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A Bench headed by Justice The counsel appearing for Ashok Bhushan was hearing +, +#-./ Karnataka said that from May the matter in which it had % 3, the State has facilitated the esource-starved as it is, the dance with emerging and chang- taken suo motu cognisance on 0 ## +1-& return of over three lakh RGovernment will not start ing priorities,” the expenditure the plight of migrant workers % % $ migrant workers and if 15 any new schemes for a year, the department, under the Finance who were stranded across the 2 34 days time is given they will Finance Ministry said on Ministry, said adding that it has country due to the Covid-19 % facilitate the transportation of Friday making it clear that been receiving many new pro- lockdown. the rest. any spending will only be posals for in-principle approval The Centre informed the 5,1+ $ The lawyer said in past two allowed in the Prime Minister’s from various Ministries or court on Friday that around % 2 weeks, the number of migrant “Garib Kalyan Package” and the departments. All Ministries have one crore migrant workers % workers who want to go out of recent announcements made been told to stop sending across the country have already Karnataka has come down. under “the Atmanirbhar Bharat requests for new schemes to the reached their destination — Solicitor General Tushar The counsel appearing for workers were brought back in migrants has been done. The Solicitor General package”. No other scheme Finance Ministry. Spending will around 41 lakh by road trans- Mehta informed the Bench, Gujarat told the SC that out of Uttar Pradesh. It said they The counsel representing assured the apex court that the would be approved. Schemes only be allowed in the Prime port and 57 lakh by trains. also comprising Justices SK around 22 lakh migrant work- have sent back around 1.35 West Bengal said that around entire country is working in already approved under the Minister’s Garib Kalyan Package During the hearing, the Kaul and MR Shah, that so far ers in the State, 20.5 lakh have lakh migrants, who were in 3.97 lakh stranded migrants tandem and all demands and Budget will also stay suspend- and the announcements made advocates representing various 802 trains have been operated already been transported back. Uttar Pradesh, and 104 special are in the State and relief assistance required by the ed till March 31, 2021. under the Atmanirbhar Bharat States gave the figures of from Maharashtra for trans- Senior advocate PS trains were operated for camps were serving around States would be provided to The drastic move is to package, it said. migrant workers as per which, porting migrant workers. Narasimha, appearing for Uttar this. one lakh meals. The counsel them. tighten spending amid rising “No new proposals for a over 11 lakh and 20.5 lakh peo- Additional Solicitor Pradesh, said that around 5.50 The counsel appearing for said that West Bengal is more On May 28, the top court coronavirus cases with no clar- scheme/sub-scheme should be ple have gone back from General Sanjay Jain, repre- lakh migrants workers were the Bihar Government told of a receiving State and they had directed that the migrant ity on when the pandemic will initiated this year (2020-21) Maharashtra and Gujarat senting the Delhi Government, brought back into the State the court that around 28 lakh will provide every assistance workers wanting to return to peak in the country. except the proposals respectively. told the top court that around from Delhi borders for which migrant workers have returned which is needed to bring peo- their home States will not be “It may be appreciated that announced under the Pradhan Counsel appearing for two lakh workers are still in the buses made over 10,000 trips. to the State. The lawyer said ple back. charged train or bus fares and in the wake of the Covid-19 pan- Mantri Garib Kalyan Package, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh national Capital and only The State Government told that the Bihar Government is The counsel representing those stranded across the demic, there is an unprecedent- the Aatmanirbhar Bharat informed the SC they have so around 10,000 of them have the Bench that 1,664 Shramik taking steps to provide them Kerala said that around 4.34 country will be provided food ed demand on public financial Abhiyan package and any other far received 28 lakh and 21.69 expressed their desire to return trains were organised and employment and so far, skill lakh migrants were there and free of cost by the authorities resources and a need to use special package/announce- lakh migrants respectively. to their native places. around 21.69 lakhs migrant mapping of around 10 lakh over one lakh persons have concerned. resources prudently in accor- ment,” a Ministery note said.

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he famous Snan Yatra of TLord Jagannath and His siblings Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra and Chakraraj Sudarshan was celebrated in the Shreemandir here without presence of devotees on Friday. Limited numbers of servi- tors conducted the Snan Yatra rituals. It was for the first time that the festival was celebrated without participation of devotees and the Lions Gate wore a deserted look during the grand festival amidst prohibitory orders put in place under Section 144 CrPC to enforce Covid-19 restrictions. With multiple layers of Dhadi Pahandi to the Snan The Gajanana Besha deities for a fortnight. As per barricades, the temple’s sur- Mandap (bathing podium). (Elephant-Attired) of the tradition, the deities were taken rounding was sealed to prevent Earlier, the deities took Trinity began at about 11 am ill due to bath and taken to the entry of people. However, peo- bath with 108 pots of water and continued till 4 pm. Lords Anasar Ghar for treatment. ple enjoyed the Snan Yatra mixed with aromatic ingredi- Jagannath and Lord Balabhadra As many as 38 platoons of and paid obeisance to the lords ents. The water was collected were adorned with various art police were deployed to main- though television. The from Suna Kua (Golden Well) and craft pieces and flowers to tain law and Doordarshan (DD) aired the in the temple premises. look like elephants. order. DIG (Central Range) live telecast of the festival and The Chherapanhara Niti At 5 pm, the deities were Ashish Singh oversaw the secu- private channels shared the (sweeping of Snan Mandap escorted in the Bahuda rity arrangement. SJTA Chief signals through the GSAT-17. floors) was conducted by Pahandi (return sojourn) to Administrator Krishan Kumar The festival started from 1 Gajapti Maharaja Dibyasingha Anasar Ghar (quarantine and Puri district Collector am on Friday and continued till Deb’s Mudiratha in the home), a makeshift room espe- Balawant Singh and SP Uma night. All the deities came in Maharaja’s absence. cially built to accommodate the Shankar Dash were present. ! P

()(6567 Mayurbhanj districts, seven taking the total recoveries in (67 *66 each from Gajapati and the State to 1.604. he number of Covid-19 Sundargarh districts, four While 35 patients recov- 19- year-old physically- Tdeaths rose to eight in the each in Bahdrak and Bargarh ered in Ganjam district, 22 Achallenged girl was alleged- State when a 63-year-old man districts, 3 each in Balangir recovered in Cuttack, 14 in ly raped by a police Constable of Khordha district suc- and Kandhamal districts, two Nuapada, 14 from Balangir, in Mayurbhanj district on cumbed to the virus on in Dhenkanal district and 10 from Khordha, seven from Thursday night when she was Friday. alone at her residence. The deceased had been While the girl’s mother admitted to a Covid Hospital had gone to her parents’ house here. He was a chronic patient at Jashipur, her father, also a of diabetes and other under- police Constable, was on lying health conditions, the Covid-19 duty at Health and Family Welfare Baripada. Department said. Police have registered a Meanwhile, 130 new pos- case under Sections 376 and itive cases were reported on 511 of IPC against the accused the day, taking the State’s Constable, whose suspension total to 2,608. Out of the has been ordered by new cases, 124 were from Mayurbhanj Superintendent of quarantine centres and six one each in Angul and Kandhamal, five from Police Smit Parmar. local contacts. Jagatsinghpur Koraput and four from The medical examinations The highest of 23 positive districts. Kendrapada. of both the accused and the vic- cases were reported from However, as many as 123 With this, the active cases tim were conducted at a Cuttack district followed by persons infected with the now stand at 994 while the Government hospital, police 22 each in Khordha and virus recovered on the day, death toll is eight. said. !"!" $

" #$ % & $ '# ( $ The woman also alleged meeting in a restaurant at ) that in the absence of her hus- Khandagiri. When she and her ! band, the youth once visited husband went there, the youth + her house, intoxicated her and reiterated his demand of the ()(6567 nion Home Minister Amit % The six local contacts ()(6567 UShah would address peo- include one each from ple of Odisha through a digi- & Dumduma, Salia Sahi, Aiginia lirting on tal platform at 3.30 pm on June and Laxmisagar areas and two FFacebook cost a 8 in the wake of completion of from the Unit- IV area. married woman in one-year of the second term of With this, the number of Bhubaneswar dear the Modi Government at the $ cases in the state capital rose to as she was duped of Centre. 81, including 27 active cases. over Rs 2 lakh by a A virtual rally will be While 51 patients have recov- youth, whom she organised and promoted ered here, three succumbed to had met on the through various digital plat- ()(6567 the virus so far, the department social-networking forms. added. site sometime ago. For this, a preparatory f the 23 persons testing In Cuttack, 23 tested pos- The woman, a res- meeting was organised through Opositive for coronavirus itive for the virus on the day, of ident of videoconferencing at the BJP in Khordha district on Friday, which 20 are from the Mancheshwar here, State party office here in which as many as 13 are residents of Narsinghapur, Badamba and alleged that she had over 5,000 BJP workers partic- capital city Bhubaneswar. Nischintakoili blocks. been promised a ipated. Posters and videos of Of the 13, seven were The remaining three cases lucrative job in the virtual rally were released. ()(6567 said a notification issued by the under home quarantine while belong to the Cuttack exchange of the A plan was made to involve General Administration and the rest are local contacts. The Municipal Corporation (CMC) money. had physical relationship with money. Then, realising that over 1 lakh party workers in the he State Government on Public Grievance Department. home quarantine cases include area. Sources said the woman, her. The accused also clicked the couple might not give him rally. TFriday removed senior IAS “Sharma was allowed to a case from the Patrapada area The new cases included who is a native of Bhograi in pictures and recorded a video money, he snatched the Union Ministers officer Hemant Sharma from assist Health and Family with travel history of New one from Deulasahi, contact of Baleswar district, befriended of the entire act and later start- woman’s mobile phone and Dharmendra Pradhan and the job of Covid-19-related Welfare Department Principal Delhi, two cases of the New a positive case, another from with the youth on Facebook ed blackmailing her with the gold jewellery besides misbe- Pratap Sarangi, party State purchases. Sharma is current- Secretary in supervision of Forest Park area with travel his- Siddheswar Sahi, contact of a and the friendship began with photos. After uploading the having with her. He also president Samir Mohanty, ly serving as the Principal procurement of all essential tory of Delhi, one case of the positive case and symptomatic playing online game ‘Hugo’ pictures and video on social thrashed her husband when he Leader of Opposition Pradipta Secretary of Industries pharmaceutical goods and Laxmisagar area with travel his- and one was under paid quar- together. Later the friendship media, he started demanding tried to intervene before flee- Naik, BJP Legislature Party Department with additional availability of additional PPEs, tory of Delhi, one case of the antine, travel history and developed into an intimate another Rs 2 lakh from the ing the spot. Deputy Leader Bishnu Sethi, charge of MSME Department masks and other critical care Tankapani Road area with trav- symptomatic. relationship. woman for deleting the video The couple later lodged a BJP national vice-president Principal Secretary. equipments for Covid-19 in the el history of the “All the patients have been As per a complaint lodged posts. Finally, the woman complaint with the Khandagiri Baijayant Panda, State general Sharma has been relieved State. His additional charge Chintamaniswar area with shifted to the Ashwini Covid by the woman, the accused revealed her plight to her hus- police, following which cops secretary and Modi’s one-year from the charge of supervision related to procurement of travel history of Maharashtra Hospital. Their contact tracing cheated her of a whopping Rs band seeking his help. initiated a probe into the mat- completion programme chief of procurement of all essential Covid-19 equipment has been case and a case from Old Town and follow-up action are 2,22,000 assuring her to get her Things turned bizarre three ter. However, the fraudster was Prithviraj Harichandan and pharmaceutical goods and rescinded,” the notification area with travel history of West underway,” said the a manager’s job in a private days ago after the accused yet to be nabbed when the last virtual rally chief Ranjan Patel other equipments required to stated. Bengal. CMC. company. called up the woman for a reports came in. were present. handle the Covid-19 situation, 53 ( ' % % 5 ()(6567 Speaking on the occasion, ) Minister Jena told that SHGs , during 48-hour complete shut- ment of taxis, auto-rickshaws n a major decision towards are now at the forefront of all down every week. and marriage or funerals. For Iwomen empowerment and development activities includ- *)7 The cops advised people to other emergencies, SMS pass inclusive sanitation, the State ing sanitation in Odisha and $ stay at home and venture out could be attained by Dial Government on Friday handed have proven their ability time he Chhera Pahanra ritual by Gajapati only for essential or permitted 100.Unrestricted access is over the Operation and and again. TMaharaja Dibyasingha Deb has been an inte- purposes. allowed for goods transport Maintenance (O and M) of four “Community managed gral part of the Snan Yatra of Lord Jagannath and The police would allow and traffic on the National Septage Treatment Plants sanitation infrastructure not His siblings in Puri. However, there was an people working in medical Highways. (SeTPs) to Self-Help Groups only results in community exception in this year’s Snan Yatra as the establishments, Central or State Notably, the State (SHGs) in the State. The treat- ownership but also makes it Gajapati Maharaja didn’t come to the Snan ()(6567 Governments, telecom staffs, Government has announced ment facilities were handed over more sustainable in the longer Mandap on Friday. petrol pump, media personnel, weekend shutdown in 11 dis- to women SHGs in Brahmapur, run,” said the Principal Instead, his Mudiratha performed the rit- he Commissionerate police home delivery of food or med- tricts to contain the spread of Baripada and Sambalpur and to Secretary, HUDD G Mathi ual at the Snan Mandap. Though there was con- Ton Friday issued a travel icine, water supply, sanitation, Covid-19. a transgender SHG in Cuttack Vathanan on the occasion. fusion initially over the Maharaja’s absence, he advisory for the weekend shut- and sewerage workers, electric The shutdown would be in through a contract agreement The treatment plants were later cleared the air. downs in Bhubaneswar and supply staffs, industrial estab- force on every Saturday and signed between the SHG and the handed over to the SHGs “I decided to stay indoors in compliance Cuttack till the end of June. lishment factories, service sec- Sunday of June in Ganjam, ULBs at an event presided over through a service contract with Government’s Covid-19 guidelines, which As per shutdown restric- tor industries can use the Puri, Nayagarh, Khordha, by Minister Panchayatiraj and between the concerned Urban restrict outdoor movement of persons above 65 tions, the sectors fall under Identity- cards issued by their Kendrapada, Bhadrak, DW ,Law, Housing and Urban Local Body (ULB) and the years of age. As per tradition, Mudiratha can per- emergency and essential ser- respective firms for travelling. Balangir, Cuttack, Development, Pratap Jena, held SHGs. The ULBs will contin- form all rituals of Gajapati Maharaja in the lat- the ritual on Snan Yatra. Earlier in 1976, I was vices category would be Pass issued by police could Jagatsinghpur, Jajpur and through video conference mode ue to provide technical and ter’s absence,” he said. unable to conduct it as I was in the US for my allowed to carry out activities be used by pharmacies, move- Baleswar districts. on Friday. handholding assistance. “This is the second time I couldn’t perform LLM course,” he added. -.$ $ ""#$#P% & !

