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biggest spike so far in 12 hours. The Saturday rise came a Turn to Page 4 security during their visits to # Maharashtra added 828 day after India saw its daily assess the impact of coron- # cases and Gujarat 256, taking growth in number of cases dip avirus outbreak. their respective total of positive down to 6 per cent, which is low- The IMCT has sought to cases to 7,628 and 3,071 and est daily growth rate recorded + . 8" know details about steps taken death toll of 323 and 133 since the country crossed 100 " by the Mamata Banerjee-led respectively. On Friday, cases. The country’s recovery rate dispensation to identify and Maharashtra had added just has reached 20.52 per cent while ( (( *+,*-. quarantine those who returned " 390 cases and Gujarat had the mortality rate is restricted to from the Tablighi Jamaat con-
4 added 188 cases. Delhi added 3 per cent, less than the global ( 9$::$::: he spat between the Centre gregation in Delhi’s 111 new cases, so far a total average of nearly 7 per cent. "1 Tand the West Bengal Nizamuddin area. Presently two " count of 2,625 and 154 deaths. Till Friday, the death rate 5 4 Government continued over Central teams are visiting the Uttar Pradesh also saw big was around 3.1 per cent while (1" " inspection of implementation State — one in Kolkata and the Sinha since its arrival in the city # ;:$1 of lockdown in the State. On other at Siliguri in north Bengal. on Monday. # 5 Saturday, the Centre’s appoint- In a letter to Bengal Chief In his letter marked also to 6 $ ed inter-ministerial Central Secretary Rajiv Sinha, the the Union Home Secretary, ' / team (IMCT) wrote to West IMCT led by Additional Chandra said he wrote four let- ,--.! / 1 "$ 9<) ) # # # Bengal Government and Union Secretary Apurva Chandra said ters to the State Government till 7 # Home Ministry alleging the it is yet to receive a response Saturday, but received no " ,O State did not provide it ade- from the State Government to response. & 4 / ( quate logistical support and the letters it has written to Turn to Page 4 + !& "( # * 8 # &+ # " *+,*-. *+,*-./ for fasting and head to mosques to begin special nitially dependent on osques across the country Taraweeh prayers, but not this 0 8 Iimports, India is now pro- Mremained shut on the first time. " ' ducing more than 1 lakh per- day of holy month of Ramzan In Delhi, Shahi imams of 6 # sonal protection equipment which began on a subdued note Jama Masjid and Fatehpuri ' M 4 (PPE) kits and N95 masks on Saturday after imams, Masjid in Delhi have appealed M 2 daily in the country itself. The Ulema and Muslim leaders to Muslims to offer namaz ' production of indigenous ven- gave a call to Muslims not to during the holy month of M & 1 tilators has also started and congregate in mosques and Ramzan at home and follow 7 # 4 orders have been placed for perform Iftaar and lockdown guidelines to prevent 8# 4 ' more than 59,000 units Taraweeh (special prayers) at the spread of coronavirus. through nine companies. home to maintain social dis- Syed Ahmed Bukhari, the 6 8 # The Union Health tancing norms amid coron- Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid, in Ministry in a high-level meet- avirus outbreak. a video message asked people ' ing of Group of Ministers Delhi’s Jama Masjid, not to venture outside unnec- # (GoM) on Covid-19 said Mumbai’s Hamidiya Masjid, essarily and remain indoors 6 # domestic manufactures, which ufacturers of PPE and three of Kashmir’s Hazratbal Mosque, % &' ! "#$ during Ramzan for prayers. 9 were identified earlier, have N95 masks in the country,” the Kolkata’s Nakhoda masjid and “Namaz and Taraweeh (ritual ' Q already started the production Ministry said in a statement. Makkah masjid in Hyderabad Ramzan. However, there were mosques due to lockdown and prayer) should be offered at of PPE kits, face masks, etc, and Initially, the Government wore a deserted look as people reports from some markets ban on gatherings for physical home. Care should be taken # adequate quantity of the same had to face lots of criticism as offered namaz and having brisk shopping and distancing,” said Khurram that not more than three-four is available now. the kits were not sufficient to performed the sahari rituals at crowds flouting the social dis- Raza, a scholar from Aligarh people read Taraweeh because “As on date, more than one meet the increasing demand their homes and refrained from tancing norms. Muslim University. large numbers can be harmful lakh PPE kits and N95 masks because of the country’s depen- public gathering. “This is the first time in Every year the sighting of for the families and the society 0 are being manufactured every dence on countries such as Most of the masjids have many years we are unable to the Ramzan moon brings great in view of the pandemic,” # day in the country. There are, China for supplying such items. put notices on the gates that no offer morning (fajr) or evening cheer for Muslims as they Bukhari said. Q at present, 104 domestic man- Turn to Page 4 prayers will be held during prayers (maghrib) or Iftaar in scamper to make preparations Turn to Page 4 +,- +.+.
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*+,*-./ been trying to introduce new documentaries on history to collaborated with the Khan from this, 5,18,626 parents of making her child aware of a lot ways (like online classes) to understand the chapter better!”, Academy, a globally recog- classes 3 to 8 receive IVR for of general issues like water eputy Chief Minister and reduce this impact on the stud- said Dr Harita, PGT, History. nised educational non-profit Mission Buniyaad activities conservation. "Today we got an DEducation Minister of ies of the students and help “It is only because of your deci- organisation, which has been every alternate day. And so are exercise asking if we had 15 Delhi, Manish Sisodia chaired them cope with their acade- sion to distribute tablets developing interactive learning the 5,71,661 parents of KG to litres of water then how would a meeting with officers of the mics. We introduced the online amongst teachers that we have materials for our students,” class 8 receiving IVR for we manage our household. So, Education Department, teach- mode of learning in the first been able to teach our students said Shailendra Sharma, Officer Happiness activities every alter- I taught my child and made ers, students and parents, on week of April, and here we are remotely. I am happy to say that in DoE department. nate day too. him aware about how to con- the effectiveness of the online today discussing how the I started my online classes in “It is a 10 week long pro- Sisodia also spoke over the serve water,” she said. classes and support activities. online technology has helped March. All thanks to you,” gram. Starting this monday, phone with parents of young Amidst lockdown, the us in minimizing the damage added Jyoti. the parents will receive an sms students who had been receiv- focus of discussion titled caused by COVID 19,” he The education department with a link to open that day’s ing SMS and IVR for activities ‘Parenting in the time of added. has also collaborated with the micro lesson. It will have two everyday. Corona’ was to understand Notably, Delhi government Khan Academy to offer spe- or three videos and a couple of Satisfied with the daily 8( " how these daily activities and had tied upwith Career cially curated Maths content for exercises. These lessons will lessons sent by the Department online classes have helped the Launcher to train around 60 Class 9 students of its school. reach the parents/students for to facilitate the learning cycle ( @4 students to enhance their learn- teachers on how to conduct live “For the past 10 days, we 10 weeks", said Sandeep Bapna- of his kid, Sanjay, a parent said, ing even during these times online classes for students of have been discussing with the Managing Director, Khan “I really like the kind of activ- when schools are shut due to everyday,” “ I am glad to see everyday, We have also gar- class 12. Khan Academy team on how to Academy India. This partner- ities that are sent everyday. I try ( the pandemic COVID 19. that 1,33,193 students of Class nered a great response for the “It is like a revolution that support students of class 9 in ship is expected to benefit to make it a point that I sit with While interacting with stu- 12 (the students of class 11 who Happiness Class that is being has started in education. We the subject -Mathematics.” more than 3 lakh students. my kid everyday to do this daily dents, Sisodia said the idea are awaiting their results) have streamed online for entire fam- were apprehensive initially “Last time we had seen the For students in smaller activity and I have also been 6. behind running daily online been registered for the online ily everyday at 4 pm,” Sisodia about going from real class- Board results and noticed that grades- KG to class 8, Delhi following the Happiness class classes for students is to mini- classes. Around 6 lakh students said. rooms to virtual ones but the only 71% percent of our stu- Govt. is sending a daily SMS everyday at 4 pm.” *+,*-./ mize the effects of the lock- currently studying in classes - “Lockdown has no doubt transition has been smooth. dents passed in Maths in com- with general activities to 5,71, Harvinder Kaur, a home- down and the consequent shut- Nursery to standard 8th, are affected us all. It has also Students are fearlessly asking parison to subjects like Social 661 parents of KG to class 8th maker and a mother of a Class he Delhi Government has down of schools on their aca- also connected with us through impacted our young generation questions in chat boxes during sciences and Languages which students. A daily SMS alert is 5 student also had all praises Tdecided to implement the demics. “Happy to note that SMS and IVR. They receive a a lot. It has hampered the online class, more than they we generally have a 97% pass- also being sent to 12,14,049 about these online learning Centre's latest guidelines on more and more students are daily exercise/assignment on studies of our students and so, would do in real classrooms. I ing results. To not let our stu- parents of KG to class 12 for activities introduced by the opening of shops, however no attending the online classes their parents’ mobile phones our education department has have also been showing them dents suffer in Maths, we have Happiness class at home. Apart Delhi Govt. which is also activity will be allowed in con- tainment zones, officials said. A senior government offi- cial said that non-essential & & 012 shops will be allowed to open, but not in coronavirus con- tainment zones. No activity will *+,*-./ declared negative on late Friday been directed to ensure that all be allowed in containment ) and discharged from hospital the supervisors of the corpo- zones," the official added. 54-year-old sanitation with instruction to put herself ration will record the temper- According to government offi- Aworker, who had tested of 14 days home quarantine. ature of every employee cials, 95 areas in Delhi fall *+,*-./ stepped out in the morning to buy essential goods like ver- positive for coronavirus, died Following the declaration, through thermal screening under the containment zone buy essentials. “Many of the micelli but followed social dis- on Saturday. the West Zone of SDMC has device at the time of taking category. n the first day of the holy shops are closed. We had tancing norms. Announcement The South Delhi Municipal withdrawn the isolation order attendance of swachhta karam- Notably, MHA in its order Omonth of Ramzan, stepped out to buy milk, kha- was made from Jama Masjid Corporation (SDMC) in a issued to nine colleagues who chries in each shift before mentioned that In rural areas, Muslims in various parts of jla and vermicelli for sehri but that we should pray inside statement said “He was posted came in her contact. allowing them to join duties,” all shops, except those in shop- Delhi stepped out on Saturday most of the shops were closed homes and not step out. We are with in Bhogal area of At least six sanitation it said. ping malls are allowed to open. morning to buy essential items and wherever they were avail- missing the festivities and Daryaganj ward and was staffers of municipal corpora- “The sanitation workers “In urban areas, all stand- with local mosques shut asking able, they were expensive. On meeting people but hopefully admitted in AIIMS on April 22. tions have been tested positive were also directed to convey alone shops, neighborhood devotees to observe the fast and Friday we were not able to buy things will be fine next year.” However, He was also suffering for Covid-19 till now. Out of their supervisory staff to ensure shops & shops in residential stay indoors. these items due to crowd,” said In Hauz Qazi, the social with liver related issues and six staffs, two of them have sanititisation of hands before complexes are allowed to open. Meanwhile, the Shahi Anjum, a resident of the area. distancing between the people even admitted to holy Family died. The Corporations had and after putting their thumb Shops in markets/market com- Imam of Jama Masjid Syed Arsalan, another resident was not visible due to congest- hospital and availed medical placed 48 asymptomatic staffers impression or signature on the plexes and shopping malls are Ahmed Bukhari on Saturday in the area, said that owing to ed and narrow lanes as people leave from December 19, 2019 under home quarantine who attendance register,” it said. not allowed to open,” order extended greetings to the com- the lockdown, our unit is closed stepped out to buy essentials to February 5, 2020 for treat- came in contact with three staff The civic body has also read. munity on the occasion and and there is also cash crunch, during morning hours. ment,” who tested positive of asked its workers to equip MHA also clarified that urged them to stay indoors. so festival might be celebrated According to a senior “He had also availed Coronavirus. themselves with ‘Personal sale by e-commerce companies However, the festivities lightly this time. “Every year, police official, flag marches earned leave from 10 February The North Corporation Protective Equipments’ will continue to be permitted won't be the same this year due we go to the mosque for iftar were conducted in Chandni to 23 February 2020. However, has on Friday also issued a (PPEs) before embarking in for essential goods only.”It is to the lockdown situation but this year, we are worried Mahal area and announce- his final medical report from detail guidelines for sanitation the containment zones, the further clarified that sale of necessitated by the coronavirus about where will we go for ments were made asking peo- hospital is awaited. SDMC is The civic body also staff and concessionaires official said, adding that the liquor and other items contin- pandemic. iftar,” he said. ple to stay indoors. He said that committed to extend all possi- informed that Sunita who is engaged for lifting of Municipal PPE kits can be obtained by ues to be prohibited as speci- In northeast Delhi’s Kashif Mirza, a resident of even local mosques in Old ble admissible help to the fam- posted in ward 6S Tagore Solid Waste (MSW) during supervising sanitation Staff fied in the National Directives Jaffrabad, which is a Muslim- Jama Masjid area in Old Delhi, Delhi urged people to stay ily of its deceased employee,” it Garden, was declared COVID- prevailing Covid-19 crises from the in charge of for Covid-19 management domimated area, people said, “We stepped out only to inside and pray. said. 19 positive on Thursday, “All the sanitation staff has ‘Docking Centers’. ,”quoted MHA statement. 6 ,, # ' 11 " +#:; " 1 "( C *+,*-./ number to resolve issues relat- ed to lockdown. Police said that *+,*-./ *+,*-./ he Delhi Police on Saturday total 29,349 number of calls Tregistered over 100 cases received by police till Saturday 32-year-old man was heDelhi Police on Saturday and detained 2,861 people on their helpline 011-23469526. Astabbed to death on Tarrested a 34-year-old man across the national Capital for “Police received 7pp calls Saturday over an issue of setting for allegedly killing his wife in violating government orders from Friday 2 pm to Saturday up a cart in southeast Delhi's west Delhi’s Madipur area. during the coronavirus lock- 2 pm. Out of 800, around 55 Nizamuddin area. The deceased Police said that the incident down. calls were related to outside has been identified as Hasin, a occurred over future of man’s According to the data Delhi, which have been resident of Khusro Nagar. children from earlier marriage. shared by the police, 125 cases referred to respective state According to a senior The accused has been iden- were registered under section helpline numbers. A total of police official, on Saturday tified as Rahisul Azam, a resi- 188 (for disobedience to order nine calls were received relat- around 9.15 am, one Kajal dent of Madipur. Police said duly promulgated by public ed to no food/no money, which called police and informed that the accused used to work servant) of the Indian Penal have been forwarded to NGO that her husband was killed by as a street vendor selling Code (IPC) till 5pm. for direct relief at their address- someone. footwears in Jahangirpuri. Police said that a total of es,” said police. "Police went to the spot and According to Deepak 2,861 people have been “While 600 calls were relat- found the body with multiple Purohit, the Deputy detained under section 65 (per- ed to movement passes and stab wound. The police team Commissioner of Police sons bound to comply with rea- were advised to apply online on conducted an enquiry and (DCP), West district, Azam sonable directions of police website of Delhi Police,” said found that Hasin was last seen called police at 3.56 am on officers) and 241 vehicles have police. with three men," said the senior Saturday and informed them been impounded under section The food delivery network police official. about a quarrel with his wife 66 of the Delhi Police Act. established in all 15 districts "Police questioned them Gulshan (39) following which “The police also registered with involvement of nearly 400 who said that a quarrel took a police team was dispatched 55 cases against people for NGOs/ RWAs/Good place between the deceased stepping outside their resi- Samaritans facilitated by Delhi and mother of a juvenile for .-<+ /.(.(%(.(- dence without wearing masks. Police has led to provision of setting up a chart. Thereafter, <%(%/.(-.?:/ A total of 366 movement pass- meals/food packets at more two juveniles, along with one .(%<(., %.+.(%(%/ es have been issued,” police than 250 locations which Nikhil, hatched a conspiracy @ )-(%/%/+.(%- +. said. enabled feeding of nearly and stabbed the deceased with Since March 24, around 326844 persons and dry ration knives," said police. 90,000 people have been kits to 2074 persons," said the Later, police arrested for the spot. detained so far for violating police. Nikhil (20) and apprehended “When police reached the order under section 65 of the The move comes following both the juveniles. A case of spot, it was found that he hit Delhi Police Act. nationwide restrictions due to murder was registered, said her head with a stick during the However, on Saturday complete lockdown imposed police adding that weapons of fight. Due to the head injury, Delhi Police received around across the country to contain offence have also been recov- Gulshan died on the spot,” 800 calls on their 24x7 helpline Coronavirus. ered from their possession. said the DCP. “This was their second marriage which was solem- nised three months ago. A ( fight broke out on the question of future of their children who reside at their native village in Motihari, Bihar from their respective earlier marriages,” said the DCP. “The Sub Divisional *+,*-./ issued a safety kit having Magistrate (SDM) has been masks, sanitizer bottle and informed for proceedings he Indian Railways has soap to individual. All permit- under 176 code of criminal Tstarted production at Rail ted employees have been call procedure (CrPC) as death Coach Factory (RCF) in on duty in factory for coach happened within seven years of Kapurthala to meet the production. In administrative marriage. The house of accused demand for parcel coaches offices, all officers have joined comes under the containment required to ensure supply of the ‘Rail Coach Factory’ (RCF) offices and 33 per cent staff is zone declared by District essential items during the lock- premises township. As per the being call in rotation roster Magistrate (West) on April 13 down across the country. guidelines of MHA and advi- basis, the ministry said in a after 2 COVID-19 positive The Ministry said that in a sory of State Governments, statement. cases were found there,” said relentless battle against COVID other production units of The ministry further said the DCP. 19, factory has been opened Indian Railways will resume that workers are being called in “All the preventive and adhering all safety precautions production as and when three shifts having different precautionary steps are being and issued guidelines by the advised,” it said. timings. “There is a gap taken while investigating the ‘Ministry of Home Affairs’ “Despite the limited avail- between the entries, lunch time above case so as to adhere to (MHA) orders and local ability of resources, in two and exit timings for all three the containment zone guide- administration. days the RCF Kapurthala had shifts. Every employee is being lines and at the same time to “A total 3,744 employees built two coaches, it said. screened at the entrance gates conduct effective investiga- have been permitted to join the “All employees who joined by thermal scanners for their tion,” the DCP added. work who are residing inside duty after lock down have been body temperatures,” it said. +,- +.+. - & 9 13 , " * " 345 % Chandigarh: A private labo- Diagnostics on Saturday said "We would like to reiterate Chandigarh: Twelve more peo- have been discharged, three ratory which has been under it re-tested the samples, which our testing lab in Gurgaon is ple tested positive for coron- have died due to coronavirus. the Haryana Government's were first tested on April 18, ICMR-approved and is also avirus in Haryana on Saturday, Nuh (57), Gurgaon (51), scanner for alleged discrepan- and the results again came NABL (National Accreditation 656B / mounted to 1030. ient of Plasma Therapy has taking the number of cases in Faridabad (43), Palwal (34), cies in Covid-19 test back positive for coronavirus. Board for Testing and Of those dead, 16 were been identified and will receive the state to 287, according to Sonipat (19) and Panchkula results on Saturday asserted It said it conducted a re- Calibration Laboratories) n a huge spike in the number men, while 6 were women. Plasma as per Physician's official data. (18) are the state's worst affect- that it stands by its findings and test "using the RNA extracts accredited.... And is run by Iof deaths and infections in Eleven of them aged over 60 advice. Patients’ blood group is Sonipat reported the max- ed districts. is open to getting these samples from the same samples which highly professional, qualified Maharashtra, as many as 22 years, eight were from the age getting matched,” the BMC imum number of fresh infec- As of Saturday, the state has re-tested at any Government are stored with the lab under and experienced doctors. With persons died of Covid-19 on group 40 to 59 years and three bulletin said. tions at six, followed by four in a recovery rate of 66.55 per lab. the recommended guidelines reference to Covid-19 testing, Saturday, taking the total num- were under 40 years of age. According to the bulletin, Gurgaon and one each in cent, fatality rate of 1.04 per The Haryana Government by ICMR (Indian Council of we are only using ICMR- ber of deaths to 323 and a “Thirteen out of 22 patients five more recovered Covid-19 Ambala and Panipat, the state cent, Covid-19 positive rate had on Monday ordered a Medical Research)." approved kits and testing tech- record 811 people tested posi- (59%) had high-risk co-mor- patients have been screened to health department said in its (proportion of positive cases to probe after four samples "The test results are out nique - RT PCR," Haldar said. tive in a day in the State, even bidities such as diabetes, hyper- donate plasma. “Other recov- daily bulletin. total tests conducted) of 1.58 reported positive for coron- and once again read positive," Bansal said it is critical to as the Brihanmumbai tension, asthma, heart disease, ered Covid-19 patients are Among the total 287 per cent, the bulletin stated. avirus by SRL Diagnostics said Dr. Anurag Bansal, tech- understand that there are mul- Municipal Corporation (BMC) TB etc,” the state health bulletin being contacted, so that more Covid-19 cases in Haryana are The doubling rate of cases tested negative in confirma- nical head for north and east tiple reasons which can influ- prepared itself to undertake said. number of severely ill patients 24 foreigners — from Italy, Sri in the state is 18 days and tests tion tests done at different India and lab operations direc- ence a test result. Plasma therapy for eligible Out of 1,08,972 laboratory can be benefitted from Plasma Lanka, Nepal, Thailand, South per million being conducted Government labs in the State. tor for Gurgaon Clinical "When we got the notice coronavirus patients. samples tested till Saturday, Therapy. Plasma pheresis Africa and Indonesia — and 64 are 800, it said. The State Government will Reference Laboratory, SRL Ltd. from them (health depart- On a day when the infect- 1,01,162 were negative and machine is installed at Nair people from other states of As many as 20,270 samples give no samples for testing to Bansal and Arindam ment) stating that there is (a) ed cases jumped from 6,817 to 7628 have been tested positive hospital to expedite the plasma India, it stated. have been tested so far, out of the private lab, pending the Haldar, Chief Executive discrepancy in these four 7,628 triggering considerable for coronavirus. separation and effective extrac- According to the bulletin, which 17,787 have tested neg- outcome of the probe, Health Officer of SRL Ltd., addressed results, we again ran these tests anxiety among the health offi- There are 555 active con- tion,” the bulletin said. Haryana has 93 active Covid- ative. The reports of 2,196 Minister Anil Vij had said. the media through a video and again these came positive," cials in the State, coronavirus tainment zones in the state cur- Considering the vulnera- 19 cases. While 191 patients samples are awaited. PTI Gurgaon-based SRL conference. Bansal said. PTI claimed 22 more lives. rently. Total 8194 surveillance bility of Senior Citizens to With fresh deaths, the squads worked on worked on Covid-19 and those with Co- Covid-19 death tally mounted Friday worked today across morbid conditions like +; to 323 in the deaths. Of the the state and surveillance of Diabetes, Hypertension, 5 167 deaths, Mumbai accounted for 31.43 lakh population was Asthma & Heart Disease, the 13 deaths, 4 in Pune, one each done. 1076 patients have been BMC will undertake a house to " in Malegaon, Pune rural, discharged till date after full house survey in slums of Pimpri-Chinchwad, Dhule recovery. 