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The rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (rSS) has lost a programme on empowering children in need senior mentor with the death of M G Vaidya, the organiza - tion said on Saturday. Vaidya, known as an ideologue of There is need for shared values in ecosystem of society at large: Justice Magray the rSS, died here earlier in the day after a brief illness. He was 97. "With the passing away of Madhav Govind alias Day-long programme organised in collaboration with District Legal Services Authority Srinagar baburaoji Vaidya, all of us the workers ofrashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh have lost one of our senior mentors," SRINAGAR, DECEMBER 19: during their growing up years sports. Sangh chief Mohan bhagwat and general secretary need the basic value system to be He said that keeping the fa - bhaiyyaji Joshi said in a joint statement on its Twitter han - A day-long orientation pro - engrossed in their personalities. mous quote “As the child, so the dle. They described Vaidya as someone who had a great gramme on "empowering In this regard all the government Nation” in perspective the society knowledge of Sanskrit, an excellent journalist, an active children in Need of care & officials, teachers, parents, at large should take care and pro - Member of the Legislative council and an excellent writer. Protection" was Saturday organ - friends and relatives need to take tect its children and advised the "He was an active witness to the development of the ised by Srinagar Smart city the collective responsibility of the officials to provide adequate facil - Sangh's work. His personal, family and social life was a re - Limited (SScL) in collaboration society which would inculcate the ities to the children and youth of flection of Sangh's `sanskar' (teachings)," the statement with the district Legal Services mannerism and the discipline the city so that the Srinagar can be said. It also noted that Vaidya, who was the rSS's first na - Authority Srinagar. The pro - among the children especially the called as Smart city in real terms. tional spokesperson, presented the organization before gramme was held at SKIcc. youth of Kashmir. He talked In his welcome address, the the world in a very simple language. Manmohan Vaidya, M Justice Ali Mohammed about the community responsi - deputy commissioner Srinagar, G Vaidya's son and joint general secretary of the rSS, Magray, chairman Juvenile bility in taking a step forward to - dr Shahid Iqbal choudhary, who termed him as a "proponent of Hindutva" who led an ac - Justice committee, High court of wards incorporating the values in is also the ceO Srinagar Smart tive, meaningful and inspiring life. "He became an rSS Jammu & Kashmir, was the chief the society at large. city city Limited, stressed upon volunteer when he was eight years old....he used to attend Guest on the occasion. The chairman of the Juvenile the need to organise such events Sangh shakha (daily meeting) till he was 95," he said. Other dignitaries who were Justice committee also insisted more routinely to that self checks present on the occasion included on adding on nutritious diet for would be made on achieving the Abdul rashid Malik, Member the needy children. He highlight - goals towards empowering Two drown as boat capsizes Secretary, Juvenile Justice ed the growing menace of drug children who need our care and committee, High court Jammu & addiction amongst the youth of protection. He also thanked the in Bengal Kashmir; Sarmad Hafeez, Kashmir and even gave out the dignitaries present on the occa - Kalyani (WB), Dec 19 (PTI) Secretary, youth Services and alarming figures of drug addicts sion and emphasised on the col - skill development and entertain - Altaf spoke about their experi - Sports department; Hial bhat, presently in the Kashmir valley as lective efforts to improve the lives ment facilities for the children ences in life and how they were A 42-year-old woman and her minor nephew drowned Administrator child Protection published by United Nations of the children. and youth of the valley. Utmost able to achieve heights in their re - after their country boat capsized in a canal in West Specialist, UNIceF Kashmir; and Office on drugs and crime. He All dignitaries also spoke on care should be taken in providing spective fields of being an advo - bengal's Nadia district on Saturday, police said. The inci - bashir Ahmad Lone, was of the view that drugs avail - the occasion. They emphasised the online safety to the children cate and a sportsperson. dent happened in Haringhata area when the boat over - Administrator Voluntary ability and the lack of accounta - the importance of nurturing the and prevent cyber bullying. The programme was conduct - turned in the canal due to strong wind. Medicare Society, Jammu and bility by parents is a serious con - talent of Kashmir and protecting The list of children who were ed by Mr. Adnan, Secretary The bodies of dipali Morol, who was oaring the boat, Kashmir. cern today. the children from addictive use of “achievers” and have made the so - district Services Authority and and her nephew dwip Morol (13) were fished out of the Justice Magray while deliber - Justice Magray also stressed social media and other social ciety proud in their respective Ms. Tabassum, Principal 'Mogra' waterbody, a police officer said. They had crossed ating on the occasion emphasised upon the officials to listen to the evils. fields was also announced and Magistrate Juvenile Justice over to the other side of the 200- metre-wide canal to buy the need for shared values in the genuine grievances of the aspiring The participants were of the they were facilitated on the occa - Magistrate Srinagar. Officials of some household items, and the boat capsized when the two ecosystem of the society at large. sports persons and to take care general view that a Smart city in sion by the chief guest. Amongst SScL including the coordinator were returning home, he said. The boat was almost in the He was of the view that children about their needs so in more and real terms should have ample the achievers two youngsters rizwan Khurshid were also pres - middle of the waterbody when the accident occurred, the with special needs or otherwise more youth are attracted towards green spaces, amusement parks, Syed Muzaffar Ahmad and Kabra ent on the occasion. officer added. Training program on Mushroom Secretary Higher Education visits Women College B’la; reviews development works Cultivation held at Khonmoh BARAMULLA, DECEMBER 19: Mushroom commissioner Secretary, Talat development Officer, Parvez rohella, accompanied by Srinagar informed that district development Zewan village of block commissioner baramulla, dr G N Khonmoh has been adopted Itoo and other concerned officers to - by the department as day paid visit to Government degree Mushroom village under college for Women baramulla to re - PMKKKy and had estab - view its functioning besides assess - lished 52 mushroom units ing the status of development proj - SRINAGAR, DECEMBER 19: Shah inaugurated the train - growers. He impressed up - and all the units are running ects undertaken in the college. ing camp. He said that the on the concerned Officers to successfully. commissioner Secretary in - The department of main objective of conduct - ensure that all the innova - He said that the benefi - spected the construction work on Agriculture Production and ing such training camps is to tive steps are being taken to ciaries of the village were science block and other development Farmers Welfare today or - give technical knowhow on promote the mushroom sec - given various inputs, train - works being executed in the college. ganised a training program commercial cultivation of tor. He said that there has ing and awareness to update He asked the concerned agencies to regarding Mushroom Mushroom on scientific been a record breaking yield and engage them in the ramp up the pace of works so that the the students. Talat Parvez also visit - quality of education through incor - cultivation on “commercial lines with main thrust on and production of mush - mushroom cultivation ac - project is completed within the stip - ed various sections of the college and poration of various job and skill de - Scale and its Sustainability,” sustainability so that the rooms in the year 2020-21, tivity on a full time basis be - ulated timeframe. reviewed their functioning. He un - velopment courses besides develop - under centrally sponsored youth engage themselves in and urged upon the mush - sides motivating others. Principal of the college, dr derlined the need to impart skill de - ing the infrastructural facilities in scheme Pradhan Mantri self employment generation room experts and scientists Meanwhile, the pro - Fahmeeda, briefed the Secretary velopment courses besides focussing higher educational institutions. Khanij Kshetra Kalyan activities. of the department involved gramme was attended by about the courses offered in the col - on academic learning of the students Meanwhile, commissioner yojana (PMKKKy) in the he Project coordinator with the scheme to organize beneficiaries, educated un - lege adding that apart from academ - and said that such courses enhances Secretary interacted with the parents mining affected area of said that mushroom cultiva - special training programs employed youths of mining ic education several skill develop - the employability of the students af - who raised several demands like in - Khonmoh. tion has commercial dimen - on scientific cultivation of affected areas and other ment and vocational courses like car - ter passing out the college. corporation of IT courses in the col - The Project coordinator sions which can uplift the mushrooms for the unem - senior officers involved with pet design technology, boutique He reiterated the administra - lege, development of play field and Mushroom, Farooq Ahmad socio-economic status of ployed. the scheme. learning etc are also being offered to tion’s commitment of enhancing the introduction of b.ed course. DPEO reviews arrangements for MS, DH Pulwama rebuts news counting of votes at Shopian Says scientific mechanism in place to treat Covid-19 cases PULWAMA, DECEMBER 18: gations are totally baseless and sci - followed. lic health emergency also invokes entific mechanism has been put in He said that the person has the relevant sections of dM Act The Medical Superintendent place as far as dealing with covid- used derogatory language against 2005, Section 188 IPc and (MS), district Hospital Pulwama 19 related cases are concerned. He female employees and obstructed epidemic disease act. today contested the news/ video said that the person, who was ren - them from doing their duties be - The spokesperson reiterated circulated on a section of social me - dering Hospital Security Services sides intimidating and insulting that the administration is commit - dia particularly by ‘News Stock’- a in 2017- 18 has not qualified as a them amid public. ted towards the goal of quality, safe News Portal regarding assigning of successful bidder in the subsequent Meanwhile an official and affordable health care to all . cOVId -19 sampling job to a secu - bidding process is the man behind spokesperson from the district Any attempts at creating a fake & rity guard in the district hospital. circulating the video on Social me - Administration has said that such false counter narrative of spreading As per the statement issued dia. MS said that the person has caustic / fake content has a poten - baseless rumors and vested propa - here, it has been made clear that the taken the path of blackmailing be - tial to unsettle public order and ap - ganda shall be aptly dealt with, he fake news circulated on the Social sides trying to defame the efforts of propriate action shall be taken as added. The spokesman said that media regarding assigning of doctors and health care workers in per relevant sections of law. the district Hospital Pulwama be - covid-19 sampling duties to a secu - fighting against the cOVId -19, He also added that such irre - sides being a premier health rity guard in district Hospital has adding that adherence to cOVId sponsible attitude on the part of Institution is having a highly skill - no base. The MS said that the alle - mitigation guidelines are strictly News Portal / Person amid the pub - ful and professional staff. Advisor Baseer Khan Tourism Department gears up to celebrate Christmas, New Year across various tourism destinations to hear public Secretary Tourism reviews preparations for winter season SHOPIAN, DECEMBER 19: The dPeO issued instructions to the grievances at Srinagar concerned officers to make adequate Urges officers to work as team for desired outcomes district Panchayat election Officer arrangements at the venue and sought SRINAGAR, DECEMBER 19: Joint director, Tourism, should be celebrated in a (dPeO) Shopian, chaudhary on Dec 22 coordination among all concerned offi - Joint director, youth manner befitting the occas - Mohammad yasin today reviewed SRINAGAR, DECEMBER 19: cers for a smooth and transparent With the onset of Winter Services &Sports, divisional sions" he said arrangements put in place for smooth counting process. Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, baseer and on the eve of christmas Sports Officer, Srinagar, Secretary, Tourism added conduct of counting of votes of district The dPeO directed the rOs and Ahmad Khan, will convene a public hearing at and the New year, Jammu Manager, J&K cable car that following the opening up development council (ddc) elections ArOs to follow the set procedure during Grievance cell, church Lane, Srinagar on and Kashmir Tourism is all corporation, Gulmarg and of Tourism sector in July, and ULb by-elections on december 22. counting and ensure a comprehensive december 22 (Tuesday) from 12 noon onwards. geared up to celebrate and or - senior officers of the Tourism 2020, after months of lock - during the meeting threadbare dis - and accurate dissemination of counting The public deputations and individuals, ganise various gala events in department were present in down, Tourism department cussion was held on preparation of related information and details. who want to bring their grievances and de - the coming weeks across vari - the meeting. immediately started organis - counting halls, security arrangements, Keeping in view cOVId-19 pandem - mands into the notice of Government, can meet ous Tourism destinations in Secretary, Tourism urged ing various events across var - appointment of Magistrates, training of ic, dPeO stressed for maintaining so - the Advisor at the said venue. It is further in - both the Kashmir and Jammu the officers to work as a team ious Tourism destinations to staff, adherence of covid-19 SOPs and cial distancing, wearing of masks, use of formed that the deputations, delegations, indi - divisions. in order to achieve the de - send a message to the intend - availability of covid material, Traffic sanitizers and adhering to covid-19 viduals or other people who want to meet the In this regard, Secretary sired outcomes. He said win - ing tourists that the UT is management besides, proper SOPs and guidelines in letter and spirit. Advisor have to seek a prior appointment from Tourism, Sarmad Hafeez on ter activities and celebrations ready to welcome and host heating/lighting and availability of Among others the meeting was at - Saturday chaired a meeting at his office on following phone numbers: should be organized across them. He said the drinking water facilities. tended by Additional deputy Trc Srinagar to review the 9419168268; 7006776586. All such people who various Tourism destina - department also organized The dPeO informed that the count - commissioner, Assistant preparations for these events. will be visiting the venue are requested to follow tions, so that Tourism stake - interactive meets with ing of the votes polled for 14 constituen - commissioner revenue, Astt. regional director, Tourism all health care guidelines and protocols and the holders and Tourists present Tourism stakeholders across cies would commence at 9 am and con - Transport Officer, dPO, cMO, Kashmir, director, SKIcc, deputations should not exceed more than three there are able to participate the country including with tinue till completion at mini secretariat returning Officers (rOs), Assistant ceO, Gulmarg development and enjoy in the festival's and the Travel Trade Fraternity of members in view of the corona pandemic. Arhama, Shopian where a strong returning Officers (ArOs) and other Authority, ceO, Pahalgam colorful events. " The upcom - Kolkata, Maharashtra, room/counting centre is established. concerned. development Authority, ing christmas and New year Gujarat and other States. Glimpses of Future 5 lOcal/natiOnal JAMMU, SUNdAy, deceMber 20, 2020 Last phase DDC elections: Voters across Vice Chancellor SKUAST-Jammu age groups, gender flock polling booths to vote amid in Jammu div JAMMU, DECEMBER 19: the same ddc constituency. launches VC to Village Programme Another First time voter Kamani The voter across all the age Sharma, voted at Government JAMMU, DECEMBER 19: The KVKs have already earlier, at the outset, dr. groups and gender today flocked Middle School dhaleri- Khour – develop models for registra - S. K. Gupta, director polling booths amid last phase of Jammu district. Same trend of huge Prof. J. P. Sharma, Vice tion of commodity based extension, SKUAT Jammu district development council and female participation was witnessed chancellor, SKUAST-Jammu FPOs in several districts of welcomed the chief Guest, Panchayat elections held for 15 in chenab region districts of today launched Vice Jammu region. Prof. Sharma Guest of Honour, dignitaries ddc constituencies in 10 districts of Kishtwar, doda and ramban. ram chancellor to Village (V2V) was of the opinion that ‘since and farmers in the pro - Jammu division. rakhi,89 voted at PS village Mari at programme here at village we are self reliant in produc - gramme. The Fate of 85 contesting candi - ddc constituency reasi, specially Shamka (rS Pura). tion of almost all the com - dr. Jag Paul Sharma, dates has to be decided in the abeld, Hanifa begum polled her The programme was at - modities, now we need to fo - director research, elaborated polling held for Kishtwar and vote at Middle School rajgarh- tended by a large no of farm - cus on post harvest manage - upon various scientific initia - Trigam ddc constituencies in ramban. Serpentine queues of the ers, farm women, panchs and ment to reduce the losses tives under process in univer - Kishtwar district, ddc constituen - female voters were seen in Assar sarpanchs from Samka and which are to the tune of 20 sity. dr. M.S. bhadwal, dean cy Keerian Gandyal in Kathua amid chilling climatic condition. adjoining villages of r S Pura. per cent to 30 per cent in case FVSc & AH, Heads, Scientists district; ramnagar-I and The maiden ddc elections in J&K Speaking on the occasion, of grains and even more for of the different divisions ramnagar -II ddc constituencies UT have witnessed huge participa - Prof. Sharma said that focus perishable commodities like SKUAST-J and district Heads in Udhampur district; Khaur ddc tion of women voters across the age- of University is beyond pro - fruits and vegetables.’ of the line departments also constituency in Jammu district; groups in all phases. Primarily be - duction through development The Vice chancellor fur - attended the programme. rajghar ddc constituency in ing the rural elections, the partici - of strategies and market link - ther desired to replicate the dr. Punit choudhary, ramban district, Assar dcc pation of the village female folk is ages for increasing the share success stories of farmers Senior Scientist and Head, constituency in doda district; being viewed as a very encouraging of farmers in consumers’ ru - among other farmers for de - KVK, Jammu coordinated the Samba-A and Samba-b ddc sign for the democracy and demo - pee. velopment. programme along with dr. constituencies in Samba district; cratic participation in the UT. “University and KVKs are On the occasion, Farmers ravneet Kour, dr. Prem Mankote and Mendhar-c ddc Several elderly and first time male frontrunners in linking farm - Fair was also organised by Kumar, Mr. raju, Mr. Satbir constituency in Poonch district; voters, including centenarians also ers with market” he said. He KVK Jammu wherein exhibi - Singh, Mrs Poonam Abrol and Sunderbani and darhal ddc voted at different polling booths. environmental Systems, Agriculture, Veterinary and said an outlet for sale of a pro - tion depicting various tech - er. Ashish Katoch of KVK, constituency in rajouri district and Among them dev Singh, 90 cast his Swastik enterprise, Mahindra basic sciences interacted with prietary and branded nologies such as Jammu, who also helped in reasi ddc constituency in reasi vote at Polling booth GMS Tractors, Holland Tractors, farmers, sensitized them Abdullian Milk cake under Hydroponics, Integrated the smooth conduct of the district. Like in past seven phases, Pallanwala- Khour block, Jammu Mobile Soil testing Lab, & oth - about different agricultural University ‘chatha’ branding farming system, Organic in - programme. the polling for phase -8 too was held district, while Tittru din, 120 cast er allied departments, entre - and allied activities and pro - at r.S. Pura campus has been puts, improved Farm A cultural programme fo - peacefully amid huge participation his vote at Polling booth GMS preneurs, progressive farm - vided on spot solution of the initiated to provide marketing Machinery, Irrigation sys - cusing on different activities of voters across all groups and gen - Karroh, block Keerian Gandyal, ers and private companies. problems being faced by the facilities to a group of families tems, exotic vegetables relat - promoted by KVK and ders.First Time voter Taniya, 18 cast Kathua and Mohammad Akram, 90 during the fair, the pro - farmers of the area. in Abdullian village. ed to farmer welfare was also SKUAST- Jammu conceptu - her vote at Polling booth dPc Pacca casted his vote at Assar, doda. gressive farmers were felici - Interaction of farmers was The Vice chancellor laid by SKUAST-Jammu, alised by Sargum Musical chumber- ddc constituency Similarly octogenarian Mohammad tated for their best contribu - also held with district heads of stressed on the formation of department of Agriculture, Group was also presented on Keerian Gandyal in Kathua district, Latief voted at darhal, while West tion in the field of agriculture line departments wherein Farmers Producer Horticulture, Fisheries, the occasion. The programme while centenarian Kamlo devi (100) Pakistani refugee Jai Singh voted and allied sectors in that area. farmers were given informa - Organizations (FPOs), which Animal Husbandry, ended with vote of thanks by voted at Polling booth Kainta and for the first time in a local elections resource persons from all tion about the initiatives and he said is also another top pri - Floriculture, IFFcO, Aditya balkar Sing, Sarpanch of specially abled, Memma begum, 29 at Polling booth budwal- Khour the three faculties of developmental schemes of ority of the University. buildmart, Alpha Panchayat Samka. voted at Polling booth basantpur of block. SKUAST-Jammu viz various line departments. Dwivedi holds meeting with construction agencies Centre trying to intimidate of major development projects arhtiyas: Punjab CM Chandigarh, Dec 19 (PTI) even the local police commission agents, who JAMMU, DECEMBER 19: all the districts across the UT, he quirements of the construction months only, which is grossly in - were not informed or taken have been actively support - added. He said that the whole agencies were elaborately dis - adequate and needs to be extend - Punjab chief Minister into confidence as is the ing the farmers' agitation. commissioner Secretary, process of grant of Lease and se - cussed in the meeting and in - ed to atleast 3 years. Amarinder Singh on normal procedure, he What is this if not a clear department of Geology and curing environment clearance structions issued for speedy dis - M. K. dwivedi advised IrcON Saturday accused the claimed, adding that the case of vendetta politics by Mining, M. K. dwivedi, today has been fast-tracked and the po - posal of issues. chief engineer, r. to formally take up the issue with centre of adopting intim - crPF was used to provide the centre, which is hell- convened an officers meeting to sition on ground is improving. He K. Hedge, cHOd, KrcL request - Fisheries authorities for extend - idatory tactics against security during the raids by bent on demolishing the discuss and facilitate availability said that the objective of the ed for issuance of fresh STPs in ing the validity of NOc. arhtiyas by conducting in - the I-T teams. farmers' protest by hook or of key construction material to meeting was to give impetus to district reasi. regional Officer NHAI in - come tax raids on their Terming the clearly mo - crook, asked Amarinder various construction agencies es - major developmental projects of director, Geology and Mining, formed that they have been issued premises. He warned that tivated I-T raids against Singh. pecially involved in execution of National importance and improve Vikas Sharma informed that 6 disposal Permits by the such draconian measures some commission as an ob - Among the victims of major development projects. the co-ordination at various levels STPs were earlier issued and the department for the ring road will further aggravate the vious pressure tactic to curb the night-long raids were commissioner Secretary in - to effectively make seamless issuance of fresh STPs has been work. angst of people against the their democratic right and Vijay Kalra (president, formed that the department has availability of construction mate - fast tracked besides the extraction regarding the STPs, dwivedi bharatiya Janata Party freedom, Amarinder said Punjab Arhtiya taken several measures to stream - rial for the projects . He main - at Kanthan and Pai Khad