/% '0 BHUBANESWAR: One more intra-State train is scheduled to run between Bhubaneswar and ()(6567 Rourkela from June 8 to 30 ()(6567 except on Saturdays and n the World Environment Day on Friday, Sundays. disha Skill Oa memorandum of understanding (MoU) As per the schedule, the ODevelopment was signed between the Institute of Chemical train would leave Rourkela at Authority Technology (ICT-M), Bhubaneswar, a branch of (6*)7B6=6367C to the spot following which the 5.10 am and reach Chairman ICT Mumbai with the CSR funding of the Indian miscreants fled from the spot. Bhubaneswar at 12.30 pm. On Subroto Bagchi Oil Corporation (IOC) and the Odisha Bridge youth, Sribasta Malla, was The injured youth was rushed its return journey, the train and Mo School and Construction Corporation Limited (OBCC) Acritically injured when he to the Khandapada hospital. would depart from Abhiyan for cleaning of lakes, including Bindusagar, at was allegedly attacked by three In the complaint, the vic- Bhubaneswar at 2.10 pm and Chairperson various locations around the Lingaraj Temple miscreants with sharp weapons tim has told the police that he reach Rourkela at Susmita Bagchi on here. at Baimundia Chhack in knows the identity of the 9.40 pm. Friday contributed a sum of Rs contributed this small amount The ICT would employ developed technol- Bhapur of Nayagarh district. attackers. But police said that The train would have stop- 2.5 crore to the Chief Minister’s to support Covid relief in ogy of hydrodynamic cavitation to clean the lakes. Three youth of the Harijan the victim has a past criminal pages at the Rajgangpur, Relief Fund (CMRF) for fight Balangir district". Notably, The OBCC will furnish details on present qual- Sahi of Baimundia village record. He was involved in Bamra, Jharsuguda, Rengali, against Covid-19. Bagchi was born in Balangir ity and volume of water in lakes to be cleaned. attacked Malla while he was snatching, loot and extortion Sambalpur City, Rairakhol, The couple presented the district and her wife attended OBCC MD Er (EIC) Jaya Krishna Das and ICT- sipping tea near a shop in the from the locals, for which Boinda, Angul, Talcher Road, cheque to Chief Secretary Asit her first school in this IOC KGP Director Prof Bhaskar N Thorat inked in three months, but the duration depends upon locality. However, when he complaints were lodged against Dhenkanal and Naraj Tripathy. They said, “We have district. the MoU. It is aimed to complete the cleanup drive Covid-19 restrictions. screamed for help locals rushed him. Marthapur stations. PNS Q+ % R .,/ Environment Day organised of environment. tion of a balanced nature. “The through a webinar by the OES president Dr Sundar Biodiversity Act 2002 stresses . 0$ Government in the year 2017. At of the art technology. try and are available freely to , Orissa Environment Society Narayan Patra presided over on assessment of regional bio- least 500 plus courses of differ- In order to ensure that any learner. (OES). the seminar. diversity. We should feel that ent disciplines are included in the best quality contained is pro- It is pertinent to mention According to a study con- Initiating talks, secretary the extinction process is going $ programme with an objective to duced and delivered, nine here that during current Covid- ducted in 1995, there are about Dr Jayakrushna Panigrahi said on in a unchangeable direction. achieve three cardinal principles national coordinators have 19 pandemic, educational insti- ()(6567 13.6 million kinds of living a country, which has more Thus, endurable ecology man- $$& ()(6567 of education policy such as been appointed. tutions are closed since long. beings in the earth but scien- organic resources, has quality agement must be our path access, equity and quality. The languages in which The students from class IX to hree kinds of animals and tists have been able to identi- environment and higher rate of finder,” he said. hile the Ministry of More than 1,000 specially such courses are available PG of other languages who Tplants per hour, 75 kinds fied 1.75 million of them. development. “We should pro- Former PCCF Vinod WHuman Resource chosen faculty and teachers include Hindi, Gujarati, have registered in SWAYAM per day and about 27,000 kinds “Post Industrial tect animals and plants as they Kumar gave a brief note on the Development (MoHRD) has from across the country took Marathi, Bengali, Kannad, are benefited in absence of per year are being extinct from Revolution, development provide us various services country’s biodiversity hotspots. developed study materials for part in preparing the courses. Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam. regular classroom teaching. the earth. If this trend of extinc- process has been going on and products,” he said. In his concluding speech, students from Class IX till The courses hosted on However, Odia speaking As no course materials are tion continues, there would be intolerably while human pop- Former PCCF (Wildlife) Dr Patra embphasised on pro- Post Graduation (PG) in dif- SWAYAM are in four quad- students are yet to reap any prepared in Odia, the Odia less numbers of animals than ulation and use of natural Dr Bijay Ketan Patnaik opined tection of animal sanctuaries, ferent languages, it is yet to rants such as video lecture, spe- benefits from SWAYAM plat- speaking students from Odisha human beings by the coming resources going on uncontrol- that humans are primarily natural parks, biosphere and include Odia. cial prepare reading material form. are deprived of the benefits of century. Biodiversity is the nat- lably. As a consequence, there responsible for the extinction tiger and elephant projects. He While crores of students of that can be downloaded and The objective of SWAYAM SWAYAM which is available to ural asset of a country. Thus, we has been a rapid decay in bio- living being going on now and, said all individuals along with eight regional languages are printed, self assessment tests is to take the best teaching their counterparts in Bengli, must take moral responsibili- diversity and negative inci- if the process continues, it the Government should make benefited through the pro- through examination and learning resources to all includ- Gujurati, Hindi, Kannada, ty to ensure that our so-called dents are happening in the liv- would certainly act as a vows for the purpose. gramme called Study Webs of quizzes and online discussion ing the most disadvantaged. Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil and development doesn’t impact ing system,” rued the speakers. Bhashmasura for human life. The seminar came to an Active-Learning for Young forum for clearing the doubt. This programme has Telgu languages. animals and plants in natural They suggested that Eastern region advisor to end with a vote of thanks pro- Aspiring Minds (SWAYAM), In the meantime, steps brought digital revolution Meanwhile, students, habitats and environment neg- human beings should change Ministry of Environment, posed by secretary Dr Odia language is not added, have been taken by the among the students of the lan- teachers, parents and acade- atively. their lifestyle, work process Forests and Climate Change Dr Panigrahi. Many environmen- officials admitted. MoHRD to enrich the learning guages. All the courses are mics are feeling disheartened Noted environmentalists and objective of development Bindheshwari Prasad talists and intellectuals joined The SWAYAM was experience by using audio- interactive and prepared by with such unequal treatment to opined this at the World and concentrate on protection Upadhyay stressed on protec- the proagramme. launched by the Union video and multimedia and state the best teachers in the coun- Odia students.

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$% )6*66 inquiry by the enforcement Syamsunder Mill tag was he fact that MGNREGS, at 6+3 squad on August 24, they did directly transported from the Tthe moment, can provide not seize the accounts and mill to Rasol GP and similar- job to thousands of job seekers (663 7 + stock register of the panchay- ly 414 quintals of rice was in a district like Nuapada, is ats. After the squad found that directly transported to proved from the online data in he members of BJP led by the rice bags on stock were Tangiriapal GP without verifi- THE MGNREGS TAnant Das and others on ,& $ directly transported from cation and receipt of stock at website. Wednesday staged a silent <0?67 Syamsunder Rice mill, the Mandua godown. According to the web protest before the Collectorate stock of mill was not immedi- The Additional Secretary information on e-Muster Roll here demanding reopening of letter no 2671 dated ately verified to ascertain truth. of Public Distribution and generation as on June 4, the the sugar mill at Deogaon, A25/09/2019 written by the The stocks of the respective Supplies wrote to the Collector number of workers engaged 20km from Balangir head- Civil Supplies Officer, Keonjhar panchayats were not weighed Keonjhar on January 13 to was above 47,000. "It is signif- quarters town. to the Secretary, Civil Supplies immediately to find any short- take action on the PDS rice icant in the context of lock- "We the members of BJP Department, regarding irregu- age allowing the culprits to irregularities in these GPs and down and joblessness," say the are staging a silent demonstra- larities in PDS rice distribution manipulate and adjust the also raised doubt on the activ- officials monitoring the scheme tion before the collectorte has pointed fingers towards the stocks later. ity of the enforcement officials. in the district. "We will con- demanding reopening of the suspicious action of the Interestingly, the stock was But it is alleged that instead of tinue to provide job, till the 33,972 till now, that comes to lands, "say Bidyadhar and his The district at present is sugar mill at Deogaon. Bolangir enforcement squad. formally seized and left in the prosecuting the real culprits, people are interested to work," an average of approximately Rs family members, who got sup- implementing 3,622 projects in has no industry and migration According to the letter, the custody of the same panchay- Junior Assistant Dusmanta says the Assistant Programme 17,000 per month. Another port for land development the district. "It is encouraging is endemic in the district. enforcement squad was given at executive officer Nayak and peon Chintamani Officer (APO) of MGNREGS, family of this Panchayat which work. Kanakram Majhi and that about 44 per cent of the Earlier, it was providing the task to inquire into the Durgaprasad Murmu. Even the Pati were transferred from the Boden block. has completed 100 person days family, who were engaged in total workers working at pre- employment to 800 youths and irregularities in PDS rice dis- godown was not sealed either. district as a part of disciplinary A visit to work sites and of work is the family of construction of a farm pond in sent is women," says APO of 15,000 farmers were benefited tribution in Tangiriapal and The CSO was intimated about action against them. And, interaction with the people Kanakram Majhi, who has their land have also similar Komna block Pradip Kumar both directly and indirectly," Rasol Panchayat under the findings a week later. ASCO Paresh Mohanty has working under MGNREGS earned Rs 29,800 in last two view to share. Most important Ojha, which has engaged the said Das. Harichandanpur block. According to the proce- been promoted to the CSO speaks a lot of the achievements months. One will find several is that the wage payment mech- highest number of labourers at The BJP workers submitted However, Supply Inspector dure, the rice procured from Keonjhar to cover up such this year. such families in every village, anism has improved signifi- present with Muster Roll gen- a memorandum to Balangir Yashoda Singh and ACSO any mill first reaches the irregularities. Bidyadhara Hans and his who would be happy to narrate cantly. "The payment of wage erated for 11,540 workers, fol- Sub Collector Sanjay Mishra in Paresh Mohanty in charge of Mandua rice collection The PDS commodity family members belonging to his changed experience this has been regularised, we are lowed by Sinapali with 10,613 this connection. enforcement squad instead of godown which is sent to dif- transport scam and other irreg- Dotto village under year. being paid our wage every workers and Nuapada, Boden Receiving the memoran- conducting an impartial ferent panchayats later on after ularities in during the Covid- Karangamal Panchayat of "We have benefited in two eight to ten days; otherwise it and Khariar repectively with dum, Balangir Sub-Collector inquiry tried to tamper with verification and other formal- 19 have reached sky high and Boden block have already com- ways, in addition to the wage, would not be possible to work MR generated for 8,871, 8,545 Mishra said he would inti- the evidences and also know- ities. But it was found that on if proved at higher level, the pleted 114 days of work since the work has also helped us under this scheme," say the and 7,837 mate the Government about ingly suppressed the incident. August 23, 1,010 rice bags massive scams may come to the April. The family has earned Rs develop our undulating up workers. workers. the matter. As per procedure during weighing 505 quintals with fore, locals claimed. # % % .". & %&:+R 5 $

3 3 at Malipada, Bhubaneswar. parks proposed by the Odisha 4 Similarly, a 500-acre petro- Government are coming in ; chemical downstream park at the coastal Odisha region and Baleswar is under considera- none of them has been pro- ()(6567 tion. Although these initia- posed in KBK region. Konark !- $& fracture. After detection of Covid virus tives by the State Government Spinning Mill in Kesinga has (6567 District Project Manager she was sent to Covid hospi- on-resident Odia (NRO) is appreciable, the remained closed for 27 years, (DPM) Anil Mohanty said, tal in the district and since her !" NProfessor Digambara Patra Government’s lack of enthusi- he told. s many as 25 medical staff, “Both the women corona husband, also a Mumbai of the American University of asm to focus in industrial District wise Kalahandi is Aincluding three doctors, affected were in isolated beds returnee, was in close contact Beirut, Lebanon has urged CM development in (KBKK) among the topmost districts for are in home quarantine after in their wards and have been with her, he was sent to TMC. Naveen Patnaik to establish region is worrisome, he told. cotton production and two patients were detected sent to the Covid hospitals. In another case, the 55- # another textile and cotton park The KBK region has great Bhawanipatna is located cen- with Covid-19 positive. Their close contact relatives year- old woman came to hos- at Bhawanipatna potential in alumina, cotton trally to all the major districts On Wednesday while 24 while are sent to temporary pital with fracture along with In a letter, he said that and agriculture-based indus- under cotton cultivation such positive cases were detected in medical centre (TMC), the her two sons. ?675)3)6 woman, her son and three while the Odisha Government tries. Unfortunately, most of the as Kalahandi, Bolangir, the district, two of them were doctors, nurses, paramedics As she was required daughters had consumed has accorded recent approval aluminum based downstream Rayagada and Koraput as per undergoing treatment, reports and other staff are on home surgery, swab test was manda- he toll in the mass suicide phenyl after being grieved over for a 1,000-acre textile park at parks are being established the Odisha Government data. said. quarantine.” tory before the invasive proce- Tattempt incident in the death of her younger son Dhamra and another 1,000- outside of the KBK district. At Similarly, Kalahandi, Both are women patients The 24-year-old woman dure. Jharsuguda district increased to Deepak Biswal (22). acre medical park at the same time, the KBK dis- Subarnapur, Bargarh and and were under treatment in was admitted in the hospital She was in isolated bed in four as another woman died at Pinki Biswal, Pushpabati Dhenkanal, it is silent on indus- tricts play a significant and Koraput region is known for different wards from TMC after vomiting com- the Orthopaedic ward and the VIMSAR in Burla on Biswal (mother) and Srikant trial development in the major role in cotton production handloom textiles. It will be One 24-year-old woman pliant during her pregnancy. when the report came positive Friday. Biswal had earlier succumbed Kalahandi, Balangir, Koraput in Odisha. Cotton cultivated in ideal to encourage a textile park Mumbai returnee while was Since she was a Mumbai she was referred to KIMS The deceased was identi- at the hospital while undergo- and Kandhamal (KBKK) Kalahandi, Nuapada, where cotton is widely grown admitted in the gynaecology returnee and initially lodged in Covid Hospital, Bhubaneswar fied as Bandita Biswal (35). ing treatment. region. Rayagada, Koraput, and in the State to provide direct ward, another, 55 -year- old the TMC, her sample was sent for treatment and further The matter pertains to sui- Notably, Deepak had sus- Earlier, the State Balangir districts is well known benefit to the farmers and add woman, a resident of Remuna, for test. During her stay in the surgery. Her two sons were sent cide attempt by five members tained critical after which his Government has also approved for its quality internationally. value to their products, he was admitted in the gynaecology ward she was in to the TMC, said DPM of a family here following the family members took the dras- for a 800 acre for a Textile Park Nevertheless, both the textile opined. orthopaedic ward following an isolated bed in the ward. Mohanty. death of a family member. A tic step. 3 % 67 #

! % %# for their produce and pre- duction and productivity of rooting for amendments to Finance Minister, in her last Past studies by IFPRI marketing intelligence cell law as well.The Central #,% # vented crowding in man- crops and livestock with State's APMC Acts to free budget speech for 2020-21, and ICRISAT have shown (AMIC). AMIC, in collabo- Government had earlier cir- $ ,,% dis." participation of contract agricultural markets from announced “to encourage” that contract farming can be ration with Farmer Producer culated the Model Land Freeing up agricultural farming companies in the the clutches of politicised States to implement these successful in increasing Organizations (FPOs) and Leasing Act,, 2016 to all any reforms in the markets has often been process of input supplies, market committees and long pending agricultural farmers’ incomes signifi- extension agencies, should State Governments for effec- MIndian agricultural sec- advocated to maximise the knowledge transfer, value infuse investments and com- reforms. In the latest stimu- cantly and improve compli- continuously assess and tive implementation. Since tor were long due for want of income of the farming com- addition and petition to benefit farmers lus package under Atma- ance with food safety mea- inform about demand for informal or concealed ten- enabling rules in States or munities. Madhya Pradesh marketing. while permitting them to Nirbhar Bharat initiative, sures. However, a transpar- type and quality of agricul- ancy is growing very rapid- differences between State was among the first few Fifty types of plant and sell their produce directly to these reforms have been ent and effective contract tural produce from within ly across States, and to bring and Central Governments. States to amend its “mandi” five animal produce have consumers or traders outside specifically mentioned to enforcement framework is a the country and export mar- in private investments from Covid-19, it appears, is iron- Act to maximise the value of been included in the con- the mandi yards. The model boost the agricultural econ- prerequisite for ensuring its kets. farmers themselves, besides ing out those creases, paving farmers' produce. tract farming legislation. APMC Act, 2003, did not omy. As agriculture is a State success. An online platform There might be a need to off-loading a significant part the way for major Subsequently, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha’s ordinances also meet the expectations for subject with political con- providing members real identify sub-regional clus- of the population from agri- reforms. Karnataka and Gujarat fol- amend the State’s want of effective implemen- siderations, States and the time details of quantity sold ters suitable for particular culture sector, land leasing is As the pandemic hit dur- lowed. Odisha is the latest Agriculture Produce tation by Centre have been at odds by each farmer and its price commodities and create pol- now recognised as an eco- ing Rabi harvest, proactive entrant to the club with two Marketing Act, 1957, to pro- States. over advisories of the latter. would increase transparen- icy support for required nomic necessity. States did not lose time to ordinances (as the State vide restriction-free trade This again led the Centre The 15th Finance cy and participation. storage and marketing infra- relax or amend State-specif- Legislative Assembly is not and transaction of agricul- to circulate the Model Commission has reportedly Creating a dashboard which structure. Building farmer (Padhee is country direc- ic Agriculture Produce in session) in May that tural produce (including Agricultural Produce and provided for financial incen- reflects everyday prices of awareness on the scope, tor- India; Shalander Kumar Market Committee (APMC) promise comprehensive livestock) within the State Livestock Marketing tives to States that would major commodities in dif- process and potential bene- is Principal Scientist, Pillandi Acts to allow farmers to sell reforms in existing agricul- (and the country) to maxi- (Promotion and Facilitation) enact and implement all fea- ferent markets would also fits of new provisions and is Senior Communications marketable produce direct- tural marketing laws and mize farmers' income by Act, 2017, and tures of the Centre-suggest- help in transparent price reforms will be key to ensur- Officer at the International ly to buyers outside desig- provisions related to con- increasing market access. Model Agricultural ed Contract Farming Model discovery by contract ing their effective participa- Crops Research Institute for nated mandis. tract farming. Only the fine print of the Produce and Livestock Act. Post-COVID, it is to be farmers. tion.These reforms would the Semi-arid Tropics A few States also relaxed The Odisha Agricultural law, rules which are yet to be Contract Farming and seen how the Centre nudges To take advantage of the go a long way in invigorat- (ICRISAT), Anjani Kumar laws to give State owned Produce and Livestock published, can tell whether Services (Promotion and States with financial incen- ongoing reforms, farmers ing the agricultural sector in is Research Fellow at the and accredited warehouses Contract Farming and then Government's positive Facilitation) Act, 2018,with- tives for sincere implemen- must produce what the mar- Odisha. International Food Policy the status of a mandi. These Services (Promotion and intent meets the desired out finding takers till the tation of these reforms. ket demands. Each State Don’t forget land leasing Research Institute (IFPRI). measures were to assure Facilitation) Ordinance, objectives. Centre’s push COVID pandemic hit the Understanding successful should have an effective and The time has come to Views are authors' farmers remunerative prices 2020, aims at improving pro- The Centre has been nation. In fact, the Union measures functioning agricultural implement the land leasing own) !"!" ! " "

