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A s the country on Monday entered the “lockdown-4 phase”, State Governments largely reactivated economic activities, including markets, saloons, private taxis, autos, even inter-State movement of passenger buses and vehicles. But malls, metro rails, domes- tic and international flights, colleges, schools, religious political gathering remained in the prohibited list. Different States have given leeway to economic activities in the green and orange zones and narrowed down their enforce- ment of lockdown guidelines to only containment zones. Some States, like Karnataka and West Bengal, have permitted open- ing of salons and barber’s shops where close contacts with the customers is possible. In con- trast Delhi has not allowed bar- ber shops, spas and salons to open yet. Telangana too has allowed salons to open and permitted bus services with- in the State. Walmart-owned Flipkart said it is awaiting advisories from different States for resum- ing full services, including in red zones, a day after Home Ministry’s guidelines on lock- down 4.0 were released. Parks and sports complex- es will be open with the norms of “social distancing” but step- ping out of homes between 7 pm and 7 am, except for essen- tial services will be prohibited. Taxis and cabs will be allowed but only 2 passengers at a time in a car. The Government and private offices too were allowed to work with restricted staff. Centre has allowed States for inter-State passenger bus and vehicle bus services with the mutual consent. The move will greatly ease public trans- portation and is likely to come to immediate help mitigate the plight of migrant labour on the roads due to the nation-wide lockdown entering 54th day. The night curfew, between 7 pm and 7 am, will continue in all zones. Hotels, restaurants and other hospitality services, except for the running of can- teens in bus depots, railway sta- tions and airports, will not be allowed. Maharashtra, the worst affected State in the country and particularly its Capital Mumbai with nearly 20 per cent of coronavirus cases in the country, will not experience relaxations in major part of the city. Saying Mumbai is still a Covid-19 red zone, authorities have not eased restrictions and warned people about strong action against violators in the fourth phase of the nationwide lockdown. Taking a rather relaxed view of coronavirus situation, Karnataka has allowed major concessions for re-starting eco- nomic activities. Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa, however, said people from four States — Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Kerala — will not be allowed entry into the State till May 31. The Karnataka Government announced that all four State transport corpo- ration buses will be allowed to operate in the State, except in red and containment zones, from Tuesday. Only 30 people would be allowed to travel in the buses and wearing of face masks and maintaining physi- cal distancing are mandatory, he said. Bus fares would not be increased, he added. Karnataka CM said com- plete lockdown will be imposed across the State on all Sundays till May 31, adding that parks will be opened from Tuesday and night curfew will contin- ue across the State from 7 pm to 7 am. But inter-State transport would not be allowed, except in emergency cases. Trains can operate within the State but not inter-State services till May 31. Yediyurappa said all shops, except those in containment zones, will be allowed to open and passenger trains will run within the State. Auto and taxis were also given green signal to get on to roads, but there should be only three passengers, including the driver. In maxi-cabs, the max- imum number should be four passengers, including driver. Except shopping malls and cinema halls, saloons and all shops can open, he said. In West Bengal private offices, including those in shopping malls, can operate with 50 per cent strength on alternate days. I n the wake of huge move- ment of migrants from across the States, the Indian Council of Medical Council (ICMR) on Monday revised its testing strategy mandating all patients of severe acute res- piratory infection (SARI) to be tested for the Covid-19 regardless of travel or contact history. Frontline workers involved in containment and mitigation of Covid-19 will also be tested. This comes even as the Government has maintained that there is no community transmission in the country. Testing has been one of the concerns in India’s man- agement of the Covid-19. Many experts have said India’s testing strategy is too restrictive. According to new strate- gy, no emergency procedure (including deliveries) should be delayed for the lack of test. But the sample can be sent for testing simultaneously if the person showed symptoms prescribed in the guideline. Beside the earlier cate- gories of individuals fitting the testing criteria, the ICMR said asymptomatic direct and high-risk contacts of con- firmed cases be tested once between day 5 and day 10 of coming into contact. “All hospitalised patients who develop ILI (influenza like illness) symptoms, symp- tomatic individuals with his- tory of international travel in the last 14 days, symptomatic contacts of laboratory con- firmed cases, symptomatic healthcare workers, patients of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI), sympto- matic ILI within hotspots and containment zones to be test- ed for the Covid-19,” the ICMR said. ILI case is defined as one with acute respiratory infec- tion with 38 degree Celsius fever or more than that and cough. SARI patients are those with acute respiratory infection and 38 degree Celsius fever or more and requiring hospitalisation. The ICMR said all testing in the categories mentioned in the guideline, is recommend- ed by real-time RT-PCR test only. The latest version of the testing strategy document (version 5) also says that no emergency procedure (including deliveries) should be delayed for lack of test. However, sample can be sent for testing simultaneously if the patient belongs to any of the above categories. I ndia crossed a dubious mile- stone in the spread of coro- na cases on Monday when its overall count crossed 1,00,000 cases with 3,156 deaths as the deadly virus continued to spread across the country with alarming speed. With around 4,641 new cases, the country ‘s total stood at 1,00,340 cases. New cases were still coming in from different States and the overall coutn could go up. According to the data from the States, the highest number of confirmed cases in the coun- try are from Maharashtra at 35,086, Gujarat at 11,746, Delhi at 10,054, Rajasthan at 5,505, Madhya Pradesh at 5,326 and Uttar Pradesh at 4,605. Maharashtra followed by Tamil Nadu were the two top contributors of new cases on Monday. They were followed by Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh in that order. Maharashtra reported 2,033 cases and 51 deaths tak- ing its overall tally to 35,086. They were followed by Tamil Nadu which chipped in with 536 cases and three more death, taking its overall count to 11,760 and 82 deaths. Madhya Pradesh reported 259 new cases and 4 death to take its overall count to 5,236 and 252 deaths. Uttar Pradesh recorded 141 new cases and no death, while West Bengal reported 149 new cases and 6 deaths. Even as India crossed 1 lakh mark on the first day of the Lockdown 4 on Monday, the Government found solace in the fact that at 7.1 cases per lakh, the coronavirus ratio is lowest in world. “In terms of confirmed cases per lakh population, India has so far about 7.1 cases per lakh population vis a vis approx 60 cases per lakh population for the world as a whole,” said an official from the Union Health Ministry. Continued on Page 6 T he equity market tanked on Monday sending clear sig- nal about the participants’ dis- appointment over the stimulus package announced by the Government even as global investment firm Goldman Sachs saw India slipping into a major recession. The market fell for the third consecutive day, each day responding to the separate tranches of stimulus announced by the Finance Minister. Benchmark Sensex crashed 1,069 points tracking massive selloffs in banking and auto stocks. The 30-share BSE index ended at 30,028.98, while the broader NSE Nifty plunged 313.60 points to 8,823.25. IndusInd Bank was the top laggard in the Sensex pack, cracking around 10 per cent, followed by HDFC, Maruti Suzuki, Axis Bank and UltraTech Cement. On the other hand, TCS, Infosys, ITC and HCL closed with gains. Traders and investors remained on edge as the Home Ministry extended the lock- down for another two weeks till May 31 to contain the spread of coronavirus, said Narendra Solanki, Head Equity Research (Fundamental), Anand Rathi. The relief package announcements appeared falling short of meeting market expectations on any demand side reforms, triggering an intense selloff in the domestic market, he noted. The Government, in its first four tranches of the stim- ulus package, focussed on cred- it line to small businesses and new fund creations to be shoul- dered by banks and financial institutions with very little extra budget spending. In the last set of measures, the Centre on Sunday announced plans to privatise PSUs in non-strategic sectors and suspend loan default-trig- gered bankruptcy filings for one year, and also gave a 40,000-crore hike in allocation for the rural employment guar- antee scheme to provide jobs to migrant workers. Continued on Page 6 Noida: Thirty-one people test- ed positive for Covid-19 in UP’s Gautam Buddh Nagar on Monday, pushing the total cases to 286 in the district. Chinese smartphone maker Oppo has suspended operations at Noida factory after its six workers were found infected by Covid. E xtremely severe cyclone storm Amphan on Monday turned into a super cyclonic storm and thousands of people have been evacuated from low lying coastal areas in Odisha and West Bengal. Amphan has potential to extensive dam- ages to property and infra- structure in coastal areas of north Odisha and West Bengal. Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard have been put on high alert. According to Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Director General of India Meteorological Department (IMD), super cyclone will arrive with a wind speed up to at 250 km per hour and it will hit the West Bengal on May 20. “Amphan will make landfall in some area between Digha of West Bengal and Hatia Island of Bangladesh, both are highly populated areas,” he said. The IMD has warned of storm surge of 4-6 metre height above astronomical tide, will inundate low lying coastal areas and likely to inundate low lying areas of South & North 24 Parganas and about 4-6 metres over the low lying areas of East Medinipur of West Bengal dur- ing the time of landfall. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also held a high level meeting with officials of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to review the arising cyclone Amphan situation in different parts of the country and to assess the situation that may arise after the landfall. “Reviewed the prepared- ness regarding the situation due to cyclone ‘Amphan.’ The response measures as well as evacuation plans were dis- cussed. I pray for everyone’s safety and assure all possible support from the Central Government,” PM Modi tweet- ed. Dr Mohapatra said the cyclone could ravage the prop- erty and infrastructure in east Medinipur, south and north 24 Parganas, Howrah, Hooghly and Kolkata districts in West Bengal and to property and infrastructure in West Bengal and in Oidhsa in Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Bhadrak, Balasore, Jajpur and Mayurbhanj districts. Continued on Page 6 A staff nurse of King George’s Medical University hospi- tal tested positive for coron- avirus on Monday. KGMU spokesperson Dr Sudhir Singh said the nurse, who resides in Nishatganj, was in the ward in which a coronavirus positive pregnant woman was shifted after surgery recently. He, how- ever, added that the source of the nurse’s infection was not the COVID-19 patient as one day exposure could not manifest as an infection. “We queried the nurse about her family history and were informed that she had a niece at home who was ill and had respiratory distress. We have moved the nurse to isola- tion ward for treatment and shifted her niece to the triage area of KGMU,” he said. Chief Medical Officer Dr Narendra Agarwal said that a patient from Gorakhpur admit- ted in Sanjay Gandhi Post- Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences also tested positive for coronavirus infection. The SGPGIMS spokesper- son said the 63-year-old patient with complete heart blockage who required urgent temporary pacemaker was admitted to the holding area of the institute. She said the healthcare work- ers who came in contact with the patient were quarantined as per protocol. Meanwhile, State Surveillance Officer Dr Vikasendu Agarwal said that 147 persons tested positive for coronavirus infection across the state, taking tally to 4,605 He said with 147 COVID- 19 patients being discharged from hospitals on Monday, 2,783 patients had been suc- cessfully cured of the disease. He said the state had wit- nessed 118 COVID-19 deaths so far. T he Yogi Government, on Monday night, issued guidelines for lockdown 4.0, allowing opening of markets in a staggered manner and easing industrial activities but declared that curfew-like situ- ation will prevail across the state between 7 pm and 7 am and no movement, other than for essential services, will be permitted,. “Shops outside contain- ment area will open in a stag- gered manner — markets of one area will open on one day and another on another day. This will be decided by the dis- trict administration in consul- tation with the traders’ bodies,” Chief Secretary RK Tiwari said in a statement here. He said that restaurants can start operations but will only be allowed home delivery. Sweet shops will also be allowed to open. The government has also allowed street vendors to start operations but all of them have to wear masks and gloves and maintain social distancing, he said. “All shop owners will have to wear masks and gloves and need to have sanitisers at their shops. It will be the responsi- bility of the shop owner to ensure social distancing,” he said. The guidelines further state that retail sale of vegetables will be from 6 am to 9 am while the fruit mandi can open from 8 am to 6 pm. Weekly markets Continued on Page 6 ❒ ❒ ❒ ❒ ❒ ❒ ❒ ❒ ❒ ❒ ❒

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Page 1: ˇˆ˙˝ ˛ ˚ ˜ ˚€¦ · In maxi-cabs, the max-imum number should be four passengers, including driver. Except shopping malls and cinema halls, saloons and all shops can open,

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As the country on Mondayentered the “lockdown-4

phase”, State Governmentslargely reactivated economicactivities, including markets,saloons, private taxis, autos,even inter-State movement ofpassenger buses and vehicles.But malls, metro rails, domes-tic and international flights,colleges, schools, religiouspolitical gathering remained inthe prohibited list.

Different States have givenleeway to economic activities inthe green and orange zones andnarrowed down their enforce-ment of lockdown guidelines toonly containment zones. SomeStates, like Karnataka and WestBengal, have permitted open-ing of salons and barber’s shopswhere close contacts with thecustomers is possible. In con-trast Delhi has not allowed bar-ber shops, spas and salons toopen yet.

Telangana too hasallowed salons to open andpermitted bus services with-in the State.

Walmart-owned Flipkartsaid it is awaiting advisoriesfrom different States for resum-ing full services, including inred zones, a day after HomeMinistry’s guidelines on lock-down 4.0 were released.

Parks and sports complex-es will be open with the normsof “social distancing” but step-ping out of homes between 7pm and 7 am, except for essen-tial services will be prohibited.Taxis and cabs will be allowed

but only 2 passengers at a timein a car. The Government andprivate offices too were allowedto work with restricted staff.

Centre has allowed Statesfor inter-State passenger busand vehicle bus services withthe mutual consent. The movewill greatly ease public trans-portation and is likely to cometo immediate help mitigate theplight of migrant labour on theroads due to the nation-widelockdown entering 54th day.

The night curfew, between7 pm and 7 am, will continuein all zones. Hotels, restaurantsand other hospitality services,except for the running of can-teens in bus depots, railway sta-tions and airports, will not beallowed.

Maharashtra, the worstaffected State in the countryand particularly its CapitalMumbai with nearly 20 percent of coronavirus cases in thecountry, will not experiencerelaxations in major part of thecity. Saying Mumbai is still aCovid-19 red zone, authoritieshave not eased restrictions andwarned people about strongaction against violators in thefourth phase of the nationwidelockdown.

Taking a rather relaxedview of coronavirus situation,Karnataka has allowed majorconcessions for re-starting eco-nomic activities. Chief MinisterBS Yediyurappa, however, saidpeople from four States —Maharashtra, Gujarat, TamilNadu and Kerala — will not beallowed entry into the State tillMay 31.

The KarnatakaGovernment announced thatall four State transport corpo-ration buses will be allowed tooperate in the State, except inred and containment zones,from Tuesday. Only 30 peoplewould be allowed to travel inthe buses and wearing of facemasks and maintaining physi-cal distancing are mandatory,he said. Bus fares would not beincreased, he added.

Karnataka CM said com-plete lockdown will be imposedacross the State on all Sundaystill May 31, adding that parkswill be opened from Tuesdayand night curfew will contin-ue across the State from 7 pmto 7 am.

But inter-State transportwould not be allowed, except inemergency cases. Trains canoperate within the State but notinter-State services till May31.

Yediyurappa said all shops,except those in containmentzones, will be allowed to openand passenger trains will runwithin the State.

Auto and taxis were alsogiven green signal to get on toroads, but there should be onlythree passengers, including thedriver. In maxi-cabs, the max-imum number should be fourpassengers, including driver.

Except shopping malls andcinema halls, saloons and allshops can open, he said.

In West Bengal privateoffices, including those inshopping malls, can operatewith 50 per cent strength onalternate days.

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In the wake of huge move-ment of migrants from

across the States, the IndianCouncil of Medical Council(ICMR) on Monday revisedits testing strategy mandatingall patients of severe acute res-piratory infection (SARI) tobe tested for the Covid-19regardless of travel or contacthistory. Frontline workersinvolved in containment andmitigation of Covid-19 willalso be tested.

This comes even as the

Government has maintainedthat there is no communitytransmission in the country.

Testing has been one ofthe concerns in India’s man-agement of the Covid-19.Many experts have saidIndia’s testing strategy is toorestrictive.

According to new strate-gy, no emergency procedure

(including deliveries) shouldbe delayed for the lack of test.But the sample can be sent fortesting simultaneously if theperson showed symptomsprescribed in the guideline.

Beside the earlier cate-gories of individuals fittingthe testing criteria, the ICMRsaid asymptomatic direct andhigh-risk contacts of con-firmed cases be tested oncebetween day 5 and day 10 ofcoming into contact.

“All hospitalised patientswho develop ILI (influenzalike illness) symptoms, symp-tomatic individuals with his-tory of international travel inthe last 14 days, symptomaticcontacts of laboratory con-firmed cases, symptomatichealthcare workers, patientsof Severe Acute RespiratoryInfection (SARI), sympto-matic ILI within hotspots and

containment zones to be test-ed for the Covid-19,” theICMR said.

ILI case is defined as onewith acute respiratory infec-tion with 38 degree Celsiusfever or more than that andcough. SARI patients arethose with acute respiratoryinfection and 38 degreeCelsius fever or more andrequiring hospitalisation.

The ICMR said all testingin the categories mentioned inthe guideline, is recommend-ed by real-time RT-PCR testonly. The latest version of thetesting strategy document(version 5) also says that noemergency procedure(including deliveries) shouldbe delayed for lack of test.However, sample can be sentfor testing simultaneously ifthe patient belongs to any ofthe above categories.

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India crossed a dubious mile-stone in the spread of coro-

na cases on Monday when itsoverall count crossed 1,00,000cases with 3,156 deaths as thedeadly virus continued tospread across the country withalarming speed. With around4,641 new cases, the country ‘stotal stood at 1,00,340 cases.New cases were still coming infrom different States and theoverall coutn could go up.

According to the data fromthe States, the highest numberof confirmed cases in the coun-try are from Maharashtra at35,086, Gujarat at 11,746,Delhi at 10,054, Rajasthan at5,505, Madhya Pradesh at 5,326and Uttar Pradesh at 4,605.

Maharashtra followed byTamil Nadu were the two topcontributors of new cases onMonday. They were followedby Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh,Delhi, Rajasthan, UttarPradesh, West Bengal, Bihar,Karnataka and Andhra Pradeshin that order.

Maharashtra reported2,033 cases and 51 deaths tak-ing its overall tally to 35,086.They were followed by TamilNadu which chipped in with536 cases and three more death,taking its overall count to11,760 and 82 deaths.

Madhya Pradesh reported259 new cases and 4 death totake its overall count to 5,236and 252 deaths. Uttar Pradeshrecorded 141 new cases and nodeath, while West Bengalreported 149 new cases and 6deaths.

Even as India crossed 1lakh mark on the first day ofthe Lockdown 4 on Monday,the Government found solacein the fact that at 7.1 cases perlakh, the coronavirus ratio islowest in world.

“In terms of confirmedcases per lakh population, Indiahas so far about 7.1 cases perlakh population vis a vis approx60 cases per lakh population forthe world as a whole,” said anofficial from the Union HealthMinistry.

Continued on Page 6

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The equity market tanked onMonday sending clear sig-

nal about the participants’ dis-appointment over the stimuluspackage announced by theGovernment even as globalinvestment firm GoldmanSachs saw India slipping into amajor recession. The marketfell for the third consecutiveday, each day responding to theseparate tranches of stimulusannounced by the FinanceMinister.

Benchmark Sensex crashed1,069 points tracking massiveselloffs in banking and autostocks. The 30-share BSE indexended at 30,028.98, while thebroader NSE Nifty plunged313.60 points to 8,823.25.

IndusInd Bank was the

top laggard in the Sensex pack,cracking around 10 per cent,followed by HDFC, MarutiSuzuki, Axis Bank andUltraTech Cement. On theother hand, TCS, Infosys, ITCand HCL closed with gains.

Traders and investorsremained on edge as the HomeMinistry extended the lock-down for another two weeks till

May 31 to contain the spreadof coronavirus, said NarendraSolanki, Head Equity Research(Fundamental), Anand Rathi.

The relief packageannouncements appearedfalling short of meeting marketexpectations on any demandside reforms, triggering anintense selloff in the domesticmarket, he noted.

The Government, in itsfirst four tranches of the stim-ulus package, focussed on cred-it line to small businesses andnew fund creations to be shoul-dered by banks and financialinstitutions with very littleextra budget spending.

In the last set of measures,the Centre on Sundayannounced plans to privatisePSUs in non-strategic sectorsand suspend loan default-trig-gered bankruptcy filings forone year, and also gave a�40,000-crore hike in allocationfor the rural employment guar-antee scheme to provide jobs tomigrant workers.

Continued on Page 6

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turned into a super cyclonicstorm and thousands of peoplehave been evacuated from lowlying coastal areas in Odishaand West Bengal. Amphan haspotential to extensive dam-ages to property and infra-structure in coastal areas ofnorth Odisha and West Bengal.Army, Navy, Air Force andCoast Guard have been put onhigh alert.

According to MrutyunjayMohapatra, Director General ofIndia MeteorologicalDepartment (IMD), super

cyclone will arrive with a windspeed up to at 250 km per hourand it will hit the West Bengalon May 20. “Amphan will makelandfall in some area betweenDigha of West Bengal andHatia Island of Bangladesh,both are highly populatedareas,” he said.

The IMD has warned ofstorm surge of 4-6 metre heightabove astronomical tide, willinundate low lying coastal areas

and likely to inundate lowlying areas of South & North 24Parganas and about 4-6 metresover the low lying areas of EastMedinipur of West Bengal dur-ing the time of landfall.

Prime Minister NarendraModi has also held a highlevel meeting with officials ofthe Ministry of Home Affairs(MHA) and the NationalDisaster ManagementAuthority (NDMA) to review

the arising cyclone Amphansituation in different parts ofthe country and to assess thesituation that may arise afterthe landfall.

“Reviewed the prepared-ness regarding the situation dueto cyclone ‘Amphan.’ Theresponse measures as well asevacuation plans were dis-cussed. I pray for everyone’ssafety and assure all possiblesupport from the CentralGovernment,” PM Modi tweet-ed.

Dr Mohapatra said thecyclone could ravage the prop-erty and infrastructure in eastMedinipur, south and north 24Parganas, Howrah, Hooghlyand Kolkata districts in WestBengal and to property andinfrastructure in West Bengaland in Oidhsa inJagatsinghpur, Kendrapara,Bhadrak, Balasore, Jajpur andMayurbhanj districts.

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tal tested positive for coron-avirus on Monday. KGMUspokesperson Dr Sudhir Singhsaid the nurse, who resides inNishatganj, was in the ward inwhich a coronavirus positivepregnant woman was shiftedafter surgery recently. He, how-ever, added that the source ofthe nurse’s infection was not theCOVID-19 patient as one dayexposure could not manifest asan infection.

“We queried the nurseabout her family history and

were informed that she had aniece at home who was ill andhad respiratory distress. Wehave moved the nurse to isola-tion ward for treatment andshifted her niece to the triagearea of KGMU,” he said.

Chief Medical Officer DrNarendra Agarwal said that apatient from Gorakhpur admit-ted in Sanjay Gandhi Post-Graduate Institute of MedicalSciences also tested positive forcoronavirus infection.

The SGPGIMS spokesper-son said the 63-year-old patientwith complete heart blockagewho required urgent temporarypacemaker was admitted to the

holding area of the institute.She said the healthcare work-ers who came in contact withthe patient were quarantined asper protocol.

Meanwhile, StateSurveillance Officer DrVikasendu Agarwal said that147 persons tested positive forcoronavirus infection acrossthe state, taking tally to 4,605

He said with 147 COVID-19 patients being dischargedfrom hospitals on Monday,2,783 patients had been suc-cessfully cured of the disease.

He said the state had wit-nessed 118 COVID-19 deathsso far.

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The Yogi Government, onMonday night, issued

guidelines for lockdown 4.0,allowing opening of markets ina staggered manner and easingindustrial activities butdeclared that curfew-like situ-ation will prevail across thestate between 7 pm and 7 amand no movement, other thanfor essential services, will bepermitted,.

“Shops outside contain-ment area will open in a stag-gered manner — markets ofone area will open on one dayand another on another day.This will be decided by the dis-trict administration in consul-tation with the traders’ bodies,”Chief Secretary RK Tiwari saidin a statement here.

He said that restaurants canstart operations but will only beallowed home delivery. Sweetshops will also be allowed toopen. The government hasalso allowed street vendors tostart operations but all of themhave to wear masks and glovesand maintain social distancing,he said.

“All shop owners will haveto wear masks and gloves andneed to have sanitisers at theirshops. It will be the responsi-bility of the shop owner toensure social distancing,” hesaid.

The guidelines further state

that retail sale of vegetables willbe from 6 am to 9 am while thefruit mandi can open from 8am to 6 pm. Weekly markets

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As the migrant workers issuehas taken a political turn

with Congress and BharatiyaJanata Party playing a tug ofwar, Chief Minister YogiAdityanath in a series of tweetsasked Congress national gener-al secretary Priyanka GandhiVadra if the states ruled by herparty had so many buses, whythe migrant workers and theirfamilies from these states weresent in trucks.

Yogi’s tweets were inresponse to an emotional tweetfrom Priyanka Gandhi Vadrain which she had asked theUP government to allowentry of 1,000 buses whichCongress had arranged to ferrymigrant workers to their nativedistricts.

In the first tweet, the chiefminister said if the Congresshad 1,000 buses at its disposal,then why Punjab andMaharashtra governmentswere sending migrant workersin trucks.

“The nation is saddenedby the accident in Auraiya(involving) a truck comingfrom Punjab and anotherfrom Rajasthan. WillPriyanka Gandhi take respon-sibility of that accident andtender an apology to thenation?” Yogi asked in his sec-ond tweet.

In the next tweet, Yogisaid if Congress has arrangedfor 1,000 buses, why it has sofar not furnished the details ofthe buses to the Uttar Pradeshgovernment.

“Majority of the ShramikSpecial trains are coming to UP.If Priyanka is so concernedabout migrant labourers fromUP, why she is not askingher state governments to sendthese labourers by trains,” Yogiasked in his fourth and lasttweet.

In the evening however,Additional Chief SecretaryAwanish Awasthi said that thegovernment had accepted theCongress proposal and asked it

to furnish details of 1,000buses.

Twenty-six migrantworkers were killed after atrailer truck carrying sacks oflime along with people

rammed into a stationarytruck with many migrantworkers sitting in it, near aroadside eatery on the nation-al highway in Auraiya onSaturday.

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Lucknow (PNS): Thecoronavirus pandemic hasbrought about a change in theworking of political parties – ithas made them computer savvyand taught them how to con-trol party activities digitally.

All political parties arenow heavily relying on mobilephones, social networking sitesand video-conferencing apps tostay afloat in this crisis whereevery party is making desper-ate attempt to remain con-nected with the people.

“We are using technologyto stay connected with thepeople. We are carrying outcharity work and we have askedparty workers to put up the pic-tures on the WhatsApp groupsor other social networkingsites,” former chief minister andnational president ofSamajwadi Party, AkhileshYadav, said.

Akhilesh said the SP didnot mind party workers puttingup their pictures doing chari-ty. “This act of their invigoratesothers to do better,” he said.

Devendra Pratap Singh, a

senior Congress leader, saysyou can see the FB page howCongress volunteers are help-ing the migrant workers.

“The Congress is givingfood packets, fruits and evenlaiya chana (puffed rice androasted grams) to the migrantworkers who can be seen trav-elling in trucks packed like sar-dines,” he said.

Bharatiya Janata Party has,however, taken a lead. It hasheld several rounds of talkswith the ground-level workersthrough video-conferencingapps. BJP general secretaryVijay Bahadur Pathak said thatthe on-line meetings with thesector- level leaders com-menced from Monday. He saidthe party had held on-linemeetings with over 1.60 lakhbooth-level workers and wouldconnect with at least two lead-ers of the 27,000 sectors.

Pathak said that duringthe meeting, the leadershipasked about the present sce-nario of their area and appealedto the workers to serve the peo-ple during this pandemic.

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Amidst the double whammyof lockdown and slump in

demand for sugar, the domes-tic sugar mills have baggedexport orders totalling 42 lakhmetric ton till the beginning ofMay this year.

Indian Sugar MillsAssociation (ISMA) said near-ly 36 lakh MT of sugar had sofar been dispatched for ship-ment.

The export orders are a bigrelief for the sugar industry ofUP which has record close to1.5 crore MT production in thecurrent season (2019-20).

Following lockdown, theclosure of restaurants, malls,cinema halls etc. has hit thedomestic off-take of sugar-sweetened products like ice-cream, beverages, juices, con-fectioneries, sweets etc. in thisseason, which is generally char-acterised with a high off-takeof such products. This weak-ened the sugar sale by nearly 10

lakh MT.Against the backdrop of

the Centre nudging mills fordiverting excess sugarcane andsugar for the production offuel-grade ethanol as a long-term solution for the excesssugar stock, the ISMA saidthe augmentation in ethanolcapacity was at different stagesof progress or implementa-tion.

It, however, said the threestakeholders viz. sugar mills, oilmarketing companies andcommercial banks should enterinto a tripartite agreement foroptimum utilisation of thepolicies and incentives toincrease ethanol productionin the coming years.

Meanwhile, the ISMA onMonday released the domesticsugar production figures for thecurrent crushing season (2019-20). It stood at almost 2.64crore MT till May 15 this year.It is 61.5 lakh MT lower com-pared to the production in thecorresponding period last year.

In Uttar Pradesh, millshave produced almost 1.43crore MT of sugar till May 15,compared to 1.10 crore MT lastyear. This is the highest eversugar production in UP, sur-passing 1.20 crore MT outputin 2017-18 season.

Of the 119 mills, 73 unitshave ended their crushing and46 mills are still in operationcompared to only 28 mills inthe corresponding period lastyear.

Most of these mills areexpected to close operation bythe end of this month, while afew may continue till the firstweek of June.

The crushing got pro-longed in UP as most of the gur(jaggery) and khandsari(unprocessed sugar) unitsclosed their operations prema-turely due to lockdown, there-by increasing the cane supplyto mills. Almost 80 per cent ofsuch rural-based units arelocated in western and centralUP.

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With two migrants beingkilled and over three

dozen others getting injured inseparate road accidents, itseems the movement of thesedesperate men and their fam-ilies by unauthorised vehiclecontinues unabated.

In a road mishap in Unnao,two migrants workers werekilled and 10 others wereinjured on Monday afternoonwhen the axle of the pick-upthey were travelling in brokedown on Agra-LucknowExpressway.

The injured were shifted tohospital.

