime taken by the police in rush-ing the woman to hospital drewflak from several quarters.
Senior officials came underpressure after a video of lack-adaisical investigation went viralon social media and ordered aprobe.
As per reports, Meena(named changed) was foundlying in pool of blood andgasping for breath at her housewhen some neighbour reachedthere to inquire of her well-being. They alerted police con-trol room and two cops reachedthe scene. They sought the helpof neigbouring women but noone responded. Due to lack ofwomen constables, the police-men passed the information totheir seniors and called theambulance. By the time, theambulance reached the spot, thewoman had breathed her last.She was declared brought deadwhen taken to the hospital. Avideo of lackadaisical policeinvestigation went viral on socialmedia after which police drewcriticism for insensitivity andlack of expertise. However, thepolice tried to put up a braveface saying the ambulance tooktime in reaching the scene.
Preliminary investigationrevealed that Meena was not ongood terms with her husband
Mohan (name changed) sinceher affair with one Khushiram,who is already married and hasa son named Akash, becamepublic. Also, Khushiram’s wifeRekha was not happy withMeena for the same reason.
For the last few months,Meena, along with her daugh-ter, was staying at a house inDhatingra village of Madiaon,away from her husband Raju. Afew weeks after Meena shifted,Khushiram, along with and his
son Akash, started living inanother house in the same vil-lage, away from his wife Rekha.
The villagers told the policethat they had seen Akash rush-ing out of Meena’s house in themorning. “At that time, Meena’sdaughter was not home. Akashwas looking nervous and weasked him the reason but he didnot stop,” the villagers told thepolice. The police said bothAkash and his father Khushiramwere found absconding from
their house when a team raid-ed the house. A spokesman saidpolice teams were searchingfor Akash and Khushiram. Hesaid the attackers slit Meena’sthroat with some sharp-edgedweapon. He said her daughterhad lodged a case alleging therole of Khushiram, his wifeRekha and their son Akash.
“She stated in the FIR thatAkash and Khushiram reachedher house and attacked her,” thespokesman said.
.<!>����� ����������78#�7�������������Lucknow (PNS): ICMR hasentrusted King George’sMedical University with theresponsibility of validating threeRTPCR kits and reagents —VTM transport media, RNAextraction kits and Covid-19RNA amplification & detectionkits. The validation will be car-ried out as per the protocolgiven by ICMR.
The information was givento mediapersons in by KGMUVice-Chancellor Dr MLB Bhattthrough video-conferencing onFriday. Addressing mediaper-sons, he said this work of vali-dation was earlier carried out byNIV (Pune) but on account ofthe good work and quality test-ing at KGMU, the medical uni-versity had also been given thework of validation of kits. Hepointed out that it was requiredin view of the increasing num-ber of tests being conducted inthe country. He added thatthey had received no instruc-tions from ICMR regarding thevalidation of rapid kits.
Head of KGMU’sMicrobiology department DrAmita Jain said the VTM trans-port media kit is the onethrough which samples frompatients are collected for testingand it has to be of a good qual-ity. “The validation will be doneas per the standard operatingprocedures given by ICMR.The RNA extraction kit is theone through which the genomeextraction is carried out and italso needs to be of good quali-ty. The Covid-19 detection kitsare so many in the market andno serious efforts have beenmade for assessing their quali-ty, and now KGMU would bevalidating the kits” she added
She emphasised that theywere using only RTPCRmethod, which was the stan-dard method for testing. “Weare not doing any rapid kits val-idation,” she added.
Lucknow (PNS): In a hit-and-run case, a 46-year-old man, identified as Shiv Dayal Sahu ofThakurganj, died after a speeding car hit himfrom an opposite direction at Tikaitganj culvertin Kakori on Friday. The errant driver sped offsoon after the mishap while passersby rushedthe victim to Kakori CHC where he suc-cumbed to injuries. Police said the commutershad noted down the registration number of thecar and the vehicle was being traced. A case wasregistered against unidentified driver. Thepolice said the victim was a farmer and wasgoing towards Malihabad for some work whenhe met the mishap.
Meanwhile, a 60-year-old security guard ofa pipe manufacturing factory in Chinhat wasfound dead at his workplace on Friday. Policesuspected that the man died of tuberculosis andsent the body for autopsy. As per reports, a work-er, Rajesh Singh of Barabanki, reached the fac-tory on Saturday and found the security guard,Munna Tiwari of Ambedkar Nagar, lying dead.He informed the police and a team reached thescene for investigation. The SHO said Munnawas suffering from tuberculosis and was undertreatment, as claimed by Rajesh. “The body boreno injury marks, when examined. It seemed thatthe security guard succumbed to TB,” the SHOsaid. He added that the case was assigned to asub-inspector and the body sent for autopsy.
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As many as 187 Indiansbeing evacuated from
Sharjah on May 9 will be sentto institutional quarantine intheir respective districts. Asenior district administrationofficial said that preparationswere already in place for theirarrival at the ChaudharyCharan Singh InternationalAirport on Saturday night.
The airport authoritiessaid that the flight would leaveDelhi at noon and reach at
Sharjah at 2:15 pm. It will startfrom Sharjah at 3:15 pm andland in Lucknow at 8:50 pm.This flight will leave for Delhiat 9:40 pm and arrive at Delhiat 10:45 on Saturday.
A senior district adminis-tration official said they wouldbe following the MHA guide-lines and the passengers wouldbe sent to institutional quar-antine in the same districts towhich they belong.
“Those who belong toLucknow will be kept at BBDUniversity where arrange-
ments have been made in thisregard. The institutional quar-antine will be mandatory for14 days,” he said. He said thatarrangements would be madefor food at the airport and theywould be sent to their respec-tive districts by buses. Headded that they would bemedically screened after theirarrival.
The airport authoritiessaid that preparations on theirpart had been completed andthe airport premises werebeing regularly sanitised.
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The Traffic department,along with police and
Lucknow MunicipalCorporation, is workingensure there is no encroach-ments on roads once the lock-down is lifted and vendorsbecome hawkers for door-to-door delivery of goods.
Deputy Commissioner ofPolice (Traffic) Charu Nigamsaid that there was noencroachment anywhere onthe roads at present due tolockdown and their endeav-our was to make sure theroads remained free ofencroachment even afterlockdown.
“The Traffic department,police and Nagar Nigam willtry and ensure that the roadsremain clean. It will be a
difficult job when the vendorsreturn to eke out their liveli-hood as they have no perma-nent shops or spaces of theirown. Most of these peoplefind a place where there is agood footfal l and then stand there to sell theirgoods,” she said.
The DCP pointed out thatNagar Nigam has alreadynotified 156 vending zonesbut not many have been shifted.
“We were of the opinionthat this shifting can be donein the lockdown periodbecause it needs painting,gril ls and inter-locking.However, this is not a prior-ity right now and also, lock-down is a period where it isdifficult to get labour. We willsee what happens when thelockdown is lifted,” she said.
She admitted that in par-allel, the hawking culturewhich was coming up withthe vendors trying to sellgoods at the doorsteps might additionally help insaving the encroached areasof the city.
“It has been observed thatmajority of the people are notcoming out of their homesbecause they have seriousconcerns of getting infected.Given a choice, people wouldwant delivery of goods attheir doorsteps. In the trans-Gomti area where hawkers arenot generally seen, can nowbe spotted now,” she added.
The DCP said that alongwith a hawking culture, anew challenge has emergedand it is the emergence of newillegal vending zones. “I haveobserved that in one of the
areas of Gomti Nagar, somefruit sellers have made vend-ing zones near a couple ofmulti-storeyed buildingsbecause of good sales in theseareas,” she pointed out.
The DCP said one primeexample of encroached spacewas Charbagh.
“This area gets the maxi-mum footfal ls and canaccommodate up to 200 ven-dors, but there are over athousand vendors sitting inmultiple layers. Half of themshould be hawkers becauseright to livelihood is notbeing stopped and it wouldalso make the area cleaner,”she said. She added thatempty roads were a rarity andnow that it has happened,they wanted to keep it thesame way with regards to encroachments.
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Three persons tested positivefor coronavirus in the city
on Friday, including a pregnantwoman from Narhi and twomen — one each fromAminabad and Kaiserbaghmandi. Tufail Ahmad Marg inNarhi became the new area tobe sealed after the woman test-ed positive for Covid-19. Shewas admitted to KGMU.
Chief medical officerNarendra Agarwal said the areawhere the woman resides wasalso sanitised. He said that thedoctor of a private clinic fromwhere she was taking treatmenthad also been quarantined. Asenior official said that samplesof her family members had alsobeen collected and sent fortesting. “Further action will betaken if anyone in her familytests positive for coronavirus,”the official said.
Incharge of InfectiousDisease Centre (KGMU) Dr DHimanshu said the woman wassix months pregnant and hercondition was stable. “We havekept her in the ICU because wewant to ensure everything isnormal and we will keep awatch on her tonight. If sheremains asymptomatic, we willgive her no medication. We willalso be taking gynaecologists’advice and will not give her anydrug which has not got aproven track record in pregnan-cy,” he said. He said the woman
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Piqued over her lover turningdown marriage proposal, a
girl set herself afire in his pres-ence near Lohia Park in VijayKhand under Gomti Nagarpolice station area on Fridayevening. The youth also sus-tained burns in a bid to rescueher. The girl was admitted to ahospital while the youth takeninto police custody.
As per reports, the girl, aresident of Mahanagar, had anaffair with Aman of IndiraNagar. Aman is posted as asupervisor in the Irrigationdepartment office in VijayKhand. The Gomti Nagarinspector said both were said tobe in love for the last five yearsand had planned to get mar-ried. However, as Aman’s fam-
ily was not ready for theirmarriage, he took a step back.
A couple of days back, thegirl’s family settled her marriagewith another youth. The girlcalled Aman but he told her hecould not go against the wish-es of his family. On Fridaymorning, the girl called Amanand asked him to meet her buthe refused to meet her. Irkedover this, the girl reachedAman’s office and waited forhim to come out. Soon afterAman came out of the officeand reached Digdiga-BBDUroad to reach his house, the girlstopped him on the way. Bothhad a heated argument andlater, the girl took out petrolfrom her scooty and poured iton herself. Before Aman couldstop her, she set set herself onfire. Aman tried to save her and
also suffered burns in theprocess. Passersby rushed totheir help and also informed thepolice. The police said the girlhad been admitted to KGMUTrauma Centre. Further inves-tigations were underway, apolice spokesman said.
Meanwhile, a team ofKrishna Nagar police, workingunder the guidance of ACPDeepak Singh, traced a studentwho had left his house afterbeing scolded by his parents forplaying PUBG in KrishnaNagar. The ACP said the par-ents had informed the policethat Pratyush Mani left thehouse after being scolded. Ateam worked on the case andtraced Pratyush at Lucknow-Unnao border. He was recov-ered and handed over to hisparents.
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The decision to suspend somelabour laws in Uttar Pradesh taken
by the UP cabinet will benefit all theworkers, industry and government, IIAgeneral secretary Manmohan Agarwalsaid. “This decision will not only helpin improving the condition of badlyaffected industrial activity due toCovid-19 pandemic but will alsoremove a great hurdle for the investorswilling to invest in UP,” he said.
“The decision will result in fastprogress of industrial activities and cre-ation of new employment opportuni-ties for the unemployed people in thestate. The long-standing unemploy-ment problem in the state will definite-ly be resolved with this decision of thegovernment. The apprehension in theminds of investors regarding industri-al environment in the state will alsohave a positive turn due to which notonly investment from within the coun-try but outside will also pour in,” he
added. Agarwal said that the Covid-19 pandemic might take a long timeto ease and the difficulties to befaced by the industries would also getreduced to some extent due to thisdecision and entrepreneurs would beable to devote more time to increas-ing the productivity. “Today the taxrevenue of the government hasreduced considerably due to very lowlevel of industrial and business activ-ities. This tax revenue will also beboosted with the increase in industri-al activities which the government willbe able to utilise for developmentalworks in the state,” he said. Nationalpresident of Indian IndustriesAssociation (IIA) Pankaj Kumar alsoappreciated the decision and said itwould have long-term positive effectsnot only for industrial activities in thestate but would also be in the long-term interest of the workforce. Heappealed to the labour union leadersto welcome this decision in the over-all interest of all the stakeholders.
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“We have also tried to findout where she caught the infec-tion from as she is also not surehow she contracted the infec-tion,” he added.
Meanwhile, officials saidthat a man who tested positivein Aminabad might have con-tracted the infection from thegrocer who had tested positiveearlier. State surveillance officerVikasendu Agarwal said sevenmore old cases had been attrib-uted to Lucknow, taking thecount of coronavirus patients inthe city to 247. “We carried out
a redistribution of the cases andsome of them attributed toother districts have now beenclubbed with the ones inLucknow,” he added.
Meanwhile, DistrictMagistrate Abhishek Prakashinspected Alambagh stationwhere people from across thecountry are arriving. He tookstock of the facilities for med-ical screening and distributionof dry kits to people.
Meanwhile, four more per-sons died of Covid-19 in UttarPradesh while 155 more testedpositive for it, taking the totalnumber of pandemic casualtyin the state to 66 and the casesof infection to 3,214. One per-son each died in Jhansi,Gautambudh Nagar, Meerutand Firozabad on Friday, tak-ing the death toll till date to 66,a Health Department bulletinsaid on Friday. Altogether
3,214 people have been infect-ed with the coronavirus in 68 ofthe total 75 districts in the state,the bulletin said. As manyas 1,387 people have recoveredwhile the number of activecases is 1,761. Agra reportedmaximum cases (36) on Friday,followed by GautambudhNagar (18), Meerut (12),Ghaziabad and Lucknow (10)each among others, the bulletinsaid. So far, 16 people have diedin Agra, 10 in Meerut, seven inMoradabad, six in Kanpurnagar, four each in Mathura andFirozabad and two each inJhansi, Ghaziabad and Aligarh,the bulletin said. One deatheach has been reported fromGautambudh Nagar, Prayagraj,Etah, Mainpuri, Bijnore,Kanpur Dehat, Amroha,Bareilly, Basti, Bulandshahr,Lucknow, Varanasi andShrawasti, it said.
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VARANASI (PNS): KashiVishwanath Temple (KVT)administration has made itclear that the Saptrishi aarti ofBaba Vishwanath was per-formed by regular priests oftemple on Thursday as usualand no tradition was broken inthis direction. The templeadministration has cancelledentry pass of chief priest ofSaptrishi aarti and six othersleveling charge that they triedto vitiate religious sentimentand provoke devotees to gath-er at one place defying guide-line of lockdown because ofCOVID-19. The police shot offletter to District Magistrate totake action against them undersection 188 of IPC.
It may be said here that thecontroversy erupted on thismatter after the main priest ofSaptrishi aarti ShashibhushanTiwari along with other priests
started performing aarti at gateNo-4 of temple on Thursdayblaming that the security per-sonnel had not allowed thementry into the temple premis-es to perform the aarti becausethey had put protest against thedamage of one part of KailashMahadev Mandir. Tiwari andothers made Parthiv Shivlingaof Baba Vishwanath and per-formed aarti as per tradition.
On the other hand, thetemple administration made itclear that the informationabout the damage of top pointof Kailash Mahadev Mandirduring the construction ofKashi Vishwanath Corridorhad been found false afterphysical verification conduct-ed by senior officers includingCEO of Kashi ViashwanathSpecial Zone Vishal Singh.
The temple administrationclaimed that no part of temple
was damaged and the chiefpriest of Saptrikshi aarti andothers was made this false pro-paganda to vitiate religioussentiment of devotees andagainst the interest of KVT.And taking it seriously, thetemple administration can-celled the pass issued to chiefpriest of Saptrishi aartiShashibhushan Tiwari andother priests besides a sewadarof temple, claimed the templeadministration. After the can-cellation of pass by templeadministration, the securitypersonnel did not allow themto enter the temple premises forperforming the aarti. The tem-ple administration also claimedthat the aarti was performed byregular priests of temple asusual and no tradition was bro-ken in this direction as claimedby Tiwari and others. When thenews about the aarti by Tiwari
and others being performed atgate No-4 of temple came to theknowledge of the districtadministration, it took a seri-ous note of it. The DM KaushalRaj Sharma said that the chiefpriest and other priests shouldhave solved the matter amica-bly by holding talk with tem-ple administration and addedthat the chief priest and othershad violated the guideline oflockdown as they had per-formed the aarti at public placeand not in temple premises.The DM said that no one hasright to violate the DisasterManagement Act in the nameof religion. Meanwhile, theCircle Officer, DashaswamedhPreeti Tripathi informed thatthe police have shot off letter toDM to take action under sec-tion 188 of IPC against thosewho violated the guidelines oflockdown.
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In wake of continuous viola-tion of social distancing
norms and movement of peo-ple in the markets without anygenuine needs apart from therequests of the traders in viewof increasing hot wave, the dis-trict administration has madesome changes in opening tim-ings of shops and commercialplaces from May 10. With therelaxations given since thebeginning of lockdown-3.0,the rush in several marketshave started being seen andeven on Friday, inVisheshwarganj, Pandariba,Maidagin and others marketssome shocking pictures wereseen. These markets are not farfrom some hotspots. Besides,
the city is one of the red zonesin the state where a large num-ber of COVID-19 cases con-tinued to be detected.
According to DistrictMagistrate (DM) Kaushal RajSharma, the shops of essentialitems, milk, medicine, farm-related items etc. will remainopen daily between 7 am and2 pm from Sunday. The officesof transport, logistics, courier,ware house, cold storage, foodprocessing and mobile compa-nies can also remain open butthe shops of mobiles, electricitems and their repairing, hard-ware and plumbing articles,books, printing press with notmore than five staff will alsoremain open from 7 am and 2pm only on Thursdays andFridays. However, the liquor
and model shops both in urbanand rural areas can remainopen between 10 am and 7 pm.
The home delivery of allessential items, vegetables, gasetc. can be done on all daysbetween 7 am and 5 pm. Thewholesale shops of all essentialitems in Nagar Nigam areasincluding Visheshwarganj, SaptSagar and others, while allmarkets in rural areas willremain open from 8 am and 2pm. Private and governmenthospitals, pathological labs andthe pharmacy shops in theirpremises can remain openround-the-clock. There wouldbe no timing restrictions onmedia offices and newspaperdistribution. Banks, ATMs,insurance companies and gov-ernment offices will remain
open as per their scheduledtime with only prescribednumber of staff.
Meanwhile despite all thetall claims of the administra-tion, the wheat purchasingprocess could not get acceler-ation so far. In the district, only31,799 metric tonnes of wheatwas purchased out of 2.24 lakhtonnes target for the divisionwhich is just 14.19 per cent.Not only this, only 272 wheatpurchasing centres out of 287in the division, including 34 outof 35 in Varanasi district couldbe opened by Wednesday last.Apart from this slow process,the farmers had also faced badweather conditions on manyoccasions in the recent dayswhich damaged their readycrops to some extent.
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For the second continuousday, no COVID-19 case
was found as all the 85 reportsreceived from Microbiologydepartment in Banaras HinduUniversity (BHU) were nega-tive. According to the ChiefMedical Officer (CMO) DrVB Singh, these reports includ-ed 26 collected from DLW, 25from ESI Hospital’s OPD and21 by mobile team in BHU.Meanwhile, on Friday, as manyas 52 samples were sent for test-ing. Dr Singh said that so far2,787 samples were sent fortesting and reports of 2,548have been received, while of239 are awaited. Out of 2,471received reports, 77 were pos-itive and 21 have been dis-charged while one died. At pre-sent, there are 55 active patientsin the district.
Meanwhile, district admin-istration has geared up itsactivities to check the health ofall those coming here from dif-ferent parts of the countrythrough trains, buses or other
private vehicles. DistrictMagistrate (DM) Kaushal RajSharma has informed that allthe persons coming from otherdistricts/states that prior togoing for home quarantine,they should reach KashiInstitute of Technology (KIT)at Mirza Murad to get theirhealth checkup and fill 27-col-umn data-feeding forms. Heinstructed all the police stationsto ensure that outsiders shouldonly enter the city after thor-ough check up. He also askedthe two SDMs of Pindra andRaja Talab to ensure properhealth checking of all out-siders at KIT round-the-clockby deploying health and otheremployees there in three shifts.DM also asked the senior offi-cers of UPSRTC to ensure thatthe drivers and conductors ofthe buses should not allow thepassengers to be dropped fromthe vehicles anywhere in themidway.
Earlier in the morning, aspecial train (No. 09421) fromSurat in Gujarat carrying 1,222passengers of different parts of
UP and other states arrived atVaranasi Junction railway sta-tion in the morning. It wasthird continuous day when thestranded people from differentparts came here by trains. Inthis train, there were 56 passen-gers of Varanasi district, while16 of Chandauli, 20 ofGhazipur and 93 of Jaunpur ofthis division apart from 193 ofSonbhadra, 38 of Mirzapur, 67of Bhadohi, 29 of Azamgarh, 67of Mau and 51 of Ballia. Thepassengers after health check-up and scanning were sent todifferent places by theRoadways buses which wereparked in station premises sothat the passengers could notgo outside the station circulat-ing areas.
Overall, there was peace inall the hotspot areas with thecontinuation of restrictionsand brief relaxations. Out oftotal 26, three had alreadycome into green zone and theyare Bajardiha, Lohta andGangapura. In the existing 23sealed hotspots, tight securitycontinued to be made and
these hotspots are Madanpura,Revari Talab, Pitarkunda,Nakkhighat, Habibpura,Madauli, Kashipura, Seer, SaptSagar, Chanduwa, Arjunpur,Hartirath Maidagin, ChotiPiyari, Mehmoorganj,Mukimganj, Kazipura Khurd,Lalpur, Jai Prakash Nagar, BagBariyar Singh, Jaitpura,Sujabad, Cholapur andLallapura. Out of them,Nakkhighat has already comeinto orange zone.
Earlier, the district policearrested 57 persons underSection 151 CrPC and tookaction against 15 under Section51 of Disaster ManagementAct. During checking at 14 bor-der points and 49 police barri-ers, 893 vehicles were challanedapart from seizing of six vehi-cles on Thursday. Since theimposing of lockdown, 292FIRs have been lodged against672 persons; 1105 were arrest-ed under Section 151 of CrPCwhile action was taken against2,882 under Section 188 orSection 51 of DisasterManagement Act.
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North Central Railway is allset to provide Covid Care
Centre through 130 coachesreadied for this purpose.Prayagraj Junction, Kanpurand Jhansi stations have beenidentified for placement ofCovid care centre in NorthCentral Railway.
North Central Railway hasconverted its 130 coaches asCovid Care Centres. Thecoaches can be used for verymild cases that can be clinical-ly assigned to the Covid CareCentres as per guidelines issued
by MoHFW. These coachescan be used when state hasexhausted the facilities andneeds to augment capacities forisolation of both suspect andconfirmed Covid cases. As perthe guidelines issued byMoHWF 3 important stationsi.e. Prayagraj Jn, Kanpur andJhansi are identified for place-ment of these coaches andthese stations are equippedwith watering and chargingfacility for Covid care rakes. Asper guidelines of MoHFW,State Governments would sendthe requisition to Railways.Railways will make allocation
of these coaches to concernedState/UTs.
After allocation byRailways, the train shall beplaced, at required station withnecessary infrastructure, andhanded over to nominated dis-trict authority. Wherever thetrain is placed, watering, elec-tricity, repairs required, cater-ing arrangements, security shallbe taken care by Railways.
Apart from coach basedCovid care centres, NorthCentral Railway has alreadycreated 651 quarantine bedsand 100 bed each separateCovid ward in Central hospi-
tal Prayagraj and DivisionalRailway Hospital Jhansi.
Based on written consentfrom concerned state govern-ments, first outgoing Shramikspecial train of NCR is beingoperated on Friday fromAligarh to Purnea Jn. carrying1,282 students.
Meanwhile till midnight ofFriday. NCR is expected tohandle total 125 Shramik spe-cial trains and have broughtabout 20,000 migrants andother stranded personsthrough 17 terminatingShramik special trains at differ-ent stations.
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Two new cases of coron-avirus were reported in
Prayagraj taking number ofCovid-19 in district to 17 hereon Friday. The number ofcorona patients in Prayagraj iscontinuously increasing.
Late on Thursday evening,corona-infected deceased engi-neer's mother has also beenconfirmed to have corona pos-titive. To recall that a total of sixpeople in the family of the engi-neer have been found infected.Among them the engineer hassuccumbed to COVID-19 hererecently. After getting sixpatients in the same family, notonly the Health department butalso the denizens of Prayagrajare frightened.
Meanwhile, another posi-tive case of corona came fromHandia tehsil. The the 58-year-old tested positive forCovid-19 on Thursday
evening. He was immediatelyadmitted to the Covid Levelone Hospital at Kotwa CHC.Nodal officer confirmed theinfection in the mother of theengineer and another manfrom Handia.
It may be pointed out herethat the civil engineer hailingfrom Lukerganj had died in theSRN Hospital on Tuesdaynight. At the same time, coro-na infection was found in hisfamily including his wife,brother, other brother's wifeand mother-in-law. Nodalofficer Dr Rishi Sahay con-firmed the corona positive inthe mother of the engineer aswell, after her test was con-ducted at the microbiology labof Motilal Nehru MedicalCollege on Thursday evening.After the report, the mother ofthe engineer is admitted fromthe Kalindipuram quarantinecentre to the CHC at Covid-19Hospital, Kotwa.
In this way, the number ofpositive patients has now risento 17 in Prayagraj. In addition,there was the first infectedcase of an Indonesian returnedfrom New Delhi after joining aTablighi Jamaat meet. He isnow healthy after treatment.
Meanwhile, Principal ofMotilal Nehru Medical College,Dr SP Singh said that sixpatients infected with coronaare being treated at SRNHospital wherein neither oneneeds oxygen nor does anyoneneed ventilator. The conditionof the wife of the deceasedengineer is stable. The moth-er-in-law of the engineer washaving trouble in breathingbut is completely fine now.
A patient fromPratapgarh, who came fromChandigarh, has mild fever. An11-year-old girl and a 35-year-old girl from Pratapgarh arehealthy, said Dr SP Singh.
The corona virus-infected
patient civil engineer died lateTuesday night while undergo-ing treatment at SRN Hospital.On Wednesday, rumors wererife on social media by someanti-social elements that theengineer's wife, who is coronapositive, died. People contin-ued to forward it from onegroup to another on socialmedia. People startedtrying to confirm this to eachother. Nodal officer Dr RishiSahai has called upon the res-idents to ignore the rumorsbeing spread on social media.The deceased engineer's wife isadmitted to SRN and is under-going treatment.