sites are issued instructions for immediate (bJP)-led Union govern - these oppressive actions Association), Pawan Kumar line the system of Mining Leases. tained that the major projects of being operationalized. processing of STPs after these ment. will backfire against the rul - Goyal (president, Samana complying with the directions of railways, National Highway , AI - representing IrcON, chief have been duly submitted to the The income tax raids ing bJP. Mandi), Jaswinder Singh NGT to put in place leases with IMS and other prestigious proj - engineer (North), b. S. Tomar Mining department. were conducted on the The chief minister said rana (Patiala district presi - environmental clearance, the ects need proactive facilitation by raised the issue that the NHIdLc requested for inclu - premises of several big it is evident that having dent), Manjinder Singh department has successfully car - all the stakeholders for timely ex - department of Fisheries has is - sion of the Agency within the am - arhtiyas (commission failed to persuade, mislead Walia (president ried out transparent e-auction in ecution. Various issues and re - sued NOc with validity for six bit of S.O. 345. agents) of Punjab within a and divide farmers into Nawanshahr), Hardeep span of just four days of is - ending their prolonged Singh Ladda (president, moTor VehICle DeparTmenT suing notices without wait - protest against the black rajpura) and Kartar Singh ing for response, claimed farm laws, the centre is now and Amrik Singh (commis - Two shot dead in group oFFICe oF The aSSISTanT reGIonal TranSporT oFFICer uDhampur Amarinder in a statement trying to weaken their sion agents from rajpura), Fax No. 01992-270760 Email : [email protected] here. struggle by targeting the he said. clash in Shamli district No. ARTO/U/20-21/2478 Dated : 18-12-2020 Muzaffarnagar, Dec 19 (PTI) publIC noTICe Two men were shot dead and another injured on This is for the information of General Public that the news series “JK14H” for registration of vehicles has start - ed. Due to fewer applications for Vanity/Special numbers, listed below (Notified by Government vide order Saturday in a clash following a dispute over the venue No. 19-TR of 1999 Dated : 26-03-1999 and Transport Commissioner order No-13 of 2008 Dated 07-05-2008, of a meeting of a sugarcane farmers' society in neigh - the time limit for submission of applications is hereby extended upto 30th Dec 2020. bouring Shamli district. Shamli Superintendent of rachna Sharma (KaS) Police Sukriti Madhav Mishra identified the victims DIp/J- 8861/20 asstt. regional Transport officer as Karmveer and rahul, both around 30 years old and udhampur annexure-“a” residents of Khandrawli village under Kandhla police List of Vanity Registration Numbers (Notified by Government Vide Order No. 19-TR of 1999 Dated 26-03- station. Mishra said the society of cane growers of the 1999 and Transport Commissioner’s order No. 13 of 2008 dated 07-05-2008. village, which manages the disbursement of fund to individual farmers after its receipt from sugar mills, 0001 to0100 0789 3232 6464 8989 was to hold its meeting in the village. There was, how - 0110 0800 3333 6565 9000 ever, disagreement over the venue of the meeting as 0111 0808 3434 6666 9090 most of the cane growers wanted to hold the meeting 0121 0810 3456 6767 9091 in the village panchayat office building while the vil - 0123 0880 3535 6786 9191 lage panchayat head, also the part of the cane growers' 0151 0888 3636 6789 9292 society, wanted it to be held in his residence. The dis - pute led to a violent clash between the two groups in 0200 0900 3737 6868 9393 which firearms were openly used and two persons 0202 0909 3786 6969 9494 were shot dead, while a third one suffered a bullet in - 0212 0919 3838 7000 9595 jury, the SP said. While rahul and Karmveer were de - 0222 0990 3939 7070 9696 clared "brought dead" by the hospital the third person 0234 0999 4000 7071 9786 is undergoing treatment there, he added. 0300 1000 4040 7171 9797 0303 1010 4041 7272 9898 3,940 new coronavirus cases 0313 1011 4141 7373 9999 in Maharashtra, 74 deaths 0323 1111 4242 7474 0330 1112 4343 7575 Mumbai, Dec 19 (PTI) 0333 1212 4444 7676 0345 1234 4545 7777 Maharashtra's cOVId-19 case tally rose to 0400 1313 4567 7786 18,92,707 as it recorded 3,940 fresh cases of infection on Saturday, a health official said. The state also re - 0404 1414 4646 7860 ported 74 deaths due to the pandemic in the day, tak - 0414 1515 4747 7861 ing the death toll to 48,648, he said. On the other 0440 1616 4786 7862 hand, 3,119 patients were discharged from hospitals, 0444 1717 4848 7863 taking the tally of recovered persons to 17,81,841. 0456 1786 4949 7864 There are 61,095 active cases in the state. Mumbai city 0500 1818 5000 7865 reported 632 new cases, which pushed its case count 0505 1919 5050 7866 to 2,86,264, while its death toll rose to 10,980 with 0515 2000 5051 7867 nine new fatalities. The state has so far conducted 0525 2020 5152 7868 1,20,59,235 tests. Maharashtra's cOVId-19 figures are as follows: Positive cases: 18,92,707, new cases: 0550 2021 5252 7869 3,940, death toll: 48,648, discharged: 17,81,841, ac - 0555 2121 5353 7878 tive cases: 61,095, people tested so far: 1,20,59,235. 0567 2222 5454 7890 0575 2323 5555 7979 UP: Inter-state vehicle 0600 2345 5656 8000 0606 2424 5678 8080 smuggling gang busted 0616 2525 5757 8081 Muzaffarnagar (UP), Dec 19 (PTI) 0660 2626 5786 8181 0666 2727 5858 8282 A gang of inter-state vehicle smugglers was bust - 0678 2786 5959 8383 ed on Saturday with seven cars and 14 engines of the 0700 2828 6000 8484 stolen vehicles recovered from their possession in 0707 2929 6060 8585 Kotwali police station area here, police said. 0717 3000 6061 8686 Superintendent of Police (city) Arpit Vijayvargiya 0770 3030 6161 8786 told reporters that a team of Kotwali and crime branch police raided the place and seized the stolen 0777 3031 6262 8787 vehicles and automobile tools. 0786 3131 6363 8888 Glimpses of Future 6 JAMMU SUNdAy deceMber 20, 2020 Glimpses of Future Reforms ain’t magic tricks eSTAbLISHed IN 1986 By : PRIyADARSHI DUTTA no evidence of any consultation with the State Governments, farmer The farmers' fear that MSP will unions, agri economists and allied Save Tourism Industry be discontinued is irrational. but stakeholders. One can argue that panic and irrationality take over consultations are lengthy processes. orona is almost over now and whatever damage it when didacticism replaces consulta - However, to obtain durable results, had to do has happened. during this period our tions in any set-up. remunerative there is no shortcut to this grind. steps brought a lot of good name for the country. jobs for farmers might sound incon - The consensus over the Goods and c gruous when remunerative pricing Services Tax (GST) was institution - even foreigners preferred to stay back here and felt safe. for their products is the argument of alised through a GST council com - Now the post corona situation is one where our system of the season. believe it or not, the prising the Finance Ministers of var - medicine, local cure and wellness methods are what could Narendra Modi Government is cur - ious States. Though agriculture rently looking for two seasoned per - be best suited to deal with it. After corona medical tourism marketing is indeed in dire need of sons whose main profession would reforms but everything cannot be a is expected to rise and we must be prepared for this oppor- be farming, who could be leaders of surgical strike. Pulling rabbits out of tunity. Also, people are now preferring to go to tiger proj- the Kisan movement. It is a Level 14 the hat might not be the best way to ects and other serene places to be with nature and not just post in the pay band of rs 1,44,200- pursue reforms. Having failed to 2,18,200. counterintuitively, they drum up support from the States on prefer big hotels who will continue to have their own im- will not be deployed to win over the the Model Agriculture Produce and portance and preference for international events etc. Govt agitating farmers to the side of the Livestock Marketing (APLM) Act, has acknowledged the contribution of ASSOcHAM in the Government. They will contribute 2017, and also the Model towards determining the Minimum growth of the industry and the country. One must under- Agriculture Produce and Livestock Support Prices (MSP), which the rTI Act, 2005, that a position under Agriculture and Farmers Welfare contract Farming Act of 2018 that stand the impact of corona on the industry and Govt. shall Government currently offers on 24 Article 350-b of the constitution of notified these only last month. The the centre had circulated, it decided accept the loan restructuring proposals and forward to the agri products, including rice, wheat India viz. commissioner for Modi Government, to its credit, has to cut the Gordian knot by promul - finance ministry. domestic tourism is now happening in a and coarse grains. For several years Linguistic Minorities has been va - substantially increased the MSP on gating the three agricultural laws. It now, the commission of cannot be gainsaid that the Modi more organic fashion as an organised vertical and has a lot cant since February 2016. The most of the agri produces since tak - Agricultural cost and Prices (cAcP) commission resultantly has not ing office. However, it perhaps felt Government initiated several wel - of potential. India’s natural heritage have been rated 6th has gone without two unofficial been able to file a single annual re - that appointing two unofficial mem - fare measures for the farmers. It greatest in the world by the World economic Forum. In the members on its panel. Is that really port of its activities before bers, representing the farming com - would be sad to see them drowned in news under this Government where post covid recovery, we truly are a blessed land. Having Parliament in the past four years. munity, into the cAcP was redun - the din of the agitation. However, if many institutions have gone head - These two advertised positions are dant. This mindset, one is afraid, is only the Government had gone into said that, we are not forgetting the global market too. We less for years on end or held as addi - meant to fill vacancies in the cAcP. discernible in the formulation of the consultative mode rather earlier, it strongly believe that technology will drive the next phase of tional charge by senior bureaucrats? The farmers had flagged this vacan - three agricultural laws as well. They could have linked certain national growth for India's travel and tourism sector. The current This writer recently found out cy issue way back in February 2018. were introduced through the agricultural goals with the issue of through an application under the situation also gives as an opportunity to collaborate and However, the Ministry of Ordinance route on June 5. There is reforms on page 7 create a safe and hygienic ecosystem for travellers in the country. With an increased focus on domestic travel, we have an opportunity to develop smaller cities in India as the next tourism hubs while being Atma Nirbhar to revive The RBI should be ready for a balancing act the sector and realise the vision of our Honourable Prime Minister of making India a $5 trillion economy. We shall By : MEENAL SHARMA JAGTAP (cPI) inflation at 7.6 per cent in appreciate the diligent efforts of the Tourism Ministry to- October is higher than the mandated The central bank needs to adopt two-six per cent inflation target. The wards ensuring that India's tourism industry moves in the a cautious approach as far as moni - mandate set in 2016 requires the right and positive direction. The hotel industry sits amidst toring inflation and pushing for central bank to keep the headline in - its most challenging times in its history. Loan repayments, growth are concerned. The National flation at the mid-point of its range Statistical Office’s estimates for the at four per cent. For most of the year, fresh fund infusion, and rocky cash flows continue to stifle. second quarter (Q2) (July- retail inflation has been outside the The industry looks forward to working together painstak- September) of 2020-21 came as a re - reserve bank of India’s (rbIs) toler - ingly with the government to tide over this crisis. Tourism lief to all, raising hopes of the much- ance limit, mainly due to supply- talked about V-shaped recovery. The is not only a major contributor to our GdP but also helps side pressures owing to the lock - Gross domestic Product (GdP) at downs. The sticky cPI inflation has generate a lot of employment. As the most severely impact- constant (2011-12) prices in the Q2 prevented the rbI from announcing ed sector due to covid, this critical industry with an expo- of 2020-21 is estimated at rs 33.14 further rate cuts. In the absence of nential multiplier effect on economic revival must receive lakh crore, as against rs 35.84 lakh much direct fiscal support, the rbI crore in the Q2 of 2019-20, showing did most of the heavy lifting by re - u- significant