Chief Minister YogiAdityanath expressed grief atthe death of the two migrantsand announced an assistance ofRs 2 lakh each for the depen-dants of the deceased and Rs50,000 for those criticallyinjured.

Meanwhile in Ayodhya, 20migrants were injured when apick-up carrying them homemet with an accident in the weehours of Monday.

Reports said that migrantsfrom Mumbai were going toSiddharthnagar on a pick-upwhen the vehicle rammed intoa truck at Aunaura crossing onNational Highway-28, injuringall of them. They were taken todistrict hospital where the con-dition of two of them was stat-ed to be critical.

Surprisingly, the govern-ment has already restrictedcarrying of migrants by unau-thorised vehicles. ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath tookimmediate cognisance of theaccident and directed the dis-trict magistrate and districtpolice chief to rush to the spotand ensure proper medicalcare to those injured and alter-nate vehicle for the remainingjourney of other migrants.

In another mishap inKushinagar, a bus carryingmigrants from Delhi to Biharcollided with another truckloaded with onion near a petrolpump on NH-28 in the earlyhours of Monday. A dozenpassengers were injured in the

mishap.In another similar mishap

in Kushinagar on Sunday night,seven migrants were injured.

In a separate mishap inHamirpur, a Kaushambi depotbus ferrying 31 migrants fromNoida to Mahoba met with anaccident in Sadar Kotwali area.Ten labours, including women,were injured in the mishap.

In Muzaffarnagar, thepolice intercepted half-a-dozen

container trucks at a check-postin the Miranpur area lateSunday evening and wereshocked to see over 500migrants workers hiding insidethem. The migrant workersfrom Yamunanagar in Haryanawere trying to reach theirnative places in Bihar and WestBengal. The container truckswere seized.

The migrants were shiftedto shelter homes, police said,

adding they would be sent totheir home districts later.

The migrants said theypaid Rs 2,500 each to the con-tainer owners for the journey,police said. According to offi-cial sources, over 3,300 migrantworkers in the district havebeen sent in buses to theirhomes so far.

Meanwhile, a suspectedCOVID-19 patient managed toescape from the isolation cen-

tre in Rae Bareli, creating panicamong the local residents.

The police registered a caseand launched a hunt for theCOVID-19 suspect. Reportssaid that Ramkaran, a residentof Behtakala hamlet of Lalganjin Rae Bareli came back fromLudhiana in Punjab onSaturday evening. As he wasrunning high fever, he wassent to Bakshi Memorial PublicSchool quarantine centre.However, before his report forcoronavirus test arrived, heescaped from the centre some-time on Sunday night.

Incharge of the centre, AnilKumar Pandey, claimed thatthey were talking to Ramkaranand he was also attending thecalls but disconnecting thephone saying that he wasreturning.

Meanwhile, SP, Balrampur,Dev Ranjan, said that theyregistered 37 cases in 13 policestations of the district in whichthey named 1,547 persons forviolating quarantine norms.

Ranjan said that theaccused were quarantined onsuspicion of being infectedwith coronavirus but instead ofremaining quarantined theywere found to be roaming inpublic.

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With Chief Minister YogiAdityanath’s office

entering into a twitter warwith Congress general secre-tary Priyanka Gandhi Vadraover facilitating transport tomigrants, UP Congress pres-ident Ajay Kumar ‘Lallu’ onMonday claimed to havehanded over a list of buses theparty had provided on theborders to ferry the migrantworkers.

On Sunday, YogiAdityanath had slammed theCongress for doing politicsover migrant workers andhad said that though the partyhad offered to provide 1,000buses, it did not give the listof the buses and their registra-tion numbers and otherdetails.

Yogi Adityanath hadthereafter rejected theCongress offer, saying thatthe UP government wasdoing everything for themigrants.

Priyanka had offered1,000 buses to ferry themigrants soon after theAuraiya incident and onSunday, Congress loaded pho-tographs showing that 500buses were waiting atRajasthan-UP border forclearance from the UPgovernment to ferry themigrants.

Addressing media per-sons here on Monday after-noon, the UPCC presidentsaid the party had handedover the details of the 1,000

buses to the state govern-ment.

He told reporters that theparty was doing everythingfor migrants and till date ithad provided food packets to60 lakh people by running 22community kitchens in sever-al districts.

“We have also put upfood and water stalls at theborder of the state toprovide help to the migrantscoming from other states,” headded.

Lallu, however, slammedthe Yogi government for itslaxity in providing relief to themigrants who assembled inlarge numbers on the stateborder.

“Congress has made sev-eral offers like paying for allmigrants passengers comingby Shramik Specials after theRailways charged fare fromthe poor people and to pro-vide buses so that they can besent home safely,” Lallu point-ed out, saying that theBharatiya Janata Party govern-ment had ignored all suchrequests and now it had final-ly reacted on Monday, askingthe Congress to providedetails of buses.

“Unnecessary delay hasalready been made by the YogiAdityanath government but Ihope that now, with the detailsof buses with them, theywould respond positively andextend immediate relief tostranded migrants workersby ferrying them safely totheir home,” the UPCC chiefadded.

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Referring to a video clip of Auraiyaroad mishap in which dead bod-

ies are seen loaded in the truck alongwith migrant workers going toJharkhand, Samajwadi Party presidentAkhilesh Yadav said the conduct of theUttar Pradesh government hadbrought shame to humanity.

In a statement on Monday, Yadavsaid, “I am at my wits end to under-stand how a government can be soinhuman. The deceased workers andthe injured of Jharkhand in theAuraiya road mishap were sent in thesame truck. The father of one of thedeceased is a farm labourer and hadspent Rs 19,000 to take his son’sbody.”

Yadav said that the indifferent atti-tude of the UP government towardsthe migrant labourers of Jharkhandhad added to the woes of the poor peo-ple. He said the incident had alsoraised a serious question mark over thestyle of working of the state govern-ment. He said the Samajwadi Party

gave several suggestions to the govern-ment during the lockdown and high-lighted the ground reality but ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath and hisTeam 11 preferred to ignore the SPsuggestions. He said due to the arro-gance of the Team 11, the situation inUP had gone out of control. “Who isresponsible for this crisis?” the SP chiefasked.

The former chief minister of CMsaid that the order for sudden closureof the state’s borders with Haryana andRajasthan had only complicated thematter. He said the migrant workerswere struggling for their existence withhunger and thirst in the border areasand were unable to enter UP for theirhomeward journey to Bihar andJharkhand.

“What other proof can there be ofthe government’s inefficiency that itcould not take a decision in time.Lakhs of workers were forced to trav-el on foot. Numerous among themdied on the way. It is unfortunate thatthe helpless workers have to faceharassment and humiliation in their

own home state,” Yadav said. The SP chief demanded that the

government provide immediate finan-cial assistance of Rs 10 lakh to the kinof every worker or labourer who diesin any accident. “It is the government’sresponsibility to make the migrantworkers reach their destinationsrespectfully and safely and to ensuretheir livelihood,” he said.

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Former chief minister of UttarPradesh, Mayawati, on Monday lashedout at Bharatiya Janata Party govern-ment over their insensitivity towardsmigrant workers even when theywere facing all kind of hardship.

“In UP, the officials are not seri-ously taking even the chief minister’sdirections. The manner in which theauthorities sent the migrants of theAuraiya incident to their native placeson a vehicle in which they also loadedthe dead bodies of the mishap victimsshowed their insensitivity and justifiedthe protest and agitation by the

migrants labours across the state,”Mayawati tweeted, saying that it wasvery painful and stern action shouldbe taken against all the officialsresponsible for it.

“Not only this, the pathetic con-dition of lakhs and lakhs of migrantsand their family members in severalparts of the country is very patheticand points towards the inhumaneapproach of the respective govern-ments,” the Bahujan Samaj Party chiefsaid in another tweet.

Mayawati further made an appealin her last tweet that the governmentsshould use all their powers and meansto extend immediate help the migrantslabourers and their family membersand arrange transport so that theycould reach home safely and not becompelled to take alternative modesof transport or walk on foot which asalready turned fatal for several fami-lies. “The nation would only becomeself-reliant when the migrant workersand farmers would get their due andfull care from the government,” theBSP chief claimed.

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With migrant workers still stranded atthe UP borders demanding that they

be allowed to go home, Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath has directed intensivepatrolling on highways in night to preventunsafe travel of the migrant workers andtheir families.

“Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath dur-ing his meeting with Team 11 officials hereon Monday has directed the Transportdepartment and the director general ofpolice to ensure that no migrant travelsunsafe in the state. He has asked them tointensify patrolling at night on the high-ways and other roads,” Additional ChiefSecretary Awanish Awasthi said here onMonday.

The chief minister has also taken cog-nisance of crowds at several places in thebordering districts and asked the author-

ities to manage the with calm and plan-ning.

The chief minister said that only trainsand buses should be used to ferry themigrants after their medical screening andafter providing them food and water.

UP has already arranged 12,000 buses,along with 200 private buses in each dis-trict, to ferry the migrants besides the spe-cial trains.

Awasthi added that arrangementslike tents, water, food and buses have beenmade at all the borders and toll plazas sothat the migrants are taken care off whileUP government has also written to otherstates to send the list of their migrants whoare struck in UP so that they can be trans-ported to their respective states and dis-tricts .

On the other hand, the state hasreceived 590 special trains from differentstates ferrying 7.60 lakh migrants to UP.

Among these, a record 275 trains havecome from Gujarat with 3.75 lakhmigrants followed by 140 trains fromMaharashtra with 1.75 lakh migrants and101 trains from Punjab with 1.20 lakhmigrants .

The government has also proposedto provide Oximetry to the healthteams in the villages and other placesto check the COVID-19 suspects bytheir oxygen flow, as breathlessness is oneof the main symptoms of coronavirusinfection.

Meanwhile, the government hasdecided to increase the Covid hospitalbeds to one lakh by the end of this month.At present there are 60,000 beds in Covidhospitals.

Similarly, the number of sample test-ing for COVID-19 would be increased to10,000 per day against the present testingof over 6,000 samples per day.

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Asupervisor of a safaiworkers at a metro station

had to toil hard to find hisstolen bag. However, twoaccused were held for theftand challaned by the policelater.

As per reports, ShivamRastogi of Thakurganj worksat Badshah Nagar Metro sta-tion. On May 10, he went tohis workplace and parked hisbike in the parking lot. WhenRastogi returned around 8pm, he found his bag missing.

“I was told that twoyouths had stolen the bags. Iwas also explained descrip-tion of their looks andphysique. I sought help frompolice and also started search-

ing for the miscreants on myown,” Rastogi said.

“On Sunday, some of theemployees spotted two youthscarrying my backpack andcalled me. Later, the accusedwere nabbed and handed overto the police,” he added.

The police said theaccused were identified asLalit Mohan and ManishJaiswal, both of Mahanagar.The police said a case was reg-istered against the accused.

Meanwhile, the Madiaonpolice arrested a history-sheeter who took to drugpeddling after leaving heinouscrimes. The accused wasidentified as Vijay Agarwal ofMadiaon. The police said themiscreant was a history-sheeter at Madiaon police

station (HS number 353 A)and also did time in jail in2004, 2014 and 2017 for loot,theft, house trespass and pos-session of illegal weapons.

The police said theaccused took to drug ped-dling in the recent past. “Ateam was keeping a tab on oldtimers in the crime world andthe cops were tipped off thatVijay had taken to drug ped-dling. A team team spottedhim at a check point at RahimNagar Dudauli trisection andhe was nabbed,” the policesaid, adding that they recov-ered four packets (280 gram)of morphine from the posses-sion of the accused. “Theaccused had kept the packetsin a backpack to pretend to bea traveller,” the police said.

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Two policemen thrashed apavement dweller, leaving

him grievously injured nearAwadh Shilp Gram at ShaheedPath on Monday. The incidentcame to light when an NGOowner, Suman Rawat, passedvia the road and spotted a manwrithing in pain. After hours ofdeadlock between the SushantGolf City and Gosainganjpolice, the man was admitted tohospital. Later, it was agreedupon that the spot is locatedunder Sushant Golf City policearea. According to SumanRawat, the man told her that hewas sleeping on the pavementnear a liquor shop when twocops reached there and beathim up with sticks so hard thathe fractured his leg. The police-men left the scene but returned

in civvies. One of them gavesome ointment to the man toapply on the wounds and leftthe scene. The policemen alsoargued with the NGO ownerand forced her to rush the manto hospital. Suman toldreporters that the ambulancereached the scene late andpolicemen refused to help theman due to the fear of coron-avirus.

Meanwhile, in the wake ofapproaching festivals, DCP(West) Sarvashrestha Tripathiconducted a meeting with hissubordinates at his office onMonday and held discussionson the plan to ensure that peo-ple stay home in adherence ofthe lockdown guidelines.

The meeting was held nearRumi Darwaza and the officialswere issued directives to ensurethat people stayed home on

Alwida Juma and Eid. Theofficials were also asked tocarry out checking drives in oldcity areas to ensure effectiveimplementation of lockdown.The officials were asked toconduct vehicle checking drivesduring this time.

They were also asked tohelp the migrants reach reliefcamps if they were seen mov-ing on roads. The DCP issuedorders for intensification ofchecking around banks andalso asked bank officials tokeep alarms and CCTV cam-eras functional, ensure securi-ty of cash vans and deploy secu-rity guards. The police officialswere asked to keep a close tabon anti-social elements. TheDCP sought the help of reli-gious leaders to encourageMuslims to celebrate AlwidaJuma and Eid while at their

homes adhering to Covid-19guidelines.

Meanwhile, a 40-year-oldrailway clerk was found dead inMahanagar under mysteriouscircumstance. The body wasrecovered on Sunday and thepolice registered a case on thecomplaint of deceased’s cousinon Monday. The deceased wasidentified as Ankit KumarVerma of Old HyderabadColony in Mahanagar.

Complainant AnjaniKumar of Old HyderabadColony said that Ankit left hishouse around 11 am on Sundaybut did not return home.“Around 6 pm, we wereinformed of his death and wereached the scene. His body wasrecovered from near a mazar onthe banks of Gomti river inNew Hyderabad Colony,” hesaid.

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6� �.����� �.� �����!������ �!�����Lucknow (PNS): DistrictMagistrate Abhishek Prakashcarried out an inspection atKamta bus station, AwadhShilp Gram and Dr ShakuntalaMisra National RehabilitationUniversity on Monday. TheDM said migrant labourershave been kept at four shelterhomes in the rehab universityand they had come from Delhi,Gujarat, Mumbai and Haryana.

“The medical screening ofall the migrants was carried outand they were provided withfood, water and ORS solution.Everyday, food for 10,000 peo-ple is being arranged and themigrants are being sent totheir respective destinationsby trains and buses,” he said.

The DM said 15,000migrants were sent to theirrespective destinations onSunday in 442 buses and othersin 100 buses on Monday morn-ing. The DM also carried outinspection at Kamta bus station.He oversaw the distribution offood packets to the migrantsfrom Maharashtra before theywere sent to their native towns.Thereafter, he also inspectedAwadh Shilp Gram where hetook stock of the arrangementsmade for labourers. A hi-techcontrol room has also beenmade and monitoring is beingcarried out with the help ofCCTV cameras.

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Police failed to get any leadin connection with the gris-

ly murder of an unidentifiedman, whose head was choppedoff and the dismembered bodyparts (head and torso) wereburied at different places near-ly 1.5 kms apart inMohanlalganj. Different teamswere said to be collecting dig-ital evidence and also adoptingfor human sleuthing method tolay their hands on the miscre-ants. Sources said that contactnumbers of some personsresiding in the area (Khujauli)had been put on surveillanceand the police were obtainingthe footages of different CCTVcameras.

The sources said that thepolice had prepared the routechart of the killers. “The crimescene is deep inside the mainroad. It is nearly 7-10 kms fromLucknow-Rae Bareli road or

Shaheed Path. It is highlyunlikely that the victim waskilled by people unknown tothe area. If the murder tookplace at night, the killers wouldhave passed as many as 4-5check posts in the area. AtKhujauli crossing, there is acheck post and it is strange thatthe killers managed to passthrough it with ease,” thesources said.

They said the police sus-pected the role of some personswith sound topographicalknowledge of the area.

On Monday, the policeteams combed the entire areain Khujauli and Khujehta vil-lage in search of more evidencewhich could nail the culprits.The team got a pond inKhujauli area drained hopingto recover mobile phones orSIM cards from there, but invain. The sources said thepolice had sought help fromtheir informers as well.

Meanwhile, the policerummaged through the recordon persons reported missing inthe last 2-3 days in Lucknow,but did not get any clue.

The incident had come tolight on Sunday morning whensome villagers noticed a packof stray dogs near a culvert inKhujehta village. They spottedthe chopped head of a mancovered by tree branches. Thepolice were conducting inves-tigations when they wereinformed about the recovery ofa torso near a pond close totubewell near a farmhouse.

This is not the first case tohave baffled the Mohanlalganjpolice. Earlier, a retired armyman working as property deal-er, Ashok Yadav was pepperedwith bullets in Mohanlalganjon September 16 last year. Thepolice claimed to have reachedclose to the miscreants on anumber of times, but the casehas still not worked out.

Lucknow (PNS): Ayurvedaand yoga are the two maintools to defeat corona and‘Ayush Kavach’ app has beenstarted by the Ayush depart-ment which gives comprehen-sive information aboutincreasing the disease resis-tance capacity through ayurve-da and yoga.

This was stated by AyushMinister Dharam Singh Saini ata webinar on the relevance ofayurveda medicine in the cur-rent perspective, organisedunder the aegis of AKTU, UttarPradesh State Ayush Society,King George’s MedicalUniversity and NationalIntegrated Medical Associationon Monday. AKTU Vice-

Chancellor Vinay KumarPathak said only India has asustainable alternative medi-cine solutions using which thedisease can be preventedthrough increasing the immu-nity. He said that with the helpof artificial intelligence inayurveda, many effective diag-nostic tools and other solutionscould be developed. He saidthat if data and research prob-lem was shared by the depart-ment of Ayush, AKTU wouldwork on its solution with thehelp of artificial intelligence.

Saini said that at present,technology has proved to be thebiggest tool, which has made anunprecedented contribution inthe fight against Covid-19.

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The extension of lockdowntill May 31 has added to the

pressure on various sectors andthose engaged in these fields.The new MHA guidelines haveincreased their concernsregarding the future. Presidentof Uttar Pradesh Adarsh TentCatering Association VijayKumar said they have 3,000-4,000 trade persons associatedwith weddings and all havebeen rendered jobless.

He said they have lost overRs 90 crore in the lockdownperiod, which coincided withthe wedding season and morethan 1,000 people associatedwith the trade have lost theirjobs. “The new guidelines of 50people being allowed to attenda wedding will not help us inany way because no one willbook lawns and guest housesfor 50 people and if theselawns are not booked, we willnot get any work,” he said.

He added that one wed-ding cost over Rs 6,80,000 andthere were over 2,000-2,500guest houses in the districtwhich brought revenue to thoseinvolved in the trade. He saidover 140 people were employedwith one wedding and if a mar-riage was organised in over1,200 guest houses across thedistrict, more than 1.5 lakhpeople would get employment.

He said that in prevalentconditions, people may wellthrow wedding parties at theirhouses keeping in view the fearof Covid-19 spread. “We willapproach the DistrictMagistrate to keep the requestthat the number of guests in awedding should be increased to250,” he said.

He said that they expectedthe government to help themout. “When we had jobs, weworked and paid taxes, andnow that we are without workand money, the governmentshould extend a helping hand,”he added.

General secretary ofLucknow Auto RickshawTempo Sangh (LARTS) PiyushVerma said that auto andtempo drivers had been sittingat home since the announce-ment of lockdown with noearnings and work.

“There are some autorick-shaw driver who are getting Rs1,000 from the state govern-ment. We are all daily wagersand earn our livelihood on adaily basis. There are 4,343autorickshaws and 2,365 tem-pos registered in Lucknow andwe earn Rs 300-400 on a dailybasis. Associated with theseautos and tempos are over40,000 people belonging toother trades such as automobilerepair, spare parts shops, all ofwhom are affected because ofthe lockdown,” he added.

He said they were mullingon approaching the state gov-ernment to request it to puttheir trade in pre-booked cat-egory. Chairman of IndianAssociation of Tour Operators

Prateek Hira said that 60-70 percent workers had already beenlaid off in the hospitality sec-tor in UP. “These people havebeen told through mails thatthey have been laid off, andestablishments are keeping aminimal staff for maintenance.Further as per the feedback andreports that we are receiving,there is a Rs 10,000-crore losswhich the tourism industry hasfaced in Uttar Pradesh becauseof lockdown,” he added.

He further stated that hewas disappointed when therewas no mention of the hospi-tality industry when guide-lines were announced for thefourth phase of lockdown.

President of Adarsh VyaparMandal Sanjay Gupta said that

in Lucknow itself, traders werelosing Rs 200 crore per day.“We are waiting for the stategovernment guidelines andhoping for some relaxationbecause the economic pressureis mounting to such an extentthat traders are going intodepression. Besides, the work-ers are asking for money butshopowners are in no positionto pay them,” he said.

He said there could besome arrangements whereinshops could be opened onalternate days,” he said. Headmitted that queries werepouring in as traders were fac-ing losses and they were clue-less on how to deal with the situation.

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The extension of lockdowntill May 31 is a double

whammy for cinema halls inUttar Pradesh. President ofUttar Pradesh CinemaExhibitors Federation AshishAgarwal said there were nochances of the cinema hallsopening till June-end but theywere also faced with the issueof films releasing on OTTplatforms.

Agarwal said that till theend of the third phase of lock-down, they had already lostover Rs 1,200 crore in UP,which has 400 single screensand 75 multiplexes.

“The producers of themovie ‘Gulabo-Sitabo’ star-ring Amitabh Bachchan andAyushman Khurana is alreadyin the process of releasing onOTT platform, which is fastbecoming the preferred choiceof the audience. It’s is a majorproblem because it will alsoaffect our business in comingdays and it will not revive tillthe end of the year,” he said.

Amongst this whole heapof mounting problems for the

cinema exhibitors, Agarwalsaid that with statements com-ing in from major organisa-tions that the Covid-19 vaccinewould take some time andpeople would have to live withthe virus, people were gettingused to stepping out only foressentials. “Besides, no onewould like to go to cinemahalls when family memberswould be sitting apart,” headded. Agarwal said that adetailed proposal was sent bya popular multiplex chain tothe Central government withdetails of how they wouldtake precautions if they wereallowed to open.

“The proposal includesselling of only 60 seats in a hallhaving more than 250 seats,opening two audis for intervalat one time, keeping all packedgoods in the confectionaryarea. However, the Centralgovernment has not respond-ed,” he said.

He said that their federa-tion has also approached thestate government withdemand of 100 per cent waiv-er of fixed demand charges ofelectricity, reducing energy

charges tariff to a minimum 12months to compensate accu-mulated losses, no annual feesto be charged for renewal ofcinema licenses for the year2020-21, 100 per cent waiverof property house tax andwater & sewer tax waiver forthe year 2020-21, waiver ofinterest on running loans, andSGST exemption to singlescreen cinemas for the year2020-21.

“In this tough time, all theold licences and NOCs shouldbe extended by a period ofminimum six months and noharassment pressure from anydepartment should be createdin any form on businessmen ashe is already in immense pres-sure paying salaries and otherfixed costs from his own pock-et during this lockdown. Nominimum energy chargesshould be levied for mini-mum six months. We have alsorequested the government toprovide some help to the cin-ema being a public place sothat public can gain confidenceonce again and start visitingpublic places like cinemassoon,” he added.

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Lucknow (PNS): A group ofmen attacked a team leader ofsafai workers of LucknowMunicipal Corporation (LMC)and his son and tried to open fireon being reminded of cleanlinessetiquettes, in Aliganj on Mondaymorning. As per reports,Rajendra Kumar Valmiki ofAliganj (Sector H) was going forcleaning work in the area on theinstructions of regional healthinspector when he spottedFirdaus Khan of Sector-L collect-ing garbage from his house anddumping it on road.

Rajendra reminded himabout the pandemic and askedhim not to throw garbage in theopen. Rajendra alleged thatFirdaus blew his top and start-

ed abusing him while castingaspersion on him and naminghim by his caste. “When the ver-bal duel was on, someoneinformed my son Rahul and hereached there for my help.Seeing my son at the spot, anumber of people, includingsome women from the side ofFirdaus — some of whom iden-tified as Hasan Waris,Mahmoodal Hasan and FahadHasan — attacked me and myson. They attempted to kill meby choking my throat. When wewere trying to save our lives bygoing away, they unsuccessful-ly tried to open fire,” he alleged.

Rajendra alleged thatFirdaus and others threatenedhim and his son against visiting

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Uttar Pradesh Real EstateRegulatory Authority (UP

RERA) on Monday resumed vir-tual regular hearing of the casesafter 50 days of lockdown. Thevirtual hearing was held in twobenches of UP RERA at GautamBuddha Nagar and Lucknowand 40 cases were listed beforethe bench of the chairman andmembers. UP RERA had com-municated the date and time ofhearing through video-confer-encing well in advance throughemail and SMS to the partieswhose cases are in argumentstage, a press statement here said.The virtual hearing team fromUP RERA is also making phonecalls to the parties for facilitat-ing the process and to offer tech-nical help to them, if needed.

To start with, the RERA ishearing 10 cases per day perbench considering the fact thatthe allocation of 15 minutes ofvideo-conferencing session isneeded for each case. After thehearing, UP RERA ChairmanRajeev Kumar said, “This ideawas welcomed by all. And peo-ple were able to participate from

far-off places. That’s safe, quick,efficient and economical. Seemswin-win for all and the way togo for all cases.” It may berecalled that RERA has imple-mented e-court system witheffect from March 2, 2020, thusmoving towards the digital wayof managing the complaints ina transparent and timely man-ner. Detailed guidelines aboutthe virtual hearing has beenissued by RERA through itsorder dated May 18, 2020.

UP RERA has also decidedto start listing of the cases beforethe adjudicating officer andconciliation forum through vir-tual medium of hearing. Thedates will be soon fixed and theparties will be informed throughemail and SMS. This way the UPRERA is ensuring normal func-tioning of the court and dispos-al of the complaints notwith-standing the dislocation causedby COVID-19 pandemic. It isexpected that the virtual hearingwill prove to be a very stronginstrument of imparting justiceto the aggrieved parties in atransparent, efficient and time-bound manner, the statementsaid.

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Restrictions during lock-down failed to check crime

in the state with a sensationalshoot-out taking place inAyodhya in which two persons,including representative ofBharatiya Janata party MPLallu Singh, were killed whilefour others were killed in otherplaces.

In Ayodhya, local BJP MPLallu Singh’s representative JaiPrakash Singh reportedlycalled a panchayat at PaliyaPratap Shah village inHaringtonganj block of thedistrict on Monday morning.Reports said that several vil-lagers were present as Singhwas also the sitting pradhan ofthe village. The situation tooka violent turn when NanhaYadav, having a history-sheet atthe local Inayatnagar policestation, had a heated argu-ments with Singh and sudden-ly whipped out a pistol andopened indiscriminate fire atSingh, injuring him critically.

Agitated with the firing,the villagers also opened firewith their weapons in whichNanha Yadav was killed on thespot. Singh was rushed to dis-trict hospital where seeing his

critical condition, his support-ers staged demonstration ask-ing the authorities to shift himto the KGMU Trauma Centrein Lucknow. However, beforethe authorities could take anydecision, Singh succumbed tohis injuries at the hospital.The local police registered acase and were making furtherinvestigation.

In another incident inAyodhya, the body ofMansaram, having his history-sheet with Maharajganj policestation, was found buried in thesand on the banks of Saryuriver in Salempur Majha onMonday. The body was twodays old and the police arrest-ed Mahesh Verma, a propertydealer and three of his accom-plices in this regard.

In Fatehpur, the headlessbody of a farmer was found inthe field in the early hours ofMonday. Station House Officerof Mallawan police station,Sher Singh Rajput, claimedthey found a headless body ofa youth lying at Chakki Gaonarea. The victim was later iden-tified as Pramod Kumar, a res-ident of the same area.Investigation showed thatPramod went to work in hisfields on Sunday afternoon

but went missing. His mobilephone was missing. Besides,the victim’s head, three fingersof right hand were chopped offby the killers. As Kumar washaving no known enmity withanyone so the cops detainedabout a dozen persons to grillthem and extract some clueswhich could lead them to thekillers. The cops also contact-ed Kumar’s father who is ateacher in Agra.

In yet another sensationalkilling, a 60 percent burntbody of a girl, probably in hermid-twenties, was found inLoni area of Ghaziabad, onMonday morning.Circumstantial evidence point-ed that the accused killed hersomewhere else, dumped thebody and poured kerosene andput it on fire to burn it in orderto conceal the crime. The copssuspect that the victim wasraped before being murdered.

The body was kept forpost-mortem and furtherinvestigations are on.

In Budaun, a farmerTarachand, native of Daspurhamlet of Faijganj Behta, waskilled by another farmer, JugalKishore, after the two had dis-pute over watering their fieldson Monday morning.

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Acknowledging the selfless andcontinuous hard work of staff ofthe Microbiology department tofight the Covid-19 pandemic,SGPGI director RK Dhimanfelicitated the corona warriors onMonday. He lauded the effortsof the staff and saluted their spir-it. “These are the staff memberswho have not gone home formonths voluntarily and are test-ing around 800 samples a day tofight the battle against coron-avirus, and it needs apprecia-tion,” he said. Speaking on theoccasion, chief medical superin-tendent Dr Amit Agarwal saidthey were doing four-level taskwhich means that they weresampling, transporting the sam-ples, testing the samples andfinally reporting.

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VARANASI (PNS): Healthadvisor of the US and eminentwriter who authored ‘China Rx:Exposing the Risks of America’sDependence on China forMedicine’ Dr RosemaryGibson praised India in themanner it has treated China inthis hour of global disaster.‘China’s thinking has alwaysbeen to dominate the globalmarket and the result of whichis seen today when China hasput the whole world in dangersof pandemic,’ she said. Knownas ‘Super Medical Lady’, she wasdelivering keynote address attwo-day webinar on ‘DisasterReligion: Moral education inCOVID-19’ organised underthe auspices of Philosophydepartment at DAV PGCollege.

