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Davinder was being Lockdown pushes China rebukes Britain Oscarwinning Italian groomed by Pak. for zardozi artists in over ‘gross interference’ composer Ennio getting info: NIA Bhopal to the brink in Hong Kong Morricone dies at 91 page 11 page 11 page 12 page 14

Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Malappuram . Mumbai . Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY PLA pulls back from Galwan clash site 1.4 lakh families Disengagement begins after Doval, Wang Yi phone call; tents, structures dismantled at points on LAC reach MGNREGA’s

Vijaita Singh ers and temporary struc Dinakar Peri tures and the two armies NEW DELHI annual work limit were in “eyeball to eyeball” Delhi’s COVID19 cases Three weeks after the worst positions. cross 1 lakh mark military clashes in decades, Double household quota, say activists NEW DELHI India and China have begun Corps Commander talks The total COVID19 cases in the process of disengage As part of an understanding Priscilla Jebaraj Delhi crossed one lakh on ment at contentious loca reached during the June 30 NEW DELHI Monday with 1,379 fresh cases being reported in the tions along the disputed Line Corps Commanderlevel At least 1.4 lakh poor rural past 24 hours. The total of Actual Control (LAC), a go talks, on Sunday, a survey households have already number of cases now stands vernment source said on was done to verify if China completed their quota of at 1,00,823. Also, 48 more Monday. had acted on its assurances. 100 days of work under the deaths were reported, The disengagement pro A defence official said on Mahatma Gandhi National pushing the toll to 3,115. cess, a work in progress, the condition of anonymity Rural Employment Guaran CITY Ī PAGE 3 commenced after Special Re that this was just the initial tee Act (MGNREGA) in the DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD presentatives (SRs) Ajit Doval step in the phased disen first three months of the Slain officer had alerted and Wang Yi, tasked to ham gagement process. It was year, and will not be eligible senior of SHODubey link mer out a solution to the during the “deescalation” for further benefits under KANPUR boundary dispute, spoke ov process on June 15 that the the scheme for the rest of An officer who was among the er telephone on Sunday violent clash occurred in the the year. Another seven lakh MGNREGA work under way eight policemen killed in the evening. The Hindu had re Galwan Valley. The Chinese households have completed in Dharwad district of Kanpur encounter had alerted ported on Sunday that the have given no figures on 80 days and are on the verge Karnataka. * KIRAN BAKALE the district police chief that SRs would hold talks to re their dead and wounded. of running out of work as the Station House Officer of solve boundary tensions bet Changing situation: A recent satellite image showing road construction by China near the As reported, the two mili well, according to the lies,” said Nikhil Dey, a Ra Chaubeypur, Vinay Tiwari, ween the two countries. Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh. * AFP/ MAXAR TECHNOLOGIES tary commanders indicated scheme’s database. jasthanbased activist with who was suspended after the In the first signs of dees that at first the deescalation With COVID19 pandemic the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti incident, had been protecting calation, Chinese troops of vehicles is seen at the gen for a “complete” disengage claim is till Finger 8 as per would take place at all the and the lockdown resulting Sangathan. main accused Vikas Dubey, it moved back some distance eral area of Galwan, Hotspr ment along the LAC. the alignment of the LAC. friction points — Galwan, in thousands of unem The MGNREGA scheme emerged on Monday. and dismantled tents at ings and Gogra,” the govern At Pangong Tso, some “Chinese troops have Pangong Tso, Hot Springs — ployed migrant workers re contains a provision for dis NEWS Ī PAGE 10 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD some locations along the ment source said. Without tents have been removed shifted 2 km from the face and then “depth areas” such turning to their villages and tricts affected by drought or LAC. giving the specific distances from the Finger 4 area and off site in Galwan. Tempor as Depsang plains in the now dependent on MGNRE other natural disasters to re SC sets aside Delhi High In the Galwan Valley, Chi moved, the source said the the PLA has moved back ary structures being re north, where China had GA wages, activists are urg quest an expansion of the Court order on Navlakha nese troops have shifted 2 ki pullback at each location some distance, said a second moved by both sides,” a se amassed troops, would be ing the government to in scheme to allow for 150 days NEW DELHI lometres from the site of the would be confirmed after government source without nior government official told looked into. crease the limit to at least of work per household. Gi The Supreme Court on June 15 violent clashes while verification. elaborating, adding that de The Hindu adding that a On June 19, China’s Fo 200 days per household. ven that COVID19 was de Monday set aside a Delhi some tents had been re Separate statements from tails of the pullback had to be physical verification had also reign Ministry said “the Gal “This is an unprecedent clared a national disaster, High Court order questioning moved by the PLA in the Fin the Indian and Chinese go verified on the ground. been conducted. wan Valley was located on ed situation where many are activists have demanded the “frantic hurry” with which ger 4 area of Pangong Tso, vernments after Mr. Doval The PLA had moved well the Chinese side of the LAC clearly desperate for work that this provision be imple civil rights campaigner government officials said on and Mr. Wang’s talks suggest Pangong Tso issue within India’s perception of in the western section of the and dependent on MGNRE mented immediately. Gautam Navlakha was shifted Monday. ed that both were keen to Pangong Tso is one of the the LAC in the Galwan Valley SinoIndian border”, sug GA wages. In many areas, Overall, 23 lakh house from the national capital to Mumbai in connection with “The PLA was seen re put an end to the serious most contentious areas of after the June 15 incident, gesting it was making new monsoon is the hungry sea holds have already complet the Bhima Koregaon case. moving tents and structures troop buildup along their the current standoffs, with when 20 soldiers were claims in the area. son. If you stop providing ed 60 days of work. NEWS Ī PAGE 11 at Patrolling Point (PP) 14. contentious boundary. Both the PLA moving about 8 km killed. India had matched work at this time, it will be a DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Some rearward movement statements stressed the need inside up to Finger 4. India’s China’s presence with bunk MORE REPORTS Ī PAGE 9 huge crisis for these fami CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8

Special Correspondent NEW DELHI COVID19 tests in India crossed the one crore mark on Monday with 1,01,35,525 cumulative samples tested so far, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said on Monday. In the past 24 hours, about 3,46,459 samples were tested. The Council has now re commended that all laborat proes/hospitals initiating testing through rapid anti gen tests should ensure that symptomatic patients, who have tested negative in rapid testing, should be referred for realtime RTPCR testing also. The Council has also writ ten to all the States/UTs di recting all private labs un also informed the States that throughout the country. As The Health Ministry has dertaking TrueNat/CBNAAT increased focus has to be on on date, more than 1,105 labs also released guidelines to based testing for COVID19 to the “Test, Trace, Treat” across the country are offer deal with mental health con apply for NABL accreditation strategy. ing COVID tests. There are cerns during the pandemic: to ensure quality testing. “India has been able to 788 labs in the government “Mental health in the times New challenge: Municipal health staff leaving the Ambujwadi slum at Malvani in Mumbai on Monday after residents barred their The Health Ministry ad cross the one crore test mark sector and 317 private labs,” of COVID19 pandemic”. entry for COVID19 screening. The area falls under the north ward of Mumbai, where cases have been rising. * AADESH CHOUDHARI ded that it is now advocating by the continuously expand noted a release issued by the CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC widespread testing and has ing network of testing labs Ministry. CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 Reopened monuments wear Final year exams by Coronavirus is airborne, 239 a deserted look on first day September-end: UGC experts warn in letter to WHO ‘Cancelled exams will be held’ Only a handful of tickets booked for major tourist attractions sPecial correspondent be “compulsorily conduct Evidence has implications for containment strategy Special Correspondent no visitors were seen in the NEW DELHI ed” as per UGC guidelines. NEW DELHI first half of the day. An ASI of Final year university exami Apoorva Mandavilli ter out even the smallest res Monuments that reopened to ficial at the site said two visi nations may be postponed Directive to States New York piratory droplets as they the public on Monday after tors had tried to buy the tick until the end of September, There had been a vociferous The coronavirus is finding care for coronavirus being closed in March due to ets by scanning the QR code, but must be conducted in demand from a section of new victims worldwide, giv patients. the COVID19 pandemic wore but had trouble with the on either online or offline students and parents to can ing rise to clusters of infec a deserted look on the first line payment. Another cou mode, the University Grants cel the examinations due to tion that increasingly con Filters may help day, with more media per ple from Jamia Nagar stood Commission (UGC) decided the spread of the COVID19 firm what many scientists Ventilation systems in sons than visitors at the sites. looking at the QR code , but on Monday. pandemic and use alterna have been saying for months schools, nursing homes, re Culture Minister Prahlad could not buy the tickets as Students who are unable tive grading mechanisms. At — the virus lingers in the air sidences and businesses Singh Patel had announced address proof was required to appear for these exami least seven State govern indoors, infecting those may need to minimise recir on July 2 that all Centrally to complete the purchase. As nations will be given the op ments have already an nearby. culating air and add power protected monuments of the a part of the reopening, ad portunity to appear for spe nounced the cancellation of In an open letter to the ful new filters. Ultraviolet Archaeological Survey of In Qutub Minar on Monday. dresses of visitors are being cial examinations which will examinations. World Health Organization A paramedic collecting lights may be needed to kill dia that were located outside * SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR recorded to help in tracing of be conducted later, accord However, the UGC decid (WHO), 239 scientists in 32 samples at a mobile unit in viral particles floating in tiny containment zones would COVID19 patients, in case ing to an official statement. ed that it was important to countries have outlined the Vijayawada. * V. RAJU droplets indoors. open starting Monday, sub number of slots at each mon there are infections connect “protect academic quality evidence showing that small The WHO has long held ject to the guidelines of the ument. The ASI’s ticket book ed to the sites. Home Ministry’s nod and credibility”, a member er particles can infect peo ly in crowded spaces with that the coronavirus is Union Ministry of Home Af ing platform showed that on Humayun’s Tomb fared The Home Ministry has also told The Hindu, adding that ple, and are calling for the poor ventilation, the conse spread primarily by large fairs and Health and Family ly a handful of visitors better in comparison, with 16 given its approval for the the State governments agency to revise its recom quences for containment respiratory droplets that, Welfare Ministry. booked for major tourist at tickets being sold in the first conduct of the examina would be asked to comply mendations. The research will be significant. Masks once expelled by infected Keeping in view the safety tractions like Qutub Minar half of the day, according to tions in a letter to the Minis with the new guidelines. ers plan to publish their let may be needed indoors, people in coughs and sneez of visitors and staff, the ASI and Humayun’s Tomb. an ASI official. However, a try of Human Resources De ter in a scientific journal. even in socially distant set es, fall quickly to the floor. had announced onlineonly At Purana Qila, which had majority of those were velopment, and directed FRESH GUIDELINES ISSUED If airborne transmission is tings. Health care workers NYT ticket booking for restricted 1,000 ticket slots available, bought by media persons. that final term exams must Ī PAGE 10 a significant factor, especial may need N95 masks that fil CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 CM M ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

DELHI THE HINDU 2 CITY TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ‘Continuous ECA quota: HC seeks response assessment DU teachers’ body asks UGC to helped AUD cancel online open book exams from DU on petition by two artists declare results’ Plea challenges decision to scrap the quota from 202021 Special Correspondent University issues clarification over problems raised by students during mock tests Staff Reporter aminations and have more NEW DELHI New Delhi than a decade of training in Ambedkar University Delhi Staff Reporter sues raised by students, the to the PWD category who The Delhi High Court on Bharatanatyam, Mohiniyat on Monday said that it had NEW DELHI university has issued a have registered for OBE Monday sought response tam and Kathakali, which are declared results for all its The Delhi University Teach clarification. mode have been mapped in from the Delhi University on recognised traditional art programmes and would re ers’ Association (DUTA) on DU said students might the system and the time of a petition by two young ar forms practised in the coun lease its admission bro Monday wrote to the Un have faced difficulties in five hours has been kept for tists challenging its decision try. chure for the upcoming aca iversity Grants Commission downloading the question them to log out for examina to scrap the extracurricular They asked for an order to demic session on July 11. (UGC) seeking immediate paper due to the fact that tions,” the response added. activities (ECA) category quo the university to organise the Depending on declara cancellation of online open they were searching for ta for art and culture from the trials of candidates under all tion of board exam results, book examinations (OBE), specific question papers or Insensitive order academic year 202021. ECA categories on virtual the varsity said, it would which are scheduled to be searching with titles of sub Meanwhile, DUTA has The court asked the varsity platforms. “If necessary, call start the admission process gin from July 10. jects or courses, which termed an MHA notification to reply to the petition filed be conducted due to CO students after uploading vi in the last week of July or Following complaints were not fed into the permitting the conduct of jointly by Hritika Aneesh and VID19 pandemic. deos of performances in the first week of August. VC from hundreds of students system. examinations in universities Gokul C.R., both seeking ad He argued that the univer small batches for trials after Anu Singh Lather said the regarding glitches faced in of the university to conduct “Students are advised as “insensitive”. mission in undergraduate sity, while giving credit for maintaining social distancing admission process would be the ongoing mock online these exams on such a large that this is purely a mock DUTA president Rajib courses, and posted it for ECA, has only included Na and ensuring COVID19 gui in accordance with the ti OBE, the teachers’ body scale and has given rise to test and any sample paper Ray said, “Contradictory further hearing on July 22. tional Cadet Corp (NCC), Na delines issued by the govern meline as proposed by wrote to the UGC seeking severe anxiety for thou may be used for writing and MHA orders in a gap of few The petition filed by advo tional Service Scheme (NSS) ment,” the plea said. UGC/MHRD for fresh admis “timely intervention” in the sands of students,” the let they can take any paper of days, even as there is no cate Manoj V. George has and sports category and all They also asked for the un sion and added that AUD matter. ter further said. their choice. Students may change in the COVID19 urged for a direction to the other categories of extracur iversity to carry out decen has successfully completed “We hope that your time Amid strong reservations be assured that on the day graph, shows that mental university not to discontinue ricular troupe have been “ar tralised verifications through the academic year 201920 ly intervention will prevent from students and teachers, of examination, all question and physical wellbeing of admission based on 14 cate bitrarily ignored”. the colleges to conduct their for most of its students des DU from going ahead with the university had an papers shall be available as lakh of students have been gories of the ECA in under “This exclusion of a partic own trials while maintaining pite the challenges that the this faultridden proposal nounced that OBE will be mentioned in the datesh compromised.” graduate courses. ular category of students in social distancing. pandemic and lockdown and creating unwarranted held for terminalyear stu eet,” the response read. “There is no answer yet Delhi University, till the Art and Culture will actually The plea said students “si brought about. stress and trauma for stu dents this year due to the As for complaints per on how nonterminalyear last year, was admitting stu result in absolute injustice to milarly placed” like them “AUD is one of the few dents. Any further delay has COVID19 outbreak. taining to students not be students can get degrees dents under the ECA catego the students and entire group have been undergoing train educational institutions that the potential to destroy The mock exams began ing able to register, the un without exam for a semes ry and about 15% of the grace of art and culture [ECA]. Elig ing for many years in their declared results for all its lives and careers of several from July 4 and over the iversity said that it was due ter while final year stu marks were provided for the ible students will be wiped off school programmes with the programmes across all sem lakhs of students,” the letter weekend hundreds of stu to “unmatched data as filled dents’ degrees become less students who qualified from from the university system legitimate expectation that esters,” she said. Ms. Lather read. dents complained of not be out by students”. valuable without exam ev the category. for an entire year for no fault they would be able to score said that because of a con “The entire [mock OBE] ing able to access the por DU also clarified that for ery semester. Is an exam However, Mr. George said of theirs, and the same per se certain extra percentage of tinuous assessment AUD process was marred by tal, with issues ranging uploading answer sheets, that has no mechanism at that the university has recent violates Article 14 of the Con marks while seeking admis managed to finish the win technical glitches and faults from problems with regis students can upload one file all to monitor malpractice ly announced that the entire stitution,” the petition said. sion in the university. ter semester by June 12 and which have been widely re trations to incorrect ques of 5 MB, and that multiple an acceptable basis for ECA category for art and cul The plea stated that the They said that the universi declare results for most ported. This shows the tion papers. files can be uploaded. award of degrees?” Mr. Ray tural forms have been dis two young artists have com ty’s decision has affected programmes. complete unpreparedness In its response to the is “All students belonging said. carded as the trials could not pleted their Class 12 board ex more than 1,000 students. Worksheets Clarify stand on status of finalyear undergraduate students, HC tells DU on WhatsApp, ‘They may get sition to take the examina Senior advocate Sachin rected the university to sub ams, scheduled on July 1 by and shall conclude on July 8. cally, in September 2020, classes on tions through the open book Dutta, appearing for Delhi mit an affidavit clarifying its another 10 days. Thereafter, the open book subject to conditions provisional admission examination (OBE) system. University, said that such stand as stated by Mr. Dutta Professor Vinay Gupta, examinations shall com normalising. YouTube begin in PG courses’ students will be provisional and posted the case for working as Dean (Examina mence from July 10, he also “This is irrespective of the Avoid ambiguity ly granted admission in the further hearing on July 9. tion) in University of Delhi said. fact that they [students] Special Correspondent Soibam Rocky Singh A Bench of Justice Hima Koh postgraduate courses, sub has filed an affidavit, offering Mr. Dutta said that if, for have filled up their applica NEW DELHI New Delhi li and Justice Subramonium ject to the condition that Contempt notice an explanation for failing to any reason, the students are tions online or otherwise, The Delhi government on The Delhi High Court on Prasad said it wanted to they meet the eligibility The Bench had on the last inform the court about the not in a position to sit for the for sitting in the examina Monday rolled out its re Monday asked the Delhi Un “avoid any ambiguity” with norms after the results of the hearing issued contempt exam rescheduling. commencing open book ex tions and even reached the mote teaching programme iversity to clarify its stand on regard to the fate of the stu undergraduate course are notice to the university and amination, all the students, stage of downloading the in schools so that students the status of finalyear un dents who instead of the declared and subject to their its officers for withholding Mock exam whether in the PWD (per question papers for partici do not lose out on learning dergraduate students, seek OBE opt to await the physi appearing for the entrance material information from Mr. Dutta stated that as a sons with disabilities) cate pating in the OBE but could due to the COVID19 pan ing admission in the post cal examination proposed to examination. the court and trying to mis runup to the main examina gory or otherwise will be af not upload their answer demic. Students from Class graduate courses in the be conducted in September, To have more clarity on lead the court over defer tion, the mock examinations forded an opportunity to sit sheets for any reason,” Mr. KG to Class VIII were sent event they are not in the po 2020. the issue, the High Court di ment of the open book ex have commenced on July 4 in the examinations physi Dutta assured. worksheets via WhatsApp and students of Class XII at tended live classes CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC streamed on YouTube. The government said that Parlour employee thrashed Food for thought over four lakh students ac cessed the worksheets sent on classlevel WhatsApp after asking for salary dues groups on Day 1 and over 1.35 lakh students of Class XII accessed the live You Employer let loose pet dog on her; case registered Tube classes taken by the teachers. Staff Reporter ployer’s residence on June ter returning home, I called “Students from KG to NEW DELHI 11. “The woman said that I up the police control room Class VIII received their first A 40yearold woman work will have to work first and and they told me file a com worksheet which they will ing in a massage parlour was then only she will clear my plaint at the police station. I now receive everyday. It allegedly thrashed by her dues. When I refused , she didn’t as I was scared,” she contains engaging, syllabus employer and attacked by said she would not give me said. She called up the em agnostic activities to pro the pet dog when she went the money and started ployer a few times again ask mote reading, writing, basic to ask for her salary dues. thrashing me. She then let ing to pay her the dues. Ho numeracy and happiness The victim identified as her dog loose to attack me,” wever, she was denied. among children,” the go Sapna, a resident of Hauz said Ms. Sapna, adding that vernment said. Students in Rani, alleged that she her face was severely injured Approached MLA Class IX and X received worked in the parlour for a after the attack. Ms. Sapna then approached worksheets for Hindi, month and a half before the The employer allegedly area MLA Somnath Bharti science and maths on Mon lockdown was announced. told the victim not to shout who, along with an NGO, day and will receive two “She [employer] was un to prevent locals from gath helped her approach the three worksheets everyday, reachable for a few days. ering. However, when Ms. police. Mr. Bharti also took the government added. For Eventually, I spoke to her ov Sapna screamed in pain, to social media after which those students who do not er the phone and asked for other employees of the own the matter came to light. have access to WhatsApp, my dues. She called me to er gathered and took her to a DCP (South) Atul Thakur teachers will handover prin her house in Khirki Exten private hospital in Malviya said that a case has been re touts of worksheets to the sion,” she said. Nagar. She was then referred gistered and further investi No social distancing: People collect food items at Yamuna Bazaar in New Delhi on Monday. * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA parents on a weekly basis. Ms. Sapna went to the em to Safdarjung Hospital . “Af gation is under way. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Delhi petrol dealers ask govt. to reduce VAT on fuel Man arrested for Heavy sales losses have made over 200 fuel pumps in Capital unviable, they claim cheating IB officer Special Correspondent on Monday. on petrol to 30% from 27% mails and tweets, the Delhi Accused posed as a senior of victim New Delhi The Delhi Petrol Dealers and, in the case of diesel, al government has shown no Heavy loss of sales has made Association (DPDA), which is most doubled it to 30% from empathy towards the 400 pe Staff Reporter his credit card. over 200 fuel pumps in the ci a body of petrol pump own 16.75%. trol dealers and their 50,000 NEW DELHI The police said that the ty unviable due to price diffe ers and has 400 fuel pumps, “This increase in VAT has employees and the family A man has been arrested for victim then called the senior rences resulting from in employing more than 50,000 resulted in a price difference members of these employees allegedly cheating an Intelli to enquire about his wife’s creased value added tax workers as its members, of more than ₹8 per litre in in these distressed times,” Mr. gence Bureau officer by pos health and was informed (VAT), making petrol and die urged the Delhi government diesel with the neighbouring Bijlani said. Dealers who had ing as his senior and taking that no such message was sel more expensive in the to reduce VAT on petroleum States,” DPDA president Anil begun to find their respective money on pretext of his ail sent by the senior. Capital compared to the products in the city. Bijlani said. pumps unviable would have ing wife, the police said on The complainant then ap neighbouring cities, a body of On May 5, the Delhi go “Despite our several re to resort to cost cutting for Monday. proached the police after fuel pump owners said here vernment had increased VAT quests and representations, survival, the DPDA said. Deputy Commissioner of which a case under Section Police (North) Monika 420 (cheating) was regis Bhardwaj said that the ac tered and investigation was cused has been identified as taken up. Jamia violence: police object to statements in plea Ravi Kumar, a resident of The police said that dur Mathura. ing the course of investiga Staff Reporter highlighted the rejoinder “Irresponsible pleading is move them. tion, technical surveillance New Delhi filed by one Nabila Hasan in becoming the order of the Responding to the court’s Monetary aid was mounted and on the ba Solicitor General Tushar which it was alleged that the day,” he remarked. query, Mr. Gonsalves said he The police said that a com sis of that, the accused was Mehta, representing the city order to “mercilessly beat” Following the objections will delete the particular plaint was received by IB of zeroed in and his location police before the Delhi High the students and “break raised by the Solicitor Gener lines from the rejoinder and ficer, Raj, who said that on was found to be in Loha Court on Monday, raised their bones” as they began to al, a Bench of Chief Justice submit it afresh. April 30, he received a mes wan, Mathura, from where strong objections to certain assemble outside JMI to be D.N. Patel and Justice Pra The court was hearing pe sage on Facebook Messen he was arrested. statements made against the gin a peaceful march to the teek Jalan asked senior advo titions seeking setting up of a ger from his senior’s ac The police said that Ravi Home Minister by a petition Parliament came from the cate Colin Gonsalves, repre judicial commission to look count. The message read used to run a mobile repair er seeking action against the Home Minister. senting Ms. Hasan, as to why into the JMI violence and re that the senior needed shop and subsequently police over violence in Jamia “What is the source of such allegations against the gistration of FIRs against “er ₹60,000 for his wife’s treat came in contact with one Millia Islamia in December your information? You can Home Minister was made. ring” police officers. It has ment. The complainant Kanhaiya who indulged in last year. not malign a constitutional The Bench asked Mr. Gol listed the petitions for furth then transferred ₹58,000 in online fraud and taught him The Solicitor General authority,” Mr. Mehta said. salves to decide if he can re er hearing on July 13. Paytm wallet provided using the tricks.