* held under the chairmanship of arms/ammunition industry. bombs & ammunitions) ammunition for anti-aircraft Minister of State in the Home 6 % %$ The list of invited compa- and Hyt Engineering Company guns, artillery guns, tank guns nion Home Ministry is Ministry G Kishan Reddy with #'% % nies with industrial licence to Pvt Ltd (manufacture of etc as also sub assemblies Useeking to procure private sector industries having % % % $ 0( manufacture arms/ammuni- shells for ammunition of vari- weapon systems). arms/ammunition from pri- licence for manufacturing @ % D 6 * tion included Indtech ous calibres). The list also included vate firms besides State-run arms/ammunition. The meeting $4 B 6*C % Construction Pvt Ltd (small Others companies includ- Premier Explosives Ltd, BF Ordnance Factory Board was held to explore the possi- L* 6 $ % arms and ammunition like 5.56 ed Godrej & Boyce Elbit Advanced Systems Pvt (OFB) for the Central para- bilities to enhance the procure- 6$ 6*9 *0 $#1 ( mm, 7.62 mm, 9 mm, 12.7 mm Manufacturing Company Ltd, Solar Industries India Ltd, military forces and Central ment of these items from private * 5 B(5CD and 14.5 mm calibre)Larsen & Ltd(empty shells and required Kalyani Strategic System Ltd, Police Organisations. companies besides the OFB. 2 M 7 * B 7*CD Toubro Ltd (armament includ- fuses for ammunition and Himachal Futuristic A meeting was held via The Central Armed Police %2 5 ing ammunition/ordnance like explosive such as bombs, Communication Ltd, video conferencing last Friday Forces (CAPFs) or the Central 5 23 B 5CD5 5 ( B55(CD missiles, rockets and torpedo mines, missiles and torpedoes Continental Defence Solutions with at least 17 private firms and paramilitary forces with a com- < 7 % @ $ ( * B (*CD land/naval mines), Vem excluding the filling of explo- Pvt Ltd, Shan Arms Industries the Ministry may float tenders bined manpower of about 10 5 3B53C Technologies Pvt Ltd. sives), Lords Vanijya Pvt Ltd Pvt Ltd, Pipav Defence and to procure such items from non- lakh include the Border 9 67 (Assembly, Integration & (manufacture and assembly of Offshore Engineering state players, sources said. Security Force (BSF), Central checkout of arms and ammu- ammunition, empty fuses, Company Ltd and Hughes The meeting under the sub- Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Security Guards (NSG) and Development (BPR&D). The across the country also had nition, rockets and missiles), primers and switches), Micron Precision Manufacturing Ltd. ject head “Procurement of Arms Central Industrial Security Assam Rifles. The CPOs CAPF and CPOs were also rep- participation from industry Sec Industries Pvt Ltd. (static Instrument Pvt Ltd (weapon An official privy to the dis- and Ammunition by Force (CISF), Sashastra Seema include organisations under resented in the meeting. bodies like ASSOCHAM, CII, and mobile launchers for air systems like mortars, rocket cussions said tendering for CAPFs/CPOs from Private Bal (SSB), Indo-Tibetan Border the Home Ministry like Bureau The online meeting con- FICCI and PH DCCI besides launch missiles of short, medi- launchers, grenade launchers procurement of these items Domestic Manufacturers” was Police (ITBP), National of Police Research and nected to 40 locations locations representatives of the domestic um and long range, rockets, and missile launchers besides outside OFB. # $ %$ )R $* .3 2( ' % $ $ " %R O $ N= & = O 9(36)7) Railway and Labour Minister in the UPA Government. he Congress on Friday Kharge (77) had also been a Tannounced veteran party Minister in several Congress he Indian Council of #7 < leader Mallikarjun Kharge as its Governments in the State in the TMedical Research (ICMR) candidate for the June 19 elec- past and had also served as has validated IgG Elisa kits of tions to the four Rajya Sabha KPCC president and Leader of three companies — Gujarat- schedule,” he said. seats from Karnataka. the Opposition in the based Zydus Cadila Healthcare The civil services exami- “Congress President Sonia Karnataka Assembly. Ltd, Euroimmun US Inc and he civil services prelimi- nation is conducted annually in Gandhi has approved the can- His son Priyank Kharge is Calbiotech Inc, both from the mid Covid-19 pandemic, Tnary examination 2020, three stages — prelims, main didature of Mallikarjun Kharge currently MLA representing USA to conduct sero-survey to AInternational Yoga Day postponed due to the coron- and interview — by the UPSC as Congress candidate for the Chittapur constituency and measure Covid-19 exposure this year would be celebrated avirus pandemic, will be held to select officers for the Indian ensuing biennial elections to had served as a Minister dur- in the vulnerable population tion, matching public health ELISA IgG kits which help in on digital media platforms and on October 4, the Union Public Administrative Service (IAS), the Rajya Sabha from ing the previous Congress and like healthcare workers, front- interventions can be imple- the antibody detection for there would be no mass gath- Service Commission (UPSC) the Indian Foreign Service Karnataka,” All India Congress coalition Governments. line workers and people living mented for prevention and Covid-19. These test kits have erings, the Government said on announced on Friday. (IFS) and the Indian Police Committee Press release said. While the ruling BJP with in containment zones. control of the disease,” the the advantage of testing 90 Friday. This year’s theme will be It said the personality test Service (IPS), among others. The four seats represented 117 members (including The IgG ELISA kits are the research body said. samples in a single run of 2.5 “Yoga at Home and Yoga with of the candidates selected Lakhs of aspirants take the by Rajeev Gowda and BK Speaker), can ensure victory in first indigenous antibody detec- Further, it should be used hours so that healthcare pro- Family”. through the last year’s civil ser- examination every year to be Hariprasad of the Congress, two seats, the JD(S), with just 34 tion kits for coronavirus. for survey in high-risk or vul- fessionals can proceed quickly People will be able to join vices preliminary and main part of the country’s coveted Prabhakar Kore of the BJP seats in the Assembly, is not in Zydus had licensed the nerable populations like health- with the necessary next steps. Yoga Day celebrations virtual- examinations will resume from civil services. and D Kupendra Reddy of the a position to win a seat in the Covid Kavach Elisa IgG test kit care workers, frontline workers, “The ELISA tests have ly at 7 am on June 21. Indian July 20. This year’s preliminary The decision on announce- JD(S) will fall vacant on June 25 Rajya Sabha on its own, as a developed by the ICMR. The immune-compromised indi- been validated in the laborato- Missions abroad are trying to test was originally scheduled to ment of fresh date was taken in with their retirement. June 9 is minimum of 44 votes are medical research body had viduals, individuals in con- ry. However, the performance reach out to the people through be held on May 31, but was a meeting held by the the last date for filing nomina- required for a candidate to win. earlier claimed that its test kit tainment zones, to know who of the test may be subject to digital media as well through the deferred due to the nationwide Commission to review the pre- tions. The Congress, with 68 Speculations are rife that the has an impressive 100 per cent have been infected in the past variation under field condi- network of institutions which lockdown to contain the spread vailing situation due to Covid- MLAs in the Assembly, can win Congress is likely to support the specificity and 98 per cent and have now recovered. tions,” the ICMR added. support yoga, officials said. of coronavirus. 19 lockdown. “Taking note of one of the four seats easily on JD(S) with its surplus votes for sensitivity. The ICMR has also pro- The IgG ELISA/CLIA tests The AYUSH Ministry had Minister of State for the opening of lockdown and its own, so Kharge’s victory is the remaining one seat if the Three batches of ‘Covid vided details of seven pharma which are US-FDA approved earlier planned to hold a grand Personnel Jitendra Singh said progressive relaxations being said to be certain. regional party fields its supremo Kavach ELISA IgG kits’ devel- companies to whom it has can be used directly after due event at Leh which, however, the announcement of fresh announced by the Central gov- Kharge, who was popular- and former Prime Minister HD oped by Zydus Cadila transferred the technology to marketing approval from the had to be cancelled because of date for the civil services pre- ernment and various states, the ly known as “solillada Saradara”, Deve Gowda, and in return may Healthcare Ltd, one batch of undertake the production of Drugs Controller General of the pandemic. liminary exam would allay Commission decided to issue a (a leader without defeat) faced seek favour during the legisla- Euroimmun Anti- SARS-COV- indigenous Covid Kavach India (DCGI). Besides, through the “My apprehensions in some quarters revised schedule of examina- his first electoral loss in his tive council polls slated later this 2 ELISA IgG by Euroimmun Life My Yoga” video blogging of it being cancelled. “It would tion/recruitment tests,” the political life spanning several month. No final decision has US Inc, USA, and a batch of competition which was also allay apprehension from UPSC said in a statement. decades against BJP’s Umesh been taken in this regard yet, Erbalisa Covid-19 IgG ELISA " % launched by the prime minister the minds of some quarters According to the revised Jadhav in Gulbarga by a mar- party sources said. manufactured by Calbiotech on May 31, the Ministry of who thought that they would calendar, the civil services pre- gin of 95,452 votes in the 2019 The JD(S) will hold its leg- Inc, USA have been approved. AYUSH and ICCR seeks to raise become overage by the next liminary examination 2020 will Lok Sabha polls. islative party meeting to decide The ICMR said “responsi- awareness about yoga and to year in case the exam was be held on October 4 (Sunday). A nine-time MLA and on the strategy for RS polls and bility for batch to batch con- inspire people to prepare for and postponed. Candidates need The main examination 2020 will two-term Lok Sabha member, decide on a candidate. The BJP sistency lies with the manu- ! 6 become active participants in not worry. The examination begin from January 8, 2021 he had served as Congress’ too, with several aspirants, is facturer”. the observation of IDY 2020. will be held as per the UPSC’s (Friday) for five days, it said. floor leader in the previous Lok yet to finalise its candidate for “Depending upon the level 7 %#1% % B. G" C Sabha, and also as Union the RS polls. of sero-prevalence of infec- % @#/ D %% $ # $ R Q " R( widely available and inex- Apensive drug, Famotidine (Pepcid AC) that is used to ease $ the symptoms of indigestion may prove a worthy contender for treating coronavirus in has failed to help make the those whose disease doesn’t poor, the farmers, the migrant require admission to hospital, as well as general unwellness — he Congress on Friday workers, the industry or the as per a finding, published was measured using a version Tdubbed Prime Minister States to become self-reliant. online in the journal Gut. of a 4-point scale normally Narendra Modi’s “vocal for Similarly, his exhortation to The effects were felt with- applied to assess the severity of local” call and the economic industry to push ‘Made in in 24 to 48 hours of taking cancer symptoms (ECOG PS). stimulus package to make the India, Made for the World’, to famotidine, and a rigorous Seven of the patients test- country self-reliant as yet expand globally, not be depen- clinical trial is now warranted ed positive for Covid-19, using another jumla to divert the dent on another country in the to see if the drug could be an a swab test; two had antibod- attention of the people from strategic sector, did not have a effective treatment for Covid- ies to the infection; and one “real issues”. clear roadmap as to how this 19, the researchers said. patient wasn’t tested but was Addressing a video Press goal should be achieved, the It belongs to a class of diagnosed with the infection by conference, senior Congress former union minister said. drugs known as histamine-2 a doctor. leader Kapil Sibal asked how can The Rs 20 lakh crore receptor antagonists, which Their ages ranged from 23 to India become self-reliant till it ‘Atmanirbhar’ package does reduce the amount of stomach 71 and known risk factors for creates innovation and intellec- not lead to expansion of acid produced. Famotidine can Covid-19 severity, including high tual property in its universities. Government expenditure, as it be taken in doses of 20-160 mg, blood pressure and obesity. “This is an act of self includes measures already up to four times a day, for the All started taking famoti- deception. This is another announced by RBI and the treatment of acid reflux and dine when they were feeling ‘jumla’ (rhetoric) that you sell budget and amounts to less heartburn. very poorly with Covid-19, to the people of the country. than 1 per cent of GDP, as The researchers report on the symptoms of which had We are only manufacturing against 10 per cent claimed by ten people (six men; four been going on from 2 up to 26 ‘jumlas’, statements and slogans. the Government, he noted. women) who developed Covid- days at that point. That is the only thing we make “The reality is that Modi’s 19 infection, all of whom hap- Improvement was evident in India and we are masters at ‘Atmanirbhar’ idea is merely a pened to have been taking across all symptom categories that under this government,” he slogan like innumerable others,” famotidine during their illness. assessed, but respiratory symp- said, taking a swipe at the BJP- Sibal said. He also called for pri- The severity of five cardi- toms, such as cough and short- led government. vate investment in the univer- nal symptoms — cough; short- ness of breath, improved more Sibal said while the Prime sities to create innovation and ness of breath; fatigue; rapidly than systemic symp- Minister calls for “Atmanirbhar ideas, which he said did not headache and loss of taste/smell toms, such as fatigue. Abhiyaan”, his Government amount to privatisation. # % % & %1 23

first stage of any cyclone. ed that the monsoon would be However, it is not necessary delayed by four days, but he India Meteorological that every low pressure inten- Cyclone Nisarga helped push TDepartment (IMD) on sifies into a cyclone. the monsoon to reach Kerala Friday said rainfall activity in This will help advance mon- on its normal onset date. central and south India is like- soon and bring good rainfall “Conditions are becoming ly to pick up pace from next during the next week,” favourable for further advance- week due to a cyclonic circu- Mohapatra said. ment of Southwest Monsoon lation which is likely to form In its tropical cyclones bul- into some more parts of central over the Bay of Bengal and aid letin dated June 5, the IMD said Arabian Sea, Karnataka, Tamil in the progress of the monsoon. the low pressure area has a Nadu, Puducherry and The low pressure area will “low”, or 1-25 per cent, chance Karaikal, southwest and east form somewhere near the coast of turning into a ‘depression’ by central Bay of Bengal, entire of Myanmar. A low pressure mid next week. A depression is southeast Bay of Bengal and area is the first stage of a the second stage on the IMD’s some parts of west central Bay cyclonic disturbance; not all eight-level cyclone classifica- of Bengal during next 2 days,” low pressure areas intensify tion system. the IMD said. into cyclones. If this predicted weather According to the IMD, the IMD director general disturbance reaches the fourth country as a whole has received Mrutunjay Mohapatra said a stage — ‘cyclonic storm’ — on 9 per cent more rainfall than low pressure area is likely to the IMD’s scale, it will be given the normal since June 1. form over the Bay of Bengal a name — Cyclone Gati. The north Indian plains and move towards Odisha next Monsoon had hit Kerala on will also witness rainfall due to week. “A low pressure is a June 1 on its normal onset date. a western disturbance, cyclonic circulation and the The IMD had earlier predict- the IMD said. 6 !"!" - %./ $!