Praising India further, shesaid that when there was ascarcity of medicines in theworld, India has exportedhydroxychloroquine and pre-sented a perfect example of dis-aster religion, for whichAmerica will always be grate-ful to India. According to her,the culture and tradition of

India has been very prosperoussince pre-disaster period and atpresent the main emphasis ofAmerica is on making coronavaccine and testing kits andmasks because the US has seenthousands of civilians die andis now in the grip of life, sheadded. Rajya Sabha MP andDirector of Indian Council ofCultural Relations (ICCR) Dr.Vinay Sahastrabuddhe said thatreligion and disaster religionare linked with commitment toeach other. Chief of IndianCouncil of PhilosophicalResearch (ICPR) Prof. RCSinha said that for the first timein Sanatan Dharma, the discus-sion on disaster religion isbeing held which was once seenin discussion between Bhishmaand Yudhishthira in theMahabharata. He said that dieof hunger is not acceptable inany situation, irrespective of theperiod of disaster in Indian cul-ture. Vice-Chancellor ofWardha University, ProfRajneesh Shukla said thatChina’s behaviour is complete-ly contrary to the disaster reli-gion.

Presiding over the webinar,Principal Dr. Satyadev Singhsaid that as per Indian philos-ophy in disaster, it is the ulti-mate duty of the people to havefull faith in the king. Respectingthe rules made by the govern-ment is the karma yoga of thepeople. Prof Ake Sender ofSweden, Prof Anthony SavaraiRaj of Jamaica, Prof BandanaPurkayastha (US), Prof AjayVerma, Prof HS Prasad, ProfRK Jha, Prof Vikram SinghSirola (IIT Mimbai) and collegemanager Ajit Singh Yadav alsoexpressed their views. A sou-venir was also released on theoccasion. Convenor Dr SatishKumar Singh conducted thefunction, while Dr RamendraSingh welcomed the guests.The vote of thanks was pro-posed by Dr Sanjay KumarSingh.

ONLINE DISCUSSIONON STRESS: Aiming at help-ing the students and parents aswell to address their psycholog-ical problems through stressmanagement in view ofCOVID-19, the SunbeamAcademy organised online live

session. The students of all fourbranches of academy and theirparents participated.

Each and every person is instress because of coronavirusand thus, to address this men-tal stress of students and theirparents as well, the academyorganised online live session.The stress management expertDr PC Bahuguna gave tips tostudents and parents to removetheir stress and also pacifiedtheir curiosity answering theirquestions. He hoped the ses-sion will help the students andparents to remove their stress.

The Secretary of academyJagdeep Madhok and DirectorPuja Madhok informed that theacademy has been organisingonline classes, talent hunt com-petition and hobby classessince April 1 and added that theonline summer camp is alsobeing organised for students.The Principal of Samneghatbranch KK Panda informedthat to generate consciousnessamong students and parentsabout COVID-19, such onlineprogrammes are also beingorganised.

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In response to the instructionsgiven by the Chief Minister

Yogi Adityanath, the districtand police officers stoppedhundreds of migrant workersand their family memberswhile they were going to theirhomes in different parts ofPurvanchal (eastern UP) andadjoining states by trucks andother modes of transport hereon Monday. The DistrictMagistrate (DM) Kaushal RajSharma had issued a strictwarning in this direction hold-ing the concerned magistrates,circle officers and Police

Response Vehicle (PRV) teamsresponsible.

Throughout the day, rushof such stopped migrant work-ers was seen at various tentsinstalled on service lanes ofnational highways apart fromthe two dispatch centres madeat Mohansarai and Sandahawhere the cops and other socialworkers were seen offeringfood packets and mineral waterbottles to migrant workers.Divisional Commissioner (DC)Deepak Agrawal and InspectorGeneral (IG-Range) VijaySingh Meena visited these dis-patch centres and inspected thearrangements.

The district administra-tion, in association withRoadways and Transportdepartment has made arrange-ments of buses so that thesemigrant workers can be sent totheir homes comfortably.According to the reports, manysuch migrant workers had paidmore than the fares of flightsand Rajdhani Express trains fortheir uncomfortable journey intrucks.

Surprisingly, despite com-ing of such reports from differ-ent parts of the country, thegovernment has not takenaction against such trucks mis-using this hour of crisis

through the help of footagerecorded at various toll plazas.

Meanwhile, heavy rushcontinued to be seen at KashiInstitute of Technology (KIT),Mirza Murad and other healthcheck-up centres includingVivekanand Hospital atBhelupur where the health ofstranded people who camehere or willing to go elsewherewas examined. According tothe reports, on Sunday thehealth of 11,131 people fromother states and within UP wasexamined at KIT. Out of them,4,292 people came here by 360buses while 6,839 by their pri-vate vehicles.

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This holy city saw yet anoth-er death by COVID-19

here on Monday. It was thefourth death of the city. An 80-year-old retired professor ofAyurveda Faculty in Institute ofMedical Sciences (IMS),Banaras Hindu University(BHU) died at Super SpecialtyBlock in BHU. With somephysical problems, he wasreferred to BHU from a privatenursing home at Jawahar NagarExtension recently. Due to ageand other problems, since hisadmission he was in seriouscondition. Earlier, the city hadseen three deaths includingone trader (58) from Gangapur,a woman (58) from Lallapuraand a retired PCS officer (73)from Nariya. All these patientshad several other physicalproblems apart from beinginfected from COVID-19.

Meanwhile, as many asfive new positive corona caseshave been found in Varanasi.All of them came to theirhomes in different villagesrecently from Mumbai. Out ofthese, two are brothers aged 40and 24 and hail from Garkhadavillage, under the Phoolpurpolice station and both work inMumbai as a labourer and dri-ver respectively. Besides, a 35years old youth from

Chiraigaon, under theChoubeypur police station isalso found affected.

He also drives a vehicle inMumbai. The other positivepatient is a 32-year-old youthfrom Madhavpur Harahuwa,who also works in Mumbaiwhere he repairs mobiles andthe last one is 30 years oldpatient from Bharthara Kala,under the Choubeypurpolice station who alsoworks as driver in Mumbai.They all came here by differentvehicles.

With this, the number ofpositive cases in the district hasincreased to 101 and out ofwhich 65 have been dischargedfrom the hospital, while fourhave died, leaving 101 activepatients. Besides, as many asfour new hotspots have beenmade and they are Garkhada(Phoolpur), Chiraigaon(Choubeypur), Madhopur(Badagaon) and Bharthara Kala(Choubeypur). With this thenumber of hotspots haveincreased to 41 and out ofthem, five more areas (Sujabad,Gola, Seer Govardhan, JaiPrakash Nagar and ShivajiNagar) have become greenzones, increasing the numberto 20. With this, there are only21 active zones now.

Since the arrival of migrantworkers to the homes in vari-

ous parts of this belt ofPurvanchal (eastern UP), com-prising 10 districts of threedivisions of Varanasi,Azamgarh and Vindhyachal,the sharp rise in COVID-19cases continued and the totalnumber of patients has sharplyincreased to 220 as two newcases each were found fromMirzapur and Azamgarh andone from Ghazipur. Apart fromVaranasi, the situation hasturned worse in Ghazipur asthe figure of corona affectedpersons has gone to 35, whilein Jaunpur 26, Mirzapur andAzamgarh 15 each, Ballia 12,Chandauli eight, Bhadohiseven, Mau four and one inSonbhadra.

In the region, coronaclaimed as many as five lives sofar including four in Varanasiand one in Azamgarh. Withthis, the morality ratewhich was less than onepercent just a few days agohas not increased to 2.27 percent.

Meanwhile, bringingstranded Indian nationals fromthe UK, an Air India flight (AI-112) landed at Lal BahadurShastri in the afternoon fromLondon. All the passengerswere properly thermal scannedat the airport and then theywere shifted to four hotels ofthree categories for their 14

days institutional quarantine bytourist buses. For quarantine,the passengers will bear theexpenses themselves by paying� 3500, �2000 and �1000 forevery single room per day.

When the plane arrived atairport, ADM (Protocol), CISFcommandant, senior officers ofairport and Immigrationdepartment, SP(RA), CO(Pindra), Tourism departmentofficers and many others werealso present to see all thearrangements.

Due to prevailing confu-sions, rush was seen in manymarkets and at several placeseven the shops selling panmasalas etc. were reopened onthe first day of lockdown 4.0though the district administra-tion had already made it clearthat after receiving the newguidelines from the state gov-ernment, the same would beimplemented here fromTuesday and till the earlierguidelines would remain affec-tive.

Meanwhile, with the exten-sion of lockdown period tillMay 31, BHU has also extend-ed the date of its academic andother activities. However,emergency and other servicesat Sir Sundarlal Hospital (SSH)and Trauma Centre would con-tinue as usual along with allessential services.

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With increasing the countof COVID-19 patients

alarmingly, the number ofhotspot areas have also beenincreased rapidly in Prayagrajdistrict. On Monday, threemore other places have beenmade hotspots. With this, thenumber of hotspot areas hasgone up to 16 in the district.

The new hotspots that havebeen made included Tilai Bazarof Mauaima, Raka Maurya ofHandia tehsil and Lalapur.Now all the people of theseareas and villages will bescreened and sanitisation oper-ation will be undertaken there.

Lalapur village, RakaMaurya of Handia tehsil andMauaima’s Tilai Bazar havebeen declared hotspots. Now

the health check-up of all thepeople here will be done. Andif anyone shows the symp-toms of coronavirus then theywill be tested. All people havebeen asked to stay in homequarantine at these places. Nooutsider will be allowed entryinto the village nor will the peo-ple of the village be allowed togo outside. Home delivery of allessential ingredients includ-ing medicine and milk will becarried out here.

The entire area has beensealed by the police besides,police and medical teams havealso been deployed along withthe magistrate. At these places,from all the houses to otherplaces will be sanitised.Strictness will be maintainedhere for about 28 days. Duringthis period of time, if no new

case of COVID-19 is foundhere, strictness will be lifted.

After the corona positivewas found in the clerk ofSaidabad Health Centre,movement has been ceasedputting a barricading alongwith declaring that area ofKalindipuram colony as ahotspot. The clerk of SaidabadCHC lives in Kalindipuramarea and he was found to becorona positive. Hence, thepeople of his family have beenquarantined in Kalindipuramitself. Dhoomanganj police sta-tion incharge ShamsherBahadur Singh, along withpolice personnel, put mobilebarrier and bamboo barricad-ing at a distance of half a kilo-metre on the main road of thelocality. Police have warnedpeople of this area that no one

would step out of the housefrom this hotspot.

Eight members of a fami-ly came to the village TilaiBazar, under the Mauaimapolice station a by their carfrom Mumbai on May 9. Theirsamples were sent to the lab fortest. Among them, the report ofa youth and his sister camepositive. Additional ChiefMedical Officer Dr Tirath Lal,CHC incharge Ram GopalVerma and Inspector MauaimaSantosh Kumar Dubey alongwith police personnel reachedTilai Bazar and got the areasealed from all sides.

The CHC incharge saidthat the samples of other fam-ily members have been sent forre-testing. The whole village isbeing sanitised, the CHCincharge added.

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Eight additional coachingrakes have been arranged to

run more Shramik specialtrains at short notice by theNorth Central Railway (NCR).

Today, outgoing Shramikspecial train from Subedarganjto Durg is being run to clearmigrants belonging to state ofChhattisgarh. 22 coaches LHBShramik train with 15 sleeperand 5 GS coaches is scheduledto start at 17 hours and sched-uled to reach Durg at 15 hourson May 19. Preidentified andscreened passengers areallowed to deboard at Bilaspur,Bhatpara and Raipur stationsalso .

Besides this outwardShramik Special trains fromDadri to Khagaria, Dankaur toBallia, Dankaur to Balrampur,Dankaur to Gorakhpur, AgraCantt to Deoria Sadar andJhansi to Gorakhpur are alsobeing operated on Monday.These 9 trains are clearing over

10,000 migrants to Bihar, WestBengal as well as within thestate of Uttar Pradesh .

Operation of ShramikSpecial trains is being upscaledon daily basis and Railways hasnow decided to run ShramikSpecial trains from all the dis-tricts connected by Railways inthe country. Under the revisedscheme, concerned district col-lector shall prepare a list ofstranded labourers and destina-tion, and apply it to railwaysthrough state nodal officer. Tomeet the requirement of run-ning more Shramik Specialtrains additional coachingrakes have been arranged byNorth Central Railway.

Three coaching rakes fromNorth Eastern Railway andanother 5 from South EasternRailway have been arranged torun more Shramik Servicesbesides utilising 19 NCRowned coaching rakes.

TRAINING PRO-GRAMME ON COVID-19HELD : To aware about the

COVID-19 and prevent fromvirus infection an online train-ing programme was organisedby National Service Scheme ofSam Higginbottom Universityof Agriculture, Technology andScience in collaboration withUNICEF and Uttar PradeshNSS. The training was startedby Dr Ajay Babu Sharma, SLC(Training) NSS.

SHUATS Registrar ProfRobin L. Prasad appreciated thecontribution of NSS volun-teers and said that all of usshould take special care in thetime of this disaster, follow thelockdown & Governmentguidelines to prevent the spreadof infection.

Regional Director AshokKumar Shruti shared importantguidelines regarding COVID-19. State Liaison Officer DrAnshumali Sharma gave areport on NSS state work andsupport.

NSS Coordinator Dr RohitLal said that more than 500NSS workers participated in the

training programme and weremade aware to prevent infec-tion. Programme Officers DrDeepak Bose, Dr ArchanaChandra, Dr Neena Gupta, DrPrashant Ankur Jain, Dr RamPal, Dr Mudita Shrivastava,Satyam Kumar Kesari etc.made special contribution inthe online training event.

Ananya Ghoshal ofUNICEF suggested various tipslike simple disinfectants to killthe virus on surface, makesure to wash hands after youblow your nose, sneeze into atissue, use the restroom, whenyou leave and return to yourhome, before preparing or eat-ing food, applying make-up,handling contact lenses etc. DrNirmala gave informationabout COVID situation andRed Zone. Dr Pravita Khatrigave a lecture on mask manage-ment. Nutrition Officer AnujaBhargava shared the informa-tion related to iron deficiencyanaemia through dietary diver-sity for pregnant women.

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Kanpur (City) DistrictMagistrate BR Tiwari on

Monday gave a warm send-offto migrants from Rajasthanfrom Jhakarkati bus station.

All the migrant workersand their family members weregiven food packets and waterbottles.

He said the buses woulddrop the migrant workers andtheir families at the nearest pos-sible place of stay.

The district magistrate saidthat 148 government busesand 102 acquired buses wereleaving with migrants to theirrespective destinations. He saidthe migrant workers wereboarding buses from threeplaces — Sachendi, Ramadeviand Rooma.

Tiwari said directives had

been issued to officials at var-ious districts to ensure that thebuses did not return empty andbrought all the migrants whowanted to come to Kanpur.

Narwal SDM RizwanaShahid said a total of 110migrant labourers who hadreturned from different stateshad been quarantined inMaharajpur quarantine centresand all of them had tested neg-ative for coronavirus infectionand were discharged andallowed to proceed to their des-tination on Monday.

Meanwhile, the districtmagistrate felicitated Dr Kavita,a gynaecologist and obstetri-cian, with a certificate of meritfor her service in the safedelivery of a migrant pregnantwoman in advanced stage ofpregnancy at the railway sta-tion. Dr Kavita arranged every-

thing there itself and manageda successful delivery. Both themother and child were safe andhealthy.

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Chief Medical Officer DrAK Shukla said on Sundaythat no new case was found onMonday and out of the 316COVID-19 patients detected inthe city, 269 had been curedand discharged from hospitals.

He said the rate of recov-ery had reached 85.12 per centwhich was quite encouragingand positive.

Meanwhile, KanpurDivisional CommissionerSudhir M Bobde directed thechief medical superintendent of

Kanshiram Hospital to imme-diately appoint a PRO whoshould ensure that only coro-navirus positive cases wereadmitted to the Hospitalwhereas the non-COVID-19patients were referred to UrsulaHospital.

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Meanwhile, as part ofsocial responsibility under theCouncil of Students’ Activities,ration kits were distributed tothe needy persons on Monday.The 10-kg bags containingwheat flour, rice, sugar, lentilsand cooking oil were distrib-uted by NSI Director NarendraMohan along with hostel war-den Vinay Kumar.

A total of 100 poor familiesand destitutes were given theration kits.

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Amigrant worker returningfrom Mumbai with his

family members died of illnessin the absence of timely med-ical care in Ghatampur policearea on Monday morning.

Seeing his serious condi-tion, the truck driver, despitecharging the fare up toFaizabad, dropped the familynear Patara village inGhatampur. In the absence oftimely treatment, the migrantworker died soon after.

Jai Prakash Rajbhar (36), anative of Wajidpur Akbarpurtehsil of Ambedkar Nagar dis-trict, was living in Nala Sutara,Thane (Maharashtra) with

family members for the pastseveral years. He was a painter.A year ago, he had also calledhis sister-in-law Sangeeta andher husband Sewaram there.Due to lockdown, when itbecame difficult to survive inThane, Rajbhar and the fami-ly members decided to returnto their native place. OnSaturday, he along with wifeRadha, Sangeeta, Sewaram andtheir five-year-old daughterSonakshi, left for AmbedkarNagar on a truck. Around 7:30am on Monday, when the truckreached near Patara village inGhatampur, the condition ofRajbhar started deteriorating.the truck driver suddenlydropped them on the roadand escaped. Seeing the condi-

tion of Rajbhar, the villagerscalled the ambulance whichtook him to community healthcentre around 8:30 am wherehe was pronounced dead.

Radha said the truck driverhad collected Rs 3,000 perperson for carrying them up toFaizabad. She said her husbandwas suffering from pulmonarydisease for the past severalyears. CHC MedicalSuperintendent Dr NeerajSachan said on the request ofthe kin of the deceased, thebody was sent to AmbedkarNagar by ambulance.

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A farmer was axed to deathwhile fast asleep at the tubewell

in his field in Rampur Nihuravillage under Sajeti police sta-tion of Ghatampur late Sundaynight. Land dispute and scuf-fle between his elder son andneighbours a few days backwere said to be the reason forhis murder. The deceased wasidentified as GyanendraSankhwar (55). On Mondaymorning, when the familymembers reached the field forharvesting the crop, they foundSankhwar profusely bleedingon the cot. Station Officer ofSajeti, Amit Misra, reachedthe spot with force and carriedout investigations.

The kin alleged litigationregarding possession over 12bigha land was pending incourt.

���������������!���,94�+0*KANPUR(PNS): Kanpur University Self-Financed Teachers Association (KUSFTA)President Kamlesh Yadav has demandeddeferment of evaluation of answer bookstill the end of lockdown 4.0. It may berecalled that the university had announcedto start the evaluation of answer booksfrom May 20. In a memorandum submit-ted to the Registrar of CSJM Universityhere on Monday, Kamlesh Yadav and KUS-FTA general secretary Akhand PratapSingh also urged him to arrange disburse-ment of salary for the months of Marchand April to the self-financed teachers of various degree colleges affiliated with the

CSJMU. The KUSFTA leaders said the startof evaluation work from May 20 may poseproblem for invigilators in reaching theevaluation as Kanpur was a red zone dis-trict. Registrar Anil Yadav and DeputyRegistrar SN Pal assured the union lead-ers of a favourable decision on theirdemands after discussions with the vice-chancellor and the district magistrate.

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Superintendent of PoliceMani Lal Patidar has made

an appeal to the people of thedistrict to wear masks and fol-low social distancing guide-lines.

Talking to ‘The Pioneer’ onSunday, the SP said wearingmasks while going out of thehouse in connection with someurgent work or at a public placehad been made compulsory.The SP said that all police sta-tion incharges in Mahoba dis-trict had been directed that inview of the lockdown theythose found wandering unnec-essarily should be challaned.The SP said that strict action

would be taken against thoseputting inflammatory posts onsocial media. The SP said thatwe all have to fight this battleagainst coronavirus together

and win it.

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One person was killed andanother injured in tractor-motorcycle collision in Alipuravillage on Jhansi-Mirzapurhighway around 3 pm onSunday. According to a reportreceived here, Vahore, son ofPanchu, a resident of Alipura,died on the spot while themotorcyclist, Jeetendra, wasseriously injured. On gettinginformation about it the policerushed to the spot, took thebody of the deceased into cus-tody and sent it for the post-mortem examination andimpounded the tractor.

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There would be no specificchange during the fourth

phase of lockdown in the dis-trict until new guidelines wereissued by the state govern-ment. This was said by DistrictMagistrate Banda Amit SinghBansal talking to ‘The Pioneer’on Monday.

He said that the groceryshops would open from 7 amto 9 am. The shopkeeperswould have to maintain socialdistancing and ensure wearingof masks by customers as well.If shopkeepers did not main-tain it and crowd was seen sternaction would be taken againsttheir owners. DM said thatliquor shops outside contain-ment zones in urban and ruralwould remain open from 10am to 7 pm. These shopkeep-

ers would also have to maintainsocial distancing. DM said thate-commerce activities foressential commodities wouldcontinue. DM Amit SinghBansal said that only one per-son would be allowed to go ona two wheeler while a driver

and two persons on a four-wheeler.This facility would begiven to those who have valide-passes. No private con-struction would be allowedduring the fourth phase oflockdown in the entire district.Those who were found violat-ing lockdown guidelines wouldbe punished under Section188 of the Indian Penal Code(IPC). The sale of gutka andtobacco would remain pro-hibited in the district, he said.

On the occasion DM AmitSingh Bansal added that allabove activities would contin-ue outside containment zoneonly. He said that people wouldhave to follow social distancing,ensure sanitation and wearmasks. He said that all suchactivities would remain pro-hibited in hotspots of the dis-trict. DM said that officials had

been directed to encouragedownloading of Aarogya Setuapp by one and all. He Bansalsaid that he had directed direct-ed City magistrate and sub-divisional magistrates (SDMs)of Banda, Atarra, Naraini andBaberu to get implementedthe guidelines of lockdown inthe district. DM said that theyhad been asked to take sternlegal action against those whoviolated the lockdown guide-lines in the district. Bansalsaid that he along with SPBanda Siddharth ShankarMeena was taking regularrounds of the district and per-sonally checking the vehicles atseveral points. DM Bansal saidthat city magistrate and SDMshad been directed to send himregular feedback about theimplementation of lockdown inthe district.

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Senior Cogress leaderMumtaz Ali said that he dis-

tributed biscuits and snacks,masks and sanitisers among600 migrant labourers atBabulal chauraha, AtarraChungi and Maharana PratapChauraha on Sunday. Ali saidthat they on the occasion wereadvised to wear masks andmaimtain social distancing too.Congress leader said that helater distributed 500 ration kitsamong the poor and needy indifferent parts of city.

Those who accompaniedhim during this distributionwere district president,

Congress, Rajesh Dixit, districtpresident, Mahila Congress,Seema khan, Syed AltmashHusain, Irfan Khan, EshuKhan, Sunil Chaurasia, RajBahadur Gupta, Jugnu, NafeeshKhan, Dashrath Singh, SaleemKhan, Shameem Khan, ImtiyazKhan, Zameel Bhai, ShahidMansoori, Saleem Mansooriand Akeel Ahmed. Congressleader Mumtaz Ali said that thedistribution of ration kits wasbeing done in the district onthe instructions of former min-ister and MLC NaseemuddinSiddiqui. Ali said that the dis-tribution of ration kits wouldcontinue during the nationwidelockdown period.

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Keeping Covid-19 in mindby the North Eastern

Railway (NER) administrationwas taking several steps for pre-venting it and its employees areengaged whole-heartedly in it.During the countrywide lock-down, along with freight andparcel trains Shramik specialtrains are also being operatedfor the past few days to take themigrant workers to their nativeplaces. Apart from it masks andrelief materials are being dis-tributed by the railwaymenamong the needy in such a sit-uation. Railwaymen who havedone commendable work insuch a situation are beingdeclared ‘Corona Warrior ofthe day’ daily by the NERadministration in order toboosting their morale. In thisseries two railwaymen werehonoured on May 16, ChiefPublic Relations Officer(CPRO) Pankaj Kumar Singh

said. Paras Nath, working onthe post of junior engineer/car-riage and wagon in the

Varanasi control room hasmade commendable contribu-tion in ensuring the movementof goods and parcel specialtrains, workman special andShramik special trains by

remaining constantly present atworkduring the lockdown peri-od. Thereafore Paras Nath was

honored as the ‘Corona warriorof the Day’ of Varanasi Divisionfor these commendable works.

On the other hand, JitendraKumar Singh, working on thepost of inspector at Railway

Protection Force (RPF) post,Farrukhabad, coordinated withall the departments concernedat the time of arrival anddeparture of the Shramik spe-cial trains, followed the socialdistancing guidelines and sentabout 2,500 passengers to theirdestination. He got the work ofloading /unloading of goodsfrom the goods trains safely atthe local warehouse done.Apart from it through posters,banners and pamphlets hemade people aware of covid 19and distributed food and fooditems among 1,000 helplessand needy people. For thesecommendable works ofJitendra Kumar Singh, he washonored as ‘Corona warrior ofthe day’ of Izzatnagar division.

In order to boost themorale of its personnel the rail-way administration will givesuch awards during the lock-down period in futre too. Therailway administration is proudof such personnel.

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DIG Chitrakootdham rangeDeepak Kumar inspected

the UP-MP border at Kaimahain Mahoba district on Sundayand issued instructions topolice officials to provide entryto the migrant labourers on UPborder and take them to shel-ter homes for screening. DIGKumar directed SP MahobaManilal Patidar to providethem food and send them totheir districts through busesand other vehicles. DIGinstructed SP not to allow themigrants to go on foot at anycost.

DIG asked the SP to makesecurity arrangements formigrants staying at the shelterhomes in the district. DIGsaid that UP Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath had giveninstructions to the districtauthorities not to permit themigrants going on foot as sev-eral casualties had been report-ed in the state. DIG directed SP

Mahoba to issue instructions toSOs of all police stations tostop the migrant labourersgoing on foot and shift them toshelter homes and arrange food

for them. DIG Kumar toldThe Pioneer that he hadinspected Kaimaha on UP-MPborder in Mahoba and issuedinstructions to police officials

to facilitate the entry ofmigrants at the border and takethem to the shelter homes forscreening. DIG said that thepolicemen should not allow themigrants to go on foot. DIGKumar said that he had direct-ed SPs of Banda, Mahoba,Hamirpur and Chitrakoot tocross-check the migrants goingon foot, stop them and shiftthem to nearby shelter homes.DIG said that they should bescreened, given food and makearrangement for vehicles todrop them at their districts. Hesaid that migrant labourersshould not travel on foot.

DIG Kumar said that hetalked with four dozenmigrants on Kaimaha borderwho came from other states.DIG Kumar said that headvised them to talk to theirfriends and advise them not togo on foot and wait for theirturn. DIG Kumar said thatefforts were being made to con-vince the migrants to stay atshelter homes for their safety.

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Two siblings were knockeddown by a fourwheeler

from behind while they weregoing to purchase some itemshere. According to a report,the brothers, Rahul (15) andUttam (13), sons of JayKishore, a resident ofKusuma village under theAtarra police station, wereknocked down by a fourwheeler coming from behindwhile they were on their way.As a result both brothers sus-tained serious injuries. Theywere first admitted to thecommunity health centre(CHC) in Atarra. Later theywere referred to district hos-pital in Banda for treatment.However, their condition wasreported to be out of danger.The police said that both of

them were coming to Atarraon a bicycle for purchasingsome items of daily needwhen the incident occurred.The police said that the errantdriver of the fourwheeler ranaway from the spot.Meanwhile, an unidentifiedperson died during treat-ment at district hospitalBanda. Station House Officer(SHO) City Kotwali DineshSingh said that this uniden-tified person was found in aserious condition on May 13and was admitted to the dis-trict hospital Banda. Singhsaid that he died during treat-ment on Sunday.

He said that the body hadbeen kept in the mortuaryand post-mortem examina-tion would be done after 72hours.

Meanwhile three persons

tried to end their lives in dif-ferent areas of the district.

According to a reportreceived here, a 30-year-oldwoman, Neha Devi, made anattempt to commit suicideafter she consumed somepoisonous substance atKhutla under the CityKotwali area on Saturday.She was been admitted to dis-trict hospital in Banda. Inanother incident, Rekha (28)consumed some poisonoussubstance in Palhari villageunder the Bisanda police sta-tion. In third incident ArvindKumar (27) consumed a poi-sonous substance inBandhapurwa village underthe City Kotwali area. Policehad admitted al of them tothe district hospital Banda.Their condition was report-ed to be out of danger.

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Padari police arrested anaccused under the Gangster

Act who was wanted sincelong. During patrolling StationOfficer Padari Manjay Singhwas tipped off by an aninformer that Ramesh Singhwas standing at Dagmagpurand was waiting for some con-veyance in order to flee fromthere. Thereafter the SO rushedto the spot and arrested theaccused.

Meanwhile another rpe-ort said that the Halia policereceived a complaint that ashopkeeper of Mawai village

was violating the social dis-tancing norms at his shop.

On getting the complaintin this connection sub-inspec-tor (S-I) Gireesh Gupta reachedthe spot, He then registered acase against the shopkeeper fornot following the social dis-tancing guidelines.

On the other hand, StationOfficer (SO) Ahraura RajeshChaubey said that a case hadbeen registered against tworesidents of Sahuaain KaPokhra and another belongingto Satyanganj locality for open-ing their shops without per-mission during lockdown onSunday.

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MLA Prakash Dwivedi saidthat he had distributed

300 ration kits among theneedy and poor in gram pan-chayat Katraval, Arbai,Mathana Kheda, Jamanipurwa,Jheel ka Purwa, Zaraili Kothi ofBanda Vidhan sabha area onSunday.

MLA said that those whoaccompanied him during thisdistribution were Ram KrashnaShukla, Ram Kishore Shukla,Pushkar Dwivedi, Rajat Seth,Rohit Tiwari, Santosh Rajput,Amarmani Tripathi, SudhirMishra, Gyan Pratap, LokdattaPrajapati, Anurudha Tripathiand Ajay Singh. MLA whileDwivedi talking to The Pioneer

said that apart from it as manyas 1,600 lunch packets were dis-tributed at a relief camp onBanda-Atarra road.

Giving details MLAPrakash Dwivedi said that4,000 lunch packets were alsodistributed in different areas ofBanda city on Sunday.