2. Mumbai, to identify the senior /8 129: and Solapur. Currently, 1,25,393 peo- citizens & ensure that they are The death toll in Mumbai ple are in home quarantine and taking their medications for Bhopal: With 103 more people Khandwa. tricts on Saturday. climbed to 191, while there 8,124 people are in institutional chronic diseases regularly. “The testing positive till Saturday Indore has the highest tally Two patients hail from Dehradun: Covid-19 cases in tricts, where there are no posi- have so far been 73 deaths in quarantine.” team will also check the afternoon, 56 of them in Indore, of Covid-19 cases at 1,085 fol- other states. Uttarakhand will now be treat- tive coronavirus cases, have Pune. Meanwhile, the BMC is Oxygen Saturation with Pulse the number of coronavirus cases lowed by Bhopal (388) and Apart from Indore where ed only in the hospitals desig- been opened now and will func- With a staggering 602 poised to start Plasma therapy Oxymeter on spot and if found in Madhya Pradesh climbed to Ujjain (103). the death toll has reached 57, 15 nated for the purpose, Chief tion from Sunday as earlier, the cases reported on Saturday, for eligible Covid-19 positive low such citizens will be 1,945, health officials said. The number of coronavirus patients have died in Ujjain, Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat chief minister said. In a separate the total number of infected patients. “Three units of plas- referred to non-Covid Seven deaths were also cases in Jabalpur has now nine in Bhopal, six each in said on Saturday. message on the start of the holy cases in Mumbai has risen to ma from recovered patients Peripheral Hospitals with a reported since Friday evening, climbed to 43. Hoshangabad has Dewas and Khargone and one The hospitals where only month of Ramzan, Rawat greet- 5049. Similarly in Pune, the have already been collected referral note for further treat- taking the Covid-19 death toll 30 cases, Khandwa 36 and each in Jabalpur, Chhindwara, Covid-19 cases will be treated ed people and appealed to them total number of infected cases from eligible donors. The recip- ment,” the bulletin added. in the state to 99. Chhindwara five. Mandsaur, Agar Malwa, Dhar now are Mela Hospital to do "ibadat" at home, main- Four deaths were reported Number of cases in other and Hoshangabad. (Haridwar), Doon Hospital taining social distancing. "With in Ujjain, two in Indore and one districts is: Barwani 24, Raisen So far, 281 patients have (Dehradun), Medical College mutual cooperation alone we in Hoshangabad, officials said. 26, Morena and Vidisha 13 recovered and returned home. (Rudrapur) and Sushila Tiwari can defeat the coronavirus pan- 1& ; Indore, the worst affected each, Ratlam 12, Mandsaur 499 containment areas have Government Hospital demic," he said. district, alone now accounts eight, Shajapur six, Sagar five, been set up in affected cities. (Haldwani), he added. Uttarakhand has reported % = for 57 deaths. four each in Gwalior and Coronavirus figures in The rest of the hospitals in 48 positive coronavirus cases so Since Friday night, Indore Sheopur, three in Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh, thus, are as the state will function as earli- far, of which 25 have recovered. Mumbai: A special court here COVID-19 pandemic. recorded 56 new infection cases, two each in Shivpuri and follows: Positive cases 1,945, er, Rawat said. There are 11 containment zones on Saturday remanded activist In his bail application, followed by Bhopal at 28, Tikamgarh and one each in deaths 99, discharged 281, active Earlier, Covid-19 cases were or hotspots in the state — seven ' Anand Teltumbde to judicial Teltumbde said he was suffering Jabalpur at 12, Hoshangabad at Betul and Dindori. No fresh patients 1,565, number of peo- also being treated at other health in Dehradun, three in Haridwar custody in the Elgar Parishad- from respiratory problems and four and one each in Ujjain and cases were found in these dis- ple tested so far 36,887. PTI facilities. Hospitals in nine dis- and one in Nainital. PTI Maoist link case and rejected his was at risk of contracting the *+,*-./ plea for temporary bail, which deadly infection while in prison. he sought in view of the The court, however, reject- ! $ # nder its operation COVID-19 outbreak. ed his plea. ;& < + USHIELD, the Delhi The National Investigation Teltumbde, civil rights Guwahati: Veteran Congress 2013 and of Tripura between Mukhi, Chief Minister Government on Saturday Agency had arrested the Dalit activist Gautam Navlakha and leader Devanand Konwar died March 25, 2013 and June 29, Sarbananda Sonowal and oth- sealed three more areas tak- scholar on April 14 after he sur- nine others, have been booked of old age ailments at his 2014. He had also served as gov- ers condoled the death of &< & < ing the total containment rendered before it following the under stringent provisions of Guwahati residence on ernor (additional charge) of Konwar who was also an emi- zone count to 95. Supreme Court's directives. the Unlawful Activities Saturday. He was 86. West Bengal from December nent advocate. In his condo- Entire street no - 9, Teltumbde, the grandson- Prevention Act (UAPA) for The politician is survived by 2009 to January 2010. lence message, Governor Mukhi & ;<< <--. = Shalimar Village , Entire gali in-law of Dalit icon Dr BR allegedly having Maoist links his wife, two daughters and a Konwar had joined the described Konwar as a dedicat- No -3, Shalimar village ,Block Ambedkar, was produced before and conspiring to overthrow the son. The body of Knowar was Congress in 1955 as a student ed leader and worker who con- no X, from HN 303/6, Gali special NIA court judge A T BJP-led government. The taken from here to his home dis- leader. He became a Cabinet tributed immensely to the gen- New York: A 45-year-old year in prison. He will self-sur- No 1 to HN-289, Gali no-3, Wankehede, who remanded activists were initially booked by trict Sivasagar for the last rites, minister in the Governments of eral welfare of the people at large Indian-origin man has become render to authorities next week, Yadav villa areas have been him to judicial custody. the Pune police following vio- his family members said. Assam headed by Hiteswar by serving the state with deep the first person to face criminal the US Attorney's Office said. sealed in the wake up of ris- The activist then sought lence that erupted at Koregaon- He was Governor of Bihar Saikia and later by Tarun Gogoi. commitment, compassion and charges in the US under the "As charged in the com- ing corona cases. temporary bail citing the Bhima in the district. PTI from July 24, 2009 to March 8, Assam Governor Jagdish love for them. PTI country's Defence Production plaint, Singh's amassing of crit- Act for allegedly hoarding the ical PPE during a public health scarce personal protective crisis and reselling at huge & & equipment and selling it at markups places him squarely in & "(< huge markups during the the cross-hairs of law enforce- > & COVID-19 pandemic, author- ment armed with the Defence ities said. Production Act,” said Richard From Page 1 ble at mosques because of the been put up outside the to adhere to the lockdown Owaisi, also had appealed to the 6 + Amardeep Singh stockpiled P Donoghue, United States Ramzan marked by fasting coronavirus outbreak. “All mosque that masjid is shut till guidelines and perform all reli- Muslims of the country during tonnes of respirators, surgical Attorney for the Eastern by followers of Islam started mosque committees have been further order. “This year, we gious rituals during Ramzan by Ramzan not to go out of their gowns, hand sanitisers and District of New York. from Saturday as per the lunar asked to communicate to the have directed the faithful to staying at their respective homes. homes to offer Ramadan 45+ . / other personal protective "This Office is working calendar. Shahi Imam of members of Muslim communi- prepare food at home and President Maulana Arshan prayers. equipment (PPE) at a Long tirelessly in coordination with Fatehpuri Masjid Mufti ty that they should not crowd the break the fast with their fami- Madani said, “In view of dead- Ramzan is the ninth month ssam Chief Minister Island warehouse and sold it the COVID-19 Hoarding and Mukarram Ahmed said those mosques and offer daily namaz lies. Muslim organisations have ly COVID-19 that has caused of the Islamic calendar during ASarbananda Sonowal on online through various websites Price Gouging Task Force to who are under quarantine and at home,” Chairman of Bengal strictly directed the people to death and destruction all over which Muslims worldwide Saturday asked the animal hus- and Nassau County storefronts prevent a pandemic of greed by unable to observe ‘Roza” (fast) Imams Association Mohammed observe all Ramzan related the world, medical experts have refrain from eating and drink- bandry and veterinary depart- at “unconscionably excessive profiteers." can compensate for it through Yahia said. prayers and rituals at home. suggested that social distancing ing from dawn to dusk and end ment to conduct an inquiry prices,” Prosecutors from the "The criminal complaint ‘Qaza’ or feeding one person. Kochi’s Padivattom These instructions must be is the only option to break the their fast in the evening. As per into swine flu cases in the US Attorney's Office in describes a defendant who In Kolkata, the apex body of Mahallu Muslim Jama-ath followed,” he added. chain of the spread of this dan- the Islamic beliefs, God forgives state and take remedial mea- Brooklyn said in a statement on allegedly saw the devastating imams in West Bengal asked mosque’s Imam remains inside Meanwhile, the prominent gerous virus.” All India Majlis- the past sins of the devotees who sures at the earliest. Friday. COVID-19 pandemic as an Muslims to offer namaz at home, the mosque while it is shut for Muslim body Jamiat Ulema-e- e-Ittehadul Muslimeen prays and fasts with faithful During a meeting with top A criminal complaint was opportunity to make illegal and advised them not to assem- the general public. Posters have Hind had, appealed to Muslims (AIMIM) Chief Asaduddin intentions. officials and scientists of the filed on Friday in a federal court profits on needed personal pro- department, Sonowal directed in Central Islip charging Singh tective equipment,” said Craig it to send samples of the affect- with violating the Defence Carpenito, head of the ,--./ + ! able,” the Ministry said today. NGOs, self-help groups ed pigs to the National Institute Production Act (DPA) of 1950 Department of Justice's nation- “As on date, more than 1 lakh (SHGs) and civil society ' ( R& of High Security Animal by hoarding PPE at a warehouse wide COVID-19 Hoarding and & ::: PPEs and N95 masks are organisations were working Diseases (NIHSAD), Bhopal, in Brentwood, New York, amid Price Gouging Task Force. being manufactured every- and contributing by providing & *$ & $ + for detection of swine flu. the COVID-19 pandemic, and There has been a massive From Page 1 day in the country.” food to migrant workers The flu has recently hit price-gouging customers of his scarcity of PPE in the US dur- In view of inadequate sup- PPE kits, including gloves, across the country. From Page 1 accompanying the IMCT on some parts of the state this year. retail store in Plainview, New ing the coronavirus outbreak. ply from China and other coveralls and N95 masks, are It was also informed that The IMCT was given half- behalf of the Government is Agriculture Minister Atul York, the statement said. The US grapples with critical importers, the Government not meant for re-use. Nurses, the national level meta-data of hour notice for a visit to CNCI free to take action to ensure Bora added that sale and dis- If convicted under the shortages of supplies and has ramped up domestic man- doctors and other medical health workers, NSS, NYK, Hospital and Bangur Hospital safety and security of the tribution of pork meat has DPA, which is a misdemeanour coronavirus cases continue ufacturing of personal pro- personnel who tend to sus- NCC, doctors etc. has been on April 23 and Damurjola IMCT in absence of police been banned in Assam. charge, Singh faces up to one to soar. PTI tective equipment (PPE) and pected and confirmed shared with all the States, dis- quarantine centre and Sanjivan support,” the letter asked. medical equipment, including COVID-19 patients must tricts and other officials to Hospital in Uluberia sub divi- It said no senior State offi- ventilators, to meet the change these after every shift. mobilise resources and vol- sion of Howrah district on cial accompanies them on vis- increasing demand, amid The GOM was also unteers (Covid warriors) to April 24. The Chief Secretary its and their only expectation 00 ? & &+ serious concerns over short- briefed on state-wise details of much-needed locations. of West Bengal has been wide- is that doctors and officers at age of PPE for health workers. dedicated COVID-19 hospi- There is presently data ly reported in the media to the venue should meet and Q / The Defence Research and tals, along with the adequacy for more than 1.24 crore have stated that the IMCT is provide information to the Development Organisation of isolation beds and wards, human resources on the dash- free to visit anywhere, and the team. “Whether it is a fact that has collaborated with local PPE kits, N95 masks, drugs, board and it is continuously State Government cannot a DCP of Bengal Police -; manufacturers to produce ventilators and oxygen cylin- being updated with the addi- waste its time by accompany- informed Bengal officers at &::: 20,000 N99 masks per day, ders, among others, the health tion of new groups and sub- ing them, Chandra wrote. BSF guest house on April 21 while Bengaluru-based Bharat ministry said. groups according to speciali- “The above stand is a vio- that the IMCT cannot leave Dharamshala (HP): The Gedhun Choekyi Nyima's birth- From Page 1 Electronics Ltd will provide Given that there are well sation, the GoM was lation of the order by the the campus without the per- Central Tibetan Administration day, we also remember his dis- “The average doubling rate support for manufacturing above 10 lakh people with informed. Union Home Ministry and the mission of the State has announced a three-week appearance for the last 25 years,” of the country is 9.1 days as of 30,000 ventilators. suspected Covid-19 in quar- The dashboard contains State Government is expected Government as lockdown is in campaign in support of the Central Tibetan Administration now,” the Union Health “The domestic manufac- antine and over 18,000 con- State and district-wise infor- to provide logistics support force and if it leaves it is only 11th Panchen Lama, taken into president Lobsang Sangay said Ministry said. tures which have been identi- firmed cases under treat- mation about the number of and facilitate all field visits,” permitted to go to the airport,” custody by Chinese authorities in a statement here. A group of Ministers head- fied earlier have already start- ment at hospitals, the per-day human resources available Chandra said in the letter. the letter read, seeking to 25 years ago and not seen in He said the CTA — the ed by Health Minister Harsh ed the production of PPEs, requirement of these kits and from each group, along with “The stand of the State know if there is truth to this public since then. body is unofficially known as Vardhan on Saturday reviewed masks etc., and adequate masks already likely to be the contact details of the Government on facilitating statement. Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, Tibetan government-in-exile — the testing strategy and avail- quantity of the same is avail- above 1 lakh. respective state and district the visits of the IMCT and It said the State who was recognised by the has launched global campaign ability of testing kits across the The GoM had a detailed nodal officers. ensuring the safety and secu- Government is expected to Dalai Lama as the reincarnation demanding his immediate country, along with the strate- deliberation on the mea- “These Covid warriors are rity of the team members as provide ‘accommodation, of the 10th Panchen Lama when release by China. gy for hotspots and cluster sures taken as on date by the being trained through online also providing information transportation, PPE and he was six-year-old, turned 31 “Unfortunately, because of management. Centre and various states platforms such as the ministry and records may be made extend all cooperation for on Saturday. the coronavirus pandemic, The GOM was briefed and Union territories for of health website and the clear through a written com- their visits to local areas, pro- China did not recognise which originated in Wuhan, we about the number of public and prevention, containment iGOT training portal,” the munication rather than duction of records as request- his reincarnation and arranged are not able to do the physical private laboratories presently and management of coron- statement said. Minister of through media so that further ed’, according to the MHA the installation of another con- lobbying but we are doing vir- testing for Covid-19, along avirus and all the districts Civil Aviation Hardeep S Puri, steps can be taken by the order. tender as Panchen Lama, the tual lobbying all over the world,” with the number of tests that were asked to follow and Minister of External Affairs S IMCT,” the letter read. In another letter to Bengal second-highest spiritual title in he said. He urged United are being conducted every day further strengthen their con- Jaishankar, Minister of State Chandra has also sought CS and Home Secretary, Tibetan Buddhism. Nations to hold a hearing on the through this network of labo- tingency plans to combat for Home Nityananda Rai and to know from the State another IMCT led by Vineet China has earlier said issue. “I hope the Chinese gov- ratories. Covid-19, the Ministry said. Minister of State for Shipping Government that in the Joshi, in north Bengal, said Gedhun Choekyi Nyima and his ernment will pay heed to the A detailed presentation on The GoM also deliber- and Chemical and Fertilisers absence of police escort, if it more field officers are required family are leading life as ordi- global appeal and at least allow the Covid-19 status in the ated on the various tasks Mansukh Mandaviya, among would take responsibility for to monitor and provide feed- nary citizens in the country. Gedhun Choekyi Nyima to be country, along with the assigned to several empow- others, were present at the the safety and security of the back about the effectiveness of Tibetans worldwide, how- with his family members, to be response and management of ered committees and it was meeting, along with other IMCT if it ventures out on its various measures undertaken ever, been demanding his release with the Tibetan community in the disease, was made for the informed that around 92,000 officials. own. “Whether the BSF by the Government. over the years. “As we celebrate Tibet.” PTI Ministers. +,- +.+. . $& < + *
#" *+,*-./ explained. "A patient's own immune response may be he Goblet and Ciliated cells * $$-# ' .$ creating new shots on goal for Tin the human nasal passage the virus' target." have high levels of entry pro- "These two studies really teins that the COVID-19 virus "$ demonstrate the power of the uses to get into our body, , Human Cell Atlas according to researchers. *+,*-./ APIs and drug intermediates. rently under clinical trials to community and of single cell In two studies, published in and humidity in the inner cav- transfer the technology of The initiative may help in evaluate efficacy and safety RNA sequencing. Pulling Nature Medicine and in the *+,*-./ ity of the mask. When a per- this inhaler for commercial n an initiative to make the reducing the dependency of against COVID -19. together this large group of journal Cell, the researchers son breathes in, this goes back production so that it can be Icountry self-reliant in raw the Indian pharmaceutical sec- Realising that drug secu- researchers and data sets indicated that goblet cells high- ays after developing alco- to the lungs again. Repetition produced on a large scale and materials for drugs, particularly tor on Chinese imports of rity and undisrupted access to allowed the ly express a receptor enzyme Dhol-based herbal sanitis- of this process over a period of sent to the frontline worriers those used in fight against the these ingredients, said a essential medicines are critical science to move at incredible called ACE2 that binds to the er, scientists at the CSIR- time causes discomfort in fighting against COVID-19 Covid-19, CSIR-Indian Government statement here. for public health, Union speed," Dr. Banovich said. spikes covering the outer sur- National Botanical Research breathing and congestion”, said pandemic. Institute of Chemical IICT, a laboratory under Cabinet chaired by Prime The study with Human face of SARS-CoV-2, the virus Institute (NBRI), Lucknow, Dr. Sharad Srivastava, Senior About the herbal sanitis- Technology (IICT), the Council of Scientific and Minister Narendra Modi, has Cell Atlas Lung Biological that causes the COVID-19 dis- have prepared a herbal decon- Principal Scientist, CSIR- er that contains Tulsi essential Hyderabad, has joined hands Industrial Research (CSIR), is approved a special package for Network found that cells in ease. gestant spray for those finding NBRI, who led the team of oil as herbal constituent which with LAXAI Life Sciences, a already working with LAXAI promotion of bulk drug man- the eye and some other organs "These studies largely difficulties in breathing and researchers for this study. is strong natural antimicrobial Hyderabad-based integrated for synthesis of drugs being ufacturing in India and reduc- also contain the viral-entry agree with each other and congestion in the respiratory “Herbal decongestant agent and 60 percent of iso- pharmaceutical company, to used in the fight against the tion of our dependence on proteins. provide new insights into the system due to wearing of mask spray is a fine blend of four propyl alcohol for killing develop and manufacture Corona Virus. China. The identification of these specific type of cells targeted for a long time. The aim is to plant-based oils, but the names germs, Director NBRI, Dr SK Active Pharmaceutical India, one of the largest The collaboration will use cells by researchers from the by the SARS-CoV-2 infec- help the netizens to fight coro- of these plants cannot be dis- Barik said, it has been clini- Ingredients (APIs) and drug producers of anti-malarial the know-how for commercial Wellcome Sanger Institute, tion," said Dr. Nicholas navirus. closed right now because of cally tested and found to be intermediates, the key compo- drug HCQ, has seen a spurt in manufacturing of the prod- University Medical Centre Banovich, a TGen Assistant The herbal-based formu- issues related to intellectual highly-effective against sur- nents of any drug that pro- demand in the recent weeks. It ucts. LAXAI Life Sciences Groningen, University Cote Professor and member of the lation helps in clearing the property. This product is face microbes. duces the intended effects. has sent HCQ to over 50 shall be one of the first few to d'Azur and CNRS, Nice and Lung Biological Network of wind pipe and congestion by developed based on the prin- He said, its impact lasts The collaboration will pri- countries over the last few commercialize these products. their collaborators in their the Human Cell Atlas, an removing the mucus or cough ciples of Ayurveda and con- for about 25 minutes and it marily focus on Umifenovir, days, including the United The manufacturing of these study further shows that cells international effort to create leading to ease of breathing. It tains ingredients reported in prevents skin from dehydrat- Remdesivir and a key inter- States. APIs and intermediates will be in the eye and some other comprehensive reference also reduces stress due to traditional scriptures”, ing. The product will be avail- mediate of The collaboration will taken up at U.S. Food and organs also contain the maps of all human cells as a excessive use of mask and explained Dr. Srivastava. The able in the market very soon Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) result in a cost-effective Drug Administration viral-entry proteins. basis for diagnosing, moni- decongestion. This spray has initial results of this NBRI's under the brand name of used in fight against the process with minimal depen- (USFDA)/Good manufactur- The study also predicts toring and treating disease. been prepared as per guide- herbal spray have been ‘Clean Hand Gel’. The tech- Coronavirus that has taken dency on China for key raw ing practice (GMP) approved how a key entry protein is In both studies, Goblet lines of the Union Ayush extremely impressive. People nology of the herbal hand san- toll on around 750 people in materials. In addition, plants held by LAXAI through regulated with other immune cells - which produce mucus Ministry. wearing masks for a long time itizer has been transferred to the country. Remdesivir, which has been its subsidiary, Therapiva system genes and reveals in the nasal passages - were “The main reasons behind are getting a lot of relief from Lucknow based company So far, India has heavily previously administered to Private Limited, said the state- potential targets for the found to overly express this problem include the accu- this, say researchers. Sadguru Biologicals Privated relied on China for supply of Ebola virus patients, is cur- ment here. development of treatments angiotensin-converting mulation of carbon dioxide The Institute plans to Limited. to reduce transmission. enzyme 2 (ACE2), which The two key entry pro- serves as the entry point into ies suggest that these cells in mouse tissues. This study also The most significant find- teins ACE2 and TMPRSS2 cells for some coronaviruses. in viral entry into the said. The study revealed that two the nasal passage may serve as found that nasal goblet cells ing in this study, however, is were also found in cells in the This could help explain the human body is the binding of Using data sets from the types of cells in the nasal pas- a viral reservoir, helping to highly express ACE2. In addi- that ACE2 is stimulated by cornea of the eye and in the high rate of transmission of the coronavirus spike protein Human Cell Atlas, the Nature sage -goblet and ciliated cells- disseminate the virus within tion, researchers found interferon, which is released lining of the intestine. the virus. to the ACE2 human Medicine study used single- most highly expressed ACE2 an individual and spread the expression of ACE2 in by the body's immune system This suggests another "A lot of information was receptor and an associated cell profiling of healthy sam- and TMPRSS2. disease between individuals," absorptive enterocytes in response to viral infections. possible route of infection known about the path of gene called TMPRSS2, which ples to examine cells exclu- In addition, it found that Dr. Banovich said. within the gut, which could "The body's own immune via the eye and tear-ducts, and infection from previous helps activate the coronavirus sively in the human airways, ACE2 also is expressed in Using existing and new help explain why many system may be causing neigh- also revealed a potential for studies of SARS-CoV, includ- spike protein, enabling it to including nasal passages, AT2 cells in the lungs. data, the Cell study looked at COVID-19 patients have GI boring cells to become targets faecal-oral transmission, as ing the fact that the first step enter the cell," Dr. Banovich lower airways and the lungs. "The results of these stud- multiple human, primate and symptoms. of the virus," Dr. Banovich per the study. - &P &&0P &" & *+,*-./ tributed close to one third of the nation'’s gross domestic product ! " " ! -,34 ongress president Sonia (GDP), accounted for almost 50 CGandhi on Saturday wrote to per cent of exports and employed Prime Minister Narendra Modi over 11 crore people. ( ( # drawing his urgent attention to "At this moment, without *+,*-./ the financial crisis in the MSME appropriate support, more than *+,*-./ Sector by announcing a 1 lakh 6.3 crore MSMEs stand on the " SS chief Mohan Bhagwat # / crore wage protection package verge of economic ruin," she said. Rwill deliver an online arliament and Assemblies of for it besides setting up a 1 lakh Stating that every single day *+,*-./ way." address on Sunday on the cur- # Psome States have opened up crore credit guarantee fund. She of the lockdown is costing Rs “Bureaucrats sitting in rent situation in wake of the O1 P2 control rooms to help MPs and also called for an extension of the 30,000 crore to the sector, the he Congress on Saturday North Block are formulating Coronavirus pandemic and # MLAs to facilitate real-time RBI's moratorium on payment of Congress leader said nearly all Turged the Government to policies. I am sorry to say they need for a united response to information on Covid-19 reha- loans for the MSMEs beyond the MSMEs had lost sales orders, formulate a national plan for have no capacity to do that as the crisis. ( bilitation works. stipulated three months. seen complete cessation of work, handling the coronavirus cri- they do not know what is This is for the first time ( # sources said. Rajasthan, Haryana, Pointing out that the Micro, and had revenue negatively sis under the Disaster happening on the ground. that such an address of its head The address comes after Odisha, Delhi, Uttarakhand Small and Medium Scale impacted. Management Act and alleged This top-down approach is being held by the RSS 3 " the RSS chief urged all and Madhya Pradesh Enterprises (MSMEs) con- "Most worrying of all, 11 that bureaucrats, who do not would not work, it has to be a through a virtual platform, ‘Swayaemsevaks’ to actively Assemblies have become first tributes one-third to the nation’s crore employees are at the risk of have any idea about ground bottoms-up approach," the said the RSS. join the national fight against States to start control rooms. economy, Sonia wrote to PM losing jobs as MSMEs struggle to realities, were formulating pol- Congress leader said. The RSS said, Bhagwat will '# ( corona pandemic. These control rooms are con- demanding a package to give liq- pay wages and salaries. The icy for the Centre during the "Our Prime Minister's address on 'Current Situation “While situation is grim , nected with each other to share uidity and confidence to the sec- government needs to introduce lockdown. limited role, so far as we can and Our Role' on April 26 at 5 the response of the country’s information on inter-state tor. a series of measures to meet this At a Press conference, see, is addressing the nation pm. agenda and gives direction to leadership and the entire soci- issues especially regarding the "The last five weeks have crisis head-on or risk a much senior Congress leader Kapil from time to time. The "All of you are invited to RSS workers for the upcoming ety has been wonderful”, says issues