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Timings Scribe with DELHI Compulsory rapid antigen TUESDAY, JUL. 07 ‘If trend of low cases continues, COVID19 RISE 05:30 SET 19:23 testing for high-risk groups RISE 21:22 SET 07:17 found dead WEDNESDAY, JUL. 08 RISE 05:31 SET 19:23 Capital may have passed peak’ begins in some hospitals at AIIMS RISE 22:01 SET 08:16 THURSDAY, JUL. 09 New COVID-19 cases have come down from 4,000 to 2,500 a day, says AIIMS chief Others making arrangements for the same Staff Reporter RISE 05:31 SET 19:23 New Delhi RISE 22:36 SET 09:13 Nikhil M Babu days had reported more number of tests going up ov Staff Reporter malignant disease, tran A 37yearold journalist un New Delhi than 23,000 tests per day. er the past 20 days. “This New Delhi splant patients, elderly pa dergoing treatment for CO The total number of CO Explaining the possible suggests that we are plateau Some healthcare facilities in tients [>65 years] with co VID19 at AIIMS Trauma VID19 cases in the city reasons for the drop in cas ing off in terms of number of the city have started carrying morbidities,” read some of Centre died on Monday af crossed one lakh on Monday es, Mr. Guleria said: “Once cases. There is a flattening of out “compulsory” rapid anti the categories mentioned in ter allegedly jumping off the with 1,379 new infections be you reach a saturation point the curve, but we still need gen tests on “highrisk Sunday’s order. fourth floor of the hospital, ing reported in the past 24 and a large number of peo to monitor it till the 15th and groups” visiting hospitals, in But many hospital are yet said the police. hours, stated a health bulle ple get infected and you are 20th of this month,” he said. cluding elderly patients with to procure the testing kits. The journalist, a resident tin released by the Delhi go strict in contact tracing and “We have to be aggressive comorbidities and asympto “Procurement of the CO of northeast Delhi’s Bha vernment on Monday. The isolation, then you do two in testing, contact tracing, matic persons undergoing VID19 rapid antigen kit for janpura, was working with a total number of cases now things: one, you break the isolation and maintaining so aerosolgenerating interven inhouse testing by the hospi Hindi daily. The incident A health worker transports stands at 1,00,823. chain of transmission; and cial distancing. If we let our tions, after a Delhi govern tal is already in process. Till took place around 2 p.m. at medical waste at GTB Also, 48 more deaths have Hospital on Monday. second, if you have signifi guard down, then cases will ment order on Sunday. the kits are procured, various the Trauma Centre, which been reported in the past 24 cant number of people who come back in a big manner,” Other facilities are cur diagnostic laboratories are has been converted into a | * R.V. MOORTHY hours, taking the toll to 3,115. have recovered, they cannot he warned. rently making arrangements being contacted regarding dedicated COVID19 facility, After the daily new cases downward side. Cases have spread the disease to some Earlier in the day, Chief for the same. Spokesperson feasibility of conducting the said Devender Arya, Deputy almost touched 4,000 on come down from almost one else, as their chance of Minister Arvind Kejriwal and of Max Hospital said they test by them within the hos Commissioner of Police June 23, it has been below 4,000 to 2,500,” he said. reinfection is low. They are his deputy Manish Sisodia vi have started following the go pital premises among the (SouthWest). 3,000 for the 10th consecu like an immune group.” sited the Rajiv Gandhi Super vernment directions and the highrisk category patients,” AIIMS said the journalist tive day on Monday. Over 25,000 active cases Specialty Hospital to review patients will have to pay said Pallavi Banerjee, Micro was admitted on June 24 AIIMS Director Randeep Of the total cases, 72,088 pe Herd immunity its preparedness to treat CO ₹1,450 for a test. biologist and Infection Con with COVID19. He was sta Air Quality of Delhi-NCR Guleria told The Hindu that ople have recovered and Mr. Guleria added that in VID19 patients. Medical Director of the trol Officer Indian Spinal In ble on Monday. He earlier Delhi 90 Gurugram 102 if the trend of comparatively there are 25,620 active cas areas of dense population “As the city observes a Delhi government’s Dr. Baba juries Center, a private had a surgery for a type of Ghaziabad 78 Faridabad 66 low new cases continues for es. Though the new cases fell where a high number of cas steady increase in the num Saheb Ambedkar Hospital (a hospital. brain tumour at G.B. Pant Noida 86 Greater Noida 104 the next 57 days, then Delhi below the 2,000 mark after es were reported “some de ber of cases, the government nonCOVID19 treatment fa Though the Ministry of Hospital here in March. ■ Good ■ Satisfactory ■ Moderate 0-50 51-100 101-200 could have passed the peak 20 days on Monday, the gree of herd immunity possi has ramped up installation cility), Dr. P.S. Khatana, said Home Affair on June 21 had “The family members ...... ■ Poor ■ Very Poor ■ Severe of COVID19 cases. “If this number of samples tested on bly has been developed”. of ICU beds in RGSS hospital the test will be free here. directed to conduct a com were regularly being coun 201-300 301-400 >400 trend continues, then we Monday was also low. While He said that the number from 45 to 200, and in LNJP “When a patient comes to prehensive survey of Delhi selled regarding his condi ...... Air Quality Index at 4 p.m. yesterday could say that we have had a 13,879 samples were tested of cases seems to have stabil Hospital from 60 to 180,” Mr. the hospital, she/he first goes by July 6 and the MHA later tion,” the hospital said. (Average of past 24 hours) | Source: CPCB peak and now we are on the on Monday, the last three ised in the city, despite the Kejriwal said. to the flu clinic and if he/she extended the date for the Suicide prevention hel- falls under the ‘highrisk “door to door survey” , it is pline: Sanjivini, Society for groups’ then we test him/her not happening, said officials. Mental Health, Telephone: at a sampling centre next to “We have been told that the 011-4076 9002, Monday- Recovery rate of COVID-19 patients now up to 72%: Kejriwal the flu clinic. The test gives door to door survey would Saturday, 10 a.m. -7.30 the result in half an hour and yield desired result and p.m. the patient is admitted only asked to concentrate on con CM appeals to recovered patients to donate plasma, ‘transportation too will be arranged by govt.’ after they test negative,” Mr. tact tracing of positive cas Khatana told The Hindu. es,” a Delhi government offi Special Correspondent Indicating that the de has gone up to 72%,” he said. Appealing for donations, “All asymptomatic pa cial said. “We have been New Delhi mand for plasma is more “We started the country’s the CM said, “There is no tients admitted or seeking asked to do the survey in iso Chief Minister Arvind Kejri than its supply, Mr. Kejriwal first COVID19 plasma bank. need to worry, there is no admission of the following lated cases and not in the wal on Monday said the re appealed to recovered pa There was chaos until now pain or weakness and tran highrisk groups — patients whole of Delhi. Have not got covery rate of COVID19 pa tients to donate plasma. and people who wanted sportation too will be ar undergoing chemotherapy, an exact protocol,” a District tients in the city has gone up plasma were running from ranged by the government. immunosuppressed patient Magistrate, who did not wish to 72% and more people pillar to post as they did not A team of doctors is cur [including HIV, patients with to be named, said. were recovering from the vi know where to go. People rently calling up recovered rus on a daily basis. are now getting plasma patients and appealing to There has also been a con “In the last three months, through the bank at the ILBS them to donate plasma. “If siderable dip in the positivity the total number of CO Hospital,” he added. you receive any such call ratio and the death rate in VID19 patients in Delhi has Since the plasma bank please say yes,” he said. Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Delhi, he added. reached approximately 1 started last Wednesday, Two audios of the CM’s Sisodia at RGSS Hospital Mr. Kejriwal further said lakh. But there is no need to there has been a mismatch conversation with such do during the sendoff of the that the plasma bank set up worry as out of the total cas between demand, which is nors were also played during 1,000th recovered patient by the government had es, 72,000 have recovered. huge, and the supply, which the briefing. He said such do on Monday. * SANDEEP SAXENA yielded positive results. The recovery rate in Delhi is less, he said. nors were were heroes. ‘No social distancing in Mandoli jail’ Families of inmates allege lack of medical care; DG (Prisons) refutes allegations

SAURABH TRIVEDI sons) Sandeep Goel refuted NEW DELHI any such allegations and Family members of in said that facilities in Man mates lodged in Mandoli doli jail are much better jail have alleged lack of so than in other prisons. cial distancing and medical care inside the premises. Isolation ward Jail authorities, however, “We have converted two have denied such allega barracks into isolation tion and assured that they ward to meet any situation. are fully prepared to deal We are following ICMR gui with any situation. delines and taking extra On Sunday, 70yearold care of barracks meant for Mahender Yadav, a former A view of the entrance of Mandoli jail in Delhi on Monday. senior citizens. The in MLA from Palam consti * R.V. MOORTHY mates, who tested positive, tuency, who was lodged in have been shifted to a sepa jail no. 14 of the prison, “The jail authorities did have been suspended in jail rate barrack,” he said. died of COVID19. not give him proper and till next notice because of Whenever any inmate Another convict, Kan timely medical help. I kept the outbreak situation. tests positive for the deadly war Singh (62), who died requesting them to shift my “Over the phone, my virus, he is either treated last month and had tested father to a private hospital soninlaw told me that inside the premises or is positive for the virus, was but they delayed it and by things are not better inside shifted to a hospital, de also lodged in jail no. 14. the time he was shifted to a the jail. He said the bar pending on health condi Yadav’s son Raghuvindra hospital in Dwarka, his racks are overcrowded and tion, he added. “The doc Yadav said the jail authori health deteriorated,” Mr. no one follows social dis tors regularly visit barracks ties did not take care of his Raghuvindra said. tancing. Doctor visits are to screen inmates. If any in father and also did not in Mohammad Abdul, a re not regular. I am worried mate complains of any CO form the family about his lative of inmate Salman, about him. I have applied VID19 symptom then the admission to hospital after said he has not met his son for his bail... let us see what inmate is immediately shift he tested positive for the inlaw for the last three happens,” said Mr. Abdul. ed to an isolation ward,” deadly virus. months since meetings Director General (Pri said Mr. Goel.

Baijal holds ‘Compensation scheme should cover review meet healthcare staff not on COVID19 duty’ Special Correspondent New Delhi Plea in HC also wants insurance cover scheme for nurses LieutenantGovernor Anil Baijal held a review meeting Staff Reporter Management Collective, exclusive helpline for health with CM Arvind Kejriwal New Delhi urged that instead of “abso care workers to complain and officials on Monday to The High Court on Monday lutely” leaving healthcare against private hospitals for assess the availability of sought the Centre and Delhi workers who are not on CO failing to provide N95 medical infrastructure and government’s reply on a plea VID19related duty out of masks, personal protection human resources for CO seeking an extension of the the compensation scheme, it equipment (PPE) kits and VID19 management. compensation scheme to could be considered on a other protective gear. He directed officials to cover the death of health casebycase basis. The Delhi government will make efforts to reduce mor care workers who were not Mr. George said many also respond to suggestions tality rate due to the virus, on COVID19related duty — healthcare workers have to extend insurance protec which is currently at 3.09%. on a “casebycase basis”. died of COVID19 who were tion, under the Pradhan Mr. Baijal was also told A Bench of Chief Justice not on virusrelated duty. He Mantri Garib Kalyan Pack that medical infrastructure D.N. Patel and Justice Pra cited the example of a blood age, to nurses working in had been “significantly” teek Jalan remarked that “an bank worker and a nurse. private hospitals and nursing ramped up in the last fort individual assessment on a “This could be because of homes; and that the insu night. At present there are casebycase basis will have symptomatic patients visit rance premium be paid by 15,301 dedicated COVID to be made whether the ing hospitals,” he contended. authorities at least for the li beds in the city. The LG was healthcare worker contract mited period during the CO also informed that the sero ed the disease because of his Helpline for workers VID19 situation. logical survey had been or her duties”. This comes The court also asked the Del The court has listed the completed and 22,823 sam after advocate Manoj V. Ge hi government to respond to case for further hearing on ples had been collected. orge, appearing for Distress suggestion for setting up an July 17. Published by N. Ravi at Kasturi Buildings, 859 & 860, Anna Salai, Chennai-600002 and Printed by S. Ramanujam at HT Media Ltd. Plot No. 8, Udyog Vihar, Greater Noida Distt. Gautam Budh Nagar, U.P. 201306, on behalf of THG PUBLISHING PVT LTD., Chennai-600002. Editor: Suresh Nambath (Responsible for selection of news under the PRB Act). Regd. DL(ND)-11/6110/2006-07-08 ● RNI No. UPENG/2012/49940 ● ISSN 0971 - 751X ● Vol. 10 ● No. 161

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Assam flood situation Haryana Cabinet nod for draft Akali Dal sharpens attack on improves Cong., AAP over ordinances Press trust of india to reserve 75% jobs for locals Guwahati ‘CM trying to divert attention from State govt.’s failures’ The flood situation in As Industries hiding information would face consequences, warns Deputy CM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT sam improved considera league with the Aam Aadmi bly on Monday even SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Chautala’s Jannayak Janta The Cabinet also gave ap CHANDIGARH Party for petty political though one more person CHANDIGARH Party had promised the step proval for another ordi With Punjab Chief Minister gains”. lost his life in the deluge, The Haryana Cabinet on during the 2019 Assembly nance to amend the Indus Amarinder Singh announcing Mr. Cheema accused AAP which has affected nearly Monday approved a propo election campaign. trial Disputes Act, 1947, and to lead an allparty delegation of failing to perform its role as four lakh people across 15 sal for drafting the Haryana Mr. Chautala said those the Factories Act, 1948, for to meet Prime Minister Na the principle opposition par districts, officials said. State Employment of Local industries or units which empowering the State go rendra Modi on the issue sur ty and instead has become According to the daily Candidates Ordinance, hide information about the vernment to grant exemp rounding the Centre’s agri subservient to the Congress flood report of the Assam 2020, to provide 75% reser employees would face sev tion from certain provisions culturerelated ordinances, party. “With AAP giving up all State Disaster Manage vation to residents of the ere consequences. for 1,000 days to a new esta the Shiromani Akali Dal has Akali leader D.S. Cheema scruples against the Con ment Authority (ASDMA), State in jobs in the private “The rules would apply blishment and undertaking sharpened its attack on the gress, all that remaines is a one person was killed in sector. to recruitment after the date or any class of new esta Congress and the Aam Aadmi you amended the State APMC formal merger with the lat the flood at Raha in Na of notification of this ordi blishments, said the Party. Act in 2017 to include all the ter,” he said. gaon district. New jobs Chief Minister Manohar Lal nance,” he said. statement. Senior Akali Dal leader provisions contained in the With this, the total num The draft will earmark new chaired the Cabinet To extend relief for the Daljeet Singh Cheema has ac Farmers Produce and Trade CM’s accusation ber of people losing their jobs with a salary of less meeting. * FILE PHOTO Domicile certificate real estate industry in the cused the Chief Minister of Ordinance such as allowing Captain Amarinder had last lives in this year’s flooding than ₹50,000 per month to The Deputy Chief Minister wake of the disruptions trying to divert his govern creation of private yards, di week accused the Shiromani and landslide has gone up local candidates in privately trict. Exemption clause will said domicile certificate caused by COVID19, the go ments failures by misleading rect marketing and etrad Akali Dal of supporting the to 62 across the State, of managed companies, socie also be provided if suitable would be mandatory for the vernment has decided to people on the ordinances, ing?,” Mr. Cheema asked Central ordinances in a bid to whom 38 persons were ties, trusts, limited liability local candidates are not candidate to take the benefit grant moratorium on com despite knowing that these while briefing journalists. protect their political killed by flood and 24 died partnership firms, partner available for a particular ca under this scheme which pliances and interest pay had nothing to do with Mini He said the State govern interests. due to landslides. ship firms etc. which em tegory of industry, it said. would be implemented by ments for seven months mum Support Price. ment had also participated in The Chief Minister had al The ASDMA said more ploy more than 10 persons, The meeting was chaired the Labour Department. He from March 1, 2020, to Sep “I request the Chief Minis the consultation process on so said that he would be writ than 3.86 lakh people are said a statement. by Chief Minister Manohar said all those companies tember 30, 2020, for all ex ter to shun politics on the the agricultural ordinances. ing soon to the Prime Minis affected due to floods in Employers will have the Lal, in which Deputy Chief coming under the Act must isting projects of change of Central agricultural ordi “Now after doing all this, the ter for an appointment for fifteen districts of the option to recruit 10% local Minister Dushyant Chautala register the entire data of land use, licences etc, ad nances in the interest of the Chief Minister is misleading the allparty delegation on State. candidates from one dis presented the proposal. Mr. employees on a web portal. ded the statement. Punjabis. Is it not a fact that farmers and farmer unions in the issue. Ghaziabad fire: candle factory owner held Rajasthan farmers seek full Curb marine pollution, NGT Accused was on the run for 18 hours; eight persons had died in the inferno procurement of crop at MSP tells States Press trust of india gutted the building. suspect and owner of the rented house. Another eight Ghaziabad The factory had stock factory, Nitin Chaudhary, people were injured in the Staff Reporter The Ghaziabad police on piled highly inflammable has been arrested. He told incident, the police said. They expect generous support from FCI and State agencies NEW DELHI Monday morning arrested material used in small quan the police that the candles Following a plea seeking the owner of an illegal can tities to make special candles were stocked in the factory Policeman suspended Special Correspondent was purchased at the pro MSP. The procession of 160 remedial measures to res dlemaking factory in Modi generally used for decorat and were being packed The incharge of the police JAIPUR curement centres in Kota di tractor trolleys carrying the tore sea water quality nagar where eight people ing birthday cakes, they said. when the blaze broke out,” post in the area was sus The farmers in Rajasthan vision, the farmers were sacks of chickpeas was along the coastal areas, the were killed in a fire, officials The factory owner, Nitin SSP Naithani said. pended for alleged derelic have demanded procure forced to sell 4 lakh tonnes in stopped by the administra National Green Tribunal said. Chaudhary, is being ques The accused, who was on tion of duty and a magiste ment of full quantities of agri the local mandis at lower tion at Mahla, 30 km from (NGT) has directed all The blaze at the factory, tioned, Senior Superinten the run for 18 hours, is in pol rial inquiry was ordered into cultural produce on mini prices. This had led to a loss Jaipur. States and Union Territo located in Modinagar’s dent of Police (SSP) Kalanid ice custody, he added. the incident. mum support prices (MSP) in ranging between ₹80 crore Mr. Jat said the farmers ries to take appropriate Bakhrwa village, was report hi Naithani said. Seven women workers The administration has the midst of the COVID19 and ₹100 crore to the farm had requested the Rajasthan steps and furnish a report ed around 4 p.m. on Sunday “An FIR was registered on and a 16yearold boy were announced a compensation pandemic to resolve the ers, he said. Cooperative Marketing Feder on the same. after an explosion that the basis of a complaint by killed in the fire at the facto of ₹4 lakh each for the fami agrarian distress caused by ation to start the procure A Bench headed by NGT brought down the roof and local villagers. The prime ry that was being run in a lies of the dead workers. crop losses and debt burden. Lockdown effect ment at the earliest and Chairperson Justice Farmers expect a handhold Though the procurement had warned that they would Adarsh Kumar Goel ob DEATH ing support from the Food started on April 15, very few march to Delhi to submit a served, “remedial action OBITUARY & REMEMBRANCE Corporation of India (FCI) farmers could reach the pur memorandum to Prime Mi by way of prosecution, re and other State agencies for chase centres because of the nister Narendra Modi if their covery of compensation getting remunerative prices. COVID19 lockdown. Mr. Ku demand was not met. A fresh and stopping polluting ac The FCI has since accepted mar said the FCI should round of talks between Kisan tivities need to be taken one of the demands for exten speed up procurement at its Mahapanchayat and the State with regard to marine pol sion of date for wheat pro 150 centres in Kota division government is expected lution. Accordingly let the DEATH ANNIVERSARIES REMEMBRANCE curement to July 7. The Hado and purchase the remaining shortly. State Pollution Control ti Kisan Union has sought quantity of wheat through a Chief Minister Ashok Geh Boards and committees procurement of full quantity campaign. lot had last month asked the and Chief Secretaries take of wheat, at the rate of ₹1,925 The farmers led by Kisan Centre to increase the limit of further remedial action per quintal, brought to the Mahapanchayat president MSP procurement from 25% and furnish an action ta purchase centres. Rampal Jat launched a march of the agricultural produce to ken report.” Hadoti Kisan Union gener to Delhi from Dudu in Jaipur at least 50% under the Price Authorities were direct al secretary Dashrath Kumar district on Sunday to protest Stabilisation Scheme in view ed to furnish the report to said on Monday that while against the stoppage of pro of hardships being faced by the Central Pollution Con about 6 lakh tonnes of wheat curement of chickpeas on farmers due to the pandemic. trol Board. Three leading Odisha govt. hospitals decide to treat serious patients only Move follows spike in COVID19 cases on institute premises Staff Reporter (SVPGIP) have announced to districts, will take up cases BHUBANESWAR regulate patient inflow fol of patients with serious With COVID19 infection on lowing detection of CO health implications only. medical institute premises VID19 cases during past one After a child in SVPGIP, 0 spiralling out of control, Od week. popularly known as Sishu DISCLAIMER: Readers are requested to verify and make appropriate enquiries to sat- isfy themselves about the veracity of an advertisement before responding to any pub- isha’s three leading State Bhawan, tested positive, lished in this newspaper. THG PUBLISHING PVT LTD., the Publisher & Owner of this newspaper, does not vouch for the authenticity of any advertisement or advertiser or run hospitals in Cuttack 100 virus cases doctors as well as authorities for any of the advertiser’s products and/or services. 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Weather Watch State reports over 5,000 new Now, hotels can open Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday with 33% capacity cases; tally surges past 2.1 lakh Aarogya Setu app must for guests 204 new deaths take the toll beyond 9,000; case fatality rate is 4.26% Alok Deshpande Air-conditioning Mumbai <> devices should Shoumojit Banerjee 18,800 while KalyanDom As part of Phase V of Mis Pune work in the range bivli reported 454 new cas sion Begin Again, the State of 24-30 degrees Maharashtra recorded 5,368 es, taking its tally to 10,854. government on Monday is centigrade new COVID19 cases on Mon Navi Mumbai added 165 sued guidelines allowing re day, taking the State’s total fresh cases taking its tally to opening of hotels, lodges State guidelines cases to 2,11,987. 9,300. MiraBhayander and and guest houses with 33% As many as 204 deaths VasaiVirar, too, recorded capacity from Wednesday. will be made available free were also reported, pushing sharp spikes, reporting 123 The move comes a day after ly. Hotel staff must wear pro the death toll past the 9,000 and 283 new cases respec Chief Minister Uddhav tective gear like masks and mark to 9,026. tively to take their case tal Thackeray held a meeting gloves,” the guidelines said. On Wednesday ( July 1), lies to 4,855 and 6,317. with hoteliers. They also encouraged hotels the State had reported 5,537 As per the guidelines, the to use contactless payment cases. Since then, it has been Spike in Jalgaon, Nashik establishments can operate methods and restrict the Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD (Taken at 17.30 Hrs) bedevilled by four consecu Meanwhile, Jalgaon and only outside containment number of guests using ele Forecast for Tuesday: Heavy/very heavy rainfall likely at isolated tive spikes of 6,000plus cas Nashik districts saw massive zones in the Mumbai Metro vators. “Airconditioning places over Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, es a day, which climaxed on spikes of 237 and 262 new politan Region, Pune, Sola devices should work in the Mizoram, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, east Rajasthan, Saturday with 7,047 cases — Defeating the virus: Patients who recovered from COVID-19 cases respectively. Nashik’s pur, Aurangabad, Male range of 2430 degrees cen Saurashtra & Kutch, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, the highest surge yet. leave from a hospital in Karad on Monday. * PTI case tally stands at 5,478 of gaon, Nasik, Dhule, Jalgaon, tigrade,” said the guidelines. Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh, Konkan & Goa and coastal Karnataka Of the total case tally, whom 2,077 were active Akola, Amaravati and Nag Further, only asympto city rain max min city rain max min 87,681 are active ones, said ported from the Mumbai Me fatality stands at 4.26%. while Jalgaon’s stood at pur. In other districts, these matic guests will be allowed Agartala...... 1.6....32.6....26.4 Kozhikode...... 2.4....31.2....24.8 Ahmedabad...... 4.8....29.6....26.1 Kurnool ...... 0.2....32.4....24.5 State Health Department of tropolitan Region (MMR), Pune reported the se 4,473 with 1,673 active cases. establishments can be if they are wearing masks, Aizawl...... —....24.7...... — Lucknow...... 27.6....32.8....24.7 ficials. As many as 3,522 pa with Navi Mumbai reporting condhighest surge in cases Aurangabad district, a vi opened in all areas. which must be worn at all Allahabad...... 57.6....32.4....25.5 Madurai...... —....39.2....27.1 tients were discharged, tak 28 deaths to take its cumula with over 804 new cases as rus hotspot in the Marathwa times inside the hotel as Bengaluru ...... —....27.0....20.6 Mangaluru ...... 2.3....30.5....23.5 Bhopal ...... 7....31.7....23.0 Mumbai ...... 116.1....29.0....25.0 ing the total recoveries till tive death toll to 243, Thane its total case tally soared to da, saw a rise of 244 cases, Malls still prohibited well. Details of the guest, ID Bhubaneswar...... 27....31.8....25.3 Mysuru ...... —....28.0....21.0 date to 1,15,262. reporting 16 to take its toll to 29, 403. Of these, 14,106 are taking its case tally to 6,812 The State government has, and selfdeclaration form Chandigarh ...... —....36.0....26.8 New Delhi ...... —....36.2....26.2 579, and VasaiVirar record active cases as given by the of whom 3,505 are active however, kept shopping must be provided at the re Chennai ...... —....34.3....28.4 Patna ...... 7.7....33.4....27.4 Coimbatore ...... 1....31.8....23.2 Port Blair...... 24.7....31.0....23.7 Mumbai crosses 85,000 ing 13 fatalities as its death State health Department cases. With 11 fatalities, the malls in the prohibited ac ception and use of Aarogya Dehradun...... 0.1....34.2....24.2 Puducherry ...... —....34.6....27.0 With 1,200 new cases, Mum count rose to 123. even though district admi district’s total death toll tivities category. It clarified Setu app is mandatory. Gangtok...... 46.2....21.2....18.7 Pune...... 1.2....28.7....23.1 bai’s tally has reached 85,724 Seventeen deaths were re nistration authorities said reached 301. that in case any establish Guidelines were also is Goa...... 2.2....31.0....26.8 Raipur ...... 44.8....32.4....24.5 Guwahati ...... 25.4....33.5....24.8 Ranchi...... 2.4....28.0....24.4 of whom 23,624 are active. ported from Pune district as only 11,199 cases were active. “Till date, of 11,32,447 lab ment is presently being sued encouraging the use of Hubballi...... —....27.0....22.0 Shillong...... 5.1....25.3....18.6 The city’s death toll has risen its death toll surged to 889. Along with Mumbai and oratory samples, 2,11,987 used as quarantine facility, emenus and disposable Hyderabad ...... 0.9....29.2....28.4 Shimla...... —....24.6....19.0 to 4,938 with 39 new deaths State Surveillance Officer Pune, big surges were re (18.67%) have tested positive it can continue to be used as paper napkins. Gaming ar Imphal ...... 6.9....30.5....23.1 Srinagar...... —....31.5....12.4 Jaipur ...... —....36.9....28.0 Thiruvananthapuram...... 3.1....31.1....25.7 reported today. Dr. Pradeep Awate said that ported across the MMR. with aover 23,000 samples one unless decided other cades, children play areas, Kochi ...... 7.9....31.2....24.0 Tiruchi...... —....37.3....27.4 Besides Mumbai, signifi the State’s recovery rate Thane reported 551 new across the State tested on wise by the district adminis swimming pools and gyms Kohima ...... 62.8....24.2....17.5 Vijayawada ...... 0.2....30.9....24.0 cant fatality surges were re stood at 54.37 while its case case, taking its tally beyond Monday,” Dr. Awate said. tration. The administration will remain close. No large Kolkata ...... —....32.0....28.4 Visakhapatnam ...... 4....28.2....25.6 can also continue using re gatherings will be allowed (Rainfall data in mm; temperature in Celsius) maining 67% capacity of the and meeting places can Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE establishments for quaran have only 33% capacity. Ahmedabad..... 24 .26 .35 ....28 ...42 ....* Polishing units tine purposes. Bengaluru ...... 12 .12 .19 ....33 ...48 ....* In observation made at CM launches Mahajobs portal Chennai ...... 7 .32 101 ....48 .....— ....* 4.00 p.m., Nandesari, The guidelines also said Room sanitisation Gujarat recorded an overall shut in Surat Delhi ...... 3 .21 .42 ..202 .....— ....* air quality index (AQI) score all establishments must dis Hotels and guest houses Hyderabad ...... — .48 .71 ....19 ...42 ....* of 191 indicating a play all precautionary mea have been instructed to san Kolkata...... 4 .21 .40 ....15 ...27 ....* moderate level of pollution. till July 13 Lucknow...... 4 .26 .55 ..262 .....— ....* In contrast, Damoh, Madhya for unemployed local youth sures against the spread of itise rooms completely after Pradesh recorded a healthy Mumbai ...... 7 ...2 .10 ..... — ...82 ....* AQI score of 19 COVID19. Proper crowd they are vacated by the Pune...... 32 .13 .61 ....32 ...33 ....* Press Trust of India management must be en guest. Cleaning and regular Visakhapatnam 11 .47 .46 ....43 ...65 ....* It will provide for jobs across 950 trades in 17 sectors Surat sured inside the hotel and at disinfection of frequently Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good (Readings indicate average AQI) Alok Deshpande ly for local youth who would Diamond polishing units in parking lots. Specific mark touched surfaces such as SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system, Mumbai need to produce domicile Surat will remain shut till ings should be used to man doorknobs, elevator but making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues Maharashtra Chief Minister certificates. July 13 while the diamond age the queue and seating tons, handrails, benches and monuments. Uddhav Thackeray on Mon Stressing on the need to trading markets will be arrangement while main and washroom fixtures has NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to form by day stressed that the govern make the portal userfriend nonoperational till July 9 taining physical distancing. been made mandatory. reacting with other air particles, causes acid rain, pollutes coastal waters. CO: Carbon monoxide. High concentration in air reduces oxygen supply to ment was ready to remove ly and handy, Mr. Thackeray in view of the novel corona “There must be thermal In case any person shows critical organs like the heart and brain. At very high levels, it can cause any obstacles industry faces said, “Previously, the em virus outbreak. screening provisions at the symptoms of COVID19, they dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death. to facilitate job creation, af ployment exchange used to An order to this effect entrance while the recep must be housed in a room or PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause irritation of the eyes, nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, reduced ter inaugurating a new Maha provide information on the was issued on Monday by tion table will have a protec area where they are isolated lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart attacks and premature jobs portal that would act as unemployed, but not on how Surat Municipal Corpora tive glass. Hand sanitisers from others. death in people with heart or lung disease a bridge between industrial Uddhav Thackeray many youngsters actually re tion commissioner Banch ists and unemployed youth ceived jobs. The same should hanidhi Pani. in the State. Industries, the CM said, not happen here.” Mr. Pani said permission “There are jobs created in need to avail of the available There should be regular for resumption of opera Maharashtra on the one human resources and young reviews of the jobs provided, tions would be given to hand, while on the other sters should avail employ he said, mooting the need for these units if they follow (hand), some industries are ment opportunities, for the a study on the kind of pro the civic body’s COVID19 going for retrenchment. The State to achieve speedy deve blems faced by employers as guidelines and standard State government was ready lopment. The portal (http:// well as youth seeking em operating procedures. to remove the hurdles faced mahajobs.maharash ployment. He said the new In another notification, by industry but it was not tra.gov.in) has identified 17 portal should not just be a fa Mr. Pani said a textile mak proper on their part to go for sectors including engineer cility to register those who ing unit or textile market retrenchment,” Mr. Thacke ing, logistics, and chemicals, are unemployed, but also will be shut for seven days ray said, urging firms to and provides for selecting needs to become a portal if one or more cases avoid pink slips. jobs across 950 trades main providing jobs to them. emerge from them.