Dwivedi said that his aimwas to ensure that no oneremained hungry in the BandaVidhan Sabha area. Dwivedisaid that he was talking to thepoor and needy people of thecity and assuring them of thebest possible help from his end.Dwivedi said that this distrib-ution of lunch packets andration kits would continuethroughout the lockdown peri-od.

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The body of a 60-year-oldman was recovered from

his house in Baberu town onSunday.

Giving details station houseofficer (SHO) Baberu KotwaliJai Shyam said that the body ofthe deceased had been sent forthe post-mortem examination.The SHO said that thedeceased, Natthu PrasadVishwakarma, livied in a houseon the bank of Baberu canal. Hewas a carpenter and ran a fur-niture shop at his residence.SHO said that informationabout the death of the carpen-ter had been given to his broth-er living in Palhari village underthe Bisanda police station.

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A40-year-old driver was killed onthe spot when a speeding car

overturned close on the Chandauli-Sakaldiha Road under the SakaldihaKotwali around 4 pm on Sunday. Inthe accident driver Shashank Singhdied on the spot while two others wereseriously injured. On getting infor-mation police rushed to the spot, tookthe body of the victim and sent it tothe district hospital. They also got theinjured admitted to there.

According to a report receivedhere, Shashank Singh (45), AbhishekSingh (40) and Ranjan Sharma (41),residents of New Dillia under Dehrion Sone, Bihar, had come to Saidpurto drop their companion and werereturning. Around 4 pm the car wentout of control on Sakaldiha-ChandauliRoad and overturned. The car whichwas going on high speed went out ofcontrol and overturned due to a pit onthe way.

As a result Shashank Singh, who wasdriving the car, died on the spot. While twoothers were seriously injured in the acci-dent. On hearing the screams of the vic-tims, a large number of people gatheredthere who straightened the car and broughteveryone out.

On information provided by the peo-ple there, men in khaki reached the spotand sent the body of the deceased for thepost-mortem examination and the injuredto the district hospital. Police officerSatendra Yadav said that the car overturneddue to high speed as a result of which thedriver was killed and two others were seri-ously injured. Further action was beingtaken in this connection.

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An aged man drowned in inChandraprabha river in Goghra villageunder the Baburi police station onSaturday evening. His body of the aged wasfound floating on Sunday morning. Policetook the body of the deceased into custodyand sent it for the postmortem examina-tion. When the news of his untimely andtragic death reached his family membersthey were shell-shocked and inconsolable.

According to a report received here,Ramraj Yadav, (65), a resident of Gogharavillage, had gone towards outskirts of thevillage on Saturday evening for easing him-

self. However, when he did notreturn home till late in the evening,his family members became worriedand launched a search for him here,there and everywhere but his where-abouts could not be traced.Meanwhile on Sunday morningwhen some villagers went along thebanks of Chandraprabha river theywere shocked to find the body of anelderly person floating in it. As aresult the villagers raised an alarmand a large number of people fromthe nearby areas gathered there. Onbeing informed by the villagerspolice reached the spot and took thebody out with their help. They thensent his body to the district hospitalfor the post-mortem examination.

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A 22-year-old youth committedsuicide by consuming celphos inBijhwal village under the Dhanapurpolice station on Sunday evening.

According to a report received, Sujit (22),son of Raju consumed celphos due to somereason. When his health started deterio-rating he rushed to a local police stationand told the personnel there that he hadconsumed celphos and urged them to savehim. On seeing that his condition was dete-riorating, the police informed his familyand took him to the community healthcentre where he died during treatment.The father of the deceased said that he hadbeen undergoing treatment for severalyears. Dhanapur town outpost inchargeRajkumar Yadav said that why he took thisextreme step was not clear. The body of thedeceased had been sent for the post-mortem examination.

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The body of a missing oldwoman was found in a field. As

per the received reports,Shakuntala (70), wife of GirijaShankar Yadav, a resident of Gauravillage under Jigna police station,had gone to the bank along with aperson on May 14. When she didnot return home, her anxious fam-ily members tried to trace herwhereabouts. When all their effortsended in vain they lodged a com-plaint of her going missing at theJigna police station on Saturday. OnSunday the body of an old womanwas found in a decomposed stateand she was identified asShakuntala could be with the helpof Aadhar card.

The police later took her bodyfor completing legal formalities.

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A13-year-old girl drownedin a check dam in

Sumerpur area on Sundayevening. According to police,Guttu Sonkar’s field was situ-ated in Ingohta village underthe Sumerpur police stationwas situated one kilometrefrom the village close to thecheck dam built on Leeda nul-lah. According to a report, 13-year-old Shailaja, daughter ofVijay Karan Sonkar, a studentof class VIII student, was pluck-ing mangoes in the evening.When a mango fell into thecheck dam and she fell into itand was drowned while tryingto pick it up. Her grandfatherwas at a little distance awaywhen the incident occurred.The police had sent her body

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A gang of unidentifiedthieves stole two tyres of adumper truck parked near theNagar Palika next to KotwaliRath on Saturday night. Thetruck driver said that he hadparked his truck in front ofNagar Palika Parishad in Rathon Saturday evening and gonehome. On Saturday night someunidentified thieves openedtwo tyres of the truck andtook them away. When the dri-ver reached the truck onSunday morning he wasshocked to find its two tyreswere missing. He said that thecost of these tyres was aroundRs 1 lakh. The truck driver had

lodged a complaint at the Rathpolice station in this connec-tion.

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A 22-year-old womanhanged herself following a dis-pute with her husband oversome issue in Purani villageunder the Jalalpur police sta-tion area. A case of dowrymurder was registered againstfour persons, including herhusband, in this connection.According to the police, the thetwo sons of DhuramKushwaha, a resident of Puranivillage, were married to the sis-ters in Boura village ofMahobkanth police station areain Mahoba district on April 20,last year. Parshuram’s elder sonwas married to Rani and Pawan

to Rachna. On the said nightwhen everyone went to sleep intheir respective rooms afterhaving their meal Following adispute between the coupleover some issue wife Rani wentto sleep in her room and lockedits door from inside.Parshuram later broke open thedoor and found Rani hangingthere. She had died. Sub-inspector said that the brotherof the deceased, Devideen, hadalleged that the inlaws weredemanding a motorcycle andthrashed his sisters over it. Adowry death case has been reg-istered against four persons, i.e.her husband, inlaws and broth-er-in-law in this connection.The body of the deceased hadsent for the postmortem exam-ination and the . matter wasbeing investigated.

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As part of the initiative to put astop to the spread of coron-

avirus cases in Chennai,TamilNadu's major hotspot, authoritieshave switched over to a new phe-nomenon by name Herd Masking.A group of officials led by Dr JRadhakrishnan, former secretaryto the department of health whohas been appointed recently as thespecial officer for tackling Covid-19 in Chennai are on a mission tomask the unmasked.

Those in containment areas inChennai who come out of theirhouses without wearing face masksare issued masks byRadhakrishnan and his team ofofficials. “Our aim is to reduce thenumber of persons who areexposed to the virus spreading thispandemic. Over the last few daysmy team of officials have distrib-uted more than two lakh face

masks,” said Radhakrishnan.Radhakrishnan, who is a vet-

eran in fighting natural disastersand experienced in rescuing andrehabilitation of persons affectedby tsunami, cyclones and floodswant the wearing of mask to bemade compulsory in the State. “Itis possible for a coronavirus afflict-ed person to infect 10 persons andhence we should make it manda-tory to wear face masks,” saidRadhakrishnan.

Meanwhile political TamilNadu saw the fighting between theruling AIADMK and theOpposition DMK reaching newheights. MK Stalin, president,DMK, alleged that Tamil Nadu

Government has been left cluelessin controlling the coronaviruspandemic.

“The Government hasannounced that the 10th Standardexamination will be held from June1. How is it possible to have theexamination at this critical junc-ture? What is the need for con-ducting examination during thetime of Covid-19,” asked Stalin ina release on Monday.

T R Balu, MP and DMK’s NewDelhi face , said that the trancheof announcements made by PrimeMinister Narendra Modi andFinance Minister NirmalaSithraman will not help in address-ing the problems faced by the poorin the country.

“The announcements weremeant for the rich and powerfulstrata of society. The Centre hasmailed miserably in handling thecoronavirus pandemic,” said Baluat Chennai.

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More than 200 farmers,most of them in loin-

cloth, the traditional wear ofTamil Nadu farmers, stageda demonstration in front ofthe district collector’s officeat Tiruchirappalli onMonday to give vent to theirdisappointment and dismayover the tranche ofannouncements worth �20lakh crore made by UnionFinance Minister NirmalaSithraman during the lastfour days to rejuvenate theeconomy.

Disregarding theGovernment order onassembly of people and socialdistancing norms, the farm-ers singing folk songs high-lighting their woes and wor-ries assembled under thescorching sun and shoutedslogans against the State andcentral Governments. “Theseries of announcements

made by the FinanceMinister are mere hog-wash. It is not going to savethe farmers from theimpending disaster. Youplease wait for some moretime and you will see manyfarmers committing suicidein Tamil Nadu,” AyyakkannuPonnusamy, president ofSouth Indian River InterLinking Association who ledthe agitation told ThePioneer.

“Considering the factthat 85 crore people in Indiaare dependent on agriculture,the Government should have

allocated a compensation of�20,000 per acre for the losscaused due to the nationwidelockdown. This means thatan amount of �14 lakh croreshould have been set apart tocompensate for the loss suf-fered by the farmers. Butwhatever allocation theFinance Minister has made isfar below the expectation,”said Ayyakkannu.

He said the FinanceMinister should consider allfarmers (small, medium andbig) as one irrespective of

the size of the farm theyown and provide

�20,000 per acre as com-pensation for the loss suf-fered by the farmers due tolockdown.

“The agitation was atotal success as many peopletook part in it irrespective ofthe weather and the fear ofcoronavirus. We will sittogether later this week todecide about the futurecourse of action,” saidAyyakkannu.

But KattumamnnarkoilKannan, vice president,Cauvery Delta Farmers

Association, said that themeasures announced by theFinance Minister would go along way in resolving theproblems faced by the farm-ers.

“The important thingabout the announcementsby the Finance Minister isthat only real farmers wouldbe eligible for farm loansnow. What was happening inTamil Nadu till now was thehijacking of farm loans byprivate financiers. Theywould usurp all loans meantfor farmers at the rate ofseven per cent interest andoffer loans to farmers at therate of 20 per cent interest.

This system will go withthe reforms ordered by thefinance minister,” saidKannan. But he expressed hisreservations against disbur-sal of more loans because it would end upmaking the farmers moredebt-ridden.

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In a bid to effect a micro-surveillance of the corona-

hit areas and at the same timeafford a thin life line to agasping economy BengalGovernment has sliced thecontainment zones into threesub-divisions.

Announcing the deci-sion Chief Minister MamataBanerjee on Monday saidthat the containment zoneswould henceforward bedivided into ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’sub-zones.

Declaring that Bengalwill not impose curfew buttoo will continue the lock-down till May 31, the Chief

Minister said “the contain-ment zones in Bengal will besub-divided into three zones:Zone A- which will be theaffected zones, Zone B- orthe buffer zones, and Zone Cthat are - clean zones,” adding“we are however not infavour of imposing curfew aswe don’t want to use thatword for our state.”

While in A zones therewill be complete shutdownwith no activity the zone Bswill have partial relaxations.Zone C will get completerelaxations, she said addingeven in such zones the peo-ple will have to maintainsocial distancing and all otherprotocols they are required tofollow.

The State which alreadyhad allowed opening of road-side food stalls, mobile shops,electronic shops etc would let

big shops open from May 21she said adding the vendorsmarket too will be allowed toopen from May 27 --- “butwith some restrictions andprotocols.” She said the streetvendors would be allowed toopen their shops on “odd-even basis so as to avoidcrowding” of the sidewalks.Hotels too would be allowedto function with social dis-tancing norms but restau-rants would remain shut tillfurther orders, she said.

On the migrant workers’issue she said the State gov-ernment was handling thecrisis with utmost sensitivitypaying for the fares or arrang-ing for their travel back homeadding “about 2-3 lakh peo-ple had been brought back inbuses and trains,” Banerjeesaid referring apparently tothe allegations brought by the

BJP that the StateGovernment was not doingenough to bring back themigrants.

Swelling on the issueState BJP president Dilip saidthat “the State Government isignoring the plight of themigrant workers. They arenot bringing them backthough the Centre is readywith trains.”

He asked, “when UttarPradesh can requisition 400trains, Bihar, Jharkhand andother States too can takeback their workers in hugenumbers why should Bengalshirk its responsibility?”

Earlier senior leaderRahul Sinha demanded atleast 1000 trains to bringback the workers. “The ChiefMinister has said that she hasrequisitioned 105 trains thatwill bring back workers till

June 15. This means thatthese workers will have toremain stranded for anotherone month or so. Besides howmany people can be broughtback in 105 trains. There is aneed of at least 1000 to 1200trains to evacuate the haplessworkers,” he said.

Attacking TrinamoolCongress for dismissing thecentral package as a lip-ser-vice, Ghosh said that “theChief Minister and her partyhad wanted cash in theirhands so that the State canparty with that fund as theydid with the funds sent forAila and Bulbul cyclones…This time Modiji (PrimeMinister) was cautious aboutseeing the money go into thepocket of the people whoneed it. This is the reasonwhy this government is angryon the Centre.”

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With cyclone Ampan crystallisinginto a super cyclonic storm

threatening large parts of coastalBengal the State Government went ona high alert suspending ferry servicesin all districts and transporting vul-nerable villagers to safer areas, sourcesaid.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjeewho called an emergency meeting oftop officials said the “Government istaking all necessary precautions likeit did on earlier occasions to minimisethe damage.”

Bengal Home Secretary AlaponBandopadhyay said “the entire statemachinery is prepared to deal with thesituation” adding disaster manage-ment teams were being sent to thehigh risk areas like North and South24 Parganas and East Midnaporeincluding the coastal town of Digha

a much sought after tourist destina-tion. The Government had arrangedfor shelters following social distanc-ing norms the Home Secretary saidadding National Disaster ResponseForce (NDRF) teams hadbeen put on high alert to con-duct rescue and relief opera-tions

High alert had been issued in two24 Parganas, particularly theSundreban areas and East Midnapore,he said adding senior officials werecamping in the stated areas.

Super cyclonic storm Amphan ishurtling towards Digha at a highspeed of about 180 kmph weatheroffice said adding during landfallsometime on Wednesday the windspeed could be around 140-160 kmph.In fact a day before on Tuesday thewind speed could be around 60-80kmph, weather office sources said.

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The India MeteorologicalDepartment (IMD) onMonday predicted heavyrains in Kerala on account of

the extremely severecyclonic storm'Amphan' over westcentral and adjoining

central parts of South Bay ofBengal moving north-northwestwards, following whichthe State DisasterManagement Authority(SDMA) placed 13 of the 14districts under yellow alert.

Yellow alert means peo-ple and authorities have to becautious as heavy rainfallcan be expected. Only thecapital district has been leftout from the yellow alert onMonday.

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will not be allowed in urban areas while inrural areas they will operate by maintainingsocial distancing. Dry cleaners and printing presscan also start operations.

Industrial activity has also been also allowedwith restrictions. The government has alsoallowed sporting activities, but no spectators.

The decision was reached after a marathonmeeting Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath hadwith ministers and senior officials. Sources claimthat 34 ministers including some Ministers ofstate with Independent Charge attended themeeting.

The guidelines specified that auto-rickshawsand e-rickshaws will be allowed with two pas-sengers and both of them should wear masks.No pillion riders will be allowed on two-wheel-ers and cars can have three persons, includingthe driver. For marriages and funerals, only 20guests will be allowed.

He also said that schools, colleges and placesof worship will continue to remain shut.

The union Government extended thenationwide lockdown until May 31 but allowedthe state government to formulate guidelines asper their requirements. States have also beengiven the authority to delineate containment,buffer, red, orange and green zones. Earlier, thered, orange and green zones were delineated bythe Centre.

Following the advise of the UnionGovernment the Yogi government redefined thecontainment zones according to which inurban area if there is a single case the 250 metrearea or full mohulla, whichever is less, will bedeclared as a containment zone. In case of morethan one case, the 500 metre area will be con-tainment zone and additional 250 metre wouldbe buffer zone. In villages, in case of a single casethe majra will be declared containment zone andin case of more then one case the revenue vil-lage will be declared as containment zone.

Containment zones will see no activityexpect those that are essential.

By easing the restrictions the state govern-ment has given the go-ahead for most servicesto restart.

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Spain has reported 494 cases per lakh pop-ulation, which is the highest, followed by the US,which has 431 cases per lakh population. Italyhas 372 cases per lakh population and the UKhas 361 cases per lakh population.

Karnataka recorded a biggest single-dayspike of 99 new positive cases of coronavirus,taking the number of infections in the state to1,296, the state government said on Monday, asit allowed buses, autos and cabs to operate withthe COVID-19 induced lockdown entering thefourth phase. 106 new coronavirus cases werereported in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday,reports said. The total number of cases isnow1,289. The number of COVID-19 cases hasgone up to 2,825 in West Bengal ( 148 new cases)2,432 in Andhra Pradesh ( 53 new cases) and1,980 in Punjab.

It has risen to 1,551 in Telangana, 1,423 inBihar, and 928 in Haryana while Odisha hasreported 876 coronavirus infection cases so far.Kerala has 587 cases. A total of 228 people havebeen infected with the virus in Jharkhand and

196 in Chandigarh.Tripura has reported 165 cases, Assam has

107 cases, Uttarakhand has 96, HimachalPradesh has 86 cases, Chhattisgarh has 93 andLadakh has registered 43 cases so far.

Thirty-three COVID-19 cases have beenreported from the Andaman and NicobarIslands

Goa have reported 31 COVID-19 cases,while Meghalaya and Puducherry have regis-tered 17 and 13 cases respectively.

Manipur has seven cases. Mizoram,Arunachal Pradesh and Dadar and NagarHaveli have reported a case each till now.

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The State is expected to face extensive dam-age in the storm that is likely to uproot com-munication and power poles. It said the Amphancould also disrupt rail and road links in manyplaces in Bengal and Odisha, uproot kutchaproperties and inflict extensive damage tostanding crops, plantations and orchards.

The damages are expected to be less inOdisha as compared to West Bengal. The HomeSecretary has also requested Governments ofWest Bengal & Odisha to take all preventiveactions. These include timely evacuation of peo-ple from the areas likely to be affected, havinga 24x7 control room, provision of adequate fooditems. The super cyclone has unleashed heavyrains coupled with high-velocity winds incoastal Odisha, Gangetic West Bengal, Kerala,Karnataka and Tamil Nadu before its landfall onMay 20. This is the only third pre monsoonsuper cyclone in 30 years.

NDRF chief S Pradhan said, 19 teams hasbeen deployed in West Bengal and four havebeen put on standby while 13 teams deployedin Odisha and 17 put on standby. Besides sixbatalians has been put on hot standby.

Taking note of its severity, the Odisha gov-ernment has planned to evacuate 11 lakh peo-ple from low lying in coastal Odisha districts likeGajapati, Ganjam, Puri, Jagatsinghpur andKendrapara. The New Delhi-Bhubaneswar spe-cial train will run on a diverted route for the nextfour days.

Amphan would be only the third supercyclone to form in the Bay after 1990, after theAndhra Pradesh super cyclone (May4-9, 1990,no name) and the Bangladesh super cyclone(April 24-May 2, 1991, Gorky). The former hadhit the Machilipatnam coast in Andhra Pradeshand claimed 967 deaths, while the latter rammedinto Chittagong, Bangladesh, killing an estimated1.38 lakh people.

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on Sunday Goldman Sachs has said the eco-nomic package announced over the past fewdays is unlikely to have an immediate impact ongrowth. It now estimates real GDP to fall by 5per cent in fiscal year 2021.

“There have been a series of structuralreform announcements across several sectorsover the past few days. These reforms are moremedium-term in nature, and we therefore do notexpect these to have an immediate impact onreviving growth. We will continue to monitortheir implementation to gauge their effect on themedium-term outlook for the Indian economy,”said Goldman Sachs in its report.

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Ending the long wait, theJammu & Kashmir

Government on Monday notifiedJammu & Kashmir Grant ofDomicile Certificate (Procedure)Rules, 2020.

These Rules prescribe theprocedure for issuance of

Domicile Certificate which hasbeen made the basic eligibilitycondition for appointment toany post under the UnionTerritory of Jammu & Kashmirfollowing amendments in theJammu & Kashmir CivilServices (Decentralization andRecruitment) Act, 2010.

Under the Domicile Rules,Permanent Residents of theerstwhile State of J&K in whosefavour Permanent ResidentCertificate (PRC) has beenissued by the competent author-ity before 31.10.2019 shall beeligible for receiving theirDomicile Certificates on thebasis of PRCs alone and noother additional document shallbe required for such residents.

Kashmiri migrants can alsoget the Domicile certificate onproduction of either a PRC orCertificate of registration ofmigrant. Further there may bebonafide migrants and bonafidedisplaced persons who have

migrated but have not regis-tered with the relief department.In order to facilitate such per-sons, the Relief Departmentshall be making a special lim-ited provision to apply beforethe Relief & RehabilitationCommissioner (Migrant), forregistration for the purpose ofissuance of a domicile certificateonly, with any one of the manydocuments, such as 1951/1988electoral roll, proof of employ-ment, ownership of property,proof of registration in otherstates/UTs as a migrant or a dis-placed person or any otherdocumentation which wouldhave made him/her eligible forgrant of PRC before 06-08-2019.

As a result of the new rulesand procedure, West PakistanRefugees (WPRs), SafaiKaramcharis and Children ofWomen married outsideJammu and Kashmir who wereearlier deprived shall also be

now eligible for DomicileCertificate. West PakistaniRefugees were part of theParliamentary electoral roll butnot that erstwhile state electoralroll. They will now be coveredunder the 15 year residence ruleor their children under the 7year/ class 10/12 rule.

In addition, all those per-sons and their children whohave resided for 15 years inJammu & Kashmir or havestudied for seven years andappeared in class 10th or 12thexamination in an educationalinstitution in the UT are eligi-ble for grant of domicile.Children of CentralGovernment officials, All Indiaservice Officers, officials ofPSUs and Autonomous body ofCentral Government, PublicSector Banks, Officials ofStatutory bodies, Officials ofCentral Universities and rec-ognized research institutes ofthe Central Government, who

have served in the Union terri-tory of Jammu & Kashmir fora total period of ten years willalso be eligible for Domicile sta-tus in the UT.

Besides, all those migrantsand their children who are reg-istered with Relief andRehabilitation Commissionerwill be granted Domicile cer-tificate. Children of those resi-dents of Jammu & Kashmirwho reside outside the UnionTerritory in connection withtheir employment of business orother professional or vocation-al reasons have also become eli-gible for grant of domicile sta-tus. The rules provide a simpleand time bound procedure forthe issuance of the Domicilecertificate so that no one is putto any inconvenience. Thereshall be a timeline of 15 days forissuance of the certificate afterwhich the applicant shall be freeto approach an AppellateAuthority.

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On the first day of the fourth phaseof lockdown, Karnataka has

announced many relaxations but saidthe State will not allow people fromfour Covid -19 hit States to enterKarnataka. Further the State alsoannounced ease of lockdown normsand lifts several restrictions.

In a press conference in Bengaluruon Monday, Chief Minister BSYediyurappa has announced thatKarnataka will not allow entry of peo-ple from Gujarat, Maharashtra, Keralaand Tamil Nadu till May 31 as a pre-cautionary measure to contain thespread of the deadly coronavirus.

He announced easing of manyrestrictions which include operation ofcabs, buses, opening of shops andallowing trains within Karnataka fromTuesday.

According to Government sourcesChief Minister has taken this decisionto give a boost to the economy of theState which has taken a beating at thetime of Covid-19 lockdown.Yediyurappa said trains and state cor-poration buses will run withinKarnataka and shops will be allowed toopen.

“Strict lockdown measures will befollowed in containment zones andeconomic activities will be permittedin other areas. Sundays will be totallockdown across the State,” he said.Yediyurappa announced that strictlockdown measures will be in place in

containment zones. He said all eco-nomic activities will be permitted in theState except for red zones.

According to Chief Minister only30 people would be allowed to travelin the buses and wearing of face masksand maintaining physical distancing aremandatory. He said bus fares will notbe increased and inter-state transportwould not be allowed, except in emer-gency cases.

Auto and taxis were also givengreen signal to get on to roads, butthere should be only three passengers,including the driver. In maxi-cabs, themaximum number should be fourpassengers, including driver.

The State has also allowed parks toopen up for the public, though gymsand golf course will remain shut. Allshops that are standalone, independentshops can open across the city, exceptfor the ones in malls. Salons will beallowed to operate from Tuesday withfresh guidelines on their operations.

The Centre on Sunday extendedthe nation-wide lockdown for anoth-er 14 days till May 31 and warned ofstrict action under the DisasterManagement Act and Indian PenalCode if the fresh guidelines are not fol-lowed. This is the fourth time the lock-down has been imposed in the coun-try.

The nationwide lockdown was firstimposed for 21 days starting March 25and then extended on April 15 and lateron May 4 with an aim to halt the spreadof novel coronavirus.

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The Congress on Mondaysaid the fiscal stimulus

package announced by theGovernment is “hopelesslyinadequate” given the gravity ofthe economic crisis as itamounts to only �1.86 lakhcrore, which is 0.91 per cent ofthe GDP.

The party sought a revisedand comprehensive packageof 10 per cent of the GDP.

Senior Congress leader andformer Finance Minister PChidambaram said the stimu-lus package has left several sec-tions like the poor, migrants,farmers, labourers, workers,small shopkeepers and middleclass high and dry.

"In our view, a fiscal stim-ulus of �1,86,650 croreamounting to barely 0.91 percent of GDP will be totallyinadequate given the gravity ofthe economic crisis and the diresituation in which people findthemselves," he said.

Chidambaram said mostanalysts, rating agencies andbanks have placed the size ofthe fiscal stimulus between 0.8to 1.5 per cent.

On Sunday, former UnionMinister and Congress leaderAnand Sharma accused thegovernment of misleading peo-ple with its "trickery, fakery,quackery" and said the eco-nomic measures announcedby the Centre amounted toonly 1.6 per cent of India''sGDP, i.e. worth �3.22 lakhcrore instead of �20 lakh croreas claimed by the prime min-ister.

"We express our thoroughdisappointment and requestthe government to reconsiderthe stimulus package andannounce a revised and com-prehensive fiscal stimulus pack-age of not less than �10 lakhcrore of real additional expen-diture equivalent to 10 percent of GDP," Chidambaramsaid at a press conference

through video-conferencing.He also accused the

Government of being oppor-tunistic by pushing reforms. Itis bypassing stakeholer con-sultation, legislation and dis-cussion in Parliament on thepackage and this will be strong-ly resisted and challenged in theHouse, he added.

"I think the Government isdeliberately sideliningParliament. A meeting of theParliamentary Committeeshould at least be held to dis-cuss the fiscal stimulus pack-age," the Congress leader said.

"If there is a genuinereform that takes economyforward, we will support it butwe will have to read the fineprint," he said.

"The Government is beingopportunistic. They are justannouncing what one personor one group of persons thinkis right without thinkingthrough the consequences.Editorials and articles todaypoint out downside of some ofthe announcements,"Chidambaram noted.

"You can''t fool all the peo-ple all the time. This fiscal stim-ulus package is inadequate," hesaid.

The former finance min-ister said "we note with deepregret" that the fiscal stimuluspackage has left several sec-tions high and dry, includingthe bottom half of the popula-tion (13 crore families),migrant workers, farmers,landless agricultural labour,daily-wage non-agriculturallabour, workers who have beenlaid off or retrenched andthose in unorganised or unreg-istered businesses or units whohave lost their jobs.

He said the self-employed,who have no work, seven croreshopkeepers, lower middleclass families, who have runout of cash and are forced toborrow, and the 5.8 croreMSMEs have also been left outin the package.

He said the Congress hasanalysed the contents of thefive tranches and in its con-sidered opinion except for 1.86lakh crore of additional expen-diture, the rest of theannouncements are includedalready in budget expendi-ture, front loading of somebudgeted expenditure, regula-tory measures, a number of liq-uidity measures, medium tolong term plans or schemesand proposed reforms.

Chidambaram said therecan be no fiscal stimulus to theeconomy without additionalexpenditure over and above thebudgeted expenditure and thishas been acknowledged by thefinance minister.

Thus the true value of fis-cal stimulus package will beknown when we know what isthe additional borrowing in2020-21, he said.

"The truth cannot be hid-den for long." To a question onfear of rating agencies down-grading India, the formerfinance minister said he doesnot think rating agencies runthe country.

"Every country in theworld is in distress, practical-ly every country in Europe isfacing a recession. If ratingagencies downgrade us, theywill have to downgrade everyEuropean country too.

"This is an unnecessaryfear. We will have to face thatsituation. As long as our for-eign exchange reserves arehigh, inflation is under control,we are on the right path,demand grows and GDP picksup, why would a rating agencydowngrade us," he asked?

Chidambaram also notedthat it is not the time to worryabout fiscal deficit and if addi-tional expenditure turns out tobe another �10 lakh crore andadditional borrowing is Rs 10lakh crore.

Obviously fiscal deficit willgo up but that should not be amatter of worry, he added.

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Vice President and RajyaSabha Chairman Venkaiah

Naidu on Monday underlinedthe need to adopt new ways ofliving in corona times andsuggested a 12-point frame-work for this new normal todeal with the virus by learningform the lessons so far taughtby the pandemic. He stressedon the need for new attitudestowards life and humanityamidst indications of the viruslikely to stay for longer thanearlier expected.

“Live differently and livesafe,” he put forth his mantra ina lengthy Facebook post hoursafter the announcement of lock-down 4.0 with restrictions sub-stantially relaxed.

He dealt with the philo-sophical and moral issuesthrown by the COVID-19 con-tagion saying life can’t be livedin isolation and the virus out-break highlighted the inter-connectedness of lives. He said,“What affects one person any-where affects everyone every-where, be it the disease or econ-omy.”

Giving an account of thenature of life ‘Before Corona’,Naidu stated that man emergeda loner in his quest for happinessand material advancementreducing the family and thesociety to being mere adjunctsand his confidence bordering onarrogance made him believethat he can live alone and all byhimself, unmindful of the livesof others.