related to migrant labour, brought our nation face to face large economic crisis down the Sibal said, "You cannot have a National Disaster join this session along with year and in the first week of the Sangh invite. supply chains etc, said Lok with several challenges. As we road," she said. lockdown of people, and a Management Authority family members and well- June on the conclusion of the RSS said ‘Swayemsevaks’ Sabha Speaker Om Birla. continue our fight against Covid- She said the actions taken by lockout of the economy. That (NDMA) made no prepara- wishers," the Sangh said. annual training session of the are themselves making their Parliament control room 19, I felt it essential to highlight the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is not the way to formulate pol- tions to put in place a plan Bhagwat is expected to RSS for its workers. own contribution to mitigate numbers are +911123035160, an economic concern that needs must get reflected in banks'' icy. We are not criticising, we despite the WHO declaring give his organisation’s view on The Sangh said the focus the situation created by the +911123035163. The control immediate attention and inter- measures to ensure adequate, are only saying it is time to the virus to be a public health the present scenario, national will be on suggesting the way Coronavirus pandemic. rooms will help to alert the vention. If ignored, this issue has easy and timely credit supply to rethink, we will support the emergency towards the end of response, future challenges and out from this crisis and a According to the Sangh, it has MPs and MLAs about the the potential of having a devas- MSMEs. government in every possible January,” Sibal alleged. opportunities. nation-wide united response to deployed over two lakh work- issues faced in their con- tating and expansive ripple effect "These measures need to be The Sangh chief addresses the crisis. And at the same time ers across the country to stituencies and also act to alert on our economy," Sonia said. supported by an expansion and rium on payment of loans for the three months," she said. only twice a year - once on what changes are required in “serve” those affected by the the local administration about She wrote the MSMEs con- extension of the RBI''s morato- MSMEs beyond the stipulated `Vijaydashmi`, which sets the the aftermath of this crisis, the pandemic. the need of the area and peo- ple. Speakers will only daily basis monitor the control room and grievances settlement. Lok 4 35 # 6 Sabha Speaker said that this 1 " mechanism would be a quick- er interface in settling public grievances and make works of MPs and MLAs effective. -$2 Birla said that the Parliament and State Legislatures stand firmly with *+,*-./ Ladakh from the rest of the activities of Atal Tunnel have the Executive, and the nation. Ladakh and Lahaul and commenced with all neces- Members of Parliament and ndeterred by the possibil- Spiti districts apart from other sary COVID-19 precautions *+,*-./ ical system of file handling has MLAs/MLCs shall remain at Uity of contracting coron- regions of Himachal Pradesh in place to ensure its com- been temporarily delayed. the forefront in our national avirus and harsh weather con- are then sustained by air dur- pletion in September 2020 as he CISF has developed Because of this, operations are effort to contain its spread. ditions, the Border Roads ing winter months. planned, official said. Tvarious IT applications for literally dragging and have Organisation(BRO) on Last year, the Rohtang Responsible for con- distinct functional streams created towering hump of files Saturday threw open the pass was kept open till structing and maintaining such as Administrative (e- in every office. Non-essential " Rohtang pass at 13,500 feet December 12. The State strategic roads all over the Vetan, Legal, TIMS-Technical services may wait but there are near Manali, Himachal Government on April 11 this country, the BRO recently Inventory Management various essential services, %5( Pradesh, for traffic three weeks year approached the BRO to completed a bridge in System, Operational which need to be first taken out in advance. This road is the expedite the snow clearance Arunachal Pradesh thereby (WARRoom and Bio-Metric of this towering hump and be alternate strategic route to to facilitate return of farmers ensuring all weather logistical Kote Management System), attended immediately. CISF Ladakh and the BRO has to start cultivation and support to the troops Welfare (e-Leave, e-Grievance, IT wing is here again with its 665 already opened the Srinagar- movement of essential sup- deployed on the Line of Securitypedia etc), In-House developed web appli- Leh road two weeks back there- plies and relief material to Actual Control(LAC) facing Training(TMS-Training cation “e-Karyalay”," a CISF undreds of inmates in by connecting the region with Lahaul Valley in wake of China besides local popula- has asked all formations across Management System) and official said. This is an appli- Hprisons across Jammu and the rest of the country. COVID-19. tion. The bridge was con- *+,*-./ the country to furnish data of many more to count at zero cation, which mimics each Kashmir have volunteered and The Rohtang pass saw Following this, the BRO structed despite the lock- the personnel deployed in cost to state exchequer. and every function of tradi- joined efforts to fight the coro- Himachal Pradesh agriculture inducted hi-tech machinery down over Subansiri river. ine CRPF men of the 11 hotspots and other operational "In the present situation of tional file movement in CISF. navirus pandemic with mass minister Ram Lal Markanda from both Manali and The BRO also managed to Ninvestigated for areas in the last 20 days and if lockdown, movement of phys- production of face masks in jail leading a convoy of vehicles Khoksar side, the Army said clear the 450-km long Coronavirus so far have tested anyone in these areas had test- premises, officials said on carrying essential supplies and adding snow blizzards, freez- Srinagar-Leh highway of positive for Covid-19, trigger- ed positive for Covid-19 as part bles. All their contacts are hotspots in the last 20 days Saturday. approximately 150 farmers to ing temperatures and fre- snow a fortnight back and ing a contact-tracing exercise of a larger contact tracing exer- being quarantined/isolated to and if anyone tested positive They said the prisoners Lahaul and Spiti districts, quent triggering of avalanch- connected Ladakh with the across the Force’s formations cise for taking effective mea- check the spread of the disease, for Covid-19. started manufacturing the high sources said here. With the es at Rahala Fall, Beas Nallah entire country. The BRO throughout the country. Those sures. officials said. Insiders in the Force said quality polypropylene masks opening of the pass, the much- and Rani Nallah delayed the teams had to face the tough found positive belonged to a The 47 personnel quaran- According to a circular despite the outbreak of the last month after the prisons needed essential supplies to operations but the snow clear- challenge of clearing snow group of 47 CRPF personnel tined earlier belong to the 31 sent across all the formations disease, location sharing of the department's proposal got the fight the pandemic besides ance teams kept working reported to be heaviest in the quarantined at its facility here Battalion of the CRPF deployed on Thursday, a proforma for personnel deployed at the nod of the Lt Governor G C reviving agriculture activities round the clock with all last six decades. at Narela. in the national Capital. The seeking information of the paramilitary headquarters and Murmu administration which will begin in the right earnest COVID-19 precautions. Similarly, the agency All the positive cases have move to quarantine them was personnel regarding regular the Northern Sector here has has called for universal usage of in the region. Meanwhile, the ongoing managed to construct a per- been isolated at the quarantine taken after a and additional not been initiated. face covers to contain the Giving the details of the construction of the 8.8 km manent bridge on River Ravi centre or transferred to desig- Constable/Nursing Assistant deployment of troops in They said a number of spread of the contagious dis- measures taken to clear the pass long Atal tunnel below the in Punjab thereby providing nated hospitals for manage- Rajesh Sharma, who rejoined hotspot areas during the last personnel hailing from the ease in the Union Territory. of heavy snow, they said the Rohtang pass connecting the the much-needed relief to ment of the viral disease. With duty on April 7 after availing 20 days has been sought. adjoining States visit their Jammu and Kashmir has clearance opening is carried out nation with Lahaul through- farmers in the region. this, 12 CRPF personnel leave, tested positive for the Through the circular, the hometowns during the week- recorded six coronavirus deaths every year as it remains snow out the year and other parts Personnel of the BRO have including a CMO and a RAF viral disease. paramilitary has also sought ends despite there being a pro- so far – four in the Valley and bound for almost six months of the state and Ladakh was also collectively contributed Head Constable have tested Those found to be positive details of personnel as also hibition to leave station one each in Udhampur and from mid-November to mid- also stalled when the lock- Rs One Crore to the PM positive for the pandemic. for the viral disease include a civilians who worked with without due authorisation Baramulla districts with near- May thereby cutting off Lahaul down came into force. CARES Fund over and above Following the outbreak, Sub Inspector, a Head the troops from the superiors to check ly 450 others infected in the and Spiti districts besides However, work on all critical One Day Salary, they said. the paramilitary headquarters Constable and seven consta- during deployment in the spread of the disease. union territory. +,- +.+. $ 80;7 7 1/& @ 9> (=/= , 9F> 656B /@ states. “The State Governments of Madhya &R & ! Pradesh and Gujarat and their district author- 656B / he MVA Government has written to the ities are requested to co-operate with the TGovernments of Rajasthan and Punjab return journey of the students and people,” s many as 21 more persons Chennai: The Tamil Nadu (%AA8%+'/ %? '%- large crowd gathered and expressing their readiness to bring back Yawalkar wrote. Atest positive for coron- Government on Saturday turned /%/(%%%?%.'. attacked the ambulance and its nearly 2000-odd students and people strand- On their return from Rajasthan, the stu- avirus in Mumbai’s Dharavi on down the request of the family .%(+- .'/(- occupants protesting against the ed in these two states. dents and people would be screened and Saturday, taking the total num- of neurosurgeon Simon C+.'%C-%% burial there. In two separate communications sent on home-quarantined for 14 days in Maharashtra. ber of cases to 241 in Asia’s Hercules who died of Covid-19 However, the body was Saturday, Maharashtra’s director for Disaster In Punjan, “80 to 90” students are strand- largest slum where there have to bury his body at a cemetery .:%.+ ' :?%C%.%) buried after police intervened. Management Abhay Yawalkar requested the ed on Lovely University campus. Like in the been as many as 14 Covid-19 in Kilpauk locality. * ..(%'+?'- +.%-.%/ The police have arrested 20 Home Secretaries of the two states to convey case of Rajasthan, the State Disaster deaths so far. The wife of Hercules had -..(%* '<% persons in this to the respective institutions where the stu- Management director has requested the A day after six infected earlier appealed to Chief - %/+< - connection. dents and people are stranded and direct the Punjab government to ensure the “safe pas- cases and one death were Minister K. Palaniswami to per- On Wednesday Chief students and people to act as per the existing sage” of stranded students and people from reported from Dharavi, the mit the casket containing her Minister K. Palaniswami spoke protocols issued for Covid-19 issued by the its state. authorities recorded 21 infect- husband's body to be taken out bury it elsewhere after it was to Hercules' wife Anandhi two Governments. The students from Lovely University will ed more cases on Saturday, group of 13 to 66 years. from a different cemetery and buried safely first. Simon and consoled her. Anywhere 1800 to 2000 people from be returning to Maharashtra by road by via resulting in the total Covid-19 What has caused anxiety bury it at a cemetery as per his The 55-year old Hercules In a video message, she Maharashtra are stranded at Kota in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. The tally in this densely populat- among the city health author- last wish. died here recently at a private appealed to Palaniswami to shift Rajasthan. Through its communication, the Punjab Government has requested the gov- ed slum to 241. ities is that infected cases have The Greater Chennai hospital and his mortal remains the casket containing his mor- Maharashtra Government has requested the ernments of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, The new infected cases been reported from most parts Corporation has decided to turn were taken to Kilpauk cemetery, tal remains to the Kilpauk ceme- Ashok Gehlot dispensation to ensure the “safe Gujarat and their district authorities are were reported from the areas of of Dharavi, which is spread down the family's request based but the locals protested against tery as per his last wish. passage” of stranded students and people from requested to co-operate with the return jour- Koliwada, Mukund Nagar, M over 240 hectare area on an expert committee's deci- the burial fearing spread of She said her husband before its state. ney of the students. 60 feet road, Shanti Shivan Dharavi, which is home to sion. virus. being put on the ventilator had According to the communication, the stu- On their return from Punjab, the students housing society, Kanchi Karve 4 lakh people, is one of the The Corporation said it is His body was then taken to expressed his wish to be buried dents and people will be returning from Kota would be screened and home-quarantined for Nagar, Indira Nagar, Kalpataru Covid-19 hotspots in Mumbai. unsafe to take out the body and a different cemetery where a as per the family ritual. IANS by road via Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat 14 days in Maharashtra. housing society, Kalyanwadi, Ever since first few cases of Social Nagar, Rajiv Gandhi Covid-19 were reported in the Nagar and Matunga Labour early first week of April, the camp. Brihanmumbai Municipal 1 93 8 BC# ?@@ 8 Among those who tested Corporation (BMC) is closely positive were ten women and monitoring the situation in According to Rohit The total number of orange has been permitted 11 men. There are two teenage Dharavi where the health 665 Kansal, spokesman of the cases in the most affected in Janipur, Gujjar nagar, )" 1431 girls among the infected. authorities have clamped a Jammu & Kashmir district of Bandipora sat- Bhatindi & Sunjwan, keep- Those infected were in the age total lockdown. n day one of the holy Government, "a total num- urday rose to 116 while ing in view the guidelines Omonth of Ramzan, ber of 40 new cases were Srinagar stood at number for the same". 8!./ Tamil Nadu is 52 per cent and we are Kashmir valley reported tested positive from two slot with 83 positive She said that further, leading the table,” he said. highest ever spike in total Kashmir division on satur- cases and Shopian at num- transition from orange to he number of coronavirus cases With the passing away of a 34- 5 # A number of cases as 42 day,taking the total tally to ber three position with 63 green will take place as per Ttested positive in Tamil Nadu year-old man in a Chennai hospital, 23 patients tested positive and 494". Two more cases coronavirus cases. procedure, in due course of reached 1,821 with 66 persons testing persons have died in Tamil Nadu since one more death was report- admitted in Chest diseases Meanwhile, majority of time (second week of May, positive for covid-19 all over the State the outbreak of the pandemic, the min- 11@ ed due to Covid-19 on hospital tested positive late mosques across Kashmir if situation remains as it is on Saturday. This was disclosed by Dr ister said. Saturday. Saturday evening. Out of valley wore a deserted look today). C Vijaya Baskar, Tamil Nadu Minister The next four days will see all Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on With this death, the 42 cases, highest number of and no where 'iftaar' was The District Magistrate for Health during a media briefing on major cities in the State observing total Saturday said seven more individuals have tested positive for the number of casualties due to 14 cases tested positive organised at the end of the said that the order/ notifi- Saturday. lockdown as per the order issued by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the state, taking the total num- the novel coronavirus has from Kharpora area of day long fasting. cation of withdrawal shall The Minister said though the State Government. ber of people presently under treatment to 116. In all, those present- reached to six in J&K. So Anantnag. Worshippers offered be issued when the transi- number of coronavirus cases showed The lockdown order has been ly affected and cured cases stands at 457. far, three deaths have been He said, J&K has prayers inside their homes tion from Red zone to an upward march, there were some issued following the recommendation "A total of 20,580 people are under observation at homes and reported from Baramulla, enhanced its testing capac- or on the rooftops before green zone is complete. encouraging information from the by the expert committee appointed by 464 others are being observed at various hospitals in the state," said one each from Srinagar, ity and at present testing breaking their fast. The district authori- field. “Saturday saw the the chief minister to study the pattern Vijayan. Bandipora and Udhampur more than 1000 samples a Giving partial relief to ties in Rajouri and Poonch discharge of 94 persons who had been of spread of the coronavirus and with "One fresh positive case is of a lady health professional at Kollam. districts. day. He said, three patients residents located in some of have also sealed entry and admitted to various hospitals in the an eye to prevent community trans- Besides, an 84-year old-M. Abubacker who was positive and under According to official recovered, two from the red-zones in Jammu, exit points along the State and who were cured of the pan- mission. treatment at Kozhikode Medical College hospital has now recov- sources, a 72 year old Jammu and one from Deputy Commissioner Mughal road to prevent demic. Till date 960 persons who have The Government has ordered that ered and is a commendable achievement of our health officials, patient, suffering from Kashmir,taking the total Susham Chauhan informed movement of people via been admitted to various hospitals in Amma Restaurants, a concept eatery there," said Vijayan. hypertension and other ill- tally of recovered patients four localities of Janipur, Shopian. the State have been cured completely launched by the former chief minister "The Centre is seeing our work against COVID-19 in a very nesses, was admitted in the to 112. The two patients, Gujjar Nagar, Bhatindi and Large number of vil- and discharged,” said the late J Jayalalithaa would function till appreciate manner... especially the arrangements we have made in SKIMS since April 13 and who were discharged from Sunjwan have been kept in lagers have tested positive Minister. May 3 despite the lockdown orders and advance to receive the Kerala diaspora and it can be taken as a model was undergoing treatment Jammu included a retired Orange zone now. In a in Heerpora,one of the He said Tamil Nadu topped the serve free food to all workers and for other states. This was told to our chief secretary by the central after he tested positive for police officer and his ser- statement she said, "the localities declared as red- table of States with good recovery rate. laborers who have been thrown out of Cabinet secretary," said Covid-19. vant. transition from Red zone to zones in South Kashmir. “ As on Saturday, the recovery rate in work. Vijayan. IANS &6 & A !1, - 6 0 . "" ?: & 8!./ “Over the past 50 years the emer- great Indian books Charaka Samhita, against coronavirus. Prof BM Hegde gence of many different coron- Aashtamga Samgraham , Susrutha and Dr C V Krishnaswamy has hough a section of the medical aviruses that cause a wide variety of Samhita etc,” said Dr Remya, a expressed their agony over the step- " & 37 B $, Tfraternity and media are agog human and veterinary diseases has native of Thalassery in Kerala. motherly treatment of Ayurveda by with expectations of a major break- occurred. It is likely that these virus- Dr Raj Kumar has authored a powers that be. “The vaccine which *+,*-./ through in developing a vaccine to es will continue to emerge and to book by name Unveiling The Truths they claim to be on the verge of mar- 656B /@ + %-/.(..(%C fight and neutralise the dreaded evolve and cause both human and in Ayurveda based on the research keting is nothing new but another +*@%?.%+<.(%'+?:/+- he Rotary Club of Delhi Heritage coronavirus, veteran medical scien- veterinary outbreaks owing to their held by the husband-wife duo. version of Ebola vaccine which had aharashtra Health .+%-..(%- %/+<.(% Thanded over 5,000 reusable masks tists and doctors (both modern and ability to recombine, mutate, and According to Dr Kumar, all varieties failed. I do not think it is going to be MMinister Rajesh Tope on ?++ -/<.(%- %/ each to the Kendriya Bhandar and the Indian systems) are of the view that infect multiple species and cell types,” of pandemic, swine flu, bird flu or a success. What happened to earlier Saturday indicated that the -*%?+.%/).(% ..% Delhi Police on Saturday. it is doomed to fail. said Jane Maier and her team. covid-19 break out in the body vaccines and tablets like Tamiflu? lockdown in the containment +%C%.+ '/+.(% According to a statement, the club is What is shocking is that Mike This was also substantiated by when the host person loses the Cochrane Review which analyses and zones of Mumbai and Pune '.%.%* ..+%.%/ supplying around 50,000 reusable masks Adams, popularly known as Health the 15 year long research by Dr power of immunity. “It is by address- studies medical research findings had may be extended till May 18, in .(%'+?:/+%-(%% for distribution, in coordination with the Ranger, has said in his medical jour- Remya Krishna and Dr Raj Kumar, ing this weakness and strengthening ruled that Tamiflu and Oseltamvir view of the rapid increase in the /%C?-+.?+.%/)<+ PIB, responding to Prime Minister nal that coronavirus vaccine would associate professors at Rajiv Gandhi the immunity power of the body we were not advisable because of side number of coronavirus cases in +.(%<+.(.<.%.(%%/ Narendra Modi''s call to help the people not work and might actually create Ayurveda Medical College, Mahe, can fortify a person against corona effects,” said Dr Krishnaswamy. these two cities. +<'+?:/++= by donating relief material during the more new viruses through recombi- Government of Puducherry. Dr virus or any other disease,” said Dr Both Prof Hegde and Tope said that the main Covid-19 crisis. nation in human hosts. Remya told The Pioneer on Saturday Raj Kumar. Krishnaswamy said that 55 per cent objective of the lockdown was Brihanmumbai Municipal It stated that the face masks have been “Any vaccine for the Wuhan that it would not be an easy task to Dr B Rajeeve, Perumbavoor of the companies manufacturing to arrest the spread of the coro- Corporation (BMC) has iden- made by women tailors working from coronavirus would actually create develop a vaccine for coronavirus. based Ayurvedic physician who has vaccines are owned by a billionaire navirus and if the spread was tified 31 areas containment home during the ongoing lockdown. more viruses inside people’s bodies, “We have found from our research been collaborating with Remya-Raj businessman. “This philanthropist being contained, the State zones in Mumbai, while there The statement said that Kuldeep making the situation worse than it that a vaccine may succeed in neu- Kumar duo in their research said that had approached me while I was the Government would not have are seven containment zones in Singh Dhatwalia, Principal Director already is,” says Adams in his research tralising the virus which case pan- it was possible to identify any kind chairman of the Bihar State Health any alternative but to extend the Pune. General of PIB, and Rajeev Jain, ADG of report. demics but the same virus would of fever in the initial stage itself based Society’s Expert Committee with an lockdown in areas where pan- As on Friday evening, there PIB, handed over 5,000 masks each to A team of researchers led by reappear in more virulent form in on Ayurvedic principles and decide offer to donate hundreds of million demic is not contained, for were as many as 191 Covid-19 New Delhi DCP Eish Singhal and Helena Jane Maier of Pirbright another name to claim more lives. the treatment protocol. “Till date we dollars to treat the kala-azar disease. another fortnight after the end triggered deaths, while the total Kendriya Bhandar CMD Mukesh Kumar Institute, UK had said in a scientif- Results of our studies prove that any have not encountered any failure,” “I told this man that Kala-azar could of lockdown on May 3. number of infected cases has at the National Media Centre. ic paper published in the journal kind of pandemic, let it be fever or said Dr Rajeeve. be eradicated by a neat house with- “At present, the issue is mounted to 4870. In Pune, Jain handed over the masks on behalf Coronaviruses (of the Nature other contagious disease, could be The Pioneer had reported earli- out crevices to prevent the carrier only with the slums where pos- there have so far been 73 deaths of the Rotary Club of Delhi Heritage. Publishing Group) in 2015 itself cured by finding the root cause of the er that the Union Government has sand fly from breeding during the itive cases are increasing rapid- and 1030 infected cases. Rakesh Jain, president of Rotary Heritage, that attempts to develop a vaccine for disease and prescribing the medicine been cold shouldering the Ayurveda rains and better nutrition. Hence we ly. We have to ensure that all the Tope said that his ministry was present on the occasion, it added. coronavirus would end up in failure. as per the protocol mentioned in the branch of medicine in its fight lost the money,” said Prof Hegde. containment zones are com- had asked the state government pletely cordoned off. If required, to enforce lockdown restric- we will extend the lockdown for tions on schools, colleges and L"@ (1 5 " 15 more days after 3 May only public gatherings across * " 1666 for the containment zones, if Maharashtra till May 18. “For " " not for the entire Mumbai and Mumbai and Pune, all non- - 89 Pune," Tope said, while inter- essential services will not be & 1 acting with “Mint” newspaper. allowed to operate in the 5 ;: 665 original place of residence of There are 512 active con- hotspot areas for at least anoth- local terrorists. tainment zones in the state er 15 days after 3 May,” Tope Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh's Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief n the last 24 hours, 'hot pur- The police authorities had currently. In Mumbai, the said. Covid-19 tally crossed the Minister Yogi Adityanath on Isuit' approach adopted by the decided not to handover the 1000-mark on Saturday morn- Saturday made it clear that no security forces resulted in the dead bodies of terrorists to ing. With 61 new cases detect- public gatherings will be killing of five terrorists in two their families as they were ed during the course of testing allowed in the State till June 30. different operations in Kulgam anticipating large assembly of done between 10 a.m. on "CM Adityanath has given and Pulwama districts of people at the burial site. The Friday and 10 a.m. on Saturday, strict instructions to the officers Kashmir valley. health authorities had also put the number of coronavirus that no crowd of any kind can In the absence of any truce their foot down as in the past cases in the state touched 1016, gather by June 30. This decision on account of Ramzan, securi- assembly of people in pockets while the death toll reached 31. has been taken with the inten- ty forces Saturday eliminated of South Kashmir had clearly Srikakulam which did not have tion of keeping the coron- two more terrorists and one resulted in spread of a single case till date, has avirus under control," hardcore associate in an Coronavirus in parts of reported 3 cases. Mrityunjay Kumar, Media encounter in Goripora area of Kashmir valley during funeral The latest surge in the state Advisor to Aditynath said in a Awantipora in South Kashmir's processions of slain terrorists. is from Krishan district with 25 tweet on Saturday. Pulwama district. cases, followed by Kurnool The directions from the Earlier, two terrorists were with 14 new cases. Anantapur Chief Minister came two days killed in Kulgam while rescu- district reported 5 cases, ahead of the scheduled meet- ing a kidnapped jawan of rail- Kadapa and Nellore districts ing of the chief ministers with way protection force on Friday reported 4 cases each, while three days, Andhra Pradesh has among southern states, even Prime Minister Narendra Modi evening. East Godavari, Guntur and been reporting a relatively though the tally is higher in on April 27 via video confer- Kashmir zone police in a Srikakulam districts reported 3 higher number of Covid-19 some of the other states in the ence. The issue of lockdown is tweet said, "two unidentified cases each. positive cases. region. to be discussed during the terrorists and 1 hardcore asso- This is the first time that On Thursday, the state had While neighbouring meeting with the Prime ciate of terrorists killed in Covid-19 cases have been conducted 6306 tests, of which, Telangana has reported 25 Minister. Awantipora encounter on detected in Srikakulam district 62 cases tested positive. deaths till Friday, the death toll Modi has already extend- Saturday". The security forces which along with Similarly, on Wednesday, 6520 in Tamil Nadu is 25, and 18 in ed the nationwide lockdown till were carrying out searches in Vizianagaram district had not tests were conducted and 81 Karnataka, while Kerala has May 3 to combat the spread of the area to rule out the possi- reported a single case till cases were reported from the reported 4 deaths so far. COVID-19 across the bility of presence of some date. state. The AP Government is country. explosives at the encounter The state nodal officer With two more deaths taking note of the high death On Saturday, the death toll site. informed that of the 6928 sam- reported in the past 24 hours, rate in the state and officials in Uttar Pradesh rose to 25 with Meanwhile, the police ples tested during this period, the death toll in the state stands said that a clinical audit of the 1,621 number of COVID-19 teams lifted DNA samples of 61 tested positive. With the at 31. Incidentally, the death toll deaths is underway to study the cases out which 247 have been slain terrorists and opted for testing stepped up over the past in the state is the highest issue. IANS cured. IANS silent burial far away from the +,- +.+. : / D (,0A6,'.617 10,,10-22B