BMC introduces robotic trolley for COVID-19

Sonam Saigal Mumbai The Brihanmumbai Muni cipal Corporation (BMC) introduced a robotic trol ley on Monday to minimise contact between health care workers and COVID19 patients. The robotic trolley will deliver food and medicines to patients at Poddar Hos pital. Aaditya Thackeray, State’s Minister for Tou rism and Environment, an nounced the launch of this robotic trolley on Twitter. He said the trolley will help reduce contact between patients and healthcare staﬀ, and also reduce the quantity of PPEs used dur ing routine activities such as the provision of food in COVID19 wards. Meanwhile, Tata Sons donated 20 ambulances, 100 ventilators and ₹10 crore for plasma trials in Mumbai. The BMC had said in midMarch that it had 3,500 beds and 291 ICU beds. This has now gone up to 14,000 beds with 1,540 ICU beds to cater to the needs of patients.

DELHI THE HINDU 6 EDITORIAL TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE India’s foreign relations and the course of history As examples show, national interest is that which is based on the perception of the government of the day of what Mrs. Indira Gandhi told weeks before Independence, Neh reclaim (by what means has not me more than once during the ru described foreign policy as es been clarified ) even Aksai Chin time I served in her Prime Minis sentially “ selfish”. He was also from China. It is nobody’s idea Gangster of Kanpur ter’s Office. She said: “I can think clear in his mind that India’s inter that India should give up itsclaims The killing of policemen by a gangster of a time down the road in future est lay with the West. India needed to Pakistan Occupied Kashmir or when we might have normal, technology and other assistance Aksai Chin; the question is only points to a collapse of the rule of law C.R. Gharekhan peaceful relations with Pakistan, which he was convinced could be about reiterating the claims pu he killing of eight policemen by a criminal gang in but never with China because Chi obtained only from America. The blicly and in a charged atmosph Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh on Friday bears the vio na basically is an expansionist Soviets, he believed, were of no ere. As they say, all foreign policy he Prime Minister Narendra power.” She distrusted China as use in this matter. It was only after is essentially domestic policy and lent signature of a dysfunctional society and an T Modi’s public and undis she did other countries including FILE PHOTO/AP the Americans concluded the mili this is true of all governments eve alarming emaciation of governance in India’s most pop Tguised reference to China’s the Soviet Union. She surely did Congress party, to acknowledge tary agreement with Pakistan and rywhere and at all times. ulous State. A historysheeter who has at least five do expansionism in his address to In not trust Pakistan. Perhaps her this. But Nehru did not commit started giving it massive quantities The purpose in mentioning all zen cases of murder, extortion, kidnapping and other dian troops last week, on July 3 in basic approach in foreign policy any Himalayan blunder in Kash of arms that Nehru began looking of the above is not to exonerate violent crimes against him, waited in ambush at his Ladakh was so obvious that the was that in international relations, mir. When a ceasefire was called to the Soviet Union. The mistakes any of the previous generation of own home for the arrival of the police party that was Chinese lost no time in rejecting there is no such thing as trust. U.S. for in January 1949, it was not be and even the blunder over China leadership. They must be held ac seeking to arrest him. One of the dead was in his early the allegation. As proof of China’s President Ronald Reagan talked of cause he was pacifist by nature or that he committed were caused by countable for the mistakes or nonexpansionism, their spokes ‘Trust, but verify”; Mrs. Gandhi’s that he trusted the United Nations wrong assessments and not due to blunders they might have commit 20s and had just started his career; another one was man, denying the charge, said that approach seemed to be: “V erify or any other country to label Pa any ideological factors. ted. They acted, in the prevailing nearing retirement. These were needless and avoidable China had signed boundary agree and still not trust”. kistan as aggressor and persuade it circumstances, as best as they deaths: reports suggest that the gangster had receiv ed ments with all but two of itsneigh to vacate the aggression. By that Handling Pakistan could, according to their percep information about the impending raid from his sources bours; in a Tweet, the spokesper Nehru, China and Kashmir time, he had seen enough of Brit Mrs. Gandhi has been similarly ac tion of national interest. After all, within the police. The administration responded to the son said: “#China has demarcated Jawaharlal Nehru, on the other ish duplicity and America’s leav cused of being naive and too trust national interest is that which the tragic setback by bulldozing the gang leader’s house boundary with 12 of its 14 neigh hand, had convinced himself that ing the lead on the Kashmir issue ing when she allowed Pakistan’s government of the day decides it and vehicles parked in the premises. Straddling the boring countries through peaceful China will not attack India. His De to the British. The reality on the 90,000 prisoners of war (POWs) to is. One government might con worlds of government contracts, politics and crime, the negotiations, turning land borders fence Minister, V.K. Krishna Me ground was that the Indian A rmy return to their country without clude that the civil nuclear deal into bonds of friendly non, likely played a big part in in was in no position to run over the getting anything in return. Nobody with the United States served In gangster Vikas Dubey is emblematic of the nexus bet cooperation.” clining Nehru towards this whole of Jammu and Kashmir at is mentioning what she could have dia’s national interest; some other ween politics, crime and policing in many parts of t he conviction. Regrettably, none of that time. This has been definitive asked as quid pro quo. Should she government ruled by some other country. The circumstances that went into the making Down memory lane his advisers cautioned him against ly and conclusively brought out by have asked Pakistan to vacate all party or even the same party but of this incident and the response of the administration Mr. Modi’s deliberate and no this miscalculation; most of them respected scholars as well as in the the territory it had occupied in at another time and in different all point to the same morbid affliction that can be fatal doubt wellthoughtout speech had no experience in foreign rela official history of the war pu Jammu and Kashmir? And for how circumstances may think other to any democratic society — the collapse of the rule of does raise a question in one’s tions. Nehru was not guided by blished by the Defence Ministry long should she have kept the wise. By the same token, Mr. Modi, law. Criminal gangs shielded by politics and police forc mind. Did he realise China’s ex any ideological considerations. several years later, after thorough POWs in our country, until Pakis in the conduct of India’s foreign pansionism only after what has Yes, he dreamt of India, and him, research and interviews with all tan returned our territory? Again, policy, surely does not allow any es that bend to caste, communal and political vested in happened in eastern Ladakh in re playing a big role on the world the relevant players, including se at Simla, nobody could state with extraneous considerations to in terests form a malevolent circuit that perpetuates itself cent weeks? Or, has he had such stage and believed that China niormost Indian military officers, conviction if she really believed fluence his thinking, and is basing and rewards its patrons. These individuals in unifor m thoughts about China all along and could be a partner in that endea at the time. that Pakistan’s Zulfikar Ali Bhutto his approach by what he perceives ended up paying with their lives for this. decided to give expression to them vour. Even the present govern Nor was Nehru influenced by would live up to his commitment, as furthering our national inter The police force is the coercive arm of the state often only now? One can expect that Mr. ment sees India acting as “Vishwa any ideological bias. I do not know oral as it was, to transform the cea ests. History will pronounce its in direct contact with ordinary citizens. The qualit y of Modi must have had the measure guru”. Whatever his reasons, for a fact that he was a leftist. I do sefire line into an international analysis in due course. policing therefore has an outsized impact on the overall of China’s President Xi Jinping dur there is no doubt that his China know that he believed strongly border. And if Bhutto did give such ing his many meetings with him policy was hugely faulty. It would that in foreign policy, national in promise — which Pakistan denies Chinmaya R. Gharekhan, a former Indian quality of governance. Poor training, an alienating and over the years. be healthy for all of us admirers of terest was the only guiding princi — and implemented it, would the Ambassador to the United Nations, was dehumanising work environment, corruption and a The Prime Minister’s talk of Chi Nehru — a rapidly dwindling tribe ple. In his response to a letter Al Indian Parliament have accepted Special Envoy for West Asia in the lack of resources add to the crisis in policing. Politicians nese expansionism reminded me — including the Indian National bert Einstein wrote to him a few it? Today’s ruling party wants to Manmohan Singh government in power often use the police the same way politicians out of power use gangsters. Not surprisingly, there are times when the police mirror in character the criminal gangs they chase down. U.P. is not unique, but these Rolling back the induced livelihood shock maladies reveal themselves on a petrifying scale in the State. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has a declared Specific policy measures can reverse the lockdowncreated trauma and stop it from snowballing into chronic poverty ‘tough on crime’ policy but this has sometimes meant expenditure reported in the Pe ter equity focus in implementa State. that the police resort to shortcuts that subvert the legal riodic Labour Force Survey tion. Recent experience of ex An ‘indirect’ branch of this pro course. The State has had 5,178 encounters in which 103 (PLFS), 201718 (which replaces the panding food coupons to gramme can be used to encourage suspects were killed and 17,745 surrendered in a little employmentunemployment sur nonration card holders in Delhi a revival of small and medium en over the last two years. Questionable coercive mea veys of the National Sample Sur suggests that such measures are terprises (SMEs) in the most pro vey Office) and applying S tate likely to exclude marginalised minent clusters. This could in sures such as collective punishment and criminalisa Sumit Mazumdar & Indranil specific poverty lines (used by the communities including Dalits and clude employercontractor tion of political protest and suppression of freedom of erstwhile Planning Commission in Muslims at the lowest strata of the facilitated programmes to provide expression have also been mainstreamed as regular 2011 based on the Tendulkar Com work hierarchy. wage subsidy of an equivalent policing tools. This tragic loss of their own personnel in or most regions across the mittee recommendations, adjust At the local level, this would amount as in the direct pro what should have been a routine law enforcement oper country, the long lockdown ed with current price indices), mean identification of the most gramme to employers of urban ation must fire up the U.P. police to uphold profession Fhas just got over. As the “un about 42% or around 56 crorepeo vulnerable and including them in SMEs, other business establish alism, cleanse its ranks of the corrupt and the ineffi locking” begins, it is becoming in ple were ‘officially’ poor before K.R. DEEPAK to the programme before expand ments and construction sector creasingly apparent how the In the lockdown was announced . lockdown this could swell to more ing it to the relatively betteroff. projects. cient, and liberate the State from the fear of gangsters. dian state had chosen its sides and Highlighting how closely packed than 62 crore (47%) people pushed The exclusion errors of ITbased The neoliberal growth that we revealed its elitist bias during one people are towards the lower half to such extreme poverty. A shock attempts to coverage have huge so have experienced since the 1990s of the most stringently enforced of the consumption expenditure of such a scale to an overwhelming cial costs in the form of accentuat has been largely through breaking What about WHO? lockdowns worldwide. Several distribution, another 20 crore pe majority of Indians is unprece ed hunger. the back of the labouring class. WHO seems to be at the mercy of powerful news reports and surveys on the ople were within a narrow band dented in the nation’s living The economy grew by paying less nations while obtaining relevant information plight of India’s lessprivileged 20% above the poverty line. In memory. Stabilising urban economy and less to workers and allowing workforce during the lockdown most parts of the country, this Massive reverse migration flows surplus to accumulate in the n a bid to cover up his own failures in COVID19 con have highlighted the massive scale amounts to a few hundred rupees Inadequate state responses out of the urban informal sector hands of the owners of the means tainment and limit the number of deaths in the of falling incomes and loss of over the poverty line threshold. A At such a juncture, formal res will force grinding halts and hic of production, with the expecta Icountry, U.S. President Donald Trump has been ac means of livelihood. Many have modest dip in earnings — and ponses of the s tate have been cups for the economy limping tion that this would be reinvested. cusing China of “secrecy, deception and coverup” in been pushed into various depths hence a fall in consumption mostly inadequate and poorly back towards normalcy in the The state worked systematically to the outbreak and the World Health Organization of be of poverty depending on how vul spending — would push a majority conceived. The second economic postlockdown scenarios. Given let this model flourish. A series of nerable their occupations were. of them into the vortex of poverty stimulus package announced by the magnitude of the destabilisa policies made the labouring class ing “Chinacentric”. Mr. Trump could not have known Quantifying the likely scale of the and hunger. Sucking up large or the Finance Minister exposes the tion, an urban employment gua increasingly vulnerable, weaken it, but there is now evidence that WHO had not been poverty impacts of the lockdown, entire chunks of the modest in class nature of the current political rantee programme becomes a dire ing their collective bargaining fully transparent during the early stages of the outbreak we use most recent workforce sur comes, the lockdown gave a dispensation more than ever. A to necessity to stabilise the urban power, pushing them away from in Wuhan, and China had indeed been more opaque vey data on India to estimate what shove. ken increase of National Rural Em economy. A ‘direct’ employment their native towns out of despera than already known. If WHO gave an impression that on the lockdowninduced livelihood ployment Guarantee Act (NREGA) programme implemented through tion, forcing them to accept any December 31 China had alerted it, the June 29 revised ti shock might have meant economi A poverty deepening wage by ₹20 (₹182 to ₹202) seems municipal corporations could be wage that is offered to them, mak meline of the world body clarifies the facts to a great de cally for different categories of Our estimates from the PLFS data like a joke in the light of the overall introduced to guarantee 20 days ing them live in conditions which workers. We suggest some poten extrapolated for the year 2020 magnitude of the crisis. Undoubt of work. take away their sense of dignity, gree. WHO’s country office in China had apparently tial policy measures to prevent the suggest that about an additional edly, a revamped, expanded NRE This can be used to develop key and curtailing any social security been alerted by a media statement by the Wuhan Mun shocks from further snowballing 40 crore people were pushed be GA needs to be made the fulcrum social infrastructure in urban benefit that could help them sur icipal Health Commission about cases of viral pneumo into chronic poverty. low the poverty line due to the of the rural recharge. The demand areas including slum develop vive in times of difficulties. If we nia. It got the same news from another independent lockdown. Around 12 crore of this for work is anticipated to increase ment, drinking water supply, toilet do not alter the course of econom source too. China confirmed to WHO of the cluster of Pre-shock conundrum lockdowninduced newly poor are by 25% with reverse migration construction, parks and common ic progress and reorient develop cases of ‘viral pneumonia of unknown cause’ on Janu India’s poverty line has been a in urban areas and another 28 fuelled increase in rural labour areas, urban afforestation and so ment programmes, the implica ary 3 only after the global body twice reached out to the matter of contention for long for crore people in rural areas. Those supply. cial forestry. Such facelift public tions could be severe with its unrealistically low thresholds who were already poor are going The revamped scheme would works programmes can make a increasing hungerrelated deaths Chinese authorities on January 12. Following the confir leading to conservative poverty to suffer a further worsening in require providing 90 million work major difference in both the condi and destitution, leading to social mation, WHO on January 4 tweeted to say, “China has numbers. Irregular updating of of their quality of life, a phenome ers guaranteed employment of 20 tion of public utilities and absorb unrest and crime. reported to the WHO a cluster of pneumonia cases, ficial poverty lines and unavailabil non known as poverty deepening. days of work/month for at least the ing the spurt in demand for work with no deaths, in Wuhan, Hubei Province.…” Also, if ity of data on consumption expen Before the lockdown, around 16% next six months. This means an in district towns and smaller cities Sumit Mazumdar is Research Fellow, the earlier timeline had mentioned that on December diture from National Sample of the population had per capita additional financial stimulus of in the traditional outmigration Centre for Health Economics, University 31 a “novel coronavirus was eventually identified” as Surveys in recent years have ad consumption expenditure of ₹1.6lakh crore. hotspots across the country. The of York, U.K. Indranil is Associate the cause of pneumonia cases, the revised information ded to the ambiguity around po about a third of the poverty line, Universalisation of the Public wages could be fixed with 30% Professor, School of Government and verty estimation in India. Accord managing their daily expenses Distribution System has been premium over prevalent MNREGA Public Policy, O.P. Jindal Global posted on the WHO website mentions that the cause of ing to the household consumption with ₹30 per day or less. After the widely talked about but needs bet benchmark average wage in the University, Sonipat, Haryana illness was not known till January 2, and China did not confirm novel coronavirus as the cause even on January LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 3 when it confirmed a cluster of pneumonia cases. Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. At least on three occasions, including on January 30 To read more letters when the health emergency of international concern Now, an eye on Bhutan country, by stirring up a smart way to deal with standards first (Page 1, On what basis is the ICMR online, scan the QR code was declared, WHO had publicly praised China for its After ‘laying claim’ to border dispute with it. Is the China. With Bhutan the “Vaccine trials take 6 to 9 setting such a short commitment to transparency. While it also said China India’s Galwan Valley and ‘Middle Kingdom’ on an newest target, the rest of the months: WHO Chief deadline? As the premier by scientific and stringent emerging as the possible unchecked landgrabbing world needs to adopt a Scientist”, July 6). We have biomedical research agency, measures. was “setting a new standard for outbreak response” shadow behind an spree? As Arunachal Pradesh strategy to stop its moves to also had the example of a the ICMR is expected to Dr. Jayasekharan V.P., and called the quick sharing of whole genome sequence aggressive Nepal, an borders China, will the encroach on territory. yoga guru’s muchhyped ensure that proper standards Thayineri, Payyanur, Kerala data of the virus as “very impressive”, independent in expansionist China seems Chinese forces indulge in China’s “chequebook ‘Coronil’ being challenged. It are followed and met. vestigation revealed a different situation — China was to have made its next rapid incursions there too? The diplomacy” and also unfair is far better and prestigious R. Sivakumar, Truth and justice not very forthcoming. The world knew of humantohu move — by fixing its eyes on Narendra Modi government trade practices should be for India to take credit at the Chennai The judiciary’s handling of man transmission in China only on January 20, and the Bhutanese territory (Page 1, must send a message loud exposed at the international end of an arduous and the Sattankulam case, where global body was often kept in the dark. Scientific evi “China doubles down in and clear to China that India level to dent its power. painstaking scientific journey ■ It brings a ray of clarity there has been diligence in dence strongly suggests that the outbreak began at least claims on eastern Bhutan will never make Abdul Rahman, than resort to uncertain when a leading scientist unearthing the truth behind boundary”, July 6). The compromises when it comes Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh shortcuts which would only makes an open statement the gruesome murders, will by early November . Apparently, WHO had to keep world needs to find an to ensuring the integrity of invite ignominy and a fall about vaccine development. send the right message to the praising China so that it shared information. Surely, po answer to this emerging its border with China. Why Follow standards from grace. The ICMR should definitely guardians of the law. While werful nations cannot be allowed to endanger lives pattern of China pursuing the United Nations is The reports on the probable Chanchal Nandy, remove the ambiguity in its one must welcome the swift around the world by shirking responsibility. China has its contested territorial stoically silent on the launch date — as early as Durgapur, West Burdwan, West Bengal standards and follow proper action of the police higher evidently refused to learn lessons from the disastrous claims, old and new, against Chinese administration’s August 15 — for an Indian research methodology and ups, I pray that the court handling of the 2002 SARS outbreak. The current pan its neighbours, land and misadventures is anybody’s made COVID19 vaccine only ■ The urgency shown by the protocols. India must not get comes down heavily on the demic continues to infect millions, killing more than maritime. guess. points to how politics and Indian Council of Medical into a rat race with other offenders so that those who S.S. Paul, K. Pradeep, bureaucracy, in a desperate Research seems illogical and countries, especially when take the law into their own 5,30,000, and destroying livelihoods and the world Chakdaha, Nadia, West Bengal Chennai search for a cure, is trying to unrealistic. Researchers the pandemic has taught us hands remember that the economy. At least some of the impact could have been make haste. Expert advice usually need years to secure that our sense of pride and judiciary stands like a lessened by more proactive action on the part of China, ■ After the Galwan Valley, ■ The Prime Minister’s repeatedly highlights the funding, approvals and to dominance is puerile and beacon of hope and justice. and by less reverential attitude on the part of WHO. China is now targeting reference to the age of need for the ‘candidate’ piece together study results flimsy. There have to be only Mani Nataraajan, Bhutan, the world’s happiest expansionism being over is a meeting efficacy and safety to successfully launch a cure. conventional trials followed Chennai CM M ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU DELHI TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2020 OPED 7 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE There’s no one to fill Mahalanobis’s shoes No more Sattankulams A top statistician is needed to frame databased policies for welfare and development India may not be able to put a complete end to police violence, but it can take steps to reduce its incidence have faced hardship had he wished to conduct surveys now. First, even tims were in fact tortured to death, attention in preCOVID19 India, it’s widely re then shifts to unraveling the motive. Any ported that surveyors were facing vendetta will have to be confirmed by the tremendous resistance from people CBI when it takes over the investigation. If no due to some sociopolitical reasons. motive is established, the case against the Atanu Biswas None other than Pronab Sen, Chair policemen will weaken. However, if there is man of the Standing Committee on R.K. Raghavan clear evidence of the beatings of the victims, Economic Statistics, and former that evidence will speak for itself. In Poverty and Famines (1981), Amar Chief Statistician, expressed his con Postmortem reports reveal the injuries tya Sen argued that poor distribution cern that the survey system is alrea The dust is slowly settling on the controversy inflicted and the weapons used. Some un of food, wartime inflation, specula dy in “deep trouble”, and conduct surrounding the alleged torture of a father scrupulous policemen have the expertise to tive buying and panic hoarding were ing household surveys with the son duo in police custody in Sattankulam, resort to bodily violence without leaving a important reasons for the devastat Census as the frame would be “very Thoothukudi district. The two men died in trace of the methods/weapons used. Doctors ing Bengal famine of 1943, while tough” going ahead. The problem hospital. The case is being investigated by conducting the postmortem are often inti Madhusree Mukerjee, in her 2010 will intensify due to COVID19. It was the Crime BranchCriminal Investigation De midated into giving false reports. The inten book, Churchill’s Secret War , wrote not easy to conduct surveys in fa partment (CBCID). The Tamil Nadu Chief sity of public furore in this incident is a gua of the role of British Prime Minister minehit Bengal either. Through Au Minister and the Director General of Police rantee against such unethical behaviour. Winston Churchill, his wartime Cabi gust 1944, 80 field workers were be did not delay the decision to hand over the Finally, I am concerned over the loss of net’s decisions and “denial policy” in set by malaria; half of them later probe to the Central Bureau of Investigation image suffered by the Tamil Nadu Police. The exacerbating the famine. dropped out of the project. However, (CBI). This means that the state has nothing tendency to paint the whole force with the conducting a survey in the age of to hide from the families of the deceased or same brush is inevitable. But the brutality Survey of the Bengal famine contagion is understandably much the general public. here is so blatant that the public will realise Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, In harder. that this was at worst an aberration on the dia’s ‘Plan Man’ and the architect of The investigation part of a few policemen. This is no consola the country’s statistical system, con Use of technology The Madras High Court has shown remarka tion, however. Whether the guilty are indivi ducted a largescale sample survey of What would Mahalanobis have done ble sensitivity as it should in such horrific in dual policemen or the entire force, it is a blot Bengal’s famineravaged villages bet in this situation? Would he have de cidents. It was an innovative move by the which the Tamil Nadu Police will have to live ween July 1944 and February 1945 for vised some instrument, like crop court to ask revenue authorities to take con with for decades. causal analysis, and to assess the ex cutting concentric circles, in addi trol of the Sattankulam police station lest tent of the disaster and an estimate of tion to using masks and sanitisers crucial evidence be destroyed or damaged. Reducing incidence of police violence the number of people affected. The and sending investigators for a so Of course, some may believe that the High Can such incidents can be prevented in the planning, preparations, challenges cioeconomic survey? Or would he Court’s action was unwarranted and will future? I am cynical about this. We will conti and findings of the survey are docu P. C. Mahalanobis recording an interview in April 1956. * THE HINDU ARCHIVES have used different sorts of secon demoralise the police force. The revenue nue to witness random policemen misbeha mented in an article in Sankhyā, and dary data instead? It’s difficult to authorities have since withdrawn, and the viour. These are men who are inclined to in in another article in The Asiatic Re ferent sorts of data — from economic and Sthanikas, the district officers) guess. Who knows, he might have ef investigation is wholly with the CBCID. dulge in brutality at the drop of a hat. The view, both published in 1946, among data to COVID19 data — is under the regarding the fields, right of owner ficiently churned ‘big data’ for this — Coming so soon after the George Floyd in suggestion that every recruit should be sub others. This survey provided very scanner. Starting from the first area ship and remission of taxes with re he could certainly have done a smar cident in the U.S., the Sattankulam episode jected to a psychology test has little rele useful findings. It showed that one sample in the whole world for jute fo gard to houses, and the caste and ter job than most of the presentday should shock our conscience. Police brutali vance as such a test may not always identify fourth of the number of families (1.5 recast in 1934, Mahalanobis built up profession regarding families...” big data analysts. Note that Mahala ty is universal and internal coverups are men with a disturbed mind. Many recruits million people) who had owned rice a strong and trustworthy statistical (Chapter XXXV). This, according to nobis never shied away from technol common. There is informal trade unionism become perpetrators after a few years in the land before the famine had either heritage in India through his tireless Mahalanobis, was the “striking fea ogy, whether in bringing statistical and a code of silence among the police, as in field. Work pressure and unfair treatment by sold in full or in part their rice land efforts over the years, supplemented ture in the Arthashastra”. This might technology through volumes of Bio other professions, that militates against ob supervisors lead to gross misconduct and as or had mortgaged it. It also showed by his efficiency, wisdom, leader have prompted him to have an inde metrika in his voyage from England, jective inquiries into police conduct. There saults on the unarmed and unprotected. that the economic position of nearly ship, innovative ideas and brilliance. pendent supervisory staff during the or even bringing computers to India. is evidence of this in Sattankulam. In a re Technology can help a little but its utility four million people deteriorated dur Mahalanobis envisaged largescale conduct of field operations by the The Mahalanobisled Indian Statisti port, the Judicial Magistrate of Kovilpatti cannot be exaggerated. Body cameras, such ing the famine. Economic differences sample surveys as statistical engi NSS for collection of reliable data. cal Institute procured India’s first submitted to the court that the Sattankulam as the ones used in the U.S. and the U.K., on became further accentuated during neering rather than pure theory of Mahalanobis was “a physicist by computer in 1956 and the second in police did not cooperate during the inquiry. beat policeman can ensure police restraint. the famine. However, roughly 85% of sampling. He was instrumental in es training, a statistician by instinct and 1959. The CCTV footage at the police station has India could experiment with such devices. the families maintained their status tablishing the National Sample Sur an economist by conviction”. His in At the end of his 1946 article in been erased. There is no assurance that evi The police culture of each country is diffe quo, showing that a large degree of vey (NSS) in 1950 and the Central Sta itial training in Physics might have The Asiatic Review , Mahalanobis dence has not already been tampered with. rent. A democratic government is no guaran economic inertia had persisted even tistical Organization in 1951. made him conscious about errors in wrote: “Statistics are a minor detail, There is obvious discomfort among some tee that the police will act in a civilised man under famine conditions. measurement and observation. Stu but they do help.” This is an eternal policemen over a CBI probe. This should not ner. In the U.S., for instance, there are many Bengal’s famine survey reminds us Importance of accurate data dents even called him the Professor truth. What Mahalanobis didn’t spell degenerate into culpable obstruction of the reports of abuses by policemen against non that we need estimates of the mil Mahalanobis was very careful about of Counting and Measurement, using out is that one needs a top statistician investigation. This is a danger that can be whites. lions who will lose jobs or livelihoods data accuracy in his surveys. In Kau the initials of his name. The desire to for listening to the heartbeats of data averted if the police leadership demon India cannot afford any more Sattanku and of the hundreds of millions tilya’s Arthashastra, there is mention have builtin crosschecks and to get and for framing databased policy strates its resolve to punish even the slightest lams. We may not be able put a complete end whose economic conditions will de of the need for crosschecking by an an estimate of errors in sampling led decisions for human welfare and na act of sabotage intended to help a few crimi to police violence, but we can reduce its inci teriorate in today’s COVID19hit In independent set of agents for data him to introduce the InterPenetrat tional development. And unfortu nals masquerading as the police. The CBI dence. A lot will depend on the leadership, dia. The extent of feasibility, success collection: “Spies under disguise of ing Network of Subsamples, which is nately, there’s no one to fill Mahala will also not permit any police licentious which has a sacred duty to foster a culture of and problem of online access, for ex householders (Grihapatika, cultiva now considered as the curtainraiser nobis’s shoes, even about half a ness. It is a welcome development that a few obedience to the law. The media has its task ample, also needs to be properly esti tors), who shall be deputed by the for resampling procedures like Boot century after his demise. arrests have already been made in the case, cut out to identify and highlight unethical mated in this new dawn. CollectorGeneral for espionage, strap, a revolutionary concept of sta including of the Inspector. If necessary, a few leadership. Mahalanobis is perhaps more rele shall ascertain the validity of ac tistics indeed. Atanu Biswas is Professor of Statistics, Indian more may be effected to ferret out the truth. vant today when the accuracy of dif counts (of Gopas, the village officers However, even Mahalanobis could Statistical Institute, Kolkata If it’s ultimately proved that the two vic R.K. Raghavan is a former CBI Director