*1 +456! %/ + " $ =1% % -,, which 5, 31, 295 samples were <0 9 6 found negative. Chennai continued to be the $ % ?622) holed up in the area. % R amil Nadu saw 1,438 persons district which tested the highest However, security forces Ttesting positive for coronavirus number of positive cases- 1,116. ituation along the line of could not establish fresh con- on Friday, the highest ever number Thiruvallur, Chengaplattu, Scontrol in frontier dis- tact with the hiding terrorists -,, <0 police late this evening or on who broke the news to the out- to be tested positive on a single day. Kancheepuram and Cuddalore tricts of Rajouri and Poonch in the area till late evening. Saturday. Sources in the inves- side world through his social With the addition of 1,438 patients continued to the districts closely in Jammu division According to police, ilson, a farmer from tigation team said that both media posting. into the pool, Tamil Nadu has 12, following Chennai in the number remained tense with con- “the entire area has been WEdavanna in Kareem and Riazuddeen were He said it was not with any 697 active Covid-19 cases as on of positive cases detected in the tinuous exchange of intense kept under tight cordon Malappuram district was into poaching of wild animals ulterior intention that the Friday. Till date 28, 694 persons State. shelling in the area for the while efforts were on to arrested on Friday by Kerala in a big way. Wilson was an Forest Department said the have tested positive for the pan- The possibilities of any last couple of days. ascertain the identity of the Police in connection with the expert in assembling explosives incident might have taken place demic in the State, according to decrease in the number of patients Since June 1, the terrorist””. The security gruesome death of a pregnant and stuffing it in fruits to trap in either Malappuram or medical bulletin issued by Tamil testing positive in Chennai look Pakistan Army has been 8 ) forces had also recovered 1 elephant which was fed the animals. Palakkadu distrocts. “When Nadu Government. bleak according to doctors in resorting to heavy exchange AK 47 rifle, three maga- coconut stuffed with explosives. The police has filed cases we understood that the inci- The death tally on Friday was Government service. “The chief of fire along the line of con- of Rajouri late Thursday zines, hand grenades (chi- According to sources in the against the three under various dent happened at 12 and this took the total number minister himself has said that there trol with a clear objective to evening”. Lt Col Anand said, nese make), four Anti per- police team probing the inci- sections of the Kerala Forest Mannarakkadu, we corrected of fatalities til date to 232. Out of are 6ix to seven persons staying in push small groups of heav- “the injured soldier was sonnel mine, detonators, dent, Wilson said that the Act and Wildlife Protection the same immediately,” he said. the 12 who breathed their last on small rooms in the narrow lanes of ily armed infiltrators inside evacuated to the Army hos- mobile handset with SIM coconut stuffed with explosives Act. If proved correct, the Kerala based Cyber Friday, four were in the 80-82 age Chennai. How is it possible to the Indian territory. pital where he succumbed card and other items. was placed in the farm to get accused could be sentenced up Warriors hacked the website of group, three were in 70-72 group, maintain norms like social dis- A havaldar of the to his injuries”. Earlier On June 1, three rid of pigs which frequently to seven years imprisonment. People For Animal, a portal one was 68, two were 56 and 50 tancing in these areas?” asked a Indian Army sacrificed his In the same district, a heavily armed terrorists raided the crops. Though ini- Forest officials with whom belonging to the NGO led by years of age and a 44 year old per- doctor in one of the Government life in the line of duty in terrorist was neutralised by were neutralised by the alert tially it was reported that the The Pioneer spoke were of the Maneka Gandhi, former union son. While eight persons were hospitals on Friday. Sunderbani sector of the joint teams of security Indian troops in Kalal area elephant had bitten explosive- view that the elephant was minister for environment for having diabetes mellitus and hyper Unperturbed by the growing Nowshera in Rajouri late forces in Panjah Mehari of Nowshera while contin- laden pineapple, it turned out from the Silent Valley Reserve her reported outburst against tension as co-morbid conditions, number of coronavirus cases in the Thursday night. Defence area of Kalakote tehsil. The uous cordon and search to be a coconut filled with Forest and had trespassed into Malappuram district while con- there were two cases of allergic State, the Government is going Spokesman, Lt- Col security forces had launched operations were launched deadly explosives. the farm lands in the periphery demning the incident. bronchitis and acute respiratory ahead with preparations for the Devender Anand said, search operations in the by the security forces in The police is in search of of the forest. “It is difficult to Muslim League leader P K distress syndrome. Two of the Class X public examinations which “Havaldar Mathiazhagan P, area after receiving inputs Poonch to track down the Abdul Kareem and his son pinpoint the exact spot where Kunhalikutty MP and K C deceased were suffering from begin on June 15. Meanwhile, hailing from Sreerangai about the presence of a footprints of infiltrators. Riyazuddeen, owners of the the incident happened. It could Venugopal of nthe Congress chronic kidney ailments. Chief Minister Edappadi Kadu, Idappadi Tehsil,Salem group of heavily armed ter- On Friday, fresh search- farm where Wilson is employed be either in Malappuram or along with the CPI(M), CPI The bulletin said that till date Palaniswamy has written to the district of Tamil Nadu had rorists in the area. es were launched in Mendhar as a labour. Kareem and Palakkadu districts. The vast leaders condemned the BJP 15, 762 persons have been dis- heads of 11 global automobile received critical injuries Massive searches were tehsil of Poonch after receiv- Riazuddeen are absconding farm land stretches across the and Sangh Parivar organisa- charged from the hospitals fully giants asking them to explore during unprovoked cease- launched at day break on ing inputs about the presence and it is believed that they two districts,” said Mohan tions for their efforts to com- cured. The State has tested a total investment opportunities and set fire violation by the Pakistan Friday to track down the of suspected terrorists hid- would surrender before the Krishna, the Forest official munalize the issue. of 5,60,673 samples till date out of up shops here. Army in Sunderbani sector footprints of other terrorists ing in the area. 7 4 & 1 3 $% -,, made Chennai a volcano which continuous urban spread constitut- reached 93.06 million in 201. The 589 <0 9 6 could explode at anytime. “We have ing a town and its adjoining urban slum population of Chennai could be #A1J 2 opened a Pandora’s Box and I doubt Out Growths or two or more phys- somewhere near the 25 lakh mark. ?622) 74 cases were reported from Jammu he unabated increase in the pop- whether we would be able to restore ically contiguous towns together Another 25 lakh stay in narrow lanes division while 108 cases were report- Panaji: Goa's active coron- Tulation of slums and failure in Chennai to its lost purity,” he told and any adjoining urban outgrowths in unhygienic conditions without he Union Territory of Jammu & ed from Kashmir division. Moreover, avirus cases have increased to the programmes launched to erad- The Pioneer. of such towns,” he explained. basic facilities like toilet ,” he said. TKashmir on Friday recorded 182 38 more Covid-19 patients were 130 in the wake of detection of icate slum areas are the reasons He had alerted the Governments He said he had visited many Toilet facilities are available at the fresh cases of coronavirus, taking the recovered and discharged from vari- 96 positive cases in South Goa's behind Chennai being the epicenter at the Centre as well as in States slum dwellings in the metropolis in community level only. “The extreme- total tally of cases to 3,324 and active ous hospitals, 16 from Jammu division Mangor hill area, already of coronavirus pandemic in Tamil about the disastrous consequences of India and abroad. The living condi- ly limited latrines and their overuse cases to 2,202. and 22 from Kashmir division. declared a containment zone, Nadu, according to Edappadi rapid urbanization, increasing pop- tions in the units in India are shock- by too many persons have made the In Kashmir, a 5-day-old baby According to the media bulletin, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant Palaniswamy, Chief Minister. ulation and free-for-all entry into the ing. “All these single room or dou- slum areas unhygienic and filthy,” he from Kulgam tested positive along out of 3324 positive cases, 2202 are said on Friday. “Chennai has about 87 lakh people country’s major metropolises in his ble room units house 10 to 12 per- said. with five doctors, and seven pregnant Active Positive, 1086 have recovered Continuing to rule out living in narrow streets and there are research and the resultant book sons. Most of the men are unem- He says unless the Government women. and 36 have died; 04 in Jammu divi- community transmission in several houses with 6 to 7 people “Slum-Free Cities- A Sisyphus ployed and it is the women who are introduces massive population con- However, senior government sion and 32 in Kashmir division. the state, Sawant said that four staying in them,” Palaniswamy told Challenge for India” published in the breadwinners. Men while away trol measures India is in for major functionaries heaved a sigh of relief In Kashmir valley, out of 108 pos- persons who landed in Goa reporters last Tuesday after presid- 2014. their time playing cards and drink- disaster. “There should be a mech- after test reports of senior bureaucrats itive cases, Shopian district reported from Dubai on Tuesday on a ing over a meeting of senior IAS offi- While the book won him acco- ing alcohol from the earnings made anism whereby the entry of people and other government officials of the a maximum number of 42 cases fol- Vande Bharat Mission flight cers and medical professionals. lades from abroad, the people who by the woman of the house,” said the to major metros are regulated by law. health department tested negative in lowed by Srinagar with 22 fresh had tested positive. The metropolis has one of the matter chose to ignore his findings. professor. Those who are not employed and do Jammu. These officers had come in cases. Meanwhile, three districts of Sawant said that the key highest densities of population Dr Murukadas says the figure quot- Quoting the estimates made by not have even rented places to stay contact with a senior IAS officer at a Anantnag, Kulgam and Srinagar have reason for the spike in corona among south Indian cities, accorded by Chief Minister that 87 lakh the Committee on Slum should not be allowed into the high level meeting in Jammu. The IAS so far recorded over 350 plus cases. infections in Goa was the quick ing to Prof C Murukadas, Tamil people live in slums and over- Statistics/Census, Prof Murukadas cities. The Slum Clearance officer had later tested positive after Kupwara and Baramulla in Kashmir spread of the virus in Mangor Nadu’ lead economist who headed crowded narrow lanes/streets of points out that the slum population Programmes launched by the gov- his return from Srinagar. valley have reported 308 and 331 cases hill cluster, located in the juris- the Department of Economics, Chennai is way of the mark. “The constituted 75.26 million (26.31 per ernments were all piecemeal mea- Meanwhile, with one more death so far respectively. diction of Vasco urban health University of Madras for more than Urban Agglomeration (UA) of cent) out of the 286 million urban sures and have gone awry,” said Prof reported from Kashmir the death toll Jammu district has so far report- centre. two decades. He said massive urban- Chennai has resulted in the city’s population of the country in 2001. Murukadas who is working on a pro- too has gone up to 36 while the total ed 190 positive cases followed by As many as 72 persons test- ization and the resultant unabated population crossing the 89 lakh “As per the estimates the slum pop- ject to come out with a sequel to recoveries touched 1,086 on Friday. Ramban with 164 cases and ed positive there on Wednesday increase in the number of slums have mark in 2013 itself. UA stands for ulation o India is estimated to have Slum Free Cities. According to the media bulletin, Udhampur with 123 cases. and Thursday. IANS ( 4753 $ $%&""#%' O $ P $* $ 2)2(6 high-risk co-morbidities such are in home quarantine. There 1-11AKJ2 as diabetes, hypertension, are 72,375 beds available in· ** $ <0<6 6 tion of people?” was politicizing the issue and not aharashtra sank into heart disease,” a state health quarantine institutions. As (36)7) She said, “They (BJP) are the BJP. Senior BJP leader Rahul Mdeep despair on Friday, bulletin said. many as 30,291 people are in engal Chief Minister talking of throwing me out of Sinha said, “the Chief Minister’s as the state recorded highest- Out of the total deaths institutional quarantine now. he Covid infection rate in BMamata Banerjee on Friday power. But have I said the same Government is stopping the BJP ever day’s tally of 139 deaths reported today, 27 deaths There are total 83 labora- Tthe city is a miniscule 0.003 attacked the BJP for playing thing about Prime Minister men from traveling to the and as many as 2,436 new occurred in the last two days tories functional in the state per cent compared to a dirty politics at a time when the Narendra Modi? Have I called cyclone-hit areas whereas they infected cases. and the rest are from the peri- for COVID-19 diagnosis – 46 population of 1.2 crore people, State is passing through bad for throwing Modi out of power? are allowing the CPI(M) and With the fresh deaths and od from April 21 to June 2 government ones and 37 pri- said a minister on Friday. times. I have never said that Modiji Congress to reach relief because infections, the total number of 2020. vate ones. Out of 5,22,946 “The population of “I do not want to name peo- should be removed. So why are she is afraid of our growing pop- deaths rose to 2,849, while the In Mumbai, with 54 new samples sent to laboratories, Bengaluru is estimated at 1.2 ple who are vitiating the affairs they disturbing me here... This ularity. total infected cases jumped to deaths and 1459 fresh infec- 80,229 have been tested posi- crore. The total number of of the State... But there are some is not the time to play politics” To fight corona she did not 80,229. seven deaths in Kalyan- tions, the total number deaths tive for COVID-19 until infected persons in the city political parties who are taking Attacking the BJP leadership bring in doctors or nurses from Taking into the total num- Dombivli, five deaths in mounted to 1519, while the Friday. from the last two months to advantage of the current crisis for sitting back in the safety of outside but she brought in elec- ber of deaths so far and the fact Ratnagiri, two deaths each in total infected cases rose to The number of tests per 10 Thursday evening was 424,” after corona pandemic and super their houses when her party men tion strategist Prashant Kishore that 35156 patients have been Solapur and Nashik, one death 46080. The Brihanmumbai lakh population in the state is tweeted state Primary and cyclone Amphan hit Bengal. were out fighting corona and to tour the affected region... If discharged from various hos- each in Vasai-Virar –1, Municipal Corporation 3827, as against 2832 per 10 Secondary Education Minister They are playing dirty game to reaching relief to the distressed this is not politics then what is?” pitals so far, the state health Bhiwandi and Aurangabad-1. (BMC) said that there were lakh population in the coun- S. Suresh Kumar. win political mileage. At a time people she said “these leaders Meanwhile, a seven-mem- authorities pegged the number Of the 139 deaths today, 25,768 cases in the metropo- try. He said Bengaluru's when our Government is trying were in hiding in the cool com- ber central team is visiting of “active cases” at42,215. 75 were men while 64 were lis. Some key observations There are 3479 active con- infection rate is 0.003 per its best to fight out the crisis forts of their houses and now Bengal to evaluate the post Of the deaths reported on women. Seventy eight were made in Friday’s health bul- tainment zones in the state cent. these political parties are talking they have suddenly come out to Amphan situation. The team led Friday, Mumbai accounted for aged over 60 years, 53 were letin included: The recovery currently. Total 18,026 sur- Out of the 424 cases, 148 about toppling it,” Banerjee said take political advantage of the by senior IAS officer Anuj 54 deaths, while there were 30 from the age group 40 to 59 rate in the state is 43.81 per veillance squads worked today are currently active, 262 dis- asking “Is it the time to play pol- situation.” Sharma on Friday visited deaths in Thane 14 deaths years and 8 were aged below cent, while case fatality rate in across the state and surveil- charged, 13 dead and one non- itics taking advantage of a crisis Hitting back the BJP said it Amphan affected areas of North each in Pune and Jalgaon, 40 years. “One hundred ten the state i8s 3.55 per cent. lance of 69.18 lakh people Covid death. that has hit the large cross sec- was the Chief Minister who and South 24 Parganas. eight deaths in Malegaon, out of 139 patients (79%) had Currently, 5,45,947 people done so far. A Covid patient committed suicide by jumping from a building and was categorized as a non-Covid death. +> # %% % %D$ % Though the rate of infection in the city is not as high as 0 #% % other places in the state, it has 6* AD"+' witnessed the highest number of Covid deaths in 6 6 ( Karnataka. Amaravati: Yet another fluc- These statistics are for $ ple at Anand Vihar Bus $ Ayushman rates,” the CJI tuation was witnessed in Bengaluru Urban, as catego- Terminal and Markz in observed during the hearing Andhra Pradesh when the rized by the state Health and he Centre on Friday told Nizamuddin after nationwide he Supreme Court on which was conducted through state's single-day count of Family Welfare department. Tthe Supreme Court that lockdown was announced TFriday asked private hos- video-conferencing. Covid-19 cases dipped to 50 on Though the city bore the probe into assembly of people alleging that Delhi police has pitals whether they are ready to Solicitor General Tushar Friday. burden of the highest number at Anand Vihar Bus Terminal failed to control the people and provide treatment to Covid-19 Mehta, appearing for the On Thursday, the state had of cases for a long time, infec- in east Delhi and at Tablighi the Nizamuddin Markaz chief infected patients at the charges Centre, told the bench that gov- reported an all-time high of 98 tion spikes have resulted in Jamaat event in Nizamuddin Maulana Saad was still evading prescribed under the ernment is doing its best for the cases for the second time in other towns and districts over- Markaz is being conducted on arrest. Government's Ayushman lowest strata of society, and four days. With the latest taking the city. day-to-day basis by the Delhi Detailing the steps taken by Bharat Scheme. The people who cannot afford treat- update, the state's tally rose fur- Currently, Udupi is grap- police and there was no need Delhi police, the Ministry of 'Ayushman Bharat - Pradhan ment are covered under the ther to 3,427. pling with the highest number for CBI investigation. Home Affairs in its affidavit Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana' is Ayushman Bharat scheme. According to the medical of active cases in the state at The Ministry of Home said that investigation in aimed at providing health cover The top court, which post- bulletin issued by the state 481, followed by Kalaburagi Affairs gave in detail the steps Markaz matter is being con- to poor and vulnerable persons ed the matter for two weeks nodal officer, 9,831 samples (375), Raichur (318), Yadgir taken by the Delhi Police which ducted on a day-today basis, in the country. from now, was hearing a plea were tested in the 24 hours (271). is making all efforts to com- in accordance with the man- A bench headed by Chief which has sought a direction ending 9 a.m., Friday. In com- The initial Covid cases in plete the investigation within date of law and all efforts are Justice S A Bobde observed that for regulating the cost of treat- parison, 9,986 tests were con- Karnataka were recorded in the the time frame to submit the being made to finalize investi- the apex court is not asking all ment of Covid-19 at private ducted in the preceding testing city in people who returned charge sheet in the trial court. gation and submit a report the private hospitals to treat hospitals across the country. cycle. from international travel. A bench of Chief Justice under section 173 CrPC certain number of Covid-19 During the arguments, On Friday, 21 persons were ranked 10th among the states On a positive note, 14 per- Incidentally, the outskirts SA Bobde and Justices AS (charge sheet) before the trial patients for free. the bench observed that there discharged from hospitals, tak- of India, according to figures sons from this category were of the city categorized as Bopanna and Hrishikesh Roy court in a time bound The bench, also compris- is an earlier judgment which ing the cumulative tally of issued by the Andhra Pradesh discharged during the day. Bengaluru Rural, has one of the allowed the petitioner Supriya manner. ing Justices A S Bopanna and said that hospitals, which have cured persons to 2,294. Andhra government on Wednesday. With four new cases lowest infection rates. Pandita to file rejoinder affi- “In view of the facts and Hrishikesh Roy, said it is ask- been given land on conces- Pradesh currently has 1,060 Friday also saw the cumu- detected among foreign Bengaluru Rural has seen davit to the reply of Ministry of circumstances it is respectful- ing only those private hospitals, sional rates, should treat certain active cases that are being lative tally of Covid-19 cases returnees, their cumulative only 19 infections until now, Home Affairs (MHA) and list- ly submitted that prayer D which have been given land at number of patients for free. treated at various hospitals. among the returnees from tally climbed to 123 on out of which only seven are ed the matter for further hear- (direction for CBI probe) of the concessional rates by the gov- “Why cannot these hospi- Meanwhile, with two other states rise to 700 from the Friday. active with 11 discharges and ing after two weeks. writ petition does not merits ernment, to treat certain num- tals treat a certain number of deaths reported from Krishna Thursday figure of 616 cases. However, the tally of active only one Covid death. Pandita in her plea had any consideration by this ber of coronavirus infected patients for free”, the bench district, the death toll in the The tally of active cases cases in this category dropped Till Thursday, Karnataka sought various reliefs including court,” the reply affidavit said, patients for free. observed, adding, “Please state climbed to 73 on Friday climbed to 442 from the 372 to 119 following the discharge had seen 4,320 Covid cases, out CBI probe into the matter adding that plea needs to be “I just want to know if hos- ensure they do some morning. Andhra Pradesh's cases reported on of three persons in the last 24 of which 2,651 are active. related to the assembly of peo- disposed of. pitals are ready to charge at service”. mortality rate of 1.69 per cent Thursday. hours. 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Weeks after the no match to this biological invad- made in science, we may find a 240261737 !"!" % >;1/.(<4= )*+,.<=,1)*+, %, * $.$$%+( ,8 , $ $ *$$%, $ -$- %./ $," -"%-,%- %./ $ $ $ %, $" $8 *$ $ ,$8' ,"*$ * $$% ( % L L ,$ $ % *-% % % # $ Q $ R -+.+,/09. 0 # '# % $ % % 7 / ) % ( ' ( " # 6464 7S 344 F6? # * ( )*:7(3; # .(0,9<4 1 ( ( ymmetric to global trends, COVID-19 has ( had multi-dimensional impacts on the = SIndian economy and society. Amid rising 7 ( concerns over the lives and livelihoods of the " ( ( ( poorer sections of the population due to the 7 nationwide lockdown, the Government R:S R>S R/S - announced seemingly bold economic packages. However, with a few exceptions, lack of coordi- < nation in the official sphere at the ground level has had appalling consequences, especially on the millions of “city makers”, the urban informal ( workers, who represent a significant share of the , workforce and contribute in multiple ways to the S ( economy. O O Employed mostly in the unorganised sector = and living in informal settlements in cities, they I have borne the major brunt of the lockdown. ( They have no job contracts, no regular work, are often employed casually and are without any social safety nets to support them and their fam- # ) ) I C))ID ilies during exigencies. Moreover, their livelihood opportunities are constrained by multiple bar- > riers that include deplorable housing conditions, inadequacies of urban services, in-built socio- )5D65)2 economic disparities relating to caste and gen- 0OA11@O"11 5 * ) I C)ID der and also the policies and practices of govern- ( 33 > start economies of cities. This can Regarding their awareness on eligi- poorest sections of the population are ments. mostly be done by providing boosts to bility for Government support pro- able to fulfil their dietary require- The challenges during the lockdown: An <= 0 local businesses and small and micro- grammes, only 37 per cent of the ments, each identified needy person )2*0= IMPRI survey to understand the impact of the enterprises. respondents thought that they were eli- must be provided with a dollar a day lockdown on the lives of migrant workers 656606 - The challenges: A defining chal- gible for benefits under the Pradhan (around 2,000 per month). % ( revealed that almost three-fourth of the 3,121 707D lenge for devising appropriate mitigat- Mantri Gareeb Kalyan Yojana (having Further, for everyone to be vigilant )I ( respondents from over 50 cities of India were 05)76 ing policies for the city makers is the an outlay of 20 lakh crore for the about the spread of COVID-19, digital engaged in informal employment, i.e. daily 3 lack of data about them both prior to COVID-19 response). However, only 34 literacy for children belonging to poor wage work, petty trades/business and as tempo- 655 5 6 and during any kind of emergency. So, per cent of the respondents could avail families, and smooth transfer of digital # rary workers without any social security bene- 0 *007D preparedness and early action by the benefits like cash transfers and free payment of welfare schemes, poor ( fits. It was found that six out of 10 workers had 30>72 communities are essential. To benefit ration under this scheme. households should be provided an 35 lost their jobs during the lockdown, with unem- 0 6 6 from any Central and State Government The solutions: In the light of the Android phone either for free or at a 6J ployment being highest among the casual relief measures — both cash and non- above evidence, it becomes extremely subsidised rate through PDS shops. In labourers and self-employed respondents. A 607 03 >O# cash — people must possess important to think of precise policy addition, the private sector (under the * B6(0) '&C66= = whopping 74 per cent of the casual labourers lost Government documents (ration card, improvements to tide over the crisis. To CSR component) should come forward their jobs while 67 per cent of the self-employed 06 *007 Aadhaar card), bank account and be start with, the stringent Aadhaar- and provide free SIM and data coupons I workers could not pursue their economic activ- *750- enrolled in different Government wel- requirements for accessing different to Below Poverty Line households. It is ( ities due to the lockdown. 3 > fare schemes and so on. schemes must be relaxed for at least the the most opportune time to ensure dig- 7 ( The workers, who had no other option but +D111*720 The survey revealed that coverage next six months. Another option could ital literacy among the people. ( to remain confined within their houses without 655 5 6 0 of and eligibility for Government sup- be a job assurance programme that In the US, $300-$400 are being , S any work, could neither realistically practise social #+ 707*0* port programmes was a major concern, would give needy households livelihood given weekly to the unemployed as an distancing, nor could they afford it. The inabil- B (0 02 as evident from the possession status of security during health crises. allowance. Therefore, to ensure a dig- ity to earn during the shutdown translated into P)67 various important documents by the Essentially, the COVID-19 crisis nified assistance to the poor, the ) ( 54 per cent of the people being unable to pay rent respondents. requires extremely localised and coor- Government of India can afford to give for their accommodation. *0*)6 0 About 23 per cent of the respon- dinated responses. So, city govern- $1 (about 75) a day to each poor per- ( )7(6 002 7 The loss of jobs had a spillover impact on the dents did not have ration cards, 32 per ments and their elected representatives son. If we give 2,000 per month assis- education of children, too, as most city-makers 67CD cent did not have zero-balance Jan Dhan should decide on vigorous delivery of tance to 12 crore people (the bottom ( send their offspring to Government schools. In 7656 0 bank accounts and on an average only basic urban services that might be the quartile population in the urban eco- , the prevailing new normal of online teaching +"D111 707 one out of 10 respondents were covered most effective in their contexts. nomic ladder), it will translate to methods and reliance on digital modes of learn- 620 6 under the Government of India’s flag- Financially-empowered city govern- 24,000 crore a month and 72,000 ing, education has become a distant dream for '+D111 707 ship public health as well as life insur- ments with clear functional domain and crore for three months. This is certain- the children of migrant labourers because they 07 7 ance schemes — Ayushman Bharat, PM adequate institutional capacity can ly doable. # ( ( have no smartphones for accessing such educa- 20 5- 5 5 Jeevan Jyoti Bima and PM Suraksha respond rapidly and contain the out- Moreover, if we can give an Android = ( tion, forget about computers. 7 6 =06( Bima Yojna. break of COVID-19. phone in a graded manner to around ( With 88 per cent of the city makers depend- About 65 per cent of the surveyed It is equally important to improve five crore people (prioritising the elder- ( ing on household income, savings, financial help respondents were aware of the and expand the coverage of the Public ly, women and children going to $$< # ( from relatives and friends and so on, for meet- AarogyaSetu App and among them 62 Distribution System (PDS). Bridging the Government schools) in the cities, it ing their health-related expenditure, this tempo- per cent reported use of the app. Only awareness gap regarding available would amount to around 30,000 crore rary job loss has added to their anxieties that any 38 per cent respondents were aware of Government support programmes, (cost per handset around 6,000). kind of health emergency, including COVID-19, State WhatsApp helplines. For other especially the PDS, through timely Overall, this would amount to 100,000 / ( would exacerbate. apps and e-initiatives, the awareness lev- and reliable information and expand- crore and would be crucial as India What they want: Quite understandably, most els of the respondents were very poor. ing the coverage of such programmes moves into the “unlock” phase. Such ( ( people want to return to work and almost three- Roughly about 20-30 per cent of the to the needy but non-registered seg- provisioning is certainly doable and % ( fourth of the respondents said that they would respondents were aware of State e- ments via certain temporary forms of would just need a reorientation of the join the same job in which they were engaged coupons for rations, State e-pass or authentication as alternatives, can be Budget 2020-21. And to this, the 35 , prior to the lockdown, if possible. In other words, other different State apps and use of very useful. lakh crore worth of forex reserves this loss of jobs or livelihood options was con- these apps among them turned out to The last Economic Survey (2019- could be rightly utilised to pay for the - sidered as a temporary phenomenon. be even more pathetic. 20) spoke of “Thalinomics”, which says war against COVID-19, as it would help However, the absorption of jobless migrant Lack of access to smartphones and that a good vegetarian and non-vege- distribute the pain similar to the 0 workers in newer fiscal activities with dignity unstable internet connectivity were the tarian platter costs a minimum of 25 Keynesian tenets during World War-II would significantly depend on the nature and major impediments in using the apps minimum and 40, respectively. and create a better society. C D type of Government policies put in place to jump- and portals. Therefore, in order to ensure that the (The writer is Director, IMPRI) 9 % % %