Washington: The global coro- continent hardest hit by the The vaccine should be Germany and France. United States, which has $ Q12 navirus has claimed at least pandemic that emerged late safe, affordable and available to But notably absent from accused the UN’s World 200,568 on Saturday as the last year. Italy has the most all, Guterres stressed at the the meeting were the leaders Health Organization of not United Nations launched an deaths with 26,384 followed by meeting, which was also of China, where the virus first warning quickly enough about Q+& international push for a vaccine Spain with 22,902, France with attended by the leaders of emerged late last year, and the the original outbreak. AFP to defeat the pandemic. 22,245 and Britain with Governments around the world 20,319. ?R are struggling to limit the eco- The scale of the pandem- nomic devastation unleashed ic has forced medical research +# by the virus, which has infect- on the virus to move at Washington: The United States World Health Organization and ed nearly 2.8 million people unprecedented speed, but is working with other countries then did a lot of things — and and left half of humanity under effective treatments are still far 36666 to make sure they understand we can talk about them at great some form of lockdown. away and the United Nations that coronavirus originated in length — to cover that up,” The United States is the chief said the effort will London: The number of the overall number of days of the first UK death Wuhan, China, Secretary of Pompeo added. hardest-hit country by far in require cooperation on a glob- deaths in the UK hospitals COVID-19 deaths in the recorded from the coron- State Mike Pompeo has said. Those are the kinds of the pandemic, recording al scale. from the novel coronavirus country is much higher. avirus. Stressing that the burden is things that the US needs to 52,869 deaths and more than “ We face a global public crossed the grim milestone of Last month, in response to The government’s Chief on Beijing to explain where the address, he said. 930,171 infections. enemy like no other,” 20,000 on Saturday, up by a question at the daily Scientific Adviser, Sir Patrick virus came from, Pompeo told Pompeo alleged that the The virus has killed over Secretary-General Antonio 813 over the previous day – Downing Street briefings, Valance, had also said it was The Ben Shapiro Show in an World Health Organisation 120,00 people in Europe with Guterres told a virtual briefing among the highest daily death Stephen Powis, the Medical the “ hope” that the death toll interview on Friday that China failed in its mission to protect the more than three quarters of on Friday, asking for interna- tolls recorded this week. Director of National Health would be kept below 20,000. knew about the virus by world from the pandemic. those fatalities in Italy, France, tional organisations, world These official figures Service (NHS) England, said The UK’s death toll now December, 2019. certainly by December of 2019,” “ We’re not going to let that Spain and Britain, according to leaders and the private sector released daily by the UK’s a total number of deaths makes it just one of a number “ We need to hold account- he said. happen again, and we’re going to an AFP tally on Saturday using to join hands. Department of Health and under 20,000 “ would be a of countries to have crossed able the parties responsible for “ ... And that they (China) set up something, a system, official figures. “ A world free of COVID- Social Care do not account for good outcome” . the 20,000 fatalities mark, the deaths here in the United failed to comply with their most which delivers an outcome With 120,140 deaths and 19 requires the most massive deaths that occur elsewhere in However, that figure has after France, Spain, Italy and States and the enormous eco- fundamental obligations as a which reduces the risk that any- 1,344,172 cases, Europe is the public health effort in history.” the community, which means now been crossed within 51 the US. PTI nomic costs that have been nation, and importantly, too, thing like this can ever happen posed on the US,” he said. failed to comply with the inter- again, from China or from any- Pompeo said that the entire national health regulations of the place else,” he said. PTI ? , global economic system has Q= R been decimated. “ Diplomatically, we’re / !! 7 Q reaching out to countries all across the world to help them do " + ./ 48 the matter publicly. the right thing, to help their $++ $ R + < The briefings often stretch economies get started back up, or the first time, President well beyond an hour and fea- to make sure that when the time Washington: Asserting that set a goal of getting 100,000 sig- Washington: Trying to wrig- experts who urged people not and a very sarcastic question — FDonald Trump cut off his ture combative exchanges is right we can get internation- China’s Communist natures. “ China’s Communist gle out of the backlash he to listen to the President’s “ to the reporters in the room daily coronavirus task force between Trump and reporters. al travel kicked back up so that Government needs to be held government needs to be held received for his outlandish dangerous” advice. about disinfectant on the briefing on Friday without tak- Trump was angry after a global commerce can recom- accountable for “ lying” about accountable for their role in lying suggestions, US President Doctors and the company inside,” he said. ing any questions from reporters. day of punishing headlines on mence, he said. the coronavirus pandemic, top about the Coronavirus pan- Donald Trump has said that he that makes Lysol and Dettol Trump suggested he was It may not be the last time. Friday, largely about his com- “ If you get demand back up, Indian-American Republican demic, and the US Congress was being “ sarcastic” when he warned that injecting or talking about disinfectants that There have been discus- ment at the previous evening’s that will matter an awful lot to politician Nikki Haley has needs to respond – now,” said told his medical experts that ingesting disinfectants was can safely be rubbed on peo- sions within the White House briefing wondering if it would workers right here in the United launched an online petition 48-year-old Haley, a former US they should consider using dangerous. ple’s hands. about changing the format of be helpful to inject disinfec- States of America,” he said. urging the US Congress to act. Ambassador to the United UV light, heat, or injecting When Trump was asked “ But it does kill it, and it the briefings to curtail the tant into people to fight the “ We are also working with More than 40,000 people Nations. “ Join us in our fight to disinfectants into the about his comments during a would kill it on the hands and president’s role, according to coronavirus. those countries to make sure have signed the ‘Stop stop China from gaining influ- COVID-19 patients as a bill signing on Friday, he said: that would make things much four White House officials and That idea drew loud warn- they understand that this was in Communist China’ petition by ence in America and around the potential treatment. “ I was asking a question sar- better. That was done in the Republicans close to the White ings from health experts who fact a virus that originated in Friday night, hours after being world. Sign this petition and Trump faced intense castically to reporters like you form of a sarcastic question to House who spoke on condition said the idea was dangerous Wuhan, China, that the Chinese launched by the former gover- please share with your friends,” rebuke on Thursday for his far- just to see what would happen”. the reporters,” The Hill quot- of anonymity because they and sharp criticism from Government knew about this nor of South Carolina who has she added. PTI fetched suggestion from health “ I was asking a sarcastic — ed Trump as saying. PTI were not authorised to discuss Democrats. 9666-)" & & ?,' @6 8 Q" R Colombo: Nearly 4,000 Sri during his media briefing of & Lankan Navy personnel and the National Operation Centre Berlin: The World Health their families have been quar- for the Prevention of COVID- Madrid: Spain’s health authori- Organisation is cautioning antined at a major naval facil- 19 here. ties say 2,944 new COVID-19 against the idea of “ immuni- ity after 60 COVID-19 cases Following the new cases, infections were confirmed in the ty passports.” It says there is were confirmed in two days, a nearly 4,000 naval personnel previous 24 hours, taking the currently no evidence that peo- media report said on Saturday. and their families at the naval total to nearly 206,000 cases. ple who have recovered from evidence about the effective- The move came as 30 Navy base have been isolated with- Authorities say the daily COVID-19 and have antibod- ness of antibody-mediated personnel tested positive for in the camp, the paper report- figure is a 1.5 per cent increase ies are protected against a sec- immunity to guarantee the the COVID-19 virus each on ed, citing an order issued by from Friday, compared to over ond infection. accuracy of an ‘immunity pass- Friday and Saturday at the the Sri Lankan Navy. 20 per cent from a month before. The concept of “ immuni- port’ or ‘risk-free certificate.’” country’s Welisara Naval camp, The spurt in new cases There were 378 reported deaths ty passports” or “ risk-free cer- It argues that people who the state-run Daily News came amidst Sri Lanka decid- in the last 24 hours, taking the tificates” has been floated as a assume they are immune to reported. ing to lift the nationwide cur- death toll since the start of the way of allowing people pro- reinfection may ignore public “ Today 30 Navy personnel few imposed to stem the pandemic in Spain to nearly tected against reinfection to health advice, and such cer- have tested positive for the spread of the coronavirus on 23,000. “ The recent tendency of return to work. tificates could raise the risks of COVID-19 virus. Another 30 Monday. the evolution of the pandemic But the Geneva-based UN continued virus transmission. had tested positive for the Sri Lanka has been under appears to hold true, each day health agency says in a scien- WHO adds that tests for virus yesterday,” Army a strict curfew since March 20 improving a bit, but it is impor- tific brief released Saturday antibodies of the new coron- Commander Lieutenant to combat the COVID-19 that tant to not fall into excessive that more research is needed. avirus also “ need further val- General Shavendra Silva was has claimed seven lives and euphoria,” Spanish health offi- It says that “ at this point in the idation to determine their 2 quoted as saying by the paper infected 420 people. PTI cial Fernando Simón said. AFP pandemic, there is not enough accuracy and reliability.” AP & " * '#R ( BR 2- ! &
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Gaza City: For the first time in three weeks, “ all for the Israeli did not want to discuss politics Such wages are typical in years, sewing factories in the market.” Gaza may not have and framed their work in the depressed Gazan economy, Gaza Strip are back to working the advanced machinery seen terms of business and human- but would barely keep a fami- " at full capacity — producing in other places, but he said res- itarian needs. ly afloat. It costs around USD masks, gloves and protective idents’ sewing skills are “ Despite the siege in Gaza, 250 a month to rent a two-bed- gowns, some of which are unmatched. “ Gaza workers we export these masks and pro- room apartment. " bound for Israel. are distinguished in handiwork tective clothes to the whole Omar Shaban, an econo- It’s a rare economic lifeline and they are better than work- world without exception,” mist who heads a local think in the coastal territory, which ers in China or Turkey,” he said. Bashir Bawab, the owner of tank, said the conditions cre- has been blockaded by Israel Another factory, Unipal Unipal 2000, said. ated by the blockade allow for 9 and Egypt since the Hamas mil- 2000, is able to employ 800 “ We feel we are doing a “ exploitation,” but that low- itant group seized power from workers across two shifts to humanitarian duty.” In recent wage jobs still provide income Rome: Italy will start distrib- police. Millions of Italians will rival Palestinian forces in the produce protective equipment years, Tamer Emad, a skilled for many people. uting free protective masks to be allowed to return to work- strip in 2007. The blockade, and around the clock. textile worker, was able to Unipal 2000 first opened nursing homes, many of which places starting on May 4, when three wars between Hamas and Both factories import fab- work one week per month at in an industrial zone along the have been devastated by coro- lockdown restrictions will be Israel, have devastated the local ric and other materials from best. But over the past month, frontier in 1998, when the navirus infections and deaths. considerably eased. economy, with unemployment customers in Israel and then he has been on the Unipal fac- peace process was in full Domenico Arcuri, the gov- Italy, with some 26,000 hovering around 50 per cent. have been largely spared from health care system has been produce items like masks, tory floor every day, earning swing. But like many other ernment’s commissioner for reported deaths, most of them But the sudden opportu- the coronavirus pandemic, battered by years of conflict. gloves and surgical gowns. around USD 8 per shift. Gaza businesses, it was forced the pandemic, says doing so is of elderly persons, has Europe’s nity also shows how Gaza’s with only 17 cases detected, all But for now, authorities are Unipal makes about 150,000 “ This has provided us to shut down after the Hamas a “ gesture of solidarity and highest toll from COVID-19. economy is at the mercy of within quarantine facilities set cautiously allowing most busi- pieces a day, and demand is with a good opportunity ahead takeover and the blockade. nearness and support to these In Lombardy, Italy’s most those enforcing the blockade — up for those returning from nesses to stay open. high as countries around the of Ramadan,” he said, referring Israel says the blockade is places ever more at the epi- stricken region, prosecutors and how depressed wages have abroad. Many still fear an out- Rizq al-Madhoun, owner of world grapple with shortages. to the Muslim holy month, needed to prevent Hamas, an center of this great crisis.” are investigating about two become. Workers earn as little break in the impoverished ter- the Bahaa garment company, Asked about doing busi- which began Thursday, when Islamic militant group that Arcuri says free masks also dozen homes, including one in as USD 8 a day. ritory, which is home to 2 mil- said he has produced more than ness with Israeli customers, families traditionally splurge on opposes Israel’s existence, from will be distributed to public Milan where some 200 resi- So far, Gaza appears to lion people and where the 1 million masks in the past both factory owners said they food and shopping. arming itself. AP officials, transport workers and dents died. AP ; +,- +.+. $ & < :,+ & =1
*+,*-./ portation and milling of 5.88 Telangana have begun distrib- noted that “the scale of this lakh tonne of pulses will have ution. Several other States and operation is massive and far n a bid to provide free puls- to be milled for distribution of UTs have decided to distribute more complex than foodgrain Ies to 20 crore households 5.88 lakh tonnes of milled and pulses along with foodgrain movement”. through public distribution cleaned pulses under the PDS distribution in the first week of According to the ministry, system, the Centre will dis- for three months under the May for reasons of social dis- NAFED has been allowed to tribute 5.88 lakh metric tonnes PMGAY. While the monthly tancing and public safety. use the pulses stock lying in its under the Pradhan Mantri requirement of pulses is about Some States and UTs such 165 godowns for this purpose. Garib Anna Yojna (PMGAY) to 1.96 lakh tonne under the as Andaman and Nicobar, The cooperative, which has States and Union Territories PMGAY, about 1.45 lakh tonne Chandigarh, Dadra Nagar roped in over 100 dal mills so amid coronavirus lockdown. of milled and cleaned pulses Haveli, Goa, Ladakh, far, is selecting the millers According to the Ministry have so far been offered to Puducherry, Lakshadweep and through online auctions. Also, of Consumer Affairs, most of states for distribution through even Punjab have been provid- a five group of officers of both the beneficiaries will receive the PDS, also called ration shops. preferably within the third week and as many cycles of loading lakh truck trips and loading as Union Territories such as ed milled/cleaned pulses for all Consumer Affairs and quota for the first month with- “While, as on date, about of May, it added. About one- and unloading. While for long well as unloading operation Andhra Pradesh, Assam, three months in one go, it said. Agriculture Ministries have in April or latest by the first 30,000 tonnes of pulses have third of the monthly require- distances, transport is being over a period of 4 weeks, the Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Haryana, Several States with dal mills been created for coordinating week of May and several states been distributed, this would ment of pulses has been taken done through goods trains, in ministry said, adding that it is Himachal Pradesh, within their jurisdictions have with states, NAFED, dal millers would be able to distribute speed up in the first week of by states and union territories to most cases transportation is by challenging during the lock- Maharashtra, Meghalaya, been asked to lift the milled and warehousing corporations. pulses for all three months in May. For the remaining states, final destinations for distribu- road through trucks, the min- down as many dal mills and Arunachal Pradesh, pulses by themselves to speed The Cabinet Secretary is the first go itself. the efforts are being made to tion, it said. Each kilo of pulse istry added. godowns are located in the Andamans, Chandigarh, up the process, it added. personally monitoring the dis- According to the ministry, complete the distribution for all goes through at least three (in This kind of massive oper- hotspot areas. Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, The cooperative NAFED is tribution on a day to day basis, the massive operation of trans- three months within May itself, many cases four) trips by truck ation would involve about two Around 17 States and Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, and executing the task, it said and the ministry added. & P 8 & 76 *+,*-./ education, entertainment, access other essential services. medical and business require- The Home Ministry had *+,*-./ with illustration of ‘Dos and port essential goods across the wo apex industry bodies ments,” the letter said. earlier allowed e-commerce Don’ts’ for Truck/Lorry country. TICEA and Confederation According to industry esti- companies to sell non-essen- gainst the backdrop of Drivers as they handle increas- “The animation calls upon of All India Traders (CAIT) mates, around 2.5 crore peo- tial items during the second ACOVID-19 pandemic, the ing movements of goods across people to respect and cooperate New Delhi: Markets regulator Kantilal Chhaganlal Securities have jointly written to Union ple in the country may be hav- leg of the coronavirus lock- Government on Saturday asked the country. with truck/lorry drivers who are Sebi has imposed a total penal- Pvt Ltd, respectively for misus- Home Minister Amit Shah, ing a non-functional or dam- down but after protest from truckers to take all possible “Union Ministry of Road working to ease life by trans- ty of Rs 30 lakhs on six individ- ing clients’ funds. seeking permission for sale of aged phones leading to tough various sections including precautions while transporting Transport and Highways porting essential goods and uals for indulging in fraudulent During the probe, Sebi mobile phones by pleading time for them in accessing traders’ body the essential goods across Ministry has released an illus- medicines in the scenario when trading in the shares of Mapro found that Arihant Futures and that such handsets are pivotal essential services during the Confederation of All India the country. trative animation video which Government had to extend Industries. Kantilal Chhaganlal have mis- for communications during ongoing lockdown which has Traders (CAIT), the decision The Ministry of Road provides for broad Dos and lockdown to curb COVID-19 The regulator through an used the clients’ funds with the lockdown. entered into 5th week. was withdrawn. Transport and Highways also Don’ts for truck/lorry drivers as and save lives,” the ministry said order levied a fine of Rs 6 lakh credit balance for meeting oblig- The India Cellular and “In addition to this, a large The joint letter by the released an animation video they are handling trips to trans- in a statement. each on six persons — Bijay ations of debit balance clients. By Electronics Association number of citizens are cur- ICEA and CAIT said that Kumar Chourasia, Shyam doing so, they have violated the (ICEA) — whose members rently suffering on account of shops providing retail sales Kanheyalal Vyas, Jyoti Jha, provisions of SCRA (Securities include Apple, Foxconn, faulty mobile devices and services of mobile Mukund Kumar Jha, Satyendra Contracts Regulation Act). Wistron, Flextronics, Xiaomi, which require urgent repairing devices number only 2.5 lakhs, *734 (R Kumar Jha and Prem Lata In an another order, the reg- Vivo, Oppo, Lava, among oth- and replacement,” the letter which is just a small subset of Nahar. ulator has levied a fine of 6 lakh ers — in its earlier communi- said. the 10-15 lakh telecom ser- Sebi had conducted an on Era Infra Engineering for dis- cations to government author- In a separate letter to Home vices establishments spread 70 D investigation in the scrip of closures lapses. ities had said that mobile Scretary Ajay Bhalla, the ICEA across the country which pro- Mapro Industries between The firm did not submit phones are at the heart of this has said that more than 10 crore vide telecom services which November 2013 and June 2014. compliance certificate to the ecosystem and their non-avail- senior citizens at the bottom of include sale of recharge, SIM Mumbai: At least 328 entities across sectors, includ- ties as per a mandate received from Sebi, and The probe found that these exchanges and did not give ability can be life threatening. pyramid do not have access to card, etc. ing state-owned and those backed by big con- made it clear that missed payment by these enti- entities were engaged in artifi- make submission about In a joint letter to Shah on even feature phones and are “India Cellular and glomerates, have opted for availing the Reserve ties even in the case of pending formal approval cial and non-genuine trades investors complaints to the April 22, the industry bodies being denied access. Electronics Association and Bank’s three-month moratorium on their debt from the lending institutions prior to the origi- with a view to manipulate the bourses within specified time as mentioned that a very large The government has Confederation of All India repayments, rating agency Icra said on Saturday. nal due date, is not considered an instance of price of MIL. Such trades creat- required under LODR. number of citizens don’t have allowed opening of standalone Traders jointly recommend The list of entities, rated by it, include Air India default. Air India Express having a debt of 1,301 ed a misleading impression of Separately, the regulator has access to basic mobile phones of shops but not shops in the allowing the sale and service of Express, ONGC Petro Additions, entities from Tata crore, and ONGC Petro Additions — which had stock price increase. By slapped a fine of 3 lakh on even during these extraordi- malls or shopping complex mobile devices and its acces- Group, JSW Group and GMR Group. debt of 33,180 crore and $155 million in foreign indulging in such trades, they Viking Industries for failing to nary circumstances. that house most of the mobile sories without any further On March 27, the RBI had given borrowers borrowings, have opted for the moratorium on have violated the provisions of make disclosure to 20 Microns “Therefore, there is an devices retailers. delay. The operationalisation a three-month moratorium on debt repayments its loans, the agency said. Interglobe Hotels, with PFUTP (Prohibition of Ltd and exchanges when its urgent requirement and des- The Ministry of of these shops shall be done in for the March-May period due to the COVID-19 debt of 811 crore, and having its outlook on rat- Fraudulent and Unfair Trade shareholding in the company peration amongst citizens to at Electronics and IT has also strict compliance to the pandemic. ing revised to negative earlier this month due to Practices) regulations, Sebi said crossed 5 per cent threshold least have access to basic fea- recommended inclusion of defined SOPs (standard oper- This is a voluntary measure and interest keeps worries on the hospitality sectors, has also opted on Friday. In separate orders, thereby violating the provisions ture phones or entry-level mobile devices, personal com- ating procedures) and pre- accruing on the loan during the period of mora- for the moratorium, it said, adding that other hos- Sebi has imposed a penalty of Rs of SAST (Substantial smart phones which can cater puters and related accessories ventive measures notified by torium, and experts have opined that such a move pitality sector companies, including Lemon Tree 10 lakh and 8 lakh on the bro- Acquisition of Shares and to their varied needs relating in list of essential goods to the government from time to would generally elongate the loan repayment peri- Hotels, and Barbeque Nation Hospitality have also kerage houses, Arihant Futures Takeover) and PIT (Prohibition to communication, children support work from home and time,” the letter said. od. Icra said it is disclosing the names of the enti- sought relief. PTI & Commodities Pvt Ltd and of Insider Trading) norms. 