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Vinod Thomas past accumulation. Ranked as the No U.S. personnel in West Asia world’s fifth most vulnerable country Stalking the efforts of the govern to climate change, India must res President Nixon has now let it be known ment and the private sector to revive pond to alerts on communicable dis through his inner circle of advisers that the the economy in the time of COVID19 eases linked to GHGs. Global warm U.S. has no intention of sending American are two dangers to people’s health — ing intensifies heat waves and personnel to West Asia to counteract the air pollution and greenhouse gases — worsens respiratory illnesses. Locust growing Soviet presence in the area. This and a weak public health system. The swarms in Jaipur and Gurugram have clarification, originating from the Western respite from the air pollution that been linked to climate change. Evi White House in San Clemente where the Pre blankets Indian cities is transitory. In dence is also emerging on a link bet sident is vacationing, is the latest in a steady dia must heed scientists’ warnings ty ween global warming and the emer stream of statements which have been com ing health disasters to air pollution as gence of diseases. Mosquitoborne ing out of President Nixon’s headquarters well as greenhouse gas (GHG) emis diseases in India have been connect during the last one week. The most signifi sions causing global warming. ed to global warming through both cant of them, and one which had ominous increased rainfall and heat waves. overtones, came a day after Mr. Nixon told a A noxious cocktail Europe reported its first local trans nationwide television audience on July 1 Strikingly, the avoided number of missions of dengue in 2010. 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Spending on going to be achieved. downs. There is an association bet reducing air pollution and GHGs pro ween pollution levels in cities (des vides estimated health benefits of 1.4 A HUNDRED YEARS AGO JULY 7, 1920 pite the improvements during the to 2.5 times more than the cost of the pandemic) and COVID19 infections actions. Delhi, set to overtake Tokyo Does the World Progress? and death rates, a link observed in as the most populous city by 2030, (From an editorial) New York City and the northern pro needs to deal with transport, respon vinces of Italy. Delhi, Maharashtra, sible for twofifth of the PM 2.5 in the Of all the concepts of modern higher Gujarat, and Tamil Nadu, in the top skies. Reforms should encourage pu thought the idea of progress has perhaps the tier of pollution concentration, have blic transportation in place of the 10 firmest hold on men’s minds. The strength also seen high deaths and infections million vehicles, expand electric veh of belief has invested it with the universality per thousand people. icles, and provide interconnectivity of an axiom: it would almost be heresy to de Of course, other factors too decide between the metro and buses. ny that the world is every minute in a pro morbidity and mortality. COVID19’s In managing health risks, emission cess of continuous betterment. It was the toll has differed considerably across reduction should be coupled with a upsurge of the French Revolution, with its States — Kerala and Tamil Nadu, for stronger public health system. Right evangel of perfectability, that shot up the example, have a lower COVID19 now, government spending on health idea into prominence. Rightly or wrongly, it mortality rate. These States stand out is just 1.6% of GDP, low for a lower borrowed colour from the theory of evolu with good healthcare systems. middleincome country. Most coun tion propounded by Darwin and in a world Globally some 9 million premature tries, including India, fail the test of whose faith in Providence was fast crum deaths a year are associated with air readiness for health disasters, ac bling under the onslaught of science, the pollutants, such as fine particulate cording to the 2019 Global Health Se doctrine of progress easily found itself enun matter, known as PM 2.5. Regretta curity Index. The cleaner air the ciated as a law of nature. The fascination of bly, 14 of the world’s 20 most pollut country is still breathing during the the idea commanded its easy assimilation ed cities are in India. The air in Gha pandemic should be a powerful mo but the optimists that preached the doctrine ziabad, Delhi, and Noida is tivation. Scientific warnings do not failed to give a definition of its content with particularly hazardous. Last year, a indicate the time and place of calam any degree of precision or finality. Naturally, public health emergency was de ities but do call for confronting air when the holocaust of the war drove men in clared as postDiwali New Delhi’s air pollution and global warming and to second thoughts, thinkers began to real quality index approached 500, the strengthening health systems before ise that the charm of vagueness had made “severe plus emergency” category. the next health emergency that is them believe too much and that it was neces Adding to this noxious cocktail are surely going to happen. ary to verify the belief by fresh investigation. GHGs like carbon dioxide, causing It was probably this rebound, and not mere global warming and damaging Vinod Thomas is Visiting Professor at the ly the lead of a philosophical criticalness health. Despite the plunge during the National University of Singapore and a that made the Rev. Dr. W.B. Inge, Dean of St. lockdown, atmospheric carbon emis former senior vice president at the World Paul’s, choose the idea of progress as his text sions are a record high because of Bank.@vthomas14 for the Romance lecture at Oxford. CM M ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

DELHI THE HINDU 8 NEWS TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FROM PAGE ONE In a new high, 1,322 cases added to A.P. tally 1.4 lakh families have 981 out of 1,843 who tested positive in Karnataka are in Bengaluru; Kerala reports two more deaths and 193 new cases reached MGNREGA limit Special Correspondent disease from the community. talities crossed the 300mark Thiruvananthapuram The rest were imported on Monday. With 11 more CO Although these 1.4 lakh fa However, the A.P. govern Kerala reported 193 new cas cases. VID patients succumbing to milies may only be a frac ment maintains its own da es and two deaths from CO Thiruvananthapuram re the virus, the toll touched tion of the 4.6 crore house tabase showing that 84,000 VID19 on Monday, while ac mained under triple lock 306. holds who have benefited households, or 8.6% of all tive cases in the State stood down on Monday, following Total COVID19 cases from the scheme this year, it beneficiary households in at 2,252 with 167 more a surge in local transmission. touched 25,733 as 1,831 more is the poorest families with the State, have already com recoveries. Disease transmission was tested positive. Of the total no options other than pleted 100 days of work. (AP With the death of an 82 fast and intense here with 22 number of cases, 10,646 MGNREGA who have alrea has repeatedly complained yearold Saudi returnee in out of 27 new cases reported were active, 14,781 were dis dy reached their 100 day li that the State’s MGNREGA Manjeri Government Medi on Sunday in this category charged, and 306 died. The mit and need an extension. ground reality is not accu cal College hospital and that and 14 of which could not be Test Positivity Rate was “These are the most vul rately captured in real time of a 66yearold trader in Er linked to any known source 21.05%. nerable families. Remember in the central database.) nakulam with no travel histo of infection. On Monday al that most States did not “The demand for ry at Ernakulam Govern so, four out of seven new cas Marginal dip in T.N. even provide MGNREGA MGNREGA work almost ment Medical College es in Thiruvananthapuram After recording 4,000plus work in April during the doubled in June in AP, as hospital, the death toll in the were picked up from the cases a day for four consecu lockdown,” said Mr Dey. there is no other work avail State now was 27. community. tive days, Tamil Nadu report “So these are families able for many people. Con The number of persons ed 3,827 new COVID19 cases who have actually complet struction sector, which under quarantine and sur on Monday. Though the State ed 100 days in just May and usually absorbs a large num veillance now was 1,83,291, saw a marginal dip, the rise June. Those who are now at ber of workers, has also col of whom 2,075 with mild CO in COVID19 cases continued the 60day or 80day point lapsed. We are seeing a flur A total of 5,622 persons VIDlike symptoms were in in many districts, with all 37 will also complete 100 days ry of new job cards being had tested positive for CO hospitals. districts reporting new in the next month, month issued,” says Chakraadhar VID19 since the outbreak be Andhra Pradesh had over Two deaths occurred in Sri the case total came to 25,317 Chikkaballapura and Bagal cases. and a half. It will peak very Buddha, an APbased acti gan and 3,341 persons were 20,000 cases on Monday, kakulam and one each in and deaths to 401, a media kote reported one death The State’s overall CO fast,” warned Mr. Dey. vist and researcher with Lib reported to have recovered. with the detection of 1,322 Anantapur, Chittoor, Guntur, bulletin from the Depart each. VID19 case count rose to tech India. However, local transmis new cases ; seven more pa Krishna and Visakhapatnam. ment of Health and Family As many as 21 deaths had 1,14,978 of which 46,833 Per adult individual “The monsoon seems to sion of COVID19 continued tients died of the infection. The recovery rate of pa Welfare said. Influenzalike Illnesses or were active cases. The num The NREGA Sangharsh Mor be good so far, and for those in the State, resulting in It was the biggest single tients was 44.56%, while the Out of 1,843 cases, 981 Severe Acute Respiratory In ber of new infections stayed cha argues that the limit who can get farm work, that some family clusters, while day spike and 1,263 cases of mortality rate was 1.19%. On were from Bengaluru Urban, fection. Of these, four pa below 2,000 for the third should be imposed per may be an option for the in the case of others, the the total were those of locals ly 1.94% of the total 10,33,852 raising total cases in the city tients were brought dead to consecutive day in Chennai. adult individual rather than next few months. The worst authorities had not esta while 59 were imported, a samples tested were positive. to 10,561. Of these, 8,860 hospital and two died at The city added 1,747 cases, per household, and has de scenario may be in Decem blished an epidemiological Health Department bulletin The State’s tally doubled in cases were active cases. their residence. taking its overall tally past manded an increase to 200 ber when agriculture work link. said. The toll mounted to 239 13 days with an average of Of the 30 deaths, 10 were As many as 680 patients 70,000. As of Monday, days per individual at a daily is over and the MGNREGA On Monday, 35 out of 193 and active cases increased to 783 cases reported per day from Bengaluru Urban, were discharged on Monday, 24,052 persons were under wage rate of ₹600. The cur work has also run out. What newlyreported cases were 10,860. during this period. while Bidar reported eight taking the total number of re treatment. rent wage rate of ₹200 per will people do then?” he instances of local transmis With 498 new recoveries, Karnataka reported 1,843 deaths and Mysuru three. coveries in the State to (With inputs from Vijaya- day does not even match up said, adding that for wo sion — of people with no tra the total number of patients COVID19 cases and 30 Kodagu, Hassan, Dakshina 10,527. wada, Bengaluru, Hydera- to minimum wage rates in men, elderly and disabled, vel history contracting the discharged rose to 8,920. deaths on Monday. With this, Kannada, Ballari, Tumakuru, In Telangana, COVID19 fa bad and Chennai bureaus) most States. or those in adivasi areas, With almost 60,000 hou who cannot get farm work, seholds which have com the situation is even more pleted 100 days of work, acute. Curbs in Kerala capital Chhattisgarh has the highest “This is a national issue. ‘Negligence to blame for styrene leak’ rate among States according As a very bare minimum, to central scheme data, fol the Centre should expand eased to help residents lowed by Andhra Pradesh the limit to 200 days per High-power committee submits 4,000-page report to A.P. Chief Minister with almost 24,500 house household this year,” Mr Confusion as triple lockdown begins holds in this category. Buddha said. Sumit Bhattacharjee ried out in December 2019, VISAKHAPATNAM which led to disruption in Staff Reporter The highpower committee the circulation and mixing THIRUVANANTHAPURAM (HPC) formed by the govern system in the tank. “On April Day 1 of the weeklong triple COVID-19 tests cross ment to investigate the sty 24, the tank gave initial signs lockdown in Thirvanan rene vapour leak at LG Po of polymerisation. Had the thapuram was marked by lymers in Visakhapatnam plant management taken it widespread confusion with 1 crore, says ICMR has, in its report, stated that as a warning sign and were the public struggling to human negligence and se corrective action taken, the come to terms with the The document tackles the tion transmission,” it added. rious lapses in safety and se accident could have been strict curbs introduced Strict vigil: Police checking a unprecedented challenge to curity led to the accident. averted.” He said no special without putting adequate motorist. * S MAHINSHA mental health care across all Detailed guidelines The panel submitted a protocol was followed dur preparations in place. settings in India. The docu The document has two 4,000page report to And Probe completed: The high-power committee presenting the ing the lockdown period. Taking into account the While offices exempted ment has been put together parts; the first is guidelines hra Pradesh Chief Minister probe report to the Chief Minister. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The report also men plight of the large sections from the purview of the by the Department of Psy for nonpsychiatric medical Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy at tioned that the company had that scrambled to stock up lockdown will be required chiatry, National Institute of professionals to address Amravati on Monday. “Poor design of the storage uate risk assessment res failed in activating the emer on essential commodities, to ensure minimal atten Mental Health and mental health needs of the Styrene monomer vapour tank, inadequate refrigera ponse, poor process safety gency siren system, despite the district administration dance of employees, IT Neuroscience. community and in COVID19 leaked from a storage tion and faulty cooling management system and in having 36 siren points, in has announced certain re firms in Technopark must “Given the likely magni treatment centres while the tank in the plant in system, absence of cir sufficient knowledge among cluding one at the entrance laxations. submit applications through tude of the pandemic and second part provides re the wee hours of May culation and mixing staff about the chemical pro gate. “Had the plant manage Milk booths, vegetable the chief executive officer of the patchy availability of commendations for psy 7 killing 12. Hundreds systems, inadequate perties of styrene during ment sounded the siren in stalls, grocery shops, shops Technopark to operate dur specialist mental health chiatrists to ensure safety were hospitalised. measures and parame storage conditions. time, it would have warned selling cattle feed, poultry ing the period. care across the country, it during their daytoday The panel, which ters, poor safety proto “The protocols pertaining the people in the vicinity,” feed and veterinary medi The city corporation li has become necessary for practice amid the disease looked into the cir col and inadequate sa to emergency response and said Mr. Neerabh Kumar. cine can function from 7 mits came under a multi all nonpsychiatric health outbreak. cumstances that led fety awareness were safety were not followed by The report said the com a.m. to 11 a.m. The public layered security blanket as care professionals who of “Planning and policy to the styrene leak, found found to be the reasons that the authorities during the pany did not keep sufficient will be permitted to go to the police sealed most of the ten form the frontline of the making are critical to ensure fault with the LG Polymers led to the accident,” said Mr. lockdown period,” he said. stock of inhibitors and other their nearest shops for pro 24 border points that led to health care response to pro program effectiveness. It is management for the lack of Neerabh Prasad. Mr. Neerabh Prasad said terminating chemicals to curing essential items and the Kerala capital and va vide 'whatever is possible',” essential to ensure that proper safety response pre The panel chairman also major changes tp the design control the runaway reac should adhere to physical rious arterial roads across the guidelines said. mental health is integrated paredness at the plant. pointed fingers at inadeq of the storage tank were car tion. distancing and other norms. the 100 wards. “The care of psychiatri into the broad framework of cally ill takes a back seat in COVID19 health care res pandemics. While this ponse to ensure adequate IN BRIEF needs to be addressed, it is and appropriate care to the Karnataka HC initiates necessary that daytoday many thousands who are Undercover operation helps psychiatric practice be reca psychologically disturbed librated to ensure greater following the pandemic,” PIL on hospital charges sensitivity regarding infec notes the document. Customs strike gold in Kerala It ordered 2 letters be treated as plea