national attention, encouragement and stim a contraction of 7.5 per cent as com - ducing rates by a cumulative 115 ba - lus. After covid-19, Tourism was the first to get affected pared to 4.4 per cent growth in the sis points this year and pumping am - and will be the last to recover. However, if scheduled inter- Q2 of 2019-20. This contraction of ple liquidity into the system. The national flights are started along with e-visas then it can al- 7.4 per cent as against a contraction rbI’s flexible inflation targeting will of 23.9 per cent in Q1 is a tremen - be up for review after March 2021 so be the first to bounce back. With a little financial and dous improvement and at current and some economists think that the taxation support, we could save about 50 million jobs and prices it turns out to be only four per central bank should keep a watch on monetary policy tools to support the of an equal amount of securities of Tourism & Aviation industry could play a major role in cent. reviewing the macroeconomic overheating rather than trying to Government’s fiscal measures. It shorter maturities under Open and financial developments of the keep inflation within a targeted has made efforts to ensure liquidity Market Operations (OMO). The pro - ur country. achieving the 5 trillion dollar economy for o domestic and global economy as range. The US Federal reserve, too, in sectors with multiplier effects, cedure is designed to exert down - well as the evolving outlook for the has indicated that it would actively nudged the bond markets to re - ward pressure on longer term inter - Indian economy, the Monetary seek and tolerate higher inflation in spond to the signals from the rbI in est rates by lowering long-term Policy committee (MPc) decided to America. reviewing the inflation the conduct of its monetary policy yields. besides, measures to en - keep the repo rate unchanged at four target for the rbI may give it the and debt management. One of the hance liquidity support to targeted Blow to Mamta per cent, the bank rate and much-needed leverage as pressure unconventional monetary policy sectors, it has been taking initiatives Marginal Standing Facility rate builds on it to do more to revive the tools to be adopted by the rbI was to deepen the financial markets, (MSF) unchanged at 4.25 per cent economy. The rbI has rendered the ‘Operation Twist.’ This refers to conserve capital among banks and and the reverse repo rate at three per support through its monetary policy the purchase of Government securi - NbFcs through regulatory support, cent. The consumer Price Index and used a host of unconventional ties of longer maturities and selling The rbI on page 7 Master of post-modern game By : JyOTIRMAyA TRIPATHy when he invested his political future in the idea of development as univer - Modi’s post-modern politics sal with the hope of neutralising par - took root not by replacing his mod - ticularist assertions. If secularism ernist development agenda but by was the master code of the pre-Modi working around it and mediating the era, his counter master narrative universal development through par - was development. The slogan ticularist identities. Thinking of “Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a Vishwas’’ articulated a new India’s post-modernist is a little intriguing resolve for the 21st century. This is for intellectuals but a no-brainer for not to gloss over alleged incidents of both, his admirers and detractors. atrocities against minorities after his For the former, Modi carries the rise as Prime Minister, though they bJP is doing an Operation Lotus in advance by weaning away top TMc hopes and aspirations of millions are not unique to his era. As chief leaders and re-directing trend winds. Following its more than surprising and there is little that he cannot do, Minister, Modi had shown his re - surge of 18 seats in the Lok Sabha elections, the bJP not only became ambi- so there is no reason why he cannot solve in infrastructure development, tious about taking bengal from its archrival and Trinamool congress be a post-modernist. For the detrac - even by demolishing many Hindu (TMc) chief Mamata banerjee, it proudly said that it would draw more tors, he epitomises everything that temples in Gujarat’s capital than half of her MLAs to its fold and that the desertions would be volun - ails India, so it is not a stretch to as - Gandhinagar. Modi took upon him - tary. Now with the bJP’s strategist-in-chief Amit Shah determined to seize sign a post-modern dimension to self the responsibility of creating a the psychological edge over the emotional hold Mamata has on bengal’s him. Given that the latter group has new political culture where nation - voters, he is crafting his game of optics. claiming that the bJP would win already assigned the choicest of ad - alism is no longer a bad word and de - 200 of the 294 Assembly seats, Shah has modified the template of jectives to Modi that establish his velopment is the master legitimator Operation Lotus, finding the weaknesses of the TMc and breaking that limitless power and absolute control The possibility of Modi’s post- In terms of Hindu consolidation of contemporary politics. His ratio - party from within even before elections. His biggest gain happened over over the Indian body politic, they modernity may appear to them an - against an aggressive Mandalisation nalisation of development as the blow to mamta on page 7 cannot deny a mere post-modernist other strategy to rob them of their of politics and the division of Hindu new mantra may be dismissed as re - tag to him. That said, Modi’s sup - safe spaces and legitimise him intel - society along caste lines, bJP veter - flective of a post-World War mental - posed post-modernity may evoke lectually. Modernisation first: Let an leader LK Advani had already ity but the fact that India continues Y T H I S D A Y surprise and even derision from the me assure them I have no such ob - sought to unify Hindus through the to be underdeveloped is the reason H I S T O R intellectual class who, for the first jective and that the present engage - ram Mandir agitation. Modi took behind Modi’s success as a mod - time, see themselves as powerless ment comes from within the same this unification strategy from erniser. His promotion of women’s 1843 : “A Christmas Carol” is published and realise that the cliché “speaking thinking class. I would much rather Advani and gave it a developmental empowerment (through the ‘beti truth to power” is just an honourable identify the shift in Modi’s politics idiom. Whether it was intended to bachao, beti Padhao’ initiative), On december 19, 1843, charles dickens’ classic story “A christmas trope. For them, the very idea of yok - that makes his post-modernity an arrest the fragmentation of Hindus more seats for women candidates in carol” is published. dickens was born in 1812 and attended school in ing Modi with post-modernity is an eminently believable idea. before for cultural or political reasons is IITs and the ‘Ujjwala yojana’ for ru - Portsmouth. His father, a clerk in the navy pay office, was thrown into act of violence and may be a cruel Modi became the phenomenon that anybody’s guess, but what we can ral women, among others, created debtors’ prison in 1824, and 12-year-old charles was sent to work in a fac- joke that compromises the emanci - he is today, he was a moderniser. agree on is the fact that Modi went development as the new universal tory. The miserable treatment of children and the institution of the patory promise of post-modernity After an accidental ascension to the beyond Hindu unity and created a and legitimated development as the debtors’ jail became topics of several of dickens’ novels. In his late teens, and completely de-intellectualises chief Minister’s chair, he capitalised developmental unity. As a mod - new catch-all category of Indian pol - dickens became a reporter and started publishing humorous short stories the concept. In fact, they could imag - on the entrepreneurial community ernist he was both, disruptive in itics. So much so that all parties when he was 21. In 1836, a collection of his stories, Sketches by boz, later ine this proposition as a game plan of Gujaratis and channelised their terms of breaking away from tradi - reimagined themselves as develop - known as The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick club, was published. to control knowledge. Having been success to a pan-Indian aspiration, tional politics and constructive, as in ment-oriented ones. The post-mod - The same year, he married catherine Hogarth, with whom he would have forced to cede political space to to be known as the “Gujarat model”, ushering in a new type of politics ern turn: The Opposition had under - Modi, they had retired to their com - though critics would still find many that was the beginning of develop - stood that to keep their hopes alive 1843 on page 7 fort zones of universities and NGOs. contradictions within that claim. ment. His modernity was palpable master on page 7
Printed, published and owned by Prem Nath Sharma, Printed at Glimpses of Future Press 63 Padha Street, Purani Mandi, Jammu. Chief Editor Prem Nath Sharma, Associate Editor : Rajiv Sharma, Ph. 2546079, Fax 0191-2547240, RNI NO. 43798/86, email : [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Glimpses of Future 7 natiOnal JAMMU SUNdAy deceMber 20 , 2020 Assam Cong MLA Ajanta Neog removed President Ramnath Over 1 core people across Kovind arrives in Goa to attend bengal reached with doorstep from key post; likely to join BJP Liberation Day event PRESS TRUST Of INDIA delivery of services: Mamata PRESS TRUST Of INDIA Along with her, around 100 Panaji, Dec 19 Guwahati, Dec 19 congress workers, including several PRESS TRUST Of INDIA block presidents of Golaghat con - President ram Nath Kovind arrived Kolkata, Dec 19 The Assam Pradesh congress stituency, are also likely to cross over in Goa on Saturday as part of his two-day committee has removed its MLA to the bJP, the sources said. Another visit, during which he will attend the West bengal chief Ajanta Neog from an important post congress legislator roseline Tirkey state's 60th Liberation day celebrations. Minister Mamata of the party's organisation, two days from Sarupathar in Golaghat had On his arrival at the dabolim airport in banerjee said on after she met chief Minister gone to a local office of the ruling party South Goa in the afternoon, Kovind was Saturday that her gov - Sarbananda Sonowal and North-east in the district in presence of Irrigation welcomed by Governor bhagat Singh ernment has reached democratic Alliance convenor Minister bhabesh Kalita earlier this Koshyari and chief Minister Pramod over 1 crore people in Himanta biswa Sarma. The move week, triggering speculations that the Sawant. In a tweet, the rashtrapati two weeks with came amid speculations that the four- MLA might join the bJP. Lakhipur bhavan said that the president will grace doorstep delivery of time MLA from Golaghat constituen - MLA rajdeep Goala, who was ex - the commencement of the celebrations of services. In a series of cy and former state minister may join pelled from the congress for six years 60th Goa Liberation day. Goa was liber - tweets, banerjee said the bJP. Neog was removed from the in October this year for his alleged ated from Portuguese rule on december the state government people across bengal bengal) officials and post of district congress committee "anti-party activities", is also expected 19, 1961. Official sources said that Kovind will leave no stone un - have enthusiastically volunteers who President of Golaghat with immediate to join the saffron camp, sources said. will be staying at cabo raj Niwas, the offi - turned in ensuring visited more than worked round the effect, according to an order issued by elections to the 126-member Assam cial residence of Goa governor in dona that the people of West 10,000 duareSarkar clock to organize these the party's state unit on Friday night. Assembly is due in March-April next Paula. The president will pay tributes to bengal are able to get camps envisioned to camps every single day "This has the approval of All India Home Minister Amit Shah to the state. year. The 2016 Assembly polls gave a the martyrs of Goa Liberation Movement the benefits of services ensure doorstep deliv - at such a massive scale. congress committee," the two-line On Thursday, Neog held a closed-door fractured mandate and no party has in the evening at Azad Maidan in Panaji. right at their ery of Govt services I would also like to order said without giving any reason meeting with Sonowal at his official an absolute majority. In the current After that, he would take part in the Goa doorsteps. "I am im - and benefits," she said. thank every partici - for the action. When contacted, residence in presence of Sarma. The House, the bJP is the single largest Liberation day event. He is scheduled to mensely pleased to an - "I wholeheartedly con - pant who visited and Assam Pradesh congress committee congress legislator, however, said she party with 60 MLAs, while its allies address a public gathering during the nounce that in just 2 gratulate all the GoWb availed s ervices at these general secretary (Organisation) had met the chief minister and the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and event to be held at d b bandodkar ground. weeks, over 1 crore (Government of West camps," she added. ranjan bora said the disciplinary ac - senior bJP leader to discuss issues re - bodoland People's Front (bPF) have tion was taken against the legislator lated to her constituency. 