“Stacked with better tools tofight the epidemics than whenthe pestilence struck humanityearlier and empowered withgene editing, ArtificialIntelligence, big data etc, manwas seeking to play God,” he

stated.On the life ‘After Corona’,

Naidu noted that it has shakenthe fundamentals of living byoneself and highlighted theneed for living in harmonywith nature and fellow humans.“The invisible microbe onceagain proved that life can changevery quickly. It brought into fullplay the uncertainty that can co-sail with life,” he pointed out.

“Uncertainty continues tohaunt the people. Uncertainty isthe known source of anxietywhich can lead to psychologicalissues,” he said even as he sug-gested adopting a new normalof life by staying calm and con-fident.

Naidu stressed that thecorona challenge is more a civ-ilizational issue than that of indi-vidual lives and new norms andethos of living should be evolvedto save the present civilization.

Noting that life can’t be livedfor long in confinement, he wel-comed the new relaxations forlockdown 4.0 even as he recalledhow people living with HIVvirus had no vaccine for longtime and had to change habits.Similarly, Naidu urged the peo-ple to learn to cope with coro-na virus by changing the habitsand attitudes towards life andfellow humans.

He suggested a 12-pointnew normal of living duringcorona times that includesamong others living in harmony with the nature andfellow beings; knowing thatsafety and security of lives areinterconnected, rationally analysing the impact of everymovement or action on thespread of virus, not responding impulsively to the situation,strictly adherence to the behavioral changes ushered inso far like wearing mask, main-taining physical distance andensuring hygiene besides preventing stigmatisation andreplacing the sense of collective helplessness by the spirit of thevirtue of living interconnectedwith shared destiny.

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The Khadi and VillageIndustries Commission

(KVIC) is going to get a bigpush after Union HomeMinister Amit Shah’s direc-tion to buy only swadeshiproducts in all canteens ofcentral paramilitary forces.This decision will also impactthe production and sales ofKVIC which will be fulfillingthe majority of supplies atthese stores, apart from lot ofjob opportunities to peopleacross the country, said VinaiKumar Saxena, Chairman,KVIC.

“India has taken the firstbig step towards becomingAatmanirbhar (self-reliant).Immediately after PrimeMinister Narendra Modi’s callfor encouraging local products,the Home Minister Amit Shahhas taken a lead and has madeit mandatory for all canteensand stores of paramilitaryforces to sell only “Swadeshi”products through Khadi andVillage Industries Commission(KVIC). The move will opengreat employment opportuni-ties for farmers, unemployedyouths and lakhs of peoplealready engaged with cottageand village industries,” saidKVIC in a statement.

Saxena lauded the decisionof the Home Minister sayingthis would provide a big boostto the cottage and villageindustries sector apart from theMSMEs units. “This decisionwill directly benefit lakhs ofpeople engaged with manu-facturing of various villageindustries products. With thisorder over 10 lakh personnel ofthe various paramilitary forceswill be added to KVIC’s con-sumer base. As a goodwillgesture, the KVIC has alsoimmediately decided to supplyproducts to the CAPF canteensat a small margin of 3% only asagainst the 20% margin inother cases,” Saxena said.

Notably, there are 20 mas-ter bhandars of these forces

across the country with annu-al turnover of over �1,800crore. The KVIC is likely to getmajor share of the totalturnover. At present, KVIC hasregistered 17 products for thesupply to CAPF canteens.These include Khadi NationalFlag, eatables like honey, pick-les, edible oils, agarbatti, papad,

amla products and cotton tow-els etc Further, a list of 63 newproducts like Khadi clothes,woolens, cosmetics like herbaloils, shampoo, soaps, facewash, tea and coffee and oth-ers has been submitted to theCAPF canteens by KVIC to beincluded in supply list at thesestores.

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Country's liquor manufac-turers have welcomed the

Indian Army’s decision to pur-chase only India-made productsin the Canteen Stores includingIndian alcoholic beverages.

In a letter to the head ofCanteen Stores Department(CSD), the Confederation ofIndian Alcoholic BeverageCompanies (CIABC), the apexbody of the Indian alcoholic bev-erage industry, stated: “ArmedForces have been among the firstto respond to the PrimeMinister’s appeal to go local andhave decided to purchase onlyIndia-made products in CanteenStores. We compliment ArmedForces for this step as this willhelp India create world class

products, so vital for it to becomea global economic force."

CIABC Director GeneralVinod Giri said that Indianalcoholic beverage industry iscoming of age with internation-ally acclaimed single maltwhiskies like Amrut, Paul John,Rampur etc. “However, thesebrands need support andencouragement from theGovernment to become globalhousehold names. Hence, adecision by CSD, the largestpurchaser of alcoholic productsin India, to sell only Indian-made products is truly a water-shed moment for the Indianindustry. This will give themscale to compete globally, andspur them to innovate and pro-duce even better products,” headded.

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HRD Minister RameshPokhriyal 'Nishank' on

Monday released the reviseddatesheet for the pendingCBSE exams for both classes10 and 12, which will now beheld from July 1-15 with strictdistancing norms in place.

The exams were post-poned due to the nationwide lockdownimposed on March 25 to con-tain the spread of COVID-19.

While class 12 exams willbe conducted across thecountry, the class 10 examsare only pending in NorthEast Delhi, where they couldnot be held due to the law andorder situation in the wake ofprotests against the amendedcitizenship act.

The schedule has beendecided in order to ensurethat the board exams arecompleted before competitive examinationssuch as engineering entranceJEE-Mains, which is sched-uled from July 18-23, andmedical entrance exam NEET,which is scheduled on July 26.

"The class 10 exams willbe staggered on four dates,starting July 1. The first paper will be ofSocial Sciences, while thenext day students will berequired to appear in Scienceexam," CBSE Controller ofExamination SanyamBhardwaj said.

"On July 10, exams will beconducted for both courses ofHindi, and on July 15 for bothcourses of English," he said.

On health guidelines forstudents, Bhardwaj said, theywill be required to carry own sanitiser bottles and wearmask to their examinationcentres.

"Parents will have toensure their ward is not sick

and candidates will have tostrictly follow physical-dis-tancing norms," he said.

The class 12 date sheethas two sections - one forexams in Northeast Delhiand the other for examsacross the country.

In North East Delhi,Physics exam will be held onJuly 3, Accountancy (July 4),Chemistry (July 6), English(July 8) and Political Science(July 14).

On July 15, four class 12exams have been scheduled inNorth East Delhi --Mathematics, Economics,History and Biology.

For class 12 exams acrossthe countr y, the HomeScience exam will be held onJuly 1, followed by bothcourses of Hindi the nextday.

The class 12 BusinessStudies exam has been scheduled for July 9 followedby Biotechnology on July 10,and Geography on July 11.Sociology exam will be heldon July 13.

The board was not able toconduct class 10 and 12exams on eight examinationdays due to the coronavirusoutbreak.

The board had last monthannounced that it will onlyconduct pending exams in 29subjects which are crucial forpromotion and admission tohigher educational institutions.

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Apart of Krishi Bhawanbuilding in Central Delhi

has been sealed after an officialin the Ministry of Fisheries,Animal Husbandry andDairying tested positive forCOVID-19. The official worksas a personal secretary in theDepartment of AnimalHusbandry and Dairying.

"The entire office premis-es will be thoroughly sanitisedas per extant guidelines in thisregard on May 19 and May 20,apart from the daily sanitisationthat takes place," according toan official memorandum. Theofficers have been asked towork from home for the nexttwo days. The office will reopenon May 21, it said.

All those who had come indirect contact with the

COVID-19 patient have beenadvised to get themselves homequarantined and to also getthemselves tested after fivedays. They will be allowed toattend office only after beingtested negative for COVID-19,it added. The remaining staffwill be called from May 21 onrotation as per the instructions

of the Ministry of HomeAffairs.

Besides the Fishery,Animal Husbandry andDairying Ministry, KrishiBhawan also houses severalother ministries including agri-culture, food and consumeraffairs, rural development andpanchayati raj.

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Why the NovelCoronavirus is more fatal

to men than women? Is thereany link between prostratecancer in men and Covid-19?Is a protein receptor abnor-mally grown in prostrate can-cer patients is being used by thevirus to enter the lungs andattack lung tissue of men?

These are some of the per-tinent questions that a team ofresearchers from UniversityCalifornia Los Angles HealthSciences is exploring to helpimprove better clinical out-comes for men afflicted withCoronavirus.

In the UCLA-led clinicaltrial, researchers will suppressmale hormones using theFDA-approved medicationknown as degarelix, to tem-porarily shut down the pro-duction of TMPRSS2 andblock the virus from enteringlung tissue.

The decision came afterresearchers noted that the pro-tein receptor called TMPRSS2which is abnormal in abouthalf of all prostate cancerpatients plays a role in the

development and progressionof prostate cancer.

The UCLA researchersbelieve that the virus uses thissame receptor to enter thelungs and attack lung tissue.The receptor is regulated bymale hormones in prostatecancer, and researchers believeit may also be regulated in lungtissue by male hormones.

The phase 2 trial will assessif temporarily suppressingmale hormones will reduce theseverity of COVID-19 illnessby helping patients get out ofthe hospital faster, decrease theneed for intubation andimprove mortality.

The UCLA-led study isbeing conducted at theVeterans Affairs Greater LosAngeles Healthcare Systemand other VA sites across thecountry.

"It's becoming pretty clearthat men are more likely thanwomen to die from COVID-19and we think there is a con-nection between prostate can-cer research and our under-standing of COVID-19research," said principal inves-tigator Matthew Rettig, pro-fessor of medicine and urolo-

gy at the David Geffen Schoolof Medicine at UCLA andmember of the UCLA JonssonComprehensive Cancer Center.

"It's kind of like a lock andkey," explained Rettig, who isalso the chief of hematol-ogy/oncology at the VeteransAffairs Greater Los AngelesHealthcare System.

"If the virus was the keyand its receptor is the lock,then the virus inserts into thelock and can gain entry intothe lung while the male hor-mones makes that lock moreaccessible to the virus. By sup-pressing the male hormones,it's kind of like putting a pieceof masking tape over the lockso that the key won't fit in."

"We're hoping this (theresearch) will not only helpmen with COVID-19 get outof the hospital faster, but ulti-mately, see less men dyingfrom the virus," said Rettig.

Recent data from NewYork City, the epicenter ofinfections in the United States,show that men are not onlyinfected in greater numbers, but they are alsodying at nearly twice the rateof women.

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Veterans of 1972 batch ofGroup A CRPF Cadre offi-

cers have written to HomeMinister Amit Shah seekingaction against IPS officer andInspector General of Jammuand Kashmir Police VijayKumar for making casualcomments about CRPF's role inthe Valley.

During a recent reviewmeeting held by Jammu andKashmir Police DirectorGeneral, Kumar had said thatCRPF is not working well in theUnion Territory.

At the meeting for reviewof the local police, armed forcesand CAPFs collaborating inanti-terror operations in J&Kon April 29, Kumar hadallegedly said “CRPF is notworking well.”

“Here (In J&K), JKP gen-

erates intelligence,Army/Rashtriya Rifles carryout the operations and CRPF’sname is inserted just likethat...This I know, I have beenin CRPF,” the letter quotesKumar to have asserted duringthe meeting.

“This statement is not onlycontrary to the facts, but alsobelies the valorous sacrificesmade by the Force, a consis-tent track record of excep-tional performance, and lau-rels earned by the Force in themost difficult anti-terror oper-ations in Jammu and Kashmir.76 gallantry medals given atthe Republic Day of 2020 area testament to the sweat, bloodand martyrdom of brave menand women of CRPF,” the vet-erans said stated to buttress theparamilitary’s role in anti-ter-ror operations in the Valley.

The retired officials ofCRPF who have put in 35-40

years of service further said,“Singular lack of leadershipand maturity demonstratedby IGP Vijay Kumar, and hisfactually incorrect and hurtfulcomments, have caused con-sternation in the Force per-sonnel. Ignoring this incidentto let it pass would be evenmore hurtful and memories ofdisrespect will never fadeaway.”

“..a visible action fromyou would go a long way inrestoring the morale and con-fidence of the Force, repair thedamage caused by immatureand disrespectful commentsby Vijay Kumar, IGP Kashmir.It will also be a powerfulreminder to all to work togeth-er as a cohesive, collaborative,respectful and unified team towipe out the virus of terror-ism,” the group 35 veteranswho are signatories to the let-ter asserted.

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The Centre on Mondayundertook in the Delhi

High Court that it will followits standard operating proce-dure (SOP), including givingpriority to pregnant women,while repatriating Indiannationals stranded in SaudiArabia since the COVID-19outbreak.

The undertaking was givenbefore Justice Vibhu Bakhru byAdditional

Solicitor General ManinderAcharya and central govern-ment standing counsel JasmeetSingh who appeared for theMinistry of Home Affairs.

The high court noted theundertaking and bound thegovernment to the statementmade by it. The order camewhile disposing of a PIL by theUnited Nurses Associationseeking directions to the Centreto bring back 56 pregnantnurses stranded in SaudiArabia due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown.

With regard to the associ-ation's plea for bringing backthe pregnant nurses by via

special chartered flights, thehigh court said it was not giv-ing any such direction "as stepshave been The high court said,"It is expected that theGovernment would take

all necessary steps, withinthe limitation of the resourcesavailable, to operate flights tobring back Indian citizens whoare stranded overseas."

It also observed that "it isnecessary to ensure within the

category of persons who are tobe accorded priority, a higherpriority be accorded to personswho are in medical distress vis-à-vis persons who are other-wise hale and hearty but arestranded due to the expiry oftheir visa or other reasons".

The United NursesAssociation, represented byadvocate Subhash Chandran,

had also sought a directionto the MHA to "strictly follow"its SOP which states that pri-ority has to be given to peoplewith medical emergencies,including pregnant women.

The association claimedthat many of the pregnantnurses are in their thirdtrimester and therefore, require"medical and psycho-socio sup-port".

The petition had alsoclaimed that these women arestaying alone in Saudi Arabia asfamily status visa was not pro-vided to staff nurses like them.

The association had soughta direction to the Centre tobring back the stranded preg-nant nurses in the secondphase of 'Vande Bharat Mission'between May 19 and May 23.

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It may take some more time for theCOVID-19 pandemic to be broughtfully under control in our country andto be eventually eliminated but one thingis clear, Coronavirus is certain to result

in a re-ordering of India’s federal structure andrelations between the Union and the States.While a united national effort is on to tack-le the virus, there are a few discordant voic-es here and there that question the UnionGovernment’s right to issue directions to theStates. The nation has never witnessed sucha national health crisis ever before and, there-fore, Constitutional and other legal provisionsthat exist to deal with an emergency of thiskind will, inevitably, have to be deployed. Thismeans that the “unitary tilt” that is there inthe Constitution becomes rather pronouncedin circumstances such as these.

BR Ambedkar, the Chairman of the draft-ing committee of the Constitution, dwelt onthe nature of the Indian federation vis-à-visother bodies, especially in emergencies, in hisconcluding remarks on November 25, 1949,in the Constituent Assembly. He said thatthere was an allegation that there was toomuch centralisation and that the States hadbeen reduced to municipalities. He said thisview was not only an exaggeration but wasalso founded on a misunderstanding of whatthe Constitution sought to achieve.

The basic principle of federalism is thatthe legislative and the executive authority ispartitioned between the Centre and the States,not by any law to be made by the former butby the Constitution itself. This principle isembodied in the Constitution. Therefore, hesaid, the charge that centralisation is defeat-ing federalism must fail. The second chargewas that the Centre had been given the powerto override the States. Ambedkar said he“admitted” to this charge and explained thatthe overriding powers do not form the nor-mal features of the Constitution. He said,“their use and operations are expressly con-fined to emergencies only.”

He obviously had in mind not only thearticles in the Constitution regarding theproclamation of an emergency among otherthings but also the powers vested in the Centrein the Union List and the Concurrent List inthe Seventh Schedule to make laws to dealwith emergency situations. For example, item23 under the Concurrent List in the SeventhSchedule gives the Union Government thepower to make law with respect to “preven-tion of the extension from one State to anoth-er of infectious and contagious diseases orpests affecting men, animals and plants.”

In the light of this epidemic and the coor-dinated national effort that is on, one can seethe Disaster Management Act (DMA) as onewhich enables the Centre to evolve a nation-al policy and a plan of action to handle thecurrent COVID-19 crisis.

This Act defines a disaster as “a catastro-phe, mishap, calamity or grave occur-rence…..” Several of its provisions, includingSections 6, 10 and 35, empower the Centre

to take charge when a disasterstrikes, issue directions andensure compliance.

The orders issued by theUnion Home Secretary, who isalso the chairperson of theNational Executive Committee,regarding the lockdown and themeasures to be taken to imple-ment the same, flow from theseprovisions of the DMA. Forexample, in his March 29 order,the Home Secretary referred tothe movement of a large numberof migrants in different parts ofthe country and violation oflockdown measures on maintain-ing social distance and said thatin case of any violation of thesedirections, the States and UnionTerritories should take necessaryaction. The order also made itexplicitly clear that the districtmagistrates and the superinten-dents of police in the districts“will be personally liable for theimplementation of these direc-tions and lockdown measuresissued under the above-men-tioned orders.”

This, to ensure that theorders are not flouted becausegenerally, the district magistratesand superintendents of police aredrawn from the Central servicesand they are well acquainted withthe consequences of non-compli-ance in these matters. Apartfrom the provisions in theConcurrent List and the DMA,the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897,also arms the Centre with pow-ers to handle such epidemics.

However, the State of WestBengal took objection to the

Centre’s decision to send inter-ministerial Central teams toassess the situation on theground in some districts thatwere suspected to be COVID-19hotspots in the State. Somepolitical parties, too, joined themurmur and complained aboutthe Union Government’s atti-tude. However, the Centre’sdecision to take charge of theoverall operations vis-à-visCOVID-19 is in line with theConstitutional scheme devisedby Ambedkar and his colleaguesseven decades ago.

The Constitution vestsresiduary power with the UnionGovernment as also the powerto override the States in anemergency. According to KCWheare, a noted Constitutionalauthority, the IndianConstitution establishes a systemof Government which is quasi-federal. It is “a unitary State withsubsidiary federal features ratherthan a federal state with sub-sidiary unitary features.” IvorJennings, too, concluded that theIndian Constitution “is a feder-ation with a strong centralisingtendency.”

In his concluding remarks,Ambedkar was emphatic withregard to the tilt towards astrong Centre in certain contin-gencies. He said that in the opin-ion of the vast majority of thepeople, the residual loyalty of thecitizen in an emergency must beto the Centre and not to the con-stituent States. For, it is only theCentre that can work for acommon end and for the gen-

eral interests of the country as awhole. Herein lies the justifica-tion for giving to the Centre cer-tain overriding powers to beused in an emergency. “After all,what is the obligation imposedupon the constituent States bythese emergency powers? Nomore than this that in an emer-gency, they should take into con-sideration alongside their ownlocal interests, the opinions andinterests of the nation as awhole. Only those, who have notunderstood the problem, cancomplain against it.”

When one reads theseobservations of Ambedkar, onerealises the depth of his under-standing and his foresight. Heknew his country and his peo-ple very well. He could anticipatethe problems that could arise ina national emergency in a coun-try that is as diverse as India.Currently, 42 political partiesrun the States and UnionTerritories and are tugging indifferent directions with regardto the plans to fight this epidem-ic. Only a strong centralisingforce with adequate consulta-tions (the Prime Minister hasheld several rounds of discus-sions with the Chief Ministers)between the Union and theStates can help tackle this prob-lem. We owe it to our foundingfathers for creating theConstitutional mechanism tocope with this pandemic andnational emergency.

(The writer is an author spe-cialising in democracy studies.Views expressed are personal.)

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Sir — The COVID-19 pandem-ic has led to the dilemma of lifevs livelihood for Governments,Central and States, as well as thecitizens. The problem is exacer-bated due to the absence of basicincome and food security facili-ties for migrant workers. Withmost workers taking a trainhome, the migrant crisis willcome to haunt the country’sdevelopment paradigm as theseworkers are the wheels of theurban economy.

Moreover, according to the2011 census, there were 45 croreinternal migrants, who account-ed for 37 per cent of the popula-tion. In this context, the Centre’splan to roll out the one nation, oneration card scheme is welcome.This programme is meant for thewelfare of migrant workers. Butloopholes remain. The packageprovides for the distribution offoodgrains only. It does little toaddress the plight of those worstaffected. And it’s not just a mat-ter of losing livelihoods. Workershave lost lives in an attempt toreunite with their family.

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Sir — The Union Governmenthas taken the right decision tovest greater powers with the

States by allowing them to decideon the reopening of all commer-cial activities. The onus is now onthe State Governments to preparea roadmap for a safe resumptionof the economy on the one hand

and devising COVID-19 manage-ment strategies on the other.

It’s a do-or-die situation notonly for the Central and StateGovernments but also for thepeople of this country. Citizens

must exercise voluntary safety tokeep the spread of the disease incheck. They must venture out oftheir homes only when necessary.

The succour is that awarenessregarding the need to maintainsocial distancing has grown. Sincethere is no cure for the virus andthe economy, too, cannot be keptin limbo, people must cooperatewith the Government by follow-ing all safety protocols. In theabsence of any cure or vaccine, wewill be living a dangerous life. Anylaxity on our part and we willhave to pay a huge penalty.

Katuru Durga Prasad RaoHyderabad

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Sir — It will be good if the Statesagree to open up public transport.The general public needs publictransport, including buses, metro,cabs and auto rickshaws. But atthe same time, the safety of thecitizens, too, will have to beensured through social distancingand other guidelines.

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The pandemic and the resultant lockdowns puta temporary stop to economic activitiesacross the globe, impacting millions of peo-

ple and their livelihoods. The Asian DevelopmentBank (ADB) estimates this loss to be around $4 tril-lion, which is nearly five per cent of the global GrossDomestic Product (GDP). As a young, developingnation with 65.97 per cent of the population stillresiding in the villages, the pandemic not only test-ed India’s economic resilience but also exposed thegrowing urban-rural divide and income inequali-ty. As we continue to step up our fight against theCoronavirus, we are certain that the post-pandem-ic world would be different from what we left behind.The rebuilding exercise should, therefore, begin withrural India — where, as Mahatma Gandhi said, “Thesoul of India lives.”

Rural India has always found it challenging tounleash its economic potential due to a variety offiscal and social factors. A major reason among themis the continued unavailability of reliable power. Percapita electricity consumption in rural areas stillremains significantly low due to erratic power sup-ply. Research data show that there is a strong pos-itive correlation between economic development andelectricity consumption. For example, China start-ed growing at double digit when the demand andconsumption of power in rural areas doubled andthe small-scale businesses expanded rapidly.Similarly, rural India, too, has a growing demandfor reliable electricity but due to supply side con-straints, this demand remains partially unfulfilled.

How do we address the challenge and ensurereliable power for all? We must strengthen the last-mile power delivery system, which is largely dom-inated by State-run Distribution Companies (DIS-COMS). But as DISCOMS continue to remaintrapped in mounting losses and operational ineffi-ciencies, last-mile power delivery has taken a back-seat. The DISCOMs, therefore, need to streamlineand strengthen their distribution networks withgreater focus on enhancing customer satisfaction,timely complaint redressal, regularised billingprocesses and transparency in finances at all levels.Addressing challenges such as power theft and billinginadequacies can help DISCOMS enhance theirdelivery efficiency.

In addition, the proposed amendments to theElectricity Act, 2003, particularly the unlicenced sub-distribution and payment security mechanism, willboost private sector investments in the distributionsector, reduce their losses and strengthen operationalefficiencies of DISCOMS. Private investments willnot only help DISCOMS deal with financial stressbut will enhance the quality of services and healthycompetition. This will ultimately have a transfor-mative impact on last-mile power delivery andensure access to reliable power for rural households.

India is home to abundant non-conventionalenergy sources such as solar, water and wind thatcan be effectively harnessed to supply reliable elec-tricity to rural households and micro-enterprises.Renewable energy provides low-cost power mod-els and can be deployed even in remote areas despitethe geographical barriers. Expansion of renewableenergy-based mini-grids in rural India can be fur-ther incentivised and be provided additional poli-cy support for generation and distribution of elec-tricity at affordable rates to rural households.

Mini-grids serve as the primary source of elec-

tricity in regions where grid-connectedpower has not found its way yet. A recentsurvey on the impact of COVID-19 inmini-grid villages of Uttar Pradesh (UP)and Bihar revealed that 90 per cent of therural households trust mini-grids for reli-able power supply. However, despitemini-grids becoming a trusted source ofreliable electricity for rural India, theyoften run the risk of reverse migration ofcustomers to centralised grids when thenecessary infrastructure is available.

This concern, however, can beaddressed by integrating mini-grids withcentralised ones to provide enhancedaccess to electricity supply. A fully-inte-grated power system is an optimal solu-tion for electrifying un-electrified villageswith reliable power. Integrated power sup-ply models can minimise the cost by intro-ducing efficient planning, investmentand operation of assets with significanteconomies of scale. Ghana, for example,built an integrated grid, providing powerto 85 per cent of its urban population and41 per cent of the rural population.Integrated power systems can speed up therural electrification process and ensurereliable supply.

The health and economic crises trig-gered by the pandemic clearly underlinethe significance of providing reliablepower for all critical rural infrastructuresuch as health centres, micro-enterprisesand schools. Productive uses of energysuch as for irrigation, small businesses, tai-loring, food storage and so on will furtherensure adequate livelihood options forrural communities with greater econom-ic resilience.

How will reliable electricity helprural India rebuild its economy?

Rural healthcare: This is a key areathat will lead to a new economic revolu-

tion in the post-pandemic world. India’shealthcare preparedness was found to beinadequate during our fight against theCOVID-19 pandemic. Primary healthcentres, which approximately serve 65 percent of the rural populations, need to bemodernised with state-of-the-art infra-structure, especially uninterrupted powersupply. Reliable supply can provide cru-cial support to critical functions of thesehealth centres, especially during medicalemergencies. The survey also revealed thata majority of the rural households dependon community health centres for theirmedical needs. Inadequate and irregularsupply of electricity may affect theirfunctioning with critical implications forrural populations. Electrifying and mod-ernising the health centres will, therefore,be a key step towards rebuilding the econ-omy and reshaping the lifestyle of ruralpopulations. Millions of dollars can besaved if rural populations have access tohigh quality healthcare services. This willnot only have a lasting economic impacton health delivery but will lead to bettersocial outcomes such as improved healthand hygiene.

Modernising agriculture: Farmingremains the primary source of livelihoodfor nearly 65 per cent of Indians. Yet, agri-culture productivity is significantly low inIndia and accounts for only 15.4 per centof the GDP. The growth in agriculture hasbeen moderate in the past decade at near-ly three per cent per annum. Critical func-tions such as irrigation, harvesting, post-harvest handling and storage, all requirereliable power supply. In regions whererainfall is scanty, groundwater is themain source of irrigation. Electricitydemand in rural India is majorly drivenby irrigation. Villages with access to elec-tricity have seen an uptick in agricultur-

al productivity with availability of low-costirrigation technologies. For example,rural households that would sell paddy ata low price earlier sell hulled rice as thereis an electricity-powered rice huller in thevillage. These are few of the examples ofthe transformative impact of reliableelectricity supply. Modernising agriculturewill unlock myriad employment andbusiness opportunities for rural India.

Big push to micro and small busi-nesses: Formalisation of the rural econ-omy is an essential step in providing nec-essary infrastructural support to buddingmicro and small businesses. Reliableelectricity supply encourages creationand expansion of new businesses in ruralareas and can potentially open the doorfor greater economic activity and invest-ments. Villages with access to reliable elec-tricity have already seen the emergence ofmicro enterprises such as training centresfor computer skills, coaching institutes andtravel agencies. The income levels ofhouseholds engaged in small business havewitnessed a steady increase, too. These arereplicable models that can be extended toother villages and reliable power can helprural India unleash its economic poten-tial.

As we seek to rebuild the rural econ-omy, reliable electricity will play a crucialrole in promoting micro-enterprises,doubling farmer incomes and creating sus-tainable job opportunities. The cumula-tive impact of improved healthcare, mod-ernised agriculture practices and rise inrural enterprises will be significant and willenable rural India’s transformation into ahub of economic activity. A new India iswaiting to be born out of the COVID-19pandemic.

(The writer is Chief Executive Officerof Smart Power India)

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held a video-conference to discussBRICS’ handling of COVID-19.Around a week later, the UnitedNations Security Council (UNSC)Chair, Estonia, criticised the council’sapproach to COVID-19. The criticismcomes at a time when the US andChina have stalled any contagion res-olution to be passed. BRICS membersRussia and South Africa backedChina’s bid to block discussions in theUNSC in late March. The events in theUNSC and the discussions in theBRICS are a mismatch. BRICS repre-sents 43 per cent of the world’s popu-

lation while the UNSC is the premierforum for all discussions and collec-tive action against threats to peace andsecurity around the world. COVID-19has not spared any country, developedor developing, which begs the ques-tion, does China truly support multi-lateralism on the world stage?

In October 2019, US PresidentDonald Trump in the United NationsGeneral Assembly (UNGA) said: “Thefuture doesn’t belong to globalists. Thefuture belongs to patriots.” The state-ment echoed what he said a year ear-lier while addressing the UNGA: “Wereject the ideology of globalism and weembrace the doctrine of patriotism.”The US, under the Trump administra-tion, has had a mixed history of aver-sion towards multilateralism, whichstarted with Trump’s election campaignbased on the notion of “AmericaFirst” (also his campaign slogan).

The US has more than one mil-lion COVID-19 cases, which is thehighest in the world. Trump has notshied away from criticising China, andalso the World Health Organisation,(WHO) going as far as calling it “…China’s PR agency.” The statement

came after the US decided to put onhold all funding for the WHO. Themove has raised questions regardingUS priorities in the competitionagainst Beijing: America First vs mul-tilateral cooperation. Critics of theTrump administration do agree thatthe WHO was deferential to China atthe start of the crisis but holding outon the funding seems to defeat the pur-pose, as it gives China more sway inglobal multilateral forums. The sus-pension of funds might or might notbe removed later but the Trumpadministration’s proposed budget for2021 calls for voluntary contributionsto be reduced by half for the WHO.