Contraband was in shipment addressed to UAE Consulate Special Correspondent natha and general secretary Coronavirus is airborne, Bengaluru A.S. Gangadharaiah com G. Anand ‘Home quarantine for ternal Affairs sought the per The Karnataka High Court plained that “the package those from other States’ Thiruvananthapuram mission of the UAE govern on Monday initiated a suo charges prescribed under BENGALURU 239 experts warn WHO A protracted undercover op ment to inspect the motu PIL petition on com Government Order dated The Karnataka government eration that spanned inter shipment. The enforcers plaints that COVID19 posi June 23 was exorbitant and has done away with the Even in its latest update, re Ms. Morawska and others national borders led to the found the gold, concealed in tive and other patients were appears as though it was system of mandatory leased June 29, the WHO pointed to several incidents seizure of 30 kg of contra imported piping, in the pre finding it difficult to get ad fixed for the benefit of hos institutional quarantine for said airborne transmission that indicate airborne trans band gold from an air cargo sence of UAE officials. mission to hospitals in Ben pitals and not patients”. those coming from high-risk of the virus is possible only mission particularly in poor shipment addressed to Con galuru city, and that charges “The ceiling was fixed for States. It has now made a after medical procedures ly ventilated and crowded sulate of the UAE here. Post for suspect fixed for coronavirus treat all hospitals across the 14-day home quarantine that produce aerosols, or indoor spaces. They said the Officials said they had no Pinarayi Vijayan Meanwhile, Chief Minister ment in private hospitals board, which means even a mandatory for all those droplets smaller than 5 mi WHO was making an artifi evidence to suggest embassy Pinarayi Vijayan said he was were exorbitant. normal nursing home which coming to Karnataka. The crons. cial distinction between tiny officials were in the know. trickling in of the existence not aware of the circum A Division Bench, com otherwise does not charge revised guidelines were But interviews with near aerosols and larger dro Commissioner of Cus of a wellentrenched UAE stances that led to the ap prising Chief Justice Abhay high will now charge higher issued on Monday. ly 20 scientists paint a pic plets, even though infected toms Sumit Kumar, who led headquartered racket that pointment of gold smuggling Shreeniwas Oka and Justice with the government’s pre ture of an organisation that, people produce both. the operation, told The Hin- was sending gold to India, case suspect Swapna Suresh Nataraj Rangaswamy, issued scribed ceiling rates,” the ‘Intention was not to ban despite good intentions, is “We’ve known since 1946 du that the enforcers had concealed in air cargo ship as marketing liaison officer the directions to treat two letter claimed, while con online classes fully’ out of step with science. that coughing and talking noticed a surge in the availa ments addressed to diplo of the Space Park project, separate letters, one by the tending that the State failed BENGALURU Whether carried aloft by generate aerosols,” said Lin bility of smuggled matic missions. under the IT Department’s Advocates’ Association, to upgrade facilities in its The Karnataka government on large droplets that zoom sey Marr, an expert in air gold in trade quanti The law enforcers Kerala State Information Bengaluru (AAB), and hospitals in the last four Monday told the High Court through the air after a borne transmission of virus ties in the domestic struck gold when they Technology Infrastructure another by citybased advo months. that banning online classes sneeze, or by much smaller es at Virginia Tech. market. However, learned in June that an Limited (KSITIL). cate P. Anu Chengappa In her July 4 letter, citing was not its intention but it exhaled droplets that may The WHO also is relying they could not pin incoming consignment “It was without my know through email to the Chief various newspaper reports, was only an interim measure. glide the length of a room, on a dated definition of air point the source. addressed to the Consu ledge and I will endeavour to Justice, as a public interest Ms. Chengappa said CO A Division Bench, hearing a these experts said, the coro borne transmission, Ms. The investigators late contained contra understand the facts in the litigation petition. VID19 patients were not be PIL challenging the ban, said navirus is borne through air Marr said. The agency be tapped their net band. matter,” said Mr. Vijayan, In their June 26 letter, ing admitted to hospitals it would pronounce the verdict on July 7. and can infect people when lieves an airborne patho works and rumours started The Union Ministry of Ex who holds the IT portfolio. AAB president A.P. Ranga though beds were available. inhaled. gen, like the measles virus, In early April, a group of has to be highly infectious 36 experts on air quality and travel long distances. and aerosols urged the Experts all agree that the Mysuru villagers oppose Bengaluru returnees WHO to consider the grow coronavirus does not be ing evidence on airborne have that way. Ms. Marr and Special Correspondent relent after the taluk admi pread demand for closing screening people entering transmission. The agency others said the coronavirus MYSURU nistration officials reached the district’s borders to the district from the State responded promptly, calling seemed to be most infec People returning to their na the spot and advised block entry for people capital. “Thousands of vehi Lidia Morawska, the group’s tious when people were in tive villages in Mysuru from the returnees to main returning from cles are entering Mysuru ev leader and a longtime WHO prolonged contact at close Bengaluru are facing resis tain home quarantine Bengaluru. ery day at the rate of more consultant, to arrange a range, especially indoors, tance from the locals who for seven days, Depu However, Mr. Sankar than 100 a minute from the meeting. But the discussion and even more so in super fear spread of COVID19. ty Commissioner of not only ruled out the BengaluruMysuru highway. was dominated by a few ex spreader events — exactly A day after residents of Mysuru Abhiram G. possibility of keeping If we begin screening each perts who were staunch what scientists would ex Abbooru village in Hunsur Sankar acknowledged Mysuru out of bounds individual entering Mysuru, supporters of handwashing pect from aerosol near here blocked the entry the growing anxiety among for people coming from Ben there will be a traffic jam for and the committee’s advice transmission. of a group of people return the people about the rapid galuru, but also spelt out the several km on the highway,” remained unchanged. @THE NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE ing from Bengaluru only to rise in cases and the wides practical difficulties of he said on Monday.

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Ananth Krishnan China’s Ministry of Foreign to become disputes.” “The agreed to “continue their Two sides continue to work, says Zhao Suhasini Haidar Affairs (MFA) both empha refore, they agreed that it conversations to ensure full Chennai/New Delhi sised an agreement to push was necessary to ensure at and enduring restoration of Ananth Krishnan The disengagement between for an early disengagement, the earliest complete disen peace and tranquillity in the India and China along the yet differences remained on gagement of the troops along IndiaChina border areas in China on Monday said there Line of Actual Control (LAC) some issues that point to un the LAC and deescalation accordance with the bilateral was “progress” towards dis announced on Monday came certainties that may lie from IndiaChina border agreements and protocols.” engagement and deescala after a long and detailed con ahead. areas for full restoration of The Chinese side said both tion along the Line of Actual versation between National On the disengagement, peace and tranquillity,” its agreed “to strengthen com Control (LAC), with the first Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit the MEA said both agreed statement said. munication through the me signs of pullback of its Doval and Chinese State they “should complete the The Chinese statement chanism of the SRs’ meeting, troops at the Galwan Valley Councillor Wang Yi on Sun ongoing disengagement pro emphasised the difficulties hold Meetings of the Work reported on Monday. day evening. cess along the LAC expedi in the relationship, calling ing Mechanism for Consulta Chinese troops have The highlevel political in tiously” and “ensure a Continuing dialogue: NSA Ajit Doval with Chinese Foreign upon both to “adhere to the tion and Coordination on “shifted” two kilometres tervention is significant, be phased and stepwise dees Minister Wang Yi in China for talks in 2018. * PTI strategic assessment that in ChinaIndia Border Affairs from the site of the June 15 Zhao Lijian cause Mr. Doval and Mr. calation in the IndiaChina stead of posing threats the without interruption, consis violent clashes at the Gal Wang are both Special Re border areas”. commanderlevel talks bet sector of the ChinaIndia two countries provide each tently improve and streng wan Valley in eastern La was hoped India would presentatives on the boun The statement said both ween Chinese and Indian boundary is very clear,” the other with development op then confidencebuilding dakh, senior Indian officials work with China and dary talks, and had last met “should strictly respect and border troops, and complete Chinese statement said, ad portunities” and to “pay measures and prevent more told The Hindu. “through concrete actions in December 2019. Mr. Wang observe the LAC and should [the] disengagement of the ding that “China will conti great attention to the current incidents that undermine In Beijing, the Chinese implement the consensus, is both Foreign Minister and not take any unilateral action frontline troops as soon as nue firmly safeguarding our complex situation facing Chi peace and tranquillity in the Foreign Ministry acknow and continue close commu State Councillor, a position to alter the status quo and possible.” The MEA state territorial sovereignty as well naIndia bilateral relations, border areas”. ledged there had been pro nication through military which is roughly the equiva work together to avoid any ment did not mention the as peace and tranquillity in and work together to over While the news of the gress towards and diplomatic channels to lent of an NSA. incident in the future that cause of the recent tensions, the border areas.” come and turn it around as move to disengage was “pos disengagement. jointly push for the deesca For the past few weeks, could disturb peace and which India said on June 25 soon as possible”. itive”, former Foreign Secre “On June 30, Chinese and lation of the border region”. through the crisis, Mr. Doval tranquillity in border areas.” was because “the conduct of Differing perspectives “We hope India can work tary Shyam Saran cautioned Indian troops held Com As The Hindu reported, had been monitoring the sit Chinese forces this year has Both presented differing per with China to guide public there was a need to “wait manderlevel talks. The two the PLA had moved within uation from home despite No mention of LAC been in complete disregard spectives of the broader stra opinion in the right direc and see how this translates sides continued to work to India’s perception of the the fact that he had chosen China’s statement did not of all mutually agreed tegic relationship. The MEA tion, keep and advance bilat on the ground.” implement the consensus LAC at the Galwan Valley af to selfquarantine after two mention the LAC, let alone norms” and they had also said the SRs agreed that eral exchanges and coopera “I see that in the Chinese reached at the two previous ter the June 15 incident, family members contracted respecting it. The statement crossed the LAC and erected “both sides should take gui tion, and avoid amplifying statement there is a reaffir rounds of talks [on June 6 when 20 soldiers were the coronavirus. Sources said both sides “welcomed structures on India’s side, in dance from the consensus of the differences and compli mation of its position on Gal and June 22],” Foreign Mi killed. China has also erect said that Mr. Doval rejoined the progress achieved in the the Galwan Valley. the leaders that maintenance cating matters so as to jointly wan with a commitment to nistry spokesperson Zhao ed structures on India’s side work at his office on Satur recent military and diplo The statement did not of peace and tranquillity in uphold the big picture of Chi safeguard what China con Lijian said. of the LAC at Pangong Tso day, a day before the call matic meetings, agreed to mention the Galwan Valley the IndiaChina border areas naIndia relations,” it said. sider its territorial claim,” he “There is progress made and talks are on to resolve with Mr. Wang. stay in dialogue and consul either, but China did. “The was essential for the further Where both were in agree told The Hindu. “While ten on frontline troops taking the situation there, alth Statements on the call is tation, and stressed the im right and wrong of what re development of our bilateral ment was to keep the chan sions may subside but the re effective measures to disen ough some tents near Finger sued by India’s Ministry of portance to promptly act on cently happened at the Gal relations and that two sides nels open at the highest le lationship will never be the gage and ease the tensions,” 4 have also been removed, External Affairs (MEA) and the consensus reached in the wan Valley in the western should not allow differences vels. The MEA said the SRs same again.” Mr. Zhao said, adding that it officials said.

Congress Disengagement denies BJP chief slams Rahul on BJP is resorting to cheap positive, says contacting LJP China faceoff remarks distractions, says Congress Congress Sobhana K. Nair SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT New Delhi Surjewala hits back at Nadda; Rahul launches fresh offensive NEW DELHI As speculation is on that Nadda also attacks Mamata on handling of pandemic The Congress on Monday the Congress has ap Special Correspondent mentation,” Mr. Gandhi described the reports of proached the Lok Janshakti Special Correspondent which clinging to power by New Delhi tweeted and tagged the 37 ‘disengagement and with Party (LJP) ahead of the Bi NEW DELHI any means is everything,” he The Congress on Monday hit second video. drawal’ of Chinese troops har Assembly election, the BJP president J.P. Nadda on said. back at the BJP for question At the official briefing, from the Galwan Valley as a party’s State incharge Monday took on both Con “The West Bengal Chief ing its former chief Rahul party spokesperson Pawan positive development, and Shaktisinh Gohil said it had gress leader Rahul Gandhi Minister doesn’t believe in Gandhi's attendance in Khera alleged that when Mr. asserted that restoration of not done so. and West Bengal Chief Minis cooperative federalism. She meetings of the Parliamen Gandhi had forewarned the status quo was crucial to Speaking to The Hindu, ter Mamata Banerjee, attack is not keen on sharing CO tary Standing Committee on government about its CO rebuild trust. Mr. Gohil said, “The NDA ing the former for criticising VID data with the Centre,” Defence, calling it a “cheap VID19 response, BJP leaders “Reports of Chinese has a history of divorces Prime Minister Narendra he alleged. distraction”, and “remind ridiculed him. troops withdrawal from close to the elections. Eve Modi for the IndiaChina ed” how the BJP had “unce “In his repeated interven Galwan Valley is a positive ryone knows that the BJP faceoff in Ladakh while not ‘Restore Bengal’s glory’ remoniously” dumped its tion, Rahul Gandhi, in the development. Disengage falls at the feet of their al attending a single parlia “Criminalisation of politics own leader, Maj. Gen. B.C. His [Nadda] last three months, kept try ment and deescalation on lies when they need them mentary standing commit has scaled new heights, now Khanduri (retd.), for an ad <> ing to give constructive sug Line of Actual Control is a Cong. has many comments are and when they don’t, they tee on defence meeting and <> we all hear about cut money verse parliamentary report gestions to the government priority. India must insist deserving members making him look can even slit their throats Ms. Banerjee’s government who understand in Bengal. We need to cut to on defence preparedness on what a lockdown for pull back in Pangong open. Look at what hap over its handling of the CO size these leaders who de under the Narendra Modi like a poorer version should... Instead of heeding Tso. There is need for eter parliamentary of malicious BJP pened to the PDP or Shiv VID19 pandemic. matters but one mand cut money. We need government. to good advice, this govern nal vigil,” tweeted senior Sena.” Mr. Nadda tweeted his re to restore Bengal’s glory and In a series of tweets, Con spokespersons ment ridicules and attacks Congress leader Anand dynasty will never He said the Mahagath marks on Mr. Gandhi point remove this government gress chief spokesperson the person,” he said. Sharma. bandhan, an alliance bet ing to what he termed the let such leaders grow lock, stock and barrel,” he Randeep Surjewala said the ness School (HBS). In a series of tweets, Mr. “China needs to realise ween the Rashtriya Janata latter’s “dynastic tradition” said. daily “insidious comments” Demonetisation and the Surjewala said if the BJP go that stability and peace at Dal (RJD), the Congress, of where “parliamentary vernment in West Bengal ac He said it was because of by BJP president J. P. Nadda implementation of the vernment spent its energy in borders and restoration of the Hindustan Awam Mor committees don’t matter, cusing it of criminalisation the efforts of the Jana Sangh was making him “look like a Goods and Services Tax fighting China instead of the status quo is a must to re cha, the Rashtriya Lok Sa only commissions” do, an of politics and corruption, founder that West Bengal poorer version of malicious (GST) GST would be the oth Congress, then it would not build trust. Proud of our mata Party and the Vikass oblique reference to corrup while addressing the State and large parts of Punjab BJP spokespersons”. er two, he said. have to “lie and mislead” the Army for standing firm in heel Insaan Party was tion allegations against the unit via video link, on Jan were with India. “It is due to The Congress also In a tweet, Mr. Gandhi al country. “Dear Nadda Ji, Pl nation’s defence,” he intact. previous Congressled go Sangh founder Syama Pra Syama Prasad Mookerjee launched a fresh attack on so put up a video of Prime answer: Did the Standing added. The LJP is maintaining a vernments. “Congress has sad Mookerjee’s birth anni that Bengal and Punjab are the government as India Minister Narendra Modi ex Committee on Defence The party continued to studied silence. many deserving members versary. On one hand we with India. Otherwise they reached the third spot in pressing the confidence of headed by Gen BC Khanduri attack the Modi govern After the sharp criticism who understand parliamen have Syama Prasad Mooker would have gone to Pakistan terms of the countries with winning the corona battle in not hold that 68% of our ment and the BJP over of the Bihar Chief Minister tary matters but one dynasty jee, who fought for a united during Partition. He op the highest number of CO 21 days and comparing it ‘equipment is vintage’ and their response to China. Nitish Kumar’s administra will never let such leaders India and always kept his posed the appeasement pol VID19 cases, with Mr. Gand with the battle of there are insufficient re Congress chief spokesper tion by both LJP president grow. Really sad,” tweeted ideals and principles above itics of Nehru in postInde hi stating that India’s CO Mahabharata. sources for ‘construction of son Randeep Surjewala Chirag Paswan and his Mr. Nadda. anything, and on the other pendent India, but the VID19 fight would be one of “Future HBS case studies strategic roads on China Bor asked why the Prime Minis father Ramvilas Paswan, it He launched a broadside we have the present TMC go Congress has a bad habit of the three case studies on fai on failure:1. Covid19. 2. De der’? Did Modi Govt listen to ter had not wished the Ti finds itself cornered. against the Trinamool go vernment in Bengal for stifling democratic voices.” lures in the Harvard Busi monetisation. 3. GST imple Defence Committee?” betan spiritual leader. Lesson on deescalation from Doklam standoff Disengagement is not enough in order to declare an end to tensions at the LAC, say experts

Suhasini Haidar on disengagement and deesca Government sources who New Delhi lation, it may end up at a disad did not wish to be identified The government must not agree vantage,” Mr. Kantha told The said that the satellite pictures to deescalate the situation at Hindu. “Today, the PLA has and ground reports show PLA the Line of Actual Control (LAC) constructed major infrastruc troops had resumed construc in Ladakh without an agree ture and consolidated its posi tion activity in the Doklam pla ment on returning to “ status tion in Doklam..” teau a few months after the dis quo ante” or the situation be “My sense is that the varianc engagement, and had fore the standoff began, said es in [Indian and Chinese state consolidated positions across experts, who pointed to the out ments] reflects the potential for the 90 sq. km. Doklam plateau come of the Doklam standoff in future trouble for India à la by the end of 2018. The sources 2017 as a marker. Doklam,” said Lieutenant Gen said that the PLA has made two “The lesson for us in Doklam eral (Retd) Prakash Menon, Di “blacktop” or asphalt roads in is that disengagement is not rector, Strategic Studies Pro side the disputed territory with enough in order to declare an Slow and steady: Google Earth maps show that the development of a gramme, at Takshashila Bhutan, which are extensions of end to tensions at the LAC. It is road towards Torsa Nullah, at one end of Jampheri ridge, in Bhutan, Institution, who formerly was a two Chinese roads, to the east necessary that we define end continued between Dec. 2017- Dec. 2019. * TAKSHASHILAINSTITUTION military adviser at the National and to the south. points up to where the troops Security Council Secretariat. must withdraw to and no un Valley and other points of con ing”, as a result of diplomatic Maps accessed from Google ‘Road work completed’ derstanding should be reached flict between the Indian Army talks. Since then, the MEA has Earth show that the develop “The southern one has now without the restoration of sta- and the Chinese People’s Liber said in response to questions in ment of the road towards the reached up to the junction of tus quo ante,” said Ashok Kan ation Army (PLA) that has lasted Parliament, that the “ status Torsa Nullah, at one end of the Amo Chu and Torsa Nullah, the tha, former Ambassador to Chi more than two months. quo” has been maintained at Jampheri ridge, which is Bhuta reby extending the Chinese na and the Director of the The threeparagraph state the standoff point, below the nese territory, continued bet Claim Line well into the territo Institute of Chinese Studies. ment issued was considerably Indian post at DokoLa. ween December 2017 Decem ry,” said the sources. longer than the MEA statement According to experts, howev ber 2019. Effectively this means that Monday’s statement issued after the Doklam stand er, while the disengagement The images, part of a study the Chinese have gone around On Monday, the Ministry of Ex off that lasted twoandahalf brought an end to hostilities released in May 2020 called India’s objections and used a ternal Affairs (MEA) issued a months, from June 16 to August between India and China over “Doklam Update” by scholar more circuitous route, but com statement detailing a phone 28, 2017. China’s attempt to build a road Anirudh Kanisetti at the Banga pleted their road building pro conversation between National At the time, the “Press state near the IndiaChinaBhutan tri lorebased Takshashila Institu ject, the sources said. Security Adviser Ajit Doval and ment on Doklam disengage junction area, transgressing in tion, also traces images from Given the precedent, China’s his Chinese interlocutor Fo ment understanding” had said to Bhutanese territory, it did 2009, when there was only ve latest claim on eastern Bhutan reign Minister Wang Yi over only that the “expeditious dis not stop the PLA’s construction getation on the plateau and sur that abuts Arunachal Pradesh, which it was decided to disen engagement of border person work right across the Doklam rounding areas, and now, when where another trijunction ex gage and deescalate the mili nel at the faceoff site at Doklam plateau. roads, buildings and trenches ists, should be watched closely tary mobilisation at the Galwan has been agreed to and is ongo “If the military only agrees can be seen. as well, they said.

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Dera chief, 3 others booked Slain Kanpur policeman alerted Trinamool, CPI oppose postal for sacrilege ballots for 65plus voters Press Trust of India senior of SHO’s link to Dubey Chandigarh ‘The decision can lead to malpractices by parties in power’ Jailed Dera Sacha Sauda If the SHO doesn’t change his ways, a serious incident could take place, CO warned chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Special Correspondent tions” and would “lead to Singh and three others Omar Rashid CO Mishra had also men New Delhi malpractices and foul play were named in a case relat KANPUR tioned that Mr. Tiwari often The chorus against the Elec by those parties which are in ing to theft of the holy book A police officer who was visited Dubey and was in reg tion Commission’s decision power and have resources.” Guru Granth Sahib, the among the eight policemen ular touch with him. to extend the postal ballot fa He urged the EC to hold wid police said on Monday. killed in the encounter in cility to voters who are 65 er consultations and not to He was named two days Kanpur’s Bikru village had SHO suspended years or above has grown act “unilaterally”. after the arrest of seven Sir alerted the district police Mr. Tiwari was suspended af with the Trinamool Con sa dera followers by a Pun chief that the Station House ter allegations surfaced that gress and the Communist Arbitrary: Trinamool jab police Special Investiga Officer (SHO) of Chaubey he had been providing help Party of India shooting off The Trinamool Congress tion Team probing the 2015 pur, Vinay Tiwari, who was to Dubey on the day of the letters to Chief Election called the July 19 amend desecration of religious suspended after the inci encounter; his exact role is Commissioner (CEC) Sunil ment “arbitrary, mala fide, texts. They were held from dent, had been protecting still under investigation. Arora opposing the move. unconstitutional” and “ex Faridkot. Five of them the main accused Vikas Du Inspector General of Pol CPI(M) general secretary facie a violation of right to were remanded in twoday bey, it emerged on Monday. iceKanpur Mohit Agarwal Sitaram Yechury was the D. Raja secrecy of vote and right to police custody while two Circle Officer (CO) Bilhaur Connecting the dots: Policemen stationed near the said the files of the report first to flag the issue. The free and fair elections.” were let off when their Devendra Mishra had, in demolished house of Vikas Dubey in Kanpur. * PTI were being summoned from Congress too wrote to the cility — that so far was availa In a letter to the CEC, Tri counsels claimed they had March, written to then Se the SSP’s office to check Election Commission (EC) ble only for armed forces namool General Secretary already secured bail. Later, nior Superintendent of Pol to Dubey and displaying of an FIR lodged against Du what action had been taken last week protesting against personnel and government Subrata Bakshi pointed out the two joined the investi ice (SSP)Kanpur and com “doubtful integrity” by not bey on March 13, in which he by the then SSP. the decision. According to servants posted abroad — to that 6% of the population is gation, said the police. plained about the SHO, taking action against the was accused of extortion, as Mr. Agarwal said the re informed sources, other Op those above 65 years and 65 years old. Deputy Inspector Gen saying that he had had extor criminal. sault, rioting and criminal in port, which came to his not position parties too will be any one suffering from CO He said that with the pos eral of Police ( Jalandhar tion charges filed against Du “If the SHO does not timidation. However, the ice through media, was be sending similar letters in the VID19. tal ballot, there was a greater Range) Ranbir Singh Kha bey removed from an FIR. change his ways, a serious section under extortion was ing verified, and that the next few days. CPI General Secretary D. chance of disclosure of vo tra said the three others incident could take place,” dropped from the charges by allegations were “serious”. The EC notified amend Raja in a letter to Mr. Arora ter’s preference to the public booked along with Ram Ra ‘Doubtful integrity’ the CO had warned. the investigating officer on “We will first understand ments to the Conduct of said this decision could “jeo at large, which violated the him are the dera’s national Mr. Mishra had accused Mr. The report by the CO was the instructions of the SHO, the entire episode and then Election Rules on June 19, ex pardise the democratic pro fundamental premise of se committee members. Tiwari of being sympathetic sent against the background the CO wrote. take action,” said the officer. tending the postal ballot fa cess of free and fair elec crecy of vote. Vaccine pioneer quits THSTI Ahmedabad SI UGC issues fresh guidelines arrested for Dr. Kang was instrumental in development of Rotavac Final year university exams will be held by end of September, online or offline taking bribe special correspondent She told The Hindu that special correspondent by the University for whatev tions were cancelled and de NEW DELHI she was resigning for perso Special Correspondent New Delhi er the reason may be, he/she grees awarded without Gagandeep Kang, Executive nal reasons. “At THSTI, I’ve Ahmedabad In fresh guidelines issued on may be given opportunity to examinations, leading to a Director, Translational been able to set up process A subinspector of Ahme Monday to hold the final appear in special examina lot of questions being raised Health Science and Technol es and establish groups that dabad was arrested for al year university examina tions for such courses/pap on the quality of education. ogy Institute (THSTI) in Fari now are independently able legedly demanding a bribe tions by the end of Septem ers, which may be conduct “We wished to avoid a simi dabad, resigned from her to work on several research of ₹35 lakh and accepting a ber, the University Grants ed by the university as and lar situation,” said the mem position at the institute on areas, including vaccine de bribe of ₹20 lakh from a Commission (UGC) said: when feasible, so that the ber who did not wish to be Monday, multiple sources velopment.” She said she rape accused. “The terminal semester/final student is not put to any in named. confirmed to The Hindu. would be at CMC for the “fo Shweta Jadeja, who was year examinations [are to] convenience/disadvantage. ” As the UGC is responsible Dr. Kang, 57, informed the Gagandeep Kang reseeable future” and would the incharge of Mahila be conducted by universi for academic regulation and faculty members of her deci still be closely involved in (women) Police Station in ties/institutions by the end Also for backlogs fair opportunity for stu policy for the whole country, sion on Monday morning. Ministry of Science and vaccine development AhmedabadWest, had al of September 2020 in offline Final year students with dents, UGC said it was “very it will write to State Gover She is, however, likely to Technology. projects. legedly demanded ₹35 lakh (pen and paper)/online/ backlogs must also be eval crucial to ensure academic nors, who are Chancellors of continue in her post until Dr. Kang is also Professor, She is the first Indian wo from the brother of rape blended (online + offline) uated through online or of credibility, career opportun State Universities, as well as Augustend. Department of Gastrointesti man to be elected Fellow, accused Kenal Shah. mode as per feasibility and fline examinations. The ities and future progress of State Chief Secretaries and She has at least a year to nal Sciences, Christian Medi Royal Society, London, and She allegedly demanded suitability. In case a student rules for intermediate sem students globally”. A UGC Education Ministers to ask go before her term ends at cal College (CMC) ,Vellore. was instrumental in the de the sum for not booking of terminal semester/final esters remain unchanged. member said the situation that they comply with the the institute, an autono She was on lien from the in velopment of Rotavac, the Shah under provisions of year is unable to appear in While noting the impor was compared to the Emer fresh guidelines, said the mous body under the De stitution and that tenure is to first vaccine to be made the Gujarat Prevention of the examination conducted tance of health, safety and gency era, when examina member. partment of Biotechnology, expire this August. from scratch in India. Antisocial Activities Act. CPI(M) renews demand to U.P. hospital staff offers make PMCARES transparent fake reports Special Correspondent ‘PMO’s refusal to disclose details of the fund is disturbing’ Ghaziabad After an employee of a Special Correspondent ployees. Two years of private hospital in Meerut New Delhi MPLAD funds had been di was found promising a ne The CPI(M) has renewed its verted to this trust fund. The gative COVID19 test report demand for making the PM Companies Act, 2013 was from the district hospital in CARES fund, set up in March amended to allow donations a video clip, the district in the wake of the COVID19 to this fund of a private trust authorities have initiated pandemic by the Prime Mi to be eligible under Corpo an investigation against the nister’s Office, transparent rate Social Responsibility hospital and its licence has and accountable. The party contributions. been revoked. said the money collected “Till date, there is no In the video clip, the em with the fund should be im PM-CARES is now beyond answer from the PMO as to ployee could be seen ac mediately transferred to the purview of the CAG. why a separate private trust cepting ₹2,000 in cash

State governments. * GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCK fund had to be created when from a group of people in The CPI(M) Polit Bureau, the official PM’s National Re lieu of the negative report in a statement here, said the fairs and Finance as trus lief Fund has been in exis from the district hospital PMO’s “stubborn refusal” to tees. For the same reason, it tence since Independence, that would be valid for a disclose the details of the is beyond the purview of the which is transparent, ac week. The people could be fund was deeply disturbing. Comptroller and Auditor countable and audited by heard promising to pay The fund doesn’t come General (CAG). the CAG,” it said. ₹500 more after the report under the ambit of the Right The CPI(M) pointed out The party also said the arrived. A first information to Information Act because that out of ₹10,000 crore col fund liberally used the na report has been registered it has been set up as a private lected under the fund, near tional emblem, the PM’s im against Shah Alam, manag trust. But it has the Prime ly ₹4,000 crore was collect age and was backed by offi er of the New Meerut Hos Minister as the Chair and Mi ed by compulsory donations cial circulars to public sector pital, under Section 420 of nisters of Defence, Home Af made by government em unit employees to donate. the IPC.