14 and 12 lawmakers respectively. The for her "anti-party activities over the Speculations are rife that Neog, who ruling coalition has the support of an last few days". Sources in the congress was a close confidante of former chief Independent MLA. The congress has and the bJP told PTI that Neog, a pow - Minister Tarun Gogoi and part of his 22 MLAs at present, while the All 2 held under anti-conversion law released erful leader in Upper Assam, is likely cabinet, may join the saffron party af - India United democratic Front to join the saffron camp on december ter some irregularities were reported (AIUdF) has 14 members in the PRESS TRUST Of INDIA ing the couple if the were released from the nance, which provides for 26 or 27 during the visit of Union in the departments she had held. House. Moradabad (UP), Dec 19 woman had given notice to Moradabad prison on a jail term of up to 10 years the district magistrate Saturday, according to jail for violators. It was prom - Two brothers who over her intention to sources. Meanwhile, the ulgated amid assertions by Man held under anti-conversion were arrested earlier this change her religion, a re - mother-in-law alleged bJP leaders that a strict delhi: Four dead, 2 injured month under the anti-con - quirement under the new that Pinki suffered miscar - law was needed against law in UP's Shahjahanpur version law were released ordinance. riage after she was tor - "love jihad", a term coined on Saturday following an PRESS TRUST Of INDIA The Kanth police had tured at the government by right-wing activists to Shahjahanpur, Dec 19 order by an Uttar Pradesh submitted a report that it shelter home. The recent - discredit interfaith mar - in factory roof collapse court. The Muslim man could not find evidence of ly-promulgated Uttar riages by describing it as PRESS TRUST Of INDIA labourers, including three women, were in - A man was arrested un - and his brother were ar - the case after Pinki denied Pradesh Prohibition of part of an alleged conspir - New Delhi, Dec 19 side the factory when the incident took der Uttar Pradesh's new an - rested on december 4 af - the allegations of forceful Unlawful conversion of acy by Muslim men to con - place, Additional deputy commissioner of ti-conversion law in ter they visited the regis - conversion by rashid and religion Ordinance nulli - vert Hindu women in the Four labourers died and two others Police (West) Subodh Kumar said. They Shahjahanpur district on trar's office in Moradabad his brother Salim, follow - fies marriages if they are guise of love. The were injured after the roof of a factory col - were rescued by a team of officials and were Saturday for allegedly coerc - to record his marriage to a ing which the chief judicial carried out for the sole Allahabad High court had lapsed in west delhi's Khayala on Saturday, rushed to two nearest hospitals deen dayal ing a woman into changing Hindu woman, whose magistrate ordered on purpose of religious con - asked the state govern - officials said. The structure, which was be - Upadhyay hospital and Guru Gobind Singh her religion and forcibly family filed a complaint. A Friday the release of the version. The state govern - ment on Friday to respond ing used as a m otor winding factory, is located government hospital, Kumar said. Four of marrying her, police said. video purportedly showed two, prosecuting officer ment had on November 24 to a petition challenging at Vishnu Garde n area in Khayala. The Fire the six labourers were declared brought The accused, Mohammad bajrang dal activists ask - Amar Tiwari said. The two approved the draft ordi - the law. department received a call about the inci - dead by doctors, while two others were un - Saeed, had concealed his dent around 10 am following which four fire dergoing treatment. The deceased persons identity and introduced tenders were rushed to the spot, said Atul were identified as Saina (36), Guddi (45), himself to the woman as Garg, the director of delhi Fire Service. Six Twinkle (25) and ramesh (35). Sunil Kumar, they said. Contn. from Page 6 ...... Contn. from Page 6 ...... The RBI ...... strengthen supervision through strengthening audit func - time low recorded in the previous cycle (September). Low ...... tion, ease external trade and expand financial inclusion. consumer confidence is reflective of the people’s insecuri - Reforms Going forward, the primary challenge for the central bank ties regarding the job scenario, employment levels, house - remunerative pricing. These goals could be identified as in currency, the farmers have little to fear about the MSPs is going to be dealing with sticky inflation while its eye is hold incomes and economic recovery in the country. crop diversification, reducing dependence on chemicals in which have actually been significantly enhanced in the past firmly set on the recovery of the economy. In the However, the households remain optimistic about the sce - farming, water conservation, reducing the regional imbal - six years. However, this MSP-oriented rice-wheat agrarian december 3 Monetary Policy, the rbI pegged cPI infla - nario one year ahead as reflected by the Future ance in procurement, reforms in the APMc Act, increasing culture has become the bane of Punjab despite contribut - tion at 6.8 per cent for Q3 of 2020-21 and to 5.8 per cent expectations Index. Hence, managing inflation is critical IT literacy in farmers to take advantage of eNAM (National ing to its material prosperity. Punjab is reluctant to diversi - for Q4. These projections were owing to the likely persist - to sustaining the growth stimulus spurred by the policy Agriculture Market), improving the terms of trade with in - fy its agriculture. With 75 per cent of its population relying ence of food prices at elevated levels and cost-push pres - stimuli of the Government and the central bank. Till now, dustry and so on. The Government could have generated a on farming as a source of livelihood directly or indirectly sures on core inflation. Apart from some cheer coming in the rbI’s efforts for liquidity injection as a response to the trust surplus rather than deficit as at present. It could have (as per Punjab’s Agriculture department’s website), which with the Q2 GdP figures, there is a fear about the uncer - cOVId-19 pandemic and to support the Government’s fis - made the farmers an ally in its mission. However, at pres - is far above the national average, the progress of industrial - tainty of the macroeconomic conditions and the fact that cal responsibility, have achieved their purpose, as as - ent, the Government is shy of quoting from its flagship isation has been stymied. the current upturn may be only due to the pent-up de - sessed by the it. Liquidity influx with Foreign Portfolio commission report. The 14-Volume report of the The introduction of rice cultivation on a commercial mand, the festival season and initial easing of the supply Investment and Foreign direct Investment has been high committee on doubling Farmers’ Income (2017-2018) basis since early 1970s had led to the exploitation of chain. The results of the consumer confidence Survey by and the rbI has been sterilising them with reverse repo chaired by Ashok dalwai, IAS, is nowhere in the groundwater and poisoning of soil through excessive use of the rbI also showed that consumer confidence remained operations. Going forward, the central bank needs to Government’s discourse. This begs for an explanation. chemical fertilisers and pesticides. Water is a big issue in very low in November as compared to a year ago. adopt a cautious approach as far as monitoring inflation The farmers, fearing the MSP will be withdrawn, want Punjab, which is why the Sutlej- yamuna Link has been ly - However, it showed marginal improvement from its all- and pushing for growth are concerned. it to be legally guaranteed. The truth is that MSP itself has ing defunct for the past 40 years. However, Punjab virtual - never been legally defined. even the cAcP, the commis - ly exports a huge quantity of water in every grain of rice it Master of ...... sion which recommends the MSP every marketing season, produces, meant largely for consumption by people out - is not a statutory body. However, it is the Siamese twin of side the State. That Punjab’s wheat and rice contain the they had to reclaim backward communities from Modi and per cent of the country’s population cannot be a monolith co-born Food corporation of India (FcI), a statutory body. highest concentration of chemicals is also a cause for con - bring them to make common cause with minorities. The and that it cannot be a cohesive unit. In 2018, the rohini The FcI, being established under the Food corporation of cern. The Government could promote crop diversification, fact that non-bJP parties had benefitted heavily from this commission recommended splitting of the Obc quota of India Act, 1964, on the same day as the cAcP (January 1, like cultivation of pulses and oilseeds, which is likely to so-called backward-dalit-Muslim unity, something which 27 per cent because about 25 per cent of the 27 per cent 1965), should be considered guarantee enough. Without fetch higher profits through the MSP route. The Supreme development started eroding steadily, made them jittery. Obc quota is usually gobbled up by around 10 dominant procuring food grains in both Kharif and rabi marketing court’s proposal of forming a committee having represen - Theirs was a post-modern challenge that survived on castes and the remaining 1,000 castes are largely left out. seasons, the Government will not be able to run its tation from the Government and farmers’ unions raises dissociating dalits, Obcs, women, Muslims from the mod - Modi instinctively understood that these silent groups can Targeted Public distribution System (TPdS) and manage hope. A good way to defuse the farmers’ agitation would be ernist project of development. Modi needed a new strategy be persuaded to see the irony of Obc reservation and can allocations under the Integrated child development to follow the repeal and re-enact principle. Merely repeal - to reinvent himself and he found one, to beat his critics in be the site of a counter-Obc formation. Services (IcdS) scheme and Mid-day Meal for long. These ing the three new farm laws particularly the Farmers’ their own game. His modernist thrust had created a catch- He also worked around the creamy layer among the three are statutorily guaranteed under the National Food Produce Trade and commerce (Promotion and all and all-encompassing category such as development Obcs (mostly the salaried and middle-class) who are usu - Security Act (NFSA), 2013. The TdPS alone reaches out to Facilitation) Act, 2020, and the Farmers (empowerment that appeared to have replaced politics. Now began Modi’s ally vocal about rights. He knew that their exclusion from 80 crore people through 24 lakh ration cards. Without the and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm post-modern politics, not by replacing his modernist de - the Obc umbrella would dilute the narrative of Obc asser - Government being sincere about TdPS, it would not have Services Act, 2020 might appease the agitating farmers. velopment agenda but by working around it and mediating tion. So far as dalit votes are concerned, every State has a implemented the ‘One Nation, One ration card’ project. However, then the much-needed reformation in agricul - the universal development through particularist identi - few dominant castes (Jatavs, Mahars, Madigas depending Thus as long as the FcI Act, 1964, and the NFSA, 2013, are tural marketing would be left without a future roadmap. ties. The mistake many intellectuals make is imagining on the region) who are heavily politicised to the extent of that Modi and his party as intellectually challenged. They hijacking the dalit movement away from marginal dalit too, imagined the strategy of fragmentation as the bulwark communities. Now Modi and the bJP are actively working Blow ...... against Modi’s juggernaut (that depended on universals with these marginalised castes and are integrating their the last 24 hours when didi lost four senior leaders, prize tunes in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. such as nationalism and development) and highlighted practices in the Hindu cultural sphere. They are also ac - picks all, and he will probably parade them in front of the At the same time, Shah is keeping up the heat on her difference, fragmentation, particularism and so on. If tively