executive orders. In fact, the subject main function of these local self-gov- mandated to carry out “relief, rehabil- operational. As a result, the process of guidelines of the National Authority arrangements with remarkable coop- “disaster management” is not specifi- ernments is to make the people under- itation and reconstruction activities” decentralised planning is hampered and a select consultation with the dis- eration of all State Governments and cally mentioned in all the three lists of stand what change or innovation ben- only under the “directions of the and associated capacity-development trict and local authorities. public servants and security forces have the Seventh Schedule of the efits them, why it does so and how it District Authority.” The DM Act stip- is completely denied. Penal provisions in Chapter 10 of been enforcing the lockdown effective- Constitution. Therefore, the can be introduced. It is for the com- ulates, under Section 25, the setting up On the other hand, the DM Act the DM Act pave the way for securi- ly. The lockdown exit plan will grad- Parliament exercised its power to munity to participate in all the activ- of a ‘District Disaster Management is unambiguous in assigning powers ty personnel to take coercive measures ually give way to decentralised respon- enact a law on the subject. ities which lead to such change or Authority’ under the stewardship of a to Union and State Governments. against offenders. However, medical sibilities to panchayats and municipal- Other entries like “Public Order” innovation. District Collector/Magistrate, who is Section 62 of the Act stipulates extra- professionals are not covered under ities. The sooner this shift takes place and “Public Health” were included in Panchayats and municipalities assisted by the chairperson of the dis- ordinary powers to the Centre by this provision. Recent incidents of the better it will be. 1, (.9 the State List when the Constitution were brought into the statute book to trict council in the capacity of co-chair- which any authority in Union stone pelting and misbehaviour with The Government has prominent- was framed. Further, consequent upon promote better living for the commu- person of the district authority. Ministries, statutory bodies and State doctors and nurses compelled the ly pronounced the role of local self- iven the seriousness of the the 73rd and 74th Amendments to the nity with the active participation of the Further, Section 31 of the DM Act Governments is bound to take direc- Government to introduce penal pro- governments to combat COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, the Constitution in 1993, “Public Health” community. Here, the word “commu- provides for a “plan” by the district tion from the nodal Central Ministry. visions protecting healthcare person- which can only be prevented by GGovernment imposed a nation- found place in the 11th and 12th nity” means a local society in a geo- authority in consultation with local In addition, a national plan is drawn nel and their property against violence. changing human attitudes and behav- wide lockdown by invoking provisions Schedules. As a result, panchayats and graphical rural or urban area, cutting authorities subject to approval by the up under Section 11. For the purpose, an Ordinance was iours. Local governments and the of the National Disaster Management municipalities have been assigned across caste, religious and economic State. The provision is akin to Article At the State level, under Section promulgated on April 22 to amend the community are best placed to bring Act, 2005 (DM Act). The law was civic powers to render “public health” differences. 243 ZD, a mandatory constitutional 14, a State Disaster Management Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 in the this change and inculcate social dis- enacted by invoking entry number 23, to citizens in their respective jurisdic- Ironically, these key institutions provision, which envisages a district Authority is required under the chair- light of the current pandemic. This tancing on a sustainable basis. Hence, namely, “Social Security and Social tions. have not found their rightful place in planning committee (DPC) for spatial manship of the Chief Minister of the could be a permanent provision to the role of local governments must be Insurance; Employment and Rightly so, as democratic and the DM Act. A passing reference is planning, infrastructure development State. This authority is assisted by a maintain the morale of the healthcare prominent, at least, in the DM Act. Unemployment” in the Concurrent cooperative organisations at the local made to “local authorities” under and environmental conservation. State Executive Committee headed by professional and discipline miscreants. (The writer is faculty, Indian List of the Constitution. Hence, it level are arguably the best to render Section 41 of the DM Act. As per the States have given the provision of the Chief Secretary of the State. The It may be observed that the pan- Institute of Public Administration, empowers Union and State preventive and prophylactic measures section, these panchayats, munici- DPC in their respective Acts but committee prepares the State Disaster demic till date is being controlled New Delhi. The views expressed are Governments to frame rules and issue like inoculation and vaccination. The palities and cantonment boards are seem to be reluctant to make them Management Plan after following the through centralised institutional personal) !"!" " - - $