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New Delhi: The Indian bullion offered some relaxations to New Delhi: Civil Aviation market will not witness the open the shops in non-con- Minister Hardeep Singh Puri buying fervour as seen every tainment zones. on Saturday said that the coun- year on the auspicious occasion The Union Ministry of try’s civil aviation infrastructure of Akshya Tritiya that falls on Home Affairs on Friday allowed is “working round the clock” to Sunday this year due to a nation- opening of shops as part of the ensure transport of life-saving wide lockdown in place to fight easing of lockdown restrictions medical supplies. the coronavirus pandemic. announced on April 15 with In a tweet, the Minister However, the trade bodies neighbourhood shops and oth- said: “Our robust civil aviation said that jewellers will to take ers being allowed within the city infrastructure is working round the digital route to explore the and all shops except those in the clock to ensure timely possibility of selling. malls allowed outside the transport of life-saving medical Meanwhile, the recent municipal limits with 50 per cent supplies to regions where they order of the Centre may give strength of workers. But such are needed. the Indian bullion market an relaxations in any particular “Lifeline UDAN has till opportunity to trade if the area would be decided by the now transported 649 tonnes of state governments allow open- respective state governments. supplies on 368 flights across ing of shops, said Surendra “We have asked all the 3,63,819 kms.” Mehta, National Secretary, jewellers to get in touch with The Lifeline Udan flights India Bullion and Jewellers the buyers though the digital connect hubs in locations such Association (IBJA). route and if they are interest- as Guwahati, Dibrugarh, Gold prices are ruling near ed, they can purchase online Agartala, Aizwal, Dimapur, an all-time high in the domes- and get physical delivery of Imphal, Coimbatore, tic market while the yellow items when the lockdown Thiruvanthapuram, metal rallied to over a seven- ends,” said Mehta. Usually the Bhubaneswar, Raipur, Ranchi, year high in the global market wedding season starts with Port Blair and Goa. amid the coronavirus crisis. Akshya Tritiya in the country, Accordingly, the flights are Mehta said this is good but people are postponing or operated by Air India, Alliance news for the Indian bullion cancelling wedding schedules Air, IAF, Pawan Hans, Blue market that ahead of the aus- as social gathering is not Dart, SpiceJet, IndiGo and picious occasion of Akshay allowed due to the coronavirus Vistara. Tritiya, the government has outbreak in the country. IANS IANS 2" #' # # 5+ New Delhi: Most States will use escape been revised to 3.5 per cent. more for this year. clause given in their respective FRBM The need for breaching the deficit What’s more, for 10 states, the Acts to breach the 3 per cent fiscal target by states is arising out of huge committed expenditure (interest, salary deficit target set for FY21 as the expenditure needs they have project- and pension payments) amounted to Covid-19 pandemic wrecks on their ed to deal with Covid-19 pandemic. more than 53 per cent of the revenue finances while pushing up expenses for Moreover, with central revenue also receipts, as against the average of all healthcare services. under stress, states expect to get a lot states at 49 per cent, the brokerage Sources in the government said lower share from central pool of taxes. noted in its report. “The state finances that states have already pushed for So a higher fiscal deficit will allow them of several states are under stress and higher deficit target for FY21 with the to borrow more to meet the addition- Covid-19 will further their ability to Centre and they have been told to toe al funding need in this period of cri- consolidate financially while expand- the line taken by the it to raise their sis. According to an analysis done by ing deficit to meet additional fund deficit by 0.5 per cent of gross state Motilal Oswal of the fiscal position of requirement for the healthcare sector,” domestic product (GSDP) which is 18 states, eight states have already bud- said an analyst. On an aggregate basis, within their respective Fiscal geted for a 3 per cent fiscal deficit of all states spent only Rs 1.3 lakh crore Responsibility and Budget the GSDP or higher for FY21, Another or 0.73 per cent of GDP on medical Management (FRBM) Acts. five states have budgeted for a fiscal and public health in FY18, amounting Union Finance Minister Nirmala deficit of 2.5-2.9 per cent of their to 4.5 per cent of total spending by Sitharaman already used the escape respective GSDPs. Only five states have states. A study of 22 states and UTs clause in her February budget -- much budgeted for a fiscal deficit of less than confirms that Delhi tops the list with before the Covid-19 pandemic — 2.5 per cent of GSDP in FY21. the highest share of health spending after lower growth impacted govern- Of the states studied by the bro- (12.5 per cent of total spending), fol- ment finances. Accordingly the FY20 kerage, only seven states have target- lowed by Assam at 6.6 per cen per cent. deficit target was raised to 3.8 per cent ed a surplus on the revenue account Telangana and Andhra Pradesh spend of GDP from earlier 3.3 per cent. Also, and 10 states have outstanding liabil- the least (3.5 per cent of total spend- FY 21 central fiscal deficit target has ities of 24 per cent of the GSDP or ing) on health sector. IANS +,- +.+. ' # <
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Your ice soup is ready to must was a result of write but I am fortunate that I can utilise this serve. also be mind- the pandemic. creativity to make people of all age have a good Laughing on COVID-19 jokes all day is our ful of what Now people laugh,” Pandey says. guilty pleasure. But from where does this information we are left with no All this is fine but then some memes go over- humour comes from? Does it appear out of thin consume and option but to deal board and end up insulting a person or coun- air? The fact of the matter is that humans have whether it comes with it on a lighter try. Making fun is alright but then it should not learnt the art of laughing all the worries away. from a valid source, note. It is the con- cross the line where it ends up spreading a false- Be it a deadly virus that is affecting people all before levitating it stant frustration that is hood about someone. There have been some over the globe or a nationwide lockdown or even through various chan- coming out in the form good memes also but gradually it is ending up the falling economy, we can just laugh it away. nels,” she advises. of this humour. It is not only going extreme with targeting communities or Kartik Verma, a 22-year-old sound produc- YouTuber Harsh Beniwal, who relieving but it also gives a sense of satisfaction countries. Problem lies in the fact that some peo- tion student, who is actively coming up with recently posted a video pertaining to the current that all is not lost. We still have to something to ple with vested interests are using such memes jokes and videos tells you that it is a matter of lockdown scenarios — Bhai, Behen And laugh about and that way we can just laugh all to spread the misconception. creativity and a way to help those in distress. Lockdown says that he just followed the trend. our worries away,” Sharma tells you. The need is to understand that not every- “There is so much of negativity around us these The 18-minute long video begins with a It is the teens who are taking the lockdown body with access to social media is educated days. Switch on the TV and what one see is head- light-hearted narration on how the earth is reju- seriously and taking a dig on their parents. “In enough to take it lightly. Some memes though lines flashing of so many deaths related to venating itself after years of suffering manmade an unsettling reversal of my teenage years, I am are really targeted to educate people and this is COVID-19 and the rising cases. This is dis- chaos and goes on to talk about the brother-sis- now yelling at my parents for going out,” says one being used by authorities to bring home the turbing. We, young adults can infact find a way ter banters during the lockdown. The hilarious frustrated teen. importance of steps that the Government is tak- to relax and chat with our friends but our par- video strikes the right chord in the hearts of the Amit Pandey, senior scriptwriter at Cosmos ing. One such instance is when helpline depart- ents and grandparents, they are exposed to the audience who is more or less going through the Maya, who writes scripts for cartoon shows likes ment of Uttar Pradesh Police, Call 112, posted negativity all day. It affects them. These videos same situation, with siblings not in a habit of Selfie with Bajrangi, Tik Tak Tail and Eena Meena a meme “Dur se dekha toh...phir main paas gaya are just a way of helping them having a good staying 24/7 together without fighting. 6*6* ,8* A* Deeka which airs on major channels including hi nahi. Aakhir physical distancing chal rahi hai laugh and erasing all the distressing news for “Memes and jokes are all fine until they are Disney and Cartoon Network, who is actively bhai. Unlike the ‘in your face’ memes, such atleast sometime,” he tells you. not hurting the sentiments of others. I am enjoy- --7/ *5 /-.*L posting jokes around coronavirus lately tells you responsible ones also leave the readers in splits Such has been the frenzy for these jokes, that ing all these funny forwards in the frazzled sce- A* 8.5A/ 4.* that it is just a matter of spending and utilising and are a glaring example of how making some- people of all age are taking to social media to nario. It helps in reducing tension and have a time during the ongoing lockdown. one laugh can be informative and be used to share their kind of jokes. It is the only thing after good laugh. So is the case with my video that * /6* 878.*A “As we all are stuck inside our house fol- spread positive messages. cooking that is keeping them busy and giving talks about what happens when a brother and / 6* 8L/ 4 -- lowing the COVID-19 lockdown protocols, A case in point is the memes related to DIY good dose of laughter. One such joke that is sister are left homebound during the lockdown. everyone is finding their own way to utilise or masks. People are going to such lengths and have doing rounds is: “Tera nash jaye China, teri wajah In one of the scenes, I ask my sister for her choli .* *75 L pass their time during this crisis. While many made the process so bizarre — masks made of se bar ki jagah vim bar aur scotch ki jagah scotch because I want to make TikTok videos, while she 78A+ A, / .* of us are busy cooking, painting, writing and bra cups and sanitary napkins — that at times brite haathon mein aa gayi hai.” is on call with her boss wearing my blazer. I tell doing other stuffs; social media has turned out it becomes difficult to differentiate who is seri- It only shows how distressed people have her: Mera blazer kisse puch kar pehna, tere baap 7A JJ-*, !* A/8 / to be a good supporting platform for everyone ous and who is not. become with having to do ghar ka kaam aur ka hai kya, utar isey,” Beniwal tells you, whose .*- / A*,5!/ 4 during this tough time. People are enjoying var- Another one that can sit well for some while office ka kaam all day. favourite meme is: Time Traveller: Which year ious social media challenges like stands out as offensive for others: “Coronavirus Dr Sneha Karamani, consultant psychiatrist, is this? Me: 2020. Time Traveller: Oh! First year * /8 ,. '* #Saree_Challenge, #Quarantine_Look, won’t last long because it was made in China.” Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital, Pune says that of quarantine. Me: Eeee, what! No_Makeup challenge, #Me_at_20 challenge, To add to the list: “When someone sneezes humour is nothing but a way discovered to deal Pulkit Sharma, clinical pyshologist and 488,- 54. 8/ .* memes have emerged as the winner during this at a Chinese airport...Warp to the grave- with anxiety and stress. author of When The Soul Heals tells you ! *+/.6L'/,*8 time brining a smile to everyone’s face. I am also yard?OK...No.” “Humour helps us deal with tragic times and that he himself has come across certain videos enjoying posting memes unlike never before and The not so common query now is whether stress in a lighter, healthier way. It helps over- and jokes that deals such a heavy subject with . - B85 friends are loving them,” he says. it is right to poke fun at a pandemic that is claim- come psychological anxiety and is a mature ego an extremely light approach and it is a healthy +. . * +.* Pandey was always good with passing witty ing lives worldwide and sees no stopping. defence mechanism. We have seen a lot of trend unless it is spreading rumours. “Humour comments and this was just the right time to However, turning to comedy is what humans have humorous WhatsApp and social media memes is a healthy defence mechanism psychology. BA8.*A , / *A showcase his skills. “I was always good with pass- been doing since the historical era. being forwarded in this pandemic and there is When you laugh, you are able to turn your eyes A*-*7.86*B85 , ing witty comments and one-liners since child- Humour can relieve anxiety; it can also stoke a lot of creativity around it. These are times of away from the grim reality for sometime. hood (as my friends used to say) and now being racial tensions or spread misinformation. So, the existential crises, and one definitely needs a dash Biologically speaking, when you laugh certain ,5A/ 4.*-8!,8+ a scriptwriter of comedy cartoon shows, it is eas- answer isn’t simple. But until and unless, these of humour,” she says. neurotransmitters are secreted that can uplift K. A .B* /+ -$ ier for me to create these funny posts. I am just memes stick to the purpose — that of enter- Sadly, there are a lot of negative, unauthentic your mood instantly. In fact it also boost your keeping up with the trends of social media. I am taining people without hurting the sentiments of pieces of information streaming around. One immunity. At the end of the day, we have to look L855B*A getting more responses on my such posts as com- anyone — and is all in good spirits, we can enjoy needs to be cautious not to spread fake news and for something that can make us laugh. It is a nat- pared to others. For example, I saw everyone a few without letting them get on our heads. negativity. “While sharing information available ural way for people to cope with reality,” he says. making Dalgona Coffee at home and posting the Now, one for everyone that sits well in the to us is a way of staying connected with our sig- It is out of constant frustration and anxiety photos on Facebook. One day, while I was peel- current scenario. “Dear Tummy, kya tumhein alag nificant others and the world around us, it serves that people have started to joke about the issue. ing potatoes, the idea strike my mind and I post- se samjhana padega, lockdown mein bahar our need for validation to a certain extent. We “First trigger was definitely coronavirus. Second ed the photo of a half-peeled potato with the cap- nahin nikalna hai.”
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9- 6 D 656B / incredible. I realized that, you know, if I put my mind to it, there are things “I was like ‘what have you tar India batsman KL Rahul said that I can achieve, that even I had done, why did you play like this’ the heartbreaking World Cup never thought I could. So that innings and then when I reached the Ssemifinal loss to New Zealand, did give me a great deal of confidence dressing room, I went straight to after a near-perfect show in the and it just changed who I was as a the bathroom, and I was almost group stages, “continues to haunt” person and as a cricketer.” in tears.” him and his teammates. Now the owner of innumer- In a chat show The Mind Behind, BAT AUCTIONED able batting records, Tendulkar, at Rahul said if he was given a chance KL Rahul has auctioned the bat that point in time, felt he was not to change the result of any one he used in the 2019 World Cup for good enough for international match in the past, it would be the 2,64,228. He also auctioned a slew cricket. 2019 World Cup semifinal. of other equipment with his brand “I felt I was completely out of “It has to be the World Cup semi- Gully with the proceeds going to the place. I looked at myself and ques- final. I think most of us are still not Aware Foundation to help vulnerable tioned myself and said: ‘looks like over that loss, it is still haunts us children during the ongoing coron- this is gonna be your first and the sometimes,” he said. avirus pandemic. last outing’. I felt that I’m not good “I can’t imagine what the senior Among other memorabilia that enough to play at this level. I was players must have felt but you know were auctioned were his helmet, upset and feeling low,” Tendulkar in a World Cup it just becomes even which he sold for 1,22,677, his pads said. harder knowing that we played so for 33,028, his ODI jersey for He said a conversation with well in the entire tournament. I still 1,13,240, his T20 jersey for Ravi Shastri, now the coach of the wake up to that nightmare some- 1,04,824, his Test jersey for 1,32,774 Indian team, helped. times.” and his gloves for 28,782. -8 ,8 “I still remember the conver- India were perhaps the most The auction was done in collab- sation I had with Ravi Shastri. dominant side in the group stage of oration with Bharat Army, the fan achin Tendulkar says he was Ravi said, ‘you played as if it was the tournament, winning each of club of the Indian team. S“clueless” on his Test debut and a school match. You are playing their matches except the one against “I have decided to donate my almost cried thinking it was all against the best bowlers; you hosts England. cricket pads, my gloves, helmets and over for him. need to respect their ability and The Virat Kohli-led side was the some of my jerseys to our collabora- When he walked out for the their skill’. favourite going into the semifinal tion partner Bharat Army. They are last time 24 years later, Tendulkar “Then I told Ravi that I got against eventual runner-up New going to auction these things out and would do so as a batting great beaten by their (Pakistan bowlers) Zealand but lost the contest by 18 : ( $P ; <=34 $-- 9 - " the funds will go towards the Aware with a record 200 Test appear- pace. To which Ravi said: ‘That runs. Foundation. It’s a foundation that look ances to his name. happens to quite a few, you don’t Asked if he had to pick one crick- player. We share a great friendship exact moment where he scored a phe- myself, the confidence that I got from towards helping children. It is very “I was clueless, I have to worry. You just look to go out and eter to bat for his life, Rahul said: “I’ll and he will give it all to save my life.” nomenal 100 in Sydney. bouncing back so quickly and at an special and I couldn’t pick a better day admit that. I played the first Test spend half an hour in the middle go with Virat (Kohli) because I Going back to his formative “I think that innings, that series international stage, where, you know to do this,” said Rahul according to as if I was playing a school and then you will get adjusted to know, everybody knows he is a great years, Rahul was asked to describe his just changed the way I looked at it’s a dream for every player, was Times of India. match,” Sachin told Nasser their pace, and everything will fall Hussain during the Nasser meets into place after that’.” Sachin episode on Skysports. Tendulkar was picked for the In his first Test in 1989, second Test and showed he had & ! 1 $ @ ( Tendulkar was up against a it in him with a gritty half-centu- Pakistan pace attack comprising ry. Reopening of er picture. Do you think crick- Pakistan and said if Pakistan is Imran Khan, Wasim Akram and “When I was picked to play in ) , = schools and colleges once et is the only issue we can talk so desperate to resume bilater- Waqar Younis. the second Test at Faisalabad, the Covid-19 pandemic is under about? I am rather worried al cricket with India then the Recalling the outing, he said, only thing on my mind was, I’m Saliva and sweat “I can bet Lever used control is more important for about the children who are not country first stop anti-India “Wasim and Waqar were bowling not gonna look at the score- are components that cannot be sweat and saliva and then the younger generation than being able to go to schools and activities at the border and quick, and they were delivering board. I will only look at the clock entirely done away with, insist applied vaseline. Vaseline only resumption of sport which can colleges because that is our instead spent that money in short balls and all sorts of intim- and not worry about scoring a few distinguished India helps the ball to skid and take a back-seat for the time young generation,” Kapil told noble causes. idating things they could do. I had runs. cricketers, as the ICC contem- nothing more. You apply vase- being, feels Kapil Dev. Sports Tak. “You could be emotional never experienced anything like “I batted for half an hour, and plates legalising ball tampering line only, the ball will just go The world has come to a “So, I want schools to and say that yes, India and that, so the first outing wasn’t a I felt really comfortable and I post Covid-19 by using artifi- straight. You can check that standstill with no immediate reopen first. Cricket, football Pakistan should play matches. pleasant one. scored 59 runs in that match and cial substances to prevent virus with any fast bowler,” he said. signs of resumption of sport of will happen eventually,” Kapil Playing matches is not a prior- “Occasionally, I got beaten by after that things started changing,” spread. Harbhajan also agreed that any kind. But sport can wait, said. The legendary all-rounder ity at the moment. If you need their pace and bounce, and when Tendulkar, whose favourite all- Former India pacer Ashish saliva if one has already feels the 61-year-old former also reiterated he is not in the money, then you should I got out on 15, I felt embarrassed rounders are Kapil Dev, Imran Nehra and spinner Harbhajan chewed mint, which has sugar India captain. favour of a bilateral series stop the activities at the border,” when I walked back to the dress- Khan, Richard Hadlee, Malcolm Singh feel that saliva’s use in in it, makes it heavier. But “I am looking at the larg- between arch-rivals India and he said. PTI ing room. Marshall and Ian Botham, said. shining the ball is a “must”. when it comes to using exter- While discussions are at nal substance, he wants to nascent stage, questions are know what can be the options. already being asked about “It’s not that murray mint 6( ! < & + & + what external substances could can be used without putting it be used if ball tampering in your mouth. The coat of becomes legal? sugar on the saliva makes it 6*-B85A * will be able to avoid losing up to repercussions will be of gigantic Is it going to be bottle cap heavier after one side gets A$ 300 million in revenue in the proportions. in pocket to scuff up one side scuffed. A scuffed up ball is he Australian government wake of the coronavirus pandem- “Such a scenario (only live of the ball, vaseline to shine heavier than saliva but both are also good for spinners as it Tmight make travel exemp- ic.” TV coverage) would likely leave (made famous by John Lever) heavy enough to make one ensures a better grip than a tions for the Indian team’s tour The website also reported CA with a hole of around A$ 50 or chain zipper? side of the ball heavier for shiny new ball. But my ques- Down Under later this year to that CA has received a positive million in its annual revenue of “Get one thing clear at the reverse swing. Vaseline comes tion is, if you allow, what’s the save the cricket board from los- response from its government. nearly A$ 500 million, but onset. The ball will not swing into the picture only after limit? ing a staggering 300 million “...The governing body is nowhere near the sort of blow if you don’t apply sweat or sali- sweat and saliva, not before “Suppose you legalise ball Australian dollars in the wake of understood to have received they could have expected without va on the ball. That’s basic that. tampering and let people use Covid-19 pandemic. highly encouraging news about being able to welcome India for necessity of swing bowling. “It is lighter and doesn’t bottle cap. Now the ball starts Cricket Australia is under their outlook, at least as far as the a series of Test and limited overs The moment ball gets scuffed even ensure conventional reversing from the fifth over. huge financial pressure due to lucrative India tour is concerned,” matches due to pull the organi- up from one side, sweat and swing. It can keep the shine but Is it fair? Or may be umpires global lockdown and has laid off the report stated. sation out of the low point of its saliva must be applied on the doesn’t make the ball heavy,” come into play and they tell 80 percent of its staff. India’s four- Cricket Australia was expect- four-year revenue cycle,” the other side,” Nehra, who com- the World Cup-winning for- you now is the time when you Test tour in December-January ing revenue of A$ 500 million report stated. pletely shot down the idea of mer pacer said. can use external substance. could provide a relief to the from this financial cycle, primar- Meanwhile in other update a using external substances said. Nehra then gave the “I mean, in any case, tak- struggling bldy % * 19 " <=34 " ily from broadcast rights. Even if BCCI official said that a decision He went on to explain why example of Englishman Lever ing saliva out of equation As of now, Australia’s borders spectators are not allowed and on that playing an extra Test dur- vaseline alone can’t help a who created a furore during his means taking swing out which are sealed till September 30 but ESPNCricinfo,”i nt e r n at i on a l seriously considered by the fed- cricket becomes a TV only event, ing the scheduled tour can be pacer. team’s 1976 tour of India by may not be good idea,” said the their could be an extension of exemptions to allow an India eral government in the event of they happen to lose A$ 50 mil- taken at the right time and any “Now let’s understand why applying vaseline during a owner of 700-plus internation- travel sanctions. touring party to arrive in wider travel bans, strongly sug- lion. planning at this stage would be do you need saliva? Sweat is Test match. al wickets. PTI According to a report in Australia next summer would be gesting that Cricket Australia But if India fail to tour, the too early in wake of pandemic. <)E @ 8 (( 6 ( - O >:: +! can someone go better than Indian spinner “Gauti bhai had a huge remain confident, and that under pressure,” said Kuldeep. God, we will wait and see,” the Kuldeep Yadav spoke about influence on me from the start translates into good perfor- “When he was at KKR, I England fast bowler Jofra Archer 43-year-old said. the influence that Gautam of my stint at KKR,” Kuldeep mances.” used to sit with him and pick on Saturday said he’d “gone mad” look- Tendulkar made his debut Gambhir and Wasim Akram told the franchise’s official Kuldeep said that he used his brain a lot. I used to sit next ing for his World Cup winner’s medal after against Pakistan at Karachi in had on him in his early days website www.kkr.in. “He to talk to Akram, a former to him in the dugout during losing the prized piece of silverware 1989 as a 16-year old. The mas- at the Kolkata Knight Riders. always spoke to me a lot. Not Pakistan captain and one of matches and ask questions while moving house. ter batsman went on to play 200 Kuldeep said that Gambhir, only during the time he was the most successful fast about real-time situations. I Last year saw the Sussex quick estab- Tests for India, scoring 100 cen- who captained KKR to two at KKR, but even after that, bowlers of all time, during used to ask him what he lish himself on the global stage as he turies across Tests and ODIs. In titles in 2012 and 2014, gave over these last two years. games in the dug-out and pick would have done in certain helped England win their first men’s 50- 463 ODIs, Tendulkar scored him confidence by assuring “He always kept me moti- his brain. situations, and he would test over global title. 18,426 runs including 49 tons him of a place in the team vated. Before the 2014 CLT20, “Wasim sir used to like me by asking me what my The 25-year-old, who only made his and in Tests, he has 15,921 runs while Akram prepared him on he gave me a lot of confidence me a lot too. He didn’t speak approach would have been. international debut in 2019, was also given to his name including 51 cen- the mental aspects of the by telling me ‘You’ll play every much about bowling, but he “So apart from Gauti bhai, the daunting responsibility of bowling the turies. game. game, just keep putting in the prepared me a lot in terms of he was someone who had a Super Over in the final at Lord’s. Kohli, on the other hand, Kuldeep says that kind of effort you have shown.’ mentally taking on the game. big influence on me during Archer, however, held his nerve bril- has scored 44 ODI hundreds Gambhir continues to talk to When you get that kind of He prepared me to take on those early years. He also has liantly as England edged out New Zealand and 27 Test tons so far in his him even after the end of the confidence from your captain, different situations in different a very good sense of humour, in a thrilling finish decided on boundary career, and is just 29 centuries latter’s stint at KKR and his it becomes a huge plus point ways, and taught me how to so it was great having him countback after the teams’ scores were away from equalling playing career itself. for any player. It helps you ( ? 