The US’ reason for stalling theUNSC resolution is that it wants“transparency” added into the Frenchand Tunisian “compromise” resolutionon COVID-19. The other way the USis considering for passing the resolu-tion is a refashioned language forma-tion on transparency along with drop-ping any reference to the WHO.China is using this opportunity toblock any resolution on COVID-19.The US and Chinese Ambassadors tothe UN were involved in a twitter spat

accusing each other of irresponsiblehandling of the pandemic.

The Trump administration hasquestioned its global commitments, asmentioned above, which has led toChina taking the lead. China has start-ed contributing more to the UN andhas used this to put its top CommunistParty officials to fill its leadership posts.Chinese nationals now head a quarterof the UN’s specialised agencies. TheUS backing out of the Human RightsCouncil, suspending funding to theWHO, might lead to ceding ground tothe Chinese. Although there is lowconfidence in China’s role as a globalleader but in the future, a clash of lib-eral values with the Communist Partyof China’s interest and values cannotbe ruled out.

Can BRICS fill the void left by theUS? There are two reasons as to whyBRICS cannot fill the US’ shoes. Thefirst one is, BRICS when it was formu-lated was seen as an intersection ofSouth-South cooperation. The group-ing was perceived to bring aboutnoticeable changes to the existingsecurity paradigm and bring notablechanges to the world order. A group-

ing like BRICS fuelled hopes for a mul-tipolar world, but it is not what meetsthe eye when it comes to China’s per-ception of a multipolar world.

China’s strategies and motivationare inspired by its rich history of inter-nal warfare, strife, and foreign occu-pation. The Stratagems of WarringStates (an ancient Chinese text ofmanipulation and warfare) explainsthat the natural world is hierarchical,and systems without a rule are tran-sitional. This is the opposite of whatBeijing claims when they say that theylook forward to a multipolar worldwhere the US is the first amongequals. Chinese officials in the UN andother public forums since 2005 havespoken a lot about da tong, which hasbeen translated as a “commonwealth”or “an era of hierarchy” but, the bet-ter translation of da tong is “an era ofunipolar dominance.”

The second reason is the tensionson the India-China border. Multiplesoldiers on both sides have beeninjured during a skirmish along theboundary in North Sikkim near theNaku La sector. Added to this, in lateMarch, it was reported that China had

deployed underwater drones and shipsin the Indian Ocean Region (IOR),which are capable of conducting sub-marine and anti-submarine operations.The takeaway from this particular inci-dent is China’s increasing capabilitieswhen it is looking to expand its pres-ence in the IOR. In both cases, theIndian Army and the Navy respective-ly declined to comment to the press.

China’s credibility has been underthe scanner as a future global leaderdue to the accusations of mismanage-ment of handling COVID-19. Theaggressiveness on the Line of ActualControl and the IOR and the US aver-sion to multilateralism put India in atight spot. During the G-20 video con-ference in March, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi called for structuralreform of the WHO. India has beenapproached by Taiwan to support itsbid to participate in the World HealthAssembly, which is the WHO’s parentorganisation. China is not in favour ofTaiwan’s participation in the WHOmeeting in Geneva on May 18. The cri-sis created by COVID-19 has pushedliberal values to its limits and has ledto an anti-globalisation wave world-

wide. Taiwan has been able to pushback against COVID-19 effectively.The methods and practices could beused globally but it might not be pos-sible as China intervenes in globalforums and opposes its inclusion.

The New Development Bank ofBRICS has loaned $15 billion to boostthe grouping’s economies. Furtheron, a Vaccine Research andDevelopment Centre is being consid-ered by the grouping to find a cure forCOVID-19. The initiatives by BRICSare commendable but the problemsbetween India and China, along withBeijing’s ambitions and interventionsin global forums, curtail its effective-ness to provide alternate solutions,especially when BRICS is supposed tofacilitate the Global SouthCooperation. India should start con-sidering BRICS just as an economicinterest group, in light of recent eventson the border and the IOR, while notallowing China to use the grouping asa strategic device to promote retool-ing of global fora like the UN.

(The writer is a Research Associateat the VIF. The views expressed are per-sonal)

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Aviation stocks on Mondayfell up to 7.3 per cent after

regulator DGCA said all sched-uled commercial passengerflights have been suspended tillMay 31 midnight.

Shares of InterGlobeAviation dropped 7.27 per cent and those of SpiceJet fell 4.92 per cent on the BSE.

The Directorate General ofCivil Aviation (DGCA) said“foreign and domestic airlinesshall be suitably informedabout the opening of their operations whether inter-national to or from India ordomestic, respectively, in due course”.

All commercial passengerflights have been suspended inIndia since March 25, when thelockdown was imposed to curb the spread of the novelcoronavirus.

The National DisasterManagement Authority(NDMA), the nodal depart-ment, has announced lock-down 4.0 till May 31 to checkthe spread of the novel coronavirus.

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Shares of multiplex and hoteloperators on Monday

cracked up to 14.5 per centafter the countrywide lock-down was further extendedtill May 31.

Shares of INOX Leisuretumbled 14.49 per cent and

those of PVR tanked 12.54 percent on the BSE.

Besides, Chalet Hotelsplummeted 13.38 per cent,Indian Hotels CompanyLimited plunged 8.04 per cent,EIH Associated Hotels 5.83per cent, Wonderla Holidays4.91 per cent and Lemon TreeHotels 4.78 per cent.

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Bank stocks were the worsthit among the BSE sectoral

indices on Monday in a weakbroader market where the BSEbenchmark crashed 1,069points. IndusInd Bank was thetop laggard in the Sensex pack,cracking 10 per cent, RBLBank dropped 9.55 per cent,Federal Bank 9.47 per cent,City Union Bank 8.41 per cent,Axis Bank 7.55 per cent, ICICIBank 7.44 per cent, SBI 6.61 percent, HDFC Bank 5.83 percent and Kotak Mahindra Bank5.47 per cent.

The BSE bankex index fell6.69 per cent. “With the stim-ulus package announced by theGovernment, not seen as ade-quate considering the need ofthe hour and with infectionscontinuing unabated, the mar-kets ended down by around 3.4per cent, in spite of positiveglobal cues.

“Most measures may beseen as a long term positive and

markets were more worriedabout the immediate impact ofthese measures. With concernsabout rising NPAs, financialswere most affected,” said VinodNair, head of research at GeojitFinancial Services.

The BSE benchmark closed1,068.75 points, or 3.44 per centlower at 30,028.98. Banks werethe biggest contributors in themarket crash on Monday.

“Banking stock witnessedselling pressure on the back ofsuspension of new bankruptcycases for one year, declared ina stimulus package by theFinance Minister,” said VishalWagh, Research Head, BonanzaPortfolio Ltd. Seeking to pro-vide relief for the coronaviruspandemic-hit economy.

The Government will pro-vide various relaxations underthe insolvency law, includingsuspending fresh proceedingsfor up to one year, exemptingCOVID-19-related debt andcoming out with a specialframework for MSMEs.

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Sending out a strong message,Union Minister Nitin

Gadkari has said theGovernment will considerremoval or demotion of offi-cials whose indecisiveness isobstructing highway works asmany such projects have alsobeen impacted by the coron-avirus-induced lockdown.

“Enough of warning hasbeen given to officials sitting onfiles and not taking decisions.A large number of our highwayprojects are suffering due tothis.

It is time that such officialswho despite being promotedand empowered to take deci-sions be demoted or removedand give chance to those whowant to perform,” Gadkari toldPTI in an interview.

To make up for the losses incurred in terms ofhighways projects and to bringthem on track, the RoadTransport, Highways andMSME Minister Gadkari hasalready fixed a target to buildroads worth �15 lakh crore inthe next two years.

Earlier, the Minister, hadreviewed 740 highway pro-jects totalling 28,304 km from16 states and has asked officialsand stakeholders to fast-trackthese.

The projects were worthabout �5 lakh crore. “Despite

cautioning repeatedly.I have found that a large

number of officials speciallyproject directors and regionalofficers of National HighwaysAuthority of India (NHAI)who have been empowered totake decisions on projects up to�50 crore on the spot, keepflooding the head office withqueries obstructing work,”Gadkari said.

He said though he was notin a position to provide the exact number of suchqueries, but said the number is“huge”.

“I have come to a conclu-sion that it is time to take actionagainst these officials andremove them or demote them.Project Directors and RegionalOfficers were given rights.

They are afraid of takingdecisions... Taking responsi-bility and sending each andevery query to us. Those whodo not exercise their rights,have no right to continue...There is no justification forthem to hold the position,” theMinister said.

NHAI has about 175 pro-ject directors and 25 regionalofficers across the country.

The Minister said theNHAI has resumed 95 percent of work on war-footingnow with permission to startconstruction activities whileadhering to guidelines.

On the NHAI arbitration

conciliation, he said: “In 22 out24 ongoing cases adjournmentwas sought by NHAI officialsand I have directed theChairman to expedite it.Hopefully things will be fast-tracked now. “Performanceaudit of each and every officialwill be done.

Those found not perform-ing up to the mark will beshown the exit through com-pulsory retirement as also saidby the Prime Minister.However, good work willequally be rewarded.”

The Minister said hisMinistry was conducting per-formance audit and termed itmore important than financialaudit.

The Minister had earliersaid in case of stalling of pro-jects on account of court or tri-bunal orders, NHAI and theHighways Ministry will puthoardings and banners inform-ing people behind the reasonsfor delays.

The issue of timelyapproval of Extension of Time(EOT) and change of scope(COS) was particularly raisedby the Contractors/Concessionaire during a recentmeeting saying timelyapprovals would help in facil-itating lending by banks.

An online portal “GATI”was also launched to fast-trackdecision making and make theprocess transparent.

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The rupee plummeted by 33paise to close at 75.91

against the US dollar onMonday, tracking weakdomestic equities and foreignfund outflows.Forex traderssaid rising crude oil prices andconcerns about the effective-ness of the fiscal stimuluspackage weighed on investorsentiment.

“India’s rupee led lossesamong emerging-market cur-rencies in Asia on disappoint-ment over the Government’sstimulus announcements. Spot

USDINR is expected to findresistance around 76.50 onexpectation of foreign fundinflows at lower equity levels,”said Devarsh Vakil, HeadAdvisory, HDFC securities.

Market participants alsosaid that the extension of thenationwide lockdown couldweigh on the economic out-look of the country.

The Government onSunday extended the coron-avirus lockdown for two moreweeks with the fourth phaseproviding more relaxationsoutside the containmentzones.

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Script Open High Low LTPRELIANCE 1471.80 1482.00 1428.00 1440.65HDFCBANK 888.60 888.60 831.25 836.40BAJFINANCE 2099.00 2099.00 1926.90 1940.00ICICIBANK 320.90 320.90 293.50 298.65AXISBANK 390.00 390.00 352.50 359.30SBIN 166.80 166.80 155.00 155.40MARUTI 5100.00 5100.00 4682.70 4723.35INDUSINDBK 419.60 419.60 374.25 376.85HDFC 1635.60 1636.05 1507.00 1512.10CIPLA 570.45 604.60 570.45 600.60VEDL 94.20 95.65 90.10 92.45INDIGO 944.00 944.00 850.30 912.20BHARTIARTL 558.00 559.15 535.05 538.15INDIACEM 116.00 123.70 108.25 117.95KOTAKBANK 1183.70 1183.70 1110.00 1113.45LT 871.90 871.90 810.35 813.45M&MFIN 164.00 164.00 136.40 137.75BEL 71.00 71.50 64.00 64.45IDEA 4.93 5.11 4.63 4.67POWERGRID 159.95 161.60 153.30 154.50ESCORTS 825.00 833.30 803.20 810.75LICHSGFIN 256.50 256.50 219.35 220.25IBULHSGFIN 133.35 133.35 117.30 118.85HINDPETRO 192.05 192.05 170.85 172.50TCS 1901.00 1949.45 1873.60 1944.85RBLBANK 121.00 121.00 108.90 109.40HINDUNILVR 2044.00 2045.90 1989.00 2005.85SRTRANSFIN 654.90 654.90 573.90 576.20TATAMOTORS 84.70 84.70 79.60 80.65INFY 664.00 670.45 653.90 663.60ZEEL 164.20 164.20 148.00 149.35TATASTEEL 274.75 276.25 262.55 266.45AUROPHARMA 675.00 682.00 655.00 669.45ULTRACEMCO 3579.90 3582.00 3280.80 3308.25CHOLAFIN 148.15 148.30 122.55 124.70PVR 836.70 836.70 735.00 746.15BPCL 321.50 321.50 292.20 294.10L&TFH 57.65 57.65 51.65 52.85TITAN 845.40 846.00 809.85 816.40ITC 166.40 167.20 163.15 164.55BAJAJFINSV 4748.00 4748.00 4451.75 4463.35BHEL 27.85 28.35 25.90 26.05SUNPHARMA* 447.90 454.70 434.25 440.65JINDALSTEL 95.00 95.60 86.90 87.95ASIANPAINT 1564.00 1564.00 1498.70 1501.15COALINDIA 127.00 127.00 121.10 121.75BANDHANBNK 244.95 244.95 224.25 229.50JUBLFOOD 1669.00 1685.00 1530.00 1549.05INFRATEL 207.25 210.00 202.35 207.20M&M 386.00 386.00 367.20 377.35EICHERMOT 14029.70 14029.70 12852.00 12991.35APOLLOHOSP 1397.80 1397.80 1255.20 1265.75DRREDDY 3737.00 3760.00 3613.45 3677.60HEROMOTOCO 2200.00 2218.25 2062.00 2069.90JUBILANT 497.60 497.60 450.30 450.30MANAPPURAM 127.85 127.85 119.80 121.15BHARATFORG 287.00 288.70 263.15 269.65HINDALCO 121.20 121.20 114.35 115.30STAR 419.25 419.25 397.30 401.50IOC 75.85 75.85 71.15 71.55MINDTREE 850.00 881.85 848.70 879.60PIDILITIND 1371.00 1375.00 1331.15 1345.10NIITTECH 1359.15 1390.30 1329.70 1344.25FEDERALBNK 44.00 44.00 39.50 39.65CUMMINSIND 340.95 340.95 312.85 316.85BANKBARODA 42.00 42.00 38.30 38.60JSWSTEEL 177.30 177.30 162.05 163.25ASHOKLEY 47.85 47.85 42.50 43.85WIPRO 183.00 184.90 179.75 182.30NTPC 90.95 90.95 87.90 88.95AMARAJABAT 579.00 581.35 536.35 540.65MUTHOOTFIN 829.00 829.00 767.85 776.15BIOCON 329.00 336.60 326.35 331.55MIDHANI 218.25 224.65 205.35 207.20BRITANNIA 3149.70 3163.50 3099.10 3106.95BEML 630.00 630.00 580.95 590.35HINDZINC 196.00 200.60 185.70 188.10BAJAJ-AUTO 2660.00 2660.00 2462.55 2481.05BATAINDIA 1360.00 1360.00 1273.70 1281.95PEL 880.10 902.50 845.90 873.05MFSL 447.00 448.15 407.45 417.85UNIONBANK 24.95 24.95 23.25 23.55NAUKRI 2571.20 2573.35 2270.00 2406.90UPL 382.90 384.25 365.75 375.65ADANIENT 145.00 146.35 134.40 135.85DABUR 447.40 447.40 430.55 436.30LUPIN 841.70 861.80 838.00 857.10HDFCLIFE 487.30 490.70 464.40 468.75CANBK 85.30 85.30 76.55 77.65EQUITAS 49.90 49.90 43.60 44.25DLF 139.90 139.90 129.75 132.40BANKINDIA 33.45 33.45 31.70 32.05TATACONSUM 354.80 355.40 343.50 346.90MOTHERSUMI 82.95 82.95 77.15 77.75ONGC 77.00 77.00 72.50 72.90UJJIVAN 168.55 168.75 151.70 153.60GAIL 86.70 86.70 80.50 80.95RECLTD 98.10 98.75 90.00 90.60APOLLOTYRE 93.40 93.60 89.80 91.65TORNTPHARM 2470.00 2528.50 2470.00 2499.20CEATLTD 735.00 745.00 713.00 736.50COLPAL 1348.00 1402.50 1332.80 1380.50TATAPOWER 32.40 32.40 30.25 31.25CADILAHC 332.00 335.60 323.25 324.00CONCOR 379.10 380.70 343.55 349.60GLENMARK 342.00 342.00 325.80 326.90JUSTDIAL 348.00 348.00 326.50 332.25HCLTECH 514.60 518.75 507.95 511.05

ACC 1199.00 1204.05 1126.40 1134.15TECHM 512.90 514.85 501.50 503.85NESTLEIND 16469.85 16469.85 16182.00 16240.20DIVISLAB 2369.00 2379.95 2322.45 2328.70ADANIPORTS 312.00 312.00 291.70 293.40PNB 29.00 29.00 26.75 27.35TORNTPOWER 306.00 306.00 294.50 297.00HAVELLS 489.95 491.90 473.00 475.80SAIL 29.65 29.65 27.20 27.45

PETRONET 228.65 230.95 217.65 219.40ICICIPRULI 387.00 387.00 356.65 358.90CANFINHOME 295.65 296.55 274.15 276.70SUNTV 394.00 394.00 355.30 357.90GRASIM 515.00 515.00 494.45 496.55MARICO 321.95 321.95 305.00 306.30NAM-INDIA 233.05 237.30 220.40 229.20TVSMOTOR 348.55 348.55 302.60 305.65NMDC 74.50 75.40 70.70 71.05HDFCAMC 2547.50 2556.00 2474.65 2485.25SRF 3590.00 3590.00 3400.00 3429.30SIEMENS 1096.00 1096.00 990.30 996.90AJANTPHARM 1501.85 1520.50 1396.00 1403.15APLLTD 880.00 900.00 842.00 880.40SBILIFE 752.00 752.00 694.05 698.70AMBUJACEM 184.60 184.60 171.05 172.05RAMCOCEM 577.00 585.50 533.10 538.30NCC 23.65 23.65 21.85 22.15GODREJCP 546.75 552.40 535.15 537.55CESC 574.55 579.00 559.90 567.90IDFCFIRSTB 21.30 21.30 19.60 19.90PFC 85.15 85.15 80.40 81.30VOLTAS 463.25 463.25 438.50 441.55DEEPAKNI 522.80 522.80 493.30 501.25UBL 937.00 937.00 875.90 880.45EXIDEIND 156.70 156.70 150.50 151.10GODREJIND 258.00 258.00 245.10 246.20BALKRISIND 935.00 957.00 915.00 920.85MRF 58135.00 58135.00 56200.80 56413.00RPOWER 1.96 1.96 1.84 1.96ICICIGI 1230.00 1237.50 1126.05 1170.45WABCOINDIA 6625.00 6837.80 6601.20 6809.70HAL 550.00 576.00 535.55 545.30ADANIPOWER 33.50 33.50 30.30 30.95WOCKPHARMA 230.00 230.00 218.55 218.90IGL 457.05 463.90 439.90 445.55IPCALAB 1597.00 1616.00 1572.55 1596.80AVANTI 427.90 427.95 396.65 410.15DMART 2350.00 2362.50 2280.00 2306.00HEXAWARE 247.70 250.00 236.35 238.10PAGEIND 17634.00 18056.40 17155.85 17710.20VGUARD 183.90 183.90 171.30 172.80ADANIGAS 109.00 109.00 101.00 101.50ITI 88.00 88.95 82.00 82.70PFIZER 4345.00 4345.00 4159.00 4201.25IBREALEST 43.50 43.50 41.60 41.70BOSCHLTD 9609.65 9609.65 9021.60 9070.20HATHWAY 24.25 25.95 24.00 25.85ADANIGREEN 236.40 236.40 219.00 229.10CHAMBLFERT 135.40 135.95 127.40 129.85AUBANK 428.00 428.00 397.70 397.90NATIONALUM 29.70 29.70 27.35 27.55RADICO 311.70 313.00 296.35 302.90SHREECEM 19107.55 19204.00 18025.75 18124.05MGL 895.00 896.60 872.45 882.35MCX 1173.80 1173.80 1104.00 1115.80CASTROLIND 120.40 120.40 107.20 110.00NAVINFLUOR 1534.00 1535.20 1466.95 1496.35LALPATHLAB 1605.95 1611.00 1564.00 1583.35TV18BRDCST 21.55 23.15 21.15 21.85ASTRAZEN 3061.00 3126.45 3040.00 3052.00INOXLEISUR 190.00 190.00 163.70 165.25ABBOTINDIA 17633.20 17633.20 16950.00 16971.55OMAXE 168.80 168.80 166.90 167.65NOCIL 84.00 84.55 79.40 80.30ALKEM 2490.00 2490.00 2335.15 2363.25LTTS 1100.00 1137.45 1091.50 1106.85SPARC 132.50 132.80 122.75 125.70BERGEPAINT 455.00 455.00 438.45 440.05JISLJALEQS 6.85 7.53 6.83 7.52RITES 236.85 236.85 224.25 227.30JMFINANCIL 64.00 64.00 57.80 61.05LAURUSLABS 437.00 438.75 422.00 425.75OIL 86.80 86.80 76.25 79.50INDHOTEL 65.45 66.00 62.10 62.35

SUDARSCHEM 390.50 394.00 367.00 369.80GNFC 139.00 139.00 131.80 132.40NBCC 18.90 19.00 17.75 17.75CGCL 158.90 171.20 147.95 148.65RCF 40.25 40.40 37.20 37.60HEG 775.10 784.00 731.95 741.05SANOFI 7715.55 7716.00 7435.00 7476.20TATAELXSI 790.00 790.00 760.00 762.30OFSS 2688.00 2688.00 2570.00 2588.75GODREJPROP 620.00 624.90 585.90 598.80GODFRYPHLP 980.00 981.75 925.00 928.80GUJGAS 238.05 238.15 228.00 231.80DCBBANK 71.60 71.60 65.00 66.00DEEPAKFERT 104.50 104.50 96.70 98.10LTI 1650.20 1667.90 1599.05 1645.15MPHASIS 847.80 867.35 797.25 800.70SUZLON 2.59 2.65 2.50 2.51COCHINSHIP 252.60 255.00 234.00 235.70STRTECH* 100.00 100.80 94.40 94.90HAWKINCOOK 4348.95 4348.95 4100.00 4261.60ABFRL 105.70 105.70 99.00 100.05CROMPTON 207.70 210.90 196.40 198.30NATCOPHARM 585.10 597.85 578.00 585.75TATAMTRDVR 36.35 36.35 33.40 33.80POLYCAB 703.10 703.10 660.75 663.45PRESTIGE 153.10 153.15 138.10 138.90KAJARIACER 315.00 316.05 297.45 300.60DIXON 4422.70 4464.85 4210.00 4264.50OBEROIRLTY 326.85 326.85 298.05 300.70WHIRLPOOL 1940.00 1940.00 1831.00 1844.45TRENT 440.50 440.50 406.80 414.80ZENSARTECH 91.40 91.65 82.95 85.75IEX 162.90 168.50 156.05 159.85FCONSUMER 8.30 8.30 7.64 7.69JAICORPLTD 70.00 70.00 64.55 65.15BDL 248.35 250.90 232.20 234.05ORIENTELEC 171.70 171.70 153.10 162.80KNRCON 203.00 207.05 191.10 194.70ENDURANCE 651.00 664.70 618.00 627.10GMRINFRA 18.25 18.25 17.35 17.45RAJESHEXPO 520.00 523.90 502.65 506.90VINATIORGA 958.50 962.15 922.90 942.15SCI 43.60 43.65 40.40 41.25VIPIND 222.80 225.20 213.50 217.05GRANULES 156.75 158.80 154.00 155.15ADVENZYMES 162.00 163.15 151.75 157.10GRSE 149.00 149.00 135.30 138.35RALLIS 216.00 216.00 205.10 207.10SCHNEIDER 87.85 87.85 79.70 80.20SOUTHBANK 5.50 5.50 5.14 5.17INDIANB 47.40 47.95 44.55 45.15EMAMILTD* 194.85 195.55 185.10 189.20KALPATPOWR 197.00 210.30 187.50 188.35RELCAPITAL 7.65 7.65 7.27 7.27JKPAPER* 91.55 91.55 89.00 89.05EDELWEISS 46.00 46.00 41.70 41.75SPICEJET 43.70 44.60 43.45 43.45IDBI 20.25 20.25 19.20 19.35DELTACORP* 71.95 71.95 67.85 68.00GODREJAGRO 382.70 382.70 359.20 360.00BAYERCROP 4522.85 4535.00 4294.05 4505.55RAIN 68.00 68.05 61.35 61.80HEIDELBERG 154.25 154.25 145.05 146.753MINDIA 17600.00 17613.00 17040.00 17061.45GMM 3649.90 3649.90 3469.75 3491.00ABCAPITAL 44.80 44.80 41.65 41.95GRAPHITE 190.95 190.95 179.50 180.65FRETAIL 79.90 79.90 74.50 74.50KANSAINER 360.55 360.55 340.00 342.25HUDCO 24.45 24.70 22.40 22.75DBL 253.00 253.05 240.55 243.65IRB 63.75 63.80 59.60 60.30KEC 203.00 203.00 188.50 194.95COROMANDEL 633.00 633.00 610.80 620.25IDFC 14.10 14.10 13.45 13.50PIIND 1486.00 1491.00 1428.00 1459.35HINDCOPPER 26.95 27.35 25.75 26.00RVNL 17.90 17.90 16.85 17.00RESPONIND 81.60 81.80 80.50 81.20RAYMOND 225.00 225.00 212.45 215.75ISEC 355.80 356.45 347.40 351.45CUB 136.00 136.00 124.15 124.65CYIENT 206.00 206.00 195.45 196.45ATUL 4533.00 4550.00 4488.00 4515.70LINDEINDIA 508.00 510.95 485.70 496.45JBCHEPHARM 630.00 631.05 604.80 610.15RELINFRA 19.00 19.05 17.80 18.20SONATSOFTW 190.00 191.95 185.20 188.45ASTRAL 861.00 863.70 800.00 818.50RELAXO 600.00 600.00 580.75 587.05MMTC 14.85 15.25 14.20 14.45MOIL 127.70 127.70 120.50 124.20PTC 37.35 37.40 35.20 35.30BLISSGVS 95.00 95.75 90.45 93.15SUNTECK 167.00 167.00 150.70 155.30VENKYS 1050.00 1055.00 995.00 1004.35SWANENERGY 101.00 101.50 100.10 100.50VBL 636.80 636.80 611.45 627.90KEI 276.00 278.40 267.30 270.30ENGINERSIN 65.15 65.60 61.15 61.40TATACOFFEE 72.75 72.75 69.35 70.15GILLETTE 4776.70 4805.95 4746.00 4770.85NETWORK18 25.00 26.00 24.45 25.15JKLAKSHMI 199.40 199.40 183.00 189.95BALMLAWRIE 102.60 104.45 96.30 97.10JINDALSAW 51.45 51.45 48.10 48.40REDINGTON 89.00 89.00 81.85 82.95WELCORP 61.80 61.80 57.35 57.35EIDPARRY 161.70 161.70 151.00 152.30

CENTURYPLY 116.00 116.00 104.00 104.80GUJALKALI 325.00 331.80 310.40 312.40KRBL 190.00 190.00 181.00 183.55NESCO 417.00 417.00 382.45 389.35PNBHOUSING 182.90 182.90 171.00 173.85HSCL 47.00 47.00 43.75 43.95SYNGENE 338.50 341.45 332.60 335.35NILKAMAL 1043.00 1043.00 975.00 976.80JSWENERGY 40.90 40.90 38.70 39.50TRIDENT 4.94 5.00 4.80 4.82QUESS 174.00 174.05 167.50 169.60MINDAIND 273.40 274.90 261.35 267.25DISHTV 4.84 4.84 4.46 4.49MEGH 47.90 47.90 45.10 45.30ALKYLAMINE 1780.00 1780.00 1685.50 1709.35PGHH 10080.00 10090.20 9900.00 10073.85TATAINVEST 680.00 680.50 655.35 663.25METROPOLIS 1289.95 1290.00 1236.55 1266.20GMDCLTD 36.00 37.45 34.50 35.20GLAXO 1408.00 1415.00 1356.00 1364.40CHENNPETRO 55.35 55.90 53.10 54.10HONAUT 27173.80 27357.30 26738.90 26912.35GSPL 185.00 186.85 177.80 179.65BBTC 845.00 854.05 800.00 804.60PHOENIXLTD 518.45 521.00 466.25 484.35MAHSCOOTER 1985.00 1985.00 1865.00 1873.10JKTYRE 50.50 50.70 48.15 48.30GARFIBRES 1325.00 1348.05 1272.45 1279.75SOBHA 216.95 216.95 199.05 199.45HFCL 10.50 10.50 9.55 9.63NHPC 20.05 20.40 19.55 19.75NIACL 121.50 121.50 111.50 114.90CREDITACC 462.40 462.40 419.70 419.70J&KBANK 13.65 13.65 12.45 12.53GESHIP 206.35 208.70 195.00 206.10FORTIS 116.00 119.00 116.00 116.35BAJAJELEC 379.00 379.00 355.25 361.05WESTLIFE 288.00 294.00 271.50 287.70AKZOINDIA 1875.00 1875.00 1760.00 1768.80ORIENTCEM 40.70 40.70 38.65 39.00WABAG 101.50 104.35 97.00 97.80FORCEMOT 820.10 820.10 794.20 800.25BOMDYEING 47.70 48.20 45.70 45.80PHILIPCARB 74.00 74.00 70.10 70.10TCIEXP 603.00 603.00 555.00 567.90AAVAS 1003.80 1035.90 991.80 1024.55KTKBANK 37.60 38.00 36.40 36.85JAMNAAUTO 24.65 24.65 22.85 22.95DALBHARAT* 500.55 501.70 490.00 491.50DHFL 13.00 13.00 12.14 12.14WELSPUNIND 28.00 28.00 26.15 26.15TATAMETALI 426.40 426.40 410.00 413.15LEMONTREE 16.75 16.75 15.95 15.95VSTIND 2904.00 2956.50 2868.90 2882.20IRCON 87.10 87.10 82.25 82.55DHANUKA 490.00 510.50 490.00 491.30GICRE 137.00 137.00 129.20 129.70BALRAMCHIN 91.45 91.45 86.45 86.45SYMPHONY 804.00 804.00 763.25 769.75PERSISTENT 538.95 538.95 511.00 516.60VAIBHAVGBL 1009.60 1009.60 983.00 990.10AMBER 1144.00 1152.00 1056.00 1078.05ADANITRANS 195.90 198.90 185.15 185.30PGHL 3994.10 4001.95 3884.00 3902.90IFCI 4.25 4.29 4.08 4.11BAJAJHLDNG 1930.00 1930.00 1852.75 1862.45CAPPL 328.40 329.75 308.00 314.50

VARROC 138.75 140.95 130.00 132.10BLUESTARCO 470.40 470.40 460.70 467.90FSL 31.40 31.40 29.05 29.40EIHOTEL 58.50 59.00 55.05 55.35BAJAJCON 137.50 137.50 130.80 131.25THYROCARE 516.00 518.50 500.00 503.80NLCINDIA 43.05 43.25 41.55 41.70LAXMIMACH 2698.00 2698.25 2549.10 2562.50ASHOKA 56.00 57.10 53.55 53.75SHOPERSTOP 157.00 157.75 138.85 139.40TVSSRICHAK 1030.00 1054.95 1010.00 1010.15SUPREMEIND 913.50 913.50 878.05 883.70SHK 54.80 54.80 48.50 50.55FINOLEXIND 388.00 390.00 378.00 386.20MRPL 28.90 28.90 27.40 27.75MAHSEAMLES 197.35 197.35 187.00 191.90BIRLACORPN 415.00 415.00 384.00 386.95DCMSHRIRAM 239.15 239.15 229.05 234.00GRINDWELL 497.85 497.85 451.10 464.70GICHSGFIN 69.90 69.90 63.00 63.50SJVN 21.00 21.00 20.55 20.65VTL 616.05 640.70 611.15 629.90PRSMJOHNSN 33.20 33.25 31.65 31.65GSFC 43.50 43.50 40.20 40.95

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Europe reopened more wide-ly on Monday, allowing

people into the Acropolis inAthens, high-fashion boutiquesin Italy, museums in Belgium,golf courses in Ireland andbeer gardens in Bavaria. Chinaannounced it will give $2 bil-lion to the fight against thecoronavirus.