5 more deaths in Punjab

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT CHANDIGARH Punjab on Monday record ed 208 fresh COVID19 cas es and reported ﬁve deaths, taking the total fa talities to 169, according to an oﬃcial statement. The number of positive cases has reached 6,491. Those who died were from Ludhiana, Sangrur and Muktsar districts. The ma jor chunk of new cases, 84 and 25, were reported from Jalandhar and Lud hiana districts, respective ly. The Health department said active cases were 1,828 and 4,494 patients had so far been cured. After Chief Minister Amarinder Singh ruled out dilution of the 14day home quarantine norm, the pro cess of eregistration for all travellers to the State has been made mandatory from Monday midnight.

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Davinder used by Pak. as conduit: NIA Bhopal’s zardozi artists Agency files chargesheet against expolice officer, five others; says he was in touch with Pak. mission hanging by a thread Special Correspondent rist Syed Naveed Mushtaq racy hatched by the Pakis “Irfan Shafi Mir also used New Delhi alias Naveed Babu and his tanbased terrorist organiza to receive instructions and The National Investigation brother, Syed Irfan Ahmad; tion Hizbul Mujahideen and money from Pakistan High The lockdown has left them with mounting losses Agency (NIA) has said in a Rafi Ahmad Rather, another Pakistani State Agencies to Commission and also facili chargesheet that suspended Hizbul terrorist; Irfan Shafi commit violent acts and to tated the visa applications Sidharth Yadav Jammu and Kashmir police Mir, an advocate and Tan wage war against the Union for number of Kashmiris for Bhopal officer Davinder Singh, who veer Ahmad Wani, a busi of India… Pakistanbased their visit to Pakistan,” NIA Craning over a wooden was caught travelling in a car nessman, who was active at leadership of HizbulMuja said. frame, Yousuf Khan, billed with Hizbul Mujahideen ter the Line of Control (LoC) hideen (HM) namely Sayeed “…in February, 2019, in as the oldest zardozi craft rorists in January this year, trade points with Pakistan Salahudeen and others along order to shield HM Comman sperson of the Nadeem “was being groomed by Pa before it was suspended in with Pakistani establishment der Syed Naveed Mushtaq Road here, nimbly weaves kistani officials for obtaining 2019. is extending support to the from the heightened surveil metallic threads into a cot sensitive information”. Singh was arrested on Ja Davinder Singh cadre and commanders of lance of security agencies, ton cloth stretched across The NIA also said Singh nuary 11 with the two wanted Hizbul based in Jammu and accused Devender Singh, a it. This is his first assign was in touch with certain of Hizbul terrorists Mushtaq, places in the Kashmir Valley Kashmir,” the NIA chargesh serving Deputy Superinten ment after the lockdown ficials of the Pakistan High Rather and Irfan Shafi after and Jammu and subsequent eet said. dent of Police, Irfan Shafi eased a month ago. But as it Commission in New Delhi they were stopped at a check ly arrested Ahmad, Wani and The agency said officials and Irfan Ahmad arranged concluded in two hours, he through secure social media post in South Kashmir’s Kul a former sarpanch, Tariq Ah of Pakistan High Commis safe shelter for him and his was left without work once platforms. gam. The accused were tra mad Mir. Mir was arrested in sion in New Delhi were in associate in Jammu. Singh again. Deft hands: A zardozi craftsman at work in a zari centre in

The NIA filed its chargesh velling in Shafi’s car and April and a chargesheet is yet constant touch with Shafi used his own vehicle for the “The pandemic has bro Bhopal. * A.M. FARUQUI eet against Singh and five were on their way to Jammu. to be filed against him. who was provided with movement of HM terrorists ken us irreparably. For the others in a Jammu court on The case was handed over “The investigation has re funds to organise seminars and also assured them help first time in 30 years, we got sons, in other professions, said Mr. Ali, a craftsperson Monday. The other accused to NIA on January 17. The vealed that the accused were in J&K to mobilise the masses in procuring weapons,” the no customers during the for income now. since 1989. Faced with a fi are Hizbul Mujahideen terro agency conducted raids at 15 part of a deeprooted conspi against government of India. chargesheet said. wedding season,” Mr. Khan, Nationwide calls to boy nancial crunch, he has 62, spectacles perched at cott Chinese products has asked four of his workers to the edge of his nose, said made locally made raw ma stay home for the time be without looking up. terials costlier. “Nearly half ing. SC imposes Demonetisation and au the raw material used in After reopening, Zari Dues with AAI land Air lndia in trouble tomation had inflicted a embroidery, including artif Centre, one of the city’s lar fine of ₹100 hard blow to the handi icial beads and gemstones, gest workshops, is scram craft, said Mr. Khan, but the are from China. Their sup bling to wind up 10 pending on lawyer Airline to make daily payments at Ahmedabad, Bhubaneswar, Chennai & Kolkata lockdown had battered ply has stopped now, giving orders received before the both production and de an opportunity to traders to lockdown. Legal Correspondent Lalatendu Mishra airports. “The competent cial stress on its liquidity. dia said in a letter. “Air India mand. Like him, Bhopal’s raise prices of locally made Fresh orders, however, NEW DELHI MUMBAI authority has approved to “As you are aware, Air In has made a payment of ₹2 200 artists of zardozi — an products, already expen are nowhere in the offing, A Supreme Court Bench The Airports Authority of In put the operations of Air In dia is in stressed financial crore on July 2, 2020, and art patronised by the Mugh sive and inferior in quality,” said Farah Nadeem, who led by Justice Arun Mishra dia (AAI) has put Air India in dia on cash & carry basis.... condition due to COVID19. you are requested to settle als that involves weaving said Razi Ali ‘Salim’, 53, slashed her staff strength on Monday imposed a fine cashandcarry mode at the with effect from 1 hrs [1 a.m.] At this stage, cash and carry dues for Ahmedabad, Bhu metallic threads on fabric another craftsperson. by half to five. of ₹100 on lawyer Reepak Ahmedabad, Bhubaneswar, of 7 July 2020. The above would bring additional fi baneswar, Chennai & Kolka to create intricate patterns At Paras Zari Arts, the fa “Earlier we had young Kansal for accusing its Re Chennai and Kolkata air may please be brought to the nancial stress on Air India li ta effective July 7, 2020, — stare at mounting losses bric on a frame lies unfin sters waiting to learn the gistry of being biased in fa ports from July 7 owing to ac information of all concerned quidity. You are requested to against the payment of ₹2 and joblessness. ished since March — strewn craft, but not any more. We vour of big law firms and cumulation of dues. officials...” the AAI said.. reconsider the above deci crore. You are also requested “I don’t know any other with beads, thread and nee are perhaps the last genera influential lawyers while It means that Air India will Responding to this, Air In sion and give some more to advise the stationwise ad craft or skill to switch over,” dles. “Weddings have been tion of artists practising this listing cases before virtual have to make payment on a dia asked AAI to reverse the time for release of dues till justments for above ₹2 crore said Mr. Khan, adding that postponed or are less grand waning form,” said Wasim courts functioning during daily or perflight basis for decision as cash and carry the situation normalises for to avoid reconciliation issues he depended mostly on his now owing to restrictions,” Ansari. the lockdown. parking and landing at these would put additional finan our flight operations,” Air In in future,” the letter added. SC: Navlakha’s plea should be Roll back Opium seizures: India in top five list media policy: UNODC world report says 84% of the drug is produced in Afghanistan addressed to Bombay HC J&K scribes

Devesh K. Pandey heroin...,” said the report. special correspondent New Delhi The opiates seized in the Top court sets aside order by Delhi High Court Srinagar The fourth highest seizure of largest quantity in 2018 con Reporters and editors asso opium in 2018 was reported tinued to be opium (704 Legal Correspondent bal said the Delhi High Court ciated with the J&K Media from India, after Iran, Af tonnes), followed by heroin NEW DELHI had merely sought docu Association and the J&K ghanistan and Pakistan, ac (97 tonnes) and morphine The Supreme Court on Mon ments of the transfer of his Media Guild held a protest cording to the latest World (43 tonnes). “Globally, 47 day set aside a Delhi High client, Mr. Navlakha, to in Srinagar on Monday Drug Report of the United countries reported opium Court order questioning the Mumbai and this was not ex against the J&K Media Poli Nations Office on Drugs and seizures, 30 countries re “frantic hurry” with which actly a “relief”. cy2020 and demanded its Crime (UNODC). ported morphine seizures civil rights campaigner Gau Justice Bhambhani had roll back. The maximum of 644 and 103 countries reported tam Navlakha was shifted ordered the NIA to provide a “The new media policy, tonnes of opium was seized heroin seizures in 2018, sug from the national capital to “complete copy” of the pro unfortunately and brazen in Iran, followed by 27 gesting that trafficking in he Mumbai in connection with ceedings for Mr. Navlakha’s ly, underlines that every re tonnes in Afghanistan and 19 In demand: The area under poppy cultivation has declined but roin continues to be more the Bhima Koregaon case. production warrant before port is to be vetted by the tonnes in Pakistan. In India, opium production remains stable, the UN body said. * AFP widespread in geographical A threejudge Bench led the Special Judge (NIA), police first. This is nothing the figure stood at four terms than trafficking in opi by Justice Arun Mishra ex Gautam Navlakha Mumbai. but an attempt at censor tonnes in 2018. In terms of supplied to neighbouring poppy cultivation declined um or morphine,” the find punged expressions like “in ship. The journalist frater heroin seizure (1.3 tonnes), countries, Europe, west for the second year in a row ings of the report showed. explicable and frantic hur application. It should be Stay ordered nity in Kashmir has lost so India was at the 12th position Asia, south Asia and Africa. in 2019. It went down by 17% Quantities of seized ry” and “unseemly haste” rightly heard by the Bombay The NIA had appealed the many lives in the past 30 in the world. A small percentage also in 2018 and by 30% in 2019. opiates remained concen used by High Court judge High Court as Mr. Navlakha order and the Supreme years of conflict to uphold Again, Iran reported the reaches North America and “The global area under opi trated in Asia, notably in Justice Anup Bhambhani in was within its jurisdiction. Court stayed it early in June. journalistic values. The highest seizure of heroin (25 the Oceania region. um poppy cultivation is ne southwest Asia (70%). Most his sevenpage order on May “Since the respondent On Monday, the court decid policy is unfair and should tonnes), followed by Turkey, vertheless still substantially opiates seized were reported 27 to describe the manner in [Navlakha] has been moved ed in favour of the NIA and be revoked,” Rashid Rahi, United States, China, Pakis Global pattern larger than a decade ago and in or close to the main opi which Mr. Navlakha was ta to Bombay, he is at liberty to set aside the High Court or Chief Editor of CNS Kash tan and Afghanistan. Heroin From Myanmar, which ac at similar level of the global um production areas. There ken to Mumbai. apply before the competent der to produce the produc mir, a wire service, told is manufactured from the counts for 7% of the global area under coca cultivation,” fore, Asia, which is host to court in Bombay. Thus, we tion warrant records. The Hindu. morphine extracted from opium production, and the report said. more than 90% of global illi Moved from Delhi set aside the impugned or Solicitor General Tushar Mr. Rahi said it was iron the seed pod of opium pop Laos, where 1% of the opium Despite the decline in cul cit opium production and Justice Bhambhani had der [of the Delhi High Mehta submitted that the ic that on the one hand the py plants. is produced, it is supplied to tivation, opium production the world’s largest consump found it puzzling how the Court], including the obser NIA had disclosed everyth BJP government claimed Opium is illicitly pro east and southeast Asia and remained stable in 2019, tion market for opiates, ac National Investigation Agen vations and the proceedings ing to the court. The produc revocation of Article 370 duced in about 50 countries. Oceania. Mexico accounts with higher yields reported counted for almost 80% of cy (NIA) took Mr. Navlakha which were initiated. It is the tion warrant for Mr. Navlak had ended two constitu However, close to 97% of the for 6% of the global opium in the main opium produc all opiates seized worldwide out of the national capital a courts at Bombay alone hav ha was processed quickly tion systems in India but, total global production of production, while Colombia tion areas. “Taking opium in 2018. day before his bail hearing ing the jurisdiction, which owing to the uncertainty on the other, brought in a opium in the past five years and Guatemala account for consumption into account, Outside Asia, the largest was scheduled before the can entertain the applica surrounding the lockdown separate media policy for came from only three coun less than 1% of global the estimated global opium total quantity of heroin and High Court. tion. Thus, the appeal is al and availability of interState J&K. “This smacks of du tries. About 84% of the total production. production in 2019 would morphine was seized in Eu The top court, however, lowed,” the top court ob flights. Besides, the other ac plicity,” he added. opium was produced in Af The report said that the have been sufficient to ma rope (22% of the global total said the High Court had no served in the order. cused persons in the case The policy was intro ghanistan, from where it is global area under opium nufacture 472722 tonnes of in 2018). jurisdiction to hear the bail Senior advocate Kapil Si were tried in Mumbai. duced in May this year.

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How ecommerce SPEAKING THE LOCAL startups are queuing LANGUAGE up to digitise India’s Apart from creating user friendly interfaces and 10 millionplus providing good kirana shops technological support, retail tech startups realise the signiﬁcance of making their product available in vernacular languages. Abhishek of RedSeer consulting estimates that 80% of kirana shops are outside metros and Tier1 cities in India. Reaching out to potential customers Rice in the regional language is, hence, important. Community collaborations Kiranas are seeing KhataBook knows this too empowerment via tech well. For, it has made its during the lockdowns product available in 13

* SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT AND GETTY languages. “When we and dal IMAGES / ISTOCK launched, we had three languages. But we soon keepers saw an imminent danger added more languages as Praveen Sudevan of being swallowed by the ecom we catered to more merce wave that brought new cities,” says its CEO Meenakshi Senthamizh is a third players such as Flipkart and Ama Ravish. generation owner of New Maha zon. through screens and apps KhataBook also used the lakshmi Stores in Dasanaicken Abhishek Chauhan, an asso nowbanned TikTok, which patti, a village in Salem, Tamil Na ciate partner at RedSeer Consult had plenty of regional du. When her grandfather started ing reckons the ‘kiranas versus e gathered over the last few years.” neighbourhood momandpop influencers, to market the shop about 60 years ago, she commerce’ battle barely exists. Meanwhile, KhataBook CEO stores that continued traditional their product. says, it was one of the district’s “Ecommerce companies want to Ravish Naresh and duNow’s Sriv commerce. That line of division is biggest shops. “Supermarkets coexist with kiranas, not bypass athsan also observe this postpan blurring. Ecommerce now en SnapBizz, too, is making didn’t exist back then. So, even them,” he says. This is because In demic rush among shop owners compasses our neighbourhood its app available in more the people from the town used to dia’s nearly $500 billion grocery to digitise their businesses. grocery stores too. languages. It launched come to our village for groceries.” market is mostly dominated by “The last three months, we Meanwhile, even online retail with English, Hindi and The store — thanks to its repu the 13 million small shops ( ac have been observing a behaviou ers are embracing kiranas. Ama Tamil. It has added Telugu, Kannada and tation and goodwill earned over cording to RedSeer) — the share of ral change among customers as zon India, in April, launched the Bengali now. half a century — does steady busi online grocers, admittedly in well as kirana shop owners,” says ‘Local Shop on Amazon’ pro AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ness. But there was a blip from their infancy, is less than 0.5%. Srivathsan, “People don’t want or gramme that added over 5,000 March to May because of the pan “There are millions of small bu cannot step out for groceries. So, local shops and retailers from demicinduced lockdown. Many sinesses operating in India; our these shops don’t get enough more than 100 cities. “We will use regular customers could not ac potential for growth is enor footfall. This has forced previous our technology, training and ena local vendors via WhatsApp, cess the store. And, most transac 80,000 customers across the many spheres of business, has in ly reluctant owners to adapt tech blement capabilities to power lo which has over 400 million In tions happened in person. Credit country. creased the pace of digitisation nology now. We had a 30% cal shops across India to sell on dian subscribers. “The launch of accounts were stored using pens SnapBizz, another Bengaluru among kiranas. growth during the lockdown.” line,” it said. JioMart has certainly got kiranas and papers. The store until then based retailtech company The launch of Re to the centrestage. We anticipate had not deviated much from the launched in 2013, provides hard The COVID19 effect Blurred lines lianceowned JioMart is them reaching about 1,00,000 ways of doing business since Mee ware and software support to ov There has been a significant rise Online retailers’ arrival created likely to be a game stores by the end of this year,” nakshi’s grandfather’s time. er 10,000 shops. According to among kiranas in adopting digital two factions: tech companies changer, according to says Abhishek. “Kiranas are a crit Last month, however, Mee founder Prem Kumar, it has seen tools. According to a RedSeer sur like Amazon and Flipkart that Abhishek. Facebook, ical part of the JioMart value nakshi saw an article in a local a 4050% increase in its consum vey conducted this May, their wil fell under ecommerce and the which owns WhatsApp, chain as it would leverage them to daily about duNow, an app that er base in the last two years. lingness to work with retail tech signed a $5.7 bil serve consumers at a hyperlocal digitises billing, credit manage The emergence of these ecom providers increased from 7% (pre lion deal with level.” The entry of JioMart, ho ment and customer communica merce entities is perhaps due to a COVID days) to about 60% now. Jio in April. wever, will not wipe out the com tion among other operations of a mous,” says Srivathsan Krishna fast increasing demand for digiti There is also a surge (45% to 60%) This will al petition, he adds. “On the whole, local store. “Business has been murthy, duNow’s founder. He is sation. According to RedSeer, less in mobilebased transactions at low JioMart their entry will benefit other better ever since,” says Mee targeting to get 20,000 of them than 3.5 million of 13 million kira points of sale among kiranas that to reach players too, as kiranas in Tier2 nakshi. “We get orders from the on board in the next two years. It na stores are using “some sort of a have been using digital payment millions of areas will be more aware of the town via the app. And, in the vil is not an unlikely goal; he has al tech platform”. And, the Inter methods. benefits of eB2B and will be open lage, we are asking our regular ready managed to get 500 retail net’s rapid penetration even in SnapBizz founder Prem says to try more digital platforms.” customers to install it and teach ers across India. lowincome states will encourage his company acquired 1,000 new Soon, millions of shops in India ing them how to use it.” Khatabook, a free bookkeep the rest to adopt digital tools that customers in May and June. “We will receive orders on apps, main Launched in Chennai in 2019, ing app launched in 2018, has ov will increase their ease of doing are expecting to add 10,000 more tain a digital ledger and send spe duNow is among the latest ecom er 10 million downloads on the business. in the next three months. [If that cial offers via push notifications merce startups that focus on kira Google Play Store. The Bengalu Abhishek says this pandemic, happens], we will be doubling like New Mahalakshmi Store in na stores. Not too long ago, shop rubased startup serves over despite largely wreaking havoc in the number of customers we Salem.

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Using her father Joshita says she hopes to be tines, and umpteen videocalls — Freedom House, India has a some of the most reliable and budget during the pandemic. Babji Neelam’s account, she Bots for good a ‘technology doctor’ even the goal is to stay connected with 55/100 score (a two-point popular VPNs have been Plus, a moneyback guarantee completed an advanced certifi Some of the bots crafted by the tually. In the meantime, she the outside world. 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Adapting (Clockwise from (Left) Anavila Through his lens with the staﬀ of left) A couple on a bicycle somewhere Khar Post Oﬃce in Assam; Tarun; and trucks at the* TARUN BHARTIYA in Mumbai; BengalBihar border (below) her creations

* SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Thank you, in handloom Anavila Misra discusses her recent eﬀorts to acknowledge the Indian Postal Service and its last mile connectivity

Sangeetha Devi Dundoo pandemic situation. Luckily these embroiderers live in nearby areas Designer Anavila Misra, whose sig and can coordinate and work,” nature label is known for handwo says Anavila. ven saris and apparel, recently gave away her first batch of washa Shifting focus ble and reusable twoply masks While weavers have traditionally made at her manufacturing unit to been working from home, Anavila the staff of Khar Post Office, Mum says she is encouraging all her Prabalika M Borah pushcart attached to a cycle), bai. It was way of acknowledging craftspeople to work from their all the way from Noida to Dhu the frontline staff who have been homes. Staff from her Mumbai When the country went into A blackandwhite bri in Assam. I knew it is far, working tirelessly through the CO team began making masks, with lockdown in March owing to but to know exactly how far, I VID19 lockdown. help from two tailors. These cloth the COVID19 pandemic, Shil turned to GoogleMaps; it Anavila says she has been using masks have an outer layer of linen longbased documentary film showed 1,600 kilometres! the postal service to connect with and an inner layer of mulmul, with maker, poet and political acti Time taken to cover that dis her weavers and craftspeople elastic covered by a cotton layer. vist Tarun Bhartiya took his tance by car showed 29 hours. based in rural pockets of West Two masks are given compli Sony RX 100, adjusted it to a I was more than shocked to Bengal and Jharkhand for the last mentary with every Anavila pur black and white mode and set journey home imagine the number of days nine years. chase now. However, Anavila does out to capture the sights of the man had been pedalling “Private courier services don’t not intend to continue selling Meghalaya’s capital city. on the highways, heading and the energy he had. In com reach these villages. We used to masks. “That’s not our primary fo “I started doing that to doc home. “My wife had packed all parison, my journey and stress send paper designs and small co cus [of revenue],” she says. ument the lockdown,” says Ta sorts of food. I had tea, water seemed insignificant,” says Ta lour swatches to weavers, through There is a gradual revival of in run over phone from Shillong. Documentary and everything to last the two run. post. Today the weavers are tech terest among buyers, says Anavila. Then in May, a few days into filmmaker of us for over a day. I was in a In his blog, Tarun also savvy and designs can be sent “We are in for the long haul and the lockdown, Tarun received car, shielded from the sun, but shares his thoughts and the through WhatsApp and we have have to find ways of staying safe a phone call from his mother Tarun Bhartiya the people walking, pedalling, chats he had with his wife to an online database of colours. Ho and adapting to the new normal. from Simari, Madhubani. chronicles, in hitchhiking to reach their des update her about his journey. wever, we continue to send raw In the initial stages of the lock His 79yearold father was tination made me realise what “In Patna, I saw a large num material and receive the finished down, priority was for essentials. unwell and was being taken to black and white, kind of a situation we are in.” ber of people on their way to work through post,” says Anavila, Now people are placing orders for be hospitalised in Patna. With his travel from Tarun’s photographs and their respective destinations. over the phone from Mumbai, ad clothes.” the necessary preparations blog about his journey chroni They seemed to be anxious ding that she intends to supply She hopes that the lessons and an emergency transit pass, Shillong to cle the sights, suffering and the and tired but they must walk, more masks to the Indian Postal learnt during the lockdown will Tarun hired a car to cover the Bihar amid the hardships of people. “At Naxal they must keep moving, they Service. make more people opt for sustain approximately 1,000kilome bari in Siliguri, I came across a said.” Her workshops in Mumbai and able choices in food, lifestyle and ter journey along NH 27. lockdown family pedalling on a thela (a After reaching Patna, Bihar, Gurgaon, like other handloom and fashion: “I think there is an appre What followed was a photo Tarun met his parents, got his textile enterprises across the ciation towards clothes that can ...... documentation that enabled father home from hospital af country, halted all operations in transcend seasonal fashion him to face the pandemic . He He says, “There were trucks, sam, AssamBengal, BengalBi NH 27, the only ter he recovered and took a midMarch, before the nationwide trends, as opposed to fast fash describes his 28 hour journey but it was just not the same bu har.” highway that connects flight back to Shillong. “I spent lockdown was announced. “This ion,” she says. dhabas as extremely eerie, with the sy highway. The and Tarun was not ready to be the Northeast to the a month in Patna and took a gave workers enough time to take Does she foresee a surge in han only highway that connects the chai points, the lifeline of road lieve how bad the pandemic flight home after the airports trains and get back home,” she dloom patronage? “We cannot ex Northeast to the rest of the travellers, were shut. I crossed was until he started seeing rest of the country, opened. Air journey, too, is not adds. pect people to buy a sari or gar country being deserted. three borders: MeghalayaAs scores of workingclass people was deserted the same anymore.” Six embroiderers from her Gur ment simply because it’s gaon workshop who returned handloom. As designers, we have home to Bihar, set up a small unit the responsibility of making styl and continued their work. “It ish, quality handloom products didn’t make sense to ask them to that will make people want to own Nahla Nainar learned to play the violin in Aslam in a story that aims to travel back even after travel res them,” she states. “Mediocrity the US and India through KM embody the verse ‘For me, trictions were eased, given the won’t work.” Music Conservatory. He is you were a poem, with many ‘Amal’s Stanza Café,’ brews a currently studying Computer stanzas,’ a line that is promi Coffee soft romance between a cou Science at the University of nently displayed in the video ple of baristas in a coffee Washington, while trying to as well. shop during the monsoon. make his name as an inde The title song has been re and some Featuring actors Prajin pendent musician. leased in Tamil, Hindi and Padmanabhan and Janani In the video, produced by Telugu, though the original Iyer in the lead, the sevenmi his father Manohar Shan Tamil screenplay has been nute music video is a show mugham, Amal’s violin and retained for all three conversation case for young violinist Amal viola track sets the mood for versions. Manohar and singer Geetesh the gentle story that has With a Hindi rock single Iyer, and has already gar shades of Premam (minus and Tamil duet in the works, A breezy love story nered 9,54,000 views on the red velvet cake) within Amal Manohar is glad to see Amal Manohar’s video YouTube since its April the confines of a movie shoot the online popularity of has garnered 9,54,000 release. and a coffee shop. ‘Stanza Café’. views on YouTube “Not every musician gets “We shot ‘Stanza Café’ at “We did not anticipate since April * SPECIAL the opportunity to work on Luz House in Mylapore and such a response to our first ARRANGEMENT movies. Artistes can work on Fika Café in Adyar. We want official music video. Without their own content to start ed to convey the hero’s love the help of director Vishnu with and build their resume towards the heroine in a Subhash and my father, none towards film music,” says fresh manner, and keep eve of this would’ve been possi Amal in an email interview. ryone happy with scenes of ble. I would also like to thank The 19yearold, who rain and hot coffee,” states Janani, Prajin and the entire moved from Chennai to the Amal. team,” signs off Amal. United States with his pa Prajin and Janani are sup The video can be watched rents at the age of eight, ported by Nithu Chandra and on YouTube.