Meanwhile, all the fivecorona positive members of thelate engineer’s family ofLukerganj have been admittedto the same hospital i.e.Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital(SRNH) from the humanitar-ian point of view here onFriday.
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The number of coronavirushotspots in Kanpur (City)
has been reduced to 18 and thecity now has two orange spots.
In a high-level meeting ofdistrict and police officialsheld late Thursday night, it wasdecided to bring out certainareas from hotspot as no coro-navirus cases had been report-ed from there for the past 21days.
Kanpur (City) DistrictMagistrate Dr BR Tiwari saidthese hotspots had been madeafter taking into considerationthe 27 epicentres.
He said in green zones,there would now be no policepatrolling and the shops therecould be opened but with socialdistancing. He said even thebanks falling in the green zoneswould function normally andvehicle passes would also beissued.
Dr Tiwari said the 27 epi-centres had been reorganisedand segmentised into 20 zones.He said the hotspots whichwould remain strictly underlockdown included CoolieBazaar, Colonelganj, PoliceLines, Badshahi Naka,Babupurwa and Begampurwa,Machcharia and Naubasta,Chamanganj, Roshan Nagar,Shivkatra, Jajmau Chowki,Beconganj, Maswanpur,Meerpur, Collectorganj,Medical College, Juhi
Parampurwa Karrvi andBajaria.
He directed officials toensure that special nutritiousdiet was provided toAnganwadi workers for distri-bution among pregnantwomen and children. TheAnganwadi is providing fruitsto the pregnant women andchildren as well and this cam-paign will continue till May 11.
Kanpur Nagar Nigam sani-tised Nirala Nagar, GovindNagar (North), Bhannapurwa,
Ratanlal Nagar, Fazalganj,Swarajya Nagar, Panki, Barra,Juhi, Gujaini, Dabauli,Kaushalpuri and Sarai Meeta.
Meanwhile, nodal officerfor Kanpur, Govindraju NS,who arrived in the city on aseven-day special mission tocarry out inspection of hospi-tals, visited Ursula Hospital .
He stressed on foolproofdata feeding for state-levelmonitoring.
He later visited telemedi-cine cell of Kanpur Nagar
Nigam against which com-plaints have been received thatdoctors do not attend thephone calls. However, the doc-tor on duty is reported to haveattended the call of Govindraju.The KNN claimed that it hadattended to 1,300 calls .
He also visited the commu-nity kitchen and saw how it wasfunctioning. He also visited theRailways Loco Training Centrewhere he took detailed feed-back. He is reported to havevisited Chamanganj area also.
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Chief Medical Officer Dr AK Shukla onFriday expressed concern over the mis-
match of coronavirus positive records, sayingthat the state figures had not been corrected.
It may be mentioned here that KanpurDivisional Commissioner Dr Sudhir M Bobdehad also expressed concern over the mismatchbetween the district and state figures of thecoronavirus cases and had asked the CMO toset right the records. The ADG (Health) hadtaken up the issue with the state portal.
After thorough checking of the pastrecords, the figures of the CMO office werefound to be correct. The CMO claimed thatthe state portal had entered some figures twiceleading to the mismatch. He also said a 3-year-old girl who had died at the LLR Hospital hadfinally tested negative and thus the figure ofdeaths should have been corrected.
Dr Shukla said with nine more coron-avirus positive cases coming to light, includ-ing two cases reported late Thursday night, the
tally of people infected by the virus in the dis-trict so far had reached 293. This includes twoconstables deployed at hotspot areas who test-ed positive for coronavirus infection onThursday night. He said all the nine positivecases were from hotspot areas and the infect-ed persons had been isolated.
The CMO said that out of the 300 swabtest reports received on Friday — 55 fromKGMU, Lucknow and 245 from GSVMMedical College — only one case tested pos-itive and the rest were negative. He saidreports of 676 swabs sent for tests were await-ed.
Dr Shukla said as per the official records,a total of 25 police personnel had tested pos-itive for coronavirus and the cops had beenisolated and the police station sanitised.
Ironically, despite media showing viola-tion of social distancing, especially at the liquorshops, nothing has been done so far.
Meanwhile, two policemen were beaten upby two drunkards when the cops forced themto go inside their houses.
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Digital education is a goodalternative of classroom
studies during lockdown butstill there is room for improve-ments in it. Due to continuousconcentration on mobile phoneor computer screen for longhours, the concept appears tobe detrimental for the eyes ofchildren.
This was stated by MadhuGoenka, wife of Goldiee MasaleGroup Director Som Goenka,adding that classes should beheld for two hours daily in themorning and evening”.
She said the COVID-19outbreak had shut downschools indefinitely beforemany completed their curricu-lums for the academic year,prompting schools to startonline lessons in a hurry.
“But this has a negativeimpact on the health and eyesof children. Besides, many par-ents are concerned that theirwards are not receiving in-depth education and are spend-
ing a little too long in front ofthe computer or mobile phonescreen. Many parents are hop-ing this is a temporary phe-nomenon but some say thatonline education is set tobecome the new normal,” shesaid.
“Will such a lifestyle lead tolethargy setting in? We areabsolutely concerned aboutwhat the long-term impact ofthis new kind of lifestyle andteaching can be,” says Rajat’smother Ankita Goel.
Rajat, a Class 9 student ofSheiling High School, wakes uparound 7 am and an hour later
he plunks himself in front ofthe computer. He is in front ofthe screen until noon, attend-ing one online class after anoth-er. Every evening, Rajat spendsup to three hours more on thecomputer to complete his classassignments.
The daily routine ofShashank Maheshwari, a Class10 student of another cityschool, is not much different.Face-to-face teaching, he says,helps students understand theirlessons better, and is sorry thathe and his peers have to spendso much time learning lessonsonline. Many parents are hop-ing that this is a temporaryphenomenon that will fadewith the lifting of the lockdownand the reopening of schools.But some say that online edu-cation is set to become the newnormal in a post-Covid world.
“Increased screen time cancause increased sedentarybehaviour in children andteens, decreased metabolism,disturbance in sleep cycle, moredistractibility and perhaps
lower well-being,” said DrJoginder Singh Chauhan ofLaxmipat Singhania Institute ofCardiology and CardiacSurgery here.
Sandhya Shukla, assistantpsychologist and professor,Divisional PsychologicalCentre, Kanpur, said ideallychildren below two years ofage should not be exposed togadgets. “And children abovetwo should not be staring at acomputer screen for morethan 30 minutes in one go,” shesaid, adding that they shouldtake breaks every half-an-hour in case they need to sitlonger.
Prime Minister NarendraModi had warned studentsagainst addiction to electronicgadgets earlier this year. In hisPareeksha pe Charcha (dis-cussion on examinations) inter-action with students in January,Modi said, “I am all for usingtechnology to advance ourlives but let us not allow our-selves to be enslaved by tech-nology.”
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One person was electrocut-ed while a house was being
constructed in Nunauti villageunder the Chunar police sta-tion here. As per the reportsreceived here, a house wasbeing constructed in Nunautivillage under the Chunar policestation. Banarsi, a mason, wasaligning a iron rod when it sud-denly touched a high-tensionwire as a result of which hereceived an electric shock.When the two labourers, JayPrakash and Ajay, tried to res-cue the mason they alsoreceived a severe jolt. WhileBanarsi (45) died on the spot,Jay Prakash and Ajay weresent to a hospital for treatment.On being informed the policereached the spot and complet-ed the necessary legal formal-ities.
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Divisional CommissionerPreeti Shukla inspected the
women’s hospital on Thursday.The divisional commissionervisited its new building inwhich the 100-bed hospitalhad become operational.
Inspecting the maternity andchild health (MCH) wing of thehospital she inspected the med-
icine store, lab and issued nec-essary directives to the staff.During the inspection she wasaccompanied by DistrictMagistrate Sushil Kumar Patel
Chief Medical Officer (CMO),Dr OP Tiwari along with thedoctors concerned.
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District Magistrate AmitSingh Bansal
said that he alongwith Superintendentof Police inspectedPiprahari and Sabadavillages of the districtand got their bor-ders sealed. DM toldThe Pioneer said thatthe two labourerswho had reachedBanda from Mumbaion April 29 werekept in a quarantinecentre in the district and theirsamples were sent to JhansiMedical College for test on May5 and they tested positive forcovid-19 on May 7. Bansalsaid that he had directedAdditional District Magistrate(ADM) Banda SantoshBahadur Singh to ban the entryof outsiders in these villagesand no one would be allowedto go out from there. DM saidthat he had directed the ADMto deploy heavy police force at
both the villages and ensuresupply of essential commodi-ties to the villagers. DM Bansal
said that ChiefMedical Officer(CMO) Banda DrSantosh Kumar haddeputed a team ofdoctors and para-medical staff andhealth check-up ofthe people in thesevillages had startedfrom Friday. DMBansal said that theteam of doctors andfire brigade officials
had started sanitising thesevillages. DM said that he hadinstructed ADM to keep aclose watch on the labourerswho somehow managed toenter the UP-MP borders eitherfrom Banda or Mahoba district,should be taken to GAMC ordistrict hospital Banda for aproper health check-up. Allsuch labourers should neces-sarily be taken to quarantinecentres so that others did notget infected, the DM said. He
added that he had directed theADM, sub-divisional magis-trates (SDMs), city magistrateto ensure strict implementationof lockdown guidelines in theentire district. DM said that thedoctor of a PHC of Tindwaritown who was found positivefor covid-19 on May 5 hadbeen been admitted to GAMCand samples of all 36 employ-ees of this PHC and fourpolicemen had been sent toJhansi Medical College for teston Thursday. DM Bansal saidthat the capacity of Narainicommunity health centre(CHC) had been doubled see-ing the increasing number ofcorona suspects. DM said thatnow 60 general patients and 20corona suspects could beadmitted in Naraini CHC.
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A 45-year-old man dieddue to food poisoning underBadausa police station onFriday. SO Badausa Naresh
Prajapati said that the body ofthe deceased, Raj BahadurPatel, son of Sundar Lal, a res-ident of Mahuraee AnshDubariya, had been sent for thepost-mortem examination.CMO Dr Santosh Kumar toldThe Pioneer that the deceased,Raj Bahadur, had returned tohis village from Hyderabadand he was quarantined at aprimary school of the villagefor 14 days. Dr Kumar said thathe was discharged with a quar-antine certificate from theschool in a healthy situation.CMO said that the deceasedhad consumed some food onThursday night which resultedin food poisoning and dehy-dration.
CMO said that after hecomplained of stomachachehe was taken to CHC Atarraand the doctors of duty therereferred him to district hospi-tal in Banda in view of his seri-ous condition. However hedied on the way. CMO saidthat he was a labourer inHyderabad.
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CO City Alok Mishra alongwith SHO City Kotwali
Dinesh Singh and officersincharge of Aliganj, Civil Lines,Mardan Naka, Kalwanganj,Balkhandi Naka and KaluKuwan police outpostsmarched on foot in the entirecity, inspected all hotspots anddirected the policemen to getlockdown guidelines imple-mented there. CO Mishra latermarched on foot along with thea team of police personnelthrough main crossings of thecity and issued instructions topolicemen deployed at variouspoint to discharge their dutiessincerely. CO Mishra said thatfoot march was being con-
ducted in the city area in orderto ensure proper implementa-tion of lockdown guidelines onthe directive of SP Siddharth
Shankar Meena. CO said thatmore than two dozen bike rid-ers were challaned as they werefound wandering on the roadswithout any urgent work.
CO said that he had direct-ed grocery shopkeepers, veg-etable and fruit sellers to main-tain social distancing and wear-ing of masks. He said thatthose found violating lock-downs were being challanedunder Section 188 of the IPC.CO Mishra said that DM andSP had issued directives to getthe lockdown guidelinesimplemented strictly in thecity area. CO said that he wasinspecting hotspots GularNaka, Mardan Naka,Nimmnipar, Kalu Kuwan andMavai village on a daily basis.
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Atanker driver was killed when it collided a truck onNational Highway No 2 under the Sadar Kotwali area
around 5 am on Friday. A cleaner, who was seriouslyinjured in the accident, was admitted to the district hos-pital with the help of police, last reports received here said.According to information received here, the tankerrammed into a sand-laden truck parked near Katsila vil-lage under Sadar Kotwali in the district from behind.Owing to the impact of the collision the tanker’s cabin wasbadly damaged and the driver got trapped there. On get-ting information Chandauli police extricated the the bodyof the tanker driver trapped in the cabin with the help ofa crane. As a result the Chandauli-Varanasi road remainedblocked for about one hour and the movement of trafficremained stranded. The deceased tanker driver was iden-tified as Rohit, a resident of Sultanpur district. The tankerbelonged to Jaunpur. The police took the body of thedeceased into custody and sent it for the post-mortemexamination. The injured was being treated in the districthospital.
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Tragedy befell a family when a married woman admin-istered poison to her child and consumed it too in Baurivillage under Baburi police station of the district onThursday evening. While the girl died the woman wasreferred to the BHU in view of her critical condition, lastreports received here. According to information, Neha(25), a resident of Bauri village, consumed poison aftergiving it to her two-year-old daughter Savitri as she wasreportedly fed up with domestic strife. When her familymembers came to know about it, they hurriedly broughtthem to district hospital at night where the two-year-oldgirl died. However as the condition of the woman was crit-ical she was referred to BHU, last reports received heresaid. The body of the girl had been sent for the post-mortem examination. The police had started further pro-ceedings in the matter.
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Under a drive sanitisationwork was done in
Rookharghat ward under thesupervision of Nagar PalikaParishad (NPP) Board memberVinod Maurya on Thursday.Chairman Nagar PalikaParishad Manoj Jaiswal led theteam and appealed to the peo-ple to cooperate instead ofcreating any type of obstacle inthe work. He boosted themorale of the sanitisationworkers and warned those cre-ating nuisance to avert with anyscuffle with the team or elseremained prepared to face themusic. He said that the workwas in the interest of the peo-ple so their support was a must.
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The Police-PublicAnnapurna Bank set up bypolice was continuing to servethe needy. On Thursday thebank provided provided 850lunch packets, 783 kgwheat/flour, 576 kg rice, 14 kgpulse and 33 kg potato to 2,440people. According theAnnapurna Bank officials,since it was formed the bankhad helped around 58,182 fam-ilies by providing them1,33,725 lunch packets, 26,540kg wheat/flour, 38,525 kg rice,14,676 kg potato, 2,267 kg salt,4,009 kg vegetable/fruit and4,816 kg pulse.
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Senior Congress leaderMumtaz Ali distributed 530
ration kits among the needyand poor in Chilli, Kulkumhariand Arbai villages of the districton Thursday. Face masks andsanitisers were also given tothem along with these rationkits.
Among those distributedthese ration kits among thepoor and needy were districtpresident Mahila Zila CongressSeema Khan, Jugnu, SanjayTrivedi, Om Prakash Gupta,
Raj Kishore Mishra, PraveenSingh, Kashi Rashid and SafdarAli. Senior Congress leadersaid that special attention wasbeing paid to maintain socialdistancing during the distrib-ution of ration kits among thepoor and needy.
Mumtaz Ali said that theseration kits were regularly beingarranged by former ministerand MLC NaseemuddinSiddiqui. Congress leader saidthat Siddique had directed himto ensure the distribution ofration kits among the poorpeople of the district. Ali said
that he was receiving more thanfour dozen calls on his mobilefor making them available attheir homes.
Mumtaz Ali said that theseration kits were separatelybeing sent to the houses ofhandicapped and helpless peo-ple of Banda city area.
Congress leader MumtazAli further said that formerminister NaseemuddinSiddiqui had asked him to seethat no needy was left in theentire district. Ali said that hisaim was to serve the humani-ty during the present crisis.
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In view of the ongoing nation-wide lockdown due to
Covid-19 outbreak goods andparcel trains are being run fortransporting foodgrains and
other essentials across thecountry. Besides ShramikSpecial trains are being run sothat migrant workers couldreach their native places.Availability of health equip-ment and health supplies wasbeing ensured for prevention ofcoronavirus infection. Masks,sanitisers and relief materialsare being distributed continu-ously among the needy by therailway personnel. Apart fromit works of humanitarian aidare also being done enthusias-tically by them. The NorthEastern Railway (NER) admin-istration is honouring its rail-waymen by declaring them‘Corona warriors of the Day’every day to encourage themand boost their morale.
As many as three suchrailwaymen on NER were hon-oured on May 6,
Chief Public Relations Officer(CPRO), Pankaj Kumar Singh,said. Reports said that VinayMani Tripathi, who was work-ing as as senior section engi-neer/railway track (East),Siwan, got destressing work
15.3 km railway track duringthis lockdown period. He gotdeep screening of four turnoutswith the help of BCM atChanwa Yard. He constantlyremained present at work toensure the safety of the railwaytrack. For it Vinay ManiTripathi was honoured anddeclared ‘Corona warrior of theday’ of Varanasi division.
Chandrabhan, who wasdeployed as senior sectionengineer/ carriage and wagonAishbagh, actively contributedin getting the metre gauge(MG) coaches in Mailani andbroad gauge (BG) coaches atAishbag depot converted intoisolation coaches. Apart fromit he also got the work done ofmaintenance of rakes in thedepot and sanitisation done.Tripathi also contributed in themaking contactless handwash
system and sanitiser dispensersystem at Aishbagh depot.Apart from it he also got the jobof overhauling of coaches in theAishbagh sick line. For itChandrabhan was declared the‘Corona warrior of the day’ of
Lucknow division. SandeepKumar, working as a confi-dential assistant in the MandalHospital, Izzatnagar, besidesdischarging his responsibili-ties, contributed significantly inthe selection process of doctorsand paramedical staff engagedthere for three months in viewof coronavirus pandemic out-break. Sandeep Kumar came tothe office during rest days anddisposed of corona-relatedworks. In addition he played animportant role in the making ofpresentation regarding the pre-cautions to be taken to preventcoronavirus and dispatchingrelated guidelines to doctorsand paramedical staff. For itSandeep Kumar was declaredthe ‘Corona warrior of theDay’ of Izzatnagar division.
In order to boost themorale of its personnel during
the lockdown period the rail-way administration will begiven n future too. The railwayadministration was proud ofsuch personnel.
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In order to furtherstrengthen railway safety, theNorth Eastern Railway (NER)was constantly making newexperiments. CMS crossingwas being maintained by robot-ic method. CMS crossing is fit-ted in the station yards. It wasa point and part of the cross-ing through which the trainturns from one track to anoth-er. This component has a veryimportant role in the protect-ed operation of trains. In sucha situation its excellent main-tenance was very important,Chief Public Relations OfficerPankaj Kumar Singh said. Firstthe crossing has to be taken outfor performing this task afterthat it was fixed from outside.In it traffic was blocked once,the crossing had to be removedand another crossing had to befixed.
After the repair the oldcrossing was removed againand maintained crossing wasput for which the traffic blockwas taken again. By using thistechnology it was beingrepaired on track due to whichman power was being saved onone hand and the railway rev-enue was being saved on theother. There was no need totake traffic blocks twice usingthis method which willimprove the punctuality oftrains.
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Total 1,205 labourersreached Banda by a special
train from Surat on Thursday.After their thermal screeningwas done at platformno 2 of Banda railwaystation, they all weretaken to different quar-antine centres in Banda,Mahoba, Chitrakoot,Hamirpur andFatehpur districts. Thisinformation was givenby CommissionerChitrakootdham divi-sion Gaurav Dayalwhile talking to ‘ThePioneer’ on Thursday.Commissioner said thatout total 1,205 labourers 991belonging to Banda were sentto quarantine centres of Bandacity, Baberu, Naraini, Atarraand Pailani. The remaining214 labourers belonging to
Fatehpur, Hamirpur, Mahobaand Chitrakoot districts weresent to the quarantine centresof their respective districts.Commissioner said that theselabourers were sent to quaran-
tine centres by 46Roadways busesengaged for the task.He said that theselabourers could notcome to their respec-tive villages due tothe nationwide lock-down and requestedthe Uttar Pradeshgovernment to bringthem to their vil-lages by special train.Dayal said that hehad issued instruc-
tions to Deputy CommissionerMGNREGA to prepare the listof all such labourers who hadreturned their villages afterthe announcement of lock-down and provide them work
in their respective villages sothat their livelihood could runsmoothly. Commissioner saidthat he had also directed himto ensure that the job cards oflabourers which were morethan six months old wererenewed. Commissioner saidthat Deputy CommissionerMGNREGA had been asked toprovide best possible support tothese labourers so that theycould earn money for the sur-vival of their families.
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A 45 year-old man, RajuRajput, belonging toMajhgawan village underGirwan police station com-mitted suicide with the help ofa rope from a tree in a field atRajkot in Gujarat on May 6.SHO Girwan police stationShashi Kumar Pandey has con-
firmed the incident of suicide.He said that Raju Rajput was alabourer in Rajkot and couldnot return to his village due tolockdown. He committed sui-cide at Rajkot on May 6 as hewas depressed. His factoryowner wanted to perform hislast rites there but the col-leagues of the deceasedopposed it and demanded thathis body be sent to his nativevillage. Thus the factory ownermade necessary arrangementson Thursday and his bodywould be brought toMajhgawan village underGirwan police station. ASPLKB Pal said that he had direct-ed SHO Girwan to visit thehouse of the deceased as soonas his body reached there. ASPsaid that SHO has been direct-ed to allow only limited num-ber of persons during his lastrites as per the lockdown guide-lines.
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A75-year-old womanbelonging to Madraha vil-
lage in Badhalganj police sta-tion area, was attacked by herdaughter, grandson and otherfamily members. After thrash-ing her brutally her grandsonslit her throat with a sharp-edged weapon as a result ofwhich she died. Police havearrested the accused and recov-ered the weapons used forcommitting the murder.According to a report receivedhere, Chandravati Devi (75)lived in her maternal home. Hisinlaws’ house was situated wasin Tiwaripur village under thesame police station. She had gotland and two houses as ances-
tral property in the village. Herhusband, Anant Sahni, hadgot a house built at Madariyaintersection near the villageafter retiring from the post ofSDO in the Telephone depart-ment. The couple had sixdaughters and the eldest one,Geeta, was married in Bojhiarea of Mau. Her husband hadpassed away. Two decades agoshe came to live with her moth-er along with her three daugh-ters. The second daughter,Sangeeta was married inAzmatgarh, Azamgarh. Herhusband too had died. Shealso came to her maternalhome along with her children.But as she did not get alongwith her mother she built herown house in the village and
started living with her four sonsand a daughter. According tovillagers, Chandravati Deviwas closer to her elder daugh-ter, Geeta. and she wanted togive her entire property. Geetaused to look after her motherwell too. On the other hand,Sangeeta had taken the landand a share in the house atMadariya intersection fromher father. Now she also want-ed a share in her mother’sproperty. This dispute was goingon for years now. A quarrel tookplace between the two sides onThursday as well. ChandravatiDevi went for a walk on Fridaymorning. As soon as shereturned members of Sangeeta’sfamily who were already lyingin ambush attacked here as a
reuslt of which sustained severeinjury below her right knee andslumped on the ground. It isalleged that in the meantime,Sangeeta’s youngest son, Vipin,attacked her grandmother onher neck with a sharp-edgedweapon. As a resultChandrawati Devi died on thespot. After this Vipin and all theother accused involved in themurder escaped from there.On getting information policereached the spot and took twomembers of Sangeeta’s family tothe police station. Her bodyhad been sent for the post-mortem examination. Aftersome time the police arrestedthe main accused, Vipin, alongwith the weapon used forcommitting the murder.
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As many as 200 ration kitswere distributed among
the poor and needy in KaluKuwan, Bijari Kheda andMandi Samiti ares of Banda cityon Friday under the supervi-sion of Anurudha Tripathi onthe directive of Banda MLAPrakash Dwivedi. Those whodistributed these ration kitswere city general secretaryRohit Tiwari, Santosh Rajput and others. MLA Prakash
Dwivedi while talking to ThePioneer said that apart from it5,500 lunch packets were alsodistributed among the needyand poor on Friday in Khutla,Rahuniya, Aliganj, Atarrachungi, Chhoti Bazar, Katra,Karbala, Padmakar Chauraha,Chhawani, Station Road, PeeliKothi, Ramleela Road, NewMarket, Chhiptahari, KotwaliRoad, Mardan Naka, GularNaka, Maharana PratapChauraha, Civil Lines, Noniya
Mohal, Kyotara, Karbala Road,Muktidham Road, Roadwaysbus stand, Swaraj Colony, Jailroad, Jawaharnagar,Sarvodayanagar, Jheel kaPurwa and Kalu Kuwa. Thosewho distributed these lunchpackets were Ankit Agnihotri,Anil Singh, Rahul Dwivediand Rakesh Gupta. Dwivedisaid that his aim was that noone should be left hungry inentire Banda vidhan sabhaarea.
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A64-year-old man commit-ted suicide in Chaukia vil-
lage under the Jamalpur policestation. As per the receivedreports received here, Baliramhanged himself with the help ofan iron rod in the tin shed con-structed over the roof of hishouse. According the locals thevictim took this drastic step ashe was fed up with his pro-longed illness. After taking thebody of the deceased into hiscustody Pankaj Rai, incharge ofSherwan police outpost, com-pleted the necessary legal for-malities in this connection.The family members of the vic-tim were inconsolable whenthey heard the news. :������������� �������������� ����
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A man who was going on abicycle was knocked down
by an unidentified vehicle in anarea under the Sumerpur policestation. According to the police,Vijay Kushwaha, a resident ofBanki village, was going fromKanpur when he died in theaccident near Kundaura.
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Thursday. On seeing the shocking spectacle the boatmen along the bankof Ganga jumped into the river and rescued him. According to a reportreceived here, the youth said that he had received �2,100 for some workfrom home. His father scolded him when he told him that the moneyhad fallen some where on the way. Angry with it he took this extremestep. On getting the information, the police rushed to the spot and tookhim to the police station. The personnel released him after questioninghim. According to a report, Chandrajit Yadav (21), a resident of Katarupurvillage under the Balua police station, was given �2,100 by his father,Pankaj Yadav, for some work. After he left his house he dropped the moneyfrom his pocket some where. Thereafter when he returned home heinformed his family members about it. His father scolded him. Upsetwith it Chandrajit Yadav went to the bridge on the Ganga and jumpedinto the river from there. The boatmen present there rescued him.
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India has identified four ded-icated COVID-19 hospitals at
as many high-load Covid-19cities to be a part of “Solidarity”,the World HealthOrganisation’s (WHO) inter-national clinical trial to helpfind an effective treatment fornovel coronavirus.