Washington: Thousands of name and say get your knee off Americans carrying placards our necks”. " $ % . reading “black lives matter” and He also asked mourners to raising slogans such as “no jus- stand in silence for eight min- tice, no peace” took to the utes and 46 seconds, the length " streets in many US cities, of time Floyd lay pinned to the demonstrating peacefully pavement by the police officer. Paris: Churning US protests were living in a country where against the killing of unarmed “At the end of the day, my over the death of George Floyd there is violence every day -0 African-American George brother’s gone, but the Floyd have revived anger in France against people of color,” his sis- Floyd by a white police officer name lives on. I thank god for over police violence, systemic ter, Assa Traore, said. Temecula (US): The mayor in Minneapolis on May 25. you all,” his brother Terrence racism and the complicated Over 20,000 people flouted of a Southern California city The 46-year-old victim, a Floyd told another massive case of Adama Traore, a black a police ban and protested resigned following an email native of Houston, was hand- gathering in Brooklyn. Frenchman who died in police vociferously Tuesday in Paris to in which he stated he didn’t cuffed and pinned to the House Speaker Nancy custody in July 2016. call for justice for both Traore “believe there’s ever been a ground on May 25 by a white Pelosi described this as a day of For Traore’s family, the and Floyd, and similar protests good person of color killed police officer who kneeled on great sadness. Floyd protests have also revived are planned around France this by a police officer” locally. his neck as he gasped for “They are having the first their hopes for change. weekend. “As long as police Temecula Mayor James breath. service for George Floyd. It is “During the coronavirus, aren’t convicted, we will keep Stewart had apologised Floyd’s death has triggered a national day of mourning, I people had a pause in their lives. coming out in the streets,” Thursday for the email, say- nationwide violent protests see, for George Floyd, and we They filmed scenes of police Traore’s sister told The ing he never meant to use the with a section of the protesters pray for his family and pray for violence and they realized they Associated Press. AP word “good.” He had said he resorting to looting and rioting healing for our country,” she is dyslexic and so used voice across the country, leaving told reporters at the US Capitol. text to send his late-night behind a trail of destruction. 3 8 & ( 9 ) With placards reading $" $$% !,$ - *P Tuesday message but failed to Mourners gathered in huge “black lives matter”, protesters notice the added word. numbers across the country on Chicago and Los Angeles have ground in Los Angeles. Cars “It will not be about words chanted “no justice, no peace.” **8,&% %$ ! $ “Unfortunately I did not Thursday night to remember reported large-scale violence were seen moving slowly along in this city. It will be about a Minnesota Attorney take the time to proofread Floyd after a private memori- and looting in the last few days. with the marchers, with many change,” he said. General Keith Ellison on Washington: Twitter has sparked widespread protests, at what was recorded. I al service in Minneapolis. More than 10,000 drivers and passengers holding Reverend Al Sharpton, Thursday announced to elevate blocked a Trump campaign the start. absolutely did not say that,” Seeking justice for Floyd, Americans have been arrested protest signs or raising fists out who delivered the eulogy, said charges against the former video tribute to George Floyd “Per our copyright policy, Stewart told the Riverside they are demanding urgent across the country for violent of their windows to show sup- that the reason “why we’re Minneapolis police officer who over a copyright claim, in a move we respond to valid copyright Press-Enterprise on reforms in the police and crim- protests. port. marching all over the world is killed Floyd while adding the that adds to tensions between complaints sent to us by a copy- Thursday. inal justice system. Protesters chant slogans as In New York, city Mayor because we were like George, charges of aiding and abetting the social media platform and right owner or their authorized “What I said is and I Several cities including they march, with music and Bill de Blasio was booed at an we couldn’t breathe. It’s time for murder against the other three the US president, one of its most representatives,” Twitter said in don’t believe there has ever New York, Washington DC, drum beats blaring in the back- event. us to stand up in George’s officers at the scene. PTI widely followed users. a statement. It did not say who been a person of color mur- The company put a label made the complaint. dered by police, on context to on a video posted by the The three minute and 45 Temecula or Riverside 1! - ## , @TeamTrump account that second clip is a montage of County. I absolutely did not . $ said, “This media has been dis- photos and videos of peaceful say ‘good.’ I have no idea how . & abled in response to a claim by marches and police officers that popped up.” the copyright owner.” hugging protesters interspersed Stewart said he was 0 # B!@% " 2 ((>> ## & -0 3 The video was still up on with some scenes of burning replying to someone “con- President Donald Trump’s buildings and vandalism, set to cerned about our police offi- - - " $ - YouTube channel and includes gentle piano music and Trump cers and their sensitivity $ # pictures of Floyd, whose death speaking. AP training.” AP Washington: The White 8 <60D 37 6 Kabul: US forces carried out immediate comment from the House has called on China to two sets of airstrikes against the Taliban. provide a full accounting of rmed gangs have killed 9..1 %% Taliban, in western and south- Since the signing of the those who were killed, A21 people in the latest ern Afghanistan, a US Military US-Taliban peace agreement at detained or remain missing in bloody assaults on villages in ## spokesman said on Friday. the end of February, US forces connection with events sur- Frankfurt: German police and restive northwest Nigeria, + % Elsewhere in the south, have only once before rounding the 1989 Tiananmen firefighters are clearing a sec- police said. the Taliban set off a roadside announced a strike against the Square massacre. tion of Frankfurt around the Assailants trying to steal 70: % % +', bomb and ambushed a police Taliban, in defence of Afghan “The Chinese Communist convention center to defuse a cattle shot dead 15 people in (7)555 opposed to EU demands for 0> @#/ D convoy, killing 10 Afghan forces. Leggett did not elaborate Party’s (CCP) slaughter of World War II-era bomb that clashes with local residents in long-term access to British $ policemen. on the latest airstrikes or their unarmed Chinese civilians was was discovered during recent six remote communities of nother round of trade dis- waters. +D/#+- The US strikes against the targets. a tragedy that will not be for- construction work. Zamfara state on Tuesday, Acussions between the “The truth is there was no % ., Taliban were the first following However, an Afghan gov- gotten,” White House Press Authorities say some 2,700 regional police spokesman European Union and the UK significant progress this week,” '' D a brief cease-fire declared by ernment official, speaking on Secretary Kayleigh McEnany people are being asked to leave Mohammed Shehu. ended Friday — and once the EU chief negotiator Michel the insurgents for a major condition of anonymity said in a statement on their homes as they cordon off The gunmen — dubbed again there were no signs of Barnier said during a press con- %% - Muslim holiday last month. because he was not authorised Thursday, joining the global the area as a precaution to “bandits” by the authorities — real progress ahead of a loom- ference. !20: 3 A US military spokesman, to talk to the media, said three condemnation of the massacre. defuse the 500-kilogram (1,100- returned the next day and shot ing deadline on whether a The UK left the political % Colonel Sonny Leggett, said senior Taliban commanders The American people pound) bomb. Buses and trains dead six mourners at funerals transition arrangement can be institutions of the EU on % % one set of airstrikes took place and at least 13 other fighters reflect on the courage and through the area were also shut for the earlier victims, the extended. January 31 but remains inside on Friday afternoon in western were killed in the Farah optimism of the hundreds of down and bomb experts were statement released Thursday Following four days of the EU’s tariff-free economic % 0> @ Farah province, targeting 25 airstrikes. thousands of Chinese citizens expected to get to work on the said. video discussions because of zone until the end of the year. #/- % Taliban fighters who were Meanwhile, Afghan offi- who gathered peacefully 31 bomb about noon Friday. Nigeria’s northeast has the coronavirus pandemic, the That so-called transition peri- % attacking Afghan forces. cials in southern Zabul years ago in Beijing and They say they hope the been wracked by years of vio- two sides remained at logger- od can be extended by two Hours earlier, on Thursday province said the Taliban there throughout China to protest work will be finished by around lence, involving clashes heads on a number of issues, years but a request to do so has 2 $@ * night, the US air forces struck ambushed an Afghan police widespread official corruption dinnertime. Even 75 years after between rival communities including on regulations for to be made by July 1. Prime % an unknown number of convoy after setting off a road- and demand a greater say in the the end of the war, such finds over land, attacks by heavily businesses. Their positions on Minister Boris Johnson has D5 Taliban in southern Kandahar side bomb on Friday, killing 10 governance of their country, are still relatively common in armed gangs and retaliation fisheries also remain distant, repeatedly said he won’t ask for 3 D province, he said. There was no policemen. AP she said. PTI Germany. AP strikes from vigilante groups. with the UK adamantly an extension. % - ,00:( 6 )-<-3 O% 0 - 435+( '7 & & Q #" $ % - - 3 - 5+3,4+ ,00: (O (7)555 business flourish, and many European officials feared that Q Q Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday Sindh province reported 67 urope could have its free the very future of the % $ registered a record spike of 33,536 infections, Punjab Etravel zone up and run- Schengen area was at threat % - Q 4,896 new coronavirus cases, 33,144, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ning again by the end of the from the restrictions. These 7 taking the total tally to 89,249, 11,890, Balochistan 5,582, - month, but travellers from added to pressures already L M even as Prime Minister Imran Islamabad 3,946, Gilgit- further afield will not be caused by the arrival in %% %@ Khan asserted that over Baltistan 852 and Pakistan- 0 allowed in before July, Europe of well over 1 million Q 175,000 volunteers have helped occupied Kashmir 299. European Union Home migrants in 2015. - to enforce the official guide- Addressing the Corona 0 Affairs Commissioner Ylva “I personally believe that lines to contain the spread of Relief Tiger Force via a special Johansson said Friday after we will return to a full func- the deadly virus in the country. television briefing, Prime Islamabad: Cash-strapped talks among the bloc’s interi- tioning of the Schengen area The Ministry of National Minister Khan said over Pakistan is expected to record or ministers. and freedom of movement of Health Service said 68 coron- 175,000 members of the force around 3 million jobs loses Panicked by the coron- citizens no later than the end avirus patients died in the last have helped to enforce the due to the coronavirus out- avirus outbreak in Italy in of the month of June,” 24 hours, taking the death toll official guidelines to contain break, the finance ministry February, countries in the 26- Johansson told reporters after to 1,838. Friday was the third the spread of the coronavirus in told the country’s Senate on nation Schengen area — the video-conference meeting. consecutive day when a record the country. A record one mil- Friday. where people and goods move She said Europe’s Centre number of COVID-19 cases lion volunteers have registered In response to Senator freely without checks — for Disease Prevention and were reported in Pakistan after for the force. “They have played Mushtaq Ahmed’s question on imposed border restrictions Control believes that con- the Eid holidays and easing of an important role after the estimated damage to the econ- without consulting their finement and other health lockdown restrictions at the lockdown was eased. More omy due to the pandemic, the neighbours to try to keep the measures are working. The end of May. than 1,75,000 were active in finance ministry said the indus- disease out. The moves caused center says that more than With 4,896 new infections, Ramadan who went to differ- trial sector is likely to lose 1 traffic jams and blocked med- 168,000 people have been the total coronavirus tally in ent mosques to ensure com- million jobs and the remaining ical equipment. killed by the coronavirus in Pakistan now stands at 89,249, pliance with the safety guide- 2 million will be lost in the ser- Free movement is a jewel Europe, mostly in Britain, the health ministry said. lines,” he said. PTI vice sector. PTI in Europe’s crown which helps Italy, France and Spain. 7 . +R % C - 3 1 - $ 9..1 6<6 face a higher risk of getting tancing is next to impossible in infected, mainly because of such a situation,” he said. (7 Beijing/Wuhan: Beijing on uthorities in Bangladesh overcrowding and poor con- Mohammed Rakib, 15, was Friday decided to lower its Ahave been releasing hun- ditions. accused of beating a man in witzerland says it plans to lift COVID-19 emergency dreds of children suspected of Bangladesh has a pro- Dhaka nearly two months ago. Srestrictions on travel from response, marking the return of committing mostly petty tracted system of delivering A judge from a regular court European Union countries and normalcy in China’s capital crimes as they try to keep the justice, with some cases for denied him bail and he was Britain on June 15. following the coronavirus out- coronavirus from spreading in petty crimes taking years to eventually sent to an over- The Swiss government pre- break, while the central city of overcrowded detention cen- conclude. According to crowded detention center just viously had announced that it Wuhan, the origin point of the ters, officials said Friday. UNICEF, some 23,000 cases outside Dhaka that UNICEF would completely reopen the pandemic, cleared all its con- The orders for their release involving children under 18 says houses nearly 700 chil- country’s borders with three of firmed cases. on bail came from virtual are currently pending with dren even though it has the its neighbours — Austria, Wuhan recorded zero cases courts set up by the country’s courts across the country. capacity for about 300. Germany and France — in of the virus following testing of Supreme Court with the help Saifur Rahman, a special Late last month he was mid-June. 10 million people. of UNICEF, officials said. officer of the Supreme Court finally granted bail through the On Friday, a government Beijing city will lower its About 400 children have and additional district judge new virtual court. statement said “in view of the emergency response to the been granted bail in recent who is involved with the “It feels great to be freed current epidemiological situa- novel coronavirus epidemic weeks and more than 300 of release program, said the pro- and get united with my par- tion” it can now expand that to from the second level to the them have already been reunit- gram was crucial as with inad- ents,” Rakib told The all countries in the EU and the third level starting Saturday, a ed with their families, said equate staff and utilities in Associated Press on Friday. “I European Free Trade local official announced on Natalie McCauley, chief of detention centers, it was am very happy. I have suffered Association, as well as Britain. Friday. child protection at UNICEF in extremely difficult to minimize in the jail a lot. That’s a bad Switzerland is not a On May 17, the Beijing Bangladesh. She said the deci- the risk of infection from place.” The reunion was special member of the EU but is Centre for Disease Prevention sion came as public health COVID-19. for Rakib and his family as part of Europe’s usually pass- and Control said it was not nec- experts said children living in “In all fairness, maintain- they were able to celebrate the port check-free Schengen essary to wear masks. PTI the country’s detention centers ing social and physical dis- end of Ramadan together. travel area. !"!" ? 0 +> !#Q #%!%&# ")&@ $ ' )!&' *) +%,