empowering them through mobilisation at the media to prove his point. There is no doubt that her cadres with the Home Ministry insisting on recalling three bengal Modi spoke of Hindutva, the post-modern impulse was to grassroots level. conclusion: Mandal politics had politi - are none too happy with her protectionism of nephew IPS officers for central deputation, the idea being to unset - highlight caste difference; if he spoke of nationalism, the cised a few dominant castes. Modi is taking it to its logical post-modern impulse was to offer regional and religious conclusion by breaking the monolith. Similarly, the single Abhishek, whom she is grooming to be her successor and tle the cosy equation she has developed with them. challenge; if development promised equal opportunity, the voting block of dalits is over and politicians and intellectu - for whom, despite claiming that people are her heart, she besides, the police machinery comes in handy for any par - post-modern alternative was to highlight development’s als cannot complain against something that they them - has the familiar dynastic dream of passing on her legacy to. ty, which wants a “friendly” supervision of the poll exer - religious and caste blindness. Modi used their tool of frag - selves championed. On top of that, Modi’s introduction of And because Abhishek banerjee got in election strategist cise. Mamata, of course, is not giving up and is likely to ap - mentation to fragment further. Most politicians and intel - the economically Weaker Section quota was a master - Prashant Kishor to help the TMc battle the bJP’s organisa - proach the Supreme court. The one thing going for her, of lectuals were convinced that particulars such as dalit or stroke that brought class rather than caste into distributive tional might, the latter, too, is being distrusted by the course, despite the anti-incumbency, is her personal con - Muslim or Other backward classes (Obc) can never be an - politics, something Indian communists had chosen to ig - grassroots workers. Of course, none of the defecting nect and sincerity of doorstep campaigns. So Shah is fo - other universal, but Modi knew better. He criminalised nore. Intellectuals and politicians did not have the fore - Trinamool leaders are clean but they each have a commit - cussing on mathematical certainty and working on consol - triple talaq and broke the Muslim universal and its inher - sight to see the vulnerability of their position. In their en - ted constituency and can swing the bJP’s fate, with the lat - idating the tribal and dalit vote in the State. This is neces - ent patriarchy, something that had been avoided by most thusiasm, they had forgotten that though the ter promising them immunity from probes by investigat - sary if the bJP wants to hold its voters from 2019, who had political parties. The Mandalisation of politics had created minority/dalit/Obc difference can threaten the universal ing agencies. After Suvendu Adhikari, who was the key ar - given it a commanding position in 143 of the 294 Assembly the greatest monolith of Obcs but Modi knew that Obc is a nation, the former is equally vulnerable to contradictions chitect of Mamata’s crusade at Nandigram, and Jitendra seats. With his lunch diplomacy at a tribal home, Shah laid political construct and so can be refashioned. More than 50 within. Modi beat them in their post-modern game. Tiwari, TMc MLA Shilbhadra dutta and minority cell the primary ground rule for the bJP’s roadmap to transfer leader Kabirul Islam quit in rapid succession. Of course, votes in its favour. bengal’s dalit population stands at 1.85 the bJP purred over the ghar waapsi of its one-time crore, of which 80 lakh are Matuas, who are settlers and 1843 ...... Asansol observer, col diptanshu chowdhury, who re - have a sizeable influence in Assembly seats in Nadia, North signed from the post of South bengal State Transport and South 24 Parganas districts. And although they threw nine children. The short sketches in his collection were spent five months in the United States, where he was wel - corporation and as head of the State’s grievance monitor - in their lot with the bJP last year, they feel short-changed originally commissioned as captions for humorous draw - comed as a literary hero. dickens never lost momentum as ing cell. Of these, Adhikari, who has a hold in the Haldia by it on the citizenship Amendment Act (cAA) and the ings by caricature artist robert Seymour, but dickens’ a writer, churning out major novels every year or two, of - port area, can swing results in about 50-odd seats. Mamata National register for citizens (Nrc), none of which helps whimsical stories about the kindly Samuel Pickwick and ten in serial form. Among his most important works are understandably has deeply furrowed brows. Any exit hurts their refugee status. The biggest concern for the bJP is to his fellow club members soon became popular in their david copperfield (1850), Great expectations (1861), and her larger-than-life image and makes the bJP look like a have an iconic face as its chief ministerial candidate. Its own right. Only 400 copies were printed of the first in - A Tale of Two cities (1859). beginning in 1850, he pub - solid challenger. It started with Mukul roy, whom she own core members lack the charisma required and its stallment, but by the 15th episode 40,000 copies were lished his own weekly circular of fiction, poetry, and es - sidelined after he was found to be involved in the Narada cadres are anyway upset by the TMc imports taking up po - printed. When the stories were published in book form in says called Household Words. In 1858, dickens separated sting operation case and the Sharada ponzi scam. For all sitions of importance. Shah, of course, has been trying to 1837, dickens quickly became the most popular author of from his wife and began a long affair with a young actress. practical purposes Mamata’s eyes and ears, roy felt slight - toy with the idea of bringing in cricketer Sourav Ganguly the day. The success of the Pickwick Papers was soon re - He gave frequent readings, which became immensely ed for being selectively pushed aside when the going was but he, too, is no match for didi’s cross-sectoral and earthy produced with Oliver Twist (1838) and Nicholas Nickleby popular. He died in 1870 at the age of 58, with his last nov - tough and played a crucial role in turning the bJP’s for - appeal. (1839). In 1841, dickens published two more novels, then el, The Mystery of edwin drood, still unfinished. Glimpses of Future 8 wOrld JAMMU, SUNdAy, deceMber 20, 2020 Moderna gets emergency use authorisation Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine set for its COVID-19 vaccine in US By LALIT K JHA for clearance by year-end: Report Washington, Dec 19 (PTI) Moderna has become By ADITI KHANNA Authorisation by the 40 million doses of the the second company to get London, Dec 19 (PTI) MHrA will also give confi - Pfizer jabs being imported emergency use authorisa - dence to countries across from belgium, is believed to tion for its anti-coron - The Oxford University the world. India has already be enough to vaccinate the avirus vaccine from the US vaccine against cOVId-19 manufactured more than whole of the UK. Food and drug being produced by 50 million of the The state-funded Administration (FdA), a AstraZeneca is likely to get AstraZeneca vaccines, the National Health Service week after the one devel - regulatory approval from newspaper notes. (NHS), which is leading the oped by Pfizer received a the UK's independent regu - In India, the vaccine is UK's mass vaccination similar approval. indicated a vaccine efficacy pride for every member of lator by the end of this year being produced as part of a drive with the Pfizer vac - According to an official rate of 94.1 per cent. the HHS family and every for a rollout to begin in ear - tie-up with the Serum cine, has drawn up plans for statement, the FdA has de - This vaccine is for peo - American." ly 2021, according to a UK Institute of India. large scale vaccination termined that the Moderna ple aged 18 or older. National Institutes of media report. Health officials in the sites, in football stadiums, cOVId-19 vaccine has met An immunisation drive Health was a partner in the The Medicines and UK hope that the authorisa - racecourses and conference the statutory criteria for is - using the vaccine devel - development of Moderna's Healthcare regulatory tion of the Oxford jab will centres to start administer - suance of an emergency use oped by Pfizer has begun in vaccine. Agency (MHrA), which prove a game-changer , al - Oxford/AstraZeneca vac - ports. Although the first ing jabs from the first week authorisation (eUA). the US earlier this week. "Authorization of had been formally tasked lowing vaccines to be trans - cine. The batch of 4 million doses will of January. The pro - "congratulations, the Vice President Mike Pence Moderna's vaccine means by the UK government last ported and administered Oxford/AstraZeneca, be delivered from the gramme will also be ex - Moderna vaccine is now took the shot publicly on we can accelerate the vacci - month with the process of far more easily compared to AZd1222, vaccine has tak - Netherlands and Germany, panded to high-street phar - available!" President Friday. nation of frontline health - clearance after the jab the Pfizer/bioNTech vac - en longer for regulators to the bulk of manufacturing macies and further general donald Trump tweeted Health Secretary Alex care workers and emerged safe and effective cine which must be stored assess because of differ - is set to take place in the practitioner (GP) practices. soon after. The FdA based Azar said, "To have two Americans in long-term- against the novel coron - at very cold temperatures. ences in the efficacy rates UK. Pharmaceutical giant The news of a second its recommendation on the vaccines against a novel care facilities, and, ulti - avirus in human trials, is The Oxford vaccine can found in different groups, AstraZeneca has said a fur - vaccine for the UK comes as totality of scientific evi - coronavirus authorized mately, bring a faster end expected to authorise the be stored in normal refrig - ranging from 62 to 90 per ther 15 million doses of ac - the US cleared its second dence shared by Moderna, and distributed within a to this pandemic," Azar vaccine by december 28 or erators but like the Pfizer cent. However, a study re - tive ingredients are ready vaccine for emergency use including a data analysis year is extraordinary, and said. 29 after the final data is vaccine, it also requires two leased this week suggests and can be filled into vials against the deadly virus the from the pivotal phase to have one of these vac - Moderna said that its provided on Monday, The doses with a three-week that leaving an adequate in a matter of days, the Moderna vaccine and will three clinical study an - cines developed by scien - mrNA-1273 vaccine is now daily Telegraph' quoted gap between the two doses gap between doses is the newspaper report adds. begin rolling out thousands nounced on November 30. tists at the NIH (National authorized for distribution senior government sources for the Pfizer jabs and a most crucial way to boost The full order of 100 of doses soon alongside the The primary efficacy analy - Institutes of Health) and use under an emer - as indicating. four-week gap for the efficacy, the newspaper re - million doses, in addition to Pfizer vaccine. sis conducted on 196 cases should be a great source of gency use authorization. China's space probe 12 killed, 6 injured as train hits bus in Bangladesh
Dhaka, Dec 19 (PTI) of Joypurhat Sadar Police Station. brought 1,731 Joypurhat deputy commissioner At least 12 people were killed and six Shariful Islam said bodies of 10 people others injured when a train ploughed into a were recovered from the spot. eight people grams of samples bus at a railway crossing in bangladesh on were rescued, of which two succumbed to Saturday, according to media reports. their injuries at a government hospital in The incident happened at Joypurhat bogura. Six of the injured have been admit - from the moon district when the rajshahi-bound Uttara ted to Joypurhat Sadar Hospital. express train, en route from Parbatipur, hit All the victims were passengers of the the passenger bus at Puranapoil railway bus, bdnews24.com reported. crossing, the daily Star reported. Such accidents at railway crossings are The train dragged the bus on the rail - common in bangladesh, with poor safety way tracks for about half a kilometre, the standard, unmanned level crossings and dhaka Tribune reported. The bus was go - negligence of staffers at the manned level ing to Panchbibi from Joypurhat. crossings being key factors, the daily Star Preliminary investigation found that reported, quoting fire officials. the level crossing was open and the on-duty The bangladesh railway has formed a line man was absent, causing the accident, three-member committee to investigate said AKM Alamgir Jahan, officer-in-charge the accident.