These hospitals are AIIMSin Jodhpur, Apollo Hospital inChennai, B J Medical Collegeand Civil Hospital inAhmedabad and ChirayuMedical College and Hospitalin Bhopal.
Under the trial, the effec-tiveness of four drugs andstandard care on coronaviruspatients will be compared. Thefour-drug regimes that will betested on Covid-19 patientsunder the Solidarity Trial are -Remdesivir, Lopinavir,Hydroxychloroquine orChloroquine and Interferon.
The international clinicaltrial has been launched by theWHO and its partners to helpfind an effective treatment forCovid-19. India is among 100other countries participating inthe trial.
“The Solidarity Trial willcompare four treatmentoptions against standard ofcare, to assess their relativeeffectiveness against Covid-19,” according to the worldhealth agency.
It aims to rapidly discoverwhether any of the drugs in thetrial slows down disease pro-gression or improves survival.
The trial has patients enrolledin multiple countries. “Otherdrugs can be added based onemerging evidence,” it says.
A scientist from the ICMRsaid that the research wingbody plans “to initiate the trialat 20-25 clinical trial sites inmany states across the country”.
“These sites are in various
stages of being approved. Thesites require approval fromtheir institutional ethics com-mittees, and have to be trainedand updated with the DrugController General of India(DCGI) and Clinical TrialsRegistry-India (CTRI). Somesites are already registered,some are close to registration,
and many more are in theprocess of obtaining approvalfrom their ethics committee,”said the scientist.
She said that India will betesting all the four treatmentoptions. Remdesivir, which isexclusively manufactured byGilead in the US, andInterferon beta-1a, “have been
donated by WHO for trial inIndia.”
“All four treatments will betested. Patients who are willingto participate and provide theirinformed consent will be allot-ted randomly, through a com-puter programme, to any oneof the four treatment options,”she added.
Chloroquine and hydrox-ychloroquine are very closelyrelated and used to treat malar-ia and rheumatology condi-tions respectively. The ICMRhas authorised hydroxychloro-quine as prophylaxis (preven-tive treatment), recommendingit for healthcare workers andthose taking care of COVID-19patients at home.
Remdesivir is a drug with
antiviral properties that wasmanufactured by a US-basedbiotechnology company in2014, to treat Ebola cases; it wasalso tried in patients of MERSand SARS, both caused bycoronaviruses while Lopinavir/Ritonavir is a licensed treat-ment for HIV. India first usedthe Lopinavir/ Ritonavir com-bination for treatment of anItalian couple who tested pos-
itive in Rajasthan. Interferonbeta-1a is used to treat multi-ple sclerosis.
“By enrolling patients inmultiple countries, theSolidarity trial aims to rapidlydiscover whether any of thedrugs slow disease progressionor improve survival. Otherdrugs can be added based onemerging evidence,” as per theWHO website.
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COVID-19 patients showloss of the sense of smell,
a symptom which is most like-ly to occur by the third day ofinfection with the novel virus,according to researchers.
Most of these patients arealso experiencing a loss of thesense of taste, they said in theirstudy after conducting char-acteristics and symptoms of103 patients who were diag-nosed with COVID-19 over asix-week period atKantonsspital Aarau in Aarau,Switzerland.
Patients were asked onphone how many days theyhad COVID-19 symptoms andalso asked to describe the tim-ing and severity of loss orreduced sense of smell alongwith other symptoms.
At least 61 per cent of thepatients reported reduced orlost sense of smell, said AhmadSedaghat, an associate profes-
sor in the UC College ofMedicine's Department ofOtolaryngology-Head andNeck Surgery and an UCHealth physician specializingin diseases of the nose andsinuses, who was the principalinvestigator of the study.
The mean onset for reduc-tion or loss in the sense of smellwas 3.4 days.
The findings have beenpublished in the journalOtolaryngology-Head andNeck Surgery. The first authorof the research was MarleneSpeth, at the Switzerland hos-pital.
"We also found in thisstudy that the severity of theloss of smell is correlated withhow bad your other COVID-19 symptoms will be," saidSedaghat. "If the anosmia, alsoknown as loss of smell, isworse, the patients reportedworse shortness of breath andmore severe fever and cough."
Sedaghat explained that,
"Our study indicates that adecreased sense of smell maybe an indicator of patientsearly in the disease course aswell as those who may go on todevelop more severe symp-toms, like shortness of breath,later on.”
He cautioned that whilethe loss of smell is an indica-tor of COVID-19, it's not theonly factor. "When you start toexperience serious symptomsof COVID-19 which includeshortness of breath and respi-ratory distress, that's whenyou should become alarmed."The study also found thatyounger patients and womenin the study were also morelikely to experience adecreased loss of smell, saidSedaghat.
Also, about 50 per cent ofstudy patients experienced astuffy nose and 35 per centexperienced a runny nose.Sedaghat said it was importantbecause previous studies indi-
cated that these nasal symp-toms were rare in COVID-19and these symptoms wereattributed to allergy and notthe novel coronavirus.
"No one is going to diebecause of a loss of the senseof smell and it's not the symp-tom that will kill anyone,"said Sedaghat. "However, it isimportant because it helps usto identify these COVID-19patients as asymptomatic car-riers so they don't spread thedisease to others. Now we canpotentially identify them earlyduring the disease to startantiviral medications and ulti-mately maximize our ability toeffectively treat these patients."
Other co-authors of thestudy included IsabelleGengler, UC Department ofOtolaryngology-Head andNeck Surgery, along withThirza Singer-Cornelius,Michael Oberle, and SteffiBrockmeier, all fromKantonsspital Aarau.
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The Drug ControllerGeneral of India (DGCI)
has given green signal to theCouncil for Scientific andIndustrial Research (CSIR) toconduct clinical trial on drugs- 'favipiravir' and 'phytophar-maceutical' - to combat coro-navirus.
Favipiravir is a drug whichis commonly used in Japan,China and some other coun-tries, to treat influenza that hasa very broad spectrum of RNApolymerase.
The CSIR is also explor-ing Cocculus Hirsutus, anative herb used by tribes inthe country, as a biologicalmedicine or phytopharma-ceutical, which is alreadybeing tested as medicine fordengue for its efficacy to
combat COVID-19.CSIR Director General
Shekhar Mande said that theywill start the clinical trialwithin a week.
In May 2016, Sun Pharmaand International Centre forGenetic engineering andBiotechnology (ICGEB),Delhi, had signed an exclusiveagreement to develop thenovel botanical drug for treat-ment against dengue.
According to CSIR scien-tists, the antiviral propertiesof the medicine have beenfound to be effective againstvector-borne dengue diseaseas part of the initial stages ofhuman trials.
"We are already testingthe efficacy of this medicineagainst dengue and it is in theadvanced stage in phase-IIhuman trials. The mecha-
nisms of treatment are simi-lar," Mande said.
Phytopharmaceutical isessentially a herbal medicineextracted from plants. It is acocktail of different com-pounds but has a biologicalorigin from a plant. In theUnited States, the Food andDrug Administration (FDA)terms it botanical, however, inIndia the DCGI calls it phy-topharmaceutical.
Talking about Favipiravir,he said it is a safe drug and itstrial is expected to be com-pleted in about one and a halfmonth. "If the tests are suc-cessful with the expectedresults, then this drug will beavailable soon at affordableprices. A big reason for this isthat Favipiravir is an old med-icine the patent of which hasnow expired," he said.
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Expressing grief over the death of 16migrant workers, Maharashtra Chief MinisterUddhav Thackeray announced an ex-gratia ofRs 5 lakh to the next of kin of the migrant work-ers killed in the mishap. “We are in touch withthe Centre to run more special trains to take backmigrant workers to their home towns. Myrequest to workers not to lose hope andpatience by the delay in the operation of spe-cial trains,” the Chief Minister said.
“During the last three to four days, migrantworkers have been heading for their native town.So far, nearly one lakh migrants have reachedtheir homes safely. We have planned to send backall the stranded migrant labourers to their nativevillages. The Central Railway has just taken adecision to send a “Shramik Special” train fromMumbai. My appeal to migrant workers not torisk their lives as they did in Aurangabad inci-dent,” Uddhav said.
Condoling the death of 16 migrant work-ers from his State, Madhya Pradesh ChiefMinister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said: “It is ashock that cannot be described in words. I havespoken to the Railway Minister and asked for aproper probe and remedial measures.”
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Earlier this week, two BSF personnel hadsuccumbed to the viral infection.
Out of the 30 new cases of coronavirus infec-tions in the BSF, six are from Delhi and 24 fromTripura.
“All of them are under the best availablemedical care at AIIMS Jhajjar and at G B PantHospital, Agartala. All instructions and direc-tions of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare(MoHFW) are strictly being followed,” a BorderSecurity Force (BSF) spokesperson said.
Frequencies of sanitization efforts of workplaces/living barracks have been increased. Inaddition to existing apparatus of sanitization,improvised methods like water cannons are usedfor quick disinfection of buildings and estab-lishments. BSF personnel are repeatedly sensi-tized to firmly adhere to preventive protocols,added the spokesperson.
In the Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP),12 new cases of Covid-19 infections werereported in the last 24 hours. All cases are fromunits in Delhi. With this the total number ofcases in ITBP ranks sands at 94.
Covid-19 infection management of fourITBP personnel is being done at AIIMS, Jhajjar,Haryanam two at Safdarjung Hospital here and88 are admitted at CAPF Referral Hospital,Greater Noida which is also managing 15 BSFand one each from CISF and CRPF.
In addition to this, three family members ofITBP are also undergoing treatment and theircondition is stable.
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During the hearing, advocate Sai Deepak,appearing for petitioner Guruswamy Nataraj,argued that there are 70,000 liquor vendsacross the country and over five crore peoplehave till now purchased liquor from these shops.
He said that due to social distancing normsnot being followed at the liquor vends and shops,there has been rise in Covid-19 cases. Deepakcontended that the results, which have beenachieved in over a month-long nationwide lock-down will be nullified as the coronavirusgraph, which was earlier flattening, is now show-ing a sharp rise. He sought issuance of freshMHA guidelines or directions for prohibitionof sale of liquor at vends and shops throughdirect contact during the lockdown period ortill the National Disaster Management Authorityannounces India to be Covid-19 free.
To this, the bench said that discussion is
already going on for allowing online sale ofliquor or its home delivery. Deepak said he onlywanted that life of a common man should notbe affected due to this direct sale from vends andMHA should issue clarificatory guidelines andstates should abide by it.
The bench then directed the state to con-sider online sales or home delivery of liquor dur-ing the lockdown period and disposed of thematter. The plea, filed through advocateAnindita Mitra, said that media reports indicatethat social distancing norms at and around theliquor vends/shops are being given a completego-by in these areas, leading to alarming situ-ations.
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All the evacuees will have to serve 14 daysquarantine/isolation period before they can goand join their family members.
The occupant at the hotel facility shall onlybe kept in an isolation facility, if the cases areclinically assessed to be pre-symptomatic or verymild.
Such facility that opts for isolation will haveseparate earmarked areas for keeping suspectcases and confirmed cases and will ensure nointer-mingling of these two categories, as per theguidelines.
The contact/patient opting for such quar-antine/isolation facility will have to give anundertaking promising such as downloading ofArogya Setu, the Government app to keep atrack on his/her health status.
Also, owner will have to ensure that thequarantined/isolated persons are not allowed tomeet visitors though they can talk on phone, saidthe official pointing out the need for imple-menting social distancing norms.
The facility owner will give an undertakingto follow the above SOP and to have adequatemanpower including the above mentionedhealth workers as per the prescribed protocol.
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Tamil Nadu had earlier dropped out of thetop five list but a recent surge in new infectionshas put it among the top five once again.
The top five States together account for 75per cent of the active cases nationally, and thetop ten states account for 94 per cent of all cases.
Over the past seven days, Punjab, TamilNadu, and Maharashtra have seen the highestspike in cases among the top ten states with mostcases. These three States account for 75 per centof all the new active cases in this period. Overthe same period, fatalities have surged the mostin West Bengal, Gujarat, and Rajasthan. Thesethree States account for 50 per cent of all Covid-related deaths over the past seven days.
So far, 512 districts have confirmed cases inthe country. Mumbai (11,394 cases) has report-ed the most number of cases nationally amongall districts, followed by Ahmedabad (5,260) inGujarat. Chennai (3046) in Tamil Nadu, Pune(2,129) in Maharashtra are the other leading dis-tricts. These top five districts now account for42 per cent of confirmed cases in the country.
Indore (1,699) in Madhya Pradesh, NewDelhi (1,458), Jaipur (1,097) in Rajasthan,Jodhpur (867) in Rajasthan, and Kolkata (810)in West Bengal are the other high-burden dis-tricts which figure in the list of top ten districts.
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A bench of Justices RF Nariman and SuryaKant, hearing the matter through video con-ferencing, passed the orders on receiving a let-ter from the special judge seeking extension oftime granted to him for completing the trial inthe politically sensitive case.
“Having taken the letter dated May 6, 2020,
into consideration, we extend the period to com-plete evidence and deliver judgment till August31, 2020. We are cognizant of the fact that ShriYadav is making all efforts in order that the trialreaches a just conclusion. However, given theoriginal time frame and the extended timeframe, the effort must now be to complete theproceedings and deliver judgment latest byAugust 31, 2020,” the bench said in its order.
On July 19 last year the top court had askedthe special judge to deliver the verdict withinnine months, which was to end this April. Thebench on Friday said that despite nine monthshaving expired from the aforesaid date (July 19),“we still find, on a perusal of the letter dated May6, 2020, written by Shri Yadav, Special Judge thateven the evidence is not yet completed”.
It said, “We may indicate that video con-ferencing facilities are available and should beused by Shri Yadav in order to complete all evi-dence as well as applications that may be filedin that behalf. It is up to Shri Yadav to controlthe proceedings in accordance with law so thatinordinate delay that is beyond the time framethat we now give is no longer breached”.
Besides Advani, Joshi and Uma Bharti, theaccused against whom conspiracy charge wasinvoked in the case by the Supreme Court onApril 19, 2017, include former Rajasthan gov-ernor Kalyan Singh, BJP MP Vinay Katiar andSadhvi Ritambara. Three other high-profileaccused Giriraj Kishore, and Vishwa HinduParishad leader Ashok Singhal and Vishnu HariDalmia died during trial and the proceedingsagainst them have been abated.
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Pankaja had created a stir in the BJP inDecember last year ahead of her late fatherGopinath Munde’s 70th birth anniversary byjoining hands with Khadse, announcing her res-ignation from the party’s core group and dar-ing the party leadership to sack her from theparty. Even Khadse has also made no bonesabout the manner in which he has been side-lined in the party on December 2 last year, aftermeeting BJP leader Pankaja Munde, Khadse hadmade a shocking allegation after meeting herthat Pankaja and his daughter Rohini Khadsein the recent State Assembly polls were defeat-ed due to a conspiracy hatched by some partyleaders.
Meanwhile, all the four candidates nomi-nated by the BJP filed their papers for the May21 Council polls, on Friday. The last date of fil-ing nominations is May 11.
The biennial elections have been necessi-tated by the retirement on April 24 of nine mem-bers Neelam Diwakar Gorhe (Shiv Sena),Hemant Prabhakar Takle, Anand RajendraThakur (both NCP) Smita Uday Wagh, PrithvirajSayajirao Deshmukh (both BJP), KiranJagannath Pawaskar, Arunbhau Janardan Adasad(both NCP), Chandrakant Batesing Raghuvanshi(Congress) and Harisingh Narsu Rathod (BJP).
If the May 21 Council poll has assumedpolitical significance, it is because Chief MinisterUddhav Thackeray is contesting the election.
Uddhav, who was sworn in as the ChiefMinister on November 28 last year, is not amember of either of the Houses of the StateLegislature. As provided under the Constitution,Uddhav will in the normal course have to getelected to either of the Houses on or before May27, the six-month deadline for his becoming amember of either of the Houses.
Each party needs 29 votes to ensure its can-didates elected to the Upper House of the StateAsssembly.
Though it does not have enough strengthto ensure the election of all its four candidate,the BJP is taking chances in the hope that therewould be some cross voting in the police. TheBJP has a strength of 105 in the 288-memberState Assembly. But, it needs 116 votes to ensurethat all four its candidates are elected.
On its part, the NCP has nominated AmolMitkari and Shashikant Shinde as its candidates
for the poll, while the Shiv Sena will nominateUddhav Thackeray and Dr Neelam Gorhe, whois the current deputy chairman in legislativecouncil. With a strength of 44 members in theState Assembly, the Congress can have one ofits candidate get elected in the normal course.After the election of its candidate, the Congresswill have 15 surplus votes in its kitty.
It remains to be seen if the Congress willfield a second candidate in the poll, consider-ing that it will 14 more votes to ensure the vic-tory of its second candidate.
In the event of the Congress not fielding thesecond candidate, Uddhav Thackeray and eightother candidates in the fray will get elected unop-posed to the Council. If the Congress forces anelection by fielding a second candidate, then thepoll will produce an interesting result - thoughthe election will have bearing on Uddhavwhose election has become a foregone conclu-sion.
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Singh said with the completion of this cru-cial road link, the decades old dreams and aspi-rations of local people and pilgrims have beenfulfilled. He expressed confidence that local tradeand economic growth in the region wouldreceive a boost with the operationalisation of thisroadway.
Recalling that pilgrimage to Kailash-Manasarovar is sacred and revered by Hindus,Buddhists and Jains, the Minister said with thecompletion of this road link, the yatra could becompleted in one week compared to two-threeweeks it took earlier. The road originates fromGhatiabagarh and terminates at Lipulekh Pass,the gateway to Kailash-Mansarovar.
In this 80 kilometre road, the altitude risesfrom 6,000 to 17,060 feet. With the completionof this project, the arduous trek through treach-erous high-altitude terrain can now be avoid-ed by the pilgrims of Kailash-MansarovarYatra. At present, the travel to Kailash-Mansarovar takes around two to three weeksthrough Sikkim or Nepal routes. Lipulekhroute had a trek of 90 km through high altitudeterrain and the elderly yatris faced lot of diffi-culties.
The other two road ways via Sikkim andNepal entailed approximately 20 per cent landjourneys on Indian roads and 80 per cent landjourneys in China. With the opening ofGhatiabgarh-Lipulekh road, this ratio has beenreversed. Now, pilgrims to Mansarovar will tra-verse 84 per cent land journeys on Indian roadsand only 16 per cent land journeys in China.This is truly historic, commented Singh.
The event was attended by Chief of DefenceStaff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, Army ChiefGeneral M M Naravane, Defence Secretary AjayKumar, Lok Sabha Member of Parliament fromAlmora (Uttarakhand) Ajay Tamta and seniorofficials of the Ministry of Defence and the BRO.
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Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told thebench, also comprising Justices SK Kaul and BRGavai, that all the stranded migrants arescreened while boarding the trains and onlythose who are found asymptomatic are allowedto proceed.
Mehta referred to the April 29 order of theMinistry of Home Affairs and the guidelinesissued thereafter as per which moving personswould be screened and those found asympto-matic would be allowed to proceed.
“We are of the view that the order of theGovernment of India dated April 29, 2020 pro-vides ample protection. It appears that before theHigh Court the order of the Government ofIndia dated April 29, 2020 and the guidelineswere neither brought into the notice nor wereunder challenge,” the bench said in its order.
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Charting out several sug-gestions for the Centre,
former Congress chief RahulGandhi on Friday said theGovernment needs to spell outa strategy to exit the nationallockdown, immediatelyannounce a financial packageand implement a decentralisedapproach to deal with thesocio-economic fallout of thecovid-19 pandemic.
Rahul also stated the coun-try needed not just a "strongPM" but also "strong ChiefMinisters". The country wouldlose the coroanavirus fight if itwas restricted only to the PM'sOffice, he said.
"If we keep this fight onlyin PMO, we will lose; PMmust devolve power," theCongress leader said in a videointeraction with the media.
Prime Minister NarendraModi, he said, had a style ofworking and that "may beeffective" in other circum-stances.
"It may work for him, butwhen the country is facingsuch an unprecedented crisis,we don't need just one strongPM... we need many, manystrong leaders, strong CMs(Chief Ministers) and strongDMs (District Magistrates).We need a strong patrioticIndian leader at the panchay-at level, district level, state
level... we need to tackle theproblem and finish it at a locallevel, not at the national level,"he said.
"We have been 45 days inlockdown now and we arebeginning to run in a little bitof problem. There is a verystrong feeling that we need to,without any delay, get packagefor MSMEs (micro, small andmedium enterprises), getmoney in the hand of poorIndians and have a strategy formigrants as well as start prepar-ing for exit from lockdown,"Rahul Gandhi said in videopress conference.
His comments come at atime when states have beendemanding a relief and stimu-lus package to mitigate theeconomic damage caused bythe most stringent lockdown inthe world. India is now in thethird phase of the nationwidelockdown, which started on 25March.
"The Government’s gen-eral style is to not engage withopposition and we have accept-ed that. We are doing what isour work. We feel four or fivethings are immediately neededincluding a financial package,we have made a clear frame-work for MSMEs and incomesupport and suggesting 200days of work under MGN-REGS (Mahatma GandhiEmployment GuaranteeScheme)," he said.
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Describing Congress leaderRahul Gandhi’s comment
asking the Modi-Governmentto be “transparent” about itsstrategy to counter coron-avirus post-May 17 and“devolve power” to States as“immature” and “il l-informed”, the BJP on Fridaysaid that the Prime MinisterNarendra Modi has been tak-ing suggestions from all theChief Ministers and quotedNobel laureate AbhijitBanerjee as praising theCentre’s direct money trans-fer to poor who may be fac-ing problems during theongoing lockdown in thecountry. Seeking Rahul to actwith "wisdom and practicali-ty" and "fight the biggestcalamity in human historyunder the able guidance" ofNarendra Modi, BJPspokesperson and Rajya Sabhamember Sudhanshu Trivedisaid Government is working in“full harmony” with the Statesand Prime Minister has con-sulted representatives of
almost all sectors in the coun-try, including trade, business,art , sports or religion.
Trevedi said the bestexample of freedom accordedto states to act in the pandemicis that even before theannouncement of the lock-down by the Centre on March24 four states -Punjab, Odisha,Telangana, Maharashtra- haddeclared lockdown in theirrespective States.
"Ever youthful Congressleader who is about to com-plete a half century now atleast should have some wis-dom and practicality", Trivedisaid referring to Rahul’s com-ment on transparency anddevolution of power to thestates in respect of devisingstrategies in respect to thepandemic.
He said the ModiGovernment has been verymuch receptive to suggestionsfrom the opposition but itshould be constructive andadded that it is very typicaland characteristic of Gandhi tospeak before media withoutstudying facts.
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Congress leader inParliament Adhir
Chowdhury has quoted UnionHome Minister as saying thatBengal Government is not tak-ing enough interest in gettingback its migrating workersstuck in various parts of thecountry.
The Congress MP fromBehrampore has said that hehad taken up the issue ofBengali migrant workers
requesting him to arrange fortheir return home.
“I have talked to UnionHome Minister Amit Shah. Itis his responsibility to giverelief to the people stuck in dif-ferent states owing to the lock-down and hold consultationswith the respective StateGovernments in this regard,” hesaid adding the Home Ministerhad assured him of holdingtalks with Bengal ChiefMinister Mamata Banerjee.
While the States like Uttar
Pradesh and Bihar were facil-itating the return of theirrespective citizens working inother States the BengalGovernment was not pursuingthe matter, Chowdhury quot-ing Shah said.
Bengal too has more thana lakh workers stuck in variousparts of the country.
“The State Governmentcan arrange for quarantinefacilities after bringing themigrant labourers and otherpeople back. It can also ask for
corona-negative certificatesfrom the states where they arestranded before allowing themto return,” the former RailwayMinister said.
Bengal had already broughtabout 4,500 people includingpilgrims and students strand-ed at Ajmer and Kota inRajasthan --- some by bus andothers by train.
Meanwhile, the dreadedcorona virus crept into theIndian Museum taking its tollon a Central Industrial Security
Force.A CISF Sub-inspector
posted at the Indian Museumon Friday died due to thecorona virus. The victim iden-tified as Asit Kumar Saha wasundergoing treatment inCalcutta Medical College andHospital.
The other 50 CISF per-sonnel in the same unit whocame in contact with him havebeen quarantined, the officialssaid adding the Museum staffhad also been isolated.
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Hundreds of 'distraught'workers engaged by the
Chenab Textile Mills (CTM) inKathua district on Fridayblocked the Jammu-PathankotNational Highway and stagedprotest demonstrations allegingnon-payment of full monthlysalaries for last two months.
Before stepping out of thepremises, agitated workers ran-sacked offices and pelted stoneson the private security of the tex-tile mill. A police gypsy was alsodamaged by the protesters andturned upside down to disruptthe traffic on the highway.
To contain the angry work-ers, police resorted to use of tear-gas shells. Before the situationwent out of control, senior offi-cers of Kathua police, led by SSPKathua, Shailendra Mishrarushed to the spot and the work-
ers were pacified to stop demon-strations. SSP, Shailendra Mishrahandled the situation himself byspeaking in local language andsuccessfully dispersed the crowd.
Large number of workers,who hailed from Uttar Pradesh,Bihar, Chattisgarh, MadhyaPradesh alleged they have beenstaying here in the factorypremises even during this lock-down period but they haven'tbeen given their full salaries.
They charged, despiteappeals made by the PM Modinot to hold salaries of workers,the management of the ChenabTextil Mills have not been adher-ing to the diktat.
Few women workers, withtheir faces covered with masks,told TV reporters, they havebeen paid their salaries @ Rs 150per day.
"We were handed over a pal-try sum, we really don't know
how to survive with this amountin our pockets".Few other work-ers claimed, the managementpaid an equal amount to all theworkers which resulted in fric-tion as those who were workingdemanded more wages. SSP,Shailendra Mishra and DeputyCommissioner Kathua OPBhagat later directed the Millauthorities to follow the guide-lines issued by the govt andresolve the issue of pendingpayment of workers. The workers were alsodirected to enroll themselves ifthey wished to return home atthe special counters inside themill premises. Meanwhile, a FIRno 121/2020 u/s307,336,427,332,353/188/269/270/147 IPC was registered by thepolice against the employeesand workers of Chenab TextileMills for indulging in violenceand damaging police property.
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There was no reprieve forTamil Nadu from the coro-
navirus pandemic ravaging therest of the country and theworld as 600 more persons test-ed positive on Friday. Thistook the number of coron-avirus patients in the State to6,009, according to the medicalbulletin released by the depart-ment of health and family wel-fare on Friday evening.