$ 5626(6 Owing to the prevailing The IMF’s key demand, 0 -0 # tight fiscal situation, growing which was also the reason for he IMF has asked cash- public debt and Pakistan’s deci- seeking to freeze the salaries, @ )$ asset quality as well as the pro- Tstrapped Pakistan to freeze sion to seek debt relief from G- was that the government vision coverage ratio quarter salaries of Government 20 countries. should announce a primary 03<=36 5 0 after quarter,” bank’s chairman employees and adhere to the The International budget deficit target – total Rajnish Kumar told reporters. fiscal consolidation path by Monetary Fund has asked deficit excluding interest pay- $ 2)2(6 Close to 21 per cent of the showing a nominal primary Islamabad to freeze salaries of ments – of only 184 billion or $ 2)2(6 bank’s retail borrowers have deficit in the new budget due Government employees, the 0.4 per cent of gross domestic quity indices resumed their availed the three-month mora- to the unsustainable public daily reported, citing sources in product (GDP). Eupward march on Friday as tate Bank of India on Friday torium announced by the RBI. debt that is set to hit 90 per cent the Ministry of Finance. Pakistan has its own rea- investors piled into banking Sregistered its highest ever Kumar said in spite of the of the total value of the nation- However, the Government sons for resisting the IMF’s and infrastructure stocks yearly profit in 2019-20 and bank extending the moratori- al economy. is resisting the demand due to demands as it does not see a amid robust foreign fund logged a four-fold rise in March um to all its customers, nearly Pakistan is finding it high inflation that has eroded significant jump in revenue col- inflows and a firm trend in quarter profit at 3,581 crore as 82 per cent have paid two or hard to concede to the two people’s real income. lection in the next fiscal year global markets. one-time gains from stake sale more instalments and about 92 demands but the IMF is insist- Nonetheless, it is inclined to due to the prevailing econom- Reversing the previous ses- in subsidiaries and decline in per cent have paid one or ing that the country should abolish over 67,000 posts that ic conditions. sion’s decline, the BSE Sensex bad loans bolstered the coun- more instalments during continue to follow the fiscal have remained vacant for over The Government is also zoomed 306.54 points or 0.90 try’s largest lender. March to May. The central consolidation path due to the one year and is also ready to inclined to give a raise in per cent to end at a three- The bank reported a stand- bank had initially allowed high and unsustainable public further squeeze current expen- salaries due to high inflation month high of 34,287.24. alone profit after tax of 838 banks to offer moratorium on debt, the Express Tribune ditures including a ban on that has eroded the real income The broader NSE Nifty crore in January-March, 2018- repayment of term loans till reported on Friday. purchase of vehicles. of people, the daily reported. rose 113.05 points or 1.13 per 19, according to a regulatory May 31 but later extended it for cent to 10,142.15. making streak, the company the global markets as major filing. For 2019-20, the bank another three months.”The State Bank of India (SBI) announced sale of 1.85 per cent frontline markets posted a reported its highest ever year- three-month period has just 4 R# was the top gainer in the Sensex stake in its digital unit Jio strong rally,” said Sanjeev ly profit of 14,488 crore as started but my feeling is that # % = pack, surging 7.90 per cent, Platforms to Abu Dhabi-based Zarbade, VP PCG Research, against 862 crore in the pre- our numbers would not be sig- after the country’s largest sovereign investor Mubadala Kotak Securities. vious year. SBI said exceptional nificantly different than what +6;(>- Tata Steel, Bajaj Finance, 561.85 points or 5.86 per cent. despite weak economic read- Insurance in the second quar- said. He said the bank has 8>>/ HDFC Bank, NTPC, Axis Bank According to traders, ings and civil unrest in the US, ter and net profit of 2,731.34 extended the standstill benefit, ? R and ICICI Bank also ended besides stock-specific action, he said. “Markets during the crore on sale of some stake in in terms of asset classification, $ with gains of up to 6 per cent. persistent foreign fund inflows week surprised everyone by SBI Cards and Payment to accounts with an outstand- On the other hand, TCS, HUL, and positive cues from global moving higher. The only justi- Services in March quarter. ing loan of 6,200 crore. It has ower distribution utilities’ $ Atlantic picked up 1.34 per cent Bajaj Auto and Infosys were markets led to bullish senti- fiable reason to the current “Despite not so easy cir- made a provision of 15% aggre- Pdebt will hit an all-time stake in Jio Platforms for among the laggards, skidding ment here. momentum is the liquidity. cumstances even before gating 938 crore on these high of 4.5 lakh crore by the eliance Industries on Friday 6,598.38 crore. up to 2.19 per cent. On a net basis, foreign The investable universe is COVID-19, the bank has loans. Domestic net interest end of the ongoing financial Rannounced the sale of 1.85 This was followed by US Reliance Industries (RIL) portfolio investors bought equi- gradually narrowing with declared a record profit of margin (NIM) stood at 2.94 per year, CRISIL Ratings said on per cent stake in its digital unit private equity giant KKR buy- succumbed to profit-booking, ties worth 2,905.04 crore on shortage of top-graded stocks 14,488 crore in FY20, which is cent in January-March, 2019- Friday. to Abu Dhabi-based sovereign ing 2.32 per cent for 11,367 ending flat after touching its Thursday, provisional exchange whereas the abundant monies the highest ever profit for SBI 20 as compared to 3.02 % in the The liquidity package of investor Mubadala for crore. Jio Platforms, a wholly- one-year high in intra-day data showed. “The current available for purchasing them in its history. We have consis- year-ago period. 90,000 crore announced by 9,093.60 crore, the sixth deal in owned subsidiary of Reliance trade. Continuing its deal- week has been a good one for are increasing. tently been able to improve our the Government last month as many weeks that will inject Industries Ltd, is a next-gen- offers a breather, but structur- a combined 87,655.35 crore in eration technology company. al reforms have become criti- the oil-to-telecom conglom- Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd, 2P & ( $ !/ cal to sustainability of dis- erate to help it pare debt. with 388 million mobile sub- 9 coms, the rating agency said in “Mubadala Investment scribers, will continue to be a a statement. The package will Company (Mubadala), will wholly-owned subsidiary of $ help state power distribution invest 9,093.60 crore in Jio Jio Platforms. companies (discoms) settle a Platforms at an equity value of Mukesh Ambani, - .'# 5 significant portion of their 4.91 lakh crore and an enter- Chairman and Managing $ & overdue bills to generating prise value of 5.16 lakh crore,” Director of Reliance Industries, Washington: Global markets $ companies, it said. the company said in a state- said Mubadala is one of the :5;6<5! : 6;6< rose on Friday and Wall Street However, it noted that ment. With this investment, Jio most astute and transforma- futures as investors awaited he GST Council is sched- with power demand weak and Platforms has raised tional global growth investors. $ 2)2(6 the US jobs report for May, Tuled to meet on June 12 cash losses high amid the 87,655.35 crore from leading “Through my longstand- 65 3 0 expected rehiring to which is expected to show and likely to discuss the impact COVID-19 pandemic, discoms global technology and growth ing ties with Abu Dhabi, I have he country’s foreign kick in as shutdowns were another surge in unemploy- of the COVID-19 pandemic on would end up owing lenders a investors including Facebook, personally seen the impact of Texchange reserves surged S unemployment dropped increasingly lifted and people ment in the world’s largest tax revenues, sources said. staggering 4.5 lakh crore by Silver Lake, Vista Equity Mubadala’s work in diversify- $3.43 billion to a fresh all-time Uunexpectedly in May to gradually resumed shopping economy. The 40th meeting of the the end of 2020-21, or 30 per Partners, General Atlantic, ing and globally connecting the high of $493.48 billion for the 13.3 per cent as reopened busi- and eating out. Germany’s DAX gained 1.7 GST Council, headed by cent more than that in the last KKR and Mubadala in less than UAE’s knowledge-based econ- week ended May 29 on a hand- nesses began recalling millions “The surprising thing here per cent to 12,643 and the Finance Minister Nirmala fiscal. Such a material increase six weeks. omy. some accretion of the core cur- of workers faster than econo- is the timing and that it hap- CAC 40 in Paris added 1.9 per Sitharaman and comprising in debt would deteriorate the Facebook picked up 9.99 We look forward to bene- rency assets, the RBI said. The mists had predicted, triggering pened as quickly as it did,” said cent to 5,108. Britain’s FTSE 100 state counterparts, will be held credit profiles of discoms and per cent stake in the firm that fitting from Mubadala’s expe- reserves, which are counted as a a rally on Friday on Adam Kamins, senior region- rose 1.3 per cent to 6,421. via video conferencing. The make structural reforms criti- houses India’s youngest but rience and insights from sup- key strength as the country faces Wall Street and giving al economist at Moody’s Futures for the Dow were up 1.3 meeting would discuss the cal to their sustainability, a largest telecom firm on April 22 porting growth journeys across the economic impact of the President Donald Trump Analytics. per cent while those for the S&P impact of the pandemic on rev- study of 34 State discoms (from for 43,574 crore. Within days the world,” he said. Covid-19 pandemic, had risen something to boast about amid On Wall Street, the S&P 500 were 0.8 per cent higher. enues of the Centre and states 15 states), which account for of that deal, Silver Lake — the Khaldoon Al Mubarak, by $3 billion to an all-time high his reelection bid. 500 was up 2.6% around mid- Economists expect the Labor and ways to bridge the revenue over 80% of India’s power world’s largest tech investor — Managing Director and Group of USD 490.044 billion in the The jobless rate is still on day on the news. Department’s monthly jobs gap, sources said. Faced with demand, shows, CRISIL stated. bought a 1.15 per cent CEO, Mubadala Investment previous week. During the week par with what the nation wit- An exultant Trump seized report for May to show employ- dismal collection and extend- According to it, presently, only stake in Jio Platforms for Company, said: “We are com- ended May 29, foreign curren- nessed during the Great on the report as evidence that ers slashed 8.5 million jobs ed deadline for filing returns, one in five discoms is capable 5,665.75 crore. mitted to investing in, and cy assets, a major component of Depression. And for the second the economy is going to come last month, down from 20.5 the Government has refrained of servicing debt through own On May 8, US-based Vista actively working with, high the overall reserves, increased by straight month, the Labor back from the coronavirus cri- million in April. That would from releasing the monthly cash flows and budgeted sub- Equity Partners bought 2.32 growth companies which are $3.50 billion to $455.21 billion, Department acknowledged sis like a “rocket ship.” push the unemployment rate to GST revenue collection figures sidies. The scenario would per cent stake in Jio Platforms pioneering technologies to data from the RBI showed making errors in counting the “This shows that what nearly 20 per cent from about for the months of April and worsen this fiscal because of for 11,367 crore. On May 17, address critical challenges and unemployed during the coro- we’ve been doing is right,” said 15 per cent. AP May. weak demand for power. global equity firm General unlock new opportunities.” navirus outbreak, saying the the president, who has pushed real figure is even worse than governors aggressively to the numbers indicate. reopen their economies amid 7 %@($ 2 Still, after weeks of dire warnings from public health predictions by economists that officials that the country is risk- -1 0 %4 unemployment in May could ing a second wave of infections hit 20% or more, the news that on top of the one that has killed 1 the economy added a surpris- over 100,000 Americans. Kolkata: During the lockdown, ing 2.5 million jobs last month Still, the job market is in ) ? works of Noapara- was seen as evidence that the such a deep hole that it could Bimanbander Metro Extension collapse may have bottomed take years to dig out, econo- New Delhi: The World Project have been going on out in April at 14.7% and that mists say. Most are forecasting Environment Day was smoothly. Excavation of tun- a recovery is well underway as unemployment in the high observed in Chittaranjan nel of this Metro project has states loosen their lockdowns single-digits or low double-dig- Locomotive Works (CLW). been started. Base concrete of and let stores, restaurants, gyms its by the end of this year. In view of prevailing Grade M-20 for bottom slab of and other businesses reopen. Economists had expected Covid-19 situation, e-posters & the tunnel has been completed crane of 600 MT capacity. “We are witnessing the the government to report that e-presentation on “Celebrate recently. Casting work of the Casting of five numbers of easiest phase of growth as peo- employers shed 8.5 million Biodiversity” theme are pre- top slab is in progress. PSC 1 girder of 20-22 m span ple come off temporary layoffs more jobs in May on top of the pared for raising awareness Two numbers of PSC Box has been completed during and come back to their employ- 21.4 million lost in March and amongst the CLW employees Girders of 20-22 m span have the lockdown period. Social ers,” said Harvard University April. and family members. been safely unloaded in this distancing, sanitization, cover- economist Jason Furman, who Instead, nearly all indus- No gathering, community period with the help of a main ing faces with masks. led the White House Council of tries added jobs, a sharp rever- programmes are organised. Economic Advisers during the sal from April, when almost all CLW employees and their Obama presidency. “And once cut them. 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n a typical Sunday evening of The documentary features many format completely with select audi- 1990s in the then Calcutta, known thespians and actors with ence. Othe streets of Hatibagan were whom the youngsters would con- spilling with people and there was no nect better. Do you think this will How do you think theatre will be place to park the car. The reason was help them know the Bengali the- able to fight the current pandem- not far to be sought. The seven theatre’s essence in a more nuanced ic because such places might be atre houses surrounding the street way? shut for a long time? were holding their public pre- Well, I’d say, yes and no, both. I sincerely pray and hope that mieres, the tickets of which sold Heritage doesn’t require celebrity theatres open, maintaining the safe- out quickly. The auditoriums endorsements. I had requested actor ty protocol and the sanitisation. It’s were decorated with flower Neeraj Kabi to read from The too early to say that the future garlands and some playhous- Firebird in the film because of his belongs to the digital space comes even distributed sweets. artistry and not just his stint in the pletely. Yes, it can be explored as an Sujoy Prosad Chatterjee reel world. But yes, if today a mil- interim option but how can one had gone to watch Bhaalo lennial watches the film and buys a experience the illusions of darkness Kharap Meye that starred copy of the book after hearing and light on the stage on the inter- the much-acclaimed Neeraj, no harm is done. net? The third bell pumps up an Aparna Sen in the lead. Another interesting aspect is actor’s adrenaline and the applause His father, “a typical South that we have the legendary Soumitra from a live audience is a moment Calcutta man,” always found it Chatterjee and theatre actress that can never be replaced by 2,000 difficult to park his car in the rather Poulami Bose reading the play, likes and 100 comments. congested theatre alley. His moth- Neelkantho, that ran to packed er walked out of the car to speak to houses in Rangmahal. Many world theatres have now the box-office person and she We also have Ratna Ghoshal brought the stage home for people managed to get the tickets. “How reading from Nohobot, which ran through online shows. Do you did you do that?” asked Sujoy for 1,600 nights in Tapan Theatre. think Broadway of Bengal might with a surprised look. Well, she EXCERPTS: documentation. She had essayed the central charac- have the chance to revive itself dig- said, “Look, I am a North ter Keya, in the play, directed by the itally now? Calcutta-bred girl. I may not How did you conceptualise the What do you think was the cause veteran Satya Bandopadhyay. The Broadway cannot be speak like your father but I do film? of Broadway of Bengal’s decline I think today’s generation of enlivened digitally. One can talk carry an artsy smile!” The My Montreal-based friends and how have you reflected that in young actors can also look forward about it and even share videos of three burst into a hearty laugh Abhishek Ghosh and Shyamosree your film? to thespian Bratya Basu, who has legends. I would like to mention and together walked into the Ghosh and I have been hugely The main cause of the decline done the prologue for the film. We here that Theatre Sansriti, led by Biswarupa theatre. interested in cultural archiving and is the paradigm shift in the pattern have actually used a clipping from Debesh Chattopadhyay, is doing Cut to today, when one we have been thinking of many of entertainment. Going to the the- his popular play, Awddyo Shesh some phenomenal archive work by takes a walk through the area, ideas to approach this. atre for a Sunday matinee and Rajani, based on the life and times sharing documentaries on Bengali the erstwhile ‘Theatre Para’ or Meanwhile, I had also been catching the evening train back was of Ashim Chakraborty. His play, theatre legends like Ramaprasad the ‘Broadway of Bengal,’ one is reading The Firebird by Saikat an important practice for the audi- Barbodhu is a pivotal point in the Banik, Tripti Mitra, Utpal Dutta, only met by the dilapidated aban- Majumdar and found it quite ence who lived in the hinterland. history of the Broadway of Bengal. Asit Mukhopadhyay and the likes, doned playhouses that line the intriguing. The book, told through People were willing to pay to watch Daminee Benny Basu also sings the who were essentially a part of the streets of North Kolkata. From the the perspective of a 10-year-old boy a Sabitri Chatterjee or a Soumitra closing song from the play. alternative theatre movement that 1970s till the late 1990s, these theatres named Ori, looks at the heydays of Chatterjee play within the social dis- the intelligentsia adhered to. There’s were very popular. These cultural the commercial Bengali theatre and tance of the proscenium. The idiot Given today’s scenario, what do practically nothing on the spaces thrived on making a differ- its subsequent death. What’s inter- box or the television began show- you think is the future of theatres Broadway. ence, yet held on to a unique tradi- esting is that the narrative touches casing these actors with regular since social distancing and tion. However, their decline came by upon the heritage through the eyes viewing in soaps and, of course, the self-quarantine are here to stay for You had earlier mentioned that soon. Actors would be greeted by of a boy whose mother was a part whole experience of going to a play- some time now? you have experienced a large part empty halls, producers started facing of it. I think this was primarily the house became secondary, gradual- I have been myself a part of an of this Broadway and have a great losses, the funds saw crunch- muse of Spotlight, the docu-narra- ly. online play, Lockdown Diaries, trove of memories. Could you es, the TV era had hugely set in. tive that I have conceptualised. The crunch for funds became a directed by Souptic Chakraborty share some of your personal anec- Later, in early 2000s, while pertinent reason too. Theatre pro- and will soon be acting in its sequel dotes associated with the theatres Rangmahal (a theatre house in then What was the research work ducers never had an organised car- called Unlockdown Diaries, which in Bengal? Calcutta) was converted into a wed- involved? How long did it take for tel and what spelled the doom will be streamed online on June 14. Oh yes! My maternal home ding hall, mysterious fires gutted you to complete the film? finally was the rise of multiplexes. The first edition turned out to was in the northern fringes of halls like Star Theatre and consumed The research and the build-up I think the government also did be hugely successful and that’s why Calcutta, precisely Beadon Street. the remains of Biswarupa. Perhaps, has been done by a young theatri- nothing absolutely to preserve or the sequel was planned. Yes, we have This was very close to the theatre the fires, ironically, meant the decline cian, Rudrarup Mukhopadhyay. I, support this very important part of to think of digital productions district. I remember the huge cut- of this once-famed culture of the city. too, contribute often and it’s been a our cultural history. Can I say that keeping in mind the pandemic but outs of characters from plays like Sujoy’s docu-film Spotlight month that we are trying to collate theatre was also not a “social respon- the struggle for the other people in Asleel, Bibor, Kone Bibhrat and reflects on how moving from the big as much as we can. A very impor- sibility” for corporates? theatre fraternity still remains many others right at the junction stage to the little screen, it is now tant part of this research is the In the film, what we have unsorted. of the street. My maternal grand- more important than ever to realise posters, advertisements, lobby cards reflected through the interview of Many light designers have mother had a deep interest in plays the power of theatre and how it can of the plays, which have been pro- contemporary theatre practitioner resorted to selling vegetables and and she used to organise compli- create a conduit for empathy, be vided by Sounak Chacraverti, an Sohag Sen, is the birth of an alter- casual workers are looking for alter- mentary passes for us to watch the nudged towards compassion for the acclaimed art curator and archivist. native theatre movement that drove native professions to earn their premieres. downtrodden, and be constituted as I am also speaking to a lot of the audience to the Academy of Fine livelihood. The future looks bleak (The film will release on Youtube a community of support. insiders and audience for the Arts. unless we move into the intimate by the channel, GhoshCompany.)