8 8 react when batsmen put you around.” IANS level after both regulation play and crick- Tendulkar’s feat. et’s answer to ‘extra time’. According to Lee, three But the Barbados-born quick, asked factors work in favour of the 4 on Saturday about where his medal was current India captain in sur- @ ! ( now, told BBC Radio: “I had it hanging passing Tendulkar’s cricketing 9$"9$ $." off a portrait someone did for me and sent : ( $P feats. Cricket West would have to take place to me, I had my medal hanging on that. ">2 " “It comes down to three Pakistan women’s cricket team’s Indies have said they are behind closed doors. “I moved flat and the picture is on the things, there is one thing I former captain Sana Mir on Saturday “flexible” about rearranging ECB chief executive new wall but there’s no medal. I turned *+,*-./ would like to eliminate — so, announced her decision to retire from their tour of England but Tom Harrison said the the house upside down for about a week you talk about talent as a bats- international cricket, bringing down will not risk their players’ board had received “multi- but I still haven’t managed to find it. ormer Australia speedster man, he’s definitely got that tal- curtains on a 15-year-long successful health just to complete a ple offers” from other coun- “I know it should be in the FBrett Lee believes Virat ent, eliminate that first and fore- career. During a successful career, 34- three-Test series. tries to help them complete house so I will keep eyes out for Kohli can surpass the extraor- most,” he said. year-old Mir, played 226 internationals, The fixtures were all the domestic season. it but I’ve gone mad looking for dinary feat of “god” Sachin “Then fitness — Virat including 137 as captain from 2009 to due to take place in June but His comments came it already.” Tendulkar. Kohli has got that fitness, so for 2017. Friday saw the ECB extend after Surrey chairman Archer, who returned to “We are talking about phe- me it is all about fitness at the The off-spinner is her country’s lead- the delay to the start of its Richard Thompson earlier the United Kingdom from nomenal numbers here, so you age of 30 and also that mental ing ODI wicket-taker with 151 scalps in season until July 1. said Abu Dhabi had Barbados last month, said mentioned seven to eight years strength, the mental capacity to 120 matches at an average of 24.27, while English officials remain “Clearly playing in June “We will be as flexible offered to host games. the fact all major of cricket and at the rate he get through those hard times, her 89 T20Is wickets from 106 matches hopeful they can resched- is now not possible and we as we can without compro- But Harrison, cricket world- (Virat Kohli) is going, yes, he being away from home, from are only behind Nida Dar’s 98. ule all international fix- will continue our discus- mising the safety of our while still aiming for wide, including can definitely knock it off,” Lee his wife, or when they will have Mir is also Pakistan’s third- tures in a programme that sions with the ECB and team,” Grave, himself an England to stage a the start of the said while speaking on Star children. highest run-scorer in ODIs also includes three more other international boards Englishman, added. full home 2020 English season, Sports Cricket Connected show. “He will do it easily with his (1,630), and is Tests against Pakistan and on trying to find new dates,” Even if the two boards international season, was suspended Lee, who played 76 Tests, talent, it comes down to his among a select white-ball matches against said Grave. find mutually acceptable warned: “We’re because of the 221 ODIs and 25 T20Is for mental strength and if he stays group of players to Australia and Ireland, from “Our respective med- dates, Britain’s lockdown probably getting to pandemic at least gave Australia, however added that fit enough and I believe he have the double of 1000 July until September. ical teams are beginning to restrictions would have to the point now where him time to continue it still will not be easy to break has got all those three runs and 100 wickets CWI chief executive discuss how this (England) ease for the series to take any further delays beyond searching for the Tendulkar’s massive record. components to go in ODIs. She has the Johnny Grave insisted while series could be played place in England and even where we’ve already start- medal. “But, how can you say past Sachin”? the rare achievement of the West Indies were open whilst guaranteeing the rules banning mass gather- ed planning for will involve “There’s nothing else someone can go past Sachin former fast having played 100 to a change of dates, play- health and safety of our ings would likely still be in losing cricket rather than to do in isolation. It’s all Tendulkar — this is God here, bowler added. T20Is. PTI er safety remained priority. players and support team. force, meaning matches rescheduling again.” AFP hands on deck.” AFP +,- +.+. ' ++
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There are more he English Premier League important things at the moment Tare eyeing a resumption of he Dutch football federa- than football." the season on June 8, behind Ttion (KNVB) called an end closed doors due to the coro- to the 2019-20 season on Friday, NO RELEGATION & PROMOTION navirus pandemic, and reach- as the Eredivisie became the The KNVB announced its ing a climax on July 27, accord- first top European league called intention to scrap the season on ing to The Times. off due to the coronavirus pan- Tuesday following the Dutch The paper claims football demic. government’s decision to extend chiefs, along with other sports No team will be declared a ban on mass gatherings until governing bodies, have been champions after Ajax and AZ September 1. holding talks with the British Alkmaar were left level on Matches behind closed government about when they points at the top of the table doors were said not to be an can resume and at only with nine games still to play. option as they are considered “approved grounds”. “Unfortunately, given the events which require a permit The Premier League has 92 would be pemitted to attend for training individually and measures (banning large-scale and police presence. games remaining since it sus- including media though only if already in their kit. gatherings) taken by the gov- The final decision was pended the season on March 13 they tested negative for the They have also suggested ernment, it became impossible made following a meeting with with Liverpool agonisingly virus — and at selected stadia August 22 as the date for the to finish the 2019-2020 season,” the clubs on Friday. Next sea- close to their first ever EPL title. to limit stretching the limited start of the 2020/21 campaign. the KNVB said in a statement. son will begin with the same 18 The Times says Premier resources of the medical ser- The main sticking point, “Public health always teams that started the aborted League bosses shared their vices. though, remains the lack of comes first. It’s not just a foot- Eredivisie campaign. idea ‘Project Restart’ with the Extra changing facilities tests available. ball problem here given what “There will be no relega- shareholders last week. would be introduced to ensure Should the season be the coronavirus is doing to tion, nor promotion,” said the The matches would be social distancing measures unable to resume — it would society. Nonetheless, the profes- KNVB, which is expected to played behind closed doors — were in place whilst players be a financial nightmare for the sional football committee is face legal action from SC a maximum of 400 people would be required to turn up clubs. aware that today’s decisions Cambuur and De Graafschap are going to cause great disap- — the top two clubs in the sec- pointment for some,” it added. ond division. - Leaders Ajax, above AZ “This feels like the biggest ! on goal difference, will qualify disgrace in the history of Dutch for next season’s Champions sports,” Cambuur manager League, according to the Henk De Jong told Dutch D ? KNVB, which will await a broadcaster NOS. His side was ' definitive verdict from UEFA 11 points clear of the play-off 6 !.* *A that our commercial model B*A-/ on May 25. '@ # A # ! 2 " places when the league was gives us greater resilience than AZ will likely enter the halted. anchester United executive most clubs and we are grateful competition’s preliminary It marks the first time since you naturally want to become field and we have been at the The Belgian Pro League is ayern Munich midfielder Mvice-chairman Ed for the enduring support of our rounds, with Feyenoord, PSV 1945 the Dutch season has fin- champion,” Ajax chief executive top all year round. expected to take a similar deci- BPhilippe Coutinho has Woodward has said talk of commercial partners in helping Eindhoven and Willem II set to ished without a league champi- Edwin van der Sar told the “It is a pity that you are not sion to that of their neighbours undergone surgery to remove mega-money football transfer us achieve that,” he said. compete in the Europa League on. club’s website. declared champion, but in this next week, with Club Brugge to loose fragments from his right moves “ignore the realities that “However, nobody should based on the final standings. “As a player and as a club “You want to show it on the situation that may be under- be awarded the title. ankle and will be sidelined for at face the sport” because of the be under any illusions about the least two weeks, the club said. coronavirus outbreak. scale of challenge facing every- The Brazil international is United have been linked one in football and it may not be -">( "N on a season-long loan from with a £200 million ($247 mil- ‘business as usual’ for any clubs, '( '# Barcelona and has scored eight lion, 228 million euros) bid to including ourselves, in the trans- goals in 22 Bundesliga appear- lure England captain Harry fer market this summer.” ( O6 >> -8 ,8 said a club statement. ances for Bayern. Kane away from Tottenham Woodward added: “On this “The objective of these talks “Philippe Coutinho under- Hotspur. basis, I cannot help feeling A/ daily monitoring, which helsea have said they won’t has been to find a meaningful went an operation on his right But Woodward’s comments that speculation around trans- will be detailed ... between Cimpose a pay cut on their partnership around ensuring we ankle, during which loose joint suggest any such deal is unlike- fers of individual players for ootballers in France’s now and the end of April,” first-team squad in response to the preserve jobs for staff, compensate fragments were removed,” the ly in the current climate. hundreds of millions of pounds Ftop flight will return to it said. coronavirus outbreak. fans and participate in activities club said in a statement. It is six weeks since the this summer seems to ignore their clubs the week start- The LFP has also indi- But the Premier League side for good causes. “The operation was a suc- Premier League suspended all the realities that face the sport.” ing May 11 to undergo cated its preferred option added Saturday they had asked “We are grateful to the team cess. The Brazilian will begin his matches and, with no certain- Looking ahead, Woodward “full medical checkups” remains a “resumption of players to continue donating to for having played their role in recovery program in around 14 ty as to when or if the sea- said he hoped “a season with a view to restarting leagues in mid-June sub- charities during the ongoing pan- assisting the club with communi- days.” son can resume, club which still held so much Ligue 1 in June pending ject to knowing the terms demic. ty activities as well as all the char- France midfielder Corentin finances are under strain at promise for us in the government clearance, the of easing confinement It has been reported the west itable causes they have been sup- Tolisso also had an operation all levels. Premier League, the Europa French league (LFP) said measures which will be London club have been in talks porting in their respective home earlier in the week on his ankle United, one of world League and the FA Cup on Friday. presented by the govern- with their players about a salary countries and through the Players and will miss the league’s poten- football’s commer- when it was suspend- The LFP board met to ment in the coming days”. reduction of around 10 percent in Together initiative supporting the tial restart date on May 9. cial powerhouses, ed” could resume. review the main points of Meanwhile, French a bid to reduce costs at a time NHS.” are better off than “And while it a draft document on med- football federation presi- when football has been suspend- The statement added: “At this most, however, may be that games ical and health protocols dent Noel Le Graet hopes ed because of the virus. time, the men’s first team will not with Woodward need to be played presented by the league’s both the French Cup and That figure, however, is signif- which aims to raise and distribute be contributing towards the club telling a fans’ behind closed representative for club League Cup finals can be icantly lower than the Premier funds for charities supporting financially and instead the board forum late Friday doors in the doctors, it said in a state- played before the league League’s suggestion of 30 percent Britain’s National Health Service have directed the team to focus the club were shorter term, ment. season restarts. for all clubs. (NHS). their efforts on further support- determined to we all recog- The document “fore- Paris Saint-Germain But that has not stopped the “Representatives of the ing other charitable causes. play their part in nise that foot- sees a return of players to are due to meet Saint- Stamford Bridge side from taking Chelsea board have recently held “As this crisis develops the aiding those ball will not training centres the week Etienne in the French Cup, their own course of action as they extensive talks with the men’s first club will continue to have conver- affected by the be fully back of May 11 to carry out full while Thomas Tuchel’s side highlighted the #PlayersTogether team to discuss how they can con- sations with the men’s first team virus. to normal until support- medical checkups, as well are scheduled to face Lyon initiative launched by Premier tribute financially to the club regarding financial contributions “We have ers are once again in as swab tests, followed by in the League Cup. League players earlier this month, during the coronavirus crisis,” to the club’s activities.” always believed attendance.” ( ! 6 1 7 1 " " ( @ 7 7 Staying fit and training with the # Football may be going Pele however believes that + !C ( (( same intensity as would normally be the through its richest phase right now Neymar is an excellent player and case is “tricky” during the shutdown, financially but Brazilian football hopes that he comes good at the 2022 World No1 Ashleigh Barty said. Barty is legend Pele feels that we are current- Qatar World Cup. “I hope that at the "N C in her hometown Brisbane and like other ly not in a golden age as far as the next World Cup he is in good phys- tennis players, is waiting out the unique quality of players is concerned. ical condition,” he added. “People Jemimah Rodrigues on the period where the sport has come to a halt The three-time World Cup win- criticise him, I even did it a few times, talk show Double Trouble. due to the coronavirus pandemic. ner, widely regarded as the greatest but we forget that he is a product of Talking about that day “It’s kind of tricky to train with the player of all time, said that there are ours, of Santos. of final when she beat her same intensity as always,” the 24-year-old not as many truly great players in “We always want the best for nemesis Nozomi Okuhara of told the Sunday Herald Sun. “Obviously, countries that are strong in the him. I talk about him often with his Japan 21-7, 21-7, Sindhu we’re still not sure when we’ll go back. sport. father. Technically, he is an excellent said, “Even if we say we are “Now, it’s about maintaining for if and “Once, you found two or three player.” fine and cool, we have a bit when we get an opportunity to play again in every country with a great foot- Both Messi and Ronaldo are in of pressure. But I thought I this year, you can kinda flick that switch ball culture,” Pelé told SportStar. their 30’s but continue to dominate will just focus on my game. and go from there.” “Eusébio, (António) Simões, (Johan) football. Pele said that he considers I gave my best and won the Barty would have been in the thick of Cruyff, (Franz) Beckenbauer, player who would take over as the Messi as the most complete player final.” her preparations to defend her French (Diego) Maradona, Garrincha, Didi. best in the world after Messi and and that he would have loved to play Asked how she coped Open crown at this time of the year. The How many did I say? There were so Ronaldo phase out. The Brazilian alongside him. with the constant criticism clay court Grand Slam was to be held many.” even finished third in the race to the “He (Messi) is a skilled player, of faltering in the final hur- from May 24 to June 7 but it has since that (hardcourt) swing and then you’re on “Today, we have two or three in Ballon d’Or in 2015. However since gives assists, passes, scores, dribbles dle, she said, “After the 2016 been postponed to September 20 to a plane back to Australia. “It’s different for all. (Lionel) Messi, Cristiano his word record transfer from well,” he said. “If we were in the team Olympics, I have seven to October 4, making it the last Grand Slam everyone. For tennis players, there’s that Ronaldo, I would say Neymar — Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain, together, the opponents should eight Silvers in a row in of the year. uncertainty. We need for pretty much the who in Brazil has not yet managed injuries have led to the 28-year-old worry about two players, not just 2017. People started telling “Just kind of sitting back, this is real- whole world to be clear before we can to become a great figure.” not attaining that heights that were one! Today, Messi is the most com- me that ‘you have a final ly bizarre,” she said. “You’re preparing for start our tour again. 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In his opening remarks, he string of good outings by the ed calling her “Silver shift to her next outing. be conditioned according to “We owe it to the athletes AFI President Adille J TIndian women’s hockey team Sindhu”. “My thinking was ‘all the needs of the sports com- and the member federations Sumariwalla said the federa- last year has helped keep the Sindhu, who also won a right, I can win this final’. munity. “We want to create a to maintain a structure that tion had been at the forefront entire group motivated as they Silver medal in the 2016 Rio You should not bother peo- big sports culture in the coun- we can optimistically look of using technology for sever- continue working hard despite Olympics, admitted that she ple criticising you. For me, try so that we can improve forward to so that we can give al years now. Covid-19 lockdown, feels forward felt bad when people said it is like ‘all right I can do it our presence in world sport. the athletes the chance to get “AFI is the first national Navjot Kaur. she has a “final phobia”. this time’. Just come back, It is our obligation to raise the back to competition as soon federation to host online The year gone by was fruitful “In the World rectify your mistakes and do level of sport in India,” he as is possible, but in a fair courses for coaches and tech- one for the Indian women, which Championships (last year), better.” said. way,” he said. nical officials. We also plan on saw them produce some outstand- it was my third final, I have She said she did not Speaking at the inaugur- Referring to World having our annual general ing performances across tourna- also won two Bronze. I expect to win the Silver in al session of the six-day online Athletics decision to suspend meeting on May 2 and all our ments. They won the FIH Women’s thought I have to win this at the 2016 Olympics as it was technical officials' seminar the Olympic qualification till sub-committee meetings Series Finals Hiroshima 2019, any cost. I was so desperate her first Olympics. Sindhu jointly conducted by the December 1 this year, he said online,” he said. Olympic Test Event in Japan, and to win the title. I did not lost to Spain’s Carolina South Asian Athletics realise their dreams.” the structure would have to be Asian Athletics the FIH Hockey Olympic forced the sporting world to come want people to say she lost Marin in the summit clash Federation (SAFF) and the World Athletics President designed so that the athletes Association President Gen. Qualifiers Odisha, along with vic- to a standstill. And in this testing in final again,” Sindhu said. in Rio. Athletics Federation of India Sebastian Coe complimented return to the competition in a Dahlan Jumaan al-Hamad tories in their tours of Spain, time, the 25-year-old says the “I thought no matter “I thought I will need to (AFI), Rijiju said the govern- SAAF and AFI for conceiving fair way. complimented SAAF and AFI Malaysia, Republic of Korea and team is focussing on maintaining what happens, I will give 100 give my best and I just went ment would frame athlete- the six-day seminar. “We need to ensure that for the initiative to enhance England. “I think the kind of per- fitness and staying in touch with per cent and I have to just out there with that thought.” centric and sports-centric “Our sport simply does our athletes get back to com- the knowledge of the South formances we produced in 2019, the sport as much as possible. win this title. There were Sindhu said the turning policies . not function at any level with- petition safely and securely Asian region’s technical offi- especially at the FIH Women’s “There’s no doubt that it’s times people say ‘Silver point of her career was “Athletics is the heart and out the contribution of the and in a way that does not cials. Series Finals and FIH Hockey been difficult for everyone across Sindhu’ about me. when she beat then reigning soul of the Olympic Games technical officials,” he said. damage the integrity of all our SAFF President Lalit K Olympic Qualifiers, has really the globe, but we have to stay pos- Sometimes these things (2012) Olympic champion and we need to raise the level “It would be unrecognis- competitions. Bhanot said the seminar was helped us to stay motivated and itive and continue moving for- comes to my mind,” she Li Xuerui of China in a tour- of our athletics,” he said. able without one of our sport's “I know the Indian a true reflection of the grit, continue putting in the hard yards ward. All of us here are working told Indian women crick- nament in 2012 (China “I want to give the young most endearing aspects, the Federation has embraced resolve, sportsmanship and in whatever way we can,” Kaur said. very hard on our fitness and stick- eters Smriti Mandhana and Open Super Series). athletes the opportunity to enshrining of the volunteer technology in a big way not love for athletics in the region. The coronavirus outbreak has work drills in our rooms.” +,- +.+. !#"'#"+ QR " R
How did your acting journey begin? Was acting never on the radar then? Actually, the easiest part is to switch also interesting that a woman has got to I had just completed Class X and I was not the kind of person who was from one character to another. The tough do as much action as the male lead and at a function Asha Parekh had come spotted at a coffee shop. I hung around & part is how to get the next project. not be just a damsel in distress. It is also as a chief guest. Her manager was there those enough but never got noticed. I had Probably, pray. In between projects, great that I get to bring in humour to the and got talking and suddenly said I to get a portfolio done and started giv- & hone skills and be ready even if the roles role. wanted to be an actor. At the function ing it out. I got rejected a lot. Then came ! ' far and between. One must be ready It is an action movie. Indians are not I had a Kathak dance and was told that 1920. I went to meet the team who said when opportunity comes knocking. In too keen on watching them. Were there pans would be made for a film keep- I didn’t fit the look but still gave the audi- # $& 1920, there were 30 action scenes — any apprehensions? ing in mind me and my performance. tion which they liked and hence came climbing up the wall and levitating. There is a huge audience for horror I graduated in dance but never went to on board. ! # When Commando came, I was ready. I and action. A good film is a good film. college. I auditioned and got my first film. What is the best and worst part of # $ had even been training on my accent Genre doesn’t matter. Action has many being an actor? before I got the role. takers. It is just that most action films The best part is that I get to play all How did you come to do Bhavana have sub-standard action. But it was dif- these characters. The worst is proba- # ' Reddy? ferent with the series. bly the uncertainty — when one I had just completed a Telugu film You are also doing Man to Man. would get the first movie. One and came back to Mumbai to audition What is it about? can’t make any mistakes since for part II for a role of a Haryanvi cop. I am excited about the role. It is your Talktime you are not from the industry B 3 I got a call after two months and met the usual rom-com where a man meets a and you get only one chance. team. I love mimicry and as a joke I did woman, falls in love with her and mar- ADAH SHARMA I knew that I had only one an accent. The next day I was called and ries her. Only then he comes to know She has worked in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil shot with my first project and was told that instead of a Haryanvi cop, that the woman he married is actually a films. She won the Filmfare Award for Best had to give a performance as fadahsharma. The first thing about this they would go with a Telugu cop since man. I am the man. It is a lot of fun and Female Debut nomination for 1920 back in if it was not my first film. journey, I have not aged one bit. Second, Bollywood has not done it before. They people will enjoy it. You have been in the it has been an awesome so far. I am try- rewrote the lines and Bhavana Reddy was We find that newer films are finding 2008. She was recently seen in Commando 3 industry for over a decade ing to figure it out as I move along. I have born. their way into TV. How does that work which now premiers on Zee Cinema. now. How has it treated you till been lucky that I met people who trust You were there in part II as well. How for actors like yourself? SHALINI SAKSENA chats up the now? my talent. I was fortunate that my first did that happen? It is nice that films are now being actress about her journey and I would say I have been in the film was a horror because nobody I am fortunate that as a woman I released legally instead of piracy. Given upcoming project industry for a century. I have been doubted my acting potential. have been repeated in a franchise. It has that we are under a lockdown now, many there since 1920 (laughs). I made a hash- You have done varied roles and now become my franchise. The series is more people will get to watch it and enjoy tag on social media — #100yearso- genres. Has it been tough to switch? incomplete without Bhavana Reddy. It is it sitting at home and being safe. P> A $ Q 7 " " "( ( " $" " 1 " " 65 B . .6/ 1 " ( O