By K J M VARMA China to inoculate Beijing, Dec 19 (PTI) PM Khan says Pak Army is a state china's chang'e-5 probe, which successfully re - frontline workers first with turned to earth this week, has retrieved about 1,731 grams of samples from the moon, the country's space institution which works under him agency said on Saturday. The samples were trans - COVID-19 vaccines ferred to the chinese research teams on Saturday Khan through a manipulated elec - him. By K J M VARMA given to the priority groups, morning. Scientists will carry out the storage, analy - tion in 2018. The Army, which has The PdM has set a January 31 Beijing, Dec 19 (PTI) including those engaged in sis and research of the country's first samples collect - ruled Pakistan for more than half of deadline for Khan to step down or handling imported cold-chain ed from the extra-terrestrial object, the china its 70 plus years of existence, has face a long march to Islamabad. The china will begin its products, and people working National Space Administration (cNSA) said. The re - hitherto wielded considerable pow - coalition pledged that it will make cOVId-19 inoculation pro - in sectors such as port inspec - turn capsule of chang'e-5 probe landed in Inner er in the matters of security and for - sure that there is no interference of gramme by first vaccinating tion and quarantine, aviation, Mongolia Autonomous region in the early hours of eign policy. However, the military the institutions of "the establish - some key priority groups, in - public transport, fresh market, Thursday, bringing the samples collected from the has denied meddling in the coun - ment and intelligence" in politics cluding those involved in med - medical treatment and disease moon. The chang'e-5 mission marks a successful con - try's politics. Khan also denies that and at the same time it will make ical treatment and disease control, said cui. clusion of china's current three-step lunar explo - the army helped him win the elec - the security institutions stronger on control, within the winter- There is no word yet on the ration programme of orbiting and landing, and bring - tion in 2018. the professional lines. spring period, before starting a mass roll out of the vaccine ing back samples which began in 2004. It was the According to the 'Lahore Pakistan Muslim League- mass roll out, the National programme and no announce - By SAJJAD HUSSAIN declaration' signed by the Nawaz supremo and three-time country's first attempt to bring the moon samples in Islamabad, Dec 19 (PTI) Health commission (NHc) ment has been made about the over 40 years after the US sent astronauts to the moon Opposition parties on Monday, the former prime minister Nawaz said on Saturday. government approval of vari - military establishment had stolen Sharif, 70, has been repeatedly to collect samples. In the Soviet Union's unmanned Pakistan Prime Minister Imran The vaccination pro - ous vaccines under trial. the people's mandate in the 2018 blaming Army chief Gen Qamar lunar sampling missions, the spacecraft took off from Khan has asserted that the Army is gramme will also cover those china has roped in more election and imposed a "hybrid and Javed bajwa and spy agency ISI the moon and returned to earth directly. a state institution which works un - who plan to work or study in than a dozen countries, includ - inefficient" government on the chief Lt Gen Faiz Hameed of med - The chang'e-5 probe, comprising an orbiter, a der him, amidst Opposition's alle - counties and regions with ing brazil, to conduct the final masses. In an interview to SAMAA dling in Pakistan's political affairs. lander, an ascender and a returner, was launched on gations of the powerful military es - medium or high risks of expo - phase trials of its cOVId-19 TV on Friday, 68-year-old Khan re - Sharif was ousted from power in November 24, and its lander-ascender combination tablishment's interference in the sure to the virus, cui Gang, an vaccines. The United Arab butted accusations that he does not 2017 by the Supreme court court on touched down on the north of the Mons rumker in country's politics and elections. official with NHc's disease emirates (UAe) and bahrain have any real authority and said graft charges. The PML-N chief, Oceanus Procellarum, also known as the Ocean of Pakistan democratic Movement control department, told re - have approved a vaccine devel - that the Pakistan Army is a state in - currently out on bail, has been liv - Storms, on the near side of the moon on december 1. (PdM), a 11-party opposition al - porters. oped by chinese state-owned stitution, which works under him. ing in London since November last china in recent years has emerged as a major liance, has been holding massive This will help relieve the Sinopharm. On Opposition's claims that the year after he was allowed by the space power with manned space missions and land - rallies since its inception in pressure on china in prevent - chinese officials say the government wouldn't hold if not for courts and the government to go ing a rover in the dark side of the moon. It is currently September to seek Khan's ouster ing and controlling imported coronavirus has been largely the support from the powerful es - there for a period of eight weeks for building a space station of its own. chang'e-5, the and press the military to stop inter - cOVId-19 cases, and lower the controlled in the country and tablishment, the cricketer-turned- medical treatment. but he did not third chinese spacecraft to land on the moon, is the fering in politics. The PdM has risks of domestic outbreaks of herd immunity can be built politician said he is the country's come back, while his lawyers told latest in a series of increasingly ambitious missions been accusing the Pakistan Army of the epidemic, the official said. with gradual roll out of the vac - democratically elected prime min - the court that he was still recover - for beijing's space programme. installing "puppet" Prime Minister In a two-step vaccination cination programme covering ister and so the institutions back ing. drive, the vaccines will be first most of its population. Pro-Trump shakeups continue at VOA's parent agency WHO says expert team South Koreans Washington, Dec 19 democrats and some to alleged liberal bias and a it proceed, the debarment republicans have accused lack of conservative views would take effect on Jan. 19, heads to China in January line up for virus The head of US-funded Pack of trying to turn VOA in its programming. Pack just a day before biden is Geneva, Dec 19 international broadcasting and its sister networks into also announced that Jeffrey sworn in. is pressing ahead with his tests as cases pro-Trump propaganda Scott Shapiro, a former debarment is an ex - The head of emergencies at shakeup of the Voice of outlets, and he is under a breitbart News and treme punishment that is the World Health Organisation America and sister outlets court order not to terminate Washington Times journal - usually used only in a case says a team of international ex - surge by naming new leaders for Seoul, Dec 19 employees that he has sus - ist, would run the Office of of major fraud and corrup - perts looking into the origins of two of its main networks pended since taking over cuba broadcasting. tion by federal contractors. the coronavirus pandemic will and moving to defund one Long lines are snaking from coron - the operation in June. In addition to those ap - In a letter to the OTF, Pack travel to china the first week of of the federal government's avirus testing sites in the South Korean despite those potential pointments, Pack informed said the fund had been im - January. top democracy promotion capital of Seoul on Saturday as the coun - reversals, Pack has forged the Open Technology Fund properly created without dr Michael ryan says there initiatives. ahead with changes and on that he had begun proce - congressional input in 2012 will be quarantine arrangements try reports 1,053 more confirmed cases, The flurry of moves by Friday, less than 10 days af - dures to strip it of its federal and that its leadership had for the team, which will visit the the fourth straight day over 1,000. President donald Trump's ter appointing a long-time funding for at least three since been involved in nu - suspected site of the outbreak in Thousands are taking advantage of free handpicked chief of the U.S. critic of U.S.-government years, according to docu - merous conflicts of interest, the city of Wuhan. tests being offered temporarily in the Agency for Global Media broadcasting to lead the ments obtained by The requiring the drastic step. The purpose of the mission is capital area. The government is strug - Michael Pack come only a Voice of America, he an - Associated Press. The OTF congressional aides to go to the original point at which Americas, which is home to gling to decide whether to increase social month before Trump leaves nounced the appointment provides technology to as - said they were looking at human cases were detected and roughly three-fourths of the glob - distancing to maximum levels, which of - office and raise new con - of two conservative voices sist democracy advocates in options either to slow or that we fully expect to do that, he al cases. He says it is likely trans - ficials fear would further shock the econ - cerns about the agency's di - to lead radio Free repressive countries shut down the debarment said. mission will intensify in countries omy. rection in the administra - europe/radio Liberty and around the world. process or, if those are un - He says the team of interna - already dealing with surges in The new cases brought the national tion's final weeks. the Office of cuba Shortly after assuming successful, pursuing legis - tional experts will work with our cases.The purpose of the mission caseload to 48,570. Nearly 7,000 of President-elect Joe broadcasting, which runs his position in June, Pack lation that would allow chinese colleagues, and he adds is to go to the original point at those cases have been added over the biden and his team have radio and Television Marti. dismissed the OTF board, biden to quickly rescind the they will not be ... supervised by which human cases were detected past week. pledged a full review of Pack announced that whose members sued and move. The aides were not chinese officials. and that we fully expect to do that, Fourteen cOVId-19 patients died in Pack's actions and could re - rFe/rL would be led by won a court order against authorized to discuss the ryan says the world should he said. The United States leads the past 24 hours to bring the death toll place him shortly after in - Ted Lipien, a former VOA their dismissals. The move matter publicly and spoke celebrate the arrival of vaccines, the world with 17.3 confirmed to 659. There are concerns fatalities will auguration, but it's not en - official who had more re - to debar it appears to be a on condition of anonymity. but the next three to six months cases and 312,000 confirmed continue to rise because of a shortage of tirely clear if his personnel cently run a blog promoting way around the court deci - USAGM did not imme - are going to be tough. deaths. brazil follows with intensive care beds in the Seoul area, decisions could be immedi - the views of disaffected sion and would effectively diately respond to a request He seemed to allude the 184,000 reported deaths and which is being hit hardest by the virus. ately reversed. staffers primarily objecting shut the OTF down. Should for comment. Mexico has 116,000 deaths. Glimpses of Future 9 health JAMMU, SUNdAy, deceMber 20, 2020 FSSAI recommends these Keep a check on obesity risk amid pandemic; here’s how Take a balanced diet diseases the person gets prone to. basically, excessive fat in the body easy ways to make food which has high nutritive increases the level of cholesterol which affects the blood supply to value, high fibre, good fat the heart and may result in heart more tasty and nutritious and a lot of liquids, diseases,” she explained. The same excessive weight puts suggested Dr Anjali extra pressure on blood vessels Sharma, naturopath and which may lead to bP problems, di - for adolescents abetes, and stroke which also caus - yoga Expert, Shuddhi es dysfunction of other organs dolescents can be really picky eaters which may, in turn, impact their health. which may lead to hyperthy - Why? because lack of nutrients like vitamins, fibre and minerals in your diet Naturopathy, Delhi roidism, hormonal imbalance, liv - would take away the essential nourishment which your body needs. As per A er issues, back pain, joint pains, FSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India), eating balanced meals, drinking etc. Here’s what you need to know plenty of water, avoiding foods high in sugar, salt and oil and consuming boiled or he unprecedented re - about controlling obesity amid baked foods instead of fried foods is good for one’s health. strictions due to cOVId pandemic. If you have been struggling with ways to incorporate nutritious yet tasty foods that ternatives which are homemade and Physical activities infection have led people Pandemic stress and may appeal to such eaters, here are some expert and handy tips from FSSAI that will T can satiate you for longer. Include as much physical activ - to stay more at home in order to re - overeating come to your rescue. Food habits to be changed ity in your routine. Surya na - duce infection spread. However, binge eating is a ssociated with a *Instead of serving roti and vegetables separately, roll up the vegetables with roti before getting into the idea of “fat maskar, yoga asana, pranayama, work from home routine, seden - high level of stress which directly re - and add a freshly cut salad with a homemade chutney to the roll. cutting”, one must understand that stationary cycling and stationary tary lifestyle, binge eating and less - sults in obesity. considering people *Add mashed pumpkin and bottle gourd to any gravy items like shahi paneer, but - fat is majorly needed for brain devel - jogging are options that you can er physical activity are some of the are living indoors with a raging eco - ter chicken etc. opm ent especially in children. It al - easily do at home. factors directly influencing obesi - nomic crisis, family issues, uncertain so plays a key role in muscle build - Health check-ups ty, said dr Anjali Sharma, natur - future, the stress of losing jobs, fear of ing, joint movements, and many It is important to take a blood opath and yoga expert, Shuddhi instability among other pressures, other functions. It is important to test every six months and do whole Naturopathy, delhi. “Obesity is not overeating tends to become an issue understand good fat and bad fat. A body check-ups every year. This merely an excessive amount of fat with many. better way to deal with food intake will largely help in keeping a