In a major development,the Madras High Court onFriday ordered the closure of all
TASMAC liquor shops whichopened on Thursday after a 45day close down. But tipplershave been given the liberty tobook their brands by onlineand this would be delivered attheir doorsteps. Thursday andFriday saw unprecedented anduncontrollable crowd in frontof the liquor shops giving a goby to the norms of social dis-tancing and wearing of facemasks.
As has been the pattern forthe last one week, Chennairecorded 399 coronavirus pos-itive patients making the total
number of persons afflictedwith the virus in the metropo-lis 3,043, the highest in theState. The death toll due to thepandemic reached 40 withthree more persons succumb-ing on Friday.
Though the number ofpersons testing positive forCovid-19 is increasing by thehour, veteran medical doctorsand contagious disease spe-cialists are of the view that therewas no need to panic. “Thenumbers will increase furtherall over the world and TamilNadu cannot remain outside
this phenomenon,” said Dr KKolandasway, who was thedirector of public health andpreventive medicine to theGovernment of Tamil Nadu tillApril 30, 2020. After retirementfrom the office, DrKolandaswamy has been work-ing as advisor to theGovernment on issues relatedto infectious diseases and pan-demic.
Speaking to The Pioneerabout the release issued by theGovernment on Friday, DrKolandaswamy, with more thanthree decades of research and
diagnostic experience said theshooting up of the numbers isa blessing in disguise for thepeople.
“This will help in strength-ening the immunity power ofthe younger as well as oldergenerations. There is no needto be upset or panic because ofthe present scenario. We haveto observe the cardinal rules ofthe game to tame coronavirusand that is to wear the facemask, wash hands and feet andof course, maintain the socialdistance,” said DrKolandaswamy.
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On the 100th day of thecoronavirus pandemic
which fell on Friday, Keralacould look back with a sense ofsatisfaction to the path it cov-ered during the journey tofreedom from the disease. “Thecoronavirus curve has beenflattened in the State. The Statehad to face two waves of attacksince January 30, when the firstcase was reported. We havesuccessfully encountered andneutralized the pandemic,” saidPinarayi Vijayan, ChiefMinister on Friday whileaddressing the media.
“Kerala has shown greatcourage and resolve. Foughttwo waves and is ready if thereis another wave. Years fromnow, we should be able to lookback and take pride in how weresponded to this,” Vijayansaid in a social media postingon Friday. Eight of the 14 dis-tricts in Kerala have beendeclared as coronavirus free byThursday evening.
Even as the State has effec-tively controlled the spread ofthe contagious disease with asurveillance mechanism worthemulating by other States, theGovernment of Kerala isalready into another action,receiving the expatriates fromWest Asian countries as part ofthe Vande Bharat Mission. Aspart of evacuating theKeralaites who were held up inGulf countries, Air India beganits mission to bring back allthose who have registered theirnames with the ministry ofexternal affairs.
Late Thursday night two
aircraft with 363 passengers onboard landed at Kochi andKozhikode airports. All pas-sengers are being accommo-dated at the quarantine homesarranged by the StateGovernment for a period ofseven days after which thosewho are diagnosed free ofcoronavirus would be allowedto go home while those whotest positive would be hospi-talized.
V Muraleedharan, ministerof state for external affairs, saidthat all expatriates who are reg-istered with the ministry wouldbe brought home as part of theVande Bharat Mission.
“A mammoth total of 1.9lakh names from Kerala havebeen registered in the portal.We will bring back all of themand have inducted Air India’sfleet for the purpose,” saidMuraleedharan.
Dr B Rajeev, leadingayurvedic physician, describedKerala’s surveillance mecha-nism as the secret behind thesuccessful handling of the coro-navirus pandemic. “Years ago,the Government of Kerala hadappointed Dr T Jacob John,professor of virology, ChristianMedical College, Vellore, as thechairman of a high powercommittee of doctors to forti-fy the State from contagiousand infectious diseases. Thestrategy is paying off nowbecause Prof John has put inplace a network of surveil-lance with which any aberra-tions in the public health wouldbe known to the Taluk, Districtand State level medical frater-nity,” explained Dr Rajeev.
Except for an oversight by
the medical team posted atKochi Airport which resultedin a few passengers from WestAsia jumping the security cor-don and escaping to Kasargod,the entire scanning and scruti-ny operations were foolproof inthe State. The StateGovernment has arrangedquarantine and isolation facil-ities at the international air-ports at Kochi, Kozhikode,Thiruvananthapuram andKannur and has finalized anaction plan to ensure that theirwould not be any shortage ofbeds and facilities for theincoming passengers. Theflights too have been scheduledin such a way that those whoreturn to the State would notface any difficulties for want ofspace. Hundreds of doctorsand para medical staff havebeen deployed in the airportsto make Vande Bharat Missiona smooth operation.
The kind of work being putup by P M Basheer, a munici-pal councillor in Perumbavoorspeaks volumes about theinvolvement of a people’s rep-resentative in countering thepandemic.
“There are 400 houses inmy ward and I have beentasked as a nodal officer toensure that all senior citizens inthe ward got medical care.Similarly, we prepared a list ofpeople in the ward who wereput into trouble by the lock-down which affected theirlivelihood. It was my responsi-bility to see to it that they andtheir families get three squaremeals a day during the ;lock-out,” said Basheer, an activist ofthe SDPI.
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Amid an unabated increasein the number of Covid-19
triggered deaths and infec-tions in the metropolis, theMaharashtra Government onFriday shunted out MumbaiMunicipal CommissionerPraveen Pardeshi and appoint-ed Urban DevelopmentDepartment's PrincipalSecretary Iqbal Chahal in hisplace.
A day after a video show-ing at least four bodies wrappedin black plastic lying on bedsnext to Covid-19 patientsundergoing treatment at theBMC-run LTMG Hospital atSion in north-central Mumbai
went viral, the state governmentcarried out a major bureaucraticreshuffle in the state.
Under the reshuffle,Pardeshi –a 1985 batch IASofficer –was moved out fromhis position of MumbaiMunicipal Commissioner andposted as Additional ChiefSecretary (1), UrbanDevelopment Department atMantralaya in south Mumbai.
In an apparent effort tobring in some new ideas to dealwith the worsening Coronavirussituation in the metropolis, thestate government appointed I SChahal, a 1989 IAS officer whowas earlier Principal Secretary ofUrban DevelopmentDepartment, Mantralaya, as the
Mumbai MunicipalCommissioner.
In two other appointmentsaimed at strengthening theBMC set, the state govern-ment appointed Mrs AshwiniBhide, a 1995 batch IAS officer,and Sanjeev Jaiswal, a 1996 IASofficer, as Additional MunicipalCommissioners in the BMC.The two IAS officers will helpChahal in his task.
The sudden transfer ofPardeshi from the high-profileMumbai MunicipalCommissioner’s post, a post heheld for one year. Prior to hisappointment as the MumbaiMunicipal Commissioner,Pardeshi had worked asAdditional chief secretary to
former chief ministerDevendra Fadnavis.
Known for his administra-tive prowess, Pardeshi hadmade a mark for himself byefficiently handling the situa-tion of arising out a massiveearthquake at Latur inMarathwada region onSeptember 30, 1993, in whichmore than 10,000 people werekilled and 30000 others injured.
Among other assignmentsPardeshi had handled was asenior leadership position heworked in the United Nationsfor seven years in Geneva: Heheaded the NDP Geneva PostConflict Recovery Unit inGeneva (2002 to 2005, and wasthe Senior Co-ordinator,
United Nations InternationalStrategy for Disaster Reduction,Geneva for oversight overregional offices of Africa, Asia,Latin America and Europe,for policies on mainstreamingdisaster reduction in develop-ment programmes.
Meanwhile, in otherbureaucratic transfers, ManojSaunik, a 1987 IAS officer,who was earlier working asAdditional Chief Secretary,Pubic Works Department, hasbeen posted as AdditionalChief Secretary (Finance),Finance Department,Mantralaya, Mumbai.
A L Jarhad, a 1997 IAS offi-cer who was working asAdditional Municipal
Commissioner, BrihanmumbaiMunicipal Corporation,Mumbai has been posted asSecretary (R&R), Revenue andForest Department,Mantralaya, Mumbai.
Mrs Jayshree Bhoj, a 2003IAS officer, who was AdditionalMunicipal Commissioner,Brihanmumbai MunicipalCorporation, Mumbai has beenposted as Managing Director,MSSIDC, Mumbai
A 2003 IAS officer, K DNimbalkar – who was workingas Secretary (R&R), Revenueand Forest Department,Mantralaya, Mumbai has beenposted as Secretary, PublicWorks Department,Mantralaya, Mumbai.
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Panaji: Factories in Goa havebeen allowed to extend theirwork shifts to 12 hours fromthe existing 8 hours, accord-ing to a government notifica-tion on Friday, citing lack ofadequate labour as the causefor the extension.
"There are restrictions onmovement of workers leadingto shortage of workers there-by causing the factories todeal with an exceptional pres-sure of work.
There is a need for relax-ing certain provisions of TheFactories Act, 1948 therebyextending the working hoursfor optimum utilization of theworkers in the factories which have been allowed tooperate during the shutdown,"the notification issued byChief Inspector of Factoriesand Boilers Vivek Marathesaid.
The notification also saidthat the extension of the workshift would enable factories toovercome the handicap oflabour shortage.
As part of the notification,factories may also extendworking hours to sixty hoursin a week and the changeswould be effective up to July 31.
Goa Chief MinisterPramod Sawant as well ascaptains of industry and busi-ness, have urged migrantworkers not to leave Goa fortheir home state despite theCovid-19 pandemic, even asmore than 80,000 workershave registered with stategovernment agencies seekingreturn home.
Sawant has also said thatthe exodus of workers, wouldseverely impact several indus-trial sectors in Goa. IANS
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Taking up the case suo motoon the Vishakhapatnam
gas leak incident, The NationalGreen Tribunal (NGT) onFriday ordered LG Polymers todepot Rs.50 crore as interimamount for damage to life. TheGreen Tribunal also issuednotice to Centre, CentralPollution Control Board andformed a six-member com-mittee comprising Justice BSeshasayana Reddy to probethe incident and submit areport before May 18.Meanwhile the CabinetSecretary headed committedalso assessed the relief andrehabilitation on the incidentwhich 11 people were killedand 1,000 exposed to it.
"Having regard to theprima facie material regardingthe extent of damage to life,public health and environ-ment, we direct LG PolymersIndia Pvt Limited to forthwithdeposit an initial amount of Rs50 crore, with the DistrictMagistrate, Vishakhapatnam,which will abide by further
orders of this Tribunal. Theamount is being fixed havingregard to the financial worth ofthe company and the extent ofthe damage caused," the benchheaded by Adarsh Kumar Goelsaid.
NGT also issued notice toAndhra Pradesh StatePollution Control Board,Vishakapatnam DistrictMagistrate and Union Ministryof Environment and the com-pany LG Polymers IndiaPrivate Ltd.
Styrene is classified as ahazardous and toxic chemical,the usage of which requiresonsite and off-site emergencyplans to prevent any damage.However, there appears to bea failure to comply with thesaid rules, said the NGT bench.
Meanwhile, the NationalCrisis ManagementCommittee (NCMC) underthe chairmanship of CabinetSecretary, Rajiv Gauba metfor the second successive dayto review the situation arisingout of the gas leak that tookplace in Vishakhapatnam onThursday early morning.
“Chief Secretary of AndhraPradesh briefed the Committeeon the ground situation aswell as the actions taken bythem after the incident toevacuate people and to containthe leakage in the plant. It wasinformed that all efforts werebeing taken by them to preventany further emissions from thetanks. Issues related to thelong term impact of the gas onhealth and on the quality ofwater and air were also dis-cussed,” said Ministry of HomeAffairs (MHA) said in a state-ment.
Cabinet Secretary tookstock of the current situation,preparedness, rescue and reliefoperations and directed that allassistance, as maybe requiredby the state, be provided tomitigate the situation.Consultations between nation-al and international experts onChemical Safety and Industrialprocesses and the officials onsite would be carried outthrough video conferencing,and a team of such expertswould also be flown in as perrequirements.
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Only 53,617 tons pulses dis-tributed to ration card
holders under the PublicDistribution System so far dur-ing the coronavirus lockdown.
Union Food Minister RamVilas Paswan on Friday blamedthat State Governments arenot doing enough in free dis-tribution of pulses to rationcard holders under thePradhan Mantri Garib AnnaYojana (PMGAY) during theCOVID-19 lockdown.
Paswan said that as manyas 20 states and union territo-ries are getting ready for imple-mentation of the ambitiousration card portability service'One Nation-One Ration Card'from June 1.
According to Paswan, theFood Corporation of India(FCI) has loaded a total num-ber of 2641 rakes (includingwheat and rice) towards thisend and the approx quantityloaded is 73.95 lakh metric tons(LMT) (55.38 LMT rice and18.57 LMT wheat).
Nearly a month's supply ofpulses has already been dis-patched to several states andunion territories, but they havemanaged to distribute only53,617 tonnes to ration cardholders under the PDS he saidand urged them to speed up theprocess in the interest of poorpeople.
It may be noted that thegovernment has decided todistribute free 1 kg pulses toeach PDS householder for threemonths till June under thePMGAY to ensure nutritionsecurity of the poor during thelockdown period.
"Distribution of pulses isthe responsibility of the stategovernments. It has not been
easy for us to get the raw puls-es milled and transported tostates/UTs in these difficulttimes. States should also putextra efforts to ensure at leastwhatever pulses have been sentto them are distributed viaPDS," Paswan said. He said thedelay in supply and distributionof pulses is due to late intima-tion by States/UTs on theirchoice of particular pulses vari-ety such as Tur Dal, UradWhole, Moong Whole, Chanahole, Chana Dal and Masur Dalbesides the logistics involved intransportation from differentStates during the lockdown.
The monthly allocation ofpulses is 1.95 lakh tonnes underthe PMGAY. Of this, 1.81 lakhtonnes of pulses have alreadyreached to states/union terri-tories so far, out of which only53,617 tonnes have been dis-tributed to beneficiaries, hesaid. "There is enough pulsesstock with the government.We are milling and providingit to states. Cannot states takethe responsibility of distribu-tion of pulses for three monthsat least? They cannot expect usto take care of distribution instates," Paswan said.
For instance, about 6,610tonnes of pulses have beentransported to Bihar whichplans to distribute under PDSfrom May 9. The entire month-ly requirement of 1,750 tonnesof pulses have been given toDelhi, while half of the quotaof 15,419 tonnes have beengiven to Chhattisgarh, headded. Currently, the govern-ment has about 14.48 lakhtonnes of pulses in its buffer, ofwhich tur dal is about 5.50 lakhtonnes, urad 2.60 lakh tonnes,chana 2.72 lakh tonnes, moong1.20 lakh tonnes and masur0.84 lakh tonnes.
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Maintaining the tempo ofmodernisation of the
armed forces, the DefenceMinistry on Friday signed acontract worth over Rs 1,200crore with Tata Power SED forupgradation of 37 air fields ofthe IAF, Navy and CoastGuards. Defence MinisterRajnath Nath had earlierapproved the project,knownas Phase Two of Modernisationof Air Field Infrastructure(MAFI).
The second phase is a fol-low-on programme based onMAFI Phase-I that includedupgradation of 30 airfields ofIAF. The airfields modernisedunder MAFI Phase-I have beenof immense benefit to bothmilitary and civil users.
The project is a turnkeyproject that includes installa-tion and commissioning ofmodern airfield equipment likeCat-II Instrument LandingSystem (ILS) and Cat II AirField Lightning System (AFLS).The modern equipmentaround the airfield will also be
directly connected to AirTraffic Control (ATC), therebyproviding excellent control ofthe airfield systems to the airtraffic controllers, defence min-istry officials said here. Theupgradation of navigationalaids and infrastructure underthis project would enhancethe operational capability byfacilitating air operations ofmilitary and civil aircrafts evenin poor visibility and adverseweather condition whileenhancing aerospace safety.
The contract will provideimpetus to the domestic indus-try in the prevailing situation.The project will give a boost toover 250 Micro, Small andMedium Enterprises which willbe directly benefited frombeing involved in execution ofvarious activities of this project,they said. This contract wouldaid in infusing the much-need-ed capital in the market andboost employment generationin such fields as communica-tions, avionics, informationtechnology, apart from civil andelectrical equipment and con-struction.
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There has been a massivesurge in the sale of products
of Khadi and Village IndustriesCommission which achievedits highest-ever turnover of�88,887 crore in 2019-20. Theturnover of Khadi registered agrowth of 31 per cent from�3215.13 crore in 2018-19, to� 4211.26 crore in 2019-20.
"The turnover of VillageIndustries products reached to�84,675.39 crore in 2019-20,registering a growth of over 19per cent from the previous year,i.e. 2018-19, which was at�71,077 crore," the Khadi andVillage Industries Commission(KVIC) stated.
KVIC Chairman VinaiKumar Saxena saidhe wasexpecting higher results, butseveral exhibitions planned inthe months of February andMarch were cancelled, and theyear-end clearance sale couldnot take place.
"As a result ofGovernment''s sustained effortsto revive the Khadi industryand the Prime Minister''srepeated appeals from variousplatforms including his radioaddress ''Mann ki Baat'', toadopt Khadi as a necessity ofdaily life, the KVIC has beencontinuously going up thegrowth trajectory," he said.
While the production ofkhadi, the most eco-friendlyproduct of sustainable devel-opment, has more than dou-bled in the last five years (since2015-16), the sales have goneup by nearly three times dur-ing the same period, KVICsaid.
Similarly, the village indus-try sector has also seen phe-nomenal growth, with pro-
duction and sales going up bynearly 100 per cent in the lastfive years, it added.
Khadi production since2015-16 has grown at the aver-age of 19.45 per cent perannum, which was merely 6.25per cent during the previousgovernment from 2004 to 2014,KVIC said.
Similarly, khadi''s sale grewexponentially at the annualrate of 27.6 per cent, whichremained as low as 6.65 percent from 2004-2014.
According to figures, theproduction of khadi whichwas pegged at �1,066 crore in2015-16, shot up to �2,292.44crore in the year 2019-20, reg-istering an increase of over 115per cent.
The sale of khadi fabricproducts increased by 179 percent from �1,510 crore in 2015-16 to a whopping Rs 4,211.26crore in 2019-20.
While village industriesproducts worth �33,425 crorewere produced in 2015-16;production went up by 96 percent to �65,393.40 crore in2019-20.
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The gas leak incident nearVisakhapatnam in the early hoursof May 7 has led to the death ofmore than 10 people and hospi-talisation of over 200. According
to the district authorities, the gas was con-firmed to be either styrene or vinyl benzene.As an intermediary, styrene is known as PVCgas and is used for the manufacture of insu-lation material, plastic, rubber, pipes, fibreglass and also for the packaging industry.According to the World Health Organisation(WHO), it is the 12th most used chemicalin the world. It is to the credit of the districtauthorities and the National DisasterResponse Force (NDRF), who reacted quick-ly, that fatalities remained low. Around 500kg of chemicals were airlifted from Gujaratto neutralise the effect of the gas well in time.
Separately, with the direct interventionof the United Nations (UN), the bar for inves-tigation of the Vizag gas leak case has not onlybeen raised but has also been virtually inter-nationalised. The spokesperson for the UNSecretary-General António Guterres,Stéphane Dujarric, said, “We obviouslysend our condolences to the victims and hopefor the quick recovery of those who have beenimpacted. These kinds of incidents shouldbe fully investigated by the local authorities.”
While detailed investigations wouldundoubtedly be undertaken, prima facie, itappears that the protocols necessary for therecommencement of operations after the 45-day lockdown was lifted were not followed.When the accident took place early in themorning, only a handful of casual workerswere present. Elements of negligence at mul-tiple levels are more than obvious. For this,evidence will have to be secured immediate-ly and this should be done in the rightearnest. While the plant must have beensealed, a team of experts headed by a scien-tist from the Council of Scientific andIndustrial Research (CSIR) needs to be con-stituted immediately to get into variousaspects of this matter.
According to scientific research approvedby the US Environmental Protection Agencyand published in a top scientific journal,Environmental Health Perspectives, chronicexposure to styrene has been linked to theoccurrence of neurological and behaviour-al deficit. This may eventually result indecreased performance, including delayedreaction time and visual disturbances, hear-ing loss and possibly even peripheral neu-ropathy. The International Agency forResearch on Cancer (IARC) has deter-mined that styrene is a possible carcinogenand can cause cancer on prolonged exposure.
In this context, let us not repeat the mis-takes of the Bhopal tragedy. Even after 35years of the disaster, scars have not fullyhealed yet. The chain of suffering of the peo-ple has continued unabated for generationsas genetic deformities have been reported insome newborns. Bhopal has been listed asthe world’s biggest man-made environmen-
tal disaster. Thousands of peo-ple were killed in this disasterand many more suffered perma-nent damage or a genetic impact.Responses of our entire system— the executive, legislative andeven the judiciary — were foundto be inadequate to meet theexpectations of the people.Whatever was done by way ofrelief was too little when com-pared to catastrophes across theworld.
In the case of Vizag, theplant was run by HindustanPolymers 1961 onwards. Later, itmerged with UB Group in 1978.Subsequently, LG Chem ofSouth Korea took overHindustan Polymers andrenamed it as LG PolymersIndia Pvt Ltd in July 1997. It isunderstood that after the lock-down, permission to recom-mence operations was obtaineda couple of days ago on phone.The factory inspector and thepollution control board had nei-ther inspected nor understoodthe sensitivity of such a plantrecommencing operations with-out adequate precautions.
This incident should be awake-up call for Governmentagencies as well as the manufac-turers since a large number ofindustries would be preparing torecommence operations afterthe lockdown is relaxed.
Particularly after the Bhopaldisaster, a number of legislationswere enacted. From theEnvironment (Protection) Act,1986 to the Public Liability
Insurance Act 1991. Accordingto the relevant rules framed bythe Government, styrene is clas-sified as a hazardous and a toxicchemical. This should naturallyhave required a greater degree ofsupervision and monitoring ofoperations. Some of the majorlaws and regulations that appearto have been overlooked in theinstant case are, Environment(Protection) Act, 1986 and therules framed there under such asthe Hazardous WasteManagement and Handling Rule1989 and ones framed thereunder, including theManufacture, Storage AndImport Of Hazardous Chemical(Amendment) Rules, 1989,among others.
Despite a plethora of rulesand regulations, there are certainaspects which indicate weaknessin our legal system in dealingwith such cases. During a dis-cussion in the Parliament on theCivil Liability for NuclearDamage Act, 2010, it was men-tioned by the late Arun Jaitley,who was then the leader of theOpposition in the Rajya Sabha,“We have a sad and unfortunateexperience of the Bhopal gasleak. This law deals only withnuclear incidents. I think, twolessons still remain. If there areincidents and accidents, whichare not on account of a nuclearincident but because of which alarge number of casualty anddamage does take place, our legalregime even today is only theconventional legal regime. The
victims go to a civil court andthen have their remedies adju-dicated, and we are all consciousof the limitations of our legal sys-tem that it almost takes decades,not years, in order to compen-sate the victims…”
These were ominous words,whose importance one realisesonly after 10 years when a trag-ic incident has occurred inVisakhapatnam. The Parliamentcan still amend the existing lawsor legislate a fresh enactment tofill up this major lacuna. WhileAndhra Pradesh Chief MinisterYS Jaganmohan Reddy hasalready visited the spot and hisGovernment is undertaking nec-essary relief measures, there stillmight be individual compensa-tion seekers, whose expecta-tions would have to be suitablyaddressed.
The number of lawsuitsfiled in India and abroad afterthe Bhopal tragedy was so largethat a special enactment had tobe undertaken. All such matterswere transferred to a single judi-cial forum, which, however,failed to deliver complete justice.So let us not repeat the mistakesof Bhopal and ensure adequatecompensation to the victimsand those injured in tune withinternational standards.Compensation for the damagecaused to the environment, too,must be made.
(The writer is a formerGovernor and a Senior Advisorat the Pranab MukherjeeFoundation)
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Sir — This refers to the editori-al, “Memories of Bhopal” (May 8).
The dreadful incident of thestyrene gas leak from a chemi-cal plant near Visakhapatnam hasbrought more bad news amid thegathering economic gloom. A gasleak at a paper mill inChhattisgarh and a boiler explo-
sion at a Neyveli LigniteCorporation plant, too, werereported on the same day.
With this, serious questionshave arisen regarding the set-upof chemical plants in the country.Styrene is a known carcinogen
and requires a high level of super-vision during usage. Negligenceon the part of the staff must beinvestigated and those heldresponsible must be booked.
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more than 56,000 lives, the nationcan ill-afford to bear such a cat-astrophe. All those killed andinjured in this mishap must getjust compensation.
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Sir — It is not surprising that hun-dreds of people thronged TAS-MAC shops in Tamil Nadu with-out maintaining physical distanc-ing. There is now fear that manyasymptomatic people may havespread the virus. How far couldauthorities have implemented the“one bottle per person” order of theHigh Court? When policemenfound it a Herculean task torestrict the movement of peopleduring the “lockdown within lock-down” period, how could theypossibly have controlled crowds infront of TASMAC shops? Thecrowds now endanger the healthof the entire community. Who willbe held responsible if the numbersof the infected swell soon?
Tharcius S FernandoChennai
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With India currently besieged by COVID-19 and the host of socio-economic prob-lems that come along with it, few can afford
to worry about geo-political machinations takingplace abroad. Yet, as the peace process between theUnited States (US) and the Taliban in Afghanistanreaches a precarious position — with the Taliban hav-ing ramped up their attacks against the AfghanGovernment despite the recent spread of theCoronavirus in the country — it is imperative Indiatakes stock of the situation.
While it might be many months before the USfinally exits Afghanistan, especially with the viruscomplicating prisoner exchange and the ongoingnegotiations, the South Asian security matrix is goingto undergo a paradigm shift once all American mil-itary operations come to their inevitable end. Indiamust aim to use this transition to boost its region-al security interests.
The conflict in Afghanistan can at one level beunderstood as being between the majority Pashtunswho are mostly concentrated in Southern andCentral Afghanistan (and across the Durand Line,the 2,430-km border between Afghanistan andPakistan), who the Taliban claim to represent, fight-ing against the empowerment of ethnic minoritiesfrom northern Afghanistan such as the Tajiks,Hazaras and Uzbeks by successive democratically-elected governments.
While both the past and present presidents ofAfghanistan — Hamid Karzai and Ashraf Ghani —are Pashtun, they are seen as leaders propped up bythe West. They are also seen as being overly-sym-pathetic to ethnic minorities. Moreover, many Stateinstitutions are dominated by ethnic minorities andsee a lack of representation by the Pashtuns.