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Ghani pushes China rebukes Britain over ‘gross Russian scribe found guilty for consensus interference’ in Hong Kong of ‘justifying terrorism’ on talks Agence France-Presse Prokopyeva fined over article connected to President Putin Kabul U.K. has offered path to citizenship to 3 million residents of the city Afghan President Ashraf Agence France-Presse himself up in a Federal Se Ghani pushed on Monday Reuters Pskov curity Service (FSB) building for a global consensus on London/Hong Kong A Russian journalist was in Arkhangelsk in northern peace talks with the Tali China’s Ambassador to Lon found guilty on Monday and Russia, injuring three ser ban, even as his spokes don accused Britain on Mon handed a hefty fine for “jus vice members. man slammed the militants day of gross interference and tifying terrorism” in a case In her opinion piece, pu for a spike in violence. making irresponsible re that sparked an outcry blished by the Pskov affiliate Mr. Ghani is hosting marks over Beijing’s imposi among her allies at home of the Echo of Moscow radio three online conferences tion of new security legisla and rights groups abroad. station, Ms. Prokopyeva with representatives of tion in Hong Kong that he Svetlana Prokopyeva, who is linked the teenager’s suicide some 20 countries this said could damage future based in the northwestern bombing to the political cli week. They aim to “build a Chinese investment. city of Pskov, works for the mate under President Vladi consensus” for the peace Britain has described the Russian service of the U.S. mir Putin. Dozens of human talks at regional and inter security law as a “clear and funded Radio Free Europe/ Russian journalist Svetlana rights defenders signed a national level, said Gran serious” violation of the 1984 Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) as a Prokopyeva. * AFP statement published by the Hewad, a spokesman for Joint Declaration under freelance contributor. Memorial rights group on the foreign ministry. which it handed back its co The 40yearold was “she is not guilty” as the Monday denouncing the Countries participating lony to China 13 years later charged with publicly justi judge read out the verdict. case as “openly political” include U.S., Russia Pakis and said that London would fying terrorism over a co with the goal of “intimidat tan, India, Iran, China, offer around three million lumn she wrote about a at Bombing incident ing Russian journalists”. Egypt and Qatar, officials residents a path to British tack that targeted Russian Prosecutors last week had Human Rights Watch on said. But just hours ahead citizenship. Blanked out: Protesters holding up blank sheets of paper during a demonstration in a mall in security services in the asked the judge to jail Ms. Monday said the ruling of the first online meeting,

“The U.K. government Hong Kong on Monday. * AFP north of the country in 2018. Prokopyeva for six years and “creates another dangerous Mr. Ghani’s spokesman keeps making irresponsible The judge found Ms. Pro ban her from working in precedent.” More than 30 slammed the Taliban for an remarks on Hong Kong af Hong Kong”, straining rela might be many consequenc released additional details of kopyeva guilty, an AFP jour journalism for four years on prominent Russian journal uptick in violence in recent fairs,” Ambassador Liu tions with Beijing. es if Britain treated Beijing as the new security law on nalist in the Pskov cour the charges that carry a max ists spoke out in support of weeks. “There is no obsta Xiaoming told reporters in an enemy or with suspicion. Monday. troom reported, and imum sentence of seven Ms. Prokopyeva in state cle on our side for the the strongest rebuke Beijing The Huawei question “We want to be your The details of the new le ordered her to pay a fine of years. The case has its ori ments published online this peace process, but we see has issued to London since He has also toughened his friend. We want to be your gislation stated that authori 500,000 rubles ($6,950). gins in a November 2018 month, and more than a do that the Taliban are not se Britain criticised the security language on a provisional partner. But if you want to ties will have the power to Her supporters in the cour bombing carried out by a 17 zen of her supporters were rious,” Sediq Sediqqi told law. On the British offer to decision to allow China’s make China a hostile coun enter and search places for troom shouted “shame” and yearold anarchist who blew briefly detained last week. reporters. give British National (Over Huawei to be involved in the try, you will have to bear the evidence. They can also res seas) (BNO) passport holders development of Britain's 5G consequences,” he said. trict people under investiga in Hong Kong a path to Brit infrastructure, saying he He said a Uturn on its tion from leaving Hong ish citizenship, he said: would protect critical infras Huawei decision would dam Kong. Australia closes State border after a surge in cases “This move constitutes tructure from “hostile state age Britain’s image as an It may also allow for con gross interference in China’s vendors”. open, businessfriendly envi fiscation of the proceeds re For the first time in 100 years, VictoriaNew South Wales border gets sealed internal affairs and openly Mr. Johnson has faced in ronment and it meant Lon lated to any offence endan tramples on the basic norms tense pressure from the Unit don was having to “bounce gering national security. It Reuters impact on her business. governing international rela ed States and some British to the tune of the other will require foreign and Tai Sydney Ms. Berejiklian said peo tions.” He said China would lawmakers to ban the tele countries”. wan political organisations The border between Austra ple would be able to apply decide on its response after communications equipment “The China business com and agents to provide infor lia’s two most populous for daily permits to cross the seeing how Britain proceed maker on security grounds munity are all watching how mation on activities con States will close from Tues border, adding there would ed with its passport offer. and Britain’s Media Minister you handle Huawei. If you cerning Hong Kong. day for an indefinite period be delays of around three Although Prime Minister said on Monday the Huawei get rid of Huawei it sends out Beijing also said on Mon as authorities scramble to days in issuing the passes. Boris Johnson describes decision was not set in stone. a very bad message to other day that it reserved the right contain an outbreak of the NSW Police Commission himself as a ”Sinophile”, he Mr. Liu said that, although Chinese businesses,” Mr. Liu to take more action after Ca COVID19 in Melbourne. er Mick Fuller said the mili has also spoken of the need China wanted friendly rela said. nada suspended its extradi The decision announced tary would provide round to “stick up for our friends in tions with Britain, there Meanwhile, Hong Kong tion treaty with Hong Kong. on Monday marks the first theclock surveillance to en time the border between force the closure. Victoria’s Victoria and New South only other internal border, Wales has been shut in 100 with South Australia State, Iran confirms significant Chinese region reports years. Officials last blocked Shutting down neighbourhoods: Women protesting against a has been closed since March movement between the two lockdown in Melbourne, Australia, on Monday. * AP 22 under previous COVID19 States in 1919 during the measures. damage at nuclear complex bubonic plague case Spanish flu pandemic. socialdistancing orders in which will be patrolled by Australia has fared better Agence France-Presse public’s nuclear body. “It is the smart call, the 30 suburbs and put nine pu the military to prevent illegal than many countries in the Agence France-Presse Tehran Security officials called it carry plague until the end of right call at this time, given blic housing towers into crossings from 11.59 p.m. lo COVID19 pandemic, with An accident at a nuclear an accident. “There were no Beijing the year, and urged people the significant challenges we complete lockdown. cal time on Tuesday. just short of 8,500 cases so complex in Iran caused sig victims... but the damage is Authorities in China’s north to report any dead or dis face in containing this virus,” The State line is highly po far, but the Melbourne out nificant damage and could significant on a financial le ern Inner Mongolia region eased rodents. Though the Victoria Premier Daniel An 127 infections rous, with 55 roads, wilder break has raised alarm bells. slow the production of cen vel,” Iranian Atomic Energy have stepped up precau highlycontagious plague is drews said in Melbourne. The State reported 127 new ness parks and rivers. Some The country has reported trifuges used to enrich ura Organisation spokesman tions after a herdsman was rare in China and can be The move will, however, COVID19 infections over businesses straddle both an average of 109 cases daily nium, the country’s atomic Behrouz Kamalvandi said confirmed at the weekend treated, at least five people likely be a blow to Australia’s night, its biggest oneday sides and several workers, over the past week, com energy spokesman said. on Sunday. to have the bubonic plague. have died from it since 2014, economic recovery as it spike since the pandemic be and school children, com pared with an average of just The incident happened “In the medium term, The man was in stable according to China’s Nation heads into its first recession gan. It also reported two mute daily. 9 cases daily over the first on Thursday at a warehouse this accident could slow condition at a hospital in al Health Commission. in nearly three decades. deaths, the first nationally in Lyn McKenzie, who runs a week of June. under construction at the down the development and Bayannur, the city health Another suspected case in The number of COVID19 more than two weeks, taking paddle steamer business Melbourne locals are con Natanz complex in central production” of advanced commission said in a state volving a 15yearold was re cases in the Victorian capital the national tally to 106. along the Murray River from cerned that renewed social Iran, but caused no casual centrifuges, he said. Natanz ment. The commission has ported on Monday in neigh of Melbourne has surged in NSW Premier Gladys Berejik Mildura, a border city of distancing measures have ties or radioactive pollution, is one of Iran’s main urani forbidden the hunting and bouring Mongolia, state recent days, prompting lian said there was no timeta 30,000 people, is waiting for not been implemented un according to the Islamic re um enrichment plants. eating animals that could news agency Xinhua said. authorities to enforce strict ble for reopening the border, more detail to gauge the full iformly across the city.

ELSEWHERE ‘Dalai Lama is welcome to visit Taiwan’ Kenya to have a phased Taipei responds to Buddhist leader’s birthday message reopening Reuters visit again. “As the political come the Dalai Lama to Taipei scenario changes, it may be come to Taiwan again to pro Agence France-Presse Taiwan would welcome a vi that I’ll be able to visit you in pagate Buddhist teachings,” Nairobi sit by exiled Tibetan spiri Taiwan again. I hope so. Ms. Ou added. Beijing is Kenyan President Uhuru tual leader the Dalai Lama, Whatever happens I’ll re deeply suspicious of Tai Kenyatta on Monday an its Foreign Ministry said on main with you in spirit,” he wan’s President, believing nounced a “phased reo Pak. Health Minister tests Monday, a trip that would in said on his website. she wishes to push for the is pening” of the country, positive for COVID-19 furiate Beijing which views land’s formal independence. with the resumption of in ISLAMABAD him as a dangerous separa ‘Relevant rules’ Ms. Tsai says Taiwan is alrea ternational flights from Au Pakistan’s Health Minister Dr. tist. The Dalai Lama has not Taiwan Foreign Ministry dy an independent country gust 1 as well as the lifting Zafar Mirza said on Monday visited the Chineseclaimed, spokeswoman Joanne Ou called the Republic of China, of internal travel restric that he was tested positive democratic island under the said the government had not its official name. tions. for COVID19. “I have tested administration of President yet received an application TaipeiBeijing relations Kenya has recorded just positive for COVID19. Under Tsai Ingwen, who first took for him to travel to the island have worsened further since over 8,000 cases of the vi med advice I have isolated office in 2016. He last came but would handle it under Taiwan offered to receive rus and 164 deaths — the myself at home & taking all in 2009. “relevant rules” if one came. Hong Kong people who wish highest official figures in precautions. I have mild In a birthday message via “We will, in accordance to leave the city after China East Africa. Fewer than symptoms. Please keep me in video link to supporters in with the principle of mutual passed a new national secur 2,00,000 people have your kind prayers,” tweeted Taiwan on Sunday, the Dalai respect and at a time of con ity law last week, an offer been tested in the popula Dr. Mirza. PTI Lama said he would like to venience for both sides, wel Beijing has condemned. tion of 47 million people. French driver attacked by ‘mask-less’ riders BAYONNE A bus driver in France was U.K. imposes new human rights sanctions declared brain dead on Monday after being attacked by several people he refused Individuals and groups from Russia, Saudi Arabia and North Korea targeted to let aboard because they were not wearing face masks Associated Press Correctional Bureau — were as required during the London sanctioned for running pri COVID19 outbreak. A source Britain on Monday an son camps in the authoritar in Bayonne, southwestern nounced economic sanc ian state. Britain has pre France, said one person was tions against individuals and viously imposed sanctions as in custody and other suspects organisations from Russia, part of the European Union AFP were being sought. Saudi Arabia, Myanmar and or under the auspices of the North Korea under new U.K. United Nations. Since leav 5 detained over Ethiopia violence that killed 166 powers to punish human ing the EU in January, it has rights offenders. Foreign Se implemented its own ver ADDIS ABABA A leading Opposition party cretary Dominic Raab said sion of the U.S.’s Magnitsky representing Ethiopia’s the sanctions targeted those Legislation after Brexit: Britain’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Act, which allows authorities Oromo ethnic group said behind “some of the noto Raab speaking in the House of Commons last week. * AFP to ban or seize assets of indi Monday that five senior rious human rights viola viduals guilty of human members had been detained tions in recent years.” who died in a Moscow pri army commander Soe Win. rights abuses. following violence last week They include senior Saudi son after exposing a tax They are accused of orches The U.K. law authorises that claimed at least 166 intelligence officials accused fraud scheme involving Rus trating systematic violence the British government to lives. The political crackdown of involvement in the killing sian officials. against Myanmar’s Rohingya prevent sanctioned indivi deepens fears of a largescale of journalist Jamal Khashog Also on the list of 49 indi minority. duals from entering the roundup of government gi at the Saudi Consulate in viduals and organizations is North Korean organisa country, channeling money critics as Prime Minister Abiy Istanbul and Russian author Min Aung Hlaing, comman tions — the Ministry of State through British banks, or Ahmed seeks to keep a lid on ities implicated in the death derinchief of the Myanmar Security Bureau and the Mi profiting from the U.K. eco ethnic tensions. AFP of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer armed forces, and Myanmar nistry of People’s Security nomy. 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Britannia Ind ...... 3624.45...... 86.10 panies under a new screen ment, which drafted the new chain that will further en ment is expected to be gen (DCGI). The drugmaker Cipla ...... 634.60...... -4.20 ing policy, three sources policy, did not respond to a hance energy accessibility, erated from the completion will sell a 100 mg vial of the Coal India ...... 135.85...... 0.60 familiar with the matter told request for comment. create jobs and boost the of these projects. antiviral in the country for Dr Reddys Lab ...... 3892.00...... -29.45 Reuters. The sources declined to economy, the Petroleum Mi Out of this, more than 3.5 ₹4,800 each, Mylan said in Eicher Motors...... 19250.95. .... 267.45 Under new rules an name the companies whose nistry said on Monday. crore mandays of employ a statement on Monday. GAIL (India)...... 103.70...... -1.20 nounced in April, all invest investments are pending ap In Twitter posts, the Mi ment is expected to be gen The approval is for res Grasim Ind ...... 641.15...... 13.00 ments by entities based in provals. The oﬃcial, and two nistry of Petroleum and Nat erated in ﬁscal year ending tricted emergency use on HCL Tech...... 578.70...... -0.45

HDFC ...... 1868.70...... -16.50 neighbouring countries A deterioration in bilateral ties since the border clash in June, other sources, said about 40 ural Gas said out of ₹3.57 March 2021 itself. COVID19 patients and the * REUTERS HDFC Bank...... 1103.00...... 29.05 need to be approved by the could further delay approvals, say industry oﬃcials 50 applications involving lakh crore being spent on For the period between product will be available

Hero MotoCorp ...... 2770.95...... 32.70 Government, whether for funding from a Chinese in 859 projects, more than April 29 and June 30, em this month under the Hindalco ...... 154.35...... 7.95 new or additional funding. were aimed at curbing op killed, could further delay vestor had been filed since ₹60,000 crore will be in ployment of more than brand name Desrem, the Hind Unilever ...... 2161.60...... -12.10 China is the biggest of these portunistic takeovers during approvals. the rule change and were vested during fiscal 202021. 48.96 lakh mandays has company said. ICICI Bank ...... 361.85...... 0.85 investors and the rules drew the COVID19 outbreak. Ho currently under review. While Indian Oil Corpora been generated in the exe Mylan will make the IndusInd Bank ...... 495.90...... 8.70 criticism from Chinese inves wever, industry executives ‘Treading with caution’ Chinese companies’ exist tion (IOC) is implementing cution of these oil and gas drug at its injectables facil Bharti Infratel ...... 226.40...... -0.30 tors and Beijing, which say a deterioration in bilater “Various clearances are re ing and planned investments projects to upgrade oil refin projects, the Ministry said, ities in the country. Mylan’s Infosys ...... 764.00...... 1.30 called the policy al relations since a border quired. We are being a bit in India stand at more than eries as well as expand pipe adding that ₹1,395 crore has announcement on the in Indian OilCorp...... 87.95...... 0.10 discriminatory. clash last month, in which more cautious as one would $26 billion, research group line network to take fuel to been disbursed to workers troduction follows those by ITC ...... 199.80...... -7.75

JSW Steel...... 193.75...... 2.80 The new investment rules 20 Indian soldiers were imagine,” a senior Indian go Brookings said in March. every nook and corner, Oil as payout in this period. Hetero and Cipla.

Kotak Bank ...... 1367.90...... 14.10

L&T...... 951.20...... 6.95

M&M ...... 570.55...... 40.05 Maruti Suzuki ...... 6123.60. .... 191.50 Interim relief for HUL in Bombardier bags ₹2,051 cr. Nestle India Ltd...... 16802.00. .... 106.40 Apollo Tyres looks to go

NTPC ...... 95.20...... 0.70 ONGC ...... 83.75...... 1.35 ‘Glow & Lovely’ case Agra, Kanpur Metro deal PowerGrid Corp ...... 178.00...... 0.40 virtual, to cut ﬁxed cost by 20% Reliance Ind ...... 1851.80...... 63.90

State Bank ...... 188.05...... 3.35 ‘Emami needs to give 7day notice’ Firm to supply metro cars, signal units

Shree Cement ...... 23111.15. .... 238.50 Tyre major earlier lowered capital expenditure by ₹400 cr.

Sun Pharma ...... 480.20...... 3.35 Special Correspondent one of its trade marks/ Special Correspondent UPMRC, said: “After achiev Mumbai Tata Motors ...... 109.00...... 5.55 brands that was adopted in Special Correspondent sales promotion, advertising MUMBAI ing the distinction of com Chennai Tata Steel ...... 338.90...... 9.00 The Bombay High Court on or about the year 1975. On and promotional expenses. Bombardier Transporta pleting the Lucknow Metro TCS ...... 2263.20...... 63.55 Monday granted adinterim September 7, 2018, HUL Apart from reducing its cap “But, as we stand today, tion, having a manufactur as the fastestimplemented Tech Mahindra ...... 581.55...... 14.35 relief to Hindustan Unilever coined and adopted the tra ital expenditure by ₹400 we are looking at cutting ing unit in Vadodara, Guja metro project in India in less Titan ...... 1014.20...... 10.70 Limited (HUL) that Emami demarks ‘Glow & Lovely’ in crore for the current ﬁscal, ﬁxed costs by 20%,” he ad rat, has received a letter of than four and half years, UltraTech Cement...... 3930.90...... 41.30 should give it at least 7 clear respect of its skincare pro Apollo Tyres Ltd. is looking ded. “We are fairly comfor award (LoA) worth ₹2,051 UPMRC is committed once UPL...... 456.60...... 12.40

Vedanta ...... 110.25...... 3.80 days’ prior written notice ducts and secured statutory at going virtual to maintain table with the liquidity posi crore from Uttar Pradesh again to replicating the

Wipro ...... 222.65...... -2.15 before initiating legal pro rights for ‘Glow & Lovely’ liquidity during the CO tion given the teams’ eﬀort Metro Rail Corporation same achievement in the de

Zee Entertainment ...... 175.05...... 2.80 ceedings in any court and ‘Glow & Handsome.’ VID19led slowdown pe on both sales ánd collection (UPMRC) to build and deliv livery of the Kanpur and against HUL’s use of the When HUL announced riod, said a top oﬃcial. and the borrowings that we er 201 metro cars and an ad Agra Metro Projects.” EXCHANGE RATES trade mark ‘Glow & the rebranding its ‘Fair & “We would like to reduce have done in recent times, vanced signalling solution Rajeev Joisar, MD , Bom Indicative direct rates in rupees a unit Handsome.’ Lovely’ brand with the new our ﬁxed cost by about 20% Gaurav Kumar * REUTERS including the equity raise. for the Agra, Kanpur metro bardier Transportation In except yen at 4 p.m. on July 06 CURRENCY TT BUY TT SELL A single bench of Justice trade marks, Emami had during the current year,” Material prices continue to projects. dia, said: “The new metro

US Dollar...... 74.47...... 74.79 B.P. Colabawalla was hear threatened legal action . said Gaurav Kumar, CFO going across and spending be soft which would provide For the 30km Agra Metro cars will be locally designed Euro ...... 84.04...... 84.40 ing a suit ﬁled by HUL under HUL then learnt that Emami Apollo Tyres Ltd. time and money on those further tailwinds to the mar and the 32km Kanpur Me and built, and the rail con British Pound...... 93.06...... 93.47 The Trade Marks Act seek had ﬁled a trade mark appli “Even if we wantto travel, travels; that will be a reduc gin,” he said. tro, Bombardier’s scope for trol equipped by our project Japanese Yen (100) . .. . 69.23...... 69.53

Chinese Yuan ...... 10.60...... 10.65 ing injunction against Ema cation seeking registration we cannot. We are looking at tion,” he added. Apollo Tyres had cut its the contract comprises 67 delivery teams in India.” Swiss Franc ...... 79.03...... 79.37 mi from issuing groundless of trade mark ‘Glow and options of virtual launches He said the company had capital expenditure to the Bombardier Movia Metro The Agra and Kanpur me Singapore Dollar ...... 53.47...... 53.70 threats to HUL in respect of Handsome’ on June 25, of products rather than par taken steps to control costs, tune of ₹400 crore in FY21 to threecar train sets and the tro rail projects will have Canadian Dollar...... 54.95...... 55.19