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The quite wanted to utilise our capacities in a lot and isolated birthdays and anniver- of areas, which were not receiving saries can upsetting if it is a mile stone essential products due to the lockdown. &,*-)&*#&%)* number lije the 16th birthday or even We realised the need for the delivery 25th wedding anniversary. The going of the COVID-19 gear to all medical " gets tougher, if the loved one is away practitioners as well as citizens. As a from home in another city. The courier company we wanted to lever- How did your musical journey start? thought of getting no gifts can add to age our strengths in this time of crisis. I used to sing even when I was in Class VI-VIII. Apart from the quarantine blues. While physical So we decided to launch my parents nobody knew I could sing well. I come a business class gifts is a big no-no, it doesn’t mean no essential.rapidd.co as a brand under family and it was till I was in Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK gifts at all. our existing brand. We launched this that I started singing at open mics. People started coming for shows To beat the quarantine blues, website on April 14, 2020,” Aaqyl since they liked my voice. I performing there and realised I could Ferns N Petals has introduced digital Chagla, director of Rapid Delivery, tells take up seriously. I came back to India and decided to take up music gifting options like guitarist on video you. more seriously and started training in Hindustani classical music. call, personalised video message and Unlike other major delivery sta- Why not pursue a career as a Hindustani Classical singer? personalised e-story books. The tech- tions, the website has no minimum I have been training in classical music for the last two years. I nology enabled gifting options are order concept. “We decided to go for have always had an ear for music, even when I was teenager, not designed to make not just birthdays no minimum order approach to avoid that I am master of it. But I understand the subject and work on and anniversaries, but everyday of their hoarding of essentials. We were clear it. I want to raise the bar of my music and do bigger things in this loved ones more special and memo- in our understanding that expecting field. The reason why I have not taken up Hindustani classical pro- rable while practicing social distanc- large quantities to be ordered would fessionally is because there isn’t a much feel people market for it. ing. add to the hoarding of products, Not that I care for it but I want to establish myself in the Pop space. Pawan Gadia, CEO, online and thereby leading to shortages and con- I have knack for singing such songs. Once I am established, I can retail, Ferns N Petals, India, UAE & sequently, rising prices. Our do my stuff and people will follow. Singapore, tells you that the concept is Government has taken the necessary Why pursue Sports Management? new but it already has many takers. “At quarantine. steps to ensure that there is enough I have always been passionate about sport. I used to play for present, we all are in midst of an The most loved of them all is the supply coming in. Hence we want our Cricket Association of Bengal. I wanted to play the game profes- unprecedented crisis and staying at guitarist on video call. One can sim- buyers to order only what they need. sionally. But then I went to a hostel and the game took a backseat. home is the only way to flatten the ply book an musical evening for 10 ton & ' Many consumers are complying with I am still passionate about sport. But music and singing is keep- curve. In order to spread positiv- 30 minutes with the songs of their this policy,” he says. ing me busy at present. I was just not confident that I could sing ity in the current situation, the choice. The guitarist or someone from ' In such time of crisis, even a small professionally. newly launched digital gifting the team will video call you and the one # 2 step feels like a huge help. More so, When did you realise that music was your calling? options is a great way to cheer up for whom the gift is meant for and you # when certain stocks are running out far Music has become thing now in India. Back then making a and gift happiness to your loved are all set to hear the and wide, this website is like the silver career in music was not so easy. The confidence came much later. ones even when they are miles melodies that will instant- ( ( ( ' lining in a grey cloud. “We have It was in the UK that I decided to get into the English scene since apart. Though, it has been only a ly touch your heart. It is ( received good response. We look for- I used to sing English songs. So, yes, the confidence came in the month since we have launched it, but not just the music that will keep you # '( ward to continue this initiative even UK. people are already loving it. Requests engaged, but the guitarist too who will after the lockdown gets lifted. We feel I understand that you are mentoring with Kumar Mukherjee. are pouring in from almost every city put in all the extra efforts to make the '' that people’s trust in our brand due to What are you learning? for these digital gifts,” he says. day just as special — be it wishing you the quality of products and timely He is my mentor and have been training with him since 2018 Music, he says, is a magical rem- first and foremost or even asking you ' $ delivery are two factors that will play in classical music. He teaches me ragas and paltas. He is from the edy to fight tough times with ease and to sing along or just having a casual chit a key role in gaining consumer loyal- Kasur Patiala Gharana. The gharana is about training in music in that is the reason the digital gifting chat all through the call. The experi- & " ' ty in future too when everything will a manner where one can use the vocals in any genre of music. I options are enabled with melodious ence will be extremely personalised. ( ( come back to normal, Chagla says and am able to sing all kinds of genres due to the exercises he is giv- music of customer’s choice. As a brand “The plan is to get going with the L= tells you that the company will keep on ing me. I train for seven-eight hours a day. Of course, not at a stretch. it is an initiative to keep gifting alive digital gifting options even after the adding an extensive variety of products Do you still perform with your band — The Bombay and engage our customers with inno- lockdown is lifted, with some advance- so that there is something for everyone Gramophone Company? vative heart whelming gifting ideas in ments,” Gadia tells you. The cost of even during the hardest of times. Yes, I do. I recently performed in Kolkata but due to Coronavirus it didn’t have large gathering. I started my career from stage with four friends. My band is very Kolkata-oriented but I want- ed to explore my music and wanted to do different things. I want- ed to do my kind of stuff. ? Q Is it tough to make a place for yourself in the independent space? It has been. When we formed the band, we became popular within a year. But when it came to indie space it was different. But time has been on my side. People started noticing me and know = G *)E* /* %- my name now. I can compose but writing songs is a challenge since I have never written it. "" How did you tie-up with Zee Music Company? I tied-up up a project — Yaadein — and it had done very well. ith everyone’s life going always the one initiating games down. Some of your pets might their leg to go. Once they start It garnered a million views and has been growing. My initial plan Whaywire this past month, and deciding when you’re be soiling the carpet, due to associating the command with was to work with Sony but then Zee came and happy working with your pet has been affected going to pet him. What starts anxiety or tension that they the action, toilet training is them. I have not tied-up with them but we have an understand- too. Here are some problematic off as something really might be picking up around made much easier on com- ing — my next single will be released through them. behaviour issues that may adorable like nudging you to the house. Some might be mand. Any Bollywood plans? develop as a result of your dog get a pat on the head can turn confused if they’re not allowed Separation anxiety: All Initially, when I came to Mumbai I wanted to playback. But I being cooped up with you at into extremely annoying out of the house anymore and this quality time with your pet got a feedback that I needed to do my stuff since I have a good voice home. behaviour like barking when are suddenly expected to pee in might lead to an unhealthy and Bollywood would notice me automatically. If I get a chance, Attention seeking: he wants it. the bathroom or on a puppy relationship between you two, I would take it up. I am waiting for my time. I would love to do a Staying home means a lot Fear of going out: If your training mat, which they aren't which can cause trouble later song like Abhi mujh me kahin by Sonu Nigam I would take up in more attention for your dog. dog is already fearful of the used to. Some pets may not be on. Ensure that you spend a jiffy. I look up to him. He is a beautiful singer. You’re bored, there’s less work outside world (noises, people used to relieving themselves in some time in another room What next? for you so more play-time for scare him), you may have the building compound, and every single day, so that he I am working on another English song. Billboard had taken it man’s best friend. While the noticed he would have taken prefer to go outside. To prevent stays in the habit of being by up and put it on upcoming artists. I wanted to be on the main list. lockdown is a great opportu- time to get used to outside more issues, consistency is himself. You can make being But I don’t have a list of many songs. If I had that I would be some- nity us all to reconnect with walks in the first place. With key. Try to stick to the same alone more fun for him by giv- where on the main list. Once the lockdown opens, I will shoot the our pets, I suggest you don’t this change of fewer people timings that you used to take ing him a chewy, a bone or an song. I want to do more English songs and work with international give in to everything your dog being out and outings kept to them out. When they do pee in interactive toy stuffed with market. asks for. He may ask for some- a minimum. It would once the correct place, please reward food. That way when you Is there scope of English songs in India? thing by barking, pawing you again be a task to get him to be with a lot of praise. You can leave, he looks forward to it Millennials are growing and their vison is international. What or it might even start of with comfortable going out once even start training them to pee instead of getting worried happens in the US comes to India 10 years down the line like rap. just a look. You know those things are back to normal. his confidence in you and that Toilet training gone bad: on command. Say the com- about it. Now everyone is rapping. 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have been fortunate enough to have These examples of Symposium initiatives experienced many crises during my give an insight into what we can achieve when lifetime. My choice of the word ‘fortu- we collaborate. nate’ is deliberate. The Chinese word In a post COVID-19 world, consumers will for Crisis is two characters: ‘danger’ be more conscious of the impact that they will andI ‘opportunity’. According to Lao Tzu, the have on both nature and the communities Chinese writer and philosopher, ‘Good for- which they visit. The example of the Costa tune has its roots in disaster’. And, over the Brava in the 1970s will never be allowed to years, I have come to understand these words happen again, not just by the Government, but and have realised that these crises are oppor- by the visitors themselves. tunities to learn, grow and develop. I have to specifically mention air travel Certainly, we have no control over the hand which, while it is a big part of an individual’s that we are dealt, but we have total control on ecological footprint, is a very small contributor how we play it. I have realised that if we con- to greenhouse gases and its contribution is less sider a crisis in a positive way, we can always than the negative impact of the beef and dairy find an opportunity to learn and develop and industry. make our lives more enriching as a result. Since my diagnosis of cancer and the changes to my lifestyle that I adopted, our resorts have also followed suit and adapted their menus. Our chefs have, as one of their key performance indicators, the reduction of sugar, &4B%3& dairy, white flour, beef in our menus. Beef con- sumption has reduced by 75%. Dairy consump- tion has reduced considerably as well. It is our goal to bring the consumption of these two ingredients almost to zero. Apart from being good for our guests’ health, this approach has also been very good for the environment. After the built environment, the dairy and beef envi- ronment are the next biggest contributor to O8 ! 2 #C 0 greenhouse gases. According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, animal agriculture and the associated deforestation is responsible for more than 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, and is expected to increase 80% by 2050. This dwarfs * $# # $ !$#0 P air travel, which is at 2% to 3%, and transporta- tion as a whole, which is at about 8% of global greenhouse gases. We have adopted this approach and made it central to our core purpose. The private sec- tor has a huge role to play in the solutions agenda and it would be valuable if all corpora- While the current global health emergency tions looked back to the history books and will end, unfortunately, this hopeful scenario remembered that having a purpose should be will not be the case with global warming. It is central to their mandate — and that this contri- an ongoing situation which will affect each and bution should be measured and valued as every one of us. And it highlights our intercon- robustly as any financial returns. nectedness. Climate experts believe that we are near a tipping point of no return. Some believe we At Soneva, we have always used nature as an have already passed it. We already have 400 inspiration for our innovation. I have long been parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere. a fan of the biologist and author Janine Benyus Even if we reduced our carbon emissions con- who describes innovations inspired by nature in siderably and followed the targets established in her book Biomimicry. For example, Leonardo Paris in 2016, we will still hit 500 parts per mil- Da Vinci imagined the first helicopter by closely lion. observing the behaviour of the Hummingbird. It Even if we were to slam on the brakes and was Leonardo’s drawings that helped Igor turn around, we would not be able to because Sikorsky in his invention of the first helicopter. nature itself would continue the global warm- So, the helicopter is the result of biomimicry. ing process as a result of feedback loops, such ties we operate in. Since our guests fly to the are returned, the user achieves a 20% saving on It is my hope that in a post-COVID-19 era, as methane escaping from below the Arctic and Maldives from all over the globe, this commit- their water purchase. So, they are financially we will become more sensitive to nature’s inno- the Antarctic, less reflection from glaciers that ment is somewhat complicated so our response better off. As I write, Soneva Namoona water vations. We will try to work in harmony with have disappeared, warmer seas emitting CO2 to our social and environmental responsibilities has sold the equivalent of, and avoided 60,000 nature rather than try to battle it. It’s my opin- rather than absorbing them and so on. is as much global as it is local. Let me explain: plastic bottles. ion that this terrible virus came about because The warming planet has already killed Twelve years ago, I noticed a huge number we ignored nature’s laws. more people today than the current global pan- of plastic water bottles washed up on our Let me share with you a recent success at demic that has brought us under siege: In 2003, beaches at Soneva Fushi in the Maldives. We In February 2020, we celebrated another Soneva Fushi which exemplifies this point. In the European heatwave killed as many as 2,000 decided not to point fingers at those who were Maldives’ first: Maalhos became the first island the middle of last year at Soneva Fushi, we set a people a day and 35,000 Europeans died. In allowing their water bottles to spoil our oceans in the country to end the practice of burning its target to become the first island in the Maldives 2010, 55,000 people died during a Russian as we were still serving bottled water in our garbage in open bonfires. This was made possi- to be completely mosquito free. We decided to heatwave in which 700 people in Moscow died resort and were therefore still part of the prob- ble by the opening of the island’s Eco Centro trap mosquitoes by studying their habits and every day because of the heat. In 2016, during lem. So we took the decision to stop offering waste to wealth centre, funded by Soneva and creating a natural trap. We have installed 500 the heatwave that besieged the Middle East, branded bottle water, and instead serve filtered, modelled on Soneva Fushi’s own Eco Centro. buckets throughout the island. In each bucket temperatures in Iraq broke 100°F (37.7°C) in mineralised, alkalised, and bottled-on-site The Maalhos Eco Centro is a waste-processing is a little swab that mimics human sweat and May, 110°F (43.3°C) in June, and 120°F water in reusable glass bottles. Today, all the facility that sorts all the waste into different the smell of lactic acid. We then mix sugar and (48.8°C) in July. Temperatures seldom dropped revenues from our water sales go to the Soneva types such as plastic, glass, tin and wood. It baking soda and create a pump system to gen- below 100°F, and only at night. We survive in a Foundation to fund the work of charities such compacts, crushes, and chips it where possible, erate CO2. So, these traps smell and breathe very fragile ecosystem that we are undermin- as Water Charity and Thirst Aid, and more and sends it off the island for recycling. Later in like a human being. The mosquitoes are lured ing. Our actions to date have already caused recently, Soneva Namoona. 2020, we hope to open Eco Centros on into the net and then cannot escape. more death, misery and disaster than COVID- Soneva Namoona, which we launched in Dharavandhoo, Kihadhoo. It is encouraging to We started this initiative in June 2019 and 19 ever will. 2019, aims to solve a problem that has bedev- see that many of the major hotel companies ended our contract with Rentokil, our pest- This pandemic will end but the important illed the Maldives for a generation: how to have now started to take the path that Soneva control operator. No more spraying. Instead we question is whether the bond we have with the properly dispose of waste. Presently, island did back in 2008 and eliminate the single use of would use only these buckets. In the first days way we live and our daily reality has been suffi- communities burn their garbage in toxic, open plastic in their properties including, most of implementing this, our 500 buckets caught ciently broken, and whether we can attach our- bonfires; meanwhile significant amounts of importantly, plastic water bottles. about 9,000 mosquitoes a day, on average 20 selves to a new reality and a new way of doing waste, especially single-use plastics, washes up .*!5AA* 4-8B - Another result, following the 2013 Soneva mosquitoes per bucket. The catch on the island things; or if we will just go back to our old on the beaches, litters the jungle, and smothers Symposium, was Soneva Fushi’s establishment now has reduced to low double digits. We have ways. the coral reefs. Soneva Namoona is a partner- ,*6/!. of a ‘Learn To Swim’ programme with our two mosquitoes on the island, the Aedes and ship between Soneva Fushi, the three nearby ./4.-/4.*,.8+ neighbouring island Eydhafushi. It is remark- the Culex. The Culex is nearly extinct and we Baa Atoll Island communities of Maalhos, / *A!8 *!*,+* able that many children in our island nation, hope that the Aedes will soon follow. It is my It is so important, in the midst of this cur- Dharavandhoo, and Kihaadhoo, and interna- A*$ ,.8+ the Maldives, do not swim. A fear of the water hope that this will be a perfect example of how, rent crisis, that we take this opportunity to tional NGO Common Seas. The partnership is compounded by a nationwide waste problem by closely following and understanding the change our values, our priorities, and impor- seeks to provide a blueprint for all Maldivian /68A // . that sees local island beaches used as a dump- laws of nature, and innovating around it, we tantly, how we live our lives. So, how would this islands on how they can cleanly and effectively .56 /L8 ing ground for household waste. By teaching can find effective solutions. new reality look? Let me share our Soneva manage their waste, reduce the use of single- - ** A.$+* children to swim, we hope that they will learn The current global pandemic has highlight- experience with you. use plastics, and inspire a love for the natural to love their ocean, and when they love it, they ed how interconnected we are, and how impor- At Soneva, our core purpose is engaging environment. (Recycle, Reduce, and Inspire). BA* .A854.85A will protect it. We are now looking to scale this tant it is that as humanity on planet earth, we and imaginative “Slow Life”. So, being sustain- In the middle of 2019, we achieved a first, /8 -B85 , A/* programme to offer intensive swimming pro- break through our national boundaries and able is part of our DNA, and we strive to limit we installed the first glass water bottling centre ,!8-- B8A * grammes across the Atoll, partnering with collaborate together in order to preserve life on the negative environmental impact of our activ- on a regional island. 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Soneva Bowermaster, who made a documentary film of we have been through over these past months We may not always meet our own high Namoona Water filters and mineralises the the swimming programme, we aim to develop will have been for nothing. standards, but we are very clear about our desalinated island water and then places it in a model of environmental inspiration and edu- The writer is the CEO and Joint Creative responsibilities as custodians of the communi- sterilised glass water bottles. When the bottles cation that can be applied around the world. Director of Soneva 6*,/ /8 ! .*-5 *6BA !*85A+8AA/* $ 85A7* A$85A 4*AR , yvixiari . / '*AL.* -/ 4 K./!. . . . . ? #6 +;#+,+,
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Super powers with their guns and bombs appear positive and negative, exhausting all clueless to the wrath of a tiny biological entity visible only that is stored in its karmashaya. The with an electronic microscope. Human Intelligence and ultimate goal of every spirit (even if you Artificial Intelligence never appeared so helpless. There is don’t know it) is to attain mukti/mok- anxiety and fear all around as the questions what next or who sha and to exhaust the constant cycle next send a chill down the spines of entire humanity. of birth, death and re-birth, eventual- Naturally, every body is stressed. Those who are inside worry ly becoming one with the supreme con- when this will end. Those who are outside dread being so. sciousness. To move towards this A life style aberration of this magnitude was beyond imag- objective, one must ensure that while ination of all. As the rich worry how long would their stocks stored samskaras from past lives fruc- last, the poor wonder where the next meal will come from. tify, no new karma is added to the kar- And to make things worse social media sites are poisoning mashaya. And for this, the practice of minds with scary scenarios. Coping with anxieties and nirodha needs to be developed and thanatophobia of this scale is a tall order. More so because preferably mastered. even in these times there are some who are offering magic Each individual possesses an solutions for a fee. But that is human nature. However, the motions: love, hate, anger, can be expressed is a vritti. Vrittis row, physical and psychological pain aatma within. The aatma is energy, important issue is not letting fear and anxiety worsen the elation, pain, fear and an include correct perception, imagina- and suffering can come to an end with- which is in fact, part of the universal plight. Here are some tips, and free, like all good things of endless list of sensations tion, sleep, memories, acceptable out seeking to alter the physical reali- energy. To evolve spiritually, it is this nature. First and foremost, there is need to reassure your- that wash over you given the knowledge or even wrong knowledge ty, without changing the situation one energy and one’s aura that must grow. self even if you are not sure. Indulge in some kind of auto- situation. They seem to have or misunderstanding for that matter. is facing. Nothing is altered except the As it grows, the intention is to connect suggestion. The bad thing about good things is that they come Ea life of their own in our minds, with And vritti is transient — one moment understanding of it, which undergoes to the core aatma within us, creating to an end. But the good thing about bad things is that they a form so large they engulf us in our it is there, perceivable, and the next a tremendous transformation. complete harmony of energy at every also come to an end. The trick lies in engaging the mind pos- entirety. We welcome the embrace of moment it vanishes, replaced by anoth- Vritti originates in the chitta as a level. When the mind identifies with itively. Remember, an empty mind is a devil’s workshop. The some emotions, while with some oth- er ripple; some moments being longer reaction an action to the happenings vrittis, the ego sense takes ownership best antidotes for the adversities as well as the viruses are ers we seem to be locked in a choke- than others. in your surroundings. These happen- of the thoughts and everything they are Faith and hope. Faith in God and hope that he listens. And hold. At a physical level, these emotions The relation between chitta and ings are like the wind that creates the about. These thought waves cause us he does. But to only who have faith. Don’t believe so that are the work of hormones and neuro- vritti is most beautifully understood waves out of water in the ocean. They to identify with the mind and ego sense you may have faith. Have faith so that you may believe. All transmitters, but what truly is their ori- through an analogy of chitta with the *68/8 A* either ebb away just as they come or which are the delusionary aspect of our other things follow from this. Even the most die-hard votary gin? What brings emotions and ocean and vritti with waves. Chitta is sometimes are replaced by a new set self-identification, maya. They hide of the verifiability principle of science cannot deny that faith thoughts into our minds? Could we reality and the whole truth, the vast A /87.* of vrittis. You must understand that from us our true reality, the aatma, and and motivation alter situations. 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So there is little else we can do except questions, one must understand the ity, a whole entity, whereas in truth it ries of each lifetime, amounting to your passing vritti, depleting your aura as it relying on healing powers of faith. If the answer to the virus concept of Chitta, Vritti and Nirodha. is nothing but a transient disturbance 8A,*A78A.* karmic balance. In the bargain, a passes. Vritti, if you allow it, creates dis- is immunity, we must know that fear and anxiety lowers Chitta is the mind in its totality — at in the chitta, which itself remains 85-8*'8-'* fleeting thought becomes yours and cord and conflict between the aatma immunity, while faith and hope strengthens it. But at the same the conscious, subconscious and unchanged and whole. Vritti has no becomes a credit or debit in your and the physical self, disrupting the time some physical exercise is also needed to boost the unconscious level; the individual mind separate existence. It is, at its core, .8+*'*A$/65 karmic record. A person having under- synergy. Instead of growing your aura, immune system. So engaging in aerobics for half an hour as well as the ethereal mind. In other defined by the chitta and not the other A/ * B8'*.* stood the concept of nirodha will you begin to lose energy. The intellec- may do a lot of good. Health is wealth and we now realise words, the word chitta means the mind way around. When you are sad, it is not begin to observe thoughts and emo- tual mind reflects the vrittis as they pass why. But physical and mental resilience go together. The idea (in a holistic sense). That is, not just our that the chitta expresses and is defined .L /! - tions entering his mind from the through the chitta. of Psychoneuroimmunology is now fairly accepted. And all physical mind (that perceives the by sadness, sadness is only a ripple that point of view of a third person, a dis- “Emotions are a symbol of human- this is not coming from actors who are looking for some time world around us through our senses), passes through the chitta, a passing sad *S/ * !* ,/ passionate, detached spectator. He ity” — nothing could be more accurate pass and engagement themselves or some modern day sor- but also the mind of the ethereal or thought. Intellect alone may not be A / does not try to control his vritti, does than this widely established cliché. cerer who tries to find commerce in everything. This is spirit body, as well as our intuitive fac- enough to understand what chitta is. not suppress it or eliminate it or Emotions are a trait of the physical research based opinion. And some genuine one. Though these ulty (that is available to our innermost It cannot grasp the infinite, as the intel- encourage it. He is an unmoved, unaf- realm, of humans, in flesh and bone. days people researching in computer viruses are talking about level of consciousness). Thus, chitta is lect is only a part of the whole. It can fected, silent, non-participative spec- In order for the soul to evolve howev- biological viruses. But, that not withstanding, the times are an infinite ocean, undivided, impossi- only produce vritti. tator, merely observing as waves enter er, it must rise above the physical exis- tough and we will have to acquire toughness of the mind, ble to define by a single parameter. Nirodha is the practice of under- and leave his chitta. This must not be tence and its traits. The fuel to propel the body and the soul also. For the soul then, do some good Vrittis are ripples or disturbances standing the true nature and relation confused with not having thoughts or this ascent is nirodha. without posting on Instagram. in the form of thoughts or emotions in between chitta and vritti, their oneness evading emotions in their entirety. It # " the ocean that is chitta. Anything that at the core. It is the knowledge that sor- is in fact the phenomenon of preclud- A * A D A ?" H $ "( 6 + ( $ 4 " (1 $ !. AL A '** !. 