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I realised that the I wanted to create a positive impact paintings in mere eight days? whole universe is Shiv, there is no begin- about sustainable living, clothing, textile We are on this planet to experience ning, no end. I believe in oneness of the art and our age old natural dyes and life in its entirety. Each one of us has our whole, Ekam. colours, especially, indigo. During a own share of struggles and challenges and When an artist is at peace with her- visit to Jaipur in December last year, I had it wasn’t different for me. But I faced it self, subject and medium merge. If you an opportunity to visit Ratelia Village in with grit and determination. are experiencing love, compassion and Sanganer, where I painted a fabric with I was secretive about the whole bliss, the medium doesn’t bothers you. If natural indigo. It was exciting. Since then, process as it was pretty much about my you are connected with the universe, I have been conceptualising this paint- endurance too. It was a challenge to my every thing unfolds before you. I just had ing. I had made all related sketches in physical limitations because I had met to train my hands a bit to use dabu as a great detail before executing this project. with an accident in March last year when medium on fabric. When artists work I am an abstract artist and Shiv is pure I smashed my right wrist. Though, I they are in solitude, preoccupied with abstraction. Therefore, I decided to work could paint and do all that was required their creativity. on the, Aadiyogi Shiv, who combines the but making a 100 metre painting at a masculine and feminine energies with- stretch was my ultimate test. I was not There is a growing concern that our in himself as he is the Ardhnarishwar, competing with anyone or for any world ancient crafts are dying. What has (half-male and half-female) which I find record but was challenging myself to been your experience? unique and appealing as a woman and an explore the physical and mental bound- Yes, it is a serious concern. Artisans artist. aries that I had. and craftsmen need not only the support It seemed that Shiv and the whole of the government but people too. Their What went into its making? universe was on my side because to my creative ventures need to become com- The theme of the painting is Shiv, as surprise I found that I intended to paint mercially viable. This is one of the rea- I am drawn towards Mahamrityunjaya 100 metres but went on to finish 185 sons why I took it upon myself to revive Mantra and Nirvana Shatkum composed metres. That just happened by accident. the age old techniques by making it con- by Aadi Shankaracharya. The text is I kept on asking my workers about the temporary and innovative. painted in natural indigo and the 200 measurements of the fabric. The same metres, of hand spun khaddar is paint- day I checked the world records and was Since there will be a rise in Indian ed with dabu, traditionally used by block amused to realise that I had created a new brands in the post-pandemic world, do printers of Rajasthan. After painting it one by making the longest painting. That you think it will bring out more age-old with dabu, it was sun-dried. Post that it is the power of one’s spirit. techniques? was soaked in drums of indigo dye and Yes, hopefully it should, provided, we then washed and dried again. The painting depicts the various make all the right moves and sincerely I completed 185 metres in nine days aspects of Shiv Shakti in a nuanced way. work for it. It will be a great revival of our at Sanganer and then had to return to Did you do any research for it? rich heritage and the restoration of our Delhi in March because Coronavirus had I have always been a spiritually creative labour too. Handmade art and started spreading in areas close to Jaipur. inclined person but with maturity, my craft is so intrinsic to our culture and I will get this registered for a world interest in the eternal cosmic entity — abundantly available in our country. record. Though it was not a conscious my lifeline. Both bring pure joy to me. We have to return to the basics if we malist painting through organic ways to Shiv — became deeper. He is The intent to promote it in a big way has decision when I started. It happened want to survive in peace. Handmade fab- promote sustainable living and natural omnipresent, both inside and outside us. been lacking so far. However, I am opti- while I was in the process of executing What does A Journey in Cosmic Indigo ric, natural colour and dye are environ- indigo as this aims at its revival. I want We are all connected and originate from mistic and enthusiastic about it and shall it on account of my passion for sustain- signify? Did you blend the native ment-friendly and chemical-free. I have to encourage this cash crop as a mass one source, god. do what I can for its survival and revival, able development. Art and literature are Indigo with some modern techniques? created this abstract, conceptual, mini- movement to make it a commercially It all started during my early child- both. - +( $ everal series on Natural History have Sshown us the world the way that we Can you tell us more about cas- could’ve never imagine. While these sowaries? moments captured on camera take us on The cassowary is Australia’s ostrich. a roller-coaster of emotions, the biggest It’s the world’s deadliest bird and it lives question that perplexes everyone is, .. in the deep jungle in the north of “How did they even shoot that?” The lat- Australia, which is the oldest jungle on est anthology, Stories Behind Stories, cov- 4.,.))4" ! earth. That jungle was walked by ers the making of the most celebrated dinosaurs and basically when dinosaurs ctor Ayushmann Khurrana is widely regard- shows of all times — each revolutionary " 59 became extinct, cassowaries took their Aed as the socially-conscious star who in its own way. Filmed over years, each place. We filmed a cassowary, but they are stands up to raise his voice on issues that affect series reveals an unseen side of nature and 4. 1+1. incredibly secretive and very hard to spot. him deeply. The star is now urging people to wildlife. It includes the ‘making of’ of You don’t see them until you’ve stood next be judicious in terms of water consumption and some of the landmark series — Seven to them and then they get cross. You batting for preserving the resource at a time Worlds, One Planet, Dynasties, The Hunt, wouldn’t accidentally walk up to a lion but when water scarcity is plaguing people across Planet Earth II, uncovering the action on you might accidentally walk up to cas- the globe. the other side of the camera, the dedicat- sowary. The females stand about six feet The actor ed crew who risk their life while filming, tall, the males more like five feet. But they has come for- the kind of research and preparation that rear up above head height and they have ward to support goes into capturing every small shot, the claws on their feet that are longer than actress Bhumi life-risking challenges they face, the cut- velociraptor’s. They can run upto 30 mph, Pednekar’s ini- ting-edge technology that’s developed, jump five feet in the air and can swim too. tiative Climate especially for the shows and even the fun So if you surprise them, you’re done for. Warrior that is anecdotes. That’s why they’re the world’s deadliest trying to raise bird. Two of our Australian cameramen awareness on Why did you choose Asia for shooting? staked out the forest for a long time until several impor- It is the largest continent on earth, we worked out where this male cassowary tant issues covering one third of the world’s surface. was going to be. We had to put out cam- plaguing our cli- It presents a lovely but massive challenge era traps and do our own fieldwork, but mate through a when it comes to finding stories. Right was recorded at a zoo in America. There’s we managed to film this male looking after campaign called from the jungles of Indonesia to the high What did you find out about the almost nothing known about why they do his chicks in this forest. I’ve wanted to film One Wish For Arctic in Russia, you’ve got absolutely Sumatran Rhino Serenade? it or the meaning of their vocalisations, them for several years and that forest is The Earth. everything to choose from. What we For me, the most important thing other than that the females and the males just quite a magical place for me. The audi- Bhumi’s cam- wanted to focus on was how the animals about making these films is where you see use the song as part of their way of meet- ence would be literally looking at what paign will see coped with living in such vast landscapes. something in the natural world, and you ing up. So I wasn’t sure what we were dinosaurs would have seen. Bollywood’s Asia’s geological history is also a key part just can’t believe it’s true. That’s where the going to experience when we went in the thought leaders of the story. Around 30 million years ago, joy comes from. One real highlight was field but almost as soon as we got there, How did drone technology help you come forward to India crashed into the rest of Asia, form- our story about the Sumatran Rhino. The we could hear the female singing. It was make Seven Worlds, One Planet? discuss climate justice. The platform will see the ing the Himalayas which changed the jungles of Indonesia are rich and dense, quite loud. On Planet Earth II, we were using stars urge citizens to take climate change seri- landscape entirely. As a result, Asia, which means the animals there have a real drones, but even three or four years ago, ously and, along with them, also do their bit to today, is a world of extremes. It has the problem finding each other. I’ve been to What do you have to say about they were quite heavy-duty things. Now protect the planet. hottest deserts, the highest mountains and lots of jungles before, but here, while I was Australia? the technology is so much better that we’re “These are exceptional times that we have all of it stems from its geology. We made from. Actually, Yeti is a golden, snub- looking at the way animals talk to each Australia’s story across time is that it able to use the drones with almost all of seen in the last few months. It’s time to wake a real effort to look at those different envi- nosed monkey. They’re absolutely incred- other, I came across this sound, which used to be attached to Antarctica. Then the animals that we’ve filmed. It can make up, take notice and participate,” he says, adding, ronments and most importantly, to find ible because they walk upright like we do sounded like a whale. I played it to the it split from Antarctica and it has been a big difference in the behaviour you can “This environment day my one wish for the stories that have never been done before. and the males have got ginormous feet. team and made everyone guess what it moving north. When it split, a raft of ani- see. In the Australia episode, for example, earth is or rather request for all of us to use water In addition, we wanted to show the impact They like little people and they’ve got phe- was. Nobody guessed it correctly. It mals — marsupials, reptiles, birds — were we filmed a shark aggregation which only wisely. It is a scarce resource and right now we that people are having on the environment nomenal colours on them. The monkeys turned out to be a Sumatran Rhino. We separated off and marooned. As a result, happens every 15 years. It’s sharks on a bait are even more dependent on it to wash our and the wildlife living there today because are a little bit of a holy grail for sir David. filmed them mostly because of their way most of the animals in Australia are found ball off the West coast of Australia on hands at regular intervals to battle this pandem- that are a really important part of every It’s something that he had heard described of communicating but also because they nowhere else. It’s a continent of weirdos, Ingle, and if you were filming that from ic.” continent’s story. in scientific papers in the early 60s but has are one of the rarest species on earth. The beautiful animals, things you haven’t the sea on about, you would just see a hell He asks citizens to be conscious that they never had the opportunity to see. So it was rhino we filmed was born in 2000. They seen in other places. What I loved at the of a lot of splashing around and some fins. need to preserve water because it impacts many. What was it like filming the golden really cool to be able to come back and used to be widespread across Southern beginning of this process is you ask a lot Get a drone up in the air and suddenly He urges for unity in protecting people’s right snub-nosed monkeys in central China? show him that footage because he was just Asia and now, there are only 300 left. The of people what lives in Australia and they’ll you can see the shark’s tactics, what they for water. The star says, “In the endeavour to The high mountain ranges in central blown away by how they looked and sur- upper estimate is 70. The lower estimate say kangaroos and koalas... and then they are doing and not just that, you can see keep ourselves safe, we should not forget China are remote and have been largely vived. They have these big, shaggy coats is 30. The decline in the number is a com- get stuck. Yet there’s this amazing array of the bait ball at one point got up to some- about the bigger goal. We need to use water inaccessible to film crews. Yet for hun- and cuddle to stay warm. The families are bination of poaching and loss of habitat animals that have been stranded there for thing like 15 kilometres. We have shots of wisely so that our future generations have it dreds of years, stories of the ‘Abominable bonded and reliant on each other as with- to timber and palm oil production. millions and millions of years. Australia thousands of sharks all at once coming enough and more. It’s my humble request to all Snowman’ have emanated from this out somebody to cuddle, the babies We filmed them in a protected area, over time has been getting hotter and hot- together. For me, that’s the magic of of you to become climate warriors and work region. This is where the story of the Yeti would die very quickly in the winter there. which is the only place you can possibly ter. When it separated from Antarctica, drones. towards a clean and a green future.” (strange, scary-looking people that They were a joy to be able to film and a see them. All I had heard of the singing it was basically all forest. Now it’s almost (Tune in to Stories Behind Stories on nobody knew anything about) comes joy to be able to show David. rhino was an old bit of sound footage that all desert. That’s quite a story to tell in itself. June 8 at 9 pm on Sony BBC Earth.) !"!" $

8 >7*00 " & & remier League leaders Liverpool could claim a 8 (67 06 essary risks with just eight Pfirst title for 30 years at days remaining before Barca Anfield after the ionel Messi has sustained a finally get back initial batch of fix- L“minor” thigh injury, but to playing match- tures of the restart Barcelona remain confident es,” a club state- was announced on he will be fit for the team’s first ment read. Friday. game back against Mallorca on “He should Jurgen Klopp’s June 13, the club said on be able to rejoin men, with a com- Friday. his team-mates in manding 25-point Messi has not trained with a few days’ time.” lead at the top of the rest of the squad since Messi has endured an the table, were just Tuesday after working sepa- injury-interrupted season. The two wins away from clinching rately in the gym on both 32-year-old was out for six the title before coronavirus Wednesday and Friday, while weeks between August and forced the suspension of foot- on Thursday all the players September with a calf injury ball in March. 8 00 were given the day off. and then at the end of Liverpool’s first match back Barcelona said Messi September missed another is against Everton on June 21. helsea are closing in on a should return to training “in a week with a problem in his left The Merseyside derby is due to Cdeal to sign striker Timo few days’ time”, but his absence thigh. take place at Goodison Park, Werner from RB Leipzig, raises doubts over his fitness Barca added the team will less than a mile from Anfield, British media reported on ahead of the trip to Mallorca. three-month break due to the train on the pitch at Camp Nou but a venue has not been con- Thursday. Like all La Liga teams, coronavirus pandemic. on Saturday as coach Quique firmed by the Premier League. The 24-year-old had been Barca will have had only 10 “Leo Messi has a minor Setien “works to get his play- Crystal Palace will then thought to to be attracting days to train together when right quadriceps injury and ers ready for the return to foot- visit Anfield three days later. interest from Premier League competitive matches resume trained in isolation, doing spe- ball, but with games being Wins in both of those champions-elect Liverpool but on June 11, following the cific exercises to avoid unnec- played behind closed doors”. matches would guarantee Sheffield United in the first it appears Chelsea have in fact Liverpool’s first English top- match of Project Restart, fol- met the German’s reported flight title since 1990. LIVERPOOL COULD lowed by Arsenal’s trip to City release clause of some £53 ( But if Manchester City lose on June 17. million ($67 million). ) at home to Arsenal on June 17, Manchester United’s visit to Were Chelsea to bring the Reds would be champions Tottenham will spearhead the Werner to Stamford Bridge it )50% if they beat Everton. first full round of matches would be a major feather in the +>> Liverpool City Council’s WIN TITLE AT ANFIELD spread over four days from cap of the west London club. safety advisory group will meet June 19 to 22. For the past year there has &%&: World number one next week to make a decision Premier League chief exec- been speculation linking Ashleigh Barty voiced caution $ very well prepared that when on whether the game can go * utive Richard Masters said: Werner with a move to Anfield on Friday about resuming ten- the lockdown opens up, we will ahead at Goodison or should “We know it won’t be the same but time appears to be running nis too soon, saying she needed Leander Paes is just three shy revaluate then and look at be moved to a neutral venue. without our loyal supporters in out for the Reds, with the for- more information before com- of completing a century of One Last Roar as season All remaining 92 Premier stadiums but, together with our ward’s release clause expiring mitting to the US Open in Grand Slam appearances but is whether we should look at League games this season will The only other match that turn up outside Anfield” on the broadcast partners, we are able on June 15 — two days before August. now unsure whether uncertain- 2021 or not,” Paes told table be played behind closed doors, could be moved to a neutral day Liverpool’s long wait for a to ensure fans can watch or lis- the Premier League is set to The Australian, who surged ty caused by Covid-19 pan- tennis player Mudit Dani on but there are fears that hosting venue from the first three league title was ended. ten to each match live from restart. to the top of the rankings last demic will allow him to com- his chat show Sportlight. the game in Liverpool could rounds of fixtures is Liverpool’s That has been disputed by home.” The Germany internation- year and has stayed there since, plete the coveted milestone or Further talking about his encourage supporters to con- visit to City on July 2. the club, who said they have “I am delighted we are al has scored 31 goals for said it was not just her but her for that matter compete at the plans, Paes said there one gregate around stadiums. The mayor of Liverpool, engaged with supporters’ able to take another positive Leipzig in all competitions. entire team she must consider in next year’s Tokyo Olympics. piece is statistics he would Palace’s trip to Anfield will Joe Anderson, voiced fears that groups to make sure social-dis- step towards the season return- Chelsea have already the wake of the coronavirus pan- Paes had announced that like to get. kick off at 2015 local time (1915 “there would be many thou- tancing guidelines are followed. ing in just under two weeks’ agreed a deal to sign Ajax demic.“It’s exciting that tennis is 2020 would be his last season “I have played 97 Grand GMT). sands of people who would Aston Villa will host time,” he added. winger Hakim Ziyech. being talked about again and as a professional player but his Slams so far and if I play 3 things are moving in the right plan to bid adieu on a high with more, it will be 100 so that direction for us to start compet- a record eight appearance at the moves me. Also getting to the # ) 5 67 ing,” she told the Sydney Morning Olympics, was stalled by the eighth Olympics to make sure 2 ?>?? 9 P Herald. pandemic, which has wrecked India is forever on the top as “But I’d need to understand the sporting calender. the most number of Olympics ,: Italian football will host AC Milan on June 12 fol- all of the information and advice “Olympics is still far away. played by a tennis player. That $ In a letter to the All India All India Football Federation.” resume with the second legs of lowed by Napoli vs Inter Milan from the WTA and the USTA As of now, I find it difficult to is the benchmark I would like Football Federation, Dato The tournament will like- the Italian Cup semifinals on a day later. Juventus and Milan before making a decision on the believe that sports will start by to push. But even if I don’t get he Asian Football Windsor John, General ly be held in the second half of June 12 and 13.Sports Minister drew 1-1 in the first leg while US events.”Barty said she is July or August. Would it start there, still I’m happy with TConfederation has awarded Secretary, AFC wrote: “The the year. In the 1979 edition, Vincenzo Spadafora announced Napoli beat Inter 1-0. The final concerned about travel exemp- October or November, who what I’ve done and the career the hosting rights of the 2022 Committee awarded the host- India had finished as runners- on Thursday that the competi- is scheduled for June 17. AFP tions for her support staff. AFP knows. But my team and I are I have,” he said. Women’s Asian Cup to India for ing rights of the AFC Women’s up. tion can resume one day earli- the first time since 1979. Asian Cup 2022 Finals to the “I need to thank the Asian er than previously scheduled. Football Confederation for While league officials had finding us suitable to host the not yet officially released the AFC Women’s Asian Cup in schedule, Juventus is expected to 2022,” AIFF President, Praful Patel said. “The tournament will gal- vanise the aspiring women players and bring in a holistic N$ O social revolution as far as +1 J6 women’s football in the country is concerned,” he added. The tournament will fea- $ <676 ture 12 teams, expanded from the previous slot of eight teams. akistan pace legend Wasim India qualify directly as PAkram cannot visualise a hosts. The event will also serve T20 World Cup happening as the final qualification tour- behind closed doors and believes nament for the 2023 FIFA the ICC should wait for a “suit- Women’s World Cup. able time” to host the big-tick- The tournament comes as et event after the Covid-19 pan- the latest boost to AIFF as India demic subsides. are slated to host the FIFA U- “Personally, I don’t think it’s 17 Women's World Cup next a good idea. I mean, how could year. you have a cricket World Cup India had also hosted the without spectators,” Akram told AFC U-16 Championships in The News on Thursday. 2016 and the FIFA U-17 World “A World Cup is all about Cup in 2017. big crowds, spectators coming Also The All India Football from all parts of the globe to Federation (AIFF) on Friday support their teams. It’s all about invited bids for new clubs who atmosphere and you cannot get would take part in the Hero I- it behind closed doors,” he said. League from 2020-21. “So I believe that they (ICC) should wait for a more suitable time and once this pandemic subsides and restrictions are eased then we can have a prop- er World Cup,” he said. Q# $ R

% ! : The International Cricket Council on Friday said “cricket is nothing without diversity” as racism remained a topic of global debate following the death of African- American George Floyd in Minneapolis. The ICC on Friday posted a 90-second video clip of the final moments of England’s 2019 World Cup victory with Barbados-born Jofra Archer bowling the thrilling Super Over against New Zealand. “Without diversity, cricket is nothing. Without diversity, you don’t get the full picture,” read ICC’s message on Twitter. The England team that won the ODI World Cup had an Irishman captain (Eoin Morgan) at the helm. The best performer was a New Zealand born all-rounder (Ben Stokes), spinners were of Pakistani origin (Moeen Ali & Adil Rashid) and the innings got a headstart from an open- er of South African heritage (Jason Roy). PTI