As nations carved out anew normal amid the pan-demic, Chinese President XiJinping told the World HealthOrganization’s annual meet-ing that the money will be paidout over two years to helprespond to Covid-19, whichhas killed hundreds of thou-sands and devastated nationaleconomies. He said the fundswill especially support efforts indeveloping countries.

Xi’s address came amidsharp tensions between Beijingand President Donald Trump,who has suspended U.S. fund-ing to WHO and accused it offailing to stop the virus fromspreading when it first surfacedin China. Health and HumanServices Secretary Alex Azarrepresented the US at the meet-ing, held online this year.

WHO announced it willevaluate the response to theoutbreak “at the earliest appro-priate moment,” after a watch-dog body found possible short-comings in the UN agency’shandling of the crisis.

New infections and deathshave slowed considerably inEurope, where some countriesstarted easing lockdowns amonth ago. Many nations arepreparing to open their bordersnext month, trying to sketchout the rules for a highlyunusual summer tourist season.

Germany’s foreign ministerwas discussing the options withcolleagues from 10 largelysouthern European countries.

More than 4.7 million peo-ple worldwide have tested pos-itive for the coronavirus andover 3,15,000 deaths have beenreported, according to a tally byJohns Hopkins University.Those figures are believed tounderstate the true dimen-sions of the outbreak becauseof limited testing, differences incounting the dead and con-cealment by someGovernments.

The US has reported almost90,000 deaths, and Europe hasseen over 1,60,000 dead.

Greece reopened theAcropolis and other ancientsites, along with high schools,shopping malls and mainlandtravel. Paving stickers wereused to keep visitors apart.Tourists were local, for thecountry still has a 14-day quar-antine for arrivals, and travel toGreek islands remains broad-ly restricted.

Authorities are keen toreopen Greece’s vital tourismsector, following a warning thatthe country is likely to suffer theworst recession in the 27-nationEuropean Union this year.

Greece’s beaches reopenedover the weekend during aheat wave with strict social dis-tancing, but buses from Athensto the coast were crowded.

In Belgium, more studentsreturned to school, hairdressersbegan clipping locks again,and museums and zoosreopened, all with strict reser-vation systems to avoid over-crowding. Hoping to make themost of the sunny weather,open-air markets started sellingspring fruit and vegetables.

Golf courses and gardenstores reopened in Ireland, butHealth Minister Simon Harrissaid he is nervous because the

virus hasn’t gone away. If Ireland can get the next

three weeks right, “we as acountry will find a way to livesafely alongside the virus,”Harris told RTE radio.

Churches in Italy and at theVatican resumed public Masses.Guards in hazmat suits took thetemperatures of the faithfulentering St. Peter’s Basilica,where Pope Francis celebratedan early morning Mass in a sidechapel to commemorate the100th anniversary of the birthof St. John Paul II.

Across town, the Rev. JoseMaria Galvan snapped on latexgloves and a face mask beforedistributing Communion to adozen parishioners at hisSant’Eugenio parish.

In Milan, theMontenapoleone district ofluxury boutiques reopened,but few if any shoppers were insight. The area is home tosuch fashion houses as Armani,Versace, Ferragamo, Fendi andBottega Veneta, but its cus-tomers are mostly foreigners,and travel to Italy remainsseverely restricted.

At Milan’s City Hall, hun-dreds of open-air vendorsprotested the failure of the city

to come up with rules for non-food stands to reopen.

Portuguese Prime MinisterAntonio Costa took his morn-ing coffee at a Lisbon cafe andwas having lunch at a restau-rant with the speaker of par-liament as officials encour-aged people to support localbusinesses. Costa told reporters“we can’t return to our old lifeas long as the virus is around”but said the economy mustcome back to life.

In France, authorities wereconcerned after about 70 infec-tions popped up in the coun-try’s schools since they startedreopening last week. Francereopened about 40,000preschools and primary schoolslast week, with classes cappedat 15 students.

The WHO has been drawninto a blame game between theUS and China over the spreadof the virus. Trump claimsChina mishandled the out-break early on, but China hasdefended its record.

The EU and other coun-tries have called for an inde-pendent evaluation of theWHO’s response to the pan-demic “to review experiencegained and lessons learned.”

Xi said that China hadprovided all relevant outbreakdata to WHO and other coun-tries, including the virus’sgenetic sequence, “in a mosttimely fashion.”

“We have shared controland treatment experience withthe world without reservation,”Xi said. “We have done every-thing in our power to supportand assist countries in need.”

Xi said he also supports theidea of a comprehensive reviewof the global response toCOVID-19, which “should bebased on science and profes-sionalism, led by WHO andconducted in objective andimpartial manner.”

The 11-page review of theWHO’s response by an inde-pendent oversight body raisedquestions of whether its warn-ing system for alerting theworld to outbreaks was ade-quate, and it suggested mem-ber states might need to“reassess” WHO’s role in pro-viding travel advice to coun-tries.

China reported just sevennew cases on Monday but kepttighter social-distancing rulesin parts of the northeasternprovince of Jilin after a cluster

of cases of unknown originturned up.

Moscow health officialssaid 77 people died of thevirus in the Russian capital inthe past 24 hours, the highestdaily total so far. With over290,000 infections, Russia issecond only to the U.S. in thenumber of cases, but interna-tional health officials questionRussia’s low official death toll ofabout 2,700.

In India, people trickledoutdoors after the governmentextended a nationwide lock-down to May 31 but easedmany restrictions. Small shopsand other businesses reopenedin places, including the capital,New Delhi. At the same time,India recorded its biggest sin-gle-day coronavirus surge withover 5,200 new cases, alongwith 157 deaths.

In Brazil, President JairBolsonaro greeted hundredsof supporters — and joinedsome in performing push-ups— who gathered to back hisopen-the-economy drive.Bolsonaro has played down thevirus even as it has sweptthrough Latin America’s mostpopulous country, leaving over16,000 dead.

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Clashes broke out in HongKong’s legislature Monday

for a second time this month asa pro-Beijing lawmaker waselected as chair of a key com-mittee that scrutinizes bills,ending a prolonged struggle forcontrol with the pro-democra-cy camp.

The legislature’s HouseCommittee, which vets billsand decides when to presentthem for a final vote, had beenwithout a chairperson for morethan six months. The centralgovernment in Beijing criti-cized deputy chairperson andpro-democracy lawmakerDennis Kwok for deliberatelydelaying matters and causing a

backlog of bills that affect pub-lic interest.

Kwok was replaced Fridayby Chan Kin-por, who wasappointed by the legislature’spresident to preside overMonday’s election. After scufflesand shouting matches led toChan ejecting most of the pro-democracy lawmakers, the elec-tion took place, with pro-Beijinglawmaker Starry Lee winningeasily. Her election will likelyspeed up the passing of a con-troversial bill that would crim-inalise abuse of the Chinesenational anthem. Hong Kong’sleader, Carrie Lam, said lastweek that passing the bill was apriority for the government, andthe bill will be presented to thecommittee on May 27.

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The gunman in a deadlyattack at a military base in

Pensacola, Florida, lastDecember was meticulous in hisplanning and had been radical-ized overseas for at least fiveyears, US officials said nMonday.

The FBI learned of the con-tacts between the gunman,Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani,

and an al-Qaeda operative afterbreaking the encryption on cell-phones that had previously beenlocked.

Attorney General WilliamBarr and FBI Director ChrisWray held a news conference toannounce the developments inthe shooting late last year at thePensacola Naval Air Station, inwhich a Saudi Air Force officerkilled three US sailors andinjured eight other people.

Alshamrani, who was killedby a sheriff ’s deputy during therampage at a classroom building,was undergoing flight training atPensacola, where members offoreign militaries routinelyreceive instruction.

The Justice Department hadpreviously asked Apple to helpextract data from two iPhonesthat belonged to the gunman,including one that authoritiessay Alshamrani damaged with a

bullet after being confronted bylaw enforcement. Wray said FBIagents were able to break the encryption without the helpof Apple.

Law enforcement officialsleft no doubt that Alshamraniwas motivated by jihadist ide-ology, saying he visited a NewYork City memorial to theattacks of Sept. 11, 2001, over theThanksgiving holiday weekendand posted anti-American and

anti-Israeli messages on socialmedia just two hours before theshooting.

Separately, al-Qaeda’sbranch in Yemen, released avideo claiming the attack.

The branch, al-Qaeda in theArabian Peninsula, or AQAP,has long been considered theglobal network’s most dangerousbranch and has attempted tocarry out attacks on the USmainland.

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The WHO is “irreplaceable”and needs enhanced

resources especially to providesupport to the developingcountries facing the “devastat-ing” impact of Covid-19, UNchief Antonio Guterres said onMonday, amid criticism of theglobal health agency’s han-dling of the pandemic.

The Secretary-General saidthe entire United Nations fam-ily “stands” with thousands ofits colleagues at the WorldHealth Organisation (WHO)who are working around theworld to support the memberstates in saving lives and pro-tecting the vulnerable, withguidance, training and essen-tial testing, treatment and pro-tective equipment.

Guterres also voiced concernover the “devastating” impact theoutbreak will have as it spreadsacross the developing nations.“The WHO is irreplaceable. Itneeds enhanced resources, par-ticularly to provide support todeveloping countries, whichmust be our greatest concern. We

are as strong as the weakesthealth systems,” Guterres saidwhile addressing a virtual eventof the opening of the 73rd WorldHealth Assembly, which super-vises the WHO.

The US has strongly criti-cised the WHO for its handlingof the pandemic, with PresidentDonald Trump halting fundingto the WHO. Trump hadlaunched a scathing attack onthe Geneva-based WHO, say-ing it has been “China-centric”and has been “wrong” on a lotof things about the virus.

Guterres reiterated his com-ments made last month follow-ing Trump’s attack and saidthere will be a time, once thepandemic has been controlled,to look back fully to understandhow such a disease emerged andspread its devastation so quick-ly across the globe, and how allthose involved reacted to the cri-sis. The UN Chief emphasisedthat “now is not that time” andnow is the time for unity, for theinternational community towork together in solidarity tostop this virus and its shatteringconsequences.”

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An antibody from a patientwho recovered from SARS

has been shown to blockCovid-19 infection in a labo-ratory setting, researchers saidon Monday in another poten-tial breakthrough in the searchfor coronavirus treatment.

Scientists based inSwitzerland and the UnitedStates previously isolated theantibodies from the patient in2003, following the SARS out-break that killed 774 people.

They experimented with25 different types of antibod-ies — which target specific pro-tein spikes on viruses - to seeif they could prevent cellsbecoming infected with Covid-19. Both SARS and thepathogen which causes Covid-19 are coronaviruses, thoughtto have come from animals,and so their structures aresimilar.

The researchers identifiedeight antibodies that couldbind to both Covid-19 and theinfected cells.

One candidate, known asS309, was shown to have “par-ticularly strong neutralisingactivity” against Covid-19.

By combining S309 withother less potent antibodiesthey were able to target differ-ent sites on the virus’ proteinspike, thus reducing its poten-tial to mutate.

The Covid-19 pandemichas seen hundreds of trials foreffective treatment launched,including some involving theuse of antibodies from recov-ered patients.

While there were no exper-iments on humans in the study,published in the journalNature, its authors said theirfindings represent “proof-of-concept” that antibodies fromSARS can prevent severeCovid-19 infection and spread.

“These results pave theway for using S309- and S309-containing antibody cocktailsfor prophylaxis in individualsat high risk of exposure or as apost-exposure therapy to limitor treat severe disease,” they wrote.

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The global coronavirus pan-demic has created a huge

need for health care in the US, but it also is deliveringa devastating financial blow tothat sector.

Covid-19 worries have keptpatients away from doctors’offices and forced the post-ponement and cancellation ofnon-urgent surgeries. The pan-demic also has shut down largeportions of the American econ-omy, leaving many would-bepatients without insurance orin a financial pinch that makesthem curb spending.

All of this has forced hos-pitals, health systems and doc-tors to lay off staff, cut costs and hope a return to normalarrives soon.

“You couldn’t ask for aworse situation, really,” said JoeAntos, an economist with theAmerican Enterprise Institute.

Health care provided thebiggest drag on the US econo-my in the first quarter.Spending on care fell at anannual rate of 18 per cent, thelargest drop for that sector among records goingback to 1959.

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ACommission of the IranianParliament on Monday

tasked the government to cre-ate a “virtual embassy” inPalestine.

Parliament’s NationalSecurity and Foreign PolicyCommission approved a pre-viously drafted motion bill,which obliges the IranianForeign Ministry to lay thegroundwork for the creation of“the Islamic Republic’s VirtualEmbassy in Palestine” withinsix months and submit theresults for approval to the cab-inet, reports Xinhua news

agency.On May 12, Iranian law-

makers approved “a double-urgency motion” which, incase of turning into law, wouldoblige the Iranian Government to take certainmeasures against “hostile mea-sures” of Israel.

One of the articles of themotion endorsed by theCommission states that “thehistoric land of Palestinebelongs to the originalPalestinian people”.

The approvals of theCommission should be turnedinto a law by Parliament for itsenforcement.

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The UK’s “historic” newstrategy for visas and immi-

gration, which is pitched as apoints-based system estab-lished on skills rather than thecountry of origin, returned tothe House of Commons onMonday.

The Immigration andSocial Security Co-ordination(EU Withdrawal) Bill 2020,which was tabled in March buthad its progress slowed downdue to the coronavirus crisis,forms the basis for the UK’s

post-Brexit plans once theEuropean Union (EU) freemovement rules come to aclose at the end of the year.

“This historic piece of leg-islation gives the UK full con-trol of our immigration systemfor the first time in decades andthe power to determine whocomes to this country,” said UKHome Secretary Priti Patel,who is leading the charge onthe new strategy.

“Our new points-based sys-tem is firmer, fairer, and simpler.It will attract the people we needto drive our economy forward

and lay the foundation for ahigh wage, high skill, high pro-ductivity economy,” the Indian-origin minister said.

Under the new system, tobe enforced from January 1next year, the magic number ofpoints required to apply towork and stay in the UK will be70. These will accrue in incre-ments of 20 or 10 based on pro-fessional skills, English lan-guage proficiency, a job offerfrom an approved sponsor andsalary levels between GBP20,480 and GBP 25,600 orabove.

Kabul: A suicide bomber in astolen military Humvee target-ed a base in eastern Afghanistanbelonging to the country’s intel-ligence service early on Monday,killing at least nine members ofthe force, Afghan officials said.The Taliban claimed responsi-bility for the attack.

At least 40 members of theforce were wounded in theattack near the city of Ghazni,the provincial capital ofGhazni, according to ArifNoori, the spokesman for theprovincial governor. Eight ofthe wounded were in criticalcondition and were transferredto the capital, Kabul, for furthertreatment, Noori added.

Earlier reports had sevendead but Tariq Arian,spokesman for the Afghan inte-rior minister, confirmed the lat-est casualty tolls. According toNoori, the bomber used a stolenmilitary Humvee full of explo-sives, detonating it as heapproached the main entrancegate to the base. Talibanspokesman Zabihullah Mujahidsaid the insurgents were behindthe attack in Ghazni province,where the Taliban control mostof the countryside and therural areas. AP

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Even though the desire to look beau-tiful is as old as history, the last few

decades have witnessed a raging obses-sion with appearances. Millennials arebecoming increasingly dissatisfied withthe way they look, and they are desper-ate to acquire a ‘designer body’ with per-fect looks. Most of these people look finebut they are deeply convinced thatsomething is wrong with their appear-ance and consequently, they sufferfrom social anxiety, depression, andpoor self-confidence. Exasperatingworkouts, measly diets and cosmeticsurgeries are fast becoming a norm asthis sizeable population works hard tofix its imagined ugliness and feel good.

What could have caused so manypeople to despise their normal bodies?Blame it on the prevalent global cultureof body shaming. We get multiplemessages everyday telling us that thereis something terribly wrong with ourbody: friends and family bantering usto lose some pounds of weight, actorsand models flaunting their specimen fig-ures and thousands of advertisementspersuading us to utilise their services inliving up to the most unrealistic stan-

dards of body image. Even small chil-dren are exposed to these bizarre stan-dards.

All this creates a vicious circle wherewe despise our appearance, criticiseother people for their physical imper-fections and then as a reaction, they starthating some aspect of their appearanceand mock at us for not being pictureperfect. Ultimately, we end up perpet-uating cycles of self-loathing and body

shaming. To break free, we need to ques-tion these bizarre standards of bodilyperfection. Physical beauty is short-lived— our bodies change over time and sodoes the perception of other peopleabout our physical appeal. Besides,there are many individual, societal andcultural variations in the standards usedto determine physical beauty.

More often than not, we think thatby changing our body and turning it

into a certain type will end all our wor-ries but, experience and research showsthat even those few who manage toattain such unreachable targets contin-ue to reel under fear and pain. Theanswer lies in changing how we look atour body, shoving off all the dysfunc-tional perceptions and beliefs we haveinternalised over the years aroundwhat constitutes a beautiful body.

Begin this healing journey by bold-ly rejecting messages that tell you todespise your body and look for ideas,words and stories around body accep-tance and love. It also includes identi-fying and silencing your inner criticwhich tells you time and again toberate your body. You must also edu-cate your family, friends, and acquain-tances in clear words that body sham-ing in any form is cruel and encouragethem to coalesce in bringing a changein your close circle. Going further, makea resolve to love your body as it is andframe some strong body positive mes-sages which you can repeat to yourselfevery day.

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88,000 cases have been diagnosed, and over 2,800 people havedied. To combat it, the Government is rapidly ramping up testing:the number of laboratories performing COVID-19 tests hasincreased from 19 in March, to 520 today. More than two milliontests have been performed across the country since the pandem-ic began.

Why is testing such an essential part of our country’s defencestrategy? One critical reason is that it is actionable now. And whilea vaccine may be over a year away, testing will continue to becrucial to the roll out of both treatments and vaccines once theyare available.

Testing allows infected people to be identified and isolatedquickly, so they can receive care and the chain of transmissioncan be broken. It also provides essential information to our pub-lic health decision makers.

The majority of confirmatory testing in India and across theworld has, to date, been performed using molecular tests. Theselook for genetic material from SARS-CoV-2 — the virus respon-sible for COVID-19 — in a sample from a person’s nose or throat.If it is present, they make millions of copies until the concen-tration is high enough to detect. The chemical reaction that dri-ves the copying process is called polymerase chain reaction, andso this type of test is known as a PCR test.

As the most accurate, gold standard frontline test, molecu-lar tests are most commonly used to confirm diagnosis of

COVID-19 in an individual.But they need to be performedin a laboratory by trained tech-nicians, as they need specialequipment and infrastructure.This limits the number of teststhat can be performed each day,and results are not immediate-ly available.

Rapid tests that can be per-formed outside of a laboratorywould enable us to reach morepeople, more quickly. Thesetests rely on our immune system:when we have a viral infection,our immune system recognisescertain molecules on the surfaceof the virus, known as antigens,and mounts an immuneresponse by producing antibod-ies to destroy it.

Antigen tests detect the anti-gens in a patient sample, but

development of an antigen test accurate enough for diagnosis ischallenging. Right now there are several antigen tests under eval-uation, but none yet in general use.

Antibody tests detect the antibodies that have been producedduring an infection. Due to uncertainties over how long it takesfor the antibodies to be produced and for how long they con-tinue to circulate after the infection is over, these tests cannotconfirm if the person is currently infected by SARS-CoV-2.

However, antibody tests are crucially important to find outhow many people in a particular population have already hadthe disease. Data from these tests can tell us how well our pub-lic health measures, like social distancing, are working. They alsotell us about the intensity and longevity of the pandemic, to helpguide public health decisions. A number of rapid antibody testshave been validated by the Indian Council of Medical Research(several of which are manufactured locally), and are already beingrolled out across 75 districts. In future, these tests could be usedto help inform deployment of vaccines.

Clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines and drugs also relyon testing, using molecular tests to check whether vaccines haveprotected people from the virus or whether new treatments havehelped infected people recover.

Testing is central to many aspects of the pandemic response,and countries that are implementing robust testing strategies areshowing how this vital tool can save millions of lives.

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Hypertension is one of themajor public health prob-lems in our country and its

prevalence is steadily increasingamong both urban and rural popu-lations. Given the fact that hyperten-sive patients often lack pronouncedexternal symptoms, the condition isconsidered a 'silent killer.' It is a sig-nificant risk factor for potentially dan-gerous conditions such as stroke, heartattack, heart failure, encephalopathy,and kidney failure.

High blood pressure is oftenmismanaged, and the approach totreating it as a disease rather than asa symptom of underlying problems isthe main reason. Modern medicineseeks to control high blood pressurethrough medications such as ACEinhibitors, Diuretics, Beta-blockers,Calcium channel blockers, amongothers. While these drugs do help incontrolling blood pressure and there-by lower the risk of heart attacks andstrokes, they do not address theunderlying cause of high blood pres-sure.

The naturopathic approachfocuses on ascertaining the character-istics of hypertension — vascularrelaxation, sodium sensitivity, auto-nomic dysfunction, arteriosclerosis,and addressing the underlying causevia lifestyle and dietary modifications,stress management and herbal sup-plementation. If you visit a natur-opath, they will order tests to checkyour kidney function, thyroid func-tion, or look for inflammatory mark-ers in the blood. Your cardiovascularrisk factors will also be assessed in-depth as they are usually associatedwith hypertension. Adiposity, insulinresistance, sleep apnea, and systemicinflammation are all considered in theworkup.

Dietary interventions: Dietarymodifications are among the most

commonly prescribed interventionsfor most lifestyle diseases, and hyper-tension is no different. Specific nutri-tional systems like the DASH diet andthe Mediterranean diet are among thefundamental strategies to controlhigh blood pressure and associatedconditions like Type II Diabetes,insulin resistance, and obesity. TheMediterranean diet comprises offresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains,nuts and legumes, with minimaldairy intake. The diet has a favorableeffect on hypertensive patients. Anumber of large scale studies haveshown significant reductions in boththe systolic and diastolic blood pres-sure measurements. The DASH dietpromotes a balanced nutritional sys-tem that supports a heart-friendlylifestyle. It focuses on a diet rich inwhole foods with an abundance offruits and vegetables, fat-free dairy

products, whole grains, nuts, beans,and vegetable oils. The programrestricts the consumption of foodsrich in saturated fats, including full-fat dairy and palm. Additionally,sodas, desserts, and foods with arti-ficial sweeteners are to be avoided.Compared to other dietary systemslike low carb diet, paleo diet, low fatand others, the DASH diet has provento have the most positive impact onblood pressure.

Stress management: Since stressand over-stimulation of the sympa-thetic nervous system play a signifi-cant role in hypertension, it is imper-ative to keep it in check. High-stresslevels can boost your blood pressureby stimulating your sympathetic ner-vous system, which leads to a seriesof cascading physiological effects,causing the constriction of blood ves-sels. Fortunately, it is possible to man-

age stress through a set of non-phar-macological interventions like med-itation, acupuncture, and biofeedback,all of which help bring down highblood pressure. Regular exercise alsohelps keep stress under check. Itreduces the level of stress hormoneslike adrenaline and cortisol, andstimulates endorphin production,elevating the mood and promotinganalgesic effects. Staying active canbring down your systolic blood pres-sure by up to eight millimeters of mer-cury.

Botanical supplements: Severalherbs can help promote healthyblood pressure. Hawthorn extractshave proven cardiovascular benefits,including anti-inflammatory andantioxidant properties. It also sup-ports healthy lipid metabolism,increases vasodilation and protects thelining of blood vessels in the body.Garlic is another herb that can regu-late the level of nitric oxide, reduceinflammation and act as an ACEinhibitor.

Indian snakeroot, also known asserpentine wood, has several anti-hypertensive effects. According to astudy published as early as in 1949,40 out of 50 participants who wereadministered the herb experienced anoticeable drop in blood pressure.Moreover, the herb's hypotensiveaction was perceptible for two weeksafter discontinuation in over 90 percent of the participants.

Although there are a number ofnatural treatments available to man-age blood pressure, the exact combi-nation of treatments is best decidedby a licensed and trained naturopath.A proper diagnostic work-up includesa physical exam, a complete medicalhistory, lipid profile, and lab testingto uncover the cause of hypertension.

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there might be partial relaxation in someareas, but in most of the areas, the lockdownhas extended. It definitely is crucial to pre-vent the further spread of the virus, butsomehow staying inside has played a toll onour mental and physical health — with nogyms to work out or a limited supply of foodresources — managing optimum health canbe tough, but with few tips and tricks, weall can maintain a healthy lifestyle.

It might be easy to run out of motiva-tion when you are preparing all the mealsat home that too with limited options. But,planning meals in advance can help youovercome the dilemma of what to cook andalso will prevent food wastage. Here aresome tips for stay-at-home diet:

Early morning: Start your day with aglass of lukewarm water, you can soak chia/flaxseeds/fenugreek seeds in the waterovernight. Refrain from having tea/coffeeon an empty stomach

Breakfast: A protein-rich breakfastwill keep you energised throughout the day.Consider eating eggs in the form ofomelette or sandwich. You can also have ragipaneer cheela, besan cheela, oats pancake,or cottage cheese toast. For extra doses ofvitamins, top your breakfast with somefreshly cut fruit slices.

Mid-meal: Sitting entire day at homecan be tough on your appetite and youmight feel really hungry at sometimes whilemight feel fuller at other. Keep fruitshandy for mid-morning cravings- say anapple orange, banana, or some grapes. Youcan also have a glass of vegetable juice

Lunch: Aim to consuming a whole-some lunch with aq balance of all foodgroups. You can have chapatis, rice, pulaoor khichdi as per your liking. Just keep acheck on the portion size. Include legumesor pulses in lunchtime along with raita/plain curd.

Evening snack: Snacking is the timewhere most of us go wrong by giving up tocravings and succumbing to unhealthyfoods. It's the best time to fix your eveningbinge with healthier options like a handfulof walnuts. Walnuts are not only crunchyand palatable, they house a whole packageof nutrients — from brain-boosting Omega-3 fatty acids to immunity-boosting vitaminE. You can also have roasted chana chaat,three-four pieces of paneer or roastedmakhana. Just sprinkle some crushed wal-nuts over these to add an extra flavour.Other options can be — trail mix, vegetablesticks, fruit smoothie, or baked vegetablecutlets.

Dinner: Keep your dinners light andfinish off early, say by 8 pm. You can havea bowl of vegetable soup (unstrained) witha wheat tortilla/chapatti. Paneer stuffedwheat roll is another great option.

Post dinner: You can have a cup oflukewarm milk with a pinch of turmeric andpepper. This golden drink will help boostimmunity and increase your body’s abilityto fight off infections.

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This year’s college graduateswon’t get to take their tri-

umphant walk across the stage.They won’t get to toss their capsamid a sea of classmates. Instead,they have to settle for online cer-emonies while their diplomas aremailed home. But at least oneaspect of the traditional gradu-ation ceremony is being salvagedfor the class of 2020: the celebri-ty keynote address.

As scores of colleges host vir-tual graduation ceremonies amidthe Coronavirus pandemic,many are recruiting famous fig-ures to give commencementspeeches over their laptopsinstead of the lectern. In the firstweeks of graduation season,schools have landed speechesfrom big names including TomHanks, Pharrell Williams andTom Brady. Others are promis-ing appearances from comedi-ans, authors, civil rights leadersand politicians.

At the same time, a growingnumber of companies are step-ping in with their own star-stud-ded events celebrating collegegraduates across the nation.

Facebook recently hosted a“Graduation 2020” event withcommencement speeches fromOprah Winfrey, Awkwafina, LilNas X and Simone Biles, amongothers. YouTube is offering a“Dear Class of 2020” celebrationheadlined by Barack andMichelle Obama, with addition-al speeches from Lady Gaga,Nobel Prize winner MalalaYousafzai and the K-Pop super-group BTS.

A separate online event willcelebrate graduates at historical-ly black colleges, with speechesfrom Barack Obama and a host

of other stars.It’s all meant to take the sting

out of losing such a memorablemoment. Schools started can-celling or postponing tradition-al ceremonies in March, to thedismay of graduates who hadhoped to celebrate years of hardwork. In their addresses, somespeakers have used the momentto offer a lesson on life’s curveballs and the need to adapt.