5. 8 4 B" $ /56 AB/ . 8/ s this a question anymore? Has this his is the time, when people are prac- virus not brought the world to its ticing social isolation which is said to Iknees? What has happened to the Tbe helpful for preventing the virus. rich and powerful? They have gone into However, it is necessary to understand that hiding, afraid that they maybe strick- constant worry about your financial condi- en by the dangerous Corona. The rich tion and staying away from your loved ones are learning to exist without their ret- may take a toll on your emotional health inue of help; they are beginning to real- thereby leading to depression that may be ize that they are quite helpless really. harmful for your immunity system. If you This feeling is a recent realisation, practice meditation and chant mantras you but the facts are all in support of the real- will be able to keep away the virus by mak- ity of us, souls, being small and help- ing your body stronger. less. Can we stop troubles from com- Covid-19 pandemic has already taken ing like this virus? Several countries over the world at a massive scale. In such a have taken the unprecedented step of condition it is said that a strong immune locking down. Still, there is spread of the system can help to avoid the virus. A strong diseases though limited due to internal immune system can be of help in prevent- mixing. Social distancing has been new bodies; we are no longer what we ed and hopeless. When people ignore ing the illness caused due to virus and pre- recommended in several other coun- thought we were. Lastly, many of us can- God, sacrifice, doing good to others, etc. venting the serious complications. Studies tries, but it is not that effective. Likewise, not even relax — a simple activity with- go out of fashion. People indulge in have shown that meditation can help cure we cannot control events, for example out taking alcohol, which harms in so sense gratification, some unlimitedly. illnesses. Thus, if you have a strong immune fires in Australia and USA, which many ways. And the result is degradation of the soci- system, you will eventually be able to fight improving how your body functions. thought, learning, perception and emotion. raged out of control earlier. Because, too Whether we accept this stark fact ety. God is needed to correct this dan- the virus too. It causes improved cognitive Mantra is a specific combination of syl- Chanting mantras can have an effect on us many factors are beyond the control of or not, we need God now more than at gerous situation. A society is law abid- functioning and reduced physical problems. lables and is based heavily on the science of from the vibrations they send out, affecting human beings. Then, we are unable to any other time. Only He can bail us out. ing when there is enforcement of laws. Your immune system is not responsible Naad. These sounds or vibrations tune, qui- brain patterns. The brain uses certain fluids obtain desired results. Wouldn’t we want We need God’s guidance because He Similarly, God is required to make peo- for the physical functioning to ward off the eten and focus the mind. These specific to transmit messages. Reciting mantras and vaccine and medication for this virus? only knows the Big Picture, that is the ple aware that the principle of diseases but also to enhance the thoughts combinations of syllables, words and practicing meditation activate these fluids But we are unable to do that at least for entirety of the situation. Otherwise, we karmaphala will be enforced. Similarly, and moods. Furthermore, it is responsible rhythms hold great power in their sound in a positive way. Thus, we can use mantras now. are likely to make costly mistakes act- God is needed to escape crippling pun- for transmitting the thoughts to your cells. current to create and elevate consciousness. to heal the body, mind and emotional state, On the subtle level, we are unable ing in panic. Personally, I seek God’s ishment by taking. His shelter; He Hence, it is very necessary to transmit the These sound vibrations that infiltrate every and also to attract or create prosperity, suc- to gain sleep as desired, especially guidance and help every time a new makes it manageable/tolerable. right signals. We have no control over our cell of human being and let the mind deli- cess, love and positivity. Studies have shown deep or sound sleep. Even the length of problem appears. Believe me, God Have you ever wondered about life, but we do have a control over how we quesce. Reciting a mantra produces an actu- that practicing meditation can be helpful for the sleep is out of our control. Sleep is guides and helps because this is the exalted devotees like Shankaracharya respond to situations. Mantras and medita- al physical vibration, which corresponds to boosting your physical functioning. a small matter, peace is bigger. How Cosmic Design. How else can small writing so glowingly about God? The tion is the best option to ease the function- both a specific spiritual energy frequency Improved physical functioning is a result of many of us are really peaceful? Not a big souls exist well. Holistically speaking, we answer is: God responded to them. This ing of your immune system and to treat it. and a state of consciousness. These vibra- improved immunity system. percentage. We are unable to stop wor- cannot survive well without God’s must have really surprised them in the Reciting mantras and Meditation, an tions bring about positive changes in the If you are feeling stressed and anxious ries, fears, etc from overpowering us. active help. We need God’s intervention beginning, i.e. God — the omnipotent age-old spiritual practice, always remained immunity system and strengthen it. owing to everything going around you late- These cripple the mankind; people suf- more than we can imagine. bothering to pay attention to them. It shrouded in the realms of awe and marvel, Modern neuroscience is now beginning ly, it is time that you turn to mantras and fer helplessly. Why are there so many The present situation has played is no wonder that they spoke so high- and was perceived miraculous in effect if to discover the relationship between the meditation to calm your mind. Mantras and mental diseases? We lose our near and havoc with our moods. Mostly, the ly about God; they were simply over- practiced. Chanting mantras forms a part of way mantras are chanted and the impact on meditation can be a great boost for your dear ones helplessly. Can you imagine mode of darkness is reigning supreme, come by emotions towards the munif- many religious rituals, and diverse spiritual the functioning of the mind. When we psychological and immunity buildup there- the lifelong pain of a couple, who lost which causes fears, lamentation, depres- icent Lord. I am beginning to get a taste traditions consider chanting mantras as a chant a mantra, the frontal lobes of our by helping you cope up in the stressful envi- their two children in a tsunami? We are sion, etc. The other two modes, that is of same. This will explain why I keep route to spiritual and worldly development. brain ‘light up’ and the nerve endings fire ronment. so small and helpless that we cannot goodness and passion are taking back on writing about our need to seek God. Meditation on the other hand is aimed at up. There is increased flow of oxygen and # !, stop ourselves from aging and then we seats. With God in the picture, they get 1 relaxing your body. Meditation is aimed at blood. Frontal lobes are responsible for die. Our identities change as we get into boost and we are no longer so defeat- D'A uvitiut . ? #6 +;#+,+, $ && < &
he “World World TIntellectual Property Day” is celebrated today (April 26) on the theme, “Innovate for Green Future”. Unlike the past, this year, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the special agency of the UN, has urged people to spread awareness purely through virtual campaign because of the global pandem- ic Covid-19, widely believed to be originated in China. Otherwise each year, the WIPO celebrates this day with a new mission and vision only to inspire and show pragmat- ?%.-?% .+ ic means to realise the goal. 0;29).(%+'/ The WIPO has adopted a very unique path this time. .%''%?. '+ %. This World IP Day is simply .+(- bringing innovation and the IP rights that support it to herald *%%' ?( a green future. The very idea of IP rights is embedded with C%+ -..%- innovation. %.(%.+-.C '.% Further, these rights make it absolutely possible for the ?%..+.+ creators and innovators to - %C.(% receive their dues with fair legal global regime. Of course coun- % (%.+- % tries do vary in their legal prac- inated by the US and the EC ics, where notions of globalism, at the helm of affairs and again neighbours, the advocates of with no time even for ourselves. again racing for reaching the (%/, + %.(- tices and statutes, but the basic and international business democracy and individual hoping to come back to the the liberal order led by the US To cut short our greed, and to same point at the same time. tenets of enforcing IP rights interests…TRIPS sets mini- rights are divergently inter- White House next year, the must rethink how to re-arrange open up our creativity, we all Much beyond traditional C--+.++.% remain almost uniform across mum standards. Bilaterally the preted, where notions of fair- declinists have only predicted it or so to say re-fashion it. The have to somewhere enhance rivalries, China and America the world. bar of IP standards continues ness, justice, participation and gloom for this order and its planet demands a stable lead- our human connectivity where- today are fighting a massive ''*%*'%.+-(+ With globalisation and to be raised. When developing welfare are irreconcilable and leader. Is it so? To many as the ership. Certainly rise and fall of in we minimise the role of tech- trade war wherein their mutu- .(%( C.% post-globalisation, we all have countries turn to WIPO for where limited national and liberal order is fast decaying, its such orders are part of the nology to a great extent. al stake lies. Hence global almost forgotten to sustain legislative assistance it steers corporate interests dominate. position is all up for grabs. But game. To celebrate basic demo- Technology will surely guide us experts opine that China’s quiet +/<+(+ %/ nature, resulting in irreparable them down the TRIPS-plus But we need to move much then who will grab it? Is it cratic values and credentials but we it should not take us to rise can no more be peaceful. +- %., losses to humanity. Last year we path. They are not in a beyond this and proved the China under Xi Jinping num- enunciated by liberalism, an that point wherein it simply dic- It’s going to shake the global all saw the rise of youngsters position to mobilise webs of naysayers wrong. ber one in the list? Of course order based on a democratic tates our life cycle. Arguably, status quo for sure. This should +%%) like Greta Thunberg to bring coercion and have to rely on We sincerely need to flash not. China needs to manage its framework is what the world is technological change has always not come on the way to realise '%--.(%'+*' back the planet to sustainabil- webs of dialogue.” back why we all have become own borders before it tries to looking for. been necessary, but not suffi- a sustainable future of human- ity. She has called out the glob- And in this war for sur- so greedy. What has con- grab the rest of the world. It has Human faculties need cient to infuse innovation and ity. Chinese leadership must be '*%'+/%.:%- al leaders to save the earth. And vival, the global governance of tributed to our sudden desire too many problems though it space to pursue research, inno- creativity at all time. able to visualise a future where- this Times Person of the Year IP has clearly divided the for accumulating more wealth, pretends to overcome all. vation and development in a The yammering of a in all the nations have a future. ?(%C/.(% has categorically warned the nations into two mutually space and power is nothing but Starting from Xinjiang to Hong free atmosphere. Not the one “Green Future” is long felt by It’s not just expanding a regime +/80;?--).(% UN saying how the world lead- exclusive camps. Unfortunately the trio-junction of liberalisa- Kong through Taiwan to South bound and encircled by horrors humanity. Indeed the green of international grab and it is ers or elders can spoil the the major chunk of the war tion, globalisation and priva- China Sea, its plate is absolute- of authoritarianism and single cover across the world has all about directing the world to P-C--+<+ future of the coming genera- revolves around sheer corpo- tion (LPG). At the centre of ly full of thorns. Why to get party structure as the one we increased in the last one or two survive. +. tions. She has added more rate greed of the top global cor- this, acceleration is the comfort obsessed to compete with the see now in China under the decades. This is not enough to Finally, a Covid-19 of this strength to the warriors who porations of the advanced and ease of doing almost every- US? In that case, many experts Communist Party of that offer a sustainable solution to magnitude can largely be min- - -.*'%< . % have been fighting to save this nations. Therefore, the very thing under the superior grip say China is not trying to country. It simply negates the humanity. imised by the noble initiatives planet. What we all are yearn- purpose and vision rightly of excellent application of replace the US as a global underlying philosophy of mul- At a time when the world of the WIPO. Since its incep- -+. +--*'% ing for is sustainability that has emphasised by the articles of information and communica- hegemon. Precisely it is work- tilateralism. is grappling with an unprece- tion in 1967, the organisation lots to do with what the WIPO the TRIPS is not leading to a tion technology. ing hard with both its money China is vying for top glob- dented coronavirus crisis that has been launching numerous on this World IP Day is doing. global IP regime wherein all Technological innovation and muscle power to resist the al leadership position without is leading us to the death of initiatives either to encourage Our joint efforts to innovate for nations can have a shared has played a significant role in US coming to its own sphere of even guaranteeing the basic almost two lakh people and creativity or to inspire many in a green future can definitely future. To tackle such imbal- erasing our territorial bound- influence, particularly in the human rights to its own people. affecting nearly 28 lakh glob- the periphery to surge ahead. save the earth. ance, the need of the hour is to aries in the recent past. It has India-Pacific. And for some the In an atmosphere as brought by ally, the WIPO can certainly Hope this mission to innovate Creating a global IP move international IP policy largely affected the broad con- unipolarity dominated by the this Covid-19, China is not show us a unique road to for a green future will be able regime, equally applicable to from IP cooperation mostly tours of our economy, trade, US after the Cold War has just coming up transparent. counter this menace. But then to show humanity a new road all, poses a serious concern informed by narrow corporate political order, identity for- vanished. The much awaited It is resisting opening up we all need to resolutely stand for hope and prosperity. between the developed and and national interests of the mation and warfare at the new bi-polarity has once again how the virus has originated in behind the shared objectives We have witnessed many developing nations. Since the developed nations to global moment. This has necessitated returned with China at one end the Wuhan city if at all it has enunciated in the basic frame- more crises in the past. Covid- birth of the WTO and its his- governance that squarely bal- the remapping of the post- and the US at the other pole. By started there. Its movements work of the WIPO. 19 is not an exceptional one. toric Trade Related Aspects of ances public and private inter- international global political only looking at the Covid-19 seem to be doubtful when the The hurdle for us today is But what we need is pure inno- Intellectual Property Rights ests in knowledge creation and order on an urgent basis. crisis and its serious impact on whole world is witnessing sim- our madness to achieve our tar- vation either from the inter- (TRIPS) Agreement in 1995, distribution around the globe. While altering this global the globe, it would be unwise ply disaster. It was a rare oppor- get before time. In this race, we national scientific and health the fight between these two The role of private actors order, many more actors have to project China as a re-emerg- tunity for China to demon- are simply gulping what even we community or from our lead- &(* $($ groups of nations has been need to be minimised in inter- tried to occupy their spaces or ing power to counter the US. strate its leadership, but it has cannot digest. Whether we ers a path-breaking solution to going on. The central contro- national fora such as the UN, the existing powers have tight- The American leadership, already lost it. It has once respond to Covid-19 or any stamp this virus out from this versy around the TRIPS for WTO, WIPO, World Bank, ened their hold over it to its long held influence and the again offered the West to take such catastrophe in future, the planet. Global economic slump developing countries is all the IMF, etc. It is to be done just remain there wherever they are. superior leadership it has charge of the globe and offered international community needs may soon be stropped once its about the protection of indige- to secure a shared vision of the This has led to a continuous offered in the past would sim- hope back to this planet. Unless to stay united. But practically drivers that is humanity nous rights, traditional knowl- globalisation wherein the power struggle worse than the ply not vanish as the naysayers the global liberal order takes speaking, marshaling our becomes fit and fine. At this edge-related resources and developing countries and the yesteryears Cold War. And this say as it is. Building up a green charge amid the crisis of the actions towards such a course of juncture, only innovation can standardisation of the IP gov- less developing nations could virtual war, so to say, has and sustainable future, demand Covid-19, the WIPO’s mis- action is full of hurdles either offer options. This innovation ernance systems to the level of find a commonplace to survive moved us to a no point of a definite world order to per- sion for innovating green conditioned by ideological path- can rightly indicate the keys to advanced nations. Herein Peter along with the developed coun- return. sist. In such an order, nations future would not be possible. ways or competitive rivalries. unlocking the solutions and Drahos rightly underlined this tries and definitely forge ahead. The US sponsored liberal must feel secure and converge Such a mission demands free Thus countries such as the approaches to create a green struggle way back in 2002: Though sceptics argue that international order has seen their interests so as to surge access to knowledge, informa- US, China, Russia, India, and sustainable future for “The reality of standard setting this global governance is cracks as of now. The problem ahead. When China’s much tion and communication. This Germany, Japan, etc, can no humanity. for developing countries is that doomed to fall when notions of is that both the order and its talked about rise has been lies at the heart of a progressive way think of linking their goals they operate with an intellec- governance are fluid and sus- sponsor are in crisis today. questioned by many and par- humanity. and visions to a single point. (The writer is an expert on tual property paradigm dom- ceptible to customary dynam- With President Donald Trump ticularly by its immediate World is now a civilisation And even if they can, they are international affairs)
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Use of ceries and other essential com- selves over the years with tech- such as money transfer, phone -%.+.(%+??-+ surprise, eroding almost $500 forms, especially in the urban lets themselves, enabling them sanitiser or handwash, masks modities to the households as nology initiatives such as offer- recharge facilities and ATMs .(.(%'%/ billion from the market and areas, but have flourished again to overcome labour shortages. and gloves by the owner and many consumers do not mind ing customers digital payment making them first choice for %- +-%- ' severely impacting the econo- as the modern trade grapples They also enjoy strong and staff members is a more com- walking a short distance to get options, billing and adoption of the consumers who have lim- my of more than 75 per cent with restrictive Government close relationships with the mon sight in these stores nowa- daily needs. Many stores have inventory management sys- ited mobility in the present cir- ?()%- countries in a short span of policies, supply chain issues suppliers/distributors because days. tied up with the resident wel- tems to ensure better customer cumstances. ??%--*'..+G* four months. India has been and non-availability of labour. of long-term association and Thirdly, accessibility has fare associations of housing service and efficient opera- To conclude, one impor- proactively fighting the pan- Here are reasons why these networks. always been a key strength of societies to deliver groceries at tions. tant learning for most con- ?+- C%-)(%? demic with certain stringent kirana stores have emerged as Secondly, they have lesser kirana shops, especially in the specified time slots where Finally, some of these sumers from the Covid-19 ?+/.+-.(O'C.%/ measures such as over a winners at the time of global safety concerns over Covid-19 small towns and villages, which individual customers can pick stores are also serving as the pandemic is to go back to the .+ ?( +.-P/' %8 month-long complete lock- crisis. infections being spread among account for 70 per cent retail their packets, and make extension counters or last mile essential daily-products and down to enforce social dis- Firstly, they maintain a consumers as they are visited in spending in India. The e-com- cash/digital payments. delivery hubs and pickup fresh produce and the kirana //%/-%?%- tancing and prevent the spread robust supply chain, with less numbers and frequency. merce and modern trade plat- Fourthly, the kirana stores points of many e-commerce stores have risen to the occa- of Covid-19. One of the side- inventory replenishment, and Trust has become an important forms are more prominent in have leveraged their biggest giants such as Amazon and Big sion remarkably well with their effects of the lockdown is the frequent deliveries by suppliers. currency with consumers as large cities and metros. During strength of extending credit Basket and modern trade such agile and responsive supply disruption of production & They can cope up with the more attention is paid to strin- the Covid-19 pandemic, these facilities to the trusted cus- as Big Bazaar. The e-com- chain, easy accessibility to the distribution of goods and ser- reduced production and supply gent health, hygiene and safe- stores are leveraging their prox- tomers in the hour of need. As merce companies have invest- consumers, hygienic store con- vices as the manufacturing as they carry limited product ty norms of social distancing, imity to the end-consumers to many customers struggle with ed in these stores, overhauling ditions with “limited touch and logistics operations have variety, have mostly cash-to- sensitisation and deep cleaning. provide enhanced customer reduced salaries, these stores and remodelling them with points” and value-added ser- been curtailed completely. cash payment cycle and have Consumers continue to rely on service. As main roads remain have come to their rescue with fresh design, pleasing lighting vices. However, the traditional low returns. They are easily these stores during the lock- inaccessible for cars and other the all familiar phrase of, and technological tools and mom-and-pop shops, popu- accessible by the distributors down as maintaining strin- vehicles due to barricades put “Never mind, you can pay apps. 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get cut off from the outer world, but The question now is: How to declut- o continue from where we left in way, lot of negative and inconsequential thought impressions lying at the subcon- ter the mind of all its limiting influences. the previous issue, let me now thoughts do also keep intruding the scious level come into full play, making Again, lie down on a hard surface over Trelate a story believed to be associ- mind-space. They can be attributed to you restive. As time passes by, mind will your back. Close the eyes. Inhale deep ated with Lord Buddha. For, it will two factors. First, memory impressions settle down, and you may feel relaxed and then exhale slowly. Focus your explain the rationale behind the simple of unpleasant experiences one would and at peace. attention on the breath cycle — in process suggested for relaxing the mind. have had in the past. Second, many wild Once the mind settles down, you are breath and outbreath in running cycle. Buddha was travelling with his disciples thoughts unmindfully arising in course ready to move on to the next stage and Once again you will be flooded with when he felt thirsty. So, he camped and of daydreaming one often gets into. get further empowered. You then need thoughts. As you watch them, you may then asked a disciple to fetch water from They are comparable to mud at the bot- to declutter your mind of all the unwar- find definite patterns emerging that may a nearby water stream. As the disciple tom of the water stream getting stirred ranted thought impressions lying at still throw light on your habit tendencies. was approaching the stream, he saw an up. These unwarranted thoughts vitiate at deeper layers of mind. These imprints, Becoming aware thus, you could resolve animal crossing it. Evidently, the mud your thought process so much that you coming as they may as Karmic carry them through fresh educative inputs. underneath the stream got stirred up, lose your sense of reasons and order, over from the past birth, precondition Better seek guidance from an enlight- and so water did not remain worth con- which doesn’t allow space to objectively your mind one way or the other. That ened Guru, who may help you get over sumption. How could he offer his guru pursue your thoughts. As you let lose varies from person-to-person, according the limiting influences faster. Following dirty water to drink? So, the disciple did your mind, and remain disengaged from as individual specific experiences one cleansing of mind, you may be able to not collect water. Later, when Buddha the thoughts cruising your mind, over a would have had, which defines the look at issues in hand free from any lim- asked for water, the disciple informed period of time, unwanted thoughts go unique character of every being, each itations whatsoever. That may facilitate him that water was dirty. Buddha then out of reckoning. It is just as the mud manifesting varying desire trends, habits looking at things in the right perspective said: “The mud would have settled down settles down when the water stream is and attitudes. Seen in practical terms, in due, to pick up the right lead. by now. So, go again.” This time, though allowed free flow for a while. As the the first place, these memory imprints Consequently, you may be able to sail the mud had largely settled down, water mind settles down, fresh space becomes serving as defining principle of mind through life with relative ease and com- was yet not clean. So, he again returned available to process your thoughts objec- hold the key to how you conduct in day fort. empty handed. It was during his third tively, in turn enabling you to pick up to life — good or bad. Second, it limits The issue continues... visit that he could fetch clean water, the right lead. Mind, thus, gets trained your scope of vision to a narrow window # when the mud had finally settled. to maintain its sense of order. Taste of frame through which you look at the A 99 Remember, mind can be compared the pudding is in eating. Pursue the world view. Consequently, you often fail 8,33=< 11 22 -- to a running water stream. Instead of process regularly. Initially, it may not be to look at issues in hand in the right per- !!,333= == U ' ** 6* ,/A $!8 5-/ 4*,/8A ★ " U / .!. ,A .68- $ * /8A*,/8AH!A* /'*I . C