However, the conflict in Afghanistan has alsobeen considered as a continuation of the proxy warbetween India and Pakistan. It is no secret thatPakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has deepties with the Taliban and has continued to backextremist groups in Afghanistan, even while callingitself an “ally” of the US in its war on terror.
A recent example of the Pakistani military estab-lishment’s support to the Taliban and allied terrorgroups was the attack on a gurdwara in Kabul onMarch 25. Prima facie it was thought to be an attackcarried out by the Islamic State (IS). However, fur-ther investigations carried out by Afghan authori-ties found direct links between the attackers, theTaliban-linked Haqqani Network and the ISI. Areport produced by the European Foundation forSouth Asian Studies (EFSAS) further substantiatedthese links.
India, on its part, has been a staunch support-er of the democratic Afghan State. This link has exist-ed since the pre-9/11 terror attacks, when New Delhisupplied military equipment and humanitarian sup-port to the Northern Alliance in its effort to topplethe brutal Taliban regime.
The Northern Alliance later went on to form theAfghan Government and many of its leaders, suchas General Dostum, are now key members of thepresent regime. William Dalrymple’s Brookings EssayA Deadly Triangle, published in 2013, presents andexplains this tacit conflict cogently.
With the US now having committed to leaving,the weakest entity in this entire sum seems to be theAfghan Government. With the decrease in Westernmilitary support to it, the Taliban have made steadygains and now control over a third of the country.The Afghan National Army has been unable to estab-lish itself as an effective fighting force.
Moreover, the recent election results have beenheavily disputed and both leading candidates,incumbent Ashraf Ghani and his opponent AbdullahAbdullah, have sworn themselves in as President inMarch. A divided civilian leadership, a weak mili-tary establishment and with US support nearing itsexpiry date, the Afghan Government now finds itselfin a bleak spot.
This situation has been further exacerbated bythe US negotiating for a peace deal directly with the
Taliban without the Afghan Government.Regardless of how these negotiationsultimately pan out, any form of eventualpeace will need the integration of theTaliban into the governing State — a real-isation that made the US finally reach thenegotiation table. As it stands presently,the Taliban have been able to keep theirsphere of influence strong enough to makethe US realise that trying to governAfghanistan as a whole, in a state of peaceand stability, would be impossible with-out their cooperation. The US war aim ofcompletely eradicating the Taliban andmaking the majority ethnic group, thePashtuns, co-opt into a democratic systemdominated by minority ethnic groups wasnear impossible. Ghani and Abdullah bothneed to realise this, if they have not alreadydone so.
So where does India find itself at thisthreshold of a new phase in Afghanistan?The resurgence of the Taliban has obvi-ously worried New Delhi. A key interestof India, if not its main, is to ensure thatthe Afghan State does not eventually con-sist of elements that would supportextremist groups functioning in Kashmir.In the past, the Taliban have been knownto have warm relations with the Lakshar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the Jaish-e-Mohammed(JeM). Extremist networks based inKashmir, with the backing of the IS, havebeen known previously to have auxiliarybases functioning freely acrossAfghanistan and Pakistan.
However, the Taliban now seem to bewilling to leave behind extremist inclina-tions if allowed to integrate into theAfghan State. They have repeatedlyclaimed that they have now cut former tiesand will not allow terror groups to func-tion in Afghanistan if allowed to form aGovernment. Recently, during an onlineconference hosted by the Delhi-basedthink-tank Global Counter-terrorismCouncil, the Taliban spokesperson
Mohammad Shaheen stated, “We willnever want any foreign organisationusing Afghan soil to target another coun-try. We will bring a law to stop any suchactivity.” More pertinently, Shaheen alsoclaimed that the Taliban would be morethan willing to engage with neighbouringcountries “on the basis of mutual respectand mutual interests.”
While the solidity of these sentimentswill only be seen in times to come, Indiamust now aim to establish some sort ofties with the Taliban. Till now, it has beenopenly hostile to the negotiations under-taken by the US and has repeatedly triedto lobby for their termination. Continuingsuch aggressive posturing against theTaliban is folly if India wants to have sub-stantial influence in a post-AmericaAfghanistan. At a time when the Talibanthemselves are re-evaluating their relationswith their Pakistani allies and are fearingthe spectre of extremism and lawlessnessthat ISI activity brings, India must aim toprovide them with an alternate regionaloption.
Some analysts, such as veteran jour-nalist and author Ahmed Rashid, haveeven gone on to claim that the Talibanwould prefer closer relations with Indianow. In contrast to Pakistan, which hasbacked terror groups that have onlybrought destruction and devastationupon the country, India has immense softpower in Afghanistan. Holding backfrom military intervention, while contin-uing to support Afghanistan economical-ly with Indian aid totalling more than $3billion now, has been an effective geo-political move.
Further strengthening this commit-ment, the Indian Government in mid-April sent medical and food supplies to aidthe Afghan Government in tacklingCOVID-19. If relations with the Talibanare not established in this new chapter ofAfghanistan, which will most likely see
them play a pivotal role, India will risksquandering its influence. Simultaneouslythough, India must also continue itsengagement with the democratic regimeand the northern ethnic minorities. It isequally important to remember that a sit-uation resembling the Afghan civil war ofthe late 90s, between the Taliban and theerstwhile Northern Alliance, is still verymuch a possibility.
In a situation of an all-out militarycampaign, where the Taliban might havean inclination to fall back on Pakistan forassistance, India must be ready to engagewith equivalent assistance in the form ofeconomic and humanitarian aid to theentities that will safeguard its interests.Some hawkish voices have even called forIndian boots on the ground in an effortto fill the void that will be left by the UStroops.
Yet, if history has taught us anything,after the British, Soviet and now US mis-adventure to stabilise Afghanistan, itwould be a terrible mistake to do so. It isimportant to remember that much of thegoodwill harboured by the Afghanstowards India has been due to our abili-ty to help them without intervening mil-itarily, an action which will be perceivedas hostile by many. No nation appreciatesthe idea of a foreign army on its soil —especially not Afghanistan.
In a situation which is constantlydeveloping and has the possibility of mul-tifarious outcomes, India must constant-ly try to pre-empt the status quo and buildties that will help assert its geo-politicalinterests. A stable and peaceful regime inAfghanistan, which censures terror activ-ity, is vital to India’s security interests.Deeming Afghanistan to be irrelevant, assome have, will only result in the weak-ening of India’s position in South Asia.
(The writer is with the School ofOriental and African Studies, University ofLondon)
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Agricultural extension is aform of informal educationthat aims at transfer of scien-
tific interventions to farmers andcollection of feedback from them.The ultimate aim is to introduce thelatest technical know-how in agri-culture and allied activities such asdairy, poultry, apiculture, marketingand so on. The use of effective tools,vernacular languages and groupdynamics marks the effectiveness ofany extension programme.
Apart from the other challengesthat plague agricultural extension,
the ongoing Coronavirus pandem-ic has compelled us to think andplan about its future in India.
Normally, agriculture exten-sion services are mainly provided bythe functionaries of State depart-ments of agriculture and local vol-untary organisations.
The Indian Council ofAgricultural Research (ICAR) start-ed its extension activities with theNational Demonstration project in1964. Further, the Krishi VigyanKendra (KVK) was introduced in1974 to offer need-based and skill-oriented training to farmers andextension workers. Then the Lab toLand Programme was launched in1979 to improve the economic con-dition of small, marginal farmersand landless agricultural labourers.
KVKs are considered to be thefront runners in providing extensionservices to farmers even in theremotest districts of the country.The mandate of KVKs isTechnology Assessment and
Demonstration for widerApplication and to enhanceCapacity Development (TADA-CD). The target is horizontal expan-sion of proven agricultural technolo-gies through on-farm testing (OFT),frontline demonstrations (FLDs),farmers’ trainings, vocational train-ings for rural youth, interactionmeetings between scientists andextension functionaries, field daysand Kisan Melas. At present thereare 713 KVKs under the adminis-trative control of State and CentralAgricultural Universities (498),ICAR Institutes (63), NGOs (101),State Governments (38) and othereducational institutions (13).
In recent years, KVKs are per-forming the duties of primaryawareness centres for all Centrally-sponsored schemes in the ruraland agricultural sector. During thelockdown period also, KVKs are cre-ating awareness among rural house-holds for taking precautionary mea-sures in their farms to avoid the
spread of the Coronavirus.However, extension activities
such as training of farmers, ruralyouth and extension functionariesrequire a minimum gathering of 20to 25 people at one place. On theother hand, organisation of KisanMelas, field days on specificcrop/enterprise, farmers’ seminarsand campaigns involve the build-upof more than 100 farmers.
One of the modern extensionapproaches recommended for dou-bling farmers’ incomes are SelfHelp Groups (SHGs), farmers clubsand so on. These are formed toboost group activities so as to bringeconomies of scale in farmingthrough better resource manage-ment.
Farmers, as producers of agri-cultural products, can form groupsand register themselves under theIndian Companies Act to formFarmer Producer Organisations(FPOs). The aim is to improve thebargaining power of farmers
through building of resources andsocial capital. The Governmentintends to set up 10,000 FPOs overthe next five years in different fieldsof agriculture, including value addi-tion and processing of fruits, vegeta-bles and meat products.
Cluster frontline demonstra-tions (CFLDs) on oilseeds and puls-es, traditional agriculture develop-ment plan and so on, are among themajor extension programmes ofthe Ministry of Agriculture andFarmers’ Welfare which employs acluster approach for sustainableproduction in agriculture.
Further, agricultural market-ing covers so many activities whichinvolve interaction of multiple stake-holders at one place. Starting fromprimary rural/village markets towholesale regulated markets, allinvolve direct contact of manyfarmers, intermediaries and con-sumers to do interconnected activ-ities for completing the supplychain of agricultural products.
However, there are a large num-ber of agricultural services that areeffectively managed by IT applica-tions, including accessibility to mar-kets, training, capacity-building,collection of feedback from farmersand so on. The creation of an ITinfrastructure has been an integralpart of the Government’s strategy foreffective delivery of services.
The National e-GovernancePlan (NeGP) was introduced in2006 to make all Government ser-vices available to citizens via theelectronic media. Approximately, 45per cent of the world’s ICT projectsare implemented in India, with themaximum number of informationkiosks being in rural India.
E-agriculture initiatives suchas Agrisnet, Digital green, eSagu,Agmarknet, eArik, VillageKnowledge Centers (VKCs), SMSPortal/mKisan Portal, Kisan CallCenters (KCCs) and so on, are suc-cessfully rendering agriculturalextension services.
Mobile apps like Kisan Suvidha,Pusa Krishi, Krishi Gyan, Cropinsurance, Agri Market and IFFCOKisan Agriculture and so on, are alsopopular among farmers and exten-sion functionaries.
Despite the availability of the e-platform for extension services inagriculture, the usage by farmers,even the youth, remains very low.
Looking at the current mindsetand the need for social distancing inthe wake of the pandemic, organ-ising agricultural extension activi-ties in the country will be a hugechallenge.
Taking into consideration thesuccess of group dynamics in agri-cultural extension, there is an urgentneed to devise alternative method-ologies for offering uninterruptedextension services to the clientele,apart from ICT.
(The writer is Scientist, AgrilEconomics, Sher-e-KashmirUniversity of Agricultural Sciencesand Technology)
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Markets squandered earlygains but managed to end
in the green on Friday, proppedup by heavyweight RelianceIndustries which announcedanother stake sale deal for itsdigital platform.
A strengthening rupee andfirm global cues also support-ed the domestic bourses,traders said.
After rallying 645.13 pointsduring the day, the 30-shareBSE Sensex finally settled199.32 points or 0.63 per centhigher at 31,642.70.
Similarly, the broader NSENifty rose 52.45 points, or 0.57
per cent, to finish at 9,251.50. Reliance Industries was the
biggest contributor to the gainson the benchmarks, jumpingover 3 per cent after the com-pany announced the sale of2.32 per cent stake in JioPlatforms to US-based VistaEquity Partners for �11,367crore, the third such deal in alittle over two weeks.
In absolute terms,Hindustan Unilever was thetop gainer in the Sensex pack,rallying 4.81 per cent, followedby Nestle India, Tech Mahindraand Sun Pharma.
On the other hand, M&M,Axis Bank, NTPC andIndusInd Bank were among the
major laggards, shedding up to3.87 per cent.
During the week, theSensex plunged 2,074.92points or 6.15 per cent, andthe Nifty tanked 608.40 pointsor 6.17 per cent. “Nifty fluc-tuated around 150 points inanother day of volatile trades,tracking uncertainty in themarkets. Gains were led byReliance, which succeeded inanother round of fundraisingeven in this adverse scenario.
“Global market trendswere also positive followingattempts to defuse tensionsaround the US- China tradetalks. While the earnings sea-son has been lacklustre, mar-
kets seem to be awaitingannouncement of a stimuluspackage from theGovernment,” said VinodNair, Head of Research atGeojit Financial Services.
BSE energy, FMCG,healthcare, teck and IT indicesrallied up to 2.59 per cent,while power, utilities, con-sumer durables, auto and met-als closed with losses.
Broader BSE midcapindex rose 0.04 per cent, whilethe smallcap gauge slipped0.45 per cent. Foreign portfo-lio investors purchased equi-ties worth a net �19,056.49crore in the capital market inthe previous session, provi-
sional exchange data showed. Global markets advanced
as US and China discussed thefirst phase of a trade deal onFriday, while investors alsowelcomed moves by variouscountries to ease lockdownmeasures and resume eco-nomic activities.
Bourses in Shanghai,Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoulended with substantial gains.Top stock exchanges inEurope were also trading on apositive note in their openingsessions.
Meanwhile, internationaloil benchmark Brent crudefutures climbed 1.73 per centto USD 29.97 per barrel.
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Reliance Industries on Fridayannounced the sale of 2.32
per cent stake in its digital unitto US-based Vista EquityPartners for �11,367 crore, thethird deal in a little over twoweeks that will inject a com-bined �60,596.37 crore in theoil-to-telecom conglomerateto help it pare debt.
The US-based private equi-ty firm will buy a stake in JioPlatforms, which houses thecountry’s youngest but biggesttelecom firm Jio, at an equityvalue of �4.91 crore and anenterprise value of �5.16 crore.“Vista’s investment will trans-late into a 2.32 per cent equitystake on a fully diluted basis,making Vista the largestinvestor in Jio Platforms behindReliance Industries andFacebook,” the company said ina statement.
The deal follows Facebookpicking up a 9.99 per cent stakein Jio Platforms on April 22 for�43,574 crore. Within days ofthat deal, Silver Lake — theworld’s largest tech investor —bought a 1.15 per cent stake inJio Platforms for �5,665.75
crore. “Jio Platforms has nowraised �60,596.37 crore fromleading technology investors inless than three weeks,” thecompany said.
Vista co-founder BrianSheth is half-Indian and hisfather hails from Gujarat.Reliance owner and richestIndian Mukesh Ambani, whoalso comes from Gujarat, is saidto have personal connectionswith the private equity firm’sfounder Robert Smith.
The discussions were ledby Ambani’s close aide ManojModi and Sheth. Strategic andfinancial investors are to form20 per cent of Jio Platforms.Between the three deals,Reliance has sold 13.46 per centof Jio Platforms and more such investments arelikely in near future.
Ambani, 63, chairman andmanaging director of Reliance,had in August last year set a tar-get of March 2021, to make hisconglomerate net debt-free.But thanks to the Facebookdeal, a �53,125 crore rightsissue, Silver Lake and VistaEquity investments, and morestake sale to companies such asSaudi Aramco, the target islikely to be achieved by
December.At the end of March quar-
ter, Reliance had an outstand-ing debt of �3,36,294 crore andcash in hand of �1,75,259 crore.After adjusting cash, the net debt came to �1,61,035 crore.
Of the outstanding debt,�2,62,000 crore is on Reliancebooks and �23,000 crore is withJio. As part of debt reductionplans, the company expects tocomplete a capital raising pro-gramme totalling �1.04 lakhcrore by June.
This includes the rightsoffering of one share for every15 shares held at �1,257, a 14per cent discount to the clos-ing price for April 30.
Also included is the�43,574 crore from theFacebook-Jio Platforms dealand �7,000 crore from the saleof 49 per cent stake in fuelretailing venture to UK’s BP plc.Jio Platforms, a wholly-ownedsubsidiary of RelianceIndustries Ltd, is a next-gen-eration technology company.Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd,with 388 million mobile sub-scribers, will continue to be awholly-owned subsidiary ofJio Platforms.
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New Delhi: The Government isworking on a financial packagefor infrastructure sectors and itmay be announced soon, UnionMinister Nitin Gadkari said onFriday. He was interacting withthe members of the FinanceIndustry Development Councilthrough a video conference. “Ifeel in 2-4 days a package can beannounced... The government isworking at the highest level onthis,” Road Transport, Highwaysand MSME Minister Gadkarisaid in reply to a query whetherthe government was going toannounce a financial package forrelief to infrastructure sectors.
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Moody’s Investors Serviceon Friday projected
India’s growth at zero per centfor the current fiscal and saidthe negative outlook on sover-eign rating reflects increasingrisks that GDP growth willremain significantly lower thanin the past.
The outlook also partlyshows weaker policy effective-ness to address economic andinstitutional issues, it noted inthe update to its November2019 rating forecast.
Stating that the negative
outlook indicates that anupgrade is unlikely in the nearterm, Moody’s said high gov-ernment debt, weak social andphysical infrastructure, and afragile financial sector facefurther pressures due to thecoronavirus outbreak.
Moody’s had, in November2019, affirmed India’s ‘Baa2’rating but revised downwardthe outlook to negative fromstable on concerns of lowereconomic growth.
‘Baa2’ is an investmentgrade rating with moderatecredit risk, and is two notchesabove the junk grade.
The negative outlookreflects increasing risks thateconomic growth will remainsignificantly lower than in thepast, it said. “This is in light ofthe deep shock triggered by thecoronavirus outbreak, andpartly reflects lower govern-ment and policy effectivenessat addressing longstanding eco-nomic and institutional weak-nesses, leading to a gradual risein the debt burden fromalready high levels,” Moody’ssaid in a credit opinion titled‘Government of India- Baa2negative’. It said the shock fromcoronavirus pandemic will
exacerbate an already materi-al slowdown in economicgrowth, which has significant-ly reduced the prospects fordurable fiscal consolidationand government measures tosupport the economy shouldhelp to reduce the depth andduration of slowdown.
“However, prolongedfinancial stress among ruralhouseholds, weak job creationand, more recently, a creditcrunch among non-bankfinancial institutions (NBFIs)have increased the probabilityof a more entrenched weaken-ing,” Moody’s said.