check on someone’s body, rather it is — a This may cause hypertension, di - is to take a balanced diet which has on any risk factors such as rising reflection of entire lifestyle pattern abetes, and may also impact your high nutritive value, high fibre, cholesterol levels, blood sugar lev - — certain health conditions and the mental health. Opt for healthier al - good fat and a lot of liquids. els, liver toxicity among others. Study sheds light on immunity Cholesterol Test transfer from COVID-19 positive (Lipid Profile) mothers to babies complete cholesterol level screening test (lipid profile or lipoprotein analysis) in - cientists have as - Avolves the measurement of the total choles - sessed pregnant terol in the blood, High density Lipoproteins (HdL, Spatients admit - the good cholesterol), Low -density Lipoproteins ted for cOVId-19 and (LdL, the bad cholesterol) and Triglycerides, another found antibodies against type of blood fat. LdL cholesterol is calculated from the the novel coronavirus in total cholesterol, HdL and triglyceride levels. umbilical cord blood, sug - cholesterol is a type of fat called a lipid, that the gesting the possibility of body uses to help build cells and produce certain hor - transferred immunity from mones and bile salts. cholesterol forms complexes with mothers to babies. The study, published in proteins in the blood to produce lipoproteins. The Annals — the official Lipoproteins comes in two forms (1) High density medical journal of the Lipoprotein (HdL); the good cholesterol with more Academy of Medicine, protein than fat and (2) Low density Lipoprotein Singapore — periodically (LdL); the bad cholesterol with more fat than protein. analysed samples from 16 Normal range of cholesterol in the blood should be pregnant patients admit - less than 200 milligrams per deciliter or mg/dl. High ted for cOVId-19 to four obesity and older age, had tal decompensation, and cholesterol of 240 mg/dl or greater in the blood in - tertiary hospitals in severe infection. its presentation may be de - creases the risk of heart disease, stroke, coronary artery Singapore. According to None of the women layed up to 14 days from disease etc. Abnormally low levels of cholesterol may the research, there was no died, the study noted. symptom onset,” they indicate hyperthyroidism, or an overactive thyroid evidence of mother-to- Five pregnancies pro - wrote in the study. gland, liver disease, inadequate absorption of nutrients child transmission of the duced term live-births and However, based on the from the intestines and malnutrition. coronavirus via breast milk two participants had spon - systematic screening of or placenta. Care before the procedure taneous miscarriages at 11 samples, the scientists said In the study, the scien - Avoid solid foods or drinks except water for 9 to 12 and 23 weeks of pregnancy. there was no evidence of tists performed SArS- hours before taking the blood sample for Lipoprotein scientists said one pa - maternal-child transmis - coV-2 rT-Pcr tests on analysis (total cholesterol, LdL, HdL, and triglyceride tient remained positive for sion of the virus. maternal blood and vaginal levels). the SArS-coV-2 infection The researchers also swabs, amniotic fluid and How the test is done up to 80 days after initial found SArS-coV-2- umbilical cord blood Lipoprotein analysis or Lipid profile is normally symptoms but they added specific antibodies in the (Ucb), and swabs of the that such prolonged shed - paired maternal and um - performed on a blood sample taken from a vein. This placental and umbilical ding of the virus may not bilical cord blood. procedure takes only a few minutes. The blood sample cord surfaces. indicate actual infectivity. but they said this find - is collected in a syringe or vial and sent to the lab to be The researchers, in - “recent reports have ing may not be conclusive analyzed. Total cholesterol levels may also be meas - cluding those from the highlighted the unpre - evidence of the transfer of ured from a finger-stick blood sample. Singapore General dictable clinical course of antibodies from mothers to Age for Testing Hospital, noted that major - cOVId-19 infection in babies since the protective ity of the infected pregnant Adults 20 years or over should be routinely tested pregnancy. 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It's Expensive: Urvashi Shraddha Kapoor helps father Shakti Kapoor to gain Neena Gupta: I will never forget Rautela's mint-coloured weight for his role in a web series; Raja Babu actor says, when a boyfriend of mine said nastily saree for a wedding comes to me ‘you are still on the shelf! at the price of a car 'Will now need Aamir Khan's help to reduce'
Actress Neena Gupta has been quite open while talking about her personal life and relation - ships. He had her daughter Masaba Gupta out of wedlock when she was in a relationship with West Indies cricketer Vivian richards. She raised her daughter as a single mother and got married to delhi’s Vivek Mehra at the age of 48 in 2008. The actress recently appeared on a web show called dating These days and was seen having a conver - sation about dating. She revealed one horrible thing that one of her boyfriends had said to her when they were fighting which she would proba - bly never forget in her life. "A boyfriend of mine.... Veteran actor of Shraddha fed me with a lot of eating and resting at home verse gear. but there is a prob - We were fighting and he said nastily to me ‘you are bollywood, Shakti Kapoor is yummy dishes ordered online ever since I took up a role of lem. The shoot in question is still on the shelf!’ I will never forget that! It is hor - looking quite different nowa - and I am from the school of playing a music director who not happening for another rible.Nobody is waiting to be picked up,” Neena days as he has gain eight kilos Sunil dutt and Vinod Khanna hasn't cut his hair since a long month from today. So, there is Gupta said. Talking about how marriage can't be for his upcoming web series . who always ate simple home - time. So yeah, I even had to a gap. This means that I have forced on someone, Neena explained while shar - In a recent interview with e made food on the sets. Aaj kal grow my hair. Quite a chal - to ensure that I only add 2 ing an incident, "I had this couple friend from Times, the actor revealed that ke bachche jo cheezen khaate lenge, especially that of forc - more kilos and not lose any delhi who was staying next door in Mumbai. I had he need to gain to more kg and hain woh maine kabhi nahi ing food down your gullet weight hereafter till I report this another male friend. but I never felt like ‘that’ daughter Shraddha Kapoor khayi thi isse pehle. Now it is when you are not sufficiently on the web shoot again be - towards him, I liked him. They used to tell me has helped him to achieve the not that they gain weight but I hungry. When asked how he cause the remaining portions ‘marry this man, he is a very nice man’. They were desire weight. He said, "It did- because I started eating will get back to his original need me to be fatter. In such a after me ‘he is such a nice man, and a bachelor! He took me about 2 months but too much food outside every weight, Shakti Kapoor said, case, the fat will pile on thick is wealthy and even owns a flat. Just marry him al - now I am feeling heavy. day and almost stopped doing "Well, it would have been easy and thin- and it might be diffi - ready’. When I said I do not love him or lust him, I chalne mein pet hilta hai. my workouts. I have been only if I had just shifted into re - cult to shed it thereafter." was told ‘ just go ahead and marry.
Bigg Boss 14: Pavitra Punia reveals the reason I am a public figure, not public Urvashi rautela is one of the most gorgeous property,' says Uri and Mission women in showbiz. And she is someone who loves behind her split with Paras Chhabra flamboyance. From voluminous gowns to scintillat - bigg boss 14 contestant Pavitra Mangal actress Kirti Kulhari ing jewels, Urvashi rautela's style statement is Punia has earned many fans for her maximal. The lady attended the wedding of produc - outspoken nature and stunning er ranjha Vikram Singh and Simran Kaur in looks. The actress made news for her chandigarh. For the reception, she opted for a chif - equation with eijaz Khan on the fon saree with ruffled pallu, strappy blouse and a top show. She recently did an interview knot. diamond jewellery finished off her look. She with rJ Siddharth Kannan. In the in - looks damn fresh for the winter wedding in Punjab. terview, she took on many questions Well, you will be shocked when you find out the cost relating to her personal life. When of the saree. It is priced at rs 5 lakh. Here are more asked to comment on her relation - details of her outfit as shared by stylist Sanchi ship status, Pavitra said that she was Juneja. Sanchi Juneja told bollywoodLife, "The 'completely single and in awe of eijaz cherie d Mint rainbow saree to me was perfect for Khan'. The lady said that she has feel - her friend, Vikram Singh’s wedding festivities in ings for him. Pavitra Punia was hon - Punjab. It cost around rs 5 lakh, and the rohit est to say that relationships were a Ichpilani jewellery which she wore was rs 15 lakh. It different thing inside bigg boss 14. had solitaires which were perfect for her. either She said that she hoped to meet eijaz way, I always remember to add bling to Urvashi's Khan outside and see how things every look!" cherie d is a wedding luxury apparel work out in between themSiddharth brand by Sherina dalamal and Payal Asnani. The Kannan also asked her about Paras actress has been sporting some blingy looks this chhabra. She said their relationship wedding season. She wore a lehenga for the recep - lasted for only three months. When tion of Neha Kakkar and rohanpreet Singh. The asked about their split, she said that lehenga, which was in a shade of green and gold, Paras chhabra is the typical delhi looked great on the stunning model turned actress. dude, and she could not handle his Urvashi rautela was last seen in the film, Virgin attitude. She said that she felt that he bhanupriya. Of late, she was seen in the music disrespected their relationship. "I video, Woh chaand Kaha Se Laogi with yeh rishta can handle it if someone loves me a Kya Kehlata Hai actor, Mohsin Khan. She has an - little less, but I won't tolerate any other music video, 'Teri Load Ve' up for release. She form of disrespect," said Pavitra. The has apparently wrapped up the shoot of a film, black lady said that it was not her personal - rose that will come out in Telugu and Hindi. While ity to reveal her personal life in the Urvashi rautela's overall look for the wedding public, but she was okay if someone might seem exorbitant for many of us, nothing is too rode on her popularity to be in the much for a big fat Punjabi wedding. news.
bollywood actress Kirti Kulhari has managed to carve her own niche with her impeccable performances in films like Uri: The Surgical Strike, Mission Mangal, Indu Sarkar, Remo D'Souza gets discharged from the hospital; the choreographer Pink and many others. The actress recently said that social responsibility is a burden for the actors and their only re - sponsibility is their work. Speaking it in detail, Kirti told expresses his gratitude to fans through a heartwarming video NbT.com, "See, according to me, I consider it a burden when media personnel ask about opinions from actors on any is - sue of the country or society. I consider this social responsi - Popular bollywood choreog - one but himself too. He had no bility a burden. you and we are both humans, but to have an rapher and filmmaker, remo history of blood pressure or any - opinion on everything is not necessary. People are not able d'Souza, who was admitted to thing." race 3 producer ramesh to separate us from our public lives and forget that a human Kokilaben Hospital recently af - Taurani had also gave an impor - being is standing in front of them. I don't know about every - ter suffering a heart attack, has tant update a few days back and thing. I do not have an interest in everything. I do not have been discharged from the hospi - said, “I spoke to remo's wife. A an opinion on everything, so why is it expected that we ac - tal after angioplasty. remo post - stent (a metal mesh inserted in tors or public figures do and say everything right. Why have ed a heartwarming video to surgical procedures to make we been given this responsibility to answers all questions re - share the news and wrote, blood flow freely in blocked coro - lating to the country and society? It is not at all necessary "Thank you all for the love nary arteries) has been put. He is that I have a view about everything. She added, "I think my biggest responsibility is my acting because I call myself an prayers and blessings I am back stable now. earlier, remo's actor. you can ask me how I am doing the work that I am do - thank you. In the last week, friend Mahesh Kukreja had said ing. The answers to the questions related to my work ie act - dharmesh had told the portal that the choreographer was doing ing are justified, I am responsible for the questions related to his health is doing well and said, fine after angioplasty. "On Friday my work. I feel that the biggest social work I am doing is "yes the news is true. remo sir is morning remo was admitted at through my acting, the kind of characters I play, the kind of fine now, he is doing well. We all the Kokilaben Hospital following films I become a part of, so much is said in those films, so are at Kokilaben Hospital with some heart issue. There were much is done in that it is not my responsibility to go ahead him. He had to go through a sur - some blockages due to which an and answer anyone, and I should not have that responsibili - gery and everything is fine. We Angioplasty was performed by ty either." The actress stated that she has her own personal are not allowed inside but we are the doctors. Now he is doing fine life and asserted, "What do I do in personal life, what do I not do, for whom do I take a stand, I do not take this pressure. constantly in touch with his wife according to the doctors. We are Whatever I do, I should do it according to myself because I Lizelle d’Souza over calls. remo here, he is my family friend and have my own personal life. The media should also give us sir’s health is fine now. While we assure that please do not wor - this space. On the other hand, I also understand and know speaking to eTimes, Lizelle had ry, everything is under control," very well what it means to be a public figure. being a public said, “remo's heart issue has remo's friend Mahesh Kukreja figure does not mean public property. We should not be come as a shock to not just every - told PTI. forced to answer political and personal questions. 11 LOCAL ##+ )+$. #(
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