In a video message for TexasA&M University’s law school,actor Rainn Wilson told gradu-ates he was sorry they couldn’tshare “big group hugs and highfives and kisses on the cheek.” Buthe also said students can learnfrom that disappointment.

“It may also teach a veryvaluable life lesson not to takeanything for granted. To knowthat things can and will changeall the time,” Wilson said. “Theworld out there can be incredi-bly difficult and fraught, andplans change all the time.”

Tom Hanks, who survivedCOVID-19, told graduates atWright State University thattheir lives will forever be divid-ed into time before and after theCoronavirus pandemic, in thesame way that past generationshad their lives marked by wars.

“You have finished Wright

State during the great reset, thegreat reboot,” Hanks said in avideo message. “You chosenones are going to form the newstructures and define the newrealities, and make the newworld — the world after all thatwe have been through.”

Hanks’ message was deliv-ered as a surprise to graduates atthe Ohio school. Other collegeshave similarly kept quiet abouttheir celebrity speeches untilthey were shared online, includ-ing at Virginia’s Norfolk StateUniversity, which tapped singerand producer Pharrell Williamsto give a virtual address. “Evenif this is not the norm, you guysand girls still deserve all thepraise,” Williams said in hismessage. “You stuck it through,you made it and today’s your day.And man, you made it at a real-ly crazy time in life.”

Some colleges are keepingthe same speakers they previous-ly lined up for campus cere-monies, including at HarvardUniversity, which will offer amessage from Marty Baron, edi-tor of The Washington Post, andat Ohio State University, whichbroadcast a virtual address fromApple CEO Tim Cook.

The virtual celebrations havea different look from school to

school, with some preparingvideos that are recorded inadvance and then shared online.Others are holding live eventsover video conference, in somecases produced by companiespromising to replicate the tradi-tional graduation experience.

Some are passing up oncelebrity speeches, though, say-ing the online events aren’tmeant to be an exact replica ofthe campus event. At RiceUniversity, officials are hostingan online event with no guestspeaker. Instead, the schoolhopes to bring graduates back fora belated ceremony on campuswith the previously announcedkeynote speaker, New York Timescolumnist Nicholas Kristof. Andsome others are skipping onlineevents entirely. Officials at theUniversity of California,Berkeley, say they surveyed stu-dents and found it was their“clear preference” to pass on avirtual celebration and aim for acampus celebration later. A mes-sage from the university said it’s“too early at this stage of the pan-demic to finalise when and howwe will mark this milestone.”

Recently, a university inTokyo, Japan, used remote-con-trolled robots to hold a virtualgraduation. G!�

Just five months ago, on the NewYears’, we were making ourtravel plans for this year. While,

for some, it was their first solo tripto Vietnam or Japan, for others, itwas a honeymoon trip to Santorinithat they had on the cards. Forsome others, it was a fully spon-sored vacation by their work com-pany to Moscow, a part of theirincentive. Others were just lookingforward to a long-awaited mini get-away to Pondicherry or a girls’vacation to Goa. Everyone wasdreaming of taking time off of fromtheir busy schedules and flauntingphotographs on social media. Well,people did get some time off fromtheir offices but not in the manneranyone had imagined. An unimag-inable, total lockdown, where onecould not even venture out beyondone’s home, is what we got.

Now, with the Coronavirushaving stolen the limelight this year,changing our life entirely, we are leftwondering as to what is the futureof travel post this pandemic. Untila reliable vaccine is developed, thereis no assurance of reopening of theborders or travel allowances. Sohow long will it take for interna-tional travel bans to be eliminated?Will we be able to travel as freelyas we did earlier? Will onlinebookings be as hassle-free? Sincesocial distancing is here to stay, willairfares rise because of lesser num-ber of bookings per flight? Willdomestic travel see a spike? Evenif airlines start functioning again,how would the safety be ensured?

Experts suggest the followingchanges, which are set to becomea new normal in the world of trav-el:

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Experts suggest that since theindustry is currently on a completestandstill, to boost travel again postthe pandemic, a lot of emphasis onhealth, hygiene and safety will berequired. “Hotels, cruise compa-nies, airlines, attractions and morewill have to cater to these practicesand maintain social distancing insome ways. I don’t see it in full prac-tice (that is, six-feet apart), but con-sumers and companies will have tobe conscious of this,” says VarunChadha, CEO, TIRUN (RoyalCaribbean Cruises).

The industry will have to pri-oritise safety and hygiene at everystep to rebuild consumers’ confi-dence in travelling again. So howwill it be ensured?

Vikram Lalvani, Chief Officer,Revenue Management and Sales,Sterling Holiday Resorts Limited,suggests three things that travelcompanies should consider —what should we do for i) Guests; ii)Employees; iii) Suppliers/vendors?

He says, “We require a 360-degree ‘clinically’ hygiene pro-gramme, regularly, for the allemployees and guests. It shouldbegin with a well-designed proto-col for hygiene and sanitisation forgoing in-and-out of work for theemployees. All services or facilitiesshould be opened gradually — onestage after another while consider-ing all norms of hygiene and dis-

tancing for everyone involved.Hospitality brands, for a long time,should indulge in contact-less ser-vices or consider only organisingpre-planned/combo meals for cus-tomers to avoid contact with otherstaff members in the chain. Lastand most important, it is crucial toprove the efforts to customers to re-establish their trust. Customersbelieve what they see as they are justas humans as us and hence, com-panies should be transparent abouttheir hygiene protocols. Moreover,travel companies have an edge overhotels and can make stricter guide-lines for the guests and staff toadhere to the norms of social dis-tancing even during travelling.”

Since travel is not just limitedto commuting to and fro from aplace to another, how can visa andpassport application services ensurehealth safety and social distancing?

As per the guidelines pre-scribed by the World HealthOrganisation (WHO), as well aslocal authorities, both customersand employees at Visa ApplicationCentres will be subject to bodytemperature checks, face masks andgloves for protection. Centres arealso maintaining preventive mea-sures such as disinfecting high-con-tact surfaces, use of hand sanitis-ers, and social distancing practices.The ‘Visa At Your Doorstep’ is setto be the new normal.

Experts from VFS Global tellus that they are working on the fea-ture and post lockdowns, their staffwill visit the customer’s location of

choice (home, office, etc) to com-plete the visa application processand/or biometric enrolment ifneeded, while maintaining neces-sary health precautions.

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The journey from airports tohotel check-ins will see the mostimmediate and crucial transforma-tion — touchless travel, suggestexperts.

Since hygiene is the first prior-ity, Nishant Pitti, CEO and Co-founder, EaseMyTrip, suggests thatthe use of high-end digital optionswill become the “new normal.” Headds, “There will be more empha-sis on booking everything online,including more web check-ins,instead of standing in a queue to getthe boarding pass. Airports will alsohave to change their systems of col-lecting the luggage and checking aperson before immigration.”

Other changes in automationwould be biometrics, which havealready become a widely-acceptedsolution for identity verification

and will now become more wide-spread as physical fingerprint andhand scanners will be phased out.Touchless options like contactlessfingerprint, as well as iris and facerecognition, will come into play.There will be technology for touch-less data-entry such as gesturecontrol, touchless document-scan-ning and voice commands, some ofwhich are already being tested.Seating configurations in airplaneswill also have to change to ensuresafety and distancing.

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Given that the travel industrycontributes about nine per cent toIndia’s GDP and generates employ-ment for more than 12 per cent ofthe total workforce, an absolute halton its services is certainly a hugeloss for it. As per an analysis by theConfederation of Indian Industry(CII), the tourism industry is star-ing at an overall loss of �5 lakhcrore and job cuts impacting up tofive crore people. And the aviationsector, as Rikant Pitti, COO and

Co-founder, EaseMyTrip, suggestsis hit the hardest. This brings usback to our question — Will air-fares rise?

Rikant says, “The airlines oper-ate on thin margins and the currentsituation — lesser demand, socialdistancing within flights — can leadto a decrease in the load factor ofaircrafts, resulting in a naturalincrease in average break, evenfares. In addition, with more checksin place and frequent sanitisation,the turn-around time of flights willalso increase. The airlines willhave to forgo additional revenuethat they earned from beverage andsnack services. Considering allthese factors, the airfares are expect-ed to rise in order to compensatefor lower revenue generation andincreased costs. This should changeonly under the condition if govern-ment announces some relief pack-age for the travel sector and sup-port them in recovery.”

So what about personal finan-cial statements? How will the twobe balanced out?

Varesh Chopra, RegionalDirector, South Asia and MiddleEast, Cosmos Vacations, says,“There might be some permanentcutbacks and rationalisation onbusiness travel as it can find a vir-tual connect for a long time andcome back later. Leisure travelmay see temporary stress ondemand due to changed personalfinancial dynamics as well, but itwill never go out of vogue ordemand.”

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the virus in Europe and America,Varesh points out that they will bethe first to bounce back and will notget preference over long haul trav-el but “only for a while.” He adds,“There will be a shift from so-called‘hot or bucket list’ destinations as

tourism businesses are going torethink strategies and travellers willhave to settle for spots with fewercrowds.”

A spokesperson fromMakeMyTrip also earlier suggest-ed that domestic travel is the firstarea, that they foresee, whichwill likely “show green shoots ofrecovery and could prove to be aforce multiplier for the industryto survive and recover from theimpact of the Coronavirus pan-demic.”

Nishant adds that travellerswould avoid visiting internation-al destinations, especially, theones which were heavily impact-ed by COVID-19 in short-termeven post recovery. He adds,“Instead, they would prefer smalldomestic destinations or prefertravelling through their own vehi-cle to nearby locations to avoidcrowds. The weekend and near-by hill station getaways are likelyto gain popularity. People arelikely to prefer homestay or smallresorts to ensure that they comein contact with fewer people.”

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which, in the longer run, willprove to be beneficial for theworld:��Over-tourism will no longer bea problem for some time. And itwill lead to more responsible andsustainable travel practices.��With pollution levels evident-ly reducing over cities across theworld, destinations will hopefullybecome cleaner, purer and green-er once again, having some perma-nency to it. This, in turn, would bean added travel incentive for globetrotters.�� It will give an opportunity tohitherto unknown or underratedbut good destinations and attrac-tions which will come to the foreand receive footfalls.��People will look for pristine andlesser-visited places with naturalbeauty, which are away from localcivilisation and commercialisa-tion.�� And overall, this will bring amuch-desired balancing effect ofthe tourism industry footprint onthe world and hopefully, keepemission levels down.

Considering all these points,even though the recovery willsurely take some time, especiallywith the international travel expe-riences, experts definitely see a sil-ver lining here as people are boundto get out of their homes after lock-down with a renewed desire to travel.

Ahead of InternationalTransphobia and Homophobia

Day, Arunabh Kumar, founder ofTVF, has a surprising anecdote forhis admirers. Many would notknow that he did one small cameoin Farah Khan’s Om Shanti Om asa transgender. He was closely asso-ciated with Farah for a long time asan assistant for the film.

“A song shoot was going on andFarah has a habit of making veryinteresting and inclusive cameos inthe film. She asked if anyone was upto play the role of a transgender per-son in a scene for the film but thewhole set refused and there werealso people who made fun of theentire affair,” recollects Arunabh.

He took a strong stand againstthe on-going jokes of playing thecameo for the film and decided tostep in and played the role himself.He says, “I went up to Farahand gladly volunteered to playthe role. She thought I wasbrave and encouraged me. Iwent and did a proper makeup and costume and evenconnected with a friend ofmine who is a transgenderfor some small tips.”

Taking usthrough the shot,he adds, “I gotdressed andwalked onto theset. While therewere few gigglesthere was sud-denly the faintsound of anapplause startingfollowed bymore. I felthappy and confi-dent which helpedme to do the sceneconfidently aidedby Farahma’am’s bril-

liant direction”. Apparently, thescene was for one of the most pop-ular dialogues from the iconic film‘Ek chutki sindoor ki keemat tum kyajaano...’

Currently busy with his comicbook, Indusverse series and also forworking towards helping migrantsin India who are suffering due tolockdown, Arunabh feels thathumanity comes first.

Coming from a small town herecollects how his homosexualfriends were scared about disclos-ing their sexual preferences due tosocial structure. “I was taken abackas I have homosexual friends sinceI was in a hostel in my school days.I have seen how it has been verytough for them to get out of thecloset for the fear of beingridiculed,” says Arunabh.

He feels that as a society weneed to change our perspec-tive before we expect othersto change. “I have always

felt that the LGBTQIAcommunity has been mar-ginalised and made to feelalien. But on the contrary,

they are exactly people likeus and it’s about time that

this taboo should vanish fromthe society. I have had the for-

tune of having friends fromthis community sinceschool and college daysand it was this proximitywith them in an everydayenvironment that mademe think of them just asany other human beingwith their own prefer-ences. I wish that the daymakes the communityfeel more inclusive in ourculture, art and lives.That is when we will beable to stop needing thisday,” he shares.

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Premier League clubs willreturn to training in smallgroups from Tuesday

after the latest stage of ProjectRestart was approved onMonday.

Clubs unanimously votedto allow players to start social-ly distanced training in a bid tomeet the Premier League’s mid-June date to resume the season.

Contact training is notpermitted at this stage andcorner flags, balls, cones, goal-posts, playing surfaces andother equipment will be disin-

fected after each session.Testing for the coronavirus

has taken place at PremierLeague clubs over the last fewdays and will continuethroughout the training period.

“Strict medical protocols ofthe highest standard will ensureeveryone returns to training inthe safest environment possi-ble,” a Premier League state-ment said.

“The health and well-beingof all participants is the PremierLeague’s priority, and the safereturn to training is a step-by-step process.

“Full consultation will now

continue with players, man-agers, clubs, the PFA and LMAas protocols for full-contacttraining are developed.”

The training proto-cols were presented toplayers and managerslast week before beingrubber-stamped duringMonday’s video confer-ence call.

Other rules in phaseone include players not travel-ling with anyone to or fromtraining, while the use of pub-lic transport and team vehiclesis banned.

Newcastle were one of thefirst top-flight teams to issue

confirmation that players hadbeen tested at their trainingground.

The club said playerswould return on Tuesday,by which time all testresults would be known.

Players will be askedto use an app on a dailybasis to record any symp-toms.

“It’s been a really dif-ficult time, but I hope with thenews that phase one is about tostart,” Newcastle manager SteveBruce said.

“I must stress that phaseone looks as if it’s as safe as itcan be. I’m sure everyone will

be delighted that we’re tryingto make that effort.

“In phase one we’reallowed to train four to fivepeople on one pitch, so basical-ly a player has a quarter of apitch to work within, so socialdistancing is not a problem.We’ll train with eight to 10 ata time on two separate pitch-es. “Everything is in place inthe safety aspect. I’ve got noissues and I can tell the sup-porters the players and the staffare as safe as we possibly canbe.”

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The resumption ofGermany’s Bundesliga overthe weekend has raised expec-tations that the Premier Leaguecan follow suit.

But some Premier Leagueplayers remain concerned overreturning to work while thevirus is still uncontained, withBritain one of the countriesworst hit by the crisis.

Speaking to Good MorningBritain on Monday, Watfordcaptain Troy Deeney said:“Phase one is social distancingindividual training with acoach. That’s no problem, that’slike going to the park.

“Phase two will be nextweek six days of training, threeto six people training togetherwith contact and then six daysafter that you’re going into 11versus 11 and you can’t socialdistance with 11 verus 11.

“I would say 98 per cent (ofplayers) are very much awarethat phase one is very good, Iwould say 65-70 per cent ofpeople are concerned withphase two. I’d say even higherafter that.”

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��!�����#���� BatsmanAiden Markram on Mondayexpressed his desire to leadProteas in Tests but at thesame time insisted that it willnot be the end of the world forhim if he isn’t given top job.

After veteran batsman Fafdu Plessis resigned from cap-taincy across all three formats,Cricket South Africa (CSA)has been in a lurch, trying tofind a suitable leader for thelongest format of the game.

Quinton de Kock washanded the reins in bothwhite-ball formats but SouthAfrica’s director of cricket,Graeme Smith, ruled out thewicketkeeper-batsman for Testcaptaincy, prompting severalplayers to throw their hats into

the ring. “I’ve never given cap-taining my country too muchthought. It’s always been a shotin the dark for me. But now

that my name is the hat forpeople who are writing newsso to speak, it’s nice to be con-sidered. I’d love to do it and I’dprobably even give an arm anda leg to do it,” Markam wasquoted as saying by Sport24.

“I’ve said it before thoughthat it’s not the be-all and end-all for me. I don’t want tobecome desperate about it. I’dbe honoured and excited, butI’m not looking too much intoit,” he added.

The 25-year-old, who suc-cessfully led South Africa’sunder-19 team to World Cupglory in Dubai in 2014, hasemerged as one of the frontrunners to succeed du Plessisas the Proteas’ next Test cap-tain. “From a personal per-

spective, I really enjoy captain-cy and the responsibility asso-ciated with it,” said Markram.

“I’ve been able to watchand learn from various fran-chise captains as well as some-one like Faf. If it were to hap-pen (being named captain) itwould be great, but if not,there are plenty of strongleaders in the group thatwould definitely take the teamforward.”

Markram has featured in20 Tests for South Africa, butspent most of the 2019-20 sea-son sidelined with an injury,and he now is focussed oncementing his place in theside. “My main focus is to getback into the team and staythere,” he said. PTI

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Spanish clubs began trainingin groups of 10 players on

Monday, in line with healthprotocols, as La Liga takesanother step towards theplanned resumption of thecoronavirus-hit season nextmonth.

Barcelona confirmed thattheir squad was back on thetraining ground at 9:30am(0730 GMT), with picturespublished on their Twitteraccount showing several play-ers including Gerard Piqueand Sergio Busquets takingpart in the session.

Real Madrid players alsotrained at the club’s base on theoutskirts of the Spanish capital,as clubs begin the last steptowards being able to workwith their full squadstogether.

Spanish Governmentprotocol allows trainingsessions to be expanded byall clubs, even thosebelonging to areas thatare further behind in thecountry’s programme of de-escalation from a strict lock-down.

That means teams likeReal, Barcelona and AleticoMadrid are able to train ingroups of 10, despite bothMadrid and Catalonia remain-ing in phase 0 as two of Spain’s

worst-hit regions.“It is a ministerial decision.

It was very important that allteams could train in the sameway,” said Javier Tebas, thepresident of La Liga.

Tebas reiterated LaLiga’s desire to finishthe remaining 11rounds of matches in aseason that has beensuspended since mid-March.

He has circled June12 as the ideal date for match-es to return but admitted theexact timing will depend on thehealth authorities in Spain andthe trajectory of the virus.

“We are working so that(the return of La Liga) will takeplace from June 11-12, but weare working to be ready regard-

less of the date,” Tebas toldMovistar TV.

“It is the health authoritieswho will say when we start.

“I would like it to happenas soon as possible, but thetruth is that we do not have anideal date. We have to wait forthe green light from the healthauthorities.”

According to an officialstatement by the Governmenton Saturday, professional sportsclubs “may carry out completetraining sessions” while “com-plying with the correspondingprevention and hygiene mea-sures”.

The statement put themaximum number at 14 forgroup training but La Ligainformed clubs the limit wouldbe 10 on Monday.

��#������Australia’s two-time WorldCup winning captain Ricky Ponting sayssenior batsman Usman Khawaja wasaxed from the national team due to hisinconsistency but he is not willing towrite him off yet.

The 33-year-old Khawaja wasrecently left out of the Australia’s annu-al list of contracted players after he wasdropped midway through last year’sAshes. “I honestly think now he’s goingto find it difficult (to get back into theAustralian team) and I feel for him,”Ponting, who was recently involved withthe Australian team as a batting consul-tant, told ABC Grandstand.

“I’ve always felt he’s a very goodplayer and we probably never saw theabsolute best of him at internationalcricket. We saw glimpses of it, and dribsand drabs, but not the consistently goodplayer I thought he could have been forAustralia.”

Ponting, however, hoped thatKhawaja can score loads of runs in thedomestic cirucit and make an interna-tional comeback.

“One thing I know, you never writegreat players off. He’s got every oppor-tunity once domestic cricket does startthis summer, and all he can do is rep-resent Queensland, get a truck load ofruns under his belt and wait for anoth-er opportunity to come along.

“If it does I’m sure he wouldn’t letanyone down if he gets a chance to playagain.” PTI

��"���!�� Former Australian captain IanChappell feels India skipper Virat Kohli’spenchant for playing copybook cricketingshots and his incredible fitness make himthe world’s best batsman across formatsamong the current generation of cricketers.

“Of that group (including Steve Smith,Kane Williamson, Joe Root), Kohli is thebest in all three forms. That’s unquestion-able,” Chappell said on The RK Show, whichis hosted by Radhakrishnan Sreenivasan onYouTube.

“His record in all three forms is quiteunbelievable, particularly his record in theshorter forms.”

Chappell’s comments come after former

England batsman Kevin Pietersen said thatAustralia’s batting mainstay Smith wasnowhere close to Kohli.

Kohli, who has scored 70 internation-al hundreds and more than 20,000 runs,averages more than 50 in all three formats.

Explaining his reasons on why he feelsKohli is the best, Chappell said: “I like hisapproach to batting. We did an interviewwith him last time India were in Australia,and one of the things he talked about waswhy he didn’t play the fancy shots, the inno-vative shots of particularly T20 cricket.

“He said he didn’t want those to creepin his batting in the longer form of the game.

The best short-form player in the time Iplayed was Viv Richards, and he justplayed normal cricket shots but he placedthe ball so well he was able to score at a veryfast rate. And Kohli’s the same. He plays tra-ditional cricket shots, and he plays themreally well.”

Chappell also expressed his admirationfor Kohli’s captaincy.

“The one thing that stands out to meis that Kohli is the one (captain) that does-n’t fear defeat. He’s prepared to lose a gamein trying to win it. You’ve got to be that wayas a captain in my opinion. I like thatapproach,” the legendary skipper said. PTI

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Senior India pacer Ishant Sharma says fastbowlers will have to get used to the “new

normal” if the ICC decides to ban theuse of saliva to shine the ball owingto the Covid-19 pandemic.

The International Cricket Council(ICC) is reportedly considering the useof artificial substances on the ballinstead of saliva in the post Covid-19scenario, effectively legalising ball-tam-pering.

“We know there are talks of somechanges and adjustments in cricket, butI feel cricketers will have to get usedto the new normal, whatever thatis” said Ishant during anInstagram Live with his IPLfranchise Delhi Capitals.

“The ball may not shine asper your liking if you are notallowed to use saliva, or you mayhave to go and fetch the ballyourself during nets — but there

is no option but to get used to these things.“But honestly I don’t like to think about

these things too much. I feel it is importantto stay in the present and not look too farahead,” said the lanky pacer.

During the chat, Ishant also said he hasnot met a better coach than Ricky Ponting asthe Australian great made him feel wantedfrom the word go in his IPL comeback lastyear.

Ishant was bought by Delhi Capitalsahead of the 2019 IPL after he went unsold

in the previous auction.“He’s the best coach I’ve ever

met. I was very nervous when I wasmaking a return to the IPL last sea-son. I was almost feeling like a debu-tante walking into the camp the firstday, but he gave me a lot of confidence

since the first day I arrived at the camp.“He just told me, ‘You’re a senior play-

er and you should help the youngsters. Justdon’t worry about anything — you’re myfirst choice.’ And I think that bit of conver-

sation really helped me,” Ishant recalled.

����!� Thomas Mueller expects BayernMunich’s showdown behind closed doors atclosest rivals Borussia Dortmund in a week’stime to decide who wins the Bundesliga title.

Goals by Robert Lewandowski andBenjamin Pavard sealed a 2-0 win for Bayernat Union Berlin on Sunday.

The result in Berlin maintained Bayern’sfour-point lead at the top of the table.Dortmund host Bayern on May 26 and Muellerexpects the potential top-of-the-table clash tobe a key factor in determining whetherMunich will go on to clinch an eighth straightleague crown.

“The match in Dortmund will decide howexciting and close it will be in the next fewweeks, that’s for sure,” said Mueller. FormerDortmund strikerLewandowski netted afirst-half penalty forBayern on Sunday forhis 26th league goalthis season, takinghim one closer toGerd Mueller'srecord of 40 in the1971-1972 season.

Aked if the Polecould overtake Mueller’s48-year-old record, Bayerncoach Hansi Flick said: “Itwon’t be easy, but he(Lewandowski) has the qual-ity. “If anyone can do it, he’sthe one.” AFP

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Singapore F1 organiserson Monday said it was

“not feasible” to hold therace behind closed doors,threatening further prob-lems for the coronavirus-ravaged season.

After 10 races werecancelled or postponed,Formula One bosses areaiming to begin the sea-son with two races inAustria in July, both with-out fans. Races in othercountries are also expect-ed to go ahead in closedvenues.

But the SingaporeGrand Prix, scheduledfor September, is a night-time street race aroundthe city-state’s waterfront,where it would be chal-lenging to keep spectatorsaway.

Organisers said theyhave been in talks withFormula One, theSingapore Governmentand others involved “toassess different possibili-ties” for holding the race.

But a spokespersonadded that “as theSingapore F1 race is astreet circuit, it is notfeasible to conduct therace behind closed doors”.

Ferrari’s SebastianVettel won last year’s race,which drew 268,000 spec-tators over three days, asubstantial portion ofthem coming from over-seas.

�!�*�� Bangladesh’s bowlingcoach Ottis Gibson has urgedMashrafe Mortaza to bid adieu tointernational cricket as he doesn’tsee the 36-year-old fast bowler inthe scheme of things for the 2023World Cup slated to be played inIndia.

Gibson, who joinedBangladesh in January this year,said that head coach RussellDomingo has to look at severalyounger bowlers to build a teamin the next three years.

“I think he (Mortaza) hashad an outstanding internationalcareer,” ESPNcricinfo quotedGibson as telling Bengali dailyProthom Alo on Monday.

“He has done himself and hiscountry proud. With the nextWorld Cup in 2023, any interna-

tional coach will now start to builda team. I am quite sure that’s whatRussell will be thinking.

“So he would want to see play-ers like young Hasan Mahmud,(Mohammad) Saifuddin, Shafiul(Islam) and Ebadot (Hossain.)We haven’t seen Ebadot in white-ball cricket yet. There’s Taskin(Ahmed) and Khaled (Ahmed)gets fit again. We have Hasan and(Mehedi Hasan) Rana. So there’sa lot of young cricketers in thecountry,” Gibson added.

According to Gibson,Domingo is now trying to build ateam for the future and that’s whyMortaza should now move on andcan advise country’s young fastbowlers in a different capacity.

“I think if Russell is now try-ing to build a team for the future,then I don’t know what partMashrafe will have to play in that.Perhaps now is his time, with allthat’s going on in the world, tomove on,” Gibson said.

“He (Mortaza) can find otherways to pass on his vast knowledgeand experience to the young guys.I don’t think he has to be on thefield to be able to pass on what hehas learned over his career. Heneeds to find other ways to pass onthat message,” he added. PTI

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Celtic were crowned champions for arecord-equalling ninth consecutive

season as the Scottish Premiership cam-paign was declared over on Monday.

Neil Lennon’s men were 13 pointsclear at the top of the table when the sea-son was stopped due to the coronaviruspandemic in March with eight gamesremaining for the majority of clubs.

Second-placed Rangers had a game inhand to try and cut that gap and were dueto face Celtic twice more before the end

of the season.“It is, of course, a real shame that we

were not able to see out the league in frontof our fans. However, no one can deny howdeserved this title is,” said Celtic chief exec-utive Peter Lawwell.

A ninth consecutive title matches therecord set by Celtic’s European Cup-win-ning side of the sixties and seventies andRangers’ dominant team that won nine ina row between 1988 and 1997.

“To be sitting here now as the man-ager of the nine in a row, and having playeda huge part in that, fills me with so muchpride,” said Lennon, who has been incharge for five of the nine straight titles.

“It feels wonderful and I’m so proudof the players. It’s an incredible record andto be part of that is something very spe-cial, and I think it’s thoroughly deservedas well.”

A points-per-game formula for deter-mining final league placings also sees bot-tom club Hearts relegated unless there isany progress in talks over league recon-struction.

Premiership clubs have previouslyrejected proposals for reconstruction, butHearts said they will put forward a newresolution and warned they may take legalaction if it is rejected.

��"���!��The Sports Ministry onMonday gave its go ahead to theresumption of training in all sportscomplexes and stadia with imme-diate effect after the Governmenteased restrictions for the fourthphase of the coronavirus-forcedlockdown.

Sports Minister Kiren Rijijusaid activities can now be conduct-ed in all sports complexes and sta-dia, including those managed byprivate players, but only in accor-dance with the Ministry of HomeAffairs guidelines.

“I’m happy to informsportspersons and all concernedthat sports activities will be con-ducted in sports complexes andstadia strictly in accordance withMHA guidelines and that of theStates in which they are situated,”Rijiju tweeted.

“However, use of gyms andswimming pools are still prohib-ited,” he added.

According to ministry sources,sporting activities can resume infacilities and academies across thecountry, including those man-

aged by private entities likeTransStadia and JSW Group.

“Sporting activities can nowstart across the country, includ-ing in private facilities and thosemanaged by states but in com-plete adherence to MHA guide-lines,” the source said.

“There is no time frame onwhen to start. It entirely dependson individual players and NSFs.For example, our hockey teamsare based in SAI Bengalurusince the start of lockdown, soif Hockey India wants to startonfield training from tomorrow,they can do so,” he said.

The source, however, saidthat sportspersons joining thenational camps or SAI centresafresh will have to go throughmedical checkups and a manda-tory 14-day quarantine period.

“Not just SAI facilities, allprivate facilities and academieswill have to ensure medicalcheck ups of those wanting toresume training.” PTI

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“I think it’s better if youare not comparing. I havesaid that he is a differentkind of a player, and I ama different player,” Azamsaid a during a press con-ference.

“I am only striving tobat well and help my teamto victory every time I taketo the field.”

With consistent perfor-mances across three for-mats, the 25-year-old Azamhas been steadily rising upthe ranks in recent years,while the Indian captainKohli has already estab-lished himself as one of thegreats of the game.

Asked about the possi-bility of playing cricket

behind closed doors, Azamsaid they are already usedto it having played most oftheir homes series in near-empty stands in thegrounds of UAE for morethan 10 years.

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