Malaysian Ringitt ...... 17.39...... 17.48 the use of its trade mark 2020 but that it had not ticipating in trade fairs, con including nil increments for make sure it was not advanced Bombardier City two corridors each connect Australian Dollar ...... 51.82...... 52.06 ‘Glow & Handsome.’ launched its products under ducting online training pro the year, salary cuts for top stressed from a cashflow flo 650 rail control solution. ing major public nodes and Source:Indian Bank HUL has ‘Fair & Lovely’ as its registered trade marks. grammes rather than people management and reducing perspective. Kumar Keshav, MD , tourist places. INTERVIEW | G.R. CHINTALA DRL flags uncertainties Paytm, Sharma to acquire 100% ‘Private markets help in the wake of COVID19 stake in insurer Raheja QBE farmers in price discovery’ Travel curbs to affect medical tourism Special Correspondent sening health conditions, as Founder’s firm QorQl to buy out Prism Johnson, QBE Australia HYDERABAD well as reduced demand for NABARD prepared to support such reforms: Chairman Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories many pharmaceutical pro Special Correspondent has said while COVID19 did ducts, Chairman K. Satish MUMBAI Nagesh Prabhu initiated reforms in the Under the Cooperative not majorly impact either its Reddy and cochairman and A company owned by Paytm G.R. Chintala, who has as APMC Act, which will en Development fund, we have March quarter or 201920 MD G.V. Prasad said in the founder Vijay Shekhar Shar sumed office as the chair courage private sector in sponsored establishment of performance, there is no de annual report for 201920. ma and Paytm has an man of NABARD amid the vestment in marketing. The PACS Development Cells in nying that the company may In the shortterm, there nounced its acquisition of COVID19 pandemic, said in amendments to enable set DCC banks and are support face many uncertainties, as will see less facetoface in private sector general insu an interview that he wel ting up of private marketing ing creation of infrastructure a result of the pandemic, in teraction between medical rance company Raheja QBE comed reforms in agricultu have been approved by 18 in PACS. We have devised FY2021. representatives and doc for an unspecified amount. ral marketing, while also States and rules have been and implemented a Corpo “If the pandemic conti tors, thus having some nega This acquisition will be highlighting the bank’s pre notified by 10 States. We are rate Governance Index in ru nues for another six to eight tive impact on pharmaceuti through QorQl Pvt. Ltd., a paredness to support mar ready support private mar ral cooperative banks with a months as it is expected to, cal sales. technology company with kets in the private sector. kets by creating a separate view to ensuring systemic we should be prepared to Stating that the company majority shareholding of Mr. The deal via Vijay Shekhar Sharma’s firm is subject to Excerpts. fund, if marketing reforms to improvement in governance. see increasing delays in had been working at rapidly Sharma and the remaining customary clearances, including IRDAI approval. * REUTERS enable private markets and treatment of other diseases. building various digital plat held by Paytm. During these difficult times, etrading are introduced, as Are States seeking higher Hospitals and nursing forms, they said, “we will be The acquisition is subject and own 100% of the compa tion of India.” Vijay Aggar agriculture seems to be the these help farmers in better allocations for rural homes all over the world using our digital channels to customary conditions, in ny. Amit Nayyar, Paytm pre wal, MD, Prism Johnson saving grace. How is price discovery. infrastructure projects, given have already begun to push even more actively to enable cluding approval from the sident, said, “It is an impor Ltd., said “Our decision to NABARD geared up to help their revenue shortages? back admission of non CO working from home and to Insurance Regulatory and tant milestone in Paytm’s sell our entire stake of 51% in farmers in this period? DCC banks and RRBs have ■ No doubt, many States are VID19 patients,” the top reach out to doctors, cus Development Authority of financial services journey. Raheja QBE is in line with ■ To help the agriculture been facing liquidity crises. requesting higher alloca management said in a com tomers and vendors.” India. Raheja QBE is owned Raheja QBE General Insu our mission to create sus sector, NABARD started pro How will NABARD tions. Since March 1, 2020, munication to its The top executives ex 51% by Prism Johnson and rance’s strong management tainable shareholder value viding Special Liquidity strengthen these ₹11,451 crore has been re shareholders. pected the pandemic to se 49% by QBE Australia. team will help us accelerate and will enable us to focus Fund assistance to enable institutions? leased to States/UTs for de Delays in treating these riously affect medical tou QorQ1 will acquire entire our journey of taking insu our resources on our core rural financial institutions to ■ For crop loan require velopment or strengthening patients could lead to wor rism via travel restrictions. stakes from both entities rance to the large popula businesses.” give loans to farmers ahead ment, NABARD extended ad of critical rural infrastruc of the season. ditional refinance support of ture under RIDF. In 202021, Besides extension of mo ₹30,000 crore to enhance li ₹1,176 crore has been re Adani unit to ratorium on term loans till quidity support to RRBs and leased towards States’ share Infosys brings back 200 Zoom plans ‘significant’ August 31, 2020, a special cooperative banks, and will of participating govern drive to provide concession benefit 3 crore farmers. ments for implementation of buy power firm al credit of ₹2 lakh crore to As a result, these banks ongoing irrigation projects. amid U.S. visa concerns investments in India 25 million farmers under the are not facing any liquidity We have received requests from KPTL Kisan Credit Cards is on. crisis. For RRBs, NABARD is from some States for addi Staff, kin flown from San Francisco ‘Digital India, StartUp India priorities’ Formation of an Animal playing a proactive role in tional allocation under RIDF. Special Correspondent Husbandry Infrastructure the ongoing amalgamation Total sanctions in the cur Mini Tejaswi MUMBAI Special Correspondent has been clear about its Development Fund with process and capital infusion. rent year are expected to be Bengaluru Adani Transmission Ltd. Chennai identity: Zoom is a U.S. com ₹15,000 crore and Agri In in excess of last year’s. Infosys brought back 200 (ATL) has signed definitive San Joseheadquartered vi pany, publicly traded on the frastructure Fund — with ₹1 We have received people including staff and agreements with Kalpataru deoconferencing platform Nasdaq, founded and head lakh crore with credit gua <> requests from some How are farmer producers’ their families on a chartered Power Transmission Ltd. Zoom Video Communica quartered in San Jose, Cali rantee support to lending in States for additional organisations shaping up; flight from San Francisco on (KPTL) for acquiring Ali tions Inc. has plans to make fornia. And like many global stitutions and interest sub allocation under rural how are their funding needs Monday amid growing dis purduar Transmission Ltd. significant investments in technology companies, quiet over prospects for U.S. in a manner consistent India over the next five Zoom has offices in China, vention to beneficiaries — infrastructure met? will help spur investment in ■ FPOs have started taking visa renewals for workers in with the Transmission Ser years, said an official. operated by subsidiaries of development fund milk processing and post shape and 8090% are mem the technology sector. vice Agreement and applic The company is also the U.S. parent company.” harvest infrastructure at the bers with small landhold In possibly a first for an able consents. mulling to work with more “Three of Zoom’s top ex farm gate. ings. About 7,000 FPOs exist Indian IT company, Infosys The enterprise value for stakeholders in India in the ecutives are of Indian des in the country. Social capital opted to evacuate its em the project is estimated at coming months to support cent: Aparna Bawa, chief With a new law on APMCs, building, availability of pro ployees from the U.S. rather expiration,” Sanjeev Bode, ₹1,286 crore. key priorities such as Digital operating officer; Sunil Ma how will NABARD cope with fessional manpower in rural than risk having their visa an AVP at Infosys, said in a The acquisition is ex India, StartUp India and dan, corporate chief infor the changing agricultural areas and collateralfree cre status landing them in legal Linkedin post. “All interna pected to be completed in Skills India, as well as intro mation officer; and myself. market environment? Will it dit support on affordable trouble following the deci tional flights were suspend a few months, subject to all ducing them to Zoom, said “These characteristics lend to the private sector to terms are major challenges sion by President Donald ed because of the pandem necessary regulatory ap Velchamy Sankarligam, pre are why many global tech establish markets? in promoting FPOs. NABKI Trump’s administration to ic. Infosys came to their provals and other con sident, engineering and pro nology companies, includ ■ NABARD welcomes the SAN Finance Ltd. extended bar the issue of fresh H1B rescue. “The company sents. duct, Zoom. ing my former employer Centre’s move of setting collateral free loans of and other related nonimmi booked the first ever char “The acquisition is in He said Zoom has plans VMWare, chose to invest in the tone for re ₹250 crore to 550 grant visas till November. tered flight exclusively for sync with ATL’s strategy to to make significant invest India as a key regional oper forming agri FPOs. Over 50 200+ employees and fami enhance the value for its ments in India over the next ational hub, and we are cultural FPOs were gi ‘Visa expiration’ lies from U.S. to India... stakeholders, through or five years and beyond. looking to expand our ser marketing. ven loans “Some of the Infosys em bringing an end to weeks of ganic as well as inorganic Talking about the mis vice to as many of India’s 1.3 Very few during the ployees were stranded in dilemma related to the un opportunities,” the compa conception regarding Zoom billion people as we can States have lockdown. the U.S. because of their visa certain situation,” he wrote. ny said. and China, he said: “Zoom reach,” he said. 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DELHI THE HINDU 16 SPORT/LIFE TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE TV PICKS Remembering a runmachine NZ offers Premier League: Star Sports ‘Means a hell of a lot to us’ 1, SS Select 1 & 2 (SD & HD), to host IPL 10.15 p.m. & 12.30 a.m. Dattajirao Gaekwad relives his duels with Everton Weekes (Wednesday) Coach Simmons on Black Lives Matter and cricket’s return Press Trust of India Serie A: Sony Ten 2 (SD & S. Dinakar New Delhi HD), 11 p.m. & 1.10 a.m. Amol Karhadkar Chennai New Zealand is the latest (Wednesday) MUMBAI Dattajirao Gaekwad is the country, after the UAE and International cricket is set to only living Indian cricketer Sri Lanka, which has of IN BRIEF return after a pandemicen to have played against the fered to host the IPL in case forced break of almost four immortal ‘Three Ws’ of West the billion dollar league months, with England host Indies cricket. can’t be held in India due ing West Indies in a biose A compact batsman and a to rising cases of cure environment for a brilliant fielder, Dattajirao, coronavirus. threeTest series starting who captained India in 1959 “Staging the event in In Wednesday. and is the father of former dia has to be the first In addition to the usual India opener Aunshuman choice but in case it is not prematch matters such as Gaekwad, was part of the In safe to have it, then we will Pranjala clinches title team combination and op dian team that toured the look at the overseas op NEW DELHI position assessment, West West Indies in 1953. Now 92, tions. After UAE and Sri Y. Pranjala won the UTR Indies has plenty to ponder. his memory still sharp, Dat Unforgettable: Dattajirao Gaekwad cherishes memories of Lanka, New Zealand has al tennis tournament in The touring side will have tajirao spoke about Everton his meeting with the ‘Three Ws’. * FILE PHOTO: VIJAY SONEJI so offered to host the IPL,” Melbourne on Monday. The to contend with the reality In right earnest: The West Indies team works out at the Weekes, who passed away informed a senior BCCI of 21-year-old, who is of playing in empty stadia Ageas Bowl in Southampton on Monday. * GETTY IMAGES recently. ries, in Port of Spain, ised West Indian cricket.” ficial. recovering from a back niggle and not using saliva to shine Weekes came up with an in Delving deeper into their under the guidance of Paul the ball — something En mons said during a media in “back home don’t really see Insatiable appetite nings of 207. methods, Dattajirao said, Ness, ATP Director of Medical gland will have to deal with teraction on Monday. “It’s too much attendance” and Dattajirao told The Hindu, Dattajirao said, “One “Worrell was the most styl ISL: four Services, defeated Desirae as well. But Jason Holder’s something that is not just said that the two warmup “India had a good attack. We thing I noticed was that he ish of the lot, Weekes was a Krawczyk of the US 6-3, 6-3 men are also mulling over about now. It’s about life as a matches had helped the had Dattu Phadkar, Vinoo wanted to get off the mark run machine. Both rarely hit foreigners rule in the final. She had beaten the means at their disposal whole. We as a group don’t bowlers cope with the regu Mankad and Subhash Gupte. immediately. A couple of sixes. All their strokes would Steffi Webb 6-4, 6-3 and approved Amy Stevens 6-2, 6-3 in the to support the ‘Black Lives need to say, ‘Look, this is go lation of not using saliva to But the West Indians were times I tried to run him out be along the ground. But league matches. Matter’ movement when the ing to motivate us’. It motiv shine the ball. formidable with the three from covers but missed nar Walcott was different, He first Test begins in ates us all the time. “Not being able to put sali Ws. In particular, Weekes rowly. I remember him giv was the hardest hitter. Hit Press Trust of India New Delhi Alleged matchfixer Southampton. “That’s a part of our life. I va on the ball is a huge thing had an insatiable appetite ing me a menacing look. He big sixes.” Dandiwal arrested Head coach Phil Simmons am not sure whether we are because that’s what we’ve for runs.” loved to squaredrive on one The Indian Super League NEW DELHI wasn’t sure whether his going to touch our knee [to grown up with. But you must On Weekes’ batting, Dat knee. That was his favourite Treasure trove on Monday approved the The BCCI’s anti-corruption team would kneel to pay its the ground]. We’ll make a find other ways to do it. A tajirao said, “Even against shot. And it was very At a personal level, Dattaji 3+1 foreign player regula unit will be in Chandigarh on respects to George Floyd, a decision tonight [Monday] couple of days in the prac the great Subhash Gupte, attractive.” rao found Worrell easy to in tion, bringing it down from Tuesday to share and gather victim of police brutality in as to what we can do, but tice game were hard, but who had a vicious legbreak, Turning to the West In teract with. “He was a classy the existing five to boost information on alleged Minneapolis, USA. But he we’re definitely doing so now we don’t have that hea a deceptive googly, and plen dian batting lineup, Dattaji man. We became good “increased participation” match-fixer Ravinder was confident the squad mething. We’ve already had dache. We have found other ty of variations in flight, rao noted, “You had Allan friends.” of local players. Dandiwal, who has been would express solidarity in the logo put on the collar of ways to shine the ball and Weekes would stay inside Rae and skipper Jeffery Stoll When Dattajirao returned The regulation will be arrested by the Punjab Police. some fashion on our shirts, so that’s a start.” keep the ball in shape,” he the crease and take runs off meyer opening the innings. from that tour he brought come part of the competi Dandiwal has been arrested Wednesday. Simmons stated that the said. him. He rarely stepped out. Then arrived the three Ws. back a treasure trove of me tion guidelines from the for his alleged role in “It means a hell of a lot to team is not too bothered The England vs. West In- He was an organised player Frank Worrell at No. 3, mories. On top of the list was eighth season in 202122. organising a T20 game near all the players, all the sup about playing in front of dies series will be telecast against both pace and spin.” Weekes at 4 and Clyde Wal duelling it out with the three Chandigarh, which was The decision was taken port staff on the tour,” Sim empty stands since Tests live on Sony Six channels In the first Test of that se cott at No. 5. The Ws symbol Ws. streamed online as a match during a Football Sports happening in Sri Lanka. Development Ltd. (FSDL) Dandiwal has been on BCCI’s meeting and is being com radar for the past four years, municated to the stakehol and last week emerged as the When Indians made a beeline for Wimbledon, courtesy Krishnan ders, including clubs and alleged kingpin of an the All India Football Fed international tennis match- eration (AIFF). fixing syndicate. PTI The legend, who made the last four at SW19 first in 1960, speaks on the diamond jubilee of his splendid feat Behind closed doors ECB confirms dates K. Keerthivasan 1960, words flow like a beau Krishnan said the first two lia’s] John Hillebrand and and venues for CHENNAI tiful river. No other Indian, rounds at Wimbledon were [Spain’s] Andes Gimeno Meanwhile, the seventh EnglandPakistan series Like most people his age, Ra before or since, has reached tough and that helped him went to five sets. I just edition is set to be held be hind closed doors from No LONDON manathan Krishnan, 83, isn't the last four in singles at a get to peak form. scraped through. But that England cricket chiefs on venturing out, even casually, Major. He further said that he gave me confidence,” said vember to March and it is Monday confirmed dates and due to COVID19. hadn’t practised well prior to Krishnan. likely to be restricted to venues for Pakistan’s three- “Just like anybody else in Fresh memories the tournament as he was The maestro proudly said two states with Goa and Test tour, with the series the world, I am sitting at “It is 60 years ago [but] my suffering from chickenpox that he got more Indians to Kerala emerging as starting at Old Trafford on home, watching television memories are fresh. I re and was forced to miss near come to Wimbledon. frontrunners. August 5. The second Test and movies. Due to my age, I member everything. In those ly two months of action in “I remember more In “The league will be held starts on Aug. 13 and the can’t afford to go out. I hope days, Wimbledon used to April and May. dians started coming to behind closed doors for third on Aug. 21, both at the things get better soon as eve give seedings only to the top “Due to chickenpox, I was Wimbledon courts when I sure and the dates are from Ageas Bowl in Southampton. November to March. Old Trafford will also host rybody is getting fed up,” he eight in a draw of 128 and I quarantined for three weeks. was winning match after three T20Is between England told The Hindu. was seeded seventh for the I went to England without match. I saw a lot of Indian “Kerala, Goa, West Ben and Pakistan, on Aug. 28, 30 When it comes to recalling first time. playing much tennis. Actual faces, Indians living in En gal and Northeast were dis and Sept. 1 while Ireland will events, Krishnan truly belies “That way, I didn’t have to ly, I practised only for 23 gland. cussed as the likely states play three ODIs at the Ageas his age. The moment you tell meet a seeded player till the days before Queen’s Club “The Indian crowd went but Goa and Kerala can be Bowl on July 30, Aug. 1 and him that it has been 60 years quarterfinals. That was a big [Championships]. up in numbers. I got all the said as the frontrunners at Aug. 4. AFP since he reached the Wim advantage,” said the Padma “My first two matches [at Indians to Wimbledon,” he Artist at work: Ramanathan Krishnan in action at this point of time,” said a bledon singles semifinals in Bhushan awardee. Wimbledon] against [Austra said. Wimbledon. * THE HINDU ARCHIVES source close to the ISL.

Panghal at the pinnacle Barca puts on a grand display Chess all set to return Manju ranked No. 2 among women Southampton stuns City; Liverpool keeps winning at home Y.B. Sarangi to normal world DeChambeau wins title; KOLKATA Reuters Atwal finishes T45 Suarez, Antoine Griezmann third successive away loss. World championships silver MADRID and 17yearold Ansu Fati. Liverpool made it 17 wins P.K. Ajith Kumar residence for the last DETROIT KOZHIKODE Bryson DeChambeau, who medallist Amit Panghal is Barcelona responded to a Fati’s goal was Barcelona’s out of 17 at Anfield with a couple of years. “It feels had top-10 finishes in the first ranked No. 1 in the men’s trying week by thrashing 9,000th goal in all official 20 win over Aston Villa. Big time chess will soon be great to know that I can three events of the PGA 52kg weight class, according Villarreal 41 to stay alive in competitions. The results: back over the board. On play a competitive game Tour’s ‘Return to Golf’, to the latest world rankings the LaLiga title race, pro LaLiga: Espanyol 0 lost to Le- July 18, to be precise — on an actual chessboard claimed the Rocket Mortgage released by the Internation ducing one of its best dis Stunning strike ganes 1 (Silva 53); Osasuna 0 when the Biel after playing all these Classic title here on Sunday. al Boxing Association plays under coach Quique In the Premier League, Che drew with Getafe 0; Villarreal 1 International Chess online events.” DeChambeau (65) birdied (AIBA). Setien. Adams’ stunning longrange (Gerard 14) lost to Barcelona 4 Festival kicks off in He had won the Masters four of the first seven holes Panghal is the only Indian After an own goal from strike helped Southampton (Torres 3-og, Suarez 20, Griez- Switzerland. Open tournament at Biel mann 45, Fati 86). and closed with three in a row boxer to claim the top spot Pau Torres, the visitors got condemn Pep Guardiola’s It is one of the major in 2013. “This time Premier League: Liverpool 2 for a career-best 23-under in the rankings, prepared on Amit Panghal. * FILE PHOTO their other three from Luis Manchester City side to a events on the chess circuit around, there are some (Mane 71, Jones 89) bt Aston 265. India’s Arjun Atwal the basis of performances Villa 0; Southampton 1 (Adams — with a history of more restrictions because of the returned a one-over 73 (10- up to the World champion be placed within the top10. 16) bt Manchester City 0. than halfacentury — and pandemic,” he said. under 278) in the final round ships last year. Among women, Worlds Serie A: Inter Milan 1 (Lukaku the previous winners “Players from certain to sign off tied 45th. PTI “For any athlete reaching silver medallist Manju Rani 22) lost to Bologna 2 (Juwara include Magnus Carlsen, countries — which are the pinnacle in the rankings (48kg) was the highest 74, Barrow 80); Brescia 2 (Pa- Viswanathan Anand and deemed high risk — Eurosport to telecast is a dream. I am motivated ranked at second. petti 52, Donnarumma 90+6) Anatoly Karpov, all of cannot compete.” MotoGP live from July 16 and looking forward to “The last oneandahalf bt Hellas Verona 0; Cagliari 0 whom have been the The tournament, which CHENNAI starting my training at the years have been great for lost to Atalanta 1 (Muriel 27- World champions. concludes on July 29, will The FIM MotoGP season will National camp and working me and becoming World No. pen); Parma 1 (Kucka 49-pen) still feature prominent start with a double-header at lost to Fiorentina 2 (Pulgar 19- Jerez in Spain on July 19 and with coaches,” said Panghal. 2 has given me more motiva Harikrishna to play players like Radolsaw Asian silver medallist Ka tion,” said Manju. pen, 31-pen); Sampdoria 3 (Li- India will be represented Wojtaszek, Michael 26. FIM has announced a netty 12, 45+3, Gabbiadini 45) 13-race calendar and the vinder Bisht (56kg) at Sixtime World champion bt SPAL 0. by World No. 26 P. Adams, Anton David and season will have a maximum fourth, Deepak (49kg) and M.C. Mary Kom (51kg) and Udinese 2 (Fofana 44, La- Harikrishna. “I was glad Salem Saleh. India’s Vidit of 17 events that will not Worlds bronze medal win Worlds bronze medallist sagna 73) drew with Genoa 2 when I got the invitation a Gujrathi had won the extend beyond December 13. ner Manish Kaushik (63kg) Lovlina Borgohain (69kg) (Pandev 81, Pinamonti 90+7); few days ago,” he told The Grandmasters event last Eurosport SD and HD will at sixth, were the other male were third in their respec On target: Griezmann celebrates with fellow goal-scorer Napoli 2 (Callejon 55, Insigne Hindu from Prague, his year. show all the races live. boxers from the country to tive weight categories. Suarez and Messi after slotting in Barcelona’s third. * AFP 82) bt Roma 1 (Mkhitaryan 60). Legendary Italian composer Ennio Morricone passes away His haunting scores for the famous Clint Eastwood ‘Spaghetti Westerns’ helped define a cinematic era

Reuters friends and family for their Academy Award for Quentin Morricone used uncon what I have done overall,” posed several film scores ROME companionship, saying “I Tarantino’s The Hateful ventional instruments such said Morricone. before he received his first Ennio Morricone, whose hope they understand how Eight. The ‘Maestro’, as he as the Jew’s harp, amplified His success with Leone, a credit for a feature film for scores for films such as The much I loved them.” was known in Italy, had re harmonica, mariachi trum former schoolmate, had di Luciano Salce’s Il Federale in Good, the Bad and the Ugly, “We will forever remem ceived an honorary Oscar in pets, cor anglais and the oca rectors like John Huston, Ber 1961. The Mission, and Cinema Pa- ber, with infinite gratitude, 2007. rina for the films. The music nardo Bertolucci, Barry Le radiso made him one of the the artistic genius of Maestro Though he wrote for hun was accompanied by real vinson, Oliver Stone, Roman One regret world’s most famous screen Ennio Morricone. He made dreds of films, television pro sounds such as whistling, Polanski and Franco Zeffirelli Morricone said his one big composers, has passed away us dream, moved us... writ grammes, popular songs and cracking of whips, gunshots beating a path to his door. regret was never having aged 91. ing memorable notes that orchestras, it was his friend and sounds inspired by wild Morricone also composed worked with Stanley The awardwinning Italian will be unforgettable in the ship with Italian director Ser animals including coyotes. for Brian De Palma’s The Un- Kubrick. broke his femur 10 days ago history of music and cine gio Leone that brought him He always tried to shake touchables, Levinson’s Bug- “He did call me to do the and died at a clinic here on ma,” tweeted Italian Prime fame, with scores for the off the association with the sy, and Margarethe von Trot score for A Clockwork Monday. His lawyer handed Minister Giuseppe Conte. ‘Spaghetti Westerns’ starring ‘Spaghetti Westerns’, re ta’s The Long Silence. Orange and I said ‘yes’. He reporters a death notice writ Clint Eastwood in the 1960s. minding peoplethat he had a Born in Rome in 1928 did not want to come to ten by the composer himself, Two Oscars They include the socalled very creative and productive while Italy was headed by Be Rome, he did not like flying. beginning “I, Ennio Morri Morricone, who won dozens “Dollars Trilogy” — A Fistful life before and after the films nito Mussolini, Morricone And then he called (Sergio) cone, am dead.” of awards including Golden of Dollars, For a Few Dollars he made with Leone. learned music from his fath Leone, who told him I was In a moving onepage text, Globes, Grammys and BAF More, and The Good, the Bad “My production for West er, a trumpeter in small or busy working with him. He Legend: Ennio Morricone achieved global fame for his tunes in Morricone thanked his close TAs, got his only competitive and the Ugly. erns is maybe 71/2 or 8% of chestras. He ghostcom never called again,” he said. the ‘Dollars trilogy’ starring Clint Eastwood. * AP

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