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Script Open High Low LTPLAURUSLABS 467.00 488.20 440.00 440.50RELIANCE 1550.00 1579.70 1537.60 1561.80INDUSINDBK 463.95 478.00 435.55 440.20SBIN 173.00 173.60 166.15 166.70ICICIBANK 344.00 352.50 333.75 337.75HINDUNILVR 2066.00 2098.00 2035.85 2088.35HDFCBANK 942.00 943.05 926.00 928.95RBLBANK 134.00 134.00 117.60 119.35BAJFINANCE 2128.00 2128.65 2015.80 2024.90AXISBANK 404.00 409.65 380.00 382.25MARUTI 4880.00 4880.00 4639.75 4657.50HDFC 1735.00 1740.55 1685.65 1689.70KOTAKBANK 1227.70 1243.15 1211.70 1218.65ASIANPAINT 1615.00 1636.75 1570.00 1577.90DRREDDY 3875.00 4099.90 3875.00 3983.45HDFCLIFE 502.00 527.25 499.90 519.90HCLTECH 522.00 522.05 502.50 518.30LT 832.00 834.95 810.00 816.05BHARTIARTL 539.85 545.85 528.50 530.00ZEEL 151.90 158.70 147.20 150.60AUROPHARMA 659.95 663.50 639.85 652.50BANDHANBNK 259.50 262.50 234.75 240.00TATAMOTORS 84.70 84.85 80.55 81.05SUNPHARMA* 458.00 471.00 454.60 469.00IBULHSGFIN 129.00 131.45 121.75 123.25BOSCHLTD 10291.00 10300.00 9750.20 9793.55TITAN 857.00 862.60 830.15 833.10BPCL 335.00 336.00 321.40 324.35IDEA 4.17 4.29 4.15 4.17TATASTEEL 282.00 283.50 272.10 272.85ITC 163.00 164.00 157.10 158.30TCS 1945.00 1945.00 1887.00 1893.50SRTRANSFIN 762.00 787.85 733.10 744.20M&M 406.80 408.00 380.65 386.45INFY 672.90 680.95 668.60 674.65SUNTV 389.00 410.75 375.85 378.80HINDPETRO 203.00 204.70 195.55 196.95STAR 431.00 438.25 419.00 421.40MAHLOG 249.00 249.00 240.55 244.25M&MFIN 176.00 176.70 163.60 165.40HINDALCO 123.50 123.65 116.00 117.05DLF 131.75 132.40 129.40 130.00RATNAMANI 880.60 889.50 863.05 884.10ADANIGAS 106.65 113.80 104.70 107.35CIPLA 595.40 601.00 589.55 591.85DEEPAKNI 555.10 567.45 529.00 531.65PGHH 10256.35 10313.85 10010.00 10033.75INFRATEL 172.80 176.45 167.50 174.40TECHM 525.00 538.05 519.35 536.00LICHSGFIN 264.95 274.90 261.00 263.35ONGC 76.80 77.20 74.80 75.95NESTLEIND 17320.00 17820.00 17268.00 17798.10HEROMOTOCO 2050.00 2050.00 1955.40 1962.35CHOLAFIN 153.40 155.30 143.00 144.10APOLLOHOSP 1273.05 1327.30 1273.05 1314.40ESCORTS 760.00 769.00 734.40 740.70MOTHERSUMI 77.30 78.70 76.60 77.00HDFCAMC 2660.00 2698.20 2568.85 2622.35LUPIN 820.00 839.05 817.65 835.20JINDALSTEL 92.90 93.90 88.35 89.15BRITANNIA 2997.00 3034.60 2926.40 2992.10ASHOKLEY 47.90 49.25 46.10 47.05TATACONSUM 348.00 355.50 344.20 348.75CADILAHC 323.05 327.30 318.10 320.95AMARAJABAT 563.35 574.25 541.00 544.35TVSMOTOR 328.55 328.55 310.15 313.50ISEC 429.00 429.00 352.95 357.80GMM 3547.00 3650.00 3475.00 3557.00L&TFH 59.60 60.00 56.55 56.80PEL 930.00 934.60 882.50 886.10BAJAJFINSV 4758.00 4780.65 4584.85 4604.25CANBK 82.00 83.00 79.50 79.85ICICIPRULI 399.90 413.00 398.50 399.90CYIENT 219.00 222.70 208.55 208.55ULTRACEMCO 3335.00 3335.00 3265.05 3307.75NAM-INDIA 235.55 249.95 235.55 240.75NIITTECH 1370.05 1431.00 1362.60 1401.05TORNTPOWER 326.00 326.95 300.00 301.65BIOCON 356.00 360.90 349.50 359.20CEATLTD 765.00 767.80 725.95 729.65JUBLFOOD 1574.00 1607.00 1554.90 1567.25INDIGO 917.05 949.00 917.05 929.25PIDILITIND 1380.60 1389.20 1352.00 1367.45JSWSTEEL 175.25 176.40 167.40 168.75BANKBARODA 43.15 43.35 41.05 41.15JUSTDIAL 343.00 352.90 339.55 342.20CANFINHOME 311.55 311.55 297.45 299.70HAVELLS 494.90 496.85 485.45 487.15NTPC 91.50 92.45 85.85 87.05IOC 76.15 77.05 74.10 74.35VEDL 80.80 80.80 77.05 77.35BHARATFORG 287.35 298.60 277.20 279.80SBILIFE 742.00 769.00 738.60 759.40COLPAL 1314.00 1368.00 1308.00 1359.30BHEL 23.45 23.45 21.80 22.20TORNTPHARM 2425.00 2449.85 2348.00 2442.30GODREJIND 247.90 250.10 242.85 249.00MUTHOOTFIN 832.50 848.95 804.55 810.20COALINDIA 135.50 135.50 128.65 129.00MGL 879.95 894.45 856.10 859.70VOLTAS 455.00 459.90 445.45 456.65UPL 377.95 377.95 363.30 364.70DIVISLAB 2274.00 2314.30 2254.30 2301.45MANAPPURAM 127.65 127.65 118.60 118.85PFC 87.50 88.75 83.45 83.95BATAINDIA 1305.00 1314.00 1287.05 1292.45UBL 875.00 901.55 867.70 890.40PVR 927.00 928.10 888.40 894.15
ACC 1170.50 1178.75 1145.20 1153.55DABUR 445.55 452.00 442.00 446.70CESC 649.00 649.00 614.45 618.05GAIL 94.95 94.95 90.85 91.30APOLLOTYRE 91.50 93.00 88.80 90.05BEL 63.20 63.70 59.50 59.70GLENMARK 341.70 343.20 332.75 333.70UJJIVAN 174.80 176.80 164.10 165.55BAJAJ-AUTO 2453.00 2453.00 2401.65 2416.50RAMCOCEM 532.90 537.05 514.20 518.70IBREALEST 48.55 50.00 47.75 48.05BERGEPAINT 455.75 465.00 449.45 455.00JBCHEPHARM 620.00 650.00 613.60 645.25TATAELXSI 799.90 818.75 758.20 773.85GODREJCP 496.00 510.00 493.90 499.10RPOWER 1.87 2.02 1.87 1.87EICHERMOT 14268.70 14336.40 13748.85 13859.55AUBANK 428.80 431.10 420.85 420.85NAVINFLUOR 1522.00 1531.55 1421.00 1432.65DMART 2208.00 2275.00 2150.00 2248.85KAJARIACER 351.00 355.00 336.00 340.65MFSL 449.80 460.00 443.95 450.35POWERGRID 164.95 164.95 158.20 159.05HINDZINC 177.50 179.60 174.10 175.30FEDERALBNK 43.60 44.35 42.30 42.65FRETAIL 80.60 80.60 80.60 80.60JISLJALEQS 9.50 9.60 9.00 9.24AMBUJACEM 168.50 172.85 168.50 169.35CASTROLIND 123.30 130.60 123.30 125.45ADANIENT 136.00 139.25 136.00 137.20NCC 24.20 24.60 23.25 23.45IPCALAB 1548.00 1587.00 1532.95 1551.90RAJESHEXPO 567.00 567.00 526.20 528.55WOCKPHARMA 259.00 259.00 251.00 253.95TATAPOWER 29.40 29.70 27.70 28.45MARICO 305.00 305.00 298.55 300.20ADANIPORTS 288.65 288.65 280.80 285.10MRF 59221.85 59652.75 58543.45 58757.30EQUITAS 51.45 52.45 48.40 49.40GODFRYPHLP 977.00 993.15 945.25 955.05PNB 29.70 30.20 29.10 29.30GRASIM 490.00 492.65 482.50 486.40PETRONET 229.90 231.60 223.95 224.65GNFC 142.80 142.80 135.60 135.90BEML 589.95 591.35 559.60 564.15HEXAWARE 248.95 249.00 235.05 235.75INDIACEM 100.95 101.05 97.50 98.00EIDPARRY 151.90 167.00 148.50 164.65
RECLTD 91.50 92.85 86.90 87.60IDFCFIRSTB 21.00 21.15 20.25 20.35SRF 3643.85 3654.80 3580.95 3596.50MCX 1123.00 1147.95 1112.00 1120.15OMAXE 161.65 161.65 154.60 157.50BALKRISIND 910.00 912.95 887.60 893.45NAUKRI 2626.40 2740.55 2587.10 2691.70JKTYRE 51.50 56.40 51.50 53.90KANSAINER 371.60 377.75 356.85 359.75WIPRO 186.95 186.95 182.80 184.00RADICO 309.40 311.70 301.20 304.05BANKINDIA 33.90 33.90 32.00 32.15STRTECH* 93.50 95.80 92.45 93.40SAIL 29.00 29.20 28.25 28.40OBEROIRLTY 344.70 345.00 322.40 324.95IGL 480.00 480.00 468.90 472.25BAJAJELEC 361.20 374.20 342.10 355.10JAICORPLTD 67.95 69.50 65.70 66.45NATIONALUM 29.35 29.45 28.05 28.40APLLTD 812.00 813.00 761.10 769.65GUJGAS 237.15 246.00 236.30 244.00FCONSUMER 9.38 9.38 9.20 9.38ADANIGREEN 215.00 215.00 202.70 212.10ICICIGI 1220.00 1248.95 1211.00 1233.55ADANIPOWER 30.60 31.20 29.75 29.95PFIZER 4615.20 4677.95 4584.60 4603.35LTI 1596.00 1611.00 1571.40 1583.70MINDTREE 895.00 904.00 880.00 891.10TV18BRDCST 19.40 20.20 18.80 19.65JMFINANCIL 66.35 66.40 61.60 63.80ABBOTINDIA 18000.00 18055.25 17603.00 17734.30CUMMINSIND 363.35 364.05 352.65 358.20SPICEJET 40.15 40.95 38.60 39.00INFIBEAM 47.30 49.20 47.30 49.20OFSS 2569.95 2581.95 2436.05 2451.15IDBI 20.55 20.55 20.00 20.10CGCL 142.00 145.90 139.65 142.25BBTC 839.70 856.40 833.20 844.30SIEMENS 1071.80 1071.80 1036.30 1042.80IRB 69.40 69.40 63.85 64.40VENKYS 1108.95 1109.25 1051.10 1054.25AVANTI 408.90 417.60 397.00 400.40AJANTPHARM 1473.00 1517.90 1450.00 1455.10NOCIL 86.95 87.70 83.45 83.80
SKFINDIA 1415.00 1524.90 1404.40 1446.90PAGEIND 17144.35 17153.70 16854.20 16969.05NATCOPHARM 618.30 631.80 609.70 613.65SPARC 137.15 137.15 133.60 134.30SHREECEM 18850.00 18861.80 18469.60 18740.85CHAMBLFERT 129.95 129.95 125.05 125.80LALPATHLAB 1600.00 1613.25 1543.30 1552.05HEG 780.00 795.00 742.75 748.85SUDARSCHEM 377.20 388.55 370.50 372.95RALLIS 220.00 220.00 211.00 212.70DIXON 4375.00 4473.90 4235.90 4254.55VGUARD 168.00 172.70 168.00 169.80KEC 198.85 203.65 196.35 197.35CRISIL 1458.00 1510.00 1427.00 1489.15METROPOLIS 1233.40 1240.00 1175.90 1204.60DCBBANK 70.65 71.45 67.50 67.75MAHINDCIE 98.60 103.00 98.60 99.70ASHOKA 63.00 63.90 58.95 59.75BLISSGVS 96.30 96.35 92.90 95.45INDHOTEL 71.00 71.30 65.65 67.50GODREJPROP 612.60 621.20 607.65 617.40GRAPHITE 202.80 202.80 188.00 188.80GMRINFRA 17.25 17.80 17.15 17.60JKPAPER* 101.20 102.95 95.55 95.95VINATIORGA 967.50 992.40 959.00 982.40FINEORG 1977.00 2074.35 1935.00 1947.55JUBILANT 388.00 399.00 377.00 388.60UNIONBANK 24.20 24.45 23.60 23.80ASTRAZEN 3203.75 3208.25 3077.55 3121.45OIL 92.80 92.80 88.10 88.60SWANENERGY 103.00 103.90 100.00 100.50NMDC 74.00 74.45 72.70 73.20MIDHANI 204.00 204.35 197.40 199.15HEIDELBERG 144.80 144.80 142.10 143.15RAYMOND 239.00 240.15 225.65 226.30ITI 83.15 83.40 80.45 80.85RELINFRA 17.25 19.05 17.25 19.05CONCOR 359.40 366.75 357.25 358.95EMAMILTD* 178.50 185.00 178.50 182.35GILLETTE 4935.00 4962.15 4886.05 4920.00PERSISTENT 558.00 558.00 519.25 527.75SUNTECK 163.50 165.90 152.50 154.05PRESTIGE 168.00 169.25 155.00 158.35SOBHA 176.10 186.00 175.00 177.90FORTIS 124.60 126.00 123.45 125.25ABFRL 112.50 112.80 105.50 106.85GRANULES 160.85 162.25 157.10 157.75TATAMTRDVR 36.50 36.50 34.80 35.00INOXLEISUR 215.95 216.10 203.10 204.15EXIDEIND 149.00 149.90 146.05 146.80ALKEM 2580.00 2599.20 2555.70 2588.55BRIGADE 111.90 112.25 101.00 105.90TATACOFFEE 74.25 75.30 72.25 72.45JINDALSAW 51.80 52.80 50.75 51.00DELTACORP* 69.70 71.05 68.80 69.30ABCAPITAL 44.40 44.85 42.85 43.10DALBHARAT* 514.20 521.95 502.00 505.05RAIN 68.20 68.70 66.90 67.30NBCC 19.35 19.35 18.15 18.30HAWKINCOOK 4499.00 4499.00 4360.00 4430.40INDIANB 47.45 47.70 45.80 46.50SOUTHBANK 5.65 5.67 5.54 5.58RITES 233.90 237.45 232.85 233.45RCF 38.40 38.50 37.25 37.40RESPONIND 81.50 81.95 80.50 80.90VBL 600.15 624.00 600.15 619.60POLYCAB 697.00 697.00 671.50 674.30NHPC 20.25 20.50 19.95 20.00DEEPAKFERT 103.90 103.90 99.20 99.95CREDITACC 453.00 453.00 422.35 424.30QUESS 189.00 195.00 181.50 182.80KALPATPOWR 206.30 206.70 200.00 200.75KTKBANK 39.15 40.75 39.05 39.25LINDEINDIA 523.95 531.05 515.50 520.60SONATSOFTW 218.80 220.25 209.10 210.35TRENT 487.90 487.90 456.50 460.15GLAXO 1468.45 1468.65 1432.00 1438.05BOMDYEING 50.80 50.80 47.25 47.65GARFIBRES 1260.00 1268.85 1260.00 1263.00PNBHOUSING 177.20 182.80 177.20 179.45SCI 42.40 42.75 40.75 40.95NETWORK18 22.50 22.55 22.20 22.35ITDCEM 34.00 38.75 34.00 35.00ENDURANCE 618.70 618.75 605.05 612.10IRCON 85.50 86.50 83.10 83.35IDFC 13.98 14.52 13.92 14.27MINDAIND 254.00 254.20 241.30 244.65RELCAPITAL 8.94 8.94 8.94 8.94SANOFI 8002.00 8050.00 7900.05 7968.90RELAXO 648.00 648.00 597.00 603.60HATHWAY 18.15 20.60 18.15 18.95GAYAPROJ 16.85 18.30 16.85 18.30PIIND 1548.60 1551.00 1527.95 1531.75TNPL 93.35 93.40 89.10 89.55TIMKEN 888.00 888.00 847.00 849.80LTTS 1193.50 1204.05 1160.00 1168.45WABAG 120.00 120.00 110.50 111.40VARROC 154.00 157.00 145.05 147.00MPHASIS 763.00 763.00 737.00 739.45AEGISLOG 171.50 178.30 171.35 175.95CROMPTON 210.00 212.80 202.55 203.30SIS 355.45 369.00 330.75 362.60TVSSRICHAK 1029.10 1124.65 1014.90 1071.00ATUL 4673.50 4743.90 4646.75 4668.50HONAUT 27200.00 27440.00 26520.00 26550.90KNRCON 198.20 198.40 193.70 194.30GODREJAGRO 402.05 403.00 396.00 397.55BAYERCROP 4615.25 4647.00 4540.50 4616.90BIRLACORPN 386.00 389.45 377.45 380.50
CENTURYPLY 109.50 114.40 106.75 108.00MEGH 46.90 47.10 45.75 45.85RVNL 16.90 16.90 16.25 16.35DISHTV 4.79 4.85 4.60 4.68WHIRLPOOL 1983.95 1983.95 1870.65 1885.75JYOTHYLAB 110.00 110.05 105.60 106.20JAMNAAUTO 25.50 25.75 24.00 24.15PGHL 4247.95 4247.95 4050.00 4072.15MOIL 130.00 130.00 126.30 126.80BALRAMCHIN 99.15 99.15 95.00 95.60NIACL 122.60 124.20 116.65 117.65VIPIND 217.50 217.50 211.70 212.55WELCORP 62.20 63.80 61.95 62.80SUZLON 2.60 2.60 2.60 2.60DBL 247.80 247.80 240.05 243.00FSL 33.70 33.80 32.50 32.65DHFL 11.01 12.05 11.01 11.69REDINGTON 82.00 82.50 78.15 79.95JSL 29.00 29.00 28.25 28.50FDC 255.00 257.00 251.00 252.75COROMANDEL 620.00 624.00 606.80 609.30COCHINSHIP 232.75 238.95 228.65 229.55HFCL 10.90 10.90 10.12 10.16UFLEX 175.50 178.00 171.55 172.10JSWENERGY 41.00 41.00 39.95 40.70HSCL 46.75 47.90 45.85 46.00AMBER 1078.05 1120.00 1078.05 1094.20EDELWEISS 36.95 38.00 36.60 38.00BLUESTARCO 500.00 504.00 475.25 478.20GALAXYSURF 1353.65 1426.80 1319.55 1352.15GICRE 128.00 132.00 128.00 128.85FORCEMOT 810.90 823.25 800.00 801.25PHILIPCARB 76.50 76.50 73.50 73.75ZENSARTECH 83.00 85.00 82.90 83.80ENGINERSIN 65.80 65.80 62.50 62.95TATAINVEST 700.20 703.30 687.25 687.40ADANITRANS 196.40 200.30 194.20 196.35APLAPOLLO 1264.55 1272.65 1213.45 1234.70PTC 38.35 38.50 37.70 37.80J&KBANK 13.30 13.33 12.90 12.98TRIDENT 4.74 4.78 4.64 4.66HAL 519.65 519.65 500.00 501.35ALLCARGO 71.70 72.40 67.25 69.05HUDCO 23.45 23.45 21.85 21.90CAPPL 332.15 337.25 318.85 322.953MINDIA 19000.00 19027.65 18522.00 18600.55BAJAJHLDNG 1918.05 1926.95 1874.00 1877.25SCHNEIDER 79.10 79.40 76.45 76.90TATAMETALI 454.00 454.00 415.55 426.30BAJAJCON 143.00 144.00 139.05 139.60GUJALKALI 335.95 336.85 325.05 326.00GSFC 42.20 42.55 40.60 40.85ALKYLAMINE 1776.40 1776.40 1746.60 1761.85DCMSHRIRAM 259.10 260.00 248.30 248.85INTELLECT 65.55 67.45 65.55 67.45BASF 1005.15 1015.00 970.00 1002.65SYNGENE 320.65 320.65 313.20 314.85GPPL 54.30 56.00 53.50 54.30PARAGMILK 90.15 90.75 87.00 87.75MRPL 30.70 30.90 29.50 29.75NLCINDIA 43.50 43.95 42.55 43.40GREAVESCOT 76.00 78.80 76.00 76.55MAXINDIA 59.60 60.75 58.60 59.15CHENNPETRO 59.20 59.20 57.10 57.75GRSE 140.70 141.95 136.15 137.30TCIEXP 714.80 714.80 673.25 690.75SHK 55.50 55.50 53.45 53.60CUB 141.20 142.00 136.00 137.20IFCI 3.97 4.10 3.95 3.96HINDCOPPER 24.55 24.65 23.70 23.80CHOLAHLDNG 282.00 282.00 271.00 273.70SUPREMEIND 1016.00 1016.40 975.05 989.05BDL 231.15 231.15 216.50 218.40DHANUKA 455.00 455.55 440.70 444.30GICHSGFIN 67.80 69.15 65.30 65.75MOTILALOFS* 510.25 512.50 492.00 495.00CARERATING 382.00 388.00 362.30 366.55ASTRAL 935.00 958.70 911.45 913.45MAHSCOOTER 2048.00 2050.05 1947.00 1974.80DCAL* 77.90 77.90 73.15 75.35UCOBANK 12.35 12.35 11.76 11.85VSTIND 2828.95 2851.20 2784.60 2791.95JCHAC 2393.05 2393.75 2257.55 2262.35MINDACORP 60.10 60.15 57.65 57.90SUNDRMFAST 319.90 320.75 307.80 311.40VTL 625.15 637.90 625.10 629.00ERIS 488.30 491.90 482.25 489.30SCHAEFFLER 3300.00 3315.55 3290.00 3298.80EIHOTEL 70.35 71.35 65.90 67.10LEMONTREE 17.40 17.55 16.50 17.10MMTC 14.00 14.08 13.65 13.86GSPL 197.40 197.40 191.25 192.35WABCOINDIA 6214.35 6240.25 6200.00 6222.85ORIENTREF 142.35 143.80 139.30 142.10AKZOINDIA 1943.15 1976.30 1919.00 1931.25SADBHAV 59.70 59.70 59.70 59.70LAKSHVILAS 13.52 14.12 13.52 13.75JTEKTINDIA 50.50 51.65 48.80 49.30DBCORP 71.20 71.45 68.00 69.55ECLERX 463.30 474.00 440.00 442.70ASTERDM 100.25 100.25 96.25 96.35WESTLIFE 291.20 292.95 285.45 288.05NESCO 422.65 424.15 417.00 417.80VAIBHAVGBL 984.00 1022.00 982.00 998.45THYROCARE 505.00 505.00 498.65 500.20SYMPHONY 858.85 859.00 825.35 829.60KEI 274.90 274.90 268.50 270.05PCJEWELLER 11.49 11.49 10.90 11.10BALMLAWRIE 96.40 96.40 94.10 94.50
PNCINFRA 111.40 113.50 104.00 105.65KRBL 183.55 184.00 179.70 181.15WELSPUNIND 24.25 24.55 24.00 24.20KSB 465.00 465.00 446.15 450.35SJVN 21.10 21.10 20.45 20.55IOB 7.46 7.46 7.19 7.24FINOLEXIND 377.40 378.60 368.00 371.70ADVENZYMES 141.60 143.80 137.05 139.85IEX 145.35 145.35 143.50 144.10TIINDIA 375.25 375.25 353.70 368.15JKLAKSHMI 196.75 196.75 190.00 192.20BLUEDART 2179.95 2179.95 2140.00 2164.15GEPIL 412.00 414.45 405.80 407.85LUXIND 908.90 913.65 889.30 896.30GHCL 100.90 103.75 99.80 99.85SHILPAMED 383.50 391.00 373.00 376.00REPCOHOME 127.00 127.00 120.20 120.75THERMAX 695.00 711.55 695.00 700.85GMDCLTD 37.00 37.60 36.00 36.05ESSELPRO 179.85 179.90 172.75 173.95STARCEMENT 71.55 72.00 69.35 69.50ZYDUSWELL 1304.00 1305.95 1290.90 1295.15IBULISL 37.40 40.10 37.40 38.60MAHABANK 9.75 9.75 8.83 8.88ESABINDIA 1092.30 1137.00 1040.05 1052.85SOMANYCERA 98.35 103.00 96.00 96.85MAHSEAMLES 201.90 202.00 196.30 196.45GESHIP 227.15 229.30 222.90 223.45ORIENTCEM 39.00 39.20 37.00 37.20FLFL 155.95 155.95 155.95 155.95AIAENG 1603.45 1615.10 1551.00 1565.65CENTRALBK 14.60 14.95 14.60 14.75ORIENTELEC 182.65 182.65 171.00 171.50NILKAMAL 1078.00 1078.00 1017.20 1021.65LAXMIMACH 2440.00 2483.00 2440.00 2481.20IFBIND 386.00 386.00 378.00 379.30ITDC 152.05 154.35 145.00 147.60NAVNETEDUL 72.10 72.90 70.55 70.95CCL 187.00 188.30 185.00 187.10PRSMJOHNSN 33.15 33.20 31.30 31.70JKCEMENT 1089.00 1097.25 1083.55 1094.70LAOPALA 173.00 173.05 165.70 166.30SHOPERSTOP 165.75 167.65 161.35 162.85TTKPRESTIG 4645.00 4669.25 4616.00 4641.90TIMETECHNO 33.40 33.40 30.00 30.70TVTODAY 181.10 187.20 181.10 183.20AAVAS 1111.00 1136.10 1085.00 1085.20SHRIRAMCIT 717.55 728.90 711.00 718.95SHANKARA 260.65 260.65 251.00 252.30VRLLOG 160.45 160.70 155.65 156.25MAHLIFE 178.55 181.25 175.00 177.55KPITTECH 52.20 54.40 52.20 53.10CARBORUNIV 220.00 220.00 212.10 213.10NH 277.75 278.35 270.20 275.40FINCABLES 231.95 232.35 228.45 229.40JSLHISAR 43.75 44.95 42.90 44.00GRINDWELL 508.65 512.00 493.45 500.75VMART 1663.50 1665.65 1641.60 1643.95TAKE 52.40 54.60 52.10 54.25JAGRAN 40.10 40.45 39.65 39.90IIFL 72.65 72.85 68.65 69.75PHOENIXLTD 540.70 540.95 518.00 525.65TEJASNET 38.00 38.00 35.15 35.40MHRIL 125.55 127.65 124.00 125.75TEAMLEASE 1555.45 1567.45 1555.45 1558.25INDOSTAR 273.05 276.00 272.85 274.00SFL 1443.75 1443.75 1327.05 1379.15CHALET 131.00 133.20 130.00 132.60ARVINDFASN 132.05 134.65 132.00 132.15GET&D 74.00 74.55 72.55 72.85NBVENTURES 37.00 37.30 35.25 35.90INOXWIND 24.15 24.50 24.00 24.10SUPRAJIT 115.40 115.40 112.00 112.65CENTRUM 10.45 10.55 10.00 10.45HIMATSEIDE 50.25 50.45 48.55 48.80HERITGFOOD 251.15 251.15 244.75 246.35TCNSBRANDS 371.60 373.50 367.50 370.85CERA 2158.00 2158.00 2149.00 2154.65GULFOILLUB 564.00 569.30 562.15 567.70GDL 89.30 89.80 86.95 87.25SOLARINDS 878.95 878.95 856.75 862.80KPRMILL 425.90 438.50 425.90 430.60MASFIN 563.50 566.40 563.35 563.35
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SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGENIFTY 50 9376.95 9382.65 9238.20 9251.50 52.45HINDUNILVR 2074.95 2098.00 2036.00 2077.85 85.80SUNPHARMA 460.00 471.40 454.05 470.00 17.80TECHM 526.90 538.60 519.20 535.25 18.90DRREDDY 3900.10 4132.20 3900.10 3978.00 140.35NESTLEIND 17350.00 17820.00 17201.50 17756.80 614.35RELIANCE 1545.00 1579.90 1537.10 1559.45 52.50ZEEL 152.85 158.75 148.10 151.00 3.65BRITANNIA 2945.00 3037.00 2923.45 2985.00 69.65ULTRACEMCO 3294.00 3325.00 3271.05 3320.00 67.15KOTAKBANK 1222.00 1242.95 1211.05 1223.15 23.35INFY 672.25 680.90 668.50 676.00 11.05HCLTECH 520.85 522.50 502.40 519.00 7.25SHREECEM 18680.00 18879.45 18450.10 18665.00 232.60BAJAJ-AUTO 2446.05 2450.00 2401.05 2422.65 16.10ADANIPORTS 285.10 286.85 280.55 284.05 1.65HDFCBANK 942.00 943.95 925.20 930.00 5.00CIPLA 598.00 601.20 589.50 592.55 3.00INFRATEL 173.00 176.50 167.40 173.50 0.70BHARTIARTL 540.00 545.80 528.30 529.65 1.60TCS 1939.10 1939.50 1886.25 1897.00 5.35ONGC 76.40 77.20 74.75 75.65 0.05GRASIM 489.80 492.80 482.75 485.30 0.10WIPRO 185.20 186.00 182.55 183.85 -0.25ICICIBANK 344.00 352.50 333.70 335.65 -1.10HINDALCO 122.90 123.00 115.85 117.15 -0.50GAIL 94.75 94.75 90.90 91.00 -0.50LT 833.00 834.85 810.00 816.50 -6.35HDFC 1737.00 1742.00 1685.00 1689.75 -14.15UPL 373.45 375.80 363.00 365.00 -3.40ASIANPAINT 1611.80 1638.00 1570.00 1579.00 -15.30TATASTEEL 282.80 284.00 272.00 272.90 -2.95BAJFINANCE 2130.00 2130.00 2015.00 2037.95 -22.60COALINDIA 132.85 133.20 128.55 129.00 -1.80BAJAJFINSV 4768.00 4778.40 4577.35 4609.00 -64.40VEDL 80.60 80.80 77.05 77.40 -1.15EICHERMOT 14230.80 14330.80 13571.00 13800.00 -210.50ITC 163.95 164.15 157.10 158.50 -2.50TATAMOTORS 84.50 84.95 80.55 81.20 -1.30IOC 76.10 77.00 74.05 74.50 -1.25BPCL 333.00 336.30 321.20 324.00 -5.55TITAN 857.00 862.50 830.30 834.00 -15.10HEROMOTOCO2040.00 2040.00 1955.00 1963.95 -36.35MARUTI 4874.00 4879.00 4637.50 4660.00 -89.30POWERGRID 162.60 162.60 158.10 158.65 -3.10SBIN 172.45 173.80 166.10 166.90 -3.85JSWSTEEL 175.55 176.60 167.50 167.70 -4.50INDUSINDBK 463.00 477.70 435.45 439.40 -14.95AXISBANK 403.50 409.45 379.65 383.00 -14.35M&M 405.00 407.90 380.70 386.00 -14.65NTPC 91.00 92.45 85.75 87.10 -3.35
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SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGENIFTY NEXT 50 23030.00 23123.30 22919.45 22959.50 199.65HDFCLIFE 499.70 527.35 499.00 521.65 27.10COLPAL 1310.25 1370.00 1307.00 1359.00 58.10SBILIFE 742.00 768.85 738.50 760.10 24.95ADANITRANS 197.45 199.80 193.50 198.95 5.85LUPIN 820.00 839.65 817.30 835.00 21.70GODREJCP 491.50 506.90 491.50 499.25 12.95DMART 2190.00 2284.00 2185.00 2240.00 57.90BIOCON 355.00 361.00 349.20 358.50 8.75ICICIGI 1217.00 1248.90 1210.10 1240.25 30.05MOTHERSUMI 77.55 78.75 76.60 76.80 1.75UBL 876.00 902.45 867.10 890.50 16.30DIVISLAB 2271.00 2314.85 2253.10 2300.00 41.15INDIGO 922.00 949.10 917.00 929.65 15.10ASHOKLEY 47.40 49.25 46.10 46.85 0.75GICRE 128.00 132.00 128.00 129.05 1.70IDEA 4.20 4.30 4.15 4.20 0.05PIDILITIND 1373.80 1389.00 1351.80 1368.00 14.95DABUR 447.00 452.00 441.65 446.55 4.65BERGEPAINT 457.00 465.10 448.80 455.00 4.35AUROPHARMA 658.95 664.40 639.60 652.50 3.95AMBUJACEM 170.70 172.95 168.75 169.50 0.90DLF 132.90 132.90 129.35 129.80 0.65ICICIPRULI 400.10 413.00 398.00 399.80 1.85MARICO 302.90 304.00 298.25 300.00 1.05PAGEIND 17200.00 17280.00 16850.00 17063.15 43.75NMDC 73.90 74.50 72.60 73.15 0.15HINDZINC 178.50 179.50 174.00 176.40 0.05ACC 1166.00 1179.00 1145.35 1153.00 0.35CADILAHC 323.50 327.45 318.00 321.05 -0.15CONCOR 357.95 366.55 356.35 358.85 -0.55HAVELLS 494.00 497.00 485.15 485.90 -0.95MCDOWELL-N 514.70 514.70 499.20 501.35 -3.40HDFCAMC 2650.20 2700.00 2558.50 2614.95 -21.40BAJAJHLDNG 1908.00 1938.95 1873.00 1874.95 -22.85SIEMENS 1064.40 1072.25 1036.20 1042.00 -12.80BOSCHLTD 10100.00 10100.00 9750.10 9762.05 -133.20PGHH 10297.00 10349.00 9999.90 10020.00 -139.25PNB 29.85 30.20 29.05 29.20 -0.50SRTRANSFIN 774.50 789.00 733.35 742.70 -12.90IBULHSGFIN 128.90 131.50 121.70 123.05 -2.15NHPC 20.45 20.50 19.90 20.00 -0.35PETRONET 229.50 231.85 223.80 223.80 -4.00OFSS 2535.25 2584.95 2430.00 2450.00 -46.90HINDPETRO 203.00 204.95 195.55 196.80 -4.10NIACL 122.25 124.30 116.10 117.85 -2.70L&TFH 59.70 60.10 56.50 56.85 -1.55PEL 935.00 935.00 883.00 888.80 -24.15BANKBARODA 43.00 43.35 41.00 41.05 -1.45PFC 88.05 88.85 83.35 83.95 -3.40BANDHANBNK 261.80 262.85 234.55 241.50 -10.70
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Singapore: Far from barking itsorders, a robot dog enlisted bySingapore authorities to helpcurb coronavirus infections inthe city-state politely asks jog-gers and cyclists to stay apart.
The remote-controlled,four-legged machine built byBoston Dynamics was firstdeployed in a central park onFriday as part of a two-weektrial that could see it join otherrobots policing Singapore’sgreen spaces during a nation-wide lockdown.
“Let’s keep Singaporehealthy,” the yellow and blackrobodog named SPOT said inEnglish as it roamed around.
“For your own safety andfor those around you, pleasestand at least one metre apart.Thank you,” it added, in a
softly-spoken female voice.Despite the niceties,
breaches of Singapore’s strictlockdown rules can result inhefty fines and even jail.
The city-state of 5.7 millionpeople has more than 21,000cases, one of the highest talliesin Asia, largely due to massinfections among migrantworkers living in cramped dor-mitories in areas little visited bytourists.
Under rules to enforce thelockdown in place until June 1,residents can only leave theirhomes for essential trips like gro-cery shopping and must wear amask at all times in public.
Exercise outdoors is per-missible but must be donealone.Another robot, in theshape of a small car, has been
deployed at a nearby reservoirto warn visitors “not to loiter”and that “gatherings are notallowed”.
The authorities behind thelatest trial - the governmenttechnology and cyber securityagencies - said in a statementthat SPOT could better crossrough terrain in parks andgardens. As well as broadcast-ing messages reminding visi-tors of social distancing mea-sures, SPOT is fitted with cam-eras and analytics tools to esti-mate the number of people inthe park. Authorities said thecameras would not be able totrack individuals or recordpersonal data.SPOT has alsorecently been trialled for use ata temporary hospital deliveringmedicines to patients. Agency
Geneva: A wholesale market inthe central Chinese city ofWuhan played a role in the out-break of the novel coronaviruslast year, as the source or pos-sibly as an “amplifying setting”,the World Health Organizationsaid on Friday, calling for moreresearch.
Chinese authorities shutdown the market in January aspart of efforts to halt the spreadof the virus and ordered a tem-porary ban on trade and con-sumption of wildlife.
“The market played a rolein the event, that’s clear. Butwhat role we don’t know,whether it was the source oramplifying setting or just acoincidence that some caseswere detected in and aroundthat market,” said Dr Peter
Ben Embarek, a WHO experton food safety and zoonoticviruses that cross the speciesbarrier from animals tohumans.
It was not clear whetherlive animals or infected vendorsor shoppers may have broughtthe virus into the market, hetold a Geneva news briefing.
US Secretary of State MikePompeo has said there is “a sig-nificant amount of evidence”the virus came from theWuhan laboratory, althoughhe has also said there wasn’tcertainty.
No public evidence haslinked the outbreak to the labin Wuhan and scientists havesaid the coronavirus appears tohave developed in nature. AGerman intelligence report
cast doubts on Pompeo’s alle-gations, Der Spiegel reported.
Ben Embarek did notaddress the accusations.
He noted that it tookresearchers a year to identifycamels as the source of theMERS (Middle EastRespiratory Syndrome) virus, acoronavirus that emerged inSaudi Arabia in 2012 andspread in the Middle East,adding: “It’s not too late.”
“What is important, whatwould be of great help, is to gethold of the virus before it adapt-ed to humans, before the versionwe have now. Because then wewould better understand how itadapted to humans, how itevolved,” he said.
“In terms of investigations,China has most probably, most
likely, all the expertise neededto do these investigations. Theyhave lot of very qualifiedresearchers to that,” he said.
A common sight acrossAsia, wet markets traditional-ly sell fresh produce and liveanimals, such as fish, in theopen air.
Many markets worldwidethat sell live animals must bebetter regulated and hygieneconditions improved, and someshould be closed down, BenEmbarek said. “But the vastmajority can be fixed, can bebetter organised.” It is often aquestion of controlling wastemanagement, the movement ofpeople and goods, and of sep-arating live animals from ani-mal products and from freshgoods, he said. Agency
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China on Friday askedAmerican politicians not to
“waste” their time by trying todrive a “wedge” between the rul-ing Communist Party and theChinese people over the dead-ly coronavirus pandemic.
Chinese Foreign Ministryspokesperson Hua Chunyingduring a media briefing heresaid it was under the leadershipof the Communist Party ofChina (CPC), Chinese peoplemade important progress infighting the pandemic.
“Accusing Chinese politicalsystem. We cannot accept this.They are doing it out of mali-cious intentions. They want todrive a wedge between the CPCand people,” Hua said.
“The US politicians should-n’t waste time in driving a wedgebetween the CPC and the peo-ple. Our political systems can co-exist and this serves the com-mon interest of both the people,”she said, responding to criticismon a host of issues related toChina by US Secretary of StateMike Pompeo.
In recent days, US PresidentDonald Trump and Pompeohave claimed that the deadly
virus originated from theWuhan Institute of Virology inthe central Chinese city ofWuhan, where the outbreakwas first detected last December.
The Trump administrationis currently weighing punitiveactions against China over itsearly handling of the globalhealth emergency. Washingtonis also pressing Beijing to allowAmerican experts to probe theorigin of the deadly virus.
China has stoutly denied theallegations and says the USwants to distract from its ownresponse to the pandemic aheadof the November presidentialelection in which Trump isseeking re-election.
The US is home to theworld’s largest and deadliestcoronavirus outbreak, with morethan 75,000 fatalities and over1.2 million cases.
Pompeo, who is regularlyaccusing China on a slew ofissues relating to the COVID-19,dominates the Chinese ForeignMinistry press briefings almostevery day with a host of Chinesejournalists raising questions oneafter another seeking responsefor comments.
This promoted her to saythat the ministry’s briefings
have become a venue to refutePompeo’s “lies”.
Stating that China and theUS should not be enemies but“comrades” in this fight againstthis pandemic, she said, “Facingthe coronavirus pandemic, ide-ological and political differ-ences can be put aside. Life mat-ters the most.”
On Trump’s allegation thatChina may have made “enor-mous mistake”, Hua said “hatenormous mistakes we made.This is a sudden disease weconfronted among the first to be affected by the virus”,she said.
“China took comprehen-sive and rigorous measuresand our efforts have beenrecognised by the internation-al community. When we lookat the US it is simple math.Who has been making an effec-tive response and who has not.I don’t want to compare the twocountries but you reportersmake us compare,” she said.
She also backpedalled onthe allegations made by hercolleague Zhao Lijian earlierstating that the US army mayhave brought the coronavirus toWuhan during the last year’smilitary games.
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European leaders held mutedcommemorations Friday to
mark the end of World War IIon the continent, as coron-avirus lockdowns kept crowdsfrom celebrating VE Day.Across the ocean, Americansawaited what is expected to bethe worst set of unemploymentfigures since record-keepingbegan in 1948.
The European celebrationscame in stark contrast to theway millions of its citizens
spilled onto the streets 75 yearsago, waving flags, flashing vic-tory signs and dancing in joybecause the carnage on theircontinent had ended.
Street parties this year werebanned in Britain. In France,President Emmanuel Macronlaid a wreath at the Arc deTriomphe monument at the topof a largely deserted Champs-Elysees Avenue since the coun-try is still under a strict lock-down until Monday.
A day earlier, Macronspoke to his Russian counter-part Vladimir Putin, who hadto cancel his own huge VictoryDay parade that had beenplanned for Saturday inMoscow.
Macron said the pandem-ic “makes the construction ofpeace and stability on the con-tinent and in the rest of theworld more necessary thanever,” according to a statement.
With nearly 26,000 con-firmed virus deaths, France isamong the world’’s top five
hardest-hit nations in the pan-demic. Britain, with over30,000 confirmed deaths, issecond only to the US, whichhas seen nearly 76,000 peoplekilled by the virus. Russia hasreported only 1,625 virusdeaths, but infections are jump-ing by over 10,000 each day.Experts believe all those figures— especially the Russian deathtoll — understate the trueimpact of the coronavirus.
In Germany, PresidentFrank-Walter Steinmeier,Chancellor Angela Merkel andthe heads of the parliament andtop court laid wreaths at thememorial to victims of war andviolence in Berlin.
“The corona pandemic isforcing us to commemoratealone — apart from those whoare important to us and towhom we are grateful,”Steinmeier said. He urgedGermans to “think, feel and actas Europeans” amid the coro-navirus crisis.
As European nations and
US states plot tentative, chaot-ic and often completely differ-ent road maps out of their lock-downs while still attempting toavoid a second wave of infec-tions, China and South Koreahighlighted the risks of easingsuch measures. Both Asiannations on Friday reportedmore coronavirus cases afterrelaxing restrictions.
South Korea’’s 13 newinfections were its first increasehigher than 10 in five days. Adozen were linked to a 29-year-old who managed to visit threenightclubs in Seoul last week-end. “A drop of ink in clearwater spreads swiftly,” ViceHealth Minister Kim Gang-lipsaid, urging vigilance to guardthe country’’s hard-won gains.“Anyone can become that dropof ink that spreads COVID-19.” South Korea’’s top infec-tious disease expert said thecountry could possibly pushback its plans to reopen schoolsif infections surge again overthe upcoming weekend after a
weeks-long decline.In China, where the new
coronavirus first emerged latelast year, authorities reported17 new virus cases, including16 people not showing anysymptoms. No new deaths havebeen reported for more thanthree weeks.
Health experts say everynation will see some type ofsecond wave of infections aftertheir lockdowns ease. Yet theeconomic impact of the mea-sures on the world’’s largesteconomy will be on full displayFriday when the U.S. govern-ment reports the unemploy-ment rate for April.
The rate could reach 16%or more, according to econo-mists surveyed by the dataprovider FactSet. Some 33 mil-lion Americans have soughtunemployment benefits sincethe virus hit and experts say 21million jobs may have been lostfor good. That would mean thatnearly all the U.S. job growth inthe 11 years since the Great
Recession ended had beenwiped out in one month.
And even those figureswon’’t capture all the workerswho have seen their hours orpay cut in the United States.Around the world, millions ofday laborers in Asia are goinghungry as their jobs vanish,tourism workers in Africa haveseen whole sections of theirfragile economies vanish andunemployment in the 19-coun-try eurozone is expected to sur-pass 10% in the comingmonths. The U.K. economy isforecast to shrink by the mostsince 1706.
On the anniversary of NaziGermany’’s surrender to Alliedforces in Europe in 1945,United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterreswarned that the coronaviruspandemic is unleashing “atsunami of hate and xenopho-bia, scapegoating and scare-mongering.”
He appealed for “an all-outeffort to end hate speech glob-
ally.” The U.N. chief warnedthat “anti-foreigner sentimenthas surged online and in thestreets, anti-Semitic conspira-cy theories have spread andCOVID-19-related anti-Muslim attacks have occurred.”
Worldwide, the virus hasinfected more than 3.8 millionpeople and killed nearly270,000, according to a tally byJohns Hopkins University basedon official data. But limited test-ing, differences in counting thedead and concealment by somegovernments undoubtedlymean the true scale of the pan-demic is much greater.
In Iran, which is battlingthe worst outbreak in theMideast while still under heavyU.S. sanctions, Friday prayerswere resuming in mosques in146 cities after being bannedfor more than two months, thecountry’’s semi-official Tasnimnews agency reported. Prayergatherings will still be bannedin major cities, including allprovincial capitals, it reported.
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China said on Friday it sup-ports a World Health
Organization-led review intothe global response to the coro-navirus outbreak, but “afterthe pandemic is over”.
The comments from for-eign ministry spokeswomanHua Chunying came as Chinahas faced increasing globalpressure in recent weeks toallow an international investi-gation into the origins of thepandemic.
The review should be con-ducted in an “open, transpar-ent and inclusive manner”under the leadership of WorldHealth Organization (WHO)chief Tedros AdhanomGhebreyesus, Hua said at abriefing.
But she added that itshould be at an “appropriatetime after the pandemic isover”. China also stressed thatany inquiry should be based onthe International HealthRegulations, and be authorisedby the World Health Assemblyor Executive Committee —the WHO’s dual governingbodies.
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President Donald Trump onFriday said the United
States was not behind a failedcovert plot in Venezuelaallegedly involving twoAmericans, but that if he didorder an attack it would be anopen “invasion.”
“If I wanted to go intoVenezuela I wouldn’t make asecret about it,” he told FoxNews. “I’d go in and theywould do nothing about it.They would roll over. I would-n’t send a small little group. No,no, no. It would be called an
army,” he said. “It would be called an inva-
sion.”Leftist Venezuelan
President Nicolas Maduro’sgovernment says the apparentlybotched plot was funded byUS-backed opposition leaderJuan Guaido and that two for-mer US special forces soldierswere among 17 people takenprisoner.
Another eight allegedattackers were killed in ashootout, the government says.
Maduro has said the twoAmericans have “confessedtheir guilt.”
Islamabad: US SpecialRepresentative ZalmayKhalilzad discussed theAfghanistan peace process withPakistan Chief of Army Staff(COAS) General Qamar JavedBajwa on Friday.
In a statement, the PakistanArmy Khalilzad met the COASin Rawalpindi.
“During the meeting,issues of mutual interest andoverall regional security,including Afghanistan recon-ciliation process were dis-cussed,” according to the Army.
General Bajwa reiteratedsupport for the peace process.Khalilzad appreciated Pakistan’scontinuous efforts for stabilityin the region, according to thestatement. PTI
GENEVA: The World HealthOrganization’s emergencieschief is pushing back againstmisinformation that heating orcooling the body can help fightthe coronavirus.
Dr Michael Ryan saidFriday he’d heard “various sto-ries” suggesting it might beimportant “to be very hot or bevery cold” to fight COVID-19.
“This has no impact on thevirus,” he said.
Ryan’s comments were thelatest attempt to dispel urbanlegend and other speculationabout how to defend against,counteract or seek miraclehome remedy-style cures forthe pandemic disease.
Ryan noted that virusesand infectious diseases oftencause the body to have fevers.
“Having a temperature initself is not necessarily a badthing,” he said.
“But also that temperaturehas to be carefully monitored,especially in children.”
AP
LONDON: The head of theWorld Health Organizationsays the agency needs $1.7 bil-lion to fund its response effortsfor COVID-19 for the rest ofthe year — and that it’s about$1.3 billion short.
Last month, U.S. PresidentDonald Trump announced hewas suspending funding to theU.N. health agency, sayingWHO botched its response tothe coronavirus pandemic andwas acting as a public relationsagency for China. WHO saidpreviously it was conducting anassessment of what the loss ofU.S. funding would mean for itsoperations.
In a press briefing onFriday, WHO chief TedrosAdhanom Ghebreyesus saidWHO’s COVID-19 strategicplan is focused on severalobjectives, including providingtechnical and logistical supportto all countries, particularlythose with fragile health sys-tems.
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The number of people inItaly who’ve died with
COVID-19 infections hastopped 30,000.
The Health Ministry reg-istered 243 deaths on Friday,bringing the total of those whodied in the country to 30,201.Italy was the first country inEurope with a major outbreakof the coronavirus.
Authorities say many morelikely died with the infection athome or in nursing homeswithout being diagnosed.
With 1,327 more cases reg-istered in the 24-hour periodending Friday evening, Italynow tallies 217,185 confirmedcoronavirus infections.
Some 11,000 more peoplehave recovered from the illnessthan are currently positive forthe infection.
Lombardy in the northcontinues to be the hardest-hitregion, accounting for nearlyone-half of the latest cases reg-istered on Friday.
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Spain’s army says it expectstwo more outbreaks of the
coronavirus, according to aninternal document seen by The Associated Press.
The army report predicts“two more waves of the epi-demic” and Spain will take“between a year and a year-and-a-half to return to nor-mality.”
It says the second wavewould be in autumn or winterand possibly less serious thanthe initial outbreak due tohigher immunity in the popu-lation.
It adds a possible thirdwave would be “greatly weak-ened” if there is a vaccineavailable next year.
The document was pub-lished by Spanish newspaper ABC on Friday andlater confirmed as authentic bythe AP.
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The fact that he was once ahero, a beacon of journalisticcourage, who degenerates himselfinto rabble rousing as that’s thejournalism that sells. His charac-ter is nuanced and gives me ascope to interpret him in a com-plex way.
�How challenging was it tocarve yourself into the charac-ter? What research went into it?
It was a step by step process.I had to first read up on the greatjournalists of 1990s in India andresearch their work and philoso-phies. Then a quick study ofjournalism, as it is practised,today. A brief visit was made toa television news channel inDelhi, where I got to see andunderstand the entire process ofhow news travels from the studioto the public. Once this skeletalstructure was made, I had to pre-pare the psychological spaces thecharacter goes through in hisbrain so that I was prepared to getinto that state every time I was onthe set. Every scene was a con-scious preparation. There was aprofessional life and a personallife of my character, both, oppo-site to each other.
�Since the series revolvesaround the conspiracy to kill atop-notch journalist, does itaim to give a message aroundthe fourth pillar of democracyor anything at large?
Not really! The plot is anattempted assassination of a pop-ular television journalist wherefour suspects are nabbed. Duringtheir investigation by a police offi-cer, shocking discoveries are madewhich lead him to the nether-world.
But the series explores a larg-er context. That of the classdivide in our country — upper,middle and lower classes. Theirinteractions lead to truths and dis-coveries of an India that we knowlittle of. That is the larger message.
�Does it also gives an insightinto how the killing of journal-ists like Gauri Lankesh, ShujaatBukhari and many othersimpact good Journalism? Orwhat all is at stake for an inves-tigative journalist?
Well yes, the arc of my char-acter in the series reflects whatyou have mentioned above butthe series as a whole is not aboutan assassination alone.
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number of murder mysterieswritten and filmed in the past,you always need somethingnew that cannot be easily pre-dicted or guessed. Do you thinkthe series has a completely newangle for the audience?
Yes. It presents a new angleas it explores the ancient realmof Paatal Lok, Dharti and Swarg.The past lives of the four suspect-ed assassins is a shocking reve-lation that will certainly keep theaudience hooked.
�You played the antagonist inHichki, DCP Parulkar in SacredGames and did a romantic rolein Netflix’s Once Again. Howsmooth or tough it is for you toswitch genres?
That’s what I have come herefor as an actor. To be able toexplore from one end of thespectrum to the other and per-form roles that are absolute con-trasts to each other, yet touch thehearts and minds of the audience.And in the process, leave myself
as a mystery where it becomesquite impossible to identify thereal person behind these charac-ters. That would be my completejourney as an actor. Acting is notabout you, it is about the charac-ter you are playing. That is whyyou need to transform.
�You have played many impor-tant characters in theatre —Shakespeare (as Banquo),Moliere (as Sganarelle) andmany more. How has thisshaped you as an actor?
It has shaped me com-pletely. Theatre has beenand will always be my foun-dation as an actor. It hasgiven me the education Ineed to be able to process ascript, understand voice andemotions, create characterarcs, transform, disciplinemyself, work on my physicalintelligence, respect mywork, develop strength toendure long hours of filmshoot, and so much more.
�You also conduct the-atre workshops. Whatwould you say about theinterest of youth in themedium?
I am fortunate to seethis gradual change ofthe youth towards actingeducation. I have beenconducting workshops formany years now and in thelast couple of years, I haveseen a steady growth ofparticipants who are veryeager to learn and want towork very seriously towardsa performance technique.They are slowly realisingthat merely going to a gym,building their bodies, look-ing good, doing the rounds ofauditions is not getting themanywhere for years. You needskill today. Even the audienceis interested in watching anactor with a craft and acting skilland not only looks.
(The series goes live onAmazon Prime Video on May 15.)
Kelly Rowland says her new singleCoffee and its accompanying music
video is her “ode to the beauty of blackwomen.” Rowland made her debut withthe breezy R&B track and video featur-ing black women across a spectrum ofshades and colours two weeks ago.
“I just wanted it to be an expressionof black beauty and the different varia-tions and tones and body shapes,” saidRowland, who shot the video in Miamilate last year. “I was really inspired byblack women.”
The Grammy-winning singer saidshe first started working on Coffee in 2017but held on the track, which was co-writ-ten by Syd of the alternative R&B bandThe Internet.
“I was very particular after I had myson about what I was saying and howgood it was because I wanted to makehim proud,” said Rowland, who gavebirth in 2014. “I was extremely hard onmyself.”
The 39-year-old Rowland talks aboutcoffee — the song and the drink — as wellas signing with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation com-pany for management and life in quar-antine. Excerpts:
�There’s been a really warm responseto Coffee and its video. How does thatmake you feel?
The morning that it came out, I hadthis really big weight on my chest. I lit-erally got to my closet and cried becauseI was like, “This is what I remember theanxiety and everything feeling like,” butthis one felt a little different. It’s becauseI’ve been in business for 20-plus years andit was like an overwhelming sense of grat-itude. When I started seeing, whether it’smy fans or new people, or I’m seeingdancers put movement to the song,that’s really something to take in and cel-ebrate and be grateful for. It could becompletely different. I feel this over-whelming sense of gratitude that literal-
ly gives me a ball in my throat. You justdon’t take anything for granted. You real-ly don’t.�Are you a big coffee drinker?
I’m a coffee ice-cream girl. Wheneverthere’s affogato close, it has my name onit. I like it when it’s iced. I like iced cof-fee and I drink it with whiskey.
�How’s the album coming along?I’m very excited about this album,
especially for the fact that the years thatit took me to find tempo. The wholealbum’s not like that but I’m excited toshare my tempo. I feel like I always hadmids and slower records but yes, I’mready to dance. Especially, when we comeout of all this (Coronavirus lockdowns),we need to dance.
�Have you finished the album?In my gut, I feel like I have like one
more record to do.
�And you’re technically an indepen-dent artist now?
Yes, for now. There have been real-ly cool calls. At the same time, it’s sucha different space and time in music now.I think in my head, it’s just navigating itall. I am definitely independent. It’ssomething about it that I am really, real-ly loving but I am also just like, “Oh Ineed a little bit more of some budgetmoney to execute some of this.” I alwayssay that Destiny’s Child set me up becausewe had visuals. People are like, “You’regoing release a song with no visuals?”Now that I released Coffee, people are say-ing, “OK! What are we going to get next?
What visual are we going to get?” So I dofeel that pressure at time but I just wantto take it a little easier on myself.
�Is this album through Roc Nation?Roc Nation is my management com-
pany. And that’s new.
�How did it come about?It is family and it happened just like
that. It really happened to work and it’sworking out really well so far. My teamis great. It’s not to say I didn’t have a greatteam before, But I am realising, youevolve, you move on and that’s really it,so Roc Nation is home now.
�What have you been doing with yourtime at home now?
I wish I would have learned how towork ProTools. I think now that itmakes you definitely want to learn. Youwatch artists like Ariana Grande. I heardTrey Songz does it too. So many differ-ent artists are doing things right now overthat. And hence, they’re operating theirown new sessions. But I feel why didn’tI learn how to do that. That’s probably mynext goal — to learn how to record myselfbecause I could have got so many thingsdone by now. I’ve been sent songs sincethe beginning of quarantine and I am lit-erally waiting for my engineer to comeout of his quarantine.
�Did you have a goal date for gettingthe album out?
No. Before quarantine, we were at theclose of the record. That’s when you’returning records in, talking to writers andproducers, working on that whole pro-cedure of the end process. It’s not that it’sslowed down but definitely made thingsa little more challenging to navigate. Wegot this and definitely this year. I am notwaiting anymore. I won’t waste anymoretime. I will do it this year.
—AP
Actor Chitrangda Singh believes it isimportant to stay mentally fit, come what
may.“The mental health of the women in the
family affects everyone and it’s important toencourage people to talk about it. Peopleshould absolutely not make women feelguilty about having any kind of issue or stressor anxiety. There is no bravery in faketoughness. Weall are weak attimes, and it’sgood to makepeople feel thatit is all okay andnormal. So yes, Ibelieve the veryimportant stepis to talk about itin the firstplace,” saidChitrangda.
She sharedthat it is equallyimportant formen to managethe chores of thehouse. “It won’t be difficult if the workloadof the family is distributed among all themembers of the family. I suggest one couldhelp by managing the daily chores or takingturns to help with the kitchen or the kids. Also,it is extremely important to find some timeto talk to her (women at home) and know howshe is managing or feeling physically and men-tally,” she said.
The actor also suggested staying busy bydoing anything you love during the lockdown.
Amid the lockdown, Chitrangada is writ-ing a short film, making fun videos for fansand much more. She will be next seen in BobBiswas, a spin-off to the 2012 hit, Kahaani,
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The immediate effect of yoga andmeditation can astonish some peo-
ple as they have the ability to quicklystill the mind and clear negativethoughts. When we begin to meditate,we often wonder why we had not doneit before. Patanjali, the ancient authorof the ‘Yoga Sutras’, describes themind as a restless monkey, which isconstantly distracted and always hov-ering around.
However, meditation is some-thing that can help one gain peace andcontrol over the frenetic activities of themind. We are able to land in a peace-ful sanctuary, away from the noise anddisturbance of the materialistic world.In this state of mind, our being is muchbetter balanced and our body becomeshealthy. This should be our first andmost natural protection against theongoing pandemic and all other dis-eases. If this is done in time, we maybe stronger and we may not even needmedicines. We must also rememberthat all yoga is first based upon yamaor niyama. This is the ethical founda-tion of life and it is the basis of yoga.Unless this ethics is not followed, themind will never be still and meditationwill not be possible.
Here are a few excerpts from myfilm, Key to Immunity Part III, whereyoga experts talk about how they viewit:
Yoga expert, Dr Ananda Balayogifrom Puducherry, says, “The chitta (apart of mind) is that subconscious,unconscious mind that is constantly inmotion. The ancient rishis said that themind is a monkey, a drunken one, andon top of that, is bitten by a scorpion.Well, if that’s how the mind is — con-stantly in motion, it’s whirlpooling thesubconscious mind. The two togeth-er just drag you down,
away from your goal even before youcan blink an eyelid.”
Yoga exponent, Sivananda School,Grass Valley CA, Ananda Prema ofRussia, says, “When you do asanas,your mind becomes focussed, andhence, it becomes still. When mind isstill, there is no desire and when thereis no desire, you attain happiness. It’sall about mind and controlling themind. It’s very hard to control yourmind which is running like awild horse, unwilling to fol-low any discipline andit’s very tough togently take overit, to make itlisten to you, tomake it followwhat youwould like it todo.”
New York-based TulkuSherdor, direc-tor, BlazingW i s d o mInstitute, says,“What moderncognitive science,theories, physics,Buddhist science andthe yoga agree with isthat all that we everexperience is our ownmind and all we can
personally experience is the naturaldisplay or energetic expression of ourown minds. This is exactly what weneed to realise through practice. Whenwe realise that all we experience is theproduct or result ofour own minds, itm e a n st h a t
there is a potential to work skillfullywith that expression of our own mindsto transform or change it.”
Acharya Swami Sitaramananda,Sivananda Yoga, Grass Valley CA, says,“A lot of people practice yoga but theyjump over its foundation, — the twomain practices of yama and niyama,which are the prescription by the yogisabout the dos and don’ts, the restric-
tions and the observances.”Talking about yama-niyama,
Puducherry-based Yoga guruMinakshi Devi Bhavnani, says,“It basically means a method orcould be called a technologyto evolve from the domi-nance of the animal braininto the conscious use ofthe human brain.”
As Patanjali hadsaid, yoga never harms.It is absolutely brillianthow it takes control ofthe tongue, our sexu-al desires, greed, thedesire to steal and allthe other natural
impulses neces-sary for sur-
vival.
Actor Kartik Aaryan saidplaying two characters in
one movie would seem scary,but if the transition from Veerto Raghu in Love Aaj Kal wassmooth he credits the film’sdirector Imtiaz Ali for it. Theactor feels Ali brings out greatperformances from actors in hismovies.
Kartik took to Instagramand shared a still from Love AajKal, and also a picture of him-self along with Ali.
Alongside the image hewrote, “When you first dreamof being in films, you act infront of the mirror and nail itevery time, and the world offilms seems magical? Then youget a film. You see the cameraand are unnerved. It’s biggerthan the suitcase you broughtto Mumbai. The bright lightsseem to be scolding you for notlanding on a one inch tapemark and wasting everyone’stime.
“The first few years becomeabout trying not to look ner-vous? Then you get an ImtiazAli film. The moment he nar-rates the story, you are pulledinto a dream. I don’t evenremember seeing the cameraon his set, he’d always be stand-ing wherever I looked after cut.He was never at the monitor, hewas by my side. The lights onImtiaz Ali’s set help you findthose tape marks,” he added.
Kartik claimed he neverexperienced the kind of loveand appreciation he got for hisperformance in Love Aaj Kal.
“And that too from some ofmy favourite filmmakers andpeople I most respect in theindustry. How ironic that themaking of this film felt mosteffortless. It would scare me tothink of doing two charactersin one movie. And here, I did-n’t even realise how smoothlyI was being transitioned
between #Veer and #Raghu,” hewrote.
“For an actor, there is nobetter environment than beingIn front of that mirror. ImtiazAli takes you there. This is thereason why so many greatactors’ greatest performanceshave been in Imtiaz Ali films,”Kartik added.
The actor then praised Ali,calling him a “magician.”
“Imtiaz Ali director nahihain, jadugar hain (Imtiaz Aliis not a director but a magi-cian)! Thank you sir for givingme the best performance of mycareer yet. @imtiazaliofficial#LoveAajKal.”
Love Aaj Kal co-starringSara Ali Khan released onValentine’s Day this year. Ittraced love stories of two dif-ferent eras — the first is set inthe late 1980s-early nineties,and unfolds between Raghuand Leena. The other lovestory, set in the present time,happens between Veer andZoe.
The film is a retelling ofAli’s own film of 2009 thatstarred Deepika Padukone andSaif Ali Khan, and was a hit.Love Aaj Kal 2020 fared belowexpectation at the box-officeand was also critically panned.
—IANS
Many of today’s highest-sellingartists produced their bestworks in solitude, away from
the clamour of society
������� ��Pain thrums through Frida
Kahlo’s life and art: childhood poliocrippled her; a near-fatal bus crash atthe age of 18 led to a life of surgeriesand recoveries; abortions and miscar-riages left her traumatised. Then, ofcourse, there was her turbulent on-off love affair with Diego Rivera, astring of adulterous liaisons and herstrained relationship with her moth-er.
Kahlo channelled this personalsuffering into her art, birthing amacabre creativity now feted theworld over.
She began painting in 1925, dur-ing her nine-month convalescencefrom the bus accident, using a cus-tom-made lap easel and an overheadmirror installed in her bed’s canopy.Over the next 20 years or so, Fridapainted the frailty of the human body,life and death and decay with haunt-ing poignancy. “I paint myself,” sheonce said, “because I am so oftenalone, because I am the person Iknow best.” Of her 143 survivingpaintings, 55 are self-portraits.
!��� �3����Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) saw art
as a means to effect social and polit-ical change. By the early 1970s, he waswidely regarded in Europe as one ofGermany’s leading conceptual artists.
He was, however, less well-knownacross the Atlantic.
It was during his first trip toAmerica in 1974 that Beuys unveiledI Like America and America Likes Me,a live performance piece — or Action— that has become one of his best-known works.
�������� ��In 1967, Agnes Martin (1912-
2004) gave away her painting mate-rials and fled New York in a pickuptruck. She resurfaced around 18months later on a remote mesa inTaos, New Mexico. “I’ve finishedpainting,” she said to Arne Glimcher,the founder of Pace Gallery, justbefore she took off. “I’m never paint-ing again.”
According to Glimcher, “She feltshe had painted everything she couldpaint. She needed to go back to NewMexico, to that kind of space and soli-tude.” But more than anything, headds, “I don’t think she could copewith the notoriety that she was start-ing to gain.”
In Taos, Martin led a simpler, ifisolating existence. She didn’t own atelevision, or a phone, or a cat for thatmatter. “I can’t have any distractions,”she said to Glimcher.
She would not return to paintinguntil 1974. And when she did, heraesthetic had changed — her gridshad morphed into an exploration ofhorizontal and vertical lines, thepastel greys and whites replacedwith soft pinks, yellows and blues.This new painterly language would
earn her widespread recognition andcult status as a sort of desert mystic.
����� � � ��Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979) is
perhaps best known today for hispost-war abstract paintings of theBritish countryside, executed inblocks of rich, vibrant colour. Manysuch landscapes were painted in andaround Greenleaves, the rural homehe shared with his family nearPetworth in Sussex.
The artist’s retreat to Greenleaves
at the outbreak of World War Two —his London studio was bombed in1940 — marks a turning point in hiswork. Surrounded by six acres ofwoodland, Greenleaves proved a fer-tile source of inspiration: the silverbirch trees in his garden, the nearbymeadows, and the sunflowers, pop-pies and dahlias from his courtyardgarden would populate his canvasesfor the next 40 years.
������������Yayoi Kusama has described her
work as ‘art medicine’; the makingprocess as a form of ‘self-therapy’. “Ifit were not for art,” she once revealed,“I would have killed myself a longtime ago.”
By drawing and painting repet-itive patterns, Kusama seeks to oblit-erate her hallucinatory daemons andescape them. “I paint them (dots) inquantity; in doing so, I try to escape,”she explained of her polka-dot worksin an interview with Artspace in 2017.Her Infinity Net paintings, which firstwon her critical acclaim in New York,are her most sought-after works atauction.
Open about her illness, Kusamahas lived voluntarily in a psychiatricasylum in Tokyo since 1977. She isnow in her nineties. Most recently, inresponse to the current health crisis,Kusama shared a message with theworld, in which she says it’s time “tofight and overcome our unhappiness.”
����� �������� Vincent van Gogh’s painful last
years saw the creation of some of hismost famous works, including TheStarry Night (1889), Wheat withCrows (1890), and Portrait of DrGachet (1890), the last ofwhich sold for$82,500,000 in1990 at Christie’sNew York, set-ting a recordprice at auctionfor any work bythe artist.
Much of hiswork from 1889,including Vue de l’asile etde la Chapelle de Saint-Rémy, wascompleted during his stay at SaintPaul de Mausole, a former monasterythat had been converted into a pri-vate hospital for the mentally ill.
His urgent brushstrokes, use ofelectrifying colours and ridges ofthick impasto would pave the way forearly 20th-century Expressionism. Yetduring his time at the asylum, main-taining the balance between hismental health and being able to focuson his work proved difficult. “To sac-rifice one’s freedom,” he wrote to hisbrother Theo, “to stand outside soci-ety and to have only one’s work, with-out distraction… it’s beginning toweigh too heavily upon me here.”
��������C��After the death of her photogra-
pher husband, Alfred Stieglitz, in1946, Georgia O’Keeffe would spendsummers and autumns isolated atGhost Ranch in New Mexico, livingoff a generator and without a tele-phone. The house was sparsely fur-nished, reflecting her minimalistaesthetic.
She said the solitude offered ‘akind of freedom’ that brought hercloser to nature. The view of the wideopen desert backed by the CerroPedernal mountain, as in Red Hills
with Pedernal, White Clouds(1936), became her favourite
subject. “It’s my privatemountain,” she explained.
“It belongs to me.God told me if I
painted it enough,I could have it.”
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Santu Gaitonde(1924-2001), more com-
monly known as VS Gaitonde,is one of the highest-selling modernIndian artists at auction. Accordingto Deepanjana Klein, Christie’sInternational Head of South AsianArt, “his mostly monochromatic
paintings have a depth that engulfsyou in silence and stillness.”
Those same qualities of silenceand stillness also characterised theman himself. As the late art criticDnyaneshwar Nadkarni explained in1983, “Gaitonde isolated himselfvery early in his career from every-thing in his environment which heconsidered irrelevant to (his) inten-sity as a painter.”
Gaitonde only produced aroundfive or six paintings a year, and rarelymixed with fellow artists. “Everythingstarts from silence,” he once said. “Thesilence of the canvas. The silence ofthe painting knife. The painter startsby absorbing all these silences.”
������D�����Born in 1839 in Aix-en-
Provence, Cézanne studied lawbefore leaving for Paris in 1861 topursue a career as a painter. There,he met the Impressionist CamillePissarro and later exhibited at the first(1874) and third (1877) Impressionistexhibitions.
By the early 1880s, however,Cézanne had returned to Provenceand begun to withdraw from theParis-centred Impressionists. In therugged solitude of his sun-drenchedhomeland, his work pivoted in direc-tion. He played with perspective andused short, hatched brushstrokes,blocks of strong, saturated colour andirregular lighting.
Today, works from Cézanne’sgroundbreaking late period are high-ly sought after by collectors at auc-tion. Formerly in the storied collec-tion of SI Newhouse, Bouilloire etfruits (1888-90, above) sold for$59,295,000 in May 2019 at Christie’sin New York, well above its on-request estimate in the region of $40million.
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Australian opener David Warner saysit is unlikely that the T20 World Cup
will be staged in his country in October-November because of the Covid-19 pan-demic.
“The ICC World Cup will not goahead here by the looks of it. It will bedifficult to get everyone (16 teams)together,” said Warner in an InstagramLive session with India’s batting star RohitSharma.
However, the International CricketCouncil is yet to take the final call on theT20 showpiece event.
During the chat, Rohit said India’stour of Australia, which is scheduled afterthe T20 World Cup, will be a “great way”to restart international calendar.
“I love playing against Australia.When we won last time (in 2019), it wasgreat for us. You guys (Warner and SteveSmith) were missing (due to ball-tamper-ing bans).
“What our bowlers and batters didthere was amazing. I am looking forwardto the upcoming tour already. Hope bothboards manage to get the series under-way. Will be a great way to kick off crick-et in the world,” said India’s limited oversvice-captain.
India won their first Test series inAustralia, and Warner said he was feel-
ing helpless watching his team lose.“Watching that series was hard as you
can’t do anything from the outside. ButI want to say that India has the best paceattack against left-handers. They zero in
one spot and keep bowling there.“Mentally, it was great for Indian
cricket but it was hard to watch. I felthelpless. Hope it does happen and look-ing forward to the battle,” said Warner.
The Australian said playing India inIndia is one of the toughest challenges inworld cricket.
“I love playing India in india.Everyone is against you. Hard conditions.Same for you (Rohit) when you comehere,” he said.
Warner is also not enthused by theidea of playing in front of empty stands,like Australia did against New Zealandin Sydney in March before the ODI serieswas called off.
“It was a bizarre experience. Youcould only hear echo of cricket ball. It wasbizarre. We are used to calling ‘yes andno’ while running between wickets but wedid not need to do that.
“It was literally like playing a warmup game. It was surreal. I don’t know forhow long you can sustain that. You gainyour momentum from home crowd.”
The Aussie opener also spoke aboutplayers considered the best in the worldin Test cricket in Virat Kohli and SteveSmith. “People say Kohli and Smith arethe best in the world,” said Warner. “Butwe make Smith and Kohli because wetake the shine off the ball. We have gotan important job as openers.”
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India skipper Virat Kohlibelieves cricket in empty
stadiums is a real possibility ina post Covid-19 world andthough it is unlikely to have abearing on the intensity ofplayers, he feels the magicwould certainly go missing.
“It’s quite a possible situ-ation, it might happen, I hon-estly don’t know how everyoneis going to take that becausewe all are used to playing infront of so many passionatefans,” Kohli said in Star Sportsshow Cricket Connected.
“I know it will be playedat a very good intensity butthat feeling of the crowd con-necting with the players andthe tension of the game whereeveryone goes through it inthe stadium, those emotionsare very difficult to recreate,”he added.
Kohli said the manymoments which are createdbecause of the passion broughtin by fans, would be missing.
“Things will still go on,but I doubt that one will feelthat magic happening insidebecause of the atmospherethat was created.
“We will play sports howit is supposed to be played, butthose magical moments willbe difficult to come by,” hesaid.
E ����"������CCricket is not going to be thesame in the post Covid-19world and playing in emptystadiums would be a “hollowfeeling” but Australiawicketkeeper-batsman AlexCarey is ready to embracethe “new normal”.
Carey is open to the ideaof playing in empty stadi-ums, which according to himcould be a way forward.
“Cricket as we’re used to isgoing to be different for a bit.There’s the T20 World Cupand the IPL that we’re alllooking to play, but it’s hard topicture anything without thefans. It’s going to be a hollowfeeling,” said the DelhiCapitals player during anInstagram Live session withhis IPL team.
“But I feel the fans will atleast have some Live cricket tolook forward to on TV, and Ican promise it’s still going tobe some solid cricket whichthe fans are going to love,”added the left-hander.
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It is premature to talk aboutresumption of cricket butIndia’s tour of Australia
later this year is likely to goahead, BCCI treasurer ArunDhumal said on Friday, down-playing the logistical issueslikely to arise because of theCovid-19 pandemic.
To ensure that the high-profile tour, starting in October,goes on as scheduled, Dhumalsaid quarantining of Indianplayers upon their arrival is apossibility even though it is notfeasible before every overseasassignment.
“You can’t be sure of the sit-uation prevailing at that pointof time. As of now the Australiatour is on because nobody hascalled off that tour and same forT20 World Cup,” Dhumal said.
“The need for quarantineahead of Australia tour onlyarises if the preceding T20World Cup doesn’t take place.If the World Cup happens, thenplayers would have alreadycompleted their quarantine.”
Dhumal said isolationbefore the start of the tour canonly be a one-off.
“If quarantine becomes anorm before every tour then itwould be difficult to organise
games,” he said.Dhumal then went on to
list the bigger logistical chal-lenge that awaits Australia —the T20 World Cup in
October-November.“...Would it be possible for
Australia to have so manyteams (16) coming in andquarantining for two weeks?
Players will be out of cricket forso long and further two weeksof quarantine and thenstraightaway to go into T20World Cup. Who would be
interested? So there is no clar-ity.
“Once the situationimproves and the lockdownends, then we will see keepingthe safety and health of ourplayers in mind as that is para-mount,” said Dhumal.
India are scheduled to playfour Tests Down Under withCricket Australia consideringan additional one. Dhumalsaid the five-Test series ideawas discussed before the lock-down but Cricket Australiacould now change its mindconsidering the severe financialimpact Covid-19 has had onthe board.
“The India-Australia touris more likely to happenbecause it is further away andlogistically it easier to organ-ise. We will have to see whatgovernment guidelines are atthat point (both India andAustralian Government).
“How will the team trav-el? There is no clarity oninternational travel and if wecan get an exemption. Wedon’t know as of now. The pic-ture is ho hazy that we can’tdecide anything,” saidDhumal.
On Cricket Australia’s ideaof an additional Test, Dhumalsaid:”As far as the fifth Test
goes, that discussion hap-pened before the lockdown.When cricket resumes, (wewill see) whether any countrywould like to host an addition-al Test or have two T20sinstead, which is likely to gen-erate more revenues.
“There is a possibility thatrequest comes from CricketAustralia only.”
Dhumal also said if theIPL doesn’t take place, theboard will take a hit of �4000crore.
“If IPL doesn’t take placethe revenue loss will be �4000crore. In case, we lose thehome season also, that willalso be a substantial amount.BCCI is also facing huge loss-es. If IPL doesn’t happen thenwe will be in a very big prob-lem,” said Dhumal.
If the T20 World Cupdoesn’t take place in October-November, staging the IPL isa possibility in that window.
“If the situation improvesby that time (September-October), we also have thinkabout T20 WC and Asia Cupand accordingly take a call. Fora full-fledged IPL to happen,you have to have at least 45-50 days. Whether we get thewindow, it is still a questionmark.”
������� England captain JoeRoot has said he is “very opti-mistic” Test cricket will takeplace in his side’s 2020 home sea-son even if that means thesquad have to go into more thantwo months’ of quarantine.
With Britain currently inlockdown because of the coro-navirus, a three-Test seriesagainst the West Indies sched-uled for June has been post-poned, with Pakistan due to visitlater in a season whose start hasnow been delayed until July 1.
“I’m very optimistic, hope-fully that can be the case and itwould be a real shame if it was-n’t,” he told the Cricket show onSky Sports.
“I think a number of peopleare desperate to see Live sportback on telly (television) and theguys are all very much missingplaying and would love to getback out there.” AFP
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The Technical Committee of AllIndia Football Federation on
Friday recommended the implemen-tation of the continental body’s rule onfielding foreign players in a domesticmatch from next year, reducing thenumber to four from five, a decisionwhich is in line with national teamcoach’s thinking.
India head coach Igor Stimac hadin March expressed unhappiness at thenumber of foreign players featuring ina match in Indian Super League andI-League, saying it was coming in theway of the country producing a futureSunil Chhetri.
Stimac had said that ISL and I-League should follow Asian FootballConfederation’s policy of allowing amaximum of four foreign players in amatch instead of the five permitted inthe domestic games currently.
The AIFF’s Technical Committee
met on Friday via video conferenceunder the chairmanship of ShyamThapa and took the decision to recom-mend the 3+1 (three non-Asians andone Asian) rule.
“The Committee discussed atlength and unanimously recommend-ed the implementation of the 3 (for-eigners) +1 (Asian) recruit rule for alldomestic league matches after the 2021season onwards, as per current AFCregulations for participation in AFCClub competitions,” the AIFF said ina release.
“However, if AFC changes thisrule, the changes will be implement-ed for domestic league matches,” itadded.
The Committee was also briefedabout the postponement of the FIFAU-17 Women’s World Cup India 2020by the FIFA-Confederations workinggroup, and informed that the futuredates of the tournament haven't yetbeen finalised.
�������� Football teams will beallowed to use five substitutes whenplay resumes after the coronaviruspandemic, the sport’s law-makingbody announced on Friday.
The International FootballAssociation Board (IFAB) said in asstatement that it had agreed to aproposal by world governing bodyFIFA for a temporary change to therules “to protect player welfare”.
Teams face likely fixture con-gestion in a packed calendar as theyattempt to make up for lost timewhen play can resume.
The lay off is expected to havean impact on player fitness levelstoo.
It also said that competitionswhich were using video assistantreferee (VAR) would be allowed todrop it for the time being.
The change will apply to com-petitions scheduled to be complet-ed by 31 December of this year.
While teams will be able tomake five substitutions, “to avoiddisruption to the game, each teamwill only have three opportunitiesto make substitutions” as well as athalf time or before extra time.
In competitions that allow ananother replacement in extra time,teams will have an additional sub-stitution opportunity.
The previous limit on outfieldsubstitutes for top-level competi-tions has been three in regulationtime. AFP
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Italian football giants Inter Milanand AC Milan were both back
training on Friday two months aftera strict lockdown which has hit thenorthern Italian city hard.
Inter said all their players andstaff have tested negative for coron-avirus on Friday, clearing the way forthem to return to individual train-ing in the afternoon.
“All the medical tests that the firstteam underwent have come backnegative,” the team said in a state-ment.
“Optional individual trainingsessions will begin this afternoon.”
City rivals AC Milan resumedearlier in the week with club techni-cal director Paolo Maldini warningon Friday “not going back on thepitch would be a disaster.”
Former Italy captain Maldini,together with his 18-year-old sonDaniel, a Milan youth team player,have both recovered from coron-
avirus.“You have to be careful, but not
to resume would be a disaster fromall points of view,” 51-year-oldMaldini said during a liveInstagram chat on Fridaywith former Milan team-mate Filippo Inzaghi.
“France were wrong todecree the end immediate-ly, but we will accept whatwill be the verdict ofthe Government.There is so muchuncertainty.”
The city inthe northernL o m b a r d yregion is theepicentre of
Italy’s outbreak, one of the worst inEurope in terms of deaths and infec-tions.
Lombardy has suffered some15,000 deaths, around half of Italy’s30,000 coronavirus fatalities, since theoutbreak first erupted in early March.
Both Milan clubs insisted theywere taking the maximum precau-tions.
“We have closed the commonareas of Milanello,” said Maldini.“The players are divided into fourfor each pitch and in 12 you canwork well anyway.”
Inter added: “The club main-tains the utmost attention to pre-
ventive measures to safe-guard the health of
the players and allmembers of theclub, in accor-dance with all thegovernmentaland publichealth protec-
tion guidelines.”
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Tottenham Hotspur strikerSon Heung-min was
named one of the topfive recruits in his unit ashe finished three weeksof compulsory militarytraining in South Koreaon Friday.
South Korea’smarine corpsposted picturesof Son wield-ing an M-16assault rif leand salutingon theirF a c e b o o kpage as hecompleted hisstint at a boot
camp.All able-bodied South
Korean men are obliged toserve in the military for
nearly two years, makingup the bulk of Seoul’s600,000-strong forces —who face off against
North Korea’s army of 1.3million.
But Son — thetop Asian
goalscorer inPremier Leaguehistory, and theAsian FootballConfederation’sreigning inter-national playerof the year —
was in the SouthKorean team that
earned an exemption by win-ning Gold at the 2018 AsianGames in Indonesia.
The Spurs star broke downin tears of joy after the 2-1extra-time win over Japan,which meant he could fulfil hisobligations with just threeweeks’ basic training andaround 500 hours of commu-nity service.
In April he reported to amarines camp on the island ofJeju for the basic training,which involved lengthy hikes,as well as tear-gas trainingand rifle practice.
He was judged among thefive best recruits out of 157 onhis course, a spokesperson forthe Republic of Korea MarineCorps said.
!��!���The towering stands ofthe 42,477-capacity JeonjuWorld Cup Stadium stoodempty on Friday as South Koreaopened football’s post-coron-avirus era without fans, butwith an unprecedented interna-tional TV audience.
With most leagues world-wide sidelined by the pandem-ic, the K-League is the first com-petition of any standing to comeback to life and a host of safetyprecautions have been imposed,with wild goal celebrations andeven talking discouraged.
The long-delayed season-opener between defendingchampions Jeonbuk Motors andCup-holders Suwon Bluewingswas watched by sport-starvedfans in a swathe of foreign
countries, even though specta-tors are not yet allowed at K-League games.
Paper sheets taped to stadi-um seats spelled out
“#C_U_SOON” and “STAYSTRONG”, while one end wasdraped in a giant green bannerfor the Mad Green Boys, theJeonbuk fan club.
Once the match began, fill-ing the site were the sounds ofplayers shouting calls and ballkicks that would have beenburied under fans’ thunderingchanting during normal times.
The match was punctuatedwith intermittent playing ofJeonbuk fan club’s recordedchants via speakers.
The season’s opening goalwas a header by veteran strikerLee Dong-gook of Jeonbuk inthe eighty-third minute.
Lee celebrated the scoringby posing with teammates asexcessive celebration involvingclose physical contact is bannedby K-League’s safety guidelines.
Using sign language theyexpressed their “respect” formedical workers treating coro-
navirus patients.Jeonbuk maintained the 1-
0 lead till the end.Before and after the match
the players bumped fists insteadof handshakes as advised.
The match, played understringent safety guidelines, is thefirst glimpse of post-virus foot-ball and similar scenes are like-ly elsewhere as other leagues getunder way.
All personnel entering thestadium had their temperatureschecked and were required towear face masks, and hand sani-tisers were located throughoutthe venue.
Players have been told toavoid excessive goal celebra-tions, handshakes, close talkingand blowing their noses.
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India will not win the Testseries in Australia later this
year if they fail to dismiss sea-soned run-machines Steve Smithand David Warner early, thegreat Ian Chappell said on Friday.
Should the much-anticipatedseries goes ahead as scheduled,the duo’s presence will put thehosts at an advantage, accordingto the former Australian captain.
“I am certainly looking for-ward to it (the India-Australiaseries). It will be a very interest-ing one. India will come with theconfidence of having won lasttime they toured Australia,”Chappell said on the Sony Ten PitStop show.
The 76-year-old added, “Itwill be a bit harder this time (forIndia) with Smith and Warner inthe Australian side. But India arewell equipped to handleAustralian conditions.”
Aussies missed services ofSmith and Warner in the lastseries.
“Australia are pretty hard tobeat at home and particularlywith the attack that they have gotat the moment, it is a very, verystrong attack.
“The batting last time Indiawere here wasn’t so good. IfIndia can keep getting Warnerand Smith out cheaply, thenIndia could win. If they don’t getWarner and Smith cheaply,
Australia will win,” said Chappell.Chappell heaped praise on
current India skipper ViratKohli, saying he is the best at themoment when it comes to play-ing all the three formats, reiter-ating a point he made recently.
“India has had some prettygood batsmen, but the com-ment I made was over the threeformats. I was basically askedSteve Smith or Virat Kohli andI said — over the three formats,you can’t pick anyone ahead ofKohli.
“I mean his records in allthree formats is incredible andhow he averages over 50 in T20cricket, I think it’s a tremendousfeat.
“So, he (Kohli) in my opin-ion, if you are taking about allthree formats, Kohli is the bestbatsman at the moment,” said thelegendary Australian player.
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